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. " * - "" ' 'Z*^4>4 THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. ] . __ _____ - ~~~~ ~~ * " ? . BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.--NO. 22. ? ; j ~ The Christian Life. Life hath ita barren years, When Uossoms fall untimely down ; When ripened fruitage fails to orown The eu umer toil ; when nature's frown L-)oka only on our tears. Life hath its faithless days, The goiden promise of a morn, That enemed for light and gladness born, Meant only noontide wreck and scorn, Hushed harp instead of praise. Life hath its valleys too, Where we must walk with vain regret, With morning clothed, with wild rain wet, Toward sunlight hopes that soon may set, All quenched in pitying dew. Life hath its harvest moons, Its tas*eled corn and purple-weighted vine ; Its gathered sheavos of grain, the blessed Hign Of plenteous reaping, bread, and pure, rich wine; Full hearts for harvest tunes. Life hath its hopes fulfilled ; Its glad fruitions, its blest, answered prayer, Sweeter for waiting long, whose holy air luurawu to euoui ?ouio uruaiuea lurui m icuv Grand epeech, by joy distilled. ?Isadore C. Gilbert THE OLD HOUSE. The old house was slowly dioppiug to pieces about the youug people. Yet, for all that, they w*re as happy as though it were a palace building up about them. Youth requires few conditions; it is as / > itcolf ac "P./lon if: in nnlrfho DIUI1VXVUV W MU MViWMj v?Y ?MV unsatisfactory middle years, to which the loveliness of the virgin -world has become a twice-told tale, that are insistent. In trnth, it should have been enongh to content any of us simply to be Rose Marks?the rose uo rosier, the lily no snowier, sunshine not more golden than her hr.ir, more dazzling than her smile; a lovely little soul and body, enjoying every moment of life, and making it precious to every one within her influence. She never thought of grumbling that the house was shabby and the food scanty, but contented herself with bread when there was no dainty, and when the roof leaked, moved her bed to another room where it did not leak so badlj. Every timber in the old house was dear to her. and she never asked for I a bettor. No wonder everybody loved Rose Marks in general, and her cousin, Roger, loved her in especial; not her cousin, that is, if you demand the literal fact, bat her step mother's nephew, yet always called a cousin, and always loved like a brother. A brother ? Well, no, not exactly. People are not so very apt to think whether or no their brothers will like this ribbon or that flower, to blush damask if their brothers catch i them gaziug gt themselves intently, to pout at an inattention from their brothers, or to have their hearts beat like i wildfire at a touch of the brother's hand. J There two children were all alon6 in J * "* r -ww?i? 3 l. _ tne non.se now, ior xur. luariia uuu ms wife had followed the elder children, j who bid died when the great typhus , epi&foic raged some ten years ago; the ] old strvant, who had never forsaken j them, had gone her way too at last; j and Louis, cue day taking the ancient , plate, had sold it for enough to insure | the h^use for a term of five years, and , formally resigning all right and title in < it to licse, had bade her and Roger l good-bye, and had gone to seek his for tune. So Rose kept the old house as she conld, and Roger paid her a rogular , board from his little salary as clerk of | the only store in the village. Rose cried overv timo she took it; but as all , the rest she possessed happened to be the cow aud the garden and what the grass sold for, there wtis nothing, of couthp, to do but take it. How many times Rose had resolved to go out by the d'iy f?nd do aewiig since she had been sixteen ! " I could earn two hun dred dollars a year, easily, Roger," she trnnlfi sav. as tilie was mriDtiir.c it out to Roger in tliH evening, at the other side of th? table where lit* was studying. '"And whit would bo come of mo?" Roger said. "Why-why, yon could Lave much better dinners, you know, Roger, at Mrs. Dean's "Hang Mrs. Dean's ! I should have no home, [should go to the bnd. It is missionary duty to stay as yi-n are." "But, Roger," then R'ose said, growing red and redder, "some day, you know, you will be?married, and then vou von't want me round." " Sha'n't I ?" " Your wife won't, at any rate; for you know I'm not even your sister, and your wife, when you marry "? "Can't you wait till I do?" thundered Roger, getting up and stalking out of the room. "Ton won't forget how to sew, will you ?" And Rose began to cry, and Roger strode round the place till bedtime like an unhappy ghost. Ho marry ! Why was she harping on that string ? Did she want to marry herself, and have him first put liimpelf out of the j way ? And thereat he wrought himself [ into a jury. Was tbore a man in all the world who would dare to think of such sacrilego as marrying his little Rose* ? Never, never, should he Lave her ! Ho would stay here forever and guard her: he wculd mako it impossible! And then he felt that be was a fool, and that he knew better; he knew the modest little Ik>s<\ living her steluded life, never had the remotest sort of a lover; he knew now that she was lying all in white, j wrapped in her innocent dreams and thinking of nothing Jestf while he was j marauding up and down the garden path-. He whh very much mistaken; she was hiding behind the window at that moment, watching him between the streaming courses of her tears as he j went up and dowu and tortured himself with angry thoughts and passionate pmotions. Why had f*te fixed him so? he was asking. Why was there no chance for him '1 Why would no opening that he might enter and gain a promise of sufficient income to justify him in telling Rose what he felt?all the wild wishes and bitter longings ? Now a moneyless clerk in a village store, he had no right to bind her fortunes with his, to bring upon her, even :e ?i.., ,?i jli ouu nuiuu, mo auu iiruvj weight of marriage with a man so destitute. Fur look, even should she be kind, should they marry?ah, what throb* his heart gave at the fancy !?they would have no more thau they have now, and I as the years came and brought their | burdenR, it would simply bow Rose into i thegrave. Andshe knew it, he thought; , yes, she knew it. That was what this < desire to go out into the world m^ant? i to break up their way of life, to l*e ofF : and away from bim. And then Roger 1 groaned and clenched his fibts, and i asked himself the whole round of questions over again. Yen, tfhy was he, of all men, so placed that nothing coald ever accrue t< him ? no help roach him ? no ooe hold a bind to lift him up i just suffered to pit. ! along from hand to mouth when a ) tt!e capital would put jum into sucu a naven ? if he hiul but. a eou >'e of tliousard dollars to start with, ho could opeii a ?>c< nd store here, lie knew th? whole rtructure of trade; there was quite business enough f'?r another without; robbii g the first; he could ev?>n make new business. He knew just where he would phut his stock of goods and put up his sign, i And then, in spite of himself, came the ' picture of the blessed time when, work 1 done, he should go home, home to Rose, fair, joyous, his, by her fire, or looking out for him, springing to meet him; the scene grew so real it seemed to I Roger he could feel her sweet breath on his face, her warm arms about him; he held her just one daring moment in this waking dream, and then he sat down upon the step and hid his face in his hands as if he would hide too the scalding tears that must have way. Two thousand dollars?he might just as well wish for a silver mine 1 Just as he said ths words to himself, a soft clear radiance was welling up over the dusky garden, and as he raised his head again, after awhile, there came the moon softly floating up above the horizon of the long interval below. It cheered him inex plicably, like an omen, a promise; he stood up and struck one palm into another. " I will have her yet!" he cried, and went into his dreams. "Can you think of anything. Rose, where we can economize?" he said, next day. "Economize!" she repeated, gayly. "For what? In what? With what?" "So that we can raise two thousand dollars," he answered, gravely. She sat down as suddenly as if some gigantic hand had been laid on her head and had crushed her into the seat. " Two thousand dollars !" she gasped. "We couldn't eoonomizeit in two thousand years, for I don't know where we waste a cent." " I must get it in some way, then, if I have to go out Eawing wood after hours." "Why, Roger ?" "For-capital to go into business." " The house would sell for five hunVMAHA ^ V? O * ? TTAtl TTTOTlf '' U1CU iuuio biiOU jvu nauvi " The house!" he said. "That is not mine." Rose stood np, moving one thing and another nervously about the table; her lips trembled, and all at once she ran out of the room. 11 Oh, he cares nothing for me; he despises me ; he disregards me ; he would-take nothing from me! Because it is mine, it is not his, and he wants nothing of me." 418be takes no interest in it; she doesn't care a whit whether I go into business or not; it matt era nothing to her," he sighed. " She flashes out of the room and about her business as indifferently as though I were the merest stranger at the gate." And he jammed on his hat, and went to bis work, head down, hands in pocket, and gloomy as the grave. All day long that rosy, dimpled face flitting between him and pvery customer; all day long the awful figures, 82,000, writing themselves on ttie wall before mm use a mene, mene, U kel xipharsin; and when, late in the day, a cJoud slowly rose and huug over the fields and marshes, till all the sky was purple and all the land was in , shadow, and low thunders began to prowl in its breast, and sharp lightnings J leap from it, it seemed to Roger only ' something in accord with his feelings, : for it befitted nature to bo as dark as bis own outlook. 1 It was a terrible storm, though, be- . fore another hour had passed. Peal j ifter peal the thnnder crashed over the j Little village, and tumbled its deafening , bolts among the hills; flash after flash j the lightnings crackled and unrolled, ind from moment to moment wrapped the place in sheets of flame; and after , one report, when the heavens seemed | bo shrivel like a bit of burning parch- j ment, the bark of the century old elm j in the square whore the little baud played on summer nights had been torn j off in one long spiral from top to bottorn, and the tree had answered the bolt iu a pillar of fire. As the storm in- 1 creased, Roger remembered Rose's fear of thunder, and plunged out into it, determined that she should not be alone iu such a moment of absolute terror. The rain met him half way, worse than , any lightnings?a gray, stifling down- , pour, in which it was impossible to draw bis breath, and his only refuge was to , take to his heels and run as fast as ever ( any Lam pad ran a race. She must have seen him coming, for ( she sot open the door, though she stood behind it. " What made you leave bheiter in such a storm as this?" she -J-J "I x xl XT ? cneu, aau jusi tueu luero uamw uu uverwhelming flash, the fire of which seemed to penetrate her brain. She clapped her hands to her face with a shriek, the , house rocked and the door swung and slammed, and she fell fainting upon the floor. When Rose came to herself, she was lying on the lounge where Roger had placed her, and the storm was slowly rolling off below the horizon, with now and then a smothered growl, and the rain was pattering only in thin showers, which the freshened breeze shook from the vines and boughs. She sat up directly, and presently, as soon as she found her feet, went to the window to look about. The whole world seemed sweet and rich and glistening in the sunset, with a sort of delicious underlight, and the birds were wild with music. Roger stood beside her at the window, looking out into the enchanted atmosphere. They were both silent; and just then good old Mrs. Vance came up the garden walk ,'rom her own adjoining one, fearing Rose was alone, and not having dared herself to come to her before; and she staid to tea, and wanted a game of cribbage in the evening; and when Roger came back from escort duty to old Mrs. Vance, Rose just lifted the candle flame between her face and his, and saying good-night, hurriedly, was onrott fn V>ov oln yy-? V* 3 unt?j uv uv/i oiuiuwioi Roger went to his, that is to say to liis room. Sleep he could not. His thoughts were whirling at such a rate with his emotions thpt he was wider awake than ever before. He stepped out on the old broken balcony of his window 8nd watched tho slow wheeling of the constellation?, and heard the tiny crackling sound of leaves and raindrops and pebbles iu the garden, of some night bird, maybe, tapping the bough,at else the dead vine branch beating on sr window pane, and he thought how hard and bitter a thing was life, and half cursed it; and then the vision of Rose would steal before hi to?the sweet, smiling face, the dimpled velvet cheek, the shining eye, gentle motion, gpntle spirit? aud he said to himself that it was enough for any one to live iu the same : world with such a thing as she. But at length it occurred to him that this was enough of star gating. If he were ever to be a man fit to win her, even if unable, he must cease his dav dreartos and work, and to work he must sleep. He returned to his room, and all at once, as if something stung him at 1 every pore, he staggered back. What strange odor was this? what strange atmosphere after the cool night fragrance? i The room was full of a thick pungent cloud?it was the smoke of burning. "Fire! fire! fire!" hesliouted, and sprung through tho door for Rose's room, only to be met by such a strong, turbid muse of moving darkness and noisomeness and suffocation as to stagger back again a single m< ment before it. But almost immediately he was bounding through it, throwing open the doors between, and all at once, as he opened the third one, a great blinding glare fell from above, and there was the monstrous horror of flame, towering and soaring lik'i an evil spirit that wiped matter from I'.xistenoe. But ?Eoger%Jid not pause to think what it was like: be only thought that it was sweeping through an upper floor, that in a moment the floor must fall, that he must reach Rose's room. The house had been struck by lightning in the storm, and the smoldering spark had been making headway in the lonely upper rooms all the delicious summer evening, all thb time that he had been leaning oh his balcony drinking the balmy air, all the time that Rose had been folded in her sweet slumber, all the time he had been hearing that tiny crackle, and thinking it was the rain diipping from the leaves upon the walk. Another moment and over its dull roar came a cry: "Oh, Roger! Roger! Oh, my dearest! my dearest ! where aro you I Do you know it?" And "Rnco irifVi a fhrrvwn nvflr lier. burst through her door, and was caught in his arms as he leaped down the stairs at one vault and bore her out into safety. They had barely reached the gate when the roof fell in, and though the neighbors came thronging round, and the engines were presently at play, thoy stood there with the rest, and saw it was of no use, and the blaze of the home of their childhood and their youth was ascending like a smoke of sacrifice. Rose stood folded in the arms of Roger, hiding her eyes from the dreadful sight, as a child might stand beside the grave of a mother while it is filled. " Let it go without tears, darling?let it go," Roger whispered. "It is a kindly flame. The old house is still protecting us; it has lighted our way to each other. Without it, we should still have been groping in the dark. I should never have dared win you; you would never have known I loved you." "You are coming right home with me, children," eaid Mrs. Vance, " till we can turn round and see what's to be done. Is the house insured? where's your papers ?" " They are gone," said Rose, "with everything else. We are utterly penniless 1" It was just a fortnight after that, when Roger entered Mrs. Vance's house one night, Rose ran and clapped a bit of paper before his eyep so closely that ho could see nothing. When he stepped back she was holding it over his lips, and then half bashfully tiptooing up and kissing him through it. "Do you see what it is ?" she said. " It is a check for twenty five hundred dollars from the insurance company, who have taken the circumstances into account. It is the insurance on the buildings, and the lands are still left. The old house is taking care of us yet, Roger. Two thousand for your business, and the rest," she whispered, shyly, and blushing like a rose indeed, " to furnish the new house."?Bazar. How a Chinaman Bought a Horse. The Cleveland Leader tells the following story: Wau Lee had long wantad a horse with which to collect and deliver his " laundly " work about thecity, uid camo to the conclusion to buy one. While iiimlessly strolling by the KenLiard House, he heard the pool seller )houting: " How much for Fullerton, gentlemen; how much for Fullerton ? I im offered only forty dollars for this iorse; tne Maid sold for one hundred ! tVho says forty-five dollars for Fullerion ?" Now Wau, in his travels, had heard iomething about fast horses, and knew hat Fullerton was " no slouch," as the laying is. So when he saw a chance to )uy him?as it struck his heathen inteligence?for only forty-five dollars, he included he had better close with the jargain at once, and secure a horse which could whisk his delivery wagon iround at a lively rate. With a rapid lod he conveyed the knowledge to the seller that he would give the forty-five lollars, rind as there were no higher bidlers the purchase was made. Wau edged up to the stand and asked: "When me payee, and'when me gettee 3088 f "Pay cow," said the hurried -clerk, " and come around to-morrow night for the chance." " Alle light," said Wau, as he unrollsd his pigtail, extracted his hard earned money, and departed with the card which secured him the pool as far as Fullerton was concerned. Thursday night he was at the Kennard at the appointed time, and when he saw the pool clerk, puRhed his card forward and said: " Alio light now?me wan tee Flulleton." " Fullerton 1" said the clerk. "He didn't win. Smuggler took the pool I" " Me caree nothing about plool?me wantee hossI" " You have no horse here. You paid for your chance and lost it." " Lost him? Me paidflorty-five dolle. Me lost him ?" "Yes." "Whatee you mean? You thlief! You pay me florty-five dolle or go to fleece house!" "You will get nothing," said the clerk. You bet your money and lost it." Wau went for a policeman, and explained. When he learned that his forty-five dollars were gone forever, he shook his fist toward the Kennard House and started for homo, scattering Chinese oaths along his path at the rate of ab?ut a thousand to the minute. Good Indian, Me. The Indian chief Spotted Tail has his good points. He loved his daughter and cherishes her memory. She was the first born and the best beloved. She fell' in love with a young officer at Fort Laramie, and died of a broken heart eight years ago. Her influence over her father was so overmastering, that he vowed on her drathbed that he would make peace with the whites, since it was her wish, and would never again take up arms against them. When the treaty was made he asked to have the coffin containing her remains brought into the council in order that her spirit might witness the fulfillment of the vow. All these years the old chief has yearned to have her grave near his wigwam, and his wish has recently been gratified. The body was removed from Fort Laramio to Spotted Tail agency, and placed in a box upon four posts, in accordance with the Indian oustom. The burial service of the Episcopal ohurch was read, a sermon in the Dakota language was Ktt i-Xysx /kVtn-rvlnin orirl flm ViAT piCUUUCU I'J tUU vuaj^utm^ uuu vmw WA was lowered into a giavo in the cemetery near the agency. At the Ball. At the grand entertainment given to the Prince of Wales at the Guildhall of the city of London, losses of jewels wore plentiful. Among other things, the Duchess of Manchester lost one earring of the value of ?1,200, and has not seen or heard anything of it since. Another lady had the pleasure of seeing her diamond comb, valued at ?5,400, trodden into dust beneath the feet of the dancers, without being able to get sufficiently near to rescue it. A curious discovery was made in sweeping the hall after the dance. Some months ago Lady Dudley, the most beautiful peeress at present living, was robbed of jewels to the amount of ?50,000, which had been carelessly left in a case at a railway station. A beautiful antique agraffe, resplendent with diamonds and emeralds, wan found on the floor of the Guildhall, and has sinoe been recognized as one of the articles whioh were stolen from Lady Dudley. OUR CENTENNIAL LETTER. The Live Mtorlt Dlftplny?Jnpnneae HenddresnoH?Liberia?lUlncelianeous Notes. LITE STOCK. The live stock display begins, as has been noted before, on the first of September, and will comprise 5,000 head, exclusive of poultry. The live stock Judges will make a general report on the origin, progress, development and present type of each breed represented at the show, Among the animals is a steer weighing 6,000 pounds, and a mule twenty-one and one-half hands high, and weighing 1,600 pounds. Both these well developed specimens of animal life are from Tennessee, a State famous for good stock. Some of the dogs entered for the bench show from September 4 to 8, cost as much as $1,000. The steamship Erin left London on the tenth of August with specimens from the | flocks and herds of Lords Ohesham and Waisingnam, tnose ox me rvoyai agricultural school, aud others. It is reported that Great Britain will seiid a hundred specimens of her blooded oattle to tho oattlo exhibition. JAPANESE HEAD OHNAMENTS AND TOTS. I Kiyoto, Japan, exhibits some elegant articles of their industry in the shape of artificial flowers, hairpins, and many handsome articles for the coiffnre. The most costly ornaments worn in the hair are made of light colored tortoise shell. In manufacturing tho articles the white spotless parts are cut out of the rough tortoise shell, and by warming, pressing and gluing with the white of an egg, they a^e shaped into hairpins of all kinds, and mostly into those four cornered pins, eight to ten inches Jong, I which are worn horizontally through the hair. When light and transparent, these pins are quite expensive. The brown colored tortoise shell ia used for oombs, trays and baskets, and is frequently ornamented with gilt lacquer paintings. From the same distriot is a quaint collection of children's toys. They usually imitate animals, representing hair and feathers with hemp and silk threads. Pictures are made by pasting pieces of silk, cut to represent different figures of men and animals on sheets of paper. LIBERIA. Liberia lies on the west coast of Africa, midway between Sierra Leone and Cape Palmas, extending 320 miles along the coast, with an average breadth of eighty miles, having Cape Mesnrado, lat. fix deg. nineteen min. N., Ion., ten deg. thirty min. west, near the center of its coast lino. It was founded as a colony in 1820. The government is a republic, being declared independent in 1847. After an interview with Mr. Morris, consul general, to whom I am indebted for valuable information regarding his country, at least a territory to whose interests ho has devoted the best years of his life, I feel assured an intelligent article bearing upon this country would be acceptable, but letter space does not admit, hence the reader will be contented with a skeleton sketch of the products of t his rapidly improving country. Consul General Morris explained to me the workings of tho coffee trade of Liberia. A hull holding three grains, with which he decorates his watch guard, was a unique and practical souvenir of the coffee interests. It seems that, in spite of the immense resources of Brasil, and the reputation of Java, that Liberian coffee ia pronounced the best in the market by many experts. What the opinion of the judges of award will be, I can't say, but the grain seems to be large, smooth and firm. For the benefit of journalists who barter, General Morris says ho requires one bushel of coffee in the hulls for a year's subscription to his paper. One coffee tree at Monrovia. ha9 been known to yield thirty pounds of coffee. Another specialty with Liberia is palm oil. Sixteen hundred jars, hermetically sealed, are now an route for the Centennial. Camwood, redwood, and barwood are valuable woods. An iron steamer was bnilt expressly on the Clyde for river use in Liberia, and was devoted to pursuing the courses of the different streams and interesting the planters in shipments to the Exhibition, which movement was a complete suocess, and the entire structure of the exhibit with its management is in the hands of General Morris, who is justly commended for his efforts in bringing the products of this far-off. country to international recognition. MISCELLAlfEOtlS NOTBS. The Argentine Republic exhibit a cuirass made of grass, a handsome Vienna cloak without a seam, also a handsome Pampa girdle and a variety of fabrics made by the Pampa Indiana. A curious collection in the Argentine exhibit consists of ladies' headdress, collars, bracelets and gloves made of bristles. An unpleasant thought springs up in the minds of most visitors on viewing Argentine boots made of saakeskins. And one can almost imagine snakes in his boots, in the skin at any rate. There is a portrait of Rubens, panels from Gailait, portrait of Cousin in Ara bian costume, eight panels togeiner, representing eight gods, from Olympus, with all their attributes from Audran. Full length painting, style Louis XVI. The tapestry carpets are perfectly beautiful, representing in bright and attractive colors different scenes in rural life. An Aibe straw hat is quite pretty from Catamarca, Argentine Republic. Cordoba sends handsome mats made of feathers, also some very handsome flowers made of hair. Buenos Ayres sends a gold necklaee and medallion representing the fourteen Argentine provinces, pretty and instructive. They send from Cordoba beautiful flowers made of seeds. Zurich, Switzerland, has a specialty on exhibit in fig meal. Another specialty is surrogate of coffee. The most beautiful tapestries on exhibition are from Belgium. Antwerp sends a gin mado from Quo grains. A wonderful exhibit from Switzerland is a collection of cereals from a sandy soil. What has been added to make it productive must be a secret, as sand entire is not generally adapted to agri cultural purposes. The Japanese exhibit beautiful leather made of soft deerskins, printed and dyed. This fabric is from Tokio. The Japs are famous for their paper; this they make from the " Kodzu," " Kaji," " Gampi," the Kuwa or mulberry tree. Hi no-ki, a wild cherry ; the bark of all these trees and shrubs ; bamboo is also used ; the bamboo is cut before the leaves are out, tho pulp is mixed with a certain per centago of the Kodzu fiber. The paper called Chikushi is really bamboo paper. Some of their ornamental papers are pretty aod stroDg. They use in writing on their paper a pigment known by the name of Chinese ink ; it is used with a brush, the pen being dispensed with as unsuitable ; the brush moves very easily, absorbs the ink without allowing it to spread in the least. Their crape paper shows a high degree of artistic industry. Among the rare and valuable Revolutionary guns on exhibition in tho United States government building ia a six pound French gun, bronze, presented by Lafayette, forming inclosure around models of modern gun plant, twelve pound siege gun, bronze, mounted on i wooden carriage with timber ; eight J inch howitzer, bronze, Mercer. Anthony Wayne's howitzer, intended to be used on horseback, cast in Gorman town, eto. There are also exhibited models of the Constitution, Mississippi, Jamestown, St. Mary's, Portsmouth, Constellation, Niagara, Merrimac, New Ironsides, Hartford, Monitor, Kearsarge, Vandalia, President, Ohio, Enterprise, Washington and Fulton. Part of the original machinery of the torpedo boat Spuyten Duyvel, a steam launch, with the first torpedo machinery used in the United States navy. J. B. The Cedars of Lebanon. Prof. Fraas, an eminent German professor, in a recent book of travels in Syria and Palestine, gives this interest ing account ol tne iamous ceaara 01 Lebanon: Tlio grove of oedars stands on a rocky spur, /which has been detached from the foot of a peak named Mokmel, and has slipped downward into a valley. The subsoil has nothing in common with the chalk strata presented by the contiguous sections of the range, but is rather a mass of pulverized dust rubbed off the summit of the Makmel, and accumulated at its foot by glaciers ?such a deposit, in fact, as is frequently met with in Upper Subia and Switzerland. The ground is broken into low, irregular hillocks, divided by shallow valleys, which form no water courses, but hold the rain and snow water stagnant till evaporation has depleted them. The whole grove of cedars stands on seven of these small undulations, only nine trees being stationed, like outposts, on the extreme edge of the valley. With these exceptions not a cedar far or near, moreover in the immediate neighborhood nor a tree or shrub of any kind, nothing given or olive, in short, till far below in the Bscharreh valley you come once more on the cypress and the poplar. The area occupied by the cedars may inn nnfl annom rrnrrla an/1 hr I UUVCI AUU,DV^UMiw J ***.^+Kr9 ??? actual count the trees of this famous forest number just 377, the numerous double and treble trunks being reckoned but once. The youngest of the existing trees date back for many centuries, and not a few are primeval, or thousands of years old. That under which the professor pitched his tent was twenty-eight feet in' diameter at the height of the breast. Some nine feet above the ground the trunk split into four stems, which, after springing -vertically some twenty feet further, then diverged and flung out their huge arms at a right angle. The whole height of this colossal tree, which, dnring a hundred generations, has shaded the race of man, now scarcely exceeds a hundred feet, all the tops of ita great boughs having been snapped and rent away by the storms of centuries. The largest ceder, which stands in the yard of a little Maronite church, has a i ~t t?i? c.? Oircuilliereuutj U1 lumjr-iivc xgok, uuu there are many whose girth ranges from thirty-three to forty. Prof. Fraas carefully measured and counted the annual rings in a cedar sis feet thick, which had been shivered by lightning during the previous winter. Taking this as a basis, lie calculated that all the trees above mentioned must be at least 2,000 years old, while tho patriarch of the forest now overshadowing the churchyard should dato back some twenty ceuturios before Christ; in other words, have witnosFed the dawning of the Assyrian empire, and may have shaded the flocks of Abraham. The professor states it as a fact that some of the oldest trees which Solomon and Cyrus and Alexander spared have been scrawled over with the names of wretched tourists, deep gashep, sometimes a foot in length, having been cut with jackknive.s for the creditable purpose. If is h fact, too, that not a few of th<; finest cedars have l>een wantonly set on "' re. Happily, the wood of Lebanon is ; garded by the natives with superstitious reverence ; ami there is a legend that when Ibrahim Pasha determined, forty years ago, to fell the grove for a palace at Cairo, and dispatched a foreign carpenter to the mountain, at tho first stroke of the sacrilegious ax the workman's hand withered at the root. An Extraordinary Will Case, At the Mullingar assizes, in Ireland, an action, " Purdon aad others against Earl of Longford and others," was heard 1 recently to ascertain the right of claimants to the property of tho late Adolphus I Cooke.' The testator died in March, 1876, being then more than eighty years of age. He had never been married, and he had been for years subject to aggra- i vated bodily ailments. He was possessed of valuable propertyin the county of Westmeath, the rentiF amounting to about five thousand pounds annually. He had been in the army, but was gen" ? ' ? i.~ erauy stauonou m remuio wuuun-n, uuu never rose beyond the rank of a subaltern. He was a total disbeliever in all religion, revealed or otherwise, and he i also repudiated the existence of a God. He was a believer in the transmigration of souls. He would not allow his servant to flog a dog, as his notion was that the soul of his grandmother was designed to dwell in a dog at some period or other. His fixed idea was that he was destined to be a fox at some remote period. He believed that all animals were gentle unless provoked by man, and on one occasion he went into a field where there was a bull. He was anxious to conciliate the bull, but the animal did not understand this attention, and very nearly demolished Mr. Cooke. He annually caused sticks to be collected for tho crows, to facilitate them in nest building. Ho thought that trees, when cross cut, would have no difficulty in growing if again stuck into the ground. Mr. Cooke also refused to allow himself to be buried in consecrated ground. He caused a tomb to be built for himself in a field, at a cost of ?60. In that tomb were arm chairs and lounges, which he frequently used. Infanticide in England. On ono day, eays the Pall Mall Oazelle, no less than four inquests were held in Paddington on tho remains of * n nf Tfc'lir.m lift IOlir HlilfUI uiiuuica, iuuvu w? yond doubt had been killed. One child about three months old had been found dead on a doorstep in Kensington Park gardens. In this case it was proved that death was caused by neglect at birth. Another child was found in the waters of the Paddington canal horribly , mutilated. In these twp cases, verdicts of "murder"were returned. Another case?tlmt of a baby whose body waa picked up in Sutherland gardens?was adjourned that a post-mortem examination might bo made. The case of a child i whoso bo 'y wa.s found in Hyde Park | ' terraco was also adjourned, being con- j . aidered of "so much gravity " that an ; application was mado to the home Hec- j retary to ofT;:r a reward of ?t>U lor tne apprehension of the murderer. The victim was a little girl about five or six 1 mouthH ok!, apparently just recovering after vaccination. The body when found was " attired in superior clothing," and a lady's pockethandkerchief was tied tightly round its throat. Heaven's Own Child.?A little girl in Reading, Pa., recently saw an old drunken man lying on a doorstep, the perspiration pouring off his face, and a crowd of children preparing to make fun of him. She took her little apron and wiped his face, and then looked up so pitifully to the rest and made this remark : "Oh, say, don't hurt him. E?'b lomebody's grandpa." GEN. CROOK'S INDIAN ALLIES. .Revenue the Motive which Induce* the Crows and Shoahones to Fight. Reference to Gen. Crook's Indian allies reminds me, says a correspondent with the army, that a few notes on their history and peculiar traita may be of interest. Above all other considerations which lead the allies to participate in this war is that of revenge. Looking baok even beyond his childhood, the able-bodied Shoshone, Ute or Crow knows nothing of tradition or experience which does not whisper "War to the knife with the Sioux I" And the Sioux include the northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, because they sail under the same colors in time of war. In pushing westward into this grand central position the Sioux have in a measure displaced and reduced in numbers each of the friendly tribes named. The Grows driven steadily northward, the Shoshones toward the setting sun, and the IJtea far southward, have each in turn had their savage pride humbled and their wealth sadly diminished by the ruthless incursions of this powerful combination of the Yellowstone. During all these years no single tribe could think to cope with that of Sitting Bull or his southern chieftains, now sometimes found at the agenoies. They have, sinonlftrlv An cinch, fmbmitted to annual thrashings and the loss of thousands of ponies, without ever forming a combination to " wipe out" the common hereditary enemy, The Utes have a tradition in regard to one of these contests, which occured on the shores of Grand lake, in Middle Park, Colorado. The northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes?whose descendants are fighting us now?had marshalled their hosts, and sought the Utes on their own romantio hunting grounds. A pitched battle of great fury raged around tho shores of Grand lake for several days, when finally the Utes were hurled, beaten, to the water's edge, and retreat cut off. A few rafts were hastily lashed together, and the remnant of the defeated band pushed out on the broad lake, as the last alternative. A terrible ?torm arose after tho Utes were safely out of reach of hostile bnllets, and soon the entire band was drowned. The Utes believe that the Great Spirit had a hand in the matter, and to this day they will not go within prunshot of Grand lake. Wa ebakie, the great chief of the Shoshonee, besides having many old scores to settle up on behalf of his tribe, had a son shot recently by the Sioux. He is here, and will personally lead his eager braves in ensuing contests. While writing these things, I should not overlook a strange report which comes from the north. It is to the effect that the Crows are trading ammunition to the Sioux for ponies. In his present time of great need the Sioux would, of course, exchange anything but his scalp for ammunition; but it is rather a severe strain on the average credulity to believo that even an Indian would hand missiles of death to his hereditary eliemy for grea t pecuniary gain one day, and then face him in battle the next. All modern equestrianism dwindles to nothingness when compared to that exhibited by the Shoshonqs and Crows. Horse and rider seem grown together; and, no matter whether it is up or down an angle of forty-five, or across the level plain, tho average warrior is happiest and most graceful whon his pony runs fastest and plunges wildest. The rider pays little attention to rein or bit, but, by swaying liis body to and fro qaic&ly and easily, tnrns his animal in any desired direction. In parades around camp in richest -war attire their appearance Is most striking, and so full of the extravagant that we cannot but think of some gorgeous panorama. Their appearanoo id no less savagely aboriginal than it is original. This also often leads us to think that an Indian is an Indian the world over, and that their very allies take as supreme a delight in mangling the body of a viotim as the veriest Sioux that ever committed a massacre. They are all jolly souls, too; but most of their humor has a very ghastly turn. It generally hinges on triumph over an enemy, the utter destruction of that enemy, and the capture of his property. They are merely a speoies of human bloodhound, taught to run down the Sioux instead of tho while. But, at any rate, their aid is invaluable to such warfare as this, providing that they will do what their strongest instinot, their most ardent desire, and not a little courage, impel them to do. Horrid Heathen Customs. A correspondent writes as follows from Port of Spain, Trinidad, West Indies: I saw a sight a man might never see in his life, and one that I don't want to sea again; it was horribie. A sight that you hear about at homo, but you hardly think it is true; nevertheless, I've seen i it with my own eyes. It was the great religious holiday of the native East Indies, Coolies. They look like demons, entirely naked, tattooed, long hair, rings in their^ ears, noses, toes, arms and ankles. About forty keep beating on filrnmnV find ftll vellino. A I man dances forward, kneels, puts out | his tongue as far as possible; another (a . priest) takes a piece of blunt steel and jams it through his upper lip, tongue and lower lip, and leaves it thero, and that follow danced with the steel through . his lips and tongue for an hour or two; , then tlioy pnlled it out. Imagine, if you can, how that hurt; but tlio fellow never moved a muscle, never winced, not a groan or cry, either , when tliey put it through or t-ook it out. They did the same to a girl. Then half , a dozen or more men had their bodies pierced; first they cut a hole on each side ami then jabbed a piece of steel right through; not a cry from one; all the while the rest sing and dance and the -tom-toms play, raising a terrible row. Then came the ceremony of walking It rough fire. There 'is an oblong plr.cfl marked out on the ground, about ton feet by twenty, the grass dug out , and a large firo of logs built in the middle. It burned from twelve o'clock to five; four Coolies kept stirring it all the ( whilo with long poles. Wlif>n t.lie loss were burut to red-hot coals they were raked down all over this ( place to the depth of about three inches. . Then the procession marched up with ( their " gods," tom-toms and bells, and | tho firs'., the man who had his lips ( pierced, carrying a golden cup in liis , hand, naked, long hair in curls down | his back, like a demon, and , singing, daiie. I actually right through that fire, not fast either; he went through it slowly; then about ten walked through, . and the rest, some of them women with babies on their shoulders, hurried through. 1 hurried away home; didn't sleep much that night. A Coincidence. A gentleman at Saratoga, after waving bis handkerchief for half an hour or more at an unknown lady whom he discovered at a distant point on the shore, was encouraged by a warm response to his signals to approach his charmer. Imagine his feelings when, on drawing nearer, ho saw that it was his own dear wife, whom ho had left at the hotel but a short time before. " Why, how re?* > <-? wlroV*lA fKof TOO JLUaiOlkli/lU vunv nv uuvimv* *vwq nized each other at such a distance," exclaimed both in the same breath, and then they changed the subject. HOW CUSTER FOUGHT. A New Account ol the Terrible MaaaacreTbe One Falihfal Indian--A Thrilling Ilcncrlptlon. The following letter has been received by Mr. James Mannion, of Detroit, from his son James, who was an eyewitness of the Custer massacre. It is the only acconnt of that terrible affair yet written by a witness of it, and details many incidents not yet given to the public: Deab Father?We left camp on the fifteenth of June and sorted for the Big Horn river, 150 miles north of here. We were four dayi on the march thither, where we joined Terry and Ouster, and marched north on the bank of the Big tt cjl-I? x num. ouruuuy uitj ajiuwo uuiu, we followed a well marked trail along its banks, and on Jane 24 we oame in eight of an Indian village with abont 1,800 tents, and a fighting foroe of 3,000. Major Reno, in whose oommand I am, commanded the left flank and Onster the right, and the fight oommeno?d by Reno's oharging on tha Indian village, fighting on foot, having tied the horses in a grove a short way off. While the fight was going on, General Ouster reaohed the other side of the village and attacked it. General Onster and his five companies took position on a ridge in the center of the Indian camp, cut off from access to water, and there fought desperately all day long, a oonspicuous mark for the savage marksmen all around them. At last, when half his command had been killed, he called on those that remained to follow him, and dashed boldly through the red devils. It was running the gauntlet of at least 2,000 rifles for the whole distance. His men did not follow him, and when he got through he found himself alone with a single Grow Indian, one of his scouts. He would not leave his men to perish alone and turned to go baok, but the Grow, recognizing that such a movement would be fatal, grabbed his horse and implored him not to go back. Guster laughed, and, putting the reins of his horse between his teeth, with a revolver in each hand, he gave a wild cheer and dashed back through the* smoke and flying bullets. As if by a miracle he reached the remnant of his command, which was now reduced to forty men. Galling on these survivors again to follow him?which the example and suocess of his former charge disposed them to do?he led them from their place of peril over the path of his solitary charge. That was the last seen of them until the battle was over, when the whole party, with Custer in their midst, were found stark and dead within a circular rampart formed by their horses' bodies. They had evidently at the last moment made up their minds to sell their lives dearly, shot their horses, and then, raising them as breastwork, fought on with the vigor of despair until the last man was dead. What they suffered and what they did within the fatal circle will ever remain looked in mystery. Of all Custer's men only the Crow scout above mentioned and a sergeant of company I escaped. From the descriptions in the papers you cannot imagine the horror of the scene after the battle. I .went over it with the artist as the dead lay in heaps where they fell, and I shall ever remember it. General Ouster was found with all his clothes upon him, but his two brothers were terribly mutilated. When the fight was in progress the Indian squaws would rush in among the wounaea BUIUitJIB UJUU uuau vuv uucu brains with clubs. A remarkable story is told of the fearful scones at the death of Charlei Reyiioldsj Ouster's chief scout, and the best shot on the Missouri river. He was shot off the bnok of his horse, and in falling caught the horse and killed him, and making a breastwork of the beast's body he commenced a terrible slaughter of the Indians. He lay behind his horse dying and still shooting, and every shot he fired his deadly aim sent a savage to the earth. "When he was takon off the field after the fight twenty-two d?ad Indians were found around him. At the time of the fight I was sent with a soldier on a message to the mouth of the river where the boat was to call for General Gibbons' command, and he aid General Terry came just in time, one ou eaoh side of the river. When I reached the mouth there war no way of communicating with Gibbons on the nt.hor hank, except bv swimming, and no on? dared to trust the rapid and treach- , erous current. I peeled off and dashed in, reaching the other bank without much trouble, and was enabled to reach Gibbons on that terrible day, and bring < him to the rescue of the struggling Reno. He and Terry, marching .up either bank j of the river, did not reach the scene of i the battle a moment too soon. After i fighting from two?o'clock Saturday until i Sunday, tbe Indians coolly packed up < tents and docamped, leaving the grounds < in the hands of the dead and wounded i aud defeated. i We are expecting an attack daily from them, and as I have got ouo of the best Indian ponies on the river, I can easily get away with some of them. i .Tames Mannion. A Hraliman uentor ana creunur, A singular case of attempted suicide, which brought the Vedic superstitious ! and the penal code into embarrassing ! contact, is reported by the Allahabad correspondent of the Times of India : ' "A Brahman of the Brahmans" claimed a debt or a concession from an adversary, j His importunities being of no avail, he ' at last avowed his intention of sitting in 1 "Dharna" at the door of the other until bis demand should be complied with or Heaven release him from his sufferings, and so cast the blood of the holy upon 1 the head of the obdurate. Ho accord- 1 ingly "sat," but the operation becoming < tedious after ft time, and not producing ' the desired result, he proclaimed his de- < termination to live no longer on the 1 earth with the stiff necked. With his jaueo in ono hand, and dust from the 1 threshold of his oppressor in the other, 1 the Brahman forthwith leaped head fore- t most down the village well. i Seized with terror and remorse, his I opponent rushed to the mouth of the i fatal well, and, with hands clasped, in l contrite tones besonght his injured vie- ' tim to avail himeeif of the rope thrown i iown to save him, nnd only to come up, i when all would be well. Thus adjured, | the holy man consented to be pulled to < tho surface of tho earth again; whereupon he was seized by his adversary aud 1 banded ovcv to the police on a charge of I attempting to commit suicide. i A Strong Objection. " Are you satisfied with the jury, gentlemen, said an Elmiia judge after the jury had been impaneled. "We are," said tho lawyers in chorus. A tall, gaunt figure rose up solemnly in the jury box and said, impressively: "But I'm not." " What's your objection, Mr. S. ?" inquired his honor, blandly. " This young man on my right., your honor, has been eating onions." " Objection overruled; go on with the case," observed the judge, with a significant glance at the sheriff, and the tall man sat down resignedly and held a white handkerchief to his m ft sort of signal of tUfitrww, * -A ARTIFICIALLY RAISED FOOD. Nomethlng About the Fish we Eat and Think It Mo Nlce? The following horrible paragraph, the New York World says, we find daily in our exchanges?indeed, it is one of those thoughtlessly scissored and pasted things doomed to go the rounds of the press and return in a year or two for a fresh start, translated from the Tokio Thunderer. Here it is: " Wrap a trout in brown paper, put it in the ashes with a few live ooals atop, and in fifteen minutes it will be a dish fit for a king." Fit for a king of the cannibal islands, j possibly, for when a man possessing reason considers whereof brown paper is i marl a *nd TOhorflwith it is tolored. and then imagines such ingredients permeating and flavoring the delicate substance of the most delicate of fifth, the operation can only be fitly likened to wrapping a reed bird in worm eaten seed-leaf tobacco and baking it in a limekiln. As brook trout, however, are to-day quoted in New York at one dollar a pound, most of the families whioh might be tempted by this pestiferous paragraph into sin, will find the brown paper more easily come at than the brook trout. This "brook trout" business, however, is a mere fiction, of one origin with the disreputable practice of dub- j bing any big, bloated, watery oyster ^a | "saddle-roc*," tne real, old-time "wadle-rock" being at least as rare nowadays as an angel's visit or a meaty potato. What with bushels of lime emptied at the heads of streams to drive the fish to the nets below, and cookleoindering and other pot-fishing infamies, there is not a living brook tront today within miles npon miles of the city. The favored few to whom it has been revealed under the most solemn and awful pledges of secrecy, know of a trout brook or two up in New Hampshire and Vermont and down in Pennsylvania. But most of the trout brought to this market are artificially raised?spawned and milted by hand in fishhouses, and thereafter brought up in not over cool or clean, shallow and springless ponds. KThey are fed almost exclusively on cold boiled liver, chopped fine, and this food the poor silly fish, knowing nothing of their natural nutriment, voraciously de i ?it.i 1^1 votrr ana aasunuate uuui men uwu ouustanoe becomes something which is really and literally neither flsh, flesh, fowl nor good red herring. Instead of the hard fleshed, wild flavored, gamy, genuine brook trout, simple citizens set upon their tables a flabby flsh as soft and nearly as tasteless as a pond sucker. We used to hear stories of men who were hired by the season to fish " in the Adirondacks " for th? Saratoga hotels, while in fact Gridley's ponds lay within a mile of the hotels, and he had constantly on hand fron: 2,000 to 5,000 pond, not brook, trout of his own raising, and weighing from three-quarters to a pound and a quarter each, according to their age, of from two to three years. Ha used to charge city Waltons a dollar a ponnd, the market price, for the privilege and presumed pleasure of " hooking out" a half dozen or so trout that might have been lifted out in one's hand; for their tameness, as Selkirk is made by the poet to say, was positively "shocking." Of course it would be unfair to class with such fish Seth Green's artificially procured spawn, wtacli, as spawn or young uuu, uu wusigned to their natural stream, food and oondition, and attain table fitness in a natural -way. But for this process, as everybody knows, the salmon streams of Sootrand, Wales and Ireland would long ago have been fished out. What our markets and most of our restaurants display as " brook trout" are trout only in a certain outeide resemblance to the original, for in all other respects they are fishy frauds. It is a question whether cultivation is not as fatal to some kinds of food as civilization has been to certain tribes of men, for instance the Polynesians. Of course we shall be told of the high perfection to which orossing, culture and feeding have brought onr great " butchers' " meats, such as beef and mutton; but even with these the tendenoy has been to pile on fat at the expense of fine fiber and flavor. Artififliallv brod and fed fish, at least, 1 certainly are a failure? a failure thus far as cheap food, and a dead failure as luxuries. The truth is, that all game to : be "gatre" must have lived in its j natural state and on its natural food, j Every farmer's boy knows that quail or i partridge eggs hatched under a hen, the ; wing clipped birds thereafter being i brought up in the barnyard, eventually ] oome to the table with next to none of {he flavor which the buds and berries > give to the flesh of the wild birds. On . the other hand, liens which have^d j ?way and hatched their nests have pro- ( duced chickens which actually grew up j on forest food, and when subsequently j caught, killed and cookeql, were found j to possess the game flavor of the prairie chicken. Not that the prairie chicken, by the way, is anything to boast of in . the way of a table luxury, particularly when served up in hotel style, with a i sauce of fine shot with whioli it was , killed. A little wholesome scientific inquiry , into the deterioration and general goodfor-nothingness of most artificially raised ' food will be found a good investment by . self-esteemed epicures who pav a dollar ? a pound for soft, spotted, poud frauds, * brazouly advertised aa " genuine brook * trout." Such are indeed fit to be * " wrapped in brown paper, put in the ' " ?- -? ? J I 1 ashes, witn live coais mop, uuu icm , there, not for fifteen minntes?bnt for j fifteen hours I ' A Large Family. : In the town of Washington, Mass., on ;he Boston and Albany road, resides a < Family by the name of Tettro, which 1 comprises a large number of children. ' The husband, Isaac, was born in Cana- 1 la, in 1819, but has been a resident of 1 tho United States for over twenty years. 1 When about thirty-two years of age, he 1 tvas married to Lydia Doras, a widow svitfa three children. Since that time I she has borne him twenty-two children, < making twenty-five in all which she has < brought into tho world. She was fiftysix years old when her last child was i bom. Of this enormous progeny there was only one died in infancy ; seven died ?fter attaining their growth, and sixteen ire living. Ten were boys, and fifteen girls. The second crop, or the grandchildren, at present number thirty-three. Tho mother of this great family was one of sixteen children, by tho name of Shepard, she was married when she was sixteen, and widowed nve years aicer, iu which state she remained three years. Her married life, therefore, comprises thirly-eeven years. Terrible Atrocities. A letter to the London Daily News, dated Philippopolis, says: An investigation int ) the recent atrocities in Bulgaria is proceeding. It will probably be reported that sixty villages have been burned, and 12,000 persons killed. Mr. Schuyler thinks the reports of the atrocities committed by the Bulgarians are unfounded. There are horrible scenes at Batok; 7,000 bodies have been lying there rotting in the sun. No crime invented by Turkish ferocity has been left uncommitted. There is urgent need of assistance tor starving funilitfl. Faces. I counted all the sunny days and faces My life bad known, And found they gathered round the friendly faces 1 called my own. Ah, can a life have any joya or graces That has no friends ? When fades the beauty of familiar faces, Its gladless ends. * . Items of Interest. mi. _ * L1 ^ M M 1M &LA xne ngiuuuui uo?ci gwo iu Idle wrung plaoe. The Mormons have been in CJtah twenty-nine years. The beet a man can do for his State is to be a good citizen. | Bathing dresses are still made with blouse and trousers, cat in one, of bias ' flannel, with red or white trimmings. An inmate of a Michigan poorhonse ' put his gold watch and $200 under his pillow, and while he slept they were stolen. Samuel L. Evans, of Salt Lake, has within three months married the mother and the aunt of a wife that he already possessed. Who ever saw a piano that has net been recommended by Rubinstein, or a sewing machine that has not taken a first mwnlnnrl ' Colorado produoee $15,000 in silver, 810,000 in gold, and $1,000 in other metals every twenty-four hours, or $9,490,000 yearly. The useless waste of money on weddings and funerals oalls for reform] Extravagance makes young men dread marriage and death. The Dutch cure a lazy pauper by putting him into a deep cistern, let in the water, and provide him with a pump that by hard work will just keep him from drowning. The number of vessels on the registers of the British empire in 1875 was 37,186, of 7,744,287 tons and worked by 842,835 seamen. The increase over 1874 was 201 vessels. A San Francisco theater manager has ruled that " no lady shall occupy a seat in the boxes, drees circle, or parquet of his housd if she insists upon wearing a hat or bonnet." James Converse, of Iowa, gave his fortune to poor and needy people, assisting over 1,400 different ones, and when sick and dying no one would even sit beside him. On hearing a clergyman remark that < +Vio wnrld vox fnll of nhnngfl." Mrs. Partington said she could hardly bring her mind to believe it, 59 little found its way into her pooket. A young Highlander, taking luave of his sweetheart one Saturday evening, remarked : " 111 see you at the kirk the morn if we're spared, an' whether or no, 111 see ye on Monday." A Hartford chemist professes to have discovered how to get the fertilizing properties out of stable manure so that it can be transported in very small bulk, while the residue makes first-class paper stock. A Kentucky schoolmaster whose wife was one of his pupils had occasion to punish her one day. The next day the schoolhouse door bore this inscription : "School closed for one week; schoolmaster ilL" The Fullerites constitute a community at Petersham, CJonn., numbering twenty, living on faiinaceous food, dressing plainly, and professing to have direct divine guidance. Their belief is similar fViof ni thfi Adventists. When the train is within two miles of the depot every American citizen rises, crowds to the door of the car, makes a wild plunge for the ferryboat, and then stands leisurely, with a toothpick between hie teeth, to watch the procession of sensible people that follows after. M. Gruner, in calling attention to the probable exhaustion of English coal mines, estimated the maximum produotion of the collieries for all time at 250,000,000 tons. As it has now reached 130,000,000, he assumes that the mines can be profitably worked for eight centuries to oome. Senator Sharon, in applying for the reduction in the valuation of his Palace hotel, San Francisco, which was put at B2,000,000, said that it was not paying, nor soon likely to. It ooet, he said, 35,000,000, but labor and material were then high, and it could not be sold for lalf that sum. In the London Lancet Dr. Spencer Thomson calls attention to the use of jrelseminum sempervirens in neuralgia, n doses of twenty minims for an adult jvery hour and a half. He has rarely iad to order a third dose in any of his forty cases, and he has never found any inconvenience result from the dose. When oorn arrivee at full roasting ear itato, it can be most profitably fed by jeing cut and fed stalk and ear together, jinco at no period is there more sugar? friiich is necessary in fattening?to be :ound in the plant, and then hogs eat jvery part with an appetite that shows ;heir appreciation of the dainty food provided for them. " Pa!" exolaimed Elmathan Dorkins, Jr., to his respected sire, "pa, what's ;he difference 'tween an elephant and a ;ree?" Mr. Dorkina said something ibout both having trunks, but was jcornfully interrupted by his offspring, (?ho shouted : " 'Cause the tree leaves in spring and the elephant leaves when the menagerie leaves." There are a good many illustrations nowadays of the story about that man who went through bankruptcy. He had owned a fine horse and buggy, and the beam disappeared for a time, but by-andbye it was doing service for the same :>wner again. On being asked what this tneant the man's reply was : "I went through bankruptcy, the team went round." The man who brought the latest tidings, as it were, of Charley Rocs, has disappeared. Mr. Ross lost his temper during an interview with him, and exclaimed, excitedly : "If I but made the effort I could have you hung!" The man was either frightened by this strong language or weary of repeating his lies, for he failed to keep his appointment the next day, and has not been seen since. It is said that Mr. Ross is convinced that the man saw the child after the abduotion. Another Mastodon. The bones of a mastodon have been unearthed in Pike, Wyoming county, N. Y. Among many broken portions of bones there have been found in an entire state tbe tusks of the animal, five or six teeth, a shoulder blade, numerous sections of vertebra, and al*o what is supposed to be a portion of the skulL One of the tusks measured wh?n taken ? j i - - out about ton feet in lengsn, ana mu feet in circumference at the base. In taking it up it was broken in three pieces. A portion of the stump of the other tusk crumbled away, leaving six or seven feet well preferred. The teeth vary in measurement from three inches square to about four by six inches. One of them weighs about four pounds, and all of them are in a fine state of preserra* tion,