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? ^s^ms>BSSS!SBBB un? > ' > THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER '' "* '*- . ' -"T ? ; ' ' 11 '"'X ** ' i 1 ? ii a. , i BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.---NO; 35. 1????1WW?1 The Well Digger. Ccme, listen all, while I relato What recently befell Unto a farmer down in Maine, While digging of a well. Full mai>y a yard he dog and delyed And etill he dng in vain ; "Alack !" quoth he, "e'en water seems Prohibited in Maine!" And still he dug and delved away, And still the well watt dry ; The onhr water to be found Was in the farmer's eye. For by the breaking of the bank That tumbled from the station, All suddeuly his hopes were dushed Of future liquidates. And now hie sands were running fast, And he had oied, lo doubt, Bat that just wben the earth caved in He happened to be oat! " Alas! I have- a happy thought!" Exclaimed tints nicked man? "To dig away this curbed well I eoe a pretty p an. " I'll hide me Btraight, and when my wif? And eke the neiphbort. know fthat'B happened to the digging here, They'll tbink thtt I'm below ! "And e<>, to have my precious life, They'll dig the WfU, no donbt, E'en deeper than it at first, Before they find me out!" Acd ao he bid him in the bare Through all the hungry day, To bide the diggiDg of his well In this deceitful way. I Bnt lint what grief and shame befell The fal*e, ungrateful man, The while be (slyly watched to se? The working of Liu plan. The neighbors all, with one accord, Unto each other said: " Wi(h ench a weight with earth above, The man is surely dead !" And the wife, with pions care, All needless cost to save, Said : " Since the Lord has willed it, E'eu let it be hi# grave!'' ?John G. Sasoe. I Tie Eaffl? Master's Wife's Story, j "Dinner ready?" said tin baggage: master to his wife. "Of course !" said tLe wife, in a tone of astonishment. "Yes, yes," said the baggage master, "you're afraid of your glass." And then the; langhed together. "You don't know what he means," said the rosy little woman to me. " Why, when I'm in a temper I smash things," said the husban<j, and went his way. " In a temper," said the wife. "Why, Tom couldn't be' in a teraj)er if he tried. Tom iu a temper ! Good gracious! But I'll tell yon what he meaus, if you like ?for you oouldn't get it out of him. A w?A ma T'tfa Vtolf or> Vtnni* ma or>r1 OliU ck?t X TV U(*1a hu uviu w*v*v ?uv? my darning in my hand, and you're waiting for the stage, it won't waste time for either of us. There was a time when I didn't think much about that, but that was a good while ago. " My husband was baggage master on this very line when I married him, and thev said he was the most careful one ever known. No forgetfulnees in him. Never drank a drop and never snubbed the poor, bewildered people who asked questions. Good natured he was as oould be, and as firm as if he hadn't been good natured, and I was a silly, irresponsible girl, who had been at school a month before that of my wedding, and knew as much of housekeeping an a mouse. " He had saved a good deal of monev, and had built a Drettv House with onlv four rooms in it, besides the kitchen, but each aa pretty as a picture, and a big bow window in the parlor that had oost ever so much. In the window plautu were set, and an aquarium. No one had a prettier parlor anywhere. It was the pride of my heart. 44 The great road ran just past theoorner; it was at Lilliput Junction that we lived?and down below was the depot, and the train Blacked up going through the town. When Tom ate breakfast at home, which wasn't often, he kept ten minutes to get to the cars before they started, and so waR never in a hurry. 44 Well, one morning he had had breakfast at home, and had fifteen minutes to spare, when some one came rushing past the house on horseback, and cried out to Tom that old Hill, a brakeman on the road, had just been very much hnrt by a train and he was going for a doctor. Tom liked old Hill, Ka cforffn hia ftA&t at nnAfl Bessie,' said "he, 11 must see the poor old fellow. I have ten minutes or more for it I can run to the depot in three. Now, take my keys, my dear, and have them at the door for me when I pass. Bern ember how important it is.' "You see the great bunch of keys was heavy, and he didn't care to carry - . them all with him down to where old Hill was and back. And I didn't wonder at it an T lifted them from the table, checks and chuina and all. And I meant to stand at the door as he came up; but there was time to spare. So I just ran into the back yard to tell Mrs. Jones, next door, over the fence, about tbe accident to poor Hill?and got talking, and the time panned as time will in ohat; and ten minutes is nothing, you know. " And our house was on the street, one of a row. There was no getting to the back door without going around the whole of them. And the door had a potent lock and the big bow window was fastened i.own ; aud while I was chattering like a magpie 1 didn't see my hus Dana nviug up tn? roan, witn rooci three minute* before him, to get his keys and ran to the depot in. 1 Bessie,' he cried at the gate ; but I didn't hear him. * Bessie,' he shouted, as he shook the door?and there were my ears filled with the story my neighbor was telling me about the tipsy woman she'd seen run over, and yon see Tom had tried the window by this time and found it down, and he had two minutes and a half left; and a man that misses his duty on a railroad pays for it, I tell you ; and it wasn't temper, mark that; it wasn't because he felt like smashing my window, because I kept him waiting ; it was to do 1 is doty, come what might of it; and it was grand of him, I Bay. The next second Tom was through that plate glass window with a orash, and the bits lay scatf?rf d on the floor and on the ground, and some were in hia flesh, but he had his checks and hia keys, and was off flying. ' There never was a man that ran a race that r?c so before; and a minute after, when I, without ray bonnet, and not caring a bit what any one thought of me, stood staring down the road, I paw the up tra:n rush by, and my Tom standiug on thf platform of the last baggagH car, witu his keys and checks in a belt about his waist, tying up his bleeding hand in his pocket handkerchief ; and, in the midst of it, hurt as he was, much as he had lost in that great window, angry as he should have been at me?for I had been the cause of it all?my Tom nods his head to me and shouts at the top of his voioe, so that I heard him above aU the sooDd* of the train : ' All right, Bessie!' "But, oh! it wasn't all right with I me until I saw him again, and I would have gone down on my knees to him to beg nnd pray him to forgive me, only he wouldn't let me, but took me in his arms instead, Hete that kind of great, strong, splendid man, is Tom, that he couldn't get angry at a woman. "But it was a lesson to me, and, as Tom says, 4 I'm always on time, whatever I have to do.' "There's no delay. There's no putting off in my house, and I gossip when there's nothing else to do. "' You see, you're anxious about your glass,'says Tom, when he's in a joking mood, as you heard him just now. But I've got to feel that I've my duty to do as well as Tom has, and that one of the duties we all have on the train of life, that flies on whether we want it to or not, ia always to be on time." The Struggle in Cuba. The following is an extract from a private letter addressed by a member of the Cuban oongress to a friend in New York : Camp oteab Holquin, September 29, 1876.?Here we are, rejoicing over the capture of Las Tunas by General Vicento Garcia on the night of the 23d inst. This is unquestionably the most glorious fadt. < ># f>iA rc?r f}pnpr?l Oarnift. in A dispatch to the government, proved the importance of the capture of the place by reason of the heavy booty he took. As soon as he had taken the powder magazine (El Polverin) and the church, which latter was fortified with three guns, it was easy for him to oompel the surrender of those who had sought refuge in tho forts and in some of the neighboring houses. We are hourly expecting the official dispatch giving the details of the action. Las Tanas, to which the Spaniards had given the surname of "La "Victoria, was garrisoned by over two hundred Spanish regulars, and about an equal number of volunteers. The latter have joined our forceB; of the former we have as yet heard nothing, but it is likely that Dot one of them is alive. A very important affair detains us in this department, whioh prevents us from rushing to oongratolate. our brothers in arms. General Garcia also states that his losses were quite insignificant. Wo have considerably anticipated the corniDg winter campaign ; witaess the attack on Villa Clara by General Calvar on July 21, when he captured forty rifles and left thirty-six Spaniards killed, without even being pursued, as the Spaniards falsely assert; the attack on Morava of Jnly 20 by Brig.-Gen. M. Saartz, under orders of Gen. Maximo Gomez, and where an enormous booty of clothing, money, ammunition and provisions were captured ; the charge under Lieut.-Col. Jose Gomez upon a body of Spanish cavalry at Los Pasos. -? 41 ? ?- ?5- QA*I<I4I Vnniki'ftlL lu me juriBuiuuuu ui ottu^wunpiiwur, in which ninety horses and thirty-three rifles fell into our hands and the Spaniards left forty killed upon the field ; the at ack upon Las Minas, in Camaguey, by Brig.-Gen. Benitez, where he rescued fifteen prisoners and took twenty-six rifles, in whioh action with the machete alone our men captured two forts, with a loss of only three killed nnd one wounded ; the charge of Col. L. Vidal up to the gates of Holguin, so close up to them that the families on the roofs of the city inside the walls could plaiuly see the Spanish cavalry turn to the right about fac It aving twenty-six lulled, forty-fieven horses, and twentyseveu rifles ia our hands. Beside* the foregoing we have for the past six months kept the enemy busy all over the country, by skirmishes, by ambushes, by unexpected attacks, which, * ' ?- ' 1'? J-.ll 1 1 L aitnougn maiviQuauj umuipuruwii, imvr helped to decimate their ranks, and disgust their ill-paid, ill-fed, and overtasked men with the service. The death of Brig.-Gen. H. M. Reeve was due to an imprudence on his part ; he led a charge against a body of the enemy, of whose force he was misinformed. He fell badly wounded in the thick of the Spaniards, and preferred to blow his braius out than fall alive into the hands of the enemy. We have likewise experienced a great loss in the death of Lieut.-Col. Tidel Ges pedes, who alp") was led to his death by an excess of bravery. The corpse of poor Cos pedes was taken into Pueblo Principe, and there dragged through the streets at a horse's tail. Ah I those Spaniards are always the same. War Trappings of a Chief. The Smithsonian Institute received a short time ago a valuable and interesting addition to its museum in the shape of a complete and very tine outfit of the war trappings of an Indian chief. The contribution oomes from west of the Rocky mountains, but no letter of transmission or description has been as yet received. The Buit consists of a very fine headdress of red flannel, trimmed and decorated with beadwork and eagle's feathers. The loDg train which descend* from the head and over the shoulders is also fringed with eagle's feathers. There is an undershirt which is worn next the skin. It is of red flannel also, with a black and white border, and is sewn over with elk teeth. The suit includes a pair of war leggings of red cloth, highly decorated with thick beadwork in alternate pquares of dark bine aud light blue beads, and with fringes of buckskin down the 6ides. The war shirt, worn ontaide, is Of bnckskiD, ornamented with beads and human hair, and is painted on the breast and shoulder. In addition to these articles there is a complete flowing shabraque, which is worn over the shoulders with the ends falling on each side of the wearer. It is worn only when the chi?f is mounte d, as a chief is not fond of carrying much weighty apparel or aeoouttrment, and is of flannel, faced with otter bkin. To this is attached the bow case and qniv er c?Rt?, which are both heavily ornamented with beadwork in various colors. There came with the suit a pair of squaw's leggings of red flannel, very thickly and taste'uliy sewn with beadwork. These articles could not have oost leas than some two hundred dollars in the aggregate, and the thick ornamental beadwork is very oostly. Easily Done. The circular of a Chicago divorce lawyer is before us. He offers to get a divorce in six weeks for ?100, and there need be no greater cause of complaint than that " the parties cannot live in peace and union together, and that their welfare demands separation." The ap plicant has simply to sign an affidavit, pay the fee and receive the document. The lawyer does not require the presence of his client, as he does his court business in " a Territory where there is no State organization to interfere. In this case, residence anywhere in the United States is all that is required, and affidavit of plaintiff is sufficient proof." Valuable Estates.?A nnmber of well known estates in the James river section of Virginia have been sold lately to Northern and Western capitalists. The "Grove," near the historic Jamestown, brought $50 an acre: Arina," at Aikins' Landii.p:, $30,000; Ruffins' homestead, near Port Walthall, $30,000; the beautiful " EUerslie," in Chesterfield county, $23,000; and an elegant possession just above Aikena' landing, on the river, $80,000. A TEMPERANCE MESSAGE. a Letter from John B. Gonahto th? Voodc People of the Country. My Dear Young Friends : I have been requested to send a message to the Sabbath-schools in behalf of the total abstinence cause. I wish I could write to you all that is in my heart on this great question, but my time and ability are limited, and my message must bs short. We are sometimes told that total abstinenoe is not temperance. What is temperance ? Let me give you a short reply. Temperance is a lawful gratification of a natural appetite. Is the appetite for intoxicating liquors a natural appetite ? No. Therefore temperanoe is total abstinence from intoxicating liquors as a beverage. This prinoiple is a sensible principle. When you are as old as I am, you will regret many things you have learned in the past; but you will never regret that vou did not learn to use intoxicating liquors. I have never met a person, nor do I believe that yon oan find a person in the world, who would say: "I am fifty years of age, and I never drank a glass of liquor in my life, and I regret that I did not learn to drink it when I was young." No. When you meet one who has never drank, he tells you: " I am glad of it," or " I am proud of it." A man once called on me, and said: "Mr. Gough, I want to tell you something. I am not a reformer. I care little for reforms, or missions, or Sunday-sohools. They are all very well in their wayk but they are not in my line. I have been an actor sinoe I was eighteen, and I am now forty-three, and I never drank a glass of ale, wine, or spirits in my life. What do you think of that ? I am proud of it!" Dear children, you would be shocked if you oould read some of the letters | that lie in my desk, that have been written to me by persons in all grades of society?young men, old men, lawyers, physicians, ministers of the gospel, teachers, mechanics, clerks, and some ladies?who have acquired the appetite for strong drink. One says : " Dives in hell never longed for a drop of water as, with all the power there is m me, I long for a drink." Another says: " Is there any hope for me on this side of the grave ?" Another says : " God knows how near I have been to self destruction through drink," and so on. One poor man, actually holding my feet, cried out: " Oh, Mr. Gough ! help me out of this hell. Drink is my cnrse. Yes, dear children, the ory comes from the inmates of lunatic asylums: " Drink ( is my curse;" from the State prisons, ; " Drink is my curse;" innooent viotims j ""'"AO Tirinlr ia ? >T X VOOj UiVUU^lO) vuAAVtA vaa OA *u ( my curse;" from the burning lipB of he dying drunkard oomes the despairing cry: " Drink is my ourse." There ( are broken hearts, blighted hopes, , blackened characters, crushed intellects, ] and lost sonls as the result of strong j drink, and not a single individual but rejoices in his escape from it. I Is not the total abstinence principle , -ensible ? " Bnt all who drink do not ] become drunkards." I know that; but ( if fifty young men begin to drink, some , wih assuredly be ruined by it. Then, , thero is a risk. Now we all desire safety ] nd security. Suppose you desired to ( travel from New York to Chicago, and \ there were two lines of road?one on which there were( aocidents constantly ( rtAnnwi'nfri AH fitrnTO train DATYIA /llGQftf.Pr ?^VUCU&Uig ) Uil WTV4J MW4M WVM*w passengers killed and wounded; in short, a very risky road; and on the other, ever sinoe its opening had there been the slightest accident. Which road would yon take ? If yon are sensible, and regard yonr own welfare, you would take the safe one. Suppose some one should tempt you to take the risky road, by telling you how much more beautiful the cars were and what a jolly company you would find on board tbe train. You would say: "I care not so much for gaudv cars and jolly company as for 1 my safety. I want to be safe." Now, it is your safety we seek, when we urge 1 you to abstain entirely from strong I drink. There is no certainty that you will become victims if you begin to in- i dulge, but there is a risk. ' Some say : " I can govern myself; I have a mind of my own." What would I you think of a captain of a steam vessel ' wbo would put on a full bead oi steam, and then knock down the man at the 1 ?i 1 i A?e i WiltJOI f V_/r U1 LLlO uuuuuuuui UAi L? mil road, who would let on the steam and i then disable the engineer ? You would say he was a recklesB man. The stoamor or the eDgine might get through without 1 accident, but it might go crashing to do- : struetion. So when a person, using that i which weakens the power of his will, dopends on his weakened wiJl to serve him ?using that which warps his judgment, and then depends on his warped jndg- ' ment to guide him?using that which affects his self-control, and then trust hia derang d self-control to keep him from "? V - ' 1.? tJZ 1 1 uanger?lie is rfcsiess. oirnpij ueyauat? some men drin;? end do not become drunkards, can you ? I once saw a man stand on a small platform outside the spire of a church, and look down on the 1 pavement one hundred and fifty feet be- 1 low. Because be did it, can you ? Think of these things before yon run the risk i and remember what the risk is. j Our principle is lawful. We have beon j told it is contrary to tho Scriptures. One gentleman paid to me : " If you can 1 find a command in the Bible, 'Thou shalt abstaiu from intoxicating liouors as a beverage, i will abstain; out not 1111 then." Dear children, wo want you to love the Bible, to obey the precepts of the Bible ; but in view of the evils of intemperance, and in view of its cause, we [ ask of the Bible only a permission to let liquor alone. T^e lay our hand on this blessed book and ask : May we abstain ? You do not search the Bible for a com- 1 maud: Thou shalt abstain from gambling; ' from dog lighting ; from horse racing ; jupt in proportion to your love for the Bible will you abstain from these things, because they are detrimental to ' the best interests of society according to i Bible principles. Therefore, since intemperance is caused by the use of intoxicating drink ; since in proportion to the use of such drink drunkenness increases or diminishes ; and 3ince the most that can be said for this drink is that it is a needless luxury, and that the world would bobetter and purer without it ?therefore, you say, I will abstain, and give the weight of my influence, as long as I live, on the side of abstinence, Bobrietv and puritv. This is in ac oordance with the teachings of tho Bible. How many of us, who are growing old, wish wo could be boys again! Why ? Because we see so many things to regret, so many wrong turns we have taken. To bo a boy, with life before you, with tho clean page on which to write your reoord, with opportunities coming that you can improve?what a position, what a privilege ! To be an old man, with a reoord all stained and blotted, knowing that no mortal hand can clean the page; with opportunities unimproved, ana lost never to return? this is dreadful! A wicked man, who hod been a stage driver, was, during the last few days of his life, very uneasy, an 1 on his deathbed he constantly moved his feet, and looked distressed. When asked by his wife : " Harry, what is the matter?" he said : " Oh, I'm on an awful down grade, and I can't find the brake." Dear Sonng friends, your feet are on the rake. Keep tbem there. You have, under God, the future in your power; ; your destiny in you: own oontrol. Be- : member there i* no one evil in the world j before which so many fall, aa the evil of intemperance. I most earnestly desire th^ibe youth of our country, especially oflpabbathschool scholars, shall give aJrlheir influence against this great evil. May God help you to avoid the perils in life's journey, and the traps that are Bet for your feet, so that from your plaoe of safety you may reach out your hand to help the tempted who are struggling in their chains, and may by self-denial be enabled to "fulfillthe law of Christ," by helping some poor burdened souls into the higher life of purity and freedom. The Prevention of Suicide. It has often been said of people slightly insane who oommit or attempt suicide, that they are moved by unreasoning selfishness or vanity. Even vanity might, and we venture to think would, be in many cases overborne by the recollection that suioide is murder, and that the person who commits it will be treated after death as a felon?his body buried without Christian rites, his fami Iv disgraced and bis property lose to them. The man who could make and sign a disposition of his property with the intention of suicide clearly in his mind would be more determined on selfdestruction than oertainly a half of the persons who at present oommit the dreadful act. It has not, we believe, been denied by medical men that the homicidal mania is frequently restrained by. the fear of punishment. Bnt, as the law is at present worked, many cases occur in which the maniao coolly acta upon the impunity whioh will attend his crime. The same ieeung may wotk upou hujuiuwb. They may, and often do, know and believe that under no circumstances will the old law be brought to bear npon their case. Among recent examples there is a large proportion in which the suicide, however insane upon the one point, was perfeotly sane upon everything else, and, there being no restraining thonght In the fear of legal consequences, has been left to oommit selfmurder as an act affecting himself alone. There are many men to whom disgrace appears worse than death. Such a feeling is not unoommon even among those whose intellects are considerably disordered. Stealing, adultery, blasphemy are qaite impossible to many a man who will yet commit suicide. The idea of hurting another is often more repugnant than that of hurting oneself. There are many with whom a consideration of the injury done to their familiea would operate powerfully as a deterrent, even more powerfully than the desire to gratify the suicidal impulse. Passion is thus controlled, and the man who would stick at no crime to attain an end where his own longings are oonoerned is yet held back by the consequences bis rashness may bring upon those whom he loves, or even those with whom he wishes to stand well. It is not possible to believe that if every intelligent sui- 1. it..i _ u 1 jia??liiui/ lb, everjr auiuiue wjlludo ujloxlect has only failed on the one point? could be shown, whether by argument or by witnessing the experience of others, that his crime would be punished by social disgrace, he might not be induced to hesitate, and, as in all diseases, time gained wonld be life saved. The impulse is often transient. Restrained for a sufficient period it dies out, and every consideration, legal and moral, whioh can; be used for its restraint should be diligently sought out and employed. Half a dozen verdicts of felode-se would have a stronger influence, we are oonvinct d, upon intending suicides, and would have a greater effect npon the annual number of cases than iny medical treatment whatever. Birds and Lighthouses. The Hartford Times says : April and October witness a great destruction of migrating birds that flying at night are dashed to death against the heavy plate glans lanterns of the lighthouses on our Atlantic coast. Well authenticated facts * ? l.l1. il.-i 1u! seem to renaer it pruu?oio imtu wuts instruction of bird l.fe is far greater than most persons have supposed. In April the havoc is among returning birds, nlong our northern coast from Cape May to the shores of Maine. On the southern ooast, and especially along the ahores of Florida, the destruction is greatest among the southward flying birds in October. The number and variety of these misguided night travelers is surprising. The keeper of the aew and lofty light on Anastasia island, at St. Augustine, Fla., informed the writer that there is scarcely any dark uight in the year that does not witness the destruction of numbers of birds that dash themselves against the light, and that often the number found in the morning ranges from twenty to fifty. Duoks, however, are the most notable I victims. These heavy birds are noted for their velocity of flight. The keeper found it impossible to protect the lantern from the shattering shock of their onset, and had to have an iron network erected around the light. Even this fiils to prevent mischief, for the ducks strike the ron netting with such forca as to break through it and break the heavy outer plate glass of the lantern. It is not improbable that the destruction of birds by this cause is tenfold greater than any one who has not made the subject an especial study has ever suspected. At each of the forty or fifty more prominent lights along the Atlantio coast of the United States the number of birds thus slaughtered must amount to nearly 2,000 annually?or say 100,001) a year. It all shows at least (what was already anderstood by those who have given attention to the subject) that the flight of our migrating birds is accomplished in the night A Frightened Officer. There is big medicine at Ohangchow. The officials arrested eight magicians, or paper men, and threw them into prison. There was a femulo accomplice, and inasmuch as the social theory that a woman cannot keep a secret is one of the oldest axioms of Chinese philosophy, the mandarian determined to treat her leniently, in the hope of ooaxiug her to oonfess. ThQ lady was searched, and an enormous Chinese blister was found upon her ribs. Gonoealod elsewhere on her person were sprites of paper and brass, and these, it seems, were the instruments wherewith she conjured. " Make me a full confession," said the (i a T _ j JLUOijlUaJLJUi) tUiU j. JUU LLXJ vyuiu that you shall escape unhurt." "You shall know all about it to-night," replied the maiden. She tied a string to a paper sprite and muttered an incantation ; in about fifteen minutes the thing of paper became a thing of life, moving, fluttering, growing, flying, until it was an enormous kite. Then she took one of the brass men; lo ! it moved and snorted; there was a dreadful sound, like the tramp and clangor of an armed host marching in mid air. The poor mandarian saw and heard it all, but he understood nothing. The woman kept the secret. The mandarin was scared. Thb DiFrEWENOH.?"Did you ever," asks the Cincinnati Times, "watch the noiseless movements of a pretty girl's lips as her dress is trodden upon, and marvel at the self oomm&nd which enables her to do the situation justice in so quiet a manner ? A dozen fonts of type wouldn't furnish dashes enough to represent the remarks of the average ~:*n under Uk? Incitement." The British Arctic Expedition. The British Arctio expedition tinder Captain Narea, oomprisitg the steamers Alert and Discovery, has returned, the Alert having arrived at Valentia, Newfoundland, on Ootober 27. The ships left England on May 30,1875, and entered the ice off Cape Sable on July 29. After a severe struggle, the north side of Lady Franklin bay was reaohed, and here the Disoovery was left in winter quarters. The Alert pushed on up to latitude eighty-two deg. and twentyseven min., and there wintered. At this point the sun was invisible for 142 days, and the lowest temperature ever recorded was experienced. The mercury fell to fifty-nine deg. below zero, and remained so for a fortnight, and at ? - ?1(U A art halnw 7.P1TO. ulio peiiuu ioiuuou j.in ui-qi Sledge parties were fitted out, one of whioh traveled 200 miles to the eastward, and the other went to the north, proceeding on land up to eighty-three deg. seven coin., and thenoe on the ice to eighty-three deg. twenty-one min. Farther on nothing but ice oould be seen, whioh was so rugged that scarcely a mile of advance could be accomplished daily. The floes in some plaoes measured 150 feet in thickness. Four men died from the effects of the oold. Finally, oonvinoed that it was impossible to get any nearer to the ,'pole, and seeing that his men were suooombiug under the hardships, while the Alert herself had been muah damaged by the ice, Captain Nares started homeward, leaving Smith sound on September 9 last. This expedition, it will be remembered, was fitted out with every aid to polar exploration whioh science oould devise or the experience of the oldest Arotio explorers could suggest. That it has failed to reach the pole is proof of the enormous difficulties to be overcome in that undertaking, rather than of any inadequacy to the task of those who attempted it Indeed, we may believe i that, after latitude eighty-two deg. I is readied, the obstacles angme. ' in some compound ratio. The results whioh have been obtained are, however, of considerable importance. Captain Nares has reached the highest northern point ever attained, latitude eighty-three deg. twenty-one min. The Anstrian expedition, which sailed in 1872, toward Spitzborgen, only reached Cape Fligely in eigbty-twodeg. five min., and sighted Cape Vienna in eighty-three deg. It is remarkable, however, that the Polaris, ill equipped as she was, reached eightytwo deg. sixteen min., and wintered in eighty-one deg. thirty-eight min., while Hall, with a sleighing party, pushed onward to eighty-two deg. thirty min. Captain Nares has, therefore, advanced fifty-one geographical miles further north than the American explorer, and has approached within four hundred miles of the pole. President Land, usually marked on Arctio maps, has no existence. Lady Franklin's strait is really a bay; and from the fact that travel was conducted on the ice .to the highest point reacnea, it would seem that no open polar sea was encountered. The northernmost point seen in Greenland was in latitude eighty-two deg. fifty-seven min. Excellent coal was found near the place where the Discovery wintered, and a number of valuable scientific collections and observations were made. The Pandora is still in the ice, and was met by the Alert on October 16, when she signaled "all well." ~ A Champion Better. The following story is going around in French military circles. An officer, Yerdier, was celebrated in his garrison for winning every bet. Nono of his comrades could boast of ever having been victorious, and at last no one cared to enter a bet with him. One day Verdier was transferred to another regimbnt, but the fame of his peculiar luck had already spread before him. After a supper tendered him by his new comrades on the evening of his arrival, and when the champagne made its appearance, General B. called out: "Is it really true, Verdier, that you win every bet?" "So it is, general." " But how the deuce do you do it ?" " Oh, very simple. I am a physiognomist, and bet only when I am quite sure." ''You are a physiognomist. Well, then, what, for instance, can you read now in my face V "I can see," said Verdier, promptly, "that your old wound on the upper and back part of your leg is broken out again." " Nonsense," thundered out the general, " I never had a wound there I" " I beg pardon, my general, but"? f'No but! after I assure you, sir. " " Perhaps you do not like to speak of it; perhaps a duel"? "Le diable !?you won't believe me. What will you bet ?" "Anythingyou please, general." " Five hundred franca." All right, five hundred francs." " The gentlemen present are witnesses." With these words the general ! at once proceeded to divest himself, anna aerie, a la Snwarow. of his pauta loons, and a ecrutinous innpection by all present revealed the fact that there was no trace oi a wouna Dy ewora or uaii. "You lost the bet, Verdier!" shouted the general, packing himsolf up again. "I have lost, indeed, this once. Men may err sometimes. Here are your five hundred francs." The general put the money with a chuckle into his pocket. After he arrived home he at once wrote to his old chum, the general in command of Verdier's former regiment: Dear friend ?The story about Verdier's lick is all humbug! He just made a bet that I ' had a wound on my back, for five hundred francs, and of course lost it." Tho : answeroame back: "Yonr naivete is truly charming I Your winning of the five hundred francs cost me two thousand, which Verdier bet me on the day ' of his leaving that he will make you, on the first evening of meeting, take off your iuexpressiblea in the presence of your officers, and that you yourself will inform me of it." Relics of Burgoyne's Array. The Charlottesville (Va.) Jeffersonian says : George Carr, Esq., informed us that one of his farm hands, in plowing a field on the farm, brought to the but- 1 face a gold coin, coined more than one : hundred years ago. This farm of Mr. 1 Carr's is situated seven miles nearly north from Charlottesville, and is the 1 place where the army surrendered by i Gen. BurgOyne in the Revolution were 1 located as prisoners of war, and the coin was undoubtedly lo t by one of the 1 prisoners. The foundations of the cabins in which these prisoners lived can be seen at this day, and in the forests are : seen the graves of those who died while j they were quartered there. We believe the fields retain the names given them at that time, as "headquarters," eto. When the prisoners were removed from 1 the county tb-j place was purohased by the late Garland Garth, Esq., and he said there was not a tree left on the place. The forests in the vicinity had all been cut down and used for fuel. The forests that are now to be found on this farm have grown up Binoe the prisoners left. Quite a number of the prisoners remained and married, and their descendants are Kmooff our mnnt indwtridua oitiKeun. THE CASTAWAYS. Life on a. Desert Iiock. This was the usual daily routine, from which the reader will be able to form some idea of the life we led, says one who was cast away on a desert rook: I got up about seven o'clock and took the ashes out of the fireplace, lit the fire, and swept out the house with a bird's wing. Wben the stone pot got heated, I put in the grease, and if we had eggs we fried them in it, or cooked the meat in it. It generally took about a couple of honrs to oook the breakfast, ?? 1 i^fla of. a tima mr mother looked after it sometimes. After breakfast I often went down to the gully and had a wash?with eggs when plentiful, often uring a dozen of them ; and when they could not be spared, I out a penguin's throat over a pieoe of rag, scrubbing myself with the blood, and then washing it off with water; it was not suoh a good plan as the eggs, but was better than nothing. My wash over, I would get birds for our evening meal, either young penguins or mollyhawks, and then set to work skinning and cutting them up. After that I generally killed and skinned about fifty old penguins and stored up the skins for winter fuel. Thirty fat akins were about as muoh as a man in our reduced state could carry easily. I packed them in stacks about four feet high. The old-kept 'skins burnt well, though they smelt strongly, and were full of maggots; but we were very glad to have them. I stored about seven hundred or eight hundred, whioh would have lasted us some time, as we only burnt about five or six in our small fire during the day. I was always glad to get my skinning over, as I had got so sick of it; and dreadful looking figures we must sometimes have been?our hands and clothes J Jit- 1-1 1 covereu WlWl UiUUU, UIIU uux iuuco uncu spotted with it. The evening meal was generally cooked by my mother, of which I ate some, leaving a little for the morning, then got in water for the night, pat the tnrf on the fire, and retired to bed, or rock rather. I generally slept well, except when I dreamed of skinning penguins. My mother also slept pretty well, considering the discomfort, etc. On Sunday I never did any skinning, but washed myself in the gully in the morning. We always had a Hupply of fcod ready for the Sunday. I then paid visits to some of the other shanties, and got all the hews, such as a new yarn ; and dreams were a great source of amusement?we dreamt in such a realistio manner. Having dreams was quite like a letter by post, for they took our minds off the island, and enabled us to forget for a time our miserable circumstances, and any interesting ones I retailed to my mother. In the night when we awoke we invariably asked each other's dreams, which were often about something to eat, often about being at home and the ship that was to take us off the island? always pleasant. Dreaming, in fact, was by far the pleasantest part of our existence on that miserable island. Many were the prophecies that were made about when we should get off. At first wo anxiously paid attention to them; but when one or two turned out wrong, no one took much account of them. Explorations In Palestine. In these days when every spot of ground made interesting by the seoular history of mankind is undergoing the. moat careful survey and study, it will be far from creditable either to the Christians or the Jews of Europe and America if the explorations in Palestine, of nrhirth an iif.trftntivfl fuwmnt was Given at the meeting of the American Geographical Society, should be feebly and inadequately prosecuted. The German government has appropriated, as a report informs us, asum of 840,000 marks, in addition to the 120,000 marks already expended, for the prosecution of the great excavations making at Olympia; and it is not brilliantly satisfactory to be told, as we are, that while England is spendiiig only 815,000 a year on the explorations in Palestine, the Amerioan investigations upon that saored soil have been practically brought to a standstill for the lack of funds. The imprecation of the sweet singer of Is- i rael, "If I forget thee, oh, Jerusalem, 1 may my right hand forget her cunning," 1 would seem to be ohanted in vain by the believers alike in the old and in the new dispensation. Not to theologians onlv nor to devout persons, nor yet to ; archaeologists and historians, should the i prosecution of those enterprises "be a aI 1 i <r?n1 *T infavaaf Tha arfinf. ] UlObbCl VI HfViJ AUW&WOV* AUU tMwiw* and the student of architecture are deeply conoerned in them. A great deal has been done for our knowledge of Palestine as a land of Scripture and < of story, by such writers in our mother tongue as Robinson and Stanley, Prime, Porter, Kitto and Thompson; but the magnificent work of the Count De < Vogue, and the more recent monograph of another admirable French savant and ; traveler on the French castles in the Holy Land, open fields quite untouched by English and American explorers. Of these a glimpse, though but a sb'ght ; glimpse, was afforded us by the gentlemen who addressed the Geographical Society, and we trust that practical Bteps : may be taken to bring American soience i and enterprise fully abreast with Euro- < pean investigation in this arena, so crowded with lofty recollections and the Bcene of incidents of such transcendent importance.?New York World. i For the Last Time, 1 i There is a touch of pathos about do- ( ing even the simplest thing^" for the j last time." It is not alone kissing the j 4-1,0* m'raa wivn thia Hf-rnnco nftin. , 11C11U iunu gi.vu jvu 0- r ( You feel it when you have looked your , last time upon some scene you have f loved?when you stand in some quiet j city street where you know that you , m never stand again. The actor play- ] ing his part for the last time, the singer ( whose voice is cracked hopelessly, and ] who after this once will never stand be- | fore the sea of upturned faces disputing j the plaudits with fresher voices and j fairer forms, the minister who has ] preached his last sermon?these all ( know the hi Iden bitterness of the two 1 words " never again." How they come to us on our birthdays as we grow older! Never again young; always nearer and nearer to the very last?the end which is universal, "the last thing < whioh shall follow all last things, and ] turn them, let ns hope, from pains to ( joys. We put away our boyish toys with ' an odd heartache. We were too old to ( walk any longer on our stilts?too tall j to play marbles on the sidewalk. Yet < there was a pang when we thought we ( had played with our merry tnougnis > for the last time, and life's serious. ] grown-up work was waiting for us. ( Now we do not want the lost toys back, \ Life has other and larger playthings for 3 us. May it not be that these too shall | seem in the light of some far-off day i as the boyish games seem to our manhood, and we shall learn that death is but the opening of the gate into the new | land of promise ? Do you ever read the newspapers ? I No ! Have you any opinion upon any- : thing t No I Do you know your right ; hand from your left f No I Do vou oonaideryouraelf a species of born idiot Yea! Then you are fit for a jurymani - DEATH IN A SCHOOLROOM. What Can> of Punishing a Sensitive Llttlo Boy In a School. Herbert Booth, son of Mr. George Booth, of Milwaukee, Wis., a lad seven years of age, came to sohool rather late, and was hurried back home to get his slate, having forgotten it in his haste to get to school. Nothing unusual occurred after this until about eleven o'clock, a little over an hour from his return to his desk. Then his teacher, Miss Sarah W. Ohapman, observed that he was making a noise, and that it diverted the attention of the children from their studies. She called him up on disobedience of an order to keep quiet, and had given him four or five blows with a light rattan, when he fell into a fit and died. Mr. Booth, the father of the ohild, said he was of a tender, sensitive nature, and it was the general opinion that his death waa the result of the excitement incident to his attendance at sohool during the forenoon. Herbert had risen as Tinnal rtarfaVon nf HroaWanf. with thfl family, and had assisted in dressing a younger brother or sister before going to school. His race for his slate and the nervons disturbance consequent upon punishment by the teacher had resulted in an apoplectic fit and death. The family had no fault to find with Miss Chapman, and viewed the occurrence as one that might have happened in the home circle under no greater provocation than that at sohool. Mr. Booth had carefully examined the hands of the deceased, and had failed to discover any marks upon them. There was a slight abrasion of the skin on the upper side of one of his thumbs, but this might have been caused at some time previous to his death. Miss Chapman said she had detected the little fellow in the act of making noises with his mouth, to the annoyance of those about him, and had called him to account. He laughed, and, very carelessly, it seemed to her, repeated the noises. Thinking it necessary to punish him for his disobedience, she summoned him out into the hall and administered four or five light blows upon the inside of one of bis hands. He made no resistance, but cried more out of mortification than of pain. On ms release he walked to his seat, sobbing all | the way, and the teacher observed that ^ he settled down into a seat near the one he oooupied and assumed a recumbent | position. She hurried to his side and . found he was ill. A boy near by ex- j pressed an opinion that the child had ( fainted, and word was immediately sent | up to the principal, who appeared and . assisted in Datmng tne Doys temples with cold water and applying ammonia. j A physician was sent for but arrived ( too late to be of service. The little one ( died in a few moments after he reached ( the seat. The parents were sent for, ( but as Mrs. Booth was too ill to come, j the remains of her poor boy were taken ( home in a hack. The pupils of the , grade under the care of Miss Chapman ( were dismissed and the room closed for the day. Miss Obapman thought the ] boy's death was the result of great nervous exoitement and his effort to re- . strain his grief. He gave one or two ( sobs at the close and fell back dead. He was quite heated when he returned , from his ohase after his slate, and was : very restless up to the time that he was : called. His actions of the forenoon . were in strange contrast with his usually quiet deportment, and this leads to the j supposition that he was subject to some ( functional derangement. ] War as a MIssIonaiy. , Aud now, we are told, the barbarous J Turk is to be subdued; a Christian mis- ] eionary is to be sent to take possession of his territory; that missionary is war I ^ Pious people rejpice that all things are 1 to work together for good: as if red- ( handed carnage were the meet handmaid ( of the cross I ? The Turk may be barbarous; no iIatiVi# ho iii Wnkhinc nan Via mnrfl hnr- ^ baroua' than war. The civilized world 1 has experienced a great shook at the * cruelties of the Turks toward the cap- 6 tared Servians. A little different, per- 1 haps, but essentially the same, we ap- \ prehend, is too apt to be true history of i every conquering army. Wherever 1 shooting, killing and destroying are in * order, wrongs, which still spare the life c of the victim, almost inevitably follow ' in their train. 1 We recall to mind a letter written * many years ago by a brave and dashing * young officer on the staff of Gen. Zaoh > ary Taylor, during the conquest of i Mexico. It was addressed to his wife, c and gave an account of a battle in whioh 1 he had been engaged shortly before. ' He referred to the outrages perpetaated t by the soldiers, and concluded with the * exclamation: " If this be war, God de- c liver me from war 1" B Gen. Winfleld Scott, whose proudest ? title was that of "Apostle of Peace," c conferred upon hip- by the Rev. William i Henry Charuiing, although he had been t pronounced by the Duke of Wellington * the greatest captain of the age, once re- t marked: " I hope never to see another a battlefield." He then described, with J deep emotion, the horrors of war, as he 1 had witnessed them. We trust the day F will come, in the history of the human t race, when there will bo no more wars, t and peace will reign throughout the c earth.? Ledger. c t How They Manage In China. j A paper in China says: We learn that c one of the mandarins here, who had 1 swindled the government of a large 1 mm of money when making purchases i: of warlike materials at Hong Kong dur- f ing the Formosan affair, was brought up t For trial before the redoubtable Ting ? ind the Fantai. This degraded official p wns snbiected. as an introduction of t something severe iD store for him, to a t logging of one hundred blows on the 1 palms of bis hands. He was to have a aeen bambooed in the usual way as t jther oriminals on the breech, but for p lis bitter crying and vehement entrea- c aes, ooupled with the fact of his not be- d ng in very good health. Tho default- f ng official is surnamad Man, nnd is re- t ated to a Taoutai of that name who ww T legraded at the same time with the e Viceroy Ting Han in the Waising affair, e A Lonpr Search. ? A yourg man named Collins went to v Dherokee county, Ala., and after making t ovo to the nixteen-year-old bride of a t jixty year resident, eloped with her. ? rhe old man procured a carto de visite d )f Collins, saddled his horse, and for r ;wo year.i tracked the couple over the t States of Mississippi, Alabama, North a ?nd South Carolina, and into Georgia, v where he met Collins at Joneeboro and v a ad him arrested. Collins refused to o jay where the wife was, and was sen- d ienced to the chain gang for twelve e nnriths. The old man is still scouring t ihe country in search of his 41 poor f Mary." c t " Is there an opening here for an intellectual writer ?" said a very red faced youth, with the oork of a bottle stick- c ing out of his breast pooket. The edi- a tor, with much dignity, took the man's e intellect in, and taid : "An opening f e yes, sir ; a kind and considerate carpen- } ter, foreseeing your visit, left an open* i Ing for yon. Turn th? kvob to the f right." 1 CRUSHED TO DEATH. A Terrible AceMent at the Royal Chinese Theater. At abont twelve o'olook at night a frightful accident occurred at the Royal China Theater, Ban Francisco, which in its horrible details and soenes of terror was oneqnaled by any event which has occurred in the Chinese quarter for many a day. In the neighborhood of 8,000 men had crowded into the place, quite a number of Chinese females being present, but only two or three white men. At about twelve o'olook a small fire in some matting in the gallery, which had caught by the sparks from a cigarette or cigar in the hands of some careless Chinaman, was discovered. The man who made this startling dis^ covery, regardless of the oonsequenoes even had he foreseen them, sounded the alarm immediately in his own tongue, which everybody understood to mean destruction and death by burning. The utmost oonfnsion prevailed and a panic ensued. The large numbers of Chinese in the auditorium rushed frantically for the door, while those packed in the gallery did the same. Some twenty-five or thirty men from the lower part of the house reached the door first, and were almost simultaneously over whelmed by tne frigntenea orowa surging down from the gallery. The doors, which are double, and eaeh about twelve feet high bv nix feet wide, were olosed, bat a resistless torrent of yellow humanity poured down the stairs through them without attempting to open either, and the consequence was that the foremost crowd, about thirty in number, were scarcely out before the stairway broke and the massive door fell npon and crushed them to the floor, while over it crowded and jostled the dense andienoe without a thought of the consequences. In the meantime, the premature fire, which had made no headway, was summarily quenched by a Christian Chinaman, named Adam Quinn, who, besides stamping upon it, took off his coat and covered it. The actors upon the stage were entirely ignorant of the cause of the panic, and did not stop to inquire concerning it, but continued their performance, which bad the effect of staying many of the frightened Chinese, who were trampling everything down in their efforts to effeot an exit. The passage of the dense crowds through the entrance and the heartrending shrieks of the crushed and dying under the doors alarmed several Dolicomen. who immediatelv endeavored to effect an entrance into'the theater, ' and sent to the polioe station lor assist- 1 ance. Half a dozen stalwart policemen from the watch whioh was just about to 1 leave the station for duty ol their re- 1 spective beats, repaired quickly to the I scene, and the combined efforts of a dozen officers were necessary to stop the , outgoing Chinese. The work was ac- , jomplished by knocking several Geles- j bials about, and the remainder, realizing t that the danger in the theater, whatever it was, had disappeared, fell back on the j srowd and checked their frantic com- j panions. By this time Captain Douglas ( with a dozen ,or more policemen ar- ( rived, with large crowds of white men, who, hearing the alarm, had rushed to the spot. The railing of the stairway 1 leading from the gallery to the lower j floor had given way, and several of the frightened men had fallen down, only to 1 be crushed under foot by their equally terror stricken companions. The tide I baying been checked, the offioers raised the prostrated door and removed the dead and dying from beneath it. Some were stone dead, while all nnder it were more or less injured. Nineteen were conveyed to the street dead, and seven others who were rapidly dying. The bodies were ranged along the sidewalk, rhe entrance to the theater, a hall abont forty feet in length by some twelve in vidth, occupied on one side by a couple )f Chinese fruit venders, was cleared iway, and the panic stricken audience illowed to pass out. The news of tlie accident spread like vildfire, and over a thousand Chinese, nen and women from all parts of Chinaown, thronged to the scene, and the lidewalk was completely lined with half tude Celestials, gazing with blanched aoes at each body as it was carried out nto the street. One stalwart Chinaman, weighing about 170 pounds, was >rouglit out and laid upon the walk, his ilotkes torn and his body lacerated by he many feet that had trampled relent- . essly over him. His faoe was blaok * nth suffocation and the orimson fluid pas running in a stream from his nose * ind ears. Life had not vet left him, but a bis dying agonies He writhed and irawled about the pavement, swinging lis bare arms in the air and shrieking or the relief that could not come. At he right of the doorway, and at the oot of the four or five steps from the loor to the floor of the hallway, is a tairway desoending into a dark alley. Several of the foremost Chinese of the irowd that were crushed under the fallng door had been precipitated down hese stairs, and two were brought up rith broken limbs. One was placed at he front entrance in a sitting posture gainst a box of fruit, and the other, a roung man of high degree, was taken nto an office. A few moments later a >hysician arrived and examined him. Ls the unfortunate fellow lay upon alow >ench covered with matting at one side if the room he was turning over and iver and groaning in agony. As the docor felt his limbs to ascertain the nature if his injuries, he yelled: " Oh, no, no; ae no hurt," as if fearing that his ex-? ruciating agonies were to be increased. Che other man, somewhat older, who tad been placed near the doorway, sat n stolid silenoe, his pale face, under the liokering rays of a gas jet, recording he most exoruciating suffering. About j. Iftaan minnfpH trorfl rtnwmmfld in the _ laasageof the crowd of Chinese from 1 he theater, and the acting of the play >y the company was continued until the ast deputation had departed, when the ctors and actresses rushed in a body to p he doorw. y to discover what had trans- t >ired, indulging in many guttural ex- d lamations of terror at the long line of c lend bodi.s placed upon the pavement a Nineteen of the twenty-eight taken from e he hallway and removed to the street t rpre found to be dead. Several betray- p d no outward signs of injury, and seem- r d to havo been snfFooated to death, a Sight or ten bore marks of violence, 5 everal bleeding at the nose and ears, i he crimson stream running across the c ralk into the gutter, while the faces of c hree or four others turned upward in ? ho light weio black and discolored, c leveral of those taken from under the L !oor lived a few moments aftor being t j ii?: ~ I r emuveu, Luuir ouuuao uiaug . ho air and exciting the lamentations of r diacent Chinese, who witnessed the t rrithing contortions. One Chinaman, rho broke frantically through the line f policemen, and passed one of the lying men, threw up His arms and yell- . d in horror at the agonies of his conn- * rymen as soon as the bodies were taken J rom the hallway, and the wounded who j ould walk had been led into adjoining 1 louses. | In Amiga.? In the elevated regions ? tf the interior of Africa, where there < lto no dense primeval forests, extensive 1 iwamps and pestilential jungles, cattle 1 md horses show no sign of infection or i xrisoned state of blood. They flourish < n unoounted herds. And in those re- i pons men am healthy, vigorous, and in* ' wlli$entt ! Fashion Notes. The rage for buttons increases. Sealskin is slowly losing ground. All new fans are of medium size. Bibbed stockings are fashionable. Terry velvet is coming in style again. For will be used for dress trimmings in midwinter. , ' The new plaiting3 are all pressed flat, and do not fly open. Silk buttons embroidered with a star is a favorite pattern. " Invisible setting " is now preferred for all jewels and gems. . , Beads of silver or gold are the new necklaces in filigree work. Myrtle green and sky blue are combined for evening dresses. Armholts of waists and polonaises are corded again with line cord. China plates now have the monogram or initial letter in the center. The fronts of polonaises are mnch ornamented with long looped bows. The back seams of polonaises and basques are corded ^with large cord. Oostnmes with basques having Louis XIII. skirts are struggling into fashion. Sleeves are so narrow that there is scarcely room to pees the hand through them. The hair is to be worn further off the forehead this season than for somo time heretofore. Silk handkerchiefs, with the border and the inside of the same color, are new and pretty. ' ^ r' l Art needlework, both as applied to furniture and dress, is/at present decidedly the fashion. Collars and cuflfe made of linen, having a Anted ruffle edged with black, are very stylish for second mourning. Bonnets made of white illusion, white Spanish lace, and delicately tinted flowers, are in favor for theaters and operas. Many of the winter cloaks have long pointed hoods, lined with plaited silk, and ornamented with ft cord and tassels. Embroidered galloons aild fringes for cashmeres and figured woolen fabrics, and frn bands for silk and velvet dresses. Little boys wear stockings and neckties which match in color. Cloth costumes are much trimmed with emoosseu Velvet. The dress bodice is made with the ueck as high as it is possible to wear it, and often has two collars, one upright and the other turned down. J' . Long slender bustles, that serve to hold the lower part of the skirt away' from the feet, are now worn ; all bouflant iournures are-things of the past. The long seams in tne decks oi anuses ire varied. Some begin at the shoullers, and some at the armhole; the darts n front are close together and very ihort. Every means is taken to lessen any aulkiness about the hips of a dress; the skirts are fitted close to the figure, md depend upon deep flounoee for their fullness. Dress holders are made of various metals, such as gold, bright, frosted and oxydized silver, nickel and steel, with engraved, chased and relief surface, to suit the different styles of dress. Dresses of cream colored silk, arranged with trimmings of olive green relvet, and bats trimmed with cream jolored feathers, and acorns, are reoent xriletti for bridesmaids at fashionable weddings. A costume ornamented by Duchod, the noted embroiderer, for the Princess jf Wales, started the fashion of initials md coats of arms of wearers, worked pith braids or galloons. Her highness lad her monogram*, artistically designed n several shades of green, bordered by i pate blue braid and three feathers. The FiAch coat, which was introi??t vfAr hiit- failed to become aopular, is revived. There are Louis ?V. and Louis XVI. coats; coats with sans or tails, having pockets across the )ack of them, and coats opened over a waistcoat or veet, all covered with em)roidery. The bodioe, which fits the if^ure closely, fails to resemble in cut a nan's coat An Army Without a Flag:. The London Pall Mall Gazette says h_ j the French army has no flags, and hat on the second of June, 1871, the par minister issued an order that the tandards then in ufle were to be handed ?ver to the artillery. In exchange, mall flags without any inscriptions pere served out provisionally. The irtillery destroyed the riilk of the old tandards and sent the eagles and the fold fringe to the domain office, where hey will probably remain until we have mother empire. The provisional flags, yhioh have now been in use for five rears, possess a great advantage as far is economy is oonoerned; they only irttjf *manHr.flvA fpftnns anieee. while the itandards cost 280 francs. It is not, jerhaps, a question of expenditure rhich hinders the war office from bringng this provisional state of affairs to a ilose, but doubtless a difficulty about eplacing the eagle. The jleurs-de-lys ire out of the question; so is the Gallic ?ck, which has been monopolized by ;he Orleans family; the lady in Phrygian cap who symbolizes the rejublio, and which is playfully called - j i J 1 Marianne, is only in favor wuu iuo Radicals, and the moderate republic has leither symbol nor. sovg. Taken alone, ;he tri-color belongs to the revolution, ;he empire and the younger branch of he Bourbons. Perhaps .it would be jrudent, until the conservative repubic is more firmly established, to leave he top of the flagstaff in its present mde condition. , Financial Condition of Russia. A great deal has been said of tho impossibility of Russia making war, owing o her financial embarrassments and the lifficnlty of raising a loan. The flnanial embarrassment is considerable, and , large loan outside Russia is probably lot to be raised, but the London Specalor says a national loan on the Na>oleonio principle would produce some oillions, and Rassia has one oppressive nd extravagant but effective resource. She can procure nearly everything by ssuing inconvertible paper. An issue if ?30,000,000 (8150,000,000) would ~1? Iksvw *-vnnnn. \Uiy IXlUICCfcOO UCX UUJLAViiVj VU.Vifth, aud probably only raise the agio >n gold twenty per centum, which, as Lmerica has shown us, can be borne rithout a paralysis of industry. It is a aost ruinous expedient, but Russia has esorted to it twice already, aud each ime lias survived. 4 Ail Atom of Love. During the course of the EdwardsSeating breach of promise suit in San ?raneisco, the stock broking defendant ras asked to explain the following love etter, which he had written before the ipring rise in stooks : "If one atom of ;he deep, deep love I feel forjou is mattered throughout the whole world, I >ould stake my life it will till, if allowed <0 do so, the entire human race, and ;hence will derive the word commonly ised as love. Good-bye, my dearest lear. Yours, till death "and beyond it uid eternity." Tne unfortunate witness tree somewhat stunned, and cnnld not Mill' |ast what h? had meant.