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I~ ?' !! ^^ ? - % THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. BY HUGK WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.-NO. 29. On a Fa'lhful Bauk Cashier. [A dispatch from Northfield, Minnesota, statw that eight mounted robbere rode tip to the bank. Three of them then dismount d, onrere-1. sprung over the coulter, and ordered the c.'.chier, Mr. J. Haywood, to open the vault. Although a kuifo was held to hifl t ro?t, he refused to ob(y. The robbere then fbot him through the bead; the assistant cashier was wounded, but suoceeded in escaping. The alarm wa* at ot.ce given, the citizens oollected and attacked tbe band, two of whom were killed, after which the others made their escap). Owing to the heroism of Mr. Hayw.toJ, nothing was lost.] Unto how few the fadeless bays Bolcog! How few the iron crown Of virtue wear! And few the lays That bear a hero's honor down Untm ished to the latest days ! Yet tbere was one but now who breathed Faithful to trust, and in that hour Summoned he laid down life, bequeathed To all good men his'gooa aeea b power, And * ith great named hie name enwre&thed. For t' ll me not Liu place was low, H sterling voice till then unheard ; He knew and dared to aunwer " No!" \\ h 'o volumes spoke in that one word, And uty could 110 further go. Not oftecest on w&r's glorious field, Or in the gaze of favoring men Does duty call, but when the shield Of Bfccreoy protects, or when Our dearest hopos to her must yield; Not often est does the martyr gain *"? ? l: . . nV -TUI lU.'O IU3 IlfcUtCUUS 1AUJU , And this unui knew it, stood the strain Of ?iler.t trial. He prized the name Of truth, and kept it free from stain. If lie bet: ayed not, death was sure ; Before l.im stood the murderous thief ; He did net fl nch. Of one life fewer The augela turned ?li- I:!" od sealtd leaf That night, aud said : "The page is pure." Ob, simple faith and lojulty ! If each true hbart like tuts were strong The d&tion's ancio: t majority Would rise again wuh juyous song, Her beauty chme o'er every sea! Cambridge, Mass. G. P. Lath nor. MATCH-MAKING. " I wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived !" And she meant it, or, what answers the same purpose, she thonght she meant it. After all, how few of us ever really know what we do mean I " I engaged myself once when a girl, and the simpleton thought he owned me. I soon took that conceit out of him, and sent him about his business." The voice was now a trifle sharp. What wonder, witht.o galling a memory? " No man shall ever tyrannize over me?never ! What the mischief do you suppose is the matter with this sewing machine?" 44 Annoyed at your logic, most Ukely," said my friend, a bright eyed young matron, as she threaded her needle. 44 My husbatd is not a tyrant, Miss Kent." 441 am glad you are satisfied," was the laoonic answer. It was quite evident by the expres sion of the dressmaker's face that she had formed her own opinion about my friend's huRband, and was cfhite competent tu form and express an opinion on any subject. Miss Kent was a little woman, as fair as a girl aud as plump as a robin. She wasn 't asnamt d to owu that she was forty years eld and an old maid. She had earned her owu living most of her life, and was proud of it. Laziness was the one sin Miss Kent could not forgive. Sh? xcoa a ororiil nnrfift a faithful friend. and a jolly companion; but stroke her the wrong way, and you'd wfs'i you hadn't in much shorter time than it tak< s no to writ?? it. IIrr views 011 all subjects wire stiikiLgly original, and not to be combatod. " Whut are you going to do when you are i Id?" pt.n?isted the mistress of the istul lishment. " What other old folks do, I suppose." " But yon can't work forever." "Can't say tbut I want to." " Now, Miss Kent, a husband with means, a kind, intelligent man "? " I don't want. I don t want any man. I toll yon, Mrs. Carlisle, I wouldn't marry the best man that ever lived, if he was as rich as Croesus, and won id die if I didn't have him. Now if you have exhausted the marriage question, I should like to try on yvjur drew." That there was something behind all this I knew well. My friend's eyes danced with fun; and as Miss Kent fitted the waist, she threw me a letter from the bureau. " Kead that," she said, with a knowing look. " It may amuse you." This is what the letter said : " Mr Dear Jennie : I shall be de lighted to spend a montn witn you ana your husband. There must l)e, bowever, oue stipulation about my visit?you must promise to say 110 more about marriage. I shall never be foolish again. Twenty five years ago to-day I wrecked my whole life." " Better embark in a n?w ship, hadn't he >" put in Jennie, 8ot(o voce. " So unsuitable was this marriage, so uttoj ly ami entirely wretched have been its c?uFeqn< nces, that 1 am forced to bolievo the marriage institution a mistake. So, for the last time, let me assure you that I wouldn't marry the best woman that ever lived, if by so doing I could OOVTA krt*. 1 i Cr\ ? AM rtATICtn uvi 110. j uui wiu "Make .Lansing." "Rich, i?n't it ?" said Jennie, and then pointed to the chubby little figure whose back happened to bo turned. I shook my head and laughed. "You'll Bee," continued the incorrigil'le. "S o what?" inquired Miss Kent, quite unaware of our pantomime. "That particles which are chemically attracted will unite. Of course an alkali and an acid?Don't you think this sleeve is a little too long, Miss Kent?" " Not after the seam is off. But what were von savincr about alkalifw and ftciiK *Mrn. Carlisle? The other day at Professor Boynton's I saw some wonderful experiments." 'Did they sncceed?" inquired Jennie, demurely. " Beautifully." So will mine. I never botchod a job in my life." " I don't think I quite understand you," said Miss Kent, perplexed. "No? I always grow scientific when talking about marriage, my dear." " Bother 1" was all the little woman said, bnt thn tone was much better na- I tured than I expected. The next w.^k Cousin Mark arrived, j and I liked him at once. An unhappy j marriage would have been the last thing thought of in connection with the gentleman. He had accepted the situation like a man, Jennie told me, and for fifteen years carried a load of misery that few could have endured. Death came to his relief at last, and now the poor fellow honestly believed himself an alien from domestic happiness. Singular a? it way appear, Cousin Mark was the embodiment of good health and good nature; fifty, perhaps, though he didn't look it, and as rotund and fresh in his way as the little dress maker was in hers. As I looked at him, I defied anybody to see one arid not be immediately reminded of the other. True, he had more of the polish which comes from travel and adaptation to different classes ar.d individuals, but he was not a whit more intelligent by nature tban was the bright little woman whom Jennie had determined he should marry. "I was surprised you should think necessary to caution me aboat that, Cousin Maik," cooed the plotter, as she stood by his side looking out of the winitow. "The idea of my being so ridiculous I" and in tho same breath, with a wink at me: " Come, let us f?o t-o my Fitting-room. We are at work there, bi't it won't make any difference to you, will it?" Of course Cousin Mark answered " No," promptly, as innocent as a dove about the trap being laid for him. "This is my cousin?Mr. Lansing, Miss Kent," and Mr. Lansing bowed politely, and Miss Kent arose, dropped her scissors, blushed and sat down again. Cousin Mark picked up the refractory implements, and then Miss Jennie proceeded, with rare caution and tact, to her labor of love. Cousin Mark, at her request, read aloud, drawing Miss Kent into the discussion as deftly as was ever fly drawn into the web of the spider. " Who was that lady, Jennie?" Cousin Mark inquired that evening. "Do you mean Miss Kent?" said Jennie, looking up from her paper. "Ob, she is a lady I have known for a long time. Bhe is making some dresses for me now. Why?" " She seemed uncommonly well postr\A n TwAmon " CU l\7i cm nvmuui Under other circumstances Mrs. Carlisle would have resented this, but now she only queried : "Do you think so ?" and that ended it. Two or three invitations to thesewingroom were quite sufficient to make Cons in Mark perfectly at home there; and after a week he became as familiar as this: "If you are not too busy, I should like to read you this article;" and this is what Miss Kent would say : "Oh, I am never too busy to be read to. Sit down by the window in this comtortaDie cnair ana lei s near it. After a couple of weeks, when the gentleman came in, hoarse with a sudden cold, Miss Kent bustled about, her voice full of sympathy, and brewed him a dose which he declared he should never forget to his dying day; but one dose cured him. After this, Miss Kent was a really wonderful woman. Ay. Jennie was an arch plotter. She let them skirmish about, but not once did she give them a chance to be alone together?her plans were not to be destroyed by premature confidences?until the very evening preceding Cousin Mark's departure for California. Then Miss Kent was very demurely asked to remain and keep an eye on Master Carlisle, whom the fond mother did not like to lt-ave quite alone with his nurse. "We are compelled to be gone a couple of hours; but Cousin Mark will read to you, won't you, cousin ?" " Certainly, if Miss Kent would like it," replied the gentleman. The infant Carlisle, thanks to good managemi nt, was never awake in the evening, so the victims of this matrimonial speculation would have plenty of time. The back parlor was the room v*nof in nen An**Ir>rr flin nroninn' anrl nnf ' of this room was a large closet with a la ge blind ventilator, and out of this clcset a door leading to the back stoop and garden. Imagine my surprise when I was informed that Mr. Carlisle was go ing to lodge, and that we, after profuse warnings about the baby, and promises Dot to be gone too long, were to proceed to this closet overlooking the back parlor via back gate and garden. Ij> vain I protested. " Why, you gooso," laughed Jennie, "there'll be fun enough to last a lifetime. John wanted to come awfully, but I knew he'd make a noise and spoil everything, so I wouldn't let him." Tluwily schemer had taken tho precaution to lock the closet door from the outsidt, so (here was no fear of detection. On a high bench, as still as two mice, w? awaited results. Cousin Mark (as if arousing from a protracted reverie). "Would you like to have me read i" Miss Kent. "Oh, I'm not particular." Cousin Mark. " Here is an excellent article on eloctive affinities; how would you like that ?" JeuLie's elbow in my side almost took my breath away. Miss Kent. " Who is it by ?" Jennie (clear iuto my ear). " That's to gain time; see if it isn't." Cousin Mark. " It's by a prominent French writer, I believe." Miss Kent. " I don't think I care for a translation to-night." Cousin Mark. " Nor I; nor reading of any kind. This is my last evening in New York, Miss Kent." Miss Kent. " I hope you've enjoyed your visit?" Jennie (into my vt-ry head this time). " She's as shv as a three-year-old colt." Cousin Mark. " I d'dn't think J shonld feel bo sorry about saving." Jennie. "He is the wreck, you remember." A long pause. Miss Kent. "I think I hear the baby. Cousin Mark. " Oh, no. Tou are fond of babies, aren't yon, Miss Kent ?" No answer from Miss Kent. Cousin Mark. " I have been a very lonely man, Miss Kent, but I never real lzed Dow ion<-iy me rest 01 my me must be until I came to this house." Jennie. "Ob, bow lonely !" Cousin Mark. "Now I must return to my bnsiness and my boirding bouse. Think of that, Miss Kent?boarding bouse?boarding house, for a man as fond of domestic life as I am, Miss Kent." Just then we very distinctly heard a little purr, which sound* >d very like a note of intense sympatny from Miss Kent. Cousin Mark. " I have friends in San Francisco, of course, but no fireside like this, nobody to care for me if I am ill, nobody to feel very badly if I die." Jennie. "That'll (tlch her." Miss Kent (voice a little quivering). " I wish I lived in San Francisco. You conld always call upon me if you needed anything." (Jennie in convulsions.) Cousin Mark (abruptly). "If you will go to California with me, Miss Kent, I'll wait another week." Miss Kent. " Why, Mr. Lansing, what do you mean ? What would folks say?" Cousin Mark. " We don't care for folks, Miss Kent. If you'll go, we will have a house as pleasant as money can make it. You shall have birds, and flowers, aud horses, aad all the pcientiflc monthlies you want?deuced if ycu Bhan't?and you shall never sew a stit for anybody but me. Will you be my wife ?" Just then Jennie and I stepped up another peg, and there was that little oil maid, who wouldn't marry the lxj.it umii that over lived, hagged close to the man's breast who wouldn't marry the best woman that ever lived, not even to save her life. W? camij .-way then, but | it's my opinion that they remained in 1 jnst that position till we rang the bell half an honr after. " How did you know ?" I asked of Jennie. " My dear," she answered, " my whole reliance was upon human nature; and let me tell you, goosie, whatever else may fail, that never does." "Why, Miss Kent, what makes your face so red ?" inquired Jennie, upon entering; " and, Cousin Mark, how btrangely yon look! you hair is all mussed up." << T Jinnn frt Via-un it mnnflArl ?X LIU JL vv ?? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? often," said Cousin Mark, boldly. " Miss Kent and I are to bo married next week." Jennie laughed till her face was purple, and when I went up stairs Miss Kent was pounding her back.?Bazar. Fashion Note?. The furor for silver increases. Catogan nets, blaok and colored. Velvet skirts are again to be seen. Gold trimming on white Bilk is fashionable. Damask silk will be?fashionable for overskirts. Sleeves are narrow and many of them have cuffs. For autumn wear the Louis XIII. style will prevail. Sealskins trimmed with beaver cannot be worn with crape. A Ckon kof 1rr>Awn Oa fVifl I <?X JL Jiuiunu u?V) uuv n M MW WUV timbole, is much worn abroad. For evening wear, cashmere of all soft shades will be popular. Silver buttons in quantity will be used on light woolen costumes. Sealskins alone may be worn in any mourniDg except a widow's. Cravats and neckties promise to be longer and wider than in past years. Costumes made of satin and velvet are talked about for the coming season; Myrtle green of the darkest hue will be much seen in stylish winter costumes. Plain long sealskin jackets will be more fashionable this winter than last. Basques and overskirts will not be oomDletelv superseded by the popular polonaise. The new browns are darker than last year, and there are fewer gray shades than in previous winters. Silk dresses will soon be at least fifteen per cent, dearer than they were at the same time last year. In silks black and all dark colors will bo fashionably worn, and the gros grains of demi luster, with medium reps, will be the most approved quality. Bright shades of cardinal red are preparing in Paris for underskirts, and for trimming polonaises of delicate colors. Rough finished camel's hair, serges and cashmeres will be worn, and in cashmere the ink shades only a few removes from black, will be the most popular. There is a new work of China crepe in preparation for winter ball dresses; it is open work, with silk embroidery. A conspicuous feature in some of the new polonaises is an immense bow placed midway down the back of the bkirt. So Long Aso. A famnvl-ftUlo /moa ia fn Iia fnnnr? in ?X xciiiai auuiv vuou au iv w ?? your own country, says Prof. Huxley,in one of his lectures, in the neighborhood of the ruaguiticent falls of Niugara. In the immediate vicinity of f.ho whirlpool, and again upon Goat island, in the superficial deposits which cover the surface of the soil of the rock in those regions, thero are found 1 emains of animals in perfect preservation?shells belonging to exactly the same form as at present inhabit the still waters of Lake Erie. 11 is evident hero from the forma tion of the country that these animal remains were deposited in the beds in which they aro found, nt the time of which the lako extended over the region in which they are found, and that involves the nocessity that they existed and lived and di> d before the falls had oat their way back through the gorge of Niagara; and indeed it is possible to determine that at that time the falls of Niagara mu^t have been at hast six milts farther down the river than they are at present. Many computations have been made of the rate at which Niagara is thus cutting its way back. Those computations have varied greatly, but I am sp< aking within the bounds of prudence, if I assume that at its greatest rate of catting back, the falls of Niagara have not retreated at a greater pace than about a foot a year. Six miles, speaking roughly, are 30,000 feet: 30,000 feet, at a foot a year, are 30,000 years, and we aro fairly justified in concluding that no less a period than that has passed since these, shellfish, whose remains are left in the beds to which we have referred, wore deposited. That Car Window. It requires six men, according to the San Francisco News Letter, to put up a car window. A young lady gets in, and having humped arouud in her seat for about five minutes, she turns and re quests the gentleman just behiud her to perform that service. This is a nearsighted individual, who peers around the window frame some time for the catch, and then?of course the window pticks?jerks his finger half off and sits down with a red face, amid the giggling of the schoolgirls opposite. Next, the man in the front seat puts his lavender colored kneo on a paper of cherries beside him, clutches and yanks at the knob, and finally falls over into the young lady's lap. The cause of all this misery now remarks that "it doesn't matter," and then smiles sweetly at a palo young man with long hair. This martyr turus white, rises, and buttons up his coat for the death struggle. On the eleventh pull he bursts a blood vessel somewhere, and goes into the toilet compartment to bleed. A simple mindpd mechanic now comes forward with his tool bag, from which he takes a crowbar. J ust when he is about to use this the conductor happens by, and slides the window airily up with a gentle twist of the wrist. The Coal Snpply. The earth is rich enough in coal to supply the needs of all for centuries to come. Foremost in this respect are North America and China. The coal deposits of the United States cover a surface of 200,000 square miles ; those in the British possessions 20,000, while in England they cover 9,000, and in Belginm 900. China is perhaps richer still than the United States in this respect. In the single provinoe of the four rivers deposits have been explored covering 5,000 square miles, in uninter' 1 1 -1 lUft vtMATTinna ruptecl Heavy layers, wuuo mo purmw of Sjan^i is situated over the richest deposits of the most excellent quality, so that by digging in any place leads to the coal deposits, which form under and aronnd this province an incredibly large store. Not So Pleasing.?It has been discovered thiit the aniline dye, known *ih fnehsine, or magenta, is largely employed by dishonest wine growers in France for improving the oolor of claret, aud masking its dilution with water. Unpleasant symptoms havo folio ?r?.d the use of this medicated beverage. _ How Late May a Lover Stay ? Miss Abbi? J. Terry, an American yonng lady of literary proclivities, in a recent publication, says: " It is an imposition on any well bred girl to beep her up later than half-past ten o'clock, when you have the opportunity of seeing her often. If you always leave her with the wish in her heart that you had staid longer, you gain so much. Never run the risk of wearying her with your presence. Woo a woman bravely. If there is anything humiliating to a woman, it is to have a lover, whom she wishes to honor, weak and vapid, ever yielding and half afraid of her. She longs to tell him to got like a man." Miss Terry, it will thus be seen, holds the same profound and oorrect views of the female heart whioh were entertained by Mr. Weller, who oommended tho " bob-tailed style of love letter," because it made the recipient wish there was more of it. For our part we take exceptions at once to Miss Terry's ruling. Why should it be an imposition to keep a well bred girl up later than 10:30 p. M. conversing with her betrothed or probable betrothed on the same sofa in a parlor with the gas turned down for economy, as becomes these times of retrenchment and reform, and not an im position to take her to a ball, where under the glaring light she will danoe till four a. m. with a score of people, to not one-half of whom she can reasonably expect to become engaged f True, there should be moderation in lovers' visits. Such visits should not be prolonged, as a rule, till wKat the society reporters call that " late, or rather early hour," when, m AUn^n. xuiuijrouu ucauuiuujr uudoi roo. " The cata sneak home and lipht ie come, And the milkmen jump upon the ground." Bat except in the backwoods, under the dispensation of pine knots, it is hard to see why either economy or prudence should refuse the limit of a later hour than that designated by Miss Terry, say midnight or a quarter after on ordinary occasions, and eleven or half-past on Saturday nights. Miss Terry's caution to young men against wearying the object of their attentions is, however, inoontrovertibly judicious. There is nothing so beneficial or flattering to a true woman as a little wholesome neglect. Another acute observer of women and things, Mr. Joshua Billings, in one of his essays, enlarges on this point and lays down the rule that it is " well sometimes to draw in your wind and look as though it hurt you, for she will think you are ailing and will pity you," and pity, it is an established psychological fact, easily melts the heart to love. Othello was a skillful practitioner in this kind, if Shakespearo may be believed. Miss Terry, who insists on perfect honesty between lovers, perhaps would not sanction such a ruse, and perhaps she is right, though it has been well said that in love, war and politics deception is often the better part of valor. Her last rule, " Woo a woman bravely," is admirable, thongh in commenting upon it she seems to betray some personal feeling, as if she, so to speak, knew how it was herself. But why should she overlook the fact that this is leap year, and a centennial leau year at that, when by all the canons ft is aereed that, without doinj? violence to her womanhood, any true woman may tell her lover, though a very Bheep, to "act like a man."? World. Plotting to Murder his Father and Mother. The Bravo poisoning case is not off the English mind before a young Englishman of Hertford startles the public by prosecuting a companion for conspiring against the life of his own parents. The prosecutor bears the name of Augustus Dickens, and on his own con fession has lived a most vagabond life. The defendant is Paul Bayart, son of a French woolen manufacturer of Roubaix. It is claimed by Dickens that, Paul hired him to go to France, visit Roubaix. i:l there murder his father as he went out for his morniDg w.ilk over his grour ds, and his mother as she went to chapel. The young man furnished his mercenary with a plan of Roubaix and full directions as to fiudiDg his father's residence, and photographs by which he could | identify the old people. He gavo Dick- j ens a note of ?500 as reward for tlie deed, saying that lio did not wish him to think that ho (Bayart) did not love his parents, because he did, but his financial situation made their removal necessary. Bayart's defense is that the entire allegation is false and ail the j documents put in are forgeries. His two brothers wore summoned from Roubaix, the eldest a partner with his father in a businesS amounting of 4,000,- ( 000 francs a year, and they denied that any of the criminatory handwriting was that of Paul. Dickens, after putting the affair in the hands of the police, very strangely sent to the father at Rouba* a demand for cash on the note of ?500, which is claimed by the defense to give a cue to the whole affair as a blackmailing operation on his part. Dickens had had also a quarrel with a Catholio priest. Father Stanfield, to whom the Bayart boy seemed to be consigned, he being in England to acquire a knowledge of the language to use in his father's ! business. Cardinal Manning was appealed to, and wrote a letter to some of Dickens' friends about the quarrel. Ac- ; cording to Dickens' story the killing was 1 to be effected by an air gun, and con siderable confirmatory evidence was offered to show that Paul Bayart had been j making inquiries in regard to poisons . which leave no trace. It is a queer case, : and Bayart waa bound over in ?200 bail ; n-tol TKia r*rr?HnViilif.v TOnnlrl fiflom to be that Dickens had ingeniously strung together a lot of carefully contrived incidents to give weight and sub- ' stance to an outrageous fiction. Important Income Tax Suit. In the United States circuit court at Providence, R. I., Judge Knowles delivered the opinion of the court in the case of the United States ugt. Rowland G. Hazard. The action is to recover $17,451 for tax on defendant's income in 1868. Defendant pleads in bar to reoovory the payment by defendant of the assessment made by the United States assistant assessor with the added penalty of fifty per cent. The United States attorney, Gardner, demurred to this and other pleas, and the opinion of the court sustains the demurrer, following the principle of the decision of the United States supreme court in the Dollar Savings bank agt. the United States. The case is important, as it is the first one that has been instituted to recover income tax after a citizen had paid the tax assessed by the United StateB assessor with fifty per cent, penalty. The judgment of the court sustains such action. Marink Liosses.?xne lonowmg are the statistics of maritime disasters reported daring the Lionth of July, 1876, concerning all flags : Sailing vessel:] reported lost?English, eleven; American, five; French, fonr; Oerman, three; Nor wegian, three; Dnfccb, three; Span sb, two; Italian, two; Gieek, one; Russian, one; Swedish, one; and nine, nationality unknown; total, forty-five. In this number are included four vessels reported missing. Steamers reported loBt? English, three; German, one; American, ono;_Spanisb, one; Norwegian, one; to, tol, seven. STARVATION IN BULGARIA. Another Startling Picture ot the Horrors of W*r?-The Utter HeartlemncM of the Turk*. But the dead are less to be pitied than the living, says a London News correspondent writing from Bulgaria. They have been reduced from ease and comfort to the condition of wild animals?without home, without shelter, without bedding, almost without clothing, and living on what food they can pick up from day to day. There are women here who have known comfort, who are weak and ill, and who have three or four little mouths to feed. They go out in the fields, reap enough wheat for the day's food, painfully thrash it out with their hands, pound it into flour between two stones, and bake it into bread for their little ones day by day; and sleep, like the foxes, in the corner of a ruined wall on a little straw at mgnt. 'mere are little cnuaren nere, haggard and thin and sickly, sleeping almost on the bare ground, and, -when it rains, on the wet ground. Nobody who has not seen it can imagine the misery caused by the burning of a village. The authorities had sent some tents here for the people, which were old and ragged, capable of sheltering them from the sun, but not from the rain. But there was not enough for all. The mudir likowise received a little food now and then, wbioh he distributed, which barely kept those who had no harvests or other means of existence from starving. But there was not enough, and the supply was uncertain and might cease at any moment. When we were starting, the women and children gathered around us by the hundred, and blocked up the way. They showed us thin, ragged clothing and said : " 8ee; we were rich; we had a house and furniture and cattle and sheep, and these rags are all we have left." r They bared their lean, skinny arms, to show us their fearful emaciation; they bared their shrunken, shriveled breasts, at whioh lean, haggard, wretched babes were tugging, to show ns thev had no milk. God knows. their hollow cheeks and sunken eyes and despairing faces were proof enough. They said: "We are starving; our babes are starving?starving to death. Can you do .nothing for us?" And we could do nothing; nothing but shed useless tears. And the Turks of the neighboring villages, who have taken the horses and sheep and cattle of tuese starving womrn and children, their clothing and bedding, and the tiles from their roofs, come to the village sometimes, and ride through on the horse they have stolen, looking upon this misery with indifferent eyes. i We saw several here who had oomo out of mere curiosity, well fed, fat, insolent, smiling their contempt for the starving 1 beings around them. The Turk is not only without pity, he is without patriot- 1 ism. He does not look upon these people as his neighbors, his countrymen. ; He is too ignorant and stupid to know that in injuriog them he is injuring himself, that he ii attacking his own country. He knows no such thing as country TTn lrnnwo nnlv Tslftm. Th* neonlfl of India, the nomadic tribes of central Asia, whom he has never seen, of whom I he has heard once or twice perhaps in his life, are nearer to him than his next 1 door neighbors. The words country, patriotism, do not exist in his language. That these Christians, his near neigh- i bors, are his countrymen, that cn them ' as mnch as on himself depends the great- ' ness and prosperity of his country, is a 1 fact which has no place in his mind, which has no influence on bis ads. He knows ouly that they form no part of the religion of Mohammed, and he looks no further. 1 When we left the village a hundred of 1 these women ran after us for a milowiih 1 their cries and lamentations. It seems 1 they thought at first we had come to 1 hrinc food or succor of some kind. I and when they learned tha'c we had only come to make an inquiry their disappointment was bitter and overpowering, and they Bat down by the wayside, with their little ones about them, crying and wringing their hands, rocking themselves to and fro, and moaning, rather to thompelves than for us: "What shall we do ? What shall we do ? We are starving ! We are starving ! We are starving to death 1" An Ecclesiastical Joke. The Richmond Whig, speaking of two old time model pastors of the Old Dominion, the Rev. John Buchanan and Rev. J. D. Blair, narrates tbe following amusing anecdote. It says : On ?ne occasion Mr. Buchanan played a jrke on Mr. Blair in this wise : A gentleman engaged to carry Mr. Buchanan to perform a marriage service in the country some twenty or tmri>y wueet uunun, uu> omitted to provide conveyance for him. At the appointed time Mr. 1 Buchanan hired a carriage for two days, made the outward journey, and made the twain one, partook of the wadding ' supper and no doubt enlivened it. On 1 the next day, aa he gave the couple his j parting benediction, the bridegroom slipped into his hand a rather heavy 1 rouleau. ! The kind hearted parson inwardly . chuckled at the handsome fee he had 3 earned for his brother. He was anxious ' to unroll the paper, expecting to find ten ! half joes enveloped, but he restrained his . imnattwnpA Tintil nnt of sicht of the wed ding folks; then, to hia surprise and disappointment, he discovered ten half dollars. Vexation could not long retain its place with him, and soon gave way to the opposite feeling. He determined, if he could not put the fee into Mr. Blair's pocket, he would get some fun out of him. So, on his return home, he drew out a regular account, thus : The Rett. J. 1). Blair to the Iiev. J. Buchanan : To liire of a carriage two days, $5 810.00 To horwe feed and other expensea to and fro 3.00 $13.00 By wedding foe from Mr. 5.00 Balance due J. Buchanan $ 8 00 This is but one of the many anocdotes related of these friends. A Good Suggestion. W. J. Spicer, superintendent of the Grand Trunk railway of Canada, has issued a circular to his subordinates, in * t t ir-J 1.^ I wmcn ne Bays: luuuoiuuti uruimug u frequently induces sleep or perhaps a foolhardy indifference and recklessness, either of -which conditio, s is alike dan gerous in connection with the movement of trains. The importance of totrl | abstinence, particularly amongst railway employees, cannot be overestimated; the experience of the Inst three years has so convinced me of its good effects that I have determined to renew my pledge for another year, and I hope that the assistant superintendents, agents, trainmen, and the traffic staff generally, will join heartily with me in the movement. John and the Catechism.?A clergyman in a remote part of ihe country wa3 onoe cateohifling his parishioners. John, the beadle, not being very well "up," kept pretty near the door in order to be out of reach of the minister's eye, and thus avoid making a display of his ignorance; bnt tho clergyman, seeing his beadle in this position, put to him the following question: "John, what is baptism?" John, at first a little puzzled, bawled out: " Ob, ay, you ken it's jist saxpence to me, and flfteendenM to the preoontorl" Cared of Swearing, The Kochester Union says: They tell a curious story up in the Alleghanies ?somewhat amazing also?of a dull fellow named Morgan, a miner, who was greatly addicted to swearing. He would have made an excellent addition to the celebrated army of Flanders or have been a fit companion for the proverbial t ailor. Everything was done by priest and laymen to cure him, but without avail. He had other vices besides, aro ong which were card playing and dr inking. On one occasion he was in a room in the tavern with his companions, en gaged in a game of "old sledge," and the stakes were considerable. The room was underground, next to the brewery and very dark, and gamblers were obliged to use candles. The game became very exciting, and Morgan constantly lost. At every misfortune he railed and swore until even his hardened companions were shocked. At length he was entirely " oleaned out," and the torrent of blasphemy that flowed from his lips was frightful to listen so. Falling on his knees ho defied Heaven in language that caused his listeners to shudder. Finally, having become exhausted he rolled over into a corner and fell into a drunken sleep. After about an hour he woke. Everything was in pitchy darkness, but he still heard his friends wrangling over their cards as they continued their game. Morgan called to them and asked how they could play in the dark and why they had put the candles out. They answered in a tone of astonishment: "Dark? why it's do darker here than it was before you fell asleep. The caudles are still lighted; can't you si e them ?" Morgan sprang to his feet and shrieked : "No, I can't see anything. My God, I am struct Dliud!" xney gasaereu uuuui bim in great excitement, making various tests to judge whether he had really lost his sight, and this appeared to be the case.' The wretched blasphemer fell on his knees and implored them to send foi a clergyman, which they presently consented to do. While waiting his arrival Morgan lay on the floor sobbing and groaning in the most pitiful manner. When the preacher came he made him a long discourse on his impiety, but he declared he would not offer prayer for the restoration of Morgan's sight unless he would promise never to use an oath again. This the miner, who was nearly delirous with terror, eagerly agreed to, and the minister, pressing his fingers upon the other's eyelids, affected to go throngh a seoret prayer. He removed his fingers and Morgan saw as well as before?the lighted candles, his friends, and everything. His gratitnde may be imagined. It is hardly necessary to say that the whole business was a clever deception arranged by his two friends during his sleep. They simply withdrew the candles, darkening the room, and then waking him with their loud disputing as tney pretended to continue their game of cards. The clergyman, who was a sensible man, when applied to, readily entered into the confederacy, believing that the goodness of the end in view, which was to break Morgan's terrible habit of blasphemy, fnlly justified the means. And that end was perfectly accomplished, for Morgan never 9wore again up to the hour of his death, whiob was by the inclined railway used in the mines to raiae the coal. If you go to Frostbury and mingle much with the people you will find their stock of atones very small, and you will hear this one beyond a doubt. An Indian's Last Shot. Four white men, while out hunting about two miles from Deadwood, killed a deer, and while they were skiuning it, nne of them saw an Indian approaching them, leading his pony. He was probably trying to surprise them, but, beiDg ''certain of their exact position, he had approached too near, and they discovered him first. One of the party snatched np his shotgun, loaded with buckshot, and fired both barrels, bringing down the Indian and his pony. The confident manner in whioh the Indian hud walked toward them had led them to fcuppose that he was supported by a number of others, and so they quickly retreated to ward Deadwood for re-eniorcemems. a. party started ont to scout the country, and, on reaching the ppot where the deer lay, the men saw the body of the Iudian by the side of his pony, and, thinking bim dead, they rushed forward. This action was fatal to one of the party, for a shot from the Indian's rifle struck him in the heart. A volley from the others killed the Indian instantly, however, and his body was quickly surrounded by kViq TT?v?ifx> mnn Thfl Thdifln had been almost riddled with buckshot, ore shoulder and both legs having been broken, yet he had managed to bandage his legs and to take unerriug aim with his wounded arm. Knowing that his life would be taken without doubt, he had prepared to sell it as dearly as possible, ind; lying on his back, he rested his rifle on his wounded legs and shot dead the foremost of his assailants. In his mouth was another cartridge ready to reload. His rifle was the beBt and latest breech loading arm issued to the army in 1875, and it was probable th*t he had obtained it in the Ouster or Reno fight, since an old bullet mark in the grip of the stock showed that it had been in action. The Great Cities. The following recently published table sxhibits the population and total daily 3on8umption of water in several large jities: Inhabitant*. Oalloiit. London 3,700,000 122 000,000 Sew York 1,200,000 114 000,000 Philadelphia 750,000 42,000 000 Manchester 750,000 16.000,000 Chicago 475.000 38,000,000 Cincinnati 275,000 15,000,000 3hcfti?ld 265,000 5,000,000 It will be clearly seen that the ratio of jonsumption is much greater in American than in European cities?particular [y in New York. Tina is partly tine to Marions improvements of baths, etc., in modern dwellings, to the extensive use Df water for manufacturing purposes, ind to a free use of water in various Dther ways. But that ther*; iH in many places a needless waste of the Oroton is ijuite certain. How Thoughtful! He was three find twenty and she was two or three years yonnger, and they had been married only two or three days. They were standing at the corner of Broadway and Canal street, New York, waiting for a car to Central Park, when, all of a sudden, the bride laid her hand on his arm and whispered: "Darling, s'pusen y u ehould get killed and I should be left in this great city all alone!"' "Never thought of it before," he replied, backing away from the curbstone a little. Then, pulling a long, red wallet out of his hind pooket, ho counted out four ten-cent ehinplasters and handed them over with the remark: " You are right. In the midst of life we are in death, and you might as well be prepared in case anything happened w mo. New Jersey Pork.?"Wo make our brags on hogs this fall," said one of the officers of the New Jersey State agricultural society; "in fact, our hogs, for fineness of breed and all excellent qualities, are not excelled by the swine of any Stat* in the Union." THE BUSINESS OUTLOOK. A Flew of the State of Affairs from a Baalneii Center. Is there a sound and real revival of business? asks the New York Herald, and it answors the question by saying: On the whole, we believe there is. The evidences of this business revival attract attention, as we see by the newspapers, not only in New York, but in Boston, Chicago, in St. Louis?at all the centers of trade, in fact. There are more people buying; the Southern trade is said to be uncommonly brisk this year; Western commerce also is brisk, and merchants from all parts of the country are replen ishing their stocks in a manner which seems to show that not only are their slielvea bare, but tney nave, on a survey of the condition of their customers, concluded that these will buy and will have money to pay. There can be do doubt, in fact, of the present activity of trade. The main question is: Will it continue, or is it only a spurt, a spasmodio movement ? We believe we see reasons for holding that it is not spasmodio, but that, unless some now unforeseen cause intervenes, it will continue, and we are at last on the upward way. Commodities of all kinds are at present uncommonly cheap. Producers of all kinds have at last suited themselves to the markets. The anxiety to make and sell has brought the ingenuity of manufacturers into use, and people can not only buy cheaper than at any time since 1860, but they find it more easy to buy what they want. During the great rush and excitement of the speculative period, producers ceased to take particular pains to study the tastes and wishes of customers; but this has now changed for the better in many, and, indeed, in almost all departments. The country is really rich. It has been rigorously economizing since 1873, and three years of strict economy do wonders among forty millions of people. The sum of our savings as a nation in a year of economy amounts to a vast deal of wealth. We have been saving for three long and tedious years ; and while this economy has been forced and distressful with a considerable part nt nonnlo?Tm'fVi f.VirtflA ?ncrajrp(\ and V* V/Ui, J^vw^iw 0"0 employed in manufacturing?it is undeniable thbt the farmers and planters, -who are the bulk of the population, have had prosperous years. Even last year the farmers of central Illinois made it their chief complaint that they could find nobody to borrow their surplus money and give them what they thought a fair rate of interest. But the times are not hard where men have enough to eat and chiefly growl because nobody will borrow their surplus cash. During all the hard times we have had in the main good crops and have received good prices for them, and thus we have had an unvarying souroe of growing wealth. It was necessary to stop for a while ; and when, in 1873, confidence received so general and severe a shock, and thousands who had imagined themselves comfortable or wealthy were suddenly ruined, the panic of doubt seized everybody ; all enterprise was checked; all investments became doubtful; all who had money sought only to keep what tuey had; everybody's affairs underweat a scrutiny, and it was soon seen tkit there had been immense overtrading. Bankruptcy?staved off during prosperous years?was no longer to be put off. A great part of our merch ints, all over the country, appeared .VonlMxt lief a on/1 t.Vion rvaonn 1X1 UilO lUQVitOUli UOVU) uuu wmvm that long and dolorous process whioh appears at last to have weeded out the unsound business houses and to have, at great suffering to individuals, left the country, where it must be placed before we can have sound and lasting prosperity, on the "bottom rock." Individual failures continue and will continue ; out there is no longer the material for a panic. Even the failure of tho great coal combination, vast as were the losses it entailed on a multitude of people, has scarcely caused a ripple in the commercial world. Three years ago such a break would have brought a general and crushing disaster. Confldenoe, so severely shaken, slowly returns. Merchants, manufacturers and producers in general watoh the market and the condition of the country with anxious care, and they see not actual prosperity, for we have not come to that yet, but they do see a return of confidence; they see that losses have been measured; that failures have been settled np; that prices are low, in many articles very low; that it is safe and advantageous to buy; that the mass of consumers need lo replenish and are able to pay; and thus and for these reasons trade is slowly reviving on a sound basis and with prices at which a prudent merohant can even afford to hold his goods without fear of loss. Another reason for a general revival of confidence in the future lies in the fact that the hard times have greatly decreased the expenditures of o ir various governments, town, city, State and Federal. Oar public affairs are more prudently conducted now than at any time sinoe 1860, and here is a great saving which the community quickly feels. There is a general belief that whichever party wins this fall we shall have wiser legislation at Washington. There is a belief that the currenoy question draws near to a settlement. Men look for and demand reforms, not only in this matter, but in all legislation which affocts the production and sale of commodities. The mass of men have como to see that the country is not really poor, but rfah in all the appliances of industry, rich in everything which is a - - < ? - ? 1J.U t-Unl help to tne creanon 01 weuim, t?uu gum what is needed is not beyond onr own reach, if only we choose to seize it. What we reqnire now to draw ns out of the slough in which we have been mired since 1873 is, continued prudence on the part of business men; second, a sound and stable currency, which shall enable us to carry on business on business principles, and not as gamblers; and finally, such a revision of the laws which affeot commerce and production as shall enable us to sell our surplus products abroad without loss. These three thiDgs granted the recovery of prosperity, though certain to be slow, will be sure of lasting. American Workiuginen. At a banquet given in Paris to the French labor delegates upon their return from the Philadelphia Exhibition one of them said; "In the great American republic, so lauded by our public men, we fouud the relative position of employer and workman the same as It 13 Hero, mere, us m i'lauw, tnl is tho mastor. The workmen in America have every possible liberty; they have many more schools than we have in France; but, notwithstanding all this, nnd in spite of the abolition of negro slavery, the skvory of the whites still flourishes. Many as are the privileges which the workman is accorded, and which he does not possess in Europe, he remains a workman still; and these privileges are of little use to him as long as he is not ullowed to have a share in the profits with his employer." Don't Wait.?How many there are who loDg for happiness I But it never i />nmnn milfl.qs wo make an effort to re-! ceive it. Don't wait for it any longer, bat ruah to Knox's store, and buy shirts, drawers, stockings, socks and all the dry goods you want, and be happy. COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES. The Fate of Engravers who were Considered Experts?Information Not Generally Known to the Public--Bocni Notes. An impression prevails that there is an enormous quantity of counterfeit money in circulation. The truth is there is little. The only engravers working, who were considered experts, Tom Ballard, Ben Bovd. and Georcro White, have been sent to the penitentiary since October 1, 1874, the first for thirty years, and the last two for ten years each. There is another engraver at liberty, an inferior woikman,hewhocut theRichmond(Ind.) ten-dollar plate, and the title plate for the Lafayette (Ind.) ten-dollar note, the latter the last counterfeit note issued, both being printed evidently from the same plate. The capture of this fellow is only a matter of time. It took three years to get Ballard, eight months to reach Boyd, and seven months to capture White. Not only were they captured, but all their tools and the plates, thus effectually stopping this inflation of the currency. Previous to their arrest Ballard, who acted for himself, Nelson Driggs, who was Boyd's backer, and Tom Oongdon, who made the most from White's work, put out large quantities of their bills. The number of counterfeits in circulation is reduced every month by the apprehension of dealers and shovers, but it is impossible to gather in the whole issue, since thousands of dollars may remain buried for years. In 1867, Nat Einzie, who engraved the 810 plate for the First National bank of Philadelphia, and was sent to " Cherry Hill" therefor, buried $30,000 in these notes. They remained in the ground five or six years, and many of them are Fnow in circulation. The same is true of what are known as the "Illinois fives," embracing the First National banks of Aurora, Canton, Galena, Paxton, Peru and Chicago, and the Traders' and the Merchants' of Chicago. Ben Boyd cut all these plates, or rather one plate for the obverse, another for the border, and another for the center of the reverse, for the title was left blank and the names printed in from other plates. They were all captured from Nelson Driggs, at CentraJia, 111., in Ootober, 1875. There : were very few notes of the Merchants' and Galena put out, there being no such bank as the First National of Galena; and there were none at all on the First ; of Peoria, though that is usually in lists oi counter ieit notes, mere were $117,000 in these fives found in Driggs' , possession, but he had sold to customers , all over the country previous to his ar- ( rest, and many of the notes thus put out are in circulation still. The plates for the Massachusetts fives ?the First of Northampton, the Mer- ' chants' of New Bedford, and the Hamp- * den of Westfield?it will be remembered were captured with White and Oongdon J in Brooklyn last June. Nearly $100,000 of their issue was found in the "mill." They had gotten rid of about $20,000 of 1 New Bedfords, $16,000 of Northamp- ] tons, and $15,000 of Hampdens. Other ] parties were arrested subsequently with about $10,000 of thin stuff in their pos- 1 session, so there remains afloat about $30,000 of the issue. There never was a counterfeit $5 on the First, of Louis- : vilie, Ky. One was reported, but the statement was never verified. All told, there are, perhaps, $150,000 in counterfeit fives now out There has not been a counterfeit $20 i note printed in six years, the plates from which the Merchants', Shoe and , Leather of New York, and the National bank of Utica, N. I., were printed, having been captured by Col. Whitley, when he was chief of the secret service. Of the $10 notes, several sets of electroplates for the Farmers' and ManufacturArs'. tliA "First, and th? Difcv nf Ponch keepsie, N. Y., have been secured. The original steel plates were the handiwork ; of Ballard- They were cut several years ago, and have rusted out long einoe, and : are now worthless. The First of Bed Hook is a very old issue, and the plate J is not in existence. The $2 plates for ' the St. Nicholas and Ninth National of New York, and the Westchester County of Peekekill, were also cut by Ballard, and electroplates have been captured by 1 Washburn. The originals are believed 1 to be in the same condition as Ballard's 1 tens. No notes, however, have been ! printed from them for several years. On the first of January last there were ' but.two plates for government notes out ?one for the $50 Hamilton head, and i the other a $500. The former was se- < cured by Washburn in Cincinnati some i time in February. Tne other is still out, < but under cover, and no notes have 1 been printed from it for a long time. ] i Effects of the Blast. In order to form a correct estimate of ^ the result of the great explosion on the ' Hallet's Point reef, says the New York Herald, we must recall in our memory ( its condition previous to the commence- ) ment of the excavation. It was then a j well recognized danger to navigation; ' its ragged shelving surface, projeoting 3 outward into the channel of Hell Gate, was like a great trap set for the unwary < fy-> tnnnn whiiih tpnq dAftfrnn- ' tion. The shallow water that whirled over it had sufficient velooity to draw a vessel right on its most dangerous ridges, and in order to avoid it the pilot was compelled to steer so close to other obstructions that it became merely a choice between two evils both equally threatening. Now, "however, the series of carefully made soundings over the site of the reef shows that this monster obstruction has been completely shattered. The columns that supported the ; rocky roof and the roof itself lie in frag- , merits at ttie Dottom 01 tne great excava- ; tion, like the ruins of a mighty temple ; orumbled almost into dust by the shook of an earthquake. Where the shallow cuiTonts rolled over the reef the sound- . ing line uow indicates a depth of water j in which an ironclad might float in ( safety, and, instead of edging away from | the shore and risking destruction in or- ] der to avoid it, the steersman can bring his vessel within fifty feet of Hallett's j Point without endangering her. Suoh | is the result of General Newton's work at Hell Gate. At one blow he has demolished the rocky structure that has J taken untold ages to form, and opened ' wider the gate of the river for the commerce of the future. j With a highway for commerce so free from danger a wonderful change will take place in the appearance of tne up- ; per East river. Great steamships and tall masted barks will line the wharves. Factories, villages and cities will cover the now vacant spaces on Long Island and Westchester close to tho water line and send their productions to the shore for shipment to every part of the globe. New York will outgrow the narrow Ialort/1 nn aVw* ofon/lc on/1 txnll spread over such au area as will make her the rival, in size a:= well as wealth, of the great English metiopolis. The End or the Line.?A romaotio pair, not more than 1,000 miles from New York, were blessed with a number of daughters. The eldest was called Caroline, the second Madeline, the third Eveline, the fourth Angeline, when lo 1 the fifth made its appearance and no name could l>e found with the desired termination. At length mamma, who had been reading of the fashions at Saratoga, pounced upon a name very popular at that place, and forthwith the baby was baptized Crinoline. ' Items of Interest. Embroidered lace will form a prominent feature in trimmings for evening dresses. A new element has been introduced in Massachusetts politics. . A number of naturalized Chinamen will vote this year. After all, says an old doctor, thero are only two kinds of disease?the one of which you die, and the other of which you don't. " What is the worst side of naval warfare?" asked a school teacher. "The broadside," replied the boy in the back seat. He went up head. A traveler stepped into the cottage of an English farm hand.at supper time and saw on the table a sweetbread, with ham and peas and new potatoes. Nebraska has more than doubled her population since 1870. The State now contains 267,747 inhabitants, as compared with 122,993 in 1870, and 4,494 in 1866. Listz recently played one of his own compositions for an American musioiah named Boise, and Boise's criticism is: " He played it in a way calculated to make one's hair defy hair oil." There is a growing conviction in the minds of smokers Jbhat a vest pocket should be made deep enough to entirely hide a cigar from the scrutinizing gazo of the man that never has any. One person of every 269 in Cincinnati dies by suicide. Sixty-two per cent, of the self-murderers are German. The proportion of the sexes is five men to one woman, andthe most popular method is hanging. A late number of a German comic newspaper represents a young lady wearing a hat trimmed with a bird, upon which a cat has jumped from a neighboring window, mistaking the stuffed bird for a live one. Fevers have been engendered at Montreal by burning coffins which were exhumed from the old burying ground at the new canal basin. The bodies interred in the coffins were those who died in 1847 of the ship fever. A chap was arrested in Philadelphia the other day for stealing a clock, xne jndge told him that as he had taken another man's time to begin with, he would now take his own time to reflect aponit, and sent him up for three mouths. The first appearance of the potato bug in Europe has been made in Sweden, where a number of potato crops have been devastated this season. The bugs are supposed to have had American parent age, and have immigrated with grain cargoes. A fa French lady despairingly says : "I am so fat that I pray for a disappointment to make me thin. No sooner does the disappointment come than tho mere expectation of growing thinner jives me such joy that I become fatter khan ever." It is said that the Servian officers are an /3<u>nlir imnrpsfifid with the rftDOrtfl ow uvvrv ?"r-' ? they have beard of the Turkish atrocities that they always endeavor to reserve one ball-in their revolvers, so as to blow their own brains ont as soon as they fall into the hands of the enemy. " 1 made nine hundred dollars during my three-day's visit," said a yonng hopeful to his father on bis return from New York. " How so, say boy?" replied the delighted parent. "Why, I had a thousand dollars' worth of fun, and it only cost me a hundred." S. F. Gilmore, of Escanaba, Mich., advertises a roward of $200 for his runaway wife, who took with her their little boy. The advertisement concludes: " The reward above named will be paid for the recovery of the boy?and the woman can go to thunder." John Ohiddy lost his life in rolling a stone out of the way of an English railroad train, thus averting a great disaster. Praise of the deed was general; yet an appeal for money to savo his'familv from want resulted in raising only about ?4, tbe railroad oompany giving nothing. A tramp in New Jersey refused to help get in some hay in return for board, and then revenged himself upon the farmer by destroying several valuable fruit trees. To a trunk of one was a note containing these words: " When a man asks you for something to eat, look at these stumps before you refuse him." Something novel in the way of suicide is reported from Alsace. A man put a iynamite cartridge in his mouth and ipplied a lighted match to it. The next second his head and the upper part of liis body were blown into a thousand nieces. The man's brain had been iffected by the heat of the weather/ " A great number of the articles in the Philadelphia Exhibition are sold, and yill be removed by the owners on November 10, the time set for the close )f the show ; and most of the exhibitors Till exercise their privilege of then takag away their property. Consequently ;he display, if prolonged, would be very neager. A tailor and his son were in the olden lays doing a day's work at a farmhouse. The prudent housewife, to secure a jood day's work, lighted candles when laylight begun to fade. The tailor ooked to his son and said : "Jock, conFound them that invented workin' by jaunlelicht." " Ay," replied the young mip, "or daylicht either, father. A citizen of Chicago, who ha? led a roving life, has named his children after the places where they were born, and the list is now as follows : First daughter, Albany Benson ; first boy, Omaha Benson ; second son, St. Joseph Benson ; second daughter, St. Josephine third daughter, Cincinnati UDUO\'U y ? w Benson; tbird boy, Chicago Benson. At St. Ave, France, two farmers and i workman of Vannea fonnd an unexploded shell. In order to prevent it from doing any damage, they themselves jet to work to take out tbe powder by ;he orifice, and partially snoceeded. Finding thu difficulty to increase as they proceeded, one of them struck it against i stone, when it burst, blowing two of ilw men to pieoes. The bridge of the Boston water works Dver the Charles river is supported by orrtli oTwnf nn? in the HUD UUgo iuvsj-i, t world. It measures 134 feet in length, and sixty-five feot from the keystone to the water. The weight at the center of the structure is 480 pounds to the square inch. It was constructed solely to carry Sudbury river to- the other side, and will cost, when completed, $200,000. Roger Bell, a surgeon prominent in the Bravo trial, has distinguished himself in another case. A man went to bed and his wife soon after followed him. She found him speechless, and blood flowing from his mouth. A doctor was sent for, but he did no good, and then Mr. Bell was summoned. He discovered that the man's false teeth had got in his throat, almost choking him, and with great skill he dislodged them. A. policeman gently but firmly laid his hand on a tramo he saw backing out of a kitchen window. They searched mm and fonnd in his ragged saclii'l nino spoons, four pocketknives, three razors, a photograph albnm, a dark lantern, five breastpins, two watch chains, eleven handkerchiefs, and Homo small coin. " Unhand me," he exclaimed to the policeman, "servile tool of a cormpt administration. What wo need is reform." And then they cast him into the pit."