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' I " : " " . uA fc Si'. ' ; :' / ; .?f&r*V: <-VdCdizk n: ' ' ""',,4i ii4-M ' . __ "' : .: : f' v. iv;: U'.^U - > * ^-u -* IBM ABBEVILLE PRESS & BAMEi|gl * <.. ? . . . . .BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1878. ^ " ...r/^NO. 46.1.. VOLUME XXY^^J Mj Boy. A little roll of flannel fine, A thrill in mother's heart?" 'tis mine;" A little head of golden hair; A lifted eye to heaven in prayer; A smile that ripples to a laugh; A tear with grief in its behalf; A pushing of a slender chair, A climbing of the oaken stair; A stride o'er everything at hand; A horse at Santa Clans command; A little cart all painted red; A 'Tain of cars at fall steam sped; A pair of "pants" that reach the kneo; A utrnt like midshipman from sea; A pair of boots with tops of red; A knife, a ball, a gallant sled; A Docket full of everything; A ' shooter," skates, and yards of string; A voting fraction's ' such a bore;" _ A holiday rejoicing o'er; A stretching down the ptntaloon; A swim?a wrestling match at noon; A little Latin now, and Greek;* A letter home just once a week; A roaming through collegiate halls; A (trimmer evening spent in calls; A rapture o'er & sunny face; A bow, a ring, some bridal lace; A kneeling at the chancel rail; A trembling bride, a bridegroom pale; A leap into the world's wide sea; My boy was gone?ah me! ah me! A WORD IN SEASON. I * /. V ' ?. '? ; The Day Accommodation on the Shore Line tfas making its deliberate way eastward, curving with every curve of the' Oonnepticut shore, and clinging to the water-side as though actuated by a sentiment for coast scenerv. On one side of the track lay the blue, whiteflapped sea ; on the other, low rolling bills with foregrounds of brown meadow and golden sedge; over all, a superb *- m ~ Tt MACS A axon PI bUIZ'iiU H&J* JLU woo a u^iivxvuo late autumn day, and Miss Mallows found "That Husband of Mine" so little engrossing?perhaps. because of hep maidenly unacquaintance with the . possessive case of that article?that she flung it down and betook herself to gazing - from the window. She was growing dreamy, as gazers at a rapidly changing scene are apt to do, when a w^rd. reached, her ear, and aroused curioeity enough to make her turn her head. It was a woman's name, and ah uncommon?*' Aretliusa." The person who uttered it was a man. His seat was on the opposite side of the. ear, and a little in advance of that which Miss Mallows herself oocupied, and she now observed that there was something odd about his appearance. His head and shoulders were massive and finely formed ; his face seen in profile was a Vinrll-u PT7PR nnrl n sfcrilnnc gv/v/v* UUV, Tuvuum^j -J O forehead, broad and benevolent.* But there, was something dwarfish in his aittitndo, and when presently he half rose to shut the window, it became ap^>arent'that he was n dwarf. There was no deformity, bht the large head and broad Shoulders were' balanced by a miserable pair of little legs not longer than those of a child of ten. He was not"young, foir there were* "grizzlea.'haxrs about his tunples and in lira-full beard; and altogether his appearance was half repulsive half attractive, and awoke a feeling compounded of good will and pity bo strangely mingled that it was hard to tell which predominated. His companion?evidently the "ArethuBa ""adoressed, was a girl not over twenty, of that delicate type of prettiness known as "American," which fades so early, but^is charming in its ,brief flower-time. Her new gray suit, With crepe, , lisse ruffles at throat and wrist, the. crisp .feather in her hat, even the * ~ r\9 Via* frorrnl 1 T"?rr V>QCT Binning ICU ICOlllOX U> Jlti *-""&) said the perfeotly fresh, carefully put-on * ~ glc^res, bespoke the bride, but there was something very unbridal in the face which these fLaeriee surrounded. The eyes, blue ih tint-and beautifully shaped and set, were swollen with crying, the lips quivered nervously,"every vestige of color had fled from the round childish cheeks, and the hands in the new gloves were pinched together with a tightness like terror. : Once or twice as Miss Mallows watched, she fought with emotion and called up a wan little smil" in anBwer to something said to* her, but she never spoke. Her companion, on the oontrary, talked incessantly in a lowvoiced steady strain. Miss Mallows could catch only a word now and then, and her curiosity about the couple grew bo strong that she felt she would pay any price to know their stoiy. There could be no doubt as to their relation, she thought; they were husband and wife, and iust married. The little man evidently had no thought except for his bride. Mile after mile he talked and talked, devouring her with his eyes the while, and she ~ sat with half-averted head, never meeting his gaze or replying by word to anything he said. Once ahe turned and looked full at Miss Mallows with a wild appeal in her face which was startling, but she instantly looked aw8y, and presently laid her arm on the winuow sill and her head on her arm, and began to cry in a still, dreadful manner, not sobbing alond, but trembling ajl over with a pent-up feeling which was worse than outbreak. The man tried in vain to soothe her ; she repelled him gently but decidedly, and at last he gave up the attempt, and silent1 y sat beside her with a grave, troubled face. " I shall die if I can't find out about those people," thought the excited observer on the other side of the car. But she didn't die, neither could she find out. One can not walk up to a perfect I stranger and demand, " Your story or your life !"?it is impossible. So Miss Mallows sat still, her conjectures aflame and her finders fairly twitching with impatience, fill at last the train stopped at a small way -station, and the little man, rising from his seat?and, alas ! looking even shorter than when lie sat, said, in a gentle, deprecatory tone, "Now, Arethusa." With that they vanished. Miss Mallows had one more glance of them, getting into a brand-new carry- all, which looked as thongh it might be a part of the wedding outfit, and then the train I bore her away. ?ier tnougnis remamea behind, with the people in whom she had token so sndden and violent an in terest "|I wonder, wonder, who they are, and why on earth she married him ?" ran her reflections. "So yonDg and pretty, aad so evidently unhappy ! And for all her prettinees, it wasn't an edu cated face, or a lady's?he looked fai nicer than she. I feel exactly as though I had. dipped into the middle ohapter ol an exciting novel, and then somebody had taken away the book. What wouldn't I give to read the beginning and end of it! ' That Husband ol Mine,' indeed ! Stupid wretch!" And she gave the volume a vicious little knock. "How is one to endure such twaddle, when really interesting thingf Iime ttllS are Happening m reai me ai, the time ? Let me see?where was il that"those people got out?" consulting her ticket. "Upham Corners?that ii only ten, eleven, thirteen miles fron Patnnxet. Perhaps Mrrgaret Leno: may know something of them. I'll as! Felicia?I am tired of calling her Misi Mallows, which name, besides, seems U belie her frank, impulsive nature?had her desire gratified sooner than she had dared to hope. Mr. Lenox was late to tea that night, and explained the fact by saying, " I went four miles out of my road to see David Dalrymple's new steam thresher, and, behold, when I got there, it was locked up, and he away with the key in his pocket. And what do you tbink, Margaret ??he had gone to be married !" "Not really !" "Really. I tried to pump old Sally as to the age and antecedents of the bride, but she was taken deaf at once, and not a word could I extract. Master David had told her to have a good fire and boil a ham, and she'd got a good fire and she'd boiled the ham?that was all; and she. wasn't one to ask questions 4-Vtnt- /?ntioom V? or UUUUl bJLilii^O bUitu uuiu v WUPUAU HVA . Then she pinched her lips tight and began to poke the fire; and as it struck me that the remark about things which didn't' consarn ' people was meant to be personal, I gave it up and came away." "Oh dear ! What dreadful woman do you suppose has pounced on that poor little David? An old maid, of oourse, or some harp, of a widow." " I can't say as to that, but I imagine she's good-looking, and that David is in love with her." " Dear, what makes you think tint ?" "Oh, because of the pains he has taken about the house. Lots of new furniture, and every thing redded up. He's bought a carry-all, Sally said." - " Who is this person that you are talking about?" asked Felicia. " A neighbor of ours?seven miles off, to be sure, "but that counts as neighborhood in the country. Suoh a nice, clever man, Felicia, a "good farmer too, and thoroughly respectable in every way; but, poor fellow! so unfortunate in bis appearance?a dwarf almost, with the head and shoulders of a grown person, and stunted legs no bigger than a ohild's." '."Oh!" almost shrieked Mips Mallows, " that must be my little man in the car. I came a'l the way from New Haven with him and his bride," and she plunged into a description which left Lenox as much excited as her frieiftL " I must see her!" she cried. "We'll drive over in a day or two." Weather was unpropitious, however, : and the day or two proved nearly a fortnight. Mrs. Lenox had a double errand, being provided with a basketful of Zonale geraniums to be exchanged for cuttings from old Sally's famous chrysanthemums; but when, after knocking a long time at the seldom-used front-door ; of the farm-house, they made their way I round to the kitchen, and from thence j to the family sitting-room, no one was ! visible, and the fireless hearth and neati ly piled hooks and papers on the table , made it evident that the apartment had ! not been used of late. While they ling1 ered and wondered, a creaking step came I down the stairs, and old Sally, with a ; tea-cup in her hand, entered the room. She saluted the ladies grimly. "Thank ye, M:6s Lenox. I'd like the 1 geraniums -well enough if Fd time tb tew I round with 'em, but jest now iny hands Ms full, without taking eare of plants, i a-nussing Miss Dah-ymple."' j " Mr. Daliymple-'s wife ? Is ahe ill ?" ^' Yes, she is and, she ain't.. 'Tain't no pertikilar kind of sickness as I can 'see; but 3he'^ weak as water, and looks ' bad. I give, her pennyroyal when she : fust come, thinkin* it might be she'd ; ketched an inside oold on the journey but it didn't do no good, and she kep on not eatin' nothia' and gettin' more and more peaking till finally she took to ; her be'd, and to-day Mr. David's gone | over for the. doctor. He set up with her ; last night. She didn't want him to, but ! he said he shouldn't sleep anyhow, and ^ he'd ruther. It don't seem as if it need take up.any time a-waitin' on her, for : she don't ask for any thing from day's ,end to day's end; but sickness takes steps any way you fix it, and I hain't done much except go up Btairs and down agin I for these four daye." J " Dear me !" began Mrs. Lenox. But Felicia, moved by an impulse, broke, in, "I think I must have come in the same train frith Mrs. Dalrymp\e. I wonder if I might go up and see her ?" Rather to her surprise, Sally made no ; uujcwuuu. "She hain't said she wouldn't see nobody, and mebbe it'll rouse her up a | bit, was her ultimatum, and Miss Mallows ran lightly up. A door stood half ! open; she tapped, and in answer to a faint ; " Come in," entered the bedroom, where, : covered with a resplendent star-pattern! ed patch-work quilt, lay her late fellow[ traveler. The pale cheeks, from which, much of | the childish roundness had wasted, flush| ed at sight of her. " I hope you will forgive me for comj ing up so unceremoniously," began Feli cia, speaking rapk'ly to hide her own ; nervousness. "Your old housekeeper gave me leave, and?well, I felt so sorry for you, sick and alone in a strange place, that I wanted to come. If it tires you, you must send me away." The girl looked at her a moment in silence. Then she said: " Won't you sit r?nwn 0 There's a p.lmir." Miss Mallows sat down.* She was a pleasant object to look at in her olive greens and pheasant browns, with cheeks and eyes brightened by frosty air, and (the invalid felt it. " You was in the car the day I came, wasn't you?" she said. "I recollect your hat. I've been sick 'most ever since. It seems a long time." " The first few weeks in a new place are apt to seem long," replied Felicia, kindly ; " and I dare say you miss your home." " I haven't any home to miss "?sadly. " Indeed!" "No. I don't remember my folks at all, or scarcely. My father he died when I was born, and mother when I i wasn't but two. I hadn't any body else, so they sent me to the orphan asylum, : and I lived there fifteen years." "Poor child! Did you? And what then ?" "Then I was took by Mr. Parkei over to Cheshire. I was their help, but they was very good to me, and it wae i most of a home I'd ever had. Miss : Parker she liked to have me call hei i ' ma,'an^ I did." [ "And then you married Mr. Dal i rymple." "Yes." The blue eyes clouded over, and the lips closed tightly over the on? word. " And now I hope you'll have_a rea i home of your own at last. What ? i pleasant old place this is! Even al this season one cfin 'see that. And mj ' friends tell me thai Mr. Dalrymple is s( i kind and good and clever, and so mucl : respected in the neighborhood: I an r sore yon can not fail to be happy wit! ; ixitQ, though just at first the farm maj ; seem a little lonely and strange." The reply to these well-meant remarki 1 -was unexpected, for the bride burs1 i into a violent fit of crying, which nc i soothing on the part of her diemayec i guest availed to check. I " 111 tell you about it," she sobbed ai b last, quieting a little, and won to confi ; dence, as it were, by the tears ii i Felicia's own eyes. " I haven't had an] t one to tell before, and I'm so unhappy c I didn't ever think I should feel sc t when I got married. They all said ] should be a fool if I didn't take Mr 3 Dalrymple, because he was bo well off > and he wanted me so much ; even Misi [ Parker she said she couldn't connte| nance no snch a thing as my sayin' no, and I'd never have Bnch another chanct [ (he longest day I lived. Then I'c never had no one to do for me before, anc he gave me such a lot of things, and ] did so like to look nice and pretty lik< ladies do, and so?I did. And then, somehow, when it was all over, and ] had to go off with him, it come to mt all of a sudden what I'd done, and ho^v my whole life was a-going to be just the same thing always, and he was alway* a-goind to be there, and I know the j girls laughed at us behind our backs, I and Louisa Brooks called him ' Spindle I toes,' and yet I'd got to stay by him anc : never go any where else, or be an\ ; thing else. And it all come over me, and it was awful! I hadn't evei realized it before." And she lookec with piteous eyes into Miss Mallow'f face, who stroked her hand gently, bul wisely made no answer as yet. " I 'spose folks do call this a pleasant place," she went on, after a little pause, "but it don't look pleasant tc me. I ain't used to country, or to beinf alone all day. There was two hundrec of us at the asylum, and at Miss Park' j er's we was close to the town, and coulc I see folks a-passing and hear wagons, I It's so still here I can hear mysel) i think almost, and the wind makes noises j in the chimney, and I lie awake at nighl listATi. Tt's like a voice, and it savs, ; 'Alone ! alone ! alone!' and groans,anc | frightens me awfully." I " I don't think it says that," exclaim' ed Miss Mallows, with a sudden inspiration. " It says, ' A home I a home! ? home !' That's what wind always seem4 to me to say in homely old chimney! like these." Then she thought to her self, Shall I? or Bha'n't I? I hat< preaching, and I hate meddling; bui there's a chance to do a bit of good i maybe, and?yes, I'll' risk it. "Now listen tome, dear," she wem on, aloud, softening her voice as if to f child. "This is what I think abou your position. It seems to me that yot are jupt at the point when you mus decide for yourself whether you'll be i happy woman or an unhappy one foi I the rest of your life." *' How ? What do you mean ?" "Whv. von were a lonelv erirl. vot I " %J ? ?/ V W r ? I know, with 110 real home of your own I and here a good man has come along j and taken you into his. He loves yot , dearly now, and you have a great aea of influence over him, and can do prett] mnch as you like now; but how lonj will that last if yon go on crying anc being unhappy and showing how littl< you care for him ?" "I don't know," whispered the bride faintly. "Then you are married, you know You have given a promise, and mus keep it, !even if it makes you sorry I Promises are solemn things. Bat ] think you can keep it and be happy too, J And it strikes me you have a chance t< i n mnQt. ViAMtif.ifnl thine." " What is that ?" wonderingly. "To make up to a good man wh< loves yon for a hard, hard tiling in liii life. Think how dreadful it must al ways have been for your husband, witl ! his clever mind and fine face, to fee himself in one respect inferior to th< ; stupidest laborer who works in his fields It ftfdfet h&ve' hurt him cruelly always j and if he were not a sweet-hearted per son by nature, it must have made bin hard and sour. Now, for the first time something delightful has come into hi life. He has married you, and it seemi to me such a chance as few women hav< to be able to be so much to any one ai I you can be to him. And? don't think ] j want'fti' preach ; but God always blessei ' tlioqp who try to do right, and if yoi make vour husband happy, I think Hi : will bless-you and make you ^appy too.' ( -, Her eyes ran over as she ended he: j little- speech." " PAlinift t" Rnnnded from below? Felicia, we ought to be going. "MuBt you go?" cried Mrs. Dalrym pie, sitting up in bed. " Thank you eve ; so. Toa've done me a he^p of good I I'll never forget you?never. Oh! what's your name if" ' Felicia?Felicia Mallows. Good-bj dear; and don't forget that the wind v i the chimney never says ' Alone' whei ! two people who care for each other ar i together." Then they said good-by. " i shall come again if I can before i leave," declared Miss Mallows. 01 Sally, coming up to hasten her move : ments, was astonished to see the two ei i change a kiss. "Why, what ever has she done fo the cretur ?" she muttered, as the pon wagon rolled away. " She look's twic as alive as she did afore they came." We drop a tiny seed into the ground or we watch a winged messenger detac' : itself' from the parent plant and flpa ' away on its separate errand, and we ar : scarcely conscious that with the act new sequence of energies and possibil: ties began, and' the world is the riohe for a fresh point of growth. Felici Mallows had no change for another vis; to the Dalrymple farm that autumr , and it was two years before Bhe saw i i again, during which time'the image c the oddly circumstanced little brid ^o/lnrl infA /IIofonno na imorvCka tm J. UU(A4 1UW Mint UlUWUVVj WW AUMf^W T?*. in this overcrowded world. Anothe Wait to Patunxet revived it into sudde , life. i "Whatever became of that littl i neighbor of yours who married a youn girl?" She asked Mrs. Lenox. "] was when I was last here. She we sick. Don't yon recollect onr goin there ?" " Yes, now that you recall it, I d( and the unconscionable time you stai np stairs in her bedroom. I believe sh is well. Her baby was baptized a fe' Sundays ago." " Have they a baby ?" "Yes; a little girl. By-the-way? j Mrs. Lenox was called off, and did nc i finish her sentence. Next day Mit J Mallows borrowed the pony wagon for solitary drive. " I want to see my little friend, Mr; Dalrymple," she explained; " and suj posing ner to be up-stairs, you migl , get tired of old Sally." "Thank yon, my dear, I shoulc You are welcome to the pony." ; It was a September as mild as June \ and when Mies Mallows drove throng i the farm gate, she saw its mistress si ting in the porch, her sleeping baby i its wagon beside her, and her sewing i her hands. She dropped it with a stai of joy when she caught sight of h( , gaest. s "Is it you!" she cried "Oh, I ai so glad!" 1 Is there any flattery- equal to tha i "you?" k "You haven't forgotten me, then' r said Felicia. > " Oh, no ; how could I forget? Yo 1 came when I was all sick and miserabli l and lifted me right out of it. There1 t never been a day since when I haven t thought of yon." "Then yon are sick and miserable n i longer ?" said Miss Mallows, with a se< t ond kiBS. " That is happy news." ) " Oh, no I am quite contented nov 1 David is ever so good to me, and I thin more of him every day. And the t there's my baby." " Let me see her. What a sweet littl 1 face!" r "Isn'tit?" with an exultant smih . " And she's much prettier with her eyt > open. They're not blue ; they're dar [ gray, like hen father's, and just lovel] . And I named her after you. Felioi , Davida! that's her name. How I wis i he was here ! I've told him heaps abot you. He's over in the field yonder witt , the hay-cutters. They do twice as wel ) if he sits by and looks after them." I " Dear Mrs. Dalrymple, how glad 1 I am to see you again I And to think ol t naming your baby after me J" ) " Oh, I wanted to. Yon were so gooe , to me that day. All you said to me oam< [ true. I couldn't think more of Davie 5 than I do now if he was as tall as Goliath r He's little, but he's got the biggesl ) heart. That's right, baby ; wake up j and tell the lady that papa is the bes' i man in the world. He is, isn't he ??Die , you hear her ? She said yes.?Harper\ Bazar. [ ' Fashion Notes. * Pocket handkerchiefs are very small. ; Black satin is becoming fashionabh , again. ; Gold trimmings never look well bj daylight. Black draperies grow beautifully iesi ) and less. > No overskirts are seen on faahionabl< ? costumes. ' Belts are worn with pleated or Gre | cian corsages. Cat-away jackets are in fashion fo; j young ladies. j Pleated waists with or without yokei t are coming in vogue. ? There will be much coBtlier toileti I worn at the balls and receptions givei after Lent than were at those before th< penitential season. Pin-heai checks in various shades c 1 , the same color, on a darker or lighte: } ground, are seen in the prints and per 5 cales of the season. 5 Willow pompons, the ends terminatinf [j in seed pearls and tipped with an aigrette are Bhown in all the light and beautifu ' new shades of color. t Long, narrow trains, either perfectl; i square at the end or rounded to describe t a lozenge pattern on the floor, are dt i riytier at the moment. t Ball dresses are either long trained 1 fourreaux, or princess or empress dress es ; or if made basque they simulate th' : dresB in one piece. , ! Gauntlet gloves, with the monogran 11 on the back of the Hand embroiaerea n ' ! silk and picked out gold threads, ar ^ among the novelties in gloves. 1 Orepe batiste is one of the noveltie j for summer dresses. It is a thin line] . fabric woven in crape effects. It come I in all delicate shades of pure brigh 3 color for evening wear. Opera mantles of raw silk bourette, ii , delicate shades of color, are threader with lines of gold and silver, and trim med with chenilld and gold and silve t fringes to match. Wide galloons of silk and velvet, am [ plush mixtures are seen on ball toilet , in delicate colors, shot with threads o ) gold and silver, or seeded with Romai pearl or fine glass beads. 31 Watches. _ I Watches wore originally made of 8tee x j and iron. No glasses were used unti i about 1615, the cases being wholly c * I i i J i._ -J_U J mettti, UllU l/U ttUllUV UI iOtMUUJ DWUig uu time, the cover of the face was some times perforated in elegant designs ' Instead of the form now universal} ~ adopted, various styles of casing wer employed, such as globular, octangular j cruciform, skull, coffin, acorn, peai B melon, tulip, bird, and, in fact, nearl B every imaginable shape that ingenuit 3 i could invent or caprice suggest; and, a [ a consequence of thiB and the fact tha 3 many of those watches were provide l with striking movements, they were s 3 bulky that it was inconvenient "to carr > : them in the pocket, and they were hun' v i at the girdle with swivels, so that thei faces could be readily turned for ob servation without being removed* fror their position. The hairspring was no . introduced until about 1658, and was oTAafc imnrnrflmflnt on the earlv watcheE About a century later, the smallest rt 1 peating watch ever made was presents to George III. of England. It wa smaller than our silver half dime, an ^ weighed only five pwtB. seven and three a fourth grains, case and all?the mov? e menl itself only weighing two pwts. tw j and one-eighth grains. It was necessar j to make a set of minute tools fori! ^ construction. For this watch the mant facturer received a present from th .. king of five hundred guineas (about tw thousand five hundred dollars), and it i r reported that he was afterward offered y thousand guineas to duplicate it for th a Emperor of Russia, but he refused i so that his gift to the king might remai [ unique. A smaller watch than thii k however, formed a part of the 8wu ^ exhibit in the World's Fair of 1851, br e this was not a repeater. It was on! ( tiroa-DiTfaunfVia r>f nn in rl i ftm [_ and was set in the end of a pencil cas< ,r It not only gave the hours, minutes an a seconds, but the days of the month als< it |? The Path of Timnr. Among the "kings and counsellor of the earth, which built desolate plac< j? for themselves," none was more renowi 11 ed than Timur the Tartar, whose nam< ,r from China to the pillars of Hercttfei n was at one time whispered with let and trembling. Wherever he carrie ;e his conquering armB slaughter and ri g pine marked his course, and behin tt him he left naught but ruined citit 18 and towers of human skulls. 8 Olavijo, the Spanish embassador i 1403, saw, in "Persia, four of thee y> towers, "each a stone's throw i ^ ii ? J i i.: i? u neigm, uuu uunt cluubiji ui uuum 6 skulls, the interstices being filled i w with mud. Yet the immense empire ( the Tartar, won at the cost of millior tl of human lives, and nurtured by huma gore, crumbled to fragments immediate ^ ly after the great devastator's death. 13 At the time of Timur's death tb a traveler journeying through Persi might arrive at what was once a flourisl j ing and populous city. But the d< stroyer had passed through itil l* houses and mosques were in rains, an high in the air rose the awful morn ment of Timur's fame. But alread the husbandman had pitched his ter ' I amid the crumbling rains?the oxen li ^ j bor in the furrows,and innocent childrei ! in their fresh, vouncr life, play beneat 111 the Tower of Death. JJ Yet a few more years, and so transier ^ is the glory of violence that even thi )r i ghastly trophy has disappeared. TI ! city has arisen again from its ruins ; 31 | again filled with the noisy rattle < I peaceful commerce ; and nothing is le j to mark the glory of the Tartar. Words of Wisdom. ] When you dispute with a fool, he ' very certain to be similarly employed, g Silence is the best course for any ma 't, to adopt who distrusts himself. | Make yourself all honey, and you' .0 , soon find flies to devour you. 3" | Every other sin hath some pleasui , annexed to it, or will admit of some e: 7' cuse, but envy wants both. Show me a land that has monntair without valleys, and I will show you ? man who has joys without sorrows. g The current coin of life is plain, souu sense. We drive a more substantial an thriving trade with that than angh k else. 7. He that' waits for repentance waits fc a that which cannot be had as long as j h is waited for. It is absurd for a muti t it wait for that which he himself has to di i Story of a Female Thief. 1 Minnie Watson, with a dozen alia was visited by a New York newspj p reporter in the Tombs, She is a li 1 spare-faoed woman of abont th . years. ' " How long have you been follow j such a life ?" asked i Ne reporter. 1 11 Almost ever sineo I came to country," she said, " and that was ( " nine years ago. I went,to board wit > woman named Sophie Myers, who 1 i a house in Henry street, and she 1 me into it She was a bad one. Sh ' on Blackwell's Island now for robl a lot of working girls. She talked me until she persuaded me to go Into and she picked out a house for me t< to. It was on Madison street, i i Rutgers, right opposite to the chi there. I went there to board, and a , I had stayed there a while I left wit lot of clothing." "Wereyou not arrested for the 3 asked the reporter. " Yes, and I was tried and oonvi* 3 and sentenced to four years in the S prison. It was only an ordinary a! - that I was arrested for. I only too few clothes, but Judge Hackett told r that my sentence was more for the c fany I kept than for what I had d< was with this Sophie Myers, you 3 and the people at her house. " Did you serve out you term." 3 " Yes I was three vears and six moi I at Sing Sing, and then I got my 9 charge. But I was ten times as bf woman when I came out as I was > I went there." r " Why so ?" "Because I was with all the thieves and criminals of every ] , there, and I learned things from t that I knew nothing about before.", j "Then did yon go .right on Btea when you came out ?" " Yes. I was married in June?a P months after I came out." I " Did your husband know what ' were?" " No. But when he found out wl i was he was contented to live, off me " supported him, and he never did i 0 thing toward supporting me. He ^ mechanic, but he didn't work any t 1 he found out about ne." i "Where is he now?" asked the e porter. ,,, "He is serving time in Hiinoifi /wnnmitKnff mVihorv in thfl Pftl ! House, Chicago." 8 " Was he a professional thief ?" t " No; he let me do the stealing," replied, bitterly. " Have you any ohildren ?" j "Yes, two. One is two years and the other nearly four." " 4' Where are they ?" "They are in Washington. I them with some people there wh( * went there last summer for pleae ? Yas, I suppose they will take car lf them, but they will expect me to a for it." And she hastily wiped away two tears that came in her eyes as she s] of the little ones. ,j? "Did you never have any narrow j capes from detection by the peopl the different houses from which you e things?" , j " No, I always jyaited until I was , I tain of what I was doing. " I "Tin -i J.J i?!_? Y " WHB5 UlU )UU cuiri-.u.uj| e jewelry, as a rule ?" "Always jewelry when I coul moBey." ' " Do you know how mnch you ! Y stolen ?" 8 " No, I never kept any account; 1 the money that I got went as fast 3 came always, and never did me 0 good." v "Suppose yon should get clef 1 this?" r "Iwould lead a very different kii a life," she interrupted. "I would Q my children and go back to the Country My father and mother a sisters are living in England, a: u would work at my trade. I have a j trade, dressmaking, but I never wo ri at it after I came to America, or or - little." a d ?- A Moving Town. q . The Virginia City (Nev.) Enters - Pays : Our town is very quietly and ^ slowly moving to the eastward dowi [_ face of the mountain. This is owing t< e settling of the ground over the bom _ mines. As all the town is going j8 gether, it is not much noticed on a surface, where no cracks are seen. e water and gas companies are bette j. quainted with the movements ta ^ place in the ground forming the sil j the town than most others, as the ii ' bility of the earth tells upon their p: On B and 0 streets, north of Union _ ground is moving both north and eai 1? nsMt+K on/1 an p water jxiuiu, i uuuuju uw?u s' uncovered yesterday at the corner j street and Sutton avenue, was foui j be telescoped to the distance of o\ foot, and, besides, had in it a great i which made it necessary to take < piece nearly two feet in length. A1 s the Consolidated Virginia pan mill 38 pipes are crowding in from both i- and west; at least, owing to the set' 3, of the ground in that neigborhood.t 3, appears to be two movements. Alth< ir there are as yet no cracks in the cei d part of the town, there is a large oi i- the westward. It begins at Oeda d vine, runs south to near the large v a fank of the Ophir, on the hill wee town, then turns east for a consider n distance, when it takes its course sc te ward west of Stewart street, and fir n joins the old crevice below the Q n and Curry croppings. Toward n north this orevice is about eight in ){ in width, und the ground on each si( 18 it is about three feet lower than on n west side. Capt. Overton, of the v 3. company, whose opportunities for serving . these movements are ur !6 passed, says that as the ground se a over the bonanzas that on the slo] x- the mountain, where it is not muol: j. dermined, gradually moves down. ;s says the International Hotel has m d east about five inches since it was t x. If such is the case all the building y that part of the town with the gr< if on which thev stand, must have m i. the same distance, as no cracks are \ jt seen in the earth. As we are trave h however, it will be sometime Deror reach the Sugar Loaf. it ? 18 A Prosperous Farmer. js When you see a barn larger thai 3f house it shows that he will have 1 ft profits and Bmall afflictions. When Bee him driving his work it shows ?ill ..AOTAt. Wft /lwivTAn fy/v*/l ro lie Will HOYUC uilTOUiiuui gvuutW! tions, and that he will certainly wor . way to prosperity. When you see i WOodhouBe a sufficiency for three mc or more, it shows that he will be i 11 than a ninety days' wonder in fan operations, and he is not sleeping ii 11 honse after a drunken frolio. Whei sled is honsed in summer and his ? e ing implements covered both winter c. summer, it plainly shows that he will ; a good house over his head in the f ! mer of his early life and the wint j old age. When his cattle are proj I shielded and fed in winter, it evi | that he is acting according to Scripl n I ?o mnrni fn 1 mo " HlllCU oajro UUClt ? (* mercifal to his beast." When he is ^ subscribing for a paper and payin advance, it shows that he is spea >r like a book respecting tbe last imp] it mente in agriculture, and that he e o gets his walking papers to the Ian 3 poverty. . ... . Rattlesnakes. sea, Several instances of almost instant iper death from rattlesnake "bites have Li tie oome under my immediate notioe, savs a irty correspondent of the New Yojk Sun. Mr. Thomas Willingham and I were ring driving deer in Christ Church parish, on the. post route from Charleston to this Georgetown, in 1866. A buck Bhot by >ver my companion fell in a kind of dry pond ih a about seventy yards away. He.rode in cept among the underbrush to Bee ore the got game, when a large rattlesnake struck .e is nio horse on the inside of one of his >ing hind legs. The animal dropped dead I to within two minutes. 3 it, ' In 1867,' while on duty on James ) go Island, in the same State, I visited the rt%* A man war lear JWUojr ym?w>uwui m w*y*w. ..? irch sent to the spring, about one hundred iter yards distant, for a pail of water. His h a prolonged absence caused mine host to go in searoh of him. He returned in it?" a few minntes with the information that the servant was dead. The servant >ted had got within a few rods of the house tate on his return by the narrow path, which [fair ran through tall sage grass, when he. k a was struck by a rattlesnake. He fell, me apparently, where he was bitten. The om- incisions made by the fangs in the calf jne. of the leg were targe, showing the snake see, to have been an old settler. There was very little swelling. , .s- , ; . A drummer attached to my company aths while on a reoonnoissance from Gaines' dis- Mills to Mechanicsville, Va., in June, id a 1862, slipped out of the ranks to pick, hen apples a few rods distant from the road. He was shortly seen running toward the column holding his thumb tightly. A old V6t7 small incision verified his statement iind that he had been bitten by a rattlesnake, hem Although plied freely with whisky, he was a aeaa man 'wuxjuui uu uuui uioioling after. There is a wide difference in the fev7 species of rattlesnakes. Those along the ooafit of South Carolina have much you brighter colors, and are not so slender in form as those found in the interior iat I ^d the'mounfain region. %The same ifj , x true of the moccasins. No old; hunter of any. that State would ever allow himself to aa a step over a log while in pursuit of his (fter game. He first steps upon it, for he knows the fondness his snakeship has ! re_ for curling itself upon the lee side in a most convenient attitude for striking: i for 1 ,:! mer A Changing Scene. **AA1 VIVA AlATun/^i*ia V/liO UUU ilUXUljr XCOlXXiO liuov uiVAuuvuiu is in reality an Eastern eity, and one of h*10 the capitals of a Mahommedan oountry. As one walks round the great square and notices the broad pavements, the ?ld, frequent gas-IampB, the lofty houses, the spacious shops, the crowd of carriages, tne Frank costumes, one feels quite left western. But you turn a corner and )n ? straightway stumble against a camel ,ure- with bis noiseless tread, and a man in a e o. blue gown offers to sell you sherbet in Pa7 the name of Allah; and vou see a narrow little opening in the wall and men going 1 tug in and out with their shoes in their hand, ??ke and yOU pass in and see a broad space covered with matting, where people are v 68- prostrate in prayer, and above is a little 6 i*1 minaret, where an old man in white cotk??k ton quavers out the invitation, and tells you there is no God but Allah, and that oer~. prayer is better than aleep. As you goi on you see money-changers in the street, I ot letter-writers doin? the correspondence of a dozen, cross-ieggea BcuuuimuoMjro d or teaching their children to recite the Fatwah, the chapter of the Koran that all have must know as we know the. Lord's Prayer; you turn into a police court and but liaten to a long robed Cadi administering 88 ^ justice to half a dozen screaming men any and women; and then suddenly you come upon big warehouses full of Manchester ?f goods, stores piled with cotton, steam presses turning out hundreds of bales id of per day, a great market where English, take itab'an and Greek are almost the only Old languages you hear, and a port crowded and with shipping of every nation. It is a Qd I singular combination of the Old World ???d with the New. rked ? dy a Severe Exertion After Meals. The practical rule of 'avoiding serious exertion immediately after eating has long been acted upon in the . treatment of the lower animals, and no one who onae sets any value on the lives of his horses or dogs, ever allows it to be disregarded 1 8 with respect to them. And' yet the 5tlie Bame man who would unhesitatingly anza dismiss his groom for feeding his horse ' j immediately after a chase or gallop "J6 home, would probably think nothing of walking into the house and ordering F?0* dinner instantly served for himself in ( 8 similar circumstances. In the army the ^,01 difficulty of managing troops on a march asta- ^ respect, has often been remarked, ipes. Fatigued with the day's exertions, they ? can scarcely refrain from food so long as " A to allow its being properly cooked. 'yT* They consequently labor undor the double disadvantage of eating before ld 10 the system is in a sufficient state of rea pose to benefit from the supply, and of [111K* I t*?in o /ir\nr?ifinn nnfif, fnr I 9 UttYillg IL1C 1UVA4 m ? WM\umvm >??.? ? easy digestion. The old campaigner, t>?^t instructed by experience, restrains his ? appetite, kindles his fire, cooks his .f*8 victuals, makes his arrangements for }m% the night, with a deliberation surprising rv to the recruit; and he is amply repaid for his temporary self-denial by the Q f greater enjoyment and support which ie he derives from the very same materials r f?" which the impatience of .the other has iT of 'aufl6c* a measure to waste. ,nth- Flying Foxes. iajjy The flying fox is a very curious inhabould *tant ?* Crests near Moreton bay, in East Australia. It lives in flocks, and cke8 moves generally towards the dusk of the le of evenin? 5 the noise produced by the heavy flapping of tbe so-called wings is vflrr Hinciilar. The flocks like quiet 0b_ places, where there are large arsucarian isur- tree?> 'with an underwood of scrub and ttles creePers- The foxes hang in vast num3e bera from the horizonal branches of the un, pine trees. When there is a clear space 2je amongst the trees, an enormous number ove(j of the animals may be seen, and their iaQk noise can be heard ; for directly they .8 ^ see anything unusual, they utter a short jund bark, something like the sound made by oved yoau8 rooks. Often every branoh is fo {j6 crowded, and the flying foxes are seen Knpr either flapping their wings, and holding e ~ on with their hind feet, and with their heads downwards or snarling and fighting for places. Suddenly the whole take to flight, aifd flap their furry, wing-like ; aijaa onrl wlififll around like heavy l his birds. Many fly with their young holdlarge ^8 on t? them. The creature is not a l y0U true fox, and there is a fold of skin that whioh reaches from the fore to the hind boIu- tegs- This is called the wing, and1 it k his enables the Pteropus, as the animal is n his called, to float and turn in the air. >nths j 1 more i She Didn't Scare. ning A boy who wos disappointed the other l his day in making a sale of tinware to a a his woman on Park street, Detroit, mutterarm ed something which excited her indigna' and tion, and she gave him "a great big piece have of her mind. In "jawing back" he aum- said: o* nt I " Vnnr Vinsband oucrht to be arrested )erly for working on Sunday !" ncea "Working on Sunday?come here, ;ure, bob! Now, bub, if you'll prove that * "> Arm/lair r.r 11 18 my UU8UUUU evex huh vu. uuu^, seen any other day in the week, I'll give you g in a dollar ! I've lived with him for twenking ty years, and have always had to buy rove- even his whisky nnd tobacco, and now if iever he's gone to work I want to know it I" id of The boy bnoked off without Another word. Mutilations. The evidenoe that bodily mutilation c the living has been a seqnenoe of trophj taking from the dead is at once abund ant and varied. As the taking of th trophy implies victory carried even t the death, the derived practice of cul ting off a part from the living prisone comes to imply subjugation; and eventt ally the voluntary surrender of such part expresses submission, and beoome a propitiatory ceremony because it do< this. Hands are cut off from dead enc mies; and, answering to this,, beside some identical mutilations of criminals, w have the cutting-off of fingers or portion of fingers, to paoify living ohiefs, d< ceased persons and gods. Noses at among the trophies taken from slai foes; and we have loss of noses inflicte on prisoners, on Blavee, on transgressoi XI T ?Uf. UI certain uiius, nare tuc uiuu^uv uav from the battle-field; and occasionall they are cat off from prisoners, criminal or slaves; while there are peoples araon whom pieroed ears mark the servant c the subject. Jaws and teeth, too, at trophies, and. teeth,' in some cast knocked ont in propitiation of -a dea chief, are in various other cases knocke ont by a priest as a quasi-religious cer< mony. Most prevalent and complete i the evidence furnished by mutilation ( the hair. Scalps are taken from kille enemies, and sometimes their hair i used to decoratd a victor's dress; an then come various sequences. Here tli enslaved have their heads croppec here scalp-loc&s are ?worn suDjeos 10 chief's ownership, and these are demanc ed in sign of submission; while, els< where, taeii are shorn of their beards t ornament the robe of a superior, ui shorn hair being thus rendered a mar of rank. Among numerous peoples haj is sacrificed to propitiate the ghdsts < relatives; whole tribes cut it on th death of their chiefs or kings; it 1 yielded up to express subjection t deinies; occasionally it. is offered to living superior in token of respect; an this complimentary offering is extende to others. Similarly with genital mt tilations, there is a like taking of pari from; slain enemies and from hvjn prisoners; aid there is a presentation < them to. kings and to gods. Nor is : " - ?-it- ?.ui.u? -i ocncrwiee wim muuuiuuuo ui nuvuuv class. Self-bleeding, initiated parti] by cannibalism, but more extensively b the inutual giving of blood in pledge c loyalty, entdre into several ceremonie expressing subordination; we find it o< curriug in propitiation of ghosts and c gods, and occasionally as a complimer to living persons. Naturally it is the sam with the resulting marks. Original! indefinite in form and place, but rent ered definite by custom, and at lengt often decorative, these healed woundi at first only entailed on relatives of d< ceased persons, then on all the follower of a man who was inuoh feared whil alive, marks became so expressive < subjection to a dead ruler, and eventr ally to a god; thus growing into tribi and national marks.?Herbert Spence in The Fortnightly Review. . I* . .5! -n-?r?. m .i> Journalism in Bossia, ...Journalism is a fur. older institufrio in Russia than may be^generally sn| posed. St. Petersburg was founded i 1703 by Peter the Great, in the fifteen! year of his reign. The autooratic r< former, who may be said to have create the Muscovite Empire out of politic and social chaos, died in 1725, and thr< vears later was published tha- first nuc ber of a Russian paper, entitled the S Petersburg Vedomoati. In the la week in January this journal celebrate the one hundred and fiftieth anniversai of its existence. The occasion, at on< important and interesting, was doi ample honor and justice to. Messr Komaroff & Usoff, the proprietors, sei invitations to all the leading journalis of the Russian capital, and to the men bers of the literary, scientific, and leg; professions, the teachers of the publ schools, the officers of the etat-maja the employes of the public department in a word, to the representatives of e' ery walk of life in St. Petersburg. Even the Czar's right-hand man, tt Censor, made a speech there and thei setting forth the merits of journalism i general and of the Vedomosti in partii ular. The gathering of guests was i the spaoious hall of that paper. Var ous literary exercises were performet including the reading of an essay on ti "Ideal Editor and Newspaper," a poei entitled "The Black Sea," and an ac dress to the editors of the Vedomos from the conductors of the St. Peter burg press. A choral performance fo lowed, by the members of the Imperii Conservatoire, of a selection of the Tbeai tiful peasant songs for whioh Russia: so remarkable. Next weredramatio an operatic scenes, foreign and native, an a magnificent banquet, at which patrio ic toasts and speeches were deliver* ad lib., closed this remarkable celebri tion in the small hours of the morninj Those who have been accustomed 1 regard Russia as a nation of boors, an St. Petersburg (despite its imperial 1 brary of over a million of volnmes) as sort of savage place, will be surprise at learning from us that one of its new papers is over 150 years old. With tl exception of the London Gazette (whic is not a newspaper, but a publication < government and other announcements the oldest of all the London journals the Morning Post, begun in 1781, mo: than half a century after the establisl ment of the Vedomosti, of St. Peter burg. __________ A Witness Who Went Prepared, An Englishman, who recently brougl suit against a railway corporation ft damages caused by an accident on ti line, not only went into the witness be well crammed, but even took his nob book with him. He referred to it t often that Sergeant Ballantine took out of his hands, and himself introduce it in evidence while cross-examining ti witness. The book contained a writt account of the accident in the form < an address to the jury, interspersed -wit remarks, such as " Take it easy, "Don't get flurried," "Take care. These, the plaintiff candidly admittec were to act as warnings to ham1 in givin j his evidence. Sergeant Ballantine the ! questioned him as to the meaning of tt | figures 1, 2,3, which occurred from tin to time in the note-book, and it appea ed that these were intended as remindej to the witness to count three before ai swering any question put to him. Tl entry "Never mind him," referred I the learned sergeant himself. The su cess of this thoughtful gentleman?1 TT7/vn tiirt on if, and obtained 81.250 dan ages?may encourage other witnesses 1 adopt a similar system of notes ar checks for use inihe box. Longevity of Trees. From the observations made on spec mens still in existenoe, the longevity i trees has been estimated to be, in rour numbers, as follows: Deciduous cypress, 6,000 years; ba bob trees, 5,000; dragon tree, 5,00 yew, 3,000; cedar of Lebanon, 8,00 red-wood of California, 3,000; chestnn 8,000; olive, 2,500; oak, 1,600; orange, 1 Ron. rirtAnfAl rilftnA 1 2ft0* ftfthhflffAtlftl 700; lime, 600; ash, 400; ooooanutpalr 300; pear, 300; apple, 200; Brazil \rii pulra, 150; Scotch fir, 100; andtbebal of Gileacl, fifty years. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, Flowers f?r the Garden. t* Says a writer in Colnum\t Bur a Q World: A great many persons, -whei 0 they plant a' flower garden, want sdet ^ flowers as will give the greatest -sho* r with the least trouble. Many .can afforc t. bat few kinds. They take a catalogs a and look it over, and get completely ? bewildered before they get throngh. a Everything is- described as being j. desirable and showy, and thej s cannot really determine wha? tc e get, and what not to get. Thai 8 was my experience wuou x nwamaiBBM j. growing flowers. I have since learned e what kinds succeed best in a oommor Q garden, and are most satisfactory. If ] j were to select a dozen varieties, I woulc B choose, first .of all, petunias, for thii reason: they commence to bloom whex very small, and oontinue to bloom until k frost kills-them,,thpsgjving a constant ? sncoession of flowers. As the planl grows, the blooms increase in number, ,Q and a common-sized plant will cover t )S place three feet square, and show ai <j many as two hundred blossoms at once: 3 They are of all shades of red and purple, j. and when mixed with white, have a daz [g zling effect. Next I would choose phlox }f This commences to bloom quite early <j and like petunia, has large clusters oi [g flowers, and more of th6m as the plant ^ grows; from the time they oommence tc 0 bloom until killed by frost, they art j. never without flowers. Nothing in tlu ^ floral family can give a greater variet] 1 of colors, and more dazzling ones, that l" -1-1? ?J ?U.-*? U.. IUO piUOX? ICU, WUlliC, U1UD, ymytc 0 scarlet, pink, striped and dotted. Tnei i. for my third I would choose asters k They do not bloom ontil late in th< ^ season, but amply repay one for wait ,f ing. They are a beautiful flower, anc e sport almost as great a variety of oojon iB as the phlox. Next I should choos< 0 scarlet Ohinese pinks, for they give va a riety, and are hardy, constant bloomers, ^ and of all conoervable shades of red' anc <j scarlet,'striped and spott?d:wifch browz and white. Then I would takepahsies, ;8 verbenas, stock-snapdragons, balsams ~ zinnias, morning- glories, and naetur ,1 tions' for climbing*plants. *>iA11 pi thes< are constant and prdfuse blodmere, anc Ir will give all dolors and Shades. Th< j pansies, stock and petunias are verj 1 fragrant, and will give tall and upright * and low trailincrslants. sg A Cheap Hot Bed. y Imtead of using sashes for covering ,f frames,'the following German plan ma;; kt be adopted: Take white cotton cloth l0 of a close texture, stretch and nail it ot y frames of any size you wish; take tw< f. ounces of lime water, four ounces o; h linseed oil, one of White Of eggs,, twc if ounces of yellow of eggs ; mix the lime and oil with very gentle heat, beat th< -a eggs separately, and mix them with th< e former; spread the mixture .with i 3f paint brush oyer the. cotton, allowing i. each coat to dry before applying jl another, dentil they become waterproof r> The following are the advantages thesi ' shades possess over glass : Th< cost is hardly one-fourth; (2;) Repairi are easil^ and cheaply made; (9.) Th< light is better. They do hot reqtlir* . watering, no m^ttpr how intense th n heat of the sun; . the plants are neve j. strack down, burned, or eheoked h n growth, neither do they grow sick an< ^ weakly .as they do under glass; an< 3. still there is abundance of light > Th l(j heat arising from below is moie.equabl ^ and temperate, whioh is a great objed ,e The vapor arising from the manure anc Q_ earth is condensed by the cool ai k passing over the surface of the shade and stands in drops on the inside; there ;(j fore the plants do not require a frt L qnent watering. If the frtfmes o yg stretchers are made large, they shonl ie be intersected by cross-bars about s< foot square to support the cloth. Thes articles are just the thing for bringin, fa forward melons, tomatoes, flower seed* ? etc., in season for transplanting. jj Household Hint*. j0 Perfumb fob Gloves.?Take rost r leaves, powdered, half an onnce; essenc ta of cloves and mace, each one dram 7. frankincense, a quarter of an ounce Mix these thoroughly; put a little of tta ie compound in a drawer or box wit] 3 gloves, and they will retain the scent fo a considerable time. 5- Baking.?Baking is a more economi n dal mode of cooking than roasting, es i- pecially in small families where economi 1, cal stoves, or ranges with side ovens ie are used. In baking there is less los n of weight than in roasting, as the first i 1- much less dried; then again it require H far less attention in the process. 3* Breakfast Dishes.?In cooking oat 1- meal, hominy, wheaten grits, cracke< *1 wheat, or any of those nice breakfas } dishes, cook it in a covered tin dish, in i is kettle of boiling water; in this manne id there is no danger of scorching. Corn d starch pudding, sea-moss farina, and al t- other articles mixed with milk can b in 111o aomfl TtTQ.Tr rv* wuaou iu vuw DMuiw ff a" Ibon and Steel Cotleby.?Quite' i ? trade ia carried on in the sale of iroi ~ scissors, which are kept well polished r Such tools are good for nothing?th l~ cheat may easily be detected. To mafe ? the distinction quickly, place the toe ** upon a stone, and drop upon it som B* dilute nitric acid ("four parts of water t ie one of'acid). If the tool remains clean 'k it is of iron; if of steel, it will show a blacl spot where touched by the acid. Thes )? spots can be easily tubbed off. 18 Raising Cucumber* re Take a flour barrel with one head in 2~ perforate the staves about two-thirds c their length, beginning at the heade< end, with gimlet holes irom two id tnre inches apart. Place the barrel with th head end on the surface of the ground make a hill of good garden soil aroum it the barrel, having a base of three fee ,r from the barrel, and extending with 16 slope to within two or three inches frou >x the top of the barrel, and fill the barre a" three-fourths full of good stable manure 10 Plant the hill with seed from four to si it inches apart, and when the plants ge d four leaves, thin out to a foot apart; pn 16 brush between the plants so as to keej ,n the fruit from the ground. As soon a the seeds are planted, keep the barre h constantly filled with water. The wate "t dissolves the manure, passes throng the holes in the barrel into the hill, an affords a constant supply of root food t ** r\? t,:iv :n >6 in? JUttni-tt. ?ju? Hill wm piuuuua a. ,n ample supply for an ordinary family. 10 Practical Farmer. ie ? r" The World's Population.. j. The population of the principal ni ie tions, according to Schem's statistic to for 1873, is as follows : O Austria 35,904,4? ie Brazil 11,780,(X ? China , 446,200,0( Egypt 8,000,0( to France 36,102.85 id Germany 41,058,1! Great Britain 31,817,1( Italy . 26,716,8< Japan 34,785,3! Russia 81,925,4! Turkey 42,500,0< (i. United States 38,555,9f of The population of the large divisioi id of the world is : America 84,524,01 0- Europe 301,600,0( n. Asia 794,000.0* n! Africa 192,520.0< y Australia 4,3<35,0( it, Total 1,S77,000,<X m _ - a q, King numoeix uas ihbuiuwu jrenri I Ol AAA no/ili fn? fViriQfi mnflf. rill R^pnzua ui ^pi,uuu LUR-II IUI Htingtushirig themselves in literature, nr Hand science in his kingdom. Items of Interest. t A sweet rascal?The sugar beet.' sN A Celebrated One?The printer's. M " Two for assent "?A bridal conple. ' Uneasy lies the head that wean a H frowni " Even a bfurel-hoop will turn when H trod upon. 9Q A set of teeth things?Dentist's in- M strumentB. - H The head-Waiter?llie last man in a H crowded barber's ihop. flj ' Catch a barber with a dull razor and sfl he is bound to hone up. H There are 88,000 children employed B in faotoriesin Germany. - H Pube orrin-root powder is a harmless H and agreeable tooth-powder. H A household in Boston adyertises B rooms to let to gentlemen fnrnished with Jfl The Chinaman's weak spot is white H ? TT.Mt ^ , sugar, no u puo u>u i oat-loaf. I 1 The shoemakers don't mind dull timea. B 1 Their shoes are sold before they go into B 1 the market. B Little girls believe in a man in the B ' moon?young ladi es believe in a man in B ^ the honeymoon. B t The Earl of Beaconsfleld is one of the fij j best dreaders in England, and one of B y his dressing-gowns cost $3,000. B j The average annual production of H 7 lamp chimneys in 'Pittsburg, Pa., is B i about 1,600,000 dozen per year. B , Many & tear of wounded pride, B i Many a fault of hnman blindnes?, H Ha? been soothed, or turned aaide, G| j . By a quiet, voiee of kindness. A girl in Zanesville, Ohio, was sfakl- j I taneously converted and cured of sum- B , mering by fcevivaHrit Hammond. She fij , thinkl a miracle was wrought I Queen Viotoria has sent the crown /liomnnila tn French Exoosition. I The Kohinoor diamond is in the casket, i and the total valq&is said to be $8,200,, Q00. ii i- . i yJ'l : f u, Mining machines have become so in- I portant that there is tojbe a competitive * trial of them at the Bristol show yard t next July, with judges appointed by the ? Royal Agricultural Society of England. r A man with one eye laid a wager that ? he (the one-eyed) saw more than the other. The wager was accepted. "You ' have lost," said the first;" I can see two ? eyes in your face, and you can only see r one in mine." . ' Bioe powder, which is much used by ' ladies upon their faoes, is said often to I contain lead, which renders it very inJ Jurious. If a little iodide of potash is . dropped upon the powder the presenoe ' of lead will be revealed, by its turning j yellow. ' ! It cost an Iowa man seventy-five dol- . , lars for saying "Stop my paper." Id' . consequence of its being stopped he ' failed to learn of a delinquent tax sale, I at which his own farm was sold, and it 3 coat him seventy-five dollars to get ont 5 of the serape. 3 It is known to science that the migraa tioo. of fishes is as regular and systemat9 io in the sea as is ttiat of birds and oertain r animals upon the lqnd, arid the same fact a applies to certain well-known insects, 1 among which the locust is perhaps the i most remarkable example. 6 Chinese are" starving?70,000,000 of e them the cable, says, Hqw . xoany is ? that, do yon know ? Why, is is so many i that if yon were to count at the rate of - * - * * ?3 1 ten a minute, mgui mm u?/y n?uvu. '? eating or sleeping, it would take yon y fourteen years to count them. !* A man of genius never seeks applause; T while the little minded or thoee who have but a small portion of intellect, try * bytheir vanity and conceited boastings ? to build upon the mental resources of ? others their own fame and reputation. ' However* it is for the best, for they soon fall to their proper level?once they reach it they never rise, g " Phlirtation? Phairest PhloraJ" bilr led an amorous youth, "phorever dismiss your phears, and plily with one 0 whose phervent phancy is phixed on you a alone. Phriends?phamily?phather? r phorget them, and .think only of the phelicity of thephuture! Phew phellows are so phastidions as your Ferdinand, so pheign not phondnees if you pheel it not. Phorego phrolic, and an1 BUI ft ((Ah Vliaii. i awer pnmaiiy, ruiuin. vu, AW?? dinand, you phool," she cooed. 8 An ewe, owned by Mr. Wright, of g Bland connty, MdL, recently gave birth to a most singular monstrosity. It was undoubtedly a lamb, but it had three , distinct heads and mouths, with full sets ? of jaws and a tongue in each. Two of the mouths were where the ears should nave a been, and in its heads were small aperr tures which seemed to answer for ears. I To partially make up. for this superfluity of heads, etc., it was without a tail. A 9 remarkable fact about tbe beast was, that when it bleated the sounds came a out of its ears. It lived about eight a hours. ' Woman's wit, in the opinion of Captain Hoffman, played an important part i at times in the late conflict, tbe Confede erases gaining many an advantage over the Northern men by its influence. 44 In such matters," he remarks, "one woI a of men. I i mau ao nvi?u recollect one day' we sent a steumboat full of Confederate! officers (exchanged prisoners) into the confederacy. They were generally accompanied by their i wives and children. Our officers notioed 3 the most extraordinary number of dolls * on board?every child had a doll?but they had no suspicions. A ladv told me !. afterwards that every doll was filled with 7 quinine ; the sswdust was taken out and , quinine substituted. Depend upon it that female wit devised the trick. a a A hungry man in San Francisco, his ,1 name Malone, lately walked into a res, # taurant where he called for and devoured j one dozen of oysters on the half shell, I one porter-house steak, a dish of devilled t kidnevs, another of trout, another* still p of pickled tripe, with a generous piece a of mince pie. Finally, he called for a >i two-shilling cigar, lighted it, and was f walking out when the proprietor mildly b asked him if he hadn't forgotten somed thing. Turning with great wrath, tbe 0 banqueter delivered the following short n address: "You are just like the rest of _ San Francisco, which is nothing but a oommunity of hogs." It didn t seem then to occur to him that he was a distinguished and well-qualified member of suoh a community; but, perhaps, it did afterwards in the station house, to ? which this man of large appetite and I lean nurse was forthwith conducted. J6 )0 THE 8050 OF THE MILKMAID. )0 Turnturn! for my cheeks they burn; )0 Turn by the vale, my Harry! 21 Fill, pail! fill, pail! " ' > t-_ AV., 19 He's tornea vy mo imv, )8 And there by the stile waits Harry, )9 Fill, fill!?fill, pail!?fiJI! il For there by the stile waits Harry. J8 The world may go round?the world may X) ntand still, S3 Bnt I?can milk and marry." ?Scribner. 11 1?1 ?? lion. 18 I Now, that sounds wen, out wo pen to know the milkmaid didn't say it jq just that way. As near as we conld catch X) the words, she sung: X) So! 80 ! brute! hnddnp your foot! X) Look at ye now, where vou've rtnck it I X) H^ld still your tail - Stiff as a flail. . X) Ami both hind feet in the bucket! There stands a tramp by the barnyard gate, y And?bo there ! you brnte, or ni l?m ye! So, now; so! Ah, beast! There von go ! . And there goes the |>si!, too: dog r? gone a oow. anyhow. ?Rtirliijijton Hmrkrye.