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^ ' ==>: ~ , , I ; . ' -.'; *?' " /,'W ABBEVILLE PRESS & MNNER j ?*' Wi /Ji ? ' " ' '" ' .... i i ,, - - - - - i. .I,, , a* it . BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1878. #0. 12. VOLUME XXVI. ^ ^ ? ? ? ?A?Tr.ni*/\m. I TfAmu nf TntflPfict. 9 Meadow Sweets. When I can look within thine eyes, I gee the bine of summer skies. Then should thy perfect mouth nnclose, I find the small, 6vreet-brier rose. Thy hands to me are daisy blooms ; The meadow pink thy breath perfumes. When in tho pond the wild bird dips, Someway I seem to touch thy hps. The golden-rod I even dare To match against thy fleece of hair. When thou dost smile, tho butterfly Hath not a lighter heart than I. Thy laughter, rare ana ricn, i tmnK To be the tuneful bobolink And if thy mood be sad and still, I seem to hear the whip-poor-will. When round the tree clings close the Tine, I thrill to dream thee wholly mine. The scarlet lily all aglow, Tells of the love I may not show. Flowers, birds and grasses of the field, Their tender, hidden meaning yield. But what are Love's own charms to me, j Are oniv meauow sweets 10 uieo : I ? A Florence Chimney. | I.?IT SMOKES. Mr. J?aul Chambers yawned slightly, j glanced at his -watch, aud sallied forth j from his hotel with his usual aspect of : listless indifference. The city was Florence, the month I March, blusterous and stormy, and the j hotel one of those dingy edifices in a narrow street of the commercial order to be j found in all towns, nnd chiefly frequent- j ed by travelers with a light purse. The i purse 'of Mr. Paul Chambers was an ; exceedingly light oi ie, despite the gen- I tility of his appeara uce, while that list- 1 less bearing, heightened by the melan- | cnoiy 01 ms large uarK luvanuuij i inspired interest. 'Women glanced pen- i sively at his head-c<:vering in search of j the weed which should designate his | being a widower, aiid were possibly dis appointed not to dit :over that mourning j badge on his hat. JMr. Chambers whs j not a widower. He wore tho gaib of : poverty easily, and yet was a bitterly j disappointed man of the type that, hav- j ing lost the one prize coveted in this j world, suffers ell others to escape his I ( grasp. His watch indicated the hour of two !. as he emerged from the hotel. "What is the use of making calls?" |. he soliloquized, discontentedly, and balanced a card between his fingprs. jJ He had been in Florence a fortnight, j sufficiently a stndont by nature to enjoy ,} the sojourn, rambling abont church , j anu gallery at his own pleasure, and the j card had rested in his pocket-book un- < ( disturbed. Now it troubled his con- ' ^ science to the extent of occasioning a >., doubt as to whether tie should preseut ( it at all. An old lady at Palermo had ! insisted on bestowing the card upon him ?one of the throng of motherly creatures he was wont to meet in travel?with the injunction: " Wlieu you reach Florence, do not fail to call, and I will write about . yon. The young ladies are charming girls." Ho had weakly assented and de- ! . parted. What did he care about charm ing girls ? He was not a society man? detested balls and parties. Perhaps this family would bore him with an in- j vitation to dinner. j "MYs Henderson Tomnkins." he read . on the card. 1T Should he seek the address indicated, . after all ? How could he ever look the ;: good old lady in the face again if he did I not ? A gust of wind swept around the j j corner, bringing a cloud of dust in his J, eyes?one of those treacherous gusts ! which lurk on the Arno, often beneath I the bluest of skies?and away sailed Mr. j ( Chambers's hat. The hat was whirled against the door of an expectant cab ; t drawn up in the square. The owner re- i covered it, entered tke vehicle, and gave ' the address of Mrs. Tompkins without : 1 further procrastination. Arrived at his destination, Mr. Cham- ;1 bers dismissed the cab, and surveyed ( the house ho waR about to enter with a ' foinf oonca /if ?nrin?itv_ TiiA hnriRA xsrna i ' handsome and spacious; tie vestibule was adorned with statues, and permitted j a glimpse of garden behind through I stained glass windows; opposite were squares and a new boulevard. The por- : ter in livery popped out of a dark nook, ! received the card, read-it, somewhat j vaguely, upside down, all foreign names \ being alike to him, and delivered several j sentences of voluble Italian, from which the visitor extracted "second piano," and began to climb the stairs. The second story proved to be untenanted, j silent, and closed. Clearly he had mistaken the porter's directions as to the j apartment occupied by the Tompkins family. He retraced his steps to the first floor. There was no name on this j door, but it stood open. The tap of hammers and grating of j saws were to be heard on the right, and i added to the general uproar was the tumultuous tone of a piano, tonched by a firm hand. " The musical Miss Tompkins, founded on the ' Stuttgart method,'" shuddered Paul Chambers. "I know that she practice.* six hours a day, thereby driv- :1 ing her afflicted family mad." The piano ceased abruptly. The voice I reached Mr. Chamber's unwilling ear, and held him spellbound. It was clear ' vibrating, not to say piercing, in quality, 1 and spoke the English language. The Voice. "I hope you will get 1 enough in living in apartments abroad, my dear, without a refrigerator or so . . much as a gas-fixture to your name, and i all your washing carried out into th<v country, as if they were ashamed to b? seen doing anything industrious in theT town." AxEcSO. "But, Aunt Sophia, you . wished to oome." The Voice ("after a pause). "So I did wish to come. What of that ? I did not expect to stay forever, though. Oh, thfese Latin races i They will always en- j joy idle poverty as long as there is a : festa to be kept, and we shall continue to pity them as children of the sunny south to the end of the chapter." A silence ensued, and Mr. Chambers, with a guilty seusation, not unmingled with' embirrassment, rang the bell. | K?r reply, the hammers tapped, with i saw accompaniment, the parrot clamor- ! ed, and the cook trolled hi& song, clash- j ing dishes about. "Confound it! I will try the bell : once more, and go away," he thought. I Just then he fell over a stove-pipe, ; and was unexpectedly precipitated into ! an apartment. It represented tempor arv chaos; chairs and tables were hud- j died in corners, a stand of flowers leaned ! against the wall, a trowel and some mortar occupied the center of the floor, j Two masons stood, with their hands on their hips, in attitudes of repose, watch- ' ing the movements of a third, who. with 1 his feet btill resting on a chair, had thrust the whole npper portion of his body into a square hole cut in the -wall for the purpose of investigating the chimney. The somewhat undignified advent of Mr. Chambers over the recumx . ?l. DGDC 8lOVe-])ipo lliu uuii nuipiiDo mo | masons in the least. His viefit -was clearly none of their affair; but he succeeded in eliciting from them that the signora was to be found further on. before the man up the chimney concluded to come down, and began to attack that * orifice with the stove-pipe much as o prints represent the assault of batte icg-rams on walled cities. The situation was becoming ludicron Mr. Chambers smiled somewhat griml and crossed an auteroom toward tl Voice, prepared to bow profoundly ( the next threshold. The Voice. " This Agatina is a clev creetur, and does not understand oi word I utter. "What is she laughing now, I wonder? Look, Agatina, tt nif>fnrf> is ft linrfip " Here was the owner of the Voice last. She was an ei "erly lady, wearh spectacles, and at the present mome her costume consisted of a Balmor petticoat, a linen sacque, and a whi night-cap placed over her gray cur] somewhat askew, to-protect them fro the mortar dust in the dining-room. "Ahem! I have] called, madam" began Mr. Chambers, hat in hand, ai paused. "Eh? Gracious! who is that?" s] exclaimed, and fled. Mr. Chambers put his hat firmly < his head, found his way back to t] corridor, and was about to stalk awi tnrougn me sun open mum uuor, wm a circumstance occur.ed which not on altered his intention, but the course his whole subsequent life. A door further along the passage w suddenly burst open, a stifled feminu scream reached his ears, and a volur of smoke poured forth into the corridc Good Heavens ! was the house on fir He rushed to the spot, and found hii self in a large salon, already render* densely opaque by smoke, and as he d so, a woman, youug anil fair,- despi the obscurity of that atmosphere, coi ing toward him, paused, recoiled, thi held out both hands in glad recognitio " Paul 1" she said, in a low, tremuloi voice. 41 Anne!" There they stood, with hands claspe gazing at each other, the smoke wreatl gathering and billowing about them. n.?IT REKINDLES AX OLD FLAME The man and woman thus brought u: expectedly face to face continued to loc into each other's eyes in silence for space of time which seemed long, i fraught was it with deep emotion, bi which in reality was scarcely a moment duration. A wave of color swept ov< 1* - *L! D?, me sensitive, mounts icmu? m ui j. u Chambers, and was reflected m those i his companion, succeeded by pallor i both, oaiy while her lips trembled, 1 compressed his own firmly. "Why are yon here?" he finally d matided harshly. "I have lived in Florence during tt past year," she replied, with forced con posnre, tears suffusing her eyes. Another question rose to his lips; i checked it, and released her hands. St uttered a little sob, and hid her face i tier handkerchief. Paul Chambers became aware that tt jhimney was belching forth smoke, thi :he masons stood in a group in the doo; with Agatina, and the cook, in his whil sap, skirmishing in the rear; and tli? lunt Sophia, owner of the Voice, wj idvancing to the front, hastily adjustin i cashmere robe, and a lace cap on Jit lead. ?*WV?of oro ttta fr? tin nnw chA pi jlaimed in accents of despair, and wa mswered by a choros of sneezes an loughs from tbo assembled compuny. "Open the window,"' suggested Pat chambers, promptly, and himself thre1 vide the casement. "To be sure," assented Aunt Sophu n admiration and astonishment, " eally like to meet a man who know vhat he is about. Anne, is the genth nan a friend of yours?eh ? Pray intrc luce me, my deur." Anne removed her handkerchief froi ler tear-stained face, and murmure ome formula of introduction. Nobody noticed her tears, for the ret ion that all were weepiag, Tears trickle lown the cheeks of the head mason, an jven Aunt Sophia's own spectacles wer lim. Paul Chambers, with heart throbbin is he had never anticipated it coul :hrob again, in the great shock of neeting for which he had longed an innollTT lil*A r*r?A in Iream. If the whole group gathered i ;his smoke-laden room should suddeul ranish before his eyes, he need scarcel je astonished, but treat tbem as a pbar :asy of the brain He had said to hiu jelf repeatedly during the past fiv rears, "If whe came to me once before lie, and allowed me to look in her eye without speaking, I should be satisfied. Sere was an unexpected and even start ing fulfillment. " Oh, the trouble that chimney ha jiven us! Wo had better give it uf md freeze." Thus spake Aunt Sophit n smoke-stifled accents, and the Voic? ;harp, metallic, and practical, acted o Paul Chamber's lethargy as a douch sath revives a somnambulist. He reco lected not only himself, but that the a1 ;eiition of Aunt Sophia and the gapin nenials must be diverted from Annie' evident distress, even if up a chimnej He removed his gloves, stepped fort raliantly, and became leader in the ba :le against smoke. " This fire-place was never built to b siiid. removinc the velvf iiangings. "The space below is to shallow for a lucifer-match to bur (veil." Aunt Sophia glanced at Anno triumpl mtly, and nodded her head. Panl Chan hers, with his own hands, begau t ;hisel out the back of the fire-plac< recklessly enlarging the space. Tb padrone?a gentlemanly person, addic ed to cigarettes and embroidered smol ing-caps?would never have descende to thus mending tho chimney's ev ways, nor would the porter in livei beiow-stairs have done other than poii to the four winds for remedy. Am Sophia simply exulted in him, and tl blacker his "fingers became, the rnoi highly did she respect his efficienc; Anne had vanished. In half an hour the chimney's moui was enlarged past recognition; in s hour Mr. Chambers applied a match 1 ..a artistic structure of pine cones, twig and sticks, and the flames leaped u merrily. The chimney having founc acknowledged its master. Where w: Anne? She did not return, and M Chambers received Aunt Sophias coi dial invitation to dinner somewh stiffly. " We shall expect you at six o'clock said the good lady, beaming with sati faction. ' We will blow out all t] smoke before you retain." "I Ruppose I must meet Anne's ha band, then," meditated Mr. Chamber as he walked away. "Why could n he mend the chimney ?" At six o'clock a most radiant litt lady received Paul Chambers, and a cepted graciously the bouquet of ros ho brought. " Yon used to like roses," he sai looking at her dreamily. She was the Arme of old, witn aadi charmg, such as an intercourse with t] world imparts. The softly rounded or line of her face remained unchange was still youthful and serene, but si carried her head with more dignity, ai there was a certain latent pride in ti blue eyes unlike the saucy sparkle girlhood. VnlcuUjle jewela flashed < her fingers. Heated these details wi a jealous pang, which he wastooproi to betray. " I trust that I am to have the pies ure of being presented to your hu6bai this evening," he said, ooldly. Id She gave"him a wild glance, and tho sr- blood rushed to ber brow. Aunt Sophia, ; in a freeh cap with lavender bows, had < is. to come to the rescue, and tapped him 1 j, on the arm warningly. j be "Hush! Did you not know ? Anne j an has been a widow for two years, and a i better husband than the judge never < er lived," she whispered, as they went in to < ae dinner. I at It would be impossible to describe 1 lis Mr. Chamber's emotions while he ate his 1 soup, these words ringing in his ears. 1 at Anne a widow I Why had he not known 1 ig the truth before ? Who -was to inform i nt him ? He looked severely at her pre- 1 al siding over the pretty table, with its 1 te flowers and fruits and silver, in her robes i Is, of pink and gray. These were her'!1 m widow's weeds, then I Anno looked | ] back at him with a warning flash of defl- i ? --j.- i..*? u? i mice or UlUIgUUtlUU in lid uutmiiim I id eyes. < "She is right," he thought, with a!) tie sigh of deep despondency. Aunt Sophia was'delighted with him, j sn because he proved such an excellent ! ( lie listener. She had seldom met a more j c ay interesting man, she afterward affirmed, i t en ! although he had scarcely opened hislips. j ly i When the meal was concluded she was . of | quite hoarse, and discreetly withdrew to j 3 i a comfortable arm-chair, the Persian cat : f as | on her knee, while Anne and Paul Chamae j bers occupied the window, and watched J1 ae | the twilight deepen over the city. j c ?r. Aunt Sophia, with the philosophy 11 0 ? peculiar to middle age and a good di- j c n- gestion, after dinner, fell into reverie. I s sd > Her page in the great volume of experi- 1 f id | enoe read thus: to j Her nephew, the mature and wealthy I n- j Judge Moore, had fallen in love with a 8 -u mere school-girl, Anne Horton, and * a. married her for his second wife. Aunt} t as Sophia was not surprised; the extra- j * | ordinary ways of men never surprised ^ her. The school-girl was docile enough; 8 d, j a trifle pale and listless, perhaps, and 6 l.o I ?Ml: iL-l. A a V.;? man. I WUllUg LHUl *1.11X11/ UlJU.il* ouvuiu aaacm , ! age the household in that old-fashioned E j homestead of the country town, famous ( | for its hospitality and the historical j ^ Dr ! characters once sheltered beneath its j t ) : roof. The school-girl Anne had made ! F a | a very great match, and was the envy y ? I of all the country round, where ambi- t , | tion lurked in the feminine breast to I ' ? I handle the old china of the grand pan- * j j try. locked most of the year, and drive b i out behind those fat gray horses in the ^ . j family carriage, slow and ponderous, if a 1 | reliable, like the judge himself. Possi- b 1 j bly Aunt Sophia, by guarding her e j nephew from these ambitious ones in " ! slighting their invitation to tea, was nn- j 81 j prepared for his being taken captive by j ' I a slim maiden in a straw bonnet, v ho ( rt ' ! showed a marked aversion to looking at P ; him. The secret of Anne's subtle in- 1( ! fluence over her husband remained an h i unsolved riddle to Aunt Sophia. Sitting in a Florence saloon after dinner, with a Persian cat on her knee, she recalled another scene intimately connect- j g | ed with her ?wn transplantation. Tlie ^ I awful day when Judge Moore had been , I brought home from the court-house, tl 1 I smitten with the apoplexy on the bench, 19 : had passed with the summer heat. Now e ^ ; late autumn had succeeded, the sombre r j skies promising snow, and tlie woods, ^ sere and brown, carpeted with fallen j fa k" 1 leaves. Aunt Sophia had caught the ! ^ ; pretty widow seated before a mirror, j k I and accepted it as a good omen. The j e" , i face reflected in the mirror was pale . j with niuch weeping^and painful thought, ' s: : yet dimples lurked in the fair cheek and i si ; rounded chin. The lines of woe were 1 j | rendered more prominent by a widow's j si ! cap and the sable garments in keeping ^ | with the silence of the old house, stand* | ing remote from the village street in 2i [ the seclusion of a garden. The public i had been surprised by the overwhelm- g , | ing grief of Anne Moore at the death w of her husband. To be sure, the bar and the country had sustained an irre- ! n: j parable loss in his demise, according to h j the obituary notices in the county If papers, yet everybody knew that Anne v< had only married him for his money. The town was not to be cheated on this tl 8 point. Well, she had obtained her end, o: " and there wa? no use in crying her eyes si * i out, since the judge was ripe in years, " after all, and had left her all hie world- ! h a ly possessions. Deaf to this advice, the ; ?; Q i widow shut herself np in the old house, ; J : and pined with a grief too sincere to ad- | o J mit of incredulity. The key to this sor- | l* row was remorse. She had not loved j fi her hnsband. and had married him as P 6 j the only avenne leading to independ- [ v I : ence. ? ! Aunt 8opbia Lad said, behind the mir-' s | ror: "My dear, the new minister has I e ^ ! arrived." a i "Ah 1" was the apathetic rejoiner. a j "Yes, and I wish you would try to t '? | interest yourself in the fair for the town j l? hall fund." it. S ' "Oh, aunt, I can not 1" and the widow j p n j had begun to sob, the human instru- j f: (e ment being so sadly out of tune. L* 1 The older woman had folded her i 1 ^ i hands, and said, decisively: "Anne, 11 8 you must go away." ! o 9 "Where ?" with a faint gleam of curi- j n [' osity. i h ; "To Europe, perhaps." And Aunt j li k* Sophia studied maps with a zeal after- I c ward. i o in i _ 1.3 - -v ? 3 i-i,: I ;< v one iihu acuieveu every mmy, nuu i ^ ^ might be permitted to repose now in an ! n ? : arm-cliair, with a Persian cat on her 1 n knee. The couple in the window also turned ; 1_ their leaves of experience in the silence ! 1_ 1 which had succeeded a rush of words, I ? the cold constraint of mutual misunder- j v 3t j standing, and this stillness melted the ; c 16 barrier of estrangement far more effect- ; li j ually than explanation. Anno's leaf was \ r c" | a closed page to excellent Aunt Sophia; i c ^ j in turn that of Paul Chambers had been ; v ^ j by hor unread all these years. Anne ' t T ' bet eld in a dream her own youth again, a I There was the young ladies' seminary, fi " presided over by Miss Crimp with prim s 10 i gentility?a structure whose very watts t ro I vibrated with the jangle of many pianos, t f' Who so affable to parents and guardians e as Miss Crimp, and who so tyrannical to r :b young Anno, assistant teacher, homeless j i lu and friendless,gaining her own education 1 i to at odd moments? Those were dreary days ! b s, j in the tread-mill. Paul Chambers bad e ip | made all tbe sunshine. He was the c 1, drawing-master, with slender purse; yet r when the roses bloomed there were al- d r. ways fresh buds for Anne's brown hair, t r- Judge Moore, portly, dignified, and t at rich, was observed to study attentively I the seminury pews in church. Miss f J Crimp bridled complacently, and Paul r 8- j Chambers suddenly departed. Then j c ie : tbe judge astounded his world by mak- 11 I ing Anne an offer of marriage. How j ] 8- ! acrimonious had Miss Crimp then be- ; 1 "8, come ! fairly driving her young teacher \ & ot i to the protection of this elderly suitor, j i Why had Paul deserted her ? What be- 1 le came of him ? She had no longer a ! I -C- j right to ask these questions. Aunt ( es Sophia's proposition of foreign travel t ' had proved a happy one. The advent ? rl TT/MIn tttIr\A?T? 1fVin nonif nla | kjl i/iio paic juuu^ VTIVIVIY xui uuci uv^/iuua j i \ frequented by Americans was a marked i ed i event. One faction did not believe slie < tie was rich, pronounced Tier to be entirely i it- ; devoid of style, and detected in her every i d, : look the indications that this journey ] be was a campaign in search of a husband, i ]d , The opposition, in sheer perversity, dis- < he . covered that the late Judge Moore had < of 1 Go-r-mrl Vim onnnfnr witli Virillmnf rmnwn 1 on and left an immense fortune. Such i th honors were h'eaped npon his memory ' ad that he would not have recognized himself. At Paris he was pronounced a < is- senator, at Dresden a rich mill owner, at < ad Nice & member of the legislature, and at Geneva, minister to Bpain in 18?. 1 Oh, wise Aunt Sophia, foreseeing that pouth and health would assert sway, if ] race the mourner could be lured into p6] She busy world ! Anne, blooming and a E ;ay, had accepted with ready tact the tj0 lofty position unexpectedly assigned by git, strangers, and been charmed by the nov- 0f slty of travel. Paul Chambers's leaf was gjs 3ark. He was not a martyr, weary of tra ;he ills of life, who turns from the world So become a morose recluse; still, he jn* fvas lonely and miserable. His years en| aad been made up of painful drudgery tra So win bread. Ho did not imagine him- fr0 jelf born to any heroic and lofty fate; he CftI aad saved Anne from sharing his own dir Ditter poverty by going away. That was mi3 ill. From the moment of sacrifice, e(]j ivhen he had renounced his love that she ub night marry the rich judge, he had ma 'alien a prey to poignant regret. He the vho looks back suffers the golden sands 8nj >f the present to slip through a nerve- 6jz ess grasp. on " Paul, I believed you had utterly for- eac jotten me, and at the moment of my jprentest need," said Anue, in the win- Up low. How the tender voice vibrated on ^e] he chords of memory I How familiar Bnj ,vas the fair face in the waning light! the "Oh, Anne, if I could believe that 0f ?ou needed me etill 1" lie whispered, ma res ingers closing over her warm soft band. 0f Aunt Sophia interposed on soul-corn- gjv nunings, briskly. " It is time for a cup uu] >f tea. I hope those Tompkins girls i vill find husbands in their summer the :ampaign. They have jaunted to Vienna 0f ilready, and you might as well try to uni ollow a comet." cor When summer again dawned, the old ijjj, Hoore homestead wore its most cheerful pia ispect. Children were abroad in the he ields berrying, and the cattle wended j g6i heir way soberly along the village street j dit< >eneath the elms. Paul Chambers j ci<j :neeled on the moss of the garden, j ^ tudying some object. Aunt Sophia j ] [lanced through a window. I his "What are you doing ?" at length de- I the aanded feminine curiosity. j acc " I am considering the ways of ants," I ou( le replied. "V, hat wonderful fellows j to he} are ! Depend upon it, we make a rig rofound mistake in ever traveling be- me ond our own gardens, where we meet the he best foreign society. The day-lily of 0f ( >ortngal bids you good morning, madam, 1 ftn(; be heliotrope from lJeru is yonr scent- ijV( ottle, while all about the mystery of sen ife goes on?seeds floating through the 0f , ir, buoyed up by downy umbrellas, and i ees carrying love messages to the flow- trai rs-" gra " Suppose you come in to breakfast," pat aid Aunt Sophia. haj Summer had entered Ihe dark dining- 0f < 3om, with its quaint furniture and late. At the table sat Anne, widow no fiv( >nger, in crisp pink muslin, resembling bot er favorite roses. Judge Moore's por- n0 rait, entwined in ivy, hung on the wall. tajj P?8 at i ome Facts to Remember Aboat the Snn. a h The sun is 320,000 times as large as I roa lis earth. j not The sun is 400 times as far off as the to < iood. tftk A lady who weigs 100 pounds here and ould w'eigh^2,700 pounds if on the sur- 8tai ice of the sun. and The heat given off by the sun would (fn lelt 287,200,000 cubic miles of ice rery second. The diameter of the earth bears the ime relation to its distance from the I in as the breadth of a hair to 125 feet. chi A railroad train traveling without by x>ps at the rate of forty miles an hour ould get to the sun in 263 years. I f&tl The suu is believed to become some J a^c 50 feet smaller every year. ! mo This contraction would be sufficient to h*u enorate the enormous quantity of heat hich it radiates. tor; Another theory is that comets and die teteoric matter falling into the sun may fee e its ailment to offset the tremendous abl )ss which combustion certainly inolves. ft would require the combustion of v ?i rt-ioi nrry iuei ui vuui uvci ,w?j cuvud ? f the sun every second to generate the ' ime heat. ' the The stars are supposed to average s*1 irger than our sun and to have planetary pstems like his. ' The nearest star is 250,000 times as far ' ff as our sun. 1 It takes light eight minutes to come hoi rom the sun, but it must have required Q'8 0,000 years to come from the farthest j eye isible stars. j bin When the eleven-year storms on the I 1 an occur, the magnetic needle on the j w?i arth is variable and sometimes consider- | the bly deflected. . j wb The earth is flying around the sun at i ' lie rate of 1,000 miles a minute. wil The sun and all the stars are moving be hrough space, accompanied by their cor ilanetary systems, at a rate varying wo' rom twenty to 100 miles a second. { Some of the sun spots (craters) are a b 00.000 miles in diameter, and one of ere hem would easily swallow up the whole sai f the planets, Jupiter himself only bit aaking a mouthful. chi Maedler's curious and brilliant specu- bis ition is that the star Alcvone is the ' entral sun of our nniverse, and that i br< ur sun and the visible stars are swing- j bin og around it in orbits measured by j pl? aillions of years. < the ing ! f] i Yj'01 Daring Wall Street Speculators. J ancThe fascination of the stock exchange, j ^OI rrites a New York correspondent, is onstantly leading men to abandon regu- ca* ar business in order to improve the Pu' apid way of getting rich. This class annot be made to understand that * whatever is cleared in Wall street is at ' he equal loss of another. That there is mo retribution of very certain character UP ollowing in th# track of Wall street ot^ tock jobbers is a permanent feature in bat he history of the street. This is shown ^ ?y the fact that the very sharpest men huj ventually prove the worst bitten. The flost briliiant gains, indeed, turn to loss dir a the moment when hope is looking for me ts fruition. Perhaps the saddest of all ' listorios of which New York is capable ?ne oight be included in the narrow precinct kal if the stock exchange. Among the om Qoro recent names on the list of "lame ' lucks " is that of H. J. Fowler, who has *? < >een one of the most active operators of h?' he present day. For six years he has ?^ >een alternating amid tremendous luctuations. At one time ha had a long i 41, ? I 7 un of success, ana wus ciuau uu tu mo a lignity of a millionaire. Then luck In ook a change, and he began to lose, me lo could not stop, however, for this is wo: lardly possible. The infatuation of the ns( ipecnlator forbids it as long as a dollar cat s left. Fowler was the slave of that for labit which he had cheated, and the swj jondage never ceased until his whole ma :apital was gone. Probably if he had wit mongh to try another chance, ho would swi tgain be found in the Rpeculatiug crowd, ma Another instance is found in Alden B. to 1 Rockwell, who, for a time, made a pow-1 the jrful sensation in Wall street. Heoper- brf ited boldlv in Pacific mail and other grc 'ancies, and was at tho name time a tru principal agent in the sale of sewing up liachine stock. He pursued the usual sti] career of a Wall street speculator until obi ivery dollar he could raise was lost, and noi recently his assetB have been sold at mt motion for the benefit of his creditors. su< rhe list illustrates the usual style. th( rwenty thousand shares of fancy stook ha }f various names and schemes, sold in are different lots for nn aggregate of $32. sui 11 -i. m . tvmcn. 8mau aa it way bccw, 10 wuiv i ?? than they are worth. gsSpiR ? Train Dispatching. [n tho movement of trains mnch de- f. ads on the train dispatcher, who fills rnt aost responsible and laborious posi? n. The latter day train dispatcher I 3 at headquarters, and, with the aid bel a cnrions chart, is enabled to see at a em .nee the exact whereabouts of every Ed in on the road at any minute of the y. He has the entire line before him I a miniature. Dots and pegs of differ- setl t size and shape indicate the different wil ins in motion at the same time, aud Th m the chart and an elaborate time- wo: d the train dispatcher is enabled to ect operations by telegraph with as ? ich intelligence and absolute knowl- Oh; ;e as he could possibly have were he on iquitous, and able to give oral com- nor nds in a hundred different places at ere ! same time. Tho train dispatcher is beg jposed to know and does know the the e of each train, freight and passenger, tioi his division, the speed and power of ble sh engine, the grade of every mile of i road, and where time can be made I to the best advantage when trains pre (Oc ayed. He usually works with the ligl * 11--- r 1.1 ,i ] jerintenaent or manager ui mo ruuu, *"? >ugh frequently he is put in charge the hiB particular department and held the pon8ible for the proper management the the duties assigned to him, being pat en a great latitude and left wholly bee hampered. Che train dispatcher keeps a record of 1 i time each train starts-from the-end enc the division, and from that moment A s til it arrives at its destination it is tur istantly under his eye and guidance, 00C 0 chessmen in the hands of a skillful 00C yer. So long as trains move on time thi is not called upon to exercise his in- all inity much. It is when a train ip bre died or meets other unavoidable acents that the dispatcher shows up to ^ vantage. the> lere he finds a field for the exercise of ed full powers. In such emergencies tnt; t regular time-card is of no earthly mil ount, and he is forced to improvise Eni > for the occasion. He is called upon lati _ I*-?**!* ftKnii linwfl fViA I hal ucuiuc trmuu uuiao ouou vaav ht of way, where and how they shall the at, where lie on the side track, and a usand and one matters that arise one p imergency, On his presence of mind Its I accuracy of knowledge depend the of t 38 of hundreds of train men and pas- est gers, and thousands upon thousands mic loll are' worth of property. tive in illustration of his daily duties: Ten to 1 ins all off of time and running by tele- des pbic orders issued by the train dis- con cher (such a thing not unfrequently gol< jpens); put these trains on a stretch the ;rack sixty miles long, and designate Ter ere the five going east will meet the wit! 5 going west. One of the five westmd is a through passenger train with ^ stops to make, and can run at a ceri rate of speed; another is a local re^ isenger, making all stops, and can rnn mei i certain rate of speed different from ^ rest; another is a* freight train with eavy load. One has a part of the 0jc d to run over where the grades are heavy, while another litis large hills ^ :limb. All these things have to be J en into consideration, plans formed I B^( I eicnted at onco, and these trains ! rted and kept ,?oing without delay [ without accident.?Indiwaj)olin d.) New*. ' A "Divided Up." . rive ragged, unkempt and weeping i the ldren were left orphans the other day ceei the death of their mother, a Tvidow | dra o lived on Prospect street. The : cen ler was killed at one of the depots wli< mt two years ago, and since then the ' Erf; tner nau Kept ine iamny togumer uj utx-i J days' work. Lack of food, exposur- con I worry brought on an illness which pla urinated fatally, and the children hnd- pos d together in a corner of the room all i ling awed and frightened, but yet un- the e to realize that death had made them tirsi .fs. When the remains had been sent ly to potter's field, a dozen women j hered and held a whispered consulta- ^as son ' I'll take one of the poor things, a ugh I've four children of my own." d one of the women. con 4 And I'll take another." j ?ftn 'And I'll take one." ; Lit, 'And so willl." list* ?hen there was the baby?a toddling J crje who had been rocked to sleep every j lit of his life, and whose big blue j >u fnll of fcpars as he shrank be- I id his sister to escape observation. He^ 'I could take him," said one of the gatj men, "but I'm qrwck-tempered, and ^rac i Lord will never forgive the -woman 0 strikes a dead mother's child !" y ' I could take him, but I am old and pec 1 soon die," said another. "When par had learned to love me, and I had oe to look upon him as a son, death for. aid separate us." fQu' i girl not over ten years old, dressed j ^0I ttle better than other children there, you pt into the group and heard what was ?vc d. While the women were looking mjE 0 each other's faces in silence, the yon Id reached out for the babe, patted | ^ ^ white head, kissed him, and said: i ' I will take this one! I have no )ther, and ma and pa will let me keep jj0'fc a. He can sleep in my trundle-bed, jce> y with my doll, and they may put all pjr' 1 Christmas presents into his stock'cha Che womeu protested, even as they ^ pt, and the girl ran around the corner yon 1 returned with her mother, who sane- \ ^ led all she had said. pur 'Come, bubby?you're mine now!" y01J led the girl, and he laughed as she gjj0 ; her arms around him anil tried to pjeg him up. ! frav Jy and by a woman said: j ?pjic ' Children, you have neither father, \ c^a ther nor home. You must be divided ren< or go to the poor-house. Kiss each j er, poor .orphans, and all kiss the ; >y!" They put their arms around him, and ?ged and kissed him, and they went 1 ; from the old house to go in different law: actions and perhaps never again to it tl et all together. the; 'Good-bye, Johnnie 1" each one fror iped as they turned for a last look at Doi >y, and the little girl called to "each for sin turn: othi Don't feel bad ! I'll give him lots sha sat, learn him his prayers, and wliou tic.' s & big man he'll buy you all back !" j I)oi Detroit Free Press. sufi 1 mm Trees Upou Stilts. Did you ever hear of trees upon stilts? Sab Guiana and Brazil are found the im- else use forests wtiich supply the whole met rid with nearly all the dye-woods iu vict ) and the most beautiful timbers for | hah >inet work. Between these great ! wot ests and the open ocean stretch vast! Sab imps, which at low tide are only I " N rshy, but at high tide are covered ' one ;h several feet of water. In these kee amps grow immense quantities of pie; ngroves, their dense foilage seeming inst float on the surface of the water when trui > tide is in, but when it is oat the ear inches present the appearance of sha >wing out of the sides of prostrate me\ inks of trees, which an supported tak on immense crooked stilts. These put its are the bare roots, wlrioh arc of t liged to seek the deep, rich mud for his iirishment, at the same time that they " A ist support the trunk and branches at "Ik ih a heicrht that the tide cannot affect be jm. The mangrove swamps are the ha\ ants of many curious creatures which me i here almost perfectly safe from pur- lilx Ik lor the tangled masses of roots are " "V nere effectual defense than the strong- ndi s walla. a to* TIMELY TOPICS. Lrliflcial ice factories are successfully ining In several Southern cities. ni as Lll the members of the family of No- th ing, -who tried to kill the German ta peror, have changed their name to ar eling. ar t is estimated that the nnmber of fo tlements on publio lands this year 1 be nearly double those of last year, an e land office at Washington is hard at be rk in consequence of the increase. th l regular system of kidnapping tiae on inese and sending them as laborers the haciendas (plantations) in the m: thern part of Peru has been discov- bl d in Callao. The government has wi jun earnestly to correct and reform I'< labor system, aud make the condi- ar i of the Chinese laborers more tolera- be m di )o hens eat live bees? A Los Angelos il.) agriculturist seems to throw some j jt on this mooted question. He says i sa t huving often caught his poultry in j sb flagrant act?standing in front of i T1 hives and taking the busy insects as sa y pass in aud out?be. finally dis- th ched one and found in her crop 180 8 ! ut 80 ?he conundrum about the pins is well lii >ugh, but who breaks all the needles ? wi ingle factory in Bedditch, England, tr< ns out between 6,000,000 and 7,000,- ru ' gf them each week, or about 350,- ca i,000a year, which iB equal to one- ,w< rd the population of the globe. With "wl the factories in the world going, who aks these billions of needles ? pc or !Tie territory which Turkey loses by Treaty of Berlin is roughly estimatby the London Daily News at sev- " y-one thousand five hundred square lii es, or more than the whole area of a i gland and Wales. The loss in popuon amounts to more than three and a it' f millions, or somewhat more than entire population of London. M ce 'atagonia is a very attractive country. P* climate is of the coldest, its men, are uf he tallest, and its women of the ugli- ?? specimens of the human race. Its .. e are likewise gigantic, and the na- y >s display an ineradicable disposition *c tell lies. This delightful country is tined to become very important in 80 sequence of the recent discovery of _ 1 llipr#>in. Frnm the Cordilleras to Atlantic, from the Santa Cru? to ^.E ra del Fnego, the country teems ***? fi wl . simple method, bat one not gener- y0 known, of discriminating between i ond spurious diamonds, is io im se the specimen in water. If a gcne diamond, it will sparkle with al- W(st undiminished light and brilliancy 0fc] olor; but if it be spurious, whether ]jE te or rock crystal, the " fire" of the yc i will be completely quenched. ^e )ther simple test is to draw a small ^ d file across the stone. If real, the ^ le will not bo hurt; if imitation, it ho badlv marred. pi< . young Chinese princess, -wife of the on jassador of the empire to London I'c [ Paris, attracted much attention at if Paris Exposition lately, as she pro- I'l led from one section to another, of wn in a bath chair, and in a magnifit costume of her country. She is thi )lly unacquainted with either the st< nch or English language, and was jmpanied by Mrs. Hart, wife of the imissioner-general of China, who oxined to her the curiosities of the Edition. The princess was interested in wl ahe saw, her pleasure partaking of lei child-like delight attending the co t sight of so many marvels. ?<( lishop Whittaker, of .Virginia City, *n been giving the Nevada newspapers le queer stories of his experiences *? i recent tonr through the towns of ^ )0 and Ward, Nev. At Tjbo he na Id get no building to preach in but a us lbling-house, and in response to the my, instead of " A.men," au excited ener, with his pants in his boots, ca id "Keno." At Ward, a horse race St been announced for the afternoon, It< at the bishop's earnest request the ng was postponed till the religious ws rices were over. Tho whole congre- pa ion went from the church to the race:k as soon as tho sermon was finished. pl; Phat the traveler in France must ex- an t in the way of charges is told by a is correspondent,-who says: Every- Et ]g a Frenchman does he expects pay even as low as Lalf a cent is grate- ab y received, larger sums in propor- P? t. You pay for everything you get; r coffee, sugar, mirk, all separate, dn sry item is spread out with the most thi lute care, and when it is time to pay te< ,r bill you wonder at the string, but tli< igures can't lie, of course you must no d over. Order a lemonade, wine, or rlrink?the French driok everything be , au American can't. Well, you order In your bill will be three items: er 3t, your glass; second, your drink; po d, your ice. Wonder that they don't rge rent while you Btand in their tse. You are tiled, wish to rest' rself, and enter a park and sit down. roman comcs around with a belltcli and a slip of paper, and unless Rt give her six centimes (two cents) cu hands you over to the tender meri of the police as a swindler and a th id. I am not exaggerating a bit. foi ire is no gas in bedroomr, and they to< rge you for your candle beside the t of your room. ca1 tol oVl Some Old American Laws. im here is a long list of these quaint s, a few of which will suffice toexhib in which I It3 UUUUltlUll Wl luu ouwivuj .. ? y existed. 1' No Q uaker or Dissenter ' a the established worship of the Cb ninion shall be allowed to give a vote I a c the election of magistrate or any I th< sr officer." "No food or lodging I ve; 11 be offered to a Quaker or a here- ha " "No Priest shall abide in tho j ni{ ninion. He shall be banished, and ap er death on his return." " Priests ! mr 7 be seized by any one without a [ PI, rant." "No one shall run on the j we bath day, or walk in his garden, or i by iwhore, except reverently to and from tin jting." "No one shall travel, cook | we nolo molro Vuvla RWPPO hOUSCS. Cllt | We r or shave on the Sabbath day." "No j no nan shall kiss her children on the j na bath day, nor on ft fasting day." i in o minister shall keep a school." "No j sei shall read Common Prayer Books, i mt p Christmas or set days, eat mince j he i, dance, play cards, or play on any j ipj .rnraent of mnsic, except the drum, sei pet and jew's harp." " To pick an j po of corn from a neighbor's garden ha 11 bo deemed theft." "The Select- co 'i, on finding children ignorant, may ob a them awav from their parents ftnd be i them in better bands at the expense Tl heir parents." " A man that strikes re< wife shall bo Cued ten pounds.' th dultery shall be punished with death." wr lurried persons shall livo together or Pe imprisoned." "A drunkard shall in< 'e a master appointed by the Select- he n who are to debar him from the 'th jrty of buying and selling." nnd? dr Whoever shall publish a lie to tbo prej t.h ce of his neighbor shall be eetin the nt cks, or be whipped ten stripes." w< Mr. Kroeger's Inventions. F4 I was around at a club-room, the other ght, reading the weekly papers. Jnst _ I laid the last one down, and was < inking of going home, some one coj pped me on the shoulder, and looking of ound, I discovered the genial counten- dej ice of my old friend Mr. Kroeger. mi: He took a seat beside me, and glanced flo r a moment at one of the papers. let The article which caught his eye was Ju i account of a wonderful case of phle- up ?tomy and transmission. Mr. Kroeger pe] rew the paper down in a frenzy of en- ( usiasm, and wiping the perspiration tai f his forehead, he commenced: "Talk about your transmitting one Bii( an's blood into another I Why, gosh on] ame it, I beat that all holler when I rot is young and visionary. I thonght i sail in ana raise oranges una uau- g01 ias, and make money. Orange and tjl] rnana trees won't grow here; the cli- fui ate is too cold. I soon got over that ge, fficulty, though." en) " You did ?" 1 asked. a r " Of course I did. I just had a lot of t^r p out of the orange and banana trees r lipped to me from the West Indies. ' len I got a machine and sucked the p out of a lot 9f oak trees, and forced jjr( e orange and banana sap in its place. 0? "You see, orange trees wouldn't live pe. ire in winter, but oak treeq will. As ^ on as the sap got worked throngh the _a nbs, and spring smiled upon the land .th flowers and bad poems, these oak 8Q ees broke out with an orange-blossom ^ ish, and in the autumn I picked tropi- ge( 1 fruit by the bushel?. I thought it wa juld be a good way to utilize trees aich don't bear fruit." ^ "You have considerable inventive ani >wer, Mr. Kroeger. I think von are r&. le of the most wonderful men living." This notice tickled him. " Oh, yes," he went on pleasantly, ex( I'm considered some in the invention for le. But that orange business was only ex( 3ort of starter, ao to speak." e(j " Then you proceeded further with rjc ' \ I imagine you are right," responded r. Kroeger. " When I saw my suess with the tropical fruit, I got a lonograph lull of music and forced it m( t a tree, and that tree would bear flow- jnj s of music. As soon as it burst into mi-. ossom, it would keep up the most delious strains of musio I ever heard. >u see, each flower would hold and j ay music just as a shell holds the jQ 1 und of the sea. "I made loads of money on those ant wert Men used to walk down Broadiy with a boutonniere, playing "Belle alene " and "la Fille de Madame An- f t" all the time. Ladies used to wear 1 ese music-flowers in their hair, and *or len one of them rested her head on j?? ur breast, on a fine summer's night, it "01 is just lovely." 1 " Wonderful!'' I ejaculated. ?I " And f.hfin." he Went on. " I went to on< >rk and injected pigs' blood into an- ing tier tree; and in a few months the 8to abs would be hanging down with pigs, the m see, they couldn't root in the gar n, and we had to hoist their food to pai em by means of a sort of derrick. Yes, the ey would hang there in clusters, like a g apes, and grunt with rapture. Oclionally I would go up on a ladder to gr< jk one. I raised chickens and cow? r the same principle. I then thought I force stone dust into a tree, and see _d I couldn't raise brown-stone fronts. a 1 tell you about it after I get a drink i.. water." 0f As soon as he turned his back to get e proposed drink, I got up and quietly )le away.?Puck. i f Chronological History of Tobacco. ' j 1496?Komanus Pane, a Spanish monk, ou 10m Columbus on his second voyage qu :t in America, published the first ac- in tint of tobacco under the name of sal Johoba." mi 1525?The negroes on the plantations th: the West Indies began to use it. an 1559?Jean Nicot, envoy from France ire Portugal, sent some of the seeds to th iris, and from him it acquired the as me of "Nicotiana." When it was first ed in France it was called herbe du <-ande Prieur of the house of Lorraine, ja 10 was very fond of it. It was also m, lied herbe de St. Croix, from Cardinal fr( . Croix, who first iutroduced it into gj, lly. Jjg 1570?At this date in Holland tobacco wc is smoked in conical tubes made of ^ lm leaves plaited together. pr 1575?First appeared a print of the ant in Andrew Thevet's Cosmographic. co 1585?The English first saw the Indi- m, s of Virginia use clay pipes, from en lich time they began to be used in ca. irooe. fu 1604?James I., of England, sought to olish the use of tobacco by heavy im- gCJ rts upon it. . ^ 1610?The smoking of tobacco was in- mi lged in at Constantinople. To render jn. a custom ridiculous a Turk, thus de- m, 3ted using the plant, was led through po b streets with a pipe thrust through his |g se. i 1615?The cultivation of tobacco was gun in Holland. ^lii 1619?James I. ordered that no plant- ^ cultivate more than one hundred ^ unds. j]j( 1620?Smoking first introduced into pe irmany. 1631?First introduced into Austria by pa" redish troopp. tj0 lfi34?The use of tobacco forbidden in issia under penalty of having the nose [ t off- ml 1653?First used in Switzerland, where twi 9 magistrates first punished those ^0]' and smoking, but the custom became am ) general to be suppressed. 1690?Pope Innocent XII. excommunited all who should take snuff or use jacco while at church. 172-4?Pope Benedict removed the ove bull as he himself used tobacoo 1 moderately. agi ? in! The C'rown Diamonds or France. ^ The exhibition of these jewels in the by lamp de Mars has drawn attention to : rec urious episode in their history. In 1792 j Jn' ? Constituent Assembly, ordered au in- j 181 atory to bo made of them, and that task : He d hardly been completed when, on the I agi jht of the 16th of August, they alldis- j grj pearod. Forty thieves, acting in unison i act tnaged to escalade the house in the I sm uce Louis XV., in which the gem3 j fig re deposited, and effected an entrance j vre breaking in the window, and carried j Go 3m all off. Although so many men j ret re engaged in the enterprise only two ! Th re caught, but the diamonds could 1 au< t bo found. At that moment a man p.ri mod Lameiville, a hair-dresser, was ; flaj the orison of the Conciergerie under j 2,2 itence of death for coining, bnt he ; pri tile his escape. A few daps afterward j am called uponSergt. Murceau, a mnnic- : for il officer, who had rendered him some am rvice while in prison, and told the j wa licempn that while in confinement he 1 am d heard the men talking, nnd had dis- j tlx vered the hidiug place of the precious i 10, jectfl, viz.: in the hollows of two large j do; urns in the garret in a certain street, j vie ie sergeant went himself to search, and j iiij 3overed the whole them, the Regent, j 30, 0 Saucy, etc. As for Lamieville, he j is sent away from Paris for security. ! stion, the mayor of the capital, rocom- I t auded him to the minister of war, ana tu< was made an officer in a regiment of caf e line. According to the inventory, tie awn up in the reign of Louis XVIII., we e jewels wero more than 64,000 in Af imber, weighing 18,751 carats, and to jre estimated to be worth $4,180,052. no .KM, ttAKDEA AM) i Hoops. 1 John Soup.?To each quarfof young d, cut from the cob, allow three pinto water. Boil until the grains are tenr. Take two ounces of sweet bntter, xed smooth with one tablespoonfnl of ur; stir the butter into the soup, and it Don ten or niteeii muuu? luugDi. Bt before iaking out of the pot, beat an egg and stir into it, with salt and pper to your taste. Tail Soup.?Scald and scrape the I. Divide it at each joint, and stew it ;h plenty of water. Peel and cut into jes two large potatoes, two large ions, two large turnips, and two car8. Chop a bunch of pot-herbs fine. ien the meat is tender, skim the lp, add the vegetables, and boil them . they are done. Stir in a tablespoonof burned sugar, and strain the soup, ison the soup with pepper, salt, cayae, and lemon juice, and break in half lound of vermicelli. Boil till this is ider, and serve. romaio Soup. ?For this excellent soup i proportions are, seven or eignt miang sized tomotoes,. three pints of 3th, four or five stalks of parsley, two thyme, salt, pepper, a teaspoonful of pper corns, a bay leaf, two onions, ree cloves, and three or four cloves of rlio, a quarter of a pound of rice, a )lespoonful of butter, one ounce of jar, three slices of bread. The toma5s are put into boiling water for a few sonds, taken off and'dropped into cold ter, and then skinned. They are put c a sauce pan and set on a moderate 0 with the broth, parsley, salt, pepper 1 the following spices tied in a linen j: thyme, pepper corns, bay lea', ions and cloves. When cooked, the iole is turned into a colander (with the jeption of the spices in the rag) end ced through with a potatoe-masher, :ept the tomato seeds; then the strainjuice and pulp are mixed with the e; after it has been boiled, the batter I sugar are added. The whole is imered for half an hour, and tnrned 0 the soup dish. While it is simmer; the slices of bread are cut into dice 1 fried with a little batter, and put o the soap tureen before turning the sture therein. Cover it for ten minis and serve. Ilonaehold Hlnta. 'n peeling onions, put a large needle ' ? ' - - i v -i# ?a. rm_ the moutn, nan in ana nau out. mo idle attracts the oily juice of the bulb, 1 any number may be peeled without ;cting the eyes. Uabaster is beBt cleaned by putting n a pan of water and letting it soak some hours till quite clean. Another de is to cover it with a strong solua of washing soda. iO Prevent Metais prom Rusting. tfelt together three pints of lard and 5 of rosin, and apply a very thin coat; with a brush. .It will preserve" ves and grates from rusting through i summer. Co remove tattoo marks, blister the :t with a plaster n little larger than i mark; then keep the place open with jreen ointment for a week; finally, iss it to get well. As the new skin >ws, the tattoo will disappear. Che way to clean feathers is to wash :m in a lather, then rinse in cold ter, and then in water slightly blue, 1 dVioVa tlinm nTifil rlrv. Tf fchfl flllG ?ks thready, damp it between the folds a cloth and beat lightly, and clap it tween the hands till quite dry. It imoves them sometimes to hold them in 3 steam of a kettle. ro wash striped table cloths, soak in )ar cold water for half an hour; wring t and put in warm clear suds; wash ickly, wring as dry as possible; put clean cold water, adding a handful of It; let them Foak in this for fifteen nutes, wring and starch with very in starch, hang up as soon as done, d when dry roll in a damp cloth aDd in. I have washed colored clotns in is way for years, and they look as well new. Covering Manure. It is remarkable that more attention not given to the subject of covering inure from the weather, and especially >m too much rain. Those who have pen the matter particular attention ve found that manure so protected is >rth double that which is left out in e open air. Two loads for one is a ofit few farmers can afford to lose, lere is no question which so vitally ncernB th8 farmer as this one of inure. IJIuch that he does has referee to it. Straw is not to be sold beuse it makes manure. Stock is fed rough the winter for the express purse of manure-making. Articles which ireely pay to send to market are neveralesa taken to the city in order that mure may be brought back as a rern load; and yet the whole of the mure made remains all the season exsod to the sun, wind and rain until it diminished one-half in value. The trouble is probably that few really lieve that exposed manures undergo is loss. But the matter has been too Droughly tested to admit of a doubt, e know first-class farmers who did not amselves believe it, until by actual exriment they found out its tmth. fn arranging farm buildings it will y well to look as much to the preservan of tho manure as to the hay or ?n; and those who have their buildjs already finished without these id" nal arrangements will find that enty-five or fifty dollars spent on arils for a covered shed will rank iong the best investments ever made. American Stock Journal. Montenegro In the Late War. !Vhat a plucky little State may do linst apparently overwneimmg ouas i i country adapted for defense is shown j the summing np by the Deutsche ' cres-/titling, of the great part played | the little State of Montenegro in the I ent war. Her campaign began on ly 1st, 1876, aud ended February 1st, I '8. Thirty thousand Montenegrins, I rzegovinians and Albanians fought \ linst 250,000 Turks, The Montene- ! ns were victors in twelve battles, ten I ions, seventeen larger and thirty-two j uller encounters. In two smaller I hts (at Bishina and Auamaliti) they re beaten, while in two others (at iransko and Nozdren) they had to ire before overwhelming numbers, a TVWifo?iP<7ririH took twentv-five field .1 mountain guns, 107 siege guns, an [ ny standard, a ship's flag, sixteen ' ?s of fortresses, 112 battalion colors, j !00 horses, 62,000 rifles and 10,671 | isouers. Tbey captured three large j ;1 twelve smaller' fortresses, eighteen ' ts, thirty-nine kules and block-bouses, i 3 ten redoubts. This brilliant result! 3 obtained with a loss of 2,955 dead ' i 6,495 wounded. The Turks lost in i 3 Montenegrin campaisrn, besidps the 671 prisoners mentioned, 38,660 ad, 42,440 wounded, and about 56,000 itims to disease, deserters and missr, as well us 6,600 horses aud mules, , 000 cattle, aud four men-of-war. 1 " Special Advertising Agent" offers , 5 Times the munificent sum of "Si! ih in advau'co," l'or a six-inch adver- j emenfc next to reading matter four ' eks, and a two-incu euuorim uuuto. ; tor this, who will be reckless enongh i nay that country newspapers ought I t to get rich ? - Fulton Times. I XLVUIO Vt Ai?w? vw?v Fishing is mostly net profit. Tom Thumb weighs eighty pounds. Where there's a willow there's a ware. Of course miners are crazy when they lose their mines. "To step aside is human"?especially when a runaway team is coming down the street. A classical man out in Venice, Illiow has christened his cat " Othello, or Mewerof Venice." Calumny, though raised upon nothing, is too swift to be overtaken, and too volatile to be impeded. There is no egq of a bird known which is not good food, or which could not be eaten by a hungry man. " Mean weather this," volunteered Filkins. " Yes," replied his wife's second cousin, "the days are rather close." AL- if i'a CMUji wumu 0116 ittOb biiXCU jciuo aw ao wh*m that some twenty-five new histories of the United States have been published; Danielsonville Sentinel: A man never wants to langh when a fly alights on his nose, bnt he is greatly tickled. Drear is labor of the hand, which Occupies life's little span; But an honest picnic sandwich la the noblest work of man. A sign posted np in a Wisconsin sawmill reads: "The saws are runningno use to touch them to convince yourselves." -<3s Diner?"I say, waiter, I've just cracked this egg. Look at it." Waiter ?" i/on't look very nice that er J, sir, I must say. Try the other." The wolf, says a Russian proverb,' changes its hair every year. The young lady of the period does better; she changes hers every afternoon. The melancholy days have come, , The saddest of the year, When he who seeks to kill a flj I Slaps himself on the ear. < ' "Is this air-tight?" inquires man in a hardware store, as he examined ? stove. " No,' sir," replied the clerk; ? ai'* namii tiffhL" He lost ?t Wln. . tomer. Square umbrellas are reported as the latest thiDg in Paris. That's nothing. We have been using sqnare umbrellas a long time; at least they are never round ?T7hen wanted.?Rome Sentinel. Pause before you follow example. A mule laden with salt, an ass laden with wool, went over a brook together. By chance the mule's pack became wet, the bait melted, and his burden became lighter. After they had passed, the mule told of his good fortune to the?ss, who, thinking to speed as well, wet his * pack at the next water; but his load be- ' came the heavier, and he btpke down under it. That which helps one person may hinder another. BOY AOAIX. v Who wouldn't be a boy With nothing else to do < But fill himself with solid pain, , And then play " hookey," too ? ?Uackensack Republican,. * I wouldn't be a boy again, t -V I wouldn't if I could; Perhaps I'd better here explain, .* I couldn't if I would. ?Meriden Recorder. We wouldn't be a boy again, Because we don't suppose We ever could anew attain, Sach happy days an those. ? West Jtraey Prat. boy again. and frolic, . awful pain, and colic; Not much. ? Whitehall Timet. . * The young man wrs evidently honest in his intentions, but three yeare of constant courting had failed to overcome his excessive bashfulness. They were sitting in chairs at a respectful distance apart. Said the young man, .having spent five minutes in search of a subject: "How do you get along with your cooking ?" " Nicely," replied theyoung miss; "I'm improving wonderfully. I can make splendid cake now.'- " Can you ?" said the young man, in a pleased manner. "What kind do you like-best?" " I like one made with floor and sugar ? j -:l?- Mi'oinn mtrrants. and anu UllrULl 1U1U lots of those things, and beautify frost- M ing on top " responded the" young miss. 3B t " Why, that's a wedding-cake," ex- I claimed the young man, nervously. "I I meant wedding," said the young miss, shyly. They are published.?Rockland I Courier. THE DEEB-A FABLE. B A graceful deer, while passing by a clearly flow- I ing brook, B Saw bis own form reflected there, and paused awhile to look. B Entranced he gazed, with beaming eyes, and great astonishment; B And meditating as he stood, thus to his thoughts gave vent: B "How beantifnll am," quoth he, ','my horns fl how great and tall! m "But then my Zee; so ugly, are exceedingly too small! B "How insignificant they seem 1 They're not the slightest use! ? " Why mnst rach beauty as I have, be put to such abuse?" B Scarco had be spoke, when he heard a roar, Hj prolonged and load? a ilnn. in the distance, spied the deer so vain H and proud. h With antlers raised, and quiv'ring limbi, the deer soon swiftly sped fl Toward a wood, where thiok and gnarled, strong branches overspread. 9fl His feet, so wrongfully despised, fast brought H him to the wood? H He thongbt himself secure and safe?bat sad* denly bo 8tood H With horns entangled in a thick and overhang ing limb? Thoso antlers that he boasted of, proved cer taiu death to him. . '' . 9j Condensation, According to M. Pierre Veron, fine of the brightest writers on the Pari) press, I the telegraph has much to answer for. I Slowly and snrelv, he says, its influence is extending. The mania for condensing our thoughts has spread from tbo dis patch to our ordinury conversation, to I onr letter, to the stage. We are losing all sense of the importance of the super- I fluoua. For instance, says Veron, look J at letters of to-day. Instead charming mixture of everythin^^M^^Sa the sirn with which Madame de used to delight her friends, we ? Take the last letter you have re ceived and see if it does not resemble a dispatch. " I hunted yestftrday. Horrid I weather. Louis has the whooping cough. My father-in-law becomes more and more unbearable. My cousin Alfred H is with us. He is fatter than he was." Is not this the style of to-day ? Our let- I ters are now nothing but a sort of book--? keeping. Our letters are to those of a 1 hundred years ago what Licbig's extract of beef is to good fresh meat. "When yjM letter is more than a page long we thrust it aside with nn impatient remark as to fl the uselesPiiess of fine phrases. When we come to the art of conversation what B do we tind ? JLook in At U lUliuyiu M eating house and listen. Two meu hurry in and take their saats: " Waiter ! quick! M Give me what ever can be had without waitiug; never mind what it is. Hurry it up 1" After that the serious woik of eating begins. Every fire or ten min utes a remark is made. For instance: "Pretty good fish, that." No answer, fl After another space of tc-n minutes: I "That coffee isn't what it might bo." I Another pause. Then number one goes "mi?<)? Xnmber two fl Oil: "" JUienwi i uiju. . understands tnis as meaning, " Are you I going to the theater this evening ?" and I niter a swallow or two of coffee, answers: * Nuisance, these debutsand so forth.