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' . ^ ^ ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER* BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1878. NO. 18. VOLUME XXVl.^^ The Light of Autumn Days. What Bummer songs are Bwoet and fair, J 1 And who Bhall sing tbem blythe and gar, 1 1 With cadence fiexUe-srft as air And cheery as the summer day f j 1 What poet comes with caudal shoon. And clow: bcov.n eye of dreamy gaze j Brown an th? wave who>e forest gloom | > Hib dra'ak the light of antumn days? : ^The ligb'? of autumn day*! Peep, deep yithin his quiet heart He holds thff sunshine of the year, The naic of the meadow lark I O And bells that echo faint and clear ; j . The hare-bell, may be, on the slope, j The bubble that the ^vavo has broke, ! E Or the soft, sombre tones that fall ; ^ In memory of a birthday cbimo Faded in that far lapse of time I I That comes and goes for all ; ! I And thus within his eyes the hize s Deeotna of autumn davs ! 11 !e The tky is blue, the bky is fair, I . And writ with fleecy clouds in air ; And bsughs are Having fresh and free, A* foam-crest on a sunnier eca ; f -y And birds with wings whoso flashing light I * Makes tho worn spirit yearn for flight j o Are passing cn to srme bright zone a We picture in tho heart alone; I e And nat .ore chirks iu m'Ttono Its ni'jrmnro.iH ai;tLtui bright and clear ? : Yet be apart . ' 8 E rinks in with subtle sense and heart j ? T> iA rapture of the year ; j:! '.did with his far-off gaze Turns it to autumu days! i 1 U He garners np the perfect time, He stores at wili of paiu or mirth, Jfor him nor seasou comes nor clime? ; h He stands alot^s of all the earth: I * To him the forest tells its tale, The brooklet pourt its plaintive wail, 1 The wild pine rock*, the wild wiuds moan, i To him the torrent speaks alone, The tempest from its mountain throne, I j? The tumult of the angry sea. j ' The murmur of the roving bee, I The pale anemone that blows j In flnnehine.o'er its native snows, r The bine-bell or the meadow-pink, . v Or osier by the streamlet's brink, j ]j All tell their tales in mnrmnrs free? I 0 The secrets of tho land or sea ! ! lj And in his patient eyes, Awaiting sorrow and surprise h Gather like fal.ing leaves or snnsot rnya ! u A dreamy wistful gloom? A light too far ; too soon ! I tl Th? light of fcutnmu days ! : ^ ? William II. liri<jtjt. I w I n MY LOST P0GKET-B00K. j* S P My name is Ednev?Philip Clement j e Edney. That was my father's Dame before ma. Twenty odd years ago he had b a small but comfortable dry goods busi- t] ness ia Utica. But in the panic of '57 o he met with severe losses; and he had a hardly weathered tlie financial storm fi when h9 was taken down with a disease | from which he never recovered. j In his last illneBs he was deeply concernei for the future of his family. 1 ft, was the eldest son, and he frequently y expressed the hope to my mother and to me that iD some way y. s'.uiild be j ablo to find Harringford. 6I Thomas Harringford was a generoushearted but rather unprincipled young ^ man who had been in my father's employ a. several years before. j. He had got into bad company, and j was guilty of some irregularity, as the ^ modern genteel phrase is, having helped himself to my father's cash to the * -i i a n 3.11. l amount 01 Boverai nunareu uuiiuxp, ue- ;, fore his dishonesty?I mean his irregular-1 ity?was discovered. He was penitent, j n and confessed everything, but it was s| impossible for him to make restitution. ! R He had been a favorite of both my ! * father and mother, and they could notj bear to have him sent to prison. So, on j ? his promising to reform, lead &u honest 1 j1 life in future, and repay my father j " when he was able the sums he hail stolen j u ?I mean misappropriated?he was let off. In He went to parts where he was uu- | ? known, and only vague rumors concern- * ing him hau reached us since. One of "these rumors was that he had been seen . in Buffalo and Detroit, and that he was doir.g a prosperous business. 5" On Battling up my father's estate, my ? mother found that she and her little j !? family were left in straitened circum- j atanoes. Then we remembered what ho had said about Harringford. I wrote to f mm letters aauresseu unuaio ana ue- t troit, but failed to receive answers. '. At last we -were bo mnch in need that I j aid: j J "Mother, if yon can spare the money ' ? for me to make the journey, I believe ; I can find him, and get at least a part I. payment of what he owes us." j It was a long time before she would listen to this proposal. She could ill i a afford the expense. Though wo held I a Harringford's note to my father, it was J outlawed, and she had not much faith in ! ^ my being able to get any money of him, n even if he could be found in either of i o the two cities named. i J At last, however, thinking the journey 11 might do me some good, at any rate, she consented to it, and in July I set out. I went first to Bnffalo, where I began i 0 with the post-offlco and directory, but ; 2 without being able to find the man I was j t searching for there, I proceeded to Detroit No luck there either. I returned v to Buffalo, stopping at Cleveland by the a way and flaally gave up the search, ; oonoluding that Harringford must have ' t gone elsewhere, and that the world was too large a haystack for me to huut in-'c for such a needle. But my mother had told me to be sure L to visit Niagara before my return ; so I p one afternoon I went down by a late : 1 train to the Falls, which I saw by moon- ! n light for the first time. j s I was of course too poor to go to a ; v first-class hotel, but put up at one both : c small and obscure. The naxt morniDg u was fine. I was in good spirits, in spite ; s of the failure of mv undertaking, for I! I bad youth and health. I passed the I a day at the Falls, but, for economy's sake, I felt that I ought to l^ave on the i 1: night train for (Jtica. So I prepared to i a take leave of the great cataract. v " Bnt I am Roing to drink out of it c first, anyway," I said to a vgung man a whose acquaintance I had "made that; a afternoon. ! n The American shore of the river was i d not fenced in from the public in those days, as I found it when I was there a a year ago. We stood at the very brink, j n near the edge of the fall. The wild, j1 tumbling rapids shot past us, seemed to j v pause an instant on the verge, broke | d into curves of marvelous green water, ' then crumbled into masses of foam, and s fell thundering into the abyss. j t With that view before me, boy-like, I c got down on my hands and knees for my i t drink. My lips touched the swift water. ; c I had my drink, and was about to rise, I i when something dropped out of the i inner breast-pocket of my coat, and shot away from my reach and sank from sight c before I could put out my hand. In my t astonishment, I was near making a leap > t after it, but the sight of the steaming j t gulf below brought me to my senses. | t " Gone 1" I exclaimed, flinging up my i hands in despair. " Did you eee it ?" j " See what ?" said my companion. i " My pocket-book," I replied, full of i consternation. "It dropped from my i 0 iat pocket into the water, and is lost, t 1 oamc within one of going after it I" i ^ He bail seeu uotbing. I explainei low it happened. I had always cai ied my pocket-book in tbat way, an lever dropped it before. But in atoo;i ug far forward to bring my lips to th vater, I bad emptied my pocket, an1 ost iu an instant all my money, togethe ritli tbat poor outlawed note of Hai ingford's among other more or les abiablo papers. My chance acquaintance expressed hi ympathy in well-sounding words, bu .11 at once ho appeared to have grow] sold toward me. Perhaps he expected hould want to borrow money of him or money I should certainly need ii ;etting away from the Falls. I still hai ay hotel bill to pay, and I could no 'ery v. ell travel by rail for nothing. \rr_ T 1 _ 1 AB^n am >vt3 mtu unrauj cAv.iuii.imru ^uu?, t?u< ! lm:l ascertained that bis name wa Sastmore?that lie was a reporter, o omething of the sort, for a Buffali >aper. I thought a young man of hi xperience ought to be able to give mi ;ood advice, if nothing else, and ! legged him tell me what to do. " Have you any friend in town tha on cnn call on for assistance?" he asked " Not one," I said ; aud added, with int thinking how he would take it, "Yoi re the o; ly acquaintance I have her< xcept the hotel folks." He laugbe 1 and looked embarrassed. " That's bad 1" he said. " I would bi ;lad to lend you a little if I had any t< pare, but I haven't. Perhaps the bote oiks will help you, if you can conviuc* hem of the truth of your story." A horrible suspicion flashed across nr aiud. I might pass for an impostor. "nie truth of it!" I exclaimed 'Why, I had my pocket-book righ ere, with twenty dollars in it 1 Ani riant motive conld I have"? In nr icwilderment I could not finish m; uestion. " Of course you had your pocket ook," he answered, with a smile ; "am lind, I don't say you have any motiv* 3r making a false pretention. But th< rorld is full of impostors, who are al rays iuveutiag excuses for borrowing loney or for omitting to pav their bills lotel keepers have to deal with sucl haructers pretty often, and we can' lame them for being a trifle suspicion f men who have lost their pocket ooks !" He must have been impressed by th< orrifled look I gave him, for ho imine iately went on : "Of course I am as much convincec bat you lost your pocket-book in tlx ray you say as if I had seen it go ovei lio falls. But even if I had seen it, ] ever f>aw the money in it?tbougl on't understand me to say that I hav< ny doubt of tl^at either. I am odIj tating tho case as it might look to othe; eople, if you didn't carry such an hon st face about with you." "Thank you for'so much!" I said itterly; for now I perceived by some ling in his look and tone which h< Duld not hide, that in his own mind ly story stood sadly in need of con rmation. I couldn't blame him, however. Im ostors nre in tho majority amonf nooi;h-tongued people in want of assist ace; aud the worst of their 6iu is tha! ley throw discredit upon honest poo le who have been really unfortunate, was destined to find that out to mj jrrow. I felt that the first thing to be done was ) make my case known to my landlord, ad ? went back to the house. I tolc im, in as cool and business-liko way a* could, what bad happened, and asket im to trust me for the amount of mj ill. Eastinore went with me, and I hopoc e would say something to corroborat< ly story; but he was very cautious. H< tood at my elbow, a little behind, and ] aspect there was something in his fac< hich did not help my cause. The landlord, a short, stocky, red isaged, wall-eyed Irishman glanced ovei is shoulder with the one good eye h< ad, and seemed to receive intelligent 3 my disadvantage. I turned quickly. I don't think East lore had made a signal, but he had no oncealed his incredulity. I found thei bat I might better have gone alone tc tie landlord. "I don't know anything about you] 33ing your pocket-book," said the Irish lan, after hearing me out. "If yor ave no money, you must get some. Mj msiness is to keep a hotel, aud I can'' urnish guests with board and lodging foi he tine stories they may tell." The words stung me, but I manage J o feel that I had been imposed upon a srell as insulted increased my in lignation. Eastmore followed me out, and spok< ome words intended to appear sympa hizing; but I liad no patience with thi old, suspicious, non -committal charac er of the fellow, and gave him but i iurt reply. So lie went his wr?y, and ' nine. I had already resolved what to do. relked boldly into a first-class hotel >ntered my name on the register, an< hen asked the clerk to be good enougl o put my watch in the botel safe. I yas an unusual act. I knew the cler] vou'.d wonder why I requested it; but. nade no explanation. I then took i room and wrote a letter to my mother vhich I thought would reach her th iext morning, and serve my purpose a veil as a telegram. I got my letter int he mail and took "mine ease in min nn." I determined to enjoy my stay a 3 the Falls, while waiting for money to - get away. ^ : The next day, while walking out of '* i the hotel, I met Eastmore walking in. ? i He gave me a carious smile and went to {the desk, wh.re he seemed to be looking r I over the register for names. | I didu't have anything more to say to 3 j Eim, but sauntered away, with my head ! up. I looked eagerly, the next morn8 ing, for the expected letter from home. ^ It did not come. But I got an interest? ing bit of news instead, I took up at the breakfast table a news? paper wliich a gentleman had laid down, * and read with feelings which you can ' perhaps imagine, this item, under the heading of " Spray from the Falls:" "Don't drink out of the Cataract I * i That is what Philip Clement Eduey at9 i tempted to do on Tuesday, in the presr I enee of our reporter, and thus parted 3 ! witTi a large and well-stuffed pocket8 | book, which took that occasion to leap ? i out of his breast-pocket and dart over 1 I the American Fall like a fish; Philip ! Clement Edney was hugely disgusted; 1 j so likewise was the landlord of the Eagle * ! House, when he found that the said P. " J C. E. had nothing but fair promises 1 : wherewith to settle his bill. Uufortun0 j ately our reporter conld not swear to the i wallet and its contents; and in this ago 1 of dead beats and confidence men, P. C. 3 i E. naturally fell under some enspicion. ? j "If an impostor, which our reporter 1 ! did not believe, ho is a very young and a 9 ! very good-looking specimen. If an honest : riavann na lirt Itnnpftrs XPft f*ftn nnlv SiV j [/wtom, .... -rr 1 j ' I that it was an expensive drink, and refer ; the prudent reader to the moral of onr | story, which, to insure its being read, J i wo have placed at the beginning, and 1 hero repeat at the end, Don't drink out V! of the Cataract!" V I Hot and cold streaks shot over me as I read this smart paragraph. I burned - to get hold of Enstmore's sagacious nose, 1 : and be rude to it. My name?the name a ! which tho reporter had given in full? a ; was on the hotel register, and already, - no doubt, I wah un object of suspicion ? by the clerk. 1 arose hastily and left . ! the dining hall. i I went to cool my head under tho cliff t , below the Falls, and did not return to 3 the hotel until noon. Again I asked tho - clerk for letters. There were none for me; but there was something else?a 3 card. "H. F. Marston " wa* the uamo I read on it; and I was informed that Mr. 1 Marston had inquired for me. "I don't know him," I said. "Who r 'is he ?" I By way of reply the clerk struck a i; bell, railed a messenger, and sent him 3 off to see if Mr. Marston was in his room, 7 and tell him that " Mr. Edney " had rer turned. Then he said to me? "You are the young man who left a watch with me, I believe. Do you wish , 1 for it ?" - "I shall wish for it," I said, "when } T hnx*o rrtnrmv t,n rmv mv bill, which I am , i expecting by every mail." ! " Then it wasn't simply for safe keepj ing that you handed it to me ?" he said. " Not altogether," I vepliod. " I had j no baggage; and to avoid nnpleasant . explanations, and perhaps still more uu! pleasaut.suspicions, I thought I would i place that security in yonr bands." ' He smiled as he took the watoh from the safe and handed it back to me. " I don't require the security. I believe you are honest, Mr. Edney. The paragraph in this morning's paper has i excited interest, and one or two persons ! have asked about you. Mr. Marston wishes particularly to see you. Walk up stairs." j The messenger had in fact just returned for me, and I went with him, wondering all the way what would hapi pen next. I found a tall, well-dressed, finelooking gentleman waitLg for me in i his private parlor. "Is this Philip Clement EJnev ?" he said, with a smile, which broughW up a i host of recollections. ! I stared at him, all a-tremble with excitement. I might have passed him i twenty times in the hotel without know;: ing him; but now I was sure of my man at a glance. 1 "That is my name," I said; "and you"? He stopped mo with another engag: ing smile. | "I am Henry F. Marston, please ! remember. If I had another name once, I should be glad to have it forgotten. ! But I am willing that you should know o reply calmly? "I don't ask yon to do any suet hing. I shall pay you every cent I owe on. Bnfc I have lo3t my money, am' an't very well afford to stay here until receive more." Then it occurred to mo that that wa< nflt what ho would like to have me do le could hold my valise for security nd my bill would bo increasing, so : dded? "I shall be obliged to lcav<? you louse, anyway. If you will lot me tak< ay valise, I think I may get passei ver the railroad; and I promise to Bene ou the two dollars I owe you a3 Boon as reach ITtica." He smiled. " What time is it?" he asked. I tool ut my watch and told him. " That's i ;ood-looi;ing turnip," he Baid. " Leav< hat, and you may t ke your baggage.' The watch had been my father's, j wouldn't have trusted it in his hands 01 ny account. " No thank you I" I said, and put i >ack into my pocket. Tin etuit fliof T <liatrnRt.Afl him. find he ame abusive. "You're a swindler!" he cried. "I've leard cf you before, How man; >ocket-books have you lost this week' 've a cat here that could cat them nil nd lick her chops for more. Ah!"?h< hook his fist at me angrily?"I'm tb< rrong man for you to try your littli onfidence game on, If you* come iut( ay house again without the money," h< houted after me as I was turning nr >ack on Lim indignantly, "I'll have voi rrested! I'll have you in the lockup!' I thiuk I was never so angry in nr ife; but "what is the use of arguing witl , wild beast? I held my tongue, au< talked out of his miserable hotel with >ut my baggage. I lifid been poorb ccommoilated there, and his charge Iter all, was extortion? almost as muol s I should have had to pay in thos< lays at a first-class house. I should have found no fault with that ,nd would gladly have sent him th( nonev if he would have let me off; bu 1 who I am. When I saw your name in 1 j the paper this morning, I knew it must i be you. Then I found you were stopi ' ping at the same hotel with me. Your > j father was very, very kind to me, Philip; 1 I and when I learned"? 1 I The tears actually came into his eyes, , as he faltered; and at that moment X ' forgave him all. "Yon were a little shaver when I knew ' you," he went on, with another flashiug 1 smile. "I should not have recognized j you; but you have your father's name, r jind your mother's eyes. I don't know 3 i why'l have neglected to communicate 1 i witli them. When I found that you 1 j were here, my heart yearned to.vards i you. How are your parents, Philip ?" He had not heard of my father's death. When I told him, and described : ' the straitened circumstances of our i family, he appeared fireatly astonished 3 j and conscience-stricken. '! "Why haven't you sent forme?" he [:asked. 1 ! "My father, in his last moments, bogged us to let vou know of our circum* k stances, and I have gone through three cities in search of you," I replied. "But * no Thomas Harringford"? He stopped me again. "Of couree 5 , not," he said. "There is no such man r i now, and never has been, since I left ? Utica and began a now life under a new , j name. I have been much.to blame that i I never paid your father. Do you know 3 1 the amount of the debt?" 3 j "The face of the note was seven hun) dred and forty dollars," I answered. J "But that, I am sorry to say, went over 7 J the falls in my pocketbook. But l j I have a letter to you from my ' mother, which I have left in my valise 7 at the Eagle House," i | "Go and get it," he said. I; "I can't," I replied, "for I have no - : money to pay my bill there." f j He at once opened his pocket-book. , ; "Take that anfl get your valise." i i He put a twc aty-dollar bank note into 3 ! my hand. In half an hour I had redeemed my , : baggage, told the landlord of the Eagle a i house in plain language what I thought t j of his conduct, returned to Harringford's s i room ? or rather Marstou's - with my - mother's letter. In reading it ho had to hide his face. 5 j Tears were still in his eyes, though he p ! was smiling again. Then ho turned to 3 me. - i " That was a lucky paragraph in this i 1 morning's paper," lie said; "and a I | lucky accident -which detained you here. In your absence I have computed the [ present value of that note at compound , interest; and now it gives me the greatI est satisfaction to repay your family in a a time of need. I have deducted the t twenty dollars I just handed you; and ? here is the balance," I He put a paper into my hands. I a couldn't believe my eyes. Itwasaoheck , for twenty-three hundred and ninety e dollars. s I did not wait for my mother's letter, o but took the next train for home, e I found my letter there waiting for her, ,t She was away, and it hnot been for warded. She soon returned, and I hod I the joy of putting Harringford's check into her hands. We felt some anxiety lest it shouldn't prove good for the very large sum of money it called for ; but it did ; and it proved also to be the turning point in our fortunes. In my delight at the happy termination of my adventure, I forgave everybody who had wronged me. I forgave the wall-eyed landlord. I even forgave Eastmore. I have visited Niagara Falls more than once since. But I never again felt any desire to drink out of the cataract.? J. F. Trowbridge, in Youth's Companion Mr. Seymore's Umbrella. Some time ago Mr. 0. M. Seymore, of Chicago, while in this city went to J. k C. Johnston's dry goods store, at Twenty-second street and Broadway, and purchased a silk umbrella, which was represented to him as being of the first quality and for which he paid five dollars. The umbrella proved to be an inferior one, and after six weekB the silk split in several places. Mr. Sey! mnrs refnrnfid to this .litv Tuflfidav and j on the following day went to Johnstons' ! store to see what conld be done about i it. He was informed that the firm c could do nothing, that they did not { know to what use the umbrella bad i been put and that they did not know c i him. Mr. Seymore explained that he ? ! was a stranger in the oitv and named j i the First National Bank as his referj ence. Messrs. Johnston would do ] j nothing, and in answer to a threat that ( I he would spend fifty or one hundred j I dollars in exposing them told Mr. Sey- f [ more to " go ahead." , i Yesterday morning a tall and power- ? j fully-built colored man appeared on ? j Broadway, noir ^ Johnstons' store, car- ( I rying Mr. Seymore's dilapidated umi brella. From his shoulders hung two i placards, on which were painted the ; following words : j : One of : ^ i ; J. tC, Johnson's ; : First-Class : s : : Umbrellas ; ? I : After Six Weeks' Wear. : 1 i ^ | The man kept moving most of tbe 1 1 morning, but never went far from | Johnstons' establishment, greatly to the j i onnnmncA nf f.lifl firm flara tv/m taken r ! to prevent a crowd collecting and ob- r structing tlie sidewalk. Later in the c afternoon tho man grew tired of walk- c ing and took a position in Johnston's v door-way. While there several custom- t era entering the establishment were e " jostled " by him and he was arrested, c He was arraigned before Justice Bixby s ' in the Jefferson Market police court at t j once. Mr. Seymore also appeared, and t j on being asked for an explanation of e i his conduct, said : " I feel I have been v I swindled, but I have no desire to com- t | mit, or cause to be committed, any p | breach of the peace. Before employing this man to appear on the street t ' with the placards I visited ex-Recorder f( ! Smith's office to get his opinion as to t ! how far I could go. Mr. Smith is ab- t I sent in Canada, but a gentleman in his ^ i office advised me that X could not be j molested unless a breach of the peace g was committed. Captain Williams, on t I being consulted by me, gave the same 8 j opinion. Now I offer to pay for the ^ | services of two officers to be detailed to v ; prevent a crowd from collecting." j( Justice Bixby?I don't see that I can ^ | interfere in such a case unless a breach j. I of tho peace is committed. j, Mr. Soymore?Have I not a privilege F to displav the placard ? j Justice Bixby?I can't give any one a 8 privilege. t The prisoner was then discharged. c He walked out of the court with head j j erect, and with a triumphant air. On ^ i the street he placed tho placards on his | shoulders again, and when last seen was heading for Broadway and Twenty- , ' second street.?New York World. * I What He was Doing. i T>, mnq nn n hall crnnnd. He WftB a i young man, and had a memorandum T ; book in his hand. He was working 1 away with a pencil, and presently a man I i leaned over and said: "What's the 1 ; score ?" t I "I don't know !" was the reply. Then there was a few momenta of i i silence, during which time the young a j man figured away until another man ap- e ' proached and asked: I " What innings is this ?" t j ".Don't know;" was the sullen re- i , I ply. 1 c " Ob, you don't?" said the querist, | e 1 sarcastically, " well, you needn't be put- j I ting on airs over it as if I were asking ' you the secrets of Free Masonry.' " He had no more than recovere 1 from J I the shock than another man walked over I to him and inquired: " Was that last a two, or a three base 1 (hit?" 1 This made the yonngman mad, and he replied not. 1 ; The inquirer passed, and he enjoyed i I five minutes peace when a ragged little \ ! gamin stepped up to bim and yelled: i j " Say, mister, how mauy runs ahead are i i the Jersey's ?" e | Then a man asked him which paper 1 j he represented, and, while he was sim- t ' mering with rage, another fellow walked ! up to him to make some inquiry,but, be- ? , fore ho could open his mouth to do so, ^ the man with the memorandum book cut j r him short by jumping up and scream- {f ing: "I don't know tbe score; I don't i know what inning it is; I don't know a c curve-pitcher from a history of Para- e guay; I am not connected with any t j paper; now don't ask me any more ques- j ! tions. It's a pity if a man can't sit down a j to compose a few verses for a lady's f ! autograph album without being bored to t I death about a game of ball I" | Then he resumed his seat, red in the j i face, and was allowed to continue his j I verses in peace. ?Hackensack Republi- j, | can. ! j Winning Success by a Jest. !8 j ^ A pretty ample list might be made o a men who have owed their success in life 11 I to some well-timed jest. Prince Men- fc ! schikoff earned his position at the Court i J of the Czar Nicholas entirely by his \ ' caustic wit: and Marshal Junot, while t I still a young subaltern, attracted the at- t j teutioa of the Commander-in-Chief bv j I coolly obsorving as an Austrian shell j scattered earth over the dispatch which ; he was writing at the latter's dictation, j "It's very kind of them to 'sand' our a i letters for us." The traditions of the ^ J English Navy have preserved another I instance of the kind well worth quoting. . I When the Duke of Clarence, afterward William IV., went down to Portsmouth to inspect the British seventy-fours, the guide allotted to him was a battered old lieutenant with one eye, who, lacking a "friend at Court," had served for years without promotion. As the veteran re - * moved his hat to salute his royal visitor, c the latter remarked his baldness and I said jestingly, "I see my friend, you ? have not spared your hair in your ooun- J try's service." "Why, your Royal * Highness," answered the old "salt," "so T many young fellows have stepped over I my heft'1, that it's a wonder I've got any hair left." The Duke laughed loudly ? at this professional ioko, but he made a c note of the old man s name at the same o time, and a few days after the latter wai t . agreeably surprised to receive his ap- y pointment aa captain. ? FAKM, WARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD e 1 Recipes. Preserved Peaches. ? Peel the jeacheB by dipping in hot water, cut ihem in half and remove the pit. Pat n a pound of sugar to a pound of peaches; boil until tender; put them in Ihejars; boil the syrup until thick and jour it over them. . Breakfast Muffins.?Two eggs, well jeaten with a cupful of sugar and a ump of butter the size of an egg; to Shis add one pint of milk, with a teaipoonful of soda, one quart of flour and ;wo tablespoonfuls of cream tartar; bake n muffin rings or in gem-pans in a quick )ven. This is a dainty substitute for Dread at breakfast or terw Cookies.?One cup of sugar, onelalf cup of butter, one egg (beat the ivhite of the egg separately), one-half 'up of soar milk, one-half teaspoon of ialeratus; flour to taste; stir the buttor ml yelk of the egg together; add the white of the egg beaten to a light froth, ;hen add the milk and saleratus. Knead soft and bake in a quick oven. escaliioped Tomatoes?Stew and seainn a nnnrf. nf tomatoes to vour taste. idd a tablespoonful of butter, a small >nion chopped fine, one coffee cupfnl of 8 grated bread crumbs; after the tomatoes t ire stewed, turn them into a pudding- t iish; stir in the breadcrumbs, reserve g lome to put over the top, and a little t parsley; bake in the oven until brown. c Bice Snow Balls.?Wash and pick c ialf a pound of rice very clean, put it 1: )n in a saucepan with plenty of water, a et it boil ten minutes, dram it on a \ sieve until it is quite dry, then pare six f jood sized apples. Divide the rice into n lix parcels, in separate cloths, put one t ipple in each, tie it loosely, and boil it c )ne hour; serve it with sugar and butter, e To Fey Fish.?Slit the fish down the 8 )ack; season with pepper and Bait, and 0 lust it with flour, then fry it in a little ? alt pork drippings and butter, in a ? tripping pan or on a cake griddle; or ? iut the fish into squares; season well ? ind dip each one into egg, then in fine 0 racker crumbs, and immerse the pieces ? u boiling drippings, which should be J: -ery hot to prevent the fish from absorb- ? ng the grease. v Lightning Cake.?Persons "who j ust drop in" are a nuisance in the v pinion of many house-wives, who, g levertheless, will be g?ad to learn of a r ftfcfl. nf which the makincr and bakinor ti iccupies only flfteon minutes, and jj rhich, therefore, will serve to conceal h he nakedness of the larder when un- s xpected guests appear. Take the yelks if four eggs, three tableapoonfuls of a ugar, the same of flour, about two b ablespoonfuls of milk, and the juice of f< talf a small lemon; the whites of three n ggs beaten to a stiff froth and mixed g rtth the yelks, flour, etc.; the compound u hen being put in a buttered pan and _ daced in a quick oven. Recipe for Yeast.?To make good >read you must have good yeast. The . ollowingis an approved recipe: Take r wo good-sized potatoes, peel and cut j16 hom in half, put them in about two j 8 [narts of water, or a little more; let J beru boil soft, then put in a handful of; :ood hops; let them boil until they set- b lo to the bottom, say hnlf an hour, then f' train them through a tin strainer, rub- a tiug the potatoes well through the i b rater; add a teaspoonful of brown sugar; | ti at it stand till cool, then stir in half a j p eacupful of flour; when cold pour it j to one of those large glass preserve : t< ars with screw cover; stand in a wurm ti lace to rise, shaking it occasionally, y n twenty-fonr hours it will be light; ti kim off any black ecum that rises to the a <vr?. TTrlinn if ,'a UnrVlt fhnro tcill hfl froth A Vf, TY ?A\JLA i? .u ^'D"" I a m the top, and it looks white all through. | a t is easily made and raises bread very ; [nickly. Farm and Garden Noiea. V To bore a hole easily through a 1 lemlock knot, wet your augor in tur- e >entine. c A few pots of mignonette sown outside t n this mouth are very desirable to flow- c >r in-doors when the ground is covered t pith snow. J t Violets can be successfully ^ wn in j 8 )ots, by tnking up plants, when planted j tut in the spriug, and bringing them in-1 loors before frost. Everybody that has water privileges ipon his farm or grounds should plant, p kt this season, the beautiful, sweet- I icanted Pond Lily, Nymphspa odorata. t The green fly is often troublesome on F he young growth of roses, but can be 3 jasily killed by dipping in tobacco or jx piassia water, und mildew must be de- |? itroyed by dusting with sulphur. jc A nf A me>T!p.rm I ^ Agriculturist writes that gapes may be j1 prevented from troubling chickens by j ? ieeping the chickens in a warm, dry, , slean place, and feeding them with cornneal wetted and mixed rather plentifully vith ground red or black pepper. Beet root affords a very grateful food x 'or cattle, sheep and swine, and is better s aw than boiled or steamed. The fatten- f ng qualities are not equal to the Swed- t sh turnip, but for milch cows and for { rnrsing ewes in the spring, it exceeds j my turnip plant in the juioy property, t [t is highly beneficial to store pigB r nroughout the winter. f "Crows smell powder a long way, and r sannot be got at with a gun, though t without that weapon we can come quite s tear." Acting on knowlciege of this r act Mr. W. J. Fowler burned a few i c leaps of straw in different parts of his I f 10m lot, at the same time throwing on a f ipoonful of powder and scattering a lit- I r le on the ground around, and he tells j ? Fhe Country Gentleman that since the | v idoption of this device he has not seen a s srow near the field, though previous to F hat they nad been more than usually ? mmerous. t Fresh, pure water is an absolute ne- 11 jessity to all animated things, and must F )e supplied in liberal quantities to fowls o insure health and growth. We are F orry to say it is the practice with some 8 rho raise poultry to fill some large ves- 8 el with water and let the fowls use it r ? .. -l i r ill it is all gone, no matter n it aoes t >ecome warm and totally unfit for drink- 11 ng purposes. This is not only cruel, ' >ut the poorest kind of economy; for P he beat of food, water, care and atten- j c ion is none too good, if the greatest J irofit is desired.? Poultry World. lloiuehold Hlnta. i n Maoe.-- Mace should be pounded fine, I . .nd corked tight in small glass bottles, ' ? rith wide mouths, and kept in a tin box. ; ^ To Soften the Hands.? Before retir- n ng, take a largo pair of old gloves, ? ,nd spread mutton tallow all over the . lands. Wear the gloves all night, and v rash the hands with olive oil and white v astile soap the next morning. p Burns and So adds.?The very best g hing to be done when any one has re- d eived a burn or scald, is to lay on the ? >art that is injured a thick ooating of o otton, wool or wadding, so as to complete- n y exclude the air. Thus will much u uture pain be avoided. If the above pool happens not to be at hand, scraped lotato or turnip will ease the pain. Particles in the Eye.?"Whenever a p ly, or other inseot, a small flying seed, a [uick-lime, dust, or any other minute k ibject, gets into the eye, do not adopt a he oommon habit of rubbing, or even of p cashing with water, but gently raise, or n ;et a gentle hand to raise for yon, the ' n iye-lid, and bend the head forward. In leepicg thus the eyelid elevated, and he eye quiescent for a few moments, one 6 eels the flow of tears starting from the irgan, which seldom fails to bring along pith it the oanse of the pain, or at least o carry it toward the corner of the eve text to the nose, from whence it may be emoved by a fine handkerchief folded o a point. Soda fob Washing.?The very comQonjuBe of soda in washing linen causes njury to the tissue, and imparts to it a rellow color. In Germany and Belgium he following mixture is now extensively aid beneficially need. Two pounds of loap are dissolved in about five gallons >f water as hot as the hand can bear it; hen next is added to this fluid three arge tablespoonfuls of liquid ammonia md one spoonful of best oil of turpenine. These fluids are incorporated Vvt? moonfl r\t vkaftf.inor f.Vl ATT1 f/l? OJSAUAJ UJ WA fether with a small birch broom. The inen i3 then Boaked- iu this liquid for hree hours, care being taken to cover he washing-tnb by a closely-fitting wooden cover. By this means the linen s thoroughly cleansed, saving much ubbing, time and fuel. Mowlnx Grass Meed la the Fail. In this country the fields are usually eeded to grass in spring, but it someimes happens that from various causes he catch will not be good, and after the jrain crops are taken off more or less of >are spots will be found. Where 'most if the field is seeded good, and only oc- o sasional bare spots are found, it will be ^ >est to sow grass seed now at any time, j .nd if the ground is moist a fine start a -Ml *_ . L.i !_i T ? rin db given Deiore winter, jlu many t >lace8 fall seed ing is preferred to spring, p , better oatoh being obtained than wlien _ he seed is grown along with a grain fc rop. In this case a coating of fine ? oanure should be harrowed in with the a eed to give it a quick and vigorous ^ tart. If on fields that were seeded laet I pring and axe not in very good con- i] lition as regards fertility, still a {pir g atch of grass is visible, a moderate top- t Iressing should now be giveD, the best c i results would be obtained, as the li aauure will act as a mulch and a ferti- j izer, while the open and porons con- e lition of the soil will hasten its action ? ipon the roots of the yonng plants. It v ometimes happens that there are places a a meadows, otherwise good, where ad- I antages would be derived from sowing 1 rae8 seed and spreading manure, barowing both in together, thus obviating p he necessity of ploughing and reseed- b ag the entire field. Also where cows e ave been yarded nights during the v nmmer, upon fields where the grass has t! ecome somewhat rnn out, fall seeding ti nd harrowing will answer well; but to b e successful there must be sufficient o utility, either in the soil or applied in b lanure, to insure a germination and c rowth of the seed; otherwise it will j( sually be time, labor and money lost. jj -Boston Transcript. q Health Hint*. Fresh radishes, well masticated, and JJ le varions kinds of turnips, if digestion i strong enough for them, ave good for ravel. ? A piece of lemon bound on a corn will ^ 2lieve it in a day or *o. It should f( e ronewed night and morning. The ^ ree use of lemon juice and sugar will p Imnnn r* /Irtt* /vli A InmnTI Anfflrt IWUJB ICHCVD U UUU^U, ?X lUUiUU 0 efore breakfast every day for a week or e cvo will prevent the feeling of lassitude a leculiar to the approach of spring. a To stop blood, take the fine dust of tl ?a, or the scrapings of the inside of b inncd leather, and bind it close upon ri tie wound, and the blood will soon cease g o flow. These articles are at all times t< ccessible, and easy to be obtained, tl if ter the blood has ceased to flow, laud- v num may be advantageously applied to fi he wound. p Hunger, or cold feet, or excessive c weariness, may prevent sound sleep. Persons who do not sleep well should F at moderately of plain, nourishing fooc^ 8 tot tempt the appetite; this aggravates ? he disease by making too much blood; J ?n the other hand, if too little is eaten, J1 he nerve tissues are starved, and make * oo little hydra-carbon; neither leave off 3 tndy altogether, nor exercise too much. " Real Brown Bread. A writer in Nature discusses the comlarative nutritive qualities of white F >read, brown bread, and whole-meal ? >read. He says : We shall find it im- " jo.ssible to make, by means of .leaven or _ reast, a light spongy loaf from whole ^ vheat finely ground, the so-called cere- j ilin of the bran inducing chemical 1 :hanges which result in a moist, clam- * ny. dense product. Even whole wheat 1 nerely crushed into meal, and not l rround, partakes of the same defect. f ?iuo flour, on the other hand, yields a a jread which is light enough before a nastication, but which, when masticat- ^ >d, possesses a marked tendency to be- ? iome compacted into dense lump? which 4 najr never be penetrated by the gastric r inu intestinal juices, and which are a J requent cause of constipation. Wholeneal bread cannot be charged with this 1 iefect; indeed it acta medicinally as a [ axative, and by reason of its mechanical f exture is hurried rather too quickly ilong the digestive tract, so that tho 0 ull virtue of such of its nutrients as are eally soluble becomes in part lost. Yet n here is no doubt that for many per- ? ons, especially those who have passed ? aiddle age and are engaged in sedentary J tccupations, whole-wheaten meal in the * orm of bread,,biscuits, scones, etc., * orms an invaluable diet. If we could v eckon all the nitrogeneous matter in n /hole-meal bread as equally effective ' rith that contained in white bread, we * hould possess in the former a far more 1 lerfectly adjusted food ; for the ratio of 8 lesh-formers to heat-givers is about one 8 o seven and a half in white bread, while b approaches one to four in some sam1? -J. 1 L -f .11 ?,1 A 1,1 UtiH, Ul> Ul wiiuiu-mcai uicuu. nuu 0 this tho higher proportion of phosphates in the latter, and.its chemical uperiority over white bread becomes a till more marked ; its flavor, too, is far e icher. Ordinarily brown bread is a a oor preparation at the best. By add- li og a dish of rather rough bran to flour a ro do not obtain a satisfactory or rich h roduct; analysis demonstrates this fact Si learly. li ? 1( One Question was Enough. While traveling m a Hudson river p onnty, Lorenzo Dow stopped at a conn- b ry tavern kept by a man Darned Bush, b: ?he next morning the celebrated Eras- c us Root, who lived near, called for his s: lorning dram and was introduced to a he celebrated preacher. He said to Dow: s ' Well, sir, I am glad to see you, and I a rant you to tell me about the future g rorld yon speak of. Describe its ap- C earance, and the face of the country in v ;eneral." Mr. Dow, knowing their o isbelief in revealed religion, said: e 1 Heaven is a beautiful place, beyond t< ur capacity to conceive, and there is I ,ot a Root or Bush in it." They asked p ,o further questions. e ______ f( t] Caserta, a little Neapolitan town, is a t eaoeful spot. Here are the events of t single day: In the morning one mar- <3 etman killed another^ then a man killed v - . 1 woman, through "jealousy: nexc a u rinter shot his affianced bride, her li lother, her aunt and himself;' then the ( ativea went to bed. k EDISON'S NEWEST MARVEL. lending Cheap Llfht, Heat and Power by Electricity* f -* Mr. Edison says that he has disooversd how to make electricity a cheap and practicable sabstitnte for illuminating ;as. Many scientific men have worked tssiduously in that direction, but with ittle success. A powerful electrio light vas the result of these experiments, but ;ho problem of its division into many imall lights was a puzzler. Gramme, Siemens, Brush, Wallace, and others produced at most ten lights from a siDgle nachine, but a single one of them was ound to be impracticable for lighting raght save large foundries, mills and tfovlraVtAna Tf. Via a Kaari V?aaw0f1 fnr Mr. Edison to solve the difficult probem desired. This, be says, he has done vithin a few days. His experience with ;he telephone, however, has taught him x> be cautious, and he is exerting him* lelf to protect the new scientific marvel, ffhicb, he says, will make the use of gas or illumination a thing of the past. * " I have it now I " lie said, while vigorously turning the handle of a Ritchie nductive coil in his laboratory at Menlo ?ark, " and, singularly enough, I have ibtained it through an entirely different >rocess than that from which scientific uen have ever sought to secure it. They lave all been working in the same groove, and when it is known how I lave accomplished my object, everybody rill wonder why they have never thought if it, it is so simple. When ten lights lave been produced by a single electric aachine, it has been thought to be a ;reat triumph of scientific skilL With be process I have iust discovered, I can roduce a thousand?aye, ten thousand -from one machine. Indeed, the numler may be said to be infinite. When he briliianoy and cheapness of the lights re made known to the public?which rill be -n a few weeks, or just as soon as i can thoroughly protect tiie process? [lamination by carbureted hydrogen ;as will be discarded. With fifteen or wenty of these dynamo-eleotric mahines recently perfected by Mr. Walice I can light the entire lower part of lew York city, using a 500 horse-power ngine. I purpose to establish one of hese light centers in Nassau street, whence wires can be run up town as far a the Cooper Institute, down to the Jattery, and aoross to both rivers. ?hese wires must be insulated, and laid a the ground in the same manner ad gas lipes. I also propose to utilize the gas 'nrners and chandeliers now in use. In ach honse I can place a light meter, 'hence these wires will pass through he house, tapping small metallic conrivauces that may be placed over each 'uraer. Then housekeepers may turn ff their gas, and send the meters ack to the companies whence they ame. Whenever it is desired to light a at, it will only be necessary to touch a ittle spring near it. No matches are reuired. . "Again, the same wire that brings tie light to you," Mr. Edison continued, 1 will also bring power and heat. With lie power you can ran an elevator, a a wing-machine or any other mechanical dntrivance that requires a motor, and y means of the heat you may cook your lod. To utilize the heat, it will only e necessary to have the ovens or stoves roperly arranged for its reception. This an be done at trifling cost. The dynamolectric machine, called a telemachon, lay be run by water or steam power at distance. When used in a large city le machine would of necessity be run y steam power. 1 have computed tne Blauve cost of the light, power and heat enerated by the electricity transmitted d the telemachon to be bat a fraction of tie cost where obtained in the ordinary ray. By a battery or steam power it is arty-six times cheaper, and by water ower probably, ninety-five per cent, heaper." ? It has been computed that by E liBon's irocess the same amount of light that is iven by one thousand cubic feet of arbureted hydrogen gas now used in his city, and for which from $2.50 to $3 3 paid, may be obtained for from twelve o fifteen cents. Edison will soon give , public exhibition of his new invention. -New York Sun. Humors or the Lair. Persons who are unfamiliar with court >rocecdings are often surprised andper lexed nt the number of objections that re mudo to questions isked witnesses. Jaito an amusing inciaei.f in this conlection once occurred in 'he Seventh district court in this State, says the job Angelos (Oal.) Herald. Atiialfor aurder was progressing. A witness was estifying that on the morning after the aurder he met the defendant at breakast, and the latter "called the waiter, .ml said?" " Hold on I" exclaimed the i ittorney for the defense, "I object to phat he said." Then followed a legal irgument of about au hour and a half on he objection, which was finally overnled, and the court decided that the ritness might state what was said. ' Well, go on and state what was said to he waiter," remarked the district attoriey, flushed witli his legal victory. 'Well," replied the witness, "he said, Bring me a rare beefsteak and a couple if soft-boiled eggs.'" In one of our courts a little while ago n old lady was being examined as a wit16S8. To almost every question asked, he counsel on the opposite side wonld ump up and say, "I object as irreleant, immaterial and incompetent." ?his appeared to annoy the old lady, ?ho seemed inclined to make a personal latter of it. Finally the interrogatory ras put, " Did you see those men in hat field on that day? " " Maybe what i saw wouldn't be evidence," was her an- j ? -? T oatit fliam fTirnnch I WCT, uwauoo a ijm *? 0 ? lasses. I am old ami wear spectacles." The Famiiie iu China. A clerical gentleman in China writes s follows concerning the terrible famine xisting in parts of that country: Deaths re extremely common in almost all the irger villages where we have any relief, s well as in all the villages where we ave no relief. Some of the eights we ee are indeed pitiable. In some famies who live almost exclusively upon saves, there is a peouliar kind of bloatig, which is induced by eating the ?aves of the locust, which forms a large art of the diet. The bloating seems to e in the follicular membranes of the kin, and rapidly advances until in many ases the face is swollen to an enormous ize and the eyes are obliterated. I saw little boy who, from mal-nutrition?if ach it can be called?bad swollen to an ppalling extent. Such cases as these enerally prove fatal. The vitality of Ihineee is astonishing. When one rould expect to see them succumb at nee to the influences which combine to nd their sorrowful days, they still seem a linger on with next to nothing to eat. Jven when they become faint, and the hysical powers become totally exhaustd, and they fall a prey to the " famine aver " (typhus), a very large number of hem recover, where it would not seem hat a single one could survive. Under lie same circumstances I think the eaths in any Anglo-Saxon community : fauld be far moro numeroue. It is, :Owever, impossible to get anything ike statistics in regard to anything Jhinese, so that all comparisons of thin ind are but inferences. . TIMELY TOPICS. Dr. Schliemann has found 904 marble objects at Olympia, 8,784 bronzes, 904 terra cottas, 429 inscriptions and 1,270 coins. At the great international German shooting ma toll which recently took place at Duaseldorf,? woman won three prizes. Fifty thousand eucalyptus trees are to be planted about the city' of Mexico. These trees grow very rapidly, and in a few years will make a material modification in the rainfall about the Mexioan capital. Astronomers find that the average number of meteors which traverse the atmosphere daily, and which are large enough to be visible to tho naked eye on a dark clear night, is no less than rfimnflfl. A new purse has been invented in London. When yon open it it appears simply to be an ordinary portmonnaie, but by touching a spring at the side, the trigger of a small revolver drops into your hand; a portion of the end of the purse opens out, discharging the muzzle, and you suddenly find yourself with a most useful protector. The oonsnmption of ooal in London is steadily augmenting, both in arithmetical and geometrical ratio. Thus, in 1681, the consumption was within 200,000 tons; in 1851 it increased to 3,500,000 tons; in 1861 to 5,073,275 tons, and in 1877 to 9,000,700 tons. For manufacturing purposes alone 1,500,000 tons are used up annually in that huge city. A peculiar system of weather warnings for the benefit of farmers has been established at Leipsio, under the direction of the observatory at that city. Four different signals are given by means of drams hoisted to different neigma. une indicates fine weather, another changeable, a third rain', and a fonrth that no trustworthy prediction is possible. These forecasts are already highly esteemed by the agricultural proprietors, for whose guidance they are intended. It is estimated that the amounts of wheat for export from the countries named during the current crop year will be approximately as follows in bushels: North America 85,000,000 Russia 40,000,000 Au6tro- Hungary 20,000,(-00 Australasia 15,000,000 India 5,000,000 Chili 4,000,000 Total 170,000,000 In the Russian exhibit of the Paris Exposition are some remarkable casts of living human figures. How it is done is not known, but the figures are remarkably perfect, even the minutest details of the texture of the skin, nails, etc., being reproduced with wonderful fidelity. The "goose flesh," wherewith the pkin is covered, ia amusingly noticeable, showing that the preparation made for these casts, the composition whereof is a secret, must be applied cold. Then all the little indentations in the soles of the feet and the palms of the hands, and the curves of the nails and their rimuing of skin and flesh are reproduced with even startling accuracy. In the Laccadavies a speaies of rats suddenly appeared, which, living in the crowns of the palm-trees, nibbled off the A i ii l j x- ? young nuiB ana mreuwueu mj rum mo colony. The Indian government being appealed to for aid sent over a stock of cats, bat as the cats could get fish to eat below, they declined to climb ninety feet up the trees to get rats. Tree snakes were then tried, but the villagers were prejudiced against reptiles and killed them. Then the government sent out a consignment of mongooses, but the mongooses declined to climb trees after rats while they could get chickens on the ground. With cats aDd mongooses on the ground refusing to ascend to the rats, the officials decided tbat all that was required was to make the rats descend to the cats and mongooses, so they sent the islanders over some owls. But they had overlooked the popular prejudice against these birds, and in committee assembled the people decided that even rats up in the trees were better than these "devil-birds." They accepted the birds in all apparent gratitude, bqt as soon as the coast was clear, the owls, cats and mongooses were all conveyed in procession to a boat and solemnly deported to en uninhabited reef. The Cat as a Substitute for the Carrier Pipeon. It seems that the Belgians have formed a society for the mental and moral improvement of cats. Their first effort has been to train the cat to do the work of the carrier pigeons. The most astute and accomplished scientific person would have his ideas of locality totally confused by being tied up in a meal-bag and carried twenty miles from home and, let out in a strange neighborhood, in the middle of the night. This experiment has, however, been repeatedly tried upon cate of average abilities, and the invariable result has been that the departed animal has reappeared at his native kitchen door, the next morning, and calmly ignored the whole affair. This wonderful skill in traveling through unfamiliar regions, without a guide-book or a compass, has suggested the possibil ity of cots being used as special messengers. Recently, thirty seven cats residing in the city of Liege, were taken in bags a long distance into the country. The animals were liberated at two o'clock in the afternoon. At 6:18 the same afternoon one of them reached his home. His feline companions arri ved at Liege somewhat later; but it is understood that within twenty four hours every one had reaohed his home. It is proposed to establish, at an early day, a regular system of cat communication between Liege and the neighboring village. * Historic Postofflces. Two United States postofflces have been established at placas of historic note in Virginia. While there are twenty-three Mount Vcrnons in the United States that are postofflces, the one from which the name sprung has been withont postal facilities. The subject was brought to the attention of Postmaster-General Key a few weeks ago, and it being understood that the lady ? ? * J.~m? i.i 1 regents uesireu u pwaiumuo mcic uo a convenience as well as for the business of the Mount Vernon Association, and of the neighborhood, arrangements were made for an office, which was ordered established. It is thought that the postoffice will derive some especial revenue from visitors who will desire to send a letter home direct from Mount Vernon. Another postoffice on the same route is also established at Qunston, Fairfax county, former seat of George MaaoD, the author of the Bill of Rights of Virginia. Gunston is now owned by a company, and a co-operative farm is established there. It was here that James M. Mason died, several years ago, well known at one period as United States Senator from Virginia, and afterward aa Confederate Minister to England. Items of Interest* A fast walking-stick?A hurri-cane. . Morocco has nearly 12,000,000 goats. Real estate oonveyanoee?Dirt carts. The beginning of the end?The letter ? i E. There are 100 volcanoes in South - j > America. * It is not fair to strike an average when ?jj it is down. The forerunners of a plague?A mosquito's legs. Soldiers have to be mustered before they are peppered. The color, indigo-blue, is now pro- ' duced from ooal oil. ' Ti -- ?:J iL.i ?? .all/tBi Iavw Mn^AmiA XL IS BtUU lunu UU JOUUW AVfv* vy.. _ has ever prevailed in China; A kind of timber fop which there is no * farther call?rammer board. Why ifl the letter " i" never too late f Because it's always in time." Why are base-ball players like cooks J Because they make good batters. There's a big difference between din- *gS ner for nothing and nothing for dinner, Postmaster Key has thirteen children. The biggest bunch of keys we know ot A man's character is like a fence? You cannot strengthen it by whitewash, ? We may joke when we please, if we are always careful to please when we joke. A steel is what makes a blade sharp, but a blade that makes a sharper is a stealer. Oae asked why B stood before 0. Be cause said another, a man must B before he can 0. flow is it possible for you to pick your vnn hftTA in fair A thorn MM VTOVU, TUVU --J they come? A man living next a stable remarked that he was disturbed by Bounds in the neighborhood. A Paris oafe strikes Americans with awe by displaying among its edibles, " " Ponkeen piah." A joker challenged a sick man's vote at a city eleotion on the ground that he was an ill legal voter. Laplanders catch wild bucks by put* ting ropes around the horns of tome ones and sending them out to flghi Patience aad gentleness are potent and powerful, but they can not ton a mill-wheel nor break np a setting hen. Tou may talk about the "lean and hungry CJassius," but did you erer take a side view of the man who has rnn a store ten years without advertising? * When a dealer tell yon the stiff, uncomfortable looking boots he wants to sell you are calfskin, remember that a full-grown cow, or bull, is a calf's kin* The wettest region on the earth is Oherra Payee, in the Oossia Hills, lying northeast of Calcutta, where the total ? annual rainfall is 600 inches, or fifty feet. At a great shoe manufactory in Lynn, Mass., recently, a pair of kid side-Iacea woman's boots was made from the stook in just eleven minutes, in sight of visitors. " How is it, Miss, you gave your age * < ?i? to tna census nun as uur twoutj-uiv) when yon were born the same year I was, and lam thirty-nine?" "Ah f you have lived much faster than I, dr." A man was recently fined in a London police court for drunkenness. He has f.: paid altogether 81,000 in fines in the 4 past thirty yeaw. Another, a woman, in 9' the same court, has cost her husband 1 $990 in fines. Washington has a population of 841,000, of whom 48,000 are colored. There were found twenty-two colored persons r over 100 years old, one being reported as old as 110. Seventy persons were between ninety and 100. Mrs. Mackay, wife of the bonansa king, has over $250,000 worth of jewelry, but vfhen she gets fche toothache she suffers just as much as the woman *?' whose bracelets and diamonds came from ( the ninety-nine-cent store. ?. .' The origin of electing by ballot majt' V* be traced to the ancient Greeks. When *: < a member was to be elected, every # voter threw a little pellet of bran or crumb of bread into a basket, carried by a servant round the table, and whow ever dissented flattened their pellet at * one side. A compositor on an agriculturaljpbper, whose girl's father had helped him ' * down the front steps on the evening . * previous, had some copy entitled 44 The Perforating Power 01 aooia given mm to set up. He composed it in sympathy with his own feelings, and the next day the artiole came oat headed, " The Perforating Power of Boots." African explorers will probably ride on elephants in the future. Colonel Gordon has proved by experiment that tame elephants soon learn to live on leaves and grass, as the wild elephants $ do, and keep in good oondition. African ^ travel will thus be more pleasant and * ' much safer, as the natives, it is said, will not Venture to attack a party mounted on elephants. ' Avalanches rarely fall when the sky is. * 7' overcast. In winter the St. Bernard monks urge travelers not to venture when tbe sky is clear. In clear weather the temperature falls, especially before sunrise, and then the filaments of ice which retain tbe snow on the sides of. the mountain contract and snap, tbe mass begins to slide, and draws others y- , in its train, fdr the slightest oause of * ' movement, tbe faintest shock may caiAe A " * " ' xmliin/iliaa Thi* CH0 iau 01 euuruiuuo Avwouvuvm ?. is why guides insist on silence at critioal - * ' points. " A javelin was a short and light spear, ' I used for darting against an enemy. %\ In the Roman legion, the first and* ., second lines (the Hastati and the Prin- ? cipes) were both armed with two javelins ** ; to each man. Each javelin was in all . about six and three-quarters in length;. r. the shaft four and a half feet long, of ,j tongh wood, an inch in diameter; and j the remainder given to the barbed pyramidal head. In action, the legendary hurled one javelin on the enemy at the first onset; the second he retained as a defense against cavalry. The Goths and other barbarians used the javelin. J. J. Henderson, oonsul at Amov, China, asserts that there is not only ample room for American trade in China, but there is a large and rich field for the reception of many American inventions. The people of China olothe themselves * with cotton. No less than 8,000,000,000 yards of cotton cloths are required annually to cover their nakedness. The annual imports of cotton goods are less than 1,000,000,000 of yards. The oonsul enumerates the various advantages the American manufacturers have for obtaining the Chinese trade, and at the . . same, time shows wherein they fail to improve their opportunity. AS THE YEARS GO BY. Two lovers sat in the leafy shade Down in the glimmering gloom of the glade? . Her head wae bent, and his love-lit ev Made soft responses to her aoulful sijl, And the years go by. / The linnet Isyed in the beading bough, And. tho bullfrog bayed in the slimy slongh The catbird cawed in the nutgall nigh. And tbs crawfish crooned a crusuweau??/, . And the yeard go by. I he wedded (the gal with the auburn hair) I A fnatty commercial traveler*; 1 He married a maid with a corkscrew eye, I Who wrote the autumnal poet-ry, I And the year* go by. -I -XugmtlU'd. J