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- - - ? ' ' - ^ _ '-j-?: - -?^ ? . + ri -;.': ;i.r **?.. ' ' ?*i-S *-tf #&&&*. &&* ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER, i .. . . / ',/. /" 1 ' '< . .rvwti' :into . .. .< "" ???????????????_??????_______???-_??_ -" I ... 1 I I ' .1 BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APKIL 10, 1878. NO. 44. VOLUME XXV. g - _ i..i Mater Amabiiis. b! Down the goldenest of streams, Tido of dreams, The fair cradled man-child drifts; I C( Sways with cadenced motion slow, je To and fro, j As the mother-foot poised lightly, falls j w and lifts. j yj He, the firstling,?he, the light j . Of her sight,- ' j Jj He, the breathing pledge of love, 'Neath the holy passion lies | ^ Of her eyes,? Smiles to reel tne warm, liie-gmng ray | tt above. ; bi She believes that in his vision, Skies elysian , ?? O'er an angel-people shine. Back to gardens of delight, j Taking flight, w His auroral (spirit basks in dreams divine, j Bnt she smiles throngh anxious tears; i p1 7-r?u < hi uuuuiu )oni? Tressing forward, she perceives. I j? 8hadowy muffled shapes, they come ! 0 Deaf and dumb, I ^ Bringing what? dry ohaff and tares, or full-eared sheaves? ^ What for him bLl%11 she invoke ? ! Shall tho oak Bind the man's triumphant brow ? Shall his daring foot alight jln On the height ? ! V Shall he dwell amidst the kumble and ^ the low ? j Through what tears and sweat and pain, is Most he gain Fruitage from the tree of life ? Shall it yield him bitter flavor ? ca Shall its savor be Be as manna midst the turmoil and the 1 Pc strife ? In his cradle slept and smiled . b( Thus the child Whe as Prince of Peaca was hailed. Thus anigh the mother breast, i eii Lulled to rest, j st< Child-Napoleon down the lilied river sailed. 're 1 ai Crowned or crucified?the same uiowb tao name aj Of her deathless love divine. . jc Still the blessed mother stands, In all lands, i As she watched beside thy cradle and by j ag mine. of Whatso gifts the years bestow, , he Still men know, . While she breathes, lives one who Bees ! 7** (Stand they pore or sin-defUbd) ' Ent the child j n? ca Whom she crooned to sleep and rocked j aQ upon her knees. j m| ?Emma Lazarus in Scribner. ? j as. TTnr.lft firm's (rhostlv Ride, m gr My Uncle Ben believe in gl :>sts ? Of a}1 course he did ; bo used to say : " No ?*( modern mansion of stucco and plaster for me ; give me a grand old kouse, ail covered by ivy and hidden by trees, whose walls are kung with tapestry, and ?u whose passages, extending from room to fai room, make the blood curdle with their gloom and length. Why, sir, there is something enlivening even in its decav; of the dampness of its walls, and the cracks 11"? in the discolored ceilings, which only i ">1 suggests to the vulgar mind ague and j w.c sheumatism, are evidences to me of its venerable age and respectability. The ' Wl very mioe that, scamper np and down in the time-worn wainscoting give me a j friendly greeting that I never meet in ; 811 your new-fashioned houses, built for a j ve race of mammon-worshipers who have : made their wealth out of shoddy" and j petroleum." I really believe that Uncle Ben valued the shade that was said to haunt his house far higher than all his more tangi- 411 ble property. Nothing made him more angry than for any one to doubt its dx- Ph istence ; he was always ready to break a lance with any skeptic on the subject, *1 and to offer him a bed in the haunted room ; and, although many of the young Pc members of the family scoffed at the j*1 story, very few had the courage to accept j j1? the challenge. . One winter night, when the wind was | 0X3 moaning round the chimney-pots and through the eaves, singing a dirge ! among the leafless branches of the gauntj old spectral trees for the joys of the dead th summer, the family was gathered round hi the fire in the drawing-room. Uncle Ben, who was standing with his j of back to the fire, said to his nephew : i "I think, Joe, we had better put on he another log of wood; I don't feel inclined nc for bed yet, and I suppose you young* ?F sters intend to sit up half the night, as hi nanftl " I an " I don't mean to turn in yet for one, uncle," replied Joe. "Tell us one of fa your ghost stories; a regular bloodcnJrdler.'' m "Ah,Joe,"said the old man, "lam ~h afraid yon. aire a thorough skeptio. You th disbelieve in all supernatural appear- hi anoes." tr "Certainly," answered Joe, who was ' or secretary to the Literary debating So- 00 ciety in the little town of Mudborough, or and who had written an essay to prove the non-existence of everything, and that to we are simply the creations of our own dc thoughts. " Certainly these impalpable ! e? specters are only illusions which the dis- 1 ordered* condition of our weak physical M organs bring before us." ... " I own you are a clever lad, Joe, but m I don't care a button for your arguments, gt I believe in ghosts because I have seen tn them." of un, 1 am pen to conviction; 11 you , introdnoe me to a bona fide ghost 111 ^ give in. I believe only in the things I ! ei understand/'? ,s- , . , I a " Joe, if yon only believe in what you ^ understand, your creed will be shorter ; V( than that of any man I know." P> ''Can you give us any proof? Can you mention one instanoe in which the ai specter has appeared to any one you tc know?" _ v g W A hundred, if you wish it," said i it the old num. < ! g> " One will do;, give us one genuine j h case and We will believe." ! m "I will; listen. The story that I am ! eq about to relate is an incident that hap- i o] pened to myself some twenty years ago, and for the truth of which I can vouch." i -VWell, proceed." . in ''.I would give you the history of the specter attached to this house, but that si only appears to a favored few, and I fc have not yet seen it, although I have I often enough heard the noises it si makes." } s< " We shonid prefer a ghost that can ec be seen, if.you have ever met with one." ei '"You must understand that the vil- tl lage in'which I lived, like many others, al possesses its spectral visitor. About o: 100 years ago, an ancestor of mine Btart- a ed for London in his traveling carriage, one evening about the latter end of q June. He was an exceedingly irascible ? man, and, the coachman was not suf- d floently quick in preparing the vehicle, o he "Became much ehraged, and used ex- a ceedingly passionate language. For ^ some timefne ooaehman bore his abuse a patiently, but, at last, he lost his tem- ft per, ana struok the old gentleman in the t< face. . T* p " ]n those days everybody wore a v sword ; and my ancestor, who was always ready to draw, snatched his wea- n pon from his sheath, and, with one b! low, severed the unfortunate man's Bad from his body. " Conscience-stricken at this fearful *ime, and terrified by the dread of its msequences, he gazed upon the head6s body for a few moments, and then, sing seized with a fit of apoplexy, as carried into the house by his serin ts, where he died in a few hours." "Well." said Joe. "althouerh the ory is horrible enough, it has nothing : the supernatural in it. It is quite assible that an angry old man may >mmit a murder and die of fright." "Yes, you are right; if the tale ended tere, there would be nothing to doubt; at what I am going to tell you, I am raid, mil be scoffed at by my skeptiil young friends, who disbelieve every ting they do not see or hear." " That's meant for me," said Joe, with laugh. " Never ,mind, uncle ; go on ith your story." "Yes, my boy, now I come to the arvelous part. Every year, as the uids of the clock point to the hour of idnight, a traveling carriage, with >ur horses, driven by a headless coachan, leaves that village, and passes )wn the London road." " TT ' .I 1 1 1.. L~ " ne must De ciever u ue caii see iu ive without his head," interrupted e still skeptical Joe. " That I cannot explain ; some ghosters say that it is possible for people clairvoyant state to rend from the t of the stomach; at all events, a *ad iran may be possessed of faculties at we do not understand ; for a man scoines considerably altered when he dead." " He does, I admit." " And if you allow that a dead man n drive at all, the small matter of a ;ad more or less is of very little im>rtance." "Just so." " You know that when a man dies Jie ;comes a spirit. " That's rum," said Joe. " No, sir, it's not rum, nor whisky ther ; and, if you cannot listen to my 3rv without endeavoring to turn it to ridicule, I had better leave off," plied Uncle Ben, who was as peppery jhis ancestor.* " Oh I pray go on, uncle," exclaimed I the listeners. "We'll try to keep >e in order." " Well, as I was saying, this apparim made its appearance once a year, the clock was striking twelve. Many the villagers had heard the tramp of ?rses and the rattling of wheels as the lostly cortege went bv. Now and en some favored individual witnessed e headless driver, as he whipped his irses on toward London. But, in all ses, the coach passed too quickly for y one to see whether the old gentlem was really inside or not." " And did no one ever pee him ?" ked one'of the party. "You shall hear. I will confess that, itil the night when the incident which im about to relate took place, I was as eat an unbeliever as any of you, and rays treated the whole account as an 1 woman's tale, only fit to frighten ildren. But, one evening, as I sat toking with some old friends, one of em, a devout believer in everything pernatural, began to talk about the roily legend, I, as usual, threw ridile upon the affair. I horrified some the company by stating my intention venturing out to wander down the ad, and see if I could meet tne pnanm cavalcade. I swore that if I did,. I >u}d, ask the old gentleman to give me ift, and offered to bet a ?100 that the lole legend was "a pack of lies." " And did you go ?" " Yes; although some of the more perstitious of the party tried to prent me, I persevered, and wandered t into the night ready to meet with >ost or goblin." "'And did you meet them ?" " Just as demerged from the lane the iage clock chimed the three-quarters, d I sat down upon a moss-covered lestone to wait and watch for the lantoms that' come like shadows?so part.' The night was chilly, and, as srrapped my cloak around me, I began shudder, as I wondered if, by any issibility, there could have been any ifch in fr.ViA nfrrnncA stnrv that I had sard. I gradually felt, like the man iD e play, that all my oourage was oozing it at my fingers's ends." "Oh, uncle, afraid 1" cried one of the ?ys. "Yes, my boy, I must confers it, for e moment I began to wish I -was back the comfortable dining-room. "Suddenly the clock struck the hour midnight. " As the last echoes died away, I sard in the distance a sound like the rise of a carriage and horses rapidly iproaching. My blood began to curdle my veins ; it came nearer and nearer; ;d, at last, I saw a curious, old-fashaed vehicle coming toward me at a rious pace. " For a moment I was speechless, but, astering all my courage, I cried out to e coachman to stop. He did so, and en, to my intense surprise, I saw that s head had been severed from the ink. The ghastly head lay by his side t the coach-box, which perhaps acnnted for his being able to hear my ies. " As tne carriage stopped he sprang the ground, flung open the door, let >wn the steps and signed for me to iter. By this time my nerves were ell braced up, and I jumped in without ly fear. " Upon entering the coach and taking y seat I found myself opposite an old sntleman who was dressed in the cosime of the commencement of the reign George III. Upon his head was an d-fashioned tie-wig, and in his hand as a naked sword which was still cov ed with blood. His face was of an unirthly pallor, and had upon it a soured, sared loot, winch did not make mm a sry pleasant-looking traveling cominion. "For some timewe sat face to face, id when I fonnd that he did not appear > take the slightest notice of me, I bean to be more at ease. At last I thought would be very uncivil to ride in the old entleman's coach without speaking to im, and I also felt inclined, as I had ever before met with a real ghost, to take his acquaintance. So I, by way of pening the conversation, said : " ' A splendid night, sir.' "The elderly party in the tie-wig tade no reply. " ' In a hurry to get to town, I proline ? I am very muoh obliged to you >r the lift' " Still no answer. After this we both it for some time in silence; the ghost iemed buried in thought, and I retained watching him with great interst. At last, the night being chilly for ie time of year, and the ooach having bout it a peculiar atmosphere like that f a vault, I began to feel extremely Did. After a while the old gentleman grew uite sociable, and began to talk; he Dmplimented me upon my bravery in aring to stop his carriage. For just ae century he had, once a year, driven long this road without meeting any one rho had the oourage to ride with him; nd, through me, he would be released rom all further punishment, which was 3 last until Bome brave fellow accomanied him in his drive and conversed rith him. " For this release he heartily thanked ie, and said that, for my courage, ] hould be lucky to my business specula tions; and, as you are aware, he tur out a true propuet." "Did you talk about anything els asked Joe. ? "Oh, yes. My old friend had asm curiosity as a woman," said Uncle 1 who, I need not say, was an invetei bachelor. "We had a conversal about London. It appears that he ' | been a great beau in his time, and I Kimoolf flnnvm/Mio ^OTTA iwuoxuoivu uiuiouii au tiiv/iuivuo JU?u with the Indies. He wished to ki i who was the reigning toast, i 1 was much disgusted when I told 1 I that toasts had gone out of fashion." ' Was that all ?" | " Oh, no. He told me where the t | civet and pomatum were to be bong aud who was the best peruke-mali and was still more surprised when I s that no one wore wigs now, except li yers and coachmen. He asked if tra1 ing was aB dangerous as ever; thoi he confessed that he had not been mi troubled lately by the knights of j road. He said that ODe rode up to s him twenty-five years before, but sight of his headless driver had frightened him that he put spurs j his horse and disappeared as if he 1 | had twenty Bow-street runners at I heels." << "Hi/1 trAn nnf oolr wliot 1 him on the other nights of the ye i when he was not out for his drive ? " He said that, in company with innumerable shades who werecondemi to occasionally visit the earth for crir committed during their past lives, passed his time hovering round his haunts, longing to become visible to i descendants, and to assist them in tii j of trouble, but unable to do so. As i conversed, the time rapidly slip] away; and at length the lamps of L ; don became viable in the distance. Af thanking the ok1 man for his courte i I suggested thatmight now alight a i had a great many friends in town tha I should like to visit; but he shook I head. "No, no,' said he; 'we are at ; mercy ol my coacnman; ne nas me em command during our drive, and ho | only stop at the place be picked you 1 j See, he is turning the horses round: ' are about to return.' " If the journey to town seemed she ; the journey back was. still shorter. 1 ! old man told me a hundred anecdotes I the people of his time. Ho had beei ! staunch- Jacobite, and he told me about young Cavalier, and painted i ' March to Finchley ' in words that i full justice to Hogarth's picture. 1 statesmen, wits, and soldiers of the 1 century appeared to stand before me the flesh, and I never enjoyed adr fV?A ATI Q T Vl o/? TITlf.ll UCtUUJL l/iA?U VUO V/XLW JL MWV4 VfjkVM ghostly ancestor. "As the clock struck one,-we pul up at the old moss-covered milestt where I first stopped the coach. Oi more thanking me for the1 inestima favor I had done him, the old gentlen signed to the driver to open the carrif 1 door. I got out, and, as I turned rou to bid him good-by, I found that whole cavalcade?coach, horses, dri\ j and old gentleman?had vanished i I thin air, and I was alone." "Alone?" exclaimed his hearers. "Yes," said Uncle Ben; "but strange Jthing was that I became insei ble, and knew nothing more until I \ found the next morning lying beside milestone. "I thought so. You tell asleep ? dreamed that you saw the phantom c tege," said Joe. i " No, sir, it was no dream. Whei saw that carriage, and when I rode in 11 was as much awake as I am now ; r when you are as old as I am, and hi seen as many wonders, you will be si prised at nothing, and will own tl there are more things in heaven n earth than are dreamed of in your p losophy. "?Belf/ravia. i A Jiew Motor. The great desire of this world is a n sort of motion producer. People i getting tired of steam, with its expei and general unhandiness. Besides 1 habit it has of occasionally going 01 "bust" and forcing the people in 1 immediate neighborhood to cleave a p sage for themselves, out through 1 roof, is, to Bay the least, extremely ; ; noying. This has a great tendency to c courage manufacturing, especially in \ i persons who are near the machi Electricity haa long been experimen I with, but no very satisfactory result ] 1 been arrived at. As was always | pected the real universal motor has b< lying at our very feet, unnoticed. Gr inventions are always simple. T universal and inexpensive motor is 1 rocking chair ! It is estimated, by a statisticians that, in Michigan alone force equal to 2,371,463 horsepowei uauuuiiy ezpenueu m l ucniug wuno n ing. It is the simplest thing in i world to apply this fearful waste power to something useful. People n sit in their rocking chairs, and 1 churning, washing, scrubbing, kindl wood splitting, etc., will go serenely < Large manufacturers can hire yo\ ladies to do some heavy resting in rocking chairs and by keeping them v supplied with sensation novels, j wheels of commerce can be made to j volve. Then again, an attachment co ; be fixed to every chair in which poI could be stored up when the rocker J ! no other work to do. This would bo | up power as Edison bottles up tali his phonograph, to be used when c venient. A man could have a bugg] constructed that by taking a packagi tlipoo hnt.t.lArl motors he would Dut tb in place and ran his machine, and if supply ran out he could take the em cans in any wayside house and h them filled up with power while rested in the rocking chair. The millions in it.?Detroit Free Press. I Telegraphy by Mirrors. ! Some experiments are about to made at the Marseilles (France) stat: the effect of which, if they would pr successful, will be to once more rev< tionize the art of railway signal!] This apparatus is described as consisi entirely of mirrors, which seem to arranged all along the line so as to o j municate with one another, and with | last of the whole series, which i? course, set up in the station itself, these days no such system could be ] feet without the aid of electricity. Acc< ingly the mirrors are to be " elec mirrors and though the term ( not immediately convey a very accu : meaning to the unscientific ear, i possible, after our experience of t | phones and phonographs, to imaj ; that these may have at least tenfold i reflecting power of an ordinary look glass. This must be the case if, as asserted, the new machine will ext to the spectator a faithful picture of hundred miles of line. The surfac* the glass will, according to the acco i form a little pamorama upon which . be seen all the trains passing for ; time being over that expanse of 1 i They may be watched like pretty t i ascending inclines and then descent ; them again, passing ono another, i perhaps occasionally overtaking i another rather too fast. In the It case it will, of course, be the duty of i 'station master, whose eye is constant! the mirror, to interpose and prevent i mischief. The invention is one to ' light the hearts of station masteri over the world. ned FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. e?" Medical Hints. Cube for Hoarseness.?Spikenard uch root, sliced and bruised, and then Bteepten> ed in a teapot containing equal parts of rate water and spirits, ard the vapor inhaled, ;ion when sufficiently cooled, will relieve the bad soreness and hoarseness of the throat or h? lungs, when arising from a cough or rite cold. 10w Refreshing Drinks in Fevers.? and B0ii one and a half ounces of tamarinds with two ounces of stoned raisins and three ounces cranberries, all in three pints of water until two pints remain ; >est strain, and add a small piece of fresh fht, lemon peel, which should be removed in :e.r; thirty minutes. To Keep the Feet Warm.?Previous a^" to retiring at night, and before undressj* ing, remove the stockings and rub the l8. feet and ankles briskly with the hands. J? During the day, wear two pair of stock:16 ings composed of different fabrics, one P noir nf oillr nr nntt.nri flip nth fir nf 'wnnl. Hi A 1 *"*" "* """ ? > ? 1 | and the natural heat of the feet will be preserved, if the feet are kept clean, , and the friction of the same is not omitted at night. Rules for the Sick Room.?1. Bring 0f in fresh flowers or something new every ar day ; even the commonest green thing is ' better than nothing. 2. Don't talk (.jjg about anything unpleasant. Talk about ie<j something that will lead the patient's Qes ihoughts away from his aches and pains, jje and leave him in a cheerful and restful qIj state of mind. 3. Follow the doctor's jjja directions implicitly. 4. Never ask a QeB sick person what he wants to eat. If he we asks for anything that will not injure 36(j him get it if you can. Never bring him - 4~'?A I mucu ut a time. n, nutio uiu ixi a umuij jer dish will sometimes tempt the appetite B? when a largo quanity would cause nausea. Jl 5. Expect sick persons to be nnreasonj able. They will fret and complain, no ^jg matter what happens, and must be born with patiently. ^0 ! Frnlt Cellar*. ifQ I In order to keep fruit, several condign I tions are important. In the first place, ^ the atmosphere of a fruit room should Wg be dry, there Bhould be rto more dampness than ordinarily exists in the cold )rt ontside air. The room should be bub?he ! ceptible of ventilation in proper weath" 0{ | er, not by direct currents of air, but by j a ! air modified before it Caches the fruit. ; A froit room must be frost-proof; it the j must be cleanly and accessible. As redid I gards location, it may be placed on a side hill, the excavation opening to tne ast south ; or ^ may be placed under a barn jn or stable, or other convenient out-buildive my Ten years ago we constructed a fruit cellar undar our stable, and it has led Proved so satisfactory that we venture to me ?iye a brief description of it. The division walls are constructed of brick, and ble the apartments are two in number, an ian outer and inner room. The outer room ige is but partly underground, and is ten by md twelve in area, and eight feet high. The the inner 100m is "wholly underground, and er frost-proof ; it has four brick walls and a cemented floor. In this room the fruit is stored early in December, when the weather becomes cold. The outer room the holds the fruit during the autumn 16i_ months after it is gathered, and is cool, yas well lighted and dry. Tne windows are the left open and a free circulation of air al: lowed so lone as no dancer from frost in(j j exists. Wlien the fruit is taken to the ;0r. inner room, the door is closed, and no light admitted. Ventilation is secured ! j in moderate weather by opening the it inner door and throwing down a window LD(i in the outer room. In this cellar we lve kept apples of last season's growth until nr. the preeent winter, in perfect condition. iat Some of these apples, exhibited at the U(j autumnal agricultural fairs, were pronounced as fresh as those of last season's i growth.?Boston Journal of Chemistry. Household Uinta. To Prevent Mildew on Preserves. ?Take the white of an egg and wet slightly both sides of a piece of letter are PaPer sufficiently large to cover over the use of Preserves snugly. I have the ^em *ree *rom mould and spoiling a two years. the To Clean Kid Gloves.?A good way ag. to clean black kid gloves, says the the Scientific American, is to take a teaan. spoonful of salad oil (sweet oil), drop a lis- ew drops of ink in it and rub it over ;he he gloves with the tip of a feather; then Q6i et them dry in the sun. ted Salt on Steak.?It is much better to lias brOil or fry the steak without salting, ex- adding the salt after the meat is on the jen platter, as the salt draws the juice out of eat tiie meat it put on berore it is cooKea, his thereby malang it dry and indigestible, the In cooking steak the object is to keep in ble the juice as much as possible, hence the , a meat should be seared over as quickly as is possible on both sides, and frequently ;st- turned while cooking over a very hot the fire. of Soap.?A young lady who makes all lay the family soap give the following recipe the for a good cheap article: Add to ten ing quarts of water six pounds of quick lime on. (shell lime is best) and six pounds of ing common washing soda. Put altogether the andjboil for half an hour, and let it stand rell all night to clear. Draw off the lye and the add to it one pound of common resin and re- seven pounds of fat (any fat will do), uld Boil this for half an hour, and let it stand wer till cool, and cut into bars. had a Cheap Poultry House, and How to Use It. ttle a house for fifty hens should be 16x24 : in feet inside. Set up 3x4 posts, eight ion- feefc long, so as to inclose that space, J so and 'outside of that another row, four 3 feet off. Nail boards, 1x4 inches, iem around the outside and inside ? one his board even with the top of the posts, P^y one six inches from the bottom, and one ave in the middle. Let the posts be about he five feet apart. Nail common plastering re s lath upright from the top strip down to the bottom strip, and about six in?hes apart. Lay for the roof a 3x4 from post fn nost nnroRfi tliA room, not tho crib work ; sopport these by central posts, be and cover with long, straight willows, [on laid quite close. The door and windows 0Vq muet now be provided for. I use three hot-bed sashes on one end, and the light ju- is ample. The frame ^of the house is ting now fbiished. Fill in the walls with , be straw, old liay or any light material, om- Pac^ed down tight; cover the whole the with straw or hay, stacked on, and you , 0f have a cheap, warm house. 'jq Now if, in building this, it is made in per_ bents, it can be taken down readily re3r<3_ moved to a new site, the old straw t,ri0 thrown away and replaced with new in a joes *ew hours, and you have a new, clean rate house. Every spring and fall, burn a t is pound of brimstone in the house, and ^le. vermin will be very scarce. Hoe out the jine droppings once a week, keep the floor the dry, remove the whole building once in ing. three years, and pip, croup, cholera and it i8 all such will give place to robust health libit vigor. Never build a palace for one poultry. ? of Hatching and Rearing Chickens. ant, I think thirteen eggs is sufficient for will a large hen and fewer for a small one. I the never allow two hens to sit together, noi inc. even near each otlinr, for they either oy8, exchange nests or fight. I always plac ling the ccnc>P8 for the young chicks in a sun and ny spot, where the rajs of the sun will one be sure to reach them. I keep th'e hens, itter with their broods, confined for several the days, for, if running at large, the chickf y on are exposed to the morning dews, which the are very unwholesome for them. In s de- day or two after the chicks are hatched, i nil I prepare a mixture of meal and black pepper with a small quantity of sods and some mnstard, which I feed to them twice a week, and occasionally after they are of frying size I find the mixture beneficial. When the chickB are about ^ six weeks old, if the hen does not seem a inclined to wean them, I separate them j from her for a week and then they are able to take care uf themselves; but I ? give them a little feed night and morning. The chicks grow much faster after being weaned than before. 7. never * allow more than three hens to carry a broods at one time. I have given as j. many as thirty chicks to one hen, and _ never saw chicks grow faster or seem f more healthy than they were. .This plan I do not practice in early spring, ? itiTrori- I UUl W11CU IUO YTOOUUCi AO TTUiUl Jfc 4U TIM?- g ably do so, and discontinue it in the fall, ^ for in cold weather the mother cannot warm so large a brood properly.?Tran- q sactione Georgia Orange. g Frozen Combs ol Fowl*. 0 In cold climates fowls with very large g combs, like those of the Leghorns, are e liable to get frozen; in fact, these large y comb breeds must be kept in a warm tl house if freezing is to be entirely pre- t vented. When the comb of a bird is ij found to be frozen, it should be thawed e out by the application of cold water, a either by pouring the water over the c head or by immersing the comb while g the fowl is held in the hand. After the c frost iB entirely removed, and the comb <] * J ? _ ana wacues careiunjr ruuucu u_lj muu a y soft oloth, they should be smeared with t] glycerine, to be followed by a fresh ap- n plication every day until the comb is tl restored to its usual appearance. If the d frozen comb haa been already thawed a out, the glycerine may be applied just t] the same to prevent the soreness, a Grease of any land may be used, and d some poultry breeders make an ointment a for frozen combs by melting a little b rosin in hot salt lard. Almost anything n which will exclude the air from the raw I flesh will assist healing and do good. c Propagation of Hyacinths. h The gardener to the University of v Berlin has found that hyacinths may be & propagated by their leaves, and this n method would appear to specially rec- o ommend itself where the object in view t] is to raise a large number of specimens ^ of new rare varieties. The leaves require to be cut off as near to the bulb as possi- C t-i- ** ? nATToro/1 ATTOT tt UitJj pui 111 a auu wv* t with a thin layer of sandy leaf mold, e the same as geraniums are propagated, tl The saucer having been placed in a r< greenhouse or frame close to the inner f< surface of the glass, in eight or nine r< weeks' time the extremities of the leaves b will begin to turn dry, a sure sign that g bulbs are growing out of them. The b leaves selected for propagation must be a fresh and green, the latest time at which r> they should be removed from the plant v being the close of the flowering season. i< tl Fashion Notes, ? The short dress for the street ia at last 0 an accomplished fact. , i Several rows of knife-pleated lace will a be used for trimming mantles. 1 Most of the wide collars ard cuffs have P a lace frill to stand around the neck and F wrists. ? New ties are of plain sill;, the ends * finished in embroidery and fringe to represent the tip of a peacock feather." ^ Get sheer striped muslin, or else dimi* y ty, and work the edges in colored seal- n lops for drapery for an infant 9 basket, p Satin will be much used for trimming v spring and summer dresses. Some of a the new grenadines are trimmed entirely 1 with black satin. 8 A half-long sacque or else a dolman Jj mantle of black silk or of camel'-shair, with jet and fringe for trimming, is what 8 you want for the spring. a Cashmere suits are coming more and ^ more^into favor. Cashmere made over ? silk is exceedingly attractive. Rich garnitures of all kinds are employed on these much admired and very serviceable ^ promenade and dinner suits. Carrick capes promise to be muoh ^ worn on various spring garments. They ^ ?- ?? Donntioo nn hftnnnAR nf ? UrtJ BCCH Ull UlUliu OHVV^UVU| VM w. yj plain costumes, on polonaises, on dol- i mans, on English cloth traveling cloaks, ^ and finally on linen ulsters. ^ Hie furnishing stores display new d costumes of percale, cambric, and Scotch t] ginghams, trimmed -with pleated frills of the material, on whicn fall scani ruffles of white Hamburg embroidery. ; The favorite design for these is tha pleated basque. g Cambric wrappers are also being fi a- 6 cifully made at the furnishing houses. d The prettiest of these have a yoke with j' Watteau pleating in the back, and are ^ made of bordered cambrics, -with the a border used for trimming down the yoke, P pockets, collar and cuffs- c Silks of light quality with raised fig- f nres are offered for spring costumes, or as parts of combination suits. These are more stylish thalh checked or striped o.'iL-o o/\lrl fr>r 4-Vio battio mnnfiv. bnt thev , DUAO OUiU AV* liuw +.r? ?-w ?. f v do not wear so well, as the raised figures ^ are apt to fray; they serve, however, for a season, or as long as the caprioions ^ fashion lasts. To make yourself look more slender you should wear the princesse under- 0 clothing with yoke skirts and with close- e fitting chemises that add nothing to the g figure. Arrange your hair so that it will t; add nothing to the size of your head. n Braid the back hair, and make a coil of it high on the crown ; wave the front h hair, and comb it back from the temples, y Pat velvet buttons on a silk dress I s trimmed with velvet. Put wide panels | a of velvet down the sides 01 wie overskirt, and edge it with fringe. The vel- o vet flounce should be so deep that the e bottom of the over-skirt will cover the fi top of the flounce, and make the skirt 1< seem to be entirely velvet. Turn the f< edge of the flounce under, and face it s with silk. Gathered flounces are very scant. Pleated velvet flounces are twice r the length of the space to be covered. c | v 8 Ancient and Modern Extravagance. k b Who among extravagant young ladies in these boastful times ever gave her lover, as Cleopatra did, a pearl dissolved in vinegar (or undissolved) worth $400,000? Then there -was a Paulina, of the ton in Rome, who used T to wear jewels, when she returned her I visits, worth $300,000. Cicero, who n Was comparatively a poor man in those o times, gave $1,500,000 for his establishment on the Palatine ; while Messala d gave $2,000,000 for the house of Antony. Seneca, who was just a plain philosopher, was worth $120,000,000. 1 Tiberius left a property of nearly $120,000,000. Caesar and Maro Antony both a owned wonderful fortunes. Caesar, be- e fore he entered any office, when he- was t a young gentleman in private- life, owed $1,000,000, and ho purchased the friend- d ship of Qusesor for $2,500,000. Maro Antony owed $1,500,000 on the Ides of March and paid it before the Kalends r i of March. This was nothing; he s ' squandered $720,000,000 of public r ' money. And these fellows lived well, t > Esopus, who was a play-actor, paid $400,000 for a supper. Dishes were c 1 made of gold and silver, set with prec- j , ions stones. The beds of Heliogabulus ] 1 were of solid silver; his tables and c i plates were of pure gold, and his mat- t i tresses, covered with carpets of cloth * i of gold, were stuffed with down from ] , under the wing of a partridge. It took e : $80,000 a year to keep up toe dignity of 1 k a Koman Senator. f Duels In New Orleans. A New York Sun correspondent giv< n account of some duels that took plac a .New Orleans aoont twenty-nve yeaj go. He says: A young gentlema rom Mississippi, the son of a wealth ilanter, went to New Orleans to spec he gay season. He was quiet, modes nd unassuming. His great wealth, fir lersonal appearance, cultivated, mint nd engaging manneft had marked hi a a superior being among the throng < lard drinking, loud talking, swaggerin oung men of that period. He was avorite among the ladies, *pd by h ;eneral deportment excited the envy ar he ire of the bravadoes, who, notwitl tending their well-known dissolutenea rere admitted into society. More tha ne of them had attempted to fasten [uarrel upon him, but had not succeed d. At length one of the most-recklef f the famous duelists determined t tossly insult him. Accordingly or vening while the young Mississippi ras sitting at a table in the rotunda, < he St. Louis hotel, the professional cu hroat stepped up to the table, and seii ag the glass of wine, dashed it in th neroy's face. It was supposed tha /I nAnamn^AV UUUlUiii^ UU uic wuoj a |;oicuiuivi ballenge must follow. Bnt the Missii ippian knew his man, and had perfe< ontrol, ,of himself. He said nothing id nothing; but quietly retired. B ras voted a coward, of course, by tl tirong. The next day passed and he w? ot seen. It was supposed he had qu lie city. That evernng the swaggerin uelist who had given him a morti ffront was in the rotunda, the lion < he night. Suddenly the Mississippia ppeared. He strolled across the rotui a to where the duelists was standing nd, without saying a word seized hi y the mustache and goatee, jerked h louth open and spat down his throa le was challenged on the spot. He a< epted, and being the challenged part; ad the choice of weapons. This vri rhy he had bided his time. He select* lississippi rifles at forty yards. Ti inafinn nlono flio fnllnmiTlff dfl IWWUJg l/UVU Jk/AWW VMV ?WMV 0 ut on the old Metairie course, and i lie first fire the professional fell dea< rith an ounce ball through his brain. Snch was the state of society in Ne >rleans at that time, that it was the un ersal custom at all balls and reception; ven of a select character, given at eithf tie St. Louis or St. Charles hotels, t equire every gentleman to be searche jr concealed weapons, in the dressinf oom, before he was allowed to enter ti all room. Upon one occasion, at a ba iven at the St. Louis hotel, two mei oth reputed gentlemen, men of wealt nd standing in the community, qua eled about an engagement to danc dth a lady. High words passed, an ; was supposed a duel must be had o tie next day; but one of them, a fe loments later, dropped a note, with 5 gold piece enclosed, by a string to od f the hackmen on the pavement belov Tie note contained a request to obtai Thug knife, and fasten it to the string .'his was done, and tibe murderous wei on a few minutes afterward was in th ossessioii of the soon to be murdere: l Thug knife is a short, dagger-shape lade, with a cross handle of hard wooc t is grasped as a corkscrew is when yo re about to pull a cork, the blade pre ending about Bix or eight inches froi lie clenched hand, between the tw liddle fingers. Concealing this wet on, the scoundred requested the ma rith whom he had quarreled to He side for a moment to an ante-roon 'he request was complied with, and r ooner had the door closed upon thei list the unsuspecting man was struck t lie heart with the Thug knife, and ii tantly killed. The murderer wt rrested and allowed to give bail, bi ^as not tried ; and I was told that he et living in New Orleans, and, Strang s it may seem, is a respected member < uciety. Two cotton brokers quarreled, or ay, at the cotton exchange. Hig fords passed, but no challenge folIowe< l few evenings afterward, while the 'ere at a social club, one of them, wit! ut a word of warning, drew a revolve 'he other threw up his hands, said h ras not armed, and begged for his lifi 'hich was not granted. He was sh( ead. An arrest and trial followed, b\ ae jury rendered a verdict of acquitta A Loyal Reporter. In relation to the Prince of Wale ood nature, it is told that he was or vening attracted to the scene of a Loi on fire, and finding that neither he n< be little group of gentlemen with hi] ad a fusee with which to light his ciga ccepted a light from a quick-witted ri orter who stood near. He lighted h igar, and then held out his case to th eporter, and courteously asked him 1 elp himself. The other, trembling with deligh Dok a cigar, but instead of smoking i xtracted an Echo from his pocket, car ally wrapped the princely gift in it, at mried the parcel in his bosom. "What are yoadoing?" asked the a; Dnished prince. " Why don't you smol I. J I "Your Royal Highness," replied tt ther, " Heaven forbid that I shou] ver smoke the cigar yon have ju iven me 1 I shall treasure it up amor he things I value most, and leave it I ly children as a precious heirloom." The prince laugheJ. " Well," sai e, again offering his cigar-case, "kef our heirloom, but take another I moke now. They are not bad wee< nd I think you'll like them." The poor newspaper man heard an beyed. He took a cigar, and in a reve nt daze silently smoked it. And it irther related that when he died, n< jng ago, that the precious cigar wr ^nnd under his pillow carefully pr< erved. Doubtless a majority of readers wi ead; the anecdote with a smile of ii redulity. But when George the IT isited Edenburg, Sir Walter Sco! eized the glass goblet from which tt ing drank at a public banquet, an ;ept it among his oherished treasures. Liquid Vacuum. An exchange is responsible for thit Then Thomas drove up to a house c Elizabeth street yesterday to deliver tl sual quart of mixture, the gentlemc f the house kindly inquired : "Thomas, how many quarts of mi.1 .0 you deliver ?" " Ninety-one, sir." " And how many cows have yon ?" " Nine, sir." The gentleman made some remarl bout an early spring, close of the Eas rn war and the state of the roads, at hen asked : "Say, Thomas, how much milk pi lay do your cows average 7' " Seven quarts, sir." "Ah?um," said the gentleman as I noved off. Thomas looked after bin cratched his head, and all at once gre tale as he pulled out a short pencil ar >e??m to figure on the wagon-cover. " ? "ie cows is nine, and I set seve [uarts down under the cows and mull >ly. That's sixty-three quarts of mil.1 ! told him I sold ninety-one quarts p lay. Sixty-three from ninety-one leav wenty-eight, and none to carry. Noi vhere do I get the rest of the milt :*11 be hanged if I haven't given mys< iway to one of my bost customers, I caving a blamed big cavity in thei Iggers to be filled with water !" Incantation. ;s Incantation was one of the most Iq powerful modes of ancient magic, and < 18 rested on a belief in the mysterious i n power of certain words when uttered i y with peculiar intonations of the voice. 1 d These incantations were generally ac- 1 t companied by the concocting of drugs. < te The effects, both good and bad, pro- I 1 duced on the bodies of men and animals i m by certain plants, and which originally : ){ were discovered accidentally, came in i g time to be exaggerated, until all manner i a of imaginary attributes were ascribed to I is them. Medicine, therefore, in its early l(j form, was intimately'allied to magic, ; x? and while it was thus in its mystic Sj stage animal substances were considered i ,n the most valuable. If the juioe of a < a plant mysteriously affected the human 1 j. body, the blood of another animal would jg surely be more efficacious, and the rarer i 0 the kind of blood the more virtue would i ie there be in it. The hearts of animals i a were held to be the most potent drugs ' ??? ? ? ? ?V,n nnn4" s\4 1 )[ uecautjc tuojr noxo uuoowav vi u*v? ihhqa t_ cal medicines, therefore, came into : 5. vogue, and in their use incantation was ~ e a genera] and almost necessary accom- < paniment. But the operation of these 1 y drugs and incantations was not confined 1 3. to the physical effects on the living < bodies to which they were applied. 1 They could do more wonderful things 1 e than cure sickness; in fact, they could 1 lq produce any desired effect. They oould ' is kill or cure a person, absent as well as < it present; they could make the dead speak : g and reveal the future; tney could fertil- 1 il izea field or blast it; they could darken 1 nnn or moon: raise storms 01* aQav I ^ them; blunt or sharpen swords; burst i i. fetters and doors, and even make moun- 1 r( tains fly open. The Romans used inoan- 1 m tations for cnring wounds and dislocais tions. In Shetland, to this day, there is 1 t. a form of words nfed for healing a sprain i > which can be traced to the tenth oen- ] txrfy, and is of German origin. The 1 is operation is performed by tying around i id .the sprained 4imb a thread spun from 1 ie black wool, on whioh are cast nine knots, ' ,v and while this " wresting thread," as it < it' is called, is being applied the operator < repeats a doggerel in an almost inaudi- i ble tone of voice. . 1 w Medicine-worship has been and is still ' x- the religion of the tribes in Southern 1 Africa, and packets of medicine are worn < jr as charms to ward off all kinds of evil < o and harm. 1 d ~" f- Strychnia and its Antidote. ' L0 A correspondent in Nature says: ( j Wanting to banish mice from a pantry I i lx placed on the floor at night a slice of i r_ bread spread over with butter, in whioh ! ,A I had mixed a threepenny packet of ; _ I icd.UI?'? miliar " wnirtli Ann. 1 ^ Xiaiug o ivuiuw nnv*> 4 n tains afeout a gram of strychnia along j w with flonr and Prussian blue. The fol- a lowing morning I was roused by a ser- i i0 vaut telling mc that a favorite skye- j T terrier was lying dead. T found that i ^ the mice had dragged the slice of bread ( , underneath the locked door, and that [1 the dog had thus got at it and eaten i 6 part equal to about one-sixth of a gram ] r> of strychnia; it lay on its side perfectly i ^ rigid; an occasional tetanic spasm < showed that life was not quite extinct, i ^ Having notes of the experiments made by direction of the British Medical ' a Association last year on the antagonism 0 of medicines, and wherein it was conclu- 1 n. sively proved that a fatal dose of . strych- * n nia could be neutralized by a fatal dose i " - - ? ? i i ii.i H p of chloral Hydrate^ ana mat uu num. ? mum fatal dose of the latter for a rabbit q was twenty-one grains, I at once injected [Q under the dog's skin forty-five grains of 0 the chloral in solution, my dog being , j. about twice the weight of a rabbit. In l8 a quarter of an hour, fancying the dog. was dead, as the spasms had ceased and j8 it lay apparently lifeless, I moved it ,e with my foot, when it at once struggled to its feet, and shortly after staggered to its usual corner by tne parlor fire; it i6 took some milk, and except for boing jj quieter than usual, seemed nothing the 3 worse for the ordeal it had passed ,y through. That the fatal effects of a poisonous dose of strychnia was thus r counteracted so successfully what I 0 should say was a poisonous dose of 0 chloral, gi^en hypodermically, is an in-,1 teresting fact verifying the experiments ^ I alluded to. Without such experiments j on the lower animals, a medical man might often be found standing by help? less to aid his fellowman under similar effects of poison. s' i Norwegian Fishermen. )r The Norwegian fishers prepare for sea m as soldiers make ready for the battler> field; no man knows whether he will 3! ever return. Jn the month of March is word reaches them that cod have arrived ie in the West Fjord, near the Lofodens, "* 11 ? 1 flia XTrtvf^ flanfl rjQ &QQ ID0J 866 UUb( x' xuiu uuo iiv*vM VM^V to Bergen the whole coast is alive; tf barks of every size and shape, schooners, t, brigs, lnggers, yachts, all set sail. 0. When.they arrive at the isles the fishingtd area is divided. Four or five hundred boats cast their nets at once, and draw B. them in full of the squirming prisoners, ce The remainder of the crew have landed in a sheltered place, and await the arrije val of the fish to cure them. As soon as [d a net casts its living cargo on the rocks sfc the executioners advance; each seizes ig its viotim, hits it, despatches it with X) a stroke of his knife, cuts off its head, which he slings into a tunnel of oil, id drags out its entrails, And then bites jp greedily into the yet warm liver of the x) creature as if it were a ripe fruit. This i I iR the battle of the fishers. They have on their side skill and audacity, bnt the l(j fish have on theirs the tempest, the r. Maelstrom which draws in snips and i8 sucks them down, the icy currents of the North sea. So reasoned the boss t8 when the subject of cruelty to cod was v broached to him. The Norwegian sailors ore reputed the best in the world. A. 11 British admiral once said : "To rule i. the sea I should like a fleet of English Hit Wnrwocriftn sailors." I ' J BillpO IIIUI1UVIU WJ *1 w. ? .g tt _ ie d Rhyming Legislators. During a recent dry debate in the House wing of the Virginia Legislature a resolution was circulated among the members, drawn up by " the committee j: on game," and offering a prize for any >n man who would find a rhyme to 4' Terraie pin." A Richmond correspondent says in the resolution brought but the following poetical donations: & Yon ask for a word to rhyme with Terrapin, I could bet my drink were all pure gin. ?Hanger. I think that Terrapin Would rhyme with hair-pin. ?Hunter. (It ought to but it don't) The wretch who kills a Terrapin t- Commits a most egregious sin. ? Wallace. 'd Boup made of the Terrapin Will not hurt a fellow's within. ?HenlceL 3r A good stew made of Terrapin ' Is fit for & seraphim. ?Bocock. Were I asked what is a Terrapin, 10 Would call it a fish without a fin. ?Edmonds. w The blamed fools who rhymed on Terrapin, 1(j Ought to have a larrapin. ?Speaker Alien. The way to give value to a diamond-black Terrapin, ? Is to change its back as though the diamond :i- were a pin. ? Wibmer. k. I would rather be a creeping nc&rapin er Than a skill pot Terrapin. ?Robinson. es How sweet to sit in your merry ion r And eat good stewB of Terrapin. . 9 ?Fraxier. \? I would figbt'sooner'a "Terrapin Than an old female harridan. ?Taliaferro. I think there in no fairer din se Than to hoar tho honnda trail a Terrapin. -HaU. _ . . Turks Socking a Town, The Elena correspondent of the Lon don Trriet writes : We are in Elena after , a sharp day's fighting, characterized, I am glad to say, by few of those acts of ( ferocity which have disgraced so many Turkish successes. There is not a sternej . opponent to the Bashi-Baaonk system 1 than Suleiman Pasha, bnt these Turkish ' and Circassian free lances have been 1 1 ? A a_ I raised Dy tne central goveruxuouu . situation quite beyond control, and any attempt at suppression would transform them even into less controllable brigands. < We are in Elena, and the sack of the 4 place is now in full swing. From the window of the house in whiclf I hare , sought a few minutes of quiet to jot j flown these notes, and which overlooks the long main street of this little town, . I see the ruin progressing fast. To give 1 an idea of the' scene in this street it f ""/J" in nanfirawfl UOOUD M/ LTV Jk/U V w ? j~ ? and 'presented in its ensemble WqkU 1 painting gives bnt a feeble notion of it, > because the simultaneity of the incidents Ls lost. Thus, if I say that the Bashi- t Bazouks and Circassians are battering t doors and shutters with the butt-ends of their muskets, slashing window-frames ? to pieces with their yataghans, blowing ( off looks with their revolvers, throwing ( the contents of house and shop into the street, still it is only two or three houses { that the reader pictures to himself, a while what I want to describe is going , an on both sides of the way all down the main street of Elena, which is a good leal more than a mile long. In the c byways, too, so far as they lend them- 8 selves to such work, the depredators are 8 it work howling and hooting, drunk with the joys of spoliation and red-hot with i bhe exoitement of destruction. ( It had been intended to take precau- 8 idons to prevent the sack of the town by irregulars. Three companies were to t have been told off to protect the spoil ] from the hands of those who' had done c nothing to entitle them to participation in the loot; but in the excitement of the victory it was not carried out, and thus the irregulars are securing for themselves - * ? a*.. xl?11 or recti essiy waistmg, me great uum ui the booty. I was in so soon after the troops that when I went up the street it c was comparatively empty. On a little e bridge over a rivulet which crosses one c and of the town lav three Russians dead, i and the way was almost barred by a dead horse lying still harnessed to a broken f fourgon; but as I went on the Bashis j same rushing past and soon the street t was filled. Shop after shop was burst t open. Now a grocer's, from which skins and bladders filled with cheese and Russian butter were thrown into the street; ? here sugar was the attraction, and the Bashis thrust the white sugar lumps by , handsful into their breasts and into the folds of their turbans, and when they were stuffed, scattered the rest about the ' street. It must have been a Bulgarian j feast day yesterday, for in all the grocers' j and bakers' shops there was holiday 1 ntuni nrVlioVl tVlO "RftsVlis TVHITlflfld LWlOj uyvu nuiviu Iiuv r with childish delight Now a draper's 1 shop was tapped, and the yarns and ] rougher goods were thrown oat to be 1 trampled under foot, while the long yards 1 d{ calico and cloths were dragged forth, the pillagers chopping off with their j yataghans such lengths as they could i secure. From the vintners the casks of ] wine -were rolled into the street and the j beads stove in, bottles were hurled into \ the air and came smashing down among . the crowd by the score* From time to < time a troop of scared pigs would oome , rushing into the street, hounded out of j their styes by the side currents of the , looters. Then there was a shout and a , chase, and the poor beasts were bayoneted or shot by rifles and revolvers ( recklessly fired amid the crowd. Before ^ a silk store lay an old Bolgar, shot } through tho chest, lying as He leii, ana a little further, laid out stiff and straight ' under the projecting front of a cook's ' shop, was the body of a Russian, clad in . shirt and drawers, 'clean and fine of , texture, apparently the remains of some , civil functionary. Some Carious Facts About Heads. A scientific inquiry lately made by } Dr. Delaunay among the hatters of , Paris offer some curious results. Ao- , cepting it as true that the capacity of , - ? - - f - 711. - |J the cranium and development or we . brain are proportional to the external volume of the head; also, that the intelligence is proportional to the volume ] and weight of the brain, he shows inter alia, that certain families develop like ' individuals?that is, they have a period of growth, then a stationary period, then ^ a period of decrease, previous to extinction. In families of the first period the head enlarges from generation to generation. The citizens who wrought the revolution of 1789 had bigger heads than their fathers. On the other hand, in families that are nearing their extinction the heads grow smaller. The sons of the present ruling families in France ' have such small heads, according to ttie 1 author, that they require hats specially 1 made for them. Among certain families ' newly risen from the common peo- " pie the head increases from gen- j eration to generation. The wide- 1 brimmed hats?bolivars?worn by the Republicans from 1830 to 1848 wero ? very capacious. The quarter in which i are the largest heads in Paris is that of i the schools. The hatters of the Fau- < bourg St. Germain say that they only fit f fine heads. The Polytechnicians have ] larger heads than the St. Cvrians, and < the students of the normal school larger than those of St. Sulpice, etc. The i members of the clergy present a peculiar j feature in these statistics. " In general," j says M. Delaunay, " men from thirty to forty years of age have a larger head ; 1 ? - ? vr^i. than those from twenty 10 mirty. ; so with ecclesiastics, for their heads j cease to grow at abont twenty-five. The i cnres, biBhops, archbishops, etc., have no larger heads than the students of the ( large seminaries." , The Professor's Prize. Germany has a Pickwick indeed, without guile. The story is told by the Schweizeriache Dorfkalender. The an- i tiquarian stood before a stable door : in rapt delight, contemplating a stone fixed in the archway, which bore the in- ] scription "1081." Calling the tenant i farmer, he said : " Am I not right, my i friend, in supposing that you- procured' i this stone from the castle ruin on the i hill yonder?" "It may be," replied ' the owner, "that my grandfather fetched . it when he built the stable." The pro- , fessor asked what he would take for the stone. "Since you se?m to have a 1 fancy for it," said the farmer, "pay me down forty guldens and I will leave it at ( your house." "That is rather a large sum," said the professor ; " never mind, , bring it to me to-morrow morning and you shall have the forty guldens." ( On the next morning, when the peasant brought the stone upon the truck, t the zealous antiquarian eagerly turned it over to refresh his eyes with a sight of its chronological inscription. "Why," i cried he in amazement, '' What is this ? : This is not the right stone. Yesterday I i read the date 1081, while this bears the ] date 1801, which proves that the other was exactly 720 years oldei than this." 1 " The Herr Professor must not trouble ] himself about that small matter," replied I the boor. "You see, sir, the masoijs ; turned the stone upside-down when they set it in the doorway, becaus^it fitted that way. You can turn it whichever way you like now it is. your own, but, of course, I must have the forty guldens." The money was paid. Items of Interest. One way to elevate a man in the publio jyea is to hang him.. There are men who can take a dozen irams without a single scruple. Paul de Cassagnao, the French editor, in Hftid to have fought more than fifty iuels. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln ia living 7 jecluded life in an interior town 01 ] Prance. The gaslights in front of the church loors in New York cost the tax-payers $44,000 a year. There is ho ndMdng the native shrewdness of menwBo advertise when he times are dulL The Parisian press of 1877 comprised 86 different newspapers and serials, igainst 754 in 1875. Charles Geade believes the ooming nan will be "either handedneither ight nor left handed. Yalley Forge bids fair to be the cenral feature this year in the way of cen ennial demonstration. What is the difference between the lummer sun and a well-ordained goat? 3ne shines on the dew, and otherdinaa >n the shoe. It snowed onoe in Lisbon,! Portugal, itmra the past winter, for theflrst time ino#l840. Similar slight falls occurred ilflo in 1887 and 1889. There will always be more or lew ex sitement in the household that possessor t cat and a back fence, or a poor piano ind a good healthy girl. The average length of life of Quakers a remarkaUy high in England. The freatest number of deaths occur between evenly and eighty yerrs of age. The simultaneous release of many >ad characters consequent upon the royal amnesty of minor offenders causes ionsiderable uneasiness in Italian cities. ?Setter the ragged' plonghboy. Who ansa ana cares for namzrht. * Than the bank cashier, with tan thouitnH a. VAmr. And a hundred thou'g&nd short Dr. Hardwicke, the Coroner afca re* tent inquest in Marylebone, London, ?id that 800 ohildren annually met their leaths in London alone from suffocation n bed. King Humbert, of Italy, thinks hie ather ran things a little too fast, and ias oommenced cutting down expenses >y selling off 1,000 horses kept in the oyal stables. Out in California, the land of the glorious climate, the first six months >f the year they pray for the rain, the emaining six months they run away rom floods. John Brjght said in a recent speech at ' ctooheater, England, that one-third of he whole land of the United Kingdom, >eing no less than 23,000,000 acres, beongs to 935 men. " It has been fun for yon but death to ne. " wrote William Henry Fox, in San Francisco, before killing himself. He lad been jilted by the woman for whom ;he message was intended. The celebrated Eddystone lighthouse * n the English Channel, which has buf- 1 eted the waves of a century, will probably soon disappear, owing to the under* nining of the reef below it by the wa- _ are. A. news item says that an English traveler in the Holy Land has discovered Facob sWelh We are delighted to hear t. There has been a rumor afloat fear . some time that Jacob was dead.?Oil >? City Derrick. Mr. G. L Romanes, of London, conjlndes after sundry experiments, that the jelly fish has nerves. Aloohcl makes it drank, strychnine producer paroxysmal convulsions, and chloroform causes anaesthesia. The late Pope Pins IX. was once in this country. "He was shipwrecked on the North Carolina coast, near where the Metropolis and Huron disasters oojurred, and just before the wreck his vessel put in Norfolk for water. Pyramid Lake, in Nevada, 4,000 feet ibove the level of the sea has been sounded to the depth of 600 fathoms without finding bottom. It is forty miles long, and from fifteen to twenty > wide, and oontains many islands. Prentice county, Miss., hires out her uriminals by the month to the highest bidder, who takes them to his farm, works them, feeds them and guards them, paying to the county five dollars nat. mnnfVl for OOflh fthlfl.bodifid man. " Daisy Darling! Do not wake me * Ere the murphies yon do peel, Ere you've chopped the scraps and leavin's Of your yestereven's meal; Wake me not to pangful waitings, Do not serve me so again, But when once the hash is ready, Gentle spirit, call me then." "Doyou know," and she looked at lim with a two-ton soowl, " why you ire like a rainy day?" He asked if it s-aa because she couldn't get along with)ut him occasionally. "It's because ['d like to see you clear," said she. He lever carried any stones in his pocket or her dog alter that. An editor says he heard recently how i man cared a "neighbor newspaper-bor ower. It is told thus: " Mr. Jones, 'ather wants to borrow your paper; he inly wants to read it." " Well, go back ind ask your father to lend me his supper; I only want to eat it." The next ivening the boy did not come. An accident occurred at Arlesey, on khe Great Northern railway of England, in December, 1876. One of the pteeenjere injured was Mr. Warchawski, a professor of legerdemain, popularly known as Bosco, being a relative and -i -i at - ? tormer pupu u; mo ujuici oame. The muscles of his hand were bo hurt that he can never again practice his art, and in a suit against the railway company he has just recovered $7,500 damages. A New York Herald mr.n had rheumatism, and in just one-half an hour, he learned that the following will cure it : Iodine of potassium, quinine, glauber salts, onions, raw lemons, baked lemonp, raw silk, oiled silk, gin and tansy Turkish baths, a potato carried in the pocket, an eel skin tied around the leg, a suit of of red flannel, chloroform liniment, hot water, cold water, hot lemon* ide, a dry atmosphere, equable temperature, sulphur baths, mustard and hot water, camphor liniment, electricity. rHE POET WHO DIED OP BEAUTIFUL SNOW. 14 Is the editor in ?" asked a long-haired youth, As into the sanctum he strode ; "If he is, I must see him at once, forsooth, For I wish to sell him an ode." Straight up to the editor's desk he strode, Took a seat with a child-like smile, ind said to the editor, "I have an ode On the beautiful?" but the bile 3f the editor rose, and he smote the bard On his cheek a terrible blow, tad kicked him out into the office back yard, To die in Qie beautiful snow. Plain gold wedding-rings, which are it present used as a visible pledge of matrimony, seem to have descended to as in the mere course of traditionary practice from the times of the Saxons, without any impulse from written authority or ecclesiastical law. At the marriage of Queen Mary with Philip of Spain, in 1554, the wedding-ring was laid on the Bible to b^ hallowed. Some discussions had previously taken place in the council about this ring, whicn the queen decided by declaring that she would not have it adorned with gems, "for she chose to be wedded with a plain hoop of gold, like other maidenf." warn* . j