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~~~ ~~ ?? /' W -'- * v<: $-?' '-' -?&' .v?'' ABBEVILLE PRESS & BiHi -?lg la . - V ''. ,.:r: -' ? J^gg! ' ' ' . .. I BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1. 1880. NO. 26. VOLUME XXVjjMg Isolated. We hold our dear ones with a firm, etroi v graap, We hear their voiccs, look into their eyes; And yet; betwixt us in that clinging clasp A distance lies. ^ ks We cannot know their hearts, howe'er 7 may Mingle thought, aspiration, hope and prayei We cannot reach them, and in vain es^ay To enter there. t Still, in each heart ol heart9 a hidden deep Lies, never iathomed by its dearest, best, With closest care our purest thoughts we kecj And tenderest. I tBot, blessed thought! -we shall not alwnj-3 e In darkness and in sadness walk alone; There comes a g'orious day w'?n we sha .know As we are known. ?Elinor Gray, in the Atlantic. Bon Voyage, and a Music-Box The huge whitey-gray, prison-lib^ building of the Escoriai looked dowi forbiddingly from the windy spur of tb< mountain range from which it had kep watch over Madrid for three centuries as Bettine Campbell and her mothe: took their first full view of it from tb* railway station. "Itmakes me shiver," said bettine mo A f n r*rrtn f 4 i 1 nr< o ill vUi J Ji Vao 1UCU1 S^UIUA staring with stony eyes over the desert while the wind buries its feet in sane and sbriefcs of the cruelty shut up in iti cold heart." *' Nonsense, Bettine," replied the othei lady,44 it looks for all the world like f penitentiary or an insane asylum on t very extensive scale. Do you think we had better rid^ up, or shall we walk! And I hope you Lavcn't forgotten mj reticule." ,4I think we will walk; it does nol seem very far and there is such a miscellaneous assortment of Spaniards piling into the omnibus. But, mother, vmirminlfi.lviT h?i<* Rtavfpri mrain wVm Sid you insist on bringing the wretched thing with as?" "Why, you know, Bettine, I wag r afraid we might be detained over night, and I never can sleep unless it is under my pillow. I had no idea it would take on so, I'm sure. Jmt open the reticule and touch the spring." As they paused under the trees to adjust the refractory mechanism a young Englishman passed them. He paused, involuntarily attracted by fairy tinkling notes laliing drop-like, and shaping themselves as thev fell into the familiar air of "Aiinic Laurie." The pretty, embarrassed lace bent over the musicbox attracted him still more, and he surprised himself by a longer glance than he felt was tjuite polite. The young girl looked up with an annoyed expression,and half touching his hat he walked quickly on. "The Spaniards are the most insolent men I ever saw," Miss Campbell remarked below her breath. " Did you notice Dow tftat one stared at us and?" . t "Bettine Campbell," interrupted her mother, with severity, "just you remember it takes four eyes to make a stare; besides, he isn't a Spaniard?he's a Frenchman." "What makes you think so?" "Didn't you noticeP He had 'Bong t _ Voyage' worked on his hand-bap. I suppose he has brought his lunch out, just as we have; one is never sure of getting anything decent at the*e country posaters." Arrived at the building, the two ladieB repaired directly to the library. * Bettine was desirous of copying some Moprish illuminations. She found a beautiful Koran, and holding her box ol water-colors aeainst the eoge of the lectern she was scon deeply interested in transcribing to her sketch-book some 0^9 f K A itttwiAdfA floi Vi vUC lUtl iVrtlV UCOJgUO. Meantime the young Englishman wandered with a number of other exf plorers disconsolately through the I 8eriesof cloisters, corridors, halls, courtyards, cells and labyrinthine passages connecting the pantheon, palace, refectory, sacristy, church, library and so forth, which make up this great monastery, museum, palace, mausoleum and caravansary. He was not over interested in what he saw, and his wearied eyes and limbs pronounced the whole a - stupendous bore. As he entered the library, in the wake ot the party who fr were following the cicerone, he noticed Bettine standing by the lectern, her eyes shining with enthusiasm as she pursued her wcrk. Her mother had fal'en asleep in her chair, but Bettine bent to her task unconscious of fc.tiguc. The curious L visitors ciowded about her as though she were one of the objects upon exhibition, and one diraijreeable man even jostled her rudely. As they left the room Mrs. Campbell ifose up and demanded: L "Where's my reticule? Bettine, hand t me my reticule." ? Bettine paused in her work and looked W . at the floor on either side of her, and f upon the lectern. "It was here a moB ment ago," she said, " for I took a little liauid gold from it for that arabPRnne." rl'ae young Kngli&hman, wlio had lingered behind the rest, stepped forward and jo ned in the search. " It is gone," he said; " that suspicious-iooking individual who jostled you just now must have taken it. I had my eye on him anc;?simpleton that I am? while I had my eye on him some one took my sachel too." He dashed out of the door and down the stairs after the retreating party, but though he overtook it in the cloisters the [ thief was not with them, having disappeared with both bags. He hurried to the depot and announced the theft to the guard loitering there, and telegraphed a description of the missing property to the police at Madrid, for the loss in his case was a heavy one, and then returned worried in mind to the Escorial. He found the ladies awaiting him at the principal vuwinutc, anu IUU ui? pruuecuings. "Ycu ought to lmve had a list of the things in my reticule," said Mrs. Campbell, "so that the police could identify it. How are they going to tell it from any one else's reticule ? 1 here was my music-box and Bettine's paints and the lunch. Dear me, Bettine, if you had only consented to eating the lunch before you began your work. It's a providence that we K didn't start without our breakfasts?and a little package of green tea; I always carry my own tea with me and make W*' the hotel waiters give me tome boiling water to pour on it; I can't drink the slops they give us in this country?then there was?1' "Never mind, mother." interrupted - Bettine; "the gentleman is very kind tc interest himself so much in our behalf, i but really the bag was not worth the ? trouble. There was nothing in it that F could not be readily replaced excepl p . your music-box." ut As if my tea could be readily re| placed! I don't expect to find tea like 5 that again till I reach New York, and my music-box is worth advertising foi alone. It was made to order in Geneva, U % and plays old-fashioned English tunes, It is only a little thing, but it cost ti enough, and I'm willing to risk fiv( dollars to get it back," and Mrs. Camp" bell extended her hand with a coin it The gentleman stepped back. " Pra3 | wait, madam, until you receive youi | property. I shall make all possible enra.V, deavors to secure both sachels; my owr contained a valuable necklace which ] jjPSfjs came out to Madrid to purchase for oui firm from the Countess de los Torref jfcf. Ricos. It may be well for us to ex | Jfc change addresses, that we may commu V nicate with each other in regard to th< Pr sachels." And be banded Bettine a cart K v on which was neatly engraved " Arthu: ^ Aisop, Glitter, Gilder & Co., Regent St. " Mother's card-case was in her bair, ig said Bettine. " but any word sent within two or three days to Mrs. Campbell at the Hotel Americano, Puerto del Sol, will reach us." As Mr. Al?op alighted at the Madrid station he was startled by hearing the same musical tinkling which had first ro attracted him to the Campbell's. Somewhere in that crowded buildinga musicc; box was blithely humming " The girl I left behind me." He stood for a mo ment electrified, and then began to play ; < blindly at hide and seek with ?he sound. He rushed about iike one demented, overturning children, treading i , on the tails of pet dogs, colliding wiiu 1 ' dowagers, and making himself responsi- i ble for much profanity on the part of i 0 punctilious hidalgos. There was some- 1 thing almost human in the behavior of 1 that musio-box; it buzzed bravely on, ] 1 now louder, now fainter, according as i the chase was hot or cold. At one time , it whirred and clicked omiuously, as i though it might be running down; but 1 no, it was only changing from the 1 plaintive regret for its fair mistress to 5 the triumphant, rendering of "The 1 ' Campbells are coming!" "Not until j the next train," muttered Arthur Alsop; i ? " but I'm here and that will do just ts ? c 11 ?J well. fc 1 e Ashe spoke be snatched the reticule J t from the hand ol a man who.was hurry- E ,, ing out the door of exit, and turning to 1 r a soldier in a linen-covered cocked hat, J g who was leaning placidly upon his mus- f ket, he poured forth a relation of the ) , circumstances in as good Spanish as he J . could muster. The other claimant for s | the reticule vociferated at the same time, 5 j but Alsop evidently made most imprps- s 3 sion upon the arm of the law. "Can you enumerate the articles in 3 . this bag?" he asked. ! s t " I think I can," replied Alsop. " You | r t will find, I think, a music-box?" : a ? " Any one could hear it,' interrupted ! a > the pretended owner. i ? r "?and a set of painting materials, a ? lunch, a package of green tea, and a j s [ card-case containing tbe cartes de visite ! . of Mrs. and Miss Campbell," continued |s A idaw frinmrvhotit In ! \ uiuujpuauuj. * "Th?t is clear, that is explicit," re- D I plied the official, approvingly; " if the a I contents correspond to what you say the y ba^i is yours." ? i "And it he is wrong, if there is ? nothing of which he has spoken except Jj ? the music-box, I may be permitted I | * j suppose to go about my busin3ss?" i ^ ! "Certainly; produce the key." The ? bag was quickly unlocked and Arthur 11 > Alsop gave an exclamation of minded a rage and disgust. No painting mate- J rials, no lunch, no green tea?but ? a change of linen belonging to P himself, a toilet case, a set of diamond 11 studs, a rouleau of gold and a morocco a covered box in which be had that morn- 81 ing placed the precious necklace. o " It is mine, it is mine," he assorted; v but the calm official only smile J sar- v donically.and closing the reticule handed ? lb tu Liiv wn&tiiJ? iut;uc. r "You have had your chance, my riend. Guess better another time." t( i "But there were two bags stolen; S they have changed their contents, that 11 is all." "You should have said so before." ? The rogue was at the little wicket ? buying a ticket for Barcelona. Alsop * had iust time to follow him and spring P upon the train as it was leaving. P An hour later a scene somewhat " similar was enacted at the railway 1 station of the Escorial. Mrs. Campbeii , " and. her daughter sat wearily apart, h waiting for the train. They were both & worn out with the cxcitpment ot the day, but Mrs. Campbell was not yet P too tired to chattel. o: "What a funny name he ha3?All- g nlnns T nhrmlr! think hewnnlri noHHnu 1( the legislature to change it." c "Alsop, mother. Just thick of A.1- P sop's ale and you will get it all r.'ght." Ci "He doesn't look like a man that C1 would be fond of ale, but one can never k trust to appearances. I am very glad there is no opportunity for the acquaint- a ance to go further. Monev gained from a brewery would be no object to me." & " Mother.mother," exclaimed Bettine, beseechingly, " he is not a brewer but a ;{ jeweler." 11 "Well, if his relations are beerbot- , tiers, I ehould object to him all the same. Intemperance runs in families, and I would rattier see you d<?ad at my Jj feet thrih married to an intemperate ? man." ? Tears of vexation welled to Bettine's eyes. "Ob, you dear, foolish mother, we have only met him this morning, J.: and probably will never see him again." Mrs. Campbell was about to renlv , when her attention was attracted by J* the singular behavior of a woman at the end of the waiting-room, who was endeavoring to cram a very large parcel into a sack-like pocket at her side. The 1 mouth of the pocket, large as it was, was too small, the paper burst open f and a sachel with embroidered sides " was detected by Mrs. Campbell's lynx- ^ like eyes. The little lady darted across tiie room and snatched the suspected article "I thought so," she exclaimed. "It's R got 4 bon ' voyage ' on it. Police! " police!" a' The guard whom Alsop had already notified immediately interposed, while j: Mrs. Campbell, clinging to his arm with j* one hand and witn the other to the ?r " bon voyage " satchel, poured a wild and incoherent stream into his polite but uncomprehending ears. 1 "It belongs to a friend of ovrs, Mr. f Arthur Aleslops, and it has a necklace in it that he bought of the countess something or oth<r?and oh! dfar me, ' Bettine, what else is Ihsre in itP Oh yes, there's a shirt. Bettine, you need b not thread on my toes; of coarse there's a shirt, and most likely a bra.idy bottle, though it's a great pity sucu a fine ? young man should drink it." i The official regarded her blandly, not comprehending a word she said. He had no doubt the sachel was hers, and t he a9ked her poiitely to examine its con- fc, lents and see if everything was there. " Mrs. Campbell understood the gesture ^ toward the bag whose lock had been forced, and in spite of Bettine's " Don't mother, we have no right,' her un- ? scrupulous fingers invaded its interior. .< "Well, I never!" exclaimed that lady, "ifhere ain't our own things; paints, tea, lunch and all. Mr. Aleslop's hand must be traipsing around in our j* bag" 5 4 These are your things madam?" the dicial asked of Bettine in French. Bettine replied in the affirmative. "Then you may keep your property and I will take charge of this individual ( : until the appearance of the other sac de ], i voyage;"and his grasp tightened upon t! i the woman's arm, as with Mrs. Camp- t bell's gold piece in his other hand he e I hurried away to catch the Madrid train. ^ Mr. Alsop followed his man closely, e , and a few days after reaching Barcelona t e succeeded in arresting him and in re- j i covering the sachel. It was hardly j 1- worth the trouble, however, lor his s studs and roll of gold pieccs had disap- ^ peared; and .though the morocco case c was still there, it contained not ; I the lost necklace, but the mechanical t : part of Mrs. Campbell's music-box. The t , adies had probably left Madrid by this j . time and Mrs. Campbell had intimated f t that they intended returning to America s ? by way of England. He concluded that t a personal in the Times would be the r i best and perhaps the only way to reach { them. He returned to England much \ r depressed for he was ill prepared to sus- f r tain the loss ot the necklace,whose value ? he had now to refund to the firm. His j> i notice in the Times failed to meet t [ the eyes of the Campbells, and ( r a letter addressed to the Ho- ] j tel Americano was returned to him ( with the information that the ladies r had gone from the city without leaving ^ 3 any address. Bettine had interested him ( 1 more than he was willing to confess. In r an inner pocket ot the reticule he had , found some sketches and careful studies ] in water color, which seeq^pjto him i revelations of the girl's character. They told him of a sprightly fancy and a delicate taste, of steady unswerving per- , severance. 44 Patience, patience," he repeated to J himself. 441 wonder how long I should ] stand her harpy of a mother. I should j kill her?1 should certainly kill her;" \ and then he laughed a boyish laugh at , the remembrance of the strange old lady ; _ d. A. I 77 1 TT _ I I ) _ r ai uie xjsconai. n? laugueu nine 01 late for he had left the firm under a cloud, though he hnd scrupulously paid for the lost necklace, and lie was now working beyond physical endurance for another firm. He walked toward his boarding place one evening with a dull pain in iiis head. " I hope I am not going to be ill," he said to himself; "I can't leave business now and go down to Kent to mother, and there is no one here in London to care whether I live or die." A.s the thought passed through his Bind he noticed a familiar bag in the liands of a lady who was tripping sriskly in front of him. It was of the same pattern as the one his sister Laura jud made him beforo his ill-starred 0 ourncy to Spain. He remembered i Hatching the crewels tor her, ana the r !mbroidery on this sachel was of the g lame dull ;russet and olive tints. The p ittie lady iu front of him save the bag ? i nervous swing, and the words "Bon i, wage' gleamed out with startling dis- p inctness. What a satire they were, and u low very far from being a prosperous v ournev was that ill-fated trip to the c Sscorial. It was unmistakably his ^ achel, but he had a courteous man's ^ iversion to pouncing upon a perfect 0 tranger and demanding his property. Je had decided not to accost her, when v he very unexpectedly mounted the * teps of his own boarding-house. She n ang the bell energetically, then turned _ ,nd faced him a3 he stood irresolutely ti ,t the foot of the stairs. The ^ ecoernitiou was mutual?it was n Irs. Campbell. Flourishing thesachel, a: lie hailed him in a vivacious tone, u "Dear me, Mr. Alesiops, you don't ay that's you. Why, I went down to tj our firm, Griddle and what's his- f. lame's, to return your reticule aa soon j 3 ever we got to London, and they said ? ou'd left the business and they didn't u mow where vou'd gone. Here, you e aust take your reticule, for I won't ? lave it on my mind a minute longer, r fou see they must have changed your u Lings into mine, for Bettine's paints _ nd my lunch were all muddled together a this. You didn't happen to come ^ cross my reticule, did youP Bettine rill be quite lost without this one. ^ he's taken quite a fancy to carrying her ainting materials to the art museum in , t. We've been staying at Kensington j nd Bettine is out there now at the art chool. But I wanted to see something J t the city and Mrs. Gubbins said this " -~ P riis a nicu, icapcuuvuic uuaiuiij^-iiuuac j rhnre I could stop." Some one opened the door and the., ?' assed into the house together. M He tried to reply and to'introduce her m 5 his landlady, but he was seized with p iddinesa and had a sudden fainting V urn. ri It was then that Mrs. Campbell came " > the rescue. "I'm an old friend of the ^ imily (though 1 don't approve of the ., ray they've made their money)," she ex- " lained, "and its a Providence I hap. ened in just as I did. You must let it' nurse him as long as he needs me, , 'd admire to do it." To herself she said, Dear, dear, I did hope he'd got over is intemperate habits, but may be I an reform him." ? The physician who was called /v ronounced the disease congestion / t the brain, and Mrs. Campbell's ood offices were required for a rng time. Like most motherly, offiious personages she ^rew lond of the atient so entirely dependent upon her are. In all his sickness he had never allied for intoxicating beverages of c.ny p ind, but when delirious had often menoned Bettine's name. Perhaps he had si Iready "reformed." He was well at ty ist, and Mrs. Campbell took a lingering ire we 11 of her charge. There were trateful tears in his eyes, and compunc on in his heart for the injurious epi- ' lets he had bestowed upon her. I* "You are nervous," said the good ( idy; u what you need is fuieting and ^ x>thing, and I am going to leave my _ lusic-box with you to play you to ? eep at night. I haven't used it once r_ nee that day at the Escorial and shan't pa liss it a mite." w "But I have your music-box already," jplied Alsop: " it was in the bag that I " jcovered at Barcelona." itti "That's curious," said Mrs. Camp- jV ell. " I've got it out at Kensington I w ai sure, and I'll bring it in to-mor- < "I will come out," said Alsop; "it * rill do me good to take a little run into w le country." ?t He stepped into the art museum be- li >re calling at their lodgings, and fax ' sross a long hall recognized Bettine's D] rillowy form, as she stood at her easel. 'hey walked across the park together, h nd he felt bitterly his dubious business g rospects, which would make a connuation of their acquaintance only an ^ dditionil pain. Mrs. Campbell met them in the little arlor. "Nowhere is my music-box, tv ist as i toia you;' anu sue pointed to a mail black box with a bas-relief of , 'ell's chapel upon the lid. ( "That is doubtless the case of your lusic-box." replied Alsop, " but here ? re the works, and sadly disorganized, I J ;ar." I "There is something in mother's ase," said Bettine; " let ua see what it ^ i. It is quite heavy." tl " I haven't the kev," said Mrs. Camp- ell. J A suspicion flashed through Alsop's 0 lind and he forced lid the open with b rembling fingers. A cry of surprise fj *om ttfe two women, and the missing a. ecklace lay upon the table. al "It is worth more to me than I can ?ll now," said Alsop, transferring it to le morrocco case and buttoning that arefully within his coat. Bettine lipped the works of the music-box into lace, tnere was a ourr ana a wmz, ana -r tie absurd little thing caroled, blithely, Shall auld acquaintance be forgot." * Not if I have anything to say about ;," exciaimed Alsop, wiih empha3is. "That trip to the Escorial turned out bon voyage after all," he remarked to j is wife some weeks later.? Lizzie W. ^ ftampnev, in Qoou Company. gg ? A Wonderful Adventure. tl A recent issue of the Colorado Springs ? lazette says: Sergeant O'Keefe returned j( sat evening from an unsuccessful at^ JJ smpt to ascend Pike's Peak. He says ? hat it is the first time within his experi- ? nee that he has been thus baffled, and " ie asks to be excused from ever being c ubjected to a similar experience. By & lie reports which he nad received from ^ ?Ir. Sweeney, who is stationed at the P Jeak, he was led to infer that but little * now had fallen, and in consequence he Y vas not prepared to contend with the {] tbstacles which blocked his path. The " ourney for the first few miles of the n rail was without any satisfactory fea- 3 ure, but while making an abrupt turn a n the trail in the vicinity of Minnehaha 2 alls the sergeant was brought to a n itandstiil by an immense herd of black- c ailed deer, which impeded his further c >rogress. He contends that the herd 0 :ontained fully 700 head, and says it ? t took just one hour and forty minutes J or them to pass a given point. The ll sergeant was only armed wi.h a 32-cali- ^ jer Smith & Wesson revolver, and with * .his poor apology for a firearm he succeeded in killing seventeen of the deer, die only plausible reason that Sergeant * D'Keefe can give for the remarkable appearance of this vast herd is that they were driven from South Park by the ' jcent storm. ? ? i The latest caprice is to have one's bed- % room upholstered to match one's drees, \ indchina to matoh the.bedrooms. J Balloon Accidents. A frightful accident at Paris is report ;d, says a New York paper. Augus Navarre was performing on a trapez juspr-nded from a balloon when, at thi height of 1,000 yards, or over half a mile be missed-his hold. The shocked spec ;ators, it is said, could clearly follow th< poor fellow's body in its descent, am when at length it struck the earth i made a hole two feet deep, and reboundec ;wice me neigmoi amansneaa. rreec from his weight, the balloon shot up ward until it burst, and then, it too, fell Deaths from balloon accidents are fre lUent enough, but a sheer fall from sucl i height bus, perhaps, never belore beer ecorded. Thus in 1870 a balloon tool ire, when 2,000 leet high in the air, anc ts occupant was killed, but, as is usual] j be case, he stuck to his air-ship till il grounded. A fearful dive is, however ar from being the only danger "balloonsts" have to dread. That it is quite ai langerous to go too bigh as to come lown too fast is shovn by the voyage cl Hssandier, Sivel, and Croce-Spinelh1 rhich is, perhaps, i he most rumarkabit n record. They started on April 15, 875, to rival the highest altitude ever eached by man. At 8,000 j'ards Tisandier fell in a faint ju3t as hia companions, who were in a scarcely better onuiuon, roEseu oui some uauiusi m u ist desperate effort to sur pass Glaisher'e enord of 11,000 yards. The balloou flew p, how high it is impossible losay, but rhen Tissandier came to himself his ompanions lay dead beside him witb lack faces and bloody nostrils. They ad been suffocated by the rarefaction f the atmosphere. Glaishers record is. tierefore, discredited, for it iieems beond dispute that human life cannot be ustained much above 8,000 yards. M. todard's perilous experience in 1878? rhich happily resulted rather amusingly han otherwise-i'lustrates another anger which should not be forgotten by Jose who take passengers sailing in the ir. At 1,000, at 2,000, at 3.000 feet high e successively asked his companion ow be felt, and was as often amazed lat the amateur declared his feelings ) be quite as usual. Finally Godard eclared that he would go no higher, rhen suddenly his companion grasped is throat and demanded still another motion in return for his $21)0 fare. The lan was clearly a lunatic. At that fear ll height he clambered out ot the asket and around the swaying globe rith the skill and carelessness of a lonkey. Then he clasped Godard by the ody and declared he would throw him ver. Finally, he drew a knife and said e would seek his " emotions " by;% fall, lyof halt a mile. But Godard did not >se his head. Ha declared himself harmed with the idea, and wondered oat it had never before occurred to im. But he pointed out that, however leasing the fall might be, it would l>e isagreeable t;o be mutilated, and he jgge3ted going 2,000 or 3,000 feet higher 1 order that when his companion cut le eas-bag their deaths would be certain. hey were'then both of a mind, and as rodard threw out the ballast the balloon arted still further above the clouds, [is cheerful companion's spirit rose rith the balloon, and once more be limbed out on the bellying sphere, but lis time with a rope about him, in rder, as Godard explained, that he light not tumble before he was high lough for a thoroughly good fall. At ngth he perched himself just over the jcape-valve, when Godard pulled the jrd which opened it, the escaping gas upefied the madman, and?the crisis as over. Lest any one should doubt le story we hasten to add that it comes om France. Carious Stenographic Blnnddrs, The New York State Stcno^aphic ssociation recently held a convention ; which one of its member?, Mr. . J. Moriran. read a DaDer on the [unders in transcribing .from shorthand, milarity of sounds usually producing lose, especially if another than the riginal reporter produces the transcriDon. In the official report Ot hiii paper jpear these instances: Several years ;o an eminent lawyer employed a stejgrapher to take testimony in an imjrtantcase. The transcribed minutes itoni9hed him. A "patent," upon hich much depended in the suit, was inverted into a "potentate;"a "solid ame" was turned into an " iuolated ,rmthe " furnaces of this country " ere sec down as "Fenians of this >untry;" "clerks and bar-tenders," ere made into " clocks and barom?rs," and the question, " Were vou in le habit of visiting the house f" was ritten, "Were you in the habit of stening the ho3eP" An attorney asked female witness how she came to be nployed by the plaintiff, aLd she lswered: " I saw a sign in the window, i'emale clerks wanted here."' The hindering reporter rendered it: "Family >lor warranted here.'1 A minister, reaching a sermon on the death of a jntleman named Samuel, quoted: And buds and blossoms in the dust. 1 '.e was delighted to read in the next sue of the paper: "And buds and lows Sam in the dust." An orator reirred to the different religious sects or ^nominations " going for one another " iroughout the country, and said: "Here e have one sect persecuting another," ad was so reported, but the transcriber sndered it:"H<sre we have one sick ereon feeding another," and so it ppeared in the mrrring papers. A hysician under examination as to his ttendance upon a sick lady said " he ever examined her antecedents" and ras so reported by a stenographer. The anscriner, However, nuae it reaa, -ne ever examined her inteitines." Another tedical witness, speaking of the illness f a lady patient, said " she appeared to e somewhat unstrung and nervous.'1 he transcriber made him say, "Sue ppeared to be somewhat knee sprung ad nervous." Flogging an Indian. A London (Canada) paper has an acDUit of the flogging received by an adinn JofFender. The stoicism with rhieh the Indian took|hia severe punishlent was something wonderful. The ccount says: Doxtater was [brought out. He is a luscular, heavy-set Indian, and had a mgh on his face. Hi;) back was bared, is wrists were strapped to the uppei arts of the arm of the triangle and hie nees and ankles to the lower part, tirowing his back out.. The only sieu f nervousness manifested was a quicli jok at the cat-o'-nine tails which waf ? *-K/? Kam/1 a ofAnf rtvr\orf xxrY\r\ VioH i iuc uauu uk a$ auvuu va|/wi u) huv uwu een a drummer in the Twenty-third tritish regulars. The cat had a short andle and nine thongs of hard, heavj ord a yard lonir, with nine knots ir ach. At the command of the sherifl be cat was flourished ;iround the whiper's head with a quick jerk, whistled trough the air, and fell with a sharp bud over the left shoulder-blade, makag large blue marks. At the third the Sesh was cut open, but the prisoner's luscles never quivered, though of sixt5 pectators fully half of them sickened nfl turned away. Twenty-five lashes, iven with all the power of a strong nan in one place, caused the flesh tc reep up in purple wolts, which wen ut transversely into small squares, out i which the blood trickled. But few >f the crowd could look at it throughout ?he Indian never flinched, and after the ost blow, which was given with extrs rigor, the sheriff cried " Enough," and )oxtater laughed and said: " Bully for Injun." When he was released, the reportei sked him how he felt. He answered 'Feel him back very much." The In' lian asked the whipper for a 'chew ?accer," and grabbed a pipe out of th< urnkey's mouth and went to smoke, bui t was taken from him. The wounds vere washed with salt and water to pre rent inflammation, and that mad< bsiah wince worse than the flogging. FUR THE FAIR SEX. , [Kft?h??n Fancies. e Scotch fashions are revived, e Bonnet strings are a yard Icing. Striped cheviots are very popular. I Sealskin remains the fashionable fur. i Light cloths and serges are much t worn. 1 Chrysanthemums are among fashion1 able flowers. Pilm-Im an if (i drmpur ftmnnc lata im ? portations. [ Mousquetaire gloves grow in fashion, able favor. : Beaded stockinet for Jeraeys is a late 1 importation. r Speckled woolen stuffs are among i novelty dres3 goods. ; Blue-black and drab-green Scotch | plaids are again in vogue. , Baby elephant jewelry is takiDg the f place of little pig ornamentg. I Violet satin mcrveilleuse plays an ua> portant part in dress effects. , Seal cloaks and. seal dolmans will te 1 ** n wrtll no rnnl oqa!ro WULU OrD WC11 iVO aCCVI OUVA0I Some of the polonaises for ycung xrii-Js | are buttoned down the back: Old blue and white ware continue to take high rank in artistic china. Combinations of plush and sa'in are ; as popular for bonnets as for costumes, i Snail bronze, aut umn sky, b urnt bread and lobster red, are the very latest in colors. 1 Quantities of bead and gold-threud embroidered laces appear among li-te importations. The entire long tablier of dresses are . frequently formed of bead-embroidered velvet cut work. White materials of every description including white plush, will be used for entire costumes. Many dressy hats for young eirls are trimmed only with a cord and tassels and fluffy silk pompon. Independent velvet bodices, made Jersey fashion, are worn over-dresses of oilier muteriai huu cuiur. Broad linen collars and turn-over cuffs, similar to those worn by children, are fashionable for young ladieti. Round waists, which were started in America, have been taken up and Frenchified by Parisian modistes. Purely ianciful plaids are fashionable for ladies' costumes. The historic tartans are more in use for children's suits. Coachmen's; capes of silver-pointed beaver, with muff and deep cuffs to match, will be much in vojjue the ?Dming season. Muffs match the bonnet, and are trimmed with ecru lace, wide ribbon bows, and ornaments of gold, silver, steel and jet. Wool and silk mixed goods in silk squares and streaks of an undefinable cruq-lilrp him nr ft nnft wool sober color axe much worn. Handsome Turkish sashes of Sarah siik, with gathered ends finished with long heavy silk tassels, are sold in every shade of color. Plaid velvet in rich doll tints is used in handsome walking suits for young ladies, combined with Surah silk or duchess satin. Matrons wear their yard-long, soft, wide bonnet strings tied under the chin: youne ladies wear them in a long looped bow low on the back hair. Armure and serge dresses in tinyplaids are fashionable in very dark or neutral tints, which are generally brightened by touches, .of scarlet or gold. Light-co.ored, rough-surfaced cloths are preferred lor jackets, but warmth of effect is given by having the collare, c;uffd, and pockets of fur or of seal-brown plush. Instead of the old-time silk loops, a rins covered with silk in buttonhole stitch is now used in place? on the dress to be fastened without showing the means. Sea*lion and dahlia shades of purple and maroon tinged with crimson appear in the latest importations of si tins de Lyons, damasses, and silk and wool mixtures. Some of Worth's handsomest costumes are trimmed with two bands of fur around the skirt, with only a narrow plaited balayeuse flounce below the bottom bar d of fur. Dressy aprons of satin and motre antique, trimroedlwith one pocket of lace or fringed passementerie and a trimming to match at; the bottom, will be worn witli dressy nome touets. Among new hat trimmings are heavy cords of softly-twisted chenille, with tulip-like ends, and chenille scarfs drawn to a point and terminating in heavy tassels at each end. Sharp contrasts are avoided in the different materials used in composing a handsome costume, but the shaded effects are produced by the difference in sheen of velvet or plush and satin or silk. Worth makes a sash bow of a whole width of soft Surah (three-fourths of a yard wide) tied in two loops and two short ends finished with fringe, and places it on the left side just on the waist line. Fichus ol fine white net are as popular as those of mull were during the summer. They have an applique trimming of moss-work in branching pat" terns for borders, or else they are i trimmed with the Alencon laces, i The introduction of lace ruffs with morning; costumes for the street is a i blessing to most girls who found that colors seen by candle light did not seem the same by day, when the color was softened bj rows and rows of white lace at night and exposed to the daylight in ?rying contrast with plain linen. Children'* Clothe*. The wide sailor collars for children are made of cluny, crochet and Irish point laces, torchon lace being voted too common and Breton lace too fragile. t Wide cuffs. of the same lace are worn t with these collars, some of which have oftomoH t'lo Himonairmq nf n amnll ' shoulder cape. i Evening dresse9 for little girls are . composed of Valenciennes lace and ini sertion in combination with India mus: lin. They comprise a iaunty jacket, the i skirt finished with a wide flounce, and I a broad scarf drapery, all in the same 1 materials. These dainty dresses are to ; be worn not over colored silk or satin r underdressi5s as hetofore, but over i flounced uaderdresses of tine muslinf They are as pretty andjfairy-like as they are perishable1 Such attention is now paid to making ? child'en's clothes pretty and tasteful that ityles change, and novelties appear ! in almost a3 quick succession as fashions i for grown folks. Every article of dress ' tor the complete outfit of a boy or girl 1 can now be purchased ready-made at > stores where, in rcany places, none but children's garments are sold. Stylish > little suits are exhibited, comi posed of :lne cloth or of silk and j caslimere, in all the fashionable plain ' shades of prune, wine, bronze, gray, etc., . and grace fi\lly trimmed with rich, bro s caded, striped or floriated materials i a i contrasting colors. There are also ver7 1 useful and pretty kilt suits of navy blue, seal-brown and wine colored Middlesex flannel for little ctiildren. There is also an extensive display of cloaks and j : sacks tor girls trom two to sixteen years ol age. The styles are so varied r in this line that the individual taste of each purchaser may be suited. Cunning l; little coats in jacket shape are shown, i and others with kilted backs and gnyly lined hoods resfftble a complete street J oostume. i Plaids ol every color and class, and plaids of no class whatever, will form favorite materials for children's dresses the coming senson. Many historical and fanciful suits are already exhibited, and the MacGregor, MacDonald, Murry, Malcolm, Royal Stewarts, Campbell and Farquharson costumes are already vieing with each other in popularity. These suits are made in divers ways. The green and blue plaids have scarlet pipings. The overkirls are cut into squares and laced witQ scarlet (surtoat fashion). The olive and blue plaids bave the fronts trimmed with fancy buttons and gay ribbons, with sash to match. Red and gold and blue and gold plaids for school dresses are in three pieces, with kilted skirt and blouse waist. The overdress is cut into long _ j D/i aqimres anu uuuliu wiiu maiu. uuneath the squares in front are loops and ends ol ribbon. Armures, woven in diamonds or crinkled reps, soft, flexible, are substantial goods lor winter dresses. Venice cloth is a variation ol these goods, and is commended for young girls and misses' dresses for school and home. The plum and green shades are particularly attractive. Velveteen is grea;ly in favor for little children's costumes. There is a ne w quality imported with lisle thread back, difficult to distinguish from real silk velvet, as it has a rich lustrous pile, and is said to stand any amount of wear .?New York Post. A Homely Woman'* Charm. Girls who think that it is necessary to be beautiful in order to be attractive, should get bravely over that notion. ' A voune woman's plainness?which, bv the way, saves her from a great many annoyances and dangers-need detract nothing from her loveliness if only her disposition is amiable, hfer mind cultured and her heart kind and pure. The story is told of a famous lady who once reigned in Paris society, that she was so very homely that her mother said one day: " My poor child, you are too ugly for any one to ever fall in love with yon." j?rom this time Madame de Circourt began to be very kind to the pauper children of the village, the servants of the household, even the birds that Lopped about the garden walks. She was always distressed if she happenad to be unable to render a service. Ttiis good-will toward everybody made her the idol of the city. Though hpr fwnnlf>Tinn wm sallow, her CTiiV eyes small and sunken, yet she held in devotion to her the greatest men ol her time. Her unselfish interest in others made her, it is said, perfectly irresistible. Her life furnishes a valuable lesson. Woman u an InTentor. This subject has been recently discussed in an American paper, and it is mentioned, interalia, that women obtain from the United States government an average of about sixty patents yearly; seventy is the number for the year ending July, 1980. As might be expected, mo3t of them relate to lightening women's work. Among them are a jar-lifter, a bag-holder, a pillow-sham bolder, a dress protector, two dustpans, a washing machine, a fluting iron, a dress chart, a fish boner, a sleeve ad* juster, a lap table, a sewing machine treadle, a wash basin, an iron beater, sadirons, a garment stiffener. a folding chair, a wardrobe bed, a window cleaner. a nankin, a filotheaoin. a weather strip, a church, an invalid's bed, a strainer, amilkcooler, a sofa-bed, a dipper, a paper dish and a plaiting device. In a recent patent-law suit, a woman (Helen M.McDonald) conducted her own case and won it, establishing her right to her skirt protector, planting an injunction on a bold infringement, and utterly routing one of the most distinguished of ..the patent-law barristers. The Wife of the Suez Canal "Projector 4 The Comtesse de Lesseps, who has a stepson twice her age, married ner husband when he was more than three times her age. She was a guest at the cbatteau of which she is now the chatelaine at the time of the completion of the Suez canal, when the sovereigns of the world were vying with each other to do honor to its projector and when her ; ?4;? ?? frViB HiriJtm liuagiiiabiuu onw iu iuc wuuu hero of the century. One day she begged him to wear her rose. He asked if she did not mean it for his son. She had some difficulty in persuading him that his enterprise and genius had charmed a girl used only to the sleepy men of the Isle of France. But the marriage made a part of the Suez fetes, Ismail Pasha loading them with gifts. Goethe and Schiller. Goethe had dark brown hair and eyes, the latter large and almost preternaturally luminous. His complexion also was more olive than fair, the nose nearly Roman, but with a Greek breadth at the base, and sensitive dilating nostrils; the mouth and chin, on the sculptor's line, ample, but so entirely beautiful that they seemed smaller than their actual proportions. His face was always more or --- J 1*** mmma! ?v f Vi A VvW.in/4 /\f jess LHnueu , lie Ituciy JUSU tuc un>uu ui the sun. In his later years it became ruddy and a slight increase of fullness effaced many of the -wrinkles of age. Stieler's portrait?now In the Goethe mansionpainted when the poet was eighty, ex presses an astonishing vital power. Preller once suid to me: 44 There nevrr was such lifo in so old a man! It a cannon ball had suddenly grazed my head I could not have been more startled than when 1 heard of his death. I felt sure that he would live to be 150 years old!" If Goethe illustrates as scarcely any other poet (yet we imagine both Homer and Shakespeare to have possessed the same) the perfect accord of intellectual and physical forces, Schiller is equally remarkable as an example of a mind triumphing over incessant bodily weaknesses and torments. During fourteen years he never knew a day of complete unshaken health. He was fair and freckled, with so delicate a skin that the slightest excitement of his blood blushed through it. His thin, aggravated, aquiline nose was so conHnimous that he .often laughingly re ferred to it as the triumphant result of constant pinching and pulling during his school days. His chin was almost equally prominent, giving him what his sister Cliristophine called "a defiant and spiteful under lip." His shock of hair, not parting into half curls like Goethe's, but straignt and long, was of a yellowbrown hue, " shimmering into red," as Caroline von Wolzogan poetically says. The picture of him touches our sympathies, as his bust or statue always does ?perhaps because he represents suffering and struggle so palpably. Beside him Goethe seems to stand crowned by effortless achievement. But what a pair they are! Rietchel's great success in his statues lies in his subtle expresion ol their noble friendship?Goethe's hand on Schiller's shoulder, and the laurel ! wreath which the hands of both touch, in such wise that you cannot be sure which gives or which takes, symbolize a reality far too rare in the annals ol j literature. i An Incident. Human nature is a curious study. The other night at the Union depot one I of the depot hands, while sweeping out, thought he saw a twenty-five-cent bit under one of tlr benches. He went down on his knees immediately and covered the piece with his hand. While he was in this position a well-dressed lady tapped him on the shoulder and said: "ljust dropped that.'' " W hat is it, madam P" was the gentlemanly interrogatory. " I think it is a quarter." He placed it, without further parleying, in her hand, and she, tightly hold inj; it, went away. What was her dismay to discover that it was a peppermint Flowers at tbe White House. Until a comparatively recent time, says the Washington correspondent of the New York Post, little attention was t been paid by the families occupying the 8 White House to the culture of flowers- { Prior to Pierce's administration a small | conservatory stood between the home of the President and the treasury building, adjoining the quarters of those persons , who made up his domestic establish ment. President Pierce began the } present series of buildings to the west of ! the White House by removing the old j conservatory to its new position and 1 adding to its accommodations. These c are now eight in number, and, with ) their outlaying gardens, occupy about { an acre and a half of ground. Three of 1 tbe eight have been erected during th present administration. The first conservatory is chiefly composed of mate- i rials brought hither, as has been said, ? by direction of President Pierce. It is i used for propagating purposes. No. < 2, adjourned it on the west, is devoted I more to " forcing " plants and to the cul- i tivation of tropical exotics requiring a ] high temperature. In this house are i many varieties of the delicate maidenhair fern and a few choice orchids. Conservatory No. 3 is still warmer. Here are grown several sensitive tropical plants, to whose health an abiding "hot wave" is necessary. Here also are placed a fine collection of thirtyeight varieties of Croton plants, one of the finest in the country. Building No. 4 is used for propagating geraniums, begonias and other common but attractive and serviceable plants. Some very beautiful climbing ferns are trained on the ( walis and ceiling, and in a " lean-to" botbed outside violets are cultivated. Entering the main building the visitor e finds himself in a large anartment where fi camellias are grown in great abundance. ^ A thicket of these shrubs occupies the j center of the building, while on either J side of the aisles, toward the sloping . roof and walls, are many choice flowers j in pots. Here is the wax plant with its { morning drop of honey, the curious artillery plant whose t ny blossoms explode s witn a wee pun wnen toucnea r by water, a splendid collection of J begonias comprehending some rare and ? lovely varieties, a collection of thirtysix varieties of cineraria hybredia, the best perhaps in the country, and another collection equally fine of calceolaria hybredia, comprising fifty varieties. { Adjacent to this conservatory is the I1 grapery, where choice grapes are culti- * vated, principally Black Hamburg, * Musca'. and Lady Downs seedling. ? Here also are some aquatic plants, a fine j* collection of the bletia or nun flo* er, a ' cho-'ce terrestrial orchid and a large 0 coll ection ol calladiums. No. 7, the rose J1 honse, is mainly devoted, as the name denotes, to the cultivation of this queen * of flowers. Less regard is paid, how- ? ever, to rare and expensive varieties ? than to those which are prolific in buds and produce flowers held in popular esteem. But ten or twelve varieties, p therefore, are grown under cover,though c in the gardens outside there are perhaps fi a hundred of the common hardy de- J scriptions. In addition to the roses, o hflKoiaolon o lovnra Vior? flmiloT fl Utl&lO U1DV M AMlgV WVM V* MHX w upon the posts, walls and ceiling a nam- ii bei of rare creeping vines, conspicuous fi among them the superb Allamanda o Hendersoni, with its rich yellow bios- a soms, some of which attain a diameter a of four inches. Here again is the beauti- f ful trumpet flower adanocalyma comosa, v and another the quisquallis villosa, a whose blossom changes as it matures fi from a pure white to a deep maroon. There remains to be noticed the general show conservatory, opened of i late to the public on reception days. The a conservatory is 164 feet long by thirty- t two wide, or, in the wings, forty-eight 1 and sixty-lour feet, and is divided into e three parts. The house wing is to be I devoted to palms, the west wing to s tropica! plants, and the central part to r azaleas and miscellaneous plants. The t direction-is vested in a head-gardener, y who is assisted by tweive under- e gardeners. r From the stock of flo wers on hati d the a gardeners daily cull and form into 1 bouquets a supply for the dinner table > of tn? President's family and for the j decoration of the reception parlors. Applications from fair committees officers of government and personal t friends flow in in a stream, and are com- ? Dliedwithso far as id possible. Mrs. < Hayes is not only extremely fond of flowers herself, but is disposed to gratify the same love in others, and does what she can to satisfy the calls upon her consideration in this regard; and so at public festivals and festive social gatherings, in the sick room and the husned chamber of death, may often be found these rare and lovely flowers of the nation. Concerning Applause. The New York correspondent of the Rochester Democrat writes: Now that the theaters are open for the season, twenty-one in number, including concerts, the question of applause is one o much importance. It is well known that not only the players depend on their friends to start these flattering expressions. but the managers also employ leaders to strike in at the sensational occasions. It may be added that applause as a part of public performances is as old as history itself. The Isthmian games were accompanied by loud vociferations, which were heard as far us the sea. From Greece the custom reached Rome, and Seneca speaks of clappi?ig the hands and waving robes. The Romans had three kinds of applause. One was the bombus, which resembled the loud buzzing of bees, and was made by the mouth and hands. The next was the imbrices, caused by beating on the sounding vessels placed in the theaters for that purpose, and the testa, which was mereiy an increase on the last mentioned. From t :e theater the custom passed naturally to the church, and though this was censured by Augustine, it was still common to greet a " tine passage in a sermon by a demonstra- J tion. Some pious people carry out this very idea when they utter tlieir fervent " amen " as the preacher pours out his s eloquent and moving utterances. Some 1 oi the clergy are gratified at such things, 1 as it shows that the congregation is lis- 1 tening, but the custom is generally on } the decline. " 1 Bread-Making in the Holy Land. On our return an instructive sight awaited us. We saw how bread was baked in an adjoining building, it was done with a rapidity which explains how of old the supply was prepared every day, and how if some guest arrived the housewife could make the necessary provision without delay. (Genesis, xviii. 6.) Among the Fellaheen the dough is not generally leavened. A round hole in the ground, some one and a halt feet deep, and tile same in diameter, iorms the oven. Ia this lie some live coals, which, as in Hosea's time (Hosea vii. 6), are not allowed to go out at night, and, when baking has to be done, are again revived. The housewife rirsfc forms a lump of dough with her hand, then suddenly spreads it out with an indescribably rapid action o both hands?which can as little be imitated as a conjurer's movement?into a cake about as thin as a leaf, which with i a moistened dab or rag she presses 1 into the hot oven, where it remains j sticking. In a minute it begins to move, c and is at occe taken out to make room i for the following one. The bread is ( now ready, not thicker tli&n parchment, t not very relishing, and somewhat \ sandy on the out side, but really very s enjoyable tor any one who has a good s appetite. Although of the size of a t large plate, such a slice contains but lit- f tie nourishment, and Jeremiah could 1 hardly have been saved from starvation wben only one such piece of bread was given him every day.?lhrough the Eo}y I TIMELY TOPICS. FA Denis Kearney, the agitator, has reamed to his dray, in San Francisco. He isys that he is cat of pocket through ar jolitics, and is glad to go to work again ^ n his old line. co ??? tri The suppression of the famous gamb- an ing hell at Monte Carlo, in Monaco, is Tl urged upon the French government by ne amilies which have been nearly ruined co n consequence of the losses incurred by w letting fathers and sons. The sovereign w )f Monaco, however, turns a deaf ear tb lpon all remonstrances, as his revenue w argely depends on the earnings of the H lells. se cc The comet discovered by Professor Swift in the constellation Pegasus is not w i bright object, but its apparent size indicates that it is quite near the earth, >r else enormously large. Its slow mo- w tion also indicatfs that it is either ap- a proaching the earth or receding in almost a direct line. If it is approaching, p" it may become an object oi great interest. "J pi The house of refuge on the tool of ^ Mount St. Gothard, founded in the four- J: ;eenth century, will be permanently r? jlosed two years hence. The opening of ho t.nnnfl] will render it useless, as not nrv iven beggars will then cross the moon- * ;ain on loot. At present the Ho?pice iffords shelter, food, and a ted to 90,000 " jeople yearly, and is supported by mvate and public charity ^ The ride j. hrough the tunnel will cost only twenty m *?* . ? Mr. Gnus W. Field, of Atlantic cable ~ ind New York elevated railroad fame, 0_ ays that his journey around the world u, vith his wife and son and dnughter-in- u, aw has no business significance. "I Dfl lave wanted rest and quiet," he declares, ' and the only way to secure that was co o go away. Mine has been such a bysy ite that the time comes when I must ou lave rest. To secure this I have t$- ur igned the control of many of the com- 8t, >anies in which 1 was interested, and 8h iow I only desire to get completely a way mj rom business." ^ w, Harper's Magazine contains an inter- pr sting article entitled " Securing a Ck>m- pr ?etence," in which the writer states w) bat the annual accumulation of wealth mi n Germany Is $200,000,000; in Great pe iritain, $325,000,000; in France, $375,- oe 00,000; in tde United States, $825,000,- to CO! Sinco 1850 the annual accumuk- or ion in the United States has been $825,- wi 00,000, and, therefore, each decade adds in aore to the wealth of the country thAn i hit u- -?:> -.i nolno nf tt-jilw nr Snain I 1 UC Uipiuai V Uiuw w* ? J wm,r ivory day that the son rises upon the sa] Lmerican people, it sees an addition ol soi 12,300,000 to the wealth of the republic, au -?? eff In reply to a complaint from the resident of the New York produce ex- w hange, relative to the improper ciaasi- HI cation of oleomargarine as butter, Mr. J" oseph Nimmo, Jr., chief of the bureau U1J f statistics, has written at length. He J?1 ays that from returns for the year end- du ag June 1, he finds there were exported au :om the United States 19,833,330 pounds soj if oleomargarine,^valued at $2,581,371 sa nd 31,061,610 pounds of butter, valued t $5,179,071. He also Bays that the no ault lies with the shippers of the article, rhofraudulently describe oleomargarin e ?' a butter, and not with the customs of- {J? icials. 111 r mi A section of the German press is at P1' ast beginning to admit that the annex.tion of Alsace and Lorraine was t de ilunder, and that it is another German 10 Tenetia. The immense sums sunk in xtending the fortifications of Stras- b,J >ourg and constructing new ones made se< i> great gap in the war indemnity, and ?r low that it is exhausted, their mainten- ta< ince and that of the army of occupation {* vefch heavily on the already overburdv 111 :ned finances of the empire. The an- 00 livcrsary ot the surrender of Strasbourg a vas the occasion of numerous articles at' avorable to restoring the territories '?' vrested from France in exchange lor. a ?F jecuniary equivalent. ' 08 ? The completeness of the records of at ;he United Slates governmert was iho wn by a singular case which recently ft :ame before a pension agent in Ulster ? jounty, N. Y. The claim was from an ap ild man who had served in the war of Wl [812, and a reply from the authorities ^ it Washington inclosed a rejection of J?1 ;he demand, on the ground that the man tD lad deserted from tbe army during the var in which he served, was ;arrested, :ried and sentenced to be shot, but made lis escape again before the sentence was jarried out. When the old man came >r the pension he expected to get, he vas much surprised to learn that the , covernment so exactly remembered the SiJ )ccurrences of over seventy years ago. ^ The American Machines', declares that M ' no industry has had more wonderful jrowth in this country than the manuacture of silk. There is now invested in his industry about $18,000,000, Hie total innual product is $27,000,000, and there ire 18,000 operatives, receiving an- J mally $6,000,000 in wages. The chief ve eat of the industry is Pateraon, N. J., trc srhich Jis now deservedly known as sli' ' the Lyons of America." The first silk thi ?~ 10/tn. ??rr, th; Dill was eaiauiiBLicu wuc iu i , ?? ? here are.tbirty-two, with live dyeing ea: stabliBhments, 74,000 throwing spindles 9*V ind 23,000 braiding spindles, 73i) power 3" ooms, and 663 hand looms, and employ- or ng enough people to make a good-sized ;ity- S Doctor Beard, of New York, thinks hat insanity is best defined as a disease >f degrees?there being no plain or ablolute dividing line between sanity and 00 nsanity. The latter he divided into vo kinds, namely, intellectual insanity, mbrtcing forms in which there are de- In usious, and emotional insanity, in 01 vhioh there are no delusions. Insanity, le t nintcs, is a barometer of civilization, of md tu ue advance his her in the arts and ^ ciences. so will insanity became more . >revalent; intense application, brain m vork and indoor life are the agencies vhich most frequently bring it about; bf vith savages or barbarians there is lit bu ,le or none of it. of 30 Since the death of Doctor Trask's one- ac nan anti-tobacco society, sayB the la- ^ lenendenIL we have not noticed a better ro jne-mau society than that of which the ^ iev. W. D. A. ilathew, Onarga, I1L, 8e s president, secretary and treasurer. tv 3e makes it his business to collect tv iewspapers, periodical0,etc.,for prisons, ind now supplies twenty-three Sta'e, ;ity and military prisons. Within the h< orty months ending June last this brother, with a single arm, has unaided received, assorted and shipped 6,000,000 is Dages of choice reading to the prisons in ai twelve States. This has all been done 01 it an expense of less than three dollars, h< is all the important railroad lines where ta jis wort is known pass free to him and gl from him all matter for the prisons, for ci ivhich an order of shipment is procured dj n advance. ai fr Onions and Malaria. tb A young man in this place was quite R* ecently taken down with malarial ^ ever, so pronounced by the family Ij? jhysician, his pulse marking one hun- t ii-ed. In the evening the family deternined to test tlie onion cure. Several [v >nions were accordingly bruised air' ipplied to the soles of Lis feet and his ?: wrists; the consequence was thorough " iweating during the night and an ab- jj icnce of the fever in the morning, the p :ure being complete. We can vouch or the correctness of this statement.? Waynesboro1 (F?.) Record. th ? ou The famous copper mine of Fahlun, in nn Sweden, has been worked for a thousand hii rears. pa IBM, GABDEN AHU HOUSEHOLD, (Testing Dairy Cows* 14 Many of the acknowledged' highest .-vm* Lthorities upon dairy subjects claim jjfi at not less than forty per cent, of the 4flflE ws in use throughout the dairy die- JvR ictsot the United states as milkers id butter-makers arc unprofitable. - .. ae moet skeptical upon this rahject iver put the percentage of unprofitable ws below twenty-fire. If the truth , ere known, we fear even fifty per cent. '-iZA ould not mark the high percentaae at the worthless beasts in most herds ould reach. . But the great question fa, ow are we to get at the'^&ctsP Nature ems to have neglected to brand be iws in such a way that ordinary morls can tell the good ones from the bad, hile the latter class seem to possess fculiar faculties for imposing them-. Ives upon good-natured dairymen. rhen the merchant has been fooled for % reasonable length of time by the sale 'some particular ware into the notion at he is making money with it, when, fact, he 3s losing money, if his stuk ' cions are arousea, be begins to keep . {account of first cost, cost of carrying, ' %. irinkage, and list of sales, ard he '& * piws it down until he knows to * j oral certainty whether or not he is ^ ally making or losing money with It. > be fact is, no man can make money Vith a store unless he does this. Wo id this same practice in vogue where '/< --' er men buy and sell. Upon what ground, then, is it that the >' uryman is exempt from the require*. ents of the usages of all trades? Can > ) alone afford to do an unprofitable , ? r* isiness? Is bis trade so immensely '* munerative that he can afford to make ^ le-balf of the herd carry the other ilf and yield all the profit tooF^os i such an easy thing of it that he need *7 nn oHfltiHnn fA fno WVa and nreatr. f points in bis business; or does it beme him to use as much judgment and rcumspection as bis neighbors t ;Ja r opinion, he should leave no stone iturned to find out exactly where ha** inds with each cow in tbe herd. He ?, - ouJd measure her feed and weigh;B?t ilk, day by day, until the troth Was" . ^ own to an absolute certainty yot only. J ; ? bich cows were and which were not V - ofitable, but which were the most ofitable, that he might knq* frofat aich to raise the calves flfc will . " .: ike up the ftiture herd. The daj3of digree aloneand fancy colors are num. red. Yield, performance and.ability reproduce the qualities are now the der ot the day; and the dairyman v 10 neglects these points and keeps on > the old way will surely be left bead. We witnessed only the other day the "* le of Jerseys in New York, where . . me prices reached* $1,500 at t>uvli3 ' ction, and sold upon the extraordinary V orts of a fine writer to telUhe world < S lat he knew about the milk and butter >ld of the animals he offered for sale. *. >on his unsupported word of fabulous slds these cows were driven up to these precedented ficrures. This may be ten as a mere straw to show in what rection the current is set tin p. An ' ctioneer tells the world that he baa. me extraordinary butter-makers for . * [e, and behold the rich breeders hasten lay their ducats at his feel. He docs t even ask the owners of the animals indorse his demands upon the blankets veracity. Every one is only too anxas to believe what he says and takes m at his word. If breeders of fancy ilch cattle will only profit by this exame, they will proceed at once to test theft ws not only with the ex parte evi- ' nee of an auctioneer who is interested the extent ot a large commisp;5n on \ les to ?et up these fabulous yields; it let them call in their neighbors to . . a l lie performance, or make affidavits furnish some other evidence of tt<e its. There is altogether loo much oiish and ruinous jealousy between fi advocates of methods of testing - - - ws. Let any test, so it be a test, have trial before it is hooted down, and . ter it has been given a fair trial and and wanting will be sufficient time to ipose it. One of the Dutch or Rolstein .ttle associations has adopted a very od test for that breed. It unfortunely is too circumscribed for all breeds, d cannot, therefore, become universal 1 its application. The National Dairy * . ; ittleclub suggested a method of test plicable to all breeds that is certainly ell worth trying, until its evil, ai well lt? good results, can be fully deterined. If any one can find a better plan . . an the oath test, let him speak out, d by all means let the dair>mentry it. is evident that something must be ne, or, like the goose that laid the nrrrra AABTQ will OAAn Vul nnf Tin.. iUtU va/tto ?ia t;vuu w p*?w mm r the hammer guaranteed to open eir udders twice a day, and produce mberless pounds ot golden bu ter, eady printed and ptamped for use. e hope the national association will go with its good work, at least until a tter method is discovered; and it cernlyistothe interest of all breeders '* d dairymen to join hands in produo; some test that will' challenge public ' . ' nfidence.?American Dairyman. Bceloer Fbied Pumpkin.?This well-known getable yields good results when >ated in new ways; to fry it, peel and ce a young pumpkin in pieces two or ree inches square and naif un inch Eck; let it stand for an hojir in a deep rthen dish with a light sprinkling ot It between each layer; then wipe the ces, pepper them, roll them in flour, in a oatter made with flour, milk, one g and a little salt, and fry them brown smoking-hot fat enough to cover em; lay them for a moment on brown per to tree them fronl fat, and serve em hot. Apple Jelly.?Slice the apples.skins, res and all; put tjem in a stone jar ith a small quantity of water to keep em from sticking; then place the jar water snd let them remain boiling itil perfectly soft; then strain and to le pint ot the liquoradd three-quarters ' , around of loat sugar; boil and clear ith the whites of two or three eggs aten to a froth. W hen it jellies pour to the glasses to cool arid seal them. Featheb Cake.?Beat to a cream oneilf a cap of batter, add to it two. of igar and beat together; one cap milk with one.Haspoon of soda disced ih it; beat well {together; then Id one cap of sifted flour with two aspoonfuls of cream tartar previously * tbbed into it; add next the well;aten yoik of three eggs, beat the whites parateiy until stiff, add them and then 70 more cups of flour; beat wellbevee n each successive addition; butter ro middle-sized tins, put in the cake id bake for twenty minutes or half an jur in a moderate oven. About Drying Fruit. The correct principle in drying fruit to subject the fruit to a current of hot r so as to dry the cut surface at ice, which prevents discoloration and jrmetictJly seals the cells which conin acid and starch, and which yie.d ucose or fruit sugar. This is the prinple upon which the American truit 7er operates. A current of dry, hot r is made to pass over and under the uit, carrying all the moisture out of ie machine without interfering with or issing through the trays above?the rongest heat being concentrated on .ch tray when it first enters the dryer, lie fruit does not cook. ?3 in drving in >t air chambers, but toe moisture is 'aporated and removed rapidly, and e fruit has a bright, pleasing color, a' ing it sell rapidly at highest prices, operates just as well on all vegetable oducts as upon fruit, turning out a oduet of the very best quality. Narrow-minded men, who have not a outfit beyond the sphere of their own tlook, remind one of the Hindoo , ixiru: "The snail sees nothing but v a own shell, and thinks it the grandett lace in the universe.* .