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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. 1 L r gj [ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T.WAKDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1880. NO. 11. VOLUME XXVI. 9?f I. ~^ At Evening. Upon tho hills tho wind is sharp and cold, The sw?ot young grasses wither on the wol rAnd we oh Lord, have wandered lrom tl lold; But evening brings us home. Among tho ruists wo stumbled, and the rock Whore the brown lichen whitens, and the fc Watches tho straggler lrom the scatter* flocks; p. But evening brings us home. The sharp thorns prick us, and our tender lei Are cut and bleeding, and the lambs repeat Their pitiful complaints?oh, rest is sweet, When evening brings us home. Wo have been woanded by the hunter's dart; Our eyes are very heavy, and our hearts I Search for thy coming?when the light departs L At. evening, bring us h jme. Tho darkness eathers. Throuch the doom n star Rises to guide us. We have wandered fai Without thy lamp we know not where we areAt evening brirgs u* home. Tho clouds are round us, and the snow-drilt thicken. Oh, thou dear Shepherd, leave us not to sicke: i In the waste night?our tardy lootstei quicken. At evening bring us home. LOVE ON THE HIGH SEAS ; '? ~ " - " Now," says the captain, " we sha'n1 see any more land for a week, and yoi young ladies '11 have nothing to do bu jet some 01 iucsu iciiuwa i?u iu xuv , with you." f "Fall in lover'cries Hetty, her tip tilted nose curling with incredulity am disgust. "Who could fall in love a son. I'd like to know?" "Who could?"-asks the captain, ii innocent surprise. "Why, everybod; docs. Why not?" " Why, the sea's so nasty," emphati cally exclaims Hetty. " Of course don't mean the water, but everything ii it -\nd on it. Ships are so dirty am siurtl so, and everybody's sea?ick am cross and selfish. How could any mar fall in love with a seasick woman Uuh!" and she views herself and Del (with disgust. " Now, that's a big mistake yox mnl*o ^ oottq fho nonfoin Moprlu 44 TV you think a woman can't he attractiv< when she's sea-sick? Why, sailor r < ftalways court their wives at sea j ('there isn't one woman in a hundrec ?>at isn't sick. Why, what else hav( these youngsters got to do but think o the women? In a storm it's different hut in calm weather a sailor hasn'i f enough to do to keep him busy half th< * day. nnd naturally his eyes and thought* arc occupied the rest o' the time witt [ the prettiest girl on board. Look at mj fir.-t officer over there, pretending tc talk to the doctor and looking as demure as a cat. What do you suppose t he's thinking of? You, I'll bet invnat!' I Iletty smiles in evident unbelief, bul ' c'ances furtively across deck toward the handsome youn<r first officer, where he leans on the rail, blowing rings 01 sjr <>kc into the deep blue sky. ! He is ostensibly absorbed in one ol the doctor's lone-winded yarns; but just here his eyes, which have been fixed on the yellow coast to windward, somehow or other slide round to leeward, and bestow a sidelong glance on Hetty's pretty little half sea-sick figure, sti eti hed at full leneth in a steamer chair. f' Mischievous Deb and the quicksightcd captain detect both, and laugh unmercifully. Hetty blushes, and the first officer uncompromisingly turns his back and a deaf ear to the captain's guffaws. " There, I told you so," said h:s superior. "Now you won't be out of his head for a week. Oh, I tell ycu it don't make any difference a girl's being seasick! Cupid has tc have his fling at a sailor as well 8s at every one else. And they strike their colors quicker'n ;iny other men, for their love-making J as to be ail done in the course of the voyage. If they hang back and shillyshally, why, the first thing they know they're in port, and off goes their ladylove, and that's the last they see ot her. As for the sea-sickness, why, they exnpc.t that, and it doesn't discourage 'era i the least mite in the world. But there's ope thing that's pretty hard on a sailor, . and that is, if his sweetheart's sick, he can't get her to listen to him at all. "While he's making love his very prettiest and courting his very darndest, why, she's thinking all the time how her head does ache, or wishing she had some more ice, or wondering when they'll get into port. And she don't mage no more account o' the poor teller's feelin's than if a mosquito was a-buzzin' round her ears. Oh, I tell you, a sailor's a much-abused animal!" And the gallant captain sighs and shakes his head over the'sorrowful lot of his fellows. It i3 evening on shipboard; dinner is ""* over, the day's work done, and all wlic can move are assembled on deck. The sun, which has hang all day lik< * copper gong on a brass ceiling, is now mercifully disappearing. The moun tains of Lower California shine in hi: fafit-fflLriinir rava like "the eolden liilli of heaven," while one little hummocl of an island, long and high and narrow rises out of the sea like the grave-mount of some ocean god. For once the water is smooth; noth ing breaks its stillness bnt thestoamer'i trail, and the low-flying gulls now an< then brushing its surface. Far, far awa; ?far as|theeye can reach?is nothing bu the same expanse of deep blue waters broken only by those yellow hills, nov fast vanishing into distance and night. Overhead, only another and wide expanse, still "deeply, darkly, beauti fully blue," and behind a cloud th bashful new moon just beginning t< look forth upon the boisterous worl< below. Prigsby, from London, explains to i gaping audience how the scenery nov before them suffers from comparisoi with that of the Rhine. Sam Boland oJSan Francisco, carelessly replies t an inquirer that he is going prospectin JorgoM m Guatemala, ac&nowieages i to be a " pretty risky business," admit the country to be full of road-agents an bushwhackers, but 44 reckons he'll pu ^ through.'' Meantime, Hetty and l)et peeing the captain had a story in reserv* settle themselves to hear and enjoy it " Didn't I ever tell yon how my fir? officer got married ? No? Well, nc body could a-been sicker'n his wife wc when he courted her. I'll just tell yo about it, if you like. 44 Well, you see, I haven't always bee explain of a first class steamer?n< siree ! I ran away to sea when I wa t*velve years old, and I've worked m way up from the bottom of the laddei Well, when I was thirty, I was !captai of f? laree sailing vessel that was in th South American trade. x "I sailed from the port of Callat Francisco being my dcstinatioi m ytecond officer was an Englishman but my first was an American, only tw i r three years younger than I, as gooc ) coking a fellow as I ever saw; tall an straight and hau some,"with eyes lib blue china. He was a right good fellov too; brave and honest, but frisky as kitten and up to all sorts of larks. " Well, we crent up the coast, stoj pine at every ninth dodr, as our ordej obliged us to do, taking in all sorts < things, all booked.for San Francisa ? Finally we came to San Jose de Guat mala, which is the port for the city < (imtemala?that]lies ninety miles in lac ? ia?l there we hove-to, and waited f( h ?'.h* nee to go ashore. "Did you ever hear of the surf on thi tfo? Well, it often rol fifteen or twenty feet high, and a good part of the time no boat can live in it. (I Sorry we're not going to stop this trip, ' or you might see it. You see, there's y really no harbor?nothing but an open roadstead?and except in the Bay of Funday, this r,lace snows the highest and lowest tide in the world. The peo' pie here tried to build a breakwater out ,x beyond the surf, but it breaks over it :d half the time, and when it doesn't it knocks it to pieces. Sometimes vessels have to ride at anchor for a week before they can send a boat ashore, at "We'd only just hove-to when I noticed that a shipSit anchor not far off wns making signals of distress, and that a boat was putting off in our direction. Of course, we were anchored j, far out beyond the surf, and it was comparatively easy for th? boat to reach , us; so it was soon alongside, and one of '* the men came up the ship's siae ana toia me what was wanted. o It appears the ship was a coffee-ship from fcan Francisco, and had come to San Jose for its cargo. It was only " half loaded when one of the boats cap sized in the surf, drowning the captain and first officer. The second officer was very low with a ferer, and they had no3 body to navigate the vessel; so they'd had to wait in port till some other ship a came along, and could lend 'em an g officer, or somebody who understood navigation. " Well I called up my first officer, and put him aboard the coffee ship, and in a day or two we both sailed. We were going over just the same ground?or sea, rather?and as the two vessels were . about equally fast, we kept each other in sight most of the time. We'd been out about ten days, and were in Amerit can waters again, when all of a sudden j the ship hove to, and signaled us to t stop. We ran as close to them as we e could, and then we hove to, and presently through the glass I saw a boat . being lowered and ttiat there was a j woman in it. t "I was surprised, as you can imagine, for I didn't know there were any pas! sengers on the coffee ship, through there j were half a dozen on my own. In a few minutes up the side came my first offi. cer, more than half-carrying the rre'tiI est little Spanish girl I ever saw. Oh, t ladies! she was a beauty! Eyes like all { the stars in the flag, and the sweetest . [ little face?kisses just sticking out all ! over it! But wasn't she the sickest lit- 1 p tie mortal that ever set loot on deck? I , tell you! she was all green and yellow, and looked half starved. I don't bei lieve she'd kept down a quarter of a din- , > ner tor a month past. j "'Hullo, Jack!' said I: 'what's the , 3 matterP' And I gave the lady a seat on , the lounge in my cabin. The poor little I thing couldn't sit up straight, so I just . 3 hoisted her feet up and made her comf fortable among the pillows. j ; "' Captain,' said Le, ' I want you to j l marry me to this young lady.' j i " 4 Marry you ?' said I. 1 What do you , \ mean? Shes too sick to be married, , i man! She can't stand up. If you and , r she want to be married, why don't you j > wait till you get ashore?' "You see, ladies, we talked out free j ? before her, for she couldn't understand ( ' a word of English. ; "'If we wait till then,'said he, 'you ; ? J mi i :? i.? i,?? ?1 1 * UJ1U L 11 UC fcUlllg LU Juuuai xuokcau , i of her wedding. We've got to be mar- f E ried, and right away, and you've got < to marry U3.' \ "You see again, ladies, we were very . ; great friends outride the ship, and when , [ we were alone together we dropped all , . ceremony. ] "' W hat in thunder arc you in such a t i hurry lor?'said I. 'Why can't you f , wait till you're ashore? iVhere are the ] lady's friends.' j "' Her stepfather's aboard my ship,' . lie said. " I thought so,' said I; 4 and I won't t ( have anything to do with it.' ( i " He just turned and winked at me j i 4 out o' the tail of his eye,' and then I , remembered, in a moment of misplaced j confidence, I had told him some little $ circumstances in regard to my own \ marriage. "'Hem!' said he, grinning like a t monkey, 'I think they're sometimes ( justifiable. Now iust look heie, cap; i listpn and Til tell vou all about it. I That little girl lias no relations, nothing J but a stepfather, and she's dependent l upon him for support. Well, the old ( coot's a doctor, and crazy at that; or, t if he isn't, he's the meanest cuss on t earth. He's taken it into his addled old r head to discover a sure cure for sea- j. sickness, and because just the name ot a t ship sets pooi little Delorcs to casting t up accounts, he's been taking her on all sorts of long voyages, ?nd trying his various decoctions on her. So I want to marry her to get her out of his way. Of course I'm in love with her and all s that,'said he, looking kind of foolish; i ' but if that was all, rd wait till we got I ashore. Of course I can't make him s , let her alone unless she's my wife, and c if he has control of her much longer t i she'll never see port again.' t "' Do you mean to say,' said 1, star- f ' ing at him in surprise. ' that he tries s I experiments on her?gives her things t ; that ain't medicine?' f "' I do,' said he; ' and I mean to say | i that the last thing lie pave her was a i i bottlo of ted-bug poison, and it most i killed her.' 1 ?. 44 4 D?n Iio Ulnin/r "HnfnlimoM P oo?rl T 1 ' UJ A"iJlUfa ^/UlVULUiill OUUt My r 'I should think it would! Where's the ] - old coot now?" ! i "'In irons. I told him. I wouldn't ] j have any such doing aboard my ship, < t sind he slapped my face. So I put him J , in irons ana came off to you.' 1 *' Well, ladies, I just went over to the i sofa where the little girl was rolling i - her big black eye* at us. and wondering I 9 what in thunder we were saying. < 1 "'How old are you. my dear?" I i j asked in Spanish. t "You see, I'd been married more'n i i, two years, ana I thought I'd a sorter j right to be paternal. " 'Eighteen, Senor Captain,'said she, r in the softest voice in the world. "I think that voice did [the business e for me. 3 " Said I: ' Do you love this young i man and want to marry him? You needn't if you don't, becauic I'll see to - - ? ?-"? f? 4-1?o ? V V? nr rrrvii a It JUUl aic^'iabuti uvcou c wumti (r .<ny more.' a 'I didn't dare look round at Jack, I, for I knew he'd be looking blacker'n o thunder at me just then. And, indeed, g he took a step toward us; but I made t him keep off till she should nave ans swered for herself. d " Well, she blushed very prettily, and 11 hesitated for a iecond, then answered >. very sweetly that if the Senor Captain 5, didn't mind the trouble, she should t. rather marry the Senor First Officer, 't That the Senor First Oflieer had been >- her only friend: that, although she had i3 taken many voyages and seen many u people, she had never before found any one who cared to interfere on her bcn half; that she had felt very grateful to ), the Senor First Officer, and had now & become attached to him, and with the y Senor Captain's permission would ?. gladly become his wife. a "As she said this, Jack got out of her ie sight behind the door, put his thumb to his nose, and twinkled his fingerd at ma ), in the most disrespectful manner. I 1. had a ?rent mind to put him in irons for i. mutiny?but no matter, o " Of course there was .nothing to be I- done except marry them; she was over d eighteen, and at sea a captain's as good :e as a parson, you know. r, '"So I called up the passengers and a the officers; and the ladies dressed her up in their own finery, and we had a >- wedding in short order. After that the rs ship's surgeon prescribed an antidote >f for the bed-bug poison. >. "The second officer went over and e- took command of the coffee ship, in sf Jack's place, and he sent back Delores' id trunk and clothing. At first I thought >r we shouldn't be able to get along without him, for Jack was so terribly in it love with his little seasick girl I thought la fce'dbeof no manner of use. But we - had good weather most of the time, and Jack did his duty like a man. "But it was real touching to see him go down to his wife's cabin and bring her up on deck every day, and fix her comfortable on a bed the steward made up for her under an awning. And there he'd nurse her and care for ner just as if he'd been a sister of charity. You might ha' seen then, Miss Hetty, how a sailor can love a sea-sick woman! "Well, she soon got better and stronger. Jack and the doctor fixed her up between 'em and a healthier, livelier, happier little woman never set foot in San Francisco. Jack took her right to his married sister, and there she staid between voyages till she had a lot of children,!and her husband bought her a "Wbat about the coffee ship ? Ob, that made port a day before us, and J he old doctor had us all arrested the minute we touuhed land. So we were ail hauled up in court, and Jack had it out there with his stepfather-in-law. " I think the court was rather against us at first; but the bed-bug poison and the slap in the face did the business, .ind turned everything in our favor. He was afterward decided to be a lunatic, and turned over to bis brother's keeping. " What's become of Jack ? Why, he sailed with me lor several years as first officer; now he's .captain of the camuanion-steamer to this. That good looking younir fellow that's been making eyes at you. Miss Hetty, is his son; ana I daresay he agrees with his father that sea sickness makes precious little difference when a man's once fairly in love." The moon is quite up now, flooding the sea with silver. Between us ana that shining mirror interposes me ueaa of ycung Jack, showing in fine, clearcut sihouette. What wonder that Hetty has to put severe restraint upon her eyes that they shall not wander in that direction? The captain saunters away to do the ' agreeable to other passengers,while Deb strays down the dick to iisten at a little closer quarters, to the tinkle of a guitar and to a soft tenor voice humming a Spanish love song. As she strolls back, she finds a mascu- i line form usurping her place; and peeping under Hetty's downcast lids are a pair of honest sailor eyes, whose dawn- i mg love and hope no sea can fright or luell. i - ~~ i A Sad Bathing Place. ] A correspondent of the London Globe, i writing from Hall, an Austrian "bad" ] (bath), says: The fearful ravages of < these diseases meet one at every turn ? here a livid wretch wrapped up and being drawn about in a wheeled chair; there some one Dainfuilv supporting himself on a crutch; sadly sitting under this tree a Ionian, her hetdand face wrapped up, a mass of scrofula, and many equally l)athsome sights. Numerous are the suicides wliich here take place, for people put off coming till hope is gone, and when they find it too late go to some quiet corner and send a bullet through their heads. But the saddest of sad sights is the children, ot whom there are many suffering in silence or crying with pain. No romping here, no shouts of pleasure, no 'ames in the fields, no rosy cheeks and ;unburnt legs, but crooked limbs and suppurating wounds, a heritage from ;heir parents. The little patients sit sad ind downcast or walk quietly by their lurses. Many of them suffer from eye lisease, and are led about blindfolded. r* " - j? t. i i m r tiau is quite a mourn uau, iur ui- }1 ;hough the springs have flowed for tges?as records show?they wore, until f orty years ago, used only by peasants in } -he neighborhood. The waters are very r jowerlul, and many a casus desperatus t jas found a new lease of Jifo throueh c heir agency; but they are limited in ^ luantity, for their flow, although regu j ar, is inconsiderable. Hall can thus j lever become a large "bad," and could j lot supply the wants of more than j !,<X0 invalids. About half that num- [ )e. are there now. I ascert lined on ? nquiry that one Englishman was taking r he waters?they are bathed in and t Irank?and this gentleman and an i American are the only two " Anglo- t Saxonswho have been there for the j ast four years. Strange to say the j nost numerous community of foreign- c rs is that of the Russians, of whom 1 here are many first-rate families. Of c he cood Austrians and Hungarians one T neets in Hall some of the creme. Could f he stones of this quiet place but speak hey could tell some startling family ales! A Diver's Remarkable Feats. The London Times thus describes ome of the remarkable performances inder water of a diver named Fleuss: [lis remarkable performance was better <een than it has been elsewheie either luring the few months of the exhibiion of his apparatus at the Polytechnic >r at Brighton. He can stay undpr water or five hours without an air tube or try ether communication with the suraee, and the absence of incumbrance rives him much greater freedom than my other divers possess. He can, for nstance, lie down and bend his oody n any position without lear of being lifted or floated up, and without suffering from the obstruction of the long ?ipe which usually connects the head of i diver with a boat above. In short, he rossesses the principal advantage which iistinguishes an animal from a plant; lie moves independently instead of being rooted to one spot. Foreshadowed in the water, he Dresents a curious appearance, witli great goggle eyes in his burnished hemlet, a strong water-tight iress, and water-boots. The spectators funuse themselves by tiirowing pence for him to pick up, or by writing messages to him 011 card-board, aiwavs under water. He sharpens his pencil / under wa'er, gives and receives signals J wiiu a com, .inu is to experiment on the submarine use of the telephone. At 1 Ryde lie walked for a quarter of a mile 1 under the sea; at Brighton he went f down in live fathoms by the chain pier 1 in rough weather. If he couicl eat under water, Mr. Fleuss says he could stay for a longer period than five hours, which he gives as an ordinary limit Yesterday afternoon he remained two hours and seven minutes under water 1 in the aquarium, and again went down 1 for hall an hour in the evening. In a 1 short lecture on his apparatus which 1 Mr. F1cu33 gave in the evening, immedi- ( ately on returning to the upper air, he stated that his method is no secret, that it is patented, and that the specifica- 1 tions are accordingly published. In 1 every draught of breath we draw we take in a certain amount of oxygen with four times as much nitrogen. A little of the nitrogen becomes fixed in the form of carbonic acid, and the air thus deterioated becomes unfit to breathe. If, however, the place cf the missing oxygen is taken by a fre^h supply, the mixture becomes again lit for breathing. According to Mr. Fleuss, he lakes down compressed oxvgen to supply the place of that which is breathed; in other words, he has invented a set of anti lungs, which perform a (unction precisely the reverse ot that of the lunes proper. This was confessedly a rough, popular, hasty, and generalized explanation. In the pleasant little Rhenish town of Biberich there lives a horse of preternatural sagacity, whose method of dealing with an inebriate master has achieved a well-merited celebrity. Whenever the latter appears incapable of fi iding his way from the wine shop to his dwelling the horse watchfully follows him hard at heel, and, applying his forehead to his back whenever he is about to staeger out of his homeward path, gently thrusts him forward in the right direction, nor ceases ita timely ministrations until it has succeeded in propelling him to his own door. i How Postal Cards are Made. In a long article on the history an manufacture of postal cards, the Ne\ York Sunday News says that the Ameri can Phototype company?to whom th contrart lor making the postal cards o tho United States was awarded in 187 ?carried on the business in that city fo two years, but to save the expense am risk attending the transportation o paper from the mill at Holyoke, Mass. the business was removed thither in th spring of 1879, a new building beim erected for its accommodation. Th main portion of tie buiiding i divided by a partition through th< middle. One side is used by the con tractors for manufacturing beards, an< the other side by the soecial agent of th postoffiee and his subordinates, in th transaction of the government busines: pertaining to making up of orders am forwarding cards to the various post offices ordering them. No business o whatever nature is transacted witl more systematic precision than is main tained in both departments of theposta card agency. On entering the contractor's side, th Irst thing noticed are the large piles o DaDer. which an* delivered to the con tractors by the Parsons Paper company n loads of 3,000sheets each. The work consume on the average about thre< tons daily at present. The process o manufacturing cards is neither length] nor complicated, but is at once so nove and interesting that a brief descriptioi is worth recital. The sheets are abou thirty by twenty-two inches in size, anc are just fitted by the plates from whict the cards are printed, each plate cover ing forty cards, four in width and ter in length. The printing is done on twc Hoe euperroyal presses, by skillfu pressmen, and as each sheet passes intc the press the number of cards is une-> ringly recorded by registers attached tc the presses and "which are carefullj locked every night to'prevent tampering, The sheets are then piled up and allowed to dry in order that they may not be damaged by future handling. Incidenl to the rapidity with which the work is performed, now and then a Bheetis misprinted, but this occurs only rarely, the number of cards beiug spoiled in this way being not over one-tenth of one per cent, or one in a thousand on the average. After drying thoroughly the sheets are then passed through the rotarj 3litter, a machine fitted with circulai knives, which cuts them into strips oi ten cards each, and trims the edge ol tne outsiae sinp. xaesc sinps are men passed transversely through the rotarv 3ross cutters, the mechanism of which is similar to the " slitter3." The cross suts divide the strips into the single lards, which dpp into a rotary hopper containing ten compartments. As soon is each compartment has received ;wenty-livc cards the hopper revolves md throws the cards out upon a table. number of girls then take them, and liter throwing aside all damaged caros, rind the perfect ones into packs oi ,w< nty-five each. Other girls then take he packs, and, recounting them, put ,hem in pasteboard boxes containing -wenty packs or 500 cards each. The joxes are made en'irely of one piece of )astebo;?rd, without seam or paste, and ifter being filled are all weighed. Each wx is supposed to weigh three pounds md two ounces. In the rear of the building is a large fireproof vault, with i capacity for storing 25,000,000 cards. Sy the stipulation of the contract the American Phototype company is retired to keep at least 10,000,000 in store ill the time. So rapidly has the popular demand or postal cards increased that the works lave lately been run night and day, em)loying in all nearly fifty hand3, and >roducing nearly a million of cards a lay on the average. The government >oruon ot tue worts is no less lnicresiijg than the other. Here the bu9ine3S s carried on in a manner similar to that n the general postoffices in large cities. 2very postofhee 111 the country requirng postal cards sends its order, toother with a requisition for other sup>lies, to the office of the third assistant )08tmaster-i:eneral at Washington, fliere the orders are separated, and all he orders for postal cards are made up n one general order to the agency at iolyok.", the names of ordering post>ffices being put down alpheb.tically. \.n order is sent every day, and often in:ludes the orders of several hundred jostoffices, and requiring all the way rom a few thousand to two, three and iven four million cards to fill it. Durng the first month in each quarter the jrders average much larger than at >ther timns, for, as a rule, a lar^e numier of offices order supplies in those uonths to last for the quarter. As an ixainple of this there were ordered durng the months of January last 36.488,>00 domestic cards, while 16,682,000 illed the orders for February. A large portion of all the cards made ire used in the Eastern and Middle 5tate3. New York cityjalone uses about en per cent, of the entire production. Chicago stands next to New York, using nore cards than Boston. The Southern >tates take but few cards The total number of cards issned durnc the fiscal year endinsr June 30. 1879 vas 221,807,000. The department estinate tor the year ending June 30, 880, wag 250,514,100. an increase ol ivcnteen per cent, over the previous, rear's issue; but if the number issued or the first eight tronthsof the year hould be continued proportionally till lie close, the year's consumption would uiount to275,839,750. If alike increase vere to be presumed Irom year to year jelore 1890 the yearly issue of postal :ards would exceed a thousand millions. Congress passtd an act March 3, 1879. )roviding for the issue of international ;ards at a postal charge of two cents uch. It was not, however, until December 1 that the first were issued, rhe demand for them has not been as urge as was anticipated. Up to March l, this year, three months from the irst issue, only 2,500,000 have been >rdered, and ot t his number 1.000.00C .vent to New York city.?Scientific American. Rejected Manuscripts. Rr-jected contributors are sometimes avenged. A Scotch newspaper, th< Greenock Advertiser, has ceased to exist ifter a life of seventy-eight years. This paper will he remembered for one thinj :>nly, it rejected Campbell's poem o Ilohenlinden, on the ground that it waj "not up to the mark. Campbell him self thought lightly of the poem, it i: said, until he was assured by Sir Waltei Scott that it was one of the finest thing of the kind that he ever read. Sinci that lime, the poem has been worn ou by the myriads of schoolboys who ha^i spoken it in public on the stage. Char lotte Bronte s great novel met with i similar reception. "Jane Eyre" wa written in the gray old parsonage unde the Yorkshire liiils; tue rough notes sketched hasty in pencil, were tran scribed in a neat hand as legible a print, and the manuscript, in its brow] paper wrapper, was sent off from th station-house at Kleighley to publishe aner puDiisuer, onjy ioiinu na way uju, again, "returned with thanks," till tli packet, scored all over with publishers names, and well-nigh worn out by it travels, found its way into the bands c Messrs. Smith & Elefer, with a stampe envlope inside lor a reply. The stor of "Jane Eyre" is, with authors wh cannot find a publisher, one of thcstanc ing sources of consolation, and it is very striking instance of the loose wa in which publishers' readers now an then look through manuscripts that fin their way into other hands. The average person speaks about 12 words a minute. This estimate is coi siderably short of that required whe the speaker has a trunk lid fall on h: head while he is hunting for a sleev< button.?Andrews' Queen. making campaign banners. V Odd Things About a Pending Political Industry. e if A New York reporter has been inter7 viewing several firms of that city whc r make it a business to manufacture politi 1 cal banners. The reporter obtained f some interesting information. Speak, ing of the coming campaign, Mr. Come moss, one of the manufacturers, said tc g the reporter: "If I can judge anything e from the business we are doing this yeai 3 in comparison with that done years ago, 2 I should say that we were to have e - very lively campaign. We have fifteen i men at work making campaign banners, 3 five of whom are engaged in painting the e portraits of the candidates. We have 3 sold already thirty sets of heads six feel } in length, considerably more than we . sold four years ago." f "From what State do you have the i ereatest demand for businessP" I " " We sell a great many in New York, 1 Pennsylvania. Connecticut and New Jersey, but New Jersey is the 'banner1 e State." f Mr. Levy, of the firm of M. R. Levy . & Co , said to the reporter: " The camr paign has begun much more vigorously 9 than it began in 1876, and it bids fair to s be one of the liveliest we have ever had." f " Where will.' the campaign be the j liveliest?" * ] " In Connecticut and New Jersey, our orders wouid seem to indicate." "How many men have you at workP' "Between sixteen and twenty. We, however, manufacture only banners. We sell torches, caps, etc., but only as agents for manufacturing houses. Very few people have any idea to what an extent tnis business is carried. I know one firm in this city which will manufacture torches and have already started to make 500,000 of them. They will probnlilo mnlrn rnnnv mnrfl hpfnrft t.hf> , season is over." I "Do you employ good arlistn to paint ? your portraits." I " Certainly. Only a good one could , do the work satisfactorily. The men . I employ are all portrait painters by . profession. They do not let their \ friends know that they are doing this work. They get good pay, so they I consent to do the work; but they are not in the habit of saying much about ) it." r " How lone does it take them to paint one of the largest portraits P" f " About a day*. They have workmen f to help them fill but the margins. Then ! they save considerable time la another r way. They get a good drawing and j pick lhrough~the canvas, so that they i arc able to make the outlines of all the . portraits without drawing each separ ately." The American sign company on [ Fulton street wris next visited by the , rpnnrtw. and P. W. Cohh. one of the managers, was found engaged in super* intending the finishing touches to a banner. 4 "How does your business this year i compare with tn?t of 1876 P" " It is much better. The campaign opened earlier than usual, and I think ! it will be very lively. At all events, we are makifig preparations for doing a large business. We have laid in large stocks .of caps, oapes, torches, banners, , and everything that can possibly be used . in a campaign." 44 Can you give me any idea o^ the extent of the business which is done in these campaign foods in a presidential campaign ?:' " I can only tell you approximately what we did four years ago. Wc sold then about 50,000 suits, between 5,000 ; and 6,000 small flags and about 30,000 small badges. You can judge, however to wbat an extent this business is carried'when I tell ycu that there are ten or twelve different kinds of torches patented, and that the inventor of one of i these has been made rich by his royalty. , There are a dozen different kinds of small flags, suit3 and shirts manufactured." "How many men have you at work?" " Eighteen now, I think. In a month or two, however, when the orders for uniforms begin to come in, we shall I probably have a hundred at work." i The firm of Hoier & Graham was next visited. Mr. Graham said: "The campaign opened much better than it did last year. And this improvement will last until November." " How large a business do you think you will do this year?" ' Our regular business is eign-paint! iug, and we only go into this banner , business as a side matter. We shall probably sell, however, about 200 of these large banners, 20x30 leet. These are worth at least $100 a piece." " Has there been much advance in banner making in late years?" " Yes, a decided advance. Formerly cU fchoao hnnnnra wflrp nf solid ranvftS and were so heavy that it was almost Impossible to keep them in place. Holes , had to be made so that the wind would blow through. They were so made that the artists, when painting them, had to work at a great disadvantage. These disadvantages have a^l been done away with by making the main part of the banner of network." ' 'So these portraits, here, were done by artists?" "Certainly; we always have national academicians to do our work. If the artist who painted this were to paint my portrait he would charge me $200 or $300." " Do you have many committees from i he country to see you?'' " I should say so. They usually walk in here with their hats on, apparently expecting us to have everything tliey want ready for them. We usually agree to finish their banners for them by Saturday night. We are pretty sure of getting our money then. Tbey get , their banner and a pole, and then the usual ceremonies follow." , Indian Snperstitlons About Thunder* : Almost, all the tribes in the United States believed the thunder to be produced by the v/in^s of a great bird, and that the lightning was the serpents that were invariably connected with the ' thunder bird. Among the ancient J tribes of the Mississippi valley the ? thunder, therefore, soon became a thun3 der god, who could be propitiated with ! sacrifices. The Illinois Indians offered 1 up a small dog when a child happened 3 to be sick upon a day when there was much thunder, supposing the latter to 3 be the cause of the malady. Many inr cidents.likeconflagrations,were attribu3 ted to this angry god, and some tribes 2 did bloody penance in propitiation, t often burning to death their own chil2 dren. Statements that the Indians - adored the thunder, however, seems to 1 be erroneous. It was the cause of the 9 thunder that they vorshiped, and ber fore which they burned tobacco and '< buffalo meat, or cut off the joints of - their finders or threw their children 3 into the fire when they were overcome 0 with fear. The Peruvians had as an e idol a stone that had been split by the r lightning. They offered it gold and silk ver. The natives of Honduras burned e cotton seed when it thundered. Other J' southern tribes made no sacrifices on *3 the approach of a storm, but abased themselves in the most abject fear. a The wild rice being aquatic and looking y like an arrow or spear, it is also attributed to the thunder spirit as its origin. " Jn .Mexico great temples vrere built a upon the sacred spots where lightning y had struck. A curious notion among d Peruvians was that the preserved bodies " of twin children who died in infancj should be worshiped, supposing thai cne of them was the son of the thunder, 10 the origin of this idea being the facl l- that the thunder god of that people was n one of the celestial twins of Apocatequir is and Piqaerad. The tradition was util ized by Plzarro's missionaries to te^l the Indians the doctrine of the Trinity FOR THE FAIR SEX. l Association of Old Malda. The Old Maids' association, of Geaufja county, Ohio, had a picnic on the ake recently and mustered eighty-six , souls. This society was an outgrowth . of the war, and was organized in 1862 [ by a bevy of young ladies whose . brothers and sweethearts were fighting . for their country and left them without , the resources of male escort, except r the laggards wbo remained at home. ! Unwilling to accept the gallantry of these young men, the young ladies pre[ ferred to depend upon themselves, and t formed the association mentioned. Out of revenge the gallants dubbed these in? dependent damsels " old maid?," and \ they accepted the cognomen and made it their own. A humorous constitution ! and by-laws were drafted by Mrs. C. E. Henry, then a single young lady, and . one of the founders of the institution. Man was declared the "common enemy," and one of the chief objects of the society was a continued war against 1 his advances. He was religiously excluded from all meetings, and a special clause of the bv-laws said that anv member who should marry should be fined one hundred big copper cents and should be branded with tar on the soles of her feet, "U. D. I.," meaning" up and done it." 1 he beautiful consistency of woman's nature will be appreciated when it is known that every one of the charter members and nearly all of eligible age since are married.?New York Tribune. The Family Pane. The money question between husband and wife is one of the most serious drawbacks to married happiness, and it is time it was adjusted on a more just and equal basis. The life of utter dependence which some women lead is crushing and degraded. Men do not realize the utter helplessness and vacuity to which the system condemns woman. Now, does anybody believe that it is necessary for the welfare of the family that she should go to him for twentyfive c?nts every time she needs it for car-iareor a spool of thread? Is it right or just to take her imbecility in money matters ior granted oeiore sne has been tested? Is it not-just such women, who are left by the failure of some speculative craze to their own resources, with the burden of a family upon their unexperienced shoulders, who often display wonderful powers of energy and calculation, in addition to thrift and persevering industry, which oueht to put all such men to shame P Women, as a general rule, can make one dollar go as far as two in the hands of men; and many conceitei individuals, who now consider that the social system bounded by four walls of their dwelling womd cease to revolve if they were taken out of it, would find great happiness and great pecuniary advantage in puttine tbe control of ail the interior details of their homes in the hands of their wives, with a division of the income equal to the requirement.? Woman's Journal. Fashion Motes. Lace mitts to match costumes are worn for evening. Lisle thread gloves are the favorites for summer wear. Handkerchief bows for the tbroat have gingham-like borders. Zones pointed bacs and front are again worn with dressy toilets. Just now it is at the .'eft side of the neck that the bouquet is fixed. The fashion of wearing tlowers, either natural or artificial, never goes out. The most fiishionable Darasols are of Surah silk or satin, in any color preferred, or black or white and hand painted. Square bows of gros grain ribbon made of three loops ana one notched end, drape the sides of taffeta silk overskirts. Three-cornered pieces of India mull, dotted with tiny specks of black, blue or red, are worn in kerchief shape close around the neck. They have a wide UCiU? Colored stockings are much worn, both plain and with small patterns or embroidered corners near the ankle. Silk stockings for the evening are sometimes embroidered with pearls. The most fashionable colors in millinery are straw color, bran color, all the tussore shades, seal brown, Du Barrie rose, white, almond, biscuit, violet, heliotrope, the cashmere shades, and red. Linen, brown Holland, workhouse sheeting and pique seem to have utterly disappeared from fashionable life, and their place has been taken by sateens and Foulards, soft Indian silks, and cream-colored Corahs. Unbleached lace, embroidered in colors, is worn by artistic English women with all washing dresses?colored dots and sprigs upon either dark or light grounds arc the favorite style; also quaint Japanese patterns. Very odd-looking dressing jackets have appeared, made of the favorite pocket.handkerchiefs; those in red with ? anTj TnHinn urahesauG in vellow on them are very bright. The trimming are coffee-colored Ianguedoc lace, with bows of the handkerchiefs In London, in Rotten Row, round felt hats are as much, if not more, worn than tkehiph silk hats; and every lady appears to have a bouquet of flowers pinned to the side ^f her uabic. It is just the one touch of color that is wanted, ar d the only one that is admissible. Spotted Tail's Children. A Washineton Itttcrsays: The news that Spotted Tail, one cf the Sioux chiefs, had taken his boys aud girls away from the schools provided for them by the government is no surprise to those who heard Spotted Tail, Red Cloud or others of the Sioux chiefs talk on that subject when they were here recently. Spotted Tail, with Red Cloud and others, paid a visit to the Indian school established at Carlisle, Pa., on the way here, and called there on their return to their Western homes. Spotted Tail, next to Red Cloud, is the finest looking Indian that comes here. He was very much pleased with the things he saw at Carlisle, and so expressed himself. After talking to the superintendent of the school "and the teachers for a while he called his boys and had a taik with them privately. lie learned from the boy3 that the rod was used when the bojs did not do as they should, or when they sulked, for be it known that it is just as natural for an Indian, young or old, to sulk as it is for those distinguished politicians who w re not suited at Chicago. Spotted Tail, after leaving, had a talk with the superintendent, and he told him what he had heard. lie asked if it was true. Upon * 1 1 J iK ? 4. U Mma l?n nwonrnrfl/l . Deing 101U llllll it IIU 11uj111.11.il, " Neither my boys or girls shall ever be whipped by any one with my consent. I will not leave them at a school, or any other place where the whip is used. A whipped bov is apt to grow up a whipped man. Unless he lias some spirit or life in him it is better that he know nothing. A whipped man has neither spirit or life." He then turned to the Indian children and said to them in the natural tongue: "Don't let any one , whip you, teacher or any one else. You have no master. Never alluw any one . to strike you a blow." An effort whs : made to satisfy Mr. Spotted Tail that the ; whipping administered at Carlisle was ; the same as at other schools and was i only a slight affair. The idea of " spar' ing the rod and spoiling the child " was ; suggested to him, but he said he did not , believe in whipping in any way; that t any man who siruck his child had better i keep out of his way, and that he would i soon draw hi.? children from any place where they were liable to be whipped, it i matter(?d not how slight. This with' . drawftl of hie children is the result. The Art of Sleeping. Most of the men who have made then mark as successiul leaders have beer good sleepers as well as hearty workers, Napoleon Bonaparte lost no opportunity either for a good sleep or a good meal Even before going into battle he would take a few hours lor sleep if possible, The Duke of Wellington was such s sound sleeper that he seldom moved from the time he closed his eyes until hf awoke. He used a very narrow bed, and said that when it was time for s man to turn in his bed it was time tc get up. Henry Ward Beecher is knowr to be a good sleeper. He falls asleep ir a moment after his head has touched the pillow. These men <nd other great workers have had a faculty which is an important addition to the mere taking of sleep. It is the power of withdrawing one's self from all surrounding persons and objects and finding immediate rest in slumber. The man w ho can thus take rest is refreshed and strengthened under many circumstances which would keep other people weary and wakeful. Hp is mjmtfcrof everv situation m re gards his own rest. Some men, by long Habit, find themselves able to take sleep with the same ease that others would take a glass of water. They can sleep either while perched on a high stool 01 rattling along in a railroad car at fortj miles an hour. The economy of weai and tear on the lives of inch people is wonderful. The man who cannot sleep unless he has first removed his clothes, put out the light and climbed intohh bed is at a great disadvantage. Greatei yet is his disadvantage if he can sleep ir no bed but his own. There are som who are possessed with the notion thai their own bed is the only one in whicli they can slumber. These people arc utterly wretched when they go to th< ountry where the beds are stuffed with straw or shavings, and where the springs are made of noisy material, which resounds whenever touched. When thes go to Europe and are forced either tc stay awake or to sleep in quarters not much larger than the shelf of a mantelpiece, their misery is too great for utterance. Much of the comfort and discomfort experienced in sleepingandintrying to sleep is the result of habit. There are some people who toss on their beds for half the night, a3 if they were uneasy ghosts. They have never learned to sleep. It is the power to shut one's self within one's self tnat constitutes one of the approaches to healthful sleep. There are objections to sleeping in church which need not in this connection be recounted. But the man who has bv patient habit accustomed himself to slumbering under a sermon can learn to go to sleep anywhere and under any circumstances. He is sometimes seen in a snug corner of a str et car, when several ladies appear on the platform seeking seats, lie often finds it convenient when a bore addresses him to be able to subside into slumber. When his mother-in-law wearies him with protracted discussion of uninteresting subjects, it is ever so delightful to sleep, or to seem to sleep. Good sleep is a blessing from heaven, and he who can sleep, whether flies r?r<ixrl rm him mnqnllitrw>n hit.fi him.. cross people scold him, or noisy children dance anil play in his presence, is blessed indeed.?Philadelphia. Times. Irish Famines. As there were heroes before Agamemnon, so, says the London Exam in?.r, there were Irish famines belore 18-16?47. There was a serious failure oi the potato crop, beginning in 1739 and culminating in 1741, the bliadhain an air, or year of slaughter. It was left almost entirely to privatecharity to deal with. In 1822 the provinces of Munster and Connaught were subjected to very severe calamity. The potatoes rotted in a sudden and unaccountable manner in the pits, and widespread suffering followed. A single committee, with the Archbishop of Canterbury at its head, raised over $1,500,000, while parliament voted large sums for public works of various kinds. Agaiu in 1831 the potato crop failed in Galway, Mayo and Donegal, and again the English people and parliament came to the relief of the distressed population with alacrity. In 1839 and 1812 similar failures were ? fliow nomo iliCU uy C1U11 WH lb-mcuiw,(?uu the real crisis of 1846-47. The blight which had appeared for the first time in America in 1844 rcached Ireland in the autumn of 1845. Writing in August, 1216, Father Matthew says: " I passed from Cork to Dublin, and this doomed plant bloomed in all the luxuriance of an abundant harvest. Returning on the third inst, I b?held with sorrow one wide waste of putrefying vegetation. The government at once took energetic action. The corn and navigation laws were suspended, and S500.000 worth of Indian corn brought from the United States. By the middle of August, 1816, $3,600,000 had been expended in relieving the famine, one-hall as loans, the other as grants, wliile tbe volunteer relief committee raised $500,000. Breadwinners representing a population of 3,000,000 were daily employed on public work " " Organized aimies, amounting altogether to some hundreds of thousands," sajs Sir Charles, at the close of this famine," had been rationed before, but neither ancient nor modern history can furnish a parallel to the foot- tlmt nnwirH of 3.0f0.000 of DCrSOnS were fed everyday in the neighborhood of their own homes by administrative ai rangements emanating from and controlled by one central office. And the expense was moderate compared with the magnitude of the object. The amount at which it was originally estimated by the commissioners was $15,000,000, the eum for which parliament was asked to provide was $ll,000,0f0. and the sum actually expended was $7,500,000, of whicli $700,000 was paid to commissariat for meal supplied to the relief committees from the government stores." The calamity of 1840-47 was recognized as national, and it was mot by a gre.-it national effort by which the landlords were perhaps the greatest beneficiaries. Alpaca. This useful material, so much in demand at the present day, is manufactured from the wool of the alpaca goat, a species ot the Llama, whose home is in the mountain regions of Peru. It lives on the coarsest tare, the scanty herbage that springs up in the fastness of the rocks; but it hits a beautiful, wavy coat of white, chestnut- brown wool, which is nearly a /oot in length, very soft and 1 ~1? " " '* ?- ^ *? ??< K?-?* rioali* elastic, nuuny !ta uuc;?timu u> >uv ui?u mere goat. This is sheared off every vear or two, and sent iu little bales or ballots to England or France, or to wherever it Lis to be manufactured. It is then washed, dried, combed and finally sorted preparatory to being manufactured into the yarn from which is made the cloth, the material undergoing thirteen or fourteen different processes in the course of its preparation. Ladies will admit that it is worth the trouble, however, Half a ccntury ago this durable fabric was unknown to us. But about that time some sacks ot a queer, fibrous material. which looked like " superannuated horse hair." were landed on Liverpool docks. There they lay a long time unsold, until one day a young man ol an inquiring turn of mind, peerinp about, noticed some of their content; sticking out of a hole in one ol tlieru He looked curiously at it, rubbed it ir his tinkers, and finally pocketed it anc walked off. The result was?alpaca He had discovered the " horse hair" t< be the wool of the alpaca goat, and.'wa! ingenious enough to conceive it int< dress ejoods, and enterprising enough t< carry his idea out. A boy will go in swimming and foo around the water for hours together but when told to wash his face, he wil have almost a hydrophobic, dread o half a pint of water in t he basin-?Nm JlaviTi Register. TIMELY TOPICS. The well-known writer of books on If, adventure and travel. Captain Mayne ' Reid, has been engaged the past three w years in experimenting with seed potatoes, with a view to escape the blight Bt which has been so disastrous to the potato crop in England and Ireland. w As the result of his experience, those brought from Mexico alone showed not a spot of blight, all the other kinds hav- if ing been found to be diseased in a greater or less degree. The Mexican potato, ? he claims, also will yield almost double , as many bushels to the acre, and suggests that the government take in band Be the importation of the seed in large quantities. . w The ChicagQ fire of 1871 burned 2,600 T acres and destroyed f150,000,000 of property. The Boston fire burned over sixty acres and destroyed over $70,000,-' I 000 of property. There if' now on forty i acres in the dry goods district, between Chamber street and Canal street, and Broadway and West Broadway, New York city, more value of merchandise , > than was burned in Chicago and Boston 8U I -4. ll- TU. I ttl/ IlllCiL glCM 1UVD. XUC OtVCia^C iUCO per acre in Chicago was $57,693; in he Boston, $1,166,667. The value per acre in New York is $6,000,000. Distributed at in stored, twenty feet front by 200 feet be deep, each store would contain $6,000,* ( 000 worth of goods. Twenty-five stores y. of the size above named contain as 0f much in value as the whole amount! fo , property destroyed in Chicago by the great fire. an sc The wrath of Englishmen against any . act of injustice under the forms of law Ja Is easily excited, and this wrath has ?F lately broken out in a very explosive way. A woman whose husband was in dt 1 a bouse of detention, feloniously and of p< ' malice aforethought carried to him con- at cealed in a pie a quarter or an ounce 01 1 tobacco. For this offense one Mr. Bar- to stow, a magistrate, sentenced her to mi twenty-one days* imprisonment at hard 77 labor, but took off the hard labor when > ' he lound that she was in a delicate state an ' of health. This was enough to set Mr. se. | Bali and his wife to writing indignantly % to the newspapers, and letters on the subject appear signed "Ac Angry . 1 Woman," "An Indignant Mother." "A [ia Hater of Petty Tyranny." Magistrate tc: Barstow, who has won an unenviable on reputation by the severity of his sen- ' tences, now finds himself unpleasantly co mentioned in the house of commons; t^ and large publio meetings were to be ioi held to denounce him in London, when the home secretary thought it best to tj1( order the release ot the woman. nj, tei One of the things which they order , better in France tban in many other countries is the treatment of men responsible for railway accidents. The r/ disaster at Clinchyon the third cf Feb- ^ ruary last may be recalled by our read- "t ers, when a train of the Northern com- . * pany ran into one of the Weatern line, 1C j killing sixteen persons and wounding ninotv-four. The principal culprits, the conductor of the first train, who _ J had neglected the use of fog signals, and the engineer of the second, who had run through the fog too rapidly, ff1. were killed, but a guard and two ltl switchmen were sent before the crimi- nal tribunals for neglecting the precautions which it should have occurred to cn them to take 5n view "of the weather uic i and the Droximity to each other of the Vio ' trains. All three men bore good char- ' acters, which was lucky for them, as mi one was acquitted and the other two cai got off with sentences of four months' an imprisonment and ten dollars fine, be- th? side3 the costs, but the We3tern company was declare' "civilly responsible jjj, for all consequences of their negligence. cjj 1 at The new volume 01 "Jfoor's in Manual" gives a very encouraging view of the railroads of the United States. The most conspicuous feature f01 which appears from a study of the rei statistics is the great increase of busi- on ncss and the reduction in the cost of , norrTTinor froiorht. There were at the close of1879, 86,497 miles of railroad in operation, an increase of 4,721 miles :ij over the previous year, a greater growth ? * than in any year since 1873. The gross , earnings of all these roads were four hundred and twenty-nine millions, y& aspiinst four hundred and ninety mil lions. in 1878. But, as has been said, this increase in gross receipts repre- SP: sr-nted a much greater increase in traffic, vn Thirteen leading lines which in 1873 ] carried 45,557,002 tons of freight, on ye. which the charges amounted to $112,- roi 004,618, an average rate of 1.77 cents per m? ton per mile, carried in 1879 67,092,549 sid tons, and received SI 16,311,452, or at br< the rate of only 1.02 cents per mile. As qu the report says, "the rate per mile at i which the railroads now carry freight un would have been considered impossible ^u live years aco," and jet the statistics wg lurthc-r show that the business is bu conducted at a substantial prom, n ^ the dividends are smaller they are more en( securely earned, and a larger amount of scr the earnings than ever before has gone , into permanent improvements and . reserve funds. sq< Words of Wisdom. to It is easier for a man to descend to ?n< earth thai to mount to heaven. Jjljj However laborious the life of the jjj, good, it is less so tban that of the bad Women cherish' fa3hion because it . ^ rejuvenates them, or at least renews *}? them. [j" True philosophy places us above tj1( honors, but nothing places us above the ne ennui they cause. sn^ Show me a people whose trade is dis- sui honest, and I will show you a people tio whose religion is a sham. m* ~ 1 - ' 1 T7P' . Strong minos, use uaruy tvcisicciw, arc most verdant in wint?r; when ] feeble ones, like tender summer plants, of are leafless. lie There are truths which some m?n despise because they have not examined, sh< ana which they wili not examine because they despise. nc Childhood often holds a truth with ' , its foeble fingers, which the grasp ol manhood cannot retain, which it is the 8? pridfl of utmost age to recover. R{< A good moral character is the first essential in a man. It is, therefore, rD highly important to endeavor not only J3 to "be learned, but to be virtuous. 00 To feel much for others and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perlection of human nature, ad The wisest man mny be wiser to-day Pr than he was yesterday, and to-morrow .. than he is to-day. Total freedom from 111 change w-ild imply total freedom from ft error. J1.1 Many persons sigh for death when it ^ seems far off, but the inclination van- jn ishes when the boat upsets, or t!ie loco- cc motive runs off th? track, or ti>c messles ; set in. g The utmost excellence at which liu- re manity can arrive, is a constant and de termined pursuit of virtue without re- C gard to present dangers and advan- ?] ' tages. a: j Fortunate people seem to think that P their less happy fellow-creatures oueht ciiflrV>r .and die before them with r_ | decency, as the Romans used to require their eladiators to do. *11 j The action of the soul is ofter.er in g< 5 that which is felt and left unsaid, than } in that which is said in any conversa- ? 3 tion. It broods over every society, and U( men unconsciously seek for it in each st other. p 1 Mere bashfulness withou'. meiit is it : awkward; and merit without modesty, fr 1 insolent. But modesty with merit has w f a doubie claim to acceptance, and gen- j w " - 4- wtomtr notrAiia qg I ir y I erauv iuceis witii no mouj h?"v.u, , -I behold era. I ^ HailiHHn To?Day and To-Morroir. fortune with a smiling face Strew rosea on our way, hen shall we stop to pick them np? To-dayj my love, to-day ! ? it should she frown with face of care ? . *"i Axid talk of coming sorrow, hen shall we grieve, if grieve we must ro-morrow, love, to-morrow! * . ' - . ? those who've wronged us own their laolts, And kindly pity pray, hen shall we listen and forgive T ro-day, my love, to-day! it if stern justice urge rebuke, 'J And warmth from mem'ry borrow, ? .. how ahnll vrn nbi In. if o.hidft VR must ? o-mor. ow, love, to-morrow! , ?Char la Mac Kay , -* _ J" IIJBM3 OP INTEHEST. Hi . Iron affected by a fog is mist-nutoi - -; ^ A two-foot rule?Don't wear tight / oes. : Only a question of time- Asking the v > ror. A man is supposed to be in his prime forty, unless he knocks his prime out fore that time. One hundred and thirty-seven different rds in the South are said to be enemies, the cotton worm. ; . The French government has ordered . agricultural course in every primary i bool in the country. *? . A woman cannot become a successful * vj wyer. She is too fond of giving her JT tinion without pay.?Oil Cilir Derrick. What a pity the census was not taken . * iTinor mplnn sPAflnn when half onr >pulation is doubled up.?OUveland ' U '.raid. Manufacturers of plaster know enough y : advertise. That is the only way to ' ake anything draw well.?Bottom , ' ^ amcript. There's many a man whose highest / s ibition is to successfully contest a *. it on a nail keg in a corner grocery.? zriden Recorder. A new coral bank of great richness .1 C s recently been discovered in the Medir rranean, ten miles south of Sciarra, ; ys' the Neapolitan coast. The Paris Figaro recently gave an aov? "A untof a frog hunt which lasted for '0 hours, in which many of tho fash- -fsSgj] lable Parisians took part. ' ? '/Jyl [t shakes a man's confidence In his- & amometer to find it marking but * * aety-ftve when he could swear the ' .'a&y nperature must be about 160. . ? |g|*j fhe crown prince of Germany gets ire puffing over giving a $3 fiddle to "sdSEggj )lin?l boy than an American doer over . \ vine $40,000 to an orphan asylum. UN is anything a yonng man Jonaidera a disgrace, i to have his beard referred to Ls the down upon his lace?by his girl. % - ' ' /s" ?Toronto Graphic. ' ozjra Memphis is the only city in the United i"H ites which sho wa a positive decrease?. population during the last ten year*. ."v" 1870 its population was 40,226; now V s 33,200. fou can never convince a man whoso rn has been trampled down by a >vrd but that tbere ara sometimes >re than three feet in a yard.?Mara 7i Independent. There Is a fortune in store for the illiner who sho\ devise a bonnet that a be worn in any part of a church d always present its trimmed side to " :< B congregat'on. , Jfah Phow Lee, of China, gained the . zhest rank in ihis year's graduating tss from the Hopkins grammar school New Haven, and won the first priae , v'3 English composition. At a London ball which cost $50,000, mi veepiag ash in the garden wa\transrmed into a fountain, and bowers of * ' ; il grape vines were arranged along' ?3 e of the corridors in the house. Constancy is a reasonable firmnes? iu r sentiments; stubbornness au unisonable firmness; modesty a coniousness of the deformity of vice, and . ' the contempt which follows it. The net of our life is of a mingled . rn, good and ill together; our virtues' * mid be proud if our faults whipped jm not, and our crimes would delir if they were not cherished by our ' p. rtues. New neckties are of lace?old gold, [low, brown and crcam; swathed and and round the neck, like a coachin's wrap, the end fastened on the left ' [e with a scarf pin, or else with a long - , joch, and below it. the inevitable bou-', " ' et, which is universally worn. , ** IVhen a man wants to make his enemy happy he poisons his enemy's dog, ; t a woman chooses a very different Ly to make her enemy unhappy. She . ys some new clothes that her enemy > l't afford and sits in front oi her ?my at o\imch.-^Middletown Tranipt. ruimpes of lace and mull, and of em ridered insertions with Swiss muslin > sold in the shops for wearing inside lare necks of dress. They are made fasten behind and are o ily deep * )ugh to cover the shoulders, where ?y are held in place by tape strings. e neck has usually n full rucho or a J :h plaited ruff. ro Cure a Felon.?Take out a porn of the inside of a lemon, and thrust ; finger into it. Or take the skin of i i inside of a Iresh egg. bind it on with J moisture of the white of the egg . 1 ?: !l A ? .] xi 10 me linger, anu it win uinvr iuu . . all globule th*t causes tJic sore to the ? :face. As it dries make new applicans. This recipe has been often recominded, and we believe that it has been I ry successful. I iiown'a landlady passed him a disb j vegetables at the d:nner-table and helped himsclt to about two spoonls, almost bankrupting the dish, when 0 said to him, with a smile on her :e and ire in her eye: "Tnose are ?-c w potatoes, Mr. Brown, and some of e other boarders may want some." 3eg your pardon," choked Brown, in ? | rprise, na two or three effected an unJasant lodgment in his windpipe; "I j ought they were peas," and then he J lished his dinner hurriedly. Brown ' now hunting around for another arding-place.?Boston Qlobe. ' A Fiddling Gorilla. A short time ago the dead walls and .vertising posts of Munich suddenly oke outm all the colors of the rain>w, wilh announcements, couched in gh-flown language, to the effect that * 1 such a day the greatest wonder of r\ TTTAIl ho anhmitted tO DUb- 1 c inspection at the Coliseum, in the I lape of a gifted gorilla, trained with I finite pains to perform an Italian I racerto upon the 'violin. It may well I i imagined, in so musical a city as the I avarian Residenz, that the public i sponded in large numbers to this nazing invitation, and that the I o'iicuui was crowded to the cciling fl i the opening night of the perform- J ~cc. There was the gorilla, horrible J f aspect, but unquestionably skilled j i the production of sweet sounds lrom * I a ordinary fiddle, delicatfly minipu-'. | .ted by bis formidable paws. A skep- J cal spectator, however, conirivru _ pproach the simian executant, unob- ' ;rved of its impresario, and to make slight incision in its hide with a pen- a nife. Strange to say, the animal did ot flinch but fiddled on with stoic.il H eadfastress. Encouraged in his sua icions by this most unironkeylikc iipassiveiiess, the doubter seized Pongo om behind and shook him roughly; I hereupon the seams of his skin gave ay, and an elderly gentleman ?the npresar:o's father?stood revealed to ie audience,? J.omion Telegraph.