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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. I v 1 .->! V.:,".'-'' ; '/: ^3 . BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 1879. NO. 51. VOLUME XXIV. ? - ? ; " " i . Measuring the Twilight. c BY MRS. L. P. 8ELOVER. c I am sitting in the twilight, with my face ? against the pane, And measuring the shadows with an aching heart and brain; $ They are deepening slowly, surely, and the 1 night is coming on. { Will some bright star light earth's pathway s when the gleam oi day is gone ? f How memory bears me backward to a brighter, ? fairer diy, When I bounded through a mossy wood to join f gome child at play; Ji Our hearts were tree and merry then, with not ^ a shade ot care, r Till the waning of the daylight brought its a shatLwc on the air. b I remember then how fleetly through the lealy grove I sped, p That my eyo might catch the home-light ere n r- day's glimmering light had fled; c And I minded not the shadows as, in all its ?j splendor bright, Through the darkness on my pathway shone a a mother's beacon light. fl I've been measuring the shadows all along life's ^ many years, Till my eyes are dim with weeping and my tx heart is drowned in tears; My leet are pierced and bleeding by the thorns ?1 in lile's dark way, ' And I've found my sweetest treasures in my - js clasping turned to clay. If linrht nf linmo iu ondlr nnntiMiorl in flnpn I ^ ~ J , g( t funereal gloom, tj * The hand thai led my youthful feet lies home- ai * i i less in'the tomb? ? * J] The kindred one where soul meets soul my v worship may sot own, 1 And amid a world of busy feet 1 walk the earth cj alone. tl rfQ ' ^ ' .'N Life's skies are deepening and the clouds are gathering tiiick and fast, Will the star of hope shine once lor me when ai the rage is overpast ? al The burden of my soul is borne upon the ai windless air, a sc And the twitter of the night bird seems but C( mocking my despair. te So I'm sitting in the twilight, with my tace against the pane, ? And measuring the shadows with my aching . j heart and brain; Oh, spirit of my mother, gleam upon my soul to-night, St * Till I have proved the promise mine, "At eve it shall be light." g . ?Bristol County Journal. m DOMESTIC ECONOMY, u rc I don't suppose Emily and I would have dreamed of marrying last May if tl( it liad not been for old Miss Vanteltuyfel's legacy. Tlie old lady left all her d< household furniture, including her china, 01 silver and table-linen, to Emily, who was her favorite niece as well as name- br sake; and, of course, thatmjidc us think m at once of setting up a home of our own. ch We had been engaged two years already, or there was no likelihood that my salary would be raised, and altogether we de- tii cided: that we might as well make a be- cf ginning. . fo Emily's papa and mamma?in fact, pi the whole family?objected at first to th what they called our want of common fo sense; but finding us quite unmoved by es their forebodings, they yielded, and be- su San to make preparations for the wed- ni ing. .. pi ? "But now, Charles." said Emily to I" me, as soon as everything was amicably m settled?" now, Charles, we have a great to deal to learn. Suppose we begin by fr' studying domestic economy?" "flow?" I asked, somewhat be- be wildered by this proposition. th " In this way, was the prompt an- m swer. She drew from her pocket a pi small note-book, and placed it in my 44 Cnn liovo " cha o rl rlorl nvAiiillv I l'fl iifUUll UVV UV4Vf OUV U?V4Wi, JJi. VUVl If < " "that is my beginning, and I intend to follow it up. You must have a book a* too, Charles.'1? tli I glanced over the first pj> *e and read: sc 'Useful information. Heard Mr. Smith la tell papa that beef was sold by farmers th for iust half the price asked by city butchers. Mem.?To buy our beef anil at mutton always of a farmer. Might hr order vegetables, milk and fresh eggs at sa the same place." kf \ "There, Charles dear, what do you n< think of that?" asked Emily, triumpliantly. "ISn't that economy? And ni only think how you will eiyoy a nice hi fresh-laid egg for your breakfast!" . "But, my dear girl," -I said, trying to sii look grave, " we couldn't buy a wliole m sheep or a whole ox at once, you know." io " But if the whole animaf didn't cost be as much as half an animal at the butch- th er's price, what then? " persisted Emily, tli looking annoyed. - ft "Even then, my darling, I think it O: would be cheaper to buy our chops and E cutlets from -the butcher," said I. per- th suasively; " because, you see, we sliould sc I get so tired of a whole animal before we , Had eaten it all." m "Well, we won't argue. You know I tli don't approve of arguments, Charles," L replied Emily, feelingly, and so the sub- bl ject was dismissed. E: However, I took Emily's advice, and fu began to study domestic economy. I provided myself with a note-book; I ec asked my married friends so many ques- si tions about prices, values and quantities 01 that I became positively tiresome; I lost " no opportunity of adding to my stock of hi knowledge as regarded fuel. Drovisions. as wages itnd house rent. All the informa tion thus gleaned was carried duly to cc Emily, and carefully classified by her t\ under various headings. a< The evenings we spent together were no longer devoted to the " sweet noth- si ngs" with which ordinary lovers are tl wont to delight themselves. On th m contrary, we gave ourselves up to the tc most abtruse and perplexing calculations, in which my slender salary was tc divided and subdivided to suit our plans, vi I should have eiyoyed these evenings es mijahmore if 1 could have persuaded ai Emily to add up a column of figures a without counting on her fingers, but I could not. d "Seventeen-and-six ? let me see? ft ci^Iiteen, nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, n , twenty-two, twenty-three." she would a say, drumming each finger on the table a until she reached the sum total, which ci she gave with triumphant emphasis r< ^ always. However, finding that mv remon- t< strances seemed to hurt the dear girl's " feelings, I said no more. a About this time our correspondence lost much of its distinctly lover-like " character, and for the same reasons. I si used to send Emily so many scraps of p useful information for her note-book, a and get so many directions in return, e; that the results were rather peculiar, k For instance, I would write thus: " Mr O. D. P. D. L. P.?Lamb is' always il dearer than mutton, and does not go asr for. I n find that cfeam of tartar is certainly cheaper d by the barrel, but Jones' wife says she never buys but,half a pound at a time. _ "Ever yours, Charlie." c But perhaps you may not understand tl the meaning "of those six initial letters at t< the beginning of my note. Why, that n was a very simple and convenient ar- n rangement to save time and space in v writing. Instead of having to write v over and over again, "My own dear precious darling Tittle pet," I just used o those initialletters, and Emily knew ex- v actly what I meant every time. It was fi really a capital idea, and we were the s< originators; and the truth is, if it had i not been for the publicity involved I 1< * ' would have taken out a patent for the h invention. v In the same way she would write to t a i "D. O. D. D." (and I understood " Dwree Id dnrling dr.elcy," at once)? 'l'len.sn IIm ml if corned bed is morn economical whei lashed. Ask your friend Smith, there's a I) p." Could any one with ordinary intelli;ence fail to read " dear sweet precious1 n those last three letters? Then, again, what could he mor( ouching and tender than this closing entenee: " Come up to dinner to-night or I am going to make the apple dumpings, P. ~0. P." Of course that means ' precious old pet.1' But enough. I have, as I said beore. an objection to make public the ender secrets of two fond hearts. Thereare ,1 will pass over the rest of our ourtship, the wedding, with its accompanying bustle, and our trip to Niagara, nd come at once to the time when we iegan our housekeeping. After much searching and many vexaious disappointments, Emily and I had ieked out a "flat"?for a house we could ot afford. The agent said that this flat onsisted of five spacious and elegant ooms. My own impression was that here were one room and four closets. He lid that it was infinitely superior to ny house he had ever seen. I differed om this view also, but I said nothing, lut then there certainly was a line baywindow in the parlor, and a beautifully led hearth in the dining-room; so we >ok the flat without further discussion. But when the refrigerator arrived on le first load next day our troubles egan. I must explain that this refrigi*otAv woe nmnnrr Afica Vfintolf 11 v? ,'i's gifts. It was a new one, of the itest and most popular style, whieli I ad iust bought. I liad been naturally a Dod deal influenced in my selection of lat refrigerator by the very agreeable ad intelligent salesman at Zinc & Co.'s. [e liad entered so heartily into mv iews, he had been so patient while I irveyed the entire stock, and he had tughed so appreciatively at my critiisms, that I felt as if I could not do less lan take his advice, after all. And he made it plain that the very ixgest refrigerator one can get is always le riplit one to buy. So I bought it, nd though I was certainly astounded ; the price, still that salesman's blitnd id cordial assurance that I had done wise thing, " a really sensible thing in 'lecting that rtfrigerator," was a great >mf6rt. But when the refrigerator utxly refused to go into our Kitchen, I iust confess I had doubts is to my wisDm, though I did not express them to mily. "What shall we do?" asked she, ?spairingly. The men who had forced it up the airs wiped their hot faces and grinned. 44 I'll tell you." said I, with sudden in>iration. 44 We must get a carpenter to ike down the door casings. Then it tay pass " 44 But, Charles," exclaimed my wife, that won't do. It cannot stay in the itchen, because then there will be no >om for the kitchen table and chairs? 5, nor for the cook, either!" she added, >lefully. 40?h!" said I. 44 Well, then, my :ar, we must get a mason, and knock it these side walls at once." But the result was that I had to go ick to my friend, the agreeable salesan at Zinc & Co.'s, and ask him to exlange our large refrigerator for a small le, the very smallest to be found. I did not thmk he was as genial this ue. I supposed after what I had seen him that ne would have shown pround sympathy at the recital of my perexities. But he did not. I don't think at he heard all I said to him. and I und that I had been mistaken in my timate of his character. He was not ch an agreeable and intelligent young an as I had imagined. However, I eked out a second refrigerator, and then was obliged to buy several articles to ake up tlie difference in price. So I ok a sausage-chopper, an ice-cream sezer, and a set of croquet. A great part of our furniture could not ! accommodated in our rooms, and was erefore stored for us by Emily's amma. So we had to do without i ano, a buffet, or a bureau. But then, Emily cheerfully observed, small oms have their advantages. 44 For you couldn't poke the fire, raise id lower the window-shades and ring e bell for Ottilia without leaving your at at the breakfast table, if you lived in rge rooms," she added; and certainly at was very true. And, by-the-way, I haven't told you >out Ottilia yet. Mo*t people would ive called her our servant, but Emily id she was our 44 assistant in house;eping." She spoke of herself in her )te answering our advertisement as a young person of culture ::nd relineent who had met with revere fs and id had a ' blight.1" My own impression of her was that ie was calculated to blight any one who ight be doomed to her daily compannship. She had an unpleasant way of jcoming suddenly abstracted while in ie performance of her daily duties, and ien raising herself with a prodigious art and a succession of hollow sighs, n one of these occasions she informed mily confidentially that " the Vision of ie Loved and Lost had glided on the enj." As a number of mishaps, including uch broken china, had resulted from lese inopportune appearances of 44 the >ved and Lost," we did not look amiay upon them. But when I advised mily to change her handmaid, she resed, on the ground of compassion. " Why, Charles, she is such a welllucated and refined young woman that le could not endure the annoyances of dinary service," said my wife,earnestly. She tells me every day that she is so ippv with us, and she looks up to me s it t was her mother." " Very affecting, Certainly," was my >mment, "considering that you are venty, and she will never see forty jain." 44 Oh, Charles! why, she is only thirty; le lold me so; and you know she says lat she is a blighted being," concluded iy wife, solemnly; "so you ought not > be impatient with the poor thing." lh course uttiua remained, ana i had > reconcile myself to her woe-begone ays. But her cooking was our cro;itit trial, and before many days Emily nnounced to me her intention of joining cooking class." " It's such an opportunity, my car!" she told me one evening. " Pro;ssor Stoopann is a very accomplished lan, who has the most charming ideas bout cooking. He considers it a fine rt, and he can make any one a perfect ook in ten lessons. We begin to-morDW." " Don't you think it would be wiser to jacli Ottilia something," I observed, and let her do the cooking, instead ot (tempting to do it yourself?" " No, indeed," said Emily, promptly. I must take the lessons, and then 5ntruct Ottilia by example rather than recept. Besides "?in a whisper?" I'm fraia the poor thing doesn't learn very [usily; she s had so much trouble, you now." So my wife became a member of the :lustrious Stoopann's class, and grew lore enthusiastic over his teachings ay by day. it Tf'n rvOfTonfl if Wnw /I 1 its UViiUCliUl VYUIiUaiUI -how much that man knows!" she exlaimed, when the course was hall hrough. " And he's such an economist, 30! Why, he has been teaching us that othing need be wasted in a household, ot even our old?But there! I came ery near telling you my secret, and I rant to surprise you some day." That same morning I ran across my Id college chum Jack Percival on my ray down town. He had just ret lrnod :om a three years' tour of the Comment, o I had a great deal to tell him. He eemed to be much interested wh:m he earned that I was married and ke 'ping louse, and he readily accepted wy initation to dine with us the next day. When I went home and told Emilj bout it, she at once proposed that we t should invite a young lady to make tli 1 party complete. 1 " it would be much plensanter fo your friend to meet a young lady," sh said. " But then our dining-room will be s< ' crowded with four at the table tha Ottilia will never be able to waitupoi ; us," said I. j Emily looked shocked. "Ottilia!' , she exclaimed; "I hope you don't ex pect Ottilia to wait on the table whei ? strangers are present! Why, Iwouldn' suggest such a thing to her." ''Then what is the use of keeping her?1 s i asKea. "Oh, Charles, you never have an; sympathy for that poor tiling! We cat hire a small hoy to wait. The groce: lias a very nice boy, and I think I cai i get him cheap," said my wife. "Very well," I replied,44have it youi own way ;but what snail we have for din ner ? .lack is terribly particular about hi: dinner, I can tell you, and I think I'l ; order something from Dclmonico's foi , this time." "Oh, no, indeed! you mustn't do any thing of the kind," said Emily, decided i ly. 44I'm.just wing to show you now the inestimable value of Professoi Stoopann's instructions, and 1 know you'll be proud of your dinner. Leave ii all to me, Charlie. 44 Hut what are you going to give us?' T insist,p?l. Emilv made answer, confi dently: " .Jiist wait and sec, I tell you. This much you shall know, and no more You're to have 'Potage St. Beuve garni/ and a Russian fish pie. Oh, yes I'm going to give you your favorite lamb ebons with tomato sauce, for orn course. Now, don't ask any more questions." When I brought Jack homo the next afternoon Emily met us with such a cordial welcome that I could see he w:u pleased. The grocer's boy was in attendance, looking very well, the table was prettily dccbrated with fruits ant] flowers, and I felt intensely hospitable as I took my seat, and Emily began to dispense the soup. The only drawback was that the young lady whom she had asked had been obliged to decline at the hist moment, but as there was barely room for three people in our dining-room, 1 was not so much disappointed at this as was my wife. However, she and Jack appeared to be getting on so well that I rlwln'f tliinl- lin roirrntf-prl rmr intr?nr1pfl guest either. As I was saying, the soup was on the table, but with my first view of it I began to have fearful misgivings. It was an almost colorless fluid, with a slice ol lemon, a sprig of parsley, and several cloves floating in each plate, and it tasted like hot water well salted. My resolution was taken in an instant, I made up my mind that I would eat that soup, and I (lid, but Jack never attempted asecond spoonful. " What is this, my dear?" I asked with great cheerfulness, pretending to be entirely at my ease, as the next course appeared. bmily smiled sweetly as she answered, " That is Russian fish-pie, prepared after lilt' .NIHIL* IVUIJJL* UBCU 1U L11C UUipciUl a kitchen." " Let us see, then, whether our tastes agree with the emperor's," I said, facetiously, turning to Jack, hut he didn't seem disposed to talk much, I fancied. Truth compels me to say that, after the most careful dissection of that lish-pie, I did not discover any fish. I found an onion, a slice of hard-boiled egg, some more parsley, and finally a scrap of meat, but that was all. I was getting perceptibly nervous now, when a new course relieved me. " Here comes something at last," I said to myself, as a dish of chops, each with a fringed white paper wrapped daintily about the bone, and accompanied bv tomato sauce, made its appearance. My drooping spirits revived. " Chops are always chops," was my next reflection. Alas! I didn't know Professor Stoopann. . The moment I attacked my chop I found it a fallacy. It was composed of I something, I could not tell what, careI fully shaped, and then tied fast to? 1 nothing more or less than a tooth-brush I handle, beautifully scraped and polished. Tliic HT.JC miwli T lnnl-prl nf Jack. I saw the expression of dismay on his f:iee. I glanced across at Emily, serenely unconscious of my feelings; and yielding to an uncontrollable impulse, I ordered the boy in a voice of thunder to remove that dish. As to the rest of that dinner I can only say it was worthy of the beginning. Even what appeared to be a magnificent tait or pudding collapsed like a soapj bubble at the first touch of the spoon, | and left nothing but a little sweetened froth behind, too scanty to l>e divided. I was not at all surprised when Jack ! pleaded an engagement, and hastened j away, without waiting to smoke a cigar | with me. He was going to dine, I knew, i Having seen him down stairs, I re! turned to my wife, who was both as; tonished and indignant at my somewhat warmly expressed opinions about the dinner. "That soup!" she exclaimed; "you didn't like that soup? Why, it's one of Professor Stoopann's own inventions. lie taught us to make it ot the water in which the potatoes have been boiled, and it is very nourishing as well as economical. The professor has lived on it for years." " And that fish-pie," I interrupted, " what wjis that made of??for there was no fish there." Emily looked disappointed. "Why, how did you find tliat out so soon?" she asked; " for 1 thought the deception was perfect. Professor Stoopann said no one could tell the difference. That's wonderful. But since you've guessed so much I'll teK you the rest. Tliatjfishpie was made entirely of some scraps of cold roast beef, and is even more economical than the soup." * "And how about those chops? Can you tell me, my dear, what they were made of, or why you placed such an unpalatable joke on our table?" was my nnvf nnncfuiM But just here Emily burst into tears. "I?I?think you're?too?cruel," she sobbed. "After I'd taken such pains? and burned ray face and my poo?or fingers?and tried all the professor's best dishes?just to be scolded ? it's too much!" * "But, Emily, don't you see?"I began. She interrupted me. " I cut all those handles off our old brushes, and I polished them all myself with sand-paper, and tied them on, and everything, and then you find fault. It is cruel! Oo?oo?oo!" 44 Still, my dear, it is a pity that you had not chosen some other occasion for that display of ingenuity," said I, not vet vanquished. "You must have noticed that Jack ate nothing." "Oh. Charles, you are too unkind ! Didn't he praise that puff pudding? and wasn't it really lovely? and all made out of one egg and two spoonfuls ol sugar! Wasn't that a success, I should like to know? But you are a monster ol ingratitude. Oo?oo?oo!" Let me draw a veil over this scene, ( Suffice it that peace was finally restored [ by a compromise. I agreed to say nc more about the dinner, and Emilj pledged herself to abandon Professoi 1.. C ui/uujjaiiu a xiiCLiiuus xurcvui. iuumpo if no new cooking- class is organized ir ! our vicinity, I shall be safe; but I an not sure.?Harper's Bazar. European infantry soldiers are uni formed as follows: French, blue coati and red pants; British, red coat am blue pants; German, blue, with ret i facings and a double row of buttons 01 , the coat; Austrian, gray coat and blu i panto; Russian, coat and pants. darl i brown, with a double row ot buttons 01 ; the coat; Turkish, an Oriental cap, witl tassel and fez, and blue coat ana pants The uniform ot the United States in r fantrv consists of a French fatigue cap i dark blue coat and light blue pants. e TERROR IN RUSSIA. X* Nihilism Rampant and the Government Almost Powerless?Stlrrintc Scenes In St. Petersburg* 0 The New York Graphic says: Few ,t persons have yet begun to realize what a martial law in Russia actually means? that is, how the honeyed phrases of the ? " ukase " will be carried out in practice. That military force should be ren sorted to openly in a depotism like Rus- ; t sia means that the civil authorities?the , innumerable police agents?have failed , " to cope with tJie disorganizing elements in society. It is simply incredible that Y were the Nihilists but a small band, and i were they without support in society at r large, that the police could not successa fully put them down. The fact is. were not the Russian people dissatisfied with r the despotism under which they have ) . been ground down and from which they < 3 have lost all hope of escaping by peacea- ; I ble means, Nihilism would cease to be i r dangerous. Its real strength lies in the i apathy if not in the sympathy of the < . bulk of the population. 1 A St. Petersburg letter to the Col- \ r ogne Gazette gives a terrible picture of ] [ the condition of the Russian capital un- \ r der the military terrorism. No one is j t permitted to be out of his house after ? * - ?- ?fxi 1. ? G nine o ciock hi nigut wiuioui ?v rauu- , 1 cate or pass. Arrests are numerous? < . every place is watched, and yet grenades < are exploded in the street every day j ; The Nihilists keep the police and the j troops in a constant state ot excitement, ] | honing to weary them out in time and < | lull them into a false security, from > which a grand attack will rudely awaken > them. The letter proceeds: j "In the night between Friday and ^ Saturday seditious placards were found t ; stuck up in the vicinity of the theaters i i, and at corners of the busiest streets, and i , although the city police and the detec- s . tives at once hurried up and tore down 1 > the manifestoes, they nevertheless ap- ( [ peared anew, as though conjured forth s i from the walls by enchantment. Pas . sers-by stopped to read the bills, and in c i one night the police arrested upward of i [ 150 persons. Among all those taken the i ; police failed to lind in a single case as t much as a scrap of paper which np- < ; peared to have anything to do with the i i proclamation. The secret bill-sticker, i : on the other hand, went on with his c ; work indefatigably, and the police could s not succeed in discovering him. The r alarm at last became so great that two f i companies, under command of Colonel ( de Berg, marched out and were posted < i at the entrances to a number of houses j I and in the street, but when the cuard i [ had its attention called to the right bills were posted up on the left, and after they . had been torn down on the left there on i i the right again appeared the manifes- j toes of the men of the revolution." i i The Exercise of the Veto Power. 1 Since the foundation of the Uniteo j ' States government the veto power has , 1 been exercised by the President of the ' United States ninety-three times. "Wash- j ; ington sent two veto messages to Con- ( ' gress?one returning a bill for the appor- j 1 tionment of members of Congress, the j other returning a bill to reduce the army, j The reason assigned for not approving the bill first named w?.s that its provis- 't ions were impracticable. He vetoed .. the bill to reduce the army because it ' was injudicious and ui\just. Madison J sent six veto messages to Congress. Amortg the bills disapproved by him j ' was one conferrine naturalization privi- .. leges, which the President thought was j "liable to abuse by aliens," and one to establish the United States Bank, which t was not approved, because the President thought it 44 did not meet public require- .= ments." Monroe vetoed only one bill y to extend aid to the Cumberland road. Jackson vetoed twelve bills, Tyler nine, Polk three, Pierce nine, Buchanan four, Lincoln one, Johnson seventeen, Grant, twenty-six, and Hayes three, namely, the Silver bill, a bill authorizing a , special term of the Circuit Court in Mississippi and the Chinese bill. The river and harbor appropriation was vetoed by Jackson twice, and by Tyler, Polk and Pierce each once. The seven. teen bills vetoed by Johnson were of a political character, and all were passed over the veto except one, namely, a bill to admit the Territory of Colorado into the Union. "Referee in Cases of Incompatibility." Mr. Will Carlton, says Harper's Weekly, should be appointed a sort of general referee in all future cases of " incompatibility." The Chicago InterOcean gives an interesting account of a venerable-looking man who called upon the city attorney for the nurpose of obtaining a divorce from nis wife, with whom he had lived forty years, and had reared a large family. Tliere had been no criminality, only a lively dispute. Mr. Tuthill, tlie attorney, talked kindly with the old gentleman; told him that most Illinois'divorces were illecal. and concluded by asking if lie had ever read ( Wilt Carlton's poem, " Betsey and I Are t Out." He had never heard of it. "Buy j and read it," said the lawyer ; " it con- o tains a case parallel to your own." It d was done. A few days afterward the f city attorney received the following let- y terbymail: 1 ' My I)eau Sib I can never be suftl- p ciently grateful to you for your kindly t advice in relation to my domestic aiflic- li tion. I acted upon your suggestion, and d it had the desired effect. We are re- \ united, never again, I trust, to ])art un- t til the angel of death shall visit one of n us. God bless Will Carlton for his lit- a tie ballad, and God bless you for making \ it known tome! May you never know I anything but peace, "i'ours, gratefully, t <? ? j. Introduction of Wheat into America, f Prior to the discovery of this continent 1 by Columbus, there was no cereal in 1 America approaching in nature the V wheat plant.. It was not until 1530 that i wheat found its way into Mexico, and r then only hy cliance. a slave 01 tjortez \ found a few grains of wheat in a parcel r of rice and showed them to his master, who ordered them to he planted. The result showed that wheat would thrive , well on Mexican soil, and to-day one of the finest wheat valleys in the world is near the Mexican capital. From Mexi- r eo the cereal found its way to Peru, f Maria D'Escobar, wife of Diego dc 1 Chauvrcs, carried a few grains to Lima. 1 T which were planted, the entire product * being used for seed for several succes- ' ; sive crops. At Quito, in Ecuador, a [ monk of the Order of St. Francis, by the i . name of Fray Iodosi Rixi, introduced 1 the new cereal, and it is said that the ' , jar which contained the seeds planted is 1 s still preserved by the monks of Quito. * Wheat was introduced into the present ! limits of the United States contempo- ' [ raneouslv with the settlement of the ' ? country by the Enclish and the Dutch. ! r * What an 01(1 Man has Noticed. I have noticed that all men are honest ) when well watched. 1 i I have noticed that purses will hold . pennies as well as pounds. 1 | I have noticed that in order to be a j . reasonable creature, it is nccessary at | times to be downright mad. ( ' I have noticed that silks, broadcloths ^ 1 and jewels are often bought with other s nRonle's monev. ' 5 I have noticed that whatever is, is j right, with lew exceptions?the left eye , and left leg and the left side of a plum i pudding. i I have noticed that the prayer of the ] b selfish man is, "Forgive us our debts," | 1 while he makes. everybody that owes . 1 him pay to the utmost farthing. < i I have noticed that he who thinks , 3 every man a rogue, is certain to see one ? c when he shaves himself, and lie ought, J i in mercy to his neighbor, to surrender ] i the rascal to justice. ( I have noticed that money is the fool's < . wisdom, the knave's reputation, the ; , poor man's desire, the covetous man's ] ambition and the idol of them all. TIMELY TOPICS. In China, where the opium habit ruins and destroys many men annually, the efforts of the government to abolish or diminish the use of opium have re- * cently been more energetic than ever. All these efforts have been in vain,as were J. those of many years previous. Th<* Pekin government have at last determined to A take the final step in the business, and ? .' an edict has been issued, which goes into " effect next year, making the use or sale of opium punishable oy death. It is hard to say how the edict will be met by ?1 the ten million opium eaters of the Ce- " lestial Empire, or what proportion of P them will come to this country to enjoy ^ their fascinating custom. b ft There was buried in the cemetery of 51. James the Less, in Philadelphia, re- *r gently, the man who was known as the L I C C VArtfo Kllf r?Q_ tl LV121II UJL 1\UUU5 UUb Ul&UIV &vs\st*?, uuv *J*%ture's own. Joseph Smith was bom in ]a the mining districts of England eighty- 1E ?ne years ago, and coming to this country located at Ashland, Schuylkill coun- ? ty, Pa. While he was living at Ashland ? lie chanced to find a curious root in g the woods one daj. He whittled aim- R lessly on the root for a few minutes ivlien, lo! it became a perfect owl's head, "j Joseph's interest in roots was at onco jxcited and he began to collect all the P1 curious ones he could find. He soon had lis house filled with hundreds of shapes ;hat were, conjured out of laurel root, at line knot or stone, his strange fancy P< growing by what it fed on. J? h< It is a sign of the growing interest imong women in regard to the n] ivays and means of industrial education ;hat a petition is being circulated and ? lumerously signed by women in all the R States of the Union, which will be pre- SI ;ented to the next Congress, asking its L avorable consideration of a plan for thr. U1 stablishment of national schools of de- ?f iign. A Washington paper thinks tliat hi 4 thorough training in schools of art and ct lesign will make the women and men ,vho receive it sell-sustaining. Skilled j" abor always commands its price, and " ;ochnical education underlies the sue- h< ess of many branches of industry, and "] Ivill help to solve the labor question. It s in this belief that the petition has been A jirculated and signed by professors in L ichools throughout tlie country, and by h' i list of women's names from all the H states, including several hundred in this M listrict, and also in the hope that Con- ->< rress will take such action in the matter m is the importance of the subject de- fii nands." fi< While no new cases of the plague are y( eported in Russia. European medical U ournals show that there exists, and not vithout reason, the greatest fears that fo .vitli the return of warm weather it will at )reak out again with unabated virulence, fii md that its ravages will then not be con- sp ined to one dfstant district, but spread ill over the empire and infest as well M unjoining countries.' There is now cnown to exist in St. Petersburg, Vitefsk, Odessa, Warsaw and in other districts in S( Russia a buboni" affection, with which ti1 Russian physicians are unfamiliar,'which s very similar to, if not identical with, ro i bubonic disease which preceded the re- j" :ent outbreak 01 tue pia^ue in Asiracuaii md previous ones in Persia and Meso>otamia. By some, indeed, this dis- M ase is considered a mild form of the m >Iaguo itself. While each new case of M he plague causes the greatest alarm C. imong the people, :is the probable foreunner of renewed devastations, the til nedicid fraternity see in this seemingly pi rivial T)ubonic affection cause for the in gravest apprehension in the near future, hi Yt any rate, danger of recurrence will not >e passed for more than a year. w ar At the fifth anniversary ot the Wo- M nan's Christian Temocrance Union, of K tfew York city, Hon. William E. Dodge K resided, and in an address he told the F< itory of a lady, belonging to one of the jest families in New York, whose hus- to >and?a leading citizen?was so much th he slave of intoxication that he would st eave his business often and remain at lome on a drunken debauch for weeks, til Dlie wife withdrew from society, 01 vhich she was a bright ornament, and vr xerted herself to redeem her husband w f possible, or to prevent his vice from m )ecoming known. At length, when the ruth could no longer be concealed, she tv on tided in the speaker and his wife, to tnd through their efforts the husband tli vas induced to sign the pledge, which P* le kept for several years. " Jhis day," oc aid Mr. Dodge, " he is occupying a very b? ligh position in this city, though I fear ac le is not entirely temperate. While C) lone suffer mure, none can labor more ffectually than women; and I rejoice in he work which the ladies of this Chrisian Union are doing for the cause of of emperance." ?~" ar Newspaper readers will remember the rial of England's criminal phenomenon, . Charles Peace, who figured so much in m ype and on tongue a few months ago. list before liis execution this notorious w. outlaw made it known that he had murlered Cock, a Manchester policeman, th or which crime William Habron, a oung Irishman, was soon to be hung. Cy i r*r? flin nnrt. nf "Pfljvnp. t.hp I V V/lVrTV/i. UUUQV/ UU UUV |/l?4 V ?? ?. V..WV?J W..W ublic thouglit, to provoke investigaioniind thus gain respite. So Peace was UI lung. Shortly afterward the Cock mur[er was again looked into in accordance si) nth the suggestion of Peace. Itwas found to hat the bullet which killed the policenan fitted the executed man's revolver, Su nd that it did not fit young Habron's yj, veapon. Other points were revived and sli iabron was released from the Portland irison. He was not informed of the ^ tardon, but supposed lie was soon to be ^ lung. Ilis neck had been measured a ^ ew days before. At last it dawned upon iim gradually that he was not to die. ["lie relief affected his nervous system, n( )Ut under good treatment he rallied and se snow a happy man. Thus after an im- s" >risonment of three years and when sl1 vithinastepof the gallows an innocent Man is saved from martyrdom to law. of m A Lady's Terrible Death. # A horrible accident occurred at the rromont House, in Chicago, at mid- 0f light. A party of nine ladies and ju gentlemen, who had come from one of e'j lie theaters, entered the elevator on tr heir way to their apartments. Among u hem were Henry Lightner and wife, of ?eoria, 111. The scats on both sides were >ccupied and two gentlemen were stand- m ng. The elevator boy was told to stop J1 it the third floor to allow Mr. and Mrs. y Lightner to step out. The boy stopped in he elevator, opened the door, iind ?I itepped out. Mrs. Lightner arose from 1,1 ier seat first, and, preceding her hus- ^ land, attempted to step out upon the .1 loor. At that instant the elevator be- in ran to descend. Mrs. Licrhtner lost her w ooting on the edge of the floor, and ilippeu downward. The boy, who had al icized the rope and endeavored to arrest T :he movement, let go his grasp just in m ;ime to withdraw his arm from the pi iperture. Airs. Lightner, though her tc lody, as already described, had fallen c( martially into the elevator, was caught tn iv the head and shoulders between the sc ?age of the floor and the arch of the ele- cc rator opening. For a moment only it a seemed as if the elevator must come to a vj standstill, but the head and shoulders of pi ;he poor victim yielded to the crush, and ci is the sickening snap of bones was heard tl ;he machine continued to descend, but st in a jerky and spasmodic way. The fl1 tiead of the ladv appeared to be held be- si tween the arch of the elevator opening ol ind the wall, lor alter tlie lirst ana second lloors had been passed in the Iwcent, the body was apparently danirlmrr thp not. nuite touching the V; floor. When the elevator struck the ir landing, the hotly of Mrs. Lightncr ti Iropped dead, through her husband's ol outstretched arms, upon the floor. Mr. n Lightner is a banker, and a very promi- tl aent citizen of Peoria. Mrs. Lightner ir was nearly sixty years ef age. ol FOR THE FAIR SEX. Women Lavyeri. In 1871 Phoebe Couzins and Sarali [ilgore were admitted, the first fron] ie law department of Washington Uniprsity, in St. Louis, and the hist from le Jaw scliool 01 Micnigan university, .t last accounts Sarah Kilgore, who hac Jdod Westman to her name, was praccing in Indianapolis, Ind. In 187*2 Georgie Snow was admitted tc le Utah bar, and Mrs. Clara A. Nash tc le bar in Maiiie. In this year, or the >llowing, Mrs. Bolva Lockwood begar ractice in Washington, D. C. Miss now for a long time did a large notarial usiness in Salt Lake City and is suposed to be similarly engaged at present, [rs. Nash is practicing m Portland, Me., i an office with her husband. Mrs, ockwood's recent successes arc fresh ir ic minds of all. She does business xgely in the Court of Claims, Washigton. In 1873 five ladies were admitted?Anstte and Florence Cronise, of Tiffin, O.: lta M. Hulett, of Chicago; Charlotte . Ray, of Washington, D. C., and Miss aper, of Ann Arbor, Mich. Annette id Florence Cronise were in partnership i practice for three or four years, when [iss Annette married. Both are still in ractice in Tiffin, the first in an office ith her husband, Mr. Sutes, and the .tter by herself. Miss Hulett's success id history are well known to Chicagc ?ople. Starting at the early a^e of nineten in' practice, she had at the time o] 3r death at twenty-two?an age when ost professional people are just beginnc their work?achieved a high degree ' success. She died in California in 177, of inherited consumption. Miss ay has practiced in Washington, D. C. tie is a graduate of Harvard University aw School. Miss Raper was admitted Don completing the law course in Minhim University. She does not practice, at gives her entire attention to advoiting temperance and woman suffrage. In 1874 Lavinia Goodell was admitted id has since practiced in Janesville, ris. She lias recently associated with ;r in practice Miss Angie King, undei te firm name of Goodell & King. In 1875 M. Fredrika Perry and Ellen . Martin were admitted from Michigan niversity Law School to the Michigan ir. Miss Perry was admitted to the linois bar in the same year, and Miss Martin in .January, 1876. They have )th been in practice in Chicago since Imission, are in partnership under the mi name of Perry & Martin. In the summer of 1875 Bessie Eagles}ld, who had just finished the junior :ar of the literary course in Michigan niversity, was admitted by courtesy in erre Haute, and she was not prepared r practice and the proposition for her Imission was a surprise to her. She I /\/l 12 4-ron on/) fViow liailCU lid HWlrtlJ WUlOVy VIA Vi* ient two years upon the study of law, id began practice in Grand Rapids, ich., in 1878. In 1876 Mrs. Mary E. Foster, a gradug from Michigan University Law :hool, began to practice, and sti.l pracces, in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1877 Martha Angle Dorsett was aditted in Minnesota. She was probably Imitted in Iowa, where she attended w school the year previous. In 1878 Agnes Scott, of Tiffin, O., and iiss Merrill, of Chicago, were aditted in their respective States. Miss [en-ill graduated from the law school in hicago. In 1878 two cadets were admitted from le law school in Iowa, and are now itiently learning the details of practice . a law office. Their names are not at ind. In 1879 there have been so far three omen admitted?Miss Angie Kin? ?d Miss Kane, of Janesville, and xs. Clara S. Foltz, of California. Miss ing is Miss Goodell's partner. Miss ane has located in Milwaukee and Mrs. Dltz in San Francisco. Mrs. J. Ellen Foster practices in Clinn, la. The writer has no data to fix e t'me of her admission, but under 3 - 11..A Aa 1 iinus lilUL sue iiiia w,tu ocvum h.iii Iraitted. Besides those referred to, icre are are at lea$t two more who have some time been admitttd in Iowa, hose names are not known to the riter. These are in addition to the two entioned as admitted in 1878. Thus it will he seen that at least renly-six women have been admitted the bar in the United States, not less an seventeen of whom are in active actice. Others have studied law and impleted courses in law schools, but ,'ing unconnected with practice and unImitted, their names are not given.? 'licayo Inter-Ocean. Fashion IVotes. Surplice plaiting is used on the waists ' some of the summer dresses. Linen costumes embroidered all over e shown by some dressmakers. Black-thread stockings, embroidered pale tints, are new this season. Shirred trimmings will be found cveryhere and on all gowns this year. Some new sleeves are so tight that ey are buttoned from the elbow. Dotted veils are in fashion again. The e doctors are full of enthusiasm. Pompadour necks are now cut with an )wara point across the lower edge. Ladies are going into the pointed oe-toe business, possibly with the view being sharper than ever. Monflquetaire hats will be worn for mmer with plumes three-quarters of a trd in length hanging down to the oulder. Corduroy purses to correspond with e color of your dress are new. We lieve there is no change in the color of ie money. The "Copeau" or shaving fringe is >w superseding grass fringe; it- rembles a narrow tape crimped, and is metimes curled at the edges like wood lavings. New hosiery for summer wear is made 'fine Sea Island cotton in cream and astic tints, embroidered on the insteps id up the sides with colored embroidy in jardiniere effects. The new out-door garments, mostly ' camel's hair, are made up :is mantils, short behind and very long in front, ther square, rounded or pointed. The immings are of fringe, plaited lace id passementerie ornaments. Galloons and embroideries for sumer suitsare in all colors. The galloons e of cotton in aL colors, such as blue, rown, or red, on ecru or white groundigs. They are altogether in very line jen work. Other galloons arc of beads, [ .designs of leaves and flowers, and are >ed to trim faille and foulard suits, jme galloons are of cotton embroidered i the shape of flowers, and also in open ork resembling velvet or chenille. Old-fashioned scarfs, like those worn lout fifteen years ago, are again in use. hey are now made of black satin, trimied with fringe or lace. "Goree-deigeon " silks arc again in vogue. Whole illets have not yet been made of this ilored silk, but the first sfep has been tken by making out of this material >me very pretty bonnets. One of these jnsists of a small capote, composed of diadem of plaited garnet-colored velJt, with the drapery of "gorge-deigeon silk, and a large bow forming the 'own of the bonnet. The ribbon of lis bow is taken down to form the xings. On the left side is a bunch of owers, and toward the middle is a nail garland of fine flowers in the shades f the taffetas. Mode* ofDrciilnitthe ITalr. The ways of dressing the hair are very uried. Young ladies dress their hair i light puffs and crimps on the top, and ed in torsades, which fall in the back P Mm noflr Thp hair ia not, worn as luch over the face jus formerly, and lere are not as many hangs to be seen i the new coiffures. Several methods I dressing the hair for different occa sions are described as follows: lor a young lady, the hair may be dressed very nigh in the back of the neck. It A k01 is crimped in front, and slightly puffed in the back. A band of narrow satin Tin ribbon is taken around the hair, with an in loops in the center. Another style is that < called the coiffure caprice. It consists liar c of a small bandeau taken over the fore- relatf head and up on the side. The back hair " I is taken from the neck up to the top of of pi the head and arranged in heavy in Sa twists, fastened by bands of satin, mont A coiffure for evening wear is arranged mode by parting the hair on the side and Earh taking it across in a waved bandeau, tend" Then a piece of hair is tied on the top of prom the head. The remainder of the hair m rej forms a cato^an in the back. The piece lying on the top of ths head forms a large gor- dyinj dian knot and Iood. The back of the top woux of the head is arranged in hair loops, deatt placed in a variety of ways. Curls and been sprays fall down the back. An ind( or penet coiffure consists of two or three crimp ed Ther puffs on the back of the top of the he:id. strug theln back is a torsade, forming viry fortu loose loops, falling down below the ncck. was In front of the puffs on the top of the head modi the hair is taken over the forehead in his ]( ; small curls. A suitable way 01 dressing reach ' the hair for an elderly lady is to part it went 1 on the side, forming a flat bandeau in the and r 1 middle of the head. On one side if seem< ! placed a rubv rose. A black lace veil if supei taken from the top of the back hair down, sive < 1 and fastened low in the neck with a medi; 1 rose. ' passe r * cd fc A Silk T??t. deav( A writer, speaking of the various tack, j kinds of black silk, gives the following asuff directions for detecting the spurious with ! from the genuine article: "Take ten knife fibers of the filling in any silk, and if by saw ; breaking they show a feathery, d*y ana cruel , lack-luster condition, discoloring the malif fingers in handling, you may at once force tur'e of the presence of dye and artifi- stagg 1 cial weighting. Or take a small por- bysta sion of these fibers between the thumb ary s [ and forefinger and gently roll them over overc ' and over and you will readily detect in ed mi 1 the one gum, mineral, soap and other thing i ingredients, and the absence of them in and e the other. A simple but effective test cool i oi purity is to ourn a smaii quantity 01 scque the fibers; pure silk will instantly crisp, pated leaving only pure charcoal: heavily picioi ,l dyed silk will smolder, leaving a yel- ty. ] J low, greasy ash. If on the contrary you gers , can never, 'or hardly ever,' break the man. ; ten strands and they are of a natural lus- periei . ter and brilliancy, and fail to discolor strug the fingers at poin'of contact, you may ed u be well assured that you have a pure burly ! silk, that is honest in its make, durable with in its wear." black neck, counl Area and Popnlation of the United States. The New York Express Almanac has the gfons following tabulated statement of the area and population of tho United States by States and ' ' Territories and geographical divisions, accord- rePut ing to the estimated population in 1879, and the C0^1P number of traders in business. This statement ' * , presents the matter in a concise and clear early l'onn. It is proper to add that the Territory of from Alaska is not taken into consideration in these gentl computations. The area of this Territory up fr brings the total area of the United States up to one o 3,603,884 square miles. by oi States and Area E>timolol Xumber in WPrp Territorial. Square Mies. Population. BuMnrts. . . U79. 1879. Cialtj EASTERN 8TATE8. One < Maine 35,000 6-50,000 11,004 ofwl New Hampshire 9,280 320,000 7,587 refer Vermont 10,212 330,000 6,751 I wai Massachusetts... 7,800 1,821,000 36,713 Jy lo( Rhodo Island... 1,306 300,000 5,123 9pim 1 Connecticut.... 4,750 630,000 12,587 partr ' Total 68,348 4,051,000 79,765 MIDDLE STATES. g^y : New York 47,000 4,995,000 73,208 he hf New Jersey.... 8,320 1,132,000 *19,500 chief Pennsylvania... 46,000 4,125,000 60,454 carn{ Delaware 2,120 145,000 3,635 then Maryland 11,124 860,000 13,329 ZTZ . District ol Co- 1 lurabia 64 195,000 2,713 Totii 1 114,628 11,452,000 229,385 v,erti the s SOUTHERN' STATES. ? 2 movr Virginia 38,348 1,300,000 10,144 West Virginia.. 23,000 500,000 5,390 p North Carolina. 50,704 1,170,000 6,635 ! South Carolina. 34,000 950.000 4,593 we n Georgia 58,000 1,375,000 7,748 83 Florida 59,268 250,000 1,879 se.-?? ALtbama 50,722 1,150,000 5,315 milw Mississippi.... 47,156 1,000,000 5,525 notK 41.346 1.000.000 7.859 Fran Texus" ...... 274,356 2^000^000 11^900 lect,1 Arkansas...... 52,198 700,000 4,211 infif i: Kentucky 37,680 1,500,000 16,846 affair Tennessee 45,600 1,400,000 8,243 of nii Total 812,378 14,295,000 96,297 WESTERN STATES. lllS p Ohio 39,960 3,120,000 49,158 or m Indiana 33,809 2,040,000 25,402 gentl Illinois 55,410 3,500,000 51,075 respe Michigan 56,451 1,500,000 23,336 jiTCD 1 Wisconsin 53,924 1,400,000 20,805 +uai Iowa 55,045 1,700,000 22,760 p.ipi. Minnesota 83,531 765,000 9,127 Missouri 65,530 2,400,000 26,878 ^ Kansas 81,318 700,000 8,863 . Nebraska 75,995 500,000 4,029 A,: to til Total 600,973 17,625,000 240,933 how PACIFIC STATES AXD TERRITORIES. Oregon 95,274 120,000 2,679 n.,i,1SSOS1 7fiO 000 17.058 Colorado 104,500 200,000 2,522 D?eal Nevada 112,090 100,000 1,516 ncar Utah 84,476 1,265 to 1 New Mexico... 121,201 369 was Wyoming 97,883 394 putti Idaho 86,294 299 tire J I Dakota 150,932 467,000 840 way, i Montana 143,776 401 Zufll [Washington.... 69,994 816 see." j Arizona 113,916 202 wll'ic Total 1,369,317 1,762,000 28,361 jJjj1", Grand totals..2,965,644 49,185,000 774,741 51 bla no o ? sunn Extra Women. lister 1 In some mysterious way. girls accum- c' ulate fiister than men. What becomes tingi of the surplus women? Certainly they out s j do not all lit into the ranks: they do not j rus"( i all marry; hundreds and hundreds must niPn? . j _ .i i j I sfnn i exist in some way ouisi??e .inn ueyonu ? ! all domestic ties. The inequality ami lVft,n j consequent pressure is far in excess of ?lon:l I that which might be expected, judging V' i only from the mere nominal disparity, ^UIU! I the mere numerical difference. It arises -v"u 1 from the obvious circumstance' that, :it "r ' while practically speaking, every women ni:l ' 1 is competent to marry, the men. having !ll'y f provided homes and the necessaries of s|liyp i life, can only be said to present a few t,1('P | who are eligible. There is always hope 'imJ' * I for a man; some chance may at any time "ie 'A 1 give him a lift; but it is to be feared that noJ}f I to very many women there comes a time, kick, I and that early in life, when, though ni Y i without vanity they may call themselves untl1 ' handsome, the hard facts of existence j crush out the hope of ever fulfilling their ; natural destiny. Some bear their fate Fe? philosophically, and contrive to ex- guilt. | ract enjoyment from life; while others Kn go on their lonely way the victims of force j disappointed hopes. f>,.r ? upon An International Postal Card. I ?V!!!: , uon. The Postonice Department at Wash- j.j ington has approved a design for a new ? j international two-cent postal card pro- i.,irp: vided for by the Universal Postal Union, Y:ow, I and the recent act of Congress. On the K0fnv, upper left corner are the words "Universal Postal Union, United States of America," in English and French, the Ange Postal Union requiring that such in- ^ron , scription shall be in the language of the country from which the card is sent and y 'iri jn French; and on the right upper coiv tlisit i ner is the stamp consisting of a head o fancy Liberty, copied from the gold double JUdgn eagle, suiTounded by a ribbon border. | y10 .r with a monogram " U. S." at the top l'etaiii !>nil <i luiftlp nt tlip hnttnm with tlu> Olli i figure "2" in octagon blocks on either I misfo j side. In the upper half of the circle arc j with > I the words " Postal Card," and in the J out of I lower half, "Two Cents," The card <*oura j has a neat border around the edge on the ; whist | address side. The plates will be pre-j of life ; pared as soon as possible, and forwarded ! are or i to the manufacturer of the cards i the rij STRANGE IF TRUE. ctor has a Remarkable Mental Fill on ?The Murderer and his Victim. e San Francisco Chronicle publishes terview with a noted physician of nty who is the possessor of a pecuinfer of mental power, in which he 4 !s the following experience: t was in the fall ot 1851, in the days s imitive morality and laxer justice n Francisco- I had been but a few t ;hs in the city, and had become irately established in my practice. ^ j one morning I was called to ata man who had attained some inence as a speculator and operator c il estate. He had been discovered P upon the floor of his lodgings in a I condition from half a dozen knife n ids, the horrible instrument of his d l still remaining where it had last i. '^4.. u:u UJJ.U5L IlltU iild UUUJf IU bl?C IJ11L, y mating through the right lung, n e were evidences of a desperate " gle having occurred before the un- (, nate man yielded to his late. He ^ entirely unconscious in the spasc gasps of death, and he breathed ist in a very few moments after I led the spot. As his last breath out I became conscious of a new nysterious presence, and my mind ed to pass under the control of a ior mental power. I yielded a pas- t, >bedience to the influence, and im- . ately the scene of a death struggle ' d before my mental view. Itseem?r an instant as if I was myself en- . aring to ward off a murderous at- 11 With one hand my assailant held P beating grip upon my throat, while, c the other, he plunged the deadly c again and again into my body. I his olflrinlipd teeth, and his fierce, o eyes gleaming into mine with the tl jnity of a demon. Such were the h and horror of the impression that I P ered and fell, as if in a faint. The .nders, who were inured to sanguin- a cenes, supposed that I had Deen ti :ome bv tne spectacle of the murder- M in, ana their comments were any- y, but complimentary to my nerve xperience as a physician. But the u ind cereful manner in which I subntly performed the autopsy disai what might have been a latal sus- , a cast upon my professional capaci- j [ found the marks of clenched finupon the throat of the murdered , I knew that I had beheld and ex- " need the incidents of his death- ? gle precisely as they were impress- ~ pon mv own mind. The stout, ^ man of my vision, full whiskered, 8' a red shirt, slouched hat, and a : kerchief tied loosely about his t< and that fierce, fiendish glow'of t\ ;enance, I could never forget. But aj not recognize the ana in those st suspicion was not safe, based even ii better foundation than the pretenof a soothsayer. I did not care to 0| *d either my life or my professional ation in a manner tnat could ac- y, lish no good purpose. cj ears alter tne occurrence, m T.ne jj part of thfl '60s, I was returning a trip to the East, when I met a eman on the steamer on the way J] om Panama. He came aboard at * f the Mexican ports, accompanied R le or two others. Acquaintances speedily made, and the usual sor on shipboard was cultivated. ivening we were seated at a game list, and the gentleman I specially ? to had taken a hand as my partner. " 3 leading out a suit, and incidental- 81 )ked across the table to catch an in- P tion from the countenance of my u ler. Instantly a spell came upon The features of the gentleman as- fi id a malignant expression; his full A beard was restored to a sable hue; tl id on a slouch hat, a black handker- v ^ a red shirt?it was the horrible in- n ition of my vision, standing beside ti lurdered man. The shock overcame * * ' 1 J 1. 1 C. ma i reeiea limp anu umpires uuui c hair. A glass of water revived mo, a disposition to sudden attacks of s go was the explanation I gave to n jrmpatliizing group. The following h ling the gentleman approached me n e leaning upon the rail and accosted ivith a cordial salutation. 'Have v ot met before?1 he inquired. 'Just e ou were taken ill last evening I a ed to catch a sudden glimpse of fa- c irity in your countenance.' 'I do e [now,1 I replied; ' were you in San g cisco in '51 r 'Yes?notaslrecolhe again stammered. I was look- . n his face again; his features seemed 1 i to gather that horrible distortion 1 ilignity; it held me as the fascina- ^ of a serpent, and with a desperate f 11 turned away and hurried from ' resence. No explanation was asked r ade on either side. I have met the F [eman often since?a wealthy and 1 Kited person?but there seems to be ulsive force between us, and of mu- ^ accord we keen aloof. Do we know i other's minds? I cannot tell." Ij . Little Story About the Zulus. ; missionary some years ago preached r e Zulus ^bout hell, and told them hot it was and how surely they r id go there if they did not change r courses. A Zulu chief, having ^ i him, invited him to dinner. The j ended, the chief, says a South Af- ] i newspaper, turned sharply round < lie missionary and said: "What that you said this morning about ng the great Zulu people in a great ifter they were dead? Come this and I will show you what the s are; you don't know them, I can _ He took him to a pile of wood, r li was of tremendous proportions? j g as a bay store?and had it set fire to '( ound. When it was properly in t '/p nnrl rrjivfi out so much lieat that . ne coul<? come ne:ir it, the kina: noned tlie two regiments who han , led to the sermon and ordered them j large in the burning pile and ex- t lish it. Naked as they were, with- ( lioes or any covering at all, they r ed into the burning mass like mad- | raving and yelling, and did not f till hardly a vestige of the lire re- j ed. The king then said to the mis- e iry: "You have seen that. That ( lat we will do with your hell. The t 3 won't play with your lires, and e lad better clear-out of this country a ice, or I will have a 'little fire' j for you to put out." The mission- v ook the hint, and left the kraal the q evening. Is it any wonder, :isk j eople, after this, that Gattling guns .. ocket batteries have no terror for ulus??and it is certain they have , The Zulus, when ordered to at- ' attack; and though they may lie j. n down by thousands still come on, t they conquer or die. t Words of Wisdom. ^ ir naturally quickens the flight of r ! x owledgeis more than equivalent to j r e irsare the gift which love bestows j j' the memory oi tneansen anutney ' ivail to keep the heart from suffoca- :1 o w many useful hints are obtained 11 tiance, and how often the mind, 2 ed by her own ardor to distant 5, neglects the truths that lie open 0 c her. ? vare of him who is slow to anger, j, r, when it is long in coming, is the j, ger when it comes and the longer a Abused patience turns to fury. [] i fancy is the ground of passion, v mderstanding which composes the n qualifies the passion; but when -j lent is the ground, the memory is t] ecorder ana this passion is lone j, led. " s1 it brooding over your troubles, I tl rtunes and losses. A brave man, si i soul in liini worth anything, gets si 'such pitiful rUtsand laughsatdis- w gemcnts?rolls up his sleeves, n 7 ... J _? __y .1.. I.. .: i. les :inu sings, and ni:iKcs me im-su n; . The earth is not Paradise?vou K ilv on the road there, if you lake ti jht direction. m ITEMS OF INTEREST. What does Vicksburg,JMiss.? The scavenger is an offal fallow. An advance agent?A money broker. The municipal debt of Paris is $397, 23,229. ' Lost at sea?The contents of tha tomach. 1 A motto for a policeman?Let us club ogether. How tc get rid of your fat?Sell it to he soap-grease man. You wouldn't think it, but a bedover is like a blister. It's a counter iain. Why is a rosebud Lik? a promissory ote? Because it matures by fallingr ue. If a man will tell me what he thinks v his nabors, i kan tell him what his Abors think of him.?Josh Billings. To be interesting a speaker should be ail of his subject, unless he happens to sc speaking against liquor.?Picayune. The man who has a sulking wife Can't please her with a sonnet; There's just one way to end the it rifeBay her a* summer bonnet. rwr t t ni ? rr cucriuv vuictvct. A six-year-old boy, who had been imrisoned up stairs for some mischief, ' raised" a fine brood of chickens by fishng with a hook and line from his prison nndow. J. P. Sanderson, chief elephant catcher 1 India, has caught ninety-four elehants since his arrival at Mysore in Deember. Four men of the elephant- " atching force have been killed. " I have read the papers P! was the reply f a simple appearing old gentleman from tie country, who was asked to take a and in a game of cards on an Erie train. '. S.?Now is the time to subscribe. To be Tbusted.?One grocer asks nother: "Is Mr. a man to be rusted ?" " I think you'd find him so," ras the reply. "If you trust him once ou'll trust him forever. He never pays." An old bachelor, who particularly ated literary women, asked an author3s if she could throw any light on kisslg. " I could," said she, looking archly b him, but I think it's better in the ark." The New York Commercial Adreriiser as heard from the war in South Ameri4. It says: "A terrific engagement. )ok place on the 5th ult, between the hilians and Bolivians. One brigadiereneral lost his hat." ' A few years ago it was not uncommon > catch lobsters weighing from ten to / ventypounds' weight; now the averge is from three to six sounds. Lob- . ?rs are rapidly diminishing under an icreasing demand for canning. A most interesting sight to see is that f a young lady with " lipS like rubies," rith " teeth of pearly whiteness," and pith cheeks thatnave stolen the "deep irnation of the deathless rose," with er mouth full of gingerbread! Don't you wish sometimes that the r/viO/i umiild ofnn fulUnff and let vott link? And have you never been exaserated to hear rfome one utter the very lought which you had cherished as il your own, ana which you were just oing to utterP ' An Illinois man sleeps every night on spot of ground left bare for the purpose 1 his noose, and has an attendant hovel clean earth over him to take the lace of bedclothes. He believes that 1 this way he guards against disease. It is our good nature and not our fine irniture that makes home attractive.? Tew York News. But when all tie bed slats fall out of place, and raken you up with a crash about mid* ight, what becomes of your good na ure??New Haven-Register. Every young man in the Sioux nation nrrifis a nnfiket-miiTor. either of class, acked with quicksilver, or of some hining metal; but an Indian maid is ot permitted to look at a reflection of ier face, even in a brook, for this is the lasculine privilege. A boy ten years old, son of W. A. A1 iert, while playing in a corn bin in the levator at Peniield, 111.,was drawn down i spout which Was discharging into a ar, and was drowned in the corn. No fforts could rescue him, although foi ome time his gasping could be heard. Instructor in German; after astonishng the division by the announcement * hat the German words for "heaven" nd 44 shirt" have the same root?4' Mr. ?., can you see any resemblance between leaven and a (clean) shirt, for instance?" Jr. X., hesitating?'14 Well, sir, they are >oth good things for a man to get nto \"?YaIc Record. SHOULDN'T BE MISS-ED. The antiquarian's bride Miss-Terry The tailor's Miss-Fitts The billiardist's Miss-Cue The cynic's Miss-Ann-Thrope The atheist's Miss-Bel 1-Lief The editor's Miss-L-Laneous The boy's Miss-Chief The politician's..: Miss-Count The monk's Miss-Sal The soldier's Miss-He father Time's Miss-Spent Everybody's Miss-Fortune >anta-C laus' Miss-L-Toe Perhaps this is all a Miss-Take.?Boson Commercial Bulletin. The Keely Motor Again. John W. Keely, of Philadelphia, whose notor has been the subject of so much idverse criticism for years past, now :laims to have completed his work, and hat he has been able to satisfy the eximiners that he has claimed nothing but vhat lie is able to luinn. ine generate vhich lie now has in use is capable of )earing a pressure of 25,000 pounds to lie square inch. This machine holds but >ne quart of water. In operating it, he >uts in a glass of water and nothing else; hen moves a rod on the outside, which >pens :ind closes a four-way valve, and nstantly projects into reservoirs connectd with the machine and with each other* )ne quart and one pint respectively of he elastic substance produced at an nergy of25,000 pounds to the square inch md without introducing any more water xhausts and reproduces this substance vithout decrease of its energy for hours. The substance produced is convertible v nto a vacuum, and a vacuum must be >roduccd before the machine can beoperited. Mr. Keely gave a practical demontration of his motor in the presence of a lumber of spectators. After pouring in he tumbler of water, lie directed attenion to a large scale beam. On this beam here hangs weights, which, when raised, rould indicate a pressure of 15,000 ounds. Or. raising the lever of the nachine the arm of the scale went up nth a bound, showing that thejiressure equircd was alfeady attained. The next x peril writ was to produce what Mr. Leely denominated his motor gun. Tin's 3 simply a pipe of steel about as Ion;; as n ordinary gun barrel and ?he breech pen. The breech is so constructed that t can lie screwed into a socket. This ocket communicates with a receptacle rom which, by the lurnin/r of astopock, the mysterious power can be intantly released. The gun was loaded rith a large bullet, about half an inch n diameter, and then Mr. Keclv placed l fron* two pieces of pine plank, each bout six inches in thickness, and behind hem a steel plate was hung against the rail. This was about eight feet from the luzzle of thegun. " All ready." Crack! 'he building shook with the shock, nin v,,>on firpd .ind the flattened ullet was picked off the floor below the :eel plate, against .which it had gone, irough the pieces of timber. Several milar experiments to prove the explove and expansive force of the motor ere shown, and always with the same .'suit. All this time.no further power nd been made in the generator, but Mr. eely now renewed his force by simply irning the lever, but without using any iore water. ^ q