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[sppp ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER.^ BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1879. NO. 38. VOLUME XXVL^^S I What is Poetry 1 hold it ia the form and face of youth, hen thoughts are sinless and when words are truth rn its dear power when e'er thine eyes by chance tch the sweet raptiKC of n ( in - glance: el its soft th>il! wh 11 o i -onie (i.mcing spray, e glad bird carola to the infant day; lilo dawn's pink angers turn another psge God's own journal of our pilgrimage; id it where hills in purple grandeur ride, fretting rill for nuptial honor sigh*; len lovely flowers reward tbine anxious care, d lavish fragrance on the morning air ! len alyv&n choirs to deeper shadeB retreat d silence revels in the noontide heat; lere the wise ant pursues her cheerful toil, rial lancers bide their amber spoil, It golden sunset when regal night; pes her rich diadem of twinkling-light; deafning pe&la that shake earth's very core, (id wondrous rainbows when the storm is o'er, there molten streams the distant gazers [ scorch, [ flick'ring insect waves his fitful torch; here plunging cascades foam and whirl and crash, p 'gainst th' pane impetuous raindrops plash; hen gleaming dews encrust the vernal blades, autumn's glory when tho summer,fades; hen blind;ng snowflakes voil the altered tinge, id porch and giblo wear a diamond fringe, bore dreadful submits wed a lifeless zone id desolation ke?p? an heirless throne, id if thoy . prit yearns for somot'iing more, len bend thy fojtotcp* to the ocean shore; here with sweet ctdouc* (when in tender mood ) 10 gentle gales csres* the sea gull's brood; it Luna's slave iu sullen anger swell; abject now expose the blushing shell, longh tow'ri ;g floods ovtli's beetliug ramparts lave, froay bo.ia divide ti'.o shiciiuerii'g wave: i turn in Fpeeobl^ss e.stacy thy view; ir lo! it filla tho mooting world* of bine; ight sky, fair lan-.l tho grand and solemn eea ill, still repeot God's (D.ile is j>ot try. - Mark J. BendaU. Ilome When You're 'Jailed. j clara bas8ett to mrs. gray. [ woodland, September 10.18?. I Dear, Darling Mammy?I got your lice letter this morning, I don't wonler you Bcold. It is my fanlt, my very peat fault?no, it isn't, either : I conlot tell a lie any more tLan if I bad a Ittle hatchet, like G. W. It is not my |ralt, really. I have been so busy and p tired and so cross that I couldn't [rite to yon. Now don't make np a keet, sober face at mo bocause I say I p cross ; it's very good of me to own L though you could do doubt have bund it out in the couree of this epistle; p it is a sort of cheap virtue to tell | Well, to begin at the beginning, when re first went to housekeeping I waited while to see how the wheels ran be!>re I had any company; and I was so ;lad I did, for I had snch queer thing6 appen. It did seem as if I never shouid jaru how to make cookies. I haven't jld you all this before because I wontd you to have somo peace after the jcket of the wedding was over; and esides, I knew yod would tell Aunt emima (I'm so glad she's gone to Surope !), and she would say: "I told on so. Prances, that Ruth knew nothing orcerniDg household duties." But bout tho oookies : I &uppose you think aey are simple enough, yours are alrays so light and tender. You ought to ave seen tho first three batches I maue. spoiled them every time, and cried tolink about the waste. Then I had uch a time learning how to cook breakist I thought any body could do that, ut I declare it was worse than the ookies ; and as for potatoes, language an't do justico to the suDject. If Jack wasn't an angel?in some respects, 1 lean?this family would have bern in a imily jar of the largest description long go. (Marginal note by Jack?You see, I ot a lunch every day in town, and learnd to make it pretty substantial, mothera-law, so I oould " smile and smile and e a. villiau still." So much for the ngel. But those steaks were stunning, tell you.) However, I could make bread, you mow. X tuiois auut o emiLua wouiu iave oome to church and forbid the tanns if I had not sent her such a nice 3&f the week before we were married. I now she asked Bridget privately if I eally made it all myself, for Bid told ae bo. And after awhile I could broil a teak just right, and my potatoes came ut white and mealy, and the fourth >atch of cookies was just splendid, and could cook a veal cutlet exactly right; o I thought it was time to ask some of ack's relations to come and see us. I id wish 1 had a sister. I wanted some>ody of my very own to come first, and on ooulan't come, just because AuDt emima would have a fever ! I always i n wit Viaa*^ eU a uvu^uv 1u rnj ocviou ucoiu vuau duc ?ould have got well eix weeks sooner if rou hada't been there to coddle her and aake her comfortable. I kno w I should ike mightily to lie in bed six weeks and lave you take care of me, I'm so awfuly tired; and I did mean to have you ?me just as soon as she sailed; but, oh ! nother, don't you know how you used ilways to tell me, " Come when you're tailed," and the rest of it? I thought hat was nothing but a child's rhyme, rat I have found out it means just a3 nuch for grown people. (Note by Jack?She really thinks she s grown up I) Don't mind Jack's scratches, dear; he s awfully impertinent; that isn't angelic it all. i jest smelled something burnng, and laid the paper down a minute o see to it, and he made those nofes. It ros only the milk boiled over that I was getting boiled for breakfast coffee. I an't wait to boil it mornings, for Jack ias to have his breakfast so early, so I ust " hot it up," as Biddy says. Well, ibout Jack's relations; poor fellow I he lever had a mother? (Not? bv Jack?Strange, if true.) I mean ne don't remember her. He pas six weeks old when she died, and lis aunt took him? Mrs. Staples. She las five childrpn. bnt T onnldn't auk khem all, *-. '?? l..i ie> .ul\ me spare room to this house; so 1 wrote to her, and said I should like to have her and one of the girls oome to see me in Jane. It is pleasant here then, and I was going to ask Kitty Hayes in July, because she always goes into the oountry then. So I wrote just as nioe a letter as I could, and made all my plans, and engaged strawberries for every day; though I didn't mind that so much, for [ oould take it back, but a letter arrived ?ying she couldn't come in June, for ihe liked to stay at home and have company in June herself, but she would come m Jnly. Oh dear I I had just that very day written to Kit, and I had to go and write her another letter and tell her all about it, and ask her to oome in August. I meant to have you in August, mammy, but you know I had to pnt her off, for she was going down to New York in June to get her summer things. She likes to wait till then, because J they are cheaper, so she oouldn't oome before August anyway; and then I sat down and wrote to Jade's cousin, Sarah Bae. : ' ' . i . ' * '' 1 sett (he has got three Cousin Sarahs), ! and asked her to come in June; he t liked her ever so much, and bo did I, what little I had seen of her. I thought e she was splendid. s (Note by Jack?Ten minutes' acquaint- J ance in the parlor of a New York hotel, t ; on the way to Niagara.) t i So I asked her to come next week, e which would be tlie 1st of June; but she t wrote back and said she was very sorry, t the was going to Hillsdale, she had 1 promised a week there, but she would c j come on the 10th if I wanted her; so I t i sent a postal to say I did. I told the ] milkman I must have cream three times s i that week?I mean the week after?and a a | made sponge-cake and delicate-cake and i: j oookies, and I planned ont dinner and t dessert for all the week, so I shouldn't b be anxiouB. It's one good thing about b being married, yon don't have to do aDy sewing for such a long time. If I il i hadn't chosen to do my own work I v i should have been at a loss what to do t 1 with my time; but I was glad I hadn't s I dressmaking to do now; I could have n ! no such time with Sarah. To be sure, b there's the mending, and Jack does wear p out stockings faster than anybody I ever a saw; I don't have one hole in mine to a four in his. I suppose it's boots. I However, mending is easy if there isn't a too much of it. Buttons trouble me o ] more than anything. I do believe they o ! were just glued on to Jack's things, and ii ! break off. t So I was quite ready the day before a j the 10th. I had roses all over the g I house, and the silver pitcher full of t i cream in the ice-box, and the man prom- n j ised to briDg me two quarts of berries J 3 j .'.s soon as the boat came in, and I had v ! lovely veal cutlets and peas for dinner? L j I mean I was goiDg to have them?and a [ Jack came home early; but. oh ! he had f i a letter in his pocket?a letter from A ; Hillsdale?to say Sarah had been per- t suaded to stay a week longer, but she ii j would come on the 17th, I Mother, I was just mad. I sat down I I on the sofa and cried. I always do cry, i j you know, when I am angry; but poor b j dear Jack thonght I was grieved, and r tried to comfort me. c I " Now don't you try to coax me, h | Jack," I sobbed. "I'm just as vexed j i as I can be. I ain't sorry a bit; I'm I provoked. And then Jack laughed ; b ! and it was so queer to have him laugh a 1 Hn/viriof. T wno nncrrvthftf T nnnldn't heln laughing too; and theD he thought it * I was all right, bnt it wasn't. a (Note by Jack.?No, indeed, not by d I a long shot. It was pretty much all g wrong for the next twenty -four hours, ma'am ; bat we survived it.) c I never, never, shall think as much of ri Sarah again ; and of course we had to a cat cream and strawberries ourselves, and the veal cutlet and salad, and I had t< an awful headache owing to the cream ; p but I did think it was my duty to use it, and it won't keep, you know. I could keep the cake in a stone jar a week, and so I did ; but I didn't engage st any extra thing, and it was just as well B I didn't, for Sarah telegraphed she was n 6ick with a severe influenza, but would h come as soon as 6he was able. She al didn't come till the 27th of June, as m sure as you live, mother, and then it S turned out she had had an attack of w scarlet fever; the doctor didti't like to <} tell her for fear she wonld be scared ; d bnt she found it out The attack was q1 light, but she really wasn't fit to leave 8< Hillsdale so soon, and she wasn't at all 6: well all the time she staid here. Aunt Q] Staples was not coming till the 10th of k July?that would be Wednesday?so I made Sarah promise to stay till Monday p morning, for she was not fit to go on y Saturday, as 6he meant to, and that s| wonld give me time to get the spare g room swept and aired and dusted, and ^ fresh cake made, and dinner all reauy e; to cook, and nice flowers arranged. ^ Sf<rah was coming with her mother?and V1 Jack had told me she was a very deli- C( catc girl, the baby of the family, only C1 ubout fifteen, so I wanted to have things al nice for her. I had ordered a spring jc chicken ftom the marketman for Wednesday, and was going to make jelly for p dessert, and boiled custard. p Monday came, of course?Monday j,, always comes; but I don't mind that so ^ much, for we send the washing and ^ ironiDg out, only I almost always have a j B] headache, for Mr. Stark preaches such j. long sermons, and my neck aches keep- | ing it so still. Then thiB Monday I i wanted to get Sarah Bassett a good B, breakfast, for she was going away in the a early train with Jack; so I got up very jr early, and that made it ache worse, you c~ know; so I thought it would be so nice t( not to have to get a real, proper lunch, but only some tea, and I sat down on ^ the step to rest a bit after the dishes i. 1 3 ?1 ~ 4.~1~ were wasueu,wijeiit wi up uumea a icie- j, graph boy?I do hato that bind of boys j( always? with a yellow envelope. 1 e, don't mean I hate the boya exactly, but ^ you know they're always bringing some n dreadful message. I don't hnow that they v really are worse than any other boys, but I doD't like boys at all,and the telegrams make them seem worse; and what c] do you think !?it was from Aunt Sta- j ^ pies. e "I arrive on the noon train?explain j chiDge of plans then." I ^ I felt just as if somebody had flapped tl me, mother. I declare I didn't know ^ what in the world to do. I knew I must 8] do something, so I called Aunt Staples a a few hateful names, and that seemed to t, clear my mind. I was too angry to cry g this time : I iust scolded. Now I know h just how you look, mammy. Ton think ? X onght to be more patient, and I know y that; but just then I was thinking of a other people's "onghte," and I do ^ think to this very day Aunt Staples j ought to have come when she said she y would, and I guess she thinks so too e now. Well, when I came to think, I ^ knew the first thing was to get the spare ^ room ready. Sarah had opened all the j windows as soon aa she was ready to 0 oome down, so I had only the bed to j make, for I had not time to sweep. It a never once entered into my stupid head g that Sarah Staples? D (Note by Jack.?Bless the child! What would come to pass if any body else called her stupid?) Hadn't had scarlet fever. I thought d people always had it when they were ' t children, juBt like croup and measles ' and such things. I put the room in c order, and dusted all the corners and s cracks out faithfully; and then I went t into the kitchen and made some tea, and a I was going to have scalloped oysters i 1: I for dinner; so I put them in the pan all ! ] ready to stew, and there was a little , t oold chicken from yesterday to slice up, j i and there was lunch ready, for I baked ; i 1 J a~L J I 4 Drt*au uu omututtv, i i Well, at noon they came. Annt Sta- e pies turned out a positive kind of a i woman, and Sarah just as delicate as t she oould be; but they were pleasant, t and they liked the oysters, and Sarah e liked the tea, so I did not mind much, e (Note by Jack.?Lucid! What didn't ? the little madam mind much ? Here's a I mystery for you!) i But, oh! I was down stairs seeing to ? the dinner, when Jack bounced in. i "What the deuce brought Aunt t Staples here to-day Ruthy?" 1 "Why, Jack, I know it?isn't it bad ? e But, you see, she wanted to leave the I house* a day or two before the people ] who have rented it were ooming in, bo as < to have her stoves taken out, for she was ( afraid Sarah would catch cold if she was i there even a day without fires. It'is a < brick house, you know." j "Why didn't she find it out before. I i wonder?" i "Oh, she was afraid it was ooming on <o rain ; the sky looked threatening." "Well, yon see, dear, the case is lerious. Sally Ba6sett happened to isk me this morning in the car if Jarah Staples had ever had scarlet fever, honght she had, of coarse; but, come o think about it, I did remember that ihe never had any of those childish hings, she was so much younger than he rest; so I sat down and wrote to lunt Mary Ann, and advised her not to some now. The letter must have gone o Rexford to-night. I tell you what, iuthy, I'll get it out of the office. I'll ee the postmaster to-morrow^ and have .11 my letters, or those to my care, sent nto town this week. Maybe Sarah won't ake the fever if she doesn't know we - - 1_ -1# J ? - i. i. 11. ? lave nau a naii-reouvereu paweuu m mo louse." Bat, oh ! mammy, she did. She took t?mean she had it?before the week pas out, and has been dreadfully sick; he doctor didn't think she could posibly live; and Sarah had to have a :urse, and she had our room, and Jack lad to sleep on the parlor sofa, and I >ut his hammock up in the kitchen attic nd slept there. But we have had such horrid time for six long, long weeks ! t's so hard to get things here, you know, nd people were afraid to come and help n account of the fever, But the worst f all was Aunt Staples, who kept hintag and alluding, and finally outright ilamed us for not letting her know bout Sally Bassett, till at last Jack ;ot mad, and told her all about his leter to her, and wound up with, " There's lobody but yourself to blame, Aunt ilary Ann. if you had come when you Fere asked to come, none of this would iave happened." And, oh, mammy, I m rather glad he said it, though I do eel sorry for her, sho loves Sarah bo. L.nd the poor girl is just like a shadow, hough the doctor says she will get well I they're careful; but I know one thing, never, never will go any where unless can go when I am asked to, for I know tow how bad it ia, and it might have ?een worse, and I want you to come ight away, and stay just as long as you ? * iA?in 1%/% nf oil ofvoi/l rvf U1I. UttCA OCkJO liO XDU V CIU un unutu lis motlier-in-law. I guess be isn't, to adge from his saucy notes. (Jack?Dear mother-in-law, do profit iy this interminable story of -Buthy's, nd "come when you're called.") There ! I know he would put in someliing impertinent. But come?come nyway, only come? at once, dearest, arlingest mammy, to your tired-out irl, Bcth. P. S.?Of course Kitty Hayes couldn't ome, and now she's going to be maried in October, and can't come at all, nd oh ! I do wish Aunt Staples hadn't. (Jack?Grammar to the front! Sendees are Buthy's strong point.)?Earer'a Bazar. A California Romance. A San Francisco paper of a recent date ?ys: Abour four months ago Mrs. ;ertha Heyduck, a lovely young Gertan lady, had the misfortune to lose er husband, to whom she was tenderly .tached, and to whom she had been larried several years. They lived in t. Louis. Mr. Heyduck fell from a indow, receiving fatal injuries, and ied, leaving a fascinating widow in inigent circumstances. Mrs. Heyduck, rercome by the loss she had sustained, >ld her effects for enough to pay the ipenses of herself and child, five years Id, to this city, where her mother, rother and stepfather resided, hoping irough their influence to procure emloyment. But, alas, for human hopes 1 o cordial welcome greeted the griefxicken widow and her fatherless child, he was given to understand that she mst depend exclusively upon her own sertions for a livelihood. Heartroken, without money and friends, she linly Fought employment without sucjss. Last Satnrday evening some diffiilty occurred between Mrs. Heyduck ad her mother, which so incensed the itter that she angrily turned the pennies widow and child into the street, or a moment the poor woman was comletelv overcome, but remembering an jquaintance, Mrs. Dwyer, No. 417 lush street, to whom she had been in oduced since her arrival in this city, ie sought the hospitable home of the ind lady and with trembling limbs at mpted to mount the stairs leading to yo home of the Dwyer family. Her :rength, however, failed her, and with cry of despair she sank upon the stairs isensible, and, with her child closely loonnr? tr* lipr hr>Hnm fall tn thfl bnt,. )m. The noise of her fall aroused the imates and they erowded into the hall, here they discovered Mrs. Heyduck ring senseless at the foot of the stairs, t was a singular coincidence that just >ur months to a day previous to the rening Mrs. Heyduck met with this scident her husband lost his life. The lother and child were immediately ooneyed to an adjoining room, where, after be proper restoratives had been applied, le former recovered consciousness?the hild having sustained no serious injury, .mong those sympathetic persons presnt was J. W. Martin, a friend of the )wyers, a gentleman not only wellnown in the city, but also throughout ae entire Pacific coaqt. For years he as been in the service of various steambip companies of San Francisco, and is t present steward of the Tam o' Shansr, which plieB between this port and eattle. So impressed was be with the eauty of the fair widow, and so stirred y the tale of sufferings and hardship bat his sensitive heart was touched, nd before the evening closed he laid is land and fortune at he* feet. Mrs. leyduck accepted the generous offer of be chivalrous steward, and on Monday vening the two were joined in the holy ionds of matrimony by the Rev. Mr. Williams, of the Episcopal church, on 'olsom street, the bride, in the jabsence f her relatives, being given away by Irs. Dwyer. The bride is a brunette, bout twenty-three years of age, reined in manner, and is an accomplished ausicidn. An Army of Objections. " Of course there are objections to loing or not doing anything or everyhing in this world," sayB an exohange, ' It might almost be said that if we do, ir fail to do any one thing, we shall? hould we listen to counsel?have cause o regret it. All kinds of food, every ort of recreation, each variety of habit, lave their disadvantage or lurking peril. In respect to heating or not heating here is always danger. Cold or warmth n a house is to be avoided ; and yet it is ather difficult not to have one of the wo. Hot air is bad; so is steam ; so ire stoves, so ara grates, so is wood, so s coal. We now have an old theory revived as to the last. It is reported to vitiate the air by impregnating it with mlphur, which all coal contains, and iulphnric acid does not improve the I'mosphere for respiration. When coal >egan, long ago, to be employed for fnel n England * the outcry against it was io strong that a royal edict forbade its lee, making it a capital offense. Tralition avers that a man was once actualy eiecuted there for mining ooal, The itatement has been made en authority ;hat the ooal annually burned in Great Britain sends into the air 3,500,000 tons )f sulphuric acid, which causes much of ;he consumption, neuralgia, bronchitis, isthma and typhoid fever for whioh the xrantry is noted. Never burn ooal; lever bum wood; never use hot air ox 5team. Never do anything; still you frill repent it." ftllBir 1"' ' 11 i' THE GREAT PLAGUE OF LONDON, si How a Hundred Thousand Liven were ^ Swept Away In 1605, nnd Do Foe's Ac- _ count of It. The news of the breaking ont of the a plagne in Russia recalls the terrible out- * burst of this scourge in London during f( the year 1665, of which the celebrated De Foe, the author of "Robinson Crusoe," is reputed to have left the following account: I " mL? trrrtfl ft _LDt? IttUD Ul uuuuuu V?OD ovi. g altered?I mean the whole mass of ci buildings, city, liberties, suburbs, West- y minster,Southwark and altogether. For, t? as to the particular spot called the city, ai or within the walls, that was not yet 1c much infested; but in the whole, the face of things was much altered. Sorrow I and sadness set upon every face, and di though some parts were not yet over- '< whelmed, yet all looked deeply con- m cerned, and as we saw it apparently o; coming on, so every one looked on him- ?1 8el and his family au being in tbe utmost danger. * * * London might well be ei said to bo all in tears. The mourners did tl not go about the streets, indeed, for no- tl body put on black or made a formal dress tc of mourning for the nearest friends. But 1! the voice of mourning was truly heard in tl the streets ; the shrieks of women and Ij children at the windows and doors of sc their houses when their nearest relations b: were perhaps dying or just dead were so ai frequent to be heard as we passed the b] streets that it was enough to pierce the stoutest heart in the world to hear them, ai Tears and lamentations were seen almost re in every house, especially in the first fc part of the visitation: for toward the tl latter end men's hearts W6re hardened, fr and death was so always before their ei eyes that they did not so much concern ti themselves for the loss of their friends, it expecting that themselves should be r( summoned the next hour. w "The necessity of going out of our 6i houses to buy provisions," continues Do ci Foe, " was, in'a great measure, the ruin tc of the whole city, for the people c&tclied the distemper on these occasions one of s( another, and even the provisions them- bi selves were often tainted?at least I have pi great reason to believe so ; and, there- cc fore, I cannot say with satisfaction what I know is repeated with great assnr- tl anco, that the market people and such a as brought provisions to town were never hi infected. I am certain the butchers of hi Whitechapel, where the greatest part of e^ the flesh meat was killed, were dread- b< fully visited, and that at least to such a degree that few of their shops were kept sc open, and those that ramained of them cc killed their meat at the Mile-End and tb that way, and brought it to the market tl upon horses. It is true people used all w; possible precautions. When any one to bought a joint of meat in the market h< they would not take it out of the butch- b< er's hand, but took it off the hooks themselves. On the other hand, the tb butcher would not touch the money, but wi have it put into a pot full of vinegar, A which he kept for that purpose. The buyers always carried small money to make up any odd sum that they might take no ohange. They carried bottles ,, for scents and perfumes in their hands, and all the means that could be used were employed. But then the poor w\ could not do even these things, and they * went at all hazards. Innumerable dismal stories we heard every day on thiB 5e very account. Sometimes a man or woman dropped down dead in the very market, for many people that had the plague upon them knew nothing of it until the inward gangrene had affected their vitals and they died in a few mo- *! ments. This caused that many died in 2, that manner in the streets suddenly . without any warning. Others, perhaps, had time to go to the next hulk or stall, 8^ or to any door or porch, and just sit down ana die, as I have said before, ^ These objects were so frequent in the . streets that when the plague came to be very raging, on one side there was scarce &! any passing by the streets but that several dead bodies would be lying here *r and there upon the ground; on the other hand, it is observable that, though f1 at first the people would stop as they 1D went along and call to the neighbors to ai come out on such an occasion, yet after- ?.c ward no notice was taken of them, But, r if at any time wo found a corpse lying, go across the way and not come near it; or, if in a narrow lane or passage, go back again and seek some other way to go on the business we were upon, and ? in those cases the corpse was always left !81 until the officers had notice to comes and take it away; or till night, when the bearers attending the dead-cart would y1 take ttiem np ana carry mem away. ? Nor did those undaunted creatures who * performed these offices fail to search .. their pockets, and sometimes to strip off j IV their clothes if they are well-dressed, as . sometimes they were, and carry off what J? they could get. * * * It is scarcely j? credible what dreadful cases happened ^ in particular families every day; people m the rage of the distemper, or in the |,? torment of their rackings, which was, J< indeed, intolerable, running out of their 8(3 own government, raving and distracted, w oftentimes laying violent hands upon themselves, throwing themselves out of b their windows, shooting themselves, etc, w Mothers murdering their own ohildren ,co in their lunacy : some dvinpr of Krief, as ,? a passion ; eome of mere fright and Bur- Ie prise, without any infection at all, others ? j frightened into idiotism and foolish dis t0 tractions, some into despair and lunacy; . others into melancholy madness. * * * ?n In some the swellings were made so hard ? that no instrument could cut them, and ^ then they burned them with caustic, so J? that many died raving mad with the tor- * ment and some in the very operation. In these distresses, for want of help to hold them down in their bedB or to look to them, some laid hands upon themselves, as above; some broke out into J to the streets, perhaps naked, and would I rc run directly down to the river and plunge themselves into the water, when- N ever they found it. It often pierced my ol soul to hear the groans and cries of those j who were thus tormented. This run- al ning of distempered people about the w streets was very dismal, and the magistrates did their utmost to prevent it; yi but as it was always in the night, and | it generally Budden, when such attempts , c< were made, the officers could not be at et hand to prevent it; and even when they got out in the day, the officers appointed b did not care to meddle with them, be- at cauee they were all grievously infected, h< to be sure, when they came to that jt height, so they were more than ordinarily V infectious, and it was one of the most " dangerous things that could be to touch di them. On the other hand, they gener- j S ally ran on, not knowing what they did, j *411 fV?zv*r ofort rtaorl nr fill I TV' | HU UJJ\JJ UUITii OVW&U UVVM V* I they had exhausted their spirits so as J h that they would fall, and then die in ! w perhaps half an hour or an hour; and, ip which was most piteous to hear, they ! T were sure to come to themselves entirely j tl in that half hour or hour, and then to | b make most grievous and piercing cries , 01 and lamentations in the deep afflicting ol sense of the condition they were in. h ? * * After a while the fury of the o infection appeared to be so increased that in short they shut up no houses at tl all; it seemed enongh that all the reme- ii dies of that kind had been used till they h were found fruitless, and that the plague 1 spread itself with an irresistible fury, so k that it came at last with such violence e that the people sat still, looking at eaoh o i other, and seemed quite abandoned to n i despair. Whole streets seemed to be o ' desolated, ahd not to be shut up only, e i but to be emptied of their inhabitants, o Doors wpre left open, window^^wd^ battering in the wind in empty house* )r want of people to shut them. In a rord, people began to give up them- How alves to their fears, and to think that II regulations and methods were in vain ^ ad that there waR nothing to be hoped gn(j| >r but a universal desolation. A Dyspeptic's Dinner. There came to the dinner-table at the and j iawreuce house the other day two stran- this ] ers, one a lean and hungry-looking WOul istomer. the other a decent appearing able o'ung fellow. As they reached the ply. ible the older man clutched frantically in th b the bill of fare and remarked as fol- and >ws: The " Let's see what they got. You know <Jocki can't eat everything. Been nearly ment ead for ten weeks with dyspepsia. Ah, SCarc lyster soup,' guess that won't hurt gregt le." To waiter?"Bring me some ^jba Fster soup and, let's see,' boiled white- gevei ah,' yes, I'll have some o' that." capa< The soup and the fish were rapidly Thes iten. "Now, Jet's see what else open ley've got; you know I can't eat every- ated ling. Roast turkey,' that ought not twen hurt me. I'll have some o' that. uai8< Roast beef,' yes, I'll have some o' 0pen lat. ' Chicken potpie,' yes, that's easi- abovi ' digested. I'll have some. Let's 250,C je, I can't eat everything; I'll take a One it of the boiled ham, some macaroni, men id ah, some chicken livers and vegeta- seaso les." mer. The waiter had been taking the order \jjgy id the man with the weak stomach sached this way for crackers, that way >r butter, here took a piece of bread, t^n8 lere a pickle and u stalk of celery, and pally equently remarking that he couldn't chini it everything, stayed his stomach un- this 1 his dinner was brought. He looked cents over, sent the waiter back for some amon >ast veal and another onion, remarking gath< lat his stomach was weak, he had been 3 QOO iffering terribly from dyspepsia, and tatioi >uldn't eat everything, but at last got piace ? work and cleared the dishes. whicl trnnKlprl Vnm r\r\r\ n XUO muoici U1 MVUUW* V ?J vuv?vv? ?- VA/UjU >me because his stomach wts so weak, a C'0I at he finally ordered mince pie, plum adding and ice cream, with a cup of ar0ui >ffee. Th They were brought and devoured, and jng j( ien he called the waiter and made her an(j c confidential communication that he ^ id been sick with the dyspepsia, that men , is stomach was weak, he couldn't eat ^ wn rerything, and would she bring him a from 5wl of milk ? neB8 j The milk was brought; he crumbled un]eg ime bread therein, and, as his younger an jr jmpanion had departed, the man with ceaj ie weak stomach remarked to the gen- ^ n( eman across the table from him that it ygj ^ as darned rough to have to come down away ' bread and milk, but he had been sick, great 3 couldn't eat everything and had to 5 careful. winte And now the landlord is anxions for j let man to come around when he is ell. He needn't come but once.? ?xisti drian (Mich.) Times. to jc * State Romance of a Will. and i A veritable romance was developed in to gi ie surrogate's office in New York when [re. Alice Swift offered for probate the ou' " ill of Catherine Ann Whelan. The 'J16.6 ill is dated October 4, 1878, and be- closir leaths, absolutely and forever, all only i istatrix's real and personal property ^ " )th in America and in England to her ai^ 0 mt, Alice Swift, after the payment of a fre jr debts and funeral expenses. contn Mrs. Swift, who is the wife of the Pame mer of a small grocery store, claims ^ wo' lat the will makes her heiress to one tl0n c the finest estates in Hertfordshire, Ha dgland, worth over $2,000,000. The e*ten ory is as follows : Some fifty years hous< jo Mr. James Clarence Hill, of Hazel *c >urt castle, Hertfordshire, had an only inche mghter whom he loved with deep af- ?it-hei cbion. She was a gay and dashing the *8 rl and a splendid horsewoman, and thick] ew up to be the acknowledged belle ^7 ca the county. In the family, which is 'ce a i old and very aristocratic one, was a comei ltler named Thomas Whelan, a young cep.8 ' ishman of personal attractions. An ^ ( timacy sprang np between the butler off a 1 id the young lady and it ended in the i? dor tuple eloping, to the astonishment of Poseie whole country side. They got mar- then ed and went to Ireland. The old poadj juire Hill was furious, and swore that s daughter should never darken his other )?rs again; that he would cut her off the ( ithout a penny. He had no other previa sue and the estate was entailed, and ?.ne h 3 made a will leaving his whole vast a^x " itate, including Hazel court castle, to regal; .e issue of the eldest child of his once blade vorite but now detested .daughter, pointi be property is worih over ?400,000. ons } lie butler Whelan and his wife Caro- cordij ae came to America about 1855, and whict ,ey both died; Mrs. Whelan dying in Whei is city in 1865. She left a son named plow? imes O. Whelcu, but under the old men luire's will he could not get thegptate. large imesC., however, had one daughter a8 to imed Catherine Ann Whelan, and Bhe the^ i jing the issue of the eldest son of the ous*y [uiro's daughter, was entitled to the aQd t hole magnificent estate. Catherine towec ew up a delicate but interesting girl. men 1 le lived with her aunt, Mrs. Swift, grass ho took every care of her. It soon be- tionei ime apparent that she could not live the h ng, being an invalid, and she died a the w w months ago, having, however, made befor will leaving her whole estate in Hert- tor w rdshire to Mrs. Swift. This The estate is said to be held in trust aQd England and to have large accumu- crossi ted revenues. Mrs. Swift will take the ic eps immediately to prove her claims brace i Hazel court c.istle, ? New York On ai raphic. cakes _____ or oli . less c Bnrlington " Hawkeyeteins." Thus A classical farmer in Burlington iwnship names all his pigs after Greek i?ts. " T-"-" liowD An nnt n nriqnn TOflbfi." T_ li A A Via UWi.o VA^ *?W?. *- X ? 0 indeed, they make a grate many neceB :her things. ca^efi Probably the happiest combination in egoap 1 this wide world, is half a mince pie ith a boy around it. these Prof. Swift, of Rochester, has for tjj0 _ Bars carried on his astronomical studies jce ^ i an old cider mill. Certainly he 0j ^ jnldn't find a better place in which to jrom udy the cidered heavens. a f Secretary Evarts says he sees every- jan^( ody who calls on him. When a man 0f j.? jkB him to fix a time for an interview, yarjf 0 says, "Oh, take it now." That is ma(je ist where we differ from the secretary. SftvjQ Then a man cnlls on us, we just say, 6(j. a Oh, bring it around again next Mon- j^e , ay." P. S.?Then we go out of town jar_e nnday evening. work It has been several days now since QD(j r [r. Bonner rushed out with a new nr0D; orse that could beat 2:09J. Thesnrest ay of getting a horse that will beat 2:10, j 1 to drive him and time him yourself. j.onB ime him by compar'son ; something as jjave ley weigh hogs in Arkansas; lay a wjjen oard across the fence, put the hog on sprea ae end and then pile stones on the f?ick ther end till they exactly balance the nn^j net. Then thev " cruess " at the weight tw/,, f the rocks. A new kind of bag that no man knows ie name of, has been discovered, durlg the past summer in Wisconsin, that A ides in the flowers and kills wasps, trout 'his wouldn't be so bad, but then it the h ills bees, just as readily. We could blom ven stand that, but when it reaohes out brow f a rose bud and shakes hands with a 962, lan's thumb, the man thinks he has hair Glared a reunion of all the wasps he each ver knew when he was fourteen years and i Id. This is what attracts attention to* (he o JACK FROST'S CROP. Ice la Hnrveated In the Hudson River ?Pacta and Flcnrea. I iere is now more ioe taken from the 1 3on river than any other stream or of water in the world perhaps. Its , imity to New York oity, with its jiise demand for home consumption jeneral shipping purposes, renders product peculiarly valuable; and it d be difficult to select a more favorp.oint for securing the desired sup i The large amount of help required e cutting season is readily at hand, r - * 1 V .J.1 would, indeed, do omerwiuo xujw. total amount of capital invested in 3, buildings, machinery, imple s, barges, tugs and horses can ely ba estimated, but it must agite a very large amount. Between ny and Newburgh there are about lty different ice-houses, ranging in sity from 10,000 to 66,000 tons, e various houses are owned and ited by seven regularly incorporcompanies and some eighteen or ? ty private companies and individThese figures do not inolude any ^ itions in the vicinity of Albany and 3, where it is estimated that some t00 tons will be gathered this year, company alone employ over 4,000 * and 600 horses in the gathering . n, and about 1,400 men in the sumIn the transportation of their ice own and employ fifty-four barges, a carrying capacity of from 250 to tons each. They shipped 40,000 to foreign porta last year, princito the East and West Indies and t a. The wages paid for gathering c season ranged from seventy-five i to $1.50 per day. The total j int of the Hudson river ice crop * jred this season has been placed at i (inn fnnfi- hnfr, fhflRA nnrofnl ramnn is, made from official data, will the sum abcut half a million lees, . 1 is doubtlesa a full estimate?90,- 00 cubic feet, which, if arranged in . itinuons line one foot wide, wonld , 1 considerably more than half way id the world. e first step in the process of gather- ? ce is called "staking out ponds," onsists of a careful examination of rozen surface by a few practical iceas soon as it becomes thick enough t lk upon. This is found necessary , the fact that the ice varies in thick- ' and quality at different points, and ^ 8 the best is marked out at once, itervening fall of snow would conits location. These " ponds" are . sar the ice-house as possible, and J is frequently necessary to go miles in order to obtain suitable ice. So is the strife between companies , ig houses near each other, in mild irs, to stake out cheir ponds first, g ,he men push themselves around in r over the newly frozen ice. The ng laws on the rights of ownership 5 i which forms on the waters of the ore somewhat vague and indefinite; J for years past the custom has been ? ant the priority of claim to that j any which first succeeds in staking 3e pond by a row of bushes; hence larlyrush for " ponds" at the first ig of the river. Ice is perhaps the * staple crop or produot in the ooun- P iat forms and matures without the P f man. The fact of its being thus 11 i crop frequently gives rise to bitter a oversy among the various ice com- ^ s, especially in mild seasons; and * aid seem that some special legiala- 1 >n the subject was necessary. ? ving staked out these ponds to an " t deemed sufficient to fill the ), nothing further is done until :e attains a thickness of five or six s, when, if snow has fallen, it is ? r scraped off or 1' watered thxon gh;" V itter being resorted to if additional ? aess is required, and this is done tting a succession of holes in the c; t regular intervals. When it be- 0 3 eight or ten inches thick the pro- ?' Df cutting is usually commenced. k lometimes found necessary to plane 81 portion of the upper surface, which J? ie by a machine made for the pur- " A " marker" drawn by a horse is run in a straight line across the ; one side of this marker is supwith sharp cutting irons and the ^ with flat guide-bars which run in ?. jrooves made by the cutter at a 11 ous cut. These marks are about 11 ich deep and twenty-two by thirty- & aches apart. Following this is a ? ar ice plow, having a deeper ** with a series of similar chisel d s or cutters, which sink the previ- ? nark from three to five inches, ac- 1 ig to the thiokneBS of the ice, j t, however, is still left together. 11 i a sufficient quantity has been 81 id and intersected in this manner, ? with heavy ice chisels bar off a " raft of these blocks in such shape 11 admit of their free passage through uain canal, which has been previcut from the house to the pond, a! ;hrough which all the ice is either t? I ' 1 -1 U? tl i uy nurses ur putuieu tuuug uj ivith long pike-poles. In its pro- a through this canal men are eta- h 3 on bridges at various points near o ouse with tridents or chisels, and d hole is separated into single cakes g e it reaches the " apron" or eleva- ? hich carries it up into the house, it canal is often a Bource of trouble tl annoyance, especially where it ^ 38 the river channel; the tides force I1 se together, and it has to be firmly ^ d by Leavv timbers at intervals, ft rriving at tne dock or " apron," the 01 are caught by a series of buckets si eats, which are secured to an end- 0' hain, and moved by steam power, ri the ice ascends this steep incline continuous line to any height red, from which it is slid into the c] ns rooms on "runs." and stowed ? by men versed in the business, q lis process of stowing it is found sary to leave spaces between the j? i for the circulation of air and the p le of water. Many of the larger ? 33 are provided with several of 0 endless ohain elevators, whioh is B| reatest invention ever made in the n [isiness. Previous to the adoption e lis device the ice was all hoisted j the water cake by cake with horses, g item at once slow, laborious and c 3rous. Steam was scarcely thought fli enty years ago in the ice business. u >us other improvements have been r( i in ice machinery by which great B, g of time and labor has been effect- j nd whore it used to take most of f( vinter to fill a small house, the st is now filled in ten or twelve ing days. All has gone Bmoothly apidly'this year; the weather was tious, breakdowns and accidents ~ few, and it is perfectly safe to say J* n the height of the season 300,000 13 per day wore stored. I should n added in the proper place that F the house becomes full salt hay is a d over the top of the ioe quite 8 ly, and the house is tightly olosed B the ice is wanted.? New York * me. ~ t ?? I i nnliant German has taken the li >le to count the number of hairs in c eads of four different colors. The g lehad the most, 140,400. Nextcame c n with 109.440. Then black, 102,- s and last red, 88,740. The bulk of r was, however, about the same iu e oase, the firmness of the blonde's c iheir multiplicity being balanced by t carser, heavier texture of the less t Drous red and black, t : TIMELY TOPICS. "As much trouble should be taken pay small bills as large ones." Advert: ng and subscription bills, for instan* A full pardon baa been granted ;wenty-four French communists, impr >ned at New Caledonia, for their 8ervi< tgaiust insurgents there. Ah Say, a Chinaman, who for seve: rears has controlled Chinese labor! ;he Union Paciflo railroad, is a millic lire, and married a Tartar woman, t tartars being a menial race in China. Iroquois county. III., has two he Ired artesian wells, all of small boi vithin a radius of twenty miles. ] >ne of them exceeds seventy-five feet lanfh ond f.how ft fcntfll dflilv SUt5C >f 58,500,000 galiona. Michael Sullwant, a man of natioi eputation, described as th& larg( sultivator of lands ever known, di inddenly while sitting in a chair in t sabin of the steamer Gnthrie, en rot rom Evansville, Ind., to Louisville, E The newspapers are guessing on t >opulation of the United States in 18? nd some of them think the increa rom 1870 will be about twenty-five p ent., which, in round numbers, won aake the population about 4 7,645,0( Wisconsin pays $10 apiece for wo calps, and this protection has large levoloped the industry of lupicultui n some of the oldest counties in ti State, according to State Senator Baile here are farmers who make a go iving by rearing wolves and scalpii hem. M. Camille Flammarion, of Paris, h ecently published a number of articl o prove thai: the moon is inhabited, ai a now organizing a committee to colle he necessary funds to construct a r racting telescope of sufficient power ee them. He calculates the cost of tl strument at 1,000,000 francs ($20( 00). The son of King Theodore, of Abj inia, who was brought to England aft he fall of Magdala, is being educate ar the army. He is a slender yout f dusky hue, haughty, as becomes escendant of the queen of Sheba, ai hrewd, as becomes a prince cradled dversity. The lad has added ten yea a his life since the British governme ecame his patron. There are 1,542 theaters in Europ fta fnllnws amonc the differe: ountries : Italy, 343 ; France, 33' .pain, 168 ; England, 150 ; Austria, 16 Germany* 191; Russia, forty-four; B< ium, thirty-four; Holland, twent; buree; Switzerland, twenty; Swede' 3n; Norway, eight; Portugal, si: Denmark, ten; Greece, four; Turke 3ur; Roumania, nine; Servia, om Jgypt, three. The following particulars as to tl Russian losses during the recent can aign are officially given: In the Balks eninsula, 129,471 men were killed 1 lie enemy or succumbed to sicknee nd 120,950 were sent back to Ra86 -ounded and sick, of whom 42,950 die< 'he whole losses amount, therefore, 72,400 men, but in this number tl were losses of the Russians in As linor are not included. The occupations of the members tie New Jersey house of assembly a: iven as follows: Farmers, thirteei sachers, four; merchants, ten; eng eers and surveyors, two; lawyers, nin< ruggist, one wheelwright, one; phye ian, one ; liquor dealer, one; real estat lie; manufacturer, seven; pyrotechnis ae ; clergyman, one; temperance hot* eeper, one; contractor, one; railrot aperintendent, one; architect, on< lolder, one; painter, one; retirei iree. An Indian carried the dead body < is sister to the top of a hill at Rosebui [eb., and stationed himself by it wil rifle in his hands, intending to ki le first white man who eamo withi mgo, so that a white spirit might Dmpany her to the happy huntin rounds. He stood there six hour ring occasional but harmless shots 1 ietant* persons. Then a white mo bo had lived many years among tb ndians, and whose wife was a sqnav alked unsuspioiously that way. T1 adian shot him in the breast, and wi itisfled. But the wounded man r( Jvered, and accepted thirteen horse >rty blankets, and an apology in setth lent. Chemistry is the soience of the wor' ad of the future. The bridge whi< ikes the engineer years to construc le chemist can, in so many sixtieths < second, reduce to atoms. Chemisti as given us the balloon; it has put: ur hands gunpowder, nitro-glycerin ynamite, and, above all, fulminate i old, an explosive so terrible that, if t ance of it be left in a stoppered bottl a grains falling amon*? themselves t - ""'11 rtwoofo O /1A?t7Tl1cif it)IX U WLL Wt)i)JUIi Will uciitt, u WLA , afflcient to lay all New York in rain t lias given us poisons so snbtle tha 'ere we to employ such means of wa ire, we could sail iu a balloon over tl imp of the enemy and drop upon it hell, the bursting of which would ki very human being within a mile of i inge. Speaking of rich Englishmen, an e: bange says that the eccentric old Ea f Dysart will, it may be presumed, t f some use to somebody at last, as 1 jft a personal estate of $8,500,000, tl irgest ever left behind by an Engh'e eer, although it has been surpassed h lany mercantile men. The late Dul f Cleveland, who left over a millic terling, comes nearest. Lord Wee linster, regarded as the Croesus pc xccllencc, left but 04,000,000. ft Inglishman has as yet come withi 10,000,000 of Mr. Brasaey, the grei on tractor. Mr. Morrison, of Foi fcreet (Morrison, Dillion & Co.), comi earest, with 820,000,000, and, havir sgard to the extent of his landed po esslons, was probably the wealthie '.Bclishman who has ever made his o* jrtune. Sanitary Uses of Gunpowder. A correspondent writes us from tl landwich islands paying that during Dng life spent in tropical fever distric ie has been able to escape infection ar aiasma by the use of gunpowder, su; demented by a few simple precautioi gainst sudden changes of temperatur unstroke, bad water and the like. I i8es no water that has not been boili ud afterward kept from air contact; b is main reliance is upon the praotice turning a thimbleful of gunpowder is bedroom and very small quantiti n his trunk, wardrobe, etc., so as ;eep his clothes in an atmosphere feeb barged with gunpowder gas. In Mad ;aecar, Reunion, Mauritius, tne ee oast of tropic Africa, and other feve mitten lands he has found suoh simp deans a sure preventive of epidemic ai mdemio diseases, and has thereby be >ften brought to the philosophic refle ion that gunpowder is destined to i rert the aim intended by its fabric ion,?Scientific American, ~'C ' * 7 ^ i FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD to Or?bard and Garden NotM< is To renovate old orchards, and to conie. vert trees that now bear worthless fruit into profit. In all the older States there to are orchards that are worthless, the vais rieties, probably " natural fruit," were jes never of any value, or if originally good kinds, they aro, from starvation, by constant cropping of the ground, and by ral neglect of pruning and everv other core, on now practically useless. Before attempt>n ing to renovate such an orchard, it will well trt /vmai/^ar if it will r?ftV. In many cases it will be cheaper to set out a new orchard and convert the trees into in- firewood. re, If the trees are of good kinds, it will STo be folly to graft them over. Pruning, in scraping, and more than all, manuring, ily are the needs of such an orohard, and if the trees are still sound, renovation will lal ^ ^ound trees of poor kinds may be 3st grafted over, but grafting will be of ed little use, unless accompanied by good he culture. Merely changing the character itc of the tops of the trees is not sufficient. '.j. Renovation in all cases must begin with the soil. A good dressing of manure, he turned under by shallow plowing, ifl the JO, one thing needful in renewing an or?e chard. ier As to pruning. Where large branobes ild are to be removed, the best time is after K). the severe winter weather is over, and before the buds swell in spring. The If- limbs should always be sawed?never ily chopped?off, the cut smoothed with a e. drawing knife, and covered with thick he paint or melted grafting wax. iy, How and where to prune cannot be od told until one has the particular tree ig Itefore him, as each tree will need a dif ferent treatment. Long-negleoted trees are likely to have the heads much crowdas ed, and the first need in such cases, is es thinning, taking out especially such id branches as cross and interfere with ct others. Sometimes shoots have pushed e- out far beyond thej rest, and need to be to be cut baok; it may be that for some be cause the growth has run to one side, ),- and the tree is lop-sided. Only the general direction can be given, seoure an open, well shaped head. s- Scraping and cleansing. The best I er preparation that we know of for remov 3d ing old bark, moss, and liohen, is good h, home made soft soap, made from lye or i a potash. Thin this with water, so that id it may be laid on with a whitewash or in other brnsh. Then, in one of those rs moist, thawing times that occur late in nt winter or early spring, paint over the trunks and large limbs with the soap, putting it on freely. The later rains e, will do most of the work, but before at spring opens, it will be well to go 7; around with the scraper?an old, short 2; handled hoe will answer?remove what 3I- ever loose bark remajps. y- Pruning omitted last fall, should be 11, attended to now as soon as the weather c; will allow. Grape vines need the first y, care, and should be pruned longed be 0; fore the buds begin to swell Ourrants and gooseberries start early, and should be pruned early. ie Preparatory work in the way of trel lises and other supports may be attend m ed to and the materials got ready. In 3y the family garden, the best support for ;S) raspberries is a single wire strained beia tween two posts at the ends of the rows, and we think that the best grape-vine to trellis, is that with horizontal slats four ie feet apart, with upright wires where ia needed.? American Agriculturist. The Bearlac Year. Mr. J. 8. Patterson, of Ohio, commu?f nicates to the Country Gentleman this re note of experience in changing the bear\ J ing year: A. young orchard very consid l* erately took to bearing on the off year, \? so that when I had apples to sell prices 11* were good. But in A'pril, 1875, a freeze ei killed most of the blossom buds, and that changed the year of bearing, and now I have apples when everybody else kd here has. Bat many trees this* year ^ > bore so full that it ia to be hoped that u? some of tnem win rest iwo yeare, a* uut, nufrequently happens, and again bear tbe off year. It ia a fancy with many that the year of bearing ia determined by the year of grafting?in tbe case of top-grafting at least. This has necessaM rily nothing to do with it. A young tree's year of bearing, apart from the 3 accident of frosts, is determined more 6 by tbe rate of growth and the kind of 8? soil it is in than by anything else. But lfc the rate of growth, with reference to ,n determining by purpose the year of 10 bearing, is a cause so practically indefi7> nite and unmanageable as to place it 16 quite outside the category of available 18 means. 5 Health fllnta. "? Fob Earache .?Roast a raisin and 3 bind on as hot as can be borne. To Allay Crawling of the Flesh ob ., Nervousness.?Put tablespoonful of bicarbonate of soda?ordinary cooking 6oda?in one quart water. Bathe the entire person. Certain relief. rv To Stop Bleeding.?Take the fine dasfc of tea or tbe scrapings 01 tne msxae 6 of tanned leather, and bind it close upon 0j the wound, and the blood will soon m cease to flow. These articles are at all e times accessible and easy to be obtained. >y Fob Cholera Infantum.?The whites )n of two eggs, well beaten ; then mix with a. water, add one tablespoonfnl of orangett flower water and a little sugar ; a tabler. spoonful every hour. It will cure the l6 worst case of cholera infantum ; the egg a I coating the bowels. 11 A Cure for Warts,?g. W. Hoof, of i ts I Chicago, write3 to the Inter-Ocean: Some two months since I noticed in a country papor a simple remedy to re- ] r. move warts. As I had no less than rl twenty large seed warts on my hands, ,e | and several smaller ones, I applied this I ie i remedy, as published, taking a common i' ie ! Irish potato, cutting it in two, and ap- ' ^ ! plying the juice over each wart two or J : three times a day. Mine have all disap- [ j peared, and as this remedy is handy for I |Q j all I thought it worthy of republishing, j ( ir Statistics or the United s aics Army, -j [? The secretary of war has made a state- 1 1!? ment showing the actual strength of the ' at regular army at a stated period in each re year from the beginning of the govern20 ment to the present time. It appears '8 that the strength of the army, both offis" cers and men, from 1789 to 1794 was 8t about 3,500. From tint time to 1812 it 'n varied from 2,600 to 6,600; but in 1813 it increase! to 19,000 incoDBequence of thewarwith GreatBritain.and in tbenext ; year to 38.146. In 1815 it was 33.434. le For 1816 it fell to 10,000, and in the a three years following to 8,550. From ts 1820 to 1838 it averaged 6,500. For id 1839 it was increased to nearly 10,000, p- and in subsequent years to 1846. varied as from 8,500 to 11,000. In 1847 it ine, creascd to 21,686, falling in the following years, until 1854. to an average of 5d 10,500. For 1855, 15,752, and from that at year to 1861 the average was 16,000. ol From 1862 to 1864 the usual annual rein turns of the army were suf-pendeJ. For es 1865 the strength of the army was 22,to 310; in 1866, 56,815; in 1868, 61,000; in ly 1869, 36,774; in 1870, 37,075; and from " Akirt Nr.MAil 1Qnn if UQQ liaf.trOATl I am |llT13 pOilOU WJ JLU I I iV UUO TIUKV* w?nvv*. . ist 26 000 aDd 29.000. For 1877 it was 24,- : ir- 000, ami in 1878. 25,818. ile ? ad In straggling to make a dull-brainec Bn boy understand what conscience jr. ^ ? teaoher finally asked: " What make you n- feel uncomfortable nfler yoa have aone a- wrong?" " Fatber'8 leather strap," feelingly replied th& boy. A Yalcnlfaie. Fair lady, ahouldst thoa doom my heart tut ' In making thee its only earthly shrine, . yjjs Forbear, nor speak to me one censuring word . The fault, if fault there be, is wholly thine. ^ Through all the long and weary vanished ^ Wnich my rejoidog heart shall know no I vainly plied my qaest in varied spheres. And fonnd no fair one whom I might adore; Bat now I yield my thanks to kindly fate, .J; Which grants to me a love so fair and (Mar. gsw I will not murmur that the boon oomec late, ; - ; Bat rather dream that thon wert always And, orowned with true love's blessed light at Forget the "desolation of the past ITEMS OF INTEREST. Ancient Greeoe?Old batter. .. ,4^ A yard of pork?Three pig's feet. . " $?$& The penny's mightier than the sword. A poor relation?A story badly told J An advanced pupil?A protruding : v la Baking powder is used for blowing up bread. A notable wedding?A wedding where |j| there is no table. There were over 15,000 deaths in Philadelphia last year. Meerschaum pipes are manufactured 'J|l principally at Vienna. Electric sparks?Courting a distani . sweetheart by telegraph. Ohio has sixteen militia regiments ' |w| with 8,600 equipped men. - ^33 ** Who has got the stick with which th? ' fellow beat a hasty retreat? . as Why ia the nose put in |the middle of the faoe ? Because it's the soenter. / . When does a man smoke a cigar too long ? When he smokes it too short. . Boasted coffee is one of the most - '> powerful disinfectants known to scienoe, . Give to the winds your fears; Hope and be undismayed; Your goods well advertise, - .>*?( And yon will thrive in trade. 'jA-ISaB Almost all of us are generous to a fault, if the fault happens to be oar own. All the charms possessed by some men are what hang in front of their vests. -A lock of hair from a young woman's '~|3? head is often a key to a young man's heart. Four hundred miles of streets have to be lighted at the expense of the city of < Boston. Rampageous small boys stoning the ^ telegraph wires coat England $60,000 last year. Money makes the marego. steam makes , ^ the cargo, and the sight of the creditor .. makes the mango. They occasionally catch a 600-pound EB [ turtle off the coast of Florida, and don't brag about it either. An Arkansas paper says that the girls in that State grow to be six feet lagh. They must be well cultivated. The advance in the science of micro- ., r. scopy during the last few years has : been greater in America than in any other country. There is a superstition prevalent ir Yorkshire, England, that mint will net ? grow in the garden of a house in which the husband is henpecked. "Somebody's Coming when the Dewdrops Fall" is said to be a very beauti fal song. "ttomeooay b uomuig wuau the Note Falls Due " is not so enchant* ing. In Vermont fifty per cent, of tbepeople are set down as farmers, in Maine forty, in New Hampshire thirty, and in Massachofietts only twenty-two per cent are farmers. It is fortunate for the Chinese that they have an epidemic of cholera so seldom, for with their habits of filth and overcrowding they have no chancebnt to be decimated, . In California they call a hive of beee ' a "stand." When a bee begins to makeyouracquaintance onder the ear yon stand, yoa know, instead of break? ing for a thicket.? Detroit Free Preu. . labob. ^ 'Mji Labor is life! Tia the still water faOetb, i Idleness ever deepiireth, bewaileth; Keep the watoh wonnd, or the dark nut assail- -i* eth \?Mr?. Osgood. We may farther remark that a dead man ne'er taleth: He r ho won't advertise soon sheriiTs saleth; And the hnsband the letter his wife Rare ne'er % J; mail eth. ?Chicago TribuM. >? There are 142 daily newpapers in England, eight having discontinued publication daring the past year. Sev3 j*enty-eight of them are morning papers; seventy are published at a penny, sixtythree at l}d., and the remaining ten at ^ -'?J prices from that up to 3d. Sixty-four > of the papers are Liberal in politics, ^5^ thirty-seven Conservative and forty-two v2 Independent. . { Daring a dense fog a Mississippi * steamboat took landing. A passenger anxious to go ahead, came to the unpertnrbed manager of the wheel and asked why they stopped. " Too much fog; ' r can't see the river." " But you can see ->< the stars overhead." " lee," replied the urbane pilot; " bat until the oiler bursts we ain't going that way." The > passenger went to bed. Said little Johnny Jones, "It would be amus- * i?g quite, ^i If cats could speak our language loud and ' dear; For prob'bly when they gossip on a moony roof at night. They say things it would make us laugh to ^ . * ... hear." ind little Jennie answered, "Well, possibly . they might *- r Talk plainer if they'd only purr-severe." 'j The largest single iron oontraot ever * "j awarded in the United States was given by the Metropolitan elevated railroad, * *?> of New York, to a firm in Phceaixville, Pa. The oontraot calls /or 50,000,000 pounds of iron, to be used in the con- t strnotion of the Second avenue branch - - f of the elevated railroad?about eight miles long?and includes 2,000 iron col- * " amns and 6,000 girders. " '<*;] A singular library existed in 1535 at Warsenstein, near Caeeel; the books composing it, or rather the substitutes ' for them, being made of wood, and evenr .* one of them is a specimen of some dif- * ferent tree. The baok is formed of its ??j i. *i_V< bark, and the sides are conatruotea t>i - . ^ polifhed pieces of the same stock. ~ *v- */ When put together, the whole forms a ? . jy box; and inside it are stored the fruit, ; 'M| seed and leaves, together with the moss HQ which grows on the trank and the insects which feed upon the tree. Every volume corresponds in size, and the collection . V| altogether, has an excellent eflfeot. V'^1 = j" A Curious List. ' .;r? It was a curious feature of the English language that different terms are . applied to differentgroups of animals. J The following list, the Free Press Bays, . - if not complete, is oertainly correct: #'*'* ' A covey of partridges. A watch of nightingales. * " A nide of pheasants. A clattoriDgof ohonghs. A wieh of snipe. A flock of geese. A bovy of quails. A swarm of bees. ' A flight of doves oi A school of whales. A ' swallows. A shoal of herring?. .. . A master of peaoocks. A herd of swine. ,'_ !? * A siege of herons. A skulk of foxep. \ I A building of rooks. A paokof wolves. A brood of grouse. A drove of oxen. A plump of wild fowL A troop of monkeys. j A stand of plovers. A pride of Hons. 'I a nut of hawks. A sleuth of bears. I ^ - .. -a i ml