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V ' ''V""v 'v:" : f " if. ? ' ' , " 11 .- * i , , ? i i. i. . .. MUL. nil M I -li. ? ' - ' v' ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. . i ii . , i ? * ? ? ? ? ' ~ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WAKDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEE 22, 1880. NO. 16. YOLUME XXVI. Jjj "Mi ' The Wind-swept Wheat. Faint, taint and clear? Faint as the music that dreams we bearShaking the curtain-told of sleep That sfcnts awav The world's hoarse voice?the sighs and sound; of day, Her sorry joys, her phantoms, false and fleetSo softly, softly stirs The wind's low mnrmnr in the rippled wheat, From wast to east The warm breath blows, the slender heads droop low. As if in prayer. Again, more lightly tossed in merry play, They bend and bow and sway, With measured beat, jouv uuvor iwi. J.uivu^u uuauvn auu imuu^ii BUI1 ^ 6om on the tendor rustle of the wheat. 9 Dreams more than sleep, Falls on the li&tening heart, and Ml its care, Dead years sent back Soma treasured, hall-forgotten time. Ah, long ago, When sun and Bky were sweet, happy noon, We stood, breast high, 'mid waves ol ripened grain And heard the wind make music in the wheat! Not lor to-dayWot lor this hoar alone?the melody, So soft and ceaseless, thrills the dreamer's ear! 01 all tL&t was and is, ol all that yet shall be, It holds a part? Lore sorrow, longing, pain; The restlessness that yearns; The thirst that barns; The bliss that, like a lonntain, overflows; The deep repose; Good that we znifht have known, bnt shall not know; Hie hope God took, the joy he made completelilt's chords all answer from the wind-sweps wheat. ?ChritUan Union. ? The I ale of the Black Warrior Tea, girls, I graduated at Rossmore eminary, though my accomplishments may not have Ted you to think so. I don't suppose I reflect much credit on that institution. Most or my time there was spent in tryi&g to do as little studying and have as much fun as possible, and there were a good many other girls there who went through the course on the some principle. I suppose I was one of the worst of the lot, and the discipline there didn't improve any of us a bit. In fact, I believe we would all have behaved better if there hadn't been quite so much discipline. Romances! Oi course there were romances. Did you ever hear of a female seminary without romances P Every girl in the school had a lover, and some had two or three. And then seven or eight of the girls all had the tame one. These fellows used to hang around the iron gate after dark, ana steal brief moments of blissful and surreptitious converse through the railings wif.li t.hfi n?nipr?? nf their ftHnmtinn in the garden. Old Betty, who answered the gate bell, I have 110 doubt, turned a very pretty penny by conveying secret missives between the pupils and the jeunesse doree outside. Mind you, I don't speak from personal experience of these things. I am only telling you of what I heard. The funniest affair of that kind, though, was the Killjoy affair. I must tell you about that. Professor Killjoy, you know, was the professor of history and philology, and be was certainly well named, for a more sour and lugubrious-looking man you never saw. He wasn't half as bad as he looked, i hough, but all the girls used to hate him, chiefly on account of the horrid and rubbishy stuff he tried to teach us. The professor had one hobby, and that was " antiquities." He had one of the large rooms in the lower hall fitted up as a museum, and here he had the mustiest old collection of ancient arms and pottery, and tapestry, and basreliefs and what not, that you ever came across in your life. It was just Jike an auction room, and he used to take the history class in there once a week, and lecture to them on the " cuneform character " and the " age of Barneses," as it any of us cared how old Rameses was, or whether he had any character, "cuneform " or otherwise. Down atone end of the room was the professor's especial pet. This was a wholf suit of rusty steel armor?helmet, breastplate, gauntlets and all?and the professor had it mounted oaa frame on a pedestal, with a big battle-ax in its hand, just like life. *. ? ~rr - 1^.1 a. J Afc waauu awiui auair lu iuok ut, ana If tou were to come upon it unexpectedly on a moonlight night, it was just the thine to frighten you naif out of your wits. The professor said it was very valuable, and once belonged to a knight who had fought in the first crusade. " This, ladies," he would say, " is the rentable armor of the famous John of Orleans, better known in history as the Black Warrior, who perished at the iege ot Jerusalem. How many of you can give me an outline of the historic e/pntin which he lost his life?" There was generally a dead silence after this, md the professor would close the book with a sigh and dismiss the eiaas. Bat it was about little Annie Killjoy that I wanted to tell you. Annie was the prolessor's niece. She entered the seminary quite unexpectedly in the middle of ihe term, and it was soon whispered about among the girls that Annie was already provided with what most oft lie others acquired after they came there?that is, a lover; and that the had been sent to the school by her parents, who lived at a distance, in order 80 separate her from her betrothed, and to break up the match. Annie herself did not deny it, and, of course, ail our sympathies were enlisted for ber at once, especially as it was generally understood that the gentleman in the case was a young, struggling lawyer, whose Dovertv was the sole eround of objection to him. To tell the truth, Annie was a very sweet and lovable little thing, with blue eyes and a peachy complexion and a red mouth?just the kind to make friends and to'drive all the young men distracted . about her. * She had a lonesome time of it, though, for she was not allowed to room with anj of the other girls, but was nssignea a dormitorv next to her uncle's. The excuse rnaae by the matron was that there were no vacancies elsewhere, but we all knew that it was because the professor w:\nted to keep her as closely as possible under his own eye. For a month after her arrival Annie moped and pined, and looked the very picture of desolation. {The roses faded out of her cheeks and she came to the recitations with her eyes all red, aa if she had been crying. Suddenly, however, she recovered her spirits and became the blithest and apparently the happiest girl in school. The change in her was ko surprising that all the girls noticed it, and we knew that, somehow or other, Annie had heard good news. One day I overheard the professor talking to her in the hall. My child," he said, " it pleases me muoh to see that you are beooming contented with your lot here, and are reagining your good spirits. Shall I write to your p irents that you are entirely cured of your foolish infatuation for the young ra.inof whom they wrote to meP" The litt it! minx cast down her eyes demurely, t ad said: " I.tbir.K you may, sir, if you winh." Bnt thiu very night after the lights were out. when I slipped out of the back dooi ind went to the garden-gate ?well, really, I didn't mean to confe all that, but never mind, I'm not goii to tell you whether I went to talk anybody through the bars or not, i you needn't ask me. As I was sayin when I went out to the gate, someboc i on the other side suddenly sprang up I it and reached through the grating. ! was so dark that I couldn't distinguis his features; I only knew that it wj nobody that I expected to meet. K stretched his hand out to me in a wil sort of a way, and exclaimed: "Annie!" 1 I drew back and said, in a half-whi per. " Don't make so much noise. It not Annie." " I beg your pardon," he said. " II thought it was Miss Killjoy. Fc heaven's sake tell no one that you hav seen me." "Of course I won't," I replied; "fc I don't know you." "Isn't there any way to unfasten thi ffofnP" hn ocl'oH oho Irintr if. imnotionfl* " Not that I know of," I answeret " The matron takes the key out ever night, and ail the doors and windows i tne building are fastened on the inside. This last piece of information wa gratuitous, but I thought it might intei est him. 'You're not a burglar, are youP" asked, trying to get a glimpse of hi face as he turned it toward me in th gloom. ~ "No; I'm a lawyer." "Oh!"said I. He moved away and put his finger oi his lips. " Mum's the word," he said, and dis appeared m the shadows. The next afternoon the regular semi weekly lecture to the history-class tool place in the museum. I think the sub ject was " The Prehistoric Roots of th ^Phoenician Alphabet," or something c that kind, and you may be sure that w were all glad enough when it was over T4- V nonrM f /-v rrt rt k/t n rrnvrf Av JLb U1U11 L OCCU1 \AJ me LKJ LHC a V CI J CA citing subject, but Annie Killjoy, whi sat next to me, appeared to be in a per feet tremor during the entire lecture She was white as a sheet, and her eye looked so big and bright and excite* that I was really anxious about her. I don't believe she heard a word tha the professor was saying, and every few moments she would glance down th< room toward that horrid old sui of rusty armor, and then look around thi class in a scared sort of way as thougl she half expected every moment to set John of Orleans rise his battle-ax in dis gust and squelch the professor and thi Phoenician alphabet at the same blow. Her eyes took that direction so fre quently that after a while I began looking that way, and all at once I seer something that made my heart almosl leap outotmy body. The Black W amor was alive! Yes, there was certainly a man in th< armor. I saw his eye glittering through the bars of the rusty visor, and I arc confident that when it met miae il winked. The shock o! the discovery was so sudden that I suppose I would have screamed had not Annie pinched my arm almost fiercely and whispered: "I know all about it. Don't say s word, or I am lost." That night, when the lights were rung out, I tola my room mate, Sallie Hiegins, that I intended to lie down with my clothes on. " There is mystery in the air," I said, ' and if I am not mistaken, there will b" a sensation in this academy before morning Fnr mu nnrt- 1 qhft'n'f. crn t/? hpd until I see it out, and I advise you, if you want some tun, to sit up with me." Sally looked at me wonderingly, but refrained Irom asking any questions, aud we kept watch alternately until after midnight, one of us sitting up in the dark, while the other slept on the outside of the bed. At last, about one o'clock in the morning, when the building, had become silent as the grave, I heard a door softly open and close, and the rustle of a woman's dress in the hall. This was followed by a thumping noise on the floor below, like that made by a person walking on stilts. There was a clanking sound, and more thumping, and then I heard the professor's door open, and I thought it was time to awaken Sally and run into the hall. I met the professor on the stairs. " There are burgiars in the house?" he exclaimed, in an evident quiver of excitement, at whicb information Sally attempted to shriek, but I put my hand on her mouth and stopped her. "If there are," I said, "there is no need to frighten everybody in the house." " There are in the museum," said the mmafaaann frnmkKnff * * T Kotta Knnn pjLVMCSOUly bLOUIUlUi^i A UAYV l/CVU listening, and am positive they are in the museum." " Let us go and see," I said, bravely; but at this moment the door of the museum opened, and by the light of the hall-lamp, which had been left burning dimly, we saw, on looking over the banisters, the figure of the Black Warrior cautiously emerge, lifting his feet as though a twenty-pound weight was at tached to each, and his rusty armor rattling at every step. I could no longer restrain Sally's terror, and she shrieked with all her might. The professor sank down upon the stairs, pale as ashes. " Have the dead come to lifeP" he fainf.lv The Warrior looked up at us, and staggered back against the wall. The Eresence of mina, however, which he ad so nignally displayed at the siege of Jerusalem aid not long forsake him now. With a stamp of his mailed foot he struck a ferocious attitude, swung his battle-ax around his head, and yelled a terrific " Aha-a-a-a-a!" Then with a rush he gained the front door, demolished the lock with a few quick blows of his weapon, and was gone before the terrified professor could find his voice. As the knight stamped off" into the darkness there was another rush from fKo Haap onH T oanr tlmnrrh tV?o LA<U1UU kuv Muv&t ??uu A oan, bUVU^U uuw professor did not, the whisk of a woman's skirt vanishing in the warrior's train. Then came the sound of another smash at the garden-gate and the heavy roll of wheels, and I comprehended the meaning of the whole affair, and that was that Annie Killjoy and her precious young scamp of a lawyer had eloped. Of course Sallie's shrieks produced a great commotion, and the whole school was in an uproar for the rest of the night. In the morning we found the lock to the great garden-gate ?lso broken, and the gate, of course, open. The professor was completely unstrung, and wholly unable to attend to any recitations that day, so our class was taken in hand by the principal and a precious mess h made of it. I think 'he professoi grieved more lor that lot of rubbishj old iron than he did tor his niece. However, on the second day afterward, he received a letter from Annie, which he showed to her classmates, an nouncing her marriage to "Fred," anc begging her uncle's forgiveness. Ther< was a postscript at the bottom by Free himself, to say that, although John o: Orlean's clothing fitted him tolerablj well, he found it to be several years out of fashion, besides being rather cum bersome for that season; and he there fore returned the Buit by Lexpre?a, witl thanks. _ It is exactly a half century since th< first locomotive was built in the Unite< States the first which were used beini imported. The locomotive in question a queer looking, trunkless affair, witl upright boiler, no cab, six inch incline) cylinder of sixteen inch Btroke and fou driving wheels, was constructed at th West Point foundry. It was named th " Best Friend of Charleston," and ship ped there by seaO^tobt , 1830, for us on the Charleston and Hamburg rail road. A letter goes over one post route, ' telegram over a route of many posts. ' 93 All Old Sicilian Town. JDT Tfc ia ? vpr\7 nM nlooo wifh tiomviwr ? V* J V1V* n 1WU UM14\' ?t 30 streets going up and down by means of g wide, stone paved stairs, which prevent fy any carriages. The walls of the houses, jq which are never more than two stories It high, seemed crumbling to dust, and remind us more of Pompeii as it looks ja now than any other old town; the inte[e riors were mere dark holes, crowded by Id a rural population. There is but one object of antiquity, a church, of which the walls and most of the columns once s. belonged to a temple of Vesta. There is i3 an old tradition about this temple and the progenitors of the people of this town _ which is worth relating: )r During the many centuries of decay e of the Roman empire, the strict religious laws and customs were so far re)r laxed that whenever any one of the vestal virgins was discovered faithless ;s to her vows, instead of being buried * alive, according to the old law. she was j* relegated to this temple of Vesta on j Mount Eryx, where, at length, she and Afhnra HVa hor i?formorrioH mifll fr.llP Q VSUL&VJLU 1IAV liV/1 lUWiUiUlltVU U1VU v**v " priests and people of the place, who 3 were of Trojan origin.. From their .. union descended the present population. This, of course, is a mere tradition, yet I it isfsupported by a very curious physion s logical fact. The natives of this moune tain town have more of the old Roman type of face and person than any of the otner two millions of people that inhabit Sicily. The women are famous a for their beauty, their fair complexions, long necks, large black eyes And superb i_ bu-ts. There are also many blonds with blue eyes among them?a type never v seen in the true Sicilian race, k We had heard this story, and were ? anxious to observe the female part of e the population; but as we walked, or ,f rather climbed, up and down the steps e of the streets, we saw none but men and '. "very uiu women Bitting m uuui ui men dismal house doors. a There were shops where they sold . oil, contained in just such huge clay as one sees at Pompeii; public cooks s frying their meats at the threshold of i their front door; lamps both of clay and bronze, of Pompeian shape; bread on t the bakers' counters of the precise patj tern as that found carbonized at Pom0 peii; and many other thing reminded ns t of that old Roman town.?Atlantic 3 Monthly. 1 " A Mongol Encampment. 3 A correspondent in China says: At a first glimpse a Mongol encampment ap pears to be a collection of gigantic ant hills with smoke issuing from the tops, i As we get nearer, the iorms of human t beings, of a multitude of camels, dogs, sheep and pomes are visible. The Mongols have an instinctive knowledge of ; where water is to be found. A pure. l limpid mountain brook was running at i the base of the hill where the tents were 1; pitched. A beautiful stretch of pasture land upon which the animals were graz ing lay at our feet. Our approach to i the tent of the chief was heralded by the i deep growls and barking of the dogs, who soon brought out the occupants to i ascertain who the intruders were. Our guide informed the man that we were ; traveling to Suchowfoo on service, and asked if we could rest ourselves. Hos: pitality being one of the few virtues a Mongol possesses, we were speedily welcomed. The fnt into which we passed was composed of a frame of light 1 rellis work, covered with thick lelt. made from goat's hair, circular in form, with a conical shaped rocf. A hole in. the roof let out the" 9moke from the argol fire, which burns all day in the center of the tent. At night this aperture is closed. The door is about five feet ;high, and cannot be entered without stooping. In diameter the rent i3 fifteen feet. A piece of felt hanging serves to close the entrance at night No seats were visible, so, squatting on the ground, our guide, who spoke Tangutan, asked us if we wished something to eat. Catching a glimpse of the dirty vessels lying around us, we deemed it advisable to use our own tin plates and cups. Their usual method of cleansing their wooden cups, which they carry_ upon their persons, is to scrape them with their linger nails, while the plates are cleansed with tLe tongue as a dog licks a platter. A large iron pan was over tne nre.togciner witn a teakettle, which is boiling all day, an 1 from which we drank to our host. Into the large Dan one of the women poured some sour milk, and taking a handful o barley meal stirred it with her finger until the mass became the consistency of paste. We, on our part, produced some cold mutton, which, with the porridge, proved acceptable. Well-Paid Doctors. Doctors with an established practice, that pays well, do not of course, want to be called out at night. These men make it a rule to refuse to go out if they are called. Some of them have a sort o staff ol younger men, to whom they turn over night calls and others to which they cannot attend. But not on tbe ^IXUU^iC. J.I1CJ liftVC au UUUU" standing with the younger men that they shall get part of the fee, though they do none of the work. If the fee is three dollars, they take a third; if it is five dollars, they expect two of the five, and so on up the scale. But these are small matters. We have a number of doctors in New York who never go out far less than ten dollars, and some who demand of twenty to fifty dollars. I have heard of cases where the fee for a single visit was $100, and where operations are performed it is sometimes as high as $500, though these instancps are rare. There are doctors in New York whose income runs from $25,000 to $40,000 every year, and they do not work very hard either. Their hard work is all done before the income grows large. Usually it takes a doctor about ten years to build up a paying practice. He may make a living from the start, but he can't lay up any money till he has spent a decade in making a place for himself in the profession. When the place is once made, all ahead is smooth and easy. On the other hand we have scores of pretty good doctors here in Gotham,who never get ahead at all. They are just as poor and just as far behind at fifty or sixty as they were at thirty. But you will find the same kind of men at every calling. They fill a certain place well enougn, but can never rise to a higher one, and though all their duties, such as they happen to be, are faithfully performed, they slip out of the world at least without being missed. All the professional ranks are well supplied with such men, ? and a good many are to be found even '> in the church.?New York Letter to the [ Detroit Free Press. Ashes of the Napoleons. The statutes and ashes of the Napoleons have suffered strange vicissitudes. Twice has the statute of first Napoleon, | which stands in the Place Vendome, [ been dragged to the ground, first by , royalists, then by radicals, only to be 'x re-erected, while his ashes were re. stored to France on the demand of . another dynasty, to be respected even . during the commune. Louis, the exJm king of Holland, removed his father's " remains from Grephole to St. Leu, to I " which his own ashes were in time removed from Italy. The eldest son of Louis, regarded by Napoleon as his heir, b and who died when but six years old, 1 was at first laid in St. Denis, but the g Bourbons when tbey returned to France , had the body translated, and the " little i Napoleon" now rests in the same vaul? j as his father and grandfather. Jerome r alone reposes under the dome of the e invalidess with his great brother; the e ashes of the other Bonapartes lie scattered here and there, and are to be e ound at Rome, Florence, Vienna and [- Chisejlhurst, and somewhere in Calab. There are some men so talkative that a nothing but the toothache can make one of them hold hid jaw. WHERE SNAKES ARE PLENTT IVumerous Stories about the Hep Gathered from Klany Source*. At Alma, Kansas, a man na: Schutz fell dead of heart disease, cai by fright at a snake. The little son of Henry Leals/oi. tersburg, Kansas, died recently i the bite of a rattlesnake. Willie Archibald, ofBrookfieldTo' ship, Ohio, ten years of aee, died fi the bite of a copperhead snake. A son of Joseph Thompson, of Bi1 county, Kansas, died a horrible d< from the bite of a copperhead snake Five Italian woodcutters near Chi kee, New Mexico, set a lot of \ nooses to catch squirrels, and foun one trap an immense rattlesnake v sixteen rattles. When Lizzie Haeffer, sixteen yeai age.Jof Fountain City, Minn., was bi by a rattlesnake, they killed a chic and bound it upon the wound, bv did not save her life. In Reading, Pa., a copperhead sr thirty seven inches long was foun contain eighty-eight young snakes alive, and four to six inches in lenj when it was killed by James F. Hin Mrs. Wistman, of Walkerton, I while picking huckleberries, was Ktt an OMArtnniifl H lor* ban J KtJ au vuv*?u\/v?m She seized the reptile tightly about neck and screamed lor help. Thesn was seven feet in length. Zach Mansfield, of Hart county, 1 while mowing in a wheat field cz upon a huge yeliow and spotted sn some ten feet long and six inches diameter. The snake chased him, he had lively work to save himself. There is or exhibition at Dal Texas, the photograph of a rattlean recently killed in a garden at Farm ville. It has the counterfeit presi ment of a child's face cfcarly tracej in the hide of the snake's head. A lively fight between a blacksn and a rabbit, at Blue Ridge, Va., g out of the snake's attempting to c upon the rabbit's young. She bit reptile until it was compelled to rel< its prey and crawl into its den. H. L. Patty, while riding on ho back in the Santiago canon, came u a rattlesnake in the road, and had taken his foot from the stirrup w the snake struck, imbedding its fang the stirrup leather. Mr. Patty kii the snake, which was one of the lart of its species, its body being as thicl a man's leg. William Drake, of Wartsborough, Y., while in the mountain near the lage, came upon a rattlesnake, who mediately showed fight. There was chance ot escape for Mr. Drake. K< ing up an incessant rattling, the sn struck at Drake repeatedly, but in ev instance he managed to avoid its strc and in halt an hour killed ths rept It measured gix feet five and tone-] inches in length. Bowling Green, Ky., has the chi pion spotted snake. H. B. Wilh killed it while cutting grass. It m sured nine feet seven inches in len by eighteen inches in circumferei Dissection revealed twenty-three ef. two full grown and eight half gro rats, two young rabbits, four chick and six partridges. The snake \ skinned and stuffed. Four and a qv ter bushels of bran were required the operation. John Geer, of Basket Station, Pa., killed over one hundred rattlesna within the past three months. He ways carries a crotched stick. W1 he come3 upon a snake, he carefi places the crotch over the reptile's ne just back of the head. Then, if he sires to keep the snake alive, he remo the poison by the aid of instrume made lor the purpose. He has a re lar process for abstracting the oil fr the bodies. The oil is very vulual and sells readily for $1 per ounce. I said to have great curative powers. " Feel o' My Pnlse." "Feel o' my pulse; feel o1 mypu quick," gasped a seedy, cadavero looking man as he staggered into Eagle's local room yesterday afterno The city editor eyed him with s am/1 f Kam f aM nf f Ko pjuiuu.auu tutu wiuvucvi xpmuii to accommodate him. "Find it weak, ehP" whispered ! thin tramp. "Find it fluttering li eh?" "No," responded the reporter. ' seems all right." "Take my respiration,'1 moaned ' tramp. "That seems to be strong, too," marked the reporter, smelling at cautiously. " Fetch me two ounces of wate sighed the tramp. "Fetch mo t ounces of spring water, quick." " Haven't got any spring water," joined the reporter; " what's the mat with you, anywayP" "I'm a faster. Haven't eatenai thing for forty months and fo: nights." "Well, what of it? What do 3 want." "Hire a hall and have me watch I'm on my forty-first month and I'm 1 ble to eat at any minute ud less I'm ca fully guarded. Watch me till my tim up." "About when will that be?" asked 1 city editor. " I'm eoin? a hundred months on a 1 with the chief of police. Say, you 1 lows want to make some money?" "How?" "Just bet that I don't do it ] that you dassent set a meal before i without my cleaning it up in foi seconds, and then set up the gri You can win any amount you wi to." " But who are we to bet with?" "Cbief of police. Bet with him you want to win wealtn, I tell you.' " He isn't here." "That's so; I forgot that. Bet w me. I can afford to lose. I'll bet 5 dassent set a meal before me consisti of steaks, and chops, ami turkey, n chicken, and eggs and ham, and mv millr and hrpoH nnrl 11 hard tack and pie, and pudding a rolls, and bacon *nd claim ana 1< sters. Bet you half a dollar. Bet 5 anything ycu like." " I reckon not. Don't case to bet." " Then I'll bet you five dollars I do eat it. Bet you either way. I want lose some money somehow." " Rather not. Reckon you'd better away." " Don't you want to have me watpt in a hallP Big gate money. Div square. Only got sixty months to g< "No, I reckon I won't touch it. Y01 better go somewhere else." "Let me have a couple o' ounces water, spring water?" " Haven't got it, I told you." "Want to tike my respiration ag: before I go?" "No, I got all I want." "Feel o' my pulse once more, j onceP" "Getout, willyouP" " Got any old papers you don't wan " Somebody put this fellow out,"ho' ed the city editor. " Haven't got the San Juan Feman Blow Pipe of three weeks ago Thursd have youP I want to see the news fr home." And then he rolled down stairs s picked himself up in the counting-roc " Icalled for 1 he money for that arti o' mine," he explained to the cashi "but as it ain't printed I'll take fi dollars on account. It's a thing ab< science, and the man upstairs said was worth half a hundred. Gimme fi cases and I'll call for the balance." And then he fell out through door, and a tall man, dressed in bl took him up to his friend, the chief police.?Brooklyn Eagle. Mm r. FOB THE FUR SEX. tl,e* Fashion Rotes. E med Mummy-cloths of fine pure wool, and ? ased in stylish dark colors,, are offered for | winter. Pat- The crown and brim of the bonnet b rom this fall are smoothly covered wifh s? beaded net y( V7n_ All feathers used in the new bonnets ai " * 1 *- ? A- 5? ?4 4-V.? o< ora are lastenea dul once?tuab ia, ai mc ?? stems?and the tips are left loose. tl itler Suits in dark colors are being made P :ath for dressy purposes. Surah glaees and ?E changeable fabrics are used for these. 18 ero- Coiffures aro not quite so low in the ^ yire back as they have been, but the ten- tv d in dency is to plain and flat, not fluffy, hair /ith dressing. It is said that the cinnamon shade ti s of Worth has used during the summer will qi tten be among the most popular colors next Y ben winter. ' b< it it The new woolen handkerchiefs are a at yard square, which is the whole widtu ^ iake of the fabric, and are sold in sets with- ca d to out cutting the square apart. ti] . all For the street dark shades of cash- ^ ?th, mere are shown in four of the etylish kle. purple shades ranging from mauve to nd. dahlia, all of which have red tints, at- Large black silk collars, with flowers di ike, painted on them in water colors, like n< the designs on a Ian. have made their ap- w lake pearance in New York city. ]v A pretty sash to wear with a white at ?y., costume can be made of white toile re- cc ime ligieuse, finished at the ends with sec- co ake tions of India shawl patterns. it ' "j Large and finely finished claps, re- ?9 anQ sembling cloak clasps, but more ornate 31 and jeweled, are used to fasten the plush Was, strings of bonnets. A combination of plain goods with |e fir" woolen Madras plaid will be the ieading qq Lhlp 8ty*e '*"8 ^ suits of this descrip- op tion are already becoming popular. pe Ostrich feathers, Ion g, demi-long and ur ake tips, wili be used on winter millinery, gr rew quite to the exclusion of flowers. Birds lei Ime of all kinds will also be worn. At? A favorii/e combination for fall suits is coachman's drab for the principal part of the co-ujme, with borderings of ttl; rse- shaded strides of heliotrope and Ophelia. nnn Hnu? /AmIaII a**a Knlmfrnno in oil ha :w JLUC W1U10 1U1 iau me uwituwv|/w ?ui U1? y c just shades (which includes mauyes and h ? nen yiolets), sea-browns and ooffee-browns 'it f."J (coffee in the bean, roasted and ground), <5r lle<f vanilla, a shade of yellow resembling iest Indian corn, slate-gray, willow-green * re : M steel-blue and porcelain-blue. w Fall bonnets are principally smal en , N. copate shapes of plush finished felts r.nd sb vil- furry beavers. They are trimmed ^rith wi im- plaid velvet and feathers land are to be no worn far back on the head. fh jeP* Fine all-wool goods with a border lor s? aice trimming are among recent importa- { " ?ry tions. They come in all the new fall ba colors, and the borders, which are from 1 ,. three to five inches wide, are very hand- fle some. Pr Uncut or Terry velvet is now shown \m" in changeable colore, the ribs of a differ- Tc :ins ent tint from the body of the goods and _:( ie?" will be much used next winter for mil2in linery as well as for dress trimming, lining and facing. li ] The princess dress continues to be 8(V ens worn- Certain alterations are made, ?as such as having a basque in front, and 1 lar. the princess cut in tne back, or U?e un basque in the back with the princoBs ri< cut in front. Sometimes it is made in w< . the back with a postillion or long coat- Dc kX teils- <* al- ]$ 2en Fashion rfotea. W1 ^jy Large collars and fichus are much cai dc- *ci ve8 Shoes grow more fanciful every sea- be ntg son, and are now embroidered in colors ch ?u_ or 3lashed open to'display the hosiery. ha om Pelerines of jet beads are worn with ile, black toilets. c is Large red ohenille cords will be used cei in millinery. br Jet and garnet will be used on dresses and bonnets. ^ Bonnets will be trimmed with lone nn piled silk plush. pj] Strings of new bonnets are of plush thi ^ lined with satin. wl on. Lone straight directory mantles are v?! Q81 the fall wraps. th< ers Skirts are either very plain or much t"( ruffled and draped. *nt 3he Woolen handkerchief dresses are ke, among the latest importations. ^ , Tl I Cords and tassels are worn instead of pa: " beits witn tue newest costumes. Do Very small bonnets and very large ma round hats are worn this fall. bu re. A succession of small ruffles or it flounces trim the skirts of rich fall cos- ^ tumes. r ?? Woolen goods bordered on one sel- An vage with stripes are a feature on fall goods. ^ re- Side combs of shell, jet, ivory and an( ter coral, as well as gold and silver, are for again in use. jar W- Japanese parasols formed entirely of by fty peacock's feathers are among attractive filL novelties. the ou The new metal ornaments for hats and the _j bonnets are large and very handsomely thr finished. ' sel re- Among the most fashionable ball ?nJ| e's dresses are black tulle toilets embroider- v ed with gold. ^ the Plush and furry felt hats and bonnets jn are among the first fall productions and oth bet importations. rej, :c^" There is a tendency townrd making per sleeves much wider at the wri9t than at t ^ those worn at present. me Bags or reticules carried on the arm rtv or fastened to the waist accompany .vr npfirlv all new costumes. T IU. " int Long pile silk plush, in bright, (lark ran colors7 tipped with white or old gold, can will be much used in millinery. Mr if Cloth of gold embroidered with pearl, | " garnet and amber beads, appears among |eet choice fall importations. peP ith trit ou The German Counted*. an lid B&t the German countess, according me] ish to ray observation, is a plain, domestic f nd creature, who trota briskly about during lin* .nd the forenoon hours, attired in a simple cf)ri short dress, with big apron and snowy thr 'ou cap, a heavy key-basket jincline in lier Fe?' hand. She arranges to the minutest de- 18 1( tail the meals of the family, the servants J211 ?n't of the liouse, and the laborers in the Fou to court, all of whom receive a separate 4 bill of fare. Every article required in j-"e: go the preparation of these meals, even to the salt, is carefully weighed out. Each J?e ;ed servant has so much sugar, tea, and 1116 ide coffee per week, which he can consume s?0( P-" at pleasure. That this alone is a labor- Plax u'd ious task every housekeeper will admit ?rej At dinner the countess appears freshly, ttir< J o' but still simply, dressed. After dinner ?Pri she is seen with knitting in hand, or a great basket of mending by her side, 12(! ain working with as much assiduity, as any 11 American housewife, hardly allowing ?n<r herself as much time for reading or fee!j nst recreation. Each napkin, towel, etc., is ?nP held up against the light, and rigidly d*1] inspected; eaoh thin nlace, even in the tP" coarsest crash towel for kitchen use, is Mr' wl- carefully darned. I was muct amused, at one plane where I visited, to see the P*? dee daughter of the house, fresh from bo?.rd- tnei ay, ing-schooi, going through this pt. jess ^ om with a great basket of linen, under the or ? supervision of her mother- I remarked JJ101 md rather in the way of self-congratulation, dpv ?m. that in America we madu ourselves lees cle trouble. {jiel ier, 44 What!" exclaimed ttie lady. 44 You blef Dur do not mend your linen P" tro1 aut 44 Not the kitchen towels, at all e*c it events," I ventured to answer. S1VI Dur 44 Oh, Frau S !" exclaimed the 8an young girl, with melodramatic, fervor, the 44Take me to America with you! A S ue, land where one need not darn th?: kitchen the of towels must be heavenly V?Allantic stei Monthly. ^ pla Marriage Customs of tlio illndoea. Ram Chandra Bose's address at the Imory grove camp meeting, near Baltilore, caused intense amusement. He ave an account of the marriage relation mong the Hindoos, and maintained lat a woman might become a wir'iow efore she was born. "Sometimes," n/1 "lin 44 Kr*t?a r?f ffiroo anrl npirla nf fwA Ill UV| MUJD VTA VU1VU UUU gl4M V/. U TT V ?ars of age, and very often boys of five ad girls of three, are married, and )metimes even before they are born ? lat is, of course, conditionally; and I ave known girls that were ushered ito the world as widows. A widow is not allowed to marry, either, but a idower may, and is often compelled to j so. Hindoo women cannot read ley cannot sing, they cannot talk jiitics. They have nothing to do{ no lecific object in life, Miserable creates ! In the monotony of their fives a 2m fKrt Viaolfkv Juliei in auuub tuc uuij uc?i?uj buiii{{? , ou are laughing, but sou must remem;r that quarrels must exist, or nations id politicians would die ot inanition.. ?e have women who with you 8/3 tiled termagants. They quarrel sornemes for a week, and I have kn own em to continue for twenty-one d.ays." Dipping. The Countess of Antrim has effected a version. The cards for bor last after>on " At Home" in Lovndes square ere marked ", Dipping at 4:30 preclse," and, as may be imagined, this creed a considerable excitement-. What iuld be about to happen P Was the untess bent on a bathing p arty P Was some American surpiiseP What uld it be? It was sirjply that each sitor dipped his or b\md into a vast ceptacle and drew forth some small id elegant present. The idea proved a eat success, and i have no doubt, : frequently adorned at fashionable reptions. _ It ad'js considerably to the portunities Pjr display; it will enable ople to shoT,f off their wealth in an ideniable banner, and that seems the eat ambU.ion of society.?London Lei Aworgeons Festival. A. gorgeous festival at Venice was e marriage of the city to the lr'iatic sea. It was celebrated every &r on Ascension day, and this, too, id its origin in an historical event, i A.D. 1170, Pope Alexander III. was iven from;Rome by the Emperor Barirossa, or Red-beard, and he took fuge in Venice, where he was received iiU great respect and aftection. The iperor demanded that the republic ouid give him up; but the request is refused. Barbarossa then sent a fleet of seventy'e galleys, under the command of his n, Otho, with orders to destroy all at came in their way. The Doge ,d only forty galleys; but he was an pert seaman, and drove the emperor's et off the coast and took Otho isoner. After this battle, peace waa ide, and Frederick consented to come Venice to be reconciled to the pope. : ?reward the Venetians for their ser- 1 ies me pope bestowed 0? them the vereignty of the Adriatic sea, and ese'ated the Doge with a ring, saying: teceive this as a symbol of your vereignty, and celebrate your espous- 1 i with the sea every year." This fete on Ascension day was a iversal holiday. The poor and the sh put on their gayest dresses and mt to witness the marriage of the >ge with the sea. The bells of the y rang from da;; break their most fful chimes, the canals were thronged th gondolas ornamented with banrs. In one of the largest harbors, lied La Piazzetta, was anchored a ssel, railed the " Bucentaur," which long <;d to the Doge. The crew were os^n from among the strongest and r.dsome3t of the Venetian seamen. le prow of the ship was gilded and ! [lamented with 6gures, and in the 1 iter was a crimson-velvet tent cm- J oidered with gold, above which floated d flag of San Marco. When the hour noon Bounded the door of . 3 church was thrown open 1 d a grand procession moved forth, rst came eight standard-bearers with e flags of the republic in red, blue, * lite and violet, and six men with sil- 5 r trumpets; then came the officers in 3 service of the Doge, dressed in j sir state robes. Next iollowed the ; isicians, and a deacon carrying a ( ge wax taper sent by the pope, and : 'n bearing the throne and cushions of ; Doge. The city magistrates made ? rt of the procession, and, lastly, the * ige himself, in his ducal robes, his ? tntle of ermine fastened with gold ' ttons, his robes of blue and cloth of [ [a; insneaa covered wica ine aucai : ) of Venice, over which was a crown P gold sparkling with precious stones. 1 e procession advanced slowly up the _ ay and embarked on the " Bucentaur," th the admiral of the Venetian fleet ? the helm. As they drew up the 3hors all the bells in the city poured . th their most joyful sounds. The h ge vessel went slowly on, surrounded numerous barges and gondolas, all ed with people gayly dressed. After fleet had advanced some distance into i Adriatic, the Doge rose from his one, walked to the prow ot the ves- ^ on a raised gallery, and threw into blue waves a gold ring, saying: '' Pe espouse thee, Ob, Sea, in sign of t ,1 and perpetual sovereignty." Then ,( Doge and his suite attended service the church of San Nicolas on aner island, called Lido, and the fleet urned to Venice, where the grand sonages attended a sumntuou3 repast -he ducal palace.?Si. Nicholas. g Churning bj Goat Power. !he most striking feature of the dairy u ch of F. S. Clough, in San Mateo f< yon, is the new dairy house which a . Clougti recently completed at a cost 51.500. It is eighteen by thirty-six a ; in ground dimensions, finished exlally in rustic style, and inside is as n and cleanly as the thrifty housee's " best room." The butter-room, apartment ten by fifteen feet in dilsions, is carpeted (!) and as inviting ^ i parlor. The apparatus for hand- *1 r uie mHK anu maKiug tiie uullci jo lplete in every detail, and is designed oughout for the saving of labor. A siving vessel, fitted with a strainer, jcated in the milking yard, and comoicates by a pipe with the dairy st ise. The milkers pour their milk his receiver and that is the end of di ir duties. The milk passes down w jugh the pipe to a200-gallon tank in ti dairy house, whence it is drawn by M dairymen, undergoing, meanwhile, a j) >nd straining process. It is then ;ed in nans to cool and raise the im. Water is brought in pipes jugh the house Irom a mountain ing. The churn holds fifty-two gali of cream and turns out from 100 to m pounds of butte at each churning. 3 worked by goat power, the apph- S( es being a treading wheel eighteen _ in diameter, which connects with [0 , operates a shaft running into the 01 ry-house, and this in turn connecting m h cog wheels worfcing the dashers. Q1 , Gow says that the goats, in operat- u the wheel, induce their natural pensity forclimbiflK and they apply r' liselves to their work with great to. The herd consist of some eight 0l en animals, ranging from the jjrand- w ;her and old Billy with the whiskers ra to the youngling not over a foot h. When released from their pen 8( y, one and all, great and small, run , iting for the wheel, and the only 1: lble to contend with thereafter is the q. ess of power which they are apt to s it in the course of their frolicsome lbols.?Los Antfelos (Cal.) Express. ^ ' m v t. Louis has successfully employed n electric light to aid the loading ol e liners at her warves at niaht, in the t< ce of the old fashionca pine torjsjjes. a TIMELY TOPICS. We shall never know exactly ol wh stuff dreamB are made. Notwitbstan ins tbe unbelief of those who disclai all superstition, strange cases of occi telegraphy constantly come to the su face. That was a curious one broug out by the death of Miss Faulkner, Chicago. Her aged mother lives unawa, uanaaa, ana wnen asuea by correspondent if she bad a daughter ! Chicago, she burst into tears, sayln "Tell me what is the matter. Idreami last night she was dead." On being i: formed that the dream had indeed be< fulfilled, she wept distressingly. Cf all the schools explain what pictun the girl as dead in her mother's mil when her body lay uucared for in Chicago tenement house. " The time that i* Raved be hiirrvlr to meals aad elsewhere comes oat < a man's life sooner or later," says a phi osophic paragraphia. It is true, y in spite of the knowledge the America people go through life on the jump, an boast of it Any town whose citizei incline toward deliberation in the business is considered "dead." On] the places where they all hurry an " splurge " are supposed to be " alive, The popular idea of being alive is beta in a hurry. That goes by the name < " business," though absurd haste won] be a more appropriate name for i There is no tame saved by hurryinf Whatever is gathered up in small quai tities is clipped off at th? end of life in solid piece. Women and children are employed i tolerably large numbers in the Englia mines. Out of 18,795 persons engage above ground about the metalliieron mines, 2,193 are women and girls, am in fhoM ord 517 maloa rst fh AAA UUU1V4VU VUWAV tMW VA * UiMtVB Vk ?U tender ages of between eight and tbir teen. 0/ girls thirty-six are epiployei between eight and thirteen years old thirty-two of whom are in the Cornwal and Devon district. Of girls betweei thirteen and eighteen years there ar employed 792, Cornwall and Devon em ploying 645 and the North-Wales dis trict 106, the only other largely-employ Uig district being that of Ireland, when twenty-seven are at work. Of girli above eighteen years old, there ar< 1,365 employed. The London World made the startling discovery that kleptomania was common in fashionable society, and thai thefts of jewelry, furs and wrans wer< freqnent m the ball rooms ana cloal rooms of the West End. Instances wen given, names and places being suppressed. Truth followed in the sami strain, and told how a light-fingered lady of title stole a sable cToak from t ducal mansion; also how another ladj of title lost a diamond necklace. It waf said that these conveyances of property could not have been inadvertant, seeing that expensive overcoats, costly lac< shawls and other nronertv were invari ably replaced by shabby articles. It Beveral cases the thieves were caught ir the act, but protesting: error, were permitted to go on restoring the plunder, Time is now supplied to street clocks, public offices, hotels and private dwellings in Paris, like gas or water, from a central station, by means of compresscd iir conveyed through underground pipes. At the central station there is a reservoir of compressed air, and for the first twenty seconds of every minute, &i ;iven by a standard timepiece, a current 3f the compresscd air is allowed to flow ihrough the pipes to the receiving jlocks. By means of. a small bellows, c?hic h is expanded by the transmitted iir, the works of these clocks are kept ?oing at a practical uniform rate. The street mains are of wrought iron, about I1-16 inch in diameter, and these arc jonnected to service pipes of lead 1.5 inch in diameter, while the different stories af a building are supplied by rubber rubes one-eight inch in diameter. Any lumber of clocks can be actuated in this way within a radius of two miles from ;he central station. The Massachusetts board oI health reports that adulterations of staple grojeries are not as common as the public lave been led to suppose. For the pur308e of test, the expert of the board z>ok samples of flour, sugar, bread.soda, :ream of tartar, and baking powders, )btained in stores in forty cities and owns. The flour was found in all initances to be wholly free from all oreign substances, and, with the exjeption of one or two ooarse varieties of jrown sugar, no adulteration was per:eptiblein that article; and in these solatcd cases there was reason for hinking that the defects were due to mperfections in the process of manuacture. The soda examined, although old under a variety of named, such as aleratus, bicarbonate, supercarbonate(< ,nd cooking soda, was all found to be" auch the same article, and nearl/ all of t good. The poor soda was that which tad not been properly purified of the rude soda ash, but this sulphate is not Djurious to health. Baking powders rere found to be pure in twenty-four ostances out of thirty-three. The dulteration consisted in an excess of our or starch over that needed for ruixng the soda and cream ot tartar. There ras also some alum found. In cream of irtar a considerable amount of aduleration was detected. Better than Expected. A crowd composed mostly of farmers ot to talking politics in a hotel barn on trand River. stree", a day or two ago. nd the dispute grew so hot that two of Lie party came to blows. The affair adjust ended when an old man drove p in a wagon, and he was at once injrmed that his son George had been in fight. " Has he? Has ho? And did lie nave fair show?" "Yes." " It was square work, was it?" " It was, and your boy got licked." " Non!" "Yes, he did. In three minutes he ras cleaned right out and used up." " Did he make an apology?" "He did." " And said he was in the wrong?" "Yes." And did he leave tbe barn on a run P" "No; he walked over to the drug ore. " Walked, eh! Bully for George! It id make me feel a little bad to hear he as bounced, but the most I feared was lat lie had started on the run for home id left me to load two ban-els of salt.? droit Free Press. Bromley's Proposed Championship. Samuel Bromley, of Mystic, Conn., 3tter known as " Fat Sam," announces is ability to live for ten days with his louth and nose hermetically sealed, hose acquainted with Sam see no rea>n why he should not be able to accomlish what is coupled with his name, ir ho is able to breathe for a time withit the use of mouth or nostrils, commnication between his lungs and the utside world being kepi up through is ears. When smoking a olgar he often ch&les the smoke through the same exaordinary channel, to the profound itonishment of those who aro uuaware f this freak of nature. Many persona ho have seen the jet of cigar smoke reeping out of his ears are willing to istify to the truth of " Fat Sam's " asirtion. Though not particularly fond f notoriety, Sam thinks he can estabsh his ability to live practically " herletically Bealed " for ten days. A Western reporter records the fact iat. the defeated candidate " took his ray to tne train, wrapped in gloom and ew store clothes. The gloom was an legant fit, but the store clothes were oo short in the legs and very baggy lound the shoulders." RUflfiUNti A CEBITS. ?' Some Flgnrei Showing the Coat and (he d* _ ProflU. m "After a circus is fairly on the road, ?- what are its daily expenses!" asked a t washington Post reporter of Mr. Tilling, ?i the agent for Coop's circus; m " la small towns between $2,000 and a $2,200 per day. The amount depends to ln a certain extent on the sums that are * cuargea us ior iiceuaea wj buuw buu uluci sd privileges. In cities the expenses foot up n* to nearly $3,000 a day. The advertising ?n and bill-posting is about $1,000. We ? have 300 persons employed. "We feed 225 id of these m our cooktent and seventyid five are quartered at the hotels. Our a cooking arrangements are admirable; we serve everything the best and in a clean and careful way. Mr, Coup frequently dines in the cooking tent." ?f " How about the other side of the 1- ledgerP" et "The receiptsP They are generally ^ enough to make a good circus a paying td investment. Still, any day our receipts is may fall to nothing because of some ir rain-st rm, or some costly animal may y die. There are manv ways in which a d show may suffer dead loss. The worst of it is that they cannot be guarded against." >f "What are the heaviest items of a show's expenses P" "The salaries. The sum paid to the ? Japanese troupe in our combination i" would run an ordinary circus. Then a the Indians, taking the matter of board alone at an averaee of but $1.50 per day each, during the season, cost $8,600 for & a season, besides their salaries. A first 4 class rider, iiie muss jvate osoaes, geia d 1150 a week." * "Still, these are'fancy'salaries, are d they notP" e " Yes, to a certain extent. An ordi? nary lady rider gets $26 a week. For 3 men riders, James Melville, perhaps, I ? leads with the highest salary?$200 a i week. The average is $40 a week, i Fryer, who has the pony circus, draws 6 $140 a week; Carl Anthony, the French * horse trainer, the same, while we pay * for the wondetful Broncho horses $1,000 - a week. This is exaotly what we got 3 for them in the Boston Globe Theater 3 and Aquarium, and was offered for them 3 a year's engagement at the Westminster aquarium, in London. Our horses are a study, One of them, Tom, owned by J Miss Minnie Stokes, a beautiful black, - of fiery disposition, is her particular pet, ' folioher round like a dog and only ' seems contented when in her company : With every one else Tom is particularly - vicious, having maimed several of his grooms, but with his mistress he is as * gentle as a kitten." 1 "How sweet!" mutt red ouradoles1 cent reporter. r Mr. Pilling looked rather hard at the 1 quilldriver, but the latter was as sober ' as a judge and taking notes vigorously, ' so he continued: 5 "A circus proprietor does not, of course, pay for the wardrobes of the star 1 performers. These mnst be furnished 1 by tbem. Hence you see that, although ' they are paid large salaries, they bave heavy expenses. Last sea?on Mis Katie Stokes bought 180 dresses. The > rosin nsed on the liorses' backs soon ' spoils a dress, and spoiled apparel is [ quickly noticed in the ring. The cos tumes used for the opening pageant are, ^ of course, part of the circus properties, * each wearer being responsible for the1 care and keeping of the dresses worn by i them." 1 "I suppose the more enterprising a circus is the better it pays?" "Yes, beyond a doubt. A show that keeps its vans new and bright nod its canvas clean i3 always far more liber1 ally patronized than a show of equal, merit which practices a false economy > in this regard; and when, in addition 1 a manager endeavors to continually 1 secure novelities to please the public, 1 without sparing cost, he will certainly ' be successful. Take, for instance, the conveyauce of a circus by railroad. I 1 I believe Mr. Coup was the tirst man to build and own a railroad train lor show business. When he projected it he was laughed at by other showmen for extravagance. When he started his new show he employed an agent, wbo said: 1 ' Mr. Coup, you can never make money ' with a show.' He said: 'Why?' 'Oh, you run your business too aristocratic, too extra7flgjntly.' He was surprised when he found that for three seasons Mr. Coup had exhibited in precisely the same towns with increasing business each year, so that now his show draws most people where it has been oftenest." Words of Wisdom. j Envy is destroyed by true friendship, ' and coquetry by true love. SomeremDants of good can be found in the most depraved characters. Where power is absent, we may find j the robes of genius, but we miss the < throne. j When love begins to sicken and decay, 1 it useth an enforced ceremony. Justice consists in doing no injury to < man; decency in giving them no ol- i fense. * ) The pungency of pleasure is as tran- 1 sientas the foam t'lat mantles round its j brimming cup. j Against general fears remember how very precarious life is, take what care vmiwill: hnw short it is. last as lone as it ever does. , What would be the state o( the high- ( ways of life if we did lot drive our j thought-sprinklers through them, with t valv? open, sometimes. 1 About Lying. f " Where were you when the first shot j was fired P" asked a Galveston lawyer. > " I was lying down on the sofa." j " Where was your husband ?" " He was lying down on the gallery." . "And your children?where were they?" " They were lying down on the bed, | fast asleep." j "Any other member of your family 1 lyinp down?" _ * * W nil S f m rr !>?? _ ?w.l a c*r tttoo Viava * ?? mii, u uij uiuuutrm-ian tt no ucic . I expect lie would by lying down in the I court-house. He is a lawyer, unless he . has reformed recently." 1 Professor Forbes, of Illinois, gives it as his opinion that at least two-thirds of [ the food of birds consist ol insects, aver- ; aging at the lowest reasonable estimate , twenty insocts per day for each individ- j ual of this two-thirds, giving a total for , the year (which is surprisingly low) of ? 7,200 per acre, or 250,000,000,000 for the d State. This number placed one to each 1 square inch of surface would cover an area of 40,000 acres. In connection with r these figures the following estimates by 1 Mr. R. D. Minot, one of the Boston s naturalists, are interesting, fie states 8 that in Massachusetts alone there are 1 annually destroyed not less thn.n 50,000 i partridges, 30,000 woodcock, 15,000 quail < and 5,000 snipe, or 100,000 game birds i while in the same State 250,000 wild ^ birds (counting their eggs) are placed c hors du combat. Mr, Minot places the number of birds annually destroyed in c the United States at 1,000,000,000roughly ] estimated. According to the American i Naturalist a young mocking-bird, raised 1 from the nest, has been known to eat i 240 red-legged grasshoppers in a day, f equivalent to at least 480 average in- f sects. . 1 ? c An exchange gives the following 8 remedy for earache: Take a small piece of cotton wool, make a depression in the ? center and fill it with pepper; gather it a into a ball and tie it up; dip it into t sweet oil and insert it in the ear. In- ' stant relief will follow. Another remedy 'J is to dip a Cnjaeae firecracker in nitric h acid, put the cracker in the aching ear 1 and explode it. The acid will prepare * the ear for the fireworks.?Picayune. e l'am the Lad that follows the Plow; s I am the lad that follows the plow? , Robin and thrush joet whistle lor main a hickory snit that's pretty well worn 1 go to the Held at early morn,] I help to scatter the golden cornRobin and thrnsh jast whistle for me. Oat in the meadows and woods and lsnea Robin and thrash jast whistle lor me? ' I watch the sheep and lamba at play; When the grass is high I toes the bay; There isn't a boy in the worl I '.a gay?. Robin and thrash jast whistle lor me. 4 I go with lather to shear the sheep? Robin and thrash just whistle for moI fodder tho cattle, the mangers fill, I drive a team, I go to the mill, I milk the oows with a right good will? Robin and thrush jast whistle for me. f: . , , I I help the peaches . plains to sato? Robin and thrash just whistle lor me ? For 1 am the boy that can climb a tree; There isn't an apple to high ior me, There isn't a nnt that I can't see? , xtobin and thrash joat whistle for me. When I am a man 111 own a larm? ?] Robin and thrash just whistle for me? Horses and sheep and many a cow," , Stacks ot wheat, and a barley mow; IH be a farmer and follow the plow; Robin and thrash stall whistle for me. lis better to stand in the golSen corn? Robin and thrash jast whistle tor meTo toss the bay on the breezy lea, To plnck the irait on the orchard tree, Than rn?m nhont on the reatlesi tea: So, aailor boy, IU follow the plow. _ . Tib better to hear the wild birds ring, Robin and thrash on the apple boogh? 'Ha better to have a farm and a wife, And lead a busy, peaceful life, Than march to the noiay dram and fife; > So, soldier boy, Fll follow the plow. ' ' '* y ITEMS OP IHTEBEST. ^ _____ * . The poet Tennyson is seventy-one years of age. A man born at sea cannot be proud o his native Picayune. Ashland, Henry Clay's Kentucky homestead, has been rented at 98 per acre. A London magistrate sent a man to prison for three months for catting off a ? . . cat's tail. ..... It is on old adage that the tongua cannot be easily bridled. But }t U ' ' easily bit. The Nova Scotia gold mines are said to have produced more than 96,000,000 in eighteen years. When a man and woman are made one it is usually the man. Sometimes toe QgOt 18 long ana severe, uowevei.-?Bochester Express. , Thomas Sherlock, of Bedford, Ind., killed a spotted snake in his garden that measured six feet seven inches in length and four inches in diameter. The Massachusetts Society for the Pre* vention of Cruelty to Animals recommends that all kittens that cannot be provided for be killed at birth. A murderer under sentence of death was baptized by immersion at Dallas, Texas. During the ceremony the sheriff , - stood on the shore holding .a rope attached to the prisoner. Our people are putting in the winter's supply of coal, and we observe that those who have the greatest number of grown-up daughters are baying the , most fuel.?Middletoum Transcript. Dr. Glen, the California wheat grower who sent eight ships laden with grain to Europe last year, was so pleased with '* /; the result of dispensing with middlemen that he will do the same this year. Horsemen believe that Maud S. will soon attain a speed so terrific that a straight track will bo necessary to prevent her running into the rear of her own avdkv.?Oiacinnaii SUurday Night. William Pariah was told by the poormaster of South Toledo, Ohio, that he must take himself out of the town before nightfall, or he would besenttolhe workhouse. "I'll do it,"-said Pariah, and he swallowed a fatal dose of laudanum. * He waa sitting in the parlor with her whpn a rooster crowed in the yard, and leaning over he said: ' Chanticlear." "I wish to gracious you would," she said, 44 I'm sleepy as:I can be." He took bis hat and left, and hasn't been back since. Another battle was fought in South America last week. It lasted two hours, :ind then a truce was asked for and granted to look after the wounded, because an awkward fellow in one of thr irmies had dropped his musket on a friend's corn.?Oil Cily Derrick. Chicago now exacts WW ijr every nrcus performance given in that city, 850 a day for each side show, and $25 for the concert in the tent after the egular entertainment. Thus a circus )pen aiternoon and evening, with say ive side shows, must pay $675 daily into he citv treasury. Curious are the means of self-defense vith which animals and insceta are provided. A butterfly, when apprehendng danger, never lights on a green tree >r shrub but flies intqa clump of dead eaves, where it so adjusts its wings on a wigs, as to look exactly like a shiveled eaf, and defies discovery by its foe. 44 Have you got a bite, bub?" inquired i dignified old gentleman of a youthful isher. 44 Not much of a bite, mister!?'ish seems to know when old coveys is round watching 'em," and he whipped lis line out of the water, and the hook lew very near the old gentleman's nose. -New Haven Bcgi&ter. mi J??.- r A lit: pruuuuuuu Ul uiu&ci uaa lunuuiiu prat importance in Norway within a ew years. Eleven mines had been opened jctween 1801 and 1865, which yielded an iveraee of 8,450 tons a year. In 1875 ourteen mines had been onened, which urnished a maximum of 34,500 tons, rhe larger part of the yield is exported n the condition of ore, the rest is reluced on the spot. The death rate per thousand in foreign sities, at last reports,is aa follows: Monreal, 21.3 in 1,000: Havnna, 60.9; iueenstown. Ireland, 41.7; Dublin, 30; Liverpool, 25.8; jfaris, a; Benin, a*; ?rankfort, 18.7; Brussels, 19.8; Copenlagen. 23.2; Rome, 26.6; Stockholm, !9.6; Cauiz. Spain, 44.3: Langier, Mo occo, 100.9; Calcutta, 19 7. Harris county, Georgia, contains nany snakes. A gentleman living near Hamilton killed sixteen grown moccaiins within a lew hundred yards of one mother. Another person killed an old noccasin and left it on the Hillside. On lis return a few minutes afterward he sounted thirty-four little snakes crawlng around and over the large snake ["hey are supposed to hare been the old >ne's young. In England the cost of raising a bushel >f wheat is in round figures $1.50. From a number of records Kept In Minlesota and Kansas the average cost per jushol, counting all material, labor and nterest on investment, was about fortyive cents per bushel. Allowing Jortyive cents for carrying the wheat to Engand, the cost wou.d be ninety cents lelivered. Those figures are significant ind speak for themselves. The London Graphic attributes the crpam of a woman partly to vulgarity ,nd partly to vanity. It sayp no well>red woman screams, but only those yfio moi bidly wish to attract attention, 'lie ignorance of woman's natnre exlibited by our namesake is amazing, 'ry a *oom full of weil-bred women rith a loose mouse, and observe the ffect.-?New York Graphic.