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- > .T'/-^-. *. & ' ;.&?. - :. * ,y. . '" 7:^:;-v'1..^;;. &%< . : .y '. ..' . '' j^ggSaHB \ * . ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER J ? "v.,. ? : . ? r V V; ' -*3 BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1880. NO. 28. VOLUME XXV.-%^ . w Good-lire, Old Year. Oh, good companion, stand hand last awhile; We've walked together many a pleasant milo, And I would catch thy last, Jaint, parting smile, And say) " Good-bye, old year." Here at the glowing hearth let me retrace The snlendid tokens iif thv flpptino Thy ever open hand and smiling face, And say, "Good-bye, old year." The January bells and gifts?the snow, The flying sleighs, the skaters all aglow, The glancing eyes, the whispers soft and low? Ah, well! good-bye, old year. The Febrnary joys, the splendid play, The witching opera, and the ballro- m guy; The shopping, and the flirting?welladay! Good-bye, good-bye, < \.l year. The pleasant skies that camo with March again. The park's gay drive, the gallop in the lane, The planning and the dreaming! I would lain Live over them, oil year. But, oh, the April hours! when happy trees Grew green with gladness in the warm south hrwzp. And all the birds came singing o'er the seas, Singing lor joy, old year. The glory of the May, the warm, white showers. The orchard blooms, the goldeu-tinted flowers The building nssts in all the woodland bowers? What memories, old year! And the a the roses in the month ol June, The balmy ireshness ot the busy noon, The silver splendor ol' the young spring moon? All these were thine, old year. As were the July skies, the scented hay, The dreamy languors ot the summer day, The drilting boat upon the calm blue bay; Can I lorget, old year ? Or hope to hear again a song so sweet Afl xehf*r\. nnp nic*it_ with fllnw onnaftntim* 7 ~ ?~ B? m'J feet, I walked with love amoug the August wheat; Oh, love's sweet song, old year. Ita echoes haunt the shady, scented place Where brown September met us face to face And crowned us with the vineyard's purple grace; Oh, grapes! ob, lovo! old year! Oh, wine, and corn, and fruit, and little Bihs!g Oh, misty splendor ol October skiee! Oh, Indian summer caught in lover's eyes! Oh, sweet still days, old year! Oh, blazing hearth! oh, home! oh, comlort rare Of dear November with its pleasant care, Of grateful Thanksgiving and dainty fare, And heart ol love, old year. Thus did we dwell together, thou good year, 'Till hale December brought the Christmas cheer. ' Now shall wo part ? Old Iriend, there is no . fear; , Thou shalt thy strength renew. , Yet ere this charmlul circle pass away, ! Turn the lamiliar lace?one moment stay \ While love and gratitude find space to say, Good-bye, old year, good-bye. 1 I TN THE CLIFF CAYE, ' "This is my friend Mr. Vaughn, Miss , Belmont," said Clarence Richmond, as J the werry ran her prow between the < rocks, into anchorage, almost at Miss ( Belmont's feet, where she sat sketching. ( She had known that Vauehn was expected, hut slie had not dreamed of be- f ing thus taken unawares, and she gave . the least little.start, dropping her eyes ^ till they met his, waiting below. "Good alternoon, Mr. Vaughn," she { said, almost, you might have thought, ? as if they had only parted in the morning. " Have the skies fallen, that we . catch larks?" " No. but the tide has," he returned, his gaze still commanding hers. "We ha<i intended to keep on down the river, 1 and join General Fogg's yachting party; s but with this dead wind against us, they * would be out on tue Atlantic oerore we could overtake them." Mr. Vaughn bad the air of cllering an apology for intrud- 3 ing a* he spoke. "Oh, I thought that had been gi ren up," said Pauline. " Yes," replied Clarence, " we gave it up Inst night; but as we came down the river Vaughn was suddenly attacked with a loDging for 'a wet sheet and a flow in <r sail.'" " And now ycu have a *wet blanket instead ?"' "This maritime interest only struck him,I'm free to confess,after I had given him the names of our guests, and he found tha-, the great heiress wasn't among them." " Oil, indeed! Not complimentary to jiie rest of us, Mr. Vaughn." " 5fou have heard of seamen's yarns. Clarence is a veritable jacky tar in that respect. What is an heiress to me, or I to an heiress?" They had climbed the rocks by this time, and walked up the lawn together, still chatting, to the piazza. " She takes to him as a fish takes to water," thought Clarence. "Jove! one would think she had known him since the flood. She's almost too self-possessed and civil to strangers." They had tea under the apple trees that night at Mrs. Richmond's, and the ] moon came ud behind thet 11 sycamores and mapped the scene in a tender at- ] mosphere, which was half dusky and I half luminous; and later they all | strolled down to the rocky shore and took < the tide to the beach, lighted a drift- 1 wood tire and forgot the hour. Mr. 1 Vaughn had spoken of leaving on the j following day, but the da?s rounded ; into wc.eks, ana still he delayed. He might be going to-morrow or the day > after; in the meantime he was at the Terraec, aDd the Terrace was simply a ; suburb of Eden. He could leave at a ; moment's notice; what was the use of i woafircr wl>n! hnr thinirintr n.hnnt'. I itP Eacn? Well, yes, till Gildersleeve came?Gildersleeve with his debonair assurance, his eyes like " lights which do misiertd the morn," and that vo ce of his ring ig out on their moonlight excursions, with its flexible tenor, pathetic as the cry of the whip-poor-will, sweet as the breath of honeysuckles in June, as "sad as death, as sweet as heaven.' Pauline used to sit wrapped in a cloud of melody, so to speak, on those still summer nights. She was trying to make up her mind about Gildersleeve; to make believe with herself that she already belonged to him heart and soul, and had no eyes, or thoughts, or regrets, for another; not that she was bound by any promises; and perhaps, if Vaughn had gne on General Fogg's ipariy, Gildersleeve might have found the course of his true love somewhat smoother. Though Vaughn sang never a note, and had no iangubhine dark eyes with which to inveigle hearts, yet when .che met his glance, Gildersleeve's chances waxed beautifully less. Promise to love and obey him, indeed! As long as this man's very look commanded her whole being, how could she so perjure herself? While Gildersleeve flattered himself that his affair was drawing toward a conclusion, that Pauline was sure to surrender be fore the season ended, she was beginning to 6ay to herself that such a thing had not only been impossible, but would | remain so, as long as Ralph Vaughn existed, in this world or the other. In the meantime Vaughn was more or lest impenetrable; if he hung over her t-o-nisht. tender as a lover, he was quite likely to freeze into respectful indiffe ence to-morrow; yesterday he was i near her that they were almost or in thought and wish and purpose; t< day, perhaps, he was as far away as ti farthest star. She could not translal such alternations of temperature. One afternoon the gentlemen had gor trouting or gunning, and a handful < the guests lounged on f e piazzas or i fVio hommnol'D anH rrr\acir?nH attov fliD UttUilUVVlik?) (IUU V T VI tuv fancy-work. Ada Clemart was teacL in? Pauline a new 8titch, when si presently remarked: "Oh, do yo know, girls, something happened to rc yesterday, and I must tell it. Nothin ever does happen me, you know, and consider this a special godsend." "Is it a ghost story?" naked Ne Daight. "Oh, very like a ghost story," sai Ada. " Do you know, yesterday aftei noon I went out with my pony alone o an exploring expedition, and it grei very warm, and the pony began to limj and presently found that we were on cliff overhanging the river, with gret pine trees shaking their plumes abov< and coral mosses spreading under-foe and along its ragged edges, and blac crows cawing overhead, and a sa stealing up the river as silently as phantom?" " Ada got that out of a book, I know. " Don't break the thread of my dis course, child. Where was I? Oh, a tnc sail-boat. lea, ana some oars wer dipping in and out the water somewher ?invisible oars, pliccf by Nereids, guess?and somebody whistled an ai from Traviata. It came on the win ' like horns of elfland faintly blowing from heaven knows where?but I foun< out afterward. I just tied the pony to tree and took out my pencil; but, good ness! it needed a Saivator Rosa; and couldn't get the sounds in anyway, an< presently they crystallized into words and somebody was saying,' And so voi eloped together, eh?' Oh, you'v dropped a stitch, Polly!" ' Bother the stitches!'' said Nell " Do go on. I'm worked up to concer pitch " And even the practical Anna Rich mond remarked, "How romantic!" "'And jo you eloped together?'"re peated Ada, delighted with herself ant her audience. "The voice made m: heart stand still, it seemed so near, anc yet nobody in sight. I held my breath JTUIiy, JfUU UiU iu:i&.lllg i* rncao Ui juu' work ?" "And what did the lady reply?" asket Polly. " I never said there was a iady in th< case." "I don't see how there could hav< been an elopement without one," per sisted Nell. "Don't pump a story-teller, Nell We were both very young,'the othei person answered. 'The night was Ux splendid to waste over German verbs We had driven fast for an hour, having eluded the teachers and the servants anc the watch-dog at the Lambert seminary?" "That's where you graduated, Miss Pauline, isn't it?" drawled Mrs. Daight, " I never graduated anywhere. I was a dunce." '"We never dreamed of pursuit, yov know,'" repeated Ada, picking up the thread again; "'in fact, we had nc definite object in view but the moment's happiness. I stopped to bait the horse, fn the mean time we strolled into a shabby old church where a wedding was going on?a simple affair. When the bride turned away irom the altar we stepped forward: it was the inspiration of the moment. The clergyman began the service. " I forbid the banns," some one cried from the doorway, and the principals, male and female, confronted us. It ended there. Her uncle sent her to a nunnery in Quebec. I accepted a situation as civil engineer in Jalifornia. Unless she cares for your lark friend, it is my duty to propose, lon't vou think?' *.* 'A pleasant auty indefd,' replied the irst speaker. 'Duty? No, not unless rou Jove her. She has probably recov;red.'" "And?what did the other?person inswerP" asked Folly, very deliberately, icd stopping to pi k up a stitch. "' You think so?' he asked, as if tha dea was new to him." "And then?" " That was all. One of them began to whistle from Traviata again. They ipoke about the lisliing and the tides, ind I came away, hugging my romance. tVasn't it nice and oad, Polly?" " hut why were y ou not discovered at ?our eavesdropping?" "Why? Just because it wag regular tavesdropping. you know. The speakers vere under the cliffs in a boat." " Yes," said Nell Paight, " I Know he place. Clarence took me there once, t is the Cliff cavr, where they fish; it uns under the ledge the length of this )iazza; and there's a fissure :.n the rock >verhead through which you can see a trip of blue sky and birds wheeling tcross it. To one sitting above, voices vould reach easily from below." " I barely escaped falling through the issure once," said Anna Richmond. ' Some day the whole mass will crumble iway, and plunge into the river. 1 hope [ shan't be there." That night, when Vaughn met Pauine in the garden, sho asked: " Has the ishinz been tood to-day?" " Wp wpnt shoot,in<r" hp rPnlipH ''we ished yesterday." " In the Cliff cave?" "Ye3, but we had no lack. We rented )n our oars, lighted our pipes?" "But Clarence was with you? Wasn't ie voluble? What did you talk about?" ' About auld lang syne, Pauline." " Oh, that is too stupid. Auld lang syne is a bore. There is nothing in the past I care to remember." "Nothing, Pauline??nothing? Then [ will resign you to the present and Mr. Sildersleeve,' as that gentleman joined .hem; and Mr. Vaughn lighted his cigarette and strolled toward the fiverbank. Mr. Vaughn would have lelt the terrace behind him, as well as the girl he loved, on the following day, buc Mrs Richmond's horses took fright on the way to the station, and while the coach man broke his arm, Vaughn came ofi with a bad sprain of the ankle. Could anything be more commonplace and less romantic? he asked himself. Reclining on Mrs. Richmond's piazza and watching Gildersieeve and Pauline togethei was discipline enough to prepare hirr for the seventh heaven. Such a trivia thing as a sprained aidde to defeat hin thus! But sometimes lovers, as well a: common folks, mistake success for de feat. Mrs. Richmond's red-shirtec mowers in the hot fields yonder migh envy him his luck in being able to~li< in the shadow with tiis bandaeed yikli and his novel; but they would?fiav< learned that nature knows how t< equalize lots could they have known tin arrows of outrageous fortune by whicl he was wounded daily a3 he watchei Gildersieeve putting off in the boatwitl Pauline alone, at sunset or moonrise and heard their lauehter and son echoing far into the night. Pauline wa very gracious to the invalid, to be sure just as she would be to a hopeless crippl or beggar, he thought. She fetched hi books, she heaped his pillows, she evei brought him strange wild flowers whic! she and Gildersieeve had surprised ii the woods; but she only stayed bes:d him long enoueh to pass the jest, to giv a parting shot, a bit of badinage?onl long enough to exasperate. Gildersleev developed an unhappy [faculty of lay in claim to her when Vaughn fancied thu he 1) ad secured her. But even a sprain does not last foi ever. He might travel any day nov the doctor said; and he was surprise to find that he was loth to leave. Aftt all, the pain had been flavored wit pleasure. Looking backward he coul recall many thrilling moments whic had made his pangs endurable. Hov ever, he waa to depart in the mornin and to-night, as one and all were lookii Wp r- for their bedroom candles and exchang?o ing good nights, he suddenly rememie bered Mrs. Richmond's Tennyson, which 3- he had left in the hammock in the grove , ie at the foot of the garden; a shower ' le might come up in the night and deface 1 it. The garden was dark and dewy, and ] ie full of fantastic shadows and sweet \ )f scents, and the prove was darker still, ^ n wim a ffjeaoi 01 uiu river uh ilic uiucr ir side, and the aspens quivering like pat- ? i- tering raindrops. In the scmi-iiarkness J ie some one moved toward him, some one u whose white drapery brushed against ? ie his hand. What sudden impulse was it * ig which made Vaughn stretch out a de- ? I taining arm towurd this llying shadow, -l while Tie whispered: "Pauline, Pauline, ' II you were mine once, heart and soul." , " And now," said Pauline, in her clear ^ d tense tones?" now I belong to Mr. Gil- ? r- dersleeve." j n Vaughn dropped his arm idly; he had j tv forgotten how her hand trembled in his j ), own an instant before; he only knew * a that she belonged to Gildersleeve. 1 it It was, perhaps, two years later when, ? 2, strolling aimlessly through an art gal- ? >t lery in Europe, Mr. Vaughn came face k to face with Ada Clemart. ^ il " Well met, Miss Ada," he said. a "Mrs. Gildersleeve, if you please," * contended the little lady. " " Mrs. Gildersleeve!"echoed Vaughn. . 5- "I thought?I?ahem!?I lifd not 7 it heard?" e "Oh. don't be afraid to say it. You ? e thought Polly was wearing my shoes, I eh? I wa> awfully afraid she would, ? r too. I knew they'd pinch her. There! d cive me your arm and let me confess. p ,' You were so brimful of your own affairs ' d at the Terrace you never dreamed that I a a ?well, that I had made up my mind to a marry Mr. Gildersleeve myself. Isn't v I it Thackeray who says if a woman a J ..makes up her mind to marry a certain ? 1, person, be she huncL^acked, or queer in L a her lei?s, or what not, let him look to ? e himself? or words to that eflectP Well, jj Gildersleeve and I were traveling com. panions on the way home after the sum- .y t mer ended at Mrs. Richmond's. Do you j1 know, by the way, they have lost their ]< - money, and sold the Terrace? Too bad! 11 Polly had gone already. Traveling was v - I never so divine an employment before. | c 1 I would gladly have kept on, like the ? j Wandering Jew. Mind, I didn't know a 1 that he was engaged to Pauline, i sup- p . posed it was a flirtation; and just to en- h r tertain him I told him all about you and a Pauiine; your elopement when she was n 1 at the Lambert seminary, and you were d only twenty, and how you were inter- " 3 rupted at the altar." Sl " Ana how did you happen to know b 3 all this, Mrs. Gildersleeve?" The name a' - was like a sweet morsel on his tongue S1 now?so strangely do tastes change. " Now ;you are angry, but you ought b r to be grateful. How did I know it? > When jou have a secret, don't tell it in C . the Cliff cave, even to Clarence. I was h r overhead, near t!,e fissure, eavesdrop- " 1 ping you may call it if you please. I ^ . told the story to the guests on the tl piazza, next day, for a sensation. I 0 5 didn't give any names, you know?I'm d< , not such a fool; but you ought to have bi . seen Door Pauline. She knew the story fc better than I; it was as good as a play. Si If I had omitted that part where you }t | said, ' It is my duty to propose,' Polly it ' would never have given Gildersleeve a di 1 second thought. lie has told me since ce 1 that he wrote the very nicht after I had tr civen him the facts, and broke his en- di easement. It didn*t break Polly's heart. The Gildersleeves are a high and mighty race, you know; all his old mus'y ancestors would turn ' in their earthy beds' if he had married a girl with a tt history, so he married me. Doesn't that w Madonna yonder remind you of Polly P of She follows you with her eyes just as j cf Polly follows you with her thoughts, as KnAlr f/v A Mr Vollffhtl n n f 1 I vjru uaun iu /xuicuvu) iixi* * uu^uu, MUM marry her.'* cc "I believe I will," said Vaughn, "if y< Polly will marry me." pi And ahe did.?harper's Bazar. ? m Dancing: Girls from India. There arrived recently in New York jj a troupe of dancing girls, musicians and u( jugglers from India. There are fifteen persons in the company, five women and ten men. . he women are some of the principal performers of India, and be- ? long to the only class of women in that Q? country who are taught to read and j write. The oldest is called Bhooribai, and is twenty-six years old. She is one W of the principal dancers. Sahebjhan, the chief dancer, is eighteen, and is one q of the greatest performers in India. These two belong to the famous temple dancers. No Maharaiah ever entertains ^ n truest without giving one of these fc. dancers. The Nautch~ dance, as it is ft called, is also a feature of all religious and holiday festivals. The other women are Vageirbai, age fifteen; Ala r? Bundi, aged fourteen, and Oondabai, the . youngest, age twelve. These women Jive in different parts of India. They P( speak no English, and are the first Mohammedans who ever came to the United States from India. The men are Abdoolally Esmailjee, manager of a ^ Bombay theater and manager of this company during their visit; Goolamhoosan, Oomerkuan; two Hindoos?the only ones in the company?by the name ot Balaya; Imambarkha, Khajoolalla, Subrung and Moobarie. Oomerklian ie one of tne best of Indian jugglers. Ons of the Balayas is a knife player. He jug- tb gles with long knives, keeping a large number circling about his head at one time. Subrung is a very fine singer. Imambarkha is a snake charmer. He e\ brings with him two cobra ai capeJlos, to a scorpion and a iittle animal called a mongoose, which is used to stir up the snakes, it being very hostile to them. Sl One of the Balayas cooks food for both, cr as Hindoos will not eat Mohammedan lood nor will Mohammedans eat Hindoo food. These men never dance, but they .sing and play upon their native instru- ? ment3 while the women go through their peculiar movements. i The beauty ol tiiese women is a mat- ai ter of taste. In India they are considi ered very handsome. Sahebjhan is the [ darkest, but is greatly admired in her own country. Three of the women are V i married. They all bear themselves m modestly. They wear a satin vest which b; E is fastened behind. They wear also I satin trousers reacuing neariy iu mc i ankles. Over all they throw the j "Sahri," a long gauze cloak. They fc - wear rings on their lingers and toes, : strings of pearls about their ears and j;) i anklets and nose-rings ot solid silver. jr 1 They wear m diamonds, as these stones ^ i are not fashionable iu India. It was S( 5 very difficult to get these people together p - and to persuade them to leave their jjj 1 country. Just before starting they con- jj L ceived the idea that they were coming 2 to America to be sacrificed at a festi- p a val, and almost refused to comc. They ^ 2 were gathered from the neighborhood a j of Aliahbad and some other Indian y e cities, where there are great bathing t] i tanks. Their chief duty at home is to j, 3 participate in festivals. The first rank 0' i of these women is never permitted to a , leave the temples without the permission j, ? of the priests. They all reverence as c' s their special patron and protectress the a i, holy mother, Bhowanee, who is -up- p e posed to be the most beautiful dancer in j, s the paradise of the Hindoo religion. u n Their dances do not resemble what ^ b Americans call dances. They consist of n lithe and graceful whirling, marvelous e in its quickness, and also of mystic e weaving and subtle pantomimic contory tions explained by their songs. Their a e dances fiave a meaning, and the sentig ment of them is always made plain, a it They cover a wide range of subjects. 8 They have one dance which represents r r- a railway train, and the clatter of the c r, engine is heard all through it. The best ( d of these women are chosen from the ( 'r highest caste of Indians; the next in j h rank are of the Sudra families, or mer ] Id cantilc caste. ] :h ' < 7- The boy who wants a situation at the ] g, poulterer's is a brave lad. He is ready < lg for the hen counter. * Tiie Discoverer of Oil* There are but few Pennsylvanians vho have not at some period of their ife heard of the late Colonel Drake in tirifli mir nil (ipIHq Clnlnnpl 3dwin L. Drake was the son ol Lyman ^)rake, a farmer of Greene county, New fork, and was born at Greenville, that iounty, March 29. 1819, and was conloquently sixty-oneyearsof age. While ourneying from New Haven to TitusMile on business, his attention was first sailed to Oil creek, and he immediately >ecame interested in the matter. He aw the oil used as a lubricator on the ournals of a large circular saw, making ,200 revolutions per minute. It was ilso used in torches to light saw mills, ^s a lubricator he found it superior to perm oil. As a lubricator alone, he :new there was a fortune in this oil. le also saw that it could be refined and loublcd in its value as an illuminator. )octor Ebenezer Brown, now a banker ,t Titusville, took the colonel to the pring from which the oil used iD the aill was taken. The doctor spread a > anket upon the pool and gathered it ip in a few seconds, drippine with some lark fluid, from which lie wrung half a lint of the oil. Half a bucket or more if the oil was thus secured. He had already been satisfied as to he value. The sole question now was: 'Can the oil be obtained in quantities ufficient to introduce it as a lubriatorI>" This question he speedily anwered in his own mind, and decided to tore lor it. He could not, however, ersuade men to work for him, as he ?as regarded sis a lunatic. In great istress he drove to Tarentum, 100 miles way. Here he entered into a contract rith a salt borer, agreeing to give him t least 1,000 feet of boring to do. The alt borer was to come in August; but ic didn't. The colonel went down gain, and the. fellow promised to come a September. Aeain he disappointed he now thoroughly vexed colonel. He pent the 100 miles once more. While a the hotel at Tarentum he accidentally ?arned why the fellow had disappointed im. He never meant to gotoTitusille. He regarded Colonel Drake as razy, and " thought the easiest way to et rid of him was to make a contract nd pretend that he meant to come." Lfter ransacking the country lor weeks e at last found another salt borer, who greed to commence work for him. This * -- ' 1,? lan goi jia uir 21a x insuuig, nuuwuv ied. It was now in October, late in je season. Lewis B. Peterson, Esq., a lit manufacturer at Tarentu.m, iiad Rcome interested in Colonel Drak<3, and dvised him not to do anything until jring. Quite unwillingly he removed ) Titusville, housed his engine and oiler, and did nothing until spring. In April, 1859, Mr. Peterson advised olonel Drake that he had a man for im, whom he' employed. This w:is iTilliam A. Smith, o! Butler county, rho brought with him one of his sons le two working for two dollars a day. n Saturday night, August 29, 1859, a spth of sixty-nine and a half feet had sen reaclled. Work was suspended ?r the Sabbath, b' it on Sunday old man mith walked out to the well and found full of oil. He dipped up a barrel of , and Colonel Drake's insanity was issipated in an hour. He had been snotssful. He spent all his means in conibuting to the wealth of the State >n>d eu ioov.~PiUsbur(j Chronicle. Ess and Esses. "So you bavc finished your studies at ic seminary? I was much pleased ith the closing exercises. The author that poem?Miss White, I think you tiled her?bids fair to become known ) a poet." "We think the authoress will become flebrated as a poetess," remarked the >ung lady, pertly, with a marked emlasis on two words of the sentence. "Oh!?ah!" replied the old gentlean, looking thoughtfully over his speccles at the young lady. " I hear her ster is quite an actress, and under Miss osmer's instructions will undoubtedly :come quite a sculptoress." The young lady appeared irritated. "The seminary," continued the old 'ntleman, with imperturbable gravity, is loi tuuate in having an efficient board manageresses. From the presidentess >wn to the humblest teacheress unlual talent is shown. There is M'ss arper, who as a chemistress is un[Ualed, and Mrs. Knowles has already reputation as an astronomercss. And the department of music Jew can [Ual Miss Aeuogg as a smgercsa. The young lady did not appear to like le chair she was sitting on. She took ie sofa at the other end of the room. "Yes," continued the old gentleman, if talking to himself, "those White sters are very talented. M>iry, I unsrstand, has turned her attention to tinting and the drama, and will I soon jcome famous as a painteress, andurcly i a lecturess." A loud slamming of the door caused ie old gentleman to look up, and critic? s and grammarianess was gone. Words ol Wisdom. He who thinks his place below him ill be below his place. Good temper is. lise a summer day, ie Gweetner oi toil and soother of disrietude. It sheds a brightness over 'ery thing. It is to be doubted whether he will rer find the way to heaven who desires ' go thither alone. False friends are like our shadow? ;eping close to vis while we walk in the inshine, but leaving us the instant we oss into the shade. No man is bora wise; but wisdom id virtue require a tutor; though we in easily learn to be vicious without a aster. Strong minds, like hardy evergreens, e most verdant in winter; ivuen leebie ies, like tender summer plants, are atless. Tlie modern majesty consists in work. Hiat a man can do is bis greatest ornaient, and lie always consults liis dignity y doing it. Jute. (jdk. of the most promising new fields >r farming in the Southern States is ie cultivation of jute. As a fiber it is jgely taking the place of flax and hemp i coarse products, and it is also said lo e much used in much liner goods, jme ol the handsomest carpets being artly of jute. There is no doubt but ie demand is to be large and to steady increase. * Jute is as cisily raised as corn, and lantc ) in March or April, it may be arvested in June, July and August, Iter cotton has been laid, and at a me when there is no special call upon lie farm force. The labor of cultivation i light, as its growth is so rank as to vcTshadow everything else in the field, nd its yield is simply enormous. There i a very wide field of industry in jute ultivation, and one which will eventully become very profitable. The imortations of jute during the year ernlng June 30, 1880, were over $7,000,000, 11 of which can easily be produced at iome.?Rural New Yorker. The Fable or the Smart Man. There was once a very smart man, aid he met a man who was not smart, ind said to him: "See here, I am an iwful smart man. I know everything md can do anything, yet my pocket, ny purse and my stoxach ari3 a trinity >f emptiness?three in one, and I'm the me; while you, who are not smart, go ;lothed in purple and fine linen and lave your ribs regularly adiposed. Sow tell me, why is this?" And the nan who was not smart answered and jaid that he did not know, but he supposed it must be because the market wa& jveretocked with smart men. Moral' riioro is. none. AMERICAN NEWSPAPERS. i ( ' Their Number and Distribution?The 1 tillage of Art, Agriculture, Science, and I of Piety. The twelfth annual issue of the ; American Newspaper directory gives the names of 9,723 newspapers and peri' odical- publMiea in the United States. | Eight hundred and forty-three are daily j ' rif'OTunnnpr.tj. Sft arf> t.ri-WPfiklv. 129 semi- . weekly, 7,590 weekly 43 bi-weekly, 123 ! ' semi-monthly, 868 monthly, 14 bi- ( i monthly, and 55 quarterly. The six ( States credited with the largest number , ; of publications are scheduled in regular order: States. Dailies. Weeklies. Others. Total. , New York... 113 804 322 1,239 1 1 Pennsylvania. 87 611 137 835 ' 1 Illinois 67 650 115 832 ] Ohio 48 519 86 653 1 Iowa 28 442 30 500 < Indiana 36 248 31 415 < The six States credited with the ! smallest number of publication are: 1 { States. Dailies. Weeklies. Others. Total. ' Delaware 4 18 . 22 , Nevada 13 11 3 27 Florida 3 32 3 38 Rhode Island. 7 28 5 40 ' Oregon 7 54 6 67 1 Vermont 4 62 4 70 J The number of newspapers printed in the United States in foreign languages is iis follows: Germ in 445 Bohemian 9 French .'!0 Portuguese 1 ' Scandinavian '.'.7 Polish 2 , Spanish 24 Hebrew 2 , Ilollandish 9 Cherokee 1 ! Italian 4 A , Tntnt /ififi * I . . . The German newspapers are distribu- l ted among the States as follows: i States. Dailies Total. ? Arkansas 1 1 California 1 12 I Colorado 1 ( Connecticut.... 1 4 ( Delaware .. 1 ] Georgia 1 ( Illinois 9 56 t Indiana 3 22 ] Iowa 3 20 Kansas 1 7 Kentucky 2 6 , Louisiana 1 2 Maryland 2 6 \ Massachusetts 1 Michigan 2 11 ( Minnesota i iu i Missouri 5 20 ( Nebraska 7 j New Jersey 2 14 j New York 11 65 i Ohio S 46 , Oregon 2 Pennsylvania 9 66 Rhode Island .. 1 Soutli Carolina 1 Tennesec . .. Is Texas * 2 9 t Virginia 2 2 t West Virginia 2 E Wisconsin 3 38 ? Louisiana has the lead in French c newspapers. She prints fourteen in- r eluding one daily. Massachusetts is t next, with five weeklies, and New York c is third, with two dailies and a weekly, s Illinois heads the Scandinavian list, * with twelve weekly and monthly publi- t cations. Minnesota has five, and New c York three. New York leads the Spanish column with eight newspapers. New Mexico is second with five, and Texas 1 and California each have four. The I I ?1_ o :_K ,i ?: l ? Of.,fOQ I ULiiy u^jnuiSLi uiiiiy in biiv; uuntu utuivj is printed in Sun Francisco. Of the t nine Hollandish newspapers, six are f published in Michigan, two in Iowa, and t one in Wisconsin. Three of the four c Italian journals are print d in Califor- 1 nia, and three of the four Welsh in New c York. The two Polish newspapers are o credited to Illinois, and she claims three of the nine Bohemian journals. The s only Portuguese newspaper in the United States is printed in Erie, Pa. The directory gives the title of 421 t religious newspapers published in the f United States, distributed thus: a Alabama 2 Missouri 20 P I Arkansas 1 Nebraska 1 ? California 11 New Hampshire ... 1 C Colorado 1 New Jersey 3 v Connecticut 3 New York 71 E Delaware 1 North Carolina....II! b Georgia 7 Ohio 43 n Illinois 35 Oregon 4 Indiana 5 Pennsylvania Go Iowa G South Carolina 8 q Kansas 3 Tenuesseo 13 j* Kentucky 13 Texa* 9 Ixtuisiana G Vermont 2 Maino 7 \irginia 10 MaiyJand 10 West Virginia 1 P Massachusetts 23 Wisconsin .) ii Michigan 8 Now Mexico 1 f> Minnesota 2 Utah 2 1) Mississippi 2 1 Tiie scale of piety is indicated by the | number of religious newspapers pub- 11 lishcd in the cities: n 7V/V I JVn Y Now York 50 Dayton 8 ? Philadelphia 38 New Orleans 6 ? Chicago 29 Nashville 6 P Boston 20 Richmond G P Cincinnati 18 Milwaukee 6 $ Si. Louis 15 Detroit 4 $ San Francisco ... .10 Dallas 4 g Louisville 10 Oshkosh 1 f< Baltimore 9 Brooklyn 1 ^ Cleveland 9 The following table shows the relative strenetli of the peculiar forms of piety in C the United States as indicated by the b number of newspapers published by each b denomination: I JVumber q/' jDenominations. Publications. w Catholic G2 j] Evangelical 49 _ Baptist 47 i, Primitive Baptist 2 ,, Seventh-Day Baptist 1 1 Free Baptist 1 13 Methodist.... 42 u Methodist Episcopal 13 c Methodist Protestant 2 e: Presbyterian 35 li Cumberland Presbyterian 1 p uongregauouiu o ? Congregational Methodist ... 1 g< Lutheran 13 jj llelormed Church 10 _ Relorrned Dutch Church 1 j: Unsectarian 21 Non-sectarian 2 9 Anti-sectarian 1 * Episcopal 18 91 Protestant Episcopal 7 ^ " ' J 1 ! h ivoioniii-u ? Protestant 1 ii Anti-Romanist 1 o Jewish 11 tl United Brethren 9 Christian 5 ei Church ot God 5 C( Disciples . 4 Primitive Christian 3 ^ Florida and Nevada arc the only States in which religious periodicals are not printed. The only religious journal published in Arkansas is devoted to the d interests of the Metuodists. In Ala- n bama the Universalists and Baptists are tl apparently struggling for the possession ti of the State. The Presbyterians are the b only denomination who print a news- u paper in Colorado. Connecticut is given i: over to the Baptists, Catholics and Con- p ereeationalists. No Methodist, Baptist, t! Episcopal, Universalist or Presbyterian a periodicals are printed in either J)ela- i; ware, Indiana, Minnesota or West Vir s ginia. v Forty-four religious newspapers are ti printed in foreign languages. b Other periodicals mentioned in the a directory are devoted to the lollowing t interests: o Agriculture, horticulture and stock raising. 132 v Medicine and surgery 98 a Education 162 t' Amusemont and instruction of children.... 44 t Commerce and finance 198 t Insurance 20 t Real estate 14 j Science and mechanics 108 c aw 41 t| Printers and publishers 16 j , Sporting 16 r Music 25 Fashions 23 ' i Woman suffrage 3 I : Free Masonry 17 1 ' Odd Fellowship 12 Temperance 36 1 Knights ot Pythias 7 ! Ancient Order ot United "Workmen 12 > Knighta ol Honor 3 ( Drrier of Dmids 2 Drder ol Harngari 1 Military and naval 9 ?New York Sun. TIMELY TOPICS. Sir Henry Bessemer has ?aken out no e3s than 114 patents. The freedom of :he city of London has just been con ferred upon him. Before his steel pro ?ess was introduced into Sheffield the entire make of steel was 51,000 tons a year; now it is 830,000 tons. According to Liebig, tea and coffee [lave become necessaries of life to whole nations, but especially essential to the poorer classes, supplying a void not readily filled up by the limited supply af good meats and wholesome food generally. The Baptist Weekly remarks %, itL con3iderable subtlety that the brethren who tiave been able to attend political meetings, gaze at torchlight processions and 3o considerable shouting besides, cannot 3onsiatently plead the risks of night air is an excuse ior aDsence irom prayer aieetiDgs. In Russia, all the sons and daughters Df princes inherit their title. They are, consequently, as pleatiful a3 sparrows, ft is said that there is a village where 3very inhabitant is a Prince or Princess Grallitzen. The title of prince in Russia is about equivalent to that of esquire in England. The old apprenticeship system has seen revived by a manufacturer at Springfield, Ma9s. The boys bind them jeives lor twelve years, ana are to receive from live cents an hour at the beginning ;o tweive at the end. In addition two jents an hour will be placed to their credit, and paid on their discharge, thus jroviding for each about $400 for a start )n his own account. The employer itipulates for tifty-eight hours of work i week, and nine of study. That eccentric person, George Francis ["rain, occasionally turns un to public lotice in New York by some original act. riie Central park commissioners revived a-petition from him the other lay, asking for permission to put his feet >n seats in the park. He stated tbat the jolicemen had denied him that privilege, md wished to know what law prevented lim from enjoying the liberty if he :hose. The communication was placed >n file. The Scientific American urces the idoption oi the telephone on the battleield as a means of conveying informaion and transmitting order9 rapidly ind accurately, without exposing the ;eneral in command to the fire >f the enemy, and thus imperiling lot only his own life but possibly the iltimate result of the campaign. Of mirse special modifications are neceaary to render the telephone available or 3uch use, but these are quite within he power of the inventor and mechaniian. Many clergymen in the United States lave lately received a circular from a xjndon dealer in secon .-hand sermons. Ie offers sermons "lithographed in a old, round hand," so that those who iappcn to see them would suppose that hey were manuscript, for twenty-five ents each, or $20 per 100. Ho has a ine of cheaper sermons in print at ten ontq nnipp.p warraritfld orthodox, and ithers a little more expensive, which lave "a pleas uitness, yet an awful ok-mnity about them." Miss Kate Field, who has spent much ime abroad, says to a Boston reporter: low easy it is to write a heavy leader, nd how difficult it is, as all newspaper eople know, to write briiliant, epirammalic paragraphs. Thi3 is the hief attraction of American newspapers, rhich distinguishes them from the Inelish journals?their capacity for ;een and witty paragraphs. It is not ;ecesaary to put people to sleep in orHor o impress them with the importance of lie subject. The London Times freuentlv devotes a column to what might e condensed into a dozen lines. The past forty years have witnessed a rodigious growth in American farmig. In 1840 the grain product was 15,000,000 bushels; ten years later it ad risen to 802,000,000; ten years later ,238,000,000; ten years later yet to ,387,000,000, and nine years later, or ist year, to 2,431,000,000. These anual cereal products have risen from a alue of 84,000,000,000 in 1850 to one of 11,000,000,000 in 1870, and probably to no ol ?15,000,000,000 or more in this ast year, 1880, and the surplus, after aying wages and expenses, was over 2,000,000,000 in IB7U, and pernaps 3,000,000,000 in 1880. Mr. S. B. Rubles has been collecting these statistics )r the Chamber of Commerce in New rork, and they are noteworthy. There has recently died in New rleans the last of Lafitte's celebrated and of buccaneers, Jacinto L?> irano, whose life extended over nearly 00 years, and may be truly charactersed as an eventful career. Lobrano ras born in the city of Naples between lie years 1783 and 1766. lie became sailor and made several voyages heween Gibraltar and Havana. Daring 314 lie saw Napoleon at Elba. Lorano's first visit to New Orleans was lade in 1809. He subsequently became onnocted with Lafitte, ove; whom he xercised considerable influence, being ireely instrumental in persuading the rivateer to side with the Americans gainst the British. The old veteran 2ems to have taken a prominent part in [ie battle of New Orleans, having been resented by General Jackson with a andsome sword, which he cherished as no of his most valuable possessions, ts blade is of the finest temper, and of uch rare steel that it will bend double rithout breaking. It is said that Lorano participated in the Texan war lor idependence, and among the trophies f his exploits is a lance which he Cipjred from one of the followers of Santa Lnna. Mr. Lobrsno was at one time gaged in the slave trade and other Dinmercial enterprises. He finally ittlcd in New Orleans, and has since >d a quiet and retired life.' E nrs^ Large ears hear things in general, and enote broad, comprehensive views and lodes of thought; while small ears hear liings in particular, showing a disposiion to individualize, often accompanied y love of the minute. Large ears are sually satisfied with learning the usual icts of a case, with the general princiles involved?too strict an attention to lie enumeration of details, especially 11 repetition of the more unimportant, i wearisome to them. People with uch ears like generally, and are usually rell fitted to conduct large enterprises, o receive and pay out large sums; in uying or selling would prefer to leave , mar?in rather than reduce the quiin ity of any sort to the exact dimensions f the measure specified, and in giving pould prefer to give with a free hand ,nd without too strict a calculation as o the exact amount. Small ears, on he contrary, desire to know the par iculars of a story as well as the main icts; take delight often in examining, land ling or constructing tiny specimens it workmanship; are disposed to be ex .ct with respect to inches and ounces in raying or selling, to the extent, at least, if knowing the exact number over or inder the stated measure given or re eived. People with such ears would, n most cases, prefer a retail to a whole ale business.?Phrcnoloqical Journal. Five of our foreign ministers were at various times in their lives editors of jountr.v newsDnpew. t ADULTERATIONS. Cheap and Inferior Subntltutei-- How They are Mixed With Batter, Sugar Laid. Etc.i and Sold lor the Genuine Article. Nearly every article of food that is sold cau safely be said to be more or less adulterated. Not that the pure article cannot be bought or that all dealers are dishonest, but that the purchaser must know what he is about or he will in many instances be given adulterated substances. Indeed, in some cases, it may be said that the customer prefers the adulterated to the pure article, so depraved has his taste become by the long continued use of the former. Instances are many where people have bemn HA nnminf Amo/) 4- n /t/\ WLUU OU OV^UOLVLUCU tU U1 llliV UUUCC mixed with chicory, peas and the like that they will send back to the store as inferior in taste the very best Java. This, however, is no excuse for deceit. Adulteration has now become a fine art, and in those articles on which there is but a small margin of profit when sold legitimately it is carried on with skill worthy of a better cause. For instance, a firm, whose manufactory is in South Brooklyn, is making and selling | as butter asubstance which has not even the merit of oleomarge arinto recommend it. Oleaine (the oil of fat), lard and good butter are melted in a tank and thoroughly mixed, when it is put into new Welsh tubs and sold to shippers as butter. Such little butter as is used in this process is really of a fine grade, but it is only used to give color and flavor to the substance. Of course, much money is made by this deception. Sugar, however, is more largely adulteiated than any other article, as is well kno n. Ultentimes tne legitimate profit on this article is very small, and then the disreputable dealers resort to " ways that are dark" to increase their returns. For instance, grape sugar (made together with glucose from corn) is used as an adulterator. It .is ground very fine and then mixed with refined sugar. The manufacturers of this substance do not refine their own sugar, but purcha5e it lrom the large refiners. The latter latterly refused to sell to these dealers because the sale of the unadulterated article interfered with their own business. The mixture costs about three and a quarter cents a pound, while the cheapest sugar cannot be purchased for less than seven cents, and there is consequently a large profit. It is understood, however, that the manufacturers of this mixture have now no difficulty in purchasing refined sugar, and are prosecuting their business with success. It is difficult to detect the adulteration, but grape sugar has no grain and will leave a sediment in the cup. New Orleans molasses ie aido imitated by mixing glucose, worth about fortytwo cents a gallon, and " black strap," at twenty cents a gallon, and other substances, creating a syrup of a rich amber color, which i3 much sought after by many buyers, who imagine they are purchasing the best. Those who wish the real genuine syrup should buy that having a very dark color. The adulteration is put up in second-hanr. New Orleans molasses hogsheads, the dealers paying thirty-five cents apiece more for these than for new barrels of a different make. Again there is what is known as a Scotch process of edulterating sugar. Many persons are complaining nowadays that they can no longer sweeten their coffee or tea Where they Jormerly pnt in only one toaspoonful they are obliged now to increase the quantity threefold. The reason can soon be explained. The makers take good imported ailrrar and rnhnil if. Thfi avnin , thus made the? mix with yellow sugar, making the brown, damp, soggy sugar so large y sold at the corner groceries. The difference in price between it and the best white sugar is only about two cents a pound, but the latter contains 100 percent, more sweetness; so that the latter is really the cheaper article. In making 1.600 barrels of this su?ar about fifty barrels of syrup are upo<*? Lard is b loo -Juitwated, espemally so, it io arttd, for the Cuban market. The stuff sent there i3 said to be made up of iard, tallow, and what is known as "gut lard," besides other things which need not be mentioned. Why this stuff should be so largely exported to Cuba, while only the best refined lard is sent to South America, is a mystery, bu t so it is. The continent of Europe also imports a fair , quality of lard. Our home consumption , consists mainly of the natural lard, unrefined. And so through a long list of articles J do adulterations extend. That the Chinese color tea for the American ' market, though they do not drink it themselve?, is well known. The holds' ' of ooftre vessels are swept and the leav- i ings are preserved, cleaned slightly, and I then sold as a sort of combination coffee; but any one knowing of what the combination sometimes consists would be ( slow in purchasing any more.?Jsew ? York Commercial Bulletin. < J What Some JVords Mean in Law. (] " Eggs " are not " meat" nor " poul j \ try'' within a statute prohibiting the sale of such articles when unsound. Boring through a floor with an auger { constitutes a burglary, says the Alabama supreme court, in Walker against State. This was where the prisoner bored a hole through the upper floor of a corn crib, stopped it up with a cob, and afterward, on a separate occasion, drew the , shelled corn through the hole into a ' sack underneath the crib. "Brass ] knucks" is used in the statute as the i name of a weapon, without reference to , the metal of which it is made. There- j fore a conviction of unlawfully carrying IJ " brass knucks " will not be set aside because it was proved that the weapon i was lead or pewter. "Terms cash" is not equivalent to "received payment." i 'Terms cash" on an unreceipted bill of goods, sent by a wholesale to a retail dealer, cannot be held as a matter of law to imply that the goods were paid for before they were shipped. A farm overseer is not a "laborer" < within the lien law. Notes, bills, etc., | representing money loaned on interest j n pnmnratinn. are " nronertv " liable i to taxation. A railroad depot is a , "warehouse" within the statute of , burglary. j A Sundaj-school is not "divine wor- i ship;1' but a building for the sessions of ; a Sunday-3ehool and religious lectures j is for a "religious purpose," although 1 occasionally used for fairs and other i benevolent purposes. The court said j fin a.Pennsylvania case). "The Sun- ( day school rooms and the lecture room i of a modern church are as essentially , used for religious purposes as the body . of the church buiidinsr itself. The Sabbath-schools are an important auxiliary of every Christian church, and indispensible to its life and growth. That the services in such schools are in the main ot a religious character is too well1 known to be seriously disputed. So of the lecture room. It is used for the mid-week evening lectures and other services, when the attendance is not largo. The expense of lighting and healing the main church building is thus avoided. But the services upon such occasions are as truly religious in in their character as the sermon upon the Sabbath." A supervising arehi ect is a person performing " labor," although not a "laborer," within the meaning of the mechanics' lien law. A widow keeping a boarding-house, with a female friend residing with her, and female servants, besides the hoarders, is the "head of a family." But a single man who keeps house and has no persons living with him than servants and employees, is : not the "head of a family" or a "house-1 keeper." And an unmarried man, who ; does not keep house, but supports his mother and unmarried sister, who board with his married sister in another town, is not the " head of a familj."? Albany Law Journal. FOR THE FAIR SEX. Fashionable Fan. The variety in furs is very great this season, and there are many changes and novelties to record. beaisKin remains the favorite far for sacks and cloaks, and squirrel-skins for lining, but aside from these there is nothing absolutely decreed by fashion, and it depends entirely upon individual taste and style whether the biack fox, beaver, chin* chilla, spotted leopar i, or tiger-cat shall be chosen for the fur set or for the trimmings of dresses or cloaks. Experience proves, however, that the beautiful chinchilla in its light gray shades is more becoming to blondes tlian brunettes, while sealskin softens all complexions; thattbe rich black fox fur cannot be well worn by very small ladies, or by those with a short neck, as its long thick fleece is too heavy, and gives a full highshouldered effect, but that it is the stylish choice for tall and stately figures; also that the tiger and leopard skins look best with brown costumes, and are especially suitable for very young ladies. Many of these lanciful furs are colored Ktt ov? ar\A it ia tho foaVnrktt r\f thfl fimp to prefer these to those of natural hues. | This coloring is so skillfully done that the furs do not crock, or at most ruh off ( but slightly, and these stylish colored furs are bought by people of wealtli who can gratify every wish. Indeed, so popular are they that they replace tne most valuable sables, which are now left in the furriers' care for safe-keeping all winter as wall as in the summer. Nevertheless fine sables still hold their own in price, costing as much money as before they were laid aside for fancy furs. In regard to the care of furs, dealers say they must be kept in a cool dry place, and must not be dried by artificial heat after having been exposed to Tain or snow. This is especially true of seal skin, which has its fine pile flattened, marked and matted*when dried by a fire or by furnace heat; it should, instead, t i - it 1 1 J J t>e exposed to tue air OI a com ruum, wiu should he well spread out when drying. The seal fur is less liable to be eaten by moths than manv other furs, and has been spared by them when sables in the same camphor chest were ruined Camphor is most generally commended as a preservative against moths, and to this maDy ladies prefer to add pepper, finally wrapping the garment hermetically in pa^er or in linen. The gum camphor should be wrapped in tissue paper, and stuck about in various places in tbe box, and not allowed to come in contact with the sealskin, as there is danger of fading it. Perhaps the m^st important thing of all is that the fur soould not be worn too late in the spring, and that it should be well beaten by rods, and thus thoroughly cleansed, before it is put away for the summer.? Harper's Bazar. Fashion Rote*. Shell trimmings ate much used to head flounces. Leaf-shaped nieces are used to trim ' the border of bj-aques. P .D31 is not effective in black, and velvet is prefer ad to it. < Satin bows : re worn at the throat 1 with plush cos! ime?. Both tfowns and bonnets are very eavy this year. The materials strewn with small dots : ar i "ailed pointillis. The new chenille cords used for drap- . ing are as thick as ropes. * , Olive green is the fashionable color in reception costumes. Tie hoods worn with the rich plush | morning costumes are of lace. i Jackets of cloth and velvet are worn in the street this winter. < It is in the stuff and not in the cut of ? the gown that its novelty must lie this s vfjir. J One long looped bosv at the back is preferred to any other fastening for y bonnet strings. \ Cuffs turned over, like those worn by c children, have been adopted by young i Indies. Little birds are often perched on the . knots of flowers that milliners send e home with gowns. s Basques of iheap brocade are made up ^ to wear with woolen gowns left over from last year. p Bright linings are used in all plaitings * that are in the least likely to fly upward r and show .their under side. ( New York dressmakers use the stosk inet stuffs for making street jackets, t with satin piping, and without any of t the Jersey effect. ( Girls' pilgrim suits are often made c with a little cape, which is laid loosely wound the shoulders and fastened in I front by two tassels. h Sarah Bernhardt')* Costume*. 2 In the play of" Adrienne Lecouvreur," Sarah Bernhardi makes no less than five ti changes of costime, which has caused s lier version of it to be called " The Play y in Five Dresses." The first one which p jbe wore at Booth's theater, New York, was a grande jupe in rose color satin iver a chenille gauze embroidered with pld. Another was |a grand Turque in _ white satin embroidered in variegated colors, very ancient. Then there was a. jrand Mauteau of white moire with gold aouiuets. The chemisette of Turkish * *auzewas impoited from Constantinople ? expressly for her, and was gathered in & it the waist with a rich girdle of wnite Dearls, turquoises, and other precious itones, presented to her by the Prince of tl Wales. In the same act she also wears S i jeweled cross studded with diamonds, v \nother of her costumes was a rich robe t" )f white satin, with bouquets of roses f< md other ornaments, in the style of the fxmis XIV. period. A grand train of p ;ream-colored satin over a tablier of a alue satin was the leading feature of d mother costume. a ======= t The Indians. The number of Indians in the United states, exclusive of Alaska, is reported [ ;o be 255,938 all of whom, except about t 18,000, are more or less under direct con 1 ;rol of agents of the fiovernment. The 3 civilized Indians now in the Indian Ter ^ ritory numoer w,ooi?, ana me unciyn w ized, 17,750. There are, in round num bers, 25,000 Indians in Dakota, 23,000 in s New Mexico,21,000 in Montana, 17,000 f in Arizona, and 14,000 in Washington c Territory. It appears that there are r upward of 5,000 Indians in New York f State, and more than 10,000in the State 1 of Michigan. The following table shows Ihe substantial results of Indian labor I during the year: 4 BY INDIANS, EXCLUSIVE OF FIVE CIVIL- t IZED TRIHES. t Number of acres broken 27,283 ] Number oi acres cultivated 170,841 i Number of busLels of wheat raised 415,777 Number of bushels of corn i raised 666.430 ? Number ot bushels of oats and g barley 222,43-1 i Number of bushels of vegetables s raised 370,145 f Number of tons of hay cut 56 527 t Number of cattle owned 78,812 Number of sheep owned 864,i37 t BY THE FIVE CIVILIZED TItlBES. , Number of acres cultivated 314,398 I Number of bushels of wheat f raised 336,424 I Number of bushels of corn raised 2 346.042 f Number of bushels of oats and ' barley 124.568 Number of bushels ol vegetables s raised 595.000 L Number of bales oi cotton r raised 16 8.10 i Number of tons of hay cut 14'U'OO ? Number of cattle owned 1.97,<>4<> ? Number of swine owned 4ihj282 t: :i The youth who permits his b weetheart ii to rule him i? a mis?jruid?<i young man, g "mjftkt I I I IT - *! Sleep. x 1 .4. When the evening bUadows creep ' . Stealthily, ? " Hiding every hill and dale, * , >.J Hiding all tainga with their veil, When the shining day doth die. Sweet is sleep. , When the evening shadows creep Stealthily, , ' ' I'-i yY, To the baby in her nest, * Longing for her quiet rest, Hushed by loving lullaby, ? * Sweet is sleep. When the evening shadows creep ; ? Stealthily, To the weary be trt and brain Bringing tranquil peace again; All onr cares and sorrows fly? . Sweet is sleep. , ."t ===== ' ;v RUMOROCS. v * > The place of wos?The stable.. " I'm down on you," said the incipient,; *" mustache to the dp. Sundries?Almost everything that.is, exposed to its rays. ' ^ r One rea on Chicago is not wealthy because the country around it is alwass- ' J\ III. -'v. t T is not the only letter of the alphabet: crosscd. Great seas are often crossed, . too. This is an apple year; but thisnot prevent a great many pairs at the : ~ altar. Lovers often differ, although it seemfc ' write that they should correspond.Statesman. . To check is to stop, except in case of ' a traveler's baggage, which ifl^bheckcj to make it go: Sage advice is applicable' when yon think of " stuffing " somebody.- Metf* den Recorder. ' v The fellow who picked up the hat 4' ponny originated the remark. "All th# * glitters is not cold." - ' ; There will not bo much kicking down*, .> stairs in that household. A Nashville bride and groom have one leg apiece. Ic was the cat. In a quarrel at Ithaca,. * a young man was knocked senseless-by . i cat in the hands of his opponent. v . ' ' "The Parlor Cattle Car Compato* has brcn incorporated in Cincinnati, and -f " Boud?>ir hog cars" are expected n?xt. Although a woman may ride alone' in a wagon she can never be lonely, because she always has felloes on each side of her. "That fellow is just like a tele3Cone,T 0 said a dashing New York girl. "You can draw him out, see through him, and shut him up again." Newly-married couples are so thick In. * * Washington hotels that the other gutsto : require no sugar in their coffee or syrup / t; on their griddle cakes. A New Yorker is named Stealing, an! he hates the name; but he took the carse^ oft :t for his daughter by making her* 7 Christian name " Worth." " A Blighted Life*' is the title of the latest English society novel, but the name of the lady who failed to get the ' sealskin sack is not given. .; . 1 It's wonderful how many thingi a' boy can hit with a coal scuttle on his :~way dcwa cellar wnen he has hid his feelings ruffled. Many a young lady is perfect in pressing autumn leaves, who leaves all tb^ on ssing of her clothing for her ajted -*-1 1 T77..4 moiuer mj peuuiui.? irutc/wv wwwf. A man was around yesterday who ?- ' :ould grind scissors in lour languages. ' Some of his remarks were shear nonipnse, and some very cutting.?Mcpregor Veto*. Consoling: Poor author?" IJeavens ivhat a pain there is in my head!" His vife?" Complaining of that! You >ught to be thankful there is anything n it." "Foiled by a Woman "was the title ?f the article, but the printer, who tvidently didn't go much on the poetical, et it up " Boiled by a Woman!"? v Ileriden Recorder. A Philadelphia man has perfected a >lan for bringing coal out of the cellar without exerting any of his muscle. He oakes his wife cart it up.?Philadelphia. Vironicle- Herald. A Chicago srrocer sells soap, every ? At- -1- -i ?u:_u enui CftKU UI WiilUU uuutams iu 1 to wuer a cold dollar, and the citizens of Chicago are getting to look tolerably lean.?Boi-ton Po&t. During one month last summer the * 'hiladelphia mint coined $600,000, and iow they all got past us without our eeing one of them is what astonishes us. Turlington Rawkeyc: "How shall I have my bonnets rimmed," asked Maria, "so that it ball agree with my complexionP" "H ou want it to match yoar face, have it lain," replied the hatelui Hattie. The statisticians wonder how it hapens that lightning strikes twice as lany men as women. We suppose the eason is there are more conductors mong the men.?New York Graphic. Time does not stop because a man's ratch runs down No more does a ewspaper because one man loses his ead and orders the paper discontinued o his address.?Fond du Lac Reporter. Now is the time to organize a " Shut tie D >or Club," says the Albany Argus. uch an institution will afford ttioso rho are charitably inclined an opporunity to promote a much needed r?- .t. arm. When a man asks a favor at a r.ewsaper office and slates that he^ has been . suosurioer ior a uuwuci ui jtm a, a lenial bccomes an impossibility. The rgument is clinched, and he can have he entire establishment for the asking. -Oil City Derrick. A girl in Dublin struck her croquet lartner on the head with the maliet; >rain fever set in, and the young man learly died. The girl was kept under Lrre9t until his recovery, and when he [ot well she married hin), and now he's orry he didn't die. "Did you break that window, boyP" laid the grocer, catching hold of the Ippinc iirnhin. "Yes. sir." " What^. I'ye mean by running off in this man-* ierP"' "Please, sir, I was running lome to get the money. I was 'fraid if [ didn't run quick I might forget." A heavy-weight magazine writer asks icr readers the following conundrum: Why is there so much wickedness in his beautiful wor.d of ours?" We eally don't know, unless it is because washwomen always send men's stocKngs home wrong side out.?Middlctown Transcript. "Why is a woman more afraid of a. nousc than a man?" inquired young smartboy of his best girl. " Ob, I aslure you," was ber reply, "a mouse is uuch more dangerous than a man,'* and the leaned so heavily on his arm that he or a moment really irnieined be a as a nan.?Acw Ilavci flo/itler" What do you eat those horrid mu*L ooms for, Matilda?" asked the dai ty ,\T" Augustus. " I don't see how you can .* K'ar them. They're nothing but a nasty uncus, anyway." "That's just it,' re)lied the fair Matilda, balancing a bit xf t'je libeled food on the end of J er ork; "l eat them for fun, Gus."?J3o t.n Transcr-yt. People who go into business by the ide of men wb&have a large business >uilt up by cdRtant advertising, and lever advertise a dollar, but depend i. on the drippings from the neighboring auctuary, are like boys who go out to i pigeon shoot and try to get enough > rds for a mess from tho*e who aet .way from the regularsport?rn<:n Such * life, and the piv-h>interi???U>n yo Run, ry .'?MHurnuktc Nun i