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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1878. NO. 34. VOLUME XXV.
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$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
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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,
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. 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
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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
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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.
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