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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNEi. p .1*1 ' ;<-, >St~g -tA^' ^ - ' > ; - ?&?*- : - ? -tf Q *' ? : .? . ? \( w . : - - - : :* y< . : ?4 *1 BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. " ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21, 1878, > ' NO. 11. VOLUME XXYL :|| A Summer Day Deep down beside the tangled sedge The meadow lark pings all the day, And bursts at times from out the hedge The mimic chatter of the jay; And hero and there a wandering note, A cricket's chirp, comes sweet and clear Where dreamy mists of summer float At noon upon the grassy mere. Alar away below the hill I see the noisy mill-wheel go, The smooth broad lake above the mill, The flash of foam that roars below; And on the even Blopes that rise So gently toward the mountain's brow, The cattle watch with sleepy eyes The lazy plonghboy ft the plongh. My soul is sleeping, and its dreams? Ah ! sad and sweet that dreaming thrills! For there are other vale3 ar.d streams, Ana otner iiocks on otner nuis? The hills whereon I climbed to pull The golden rods and weeds of May, When all the world was beautiful, And all my life a summer day. ? C. E. Brooks in Harper's Magazine. PENNY WISE AND POUND! FOOLISH. I "We will express, our trunkb, I sup- j pose," said Amy, rising from her knees I with a sigh, where she had been strapping said baggage, till her little fingers i were bruised with the strain?4 4 we will express our trunks," she repeated, 44 and J. have nothing upon our mindB." 44 Express our trunks. Amy ! what ! nonsense! I shouldn't tbfhk of it for an instant!" cried Aunt Mitty. "it! would be a -wicked extravagance, for j which we should deserve a visitation of i Providence. I've traveled miles and I miles in my day, and I've always taken j care of my own things, and expect to do ! it as long as the breath's in my body." The trunks were sent down to the station early next morning on a wheelbar- j row, and as the distance was short, Amy j and her aunt followed on foot, arriving j in season to see the wheelbarrow give j out, like the " ona-hoss shay," and spill j its contents upon the highway. Aunt j Hitty was obliged to pay a quarter on ! the spot for a second pair of masculine i arms to convey the trunks into tho sta- i tion, she and Amy being supplied with a j bag, an envelope box containing sand- j wiches, a water-proof in a strap, and a j novel each. | " We might as well have taken a carriage," suggested Amy, "and have . started in some style, if only ' for the oonfusion of the neighbors,' and even j I'O" Ti-rml/I litiT-A Vipprt ft VWlftTlfifi 1 in oar favor." Aunt Hitty did not ap- j pear to be affected by thi3 economical | view of the situation, her mind being i engaged at that moment npon the co- j nundrum whether she should be obliged j to buy a new wheelbarrow for Neighbor I Cramp, or if the old one could be re- ! vamped to liis satisfaction; but before j she could arrive aft a. solution the con- j doctor cried, "All aboard," and they j were plunging through the tunnel, fly- I ing across the bridge, hurrying past j everybody's back-door, past the old! burying-ground, out into the clear conn- j try, with the distant mountain peaks j outlined against the sky, with fringes of ; reddening sumac, and burning bushes ! of maple and beech, and the ragged ; pennons of creepers and blackberry i vines closing in about them, " Jerusalem Centre !" shouted the ! conductor. "Passengers change cars j for Boghampton." "While Aunt Hitty was manoeuvring | to avoid the smoking-car in her entrance : into the Boghampton train, Amy re- j checked her trunks, and smashed her i eyeglasses 111 tne atterapi. &i me nexi i point of connection Aunt Hitty trans- 1 acted the business with dignity and composure, but found, after the train had started, that she had left " The Last Days of Pompeii" behind hei. " And'it belonged to your book club, too," sighed Amy. At the third station where they were obliged to change Amy secured the checks without any mishap, and being now fairly launched on the road to Boston, they disposed themselves to dine from the envelope box, and Aunt Hitty | produced the silvei cup from which she j had eaten her bread and milk when she ' was in pinafores, and her grandmothers before her. "I'm glad I brought It," sho said; "it | doesn't cost any more to drink from silver than from glass, when it's an heirloom. How auy one can use that promiscuous tumbler passes me." "There's Dorset Travis, Aunt Hitty, sure as you live. Oh, I do wish he would took this way !" whispered Amy. "I would rather you shouldn't let on you saw him. People are so. apt to get intimate on ? juurutiv, iciuiucu uci aunt. "Read your novel, child. A Vane wasting a thought upon a Travis ! Sueli a thing was never known in Borrowdale; it would ioake all your ancestors groan in their graves. In your great-grandfather's day there was the Travis Arms ; and the Vane Hall. We were of the best blood in the county; nobody knows I if they had any ancestry; their family j tree is an acorn yet, for all I know. When your forebears were living in \ clover and faring sumptuously every day, old Martin Travis was toe poor to buy himself a second suit." "And now the tables are turned. We have the poverty, and they have the money." ".Bat -we are vanes, wnue tney win be only Travises to the end of the chapter." "As the case star ds, aunty, I would rather be a Travis, thank you." "Don't let me hear yon utter such blasphemy again, Amy Vane I" "I'm sure the girls in Borrowdale are always talking about him as if he were the great Mogul. I'm sure he is very nice- -I met him once at Miss Cabot's, you know; we spent a fortnight there at the same time. I may be obliged to speak to him, you see. If you'd only turn your head, Aunt Hitty, and look at him, you'd say he was a prince in disguise. Did you ever see him ?" "Never. The idea of old Martin Travis's grandson aspiring to an equal ** ' * - tt vm? lty wim me vaues s >? ii_y, iiu imo umun.ed your great-grandfather's boots, for aught I know!" " I can't help it if ho has blacked my great-grandfather's eye. I wish his j grandson would come and talk to us. And how he can talk ! I don't believe a Vane could hold a candle to him! There he goes into a smoking car! So my prospective pleasure ends in smoke." Amy Yane, remember who you are!" And then they relapsed into silence, and Aunt Hitty took a nap, while Amy watched the gay autumn world waltz past her?the fields where cattle grazed; the broken walls feBtooued with the wild grape, with gaudy vines; the swollen streams chatting over their pebbles; the rich vista3 of woodland, like glimpses into some cathedral crusted with gold and inlaid with jewels; the saucy little chipmunks darting among the nut-trees; the whir of wild wings among the nnderbrrteh; the bursting pods of the mildweed; the drifts of purple asters and golden-rod. How delightful it "might I be to travel in October with somebody like Doroas Travis to talk with, and one's baggage in the express ! " Have we collided ?" cried Annt Hitty, waking with a sudden jerk, "or what is it?" "Boston," said Amy. "Ob, of course. Now you take my umbrella and my bag and water-proof, aud secure seats in the New York train, while I secure the baggage." * How dark and smoky and crowded the depot seemed just then ! Engines Were puffing and filling, bell* were ringing, hackmen shouting, every one rushing hither and yon, elbowing, pushing. Was all creation cn route for somewhere ? was anybody loft at home to look after the silver and the " help ?" Aunt Hitty wondered as she insinuated hereeif into the near neighborhood of the baggage car and adjusted her glasses. "Mercy," said she, "what a bedlam !" "Isn't it though?" replied a woman at her elbow. "I can't liear my own ears?can you? Seems as though my baggage wouldn't ever turn up. It's dreadful standing here at the mercy of this crowd, they push you about so. Pardon; did I tread on your skirt?" " Oh, never mind," said Aunt Hitty; " 'twasn't your fault. Isn't that my trunk ? No?oh dear I" "It's awfully confusing," she confessed, having finally joined Amy in the New York train. " It's a pity that some of the people can't stay at home. I should think it was a Bedouin community." "Tickets!" demanded the conductor, on his rounds. Aunt Hetty plunged her hand into her dress pocket, into the pocket of her over-skirt, into the pocket of her sacque, into bet bag, and wrestled with p.ll its contents. "Goodnes* save us!" she gasped, " my pocket?has been?picked !" Fortunately Miss Hitty had taken the precaution of secreting the bulk of her funds about her person, and the pocketbook had contained only ten doliers in money, a recipe for mock mince pies, and a scrap of poetry, the tickets being in Amy'* charge, as it happened. 14 Well, there was such a crowd in the depot, that I wonder I came away with my senses," she explained. "Do get me a drink of water, Amy. I'm dry as a fish, from excitement " (though why a fish, which is always wet, should be called dry, is a paradox Mies Hitty didn't reflect upon). " The cup is in my bag. No ? Amy Vane, how helpless yoti are I If it was a bear, it would bite you. Give me the bag I" But alas! Miss Hitty's bag was unlike little Benjamin's sack: the silver cup was not to be found in it! " You don't suppose I left it in the cars in Boston ?" she questioned?" that cup, which has been in the family for generations ?" "We can telegraph to Boston from the next station," suggested Amy, who Tin<1 o fnmilv foplinc fnr the cut), aftei all, "and perhaps recover it. Don't you want to speak to the conductor about a sleeping-car?" 1' A sleeping-car I What do you think I'm*made of?" "You will have an attack of your asthma, Aunt Hitty; you aren't used to Bittiug up all night." "I'll make the experiment, anyway; two dollars aren't to be sneezed at in my circumstances. A penny saved is a penny earned." "You won't get a wink of sleep. For my part, I would rather pay twenty dollars than lose a neat's rest." " I dare say yo7 would. You've no more idea of economy than the babes in the woods. Any one who's sleepy can sleep on stilts." " Very well; pleasant dreams to you." It seemed to Amy as if the night were endless. Not a tree, nor a water-course, nor* a russet hill-side to be discerned through the darkness; not oo much as a star for company, nothing but the smoky lamps winking at her. Amy wished with all her heart that Mr. Travis had been at hand to help her kill time; as for Aunt Hitty, she improvised a pillow of her water-proof, and got a crick in her nock instead of a nap; and when everybody had about abandoned the hope of overtaking the morning, go at what lightning speed they would, the lights began to look like sickly ghosts at cock-crow,the eastern sky blushing like a rose, uu/oldiug petal after petal of light and color, birds began to flutter along the wayside, shaking the dew from wing and bush in their flight, and presently the train rolled into the Grand Central Depot, and stopped panting and wheezing. "Give me your purse, Amy," commanded Miss Hitty, "while you look up the baggage; it isn't worth while to risk anything. I'll go and buy the tickets, and keep a seat for you in the Hudson Kiver tram." Miss Jiittys voice was husky, anil her eyes -were full of metaphorical sticks. Amy had never been in New York before?indeed, her traveling bad chiefly been confined to a trip to Boston once a year?and the crowd and the confusion, the rush and huiry every one seemed to be in, the shackling and shunting ol cars, added to the stupid half-awake sensation resulting from a broken night, gave her a nervous lack of confidence iD herself. It appeared an eternity before her trunks came to light, and an teon or two before they were finally checked; then she picked her way through the throng as speedily as possible, only to see the Hudson River train moving out of the depot. She stood like one paralyzed, and watched it go, letting the crowd surge around her. Some one out of the human vortex paused and looked at her, turned back, and held out a reassuring hand. " Mien Vane T hplipro 9" unid "Dnvsflt Travis. '' Are you waiting for any one ? Can I be of service to you?" "Oh, Mr. Travis, I have lost my train 1" cried Amy. "Is that all? May I ask which way you are going ?" "We were going to Niagara?Aunt i Hitty and I. She is in the train, with : the tickets?and my purse !" "Well met, then," said he. "I tm | going to Niagara myself in the afternoon train, and shall be happy to be your ! escort, if you will allow mo. In the 1 meantime, here is a coach waiting for 1 us. We will take breakfast at Delmon: ico's, and have time to look into a pic ture-gauery ana arive in tne parn oeiore ' dinner, if yon don't object." | " Oh, thank you, Mr. Travis ! What a godsend you are !" cried Amy, effuj sively. " What would have become oi j me if you hadn't happened by?" " I'm glad my lines have fallen in sucl j pleasant places," he said. " I hope yoc j haven't forgotten the fortnight we spenl at Miss Cabot's together a year ago ?" What a breakfast they had at Delmon ico's, to be sure ! how debonair ant companionable Dorset Travis was !?olc Martin Travis's grandson, too! Befon ' T-.-J It /? mm a rtO 11 nn ilUU UUIIC Up " LUC ! Amy felt as if she had known him fron ! the beginning?easy in confessing he: I ignorance, sure of his sympathetic in j dnlgence?and by the time they ha< j taken a turn in the park she had decide( I it was not such a bad thing to lose one'i I train, after all; that this was a mucl ! nioooanfor mnlfl fn Niacrara than t,h< j regular one; if there was no royal roat : to learning, there was ono to Niagara. ! "I wonder what Aunt Hitty think has become of me?" said Amy, whei they were already upon their way. ' 'Sh< must be distracted." " Oh no; I telegraphed her at th( next station before we left the depot thi morning. "Oh, how splendid I " ? Marti: Travis's grandson, too L " What did yoi say, Mr. Travis?" " Why, to tell the truth, I committe< a sort of forgory by telegraph. I toh her that an old friend bad token ohergi of yon, and you wo aid leave for Niagari in the 3:20 train, p. m., and signed your 1 name." f "An old friend I" repeated Amy, re- < flectingly. 11 Do you object to the term ?" "Object! I dote on it," laughed Amy. 4| 4 Yon ro my friend: ! What a "thing friendship is, world without end!'" he quoted, * Was ever a journey down the Rhine or up the Nile more enchanting than this trip along the Hudson ? Were not the Palisades as grand and fantastic in their way as Philso and its temples ? Did not the Highlands wrap themselves in an atmosphere as ame- E thystine as that of the Bernese Oberland ? Could a night in June upon the Danube river surpass this afternoon in a palace-car ? To Amy's dismay, on arriving: at Niagara, she found Aunt Hitty at the hotel, 6 aitting np in bed, bolstered by pillows, i gasping and wheezing with an attack of 1 asthma. I " A whole ticket es good an thrown t away," she groaned. " I shall be ruined c if we don't begin to economize some- ' j where.u t j " I'm afraid this trip is a bad begin- * I ning," said Amy. r j " And Who was tfce friend you met in t I New York, eh ? ' c "Only Dorset Travis." ^ " Dorset Travis 1 old Martin's grand- a I son 1 Who next ? I do hope. Amy, c 1 V.aT/1 iTATiradlf o lif.f.lA T i "til ilU JVU UCiU JVUAUVl* M AAWWAW MAVW.MV that you didn't condescend too much.'' t "Oh, I had sucl a Bplendid time, t I aunty!" t "A splendid titm, with a gratis for c | company! You aredegenerating, Amy. ? I What Would your gwat-grandfather have ' I thought of you ?" v "I'm sure I.don'1 know; but we dined t i at Delmonico'a, wedrove in the park, ! we looked at picture," y j " With thegrandion of Martin Travis i ' ?nr?l T Ivinc here trvincr to catch mv I a j breath!""' ? " v "You must ha1? a doctor, Aunt P Hitty." il " Indeed no; clocbrs cost a fortune in ? Buch a place as tfcis they're not like Dr. Grub, at home, wth his seventy-five P cents a visit. You nust remember that 8 this is an expensive trp, and we must s pave where we can.' But by the fol- 11 lowing day Aunt Hity found that her ? usual remedies faled of alleviation, " I Si tiiat, in iact, sue was omj gruwiug j worse. "If then wore ' only some ^ i young doctor just Battled, glfld of a pa- -i1 ! tient at any price," ?he gasped. " Bing A1 ! the bell, Amy." a "Do you know ray young doctor," a I she anked of the clamber-mp.id---" any n I one who is rewona'ilo in his charges, * j who hasn't gotten iito much practice?" " That I do," replad the girl; "there's J* I nn? in fho limisfi tHs blessed minute. Shall I be sending hm up to you ?" P "You're sure 1b doesn't charge high?" ? " Charge, is it ? I's himself who car- t( ried a whole familj through with the ^ measles without changing a cent. Oh, a, he's the man for yotr money, marm." ^ "Well, you may sk him to step up; p one visit won't kill ne, at any rate.' 3 " Not unless ho'i the kill or cure q, j kind," said Amy. 1 He had gone out to a patient, how- a] j ever, when the maid went to seet him; r( ! Qnrl it. an ViftrmnnAr? fifth Amv WAS 3Ut ?t J.1 the druggist's when he made Iib first ft visit, and had met Dorset Travis on her S1 way home. y " The doctor's been here," said Aunt ^ Hitty; "and such a pleasant - fpoken tr gentleman as he is! Handsome, too; ^ j he reminds me of some one?I cai't tell | whom. He says he to>k up the profession for love, not foe money, which I argues well. Shows ke didn't ipring I from common stock. You can ?e, inS deed, at a glance, that he's a bori aris- H ; tocrat." B "Isn't your eyesight impDving, tl ! aunty ?" laughed Amy. oj " i was never so nesr-sighted that I I it i ^rmlrln'f. ffill a ronn of eentle blo?d and ! h , long descent from i\ plobeian. Ie lias w I only had his degree within the .\st six la months, though lie has practicedin the tl ' hospitals, you know." bi But in spite of her doctor's "irtues, it i Miss Hitty grew worse rather tlin bet- tc ter. Amy might a swell have jcen a nurse in a hospital ward, only ?e was ni never off duty. All day she was ihut in h with the invalid, all night shes-as up vv and down, arranging pillows, mesuring b i doses: she had forgotten the neglibor- k I hood of the Falls, so to 8i,eak,or the B j object of the journey; the doctor came ol ; twice a day, since the attack ws stub- n ! born; she herself was growing pie and u hollow-eyed, and one day Bhe dropped B at the bedside in the act of adrcnister- p ing a dose. ri " ThiB will never do," said theloctor. p ! "You must have a nurse, Miss Vane." c< i "A nurse!" cried Aunt Hitty. n "What next? I ne^er had ach an tl I article in my life. I (3on't own ioloon- ti i da, and I haven't a cliim in El >orado. o 11 A nurse, indeed ! I tell yoi what, d ; i Amy," she added as toon as tliep were e i ; alone again, "I must pick up jnough o | to jog home by the w?ek's end; Jve just tl i money enough left tc pay my blls and J I Vititt nitr ti/Vkflffl. " r, > " And we haven't sten the Fata yet!" p i " I wish the Falls had been n the 0 . Red sea! It they ladn't exited, it a would have been momy in my ptrse and n health in my bones." tl 41 Miss Amy muBt s<e the lions first," f] said the doctor, next day, whei Aunt b Hittyhad announced her intenton of ij leaving Niagara. "Iy carriagi is at n the door; I shall esteen it a privlege if a I may introduce her tc them." e "I'm sure you're as good ai gold, e doctor." u But when Amy retimed, then was a a rosy glow in her face, and an ecstasy in t] her glance. t< "I hope," she said,between i smile a and a tear?"I hope,Aunt Hity, that p you won't be displeised, thoigh his _ ancestors didn't come over in th> Mayflower?but?somethiig happecd at the Falls, Aunt Hitty" i "Goodness! you lidn't los anything ?" "Yes. I did. Ilostmv heart Aunt t! Hitty. I hope yon've?rown to Ike him s t well enough not to miid his wait of a a family tree, because ['ve promised to p t marry him, Aunt Hitt;." e i "Whom? the docbr ? .Wei, if I li b ever ! If it hadn't be<n for my isthma, d now? Well, yon mty thank ne for a d good husband. How cb you knov about \ I his ancestors, pray ? Jy-the-wa-, child, i: I I don't think I ever asked hit name, j 3 I'm sure I don't know it any m<re than i j if he were the pre-Adanite man,if there f 1 ever was such a beint. WheD you're t ' * " fil. xl r cnomng ana panting vain me iitumu, u, g - rose -would smell as sweet wth any I other name. I hope it's a peasant1 sounding one, at any Bte." b " Yes, it is very pietsant ?it ifDorset 1 Travis. Oh, aunty, I couldn't help it; 3 but yon know you said he wai a born 1 aristocrat 1 I didn't mtan to decive you but you never asked, and?and-it was s so nice to have him coning, if yu must l be ill, and you would have sat him e away if yon had known, and tlen perIioymi tt/vm trnnlfl Via-ea ftnflf didn't f 3 know be was a doctor myself til I met s him in the street the cay he flit came to yon, and 1^ told me he hacbtudied i at first for occupation, never mening to l practice?as ho had plenty of money withont, aunty, you know?bu he had 1 grown to love it, and meant to drote his J life to it?and me." b . "Penny wise and pound k>liah," i confes6edj^^2jfi&HMMM?|^j"* iier accounts, ih the Beclusioti of home somewhat later, and estimated the cos )f her economies: Paid man for carrying trunks S 2 Paid Mr. Cramp for wheelbarrow 4 0 Amy's eyeglasses?broken.. 2 0 One novel?lost 10 Pocket-book and contents? stolen....i 12 0' Silver-cup?heir-loom?lost...; 20 0 Doctor's bill 30 0i An extra week's board at hotel 42 0' Telegram . 8' Ticket from N. Y. to Niagara?extra.. 0 01 $116 5, One niecc?loss inestimable. " Some economies are costly enough,' laid oho. " Live and leafn."?HdrpCr\ Weekly. fnlnirlctin Pnrmt nf MUIV^ROUV A V* Mi'/ v* vww. Eulogistic phrases, first thus used tc mpreme men, of course descend to mer n less authority, and so downward, illustrations are [supplied by those cur ent in France during the sixteenth cenury: To a cardinal, "the very illuetri)us and very reverend;" to a bishop, ' the very reverend ftnd Very illustrious;' o a dulie, "the very illustrious anc rery reverend lord, my much-honored aaster;" to a marquis? "my very illusrious and much-honored lord;" to t locfcor, "the virtuous and excellent.' Lud from our own past days may be ,aded such complimentary forms of adIress to those of lower rank, as, "the icht worshiofu].'1 to knights and some imes to esquires; "the right noble,'1 he "honorable-minded/' used to gettlemen; and, eVen to alderiheh alld met ddressed as Mr., such laudatory preLies as " the worthy and worshipful," ' the worshipful, virtuous and most rorthy." Along with flattering epithets here spread flatteries more involved in orm, especially observable in the East, fhere both are extreme. On a Chinese nvitation care the compliment, gravely ddressed to an ordinary person, is, "To rhat an elevation of splendor will your resenne assist Us to rise P' Tavernier, torn whom I have quoted the above exmple of scarcely-credible flattery <ro.n be Court of Delhi, adds; ".This vide asseth even tintt) the people;" and, in tancing the way in wmcii lie was nimelf classed with ancient men of the lost transcendent powers, adds that ven his military attendant, compared 3 the greatest of conquerors, was *decribed ns making the world tremble 'hen he mounted his horse; a descripion harmonizing with the instance Mr. loberts gives of Oriental compliment to n ordinary person?"My lordj there re only two who can da anything for le: God is the first and you are the scond." On reading that in Tavernier's time a sual expression in the East was?" Let ae king's will be done," recalling the arallel expression?" Let God's will be one," we are reminded that various of le glorifying speeches addressed to ings are identical with those addressed ) deities. Where the militant type is ighly developed, and where divinity is 3cribed to the monarch, not only after eath but before, as of old in Egypt and eru, and as now in Japan, China and iam, it naturally results that the words f eulogy addressed to the visible ruler ad the ruler who has become invinoible re substantially the same, Having ached the eltreme of hyperbole to le king -when living, they cannot go irther when dead and deified. And the lbstantial identity thus initiated oonnues through subsequent stages with Bities whose origins are no longer aceable.?Herbert Silencer, in Popxiir Science Monthly. Where Everybody Tattoos. At the mention of tattooing, the EngBh reader will be disposed to lower the urman in his estimation to the level of ie Red Indian or South Sea Islander, r other wild offshoot of humanity. Yet, is no mark of any such want of culire. From the educated native judge ho tits on the bench to administer the iw of England, who speaks and writes le English language, drives in his arouche, and attends tho social gatherLgs of English ladies and gentlemen, > the humblest laborer in the field, rery man of the population is tattooed, ot at pleasure and within the limits he imself may draw, but by a rigid custom hich devotes to the tattooer's art the ody of every man from tho waist to be>w the knees. Within this area every ;urman is branded with a close tapestry [ lions," griffins, and other fabulous lonsters, in deep blue pigment, forced nder the skin by a painful process, ied tattooing is confined to the upper art of the body. This necessary decoition is begun at an early age, and the rescribed surface is only gradually avered, but the severity of the treatlent in the case of very young boys is le cause of no little illness, and somemes even of death. I have myself met nly one Burman who was not thus ecorated, and he was a kind of privilged mountebank to whom the license f a clown was allowed, and who was lie good-natured butt of his companions. - .1 1 .LIU UlbbUUUl lb piUUU LU UiUUUUB lilb lost artistic designs (which he will dis>lay on a scroll like a tailor's patterns) n the arms of Eoglish officers, and mong those who have served in Burlah the samples of this art are among tie commonest relics shown to admiring riends at home. Whatever may have >een the origin of this strange custom, i is considered an essential mark of lanliness, and the Burmese youth who hrank from the ordeal would be regardd and treated as a "milksop;" and, howver unnatural the custom may be, it ndoubtedly has the effect of attaching wholesome dignity to "hardship, and tie fearless endurance of physical pain, 3 which may be partly due the remarkble freedom from effeminacy which is a opular characteristic of the Burmese. -Frascr's Magazine. The Empress Engenie. To-day, in her abode at Chiselhurst, he widow of Napoleon III. attracts carcely less of the world's interest and ttention than she did as throned erairess and queen of fashion. Unfortulately, the supreme tact that once was ier distinguished quality seems to have leserted her in the days of her deca[ence. She, the most graceful ol romen, has not learned the art of grow g old gracefully. She had played the >art of a beauty and the leader of fashon for years. Now that she is pasl Ifty, that character is no longer possi >le to her. But she might have asmmcd another- - less showy, perhaps, mt 'surely far more touching. WitL ier whitening hairs she might have vorthily worn the triple dignity ol ier widowhood, her maternity, and hei nisfortune. She has chosen instead, vith a weakness unworthy of the pari hat she has played cn the wide stags ol :ontemporary history, to clutch vainh tfter the fleeting shadow of her vanish' id charms. A heael loaded with false fellow hair, a face covered with paini tnd powder, a mincing gait, and the tirs aud graces of an antiquated coquett< ?8uoh to-day is she who was once th< world's wonder for her loveliness anc jrace, a bewigged Mrs. Skewton sue seeding - to the dazzling vision tha iwerved the calculating policy of Napo eon IIL and won his callous heart, anc bat still smiles upon us from the can ras of Winfcerhalter. ?Lucy H. Hooper H Lippincott. - ~ i, HOw Digger-Wasps flake their Homes, t July liad come tlgaify ahd brought with it such warm, sultry days thttt it 5 almost seemed as if no living creature 0 could stir abroad. Nevertheless, thero p was a wonderful, deal going on in our p gardfen. Thtoligh the ait1 and oVer thd 0 flower-beds hastened hundreds of little 0 people. Some lived in the trees and ? bushes, others in the ground, and all j wete hard at woi-k* One morning, especially, tnere seemed 5 to be something unusual going on; the buzzing and humming was fairly deafen' ing. * Whirr-r-t! whirr-r-r I What was that great creature that darted past my face ? And here came another, and another; whyj the garden was full of them ! Big brown-and-yeilow wasps these j strangers were, and all in a most desperj ate hurry. Scores of them were already hard at work digging away in the firmly [ packed sand of the path. As these new-comers seemed to care very little who watched them at their work, I sttt down on an upturned flower < pot in the shade of a friendly lilac, de1 termined to make their acquaintance. Hardlv had I settled myself before onfe of "the wasps approached. She seemed to be searching for something, for she flew rapidly back and forth, now alighting for a moment?now darting away again. At last she dropped upon the ground close to me and began to bite the earth with het strong jawB. When quite a little heap lay before her she pushed it to one side with her hind feet ahd theh returiied to her digging; ? i _. V- 1-3 in live minutes sue aau un opening uig I enough to get into; every time she ap. peared she backed up out of it pushing [ a huge load of sand as big as herself behind her. Soon all around the hole was a huge bank of earth, and she fottnd it ! necessary to make a path across it, and . push her loads over that. Two hours' , hard work, and the house was finished. , It was very simply planned, and had only on6 toom down at the end of a long, narrow paBsage. But simple as it was. this little creature had done more work in the tfto hours than a man could do in a day. That is, of course, taking her size into consideration. And she did not even now stop to rest. Not she ! With one last look into the house, to make sure sho was leaviDg all as it should be, she flew away. In a moment her sti'ong wings had taken her quite out of sight, but it was not long before she re-appeared. Back and forth she hastened, at one moment flying through the grape-arbor, at the next wheeling above the cabbage-bed. All this time the object of her search, a fat young locust, was quietly sitting on a" gatepost, quite forgetting, as locusts sometimes will, that he had an enemy in the world. A moment later and the wasp's sharp eyes had found him out; and then, quick as lightning, she darted down upon him, and pierced him with her stine. When the locust lay perfectly still, the wasp seized him and flew off. Arrived at her hole, she tumbled him head foremost in at the door, expecting him, of course, to fall quite to the bottom. But her calculations had been slightly nt fault; the locust was too fat to go in, and there he stuck with his head and Shoulders in the hole and his body in the air. Here was a dilemma. Bat my wasp friend was evidently not Ohe to be OVc-rcome by difficulties of this sort. Sho flew off again, and this time returned with two other wasps; i they crowded round the hole, and began digging away the earth which pressed close about the locust. In a short time they seemed satisfied, for they stood up and pushed at the object of their toils. Slowly he slid down out of sight, and she who had brought him hurried after. She laid an egg close to him in her house; then, hurrying up, began to carry back the earth she had before taken out, and in a short time the door was securely closed. Then she scraped away, and patted down all the looseearth, till she had made it quite impossible for any evil-minded creature to find any traces of her home. Tim wftsn kufiw verv well that her egg would soon hatch out; that the little white grub, her chick, would at once begin to feed upon the locust, which would supply food till the young one was full-grown.?St. Nicholas. His Recollection or It. i "Now, Leander, my dear, I waDt you to be sure and not forget to bring these few things when you come down tonight," says the young wife, just before thelissand "good-by" at the sumiper hotel, in the morning, as the gentlemen were starting for the city. "Certainly not, my love." And this is the way the list ran: 1. Two yards of blue barege. 2. Three yards of Hamburg edgings. 3. My new braid from the hair store. 4. Half a dollar's worth of nainsook. 5. Box pearl powder from my upper uxawoit 6. "Modern Minister" from Loring's Library. Arriving in town, he forgot all about j the list till late in the afternoon,and then he conldn't find it in any of his pockets; but hadn't he read it over, and didn't he recollect it all? Of course he did, and this is what he brought home to his expectant wife: , 1. Two heads of blue cabbage. 2. Three yards of handsome netting i (mosquito). 3. Some blue braid. 4. Half a dollar's worth of canned {soup. I S Unr nf RArllifz nnwdfir. 6. Loring said ho hadn't got any such book as "The Mug and Canister" in the library. Exclamation on receiving the above: "O, Leander, Leander, you must have been dining at that horrid club again or you could not have made such a mistake!"?Boston Commercial Bulletin. A New Use for Seals. There exists an animal -which might i be trained to render us great service, [ that is the seal, which is slaughtered so mercilessly for the sake of its oil and skin. Intelligent and affectionate, it i possesses au tne qualities suuame tor a ) domestic state. The director of the museum at Dijon had so skillfully [ tamed one some years ago, that though by nature amphibious, its primitive ) i habits were changed, and it rarely went into the water, placing itself during the b winter close to its master in the warm corner of the fireside, stretched on tho . wood-ashes. If pains were taken to , teach the seal, it might become to the t fisherman what the dog is to the hunter, j Nor need we despair of such a result, f for the Ohineso train the remora or ! r sucking-fish to catch turtles, nnd the , j heron and cormorant to capture fishep. t The coasts of England would be fit f places for the education of the seal. The r value of such holp may he imagined when we think of the great solitude of i the sea?so many times larger than the t space covered by land?where man has s no allv. and can onlv count upon those 3 who dread bim. What an interest for 3 him in the very element itself to have a 1 friend and companion who wonld follow him in his fishing expeditions ! There t are not wanting conclusive results - which have been obtained in individual 1 cases ; and if the same care wye extend ed to the race, we may say that the seal r is an ally ready prepared by nature.? Ohamber'8 Journal. FARM, GARDEN AND oOUSEtidLD* ?ouaehold Hint*. of viiiegflr should alwayt be put into water in which hah i& boiled i Stain on the Hands.?When there if danger of staining the hands from pre> pariiig fruit and vegetables, rub them with fresh lard. Sprigs of wintergreen or ground ivj will drive away red ants; branches oJ WtJtmwood will serve the same purpose for black afcifl. When washing oil-cloths, put a littif milk in the last water they are washed with. This will keep them bright and clean longer than clear water. To keep lerdoflfl frosh, plaoe them in a jar with water enough to cofer th&tn. They will keep fresh in this way several days without changing the water. Mttsbin Gowns.?Soft tinted muslins teqtiite Carefill hashing. They will not fnrlA if Hnnlrfifl and rinRed in a solution of one tablespoonful of alum"and one oi salt in one gallon of water. Meat can be prevented from scorching, daring the roasting process, by simply placing a basin or cup of water in the oVen. The steam generated not only prevents scorching, but makes the meat cook nicer. To Clean Smoky Mabble.?Brush a paste of chloride of lime and water over the entire surface. Grease spots can be removed from marble by applying a paste of crude potash and whiting in this mannef. A lump of bread about the size of a billiard-ball, tied up in a linen bag and placed in the pot ih which greens are boiling, will absorb the gasses which oftentimes send such an insupportable odor to the regions above. To remove smoke and dust from wallpaper, tie a large piece of clean white cloth over a broom, and bttlsli the wall down well. Then take a stale loaf ol bread, cut it open, and rub the soft side all over the paper. Be sure and rub downward. It will also remove spots oi lime ot whitewash, DbodoriMbrs.?A pail of clear water in a newly-painted room Will remove the sickening odor of paint. Coffee nnnndfl/l in o mnftoj onrl rnn.nf.nd rvn nn iron plate, sugar burned on hot coals, and vinegar boiled with myrrh and sprinkled on the floor and furniture ou the sick room are excellent deodorizers. Washing Gloves.?The cheap Austrian gloves which look as well as kid can be washed a dozen times If need be. Put them on and scrub them thoroughly with borax and water. Kub them dry with a smooth cloth, not taking them off while a drop of moisture remains in them. Farm and Garden Notes. There is no stock on the farm that costs so little that pays so well as sheep. Stock of all kinds prefer young grass to that which is in the flower, and that which is in flower to that which is older or has gone to seed. A New England farmer who uses haycfips of homespun, soaked in strong alum water, says they afford perfect protection for weeks for grain-shocks standing in the field. It is stated in The London Gardener's I Chronicle that the frequency and per| sistency of the attacks of slugs have t nearly driven the gardeners crazy, and that ducks are found to be the best helps against them. An enemy of the potato bug has arisen In this country, aa certain nuturalj ists long since avei-red would be the case. Farmers at Crown Point, N. T., [ are happy in discovering these beetles i dead with myriads of tiny lice clinging [to them to show tlie cause. [ "Rural, jr.," thinks it about time i everybody knew that "bees are as-deaf ; as a post," and that the beating of all j the tin pans in two counties would not restrain a departing swarm. His way is to throw among the flying mass water, or the sun's rays by means of a mirror. The latter plan he has never known to fail. When a single cow-teat milks slowlv there is usuully an obstruction, whicn may not be the result of disease. A good way to remedy the trouble is to continue milking with patience and care to draw all the milk. In addition to careful milking, it is avell to rub the iUAKAn/oUlv* Ttrik V* aol f auecucu pui ia muiuuguij it iku ocu water. The best time to kill a weed is before it is born. Stir the soil in advance and the germ is nipped prematurely. Many a garden would become almost as hard and dry as the public road but for the despined weed, which but for its quiet and pervasive presence suggests the hoe j or rake. Stirring the soil immediately i after grain is worse than useless; when j partially diy it does incalculable good. Kecipes. Ginger Snaps.?One pint of thick molasses, one coffee cup of brown sugar, oiio cup of butter, tablespoon ful of ginger ana one teuspoonful of soda dissolved in a tablespoonful of boiling water. Mix very thick with flour and roll them very thin. To Bon, Potatoes.?Let the potatoes i be of a size; do not put them into the pot until the -water boils; when done, pour off the water and remove the cover until all the steam is gone; then scatter in a teaspoonful of salt and cover the pot with a towel. By adopting this plan watery potatoes will be mealy. Sponge Cake Pudding.?One tea cnp ! of fine white sugar, three eggs, one tea j cnp of flour, half a nutmeg, a teaapoon of baking powder, one saltspoon of biI carbonate of soda, dissolved into two tablespoons of milk. Beat together the J butter and sugar, add the milk, nutmeg j and half a teaspoonful of extract of ! lemon; then the yolks of the eggs well beaten. Stir in the flour slowly, and last mix in the -whiteB of the eggs. Beat well together, and bake twenty minutes. German Pea Soup.?Prepare a thickening by gradually mixing in a stew pan three ounces of sifted flour, with oue quart of chicken broth. In another stewpan boil up two quarts #of chicken broth, into which stir the thickening; add a little salt and sugar and one quart of fresh shelled peas, previously well washed: continue stirring with a spoon till the soup boils, then simmer till the nnnn nrorlrmA* nlrim nnnr tlifl flnnn in a j it ? -tureen, and stir in an ounce and a half of butter. Buried Cities in Asia. From recent researches made on the borders of the great desert of G >bi, in Central Asia, it appears that great cities of* importance once occupied the place now covered by barren wastes of sand. The desert sands swept onward and onward till, as in Egypt, everything disappeared beneath their ever increasing accumulation. The inhabitants of the cities fletl before the resistless invader, and now, after many centuries have elapsed, our explorers are discovering the ruins of past glories?gold and silver ornaments, coins, glass, china, pottery, copper, vases, and other treasures which Bhow that not ouiy people inhab ited those cities, but that they were not unacquainted-with the arts. In some cases it would seem that the inhabitants failed to escape in time, for their skeletons have been found in unearthed houses -with their apparel and furniture intact and uninjured. The "dunes" formed by the drifting sand are in places more than one hundred f^t in height; and the sands are still jJoving onward to make fresh conquest^ i Clores. The ciov? ttM fcelotlgs to the wide, spread family of the myrtles, the email, evergreen leaves resembling those of the lfln*el, the flowers growing in bunches ' at the extremity at toe branches. When ' they first appear, which iS at tfce begin1 ning of the rainy season, they are in the f?rm of elongated, greenish buds, from ' the exireiiiit} of whiih the corolla is ? - - ' t -l j. L ???v. t expanded, wiiicq ib oi k uauww j^cawu> bloBBom color. The corolla having fallen off, the calyx turns yellow, and then red, j When it ia beaten from the tree and | dried. If the fruit be allowed to remain [ longer on the tree, the flower-buds or cloves gradually swell, the embryo seed enlarges, and the pungent properties of the clove are in great part dissipated, heiicc the cloves of commerce are the unexpanded flower-bads, The whole tree is highly aromatic, and the footstalks of the leaves have nearly the same pungent quality as the flowerbtidd. Clove trees have ft noble height and a pyramidal head, while the bfeauty of their form, the luxuriance of their evergreen foliage, and, above all, the spicy fragrance with which they perfume the air, adds a wonderful beauty to their growth in the clear, light atmosphere of the Eastern Archipologo. This elegant tree grows spontaneously ih the Moluccas, and was from thence carried to Mauritius and Bourbon, French Guiana and the West Indies. Cloves, aa well as nutmegs and other costly productions of the remotest* isles of the Indian Ocean, were known in Europe for centuries before the countries where they grow had been heard of. Arabian navigators brought them to Egypt, wnere they were purchased by the Venetians, and sold at an enormous profit to the nations of the West. But the discovery bv thfl Portucnese of the new maritime [ road to the East Indies, round the Cape ! of Good Hope, in 1498, and the subjeci tion of the Moluccas in 1511, gave them i a monopoly of the whole spice trade, ! which, however, they were soon obliged to yield to their stronger rivals, the Dutch, who in the seventeenth century, i by dint of enterprise and courage made , themselves masters of the Indian Ocean. The flower-buds or cloves are arranged on the terminal flower-stalks; they are either gathered by hand or obtained bv beating with bundles of reed's, in which case cloths aro spread beneath the trees to catch them. After being gathered, 4Viq nlnvoa nro nronnrpd fnr flllinment bv smoking them in hurdles covered with matting, near a slow wood fire, togive them a brown color, after which they ; are further dried in the sun. They may then be cut off from the flower branches, and will be found to be purple colored I within, and fit to be packed in bales for . the market. In some places they are ' scalded in hot water previous to being smoked, but it is not a very general practice. By repeated distillation, genuine cloves will produce from seventeen to twenty-two per cofilfeof oil. Clove stalks, although v^ry. inferior, contain some of the active properties of elov.es, and are sometime# ground lip and mixed with the powder of genuine cloves. The color of good cloves shotJW! be a dark brown, almost approaching th'e bladt^ and when handled should leave an (fitfr moisture upon the fingers. Good ctofeB aire sometimes adulterated by .mixing; them with those from which oil |u?beeit drawn, bat these latter are weaJUt thin the rest and of a paler color. Cloves-" readily imbibe moisture, whereby their weight becomes greatly increased, a fact of which dishonest dealers have not failed to avail themselves. Cloves are produced in the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba, where the tree was first introduced about 1830. The total average quantity produced is about 7,000,000 pounds, valued at $425,000. In 1863 the crop was an entire failure. In the following year it was above the ? />* flwa wnnwo oinnA livernyc. OULLIO 1UU1 U1 utc J UUIU U1UVAJ u hurricane devastated Zanzibar, destroying a arge proportion of the clove trees on the island. In 1874 there were 290,000 clove trees in Java, of which 161,260 were in bearing. Great Britain annually imports an average of about 1,000,000 pounds of cloves. France, Germany and the United States are also large importers and consumers of this spice. Owing to the increased production prices have fallen materially during the past twenty-five years. In 1329 cloves were sold in England at 860 per pound. 1719 at S3 per pound. The average price in Holland, previous to the war of the French revolution, was about ?2 per pouv.d, being about 2500 per cent, advance on the real cost of the commodity in the place of its growtn. iu.ociern commerce and improved facilities of culture and transportation enable the importer j of cloves into this country to sell them j now at from thirty to forty cents per i pound. an j Indian Origin of Mosquitoes. The Bed River Indians have a curious legend respecting the origin of mosquitoes. They say that once upon a time there was a famine, and the Indians | could get no game. Hundreds had died | | from hunger, and desolation filled their | ! country. All kinds of offerings were J made to the Gieat Spirit without avail, until one day two hunters came upon a white wolverine, a very rare animal. Upon shooting the white wolverine, an I old woman sprang out of the skin, and I saying that she was a " Manito," prom! ised to go and live with the Indians, j promising them plenty of game as long as I they treated her well and gave her the first choice of all the game that was brought in. The two Indians assented to this, and took the old woman home with them, which event was immediately i succeeded by an abundance of game. When the sharpness of the famine had passed in the prosperity which the old j woman had brought the tribes, the In| dians became dainty in their appetites, and complained of the manner in which ! the old woman took to herself the choice I Kita. iin.-i fhin feeliner became so intense thgt notwithstanding her warning that if they violated their promise a terrible calamity would come upon the Indians, they one day killed her as she was seizing her share of a reindeer which the hunter had brought in. Great consternation immediately struck the witnesses of the deed, and the Indians, to escape the predioted calamity, bodily struck their tents aud moved to a great distance. Time past on without any catastrophe occurring, and game becoming even more plentiful, the Inbegan to laugh at their being deceived i by the old woman. Finally, a hunting party on a long chase of a reindeer, which had led them back to the place where the old woman had been killed, came upon her skeleton, and one of them in /inrininn. kicked the skull with his i foot. Ill on instant a small, spiral, j vapor-like body arose from the eyes and ears of the body, which proved to be in- j j sects, that attacked the hunters with great fury, and drove them to the rivei for protection. The skull continued to pour out its little stream, and the air became full of avengers of the old woman's death. The hunters, on return* ing to camp, found the Indians suffering terribly from the plague, and ever I since that time the Indians have been 1 "* 1 A1*" fitnir pumsnea oy uio ujuoijiuiutD wickedness to their preserver, the Manito.^ In selecting colore for the various apartments of your house, avoid a brown study. As for the library, it should always be red. TIMELY TOPICS. The cotton crop will net the United States this year $200,000,000. It is thought the wheat crop of the coming year in the United States will reach the round sum of 400,000,000 bushels. Mr. Thomas Mort, who spent 8500,000 trying to solve the problem of sending frozen meat to England, has died in Australia. The perfect implant of a tree may oe aeen upon the breast of Thomae Bnggs, of Wellsburg, W. Va., who "was struck by lightning on July fourth. There are over 26,000 flouring mills in the United States, giving employment to 60,000 men. These mills turn oat annually 50,000,000 barrels of flour. Mr. Ross savs he spent $80,000 in looking for the lost Charlie, He recent ly declined to receive subscriptions for his relief that had been sent to a New fork paper. The country from Canyon City to Pilot Rock, Oregon, over whioh the InM - -3 dians recently swept, m a uettuuuo wootc. Not a building is standing; hundreds of starring colts were whinnying beside their dead dams; all the cattle were killed for the sake of their tongues, and the Indians have chopped off jnrt below the knees the forelegs of every sheep they could catch. A convict at Auburn, N. T., escaped hard work during his confinement of two and a half years by feigning paralSsis. He was so successful in the fraud lflt he was lifted about by attendants, and on his release had to be carried to the depot in a chair and placed in the cars. An hour afterward he visited the Erison officials and astounded them by j is speedy and full recovery. Lockjaw is one of the most terrible diseases to which mortals are exposed. A California exchange asserts that no one need be in danger of such' an attack from wounds caused by rusty iron. The worst cases of inflamed wounds may be cured bv smoking the injured part with burning wool or woolen cloth. Anything that produces safety from such a fatal disease is worth recording. At the Missouri State prison, at Jefferson Oity, during the last six months of their term, prisoners that have been wellbehaved are allowed to go out and work in the city as teamsters, laborers, etc. They are perfectly free, and are not under any supervision by guards. Of course at night they have to return to the penitentiary. While in the oity they are not allowed to enter any stores or saloons; if this regulation is infringed, they are immediately confined to the prison. Attempts at escape while thus working from all snrveillance have been very rare, for, should they be recaptured l .they have to serve a double term, under miae stringent rules. **"' > ????? 'i-. QSinora'aad his American band are j having an unquestionable success, according to a cable dispatch from Paris to the New York Herald. A long arti- j ole appeared -in the an ti-American Gaulois criticising Gilmore's first oon? . oert at the Trocadero, and therein eulb- J gizing highly the conscientiousness and precision of the instramentaliStsJuad the J excellence of tue soloists. The~~b*nd played in an intermede at the Theatre" * Bouflf) on the same evening. Figaro ( says that the performance was remarkable for entrain and precision, and that i it created great enthusiasm among the i audience. The Paris Journal confirms 1 this appreciation and says their success \ was immense. t f Bat a few years since Isaacs Fried a lander waa called the Grain King of California. He controlled a grain fleet of 300 or 400 sailing vessels, while his operations involved the use of $40,000,000 capital. His name was potent in the grain districts of the Pacitio slope, in the corn exchange of San Francisco, while even Mark Lane was anxicns to conciliate so powerful an element in the price of breadstuffs. Two years ago he failed in his gigantic undertak- \ ings, and his name was no longer in t people's mouths. Recently he died, and c a two-line telegram was considered suffi- I cient to announce the demise of the 1 great Grain King, showing the way hard e times boil down obituaries. 11 American girls will learn with interest | c j that the value of a French girl's nose i has just been judicially valued at ?1,000. r Some time ago a Paris omnibus horse became frisky, there was a collision, a B window was smashed, and a passenger? T a young demoiselle?received some o \ the broken glass in her face. It was at c first thought the hurts were trifling, and r her parents declined the proffered ser- j vice of the omnibus company's doctor. , But the scratches did not heal as tbey c were expected to, and the girl's father j brought suit against the company, alleg- | v ing that her nose had been permanently ? marred, and that this seriously diminish- # ed her prospect of establishment in life ?in other words, of getting a husband. He obtained $200 on the first trial and $1,000 on the second. ? >i-_ n l-ll Tlie lnuiun ropumuuu. The losses of the Indians in the various contests with the whites have always been over-stated. Tribes that have been thought to be destroyed have reappeared in a fragmentary way, and often in increased numbers in the aggregate . in other tribes. As a rule, weai tribes have decreased, while strong ones have increased. The Comanches have been slowly and steadily multiplying. So have the Ojibways, Sioux and Crows; while, on the other hand, the Omahas, Poncas and Missouris have become ii feebler. The Sioux have absorbed the e Yanktons and Yanktonnyis. The Dela- d wares have been absorbed by various cl v. tribes. u The Pawnees are greatly depleted, tl The Six Nations have remained nearly a] the samo for several centuries. Colonel ai Otis placcs the total number of Indians li killed by the whites since 1789 at 8,000. Of these perhaps 400 warriors perished h in the defeat by Wayne, and no more than that in the Seminole war, which p lasted seven years, and involved the t< expenditure of ?30,000,000 of natiorial treasure. How much United States h officials have ever known about the d matter i* shown by the following t< government estimates: In 1822 the h * 1 ?, -.1. ~~?-3 4lt.n4? flioro I el national huiusuum uuuwch iuuu ??v.v were 457,000 ; in 1830, 313,000 ; in 1840, ci 400,000; and in 1855, 350,000. By cl this singular table it will be seen that el between 1822 and 1830 the decrease was a; 144,000, and that tho increase between b 1830 and 1840 was 87,000. When the 6i government, in 1822, began to move the s< Indians westward the number of those ci finsf. nf the Mississippi was placed at 120,000?as many, probably, as had \ z< roamed the same region at any time after the first settlement of the country a by the English. Since that time no si diminution can readily be shown. The v Oberokees have doubled their popula- ^ tion within the centnry. The Creeks, Cherofeees, and Ghickasawe have shown h a decided tendenoy to flourish. The t Ottawns and 0hipp6was number more b thau 20,000.?San Francisco Chroni \ C-'f.. J Items of Interest. As a twig is bent the boy ia inclined Best thing to keep in hot weather? keep shady. A visible means of support -?the hangman's noose. " I've just dropped in," as the fly said to the coffee. The phonograph is an invention that speaks for itself. Recipe for whipping Indians: First catch yonr Indians. Misery does not always love company, if the oompany happens to be mosquitoes. A Tenneesee^paper has a poem en- . titled "Smile Whenever You Can." ' Tennessee editors always do. Little bits of lemon, Little cirancks of ice, Little water 'n' sugar JL ? Makes a man feel niee. " That wonld be a house," said a little girl pointing to the unfinished walls of a new building, "if they would only put a lid on it." The boy who goes a-flshing on Sonday, when he has been sent to Sunday school, generally goes a-whaJing when he gets home. When naked what fleb is apt to coma to yon As in winter yon send for some Jruit of the 86ft, And tbej hash it ap with potato, do yon Always express yonrself 0. 0. D. The Bible has been printed in thirty different languages for the benefit of the aborigines of this country and of Greenland, British America and Mexico. The thermometer has been invented, it is tree, but it can hardly claim more accuracy as a test of the heat of the , weather than that time-tried institution, . ' a limp collar. It has been discovered that the noise made by bees is a lament.?Detroit Free Press. Especially when they use a short-haired boy for a phonograph.? Cincinnati Commercial. Plants live directly on the lifeless % products of eartlf; and we live directly on the products of plants, or on animals which live on them. The vegetable comes, as it were, between us and the earth. There are many things which disoon- -: cert the average young lady, and one of them is, while reading an intensely interesting novel, to discover that in the s. most exciting part there is a chapter torn out. "And never more you'll nil the feu msn i U .1. t*1 tmuuub your uuuuid uiius ; "Aye, never more," made Jack reply Ail coziod at her side. . ' ; " For without yon, across the ware* J could not go at all, Since yoa must surely know, my lore, That you are now my yawl!" According to Dr. Fitch, there are not less than sixty different insects tha? prey upon the apple, twelve upon the pear, sixteen on the peaoh, seventeen on the plum, thirty-five on the cherry ' afld thirty on the grape. The first steam engine was Bet in tion in Germany on August 25, 178aHMBteg Harkort established the first enginetlB^ ing works in that country at FfeihJB better in 1819. He Ll need EnglifHSH workmen to go to Wetter, and th^gj - taught the German apprentices. Total-population of the earth, 1,396?| sromente, 7ii,383,fi89; totot areaof t]$S; Christian governments, 32,428,819; a$fei|| )f non-Christian lands, lb,b42,ooo^*fy 1 When a cloud of dust, on a hot sumj|jH ^' ner's day, rises and flies along the dustjjg oad, making the traveler close his eyeH ids, and dusting the leaves of waysidM Jr regetation, it is but a miniature of th^9* errible African simoon which bio wets* rom. the desert sand*, scattering deatfcp??? nd devastation in its track. CATCH. Sweet is my girl when she is looking down, And lovely,?looking up ; Now when I seo a willful, pet grimace Along her mobile eyebrows ran a race, Bat on her lips a smile belie the frown, I think, while full of her rare grace I sap, Sweet is my girl when she is looking down, And lovely,?looking np! . Henry Eckford in ficribner. A mouse is able to shift for iteelf ?hen about a fortnight old; and by the ime it is six weeks old frequently be , omes a parent. Mice have generally >etween six and ten young ones at a itter, sometimes as many as twelve and ven more, hence their fecundityis such hat, not allowing for any mortality, a celebrated naturalist declares that the Spring of a single family of mice night number several millions in twelvo nonths' time. Both the body and mind are so conitituted that they require constant but varied action. Utter idleness, of either )ody or mind, unless iney oe on u inure >r less* diseased state, is not only unlecessary, but harmful in the extreme. t is a habit which, once indulged in," Cirill grow upon the individual. Change # " >f occupation for the muscles, change of he current of thought for the brain, is ?hat will promote the fullest and most lealthful development of both?Herkcr. A pair of very chubby legs, Incased in scarlet hoeto ; A pair of little stubby booty, With rather doubtful toes ; A little kilt, a little coat, Cut as a mother can? And Io! before us strides in state The future's 'coming man." A pair of laughing, deep bluo eyes, *?. a TTToolfVi nt ringlets brown. With &ir coquettish as a queen, The belle of all the town; A dimpled chin and blushing cheek, Lips red and teeth of pearl, And lo! before us, shy and meek, We've the future's "coming girl." Beat the Thermometer* Wednesday when the toiling, perspirig masses -discovered that the thermomters down town marked plump 100 egrees in the shade, they wiped off their bins and congratulated each other on aving lived to see such a period. About le time that eveybody was happiest, long came a small boy whose face was 3 red as a beet and whose eyes shono ke gloss. " Where's a doctor!" he called out as e entered a crowd. ? - ?* 11?o?? " Here, boy?wiiars me mauer r relied one of the men as he reached out j detain the lad. " Hull fam'ly freezin' to death at the ouse !" he explained. " Dad is in the own stair bedroom, shakin' and chat;rin' and callin' on me to bring him red ot tea and put bricks to his feet. Mam iie's up-staira, with four quilts and a irpet over her, but I heard her shiver lear down to the corner. My sister ae's got her feet in the cook-6tove oven, ad is writing an ode to wiuter, and rather Bill he's lyin' in the sun on the dewalk an' axin' everybody to lend him )mo Kyaun pepper to help start a emulation." " Is?that?so?" slowly queried aciti-, ?n. " Course it is! Hain't I down town fter a doctor an' eome 6oft coal ? I wish &me of you fellers would tell me if the reather reports predict a change to -armer -weather." The thermometer still marked a plump tundred, but as the crowd again turned o the figures there seemed to be a goneiess somewhere?a sort of aching void ?hich figures couldn't till.?Detroit Free Press. jjr- / J