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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER . ? ? * BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUAEY 2, 1878. NO. 30. VOLUME XXV. r m $25,000! f 1% J*. \4? r i -J V> V T II E 181EKT HI CHEAPEST #" ;;8 rOCK OF Goods r- * : s v ? / i-J : EVE^TBBOUOHT TO GREENVILLE! v -.' C - - \. ? ' Twenty-five thousand dollars worth ot GOODS whioh he intend* to iufom of . AT'OE .BELOW ' ' ' " - *.*' NEW YORK Retail Prices! T~ ' .'/"' , if is tie T ins for Bargains. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. CAPT.WH.WiTE U with me tfbd would be glad to meet with hi> old Frie d? and Cuntomern, and will 8 xV? THEM SOME MONEY. A No. 1, Wagon Yard IK REAR OF STORE) FREE TO A.rx. Rettpectfullj, T. W, DAVIS, MAIN STREET,1 CREENVILLE, S. C. Oct 17, 1877.?3mo< J JoSUH A I.I .FX, V.M1DKY McDEE. lEXANDER,ALLEN&Mc8EE, Manufv turcrs of and V,"boli iu!ij and Retail Dealers la UPPER & HARNESS LEATHER, Kip and Calf Skins, GREENVILLE, S. C. CT Highest ca*h prioo paid for Hid**. Se:>t. 2G. 1377 -12m GREENVILLE Machine Works AND IRON FOUNDRY, Be.lm)nd, Macdonald & Co., PROPRIETORS. SiEAH ENGINES, Boilers, Saw and Grat .MilU, Cotton Gins, Preg-es, ftc., prompt In r-psired. We have recently cdded to our estab lignnir-nt an IRON FOUNDRY and are prepared t<? furui?b all kind* of CA8TING8, equal to the beet furnished by any foundry in the couatry, at xhort notice, ami on reasonable terms. Cash paid for Old Iron delivered at our foundry. Works on River Street, reer of Cable's Planing MH1October 3, 1877. -11m THE PALMETTO COTTON GIN, MANUFACTURED BY J.M.MATTHEWS, NIKETT-SIX, S. C. DEALER IX TT^URNITURE, Coffins, Belting and Gin J? Material generally, and Ageutfor Steam Engines, Ttircahers, Reapers and Mowers, (Cotton Premses, etc. Condensers, Feeders and Seed Crushers attached to Gins when doeired. Repairing Carefully Done. A I communications receive prompt Attention. P.irchaaers Bhould call or oorreapond with hioi Leforo purchasing ?jl?ewhere. June 15, 1877.-tf O. A. TRAYLOR, WITH WILLIAM MULHERIN, DEALER IN Boots and Shoes, HATS AM TRIMS, 00 3 13road Street, IIaU Block below Planters' Hotel, AUGUSTA, OA. Durable Boot* and Khoea a Specialty. September 19, 1S77.?3m E. J. Whtix. E. 51. Hrosis. r l : li. 11 _x r_ rasmunauiB n<u tmpunum, WHITE & HUGHES, DEALERS Hats, Caps, Fill Wreltes, BTO., :00 KING STREET, 0PP. HASEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. Vmljfttlk* Mad* and Repaired to OrtU r. Oc'./:or 3,1877.- ten I A Merry Christmas! " A merry Christmas to you all!" Is passing now from mouth to mouth, From east to west, from north to soutt From lowly oot and stately hall. " A merry Christmas to us all!" Is shouted by the cheerful host; The windows barred against the frost, We toaBt the season, great and smalL * A merry Christmas ! Hush?no breath Of revelry must pierce the gloom Of yonder chamber?from that room The spirit has passed out with Death. Tke widow clasps her child, a kiss Is pressed upon its roB.v face ; A choking sigh? aclcwo embrace? " A merry Christmas ?" What is this ? ? * * " A Christmas party?let ns go r A wand'rer hopeless drops to die ; His brothers heedless pan him by. Half frozen in the freezing snow. * ? A merry Christmas ! What a few Remain of those it welcomed last; Another year has o'er ns pasB'd And left ns, wife, the only two. The childish langh we held so dear, The toys that made ns onoe more young The infant arms that round us clang, Hare rauiah'd with the passing year. * * * Bat Christmas merry is?and those Who strive to make it so do well; For who oan ever fitly tell What oomfort from this season flows ? " A merry Christtoias!" let ns bless The season when oar Lord was born ; \nd doubly bless the Christmas morn { That gave as " Ch i ist oar Righteousness.* " A merry Christmas to yon all!" Let it resound from mouth to mouth, From eaxt and west to north and south, To h.-mble oot to stately halL The Story Writer. AN EDITOR'S CHRISTMAS REMINISCENCE. I am an editor ; and one bitter cold ^? - *? j? i?/? morning, h ibw ubjb uciwc uuiutiuki, in the year 18?, I sat as usual at my leak. Among the heap of manuscript* [ was daily compelled to examine? many of them desultory, untidy, and unstitched, defiant of spelling, subversive of grammar, and with neither beginning, middle or end?was one. written on the softest cream-laid French white paper, in a childish lady's hand, on lines which had been carefully erased ifterwards. It was a little story of no ^reat literary merit, but there was an iromaof youth and of sweetness in every line. There was a promise in it. It was like the light im the sky before the <un had risen on a fine day?an omen, a portent of sunshine and warpath, but no more. I put it down as if 1 bad toucned the petal of a rose, There was a tiny ; scented note beside it?of course full ol italics: "Deab Mr. Editor : I sendvou a little story. I am only sixteen, and papa *nd mamma do not know anything ihocfc it, but plea*e tell me if it he worth anything. I want it to be printed ; I want to be paid for it. It is not for mypelf, though, but I want the noney to give try dear little brother a nice 'little, birthday present. I am, dear Mr. Editor, yours, etc., "Emily ." Then came the address and signature. The writing of the note was less neat ind regular ihan the manuscript. But her* was the same fragrance of dainty youth about it. I held it a long time in my hand. T am an old man ; at all events middleitfed, perhaps something more ; but my 'leart iB younger than my appearance. Little distillations came, or seemed * to oome, from the paper I held. It wa* with no common feeling of interest that T sat d?wn and wrote my answer to the note. I returned the manuscript, lint f ?r?il fon/lorltt t rroTT/i i + L WiUlO ^CUKiJ UUU ITHIMViAf* * ??' ?. ia my hope and my opinion that, with fl little more pare and study, the youthful -vriter would achieve a success. I even oromised to print that identical manuscript if it were a little revise*! or corrected, and I pointed out how it micrht he made available. I opened the window >f my den after I had written my note, rhe weeds piercing through the flags >elow had a less dreary look than th^y 'iad ever had before ; a gleam of sunthine shone on them, and their frosty verdure borrowed something of Picciola brightness from it. I posted my letter md the manuscript to the address lamed, and went home, wondering if *ver I should hear from the writer again. With that, however, all thonvhta of the nansscript passed away. The author ra? too timid to renly. On Christmas Eve I was aslced os isnal to dine with an old friend of rain^ *t 8t. John's Wood, lie was a married nan, with a pleasant comely wife, and several smnll children, male and female. " The children are not coming down to dinner," said my hostess, " for thpy ?rejjoing to give us a surprise after WSUUD, I bowed and was delighted, both at the anticipation of pleasure to come, and of privation for the first time of considerable present annoyance. I need not ?ay I fras then a bachelor. When we we?t up stairs after dinner, we fonnd the oldinpr-doors which divided the front ?'rom the back room closed. They were opened, after a while, rhe Christmas hymn was sung, and a kree of the most brilliant splendor was revealed: on its branches were hung rifts worked and embroidered by the ohildren for their parents. The three little girls and their governess had done it all. While my friend and his wife were embracing and thanking the cl ildren, I had time to notice the governess. 8!ie was very yo^ng, almost a child herself. A. masa of bright hair was gathered up in ffreat waves at each side of her head, and fastened in a loose thick loop behind. The bright curls were so arranged as to reveal the ear. The ear and cheek were, I should rather say they are like those painted by Leighton in hit "Painter's Honeymoon." Need I my more of their ravishing loveliness ? Bnl the pretty blue eyes looked as if thej had cried a great deal, and there had bflAn recent tears, for the evelids were somewhat swollen. 8he was not sad, however, for she played on the piano foi the children and for me, their old godfather, to dance to, and she joined with us in a Rame of blind man's buff. When the children retired, she retired nrlso. "What a charming person," I said. " She is most excellent," said mj friend. " Although she is so young, Miss is the bread provider of her family. Hei father and mother have, according tc the cut phrase, seen better days; in fact, they are people of good birth, and once had a good fortune. They have a son and daughter; the sen is a fine fellow also. Both the son and daughtei giva the greater part of their earningj to their parents; but the son has not been very fortunate. My little governess, she is only seventeen, (my children are ao vouur they do not require a prim regular governess,) does mor< with her salary, mediocre as it is, thai her brother can do with his hard work, He is a clerk in a bank." " And she helps him also, I suppose ?' " I dare say she does, bnt I have nev er inquired, "for she is full of retio?no< and reserve on these points, I only knov she would Bet up all night, and woii like a horse all day, to help both he parents and her brother. She i'b goinj k home to-morrow; and he, 1 fear, canno afford the expense of the journey. Th parents live now in Scotland." " Could we not help him ?" I Baid bashfully. My friend smiled. Both brother an< sister spent Christmas at home. My good fortune threw me a goo< deal after this with my friends' gover ness. Must I say from rliat Christina Eve I was never heart whole ? The following Easter we were en j gaged, aud before the Christmas Ev< j whioh followed we were married. Wha an aim and a hope my life has now ao ! quired! We have a little suburban home, anc i I leave my wife every morning to pursu* J my editorial labors, and return ever] i evening, forgetting my work and mj ! worries, knowing that the sweetest hear i and the fairest face I have ever knowi await me in my modest but happy home 11 never heard again from the author o j the manuscript which had so much in i tere?ted me; and, truth to tell, hac i never thought of her sincft that Christ | mas Eve. Two or three years hav< I passed since then, and we have twc . j babies. Their mother is always playing witl | them. She- often puts her delicate slender white hands nnder my babj girl's foot, and the baby makes believ< I to Btand on it. What a picture it is ; il is like a rose-bud laid on a whit* : camelia. As I walked up and down the roon j reading a scratchy, sorawly manuscript, j and fumbling over it in desperation, foi | the tiresome person who had sent it hac ' by some ingenious carelessness mulcted < it of its last page, my thoughts flew faj and wide, and, by some association ] cannot attempt to explain, the prettj manuscript from the youthful write] 1 who had sent me no more was recalled to me Unconsciously the manuscript I held ! faded from my mind, and the other was i present with me. I wondered what had I become of her?had she written anj | more ??where and how was she ? j Every mcynent I became more and more possessed with the memory. ] ' was so happy myself that I felt for all j who seeded to have care and struggle i in their lives, I looked out the address tc | which I had written before, and wrote j to th? unknown a few lines. I said that time had passed, that the youthful inexperience which had prevented the i paper she had seut from being accepted mu>t now be corrected, and that I should be glad and willing to see anything else she had written, if she had written anything since then. j Within a few days I had an answer. ! The writing was in a feigned hand, quite unlike the round, hesitating, girlish I hand I remembered. The words were, however, as sweet and innocent as the ! first had been. The note ran as follows: "Itis so good of you to remember ' me, but I do not write any more. I am so happy. I have a dear, good, noble husband. f Oh, these womanly exaggerations, I thought, as I sat in my editorial rtVioi-rl A n.1 onr?Vi r?orliri<r Vip.HiftS t 7 wrote, for I wanted to help my dear i ones, but they have been better helped > by others than I could ever have hoped to help them. God lias given them a better friend than 1 could be. If yon seek to know me, yon shall do so. If when you go home you see a woman with a rose in her hand, hold out yours. You will kuow me." ; j I smiled at the romantic fervor of this reply, and a faint desire arose that my wife und the writer of the letter should ' know each other, and then I went on with my stupifying avocations. ' j Ah 1 wi nt home, I confess 1 looked about for a wom:tn with a rose in her 1 hand, but, as might naturally be sup1 ; poBed, neither in cabs nor omnibuses , did s ich an apparition manifest itself. As I entered my own door T gave an impatieut ithrug at the idea of having been the subject of a foolish jest. But whom did I see standing within the j threshold o/ mv home ? My darling, ' with her fair, child-like face and bright hair ; love, and joy, and youth crowning , her with n triple crown, atfd in her hand ' was a rose 1 " Dear husband," she said, as I kissed her, " I think I loved you from the moi ! ment I had your kin 1, indulgent, I thoughtful note. I had written that : absurd little story for I sadly wanted a ! little money to pay for Gerald's return i: home at Christmas, to be with papa and mamma, and I had a foolish notion I i oould write." j "And von were disappointed, my i pet. What a 6avage I must have i! seemed!" I " No; I felt how foolish I had been, ane I cried heartily, but I thought yon II good and kind all the tame. And Ger11 aid got home, too. aud we had a happy Christmas after all." I kissed her. . " But are you never going to write a story for my magazine again?" "I do not know," she said, arohly. j " Meanwhile, you can write outb, if you | like." ; | I The Resources of Turkey. i A London Time* correspondent writes ; i from Varna : The measures agreed f j upon by the Seraskierato for the angi mentation of the army, and the numbert computed to result from them, are re j spectively as follows : All the recruitt liable by ordinary course of law to serve .: next year were last month summoned tc i j service. Bv this measure there were 1 raised 28.900 infantry, 4.320 field artih i ' lery, 3,890 cavalry, 4,960 fortress artil11 lery, and 1,700 engineers?in all about i j 44,000 men." Beside this new levy the Turkish army i! in the field will receive a Btrong rein forcement in the Corps of Bagdad and i Yemen, the greater part of which is already on the march to the seat of war. ? The grand total of reinforcements? namely, those who have reached the front, those who are on the march 1 thither and those who are ready to start : | ?amounts according to the regulations ! | to about 230 battalions with twenty bati | teries, or nearly 250,000 men. But the ' actual number will fall considerably ; short of these figures. The rapid sura' | moning out of so many recruits cannot I be done without deductions. The > | march, also, for weeks, and even months, , of so many men?poorly clad, poorly j fed, and expesed to all the damaging in i fltiences of the worst season of the year i; ?from the most distant parts of Turkey i to the seat oj war cannot but be attended ; with heavy losses. All deductions j made, the actual nnmber of recruits ' I which the measures of the Seraskierat ! should obtaiu would probably fall some wlmt short of 200,000 men. That ie ! still, no doubt, a very considerable fight> | ing power, but when compared with the i j present strength of the enemy and the 1 additions they also are oontinually makk : ing to their numbers, the situation oi j the Turks will not appear t#o assuring. These measures, however, do not exi hauBt the military resources of the ooun; try. There is still a reserve which maj be called out, and whioh would yield an increase of 183 battalions, or 146, OOC ? ?i.i_ ai? I lueu. IJUIIIJ, bUC LLUMbia njrnujui, niiCL > fully.enforced, would command 467 bat i talione, of which only thirty-three havt , as yet oorae forward. There thus re mains a force of 434 battalions liable t< ' be summoned to arms. Altogether the total military force o' 5 Turkey not yet called ont may be jm1 r down at 600,000 men. k ! ALL ABOUT CHRISTMAS. r ? | Earlieat Celebration of the Dajr?Cnstoma t | and Observancea-Chrliitinaa Carol*? e Origin of the llie of Evergreens. ( From the earliest records on the sub- ] ject, we learn that some Christian communities celebrated the festivafof Chrisl- $ mas on the first or sixth of January; otherB, again, adopted the period of the Jewish PasBOver, the twenty-ninth of < I March ; while yet a third body reoog- 1 j nized the twenty-ninth of September, or 1 the Feast of Tabernacles, as the proper 1 ^period. < i Two very popular observances belong| ing to Christmos?the hanging up of < the mistletoe, and the burning of the t yule log?are more especially derived i from oar pagan ancestors. The first of < these practices owes its origin to the s veneration in whioh the mistletoe was | c I held by the Druids, and the latter to a t 1 I ceremony performed by the Scandina- t vians, who, at their feast ot Juul, about the winter solstice, barned huge fires in t I honor of their god Thor. 3 | All through the Middle Ages, and t j down to the time of the Reformation the a ' festival of Ohrismas continued to be ob- 1 3 j served with great rejoicing. On the j 3 > ! adoption of a new system of faith by j I I Tvinof r,t ttin VnrfViorn nofinn# r>f FlnrODB i t ? ?r1 in tbe sixteenth centnry the celebration > of Obristmaa and other festivals, was s r still continued by the Lutheran and An- f 5 glican Churches, although absolutely t t denounced by Oatviuiats, who declared b the observance of any day save Sunday 1 as superstitious and unscriptural. t 1 The practioe of singing Christmas J carols appears to be as ancient as Christ- * j mas itself; and bishops, we are told, j | used to sing carols on this day among t J' their clergy. The earliest specimen ? I j which we possess of the mediaeval carol 1 is to be found in the British Museum. [ i It ia composed in Norman-Frenoh and c j belongs to the thirteenth century. In * point of composition some of the first J . carols were quite rugged if uot crude; * and it was not until'the commencement " [ of the sixteenth century that any im | provement in this respect was notice- ? able. The following, belonging to this J1 , latter period, is now somet;mes sung in * : England on Christmas morning by chil- ' dren who wander from door to door. n i o i i " When Christ vru born of Msry free, j. ( { I'i Bethl-hem, in thu fair c i?*, Angtla saLg tbe e mirth a'-dglee, la Exotlaia G1 >ria. v ' 1 ' fl , " Herdamen bnh^ld these ang?-ln b'ight, i T i hem ?pp aiintr ?itb great lig'it, 1 Who taid 'God's 8 <ti iH bo n to-o ght,' vvnj.L n #v i* ? I AU JLJ A WAC * ? VJ w *< ? I I " T^i* King haa com" ti nave mankind, 8 1 I Ah in 8j lptn.'tt truth we dud ; a Therefore this s jig hw> iu mind, 0 11 EiodBia Oloiii. Th?n L^id, for Thy great gra-e d 1 Grai.t u? the I'li** to nee Thy face, Whtre we may Bing 10 Thv ?>la< e _ Iu EkC.lBuGlor.a." * 1 The decking of houses, churches and ]j : shops at Christmas with evergreens p Beems to have had its origin in a custom long prior to the revelation of Chris- 8 1 tianitj observed by the Romans during 0 the Saturnalia, when they ornamented s their temples and dwellings with green boughs. This appears the more ob- 0 1 vious from the fact that we find more p 1 than one early ecclesiastical council a 1 prohibiting the members of the Church b ! from imitating the pagans in thus deco- ]< i rating their hcuses. This prohibition j was of no avail, however, as the use of 8I j flowers and Bummer branches iB in- b i stinctive amongst nations; and as Christ n | himself entered Jerusalem amid waving ; sprays of palm and great rejoicing, flor- b | al and arboreal decorations have ob- c] j tained in connection with the ceremo; nies of the Church until the present s| day and are likely to continue as suoh a, for all time to come.?Sunday Mag a? 0 I *WIV? Ci A Lioness at Large. The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald, of a t< recent issue, says : For some time past the people about Richwood, in Union d county, have been disturb d by a wild t< beast, believed to be an escaped lioness, ci roaming through the country. The n ; auiund was first discovered by Malcom j Starnats. He saw it in a bunch of n I grass, and got upon a stump, rifle in cl | hand, to get a better lo>jk at it, when si ! the auimnl suddenly leaped out, and in p two bounds was upon his back, and if 1 almost stripped him of his clothing. He n gave such a yell that the animal was d : frightened away. He describes it in t] : these words: "It could jump like the deuce, and was in size between an elephant and a cat," n The next man who Faw it was Joseph 8 1 Cat hill. He wus walking along a thicket i just at duHk find the animal sprang from s ? the bushes, and would have torn liim iu 0 1 pieces but for the asuistance of his bull- {. ' dog. He escaped with a lacerated head r and shoulder. Albert Wallace had the next encoun- e ter. He was attracted to the woods 0 1 near his house by the barking of dogs, r and went out, supposing that a coon r had been chased up a tree. He had j g! hardly reached the thicket when the i lioness leaped out and caught him be- I _ tween the hip and knee, tearing his flesh ! ? in a terrible manner. The dogs joined ; ? | in the fight. He started to get away, i a 1 but fell down in attempting to run. j ^ ' i The dogs having been whipped, -the , 1 j animal again pounced upon Wallace, j j, ' ' agaiu fastening its teeth in his leg. He : D 1 bravely Beized the beast's head and j e 1 called upon the dogs to help him, but j tl ' they stood back nnd tne fight between ! F( 1 man and brute continued until his cries ^ ' scared the animal away. Some men in the neighborhood heard the noiBe and p 1 : hastened to the wood*, arriving just. ? after the beast had gone. A part of j( ! them took Wallace home aad the rest fl( ! started in pursuit of the lioness, (t was . j( j finally found hiding in a thicket near a ' e i fence. John Sterling volunteered to j ? j take a gun and go near enough to shoot ! j ; at it, but the animal leaped out and | 1 ! pounced upon him. The rest stood j n I back and looked on while Sterling was j c. 1 rolling ou the ground iu a fierce strug- L 1 gle with the brute. The dogs finally J gj came to the rescue, and the animal was , ^ I again frightened away. Sterling had ^ been severely bitten on the left arm and elbow. J The hunters again started in pursuit. II The lioness was finally found in a stub- ! ble field. Two young men named Maralathin and Johnson agreed tq sneak up to the fence and shoot at it. Maralathin took the lead. In an instant the animal * I sprang at him, striking the fenoe by his " 1 head, and caught him by the shoulder c 1 and elbow. Johnson raised his gun, * ' i and. takincr deliberate aim, fired. The 6 1 animal dropped over the fence, gave a ? ' deep roar, and, springing to its feet, 8 1 started off toward the woods, bat was 0 subsequently killed. 8 1 . , , a A Deer Captured by fjirls. t : [ A few days ago, sars the Toronto li I (Canada) Olobe, Rosa and Gertrude *b BreckenriJge, daughters of Mr. W. a . Breckenridge, of Belmont, while in the b ' vicinity of Long Lake, noticed a large f< i deer madly rush into the water, evident- d ) ly pursued and slightly wounded. I i j Without a moment's hesitation the two m girls procured a boat, armed themselves f< > j with clubs aad set after the deer. They o ; soon encountered the aggravated animal, g > when the girls oourageously oommenced a i the attack with their clubs, and after a g f short contest brought his deership to g t j bay, and had him oonveyed to their home t! ! ?a proof of their prowess. p i ~ FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Aroand the Farm. g Three important requisites of a boo- *3 jessfnl and happy farmer are thus brief- e y expressed: a "A 'ittle la^fl w?li tilled, d , A 1 ttle barn well fille I, 1< A 1 ttle wife well *illed." e Collect all the leaves about the farm e >r garden. Any thajt are not wanted for n ledding for stock pan be plaoed in a a 4Txril-Vi oflrfli TVlflT trill Vi UUU VA/f V*vw? TT^VU VU? T,M. W 3e found convenient for hot-beds and p >ther purposes. ? fa A field in which the grass is gnawed >ff close to the rorf, is in no oondition e o go into our eever^rwinterB. There is o 10 protection, and,'in case of any kind A >f grass or oloVer^fhe effect is a late tl itart the following ipring; and in cases -w ?f clover, timothy, tend orchard grass, here is a danger of their total extinc-* t< ion. ; ..<> ? I have lined mjr poultry buildings b hroughout with tarred paper for two n rears, putting it between every pieoe of o ward and timbevsbd even into nests, md so far, have not seen a louse about. s< ! had a hen-hru?e overrun with lice two n rears ago, but uponJining it with tarred >aper they disapp&red and have not p >een seensinoe.?Poultry World. h There are a great many people who eem to have, an Unlimited degree of g aith' in the ability jf an animal to con- tJ rert an offensive ?&<1 deleterious sub- q tance into an article fit for human food, a Co this faith is duejthe fact that multi- d udes of farmers fe< d all manner of re- h nse to their hogs, a li many are in the tabit of giving w ill to their cows, n ioth practicea are cftcid6dly injurious to p he animals, aqd the man who wants j food meat or pure iflilk had better avoid | d hem.?N. JSL horris/iUad. P We often wonder why fanners in this g ountry do not nse^the cart more; it is ai ar more handy for loading and dumping ai nannrfi. soil, roots, ate.. than the wagon, fi eing more easily to'load, and especially | a; o onload. A. cart miy be quickly loaded i ci ad damped, and only requires one good : w torse to draw it. In England carts are {it a constant use, bain# very popular in j he harvest field.. |We are glad to Bee j ol hat damping -wagons are employed on j cl aany of our farms.' This loading ma- ! ed inre from a bar*-yard, and hauling it j p iy a wagon a few hundred yards, to be j ii mloaded fork-full ;by fork-full, is a le raste of time and * labor, of both man t w nd beast?Rural TjPb?Id. lit Feed and Breeder Dairy Cows. j ft Dr. E. L. Sturtevfint, of South Farm- ( ct ugham, Maes., makes the following , ai uinmary of conclusions afc which he had | b; rrived on this subject, alter many years j f study and practical experiment : w 1. The production of butter is largely m ependent on breed. 2. There is a structural limit to the . g' roduction to each cow. j t>i 3. That when a cow is fed to this i al imit, increased food cannot increase the j d< roduct. j g< 4. That the superior cow has this j ra tructnral limit a greater distance from | at rdinary feed, and more ready to re- ; ei pond to stimuli than the inferior cow. ; tc 5. That consequently the superior i te ow is seldom fed to her limit, and as a j p< radical conclusion, increased feed with j pi superior lot of cows will increase the | ci utter product, but if fed to ah inferior tl )t of cowa, waste can be bat the result. 6. That the character of the food has si 3Die inflnence on the character of the ai nttor hnf otaii Vu?rft hre?<l influences P mre than food. fe 7. That there is no constant relation w etween the butter product aad the n< beeBe product. tt 8. That the caseine retains to a con- cl tnnt percentage, aud that the percent- n< ?e does not appear to respond to increase ! tl f food. - * b< 9. That the caseine appears to remain si anstant without regard to the season. k< 10. The increase in the quantity of lilk is followed by an increase in the et >tal amount of caseine. 11. That the sufficient food acts irectly to check the proportion of but- , ir, and has a tendency to decrease the aseine of the milk and substitute albu- * len. rf 12. The best practice of feeding is to n' ?gulate the character of the food by the i^ kawniiir n( the animal fed ; fnedinc 1 uperior cows nearer to the limit of their I w reduction than inferior cows ; feeding, j11 for butter, more 'concentrated and | 61 utritiouB foods than for cheaper pro- j ^ uct succulent material which increase j E tie quantity of the milk yield. J Ueclpes. j Fried Omelet.?Three eggs, two gills w lilk, two tablespoonfnls flour, a little oj Alt and pepper. Fry on a hot griddle, y Cookies.?One and one-half cup ft, agar, one cup butter, one cup Bweet ^ ream* three quarters teaspoouful sal- a] ratus, a little nutmeg, flour enough to n oil. . u Fruit Cake.?Fire cups flour, five ^ KgB, one cup butter, one of lard, two f sugar, one of molasses, one pound aisins. one of currants, half pound cit- ^ on, half teaspoon soda, and half tea- l poon cream tartar. j _ A Good Christmas Pudding.?One ! j, onnd flour, two pounds of suet, one ound of currants, one pound of plums, y ight eggs, two ounces of candied peel, w lmonds an! mixed spice according to aj iste. Boil gently for seven hours. w Hiokobt-nut Cake.?A cup butter, I a] wo of sugar, three of flour, one of sweet lilk, whiteB of seven ana yoiKs 01 two Kgs, a teaspoon soda, two of cream p] irter, one pint hickory-nuts meatB ^ ailed and sprinkled with flour; beat a| lie whites to a stiff froth. ^ Beef Balls.?Minoe very fine a m ieee of tender beef, the fat and lean to- ai ether. Mince an onion with some pars- gj ij; add grated bread crumbs and sea- fr ra all with pepper, salt, nutmeg and ;mon peel; mix all together anfl moistn it with a beaten egg. Roll into halls rith the hands; flour, and fry in hot j rippings. # | ^ Brown Bread.?One pint of corn ! v< leal, one pint of rye meal, two-'hirda p tip of molassefl, one large spoonful of C1 inegar, one heaping teaspoonful of j, ileratus dissolved in a little warm jy rater, one-half teaspoonful of salt; mix 'ell with warm water quite soft, and 0j team three hohrs. Put in oven fifteen ^ linutes and brown. p Shocking News from Edinburgh. p A writer in a paper published at n Edinburgh, Scotland, says : The other ei ay in the ladies' room of one of the r< onfectioners in Edinburg I oounted B welve ladies at one time, each drinking si pirits. porter, or ale (none had wine); gi ne, a girl not fourteen years old, con- di umed a bottle of stout. At the counter le f the same shop, while I was buying d< ome " sweeties," two young la<lies tl ,nder twenty paid far three " brandies O nd soda." In the same place at another at ime, about noon, I was shocked to see a pi idy order and drink a glass of raw m irandy, and go away without eating tt nything. A friend who witnessed a ti imilar incident said the draught was d< allowed by a liberal application of eau- 0 e-Oologne to oover the offensive smell. A. am credibly informed that school girls, la rith books in band, go to confectioners E 3r 4' nips " of cheery brandy, more than tt ne such visit beiug paid by the same 0 irl at different shops on her way home ; tt nd in one case the owner of the shop Bi ot a severe reprimand from a young cf irl for having catered her brandy in li| tie family pass book, a? ske intended to tL iay it herself sepftrntely. oi ( What and How Wild Animals Eat Here is the bill of fare of the menagrie of the Botanical Garden of Paris. ?he gueats are numerous, varying genrally from 1,100 to 1,200. Their tastes re naturally different, according to the ivisions and orders to which they be3ng. In the first place, come the fleshaters, the lions, tigers and bears. These ach consume about eighteen pounds of leat in twenty -four hours. The hyena, lthough a muoh smaller animal, receives ecause of its greater voracity eleven ounds. Only eight pounds are allowed 3 the panther. The great eaier of the house is the lephant, which consumes 165 pounds f bread, carrots, grass, straw and bran, liter such a repast he may well be birsty, and from eight to ten barrels of rater are ready to satisfy his herd. The hippopotamus is inferior in height 3 the elephant, but not in appetite, [is rations are like those of his neighor of the proboscis, only the bran is ^placed by a coarser quality, which is Doked. The bears would accommodate themslvee to this regimen, bat they liave leats, -which are less dear. The rhinoceros absorbs daily about 110 ounds of nearly the same nourishment; e has also rice. The other quadrupeds, such as the iraffe and the bison, notwithstanding leir great height, require much smaller uantities of food, of which barley, hay ad bran form the principal parts. The eer, antelopes, sheep and goats receive ay and grass. The annual expense of food for the inseum is $7,812, whioh is about $22 erday. The bill of fare of the Zoological Garen of London differs little from that of 'aris. Fish, however, are used in reater quantities in the former. They re designed for the birds and marine 1. iL.l IS iL. -I aimais mat live upuu tuorn m a buai/c ui eedom. All the fish brought for food re carefully examined, as a sea-dog ime near strangling himself one day ith a fish -which had several hooks in s mouth. The sea-dog eats gluttonously; the tter, on the contrary, eats slowly and lews carefully before swallowing. The tost greedy lovers of fish are the elicans. The keeper throws the flfh ito a pond; then opens the gate and laves the passage free to the pelicans, ho rush in and the fish are devoured i an instant. Dainties are generally jserved for the monkeys. Turnips, joked potatoes, apples, oranges, nuts re given them, and all divided into small its. The monkeys usually eat together, hich often causes very comical disputes, tuch to the delight of spectators. The birds of prey are fed with rabbits, ainea pige, eggs, insects and sometimes noli birds. The serpents have generly but one meal in a week. Their din?r, which they take seven days to di?st, sometimes consists of a dozen ibbits, twenty young guinea pigs and i mapy birds, and rats and mice which e given them alive, this being essential i the h^plth and preservation of these rrible reptiles. The venomous sersnts ore fed solely with rats and guinea igs. These poor little creatures sucimb quickly after the reptile has bitten lem. The great pachydermatous animals, ich as the rhinoceros, hippopotamus, id the elephant are fed in London as in aris. The last receives cabbages and a iw crackers, a delicaoy that he accepts ith much pleasure. Every evening a dw bed of straw is made for him. In le morning his coll is thoroughly ennsed, and the straw must be reswed. A visitor one day observed to ie keeper, "Here is a very clean east, and very careful of her lodging ; ie would make an excellent houseseper." " Oh, no,"answered the keeper, "she its her mattrass every morning." Frightening the Monkejs. The inhabitants of Kabylia, Northern frica, are much troubled by the deputations of monkeys, who in countless ambers infest the hilly forests. The fortunate farmers or market gardenrs who live on the mountain slopes age a continual war against these larauders, which h foredoomed, howrer, to endless failure ; for the inhabiints were Darwinites long before Mr.' >arwin was heard of; and they dare not >r their lixe kill one of the creatures jgarded by them as their ancestors. 80 ie monkeys increase and multiply ithout the chance of becoming thinned I by any fatal battue? . The only thing lat can be done to guard against their stacks is to frighten them away, and lis is effected by some very cunning ad curious devices. It is found that 3casionully, after a successful raid pon some garden, a few of the less ardened offenders are overcome by the lenteousne88 of their feast. The potent lice of thy grapes or of the figs gets ie better of their reason or of their odily activity, and they remain stretched a the ground, to be capture^ by the irious proprietor, when a mild but induons punishment is inflicted upon ie prisoners. Their neckB are hung ith sma'l bells or rattles, and they re turned loose at the forest edge, hen the panic created by their appearlce is such as to frighten all their kins>lk and acquaintances awnv into the J TJ 1. -11 * i. BpWH OI me WUUU. ll iiujljb wuuut ur rocured another process lias been in 3nted?that of clothing tlie captured 3e in a stout waistcoat of red stuff and len letting him run. The effect is lagical, and long after the ostracised limal has died or got free from his avish badge the depredators hold Rloof om the dangerous district. The War in Turkey. The campaign both iu Bulgaria and rmeuia is not only very active, but at a ;ry critical juncture just now. Osman asha, to the surprise of many military itics, Btill holds out iu Plevna, which, y this time, he has rendered impregnate to any successful capture by assault, at everything indicates tnat his stock [ provisions are about exhausted, and lat he cannot, therefore, maintain his resent attitude of bold defiance and inomitable resistance much longer, [eantime the army binder Sulieman asha and Mohammed Ali is at length loving to the relief 0/ the besieged genral, and considerable fighting has al;ady taken place between them and the .ussians to the disadvantage of the beegera so far as it has progressed, and a reat battle is inevitable within a few ays which will either result in the rease of Osman Pasha's army, and the ateat ot r.ne nuesians in Diugana, or le defeat of the Turks, the capture of sman and his army, and the further lvanoe of the invaders to Constantinole by the passes of the Balkans to oomence the siege of Adri&nople. This is -? ^ C *1?<\ 1% rtlll jwAMnvt I a anKalon. ItJ JAKULIUU Ui bUC UCUlJ^CiCUWJ duwuwuially in Enrope, and a few days will he 5cisive of the result of the campaign, a the Asiatic aide of the Boaphorua in rmenia the war is of lees moment. At at accounts the Bussians are besieging rzeroum, from before which ?ne of leir assaults had been recently repulsed, ne of the moat extraerdinary phases of ie present war, like the Frfnco-Prusan Etrife, is the comparatively inaignflint part played by the fleets of the be?erents.In fact, this whole war, like tat to which we have referred, has been ie of surprising and unexpected events. NEW YOKE'S BABY SHOW. Infantile Wonder* Exhibition-Compel Ins Bablee and their HurraudlofR. The recent opening of the baby show in New York is thus described in the columns of the World of that city ; The baby show opened in Midget's Hall, in Fifth avenue, at 9:30 yesterday morning. It was a gathering to be remarked in several of its features, but most remarkable was its suggestion of wisdom. At the hour of its opening the babiee were fresh, wide-awake, unvexed and absorbed. No laggard twin, clipped ol its vitality, had fallen into a leaden and Erecarious sleep, and the noisiest boy ad not yet opened his mouth or got his preposterous legs into the throes of irresponsible motion. The flush of the I vigor of morning was on the faces of all, I nn/1 Mia nlarf intfillaot DOered OUt ol every baby's eyes. Under the ciroumstanccs, with every infant deeply serions, silent and absorbed, there never vraa such a grots display of fvrial wis* dom. > The babies were assorted and ; arranged in the large hall on the second ! floor, which was trimmed profusely with American flags. At the Fifth avenne end were the twins. On the side towards Fourteenth street were arrayed single babies and all babies with defects and remarkable histories, while babies of different merits sat on the side opposite and were strewn casuallv through the center of the halL The whole number of babies entered is nearly four hundred, and all these will be out doubtless by to-morrow ; but yesterday the shuw opened with 250. There will be se% eral sets of triplets, and arrangements have been made and will probably co -ie to fruition with a phenomenal Brooklyn father for a quartet. The management requires the presence of babies and their mothers from nine in the morning nntil ten at night, though wearied babies are dismissed or put to bed on the floor above and their places supplied with fresh and vital specimens. Nurses are supplied to assist and relieve the mothera; also intelligent' and instructed women to enrol Bin and interpret to visi tors. In the hall above a lunch ia always spread for mothers and nurses, and there are cribs and baby-jumpers for the aoothing and reinvigoration ?f specimens. A number of prizes are to be given, the recipients to be determined by popular ballet. Every visitor will find attached to his ticket a ooupon with printed instructions as tj what qualities are to be voted for, thus: "Handsomest .mother," "prettiest baby," "finest triplets," "prettiest twins," "greatest novelty," and the four babies in order who are next prettiest. Eaoh child and mother has a printed card with i a number, which the visitor, having ! made his selections, ascertains and writes j upon his coupon, depositiug the same j in a box afterwards. The nandsomest j mother is to have a prize of a gold watoh i and chain,and money prizes ranging from 8100 down are to go to the elected babies. As for other qualities not mentioned on the ooupon, the^ are to be decided bj*a selected committee. Yesterday the show was well crowded with visitors. Elderly gentlemen came a plenty, and chuckled over the marvels of oomeliness and fatness whioh they found, and ladies in silks and seal-skins pondered and consulted. The twins and the fat, pretty babies got most notice ; ai t. - ? _ _ ?;i.i_ j ?L-. ?^ 1116 D&Dies wnu uexeuto were dvuvucu mostly by the reporters. In nearly every case the mother eat with the chila, and was ready to tell everything concerning it. Two conspicuous mottoes hung on the walls, one being : " What is home without a baby?" and the other : " The hand that rocks ?he cr?dle is the hand that moves the world." Turkish Yalor. The European and Christian races everywhere, the races which account themselves the greatest, wisest and ! bravest of the earth, have watched with ! amazement the spectaclS of invalid and i semi-barbarous Turkey contending on I even terms with gigantic and organized i llussia. At the outbreak of this struggle the ! civilized world supposed that it would | be pitiably unequal; that, without the (assistance of some one of the "great | powers," the Moslems would be crushed ! in a single campaign ; that the advance I of the Muscovite urmiea woma De nine | more than a triumphal promenade. It 1 was commonly supposed that the supej riority of Russia in soldierly disposition, > intelligence and education at least j equaled her advantage in wealth and i numbers. It had come to be an accepted i credence, almost equivalent to a military maxim, that Asiatic and semi-Asiatio troops could not stand before Europeans. We have seen enough during the summer of 1877 to lead us to question all these beliefs. Whatever may be the I termination of the contest, Turkish j generals have showed formidable capacii ty, and the Turkish soldiers have ex| Inbred heroic courage. They have not ; only defended intrenchments with their historic tenacity, but they have assaults ! them with impetuosity, and sometimes : with success. Embodied, they seem to j be the equals of the Russians, and map i to man, their superiors. What is tho : meaning of this wonderful uprising and j resuscitation of a people whom all | Europe looked upon as decadent and ! effeminated ? The truth is that there has been no nf tlio ntKnTTjanfi ' uuau^o iu me wuoiiH'wi v* ?MV v i We have not rem] their history thoroughj ly and with discrimination. Arguing ! loosely from their military disasters, we | have not done justice to their martial ! qualities. They liave always been brave, ! even in their overthrows. Their most i unfortunate wars, the wrestles in which j they have suffered defeat on defeat,have | been illustrated by signal instances of i heroism such as the most warlike nations j might glory in. If they have lost ter! ritory, it has never been through lack of ; valor, nor altogether from waut of good generalship, but mainly from defect of j preparation.?J. \V. JXelbreat, in Harj per'* Magazine. American Lighthouse*. The history of the illuminating *f lighthouses is an interesting one, savs the New York Evening Post, and the improvements that have been made from year to year in the manner of lighting these beacons on onr ooast have been in ! keeping witn tne growin 01 au evt>r-eij tending shipping interest. Before 1789 ! the expense of keeping np the few lighti houses then standing was borne by the | States in which the lights were piaced. j In 1791 the first lighthouse erected by the Federal government was lighted. At that time, including the new one, there were but nine lights on the whole Amercan coast. During the following nine years-the number was increased to sixteen. In 1822 there were seventy lights in all, and in 1838 two hnndred and * 1 ' ? -1 - ?. ? K'/wliiVwtafa T n tturty-eigni, lntuuuiug uuliuuow, ah 1875 there were nine hundred and twenty-five lighthouses and twentyi three lightships; four hundred and i eighteen of the number being on the j Atlantic coast. ! Two Waterbury (CJonn.) teamsters were ho mad because one wouldn't turn out of a narrow oourtway for the other that they sat on their wagons facing eaoh other all day, and unhitched his horses after dark, leaving the wagons stall there. But about daylight next morning each stole around and took the cart out of the way. Words of Wisdom. Little wealth little care. The offender never pardons. ' The shortest answer is doing. 1 He is rich that wants nothing. Praise the sea bnt keep on land. Bear with all evil and expect good. Sometimes the best gain is to lose. Mental gifts often hide bodily defects A gift mnoh expected, is paid no 1 given. donilo manr ocvu VUO UOU CJUlUiJL/AC BWU44U mmtmmmmj 0 ~ precepts. A wise man makes more opportuni i ties than he finds. He that hath love in his heart hat! 1 spurs in his sides. Send a wise man on an errand and sa; nothing unto him. Pardon and pleasantness are grea , revengers of slander. Indolence is the rnst of the mind am the inlet of every vioe. Life becomes useless and insipid whei we have no longer friends or enemies. It is always safe to learn even of ou enemies?seldom safe to venture to in struct even our friends. Make no more vows to perform this o: that; it shows no great strength, anc makes thee ride behind thyself. Man wastes his mornings in anticipat nirkA TrrfJ { na VllQ offjQr IUig UiO Ol 1*71, UWUOj UUU TT UiUVVU U4Q M*w? noons in regretting his mornings. When the heart is pure, there in hardlj anything -which can mislead the under standing in matters of immediate per sonal concernment. Try to combine beauty and utility. A flower is none the less sweet because i! has a germ in its heart that will fruotifj after the fall of its petals. Is it just to forget all the kinduetw done us by those with whom we live foi a little pain, which, after all, may have been given unintentionally ? Men are not made to hang down then heads or lips, and those vho do, onlj show that they are departing from the true paths of oommon sense and right There is more virtue in one sunbeam than in a whole hemisphere of clouds and gloom. 'Therefore cultivate all thai is warm and genial. Life is itself neither good nor evil. II is the scene of good or evil, as you make it; and if you have lived a day, you have seen all. One day is equal to and like all other days; there is no othei light, no other shade; this very sun, this moon, these very stars, this very order and revolution of things, are the same yonr ancestors enjoyed, and that shall also entertain your posterity. Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction except in solitude. Indolence and indifference do not always - i !- - # j i anora leisure, iur uruo lcmuro u? ncqaently found in that interval of relaxation which divides a painful dntv from an agreeable relax?recreation ; a toilsome business from the more agreeable occupations of literature and philosophy. Electricity as a Horse Tamr/i A late issue of the San Francisoc Chronicle has the following : Professoi R. H. Tapp sought yesterday to tame the singular horse Cognac, known at tho "man eater,"with the newly invented electric bit. The bit is designed to subdue fiery steeds, and particularlj to arrest a runaway horse by suddenly intensifying his excitement with a sharp shock of electricity. The battery i? carried in the coat pocket and the current transmitted bv means of brass buttons on the driver's gloves, to a wire in the reins, and in that manner to the animal's month. There was a fair attendance of persons anxious to see how the carnivorous Cognac would act under the new influence. While the bit was being arranged in cue brute's month he evinced a fierce desire to masticate the adventnrona Professor by snapping at him viciously. When the arrangements had been perfected the Professor completed the circuit by touching the brass button to the rein and the horse reared up convulsively, as if Btartled suddenly by a pistol shot. The movement was instantaneous and the horse resumed his normal position with a bewildered look. The second shock propelled him still higher and excited the equine ire. He seized the rein in his mouth and darted at the electrician, who skipped out of the way, however, and the horse's assault was checked by a rope passed around the centre pole. He was then treated to a succession of shocks, whioh turned his rage to frenzy. He foamed and snorted in his mad enfVia PrnfAfisnr nndflf UCaTUiO IV l/lUUi|/iV HUV A AWkVxwv. foot until his hide was in a lather. After a fpvr moments the battery was withdrawn and the animal became qniet as a lamb, probably from exhaustion. The electricity appeared to have made him wilder while it was being applied, and its ntility as an adjunct to a pleasure buggy is, to uay the least, questionable. The Professor claimed to have quieted the horse in some degree, although I some doubting ones in the assemblage ! wanted him to insert his head in the ! Animal's mouth as a satisfactory test. Weary Amid the Glitter. i A Washington letter has this: A lady 1 whose husband held one of the highest j places in the government stood in her ; magnificent home attired for her weekly reception. " How gladly would I give up all the finery, show and insinoerity of this public place and go back to the rooms I lived in when we were first married. I would throw my silks and diamonds away and sit down to my J supper of chip beef and tea at sunset, I and afterwards take a long quiet walk j with Will, and rest on the stump in the l moonlight, and tell my little plans for the future, and what I had done every | hour while he was gone, and know that we were ulone in the world, living only for ! each other. Those days seem like days i in heaven. I work harder now than any ' 11 - ao 11 o f/v . niave j oneu unco uuuuim Lann ?v| turn in a single week, receptions or | parties every night; see the same people, hear the same talk, eat the 8ame | things, come home disgusted, wonder j what I am living for, where I will go | when I die. 4 Bettie, I must have Hon. and Secretary here tomorrow ; I mnst get their influence; yon must talk mnsic to the secretary, and you must ask Hon. about monolith ; monolith is his hobby. Do youi best 1 need their help.' So it if : always. Help, influence, power?a smile in my face, interest in my manner, living a lie ; feeding my eon or I husks." i Hospitality in Bassia. Russian hospitality is dazzling. The ; entertainments which are pfiven by th< J richest nobles in St. Petersburg exce j anything that can be seen elsewhere, be ! cause nowhere else can people afford tc | spend so much upon show. The ricl ; elsewhere have claims upon their for I tunes, and spend a good deal in improv ! ing their estates, but a Russian arawi all he can from his land, and gives bacl ' little or nothing. He disburses prodi i gaily for wines, music, diamonds, ricl j dresses for his wife ; he keeps an im ! mense retinue of servants, gambla i largely, whatever may be his age o: profession, and the surplus of hisinoomi goes to defray expenses to Paris, Nic* , and the German watering places, when he seems to set his ambition on enrich 1 mg hotel keepers. Items of Interest. The noble liorae leads a life of whoa. It is a -wise oow that knows its own fodder. The language of the suspender is sup* posed to be, " Brace up 1 In the case of Sitting Bull, absence makes the hair grow longer. Any kind of weather suits Michigan, . S3 the bureau needn't be backwards, t Let jour expenses be such as to leave * a balance in your pocket. Beady money j is a friend in need. If Sitting Bull could have his way . about it. the American nation would have no Indian summer. i The oldest ex- memoer 01 uongreiHj now living is the Hoil Artemus Hale, of Bridgewater, Mass. He is ninety-five. . A person Vho had been listening to e . very dull address remarked that every thing went off well?especially the auj dienoe. j ? Is it proper to say, * I see the sun ; rising,' or 'I see the sun rise?'"he 1; asked. " Sir, the proper thing is to get home before it rises," replied his friend. c A mob in Winnemuoca, Nev., threat* ened to destroy the railroad station and a train of cars if the company did not r remove a passenger who had the smallI por. The lady whom Stanley was to marry . has wedded another. What shall it . profit a man if he finds 15,000,000 beai thens and losses his best girl ??iV. I. . Herald, A confidential clerk of the BothsDown lofjsltr atio/vini1?l nffpr | UUUUOy 111 Jt iawij | robbing his employers of over 8860,000. / L j The iponey had been nearly all lost hi I; {stock speculation*. I The polioo foroe of Liverpool, EngI land, is oompoeed of twelve hundred } j men, of an average height of five feet . nine and one-half inches, and an average , service of nine years and seven months. The returns from the savings banks of . Massachusetts for the year show a large , decrease in deposits, ronghly estimated j at $3,000,000 or $4,000,000* This is the first time in ten years that there has [ been a falling off. i A Chicago inventor recently made a ; small fan-wheel, to be placed in the hat, ' t? keep the head oool in warm weather. . He set it going in his own hat, and the j first thing he knew his hair was wound , up in the machinery. The spring was | very stiff, and before he cou:d release . himself a part of his hair was pnlled out I'bytheroote. A oontemporair tells young ladies i; how to arrange tneir hair in a fashion /j able style. " Let it all down," it says, ! " and oomb it out with a crosscut-saw. ! Then go up on the roof of the house, | and there stand still while the wind ' 1 plays (whatever is appropriate) with it. ! I Then catch up the black with a bow of { ribbon, and allow the front to stay as it '; is." i There are at present in the United , States forty-eight grand and about 6,678 i subordinate lodges of Odd Fellows, an increase in the latter of 283 during the year; grand encampments, thirty-nine; ; lodge initiations, 40,645 ; lodge, memi bers, 456,126; encampment members, ?I 87,785; total relief, $1,689,485,62; total ' i revenue, $4,489,872.46 ; present memi ' bership,-461,888. - . 1 " Simplicity" is the sweet title of an ' association of ladies just formed at | L3ipsio, Germany. The object of this association is to promote simplicity in : drees, and to make war upon luxury. ' i Members must pledge themselves not to ! have any trains or false hair, not to wear ' I tuniques, polonaises or other frivolities.? The dresses must be plain, and only a I simple embroidery or trimming at the ! end of tbe oostume is permitted. t The Buried Dead of the Huron. On that little strip of North Carolina coast, where the Huron was wrecked, can be seen graves everywhere. When the bodies of officers and men vrera j washed ashore they were taken by flsh! ermen and buried in the sand near the i telegraph poles that are erected along j the coast, and far enough back from the j ocean never to be reached by its waves. There were seventy-one mounds along 1 the sl?re. A party of five sailors res ; oued from the Huron visited all the S-aves, and by the orders of Commander reen, of the Norfolk Navy Yard, j opened them in turn. As one of the men bad tattooed the arms of nearly all the j Huron's crew, and as ail of them had j been on the sloop sinoe she started on her cruise, nearly eighteen months ago, thev were able to identify every body, ! with the exception of one or two. The ! telegraph poles, near which the graves i were made all have marked upon them ! the number of miles Norfolk is away, ' and the number of the pole itself. Lieuj tenant Clark, with these figures as lo11 eating points, made memoranda of where l the various bodies were buried, and then 1! the graves were again filled in and each 1 one neatly mounded. A Porcelain Fiddle. i Venice is considerably excited at present over a very unusual sort of e ' fiddle, the only on#, of its kind, probably, ever made. The manufacturer of j this porcelain fiddle was formerly a I workman in a Saxon porcelain manufac1 torr. After his return, old and feeble, j to his old home, he attempted to oarry i i out a long cherished project for making > a fiddle, the box of which should be ot ! ' china. With the aid of a boy, it is stated, i! he has in fact succeeded in'producing a | fiddle of this kind, which has a tone of 1 rare purity and astonishing richness, j combined with charming harmony and ;: extraordinary power. The box part, or , i resonator, is exceedingly light, and the > strings are made of metallic wires, i while the bow, departing from the ; usual form, is curved, making almost ? ! seini-circle. The success of this clever j I Venetian,, who had enjoyed tne aavania j ges of the skill acquired iu a German J po)x?elain factory, may be the means oi | directing musicians to the advantages , | of the clear, ringing, but fragile jhina i j and glass, for similar uses in acoustics.? f Scientific American. How a Horse Kept Warm. i The Meriden (Conn.) Republican tells this story : ."One cold morning last week ' Dr. Wilson drove up to a house on Crown street and left his horse without 1 hitching it The horse waited a ftw ^ moments, and his master not returning he began to dance a double shuffle, pre1 sumably to get bis feet warm. Finding ! this rather monotonous he started nj> j toward Olive street, keeping up a kintt of Kentucky breakdown. When he had i gone several rods he cramped the buggy, J backed and turned round as neatly as 1 though guided by a skiifnl driver and - i nrHnnpd hA/?k to the hitching post. Here > fie waited about five minutes and then i started toward Main street, going - through several kiuds of paces. Near the corner he stopped and turned roun.l s as skilfully an before, and frightened a i boy who had tried to stop him almost - out of his wits by pursuing said boy witli 1 open mouth, and bent back ears, a? tkough his usual habit was to eat every ? 8 small boy that he came across. He then r o?ntinued his antics until he reached the 0 house where he had been left, and when B Dr. Wilson came out he was standing 0 at the hitching post as demurely as -1 though he had never thought of leaving it."