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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1877. NO. 27. VOLUME XXV.
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"Retail Prices !
Hov is the T ine for Bargains.
COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF.
CAPT. W R. WHITE
I* with mo and would be glad to meet with his
old Frio, d* and Customers, and will g.\7E
THEM SOME MONEY.
A No. 1, Wagon Yard
IN REAR OF STORE,
FREE TO ALL.
R?'*poctfullj,
T. f. DAVIS,
MAIN STREET,
GREENVILLE. S. C.
Oct 17, 1877.?3moj
HEADQUARTERS FOR
CHEAP GOODS.
MflftBIlN & RIM i
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HAVE RECEIVED THE
Largest General Stock
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In Greenville.
WE OCCUPY OUR NEW STORE AT OfJB
Old SUnd on
BTTNCOMB STREET,
ind with oar facilities for doing bnxinota we
claim to b? second to none. Wu make
BOOTS, SHOES,
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DUMfcSl'JLU AJNil JtiLLNUI
DRY GOODS,
jGk. SFSCZ AJiTY,
And in them can Offer Great
Inducements.
We ware at the manufactories in person, ana
had our
Boots and Shoes
made to order, and will guarantee both quality
and price. Buying from first hands we save
th# profit of the middle man, which will be a
saying to the oonsumer who buys from cs.
Our Dry Goods
Were selected with great care, and embrace
all the Novelties of the season, and in this
Department we make POPULAR PRICES.
Our Giraiy Department
Is well supplied at all times with CH JICE
GOODS, which will be sold at
HARD PAN PRICES.
Come and see for yourselves. No charge
showing good*. We give a free exhibition.
TIMES H MIMAN I PPfl
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Buncomb Street,
GREEXVSLIjE, H. C.
Mr. W. A. LATIMER,
From HO SEA. PATH, is with an, and will b?
pleased to have all his friend* call and see him.
We also havo in connection with oar store,
The Largest Wagon Yard
in the City, fitted up with Troughs, Sleeping
House, eta, for the Boooaunod*tion of our
friends and customers, free of charge.
October 8 1877.?3mo?
c. T. WILLIS,
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WEST GREENVILLE,
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Highest Market Price *
FOR COTTON,
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GROCERIES, DRY GOODS, *
CLOTHING, T
Boots, Shoes, ?
naidj vapd^iu.,
At the Very Bottom Figures. ^
Oct 3, 1877.?tf T
J. C. Alexander, Joseph Allen,
Yardry McBee. t
ALEXANDER,ALLEN & McBEE, *
Manufacturers of and rp
VTholesale aud Retail Dealers in
UPPER *& HARNESS LEATHER,A
Kip and Calf Skins, T
GREENVILLE, S. C. T
tsr Highest cash price paid for Hides.
Sept. 26, 1877.?12m ^
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Machine Works *
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IRON FOUNDRY, A
Redmond, Macdonald & Co., *
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STEAM ENGINES, Boilers, 8aw and Grist
Mills, Cotton Gins, Presnee, etc., promptly
repaired. We have recently ndded to our establishment
an IRON FOUNDRY and are prepared
to furnish'all kinds of CASTINGS, equal to the ,
best furnished by any foundry in the country,
at short notice, and on reasonable terms. Cash
paid for Old Iron delivered at our foundry. di
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Worka on RiY?r Street, rear of Cagle't
Planing Mill. rc
October 3, 1877. -12m 1
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CREENVILLE, S. C.,
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THEIR 8T0CK is the largest and cheapest in
the State, and Builder* aud others in Abbe- 01
rille will find it greatly to their interest to con- pi
salt oar Agent, Di
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Mr. C. V. HAMMOND, T
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or send their orders direct to as when in need T
of anr goods in oar line. We make a specialty
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BLINDS, SHINGLES, in
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NEWELS, BALUSTERS, T
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HANDRAILS, Etc. w
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Lime and Cement ?;
Of the befit quality can be furnished to the ^
people of Abbeville County cheaper from Gre6n- S<
ville than from any other point. Our stock of Q
these goods is always large. ^
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October 10, 1877.?12m ji
THE PALMETTO COTTON GIN, i
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NINETY-SIX, S. C. h
DEALEU IS Jl
FURNITURE, Coffins, Belting and Gin itMaterial
generally, and Agent for Steam c<
Engines, Threshers, Iteapers and Mowers, tt
(Cotton Pre?ses, etc.
Condensers, Feeders and Seed Crushers
attached to Gins when desired. .j.
Repairing Carefully Done. - aj
All communications receive prompt attention, ac
Purchasers should call or correspond with h<
him before purchasing elsewhere. te
June 15, 1877.?tf bl
O. A. TRAYLOR, *
WITH re
WILLIAM MULHERIN, *
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Boots and Shoes.!.,
HATS AID TRIMS, j293
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H;ilf Block t&lcw Planters' Hotel, ?
AUGUSTA, CA.
Durable Boots and Shoes a Specialty. ^
. September 19, 1877.?3m
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E. J. White. E. M. Hcohes. ti
Fashionable Hat Emporium.
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Hats, Caps, Firs, Uirellas, I
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Umbrellas Made and Repaired to Order. h
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COLUMBIA, S. C.\
' P. W. WING-, Proprietor? J
\ f \y FACTUREU of 8aeh, Blinds, Doors, I
?l w b(1o.t uul Doo* Frames, Inside Pivot
liu-l i nml Kh'i tors, Pilasters, Mantelpieces,
IJr.ckotK, Ilandrails, Newels, Balo?- n
?r<, Scroti Work of all description. > g,
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The Coming Man.
pair of very chubby lege,
Encased in scarlet hose ;
pair of little stubby boots,
With rather doubtful toeB ;
little kilt; a little coat,
Cut as a mother can?
nd lo! before us strides, in state,
The Future's "coming man."
!is eyes, perchance, will read the stars,
And soarch their unknown ways ;
erch&nce the human heart and soul
Will open to their gaze ;
erchance their keen and flashing glance
Will be a nation's light?
hose eye? that now are wistful bent
On Bome " big fellow's " kite,
hat brow, where mighty thoughts will dwell
In solemn, secret state ;
Tiere fierce Ambition's restless strength
Shall war with future fate ;
rhere Science from now hidden caves
New treasures shall outpour?
is knit now, with a troubled doubt,
Are two, or three, cents more ?
hose lips that, in the ooming years,
Will plead, or pray, or teach ;
'hose whispered words, on lightniug flash,
From world to world may reach ;
hat sternly grave, may speak command,
Or, smiling, win controlre
coaxing now for ginger-bread
With all & baby's soul!
hoee hands?those little busy hRnds ?
So sticky, small and brown ;
bose hands, whose only mission seems
To tear all order down?
ho knows what hidden strength may lie
Within their future grasp, 1
bough bow 'tis but a taffy-stick
In sturdy hold they clasp?
h, blessings on those little hands,
Whose work is yet undone!
nd blessings on these little feet,
Whose race is yet unrun !
ad blessings on the little brain
That haH not learned to plan!
'hate'er the Future hold in store,
God bless the "coming man !"
THE JANDIDIER MYSTERY.
A FBKNOH STORY.
A very short time ago, that is yesterly,
about four o'clock in the afternoon,
,1 the Quartier du Marais was in an up>ar.
It was said that one of the rejectable
merchants in the Roi de-Sicil#
as disappeared, and all the efforts to
iscover him had proved fruitss.
The straage event was discussed
i all the shops in the neighborhood ;
lere were groups aronnd the doors of
1 the green-grocers, and every moment
>me terrified housewife arrived, bringig
new details. The grocer at the
>rner had the best, freshest and most
>rrect intelligence, having received it
im the lips of the cook who lived in
le house.
" So," said he, " yesterday, after din?r,
our neighbor, Monsieur Jandidier,
ent to his cellar and was never seen
jain ? disappeared, vanished, evapoited
I"
It occasionally happens that mysteriis
disappearances are heard of, the
nblic get exci.ed, and prudent people
ay sword canes. Policemen hear these
Deurd rumors and shrug their shoulders,
hey are familiar with the other side of
iese closely embroidered canvasses.
h*y search into the matter and find,
stead of artless falsehoods, the truth;
istead of romances, sad stories. Yet,
p to a certain point, the grocer in the
"A Qainf T.onia flio f.tmfli
Monsieur Jandidier, manufacturer of
litation jewelry, had really not been
3me for twenty-four hours. Monsieur
heodore Jandidier was a very tall, very
ild, man, about fifty-eight years old,
ith sufficiently good manners, who had
nassed a considerable fortune in trade.
e had an income from stocks of twenty
iou6and livres, and his business brought
m in about fifty thousand francs. He
as beloved and esteemed by his neigh)rs,
and justly bo, for his honesty was
jove suspicion, his morality austere.
Carried late in lifo to a poor relative, he
id made her perfectly happy. He had
1 only daughter, a pretty graceful girl,
imed Terese, wh?m he adored. She
id been engaged to the oldest son of
ie banker Schmidt?of the firm of
ihmidt, Gubenheim & Worb?Monsieur
ustave ; but the match had been
roken off, no one knew why, for the
jung people were desperately in love
ith each other. It was said in the ,
mdidier circle that Schmidt, senior,
ho, as was well known, would
:in a flint, had required a dowry far
iyond the merchant's means.
Warned , by public rumor, which conantly
increased, the commissary of
jlice went to the home of the man who
as already called the victim, though no
[act information had been received,
e found Madame and Mademoiselle
mdidier in such transports of grief that
was with the utmost difficulty that he
>uld gather the truth. At last he learned
le following particulars:
The evening before, Saturday, Moneur
Jandidier had dined with his famy
as usual, but did not eat with much
spetite, having, he said, a violent headline.
After dinner ho went to his wareauses,
gave some orders, and then enired
his office. Returning home at
alf-past six, he told his wife he was
Ding to walk. And he never appeared
jain. Having carefully noted these
articulars, the commissary of police
iquested permission to see Madame
indidier a few minutes alone. She
iftde a sign of assent, and Mademoiselle
herese left the room.
"Pardon, madame," said the commis?ry
of police, "the question I am about
) address to you. Do you know whether
anr husband had?I again ask your
ardon?any connection outside of the i
ouse ?" |
Madame Jandidier started up ; auger
ried her tears.
"I have been married twenty-three
Bars, monsieur; my husband has never
jturned home later than ten o'clock."
" Was your husband in the habit of
oing to any club or cafe f" he connued.
" Never; I wouldn't have allowed it."
" Did he usually carry valuable papers
bout with him ?"
" I don't know; I attend to my house
eeping, and don't irouble myself about
usmess matters."
It was impossible to get any further
lformation from the poor wife, who was
ewildered by grief. *
Having accomplished his business, the
ammissary of police thought it his duty
) say a few words of commonplace conization
to the poor woman. But when
e went awav, after making inquiries in
ie household, he felt very auxious, and
egan to suspect the existence of a
rime. That very evening one of the
lost skillful detectives, Retiveau?bet?*
in flio Pnfl rlo .Tfimflfllom Qfl
laitre Magloire?was put on the track
f Monsieur Jandidier, provided with
n exoellent photograph of the merhant.
The very morning after Monsieur
andidier had disappeared Maitre Mag>ire
presented himself at the Palais de
uetioe to report to the magistrate who
ad charge of the matter.
'Well, Monsieur Magloire," said the
magistrate, " b? you have discovered
omething?"
" I'm on the track, monsieur."
"Bpeak!"
"To begin with, monsieur, Monsieur
Jandidier didn't leave his house at halfpast
Bix, but at seven precisely."
" Precisely?"
" Yes. I got my information from a
clock-maker in the Rue Saint Denis, who
is sure of the fact, because Monsieur
Jandidier, while passing ^his shop, took
out his watch to compare it with the
clock over the door. He had an unlighted
cigar in his mouth. On learning
this circumstance I said to myself, 'I
have him ! he'll light his cigar somewhere.'
My reasoning was oorreot; he
entered a shop in the Rue de Temple,
wher^ he is well known. The woman
remembered the cirumstance because,
though he always smoked sou cigars, he
bought London ones."
" How did he appear ?"
"He seemed very thoughtful, the
shopkeeper told me. It was through
her I learned he often went to the Cafe
Ture. I went in and was told he had
been there on Saturday evening. He
appeared depressed. The gentleman,
the waiter told me, talked all the time
about life insurance. At half-past eight
o'clock our man left the cafe with one
of his friends, Monsieur Blandureau. I
instantly went to this gentleman, who
told me that he walked up the boulevard
with Monsieur Jandidier, who left him
on the corner of the Rue Richelieu,
pleading a business engagement. He
was out of sorts, and seemed troubled
with the darkest presentiment"
"Very well, so far," murmured the
magistrate.
" On leaving Monsieur Blandureau I
went to Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, to ascertain
from somebody in the house whether
Monsieur Jandidier had any customers
or friend? ; there was only his tailor
in the Rue Richelieu. I went to this
tailor. He saw our man on Saturday.
Monsieur Jandidier went to his shop |
after nine o'clock to order a pair of pantaloons.
While his measure was being
taken he noticed that one of the buttons
on his vest was ready to fall off, and asked
to have it sewed on. He was obliged to
take off his overcoat to permit the little
repair to tf}de, and as at the some time he
took out the contents of the side-pocket,
the tailor noticed several hundred-franc
bank notes."
" Ah ! that is a clew! He had a large
sum of money with him ?"
"Not large, but considerable. The
tailor estimated it at twelve or fourteen
hundred francs."
"Go on," said the examining magistrate.
"While his vest was being repaired
Monsieur Jandidier complained of sudden
illness, and sent a little boy out to
look for a carriage. He had to go to see
one of his workmen who lived a long distance
off, he Baid. Unfortunately, the
little fellow had forgotten the number of |
the carriage. Hg only remembered that j
it had yellow wheels and was drawn by j
a large black horse. This afforded a ,
clew. A circular sent to all the liverystable
keepers put me on the track. I
learned this morning that the number of
the carriage was 6,007. Tho driver, on
being questioned, distinctly remembered
having been stopped about nine
o'clook on Saturday evening in tho Rue
Richelieu, by a little boy, and having
waited ten minutes in fiont of the Maison
Gouin. The description of his face;
suited our man, and he recognized the
photograph among five others I showed
him."
Maitre Magloire stopped; he wanted
to enjoy the approval he read in the
magistrate's face.
"Monsieur Jandidier," he continued,
" was reallv driven to No. 48 Rue
d'Arras Saint Victor, where one of
bis workmen lives, a man named Jules
Tarot."
The manner in which Maitre Magloire
pronounced this name was intended to
arouse, and did arouse, the attention of
the magistrate.
" You have suspicions?" he asked.
" Not exactly ; but these are the facts.
Monsieur Jandidier dismissed his carriage
at the Rue d'Arras and went to
Tarot's room about ten o'clock. At
eleven the employer and workman west
out together. The workman did not return
till midnight, and here I lose track
of my man. Of course I didn't question
Tarot, lest I should put him on his
guard."
"Who is this Jules Tarot?"
" A worker in mother-of pearl; that
is, a man who polishes shells on a grind- j
stone, to give them a perfect lustre. He
is a skillful fellow, and helped by his
wife, to whom he has taught his trade,
can make a hundred francs a week."
" They are in easy circumstances,
then."
" Oh ! no. thev are both voune : they
have no children, they ore Parisians"; I
and, zounds, they amuse themselves, j
Monday always squanders all the other ;
days bring."
Two hours after Maitre Magloire's report,
several police-officers went to Jules
Tarot's lodgings to make a search. At
the sight of them the worker in motherof-pearl
and his wife turned paler than
corpses and were seized with an attack of
nervous trembling that could not escape
the practiced eye of Maitre Magloire.
Yet, the most careful search having |
failed to discover anything suspicious,
they were about to withdraw, when the
detective saw Tarot's wife anxiously
watching a cage that hung near the window.
This was a ray of light. In an
instant Magloire had taken d?wn the :
cage. Twelve hundred-franc notes were j
found between the boards of the floor, j
This discovery seemed to crush the
workman, while hiB wife began to utter
terrible shrieks, protesting that she and
her husband were innocent. On being
arrested and taken to the police-station
they were questioned by the examining
magistrate that very day. Their answers
were precisely the same. They ac- j
fKnf fliQTr liorJ fi n'mf, I
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from their employer ou Saturday even- i
ing. He seemed bo ill that* they ha J j
offered him something to take, which he j
refused. He had come, he said, on account
of an important order which he
proposed that Tarot should undertake,
hiring his own workmen. Tarot and his
wife replied that they could not do it
for want of means. Then their employer
said : " Never mind, I'll furnish
the money," and instantly put twelve
hundred-frano notes on the table.
At eleven o'clock Monsieur Jandidier
asked his workman to show him out of
the house; he was going to the Fyibourg
Saint Antoine. And, in fact,
Tarot accompanied him to the Place de
ia Bastile, crossing the Constantine
Bridge and walking along by the river.
The magistrate asked both husband
and wife the very natural question :
" Whv did vou hide the money ?"
They made the same answer. Hearing
on Monday morning of Monsieur Jandidier's
disappearance, they were seized
with terror. Tarofc had said to his wife [
"If it is known that our employer
came here, that I crossed the bridge and
walked along by the river with him, I
shall be compromised. If this money
were ever found in our possession we
should be lost."
The wife then wanted to burn the
notes, but Tarot prevented it, intending
to return them to the family. This explanation
was reasonable and plausible,
if not probable, but it was only an explanation.
Tarot and his wife were still
detained in custody.
A week after the magistrate was in the
utmosl perplexity. Three new examinations
had not enabled him to form an
opinion. Were Tarot and his wife inno
cent ? Or were they simply marvelously
clever in maintaining a probable fable ?
The magistrate knew not what to do, B(
when one morning a strange rumor
reached his ears. The house of Jandidier
had just stopped payment. A detective
who was set to work brought back the
most startling news. A]
Monsieur Jandidier, who had been fo
considered so wealthy, was ruined, d(
utterly ruined, and for three years he Y<
had sustained his credit only by means
of various expedients. He had not a ac
thousand francs, and notes falling due fo
at the end of the month amounted to at
sixty-seven thousand, five hundred francs, th
The cautious merchant speculated in | m
stocks. The magistrate bad just learned cii
these particulars when Maitre Magloire pi
appeared, pale and panting for breath, ca
"You lmow, monsieur?" he cried, eq
from the threshold. , ta
" All!" . ve
4' Tarot is innocent" wl
"I believe him so; and yet that visit gi
?how do you explain that visit ?" ge
Magloire shook his head sorrowfully. AJ
"I am only a fool," said he, "and th
Lecoq has just proved it. Monsieur Jandidier
spoke of his life insurance at the in
Cafe Ture. This was the key to the or
affair. Jandidier was insured for two Sc
hundred thousand francs, and Fiench wi
companies don't pay in case cf suioide. re
Do you understand 9" to
Thanks to Monsietzr Gustave Schmidt, ap
who will marry Mademoiselle Therese af
Jandidier next month, the house of hi
Jandidier has not gone into bankruptcy, tu
Tarot and his wife, restored to liberty, cb
have been established in business by ta
this same Monsieuf Oustave, and no lie
longer go pleasuring on Mondays. But I th
what became of Monsieur Jamlidier ? A I sti
thousand francs reward to whoever will j hi
give news of him. ; ft
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Deaths From Fright. hi
The first King of Prussia, Frederick 88
L, was sleeping one day in an arm-chair, 80
when his wife, Louisa of Mecklenberg,
who had fallen into a state of hopeless S8
insanity, having escaped from her keep- dt
ers, succeeded in making her way to the m'
private apartments, and after wounding *?
herself in her efforts to break through a P*
glass door, oast herself upon her hus- bl
band in a state of furious delirium. ^
The king, from whom her malady had 00
been carefully concealed, was so horri- 8?
fled at the sight of this woman oovered
with blood, and clad only in some linen So
garments, that ho imagined he saw be- be
fore him the "white lady,"whose apparition,
according to an ancient tradi- ?*
tion, invariably announced the death of 7?
a prince of the house of Bradenburgh. W
He was at that instant seized with a violent
fever, of which he died in six weeks W
afterward, aged fifty-six. ha
The death of a Dutch painter, Penti- ?u
man, in the seventeenth century, was
occasioned by an extraordinary eircum- ?h
stance. Being engaged upon a picture B'
in which was represented several death's bj
heads, skeletons, and ether objects fitted 01
to inspire in the hearts of the beholders l0f
a contempt for the amusements and van- 6C'
itifcs of the age, he, in order to have
the benefit of studying these objects to
from nature, was accustomed to repair Pr
to* an anatomical cabinet, whioh served be
him for a studio. One sultry day,while Pe
engaged in drawing from the melancholy
relics of mortality by which he t<5
was surrounded, he was overcome with
drowsiness, and several fruitless efforts ^
to continue his work at length succumb- mi
ed to the power of sleep. He had slept
but a short time when he was suddenly th
awakened by an extraordinary and ap- 82
parently supernatural movement, and i0
the skeletons suspended from the ceil- 00
ing clashing violently together. Seized
with a sudden panic, Pentiman rushed Sa
in terror from the room, cast himself th
headlong from the staircase window, and br
fell into the street. On recovering his 1?<
senses, he learned that the spectacle Mi
which so terrified him arose from natural ha
causes, having been occasioned by an ari
earthquake. But the shock received by H<
his nervous system was so great that loi
he never rallied, and he died a few days fri
after. th
The French marshal, De Montreval, H
whose whole soul, according to St. Sil- ra(
mon, was ambitfon and luore, without so:
ever having been able to distinguish his w<
rierht hand from his left, but concealing he
Ilia universal ignorance with an audacity ca
which favor, fashion and birth protected, hii
was bo superstitious that one day at a dii
public dinner, ft Bait-cellar having been 82
accidentally upset in his lap, he was h*
seized with such a terror at the untoward
occurrence that he rose from his
ooof /loolarinnr tViof Iia -urJlH ft (1PA<1 mflTJ. 1U
In fact no sooner had he got home when
he was attacked by fever and died in the ^
year 1716. th
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A Mysterious Shower of Fish. ca
The Globe, of Toronto, Canada, says : fl?
A confirmation of the strange report m
that a shower of fish had fallen on the de
fourth concession of Harwioh township ra
is given by a school teacher of the neigh- | ca
borhood, who testifies to what he saw : Is
as follows: " Having dismissed the chil- ! T1
drcn for the day, I was returning to my j de
boarding place, when with a side glance, j P?
I discovered something in the grass. At
first I thought it was some species of of
rattlesnake, but upon more careful scru- 82
tiuy. I found it was a fine, firm, fresh j or
fish of the piokerel species. Having {m:
been brought up at the sea shore I knew i w<
at once the fish was good, and picked it an
up, while wondering whence it came. My ! wt
astonishment was increased, however, w<
when stepping on a few yards further I Ac
found another equally good. A few steps at
further and one more, and I thought I ev
ought to returu to the school room for to
some paper in which to wrap them. On wf
entering the room I seized (rather
thoughtlessly you will say) one of the ex
pails, and proceeded to collect fish, to
When I had more than half filled the sfc
pail I saw a man in the distance carry- dr
ing some fish, and supposing the mys- mi
tery was about to be solved I awaited ov
his approach. I dropped the pail and lai
felt somewhat guilty for having appro- tn
priated the fish till relieved by his de
assuring me that he had gathered up fri
also those he had In the Bame way, and od
that he had just been cHlling the larg- br
est of them. He observed: ' These co
are as good and fresh as money could w<
buy.' I filled the pail, not only to the he
brim, but up the whole height of the ' 1
handle, and having deposited my bur- M
den naturally in the farm house where I re
board I returned to collect the remain- wi
der. When I had finished my task I
assure you that I felt fatigued. The mi
work had occupied half an hour. This Ai
fall of fish extended about three quar- ha
ters of a mile. On the Bame ovening di]
one of the maids was sent for the cows go
to a field about half a mile from my an
boarding plaoe. She also returned br
laden with fish that she had picked up th
in a similar way, This girl reported a i
that she had left others behind her us
which she could not conveniently carry pc
to the house. The lady, with her maids, oh
prepared the fish the same evening for pr
drying and smoking, and they were sub S{
^w/Nnnno nnvf n TT TVift 111
JtJUlCU DU liUXD puvtog UUAV UWJ, JbUV
circumBtance, you will admit, is unique, Sc
apart from ite strange surroundings, on
and I cannot but think the correspond- foi
entof the Rondeau News did not err w?
much in reporting it As to whether mi
these now famous fishes fell six feet or $5
six thousand I know not One thing I
know, that they were scattered for a in
distance of about three-quarters of a wi
mile, and that at least, to my knowl- la1
edge, three persons gathered them." be
PARAF, KING OF SWINDLERS.
Bfflnnlnc bin Career In Europe and Endlnir
in 8oath America?New l'ork'i Hhnre or
bin Schemes?Dyes and Artificial Butter
?Extracting Gold from Copper Ore.
The intelligence that the Chevalier
Ifred Paraf had been arrested in Chili
r swindling, recalls the thrilling inci;nts
of that individual's career in New
3rk. The Sun, of that city, says :
Paraf was beyond question the moat
complished adventurer that ever set
ot in America. His personal appear
ice, of itself, was enough to impress
e most prejudiced in his favor. Of
edijjm height, spare in build, with
ear-cut, regular features, dark comexion,
and lar?o, eloquent eyes, he
ptivated men and women alike with
[ual ease. His dress was rich and
3teful, but studiously plain ; his conization
varied and fascinating, and his
liole bearing that of a man of the world,
fted with an unusual amount of taste,
inius and courage. A native of
Isace, his education as a chemist was of
e most thorough and practical order.
His first principal venture, after leavg
school, was in Great Britain. "While
i a pleasure excursion to the north of
sotlaiid, he ran short of money and
rote to his father for more. Not
ceiving a satisfactory response, he went
Glasgow, hired the most sumptnouB
lartments in the best hotel, and on the
ternoon of the same day presented
mself to a wealthy firm of manufacrers
as the discoverer of a new and
ieap dye for oalico printing. He. was
ken into the laboratory of the estabihment,
and in half an honr convinced
e manufacturer of the truth of his
atementa. In a fortnight he was on
s way home with $20,000 in his
)ckets. Before seeing the father he
langed the money into gold, and when
s father began to remonstrate with
m on his extravagance, cut the convertion
short by throwing the bags of
vereigns on the table, and asking
whether that wasn't some extravartice."
Nothing, however, could inice
him to settle down. In a few
Qnths the whole of the $20,000 had
und its way into the pockets of
irisian adventuresses, German gamers,
and the thousand and one sharpers
10 haunt the pleasure centres of the
ntinenfc. When the money was all
>ne Paraf went to his uncle, of the firm
Paraf, Javai <fc Co., in the Eue 'de
utier, Paris, and in a short time as i
ifore had compounded a new color,
lich sold for $10,000. Another month i
dissipation followed, and then the
uthful chevalier determined to "Go <
est." i
Paraf landed in New York from the
est Indies in June, 1877. Adroit,
ndsome and daring, he found no diffi- i
lty in effecting an entree to the counter
rooms and parlors of New York merants.
His first acquaintances were <
edt <fe Co., chemists, in Fulton street,
' whom he was introduced to Prof,
rarles F. Chandler of Columbia Col?e
and the Board of Health. His i
lieme at this time was the manufacture
iodine out of sponges, and he applied i
the professor for an analysis of his i
ocess. The enterprise was found to
impracticable, and was soon drop<1.
Paraf then turned to his old !
rte of calico printing. He professed
have discovered an "analine black" i
perior to any in the market, and
th this he made a trip through the
inufacturing districts of New Eng- :
id, selling licenses to manufacture
e dye to various mill owners at from
,000 to $3,000 apiece. This campaign
said to have netted him over $60,0
in cash.
Re tuning to New York, he took ?lent
apartments in the first story of
e Everett House, at $125 a week^
inging with him a tall, distingue
)king blonde, whom he introduced as
adam Paraf. The money which he
d made "down East" he flung
ound him in the most lavish style.
3 would take absolute pleasure in
ming $1,000 or $2,000 at a time to a
end, and would even press it upon ,
e latter if he thought him in want,
s gave elegant dinner parties at Delmico's,
at which men well known in
ientiflo, mercantile and legal circles
* A- IT- 1 J1 J?*
jre welcome gueBis. ne wornu unve
imo late in the evening and allow the
rriage to stand uutside all night, too
clolcnt to send down the order for its
3missal, but perfectly willing to pay
5 or $30 to the driver in the morng
for his" tr6uble. In bathing, he
>uld throw $20 worth of ottar of roses
to the water, and then lie and soak
Oriental luxury for an hour or more.
When the ""onaline black " ^as ex.usted
by the discovery of the fact that
e owner and patentee in Europe was
ming over to make those who had used
pay roundly for the privilege, Paraf
rried his explorations into another
;ld. He professed to have hit upon a
athod of employing the extract of madir
in calico printing at a much cheaper
te than that in common use. He
lied upon Gov. Sprague, of Rhode j
land, and laid his plans before him.
le two together took a trip to Prov- [
ince, where Paraf performed his ex- i
(riments so snocessfnllv that the }
Dvernor became convinced of the valne |
the invention, and paid the Chevalier
5,000 down, with a contingent interest
royalty on the profits that might be
ode ont of the undertaking. Madder
irks were started in Providence, and
. imposing office rented at 42 Broadly,
in this city. For a time everything :
;nt on swimmingly, and Paraf overbed
with money. His entertainments
Delmonico's became more lavish than
er, and one in particular that he gave
Hassan, the Tunisian Ambassador,
is a marvel of richness and luxury.
The Sprague " placer " at last became
haunted, and the Chevalier was forced j
new shifts to keep up his magnificent!
pie of living. In the eighteen months |
iring which the ' madder" excite-;
3nt was at its height, he had spent |
nv <11 fl/V4 Viocirloa riirmirx* infn ilolif. '
rgely. Something had to be done, and !
at speedily. What was done is best !
scribed in the words of an intimate
end: "I was coming np Broadway
e evening, when, who should hail me
it Para?, who was driving by in a
upe. He dragged me in, without a
>rd of explanation, shut the door, and
Id a small black bottle before my eyes.
?aste it,' said he imperatively, I did so.
Vhy, it's good butter," said L ' Yes,'!,
plied he triumphantly, ' and it's made I
thout one particle of milk.'"
This was the foundation of the oleoirgarine
scheme, at least as far as !
nerica was concerned. The process
d originally been discovered in Paris
tring the siege by the Germans?the
vernment having offered a reward to
y one who would produce an artificial .
itter. The gist of the scheme lay in
e conversion of the fat of cattle into i
substance resembling butter, by the |.
e ot pepsin?a metnoa wmcn was supised
to accomplish in another aDd a
eaper -way what was effected by the
ocesB of digestion in the cow's stomach. 1
>ecimens of the butter were prepared |
Dr. Chandler's laboratoiy and the i
hool of Mines in Columbia College, i
d submitted to R. Ogden Doremus '
r analysis. The result of the analysis '
is favorable,, and a joint stock "oleo- i
urgarine " company with a capital of i
00,000 was formed. i
The first thing that led to suspicion
the soundness of this new venture i
is the discovery by the Chevalier's <
tvyer that the process had already 1
en patented in JYance, and that Paraf, '
instead of being the original inventor, F
was at best bnt an adapter of the plans
of others. This fact alone vitiated all
the patents under which the company
waa working, and it became necessary .
to effect a reorganization. T. 0. Dore- Jr
mus, a son of the professor, went to ,
Paris, and bought the right of manufac- P
ture in America for $10,000. It was
afterward discovered that Paraf had
merely "cribbed " his ideas from Mege 11
Mouriez, the original author, and the n
disgust of the inventors was not less- a
ened by the fact that a few months pre- &
vious a process almost identical with 1<
Paraf's had been described in the col- d:
umns of Appleton'a Journal.
T* in fV>/-vnrrV.f Vvtt f linen arVir* am Wflll ni
acquainted with the facts that Paraf y?
might have made large fortunes for him- E
self and his associates had he not been d
in so great a hurry, and been willing to E
purchase the American interest in the s;
French patent. At all events the CJhev- r<
alier was the hero of the oleomargarine b
war, and unquestionably first introduced t(
it into America. ic
Prom San Francisco, where, in a lim- ii
ited way, -he had repeated his New York c<
experience, Paraf embarked for " fresh* ii
fields and pastures new" He went to
Ohili, and there claimed that he had dis- ^
covered a method of extracting gold je
from copper ore, by which everybody's
fortune could be made. A company was ^
organized and over 81,250,000 were sunk
before the swindle was discovered and 0j
Paraf arrested. j y
How a Newspaper is Made.
From an article in Harper'a Maga- t<
zine, entitled " The Metropolitan News- ti
paper," we take the following vivid de- n<
scription of the manner in which the ei
reading matter of a New York morning ai
newspaper is prepared for publication: 11
A close, low-roofed, smoky room, d;
lighted by innumerable Argand burners,
and filled with little .desks, at which sat .
bnsv, stooping men, puffing cigars, and jf
fu?rihhlmc with nons or riencils at light- ! t*
ning speed?that "was the next scene g,
opened to them. On some of the desks ai
there were piles upon piles of news- w
papers from points as far apart and as Ci
varied as the capitals of Europe and p(
plaintive oncosts on the for western
plains. A little tin box shot up and ^
down a wooden shaft in the middle of g]
the room, into which rolls of manuscript ^
were put by an office boy, who rushed w
from desk to desk and gathered the w
sheets as they came from the writers' b,
hands. From time to time a nervous, af
sharp-voiced, imperative gentleman in a w
rery much soiled linen duster, called to ft
one or the other of the workers, and af
gave orders which would have been quite m
unintelligible to a layman, who might
have mistaken the establishment for a p,
slaughter-house, when he heard a pale- a[
faced little gentleman requested to p,
" make a paragraph of the Pope," " cut
down Anna Dickenson," "double-lead m
General Grant," "put a minion cap f0
head*on Peter Cooper," and " boil down or
the Evangelical Alliance." But making j 0t
a paragraph of the Pope, simply applied
to the compression of some news con- so
cerning him into that space; the "minion fr
cap head " intended for the venerable te
philanthropist meant the kind of type j Bfl
to be used in the title of a speech or , sc
lecture of his; and " boiling down " and j i3
"cutting down" were two technicalities . g(
expressing condensation. The gentle- j th
man in the linen duster was the night; b<
editor in charge, the despot of the hour, j th
and the intermediary between the writers j g,
and printers, the latter being on the j fa
floor above, and the little tin box in the j
abaft communicating with them. | U(
By three o'clock the last line of copy fcr
must be in the printers' hands, and from ^
midnight until that time a newspaper in
the editorial department is in e state of w
nervous intensity and activity for which gj
I can imagine no parallel. _ it
nru,* f*nm +V10 ninwrfl and nines n
JLULC ouuuav AiViU vuv x?r u
rolled up to the ceiling, anJ the pens pi
sped over the pages of manuscript paper. w
The writers bent to their work with y
tremendous earnestness and concentru- n,
tion; there was not one of thorn who I tl
had written la|e than a* column of mat- j a,
ter that night, and some of them were j w
closing two and tliree column articles, e\
which contained nearly as many words
as five pages of Harper's Magazine, q
They were pale and care-worn. One of $
them was heading and sub-heading cable >
dispatches from the seat of war, another i it
was writing editorial paragraphs on the w
important telegraphic dispatches, an- , i?
other was condemning a uew pinj- iu ai
virulent prose, another was revising a a]
thrilling account of a murder, another i tj
was transcribing his stenographic notes | p
of a speech on the inflation of the cur- I e]
rency, another was putting the finishing i ft
touches on a well-considered article j tl
criticising a debate in the Frenoh As- J gsembly,
and another was absorbed in the f d,
description of a yacht race. The little ; 8]
tin box in the shaft bounced up and i a
down more frequently, and the night ^
editor became more nervous and im- ; g
perative than ever, as the fingers on the 1
big clock on the wall went beyond two.
The pages of manuscript went up one
by one, and long moist proof-sheets j "
came down from the composing-room. ! P
Then the "cutting down "began, and j"
some of the writers saw articles that had ,
cost them hours of research annihilated >
by the stroke of a pen, or reduced from ; ,
columns to paragraphs?not on account of I
unimportance, but simply because there i aj
is always a superfluity of matter, con- i ?
trary to the erroneous notion that j
the editor's great difficulty is to fill his j
columns?and in some instances even I ?
the paragraphs were finally omitted to J1
to make room for unexpected news that j
had arrived later. Telegrams were still ' h'
coming in at half-past two, but soon ' b<
after one dispatch brought the words, I
"good night," and that meant the clos- ! it
ing. The night editor and his assistant ! tl'
now disappeared into the composing- j tl
room, where they remained to superin- ; fit
tend the making up of the forms, and
i.i.* ? 4-l^rv /lrtolra nvAnarpd fn lpfivp.
l/IlU UiUU Ub l/iio v4WOi*u ? _j (
or threw themselves buck in their chairs t'
for a chat and more smoke. > it
Female Suffrage Refused. p]
A telegram from Leland, 111., to the i
Cincinnati Gazette, dated the day after y(
election, says: An incident which created I ej
quite a ripple of excitement yesterday 80
afternoon was the appearance at the
polls of Misses Hughes, Hurd and 1 fn
Squires, lady teachers in the public j 0f
schools, who went together to the polls j aj
and insisted upon casting their votes for j ^
Bchool commissioner, their argument ftf
being that if a woman was intelligent 8t
enough and had a right to be a school j ^
commissioner, she ought to be allowed ! te
to express a choice in the matter. The !
anti-woman suffragists were on hand in ! m
force, among them being the street com- j
missioner, who demanded that they pay j ^
a poll-tax if the judge allowed them to j
vote. This created a big laugh among 1 sa
the hangers on about the polls, but the w
ladies insisted, as they retired, that in
the refusal of the judges to receive thenvotes
they were denied their rights. 0f
A little five-year-old fellow came up to gt
his mother the other morning, and with cc
rrroftf oftmPHtnfiss said : " Mother, I saw ea
something rtm across the kitchen floor at
this morning, and it hadn't any legs ar
either; what do yon suppose it was ?" gi
He mother's curiosity was excited at bi
the apparent strangeness of the supposed
animal, an J, not knowing what else to te
gay, she said she supposed it was a ib
worm, or something of that sort, she did til
oot know what. Having for some time bi
Bnjoyed his mother's inability to solve pi
the problem, he said: " It was some fc
water." w
ARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. 8
I
Medical HlnU. |
Bruise-Swelling.?To cure a swell- ^
ig from a braise, foment it for half an f.
our, morning and evening, with hot a
loths dipped in vinegar and water as c
ot as you can bear it. a
Cube fob Warts.?Warts may be re- fi
toved, says a celebrated physician, bv _
lbbing them, night and morning, with
moistened piece of muriate o* ammo- !
ia. They soften and dwindle away, !
saving n? such mark as follows their ,
ispersion with lunar caustic. , ^
To Purify the Blood.?Strictly diet ^
a oat-meal porridge, lean beef, plain c
Bgetables, fruit and Graham bread. ^
latno wheat bread or pastry or pud- e
ings; no butter or grease whatever.
lutter and cheese Becretly poison many 3
pstemB. Drink weak lemonade. Eat ^
5gularly, and the dryer the food the g1
etter. Food floating in grease refuses j
) digest. Substitute clear water?not v
:e water?for tea or coffee. On retir- c
f?bnlv cold cream or beef fat to the a
-cj7 -f rv , u
amplexion. Take the oils externally ?
istead of internally. , ^
A Remedy fob Oatarbh.?a farmer's | d
ftughter says: Dry and powder mullen j s
saves as fine as you would powder sage;! lj
len smoke as you would tobacoo, let- j C
ng the smokp escape through the nos- j?
ils instead of the mouth. This is one ! g
f the best of remedies for catarrh in ! a
le head. It has entirely cured a case n
I over twenty years' standing, when t]
eery other remedy heard of has failed ii
> do so. It may require a little prac- I
ce to let the smoke escape through the v,
Dstrils. Mullen will be stronger gath- fi
red Deiore tne iroei mjurea u, uut wui : it
lswer even if dug from under the snow. | a
; will also be found an excellent reme-1V
y for cold in the head. w
Plowing nnd .11 anuria*. i a
A correspondent of the American *
'armer says: The above constitutes tJ
po first essentials in the production of y
jod crops, and should receive special a
itention at the hands of every one who ei
ould cultivate and produce a good T
op, let it be corn, tobacco, cotton or C
Dtatoes, etc. n
Thorongh plowing I consider the more a
iportant of the two, for unless the a;
round is well plowed, the best manur- tl
ig will have comparatively little effect, tl
hereas land well and thoroughlyplowed li
ith light fertilizing will produce fairly, h
it with better manuring will produce a
. a profit; still there is a limit beyond If
hich profit ceases, and just where this e<
ait is the cultivator must be the judge, si
ter experiment; but generally there is ti
fctle danger of exceeding it.
Plowing, to be thorough, should be so
jrformed that the soil shall be broken
id made as fine as possible; you cannot m
llverize too muclu 01
Plow deep is a relative term, and may ai
ean very differently on different soils, m
r while four inches may be deep for m
le soil, ten or twelve may be less so on "
hers, so that here we muBt be governed tr
7 the nature of the soil plowed. Sub-) w
il ploughing is a distinctive difference st
om the common acceptation of the w
rm plowing, yet is often used with the bi
me meaning. Sub-soiling on most ai
lis, in connection with good plowing, in
one of the essentials of certainty of a al
xxl product; the deeper and more al
loroughly the pub-soil is broken the ai
jtter, as no crop will be likely to suffer ai
ie effects of drought or wet where the ?
ound is sub-soiled, as whers only sur- ci
ce plowed. si
In plowing under manure it should d
5t be turned down to the bottom of the n
irned soil, if we wish the benefit of u
ly portion of it in the present crop. p
The nearer the surface, and have it p
ivered in the soil, we keep manure, the ti
reater benefit the crop will receive from r<
. Herein lies one benefit of plowing r<
nder the manure shallow, and again a
lowing the same ground a trifle deeper; v
hich, while it mixes the manure with fa
ie soil, still keeps the greatest portion n
ear the eurface, just where the roots of s<
ie young plant will be benefited by it; b
ad as the water of rains dissolve and ii
ash down the portions of the salts, a
tc., the later roots of the same plants p
nd and appropriate what they most re- a:
uire, and thus the manure is equalized ti
irongh the soil. I b
Southern men have informed me that j a
, would not answer to plow deep, as j h
ith their sudden powerful showers the j V
md would go seaward, from washing, I,
lppose; however that may be I am un-,
ble to say, as I have no experience '
wl>n^ T VflQ/1 nf t.VlA AT. ! ?
itJfCj UUt Hum nuau a. *.vm* vr* v**w ^
erience of the most successful South- | a
rn planters, I think I should venture a i j;
-ial and see the result. I know here at j]
le North the more shallow plowed e
round washes worse than that which is ^
eeply worked, and also crops grown on 0
lallow worked soil are less certain and &
tore subject to the vicissitudes of the ^
jason, wet or drought, than where the ^
round is deeply worked. ^
Household Ulnl.. | ii
BakedMaoaronl?Use about half a ! e
ound of macaroni, break up in pieces j t<
ut it in boiling water f.nd stew gently j e
>r twenty minutes; sale it a little; drain a
ell; have ready a buttered pudding r
ish; place a layer of the macaroni in n
ie bottom, then cover with grated J "V
leese and a few lumps of butter;* then I ii
lother layer of macaroni and more J c
leese and butter until all is used up;' li
id a wineglass of cream or milk; bake | si
)vered for half an hour ; then re-} u
love the cover and brown nicely; serve | a
in the bake-dish. i tl
To boil a Tcbkey.?A delicate hen ^
irkey should always be selected for w
ailing. Pick and draw it, taking great ^
ire not to break the gall-bladder; when 81
issinged, cut through the skin round "
le first joint of the legs, and draw P
lem out by fastening the feet to a ?
rong hook and then pulling the bird "
vay from it; take off the head and 01
jck, wash it clean, and wipe it dry; fill 7(
le breast with veal stuffing; in trussing P1
, draw the legs with the body, break
le breastbone, and give the turkey as
lump an appearance as you can; put
into plenty of hot water and bod it f(
>ry gently for about two hours; served
tiler with celery sauce or a good white e,
nice.
Dried Apple Cake.?Soak three cup- jlis
dried apples over night, then draw
F the water through a sieve; chop the _
jples slightly, then simmer them in
iree cupfuls of molasses for two hours; ^
ter that add two eggs, one cupful
igar, one cupful sweet milk or water, a|
tree-quarters cupful butter or lard, one
aspoonful baking powder, flour enough
make pretty stiff batter; add cinnaon,
cloves to taste.
n.T,"RnwAn.?Three Dints of crra- I *c
im flour, one and a half pints of white
)ur, one-half pint of molasses, a little
It, one cupful yeast; mix rather wet
ith a spoon. is
Indications of n Good Butter Cow. PIt
is said that the color of the inside 01
the cow's ear affords an infallible Ul
lide to the selection of a good butter
w. If the'skin on the inside of the
x is of a rich yellow or orange oolor 8id
the lining of the ear is covered with
i oily secretion, the cow will be sure to "
ve a good quality of milk, rich in
ltter. p
Cows that produce a high-colored but- h
r have a large amount of the secretion, w
ie inside of the ear being of an orange w
at. On the other hand, light-colored b
ltter makers present a scanty, thin, it
ile yellow secretion, in some cases w
itind only at the bottom of the ear, rr
hile the' inside lining is of a corre- c<
pondingly pale, undefined color.'
ivery male of the bovine family has the
lower of secreting a certain amount of
his oily matter. If the quantity be
ormally large, secretion will take place
reelv in the mammary glands, the ear
nd the skin. As the test is simple and
osts nothing, it cannot fail to prove
useful auxiliary to the dairyman and
irmer in their selection of rich milkers.
-Indiana Farmer.
American and Foreign Longevity. ,
American life, its strain and expenditure,
is once more arraigned because
lovernor Morton died at fifty-four,
rhile Theirs fell off at eighty, and his
nnt/minniinriofl "Riumnrrlr. Vfin Moltke.
be Emperor William, and other influntial
men are living at the same age.
'he arraignment is a repetion and not a
iscovery, and does not consider impprint
facts. One of these is that the
fcudions, calm, and regular life- of the
'rench historian and statesman was a
ery different thing from the exciting
areer of the Indiana leader, and that
issimilar vital force is to be calculated ',
rith unequal conditions in reckoning
heir longevity. Another is that noinividual
is a sufficient national repreentative
in such a case. We have now
ving in our own city, iu the person ?f
General Robert Patterson, one who has
een and done as much and suffered as
reat changes of climate and endured
s much labor as perhaps any of the
amed Europeans; and yet eclipsing
hern all in years, he is quite their equal
1 vigor. Here, too, at our doors is
[enry 0. Carey, capable of doing the /
rork of any of the men named at eightyve.
And Mr. Cameron is in his eightWA
*WAA?O vnoAtt 4S\ loll
3vii jciu, auu uj uu ui^ouo w *wi*
sleep while this administration lasts.
7e recently buried Horace Binney,
'anting but three years of a century;
nd recalling other prominent men
'hose lives were active and laborious,
lere was Webster, who lived to seventy
ears; Clay to seventy-five ; Benton an
iditional year ; Chies Justice Marshall,
ighty; J. Q. Adams, eighty one;
homas Jefferson, eighty-three ; Lewis
ass, eighty-four, and Chief Justice Taey,
eighty-seven. The list can be
wily extended, and the more it is exmined
the more fully it will be proved
lat American life is no more deadly
xan European, and that professional
fe has as good chances of continuance
ere as there. A few years ago Amerim
women were the subjects of similar
mentation. The jeremiade was explod1
at the time, and its successor cannot
irvive full and dispassionate investigaon.?Philadelphia
North American.
Snpplylng a New Scalp.
A very curious case has its existence
dw in Jamestown, N. Y. It seems that
l the morning of April 23, Mrs. Hay,
x employe of the Jamestown alpaca
ills, went from her home, adjoining the
ills, to the basement story of the
weave-room " to feed some fancy pouly.
In some unknown way her hair,
orn loosely, caught in a horizontal
iaft, revolving rapidly, and the scalp
as torn off from the neck to the eyerows,
leaving the skull entirely bare,
id making a wound 159 square inches
l extent She walked to her home,
jout 000 feet distant, and gave orders
x)ut sending for a Burgeon. At first
l attempt was made to replace the scalp,
id it was patohed up and sewed on, but
x>n began to Blough off, and the phvsians
were at a loss as to the course they
lould pursue. The case had no preceent,and
for a time they were completely
onpluBsed. At last, however, they hit
pon the experiment of grafting, and
ublished a card in the daily papers exlaining
the case, and asking contribuons
from young and healthy people to
jplace the scalp. The young people
ssponded in goodly numbers to the call,
ad the doctors took from .their arms a
ery Small piece of skin, which, was
ansfftrred to the head of the unfortu
ate lady. At first the experiment
seined doubtful, but at last the grafts
egan to adhere, and the patient is now
1 a fair way of recovory. Two hundred
nd forty-one "plants" have been aplied,
which cover about half the scalp,
d the remainder will be placed in posion
as soon as possible. Mrs. Hay has
een unconscious for days, but enthu&istic
physicians who have the case in
and are sanguine that she will ultimate7
recover.
A Challenge to the Courtiers.
Crantz, in his "Saxon History," tells
s of an Earl of Alsatia, snrnamed on
ccount'of his great strength, "The
iion;" who was a favorite of Edward
lie Third, of England, and mnch
Qvied, as favorites are always snre to
e, by the rest of the courtiers. On
ne occasion, when the king was absent,
Dme noblemen maliciously instigated
le queen to make trial of the noble
lood of the favorite, by causing a lion
) be let loose npon him, saying, accordig
to the popular belief, that if the
orl was truly noble, the lion would not
)uch him. It being customary with the
orl to rise at the break of day, before
ny other person in the palace was stiring,
a lion was let loose during the
ight and turned into the lower court.
Vaen the earl came down in the morn1
g, with no more than a night-gown
ost over his shirt, he was met by the
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on, bristling ms nair, ana growiuiy uctraction
between his teeth. The earl,
ot in the least daunted, called out with
stout voice, " Stand, you dog!" At
iese words, the lion crouched at his feet,
> the great amazement of the courtiers,
'ho were peeping out at every window
> see the issue of their ungenerous degn.
The earl laid hold of the lion by
le mane, turning him into his cage, and
lacing his night-cap on the lion's back,
ime forth without casting a look beind.
"Now," said the earl, calling
nt to the courtiers, "let him among
3u all that standeth must upon his
sdigree, go and fetch my night-cap."
Words of Wisdom.
The more polished society is, the less
>rmality there is in it.
Two-thirds of the world are always
igaged in fighting wind-mills.
A man writing an anonymous letter, is
1 - - 1 1
ko a puppy inside an enclosure uiu-kig
at you with his nose under the
ate.
A lie is a hiltless sword which is sure
> cut the hand of him who strikes with*
. It is better to find this out first than'
'terwards.
A man who can give up dreaming and
3 to his daily realities; who can smother
swn his heart, its love or woe, and take
?the work of his hand; who defies fate,
id, if he must die, dies fighting to the
at?that man is life's best hero.
The most agreeable of all companions
a simple, frank man, without any high
retensions to an oppressive greatness;
ic who loves life, and uuderstauds th<:
3e of it; obliging alike at all hours;
iove all, of a golden temper, and steadof
aa on anchor "Pnr such n. one wo
[adly exchange the greatest genius, th<?
iost brilliant wit, the profoundest
linker.
Lessons of wisdom have never such
Dwer as when they are wrought in thy
eart through the groundwork of a story
hich engages the passions; is it thnf
e are like iron and must first be heated I
efore we can be wrought upon ? or is M
the heart so in love with deceit that M
here a true report will not reach it * fl
Lust chent it with a table in ord
?me nt truth ?