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E . ; ... . _ ^ i-^-LL-?1?^'j&j ' ' ; " ' ' i n, . ;. v ' y '' ' '* -.r ',-?*.? * '* ** ABBEVILLE PRESS & BAKU?'1 - i-> ' t '> .! .?<< >.i>j , ?? r ;J| v . '". "' ' ' ' >" "U'tl" x> f-'tj- . / i{ ,% * ... .! >; ?? w ?/?,} ../twi-ir'ty/tkittVfSi^\ ' fV: .. t;4? tt ' ? BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. . ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1879. NO. 7. VOLUME XXV^< " % = 'lfc.V till*; ^ , ?? ? ' . i ?- 1 , _t The Owl Critic. A LESSON TO FAULT-FINDERS. "'Who stuffed that white owl?" No om spoke in the shop; The barber was busy and couldn't stop; The customers, waiting their turns, were al reading The Daily, the Herald, the Potl, litth heeding The young man who blurted out such a bluni question; Not one raised a head or even made a sug gestion; And the barber kept oa sharing "Don't you see, Mister Brown," Cried the youth, with a lrown, " How wrong the whole thing is, How preposteious each wing is, How flattened the head is, how jammed down the neck i?? In short, tho whole owl, what an ignorant wreck 'tis! v I mr.ko no apology; I've learned owl-oology. I've passed days and nights in a hundred collections, And cannot bo blinded to any deflections Arising lroin unskilllul fingers that fail To stuft' a bird right, lroin his beak to hi3 tail. Mister Brown! Mister llrowa! Do take that bird down, Or you'll soon be the laughing-stock all over town!" And the barber kept on shaving. " I've studied owls And other nigh? towls, And I tell you What I know to be true: An owl cannot roost "With his limbs so unloosed; No owl in this world Ever had his claws curled,. Ever had his legs slanted, Ever had his bill canted, Ever had his neck screwed Into that attituc < . He can't do it, boca.ise 'lis against all bird laws. Anatomy teaches, Ornithology preaches, An owl has a too That can't turn out so! I've made the white owl my study tor years, And to sco such a job almost moves me to tears! Mister Drown, I'm amazed You should be so gone craze! As to put up a bird In that fiosturo absurd! To look at that owl really brings on a dizziness; Tbo man wko stuffed him don't hull know his business !'* And the barber kept on shaving. " Kxamino those eyes. I'm filled with surprise Taxidermists should pass Off on you such poor glass; So unnatural they seem They'd make Audubon scream, Ar/l -Jobii B t roughs laugh To encounter such chaff. Do take that bird-down; Have hun stuffed again, Brown!" And the barber kept on sharing. [ ' With some sawdust and bark | 1 could stuft in the dark | An owl better than that. I could make fin old hat Look more like an owl Than that horrid fowl, Stuck up there so stiff like a sido ot coarse leather. f In tact, about him there's no? one natural leather.'' Just then, with a wink and a sly normal lurch, The owl, very gravely, got down from his perch, Walked round and regarded hi3 fault-finding critic (NTho thought ho was stuffed) will) a gl-trce analytic, And then tairly hooted, as it he should say " Your learning's at fault this time anyway; Don't wasto it again on a live bird, 1 pray. I'm an owl; you've another. Sir Critic, ood uay!" And the barber kept on shaving. ?Jas. T. Fields, in Harper's Magazine PLAIN MISS CAREW. I .?hall never forget that happy summer at Harpswell. a quaint old peninsular town up the Ca*co bay. I don't know just how we haDoened to L'O there, but how pleased every one was with the old-fashioned houses, and the cottages built on the banks of pretty coves, and tne Atlantic booming |ind thundering and foaming right uudcr our windows! Dear little cottages, with piazzas and balconies and slender chimneys, and poplars bending over the roof lovingly ! And strong, more substantial farmhouses, with narrow windows and tiny ** panes of glass; gardens filled with poppies and dahlias, and always beautiful; perfumy lilacs, meadows fresh with buttercups and clover and tall marguerites. D^ep green woods, fields of corn, and everywhere a great quantity ?f roses. And such massive, rugged rocks, and grand views from the hills overlooking the sea; and all over the island that peculiar hoarse, musi cal sound, called the "rote," comes in from the ocean and adds a plaintivenesa to the lovely summer days. We were a party of seven boarders at Mrs. Sennett's cottage at the head of Lo. well's Cove. It was in reality a stout old house, but some romantic wanderer had . named it " Pearl Cottage," and as such we knew it. It was the most beautiful spot imaginable. Had it been a veritable Eden there could have been no softer beauty than greeted us on every hand. A wide garden brightened the space between the bank and the house and filled the air with perfume. The cove was shaded by huge willows of a hundred years' growth, and many birds sang in their branches. The soft, caressing breeze tinged our cheeks with healthy color, and a July sun added a not ur.Irconiing brownness. A most unconsciously we drifted into familiar, friendly intercourse, and were happy and easily pleased. Nature, in her grand moods, shames us out of our artificiality. No one reproved a loud laueh, a w leap, or even a run flown the level road. We wera all so happy and gay and brimming over with spirits, it was simply impossible to be dignified, and curb our unruly, boisterou* natures. We were having a delightful row one evenine, and returned rather late. There was a light in the sitting-room contrary to our custom, and a trunk and bag on the piazza. '' 3om?body hap come,'"' cried May Derry. " Here's ? m un's trunk?I fan tell iyi the canvas?and, yes, here's a card. Oh, girls! what do you think? It is that Mr. Skidmore wq saw the day we went to the Neck ! Isn't is splendid ?" "Soil is," said May's winter. "Come here all of .von. 'Mr. E. Skidmore.' I wonder how he ever happened to come here. Won't we.lu.ve a,jolly time?" "Victoria,"' expostulated her mother. " Well, well, a nice-l -oking young man doesn't come to fiarpsv. -II every day. You haven't seen him, Mi?-' Carew," turning to a plain, dart;-evcd git i. " lie is immensely wealthv. and ha* a real gold-brown benrd, and fitifly yellow hair, and blue eyes with brown spots in them, and?" She might have gone on far on hour had not a hearty lauuh from inside the room ^ s tort led h?r. ' 1 tx-? your pardon," said a deep voice, and a tall figure appear-d in the doorway, " hut the description wa* too amusing," and again a merry laugh broke from him, in i which we all joined. I 5 "I suppose I was very rude," paid Miss i Derry, " but the deed is done, and I guess i we'll go in and have some lunch." i "If she would only not say,' I guess,'" ] 1 whispered her mother. "It is quite pie- I beian." 1 j We lound Mr. Skidmore a delightful ad- 1 dition to our party. Of good family, < t wealthy, a thorough man of the world, and 1 handsome, he had everything in his favor. The Derrvs wen?, to use Victoria's phrase- ! . ? i? ?*? i?i ??.j 1 j U!U?V, uvcr nc?xu anu cojo iw.v ??*?.?. him," and the gentlemen voted him a capi. tal fellow. He played croquet with a i steady arm and never-failing stroke, rowed .? well, sang delicious little songs in a tender, 1 manly voice, read aloud when it was too 1 hot for exercise, and made himself a most t attractive companion. f%iu the first he seemed to positively dislike plain Miss 1 Carew. In our games he avoided her no- < ticeably, never willingly ^looking at or i speaking to her. Did she propose an excur- ] sion, he declined to participate; did she : sing sweet, old-fashioned sours we liked so i much, he left the room. One evening she i had crimson rosebuds in her hair, and he said crimson rosebuds were his special < aversion. Once in stepping from the boat, t coming from a sail, he offered his hand to assist her, and almost flung her ashore. He 1 seemed to have taken an unaccountable antipathy to her. * One morning I was braiding my hair when there came a rap on my door, and 1 Miss Carew asked to come in. She was i I i j ?? ui.._ u?,i ? f UresM'll 111 11 unit: uaillici i/uuihi^ r>i>>?t?..v. .. . white sundown was pulled down over her s face. Knots of scarlet ribbon were on her 1 sleeves and down the front of her dress. 1 . noticed an unusual color in the brown s cheeks, and her brown eyes were moist- i looking. I "You have been crying, Miss Carew," I \ said; "areyou unhappy?'' [ " Not exactly unhappy. Miss Arden," she I answered, in her slow, sweet, legato voice, t " Only troubled, and rather vexed.'' " Can I help you ?" 2 "No, thank you. Yon are very kind, but it is nothing, after all. I came to ask if ( you will be good enough to let me take your t umbrella? I am going to the east shore -t and have been stupid enough to let Miss Derry take mine.'' i " Certainly," 1 said ; " and if yoiP? " 1 A loud, boyish laugh interrupted me. " Now, let me in, quick ! I've something c to tell you, Miss Arden !'' and May Derry i burst into the room. " I've found out all ji about Miss Carew," she said, breathlessly, a ' and why Mr. Skiduiore hates her and all. I have just? Oh, Miss Carew!'' she cried, 1 ! I didn't see you. I l>pg your pardon. Dear, ms! I am sure, if I had known?'' I " I beg you won't feel distressed. Ii you e have ' found out all aboi/t me,' perhaps you t will have the charity t* enlighten Miss e Arden ?'' "It's nothing at all," she blurted out; :i " only Miss Payne came over, and said you u belonged to the Carews of New Jersey, and Ii hey were a bad lot?fast men and vulgar <, women?and 1 told her I didn't believe it. 1 And then-she asked Mr. Skidmore, and he -.aid he detested a vulgar woman, and could > tell in a moment if they had good birth and i breeding, and? Oh, Miss Carew, I haven't I made you angry, have 1 ? Of course, I i I ilidn't reallv believe her." ... I i " It is all true," sui.l Annie Carew, quiet- ii ly. " I didn't consider it necessary to tell uy affairs to every one. And now, if you fi *ill get the umbrella, Miss Arden, I will ; 40." I When we were alone, I said: " Now, \ May, tell me why Mr. Skidrnore dislikes Miss Carew." t " I'll tell you all he said, Miss Arden. 1 Miss Payne said there was a mystery about i Miss Carew, and hinted at something rather reflecting on her character; and Mr. Skid- y :aore said it was her family was ^ruining 1 ner. Miss Payne told me afterward that } he hated Mis3 Carew because she had in- j trapped his brother into an engagement.j 1 This was two y-ars ago,and it is all brokerr Ii off now. Mr. Skidmore would not hear o. 0 it, I believe, and wrote to'Miss Carew, teil- n iug her his brother would be an outcast 11 from his family if he married her, and a :isked her f> set him free. It seems that n she didn't really care for him, but he was 11 wild about her, and they drifted into an en- 1 ^agemeJit. The whole family thoroughly .lisliked her, and Miss Payne sai<I no respectable people visited them. Tl.cy live in a fast set, and Miss Carew goes all about ; with no ckaperoiie and, I believe, gets dread- u lully mixed up with gossip. Mr. Skidmore would be glad never to see her t again." <] She stopped for sheer lack of breath, and u I said, Teeling a sort of scorn for a man who a :ould so speak of a woman: "Miss Carew "o may be all you say, but until I koow more Ii ibout it I shall treat her as I always have, h Vnd as for Miss Payne, she is a low, gos- s iping weman to repeat such a tale."', v She stared at me in amaze. *i *' I had no idea you were so fond of her,'' he said. " Do you know they say she is si i-alltd very fascinating? I have rather si pitied her because she was so plain." " What became of Mr. Skidniore's si brother?" o I "Oh, I believe he married somebody else. iiut I must pro now. You are not offended, n MifwArden?" u " No," I said, laughing; " not with such i giddy to in boy as you are." n 1 was greatly surprised by what May had h told ine. For the first time I suspected there was another nature in Annie C'arew tl than the indolent, careless one we saw. p There might dangerous fires wleep under tl ih.)se soft, brown eyes. There might be | o hidden depths under that cold exterior. | r And, now 1 thought of it, she wasn't so very ?i plain. She had lieautiful eyes, brown and n flear-looking; delicate eye-brows, full red lips, and masses of soft, dusky hair. If her si face was dark and thin, it was also full of b character. Certainly she was not to be ii pitied. Ii I was rather fearful as to how she would li treat May, but at teatime she came in smiling, and apologizing for being so late. 1< There was not a trace of any unpleasan tness } {< in the smooth face. She laughed si great | n ileal, and showed me a sketch she had made; | b a ridiculously long-neckec^bird was perched j ?.n the umbrella, and in its mouth a bit of o scarlet ribbon, over which it seemed puzzled. There was real expression in the ' small, uncanny eyes, and I laughed heartily. I "How well you sketch, Miss Carcw!" S said May, who was looking over my si shoulder. ii ' Yes; that is one of my Bohemian proHivities. One learns many things iike that d traveling over the world without a chriperovc.'' A There was no malice in the tone. It 1 -eemed merely an explanation. Mr. Skid- n more looked up quickly, and then went out of the room, abruptly. MissCarew laughed. " Have I shocked anybody '/"she asked, c lightly. b "Come out on the beach," 1 whispered. And when we were alone, I said, "Tell me v about it, Miss Carew." It was in substance what I hud heard once before that afternoon. She cared nothing for the boyish lover, and was glad to have the engagement broken, but the in- t solent, unjust words of Mr. Skidmorc had y hurt her cruelly. . s " Why,'' Rlie said, " I suppose he hates j i me a? he hates no one else in the world." i \ " And do you diglike him ?" " Miss Arden, I despise him." " I am very glad to hear it, believe me," " and' a tall figure strode past us down the * beach. Miss Carew burst into a laugh ' " I have added the last straw now," she * said. After that there was not even the scm- ' blance of politeness between them. Each ignored the otlier's existence. We walked and talked and played croquet indolently, I 1 n? before. Mr. Skidrnope was always with | : Victoria Derry, and I was drifting into a j dangerous liking for one of our company, j ; a roan with neither money nor good looks. :J I think we were all moderately happy, hut I was alarmingly so. All through the month we were favored with fine weather. May Derry said she waj? " full to bursting ' it pure delight. Living was a pleasure, J J uii! lite a grand holiday. Once or twice > , ' all went to Brunswick for a drive, but j ! for the mos' part of the time were lying ( jnder trees, or in the warm Hand, Cru like, reading or thinking. All the fis nen have high tenor voices at HarpRv ind sing songs of the sea, and wear itraw hats and look picturespue. It pleasure enough to sit on the rocks and 1 :heir melody rising free and unrestrai ivhile they mended their nets. It jeautiful, too, to watch the shadows con >ver the tree tops, and the hush of n :alling on all the land. One night we were out in the boat, Mr. Price drew in the. oars and let aoat drift. It happened unfortunately i \nnie Carew was placed beside Mr. Si nore, making it uncomfortable for both oon forgot it, however, in watching leautv of the beach and ocean in the i ow, softened light, and drinking in sweet fragrant air. "Such a scene as this brings up sleej nemories,'' said Mr. Skidmore. " With glamour of this soft beauty on a mat mgni je iorgiven lor aunost, anty rasm [ am strangely susceptible to moonl ind the fragrant spring air. Miss Ca; con't you favor us with a song and br he spell?" It must have affected him indeec rause hiin to speak like that, in that h ender voice to Annie Carew. " I shall he happy to o!>ligevou if eally desire it." " Oh, yes, do sing, Miss Carew," i everal voices. She sang a little boating song, all al 'waves".and "ripples'" and ''the sa ipon the shore," and she sang it bea ully. I felt like falling in love with he looked so handsome, and there wj launting pathos in the voice. Certal Vnnie Carew was not a plain girl. She i dangerously fascinating one. I reali t fully as she sat there in the moonlij ler splendid eyes sparkling and here oice touching one's heartstrings so clos Bohemian she might be; she was ir eautiful in that tender, gracious m han any woman I had even see:>. There was silence for a moment; t dr. Price said: " You sing like the sirens of old, 5 >rew, if one can judge from ideas. ' ears almost came, in spite of ray endear o be manly." She laughed softly, and Miss Derry e n an earnest way, "I do really belie1 lave fallen in love with her." That made us all laugh, and the li raft was turned homeward. Mr. SI nore walked up 10 me nouse Desiae tnd I asked him if he liked Miss Cart inging. " Yen, I diil," he answered; " and I y> could understand her real nature.'' He was more polite and friendly tow ler after that, and I began to hope foi stablished basis of good feeling betw hem, when an unlucky accident set tli 'ii the old path. I was tying up a rosebush one morni nd had nearly finished when my suji f string gave out. Mr..Skidinore put lancLin his pocket and drew out a banc f different sizes of cord, when a little : ?jn fluttered to the ground. "Oh, that's Miss Carew's haw," cr lay. " Miss Carew, lie has had it all irne." A flush rose to his face, as he said, in nnoyedtone: "The very fact of its ng in my possession shows that I had ;lea what it was." " Ob, but you did know, Mr. Skidmi :>r I told you about it the day she m lie sketch. Don't you remember the 1 nok it in his bill from the umbrel Vhere did you find it?" " Miss Derry, I really have no idea 1 lie thing came in my pocket. I assure; should not have cherished it.had I knc > _o lo.l,,'., ? " Why, it is no great harm, anyway, ou like Miss Carew?" "But I don't like Miss Carew. Thai iiss Derry, I don't like to.be teased." His face was flushed with annoyar nd I sighed as I thought of the misehie tad done. They were really Retting to ach other in quite a fair light, until r 11 his old dislike was revived. And . lie, too, seemed to think him more disagi ble than ever, for at dinner she scarc loticed him. In the afternoon she cam< iiv room for a book, saying she was go o the cave 011 the t ast shore for a whil< " I'm so sorry about that ribbon," I ss "It shows him him his true light, ^ ^rden. I am glad of it, for I was just f ing foolish enough to think I had b nistaken in him. It was a sultry, oppressive air, and I 1 r?A /* ttf\ r?llt CO [ tnftl' " H eck " and a sofa for the afternoon. I r ntil nearly four o'clock, and then sleep. When I awoke it was raining fi us!y . and was quite dark. Then a eavy peal of thunderstartled rae I rem< cred Miss C'arew. I went across the j nge and tapped, and looked in. The rc .as empty. I went hurriedly down fairs, and into the sitting-room. " Here comes Miss Arden, looking a' fie had seen a ghost,'' said Mrs. Dei tniling. " Miss Carew is out in this storm,' :>id, fueling as if I should faint; " and sc ne must go tor her.'' " My (Jod ! Miss Arden, what do j lean?" asked Mr. Skidmore, turning wl >the lips. " Miss Carew went to the cave this afi oon and has not returned, and I fear as lost her way." "It is sure death," began May, wl tiere was a trampling of heavy feet on iazza, and in a moment two men were :ie room, and had put poor Annie Cai u the sofa. Her long hair hung wet t irtrvlos) tr\ (InAf ilflfl lllA U'llltP fllCC ^ ??". j ...... eath-like in its dreadful calm. In an lent 1 knew what it was. " She is dead !'' said some one, in a c trained, harsh voice, "and never kn owl loved her. "'Oh, Annie, my ds ig, my love.'' And Mr. Skidmore fell is knees beside her and kissed the aw I*. One by one we stole out of the room i :-ft him kneeling there. The men 1 jtind her on the shore, and thought nist have fainted from fright, and 1 rousht her home. " Likely the Jightnin' killed her,"' s ne. "I've known such things!" I went to my room and wept bittei Poor Annie Carew !" was all I could s 'oor, unhappy girl. At the thought of 3 kidmore my tears flowed afresh. I ^ jiircely surprised that he loved her. ] is pride had buried his happiness. Later in the evening May tapped at oor. She was crying softly. " Oh, \ Lrden," she said, "she wasn't dead after t was only a fainting fit, and she can sp< ow. " And Mr Skidmore ?'' " Is in there with her, and he has b rvinif T triipris it's all ricrht between th egause 1 saw hira kissing her just now. And all the time he had been in 1 rith pluin Miss Carew. The Rubber Suit Man. Paul Boynton says it is his intent i) go down the St. Lawrence, down lissouri from Yankton to the Mis: ippi, and on tiie latter from Minnea ie to St. Louis. These trips made, 'oyager will have traveled 13,000 m m the great rivers of the world, lenies that he hits any design upon C ;ress in the matter of the adoption of uit by the navy, but declares that tli s a fascination for him in swimmi t is a mania with him. " I see a stre if water," says lie, " and I'm into Vhen I first got the notion, live yf igo, I had just returned from the ! avinir service and was on a visit ,ittslmrg. Happening to look out he window of my mother's house lie river I was seized with a sudden ire to go into the water. I acted oi it once and have followed it ever sine Ie will write a book, giving his act xperiences and adventures. An exchange advertises " A Sumi idyl." It probably refers to those el) vho idyl about steamboat wharves ; neadow river banks under prctenc ishing.?Meridcn Itcrordcr. soe- HOW LEADYILLE LOOKS. her re]]t A Correspondent's Description of the 0|(J Great Colorado Mining Town. Q was __ , , . , _ . , . . Em iear I rom the last of the freight camps it is q DC(j oniy a square or two into the busiest part fV waB of Chestnut street, the Bowery of Leadjj' ville, It is evening, and the plank side- ^ ielit Wa^s are so thronged with men that ??e< some are crowded off into the street. of J j The stares of .'ill kinds seem full, and T trade is brisk. The doors of the cam- exli ,l , bling-hells stand wide open, strains of at :i ,i\ music are heard to issue from them, and a j streams of rough-looking men constant- sov .1 ly pass in and out. A variety theatre oc- stii , cupies a prominent place on the street, r n, and a long line of men extends from the f j lhe ticket-office far down the sidewalk. An illuminated muslin sign and highly-col"ng orcd posters covering the front of the 4'ie building tell of the attractions within. y 1 he All this is taken in at a glance, and forms }*?* a jumble more or less complex in the of 'S"1 mind, fortlie stage-driver,no matter how nov re^> slowly his team may have toiled along ~00 eak during the day, now cracks his whip, II touches up the leaders, and dashes neei 1 t0 through the town at a brisk trot, or even cou a If- at a gallop. There is just time enough to and see that Chestnut street is lined with the vaii A?<imn Knil/liwrTofwn fhfflft nt* orrnti fnnr 4 ; vv* i)aiiiv uuilujui^o i/hvj uatvu, vi vi vii iv/ui stories in height, its architecture being a v said not unlike that of a liundred other West- hej, ern towns, and that it is full of life and alio tout activity. Il00 mds Turning to the left at the head of the jnuj uti- street amt passing on one side the neat j* her, brick builning owned and occupied by p0g m a the Bank of Leadville, and on the other jngt mly a drinking saloon sacrilegiously called by was its owner " The Little Church on the ized Corner," the stage passes up a broad, ' ?ht, well-built street?Harrison avenue?and j *, lear stops before the door of a large and at- (j p. ely. tractive hotel. The stranger's first sen- f(,]t lore sation on arriving in Leadville is one of ood surprise at the existence of such a city in -* sucti a place. With the memory of the '!,cc< hen difficult road over the range by Cou which he has come still fresh in his ?"S: jiaa mind, it seems almost impossible that ,s.:! pjie every evidence of civilization which he rors *socs about him and the thousands of cr;l' people who throng the streets can have 01[ taj(j been brought here by that or a longer if ,'e j not more difficult route in a single "year. Leadville is at once a city and a min- of 1 ttle ,n? camP/ Four streets ? State and M j Main, besides those already mentioned Rep ?Comprise the former, while the thou- left ' , sands of log cabins and board shanties wif< !WS scattered over an area about a mile an ,. , square constitute the latter. The four Lan lsh business streets have been built up so brat , rapidly that in some parts they have a wh< anl ,.ryje an(j unfinished appearance. The eral ' an sidewalks are not all on the same level, crar een each man having built that in front of out iem his store at a height that was convenient \ for himself, so that as you pas3 along tain mKt you are repeatedly obliged to* go up or toils Py clown one or two steps. None of the \Vor his streets are paved, but several of them the Iful have had a foot or eighteen inches of hut rib- broken slag from the smelting works ceef carted upon them and covered with f;lm ied earth, forming a kind of crude macadam sioii the much smoother and firmer than the |j]{0 natural ground. Log houses have pretty broi i an much disappeared from the principal be- business streets, although one large one ln;is no still stands on a valuable lot on Harri- the son avenue, and is occupied by a branch [>re, office of the Colorado State Lottery, an ade institution well patronized here. With . \ lircl the exception of an occasional solitary ,]u'(. la? tall pine that has been left standing, to h rnere are no trees in the city proper, and he i iow probably never will be, as nothing but n,?( rou pine trees will grow here, and, they very mU? iwn slowly. Scol When leadville first received its im- \ > If petus Chestnut street was the more c]0g popular thoroughfare, and business of Scol : is every kind crowded in there. Banks, sr>tti ' stabies, gambling houses, grocery, dry j,.ft ,c(. good's and bookstores, apothecary shops, S,.:IV f ] lodging houses, variety* theaters, dance ;imi houses and drinkingsaloons jostled dheh 0Ve; * w other, and bid against each other for T *_ building sites. As the city grew and it tow b icame apparent that everything could wjtl j* not be on one street, some of the larger 1V ,, mercantile houses moved up upon Harri- Held sou avenue, which is rapidly becoming on i *ng the Broadway of the city. The "gam- stra bling houses held their grouud, but the Rou j. dance houses, one of the variety theaters stra ,s and some of the other most, disreputable JU,d > i)laces of resort went to State street. Ver Thus by a sort of natural selection each hav street is gradually forming a distinctive blue character of its own, which will proba- br:ii ad" bly become more marked as the town the ?at} grows older. Harrison avenue with :,nd *e!1 the postoffice, the principal hotel, the oth in* largest dry goods houses and the most fore * a popular restaurants will be the fashiona- btMr hie thoroughfare, while Chestnut street witl >ns- wju retain the grocery and second-class alte; l0m trade. or y the The camp proper is the most interest- are ins ant^ picturesque portion of Leadville. lurg 'if As"th ousands of fortune-hunters rushed velv rrv, in here last winter and spring they cut hoft the trees and built their log cabins and trin ' I board shanties among the stumps, lay- wid me ing out no streets and taking no pains to old arrange their buildings with, any degree flats ,-ou of regularity. The roads, therefore, that in^s lite have since* been used wind about in a ;Vroi most bewildering way to avoid the cabins the ter- and the stumps, and make it as easy for 0ats she a stranger to lose himself .as in some of !Vl>u the older parts of Boston. The camp has a forw len life ofits own almost independent of the prt?t the city. " It has its " hotels and drinking jjnei sin saloons, its gambling shops and disrepu- fr0n ew table houses, and here and there a store Shit in,l with a small, stock of <?oods. Men milti vag live here actually as they do in a camp. S(.:ir ao. Women are almost unknown, and the tal miners do their own cooking over a lire for 1 on. built on the ground before the door, togn iew Every kind of meat is fried, and the fl:tt, ,rj. lare is necessarily coarse and without two on much variety. 1 have not been into any jn y, eet 01 tne camns, nut can imagine mat iuey are cheerless and anything but homelike. wiii j ?Z, L. White, in yew York Tribune. cn.a ^ A Golden 'Vown. 5<3U iad If there is any class of persons who need 'sympathy, tenderness and en- j>( aid coui-agement, it is the tired women of s(Ty our pleasant land. Weary limbs and so_c rl- hearts, puzzled brains, all attest the fact. j.]," av' There should be special privileges grant- oafT yfr" ed to them as much ;is to invalids. Tis ]'t(| icas ' All Sat "Over all pathways 9ome clouds must lower, froil Under all ieet some sharp thorns spring, tpeti mv Tearing the flesh to bleeding wounds; r? - Or entering the heart with their bitter sting, . j' . Upon all brows rough winds must blow, H all. Overall shoulders a cross must bo luyi, 11 2a* Bowing the l'orni in its lofty height, tab! Down to the dust in bitter pain." ty-fi True, into all hands there are duties fm?jj een thrust, and into all arms some heavy burdens given; to women doingdouble fjr" work, anxious, scheming, planning and U ?, ow Nor | economizing now uiey can managevwiy . detail of domestic life with least ex- j pense. Doing double, oh! triple work . themselves to save for this or tha-* until ins, their nerves are strained and shattered to "|un 'on a degree unbearable to themselves, and S!in.' "ie particularly offensive to others. But s's* into all hearts and hoincs and lives God's P?- dear sunshine may be brought, gilding (l the the ruins of life's great plain, if only -1 * i ,i? u rusi "?> nusDancis or miners wouiu nut mai . He gently with the wife or mother, cheer ^ !lr f?n- and brighten her life by :ill the means ' i1/ bis in their power, for sbe needs your help, slrtlc ere and your sympathy does much to buoy PP- her up, that she may be nerved with S1i am fresh vigor to impart sunshine in her nJ(( it- home and to all who are a constant drain W am upon her life and energies. I believe it ^ ife- to be a woman's duty to be a cheerful (V to companion, making iier home a model j1"" >f one, a place when; her husband delights !! ^ ?n to be. And if trials come she will lind "K! de- him ever ready to sympathize and assist ('j 1 it in making the pathway of life smooth. [ _ ! .and when our time on earth has expired JVv: ual we have woven a golden crown.?litIroitFrce Press. 1 hea ner Such as have virtue always in their corn aps mouth and neglect it in practice, are on t !ind like a harp which emits a sound pleas- tinn e of | ins; to others. while its own body is plin ! wholly ir..-:cusible lo t !?.* music produced, suit FOR THE FAIB SEX. Wew? and Notes for Women. anoeing is the latest pastime for jlish ladies. ut of 536 missionaries in China, 310 hem are women. hi"ty-eight ladies have obtained de , ?s in France as Doctors and Bachelors \rts. here were 835 notable works of art ibited by the lady artists in London ! , recent exhibition. lo/Nr itr.ic iw>pnt-.1v nrmninfpH nrnfpfi of cfomestic science' in the Illinois ' te Industrial School. aura Baker, of Clarksburg, Ind., was J ridden by her parents to Keen an apitraent with her lover, so she went j and hanged herself. Fith tlie first money that Christine i sson earned she built up thu cottnge : tier old father in Sweden, and he is f a peasant well off in the world's : ds. i f you are about to be roan-ied you 1 J six bridesmaids, who will walk in 1 pies, each two dressed exactly alike ] differently from the others. That is ( highest mode. ' . factory girl at Waterville, Me., has wonderful head of hair, its length 1 lg six feet three inches. When she ' ws it to fall unrestrained upon the : r it exceeds her height by eleven : IPS. very girl who passes i -ough the J ton schools now receives turee years' auction in various-kinds of needle- . k, and is capable of being an expert , nstress. It is said that the benefits J thing from this instruction are seen , ;he improved appearance of the chil- ! i's clothing in the schools and are j in thousands of homes. j he Sultan has conferred his secon4 ^ration upon the Baroness Burdett- 1 itts. It is a broad white ribbon, with I ing of crimson and green. With it j , necklace of curious workmanship, < li a star set in diamonds and em- ] (Is. This is called the "Chafakat," < Turkish Order of Mercy. Lady Lay- j is the only other English woman j ) has received this handsome tribute j 'urkish gratitude. 1 . Edmund Adam, the eminent French < ublican senator who died last year, I the whole of a large fortune to his i ?, an accomplished lady, known as ' authoress by the name of Juliette < iber, and who has the most cele- ' :ed political salon of modern times, ] re ministers, senators, deputies, gens, admirals and the elite of the lity world meet every week through*the season. French woman hrs written an entering book of travels, in which she > how she obtained sight of a Chinese nan's foot. Few ever see?not even husband?the bare foot of a lady; the autfroress, after great effort, sueled, amid the lamentations of the ily. The husband gave his permis. and retired. It had to be unrolled a mummy. Under the gold-emidored stocking were three folds of L-o, and the foot itself was a deformed s, the tops growing into the soles of foot, producing suppuration. Slimmer Itomid lint*. novelty for round hats is the intro tion of the white India muslin scarf e wound around*the neck, or else to Irawn over the face when a veil is led. This is the sheerest cream-white ilin, and is very effective on the tch turbans that are lately imported, ilack English straw turban lias the ely-x-olled brim covered with gay ten plaid velvet, while two full roes of myrtle-green satin are on the of the crown. The India muslin f is then twined around the crown, hangs down behind considerably ...,i I???H, I ?t JtVlll 111 l\*kkf?y VIA lie Fayal straw round lmts foi out-of- 1 n use are very daintily trimmed 1 shirred foulard inside the brim and renadine scarf around the crown; l-llower clusters arc under the brim . the left side and behind. But this w is very frail, and in its place th* 1 ^h - and - Ready or the Mackinaw J ws are preferred, with stiff' brims, ! in creamy yellow, brown or black. 1 y stylish black rough straw hats ! e the straight, stiff' brim lined with 1 k satin, on which three rows of gold i d are laid near the edge. Around 1 crown is a wide satin scarf; a red ' black wing is stuck in the left side. J ere, of rough yellow straw, shade the ; head, and are short behind without ig turned up. These are trimmed j i rosettes of raveled satin 1n two 1 mate colors, such as cream and red, 1 ellow with bottle-green; the rosettes I around the crown, and there is a ! e Alsacian bow on top made of black et <>r of satin-striped dark green rib. Sometimes a white muslin scart J is such hats, and still others have 1 e silk scarfs in stripes of blue with 1 gold or red with green. Regular i of rough straw have alternate plait- 1 " ' ' 1 i I !. - T? 1 ! oi Diacic ana 01 wiuiu uruiun mcu ind Aw crown and partly covering brim. Poppy buds, green wheat, , or bluettes with long stems, tied in inch, are then set on the back to lean rard on the crown. This is very ty on black straws with the brim d with buff foulard laid in plaits 1 the edge toward the middle. Ted hats of ecru batiste are m:ule to eh suits, and are trimmed with a fof Algerienne silk in bright Orienliues. The most dressy round hat :he "ay toilettes to be worn at Sara, and Newport remains the Leghorn with the brim pinched in to make or three curves and the spaces tilled rith hows of satin ribbon and flowTlie favorite trimmings are creamyte ostrich nlumes, Breton lace and m or old gold satin ribbon.?Harper's ir. About Storms. mjamin Franklin first mad e the ob ation, a hundred years ago, that all ailed northeast storms .came from west. This observation of our greatihilosopher. has been since so absoly verified as to constitute a law. great storms in this country move l the west in a general easterly diion?usually a little to the north of . Nearly all of them originate in section of the country marked on maps as the.Westcrn plains?the high e-land between the meridian' of nineve degrees on the east and the Rocky intains on the west, comprising -the i occupied by Montana, Dakota, raska, Western Kansas, Indian Ter- j ry, New Mexico, Western Texas and J them Mexico. The oricin of a storm ' (lis region may be stated as follows: \ air over a large sandy area, becom- 1 raritied by the intense heat of the ' s rays and rapid radiation from the ! ly surface, begins to ascend; the sture-ladcn air of the Missouri and s sissippi valleys and the Gulf of Mcxi- J n the one hand and the cold oufrent ' 1 the Rocky mountains on the other 1 ics in to take the place of that which 1 H-endin^ We have thus produced an 1 erlv wind on the front or eastern ' of the area of ascending air, and a ' terly wind behind, or on the western 1 of it.; to the south, north and interliate points the wind will blow to- ' d the center from those points 1 ind this area toward the center. 1 v. if the earth were flat and at rest, ' the air over this sandy area equally 1 ted, the wind would blow in straight ( u flin tnwnivl flip ] xt ; ascend und spread out at the top; i e would be no motion forward or 1 kward of the whole body of air, and ! condition of things might exist forr. But. owing to the configuralion ' motion of the earth, and the laws of ' t and its influence in evaporation and tlensation. a change is soon impressed his initial upward and centric moot the air, ami the collection of ' noniena which we term a storm re- 1 s. I Removing Metallic Substances From Grain. The introduction of grain-binding ^ machines employing iron ^ire to bind " the sheaves very quickly led to the dis- {: covering that the bits of wire, cut off ij each time a sheaf was bound, caused a great deal of trouble in the aftor process r* mi. _ . 1_ r\ j t( oi grinding, ineenus x, luewuu mixcu c with the grain readied the mill only to tj break ana scratch the stones and ma- ' L-hinery, and to produce friction and . heatingjthat sometimes resulted in setting fire to the mill. So serious be- p name this matter that the millers ob- t, jected to receiving any grain bound in ? machines using wire. Fortunately the ' difficulty has been surmounted by the P introduction of appliances for removing the bits of iron from the grain before passing it to the mill. Experiments showed that a common magnet hung m n n, grnin-spout would catch and retain h particles of metallic substances mixed d with the grain. Several methods of ac- si L'omplislnng the same results are now in 1' use in Western mills, and they may be s< divided into two classes: those using n permanent magnets, and those using li electro-magnets. It has been found that K fi dozen " machine" magnets (preferable F to "horse-shoe" on account of their V shape) hung in a grain-spout are suffi- v cient to arrest every particle of magnet o, metal, from pieces of wire several centi- si meters long, down to iron filings and o: metallic dust. The usual plan h' to saw av otTa portion of the top of the spout and to divide it into three pieces and cut lioles in each piece for the legs of the marmots. nlneincr fnur macnets in a row S :icross the spout. This gives three rows o jf magnets placed directly or diagonally tl across"the stream of grain, the diagonal ei position being considered the best as the Si ^rain is driven from side to suicide g< pussing, and brought into close contact h with the magnets. The magnets mav ft lie lifted out of the spout in groups of t1 four by taking off one of the covers, and may then be cleaned and put back with- ? >ut disturbing the others. Another ft method of hanging the magnets is to tl uut three slots across the spout, and J< liang the magnets on a rod with blocks between them to keep them in position, h By this arrangement, the magnets may " be removed one at a time, or in groups si ?f three or four, as most convenient. By -1 ;aking out only a portion of the mag- h lets at one time, enough of them remain to keep up the work while the Dthers are being cleaned. The metal idhering to the magnets is easily fi brushed off, two clearings in a day be- n f. 1 v,n^a IT !il?? 1UUHU aUlULR'Ul. iJJ UU1J )f soft iron in connection with coils of tl iviro unci a battery, electro-magnets may L oe used, and in lifting out the magnets tf it will only bo necessary to break the s: ircuit, when the metal adhering to r< ;hem will ingtantly drop1 off. Another S form of apparatus employs horse-shoe a: uagncts, having h paper or wooden fill- st ingbetween the legs, set upright on the t( ?nds of aims revolving horizontally in w i circular tank, very much after the i* manner of some forms of mixing-ma- u hines. The grain is delivered at the v nlge of the tank, and is pushed by the ci revolving magnets toward the center, ?] when it escapes through an opening in h the bottom of the tank. Another device nr ?mploys a series of permanent magnets b inn a traveling apron for conveying the E ?L?IIII tlWilJ <11LU lb mvo j/<i.70v,v4. \j rv*. u>u 4magnets. The only advantage of the ?' jse of electro-magnets is the facility of ? . leaning them by breaking the circuit P ind demagnetizing the iron. By suitable clock-work this can be done automatically, provided there are appliances for.shutting off th? grain and for catch- jj ng the metallic dust when the magnets -y ire thrown out of action. The first and g( nost simple of these grain-cleaning ap- ^ ilianccs was brought out by persons in- j, ;erested in mill property, and has been f, visely given to the public without pat- jj ?nt restrictions. The other appliances c ire patented.?Scribncr. ^ an j| Hereditary Colors. 15 The rule that children of light or dark- g wired parents should themselves have ^ ight or dark hair in due course is so tl ivell established amongst human beings u ;hat it is often difficult to avoid believing tl n its prevalence amongst the lower or- n lers of creation. Every principle of ana- n ogy that can possiby be appealed to is tl ertainly in liivor oi sucn a nenei; ana it t! s only the most positive and repeated j-; iroofs furnished)by experience that have {] radicated it from the minds of those who tl ire learned in horseflesh and dogflesh. S( Tlie unskilled multitude, or at any rate a j] rreat many amongst them, still imagine hat the offspring of a white mare and a .vhite sire is pretty certain to be white, md that in the case of cows, dogs, and, n fact, all the inferior animals, the same s< nference would be perfectly justifiable, p That this opinion is very largely held, p :ven by persons who outfit to know bet- l" ,er, is proved by the history of a case y vhicli is said to be about to come before h he Paris tribunals. It seems that there d lad been some considerable ambition & imongst the rabbit fanciers in France, if lot in other countries, to produce a rab- ^ >it or rabbits of red color; and a few ^ nontlis ago several of the journals which p xeat of agricultural affairs announced q vitli a flourish oftrumpe's that this long- g lesired object had been attained by a ? rentleman ofEtienne. Thereupon a Pari- p iian natunilist, whose life had been spent y nore amongst books and in museums y han in the open air, posted down with ^ ill haste to St. Eticnne to examine the g lewly-discovered prodigy. lie found q hat the report w:is strictly true; and a q >air of rabbits, whose skins might vie ? vitli the brightest carrots, were exhibitid to his wondering eyes. lie applied all g ivailable testa to the animals, with a p "lew oi sausiying minscu m;n ur'it- ?<? ?p 10 imposture in the case. lie washed q hem, rubbed them, and examined them v nost minutely, and, af.er they had stood ^ ill these trials satisfactorily, bought jr hem as a bargain for ?90. The pair were t :arried off by him, and in due titire the ^ emale red rabbit produced a small famly. It was here that the disappoint- *i nents of the naturalist began. The young >nes, instead of inheriting their parent's listinctive merits, were of' a common j1 niserable white color. The parents both lied, in spite of the attentions of the most q amous " vets " in the capital, and the j >wner is so angry that lie is said to have p nstituted a suit for damages against the j; jreeder and seller of the famous red rah>its. V K Bnnk Notes. K Every one who thinks about the mat- ^ er knows that bank notes are very care- ? ullymade; but very few aro aware of ? low much time and labor is, spent upon hem with the purpose of' preventing A mitation and forgery. For nearly two E mndred years the Bank of England lot os have been made at one factory, at al ^averstoke, in Hampshire, and by the [] ;ame family. The pulp is made from y vhite linen cuttings alone, no ra^s that lave been worn being permitted to be jj lsed; and even the number of flips into ej he pulp tank made by each workman is n egistcred by a machine; and each sheet, n us it is finished, is carefully numbered jt md booked to the person to whom it is S( jjussed. il The notes are printed at the Bank of n England, and, by very cleverly arranged (| nachinery, every note has some slight sj jifference Irom all that '.lave been print- f, id before, so that no two BankofEng- S| and notes can be alike, except by forg- p ?ry. rue numoer ui jjjuu huu? m suyuu ^ pears was about 01,000.000, and they fill jj ibout 18,000 boxes. If they wore placed 0 !na pil-, one upon another, they would V( make a eolunm one mile high; and if t| mined end to end, would form a ribbon S( 15,000 miles long. Their value is $15,- ^ 100,000,000, and they weigh more than u 112 tons. _______ d CI Two little negro boys at Paris, Ky., ft were nivon a pistol by their mother, who a told them to "go out and amuse them- n solves. They did, and one was killed. to TIMELY TOPICS. There is one phase of the crime of m er that is never published. The crii al in the commission of his crime p imself beyond the pale of earthly li 'his criminal, that always escapes jus i the suicide. The law once attemp ) indirectly punish the deed by the c scation oftne suicide's property, bul iiis punished only the innocent heir ras abandoned. So, also, was the t arous attempt at post mortem v eance by drivine a stake through ody of the suicide and burying bin: ;ic cross roads. Now,although the cri * still murder, there is no attempt unishing the criminal, who is beyt uman penalties. _ TTTM1' !- iL- Z? A.U i ne emperor vy imam la me luiu iu lember ol the Hohenzollern family w as lived to .celebrate his golden w ing. The fir9t case was that of Joint: lmamed the Alchemist, born ab 403, and who died in 1464. The th 5ns of Frederick William J. had a lore than fity years each of marr fe?namely. If rederick the Great, Pri: [enry, and Prince August Ferdinand russia. Of the four sons of Freder ITilliam III., three celebrated their er wedding and Prince Charles, brot f the present emperor, who married ister of tlie empress, was within a ( r two of the golden ceremony in 1 'hen his consort died. The following incident, related b; an Francisco paper as having occur n board a Pacific Mall steamship, she le stuff that sailors are made of: " i<jht a. m., while setting the awning vilor slipped overboarcT, The ship i oing some twelve miles an hour. T) ad a boat in the water, manned )ur men and the third mate, in fi) wo seconds after the sailor went oi nd in four minutes they had him le boat, a long ways astern. When ill in the water he had on boots w lie logs cut off, which he kept on. >st his hat and deliberately swam and put it on. When picked up ad his sheath-knife in his hand, h lg drawn it to be prepared for ast lark. On being taken aboard he t< hand at an oar, and helped hoist oat on returning alongside.1' One object of many people in go broad is that they can live and tra lore cheaply in Europe than they < l the United States, or at least tli ley can. A correspondent of the ouis Republican, writing from Gene ikes issue with the impression, lys that any one may occupy a good t wm house in the better quarter t. Louis, keep two or three serva nd dress and live in average Amerii ;yle for from two-thirds to three-qu ;rs of what the cost would be in Sou rn Switzerland. The average cost idividual cannot be placed at mi nder $2,500 per annum, if one wishes isit and reside in different Europi ities, and a lady friend of the cor jondent had just been obliged to ti er face homeward after an ei| ionths' stay, because the 810,000 gr y her father for a year's absence luropa had lasted her*only the shot j -r* ? 1 enoa 01 cunt*. i^uiupcuu uuvci ? i rerything else, expensive or reasonal ccording as the tastes of those part ating in it make it so. ? The camel-breeding industry is pre >in" in Arizona. Three years age era of those animals was taken 'uina, the intention beinj* to make tli 'rvieeable as bejists of nurden. 1 ttempt was a failure, the climate se< ig to disagree with them, and it ^ >und that they were not so useful as ttle mules. The owners turned amels loose and they roamed along rila river, apparently enjoying tl berty and profiting by it. They h red liberally and appear to have beet celimated and domesticated to the ion,[thriving as though they had b i their own native Africa. It is thou lie new generation of camels will sed to the alkaline waters peculia Ire Southwestern section, and can uide serviceable in transporting lineral products of that country aci lie long deserts of sand to places wl liey can be profitably worked. At iite the owners of the rejected and w ering beasts feel that there is monej loir camels, and will hereafter de^ :>me care to the breeding and rearin, n*m. ' t Postofflce Puzzles. Upward of 50.000 letters yearly - nt to the Dead Letter Office from oston Postoffice alone, and want roper direction is a large cause of he expert, who has become so by li pars of practice, is called upon to is powers to decipher some obsc irection often foun.1 on letters. rillmention a few cf them: ^ .<4s written. . Should be. .Ik Embright Old CambridgeM cheguepic Chicopec, M:iss. ins Cherry Point Shirley. M: oachetwaight Cochituate, Mass hell Mound Charlemont, Ma; ast Stanta East Taunton,Mf itchuork Fitchburg, Mass. Toodstocking Woonsocket, R.] falk White Waquoit, Mass. ew Night Steats. .United States. aint Cook Suncook, N. II. ituate Scituate, Mass. alam Salem, Miiss. intillion St. Helen's in Eni orn Duck Tliorndike, Mass. ire Curs Syracuse, N. Y. outh Irsland......Rhode Island. ea Body Peabody, Mass. Id Bearfield Old Dearfield, Mj orth Bull Rickey. N. Iiillerica, Mas: ordmerka North America. neeponsit Neponset. aponset Neponset. [arvil Hade Marblehead. (azatutas Massachusetts. laitha Win Methuen, Mass. [at A. Pan Mattapan, Mass. - - "? * 1 - ^ r laine .JocKey lUjincnaug, aujkjs. oocll Lowell, Mass. cgmonster Leominster, Mass an Cos Kansiis. immy Capilane. ..Jamaica Plain. apetchuicn Ipswich. dgin Hardchard.. Indian Orchard, aquette Tonell ? Iloosac Tunnel. fholeyolk Ilolyoke, Mass. lashyastcr C5 loucester, Mass. ananigott Connecticut. I'hicgsago Chicago, 111. ow Hnsot Cohas^et, Mass. onhkord Concord, Mass. nharlestone Chartestown, Mn ryee Glanchisenn.Ayer's June., Ms ar Jucking Ayer's June., M:i Incredible as it would appear th re actual directions that have been ie hand of the writer of this sket [y practice is to keep a note-book n ip, jmd anything unusual about a let iat attracts my attention -I make Ury of it at the time ready for ftiti ference. Of necessity, distributi lail is done with great rapidity. A a or in the oftiee said to me one day, < m ving the process,it would make izzy to do that." Indeed, I thin! light aftect him more seriously, fort :iy a fellow-clerk was working by i de when, all at once, lie staggered b: om the case we were working ......1. Ulinilnnua TK wis nnlv tf1 .1 LU1V ? 1111 WIIUUHW.1. -fcv nrary, however. After his eyes w \sted lie was .all right again. Afte aye rendered all the service in the pc (lice required of me for the day, I h: 'tired at night with painful eyes, anr ic morning, on awakening, the li nsation was pain in my eyes; hut tl rould recover again from the str pon them after a season of rest. 1 istributor meets with a great variety dors in envelopes; some are very 1 >r the eyes. The most objection:! re blue, particularly dark blue; in ight they are very hard to read.?L in Herald. A Model Newspaper. The down passenger train had ji topped at Ringtown. Among the p; mi* sengers that entered the rear ear wa; decidedly rustic-looking party. It cm iw. cietorl nf Purmpr Ppcc. his wife, and tlc<j daughter Susan. T)ie old gentlerr lte" and lady took a seat together; and { Pn* san, finding the next seat in front vara : ^ settled hei-self down on one-half oT it s ]t At the next station a fat young mi >ar- we:iring a linen suit and a high hat, < ?.n" tered the car and asked permission the occupy the remaining half of Susa 1 at seat. The young lady smiled apprc me ingly and gave her consent. They w ^ both communicative, and before I )nd train had gone a mile they were engaj in an animated conversation. 1 young man told her some strange thin ,ale Oue bit of information, especially, fil rho her with surprise. Her eyes flew w ed- open and her mouth at the" same time nn, " Say, pop," she exclaimed, turning out the-.old man in the sent behind," this ree a reporter of the Shickshinny Thund .lso ied "You don't say bo," replied the < ace man, putting on his spectacles to i of whether, being that peculiar persona ick he looked like an ordinary mortal, sil- "Yes, sir,1 said the fat young mi her "Iam connected with the best ne^ the paper in the world?or perhaps you rt lay the Thunderbolt?1 877 " No, he doesn't," Susan answered her father before that individual J: ^imeto reply. "Then vou had better subscribe," i j a plied the reporter. "Only two doll red a year; and any two numbers are wo; )ws all of that." At "No, I guess not." came from the*< s, a man. vas "Qh.no," said the old lady, at 1 liey same time shaking her head, by " It is too dear, added Susan." fty- "You wouldn't say that if you kn rer, what an excellent paper it is. Y ii) must remember that it is a humor< he paper and employs a paragrapher? ltli best in America. mere are no ia He jokes ever to be found in its colum for Why, you ought to see the effect t lie some of our paragraphs produce on < av- compositors. When a joke is handec rav one of them to "set up, he reads it, tl )ok bends himself into a rainbow, holds the sides and laughs. He then reads it to rest, and they all roll themselves on floor and laugh." "And doesn't the paragrapher, t inc laugh when he writes those fui vel things?" inquired Susan. can "Oh, no; paragraphers never lau, ink If they allowed themselves to do tl St. surrounded, as they are. by so mi va, genuine humor, they would soon lai He themselves to death. It is very diflici en- however, for some of them to refr of from laughing at all times. To ena nts them to do so, they go to all the funer 2an in the neighborhood and spend seve ar- hours every day in the graveyard. , th- " But," continued the fat young m per "our paper is just as valuable for nei icn vv e surpass every mm.! p.ijjui m } to rapidity with which we gather up fa 3an and Jay them before our readers. To. re- comphsh this a reporter has been pla< lrn on every .street comer in town, and co ght munication by telephone established /en tween him ana the editor at work at i in printing office. When anything'oecu ter the telephone instantly conveys the p ike ticulars from the reporter to the edit lie, Let me give you jin idea of the amazi ici- rapidity with which we do business. "The other day, just as we were go ' to press, a fire broke out a quarter o m_ mile from our printing office. The " porter stationed at that place saw t first appearaiM:e of the fire, and, at e same instant,Whe following account o m ? rung in the editor's ears: 'Fire!? o'clock?Third ward?Johnson's woo ' mill?no insurance?incendiary!1 the " y?u ever see a thunderbolt d t, down from the clouds and strike a h tjlfl stack, or a bull, or airy thing?" lelr " uu, vos. ' .'inswi'mi mc imiuci. ave "Well," went ou the reporter, "j >me t'mt l'ie ?ditor ^ew iQto **ie (:c re_ posing-room, yelling as he went: 'F: l0Crj ?ten -o'clock?Third ward?Johnsc i)t; woolen mill?no insurance?ineer 3be ill*-v!' r to ' Eleven compositors had congrega j1fl at the front window to see a fat won tli0 ffo by on the other side of the street, oss l',e 80Und of the editor's voice tl iere llew to their cases?on their way tli a knocking down the foreman and nn- a"d treading them under f( r jjj Each compositor took one word, a r quicker than I can tell it. the whole ? 0{ count wjis in type?the type in the foi * ?the forms on the press?the pi started and papers sent out on the str< Our account informed the populace the tire before an alarm of it had b arc made. There was soon the wildest e the eitement throughout town. 1'coj 0f with a paper in liand. were running' jt and fro, accosting those they met w snir W01'ds like these: ' The paper here s: that a tire is breaking out at Jolinso ure woolen mill! There is no insuran e neither. I declare, it's too badTl the fire bell was rung, and the fire co pany hurried to the burning mill .1 arrived there jus the fire was making .ass fn-S(; appearance, and before the hands the building knew there was any lire ws* the premises." .fust then the train arrived at Qur ?S. I r.._?t;nn nnrl tlir> fit- vnnrc m:in cll.-int lss* cars. r Our rustic friends for some rnomc: l* s:it speechless, looking at each oth Then the old lady broke the silence w these words: "lie lies."?F. M. Oolwals, in orr town Herald. r ? m 3# Rebuking a King. Count Redern, the Lord High Chai berlain of the Emperor of Germany, h been created prince. He is a dist j guished musician, who has written mc than one opera and composed a gr< deal of highly meritorious chaml music. The new prince is now seven seven years old and has no son to si ceed to his honors. He is one of t wealthiest noblemen in North Germar possessing an enormous landed esta Much of this wealth came to him wi his wife, the daughter and heiress of t great Hamburg millionaire, Sena) Jeniseh, a lady of extraordinary intel gence and spirit, who died four ye: I ago. At the time of the marriage c j quetle and caste prejudices exercised t ] spotic control at the Prussian cou J and, despite Countess Redern's enormc j wealth, remarkable beauty and eminc j intellectual endowments, she was r | considered well-born enough to gr.-i t hat circle of blue-blooded Junkers. S was, however, presented soon after 1 marriage: and Frederick William II who never could forego an opportuni of saying what lid considered to be ' " good thing," 110 matter what embara: ese mcnt or pain it might inflict upon t, in person he addressed, after aeknowler cli. ing the youthful bride's profound ob ear sance, exclaimed, in a voice sufiicienl ter loud to be heard by all the distinguish an personages present, "Ah! Counti tire ltedern?by tlieway, tell me: what, w ing it your father dealt in?" The count) ris- drew herself up to her full height fr? )b- the reverential attitude in which s me had been standing before the throne, a ; it replied, " My father, your majesty, de me in ntegrityand intelligence!" Theki i t/wil- liic f-iir dihippt.'s 1 itr? ;i in irk tleman, without manifesting the ic at, resentment, and subsequently p: m- marked attention to tlie high-spirii ere lady who had ventured to reprove li r I before his whole court for a singula >st- ill-advised utterance. Hp often told i ive story against himself in after years, n 1 in was wont to observe, with an evidi irst relish of Madame de Rodent's pron ley and dignified repartee, that *'lie ! ain never before or since been so v, Pile answered :ts by Lli?? daughter of r of Hamburg tradesman." Kill | ? bk* ' Charleston. S. C., contains about ? the 'Kin white penp and about 33,000 c los- ond jieople. For every white pen ! who (lies three colored persons die. lTJbJlS V? 1ATCKCCTJ-. ast ,J~, as- Many persons in England have been i a poisoned by licking postagd stamp?. i |)I}" No kind of dust thrown in to en's eyes I'19 will make them so blind as gold dust. More than 1,500 of the English soldiers Jt" now In Zulu land are .under twenty-one ' years of age. , , Great Britain and Irolaryl, :tnd tljeir L,n^ shipping tnde, consume 113.000,000 t0 tons of coal a year. n1s The annual crop of tobacco of the >v- United States is about 420,000,000 ere pounds, two-thirds ofwhiels is exported. lie "Vm Afrnps. I'm ^ninir to have a red cream-colored summer isijfcr provided pa 'lie doesn't veto the appropriation ma lias ?s- passed." * , \f The consumption of,coff?q throughout iae the world has increased during the past 1 fortyears from 190,000,000 to 850.000> . 000 pounds. '" '" * J is / cr_ "The dearest spot on earth to nie," the young man muttered as his girl aid COrt*ed l>irn into ten icc-crtjiun- saloon.? see New York Neva. ge, One maa asked another why his beard was so brown and his hair white. "Be in, cause," lie replied. " one is twenty years vs- younger than the other." >ad A man is said to be absent-minded wlien he thinks he has left his watch at / for home and takes it out of his pockctto lad see if lie has time 40 return, home-to get it. re" Circumstances alter cases. The. man who is on the train thinks it tarries t?o long at way stations; not so the one'who ,, is half a block away and coming rapidly 3 lQ toward it when the whistle trtots.?Puck the ^ warm, sunny'day; a shirt''waxen and white as a lilv;" a corpulent,puff ing man. These three tilings combined ew are what throw into a Mecca of delight -ou and beatitude the Mongolian knight of )US thewashtub. ? the Miss Florence Nightingale is nowsixty me years old, and lives in London almost a ns. prisoner to her room. She wrot<\ lately, hat in a letter to a friend: " Overworked as 1 aur am, my health is necessarily bad.. Thank I to God for still giving me work to do." ' 1 en Strong drink is the curse of Africa, his according to Mr. McKay, missionary the of the American Board. "Go where the you will," he says, " you will" 6nd every night, when grain 4s plentiful, 00. every man, woman and child reeling my with the effects of alcohol."* , Newspapers are the merchant's bpst salesman. They enter, almost every l!lF? dwelling, and, while imparting the j1 latest intelligence, foreign and domestic, local and State, they silently, vet forci J!ti bly, solicit patronage for each advertiser. K?n with thousands of thesej our home b e salesmen, traveling through the countij a,'1 every week, who can estimate their ral potent aid to business prosperity.?Salem Sunbeam, _ an, .0 ' TCRI0C8 FLIES. tllO ^tlll liny UOO ICII uo wujr mo n^iv iuuuv^ c^s Or what their uses may be? Or why the ghosts of them cannot be laid? 7 II yon make on one an onslaught and mid Nino hundred and ninety you'll see. "' ?1- , l be- Act one, he meets her at the croquet ground; [}1C Act two,'to see her at the house he calls; irg' Act three, moat regularly ho comes around; ar' Act lour, head over eara in love ho JijJli,; , " Act five, his manly passion ho declares, . " And for an afterpiece pa kirks him down stairs. inS ?Burlington Haiokeye. jn? Yesterday noon, up at Mrs. McKerf vol's boarding liouse, one of the young re_ gentlemen coming in a little late, seized tj,e his soupplate and airily attempted to (.]ie balam^it on the end' of Ira finger and f jt twirl it around aliove his head; like the tcn gentleman in the i-ircus. Bu$,.alasJ. it went oft' and came down on his head and broke and nearly drowned Mm, ana iU.j. when lie arose and went to his room he ' shook out of his curling jocks chunks of boiled potato, and slices of ^nion, and slabs of cabbage* and suggestions of laust con, and storms of rice, and flakes of ,m. grease, und sprays of sage and one thing jn;*t and another. He said, after the explosion, that he "didn't know it was lCjj_ loaded."?Hawkeye.- i - _ The following was a New Haven col,tcd tiny law in 1669: " Whosoever shall innan veigle or draw the affections of any At inaide or maide-servant, either to Iiimlipy self or others, without first gaining the iere consent of her parents, shall pay to the t the plantation for the first lOffence^lOs., the jot. scccnd, ?4, for the third shall be imnd, prisoned or corporeously punished." ae- An old record h vs just been found show- % ins in? that under this law Jaeobeth'Mur ess fine and Sarah Tuttlc got into trouble >et. by "settingdown on a chestle together, of his arme around her waiste, and lier [>en anue ppon his shoulder or about his x- neck, and continuing in that sinful pos)le, ! ture about half an nour. in which time f to he kvssed her and she kyesed him, or irh they kyssed one another, ye witnesses I i- !) :ivs resnaeu. ri's ' _______________ ien m_ A Woman's Escape from Wolres. Lpd In the year 1849 died in the town of its Greene, Me., an old man named Thomas, in who had a thrilling wolf story of his on own to tell, though the experience was too early for his memory, he bein;r at the time a baby in arms. Mr. George J. jed Varney relates the adventure in the Lewiston Journal. Mrs. Thomas was a fits fisherman's wife who lived in the town .er. of Brunswick, Me., where Bowdoin Oolith loge now stands. At one time when her husband was in port, but could not come 'w- home, she started on foot to Harpswell, a distance of ten miles, to see him, carl rviniT hpr vounirest child in her ar:ns. Returning with a Io:id of fish on her hack as well as the burden of her babe, m- she heard a wolf howl in the forest, and las terror quickened her pace, though she in- was already fain to sink with fati/rue. >re She was midway of the five miles of 1' ;at unbroken woods when the howl of the >er wolf again smote her ear, and this time ty- other voices,one after another, joined in. ' ?* lc- The pack had gathered on her trail! he She must climb a tree, one would say; ly, but she did not. She did not even te. throw away her fish. ith The wolves gained upon her moment he by moment, the great gray wolves of the :or North, that stand as high as a man li- when they rear. It was a mile and a irs half to the nearest house when she first ti- caught a glimpse of the approaching le- demons. rt, She had for the last two miles walked ius at her utmost speed; it was now ; ini? to 'lit rnn._ Yet she still held firmly her babe lot vn(l ner nsn. tee A quarter of a mile more, and swiftly he as she had passed it. the wolves were ler within a few yards. She eould seta tin ir white teeth and hear tlu:ir laboring ity breath above her own. She loosened 1 a : and threw down a single fish, and ran ?s- | on. The pack discovered rare game, he i and fought togtftlicr for its possession, le- | Hy the time it was eaten the eourageei i ous woman had got a quarter of mile in tly ; advance; but the p:iek were soon at her ea heels again. Another lish cheeked ?ss tliem, and their snarls and yells, .-is they ras again fought eaeli other lor a bite of the ?ss savorv fresh codfish. hurrkd the iahori>m ous flight of tlie wcarv woman, lie Her babe. annoyd hy the shaking it nd roceived.from the rapid par*, at length alt cried lustily, calling the wolves to ning newed pUrmit. Tn vain the poor mother n- tried to soothe her infant. hut another ast fish was followed by a fresh hight and lid precious delay of the pack. 'ed Again and :ijjstin this aetion was reim n^itcil until :Lf leniitll tile hark ill:? of rly two huge dogs alarmed tic wolves, whilt the the almost; exhausted ?x?;h<r ran past tnd the friendly brutes to the door of lite ?nt farmhouse, thrown open to roreive her. lpt The groat dogs wove trained to their ind duty, and no sooner w:u> l li>' fugitive in ell the house llian they also retired in p?od the order to the same safe stronghold, leaving the foiled wolves to rage outside, and to,fall before the guns that were 15,- | speedily brought to hear upon theui. ol- Th?' weary moth'T joun*; .-al<-ry wins ion rest, lull wlu'lhcr .< !?? sav?il any .?f hit* fisli tradition (loos not relate. J