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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER.
BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1880. NO. 33. VOLUME XXV.
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" 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
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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,
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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 "
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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
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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
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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.
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