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? r / t r < * ; 'f* , , ' . ' ' : f.. ;fti. i ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. ' i - -..-t? BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. . ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1880. NO. 49. VOLUME XXV. * - ' ' ' ? ? I Mnnwp.Clpniiiiiir Time.* The Windmill. Behold, a giant am I! A lott here in my tower With pij* granite jaws I devour The maize, the wheat and the rye, And grind them into flour. I look down over the farms; In the fields ot grain I see The harvest that is to be, And I fling alolt my arms, For I k now it is all for me. 1 hear the sonnd of flails Far off from the thrashing-floors In barns with their open doors, And the wind, the wind in my sails Louder and louder roars. I stand here in my place, With my foot on the rock below, | And whichever way it may blow, ^ I meet it face to face, hs As a brave man mets his foe. And while we wrestle and strive, My master the miller stands And feeds we with his hands, For he knows who makes him thrive, Who makes him lord ol lands. j On Sundays I take my rest; * Church -going bells begin Their low, melodious din; I roos my arms on my breast, And all is peace within. ?M | W. Longfellow, in Youih't Companion. tuc pun nonpupr'q rary < lib IMUVWUI MkU w wnwii | i I had boon considering for about a < year whether I should marry Winifred I Hanway, w^en I heard that she was en- 1 gaged to the philosopher. Why did she i accept him? It is true that he is both I imaginative and critical, but faculties I exercised in the formation of psycho- < logical hypothecs, and the laborious de- 1 struction of those of one's neighbor do 1 not usually rouse the sjmpathy of a J bright and beautiful girl, who is more i fit to love than to think about life. He i is cortainly handsome, but as certainly t ^ his clothes are barbarous. His trousers ? can't keep their shape for a day, and his I hats are never new. If he notices the s rain, he opens an umbrella which mi?ht e have served as an ineffectual protection at the time of the deluge; if he finds out c that it is cold, he assumes a garment \ which might have been the everyday c coat of Metnuselali. His manners are as strange as his appearance. He may often s be seen walking in the park at the fash- t ionable hour with a, far-off look in his t eyes, and his hat thrust back as if to t lessen the external pressure on his ac- ? tive brain; more rarely you may hear a him bursting into enthusiasm in Picca- c amy, aitnougu riccaamy is me iasi t place in which a man should allow c himself to be enthusiastic. In short, D thouirh he is a true friend, he is an un- t comfortable acquaintance; and his vol- b canic utterances, after long periods ol b calm contemplation, cause such shocks to one's nerves a: woujd be conveyed to 5 the Sunday citizen by the eruption of ? Primrose hill. But it it was odd that t the beautiful Winifred Hanway should t marry my friend, it was yet more odd t that he should marry anyone. There c were uo topics more certain to excite an y explosion in the philosopher than the I excessive population of the country, and v the wholesome solitude of the thinker. s ' How," he would fiercely ask, " can a s man think effectually on fundamental n subjects, who is compelled by the des-1 b tm-able circumstances of life to exhaust 5 L his analytical faculty in considering how p L to pay his butcher and when to buy his 0 9 coals P I tell you, sir, it's better to ^ starve with cold and hunger than to de- v base one's noblest part to a game of s sk ll with a grasping grocer."' Again c and again I had heard him declaim in s this preposterous fasnion; and after all, |] he was going to the altar liKe any other u victim, and would doubtless take a }j house upon his back with the docility } of a snail. S; 1 could not soive the problem; I n would not ?ive it up. So, full of the p determination to drag Diogenes out ol (. his tub, and the secret out of Diogenes, 0 I stepped round the corner to offer my < congratulations. My frieni was in his ? study apparently writing, really eating v a quill pen. He rose at me with a rush, wrung my hand till it ached, anil ^ blushed leather uncomfortably. ConenitulationB are the curse of the Briton. .[ Whether he is offering them or receiv- j.| ing them, he is generally obliged to take refuge in intermittent handshaking, and most of his sentences tail off into grunts* ^ nd groans. But on this occasion it was e evident that the philosopher had something ready to say, and was nervously anxious to say it. Indeed. I had hardly _ naid mnrpfhjin " Mv dear fpllnw T Hnn't know when * * I really am so awfully glad. I * * * it's in every way so, such a satisfactory, you know I really do wish all possible, '' and all that sort of thing, you know" ? ?when he burst in with a speech so flu- * entiy delivered, that I knew I was p f not his earliest visitor that morning. " "Of course it's taken you by surprise?' u be said, ."as I knew it would; f but the truth is, that T have been thinking of it fo: long time, and I aui sure I am right." Here I tried to * get in an impreB3ion of wonder at his '! new notion of duty, but he was bent on c being ,rid of the matter, and hurried on 3. to his reasons. "In the first place," s said he, " I am sure that, instead of in- 8 creasing my domestic worries, my marriage will transfer them in a body to b my wife; and, secondly, when I con- o sider the vast number of fools who are n born in o the world, I am terrified by f the picture of what the next generation a will be, if the thinkers of this are to be t without successors." Having dis- r chargcd his reasons in this wise, the t orator stood blinking at me as if he r feared dissent, but I was too astounded t by his magnificent audacity to reply. \ Slowly a look of peace stole back into f his face, a pleasant light dawned in his 1 c., es, and the promises of a smile played c at the corner 01 nis moutn. 111s re- i markable fluency was gone, and indeed t liis voice sounded quite choky when he said: "Johnny, you don't know what t an angel she i3." A light broke in upon i me. " Philosopher,'' I said, " I be- j licve you are going to be married be- t cause you fell in loVe?" " Perhaps ycu j aie right," said the philosopher. j After the wedding, the philosopher 1 and his wife went abroad for an indefin- < ite period, and their friends heard but ! little of them. He wrote to nobody, and i she di?1 not write tome. YettLere were i occasional rumors. Now they were < breathing ihe keen air of the Engardine, j now sinking to the chestnuts and vines j of Chiavenna; now he was lashing him- ' self to frenzy over the treasures of ROme; i now she was gazing with sweet northern : eyes across tne elowing splendor of the bay of Naples. Then they were in Ger- i m:iny, and about to settle for life in a i university town; but anon had fled from it in haste after a long night's dispute, in the course of which my learned Iriend had well-nigh come to blows with i the university's most celebrated pro lessor. At last I heard that they were again in London, and, full of enthusiasm, d art ed round the confer to welcome them home. Nobodywas with them but Mrs. Haiiway, Winifred's mother. I would enter unannounced and surprise thepmlosopher. I entered unannounced, aud was surprised myself. Was this the eff- rt ot matrimony or of foreign travel? Each occupant of the room was engaged in an exercise wholly unconnected, as it se(med, with those of the rest. My y friend's wife, the lady whom I had almost loved, queen of ail grace and comeliness, wa3 appearing and disappearing like a flash behind the day's Times, showing at the moments of disclosure a I face flushed with excitement, and lustrous coils of hair, tumbled into the wildest disorder, while she accompanied the whole performance with strange and inarticulate sounds*. Her mother, the same Mrs. Hanway who was so perfect a model of dress and carriage that many of her lady friends were wont to lament among themselves that she gave herself such airs, was seated on the floor dressed for walking, but without her bonnet. Yes, she was certainly drumming on an inverted tea tray with the wrong end. of the poker. And the philosopher? It was perplexing, after three years'separation, to meet him thus. The philosopher was cantering round the room on all fours, wearing on his head his own waste-paper basket. Briskly he cantered round, ever and anon < frisking like a lamb in spring time, until he reached my feet, which were rooted to the spot with astonishment. He glanced up sideways, rose with a cry to the normal attitude of man, and erasped me by the hand. At the sound of his : voice, his wife dropped the paper from her hands, raised them quickly to her hair; and his mother-in-law, with as much dignity as the effort would allow, scrambled on to her feet. Then in an i instant the cause of their eccentric conduct was made clear. Throned upon ] the hearthrug, and showing by a gra- i cious smile a few of the newest teeth, : jat a fine baby of some fifteen months. In one dimpled fist was tightly clinched i the brush, which had so neatly arranged the mother's braids; while the other : was engaged in pounding the grand- < mother's best bonnet into a shapeless mass. i Wo uroro oil snmnwhst pmlinrrassed ;xecpt the baby. The ladies knew that ! they were untidy, and I that I was an 1 intruder. As for the learned father, he j stood now on one leg and now on the jther, while he shifted the waste-paper ' basket from hand to hand, and continued J x> smile almost as persevering as his J imiabie offspring. Yt t it was he who at ast put an end to our awkward position ] sy expressing a wild desire to have my )pinion on the new curtains in his study. ' lather sheepishly I said good-bye to the ' ady of the house, trying to express by I ny eyes that I would never cail a^ain inannounced. I knew that Mrs. Han- ! vav had not forgiven me, as I humbly 1 ook the two fingers which she offered; J ind I felt like a brute, as the most im- I >ortant member of the family conde- 1 cended to leave a damp spot by the :dge of my left whisker. J When, however, I had been swept lownstairs by my impulsive friend, and pas alone with him in his den. mv a lourage returned, and with it some in- . lignation. I confronted him, and i ternly asked why I had not been told hat he was a "father. "Not been j old?"echoed he; "do you mean to say ? hat you did not know about the baby ?" j: ' Not so much as that it was," I replied, loomily. He was overwhelmed. Of ourse he had supposed that every one ^ mew it from the queen downward. Of ? ourse fifty people ought to have told J; oe, who of course had told me every- r hing else. At last my curiosity got the tetter of my indignation, and I cut short lis apologies by beginning my questions. a ' Does the shape of its head content ou?" I asked. "The shape of whose 11 rhat?" cried the philospher, apparently r oo surprised for grammar. "Of the * abv's head, of course," I replied, artily; "I merely wish to know if the a hild is likely to be as intellectual as ^ ou hoped." "Isn't the hair love- ' y?" lie asken, inconsequently. rnis 7as too much, and assuming my everesi manner I delivered myelf in this wise: "I thought, though o doubt I was wrong, that the use or a iaby to you would be partly to furnish y ou with raw material for a philoso- d iher, partly to enable you by constant ti bservation to gain further evidence y earing on such vexed questions as, g whether the infant gains its ideas of n pace by feeling about, whether it is r onscious of itself, etc." "Well," he e aid, laughing, "I don't expect much r ielp Irom my infant in those matters, p ;nless I can get inside her and think s< ,er thoughts." "Her thoughts?" cried v , in amazement; "you don't mean to t< ay it's a girl? Good gracious! you are s ot going" to educate a female philoso- a berH" He looked rather vexed. "Of tl ourse it's a girl," he said. "The father p f a female philosopner!" I gasped, a Dear me!" said he, somewhat testily; v isn't it enough to be a father of a noble p iroman?" d Now I have often put up with a great s< eal from my learned friend, and am s: uite awaro that I have been spoken of c s "Bozzy" behind my back. But ? here is a turning point even for the y rorrn, and noboay will sit forever at ii lie feet which are constantly kicking 1 lim. I had born snubbed more than tl nough by the illogical parent, and as- j< uraing my most sarcastic manner, I in- o uired, with an appearance of deference tl 'i ???* anoaW r\f TT ? is it uuu latiiui can J i/v/ o^caa v/a ~ our daughter as a noble woman?" o " Not at all," said the philosopher. a I had kept aloof from the philosopher j* :>r some weeks, nursing my wrath, like d l Ichiles I said to myself?cross as a bpar, a overheard my landoidv say in the ? assage?when I received a hasty note 11 egging me to come at once. I fancied n lyself summoned to a council of chiefs; ? a, having donned my shining armor, I 11 2ft my tent with fitting dignity, and ?. escended with a clang into the plain, ret I could not but be aware of my J1 mdlady's eye piercing me through the 1( rack ot the parlor door purposelv left ? jar, and of the hasty flapping of loose " Uppers which told of the startled " lavey's flight into the abyss blow: g An unusual silence held my friend's louse that morning. The door was pened before I had 'time to ring by a aelancholy footman, who, walking beore me with the elaborate delicacy of n Agag, noiselessly ushered me into * he study. It was my lot to be again ooted to the spot with amazement. By a lie bookcase, in a shaded corner of the oom, with his head bowed low upon ^ lis nanas, knelt tne ptniospher. Mere vas a long step from the siege of Troy, rum the simple -wrath of tne childlike Jj lero to the most complex embarassment 1 >f an heir of all the ages. What should ! do? The dismal menial had fled to a he shades without a word, without o tven a glance into the room. If I re- b reated, I left my friend unaided and renamed ignorant of the cause of his j] itrange conduct. If I advanced, I was t tgain the intruder on a scene not ji prepared for my inspection. In an igony of hesitation I feei to brushing my . iat with my elbow; but not finding the . ?xpected relief in the occupation. I was t ibout to desist, when my hat decided what my head could not, by falling with i crack on the floor. The effect was electrical. Without one glance at the t intruder, the philosopher "made a grab * it the nearest book shelf, dragged out a 1 volume which had not been touched for s haif a century, and hunted for nothing % in its paces with frantic eagerness. He c was still at it, when I stood over him Vi Aforl trrifViAiif rw fVint h n u.uvi uisi^u. rriiuyui wunuci tuat lie uviu the book upside down; then, with the Eoorest imitation of surprise which I ave ever seen, he rose and grasped my * hand. " You found me on the track of ? something," he said; "I was looking < it out in?in" t Here it occurred to him that he did < not know the name of the venerable s tome which he hfid so rudely disturbed, I and with a heightened color and a sud- < den chanae of manner, he turned quickly : to me and said: " My child is ill." I < felt nositivelv euiltv. I had been antrrv with that baby for making my wise friend foolish, for not being a boy, for bein? called a noble woman. Was it i not shameful that a great hulking brute ? should sneer at a weak thing that could noteven answer with a taunt? Were not my sarcasms enough to crush so delicate a plantP The poor little noble woman was in danger and I could do nothing to help her. There were tears in the eyes which were looking into i mine for comfort, but I had nothing ready to say. " I could not stand being alone," ho muttered, after a short silence; "thfc doctor is with her now, and in a moment I may hear that my little daughter must?in fact may hear the worst." While he was speaking, I seemed to have fifty consoling remarks to offer; but when he stopped, no one sentence would disengage itself from the rest. What I blurted out at last seems almost ridiculous a# I look back on it. " You must hope for the best," I said; "you know she has youth on her side." The words were scarcely out of my mouth when I heard a measured step upon the stairs; presently the door was opened by the noiseless footman, and the most famous of London doctors entered the room. My friend leaned heavily on my arm, but looked at the man of science with seeming; calmness. " I am happy to say," said the physician cheerily, "that our little friend is getting on as well as possible." "And she is out of danger." " She never was in it." "Never in? danger?"'cried I, almost disappointed." "She has nothing the matter with ber," he reDlied, "but a slight feverish cold. I iiave seldom seen a finer or more healthy child. Good morning." I never was more annoyed. Here was a. waste ox my nnest ieenngs. xaere was I stirred to the depth, well-nigh moved to tears, by a baby's feverish sold. Of course I was glad it was no worse; but my friend was too absurd, and I would not spare him. "Won't you resume your studies?" I 3sked, sarcastically, pointing to the disturbed book, which was lying on the 'round at our feet. His humility mieht have disarmed me. "lam afraid I've been a fool," he said; " but if you had seen her all flushed and breathing hard; md then she is so small and fragile." "Yes, for a noble woman," I renarked. He received the dart meekly. ' Philosopher," said I, suddenly deternined to rouse him at any cost, " when f f hio rn.-im vnn xxrova nr\(rmcra/1 in L bUWIVU II1IU 1 V ?/UA JWH Tl V*w ?4* jraver." His color certainly deepened. ' May I ask," I inquired with an apjearance of deference, "whether you were addressing yourself to the Personal . ?irst Cause, or to the Unknowable?but jerhaps you were merely bowing to the ational order of the Universe?" He made a gesture of impatience but inswered stiH with studied admiration: ' I was alone and in trouble." "And the efficacy of prayer?" isked. "For heaven's sake," cried he. burstnginto excitement, "stop your jargon! Nothing shows such ignorance of a subect as having all its cant phrases on the ip of your tongue. Can't 1 speak to xod without expecting to be paid or it?" This was turning the tables. If he vas going to take to questions I knew I hould end by admitting myself a fool, io to avoid a Socratic dialogue I put my land on my friend's shoulder and said: : ' You are a good man, philosopher; may ou and the noble woman live a thousnd years." 1 "Thank you," he said, simply; "and ' nw vrm must, lfit mfi im n.nd sin^ a Dflean ' ritii the nobler woman, my patient 'enelope, my sweet wife." So he went with long strides over the s?>hodel meadow, and I took myself to , ay tent full of pleasant thoughts.? Blackwood's Magazine. Arrowroot. A Sandwich Island letter to the San ? ose (Cal.) Mercury says: The unde- j eloped resources of the island are won- j erful. The cocoanut palm requires only j o be planted, when it becomes in a few ears very profitable. Indigo is indi- : enous and grows everywhere. The , lanioc, from which starch or arrow- , oot, farina and tapioca are made, yields normously, and- the Hawaiian arrow- , oot, one of the most valuable natural , roducts, grows all over the group. At | ome future day these will be developed , ritli -riT-rtfif trt frhnap whn tnim t.hpir nh. jntion to them. The manioc is,a low preading bush having a smooth red ) talk, with short prominent joints along i tie stcfiis and growing a tuft of small : almated leaves at the top. The roots, fter running a foot or two in the coarse, olcanie soil, enlarge by intersticial de- | osit and attain two or four inches in iameter by two or three feet in length, ' o that one plant may produce fifty or , ixty pounds of tubers, which being arefully dug up without breaking the maLer roots, are reproduced in another ear without the necessity of replant- , lg. The plants require no cultivation, 'he tuber is prepared for food by grating , tie entire root; the pulp is then sub- ' jcted to strong pressure under a lever J r by wringing in a canvas bag until tie milky juice is expelled; then* 1 lolded into cakes and balked like pems, r on a shovel by the natives, until just ' little brown; in which condition the lost careful investigation can detect no ifference from the taste and general ppearance of well prepared dry toast ] f|wheaten bread. I ate of it and exam- ' led it as carefully as possible, and saw o difference. This bread, or cassava ' akes, constitute a large part of the livig of the Portuguese in the Azores, and f the inhabitants of Central and South 1 imerica, and is every way superior to 1 tie taro and its products aa an article of 1 >od. Strange as it may appear, the exressed juice of the grated manioc is. by ispissation and some not well underSood manipulation, used as an arrow oison by the natives of Central and outh America. 1 i Words ofWisdom. He who agrees with himself agrees rith others. I There are two ways of pleasing?to muse and to interest. He will never suffer from solitude who as never quarreled with himself.J The men who jump at conclusions seiom reach .-my that are worth having, 'besemust be got by climbing. Never join witb your friend when he buses his horse or his wife, unless the ne is about to be sold and the other to e buried. To despond is to be ungrateful beforeiand. Be not looking for evil. Often hou drainest the gall of fear while evil 5 passing thy dwelling. When words of charity are uttered one hinks the human tongue an instrument livine; when words of slander are utered one wonders why the world was lot made dumb. If 50U hope for what is reasonable and hen work you will probably get it. iut if you expect the impossible, like he man who wanted to buy a pair or pectacles with which to get a bird's-eye riew of the city, you are bound to be lisappointed. Tbe Dalccarlian Peasant. The people in this Swedish district (till cling to their old costumes, which ire quaintly picturesque; but they sellom go abroad in, all their splendor un;il Sunday. Then both men and women '.ome forth as clean and neat as it is possible for soap and water and clothe0brushe3 to make them. Short red waistcoats with green sleeve*, knee breeches, md long leathern aprons covering the sliest, these constitute the usual male workaday apparel; while the women wear thick ankle boots and short dark woolen skirts, which, on Sundays, are enlivened by bright bodices and aprons of red and blue, or black and yellow, with large, snow-white linen sleeves, and rather tightly-fitting white or scar let caps. How they contrive to keep their finery in such a spotless state, while their houses are so small and their furniture so scanty, is a problem which the stranger will find it hard to solve. The Rojfjl Gorge In Colorado. Grand as is the view of this remark able canon when seen from the windov of the rushing train, its power of inspir ing awe can best be tested by-the tour ist, contented to make his way thithe on horseback or in the "schooners o the prairie." In approaching the gorgi it is observed that the pinion growth n rank and dense; just beyond, great bleaj ridges of bare, cold rock contras strongly with the profusion of foiiagi hiding everything beneath from sight while away in the dim distance th( snow-crowned peaks of the continenta divide are outlined sharp and clea; against the solid blue of the morning sky If the tourist is impetuous, his ardoi will be checked by the guide, foi after leaving wagon or horse a few step will bring him to the edge of the preci pice. Shuddering, he will peer dowi the awful slopes; fascinated, he wil steal a little nearerjto circumvent a veri mountain that has rolled into the chasm and at last the eye reaches down tl sharp incline 3.000 feet to the bed of thi river, the impetuous Arkansas, forty U sixty feet in width, yet to him a mer< ribbon of molten silver. Though surg ing madly against its rocky sides, leap ing wildly over gigantic masses ofrock and hoarsely murmuring against iti prison bars, nothing is heard of its fury TUB solemn silliness OI neaiu pervaae: the scene; the waters as viewed are as i polished, and as stationary as the wightj walls that look down on them from sucl fearfhl height. If the first experience upon the brinl of the Grand Canon was startling, thai of the Royal Gorge is absolutely terrify ing, and the bravest at the one poini become most abject of cowards in com parison at the other. . At the first -poin of observation, the walls, though fright fully steep, are nevertheless sloping t< more or less extent; here at the Roya Gorge they are sheer precipices, as per pendicular as the tallest house, af straight as if built by line. So narrow is the gorge that one would think tilt ? ? ? ? a ^?Am oi/^o fn aiHn fVw I'lII U W UX a OlA/UC ll^iu oiuv IV Oiuu tn\ easiest of accomplishments, yet no liv ing man has ever done it, or succeeded in thiowing any object so that it would fall into the water below. Many tourists are content with the appalling view from the main walls, but other smorf venturesome work- their way 600 tc 1,000 feet down the ragged edges ofs mountain that has parted and actualis slid into the chasm. The gorge i s 2,00? feet sheer-depth, and most precipito-jj and sublime in its proportions of anj chasm on the continent. Among all the thousands who have visited the Grand Canon and the Royal G9rge, harm has befallen none, lor, despite the seeming horror of the situation, the appallinej depths and ruggted paths, the tascination of the dinger appears to give birth to greatest caution. The canon, except in the dead of winter, is approached only from the top, the walls below being* so precipitous and the riyer such a torrent as to defy all access. When frozen, as the waters arc for brief periods during the coldest months, the way up the canon may be accomplished, but only at the risk ol personal comfort and not a little dan ?er. Printing' Under Difficulties. 9 The Will of the People is the title ol the organ of the Nihilists in Russia,. It appears in the most extraordinary way in unexpected corners, and when least looked for. They say that it is conitantly to be found on the toilet table of the emperor and under the pillows of itatesmen and generals. The manner in which this curious organ is printed is defcribed at length by the St. Petersburg correspondent of the Manchester Guardian. The office is a gloomy, miserable room at the top of a house in i poor locality. On the door is an announcement of some fictitious trade. Hie room is occupied by a poor wretch, Dnce a student it is wretchedly furnished. The bed occupies pretty nearly ;he entire room. Everything is mean md squalid. Tlie owner of tbe apartment is editor, compositor, reporter, printer and publisher. Under the mattress of the miserable bed the type is bidden. Thence, when occasion offers, it is transferred to the multitudinous pockets of his great coat. He goes out into the streets with a diminutive note ;>ook, hangs about public buildings, jliires at people in authority, whom he would kill if a glance could murder, writes his "leaders" in a secluded corner ?f a park, and rolls each page into a sill to be swallowed on the approach of i policeman. AsJJsoon as the work is inished he steals home, locks and bar ifoHDo itio Hrwr crots nnt his t.vne nnri jets up the paper, which ho afterward prints in a primitive manner, and distributes through the streets and in cafes, ind by all other means known only to inspirators. This account of the difficult, dangerous and painful duty which that poot patient scribe performs under the direction of an inexorable committee, from whom he receives little help, may or may not be in accordance with truth; but there remains the undeniable fact that under the very nose of the terrible Third Section, despite all the vigilance of the police, a sheet is printed, published and circulated, and no man can put his hand upon those who thus contribute to the literature of revolution. A White Infant Tarnsr Black. A honk nittepn months :ljto a child was bornio John Salter and wife, of Philadelphia, which promised to develop iuto a robust man. He was a beautiful child, with fair complexion, dark eyes and 3ilky, dark brown hair, which grew in profusion. But in a few days the parents were alarmed at a remarkable change that was coming over the chiid. He gradually grew dark. At first his skin became a pale yellow, then deepened into a saffron hue, and then, to the terror of the parents, grew #arker yet. The color was uniform all over the body, except at the joints, where it was a little darker, and in the palms of the hands, where it was lighter. The once brown hair grew stiff and jet black, and the eyes also grew darker, so that the line between the pupils and the iris could not be distinguished. In spite of medical treatment the boy became worse, and grew very weak, all the time the color of his skin deepening. At la3t he became as black as a full-blooded negro. Then he was attacked by convulsions, which greiv more frequent and violent until they threatened the child's life. It was in one of these that Dr. Reynolds wae called in. He succceded in curing the spasms, and then devoted his attention to the strange disease which Afflicted die child. He at once recognized it as melanosis or pigmentation, which it mentioned in the nooks in a general way, but there is no case given where it had developed all through the body. This was over sixteen months ago, the child bein? then thirteen months old. Sinct then the boy has greatly improved, b\ degrees becoming lighter, until now h< is of a light chestnut brown color. Since Dr. Reynolds has had the case in charge the child has been visited by over 20( physicians. The iron workers of England includ< 140,000 laboreis in furnaces and forges 169,000 ::i the manufacture of ma chinery, 5,.WO in steel works, 48,000 ii shipbuilding, and *200,000 in varioui branches of iron and steel manufacture making about 570,000 in all. The min ing population is about 530,000, and thi laborers in cotton mills abcut 600,000. ^Baltimore has a new institution in thj sliape or a Dig van, loaneu wiui 1101 cux ee, which is driven about the streets fo; the accommodation of laborers. A cuj of the beverage is sold for three cents. A Paris correspondent says that don key meat is superi# to horse or pork. FIRM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. _ j. Iodine and Turpentine for Poultry. ( For treatment of roup or swelled head | - in fowls I have found these two articles ( r of more value than anything I have ever < f used with either chickens or turkeys, i g Young turkeys are as liable to he affected ? s as older ones. The first you wilJ dis- i f cover of it is a swelling and puffing out 1 t between the eye and beak?it ifi the clos- i a ing up of the nostrils. Many times I t t think it is caused from eating soft food i a that collects on the beak, hardens in the < 1 nostrils and stops the discharge, which i r then forms in the head and is tue disease t called ri'Up. When I find one diseased c f this way I catch it and cleanse the pas- j r sage and beak by putting my finger in 1 3 the mouth, thumb on the outside, and t . gently pressing it; and if this does not i j remove it I take a lance or sharp pen- t j knife, and commencing close to the beak, i j make a small incision, and in the same j manner press all the colleeted matter out < as clean as possible. Then, with a me- t " J ? ? T? T owninf * 2 amm-Bizeu uaiuei d-uuh ulu-u *. <*>ivU? 3 carefully the cut and the top of the beak, ; being very careful not to let any go in 1 the eyes. Treat them in this manner . once a day, or once in two days, as the case may require, and if there are any 3 cankered spots in the mouth or throat I touch them in the same way. Keep the j cut open, not allowing it to collect. f Sometimes this matter becomes hard, , like a cheesy substance, and in such j cases I use tweezers to remove it, and continue the iodine the same. : In case of enlarged wattles, though not ; common, I anoint the diseased parts 1 each day for several days, then with thet lance or knife open the spot ^ sometimes . this collection is soft, other times a hard t substance, and the latter I remove with the tweezers. If it does not loosen j readily, anoint it again and again and it [ will finally come out, still continuing the iodine until your bird is well, j In doctoring blaok comb, nothing r acts nearer like a charm than iodine, , touching the spots with it; and as you j can make it much cheaper than to buy, ' I will add the proportions in preparing I it. viz., Iodine, one ounce; alcoiioi, i c one pint; potassa-iodine. one drachm. i Should your fowls show signs of in- i ' fluenza, bronchial affection, or hard ( , breathing, for they are subject to colds a ' the same as mankind have ready some s turpentine, and witn the secondary 1 r feather of the wing make a brush by t , gulling off the side feathers, leaving a \ nice bunch on the end. (These feathers 1 r I- always save when my poultry is r dressed for market.) Dip the brusn in t , the turpentine, open the beak, run it f [ down the throat, turning it sideways s and draw it through the cut in the roof [ ' of the mouth, lay the head back and use I freely on the outside of the throat. In 1: ' health it is necessary for a fowl to have f warm feet and legs. Should tbey feel f cold to the touch anoint with turpen- r ; tine. When applying these remedies r you mu*t use judgment, as I cannot see c f my patient.?Mrs. L. E. McMdhan, in a ; Pacific Rural Press. 8 ; Cowl Under the Weather. i Cows are very sensitive to the influ- J; I. ence of the weather. In bright, clear ; days their vital forces are more active . ,and vigorous, digestion i3 more rapid c and assimilation and waste are more ? active, and secretions which, like butter, 1 depend upon the destruction of tissue, c f are more abundant. Lassitude is favor- r ; able to transudation, because it relaxes I the delicate membranes and makes the I ; passage of liquids easier and conse- 1 quently more abundant. Thus while ' the fats in milk diminish, the albumi- ' f noids increase in mur/zy weather, and j yet a given weight of ni'.lk mnkes'less c cheese than in lair weather. This loss 1 in cheese is owing to the fact that it is as ? the albumen of the blood passes over into F the milk-vessels tlie major part of it is r covered into caseine, which is coagu J lable by the rennet, while albumen is J not^ This change from albumen to ' noooiio id nflP<w?tpH hir f.lip vital find - is more or less complete as they vary in strengtli. The greater energy of bright days increase the per cent, of caseine and makes that of albumen less. In muffgy weather this is reversed. Tuese changes often amount to enouga to make five per cent, difference in the yield of cheese in ft?vor of good weather, while the total of albuminoids as shown by analysis is the greater in the muggy days. From the decrease in fat and the increase of albuminoids, which are heavier than fat, the milk of the muggy days shows the greater specific gravity, ? and yiejds a less per cent, of hutter.? ' Professor L. B. Arnold. B : fl x Household Hints. fl To keep Jemons fresh, place them in r ajar filled with water, to be renewed p every day or two. i Rubbing flat-irons on sand-paper will i remove every bit of starch and render j1 them very smooth. ? To prevent moths in carpet, wash the c floor, before laying them, with spirits c of turpentine or benzine. c t Dry paint can be softened and re- c moved by an application with a swab, c of a strong solution of oxalic acid. f Never touch lettuce with a knife, as 8 it impairs the flavor and destroys the * crispness of the leaf; always tear it apart c witn the finger^. J When it is necessary to chop suet for any culinary purpose, if flour is ^ sprinkled over it while chopping, it will prevent the pieces from adhering. Fish, when fresh, have firm flesh, bright, clenr eyes, rigid fins, and ruddy gills. Lobsters and crabs must be bright in color and lively in movement. Some Catfons Facts. Millet is so fruitful that it will often yield a thousand seeds for one planted. In old times the tomato was called t.he love apple, and they were grown as a curiosity. Of all the products of the soil none are so prolific as weeds; 60,000 seeds have been counted upon one mullin stalk. The Reno (Nevada) Gazelle claims that there is a petrified tree lying near Lovelock station, that State, 600 feet in length and two feet thick. Iron is rolled eo thin at the Pittsburg ! (Pa.) rolling mills that 10.000 sheets are fonnivo/l fr/% mate a inAl? in rhiolr. ness. ?It is as flexible as tissue paper, } : and quite as thin. i A woman gave birth to four female ( , children at Topeka, Illinois, last Decern- J ; ber. The mother died soon after, but , the four girls are all living and in good 1 [ health. ? i When the yacht Lancashire Witch j j was docked at San Francisco, the snout j ( of a sword-fish was found to have pene- t [ trated copper and planking in her bot- \ i torn, and broken off. t i Bugs are an important article in the j , trade of Rio Janeiro. Their wings are 1 made into artificial flowers, and some of ( > the more brilliant varieties are worn as i ornaments in ladies' hair. 1 ! The electrical eel found in the ponds r f.nd rivers of South America will give a shock almost strong enough \o knock a c ! man down. It kills its prey with this ; power and delends itseli tnerewith. The Chinese force oysters to produce , pearls by putting small beads into the > shells ef the live oyster and returning it , aroin to the sea, where they soon cover * the beads with a secretion, making them 1 into pearls. j 3 Among the relics in the office of the j , police board in Cleveland, 0., is a rope , - that has hanged eighteen culprits. It ( 2 is of hemp, three-fourths of an inch in < thickness, and is strengthened by braid- ( ing a small tarred strand of hemp in f the crevices left by the large strands- | ^ A puzzle to scientists is the remarkB aide persistence of certain odors. More i than 1,0P0 years ago the mortar used in < the construction of the mosque of St. I Sophia, in Constantinople, was charged ] - with musk, the perfume of which per- j meates the building to this day. Prophetic Dreams. When we come to uupernaturs ireams, says a writer in Temple Bar, w :readon dangerous ground, and must b jautious; for sxeptics have eyes like th jagle, weapons of opposition keen an iharp-edged, and are as jealous an lolicitous about the uniformity c lature's law as a lover of his mistress [t must be frankly admitted that power md influences of a natural kind may^b it work in producing dreams of whic' are are ignorant, but which may som lay be discovered by the ever-brighten ng eye 01 science. ?iit provisional^ it all events, we must claim for som Ireams a higher origin. By such dream is these, great and crushing evils liav seen avoided, the innocent spared, am ;he guilty detected. Some years ago, i s related, a peddler was murdered ii he north of Scotland, and the crime r nained ior a long time a mystery. A ength a man came forward and dc :lared that he had had a dream in whicl here was shown to him a house, and i foice directed him to a spot near th louse where was buried the pack of th 3 ?- ?J Kaim nuruureu miuj j uuu uu ocaiui uciu; nade the pack was actually found nea he spot. At first it was thoueht tha he dreamer was himself the murderei n:t the man who had been accused con "essed the crime, and said that th ireamer knew nothing about it. I ;urned out aiterward that the murdere md the dreamer had been drinking tc cether for several days a short time afte ;he murder. It has been suggested, a i possible solution, that the murdere illowed statements to escape him whil mder the influence of drink which ha jeen recalled to the other in his dream hough he had not the slightest remem )rance of them in his sober hours. A gentleman dreamt his house was 01 ire; and the dream made so vivid ai jnpression that he immediately re uraed, saw it on fire indeed, and wa ust in time to save one of his childrei rom the flames. A lady dreamt that ai iged female relative bad been muraerei >y a black servant, and this dream wa epeated so often that she repaired to th )ld lady's house, and set a gentleman t vatch in the night. About three o'cloc] n the morning the black servant wa liscovered going to his mistress's room ls he said, with coals to mend the firei sufficiently absurd excuse at such ai lour in the middle of summer. Th ruth was apparent when a strong knil vas found buried beneath the coal3 The coincidences of dreams are very re narkable. For two persons to drean he same thing, at the same time, in dii erent places and under different circum itances exceed the power of chance joundless as that pretends to be. A Mr. Joseph Taylor relates that i >oy residing at a school a hundred mile rom homo dreamt that he went to hi ather's house, found all closed for th light but the back door, went into hi nother's room and found her awake. " ome to bid you good-bye," he said, " im going on a long journey." She an wered with great trembling, " Oh, dea on, thou art dead!" And he awoke ioon after he received a letter from hi ather making anxious inquiries afte lis health, in consequence or a ingnuu Iream which Ms mother had on th ame night, and which was exactl; dentical with his, even to the very word >f the conversation. Fortunately no sa< esults followed, though it may bav troved a warning to the boy in som nscrutable manner unknown to hi rienris. The case of the gentleman from Corn rail who dreamt eight days before th vent that he saw Mr. Percival mur lered in the lobby of the House of Com nons by Bellingham, and distinctly re ognized from prints, after the murder >oth the assassin and his victim, whon le had never seen previously, seem mnnhlonnlt nf n. annprnatiiral PTnlana MJ/WVUV WMAJ M. , ion, especially when it is remembere< hat the gentleman was with difficult; lissuadea by his fri&nds from going t< xindon to warn Mr. Percival (knowi o him in his dream as the chancellor o he exchequer). He urged that it ha< tccurred throe times in the same night >ut his friends thinking it a fool' rrand, he allowed the matter to dro] ill the news of the murder rudely re mscitated it. A lady of our acquaintance about U ihange her habitation saw in sleep ai ixact picture of her future home, an< rom her dream alone could recogniz ho r-nnmo qtiH musnBM. W0 tried t< tocount for {this to her by saying Mia he dream really influenced her conduct ind that when she met with a hous Jiswering^o her dream, she was natur illy predisposed to take it. A gentle nan from Yorkshire formed one of i larty for visitine the exhibition of 1862 I few days before Jeaving for Londoi ie had a" most vivid dream of th Tower, the armory, and more espcciall; he room in which the regalia an< :rown jewels are kept. He heard tin >ld woman wHo showed the 100m ad Iress the audience, and treasured u] arefully her very peculiarities of voicc Iress, manner and features, and createi onsiderable amusement among hi riends by mimicking the phanton how-woman when he awoke. H vent to London at the pjroper time, am if course visited the Towar, where h ras astonished and somewhat soberei >y the phantom's counterpart, whicl vas identical in every respect. '"Her Deeds on Her Head." An intelligent uptown father re :ently determin ed to present his onl; laughter?a beautiful maid of eighteei - with a couple of practical proof >f his affection in the shape of tw< valuable building lots. He had tin leeds prepared, and an evening ago luring th* absence of his child at s )arty, he crept up to h^jr room and lai< he valuable documents on her bureau ntending they should prove an inter isting surprise for the young lady ii he morning. It was a late hour whei ,he maiden reached her room, and vithout turning out the gas, she speed ly made her retiring arrangements \s she stood before the bureau it oc ;urred to her to put her hair in papers is in aid to her toilet for a dinner part; >n the following day. Hpr hands fell unon the deeds, an< without a moment's examination sh mmediately converted them into slen lor strips, and soon had her raven tresse >rnamented with the usual spiral knobs Hie next morning, without removinj ,he papers, she went down to breakfast ind found her father awaiting her witl i peculiarly happy smile on his benevo ent countenance." His face drew down lowever, when his daughter gave hin ;he usual morning salutation and seatec lerself at the table. He fidgeted abou or a moment or two, ?nu men, win ill-concealed anxiety, inquired: "Hem! Laura, didn't you get you ieeds?" "The maiden looked ud in surprise ' Deeds, father; what deeds?" The old gentleman looked blank ' Why, the deeds I gave you last night ;hild. There was an honest look of astonish mnnt. in the vouncr cirl's eves. "The deeds you gave me, father tVhere arp they?" And then a sudden recollectioi irossed her mind, and with irightful movement her hand sough nor curl papers. The old gen ;leman noticed her confusion, am instantly his gaze struck in the satne di rection?and there, twined with hi laughter's tresses, he saw strips n " legal cap." with here and there a tell taleliit ot red sealing wax. " Thy deeds," he groaned, " thy deed be on thy head!" The beaut,iful girl did not faint; sh lust humbly begged her parent's for sjiveness for her carelessness, and th f>ld gentleman felt so elated over hi happy witticism that he not only foi scavener. but duplicated the document the very same day.?Chicago Times. Fail of the Alauio. i,l In 1836, after being under Spanish e rule for a century and a half, Texas ree volted and declared the province free p e and independent. The republic, how- li d ever, had a terrible struggle. Hard -h d battles were fought and noble patriots rt ?f bled for freedom. In this conflict the ft i. Alamo mission, at San Antonio, turned si s into a military fort, furnishes" the most fi e thrilling chapter. i ti li On Sunday, the sixth of March, 1636, I e General Santa Anna, the selt-styled | r "Napoleon of the West," surrounded 0 the Alamo fort with a Mexican array v e numbering 4,000 men, while inside the t] s walLs was a devoted band of Texan tj e heroes numbering only 183. Among p d the noble martyrs to liberty in that t doomed garrison were the brave Col. j, a Travis, the gallant Col. Bowie, and that j, I- eccentric hunter from Tennessee, David t Crockett. Long before daylight on !- that Sabbath morning Santa Anna's b bug.e souuded an advance, and the fero- & a cious Mexicans rushed with tumultous s e shouts toward the Alamo. TheTexans g e had but little hope of success against b g such overwhelming numbers, and no n r hope of m?rcy in case of surrender. Al- c t ready the Mexican bands were playing a the dreadful dequelo, signifying that no tl i- mercy need be expected, so they re- ti e solved to sell their lives as dearly as t possible lor the sake of liberty. r Twice the Mexicans attempted to , >- scale the walls, and twice they stag- 5 r gared back before the fire of the brave & s defenders, leaving the ground strewn - 0 r with their dead. Then a third charge c; e was made, the reluctant mfantry 8 d being driven to the terrible as- a i* sault by the cavalry. On and on 11 - fhow pamp thrnnfrli vnllflVftfr.er vollev of P death-dealing balls. At last they reached i the walls and attempted to scale them r i by ladders, but were hurled back by the ! Texans. Again and again were the lads ders raised, again and again were they a a thrown down. But soon the Mexicans a & by overpowering numbers mounted the 1 3 walls, and " tumbled over like sheep." n s The last struggle was short and terrible, a e The Texans fought without a shadow y 0 of hope, fought with no other alterna- t it tive but death before them. Fought in s s their dying -agony, for it is said when p ? Col. Travis received his death wound s; - a Mexican officer saw hira fall and j, 1 rushed forward to dispatch him, but 0 e Travis pierced his assailant with his v e sword and both expired together, j Around the dead body of Crockett w were nine Mexicans he had slain ? in the last bloody struggle. - Bowie was butchered and mutilated 11 - on his sick bed, and not a man of f, S the 183 was left to tell the awful stoi^. t: Inscribed on the monument that com- j* % memorates the heroism of_these men, r1 3 the traveler may read: "Thermopylae 8 had her messenger of defeat, the Alamo f; e had none." r 3 On the twenty-fir3t of April folfowing Jj J the massacre at San Antonio, the battle I of San Jacinto -was fought. In this last 5 - struggle for liberty the Texans went, r r into battle shouting as a war cry, ? "Remember the Ala'mo." The Hexi- J; 3 cans werfl defeated, Santa Anna was t! f captured, and Toxan independence seJ cured. From 1836 to 1845 Texas was p an independent republic, having, during a 7 the time, four presidents. In 1845 this g 3 " Ion? star republic " was added to our a * constellation of States. I e ? tl An Island Romance. ? 3 ? A New York paper of recent date says: " _ The man, woman or child in this coune try of free schools, who knows of even p . the existence of the Tristan da Cunha c . islands, can scarcely be found; yet most ? . maps show them, and in some cyclope- 1' dias they are recognizable in the few 1 i lines about Tristan da Cunha. There J1 orp t.hrpp islands in the crnnn. which h . lies in the South Atlantic ocean, about i midway between Africa and America, j and nearly on a line drawn from Buenos is d Ayres to Cape Town. It was on the k j largest ol the group, containing about n f forty square miles, that the ship Mahel v i Clark, owned in this city, and sailing c ,t from Liverpool to Hong" Kong, was ii s driven ashore by stress of weather two a p years ago next May day; and now, t< i. Captain East, of her majesty's ship If Comus, has just reported his delivery of s] 3 the presents sent by President Hayts to p ! the isianders who succored the crew, si i They are 109 in number, and are chiefly p e descendants of a certain Corporal Glass, ii 3 who was one of a garrison placed on the tl t island by England when Bonaparte was h t imprisoned on St. Helena, 1,500 miles ii e away. Tlie oldest inhabitant is Peter tl . Green, a hale, heartv man, in his seven- t* . ty-seventh year, and the youngest i*his h n great-grandchild, aged a few months, ii . There hare only been lour deaths in i thirteen years, and no death in infancy e was ever known among them. The s: y perfect climate is probably the expian- t< i ation of these facts. The community h e cultivates, about twenty acres, potatoes d . being the chief crop, and usually get ten g p ortwelvebushels from oneofseed. They e: , have 500 hundred cattle, 500 sheep an d a ii any quantity of fowls. . The little state e: s is both orderly and contented, and Peter si a Green is looked up to as the chief, al- ? e though he disclaims all preventions to 1 power. Doubtless the fact that nearly tl e a majority of the population are in some tl J way related to him?he has had sixteen o 2 children?accounts for the estimation in lc which he is held. Captain*East recom- ft mends his son, William Green, for the v Albert medal, or the life-saving medal of the Royal Humane society, and, as he v greatly distinguished himself on the oc- u . casion of the Mabel Clark's wreck, the Ii j matter is one for somebody's attention g t in this country also. So^ie years ago n g the islanders begged some cats from a K j ship, which, for some reason, stopped at tl e Tristan da Cunha, bat the perverse ani- a mals preferred rabbits and chickens to I elusive mice, and now they run wild all i over the. island, while the mice are ? orrnit.pr neats than ever. All the island I ers want now is a clergyman. i P i The Czar's Dally Life. ? I According to a correspondent of the fi Presse, of Vienna, the czar is now to all f; * intent9 and purposes a prisoner in his e own palace. Ten officers of the guard n ' are charged with the protection of the s ' building, and their duty is to keep watch t 3 over all its inhabitants and report their b doings at stated times. Special regular 8 tions are issued for the surveillance of o * each floor of the palace. It is ordered y that the officers on guard at the floor 1; ? where the emperor resides shall tur i fi ? back every one who is found there wi' .1- b [' out specinl authority and does not oe- 11 _ long to the imperial family. Between 1t twelve at night and eight in the morn- J S l' ing not even the czarewitch is admitted j t i without a special pass, to he obtained j v t from the court marshal, Von Grote | c This regulation is so strictly carried out h that Dr. Bolkin, the empress1 body pi:y- 1: sician, had to wait one night for a pa-w n before he was admitted lo his patient. 11 , and the medicine he had sent for was i r " also kept back until authority tor i s ; li admission was obtained. The subt^r- i e " ranenn apartments have all been bricked i ' up, it having been decided that they j shall no longer be inhabited. I ? Submarine Balloons. J v Experiments in a deep lake near Ber- ! ? ti lini have shown the practicability of a |'' a new and ingenious plan for raising i r t sunken vessels and other heavy objects j * lost ill the water. The invention 13 that |11 i of an Austrian engineer, and consists of t i- an unintiated balloon, containing a !s s bottle of sulphuric, acid p.-cked in salt, i s if which, when exposed to the action of i ' - the acid, generates carbonic-acid gas. j c The balloon is taken under the water by 1t( s a diver and fastened to the object that is ; *'1 to be raised. Then a screw is turned I ( e which liberates the acid, ens is formed, j - the balloon expands and rises, an<1 it is e only a question of the size of the balloon, u s the strength of the tack!;;, ?nd the weight t - of the sunken object, whether it sh:ili be c ,s raised or not. The experiments near | p Berlin were successful. n TLMJLLiX IVriUk A Texan professor has written a amphlet to prove that cities built of mestone are the healthiest in Ifcc* rorld. and never much visited by ia*arial diseases, including yellow ;ver. The argument is that the limeone absorbs carbonic acid arising om animal and vegetable decomposion? , The St. Gothard tunnel furnishes anther striking example of accurate sureying. Although the entire length of ae tunnel is ine and a quarter miles, lie two galleries were bored with such recision that they met with a differnna nf innhpa in lpvfll and a Uvvr U* VfiliJ 1UU4 tuvuvw iteral deviation of less than eight iches. There is terrible distress in Asia linor, even within fifty miles of Contantinople. Cattle, sheep and Angora oats are carried off in large numbers y disease. Brigandage, which is almost ecessiiated by hunger, is on the inrease. The country between Angora nd Ismidt is becoming a desert. Four tiousand people of the Moussoul disrict have emigrated to Bagdad. The preserving of fruits has grown to e an enormous industry in the United tates during the past twenty years, and ne which appears to be steadily inreasing. Delaware was a few years ince the great center of this industry, nd had almost a monopoly of the busiess; but recently preserving establishments have sprang up in nearly all Dcalities where a variety of fruits are aised in any considerable amount. In France, in addition to registering , letter they must insure it, the ins ur nee charge per letter being one cent, 'he weight of an insured letter is larked 011 the envelope, and on arrival t its destination the letter is'again weighed, and it the second weighing allies with the marks, and if the letter hows no evidence of having been tamered with, it is assumed to be in the ame ^condition as when mail'd. TJie nsurance is liable for the sale delivery f the letter in'the same condition as rhen mailed, but the contents are not irectly insured. ' The Christians in Armenia appeal to be civilized nations of the world to ive them from threatened exterminaion at the hands of the Turks. They re denied the rights of citizenship, beir lands are wrested from them on rifling pretenses, their homes are avaged, and their women treated with be utmost brutality. For all this there i no redress. The Turks, call them Christian dogs," and treat them acordingly. Since the Crimean war the Ihristian population of Armenia has een reduced one-fourth, and in some of he cities and towns there are no Chrisians left. In cases of suspended animation, or sphyxia, life should not be too soon iven up. Discussing premature burils, in a recent communication to the 'rench Academy, Professor Fort states hat he was enabled to restore to life a hild three years old by practicing articial respiration on it four hours, comlencinc: three hours and a half after aparent death. In another case which ame under his observation, a physician estored a nearly drowned person alter :>ur hours of artificial respiration, 'bis person had been in the water ten ?A ovritrafl rvno 1II1UIG3, auu UUM piijoivitMl aixnvvt ou'- after asphyxia. In the village of Fnirraount, Ind., exits a singular fanatical religions society nown as the," Raperites;" the origiator "of the society .being one Raper, rho made money some years ago by hrirging his neighbors fees for collectig notes, and when attorneys' fees were bolished by law, turned his atcention 3 religion. He is attracting quite a foljwing. numbering some of the most repectable citizens of the village. They rofes3 extreme holiness, aud an entire ?paration from the world and its soruid ursuto Some of them are so extreme i their views as to refuse to pray in lieir families, on account of the ome circle being corrupted by laborig for bread. Their leader professes le utmost familiarity with the Deity, iikine with him face to face, shaking ands with the Savior, and many other upossibilities. As time goes on and books multiply, lys the Saturday Review, it must cease ) be considered discreditable not to ave read everything above a certain egree of celebrity. The obvious and rowing impossibility of acquiring an xhaustive knowledge of even standrd works must force upon us a new jtimate of what constitutes scholarlip. The plethora of print under rhich we are suffering will have one ood effect if it drives us to aim less at le acquirement of complete knowledge lan at the possession of full and wellrdered minds. To know where to >ok for any particular kind of literary )od for which we may hunger is an adantage second only to that of being rell supplied with it; and for this adantage we depend in a great measure oon our knowledge of unread authors, t is well worth-while to study the eography of literature, even if we canot hope to be great travelers ourselves. Reviews and other critical serve iie same purpose as voyages and travels, nd are, on the whole, not less trustworthy. 'he Wonderful Man Without Limbs. Mr. Kavanagh, the Irish member of arliament whose lack of arms and legs 5 accompanied by a plentiful supply of rains, had in his youth a very sorrowui life. After the early death of his Uher and mother, he was under the ontrol of his two elder brothers, who, Jortiiied by his strange deformity, are aidto have secluded him in the counry from the siuht of mankind. The oy, full of intellectual zeal and manly pirit would not allow his mind to rust r grow morbid; and, when after several ears his brothers died, leaving a very irge estate to his guidance, be emerged rom his library a rarely cultivated and irilliant man, with a brain and will so rained that it was a very easy matter oJUim to grasp practical life and affairs, lo delightful are Mr. Kavanagh's inellectual and spiritual graces that he iron for his wife a vnry beautiful and harming woman. His children are all right and handsome, and he is greatly >eloved. both by tliera and by his tenantry. In spite of his bodily ruisforune Mr. Kavanaghis a note I Nimrod, '* ? - lV? l...... n cnMi^'n u*lnr>li lUIIlg III ItI 1IUUII113 in u nwuii ?* ijivii ie himself invented? with the greatest nergy and daring. Jesuit of a Singular Snrglonl Operation A little girl, Jessie Ltimlv. upon irhom the operation of pastrotomy, or utting through the stomach, was perormeu last August, and who has sinee eceived all her nourishment through lie stomach, is gaining strength and lesh very radidly. The child masticates he food "given her, and, bein<r un-tbleto wallow, takes the chewed diet ami inerts it into her stomach through the ube placed there by t:se surgeon. She own corf nf Uwn\_ and nnrtP.H'S (U1 int i ?/?/ ? ?-- --r~ i r> be perfectly healthy and as cheerful a .my of her playniates.?1-San Antonia Texas) Express. Tho happiness of your lifi^ depends pon t:io quality 01 your iiiuu?ina? lierofore, cuard nccordingly, and take arc that you I'liMTtriin no notions unuitaM'; to virtu?? :irr1 unreasonable to uturo. A scene ol desolation grocta the eye; The carpets up, tiic curtains down, flros out, Furniture all upset ami piled about; While back and lorth, with heads in towel* bound, With skirts looped up a loot above the ground, And arm,: all bared, fly creatures?can it b? My lovely wife and servants neat I see Tearing nbout in those outroppoufl duds, And stirring up this awlul smell of suds While in their eyes tbere gleams a dangeroos ligl.t? Great heavons, 'tis they ! Oh, what a dreadlul sight! The dog, once scalded, from them keeps aloof. The cat has sought ior safety on the root, And in the dining-room, where I had thought To find.a toothsome dinner, they have goft A fiend ot A/rica blood, who joys to swing A whitewash-brush, and spatter everything. > But I am not torgot. My feast is spread Ont. in tlirt wnofiflliml on a barrel-need. One alico ot bread, a plate of warmed-up beans, ' " ,i Some water in a mng, a diali of greens. Ob, banquot rich ! And heat of all, you see, I've brought a fellow home to dine with me. ?Benton Pod. i! ITEMS OF INTEREST. Shave your face, bat not your customers. .(i.. i" T)(i:V' You can't dig clams without moving a mussel. High time?That kept by a town clock.?Rome Sentinel. Amateur fishermen in this country pay $1,(XX),000 a year lor fishing gear. The Boston Post says the man who was run over by n train of cars experienced silent joy?uute elation. The railway through the St. Gothard* tunnel will, it is thought, be open for traffic by the first of October, this year. Michigan university last year ranked second amor g the colleges of the United. ! States in the number oi students. Thia year, first. For very young ladies the fichu-sba?e<f mantles are retained, also those that lapsmoothly in front, and fit like a basque behind. Some men are such inveterate jokers that they can't step frt>m a horse-car without getting off a good thing.-r-5<wton Post. In the Scuth there are 144 blast furnaces, thi'rty-nino rolling mills and steel works, and forty-eight forges and bloomeries. OA?,?n:i?Knol cfnilant lias diqrnvored UUUlcxiii;uv/ai guuuvuv mmw v.. ? that the Bible is particularly severe on cremation. He bases his discovery on Amos, chapter 2, verses 1-3. Professor Arnold says a good cow should give 8,000 pounds of milk yearly ?nearly twenty-two pounds, or eleven quarts, for every day in the year. Never in the history of Pennsylvania . has there beerf in so short a space of time such valuable discoveries of iron ore made as those of the past year. The German papers are teeming with accounts of the unheard-of proportions which emigration to America is assuming on account yi the new military laws, A merchant may manage to grub along without advertising, and sojmav a man empty a hogshead of water with a teaspoon, but both are decidedly tedious triw frm Ulllici kuaiujga. A Western householder in fillinj; up his census schedule, under the column ' where born," described one of his'' children " born in the parlor," nnd tho other "upstairs." Western papers are discussing the question, *'Sliallma.ried women work?" unless they do, we suppose a good many husbands of the period will, starve to death.?New York Express. > A Fort BentOn (Montana) justice who was called upon to marry a eoupie ran off with the girl and married her himself leaving the lover in his office to look over the law book3. M. Louis Favre, tho engineer-in-chief who built the St. Gothard tunnel, fell dead in the tunnel on the evie of the completion of the boring. His bust in" marble is to be placed over tlie entrance. According to Chinese notions of rank. masters must not occupy sleeping rooms I below their servmts. Consequently the family of the Chinese professor in Cambridge, Mass., sleep in thb attic, and the servants downstairs. When a man's wife comes in and sees him razor in hand, and with his face all lather, and asks him: " Are yon shavingP" it's a provoking thing in him to answer: " No, I'm blacking the stove," but it's human nature to so reply.?Bos-, ton Post. , .. . . The workmen who bored the St. Qotnard tunnel were mostly Italians, paid at the rate of five and six dollars 3 day. Many lost their limbs or lives through accidents, but altogether they stood the heat and were less frightened in handling dynamite than the Swiss and Germans. * A young lady surprised the "gentlemanly clerk" at one of our dry sroodc stores by offering him fifty rents in payment for a dollar purchase. "It amounts to a dollar, if you please," said the clerk. "I know it does," was the answer, " but papa is only paying fifty cents on the dollar now." The comet discovered by the Ann Arbor professor has a tail three minutes long. An insignificant affair. The New York Ledger frequently has a tale ten months long. A tail three minutes long is hardly worth our attention, and t ill no doubt there are persons who win second U3 in this view of the comet.? Norristovm Herald From a paltry seventy-five cents' worth of iron ore may be developed, it is said, $5.50 worth of bar iron, 810 worth of horse-shoes, $180 worth of' table knives, $6,800 worth of tine needles. $20,480 worth of shirt buttons, $200,000 worth of watch springs, $400,000 worth of hair springs, or $2,500,000 worth of pallet arbors (used in watches). Some ten years aco oheese making was introduced into Russia, and that country has now established no less than eightythree factories, while 260persons have been taught in the school in connection with the St. Nickolas Railway Dairy factory. In the three Oojesdas of the government of Vologda are forty-six factories, :it which the milk of 4 520 cows is utilized. From this milk 12,420 ponds ol cheese have hem m ?le. and 8.085 poods of butter The total value of this has been i?0fi,700 rubles?a ruble' I being equivalent about seventy-six I cents of Amoi ican avney. Disposal of the Dead. The Kamtchadale? keep special clops for the purpose of pr?nsuming their dead. TJie Latooknf, nt Z.mzibar,> bury their deaj who ?i L.' irom disease or old ape, but make it a r.nJ?- to leave those slain in battle to be devoured by wild beasts where they Ho. The Parsers brinir their dead to oertair rotind towers, called towers of silence, to be eaten by vuiJ tures. which make those towers their dwelling places. The Moors lay the bodies of the dead on the ground", and pilimr prickly thorns on them to keep -?r IrtnTTa +Vio?n to dPO.1V. The OH ICrtYt blivui W- ,, ancient Colehians suspended the > orpses of men in trees, but their women they buried. The Gonds and Bhils. of India, bum their men but bury their women. The Zodas bury their children, the victims of infanticide, and burn all others; the Greeks used both burial ttnd burning. Among tlie Romans burial was the earlier custom. Burning was not general till the republic, but was uni versal under the empire. The Egyptians embalmed their dead. The Mohammed ana and the Christians both use burial.