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Uj ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. * BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 1879. NO. 44. VOLUME XXVI. _ yi ?msMsa^m ?wrjtmm*?* iMUiUiiL?ihj^? ? mmul__j-^tf wrragw?wrm?ra? n?rn~~ni?i?it i rrrtf i?ntm-mrr?? ??. ? ! l ime's Panorama. It nwdb no msgi.^ glass or mystic rautterings J To road the prophecy of coming years; No ?age interpreter, to solve tho ntterings Of Father Time, the patriarch of sters. If all the world's a stage, and life a drama, | Whoso nctcrs come and go, bnt como no J more, Then i? Che future but a panorama Of scene- to be, but seen in thought before, j Let the bright play flash on, but do not linger , In continmlation of it* changing hues, * Follow instead where Time's prophetic fiDger j Points, and behold the picture that he views, | a aecnae oence?nay, iwu, it uut?? uui mauur? Hero arc the self-same Btage, the same old j play; New actors counterfeit the hollow clatter Worn out long wince by actors passed away. I I Here Vice looks mockingly on Virtue slain; There Youth and Beauty plight their troth together; Here Sorrow sits and there broods cruel Tain; There, shadow chills the friendship of fair weather. Sincerity still sows the seed of hate. Candor and Truth go cautiously in mask; Honesty plods; Corruption rides in state; Labor still bends, complaining, to his task. " Stay!" yon exclaim, in accents discontented, ' Is not your catalogue complete at last V This futuro, so minutely represented, Is but the present, tempered with the past!" Aye, so it is! Youth dreams of bright successes; Mf.nhood begins to doubt, perhaps to fear; While Age his weakness faltering confesses; Ami so the world rolls on, year after year. Yaar after ye?r beholds the same endeavor Of puny men for wealth or fame, and sees How history repeats iteelf forever, And Fortune still from her pursuer flees. Odc life there is worth living, and its beantT Transcends all charms that hopes fulfilled can bring; He who does trustfully his honest duty, Abno is happy, be he serf or king. THE BABY'S PICTURE Miss Arethusa Peppard was cnt of j temper. She taid ehe was " ma<3." J I uat it must nave oeen a mim Kina or j r madness, for her pleasant voice had only a dash of sharpness, and no fire flashed from her soft brown eyes. But 6ho was j out of temper; no doubt about that, and j no wonder. She had left her mite of a cottage early that April morning, and gone over to New York to shop, aud in the very first storo she entered?a store crowded with people buying seeds and I bulbs and } Junta? her pocketboob, con| taining her half-monthly allowance, hud been stolen, and she had been obliged to return to Summertown without the young lettuces and cabbages and onion sets and parsley and radish seeds that she had intended the very next day to plant in her mite of a garden. And every day lost in a garden in early spriug, as everybody knows, or ought to know, is a loss indeed, and there's nothing in the world so exasperating to an amateur gardener, as everybody also knows, or ought to know, than to hear : from a neichboring amateur gardener: ' " Good-moming, Miss Peppard. How backward you are this year! Your radishes arr just showing, and we've had ' at least 11 uczen a day for three days pas*. And our parsley's up, and our onions doing nicoly. * And you u?ed to be so forward 1" So Miss Peppard, who was a dear I little sweet-fcced, wonderfully bright j old lady, livirg in the neate?t and most comfortable manner on a small income, wi^h a faithful colored servant-woman a few years younger than herself, a rolyp >ly doR, a tortoise-shell cat, and three b.ruB, had two reasons for being sorely , vi-xH: iho loss of her money ami the J loss of the days which she had expected would st.irt the green things a-growing. "Ail tuo money 1 had," she said to Peteomx?called Ona for short?as she rocked nervously buck aiul forth in her 1 rocking chair, lier eyes sparkling and her cheeks flushed. "I only widh 1 could catch the thief. I'd send him to jail :ts R'.ire as gr-ss is green." 'Dat's sho' tiiu:, ??Iiss Peppar'''? P.-teona alwa? dropped the "d"'?"an' it \i rarve 'em zackly right, w'en dey war ' In tclied, t'? be drag to de lockup by do heels." Th^ti t:fter u slighv pause, which wes Ona's way, sho added an afterthought: "Dono, dongh; s'pose dey might ns well take de nore wretch by do bead." "All the mon^y I bad," repeated Miss Peppard; "tive-and-twonty dollars; and I can't get any more for two weeks, for borrow I never did and never will, j And there's the garden all laid out aud I ready for planting, and Mrs. P.rovru eets out her lettuces a.;d cabbage plants to morrow morning, and she'll ho sending them hort} with her compliments ? her compliments, indeed !?before ours have begun to head." "Tf ftVift do T'll frrnr '#>m iIa fence." paid Ona. "Better eat them, | dough, I guess. Rcr compliment can't m hnrt 'em." W "And, oh! my conscience I" I\Iis3 Peppard went on (she could invoke her "conscience" thus lightly, dear old j acly, beeatwi she had nothing on it), " baby's pictnre was in that pocketbook. J And I can't get, another. Polly said it | was the last, and the photographer don't ! come that way but once a ycur." "Well, well, you are a pore soul," j sympathized Peteona, "to go an'lose ' dar ar picter?dat lubly thing j as* like a i borned angel. An' yar sister's onliest ! chile?'cent five. Wi.?h I had dat robber yere (lis miunii; i'd box his cars so he couldn't set down fur a wf ek." " He wouldn't be here long," said hor m:stres8. "Of all thincrs iti the wide world, I hate a thief. I'd have him put where he'd steal nothing for a year or ( two at lcnsf." " Mixht be a she; dnr'n she robbers," I suggested Ona; " an' dev'a ?!! wu.ss den 1 caterpillars. Caterpillars takes vo' I thiusrs right 'fore vo' eves?don't sneak ! in to' pockit. Take a cnp cf ten, Miss ' Peppar'. Dar's no use of fretain' no i mo'. An' tie cat's ben a-s(ttin' on yer i skirt for half a? hour, want in' you to 1 notice her, fora thin?. She jus' came j i in off do p t'ch a minnit ago." i' Miss Foppard took the tea, and spoke j L to the cat; but she couldn't help fret- , I tic^', nod she slept but little that night, 1 anri awok? the next, morning almost as ! vexed as ever, and denounced the theif ! at intervals of about half an honr from < breakfast nntil <!ii:ner, although Peteona ! emphatically remarked: "Dur's no use ! cursin* hu' swearin', Miss Pepper'; cnn't 1 do no pood. Wish ] had dat robber , here, dough." But after dinner, for which Oca ' served a soothing little stew and a cool- I ing cream custard, the old lady became a little calmer, and retired to her own room to write a letter to her fister ; Polly, who liv?i away off in Michigan; > aud she had just written: " And I can't I make a strawberry bed this summer, as [ I intended, and I'll have to wear my old bonnet, and dear! dear! how 1 shall ! miKS baby's pictnra!" Peteoua opened ! the door nan.t cercmonic, as she always | did, and walked in with a mysterious I air. " Pnfipon want to Bee you, Miss Peppar'--man pusson. 'Bout a boy's age, I gneRF." " What does ho look like, and where did you leave lura ?" asked the old lady, laying down her pen, and looking a litk tie p.larraed. ML " Out on de po'eb. I lock de do'. | W An' h&'tJ a dirty, ragged feller dat. looks ' jus' like a dirty, ragged feller. Shall ? aud M broom him off, Miss Peppar' ? LookB as , ing he: dough he ort to be broomed off?or gib I " Ai snmfln to cat?pore, bony, dirty soul." suppei " HI come right down," said Miss i much, Peppard; and down she went. And i you." there on the porch stood a dirty, I "P' ragged, forlorn-looking boy of about ! said O twelve yenrs of age, looking exceedingly 1 "An " bony " and half starved, sure enough. | indeed Ho pulled off his apology for u cap j " W when Miss Peppard opened the door, | Peppa; but paid never a word until the old lady j " W: asked him, in a mild voice?she never : the bo; spoke unkindly to dirt and rags: " Well, j " Bi my boy, what do you want ?" tonigl tt rpU ? 1?i. w I ii V~., J-UtHl juil 1USI VUUt ^uvucbuuun | xuu yesterday ? " ho blurted ont. j teona "Yes," said sho eagerly. " That is, I there.' it was stolen from me ; for I felt it in I "Sh my pocket a moment before I missed it. j teona, Do you know the thief ? " " Or "I'm him," was the answer; and he j " Ti raised a pair of dark eyes, that looked j Miss I5 like the eyes of a haunted animal, to : "Ar her t'aco. j can st: "My conscience ! " exclaimed the old J wanted lady, and fell into a chair that stood I birds n near, while Peteona darted out and ! a baby seized him, shouting : " Golly I got yo' j " Gc wish mighty soon dis time, Miss Pep- j Peppa par'. linn for de constable. I'll hold ' wanted 1-1.1 - T l.-i? ? ? An mm. \jouju uoiu u uuzeu urn; lulu?uj. two or free." mertov "Let him alone, Ona," Gaid her mis- may hi trees, while the boy stood "without mak- hotter; iug the slightest resistance. for yor " Aiu't he to be drug to the lockup ?" have di asked Oiiu, with a toss of her turbaned help, e bead. " A "Wait tiil we hear what he has to ! chimed eay/'euid Mies Pepp ed. Then turn-< he can ing to the boy, she r..-!>jd, as mildly as : in'w'ei ever : "0: course you haven't brought i nr an?( me back''? I an' dog "Yea, I have," interrupted he. j noses i " Here 'tis, money and all, 'cept what I I bo as s had to take to fetch me out here. I j The found your name iu it on a card, and I with gi where you lived." upon J " lint, bless you? "exclaimed the old ! doring] lady, more and more surprised, "what , of brea made you take it if you were going (o dog au bring it back? Come into the kitchen i by-the and tell mo all about it. Ona, give him j And a drink of milk." i the moi " I sha'nt do it. Spect robbers gits I conic thirsty as well as odder folks, dough." borhoo And she handed him the milk, which he and nol drank eagerly. "Do "Now go on," said Miss Peppard. enuf," "Why did yon steal my pocketbook ? about and why, having stolen it, did yon bring | Jfeppnr it baok ? Are yon a thief ?" I mo an< " S'pose?T -am," ho stnmmered ; i Dick d "butldont want to be no more. I An'all wonMn't 'a took it a year ago, when my an' Mi mother was alive ; but she died, and j sugar, i father he went to prison soon after for j dat ebh beatin' another man ; end I hadn't no i snaps, friends ; and it's hard gittin' along when j brees a yonr mother's dead and you hain't no ,from tb friends, and your father's m prison." apron. " 'Tain't soft, dat's de fac'," ?aid Pe- j libloKg teona, gravely. | blue-ey "So I fell in with a gang of bad fel- i out foi lers, bnt I never stole nothin'but things | Weekly to eat till yisterday. I come out of the i house of refuge two weeks ago "? i 1 " House of refuse I" exclaimed Po- Twen teona, holding up her bands. "An' writes u-setlin' in my clean kitchen, on my ritory, : clean oilclof! Wot nex'?" | farm.' "I was there for breakin' a winder bracing and eassin' a cop," said the boy, with a land, ai show of indignation, " and nothiu' elfe, farm is thongh they did try to make me out a dwelliu reg'lar bad nr." And then he went on, ] eltvato: under the influence of Miss Peppard's ; pacitv f steady gaze: "And the fellers said I j pivjity i a*f-otiy not to have the game as well I tion to ;:s the oume, i<nd eo I went inJo that I farm of store 'cause I seen a lot of folk3 there, ing seai und I stolo your pocketbook. And"?| mi-n r.i dropping his eyes and voice?" there i men ar< was a picter of a little baby in it." ru? nc0s " My ^stcr Polly's child 1" cried Miss jho 1st Peppiiru, her wrinkled cheeks beginning ' Hystem! to glow. ^ each ol ;4 Her onliest child?'cept five/' taid : apart. P(;teon<), i 8th of 1 "And it looks like," continued the i Sentem ' > :?,!? ?i ;? 1 r\r\Ito I "l ll?>Vt UUlMliJ^ iijiu iv-ttir 11 iwuftn i 15 UOIH like?ray? little sister." J ter tin "Your little sister?" repeated Miss i plowed Peppard, her own eyes tilling with tears, furrow; " Is she?with her mother?" this w "Stobe hoped she bp," said Ona, tip."wl with a snill " or some odder placo whar The ] she'll be washed. Her brudder's dirty t]<e W0] null' for a ImU inm'ly." tako t] " She's in a plif.ee ten miles or more j nules v from here," 6aid the boy, " with a wo - 1 rjj-eds o man who used to know mother. Mother J 'uv t)io f^ivo her fifty dollars just afore she died. j fj>ont. .She manage! to save it and hide it trom tcverul father somehow, to kerp Dolly till my ' i. rge b annt iu California could send for her;, sc.-n so lint my aunt's dead, too, and I'm 'iraid j 8amo 8( Dolly'11 have to go in the orphan asylum i ?re AH niter all. Father don't care nothin' j Dodge, 'bout her. But if she does, if I'm a j bc to r< good boy, I c.\n go to see hor; but if ! <j}n> 0n I'm a thief? Aud when I saw that1 The eu; picture I said T will be good. It seemed j level, n as though the baby was a lookin' at me j Tiio yu <! >.} Tmitin' mo tr> kiss Nnhndv i ever kissed mo bnt her and my mother! 1 busliele Here's your pocketbook." \ ^ve jjU1 Miss Peppard took it from his baud, opened it, found its contents as he had ' described them, and then sat for full ' live minutes in deep thought. ! '^"10 ( " You wa:.t to be a good, honest j ^ic,n b V she said at last, fo as to bo a { When i credit instead of a shame to your baby ; rcl)(,fcrtf sister?" * The kii Yes," answered the boy. upon tJ "It's mostly 'yes, ma'nm,' in deee I110011: parts." corrected Oca. j appear " Weil, I'll try you," said Miss Pep- ' palace, pard. night i " You !"?starting from his chair. storm t " Yes, I. I want some plants and !03011 ? Feeds from the storo where you sto?j rm'eftl took the pocketbook, and I am going to j ^ trust you to get them for me. But be 1 *u'n fore you go there, do you know any ^at, wti place* where you can buy a suit of ; Pf'rsecl clothes, from shoes to hat, for a very I ^IB l"1^ little money ?" j base r: "Yes, ma'nm," answered the boy, in 1 a a voice that already had a gleam of hope j nBl} ^ii in it "Second-hand Bobby's ?" lonlyar "Well, goto second-hand Robert's, : than ei buy the clothes? By-the-fcye, what is-1 ^"iend jour name?" ! No pro " Dick Poplar." bee, at "And, DicI:," eoutiuued the old lady, : P?hce " do you kii"<T any place where you can take a bath ?" Ihe iir " \S to be hope;} lie do," said P( teona. n rt>Pre " Yes, ma'aui." I fended " Take a baOi, putoa the new clothes, resting throw "?with a slight motion of disgust | T^'anrit^ ?" the old ones away "? I "> " '3 to bo hoped he will," said ;or ^nn Peteona. . !crs au "Then go to the seedstore and givo i went t< them the nota I wiil writo for you. And i here are (wo five-dollar bills." " An' Jar money is soon parted 1" ex- , The elairuod Peteonn. " No matter 'bont i like e: de fust word." : and va But the hoy fell on his knees before ' mode ( Miss Peppard and sobbed outright. I an eld ? ! then ci "Arf' he'll nebber coma back any you ha mo'," sang Ona, at the top of her voice, j it will as bhe went, about her work that alter- j the w noon nfter Dick's departure?"no, he'll i southe neb'o? r come buck any mo'. " I throujz But did. Just as the sun was sink- ( cure f iog in the west, a nice-looking, ih:rk- ; and ri eyed, dark-haired boy. dressed in a suit impale of gray clothes a Jittie too large for him, : ish. J and carrying a package in his arms, I v.arts1 came up the garden path to the rioor of t'>rm o thd mito of ??. cottage. It wis Dick, so rabbet / Vinniwwl Pptoiwft Honrrelv knew liirn. i ce^sivC and the package contained the set d* at d j -harm onion-sets and "young lettuces nn^I '.-ah- i bean, i bages, and before dark bo had planted inside them nil, under the superintendence of j no one Mitss Peppard, in the mite of a garden, ' bo will rB. Brown had no chance of sendr "compliments " that f^ason. id now ma'am," said Dick, after , "I'll go. I thank you ever so Si and I wibh my mother had known , 0 0 r'hfins eho knows her now," j na. * ! in id I will be a pood boy?1 will, St ith the help of God," said Miss o rd, solemnly. O; ith the help of God," repeated iH y, in a low voice. it I guess you'd better stay here if " r?imfirrnpd TMisR Pnnnfird. can sleep iu the wood house, Pevrill make you a comfortable bed p; an't ilo uo such thing! " paiil Pe- ^ defiantly. U m ! " reproved her mistress. ^ 11 my dishes is washed, I mean, jt 'eppar'," said Oua. ^ id then to-morrow morning you ,? urt for that baby. I've always I a baby. Cats and dogB and .re well enough in their way, but is worth them all." ?lly 1 now your'e talkin', Miss r'!" shouted Onn. "I's always ^ [ a baby?a rcite baby?too." d if you-choose to stay in Sum?n," said Mies Peppard, "you ivo a .home hero until you can cc yourself. There's plenty of work ^ i; and the youth upon whom we pj! upended for errands and garden 8j tc., is |jj ilrefful smart, nice, perlite boy 1" 1 iu 'Ona : " :ir lazy and sassy as lib. An' I'll call you inde mom- I ^ 3 do birds arise, an' we'll hub dat j gu ?1 hero in a jifTy; an' won't ue cat i ; an' birds look palo w'en dar j tr e outer j'int. But dar noses '11 j rc traightasebber." :*jT very nest night a sweet baby girl j ^7J eat blue eyes and fair curls Hat . Iiss Peppard's lap, looking won - j j.p| y about, as she ate her supper ; e' d and milk, at Peteona and the [ il cat and the birds, whoso noses, I j b\ o, were as straight as ever. I before long Dick Poplar became |??] bt pop'lar?dreadful, I know, but | ?L lii't help it?boy in that neigh- j J, he was so clever,: o obliging, ; f ;a bit "sassy.1' Lor' works in funny ways, eho' | said Peteona, ono April day | ^ a year after the return of Miss j jrj d's pocketbook. "Who'd b'liove 1 Miss Peppar' ebber wanted I rug to the lockup by de heels? I jj( the time ho was a-bringin' me I ss Peppar' do lubliest chunk of j ^ the sweetest honey-bug of a chile DC! tor coaxod ole Peteona for ginger- Ra She shall hab more, de Lor' nd sabe her!"?pouring them _r - ?i_ _ i ii.- iii.ii j PL rame uui Jiii-u iiiw nine upimuu j i_p "Peteon-i '11 bake dem de hnll i j8 day, for ebber an' ebber, for de ! ed darlin'?wid a little time lef' j r her odder work."?Harper s \ j}0' 'he Bis: Farms of Dakota. ! ? Bp :ty seven miles north of Fargo, fa> a correspondent in Dakota Ter- Dc is the world-renowned Grondin ex It covers abont 40,000 acres, em- jn, both railroad and government ti id is close to tbe Red river. The ly, divided into four parts and has a j gs, granaries, blacksmith shops, | wf rs, etc , and has a stabling ca- ! gn or 200 horses and a granary ca-1 in or 1,000,000 bushels. In addi- i re the wheat farm there is a 6tock j j5 20,000 acres. During the seed- co =on they employ about seventy | re id iu harvest time as many as 200 1 pi d busily engaged. Seeding com- 1 Tl abont the 9th of April and end3 qj of May. The work is done very ! be itically, the machines following j jH ther about the lield four rods I do Cutting commences about the ! ci] August and ends the foro part of j ;ber; then comes threshing, which ijja i by eight steam threshers. Af- { an eslimg tiie stuttDie gronnci ib i with gang plows that cut two j av drawn by three horses, and j Rj, ork continues until it " freeze- I .yj lich is about the 1st of November, j [,e largest cultivated wheat farm in | rid having been described, I will J frj lie reader to Cassellon, tweDty j ^ vest of Fargo, passing by linn- Jjj f small sixty-acre farms worked mi homesteader. It has something pc 100 families, threo hotels and i ,.0 largo sti.-reK, all of which do a i usinesp. In this vicinity may be I w" me vrry large farms run on the jn] lale as the Grondin farm; they ton, Case, Chceney and Smith- cr( To describe these farms would wj ?peat the description of the Gron- a ly on a somewhat smaller scale. 0f rtace of the land here is nearly je, ,nd the soil is rich and black, pj Md 01 r>ne nem 01 z,oiu ucrcn, i W( by elevator weight (57,283 ! ra i), shows an aggregate of twonty- J u. siiels to the acre. I 1 hs The Carnival at Rome. or jarnival at Rome has this year J or lie poorest known since 1870. I to it began the Bky was cloudy, and I g( lin weather continued to prevail. ' at ug for several days was not seen I ce fio Corso, and only once did the in and the young prince of Naples in the window of the Fiano J re On the Piazzo Navona *he re Humiliation was prevented by r. bi >f rain. The conduct of boys and | bl n the Corso, in many cases, was i in id ruffianly. A correspondent of ! m )be (Loudon) relates that a cer- j vn norican gentleman wearing a silk ; u{ ,s, one day, tho object of a vile | bi ition. He did not care to have J til pelted with hard confetti by the 8* abble of Rome, and in company ! or friend showed a disposition to i s list find walking-stick. This j th oused a Boverer storm of confetti j rer, so that the American and his I el wero forced to leave the Corso. ; ui tection was afforded by the po- ! ru id one of them who reviled the ! w! for this negligence " in terms w: ircible than polite," was arrested. d( Bt i>riz(! this year was awarded to sc isent-.itiou of a medieval town de- b( by ancient Romans, the whole ai on the back of an enormons ele- I tb tvhich was drawn by four horses, j st 3man warriors who filled the tow- : b] K out in different directions flow- | sa d bon-bons. The second prize j ai > a car full of young devils. ; la ? i in Wart Charm*. vi popular euro for warts, and other ! ot jcrt'Pcences, are very numerous, I f" iry in almost every county. One j w )f charming them away is to take : T er shoot and rub it on the part; j m at as many notches on the twig as ! m .ve warts, put it in a place where i soon deeny, and, as it rots away, I P( arts will disappear. This is a 18C rn charm. In Yorkshire, and I ta hout the north generally,- the | Is* o cinuil i VL VVUllCT Jf> iw l?nu t% i/rnvu. , it> th? excrescences with it, then 1 le i it on ? thorn, and leuve it to per- j oi Ls it driies up and disappears, tlio j v< cvill vanish. According to another | ti f the charm, the warts must be n< I with h fresh snail for nine sue- li] ) nights. Still another wart ti is to tako the shell of a broad si md rub the affected part with the | oi thereof; bury the shell, and tell | N about it, and, as it withers away, bi th? warts.?All the Year Round. I oi FOR THE FAIR SEX. ti fa A Difference. ai ffeetnr than voices in the scented hay, it r laughing ohildren, gleaning ears that stray, of r Christmas songs, that shake the snows N above, 01 Iho first cuckoo, when*he comeB with love. ili iddc-r than birds 011 sunless summer eves, ifi r diip of raindrops on the fallen leaves, m r wail of wintry waves on frozen shore, P1 spring that coaios, but brings ua love no more. ?F. W. Bourdillon. d of Fn?blonN of the Mention. ? The Panieii.?The most. pointed sur- P1 rise of the new season is the restora on of the panier, or the no-called Ca- J1.' argo puff, which was introduced in 10 eighteenth century along with tetteau dresses and garden theatricals. J? ; is predicted that fashion will restore "! le very Camargo which was once called fi rage and a vertigo," but until it in v( .fo to venture upon eztravaganco miers will be of the same material us jij, ie dress, and procured more by loopgs, draperips and trimmings than by ?r parate pufFd, wings, &c., applied to in ie costume. j . For ordinary walking dresses a "trim- 2J ed" skirt?that is a skirt with the imming arranged directly on it, is m. imbined with a jacket more or less ecJ ^ht fitting, or an overskirt and short irt, the lattor either trimmed with a | ?i mple flounce or left plain, according to | e goods used. Polonaises of simple | ^ ssigns are aleo employed to complete i : istumes, but are not so fashionable m i q above-mentioned arrangements. For | . itings the "tailor" finish?rows of : achine stitching?is tho accepted | imrning, the vest, collars, cuffs and |j;1 vera of some different material from | ? 0 rest of tho garment. For the cos- i a,.J mes made of cloth and the heavier '. joleu goods used for early spring and i "j uveling the underskirt is not un 1 i^quently without trimming of auy j j1.1 nd, excepting several rows o? stitclj- 1 ^ g near the bottom, and tho overskirt ! of some simplo design, like tho! r Rirena,"tho "Muriel" or tho "Li.'ea," ' lished to match the underskirt. j ' Fashionable Colons.?Colors quite i ^ iw and strange are the canaque, or can- I bal, a succession of copper ehades, !90 e name being given from the resem- I tri ance to tho copper complexion of a J <1? ibo of cannibals. Bine is largely j 'ai ought forward, and appears in naanv ; t'1 fTerent shades ; but, with the exeep- !011 m of the dark marine blues or the ! ^ ilest tints, mixtures of green often J M1 ore or less apparent. The n.u.-t pro- I ^ri mnced blue of the season is called : pphire, and this, but for an overcast- | gl! g of green, would be a revival of that i isitive blue which for a long time has j wen consigned to oblivion. Gendarme i a dark shade of military blue, nud ! her blues of milder type are Japonaid j tic d bleu de Sevres. Baltic blue is al- j ost gray, and tho clear pale blues are j sio attractive to be relinquished. Xelw finds good representation in the new I 8n ring colors, but the shade most in j tli ror is old gold. Pale yellows are by j i means ignored, and in new iiowers I "??i cellent results are produced by shad- j r(?l ITS from pale yellow into reddish tints. I W1 ie beige shades also appear frequent- J ~n' , Garnet and wino shades hav# taken jis, :iew lease of life, and are brought for- ! ph trd everywhere and in all shades, from j oh as are ;<o deep as to run almost i ha to black up to others resembling pale j inl il of lighter vines. Pivoine (peony) 1Et a combination of garnet and plum : by !or. Viessy rougo is a now bright hi| d. Dark plum is not.extensively em- 1 oyed, yet serves as a fashionable color, j ie lighter nhades of prune are not. | neh seen. This place seems to have | en usurped by the wine colors, but it : 11 in the paou (peacock) colors of the | an y that the greatest mixtures and i angeable hues appear. ' ne New Styles in Trimming.?Fringes j UD lvo by no menns loit their prestige, j f.el - T -i e fir (I may b6 iiad in as grear. uiversny ai | ? sign as there is diversity of taste. Tbe 1 erage depth of fringes is from four to r inches, including the heading. Many j rr' tin silk fringes are still sewed under- ; ath tbe edge of the goods, and no jfu, Tiding whatever is used. Woolen ; J(): ngesare no longer considered fashion- I , lie, although very neat patterns aro .ea ill sparingly used on all wool gar- mf cuts where there are no ends of dra- ; , ry to bo trimmed. Plain hems and ! wd of machine stitching aro tho most j ?]1 vlisb finish on all other parts of all , jt.l costumes. Faucy ribbons are Ial1 rgeJy. used for loops, and in some de j ?n jus form a complete cascade down the 1 in . ?it of a dress. These ribbons vary in i dth from a half inch to ten inches and i half, and aro of all colors and shades j satin, with lizards, flowers, fern ! aves and other devices composed of ' sei It and silver bullion, and fine silk floss | 1 >ven into tho ribbon. The price su nges from twenty-fivo cents per yard otl >. at< Duttons.?Olive and barrel-shaped md-crocheted buttons, either all silk re combined with jetfrwill lie much usod yo i garments trimmed with passemen- ! \vl lie. Wood buttons, haud-paiuted in ild and colors, are very choice, light J id effective, and cost from thirty live ) m,( nts per dozen up. French horn, both ! mj the natural color and dyed, aro inlaid \ ifh gold and pearl in raised designs, j , presenting .stars, flowers,birds, beasts, i ^ ptiles, fishes and fowls. Crystal gla?s I lttoiis, sometimes called " Rhine pob- i w fr?," aro introduced. These are cnt facets and set in platina, and have a se< ost brilliant effect at night; tho prices ! gr iry from seventy-five cents per dozen | bti ). Medium sizes only, in any kind ofj do ittons, are fashionable, and the quan- . ;y used is totally dependent upon tho ! Rh yie of tho garment, some requiring J *ti ily what will fasten tho vest, and j ?t' hers, a sufficient number to outline | e cufifrt, pockets, etc. Newest Styles tn Parasols.?Nov-1 ho' tics aro being brought forward in sun nbrellaB anil parasols. An entirely I i" jw stylo is the "polka dot borders," j in hicli are destined to share the honors ' ith tho " Pekin stripes." " Polka " i to >ts wore introduced, m coaching para- j st( ils last season, but tho " polka dot i tu >rders " are the lutest novelty. They i th e of satin in a varietv of colors, and I ti t 10 borders show alternate rows of wl ripes and polka dots. Those in navy esi luo, the fashionable greens and black itiu with white dots, with satin stripes id "polkadot borders," are particn- i 1 rly attractive. These are all finished th i choice handles of pearl or ivorv in a pL iriety of designs, tipped with gold and j wc herwise ornamented. A very pretty ! id economical pnrasol is in black satin, ! in ith satin stripes and satin borders. J of hey aro novel, tasty, serviceable, har- oc onizing with thoPekin stripes in dress ; Isi aterial and decidedly superior to the i 1 silk snn umbrellas that aro made of 1 th aor quality of silk. These aro hand- ! t.h imely mounted, and the biost fastidious be ate can find gratification from goods ' this cIbfs. j in; Ornamental Medley.?CrvFtai is the *ti aoing novelty this season in the way of f:i< uameur. xiicj nt?w uwwcvci, i iry different from that which has some- ; w? mes borne the same name, fcinco it has j uthing of pearly whiteness, bnt is clear | pi ke glass, being, indeed, nothing more ] nv lan glass cutaud fashioned into various i p<J lapcH. It is conspicuous in millinery, j 1 belt clasps and pins of various styles, i wl ew ornaments for the hair show heavy | ills of crystal fancifully disposed, one | th ; these being three globes net each on i di: le end of a silver cross. Silver is tbe ,vorito metal employed in combination, ad although gold with crystal is seen, A is used to a limited extent only when >mpftred with the hrst-named material, ew silver combs are finished by large ^ ystal balls, and again is found a single ill of crystal, abnnt the size of an or- " inary marble, attached to a pin, which 8C .run iuto the hair, while similar balls P o sot upon long gilt or silver hair w ins. ^ Chatelaines for holding the fan are d ining in popularity, ribbon being ^ ten substituted. A new fan conceals nong its intricacies a powder-puff and 0 iwder, as well as a tlnv ivory comb. n entirely new combination for scarfns, belt-cl'ipps and pins for the hair is ~ tat or garnet, bine ana crystal giass. ino out steel will be much used in the ^ ay of hair ornaments, and in view of 10 demand is brought out in a variety m novol designs. New vinaigrettes are fiI ;ry small bottles of heavy glass with P( )ld tops, finished by a carbuncle, lapis J1 znii, or some stone of like character. lie tops open back by means of a spring, id the bottle is so small as to be placed the glove of the left hand. v< The "Sara Bernhardt " collar consists ni .1 very full ruche of muslin and reton lace, fastened with a bow. India ~ nil, in palo pink and blue shades, Gr Iged with soft Breton lace, makes the obt becoming collarettes and neck gar- V1 ture possible. Breton net vails, in w ack or whito, aft) embroidered with CE >ld or silver threads as fine as a spi r's web. These vails are either round. aud short, or square and threenrthfi of p. yard long, and have a rich, tn de horn all round. 8 Ivliirrou ribbons, of as many as five ITercnt colors, are used, made up in ^ ren or four-inch loops, placed one di i'jvo the other, directly down the front ?? a dross, and the same ribbons, simi- & fly arrange J, form a garniture for the n( ^ow sleeves. This is a vory effective P( lish to a plain black silk, or a neat Cl :ht nyill or white dress.?Nero York orald. . tb irious Theories Regarding the Sun. cc Speaking to a gentleman of wealth in is city recently, ho said: w " Have you ever seen Captain Erics ~ q's solar engine ? It is the most ex ordinary thing in the way of mental flr duction and historical anticipation ex at. Ericsson says that the mannfac F ring of the world will one day be done the desert of Sahara. He anticipated ^ e time when the earth will Have con med its fuel and men must make steam P1 )inthe8nn." Ta '4 It mnst he something like a burningins, then ?" ' ' Itisnn arrangoment ot mirrors by 00 lich from the solar ray intense heat is n,c tsiined and thrown upon water, which iln, makes steam, and gives locomo?n and power." "Has Ericsson come to any conolu- Wl >n about heat ?" ?? " I heard him talk recently on that bject. If I recollect, he holds that Wl e sun itself has no heat; but it ifl our m nosphere which gives heat by the pasa;e of the solar ray through it. He isons from this that probably the iole solar system is inhabited by a ?o something like man. That ?j; all the planets which have atmoB- ?. eres probably have heat and, therere, inhabitants. Some of the planets e ve very deuee atmospheres, envelop- W( t.ueni iar moire luurouyuij luuuuum. .. iCfison says that you get no more heat * gotting nearer the sun. You ascend ^ii mountains, for example, whero tho u? Diopphere gr.ows thin, and you will id cold weather." ?r 4< How does he live in New York?" P? "He lives a rather recluse life. He is b? fhy man, but with sufficient pride ' d confidence to make him interesting leu ho wants to talk. He says he will : ^ ver give the solar engine to the world W1 til he has sufficiently protected him | If by royalties or other patent protec in. You know he invented the pro !"e ller which drives everything on the j Jl1. ?, but had virtually to give it away. I j ) made an independence building mon>rs during the war. He is a wonder- ^ I man. When he has something re- b Ived upon he can get enormous capi- W] i to help him out. You know the ar loric oogine was put in practice in a Pl ic;nificpnt ship that proved not to be icunt. The old fellow has been in is country forty years, and was thirty- vc : years oid when lie came here at the P! citation of Commodore Stockton, and He eady with a groat reputation. He is w< O OI IUO IOW 1UOU wuu uart uui >jecu terviewed for tlie public newspapers." w' " Oath," in New York Graphic. ?r Words of Wisdom. He ho ia starving does nut look to W( a if tbo proffered loaf be fresh or stale. cr Tuoso who have made mistakes and m tiered for them are the ones to help ed bers; to show that any error can be w< mod for. sb Youmaynrnd a rent in a damaged fn putation so that it may not show, but ac n can never make the reputation quite sn olo again. lai Beauty may attract love at first, but ^ alone cannot retain affection. It is j ap 0 sterling qualities of the heart and [ Pc nd that win in tho long run. i ro >'? e love our friends all the time? ^ len wo are so absorbed in working for that wo seldom think of them, as ^ ;11 as when telling them of our regards. re Yrtjmu LIU I j ILL uur uwii U1IJUU9, uuyu t* ;ret contempt for the work of the p.at man we do not know intimately, it wo have for the work of the one we know. 0D How beautiful is youth! A little moon- rj| ine, a few musical water-drops, the je nin of a song, and the younc heart ^ penences poetry as it never conld be rpj trusted to paper. It is a dreary sensation to find one's 6ti [f wholly forgotten by mere acquaint- co ces; but to find that we have no place fl the thoughts of those we love, seems th a certain sense like being annihilated. te; The profoundest calm always seems do come just after the most terrific of )rm. The exaltation of spiritual rap- co ro follows fast after a far descent into co e gloomy Hades of the soul. Life is on leriea oi alternations at best; and he up 10 mounts highest to-day sinks deep- vk t to-morrow. di< ??? St Curious Derivations. pj. The word pamphlet is derived from ro r> ni\mf> of the Greek authoress. Pam lyiin, who compiled a history of the ty >rld into thirtv-fivo little bookB. asi " Punch find Judy " is a contraction mi >ia Poatius and Judas. It is a relic th an old "miracle play," in which the an tors wore Pontius Pilate and Jadas eei [ .ariot. "liigot" is from Visigotha, in which ha e fierce and intoleraut Adrianism of th e Visigol r> conquerors of Spain had th en handed down to infamy. pli " Tabby cat " is all unconscious that mi r namo is derived from Ata'o, a famous j Gi :eet in Bagdad, inhabited by the manu- mi ;hirers of silken stuffs called Atab, j roi vafTeta; the wavy markings of the eg it< red Bilks resembling pussy's coat. ea "Humbug" is from Hamburg; " ve lico of Hamburg news " was in Qer ho iny a proverbial expression for false iliticnl rumors. " Gausje " derives its name from Gaza, an lero it was made. . th " Old Nick " is none other than Nikr, th< e dangoroue water demon of the Scan* tir aarian legend. 1*; J SYMMES ANTICIPATED. n Aliened Journey Through (he Center < the Earth. The Cincinnati Gazette flava: Joh leve Symrnes' theory that the earth pen at the poles and habitable withii longh perhaps original with him as iientiflc hypothesis, has been antic atod in whole or in part by varior riters of romance. Leaving out of tb aestion Holberg's" Journey of Nichols ilimins into the Subterranean World, ritten early in the last century, an le Chevalier da Mouhy's " Adventure I an Egyptian into the interior of on lobe," there is a very curious " Kelt on of a Voyage from the Arctio to th ntarctic Polo by the Center of th torld," by an anonymous author, wrii m in French, and first published i 123. Its hero, who claims to hav ade the trip in 1714, did not finH a nooth sailing as Capt. Symmes ej ?cted, but in some points the nam ve is sufficiently akin to hio views a i warrant the idea that he may possi [y have seen it. The story is, in brief, as follows: j jterA' traveler, who doea not give hi ime, was seized with a desire to se ie polar regions, and embarked a msterdam in a whale ship bound fo reenland. On the tenth day out lick fog surrounded the vessel, and olent wind arose whioh carried it tc ard Iceland. After an interval c ilm a still more severe gale drove i it ol its course, and reckoning wa efc. Finally the ehip reached a ^cn fnl floating ice, and an observation bein ken, the position was found to b ventv-thrpfi decrees and t,wentv-tw inutea of north latitude. A strong tough slow cnrrent, wan constant! riviupr the Bhip toward tho pole. A d sailor tliea recollected that a famou rctic pilot had told him that near th jrth pole there was a frightfal whirl )ol, seventy or eighty leagues in cii imferecce, believed to be the moE ingerous in the world. This stor ight.-ned tho cfiicera nnd crew, bu ley could not check or alter thei 111 rse. The ship began to whirl about, an bat they had at tirst taken to be hite island proved to be a maelstrom eath seemed to stare them in the facc id the only thing they could do t roid being washed or swung overboar as to retire below, ciosiug all th itches after them. They ha.l beenshu 5 only ten or twelve minutes, whe: iey felt themselves descending into ofouud abyss with innconceivabl pidity. The roaring of the waters wa cessant and terrible, aDd so great wa eir alarm that they only attained fnl msciousness by discovering that th >ise had ceased and the ship was lyini ill. Tho pilot ventured to go on dec id was soon fallowed by the rest. The, und themselves on a calm Bea, bu sre so hemmed in by fog that the; mid see nothirg ot their surroundings iking an observation they found the; ;re in seventy-one degrees, eigh iuutes of south latitude. Their period of unconscious frigh ust have been protracted, or the rapid y of the voyage muit have been ver; ent, to permit so suddena transit frot te end of the earth's diameter to th her to pass unobserved, but we ar ironiclers, not critics. They had reach I the Antarctic waters. A cold north jflt wind sprang up, bnt a warm rai: on dispelled its chilliness. An auror fhted up tho sky, but neither sun no tirs were visible.' Land came iD sigh id when they anchored they found thi iore lined with immense roso bushes rather trees, ihe country rose i rraces, with high mountains in th ickground. Game was plenty, an 3ur streams fnruiehed an abundanc clear water. The south was shut c] t a mist. They found u warm lak ith five cascades, a valley of whit 8(>s, and finally a monument, compoe I of a flat rock of triangular shape sting on six columns, and covered wit' scrfptions in an unknown charactei aere were other marvels we need nc iscribe. Returning on board, the scovered that all was not agreeable i ese regions. Immense flying flEb ith winga like those of a bat, hoverei ound the vessel, and three of ther muced on two unfortunate sailors rrying them away, and tearing ther pieces as they flew. Continuing tbei >jage, they saw a fog-surrounde< romontory, a wonderful jet of watei veral volcanoes, and a fearful battle be1 pi u two white bears and three sei ,lves. Next they passed a strait o hnse shores bears were far too abund it to make the locality agreeable fo sidence. Then they came to a beauti .1 land where there were curious re ains of an ancient well, and whero Diiderful bird was seen with a kind c own on its head, and whoso nest wa ade underground. After being treat I to the sight of many meteorologico anders in the form of columns of fir looting up from the sea, of a wondei Ily-perfect parhelion, or mock sun id of a mountain that appeared to b spended in the air, the adventurers a at reached the cape of Good Hope ae people of Cape Town were no doub tounded at the narration of their ea iriences, but a local sensation was re lired to bring the story up withagooi uud turn. A former acquaintance o e hero had apparently died, out hi iend was noj bo sure of it, so he ha< e tomb opened and the pleasure o suscitating him. With this the recori )sep. A True Hero. The city of Marseilles in France wa ice afflicted with the plague. So tei slo was it that it caused parents t isert children, and children to forge e obligations to their own parents le city became as a desert, and funeral 3ro constantly passing through it :eets. Everybody was sad, for nobod; uld stop the ravages of tho plague 10 physicians could do nothing, and a ey met one day to talk 07cr the mat rand see'if something could not hi no to prevent this great destmctioi life, it was decided that nothiui uld be effected without opening i rpse in order to And ont tho mystori is character of tbe disease. All agreei >on the plan, but who should be th< 3tiaa? it beimr certain that he wonh a soon after. There was a dead pause iddenly ono of the most celebrate! tyricians, a man in the prime of life se from his seat and said: "Beit so; I devote myself to the safe of my country^ Before this numerou sembly I swear, in the name of hn inity and religion, that to-morrow a e break of day I will dissect a corpse d write down as I proceed what I ob ___ >> rve. Ho immediately left the room, and a i was rich ho made a will, and spen o night in religious exerciser During e day a man uied in his house of thi ague, and at daybreak the following ^rning tho physician, whoso namo wm lyon, entered tho room and critically ule the elimination. Ho then left thi om, threw the papers into a vasft of vin ar that they might not convey the dis se to anothor, and retired to a con nient place where he died in twelv< nrs. To ascertain the length of the dai d night any time of 'ho year, doubh o time of the sun's rising, which pivei o length of the night; and double th< do ot its setting, whioh gives th< jgth of the day. TIMELY TOPICS. >r The largest hill ever introc a legislative assembly was the a submitted to the Ohio senate 13 tained 3,200 pages,ami, as it wi ]> that it should be read in full, I ,a sat up till midnight to hear it l' even at that, hundreds of pt ls slyly skipped, e * ^ The Peruvian government, 1 , come somewhat alarmed at destruction of the cinchona !8 gathering the burk for export 1 passed laws to repress the ev: l" after the gatheriiu of bark w Btrieted to certain seasons, t . case will the cutting down ol permitted. This is a matter tho whole world is interested cinchouia and quiuia are re ; such importance that t.he sour ply ought not in any way to 1 ? gered. T. S. Tucker and Louis Sed . rado miners, Lave reached Nev after spending five months 8 their way down the Arkansas ai ? sip pi rivers. They had no i pay their way, and, building r Canyon City, they started < a Arkansas river about the midd a tember, floating by day and ty 'j night. They had to push t If over shoals, dodge hostile Inc 1 were frozen up for seventeen finally swapped their awkward Bkiff, and reached New Orleans g e The most striking fact with (? the French working classes is tl '' all are possessed of money. ' littln they earn they save st ? Thrift is their great cbaracti fact, it is said of the French c . thst they spend less in prop their means than any in the wor keep their accumulations in an ' ing secreted in their houses; ? daily-increasing number?invt rioas securities, the most popu' r meut being the purohase of lar , Frenchman, when he can, be< owner of the house in which a Of course he is greatly aide l* way by the French land laws ' of inheritance, which cut tl 9 country up into small hdldin ing-i banks with government ? building clubs, sick clubs and societies are also in favor; but; jj is tied up in trade unions. 6 A striking example of the 8 effects on body and mind of compared with idleness, is gi the records of the New Jeri 6 prison. In 1874, when all the ? were employed, there were o deaths. May 31, 1875, when t ^ Btill at work, only twenty-oi 664 were idle because of illi ^ only five were insane. Dece ' 1875, after six months of idlei 7 out or 717 were unfit for work, were insane, and there were , deaths in the year. In 1876 c were busy, and there wer j" deaths. In 1877, when GOO 01 ' were at work, there were oi ^ deaths; and on December 31 tl thirty-eight unfit for work. with only 270 busy, there were l* deaths. In January, 1879, same number busy, there wei a the hands of the doctor. a r ~ t Trying to Rob a Humor 0 Kobert Burdette, writii '? Wabash, Ind., to the Burliogt< Q eye, says: J went to a hotel 9 and took a room with a fire, a 1 ^ dow curtain, an invalid wate ? am! some other portable articl niture in it, and left my bagg: 6 lessly piled up in great stack 0 the room. Judge of my disui after leaving the room for a ments, I returned to discov . desperate attempt had been m ' party of men, who had evidei following mo for several days y my diamond necklace. You i a the necklace vSry well, of con '? the same one I lectured in las * and was a prepent from Khali n whom it had descended among '? ly jewels. It was originally a by his grandfather, who was a ?* 1 "? -A.- 1 - 4.1. - 1-1 3 priest, anu scoie tue iiecmuuB _ image of Bhundal-np-Ghud, ii : district, Jabba!-al?Jal. Th( were unusually largo and bril a 60DQ0 of them weighed no; f3 ouucea when killed aud drensei valued at ?34.000. The robt * in number, who had probably l" wearing it, and had followed m eral days, were masked, and el ? entranco into my room by cl 11 telegraph pole about two mi 8 the Wabash track. Then " cooned " along the wire nnti into the town, when they go 0 roof of the station and descend ground, went around behind t] '? found a ladder probably left ? some accomplices, got on to tli the hotel, entered tho chin ' worked tLeir way down it into lar. It was then easy work to " tho cellar stairs, go into tho w and wash their hands nud remi ^ masks, and then they came out office and askod the clerk the n ? my room. Then, the dued wa 1. accomplished, when, by a piec d<?r/ul good fortune I return< room, having been out in I ?.i in , J UIU rjLUUllil^ CUUU^U r. uuu 11/ t fii;e laBt fifteen minntes, just ii prevent the spoliation of my je 9 The robbers escaped, leaving i ' and the city in the same manrn 0 entfred it. I think, indeed t been rather indiscreet, seein ' travel alone, in wearing so ma H ble jewelry. I inclose neckh s | with. Hnng it np on a n: Y : Hawkeye office until I return L I don't let Newt wear it every 3 goes to a party. 0 A Grocer's Trick. a 5 This happened long ago?in 1 days of Minneapolis?aud is r . show that even in tho?e days t 1 was "up to snuff." A cert 3 known individual, now a reside 1 Cloud, was dealing in groceriei . neapolis then, and told the stor 1 the other day, as follows : f "I happened to strike four tea, which I bought at a bargai - | ty-live cents a pouud. These fo a | of tea was all I had, and of c - ' my customers expected a v t j prices, I accommodated them. , tho tell-tale side of tho chests t( - i wall, and marked the tea to j tomers. Deacon , still a R 1 01 lilt} City, CUIUU iu unu uuj ui t I tea, and wanted a good article, ; [ him a sample from each of 9 I chests to take homo and try j | their respective prices as tb s i fifty, seventy-five cents and a Y pound. Well, after testing the 9 | he returned und rendered his - as follows : " 'That thirty-five-cent tea - fair article for the price ; the 3 tea is much better; the sev? cent tea i* excellent, and the ( is a very superior article, I en 7 ynu. But i can't quite go thi 3 Let mo have ten pounds of the 3 five-cent, tea.' " 3 He was accommodated. Hot ) have changed .since then,?? Pioneer Preaa, Literally 'Eating' His Own Words." | In Moscow, Russia, a goodly sized ; luced into ])CK)|C pub'.islittl recently in viudi- . ' new code cut 0n of the rights of the subject. Th? j i. It con- worij contained stinging sarcasms aimed as insisted ^he venality of the officials, with!8"1 the senate galirionl and hnmorons allusion* to ' through; bribe-taking ami other iuiquities. Even th< ?t$to tide | tjje cz&r mmsen whs bhquicu vvmiuui | | gloves hii acta were fearlessly de- j %, nouneed, and a powerful argument was j laving be- adduced in behalf of tho rights of his ', ' the rapid snbjects. Tho mul-administration of ?? trees in law was set forth in strong, plain lanation, has gnage. il. Here- ! The book attracted general notice ; vi ill be re- j but this was bad for the author. He sa' ind in no was arrested and thrown into prison, f trees be After a short and summary trial his lei in which production was pronounoed a libel, and St I, because he was condemned "to eat his own medies of words" or suffer the punishment of the co of sup- knout. This terrible instrument of tor- ca] be endan- ture is in the shape of a long whip or ; I nfwiroA and in comnosed oi many I I tough thongs of thick, hard skin, plaitan, Colo- i ed together and interwoven with strands 7 Orleans, | of stout wire. The criminal is stripped, ' working J and is firmly bound to two stakes which . id Missis- ' are sufficiently wide apart to admit the noney to ' free motion of the head. The blows are ' a flat ati laid upon tho bare back, every stroko 1-1 down the i cutting like a knife, and soon the victim str le of Sep- ' of the scourge is a shapeless mass of ] ing up at j blood and flesh. One hundred blows is Fr heir craft j equivalent to a death sentence. This ex< lians, and j was the alternative of the unhappy | i days, but author. I e(jj flat for a j The day fixed for carrying the sen- to j in safety, i tence of the court into execution arriv- j I ed. A large platform was erected in ! regard to J one of the public, squares of tho city, j aat nearly I Bound hand and foot, the victim of des- I However j potic power was seated in the center of I ] jmething, , the platform. An immense concourao j to eristic; in . of people had gathered to witness tho j ree iperrftives I strange spectacle. The imperial pro- i we ortion to I vost, the magistrate, the physician and j Id. Many the surgeon of the czar were in attend- ma old stock- ance. The obnoxious book had been i ^ others?a separated from its binding, and, as an ;at in va- act of grace, the margin had been cut! lar invest- ! off. The leaves were then rolled up, ' id. Every I not unlike cigar lighterp. And thero i p? :omes the theywerd-a baaketfuL Now the meal j rM he lives, began. Amid roars of laughter from|Jul id in this the ignorant and degraded populace, J and laws the provost served tho author leaf by fro ae whole leaf with his own production, putting wh gs. Sav- the rolls of paper one by one into his art security, mouth. He siowly chewed and swal- ] friendly j lowed one-third of his book, when tho inj no money I medical gentleman concluded he had ne j received into his stomach as much of tho I th< innutritions material as was compatiblo t sanitary with safety. He was then reconducted work as to his cell to digest his meal. The two me ven from following days the same scene was en- wa aey State acted, until every leaf was swallowed, Qa > convicts and as a matter of fact ho was compelled y r nly three to literally eat his own words and feast hey were on his own fun. . ae out of ; ' ie8?> Sound Suggestions. ' A very successful merchant in a large r a? !. n New England city once remarked to the i-' thirteen ?riter: "I alwayfl advertise most when fln mlv a few times are 8eB90ns ^ ' only necessary to keep my name b9foro . . the publio; I am sure to got my share r . ??? of the spontaneous traffic. But when hero business is light then I fulminate my In 1878 broadsides of special bargains, and then Be* , w^6n speoial bargains are sought ?a; ... for." This remark was recalled recently * 107 in y comP^aint of a gentleman who w0 was making purchases in this oity for ' ; fitting up a house, and who remarked die j the scarcity of advertisements of articles cul ist. I 'which he desired. "I of course 00( from i know," said he, "tiie names oi several m >n Hawk- ' *ar?? ^OU8^8 ^hich se^ carpets, but I mi in Peru 1 ^ comparatively few of them men- fee win- I '10uecl *n* the columns of any of yonr ? r nitcber New York n0wsPaPers- In buying ma ps nf fnr- cr?ckery I have groped almost entirely am age care- ! *n dark. I have found a few adver-1 p0i s around I ti860161^3 ?f furniture (one of the firms j 0tl when I ^as Pr0^te<i from me by i*8 announce- j for few mo- i ment)? but ^ave passed by scores of | anc er that a ! ot^er hous.-s which I did not enter be- : mil ade bv a I can8e * had no' eveu a newspaper ac- j ^ itlv hLn 1 quaintance witli them; while in buying , A -L-al i other things?a refrigerator, for instance iif5 emember ! -*haJ * iearu from friends where they ^ rse: it ia j are to be found._ _ 4l _ bri t HpnHon I uur mercnanis muse ueciuu iur mem- i * 1 T^av tn i selves the lesson of such ft complaint, h thefami- ' nn<* ^ow muc^ ?* ^ aPP^es to each of ^r( obtained them. newspapers are, of course, I Buddhist f?lad to print their advertisements; that [ from tbo 38 Part ft newspaper's business. But I 1 the hill ^at a^ our da^ ^ea(^D? news- I 5 stones 1 PfiPers ^ave been a^'e t0 Pass through j liaot and I Pe"0^ ?* financial depression with- i arlv 'four ' on^ ieB8ening their enterprise in the mat- j .1 Ik was I *er uewa- while they have confessedly j >c'rs four ^t a temporary loss of advertising busi- . ' i ness, is proof that they have a perma- I * f ! nent constituency of readers to rely j ffected an i "Pon; and this giveB them *?reater conli- ! S! imbincr a I dence iQ maintaining that their columns [tlic i j are the best means of communication I ,wo ce thev between the public and the class of j . i people who have wants to supply and , S1' [ on the money t0 spend-xVc^ York Evening { ed to the | Po8t ______ I gal thereby The Lore of Homo ij" ie roof of ^ man wbo is not aalinmed of himself iney and need not be ashamed of his early condi- j . the eel- tion. It happened to me to be born in : .J come up a log-cabin, raised among the snow- ? ash-room ! thrifts of New Hampshire at a period so j . ave their i early that when the smoke tirst rose from : ^ into the its rude chimney and curled over the jte .umber of frozen hill there was no similar evidence , s all bnt ?f a white man's habitation between it I e of won - nQd the settlements on the rivers of j 3?? id to my Canada. It3 remains still exist; I make ! ^ the back it an annual visit. I carry my children f** nako the to it to teach them the hardships endur- j 1?? a time fo by the generations which have gone i1 wol case, before them. I love to dwell on the I !^ec the hotel tender recollections, the kindred ties, j :J0 ;r as they the early affections and the narrations | , I have and incidents which mingle with all I , g that I know of this primitive family abode. I j a ch valua- weep to think that none of those who . ttD( ice here- inhabited it are now among the living,! ma lil in the ftud if ever I fail in affectionate vocer* WC] lome, and tion for him who raised it and defended 1 ?es time he it against savage violence and destine-1 . ? tion, cherished all the domestic virtues Ju : beneath its roof, and through the fire j ?n' and blood of seven years' revolutionary i 1D^' i war shrunk from no toil, no sacrifice to q. the early serve his couutry, and to raise his chil- j elated to j Jren to a condition better than his ovrn be grocer ma7 mv name and the name of mv; - aiu well-* posterity bo blotted forever from the | ran ?ct of St. j memory of mankind. ?Daniel Webster. s iu Min- ! ily y himself i ~ .. i dee Plague Precautions. ! sj(j( chests of The plague fright at Berlin has re- i ph( n?twen- called the extiaordinary precautions 1 off*; ur chests tak^n during the cholera epidemic of ; It lourse, as 1831. A cord was drawn in front of the ariety of J houses supposed to bo infected. The ' nin I turned 1 kejs were fiivon to a police agent, who ' ela< iwardthe three or four times a day went to see : iu s suit cue- what tho inmates wanted. He thou to resident placed what he brought them on a t.ible I int< ter some outside, near tho door. Tho money j sto: I gave was put into a glass full of viueg?r, and fusl the four the .igenl took it out with a spoon. The ! par , stating paper on which the commissions wer? ! and lirty-fiye, written down he took up with pincers, j do? dollar a When a sick person was taken to the 1 om samples, i hospital a police agent preceded the ve- tirn decision, ! hiele with a hell, and two soldiers kept day rv< .y one away from the sick person. : wh is a very j The doctors woro cloaks and masks or ren fifty-cent I oilcloth. Tho skins of dogs and cats tha jnty-five- | being particularly favorable to the dis- ! hav lollnr tea semination of the disease, persons were ! bit! in assure j reeornmended to kill them, except where | anil it figure, j tlev were positively necessary. For any seventy- mouths *110 inhabitants lived in trepida- j tho ' A---- - .1? -1.1 I ?nti I LIU U y IllJII ilU I/H.I IHUJ nvvuutif u?u|>,vu , v???. v grocers : hersolf for fear of tho cholera reaching me.. it. Pau- her. The precautions gradually became pop raptor for ridicule. froi J i ITEMS OF 1MEKEM. A ben with a clipped wing has a de :tive flew. A lady need not be an athlete though e jumps at an offer. There are bnt two cotton factories in e whole of Mexico. Isn't the band of gold which enoircles roung man's scarf a near riug ? A French physician says drinking iled water only will prevent yellow ret. Paris has a municipal laboratory where nes, beers and brandies offered for le are tested. During 1878 about 8,000 Irishmen 't the old country for the United ates and Canada. A. fashionable belt for the feminine ;ist, says the Wheeling Ledger, is lied the Husg band. rhe debt of the city of Paris is now arly 8400,000,000, and the interesjt out 820,000,000 a year. On leaving a room make your best aam to persons present, and "itire thout salaming the door. rhe hair-spring of a watch W6igha 5,000th of a ponnd troy. In a aight line it is a foot loqg. , From the debris of their coal mines ance makes annually 700,000 tons of. iellent fuel, and Belgium 500,000 tons. vvnat is me aiuerence Dei ween an itor and his wife ? One writes things set and the other sets things to rights. u He lived above hia income," Was the dark reproach he bore, 'Till at last it was remembered, That he lived above bin store. [Humiliation is a f?uest that only comes those who hive made ready his ting place and will give him a fair Icome. Make no man your idol, for the best n mubt have faults; aud his faults ,1 insensibly become jours, in addin to your own. in indiscreet man is more hurtful in an ill* natared one ; the latter at-- . ks only his enemies ; the other in es friends and foes alike, [n Copenhagen there is ira-jufactured m the blood of cattle a chtcolate, ich is said to be<he most nutritious icle yet known to science. tfever write on a subject without havj first read yourself full of it; ana ver read on a subject till you have jught yourself hungiy on it. rhe largest glass bottle ever blown s at Leith, Scotland. It was in di insions forty inches by forty-two, and LI. .# 1? 8 CapBDie 01 JLlOlUUlg bWU uttiicxo 111 antity of fluid. The body of Philip Dunnell, buried Dallas, Texas, in 1862, was lately diserred and found to have literally rned to stone, and being fully double weight when it was buried I The man who married a whole family eB in Traverse county, Michigan. His it wife died, and he married her sister. e too died, and then he married the ither of his two former wives. - . The editor of the Cincinnati Saturday ght discovered that his girl wore two s of gold-mounted false-teeth, and he down and wrote a poem entitled, Xich and rare were the gums she re." The Mississippi river is computed to charge annually 19,500,000,000,000 bic feet of water. Of this 812,500,),000 pounds is sediment. Collected * one body it would make one square le of land, and reach a height of 268 t. ' Come, now, stupid," said the schoolster, " you don't know how much two 1 five make. Now listen. In one cEet J have two dollars, and in the ler five dollar. Now, how many dol8 have I got?" "Let me see them, 1 I will tell yon." School was disased. kt one of our schools recently, in !*7er -to the question: " What is the ference between an island and a conent, and upoc whioh do we live?" a ght little shaves_replied: "Thedifence is that a coirtipent is much ger than* an island, and" 7?6 live on md and meat and other things." ~ LINES ON THE DO.VKET. ? The donkey ia a pretty bird, ISo gentle and go wise; It has a silky little tail , With which to whiBk the flies. Upon its head two earn it bears, So silky, long and soft, That when ita tail can't reach the flie^ The ears can whisk them off. Hr. Elward KiDg. who has oeen iting some interesting letters^from i South to the Boston Journal, makes ) broad assertion that the prettiest men in the world live in New Orns. He says: "At the grand ball eu by the 4 Mysticfe Crewe of Oomns,' the Varieties theater, several years >, I saw twenty-five hundred ladies -hered together. It would not have ?n an exaggeration of the truth to ' of any one of them that she was tutiful." Chere is in France a powerful society led "The League of Instruption," rued in 1876. The league gives spe1 attention to the propagation of inligence among the population of the al regions. it liolds tnat mere looling is not education ; and lience it ks to establish all through Franco lago libraries largely made up of >k? on agriculture and the various .ustries. It also furnishes epccial raries for soldiers. The league has tome a center of educational societies, i number of which runs over four cdred, with thirty-five inoueand mbers. Thus far the It ague hasesdishert 246 libraries for the villagers, 1 171 i'or soldiers, and it has aiso ile contributions to 220 libraries that re previoasly in existence. The snics of the league has been aided i>y the t that each member has the right to roduce any motion or proposition, i Dy me publication ci tut? pruceeus at all the meetings. iple Remedy for the Bile of a Mad Animal. i simple remo.ly for tho bite of a lid animal is furnished by a friend 0 has known it to be tried in the famof a relative with good success. Iu(i, when resorted to in time, it is conered a sure preventive of hydro)bia, but would not hare the desired set if delayed till hydrophobia be(?an. should be *aken immediately after bite if possible, and not later thon e days to be effectual. One ounce of :ampuue root brnis. d and aim mem! 1 pint of milk till tbe milk is rclu-^d a half pint. This t be d;vidt*i ) three doses, and takeu nu an empty mach for three alternate morning, ting three hours after takinq it. Pree this reciue its directed three times I take us above, ranking iu all uino ies tal'on ou nine morniugy, with the issiou of a morning between each: tho >e tlirs being extended to eighteen 's iu ail, including the idtemate days en the medicine is not t.-ikui. Tain n.'dy is fo simple and easily procured t none need hMitato to try it who h any apprehension of having been en by a mail dog, or any other rabid malM ?>nd it would not interfere with loc;d treatment that might bo light advisable. This root is jirovtve of perspiration and has otbtr licinal properties. which are f-up / ed to counteract o- remove the poison > n the system.?Pr ovidence Journal ^ ^