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?? ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. . '.-{.* ? v i't :-.* > ,.'* I ' t in ' ' -/ >.' Hi > a/.?/ i ?! 1 ' a.". iu.i:fV' . BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1878. NO. 34. VOLUME XXV. . ,i, ; . , ' V $25,000! THE UffiRT IN) CHEAPEST STOCK or /"n i U-OOdS ever brought to GREENVILLE! Twenty-five thousand dollars worth of GOODS whioh. he intends to dispose of -A.T OR BELOW NEW YORK M I 1 % | itetaii .prices: No* is tie Time for Bargains. COME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. CAPT. f R. WHITE Is with me tnd would be glfcd to meet with his old Friei.di and Customers, and will 8VYE THEM SOME MONEY. A No. 1, Wagon Yard IK REAR OF STORE, ~r~~y t-? -m tti rn S~\ ATT X1 JTt XLi JCU IV JL_j . . Re?pactfnlly, T. W. DAVIS, MAIN STREET, GREENVILLE. S. C. Oct. 17, 1877.?3moJ J. C. AUXANDKH, Joseph ALLLN, Vardkt MCBIE. ALEXANDER, ALLEN & McBEE, Manufacturers of and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in UPPER & IAKNESS LEATHER, Vir* nvi<1 r?o1f Clrino xv.lp auu uau u&mo) GREENVILLE, S. 0. ?" Highest cash pries pud for Hides. Sept J?, 1877.-12m * GREENVILLE Machine Works AND IRON FOUNDRY, Redmond, Macdonald & Co., PROPRIETORS. STEAM ENGINES, Boilers, 8aw and Grist Mills, Cotton Gins, Presnea, etc., promptly repaired. We have recently added 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 notioe, and on reasonable terms. Cash paid for Old Iron delivered at our foundry. Works on River Street, rear of Cagio's Planing Mill. October S, 1877. -ltm TEE PALMETTO COTTON GIN, MANUFACTURED BY mm MiTTMPiaio jiiviiinMi i ncvva, NI?ETY-SIX, S. C. DULLER IS FURNITURE, Coffins, Belting and Gin Material generally, and Agent for Steam Engines, Thrashers, Reapers and Mowers, Cotton Presses, etc. Condensers, Feeders and Seed Crushers attached to Gins when desired. Repairing Carefully Done. Ail communication!) receive prompt attention. Purchasers should call or correspond with him before purchasing elsewhere. ? June 15, 1877.?tf , O. A. TRAYLOR, WITH WILLIAM MULHERIN, DEALER IH Boots and Shoes, HATS AND TRIMS, 293 Broad Street, Half Block below Planters' Hotel, AUGU8TA, CA. Durable Boots and Shoes a Specialty. September 19, 1877.?3m E. J. Wrnrt E. M. Hughes. Fashionable Hat Emporium. WHITE & HUGHES, dealers ix Hats, Cats, Furs, Minis, ETC., 269 KING STREET, OPP. HASEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. Umbrellas Made and Bepaired to Order. Pe'./rer8,1177.?3m The Last Redoubt. j Kacelyevo's slope still felt The cannon's bolts anil the rifles' pelt; For a last redoubt up the hill remained, By the Russ yet held, by the Turk no? gained. Mehemet Ali stroked his beard ; His lipa were clinched and his look was weird; Roun<^ him were ranks of his ragged folk, Their faces blackened with blood and smoke. Clear mo the Muscovite out!' ho cried. Then the name of " Allah !" echoed wide, And the fezzea waved and the bayonets lowered. . nd on to the last redoubt they poured. One fell, and a second quickly stopped The gap that he left when he reeled, and dropped; The second?a third straight filled his place; The third?and a fourth kept up the race. j Over their corpses the living sprang, | And the ridge with their musket-rattle rang, ' TiT the faces that lined the last redoubt j Could see their faces and hear their shout. I In the redoubt a fair form towered, i That cheered up the brave and chid the coward; | Brandishing blade with a gallant air, ! His head erect and his bosom bare. | I "Fly! they are on us!" his men implored; Cut he waved them on with his waving sword. I "It cannot U held; 'tis no shame to go!" But he stood with his face set hard to the foe. j Then clung they about him, and tugged, and knelt. j He drew a pistol from out his belt, l And tired it blank at the first that set j Foot on the edge of the parapet. . I Over that first one toppled; but on j Clambered the rest till their bayonets shone, As hurriedly flod his men dismayed. ! Not a bayonet's length from the length of his I blade. j ' Yield !" But aloft his steel he flashed, ! And down on their steel it ringing clashed; ! Then back lie reeled with a bladeless hilt, ! His honor full, but his life-blood spilt I They lifted him up from the dabbled ground; i HiB limbs were shapely, and soft, and round, i No down on hiB lip, on his cheek, no shade? | "Bismill&h!" they cried, "'tis an Infidel maid!" ! Mehemet Ali came and saw j The riddled breast and the tender jaw. I "Make her a bier of your arms," he said, I "And daintily bury thin dainty dead ! i "M&ke her a grave where she stood and fell, ; Ga.nst the jackal's scratch and the vulture's smell. Did the Muscovite men like the'r maiden fight, In their lines we had scarcely supped to-night." So a deeper trench 'mong the trenches there Was dug, for the form as brave as fair; And none, till the Judgment trump and shout, Shall drive her out of the Last Redoubt - -Alfred Austin in Cornhill Magazine, THE WRONG UMBRELLA, The laxity of public morals in the matter of umbrellas is truly awful, but retribution will sometimes overtake liim who plots against his neighbors parachute. Let me tell how it overtook me. A long time ago I "was madly enamored nf Marv Jane Bowles. Marv Jane was what you would call a pocket veous, and often have I been tempted to tuck her under my arm, like a packet of sugar, and fly to the nearest desert1. Bland. She was an artless girl, and very fond of society?especially the societyof young men with whom I was not on terms of ardent friendship. I did not blame her for this, and when she invited me to tea and I found that Johnson had also been invited, my discerning eye observed that this was not coquetry, but pure exhuberance of spirits. Mr. Bowles, I noticed, was of the same opinion, and it was a great satisfaction to me to have my judgment confirmed by so experienced a parent. Mrs. Bowles, ha'd she been alive, would no doubt have agreed with us. I had known Mary Jane since she wore short frocks. Johnson had known her about a month. It was pleasant to hear her call me Sam and him Mr. Jolmson, but somehow the fnmiliarty in my case seemed to have bred, not contempt?oh dear no! nothing of that kind?but, a sort of nonchalance of manner. (How useful the French language is when one wants to express a ver" delicate shade "Rrsfr flint, titoq arfl&co. ui monuui^ ij UU-V v*Vu? iiesa. "Dear me, Snm," she observed at the tea-table, "what have you got such a loner face for ?" Johnson's attentions had made me a little pensive. " Something must be long to make up for the prevailing shortness," I said. Johnson was not much taller than Mary Jane. I made a note of that sarcasm afterwards. My impromptus are too often lost. " Don't be impertinent, sir. Look into that spoon. Your face is exactly like the reflection you see there, isn't it, Mr. Johnson?" He grinned. It was then I observed for the first time the sir gular breadth of his visage. His giiu seemed to extend across the room. " If Mr. Johnson will hold the spoon horizontally he may admire his own image," I remarked playfully. Johnson grinned again. He was one of those insanely good-humored men whom it is quite impossible to annoy. "Sam, you are outrageous," said Mary Jane. "Mr. Johnson and I are going to practice our duet. You stop here and talk to pa !" Mr. Bowles had to be aroused from the doze into which he usually dropped after tea. It was in that habit,that my penetration had detected his conviction i that Mary Jane was an artless creature. 1 Pa*vokeup and asked me what were my views on tramways. His composi! tion was a fine crusty conservatism, and he disliked, innovations. T fVlA flllflf. nvnrVlAO/1 and had a very indistinct idea of what the old gentleman Baid, and of what I 1 was saying myself. I cannot sing, but it was not for that reason that I objected to the preposterously operatic way in which Johnson was conducting himself, " Tramways, my dear sir, are, as you so justly observe, the chief scourge of mankind. From the earliest times they have been noted for their hostility to i human virtue, and " I have lands and proud dwellings, And all shall be thine, 1 sang Johnson, upstairs. "And it is, as you say, monstrous that landed proprietors and bloated householders should override the popular protest in this matter, especially as we know that?that for purposes of drainage tramways are?" " My dear boy, you are not well," interrupted Mr. Bowles, kindly. "Have a glass of water." When I left the house that evening I was thoughtful. It struck me that Johnson had Mary Jane in his mind's eye. I could not damage that organ of vision, so I decided that nothing would be gained by hitting him. But something would have to be done. I wanted to ? To?a QKn rrraa a oliarmiTlff LL1ELII Y lUtUJ U OiiC. UUV nao m girl, and her father had a little money. My suspicions about Johnson were confirmed next day. I met a lively friend, -who Raid:, Oh, you know Johnson ?" "Well?" " He's going in for the little Bowles. Told me he should propose to-morrow night when he toikes her home from Twig's party." " Perdition!" " Eh ? Slap-up girl, isn't she ? Thought you were sweet that way?" ' " Perd ! Oh no, not at all! ' There's my omnibus. By-bye !" I Going to propose when he took her ! < home from Twig's ! By all the powers ! ; he should not take her home from : , Twig's ! It had been agreed that I should es- | | cort Mary Jane to the halls of Twig. It ! was a fine night apparently, but I took | my umbrella. It was a new one. but- | mounted by an alligator's head in Ger- j man silver. Fortunately I invoked Jupiter Pluvius to befriend me, and hoped that Johnson would leave his umbrella at home. j It was less than ten minutes' walk, but there was time enough to bIiow a | little preliminary tenderness, if not to put the grand question itself. With an I artless girl like Mary Jane, it wus best; n aU on aIi n nn n/rl Vi rr /lnryroon . WIS tt^UlUOCU DUUU Ck OUUJCUl UJ UC^I DUO, ' ** 'Twas just such a night as this," I i said softly, "when you and I, Mary | Jane, trod the grassy turf beside that I murmuring brook " " Oh, I remember !" she exclaimed, i laughing in her Kuileless way. " I | know what you are going to say. That was the time you fell over the stile, runj ning away from the bull. And your j nose was done up in sticking-plaster, I you know ; and you scratched my face with it, sir!" I had forgotten that circumstance; but what did it matter ? '-'Yes, Mary Jaue,"I said, passionately. " And why did my nose scratch your face ? Becanse my lips were seek! ing that paradise -which now " I "Good evening, Miss Bowles." It ; was Johnson. I saw his grin in the | moonlight, and?confusion !?he had brought his uifibrella. There was a little dancing at Twig's, but I had no pleasure in it. My mind was full of Johnson's umbrella. It came before my diseased vision like Macbeth's dagger. I clutched at it, and I had it not. Time wore on. I stood at the window alone, and looked out at the weather. Heavy clouds obscured the moon. Heavy drops began to fall. Then the temptation had me in its grip. " His umbrella J" I gasped. "I?I'll hide it." " It's going to be a nasty night, after all," said a hated voice at my elbow. " I believe only you and I have brought umbrellas. There'll be an awful scrim mage for cabs. Luckily we haven't far to walk." He was grinning more than ever, but he could not have heard me. A cab would not suit him, of course! He wanted to walk home with Mary Jane, slowly?very slowly, so that?freiizy ! I would do the deed. I would throw his umbrella? " Oh, Sam, do take me down to refreshments. I asked Mr. Johnson, but he has forgotton me." She looked up into my face so bewitcliingly that my heart thumped as ii it were a door-knocker in the grasp of a demon postman. Careless brute ! What a husband he would make! Whereas in me?in me?she would find. \ 44 Mary Jane," I whispered as we left fcho giddy crowd that stood around the liquids, 44 Mary Jane, may I see you home ?" " If you are a good boy, perhaps you may. But here'B Mr. Johnson, I owe him a dance." He took her away, but she looked back at me with a smile. I really never saw such an artless girl in my life. And now, to mfke assurance doubly sure, I crept up stairs to the room where | the umbrellas iiad been left. The gas I ltroa nut ?nr? Hifl xpinrlrvsp nr>PTV Th? melnneholy voices of divers cats seemed 'to protest against the crime, but my nerves were firm. I could see nothing. No matter; I knew where my enemy had put his umbrella. I groped for it. I [ grasped it by the ferruled end. Just 1 then a footstep startled me. I rushed to i the window, and dropped the hateful thing into the black abyss below. There was a splash. I felt a sardonic joy. He had brought his umbrella for fear of j rain. Well, it might do its duty in the j waterbutt. I listened. All was quiet. The next ( | room was in darkness. There could be no one there. I wont down to the refreshment-room, chatted awhile with Mrs. Twig, and recovered my self-posession. Then I sought Mary jane. Johnson had just crossed the room to her when I entered. Suddenly she was seized with a violent fit of coughing. I ! ran for a glass of water. When I returned the coughing became worse than ever. Yet that unfeeling monster, Johnson, grinned until I thought the corners : of his month would meet in the nape of his neck. When I asked if she felt better, Mary Jane went off again; and presently the cough was so bad that she had to leave the room. I remarked to Johnson that she must have caught cold; and then he coughed. No doubt she had been out on the balcony with him to see whether the rain had ceased. But wait a little, my grinning friend! Everybody was now going away. With a fiendish delight I saw Johnson walk up-stairs to get his hat and coat and his Ha! ha! I waited till he j came down. He was perfectly cool, <; and?did my eyes mock me '/?he Had in his hand an umbrella! I could not see the handle, but of course it was mine. The fellow's impudences taggered me. I tore up into the room above. There was no umbrella there. It was mine ! I went down, resolved to make an example of Johnson. He stood in the hall, leisurely putting on his gloves. "Excuse me," I said calmly; "but you have got my umbrella." "I think not," he replied, with his everlasting grin. "Butyou have, sir! There can be no mistake about it. Pray is your umbrella-handle an alligators's ' head in Germ?in solid silver ?" "I think not," said Johnson, cooly. He held up an umbrella. It was not mine! " I am quite ready, Sam. What's the matter ? You can t find your umbrella ? Oh dear! And Mrs. Twig says she has lent every umbrella she has. Are you sure you brought it? Oh, thank you, Mr. Johnson. Good night, Sam; Mr. , Johnson will see me home. It isn't ! rainiog much, and you won't get wet if I you run all the way." P I don't know whether I got wet or j not. For that matter, I don't know how II got home. I believe the Twigs ! thought I had been drinking. PerhapB JI had, or how could I have thrown the wrong umbrella out of the window? Jt j was brought to me in a pulpy condition I Vi-p vnnnrr Tori or trim in t,h? nmnllpRt, nf wags. He puggested that I should adopt a water-butt and umbrella as a crest. Johnson did propose to "the little Bowles " during that walk home. They are married now. That umbrella business remain b a mystery, but I am still convinced of the artlessness of Mary Jane. Subsidies Before Congress. The following are the proposed subsidy schemes now before Congress : Annual ^Tota1. Applicant. 8ubt?idy. Y'rs. 8nbsidy. 1. Texas & Pacific..$3,000,000 40 $120,000,000 2. Northern Pacific. 2,000,000 40 100,000,000 3. Five lines of steamers 7,500,000 10 75,000,000 4. Pacific mail 500,000 10 6,000,000 5. Brazil line 500,000 10 5,000,000 6. Mississippi leveeB 3,000,000 10 30,000,000 7. C. <fc U. Pacific.. 10,000,000 30 300,000,000 Grand total. .$39,500,000 $653,000,000 A. Wonderftil Clock. The Reading (Pa.) Eagle says: In Mengel's building is now on exhibition in all probability the most wonderful clock in the world. It was built by Stephen D. EDgle, a watchmaker, at Hazleton. He is about forty-live years of age and was about twenty years in perfecting the clock. Mr. Reid paid Engle 85,000 for it. Engle never saw the Strasburg clock. In fact, he haa not travelled more than two hundred miles from home at !anv time. This clock stands eleven feet nigh. At its base it is about four feet wide and at the top about two. It is about three feet deep at tiie base, gradually less towards ine top. Its colors are dark brown and gold The Strasburg clock is thirtj feet high, yet its mechanism is not so intricate nor has it as many figures as the Hazleton clock. The Strasburg clock's figures are about three feet high and the American clock about nine inches. Three minutes before the hon| a pipe organ inside the clock plays alranthem. It has five tunes. Bells are then rung and when the hour is struok, double doors in an alcove open and a figure of Jesus appears. Double doors to the left then open, [and the apostles appear slowly, one by one, in procession. As they appear and pass Jesus they turn towards him, Jesus bows, the apostle turns again and proceeds through the double doors of an alcove on the right. As Peter approaches Satan looks out of a window above and tempts him. Five times the devil appears, and when Peter passes, denying Christ, the cock flaps its wings and crows. When Judas appears Satan comes down from his window and follows Judas out in the procession, and then goes back up to his place to watch Judas, appearing on both sides. As the procession has passed, Judas and the three Marys disappear and the doors are closed. The scene can be repeated seven times in an hour if necessary, and tho natural motion of the clock produces is four times per hour, whereas the Strasburg procession is made but once a day, at 12 o'clock. Below the piazza is the main dial, about thirteen inches in diameter. To its right is a figure of Time with an hour-glass. Above this is a window, at which appear figures representing Jouth, manhood and old age To the left of the dial is a skeleton representing Death. When the hour hand approaches the first quarter. Time reverses his hour glass and strikes one on a bell with his scythe, when another bell inside responds, then childhood appears instantly. When the hour hand approaches the second quarter or half hour, there are heord the strokes of two bells. Then Youth appears and the organ plays a hymn. After this, Time strikes two and reverses his hour glass, when two bells respond inside. One minute after this a chime of bells is heard, when a folding door opens in the upper porch and one at the right of the court, when the Saviour comes diking out. Then the apostles appear in procession. The clock also tells of the moon's changes, the tides, the seasons, days, and day of Jhe month and year, and the signs ot the zodiac ; and o^ top a soldier in armor is constantly on guard, walking back and forward. As the hours advance, Manhood, Old Age and death take part in the panorama. Fact9 About Fires. The following practical and scientific observation on the quenching of fires quickly and with the least loss to insurance companies is communicated to the Portland (Me.) Preas by an old fireman: One gallon of water at the bottom of a fire will do more to quench it than ten gallons at the top. Play low is the true motto for the fireman. If the first engine that reached the Summer street fire in Boston had burst into tho warehouse and played into the goods elevator, ?1 it. ? a *4- ttT/vtil/l V\. wuere WIS me urun.c uui, in v?vui^4 puuably have saved $50,000,000. To play on the roof of a house on tire is to waste water; the roof was made to shed water; the rain does not put out the kitchen fire, nrr would the Presumpfcot, flowing bodily on the roof, put out the kitchen if afire. Play low, get the water to the bottom of the fire, and ""you need not pour in the Presumpscot. A few gallons at the bottom of the fire will rise in clouds of steam wherever the fire is rising and will quench it. Even a heap of rubbish turns rain and water like a partial roof. A gill of water thrown into the bottom of a grate quenches the fire more than a quart thrown on top. For a similar reason, water on the windward side is more effective than on the leeward. I am speaking now of a moderate fire, when there are only one or two houses burning. The big blazes on the leeward look fearfully, but they cannot be effected by playing on them. Throw your water into the bed of coals and under the retort that in sucking them, and it goes out. That is to say, play at the bottom of the windward side of the fire, and you take the surest and speediest way to quench the whole, leeward side blazes included. Hyena Dogs. The origin of the domestic dog is attributed by some naturalists to several species of wild animal. Among these latter the cania pictua or the bjcaon pictua, the spotted or painted hyena of Africa is one. Regarding these spotted hyena dogs, as they aro generally called, Dr. Schweinfurth says that they are very plentiful in a region called Kurkur, in Central Africa. " These dangerouH animals," he Bays, "have a partiality for the steppes and open brushwood, and congregating in herds bunt the smaller antelopes, especially the bnshbocks." No case, however, was known among the natives where they attempted to attack men. Some of their skin", he observes, are most brilliantly marked, and exhibit such ft combination of red, white, yellow and black spots that the hyena dog may fairly claim to be the most parti-colored of aJ mammalia. Schweinfurth speaks of one specimen that he saw in the Scriba that was tame, requiring no other restraint than a cord, and yielding to its master with the docility of an ordinary dog. This fact, as he points out, appears to corroborate the assertion of Livingstone (which, however, he, not having witnessed the circumstances, makes with some reserve), that the natives of the Kalahari desert are accustomed to break in this animal and train it for the chase. * Hani Times in England. The cry of " hard times " continues to j come from England. In its survey of the industrial situation, The Labor News records discontent and strife in several places. In Northumberland, it says, the colliery mechanics have accepted a reduction in wages, and throughout the district of the northern board of arbitration the iron workers' a- nf wages are liKeiy wj uc icwumuHcu an earlv date. The textile trades are generally depressed, and at Rochdale j some mills are on short time. In the Forrest of Dean and South Wales great distress still prevails, and measures have had to be taken for its relief. At Sheffield a large number cf puddlers and shinglers have received notice of a reduction, and under present circumstances it is likely to be accepted. In the building trades several important strikes still continue, and labor is continually coming and going on the works affected. At Stafford the boot and shoe trade is especially slack, and at Birmingham many of the staple industries are but-in differently employed. Fashion Notes. I Habit basques grow in favor. Garrick oapes grow in favor. Green is the color this season. in Pleated blouse waists are revived. to The chemibe Rubso is the coming Pc waist. ^ Triple capes of velvet are coming in i vogue. ; Striped Bilks, black and colored, are , ^ revived. ! Fur trimmings are very fashionable j to this winter. i 8i; For evening toilet, the Grecian bodice | wi is again in vogue. Pekin brocade is a new, pretty and dc quaint dress material. cl< Long circulars are unbecoming to very 'a short or stout women. (F Fur fringes, with fur tassels at inter- R* vals, are late novelties. a DC Flowers play a conspicuous part in gn ball and evening toilets. cj( The fashionable shades of green are oil moss, jasper, olive and Russian green. ca All shades of blue are fashionable, n< from the palest sky blue to dark indigo. White cluster roses or bunches of vio- ^ lets are worn by ladies in half mourning, to Elderly ladies' dresses are made nearly Pj plain, but of rich and heavy materials, White lace and colored ribbon bows jj, convert a black silk costume into a ^ dressy evening toilet. ^ Very short apron overskirts are worn st< with the new Btyle of short kilt-pleated sti walking dresses. th Snowballs and Marguerites, white, be with black center are shown among to mourning artificial flowers. . gr Old-style pelisses are revived. They are loose, easy-fitting straight garments, be lined and edged with fur. Bt< Simulated waistcoats in the front of ^ pleated basque waists are seen among w( imnorted novelties in dres&' Maroon velvet is coming in vogue for wt bonnets, trimmed wilh bands of chinchilla and shaded gray ostrich plumes. Coiffures for home toilet consist simply ??" of a small pnfT of laco and ribbon or j01 foulard pinned carelessly on the top of "a the head. I til' All sleeves of morning and day dresses | M ' are made very narrow at the wrist, to .. admit of the onfcaide cuff now so much | worn. ! Water and sky blue cashmrro. com- I bined with faille of the same t-h.me, is ; ' the fashionable combination for brides- ? maids' dresses. .. ^ Deep collars, falling almost to the iD| point of the shoulder, and deep cuffs B0 reaching to the elbow, are in high fash- cij ion at the moment. Black fur stoles are trimmed with ?tf black Spanish lace and tied with long ha strings of black satin ribbon, faced with art blue, red or gold color. an When princess dresses are worn on pi' the street they should be looped in the back, in such a mainer as to draw the 18 train up as short as the rest of the skirt. aC( Dressy stoles of white or silver fox ! ? fur, or of swan's down, or marabout j ? feathers, are edged with white Spanish ! X, lace and tied at the throat with white, j pale blue, or rose colored strings. | The latest fancy in round hats for | ac] young ladies is to cover a frame with j ca] camel's hair cloth to match the costume, i ^ and trim the same with satin ribbon J co. and shaded plumes to form a contrast, i ] A pretty conceit in the way of a white j lat felt bonnet has the crown trimmed with an i? Ml 1 I crimson mine; uue uretmi-cuzujicu icamci ; jjm nods forward over the crown, and a \ su crimson one falls over a cream faille bow ] if i in the back ; the face trimmings are I It crimson moss rosebuds nestled down j th among soft tufts of old Malines lace. i aoi At a lute fashionable wedding, the jco three bridesmaids appeared in cashmere ! ral and faille princess dresses?one pale 1 fin rose, the next pale blue, and the third J ? ivory white cashmere and silk. The j flower wreath and garnitures were re- , spectively tea roses and buds for the i su< rose-cqlored toilet, blue forget-me-nots j for the blue one, and roses and hous- ! ^1 tonias, combined with green leaves, for j tic the white dress. . I de ? ' ! be Krupp's Great. Gun Factory. pe It is known that the Emperor, while j tbi at the recent military manseuvres at : nn E^sen, visited the factory of Messrs. ! tw Krupp, and this affair recalls the origin i 8h of this great industrial family. When j tie the first chief of the factory can? to sh Essen the village had only 3,000 inlvibi- coi tants. To-day it has 40,000. Krupp i of commenced in 1810 with ten workmen, ab and in 1843 he had one hundred. It was lai his son, Alfred Krupp, that gave the th< estabMshment the prodigious develop- thi ment to which it has reached to-day. It tw was from England that he brought his method of making steel, and he has wonderfully improved upon it by com- -K' bining it with the Bessemer process. ex In 1863 he had '4,000 hands employed, ?01 aud he haa 9,000 at present. The buildings of the factory cover a space of over ''( two hundred acres, and are surmounted a by one hundred chimneys. A working- thi men's citv, with three thousand houses, <lu gives to the hands apartments which are cu rented at from $40 to $80 a year. An thi association for providing food, with th< twenty-two salesrooms, furnishes the dr inhabitants, at reduced prices, with all "F that they desire. A single bakery makes 400,000 pounds of bread in a moDth. I There are in this factory of Essen 413 J ne steam engines, representing a total of I th <A AAA 1 'TT n^Anm linmrrtfli>Q j (',(1 JLU.UUU ilurmcbj tliiU # I oiculu iiauiaiv/io i for striking iron, among which figures the famous hammer called " Fritz," and which weighs 100,000 ponnds. There are 30 miles of railway communicating th with the different parts of the manfac- as tory, as well as 40 miles of telegraphic he lines. The establishment can manufac- gr ture in twenty-four hours 2,700 rails, a] 150 locomotive wheels, 180 wagon wheels ' lis and 1,500 shells : and in a month 250 | in field pieces and 54 others of larger cali- | on bre.?Revue Britannique. , ne ? jin Grant in Pompeii. Ji A cable dispatch states that when ex- i President Grant visited Pompeii recent- j b{ lv the Italian government had made ar- i tb rangements for a special excavation in I Wl his honor, bo that he might see how the H work was done, and see -some of the su curiosities recovered just as they were be placed when the city was so suddenly ^ ruined. The director of the excavations si: received General Grant and party and conducted him to the principal points of O' interest. Twq hours were speut wan- A1* dering through the ruins of the ancient pi and memorable city, and at every step fo something of interest was seen. The sp workmen then proceeded to dig out a chamber of a buried house, and discovered some fragments of a table made of wooJ and bronze. The workmanship G< was very curious and elaborate, and was Ai examined with great interest by the so whole party. The next object of inter- gi est discovered was a loaf of bread, wrap- H ped neatly in a cloth, and perfectly distinguishable. Many other curious and sii interesting articles were found and in- of spected by the party of visitors, and all yc expressed themselves as highly pleased th with their visit to the ruins of the ancient to city. They returned in the evening. Yi During these visits General Grant was se accompanied by his son, Commander yc Robeson, Lieutenants Rush and Miller M and a retinue of Italian officials. The le general expressed himself with the yc greatest admiration of the Italian troops, er * 'ARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Recipe*. Tapiooa Soup.?Soak a little tapioca water and set on the back of the stove simmer slowly ; when it lookB clear, >nr over it the brown broth seasoned before. JBoil up once and serve. A Nice Costard.?Scald a quart ot ilk and pour it hot on broken eggs, ike five eggs, throw out the yolks of ro, three tenspoonfuls of sugar, a pinch salt, and add a little vanilla. Set it steam in a close-covered vessel for i minutes, then set it on ice until in ted (ot use. Mince Pie.?A shin of beef boiled iwn till very tender, one pound of nice, ear beef suet, chopped very fine, a blespoonful of salt, six pounds of j 2 1 1..1 J eeniug uppiea, petjieu, uureu uuu uuujf : id, three pounds of raisins stoned, j ree of currants carefully cleaned, one j >und of brown sugar, a cup of maple gar, a quart of the best cider (boil the 3er in the syrup), half a pound of j tron, shredded, and half a pound of , nned lemon-peeL This mixture makes ! ;h pies, particularly fine in flavor. Meat Gravy.?In roasting beef, if it to be rare, allow ten minutes' cfioking every pound of beef; when done, ace it on a heated dish. In carving, e juice will run out, and this is conlered by many as the choicest gravy, owever, a gravy should be made and ch guest given his choice. After roiling the beef, place the pan on the jve, add a teacupful of boiling -water ; ir up once; do not thicken ; send to e table in a sauce-boat. Veal when liling needs bastin g freqently?at first th salt and water, afterward with its avy ; allow fifteen or twenty minutes' iling for every pound; remove the ef when done ; place the pan on the )ve, and thicken the gravy with a teaoonful of flour, first moistened with a tie water to prevent lumps ; boil up ill and pour into a gravy-boat. Mutq or lamb gravy is made in the same iy. Sowing Heeds, The proper distribution of seed in the wing is quite important, and there are w who can do it just right. Machines ve been invented for the purpose, and iny of them do the work more evenly ai^ it can possibly be done by hand, me seeds, from their peculiar forma>n, have to be sown by hand. It is a j Encult matter to give directions lor wing seeds, and to say how much is quired to the acre. Much depends ion the season,and also upon the freshss of the seed?and even seed known be new may be deficient in germinat-1 ^-properties. The best rule is, when wing in rows, to be governed by the j aracter of the seed and relative ! ength of the young plants ; for in- j race, carrot, parsnip, and some others \ ve light seed, and the young plants | 3 feeble. Such should be sown thickly j d afterward thinned out. Other rats, such as cucumbers, melons, etc., a liable to be attacked by bugs, and it well to make some allowance on this jount. Most heavy seeds can be sown j in, especially if broadcast, the ohancea : ing that they will be too thick in case \ ey are sown by inexperienced hands, ike, for example, the seed of the flat rnip, one pound of which, in measure it little more than a pint, will sow an re of land, but it requires a very nice Icnlation to get the seed evenly disbuted and make such a small quantity rer so much ground. Seeds sown by machine may be regu:ed by sowing first on a cloth or floor, d setting the gauge to the proper ade. Some seeds are variable in size; ch should be divided by sifting, and, sown by machine, put in separately, is advisable to always sow as soon as > a ground is prepared,while the surface j il is still fresh and moist; and when j vered by raking, and always draw the j je lengthwise with the rows. Very ie seed must not be covered too deep. I Brill's Farm Gardening Undercroud Ice Hauet. . Where the soil is gravelly and porous, j eh a honse will be veiy useful, and j ly be built more cheaply than one j lolly above grtmnd. The excava- | >n may be mode as deep as may be airable, perhaps six or eight feet will sufficient. There must, however, be rfect freedom from surface water, or p. house will be a failure. The bottom ly be made of a layer of .large stones, o feet deep ; upon this smaller stones ! ould be laid, to fill all the inequali- j s, and form a level surface, and there | ould be placed upon these a layer of [ urso gravel. Thia may form the floor the house. The walls, up to a foot ove the surface, may be built of stone d in mortar or cement, and the sill of 2 uppej- frame Should be bedded in s stone-work and cement.?Agricul net. Scientific Potato Culture. A. French agricultural journal, the isse Com, describes the result of some periments in potato growing recently uducted by scientific men in Germany, which it is demonstrated that the 3yes " at the top of the potato produce much more vigorous offspring than :)86 in the lower part, and the conse ence is tnai tnose agriuuimntHa wuu i t their potatoeB in half before planting Din are not well advised in cutting em vertically, but should always ride them horizontally, planting the per half nnd using the other as food : cattle. But the best plan of all is to [ mt the tuber whole, cutting out, | vertheless, all the " eyes" except | ose in the top part.?Scientific Amcri- j n. Mrs. Henry's Monument. A correspondent who recently visited i e old battle-field at Bull Run writes j follows On the west side of the i mse on the brow of the hill is the { ave of Mrs. Henry. It is enclosed by j picket fence, and a large marble slab is been erected by her children, bearg the inscription : " The grave of ir dear mother, Judith Henry, killed jay this spot by the explosion of shells j her dwelling during the battle of ily, 1861. When killed she was in her j ghty-fifth year, and confined to her ' id by the infirmities of age. She was i e daughter of Landon Carter. Sr., aud is born within a mile of this place. 1 er husband, Dr. Isaac Henry, was a : rgeon in the United States navy on I >ard the frigate Constitution, com- I n rl A A V?TT HTIO nf f.Vl A ?uu "J ? ? I c captains appointed by Washington, I the organization of the navy, 1794. J ar mother during her long life, thirty- j re years of -which were spent at this i ace, was greatly loved and endeared i r her kind, gentle, and Christian J irit." | Penn's Message. The Philadelphia Ledger says that ov. Penn's Message to the General jsembly of Pennsylvania in 1701 was brief that it may be quoted in a paraaph, and it contains some good advice e said: Friends?Your union is what I dere, but your peace and accommodating one another is what I expect from >u ; the reputation of it is something ; e reality much more. I desire you remember and observe what I say. ield in circumstances to preserve esntials, and, being safe in one another, in will always be in esteem with me. ake me not sad, now I am going to ave you, since it is for you as well as >ur friend and proprietary and Govnor. WlLWam Pknw, Wonders of Greenland. A lecture on Greenland was given in London not long ago by Mr. Clements Markham. His history of the early discoveries included the voyage of Enc the Red and a curious expedition of clergymen in the thirteenth century from the the bishopric of Gardar, in the south of Greenland, towards the unknown north. The Norsemen built churches and villages on the rare green strips up the fiords, but the savages destroyed them; and for three centuries Greenland was closed. Hall was the first Englishman who laid Ills bones on tne snore oi Greeland. In 1721 Hans Egede, the apoBtle of the Esquimaux, landed in Greenland. It has been found impossible to penetrate for any distance into the vaat interior. The natives believe it to be inhabited by enormous and malignant beiugs, it is 320,000 square miles in extent, the whole being a mass of ice. A Danish professor in 1820 made his way for thirty miles inland, and described the scene he saw. There is nothing but a white world supporting a blue vault. From far below one's feet there comes a moaning noise, the voice of rivers flowing far beneath. Occasionally there are loud reports from the opening of a cleft, a vast mass of water pierces its way in the ice down to the underlying granite itself, for thousands of feet. At thirty miles from the coast the height above the sea was 2,200 feet, and the ioe was still risiner. A wonderful sight is that of the colossal rivers, deep and broad, which flow between tall blue banks, aud pour at the end of their course down a cleft with a mighty cascade, which is conspicuons from a'distance by a cloud of mist which always hangs above it. On the strips of the land near the coast the Greenland flora, though scanty, is very pleasant to the eye. Vegetation covers the ground in thick masses, forming turf in the level places,'while it fills the chinks and crannies of the rocks and creeps over the surface of the stone, giving a bright appearance to the land in summer. The prettiest thing of all is the club moss, with its graceful little white bell flowers like miniture lilies of the valley. With it are generally the dwarf willow and birch and the whortleberry, with its red berry and glossy little leaves. As far as Disco, but not farther north, there are beds of lady's mantle and angelica and masses *of holly fern, the erect red blossom of the pedicularis, bright little red and white saxifrages, the dandelion potentillas and ranunculus, the Arctic poppy, the sweet-smelling ledum palustre, and the showy, purple blossoms of the epilobium alpinum.'' J Setting Fire to Central Fark. Officer Meaney recently, while on j duty in the upper portion of Central | Park. New York, espied a large bonfire j blazing brightly in the woods. He ap- i proached the bnrning pile, and was as-1 tonished to discover a middle-aged man, apparently immersed in deep thought, i standing with his back to the burning brushwood, warming his coat-tails, and i seemingly unconscious of his surround- i ings and position. In close proximity to j the bonfire was a curiously-constructed : hut, built without any regard for archi- j tectural design, and composed merely of : several freshly-cut branches of trees, j which, being entwined around the logs, helped to support and braoe them. In this romantic residence, the interior of which contained neither furniture nor bedding, the stranger had determined to reside, at least temporarily, away from the strife and busy turmoil of the great metropolis.' When the recluse was asked by the officer for an explanation of his conduct he failed to reply, and remain- j ing perfectly motionless, with his eyes j glancing hither and thither and revolv- j ing rapidly, he appeared as if transfixed ; to the ground. OfScer Meaney, after J extinguishing the fire, induced the j would-be hermit to accompany him to j to the Fifty-seventh street police court. ! The prisoner gave his name as Martin ! Anthony, and said he was of French de- ] scent. The complaint having been drawn up, the clerk handed it to Justice WandelJ, who, after perusing the contents, speaking ironically, addressed the prisoner thus : " Well, Mr. Anthony, this is is a very serious charge. You are accused of setting fire to the Central Park and appropriating certain property: therein wherewith to build a winter's ! residence. What have yoi. say ?" j The prisoner, who looked as it he was I inflfinft. feeblv articulated something in i reply which was inaudible. Justice Wandell came to the conclusion that Anthony was out of his mind, and committed him to the care of the commissioners of charities and correction.. A French Fiend. A series of frightful murders have been committed at St. Jean du Gard by a man named Etnile Dumas. The assassin is only twenty-eight years of age, and bad been married only ten mouths. He had been in the habit of quarreling with bis wife and her relations, and the crime was the result of a dispute which he had with the latter a few days | ago. Going to the house where his father and mother, two very old people, lived, he attacked them with a hatchet. Taking advantage of a moment when his mother was bent over the fire attending to her cooking, he struck her a blow in the neck with his deadly instrument, j wliich almost severed thfe head from the ! shoulders. Turning to the old man, he treated him in a similar manner, and then disfigured the bodies with a knife. Proceeding to his own house, after having taken precautious to prevent the ? ? ~ Knirirt /liainrorori friP the I unmc Hum uoiug _ ? moment, Damns concealed himself and awaited the arrival of his brother-in-law, whom he stabbed in the groin, but fortunately without a fatal result. His next victim was his wife. She had rail up to him when he engaged in a struggle with her brother, and was struck down by a series of blows from the same knife which had wounded her relative. ' The poor woman did not survive the j murderous attack above a few moments. J After accomplishing these crimes, j Dumas took refuge in a barn, where he j was discovered by the police. On being ; confronted with the co/pses, he expressed no repentance or regret for what he , had done. Dumas has since succeeded in hanging himself in the prison of Alois. ! How to Detect .Hurried People. j The Deer Lodge (Montana) News j Northwest lays down the following rules: | If you see a lady and gentleman disa- j gree upon trifling occasions, or correct- j ing each other in rompany, yon may be ! assured they have tied the matrimonial noose. If you eee a silent pair in a car or stage lolling carelessly, oue at each j window, without seeming to know they have a companion, the sign is infallible. If you see a lady drop her glove and a gentleman by the side of her kindly telling her to pick it up, you need not hesitate in forming your opinion; or If you see a lady whose beauty and accomplishments attract the attention of every gentleman in the room but one, you can have no difficulty iu determining their relationship to each other?the nne is her husband. If you Bee a gentleman particularly courteous, obliging and good natured,relaxing into smilefl, saying sharp things, ind toying with every pretty woman|in the room excepting one, to whom he appears particularly cold and formal, and is unreasonably cross?who that one is nobody cai) be at s loss to disppver. Indians at Elko, Nevada. We take the following description of a scene at Elko, Nevada, npon the arrival of a Union Pacific) train, from "Across the ContinentA crowd of Indians have come down from the dirty, smokeblackened teepees on the bluff, and are pressing around the steps' of the cars? women and children all of them, and all as dirty as their lodges. It is not for their picturesqueness certainly that we study them ; there is none of the traditional feather and quill and beadwork, no plaited locks and braceleted and moccasined limbs, and no pretty, or even comely, faces. There is one old, dried Vti'/^AAiio a/inom wl>A Innlrc U?Sj VT1U1JXCU) U1UWUO uv^uu * y haw AWWW at least a hundred years old, an animated bundle of filthy calico, with a few matted gray locks blowing out from the ragged handkerchief around her head, and with a torn blanket wrapped about her shoulders. There are five or six etout, heavy women, anywhere from twenty to thirty, also covered with calico gowns, from which all vestige of color or pattern has| departed, with faded, dirty blankets and handkerchief-hooded heads?-hard-faced, repulsive-looking creatures, each with a thick, shaggy mane of jet-black hair hanging on her shoulders, and her papoose-basket and its mute, mummified little burden strapped on her back; and there are children of all sizes scampering after them?girls, gowned and blanketed and hooded like their mothers, and boys in calico leggings and blankets, some bareheaded and some with nondescript caps and hats. All of them, parents and children, unite in a guttural cry of " Muc-ca-muc-ca," and " Hungry! and hold up their grimy hands for donations, as the train stops and the passengers descend. Crackers, stale cake, cheese, broken meats from ravaged Icncheon-baskets? anything that can be eaten?is grabbed in ungrateful haste, and bundled up in the filthy blankets ; and then the cry changes to " Money ! money I" and all the grimy hands go up again, and on the grimy faces there is ? ? "? _ iL not a snaaow 01 eagerness m uiu umujug, or of disappointment at a Tefusal?nothing but sullen, fierce stolidity. Only the old squaw stands mutely in the background, hustled aside by the younger and more vigorous, and we single her out for an alms of cake and silver money, over which she closes her skeleton of a hand, with a positive smile puckering her face into wrinkles more multitudinous than ever. In the meantime a brisk traffio is going i on over the unconscious forms of the papooses, their parents refusing to lift the swathings of calioo from their faces for any inducement short of " two bits"; and, as every woman on the train is crowding and crying out for a sight of them, the small coin circulated with amazing rapidity. The little unfortunates in question are of all ages, from a few weeks to eighteen months?all fat and dreadfully thriving, dirty as young pigs, and absolutely silent. Their socalled "baskets" consist of an oval board covered with stretched skins, in some cases ornamented with beadwork, j upon which the child is bound by two j flaps of skin laced across with raw hide ; arms and legs alike imprisoned, and | nothing but a round black head and a stolid face visible over the dirty bundle. Nor is this visible for more than a minute at a time, for?at least in the presence of the pale-faces?the poor little wretches are made yet more miserable by a calico rag twisted round their heads, and. carefully secured lest a glimpse should be caught of the prize beneath. The Geography of the Moon. We find that the moon is a planet accompanying our larger planet, the earth, on its journey round the sun. Her diameter is aboufc one-quarter, her surface about 2-29ths, her volume about 2-99ths, her mass about 2-163ds of the earth's. She completes a journey round j the eajjth, regarded as at rest, in about twenty-seven and one-third days, travel- j ing at a mean distance of 238,820 miles ; j but the lunar month, or period between ! successive conjunctions of the sun and I moon, has an average length of about I twenty-nine and one-half days. The mcon's surface may be divided roughly into raised jJarts which are unusually bright, and great plains (not smooth) which are darker, and in some capes very dark. Over all the raised parts the signs of former volcanic activity are very marked, craters and ring-mountains, much larger than any existing on the earth, being found in great numbers on the moon's surface. Smaller craters are numerous, not only in the raised parts, but over the gray plains. Many cracks and faults, valleys, ravines and gorges are also numerous on the rugged surface of our satellite. No water and very little air seem present on the moon, though there are signs that seas formerly existed there, and there ia?rea&on to believe that the lunar air was once not very rare. Although all is not at rest in the moon, and certain portions of her surface seem to have undergone remarkable changes, even in recent times, there is nothing to suggest that our satellite is at present the abode of life. Easily ittained, There is not a house so shabby that it may not be improved by simple outside floral decorations, and converted into a bower of roses. Take that unsightly old rock, or that ancient stone wall that marks the straggling line of the ancestral j acres next to the highway?a few roots of woodbine or ivy would convert them into things of beauty. Look at the unpainted wood house, its rough, gray boards suggesting unthrift as well as unloveliness ; set a grape - vine clambering over it, and you transform it into a bower, and have fruit for yonr table or jelly for the good housewife's store. There is no beauty at once so ! cheap and so blessed as the light of the sun ; therefore, cut down some of the trees in your yard, if necessary, and let the health-giving sunshine into your 1 dwelling. The girls can convert the I stumps into pillars of "morning glories," or crown them royallv with flower " ~ 1 - 1 baskets, un one siue 01 wir uuuoc XJJUrtDD | a generous space with roses, and have beauty and fragrance from June till October. Do not leave even the back porch naked and desolate ; but coax ( blossoming bushes or trailing vines ov*r | it, and in their shade the farmer can get i new comfort from his evening rest and | his paper. If all these little opportuni* I ties are improved as they offer them- j selves, the plain homestead will gradu-j ally develop into a "thing of beauty,' exercising a refining influence on the lives of its occupants. An Appropriate Hymn. The Rochester Express says: "The story is told, and it is said to be entirely true, that at the recent dedication of a Baptist Church in this county the ceremony of immersion was performed for the first time in that church by a well known Baptist minister of this city. When he had entered the water, and while waiting for the candidate, the minister suggested that somebody should sing an appropriate hymn. One of the deacons who stood near by heard the suggestion, and without thinking struck up the familiar hymn,4 Pull for th? Snore.' The hymn proved to be so suggestive that neither the minister nor congregation could refrain from an audible smile for some time, and the ceremony had to be postponed until the preacher coulrj reoover his gravity." ? Items of Interest. Full of interest?a long'note overdue. There is no law against opening a postal-card. Something entirely uncalled for?An advertised letter. * ? They are raising toads in Franoe to kill off the cockroaches. Eighteen thousand men are engaged in the express business. J - '.* * * > All the girls are becoming vegetarians. They wear turn-up hate. > ' 0 Ground Hog City is the nam?of a town in the Black Hills. The letter to which bachelors seem most inclined: Let 'er be. Black and silver gray are the colors for elderly ladies' drees materials. ' Votta* rvnf nflf oj1trorfin4n? tn-dav the merits of'articles that yon desire to sell to-morrow. ;M" m' Josh Billings says, very truly, '* you'd # better not know so much, than to kncrw so many things that ain't 60." - , /it.. Thirteen is an unlucky number of persons to si* down to dinner-^-if there is only enough to go around oomfortably for twelve. . i}), un:m* (j ji Sleeping car conductors are generally pleasant, gentlemanly fellows. Ana yet, strange to say, one always Jikes them to give him a wjde berth. In ancient times the ,.^aididates for athletic honors in Greece were dieted en new cheese, dry figs and boiled grain with warm water; no meat was allowed. An effort is to be made to raise coffee in California. Captain Hansen, of Contra Costa, has a tree height or ten years old, which is now loaded with coffee berries. ,v;i '- . r tut I Forty-seven members of the fortyseventh Congress are natives of Pennsylvania. Of this number. Messrs. Blaine, Wallace, Cameron, Mitchell, McMillan and Patterson are senatorNew York has forty-nine representatives in Congress. i<( . , ,,, n.( Annually, for the last, decade^ there has been paid to the British government by the Bank of England a stipi slightly in excess of $17,500,000, ' representing the nnelaimed dividends on consols. In other words, 8580,000,000 of the English national debt will never have to be redeemed. .... r-.ji . ' V .lie. There's plenty of ivory yet on our round ball. Africa is the land of . ivory " temples," or idol inclosrirea, where the commonest utensils for domestic nsefure made of ivory. The ^people rdoi not seem to comprehend why people shot^d take the trouble to pay fcir 'it when it is so plentiful in each village.' ' : The value of ground' in and abotit Berlin, which went up 0norrb6usly3taring the period immediately suhsefcptent to the war of 1870-71 and the payment of "milliards" by France, has fallen as enormously of late. A property bought five years ago for villa sites at th$ price of 2,550,000 marks was ,so}d the other day for 258,770 marks, , ~r." (J Nevada dogs seem to be made of "sterner stuff" than other American curs. Last week one fell down a ninetyfive foot shaft?struck! with emphasis on hard rock, lived 'feixteen days ^without food or water, was fek^ttOtit after that time and immediately ran down - and totally destroyed a rat-that piesumed too mnch on appearances, and -approached rather too near, the sickly-looking canine. M , >.; The Toronto Olobe says that the negotiations for the consolidation of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia into One province are progressing favorably, and it expresses, a WISH loai jrrmce mwuiu Island could be taken in at the same time. The united province wot Id then have an area of about 49,333 square miles, with a population oi from 700,000 to 800,000. . , Almost all men are over-anxious. No sooner do they enter the world, than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what , progress they have made in the pursuit w of wealth or honor; and on. they go as their fathers went before them, till, weary and sick at hAi, they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden times of their childhood. Henry Thruston, of White Oak Creek, Titus county, Texas, is said to be the tallest man in America. He stands seven foot six inches, barefooted, and is of enormous strength. His hands and feet are enormously large* and nearly a side of leather is required to make him a pair of boots. When, before the war, he went overland to California, his friends, all men of medium size, used to lay wagers with unwary strange? that they had the, tallest man among them; then producing Thruston from the wagon where he had been concealed in a coil, take the stakes. poppisq corn. We were popping corn, Sweet Kitty and I; , It danced aboat And it danced np high. The embers were hot Tn thflir fiflrv liffht. And it went up brown And it came down white? , White and beautiful, Crimped and curled, The prettiest fairy dance in the world. Ah ! mfcnv a time are the embers hot. And -ho human upirtcan brook it not; Yet radiant forth from the lierv light , Cometh transformed and robed in white. Victory or Death! The Groesbeck (Texa^l New Era says : The following singular courtship of a Prairie Grove gallant is an illustration that " faint heart never won fair lady." He prosed, but was gently refused. He a second and a third time with the same result. But at length he rode over one evening and told her that he would neither eat, sleep nor speak until she consented to be his bride. She invited him to dinner ; he shook his head. She talked on ; he merely looked dejected. Then she requested iiim to take supper; a negative shake of the head was the only reply. She played, sang and chatted on till bed time, when a servant showed him a room; a negative shake. She tripped away to hur chamber; he sat determinedly still. About twelve o'clock she came back and said : "I don't wish to cause the death of a good officer, so I will marry you." The released one rose, and with much eageruess said : " My dear, have you anv cold victuals on hand ?" In Ingenious Builder. The neBt of a tarantula (spider) has been found in California of the most singular construction. It is about three inches long by two in diameter, uuiit m adobes, the wall being nearly half an inch thick. Inside of this is a projection which nearly divides it into two apartments about an inch in diameter. The inside is lined with a white downy substance, not unlike velvet, and presents one of the cleanest and most tidy little households imaginable. But the most curious part of it is a door, which fits into an aperture and closes it hermetically. The door is secured by a hinge, formed of alike fibrous substance as the lining of tlie house, and upon which it'swings with freedom. The neet is occupied by :i dozen little tarantulas, which seem to subsist on a yellow secreted substance that appears upon the walls of the front apartment. The arrangement of the door for the protection of its little inmates indicates great | instinctive architectural knowledge. & i J