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\ ?6WV.-< . --j.. ?- H ^.. rTir^r-..z-. r __ullr .urTi u ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. ^ * ' 1. .* ; : t. . - ' 1" " V ; -i . * _ * ' ' , ' ' , .>? '- << . f ' * * ' j , '? ' * # ^ BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. 0., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1878. NO. 36. VOLUME XXV. ' . \ ! i'.:f -> r- * # u I | t ** ?* "M*1 ' IA# TM4A?ao4 $25,000! THE 1MC1ST11 CHEAPEST STOCK OF (minis EVER BROUGHT TO GREENVILLE! rjIWENTY - FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS X worth of GOODS which he intends to dispose of AT OR BELOW NEW YORK Betail Prices! Hew is tie Tie for Bargains. CDME AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. CAPT. W R. WHITE I* with me and would be glad to meet with his (>.>1 Frie do and Customers, and will 8iVE I HEM SOME MONET. ??? A No. 1, Wagon Yard I* REAR OF STORE, FREE TO ALL. f Iiespectfullj, T, W, DAVIS, MAIN STREET, GREENVILLE, S. C. Cct IT. 1S77. ? 3ukm J. ('. .'.l.EMANDKK, JOSEPH A.LLEN, Vahdbt McBke. ALEXANDER,ALLEN & McBEE, Manufacturers of and Wholesale and Retail Dealers in UPPER & HARNESS LEATHER, Kip and Calf Skins, GREENVILLE, S. C. C-3~ Highest cash price paid for Hidei. flcpt. 2G. 1877 ?12m GREENVILLE "kVTn.o"hinA W nrlrR XIAWUVUJ.MV ? V V* MM AND RON FOUNDRY, Iteimond, Macdonald & Co., PROPRIETORS. (JTEYM ENGINES, Boilers, Saw and Grist 0 AlilU, Cotton 0iiisi. Presses, etc., promptly r paired. Wehave recently sdded to onr estabj ihint nt, an IRON FOUNDRY and are prepared { ' ftiri i?h all kind* of CASTINGS, equal to the 1 ?t furnished by any foundry In the country, ?f f hort notice, and on reasonable terras. Cash ) .till f< r Old Iron delivered at our foundry. "Workt* on River Street* rev of Cagle'a Planing Mill. October 3, 1377. -12m THE PALMETTO COTTON GIN, MANUFACTURED BY I M MATTUTW.Q J VI I VI #"* tH V w 9 NINETY-SIX, S. C. DEALER IX FURNITURE, Coffins, Belling and Gin >I.iterial generally, and Agent for 8t*am .iigin.v. Th rentiers, Reapers and Mowers, t'ottou Presses, etc. Con 'en sera, Feeders and Seed C'rnsheri > Bached to Gins when desired. Ropairing Carefully Done. A 1 < >mmunications receive prompt attention. Purchasers should call or correspond with 1 im u fjre purchasing elsewhere. June 15, 1877.?tf O. A. TRAYLOR, with WILLIAM MULHERIN, DEALER IN Boots and Shoes, HATS ARD TRUNKS, *29 3 Broad Street, Half Block beloT Planters' Hotel, AUGUSTA, CA. Durutle Boots and Shoes ? Specialty. Seplomber 19, 1877.?3m E. J. '.Timr. E. M. Hconcs. Fashionable Hat Emporium. WHITE & HUGHES, DEALERS IN Hats, Caps, Firs, Umbrellas, UTO., 269 KING STREET, OPP. HASEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. Umbrellas Made and Repaired to Order. Octc' or 8, 1877.?3m Lost Treasures. BT ELIZABKTH AKEM. If some fcind power, when our youth is ended. And life's first freshness lost in languid I noon. Should stay awhile the doom by Fate intended, And graut us generously one precious boonSaying, " With thwaitings, bitterness and I trial, Your toilsome uv s thus far haTe been oppr< Bsed; Choot-e n8w some blessing, fearing ro denial, To light, and charm, and beautify the rest"? WTiat should we ask? the prize of young ambition ? Fame, power, wealth, and gi'ts of priceless cost? Ah, ro?our souls would utter the petition : "Give us?oh, ouly give us back our lost!" No v.s'oned blisa, no pleasure new and splendid, No lofty joy by longing never crossed, new riniiahf jinHrftRtiifid of. heaven descended, I Only our own?the treasures we have lost! For, wearied put with strife, and glare and clamor, Grown wiser with our years, and clearereyed, No more beguiled by dreams, nor charmed by glamor, We dread the new, and prize the known, the tried. Ah, what & crowd of joys fcould gather round us, Could we but have our vanished back again ! The heart unspoiled, the strength and hope which crowned us, The bounteous life, the ignorance of pain? The innocence, the ready faith in others. The sweet spontaneous earnestness and truth, The trust of friends, the tender eyes of mothers, And all the rich inheritance of youth? The plans for noble lives, that earth thereafter Might be more pure ; the touch of love's warm lip And saving hand; the sound of childish laughter, The peace of homo, the joy of comradeship? { We had them all; and now that they have left us, We count them carefully, and see their worth, And feel that time and fortune have bereft us Of all the best and dearest things on earth. Ah. yes! when on our hearts the years are pressing; And all our flower-plats are touched with frost, We ask no more some new untasted blessing? But only Bigh, " Oh, give us back our lost!" More Than Her Match. Long shafts of moonlight were shooting down through what seemed an almost impenetrable wood and quivering on the green mosses. A faint wind dallied with the foliage. Wild flowers flecked the ground. Here, in this sylvan retreat Fat Miss Barron, and she was very much out of humor, for every now and then she drove ' ' * v? 1 tne point 01 iter pniitoui uiw mc uuoffendinK mosses. She looked and was downright disgUBted with everything and everybody. The belle of three seasons, during which she had escaped heart-whole, she was now "caught," and all because of a three weeks' sojourn at a country villa. Madge had never been off her gnard before. Hitherto she had visited fashionable wateriug places; but this year she had come to a quieter place, and had met Lindhurst Barringtou. She did nnt vet know, however, she was in thralldom. Sue only knew she was cross and lonesome; and so she pat punching the little blossoms and pouting. She thought Barrington exceedingly companionable, and that the other four gentlemen stopping at the villa were little better than wooden men. As for downright, earnest love, why her intentions for three yearB had been never to venture her heart at sea, but only to glide about the shore, flirting, safe to disembark any time. Yet sbe was now thinking of Lindhurst Barrington in a way many would have termed love. But she would not admit this to herself. He was a delightful summer fiiend, that was all, she said. She liked summer, and flowers, and birds, and hazy atmospheres, and a quiet flirtation; but when these went, tne coming season brought new enjoyments and fresh flotations, and Barrington could go with them. Were there not nrVin /v-inlil rPA-1 TonnvRnn and sing tenor? But now, ju^t this moment, it was rather lonesome. If he only would come! He had gone to town the morning previous, promising to return in the evening. She had walked with him through this wood-path, on h s way to the station. He had lingered a moment at the stile beyond, to tell her how beautiful she looked?how the fresh morning air had brightened the color on her cheeks. " Come this evening a* far as here to meet me," he had said, " won't you ? The path will be a horrid labyrinth -without you." "You will surely return1?" she had asked. " If you dou't, I shall find every tree a hobgoblin when I go back alone." "Return, indeed I I shall think of nothing else. I shall do nothing all day but pull out my watch to see if it is time for the train." Then he caught her hand in a quick way, thought a moment, bounded over the stile, and hastened down the path, turning often to look bnck at the pretty picture she made, listlessly leaning on the stile, with a tinge of regret in her face. At a turn where she would soon ' i i v . t. . J . ) J Oe Dia irom signt ne ami i?reu iu wave her a kiss. Madge was #ow WaifctDg according to appointment, aud she hid taken care to concoct a most ravishing toilet. But all her little preparations were wasted. Lyndliurst Barrington did not come, Still sbe waited. It seemed so unreasonable, so #ruel, to disappoint her. Perhaps he was only trying to tease hor, had got out unseen, and would surprise her directly by his appearance. A doleful sough of wind, coming from tVio rinrlr ranpRHAR of the wood, a sudden I shutting-down of night, made MiBs BarI ron feel something like fear; and she I started nervously to return. As it grew darker her dread became terror; she fancied strange noises were about; her feet scarcely touched the ground; she skimmed on, fluttering at heart like some low-flying bird belated from its nest. What wonder that she vowed that night, as she brushed out her hair, never to forgive Mr. Barrington ? What wonder that a harmless little bunch of violets which he had gathered for her the day previous and whioh she had treasured in a vase on her dressing-case, she now ound faded, disagreeable and odorless, and that she tossed them pettishly out into the darkness from her window ? "I detest him and his violets," she cried. "He may stop in town till doomsday, for aught I care." Miss Barron did not sleep well and rose in the morning with a little dull weight on her feelings. " Perhaps," she thought, "he will not oome'even today." | As she dressed for breakfast he was constantly in her mind. " Perhaps he did it on purpose," 6ue ; said. " Perhaps he didn't, but lost the train. But he had no business to lose the train," Bhe added crossly. "Pcr; haps he was ill; perhaps some -women | had asked him to remain. Well, if so, I don't care," 6he said. " He shall see I I am happy enough, and not even piqued, when he comes." I Still, as the day wore on, Madge found ' the ladies of the company provoking and I the gentlemen mo e uninteresting than 1 ever. Mechanically, towards evening, she donned tiie samo toilet as on tne i night previous, and took a circuitous I route 'through the garden, that none might be cognizant of her movements, i Emerging out of sight, she struck straight j for the wood-path ; and here we find her | again listening for the ruar of the train, ' notwithstanding all her angry vows of the j night before. Beautiful, cross, unreasonable girl! ! "I will not go to the stile," she was i saying to herself, " and that will be a disappointment to him." She was somewhat unsettle J, however, - for fear she might be in just the same I predicament as on the previous evening, i and have to return through tbe gloomy wood alone. She had seven-eighthsof a mind to go straight back, even yet. But j she remaiuded after all. so perverse is I woman. At last, with a sudden screech, the engine came steaming along. Miss j Barron began to trace figures on the ground with her parasol, and put on a i most unexpectant air, her features aink; ing into a repose and unconcern benign i | enough to befit a saint. i She saw Lyndhurst Barrington de- j scend from the tram ana come striding | : on joyously till he came in night of the j stile; for, though hidden herself, she | : could observe all his movements. i Ite came on eagerly, looking to the | I right and left for her, and almost stum- ! | bled over Miss Barron. " Oh, Madge !" he cried, as he threw ' j himself at her feet, "you did forgive me, J and have come to meet me !" 1 "Forgive you, Mr. Barrington ?'' i Nothing could he more icy cold. "Pray, j ' what has been youi fault ?" She looked, | as she spoke, straight before her, but j with an air of surprise which was ex- i : ceedingly well counterfeited. | He looked up eagerly into her face as j he answered, " Why, i was buttonholed ! ; to death in town yesterday. It seemed : ; as if a conspiracy hud been enterecrinto, ; ! and that every fellow I knew hai left j ! his summer haunt to go up to town to ! ! detain me. I transacted but half of my j j business, and put off Jack Longley with ' ! o nn/1 ,->n rv?rr rtrav fn tlin tlfcntinn. T I I ? J-iV/v* \m mj w ? . j suppose he'll never cpeak to me again. | i After all, I was one minute too late. I | flaw the train sweeping out of the sta; tion just as I reached it. I was in disI pair, thinking you would come to meet j me." 44 I did walk down last evening, but I : can hardly fay, sir, that I came to meet j j you. I did not expect you. I thought, 1 if business or illness kept yon, you ! might be gone a week. I never thought j of you as hobnobbing with your male \ friends and sauntering to the station." ! 44 Madge!" and a serious look c&rae 1 ; into his face. 44 Let us dmp bickering, : and begin where we left off yesterday." : i 44 "Very well," she replied. 441 be1 lieve the point at which you left off was whistling, and I was doing nothing in particular, so if you will strike off a j stave of anything, I will demurely, but 1 admiringly, walk by your side." I 4' Madge !' he exclaimed excitedly. | 441 did no such thing. Do men gaze at statuary or paintings and whistle ? : 1 Faith, my last remembrance is of a pret- : tier picture than an art-room ever held. I" saw a beautiful womnn, looking regret i at my leaving?a woman I want for my ' wife." Here was a poser ! Proposed to ! It ; came like a sweet surprise, nevertheless, i But it was contrary to Miss Barrou's | tactics. Were weeks of delightful flirt- i j ing to be cut oS in a moment" in this J i fashion ? How could he have believed j her in earnest ? It was ridiculous. She | had meant to play the injured mistress : for several days, and make him abject in his efforts to reinstate himself with her. ; j She did not want a climax readied with i ! this man. Her heart had told her that j it would leave a regTet which she had , ; never known before. To avoid this now, j she would begin with raillery. | " Really, Mr. Barrington," she said, I "you must be hungry or over-tired, to . make such a statement. A well-spread ; table, steaming viands, c -mfort and a , i wife, must have shot through your brain. I can assure you a delightful supper now awaits you?" 'Miss Barron," he began, frowning, without apparent notice of her words, and rising to his feet, " three weeks ago I did not know you; but in that time all my life now seems to have become crowded. I never slopped to question ; vonr actions. It seemed as if there wasi ! no need of asking for vows, they would | denote a commencement of lore. I j j wanted it to be as if we had loved for- : ! ever." i i " Very well," she said, "let it be so; [ I no vows, 110 commencement. You Bee ' I acrree with yon perfectly." " No, I will not have it so, he cried, j trying to take her hand. " As you please," she laughed, shrug- j ging her shoulders. "I can pick my j i way through this bog without help." i "I hope I am not wanting in gentle | ! behavior, but before I or you stir a step I further," he said, stepping in front of ! ; her and barring the way, "I want a j simple answer to a simple question? plain 'yes' or 'no.' Do you love me, | Madge?" " If I cannot say 'yes,' perhaps I can- | not say 'no.' I think friendship does | not justify an abrupt ' no.' I " " I don't want equivocation," he broke in. "If you loved, eyes, lips, voice, i acts, all woidd blend into yes.' It must be ' yes' or ' no,' I say." Ma Ige had never met any man so mas| terful. But she answered, nevertheless, | "Then, 'no,' since you force me to be unladylike." "I do not ask you to be unladylike. I do not say you are. I asked you for your love. It was a straightforward question, I wanted a straightforward ' answer. My arm, Miss Barron." | Aud thus walking, assisting her over overy trifling inequality of grouud, they went on to the villa. Miss Barron was exceedingly gay that 1 evening. Lyndhurst loved her! Of course, she was not going into any prosy ' engagement. She could not hedge her! self in by marriage. But they could : live the delightful life they had lived i this last three weeks always. Ee had i nothing in particular to do. Why could J he not, when they should return to Lon! don, visit her every day ? She could, she thought, flirt all the same, when he was not by ; and his attentions, therefore, ! would' be just so much gained. Her ' life was not to be altered au iota. She ! did not profess to love the man. He must not, hewever, scatter his atteni tions. He muBt concentrate all his admiration on her. But toward the close of the evening, when Madge found he had not sought her once, a shadow of a thought passed through her mind that perhaps he was i not a poodle-dog, after all, to be led about in this way by a string. She had sung, thinking to brin? h:m to her wde, but he had lounged away? I a thing he had never done before? i when she was at the piano. She had taken a garden stroll with a rival, Mr. Oakley, and Lyndhurst had carelessly drawn up his outstretched legs, as he sat lazily on the veranda steps, to let them pass down, without other notice of their presence. He had, she decided, fairly ill treated her. a lady, and she would not tolerate rudeness. She would teach him what waB due to her. But days passed. A week wore on. She found no possible chance to visit her anger on him. He never joined her. He was always civil and wellbred, but that was all She was downright perplexed, She scarcely ever met him, even at table, much less of an evening. He went fishing by sunrise, rode on horseback half the day, and at night asked the gentlemen up to his chamber ; the ladies, sitting lonely in the parlor, heard through the open windows, laughter ? * ?1 T< nag UUl uuu guy ?uug3 uciug ouug. it was getting maddening. One evening Madge curled herself up on a sofa and looked at the matter seriously. She must outgeneral him. Bat how ? She had tried hauteur, and it had signally failed. Now she would try a dash of "givingin," even though it hurt her so to do. She would plant herself on the old footing. Just then Lyndhurst stepped into the room, cautiously at first, as if fearing her presence. She immediately rose to meet him. He did not start, but looked her over from head to foot without a word. She gayly said : " Don't you think yonr highness ia overdoing things a trifle?" Then she lost control of herself, and showed her vexation. "Sing to me," she cried, " walk with me, talk to ine, d? anything to obliterate this doefnl week." "Well, Miss Barron," he answered coolly, " suppose we talk and walk. I'll say, under the stars, what I flaid under the oaks; and you shall give me a true answer." She looked at him a moment, then fairly Hazed. " I never saw such persistence. Thank Heaven ! I go home to-morrow, where gentlemen know what is due to a lady, and take ' no' for ' no ' without getting sullen. Good night, Mr. Barrington: and good-by. If you ever consent to be less boorish, persistent, I shall be pleased to see you in town." He watched her out of the room and then sat down to the piano. Miss Barron's first impulse was to seek out the party on the lawn ; but, somehow, every face on earth, but oue, seemed tame. Then she resolved to go into the library and read; but books were so wearying. " I would play," she said pettishly, " if that pig-headed masculine was not monopolizing the piano. Just at this point she burst into tears. Crying, usually, to Miss Barron, consisted of a couple of tears mopped up by a bit of lace. She had never before thrown herself down, in such limp shape and got into such a thorough tempest of weeping, as now. She was an hour at it. Gradually she got calmer ; she sat up, and began to consider what was next best to do. She tried to think of going home as a pleasure soon at hand. Home ! What had she there ? Only an old aunt, who dozed in a lace cap, with a cup of ciiocoLate at her elbow half the timo. The memory of the pleasant days spent here would drive her wild, in that gloomy house. Then she acknowledged that it would be terrible r?nywhero without? without? She jumped to her feet. " Ho will drive me wild," she Baid, "banging in that way on the piano." " She passed into the hall and looked into the drawing-room, where he sat placidly playing. "Poor fellow!" she thought, "how can I call it obstinacy; it looks like misery written all over his features. A.ud isn't he superb-looking ? Why, no one else has ever approached him; and he will bo mine if I say it." Suddenly?can you comprehend it?? she walked straight into the parlor and stole up behind him, put her arms about his neck and pressed her cheeks against his. Not a word was said for some momftnts: but his flncrers fell from the keys, his arms dropped listlessly at his Hides, his head sunk lower and lower on liis breast, and Madge felt a mist gathering in her eyes, a mist of happy tears "Come out under the stars," she whispered. "I want to say 'yes' to you." "Iam answered, Madge," he said, drawing one of her hands over his shoulder and talking with it against his lips. " Let us not mar this moment of surprise and joy by a single word." " Lyndhurst, you are provoking as ever. When I would not, I must; now I will, I shall not. I shall have to practice humility, I see, and study my lord's moods. You've played the high hand long enough, and I insist on saying 'yes' in my own way. There, now, if you don't want to speak again in an hour I will rest my face here and dream." "I don't think you will 'find mo a tyrant," he said, kissing her. "But come out, Madge, and let's compare our mutual miseries during the past week." He led her through the open window, holding back the swaying vines for her to pass. There, arm and arm, under the stars, let us leave them. Web t?r and Benton. Daniel Webster and Thomas H. Benton sat for many years in the United States Senate together, without speaking to or noticing each other in any way. Webster was leader of the Whigs, and Benton of the Democrats; and to fVioir no1ifir?nl rivulrv was added a stroner mutual personal hostility. A very striking event, which happened to Benton, suddenly changed their relations to each other. In the year 1841, a newly invented gun was to be tested on the national steamer Princeton, on the Potcftnac river, not far from Washington. The President and his cabinet went on board ?nd mauy of the distinguished statesmen of the time were present, curious to see the experiment tried. .Tust before the gun was touched off a crowd of cabinet officers, Senators and other notable men gathered around it, to observe the effect from a near point of view. Among these were Colonel Benton. Just before the guu was fired, some one touched him on the shoulder, and requested to speak with him for a moment. Benton left his place in the btoud. which was taken by Mr. Gilmer, the secretary of the navy. The gun was touched off, burst and killed a number of person r, among whort was Mr. Gilmer; while Mr. Benton, who had withdrawn from its close vicinity, was but slightly injured. Thi"8 narrow escape affected the great Missourian most profoundly. " It seemed to me," he said afterward, "as if that touch on my shoulder was the hand of the Almighty, stretched down here, drawing me away from instantaneous death." From that time he was a changed man. He resolved to beoome reconciled to his old enemies; and one of the first things he did was to go to Webster and ask him to "bury the hatchet" and be good friends again. Webster gladly and warmly grasped his hands; and from that hour till Webster's death, there were no two Senators more cordially devoted to each other than he and Benton. A Perilous Position. About as tight a plaoe as ever I go 1 into, said a Comstock miner, was some ; years ago at the old Empire shaft, Gold Hill. Myself 1 and another man were down in the shaft for the purpose of trimming it up, as the swelling ground was squeezing in the sides and it was a good deal out of Bhux \ We were not on a cage, but simply a platform made of planks with ropes going up from the corners to the main . cable, which was of hemp. When we reached a tight place in the shaft we stopped and trimmed out the guides, and then went on till another such place was reached. At one point, having given the signal to lower, we went down some distance, when we finally stuck. .We reached for the bell-rope in order to give the signal to stop, but we had found that it wound round a nail some distance above and we could not use it. The engineer knew nothing of our trouble and continued to lower away. There was no station near, and on all | sides rose the smooth walls of the shaft, I leaving us suspended over the horrible | chasm. " a j Down upon us came the heavy cable, j We feared every moment that the platform -would turn over or would be ! pressed through the tight place and I drop from under us. All we could do ! was to get hold of the cable and keep I the coils of it under our feet as it came ! down. Should the platform turn over I or drop from UDder us we might be able j to save our lived by hanging on to the ! cable. We shouted up the shaft till we , were hoarse, but po one heard our cries, i and steadily down came the cable, caus.i ng us great trouble to keep on top of its coils. We felt that the great weight ; must soon start tfye platform, when both would most likely be hurled to the bottom of the shaft., Finally, to our great relief, the cable | j ceased to descend. For a long time we I I waited in suspense, not knowing what \ j would be the next move of those above. J At last, however, *we heard the voice of a man shouting fiovm. to u? from the nearest station above. We explained our perilous position in a few words, and j at length the great cable began to crawl j slowly up the shift again. Still being ; afraid the platforfc would give way, we j were obliged to ieep hold of the rope i and dance about, on the ooils as they j unwound. It was a tedioui business, and was all the time a matter of the toss of a penny whether wa got out alive or went to the bottom, btft at last the platform tightened up und^r us aud we began to ascend. Our work was over then and we felt safe On arriving at the aurface we found that the engineer had concluded that we were going to far, and, without halting or stopping Wb engine, had sent a mau down to th$> station to find oat. if anything bad gone wrong. I may have been in more dangerous places in the mines, but was never in a place where thd danger lasted so long aad all the time up to fever heat. It ; was too long a time for any man's hair J to stand on end.? Virginia City (Nev.) I Enterprise. The Last Picture of Lincoln. : Mr. Noab Brook#, an intimate friend I of Lincoln, writes as follows in the J " Midwinter " Scribner about the last ! photograph of the President, a drawing ! of which by Wyatt Eaton has been engraved by Cole as a frontispiece to the same number of the magazine: On Saturday night, the President asked me if I had any objection to accompanying him to a photographer's on Sunday. He said that it was impossible for him to go on any other day, and he would like to have me see him "set." Next day, we went together, and as he was leaving the house he stopped and j said, " Hold on, I have forgotten Everett !" Stepping hastily back, he brought ! with him a folded paper, which he exI nldined irfts a nrinted coov of the oration rm??~ jt that Mr. Everett was to deliver, in a few days, at Gettysburg. It occupied nearly the whole of two pages of the Boston journal, and looked very formidable indeed. As we walked away from the house, Lincoln said: " It was very kind in Mr. Everett to send me this. I suppose he was afraid I should say some-. thing that he wanted to say. He needn't have been alarmed. My speech isn't lODg." i "So it is written, is it, then?" I asked, "Well, no," was the reply. "Ik is not exactly written. It is not finished, anyway. I have written it oyer, two or three times, and I shall have to give it another lick before I am satisfied. But it is short, short, Bhort." I found, afterward, that the Gettysburg speech waB actually written, and rewritten a great many times. The several draughts and interlineations of that famous address, if in existence, would be an invaluable memento of its great author. Lincoln took the copy of Everett's oration with him to the photographer's, thinking that he might have time to look it over while waiting for 11 he operator. But he chatted so con stantly, and asked so manv questions about the art of photography, that he scarcely opened it. The folded paper is seen lying on the table, near the President, in the picture which was i made that day. I So fur as I know, this was the last I time Liucoln ever sat for his photo! graph. Unfortunately, the negative plate was broken after a few impressions had been printed from it, and though Lincoln promised to give the photographer another sitting, he never found time. I Injurjousnoss of High-Heeled Shoes. | Dr. Carbally says: "In descending | stairs or deep declivities while wearing j high-heeled shoes, which throws the I weight of the body upon the front part j of the foot, the extra effort made for the I purpose of retaining the body within I the centre of gravity produces a direct j strain upon these tendons, causing rupture or stretching of the annular liga| ment sufficient to allow thera to be diBJ placed. It is no wonder, then, that ! fashionable women waddle in a most un! graceful manner when they attempt to i walk. They destroy their comfort to follow a ridiculous fashion, and acquire an ambling and undignified movement. : People do things to follow fnphion that ] their good sense would causa them to be ' ; ashamed of under any other circum-1 ' ofonnoo T ,or?ina ri er smr?Vi o Virus a oro, ' AJUvtlVU ( VUfttUK UMV?4 uuvuu ... v i often obliged for safety, to go down | stairs bnckward; and tliey can be seen i every day descending the stepB of our 1 fashionable r3sidences in thiB manner, t making pretenoe of talking to some imaginary person in the front door as an ! excuse to hide their awkward move'ments." A White Rat. People are used to the sight of white ' mice, says a recent issue of a Utica (N. j Y.) paper, but it is doubtful if any of | our readers ever saw a white rat. That I such a " thing of life " exists there is no j doubt, however. A gentleman living in I Marcy caught a veritable white rat in a trap on Monday. He will bring his curi! osity and exhibit it in this city as soon i as it recovers from the effects of interi viewing the trap?a broken leg. Its | cart are somewhat shorter thantlib regular run of these pests. But it differs j from tWm, with the exception of its I color, in no other apparent point. ' ALL ABOUT MONEY. An Interesting Account of the Inatrnmenti of Barter and Exchange From th< Earliest Tluie. Skins of wild animals cnred constitute one of the earliest forms of currency known, and while employed in the mosl ancient times, are not disused in some portions of the world. Such a mediutr seems appropriate among those whc subsist by the chase, as all primeval I peoples miist in some degree, and it it I not, therefore, surprising to find in the transactions of the Hudson Bay Company with the Indians the unit of value by which the price of other articles if reckoned is the beaver skin. Pastoral people employ similarly the skins oi tame animals, originally delivering the entire skin, a cumbrous process, deficient in conveyance and economy, but finally employing a small disk cut from the leather as a representative of ita value. Live stock is also widely employed, aa it has been from the days of Abraham, and though a rude, it is sub stantially rnuform,denomination 01 vaiue. The Greeks stamped the image of an ox on a piece of leather, and the image had thence the current value of the animal represented. In the East, the camel, the ass and the sheep have been, ever since they were subdued to the uses of mankind, employed to reckon possessions or determine the amount of tribute or marriage portions. In Lapland and some portions of Sweden #md Norway the amount, of wealth possessed by a person is denominated in reindeer. Among the Tartars the number of mares similarly determines the opulence of their possessors. Among the Esquimaux it is customary to Bpeak of one another as worth so many dogs. Slaves have been employed to determine ratios of value Bince the state of bondage was first established among men. In New Guinea the slave is still the unit by which the value of other possessions is recorded, as he used to be among the Portuguese traders of the Gold Ooast. Among barbarous tribes, we,may conjecture that their earliest commercial essays would be in the exchange of fruits, nuts and such simple ana primitive articles as they were able to manufacture. One would exchange cocoa-nuts for a stone pestle; another a rudely-woven mat for a bunch of feathers. After a time Home article would naturally be found more convenient than others, and would thus be employed as a common standard and instrument of interchange. The Portuguese found small mats called libongoes, valued at about one and a half pence each, employed aa currency on the African coast, and bunches of red feathers serve by their comparative stability to mark the fluctuations of yams and breech-clouts in some of the tropical islands of the Paoiflc. Some tribes of North American Indians found wampun as useful in their rather limited mercantile transactions as the merchant of South street or Burling slips finds greenbacks or bills of exchange. Cowry shells are still extensively used in East India, Siam and among some of the islands of the Indian Archipelago. Among the Fijians whales' teeth pass readily from hand to hand, ~ '' " +V.Q euecung an uece?etuiy miciuau ^ C/Dj IliiV red teeth being taken at abont twenty times the value of the white ones. Ornaments of all kinds have in all times constituted measures of value, In Egypt, Pcenicia, Etruria, and many other ancient countries, as well as in Ireland and Northumbria, rings have been found which were designed to serve the double purpose of ornament and currency, and the same dunl function may be ascribed to the anklets, aihnlets, ana ear-rings -which are worn throughout British India, Persia, Egypt, and Abyssinia. The Goths and Celts fashioned their rings of thick golden wire wound in spirals, from, which various lengths could be broken to accommodate the varying needs of traffic. Gold chains have been similarly employed. In many countries golden heads are yet hoarded, woru, and circulated, fulfilling thus the triple functions of money, maamucn an they constitute at once a store of value, a standard of value, and an instrument of exchange. Amber was used as currency by the savage races of the Baltic in the period of the Roman dominion, as it still is in soma of the regions of the East. The Egyptian scarabee carved on sard or nephrite or other precious stones, circulated freely throughout the Mediterranean coasts and islands probably before the first Phoenician coin was impressed, and engraved gems and precious stones were employed to transfer wealth as well from one country to another as from hand to hand until a comparatively recent period. In Africa ivory tusks pass to and fro in the processes of trade, rndely defining the ratio of value of other articles. Among the Tartars, bricks of tea, or cubes of that herb pressed into a solid' form, pasB from hand to hand as freely as beaver skins.do at the trading posts of Hudson Bay or the Saskatchewan. Among the Malagasans the only currency entirely equal to the requirements of trade consists of rough hardware, such as noeB, phovels, and the like. Prices of cotton oloth of a fixed length, called Guinea cloth, for a long time constituted the unit of value in Senegal, Abyssinia, Mexico, Peru, Siberia, aud some, of the islands of the Pacific ocean. In Sumatra, cubes of bees-wax of a fixed weight; in Scotland, hand-made nails; in Switzerland, eggs; in Newfoundland, dried codfish; in Virginia, tobacco; in Yucatan, cacao nuts; in the . Greek * * n 1 11 ? i -v . ii.. islands ana ine uevani, oiive-ou; m me regions of the Upper Nile, suit, have al? aii one time or another, served the purposes of commeroial interchange. In agricultural countries it is not strange that corn should have early been adopted as a measure of value. The leases of the great school foundations of Britian, Cambridge, Oxford, and Eaton, with probably many others, were "corn leases," that is, specifying that the rental should consist of so many quarters of cqrn. Compared with gold, that product has steadily advanced in value for centuries, so that the schools have been the gainer by the wisdom of their founders. In Norway, corn is deposited in banks and lent and borrowed on time or call loans, as money is with us. In Central America and Mexico maize waR long employed to serve the use of currency. Lycurgus established an iron coinage for Lacedtemon, not only making the coins of such weight and bulk as to forbid their export, but deprive them of their metallic vaJue' by causing them, while heated, to be plunged into vinegar, thereby destroying their malleability. During the continuance of this coinage <-< i ? i nparta enjoyeu h rescue uum mo ounuitationB of peddlers, and the importunities of strolling minstrels, players, sophists and fortune-tellers, to whom its citizens had before parted with quantities of their spare cash. While the pedder might have carried Lis own wareB easily enough, it would have taken an elepliant to bring back tho legal tender for which he exchanged them. No minstrel would uplift his voice, and no sophist pipe his shrill fallacy by the wayside, when the guerdon of song and sophism could be naught less perilous than a shower of iron half-pence of the size of quoits; and even the robust fortuue-teller of antiquity, who is said sometimes to have alternated the functions of divination with those of robbery, would not have been eager to forecast the future of a people who crossed his palm with fifty-six pound weight. In the time Homer, savs Mr. Gladstone, iron m more valuable than copper, though 1< valuable than silver and gold, whi held the same relative rank that they now, and which they have substantia maintained throughout the entire h toric period- It was therefore employ as copper, bronze and nickel now are, the form, however, of spikes and ingo as a subsidiary currency to the t' former metals. In Japan and, as have mentioned, in Scotland, it or circulated in various small convemc ?*? ? ? ? a. nnif ai ttait . luxmn ao me W&uunicu^nu uuivui 11U1 s in some portions of Africa its value ) weight has frequently exceeded that 1 gold, though such a reversal of the on [ nary ratios of value -would, of course, i local and transitory. In New England, in the early colon ; days, leaden bullets were employed t indicate value, and that metal is si i coined and circulated in Burmah. Pe ter has often been coined, and in ma countries, though not to tne same exte as tin. In fact tin coins are not only immense antiquity, but their imprf has been sanctioned by Government a thority down -to a reoent period. T Phoenician mariners freighted their gi leys with the tin of Britain before Of thage was founded, and coins of the sar oiled the wheels of commerce in ? marts of Tyre aid Sidon before Solom built the temple at Jerusalem. In En land as late as the period of William ai Mary tin half-pence and farthings We struck, though they failed to become permanent part of the circulation. ! numismatical collections, series of t coins stamped with the effigy and lege] 1 -t XI. _ "D o UI BOVOrW UI UiO IH/iiittii CiUjLn^iUjio a abundant. In Java as well as Mexi tin coins were once pnzrent, and tl metal, measured by weight, is still a sc of legal tender in the Straits of Malacc In all civilized countries, howeve gold, silver and copper have always oo stituted the main elements of coinage ai the most familiar forms of currenc The ratio of value between the first tn has probably varied less during the Is 2,500 years than that between any oth known substances. Copper has fluct ated more, but its function has alwa been subsidiary and limited to smi transactions, in the hierarchy of t] metals used as coins, gold may represe the king, silver the lord, and oopper t] slave. The latter is now practical I emancipated, bronze and nickel takii j its place. Indium, osmium, aijd pall ' dium have been proposed as substitut j for gold, and aluminium and manga ! ese for silver, but without any practic result thus far. Platinum, which ' j mainly found in tlift Ural mountains, h i been coined to some extent by the Bn ; sian Government; but, although a bea j tiful and valuable metal, possess^ many of the qualities to render it s ceptable as coin, its employment money has been found to be imprae cable. Great numbers of alloys have been ei ployed in coinage, and indeed it may 1 said that almost the entire system of m tallic currency throughout the world composed of alloys. The Tuscan sequi the purest coin known in history, co tained 999 ports of gold in 1,000. Tl i six-ducat piece of Naples was next I T>uritv.* having only an "alloy 'of"fcrc while old Byzantine"coins called bezant contained an alloy of fourteen parts 1,000. Pure gold and silver, howevf are soft metals, and untdmpered 1 others, are subject to serious loss 1 abrasion. They are, therefore, render more useful by the admixture of a smi portion of copper, which, in the Englii system, in the case of gold, may be e pressed decimally by 916.66, and of silv 925 parts in a 1,000. Nickel is usual 1 alloyed with three parts of copper. Tl I The old Roman as was made of the mi | ed metal called cea. a compound of co per and tin, and in quality and value n unlike bronze. Brass was also extensrv ly used from the time of Hiram of Ty to that of the Emperor Otho. The o kings of Northumbria coined a smi money called ntycaa out of a natural ? loy, composed of copper,, zinc, gol silver, lead and tin, which the metallu gists of that rude northern coast had n enough chemical skill to separate. While the iron coins of Lyourgus s ready referred to were the largest which historic mention is made, tl TWfricror*>i inn small to be actual coined, is doubtless the smallest unit value in the money systems of the worl It is only about the nineteenth part an English penny, and is considerab smaller than the Chin&e cash, which, actual coins, is perhaps of the lowe value known. In Sweden, during ti j last century, huge squares of coppe | weighing between three and four pound with a stamp in each corner and one [ the center, were issued as 'coin, and c rious specimens ofjtliem may still be se< in numismatical collections. Thee with the Mauuday money, a small do tion of which is still annually struck the British mint.and distributed by h majesty in alms, probably represent tl eztremest variation of dimensions knov ! among moder^ systems of coinage, tl ! smallest piece of the Maunday mon< being a silver penny. Buffalo Bulls Protecting a Calf. The buffalo cow seems to have litt maternal instinct, differing in this r I spect greatly from the domestic co' When frightened, a buffalo cow w abandon her calf, and running awa i leave it to be protected by the bulls, wh to their honor, seldom forsake the AUni-rrn An nrmv sureeon once saw i admirable illustration of this raatern care. One evening, as he was retnrnir from a day's hnnt, his attention was o trncted by the cnrions behavior of sir i eight buffaloes. . Approaching them 1 naw fhjit they were all bulls. Tb< . stood in a close circle with their hej downward. At some twelve or flfte< paces distant sat, in an eccentric circl a dozen large gray wolves, licking the chops, as if impatiently waiting t supper. In a few minutes the circle of bu) ' broke up, bnt keeping in a compa body, walked off toward.the niaiu he: half a mile off. To his amazement, tl doctor saw in the centre of the guardii bulls a little feeble calf, newly-born, at hardly able to walk. After going a lm dred paces, the calf lay down, and tl bulls again formed a protecting circ j about it. The wolves, who had follow* j on each side, sat down, and licked the j chops. i The doctor did not wait to see tl j end, it being late and the fort dwtac Writ- Tin/I rin rl/vnVif tho V?nll? hrnnff , ?>UW lie UWV4 UV UVUWV vuv _ 0 ' the calf, abandoned by its mother, aafe ' to the herd. An Alleged Remedy for Diphtheria* j Dr. Field, an English physician, wfc< i visiting his patients afflicted with dip] I theria, took nothing with him but . quill and powdered sulphur. He put , teaspoonful of the suiphur in a win j glass of water, and stirred it with h i finger until thoroughly mixed. He th< 1 used it as a gargle, and in ten minut . his patient was out ot danger. The ga ; gle was also swallowed, not spit on ' When the disease was so far advanct that the patient could notusethegargl he blew some dry sulphur through tl quill into the throat, and when the fu gus had shrunk, used the gargle; c pravisus to using the gargle, he p some sulphur on a live coal, aad m& the patient inhale the vapor. I a FHOA DEATH TU liirJE. of M How u Old Soldier wu Killed and Burned 588 at Anhtabala who la now Alhre and Well. ch ' j0 The Rochester (N. T.) Express says: Qy The terrible disaster at Ashtabula, on jg_ the Lake Shore railroad, on the 29th of eel December, 1876, will long be rememia bered as one of the most awful in its ta results that ever occurred in the United Wo States. Shortly after this accident, Mr8. we Webber, who is a poor woman with two l00 children, appeared in the office of a lawjnt yer in this city, and stating that she had ! le. every reason to believe that her htuband bj had been killed in that disaster, re qj i^ucoicu uiiii \aj w1uluouuo u suiv o^omov [jj. the railroad company in her behalf. The I be evidence which she offered to introduce < in proof of her husband'-s sad fate was < io] only of a circumstantial nature, as nothjq ing was ever found of the body, which , liU was supposed to have been consumed in , w. the flames. She had been to Ashtabula, j Qy and in the debris of the wrecked train ,nt had found a bunch of keys which she 0I positively recognized as those having , m been in the possession of her husband. iU. One of these keys, in further proof, she 1 he had ascertained exactly fitted the clock j. in her house, and an Auburn man was | ready to swear that he had made such a ' ne key for the deceased. Another key fitted ' be a chest which she had in her possession, ' on while another of the keys fitted the lock on the door. But the strongest proof of j lcj all which she had discovered was a piece J r0 of cloth which she hod recognized as i V?OTrIr*?? VtoArt VIAT* rlaorl fonahand'a / g I UUTUI^ U\>^U ^IIUU VA UV4 VtVMU AA M jjj coat. The proof by no means stopped i jp here, however/ A physician of this city acj testified that he rode to Buffalo on the je same train with the deceased on the qq fatal 29th of December; while another ke gentleman testified to seeing deceased take the train at Buffalo which went to ,A rnin at Ashtabula. With this all but )r' positive proof that the husband was n! among the victims of the disaster, the a(j suit was commenced, the funds enabling ,y> her to carry it on being supplied by a pq kind-hearted gentleman of this city, at When the railroad oompany's attorneys 9r were confronted with the proofs of tne u. plaintiff's case, they advised a settlement yS with her for $4,000. But she wanted In $5,000 or nothing, and the company's * he ] lawyers concluded to let the matter go 1 nt I before tho courts. Tlie investigations j be j concerning the fate of the husband were 1 2V : continued, and it was ascertained that he 1 jg i had been sent by Gen. Martindale, his ? a. ; former superior officer in the army, to f eg the Pension Home in Wisconsin several n_ ; day? previous to the Ashtabula disaster, J !al ! and Jthis fact soon brought to light the i j8 I very important disclosure that a man of ( a8 ; his name, answering his description ex- i g. ; actly, and who stated that he had a wife f u. i and two children in Bochester, was still a 3g ! alive and safe in that institution, and i _c. that he was not near Ashtabula at the M | time of the disaster. Of course this e : knocked the suit against the railroad j j company in the head; the poor woman j n. i is out 000, and the kind-hearted citi- ; [,e i zen who advanced the funds is out his 3 l6. i disbursements, as the woman is too poor e js j to repay him. The case is a most re- t Q markable one, however, from the fact f _' I that. nr> nflrsnn doubts the trnthfulness he of the witnesses whose evidence formed uj the basis on which the suit was com1 menced; Of cbrittse the plaintiffs liltr- u a' 1 yer's feel mnch chagrined over the jjJ i ridicnlons result of their efforts. >r, ; ' . }7 ; Fashion Hints. ; The Carrick capes introduced early in ! j the season have become very popular, i 4;' and are seen on bourette dresses, on ! cloth, and on the richest brocades. They I are made in the plainest manner, being J r; three capes merely doubled or else piped * on the edges, and are seen o%a variety c ~.e ?pl garments?polonaises, basques, and 1 K" (jackets. 8 "i The last importations of French I 0 wraps have gray cloth jackets with a ; single Carrick cape of black fur. These 1 I? are similar to the stoles of fur |that are 1 , worn in Paris instead of boas ; the stoles, T however, have long fronts like the fur ? j capea worn a few years ago. Very ^ dressy stoles are of silver gray fox fur, ? *" oloo /\t nrtrtr mornhnnt fflfttliATS fidced ? , t U1 WOOV, o - t ; with white Spanish lace, and tied with l. , ' pale blue strings. These are worn in j j the carriage or with evening dresses, ^ i and are removed or carried on the arm ? , j when entering the house. Z Costumes with short skirts are gradu- 9 jJ* I ally ooming into favor. The materiala 0 . j used are ladies' cloth, basket-woven i stuff, and rich twilled goods, such as 1 ? ; camel's hair and imperial serge ; solid ? . i colors are preferred, such as navy blue, c | gray, myrtle green, .maroon or seal F | brown. Worth has also made these 0 ! ? I suits in the green and blue Highland j' ! plaid; For the Btreet, a cut-away jacket ' ? ! of the material is made and lined with j silk and an interlining of flannel. This., is a masculine-looking wrap, shaped u precisely like, the English morning coats 8 ' j worn by gentlemen. 8 ! Chinchilla bands are used for trim- F , ming gray or black suits, and the bonnet a to match is of gray felt, merely a crown,. 8 with a broad coronet band of chinchilla 8 * fur; A bow of six loops of gray satin c ^ ribbon is at the end of the crown be- ^ hind, and the gray satin strings are tied * in a. long-looped bow just below the j' right ear. The front is softened by a |' Je face trimming of a single row of gatli- j J q. . ered lace ; a slender gray wing is in the * w. left side. j1 ill The clair de hint} and jet trimmings 8 y are considered suitable with black silk * o' dresses for ladies of any age. There are s also old gold or modore beads that are J m used alone or else' combined with clair al de lune beads. Transparent, beaded I lace sleeves, beaded plastrons, or beaded " ig vests are used for very dressy black silk ^ t- toilettes. The corsage bouquet is never ? or omitted. There is a special fancy for 1 ie large yellow buds of the Marshal Neil * ?v rose ; sometimes these are used alone, 1 id sometimes with pale pink roses, and at * ju others with dark damask red roses, j j e, " White rose clusters or else violets are j * ir used by ladies in light mourning. or - ! i1 ! r i- Remarkable Marksmanship. e IB ct Captain Bogardus, a well - known j 8 rd marksman, recently accomplished, in j t 10 New York, the remarkable feat of break- I c m ing 5,000 glass balls inside of 500 j8 id minutes, the missies being shot from a ! 8 u- double-barreled gun. The balls were j8 jio thrown up from spring traps and were I le shattered in the air. The feat was E j?3 . accomplished with a margin of nineteen n lii- mioutes and twenty-five seconds to spare, t It is stated that the weapon, weighing ae , ton pounds, was lifted and aimed 5,300 I u itj' times, which work is equivalent to 318 1 ht foot pounds per minute, accomplished F ly by the arms alone and continued for f; over eight hours. This must be added g I to the brain wojjk involved in aiming the P , gun, in order to perceive the nature of j e Jn the remarkable skill and endurance of ' l the markiman. a ? idnlieration of Silk. ; n e- There is a great outcry in England I is about the adulteration of silk. Not only e ;n are silk manufacturers charged with h es having invented and carried to a great p r- perfection a method of mixing gelati- b it. nous and weight-giving substances with a 3d the dye, but the presence of jute is often u e, more than suspectod. Manufacturers \ ae and dealers do not deny, in their letters c n- o the newspapers, these imputations, i ?r, but endeavor to shift the blame from t ut shoulder to shoulder. It is very often f 3e so difficult to tell an adtiltcrntau silk \ that even experts are foiled. ( JLM31I10 VI JU 11*21 COlit Thefre is one Republican in the Kentucky Senate. , _ "I'm getting fat," as the thief said when he was stealing lard. The oountry population of California is only equal to the population of San Francisco. Twib ever thus from childhood's hour We've seen our fondest hopes decay? The fire went out, the batter s sour? We ain't have buckwheat cakes to-day. The figure of Liberty was first introduced on dimes and half dimes in 1836, but the oircle of stars did not appear till 1838. There are eighty-two banks in the State of New York, having an aggregate capital of $22,650,200, with total resources 3f $92,478,000. A man in Ohio is having a house hewn ant of solid rock, the material being cut iway so as to leave the walls, roof and floor all of one piece. Captain James B. Eades is the moet successful dentist in the business. He iias received half a million dollars for clearing the mouth of the Mississippi. Last year a Chicago dealer failed, imong his assets being $600 worth of ice. The marshal kept watoh over the astate till it melted away and then brought in a bill for $674 for doing so. There is some foundation for the v&maire legends after alL . Crooks, an English engimeer, while surveying the lathAf "Hflviow Viar? Vila Kl/wl QTinlrA/1 LUUO Ui UWU *MM V&WWM lining sleep bj a vampire bat, and died from the consequent exhaustion. In a store atMendota, HL, a town of six thousand inhabitants, there met by iccident the other day six men over six ,'eet four inches high, the average height jeing within a hardly appreciable fraction )f six feet Ave and the average weight 53*4 pounds. It is noted that probably the oldest settler in California is Peter Storm, who irrived in the Golden State in '33. He rasthe maker of the famous "bear lag" of Sonoma, when 1861, the citi:ens of that place declared that Califorlia should be an independent State. A man was recently convicted in southern Germany of murdering one of l family and attempting to poison four jthers. The judge nfitnrajly thought ;hat such a heinous crime should be ?j ? ? ? 1 JUniBUCU WlLil mure uinu uoiuu DUTwiujj ind so sentenced the murderer to deatli aid fifteen years'' imprisonment. Mr. Marshall, the first discoverer of gold in California, still lives in Ooloma, n that State. In this place he made his great discovery thirty yean ago, qpd has emained there ever since. He made a ortune in mining, but has spent nearly ill of it, and is now a comfortable cultivator of grapes. 'Til bet I make him break in a week," laid a Troy (N. Y.) youth when a companion, urged by his betrothed, took the )ledge at a public temperance meeting. Che effort was successful, and when the roung man came to his senses he was l>n trranf nnnn ft KS UIUUU XUViViUCU UUUk ikU nwuv www*. w ipree which ended with his death in a ew days. LACOHTZB. Laughter! 'tis the poor man's plaster, Covering up each sad disaster. Laughing, he forgets bis troubles, Which, though real, seem bat babbles. Laughter! 'tis a seal of nature Stamped upon the human creatare. Laughter, whether loud or mute, Tells the homan kind from brute. Laughter'tin Hope's living voice Bidding us to make our choice, And to cull from thorny bpweru, Leaving thorns and taking flowers. Captain Lunginers, of the Danish vessel Lutterfeld, communicates to a Copenhagen paper an interesting acsount of a novel experience which oorurred on December 10, 1876, while on t voyage to Valparaiso. The vessel was it this time in the neighborhood of Cerra del Fnego, about 140 miles from " - ! ?1 1_ u&geuan s straiuj, wuou cwij iu nuc aorning it narrowly escaped collision pith an island where no trace of land appeared on the charts. The vessel love to nntil daylight, when the cap>roceeded with a boat's crew to the new sland, which had gradually diminished n size since the first observation. Lround the conical rocky mass the rater was hissing, and although no moke appeared, it was found to be too ughly heated to permit of landing. The inking continued slowly, until at eight i'clock flie island was completely subaerged, and an hour later the vessel tasaed over the spot where it had disapteared. volcanic island is probacy due to the same causes which have irodnced the recent severe earthquakes n the west coast of South America. Glass Types. An English paper says: The usefull6ss of toughened glass bids fair to be neater and more serious than was first upposed. Some experiments are retorted to have been made in France with . view to showing whether this subtance can be pressed into the printer's ervice and substituted for the metal omposition of which types are made. [The metal does not at first sight strike he observer as the best that could be ountl It is bright enough when the pft-prH first come from the foundry, and >efore they have seen any service;" but a ew days' wear gives them a very much Dore dingy appearance, and before they ire finally returned to the melting pot hey have degenerated into a very qualid form, looking dirty in their >odies as well as battered in their faces, rhe idea now is to discard these long jroved but unattractive servants and fill heir places with glittering types of glass. rhe advantages in point of cleanliness ilone would, it ie alleged, be not insiglificant. But the Patriz points out that here are other and more solid improvenents involved in the new system. The oughened glass, which is not to be nade in quite the same way as that used or tumblers and wine glasses, and need lot, of conrse, be quite so transparent, s naturally much harder than the old netal, and can hardly be crashed out of hape by those little accidents which so horten the life and spoil the beauty of he only type we now employ. It is also apable of being cast into more delicate hapes, so that the difference, for intance, between the thin and the thick trokes can be more clearly defined, ''inally, it is now fonnd that the new aaterial can be cast in exnotly the same "I/I onil tliftf. HiprAfnrf 1U(UUil UO VUU vi\ij ? ? ?? bere need be no expense incurred in alering the machines and implements :sed in the manufacture of type. If the 3atric has been well informed the exleriments have been completely Bucceseal, and the adaptability of toughened llass to printing and to numerous other mrposes is likely ere long to be fully stablished. A Model Tramp, On one of the coldest days last wiuter German man called at a house in the fourth ward and asked for something to at, saving he had just come from Ivhuakee and his feet were frozen. The lady ave him somethincr to eat. medicine for lis feet and a pair of socks. IIo \v? ut way and nothing was seen of him mtil yesterday, when he returned and ranted to pay for the things lie had reeived last winter. He would not leave mtil the lady ha i takeu fifty cents with he promise that she would feed the next >oor fellow wlio came along. He then pent away satisfied. ?Lafayette {Ind. Initrier.