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* 'V.f? . w *- ? r ' J| = ? ' t = ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1880. NO. 33. VOLUME XXV. ? ?? ; i " Hoe Your Onn Row." I think there are some maxims ' Under the sun, I Scarce worth pioservation, ; Bat here, boys, is one, i \ So sound and so simple, Tis worth wliilo to know, j And all in a single line: . " Hoe your own row." E II yon want to have riches, ? And want to have friends, j ^ Don't trample the means down j v And look for the ends ; j e Hut always remember, j v Wherever you go, The wisdom ot practicing j 11 tt.? >> i r my vuui unuiun. u ib Don't just sit and pray ? For inorease of your store, j But work; who will help himself I _ Heaven helps mora. ; y The weeds, while you're sleeping, | s Will come up and grow, ! li And il you would have the j v Full ear, you must hoe! ^ Nor will it do only n To hoe out the weeds; 8] You must make your ground mellow, g; And put in the seeds; And when the young blade ! d Pushoe through, yon must know There is nothing will strengthen a I to growth like the hoe! r. There's no use ol saying, What will be, will be; Once try it, my lack-brain, And see what vou'll see! h Why, just small potatoes, s; And lew in a row; You'd better take hold, then, ' And honestly hoc. 0 A good many workers n I've known in my time? ^ Some builders of houses, a Some builders ol rhyme; jj And they that were prospered, Were prospered, I know, n By the intent and meaning of ; n " Hoe your own row." 8< I've known, too, a good many j p t Idlers, who said, ! u " I've a right to my living; . The world owes me bread. *' jj A right lazy lubber! A thousand times, no! | tl 'Tis his, and his only, I V Who hoes his own row. i " .. ft APARTMENTS TO LET. jl i 'S "Let apartments! mamma, you are j P joking!" |! " I am not indeed. I am in sad, sober r earnest." " Rut to let aDartments! It is so de- S1 grading!" j ?' " My dear, we must live, and it seems L to me that this is the best way in which ! S! . we can gain a living." I ?' " Oh! it is horribie?horribleV ir " I fancy starvation would be more , dreadful. |fl " Mamma, don't say such things!" ; a " Wpmust face the ti*uth, dear, and ,P speak of things as they are. Our income. I {f or what is left of it, is utterly insufTi- ' 11 cient to support us, so we must increase % [ it. Can you suggest a better way than L the one l propose?" ?. L. Ada makes no response, but turns to A the window and commences idly drum- \ !l H ming on the panes,an expression of angry j 'r ^ disgust on her pretty face. j ? Until lately Mrs. Chantry has been jll in receipt of an ample income. But ft i is the old story. Three mo'nths ago a w han'- failed, and Mrs. Chantry is only j w one among hundreds of sufferers. Per- I haps on the whole, indeed, her plight is i aj not so bad as many others, for a small "5 pittance remains to her; but it is a pit- ' tance utterly inadequate for the support of herself and her daughter. y since lipnrn of the loss of her v fortune she has been considering how ; 11 best to augment their narrow means. | This plnn upon which the has at last , j' decided is to her a very uncongenial one, but she rives no utterance to her h feelings on the point, being fearful of in any way adding to Ada's dislike. ; a They live at Fairshore, a charming | ?! little seaside resort on the south coast, j ^ Their house is large and well furnished, ; arid it is not long before the " apart- ; ments" are occupied. The first lodgers ! " fulfill completely Ada's doleful prognos-'s' tications. They are a couple of spins- i ters, who have lived most of their time ' * in apartments, and whose experience of j A lodgirg-house keepers has bred in them :11 an ineradicable spirit of suspicion. They v are scarcely to blame. They Judge by j 9j the rule instead of tne exception. Hannah, who has been in Mrs. Chan- , try's service for over twerfy years, and j wno, now that misfortune has overtaken ' V her mistress, doggedly asserts her de- b I termination "to stay on, wages or no tl wages" has many a battle royal with v the Misses Frimp. u r Miss Selina irimp having on one oc- , a casion expressed a conviction that the j butter nas oeen tampered wmi, Hannah's honesty is at once in arms. There- c after she calls attention to every article f food before removing it from the ta- b ble, requesting them to put upon it their own private mark, in order that they may assure themselves that it will re- y mam in tact till next required. Goods left for them by the tradespeo- r pie she at once presents for their inspection, and even goes so far as to remind t hem of the advisability of locking all drawers, desks and other such recepta- T cies, Deiore sne sweeps ana ausis incir ; v rooms. She is exact in the discharge of her i duties toward them, but woe betide them g if their needs exceed the stipulations of their agreement. All the attention that I vas contracted for they receive, but not tone iota more. v Ada highly approves of Hannah's independent proceedings. She keeps her- h self entirely aloof from the "intruders," d as she calis them, her sole intercourse with them being the slightest and t haughtiest of bows when they chance c to meet on the staircase or in the hall. \ The Misses Frimp do not make a very 1 lengthened sojourn at Fairshore. After i the stay of a few weeks they take their s departure. However, the vacancy is soon ! r filled up. a r"1" ' This time the lodgers are of quite "an- a . other ilk." They areyoung people, who s r have been married about three years, j c Mrs. Beauchamp is in the last stage of t consumption. She is a fair, fragilecrea- | ture, with pale jrolden hair and pensive < blue eyes. She is somewhat older than j c her husband, to whom she is passionately t attached. He, on his part, is most at-! f tentive to her, studying her every wish, a anticipating her every want, and sacri- 1 ficing his own desires should they inter- c fere with her requirements. They quite win Hannah's heart. She j J waits upon them untiredly, and con- > eocts all sorts of dainty dishes to tempt 1 the invalid's delicate appetite. j s " Such a swwt lady she is; and as for 1 him, he's the nicest and handsomest r gentleman I ever set eyes on." i This is her verdict upon them. ! t They deeply interest Mrs. Chantry? 1 the poor wife, with the signs of nearly- i r approaching death written unmistak-j c aoly on her pure, lovely face; and the 1 young husband, so self-sacrificing, so , i 6elf-forgetful. Many excuses does she ; make to go and sit and chat with them; ; 1 I and olten does she propose that Mr! j 1 Beauchainp should go and walk awhile, i B**- and she will keep his wife company dur- I s If in< his absence; not often does he t'ike j 1 ? advantage of her offer. He glances at 1 ? his wife, and though her lips say " Go," i her eyes say " Stay "?and he stays. I Ada, who is gifted with fine, keen p >erceptions, speedily divines what her y nother and Hannah fail to perceive, lamely, that there is something lacking ti n Mr. Beauehamp's feeling toward his p vife. 44 He is very good to her, very patient ti vith her," she soliloquizes, standing at p icr bedroom window and staring out at a ,he moon-streaked sea; 44 but no, ne does a lot love her; not, I mean, as she loves d lim. He is fond of her in a mild, h rotherly fashion; but he does not love I ler as husbands ought to love their o vivos?as my nusDana must Jove mo 11 a ver I marry. No, he does not; and I n yonder why he married her?" 1 **** *** ^ The days psiss away, and each as it y ;oes leaves Lillie Beauchamp weaker. >he has taken a wonderful fanny to Ada, nd likes to have her near her. There n 3 a brightness and sunniness about her li hat ieems to come like whiffs of fresh ir into the sick room; and Ada, whose n romanly pity is ail aroused by the ight of the thin face and wasted form, e; j ready at all times to render every ser- li ice in her powar. She forgets her d ride, she remembers not their relative a; csitions; she is simply the tender urse, the watchful attendant. h There comes a day at last when Lillie h miles pitifully up from her pillows, and ays. with a tremble in her voice: r< 441 don't think I will get up to-day, I on't feel quite well enough." n Ada chokes back a lump in her throat, n nd responds, chccrfully: y 'Don'tyou, dear? Ah! well, you'll ;el better to-morrow." But Lillie gives a pathetic shake of Y ie head, and two large tears roil slowly lc own her cheeks. Ada makes no remark, but busies L erself in arranging the bed-clothes and h tnoothing the pillows. Presently Lillie takes her plump, rhite hand between her two wasted nes. " lou nave been so good ana Kina to je," she murmurs. "Oh! what should 0; do without you ?" cj VHush! hush!" interrupted Ada. " I m not good and kind at all. I only do ; because it pleases me to." "Then it is proof that you must be aturaily good and kind, or it would ot please you to wait upon a trouble3me invalid." j1( " Troublesome! why it would be im- U1 ossible anywhere to find anyone so t] ncomplaining as you are. And I tell ou I like doing things for you." ... Light as the falling of a rose-petal ^ rops a kiss upon Ada's hand. Gj A fortnight later Lillie dies. They b, link her peacefully sleeping, till Ada, n( aguely alarmed, endeavors to waken jj er. Then they find that she is indeed jj, sleep, but it is that last long sleep tc om which there is no awakening till f0 iCjuuKLUCiib lauia* gj Mr. Beauchamp gives way to no pas- fj ionate outbursts of sorrow. His grief i quiet and undemonstrative. He cf rnnks Mrs Chantry and Ada with warm ratitude for their kindness to his wife, aj nd directly after the funeral leaves airshore. m Ada finds now a terrible blank in her rj nail world. Other lodgers come and o, but she cares nothing for them, k, ife seems to have become intolerably sj ime and monotonous. Her mother *01 ets anxious about her, and at length to isists upon her having a change. j So she goes and stops with some iends, and certainly the visit does her ^ little good; but still Mrs. Chantry's lind is not quite at ease. She is more n, itercsted in the daily business ot her f,, fe?or feigns to be; but then she has |1; rown so much thinner and paler. She is not so self-willed, but there i3 al ften such a wistful, far-away expres!on in her eyes, that Mrs. Chantry tells ^ erself she would rather have the old cs npatience than this new gentleness, j ; he does not understand the change; d: - worries and perplexes her. "Arc you not well, darling?" she rc HiasK, smootning me Kin s uarK inur 'ith her loving fingers. tj "Me well, mother dear!",Ada will 0j tiswer; "yea, quite," and with a kiss ;u ic will sit down and play or sing, or jj( [so propose a walk. . It is a year and somewhat more since m lillie Beauchamp died. It was sultry |1; uly weather wlien she w:is carried to ra er grave. It is glowing August this ,-j )-day when Ada puts on her hat, and vj lcking a volume <?f Shakspeare under hJ er arm, sets out for a saunter on the ;n each. hi A short distance along the shore rises 01 loft a huge rock, bleak, grim and inacessibleto the most daring of climbers. Inder its shadow Ada loves to sit, and a] Hither she bends lier steps now.* Somehow, though she is in a literary lood, the hook remains unopened, and n Lie sits and muses instead. gj The sea is calm and tranquil. Far off fleet of fishhing-boats lie at anchor. ^ Lbove the sea-birds float slowly across lie cloudless blue sky. , There is no rind. No sound disturbs the dreamy ilence beyond the soothing murmur of nl tie rippling wa?es, Y " As they touch the sands ii] With a soft, monotonons cadence." By-and-bye she opens the book and ai cgms to read. "Twelfth Night" is fie play, and so absorbing are the ad- si entures of Viola, that she reads on, all nconsciousof anyone's proximity,;till o voice says: t si " How do you do, Miss Chantry ?" h She looks up, and the start slie gives si auses the book to slip from her lap. p: She replaces it before she extends her 11 ;and, or says, in a steady voice: y "How do you do, Mr. Beauchamp?" "You are not looking well. 1 hope ?1 ou have not been ill?" h "Oh no; lam quite well, thank you," eturns Ada, hurriedly. " Mrs. Chantry is well, Hannah says." "Yes, she is very well, thank you." "I have been to your house, and lannah told me where you were; so I h iime to find you." " t' "Yes." y He glances away from her out at the littering, gentiy-heaving sea. o " I sought you to-day with a purpose. s< 5ut before I tell you the purpose, I want h o tell you something ot my marriage y rith Lillie." Ada's face expresses her wonderment, n iut she offers no objection to his confi- is lence. . a] " Afv fathnr ruined himself in snecnlfi- ti ions, and I, to earn my own living, he- p ame tutor to Lillie's brother. There h vere but those two, Lillie and Harold, q They were both delicate?consumptive, p t was feared. After awhile Lillie dc- a: ired to take lessons in German from n tie. She was an apt and ready pupil, ind I took pleasure in teaching her, till ti tccidentally I became aware that?that tl he?that her feelings toward me were s< >f a warmer nature than I had any wish g hey should be. ti " Of course, when I made this discor- v tv there was but one thing for me to p lo"; I left my situation. I made enough o satisfy my wants by article-writing n or the magazines. About six months p ifter my leaving I had a letter from Mr. v tester, asking me to come to them at v >nce. p " I went. When I got to Beechhurst n . found a house of moarning. Harold i; vas dead, and Lillie, they feared, dying, c rhere was not much hope for her", but t itill there was a faint, faint flicker; and I; ler parents, with streaming eyes, told c ne that upon me that hope rested. She t vas wasting and pining away, and I was ,he only person who could cure her. t "Their meaning began to dawn upon n ne, and I must have made some gesture ] (Xr f)?n mnflior r*M nnn rrr? v. } n iVi wuv ??? ft* **?7 * laired, sank upon her knees and seized ny kands. c '''She has confessed to us that she s oves vou,' she cried; ' and she has said, c :oo, that you love her not. and that it 1 s this knowledge that hao bereft her of ill desire to live. See,' she continued, r tier t*ars scalding my hands?'see, I c beg; I implore you on my knees to save 1 as our child! She is our one ewe-lamb ^ ?our only one! Oh! if you have any t ity, say that you will love her?that ou-will marry her!' "4 But I do not, I cannot,' I answered, rying to harden my heart against apeal. f "At this the father joined his en- ii reaties to his wife's, and in the end they n revailed. Lillie quickly grew better, ^ nd we were quietly married. Soon r ftor our marriage "both her parents tl ied. Their death was a great shock to tl er altogether; her health began to fail, bi took her abroad, and we traveled from 1< ne part to another; but she grew worse o nd worse. She expressed a longing to h ."turn to England, so we came back, fi 'his place was recommended by the h octors, and we came here. The rest g ou know." ci he pauses; then adds: ii " I never loved her, but I tried to do ly duty to her, and I think she was g] appy. Poor T.illie!" 1; Ada's eyes were brimming, but she tl lakes no comment, h Purine his narrative he has kept his t yes studiously averted from her. When ? e has finished, lie walks away to the tl W1IU iwvnvvi uuvivt w??v *' v ni; icars. Then he stood up and looked %v i the mantel. The nearest approach fa i shears there was a bent hair-pin. m hen lie walked around and surveyed cl ich window-sill :ind pave the work- tr isKet another racket. h: " I tell you there ain't no shears here, jj else I'm blinder'n a bat!" he shouted Uj ora the hall alter he had given the <h ill-tree a looking over. m " Why, major, how impatient you e!" sli "There's no impatience about it! I 0f 11 you the shears aint here! No one sa in ever find anything in this house! u, liad to Iook a straight hour the other aT iv to find the gimlet!" /), " If you don't see them in th? bediom I'll (tome down." He entered the bedroom, glanced over in bureau and stand, pulled the shams T the pillows and whirled the nillows Cn ound, and then took down a nair-oil P1 Jttle from a bracket and looked into l,( . The shears were not in the bottle p aranywhere else. Stay! They might tn ave been carried under the bed by that '' ystcrious household tide which cares articles from room to room in an inisible manner. He crawled under, 111 limped las Heart on tne siais, got oust * i his throat, and was backing out with lood in his eye when his wile called at: " Why, what on earth are you after?" ! " After! After!" he shouted, as he !most coughed his head off?" I'm after 4' lem shears!" C1 "Why, here they are! They were ?.1 ing in my sewing chair, right in plain 8'1 glit." to " I don't believe it?I'll never believe ltl ! I looked into that chair over ten lousand times!" " Well, there they are." sj| " It's no such thing! You've lost 'em r pawned 'em or traded 'em for gum. ou've no more order in your house than tc [i old cooper shop!" He walked past the chair into the hall *1 ad was going out when she called: "Dear, aren't you going to take the lears?" tc "Shears? What shears9 I'm goinc S(] vcr to the store and buy me a pair of P( lears, and if any human being in this b; ouse ever puts a" linger on 'em they'll d< ifferforit! I'll see if I can't have a it air of shears in my house after being m tarried for upward of forty-three bi ears!" ?' And he pulled down his hat and si ammed the door with all his might as tl e went out.?Deli oil Free Press. ns V! fr Longevity. ^ From the days of Pliny to our own we A :ive accounts of persons living ten, aI wenty, thirty and even forty, or morp, m ears beyond a century, 'though the di ccuracy of the records is in such cases pen to doubt, yet there are ample reams for believing that many persons ai ave rounded out their full hundred m cars of life. S< Though life up to such an extreme afte la lay not seem particularly desirable, it ir ;, nevertheless, true that a virtuous old F ge?with the passions dead, the ambi- w ons seated and its work all done, with 01 leasant memories of the p;ist. calm and pi opeful anticipations of the future, and S1 i?i?1 ;? nr Ul(?li Will It'll UHlt'IlL ui tnun uaj <*o in asses?may be full of as real happiness at 3 any previous periods in the lives of T ion. re Men, now, generally die before their re me. Indeed, some scientists affirm s<] tiat, as the normal limit of animal life sc 3cms to be at live times the years of its ot rowth, man should live to an age of ve times twenty years. With this . iew, the hist twenty is the proper eriod of gradual decay?or old age. P' The tendency to early decay, or to K lore violent terminations of life, is robably determined by the rate at N trhich vital force is expended. Persons le /ho use it up faster than it is fully sup- o) lied, especially at the period when ouch of it should be expended in build- s< ng up and consolidating the system, P iinnot expect :i long inc. jl umj ub lius expended by vicious indulgence, i:ibitutil care, anxioty and fret, and by A overwork, whether of the body or the ft niin. ai At the same time, it must be admitted w hat longevity seems often to be simply . matter of inheritance. One who beongs to along-Jived family will be likely h limself to be long-lived. h This, however, is not an exception to r< ?ur previous statement. Such persons v tart with a vigorous life-force, which ?i iisily renews itself after expenditure. '' \.nd there is reason to believe that those h vhose heredity is against them in this espect. may with care, become the first tl >f a better line of posterity, thus largely f< estoring and transmitting the lost o rigor inherited from indiscreet ances- t mB.?Youttis Companion. ii istance ot a hundred yards and back ci pain, and so to and fro once or twice. A Bv the time lie comes to her side. Ada h jisregained her composure, and rises at n is approach. n " It is tiiDC to go home, I think," she a 2marks. T "I must ask you to spare mc a few t< linutes longer," lie returns. " I have P ot yet told you my purpose in seeking D ou." ei Ada stands still, her heart palpitating, h " I came to ask j'ou to be my wile. Sl 'ou are the first, the only woman I ever n >ved! Will you, Ada?" p A lovely blush creeps up to her brow. r( ow, so fow that he has to bend his j, ead to hear it, comes the answer: 0 "Yes." d ? tl Hunting1 the Shears. a Mrs. Major Wheelock, wife of that ii Id pioneer and eminently respected a tizen of that name, leaned over the t; mister the other morning and answered h im: k 41 The shears? "Why, they are right ti Dwn there somewhere. I was using o! lem not five minutes ago." tl The major wanted them to trim off a -w orseblanket at the barn, and he tl larched into the sitting-room and up to A: ic family work-Basket. Of course ei ley were there. He tumbled a ball of n im, a paper of pin3, a half-made gar- di ient, a button-box and a pin-cushion so tf on the floor, made a dive among the h; odkins, worsted, threads and darning- tl jedles, and the shears did not turn up. g; e stood the work-basket on its head, w lit it was no good. Then he went over di > the what-not and raked off three or w ur photh^raphs, rattled down a lot of hi lells and knocked off two books, but ni ic shears were not there. He was red a l the face as he went into the hall and di illedout: U| "I can't find hide nor hair of 'em, hi id I don't believe you ever had any!" ol "Now look again?that's a good jo an," she replied. " I know they are w ght there." tl: The major got down on his hands and hi inno o ?r? nnrlnr fho lnnnnm Mn FOR THE FAIR SEX. bo th< A Remarkable Woman* ] Passengers passing to and from the of erryboat at the foot of State street da* ase ig the summer may or may not have na oticed an old lady, almost, blind, and sai rith features plowed with the deep fur- Go ows of time, seated on the steps near ou he corner of Front street. However, wl: liere she has been sitting during the ag< unlight and into the twilight of seven j >ng summer seasons, with her basket wl f fruit at her feet and her knitting in the er hands, plying the needle with in ngers numbed with callous marks of bo; ard labor. Beside her stands her ph: randson, the only one with whom she th( onverses, except on matters pertain- ers ig to the quality or price of her wares, fro Her name is Mary Elizabeth Mar- me hall. She was bom near Belfast, Ireind, and is fifty-eight years of age, al- phi iiougli in appearance, the result of her be ard lot, she would pass for a person n years older. Her parents were c rell-to-do people, but notwithstanding lis she was induced by several girlish ^mpanions to leave home and come to - c Lmerica with them. She made her tor ome in Montreal, Canada, and there 11 let her fate in the form of a husband tin amed Marshall, a musician in elr; British regiment stationed there. J 'hey were married in 1845. He was af- trii ;rward reduced to the ranks. One enc renins, meeting his wife, with his <5 lonth s pay as a soldier in his hand? ight conts, after deducting expenses? jn_ esaid: "Mary. I can't stand this; I fA IftoTTO " Wifh fivP AAtYI. anions he deserted. Four of his com- fo.r anions were arrested, but he, with the 01 1 emaining one, succeeded in reaching ^ ?wiston, Me. Her husband wrote her Pai n his reaching the United States. She cla estroyed the letter to prevent the au- elb loriiies from iinding his whereabouts, A nd sliortly after rejoined him. the He being a soldier by nature enlisted fav \ the United States army as a musician Ion nd was off for the Mexican war. Being ^ ikt-n sick while in Mexico he sent for ^ is wife, and she went to him, and fol- ne? >wed his fortunes throughout the en- or re contest. He, as a musician, was T n duty during engagements in carrying , A' le wounded to the rear, and his wife |)9I ras among those who ministered to tnr leir wants. She was on the field of cas [onterey and Chepuitepec while those Iigagements were in progress, an eye bio itness of the scenes of carnage and clo: eath. At the close of the war she was flee int to Governor's Island, New YorK bor arbor, in advance of her husband, and lore earned a jiving by washing for the ^ irrison. On her husband's arrival lie A as discharged, and with her two ehil- rc ren, for whom she cared during the w0' nr.they came West to Hannibal,where ma 3 found employment on the Hannibal ^o: id St. Joe railroad, and she in keeping fc|ie boarding shanty. Being of a restless sJe? isposition, her husband was prevailed 8'10 aon by companions to go South, where 2 was taken sick, and she by washing Ion itained money and sent, and finally "cr ined him, and on his recovery the^ P:u: ent to Cleveland and remained until ie breaking out of the late war, when 8110 j enlisted in an Ohio regiment and was an ' nt to Virginia. At New Creek he c.nn as again taken sick, and she was sent V r, nursed him through, and then reained in the hospital service. On the we.^ ose of the war, they went to De- S.011 oit, then to Milwaukee, and finally 8,10 ick to Hannibal, where Marshall died. m is wife, with her children now grown sev* ), removed to Stillwater, and the chil- Ren en mairying she, seven years ago, 'J1 a oved to this city, where, notwith- ?ve :inding her poverty and wretchedness, "le ie has supported a grandchild, a boy ?ar seven or eight years, partially for the s0^ ke of having a companion in her lone- ftn" ness and partially because his parents s;?l e no better off than she.?La Crosse snwerat. Wlt c Farther Hliitn About OreBsc*. "1C While coat sleeves are as tight as 1 liny n he worn in srreet suits, Worth is \ adually reviving fuller sleeves for cjt,e )use dresses, especially for grand toil- Px|] tes. Some of these suggest the mut- the n-leg sleeve, as they are gathered in jnv< the armhole, and slope narrower to- pjei ard the wrist, where they are again w<u ightly gathered to a narrow hand on and e outside seahi, and are finished with vie< small flat square cufl'. This is very (!on vndsome when the cuff is covered with The ce laid flat on the outside, and witli a the Lthered lace frill inside. This is pret- sup ly illustrated in a dinner dress of eeru of a Ik dotted with plum color, and with is i ie cuffs nearly covered with Valen- nee ennes lace. Another dinner dress sent Th< it by Worth is purple satin, made with is ] coves that have lengthwise puffs on con p, coming down to a gauntlet cuff the iat is trimmed with nntimifl hlack 1 n*, ripure lacc. What is known as tiie | wei arguerite sleeve has a stiff gauntlet- are taped cuff extending almost up to dep ie elbow, while the part above is abl; ithered in quite'full, and continued so Fro ithearmholc; this is seen in the pic- con iresnue dresses of white and pale- Bef ntea cashmere now worn by young clos dies. firn The square guimpe effect may be given orii i dresses without cutting out the bre; [Uare piece at the neck, by putting dov >int d'esprit net on the outside of-the the isque. First trim the basque with a plai juble revers that becins quite narrow pies ; the noint where the shoulder seam ped eets the collar; if the dress is black sit rocade, have one rovers of satin and bre; ie of brocade, letting them widen he ightlv as they descend to the top of Tin ie first darts. Then put the net on, effa xving each front about a quarter of a con ird wide before it is shirred to lorm a sim ill at top and bottom, and let it till the ard >ace inside the revers. Finish with sici oo fin rAcoffn r\v of fl*n round the neck is a standing collar, mei id at the back a turned-down collar Fie ay be added. Whpn shirred fichu wa1 raperios arc used on the front of the a gi asque, they are made to begin on the met louider seams, instead of extending resi ound tbe back, as the latter plan sufl lakes the figure lookround-snouldered. Ion] jparate guimpes of muslin puffs and ext ce insertion are very much used with the aported silk dresses for young ladies unci or dressy toilettes white tulle beaded no j ith pearls is used to fill up the square the pointed open neck. A quaint and nor etty fashion is that of having four ges nnder puffs of satin inserted in slashes sup 1 the bosom of velvet dresses; there as-v e then narrow puffs in the sleeves also, on i he finish at the wrist of coat sleeves new mains very plain, consisting of a tinv vab vers on the upper side only, a stiff or luare bow or rosette, a slightly shirred cho ;arf, or else a single large button on the iter seam.?Harper''a Bazar. IVewd fintl Note* for Women. ^ Miss Lucy J. Rider lias accepted the wai ofessorship ot natural science in Me- cou endree college, Lebanon, Illinois. was Sarah Winnemucca, daughter of Chief the Hnnemucca. of the Piute?, lias been she cturing in San Francisco on the wrongs mei [ her race. Ion Mrs. Gtn. Fremont has organized the iveral ciasseB in history among the Sen rown-up sons and daughters of poor mo ittlers in Arizona. ~ t titi< An old custom has been revived in par .dams county, Pa., of demanding toll full nm weddinir nnrlins. linnns nr nluiins Vine lc stretched across a road traveled by a vra redding party in carriages and toll in paj mney is asked from the groom. she Bertha Von Ilillen was among the ex- by itutors ot pictures at tne Artists'ex- the ibition at the Philadelphia academy rat ecently. Bertha saved $7,000 from the pri arious walking matches in which she to 1 ngaged, and has begun the study of art of i Boston. Iler paintings show decided jeci ilent. a 1 Ladies who have difficulty in making bet lieir hair remain crimped may find the pre jllowing of use: Let live cents' worth tio f gum arabic be dissolved in a very lit- ing le hot water and left to stand over night the a enough alcohol to make it thin; then lor ttle. The hair should be wet with 3 mixture before being crimped. Vliss Merivale, daughter of the Dean Ely, laid, in the presence of a large I lembly, the last stone of the new pin- bi cle of Ely cathedral, England. She s< d: " I lay this stone to the glory of ei d, to the memory of Queen Etnelreda, a r foundress,and Alan de Walsingham, ii 10 began this work about 500 years 0! fa Dolly Payne was Quaker, and a widow, yi len she married James Madison, and it i daughter of a Virginia planter, born m North Carolina. Her mother kept o) firders while Congress satin Philadel- w ia, and she helped her mother to keep w i establishment. Among these boardwere Aaron Burr, thin a Senator m New York, and James Madison, a di ? n A** \firrnnin I 11 muei ui v/uu^ii^oo iiuw T *.* lly was very beautiful and accom- b shed, and when she married Madison is was forty-three and she twenty-five, pi C Fashion Notes. U ihirring ornaments the front of many h ndsome dresses. o1 Sealskin is much employed in Paris ir trimming mantles and jackets. ti [?he four-leaved clover in green- M ted gold is a favorite design in jew- T y. e: 'oint d'esprit, both black and white, ^ ms many fashionable belts .and sash & Is. P1 Imall silk handkerohiefs have borders 0j Breton lacc inserting and plaited edgs. ?he latest caprice in belts and bags is black velvet ones painted with sprays [lowers. {J Vaists without sleeves are worn in m ris. Large bracelets or velvet ribbons C( sped witli jewels are placed above the ^ ow. tu in overdress all in one piece, termed e? i habit redingote, is fast growing in as or. This is really a polonaise made lo g in the back and gracefully draped, fr Liuong new hats for street wear is the ^ ue, which is worn not enly as a bon- P* but as a hat, according as it is with without strings. kc 'lush is a favorite material, both for mets and for jackets, vests and the nmings and facings of both silk and urneru cosiuiiies. .ight furs should only be worn by ndes, and the fur borders to seal w aks and jackets should be of short vice if the wearers are inclined to em- qV lpoint. th yy komen'i Drcmei Ncveuty Tears A?o. q' l lady's dress in those days, says Mrs. jn scott, an old resident of Troy, N. Y., at uld only require six yards of cloth to cu ke it. Very low-neck dresses were jlf rn which would be scandalous in jn se days, and the enly evidence of a ^ ive was a narrow puff of cloth at the ulder to support the lower dress. To ke this shoulder piece puff out fash- fa ably, a feather pillow was worn unthem to give them the proper exision. The arms were uncovered, aa ^ 9 also the bosom. Dresses were made rt in the waist, the latter being about n j eighth of a yard long in front. The w! istant exposure of tne bust at that (]c e was not by anyone considered inicate. In cold weather heavy wraps *e worn outside of the house when rig to church, when visiting and pping. A dressmaker never received /Intro wlu?n alio wnnf. nnf. tn UllV/a^ ?? U.I\- TTVMV WViW ?W r, more that three shillings and six- ea ce per day. Mrs. Prcscott relates ?.< t when she was sixteen years Dt age -r" made her father a pair of trowsers. ^ n sometimes wore what is known as ter trowsers, which were so cut and jn ed together that the trowsers at the :les closed in and over the feet like jls ikings. The feet when so covered vj e encased in low, morocco slippers, tjj h pointed toes. Men with such trow 0< i on were to be seen everywhere in n'f village. is An Extraordinary Diver. . good deal of curiosity has been ex- tj'1 d in London by the extraordinary tft. ibition of a new diving process at m, Royal Polytechnic Institution. The fe( entor is a young Englishman named ^ uss, twenty-eight years of age, who ca i fornferly an officer in the Peninsular ^ Oriental Steamship Company's ser- ftn He is a short, slight man of fair tjj lplexion and pleasant appearance. an ; peculiarity of his process is that ex diver takes down with him a good ply of air, and is quite independent ny supply from above, so that there 10 pumping required, and no help ' HpH PYOf>nt. a siinnil-man and a corn. I im i dress in which Mr. Fleuss descends in: like an ordinary divert dress, and th sists of a helmet and breastplate, and loi common water-sight armings and un ;ings. He bears on his shoulders a lai gh t of ninety-si x pounds, and his boots in j weighted to twenty pounds. At a tic th of twelve feet he moves comfort- inj 7 in the water under this pressure, en m the helmet there proceeds a light an d for signaling to the man above, til ore the helmet is fixed and the mask ca led, it is seen that the inventor wears ch lly ti?d over his mouth and nose an an lasal mouthpiece, from which a br nthing tube of an inch bore proceeds th rnward. When he is on the floor of br tank in which the exhibition takes th< :e, Mr. Fleuss moves about as he fel ises, apparently, without any im- w( iment. He can pick up coins, can fa down, and can even lie down. He ha utiles, he says, just as easily as wnen an is in the air, and quite as treely. }ju } process by which the breathing is fac cted remains a secret, but is, ac- mj ding to the inventor, extremely of pie. Dr. Benjamin Ward Rich- Wf son, a well-known London phy- tis an, who sends to Natnrc a long ac- ' nt of his observations of the experi- m, its, says that in whatever way Mr. tin uss gets breathing room under the th :er, he has without a doubt achieved 8tf :eat practical success. He has some th< ;hod of getting rid of the product of Fixation, which would otherwise cf bcate him, and he is able to live a rCi ? time shut off completely from an fou ernal access to the air. In some of an exhibitions. Mr. Fltfuss has remained tn ler water a full hour, and has showed to rigns of asphyxia on coming out of ba tank, and but little change from his co mal condition. Dr. Richardson sug- jin ts that a man who can carry his nir su ply in his pockets could go into fire bu veil as underwater, provided he had de i proper fireproof dress, and that the m r invention will be found specially as liable in wells charged with foul ail. f0 in mines filled with fire-damp or pc ke-damp. ar ?? th Miss Sennctt's Pet. . singular instance of mental disease tic i brought out in the New York city ur rts not long ago. The complainant or 3 a Miss Sennett, who claimed that landlady at a boarding-house where had lived had seized foi non-paynt of board a pet white rat that beged to the plaintiff. In the course of Di testimony it eame out that Miss de mctt was aanictea 10 uie use 01 &u rphia, taking this drug in such quan- he ss as to be most of the time in a lis tially insensible condition. With a sci ; knowledge of her condition the lm irding-house keeper had, in many di: ys, imposed upon her, making her Ai r exorbitant prices for the services wi received, until at last she was forced co these extortions to quit the phice, and a n a seizure was made of the white j dc in question. The rodent was greatly dc zed on account of the aid he rendered in ;hc unfortunato woman in her system nc dissipation. It was her habit "to in- jo t morphine into her arm every day by j " lypodermic needle, and the rat had j ar ;n trained to jick the wound, thus ; to iducing a peculiarly pleasing sensa- I oi n. Miss Sennett succeeded in regain- ar : her pet, though it is probable that! tv i legal decision in her favor will go a ' th ig way toward ending her lite. | th TIMELY TOPICS. While lecturing on snakes before the ,ondon institution, Professor Huxley lid that few animals are endowed witn d many faculties. A snake can stand rect, climb as well as an ape, fiwim like fish, dart forward, and do all but tty 1 seizing its prey. The destructiveness f snakes to man was illustrated by the ict that twenty thousand lives are early lost in India by their poison, and rvi i /?1\ f anTnltf onul fl?nf a ' uu oniu iiiiub tuuj aic a lore deadly enemy to our race than any tlier beasts of the field. The reason hy there were no snakes in Ireland as the multiplicity of >ts other plagues. The United States secretary ot state, esiring to secure, if possible, a good exibition of American goods at the Melourne International exhibition, which to be opened October 1, 1880, has apDinted Mr. Thomas R. Pickering, of onnecticut, an agent on behalf of the nited States government to solicit exibits. Mr. Pickering has opened an (fice at Room No. 102 postofiice buildig, New Yo'k city, where all informaon regarding the regulations of the [elbourne exhibition can be obtained, he United States will not assume the cpense of shipping goods, but will, trough its commissioner, receive the jods at Melbourne, assign them to a roper space in the exhibition buildigs, nnd publish a catalogue of the list " exhibitors. Complete details of the attempt to blow o the czar and his suite give one a betr idea of the amount of work done to isure a successful result. The young an who purchased the cottage in Mos>w, which he decorated with the poraits of the czar, the czarina and picires 'of the saints, contrived without cciting suspicion to excavate with his isociates a passage over thirty yards ng and three feet hieh, and to brick it om one end to the other. The use of ie bricks seems the most extraordinary irt of the whole scheme; but probably was found that nothing else would ;ep the earth from tumbling in upon ie excavators. At tho end of the galry thus run from the cottage, and five et from the line, a chamber was built ifliciently large to hold the explosives. The first snow-fall in Paris this season as the heaviest known there for many iars. The eold wa? intense and the lantitiesof snow accumulated in the oroughfares was so great that there as little or no circulation for vehicles. mnihuseB, though drawn by three and some cases by four horses, only moved a funeral pace; the tramways and cirlit railway ceased running,and very few ickney carriages were in the streets, i the suburbs the snow lay on the our.d to an average depth of a foot, it in places where it had been drifted * r the wind or accumulated by the efrts of the armies of sweepers it was ree and four feet deep. The snow was iven along the boulevards in blinding owers, the few cabmen out refused to ke a fare at any price, and the beghted had accordingly to make their ny as best as they could through the ep snow and piercing northeast wind. Among the allowances which the 2w York hoard of health asks of the >ard of apportionment over last year's propviation there is an item for three i?*-- 1 a. r iii ujuurini lnnpuuiurs ui xiiuk, ;it siiuu n-n ch of twelve hundred dollars a year. This," says the Herald. " ought to be anted. There arc a hundred and thirty ousand children in the city less than re years old whose diet consists of milk larger proportion than their elders. >r all these and the million other in ibitonts only one milk inspector is proded. The board of health estimates attlic citizens are defrauded at the rate ten thousand dollars a day by the sale skimmed and watered milk. But that not the worst. It omits to estimate e quantity <jf rotten milk which ^is rved daily to the hundred and thirty ousand children. Year by year sanirians in other countries are becoming arc firmly convinced that next to derive drainage unwholesome milk is e most fertile agency of zymotio.disses. If the board of health will peneite to the sources of this corruption d cleanse them, by all means give it e necessary inspectors for the purpose d hold, it rifcidly responsible for the ecution of the duty." The Staff of Life. rhe pastry of the household may be .lgh, the cake heavy, the puddings of [erior quality, and yet the wheels of e domestic machine move freely, so 1: as the bread is sweet and light and ; u_n_ vr? .linpt'ttuimuit;. i>l> ui uu id but would blush over a poor bak5, and every savant's dearest ambi?n is to turn out good, honest loaves, nocent of saleratus. In fact, great iphasis has been laid upon tlie quality ci manufacture of bread from early nes, when the whitest and finest was lied simncl cakes, and was concocted iefly to please the ^palate of the rich d high-born, as well as the wastel ead, not quite so aristocratic; while g tourle, or twisted loaf, and black ead made from the coarsest portion of e wheat, or from some inferior grain, 1 to the share of the poor. Nowadays : have discovered that the coarse fare rnishes more nutriment, and the rich ve adopted it and made it popular, d who knows if the black bread of the imblc class is not responsible for the ;tthat out of its ranks the greatest :nds have arisen, while the fine flour the wealthy has perhaps tended toird effeminacy of muscle and brain sueP rhe staff of life seems to have been jre or less associated with .religion in e past; the simnel loaf not onlv bore e image of Christ or the Virgin imped upon it, but it was formerly e custom to keep bread baked on Goodiday through the year, and a handfui its crumbs in water was considered a medy for certain diseases. Hot cross ms are a rerai?iscence of this period, d the fashion of baking them is even iced to the pagan rite ol offering cakes the Queen of Heaven, while bread ked on Christmas ere will never heme mouldy, we are told. We can .rdly conceive of an age when people bsisted without this article of diet; it amonc the caravans of the African serts grnin bruised between stones'and ixed with milk or water is still in use the staff of life; and tlie Romans rmerly derided the Carthaginians as ittape-eaters, unacquainted with the t of bread-making. In short, we find at bread, which we had deemed comonplace enough, has its history and i romance, has borne its part in poli:s, has been legislated upon, has iiged in riots and lias even been baked? burned?by a king.?Harper's Bazar. Twpnklnrr Ills Own Nose. If the correspondents don't belie him, Oliver Wendell Holmes is a good al of a wag outside ol liis books, me jrygoes that he wagered a friend that could make Dr. Osgood, the pubher, tweak his own nose. This emed so absurd to the friend, who id conceived a high notion of Osgood's gnity, that the wager was accepted. Iter the business of a call on Osgood ;us concluded, Holmes artfully led .ne nversation up to the subject of uoses, particular in which Osgood was not ficient. "Have you not noticed >ctor,"said Holmes, "that all men of tellect and great character have large >ses?" A pause ensued, when, to the ker's delight, Mr. Osgood responded: It is, I believe, an indisputable fact," id, as he spoke, slowl 'sing his hand his nasal appendant, ..Mowing its itlines with the thumb and forefinger, id concluding with a gentle satisfied reak or rather pull, as if to see that e whole of the intellectual feature was ere. PABM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. How toLDestroy Insects Infecting Trees Among the various methods practiced with-success for the destruction of insects up6n fruit trees, and applicable to fruit trees, may be mentioned the following: 1. Building fires in the evening to attract millers and other insects, which fall into the flames and perish. 2. Jarring the trees by striking them with a heavy niece of scantling, padded at the end to prevent injury to the bark. Cloth should be spread under the trees to catch whatever falls. Some caterpillars, that spin down with a silk fiber, may be swept down with a broom and destroyed. 3. Smearing the bark with tar, molasses, or printers1 ink, or, what is better, wrapping paper or cloth around the trunk ana applying the tar to these instead of the bark. The substance should be renewed as soon as it becomes dry. 4. Surrounding the trunks with leaden troughs filled with oil, coal tar and other liquids. Applying disks of tin, that, sloping downward, prevent insects from passing. Binding locks of cotton wool arounu tue iruu&s, cuu. 5. Washing the trunk and the large branches with soft soap or strong soap suds, or lye, or whitewashing with lime. 6. A wash composed of one pound of flowers of sulphur and a peck of quicklime, mixed in a close vessel with a sufficient quantity of hot water to make it of the consistency of common wnitewash, has been used with advantage as a remedy against insects and mildew in forest and fruit trees. It should be applied when freshly made, in Ajiril, using a whitewash brush. 7. Dusting the leaves with lime or with powdered hellebore, when the dew is on, has been mentioned as a remedy against insects. 8. Another mode for protecting the trees against insects that crawl Up to the barn consists in fastening a rope around the tree and nailing a strip of tin four inches wide around the rope, where they may be killed by applying kerosene. 9. Digging around the tree to kill or expose tne larvae to frost has been tried with success Others scatter corn around the roots and allow hogs to root among it, thus turning up the soil and destroying doubtlessly many of the pupa:. Late plowing by exposure to birds and frosts will assist to destroy insects in their nests. 10. Hand picking, the seeking of cocoons and insects especially in winter. Sweeping or burning down the nests of insects and seeking them thus in their burrows have been tried with success. 11. The vapor benzine has been proposed as a remedy against insects destroying woodwork. The injection of mineral salts and creosote is a preven tati ve against insects damaging timoer. The sap wood of white hickory, so liable to injury#from the boring of insect*, oven alter having been worked and turned into spokes of carriages, is often protected by these chemical processes. 12 The apple leaf crumpler some times contains the eggs of parasitic insects, which would hatch, and, by multiplying, diminish the injury done by this insect. It is, therefore, recommended to gather the infected leaves, and instead of burning them, throw them on the ground in a bare place. Parasitic insects would hatch and be saved, while such of the noxious kind as would hatch perish before reaching tho feeding p,ace. But many nt the methods above enumerated arc applicable only in a small way to trees in nurseries or favorite shade trees, and in forest culture we must seek relict from other sources, or, as happens, stand helpless and witness the great injuries done without hope of relief. Immense damage is also done in fields and gardens to grains and fruits, and here, as in the forest, there is olten evidence that an increase is often caused by the killing of birds. This loads us to consider morn fully this important subject, so closely identified with sylviculture and our ngriculturnl interestsgenerally.?Rc)>ort on Forestry. Tomatoes on Tubuses.?As an experiment, I trained one tomato vine this year on a trellis and do not think I shall ever plant another vine, without some kind of a trellis, unless it i? to experi muni/. J.ill! lruiia UII int.- iicuuuu ?iu? attain a large size, are juicy, and do not taste of the ground. While* the fruits of the vines that were left to run on the ground were rotting, those trained to a trellis were sound and growing rapidly. It tabes but little work to make a trellis. Any farmer can make all he wants in the barn some day when it rains. The fruit will ripen more evenly and ten days earlier?which is quite an advantage. Moreover, the arrangement gives the garden a more tasty appearance, and it is much easier to keep the trellised ground free from weeds.?Corrcspomlence Country Gentleman. How to Cook n. Steak. There is no mystery about broiling a beefsteak, and yet ninety-nine times in a hundred it is badly cooked. The simple art is & cook a steak without smoking it, and to retain the juices. When you rest your cake of India-ink on a palette, and happen to put your brush in your mouth and taste it, the peculiar savor is that of carbon. Now, carbon is one of the products of the imperfect combus tion of hydro-carbon, and the b?st lampblack is made that way. If there is any taste of India-ink about a steak or chop, it ia nf. fault. The art. then, is simply to broil without firing or blazing. No steak can be cooked without watching it. The fire must be very hot. The outside must be well cooked in order to keep the juice inside; but the outside must have scarce any thickness. The thing to do is to turn a steak from side to side, and to keep doing it. Never pepper or salt a steak until it is on the dish. To pepper it mieht not do so much harm, but to salt it is almost a crime. Never use a girdiron with too broad slats; that scores the beefsteak through, and fries overdone, dry portions. Incline your girdiron. If there is a blaze from the melting fat, the flame will burn beyond the steak. It is diflicultto arrive at a proficiency witn a steak which has too much fat on the edges. Trim your steak well, and, if there be fat on it, when your girdiron is inclined, let the fat portion be up toward the handle at first. Good steaks must be served instantaneously on a hot plate. Butter is admissible on a steak, but only in very minute quantity. If the crude sleak be of good quality, cut an inch and an eighth thick, and. the cooking artistic, the juice of the meat follows every cut. We cat more beefsteaks, butchers know how to cut them raore artistically, and we cook them better in the United States than in England. This is in accordance with the latest testimony fnrnished by Mr. Richard Grant White, in the Atlantic Monthly. Ilcnlth JUuts. Never sit, stand or lie in a current of air when you are fatigued or very warm. A Frenchman has discovered that the severest attack of neuralgia can be re lieved by directing a stream 01 wain from a forcc pump against the part affected. Pressing on the artery that passes along the underside of the right jaw will stop nose bleedine. The following is said to be an excellent remedy for burns: One ounce of pulverized borax, one quart of boiling water, half an ounce of pulverized alum. Shake up well and bottle. Wrap the burn up in soft linen and keep constantly wet with the solution. l)o not remove the linen until the burn is cured. The evil effects ot nine in trio eye -ire well known, plasterers and whitewashers not unfrequently having their eyes , seriously injured, if not destroyed, by the caustic powder of the lime. Wells 1 says: " If the patient is seen soon after , the ac.cident, an eflort should he made ^ at once to neutralize and wash out tho i lime by a weak solution of vinegar, with i a free use of syringe. Afterward, cool- -] ing and anodyne lotions and general and antiphlogistic treatment may be adopted^" J Crying Orer Spilt Milk. 1 There are some people so unfortunately constituted that they can not as easily c appreciate the blessings that belong to them as those which they have missed; ? who are perpetually groanine over something lost, or denied, or wasted, to the disparagement of the goods the gods 1 have provided. If a dish is broken or a garment rent, instead of quietly making the best of it, since no amount of 1 chafing or crying will restore any injured article to its pristine elory, they i recur again and again to tiie disaster, till one might suppose nothing less than a convulsion of nature woulri demand j such a hue and cry. A stolen purse is a ' text on which infinite chances may be i rung among this class; and one migh ! believe that the loss of a night's sleep could be readily repaired by weeping " and gnashing of teeth, while tne lament- Oh ations of Jeremiah are weak compared I to the bewailing they make over a ruined the enterprise or a fickle lover. With all j their howling, they only succeed in publishing their misfortunes to a world that . thinks no better 'of them for suffering { failures, and in annoying their friends, without mending their estate or recover- m ing the lover. "We have gains for all our losses," mc says the verse, but surely the gain is not ev( to be secured by making ourselves and everybody about us miserable on ac soi count of our mishaps; the one who wi bears with fortitude calamities which, y great or small, are beyond her control, jn. wins whatever advantage there is to be derived from them, ana makes adver- , sities, no less than prosperity, minister , to her development. If our Iriends dis- 'i appoint i s, bemoaning will not recom- D0' pense usjif; '* youth, the dream, de- J parts," deploring it will only hasten the thi ravages of time; if moths corrupt our inli furs, fretting will not act as an exter- 4 minator; though the early frost kills ask our lavorite roots, " for violets dead, the oui sweetest showers can ne'er make grow bca again." 1 Although we are well aware that cry- ma ing over . spilt milk is but so much cj? Txrnat/>d h'mnqnH unorcrv vrt irinnv nf lis j JV. .U...V ? QCfl practice it jnth a total disregard of con- . sequences, which would be heroic if p, used in a more unselfish cause. In the J?ra meanwhile there is a sort of hopeless r. pleasure in sorrowing over the spilt nin milk, which, however blue or sour it E may have seemed when ours, becomes her all that milk should be the instant it he leaves our grasp. "Blessings brighten bin as they take their flight,'1 and sometimes 1 it is only when we have lost a thing fern that we arrow capable of estimating its tori value, and discover how necessaryj it dur was to our well-being. It is cold com- bee fort, perhaps, but one which we are apt The to hug, to reflect with bitterness upon Hue what a different aspect the world would wear for us if certain pails of milk we wot of had not miscarried; if Angelina Auc had married old Gold pill, instead of a country parson; if Aunt Goodenough I had remembered us i*> her will instead cat of the Feejee islanders; if the lover of thii our youth had proposed in person, in- the 3tead of trusting tender avowals to the tliii mcreies of the postman.?Harper's tow Bazar. ^ " cell A Judge's Marksmanship. and The late Recorder Hackctt, of New onc York, was a remarkably good pistol ste, shot, and in connection with his skill ? in that particular t&e following anec- w1 dote is told: The scene was laid at the j;10 Mission Dolores, near San Francisco, p back in the fifties, when Mr. Hackett ra* was a rising young lawyer, in California, ?on but better known for his skill with a lor pistol. He had been accustomed to dis- (Iplay his skill with a pistol by shooting " " apples off the head and coins from the in 1 iinffCM of a lad of trood nerve, who had up perhaps as mucli" confidence in Mr. a f Ilackctt's skill as the Lawyer himself, sec; And one day rifter a little dinner purty, adn a special exhibition was to be given. i' This time Mr. Ilackett was to cleave .an lisl Apple on the lad's head at ten paces, apr But before the time came, a practical i87i joker in the party bribed the boy to as- rau sist in a.joke on Mr. Hackett calculated niit to try his nerve. The boy was carefully of drilled in his part. He was to carry in San his hand, unseen by Mr. Hackett, a clot the of blood-colored paint, and at the report ilic of the pistol was to spin around with a wh yell, clap the paint to his forehead as ca^ his back was turned to the marksman, ^ spring soasmodically into the air, and ' pitch headlong to the ground, as if dead. All this was done, and. well done, in the r presence of the party, when Mr. . Hackett fired, and they WAited Anxiously for him to rush forwArd, horrified At < the result of his shot, And remorselessly j bend over his victim. But, quite con- ^ trAry to expectation, tlie marksman ^ smiled quietly, took a cigar from his me] pocket And coolly lighted it, and waited tej patietly for the lad to get up. Hackett's i friends could never quite determine ( whether his perfect confidence in his skill led him to know that the boy was E not hurt or whether the joke had leaked Ruj out in some way. But at all events his Wi confidence in his skill seemed to be ing boundless, and he never hesitated to of'J undertake feats that appeared foolhardy, des but which fortunately always resulted vai anncessfnllv. fice bei; to John R. Gongh. gal] Mr. Redpath, the lecture manager J'v said to a San Francisco Chrnniclc re- 'un porter: In point of universal popularity, arn extending over more than a generation, J John B. Gough is, without any ques* cou tion, the king of the lyceum. fie fcas eigl lectured oftener, longer, and refused wit more offers of engagements than any tha other man who ever lived. His father 1^1! was a Peninsular soldier under Welling- the: ton?stem and'stubborn; his mother a cf was a. woman of heart and of far more con tlian average intelligence. All the Ajie schooling he ever got she gave him. Tier He still idolizes her memory. Gough cha got nonn either of his great or lovable and traits from his father. John came over rifle when he w:is quite a boy, worked on a ed s iarm in New York State, and then cov learned the bookbinding trade in New brai York city. He brought his mother Ind over, and she died here when they were thoi desperately poor. She was buried in wot what was then the Potter's Held, or what is now Washington square. Once I drove down with Mr. Gough through the mean streets southwest of Washing* A ton square to hunt up the house. lie Cc found it. It was still let out. every Seei room separately, to Irish families, ex- J:iii ?ept the attic rooms, where Gough had nioi lived with his mother. They formed the one tenement. The woman told us that Th< Mr. Gough, the great orator, had once f0!j| lived there, and she seemed flattered by cuii the call when she found out who her wh visitor was. Gough W2nt away sadder yea than he came. It is one of the great fng friefs of his life that his mother did not the ive to share his prosperity. the ?? 0f 1*61J " My dear," said a sentimental maiden mil to her lover, "of what do these autumnal tints, this glowing baldric of the wj, skies, this biasing garniture of the dying vo? year, remind you ?" " Pancakes," he Jinf promptly answered. And then she re- '(\oy a'ized for the fir-t time that two hearts ,-.,1 dill not boa!, as one.?Andrew's Bazar. the tin1 " Little words," says a tender-heavted ren philosopher, " are tin1 sweetest to hear." shti Oh, yes; "no.'1 for instance, when a hai young man asks his girl if she likes him sidi well enough to marry him?Hawkcye of The Dial or Time. rick, tiek, tick, the hand on the dial Now point* to the hour ot one; The feeble wail of an infant voice Proclaim8 a life began. Rck, tiok, tick; a shy young maid Sits dreatniig in the eventide, \s she thinks of the manly giace of bin. Who late has left her side. rick, tick, tick; life's noon is reached; A fond sweet kissed is pressed )n the golden curls of a little child That sleeps on a mother's breast. .1ck, LICK, uck; w1u1 noiseless ncnu The years are slippirg a way; .Tie hair lias loit its goldois hue, And iU color in turned to j;rny. Tick, tick but the hand stands still; S.'ow comes the leeble breath; file's lecble flame at last goes out In the gloomy night of death. -W. H. Polk. ITEMS OF INTEREST. rhere are forty-three farmers in tie io legislature. Jaris contains 74,740 houses besides i public buildings. < seventy now lives are ushered in every nute of the twenty-four hours. ?ride hath two seasons?A lorward ing and an early fall.?New York 108. The South raised 12,000,000 pounds ire of tobacco the present season than ?r before. ' Che Nina coat for children is handne, made of camel's hair, trimmed th velvet. iVhen a fellow rushes from the house :i tearing passion, it's an out-rage.? w York Ntw$. rVhen a grocer retires from business weighs less than he did before.? iton Transcript. ?he farmers of Minnesota harvested s year a bushel of wheat for every labitant of the United States. 1 Can you call your soul your own?" ;s an exchange. We can. We pay shoe bill, thank you.?Salem Sunm. % ,'ennossee has twenty-five tobacco hufactories, one snuff factory, twenty ar factories and 150 leaf tobacco .lers. l servant of President Grevy, of mce, who was addicted to drink, rotly committed suicide by hanging ., aself in his bedroom. iefore marriage a ^rl frequently calls intended " her treasure," but when becomes her husband, she looks upon i as her " treasurer." 'here have been sixteen executions of lale* in England since Queen Vicia's accession to the throne, and ing the same period one woman has n bung in America. te wna a young man at Crow Wing ! bis donbts if a hornet could sting; So he gave the beas'. sr me Severe pokes with hie thumb. I then yelled, " It just does, boys, by jing!' ?Chicago Tribune. t is said there are more frogs' leg* en in America than in France. But 3 is not as strange as the fact that re are more Havana cigar? made in ' j country than in Havan ?Norrisn Herald. isk the average husband to run down lar for a pan of potatoes for breakfast I his enthusiasm over the growth 1 prosperity of America decreases -half before he reaches the middle d.?Detroit Free Press. "he heirs and trustees of Dr. Le yne will permit the use of his furnace A- _ Tlf nnli !? nrfnn cremation purpuaca av *> nomii^buu* It is said that more than fifty pers have by letter opened negotiations being burned in that furnace. And - steward to tenant - farmer? rell, Giles, what are you going to sow icre ?" Farmer?"Ain't zactly made my mind, sir; but if we could put in cw stewards and land agents?they m to tnrive best on the land now vs!"?London Fun.rom the criminal statistics just publed by the government of Italy, it eai*s that in the first nine months of 8 th?re were no fewer than 2,900 rders or attempts at murder combed in the kingdom, bei*g an average ten and two-thirds a day. In the le period of three-quarters of a year re occurred 1,^00 cases of robbery on highway, jf the perpetrators of ich as many as 800 had emtirely esed the hands of justice. l singular case of death bystrangulan has occurred on a farm ten miles th of Mendota, 111. A young man ned Abies was standing in front of a se while the animal was feeding, e horse coughed and ejected a kernel corn, whicn flew into Abies' winde. He ran into the house, and by 1-- iL. 1 !_ as endeavored to mase uie jamny lerstand what had happened. A ssenger on horseback waa immedi[y dispatched for a physician, but g before lie arrived young Abies was jrpse. [orse thieves are no better treated n *sia than in the Western States. The lna Messenger says that horse stealhas grown so frequent in the district foki that the Dopuiation became nigh perate about it, and the owners of uable horses sold them at any sacri. A fellow who was suspected of ng one of the thieves w:is seized, tied a horse's tail, and dragged at a lop around the market place of tht? age of Olkenikf. with a (vain of ir.ated peasants and farmers after him, led with sticks and stones eremiah Austill, who died in Clarke nty, Ala., not long ago, at the age of lty-six years, was the her.? of a light h the warriors ol Tecumseh. When t prcat cmei nug up me imu.-uub in J, Austill and three companions found mselves hound down the Alabama in tnoc. One morning an Indian canoe tabling eleven warriors shot out from river side, fiercely assailing the pales voyagers. Few shots were exnged, for the boats crashed together, all fought with the butts of tfce is, hand-to-hand. Ahstill wasknockilraost senseless by the chief, but reeling dealt him such a blow that his ins covered both canoes. The eleven ians were killed or drowned, and ugh the white men wt;re sorely inded they escaped with their lives. A Botauical Usurper. curious instance of the invasion of >untry by a jilant of foreign origin i* i in the history of the mango in jali. In 1782 specimens of the cinnan, jack-fruit and mango were sent to botanical garden of the island. n? ic Ull' 11I1I1.V1UW11 w ii.1 uui mu; ^.red, but proved to ho difficult of turc on the island; while tlie mango, ieh w:is neglected, became in eleven rs as common as the orange, spreadover lowlands and mountains from sea-level to f>,00rt feet eleuation. O* abolition of slavery, immense tracts land, especially coffee plantations, ipsed into a state of nature, and the nt'o being a favorite fruit with the <*ks, its stones were thing evoryere, giving rise to groves along the .dsides and along the settlements; \ the fruits of these again, rolling vn hill, gave rise to forests in the ieya. The elleet of this spread of the ngo has been to cover hundreds of >usands of acres, and to ameliorate climate of what were dry -md bnrdistricts by producing moisture and ide and oy retaining the rainfalls that t previously evaporated; all this, heps affording food for several months the year to both negroes and horses. I