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? 1 J ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. . 9 u BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1880. NO. 36. VOLUME XXV. , *' -V. T ~ ~r - _ . . i '- * - Love's Morrow. [May Aleolt N\.iker died recently in P&ris.] t. It was but yesterday Thftt all was bright and lair; Came over the sea So merrily, News from my darling there? Now over the sea Comes hither to me Knell ol despair? * No more, no loDgt>r there." ii. Ah, gentle May ! Could'st thou not stay ? Why hurriest thou so swift away ? No?rot the same? Nor can it be? LThat lovely name? Kven again what once it was to be me; t. numiot Ik. That lovely name to me. hi. I cannot think her dead, 80 lately, sweetly wed; She who had tasted bliss, A mother's virgin kiss, Rich gifts conferred to bless With costliest hanpiness. IV. Broken the golden band, ? Severed the silken strand ? Ye sisters lour! Still to me two remain And two have gone hetore. Our loss her gain* And fie who gave can all restore, And yet, Oh why, My heart doth cry. Why take her thus away ? T. I wake in tears and sorrow, Wearily I say " Come, come, fair morrow, And chase my griol away." Night-long I say, " Haste, baste, iair morrow, I And bear my griei away," " All night long,. My sad, sad song. TI. " 9omes not the welcome morrow," My boding heart doth say; Still grief from griet doth borrow, " My child is lar away." Still as I pray The deeper swells my sorrow. Break, break!?the risen day Tukes not my griet away. vii. Full well I know Joy's spring is fathomless? It* fountains overflow To cheer and bless, And underneath, our griei Wells lorth and gives relief, Transported May! Thou couldst not stay; Who gave, took thee away. tto-ne, child, and whisper peace to me; Sny, must I wait or come to thee? I list to hear Thy message clear. VIII. " Cease, cease newgriel to borrow!" Last night I heard her say; For sorrow hath no morrow, ' l is lx>rn ol yesterday. ? Translated thou shalt be, ^ .My cloudless daylight see, And bathe, as I, in lairest morrows endlessly." ?A. Bronton Allcoll. Concord, January 4, 188U. OLD DAN. Farmer Henderson came in from the barn one morning with his hands .and clothes wet and covered with mud, his fare red and his eyes Hashing. " Ned!" h'j shouted, as he entered the kitchen. " Where's Ned?" " Here I am!" came a cheery voice in reply; and an instant after a bright, strong boy ot some sixteen years entered the old-fashioned country kitchen from the adjoining woodshed, where he had been cutting potatoes for the day's planting. " Do you want anything?" 441 want to tell you this," said Mr. Henderson, as he washed himself at the sink, and rubbed his weather-beaten face with the coarse towel until it was even moie red than before. 44 Old Dan must be killed! Just see the state I am in. and all from that worthless old rascal! I won't have him about the house another day. He's good for nothing but to make trouble, and he must be shot before night!" added the farmer, wrathfully. Ned was about to plead for his pet, wl:en his little sister came into the room. 44 Why, papa, what is the matter?" ^ she cried, running to him in astonish4 ment. 44Did you fall into the creek?" 441 might as well." he replied, ha^ lnnr-hinc 44 Old Dan butted me into I thfr watering-trough!" There w:is a shout of laughter from both children, in which their mother joined. " Well. Jedediab." said Mrs. Henderson. coming into the kitchen, and still shaking with mirth, "wln.t could you have been thinking about to let an old ram, 'most twenty years old, knock you into the watering-trough ?" " But," explained her husband, " he took me unawares. I had just filled one pail to carry to the barn, and was stooping to dip the other, when the old rascal came at me like the wind, and knocked me completely into the water! He scampered, I tell you, before I , could get out. He knew he had done mischief. Anyhow, he's got to be killed to-day, sure. He's only a nuisance, and I'll shoot him to-night, when we come back from town, if he's on the farm!" Two hours iater Mr. and Mrs. Henderson (Jjrove away to be absent from home until night. As they rattled out of the yard Old Dan suddenly appeared close to the gate, and, wagging his tail as if in derision, gave utterance to a hoarse " Ba-a-a!" The farmer turned, shook his whip at the fellow, and cried, " This is your last dav, my boy, make the most of it!" Ned and Carrie were the only children. Leaving Carrie in the house alone, after they had considered awhile whether there was any way of averting Old Dan's sad fate, Ned shouldered his hoe and marched off to his work, planting potatoes with Bronson, the hired man, in the "back lot." But the little girl of thirteen had no thought of being afraid. She had the breakfast dishes to wash, some sweeping to do. and the dinner to get, all before'twelve o'clock. Time fled. The dishes stood in shining rows upon the pantry shelves, the broom haa performed its work, and Carrie was preparing the vegetables to be boiled, when there came a faint knock at the door. Supposing it to bp one of the neizhbors, the little girl did not rise, but called - " Come in!" Tho Ann-r vena alnwlv nnpnorf and n. man stepped within. He wore a long black coat, buttoned to his chin, and very threadbare. His trousers, too, were black and shiny, and much too short for him. On one loot was a boot, while the other was graced i by a ragged sho-3. He carried a battered silk hat in his hand. His face was long and solemn, but quite red, his eyes bleared, his hands very dirty, and altogether he was a queer looking visitor. Is your ma at home, miss?" said he, i- : in a balf whine, as he glanced sharply about the room. "No, sir," replied Carrie, wondering why he asked; " she has pone to Underbill. Did you wish to see her?" " Oh, no," the man replied. " I only asked out of politeness, you know,'' and he smiled solemnly at the little girl, and winked one eye. " No. I came on business with your pa?particular, urgent business. S pose lie's round, is he not?" "No, sir: he went to town with mother," said Carrie. " Now, that's too bad!" exclaimed the visitor, as he seated himself: "and I've come so far to see him. But perhaps your brother or sister would do as well." " I haven't any sister," said the little hostess, laughing, "and my brother's over in the back lot. He'll be in by-andbye, though, if he'll do." " Well, I don't hardly believe he will, after all," said the man, shaking his head thoughtfully, "and I can't wait to-day anyway; I hain't the time. But I'm terribly hungry. If I could I'd stay to dinner, miss. However, under the circumstances, perhaps you had bet- J ter give me a light lunch before I go; a {>iece of pie, and a cup of tea, and a ittle cold meat, or something of that sort." "Oh, certainly; only I can't give you the meat, for we tiaven't it in the house," said Carrie, rising; " but I will find something." And she brought from the pantry a whole apple-pie, which she placed before him, with a knife and fork. " If you will help yourself I'll have the tea ready in three minutes." "All right, my dear," said the man, seizing the knife and drawing the pie toward him. - " I will act upon your advice. The last time I took dinner with General Grant," he continued, as he cut a great piece and began to eat, he said to me, 'Governor, governor," said he, 'never disregard a lady's advice;' and I have always remembered what he said," and he chuckled merrily, and nodded his head at the delicious-looking pastry before him. Carrie wondered a little at the tablemanners of the man who had dined with Grant, but she steeped his tea, flavored it with rich cream and sugar, and passed it to him, " I am not much of a hand for tea," ? ? J ai.. J SHiu uie man, as n ? uiauuru im- vup, "but my doctor says? that I must drink it for my digestion. Ruined my digestion while I was in the army, you see;" and he winked solemv^y. "By the way," he continued, picking up the silver teaspoon from his saucer, "have you any more of these? They are as neat a pattern as I ever saw, and odd, too. I should like to see the rest of the dozen, if you have them.'* " Mother has only eleven," said Carrie, in her innocence, "and she is very proud of them; but I will show them to you." Tlien she bi ought the little box with the precious table-silver ? eleven teaspoons. four tablespoons and an ancient cream-jug?all pure silver, and shining brightly?and placed them before her inquisitive visitor to admire. He had finished his " light lunch." That is, the pie was demolished and the teapot empty. As the little girl handed him the treasures he arose, took the box to the window, examined its contents with a critical eye for a moment, and then, as if in joyful surprise, cried: "I am right! They are the very spoons! The very same identical spoons that my friend lost when he was a boy! How lucky it is that I have found them at last!" With these words, and a very low bow, the rascal opened the door and slipped away with the spoons and a silver cream pitcher down the path toward the sate. For an instant Carrie stood motionless; then, rushing after him, she shrieked: "Give me those spoons ! They are my mother's spoons, and you are tryinsr to steal them! You are a thief, a thief! Bring them back! bring them back!" The man, however, paid no attention to the child's cries, but ran rapidly djwnthe path, carrying the box in his arms; and the spoons and pitcher would have been lost forever if a new party Lad not appeared on the scene. Old Dan was quietly nibbling the Sass near the gateway. Hearing his tie mistress' voice, he looked up at the very instant that the tramp passed. What he saw about the man that disturbed him I don't know; but, erecting his head with a hoarse "Baa-a-a!" he shot after him like a cannon-ball. The man turned to receive him and defend himself, but the ram struck him fairly in front and knocked him, halfsenseless, flat on his back, scattering the silver in all directions For an instant the fellow remained sprawling in the dust, then he slowly arose, limping and groaning, and without a glance at his enemy, began to gatherup his stolen spoils. He had partly completed Ins task when Old Dan, who all this time had been watching the proceeding fiom beneath his shaggy eyebrows, shook his long beard, and with another tremendous "Baa-a!" dashed at him again, and over he went a second time, his treasures flying from his hands. And now began a strange battle. With cries of rage and pain, the man recovered his feet and turned upon the ram, kicking and striking at him furiously, while Dan, accustomed' to such warfare from years of experience with the boys of the country-side, easily eluded him, and in return butted him to the earth again and again. The spoons and cream-pitcher were knocked hither and thither, as the combatants struggled, the road was trampled into something like a race-course, the air was filled with very bad language, very angry " baas " and a great cloud of dust. But after some five minutes, victory declared itself upon the side of the qundrupe 1; and, bruised and bleeding, with clothes in rags, minus hat and shoe, the vanquished ma i suddenly turned away and ran limping down the road, leaving his antagonist in full possession of the field and the stolen silver. Old Dan remained motionless, gazing after his enemy until he disappeared around a distant turn in the road; then, shaking the dust from his coarse wool, he gave utterance to a low grumble ot satisfaction, and, wagging his tail, returned to his dinner in front of the house. Half an hour later, as Carrie washed the coveted spoons and the "bright little pitcher and iaid them carefully array once more, she told her brother the story, and how the robber was foiled; and Ned, full of enthusiasm, cried: ' "We will not kill old Dan at all, for I do not believe that father would shuot him now tor a hundred dollars!" And the boy was right. The old ram won more then he knew when he fought the tramp and conquered him. He won his master's regard, and a free, happy life for the remainder of his days.?F. E. Hamilton, in Youth's Companion. There are fifty-five churches in Rich mond, Va., with 30,000 communicants. The Baptists have nineteen churches, with 4,091 white and J2,756 colored members; the Roman Catholics, three churches, and 5,161 population; the Methodists, ten churches, with 2,705 .white and 409 colored members; the Presbyterians, four churches, with 1.476 members; the Episcopalians, ten churches, with 2,229 members; theDis ciples of Christ, /82 members; the Lutherans, 409 members, and the Hebrews, 235 members. There ha3 been a loss in the total membership of 431 during the past year. White silk muslin is a favorite transparent fabric to wear over satin, and 'trimmed with the simple Breton laces. ALMOST A HEATH WOUND. A Thrilling Incident In the Life of Alexander II. Stephen*. Howard Caryll, who lias been giving sketches o? the lives of prominent Americans in a New York paper, has an article on Alexander II. Stephens, the material for which was gathered from the lips of the ex-vice-president of the Confederate States. The following incident in the career of this well-known Georgian is graphically told by Mr. Caryll: During Mr. Stephens' congressional service, and pending the campaign of 1848, he returned from Washington to Georgia. He was fresh from the great debates on the acquisition of California and New Mexico as United States Territories, and for having taken, against the wishes of a majority of the Southern members, a most prominent part in opposition to such acquisition, he was met with much adverse criticism. Judge Cone, who was at the time one of the leading politicians of Georgia, was parucuiuny scvnc m ma wmiuum upon Mr. Stephens' action, and was reported as having publicly denounced him as a traitor to the South. Hardly had Mr. Stephens reached his home when these and similar reports were conveyed to him. At first he did notcrcdit them, but as one kind friend after another informed him that Cone had called him traitor, and advised that he owed it to himself to demand what is called "satisfaction,"the fires of pugnacity in his nature, which are always smoldering, biazed up, and he declared that if Judge Cone would admit having called him a traitor to the South he would "slap his face." Not long alter this he met tie judge at a numerously attended Whig gathering, and going up to him quietly, s.tici: 44 Judge Cone, I liuve been told that you, for reasons of your own, have denounced nie as a traitor to tl\e South, and I take this opportunity of asking if such reports are true." 44 No, sir," was Cone's reply,44 they are not true." 441 am very glad to heir you say so," said Mr. Stephens, cordially, and in the I same friendly tone continued: 44 Of course I do not desire to be in any way I offensive to y?u, Judge Cone, but in order that we may have no further misunderstanding through the misrepresentation of others, I think it right to tell you that I have said I would slap your face if you admitted having used the language attributed to you." Upon this the judge again disowned having spoken disrespectiully of Mr. Stephens, and so for the time the affair ended. It was the subject of much discussion all over the State, however, and the general verdict was that Judge Cone, a very powerful man, by the way, had shown the white feather to 44 Little Aleck Stephens." In such a community no public man resting under such a charge could hope either for political r.A?ulni? *?nen?r?f Potio pi'tll'l UIClll' Ul ptipuiui , of course, knew this, and, very much heated and annoyed by the comments which were being made upon. him, wrote to Mr. Stephens demanding an immediate and public retraction of his threat. In reply Mr. Stephens wrote that the threat of slapping the judge's face had been made contingent upon the truth of reports regarding him which he (Cone) had pronounced to be untrue, and that such being the ease there could be no cause for oG'ense or angry feeling on cither side. Unfortunately this letter was not received by Judge Cone. Three or four days after it was written, however, he met Mr. Stephens on the piazza of a hotel in Atlanta, and, disregarding that gentleman's friendly greeting, said in a very offensive tone: "Mr. Stephens, I demand that you make an immediate retraction of your threats regarding me." Sick and weak though he was, Alexander H. Stephens could allow no one to speak to him in the fashion described. Judge Cone was a very giant in size and muscular development, yet the frail man whom he addressed, with aggravating politeness and without hesitating a moment, replied: " Pardon me, sir, I have already written you fully on that subject; 1 must decline to discuss it iurther." " Am I to take this as your answer?" Pamo ovni\o(\ 1 v iVOMU vu?v, v.A?'?vv?*j " It i6 the only answer I have to give you," was the calm reply. "Then I denounce you as a miserable iittle traitor," cried Cone, mad with excitement. The last word had hardly left his lips when a light cane wielded by the quick hand of the man he had insulted left its red scar across his cheek. Wild with pain and passion, without uttering a word, he drew a keen-pointed dlrk-knife and made one furious thrust at his wea'c little adversary's heart. Instantly ?.s he did so, however, Stephens, seizing a stout, umbrella which he held in his left hand, interposed it as a defense, and was able for a moment to hold him at arm's length. The knife fpll short of its mark. Once more it was thrust at Stephens, cutting a deep gash in his arm, but reaching no vital point; eighteen times it cut deep into his breast, arms and body, but still he did not fall. Then he could hold out no longer. No courage, no spirit, however firm and unyieldint, could long withstand such an attack. Cone was determined to finish his work. He 1? ?11 * ?*ta!ormSnof flto tlircw JtU Ills ?C1?UU OpuiilJV wiv umbrella which held him away from the man he had determined to kill. It broke; Stephens, half fainting, fell upon his back. The eiant Cone was at his throat in a moment; iris head, by a /trip of iron, was held against the cruel floor; the keen and bl:>od-dripping knife was held aloft before him ready for the last fatal thrust, but still the poor pale face of the little hero was set and defiant?his black eyes still Hashed undauntedly. "Retract or I'll cut your cursed throat!" hissed Cone. "Cut ! I'll never retract!" gasped the almost lifeless Stephens. Like a flash the knife came down. With an almost superhuman effort the prostrate man caught it in his right hand! Clean through the muscles, tendons and bores of the hand it cut. then stuck fast and readied no vital part. With desperate strength Cone tried to wrench it free. With a grasp almost ol death, the horribly mangled and mutilated hand still held it fast. In the struggle Stephens was once more dragged to his feet; the blojd was rushing in streams from his many wounds; his hold upon the knife which sought his brave heart began to relax; he was dying. But even when he believed the next moment would be his last, strong men came to his relief. The madman Cone was secured and held fast. Then quickly the wounds which Mr. Stephens had received were examined. It wjis fcftind that one of them had penetrated to within a sixteenth of an inch of his heart. An intercostal artery had been cut. The doctors declared he would surely die. Happily their pre| ilictir-ns were not verified. His life was saved by tlic unronutung care 01 ??uigeon, his devoted friend, who, as good fortune would have it, happened to be in Atlanta at the titre. When he recovered, with magnanimity of which few men are capable even of understanding, he refused to prosecute Cone, and that person, instead of getting his deserts in the dark cell of a State prison, was fined 81,000, and with his "honor vindicated " was allowed to go free. To this day Mr. Stephens speaks of him in terms of consideration and forgiveness. Not long a<;o, referring to the terrible struggle I have attempted to describe, and showing me the great hole in his mangled hand he said, with a quiet and far away look in his deep, dark eyes: "Poor Cone! I'm sure he'd be sorry ii he knew what trouble I have to write with these stiff fingers of mine." What do the wild waves say when the water-spout??Boston Transcript. Mr. Dickson's Damp. We had ft lecture on phrenology in Musser's hall a few nights ago, from a traveling professor of that science, and parts of it were quite entertaining. He had on the stand several plaster heads mapped out in town lots, and after lie haa explained what they meant, he invited persons in the audience to come up and let him feel their bumps and explain their characters. Several times he hit it pretty accurately, and excited a considerable amount of applause; but, after awhile old Dickson stepped up for an examination. He is an absent-minded man. and he wears a wig. \V hile dress Mg nimsen oeiureuuujiii^ wj bUL-icbtuic, lie had placed his wit; on the bureau and accidentally tossed his plug of tobacco into it. When he put the wig on, it was just like him not to notice the plug, and so when he mounted the platform he had a lump just over his bump of combativeness as big as half a hen's ecfr. The professor fingered about awhile over Dickson's head, and then he said: " We have here a somewhat remarkable skull: the perceptive faculties quite good, ideality large, reverence 60 great as to be unusual, and benevolence very prominent. Secretiveness is small, and the subject/, herefore, is a man of candor and frankness; he communicates what he knows freely. < We have also," said the professor, still plowing his hand through Dickson's hair, " acquisitiveness not large; the subject is not a erasping, avaricious man, but he gives liberally, he?he?he?, why, it can't be! Yes. Why, what in the?! Munificent Moses! that's the most awful development of combativeness I ever heard of. Are you a prize-fighter, sir?" "Prizefighter!" exclaimed Dickson. " Why, what do you mean?" " Never been a soldier, or a pirate, or anything like that?'' " You certainly must be crazy," said Dickson. " Ain't you fond of going into scrimmages and rows, and plugging people I r\r\ fViti nnoo?" "Certainly not." 44 Well, air, then you're untrue to your nature. The way your head is built, qualifies you. I should say, in a special manner as a knocker-down and draggerout. If you want to fulfill your mission j you will devote the remainder of your life to battering up your fellow men and keeping yourself in one interminable and eternal muss. You've got the awfulli-st fighting bump that ever decorated a human skull. It's phenomenal. What'll you take for you- head when you die??Gentleman, this man is liable at any moment to commence raging around the community like a wild cat, banging with a club or anything that comes handy. It isn't safe for him to be at large." Then Dickson put his hand up to feel the bump and he noticed the tobacco, lie pulled off his wig, and there was the plug sticking just behind his left ear, Then the professor, looking at it a moment in confusion, said: "Ladies and gentlemen, we will now ?the lecture is?that is?I have no more ?Boy, turn out those lights!" Then the audience laughed, and Dickson put on hi", wig, and the professor started to catch the last train. The :-cience ot phrenology is not ns popular in our town as it was, and Dickson still remains peaceable.?Max Adclcr. f An Elephant as a Deck Hand. The Thomas Sherlock and Golden Crown arrived al the wharf, yesterday morning, having on board Uncle John Robinson's circus, which shipped at New Orleans. Among the circus property was Robinson's monster elephant, "Romeo." This animal was a passenger on the Golden Crown, and he appears to have enjoyed himself during the trip in his own way. PilotPurcell yesterday gave an hwiuircr man the following details as to "Romeo's" style of whiling the time away. For the first day or two of the trip he was kept chained on the forecastle of the steamer, where he amused himself in various ways. He made himself quite fre^ with the freight that was within his reach, and tumbled boxes, barrels and bales around promiscuously. At Vicksburc the hawser, a heavy cable some three inches in diameter, was used to tie up the boat. The observing "Romeo "saw the de-k hands haul it once or twice, wlien he seems to have concluded that no could do it quite as well as the dozen men. As long thereafter as "Romeo" was kept on the forecastle he handled the hawser, so far, at least, as hauling it was concerned. The deck hands dragged it out and made it fust, but the moment it was untied tfte elephant,who was always on the alert for something to do, seized it with his trunk and hauled it aboard. He was able to accomplish the work in less than half the time required by the deck hands to do it. Before tbey were taken beyond his ieaclj, the animal amused himself by lifting barrels of molasses with his trunk and bouncing them up and down on the deck. In this amusement he .smashed the chimes of twelve barrels. When the barrels of molasses were removed "Romeo" immediately turned his attention to some cedar logs which were lyint on the forecastle. These logs were heavy, requiring several men to handle them. " Romeo " wrapped his trunk around the end of one of the logs, raised it up, and churned it up and down on the deck, rattling the boat from stem to stern. He was then removed to the interior of the boat, where the ringing of the engine bells soon attracted his attention. The bell-wires running from the pilot house to the --.s J engine-loom piia.iuu uuuu mc kuuiu tloor directly over his back. He evidently noticed that when the wires moved the bell rang. He had not been long in that position until he began to ring* the bells himself by jerking the wires with his trunk. He was out of .sight of the engineer, and the first time i.e jerked the bell-wire, which happened to be the wire to " stop her," the engineer stopped the boat. "What's ihe matter?" asked the pilot through the speaking tube. "Nothing,1' responded the engineer. " What (lid you stop her for?" "I didn't ring." " Ting-a-ling, ting-a-ling, ling-lingling-jin^," clattered the bell as if there were spirits in it. The engineer rushed out iust in time to catch "Romeo" jerking the wire, and the mystery was explained. There was no way to prevent the animal from playing with the wires, and he kept it up night and day throughout the trip. When the pilot wished to signal the engineer lie did it through the speaking tube.?Cincinnati Enquirer. In All Wenthers. . It was once a problem in mechanics to find a pendulum which should be equally long in all weathers?which should make the same number of vibrations in the summer's heat and in the winter's cold. They have now found it out. By a process of compensations they make the rod lengthen one way as ronf.li 11 a ih ront.mots the other, so that the center of motion is always the same; the pendulum swings the same number of beats in a day oi January as in a day of June, and the index travels over the dial plate with the same uniformity, whether the heat tries to lengthen or the cold to shorten the propelling power. Now. the moving power in some men's minds is sadly susceptible of surrounding influences. It is not principle, but feeling, which forms their pendulum r ;d, and according as this very variable material is affected, their index creeps or gallops, they are swift or slow in the work given them to do. But principle is like the compensation rod, which neither lengthens in the hoof ohnrfona in flip TlHsjfcpr lUIi^UIU IICMV UVi tfUV* vvuw ??- ? cold, but does the same work day by day, whether the ice winds whistle or I the simoon glows. TIMELY TOI'ICS. Tlie millers are astir in regard to their proposed international exhibition at Cincinnati next June. It is hoped that excursion tiokets will be issued by most of the oceaa steam lines, at low rates, for foreign millers to come. Mill products and machinery will form the bulk of the show. Congress has passed a law exempting from duty loreign machinery brought to the United States for the exhibition. There is a point in the geography of the United States that is not generally known, and that is Driftwood Point. Driftwood Point is part of a little piece of land owned by these United States that is peculiarly situated. This piece of land is the only portion of this country except Alaska that is north of the forty-ninth parallel. It is impossible to rcach it by land without going through British territory. It is part of Pembina county, Minnesota, and it borders on the northwest shore of the Lake of the Tf ?a milPH y? uuuo. aw (IVV/uv ? ?T vmvj m* w ...... , north of the forty-ninth parallel, and is bv that distance the most northern point oI the United State's except Alaska. The expense of atrip around the world is calculated by the Railway Age, on the basis of 180 days, as ?849 for first-class and ?608 for second-class accommodations. Under the first head are included these entries: New York to San Francisco, $129; sleeping-car, ?22; meals on the road, ?18; San Francisco to Sydney, ?20; expenses in Sydney, $40; Sydney to Melbourne. ?35; expenses in Melbourne, ?40; Melbourne to Adelaide, Slf>; expenses in Adelaide, ?40; Adelaide to London, in sailing shin, ?225; England to N&w York, ?75. It is admitted, however, that a little extra money will not come amiss. No allowance i's made for expenses in England. "Cotton seed oil factories are springing up over the South and are doing a good business," says the Detroit Free Press. " Every 450-pound bale of cotton yields about hall a ton of seed, which is sold to the factories for about ?8. Every part of the seed is now utilized, and so with the late increase in the price of oil and oil cake, things are looking prosperous in the South. The seed is lintcd and hulled first and the lint sold to white paper manufacturers, and perhaps some of it appears in the paper upon which this is printed. The hulls are used for fuel and fur fertilizing. The oil is pressed out and the oil cake sold to European stock raisers. Thus every part of the cotton seed is utilized." Mr. Edgar Giikes, one of the constructors of the Tay bridge, has given his theory of the cause of the awful disaster. He holds that " the present evidence indicates that some other force than the tempest acting with it destroyed the girders," and lie believes that that other force was the momentum of the train. Mr. Giikes finds that the force of the wind as actually registered at Dundee was sufficient to overturn the train and that the guard rails could nofc prevent this and further, that if the upper part of the carriages were thus brought in contact with the leeward girders the damage they would cause would so far destroy the unity of the fabric that the same wind would cast it all down together. Such a severe winter as that under which the populations of Silesia, East J TIT ?j. 1* ! . J 4-V. ~ ana west rrusaia, hihi mic xjuvuj ui Posen have been suffering for more than a month past has not been experienced in northeastern Europe since the year 1812. It has come like a doom upon the poor people after an almost total failure of the potato crop, upon which the peasantry of these sterile regions mainly depend for their winter sustenance. We read of parents all but naked in wretched empty rooms, forlorn of tire, the corpses of their children,victims of typhus, iying uncovered on the floor, with no means left to obtain the rudest coffin for the dead, or the coarsest morsel of food for the living j and of women, driven to despair, lying down deliberately in the snow to die, in order to put an end to their intolerable misery. Jeanie is a Scotch lassie who last year came from Dunbeld to begoverness with a Pittsburg family whose sick child she had nursed in Scotland. When they urged her coining she refused, and after some persuiision gave as a reason that she was engaged to be married to young Stewart, who couldn't come with her because he had to care for a bedridden sister. But he urged her to accept the offer telling her he would join her in January; so sh# came. When she read the dispatch of the destruction of the lay Driugu unci mu r>uiru?u u;un, sue began sobbing and exclaimed: " It's Stewart's train and Stewart is drowned." The list of trainmen's names next day was published and Stewart's name was among them. And thus the tragedy on the waters of the Scotcli Frith brought agony to a bright and hopeful young heart 4,000 miles away. A Panama letter says that under the contract between De Lesseps and Bonaparte Wyse, Irom whom De Lesseps took over his arrangement with the Colombian government, Lesseps is to have two years more to organize a company for constructing the canal of Chagres. The capital of the company is limited to $80,000,000. Wyse is to receive S^OO.OOO on the formation of the company, and $800,000 more one month after half the capital is subscribed, and is also to have $1,000,000 more in stock. In case of the death cf Lesseps his son is to succeed to all his rights and privileges. Minister Dichman, of Colombia, in letters to the state department relative to the De. Lesseps project for a canal, discourages any connection therewith by the United States, and says. " In all respects, except the money, it will be a French comEany. and if completed commerce would e subject to such laws regulating it as might bring the United States is conflict with France." The Egyptian obelisk soon to be brought to New York, was taken from Heliopolis to Alexandria, Egypt, in the reign of Libelus. The name "Cleopatra's Needle," by which it has been known for more than a thousand years, Wiis given by mistake, :is it dates centuries bark from Cleopatra, even to the time of Thothmes III., the greatest of Egyptian princes of the eighteenth dynasty, who reigned about fifteen centuries before Christ. The monolith, therefore, was standing in the time of Moses, and was, perhaps, seen by him. The hieroirlvnhics of the south and east faces are considerably injured either bv the action of the sun or by the fine particles of sana driven against them by the wind. The western column of hieroglyphics is remarkably well preserved, but all are damaged at the bottom by the piling of stones against the obelisk. There is also a notch in the southwest corner that may have been made by a camion ball, but the column is in much better condition than the one that stands on the Thames embankment. The haphazard of life and death was illustrated in manv ways by the Tay bridge calamity. One lady, who traveled with her maid, had ordered a cab for the morning train, which readied its destination in safety, but the cabman overslept, and they were obliged to take the next train?the one which was buried in the quicksands at the bottom of the river. Another instance of trainmissing turned out more happily. A gentleman was determined to go to Dundee, notwithstanding his wife's en treaties, and that prudent lady took pains to have the cabman behind time so that her husband lost the ill-fated train. He was angry at the time, but is reconciled tc the situation now, and en tertains a favorable opinion of his wife's weather wisdom. Another man lost liifi life through the business shrewdness of the girl to whom lie was engaged. He was visiting at her house in Edinburg, and was anxious to remain until Monday. but she persuaded him to return rather than incur the displeasure of Iris employers by breaking faith with them. A London correspondent of the Philadelphia Bulletin says: " I wish you could hear some oi the funny questions that are often put to me by really intelligent men and women here about our country. It is hard to Keep from laughing outright in their faces when asked: * Is it possible, outside of the large cities, to get good shelter at night?' and 'Is there * - * ? - ? ? 1 j l not naneer 01 neing iuurueieu uiTiuie morning by bands of roving Indians and ruffians?1 'Docs not the country abound with countless venomous snakes and reptiles?' and so on. It was only yesterdny that, in conversation with a gentleman connected witb one of the largest railroads here, he remarked: ' I am told that the United States are about played out as a nation, and that a place called Manitoba is likely now to take their place.' Fortunately I had with me some of those good maps of our country, turnished to every one gratis by the Pennsylvania railroad, and I completely silenced and astonished him by cramming two or three of them into his pocket." General Avezzpna, who died recently ?n R.->mo of tlio norp nf nitrhf.v-nnn. had a singularly adventurous career. In 1821 lie was sentenced to death, and hanged in effigy for taking part in a students' insurrection in Turin. He fled ?. o Spain, took part in a revolution, was captured, and escapcd being shot only by the intervention of an English consul. Next he appeared in Mexico, where he fought the Spaniards and won the rank of general, and was for a time commander-inchief of the troops of the republic. Afterward he went to New York, engaged in trade and made money. He returned to Italy as American consul at Genoa. This post he resigned to take part in the revolutionary movements in his native land. For takin? part in the rising against La Marmora he was again condemned to death, but escaped in an English ship. In 1848 he was war minister of the short-lived republic of Rome. AVhen the French troops throttled Italian liberty he fled with Garibaldi to New York. In 1860 he went back and joined his old chief in the campaigns which resulted in freeing Italy from her petty tyrants. He was elected many times to the Italian parlia-. ment, and when he died was chiel of the ' Itaiia Irredenta" society. Talnmge on Dreams. During a recent discourse at the Brooklyn Tabernacle on " Dreams," Rev. T. De Witt Talma^t) said: Dreams show that the soul can exist, independent of the body. When the physical facuJi i- 1- - J - l?.i lies lire nt'numuvu v*itn a uiai reseiables deuth the soul remains alert. The man ot eigJity years goes to sleep, and in dreams is carried back to the time when lie wasachila on his mother's knee. In the vision of the night the mind of man travels over perhaps thousnnds of miles of space, and goes into the future as well as the past, liui you ask me do dreams come from God? I answer, when we have a vision thai teaches us something good, it is from God: hut bad dreams are inspired b} the devil. "I have had the nightmare," exclaimed Dr. Talmage, his face assuming an expression of terror,' I have known what it is in my sleep y> fall from tlx top of a high mountain into a deep abyss. I have felt my flesh creep with horror as I went down, down, and never touched bottom. That terriblr dream came Irom the devil, and he sent it to me through the medium of a hearty dinner oaten just before I went to bed. I knew a man who dreamed that In was running after a railroad train that he could not catch. Run as hard as In would the train would keep just so far ahead of him. His legs ached with weariness, and still he kept up the fruitless ciiase. Do you know what mnm man have such an um>len>a;?t dream? Well, I will tell you. He liaV spent the day previous in a hard pursuit alter Dame Fortune. He had been chafing the golden dollars in Wall street. I am going to give you a recipe for pleasant dreams. Eat your Inst meal for the day at six o'clock in the evening. Go to bed at ten. Have your windowlowered two inches at the top. Sleej upon your side, and not upon your back. Have a clear conscience in the sight of your Maker, and, my word for it, you will not have the nightmare. Poor Job, the Bible tells us, had wretched dreams; but he had boils fiom the crown of hi? head to the soies of his feet. He had doubtless violated nature's laws or he would have had no boils, and consequently no bad dreams." Dr. Talmage remarked that many o! his hearers were anxious to kno'.v whether he believed in dreams. His re ply was that 44 he did and he didn't." He would not advise his hearers lo pla< e too much reliance on the visions of tin night as guides for their conduct in waking hours. We do not need any such guidance when we have the Scrip tures before us. The preacher decried <?. * winMt? llUC UUUlb lUUUJ VB|?VV?.II(1 young persons?have of consulting the silly dream books that hold such n prominent place among the cheap literature of the day. Persons who think much about dreams are likely to beconxsentimental and impractical andunfitted for the ' ealities of life. Waking thoughtare often echoed in dreams. Richard III. dreamed that all the demons of hell were staring at him and tearing him in pieces. What "was this vision but the outgrowth of his waking up. " The captain of a vessel at sea dreamed that on a certain island a shipwrecked crew were starving to death. He steered to fhe island, and found that his dream was a reality. A party in Colorado were lost in the mountains. An old hunter in a dream saw the party at a certain place in the wilderness. He went to the place and found the lost ones. I cannot explain these dreams; but I can say that they had very praiseworthy and practical results. On the subject of dreams we must use our besr judgment, and take them for just what they are worth?nothing less and nothing more." To Siberia. M. Aurelien Scholl is responsible for the Accuracy of the following amusing nnopHnto oKr\iif tho lofn Pmnn??Ai? Vmlrn. las of Russia. The czar, he tolls the trusting render, was one day holding a grand review in honor of a lady remarkable for her great personal charms. Just as the cavalry were defilling past he suddenly ordered them to proceed "at the gallop.'1 The colonel of the hist reiriment did not hear the command, and consequently did not change the pace of his troopers. Enraged at this seeming disobedience to his imperial behest the master of many legions advanced and cried, _ " At the gallop, to Siberia!" This time the command reached the colonel's ears, the men spurred their horses and started off into exile. Soon afterward the czar related what had happened to his fair companion, who, touched with pity at the fate of these victims of despotic will asked for their pardon, eventually with success. The emperor relented and sent a sauadron to brin>r hack' the culprits. Sow comes the touching part of this veracious tale. A pattern of discipline and obedience, the offending regiment had never drawn bridle, but, maintained its headlong speed. Equally faithful to orders, the regiment sent in pursuit strained every nerve to overtake it, but without avail. The regiment kept galloping ahead, its pursuers continued in its wake, and from that day to this nothing has ever been heard of either!" FABM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Liqoiu Auimre. The subject of tlje value of liquid ma* nure in its application to crops, in field, garden and lawn, is again freely discussed. Meciii, the London alderman, was among the first to apply it to field crop3, and for this purpose prepared a great deal of expensive machinery and employed a great many men to do the work. His crops bore testimony to its great fertilizing qualities, and these returns Mr. Mechi was not slow in laying before the British public. His statistics were liberally quoted in this country, and he has a great many disciples?on paper?as those who adopted his method of applying manure soon abandoned it on account of ite expensiveness. These disciples failed to see that in all Mr. Mechi's statements he made no comparison as to the relative expense of the two modes of application and the relative products. This was carefully omitted, and if we are correctly informed?and it looks as if the information is correct, as we have seen no recent statements from that quarter?the practice has been abandoned by the introducer, and il must have been from the fact that tht old mode of applying manure to land was the quickest and most profitable. For small lawn and gard/ns?where the expense is a matter of no consequence ?there is no mode of enrichment so certain and effective aa liquid manure, for in these cases it can be applied with watering-pots commonly used by gardeners. For this purpose a basin should be dug. from ten to tweive feet in diameter and three feet deep, which should be filled with stable manure, and eithei a conductor from a roof turned upon it -rain-water being the beat?or supplied from hydrant or pump, the water being added gradually, so as to admit of the daily turning over of the mass. In a few days or a week it will be fit to use .ind can be applied as the necessity may occur. In this limited way liquid manure can be used with great effect; bul upon the farm it would take a mint ol money to dispose of it, whatever th( beneficial results may be upon the crop. ?Germanloum Telegraph. Keclpc*. Custard Pies Without Milk.?Beat together five eggs, five tablespoonfuls ol sugar and a little salt; pour into this one pint of boiling water: stirring briskly while adding the water; flavoi with spices according to taste, and complete the pie the same as other custards. This quantity is sufficient for two pies. Try it. They are nice and better for persons troubled with weak stomachs than the common custard pies. Bean Soup Without Meat.?Use j about a pint of the smaller beans; lentils will do quite as well. Boil the beans until nnitn fpnHpr in t.wn find a half pints ofwater; when cooked there will be about two pints of water. Mash the beans thoroughly when taken out of the water and pass them through a sieve. Take an onion and brown it in a casserole in a tablcspoonful of butter. In this casserole place the beans with the water they have been cooked in; add a little salt and pepper. Corn Stakch Cake.?Four eggs, whites only; one cup of powdered sugar, one-half cup of butter, two-thirds cup of com starch, one-half cup sweet milk, one cup flour, two teaspoonfuls baking powder, lercon or rose water flavoring. Cream the butter and sugar thoroughly either wiih the hand or a silver spoon; mix the corn starch with the milk and add. Then add the eggs, beaten still, next the sifted flour, into which the baking powcfer has been stirred When 8ow? Farrow. Every farmer should know the exact time when his sows are to iarrow. She will not vary two days from sixteen even weeks, or 112 days. She should be confined in her room at least one week before her time is to expire, so that she may be_reconciled to her quarters. Care should be taken to have the sf.rn.w for hfir heddinir soft and fine. ShG should have been so often washed and curried when a pig that she may be readily approached, and be so gentle that if any of her pigs stray away, and are liable to become chilled, they can be gently placed to the teat without disturbing her. When she needs food or drink she will call for it. Feed very lightly for several days. The two or three lirst days fjive only a little slightly warmed slop. Then steadily increase to full feed, giving all she will eat. As soon as possible urge the pigs to get into the trough.to learn to eat. This they will do when liiteen to twenty days old. Push them by feeding all they want up to nine or ten months old They then furnish the best and sweetest pork. llroom-Corn Seed, An exchange states that the seed oi broom-corn, which has hitherto been considered useless except for planting, and an inferior article of food for cattle, lias been discovered to be valuable as a breadstuff. It was tir.it used as a substitute for wheat in 1870 and 1871, but, like many other good things, w: s lost sight of, and its manufacture was never carried to success, and never became even particularly known until about three years ago. The yield of flour is about one-half in place of two-thirds from wheat. The bran is also as valuable as wheat bran as a food for animals. The Hour cannot be told from wheat flnnr ;lhH the bread, cake. etc.. is deli cate, inviting and delicious, and easily digested. The yield of broom-corn seed is also enormous, a single spear often producing a nint of seea, and the yield has readied five hundred bushels to the acre, while it is safe to estimate the average at one hundred bushels. Wheat tor Chickens. Every farmer has noticed that about the time of wheat harvest, if the fowls are allowed the run of the fields and barnyards, there is a materal increase in the egg supply. I think the second fact is the natural result of the first. I have fed corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flax and sunflower seeds, and have found nothing equal to whole wheat as fcod for fowls. For young chicks it seems especially adapted. After two or three days of feeding on soft food the young ohickens will pick up the whole wheat quite greedily," and will thrive on it as on nothing else. Growing chickens have a large demand for lime, and especially bone material, and this is more nearly supplied in whole wheat than in any other grain. If wheat were two dollars per bushel it would still be the cheapest food for young chicks. Farmers can, however, economize by feeding wheat screenings and damaged wheat, which, though unsalable is nearly as good for chicken feed.?Country Qentlanan. Kalllug Fat Cattle. There are many things about the fat stock show lately closed which the farmer and stockman will find it profitable to heed. The most prominent point brought out seems to be that atter a pertain ace, say two years in cattle, there is no longer profit in keeping the stock. It does not give an adequate return for the food invested. With the art of breeding where it is, the year-old steer may easily be made to weigh 1.000 pounds and the two-year old 1,400 to 1,500, while the four year-old will scarcely weigh more than 1,700 to 1,800, and the flesh is far inferior in price and quality to that of the younger animal. Why should one feed two years more han is needed P?The American Stockman. Railing CablMHfSt The failure in gardens so irequently to raise cabbage, is owing probably to two or three things, all of which could be overcome. It is want of deep culture and very heavy manuring* in the autumn. Commence early in the spring to tret the ground in thorough condition, manuring again after setting out the Slants and covering at the first hoeing, e particular that the plants are all right?that they are short and stocky and have not been allowed to grow too fast or too much in the cold frame under cover. We fancy, however, that the ground has a ereat deal to do with the crops.?Oermanioivn Telegraph. How the Earth Will lerlsn. In one of his lectures, Prof. Proctor. The i the astronomer, says: The planet Venu# Sol has an atmosphere, and it is said to be at tae very least as dense as that of our . . earth. Then we learn also that oceans are on her surface, because it has been To shown by the spectrum. It appears Q . also that it closely resembles our earth in condition, and that it is the oqe w planet fit to be the abode of living crea- ' And tures like those which exist on the Twic earth. In Mars we begin to recognize xh the effects of planetary old age. These 1 greenish patches we must regard as How seas, and we find that they are much Li) smaller in comparison to the rest oi h?i the area than in our earth. On our own w planet 72.00 is covered with water, and on this only about 50.00. The older N< planet has the smaller water surface, yeti and the idea is suggested that in old 1 age of a planet the waters gradually diminish in extent. Grof ? We pass to i he moon to answer that With > question, and here we certainly find no & ' traces of water. Also, we trace no ati mosphere of appreciable density, and And everything tends to show that she had* > i water on liter surface, but that it has sMa i disappeared. Does this seemingly cold - A lit i ana aeaa wonu appear to nuvu pusttvu . through the same stages as our own AI ' earth P I think we cannot doubt this when we look at her volcanic craters. I think, too, there must hare been there ' such life as exists on our own planet. There were oceans on her surface, whicr formerly occupiedthese spots, which, tb< 1 waters being withdrawn, present thi Six finely granulated appearance-from itj? mortj 1 action. This seems to be a natural ex- Mrs planation. As the planet becomes old Ky., c ; the oceans become soaked into the vjr > planet's interior, the crust of the aur- ? ]? y ; lace as the planet cools being formed : into large cavities such as exist in pori ous substances, and into these the water is withdrawn. Dr. Franklin, of En? land, has shown that four times as much 10 ?n water as now finds place on the earth's For surface could be found room for in Salve the interior of the earth, when the pro- Fla.. a cese of cooling has gone sufficiently far. xhe Then, in regard to the atmosphere, crcaae there Is certainly no trace on the moon, hundr but we have a picture here allowing that the volcanic action of. the moon t was at one time no less than in out ; own earth. The moon probably repre- * ; sents the future of our own earth at a The distance of time of twenty five million ?uowi of years. When the old age of the year o earth will come it will cease as the Wh< , abode of life. only p Let us pause to consider some of the view c 1 stars in this regard. Many of them are too old and many too young to sqatain Weddi ' life on their surfaces, but mat they were iyeg t formed for some purpose beyond that of ? ; being useful to this particular planet J'ie there is no doubt. A study of the Viotoi heavens seems to tell us that all life bersol should occupy all space and all time, In I and not be crowded into one portion of crater . time or one portion of space. So I joints think we may look at the heavfeift with walk, the thousands of stais to be,?e?a with the naked eye, and hold this thought, toiletb Tiiere you have 6,000 suns, <acb a t,ut tj, brother of our own sun, though many onjy> belong to higher orders, and w^may be- '' lieve they have thousands of orbs cir- f".ei cling round them which are the abodes Missi# of life. And if each one has but a single ?f the world in its system as the abode of life, bridge we have then thousand* of inhabited A Vf worlds similar, per japs, to our own. turn a In the one single rolar map -here great n shown there are 3*24,000 stars, all to be a ftmii seen with a small telescope, and by one win of Herschel's telescopes 20,000,000 stars f<ry " lc would have been brought into view in far he the same section of the firmament. But (jomtlil after all there still remains the thought r that each planet is tending toward ,{"?' death, and though the periods of time are so vast that they seem like eternity. the dying out of the larger of these suns IT appear to us like the death of the uni The verse itseli. But take such an orb as dnugh Sirius, which is a thousand times larger be co . - -- J a? Li- j ? .L .luu. man me sun, una aiis:r uib u?iu *u tuc smaller orbs will have died; but. can we Two escape the thought tbat there will still profess remain others to take their places? It worth seems to me we cannot, if we remem- crites 1 ber how thoroughly we have been deceived in'the past. We thought the train t earth the center of the universe; then eoes ui tiie solar system was everything; then under] that system became but one in a galaxy ^ it ol stars, and in turn the galaxy of stars . is lost in the infinitude of stars. . e receivf as gres The Innocent Old Man. If we The other day the police at the Union depot noticed a feeble-looking old man wandering in anil out to kill time until A mi his train should depart, and as he sev- cause I eral times displayed quite a roll of bills write i he was cautioned to look out for pick- by a a pockets and confidence men. trade, " Wouldn't anybody rob an old man drawn like me, would theyP" he innocently <li:iry. asked. The The warning was repeated, but he tratod jogged around as before, and after a ers \ time was seen in consultation with two bcr of strangers, who had walked him around Corife<3 to the wharf An officer i?ot him away ?n<ian from them and angrily said: Minnei " Didn't I warn you against ??r i strangers? Those fellows are after ' your money!" ???? " But how can they git it when I have it in my pocket and my hand on it all (.ontjnl the time?" tion of " Well, vou look out." ' Yes, I'll look out; but I don't want to be uncivil. When anybody talks to A 151 me I like to talk back-'' # ? rj The strangers soon had him on the E',,"5' string again, and in about a quarter ol P^reE an hour the;' left him in a hurried man- |f\n' . ner, and he sauntered into the depot . with his wallet in his hand. "There! You've let 'era beat you!" urxtaV exclaimed the officer. " How much did Somi you lend tnemr "Well, they wanted $20," he slowly They 1 replied. ougjt, " And you handed it over, of course?" long si " I give 'em a $50 bill and got $30 ian go^ back.,F give U "Well, you'll never see the bill period again." . Sign "I kinder hope not," he chuckled, as the da he drew down his eye. " It was a tho res counterfeit which my son found in of iron Troy, and being aa I am very old and propos innocent, and not up to the tricks of the discov wicked world, I guess I'll get into the and gli cars before somebody robs me of my valuab boots I If any one should come around terialt looking for me, please say I'm not at * t i home."? Detroit Free Press. caught is put Facts About Gold. and th In a recent lecture on gold Professor ^'iere Egleston, of the school of mines of Co- 5 lumbia college, remarked'that it was ? ? formerly supposed that gold was to be found onJy in or on the ozoic and naleozoic formations. When, in California, Wnitney discovered it inthejurassic.it ta,,.se 11 was a revelation. It is now found in mJ1 ov the deposits of all ajees. The rock in which it lies is generally metamorphic, t and therefore it is the surroundings that T indicate the period. By gold we mean a yellow substance, which contains a au'Pjc1 nnnntitv nf nnvp ffnld. mixed with other * substances,'of which silver is almost attena always one. It is common to consider day, ei the quantity of gold in the world to be c?urcr larsre. But there is only seven thousand nat , a millions worth, whicn is about half reason pure gold and half silver. Tlip annual Mondi production is about one hundred mil- aro ca* .ions worth, and the production has de? fUQ V creased forty-four per cent, during the intervi tu? ?dent: past unriy yema. jlhc piuuuuwuu v* ~ n\r silver, however, has increased one hun- . dred per c<nt., and now equals that of ohurcti gold. One-third of the gold goes to wear and tear, one-third goes into circu- . lation, anl one-third into the arta and Tne manufactures. All the gold in the world would make a pile only twenty-five feet lJ|at ^ wide, forty-five feet Jong and twentyfive feet high. by The Boston Post thinks that King I came Alfonso possesses a charmed life. He A ge I hH? het?n married twice, shot at twice, how it I and yet he lives. aarpa HWMBnBBR naomvtsioD. iparrow aits tad sings, and eiags; ttly tk^ioaMt'i lingering light rosy oyer rock and toil, redden* where the reekle? not mm on high it* pfaDBM of white. ly and olear the farrow sings, lul? twilight steal* acroes the M, still and bright the evening star iklee aboT? the golden bar at in the Wert lie* quietly. it it that the bird* can sine? le is ao foil oi bitter pais; Is are so wrong with hopeless grfe<| is so long and Joy so brief; >r shall the lost return again. till the spairow site and sings, 11 longing, mourning, sorrowing tart, ling to find what hope may be tin death's awinl mystery, . . aches its empty iru abota listening, while the sparrow sings, id son Uie rrentsg stiadowi ail, , throogk th? crowding lean that JWina tie light, and sMtsa to Had > id cl&ip God's hand, who wrought it all ?CtHtTkuxttr, I mis OF IHT1SS8T* , ty-five railroads irere sold under fage foreclosures in 1879. . Ann Colons, of Boyd county, laims to be 116 years of age. Ramsey, ttje secretary of wafr, is id very heary, and has a voioe ? ? i hia figure. v i Tay bridge was regarded a* the ?t engineering feat ere* attempted ?t Britain. < driving purposes the fteach at t ston, Texas, and at Fe man (Una ire unsurpassed. farmers of the United States in* d their business ia 1879 over four cd million dollars. en a cat gives an entertainment lie top of a wall, it istt't the cat : ? i>i. ?!.. w.n1 JCWb M/f IHV bll? f??HM cotton crop of the United*. St*tea >; , an increase orer the prt ceding f nearly 300,900 bales. en sun spots appear,44 old sol *>is utting on his tptct to get a better if this earth.?Toronto Grip. $60,000 fathered at the golden ng of the Emperor WlflUiW he ;o the (amine stricken Silrsians. King of Siam has made Queer ia and the Prince of Wales mem the order ot the White EUsphant :de, Pa., a spring of clear, fresh t. h*i worked its way throogli the . in the paying stones in a sideV" "^v., * < aps the most favorite visiting it of the winter are still block, ey are no longer of one frbrie e are ten trass bridges across tlie sippi above Su Louis, and seven m hare jpans as long as the fay iscons in man has taught a cai to , somersault. This will proven * advantage to the nation in case of ae. n " the glorious bird of our coun>ses his health he loses his rights, is then an ill-e;igle bird.?Keolcuk ution. mnia is getting to be a prevalent f. An English naturalist advises i of raw onions as the surest and eroedy. # ' old man witli nine marriageablf ters would trade off one or two (f uld jret a son-is Jaw to boot.? nati Star. aty men who believe what they and live ai they believe, art more than five hundred hypoo Any good cause. lonso's wife has a drey with a ;hirtv feet long, and wh?ni she 3 stain Alph. dare not follow her balf an hour, for fear of ftepping Waterloo Observer. xchange says that Queen Victoria is $5,000 a daj. She's got nearly it a sinecure a? a paragrapher. are ever induced to change our ss we'll be a queen, .certain.? ? Statesman. in wlio quit keeping a diary belie never could and anything to in it. was the next day run over irt. beaten out of 93 on a, doc blackguarded by a fishwife'ana on a jury. He will resume his mutations of fortune are illu* at Lcadville. Amongst-the wait' the hotels there are an ex*meni* the New Jersey legislature, anexlerate general, a doctor, a lawyer, ex-judge from Free burn county, iota. William A. Hammond, late sar> 'neral of the United States army, lat men do not die from unrwJove. "I am free to sav;*' he ued in liis lecture, " that the eraoanxicty kills more people than ng else. in whose lace showed the effect* zht he had with his wife, exf to the police jud*e that, his dislent was caused bv the rise in "How so?" asked the judge. iow," said the prisoner. " it wu to the advance in iiilf.'1?SatNighl. i of the .English slave-holder* ik find themselves in a bad lix. bave been holding slaves who according to law, U> have been - . i J it., n^.n nee m&numuiea, uu me diuii* rernment decrees that they m'st > each man wages for the whole of such detention. or Parnetti baa been analyzing bris and dost of the streets, with ult of finding a large per centage and glue contained therein. He ?s making practical use of this ery by establishing blast furnaoes ae works in London to secdre the tie products from the waste majf metropolitan streets. dount Desert, He., sea-guila are , alive in an unique way. A stick through the tail of a small fish, en it is left upon the seashore it *?an be seen by the birds. TheV eizc and attempt to swallow ft rst, and succeed remarkably well hey come to the stick, when a made. They cannot swallow it r, and it is equally impossible to and so they choke, strangle and er, when they sre captured. A College TTag. certain college under Presbyterian e? not a hunai ed miles from New it is a rule that the students shall church jit leaat once ci*ch Sunther In the college chapel or some t in town which they shall designd for non-attrndance satisfactory b must be g*yen. Of courie on ly mornings, when these rwaonp led for, much ingenuity andsomo e brought out. In one ol theio iews Professor L asked a stu\ C?, where did you attend i yesterday P" D replied: ' The First church, r. professor, looking a little sursaid: "Are you aware. Mr. C , lere was no service at the First i yosterday?" was a poser, but was coolly met I mean, profensor, the first church to." neral laugh followed, and soraeie young gentleman got rescued.? '4 "Driver."