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. J " - l : -?????? ? ?.?.? ? ? * ?> " 'M i ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. ?SRI ^CBeo?^ ? ' BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1880. v . NO. 52. VOLUME XXV ???? ' " " I _ _ _ Another Month to Feed. Ton wonder, Jack, that I take no heed Of these jests and banters gay, Because there's another mouth to feed a] In my humble home to-day; But b'.ess you, man, you would wonder less yi If a married man were you, r: With little ones' round your knees to press 4 When the hard day's work is through. ^ My wages are slender at best, I own, And the outlook's poor enough, And the brood in my nest has swiftly grown, C( But I'm fashioned of cheerful stuff; And with each new face in the infant's crib, ia There has nothing but good luck come, p For the smiles that broider a baby's bib Are the glintings of life's great sum. And there's many a shopmate yonder, jack al Who has been with his jeering free, ^ Whose home's the darker, I know, for lack ^ UI tee Olessings mat come to me; g( And many another single, too, a Who his earnings broadcast flings, 8: ?Vaom a family such as mine could woo To better and nobler things. For a good wile's more that a mainstay, man, e< She is capstan, bar and buoy, And babes are the charts whereon we scan The A B C'8 of joy; U* And he who a child's heart reads aright, 44 Be he whomsoever he may, pi Will Bteer by a rock-built beaoon-light, When the nightmand4the storm hold sway. ai So tat them hanter and sneer, old fried. tl I am ready my cause to plead J"1 With the All-creative Povrers that send Still another mouth to feed? c] Another lile to be shaped and trained V For duty to man on earth, i h And take my chance, if lor aught arraigned, P: At the bar of manhood's worth. cl A House-Hunting Experience. E Z' Mrs.; Joshua Maclane was a v<;ry fe busy woman. "Watts'honey-bee isn't i* a circumstance to her." Joshua Maclane la would SRy, with a Riuile. It was not a smile ot derision, but very satisfied, as for he was a busy man, and this ele- ej ment of activity in his partner was a source ot intense satisfaction. si As a result of Mrs. Maclane's activity, ct she had a great deal to do, for society su learned long ago that, as a rule, if it qi wants anything done, it is safest to go th to a busy person to get it done. Drones H never learn executive ability, as a natural sequence, Mrs. Maclane was w president of associations, secretary of la societies, visitor at institutions, chair- yc man of committees, on whom most of the work fell, and a power in society as w well as her own home. fo To such busy people there come days in when executive ability is taxed to the in utmost. The varied duties do no: ne spread themselves neatly over a iriven eD space, but come, like "troubles, in battalions." ' One of these days, and one of these bs hours in the day, had come to Mre. th Joshua Maclane. She was sewing, watching her children, and entertaining lai a nclgnbor, when the tide set in. A ou note came, bagging her, as president of fa a relief association, to examine the ere- lo drntials of a suffering applicant im- as mi diately. Another came, begging her m to visit a family in extreme destitution th jit. nnrr. A servant entered, saving I an that the seamstress could not proceed fai further without orders; and directly behind the sprvant carnc Harry Mac- th fane, with a note from his teacher sutiing that he was sent home because sa he complained of sore throat, and was H; feverish. With a mother's instinct, the minor duties waited while Mrs. of Mar,lane examined the child's throat he She was thus engaged when her hus- sv band's brother entered with a telegram: th "It is from Joshua," he explained, ns "He says there is a house for sale dr uptown that be wa .ts you to look at hs immediately. 'Drop everything,' he telegraphs, and look after it." ch Mrs. Joshua Maclane knitted her w: brow, and the neighbor smiled, but she kr said, kindly: "If there is any way I can assist you, I hope you will allow m me." fir " Instead of dropping everything, I lei don't see how anything can be dropped,'' sn said Mrs. Maclane, meditatively. She took a medicine case, and a? she pre- nc pared some medicine for her sick child, gl said to the waiting secant: "Tell the "] seamstress to sew ou tue sneets in me closet until I am at liberty. I keep such plain work for emergencies," she tli explained to her neighbor. "Now I sh must put Harry in a room by himself until I know whether his illness is con- m tagious, and I cannot leave him. I will b? attend to the case downstairs as soon as ti< Harry is comfortable." m " Can I visit the poor family?" volunteered her neighbor. sa " I shall be very grateful," replied SI Mrs. Maclane. Then she turned to her w brother-in-law. 44 Hal, I can't look after the house. Il w would be a great favor if you could do h< it." d( " But?" began the brother-in-law. Mrs. Maclane interrupted him. "You m know our needs and tasres. too. almost fr as well as we do ourselves. You Know d( we want a house similar to this, but tb larger. Observe the paper, the paint b( and the walls. Be sure to find out it yt there are plenty of closets, and, above w all things, notice if there are any signs lit of sewer gas." tb "The lack ol wisdom in sending a h< boy to do a man's work has passed into a proverb," answered Henry Maclane. ui "I fear you will find it equally un- w wise to send a man to do a woman's ' work." M "A little practice in house-huntinsj may be of service to you in the future, suggested the neighbor, pleasantly. th "Bachelor halls are very dreary vc E laces in my way of thinking," replied lo [enry Maclane, gravely. "A home that is a home needs a wife." of " Precisely," said the neighbor, he " Wife and home were in my thoughts pe when I suggested the acquisition of w Knowledge for future use." lo Henry Maclane shrugged his shoulders, and gave his head a negative da shake. "You wouldn't advise a mnn as who had civil engineering before him co to learn to be a jeweler, I suppose?" "No; but I would advise a man who yc had civil engineering or anything else Jv before him not to cast away a jewel if o\ he should stumble across one. Dia- W monds always repay for the setting." fa The neighbor said it with intent, evi- w dently. giving expressive little nods as di she talked. m Henry Maclane smiled. " I am afraid in your diamond is a manufactured one. R Put to the test, it would turnout like to the Scotch chemist's?a crystallized sili- h< eate, and not pure carbon." As he passed out, the neighbor said, M with a pout: " Your brother-in-law is incorrigible. There is that good Miss ec , Anderson would make him such a good m wite, and 1 Know sne worsmps tne ss eround be walks on. Is there any old love that fills his mind and heart to the d( cxc'iusion of all the interesting ladies of our set?" r< r " We never knew of any love affair," eplied Mrs. Maclane, in a confidential la tone, " but I have my suspicions. He was a young man at the time of our di civil war, and, as a colonel, did good si service. Attached to his sword is a curl w of light flaxen hair tied with a blue rib- b bon. I once begged him to tell me the si story of the golden lock, but he an- h swered, quietly, that there was nothing h to teli. o: '' It looks like a child's,11 ventured tl to suggest. * vi "To which he replied: 'The head on T which it grew must have known as o many summers and winters as your v uwu.' "' I hope she is not dead,' I ventured B again. 4. 'fcAnd he answered, in the same quiet ] ray, ' I never heard of her death.' ] "'Is she married?' I asked, bluntly. 1 '"I presume so; I don't know,' he i aswered, a trifle less calmly. s "'The ribbon is faded; I will bring 3U a fresh piece, and put this in the ? ig-bag,' I suggested. "But lie shook his head decidedly, i A. new piece would not be the same,' ; e answered, gravely. i " This is a slight foundation on which t ) rear a romance,but I have always beeved there is a memory of the past t ^nnected with the faded ribbon and i mny hair. Hal, with all his bravery, t a shy man. He would be like Miles t tandish. whom he is always quoting s i love and in war. I don't believe lie t rer heard 'that terrible No from the s ps of the woman' who had sunny hair id wore pale ribbons, but I can fancy 1 im losing his chance, and letting some ? ther man win her. You see, he would 1 ave only himself to blame, and would 3 on remembering che past dream with i dreary kind of pleasure. Still, I always ? tpect to see him married. Home and ife arc the just deserts of men like , 'ill." The man of whom this cheerful prophry was made was on his way to an up>wn residence, in no enviable frame of lind " It's absurd of Joshua's wife to send le on this errand," he was thinking. I am sure to blunder. Let me see? aper, ^aint, walls, closets and sewer is were the items of special importice." " What, axueasant looking house!" he lought, as he.ascended the steps of the Bsidence designated in his brother's :legram. In the hall he carefully noted le wali from floor to ceiling, looked losely at the paint, and made an inentory of closets at the back of the all. Then he was admitted into the ( arior, ana saw at a glance mat ine ar- j mgement was such as Mrs. Maclane ] esired. A faint perfume of violets , as a pleasant odor to inhale when he ared to encounter sewer gas. He ] lanced at the wall, and then his eye ] 11 on a la. y who advanced from the 'ar room, and exclaimed, " Mr. Mac- . ne!" " My old friend Reby!" he responded, i i he took her hand. "This is an un- 3 ;pected plea-sure " There was genuine pleasure on both t des, if sparkling eyes and glowing t leeks were signs of pleasure; then each | irveyed the other, with glances half lestioning and half apprehensive, jus ey exchanged ordinary remarks and j enrv Maclane explained his errand. r "My sister occupies the house, and c ill show it to you presently," said the dy. "Do you want it firnished as t >u find it?" ^ Henry Maclane looked at the fair j oman?sunny hair waving over her rehead; clear blue eyes looking search- g gly into his at one moment, and glanc- t g "shyly away the next, lips moving irvously as if she were mastering some t lotion?and he replied, emphatically: t Just as it is!" g "There is a pleasant view from the ick windows," said the lady, leading h e way to the rear room. j "Very pleasant!" replied Henry Macne ; but he had given only a glancc , itside, and was gazing down on the J ir-haired woman, standing a little jj wer than himself. Then he fell to 1 king questions about her family and utual friencs; and all the time he had ' e air of a lawyer who asks indirect s lestions hoping to elicit some unknown 3t8. * " Mamma!" called a childish voice in r e hall. Tlie fair lady stepped to the door, and s id, gently: "Go to the nursery, Hi." t Henry Maclane started at the sound i the name he always bore in his own c >me. Had it been given the child for ^ reet remembrance sake? The thought at this remembrance must count for s lUght, if there were husband and chilen, had in it the sadness of " it might J ivebeen." b 46 Hni.rv ">? *?" l*n TT/i VvVAIIrtllf mont? f) JL 11C JCtllO UlUSUimvc i/ivut;ui iaumij tanges to you,'' said Henry Machine, a ith a view ol gaining some personal iowled<ze. r "Yes," answered the lady, with a S editative look on her face, "there e few reminders even of the old days " ft. I have had my share of joy and e rrow." >ienry Maclane noted, what he had " >t seen before, that there was a mining of crape in the lady's black dress, ii Perhaps she is a widow," was his oueht. * c My mother's death last year was v e greatest affliction I have ever had," n ie said, sadly. * "Not a widow'."was Henry Maclane's ental comment. " The loss ol her hustnd would have been a greater afflic- 1' 3ri to this woman than the loss of her other." There was a pause, and Henry Maclane i id: " You must know Mrs. McCiane. ^ ie will give any friend of mine a warm ? elcome." i "Certainly." replied the lady. "It ill be a pleasure to know her. Ah! ;re is my sister. Mrs. Ellis. Sue, >n't you remember Mr. Maclane?" 5 "Remember him? What, Hal, our ost devoted attendant and dearest e iend? Upon mv word, I hadn't any o ;arer friend in those days," cxclaimed ^ te sister, in a voluble way he remem- c ;red well. " How glad lfl am to see t hi! The servant told me a gentleman s as waiting to be shown the house. I fi ;tle dreamed of finding an old friend in I ie house-hunter. Are you a judge of >uses?"she asked, in a practical way. t "I fear not; but Mrs. Maclane was s lable to come, as one of the children as ill," replied Henry Maclane. p ' How many children are there?" asked rs. Ellis. "Five," an^vered Henry Maclane. ? Mrs. Ellis proceeded immediately to e business in hand. " I -will show "v >u the upper stories if you like to ok." Mrs. Ellis enumerated the good points 1 the house with the volubility of a >use agent, and Henry Maclane ap- *> ared to follow, but his thoughts were I ith the fair woman in the parlor be- t w. " It is strange we never met until to iy," he said, somewhat irrelevantly, * Mrs. Ellis's last remark was about mraunicating rooms. "You see, we went to Europe when 1 iu went for a soldier," renlied Mrs. s llis. " I was there until the var was rer. Reby remained some years longer, t 'hen we came back to Baltimore your q mily had moved to New York, and 11 e lost sight of you all. It was very j smal coming back to strangers and i any changes. I soon found comfort c my engagement to Mr. Ellis, and eby went back to Europe. She wants ] > go again, but we are trying to keep f ;r here." " Is her husband there?" asked Henry c iaclane. i " Husband ? ? Reby's husband ? " } :hoed Mr3. Ellis. "She lias never arried. Did you notice your name iKe, my nuie Doyr- x Henry Maclane made a movement to i ;scend the stairs. "Hadn't you better see the rear ] K)m?" asked Mrs. Ellis. ] 44 No matter. I will send Mrs. Macine," he replied, carelessly. t Truth to tell, he was inclined to eo i own the stairs with a bound. His ] ster-in-law's conclusions had not been t ride of the mark. No woman had ever een to him what this woman with the ] anny hair and fair face had been, but t e was a shy man, and had simply lost 1 is chance. He went to battle with 1 h'tt o vomiocf frti* rmo rrf\lHon 1r*r?\r i U J a IC^UVOU *V1 viav g\/iuvu iwn A.. ie fair head, and she was too proud a < roman to give more than was asked, hen they drifted far apart, as lives ' ften do that have touched each other rith strong points of contact. ] He was soon in the parlor, and by I leby's side. ] "Tell Mrs. Maclane we would like ( ier derision as soon as possible," said Mrs. Ellis, somewhat sharply. To 1l lerself she was saying, 44 The man j night have married Reby once, but he ! 1 shall not flirt with her now." i 441 am glad to find Reby unchanged," said Henry Maclane in response. r Mrs. Ellis replied, brusquely: 44She ? wonderfully changed to me. The I ?ears have brought great strength and i goodness to Reby. She is not a woman j ;o tolerate nonsense of any kind." t She justified her brusque speech with L ihe menial comment: 44 A man with a wife and five children has no business i o stand there with undisguised admira- j ;ion on his face, and congratulate him- 1 self on finding Reby unchanged. It's a rying ordeal to ner, and I would t shorten it if I could." s Her remark brought the color to ileby's lace, and Henry Maclane looked 4 mnoyed. 441 don't understand?" he I aepan. f Mrs. Ellis interrupted him. 44 You will bring Mrs. Maclane when you come t Lgain ?" -v " Possibly her husband wiil be free to :ome with her," was the quiet response. | "Husband! Are you not Mrs. Mac- * ane's husband?"asked Mrs. Ellis, won- J leringly. * "Me? Oh. no I My brother Joshua J s Mrs. Maclane's husband," replied ? flenrv Maclane, with a smile. "And father of the five children?" c :ontinued Mrs. Ellis. J " Father of the five children," echoed I Henry Maclane. "And haven't you any wife-?" asked s Mrs. Ellis, curiousiy. i "TLt Bible says, 'A good wife is xom the Lord,"' leplied Henry Mac- ? 4vne, gravely. "He has never givon i ne such a blessing." I Mrs. Ellis' eyes twinkled. ? r u ?. _ r " 1 UUUU1 give J/UU u muic 4UUIAUUU ;hat might help you," she said, de- ? nurely; but a warning glance from a ieby stopped her, just as a" visitor was f innounced. t " You will come to see us soon?" said * Mrs. Ellis, as Henry Maclane arose to jj eave. * "Can I come this evening?"' he n isked . E " Certainly," replied Mrs. Ellis. " It s s well to get a gaslight, view of things -< rou are interested in buying." When the door shut, Mrs. Ellis urned to Reby. apparently much inerested in the visitor's card. " Do you inow what I was about to quote? ? Ask, and it shall be given you.'" J " Oh, Sue!" remonstrated the shrink- _ ng woman. "Don't toss me to any [ nan, as if 1 were a ball to be picked up, c ir let alone, as suits his pleasure." c At the dinner table Mrs. Maclane r urned eagerly to her brother-in-law jvith the question: "How do you like t louse-hunting!" "Immensely," was the r.earty re- g ponse. " I think I never enjoyed any- f iiing so much in my life." c Mrs. Machine looked searchingly at r he man. It sounded like sarcasm, but j here was genuine pleasure in the face e he scrutinized. "It must have been a satisfactory t touse," she said,complacently. "Now , ell me all about it." ^ "It is a pleasant-looking house; c irown-stone front, high stoop, and j hree rooms deep," answered Henry , tfaclane, glibly. j Mrs. Maclane looked gratified. c 'Wh.it was the condition of the paper g .nd naint?" she asked. e " The hall paper was dark, and the f] vood-work dark, and in good order,11 s eplied Henry Maclane, positively. fi "Well, the rest of the house?" pur- g ued Mrs. Maclane. y Henry Maclane passed from a positive s o a negative condition as he answered, g n a puzzled way: "1 hardly know. I b ouldn't exactly tell. I think the hall f< vas an index of the rest." e Mrs. Maclane smiled. "Closetsp" she 1 uggested r "The hall had closets," said Henry b ilaclane, in much the way a sclioolboy s ttrgins a recitation of which he knows n <nly the first paragraph. "I guess they s .re all right." " h Mrs. Maclane laughed heartily as she n emarked,'' I never take closets on trust, y lewer gas?" a "No, responded Henry Maclane; a ' there was a sweet odor of violets asl ti ntered the parlor." is "Good!" exclaimed Mrs. Maclane. tl ; It sounds like Araby the blest." tl " It was," responded Henry Maclane, b a an undertone. p " Well, about the rest of the house?" d ontinued Mrs. Maclane. "Did the I iolet odor pervade the whole of the aansion?" tl "I don't know," answered Henry si -laclane. " She didn't come." I k "She? who?" answered Mrs. Mac-| d line. 111 ?V jm/i/iltu nr<*v. I " The sister." was the brief reply. i y, "Who's sister?" said Mrs. Maclane, r< n perplexity. " Brother Hal, do you j y, :now you are talking incoherently? I ei an't seem to follow you. Are we talk- d ng about a house or a woman?*' I; "Both," answered Henry Maclane, tl irith A smile. rr "What was the woman like?" asked rr Irs. Maclane. cs "Light wavy hair, not a bit flufl'y i ti lor plastered stiffly, but just falling ft iver her forehead in pretty rippling 1j eaves and coiled in a knot at the back, o ilear eyes that cemand the truth and j ai ell the truth, a good nose, an expres- ! A ive mouth, delicate hands and a shapely I cl igure?that's the woman." answered | g lenry Maclane, enthusiasticahy. I tl " You can give a better inventory of j tl he woman than you can uf the house," I] aid Mrs, Maciane. n "Never mind; I'll try it again." re- b lied the brother-in-law. cheerfully. T " When?" asked Mrs. Maclane. ti " I promised to look at the house by b ;aslight," answered Henry Maclane. tl "To-night's gaslight?" asked the tl vomafo, wonderingly. " Of course." was the decided reply. '1 Procrastination is the thief of time. S t is my duty to cry 4 Stop thief!'" "In the meantime,.I think I'll man- ' i ige to look at the house myself," said d tfrs. Maclane. "What is the name of rj he lady I am to ask for?" ti "Mrs. Ellis," was the reply. a "I never knew any one by that r tame," commented Mrs. Maclane. f. " Nor I," said her brother-in-law. q Mrs. Maclane looked puzzled. She v md been thinking Hal must hate met s ome old friends. p At the supper table that night'she c urned to her brother-in-law with the s [Uory: " Hal, what possessed you to tell S tfrs. Ellis we wanted the house just as u mn found it? You know we have s uore furniture than we can stow away e :omfortably." c "She didn't understand me," replied t 3enry Maclane. "Women are dread- r ully dull of comprehension. s " And men are incoherent and eauivo- e :al," retorted Mrs. Maclane. " For f nstance, you told me you had never a leard of Mrs. Ellis. She told me you c vere an old friend." t "She wasn't an Ellis when I knew [ ler," replied Henry Maclane. "She 1 vas Sue Monroe." a " I did not see the sister," added Mrs. e Maclane. "She had pone for a walk, r [ will decide about the house to-nieht." i The next morning at the breakfast s able came a note to Joshua Maclane c rom the house agent, saying that Mrs. r Ellis had withdrawn the house from the < narket. c "How provoking!" exclaimed Mrs. i Maclane. " We had decided to take it. c Fust think, Brother Hal," she said, as i ler brother-in-law entered the break- t :ast-room, " that lovely house with \ which you and I fell in love is with- j Irawn from the market!" ( "Ah!" he said, in an interested way. ( ' Anv reason given?" f ' Not a word," answered Mrs. Mac- i ane. "I think folks ought to know c :heir own minds better than to put a j house in the market one day and with- i draw it the next." s " Perhaps there has been ^change of >ase." suggested Henry Maclane. " You were going to look at it by gasight,"said Mrs. Maclane. "How did t impress you?" 1 "Very pleasantly," was the smiling j brother Hal," said Mrs. Maclane, ( lending a searching gaze on her brother- , n-law, " tell us all about it. Of course t rou went to look at more than the house >y gaslight. Do you know why this touse is withdrawn from the market?" f " The lady lias concluded to occupy f t," replied Henry Maclane. ( " Does not the house belong to Mr. 5His?" was the next query. 1 "No," he replied. "It belonged to t he Monroe estate, and fell to the sister's t hare." f " Hal," said Mrs. Maclane, gravely, 'our neighbor yesterday suggested t tfiss Anderson as a desirable alliance j or you." t "Tell our neighbor I am like the s louse?withdrawn from the market," yas the smiling answer. j " Just tell me this, Hal." said Mrs. ^ tfaclane, in a coaxing way; "did the fi air-haired woman you met when you j: yent house-hunting ever wear the laxen curl and the pale blue ribbon? fou see I am putting two and two to- ? :ether." ' 1 "Your figures are units of the same 1 Ipnnminntinn and voil can add them." a ^aa the frank answer. " The stray lock J >elongs to that fair head." 1 "And it all came about from my ending you to look after a house," i Qused Mrs. Maclane. s "Yes. The results we unconsciously i .ttain often exceed in greatness the 1 ntent we consciously pursue," was the c hilosophic reply. "Seeking for a 1 louse for you, in no enviable frame of r uind, I have found a wife for myself, md my frame of mind is"?he paused 4-iivha/I fA Ina Vimflior u .Tnohllfl. ' I>1IU L/UliU-U \PJ XXkiJ ?71VI/I1V1. V lerhaps you can get at it if you go back o the day when you fell in love with Jess, and add fifteen years of separation ,cd loneliness to it, and then suddenly ind out you have belonged to each other .11 through the future. It makes a very ieat sum of happiness, Joshua," he aid, with a radiant smile.?Harper's 3azar. A Coffee Plantation In Mexico. About a mile from Cordoba, says a raveler in Mexico, we found at the unction of a lane an enthusiastic Geraan botanist, who lives in Cordoba, tartly because he owns a coffee plantation here, and partly from his lanatical love if botanical pursuits. We had been onsigned to his care, and the old gentleoan seemed delighted to see some one rom the civilized world. A fter a rather irinff walk through a muddy lane, we , urned sharp to the left and found our- ] elves in the middle of a well-kept cof- ( ee plantation. The introduction of , oflfee into this region is of comparatively i ecent date, but 7ilready the production y 3 very great, and large quantities are xported. In Ceylon ana other counries where the staple product is coffee, c he plants are grown on the hillsides ? without any shade. But at Cordoba 1 he soil is not rich enough to produce A offee unless it is grown under shade. c ?he coffee plant is an evergreen, and * vill, if lelt unpruned, grow to the f leight of thirty feet. The leaves are 1 blong in shape, and of a dark, shining c ;reen. They grow in pairs, one at ? ither side of the branch, and the 1 lowers prow at the junction of the leaf ? talks. These blossoms are of a beiuti-1 1 nl snow white, and although the tree a enerally blossoms only twice in the 1 ear, yet there are few times when the 1 nowflakes are not seen among the dark s reen leaves. The plants are kept down 8 y constant pruning tb about five or six set, and constant attention has to be iven to keepiug the soilclearjof weeds, 'he berry, when ripe, is oi a purplish e ed, about the size ol a cherry. Each erry contains two seeds with the flat ides toward each other, and the reminder of the berry is a soft pulp, very weet and pleasant to the taste. Our otanical friend had a number of small urseries in which he was raising the ? oung plant; they are planted out when ? bout a year old, :ind begin to produce t three years, but not in perfection un- (. il the fifth year. In many countries it d ) usual to allow the berries to become i< ftoriughly ripe, and then to shake lem off the trees on to cloths spread eiow. But in Mexico the berries are ? icked by hand, and then spread out to t ry in heaps about three inches deep, r a Mexico the great difficulty in the ray of coffee growing is the poverty of . le soil and the want of manure. 1 lggested to our friend that he should . eep four or live hundred cows, as is one in Ceylon, for the purpose of pro- 11 uring manure, but he said that they u rould be certainly stolen; and when I d ^marked that it would be very easy to 11 ratch the place and snoot any maraud- ^ rs, he laughed and said: " Oh, you L on't know our Mexican government. Q f I were to do such a thing I should be n irown into a dungeon for the rest of ly days. Why, it was only a few ii lonths ago that a half-drunken Mcxi- "V in made a bet that he could lasso a h ain, and when he saw one passing at ti ill speed he rode at it. He succeded in y issoing the buffer of the engine, and j f course was dashed to pieces. They fi rrested the engineer, who was an J .merican, and locked him up on a a iiarge of murder, and it was with the f< reatest diiliculty that he was saved by io Jntoiiforonoo n( thd i>nnmilfl Oh nn: t ierfi is no chance for a foreigner here!" j, i the aosence of any possibility of ^ mnuring the soil the only thing possi r le is to give the coffee lots of shade, j] 'his is usually done by planting banana e ees, but our' botanical friend is doing g etter by planting Manila mangoes and c le quina, whose bark gives the quinine, le great medicine of modern days. un-Sj>ots and What They Indicate. 8 The sun-spot cycle is in full action. ? 'he huge, blazing surface of toe sun is ? ottcd with spots in all directions. v 'hey throng the solar domain, some- n imes appearing singly, then in groups ^ nd then in rows. A large spot sur- a ouiided by smaller ones seems to be the g ivorite form of manifestation. Some 0 i them are large enough to be seen v srith a spy-glass, and some so n mall as to require a telescope of high ^ ower to bring them into view. We an form little idea of their immense J ize. The whole territory of the United w tates is smaller in dimensions than ? aany of the sun-spots now visible, and -y ome of them are larger than our whole ft ;lobe. No astronomer has ever dis overen uiemysierous law uiatconuuis heir appearance, or the part they eally play in the affairs of the solar ystem. It is well established, howver, that they occur in maximum q orce in about eleven years, that they a ,re connected with the meteorological n condition of the earth, that when they c] >egin to appear in great numbers, ils at n resent, se:isons of excessive heat follow h n their train, and that they are usually e: tttended with grand displays of north- tl rn lights. Professor Piazzi Smyth an- o ioudccs the reappearance of the aurora v n Scottish skies after an absence of f< everal years, and predicts a season of n 'xccssive heat. The cyclones and tor- n ladoes in the West seem to give proof a >f unusual elemental disturbance. Un- n ler these circumstances there is noth- t ng to do but to watch and wait. Ages v >f observation may enable the astrono- a ner of the future to unravel the mys- a ery that surrounds the solar spot-cycle, p jut there is little probability that the p jroblem will be solved for many gen- a :rations to come. Intelligent observ- ^ :rs Ci.;i fake note3 as well as trained v istronomers. There are three pheno- t nena to be especially anticipated, the t >ccurrence of severe storms, the ap- T )ioach of a great heat wave, and a flam- i ng of auroral banners in the northern s ikies. 1 FOR THE FAIR SEX. Fashion Noted. * Dark brown is tne lavorite color for 1 lomespun cloth, especially when there ire irregular red threads woven in it. Plain kerchiefs, like those of a iuakeress, are of mull muslin, with a vide hem, hem-stitched, and a cluster >f drawn work in each corner. Pale pink or blue surah is used for the { :rowns of caps, and these are lightly ? tmbroidered in South Kensington < tcsigns of sprays and grasses. " ( The Languedoc and Raeuse point ( aces come in such large figures that ] hey do not plait effectively; hence i hey are only slightly gathered when i ormini frills. 1 Y oung ladies wear kerchiefs of muslin 1 ximmed with embroidery, or else of I Jreton net with a fine pattern through f he center, and a vine for a border, and } i lace frill. , There are collarettes of Languedoc t ace made in full frills and with fichu ( ronts, on which b row of narrower | ;old lace is laid without gathers around j he neck and down the front. T- - ?IJ Krflo Hand tiMO A IUU IillK ^UiU niiiu wniiuDfu uuv ls linen is combined with other laces in c ichus, breakfast caps, etc. It is war- ( anted not to tarnish, and is so light t lhH riplioftte that it brichtens up the i vbite fabric, yet does "not look like t heatrical tinsel. ? Irish point lace in heavy rich designs s imported in directoire collars and in traight, square, or long collar bands, vith deep square cuffs to be attached ike permanent trimming to the waist of lark dresses of handsome materials. There are also cuirasses of this lace nade withoutsleeves. White foulard, with black or blue >ots, is also used for midsummer esses. Instead of using fringe, many nodistes trim these dresses with long, larrow loops of foulard lined with silk >r satin of a contrasting color; thus )lue i3 lined with red, and the Turkish ed patterns are lined with blue. Plaited skirts for walking dresses are nore popular than they have ever been, ind are most variously made. Some ire box-plaited in single plaits, others ire double kilts, while many have three j silted flounces covering them. Most of ;he skirts of one plaiting tall at the foot | )n a narrow plaited border, which is j >ften of a dark orange or red, in con;rast to the goods of the skirt. I A fancy in cravats is a silk strip trimned on two opposite sides with lace, i ,hen laid in eight lengthwise folds close | lpon each other; the lace ends are at I ;on and bottom. The top end of the lace |' with some of the silk is then turned !' >ver flatly toward the left side, and the onger silk and lace part below spreads >pen like a fan. This is beautiful in 1 vhite surah and fine Breton lace- j fVhite India muslin is used in the same vay. j One of the favorite caprices of French IJ lresses is that of making the front and j j ides of the skirt represent five great j )ox plaits, and these have eyelets , worked in the edges, and are laced j lown with silk cords ending in tassels. ^ V contrast of color is always seen in { hese; thus an ecru or drab wool dress z las dark green cord and tassels, while s >ne of navy blue has red eyelets, cords ^ ind tassels. The latter makes a beauti- j ul skirt for blue Jersey bodices that ( re laced with red. The overskirt is ^ hen a very short apron, much wrinkled, ] ind with bouffant "back drapery. To rear over the Jersey waist in the street s n short gown and hood of blue wool liaped like the tea gowns, but much horter. IV'ewi anil IVotenfor Women. A Western woman says her baby wil: njoy three hundred and sixty-five holer days this year. The Queen of Italy is still excessively ervous, and nearly faints when any traneer approaches the king. A Russian countess parades the streets f Nice escorted by three large bloodounds of quarrelsome disposition. The great English beauty now is Lady rladys Herbert, the Countess of Lonsale. Her loveliness is of the dark Jewjh type. She is called "The Gypsy." Miss Alice Blaine, the eldest daughter f the senator, is described as nol pretty, ut tall in figure, and having a face inmse and fascinating. It is a coloiless ice, a long oval in shape, with magificent black hair and eyes, and glow ig, scarlet lips. ^ A sheet metal dummy figure has been , ivented and patented by an enterpris- j ig Frenchman in New York, by the c se of which dressmakers can fit and j rape dresses for any lady who has a f lodel of her form, without even once x rying them on the person of the wearer. c adies can also fit and make their own (] resses by having a sheet metal dummy j lodeled for their own use. c Mademoiselle Nevada, who is becomig ko famous abroad as a singer, ib Miss t ?ixom, the daughter of a California e otel keeper. She early showed great ti iste and capacity for music. While a et a mere child her parents moved to c Tevada, where her mother died. The r ither sent her to Mills' seminary, s Tevada City. Her age is twenty-three, g nd she has been studying vocal music t Dr some time abroad. d According to an advertisement in the /ondon Daily Telegraph, ladies moving f a fashionable society may without in- ' orfering with their social position ^ ealize from $500 to $1,500 a year by t Qtroducing the high class wines of an a stablished house. A commencing c alary of $250 per annum and a liberal 8 ommission are promised.. j' A Tribute to Ills Wife. a General Garfield, in a recent conver- F ation with George Alfred Townaend, ' iiid a fine tribute to his wife, who in ' arlylife was a pupil of his at school. 1 11 taught her Latin," he said, "and she E ras as good a pupil as I had. She is s ow teaching the same Latin to my two a ig boys, to set them ready lor the v cademy at Concord, Mass." While ? peaking of the matrimonial infelicities i: f public men he said: "I have been 0 wonderfully blessed in the discretion of 0 ly wife. She is one of the coolest and a est balanced women I ever saw. She y > unstampedeable. There has not been " ne solitary instance of my public career * rhen I have suffered in the smallest He- * ree for any remark she ever made. 0 Pith the competition that has been ? gainst me many times, such discretion d as been a real blessing." P , r Exposing a Fraud. ^ A man named Hansen, who has ac- a uired considerable notoriety at Vienna a ? J Drtnfl. f ]n /I orfnrtt f rv moa_ ^ IJU lentil, umiun/vua IV luv/ij- JJ jerize any one against Lis will. The hallenge was accepted by a joung man b amed Fisher, and the professor, despite f( is artistic passes, failed to produce any v fleet on him. Fisher began to banter 0 ue professor, and told him that he was a nly a "vile imposter," for the use of o rhich expression he was summoned be- t )re the district magistrate and fined 100 ]) orins. The professor, however, did ^ ot look upon this as a sufficient repar- ti tion for his injured honor, and com- t' lenced a fresh suit in order to prove d liat he was really capable of doing v /hat he professed to do. He called as e , witness a young man who had always 0 rmaa-roA an p-rppllpnt. mpdinm nnnri the t. ilatform.-and who at the bidding of the 0 irofessor was in the habit of falling into n .trance and of holding communication ^ vith spirits from the other world; but 0 vhen lie came to be cross-examined by } he counsel lor the defense lie confessed v hat he had only been shamming tem- ? >orary death, and, to the jn*eat amuse- r nent of the court, proceeded t demon- s itrate how the trick was done. Prolessor I ] iansen lost his suit. It ' IN THE DESERT OF SAHARA. Vot a Desolate Plain, Bat a Cultivated Country, Fruitful as the Garden of. Eden?Arab Manners and Arab Faith. A correspondent of the Chicago Times lends the following interesting letter, latcd Oasis of Tahlet, in the Sahara: Ml of one's preconceived ideas vanish jefore the facts of experience. The Sahara is not a desolate plain of moving land, with no signs of vegetation, but a jultivated country, fruitful aa the garien of Eden. Like our "great Ameri;an desert," it has been greatly belied. El Sahr, as the Arabs pronounce it. is ndeed a vast archipelago of oases, offerng an animated group of towns and tillages. A large belt of fruit trees surrounds each of these villages, and the Dalm, the fig, the date, apricots, pomegranates and vines abound in the utmost jrofusion. Ascending the Atlas mounains by a gradual slope to the region of ligh table-lands, we come to the land of :he Mozabites, or Ben Mozab, and then :omes a gradual descent for 300 miles o the vast stretch of treeless territory mown as the great desert. The rivers lave an inclination of one foot in every 100. Many of the streams are dry, ex;ept after rains, when they deluge the ;ountry. Gun-shots are fired as soon as ;he torrents appear; all objects arerenoved, and soon, with a terrible noise, he flood rolls on. The Saharian city itands as if by ma^ic on the banks of .he waters which nse to the tufts of the - ? ^ t??? f/**w /lurtn flionDfl J HI III trCCS, UUL it AC VY uajo vrxxxj viupuv ire all disappears, leaving the district ich and fruitful. The inhabitants are lot a migratory people, and, unlike the ent-dwellers of the northern slope, live n substantial houses with thatched oofs and ceiling of cane laid upon joist >f alve wood. These houses generally :onsist of one room, and have no furni;ure excent mats on the floor and upon ihe walls for three or lour feet high. rJeds are sometimes found, but no one ihinks of sleeping on them. The walls ire whitewashed and inscribed with verses trom the Koran. The inhabifcmts are made up of genuine Arabs and Berbers, or Kaybles, as the French call ;hem. Jews are found in every oasis, ind are very prosperous and influential. doing much of the trading rad making up of the great caravans. Ihese merchants frequently dress in very gaudy and fantastic style, with gorgeous turban and sleeves of different jolors, one being, perhaps, green and jne red, and the skirt a bright yellow, rhey are not allowed to wear chekia, 3r red woolen cap, but may wear a black cap, and can only wear black slippers, which they must remove whenever they step outside the ghetto, ind must step aside to the left when ;hey moct a Moslem, and are not allowed to ride a horse. The men are? landsome, and the women uncommonly pretty, and do not cover their :aces; neither do the Kayble women, is is the custom of other women of the Sahara. Among the Kayble3 of the nountain region a passport, or annaya, rom a sheik or marabout brines promotion and hospitality. The annaya is lometimes a belt, sometimes a stick. A itranger can travel anywhere and meet vith a cordial welcome. This is somehinrr Hire n nacannrt. in xrm.tuitolls, and lot vised. The rule is to lodge the ttranger for three days, and they do this vith a kindness and care that is rarely ound in a country where payment is sxpected. The Berber is not as hospiable jis the Arab, but my companion, Jen Yusef, being a descendant of the jrophet, and I being provided with aa innaya, we found no lack of that barjaric virtue anywhere. The maxim bat"fingers were made before forks" nust have originated with the Moslems, is that article is unknown among them. )n one occasion, when dining witti a listinguished sheik, he asked me if I lad ever eaten with my hands before. ' Yak foodna Alia,"God have pity, exslaimedoneof the guests. "donTt the Christian dogs eat with their hands?" ' No," replied Ben Yusef, ' when I was n Italy I ate with a fork." " God be gracious to my father," returned he; ' our master Mohammed ate with his ight hand." Our host, in order to itone for this seeming rudeness, called o an attendant and gave him a juicy liece of meat in his fingers to take to ae as a mark of his lriendship. After linner we invariably had coffee and a irayer. Arriving at the first oasis, Fizig, vhich is some ten or twelve miies in ircumference and contains a populaion of 10,000, we found the celebrated lammam, or hot springs, so famous or the cure of syphilitic complaints so >revalentin this country; here we enered into the negotiations of the pur- . base of a camel, and succeeded inmakng an exchange of one of our donkeys or a specimen of this interesting and iseful animal, giving a difference if fifty metkals or about twenty lollars. Joining a number of Moorsh and Jewish traders, we began ur caravan life, our camel traveling vith a long swinging gait.neither a rock, rot, nor canter, like nothing I have ver seen before. The jolting motion at irst was very uncomfortable, but after .while became rather agreeable than itherwise. Ben Yusef insists that we aust ride lady fashion, that being the tyle among the Arabs. The camel in trength, docility and indefatigable paience is invaluable; goes seven or ei^ht lays without water, travels thirty miles l day, carries six or seven hundred founds, and subsists upon a quart of leans or barley or a few balls ot flour a lay. We made the journey from Fizig o Kuetsa in three days. This oasis has , population of 5,000, and is the seat of onsiderable trade in lead and antimony, everal mines of these minerals being ound in the vicinity. Continuing our ourney, we reached the pleasant oasis jid village of Tafilet, our present stop >ing place. Between Keutsa and Hadju s a mountain exactly like a church; in LiUL, id uuura it Bituiig iu3uinuutm;u uj he typical Gothic cathedral. When iot entertained by the inhabitants we et our tent and spread our blankets on , dry bank of earth, perhaps covered vith flowers, prepare our simple repast if barley, coarsely ground and carried q leathern skins, which, mixed with >live oil and salt, or made into a kind if mush called koukussu, is quite palatble when the appetite is sharpened rith hunger. Soon after daybreak we ,re ready to "fold our tent, like the Lrabs, and as silently steal away." The Lrab tent is merely a large square piece f camel's hair cloth, suspended a foot r two above the ground by stakes riven into the sand. Our tent was often itched in a lovely flower-bed ot such ich and various hues as one seldom neets in a cultivated flower garden. Vith a clear sky, brilliant sunshine, nd rippling stream, nothing can be diled in the way of calm rational enjoylent. Wells of water are found under ranches which are religiously replaced, >r a well in the Sahara is a sacred spot, irhich demands the care and protection f every traveler. Many of these springs re held in religious veneration, and nyWednesdays fowls are sacrificed at he holy fountains Many tombs are eld sacred, and on Friday, the Moammedan Sabbath, they visit the ceme cries, irom tile dciici mai uiu sums ui lie dead return to their graves on that ay. The tombs are invariably washed ritli )ime?veritable * whited sepulhres." The Mohammedans are ahead f us Christians in the veneration paid o holy persons. They are often can nized during their lifetime, can marry, nd thesaintship is hereditary, and the. [escendant is often holier than the iriginal saint. Those holy men levy leavy (contributions upon the faithful, vhich are paid with great, regularity .nd apparent cheerfulness. There are 10 arts or manufactures, and reiigion done occupies the minds of the people, f they paid a.s much attention to the hings of this wond as of the next they 4 would become a great people indeed. Moslems are forbidden to wear gold or J silk, or pray in embroidered apparei, j and the> always remove them before < I going to their devotions. As he hears i the call of the mupzzin he falls to the ( ground, touching it with seven parts of < his body?feet, nands, knees, and his t forehead?then rises and turns toward f Mecca, stretches his arms toward t heaven, his white flowing bournous c and long beard giving him a patriarchal i air. \ There is no freedom of thought s among Mohammedans, their constant c expression being: "Bi'ism Allah"?in i the name of Goa. No one can under- 1 stand a religion until he has belonged f to it, nor criticise it until he nas j emancipated himself from its chains. A s strange apparition this Arabic people, the met.<>nr of the desert, handine over to us chemistry and aglebra, alkali, and t arithmetic, astronomy and the clock, i the keys of the [material universe, and I herself following on the steps of r Socrates and the Emperor of China, c Their giving us the simple Arabic I figures alone, in place of the clumsy c Roman numerals, entitle them to the c benedictions of the race. " They saved i others, themselves they could not save." s Their alphabet consists of twenty-nine c letters, each having four differentfoims, a making substantially 116 different s sounds* or combinations. There are r three vowels, but they are never used in c writing. They write from the right to c the left or from the top to the bottom, c and with either the left or the right i hand. The Arabs, in their pride, desig- t nate all who do not speak their language r as, adjel-a-culf? an ox not broken to c tit.* -?1*a . ??/? of- fKa lMflo nf S I lie JfUACj nuu iltugu MU VUW AUVM V4 there being anything superior to it, claiming that it is the speech of angels and the vehicle of the Almighty. I i Feeding the Dead; \ A Chinaman was buried at Phila- t delphia in 1875, and lour times a year t his surviving countrymen there visit f his grave to "feed the dead." A recent i visit of this kind is thus described: The 1 first preliminary was the removal of i all "Melican" clothing. As they had i come enwrapped in the flowing blue i drilling gown and trousers and the t cloth-soled shoes worn by all good l Chinamen, the only article necessary to 1 dispense with was the hat. They then a uncoiled their long pigtails and carried e their well-filled provision hamper to i the grave. Ceremony number one con- r ainf-pH nfr n. Bnrfc of invocation. In Der- c feet time and drill the mourners lifted a their arms from their sides to a hori- t zontal position, then above their heads, when they clapped their hands and uttered a high-keyed grunt. This was u done several times. The chief priest 5 then produced a package of sheets of d tissue paper, about three inches square, o each of which bore inscriptions in t Chinese characters. These each were I supposed to represent a sin committed i against one of the many deities of the g Bnddhist faith. They were burned, one o by one, each of the celebrants taking e turns in lighting them. When the last u had been burned another inroad was t made upon the hamper and a chicken a entire, except as to its feathers, was f brought out; also four cuds and sau- i cers and as many plates, all of which s were laid on a paper tablecloth placed F on the grass. t A knife similar in shape to those used ? by shoemakers speedily dissected the t> fowl, rind a fragment was placed on eaoh a plate. The cups were filled out of a k large wicker bottle which contained e something like tea. Oranges were also <3 produced, and the three living China- c men went solemnly through the form ^ of eating, the ghost presumably keeping f them company. The living banqueters i speedily emptied their cuvj and disposed I of the oranges. Seemingly awakened to the fact that their invisible guest was not setting through with his share as J rapidly, they poured the tea from his ^ UUJi miU Wlitil/ icuiftiatu m iuw iyvu^v the foot ot the grave. A bottle of saki, the Chinese whisky, was fiiso poured out, none of the living feasters partaking of the liquor. Half a dozen singular-looking little tapers, mounted on bamboo sticks, were then stuck in the swelling turf of the grcve and lighted. These had two properties, smoke and smell. A west wind drove both into the faces of the spectators in such volume that they beat a husty retreat, and those who witnessed the last rite were fortunate enough to have found places outside the line of the breeze. In the midst of the smoke and stench the faithful Celestials went through their last posturing, similar to that of the invocation. This done, they packed up the remains of their banquet and dishes, and, leaving the tapers still burning on c the grave, quitted the cemetery. a - | Some Interesting Facts. a Tolls were first paid by vessels passing I the Stade, on the river Elbe, 1109. In t England toll-bars originated in 1267, a a penny being asked for every wagon that 1 passed through a certain manor, and the first regular toll was collected a few years later for mending the road in London between St. Giles' and Temple Bar. f A Nihilist is one who believes in !i n ??(* fA W oKaf or nilllllOIlj) Yi IiIULi> autuiuiup, !Ay TV vwjvut) holds the doctrine that nothing can be f known; that it is skepticism carried to , the denial of all knowledge and all reality. It is probably applied to the ? Russian communistic agitators because r they advocate the principle of doing j away with all government, and the inference is that, if this were carried j out, Russia as a nation would cease to exist. p The Apollo Belvidere is perhaps the p freatest existing work of ancient art. v t is a statue representing the god of a Apollo at the moment of his victory s over Python. It was found in 1503 ]j among the ruins of ancient Antium, in tl Italy, and derives its name from its jt position in the Belvidere 6f the Vatican n (in Rome), where it was placed by Pope n Julius II., who had boucht it before his f accession to the papal throne. The ti statue is of heroic size, and shows the very perfection of manly beauty. The si sculptor is unknown. e: Archery was first introduced by tkc b Saxons in the time of Voltigeur. Icwas ti dropped immediately after the conquest, ta but was revived by the crusaders. The r< Normans used the cross-bow until af er fc flip time of Edward II., when the long- t< bow supplanted it and became the fa? li vorite national weapon. Bows and si arrows, as weapons of war, were in ri use with stone cannon-balls as late as c< 1740. All the statutes for the encour- 1 agementof archery were framed after the invention of gunpowder and lirearms, the object being to prevent this ancient weapon becoming obso* , lete. Yew-trees were encouraged in church-yards for the making of bows in " 1642. J! Expensive Singing. ? Patti has queer notions of pecuniary b honesty as well as ol matrimonial lidei- n ity, if what is told below ol her trans- ci actions with Baron Hirsch. the new ti financial swell of Paris, is true. After v she had sung for the Princess de Sagun g for her $*2,()00, of course Hirsch had to o engage her. Patti put up her price to f< 84,000, on the ground that Sagan was n one person and Hirsch another. Hav- n ing no other claim to distinction than p his money, Hirsch said: " All right," ir and proceeded to dui a anewtneater o for the occasion. One can fancy his p amazement and surprise on the morning ts of his grand feast, when he was waited P on by Pattfs manager, Mirelli, who si told him that lie, Mircili, had a contract P for the exclusive uao of PaUi's voice, d and ttiat he proposed to be paid for these outside concerts. It was merely a question of how much, and he let the d bourse baron oil' with $2,000, so that the e appearancc of Patti :it the Hirsch re- s< ceplion cost the host just $6,000. o - TIMELY TOPICS. Denver, the chief cityof Colondo, if )verrun with tramps, many of them os i desperate character, and a viei lance .'ommittee for their dispersion is seri)usly contemplated. "Among these iramps," says the Denver Tribune, "are ouna all classes of miserable mortals; he low desperado from San Juan, povTty-stricken rascals from the East, disjointed miners from the mountains, jrofessional beggars, who would rather teal than work, and occasionally a race-respectable man who, having com<= nto the far West to seek his fortune, ias encountered poor health and worse ortune, untrl he has almost been compiled to resort to the footpad proles ion in order to live." Before starting on her trip to Zaluland, he ex-Empress Eugenie presented her mperial crown to the Church of Notre )ame des Victoires, Paris. Many umors have been spread abroad conem ing this crown, whose whereabouts ias been matter.for eossip. From reently published accounts of the flight if Eugenie from 1'aris, it appears that n the naste and terror of the occasion he took with her little of value. She ven left the Tuileries without money, ilthough there were about forty thousmd francs in the dra^rs of her bedoom. In the subsequent arrangement >f her affairs, after the commune, many >f her valuables, and among them the ;rown. were restored to her, having rteanwhile been in the safe-keeping of he Bank of France. The crown is of nuch value, on account of its artistic lesign, and the number of precious itones it contains. Primitive honesty and simplicity are )lainly stamped on the countenances of nost of the peasant emigrants now arriving at Castle Garden, New York. Lnd the little children that swarm iboutthe queen-bee of each family seem >rematurely stamped with the mature eatures of the same qualities. A pretty ncident recently happened in Galveston, rexas, after the arrival of an emigrant >arty. It occurred to a gentleman who net several of the little peasant children n the street that it would please them * ? ? ? ? - ? ?? 4.1%^* 1/i mtfli fVtn 0 oestow a Will Oil llic tunu rv iuii mc >riehtest eyes. He then clasped his lands behind him and was sauntering .way, when the child, being unable to express its gratitude in English, if at all, a words, ran after, seized the gentleaan's hands, and kissed them. The >ther children imitated the quaint exmple, and thereby certainly hied claims 0 shares in the gratuity. The deplorable piece of news comes to is, and on the authority of the London limes, thrft the Egyptians are actually lisintegrating and carrying away parta 1 the pyramids. It might be hoped that he wretched business could be stopped iv an aDDeal to the khedive, remarks a few York paper, but he is himself enuged in the work of spoilation. Four r five of the huge stones have been reQoved by his order from immediately rader the entrance to the great pyramid, vith intent to use the stones in building . new mosque. A correspondent inorms the Times that he saw camels beag loaded with the square white limetone that forms the casing of the larger lyramid atDashoor; and it is evident bat these venerable structures have teen simply and deliberately degraded o stor>? ;uarries. The pyramids in a ense belong not to Egypt but to man:ind, and since the khedive has had the xecrable taste to lend himself to vanillism such as-has been described, he ught to be brought to his senses by a 'igorous protest Irom the great Eurotean powers, in which, it seems to us, t would not be unbecoming for the Jnited States to join. San Jose Joe, a monster shark of San oee de Guatemala, Central America, <ras recently seen by the captain or the i "hina. This shark has for many years een the terror of the coast from San Tose de Guatemala to Puntaa Arena, le has oeen so frequently seen that he s as famiJiar to the mariners ot the :oast as its most perilous headlands, le is said to be over forty feet in length nd is extremely ferocious, human kind >eing his favorite prey. Captain Sealury of the Pacific Mail steamship China s ready to swear to forty-two leet and iver, having once seen Joe passing belind his vessel, which is forty-two feet n the beam, and the head and tail of he shark extended past either side of he vessel. The captain of the South Carolina and Captain Witberry bear estimony also to the shark's being over orty feet long. In the last few years Joe," as he is known all along the oast, has devoured half a dozen men, md some years ago the Guatemalian ;overnment offered a reward of $5001 j iny man who would kill the devourer. le has been shot a couple of times and larpooned thrice, but survived these issaults and still retains his old haunts ooking for his favorite morceau. Celebrating His Own Death-Feast. One Johann Kruger, a well-known loacher and woodstealer, of Neuendorf, iear Potsdam, met his death last week inder circumstances of a very unusual ,nd surprising character. It appears hat the royal Keepers and gendarmerie vere on the lookout for him by reason if some sylvan dereliction he Lad reently committed, and tnat he had thereore taken to the woods in the so-called efernhaide. Being harj} up for food ,nd liquor, he contrived to steal a large og and n. quart bottle of corn brandy, rhich stores he conveyed to his hiding lace and there proceeded to make prearation for an al-fresco feast and carouse rhich would have been .uore approprite to an Indian scout than to a Prusian poacher. After he had built up and ghted a huge wood fire, he slaughtered lie dog, skinned it, and roasted one of s legs, upon which he made % copious leal, washing down the "friend of lan " with deep draughts of fiery spirit, [aving finished this strange repast? le relics of which, clean-picked canine !g-bonos and an empty bottle, were ibsequently found near tiie asnes oitne stinguished lire?he must have stum- > led, all but senseless from intoxicaon/over the pile of burning wood, and illen into the tiames; for liis charred ;mains were discovered by the royal >resters next morning, literally burnt ) cinders,with the sole exception of the ead, by which he was recognized. In lrfeiting himself with roast dog and iw brandy Kruger had unconsciously jlebrated his own death-feast.?London 'elegraph. Official Records. V The following circular has hoen issued y Secretary Sherman: To secure per rnncy of record, hereaiter no kind of ik, or any substitute therefor, or any ind of pencil, will be used by officers r employees of this department, except licIi as "are furnished or authorized y the department. Blue ink must flt? be used in permanent reorus or letters intended for preservaon. The article known under the arious names of" hektograph," "copyi*"in " "climmii'mnh 1 "prrwir)f-*iir1 " r other names, will in no case be used )r letters or other documents of a perlanent nature. Officers ol this depart* lent will in no case accept for officir.l urposes, bonds, papers, or other doculentson which money is to be paid, or ther important action to be taken, if repared with inks or pencils likely to ide. All officers receivine their suplies ol ink and mucilage from the treairy ('epartment, must order their suplu riiirinp- the warm weather, so ns to v oiaits freezing while in transit. Every man who has become Presient ot the United States has o<M>n lected during a leap-year. This is jmethinp for the girls to wonder ver. Gold and tiraj. Morning mists from the 8an are rolled, And all the lace ol the earth is gold, Flowr's unfold to the glowing ray, * And wak'ning bird-song are glad and say. Honrs creep on, and the day wears round; The shadows lengthen along the ground; Dull vapors drilt o'er the lace of day, And morning's gold is the evening's gray. Liie is beauty when life is young, With its laughing lips and its silver tongue, Young roses blooming on young ohecks lair And clustered locks of youth's golden liair. Years stride on with their lootateps fleet, Bringing a bitter lor ev*ry sweet; Twilight tails o'er a lile's short day, And the locks ot gold are the locks ot /,ray. Time is a robber both swilt and sure, Stealing alike from the rich and poor, Gathering into his gran'riea old Both age's silver and youth's gay gol.l; Bribe or force cannot stay his way, Swilt alike through the gold and gray, Till the last dark hour ot day is told, And earth's gray changes to heaven's gold. ITEMS OP INTEREST A lady of taste?The cook. Sweet are the uses of advertisements ?Mrs. Partington. The streets of Philadelphia are to be swept by convicts. Handkerchiefs with fancy borders are still the boarders' fancy. If a ship arrives hi port a second late they dock it.?Yonkers Statesman. " This can't be beai" as the man said when he bought the porcelain d|rcr. The quantity of cotton consumed in 1878 was fifty-four times greater than 1778. The locomotives on the Pennsylvania railroad use 30,000 tons of sand an uuaaij Whisky is a bad juice, and you can't make good use of it neitlur.?Marathon Independent. \ A place for everything and everything in its place?The baby's mouth.? Toronto Grip. ' It is estimated the St. Gothard tunnel will augment trade between Germany and Italy tenfold. A St. Louis pplice officer killed a young man who Refused to tell where ne was going late at night. Croquet, says the Boston Commercial? Bulletin, is popular this scrson, notwithstanding that it is played out. Philadelphia alone produces annually 7,000,000 more yards of carpeting than the whole of Great Britain. # " Circumstances alter cases," said the unsuccessful lawyer, "but my cases don't alter my circumstances." There are 1,487 licensed places where liquor is sold in Buffalo, and 723 saloons whare nothing but liquor is sold. Time is money, and some people are fearfully extravagant when they vis\ editorial sanctums.?New York Graphic At this season, when the young girl looks pale and grows listless, it i3 hard * - if ia QqtItt irtxto rtf Mrlv wj any nuciuti m to AJ J potatoes. The Detroit Free. Press gives this as the new style of tield-sign in the West: "This farm for sale, subject to mortgages and cyclones." "Will the action li6?" inquires the anxious client. " Yes," replies thetfacetious attorney, "the action mil lie if the witnesses will." A Michigan widow who jumped off a load of hay and knocked down a tramp who made fun ol her sunbonnet, had three offers of marriage within a week. A man who undertakes anythingavrt gets left at his own game catches a tartar. The boy who climbs to the top shelf in the pantry does so with the expect sjtion of catching a tart or two.? Keokuk Gate City. Astronomy was first studied by the Moors, and wad introduced by them into Europe in 1101. The rapid progress of modern astronomy dates from "the time of Copernicus. It was known to the Chinese about 1100 B. C. The pay of a private soldier in the n?n<? id nno ahillinrr ? HflV 1T1 fcllfi iUlblOU auuy to vuv ouiiuu^ ? infantry, and one and threepence in the cavalry, exclusive in each case of one penny a day for beer money. The government supplies the uniforms, weapons and rations. Watches were first invented in Nuremburg by Peter Halle. They used to be called Nuremburg eggs, because they were oval in shape. It took many years to bring them to their present state of periection, and to render them the common convenience of the present day. A coquette came out of a fancy-goods shop loaded with purchases. 44 You have renewed your provision," said a * rival. "Don't speak of it; I have quite ruined mysell! I have bought a thousand things I do not need, among others six tooth-brushes." "Ah! one for each tooth," said the other, sweetly. The record of best running time made in the United States for tne distances named is as follows: One mile?Ten Broeck, 1.303; Hartford, Conn., Sept. 2, 1875. Two miles?Ten Brock, 3 27J; Louisville, Ky., May 29, 1877. Three miles?Ten Broeck, 5.26J; Louisville, Ky., Sept. 23, 1876. Four miles?Ten Broeck. 7.153; Louisville, Ky., Sept. 27, 1876. The old saying, " Nine tailors make a man," originated from the following circumstance: A number of years sine, in London, a little boy was accustomed to sell apples, cakes, etc., among the various shops. At one place he visited were nine journeymen tailors, who. cn account of the unusual brightness of the boy, determined to educate him. Each one contributed a portion toward the necessary expenses, and the boy eventually became a noted individual. In this way nine tailors were said to have made a man. Slang Phrases. Most slang phrases have a history. The expression " He is in the dumps" is very common, and is supposed to be derived frdm 4* Dumpos, King of Egypt, who built a pyramid and died of melancholy;" so that the thieves and gypsies are not all to blame for having given us a few expressive words. We next corac upon aword/ullof pathetic meaning fov many of us; it is the ghost that haunts and pursues us more or less throughout the year?it is the word "dun." It is a word of consequence, for it is at once a verb and a noun, and is derived Irom the Saxon word " dunan," to din or clamor It owes its immortality?so tradition says?to having been the surname of one Joe Dun, a famous bailiff of LincoHi, in the reign of ILnry VII., who was so active and dexterous in collecting bad debts that when anyone became "slow to pay," the neighbors used to say, "Dun him"?that is, "send Dun after him." "Draw it mild" owes its origin to violin playing. The word "coach," applied to a tutor, is of university origin, and can boast of a logical etymology. It is a pun upon the term "getting on fast." To get on fast you must take a coach; you cannot get on fast in learning without a private tutor?ergo, a private tutor is a coach. Another familiar word in university slang is "a regular brick "?that is, a jolly good fellow: and how the simile is logically de ducted is amusing enough. A brick is deep-red, so a deep-read man is a brick. To read like a brick is to read till you are deep-read. A deep-read mar is. in university plirase. "a good man;" a good man is a "joily fellow" with nonreading men?ergo, a joily feP'^v is a " brick." j