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* .... .; . " **' *-: J-'-: ' ' ~-'f'-r--:: ':iji hfl$'*T*- iH '- f.t ' ' :\% ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANKER f? ; ' / \ fif - = _ - =;' BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY* FEBRUARY 25, 1880. NO. 38. VOLUME XXV. ' '* *- * ' ' . t /i"i ' ' ' ? - ! ???? n""irr iVn iTfiTTiivimTn I Cnrcd to Death. I TIMELY TOPICS. protection, the duty devolves upon him 44 Who's Afraid !" > Ciive Me Three Grains of Com, Mother. I I'his poem w*s written by Miss Edwards in 1847, nnd refers to the famine in Ireland in that year. It is ?nd to think that the present lestitution in Ireland renders its reproduction not wholly inappropriate now.] [ ijiiv? me three grains of corn, mother? j Ordy three grains ot cons; 1 It "will keep the little life I have ! Till the coming of the morn. 1 am dying of hunger and cold, mother? Dying of hunger and cold; i And half the agony ot such a death ; My lips have never told. I H lias gnawed like a woll at my breast, mother, j A wolf that is fierce lor blood; All the liveloDE day and the night beside, j Gnawing tor lack ol food. j J I dreamed oi bread in my sleep, mother, ] t And .the .sight was heaven to see; k I x*voke with an eager, tarnishing Up, 1 c Hut yon have no bread lor me. How oouki I look to you, motherHow oould I look to you, , a I? IT For bread to give to your starving boy, , When you were starving loo? a For I rend the famine in your cheek, fc And in your eyes ?o wild, And'} leit it in your bony hand, f As you laid it on your child. 1 The <;aecn has lands nud gold, mother? t llio .queen has lands and gold, d While you are forced to your empty breast B A skeleton babe to hold? ^ A babe that is dying ot wunt, mother, p An I am dying now, I g With a ghastly look in its sunken eyes, i p And famine upon its brow. j 0 a What has poor IrtJund done, mother? What has poor Ireland done, d That the world looks on aDd sees us starve, h Perishing one by one? Do the men ol England caro not, mother? The great men and the high, fl i'or'lhe suffering sons of Erin's isle, g Whether they live or die ? v o There is many a brave heart here, mother, r Dying of want and cold, C While only across the channel, mother, v Are many that roll in cold; There are rich an.l proud men there, mother, ur;A. 'uui w.tAUUiftio iu And the bread they fling to their dogs to- 0 JiiK'ht S> "Would give liie to me and you. I i I a Come mearer to my side, mother? i g: Come nearer to my side, | si And hold me loniifty. as you held I My father when he died; j ^ Quick, for I cannot see yon, mother, ^ My breath is almost gone. Mother! dear mother! ere 1 <iie j a Give me three grains of corn. ! H _ ! ti A QUEER PARTY. jJ li ''There they coroe!" cried one of n ' jrroup of young men who were amusing I p themselves by watching the driving, one j n bright May day, in the Champs Elysees, ' J Paris. "You will see that she never , f1 lifts her vaii or moves her head. J J "And the ogre who accompanies her 11 dees not address a single word to her. I ^ have watched them." ^ w A young American?a musical student H of the conservatoire?who had been idly ? Inmiming a strain from "Trovatore"? a " Xon ti scoHar di me?"?turned at the (* words to see who was coming'. ' P He shw a handsome coupe, a distin- ; ? guished-looking gentleman, who wore : J? some orders on his breast, and by his ?. side a dazzlingly beautiful woman. The jic fair hend rose from among the velvet i and lace wrappings like a moss-rose , aj from the caressing moss. The delicate j tints of her complexion were not hidden *1 by the gauzy vail that covered her face, j ** The large blue eyes seemed fixed in some ; j* strange melancholy; the red lips never " parted for a word or smile. The wind ! n' lifted a curl of golden hair now and I x then, but no other movement stirred it. : , " Such statuesque repose!" said one. j . ''She's deaf and dumb!" cried another. j ' No woman could be so lifeless!" iI(; " She's insane, and the man's her i ekeeper!" exclaimed anotlier. ' She's frozen!" cried a student from i ? t)ie Latin Quartier. : ? "Gentlemen," said the first speaker, jh my theory is that some great tragedy ! P has broken lier heart. The man wito ;c< her is her husband and a tyrant. He ' P h:is, perhaps, murdered her lover, and , knowing all holds her fast bv themiiltv i ?' secret. The poor child's life isbliglitecf. | li She goes through its daily forms like a i c< machine?she is. in fact, nothing more J P than a cunning mechanism. Feeling, j? thought, hope, joy and sorrow, are all ! & dead". To gain the diadems of the I o world she would not lift an eyelid; to ! c< set her foot on thrones she would not) n raise it. I would give five hundred j b francs to know the truth." ^ " Lemoine, are you in earnest?" cried the student, eagerly. " I know you are y< one ol the lucky dogs who scatter gold i' as the leaves in autumn?but is this 11* bona fide?" j ^ "Yes! Francois here shall hold the j o stake?whichever of you fellows brings i a mean authentic story shall have it, all j fair and above board." j h The young American, Ray Glenmor- I P gan, hesitated a moment, ana then ad- > dressed the speaker: j & "Will you admit a stranger to your j ranks? I, too. feel an insatiable curios- j11 ity on the subject- and " I!l The moneyed party glanced at the ! handsome young fellow as he faltered, [ " and took in the whole story. His clot lies j a were shabby to a degree, but the face ; C( was full of genius and'hope. i y 44 Lapauvrc (liable!" he thought; "he " would be gl:u3 of a chance for the re- si ward. Certainly, monsieur," he cried, P heartily; "we welcome you to our a ranks; we are the 4 Knights of a Hopeless Quest,' but we will go out gallantly j ei loathe fray. Here is-my card." n 44 And here mine,,: answered Ray. 441 j d am an American." ; " Ah! that I have perceived by the ? flavor of monsieur's French," answered j }c tiie other with a smiie, and then Ray j i' bowed and walked on. i o Strange liow. the face of that woman ! haunted him. The steadfast, immovable face, where all the life of hope 0 seemed indeed dead for ever. And yet I h there was -a wild-rose bloom on the j cheek, and the lips were red and full. ! n The sorrow, whatever it was, had not 1 wasted or changed the soft, round out- 111 lines, or drawn dark lines of jrrief be- I a niwtliYhp lnirplv pvpsi nrrvilprl tlio rr/uli i n coiar of the young face. | li He must know something more of her.: d Perhapp the man was not her husband. ! h and then he might re,ense the beautiful jE creature from some hateful bond or | ^ slavery. ia What strange sweet airs stole out be- j t neath his hands that evening as he j1 turned his fantasies into music. j I He had always set his dreams to j ? music; but now?now it seemed for the |' first time that? |t " He heard strange melodies aroaud Lrim roll, J Sudden and sweet ns when TheVars of morning sang, and lrom his soul j * Uprose the glad ' Amen!' And as of old a statue thrilled to song : I At rising ot the snn, j 1 He felt within.his soul, silent so long, Life's music had begun." t He forgot all the perplexities that had 1 heen haunting him all day, the rent that < lie owed, the hunger that had gnawed t 11is vitals, the signs of decav in liis ( habiliments, in-a sort of ecstatic dream, 1 wherein the blue-eyed divinity turned and blushed and smiled on him. f But he was brought sharply out of J bis vagaries by a peculiarly incisive c voice, and turned to lace a grenadierlooking female, in a high, smoky-looking Normandy cap, surmounting a sal- 1 low countenance, h pair of sharp black i eyes, a mout.Jj <r;?rnisned with projecting ] L:,;-.: / ? teeth, which clashed a sort of accorn- | f laniment as the lady proceeded to give .loot Hay n piece of her mind. I a "is it that monsieur had not the j, uoney forthcoming? Ah, what a world, j, ivhere i he rich ride over the poor, and v jrind their faces in the mud. Main, oui! a [ have had patience?oh, yes, the pa- n ience of one of God's angels?but the 7 ?nd has arrived." c "But to-morrow," answered Ray, "I ^ issure you I shall have something. I S( lave a promise?" ? "Is it that I shall feed longer on jromises?" screamed Madame Charton, i(!] vith anery sparks in her black eyes, p "A has! "with promises?they do not | ri igree with me. I spit out your prom- : a ses, my line lodger, and I rent your }( 00m in two days, in one day, in an t] lour, if I have not the money. Go, ; t hen." a And, much to Ray's relief, she turned | j, tn her heel in a manly fashion and j 0 trode out of the room as unceremo- jr liously as she had entered it. u A discord seemed to pervade the music 1 c] ifter that, and with a final crash, into | a] rhich he put all the perplexities and 1 gj ares that vexed him, the young man j f, ,t last shut the piano and went to ? S( >ed. I The next morning, alter oreaKiasting i u or four sous at a cremerie, he strolleiJ w nto a large piano store where he had a! >een promised a trifle for showing off tl he instruments. Ray was not in a con- v lition to despise any sort of employ- tl uent, and so he was glad to answer j qi ueBtions of all sorts, to rattle off bril- I al !ant w.iltzes when a. party of young p, >eople entered, to execute solfemn and [ pi tately marches when their elders ap- I gi ieare^, and to treat himself with in lelicious bits of Verdi now and then si lone. ai Sometimes he improvised his own ir reams and fancies. From one of these tl ie was roused by a voice saying: sc "Ah, monsieur, from what opera m hen, may I take the liberty of asking?' si Turning, he started, and rose to his d( ?et in surprise. He saw before him the sc entleman of distinguished sppearance tl irlio liacl (iriven tne mysterious oeauty sc f the day before. Ray felt the color ushing to his face, as if the speaker ei ould read all the foolish thoughts in in irhich he had indulged sincc. tl: "Mais, monsieur!" he said, with a ai ow; " that is from an unpublished I fr pera, and exists only in my brain." \ m "Ah! does that brain contain much j to f the same sort of furniture?" :iskcd the ij< tranger, with a benevolent smile. " I tr keit; I am an enthusiast of music, tl nd I gather around me friends of the st lunc taste. If monsieur would conde- tl ccnd to come and amuse us this even- oi lg I will pay well for the favor." ui Ray could scarcely believe tiis ears, ei 'o be paid for a chance to find oat all. ; seemed too absurd. lie accepreo n: ngerly, and the gentleman handed him in card with his address, which Ray saw tv t a glance was in an aristocratic quar- in ?r ol tlie city. He could not work any til anger, this strange freak of fortune hi ras so bewildering. He roamed about di ike an uneasy spirit the whole day. ca About ten o'clock in the evening he w resented himself at the door of a grand ta aansion. which was opened bv a ser- pi ant in rich livery. The host received e\ im at the door, and led him into an T nmense saloon, lighted dimly with c:i tree wax tapers only. A faint biaze : or uivered on the hearth though the night j en ras chilly, but the furniture was rich ; til rid elegant. Glowing rugs were placed kt ver the inlaid floors; buhl and ormolu | hounded; Japanese bronzes and ex- j lil uisite Sevres were scattered about; a | to riceless service of Sjatzuma stood on a ar losaic table near a lady, who was lean- I fo lg back negligently in an easy-chair, i sa he did not look up as the gentleman j tit >d Ray forward and said. "Slv wife." ' tli So she was indeed his wife!?Ray saw i rii gain the exquisite face, with the fixed ; ad serous eyes, which seemed to look j .trough and througli him to his very ! ml. Strangely enough she made no lovement ot the head at the introducon, no smile curved the perfect lips, ro o word came from them. Ray looked pi round: there was a young lady seated n t a table near with a novel in her j c< ? ry i ?J J tl.- I i ? ? :mn. cvie was mirouuueu sis me uosi s i n1 ster, hut wr^ more ungracious still, jt >r she did not condescend to raise her I II ye?. i <li "The mischief!" muttered Ray to i gi imself, " my host must have quarreled b< lis evening with his sister as well as tl is wife, or she has, perhaps, been op- ^ osed to the whole entertainment. I 3uld not have imagined such a want of j w oliteness in a French party." The h#st muttered something about i I" is sister's studious habits that sounded j a ke an apology, and then led Ray to a ; u ouple of military gentlemen who were ! s< laying chess. Chess-players, inacriti- j :il state of the came, may be excused j If >r not interrupting themselves; still, <-'< ur young friend ielt exceedingly unamfortable at not receiving the least s! od from these absorbed gentlemen. He \ <>: egged hi3 host not to trouble himself i 0 ritli further introductions. ! c< There was a strange stillness in the w 3om, which, together with the flicker- ii lg light and cool atmosphere, seemed tl ) curdle his blood. He fancied there fc ri\s a bluish tinge to the slender spears si t flame that came from each wax- tl indie. aj He sat down and began to run his j si ands over trie piano, lie nan never i ? > layed to such a rapt audience before. <> fhetherit was Auber or Donizetti, Mo- <*; art or Verdi, there was not a murmur ! Vi -not a whisper?not a ripple of com- j lent. G ave *nd pay tell on their ears ) V like. I h The unearthly stillness appalled him. ^ te felt as if he had been transported into i tl world of spirits, as if he breathed the ! ' aid, damp air of a cliarnel vault. And ' " et the beautiful woman, about whom \ 11 e had dreamed all day, seemed sub- t a ^antial enough. Her perfect hand, i ' ink-lined like a sea shell, dimpled like 1 r< child's, lay almost within his reach, j ^ Would nothine rouse his frozen audi- w oce? He rattled otf a gav waltz that ; y light have set Quakers dancing, but ! '< iiere was no sound. His hand shook in j v lrningaieaf. He was really growing ft larm?d at the unearthly stillness. The h ;af fluttered to the ground. In stoop- ! :1 ig to picket up his hand touched that I >' f his silent hostess. Her hand was cold as ice! | v He started "to his feet with a cry. No d ne moved eveu then, but the host, who ! a urried toward him. , A 11 Do not be alarmed," he said; " it is e othinc. I should have explnined be- n >re. But I have lived with these dear '? riends so long, I am apt forget that they k re?only wax. I have bad them f< lodeled with exquisite care. My wife ii lere was passionately fond of music and ti riving. I still indulge her, and make ter ray companion?in wax. This is a nost perfect likeness of the beloved one -i-- j:_j 4 nr.. vrliu uiwi urn years n^u. iu.jy aiatci 11 i novel-reader. I still supply her with | e: be latest publications. Those gentle- n nen?dear friends?werp noted chess- o >layers. So I liave their images in wax, ii ngaged in the game. So were other h riencis wiio nave aeparieo. i Keep n heir memory sreen. I surround myself v vith the past. I look inlo familiar ci aces. I relieve the years that are gone. 1 Otherwise I should be a desolate and d oneiy man. Ah, must you go. 1 trust o /ou have not received a shock. You a vill admit that the images are like life." y Looking into the face of the mild luna- p ;ic, Ray said he must go, and, taking e lis fee, hurried away from the ghostly u empany, taking himself severely to t ;ask for having been haif in love with a a gigantic wax doll. But the deception b lad been so skillfully worked out. li Of course he won the five hundred t rancs, and made a new start in life. So, t ifter all. he had no reason to complain a )f the " Queer Party." f] Only five of the nineteen Presidents ol <j .lie United States have had middle n lames?the younger.Adams. Harrison, c Polk, Grant and Hayes. f low the New York Firemen Live The bunk room of an engine house ii n ordinary bare-floored room, contain lg many iron cots, and a wardrobe be iud each cot. In No: 7's house th< rails are as hare as the floor, but botl re kept scrupulously clean. The firelen may be said to listen in their sleep "hey sleep in their red shirts and under killing; their big rubber boots stanc y the side of,the beds, with the trou irs fitted over them, and, when th< ong sounds, the trained men wake imp from their beds, and al uost me iianieally slip their feet into the boots ull up their trousers, husten them, anc ush down the stairs. Each man's coa nd hat is in his place on the engine 01 'iider, and, while the horses da h alon< >e streets, the firemen finish dressing 'heir speed in the daytime will seem imost ms wonderful when it is reoiem ered that they are ali apt to be at worl r at nlay at remote parts of the build^ ig. The alarm is rung while one man ii -ashing windows up-stairs, another i: hopping wood in the cellar, a third nd fourth are playing checkers in th< tting room, a tittii is in tne street it ont of the house, unother is asleep anc ) on. No matter what the circum;ances, by night or by day, the engine loroughly equipped, rolls out of doors 'ithin fourteen seconds after the larm sounds. Every man shares in le rivalry that exists between the arious companies, and the apparatus lat has the reputation of being freuently the first at a tire and the earliest : work is an object of envy in the deurtment. The firemen favor the supnsition that the sudden shock of the rent gong's stroke at ni^ht, when all re asleep, is injurious tonealth. They iy that it acts violently upon the heart, id has produced sudden death in some istances. On the other hand they say tat the mild tone of the little gong is ) gentle in its action upon the ear and lind that beyond the loss of sleep occaoned by it, it does no harm. The men jelare that it is not the volume oi >und that awakens them. They say 1.1... ll??v ??? m?,i? Kit II1U bllliWIUSL ?WU? iiiauc nvuiu rve as well jis the biggest. The horses stand in stalls in the*rear id of the main room. There is nothig remarkable about these stalls except lat they are kept absolutely clean, and e so arranged that the horse faces the ont door. Their hitching straps terinate in iron rings, which are fastened i the side of each stall by a bolt so in>niously contrived that the same elecic current thatsounds the alarm draws te bolts and frees the horses. The inantthey hear the stroke of the gong teyjump from their stalls and clatter rer the resonant floor to their places, ider the shafts of the tender and on ther side of the engine pole. Although nearly all these firemen we homes of their own and families : them, they are allowed hut seventyro hours absence from the fire houses i each month. This is exclusive of the iree hours a day allowed each man for is meals. This seventy-two hours is vided into three whole days in the ise of subordinates, but the officers, ho are allowed the same time, may ke their hours when and how they ease, by obtaining permission whenrer thoy desire to absent themselves. Iiey are obliged to ask permission betuse it is a rule of the department that ily two-thirds of the quota of men in ich battalion may be absent at one me. The record is therefore accurately ?pt at the headquarters. Firemen are obliged to do patrol duty if* policemen. They have regular urs and regular hours of service, day id night, and this patrol duty is perr ned by every man in his turn. It is id that the object of this is to discover es, but the Bremen say that this leory is not warranted by any mateal results.? l\ew York Sun. Four Hunting Incidents. The Santa Barbara (Cat.) Tndcpeii'Icnl !Corus a stirring encuiuutu umu tuuu lace on the 3d inst. in one of tin1 >cky fastnesses of the coast range. A Ttain California lion had been making imsclf obnoxious to the stock-raisers ist over the line of settlement, and uley Norris, who had lost several hunred dollars' worth of sheep, got up a rand hunt for the troublesome lion's ?nefit. With a large number of dogs ie party took up the trail early in the lorning, and followed it up the mounts until the lioirwas found. There ere several sharp fights between the on and the dogs, several of the latter i>ing killed, and ifc wa? only by taking big risk that Norris at last advanced pon and at the distance of a few paces nt a fatal bullet into the beast's head. They hunted geese with oxen and artilryin the good old days of '49. in Yuba )unty, Cal. The Marysville Appeal lys: "A curious method of goostalking was adopted by the hunters, an x at once serving as a covert and means r approach. A Hock having been disivered at considerable distance, the ox f>n!d he started in their direction, be lg allowed to feed as he went along. iu3 disarming the suspicion of the wary >wl. As soon as the hunter got within lot he discharged both barrels?one a? je <:eese on the ground and the other i they arose, bagging from thirty to xty geese He either rested the gun n the ox's back, or allowed him to pa>s a, and then raked them with his small mnon. Quite a number of fortunes rere made in this manner." Ilarry Youn". returned to Cheyenne, Wyoming, one day recently, from a unting tour near the Laramie peak ol .vo or three weeks' duration, and among 10 other evidences oi'his successful trip e brought back the skin of a largo silver tipped " grizzly bear. The ani lal wa3 one of the largest of itssj#cies, nd a dangerous antagonist had the ball om a trusty rifle missed its mark. In Mating the incident, of the killing to the 'heyennc Leader, Harry said that lie rent within a few yards of the beast, rhich laid in a crouching position, boirn Htar.overino' it. and he knew full rell his mortal danger should his shot ill short of its intended mission; but 0 had the utmost confidence in his rillt nd blazed away, killing the animal inLantly A party of gentlemen from Hawkinsille.Ga., while out fox hunting a few ays ago. struck the trail of a eatamounl nd finally brought the animal to bay. ifter a long and bloody fight, in whicli leven dogs took part, and out ot whicli lost of them came mangled, bleeding nd cripplcd, the ferocious animal was illed. It was a few inches over three ?et in full length, very tall and had ai mmense heaa, armed with long shaif i*eth. A Sad Romance. Now and then there comes a romance 1 the humdrum of city life that is a< ^citing as anything that is written in ovels. On Monday last a woman died f alcoholism in a Bleecker street board lg-house. No one in the house knew er, ituu un nimj etui/ tv mi lorgue. Yesterday an elegantly attirer oung lady recognized the body on tbt old marble s!a.n as that of her sister 'lie story v. a< brief but touching. Ttu ead woman uuil been one of the belles f Philadelphia society, and, six years go, had run away with and married ? oung ra:in against t he wishes of the arents of both parties. The younf ouple lived happiiv together, however intil within the last three weeks, wher he wife discovered her husband paying ttention to another woman. She up ...?C,-.^1 lt*?M infiWnlWtr ??*>/ ! fhni Iiaumi Jlllll ?* 1U1 ?i*i*\4v;in;jr , (Miu wiv^ te told her that their marriage was ogus. Upon investigation she founc his to be true, and then, broken dowi nd prostrated by grief and shame, sin led to this city, where, resorting to thi vine cup to drown her sorrow, sh lied of brain fever, ft is a pitiful story nd the husband who reads it in Phila leiphia to-day must do so with a lieav; ieart.?Nem York Express. EinrisKUtt mm run i. 3 The San Francisco Count Joannes fcad Itli Queer J>oinsa. , There died recently in San Francisco j a curious character who in some re. spects resembled the late Count Joannes, of New York. His name was Joshua 1 A. Norton, and he was known as Eraj peror Norton I., ruler of California and Mexico. A San Francisco correspondj ent of the Chicago Tritmric thus describes some of his peculiarities: "He ' was in the habit of issuing proclamations on all sorts of subjects, signing | j them Norton I., and procuring their t publication in some paper. The boys r at the telegraph oflice in this city were r apparently instructed to humor the ' emperor; for, whenever he handed in [ a dispatch for transmission the answer would come in about ten minutes. ' In his pocket at the time of his death | was one telegram purporting to come from Governor Perkins, inviting him ! to the inauguration at Sacramento in 5 Infmn Knit/41n nnnannnnf wifh mi horn a_ I IV'IUIO liaiUiJ UUllOVIltUV nivu guuvtuir , torial dijcnity; and another from the ' Hon. C. S. Parnell, New York, couched i as follows: "Accept my thanks for your interest on behalf of my distressed j countrymen. The land question will ' be avoided, but grant me your authority | to call on the American people to re. lieve Ireland's wants. l*ou can call lor , subscriptions on the generous public | of your coast, and remit to me at your convenience.' "Hp uimil/1 oil! nn #1nwn-fr?wn mpr. I ' chants from three to five times a year, and would receive ?rom each the | sum of four bits, in exchange lor which heshanded over the following bond: ; 'The Imperial government of Norton I: promises to pay to the holder hereoi the sum of fifty cents in the year 1890, with interest at lour per centum per annum from date; principal and interest to be convertible, at holder's option at maturity, into twenty-year four per centum bonds, or payable in gold coin, (liven under our Imperial hand and seal. Norton I., emperor. These bonds, like all the poor fellow's manuscripts, were written in an excellent hand, and were faultless in regard both to punctuation and orthography. It was rare indeed that he called on any business man who did not honor this periodical assessment; but when a refusal did come, the emperor turned with as polite a bow and cordial a ' Success to you' as though It n kn/1 *r/"?/-} f Kn ?v? ITiu i? n rtn I lie liivu ICUtlTCU IUU U1WIICJ* 1113 icjjutation for honesty was such that mer chants never scrupled to hand hixn a ?20 cold piece, which he would go and set changed outside, and religiously return the $19.50 with his imperial bond, which lie considered a permit to trade within the limits ol his realm. In this way Norton made more than enough to defray his slender expenses. He had occupied for the pa?t seventeen years the same room in a lodging house, and had paid his room rent, fifty cents a ! day, regularly every evening. The walls j of the room were adorned with portraits of Queen Victoria, the EmpresB Eugenie, and others of the crowned heads of Europe. He believed himself their equal. " His death has revived the old storv that he was a natural son of King William IV. Certain it is that, bom in London in 1817, he early left home for the Cape of Good Hope. From there he emigrated to Valparaiso, remaining there till the gold fever of 1848 attracted thousands to California. Almost immediately after his arrival there he seems to have been recognized as a shrewd, honest, enterprising business man, and to have been entrusted with important purchasing commissions on behalf of several firms already established in 'Frisco. His gains, which were considerable, he invested in real estate; and in time Joshua A. Norton became quite a noted land speculator, one of the large buildings owned by him being in what up to a few years ago was in the very center of the business pori tion of the city. Unfortunately for NorI ion, he became impressed "with the j tlien prevai ing mania forgetting up a I corner' in some article of daily con| sumption, and in le<52 he bought up all j the rice warehoused in the city, beside I all the floating cargoes of that Btaolo. i Expecting as he did to obtain control ! of the market, he. did not hesitate to I satisfy the holders' demands, and one j firm received from Norton the round ! price of fifteen cent3 a pound for a cargo ! to arrive. As frequently happens in I such cases, after Norton had spent the j whole of his ieady cash in buying all I the cargoes expected, a large cargo reached Sun Francisco from an unI looked fqr source. The speculator, who ; had calculated on coming out of the opI eration a millionaire, was unable to i take it up, and, as a natural conse! quence, the price of rice took a terrible j tumble. Norton's losses were such that I ho was forced to sell a considerable portion of his real estate, and he became involved in long and weary litigation. After a time the strain upon his mental faculties proved too great. Ilis mind became unbalanced, and, having been prospective ruler of the rice market, his hallucination assumed the sliafje of an imperial sway over California and Mexico." The Color of the Sea. j The changes in the color of the sea have attracted the attention of seafaring men from the earliest times. They struck with wonder the Phoenicians when first they ventured out of the Mediterranean into the Atlantic; they excited the astonishment of Columbus - | :inu UTniiL'u iiif ruuumu 111113 wuik hi ! search of the far-famed Ind'.es; and they arc no less a surprise to the modern navigator, to whonj the inarch of discovery has left few unexplored regions in store. One of the most remarkable and most widely distributed contrasts of color is that which is known to exist between the intensely blue seas situated i between the tropics and the gieen seas ! of higher latitudes. It appears, jus , the result of recent observations, and more especially of a series of experiI ments made on board the German frigate Gazelle, that there is an intimate ; relation between the color of sea water 1 and thr proportion of salt held in solution by the hitter. On comparing the specific gravity of green water with that of blue water, it was found that the latter is always heavier than the former, and, t herefore, at tiie same timo more salt, the two differently colored waters i being supposed to have t lie same temi peratuiv. In other words, the greater ; or ]esser intensity of the blue color of sea water may be taken as a direct index of > its saltness and of its specific gravity, i so that when we observe the color of i the water successively change from a deep blue to a bluish green and a dark green, we may conclude that tiie water has become at the same time less salty > and less heavy. Killed by the Electric Light. An accident of an extraordinary nature has occurred at the Haltc theater, Aston, near Birmingham. The stage is lighted by two electric lights, and wht'n the candies are not burning two brass connections, used for the purpose of crossing the current, are hung up over the orchestra. A fter the performance of the pantomime Mr. Bruno, the euphonium player, was leaving with the other members >>( the band when, presumably out of curiosity, lie caught hold of the two brass connections referred to. The man in charge called out to him with the object of warning him of the danger he was incurring. The warning, how ever, came too late. Mr. Brur.o re/ ceived the full shock of the electric cur * rent generated by tne powertul battery i which supplies tbe wliolc of the lamps 1 in the building and- grounds. It is said ? that the candles not being then burning b Mr. Bruno was unable to disengage himn self and pulled the wire flown. The . shock rendered Wim insensible. Medical - men were soon in attendance and restory atives applied, but Mr. Bruno died in forty minutes afterward.?LondonTimea. C AMbSkj Uiiai/Jjn AJI/ I1UVOJUJIUJJI Farm Ulntl. Roots for Stock Feed.?Roots hav become a necessity with progressiv farmers, as a winter stock food, an their great value in this connectio should commend them to those wh have not essayed their cultivation. Eve: the owners of work and driving horse in the large cities, where no opportunit is had to raise them, annually buy hun dredsof bushelsof carrots, mangef-wurt zels, etc., to be fed in connection wit] grain food to their horses, and they ar well assured of the profitableness c using them; for the animals are alway sleek, fat and glossy in appearance, am never become hide-bound or sickly. Eggs-^How Inckf.asep.?If an in crease of eggs be desired in the poultr; yard, before large sums are expended i: the purchase of everlasting layers, w would recommend the system of keep ing no hens after the first or at mosl after the second year. Early pullet give the increase, and the only wonde is that people persist, as they do, ii keeping up a stock of old hens, whicl ay one day and stop the next. In som parts of Europe it is the invariable rul to keep pullets only one year. Feedin, will do a great deal?a surprising wor! indeed?in the production of eggs, bu not when old hens are concerned. Windows in Stables.?The matte of windows in stables is one of vastl; more importance than some farmer think. Animals, no more than vege tables can thrive in the dark. Our Ion, winters are sufficiently trying to the cor stitutiojjs of our farm stock under th nest, circumsrances, ana an animal upo: wliich the sun scarcely shines at all fa five or six months, will come out in th spring in a bad state of health, evei though the feed and ventilation and th temperature have been all right. Sheep and* Lambs.?The ewes wil now be in lamb, or should be, exceptin where late lambs are desired. Wher wool and mutton are the chief objects May lambs will be preferable to ear lie ones. There is no oetter place or tim for lambs to be dropped than in a pastur on a fine, sunny May day. Wher lambs for market are wanted, the ewe will now be in breeding, and will neei some extra care. An abundance of good nutritious food, and water, are the piin cipjal requisites. Sheep may be the las animals to be brought into winter quai ters. Winter Feeding for Cows.?Th yield of milk and butter in the summe depends greatly upon the winter feed ing. A11 the lood. given to cows is nc consumed without return. The manur give's a good dividend upon the outlaj and the animals are storing up energ and strength to be made available aftei ward. The winter is the season for lib eral and judicious feeding, and not fo "short commons," which . but an other term for half starvation. Buknbd Bones fob Hens.?You ca: hardly give too much burned bones t your hens to provide the necessar amount of lime for egg shells, and th next best thing for that purpose is oyt ter shells, which can be obtained by th ban-el (and generally without cost ex cept taking away) athotels and restaur ants in your nearest city. My new ten ant goes eighteen miles for them, am considers them cheap enough at thai The liens eat them when pounded int fragments as easily as they pick up th shelled eorn, ana they furnish th needed material for the egg-shell mor completely than anything else. I do no quite believe in giving broken earthen ware as some propose doing. The shar corners are more likely to cut or other wise injure the crop than the more easil, digested 'oyster shells ? Correspondenc PovlLry Yard. ltectpea. Indian Pudding.-One quart boilin milk poured on to three tat' lespoonful of meal, let the milk curd, aud thro pom. siifTjir. flniuc. and salt to taste. TB"! -? ~ I Doughnuts.?One cup of sugar, tw eggs, one cup of milk, nutmeg, two tea spoonfuls cream tartar, one teaspoonfu of saleratus, a piece of butter the size o an egg. Cueam Candy.?A pound of sugar, i half tcnspoonful of water, a half tea spoonful ot vinegar, a tablespoonful c butter; boil fifteen minutes, and stir i up only once at the first. Sausages.?To every hundred pound of ciiopped meat, take two and a hal pounds ot salt, one ounce of sage t every ten pounds of meat and one-hal ounce black pepper; mix well and fill. BuownBkf.ad.?Onecupful of Indiai meal, one cupful of flour, one cupful o molasses, two eupfuis of Graham meal three cupluls of water, one teaspoonfu saleratus. also a little salt. Steam thre hours. It is quite thin before steaming Stewed Potatoes.?Boil the potatoe and cut in thick slices; takehalf a table spoonfulof flour, a little salt and butte and chopped parsley, etc.; a teacupfu of milk; put them all together in ; saucepan and let them Btand abou twenty minutes. White Fruit Cake.?One cup o butter, two cups white sugar, thre cups flour, one-half cup sweet milk, on teaspoonful of cream of tartar, one-tiai teaspooniul of soda, whites r>f eigli eggs, one pound of raisins, and one quarter of a pound of citron, chopped. Pop Corn Balls.?These are easil made. To one gallon of pop-corn taki i half a pint of molasses or Sugar; pu into a skillet and let it boil up once, am then pour it over the corn; grease you hands with sweet butter, and make th whole into balls of such size as yoi please. Whipped Cream.?'Take one pinto very thick cream, sweeten it with ver fin< sugar and orange flower water; boi it. Beat the whites of ten eggs with i little cold cream, strain it, and whei the bream is upon the boil, pour in th eggs, stirring it well till it comes to i thick curd: then take it up and strain i again through a hair sieve. Beat it wel with a spc on till it is cold, then place i in a dish in which you wish to serve it India llubber for(irnftliitf. Strips of very thin India rubber ar beginning to be used as a bandage i grafting, instead of the wax common! applied. The strips are cut about a eighth of an inch wide and three inchc long, the strips stretching to the lengt of a foot. They must be applied dr and tightly wound round the gralt son to exclude air and water. One of th reasons given why this should he pre ferred to wax is that it does not soil til hands. Any one afraid ot his hands i this way ought to abandon grafting But with wax there is no need in usin the hands, a little narrow paddle doin all the work nicely. At any rate wo d not like these slips in grafting, as not! ing can well be better than properly pr< pared wax, according to the prescriptio often pripted by us and as we have a ways useJ. For budding, the strii would no doubt answer admirably. Yv suppose that this sheet gum can be ol tained at the India rubber stores in an of our large cities. It is that which : used in making waterproof muslin an costs but little.?Qtrinanlcwn Telegra| There are four mints in the Unite States at which money is coined?i Philadelphia, San Francisco, New 0: leans and Carson City, Nov. The mil at Denver is operated as an assay o fine. There are also assay oilices * New Tcork, Boise City (Idaho). Helen (Montana), and Charlotte, N. C. ' It is said that owing to nature's stil ness and the clear air and silence pei vading the Arctic regions, a sermo strongly delivered can be .heard at a dii fonna nf fTtfn milna laiivyb vi tnu uiiivoi Mr. Abraham Hay ward, the best r: conteur in London, said the other da that in hia opinion women looked bett< in muslin than in print?AW' Yor Hi raid. A writer on the poisonous snakes of India says: Natives, walking noiselessly e witli hare Icet, are, of course, much b e more liable to accidents, yet statistics t d give the total number of persons killed r n by venomous snakes during the year c o 1878 at 16,819, or less than one in 10,009 o n of the population. And it is not unlikely 1 s that we sliould be nearer the truth if we d y cut down that number by half; not only a because snake-bite has been since the ii j" days of Hamlet's father, a most conven- d h ient explanation of doubtful deaths, but b ? because in hundreds of cases where the bite of the snake would not have sufficed 8 to kill the man, native methods of cure . A complete the work and put an end to his j life. d A correspondent, in calling attention v y to the danger, gives an example very v n much to the point that came under his ? e own notice. A strong young Mussul- 11 i- man, an energetic and vigorous man, n ;, was taming over some rubbish when a | s speckled snake, about two feet long, bit ? r him above the ankle. No one else saw ~ n the creature. He himself did not stop ? Ii to look at it, but rushed headlong home, b e implored his friends to look after his | * e children, and rolled over on the floor. JJ S In a few moments the whole neighborly hood had gathered together, determined t not to let him perish without an attempt k at rescue. A dozen chickens were at ]< r once procured, and the remedy was put d y into vigorous operation.' It is, by the s w.iy, one of the commonest native spe- 2 i- cities. Then some jungle men passing ^ g by were called in. They were practical fa 1- men, and at once sucked the wound, tl e They sucked and chewed the man in tj n half a dozen other places besides, but n r this might have been designed to act on 5 e his faith and cheer him up, and by this f( a time he needed cheering. Next some 0 e local savants suggested that the poison n should be got out of the man's stomach, U and a good handful of Salt was given ? Dim, witli an lmmeaiaie result. aiwji g this a decoction of neem leaves was ad- U , ministered, both internally and exter- tl j. nally, plenty of it being rubbed on the h e crown of his head- Some other dccoce tion w:is smeared under the roof of his ^ e tongue. Two men well versed in charms t' ? then came on the scene, and cutting 6* A some twigs from a tree of very great & i "otency in such cases, belabored the man o: [I lor an hour or two over the head and ci it face, muttering charms the while. n All this was only the beginning of tl sorrows. For four or five hours the n wretched man was plied with drugs and si ? decoctions and charms, every new comer n putting some fresh abomination down h his throat. At the end of that time he ft p was quite sensible, und not a symptom c* , of snake poison had shown itself. There ' was no pain in the bitten part, nor any f swelling, us far as could be ascertained, p considering how the place had been sj plastered and blistered and bandaged. g( Two or three hours later, however, some a fresh dose, prescribed by a new arrival, ^ gave the coup flc grace, rue man sue- p n cumbed. became insensible, and soon 0 died. There was a government dispen- h 7 snry in the neighborhood, with an K e apothecary in charge, but no one ever a '* dreamt of consulting him until it was ,t e too late. In this case there was not a jj - particle of evidence to show tlfattne q '* snake was poisonous, and in all prob- ^ 1 ability the ruin was simply cured to w d death. o ? : e Pertaining t? Pencil. a c A lead pencil should never be wet * t It hardens the lead and ruins the pencil. This fact is known to newspaper men p and stenographers. But nearly every ^ . one else does wet a pencil before using t| y It. This fact was definitely settled by tl ye a newspaper clerk away down East. ^ Being of a mathematical turn of mind, e he ascertained by actual count, that of C( g fifty persons who came into an office to u s write an advertisement or church notice, t] e forty-nine wet a pencil in their mouths before using it. Now this clerk alwayi t| ? uses the best pencils that can be pro- ^ . cured?in fact is a connoisseur in lead ^ '? pencils, cherishing a good one with f ,( sometning of the pride a soldier feels in his gun or sword; and it hurts his feel- ,.( ings to have his pencil spoiled. But j 1 nnlitpnnua of.il hiiainpaq mnsiHprRMnna ' |C r. require him to lend his pencil scores of v" J timcB every day. And often, after it n 1 had been wet till it was hard and brittle 5 and refused to mark, his feelings would 8 overpower him. f Finally he got some cheap pencils and !> sharpened them, and kept them to lend. * f The first person wlio took up the stock ti pencil was a drayman, whose breath js a smeiled of onions and whisky. He held " f the point in his mouth and soaked it for s< I several minutes whilo he was torturing 0 j himself in the effort to write an adver- w e tisement for a missing bull-dog. The it next was a man whose mouth over- & 3 llowed with tobacco juice, in streaks & down each side, and who wet the pen- T r cil each time he wrote a word. Then a e ,] sweeHookinpj young lady came into the 0 a office, with kid glees that buttoned the ** t whole length of her arms, and hung in ** a row of buttons and button holes nail d / a yard over her shoulders. She picked n e up the same old pencil and pressed it to c: e her dainty lir>s preparatory to writing v f an advertisement for a lost bracelet, b t The clerk would have stayed her hand, b even at the risk of a box of the best pen- * cils ever Faber catered, but he was too 0. late. And thus that pencil passed from ? mouth to mouth for a week. It waa a .sucked by people of ail ranks and sta- o | tions, ana all degrees of cleanliness and ii -1 uncleanliness. Finally the clerk who b r had now learned ulways to keep a lend- ti 6 ing pencil with him, went to see a tj 11 friend who was just recovering from h typhoid fever, and who borrowed a pen- y f cil to write his acknowledgments to g v kind neighbors who had watched with a 1 him. Next day that pencil went upon ti fc the counter, attached to a pad of paper r< i by a string, and was in turn admitted to a c the mouth of every caller. Alas, it had a & absorbed the fatal typhoid germs, and 1] t one by one those who sucked its poisoned e 1 point were brought low by the epidemic, d t But we forebear. Surely no one who s] i. .reads this will ever again wet a lead ci pencil. Let it be a terrible warning.? t( e Denver Times. v ?, i n is Words of Wisdom, v We have little moral faith in those ^ y who have never been imposed upon, g Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor, e A man's good breeding is the best se- } n curity ngainstother people's ill manners. ^ J. He ha3 mustered all tilings who has Ji g combined the useful with the agreeable, d There are not good things enough in 8: life to indemnify us for the neglect of a a single duty. n There arc few occasions where core1_ mony may not be easily dispensed with, !, ,a kindness never. j. e When the human mind gets down s )- hub deep into a rut of thinking it is 0 y hard to lift it out. c s To tell a falsehood is like the cut of a d y saber; for though the wound may heal, ii f1 the scar of it will remain. 1' Humanity is never so doiiuiuuj as > ' d when praying for forgiveness, or else c n forgiving another.?Jtichlcr. r r" As an appliance for the improvement i y of our friends a habit of scolding pos- ^ sesses no appreciable virtue. *? 1 m. ui.,,.* ? ill.I'll Ui bill: Iiuuu:st ilinpusiiivuo viximx q themselves happiest when others share j( their happiness with them. e 1- l)o rot try to force yourself into the il r- confidence of others. If they give you ii n their confidence never betray it. li 3- Jamshid was the first person who put h an edging round his carment and a ring upon his linger. They asked him: "Why i- did you bestow all the decoration and a .y ornament on thr-'left hand, whilst the i? "r rieht is the superior?" He answered, gi k ' Sufficient for the right is the ornament v or being right.1' ~ g Conversation through the telepbc etween St. Louis and Omalm, a d ance ot 410 miles, was successfully c ied on during a recent Sunday. 1 onveraation was varied with singii f which apparently not a note was lc 'he wires over the greater part of t istance were quiet and not in use, V t the St. Louis end there w.is a hea iduction. This is said to be the long istance over which the telephone 1 een successfully operated. During the past year there have bf l France twenty-five persons ct emned to death, of whom two w< ?omen. Three of these condemnatic rere pronounced by Conseils de Guer nd were all commuted. The remai ig twenty-two sentences were p: ciunced by t'ae assize ^ourts of Fran nd four by the assize court of t atna riomolv norrtinof. Ahmlip fl rriuvr, umuiviji -v? - ? ? rille, Delatre and Prevost. Of tin wenty-five sentences only three ha een carried oat; eight remain to be < mined by the president of the repi; c; the rest have been commuted. The New Jersey Central railro eeps a record of the cost of runni jcomotives. It shows that an avera ay's distance traveled by a locomoti 1100 miles. The work lor a month ,600 miles, but some locomotives e eed this,as in the case of No. 121, whi l December made 6,080 miles. In doi iii?, 133 tons of coal were used a lirty-seven gallons o^ oil to keep t lachinery in order. The receiver sa 12 86 is the average cost for 100 mi >r men, futl and repairs. In the ct f No. 121 the cost for repairs for t lonth waa $22.58. A New York correspondent of t 'tica Htrald says the class of people lat city which believes in fortune-te ig is very large, and the practitior?< dvertise with a boldness and liberali rhich shows how well it pays to rea le public. It is said that more tb ),000 visits are made annually to t >rtune-tollers of the metropolis. M( f these are from women whose natui uriosity leads to such gratification, a: tany are also from men, and even frc lose who should, irom tneir oppori itidb. know better. Many youths go ich places to learn what are the luc umbers at the lottery, and also t lcky numbers on cards, and on the i irmation thus received they stake tlx ish in hope of a rich return. Concerning the subject of voice shes, Mr. S. E. Pooie states that sor x years ago he made an interesting o ?rvation. While seated in a sm: moe on the Disang river, in Easte .seam, he suddenly became aware of t resence of a number of fish call mahsir." They were evidently a acted by the canoe, and Mr. Poo?e si lised that they might possibly think huge dead fish. While watching thi iovements he became aware of a pec ar "cluck" or percussive sound?fi uently repeated on all sides, and coi lg from below, but near at hand. T1 ras soon traced to the mali9ir, and o f them made distinct sounds whi rere answered by others. Mr. Poc Iso says that in some parts of Easte issam "a large bivalve sings iu conct nun otners. The education of Japanese pirls Lmorica i3 not regarded with favor ie Tokio Times, which says that ev ie male Japanese students 110W in t 'nited States believe that the forelj xperienee of their half dozen .vou: juntryworapn will render their futr fe wretched. The reason given f lis view of the matted is that, on 1 jrning to their homes, the girls fii icir education and acquired tastes \ irly antagonistic to the social custoi > which they are compelled to eonfori hey are sent to this country when ve oung, and during their stay here t jme thoroughly Americanized, so tli apan is practically foreign to them, hi s sex restrictions and humiliations 1 olting. But the conventional lawsca ot be set aside, and they are iorced ecome Japanese again. The Canadian dominion possesses 'hpftf frt.nl?n on which large expecl ons are founded. Its eastern hound a i the limit of the Red river valley. T iternational line on parallel forty is )uthern limit. With an average wid f one hundred miles, it sweeps nort resterly through eighteen meridians mgitude to the foot of the Rocky mou lins, turns southward in parallel fift >ur and goes down again to forty-nir 'lie dominion geologist, Dawson, es late? the productive area of only hi f the Red river valley within Monitoh t 2,176,00:) acres. Supposing it to 11 in wheat, and reducing its yif own to the average of Southern Mi esota?seventeen bushels per acre?t rop ol one half of Canada's Red rh alley would amount to 36,992,0 ushels. These are tremendous figur< ut some who have investigated ai rhos<; names ought to carry the weig f authority, have faith in them. When Mr. Fowler, colonial secreta f Honduras, was recently exploring t iterior of the colony, he was overtak y a drove of peccaries, and had or ine to take a snap shot at the tir.^t lem and scramble up a tree, droppi is rifle in the performance, before t rholo nack were round his pero nashing their teeth at him, gruntic ad sharpening their tusks against J: ree. Now the peccary is not only J jcious but patient, and rather than ] n object of its anger escape will w: bout four days, so that the secretai ad before him only two courses ither to remain where he was until ropped down among the swine frc liecr exhaustion and hunger, or else ammit suicide at once by coming dov a be eaten there and then. Wnile ras in this dilemma, however,(a jagu nnp;irpd. This animal has a partic ir fondness for wild pork, and the pc uries bolted helter-skelter. The jagu ras after them with admirable promp ade, and the secretary, finding _t oast clear, made his escape. The present year is to be celebrat 1 Russia as completing the iirstt went ve years of the czar's reign, and I adustrial exhibition which is to eld at Moscow in the coming May w oubtless be as popular with the Ri ians as even that ot 1873. But such : nniversary brings with it an omino u<rgestion of the grim old provei Evil awaits the czar of twenty-ti ears," which Russian history has trangely verified. Iv^n the Tcrribl rst twenty-five years were brilliant n/.ooaofiil hut. .after 1858 came the 1c fall his Western conquests, the si essive deaths of three wives, the mu er of his son and heir, and the fastc .lg of a frightful disease upon liimse 'eter the Great's Turkisu reverses, ai lio Hnr>lnr;ihli> Hpatll of llis SOn AleX arue after the twenty tilth year of 1 sign. The twenty-sixth of AlexanjJ 's ravaged St. Petersburg with a fet ill inundation, while a lorraidahle pi gainst himself and his own death cai year later. In the twenty-sixth ye f Nicholas beijan the intrisrues whi ed to the Crimean war; and the pr< nt czar, now just about to pass the p< ;ous limit, sees his wile dying idles, his throne undermined by reb on, and a loreign war looming on t orizon. The Emperor of China is jnst noV serious difficulty. Young thou)fl) he h:is already to maintain sot: eventy women on his establi- hment arious capacities, and, like every otli entleman who has ladies under I ol 'Mottling tnem. mis wouia dc a comme panvtively easy task were the seventy ja. fair ones of a reasonable turn of mind. ftr. But. unhappily for the peace of the jie brother oi the Sun and Moon, their ex[lg( travapance is pronounced to be bejond |gt<' all bounds. Two hundred and fifty thousand taels, which is more than onehalf of the land tax of the empire, were vy expended last year in silk, satin, gauze, est velvet, red and gilt paper, and pearls. ias It is saiu that one dress which is in possession of an empress was oovered Jast year with seed pearl3 worked in so peculiar a fashion as to have* cost a fabu101 lous- sum. With respect to this robe >n" there is trouble ahead. The empress is -rP- atced. though the dress is new. If she 'r3 die, according to custom, it must be fe. burned, supposing it to be in her posIn* session at the time of her demise. She r?- refuses to part with it, and the idea of this wastefulness, coupled with the prospect of increased extravagance in nd the coming year, troubles the owner of ^ the vermilion pen<jil exceedingly. ix- ' tb- A Fifteen fflhiutes' Courtship. About two years since Sister Mary Funk, a young lady of most respectable j parentage and a devout Catholic, came to this city from Frankfort, and was ad? mitted to the convent at the corner of yp Chestnut and Shelby streets, and was after this a sub-teacher !n the school at the corner of Webster and Washington ' V streets. Some time after this there came ? " a request for the services of a sub-teaclier in the convent in Jeffersonville, and Miss , ? Funk,-still under the direction of the vs prioress, accepted the situation and performed her work well and faithfully. During all the time that she was connected with the convent litre as a lay ne sister, those who associated with her now speak of her as a true woman, in & the strictest sense or tne worn, one i he never complained, .went straightforward | ? in in the performance of the duties that 11- were assigned to her, and at times . >rs seemed perfectly satisfied with her life, M ity and like the other members of the noble ch sisterhood, she was always ready to an sacrifice her own happiness and comhe fort, and if necessary, her life, in order w )8t to alleviate the sufferings of those who :al were in distress. aj od Alter some time, and for what reason >m no one knows, Miss Funk beoame d!s- . u- satisfied with her life, and concluded to J* to marry. The more she studied about ky the charms of double-blissedness the m he more she was convinced that she wanted n- to marry. As no one knows the secrets p ?ir of the human heart it is only jusj; to say j, that no one has a right to criticise her acts. It is said that she stated to a friend that if she could find a man who , suited her tastes she would marry birn in pi j*e fifteen minutes. The friend happened D" t/itnnwa "fifteen minute man" and a man who bears a splendid reputation, and the two people who wanted to marry ne were inti-oduced, and in. iust ritteen fo ea minutes a contract to cling together to lt" " for better or for worse " wasenterrd T* into, and the young sister, with affects Cfl J1 ing solemnity, bade an aWfctionate U[ 2ir adieu to the walls of the convent, hung ^u" her veil on the fence and launched out p re* on the stage plank that leads to the good . ship matrimony, and she is now gliding us down the river ot life by the joyous light of the honeymoon. , The gentleman she married is named D? >le Hillerbrand, and he has for some time ac been employed on Arterburn's place, on tv n tho Brownshoro rnad. This is a re- J* markablo ease, as a sister who once en- h< ters a convent seldom leaves it, but pre w in fers to leave the world wi;h its joys, by its soitows and its myriad of sins behind pi en her. Miss Funk had not entered the linal " he order of sisterhood, ami it sue saw m gn proper to change the life that she had d< rig started out to lead with the test ot inire tentions, it certainly is a credit to her to I\ or come out openly and act her phrt n$ she :e- has, and if she is happy and contented, M nd the world will find no fault with her jj, it- conduct.? Louisville (Ay.) Courier-Jour- w us nal. " v a tn. ? tl ry How Sam Houston Happened to Go to r Texas. ^a." Durine Sam Houston's residence in A , the Cherokee Ration, west of Arkansas, W ?" he lived with a daughter of old Captain A John Rogers, an Indian, about two and A a half miles west of Fort Gibson. Hous- N ton was ft merchant, but tried to con- m form to the ways and habits'of the In- Hi a dians, and in dress wore the hunting- cr ;a- shirt, buckskin legging and breech,ry clout of tlie Indians. For the greater r he part of his stay heio he was under the p] its influence of lio'Uor, wh0n it could be ?] til had, and. he was seldom without it. He w h- seemed, after a residence of two years. cf of to tire of the part he was actincr, and ;ir n- during short periods of soberness be,y came morose and sullen. lie was evi t|, le. dently comparing in his mind his pres- w ti- ent mode of life with the past, or a (tlf worthless, drunken white Indian with . ?ia the proud Governor of Tennessee. ;V be It was directly after one of his Ion? lo fKof pam/i r%f fha Tayab 'IU UlUllhCIl opciio buuu &3V/LU\s vi VMV avamu n- Cheiokces brought news ol tlie war be- j" he tween Texas and Mexico. Houston, rer although not yet sober, walked out on J? 00 the banks of the Grand river with John [? ?s. Henry, a merchant. Throwing him$eif L" nd down on the ground, he was silent for 10 ht some time. At length, starting up quickly, he said: " Henry, lei us go to Texas. I am tired of this country and ry this life. Go with me and I will make bi lie a fortune for us both. You a merchant! sc en I a merchant! We are no more fit for w [ly merchants than h?1 is for a powder m of house. I am going. In thaf newSta'e ng I will make a man of myself again." Ifr ?r he began at once making preparations for h, the (at that time) long journey. Casting ig, aside %11 liis Indian attirp, he came out d( lis dressed as a white man. and at once re- In fe- fusing the use of liquor offered him fre- in let quently, as if by the stroke of the magi- er j,it cian's wand, he looked the man and as ry hero he \cry soon became after his ar- m rival in Texas.?Fort Smith {Ark.) Ele aj he vator. pi A Modem (-yclops. ^ ^n in the Wood museum, attached to j he flellevue hospital, .New i one, is .an ana- j,. ar tomieal curiosity which is creating eon- f0 u- siderable-interest among scientific men ic- of that and other cities. It is the head a, Hr of a mulatto child whose deformity is w ti- revolting, but still calculated to create w he discussion on the origin ot the ancient tli Greek mytliology. Several years :uro a pj physician in New Orleans was informed that a mulatto woman had given birth ai ert to a child wJiich had an eye m the mid;ST die of its forehead. He found the state- ,< , m^nt on examination to be true, but H P? the deformity was much greater than '' 111 had been represented. The little ono ** ,s" had neither mouth nor nose, but in v.' an place of the nose founa two perfectly shaped ears. In the middie of its fore" head was a large bright eye. In a short FF ve time the infant di?-?i and its body was j1' so purcliased by the physician, who ship- ! . p.s ped it to Professor James R. Chilton, of j ;ly Xew York, for examination. The cap- \ ' )ss tain of t he bark on which it was sent I lc" concealed the fact from his crew until j r~ they weie :it sea. wiien ho injudiciously { >n. I trSmr Tim jnnflrstitious ! ra '* sailors became iiorritied at the presence ru no of what they deemed a victim of the st ?? wrath of- the Almighty, and after pray- gt 1,s ing a while went to the captain in a st ier body and ordered him to throw the v? ir* corpse into the sea. The captain, tli lot through fear of the crew, consented, but ai no managed to deceive them. Adroitly re- d< 'ar moving the head he sewed the rest of rich the body in a sack and gave it to his men Ik ?s- to throw overboard, while he concealed se r- the head in his cabin. On his arrival ui by in New York it w:is delivered to Profes- j u: i*l-' sor Chilton. The curiosity was care-1 in lie lully examined, and the professor was I di preparing a treatise on the svhject when j h; lie died. It was then transferred to Pro- ti in ressor Doremus, and a short time ago it si he was presented to Dr. Wood, of Bellevue tl n- hospital, for his museum. ai in l? al ,er j lie that uryeth into every cloud may tr lis he >tricken with a thunderbolt. si Courage, brothers; there is noimng In the world br.ive men should leur, If the heart be strong ami steady, It the arm be strong and ready, Hali our dangers disappear. Only cowards faint and falter, > Only cravens shrink and pallor, Only dastards are dismay td. Meet each trial, never fly it, Face mistorluue and dely it; | Courage, brothers!?who's almid? Courage, brothers! there ii nothing In the world trne men Appals ;> > Still be trae to man and TOtnan, To the God ot truth a true man ' , . True to sell when duty calls. *.? ? He (hat's false in word or doing Soul and body brings to ruin; IMng's still a losing trade; Do the truth and lear no enril; > Speak the truth and shame the devil Coursgo, brothers!?who's atnuiK. Courage, brothers! there is nothing Brave and true men alio.ild aflright Lite's a warlare high and holy For the lefty and the lowly; God and angels watch the flg'n\; In the roar, and rush, and rattle, T ' . . i? I - *r - >#. 1 Q In the sweat and blood ot battle, , i ' ." Fight as men for flj^ht arrayed. * Whether vanquished or victorious, Good men's lives and deaths are glorious Courage, Brothers??wbo'a afraTd? , ?J. F. Waller, in CatulPt Mugazinr' ,'anl tout) /? - ' ?; i<i l?l tr.'t ' ITEMS OF UTTEREST. , There are 30,000 students In American alleges. The sultan's palace costs ftira abont 14,000,000 a year. Can squeezing a person in a crowd be rmed *'a liberty of the pressP": ; William H. Vanderbilt has given $25,(Oto the University of Virginia. . . y . Knocking a friend down is assure. ay of dropping an acquaintance. , ... An artist's views ot a subject jure not ways the best.?Tourers Slatstman. Senator-elect George, the Mississippi irist, drove an ox team in his youth. A factory in New Haven. Conn..... lade otcr 22,000,000 fishhooks lastyeaR Two sloischs have been sent from oughkeepsie, N. Y., to the Emperor df ipan. I .. When a doctor's business is at a and-still he feels terribly out ol itfents.?Tonkers Statesman. A bookkeeper, whose head .is well? fil.inced. writes "Pear sir" thus: Dr. Cr."?Noriitfoicn Herald. Near Monk6town, Texas, a deer, was und fus toned by his horns in a truep. He was captured, of course. Buffalo Bill in his book tells of beef ittle so poor that he had to prop them ) to shoot-themdown.? Picayune. Thecorn crop of Illinois is prodigious. > tho year 1879 it amounted to 305,3,477 bushels, and the value of the op was $97,483,052. Mr. Oliver Dalrympie, the great Minsota farmer, intends to cultivute HO,000 :res of Wheat tliis year. He will hnvc irenty stermi threshers in operation; ith 135 reaping machines. Last year employed 600 laboreiH, and this year ill increase the number to 700. "What does 12nao mean?" asked a ipil of her teacher, a few days since. 12mo; why don't you know what that eans? It means the same as fcweowly. Haven't you seen it in r.i?rtisements in a newspaper?''? Oweyo imes. Light colors are recommended for >ld weather, ns they do not .part with pat easily. But we notice that a hand ith a white kid glove on will part with red-hot poker about as previously aa ie one enclosed ra a brown miiten.? cokvk.Qale.CUy. The first steamships that crossed the tlantic were, tho Sirius and Great restern. The former sailed from Cork, prii 4.1838.and tlie latter from Bristol, pril 8. 1838. They both arrived in ew York on the 28th of the same onth. theSirins being only twelve or " t3en hours ahead of the Great Wcstn. The roaming correspondent of the /T,?.n\ TTrfnb trtllc 11 Ul'UilglUIl {LKtnnj w>??'ntyv leasing story ol a self-saerificinetraver who devoted his energies to the ork of devouring everything upon a Ttain railway station dinner-counier, id'having at last accomplished the at walked away, svying: "There. ih next fellow that comes along here ill get something fresh!" ? When Commodore Vanderbilt wished start in the steamboat business, says ornelins Vanderbi^ he had but $U,000 the $15,000 necessary for a purchase, id his wile went to a corner where she id concealed the 910.000 she had saved ithout his knowledge, and brought >rth the needed funds, thus laying the undation of the colossal VanderbLk ... rtune. Will L. Murple, a St. Louis artist, lias >plied for a divorce from his wife. One f liis grievances is that she sent a . oken frying pan to an art show, where mie of liis pictures were on exhibition, ith a request that the hamring comittee woul i give it a position, as "an ;amp!e oftho way in which the talited Mr. Marple provided for his faray's necessities." The^oune ladies of Washington are .'bating how they shall eflVclively reike the ill-bred men who stare at them the street cars and stages. Easy lough. Poke the point of your par:ol handle into their eyes. A man, no atter how ill-bred he may be, loses his ^ jpeti'e for staring after hi-has an eye inched out three or four timss. Or le young ladies might walk.?Norriswn Herald. A servant girl at Jersey, Enitand. is been fined ten shillings for placing a olish trick with a train. She stood. 'tween the rails while the train was jproachingat a rapid late, and calmly atched it draw near. The driver histled, shut olF steam, and reversed ie engine, and thus succeeded in stopng the locomotive within two yards of ie giri, who merely laugheuin his face id "ran away. The young ladies of Chattanooga /enn.; orgnniwu ? rod a ball, ordered a supper, and went ound in carriages to hunt up the >ung men to compel tlicm to come in. verything was lovely until they went ' settle the bills, when tliey learned at the young men had already p:iid iem. Tlie young Indies say now that was "real tne:in " in the hoys, and ?elare that they will never give lother leap year party. Power of a Growing Tree. Walton Hall had atone time its own >rn mill, and wb#n that inconvenient cpssitv no lonzer existed, the mill one was laid by in an orchard and for>tten. The diameter of this eitvulav one measured live feet and a hail, hilo its depth averaged seven in-lniroughout: its central hole had adiaeter of eleven inches. By mere a? vi nt some bird or squirrel had dropped le fruit of the lilbeit tree through ihi> jle on to the earth, and in 1812 tin edling was seen vising up through the i?wonted channel. As its trunk i:validly evew through this aperture and icreased, its power to raise the po?rous mass of stone was *p ciliated po:; y many. Would the ti'i*>u lr?? <1 i<- in le attempt? Would it lmrs* the t??i?!one? Or would it lift it1* 1:; thei-mi le little filbert tree lil'te miiistonc. ml by lt?63 wove< it like a etinolini?out its trunk, am*. Mr. Watert; ? " 4" > Fit upon it undev the hr inching judes.