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? ? L. I iff I . . ' ?? _____ ? - ?r- *? .iVIl'tt&t iKi/. 3?07.Si SiVi ' , ;.; .; * % ? ' ;i*.t^77.f f-nx ' ;;?/ (f?,.ji . ? ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANXEil f f % <t | ?! . . - ? /; ? ? ~~ : ~ "" BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1880. NO, 34. VOLUME XXY. Song or the Wihter Weavers. The sunlight is dying; Weave, sisters, weave! The old year is crying, Weave, sisters, weave! Weaving slow, Aloot and alow, Storm-shuttle and loom, Weave out the daylight, Weave in the gloom; Weave, sisters, weave! Who dares to roam On the wild sea toain While the 9isters weave ? Tis a sailor bold On the billows cold; lie climbs the shroud And laughs aloud At tho gathering gloom? To the loom! to tho loom! Weave, sistera, weave' Weave in the gale With hurtling hail, Weavo fast, weave fast, A sea-green shroud For the sailor proud. JIa! ha! ha! ha! He trembles at last As the leaping spray Teareth away The strong mainmast; And he mnttere a prayer, But it turneth there To a trozen moan And a gurgling groan As his ship goes down. The flowers are a cold On the naked wold; Weave, sisters, weave! Weave them a gown 01 feathery down, Spangled and bossed With jewels of frost; Border the hems With antique gems And shapes ol air, Fantastic and rare, Kntwisted and twirled, And ice-impearled, Crowns, crosses, and spears, ? And lrozen tears, And orystal stars In the icy bare; W'eavins slow, Alool and alow, With filling ol frost And woof ol snow. >v ?Guv H. Avtry. \ Dick Dash's Diary. January vl, 1880?12.05 a. m.?Hav resolved-to jkeep a diary. It will hel mctocurefujl habits._ .UtUnr Itoro in tnv rnnm all th a ??v*v a** ?J. . ? ??.. evening, waiting for Jack and Fred who promised to drop in for punch, an< a-chorus to'welcome the little new year Boys hayvVt couie (on some other lark I suppose), and I've been thinking?ai exer?ise rather new to you, Dick Dasl ?thinking that the passing years marked oil by these midnight bells aren't making me much wiser or better thinking that since the old university times I've fallen into careless ways Rise in a hurry, past nine, take a swal low of soda-water, an* rush to busi ness; pitch into work desperately, al ways too late fur a fair start; feel ver] much down about noon, and take gam< pie and champagne at Delmonico's Afternoon, feel picked up. Go home ii horse-car with two or three fellows | stopping on the way for drinks. Thei a rousing good dinner, generally at ; restaurant. As for the evenings, th< less said the better. At any rate, the; last into the small hours. Then tumbl* into bed, jump .ip in a huvry, and sam< day over acain. Bah! don't feel half i man ? feel a groveling, low-live< wretch. There's the world of art science, and literature. See my old text books there on the shelves; I neve touch 'em. Think of what I might hav done in these past five years since I wa twenty. Let's see, for a regimen. On hour before breakfast read Latin am throw clubs; cold batti, breaklast, ani down town by 8:30. Correspondenc out of the way by eleven, then time V look alter things generally. Frugn lunch?say oatmeal or plain broth Clear head for afternoon hurry, brae ing walk home?no stopping on the way French literature or German before din ner. After dinner, one pipe (no cigars) then for an hour a tutor?some iellov to put you through the sciences. Quie evening with history; or, if you mus go out, visit Corinna Solo for classics music and solid learning. Home early and turn a verse or open an essay be fore sleeping. Why, by this timev might have been a magazinist gaininj fame and money. fMem.?Find ou how much money). Clearly I'm in i bad way?a "horrid boy." as Kitt; would say. By the way, there's Kitty She's not improving?not a bit; not ui to sonatas on the piano; doesn't knov German. Corinna's the girl to elevati l a man's taste?tali, distinguished, stu 9- dious, proper; nr rer at a loss for facts never uses slang. Kitty once asked i the Elizabethan period was a " horri< punctuation mark." She says "awfull; joily" and 44higher than a kite;" ani the other day, when I was telling lie some nonsense, she ejaculated, " Taffy ! Have resolved to give Kitty up There's her picture?better burn it What an arch little face! Kitty Buddsuch a bud of aKi,*y it is, to be sure, s< round and so pink; and that hair, floss; yellow, and it curls so! then such grea gray eyes, and lone: yellow lashes tha catch the light! The photograph's i libel on Kitty; it hides her dainty color and those funny little white teeth, lik< a kitten's; and those soft baby hands useless, but so pleasant to touch! No-v for figure Kitty's no Juno, certainly hardly a Venus, but what a lovely Bac chante! Kitty ought to be done in whit onaWedgewood vase. (Mem.?Mus get up in ceramics). Enough of Kitty here goes the picture into the fire. No Jack Bennington might like it. Then it's in a drawer with old gloves unti Jack drops in. A new DarairraDh for my new life To-morrow I begin study, exercise, col baths and Corinna. (Mem.?Read u for conversation with Corinna). January 1,1880?12 Noon.?A woke a seven. Rose at 7:30. Clubs and spong bath. Could have sworn there was ic in the water. Found there wasn' Took down the Commentaries an opened Book First. Breakfast at eigh Landlady surprised; boarders joculai waiter giggled outright. Find Latin very rusty. Have begu on the declensions. Study aloud, wall ing the floor. Must be thorough. .Jac Pennington dropped in. "Hello!" 1 saii; "thought you were drunk, ol boy, grumbling away at that gibhe: ish." Annoyed, b?t Bad to stop. To! Jack I had a present for him, meanic Kitty's picture. Will give it next tin heoomes. Shall make a few calls. January 1?Midnight.?Made cal until seven. Corinna was magnificent i black and yellow?something like U] holstery stuff. Invited me to join tl Omnivorous club. "13 it zoologicali I asked. "Artistically omnivorous, she explained; ' we consume ever thine, intellectually; physically, on. bouillon." Tremendous girl is Corinn Played a fugue. (Mem.?Find outwhi a fugue is). l-ooked in at Kitty's ju for decency, it being New Years's day the last time, of course. Kitty was lil a] rainbow, all light und gossame " Dick." she said?(Mem.?Must tell 1 it's bad form to call men by their fir w names. Useless, though; forgot I given K. up). She said,44 Dick," hoi me up a half-eaten viarron gl/ice, ai shaking it at uie with her round litt bare hand and arm, " don't you forge there's a circus this winter, and I wan j to see it." After seven, meant to look into as ; tronomy or something, or make note: 1 for essay on something, but Fred an< i Jack came in. Told them was bus; ! writing. Said they'd wait. They did j talking and whistlinz Drew littl j scrolls and faces on the. Jge of foolscap I " Bosh," said Fred. * Come along out j old boy. That ain't writing." I notici j how ungrammatical the boys are. Wen ; out, to get rid of them. W;isted tin i evenine. Very sorry. January 2?Evening.?Very tired tlii morning, but rose at 6:30. Did th Latin, clubs and cold bath. Break ! fasted sharp eight. (Mem.?Pay Jone j for saying, "So you're on New Yea j resolutions, eh, Dash? Have done i myself. Won't last.") This p. m. fellows asked if any lark oi I hand, and wanted to be let in, all be cause I chose to be dignified and wall i home alone, heel-and-toe srait. ' Read a little Goethe's prose with note j before dinner. Looking for a science t< tackle systematically. Decided 01 chemistry. (Mem.?Buy retorts an< materials at once, also books.) Have a slight cold. Will get used t< bath. Title of essay, " Self - Culture.1 Wonder if Elihu Burritt got sleepy ove: books. I Have accepted membership of Omniv orous club. Hope .Jack will take Kitt; ! to circus. Don't think of Kitty at all ! Hope she won't miss me. Think J merely artistically, she never looked a: \ well as yesterday, although a littli sticky from eating sweets. Corinn: ; lives on scientific diet. Much better. | January 3?Evening.?Ilose at 6:30 'Clubs and bath, in spite of bad cold j Must get se;isoned. Latin until eight, i Sneezed at table. Jones laughed (Mem.?Floor him in a scientific disipute.) Think of dismissing oflice-boj j?he laughed. Lunchcd on muttor *\ broth- (Mem.?Consult chemical hjrI giene to know if green turtle has brair i nourishment. If so. ereat improvemenl on broth-) Fellows insist on knowing "what's up" because I walk home alone. Unpacked six works on chemistrj j and large box of apparatus. Bridge! | asked, " Is thim new-fashioned whishkj glasses for the youn^ gintlemen?' Means Jack and Fred and the rest of tin boys. Hurried over a little Moliere, and advertised for chemist as tutor. Address " Culture." After dinner, Goethe's pro^e; then U Omnivorous. Corinna very impressive creature. She read a paper on trilobites and sang from Magic Flute. All screech, but Corinna says the progressions an wonderful. Must cultivate up to thai sort of thing. Member of woman's club. | talked liigu art ana xemaie sum-age, | Knotty old German spoke on Kant. e | Young woman rocitod from Browning, p " Delightful!" said Corinna?"so inj volved." Fool as if I'd been on dreadc i ful spree. Exhausted with intellectual t j pursuits. \ Have begun essay,44 However difficult self-culture may appear at the outset, a * j very short experience in the methodical j' I laying out of time and study will proi duoe wonderful results." That's good. t J Wonder what Kitty is about. So glad I don't care to see her! .' j January 4?Evening.?Rose at 6:30. r' Bad cold in head. Put one quart hot water in bath. Shall reduce quantity 1 :is cold gets better. Latin very slbw. . ilustie-r than I thought. Lunched on . irreen turtle. Pretty sure it's good for I brain, without looking it up. ? Have T43 answers to advertisements for tutor One reads: "Haveroled pils [ in drug stor 3 year can teech you fust rate." Another says: "A god puppil is j wot I wants. Terms 5 dolls, per houre." t Must advertise again and ask references e Bridget smashed glass bell, spirit lamp ir and three dozen tubes. Studied on > I , ? - t.! _i? ? 0 | CHCmiCTll S1?I15} aisu un ?v liiiciiu iucia> tor. Mignon is a dear little fool. Just a like Kitty! Hope Jack goes to see K. 1 (Mem.?Must send Jack the picture.) ,t January 5?Evejiin^.?Rose later than I usual?about 7:40. Sponged lightly in r i warm water. Oppression on chest. e Latin after breakfast. Rather latisb 3 downtown. Will do better to-morrow. e Spiced rum at lunch?medicinally, cold j ! so very bad. Rode up town in cars. 3 I Goethe before dinner?lying down. Fell e (asleep. 0 After dinner, boys came in just its ] .1 was preparing tc make some hydrogen. Jack said I was trying to " bust" my. i- self. Vulgar fellow that Jack. Don't . know about giving him the picture, - Says he took K. to circus. Don't care, ; but K.'s family been kind to me, and v owe it to them to prevent anything serit ous between K. and Jack. t Took mulled claret with the boys foi .1 cold. Can't keep eyes open. Going tc , bed. - j January G?Evening?Ro3e at eight 1 Overslept. Omitted cold bath for sanS itary reasons. Omitted Latin, for oner t only, in order to be prompt down town * S?ote from Corinna. Says: "\V< .? I fi-* onnnlr niTnw m'cfhh 1 f I jr v/U i/V/ vv-M?vw.. ?.e..v . the Omnivorous on ' Chemistry as a pro 3 ! moter ol the useful and the beautiful."' ?' j Was fool enough to say to Corinna that e I was a student of chemistry. Had nc - idea she'd clap down on me so soon. ;[ Can't remember the sign for common f I salt yet. i i Kitty's note reads: " Df.ah Dick?Pa t ' has given me a pug, and you mustconu' i 1 and name it for me, sure pop.?Kitty.'1 r Dreadful slang. Good idea to remind ' I her ol the fault by calling the dog !" Pop ." Started for Corinna's. Called in at - I Kitty's to get rid of writing. Too late 3 | for Corinna's, it took so long to name y the pug. (Mem.?Must go to C.'s tot morrow niirht.) K.?ty christened pug t from bottle of cologne, then sat on the a. i floor and dried him with her handker; chief. Seemed to think it a joke when e ; I reproved her about the slang, laughed >, i and tried to set pug on me. Met Jack v ! at K's. He's entirely too familiar there. I Very pushing fellow. - I Shall think over essav in bed, and e ' put. in a sentence in the morning. t j January 7?Evening.?Rose" just in : time to reach ofiice by ten. Sha'n't lie ; ! so late again. Should have done some ] tiling oeiore uinuer, nui u;ui hvu huh1 dred answers to second advertisement. | Didn't open them. Will very soon. Note from Kitty: "Dkar Dick? d j After you went away. I thought perp J haps you were in earnest when you I scolded about the slang, so I lay awake it | and cried all night long." ;e j Due at Corinna's at eight, but had to :e go to K.'s first, of course. Lectured t. j her in a fatherly way. She sobbed, " I d j know I'm an awful little goose, but you t. | used to?to ? li?li?like me just as 1 ; iam." Then she grew hysterical. Sent ! dispatch to Corinna from K.'s house: n | " Detained by illness of a friend." Tool* c- j three hours to make lv. cheerful again k ; Gave her a brotherly kiss at parting te (Mem.?Apologize for that.) Wonder d lul how pretty K. is when she cries. r- ' January 8?7 I*. M.?Didn't sleep lasi d night. Couldn't help thinking ot Kitty'! ig ; little tearful face. Afraid she thinks to< ie i much of my go?d opinion. Any fellov 1 that's half a man must be grateful whet t i 1:??. i:?i? 19 , I lie luvnu-ai little V IViVOU c m vai*? t, wi iv n : cares for him, hut having dedicated lif > i to advancement and Culture (Corinns \r\ I 'nm tirifh oonifolfl^ r?Q t\ 'f.** Wficfrj XO I WAllrUB C1U TT IVli va|/iuuwyi v ?. i?uv time on sentiment. Cold better, but forgot cold bath th: v- morning. Find it wise to omit Latii ly until I get a better grammar. This on a. ve'ry poor. nt i .Jack Pennington just dropped in. st January 8?Midnights-Jack wasgoin ? to Kitty's Thought wa would do m je good, so went with him. Sat him out r. , Kitty never so lovely, Wonder wha v. j sort of little wife she'd make for som st j fellow not bent on advancement an< 'd culture. Apologized for kiss. K d- : wasn't offended. What a trusting littl id : creature it is! le 1 January ^?Midnibgt?Obliced to pos t none cold hath and Latin, also tutor and t literature, for a few days. Soon fall ' into traces again. i- Carried ofi'K.'s handkerchief lastnight s by accident. Returned it this evening, i January 10.?? y January 11.?(Mem.?Write up diary , to-morrow.) e January 15?Midnight.?Note from . Corinna about the Omnivorous. An, swered, "Being taken up with important c private concerns, must resign, with ret gret." 3 Evening at Kitty's. Accused her of favoring Jack Pennington. Cried, and s said she was unhappy. Told her she e needn't be if she'd let me take care of - her. If Kitty was delightful only as a s little friend, what is she now that I hold r her and call her my own??soon to be t my wife?full of precious faults that I wouldn't change for the greatest culture i (with the biggest C) in the world. - ] Jack Pennington called at Iv.'s. We i on?f wnrH r\nf to him /ho wnq shivprinf? ; at front door), " Miss feudd engaged this s evening." Perfectly true, and made K. 3 j laugh. Jack isn't a bad fellow. Glad i i to sec him?as a friend. 1 January 13?Midnight?Evening at I Kitty's. ) j January 14?Midnight.?Evening at ! Kitty's. ' i January 15~Midnight.?Think my r j birthday in April will be better weather j for mental discipline and cold baths. -! (Mem.? Draucht resolutions to take (fi feet on that date.) . I Corinna at Omnivorous said I was " a , I very weak young man.'' Kitty Bays I'm a; a "dear, dear old chap; and everybody } 1 can't be so awfully cultured and so v! awfully useful. Some people must be a j little bit silly, you know, and awfully j happy." j Tell Kitty we must study aclvanceI ment together by-and-bye. Says she . | doesn't44 care as mucJi lor the advance I ment as for the together"?dear, loving r! heart! (Mem.?Never forget I'm the t i luckiest dog in the world).?Harper'' - I Tln vjt r , I 111 A Fight Where no Quarter was wiven. . ! A correspondent of the Calcutta ' i (India) Pionter, after describing an cxr j peoition against a body of Afghans unt der Sahib Jan, where some twenty r I fugitives clamored to the summit of a i i conical hillock 100 feet high in the mid,! die of the plain where the action was ' i fought, says: This cavalry engagement was no light matter for the Second . Punjab cavalry. One man was killed ' j on the spot and 110 less than twentyseven sowars were wounded?four (lan' gerously and ten severely-while twelve ' horses were lost or disabled. Of the * I enemy lifteen bodies were found on the ; j ground, including that of Sahib Jan. ; who wlien hotly pursued becged for ' i quarter, declaring who he was as a 1 reason why mercy should be extended to him. The jemader engaged with him did not spare him. and I saw his | body afterward with_frightful marks of the sabre upon it. This was not tne end of the day's work. The two standards were still flying on the top of the cone, and a part of a head ' could be seen now and again. A sergeant of the Fifty-ninth took two shots at the head of one of the men, and at the second shot hit him at 600 yards' I range. But there were several men j there, some twenty! it is believed, and J several methods were tried to induce II hem to come down. The headman of the village was asked if he thought. ) they would surrender if their lives I were promised them; but he replied that they would not believe in our promises. The battery tried firing "double shell" at high elevation; and one of these was well pitched. It was i finally determined to take the place by hissiiult; and for this purpose Captain Sartorius, with eight of his company j (Fifty-ninth regiment), advanced slowly ! up the hill, their progress being covered I by others, who kept firing at the top to { prevent the enemy trom showing himj self till the last moment. To onlookers j this was an anxious time, as indeed it I must have been to the little storming party. We saw Captain Sartorius a couple of yards in advance and to the right of his men, sword in hand, nearing the top of the cone. Directly the gliazissaw him. they darted out from their place of concealment?a sort of basin dug out from the apex of the cone ?and sprang down on the soldiers like fiends- Captain Sartorius guarded the first tulwar cut with his revolver which he had in his left hand, receiving a nasty cut in so doing. He and one of his as1 sailants closed and tumbled together to ' the bottom of the hill. He received another wound on the right hand, losing ! his sword. Neither of the antagonists 1 was disabled; luckily Sartorius was up | first, and seizing a rifie with fixed bayoj net which he found on the ground ' ; near him, he managed to transfix the ? ghazi, who, however, in spite of this, : stooped down and, with his dying effort, I picked up a stone which he flung in | Sartorius' face. When the Afghans ' | rushed over the top tin; Fifty-ninth men, : who behaved admirably, met them first ! j witli a volley and then with the bayo | net, and in this manner despatched ! most of them, one soldier losing his iife, ' i however; he received a terrific tulwar : I wound through the skull. Some two 1 ! or three of the enemy ran down the back ; j of the hill, but in so doing were | wounded by the fire of the soldiers on the adjacent slope; fourteen dead bodies I I i/Minr) tlin fruit. r>f t.llfi hill. Tn I the onlookers, at about 500 yards, there 1 appeared to he a sudden collision on the hrow of the hill, followed by a siraul'j taneous rolling down of assailed and as| sailing, for it was so steep that the ! slightest impetus from above prevented , ascent, | Ice Yachts. Ire yachts cost from ?15'to ?1,000 : each. When I mention the ?15 boats, 1 ' refer to those of our schoolboy days, i built of refuse boards, with three-shilling skate-runners, using bent nails J thrown away by carpenters. What a I contrast to the ice yacht of the present ' d:ty, exquisitely shaped and lined, with ! hull constructed of alternate strips of ; haul wood, wire rirginir, A No. 1 duck > I Jor sails, brass elects and blocks, full i sets of colors, splendid spars, booms, bowsprit, polished steel runners, nickel j plated ornaments, buffalo robes, etc. ! A 11U LllilU ill AM i: Itj ivu jatuio 10 oiuipij wonderful. A mile a minute is an every rl:ty occurrence when the ice is in good ,, condition, and the wind blows. In the winter of IBfifi the ice yacht Snowflake {ran nine miles north, from Newburg i dock, in eight minutes. When the ice is in Kood condit ion, and the wind blows I heavily, railway trains cannot compete j i with ice yachts in pointof speed. Time i : and airuin have they run up alongside of i , trains on the Hudson river railroad and i : beaten them easily.. On January 19, ; ; 1871, the Zephyr and Icicle, both Poush- < . keepsie ice yachts, raced for tw? miles i , ( with the Chicago express, the fastest \ . train on the Iluds. n river railroad, and j at the end of two miles had to wait for t the train to come up. s Many would suppose that ?reat dan> irer existed in consequcnce of the vessels j goin^ with such lightning velocity, i Siwh is nnr. the c.-iso. as nntliinir but ex i : treme carelc.-sne'-s on the pari of the j e ; helmsman results in injuries. With a | \ light breeze the eraft will not carry over p I two persons to advantage. In a neavy j j blow, however, tbey will hold six or! s j eiirht. In fact, during the prevalence of' i a heavy wind, it is necessary to carry as ' e : many in order to keep the vessel down I I on the ice. What is meant by keeping j I them do.ra is, that unless sufficient | g weight rests forward, the windward e runner will leave the ice, and rise often- j ;. ; times to an angle jf fifteen degrees. .t: This only occurs'when a sudden flaw of e i wind strikes the craft. In such a case rt it although the helmsman does not lose ! control of the vessel, he is compelled to e ' bring her up in the wind's eye, 01 nearly i so, to get her down again.?Brcnta.no's l- \ Monthly. A New Cereal for the West. In the regions of Western Kansas, where there is liable to be a rainfall in any season, and where ?rn especially must have plenty of moisture to produce a crop in paying quantities, a grain that will not merely be a substitute, but will absolutely take the rlace of corn, has been experimented with during the past three seasons, and it is believed to be demonstrated beyond a doubt that it will add very mu.'h to the value of j Yi estern lands. This grain is called here Egyptian, or j rice corn, and, so far as known, has not I been cultivated in any other part of the United Stales. The seed was obtained from the display made by the Egyptian government at the centennial exposition. The name is derived from the resemblance of the grain to rice, and. so lar as it has been experimented with, has proved a success, both in wet and dry seasons. While growing this crop can hardly be distinguished from sorghum; *l* ""'I Win /"if tllP (jfjl'lf in LUU hCCU lUlUiO Kb UK/y large hunches, and, as it ripens and gets heavier, bends over and hangs down, not unlike a cluster of grapes. It belongs to the sugar cane family and is cultivated in the same manner and as easily as sorghuni or broom corn. One bushel of the seea is sufficient for five acres, and it has been put in here with a wheat drill. In harvesting the heads oniy are gathered, and a soon threshing machine will clean ready for market two thousand bushels. The specimens raised in 187<J weigh sixty pounds to the bushel. The yield per acre in 1878 was from sixty to seventy-five bushels. This season, which, jis said above, has beer, a very dry one, the yield was forty to forty-five bushels per acre. No scientific analysis has been made of this new grain as yet; indeed, it is scarcely known, except in two or three counties in Western Kansas, where it has been grown by several farmers who desired to find some grain that would serve in the place of corn as a food for stock. The tr;?l hv tlifKr* men has satisfied them that for horses, cattle, sheep or swine it is superior to maize, and farm animals to which it is fed give it the preference to corn when both are laid beiore them. When ground into meal the rice c:>rn is about equal to a mixture one-third wheat flour and two-thirds com meal. The value of this grain to the people of Western Kansas can hardly be estimated when considered as a sure yield in any season, and it will enable the stock raiser to fatten his herds at home' instead of shipping them East, as has heretofore been mostly the custom for fattening . The vast plains in the western portion of this State, so celebrated as grazing grounds by reason of the buffalo grass with which they are covered, and its excellent climate, will be doubly valuable if further experiment confirms the value of this hitherto unknown grain.?Letter to Olricayo Times. Heavy Damages Against Railroads. The large amount of damages which railroad companies are sometimes liable lo pay is strikingly illustrated by two j c:iscs recently decided, one in this coun- J try and the other in England. Some | years ago, Mme. FralofT, a Russian lady | of rank, came to this country, bringing ( with her six trunks of ordinary travel- ( worn appearance, but containing, be- J sides many costly dresses, a large quan- ( tity of rare and valuable laces, which she was in the habit of wearing. At- j tcr spending some weeks in New York, , she went to Niagara Falls on the New \ York Central railroad. On reaching , that point she found that one of the two ( trunks that she had taken with her had . been broken open and more than 200 , yards of lace stolen from it. She brought , suit for the value of the lost laces alleg- , ins that they were worth more than _ ?75,000. The jury gave'a verdict for ?10,000. The case was appealed, on the ground that the company was not liable h< yond an ordinary amount, inas- 1 much as the exceptional value of the ( contents of the trunk had not been dis- ' closed by the owner. The supreme court ol the United States has affirmed < the judgment, holding that, under the i circumstances ol the case, the passenger < was not bound to give the value of the i baggage without bning asked. Still, mere striking, perhaps, is the case which ] has just been decided by the English < courtof appeal. Dr. Phillips, a London ] physician, with a professional income of , ?35,000 a year, broueht an actiort for damages against the Southwestern railroad company for personal injuries, caused by the negligence of the com- j pany\s servants. The first trial resulted in a verdict of ?35,000 in favor of ' the plaintiff. The court considered this amount inadequate, and set aside the 1 verdict. On the second trial, the jury 1 awarded Dr. Phillips ?80,000. This 1 was evidently ?5,000 for personal suf- ! fering and ?75,000 for three years' aver- ' age income, it being uncertain when the K/i ?iKIn fA mciimft liia nrn. < fessional duties. The company claimed s that the damages were excessive, but i the court of appeal decides otherwise, < and affirms the judgment. The estah- : ished rule of damages in such ca?es is that the plaintiff is entitled to reasonable compensation for his personal suffering and his pecuniary loss. The loss is not to be determined solely by the claimant's income, but the income is an important factor in fixing the amount. A Romflnce in the Rough. It was Christmas Eve. Streets?brilliantly lit shop windows ?toys?gay crowds?snow on the ground?everybody out?Christmas turkey. Jane Allalone wandered alone?crowd ?sweet, sad face?wistful eyes. Five years befor<\ James GooJgoody ?Christmas Eve?betrothed to Jane? sailed away?India?ship lost?never lieard of?foundered on coast of Africa. Jane?held on to hope?never would marry?pined away?etc. William Badybady?rich, corrupt, dissipated?mortgage on Jane's mother's house?foreclosure. ; Away, villain! Rather poverty, crusts, etc. Turned out ot doors?homeless. Down by the dark river?Pier No. 8. She was about to take the fatal plunge. In fact, Jane Allalone did. But just then the ship, with Captain .fames Goodygoody, which had not been lost at all, came sailing up to the dock, loaded to the water's edffe with china, . silk dresses and tea. Captain Goodygoody saw Jane struggling in the river. He fished her out with a boat-hook and hauled her on board. "My Jane!" < " My James!" The cook dried her at the galley 1 stove. They were married on Christmas.?New York: Graphic. A Spirited Miss. A party of ladies and gentlemen were spending the evening not long since at ; the residence of a gentleman in Georgetown, who is quite celebrated fo'1 nis wit. He has a little daughter seven years of age, who has apparently inherited from her father his humor. "This small young lady was present in ine parlor during the evening, and while she was there one of the lady guests ' sang a ballad. Then some one asked the little girl if she would not sing something. "Oh, you don't wantfto hear me sing after that," said the child. An arm> oilicer wno was present,, wiiohl* habit of hard drinking is well known and who lias been in the habit of telling the little girl his brave exploits, said to her: "Come, come, pluck up courage and sing. Borrow some of my spirit and then you won't be afraid." " No, thank you," replied the little pirl " jour spirits are too ardent.1'?Vhicayo Times. j The reason that France, Germany and Great Britain use more silver and gold | than the United States is hecause those countries issue no Btnall bank notes. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Farm Hints. \ Roots fok Stock Feed.?Roots have become a necessity with progressive a farmers, as a winter stock food, and T their great value in this connection J? should commend them to those who L1 hare not essayed their cultivation. Even f1 the owners of work and driving horses Y in the large cities, where no opportunity is had to raise them, annually buy hun- a dreds of bushels of carrots, mangel-wurt- F zels, etc., to be fed in connection with . grain food to their horses, and they are J! well assured of the profitableness of using them; for the animals are always j1 sleek, fat and glossy in appearance, and ? never become hide-bound or sickly. I Eogs?How Increased.?If an in- tl crease of eg<*s be desired in the poultry y yard, before Jar^e sums are expended in I the purchase of everlasting layers, we j?? would recommend the system of keep- j ^ ing no hens after the first or at most, I after the second year. Early pullets give the increase, and the only wonder b is that people persist, as they do, in j_, keeping up a stock of old hens, which ij lay one day and stop the next In some jj parts of Europe it is the invariable rule to keep pullets only one year. Feeding C( will do a great deal?a surprising work {]( indeed?in the production of egg3, but ti not when old hens are concerned. r( Windows in Starles.?The matter sc of windows in stables is one of vastly tc more importance than some farmers I think. Animals, no more than vege- 3! tables can thrive in the dark. Our long c; winters are sufliciently trying to the con- . h stitutions of our farm stock under tbe b best circumstances, and an animal upon tc which the sun scarcely shines at all for vi live or six months, will come out in the tl spring in a bad state of health, even I though the feed and ventilation and the | ai temperature have been all right. | ir Sheep and Lambs.?The ewes will h now be in lamb, or should be, excepting le where late lambs are desired. Where n wool and mutton are the chief objects, w May lambs wilt be preferable to earlier ir ones. There is no better place or time b; for lambs to be dropped than in a pasture di on a fine, sunny May day. Where I lambs for market arc wanted, the ewes vi will now be inbreeding, and will need '' some extra care. An abundance of good, st nutritious food, and water, are the piin- s: cipal requisites. Sheep may be the last tl animals "to be brought into winter quar- A ters. n: Winter Feeding for Cows.?The fr yield of milk and butler in the summer si depends greatly upon the winter feed- gi ing. AlV the iood given to cows is not m consumed without return. The manure pi gives a good dividend upon the outlay, o! and the animals are storing up energy tl and strength to be made available after- | sc ward. The winter is the se:uson for lib- se eral and judicious feeding, and not for hi "short commons," which is but an- so other term lor half starvation. si Burned Bones for Hens.?You can m hardly give too much burned hones to your hens to provide the necessary rv iimount of lime for egg shells, and the 01 next best tiling for that purpose is oys- so tor shells, which c.in be obtained by the ni barrel (and generally wilhout cost ex- w c;ept taking away) at hotels and restaur- hr ants in your nearest city* My new ten- or mt goes eighteen miles for them, and til considers them clieap enough at that. HI Tlie hens eat them when poundca into ht fragments as easily as they pick up the fri dieiled corn, and they furnish the h( leeded material for the egg-shell more w completely than anything else. I do not or juite believe in giving broken earthen- dc ware as some propose doing. The sharp corners are more likely to cut or other- th wise injure the crop than the more easily iu ligested 'oyster shells ? Correspondence te Poultry Yard. pf ICeclDC*. pl Indian Pudding.-- One quart boiling j1'1 nilkpoured on to three tahlespoonfuls )f meal, let the milk curd, and three , iggs, sugar, spice, and salt to taste. jF' Doughnuts.?One cup of sugar, two m ;ggs, one cup of milk, nutmeg, two tea- ar spoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonful hi rf saleratjis, a piece of butter the size of th m egg. fu Cueam Candy.?A pound of sugar, a th tialf teaspoonful of water, a half tea- df jpoonful ol vinegar, a tablespoonful of ov butter; boil fifteen minutes, and stir it b? up only once at the first. b.i Sausages.?To every hundred pounds jf chopped meat, take two and a half j"1' pounds ot salt, one ounce of sage to |?J every ten pounds of meat and one-half Dunce black pepper; mix well and fill. so - . .. nr Brown Bread.?One cupful of Indian mi meal, one cupful of flour, one cupful of j molasses, two cupfuls of Graham meal, three cuptuls of water, one teaspoonful jaleratus. also a little salt. Steam three / liours. It is quite thin before steaming. Stewed Potatoes.?Boil the potatoes j and cut in thick slices; take half a tablespoonful of flour, a little salt and butter and chopped parsley, etc.; a teacupful vj r>f milk; put them all together in a aj saucepan and let them stand about di twenty minutes. pC White Fruit Cake.?One cup.of: or butter, two cups white sugar, three th cups flour, one-half cup sweet milk, one m teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-half T1 teaspoontul of soda, whites of eight sli eggs, one pound of raisins, and one- of quarter of a pound of citron, chopped. m Pop Corn- Balls.?These arc easily b? made. To one gallon of pop-corn take half a pint of molasses or sugar; put : ?11 /-?*- Irtf ' KaII im anno nr*rl IliklJ it SMilCl ilUU 1UI lb uv/li uuvv, ...... then pour it over the corn; grease your hands with sweet butter, and make the qi whole into balls of such size as you Tf please. co Whipped Crkam.?Take one pint of ki very thick cream, sweeten it with verv re fine sugar and orange flower water; boil it. Beat the whites of ten eggs with a little cold cream, strain it, and when the bream is uporr the boil, pour in the ki eggs, stirring it well till it comes to a sa thick curd; then take it up anH strain it ugain through a hair sieve. Boat it well "C with a spron till it is cold, then place it in a dish in which you wish to serve it. ?f; hi t ? ru The Perils of Machinery. The flywheel of a patent corn sheller :( burst and instantly killed Adam Basehoar, of Littlestown, Pa. At the Allisonville tannery, Hancock, ch N.Y., Bartley Ford was killed recently by being caught in the belting. vrl A circular saw in the mill of the Hon. of Ira Whitcher, of Woodsville, N. H., cut sti off all the fingers on his left hand. Henry E. Doud, proprietor of the Turin (N. Y.) flour mills, in attempting ni to move a belt, was caught, and a single revolution killed him. The curls of a little girl, aged ten, naught in the machinery of a mill at re] Sterling Valley, N. Y., and her entire i scalp and one side of her face were torn | off. jne While Joseph Shuds, of Heaver Dam, Wis., was being whirled around a shaft j Pr ni<i lrin ir 130 revolutions a minute, he was i an completely stripped of his clothing and boots, jet a broken arm was his only in- m jury. w The body of James Burner, of Summit 'n Hill. Pa., came through the machinery at No. 5 breaker a mass of pulpy flesh T1 and bones By the breaking of a board fo he was precipitated over the monkey | it rollers. Jennie Hall, fifteen years of age, i Ik amused her mates by crimping her hair | dc on a revolving,journal in a Philadelphia ; h? shop. She was unable to loose it in w time recently, was scalped, and killed. ; so Philip Dwyer, in attempting to repair i h( a belt at the Western Iron Boat works, \ St. Louis, was caught by the belt and | w drawn between the shaft and the tim- of bers above, aspace of only fifteen inches. In more than two hundred times before the se machinery could be stopped. The body or wrs entirely disintegrated. i b( * A Story of Lincoln's Assassination. Tnere reposes in the trunk of William Withers, Jr., leader of the California beater orchestra, San Francisco, an ncient swallow-tail coat, faded somewhat with time, fragmentary in conition through the clipping of pieces rom it as mementoes, yet withal a ighly interesting garmentthrough hisDrical association. The coat has two jng knife cuts in it, one in the neck nd the other near the hip, which were eceived in Ford's theater at Washingjn, where the coat, with Mr. Withers iside of it, was present on the night :iat President Abraham Lincoln was ssassinated. Tho gashes were inflicted y the assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a ;w moments after he had fired the shot lat. reverberated through a nation, and lestoryof that night, as told by Mr Withers, is as follows: The play, as you 'will recollect, was Our American Cousin." The house ras jammed from pit to dome with a irong whose admiration and attention 'ere divided between the Presidential ox, where sat Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln, ittle Tad and Major Rathbone, and ie stage, where Harry Hawk and aura Keene personated the leading )les. The first two acts had prodded without unusual interest, Presinnt Lincoln appearing to quietly enjoy ie performance, and finally the curtain jsc on the third act and the dairy lene, where Trenchard was to propose > Mag Meredith. During the interlude had gone behind to talk with Wright, is nmmntpr T hnri rnmnMCii asnrirr ailed "Honor to Our Soldiers," in onor of the occasion, which had not ecn sung at the proper time, and went > see about it. To talk with him 'here he stood I had to order Spangler, ie scene-shifter, out of the way. I had finished ray talk with Wright, nd turned down the passage which led ito the alley where Peanut John was olding Booth's horse, and which also (d to the door by which I returned to ly place in the orchestra. The passage as dark and very narrow, so much so 1 fact that two men could not pass side y side. I had traversed nearly to the aor when I heard a single pistol shot, stopped, started, and trying to think here there was a pistol lired in the American Cousin.1' Then I heard a J 1 - - 1 ? IT range murmur, ana looKing ruuuu i iw Harry Hawk rapidly running up ie steps that led to his dressing room. . second afterward I saw a man runing across the stage. He had jumped om the box to the stage, on the other de from me, but his impetus was so reat that he ran into a brick wall near ie and the entrance to the passage, atting out his hands to break the force [ the collision. Then he jumped for ie passagewr.y, and I saw his face, but :arcely recognized Booth. His eyes erned starting from his head, his black :iir stood on end, and his dark, handtrue face wore such a ferocious expreson that he did not seem like the same an. I was completely paralyzed as he ished into the passage and said " Get it of my way." I could not have done i, even if I had had my presence of ind, and in a second he was on me itli a dagger ho held in his right md. The blow struck me, g.ancing i the hip, and made the cut you see iere. It turned me partly round, and ?e a flash struck me and knocked me :adlong to the floor of the passage in Dnt of him. Without losing a second i jumped over me, seized the knob and renched I he door open, and in a secid more was galloping at top speed >wn the street. All this look place in far less time an it takes to tell it. After him, also, mping ovei-j-ue, came Stuart, the dective, and following him a crowd of tople, who, taking me for an accftraice, arrested me and took me back to e stage. The scene there was perfectly describable. Tlift audience, crazy ith excitement, were yelling they lew not what. The stage and the ont part of the auditorium were jamed with people, some asking the cause id others crying " Lynch him," " Hang m," though who the assassin was ey did not know. The lights were in 11 glow, and above all could b^ seen e President, senseless and white as jath, with his head partially hanging it of the box, while Mrs. Lincoln ithed his forehead with*water from a isinful which Laura Koene held. The idience became even wilder when the uth was known, and were augmented j the throng of breathless arrivals om the outside, until the thehter was i crowded that another person could >t possibly have got even his head in. tie President lay in his box under the ictor's care for a long time, and was lally removed, through the greatest owd that ever gathered in Washingn, to the boarding-house across the rect. where he died the next morning, was taken to the police station, but scharged as soon as the facts were town. Spangler was arrested and concted of being an accomplice, but was terward pardoned. The knife thrusts d me no great injury, the first not inctiating the skin and the second ily scratching my neck. I have kept e coat, however, as a memento ot the ost exciting night I ever experienced, fie shirt which I wore, which was also ished. I gave to Harry Widmer, now the Baldwin, who was playing with e at the time, and who still has it, I ilieve. Should Conslus Kiss? Number three of a series of prize leslions promulgated by the London 'hilehall Review, is " Should adult usius, male and female, be allowed to ss each other?" Some of the answers ceived are as follows: YES, BECAUSE Jacob, after having personated Esau, ssed his cousin Rachel as soon as he w her, and their parents approved. Then they will care for it as little as >es grocers1 boys do for sugar. Shakespeare says, " Kiss me, sweet -- -? rr ? K.'moolr.mrl \ JLLIU IUJJU>3UH BtXJO Ui JIMZJOViJ U.I1M s "Cousin Amy"And our spirits shed together at the touching of the JS." As a lady is concerned it must be coniered a fair proceeding. If she is arried it cannot be amiss. Brothers and sisters kiss, and their ildren should follow their example. "One touch of nature makes the tiole world kin," a kiss being a touch nature they should kiss to make them ill more akin. Family affection is a tender and beauul plant which cannot be too carefully irtured. Words or Wisdom. To change and be better are two dif ent things. Charity gives itself rich, but covetouBsshoards itself poor. If man has nothing to do you may be etty sure that Satan is looking out tor i emnlovee und will soon find one. It is not necessary to threaten a bad an, for his own deeds threaten him ith a worse punishment than you can flict. Don't be suspicious of everybody, ic man who is everlastingly looking r evil can find the greatest quantity of in his own life. The papers are constantly telling us >w to live on 92 a week. It is unmbtedly a very difficult problem, hut ! no means the most difficult. The or Id would be far wiser and happier if >me brilliant genius would only tell us )w to get the $2. There are a great many people in the orld who are bound by the close ties blood to the man who said that he id laid up two shillings, one for himlf and one for the Lord, but that the le he had intended for the Lord had :en lost in an unfortunate speculation. TIMELX TOPICS. [ It is reported that the census to be taken in the United States next .Tune, ! will show 48,500,000, in all the States . and Territories?a gain of about 10,000, i 000 over the census returns of 1870, or an increase of about 1,000,000 a year. If the ! next census comes up to the estimate, , the United States will exceed in popular tion any Christian nation excepting Russia. The latest census reports give Germany, 1875, 42,727,659; Austria-Hungary, 1876,'37,350,000; France, 1876, 30,905,788; and Great Britain and Ireland, 1871, 31,628,387. One of the most ruinous habits of the Russian peasants Is displayed at marriage celebrations. A peasant, to cele1 ~ i-'-- " ^ l?Io OAH llfflo nrain wit: mm. iiitgc ui jj;o own, piuvu???o twonty-five gallons of whisky, to get money for which he sells his horse, cow or pigs, and is ready to become a pauper. He cannot resist the practice, for custom requires^hat tue population of the village, men, women and children, must get drunk. A rich peasant, at the marriage festival, will procure 100 gallons of whisky, and the neighboring villagers are invited to take part in the carousal. Statistics show that in 1790, when the population of the United States was only about 4,000,000, the average value of property to each individual in the country was $187. In 1870, when the population had increased to nearly 39,000,000, the average of property, in value, to each indiviual was $776.96. It lias been estimated that in 1865 the average wealth of each person in Great Britain was $1,020. By 1875 this had increased to $1,300. The calculated total increase of the popular wealth of the United Kingdom in thu same period was $12,000,000,000, or about three times the public debt of Great Britain. A Paris paper gives some curious statistics regarding the number of women who have entered the professions of art and literature, from which it seems that there are at present living in France 1,700 lady writers and 2,150 female artists, whose production have been exhibited in the Salon. Twohirds of the writers were' born in the provinces, one thousand are known to be writers of fiction, two hundred are poets, and one hundred and fifty compile educational works. There are seven hundred and fifty-two modelers in wax and two painters in oil, one hun dred and ninety-three miniature painters, and one hundred and seven sculptors. Painters in lans, artists in water colors and chalks, etc., number four hundred and ninety-four. According to the British Trade Journal, India is one of the greatest wheat-growing countries in the world, ranking second only to the United States. It is said that wheat may be successfully raised all over India, from the foot of the Himilayas to near the southern point ol the peninsula. On account of certain climatic advantages the valuable soft white variety flourishes there better than in Russia and the greater portion of America. Our contemporary places the wheat product of all India at 35,000,000 quarters annually, and remarks that, if more attention were given to its preparation for market, which might be done by the introduction of modern machinery, East Indian wheat could successfully compete with Russian and American in the English market. The legal hours for marriage in England are from eight o'clock a. m. to twelve M. Unless by special license it is illegal to perform the ceremony at any other time in the day. The Rev. Mr. Bickersteth is trying to get parliament to extend the number of hours so that from eight o'clock a. m. until six p. M. persons about to marry can be married. He wants to, make it more convenient for laboring and professional men to attend weddings. The present restriction had its origin in a desire to prevent Englishmen from entering the connubial state while in a state of drunkenness. It was thought that such a person is most likely to be sober be twecn the hours of 8 A. M. and 12 m.. according to the Mosaic doctrine that they who are drunken are drunken in the night. A remarkable ciise of death from an erroneous prescription occurred in New York city. A baby eighteen months old was badly scalded on the arm by the upsetting of a bowl of hot tea. A physician was- called, who directed the anointing of the burn with a salve for which he wrote the prescription. It contained a large proportion of opium, not too much for application to the skin in normal condition, but a dangerous quantity considering the increased susceptibility tq absorption caused by the scald, for which the doctor neglected 1 o mate proper allowance. The prescription was carried to a druggist, who heard nothing about the scald, and merely saw that the ointmeni was " for external use," and put it up without having any idea, or giving the customer any caution, that it was not perfectly safe. But the narcotic, absorbed through i the scalded cuticle, cast the little suffflrflr infn n ulnon tirniftli nrAxrml fijfol Paris has just lost another" of her i celebrities. Mile. Foucault has died at Clichy in the midst of her poor tenants. She was the daughter of a colonel and 1 grand-daughter of a general of the first empire. In 1848 her father died and left i her a penniless orphan. She tried all sorts of means to gain an honest living, i hut failed, till one day the idea struck her to assume male attire and in that 1 disguise she became a corrector for the i press in the printing office of M. Dupont. She remained there two years, when i her sex being discoverud she got notice s to leave. She subsequently wrote in 1 one or two small prints, then she be- 1 came a concert hall, singer, and finally 1 copyist to Alexandre Dumas the elder. < On leaving the service of the great s novelist she again found employment in 1 a printing office, where she was able to s save enough money to buy a small piece s of ground at Clichy. Here she built a 1 series of small houses, or rather huts, s which she letout to ragpickers. Her feats } of arms among her turbulent tenants i have become legendary. She died, it is < said, wortli $400,000. < In muny parts ol Europe the fecundity of the hamster, a kind of rabbit, and its destructivencss, especially to cereal crops, are a source of constant trouble ( and loss to farmers. In some parts of 1 Germany the government, with a view * to keep down the numbers of this species s of rodent, offer rewards for all that are f brought in dead or alive. In the single ( district of Ascnerslcben, according to ^ the Madgeburg Gtuctte, the police au- 1 thorities paid rewards on 79,875 hams- I sters, at the rate'of about one mark or a 1 .1.211* - 1-. 1 1 i_ 13*0 \T _ A.?_? a. 1. siiuwug ;i huuiiil'u in 10/0. inoiwiwi- 1 standing this wholesale slaughter, the 21 animals appeared in even increased num- 1 hers last year, and rewards were again f offered, witb the result that, up to the t closing of the lists for the season, head- i money was paid on 84,386 hamsters, or * 1.611 more than in the previous year. It t is calculated that each female produces t ten young ones per annum, so tlmt, us- * suming half of those slaughtered to have ? been females, those killed last year would f have produced an additional progeny of < nearly 400.000, being at the rate ot lii.OOO c to every square mile ol land 111 tlie ens- [ * triet. t ? c The United States is making more 1 than one-third of all the paper in the t world. The product is about 1.800 tons daily, or 610,500 tons a year. There 1 are 9*27 mills, representing a c:ipit:il of 1 9100,000,000, employing 22,000 prrsons, a who receive in salaries about $9,500,000. i The Earth's Life and Death. Lecturing before the New York Teachers1 association, on "Planetery Life and Death," Prolessor Proctor said: We have to consider the various members of the solar system as representing tor us youth, middle age, and so on to old age. The earth on whi?'. we live, and the solar system, of whic>.- f foil..* > ' 5art, ha^e arrived at their prt :i e,. ition by processes analogous td ! ?the processes commonly called t '* tion. These processes are still going on, . as they Have been during periods of " time which seem to grow longer and longer the more we study their evidences. It is failing short of the truth to say that 100,000,000 years must have , empsea aunng wmcn tne irame 01 tne earth must have been very much as it is at present, and during which processes bringing it to its present stage have been gom g on. From the length of time consumed in achieving certain definite results upon the earth'tt crust by those processes within the knowledge of man, I we can estimate what has been required prr to effect other results which we see. ( The further study of the earth's crust ted shows us clearly that before she becamc ^ what she is now there was a time when y. \ she was far too hot for the existence of c animal life, and the period of her cool- , k injr, estimating it by her bulk, could not au< have been less than 300.000,000 years. 1 Preceding that, there must have been a toi period in which she was in a vaporous a P stage, and the evidence patent to science "] allots 100,000,000 years as the time for yea her changing from the vaporous to the tha solid condition. This gives us in all ^ 500,000,000 years as the time in which ne( the earth was arriving at a condition fit for the habitation of human beings. , Our moon will tell us most of the > earth's future, unless we are altogether ?n astray in reading the evidence that JeSl seems to be offered us. Venus shows J the possession of a watery atmosphere. Soi and is doubtless fit for habitation under 00(1 conditions similar to those upon the ( earth. Mars shows not only divisions in into sea and land in about equal propor- abi tions, but accumulations of what seems j to be ice and snow at its poles, which an, decreases and increases apparently in jat the seasons of summer and winter. But * , the moon has no water. She has no clouds and can have no water. Her seas have disappeared. Did she ever have *-? water? Did she ever pass through such ' stages as our earth has gone through P a ' Was this cold and dead world ever an< warmed with life like our earth? We go, cannot doubt it when we see in her vast ] and numerous volcanic craters the evi- Str dences of the heat she once possessed, on She, too, must have passed through her an< cooling stage. Her clouds were con- we densea into the oceans of which we Bee j the traces still in her dark depressions tju of surface. It is believed that as a planet ca{ becomes old, its waters disappear from m!j the surface, are suckea in through crevices made in the crust of the cooling orb until they entirely disappear. That * is a German theory. Four times as much water as is now upon the surface of our |}ei globe can be, it is estimated, contained in its interior. [One of the views illustrating this part of the lecture was a dcI photograph of a portion of the moon's J surface, claz/.lingly brilliant, startlingly atl sharp in its details, with a background sec of black unclouded sky, dotted with for stars, the picture of a lifeless world at without an atmosphere.] This, the Ar lecturer said, would be the probable fete 4 of the earth; this what the earth might to< he expccted to be in twenty-five hun- dei dred millions of years. wa M< bif Lassoing a Bull. < A gentleman engaged in cattle-raising Ch describes in a letter, published in the car Troy Tiines, the life of a herder. The the herd, which consists of 1,250 Texas j brt cows and fifty Durham bulls, are driven ?1 by six herders, each of whom has four j horses. The work is very wearing, as fro the following description of a cow-hunt jn!. and a tussei witn a duu win suuw ; nrt, While branding, one ef the cows es- nf; caned from the corral, and struck out at j-jj full speed, running like a deer. One of , the herd era, a Texan, started after her, * and at a distance of half a mile overtook a T and tried to bringher back. After many 110 attempts to turn her had failed, he un- PP.1 slung liis lariat, a rope about forty feet 111 in length. Swiftly adjusting the noose we while his horse was at full speed, and ' keeping well up with the now, he gave do it a few quick turns about his head, and kn then the rope "lit out."' Catching "1 Madam Cow around the horns, she stood it's on her head, and then after a tumble or die two lay on her back. Then she got up i and went for that horse with all the vim on she had. But neither the brpncho nor La his rider had any taste for close quarters, litl and so they scudded at good speed to- cat ward the corral with the cow at the bo; other end of the rope in vengeful pursuit. Pit Finally the cow balked and refused to ] move except in a rush for the horse when f0i she came too near. Then another herder went to the rescue, threw another rope over the horns of the angry ?re beast, and the two literally snaked her ?j into the corral, bellowing like mad, rea and roakiny most desperate charges upon her captors. 1)UI The herders handle the rope with the greatest skill, and no matter how ugly or how supple an animal may be, it I stands no chance at all with a good herder opposed to it. One of the bulls in this herd was very savage and had very sharp horns, and it was decided to "J cut them off. He was a powerful fellow, Voi weighing about 1,^00 pounds. One of has the Texas boys threw a rope over his Tin horns, and then came a race to turn the mei bull, as he was running down the hill, in t and the man dared not stop with the ad- hac vantage in favor of the bull. The can - - j ? lmi moment the bull was turned up mu tuc | qui little broncho was brought to a dead sari ?top, and the next instant the bull was the floundering on the ground. tha As soon as he got upon his feet he the made a tirm dash /or the horse, but in and tnother instant a rope was thrown over bin liis hind leg, by another man, and he the tvas stretchcd or. the ground with a rope pulling at either extremity. Then another rope was thrown over his horns md held by a third man at right angles tvith the first. Then the horns were iawed ofl", the man doing the job :deftly dipping the nooses from tne uorns, i while the hind leg was kept we)l (trained, and then running to his hors., leld conveniently near. The man hok?ng the leg rope dropped it, leaving the >Iu fellow to get up and kick the nooee )ff his leg. A Last Dollar Misapplied. The other morning, says the C irson Nev.) Appeal, a. stranger might have nntir-pH nfandinc in the rear of the nint hatching an old woman pick up ticks. She must have boon about 'ighty years of age. Her old calico T Iross was full of holes, her face was as up : vrinkled ns tripe and as brown as car eather. Every time she stooped to the >ick up a stick she was obliged to do so The vith a painful efforf. Slip raked over thai lie dry leaves with palsied hands, anil the til the worthless little pieces went into Fre ler basket. A heap of garbage and trac ishes occupied her attention for some Ion/ en minutes. The man who was watch- pra ng her finally walked up behind her he < ind dropped a dollar into her basket and car hen stole away unnoticed. An at- ing ache ofithe mint, who was near, hailed que lim as he passed. " I say, did you give bou i dollar to the old lady?" "Yes, I did, que tlthoueh it was about the last I had. I tint an't bear to see poverty and old age In < ombined I had a mother once almost tim i? old as she, and as weak and palsied. I tliei eel for an old woman like that, and she wii ;an have a dollar from me if it's the last the ['ve got." " Do you see that block over car here?" " Yes." *" With houses on it?" afte ' Yes." "The houses and lot belong to fou: ler." An expletive was all the stranger rod lad to offer as he turned away and tru< valked rapidly up Carson street. It squ vas his last dollar. Da Pleasant Words. No matter how the world may go,' How dark its shadow* be, Or whether June's sweet roues Mow To gladden you and me, There always is a time ot day . 'Odt voices may be heard, When we can pause beside the way To ssy a pleasant word. > . V, :.nd bed ; that now with sorrow a?he, ; Bene* .1 some heavy blow, 'j'ill irora the shadows rise and break - The BpeJl ot ail their woe, And leel that life hath sunshine new And songs 1 as birds', II we be bat * jg:nie, t And give then em ? > /onJe. * 'rcsi< ' . / % ITEMS OF INTEREST. )uring the year 1870 American mines ducen $80,000,000. )ver 1,000 cheese factories are opera in the State of New York. present governor of Colorado used be a carpenter at $1.50 per day. ieven machines in Pittsburg proved last year 1,063,345 kegs of nails. ?here is a tea plantation in Georgevn. S. C., whicJi i? paying its owner rofit. ?he production of anthracite coal this .r will reach 25,000,000 tons?more ji ever before. iny one who is quick at repartee must :essari !y have great response ability.? ubenville Herald.. Jharles Lamb remarked of one ot his tics: 'The more I think of him, the s I think of him." Milwaukee made 752,000 barrels of ^ jr last year, being an increase of 200,?barrels over 1878. Cotton factories are rapidly going up Texas, in order to utilize her superandant cotton, crop. Cans;is has been numbering its people 1 finds ihf?m to be 849.978. The popuion in 1870 was 364,399. Nearly 10,000,000 letters were dis :ched to foreign ports from the New rk postofllce during 1879. ' Foregoes" wns the word given out at written spelling exercise recently: l^ne little boy handed in: "Go, go, go." t is estimated that in the United ites 100,000 men are compelled to work Sundays by the running of steam 1 horse-cars on the first day of the ek. five thousand dollars is offered b^ .' American Humane Society, of Chxro for a stock car in which live ani,1s can be carried long distances witht needless suffering. # ' )f the discoverers and conquerors of , i New World, Columbus died broken ivted, Roldin and Bobadilla were jwned, Balboa was beheaded, Cortez us dishonored, and Pizarro was mur ed. V copy of the first edition of Ptolemy's as of the world was purchased at a :ond-liand bookstore, the other day. the small sum of $10. It is valued $1,000, as it is the only copy in nerica. ' Dear Louise, don't let the men come >nearyouwhencourting." "Oh,no, ir ma. wnen unaries is nere we ai.ys have one chair between us," )ther thinks the answer is rather amyous. ' Are we a musical people?"" asks the icago Tribune. When every Ameri1 babe tunes up as soon as it enters > world, and small towns support two iss bands, we shoulrt say that we are. ?hiladelphia ChronicleV. Cincinnati man who had $65 stolen m him received a note, with $25, say:: "I stoled your money. Remorse ws at my conshens, and I send some it back. When remorse naws again send you some more." S". II. Munn, ofNewton county, Miss., ride-awake and industrious farmer of small pretensions, weighs eighty-nine ands and is four and a half feet high. s wife is only four feet high, and ighs fifty-seven pounds. ' I say, old fel, you haven't got a five liar bill about you that you don't ow what to do with, nave you?" ."here's one." " Thanks?but, hello, i bad!'? 44 You asked me for one I In't know what to do with schoolmftter asked one of his boys a cold winter morning, what was tin for cold. The boy,"hesitating a :le, the master said: 44 What, sirrah, i't you ten."" " ICS, sir, bayo luc y, " I have it at my finger ends."? 'uyune. n this climate, where one" extreme lows another so rapidly, it is imjsible for a newipaper to say anyng about the weather with any dee of confidence that it will be approate by the time the paper reaches its tiers. Therefore we have arranged i tollowinjr plan. You pay no money, ; take your choice: ( hot | s this -j I enough for you? I dry ) ?Rome Sen'.ind. "oung Pinker, says the Cleveland ce, is anything but deep, but still he ; memory for all slang expressions, e other day at a little social party he ntioned tne fact that tne cinei cierK ;he office in which he is employed 1 resigned. "And you've got the va* cy. I suppose. Pinky?" jokingly inred one of the l)ovs. "Oh! yes," :astically assented Pinker, " I've got vacancy?in my mind." "Yes, t's so," giggled the prettiest girl in room, and then everybody laughed, 1 Pinker says lie can't for the life of 1 see what it was that so aroused ir merriment. Gently the kiue are lowing, Soft waves tho golden grain; Quickly a man is making TrackB lor the coming train. Silently lall the dewdrops In tho sotamn eventide; Ready a girl is getting To tako a buggy ride. Soon will tho maiden's lover His arm ground her slide, While to his manly bosom Her heud will gently glide. Savagely bites the mosquito, Merrily bumbles the bee; But all that the mstden sayeth - L-M - in?once id n wnne? xo im. ?Chicago Tribunr Seeking Lost Kailroad Cars. he lost-car agents are busy hunting stray cars. One week finds the lostagent hunting ears in Florida, and next may discover him in Maine. i rules governing the business are t lie must travel by daylight, ride in rt'ar coach and keep lii3 eye open, quently, while rushing past a side :k lull of cars he discovers one beting to his own company, and by L-tice he becomes so sharp-eyed that c*n photograph the number of that on his mind in an instant. Arrivat a telegraph station he politely rests the officers of the road to send ne his company's car. Cnrs are fre ntly sent from oue eftd of tlie oon>nt to another, and lent back empty. :asc ft road is short of CRrs, It somees takes the liberty to retain and use i m, and sometimes a dishonest road 1 steal them outrigbt and obliterate owner's mark and number. A lostagent for a Western road recently, t searching for months for a car, nd it away out.on the plains, forty s from the railroad, devoid of its L-ks, and occupied by an ambitious atter as a home.?Si. Lcuis Qlobenocrai.