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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. > ??WlL f 1 ; ' ** BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27-, 1878. < NO. 42. VOLUME XXY. . '.' ' V- . ' ? ? ? I - ? ? I Ttamo nf TntiifWlt. He Didn't Sell. "I b'lieve I'll sell the farm, Jane Ami, and buy a house in town Jonea made an offer yesterday?bo ll pay the money down. He said he wasn't anxious, but he had the cash to spare, And reminded me that nowadays cash sales are very me. " The farm ain't worth much, anyway, the soil is mighty thin. And the crops it yields are hardly worth the pnttin' of tbem in ; Besides, that pesky railroad that they re pattin' through this way Will cut the old place ?lap in two?Jones told ice so to-day. I Ain't afearr-d of work, you know?my daddy alios said, ) ' There ain't a. single lazy hair in Nehemiah's | head.' There wan't no lazy hairs, I know, in that old j head of Itii. *.x For he did the work of three hired men in spite j of rhenm&tiz. No, no, I'm not afearod of work- -of that I I don't complain? I ve tried to work with willin' hands in sun- | Bhine and in rain ; And I've alius wore a cheerful face, except at When them gi8dy, heai-slrong steers o'mine would' haw' when I yelled ' gee!' v'l I i : ' x, f Perhaps it toay be sinfnl foi a mortal to find fault With tfttaag ftmrd both d?r and night, if he j his salt, \ i But I've thought while cradlin' rain-lodged oats j on the side-hill over there, That my cross was most too hefcy for a small- j booed man to bear. . . i It s alius been my custom vrhen a-plowin' i stumpy soil j To hum some good, o'd-fashioued hymn?it sorter eated my toil ; j But I tell you what,'twas pretty hard to smoth- j -er the words of sin Whene'er a springy root 'nd break and whack [ me on the shin. J I mention these 'ere things, Jane Ann. because 1 T<flfie tflgead- j p t j ^ f A peaceful, blameless kind o' life, from all temptations freed. Bnt as long as Hessian flies exist and tator- \ bugs abound ' ? * 1 ? ) There'll be some tall profanity at times a lloatin' Younil. V! AJL'i t < So now if you're agreed, Jane Ann, I'll sell 1 IUO lUi U1 iv ?A/UCn . He'll find that what it lacks in soil is well made up in stones? And we'll movQ, iuto the town next week? | what's that you're sayin', wife? You'll never leave the good old place aa long as you hawelife?j Well, there it goes again, I rum ! Go on and have your Bay? Your bound to wear the breechew? in a flggera- | tivoway; But yon'll find I'll have my way this time, old girl, as well as you, So if you're bound to stay right here, by grannies?I'll stay, too!" The Old Squire's Mistake. , "True h&arUarc more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.'' Squire Atherton owned a fine place, aud had a plethoric rent roll, ro that money need not have been an object in i the selection of a wife for his only son, ! Cyril. Not being of a romantic temperament, I he had eiven but lutle' thought to the matter, merely looking upon it as es- ; sential, that at some distant time Cyril , should form some Suitable alliance, so j that the^ame ireei not die out; but j there need be no haste, and a fortune . must- be among, the lady's advantages. What, then, was his surprise and dis- J may, when Cyril cnme to him one morn- | ing and asked his consent to a marriage with a poor young girl, the orphan niece of a small farmer, who lived some three 1 miles from Atherton manor. A stormy scene ensued. They parted in anger. - Cyril mounted his favorite j "Madcap"*/ and rode at once to Deep-1 dale farm. Hilda saw him coming and met him at the door. The rash young lover had not waited for his father's consent to woo her, and they had been betrothed for several weeks. He had led Hilda to believe ; that she would be welcomed to his home, and eiven a daughter's portion of I love. ;* * It was hard to tell her the bitter troth, And in his anger and disappointment he did not soften one harsh word his father had said,'ev?i to calling Hilda a milkfaced doll, whose pearly teeth and bright eyes had captivated him in spite of his better judgment. " But we'll be married in spite of him, won't we, darling ? He'll come to his senses then, 111 warrant. He'll think it all right when he can't help himself." Hilda's rases paled as she listened to ; the eager boy, and the happy light which nad made her dark eyes so bril- j liant, had died away in somber shadows, but ahe answered with gentle resolution: v^a, uym, two wrongs never umue u ; riglrti It doesn't sound like you to say Bach ft thing. .-We are. young and wa can j wait until your . (atlier changes his mind," i'-> j "That's what he'll never do," said Cyril, gloomily. " If he tabes a notion, 1 an earthquake wouldn't move him. If i we wait for such a thing, we'll wait forever." "Then it will be with a clear oon- 1 science. Tour father is an old man, and , it might shorten his life, if you his only son?should prove disobedient and ungrateful. ..I cannot come between yon and your fathajfe -* 'TJ Cyril listened to her with flashing eyes. ' >: " Then you will throw me over ? 11 who worship the very ground your feet < have touched. Oh, Hilda, I did not think it of you. My father was right," he ooQ^iuued,jgk)omily. "He said all womfch tfre alike?selfish and mercen..~1 11^2 ... ! "*LWn't UJTUJ l Know yoi uhuliui ueIieve it of me J Hear me ! If you were j to be crippled in min$ and liody, and J miserably poor, and no one else had a | prior claim to yon, I would work myself to a shadow for you, and consider myself happy in doing so. It is because I love you better than myself that 1 will not let you do wrong. But T will promisfc to go politary and alone, so far as iiinman love is ooneerned, to my grave,if it so'be that we cannot marry. Dear, dearest Cyril, ! go home to your father and do as he wishes, fully and entirely. God'6 bless- ; iug will surely rest upon the dutiful 1 SOD. 1 . ) 1 I ? ; . ; Her voice broke. With a wild impulse she . threw tjer arms around his neck and kinged him again and again, between her sobs. It was her farewell. The next moment Cyril was standing alone in the porch, and the heavy door was shut and bolted between them. After a few moments of bewildering hesitation he mounted and rode away. He oould not but think forgivingly of Hilda, as he recalled her anguished sobs, and felt her kisses burning upon his forehead?she who had ever beem so chary of her caresses. Strive as he might; he did not again see Hilda. - It seemed as though some unseen messenger was ever on the alert to warn her of his approach. At last he grew desperate, and determined to leave ; home. His father procured him a oomj mission in the army. He wished for ac! tire service, and, as it was the time of ! the Crimean war, he had no difficulty in | carrying out his purpose. His regiment I was one of the first sent out. Hilda heard of his departure with tearj ful eyes. Still she did not regret the i course she had taken. Following the | noble example ol Jt'lorence iNigntingale, i she went to one of the hospital training ! schools to fit herself to follow her sol' dier, if necessary, and nurse some poor I victim of the war baok to life, or to soothe his dying moments if he was beyond help. i * But other work was in store for her. ' A letter from home brought news of an epidemic of the most fatal type of typhoid fever in her own village. The inhabitants were so alarmed that they were leaving the place, and nurses could not be obtained, so great was the fear of the contagion. The concluding item was this : " Squire Atherton is down with it, and of all the indoor servants at the manor, old Hannah, who took care of the mistress in her last sickness, is the only one left. She declares if she leaves the master in his sore need, it'll only be ' feet first.'" Without a moment's hesitation, Hilda went to the matron, telling her she was needed at home, and procured her discharge. Then, laden with her precious, newlv-gained knowledge, she took the fiist homeward-bonnd train. Old Hannah was seated at the master's bedside, looking worn and weary. As Hilda came softly in, dressed in her clinging gray flannel dress, with her | glossy hair hidden by a olose-fitting mus-1 lin cap, she looked to the surprised old j woman like an apparition. Hilda smiled j and held out her hand as she whispered: | "Don't you know me?Hilda, of Deepdale farm ? I am here to help you. I know what to do, so don't be afraid to j trust me. I'll watch the master faithfully if you'll go and take a r'est." Something in the girl's quiet, resolute j manner impressed the faithful old servant I that she was making no idle boast,or she j would not have yielded up her post. As i it was, weary human nature asserted its claims, and she went gladly. She soon came back with a bowl of j warm soup. It tasted gratefully to the | young nurse, as she tad not broKen her j fast since the reception of the letter. After this, Hilda was left alone, with i the sick man. The night wore wearily | away, the silence only broken by the j restless moans of the sufferer, when : Hilda would straighten his pillow, and : pass her cool hand with a magnetic touch j over his forehead, thus giving him a momentary relief. After old Hannah was thoroughly I rested, she and Hilda divided the time ' in the sick room, and by that means kept I their strength from giving out. It was a weary fight with death: but a ! strong constitution, aided by careful nursing, carried the squire through. ! The delirium passed away, and a deep j sleep came upon him. It was the crisis. ' "If he awakens rational and comfort able, he is saved," said the doctor. "If, on the contrary, he falls into a state of coma, nothing can help him." 1 1 ?- ?? r\t IllO -Q.Ull.fB Uli* vi vuo i silver-tongued repeater on the mantle seemed to find an echo in the hearts of the anxions watchers. At last the critical I moment came. . The squire awoke free ' from fever, though weak as a child. He ' was saved. ~ i ? ; t ^ > At first Hilda kept as much as possible ' out of his sight, shrinking into the : shadow of the heavy damask curtains . when he was awake. But he did not seem to notice her, and she gradually j forgot her caution. During his long and tedious convalescence he was often querulous and intractable. Then Hilda would talce a j book and read to him in her low mnsical voice, and thus soothe him to sleep. She was only waiting until her pres- , ence was not" absolutely needed to go I back to her self-imposed duty at the [ hospital. One morning she liad been ! reading the Timet, until the squire was, I as she thought, asleep. Then the paper j dropped listlessly in her lap. Her 1 thoughts, unmindful of time and space, ; were with him she loved so faithfully self-sacrificingy. A trembling voice suddenly roused her j from her reverie:; > "Hannah tells me you are going away. Is it necessary? Can any other sick person need you as much as I do ?" Hilda looked at the old man in sur- j prise. A cadence, born of loneliness ! and sorrow, in his voice, touched her j unspeakably; and as she recalled the | hale, hearty squire, who often rode by ; the farm in the pleasant old daja, call- 1 ing out a cheerful good-morning to her uncle in his stentorian tone, tears came to her eyes to see what a wreck of his ' former self he had become. After a brief hesitation she said softly: j " If you need me I will not go away j for the present." " I do need you very much," was the reply. " So that matter is settled. Now, nurse, I want to ask you a question. Have I ever seen you before ? Somehow your face seems familiar, but I cannot | place it." Hilda .felt the blood dyeing her face, j even to the border of her cap. She ! turned away, ostensibly to adjust the j folds of a curtain, in reality to avoid a j replv. Just then Hannah came in with the 1 mail. Important news from the army was expected, there having been rumors of an engagement. " Get the paper, nurse, and run over i the war items." Hannah caught the words and passed i on her way out. In her way she was as much interested as the squire. Was ' it not her nursling who was far away on ' the battle-field Btriving,to win his spurs ? I Hilda took -the paper and ran her | eyes over the columns. One painful moan escaped her lips; the next mo- I ment she lay apparently lifeless on the | floor. The heavy fall loosened her cap, | and her hair rolled in all its rich luxuri- \ ance around ^her?a kindly mantle hid < her deathly face from even old Hannah's , pitying eyes. A dasli of cold water soon revived her, and as soon as the fright occasioned by her sudden illness had subsided, the squire took the paper, and saw facing him in staring letters : A BLOODY ENGAGEMENT. Great loss of officers and men?Cyril Atherton, of the Grays, mortally wounded, while endeavoriug to silence a battery. The letters swam before his eyes. He could read no more. He rose feebly and dragged his Bhaking limbs to Hilda's side. "My poor girl," he said, brokenly. But he did not finish his sentenoe ; for, at the sound of his voice Hilda opened her eyes and looked at him, first in a dazed, dewildered way, then she put out both hands had motioned him away. " We have killed him between us! Do you hear ? You and I! Oh, my darling ! my darling !" The Squire turned to Hannah: " Who iB this young woman ?" " Lord bleBS us, sir. Didn't you know it was Hilda? Master Cyril's Hilda, who has been risking her own life to save voure ?" Hilda's voice interrupted them: " The grave is the lonesome couch we have given your bonny head, and your father may think it a better one for you than your low-born Hilda's arm. Oh, my own Cyril, could you but know how ? my heart ached -when I Bhut the doc your face, and sent you to do j duty; but yon never, never will be wiser ! You have gone forever, thinking, too, that Hilda was cruel hpdrtlpRH Oh mid Hilda! and u cruel father !" It made the old man's frame qu like an aspen leaf to hear the berei girl. He felt himself almost a murd( as the low plaintive tones made theii cnsation against him. He took her hand at last, and said " My poor girl, forgive me and 1 , mo to bear tliiB bitter, bitter pun | ment. From tbis moment, be C i alive or dead, I will make amend ' you for my unthinking cruelty bot , you and him. Yon shall be to m much my daughter as though you t Cyril's wife. But as long as Cyril not reported dead, there may be r for hope. He may come back t< yet." Hilda caught eagerly at the raj i hope. j "Oh, tell me truly," she said cli I ing her hands in her intense eagern | until the nails almost cut into the j der skin, " could :t be possible i | there was a mistake ? Do they < | put the wrong name down ?" " I have known of instances ol one 1 oer being taken for another in the h 1 and confnsion of a battle, and this t I gram -was sent while the conflict still raging." So they tried to hope?even w every one else was thinking sorrowf that the kind, bright-faced young ma wes lying with his face to the stars, ! longer ignorant of their voiceless n teries, in his solemn sleep. Hilda remained at the manor. It a comfort to the old man to make, ae thought, this expiation for his fault. In order that Hilda's position in household might be fully understc he announced her to be his son's trothed wife, and invited Lady Hargn his widowed sister, to come and lend sanction of her presence to the yoi girl's residence in his home. The next telegram brought cheei news. Cyril had lost an arm, but doing well, and as soon as he would able to bear the jouniey, to be e home, wearing on his breast a decora! earned by his own bravery. After this there was a happy hoi hold at Atherton manor. Lady Hargi was versed in all the womanly aco plishments, and she found Hilda an pupii. The squire could hardly show enoi fondness forthe gentle girl who had b so patientflnd. tender in care of ] through his tedious illness. The si of her pretty face bending over her i broidery, or engaged in weaving sc delicate crochet pattern, seemed to ] like a tangible promise that he was to be left a lonely old man. So the days wore on until the { young soldier came nome. Then ti was quite a wedding?the festivities c sequent uppn the marriage of the hei the manor being reserved until the turn of the bridal pair from a lengthe: tour in Italy, when it was fondly ho' that Oyril 'would be fully restored health and strength, so that the tenan conld be made harrov bv his presence What Causes Consumption. Statistics prove that the percent; of deaths by consumption keep es pace with the number of inhabita who follow indoor occupations. M women than men are victims to it, cause more women spend their ti within doors as a matter of cow The rooms in which they live are g erally very warm, and -without vent tion. "When their poor, abused lui break down, they anathematize "disagreeable andunliealthfulclimat though their failing health can Art AV> AniiuffAAna m/ i-rucou. uLICUnj iv ou uuwogwuo *AV tion of the physical laws of natu How many people in tliis %erycity preparing for the coming of the und taker by sleeping in warm rooms, v; the death-dealing base-burner in i blast? The old prejudice aeainst nij air still olings to many. They excli it from their sleeping and living rooi and when they shut it out they shut every night enongh poison to oa them over Jordan's stormy wa-s Then the air in churches and pul assemblies is universally bad. App ently the blessings of ventilation unknown to the custodians of the do and windows of anch places. If peo had half the regard for their lnngs t they have for their souls, they woi 1-1 ? XI t . xuuur lor tue ui u pmo AIL VA nance in the churches that would g them more time and vigor to prep for heaven. The theater is not mi better. Until places of worship s amusement are better ventilated, no < who has a proper regard for his lui should frequent them, unless he can his own cubic air with him. Factori Erinting offices and all places wh urnan beings are corralled for seve hours together, are conservatories the propagation of consumption. ^ were the healthy people ? Those w years ago, slept in rooms that ne knew a fire, and worshiped in churcl as cold as the experience of the Polt expedition. Now, surrouuded by evi comfort, a large proportioh of the po] lation of this country cuts loose from life every year by means ot consun tion. Pure air will make the d scourge avaunt. Open the windows the top, and keep them open night t day, and see how quick consumpt will Bneak out of sight.?Denver (C Neivft. Words of WiHilom. Those who trample on the helpless disposed to cringe to the powerful. We cannot walk side by side with p pie of true nobility of character with becoming ourselves elevated and nobled. Tears at a funeral are sometime mere disguise for joy, just as laugl and cnvfitv amid Rrv>ial fflfltivitios t mask a broken heart; Talents give a man superiority far n agreeable than that which proceeds f: riches, birth ?r employment, which j all external. Talents constitute our \ I essence. Many a true heart that would L I come back like the dove to the ark, a I the first transgression, has been frij I ened beyond recall by the angry 1 | and menacing taunt?the savage cha i of an unforgiving soul. Compliments which wo think are : served, we accept only as debts, \ i indifference ; but those which conscie | informs us we do not merit, we rec I with the same gratitude that we favors given away. i The goodness which stuggles and ties and gees down deep and soars h: ; is the stuff of which heroism is mi ; by which the world is salted and 1 | pure. It is the seed which bears f i in martyrs and makes men nobler t ! their nature?and deini-gods and prophets of a better time. The man whose mind and hands busy findB 110 time to weep and wail, work is slack, spend the time in read No man ever knew too much. The h est Btudents in the world are the men who know the most Habits influence the character pr much aB under-currents influence a sel, and whether they^ speed us on way of our wishes, or retafd our gress, their effect is not the less im tant because imperceptible. >1 in QUEER HOUSES. four the The Kind of Bnlldlnro Fonnd In New Mexico and ?Taos and Its Inhabitants. and The orrespondent of a Denver (Col.) , Qore paper writes from New Mexico as fol- i lows : The people of Taos are economi- i iver cal in the way of house room. There : ived are but two dwellings at Taos, and in 1 }rer? those two all the inhabitants reside. < ' ac- They are not owned by any one or two < parties, and the apartments " let" as in n some other places I could mention, ' belp where the houses are almost as thickly * lish- inhabited ; but as best. I could learn the 1 'jril people possess the houses in co-partner8 ^ ship, and all live like one happy family. < h to a house properly constitutes a village, i e as One of the buildings at Taos covers 1 vere about an acre of ground, and the other j wa8 about an acre and a quarter. They are 1 00111 constructed, as is generally known, I 1 > us presume, like pyramids, one story on 1 another until they reach fifty or sixty 1 r of feet into the air, each story being set in i from the edge of the one below Buffl- i a8P- ciently far to bring the structure almost < es8> to a point by the time five stories are at- ( ten- tained. The vails are of adobe and the t that bottom oneB are very thick, as they must ^ 5ver v>e to support the immense weight that t they are compelled to hold up. There e offi- are innumerable partition walls which t aste serve to support the roofs and top walls I ?le- as well as to separate the rooms. The c "was inside walls are thus the highest and t strongest. Being thoroughly protected 1 hil0 from what slight rainfall there is in this j ally country, they stand for ages. The enster trances are from the top, the ascents and r i no descents being made by means of lad- ! a 178" ders. A ladder is about as useful a ! i " *"* I 1 Ml 1 J ttung in a rueDio vuiage w ?ie?u penwas cil is in a newspaper offioe. These lad1 be ders stand everywhere, ontside and inside of and all aronnd a village. They the are used to climb from the ground to the >?d, first roof, from the first to the second, be- and so on to the top, and then from the lve? top to the first floor from above, and so the on back again to the bottom. The peoing pie go up and down them with the agility of monkeys. Even their domestic "iag animals climb them with perfect ease, was An Indian dog is the next thing to an Into? dian after his first cousin, and the animals '?nt muBt of course be in the house. Conseaon quently, one of the first lessons a Pueblo dog must learn is to climb up and down 18e" these ladders. The chiokens also unave derstand the modus operandi, and the 3m* housewife often thus has a whole brood aPt picking crumbs from her fourth floor. The houses are divided into compart- a ich TnanfD IVifl rnnmo Vwrin cr aHnnf tfln nr n e?n twelve feet square. A family occupies b one compartment, and whosoever occu- c ght pies the ground floor owns and occupies t 9m* all above it. It may be seen that those a >uie having their residences in the center of [ f the building have much more commo- I no^ dious quarters than their outside neigh- i bors. When in one of the Taos "hives,' s ){"e a family occupying central apartments, t iere has five rooms, those upon whom are r !0n" conferred front corner roomB have but k r ?* one. They have rules regulating the 8 r?* distribution, generally giving the most e ned capacious apartments to their most hon- s ped ored citizens. These people, when "at r * to | home," are so effectually separated by g 'try I the immense walls between them that t ' I they are no more troubled by their \ I neighbors than are the people who live t ! along Fourteenth street in Denver. i: age i The family relations are well pre- p :act j served, and I am told that domestic disnts cord does not -prevail here more than ore 1 among more civilized communities. The be- I lamb and the lion lie down together. I ime j The mother-in-law and son-in-law sit in s | opposite corners and smoke the pipe of a en- j peace. There are about seven hundred t: 1- i . ,1 Ml 3 XI -11 n an- j Indians in cms village, aiiu uiey mi m- ? age j habit these two houses, consequently tl the they are about as thick as a new paper e e," ' of pins. There have been about seventy J be deaths from small-pox in the place dnr)la ing the last few months, and, fearimg t; re. that the walls might be innoculated, I are did not go inside. s ler- These Indians have lived at this place a ith for over 300 years, as we have every c 'nil reason to believe from the old Spanish a ?ht records still extant; how much longer b ide will probably never be known, as they fl ns, have no knowledge themselves. /It is, h in I however, believed, that they settled n rrv ! tiom nhrmt t.ViA t.imA or soon after Cor- l) es. tez attacked Mexico. o >lic j ' p ?r- i " a are Shocking Scene In a Chnrcli. ors A reeent dispatch from Richmond, Pi? Ind., is to the following effeot: City ' hat Marshall L. Schafer, has juBt returned from Knights town, reports that himself, <1 di- park Page, from Richmond, a?d Officers lve Kehoe, from Indianapolis and Haynee, d "i? of Knightstown, took Harry Foxwell, f' IC^ the Knightstown saloon keeper, arreBted h in(* on suspicion of being the murderer of )ne John W. White, to Carthage to-day, and I arrived at the church just as the funeral c ieB services over the murdered man were a es? completed. They took the prisoner into er? the church to look at the corpse. He J0* evinced such agitation that the murdered n man's sister screamed in affright. Instantly the crowd in the churoh made a k "?? rush upon the prisoner, whom they ^er tried to force from the officer. Revolvers h?8 were drawn, the women screamed, the 1118 preacher leaped upon a chair and ex- f, 3r7 horted the crowd to keep the peace, and Pn* only owing to his influence were the officers able to remove Foxwell from the aP- church. j ea<* Upon the street the mob of sev- * at eral hundred made another rush jj l.U(* upon the officers, demanding the pris- , ion nnfli? onrl nrrrinw " Shnnf t.Vlft mrmlfir ?/ \ ?J??? _ ol') er," "Hang him," "Stone liim to ? death," and such like expressions. The V officers forced their way through the crowd with their revolvers, and took the ? are | prisoner to a justice's office, privately I F i secured a hack, drove rapidly from town 1 >eo- ; and took the prisoner to Rushville, out I across the country nearly twenty miles. en- j Arriving there, they were met by a large r I crowd, but had no difficulty in locking J s a I up the prisoner in jail. Fox well is a f iter , Baltimore' rough, and bears a bad repunay tation. It is the general belief that he c 1 is guilty, and he would have been lynch- ? tore i e(* ^nt *or ^rmuess of the 1 rom | officers and a few law-abiding citizens * are j who anticipated an effort would be made c ! to lynch the prisoner. ' ^ ! # I i i ' * Lave j Au Adroit Swindle. j i iter A young gentleman recently drove up j < ;ht- to tne establishment of a well known i I ooK watchmaker in London and purchased ^ rity a gold hunter for ?18. Unfortunately, 1 he had left a ?50 note on his desk at 1 de- home. Would Mr. So-and-so kindly \ vith ' send a man with him to his business I i >nce j house?naming an eminent Arm of f eive : ironmongers ? The man might keep the do change for himself. Mr. So-and-so 1 hummed and hawed, and found means to communicate with the cabman, who, 1 L<rh" ' however, told him he had taken up his ^e' fare at the ironmonger's establishment i in question, and that the gentleman was ] going down to Pytehly. Thereupon < jjan : the man was sent. Arriving at the < tjje establishment, the voung gentleman ] ushered the watchmaker's man into the 1 1 shop, and told the clerk to " give him ] thatSO-pounder." So paying he jumped i . into the cab, and drove off. The clerk, i mS- who had politely bowed and gone off ] ar^" to fetch the cash, then returned with a i old brown paper parcel, which he suavely ] handed to the man.. "What's this?" i etty asked the astonished messenger, "this < ves- isn't fifty pound." " Excuse me," was ] the the reply, "it is. It's the fifty-pound i pro- dumb-bell the gentleman bought about por- an hour ago." The watchmaker still ; cherishes that dumb-bell. Russian Characteristics. Ex-minister Boker tells the Philade] phia Times something abont Russia characteristics as follows: The whol government of Russia has been tone down from the Russia of twenty year ago. I witnessed in St. Petersburg th reception or the emperor upon his re burn from the war. After leaving hi carriage to go to his palace the peopl crowded around him and pushed hie ibout as Americans would a politician rhe reception was the most enthusiast! aver I saw, and he seemed to enjoy i thoroughly. It is true that some of the poore jlasses of Russians are very ignorant md the nation itself is not so far ad PAnr?,?d in civilization as other Europeai aations are, but it must be consider yhat a vast area of population there ii X) reach and civilize. The resources o ;he country are infinite. In the neigh Dorhood of the Caspian sea- there an ivers of petroleum running away, ant ;he mineral wealth of the country "is en )rmous. But the Russians have not th< mergy which Americans possess, heno ;he great bulk of this wealth lies unde reloped. They import petroleum fron bis country. The peoplejare more con lervative and careful in taking riski han "Americans are, although many risi rom the lowest conditions to position! >f affluence, and some make their for unes rapidly. A shrewd ignorant iel owwill crop out there'and become rich ust as they do in America. They have not the gteat inventive fac ilty of Americans aijd other peoples ind they are not very ^uick to adapt th< mprovements of other nations to thei >wn use. For example, in their lm aense grain trade they .do not use eleva ors, but handle this product altogethe: rith shovels. They lose time in thii pay, and when their grain does get int< he market it is generally dirty and selli or less than it wouli otherwise bring Besides it usually goesto market in bags ehile in England and America they shij t in bulk, which makes it lees liable t< poil I The people in the interior provinces o: Russia are, some of them, very ignorant ?hile the higher classes in the cities ar< .8 much enlightened as those of an] >ther nation. Not many speak the Eng * 1 to 'or?/1 al AfQTM IB LI ItUl^UD^U) UUU VUOlV JK7y nuu turruji ias been, a very friendly sentiment or he part of the Russians toward on: ioontry. The cause of some partB o: he population being so highly civilized tnd other parts rather benighted may b< iccounted for in the fact that the race pread over such an immense area oi ountry, is not easily reached and cenralized. But with their mineral wealtl .nd other resouroes there is an immense >rospective power belonging to them, :t is this that makes other nations anx ous and uneasy in issues like the pre ent. It is this that Napoleon the Firsl tad before him when he spoke about hit Jtimately getting into possession of al] Lsia Minor. The Rugsinis develop lowlyx as iB the case wita all great iations. Out of the three hundred aud ixty-flve days of the year I forget how aany holidays they keep, but they are a Treat many, and the giving of their time o these observances is an immense caste. But too muoh praise cannot be >estowed upon Alexander for his unto _ 1- i-- -4.- v.;? g enorui i<u pruuiuto iuo guuu ui uu >eople. Didn't Know He Was Loaded. "Yon will pleas? observe," said old lr. Lamb-well, as he led us through hie choolthe other day, "that the boys re required to display the utmoBfc attenion to quietness and discipline, and in short time become even divested oi bat most annoying disposition to tease ach other; in short, they soon settle own into the gravity of mature years, inder the wholesome system I have inroduced." We at this moment arrived in front of everal boys who were standing around bucket of water, and one had just harged his mouth with the contents ol tin cup, while the old gentleman was tooping to recover his pen from the oor, when another passing along be< ind, snapped his finger quickly beeath the drinker's ear, and caused him y a sudden start to eject the contents f his mouth over the pedagogue's bald ate. Starting upright, with his hair nd face dripping, the master said : "Who did that ?" The party unanimously cried out: 'Jim Gun, sir," "Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you o that for ?" Jim, appalled at the mischief he had one, muttered out that it was not his rait, but that Tom Owens had snapt im. This changed the direction of old jambwell's wrath, and shaking his ane portentously over Owens' head, he 8ked: " Did you snap Gun ?" The culprit, trembling with fear, murlured: _ " Yes, sir ; I snapt Gun, but I didn't now he was loaded." Character. The great hope of society is individual haracter, because it not alone affecte lie individual himself, but also tne ociety in which he lives. Emerson save liat the characters of men make the onscience of sooiety in which they live. Jenjamin Franklin attributed all hi* access among men to the character he stablished for himself and not to anj irilliancy of intellect. Gharaoter it apital in itself. It is a victory organzed, and does not depend upon birth, ortune or influence. There is no capita ;oes so far or pays so well, and bankuptoy in oharaoter is seldom repairec a a life time. To establish character, eelings have to be disciplined, habit* aonlded and controlled in obedience t< eason and moral conscience, and wher >roperly fashioned make the surest pass )ort through life. We find in evervda] ife that when a person of doubtfu iharacter calculates a pieoe of news it ii ecaived with suBpioion, whereas whei t is attributed to a man of oharactei >eople listen with eager interest anc jonviction. The best time to test a mai >f character is when the tide is agains rim. George Washington was a tru< !xample-of a man of great oharactor vho showed in times of danger and diffi :nlty a force of -will, a tenacity of pur lose that have never been surpassed [t iB loss of character that has fillet maonB, poorhonses and lunatio asylums md only when people appreciate th< rue worth of character?how jealousb t should be guarded and transferred al i precious heritage to their offspring ?will the world furnish fewer causes o inman misery, sorrow and degradation Probating the Will of a Living Person A good joke is told of one of th< nost distinguished members of the St Louis bar. A short time ago he wa :alled upon to write the will of a Iadj >f some means, residing at one of thl public institutions of the city. He wrot ;he document, and after having i regularly attested, put it in his pocke md forgot all abont it. A week or tw< ifterwards he found the will in hii pocket, and, thinking the lady was dead look it to the probate court and bad i probated. Some of the heirs, residini in Illinois, hearing of the provisions o af the will, came to the city for the pui pobe of contesting it, and found to tliei surprise that the lady wrs living, an not likely to die very soon. The lawye is now at work getting the probate c the will set aside.?Globe-Democrat. Remarkable and Historic Trees. I- TUAwn ava nn*v?nvrtra mmorlro^lA firifl Q historic trees, among' which may be , e named the bread-fruit tree of Ceylon, 3 the frnit of which is baked and eaten as s we eat bread, and is equally good and e nutritious. In Barbutu, South America, ?- is a tree which by piercing the trunk s produces milk, with which the inhabie tants feed their children. In the intea rior of Africa is a tree which produces .. excellent butter. It resembles the Amer-. 0 ican oak, and its fruit, from which the t butter is prepared, is not unlike the olive. The great traveler, Park, declared r that the flower surpassed any made in > England from cows milk. "At Sierra - Leone is the cream fruit tree, which is 1 quite agreeable in taste. At Table Bay, 1 near the Cape of Good Hope, is a small s tree, the berries of whioh make excellent f candloa. It is also found in the Azores. - The vegetable tallow tree also grOws b in Sumatra; and the bark of a tree in 1 China produces a beautiful soap. The talypot tree in Ceylon grows to the 3 height of one hundred feet, the leaf of 3 which is so large that it will cover nearly - twenty people, like an umbrella. The i banyan tree is wonderful; it never dies, ! - and is constantly extending, for as the 3 branches shoot downward they take root, J and thus produce other trees, whose 3 bunches in like manner extend down ward, and resembling large oaks, the - fruit of which is much like rich scarlet ) figs, and furnishes a luxurious subsistence to monkeys and birds of every description. i The pippul tree is said te be " the s most completely beautiful of all which r adorn the wide garden of Nature." The - Hindoos call it the " Tree of God " and - the "religious fig," because under its r shade they suppose their god Vishnu 3 was born. It is held by them in such > veneration that the form of the leaves is * onlv allowed to be painted on furniture used by their princes. They plant them i as memorials of persons deceased. They > serve also for shade for travelers. The > Chinese feed vast numbers of silkworms on this tree. f One of the most remarkable trees in i history is the great dragon tree, -which 5 was blown down by a hurricane a few 5ears since at Orotava, in the Island of 'eneriffe. It was a stately tree, about i eighty feet high, as early as A. D., 1402, 1 and so old and remarkable* tree then as r to excite particular notice and care for f its preservation. Humboldt spoke of it I some sixty-two yearrf ago and computed * it to be 6,000 years old. Sir George > Staunton had previously brought it into 1 notice in 1771.' A cypress tree in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1 which forty-three years ago measured 1 one handred and twenty feet in height, 1 one hundred and seventeen feet ten " inches in circumference, and which ' sheltered Herman Cortez and his followc era under its widespreading branches | about the year 1520, is supposed to be I now 5,000 years old. J A type of antiquity in the vegetable ' kingdom is that of a fig tree in Ceylon, ' 1 nlantarl o/>/>nrr1iTHy tn dOCtlDQentaiT and I r traditional evidence, 288 B. 0., making it 1 2,165 years old.* 1 The oldest oak in England is in Here1 fordshire, situated in Hatfield Park. It 1 is over a thousand years old. Another " old oak is the " Parliament Oak," from 1 the tradition of Edward I. holding a parliament under its branches, on one of the estates of the Duke of Portland. It , is considered to be thirteen hundred 1 years old. The tallest oak in England 1 was the property of the same nobleman, 1 and was called the ' Duke's Walkingstick." It was higher than Westminster [ Abbey. The largest oak is known aa "Calthrop Oak," Yorkshire; it meas1 ures seveifty-eight feet round the ground, ' while the " Three-shire Oak." at Worknnn iu an r.ftllfld from its shade covering part of three counties. Fashion Notes. ; Spring styles are makiDg their apf pearance. 1 Scarf draperies for fourreaux grow in 1 favor. Blouse polonaises, with carrick capes, will be worn. Old gold, amber and rainbow beads are to be worn. Large quantities of flowers are seen on all ball toilets. Dress and breakfast capes are worn by ladies of all ages. Fluffy wool fringes are to trim the first spring dresses. Chambery gauze is the material for | bridesmaids' dresses. ; Blue gray jet h the coming variation of this popular fashion. New percales show dashes of oolor on i grounds of white or black. 1 Spanish colors?old gold, yellow and 11110/11- dm (viminc in fashion. i Large lace collars and outside cuffs ! will be much worn in the spring. ; RoBe color is worn by the first bridesmaid when several attend a bride. The brims and crowns of spring bonnets will be covered with a network of beads.. , . The last fancy in flower garnitures is , for them to be studded with artificial , dew. Satin evening dresses are trimmed i with single folds of crape of the same ) Bhade of color. r The laveuse, or washwoman's tunic, ? is the only overdress worn in Paris at | the moment. ! Solid black or white grounds in spring percales have borders in Oriental colors | pnd designs. Carrick capes on spring polonaises \ and paletots have stole-like pieces down , the front. i The squurer the neok, the higher the . shoulder straps, and the shorter the t slqeveB the more fashionable is the ball 1 dress. When several bridesmaids attend a i bride they wear dresses of the same r material and style of make up, but of 1 different colors. | Fashionable trimming for cream white 1 silk and satin ball dresses is made of 3 the head and breast feathers of humming birds and Brazilian beetles. Bnssian Cheese. I An article of diet of almost universal i comsumption among the poorer classes ^ in Russia is the variety of home-made 7 cheese known as " Tworog," of which 3 more than seven million pounds are J sold annually in St. Petersburg alone, f Its mode of preparation is very simple. Sour skim milk is placed over night in a warm oven, and poured the next day upon j a sieve, where it is allowed to remain till j j all the whey has run off. The curd is I . then packed tightly in a wooden vessel' s and covered with a lid made to fit j 7 exactly within it. On this heavy weights 1 b are placed so as to. keep np. a constant b pressure on the mass of curd ; and the : t space between the lid and tbe top of the i t vessel is filled with cold water, which j 5 is frequently renewed. Tworog cheese ' b is, in fact, nothing more than hard- j , pressed milk ourd. In the northwestern j t and Bouthem governments of the empire ! % it is often made from sheep's milk, and f in Bessarabia a superior quality made '- from the whole milk is prepared, whioh r possesses far better keeping properties :1 than the ordinary sort, and which is r exported in considerable quantities to if Wallachia, Moldavia, and even to Austria. k FA KM, UAKUJUN AM? HOUSEliULiJ. Importance of Having Good Barns. In a climate so changeable as ours, the proper care and stabling of domestio animals are of more importance to their health and thnft than a large nnmber of farmers seem practically to admit. Fall, winter and spring, storms of rain, snow and sleet not unfrequently last, two, and sometimes three days. No humane, prndent farmer should leave so important and reliable domestic animals as horses and cattle exposed to sucn storms auring eimer aay or mgnt. It is greatly against the interest of any one to do so. Much has been said and written that stock does better to roam at large over the farm, bat this is a sad mistake. Practically we'have proven to onr entire satisfaction that such a practice is ruinous in the extreme to the interests of any farmer who would make his occupation a profitable one. We are satisfied that stock of any kind will consume almost double the quantity of feed, if fed in the pastures and woodlands of the farm, than if fed in good, dry, comfortable stables. This is in itself proof enough for its advantages; and then, in connection with this, it is not half the labor to feed and see after the stock; besides there is no everlasting tramping over me farm raining the hope of next year's grass, as tramping over the pasture fields by a big lot of stock all winter, and mnch ef the time when it is very wet and muddy, almost ruins good grass land. There is not a wor<i that can be said to favor out-dolor feeding. Feed under shelter. This is the way to secure good profits for your trouble, since every farmer has more or less stock to feed during the winter months. If a stock barn is properly constructed, well lighted, dry, comfortable, and thoroughly ventilated, animals of all kinds will endure confinement cheerfully, with no desire to be outdoors. A good barn contributes to the convenience and comfort of everything, and imparts an air of thrift, neatness and order to the entire farm that never fails to favorably impress all who visit it. Light, warmth and ventilation are indispensable to the health and development of animals, and these conditions should be found in every barn. Many -a farmer loses more than enough grain in the course of five or ten years to build a good barn. An ample, well arranged building of this kind will supply the place of several other unsightly strao LUJLtJtt WiilUil UiXJUpjr njpave au? uwvooiiovo trouble, uot being adapted to what could be termed a good system of feeding. It is argaed that it is too expensive to erect big bams for feeding all the stock on, a farm. This is true. Bat then the barn must be built to suit the farm, and this changes the matter. A small farm will need a small building, and a large farm, one more capacious. So the expense of building need not be more for either than they can afford. The advantages And convenience resulting from them demonstrate that it is true economy to have them. Better do without some* thing else and secure neat, convenient barns, and each succeeding season will prove more clearly the wisdom of the j investment.?Practical Forme?. Keclpea. A Cheap Fbtjit Cake.?In one quart of sifted flour add a teacup of sugar, half a cup of butter, one cup of washed, dried currants, two heaping teaspoons of baking powder and spioe to taste; rub all thoroughly into the flour, then stir in cold water to make a stiff batter. Bake an hour, first half hour quickly, then slowly. A Swiss Soup.?Boil three , pounds of potatoes, mash them well and add slowly some good brotli, sufficient for the 1 T -i i.1 t M . 4-V.^r> tureen. uei tue?c lmjii iu^ciudx , uiuu add some spinach, a little parsley, lemon, thyme and sage, all chopped fine; boil all 'together five minute*; pepper and salt to taste; just before taking it off the fire to serve add two wellbeaten eggs. ( Goujen Lemokade.-?Make a lemonade rather more tart than for ordinary drinks ; take as many eggs as you have nsed lemons, and beat until thoroughly light, adding daring the process, half a cup of powdered sugar to a half dozen eggs ; wnen thoroughly light, pour into the lemonade, keeping it well stirred This makes a delicious, cool and healthy drink, and id particularly acceptable to ladies. Corn Dodgers.?On6 quart of corn meal, a tablespoonful of lard, two eggs, a tablespoonful of salt, scald the meal, with the lard in it, with boiling water, cool with a little milk, add the eggs, beaten light, beat *veryN hard for ten minutes, make them thin enough with mi'lV to dron off the STK)on and re tain their shape in boiling lard; serve I hot. Have the lard boiling hot when J you drop them in. 1 exotmient Rolls.?Melt in one and a half pints new milk a quarter of pound of butter?lard will answer, or one-half the quantity eaoh of lard and butter. Have ready "two and a half pounds sifted flour, in which mix well half a teaspoonful salt, one grated potato, whioh should have been boiled the day previous, that it may be perfectly cold. As soon as tho miIV in lukewarm, stir it in : add a teacup of yeast and knead welL In oool weather let it stand near the Btove, that it may rise in three or four hours ; then put in a oool place an hour or more; then work in half as much more butter, incorporating it thoroughly in thexlough. Form it into rolls, place in a well buttered pan, let them rise about half an hour, then bake in a quick oven. The New Crescent. The Boston Advertiser calls attention to the curious fact that if the conditions of peace preliminaries signed by Russia and Turkey are carried ont, they will leave the European dominions of the latter very much in the form of a crescent, or rather of a moon in her last quarter, which would be the more appropriate emblem at present for that power. It is true that its symmetry will be somewhat marred, since Montenegro " oomes cranking in," cutting " a monstrous cantle " ont of the western horn, while Thessaly and Albania constitute a protuberance, which the little kingdom of Greece is anxious to reduce. Altogether, however, the general outline of the country will resemble the form of a waning moon about as nearly as that of Italy does a boot. Its diminished and shrunked proportions will recall the moon described in Shelley's lines: " Wan emblem of an empire fading now, See how it trembles in the blood-red air, And, like a mighty lamp whose oil is spent, ShriDks on the horizon's edge, while from above One star, with insolent and viotorioas light, Hovers above it* fall, and with keen beams, Like arrows through a fainting antelope, Strikes its weak form to death." Qnecr Names for Towns. St. Nicholas gives the following as some of the queer names of towns found in the United States: Toby Guzzle, Ouray, Kickapoo, T. B., Ono, O. Z., Doe Gully Bun, Omio, Nippenose, Eau Gallie, Neeu More, Kandiyohi, Nobob, Oob Moo Sa.We Wo Ka, Ty Ty, Osakip, Why Not, Happy Jack,U Bet,Ohoptack, Fussville, Good Thunder's Ford, Apop ka, Burnt Ordinary, drum Elbow, Busti, Cheektowaga. Yuba Dam, DycuBburgh, Ohuckatnck, Ni Wot, Buck Snort, What Cheer, Forks of Little Sandy, To wash, Sopchoppy, Thiry Daems, Vicar's i Switch, Omph Ghent, Peculiar. Gravity In the Moons or Mars. We are able to consider the relations of | intermatter in worlds where gravity is so small as it must be in the Maritian moons. It has been said, by myself among others, that building and all engineering processes wonld be much easier in a world where gravity is very small than in our own world. But if less arduous, so far as mere labor is concerned, they would in some respects be far more difficult. Much more skill would be required to give adequate stability to buildings, made even of the j most solid materials, in a world where ! all weights are so much reduced. Sup- j nose even platinum were available in sufficient quantities for architectural purposes, yet a block of platinum of given size* would press downward with less force there than a block of deal wood of about one-twentieth of its size on our earth. Whewell has well described, in his Bridgewater treatise, the effects of a great deduction in the force 1 I of gravity, though he is not there con-1 sideringlife in other worlds, but the im- j portance (which many are apt to overlook) of those portions of our earth's j frame which lie far below the deepest; j mines ever yet dug by men. If the in- J | terior of our earth could be scooped out; ! and removed, we should, in fact, suffer 1 j from precisely the same inconveniences I I as would affect creatures like ourselves ! ! living in the moons of Mars. We should ! indeed ' find ourselves, like them, in I dread and terror. "Things," as Whewell truly says, " would not lie where we placed them, but would slide away with the slightest push. We should have a ! difficulty in standing or walking, j something like that we have ou shipboard, when the deck is inclined; and we should stagger helples&ly through an atmosphere thinner than that which oppresses the respiration of the traveler on the tops of the highest mountains." "It is hard," says the ingenious writer in the Spectator, "to conceive a one-storied house holding together," in the Martian moon woild, "against any serious lateral blows." Projectiles wonld be no less deadly than in our own world; but the range which projectiles such as ours would obtain in "such a world would render close fighting impossible, on the one hand, and efficient aiming impossible on the other. A Krupp cannon, for instance, whose greatest range on our earth is, let us say, five miles, would on the Martian moon fire a projectile which would leave the moon forever, and the recoil of the cannon would probably carry it half a dozen miles away from the firing point. Much weaker projectile force would have to be employed, and less mischief wonld be done on this account, and also because any living body struck by one of these projectiles would give away before it much more readily than a similar body similarly struck on our own earth. ?Richard A. Proctor, in liclgravia. AL? Da?aa4A/I TaVA JlUTT Ui? i)uug? n?|Raicu uit) The Raleigh (N. C.) Observer relates this anecdote of an esteemed North Carolina judge : Some years ago a case was called for trial in Cumberland su- i perior court. Among the witnesses on i j behalf of the State was to have been one Sara Mooney. She was not found in the court-room, and her name was ' called in due form from the court-house window without effect. Whereupon, the State solicitor, the late Hon. Robert Strange, who was fond of a joke, even , of a pun, turned to the oourt and said: j "May it please your honor, the testimony of this witness is not material, and we will go on with the case without Sara-moony." Of course the lawyers ' laughed at the pun, but the judge didn't * see it, and cracked never a smilo. There , were no railroads in those days, ar.d a few stage-coaches, and judge and law- J yers traveled from one court to another ' in McKethan's buggies. On the road to the next court, in the judge's own country, there was quite a procession of 1 . _ 1 *.11 : 1U. ( lawyers m oaggiutt iuuuwj-u^ mo juugc o lead. The jadge called a halt in the ^ middle of a stream to water his horse, 1 and, in the thoughtful mood incident to 1 that process, suddenly astonished his ' brethren of the bar by bursting into ' laughter both loud and long. He ex- i plained that he was laughing at Judge 1 Strange's good joke. Arrived at home, I through with his toilet, and seated at i supper, his wife, as wives will, asked of ] the incidents of his journey. There had i been none of interest, he said, except ; the good joke gotten off by their mutual friend Judge Strange at Cumberland court. " And whi't' was that, my dear ?" " Well, there was a case in which one nf the witnesses was named Mary Mooney. She could not be found, and Judge Strange, amid shouts of laughter, said, " May it please your honor, we will go on without Mary Mooney." The good lady pondered awhile, and said she I did not see anything very funny in that; | and, after a little thinking, the judge : said that he did not either, then, but that he had seen it while watering his I horse. Badly Frightened Celestials. I A boy, while on his way to the RiohI mond charcoal pile above the furnaces, I yesterday. espiecl an old wagon wheel on the hillside. With trne boyish impulse, | he stood it on its rim and started it down the hill. With the usual perversity and cussedness of all inanimate things, it took a straight oourse for a Chinaman's shanty, and, gathering 'jrce and velociity by the momentum of its downhill revolution, it dashed with great force against the Celestial residence, and tore it from its moorings, carrying wreck ^ud destruction to the interior. A doz en terrified and scared Celestials tumbled | ont of the back window and sought safe! on the flat below. The boy had taken to his heels and disappeared over the orest of the hill, and there was no visible cause in sight to account for the apparent earthquake. After a long consultation, the oravest barbarian cautiously crept back, peered around the corner of the shanty, and finally ventured to the doorway. His. companions joined him, and the gesticulating, outpouring of choice speech, and the testing of the capacity of their native language in the way of profanity, was wonderful. The boy forgot to return that way to explain the cause of the accident.?Eureka , (Nev.) Sentinel. i I He Would Tell. She had invited him to stop to supper, ! and he was trying to appear easy and ! | unconcerned, while she was oil her I prettiest behavior. i "Have you used the sugar, John?" | inquired the mother in a winning man-1 ner. "John don't want no sugar," ejaculated the young heir, abruptly. " Why not?" inquired the father, curi- ! I ously, while John in his surprise swal- I i lowed a bit of toasted crust and nearly cut his throat open. " Cos he don't," explained the heir in ; j an artful manner, "I heard him tell : I Mary las' night?" i "You keep still," interrupted Mary i in an hysterical manner, while the young I man caught his breath in dismay. " I heard him say," persistedthe heir j with dreadful eagerness, "that she was so sweet be shouldn't never use no more i sugar any more?an' then he kissed her, ' an' I said I'd tell, an'?" The young heir was lifted out of the room by his ear, and the supper was j finished in moody silence. AWUIO VA JU?WV> vww* # A stitch in time saves harsh language A bakers' congress has just been held in Paris. . ' The man who would like to see you? the blind man. A soldier can not be even half a soldier (, if he is in quarters. The air in a .room twelve feet* square and eight feet high, weighs nine pound?. There are in Prussia 51,398 teachers, . but out of this number only 5,588 are women. " *' * "* ,4 ^ Wisconsin has 20,000,000 acros of land which have never been broken or felt the plow. The Paris exhibition will be open evenings, and will be lighted by an electric light. ' r>.i r , Chicago had 365 failures during 1877. One for every day in the year, including the Sundays. Why is the chin the most unlucky part of the body? Because it as constantly, getting into scrapes. - . > ,lh f Official salaries aggregating $8,149,-,. 158 are paid yearly to 7,204 persons in the city of New York. Let's have spelling bees this winter by all means. Those Eastern war names ' would come in so handy. When a man breaks his skull he " lies in a critical condition," but when t -i J i ae Dreajsa jjuj wuru ue siuipijf hot. Good striving . .. Brings thriving.' ' " Better a dog wrdeh works-; i S,..H . .. Than fclion that shirks..t.t A horse-thief, in Honeedale, Penn., is ' ascertained to have killed one of the stolen animals , and salted it down'for' meat.. Indiana has dug np a musket supposed to have been lost.sixty-five years agol The owner can have it by paying for this ' notice. ' * " <" h Professor Gorini, of the U niversitv of Padua, treated the body of Victor Em- > manuel with a preparation which made it as hard as marble. < " Tell your mistress that I've torn tie /?n?-+o;n " floirl a Irutoar to a female domestic. " Very well/ sir ; mistress will put it down on the bill as. extra rent" . j,. "The bright lexicon of youth," ^in which "there is no such worn as f%3/' . does not seem to be a very popular dictionary in the mercantile community just nov. i Wonder if it would be considered a remarkable original observation if we ^ should intimate that the stuffing has been knocked out of Tnrkey.?Cincinnati Breakfast Table. .'>>> A new design of postage stamps is soon to be announced. They are pre* pared with inclosed borders of white to prevent the fraudulent practice of "washing " canceled stamps. K South Carolina supplies nearly half tbe rice produced in the country. Georgia is next, or 7,000,000 pounds ahead of Louisiana. Nearly all the rice comes from these three States. "You're Retting a great d*eal of silver,, aren't you ?" he said, as he paid his fif- , teen cents at the lunch counter, and took half the toothpicks in the tumbler. "Yes, but we're getting short of timber," replied the clerk. A new piece of music, composed by a New York newspaper man, is entitled tbe "Editor's Waltz." The title-page ' should be embellished with a picture of the editor waltzing after a subscriber who is seven years in arrears. . "What is a veranda?" is now dismooad hv frtTAi'om architects. A vemil da, gentlemen, is a place where, with the right ^ind of companion you will find the mron shines brighter and the hours fly swifter than in any other spot on the earth's surface. The human body expands immensely with age. When eleven young men are 3eated on one side of a car, they can easily sit up a little closer to make room _ for a pretty girl, but six of them can manage to monopob'ze and entire side of the car when an old woman oomes in." Sufty-flve of the eighty-one lives lost it the Ashtabula disaster have been paid for by the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern railroad company at a rate averaging $5,000 apiece. The most expensive life cost the company $9,000, and a newly married couple were appraised at only $3,000. The net imports of merchandise into the United States from 1820 to 1878 were $12,257,753,197, and the domestic exports $10,777,782,872. Since 1870 the imports have exceeded the exports , in value by the sum of $149,114,839, although the excess of exports in the last four years was $395,481,316. .... t ( A co-operative society of working women in Paris, in the hope of obtaining steady work and remunerative prices, 't have opened a shop at 2 Boulevard da Temple for the manufacture and sale of underclothing for both sexes,'and of flowers, hats and dresses for women. There is also an association of journeymen tailors established on a firm basis, at 72 ? t n i L 1 __ J OQ Qna TVir .boulevard oeoasiupui tmu w mw bigo, which advertises that it obtained a prize at the Philadelphia exposition. A popular Newport (R. L) clergyman was. sitting in his room a few eveniDgs ago, when a man knocked at his door, and said hie sen-ices were required at a boarding house a short distance away. The clergyman went with the messenger, but the expected wedding did not come off. It was found that a sick man, in an outburst of gratitude, had informed his female attendant that he would marry her if she would send for a minister, but he had changed his mind and refused to keep his promise. One of the foreign medical journal** calls attention to the evils of breathing by the mouth, and reminds us that the nose was made for a two-fold purpose: First, to sense impure air and lead us to avoid it; secondly, the inequalities of the nares retain solid particles of the atmosphere, and prevent the inhalation of irritating dust in the delicate tissue of the lungs. Therefore "shut your mouth," instead of being an'impudent demand is good hygienic advice,?Dr. E. B. Footc's Health Monthly. A lady contributes to the New Jerusalem Messenger, for the information of the children, a little result of her observation in natural history. It is the way Pass has of showing when she is thirsty and when she has dmnk enough. "If she wants milk," writei this observant Iddy, "you will notice that her"long tail stands straight out like a banner. Give her a saucer and watch her tail; as she eagerly laps the milk, the tail gradually droops from its position, falling lower and lower until it rests on the floor. Then Pussy has finished her drink, and wants no more. Try it." The American whaling fleet of 1877 was very suocessfnl. There were no special disasters, and no changes in the business worthy of note, excepting the continued additions to the fleet. Twelve vessels were built during the year. The present fleet consists of 187 vessels, aarainst 172 on January 1, 1877 169 in 1876 and 163 in 1875. the North and South Atlantic ocean employ over 100 vessels, while the more fruitful grounds of the.Paoiflo ecean, Japan and New Zealand are almost deserted. The North Pacific fleet lost three vessels, and sixteen vessels came out with an average of 1,065 barrels of oil and 8,55c1 pounds of whalebone.