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ABBEVILLE PRESS & B^fSllJ \ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1880. N0> 3' V0LUME Qnlzzmg the Editor. i rhe editor sat in his sanctum, ^ Regarding with sad, earnest eyes ^ The huge pile ot "questions " his readers j Had sent with demands tor replies. t " Why these," said the weary quill driver, C " Wonld fill up a moderate book, 8 I'll publish the whole lot together, j. And let the people see how they look!" c r " Who was it that wrote that sweet ditty ?*. Beginning ' 1 saw from?'somewhere?" f '' Pray tell roe some certain specific For changing the color of hair!" 8 " What is the name ol the author Of' No, we'll never go home V " ^ ? Did Shakespeare write ' Down in a Coal p Mine?'*' " Who was the third pope of Rome ?" tl tj . , "Do North Polar fishes have feathers?" " Was Wat Tyler quartered or huDg !" Z " Where was the first man cremated?" S1 ^^ " Who was it invented the bung?" " Do bufialo ever (at Bauer kraut?" ^ ?' Where can I get some snail's horna ?" ^ " Whiol- ol the Muses played short stop ?" "Did Bonaparte ever have corns ?" g ' What was the air Nero fiddled ?" ^ " Do hard shell clams ever yield pearls ?" " How many boils did poor Job have ?" tl " What will cure squiKtlng in girls ?" Ci " Why are some peorlo red headed ?" ? 'Why don't my young man propose ?" << " What was the matter with Hannah ?" y " Why don't I turn out my toes?" ti Did the prodigal son use tobaooo ?" u " What do you think wis mv cat ?" " Hud NobnchadDerrer four stomachs ?" O] " How shall I trim my new hat?" ei " Toll me where Moses was buried!" . "Did Noah take fleas in the ark ?" " What was Eve's middle initial?" " Why is it that hens do not bark ?' h H " I like," said the editor, smiling, 8I " I like theso good people whe seek di For knowledge, and [ like to give it. I'll ans >ver their questions next week. ir I'd like, too, to get them together, a' They'd think immortality leaked; I'd answer their auestions. as promised. Though most folks would o&ll it necks n tweaked." ?Brooklyn Eagle. ^ z p CARRYING AN ELECTION. IE p< With the wail of a bereaved demon, 01 the morning train stopped at Oxbow n station to part with its most attractive passenger?a graceful little lady in navy blue. As she ran down the steps a te blonde, broad-shouldered youth pressed eagerly forward to greet her. at "Enraptured to behold you, Angie!" cried he, boyishly, taking prompt pos- p( session of her satchel and then of the Si hand carrying it. of " Why. Sidney Alden! Can I believe w mine eyes? I thought you were in bi Boston!" " w, " Unlike the leopard I can change my p? spots, mademoiselle?especially when p8 said'change transports me to Miss Angie Converse. to * Especially when it transports you in to the Library festival, you mean," 8e laughed the voune lady, blushing pret tily"; "you fcnew~Oxbow couldn't get si: up a public entertainment without or you." * ta "Begging your pardon, I was not aware till last evening that Oxbow A: r?- contemplated an entertainment," re- tv torted he. leading the way to the car- ta riage. " Give me the music-roll, n lease. It sfcms you found the duets P" s-v "Yes. Zet and I are going to practice them ?o-day." nc "She has intimated as much, and t hat I needn't hover about the parlor a 1 during the performance." I < "Touchingsisterly frankness!" m " I rebelled, and accused her of sacrificing her brother to the interests of the re festival." - yc " ' However could she do it' when you've taken this lonesome journey to w see her?" hs "Possibly she doesn't admit I took to tue journey for her sake exclusively," I j responded Sidney, with a queer smile; "and as to its being lonesome, we ti< didn't think it so." Hi " sVe?" The young man, at that moment rein- lit ing in his horse upon the bridge, did not seem to hear the interrogation. After a te: moment's uneasy silence, Angie spoke W?LV' gt " What brought you home to the pi rural districts in this freezing weather as Sidney?" ]0 "Two good and sufficient motives, Miss. Inquisitive. The first is a bit of b( ? interesting news. The second"?he laugued in an embarrassed way?"the w seconn is?is a personal matter which I se tbeg ltHive to discuss with you later.? w By the by." udded he, changing his tone to ahrup; ly, " iiertlia Huntress came witD le me. You've beard me speak ot our new step-cousin. Bertha P" at "Thestately beauty?" of " I lelicve she answers to that description," responded Sidney, looking p< ple:?s? d. " You'll be sure to like each ? other, Angie." re "Shall wp?" The young lady her- Is self was lcs? onfident on that point. "She's wiid to see you, I've talked ap so much about you." dl " You might have chosen a more a pleasing topic!" nc 'Allow me to doubt it. But now for sa my bit of news. Chase & Rollins have increased my salary by one-four'Ji." st " How complimentary! I'm so glad!" w " And they promise to take me into ps the firm next vear. * Chase, Rollins & d Co.' Ahem! flow's ' Co.'for a name?" as "Prodigiously dignified, but not mu- vc sicai. Think I prefer Sidney Aldcn." di " Honestly ? Thousand thanks for the avowal! If you only knew how I'v; vt been agonizing for soaie mark of your st preference !' ' to "You saucy being! I hoped Boston would improve your manners." ' Pray supplement Boston and fashion yf them yourself-" " You overrate my capabilities. Do tb set myself up for a Mr. Turveydrop?" ri: aughed Angie, try .ng to look uncon- at scious and to foreet that last interview nc with Sidney, when he certainly had Z< seemed on the very verge of a proposal. S! ''t\ "You setyoursefup for a military P! character, on the contrary, it appears," in W0 rbserved the young man, quizzically, h< g! surveying tlie cocks de in her hat "Let st nie here "remark tt at that regimental sc costume is vastly nobby and becoming, tt The dark blue contrasts finely with the te glib UULI.UX19 auu 11JC UlSU^e 111LU- l/L .& rnings. n< "4 Orange trimmings' indeed! Asif gi I'd be seen in orange, Sidney Alden! gi These modest cordings are of 'old gold P" a1 "Ah, yes! Now I have a spasm of hi mfmory. Bertha once tutored me on si tins same subject; protested I'd a ten- tc dency to color-blindne-a. Bertha wears ai one of those suits. Probably tnat's how ? 'j 1 came to observe yours." ri Was it, forsooth t The girl at his side gi ell strangely aggrieved by the naive tl remark, and strengthened in the con- t( vicuon that sne snouia not liKe miss n Huntress. I'ho fair stranger was sitting at the it pari or window as they stopped at the ci gate. She bowed gayly to Sidney, who h iruiJaiitly touched bis hat to her. And? a Hl ^ cou'.d Angie be deceived P or did hetoss " MP a kis? as be sprang from the carriage to assist herself in alighting? Angie did i; Jhr wish she knew; but it was no time for t: idle speculations. The next moment t! , fih?' was borne into ihe house by Zet to b t o 1141 roduct d to t he new-comer. Tton s namma Alden had a motherly welcome i or her, and the worthy doctor laid I side his medical journal to greet her , vith marked favor. Evidently little : kliss Converse was a great pet in the j lousehold. Was it strange if she had i ome to believe herself tacitly regarded ; 3 one of the family? "There! I wonder if Sidney remem- i >ered to engace oysters for tne festival?" ! ried Zet, suddenly, as she helped Angie j emove her wraps. "I'll ask him," volunteered Miss,j luntrees. from the window-seat. "Thank you. And if he's forgotten, j cold him." "I will?in your name." " Why not in your own, too? It will ei nfF, ofirro RpaiHp.Q lt'ft rmir ! 'C UJW1 M OU* Ul/l IV* */Vk;4v?w, ?? - j ??- 1 eculiar duty?not to say privilege!" "I don't wish to anticipate these) hings," smiled Miss Bertha, vanishing : hrough the doorway. "Isn'tshe charming, Angie?" cried 1 let, with enthusiam. "Such eyes! And uch exquisite hair! Sid says she is fee a Titian Madonna." "She is lovely," assented Angie in ! tie tone ot a martvr who dies for the ruth. i! It was not till after tea that the two I iris began their duets. Sidney leaned ver Angie's chair to turn the music ;aves, discoursine merry nonsense with : erself and Miss Bertha, who sat near I ie lamp sewing brass rings upon a ! urtain for the public hall. "I appreciate your good intentions, id," cried his sister at last, nervously; nevertheless I wish you'd run off. our chattering puts us out." " Your eloquence distracts our attenon, would sound more polished, sisirkin." " Choose your own form of rhetoric, tily leave us! Bertha use your in fluace. He's bound to do as you say." "Bertha won't abuse herriahts; she nnura T linArpn't-. appn Ancie ten linutes." "But Mis3 Converse would rather be eard than seen just now," said Miss [untress, rising with an indolent nile. "We oughtn't to interrupt the nets." "Fair tyrant! She says go, and I : tust be gone!" responded Sidney, in an 1 pparent agony of submission. 1 " Don't take Bertha away. She j; oesn't disturb us." I i " Alaybe not; but her tarrying behind i tight disturb me, sisterkin," retorted 11 idney airily," " and she'll never desert j [r. Micawber." ; As the twain disappeared arm-in-arm, | i et drew a long breath. "There!" said she, "hope we can j! lay better now I've disposed of him ! ad his bride-elect." '; 'Bride-electP" faltered Angie, strik- i i2 a false note, ! "Yes. Haven't you heard? I sup- j jsed Sidney had told you. You're out I time. Angie. One?two?three?four. 1 ow the pedal." i " Wasn't it rathei?rather sudden ?" "Sudden? the sub-bass? It is writn that way." < "What you said a moment ago- 1 >out Miss Huntress and Sidney ?" 1 "That? Oh, yes! I was disap-11 >inted at first. Do you know, I wanted d to have you? I never once thought Bertha. I have my doubts now 1 hether she is just the one for him; 1 it he ought to know her better than i e do," answered Zet between fitful i roses, as she labored over a difficult issage. j 1 At last they had mastered the duets ; Zet's satisfaction, and Sidney lounged j i "toaccept their apologies," he ob- ! 1 rved loftily. t Had Bertha finished the curtain? his jter inquired. He had no convictions i the subject, and Zet went to ascer- j in. 1 Making a movement to follow her. ngie found herself cleverly penned be- j reen a rocking-chair and the center- i ble^ f "Wait, little lady, 'I've sometmng s yeet to tell you.'" 1 "I know! Iknow! Zet has an-11 >unced it. I?I congratulate you." j "On the snow-storm?" Sidney looked e trifle puzzled. " Thank you; though | ion't flatter myself it comes solely tor | f y benefit." i e "Not on the snow-storm. Does it c ally snow? I meant to congratulate I 5 ?u on?on everything." "Kind little soul! I was sure you j ould be pleased," he said, taking her , inds in his, as one might take a child's i warm them. "Yes, I consider that I r am a very lucky fellow. Bertha is?" \ s " Oh, yes, certainly! There's no ques-: >n about it," interrupted Angie, hur- I edly, withdrawing her hands- 1 s "All I lack now, Angie, is a snug ;tle home and?" Zet's entrance put a period to the sen- f nee. "If it clears off in the moraine:. An- !' ilioa, will you go sleighing with me?" ! s irsued Sidney, as his sister ran out ! s ;ain for the bed-candles. "I want a j1 ng, quiet talk with you." "1 can't! Indeed I can't go! I must! I i home early." 11: "Must you? Honor bright? Then i \ e'll ride in that direction, and w^'ll | 1 t out as early as you please. But: I hat's sour haste? Zet saitf you meant ' take the train, and that does not | ave till four in the afternoon." Angie made some incoherent remark >out not liking to appropriate so )i:uch ^ his time. "Nonsense! My time is at your dis- 1 >sa). I'll arrange matters with Bertha (i never you fear! She's a wonderfully r asonable being! What! shivering? cthe fire so low?" !1 "Fire low, I should say!" cried Zet, c ipearing on the threshold with a can- s estick in either hand. "The room is ? perfect oven. Shall we go upstairs 1 >w, Angie? Here comes Bertha to 1 y good-night to you." r As Angie followed Zet up the broad !i aircase to Zet's chamber, which they e ere to share together, she heard the c irlor door close gently upon Miss c untress and Sidney and she shivered 1 ;ain. The gentle murmur of their r nces maddened her. She tried to 51 own the sound of h<r own footsteps. e " I dare say your old gravel train ^ ^11 wake me in the morning," said r le, dragging down her crimps at the 1 lilet glass. ? " When does it begin its travels3" j "Somewhere between five and six," f iwned sleepy Zet. [ " So early? Thank fortune! I leave r lis house before any one else is stir- c ^ mnaorl Ar?rr?n witli o hr??lr ^ UiUCVU ?? / '-U ? *>'U UVV* _ the mirror, which just then reflected ^ ) " Madonna"lace. S'ie was glad that f Jtspeediiy floated off to dreamland. * le wanted to be alone to think. J lainly she could not ride with Sidney 1 . the morning. If be should talk to r 2r again in that tender, contidential : yle sne might break down; she would 1 oner die! No, she must go home on ( le gravel train. It was the only al- r rnative. She hoped Sidney wouldn't 1 link her odd! More likely he would 1 not tninK 01 uer at all?with wiiicn rim reflection the poor child finally rieved herself to sleep. At last, after what seemed hours, she woke to find a lamp flickering in the Dtel opposite. It must be high time le was dressing. Having made a hasty filet, she scribbled an ap?ogy to Z<t, cd again ventured down the staircase -this time in the dark; she must not sk awakening Sidney. In the hall she rouped cautiously for hat and sack ? i_i ivu Bbeaibuiiy* uu Lip-iA^tr, maue lierway ?the door, and closing it softly behind er ran down the path. Darkness everywhere, and how cold ; was! The frozen planks of the bridge reaked beneath her light tread; tae rosted nails snapped now and then with loud report; but the'lalling snow said hush! hush!" Burdened with muff, music and achel, sometimes in the road, someimes out of it, half-blinded, horoughly-chilled, Angle stumbled iravely on toward the depot, a half aile away. When she rWhed ita shadowy portals, which she had nearly passed in the obscurity, she found the door fast. Where was everybody? Was Oxbow dead and in its winding-sheet, and unwatched by even a solitary taper? Brushing the snow from the step, Angiebegan to 'ay down her bundles. A pretty situation this, truly, for Squire Converse's tenderlynurtured daughter! She fell to pitying herself as she contrasted herself with Sidney Alden, peacefully sleepiug, dreaming perhaps, of his loved Bertha. After what might have been the lapse of ages, the shriek of the engine rent the air. It was the usual reveille of the railroad workmen, but Angie believed it the signal for the starting of i he train. Hurrying past the handful of men gathered upon the platform, she climbed xe dark pass-mger car and let herself in. Oh, the comfort of being once more under a roof! With benumbed fingers she groped her way to a seat, and then SULillltX uaoa L\;i 1 tucu ac UV4 uuuu touched the shoulder of a man. "Anjrie? Angie Converse? Is it you at last?" cried a familiar voice. '.'Sidney Alden! You here? How you frightened me!" ejaculated Angie, very near hysterics. " Now, Miss Converse, will you have the goodness to tell me what all this means?" asked the young man, impatiently, seating her beside him. "I had things to finish for the festival. Did I wake you?" "No. It was a current of air from the north pole. Finding the street door ajar, and the hat-tree rifled of your belonging?. I naturally investigated further. I have been hunting for you these two hours." "I'm sorry I disturbed you. You ahoiilri have P-nno to sleen a^ain." "I suppose I can take a hint as well as the average fellow," pursued Sidney, hotly. "Yoti needn't have left my father's house at three o'clock of a winter morning to convince me of your indifference. Such an extreme measure was quite unnecessary, I assure you." " You don't understand. I?" "I'm not a complete idiot, Miss Converse. I do understand that you wouldn't have me making love to you? that you decamped in the night-watches to dodge a proposal. And now I a?k you this?wa3 it sensible or expedient to risk your health in this outrageous manner? Why couldn't you have said frankly that you didn't want to ride with me? If you had intimated that you wished to avoid further confidential interviews, I should?well, I admit I should have been awfully cut up?but [ shouldn't have had cause to complain. rn?tr>?iH nf ripnlinp hnnestlv with me. you sweetly remarked that you didn't [ike to appropriate my t ime, and I was simple enough to believe that you meant ust as you said. I thought you refused my escort merely Decause you bad scruples about taking me from the lehearsal." " Rehearsal?" "You consider me very stupid, no loubt; but knowing as I did that you tvere interested in the festival and the srogress of the farce, was it amazing ;hat?" "What farce?" " WThy, the farce! ' The Model Husjand.' As I was saying, I knew you were aware Bertha and I were hurried n committing our parts, and 1 natu :aiiy interred? "Nobody told me there was to be a arce!" "Fossible? Didn't you hear Zet jokng Bertha and me :ibout our tender reasons? Well, that is neither here nor .here. I-" 441 thought you?and Miss Huntres3 ?were actually engaged," murmured \ngie, furtively groping for herpocketlandkerchief. 44Cousin Bertha engaged tome? You jreeious little blunderer!" cried Sidley, in a tone of sudden relief, 44 She's o tigure as my wife in the farce, that's til; afterward I shall resign her to ler rightful bridegroom, who'll marry ler in March." TThtpr silpnce. broken at last bv an imbarrassed cough from Sidney. "You must have a fine opinion ol a ellow, Angie, to suppose I'd be intersted in another young lady. You an't help knowing I years ago elected rou." " Oh, if you're going to taik politics -before breakfast, too?" '' I won't be put. off this way forever, Ln fie. I think the lady of my election uig lit at least grant me a hearins, when he knows how long I have loved her!" " She's a wretched candidate!" "She's adorable! The point is, is ;he mv vei*7 own? May I claim her?" " You're sure you want her?" "Didn't I come down to Maine.solely or her!" " Foolish boy!" replied Angie, softly. ' Weil, since you've really elected her, he'd better'stand,' as the politicians ay. That is, it you can stand it with ler." she added, saucily. What matter that a sleepy brakeman >lundered in at that moment with a antern and kindlings! The election vas over, and for once in the annals of listory both parties were satisfied.? \nn Shirley, in Good Company. Edison's Electric Kailroad. "The Magician of Menlo Park," according to tho New York Herald. has at east proved that he can utilize the eiecric current for railroad purpose?. A Htrdd reDortcr went to Menlo Park to wit less a trial of the new motor on the three[uarter mile railroad. As a preeaution igainst unforeseen accident the member >f the press selected a seat as nearas posible to the inventor, because it would be >nly natural that that was the safest one n case the train should jump the track. U a signal from Edison Mr. Batchelor noved the lever attached to the switch, ind off they went. The riding was very ;njoyable for the tirst live hundred yards >r so, when suddenly a most horrible :urve was reached, round which the notor, with its car attached, spun at a athcr uncomfortable gait. Then came l series of serpentine curves that were mough to frighten anybody, but there vas no slowing up. On the contrary, nore power was put on, until it seemed hat the whole party were going to be haken from their seats The line was ocated in the worst possible positions >y Edison, in order that tl.c " beauties " ?f his invention would be readily seen >y any one on the car. Some of the urves are as sharp as those used on the urface roaJs round street corners in New Fors, so the reader can imagine iiow >leasant it was to eo around them at ho mfp nf ;il>r?i!t. fortv miles an hour. Tlie strangest part of the programme was the easy manner of controlling the notor, it being stopped within fifty feel ilthough going at a high speed. It ran ip asainst the heavy erades us easily as >n the level track, and was as powerful it the end of the track as in the station, vlie-re the electric current first reaches ihe rail. Alter the tirst trial the re. jorter was invited to ride on the moto without having the car attached, so tlm he speed would be increased. Three went on this trip?one at the switch, anjtlier at the brake, and the reporter held jn lor dear life. At the word go the machine shot off like a bullet, and it was jnly by holdii.g on firm ly that one's seat iould be kept. As the curves were 3truck the motor rocked fearfully; in fact, it was as hard to keep your seat on it as on an unbroken mustang when he sets Ijh jtiina on cue " duukid^ pruuees of dismounting you. The time made was fifty-three seconds from the station to the end of the track on the first trial, and fortj -two on the second trial. The motor has an electric headlight, which is burn intr continuously, ana wmcu uas a very pretty effect in the night time. Thoy are digging for Captain Kidd's gold back ot Absecom Beach. The most remarkable thing about the captain's gold is that it is iuBt as easy to hunt for it in one place as another.? Boston 1 ranscript. Some Leading QuestionsA young man who looked as if he had aheap of things on his mind, but who struggled hard to appear outwardly calm, put a five-dollar bill on the desfc of a Detroit lawyer the other day and said: " I want to ask you a few leading questions." "Goahead," was the reply, as the money was quietly thrust out of sight. " If I am engaged to a girl and I go back on her wnatcan she do?" " Sue you for breach of promise." "But if she goes back on me what can I do?" ' "Hunt up another." "Um! Suppose I ha re presented her with a $2 fan, a pair of bracelets, a parasol and a ring?" "Then she is so much ahead." " If I believe that her infatuation for another is but a passing whim and I flourish a revolver and talk of suicide, what then?" "Her father will probably pick you up and drop you into the first mud puddle." "Um! Suppose I bad presented her mother with a twenty-shilling umbrella?" "Then she'll keep dry." "And her brother with an accor- i deon ?" "Then he'll worry the neighbors." "Suppose, sir, I had, for tne sake of : making myself solid with the old man, i presented him with sixteen dollars' ] worth of watch-dog?" 1 " He'll set him upon you if you have i any trouble." < " Um! Have I no redress?" I "Yes, sir; go and lick the prairie ranger who has stolen away your girl's ] affections." < "Til doit!" " Glad to hear it. I'll defend your case for $20." "Um!" "Um!" " Come to think of it he is a bigger man than I am ?" "Then iet him lick you and I'll make it cost him $50." "Um! I'll think of it." "Um! Office hours from 8 a. m. to 6 i\ m." And the young man troubled with inward agitation took himself out.?Free Press. Modern British Regicides. During Louis Philippe's reign and the four following years attempts were made upon the life of Queen Victoria by Oxford in 1840, and by a workman named Francis in 1843; upon the King of Prussia, Frederick William IV., in 1844, and again in 1850; upon the present Emperor of Germany, then military commander of CoblenB, in 1849; and upon Isabella, Queen of Spain, in 1852. None of these attempts succeeded. Oxford, who shot at Queen Victoria while she was passing on Con scitution hill, was clearly a lunatic, and ; was confined to Bedlam as such. He J remained there about twenty-five years, j and while in confinement showed him- f sell invariably rational, working industriously as a carpenter, and expressing t his deep remorse whenever he was ( questioned about what he termed his t ' wicked piece of foolery." Oxford is y still alive, but he is residing out of Eng- c land. r Not so Francis, the carpenter, who 1 assaulted the qweti in 1842, and made 5 a large wale on her face. This man a died shortly after he had been lodged r in St. Luke's Bethlehem. He was un- c questionably mad. Nevertheless, after 1 this offense, parliament passed a bill en- \ acting that flogging should be inflicted s in the future upon any one seeking to 3 KoHilw harm UDon the queen, or to threaten her. It was by virtue of c this act that the youne fool O'Connor, 8 who leveled a pistol at the queen in \ 1869, was sentenced to be imprisoned s for a year, and to receive twenty strokes 8 with a birch. The queen kindly re- r mitted the whole punishment, and 4 causel the boy to be supplied with 1 funds that he might emigrate to Aus- c tralia. But, within less than a year s after he had been shipped off to South- I ampton, O'Connor returned to England, and was found prowling within the i precincts of Buckingham palace at night, evidently with evil intent. This time he was certified to be out of his mind, and was sent to an asylum,where he remained under treatment four years. He is believed now to be in New Zealand.? Cornhill. I.tn T.anirnficrfl. There was an interesting exhibition lately in London of the new way of teaching the deaf and dumb to speak and to understand by the motion of th? lips. There is a school for this purpose in London of sixty pupils, founded chiefly J through the benevolent exertions of the 1 Baroness Mayer de Rothschild. The ] school assembled at Grosvenor house, the 1 abode oJ the Duke of WeBtminpter, now the richest nobleman in England; and a ^ numerous body of guests were invited to witness the progress they had made. ] The teacher, Mr. Van Praagh, showed the steps of the process by which mere ] infants are taught both to understand 1 and use the lip language, and, at an 1 early age, to frame sentences and hold { easy conversation. A gentleman among ; * J- ' - _r J me audience asseu ouw ui mc jjupuo w name a member of the house of lords. ( The answer immediately came, 44 Lord Beaconsfield." Another was asked to , give the name of a leading member of ] the house of commons. " Mr. Glad- j stone," was the reply. The sounds they make are monoton- < ous, as they cannot emphasize or inflect their- voices. But the main point is, ] they can make themselves understood. J This blessed invention of enabling the ( dumb to speak and the deaf to understand ought to have been made at an earlier day. We read in one of Voltaire's letters of 1760: We have in GenO-rra n TTTATYlon 1ftO VOOfQ nlH wllfl HflJl ' n *T UUi<?U * JW1U ViMj II ?W three deaf and dumb children. They ' converse with their mother (an educated lady) from morning until evening, sometimes by moving tneir lips, sometimes by moving their fingers. They play all games very well, know all the gos?ip ol lie city, and tell funny stories about their neighbors as well as the greatest talkers can. They understand everything that is said to them by the movement of the lips. and. in a word, thty are very good company.?YoulK's Com- 1 panion. IDecIevitj in Rivers. A. very slight declivity suffices to give ] the running motion to water. Three ] inches per mile in a smooth, straight i channel gives a velocity of about three miles an hour. The Ganges, which 1 gathers the waters of the Himalaya i mountains, the loftiest in the world, is, i at \800 miles from its mouth, only about ; 800 feet above the level of the sea, and : to fall these 800 feet in the long course the water requires more than a month. The great river Magdalenajn South America, running for 1,000 miles between two ridges of the Andes, falls only 500 feet in all that distance; above tlio (commencement of the 1,000 miles it jssten descending in rapids and cataracts from the mountains. The gigantic PJa rl. la Plotn Vino sr? aontlo n HpKf>pnt, to the ocean that, in Paraguay, 1,500 miles from its mouth, large ships are seen which have sailed against the current all the way by the force of the wind alone?that ia to say, which, on the beautiful inclined plane of the stream, have been gradually lifted by the soft wind 11..1I even against the current to an elevation greater than that of our loftiest spires. It is estimated that 30,000 people in this country are operated on by dentists daily. Is it any wonder that we are not 1 and of angelflP?Zteroti Fre* Pre*a. ' THE WORLD'S FAIK AT NEW YORK. The International Exhibition of 1883? t All Necessary Legislation Obtained and t the Enterprise Bapldlv Progressing. ] The world's fair committee, which J began its labors nearly two years ago 1 and has quietly but persistently worked 1 ever since to perfect the arrangements c for an international exposition at New 8 York in 1883 that shall eclipse every- ? tiling of the kind the world ever saw, ' has now completed its labors, and, in a f sense, gone out of existence. Butitstill ? occupies its position in New York, and""? will continue its work in aid of the en- ^ terprise until the legally appointed com- ' missioners are appomieu u> wise cuuuui of the undertaking. The bill passed by 8 Congress creates a commission composed a of about 100 citizens of New York city 7 who are named and who represent nearly 0 all the leading business interests of the ?. metropolis. They are to act in conjunc- ' tion with two commissioners lrom each '( State of the Union, and one from each v Territory and from the District of Col- P umbia, the whole body forming a single organization. * The commissioners at their first meet- ri ing will make a temporary organization 11 and open books for subscriptions to the 81 3tock. Sixty days later they will meet again, and if by that time $1,000,000 has c. been subscribed?of which ten per cent. " ? r n lust be paid in?a permanent organiza- tion will be effected. At this Becond v meeting, which will be held in the latter part of September, the subscribers to ^ the stock will elect a board of finance, j* com posed of twenty-five members chosen b from among their number. Allmpm- e! bers of this board, il not already com- ri mis9ioners, will become such by virtue of their election. The full commission " will then elect a president and other offi- I1 cers. and an executive colnmittee. This ^ committee will proceed as soon as practicable to select a site for the exhibition, fi' idopt plans for buildings and make conxacts for their erection. SI The act of Congress provides for the C( mbscription of twelve millions of dol- C( * " f ? or ars, due 11 tnree or iour miuions are ? subscribed the undertaking will be P1 fairly placed upon its feet. The scale 1E .lpon which the exhibition will be or- 0{ janized will depend, of course, upon cc ;he amount of money subscribed. The ft? ictual promoters of the enterprise de lire to make it surpass in size as well as Attractiveness all previous world's fairs. m The New York Tribune says the ex - SJ libition enterprise is now in better 8tl shape than was the Centennial three pears before it opened. If the money is e3 aised this year, so tbat the work of Pc suilding can begin early next spring, ihere will be ample time for completing r? ill the nreDarations before the opening aF lay, which will probably be fixed for PJ he first of May, 1883. Considerable A nterest in the enterprise is already mani- r'1 "ested among manufacturers, and th lumeroua applications for space have jeen made in advance of the regular or- ?r canization of the commission. The it! Jouthwark foundry and paachine com- OF >any, of Philadelphia, qas offered to 80 urnish the steam power.} of The first world's fair 0ver held was w. hat in London in 1851 JThe area covxed by buildings wa- twenty acres; in here were 15,000 exhibitors, 6,039,195 h< visitors on the 141 dayithat it was in >pened, its cost was $1,4)54,000 and its aE eceipts for admissions were $2,530,Oo0. nc rhe New York world's fair of 1853 had to >3 acres of buildings, 7,000 exhibitors cc tnd cost $500,000! No" figures as to the ra lumber of visitors and the receipts are T1 htainable. The Paris exposition of h< 855 cost $4,000,000 and the gate receipts at yere $640,500. It had aid from the cc tate. The London fair of 1862 cost gc 52,300,000, and the gate receipts were P* ixactly the same. The Paris exposition >f 1867 had 50,226 exhibitors, cost se 54,596,763, received $2,822,932 and was U -J?ii-J 1 1A AAA AAA Ti Kn/1 a W 'imi?cu uy iu,wu,wv pcu^ic. n ij?v* *? ubvention from the city and state of w 52,400,000. The Philadelphia centen- tl< lial had 450 acres of ground, of which cc Si acres were covered by buildings, or lad 90,000 exhibitors, 8,004,274 visitors, b< ost SI 1,132 588 and received foradmis- lo ions $3,834,250. It was open 189 days. ' 1 ts receipts were as follows: m sa CENTENNIAL STATISTICS. tooeipts? /7 Sub3cription9 to stock :gt2,350,229 GO J? State ol Pennsylvania 1,000,000 00 \ City ol Philadelphia 1,500,000 00 01 United Slates government.... 1,500,000 00 W Admissions 3,834,290 99 Sale of buildings 290,117 05 | ar Salo ot material ana lurniture aa.nu ai jy Donations 78,443 22 ]j| Concessions 236,030 06 Miscoilaneous 17,285 98 w Royalties 204,381 10 ,7. Medals sold 41,081 35 U! Interest on account 47,608 13 Total $11,132,587 69 R Its disbursements were: Expenses? Cost. d< demorial Hall gl,564,398 56 ol Machinery Hall 634,863 48 tt Horticultural Hall 367,073 47 as Sxhibition Buildings 2,659,867 67 li 55,226,203 18 ^ fences, bridges, gates, waterand gas works 287,465 77 ^ Repaid United States government loan ...j 1,500,000 00 ^ ?olicn Department..5477 .724 61 Fire Department.... 125,197 21 ?J Jnited States Oenten- n nial Commission.. 344,224 82 $ Sundry Department 938,871 20 T Engineering,grading nl grounds 733,481 94 8i Ceremonials, music, "p etc 91,435 76 * : Judges ol awards... 249,GUI 75 tu Piize medals 27,937 66 \dvertising,printing , etc 251,808 43 "j JlosiDg expenses... 38,571 25 3,268,854 53 g ?aidstockholders, 17J per cent.. 468,985 75 R Debts and stocks 191,762 38 Vi Cash on hand 189,316 08 ? 381,078 46 r( a Total gll, 132,587 69 Bj Basing their calculations on these u igures. those interested in the scheme o ilaim that a fair in this city could be ai uade a thorough financial success. New d fork, they say, is the seat of our com- t?i nerce. It is the point where our own tl jeople exchange their wares with those p >f other nations. More than three- h quarters of the $1,200,000,000 of the for- ti iign commerce of the Union center here, oi md three quarters cf the customs duties o ire paid here. It is, in fact, the one cos- c< nopolitan city of America, and a fair o leld within its limits could not fail. h y rr A Woman-Pinching Tenor. $ The Russische Zeitung reminds its f( readers of a comical incident that took u place toward tne end of Czar Nicholas' 0 reign, when Salvy, a tenor singer, en- jj dowed with uncommon personal at- tj tractions, having completed Ills engage- ^ ment at the Moscow opera house was ^ about- to take his departure for St. ^ Petersburg. A large number of his female admirers, for the most part pa- v trinians of the first water, drove to the a railway station to see him off, laden e with wreaths and bouquets of costly a exotics, and surrounded him on the plat- * form as he was about to get into the j, train, imploring him in passionate ac- ^ cents to bestow upon them some trifle jj by which they might recall him to tueir r memories when lie should be far away. g Salvv was at lirst smitten with painful ^ perplexity by the prayers ot his fair wor- {[ shipers; but presently a ludicrous notion y presented itself to him and he proposed, ^ in jest rather than in earnest, that he j BHUUiU UUIIJllllSLtn uu c;iv;u ISU) nouun j farewell pinch " to remember liim by." v To his amazement this absurd proposi- v tion was hailed with joylul acclama- <z tion, and, as he proceeded to put it into j. execution, the enthusiastic recipients of his souvenirs easrerly importuned him to pinch hard " so as to leave a nice blue mark that would last a long a while, and, above nil, where they could 1 A Federal Charge at Antietam. George Alfred Townsend says ini ;er to the New York Graphic: Or jattlefield of Antietam, 3epten 1862, John Gordon, of Georgia, at bunker Church, saw a sight memor o him early that forenoon: 'A i nent of Union infantry marched ir solumns, one after the other, at qu tep, directly upon his grim, ex] need lines. The strangers were roops unscathed by any battle, no\ pf the sufferings of war, perhaps n n their lives under fire, and their cl ng and accouterments were new f wcrn in militia parades c Vhite, shining gaiters were over t hoes, a Zouave jauntiness was in t uits as cut, their bayonets were br: s household silver, and they advai ritbout firing a gun in all the intrepi ffschoolboys bred on moral histoi onscious only of their good cause tie animation or uie cnarge. ^ou :>rward they kept step, their co rere new from ladies hands, the b layed gloriously, every officer wa* is place; it was like ideal war luropean open plains, not the wai agged country and rough volun lultitudes discovering tactics for th elves " Save your fire, men, till they lose on you,"said Gordon; "fresl liey are, if they could break thro s on a charge as cool as that we sbc lie it." The gallant line came on, beautifn romehj intrepid as children, feeing lusic and the holiday. Ah! it was e for most of them the holiday ;ernity. As the first column i iglit up on the sullen Southern line mmand of Gordon came to fire i lem, taking aim. A tetrible eai uake of rifles poured forth, renei nd renewed, as if a devil li?d ari J a ?j 1.1 ^? k / 3Q Siampeu a.nu uiew uis uicaw. . eld and wood were thick with th aung boys, pilod up like cordw )illed, and another of the door )lumns wan coming undauntedly >iors, music and glistening belts i lklets as before, as if the perished < mn had a second life and was renev i the trampled corn and high, cl ik groves. "What unaffected, >nscious bravery!" thought Gord i he gave the command to hold itil it would be deadly. Again >mon burst through the limest* old and stamped and danced, and 1 'and pageant went out in smoke, h ones ana sighs. "Did you ever see such coolnes :claimed Gordon, all black w >wder and sweat, as the third s urth columns of the same doon giment came on again, parad >ove their dead and every officer in ace waving his sword for tin* char eain the wt ods exploded, the air \ pped with lead, the pageant sank i: e grave. The remaking column and its ga ings wavered now. War had mt i paralyzing impression upon th een natures like forest fire on bl ms. But there was one man left, Beer, who was seasoned throi ith courage. Gordon saw him spt rong words of courage to his shrii g command, higher in tone than I >wl of the falleu; he waved his swt their faces, pointed it to the ene: id cried: "Advance!" They woi >t step; 'the ground before them v o dreadful with dead. He took 1 lor in his hands and waved It t n forward with it. They he-itat hen wringing his hands ab ve :ad and throwing down his hat, ljured th"m by duty, manhood c luntry to come on. They dared i >. Massacre had produced its i ession. "Then," says Gordon, who told venteen years after, when he wa nited States Senator, "that n Imm T hoH watched all this wh ith my men ready and hot with t s, wa ked deliberately in front of mmand, wholly unsupported, rij 1 toward our line, more than half v Jtween the two, and folding his ar oked into our muskets, as if to si [ came here to die!' For myself, 1 ember no more, but my men hi .id to me many a time that the J ords I uttered, when I was strucl ie face and fell with five wounds,we 3on't shoot that man!1 I never he ' his fate and have never known w as the regiment." I asked Senator Gordon if thei-e t ly difference between the couraei orthern and Southern soldiers. " V ttle," he said. "I have seen orthern men stand charges bef hich any troops in the world wo ive flinched." ich Men of Ancient and Modern Tin The ancient historians have a gi ;al to say about the wealth of vari d Greeks and Romans: but non< lem was so rich, in all probabil lys a New York paper, as are m; mg Americans. Croesus, King ydia, 500 years before the Christ a, had so much gold, with other ki I property, that " rich as Croesus" sen for ages a threadbare simile, as the great plutocrat of antiqu ad it is difficult to judge of the va f his possessions; but it is not at kely that it ever reached more tl 10,000,000 to $12,000,000 of our mor here are, no doubt, forty New York t least, worth more than he, and sc x or seven have fourfold his wea he richest Roman in Julius Cses me, and one of the triumvirate, 1 [arcus L;oiniusCras3U.", an astute sj lator noted for avarice. His fort as often been estimated and ne bove $9,000,000 to $10,000,000 in Uni tates currency. An Athenian oman who could count his estat< 'hat would be 1,000,000 of our dol 'as considered immensely wealthy, jsidents of Manhattan who have tore than $1,000,000 are not now c dered particularly well off, and nknown among the opulent meml f the community. Mere milliona re so common here as to merit lil istinction financially. There wen jch estates in ancient times as thos VflMrtnwKilfa onH nA fl! ju rvsiui a auu T wwioj ^ ~ rivate fortunes as are held not o ere, but in Boston, Philadelphia, ] more, Chicago, San Francisco : tiier cities of the republic. The groi f wealth has been prodigious in 1 Duntry within thfs generation. Sc f the largest accumulations in the 1: ave been made within forty or 1 ears. Half a century ago only lan in the metropolis was wc 1,000,000, and his name was Ji acob Astor. Now, hundreds of :llow citizens can go beyoud those res, and they feel rather poor tl therwise. Wxien Stephen vriraro ui i 1831, he was considered by all o :ie richest man od this continent? ody approached or began to appro im monetarilv?and yet his prop< ra9 not valued at more than $9,000,1 len who do not regard themselves ery old can easily remember w 100,000 was thought to be a forti ven in our largest cities, and w 10,000 in the small towns was deei n independence. At present 8100 j hardly reckoned sufficient to mat ian comfortable, and $10,000 would - _l ! wtAnfinn lir.lcQQ 1 e UeSUrVlLIK U1 muuuun, uui^u ' ural village of New England, wl ener.il poverty lends a magnify ower to any eye that contemplates ind of coin. Within the next ears it is likely that private lorti /ill be increased beyond what I iave been in the same period in the i n 1930 and 1940 it is probable eno pe shall hear of plain American citi: /ho are worth from $100,000.00 1150,000,000, and who will begrumb hat they have no more. The difference between horse-ra ml redish hor.-e is this: One is I lorsc at all, and the other in a hori mother color. yjjj - & CURIOUS SUPERSTITIONS. i let L the Om?ni and Sign* that Hare Come from iber, the Old World. ' yjj? It is very commonly believed, says a New York paper, that the assembling "e<?1" of thirteen persons at table insures the l. 8fx death of one of the party before the year's ilCK- . J T il-rt AfKni* onnio 1 atinflMfi. I triiu. JLiiivc uiauj \jvu.um. ouuiwi uupuontipw ^i0113' ^is foolish notion has probably J; ! survived the strange delusions which pvpt exi9ted in the world during the dark jT ages tbat intervened hetween the fourth otn" century of the Christian era and the re\ vival of Christianity. The birth, sufferPy* ings and death of our Lord has furnished r . innumerable incidents on which mys. ,terious superstitions and sayings have been founded. For example, in many J,0.?'1 parts of England, and in the New Eng4lty land States, it is believed that the cattle riej*' kneel in their stalls on Christman eve, **n(1 at midnight, in remembrance ot the )m8 nativity. Possibly some of our readers l01* remember how they were wont, in their and childhood, under the direction of ignor5 m ant and superstitious servants, to go 0IJ into the snow-bound barn, by night, I* Hi Ui, Aniila lrwrtfll f nn Phfiatmoq " IU act liUC Uai/UJLC uu uiuioauiui tew eve. em" Many of these perverted beliefs come from over the seas. As our forefathers are brought with them the superstitious ^ notions of Old England which we find transplanted in the New England, so ,uld later emigrants have brought tile super. etitions of other lands. The Cornish * J*3 miners in the Pacific States, for exampie, say that they hear on Christmas too eve, far down in the depths of the mines, r 01 supernatural voices singing: "Now ^s w<il! Now well!' One authority says the that our Lord was crucified on an ashen tof0 tree, wherefore, a9 is known, snakes do ^i1" show such a dread of that tree that they ^ed may be driven from their haunts by chips and slivers of the ash. But anFhe other equally learned authority declare lU3!jr tliat ligLtmng never s'riKes me emer, ior 005 the reason that the cross was made of ned the wood of that tree, and therefore it on' is hallowed for all time. Nevertheless, and it is popularly believed that the leaves 301- 0f "tho light quivering aspen" shiver and shake because the tree is in agony ean for the shameful death of the Savior un* wrought upon it in the time of Pilate. And tne belief that some one of a party "^e of thirteen at table will die before the year is out is founded upon the rememone brance of our Lord and his twelve disthe ciples at table where the last sapper was ail- eatfin. TLere are multitudes of intelligent ? people who hesitate to sit at table with ith a party ot thirteen, although the objector md does not know whence the idle superti- 1 led tion began. He has heard of instances 1 i?g of persons dying soon after beine one of his thirteen at a dinner-table. He does not 1 ge. believe in the superstition, but he would ' ras rather be on the safe side, so he declines ! Qto to sit. How many people do not like to 1 see the new moon over their left shoul- < th- der? How many fail to turn over in ! ide their pockets the few coins which napese pen to he therein when they see the new os- moon through glass? It is not an un- ' an c/immnri thine for sensible men and 1 igh women to deter beginning a pieoe of >ak work, which might have been begun of nk- a Saturday, until some other day, on ac- j the count of the popular belief that work , )rd begun of a Saturday will never be fin- , my isbed. ? j aid The homes of New England and of ; *as New York and other States for that ( the matter are filled with signs and won- ; Lnd dera, omens and superstitions. It is ; ed. unlucky to weigh riew-born children; his they will not thrive, and they may not be live. When children are first taken j tnd from the room in which they were born j not they must go upstairs before they go i ;m- downstairs; otherwise they will ( never rise in the worl Very likely j I It some of our readers have seen a nurse ( s a mount a chair with the baby in her 3 lan arms when there was no room in the , ile. house higher than the babv's birth- , at- place. It is difficult to trace the origin ! his of this superstition, but it must have , ?bt been derived from some pagan notion, ray The popular saying in New England ms that when a girl's petticoat is longer *y: than her gown her mother loves her re- less than her father need not be releave gated to the dark ages. The breaking ast of a looking glass as an omen of a death t in in the family is easily explicable. It is re: the breaking of the image of some one ard in the household. But why a straneer hat should be expected to arrive very soon after a fork, a pair of scissors or other vas sharp-pointed instrument falls and f> r\t atistlrci nnnral'/^ in Mio flrwkr 1Q nnh to he e V/l Obl\>XVO UplIUJU M.LA. UliV -w ery understood. Yet multitudes of women ! the set their house in order when such a ore warning comes to them. A stranger's uld approach is also warned often by the , dropping of a dish-cloth on the floor. Manifestly, this came to be ac'cpted as a sign because it would be mortifying ies. for the stranger to comc in before the :eat dish-cloth could be taken up and the ou3 room made tide. > of Old wives by the sea coast hold many ity, superstitions concerning the"hollow* ivny sounding and mysterious main." Thus of Dickens tells us that Barkis lingeredi n jan his dying until the turn of the tide, nds when, the tide going out, Barkis went has out with it. In New England it is unHe lucky to kill a pig in the wane of the ity, moon or at the ebbing of the tide; the due pork will shrink in the boiling. Water all in the dinner pot evaporates more iian rapidly over the fire when the tide is iey. "deadlow." It is unlucky to eat fish ers, from the head downward; it drives >me away the fish from the shores. To tell 1th. the stage of the tide without going to fir's the beaeh; look in a cat's eyes; the pupil svas of every intelligent cat's eye is elongated 3ec- when the tide is at the flood. Never une count a catch offish until the day's work iver or sport is done. Otherwi-re the sport is ited spoiled. Similarly the seaside farmer or never counts his lambs until the season ; at for their dropping is over. But it is not lars alone in rural communities that men Vint and women keep up customs and rites no founded on pagan superstition. Among :on- the ancient Greeks andjRomans it was a are common custom for the bridegroom to >ers give his bride, on the wedding-night a ires considerable sum of money, by way of ttle purchase of her person. From this > no usage, no doubt, we have derived the ieof custom of making wedding presents, uch under which so many people groan, inly The ancient Saxons gave a betrothal 3al- 'ing. or other gift, which was called und ":l wed" and from which we have dearth rived a very charming word. Fifth *? -< ?.? this avenue throws an oia snoe unci- mc ime parting bride. Is this because our and sterner forefathers ordained that the ifty bridegroom should tap his new-made one wife on the head with his shoe as a ,rili token of her submission to her lord? aim " our Explosive Diamonds, fig- The Nineteenth Century tells of a lan sleeve-button bearing a rose diamond icd, which exploded under the influence of dds sunshine. It appears that the person r.o- who wore this button was one day aeh startled by hearing a distinct report, ?rty due to the sudden rupture of the stone. WO. The diamond was rent along a cleavage i as plane, and the fracture disclosed a dark hen particle of carbonaceous matter. It is ine, believed that the explosion resulted lien from the rapid expansion of a volatile ned liquid inclosed in a cavity. Many crys,000 tals contain cavities which inclose volale a tile liquids, such as condensed carbonic not acid. Sir David Brewster found that in a some diamonds contain so many microiere scopic cavities that they impart a dark fing color to the mineral. any It is probable that the liquids and fifty gases which are pent up under great mes tensions in such cavities would exert they considerable pressure outward, andr >ast. indeed, the behavior of certain diaugh mondj under polarized light seems to zens show that parts of the stone are in a 0 to state of great strain. It is easily coniling ceivable, then, that the tension of the inclosed fluid might go on increasing until the diamond,.no longer able to redinh" sist the strain, would give way with lot a exP'os'v<! violence ae of Marriaja* makes the man; the won? an I wt^ J?MO^b6iore,~Boston Transcript. FARM, GARDES AMI) HOUSEHOLI Small Fruiti. Does it pay for farmers who have n ready enough to do to I mother wit strawberries' and other small fruits P is question often asked by those who ha\ never tried their culture. The answ< depends upon the meaning of the wor "pay." If health, contentment and haj piness are worth working for the answt is in the affirmative; but if the "a mighty dollar" is the only thing in qnei tion then the answer is no, for potato* can be grown at leas cost per bushel an are equally nutritions as food. Thes fruits are looked upon as luxuries by th wealthy residents of cities, andextrava rant prices are often paid fojr them afte they have""been transported many mile and exposed for sale for hours in the ho and dusty streets, and it is a pity if th farmer, on whose soil they will grov spontaneously if only given opportunity cannot afford the slight trouble they re quire, for the privilege of partaking o them in ail their freshness. Strawberries are probably the mosi popular 4g"aU the small fruits. Tht ease with which they are grown, and thi great variety of soils to which the plan is adapted, make the fruit a genera favorite. They can be grown on an; soil that will produce good corn on po tatoes, and with a proper knowledge ai to their culture there is no good reason why every former may not have hi* table well supplied with this delicious fruit during their bearing season. Ii would be interesting to know the num ber of bushels of strawberries that art annually consumed by some of our large cities. The quantity is certainly im - LU, mease, ana sue cuauuecuiai vuiue ui ui? strawberry crop dottt#Bes runs into th< millions. Bat, onjttBflteher band, then are thousands of fiuHss. both in citj and country, that seldom indulge in th< luxury of a dish of this fine fruit Ir starting a strawberry bed choose some spot that is rich ana free from weeds. Prepare the soil carefully and set th( plants in rows (for garden culture) twe ieet apart, with the plants a foot apari in the rows.' Stir the soil frequently with the hoe or cultivator, thus keeping the soil mellow and free from weeds When the runners start they may be allowed to take root in the rows but not between them. Thus "matted rows11 will be tormed, with a space between for a path to stand in while working amonji flm nlonfa r\r> fVlA frnlf. U"V j/iMUW V4 |ft?HUiQ VUV Mulching is of great advantage, especially on dry or bakey ground. Of the hundreds of different varieties of strawberries no one kind Is best suited for all localities and soils. One variety will do best on one kind of soil and in one locality and another in some other soil and locality. Thus, in selecting varieties to set, it is best to test a number of the most reliable kinds and ihose that sort, for general oulture, that seems most suitable to your soil. The Wilson is noted for its reliability: it will succeed wherfe almost any variety will, but there are other varieties larger in size and superior in flavor.?Rzchayge. Cultivation of Fotatoei. The treatment of potatoes should perhaps be varied ig different latitudes and soils. The conditions of planting, growth and maturity in the District ol Columbia are quite different from ihose in Central New York, because of the difference in climate and length of growing season. Here early planting seems Off land conslatlng largely.of clay, underdrained and in fail condition as to fertility, the best method for a fall crop has been to plant in drills four to five inches deep, using a smaU quantity of hen manure (mixed with a liberal quantity of sifted coal ashes in ;he hen-house) scattered in the furrow. After covering the 3ecd, stable nanure is put over the drills, md this becomes partly "corered md mixed in with soil after cultivation. While the potato gets the benefit Df surface manure in this way without flirect contact with it, a decided advantage springs from the mulching process in after growth when we arc jften visited oy dry weather and warm >un. This method hns produced good zrops of early rose, rip jned early enough " oonnn/1 nrrtn (rnm hh<J g?mi> lftTld 1AJ ftcu ? ocwuvt ? 3f cabbages, turnips or fodder corn, in the application of pans green to potato Tines it has been mixed with gypsum and air-slaked lime, and duitea over them. It is probable that some help tc growth of vines is derived from such application of plaster. In the dry season just passed the crop yielded aboul 175 bushels per acre unaer this style ol cultivation, and free from rot, except a few peachblows harvested in October, which have been slightly affected.?A. W. E.. in Country Gentleman. For the Housewife. Do not use dairy Implements mad< of soft wood. They soon becom< saturated with oil of old butter, anc injure the quality of all new buttei they come in contact with. A cold application to the bar** feet such as iron, water, rock, earth or ice when it can tie had, is an exoellen remedy for cramp. If the patient b< seized in the upper part of tne body apply the remedy to the hands. An excellent remedy for removing paint or grease spots from garments ma] be bad by mixing four tablespoonfuls o alcohol with a tablespoorful of salt Shake the whole well together, and ap ply with a sponge or brush. Here is a good cure for a cough Ground flaxseed and finest pearl barley, of each one heaping tablespoonful; o pulverized licorice root one heaping tea spoonful; of best loaf sugar one-quartei of a pound. Place all in an earthen vessel ; pour on one quart of boiling water cover tightly until cool and drink of il frequently. It should be made fresl every twelve hours. Miss M. PArloa's new book gives the following recipe for rice coffee: Brown rice as you would the coffee bean, and then either grind or masn m tae moriar; take halt a cup of the ground rice and pournboucaquartof boiling water over it, and let it stand about fifteen minutes; yien strain and sweeten with loaf sugar and season with boiled milk. Drink of this freely. This is particularly nice for children. A simple and effectual remedy for the prevention of milk turning sour in summer time consists in adding to each quart fifteen grains bicarbonate of soda, This does not affect the taste of tbt milk, while it facilitates digestion. Flowing In Clover for Corn. The excellent result from plowing under clover is well-known to all. A Massachusetts larmer, who is noted foi '1 ornna me uicencucc ui *410 WAIA tliat hiB plan for years has been to sow clover on a third part of his plow land and let it grow and remain uncu through the entire season, plowing i under late the next season and plantinj corn upon it. Where manure canno .-?r irvrloorl imHpr anv cir UC ICO.U11J UUU, V* luuvvv. J curastances, the enrichment of Jam from clover plowed under is very great Is there not something akin to huma nature in the conduct of English spai rows when a number of them come upo a bugP The Boston Transcript note the taot that the energetic, quarre some, viilified little bipeds go into con; mittee of the whole and argue for a hour or two as to the best manner < dispatching him. When they hav come to an agreement the bug hs moved out of range. They are luxuriating in salt wat< baths in Paris. An ingenious chemii has invented a sachet that is filled wit a chemical preparation containing j the properties of sea water. It is tached to the f.iuc.et, and the result is salt water bath at a very moderai cost. ). A song* The birds sing on, the flowers bloom, There is sorrow in my heart; I" For one is here and one is there, ? 7 ^ And we axe tor apart. re The sun shines down, the grasses blow, 'J There's a longing in my heart; ? " For one is here and one is tbfere, ' " ,r" And wo ore far apart. The daylight wanes, the night lolls lowr. * ' ^ There's a stillness in my heart; ^ For one is here and one is there, *? * ' ".."ffiB e And we are far apart. ' '' ' ''iJS e ?Slella C. Aiktv*. C ^ ^ J ITEMS OF INTEREST. v e When is the fire like a bad .husband! r When it goes out at night. ' In California there are about 800.000 ^ ^ cattle and 8,000,000 sheep. The bright Dlaitines around dark w dresses should fie very"Bhort.v- '< There are 6,000 miles of telegraph raid telephone wire in New York-city,. The population of Richmond, ya,, is y? '^fBj 80,000, ol whom only 46,000 are wfai^e. ." Immense quantities of iron are now - Sfc, received in Spain for the Engliah3nx*? . - fl '-m ket. mm A great deal of jet and colored bejidj; embroideries appear on ftzll dress snfi^ mer toilets. ' ' _ The average yield of potatoes in 187 |^H in tho United States was only sixty-nil* ** bushels per acre. The Boston Post suggests that it i? * v now safe to treat girls with coolness? *. flavored with vanilla. V .. fl It is estimated that seventy years and v. -:.>ss $1,000,000 will be required to complete 'g|;| L the excavations at Pompeii. i A young lady resembles am muni tiro - 9 . because the powder is needed before th? > balL?Marathon Independent. ' It is the same with nature as .with A ' humanity, when the land gets worn out A , r the farmers plaster it.?Waterloo 0*- - - *2 ' server. ^ Coal is raisod from the French mines . in the Creuzot district by means of com- .. I pressed air, the process also ventilating ' . themines. The steel industry of the United States is now the second in the world, , and in another year will lead that of .' v!B Great Britain. ' Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where the ants congregate will drive ? i them away. The same remedy is go6& also for mice. ' Bead not to contradict and confute, ?'> vcyjj nor to believe and take for granted,' .. ' nor to find talk and discourse; but' to ;.'?9 ; weigh and consider. . _ , J. The Chinese ambassadress at Paris is " v m&kI unable to stand on account of her lash- .." . '^J!g ionably mutilated feet. She is held up by two pertons of her suite. > A subscriber asks if Beecher preaches * . Wrtfr an Inwg ncfcha HotiW VY IllUUUU UVVVO* A1VW continue to issue, or seats can sell for 'd ?30,000 a year.?Qwego Record, . . -a " It's hot to-day,'' the young man Mid, The old man looked into Ma houae, - ^ And replied, "Maybe, but its scold in there,' . 'CPS As he pointed to his spoose. ?MarathonlndependtnL , ' "isi J "Arc you a home ruler?" was asked of one ot the candidates at an English - v election. A voice from the back setts, ? 1 answered: "JNo, but his wife is." ;,.va During the year J 379 the omnibusesof .-vj.'iffl i Paris carried 91,248,432 passengers, an . average of 250,269 per day. In 187* *\ ' . the number of passengers was 10fl. . * " " | 912,582. ' . The annual report of the American _ 1 Bible society shows raceipls for the i year of $608,342. John W. Foster, minister to Russia, was elected vicepresident. and Jobn Jay, manager. The total cost of the Gothard tunnel, ' the most gigantic work of the kind in ; the world, will not exceed $10,000,000. ? ; It has been very costly of human life as ' well as money, no less than 150 workJ men having been k i lied and 400 disabled '. - during its construction. A peasant who had during fifty years . J J .*? Kooyi Pnn. i Urt*saeu 1U icmaic nunil. uuvi UWM vv_ _ ., i sidered a woman was recently sent to a * t hospital in Milan, and was there dis- * \ $ covered bv the surgeons in charge to be " * t i a man. The supposed woman had beet . >V i formally married to a man. " Here, John, don't eat those crackers up. < Said she, with a hateful snap; . vi " They're some I saved on purpose ' -+ i To put in the baby's pap. , " Well," said John, edging lor, the door And reaching lor his hat, , "What makes you so cross about It, thenf ?' |1 Ain't I the baby's pap ?" % ... "*? . This story ot a windy day is of course v } from a Nevada paper, the Truckee ' % 7-' I Republican: A hand-car with four "V i-' 1 men started for the enow sheds to re- ". * pair an old snow plow which was dam aged by the storm. On retarning, th? wind was so strong that they had^to . ' , get off the hand car and push it down . . + ;~'a t hill. ; ' 2 Pulling matches by steamboats *are - ' still a popular aiversiuu JU bUV> ft ww ' /? At Chicago a short time ago the Gfrtf- .. "> ? ner, for years regarded as the- mdst - * J powerful vessel on the lakes, wfeabeaten . by the Johnson. In these contests the \:' ^ boots are fastened together by. a rope - ,Maj9a ' running from stem to stern, and then botb are started at the same instant. * f Spasmodic Action, I The muscles are endowed with con tractile power. They tend of themselves. to draw their extremities toward their ' ; center. The heart is a double hollow ' muscle, whose alternate contraction and dilation constitute its " beating." .The \ J contraction throws out the blood into *. ' the system, and the dilation opens the i heart for more. The working of this'.. 1 central engine is so essential that its . . V? i power to dilate and contract is to some ' I extent provided for within itself. So . '....j ' much so is this the case that the heart will beat for a considerable time after it has been removed from a vigorous ani- * mal. Certain ganglia at the base of the brain supply the force necessary to i motion?the motor nerve-force, as it is . called, The supply is generated by the i nerve cells in the motor centers, di, rectly from arterial blood. Withhold ... . s the blood from the motor cells and all :. . motion at once ceases. Tue same effect follows when the blood is sufficiently y vitiated tnrough the failure of ihe j lungs, liver or kidneys to eliminate its l constantly accumulating impurities. r The motor nerve-force acts by ex- . ? tending the muscles; or, when they r are in a state of apparent rest, by sim- |t. , ply counteracting the contractile ten- u ' t dency. In the case of the heart tba Sjs t motor and the contractile furoei nut 5 alternately. If, through any cause, tbo t motor forcc is suddenly cneckM, t&fr - muscles yield to their normal tendency, * t.hflrpsnltis snasms. Hence spasms in the d ving do not generallyindicate suf fering, for }he nerves of sensation also at n the same tiaje fail of their nervous sup* 1# ply. On the contrary, cramps of the n* limbs at night, caused by an over use ot j,M nartlallv ex lue uiuoti^c, .. ? , i hau9ted tbe supply of motor force, aro attended with pain, inasmuch as there i.i iT no dimunition of sensational nerveforce. The arteries have a muscular coat, by the action of which the arterial blood is increased or diminished. In tbe cat^* , of the dying?and often under otner circumstances?the lessening of the motor ;r forcc allows ttiearterial muscles to const tract along their entire course, thin h greiitly diminishing the blood supply i? )1 all the nervous centers, and low.'rir^ U the power of sensation. Ilence tlie u< f, a of dying is ordimirily painless. llenc< to too, tbe pallor of the face.?YouC. * Companion. ?