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.v ' ' "*" ' W . ' ' * v '9i ------ . . i ??ww?^?^?w^???????*^???? ^ ,4' ?' . - .? . ' " > I ''I * . ' . * ' 0 ".. . ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. * ' " *+ BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1879. NO. 24. VOLUME XXY. ????^?? ?? ??*^??????? A Legend or Harvest. So long ago that history pays No heed nor record of how long, Back in the lovely dreamy days, The days ot story and o 1 song. Baiore the world had crowded grown. While wrong on earth was hard to find, And hall the earth had never known The lorms and laces ot mankind. When just as now the years would keep Their terms ol snows and suns and showers, It chanced that summer dropt asleep, One morning, in a Held ol flowers. And while tho warm weeks came and fled, In all their tender wealth of chnrm, She slept, with beauteous golden head Laid soltly on her weary arm, She did not hear the waving trees, The warbling brook she did not hear, Uor yet the velvet-coated beea ^ That boomed about her rosy ear. In many a yellow breezy mass, The rich wheat ripened lar away, And glittering oa the tragnuit grass, Her silver sickle idly lay. But then at last, one noontide hour, A gorgeous moth, while hovering by, Mistook her sweet mouth for a flower, And summer waked, with startled cry. rose, in anxious wonder, now, To gaze upon the heightened wheM, And saw its plenteous tassels bow Dead-ripe below the sultry heal. Halt crazed, she wandered east and west, Amid the peaceful spacious clime, Until at length, with panting breast, She stood beiore old father time. With tears oi shame she told him all, While pointing to the wheat unmown, And said: ""What power shall make it tall Ere autumn's bitter winds have blown ?" Then father time, with laughter gay, Bowed all his frame, and crooked his knees, And tossed his white beard like the spray ^ That crowns tha crests oi wintry seas. | "Oh, daughter, cheer your heart!" he cried; | " The wheat shall fall ere lalls the nighl. ! We two shall mow it, side by sido, And reap it in the stars' pale light!" So summer cleared her brow of gloom, And lorth with father time she went, And, haggard age by youth in bloom, Above the tawny wheat they bent. Ere fall of night the harvest fell; But since that season, fair and blithe, I Ab ancient annals love to tell, Old father time has borne a scythe ! ?Edgar Fawceit, in St. JWcholus. - t DOM'S LOVERS. j Dora will never forget that day of the procession; she remembers the very airs the bands played, the glitter of epaulets, the splendidly caparisoned horses, the waving flags. She was very happy on that day?far happier than she was for a long, long season afterward. Clement had invited her to go into the city to witness the paeeant; he had permission from Mr. Oliver, a director of the Bank of Shekels, to take a window in thai building, by which the procession passed - Aunt Hitty had frowned upon the affair, and had told her she was a fool to rneoura<re that vounsiackanapi s, and so L keep better matches at a distance. " If t lie weren't going off directly, I should I ' forbid it," she gaid.' "How can you r care for him, when such a man as Simon Cleverly is at your feet, passes me! They're not to De named in the same breath. Cleverly is tall, Clement Smitliers is short; Cleverly's eyes are dazzling, Clement's are near-sighted; the one has a fortune of his own, the other hasn't a sou, so to speak." As for the question ol money, Dora felt that she would rather share poverty with Clement than dwell in \ marble halls and fare sumptuously every day with Mr. Cleverly. It so happened that she and Clement were the earliest arrivals at the bank, with the exception of a clerk, and as that person knew Clement, and had a sweetheart to escort trom the suburbs, he soon left them in possession. Dora had never been inside the bank before, and while they waited and said their * tender nothings, she looked about her, asking innumerable questions, in ordor, perhaps, to postpone the inevitable question. "There's the safe," said Clement, as they paused before a ^door. " It's built into the wall. If you open this door, it rings a bell somewhere in an office in Exchange street, and they are warned that somebody is tampering with the safe, and up comes a brace of policemen." " Oh, Clement, what a romancer you are!" laughed Dora. "Won't they hear it at Thule? Let's see "?and she turned the handle of the door. "There! Why doesn't the bell ring?" ''The burglar doesn't hear it, I suppose, or he'd make off. Maybe it's the inner door, the door of the safe itself. They don't lock this one, you see, and anybody might open it by mistake. When the bank officers want to open the safe, they know how to prevent tne bell from ringing, they tell me, but maybe it's all humbug. Cleverly told me about it?he's teller here." And presently other spectators arrived, and Clement and Dora took their places at the window. and caught far off the muffled tread of feet, the beating of drums, and the hint of a martial tune. Just then the door opened hurriedly, and an irritated-looking man popped in, likeajackout-of-a-box. "Who lias been meddling with the bank's safe?" he cried. " I don't think it has been disturbed," replied a gentleman present. Clement and Dora had forgotten that a safe existed, and had just stepped out upon k 1 tut; vviiiuiiw uaivuu). " Don' tell me!" pursued the irate ofiicial. "Was nobody here when you came?" 44 Only those two young people on the balcony?lovers." "'Confound 'em!" and he stepped up to Clement and pulled his sleeve. 44 Somebody's been tampering with the safe?can you tell me anything about it?'1 " I?I really?" stammered Clement, suddenly brought down to earth. 441 beg pardon?what did you wish?" The man repeated his question more angrily. His demeanor brought the blood in a flame to Clement's face. 44 There was no harm done, I assure you," he answered. 44 The door was opened by mistake?" "Tell him, Clement?tell him I openpd it," whispered Dora. " Worth while bringing a man all the way from Exchange street for nothing! Th t comes of opening the bank to Tom, Dick and Harry! I shall have to lay it before the Board of Directors, I shall!" ~4,I haven't the smallest objection," said Clement; and while they returned to the memorable pages of the past, where here a rose had been pressed, and there a sprig of mignonette, the procession moved into sight, the music soared above them, the crowd surged beneath; there was rhythm in the tread ol tue marcningieec, ana ine sun bituck soarks from the housings of the horses and the points of bayonets. Cleverly, on a capering steed, looked up and smiled on Dora, while daggers shot from beneath his brows as he recognized her companion. But everything has an end. The last bit of glitter and color finally vanished down the long vista ol the street, and the band music became like the unreal melody of a dream. They went and dined together afterward, and stepped into a picture gallery, and said I good-bye at Aunt Kitty's gate, since h< j expected to sail next morning by sun ! rise, as first mate in tLe Viaette foi : Japan. hut next day be appeared a^ain j "The wind didn t serve," he explained ! "we shan't get off till afternoon. Pul I on vour hat, Dora, and I'll row you out t to the Vidette, and you shall see "how we j poor sailors fare." The day was like crystal, the river coruscated with shift I ing lights, while the ship loomed up be: fore them like some fabled sea-bird, ' gigantic and mvsterious. Every moj ment was full of elixir to Dora, i "Iwish I were captain, Dora," he whispered, as they leaned over the side of the Vidette, ana looked into the depths below, and at their own shadows upon j the surface, which threatened to become I one, as the ship swayed and the tide I rocked, " and we were bound fof Japan j together." I " It is a long way; you might grow tired of my companionship. "Who are those men coming up the side of the ship, Clement? Do they belong to the crew?" "They look like policemen. I suppose that one of the sailors made off without settling his bills." j "No, Clement, they are asking for I you." ! "Nonsense! what can they want with Ime!" Clement turned about, surprise j and perplexitygiving him an involved I expression. He had the air of one I brought to bay. ! "Mr. Clement Smithers?" said one of the officers, approaching. "You are ; suspected of having tampered with the ' safe of the Bank of Shekels on the seven| teenth of June. It becomes my duty to i detain you for examination." 4i What folly!" cried Clement, hotly. I " I can explain it all. The lady who was with me at the bank is my witness, j I can -give my affidavit?" " But you must come with me; them's 1 my orders." "How do we know but the lady's i your accomplice, eh?" put in his comI panion. "But I am to sail in a couple of hours," objected Clement. " Ay, the chip's to sail, but we'll give you another sort of berth." "Tell them," gasped Dora?"make them understand thit I pulled the bell, opened the door by mistake, for fun?" | "Yes, we've heard that pretty story before, but it won't bear washing". Perhaps you took the bonds that are missing too?" Clement's heart stood still. "Are there any bonds missing?" he asked. "Just as if you didn't know better'n us! If the wind hadn't bauled round you'd got off splendid with 'era." It was all abroad and in the daily papers by the following day; everybody was talking about it. Mr. Cleverly stepped into Aunt Hitty's to cive the latest particulars and assure Dora that she should not be annoyed. "But Clement is as innocent as you are; it was I who opened the door," she explained. "Nobody suspects you of taking the bends, child. You wern't about to sail for foreign shores?there's the rub. I'm afraid you'll have to go into court and give testimony." "Youdon't believe that Clement is guilty ?" "Itlooks black for him. I suspend my judgment." "Butyou believe me when I assure you that he never touched the safe." " I believe every word you utter. But that will not convince the directors or the jury. If no bonds had been missing, of course opening the door would have given no concern." "It is so unexpected, so undeserved!" " That must be proved." " Mr. Cleverly," she asked one day later, "what will they do if Clement is ?is found?" ? " Several years in the State-prison at hard labor. I believe." " And nobody to keep up his heart, to encourage him. He will get hardened by such injustice,'" she signed. As the time of his trial drew near, everybody spoke of Clement as one already condemned. "Poor misguided fellow!" they said; and even Aunt Hitty i nopea ne was suppneu wmi uhuis. in the mean time it almost seemed as if Cleverly had stepped into Clement's nioh. He was always at Aunt Hitty's, and going away late; and Aunt Hitty was usually ill with neuralgia, which prevented conversation on her side, while Dora had nothing to do but keep the ball rolling, and was never weary of talking of Clement's case. "You are profoundly interested in this affair," Cleverly said to her one night when she had stepped out upon the pizza to wish by the new moon, and he had followed. " Nothing interests me so much." Mr. Cleverly winced. " What would you do to prove his innocence ?" "Anything?that was right." " Would you marry some one else, if that would save him ?" "Some one I do not love? Would that be right?" "Where would be the harm, if he frw morru withmif Invfl rafhpr than not at all?" "These are mere idle words, Mr. Cleverly." 44 No, they are not mere idle words. Listen; you will do anything to save Clement Smithers. Is it wrong to make another happy, and save a friend from ruin? Tnen marry me, Dora, and I will save him; I give you my word." 44 Why will you make such a condition if it is possible for you to clear him? Why will^you not accomplish it gratu itously ?" "Because I love you, and I am not Quixotic. At present your storv is not credited; you are suspected of a weakness for the prisoner. Were you my wife, that prejudice would be cancelled. Marry me,, dear Dora, and I swear to save his name and credit, or forfeit my own." 44 How could I do such a thing, even to save Clement?" 44 It is in your power to decide whether he shall spend his best years in prison, in the pursuit of menial tasks, in a convict's garb, in the society of abandoned men, imbittered by injustice. It seems to me that you can not hesitate." Was it true, then, she asked herself, that it was in her power to save Clement . from ignominy, and did she hesitate? Did she not love him well enough to sjicri fice everything for him? Daily she reached the heights of renunciation, daily she slipped back into the valley of humilittion and self-love. Every day Mr. Cleverly pressed his suit, waxed eloquent, convinced her ienorance by plausible proofs agd_promises, and one day he earned his point. " Yes," she assented, feebly ; 44 I will marry you to save Clement." 441 accept the terms," he said. " You will marry me for Clement's sake; byand-by you shall love me for my own." She could make no objections to an early wedding, sine0 it was oniy as Mr. Cleverly's wife that she could influence Clement's fate, while Aunt Hitty, unaware of the conditions of the contract, at that time, pressed the matter forward with feminine alacrity. "I'm sorry foi Clement Smithers," she confessed, 44 but vou couldn't marry a felon if you loved him to distraction. Mr. Cleverly says he prefers a wedding in church. Shall it be satin and tulie?' But it seemed as if Dora had but a shadowy interest ir the preparations, such as a ghost mighl have. It was toward dusk of a dark after noon, always darker in the place when Clement awaited his trial than else^ where, that Mr. Oliver, one of the ban! directors, was admitted to an interview with the prisoner. " You have come to beg me to confesi what I have done with the bonds P' laughed Clement, bitterly. ! "iJo," replied Mr. Oliver; "I hav< come to tell you that tne bonds hav( [ been found." i "Found!" ; " Exactly. We had a wind-storm on Mr. Cleverly's wedding day. You have : the newspapers here; you must have , read of it ?" " I read nothing here; I have been j ; composing a satire on justice instead. I ( t did not know Cleverly was married." , t "No?" It was a furious gale, and the i old elm that stood near the Church of ( the Heavenly Manna broke beneath it. . A splinter struck Mr. Cleverly as lie j passed from the carriage to the church ; door. It proved his de^th-blow." < "Poor fellow! On his wedding day, t too! But what has that to do with me j or the bonds?" ] "Mr. Cleverly was our teller, you re- , member. Yesterday the bonds were j found among his personal effects. That i is all." i " That is a good deal," said Clement, j i a new color flushing his face. " I should t not have thought it of Cleverly. How- t ever, let us speak no ill of the dead. On c f his wedding day, too! Who was he r ( going to mnrry?" t "Miss Theodora Gray." s "Miss Theodora Gray! My Dora!" 8 he cried. The cloud that had lifted for , a space dropped again over Clement, j and he walked out of prison more hope- f less and heartless than he had entered, t He asked no questions; he did not seek c Dora. The captain of the Swan, about e to sail for the Indies, had fallen ill, and a he accepted the situation without a mo- a ment's hesitation. r On the homeward voyage he put about B to relieve a shipwrecked crew. " You'll c never catch me at sea again," one of the e rescued confided to Captain Smithers' ^ mate when she had gotten to rights on a boardtheSwan. "Betweenseasickness 0 and shipwreck, it's no joke. You see, t the doctor prescribed a voyage for my j niece; a love affair, you know?lowered v her system. I wonder if shipwreck is a a tonic? Save us! who is that? The ? captain? Why, man alive! it's Clement ? Smithers! Dora! Dora! there was a f Providence in our being wrecked, after , all. Goodness! what's the matter with a the girl? Captain Smithers, don't you t know old friends? Won't you go to B Dora? She looks as if she were going ? to faint." f And Captain Smithers went.?Harptfs a Bazar. o Th/> Won Vfti*nant ? JL HV tJVU uvtyvuva U The sea serpent is classed by Borne naturalists as a reptile, and by others as an C animal, but this trifling disagreement u has no effect on the general health of b the monster. He is always in a jolly u mood and the best of spirits. He is not h quite as domestic in his nature as an old ri tom-cat, or a boy with three stone- w bruises on each foot, but he is seldom n met with any great distance from home. v. There is abundant evidence to prove that fl he knew all about this country before d Columbus did. At least, the first one j? seen in America by white men acted as much at home as a hired man in the a pantry, and at no time during the last ai four hundred years has the market been g short of a full supply. a Sea serpents have been met with only a 150 feet long, but the majority of them 0 are at least double that length. A sea h captain who would come into port and b make oath that he had seen one less than tl 200 feet long would be laughed to scorn and advisen to go West and become a t< Buffalo Bill. There is no doubt that one of the monsters can keep right on g growing sis long as he w ants to, and of r course each one is ambitious to spin out as far as he can. During fly time a sea h serpent 300 feet long has a great advan- 0 tage over a cow or a mule?a fact which ]( naturalists seem to have overlooked en- v tirely. r While these monsters are no doubt p somewhat given to roaming around, they n are seldom found curled up under favor- tl f cflfio ai? ir\ ofKnro roo/vrfflH fn a.\ 11A? V.J 11.1 J. Jf VI WLD VI 1U 1*1 UW&O 1WDVJ> VVM W y by moon-struck lovers. v While other snakes go tD heaps of b trouble to get into a house and curl up a in an old straw hat on the top-shelf of a t; bedroom closet, the sea serpent keeps 0 himself modestly in the background. a This animal is not gregarious in its 5 habits. Two sea serpents are never seen together, and it is seldom that two are seen the same week. Their plan Beems to be to go it alone. Each one then secures all the glory and n all the plunder, and there is no give " away about it. Their principal food t! consists of tough old ships?the older ?] and tougher the better, and it any red- J] nosed sea captain or swaggering mates happen to slip into the monst?r,s mouth along with topsail yards, bowsprits, ? capstans, etc., the serpent is not to blame for it. ? While children may cry for this ref)tile, they hadn't better fool with it, as it t( is plain that he is very whimsical in his s] nature. Captains have taken one stiff ^ elass of grog and gone on deck to be- * hold a sea serpent humping away from ^ the ship as fast as he could go. Other ? captains have taken two glasses of rrog s: and seen the serpent swim all around the * ship and lift its head thirty feet in the E air and open his jaws as if he scented u roast chicken. It may all be in the grog, ? or it may be the variable nature of the k serpent. Until the real truth is known the tow-headed boys of the land had v hetter not run after this marine novelty. ? While it is known that the house tiy b lives six months and the elephant 100 a years nobody knows how long it takes h a sea serpent to die of old age. He may t droop and die just as he has learned the t ropes and come to know all about the t! bunko-game, or he may hang on and s witness the passing away of seven gen- & erations of long-lived olu Jack Tars. It h is perhaps j ust as well that some little a mystery is allowed to enshroud this a strange inhabitant. If we were privi- ^ ledgea to slam him around as we do t mud-turtles, or kick him^out of the path F as we do an old hat with a rock under it, ' we should feel a contempt instead of an a admiration for him, and when a ship s came home and reported seeing a mons- s ter sea serpent in the neighborhood of c section three, township eleven, in range t thirteen east, the captain would be * asked to look in our eyea and answer if i he saw a vegetable garden there.? De- t troit Free Press. rkiMnAn recuiLif, V/UIIUICUI I)r. St. John Roosa, professor of oph- ] thalmotology, writes to the New York Medical Record a strong protest against j the common practice of feeding little f children with meat, tea and coffee and J all varieties of food eaten by adults, j It induces diseases of the eye as well as j of other parts of the delicate body. He ; pertinently says: " If the good Lord had ' wished us to eat meat at the age of { twenty months He would have given us a full set of teeth ready for use at the time." He agrees with Dr. Learning, j who has for several years had charge of ' fin asylum in which large numbers of children are cared for, ana who does not allow one of them to have anything ex- ; cept milk until they are seven years old. \ i Dr. St. John Roosa begs tlic physicians : whom he addresses to use all their ini fluence to have children reared upon , milk alone, withholding meat, cake and . puddings, tea and coffce. Milk and fari- , naceous food until the child has teeth ' with which to prepare other articles ol ; > food for the stomach is the rule in ordi 1 nary cases. Many a mother who reads [ tuis will wonder that such advice should I be necessary, but the proportion ot , J mothers who understand the relation of i food to health and development is very , t small. This is not to be wondered at, i ~ 5a morJo in niir ooVinnl IU) UU piuv 10IVS1& AO iuuuv m vi** wvhvv. system for teaching our boys and girls, ( 5 unless they enter the high school, the - knowledge which is most important to , c their future welfare. Whatever their ( r rank in the various branches taught, if thev are ignorant of the conditions of ' health they are not properly educated. ' To say that they should learn these im- i portant truths in their homes does not 3 meet the difficulty. The mothers are 1 i usually as ignorant as the ehildlren. : One has but to notice the food of little chilfon to be convinced of this. i * limiting in Kansas. On those prairies where buffalo and deer and antelope have run so many years, there are vast quantities of old bones lying about. These old bones are af some commercial value. My brother md I drew in rather over a hundred ions during one winter. It was a three lays' trip to go out on the plains and jet a load. While out on these bone ;rips, we made considerable account of ack-rabbits; we had two greyhounds )n purpose to hunt them, and to hunt mtelopes. I "did most of the hunting; ny brother was a little lame that season Tom a "hoist" he had ieceived off a eaper. We had one of the fleetest lonies for running I have ever seen. We called her Gilly. I would get up before sunrise, call in sport and Grip (the two greyhounds), hen mount Gilly, and start after a jack abbit for breakfast. One morning we jot after a pretty big jack, and ran him >tcc an emierant party hauled up for he night. Two men and a woman were tirrintf about: and I saw two nice, rosv ;irls peering out of the back end of a vagon. They looked so inspiring that : thought would show them a li:tle ancy riding, So I touched Gilly and old her to go. At that, she just reached iut those white legs of hers and straiglitned to it. Oh, she went like an arrow iter the hounds and past that schooner, jid away on across the prairie. And, ight in the midst of her keenest run, he broke into a wolf-hole! Believe it r not, the mare turned a complete somrsault! But I wasn't in the saddle <rhen she turned it; I had gone on. jid went on; went on my head, went >n my knees, went every way. I was aore than fifty feet from the pony when finally stopped! Sportand Grip pulled ip to see me go, and the jack?he stopped md looked. The wolf came out of the Tound and looked, too. They were all o interested in it, that they entirely orgot each other. And back at the yagon I saw six or seven men, women ,noT girls, standing motionless, with heir mouths open When I, at length, ;ot up, such a "ha! ha" came wafted >n the wind as I shall not soon forget, t hurt me outrageously. I got up feeling s if I were a hundred and one years Id. As for the j ack. he had taken leave; nd the dogs were barking into the wolllole. Another young fellow, named Adney )lark,and myself once ran a.jack-rabbit nder a settler's aouse, which stood out y itself on the prairie. The rabbit ran p to it and crawled under the sill. The ounds could not get under. We went JUI1U LUC 11UUOC tuiu LllCli 1I1WJ It. IUC1U j ras no one at home. We were deter-1 lined to have that jack, anyhow. So j re pulled up two or three boards of the i oor, and Ad took the fire poker and got i own under the floor, to poke out the j ick. He had not been down there long | rhen he uttered a screech and came out; t one jump, with a great big rattleaake hanging to his boot-ieg. I j rabbed a chair and killed the snake, j .d was so weak lie could not stand J lone and could scarcely speak. I pulled [ ff his boot. But there was no mark 011 1 im. Fortunately, the snake had only j itten his boot-leg. We then poked out I tie jack and the hounds grabbed him. And at another time, when eight 01 ; 2n of us were out racing down jacks j rith as many as thirteen hounds, we all j ot after one big fellow, and at length I an him into an old deserted " dig-out." 1 A "dig out," or "root-out." is a| ouse dug in the ground, and the floor ' f it is often four or five feet below the I jvel of the soil. The door of this one ' raseone. The jack, being pretty hard un, darted in there. In went the whole ! ack of hounds alter him, and there was 0 end of a pow-wow. Round and about liey went, yelping and growling down :iere in the aark. We thought there rouldc't be much left of that jack, when, I y-and-bye. out he came and leaped , way, leaving all the hounds ft there j smbling over one another, and the end ! f the business w:is that we had to go in j nd haul those dogs out by the legs.? | t. Nicholas. A Horse's Revenge. The society for the protection of anilals against the cruelty of human anirnls is not remarkable for activity in 1113 v;uiiijw j, w into ba& x ano wut- i pondent of a London paper. TJie po- ' ,ce appear to think it no business of j Heirs when carters or coachmen bru- j illy maltreat their horses in the streets, > r when boss amuse tliemselves by tor- J jring docs and cats, or whatever other j reatures hare the ill-luck to fall into j lieir hands. The horses would appear 3 be aware of the supineness of tlieir i apposed protectors, for they have taken ; lie matter into their own hands, or ! ather into their own teeth and feet. ; l carter by dint of hard flogging at his ! Irree horses, persuaded them to drag ] ixteen tons of coal to the root of the j teep^ hill which leads to the Boulev/ird j tessiers; but his powers of stimulation tterly failed to induce them to proceed j ny further?a thick steam rose up from j heir panting sides and nostrils, j'Budge!" said the fiend; and straight-j ray the carter began to lash and swear, j l crowd gathered around the furious least, who abandoned the lash nd began to bang his stick about their leads and kick them with hob-nailed loots in the sides. The leader of the earn took upon himself to protest against bis extreme measure. He turned round, eized the carter's arm with his teeth, ossed him to the ground, and trampled lim with his hoofs; then seized him i cain with his teeth and tossed him i .tout. The crowd and the police,which j lad approvingly looked on while he , ortured the horses, interfered for the \ irotection of the human monster, who ! ras with great difficulty torn bleeding ,nd mangled from the just equine reentment. He is justly punished; but urely some penalty should be inflicted ?n the railroad company which sent out hig heavv load of coal to be drawn uplill by three horses, when twice the mmber would barely have sufficed for he work. The King of Beasts. William Garhart denies Congressman ! Daggett's assertion that the mule is the I ring of beasts. Garhart accords the I mlm of superiority to the hog. A hog ilways knows what he is about. Garlart claims that no man on earth ever tot the better of a hog in a fair struggle, tie has tried to drive over hogs many imes, but was successful only once, rhev sometimes lie in the hollow of the oad fast asleep. Mr. Garhart has often I )orne down on them at a 2.40 pace with J i five-ton stage and a six-in-imnd on a , ilown grade. Just, However, as ne con-1 idently expected to see the air filled with wagon-grease and spare-ribs, they . would lurch clear of the wheel or glide i ander the stage and come out all safe 1 md sound, with a grunt of quiet satis- ! "action and a look that was more ex- 1 isperatine than to be. robbed by road i igents. Mr. Garbart never got away i with a hog but once. The animal i lodged a train of cars coming out of a j ;unnel, and he whipped up his horses j md caught the hog square in the neck ! with one of the forewheels and killed I it. The stage, h "wever, upset and j jmashed everything in sight. Two i men were killed outright and several women maimed for life. The hog calculated all right for the locomotive, but was out of his reckoning on the stage. But the company thought the victory ? ?? -> 1 jver me nog was uenuv (juiuhw . Sarhart also asserts that a hog can whip i mule, Daggett's assertion to the contrary notwithstanding.? Virginia (N(v.) Chronicle. Th'* JapApse government has in ifp service eignty Englishmen, thirty-ou~ Americans, thirty Frenchmen, eighteen Germans, seven Dutchmen, four Italians, three Swiss, three Chinese, two Austrians, two Portuguese and one Russian, making 181 foreigners. I TAMING LIONS. A Talk with the Man In the Cage<-IIow a I Naiteryli Obtained over the Monarch! of the Field?A Very Eaiy Business? Experience* and TbrllllnB Stories-* The Fasclnatlona ot it. ] " The little man standing over there ] by the cage of monkeys is the lion- j tamer," said Mr. Barnum to a represen- j tative of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. ( An introduction was arranged, and Dr. \ Charles White, the man who had coaxed ( the Nubian monarch to become as a ] kitten, said he would be at leisure as j soon as he had fixed up a dose for a } man who had a chill under the hyena j cage. Almost lithe in build, he is five j leet eieht inches out of his boots, and i pulls down the scales at 180. He is E modest to a degree that is captivating? t because modest men do tase. He is t reticent, or was at the start, in a measure that was exasperating, tor when a ^ man is expected to talk and won't, or l hesitates, he is of all creation the most r flxasnerfltincr. i " ^he world is mistaken about this i thing of taming lions," he said, as he J looked around at a balclheadcd monkey t that had reached out for his sparsely- r covered head. c " Doesn't he require the will power 1 and the peculiar grit of the gods of 1 which the juvenile learned?" was asked. " I don't know anything about it," he answered, quietly. "You have got to take the same common sense rule about the government and control of a lion S that is used among men; only, I must 1 say, I had rather attempt to tame a cage p of lions and tigers and leopards than ? some men I have seen." ? It was suggested that he must have . some rudimentary idea about the busi- * ness. r " No, I never thought anything about ? that," he replied. "You see I started ? out in 1846 with old Van Amburgh. I f1 was the man who took care of the har- J; ness, and that brought me around the F caccs a good deal. After a while I got ^ so~that I could take a .ion by the paw. * T?- oonmorl trv primp natiirn.llv. T npvfir tried to do anything to make a lion 1 afraid of me. I never thought of such a thing. I never felt afraid of a lion, 2 and somehow or other I don't think a ? lion ought to be afraid of me. We kind ? o' took to each other," he finished with r! a pleasant 6mile. He was asked when ^ and where he first entered a cage. 7 "I commenced going into the cages J, when we were on the road, in 1848. Not in public, but around before and v after the performances. The first cage P I ever entered was one that contained *2 two African lions; they wire young, ? but had been partially trained by an- ^ other. They knew me, of course, but J they never made any demonstrations." F1 " Where was your first public exhibi- 11 tion?" " " In 1854, with Barnum." " "Was there anything of note connected with that event?" "No, only I created a sensation by " taking a bucket of blood in the cage, s which an old lion licked up and then 8 laid down." a In reply to a question relative to something thrilling in his career, he ? said: "I was with Thayer & Noyes in Rochester on .July 4, 1867. We gave ? three exhibitions on that day. I had a ? cage of what are known as the maneaters. They are of all the lion tribe ? the most dangerous. You know lion e ' ?-* 1 21J Ii Hunters sometimes uuuu uieo nuuui/ , their hammocks or places where they c sleep, to keep lions away from them?" " "Yes," was said eagerly, so as to encourage Mr. White. 6 " Well, a man-eating lion isn't afraid ? of fire. He would just as soon w.lk over it and tarry a man away as a dead- V head would come into this show." F " I went into the cage at night and I had always noticed that one in the cage 7 was nervous in his temperament, for lions are like human beings in tbat respect. Tho least unusual thing would r attract him. 1 had stooped to let liim f jump over my hack, and in lii9 jump a portion of lis body was grasea bv a J whip I held. He sprang back, knocked ? me down, and seized the skirt of my * dress; he had me under his forepaws, ? and I was powerless. Charley Noyes J happened near, and he seized an iron u bar and struck the animal over the heid. f! It caused him to release me, and then I ? plied the whip to him till he crouched at my feet." ? 4* "V"/MI linrl f A An " Why, of course I w;is bleeding. He hud torn my shoulder and crippled my ? right arm so that I have never been able ? to get it above my head since; but I ? knew I must subdue him, and 1 did; it j; was six weeks before I appeared in a j, cage again." t * The bald-headed monkey had made ? another attack on the lion-tamer, and ? he turned around to the root of the Dar- ^ winian theory and said,44 You'll not get = any supper if you don't quit that."- The monkey without hair seemed to understand, | 441 spent three weeks in the Sisters' ' hospital here in St. Jxjuis," said the j doctor, in a very quiet way. f 44 When was thatP" "In 1870. I was with Robbins, Strone & Henderson. We had been t showing in some Missouri towns, when an African lion attacked me. I wasn't . seriously hurt, but there was something about that affair of which I have to tell . you. I had a pet lioness In a cage, and she was a beauty. I never loved an an- o ' T J'J I T 1...J - ?,1 1,., 11 lOlHi OS X fid Ji(;r. i u:tu iitiuuu uci uj liand, and my own boy used to play with her as if she had been a kitten." " What did she have to do with it?' " Well, when the lion attacked me she sprang upon him, and there was a struggle between them until I got on my feet and curbed the assailants. That pet never forgot that night, and I had to take her out of the cage." "These animals, then, have attachments the same as human?" "Yes, I have found them so. Now there are two lions and a lioness over there," pointing to a cage ofNumidians; " one of these fellows had a strong attachment for a lioness, and so had the other at one time. But that one "?pointing to the grander looking of the two? "thrashed the ofher daily until he gave up, and now the one he thrashed couldn't be persuaded to put his nose against the lioness. And it is the same with people. They take a fancy to some people, and are easily subdued, but I find there is nothing like kindness." " How is it with a lioness; is she more easily trained or subdued?" " A lioness is just like a woman. It depends altogether on how you take her, or how she takes you." How Bar-room Liquors are Made. There may be seen daily on Chestnut street, says the Philadelphia Bulletin, a man dressed in faultless apparel, with a great diamond on his breast, vainly endeavoring to out-glitter the magnificent solitaire on his fineer. In a German university lie learned chemistry, and not even Liebig knew it better. Ilis business is the mixing and adulterating of liquors. Give him a dozen casks of deodorized alcohol and the next day ? 4-1-. /.w ??*! il f fV?n vtomn f , I.'UCU Ul lin:ill Will icpivauill; uauiv UI a genuine wine or popular spirit. He ] enters a wholesale drug store hearing a j large basket upon his arm. Five pounds i of Iceland moss are weighed out to him. Jo raw liquors this imparts a smooth- 1 ness and oleaginousness that gives to 1 imitation brandy the glibeness of that ] which is matured. An astringent cate- 1 chu that would almost close the mouth ! of a class ink-stand, is next in order. A i couple of ounces of strychnine, next < : called for, are quickly conveyed to his < ^ 1--*. ?j ,?,1 Vt'SU pUCKUL, UIIU upuuuuui winlvj vxuuu is as silently placed in the bottom of the 1 basket. The oil of cognac, the sulphuric 1 acid, and other articles that jrive lire and i l)ody to liquid poisons are always kept 1 in store- The mixer buys these from various quarters. They are staples of the art. ] BEST AS A MEDICINE. Some Valuable Illnti for Persona who Overwork Themselves. Every intelligent medical man of the prisent day recognizes the very great ralue of rest in the treatment of disease. Rest and activity might be aptly com5ared to two sentinels, who have between ;hem the duty to perform of guarding a rnmp or fortress. They must take it in ;urns?when the one goes off, the other :omes on. Were Activity to remain too ongon duty, the heart would flutter and ail, the brain would reel, and thesentilel drop dead of fatigue. On the other land. Rest might remain long enough on ^uard to drop asleep. You see that rest nay be overdone; it conduces to sloth, md ennui, and atony of brain. To my hinking, there is no more miserable man ban he who has nothing; to do. My old friend, Dr. K , that erst vas professor of medicirie in a certain iniversity, labored hard all his iife till learly sixty yoars of age; then he said le needed rest, and would retire. So, >eing a wealthy man, he built himself a >eautiful house on a breezy cliff-top near he sea, laid out pleasant gardens, andiaid attention to every known principle if hygiene. Six months retirement ;illea nim. He remembered not the ines in Cowper's poem: " Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed." . People who have been long in business j f any kind often make the same error as )r. K . They think they need com- j ilete change and rest, and they seek it J a hp sniiffnt it. and too olten tind it as , le found it?in the grave. It is the sudden breaking off of old | ies, the uprooting of all old associa- , ions, the giving up all at once the cusoms and habits of years, that work the hange for the worse. People should lever forget that old trees don't bear ranspianting well. Do nothing too < ashly. Reverse the proverb, "It's 1 ?st to be off with the old love before ] ou are on with the new," Rather J tick, partially at least, to the old life, 1 ill you are firmly rooted to the new. ] Rlany people suffer from chronic in- i igestion, from the mere fact of having 1 rst and foremost produced the dyspep- < ia by overloading the stomach, or by 1 ther errors in diet, they give it no rest; ] bey keep on worrying it to get well; the i ery medicines thejrkeep pouring into i t keep up the irritation in probably five J ases out of ten. In these cases I am con- inced that two or three hours' com- ' lete rest to the stomach every day from i ioth moat and medicine would soon in- < uce a healthy hunger. Tho3e who t ave this organ in good working order ] muld do well to remember that the 1 ime when every particle of food has < jft the stomach is not the time to put J lore in. An hour's rest at least is 1 eeded, and if you give it this before j ach meal, it will be a willing servant, i nd will never think of suggesting the i ropriety of a sherry and bitters before i ou sit down to dinner; and remember, \ willing servant makes a good master, 3 nd a good-tempered'one to boot. 1 The kidneys are extremely hard- 1 forking, and, as a rule, healthy organs, 1 iut are often out of order when we lit- 1 le wot of it They are long-suffering < rgans, and are not like the liver oi* 1 torn ach?they don't call out when first lUrts. But they too need their periods I f rest, and undue stimulation is some- | imes productive of the most dire and 3 atal results. Beer and alcohol might ie called direct stimulants to the kid- ' iey; abstinence from these in people < rho have been used to them will often ] ;ive this or^an rest, and time to get over 1 ilments trilling in themselves, but | irhich if not cured might lead slowly 1 nward to death. "Oh, but I must 1 lave my beer," I heard Mr. C say 1 Mtdumnier?lie was suffering from a ' try slight attack of diabetes. "He had i lis beer, and never recovered. The liver is another organ which 1 ften has to complain for want of rest, t is greatly over-stimulated by overloading the stomach with more food han can be easily digested, by irreguarity in (Met, but aoove all by the buse of fermented drinks. These alone re capable of procuring illness which, f not immediately fatal, make life a iurden- a weary chain that the patient ias to drag out. Like every other organ if the body, the liver must have rest, ,ud you can give it that rest by cultiating habits of abstemiousness and emperance?rest, but rest with periods f activity regularly intervening. Some ieople have naturally sluggisn livers, nd must take medicine occasionally, uch as a blue pill at night and seidlitz n the morning; but for those whose ivers are ordinarily pretty active, there 3 no fillip to the liver equal to a good risk walk?not a mere saunter along, mt a walk that shall quicken the ?reathing, and cause the diaphragm to ;ently compress the organ between it ,nd the abdominal vescera. A livpr that does not eet rceular rest. ;ets in time changed in structure, to he great detriment of the health of its wner; it is also rendered more liable to liseases of a more active and fatal kind, or the simple reason that it is a weakned organ. The same may be f>aid about the heart, low many times and oft does the disector's knife reveal changes of strueure in this organ, which regular rest .lternatins; with periods of activity durng life might have prevented! Too auch hard bodily work, too much .thlctic exercise, constant worry of oind, grief and care and sorrow?all hese act detrimentally upon the heart, .nd shorten, if they do not speedily take ife. The cure is obvious; avoidance of lie cause, if you can, and rest whenever lossible. Unrequited love, or loss of he loved one from whatever cause, ome will tell you never kills, but I :ould adduce more than one case to >roveJit may lead to death. A grief like .hi* is hard to bear: there is but one i :ure?change of scene ami work, the vork being in this case actual rest for ;he strained heart. The brain is frequently the hardestvorked organ in the body, and frejuently, too, it is just the one to which est is denied. Brain-workers form a rery large portion of the community, if we include in the list, as I think we )ught to, not only writers, students, and leep thinkers, but business men as well ?men in city life, whose minds are on :he rack from morning till night, and srobablv nearly every day all the year ound. It is absurd for such as these to ;hink that thevcan keep on forever without some regularly;recurring periods of :est and relaxation; but some men do ;hink so. They are mad on the point, jr strangely obtuse. Others, again, think ;hey can keep on till they are just within i step or two of the inevitable break-up. rhey may, however, go just a step farmer than they intended, and either ?o jut like the snuff of a candle, or walk ;his earth, till they die. with ruined constitutions. Hut there is another class )f brain workers who make a far more zrave error, n:imely, those who use stimulants to increase their brain-power md get still more work out of themselves. From the ranks of these men lunatic asylums are recruited. Now for a case of debility and illness, with lowness or spirits, etc., ana tne !oss of power o f looking at everything in the brightest light, there is only one uure, unci thai is rest. Hut what kind of rest? Before you can get a brain-woker io give up thinking about the work that has made him ill, you must give him some other employment, and one, :oo, that he will take an interest in. Every one must choose lor liimseii wnat that will be, whether shooting, fishing, [>r a walking or boating tour. A month rof either or these will work wonders; hat particular portion of the brain which lias been over-worked to weariness and weakness will have rest, and the tissues will be repaired, and at the end of the holiday not only will mental vigor be restored, but the health of the body generally will be vastly improved. There are cases in which, through the giving way to excesses of various kinds, including intemperance in eating and drinking, the sufferers feel what they often describe as "altogether out of sorts." There isn't, perhaps, an organ in the body that is not crippled more or less, and the mind too seems to partake of a share of the general wreck. Mind you, there may be no real disease in any part of the frame, and still the patient feels as ill as possible. For cases like these I can prescribe nothing better than change of scene, and complete rest of body and mind. This, combined with temperance in eating and drinking, will soon repair the system. But once restored to health, let a complete change in the system and style of living be had recourse to, or the second illness will be infinitely worse than the first. Tonics of some kinds may be found of great use in helping to restor relaxed constitutions during the holiday taken immediately before the advent of winter. The mineral acids with bitters, and the tincture of bark, will often be found invaluable; so will the bath. Here is ? capital Ionic in the form of a bath. Well lather the body thoroughly with soap and hot water, from head to foot, by means of a bathing glove. Then immediately after take a" cold spongebath. which should be ready at hand. If repl sea-water is at hand, so much the better; if not. the bath should be got readv the night before, by throwing into it two or three good handfuls of the rough sea-salt of the shops. The bath should be taken the very first thing ifter getting out of bed, ana if afterward i short walk be taken before breakfast, the sense of exhilaration will be very SP*eat.?Harper's Bazar. Smoking Ladles. But what one thinks in America of jigarette-smoking women one soon ceases :o think in Europe where it is so frequent. For does not fat, famous and frolicksome Emily Faithfull smoke like a Lake Michigan tug-boat? Does not the Duchess of Edinburgh enjoy a quiet puff low and then, and even the Princess of Wales have her pretty little cigarette lase which she hides profoundly from ;he smoke-abhorring nose of her royal namma-in-law? Mime. Ratazzi in Italy is said to be a great smoker, and so alt?o is Elizabeth Thompson, the artist, in England. The two daughters of the Due d'Orleans, one of whom was the ueautiful Mercedes, Queen of Spain, were fond of a quiet smoke, as also is the wife )f the pretender, Don Carlos. A lthough imoking ladies are so numerous in Europe one often hears it insisted upon liere that American ladies are the great?st habitual smokers in the world. " I icver saw a lady smoke in America!" I liad occas:on frequently to say in France, md always with the unsatisfactory feeling that I was not half believed. Once jpon a time in Paris I lived several routbs in an extensive pension des den./iselle* In this flourishing school was Mile. N . a ^oung American of twenty-two, from .Boston, a sort 01 parlor boarder, who had many extra privileges besides that of a private bed-room, tvhen every other pupil slept in a tiny jouch in a dormitory that looked exactly like a hospital. "Ah, but your American ladies do smoke, and smoke a jreat deal more than our Frenchmen," jaid the matron of the school one day. Mile. N. smokes much more than M. ie Professeur, and if you don't believe it I will some day show > ou the ashes that 30jjc down trom her room." I said nothing. And vet I could have told that which would have made madame's eolden wig stand up like quills on a fretful porcupine, and reduced the matron to a state of gibbering idiocy. I could have told that, indeed, many cigarettes were smoked in Mile. N.'s room ea^h night, and that great were the asuesthereof; also could T have told that every night when that huge dormitory full of pupils was still and every girl asleep, four ol the teachers, all girls themselves of from twenty to twentytwo, whose business it was to watch and crnarH that sleemnc fold, stole softlv From their beds, up the attic 9taii-s* across the roof, down the skylight, and then into Miss N's. room, where, with a bottle or two of beer and unlimited cigarettes they smoked, drank and chaffed till?goodness only knows how late?as if this were, indeed, not a pension des demoiselles, but a popular brasserie in the Latin quarter. " Girls, girls! how indiscreet! ' 1 exclaimed one night when, returning from the theater after midnight, I was quietly let into Miss N's. room, whither I had been at-, trac ed by the light, and where I found the smokeso thick that I could only half distinguish live flushed and laughing faces, looking.if truth must be told, more like the merry bacchantes of Ruben's pictures than like the nun-like maidens of a pension de3 demoiselles in virtuous, monastic France. "Ah, but you will not betray us!" they chorused. We must amuse ourselves a little, and you know how triste our life is \"?Margaret Bertha, in Chicaqo Inter Ocean. The Meanest Trick on Record. We have to rocord this week a peculiarity aggravated case of misplaced confidence. Everybody who attended the recent masked ball at the pavilion remembers the exceedingly well-executed representation of Lotta's fountain that sidled its majestic way around the room. This massive and faithfully hideous fac simile, it appears, was constructed by two young gentlemen, room-mates, one of whom has confided his tale of woe to our sympathetic paper bosom. It seems the arrangement was made between himself and partner to take turns in shoving round the fountain from the inside and supplying the spigots from the reservoir of a bucket also concealed inside, by which arrangement the one not employed for the moment could participate in the outside festivities. Our informant faithfully furnished the first hour's locomotion to the edifice, but when the time came for his relief his chum was nowhere to be found. Worse than this, he discovered that his perfidious friend had carried off the key of the door on the side of the structure, and as the latter was too heavy to overturn he was a complete prisoner. By applying his eye to a small peep-hole lie could descry his companion enjoying himself in a distant part of the room, but when the indignant captive had laboriously pushed his prison house to the spot he would tind that the deserter had" carefully waltzed to some still remote corner. This continued for several hours, the exasperated man making occasional frantic efforts to escape from his confinement. The spectators were highly amused at the manner in which the fountain would make spasmodic rushes across the room, knocking cupids down by the dozen and causing monks and martyrs to yell with anguish as tlwir corns were sacrificed to this new-fangled sort of Juggernaut, while instead of water the spigots aforesaid uttered regular melted lava torrents of maledictions from the true inward ness of the structure. What increased the rage and perspiration of the fountain's motne powei was the fact that every time he caught a glimpse of his betrayer the latter was engaged in flirting, neck-deep, with the former's sweetheart, to whom, in the kindness of his heart, he had only introduced the perjurer the evening before. The injured party says that lie was finally about fainting from heat and exhaustion when about three in the morning he happily fell througii a ventilator hole, over which he accidentally wheeled his incubus, and was set free in body, but with a mind whose confidence in his kind has been shattered forever.?&tn Francisco Post. ________ There is an oak tree near Raleigh, N. C., which, at the sun's meridian, covers with a shade a space of nine thousand feet. It would afford shelter for 4,500 men. A Nihilist's Kemarkable Adventure Fomin, the Nihilist, wlio escape from the citadel of Wilna a few day ago, was 110 ordinary conspirator. Whe: only seventeen he joined the revolution ary associations, although little^ i known uf his operations until his arriva at Odessa in 1877. He then went by th name of Matvaeff/and acted as deputy chief to Captain Tchubaroff, theMhiJ ist leader, who was hanged at Odess a few weeks ago. One of his earl escapades was an attempt upon the lii of Goronovitch, the spy, which re suited in the recovery of the wretchei victim?who was beaten and thei drenched with vitriol?and a confessio; that led to the arrest of300 revolutionists Fomin escaped, being included in thi number, and shortly afterward was sen i? >< n?u tru? vy ins uapuiia IU jLibiiui &vu IA/ Icicoo the conspirator Voinoralsky. Assists by several members of the revolution ary league, Fomia established an am bush outside the town, and when th Cossack convoy passed with the prisoner the Nihilists poured several volley into them. Some of the gendarmes fe] dead, others set spurs to their horse and darted back to Kharkoff for assist ance, and Voinoralsky, disguised in th dlothing of one of the victims, rode ol with the Kharkoff Nihilists, and effect? his escape. Fomin alone returned t Kharkoff, and was arrested while in th act of taking a return ticket to Odessa After his incarceration in the Kharkoi prison a series of audacious attempt were made to obtain a release. A ban* of Nihilists came to succor him froc the Kieff, and two of them, dressed a gendarme?, presented themselves at th aoor of the jail with an order to conve; him to the presence of the governor The chief warden was on the point o removing Fomin from the cell, when by a curious coincidence, two rea gendarmes arrived with agenuine order and exposed the plot, xhe Nihilist then hired a house opposite the prison and began burrowing under the road t< EVtmin'a noil Thia was disnnveret A VU11U o vv** .. ?? during the mending of a drain, and th< excavators had to fly to escape arrest Fomin himself now tried to break out of prison, and. with the aid of seventj criminals who shared a room with him self, he dug out the inside of th< chimney, ana climbed up the channel t< the roof. Six of his companions escaped with him, but the entire partj was recaptured a few miles from Khar koff. Last March Fomin was put or his trial, and the day that the order wai signed summoning the court-martial the governor, Prince Krapotkin, out o revenge, was assassinated. The tria ended in the condemnation of Fomin U the mines of Siberia for life, but, as i was imagined that the careless trans Ural officers would not keep him in safi custody, he was removed to perpetua imprisonment in the citadel at Wilna From this confinement he has now sue cessfully escaped, and by this time haj probably joined the Nihilist refugees ii Switzerland.?iAmdon Examiner. Another Little Lamb. On the day in Manh, 1873, sa/s th Augusta (Ga.) News, the fearful cyclon which ravaged middle George was doinj its most destructive work, a white Iamb no larger than an ordinary house cat was safely deposited, among other de bris, in the yard- ofMr. Don Prather, ai old gentleman, who lives near Berzelia on the Georgia road. As soon as th lamb was discovered some one of Mi Prather's family ran out, picked it u and carried it into the house. Where i came from no one knew, but it was fe and warmed and nurtured and becam a great pet in the household. In facl like Mar'ys lamb, it followed Mr. Pra ther about all the time. After inqniriei Mr. Prather could find no one wh owned a flock of sheep in the directio from which the cvclone came for a di? tar.ce of twenty miles, and wnere his pt came from was more of a mystery tha ever. At any rate, it grew to be a fin healthy sheep, and as years passed i was regularly sheared and the wool aj plied to domestic uses. There was n other sheep on the place, and it is doubi ful if ever this lamb saw another of il * ?-? ? ? ? SptClL'S Since LUC mciuuiauic luiuv wind took her upon its wings and d< posited her safely in Mr. Prather's yar over six years ago. A Mountain of Glass. Another marvel recently brought I light in the Yellowstone park of Nort America, is nothing less than a moui tain of obsidian, or volcanic glaa Near the foot of the Beaver lake a bar of explorers came upon this remarkab mountain, which rises at that place i columnar cliffs and rounded bosses i many hundreds of feet in altitude, fro: hissing hot springs at the margin of tl lake. As it -was desirable to pass tto way, the party had to cut a ro? through the steep glassy barricad This they effected by making huge fir on the glass to thoroughly heat and e: pand it, and then dashing the co wiifpr nf t.lm lafefi against the elassv su face, so as to suddenly cool and break up by shrinkage. Large fragments we in this way detached from the solid si< of the mountain, then broken up sma by sledge-hammers and picks, not, ho\ ever, without severe lacerations of tl hands and faces of the men from flyir splinters. In the grand canyon of tl Gibson river, the explorers also four precipices of yellow, black and band< obsidian, hundreds of feet high. Tl natural glass of these localities lias fro time immemorial been dressed by tl Indians to tip their spears and arrow A Mistake Worth $25,000. A mistake sometimes proves a lucl affair. While in the midst of lias ca vass Governor Foster received an offer $100,000 for some railroad proper owned by him. He had no time to co sider the offer tarefully, but concludi that he would telegraph his acceptanc He had at the same time occasion telegraph to his old friend and cor panion in most of his stumping tou Gen. W. II. Gibson, who was in nnUhKni-ini, tnwn nnH. hflinfr bother at the time by a dozen of claims up< his attention, he got the addresses of t! two dispatches mixed. The aeceptan of the business offer went off direct to General Gibson at Pine street, Nc York. Next iav came a reply from t telegraph ollice saying that iy> Genei Gibson could be found in Pine strc< By that time Mr. Foster concluded th it would be better to hold on to tl property a little longer. Now it is sa to be salable for $1*25,000, so the m take in the address of the telegram w worth ?25,000 to him. 31illers to Have an Exposition. Cicorge Bain, president or tnc Amei can Millers' National Association, h issued an address to millers, millwright dealers in mill machinery, flour deale and bakers ot the United States, settii forth that the grand exposition of m machinery, mill products, grain, et< will be held in connection with the a nual convention of the Millers' Associ tion, next June, and asking them co-opevate in making the event a not worthy one. Besides the exhibition domestic tlour and its various produi in me w;iy 01 urt::uj, ciuc&uia, ciu., oui pies of celebrated flour made in Euro will be imported, so that compariso may be made between the wheat pr ducts of the two hemispheres. Deale in grain, as well as millers, tre invit* to exhibit samples of grain raised their parts of the country, and railw: companies offering lands'to emigrant and State* seeking to promote emiirr lion, are expected to make large exhibi of the products of tb^ir lands. Farmers are just now laying in tin winter's fuel, and the more grown -1 daughters, the bigger the wood-pil Allowance must be'made for sparks. Middlctoion Transcript. i. The Patchwork Spread. d The cottage stands back from the sidewalk,, s In front is a largo willow tree, n While nestling among the morning glories !" A flower hanging basket I see. j Madeira vines climb o'er the window e And gay lady-slippers so red, - While mother, she sits in her rocker, [ Ba?v making a natch work spread. a y The garden is teeming with flowers, e * The bright portnloccas in bloom, !- With myrtle and gay creeping Gbariie, d And sweet heliotrope sheds perfume, Q Bat brighter and sweeter than any l Gay flowers that grow in their bed, g Is the dear one that aits in the rocker, t Busy making a patchwork spread. e j With pieces of muslin beside her, Each one of a different hue, f Some light and some dark and some plaii f ones, g Some well worn aaVell as some new. [] How deftly she puts them together, 8 Hie bright ones surround each dark shred, * So that when it is all oompleted ? 'Tis a beautiful patchwork spread. i The children are home for vacation, g They gambol and play in the room, And swiltly her needle is plying, J And she blithely singing a tone. s I think as I watch her spare figure, 1 Some few silver hairs in her head, a How maoh that oar lives twined together ? Resemble that bright patchwork spread. 7 Some days have been happy and joyous, j And some hare had heartaches and tear*, Yet bright they appear altogether, ] For now nearly twenty-eight years. ; God grant when our lives are both ended 3 And sewn with tweet lore's eflken threaa, i Oar children will think of as kindly j When they look at that patchwcA spread. 3 ?Ormond Place. ITEMS OF DTTEBEST. " It is not life to live for one's self alone j A silent school-house makes a noisy . bar-room. r Principal features of a convention? > The eyes and nose.?Ottawa Republican; i Minneapolis is sending off 3,000 bar* ' rels of flour a day, and the city has 50, 000 inhabitants. , A Missouri doctor paid a patient 402 visits and squared the bill for a barrel * /it/far anH ft. In A/1 Of hrickfl. It is a fact that many a fellow has 3 learned through experience that a 1 woman is never merciful to a timid man. Waterloo Observer. I Bancroft, the historian, makes so s many corrections in his proofs that the i alterations cost more than the original expense of composition. The Boston Courier discovers that each other as " old man,11 and tliat when e two old fellows meet they, say "my e boy." ? Of the sixty fast horses owned by '? Bonner fiifteen have trotted in 2:20 or > better, and two of them, (Rams and * Edwin Forest), have trotted ,a mile in II 2: lli. g England has no merino sheep, except . in her colonies; Russia has 19,000,000 " merinos, France 9,000,000. The merinos V and grades in the United States exceed 25,000,000.s e Fast younz men, like fast horses, have records. Those of the former are kept ^ at the police court and some of them p.m. 5^ can SHOW & gttlt tliOt WUUJU uiuav iww ww o feel like a dray-horse.?Keokuk Gate n My* Now lades the glimmering landscape on the it lea, n Now lades the fly, the gnat, and all the l6 teat; it Now walks the street, oh, painful sight to see, ). The man whose winter ulster shrouds his 0 summer vest. ?Haxokeye. t- The wasp feeds on the hollow peach, ? And the thistle down is blowing, blowing; k The fern is dead, and the morning red # In the eastern cloud is glowing. A ,'j The holly-oak staff is broken in t*o, ^ 4 . And the weed-fires are all flaring; Time is shaking the sluggish sands, And the year, the year is wearing. The peculiar pebbles known in Aus? tralia as the traveling stones have ioop h been regarded as great curiosities. Simii lar ones have just been dis;iovered in s. Nevada, almost round in shape, and as >d large as a walnut. The cause of these le stones rolling to a common point from in distances of tliree or four feet is the to loadstone or magnetic iron ore of which m they are composed. ie An energetic girl in the southern part ^ of France heard tnat a gay youm u?u 10 been slandering her.. She came up bee bind him while he was walking with es his sweetheart and threw vitriol into P: his face, destroying his eyesight and 1(1 spoiling the beauty of his pretty oomf" panion. Everybody sympathized with 1 her and she was acquitted, although [e confessing that she had meditated the deed for two years. ill ^ The Chinese as Cunning Smugglers* ig A new Chinese trick has been discovle ered not lone since, on the] arrival of a id vessel from Honolulu, containing several xi cases of shoes tbat had been shipped to ie that port by some Chinese house in San m Francisco, and sent back condemned by l the consignees, the custom house officials s. were curious to know the cause, and this curiosity prompted them to open the cases, when an ingenious plan was discovered to smuggle opium into that port ij through the heels of the 44 condemned " n- shoes. The heels, at a glance, appeared of natural and properly made, but by pullty ing out a nail or two, and removing one n- thickness of leather, a hole occupying 2d nearlv the whole size of the heel, was ~ fnimri. into which opium had been placed to to introduce into the Hawaiian market, n- The " condemned " business was a part ir. of the programme, and the shoes were a returned evidently to be reloaded and ed forwarded again to that port. jn he Limekiln Clab Meteorology. c? The committee on atmospheric influ- \ ea ences announced that they were ready with a report, and, leave being granted, n? th3 chairman submitted a well-con structed report regarding the coming ,l* winter. The committee had been guided ,at entirely by signs, and their reasons for j? predicting a hard winter were: !" First?The thickness of the cornhusks. 13 Second?The unusual number of over513 coats pawned. Third?The anxiety of women to get winter bonnets. Fourth?The way the frogs have gone ri- for deep water. as Filth?The hesitancy with which ts, young men climb out of bed in the rs morning. ig Sixth?The unusual number of dog ill fights to be observed by a man who I keeps his eyes open. n- The report was accepted and filed; and a- the chairman sat down with a sigh of to relief.?Detroit Free Press. e- 11 of Well-Directed. ta A letter, addressed as below, was sent u. to the New Hr ven postofiice, one of the pe localities where Postmaster-General ns Key's "misdirection order" was a peo culiar injustice: rs Mr. Enos A. Hale, ed Assistant Postmaster, in 250 Orchard street, iy New Haven. :d, City of New Haven, :i- Town of New Haven, " rvr?.? tg WOUniy Ol lien umv.") State of Connecticut, United States of America, ir Western continent, ip . Planet earth, ie. Solar system, - Universe. ?Indianapolis News