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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APKIL 10, 1878. NO. 44. VOLUME XXV. g
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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?
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Whom she crooned to sleep and rocked j aQ
upon her knees. j m|
?Emma Lazarus in Scribner.
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TTnr.lft firm's (rhostlv Ride, m
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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
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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<
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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 ^
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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
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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
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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
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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
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"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 '
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)[ 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
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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.
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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,
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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
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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.
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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
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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 ,
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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 ;
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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
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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