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'v*. , .! ! f ' >... , ? ,/jnrf-* *i' 1 "f wfcf v?BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. . ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH :3,;'I860, ..NO. 39/';::YOLUME *?\ .... *. ' ' ....#?. ,.f o! no/ q*'!*?. : : , ? hr-^fi r? !>lrr;{ ;f#. >Ji) -?clI ; i ? 1 , . ' . . ? , , . V ' ... * : . -H f; '5' ' v f' --/'f. Tin -i V, 4r, %,?- - 4^ T^ni^i 1 ? ? :i' '?* 1 1 ' MliOW A #fv. If-ri) Jfl^fodt .>.70^5 k .. f tl*.-' .0 ' ' r':r' i r li'v;l) nil n.ii l?n ti' >. ! ,' " 1 _ 1 %^' '^'^^, <' > > *) ^'tit i ' : f?r::i ,<i-'aii ' jt ? ?t?l? - 1 1 1 1 1 ....I ,J ^,. . , , , , '1 ". -V Snowdrops. j v ,.> ? ! G^Ve love hnis broken winter^ chain, ^ The earth is pamdiae again; Lj A smile ol sun, u kiss ot showers, I t] .. t - , :i.> ii i I tJ Stars nature's finnanent with flowers. j si * After tftjf waiting, what relief t< H To scent the prinjr! The robin thiel . . JI ' " Chirps champion ort ihc holly-hough. j' m.'* Tittf# sirtfr; the ciriM is over now! ^ - ' Gobie;Tot-Hi lwol om- lover home; ;-V The snowdrop's come. ! "V Have yon forjottcn, forp, last yenr j, Out'iBfirifrgfiinfr smiled without a tear; a ..? i That night whor. we went out and kissed L roses folded iyi iri inist; ti That-day yon pulled <he branches ilown y- 7 _ . And'mtulo for ine a leaJycrown ? To you, swee'.hwrt, when sun had set jj ,"t-1 Ra^c closed daisies, Margaret. ir j -->.r Tig spring again; our hour hiis come; tl * \l/ IJiq w?vwdrop's home. ?. J ' ? f! Have you not leJt as yet?you will? v< * . i "1 v TOftt A'jilcJ' rtaotion and the thrill, I K . .... ?VHmo, jtke-.aome ?*;irroction diiy, j ft -T 'Tfcete cohies a prelude to the May ? ' -? ; '' *"* ' ' * I ... > *. -Tho.May we've svorn to love, whos?birt h ^ ^ ^ .Scujis carols round the weary earth. tx I have forgiven ull?can you, d; * ^ . \Vh6 s&it the winter thyme and rue, I h' Forget love'g Inrtbday ! Spring is home; |11 : J* V .The snowdrop's come. .Let's turn another leal, forget ' 1 *** ^fheiear':Blnined pn(?e8, Margaret; | ^ ? . + rj?-{Thib?beoken'(l chronicle ol time j? That dre3 in sorrow, horn in rhyme? i tove's epi nph, that I alone | fc , 1 v .Cfcwefl o.i a monument of stone. Look round; eternity is love, j il . -1 v.,, There's do decay; in eaves above IP - The swallow* cnther, wining home; j ^ a r4 y ... . TJie snowdrop's oomo. , .. ?London World. | y< - ' - _ _ ln< ;j LED BY JEALOUSY. |S .. . .... . ? '' ' i b. ,?,?><.. . j ei THE EFFECT OK AN AI)VEKTISKMF.NT. j ^ iFwae-grand ahd gorgeous on the first j si n>?rntng oi spring. It was not the tap- , ?' r ping of ;the woodpecker in the Jiollow i ]? ^jbeech, nor yet the nutchat humming .it! fe : his-breakfast, ihat 9oftrap-a-tnp-tap\ine [ <>' _ , : heard. Ilj was qflly Mr; Ernest Black, ! P( " knocking ouf IiIs pipe against the garden 11E seat. -v. ! f Happy man! to have such a charming .in riodk'wnereTn to smoke the early pipe. a' ... .. .Misjcoaifort&blemansion ot Shrublands, 'tr a cosy, modern building, warm and ! ^ rootny, with', glass houses clustered i ?1 ,. about it, and' its convenient olliees at' w 'ftlwtfeaiV lies',on the slope above. In jh; " ifontf 6l tiltxi' stfetches a pleasant Jawn, j T ^ .aii4 iw kx&s-over on <a sweet river val- j ^ ."-leyf bounded by purple hills, reaches of j showing in silver streaks here , . . .* afiSTflierfel' 4A' warm 'pleasant little din- I tn "?.:gieen Compasses the grounds, shelterina j . "tltehoustflrom the riortk and east, and I 01 * flojSllik: daui'n fo ward the south, and . : cUtere-bhe first breath of new-l>orn spring 1 . \* feft,snd the first green leaf of the vear ! ^ * if seen on th'c blunder white birch, wjjopc | p] . ; fctfowpV^lkins are dying for love of the I 0< ' <e?l*-iie6tlWrt3?<mi9-pf the season. ! *' ' thxxt it was very good i f? - '* *} -ai# ?e siuokedhia pipe on' Ins ) " &-?:irrien-4?ut. r But- everything comes to ?f1 nnvnd, and by the time he had finished ! knocked oiit the allies a I . *e#ioua Juwl conie over the sun, the air wu> I - rliiiled nnd. tiie beauty of the morn tar- j "/ time, be lound, to start' at ?- lochia train..-lie went into the house ! -to *aykgood-hy ti) his wife.for he henrd | l'f * - tli^w^agC "wheels grinding on the. . ' wave! as i t came round from the stables ' I" >-.>*>fch?-do?i\ - v jai " ' *?s<4t He ^cmcd to be, a happy fellow, too, P' ' who was a fair, pleasant- i *?iioVd womXft, of charming figure and 1 P* * --frtfofspirit. ' "... ;\ " \ i hi t? ^ITdlAn'tJ^QW. you' were going away,' | s ahe ?aid, <a-Biight shade of vexation Pa ^ctwrin^orprlrcr face. 4 be " you?",said Ernest; "I tii . iniendtid to. I snail be home to dinner. : cu >i*moniy going to town to see the old | hi "master*. They close this week." ar "t". y"Ah! Jf.yau had told me in time I i e>' - >wowldhave gone with you." I kr 1fern ay the truth Ernest did not much ' .*cuxe fqir company when he was going to he \ j look at, th? pictures. 1 df " "Pity,' eh?'' he said, carelessly, put- si: " fihg.Tiis'hand under her.chin and giving sp i. her a kiss. " WelC another day, per- , > )*:?ps. Tottie1 ,?her name was Theresa, J si' " "hut . her pet name was Tottie?"and ;H .then, peri laps, I can. go shopping witli j & * von.- Why didn't you think of it be- ; na . a. ant " I xurer ( j -< . ^ " You should have told mo you were j se t ^ "-^es, it was stupid of me; however, i ''.Ihere'e uo help for it. I have only iust iil( , - Umo to oatch the train. Good-bye. 1 sc f And away he went. jst ': Theresa sat down once more to her ; h< book of household expenses, but the ' h: .? totals ran into each other, and the same j te ^ row of figures, wouldn't come to the ?' ' "iime amount twice running. It wasn't ,a] like Ernrst, she thought, not to ask her : J1 to so with him. He had never gone oil 1 m f ajjy wherfe before without asking her to ; r- <, accompany him if it were practicable, ni - His manner, too, was so cold. What ! 'conld be the reason of it?" ft She took up the newspaper to distract ( b ' her mind. She rarely looked at the ! , daily paper, but this morning she felt jP unCusy,'"arid "could not settle to any- -A tijirfg. 'Suddenly she sprang to her feet1P * ' f with a co^qf'disbcss. " , e: *V? She had tafctn up the outside sheet of al . : the paper, and thereon she had read an 1 H ; adveftrtement: jn j. *' Co'nst^'nce to Ernest. To-day at I] .. V Victoria, 12 noon." t? * That was the reason, then, that Ernest j p '' hadjeone off to to tvn so suddenly. Yes. 'u ?? *? "n ' -^ / A.. i. .1 i j i r?, Siie Knew it; sue ij:ui ijcuii wiuo^eu snu *deceived; conld ir- he possible that such 0 ' .tf^achery, such betrayal of ail the ties j 6-oi friendship and affections could be b * permitted to exist? ' ti Th'erepa was, perhaps, of a somewhat! p ' *' f^'OUS " disposition. Certainly Ernest 1 a - bud given her no cause hitherto, so far j E e a?5 she knew, but she had always imag-, si ;-.,?fae$ jt\?6s9fole' that at some time or , ]S o'ifierlie would, and now it seemed to ' a ?? her as though her forebodings had been ! h ' "Jjtttified.'" :Vv ' \ * ip Constance Brown liad been her earn- n . est>friend, her school-fellow, her one s ; ' ^ dear companion, for whom her affec- | c tidn ^ula never be dimmed. And this i o t.ti'iendslnp hsd con tinned unabsted for , t a whole two years after her marriage to ' fi '"RrtiPSti during which it had been li?r j chief delight to entertain Constance at , a -her new home. Now Ernest wasn't at , f at any rate, at all foni is !*.*" ;S?. tJonst.'incf'r and used to think, her ' a * visit* rather a bore. Anything was 'f ' Nctiter, however, than haying his wife a v-?Vr ftio rlrOpfuIn and on such Ofteasinns t ' hewouldsuggest: /?* I Ask Constance to come and spend a 3kw d&ya." -! .As time went on, however, little dis- 1 "itgreemente interposed between the two , i Constance was fonder of mas- f , culine than of feminine society. She c professed great interest in Ernest's pnr ' * Yjiitsl, which weW^ather of a miscel- 1 . ianeous character. Altogether she ] "grew in^jpw:? nnd favor with thehus Pinq, ana aecunea in eqnai measure in i wife's' esteem. She whs too keen- j e fitted herself not to perceive this, but , ' ytle ineradicable loye of coquetry and j mischief that lurks in every female i ] -.Worn forbade her to change her tactics. J1 Tlieendof itw.as a desperate quarrel i . between Constance and Theresa, and > Constance's- hasty departure from c " * StortrblancK in a iage. On her parti] : Theresa ~vo Wed that she would never ," . have that deceitful girl in her home 1 ^ again. ' ' t ' *' All right!" Ernest had said; "if ; ^ you don't care about it I don't." i i " * . v < ^ut Theresa's jealousy once aroused i I rjis not to be quieted by any such pre?nsos as these. It was all very well ir Ernest to say so, but Ins saying so id not deceive lier. Having once iirown her influence over Ernest. Convince she knew would not be satisfied ) resign her power so easily. She idn't doubt but that Constance would i some way or other contrive to see im, and this morning's paper had given er a clue to the means she had adopted. Very well, Theresa, too, will be at 'ictoria at 12 noon. The carriage had just returned from vking Ernest to the station: it should lso convev her to the next train for ondon. She would .have sufficient mo to reach thetrvsting place by noon. Victoria station, however, is rather a ride, open place, not adapted for conraiment. How should she so disguise erself that she might witness the rneetig unjbserved? Then she remembered lat her Aunt Blake, who had been a idow for a couple of years, had left ehind her a widow's cap, bonnet and eil, having the opportunity of a visit ) her niece to resume the ordinary coslme of womanhood. Bonnets arc not formidable things owadavs; and Theresa put her aunt's eeds. with a black crape shawl, into a avelinj* bag. She put on a black ress with a" white shawl over it, and er usual traveling bonnet, that she tight not give rise to surmise at her laden assumption of mourning, and len started off. The clock showed five minutes to velve when she arrived at Victoria, hehurticd off to thn ladies'Avaiting>om, donned her bonnet, cap. shawl ad veil, and came out upon the platirra a demure widow. Sure enough Ernest w.as there, walkup and down. She gave a kind of uilty start as lie passed her, and lie toked rat her hard at the young widow ith the nice trim figure. "So." she thought, "that is the way au look at young women when I am Dt by?" The next turn that she took she arted as she saw approaching her om the oppjsite side of the platform le very double of herself. Black drees, lack crape shawl, widow's bonnet and ;crytiling! She thought at the first, oment that there was a mirror oppote her, and that she saw her own re sjctea image. nut it -was not so. me .dy threw up her veil and revealed the atures of Constance Brown. It was lly for a moment, and then she drew ?r veil closely over her facc, and ruakig a slight gesture, as it seemed, of lution, she made her way to the bookig office, went up to the porter, and ;ked, in a clear, loud voice when the ain started for Brighton. Theresa gjided into the office by the sposite door. The pretended widow as waiting for her turn at the ticketitch. With the quickness of thought heresa ran up to the barrier. A genialoking old gentleman was taking his cket. "Might I ask you, sir, to get me a cket for Brighton ?" "Most certainly, madam," said the d gentleman. She grasped the ticket and hurried on ie departure piauorm, giving as sne cnt the same signal with her hand lat She had seen her double make just ;fnrc. Yes, he had recognized the signal and llowedher.' ...... The train was just ready to start, and ie hastily jumped in a first-class carage. A gentleman jumped in after !1\ " Faithless follow," she thought. "Constance," said a tremulous voice her side?"dearest Constance." "You wretch !" cried Theresa, sud'nly unveiling. But this effect was not what sheanupated. It was not her husband at I; it was Captain Potter, late of the ungers. It is now necessary to revert to the oceedines of Mr. Black to account for s presence on the scene. Ernest had intended to take thenewsiper up to town with him, having en interested in an article he had not no to finish. But having with his istomary carelessness, "left it behind m, he bought another at the station, id then the advertisement caught his e?"Constance to Ernest." Yes, he lew what it meant. Ernest Black ar.d Ernest Potter had :en schoolfellows and cronies in early lys; but their friendship Iftid long lice decayed. Potter was a reckless lendthrift. who hiid been obliged to H.ve the Plungers and sell his commison, swamped with innumerable debts, e had been an old friend of the rowns, too, and Constance had for erly been infatuated with him; but ?r iatner, wno wis a veiy violent, lf-willed old fellow, swore that she lould never marry such a scamp. Constance had a nice little fortune of 3r own, and she had just come of age, > that if she persisted in throwing lier lf and her fortune away, there was no sip for it! Still Ernest thought it was is duty to stop it if he could. He flatred himself that he had some influence fer Constance; and if he couldn't put 3 end to the affair altogether, he might st prevail upon her to have all her loney carefully tied up. The advertisement meant an elopeient, Ernest thought?a clandestine larriage, and the sacrifice of a girl's ilure to a worthless scamp. He would e there, too, to save her if he could At all events he found himself on the latform of Victoria station at noon, .hi there was Captain Potter, as he exected. stalking up and down, evidently stpecting somebody. Ernest didn't take ay note of him; and Potter seemed nxious on his part to avoid nny i^>cogition. But there was no Constance, [e kept, however, a sharp lookout on le captain, and, all of a sudden lie oticed that his eyes lit up?and, turnis: quickly rouna, Ernest saw a lady in pep mourning pass into the bookingffice. Potter now took up a position close _ . U ? ,1 lU. J y uic w mat upuiuru lu liiv ucparire platform, where the man stood that unched holes in the tickets. Presently lady in black rushed rapidly past. Irnest followed her a few paces to asure himself it was not Constance Brown. lb; the lady was of different carriage nd tlgure from Constance?more like is own wife, he said, with a jealous ang that he lauehed at himself the next loment for feel in 2. Whoever it was, he jumped into the carriage, and the aptain after her. The guard whistled ff the train and Ernest turned away, hinking that he had been rather a fool jr his pains. Then he saw another young widow ;azing eagerly about her, and running lerp and there, evidently looking for ome one she could not tind. At hist, ipparcntly overcome ith emotion 01 atigue, she flung herself upon a bench .nd hastily threw up her veil, revealing he pretty, agitated face of Constanct Jrown. Ernest sprang toward lier. "Constance," he whispered, "yot lere; and in this disguise! What does t mean ?" Constance hurst into tears, and soddcc njt that she didn't know. "I know," he said, severely; " yoi rnve an engagement with thatintamou: 'otter." " Infamous, indeed," said Constance: ' and he has gone off with somebodj tise." At this moment a man in livery ap>roached and touched his hat to Ernest X was his own coachman, an old anc aithful servant, w ho had been coach nan to Erhest's father. ' Beg your pardon, Mr. Ernest, foi :oming up here without leave, but hav< fou seen the mistress, sir?" " No. W hat do you mean ?" "Well, sir. she drove to the statioi ifter you left, sir, and she seemed s< svild like and unaccountable that ! nade bold to follow her, for fear sin might come to harm; and I followei T her here, sir, when she changed her dress for widow's weeds, and got into the Brighton train, sir, with Captain Potter." Ernest turned pale faint. He recovered himself with great effort. " I know," he cried. " I sent her off to Brighton, and have just seen her off. How 'dare you follow your mistress, sir?"' The man turned away in blank dismay. " Ernest," said Constance, " we have both rieen deceived." " Stuff!" said Ernest. " It was a trick we played on.you, that's all. We found out the plot, and counterplotted to .save you." But still there was a terrible doubt at his heart. What could if. all mean? " Come into the waiting room, Constance," he cried, "and let us talk. Ah, what misery!" he muttered to himself. They turned into the waiting room, and Ernest threw himself upon a seat, leaned his arm upon the table and groaned. "What do you mean to do, Ernest?" said Constance, clutching him by the arm. " It is all very well to tell your servants such stories. I admire you for it, Ernest; but I know better. It is deliberafely planned. We are both deceived.1 " It is impossible," said Ernest. " How blind you are," said Constance, "I always mistrusted Theresa; she was my early friend, you remember, :\nd I believe that Potter used to come to our house on purpose to see her, using me as a blind. Oh, Ernest, what shall we do?" 141 shall call a special train and follow them," said Ernest. "Then I shall go with youK" cried Constance. Ernest rose and staggered to the platform once more. "Ernest!" said a decisive, feminine voice at his elbow. He turned and beheld his wife and I Pntt.Pr "IIullo!" cried Potter. "Ernest, my boy. how are you? Gad, I've got into a pretty mpss with all this ambuscading; wrong party after all, jolly row, pull the string, stop the train?Clapnan Junction, guard in an awful rage. Give us into custody, eh? Ila, ha! Here we ; are again, back lirst train. I say, old fellow, I'll just change widows with i you." j " Come into the waiting room," cried j Black, "and tell me what it all means. Potter, I consider you an unprincipled I fellow to inveigle this young lady into such a trap. You know you only want lo waste her fortune as you've wasted your own." "Gently, old fellow," said Potter, | " all a mistake. My uncle died last | week and loft me ?3,000 a year." " Then why do you make off in this | clandestine way?" " It's all riirhfc, Black, I assure you. I've got a special license in my pocket, parson waiting at Brighton. We're I both of age, vou know." | 44 Then why all this disguise?" "Oil. that was my doing," sobbed Constance. "I was so dreadfully afraid of papa." "And how did you get the widow's thines. Constance?" 44F?from?your?Aunt .Blake. It wasn't very wicked, was it?" "I think," said Theresa, who had re| covered her equanimity and her usual j aspect of proud serenity. 441 think, | Constance, you had better come back : to Shrublands with me and bo married j in a resDectable, orderly way." Aud they settled that so it. should be. j They all went back to Shrublands, and i Constance was married the next week, J not in the widow weeds, but in a full ! bridal costume with several bridesi maids. | 44 Ernest," said Theresa, affectionately, I wh*n it was all over, 44 I'll never be I jealous again?but for all that, I'm glad | that artful minx i3 safely disposed of. I blie Bhaii never enter my floors again, | never." ' [ Potter always speaks of his friend I Black with affectionate commiseration, I and says that the worst five minutes he over spent, in his life were passed in the I Brighton express in company with j Mine. Theresa. I _ I A Long Search for a Pirate's Booty. Noticing tiie death of one Edward I). I Marble, proprietor of " Dungeon Rock," atJLjnn, Mass., the Boston Journal says: Mr. Marble was forty-nine years of age at the time of his death, and he has spent the greater part of his life since he was twenty years of age in excavating Dungeon cave in search of the buried treasure in shape of coin, which it is claimed was the property of Thomas i Veal, a pirate, who was entombed alive I with his treasure at the pirate's dun; geon, or at Dungeon rock as it is now ' called, in the year of 1658. A great i earthquake occurred in England in the ! above year, and the shock is said to j have loosened the top rock over the avern where Veal lived, and caused it j to be crushed down into the mouth of ! the cavern, and thereby inclosing the I unfortunate man and his ill-eotten i treasure. Edward was not the prime mover in j the matter, for*liis father, Hiram Mari bio, originated the enterprise and pushed I it forward un il he died. His death I took place some ten or twelve years ! since. bequeathing the trust to Edward, ! the latter has devoted more or less of j the time in carrying on the vain search. ; They were firm believers in spiritualism, and they sought guidance from the deI parted as to how the labor should be pursued. Twenty-nine years have passed since the father and son entered upon the fruitless task, but up to the last each was firm in the conviction that ; the prediction that untold wealth was ; hidden in the rock, and. would be re; vealed to the patient searcher, would be I found true. ! A few old coins and a number of i other small artic.es have been found, hut nothine of great value has been un! earthed. Up to the year 1863 the work I was prosecuted with much vigor, and a ! cave 135 feet long and with a width and , heicht of seven feet hud been made. Since that time the work has been ! pushed irregularly. Mr. Hiram Marble came to Lynn j from Charleston, Mass.. to engage in \ this work of excavating, and he had a I capital of $1,500. This sum was soon : expended, and then to the time of his j di!ath he depended upon the donations j of visitors. There has been several acI cidents while blasting at the place, and | in September, 1850, Edward Marble i ' had an arm broken and was otherwise ' injured by a premature discharge. Now that both Iliram and Edward Marble are dead, and there is no one ; left in the family to carry on this work, t the que^ion arises as to the future relations of this romantic spot, identified with which are so many traditions of i the earlier history of I.ynn. It would ! not be at all strange were some other enthusiast to enter upon the work of [ searching for the treasure under ghostly guidance. A Reptile Chicken Incubator. ; The toughest snake and chicken story t comes from Ocala, Florida. A setting hen, on returnine 'from her oiniicr to j her nest, tound that a snake had swal. lowed three of her eggs. She chased 1 hat 1 snake about the woods end killed it, - and returned to her nest. Several days afterward a farm hand, while walking r in the woods, heard the chirp of young J chickens, and on looking round closely, he discovered three young chickens and lying near by a large chicken snake with 1 a hole pecked through him. The young > chickens had hatched out in the snake [ and pecked away until they were free 2 from his skin, which wasn't as tough as J the story. Life in the Auimal World. A magpie worried a toad into a ho made for a fence post, and then gatl ered pebbles and stoned it. A Buffalo musician, George Benzin has a canary bird that imitatesithe lonj drawn notes and astonishes visitors wit his sweet melody. A beetle was found in the center of loaf of bread. In five minutes it bega to crawl around, none the worse for i nearness to cremation. Joseph Chapman, of Geddes, N. Y his wife and daughter, were warned t a cat that the house was on lire. The had barely time to escape in their nigh clothes. A four-months old dog in Lexingto: Ky.., when any one sin^s or whistles, si upon his haunches, elevates his hea shuts his eyes, and howls in unisoi modulating his voice to the notes of tl music. A singing mouse is the wanderir minstrel in the house of Joshua Griffi of Jackson, Michigan. It is seen i different closets, and always mounts r overturned dish or other slight em nence before it begins to sing. Washington, P. C., has a pig that ii etim?cs Uww/if in fVi/"? Ififnhnn aT Z 313UO U|JUU Ai V IU L LA UAl-VUVU \Jk i owner. It wallows in the mud as de( as any pig, but plunges into a brook nei by to cleanse itselt before asking ai mission to the house. Dick is the name of a rooster that hi great affection for u Rochester do which feeling is reciprocated. -Di< perches on the back of Sandy while 1 is stretched between two chairs, ar performs many tricks. In a Pennsylvania barnyard a gandi was having tine fun flapping his winj in the faco of a steer, when the steer gi him in the corner and cooked his goo: with one thrust of his horns, pinnir him to the fence. A- canary bird, in hot weather, wi trying to hatch some eggs. She droope and the male bird plunged into a col bath, then went to the edge of the nea and the other buried her head in li breast and was refreshed. A cat that had been seized by an cagl in Scotland, and carried to the nest < the bird, feigned death, and was left t the eagle with her young ones. As soc na the eagle was gone, the cat killed a the eaglets, and, satisfying her appetit disappeared. A parrot died #f a broken heart ] Ballston Sp;v. After it had been twent; tive years in a family its owner went t Minnesota. The bird soon missed hin and its only cry W!is, " Where is Joe! It ate nothing, and continued its ca until it fell exhausted. David S. Forney, of Virginia, has dog that saw a mm take iiis master pocketbook and go away with it. Upc bein<j allowed out doors, the dog wei to the place where it was hid, took from the top of a high fence, and brougl it to his master, laying it in his hand. A.Nevada cat crushed a bee on th base of the hive. Bees by the seoi darted in Tabby's fur, and she spit, b and clawed herself, and rolled in tli grass. She was at length hauled awa with a garden rake She could nevi be induced afterward to go within sigli of the hive. A ship crossing the equator recentl was stopped by jelly fish. It was on o'clock at night, and thousands of fis floated on the water. The. c-ondeuser got so stopped up tunc water couiu nc enter. They then became so hot tlis steaming had to bo stopped altogetin and the strainers taken off and cleared A delay ol five hours was occasioned. A horse in Paris remained aqui( spectator of a light until its owner w;i being defeated, when 'he horse seize the other man by the coat and lifted hit off. The owner of the horse again wer to the >Utaek and was getting worstec when the animal repeated his act, an again the third time, until both me agreed to settle it at some future time. An eoecntric cat of Brattleboro, Vt brought a rat to her kittens, but pr< vented their killing it. adopted it hei self, and brought it up. By some acc dent they became separated for fou months, when the eat again seeing j snranc for it. but is said to have ir slant]y recognized it, and bringing u lior kittens, then full-grown, enjoyed a old-time frolic. This Fish Story Takes the Belt. The Forest and Stream gives the fo lowing as told by a Boston corn spondent: One pleasant summer aftei noon I was standing on the shore of pond on Lon^ Island?way down where Mr. Hallock has, I trow, man times and oft cast a line, watching th play of swallows as they skimmed jus over the surface of the water shortl before sunset. About a hundred yard out was a bed of lily pads; and as th swallows skipped it, occasionally good-sized ripple could be seen, an sometimes a break from the edges ind: cated a fish there. This fastened m attention to the particular place. I ha often seen cats play witll swallow; swooping at them, but the idea of fis doing the same was something new t nte. Presently I saw a clean bread and a fine large pickerel showed h whole size and got a swallow too, as h disappeared beneath the water. Thi I saw repeated several times, and called the attention of ray companio to this novel sight. While we wer watching we saw two large fish brea at the same swallow, the fish comin from opposite directions and each hea on to each. Both missed the swallov but, singular to relate, onlyj one fis was to be seen to fall into the wate: and neither was seen to pass the othe: My companion and myself looked wit wonder. There was a gieat comm< tion in the water, with a continuoi spattering, and a boat being handy v, umpeu in Han ruweu tu mc bjjui an picked up the largest pond pickerel ever saw. When we bad him in tl boat tlie mystery was solved; tl smaller of the fish had, in his eagernci for the swallow, jumped clear dow the larger one's throat, and only tl tail, to the extent of about an incl showed. The large fish was complete rent asunder and killed by the catastn phe. Both together weighed twent; two pounds. A Bird Poisoned by Nicotine. "Pick," a parroquet belonging to New York Sun writer, has had nume ous escapes from death. A haws can v ery near snatching him from the top a weathercock, where he had gone sleep. lie escaped the claws of a hu gry cat while asleep on a gate post. I eume within a hair of being caught in ciosing door, and was once bad mangled while sleeping on a rone ne the wheel of a dumb waiter. His na rowest escape was in February, 18"9. meerschaum pipe had been removi from a white marble mantel, leavii behind it the amber stain of the nic tine. . The stain attracted the attenti< of the bird. He had barely touched h ' Hy-like tongue to it when he fell ov on his back apparently dead. He w carried into the yard and rolled in tl snow. Faint screams gave signs of lil He was then taken by the legs :u swept through the air, forcing him use his wings. "Appjeton's Ameriei Encyclopedia" said that tea was : unuuuie wi uiuunuc |h/i^ihuk. ?i mouth of Pick's friend wiis tilled wi hot tea. He ground the bill of the hi; between his teeth, forced it open, nr wet his tongue with the decoctio m. Tl 1 .f il i ne liiue lenow swanuweu suiue ui w tea and began to vomit. The tea w administered at regular intervals, ar the drowsy bird was not allowed close its eyes. Within two hours 1 became excessively angry and utten Eassionate screams. From that hot) owever, his life was safe. He rapid recovered, and ever afterward avoidi yellow stains. ' .... it, TIMELI TOPICS. . 41 le . ?? l" The inquisitive " should commit the ^ following facts to memory: The first r ?? locomotive trip over the Albany and Schenectady railroad with a passenger u h train was August 9, 1831. The engine a used was the " DeWitt Clinton,1' built ? a at West Point foundry. The first ex- ~ in periment in the use of locomotive* in r1 ts America was made^ in 1829, the secood " in 1830. and the Actual and continued J1 use of them commenced in 1831, nearly t( (y contemporary wltii their use in Eng- ? ,y land. \"H t- ~r~ ; <( From numerous experiments made in j( a the great hospital at Posen, Prussia, it ^ ^ appears that ice( is a most effectual _ j remedy against smallpox. One of the patients, in a fit oMelirium, escaped to g jg the garden, where the snow lay two feet deep. There he remained the whole night, with no covering but his shirt, j 'S On the following* morning the fever . n? subsided and the^'pustules had dried. in This strange circumstance attracted the LP physicians1 attention, and after consul- ^ ll* tation they deterniitted to keep the tem- *[ Derature of the sftiallpox wards very j. n- low, and apply em&il quantities of ice to 0 ts the patients. Th^ results surpassed * jp their expectations-land at the end of a ar week all the patienjs had recovered. _ 1- | M Russian offieials'ifrc Said to excel in ? ? stealing. Millions iof roubles vanish f annually from the'State exchequer, no- f' 'ie body seems to knOjjsr how. latest 1 lfj achievement, uponijai scale of unprece- ? dented grandeur of this class that has '' come to public co&riizance, is the theft 1 er of 8,000,000 pounds of iron from, the Juposau iron works,4n the mining dis- ? txint of TTta. Tt .IS' believed that the i Be whole staff of officials employed' in 'S these works has been concerned in the gigantic transaction,"Which has hut just r is come to light, and'/'&mall liope is enter- _ rt, tained of bringing* direct culpability fl Id home to any individual. + it, -rvr-'. ... , ' J 13 In a street in C^rjon rats are hung up for sale with .poultry. They are f: cj. dried and salted and are very much I affected by ladies whose hair is falling s 'y off, as the llcsh of rata is known to be f< an excellent preventive of baldness. 11 Pork is one of the'fitaples of Chinese fi e? cookery, the best bacon and hams com' n ing from the proyinoes of Fokien and t in Quang Tung, the naVor of the hams be- u y- ing much improved by keepine them ' ;o for a year or two in sawdust after they & u. have been cured. As in Europe and s; here certain places in China are re- U ,11 nowned for their products, such as e; Pekin for its sweet ducks; Tou-lion, a n a small village near that city, for its vine's gar (tsou), Tchin-Kiang, in the Kiangsu, c in for a sauce made with fermented b6an3 tl it, and the salt, which the Chinese use as tl U we use Worcestershire sauce. h X o w This is the manner in which Bishop e: l? Hare, of Nebraska, would settle the In- w dian problem in the United States: 1. n Extension ol law over the Indian as c. ie well as the white man; holding him in- sc J dividually responsible for crime com- li J' mitted, protecting him in property right, ci lt and giving him an opportunity to work h his way in the world on equal terms y with Iii3 white brother. 2. Let each " e Indian own bis own farm in fee simple, ci h Hp paw no reason why an Indian, or a o: s number of Indians, should not have the >t same right to hold thousands and thou- 0 tt sands of aorcs of land, and to keep it in c< ;r their hands unti I its natural rise^jn value b i. made them men of wealth, that was exercised by speculators or railway cor- si ;t potations. But lie would liave no tribal a: Ls property. Give each man a farm of a ei d desirable acreage, and make the title inii alienable tor twenty-live years, either fi it for debt or taxes, so that he could not J, be cheated out.of it while he w:is learn- -n d ing the wavs of civilization. 3. Give n n him schools and means of education, u and through all these, and in all. let the a: missionaries carry on their work of re- cl ' deeming from paganism the scattered 0 J remnants of a race with many noble ai * traits. tl r P; t From the preliminary examination of 2 - several Nihilist prisoners arrested re- . p cently in Russia, it would appear that a w n second gunpowder plot was on foot in ? every way similar to that of the 1st of last , December, both as to the aim in view and the means by which it was to be j. attained. The conspirators intended to blow up the Czar on his next journey to Moscow. It was in his palace of the a Kremlin, the ancient residence of the w _ ereat princes of Moscow, that the revo- _ y lutionists Wished to punish the Czar for P c the obstinate resistance with wliich he . Jt has met their demands for reform and y liberties. When this terrible intelli- ^ [g gence was communicated to the Czar e his emotion was tso violent that for a a moment those of his courtiers who were ? d present were in fear of a fatal nervous u j. attack. The Czar thought that the at- j y tempt made on his life at Moscow was j d the work of one single individual, and ; he is now terrified on discovering that ft I, at Moscow, as at St. Petersburg, there ^ 0 is a veritable committee, organized by ^ u the revolutionary party, which has dejy clared against him a merciless war. ie it is The inspector? of factories in Prus- a 1 sia are working hard to put down in- si fant labor. At Berlin, thirty-three fac- iu 'e tories have ceased employing children, d< k and in the others there are only nine Ii 5 under fourteen years of age. The same h L has been the case in nearly all the prov- b > inces, notably In the district qf Frank- q 1 fort-on-the-Oder, where, in the 330 cloth ai factories, employing 14,000 hands, there h are now only 1,500 minors, this being a h J diminution of twenty-three per cent. f?i since 1876; while in the districts of Col- si 18 ogne, Coblentz and Treves the total a r? number of children employed has fallen si ^ from 5,334 to 4,937, and of these all but i'i I sixty-one are over fourteen years ol age. ii ie The inspectors take great care, also, that b ie proper sanitary arrangements are made, si 3S and that the masters do all they can to a II protect their workmen from accident, si ie One curious fact brought out by the in- c j1, spcctor in Westphalia is the wandering u 'y disposition of the workmen. He in- S stances a manufactory, employing 2,000 g f" bands, in which from one to two hun- u dred of them leave every month. el Mary Clemmer says that in no other f< r_ American city is visiting carried to such n lie an extent as in Washington. Every gi 0f l:idy "in sotiety " has her day for re- ii t0 ceiving calls, and the distribution of n. cards is enormous. But calls may be 41 je made extensively without invitation, n a "When strangers visit Washington." d jy she adds, "and take up their abode at tl ar a liotel, tiiey have enly to discover the ii r. days of public reception, hire a hack, ti \ and procend to visit. On Monday they n can go to the homes of the judges of the b jg supreme court and other courts; on g Wa/lnoo/lotf fhov non r?o 11 r\n t.hr? Pfthi'not. )n ladies; on Thursday vis't all the Sena- s ijg torial families; and on Saturday go to li er the White House to s>ee Mrs. Hayes, h as In every drawing-room the visitors will ]< ae find standing in its center from one to a r e> dozen ladies, richly attired, receiving a Mj all with politeness, few with that n to gracious charm which makes the lone- e; m liest stranger feel at home. This is not o in strange. These ladies arc compelled so h [ie constantly to greet so many whom they d Lh do not know that the task becomes not r(j only monotonous, hut irksome. These ,<} calls involve no personal recognition, e n. The lady who received you on Wednes- I ie da#1 in her own parlor on Thurday may t ag meet you on the street without a glance h 1(j of recognition. t: tO D lie o id There are plenty of individuals, says ir, .Tosh Billings, who can't make a boy's ly windmill that wili grind, to save their ii ed .lives, who wouldn't jjesitato a minute to e 'The Disadvantages of, City Boys." The following 13 from an articlc in %. Nicholas for-Marc'1. Some months ago, Key; Washington. Haddcn, of Springfield, Mass., believag that if he could fiq? out how .the' ctive and prominent men of his own ity spent tneir "boyhood, it would help 0 solve the problejp'pf what is the best raining for boys, prepared the follow,^ tig circular, which wad sent to-theone tmdred men, who, could fafjfly be aaid o stand at the head of the financial, ommercial; professional and educaional interests Of tWc1 city . ' Mx Deac Snv: I decire to find out, or tlie benefit of the boy9, how the wading men of this city spenttheir boy-r ood. "Will you be/kind enough- to tell 1. Whether yolrr home during the rat' fifteen .years of your life was on farm, in a village, or in a city, and) ' 2. Whether you were accuBtomecuiuring any part of that period, to ng:ige in>any kind of work when yotL. pere not in school P 1 > T should be fehidi of'course, ttj have on go' ihCo 'jpartibulare aS'ftxllyag'you ,re disposed to do? but I do not wish to ax your patience, and I'fthall begreatly bilged' a simpj^answer to these W0iqueflti0n8.,,.?." }>.! i/ii'v/ -M^ No leas than eighty-eight of the busy 1.1 ll j 1 xaix., i? :entiemen wjiq reutrrveu tuia cireuinr rere .kind enough to answer .tlifljqucsions?s<me.of them briefly* most of hem quite fallyy and it turned out that' 2w had beeh nrbughit'iip like most of be boys who crowd the ball wounds; nd fill the streets of our citie^ in thesei iter days.- Here is a brief suittmary of he returns Of these eighty-#ghf men,; twelve, pent the ftfst'fifteen yeays oi th^ir life' n the city, twelve in villages, and sixtycrar Were farmers'boyB.m - m ?> But of the; twenty*fovt wh6 lWfid in illages and.cities. six were practically aimers1 boys, for they liTed insmau; illages/or on'outskirts of cities, nd had the same kimf of worE'co do< hat farmers boya have.? One of bhese"i 11 age boys said: ? '? r .'?? { mt? . "I leaSrneff to hoe, dig.ahjl irr, ict, X was^obliged to da work, whether' liked it or no. In winter I went to chool; and Vorked nights ancJ liwiTiings. >r my board.",? ' (Tv Another said: *" I used to-workaway.' rom home somrf on a, form in thc-stftm ier and fall.' Ihtbd wifitcr, wlnM'goinfc; o school, we three boys used to work p the wood for winter Ubc." ,, Four othera' tola , s^bstaritia^y the1 amo -story. As these'were about this1 nine as farmers'boys, we may add'tiiem ) tliat list, so that^eventy onfc of eighty-1 ight?almost four-filths of ali these len?had the training of farm life, Now how was it with the eighteen i ity and village boys on the list." Did Dey have an easy time of it? Fiv* of, icm did, $8 they testify; Ave of theruJ r* A *W A wrnfAr no fflOII 1 fr? A f\ Kilt' OM iiu CTlSi.IV ill potiviwumi yu ViUf V(I* ne of the five says that lie studied Jaw 'hen out of Bnhobl, and that was not xitctly play. The rest of the eighteen 'ore poor boys?not paupers by any leans, but children of the humbler hisses, many of them in narrow; and ;edy circumstances?and though-.they von in cities or villages, they were ac.lstomed from their earliest years, to ard work. ' "Was generally employed," says one, during the summer months and in vaitions In doing any kind of work tha" [fered." Four of the city bovs were newsboys, ne of them says: " The last year I was jnnected with the press I earned $100 eiorc breakfast." ' Another: "I have paid my own way nee eiuht years of age, without any isistance except my hoard from my ighth to my eleventh year." Of all these eighty-eight "boys five only :id nothing particular to do. While these boys were "rowing and rorking, a great m:iny others?sons of iereli:int8 and lawyers?were growing p in Springfield, going to school and musing themselves as boys of their lass are apt to do. Where are they? inly live of this class are hear I from mong the eighty-eight solid men of mt city. Some of them, perhaps, are rosperous men in other cities, but the amber cannot be large, for in Springeld only live men out of eighty-eight ime from this class. Ninety-four and half per cent, were either farmers' oys or poor and hard-working town oys. She Cured Him. There is a man up in the Seventh ward lat hasn't spoken to his wife in over a eek. He is so mad that he will not 3 home to his meals, and the other day is wife went to his office to get $6 to iy for some shoes, and he told the clerk > pay her off and let her go. He grates is teeth when he goes home nights, and imes out of the house every morning vearing. She came a joke on him, that as all. He has for years been telling er that he was sure he had got heart isease, and that he should go off sudenly some tim-e in the night. She had at sick of such talk, after hearing it rirteon years, when she knew he was 3 healthy as a yearling. Why, he idn't even know where his heart was, id couldn't point out the location of ay particular portion of his internal nprovemcnts. But he kept talking hout death every little while, and she lid she would break up that little game a snnn nq alio fnulH think rtf finv WflV tn 0 so. A spell ago she bought one of these adia-rubber water-bags, for keeping ot water at the feet, inBtead of using ottles. It would hold about tyiree uarts, and her husband didn't know oy thing about it. One night, after she ad the water-bag to her feet a couple of ours, until they were about as warm r apiece of zinc, and her husband was ioring away by note, she thought what good joke it would be lo put it on his Loinach and wake him up. She burst ight out laughing, at midnight, thinkjig ot it. So she took up the rubber ag of hot water and placed it on his tomach. The bag was about as big as cow's liver, and as warm as a piece of hingleon a boy. It hadn't been on his best and other baggage over two mintcs before he slowly opened his eyes, he stuffed the upper works of her nightown in her mouth.lo keep from laughiK. He raised up his head, and said: Harriet, my end has come." "Which end, Josiab?" said she, as lie rolled over, "your head or your ?et?" And then she put a pillow in her jouth, and reached over to him and uncrewed the nozzle that holds the water 1 the bag. t j l. J ii !J i l am uying, Kg,ypi, aying, sum ne, My lieart is enlarged to three times its atural size, and oh, I am bleeding to eath." She had opened the nozzle, and tie three quarts of hot water was pourig over him, saturating him Irom head d uccls. She had not meant to let out lore than half a pint of water on him, ut when it got to flowing she couldn't top it, so she got out of bed and told im to save himself. He attempted to top the flow of blood, and she struck a ;ght and asked him if his life-preserver ad not sprung a leak, and then he joked ntthe rubber bag, and went and un himself through a clothes-wringer nd he slept on thelounge the rest of the ight, and he says his wife is the meanBt woman that ever drawed the breath f life. She tells her friends that Josiah as been miraculous'y cured of heart isense.?-Milwaukee Sun. There was more business done in the ommercial and financial circles of the Jnit'ed States during November, 1879, ban during any month before i'i the listory of this country. The bank ransactions of several cities lor the aonth foot up the enormous aggregate f $4,360,255,523. Great quantities of tobacco are raised 11 Russia, the scul irom which it is rown being obtained chiefly from the Jnited States. CREMATING A SCHOOL GIRL. '"A Toung Glrl'? Body,' <i1vtn _ to the i.fjMBjas the Wnihlnjtton (Pa.) i. Crematory", ,,, $uri has a;letter from Washington* Pa., giving details of the cremation ol the body of Miss Dolly. fHartman,' of Pittsburg, t a ,beautiful 1 Sopftftirsahool-^rj, wh<*,4ied. of hasty, ( con sumption; ?nd who was cremated in aecorttanee wi^h'her expressed wish: ' The body of.,Miss. fiar.tman.' was so'' arran/^ed a* to simulate life with startling fidelity; 8Jbe }ay atr her side on^ 'feofa, wlthjaer head resting o% a pillow. A-.gayly-colosed kfgbnn was thrown over tire lower part of the body , and the 1 ;f&fce$'df the left hahd^resteci,on* its edge.as though it hart been drawn up by the sleeper; i In the hand were two r ^odse rnifebudsf. A lrght-'blue' worsted ;shawl was placed with studied careless- ' nes3 behind, the body, and formed a background! foi* the silent figure in its dresg of white, fliecv. material.\ Tl^ehairwas-unfasten ea,and a" stray ''lock- lay half aeroM the lips. "The. features'' were; ckd^d'7aid bnltf'' slightly discolored, ,The: big . olue eves were covered by the pallid lids. She" looted wS^frrallypteUy there' fa her, last rest fo father's home, and the verv naturalness of her appearance was most ,phtbetio. "7'lie: customary service for tlie dead.' 'was read; 'the Rev. Mr.' Vetterling, who made a'few remarks on the life and d?Btb of her who slepf be-, , T(fore hk; *;./ : v IF: . Mr. Hatrfnaan and his sons, with two or thfee -friends,' accompanied the remains 'to * '^Vsshipgton. ! ThJe body; whioU' ,was in an .elegant mahogany casket> was -placed in a hearse and driven to the, littl^ building on the hill which :^^4i$f;mjfcde famous by the ceremonious cremation of Baron De Palm. .The ! family followed in carriages, and soon thd''^^,p5tfiy gathered in the small ,'reception room adjoining the furnace*, It'was vary eold outside, and the wind w,histk^ ,drearily around the building , 'an^ hlew the loosn show against the window paces.* - John Dye (there is 'fitness itf nitres iOmetimes thatcarihbt-i fte 'ftUeev, sour-looking man who built ihe crematory and has had chaise of it whenever it wna in had/the,' fdrriace fillbd with coke, and the retoiii Waa brilliantly white with 'heat* Dm aiid iV was just rizht. " It wra'nx)tvndtr,eniirtghi,,'he coolly added, although .speaking of roasting chest-, nuts, * ' when De Palm was burned, and was too hot whpri Mrs. Pittman c*me .Jiw,bitt'tt'.t^aUri^'now.tf^, r ' u The coffin was opened and the body laiU UpmitilITC 11UU UUrlUOTOUIA. VI WC Catafalque. It wa3 theii*.vfxapped'.iii a Jinen aueet gripping with alum water. The figure of the young-lady was sadly wastea'bj^dfsea&e, and It looked very slender. indeed iii its moist drapery.'1 The Rev. Mr. Vetterling took a small ' shovelful of kshtts irom the fireplace ttnd i read a. few words about tho severance of the spiritual and eafthly body. Then, he sprinkled the ashes on the body, i The irori frame was then lifted by the attendants and shoved into the long and T narrow vault of the retort. The door ^s^pusbof!' into a rim of the moist cement and screwed up'tightly, and the i incineration began at 11:44. For about a second there was an almost imperceptible1 odor as of burnt cloth. After- ' ward no smell whatever could be do tected.V' v ; Lookingthrough tlic small hole in the dosr of the retort, I saw the outline of the sheet shiink slightly and grow smaller. This lasted a lew seconds only, and then, as the alum-soaked sheet was baked hard, it became stiff and Immovable. 1 looked in six times within the next two hours, but could see no change in the appearance of the form. It took about two hours and fifteen minutes to reduce the body. The ! ashes did not weigh more then four or five and a half pounds. The ashes of the dead girl were sent to the family in a small tin box. The entire cost of the cremation was not over $35. Mr. Hartman was very much pleased with the result, and says his own body shall be similarly disposed of. Mr. Harding, son-in-law of Dr. Le Moyne and one of the trustees of the crematory, says he has over one hundred applications from persons now livine for the use of the crematory, and lie added that a large number of the applicants were residents of New York i and vicinity. "Old LImpy, Here is an old, old story redressed. Tt is hardly so telling as th$ original, still it points a moral which is worth recalling: "Get aboard, old limpy,"said a car conductor to an aged, plainly-dressed, lame man. standing on tne platiorm waiting foi* the signal to depart; "cet aboard, old limpy, or you will be left." At the signal the old gentleman quietly stepped aboard and took a seat by himself. When the conductor, in taking up the tickets, came to him and demanded his fare, he renlied: 44 I do not pay fare on this road." 44 Then I will put you off at the next | station." The conductor passed on, and a passenger who had seen the transaction said to him: 44 Do you know that old gentleman?" 44 No, I do not." 44 Well, it is Mr. , the president of this road." The conductor changed color and bit his lips, but went on and finished taking up the tickets. As soon as he had done he returned to '' old limpy" and said: "Sir, I resign my sifustion as conductor." i 41 Sit down here, young man. I do not wish to harm you; but we run this I road for profit and to accommodate tlie public, and we make it an invariable rule to treat every person with perfect | civility, whatever garb he wears, of whatever infirmity he suffers. This rule is imperative upon every one of our T cl.o)l nnf mmnvi! vnu finr I I ^ilipJUJCCD. A D1IUII **vv j what you have done, but it must not be repeated." The conductor afterward never saw among his passengers another " old ! lirapy."?Railway Age. Pigs, a Statesman and a Jaguar. Treed by pigs is not exactly the position to which we should expect to find a colonial secretary?at least, not often. But when Mr. Fowler, colonial secretary of the Honduras, was recently exploring the interior of the colony, he was overtaken by a drove of peccaries, and had only time to take a snap shot at the first of them and scramble up a tree, dropping his rifle in the performance, before the whole pack was around his perch, gnashing their teeth at him, grunting, and sharpening their tusks against his tree. Now the peccary is not only ferocious but patient, and rather than let an object of its anger escape will wait about for days, so that the secretary had before him only two courses?either to remain where lie was | until he dropped down among the swine from sheer exhaustion and hunger, or else to commit suicide by coming down t-n lio f>nt-pn thpre and thnn. While he was in this dilemma, however, what should come along?and looking out for a supper, too?but a jaguar! Never was beast of prey so opportune,tor thejaguar li;is a particular fondness for wild pork, and the pec caries know it, for no sooner did they see the great ruddy head thrust out through the bushes than they bolted helter-skelter, forgetting, in their desire to save thoir own bacon, the meal they j were themselves leaving up the tree. Thejaguar was oft'after the swin# with admirable promptitude, and the secretory, linding the coast clear, cam?>down, reflecting, as he walked toward the camp, upon the admirable arrangements I of nature, who, having made peccaries [ to eat colonial secretaries, provided also I jaguars to eat the peccaries.?London I Telegraph. Harm Animals in the United States, A special report of thte defkftilfeift of ? agriculture of the United* States govern-. , ment skews that Che numbe? of horses now in the country is about tTfp-and on?-ba)f per cpnt, greaterthan lasjt year, which implies an increase of that! claaa * of farm stock of about: 230,000 arihfiats. \ ] The'"increase has been entirely along ? the frutf coast and-in the^tntea west of. j the Alleghany mountains.! ,.TUejiumber of mules i? greater by.. aftoijj;, Dee per cent., the increase ,being ,principally inr * the Gulf States, partlcularly'ih'Yexas, in which State they are supertfed5fl??oniep,r.\ andm^stangsi There has > beaafait in- ,j enease-of nboui one pw .qent. jp the i number.of flxUch.cp,w8.jnp3tly..inciter States north of 'iihe. MisMssiptir'mer'11 and oh tHid' raciflc' cofiir. 'Cattte,'" in-: " -?-? J? -1/ ClUQing OXen, IIW*B lnilCll wnruum-wit aboutione-per cent.;, thu dcereaee/bekng r in the-Middlfy Q*lf and SoutbenwnVu"!, \ States- ;Lv tye there has been an^ncrcase, ,#mcq is due1 ' not t6 increased proOTc?iotfi' H<it: to iro- . portktton ftt)M tBeHMddl9 ?md Weste^ j, Stat68.- .G&ttle n?draBghfc ?nimalsTarc ,( more and mo superseded, by bprse* in tfye plder $Jtaiea na.^me paasfs.. Th'o * anky, long-liorned, cheap cattte which1 r have ' boOT1 so Irtig' chstidftrirtic of 1 Texas are giving way to better breed* which; undefr' present, coiiditietif,. , more profitable. ' This..is,b*ciiu*e:rthe l knd, isfp?o|:e occupied,fty,firap, ijuflips1, thus narrowing the range for grazihp. The incf^ade in sheep^irfMi the 'j^ear . was Very large?six pet" "cfent.'of the J whole country. In Nebrtekn ifc wa^ , twenty per cent., in Kansas .nineteen per < cent., in Rhode Jaljifld fifteen }>cr cent?., ' in Cali#>ruiaeleven.per cent., in T^xaS' , fourteeh -pet o?nt.,'in Maine arid Ver- , mont seven ner doat.' JIii New1 Jrtriey,. > PennbyP/ania; South' "Carolina*" Keiv,,? tucky and Indiana Ubere rwas.n.tfmau. felling off. ,,-Inr tbp South Atlantic ' states tne aesnucuon oy aogs nag ,oecome a serious nuisftnce.in consequence- 1 of the passion of the negroes for dbgs, 1 which ?rd1eft ttf foi-agefoK themfcelves^ In Mississippi carnivoroui ?bhtia and I V wildhoes /> destroy/ larg^-pumfcrs of > sheep,, The - number hogs,. jnT,lW7 ' country .'is four per,' cent less than jast i year, malnnga lostf of1 neariy: 1,23^,000.! ] The only secw?irf'teHbWing ftftfreawaifli >i the Gulf States-and Pacific StAtesriThe '} prices of, farm animals, :as ? irulp, ad^ vanced upon the prices art' ' Horses three, yeai^ old amLolger,nave advanced iri! Value about ?i? ht per dent. ;l jj between two and three yii&fi of'age'one 1 percent:; yedrHnsr how& three pwcent."; ' less than a year old five1 pet: cent. Males ) havg advanced in price from five to tetf 1 per cent.; milci coys about two and ii' * half per cent.; yearling cattle and two*; ] year-olfl* battle,1 six per' cent.cattle, ^ from two' to three yeafs 'dld^Ehteeper; r cent.- In the price of battle of three ] years old and upward^thereis a falling j off, of two per cant. The price of jjheep'' under a year old has jncpeas^d a\b/?ut" h ftlgh,tper cent.: over ,a jear old nin$ per cent!- ,TMcesAbf ''jugs ari8 shoaljs . have increased' elevefl per fefentU and of hogs over a-year old, twenty-two "per * cent.' rj l,;m <[., ' A);\ W'J'A *'di ' ' ^ ??? ' w / 4 n? i i ;; *\no si rj ot y>hu J -.i i A Street ar Mystery^ * "You may' have been on a Strrieet'car , when a man "or womati aflcidentlV 'j uroppeu* purcu oi monby idmuu swiw l on -tli^ floor..- If eoi.jou .JeUj.*i>[OVor-' powermg desire to help rccovec iU. So , did'overy other passenger. One day not long since a woman on a Woodward j avenue ear dropped something while , paying her fare. She said it was a dime, while a small boy thought it , looked like a cent, and two other passengers asserted that it was a quarter. J The woman had plenty of help to search , for it, and tTic force was suddenly increased by & man who left l>is seat in the rear of the car, came forward and < got down on his hands and knees and j said: , " I always have good luck in finding 1 things. Are you sure it was money ?" "Oil, yes," replied the woman. ? i The man poked around in the straw i and suddenly held up a big jack-knife with a broken blade and asked: "Couldn't have been this, could it? Or did you drop this afterward?" " I never baa that?never saw it b<v fore V she tartly answered as hei face , grew red. i "Didn't eh? Well, bub, you can ( have it. We'll look a little further and , see what we cau see. Hero are two pants buttons, but I don't suppose you dropped them, and I'll put them into my pocket." " Never mind looTcing any more?I don't care for the loss!" she remarked as her position grew uncomfortable. "Oh, it's no trouble for me, and it ' belongs to you, whatever it is. It i always vexes me to ? ad : mayoc iwhb this!" He held up ^ corkscrew, with the end bored deep into a cork, and the woman fairly rose up aashe said: " I never had that?never saw it before?never!" "Didn't eh? Well, I'll pockct it, for such things come awful handy around the house. I'll 1 x>k a little further." "No, you needn't. I guess I didn't drop anything?I'm sure I didn't!" " I kinder think you did, for I heard something chink," he observed as h^ pawed around. "Even if it's only a cent it will be a cent ahead if we lind it. Now, what's this P" The woman almost climbed over him to get to the door and drop off, but she wasn't ten feet away when Ije reached the door, held up a vest-bucklC between his thumb and finger and called: " Hold on?I've found it?here it is!" She started on a run down a sidp street, and when the car started up the man trampled the stra,w down and hung the bucklc on the front door with the remark: " It's little reward any one ever gets for doing a stranger a favor, but seeing I've got the corkscrew, I'll leave this here and she can get it or let it go into the treasury of the street car company. ?Detroit Free Press. 1 1 What there is in Wheat. < The wheat grain is a fruit constating 1 of a seed and its coverings. All the middle part of the grain is occupied by : large, thin cells, full of a powdery substance, which contains all the starch of the wheat. Outside the central starchy mass is a single row of squarish cells filled with a yellowish material, very rich in nitrogenous, that is, flesh-formine matter, byeond this again there arc six thin coats or coverings, contain- | ing much mineral matter, both of pot- > ash and phosphates. The outermost j coat is of but little value. The mill , products of thev coverings of the seed j are peculiarly rich in nutriment, and . fine flour is robbed of a large percentage . of value and nutritious food. Middlings i not only contain inor" fibrin and min- i eral matter than fine flour, but aiso i more fat. The fibrous matter, or ouuv coat, which is indigestible, forms onesixth of the bran, but not one-hundredth J of fine flour. Wheat contains the great- ( est quantity of gluten :ind the smallest of starch; rye, h nn'iiiurn proportion of *j both, while in barley, oats and corn, the largest proportion of stnrch and the smallest of gluten are to be found. In practice 100 pouuds of flour will make from 133 to 137 pounds of bread, and a good average being 136 pounds; hence a barrel of 196 pounds should yield 266 one-pound loaves.?American Miller. Nearly 300,0(H),000 postal cards were used in the United States last year. They are made at Holyoke, Mass.: by a private concern under the general supervision of a government officer. The work is nearly all done by machinery, even to counting and puwta? them up 1 in packages of twenty-hveJr The use of postal cards is said to have driven many makers of writing paper and envelopes out of business. ^>Tw.<n" Worteiil wear no Via the set word* of! toy muter, But, lor thywil, -with .manly boidcoae > ! think, *n?rikl * . awflmjrt *?rl; j?rf? Nor tarn thine hflneat m?anii^( awerra and ah 'shrink^ < '. oib.i< ;.:/ ? #r? Sor, speaking truljVftftt wra or diu-k diaul wirtu??thox? Meet safferin&dp nptj#l*?t her, ^ Th?1To]gar fom loud^okoing^ not v <i-iwi*k n ,fo b?jbvxi rj!ri? fxrnnt/rj * g^d?? fru.-i ,wilUnr,r gnf ? Wndinft^rter ilUtiM irfl <"r ritrht-jA^jjA. ?nd Harp; &tow*>pn JsHj Bi*.%> WMP.fletf gffirfr-taWWfi' breathe T^orioo# air. -ff.i, ShotmaKtr. ii HI ii i')?9 )vn 'uixnqjiu rna 'THe witti^tZ55l6ftnaa<ly^ to Dafrop? !,600,000 bidets xintun ?l\t* Then Affe'ovefS.OOO'ladJiuii in kegtateofMissispippfc: fciral ^afa ' Tfa^McoatotHvB o#><bifJirie nser. an* dually aboW 4,088 tontoi-??ad.v? -j iThei*eicoetdfi#h& Hoaatc tnmn} to Fawma ) **m b l-? Upward of 1,442 persons in ;sb ^mpirp POM0B6 fWP. Men tang, lire fe^a^'sMsWoil. niltti n eTtnifbmq 'Vescf^d'^erfofii^hfe fdm M y # wfoo'iiVeiJgajo& 'ttPitBf Mdnimfi?Mw tprk Mm3> 1? wroam w$n SffiMKKiMte pine timber. ? ^ ew.tt_ JM fiffJj fl JiJiifrn 0 *?, ? oream sou uuni? [aiuuiuio w um [Jnited States require 100,006 to Ihiiijii ijti flmpiai -at' r&MlThere are 40,893- cki Idrjan enrolled in ;b? 8an Foukmco momW itbendanee is oui^SI7,9S$^'orun- o "? , ; Thfe ftffeeh:drr- tattid Actttrink'.estabishmenta in this country turned^out *7?3fc' <<^ M&cfl todrrfffl;1 ' VjT "TW'H&UnftMftS riwf iPhtriHT^lle. ha?te bwrrldle fn? twenty-two \ Fenra, are now bciag worked,11,. ' v.Eik; /jo totgrasl, as Mary mid torlier jttfe lftmb]V;biW*feek?ent it ^ufc.t^ get mw /In ifla&tfncf* 's^Iitatle^ are" Ya&fnoniblo; hut WfHtolt eoftitt* o btfckWheat ?ke* let ushareultidtcrr.^iSb^y Airily. 1 ,-loria onfdOMn" rrttw+i ?k lit sbcty4tt?^?kr33ftwnl816 to 1876. >ho Qurobejrpi emigrants that left &reat ^iawa^^ar^of of k (?$ -'iw jmokeftVmbk*,:<btfet in (fold woaL'er. A. Rocldand lftv?ttetfor has diseovcnSi that tliis is precisely tho case with His stove.?KodcUvm yourur. For the ,fi?t time since the Franco* Prussian war a German newspaper lias reenstarted in Paris. It is issued daily. There are in the capital of Franco no fewer than 50,000 Germans. Lyons, Franco, which burned Jao guard's first loom, is to raise a marble rtatue to the great inventor, representing him, witlr folded urr.is, looking at the destruction of his machine. The only time in life when a woman seems to be htppy is when nhe calmly sits down and attempts to trim a new bonnet with old trimmings. Site seems to be truiy happy; but wjiat a Vesuvius is at work in fieri? <}uincy Modern Argo. The total number of public schools in Maryland is 2,009, instructing 165.486 tiujiis. The total school expendi tures were $1,551,566.38. There are 373 colored schools, employing 387 teachers ind instructing 22,331 pupils. r Boated, basted, boated! By the cold gray htones, Oh tea; ' "* And It I conld only borrow A dollar ontil to-morrow, How hAppy I would be! ; ?~^ew Fork Exprat. Miss Howard, a popular physician at Tientsin, China, is a Canadian girl, and received her Muention at Michigan University.' Fonr successfully treating ,he wife of a prominent Chinese statesnan she has been sent to Pekin in a ;oyal barge, loaded with presents. Turkey, lately scourged by war, is the >rey of famine. If in any American city Sfteen persons should be found, in one % lay, dead of starvation, a thrill of horor would run through the nation; but is the city where, this has occurred is \drianople, few tfotice it. Are we raising Nihilists and assassins >f kings in this country P A bad boy in i public school the other day, who was :tireatened with punishment, called out .0 an attentive circle of his companions: 'Oh, shoot the rtler!" He is under lurveillaBCC.-- Wheeling Lender. When Kinjf Alfonso's second wife, vho was riding with hinuin a carriage n Madrid,.heard the report of the first )istol-shot fired by the man who re;ently tjled to kill her husband, she jent eagerly forward, uttered a sharp jry and placed her arms around Alfonso She banged her hair in the 1 itcst style, ind wore a dress of black, and ti pair of ight ten-buttoned kids and a long black lealskinsacque; her face was rouged.Iher :yes\yere blue, yet she stood as staid as i mummy; but this was in front of a Iry goods store?in fact, she' was only a '(lummy,"-- New York Express. Foanj? Fred,? bnshtul jet per?ist?u? "wnin, IVm very much in lovo with Mary Jtno. Dne night she told him, in h?r tenderest tout*, '(It is not good for mon to bo alone." - ' II. said Fred, " Jnst so, yop aariine iimo ?: ?, t've often thought of thai lame thibc my soli,'' When said the laae, whilo Fred waa all ugog 1 Yon ought to buy yournelf a terrier iloc. He took the bint, and Iclt. . j i Jul."1*. TL.i < . .... Immensity ?f Creation. There are, according to tha computation of some astronomers, no iesa than 75,000,000 of suns in this universe. The fixed stars are all suns, having. l'kc our ?un, numerous planets revolving around them. The solar systen^ or that to which we belong, has about thirty planets, primary and secondary, belonging to it. The circular field of space which it occupies i? in diameter 3,000,BOO,000 of miles; and that which it controls much greater. That aim which is nearest neighbor to ours is called Sirius, J:-,.? Q) 000 000. IIISL.'IUL ikKJIXl UUl Out* Mwvvi* , , D00 miles. Now, if all the fixed stars are as distant from each other as Sirius is from our sun, if the solar system b<t the. average magnitude of all the systems of the 75,000 000 of suns. what imagination can grasp the immensity of crcation? Every sari of 75,000,000 controls a Held spaci: af about 10,000,000,000 of miles in diam?ter. Who can survey a plantation containing 75,000,000 of circular fields, each Df such vast extent? Such, however. is one of the plantations of Him who has measured the waters in the hollow , )/ His hand, and meted out heaven with i span, and comprehended the dust of ;he earth in a measure,-weighed tinnountain." in scales and the, hills in a jalance; Him who, sitting upon tin* >rbit of the earth, stretcher out the leavens as a curtain, and spreadeth hem out as a tent to dwell in.- Oooil Words.