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ABBEVILLE PRESS* AND BANNERI - ?- ---- - -? = ?:?i BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.? WEDNESDAY, JUNE 29, 1881. , NO. 4. VOLUME XXVI. || A Woman's Parody. Who bullies u? iiinl calls us names. Makes life a burden with his garnet Our brother 1 Who takes us home from singing-school, Ami sweetly spoons ami plays the fool ? Our cousin ! Who hold our hands in his and kneels Uutil weh?ed his mad appeals? Oar lover ! Who pays his bills and undergoes 'J lie discipline that (.'audio knows V Our husband ! Who give us spinsters good advice, And tak e us out and are so n ee V Our bachelors! Who, all in all. arc none too good l or human nature's daily food V The men, God bless them ! ?San Francisco SucS'Lttttr, KATYS PUNISHMENT. " Bnf, my dear Katy, won't you listen i while I explain how it was that I was . iiuable ro be with you yesterday ? " " Xo, Mr. Amory, I will listen to no excuses, nor ilo I wish to continue your acquaintance. Did you not promise, for certain, to lie at the picnic and row me on the lake? And was I not asked 1 to keep the lirst dance for you ? A nice laughing stock you made of mo before Lizzie Randall and Clara Ward. Ol j course they knew why I refused to dance the first set?although Frank I Churchill would scarcely take a refusal. Then to think vi.u should have slighted me before them all! Don't think, sir, I allowed them to see I was annoyed; I jast danced all (he evening, and enjoyed myself thoroughly." "Dear Katy, I am so sorry I disappointed you; but?" !, "Disappointed! Mr. Amory, not at |; all. 1 found Jlr. Churchill a most I; amusing companion, and a much better j 1 waltzer than you are. Lizzie Kaiulall was cross enough when she saw that he ; did not leave my side all the day. But the most delightful part was his driving i j mo home in his charminc Stanlione. 1 ! 1 never enjoyed myself so much in my j ^ life. He drives admirably?as he dees everything else, I fancy. I expect him ] .every minute, for he said he should cer- ] tainly call and inquire how I was after < the exertion of yesterday." "Then, Miss Langley, 1 have the ] honor to wish you good-afternoon. I i should be sorry to intrude my unwel- j come presence when so entertaining a companion is expected." t Each turned from the other, Katy ] going toward the house and Mr. Amorv ] walking with quickened pace toward ] the village. i The above dialogue had taken place at the gate of an old-fashioned farmhouse, l The speakers had for some time been ] looked upon as lovers, although no l pledge had been made on either side. ( Katv's angry words will explain in what ? manner Harry Amory had offended. 1 one was an oniy cnuu 01 ranuer Langley's, who, Laving lost bis wife < when she was five years old, had since t done his best to spoil his pretty daugh- ] ter. At the time we make her acquaint- ! ance she was jnst eighteen, and although t a warm-hearted, afl'ectionate girl, vet } from her position as beauty of the village, had met with such homage from [ the village swaius that she could il1 ] ^ brook the apparent neglect of her most i favored lover. i Could Harry have seen her as she j hastened to her own little room, and t there, throwing herself on the bed, gave ( way to a hearty cry, he would not have t felt so bitterly angry at the petulant t beauty's harsh words. " I won't cry any more," said she; "he ( will be sure to come to-morrow, and i then I will be good and make it up with i him. He must know I did not mean ] what I said of that conceited Frank \ Churchill! I hate him, and only danced with him to tease Lizzie Randall, who i ] ^ makes love to him so openly. Harry ! i is worth a thousand such as he! Com- j < inp. father!" she cried, as she heard his .< voice. 11 " Where Lave you been, pussy? I j i have good news for yon. Harry Amory I j was sent for yesterday by the squire, and j i has been promised the steward's place. I always thought the Ld would do well. ( I met Humphrey, the head gardener, f and ho tells me it is quite settled. Harry j i was with the squire all day yesterday, ' 1 going over the accounts. I fancy some 11 one knows who will be mistress of that j pretty cottage near the park gates," he * added, pinching her cheek. "Ah, here 1 comes Harry. I suppose he'd rather tell the good news to you alone; so I'll ( be off to the kitchen and get something < to eat." t Katy's cheek flushed with pleasure as 1 she heard the latch raised, and she rose to welcome her lover. "What was her 1 f disappointment ana disgust to see?not i Harry, but Frank Churchill, who, no- : ] ticing Katy's eager joy, came forward j 1 with the greatest alacrity to take her , ] outstretched hand. ; Poor Katy could scarcely command herself to give the intruder a civil i greeting. Her guest, however, evi- ] dently considered his presence accept- 1 able, and took no notice of her erabar- t rassment; if he remarked it at all, he ? rather put it down to the overpowering ( honor he was conferring in visiting a mere farmer's daughter. c Pronlr h arl nniYin nn n vicif I r to his uncle, the village doctor. He ha'l 1 studied medicine, but having a small, i independent income, was too indolent to ^ make much progress in his profession i He was to stay with his uncle six < months, and then see if lie would like to be taken as his partner. f As yet he had done nothing toward ingratiating himself with his uncle's i patients; but, on the contrary, had j J caused great heart burnings in the i t younger portion of the inhabitants. The men despised him for his conceit and j j foppishness, while he looked upon 11 them jas mere clods. The village lapses 1 1 were dazzled by his fashionable clothes , l and his many perfumes. Then, again, i 1 he had brought from Loudon a Stan- i t hope, which had never been seen in ! t those parts before. j l Lizzie Randall, the lawyer's daugh- j { ter, laid furious siege to this Adonis, j but he treated all.with the most super- 1 < cilious air. Katy Langley alone had ' i passed him by as unworthy of notice; i < and this, from the village beautv, had j i piqued Lis vanity. On the day of (lie , picnic what was hi* delight to find that ( he had made a favorable impression! ] He thought it would be a good way of < passing his six months' probation to ' make love to the village belle. Katv was greatly relieved when her ! father entered the room, and so tcok j her visitor's attention from her.-elf. : Farmer Langley was not pleased to see j who his guest was, for he, like most others, looked upon him as an empty- j ( headed, affected fellow. The young ; man soon took his leave, after vainly j asking Katv to allow him the pleasure | of taking her for a drive on the morrow. ! Just as he was leaving the house he j came upon Harry Amorv, who, between | struggling with his anger and love, was j wandering about the neighborhood of j the homestead, undecided whether to j call and make it up with Katv or not. He had loved her for a long time, and | had only waited to have some settled ' income before asking her to be his wife, j1 "So, Amory, I have to congratulate I1 you on your rise in life." said Churchill. " Well, my good fellow, make haste and : find a wife to keep you company in i your pretty cottage. Shouldn't mind living there myself, and faucy I know 1 one who would be glad to go with me," j and ho nodded toward the homestead j farm. " Katv Langley is not so much j amiss, eh, Amory? And she's deucedly j fond of your humble servant. Well, ta-ta; shall be glad to hear just such another has taken a fancy to you." " The heartless coquette! So this is the fool's game 6he has been playiug with me!" exclaimed the irate lover. ' So that is the fellow she prefers to - me who has loved her so long! Let him have her, then, I say?but 1 won't stop here to witness her courtship. So this i is the end of all my hopes ! J nst as my j desire is accomplished, and I can offer j her a home, 1 am balked of my greatest treasure. I will l?e oil' to the squire, and let him know I have altered m mind about accepting the steward's olUce. Nod Glover will be glad to have it, so I shall be doing no harm. Ho good-bye, Katy Langley," he cried, as he waved liis hand toward the homestead. " May von be happy with your newfound lover." "Katv, child, what is this I hear? Giles, the plowman, has just brought the news that Harry Amory has thrown up his new situation and is gone to London! 1 wonder if the lad is mad ? lint what is the matter with the lass? Here, Martha, hurry! Why, the child has fainted!" Katv had not fainted ; she was keenly alive to her sorrow. So Harry had taken her hasty words in earnest, and was gone?forever, perhaps! Should she never see him again? Taking the weeping girl in his arms, her fond father soon learned the particulars of the lovers' quarrel. He saw his child was to blame, but could not understand Harry's not attempting to see her again. He did not know of his meeting with Frank Churchill, and the ??i.?? i.?.i luiis^ luijiivoaiuu uiai uau utcu utuuv^ on him. Poor Katy ! She was indeed severely punished for lier petulance. Three years passed away, and she only heard that Harry was in a merchant's ollice in London and was doing well. AH this time he had never once visited his native place. She hated Frank Churchill so thoroughly for being connected with her quarrel with Harry that even he could not mistake her sentiments toward him. Katy passed her time chiefly in attending to her old father. She seldom joined her companions in any of the villaere caveties. and was entirely changed from t ho hasty, coquettish lioautv who had sruitten so many hearts. .Many were the offers she had, but she turned a deaf ear to them all, vowing within to remain true to her love for Harry. " Katv, there if, to be a grand cricket match next week; so get your finery ready, child, and we will botli go to see it," said Farmer Langley. " I was a ?ood hand with a bat in my young days, jut I hear they have some new-fangled mode of bowling, and I should like to >ee it." Katy remembered with a sigh that Harry had been the best bowler in the tillage; bat she smothered it quickly md promised to be ready. Very lovely she looked on the Saturlay afternoon when she went with her j :ather to the cricket field. Her com- i plexion was still as purely white and ler cheeks as rosy red as when, three rears ago, she had parted from Harry. LStit now, acuieft to tins, was more sensijility?more heart in the expression of ler face; and her soft blue eyes, though jright as ever, were more often cast lown. Not a word had her father said is to who was expected to take part in :lie match. Harry Amory, after so long an absence, had come 011 a visit to an aunt in | lie neighboring town. His old com- I ades of the cricket club had soon looked ip their best bowler, aud upon his play : hey chiefly depended to beat their an :agomsis. "Ah, Amory, glad to see you again !" 1 Hie voice was Churchill's. "Just married, you know, and spending a few iveeks with the old man before settling u London. Deuced slow hole, this, to mss one's days in. Got the old fellow o advance me enough money to pur liase a practice. You know my wife, I hink; will go and bring her to speak o you." "Ah, Harry, how are yon, my lad? "ilad to see you again! How long do rou intend to stop among us ? But I vnof v,?f b/wvr. vrm ? eoi\l T,or>rr. i ey, " for there's the umpire calling you to play. I'll see you again presently." Harry's party were very nearly disappointed of their victory. He played so recklessly at first that the Ainsworth :lub was delighted. All at once he seemed to brace himself for the struggle, and one after the other threw down :heir bats to make room for others, till :he match was gained at a single inaing, with forty runs to spare. "Gloriously done, Amory!" said Churchill. " See your hand has not for-1 jot its cunning. But come, mv wife is n yonder tent, and wishes to congratuate yon. Here she comes to speak for lerself!" Turning quickly round to make his scape, Harry came face to face with a adv. " So glad to see you, Mr. Amory ! Charmed to think that you have beat- ' m the Ainsworth club? Don't you find he country dull after London ? Per)aps we shall be neighbors there." " Neighbors, Miss Bandall! Your ather is not going to London, is he ?" "Oh, dear, no! And I am not Miss 1 Randall," she simpered. "Why, you lave beer talking to my husband! Frank, I thought you had told Mr. Vmory of our marriage." Harry never knew what answer he j nade, but just then catching sight of Farmer Langley coming toward him, he lurried to him and astonished the wor,hy man by drawing him aside and jagerJy asking if Katy had not been )nce engaged to Frank Churchill. "Engaged to Frank Churchill!" ex- j laimed. the farmer. " What are you 1 reaming of V Katy despised the fellow! Ele's got his match now. Lizzie l'andall vas always a rare vixen, and her father vas only too glad to give Churchill a *ound sum of money to marry her. I lon't envy }jim his life with her." "But Katy! Is she single?where is ihe?" cried Harry. " Ab, lad, you were over hasty to take lotice of a spoiled child's angry words, she is not far oil'. I left her in one of lio " Katy watched the game with the greatest interest; she had at oncerecoglized the famous bowler, ami her heart jeat fast as she did so. Would he notice ler? Then; was her father talking to lira; and?yes, they were coming toward he tent! Seized with a sudden lit of iliyness Katy made her way out at the jack of the tent, but was soon overtaken I md brought back by Harry. "Katy, dear Katy!" he exclaimed; 1 three years ago 1 left you, thinking i i'ou had thrown me over for Frank j Jlmrchill. I was a mad simpleton for believing his boasting talk. I came tolay expecting to find you his wife, and anly just now found out how vilely I cave l>een deceived. Katy, will you forsrive me when vou know I have been wretched ever since we parted?" Katy's answer is not recorded; but what it was may be guessed from the fact that Harry left the cricket field with Katy leaning on his arm. Kaly being unwilling to leave her father, and the post of steward being again vacant aud a second time offered to Harry, he threw up his appointment in London and once more settled doivn in his native place. A month after the bells of the village church rang out merrily in honor of the handsome couple who wore that day united. None of us are perfect, and we have no right therefore to expect perfection in others. So if you cannot speak well of your neighbors, do not speak of them at all. A cross neighbor may be made a kind one by kind treatment. The way to be happy is to make others happy. To do good rs a luxury. If you are not wiser and better at the end of the day, that day is lost. Practice kindness, even if it be but to speak one word. Do not seem to be what you are not. Learn to control your temper and your words. Say nothing behind one's back that you would not say to his face. This habit of reticence, beside being a kindly one, is safe. Many a bitter harvest has been reaped from thoughtless words of censure. The largest'casting ever attempted in thisconntry was successfully made at the Morgan Iron Works, New York. It was a steam cylinder for an iron vessel now being built bj Johu Roach, for the Old Colony Steamboat Company, and the casting was done under Mr. Roach's personal supervision. FACTS AM) COMMENTS. The London Timvs, referring to tl extraordinary precautions taken to pr viile for (^ueen Victoria's safety durii her journeyings from palace to palae fliitilrt? 11iu iniuf mium /.i' 4 11 ? fl Government liave received in formati< I that the sovereign is threatened, or th | the recent catastrophe in St. lVtersbu: lias produced an impression in h Majesty's mind that all crowned heat are in danger. A Dakota herder was paid S'25,00 The fact was well known in the neig borhood, which was infested wil j thieves, and he had good reason to e pect tbat an attempt would be mat that night to rob him. He was not di appointed, for six separate gangs can to tbe house ; but they were great! disappointed, for on approaching ea( party received a bullet. Six thievi were wounded and the money was u: touched. Utah is just now the chosen field f( considerable Christian missionary worl There are forty-four Presbyterian mi sionaries in the Territory, maintained i an annual cost of $3(5,0110, the (jongr j gationalists are spending $30,000 in nc ; school-houses and churches, the Methi ! dists have twenty missionaries on tl 1 ground, and other denominations ai represented. These tremendous 01 slaughts have incited the Mormons t renewed zeal. Naam Lord, a resident of Friendshij N. Y., is a man who has undergou , more suffering than is usually allotte to man. For several years past M: Lord has been a victim of rheumatisn and he Los lingered along on the bank of death with one foot in the ejrave fc a long time. For about three years h has been blind, deaf and speechless Before he became speechless he used t moan and plead for death to reliev inm iroru liis agony, neissouetorme that the only position which he no1 rests in, or in fact survives, is a sittin one, with his head between his knee? nearly meeting his feet. It is Strang that some people have to endure s much sutlering, while young men ar often cut down and taken from us i their best and apparently healthies days. A Detroit (Mich.) doctor,who has vac cinated over 5U0 persons, reports man odd experiences with subjects unde the lancet. Not more than two me: out of ten have it done in a straightfor ward way. They hesitate, make in quirics, and postpone it a few days One insisted upon being strapped fas to his chair while the operation wa performed. Another wanted to tak chloroform. A negro was one day seei to walk past the office several times and the doctor finally stepped to th> door and asked him if ho wanted to b vaccinated. "'Deed, s?h, dat's what enm fox-," he replied, "but de weir minnit I turned dat corner de blamet inmg quit acmng : as a nut; me men when they feel the lancet, cry "Woosh! or " Thunder!" The women cr "Ouch!" generally, but now and the] one screams "Oh, Lordy!" Childrei have to lie Haltered, coaxed or scare* into submission. Details of the fate of that portion o the Flatters expedition which remainei in the Sahara under the command o Sergeant Pobequin present a scene o unsurpassed horror. The natives hav ing stolen all the camels which borcth water, the twenty-nine men made tliei way afoot to the caravan route in hop of meeting with succor But no caravai came in sight. Without either fooil o drink the men endured unspeakabl agonies for a time, but were at las driven to the fearful resoH of cannibal ism. Fifteen men were devoured ii turn, Pobequin being the fifteenth Then help came. A caravan arrived and provided the half-insane survivor with a small supply of food and watei but only in return for money. Wlie: at last they were rescued by the Me haris from Uargla, only twelve of ther remained alive, aud their minds am bodies were almost fatally wrecked b; the hardships they had undergone. Ilerr Heinrich Waldner, well knowi as the author of an exhaustive volum on the ferns of Central Europe, ha *% ??<!/ ? n Avnofinrv i frt flv juiuuu an liiiviuoixu^ twuun/uwuu iu literature of sun spots in their relatioi to good and bad vintages. He has con structed a series of tables showing tha the minimum of the sun spots corre sponds with the good years, the maxi mum of the sun spots with the wet am bad years, when great inundations ant hailstorms have occurred. Thus th< years 1810, 1823, 1834, 1844, 1856, 186' and 1870, in which the sun was almos entirely clear from spots, concur ex actly or nearly with those years of thii century which have been most famou as the good wine years, namelv, lnll 1822, 1834, 1S40, 1857, 1808 and 1875 Herr Wuldner calculates that the nex exceptionally good year will be 1887 o 1888. The wine errowers of ?Switzerlan< have afforded an opportunity for doc tors to disagree by inviting Professo Rudolf "Wolf, director of the Zuricl observatory, to give his opinion o Herr Waldner's theory and prediction That the Russian peasantry are no wholly unreasonable in their presen wish for agrarian reform, one exampl< out of many will sullice to show. 1 peasant in one of the eastern provinces whose crops had failed, having with dif lieulty maintained his household dur ing the winter, found himself absolutely without resources in the spring. Afte: vainly asking help from his neighbors he at length applied to a wealthy money lender who had more thau once prolitei bv his distress, and offered to work fo: him during the whole summer as a com mon laborer. The other named a sun so far below even the meager marke rate of twenty cents a day, that the peas ant saw at once that it would barel; suilice to keep his wife and childrei from starvation, leaving absolutely nothing for himself. " Have pity npoi me, your honor," he ](leaded; " I mus starve if you won't give me more thai that." "Starve, then, and be cursei to you," retorted the heartless usurei " it's no affair of mine." Driven to des pi'iation, the poor fellow sat down a his hard-hearted employer's door ain cat his own throat. An extensive and novel form of land lordism has been established in I own Mr. Close, representing some Englis] capitalists, bought 10,0(11) acres of land divided it into farms of 10(1 acres eacl brought tenants from England and noi lias it all under tillage. " Our system, i?Ir. Close says, "is not to hold virgi: land on the chance oi a rise in value but, by building houses and plowinj the sod, to improve the property we bu and make it productive of inconu wherein we conceive lies the distinctio between legitimate business and specn lation in land. Each 100 acres is lei ; as a rule, to one tenant, who provide labor and machinery, paying us rent fc j wheat lands in kind, on the half-shar system, and for Iudian corn lands n about. $2 per acre. The tenant's ow labor, with one assistant, usually a sor is enough, except at harvest-time, t cultivate 100 acres, if divided betwee wheat and Indian corn. Thus on laborers are directly interested in tli yield, and we think we combine tli : economy of large buildings with tli efficiency and productiveness of smal In 1S80 and for 1881 we could have h i our farms twice over, livery fort farms or thereabouts are placed und( the superintendence of a steward, wlj is controlled directly by ourselves." James D. lihynms was a patient in private mad-liouse. Mrs. Bigelow, wil : of the i?liysici:in in charge, took a dee interest in his case. .She believed tin insanity could best be cured by.mori suasion and generally mild treat men and she chose Tthymus as a subject o whom to test her system, lie steadil improved, until at last sanity was r< established. In the meantime. Mr Bigelow became a widow. She soo I afterward married Rliymus, and he b j ? : camo a physician. That was twenl years ago. Dr. Hhynms made insanil ie a specialty in his practice, and h? o- 1 charge successively of many asylum ig Ho adhered to the theory of mild trea e, ment, which had proved efficacious i ie his own case, and for the purpose < >n putting it into thorough practice 1 at leased, a few weeks ago, the Gran rg View hotel, near Denver, turning it in: er an asylum. In order to train his keepe -Is by degrees he at iirst admitted on! I three patients, and these were suppose | to he only slightly deranged. But 1 0. j was mistaken in one of these, and oi h- | morning found himself attacked by tli furious madman, who choked him i v- i sfinsiblfi. and would have killed him le his wife had not fought heroically i s | free him. During the commotion causc ie ' by the struggle t lie two other patien ly ! escaped, and one of them drowned hie li J self. This bad beginning of the ente PS | prise drove Dr. Rhymns insane agaii n- j and while out of his mind he slew h j wife. u- ( About Peas. k. i The pea is a nativo of Southei s-. Europe, where it is extensively cult it vntod. osiiftciallv in the French pro e- inces. The flower is generally wliit w though some unusual species bear a dot > j pink, or red blossom. There are fh ie i principal and quite distinct forms of tl *e ! common pea. They are thy tiacchuratu; i- j (Seringa), or sugar pea; the Macroca, o i pmn, or large-stem pea ; the Umbellatun j or English crown pea ; the Quadrat un or French pea, and the Humile, or dwa: ">, ' pea. From these have sprung man e j varieties, which are scattered throng] d | out the world. Of some twenty vari< r. j ties grown in Europe only five are esp< i, | daily recommended as profitable to tL :s | agriculturist. They are the "Enrl >r | Fame," the "Charton," the "Blue Prui e, sian Imperial." the "Blue Imperii i. Dwarf" and ''Knight's Marrowfat." o | Peas were first brought to this cour e try by the Huguenot refugees, and liav d ever since been cultivated more or les iv* extensively in the district lying betwee g New York and South Carolina, thong !, i they may be grown in any part of th e ! United States where.the soil is suitabh o I except in the extreme South, where th e | climate is too hot. There are seven n : varieties grown here, but the most con: it i mon are the "Dan O'Rourke," "Earl ! June," "Blue Imperial," "Champion c { England and "Marrowfats," the latter b( !-; ing generally acknowledged the favoi j i ite from their tender, succulent propel r j ties. q ! The nutritious quality of peas is nc _ | so fully known as it should be. Ther is perhaps no vegetable grown so ric! i. in those properties which tend to suj it I port human life. An analysis of 1,00 s j parts pea Hour gives the following re e suits : -j 574 nutritive matter. 353 mucilage. ' 22 augar. B I 35 gluten, e j 10 insoluble extract. ^ j Although there is quite a number c ! packers engaged in canning peas, ; although the quantity packed'is increaj | ing yearly, yet so far the chief labor in j volved in the operation?that of shellin <7 | ?is done 'entirely by hand, some pad; Q ers employing at times as high as on 1 thousand shellers. It is therefore m j sonable to suppose that ingenuity wil j ere long devise some means by which pea .! may be expeditiously shelled throng :, the ageney of machinery. When thi j1 occurs we may expect much lower price *: than has heretofore characterized thi j article. * i After the peas are shelled they ar e | passed through screens, by which th I different sizes are separated, the small 0 est being classed as Extra Early, am II i Sifted, and command by far the bes r ; price. After being sorted they are place* ? j in perforated buckets and immersed ii boiling water. When partially cookei "! they are put in cans, and again placet a i in boiling water. The cans are then rc !' I moved and the caps soldered on. The ' j then undergo processing in steam r< 8 j torts or kettles. When this operatioi ' ! is completed they are removed am 11 i placed in the warehouse, where they re j main ten or twelve days ; when, afte '} being found in good condition, they ar | labeled and packed in cases, ready fo y shipment. Much care lately has been exercisei ; in this country in the selection of stock 1 and the quality of domestic canned pea e | has become so excellent that the impor 8 : tation of the French article is said t 0 i have fallen off fully eighty per cent. 3 ! our extra sifted being regarded by ex 'j perts as fully equal, if not superior, ti t j the very best imported. " j Within a few years the exportation o nnnl oc frnm flii? r?miTit.rv in TViini'i | vwivu """ ?? J * j has enormously increased. It is no\ * j said that a considerable part of this use * fill product comes back in the form o ' Normandy cider arid light claret. Lat frosts are reported to have injured th " French apple crop, and of course thi s ! country will be expected to supply th s | deficiency, in accordance with the usua ? | custom of providing for the world' * wants.? Baltimore Sun. r j ? I; A Piii liter's Nerve. -! Bernard Koeliler and Fritz Hisgen r ' two house painters, were painting i i large house in Cincinnati. Three o'clocl f in the afternoon found them close uj . under tho eaves of the house and sixty five feet from the ground. They ha; t just finished the surface within reach am t' had started to lower the scaffold a fe\ 5 ; feet. When the required distance hat ^ I been reached Hisgen called to his part , ! ner to hang on to the rope until In - j (Hisgen) tied his own, when ho wouli -1 come over and perform a like service fo r I him. Hisgen had just completed hi r ! own lcoot when Koehler cried out , j "Come over, quick, I can't hold it.' . j Hisgen, as quickly as possible, startei 1 I across the aerial bridge, but had no r ; g->ne two steps when he saw the mai - j let go his hold and felt the ladder giv< i I way beneath his feet. As ho began tli< t fall, in tin *Uoigy of desperation, he with both hands, grasped the almos tr ; smooth top of the fourth-story windov \ | cornice, and there hung in tho air, i y ! distance of sixty feet from the pave i j ment. Ho then cave an exhibition o t nerve that terrified every one who sav \ it. Placing the toe of one boot again i .1 the window frame he gave his body s ; ! slight pendulum motion away from th : house. A second push gave him a bet ,t tcr impetus, and as he swung on the re 1 turn toward the window he released hi hold and went crashing through th glass safely to the lloor of the fourth I story room, from whence he immedi ately looked out through the apertur li he had made to see what had become o [f his companion. Koeliler had not bee: i, quite so fortunate. As ho went shoot ,v ing through the air ho caught th " hanging rope with both hands and les u soned his speed all the way down at th >, i expense of till the cuticle of his palm? g which was burned off by the frictior v lie landed in a sitting posture on th >( sidewalk and was taken to the hospita n with a pair of very sore hips. ! (Jetting Hid of Hats. s | Many farms are so infested with rat >r as to cause serious loss to their occn e pants, and various remedies are resorte i | to for their destruction. None wil n i prove so effectual, however, as to mak i, I a simultaneous attack upon them "al c i along the line," by setting steel trap! n deadfalls, triphead barrels, delusio ir trups, together with a poison box, c e | box in which you have continued t e feed them on cheese, buttered breat e | &c., until they will almost come for ca 1. : ling, when saturate their bait wit ;t deadly poison, and they nn y i their neighbors will come flocl >r ing in to enjoy the repast, whicl o J as soon as partaken of, and resolution of thanks passed for the kindness, wi cause them to retire handsomely to re> a forever. This, and keeping a tliorougl Fe bred rat-terrier or two trained for th p purpose, will soon make the place to it hot for them. But to render their e: il termination the more complete, concei t, of action must be had by all interested n Every farmer should take his own pren ly j ises in hand, and then, after so arranf d- ing his outbuildings as to shut the d< f. strnctive animals out, he can mako up u of the above means with every prospe< e j of success. ty | DECORATION NOVELTIES. id j London women decorate their horses' s. j heads by putting a spray of artificial t-! flowers into tho bridles. in in : There is more sat in manufactured at | de of present than any otlier goods made of; vi 10 ; 811K. j til ill1 Among the eleeancies in drawing sh to rooms are incense burners of bronze, in j th rs: which pastilles, emitting a fragrant nc [y j smoke, are kept constantly burning. | tli iti: "Papeteries" are made of willow in e7 le : imitation of champagne baskets and ; co le ' hampers. When lined with satin or j to j silk they make ve:y pretty work-bas- j te a- kets. ' th if Braided chair seats are really fashion- j nc to able. Tliey are mode lrom nice pieces j ce id of silk or woolen, sewed together like \ wi ts mats and bordered with velvet. ; h; a- Very large, scented sachets aro made th r- to lay outside a bed as an ornament, j "; a, They are composed of quilted or plain , in is satin, with a largo monogram in the j an center. I T7rtrtfI>Aro nro rnn/-?l' ncorl fnr fl PPArf iHfrt I purposes in England, being applied to ; T1 n [ chairs, stools, mantels, settees anil in I fa j. i fact everything in which color can be eh v-. | applied. an e | Pretty bannarets are made of coarse ; w| ,,j j gray linen painted in water colors with j oil -e i designs from Kate Greenway. They are i sh ie J lined with the same material and bor-1 m m | dered with plush. [ Rt| A pretty cover for an upright piano is. j Bi j made of wine colored silk serge, with | do i' ends of plush of the same shade. On j an rf the corners are embroidered yellow but- f.-e j tercups and sprays of yellow laburnum. j. Library chairs and sofas are covered 1 Uq with Daglristan rugs. The backs of I j. these pieces of furniture are square, I 'e and the trimming is fringes and ro- j y I settes of wool matching the rug. i ^e, 3. | The latest thing in wedding arrange- I ve t] ments is?after a small wedding?for ye] 1 the bride's parents to send an engraved ! , i_ card announcing the marriage to all e heir acquaintances. ! 1S j A freak in sunshade decoration is the | , n j substitution of two flowers for the tas- j c x h sels on tbe nancues. xney are oniy i e used when tlie covering is brocade and > catches the blossoms on the silk. ?o: e A New l'ork sportsman gave a dinner m Lj at which the table was decorated with 1 t_ two horses of white carnations, with (G v ruanes of white lilac, tails of pampas 0. ,f grass and blankets of red carnations. Je >. The rage for insect decorations is on i .. the increase. Was^s, bees and butter* je . flies are in favor, and very life-like bee- Titles are seen made of mother-of-pearl i ( it and gold. tlo e White snowdrops and white clover be h blossoms will be the coming floral gar- t nitures for bridesmaids and young grad- ?r) 0 _ ?f A Tremendous Vision. ! ^ie CO] In the dreamland of delirium, the ^ wild flight of fancy, in the agony of , malaria, lingeriug near the great gates . between time and eternity, this writer e stood on Broadway in 1(J81. The chil- c.?{ this generation- had been swept aW, Lj un^cn'njj time. Where, once ^ i_ stood tlie Metropolitan there how'1^ l" towered a colossal glass and steel con- j S cern twenty-one stories high, with live j * ; :* undergronnd. The pnmrietors paid a { e hundred thousand rent, had two lmr.-' eai L_ dred and eighty departments, and two j tin 1 thousand men. Their sales ran to one : of 8 hundred millions, and their terms cash ' of I1 before delivery. King Credit had long i sol 8 slept in oblivion. Aerial navigation lie 8 had nearly starved the iron horse, and mi s electricity was the motor of heaven and nei earth. Four intense dazzling suns illu- j [ e minated the city as it' it were midday. j no e A factory in 35Stli street, away beyond ! ofli tlio Spuvten Dnyvil, 452 feet high, ! tra ^ covered six acres, a {. rain elevator at! tin t j Hell Gate 800, and th? observatoiy at' 1-i; Ilockaway, npon the L aack's estate, all of 111 solid steel, stood up 1,200 feet, or near-j hif 1 j ly a quarrer of a mile. ' 00( ^ j The old five and si:-: stories of iron ! tin !* and brown stone had 'reen swept from ' Y the track of relentless and resistless | 3 science. Manners and language and j ] 111 people had changed, and everything ! ^ j was grand, massive, and stupendous. tj1( I Wall street had long ago gone to Union > r Square, and the new City Hall, costing ^ e twenty-five millions, occupied the entire jar r square, its flag floating n thousand feet | j|e above in the blue azure of heaven. ! ^ i The Sun was now a septuple, issued ' ai]) > tour times a dav, with a million circnla-1 ov: 8 ion- * . . Ife. ' j Far Rockaway was the eastern limits 0 | of the city, Mount Vernon the northern, \ Wf( > j Paterson the western, and the popular I jk, I tion sixteen millions. A pneumatic car Cjj? 01 whirled to tlieso points every three jec ! minutes, transit time seventy-five ' (i1( f seconds.' | ^ e | Briefly the proprietor spoke of tlr 31 8U v | coming age of the twenty-first century, I anj { when these pyramids of grandeur anil i a j( f | lofty magnificence would disappear be- ! 0f e : fore the paragons of perfection in tlw 1 an( e j gigantic future. Vast and sweeping j C0I 3 I changes had altered the face of tho ; jia( f ! world. A one-cent stamp carried a let- j 1 j ter to the ends of the eartli; a cable; car s j message around the world one penny il , fac I word. Spain had followed Italy in tbo | ?< i abolition of monarchy in 15)01. Eng- j me ' land and liussia were the last on the t])f I Continent to give way to the demand:): act ' | of the age of progress. The American ^a] ? i language was the universal and only one. ' 0 j From New York to London and Parii; tj|? _ the daily mail outstripped the storm je[) 1 Time, lifty-two hours. San Francisco wa I j had five millions, and Chicago hat! fec FI reached nearly two, but was going back- j gI1( I ward ; powerful rivals in the Northwest, j ^ _! had crippled and outranked her. Is a"! bei , tional disputes were settled by the j-or I ! World's Congress, and not an armed a]1| [f j soldier stood upon the earth nor an cj1( ' armed vessel floated the sea. There me j was not a bond of the United States in ?| existence, and there was a thousand j million in its treasuries. The United ya ^ I States^ including Canada, Mexico and j jn, j South America, numbered seven hun- j ^ , dred millions, an<l was called America, j S(j? g Navies, armies, debts, credits, gas and j nQ, steam had gone l>y forever and belong- re(, ? ed to auc.ent history, and the Indian ! |ja] , and Mormon, the Ethiop and the Chinee ; ^er a and the Teuton and the Irish, all con-1 QU| densed into the Miscegen, ran the He- j w t publican ticket and the native born the ! QUj * Democratic American.?HmmuniU Home, i a A Mouse Komeily for Lockjaw. j coj ' Hitherto there l as been no remedy | ?u e which conhl be regmled as specific for | j?? tetanus. At last, however, an ingenious ! c * French physician has apparently hit! *:?j s upon a remedy before which tetanus j 1 0 yields as readily as toothache yields to 11111 the dentist's forceps, and which will, of ov< * com ', supersede curare and all other ? inferior remedies. The French doctor in question was called in to attend a ^ Q lady sufferiug from tetanus. In his report he says that she was a married e woman of thirty-ore years of age, and ! s'l( 1 "j Miat previous to his visit her family 'es c physician had tried every known remedy CU1 '? j lor tetanus, including curare, without j 1)U! ' ] producing any effect. The patient was j ] ? lying on her back, with her jaws tightly j Pr( l* closed, and the muscles of her chest and ! crc throat were so rigid that she was unable ! *? to utter a sound. The doctor at once ! ^ils went ont and procured a live mouse oi i ^V1 s the usual size aud voracity, to the tail Ce l" of which he attached a strong horse-1 J'0il (| liair. Placing the mouse at the foot of *u * ! the bed, he permitted it to walk the ; (w ? | entire length of the patient's body. Xo ' *ro j sooner did the patient notice the mouse ' th< '? j than she sprang lip, loudly calling to n ' the attendants to take it off, and do- j the 'r I nouncing tlie doctor as a horrid, heart- j ^ta ? i less wretch, who ought to be ashamed i ds ? | of himself and guillotined on the spot. on< There was no recurrence of the symp-' toms of tetanus. In fact, the doctor 0,1 (11 adds that the lady's jaws were so thor-; j onghly anil permanently unlocked that, 011 l> | the husband, who is, of course, ignorantj J-'1 ^ i of law, has threatened to begin an action j 8f>? I for damages against him.?Ifomu'ojxithic j e,l ifc Gazette. ; eat i- ? ? j rai o Frank Bush and his wife, of Clarion, : of o i 0., agreed at their marriage that if any j otl t-' quarrel ever arose between them it j em rt! should be left to tlie decision of three i a ' 1. j referees. Mrs. Bush lately visited hoi : pa i-! mother and refused to return home, i j- | The case was fully presented to the j j- | referees, who decided that the wife was ,;ii if-' wrong and must go back to her husband, tin :t, i They also voted to censure the mother- inf I in-law. pe: SUNDAY READING. SeoliiE In a Fog. A friend of ours, last March, sailg down the tine coast, came on ck one morning to find the airperded by a fog so thick as to shut off e vision for even a few yards from the earner. He had been aware, during e night, of a peculiar vigilance and tivity on board, and ascertained that e fog had lasted since the previous erring. On inquiring of the captain ncerning their whereabouts he was Id that they had passed Capo Hatras in the night, "flow did yon know at? Conld you see the light?" " Oh, ), not in a fog like this." "Well, you rtainly could take no observations ithout a star in sight." " No; but we ive other ways of seeing where we are an these you have mentioned." How?" "By the lead. Our soundgs told us when we were off the cape, id when we had passed it." The spiritual have other means of eing than wbat we call our sight. iey see by the lead. That lead is ith. All distinctly Christian seamanip consists in the use of this " vision d faculty divine." There are nights :ien the heavens seemed walled above ir Leads, and no light shines from the ore; when, through the moaning and I rt * ? ?"K 4- tta ! > r> fa f a r\nco flin iviuigiiu ncan, wu XJU>O iy j^/uoo mo Drn.y and perilous crisis of our life, it we go on, sounding the very ptLs that encompass and imperil us, d find in the rocks and shoals themIves our chart and our security. For 3 walk by faith, not by sight.?Intel'encer. IteligiouM New* anil Xotcn. The salary of the bishops of the Uni1 Brethren in Christ is only SI,000 a ar, with traveling expenses and house at. The Methodist Episcopal church has Iovra 813 churches and 74,781 cominicants, a gain in ten years of 320 arches and 14,687 communicants. The supreme court of the State of line: decides that " a church is not a rporation with authority to create debt erecting a house of worship." The general synod of the Reformed erman) church in session at Tiffin, , elected by acclamation the Bev. remiah H. Good, D. D., as president. Of the 1,S96 Sunday-schools in New rsey 1.394 are open the whole year. te lmernauonai lessons a,r? mu^ut m 5-t-i of them. The next State convenn will be hold in Passaic in Novemr. The general conference of .the Con- i Rational Methodist church, a body i about 10,000 members, has just been Id in Fredonia, Ga. All the State aferences were represented except > 3se of Missouri and Texas. : I'ho Presbyterian work among the 1 edmen the' past year was quite sue- 1 isful. The receipts of the year were j 3,711, with which 162 preachers and tellers were employed. There are in ' ; fifty-two schools 5,340 pupils. The ' 1()ltT "ntrnrbw??oL jjpmmunicants is 555. Dr. Murdock, secretary of the Ameri- 1 i Baptist missionary union, spoke at 1 ? recent anniversary in Indianapolis the need of more missionaries. Most the candidates who have offered them- , ves want to go to some particular Id u-lipre additional heln is not so ich needed. Reinforcements are most 1 eded for Japan, Burmah and Spain. j The number of Salvation army stations ] w reported in Great Britain is 185; of | icers, employed and paid, 395, and of j ined speakers, G, 180, while total sit- ( g accommodation is provided for , 1,900 persons, and the total number people reached in the streets and ] jhways weekly is computed at 3,000,J. The annual amount of expendi- , c reaches nearly 890,000. I _ j Snowballing a Fire. ( [n some reminiscences of Montreal, i en in the Star of that city, we find i i following: One morning in January, ] 1G, after a heavy fall of damp snow 1 j duy before, a fire broke out in a i ge wooden warehouse at Point a Cal- f re, occupied by D. W. Eager, in i ich were stored 600 barrels of pork j :1 several hundred barrels of flour. It i dently raught near the top, for in a 1 v minutes the roof of the building, i ich was of great length, was almost i eathed in smoke and flames, while ] > walls remained intact. A large ; iwcl of men and boys rapidly col- i ted until nearly 500 were present, but i ) engine for some reason not arriving, i :1 the river, the only source of water ] jply, being covered with thick ice, I i above all the crowd being without eader and utterly confused, nothing < importance was done to stop the fire, i 1 4- K r\ CAOTYia/l rl AAmn/1 fn i I IliD UlUJViiU^ O&CUiVU VlVSWAJaVrVA uv I nj:lete destruction. Just as this idea I settled into a conviction in the uds of those present, Henry Corse no rushing over to the scene from his tory, shouting at the top of his voice: Yhat are you thinking of, n? Why don't you snowball it fire out?" and suiting the ion to the word he caught up a idful of the damp snow and flung it ward. The crowd caught the idea on ) instant, as all they wanted was a iler, and, making a solid rush forrd, they caught up the snow at their t, and a moment later a thousand jwballs were mounting fireward and ling with a hiss on the blazing timrs. Never was such & sight seen bee ; the immense crowd surrounded , .1 stormed the tire-fiend with a will, ;ering and shouting in their excite-: 1 nt; the snow-missiles flew upward s cker than hail falls in December; s ! great snow fight of Napoleon and ; fellows at Brienne school was noth- t j in comparison to it. Almost after i ) first half-dozen volleys the fire mod to pause as if astonished at the t rel mode of attack; before it could 1 over another and another storm of t lis fell ujjon it until beaten and bat- s ed down at one point and flaming \ t at another, assailed by a moving 1 II of icy missiles wherever it burst s t with renewed violence, in an hour's | 1 io it was completely uamea ana uncier i ltrol, and in another hour entirely s nlued. The only loss to the build- i ; was its roof, badly burned, while c i stores of pork and Hour inside were ] nparatively undamaged. The crowd \ perscd in the highest good spirits, 1 I the afl'air was talked of and laughed \ .>r for munv a day afterward. t ? f The How. 1 Gotten Row, the famous ride of Hyde rlv, and the delight of fashionable I ? ndoners, is about two hundred yards 1 >rt of a mile in length, and a trifle 1 > s than forty yards in breadth. It, oc- f ues a district apart from the main s rk ; it is entered only at its two ends ;: t s crossed by no road, and during I f mtenade hours no ono is allowed to J f iss it on foot. The carriage entrances 1 Hyde Park are here abreast of the: ( hionable quarter of London, and are | \ ice as far apart as those provided for j c ntral Park. There is no carriage j i id adjoining the 1'ow ; it is separated j ^ most of its length by the Serpentine ! f ater) from the fashionable drive and 1 in the more attractive rural parts of J t * park. No one goes near it except1 s the ends, unless it is to ride or see j 1 i riding. Owing to these circum-1 c nces great freedom can be allowed in < use. It is common to gallop from .1 to end of it; there is no tixed limit speed, and the police are instructed ly to check at discretion dangerous ; ( ing?what is dangerous depending the quality of the rider and horse, e men and women who show them- u ves upon the Row are as a mle finish- j equestrians. There are walks on j ;h .side of the ride guarded by strong' lings and furnished with seats. One j these walks is nino yards wide, the ; t ler live. They are fashionable prom-1 ides, ladies leaving their carriages for j walk much more in all European ! j rks than with us, 1 t - ! ] A. New York man has discovered an { ivisible soap." It is the same article j it small boys have used in their morii? ablutions from the most remote riod. 1 A RATTLESNAKE'S SPRING. '.I'olns to Bc?l with n Rattier In n MoiintnliirrrNCnbln-A Nlulii of Terror--Flnliiini Tor Sunken with 1'oI?n mid Stisllliii; Them tor DltiMcum*. ] "You may talk about your Catskills,' J < said a man on the hotel piazza last even- ' ing, "but did you ever in your life see j < anything more beautiful than that?" and he pointed to the billowy r inge of Blue llidge Mountains, whose tops were 1 losing themselves in the soft, misty hue 1 of twilight. "I tell you," he continued, ] "there are no more beautiful mountains | in this country than these Virginia peaks. ] There is only one thing I have against < them : they arc just jam full of snakes." ! < "So I have heard, but it has never : been my fortune to meet with any face to face." I "You can thank your lucky stars then," ; said the man, who was a drummer for a \ Baltimore firm. "I met one face to face ] in the most unpleasant manner a few , nights ago. I had occasion to take : ) quite a trip on horseback?you know j \ everybody rides horseback in these parts j j ?and, after trotting along for two or : three hours, I struck up into the moun- j tain. The sun was slowly sinking, cast-: ing its beautiful lights and shades, with ^ all their delicate witchery, over the sur- !. rounding landscape. It was beautiful, . and I gazed, enchanted, upon a scene ' which I cannot describe. Arousing my- j! self from my reverie, I was warned by !, the deepening shadows to hasten on. I j had chosen a path which was little more \1 than a bridle path, and at each step the [ way was becoming moro rough and J nicced. Over broken rocks and fallen trees I pursued ray way with great difficulty. As the shadows deepened and 1 objects became less discernable, my ' horse began to manifest unmistakable : signs of fear and uneasiness, shying at times so violently as to almost throw me j 1 from the saddle. At last, to my great; J satisfaction, I distinguished the sounds of human voices. Pushing on in tho ' direction from which they proceeded, I came upon a group of men standing in \' front of a rude log cabin. They were 1 rough mountaineers, and made a living ! by distilling whisky. Riding up, I in- M quired the distance to my place of des- * tination. It was several miles further '{ on. I was not acquainted with the way. 1 It would have been dangerous for me to '' have kept od, and I asked if I could be i' accommodated for the night. 'Get down, ] stranger; get down,' was the ready re- ] sponse. 'We haven't much in this wild 1 country, but what we have is at your ] service.' I was pretty stiff after my long 1 ride and gladly dismounted. As I!1 jumped from my horse I saw upon the 1 ground at their feet what, upon examin- 1 ation, proved to be a large snake. It11 was a moccasin, six feet long, and an ugly-looking customer. My exclamation 1 of alarm drew from one of the men the I remark that the snake had been dis-: patched but a few moments before my I irrival. 'We had a pretty hard job of it,' he said, 'but we lixed him at last, j We don't care much for them; but the * fact is when we do spot a big snake < ?lose by we don't choose to have him i loafing about the place too familiarly, i < jrou know, for he might snap up some 1 srre-of us when we are not thinking of ] it, so we settk.him at once.' " 'How do yoiidoit^:'_I asked. , " 'Well, when hu is a fine "old -rattler ( sve try to secure him without breaking^' liis hide. We draw his attention 1 by , putting something on the end of a pole an which is also a snare, and when the , Did fellow pops up his head from be- , bind the log we just drop the snare over , liim and one of us runs up, catches him bv the neck and Duts a spike throuerh iiis head. That is, when we catch them to stuff for your museums. 0, there f ire lots of them about here, lots of them, j' We have several fine old fellows on liand now.'" ! "I listened in silence. Not a very in- i siting prospect for a night's lodging, I thought, as I stood debatingin my mind the advisability of moving on in spite sf darkness and rough roads. A summons from the cabin to supper decided me, however. The cool mountain air iiad proved a keen appetizer and I :horoughly enjoyed the plain but sub- f itantiai meax 01 corn-Dreau ana Dacon. ^ Supper over, we repaired again to the j iront of the cabin. A feeling of exhilaration came over me?a feeling which a ^ man can only experience by going into j the very heart of the mountain. The noon had risen and around and above t ne the trees nodded in a flood of silver light. Picturesque and beautiful beyond description was the scene, banish- j jig from my mind all disagreeable and * anpleasant thoughts. Each rock, crag 1 md bush seemed under the mystical * light to become transformed into some- ? ;hing lovely and fairy-like. "But even the loveliness of the night j ;ould not dispel the weariness which ' vas gradually stealing over me nor r :empt me longer to remain, so accom panied by mv host I was shown my j juarters. It was a little low room, seeming to be off from the main building. Through the chinks in the logs \ ;ame the moonlight in little patches. ( The window, a small port-hole concern, ' i?as built right up against the mountain \ tnd beneath it huge clumps of rock 2 ind underbush. As I stood in the dis- 1 nal, comfortless room I confess to a 1 'eeling of great nervousness. I did not j ike the looks of things at all. Back to t nv mind flashed the stories of the eve- a ling. I was conscious for the first 1 I ime in my life of being actually afraid. [ set about my preparations for the n light with as good a stock of courage g is I could summon to my aid, making a c :arefnl survey of the room and filling ' ip the chinks as best I could. Hardly r lad I finished ere my candle flickered, iputtercd spitefully and went out. I o sought my straw bed, placed my revol- " rer under my coat and settled myself to a ry and sleep. But sleep I could j: lot. ji "After passing what seemed hours of A vakefulness, extreme weariness and the r ow wind soughing through the pines C lirew me at last into a restless uneasy o lumber, in which my dreams were tilled r vith frightful visions, rrom one more u lorrible than all the rest, I woke with a li ;tart. From tlie foot of the bed came a {' larsh, grating sound. What could it li >e ? I tried to assure myself that the a lound held no significance for me, hut f nstinctively I felt a horrible sensation fi >f something near?dangerously near, b [ raised myself up, only to sink back , ti villi a low cry of horror. The moon- (, iglit, streaming info my window, re- n realeil to me my situation. There, at p lie side of the bed, slowly coiliug itself g or a spring, was a hugesnuke. I quick- n y felt for mv revolver. It was gone, a the agony of the moment was beyond ji ill words. I tried to jump to my feet. I Yt that moment the snake sprang tovard me, just grazing my shoulder and ! a ailing with a heavy thud on the other o lide of me. With one bound I reached d ;he door, and with a wild cry of alarm L iroused the inmates. Almost instantly I ill hands were on the spot. They found tl lis pnakeship just retiring through one si )f the holes between the logs. He h vas soon disposed of and proved to lie w l rattler seven feet long, with thirteen tl attles. A search was made lor my re- a: olver. It was found to have slipped d rom beneath my coat to the floor, pro- v\ jably while I was asleep. Sleep came o o my eyes no more that night. No g sooner had the gray dawn appeared than mounted my horse and left the a abin, with a feeling of great relief.? n ultil<ul*lphia Tnties. ii ? i e WsiMi't Her Fault. j 4 A Brooklyn father rebuked his ugly ' laughter for being rather forward. He v laid : | a ' You ought to lie ashamed to be o ilways running after young men." li "It is not my fault," she responded. <' " Whose fault is it ?" ; " It is their fault. If they wo Id i I itand .itill I would not have to run a er I hem."? )!'</// IS'reet (tdg&Jte. , 1 j t A very handsome dining-room car has ' ust been completed at Wilmington for lie Charleston, Savannah and Florida s Express line. This is a new feature in t Southern railroading, but marks a step t n the right direction. \ ? 1 Twelve years ago Gen. Beauregard in- I a rented the cable street railroad. j e SCIENTIFIC NOTES. According to Mr. A. Renvnard the svater in which hemp has been steeped [jrodtices no evil effects on the health jf a district when such water is allowed to How into running water, but always iestroys the fish and some varieties of vegetable growth. Two eggs of the exHncfc great_auk ivero recently sold l?\ ^action in iklinbnrg, both being purchased by Lord Lillord?one at ?100 the other at 102 gnineas?probably the largest sum ever paid for a single egg, with the exception af that of the moa, a single specimen of which wa3 sold at the same place in 1805 for ?200. Mr. Alexander Adams, of the English postal telegraph staff, announces that lie has discovered well-marked electric tides in the telegraph circuits. He finds, that is, distinct and systematic variations of strength in the earth current, which are invariably present on telegraph lines; and these variations follow the position of the moon with respect to the earth. Charcoal will absorb, of some gases, From eighty to ninety times its own bulk. As every point of its surface is a point of attraction, it is supposed to account for the enormous accnmmulation - * ? ? ? - ? f llin nlior/iArtl JI 111 lUW npuuca UI uuo timiwai. But this accounts for it only in part. 1'here must be some peculiar power in charcoal to change in some way the condition of a gas of which it absorbs ninety times its own bulk. Cyclones extend over a circla from 10'J to 500 miles in diameter, and sometimes 1,000 miles. In the West Indies they are sometimes us small as 100 miles in diameter, but on reaching the Atlantic they dilate to 600 or 1,000 miles. Sometimes, on the contrary, they contract in their progress, and while contracting they augment fearfully in violence. The violence of the tvind increases from the margin to the center, where the atmosphere is frequently quite calm. Speaking of the formation of mountains Professor Favre, cf Geneva, has saul that the three systems wnicn account for the origin ot mountains do not differ greatly from each other. Those who admit the system of elevations as the principal cause would probably admit the formation of depression as a secondary cause, while those who givo depressions the first place would also admit elevation as a secondary factor. Lastly, in the system 3f lateral crushing there is a general depression of the earth, since there is i diminution in the length o the radins af the globe,, and yet there result elevations o? the ground in the midst of this general depression. ODDITIES. The term " Punic faith" comes from :he fact that the Carthaginians were ac^minted a faithless neoole. The Escurial, the majraificent palace )f the sovereigns of Spain, is built in ;he form of a gridiron, in honor of Saint Lawrence. When man has attained his full development he weighs almost twenty irnes as much as at birth, and his height s about three and one-fourth times It is a rniT!cka.at sea that he who returns a salute alfrli^fires fewer guns han he receives. Thff-Ji^nglish claim :he right of being salutedflfSt^as sovireigns of the sea. The defense in a breach or promise^ ;uit in Napa, Cal., was that the contact was entered into on Sunday night, md therefore was not binding. The ;laim was sustained. A barn containing six heavy horses ivas lifted from its foundation and earned half a mile without the least injury ;o the animals in a recent storm at SVorfchington, la. It is not generally known that, there 8 such a thing as false eyebrows, yet moh is the case. They are made perectly by the use of "hair lace" and vould never be suspected as a counterfeit. t\ ? a i.;.i j xi_ ? a i:a i i jur. ixoruensjijoju, me ai'cuu traveler, ms discovered that iron is always to be ound in snow, from which it may be xtracted by a magnet. It is supposed hat these particles of iron are of mete>ric origin. The bones of the Archae plery, a rare ossil found in Germany, are very much ike those of a lizard, and its hind legs ire like those of a bird, and it was when ilive clothed with feathers. This wus really a most wonderful link between he birds and the reptiles. There can je no doubt regarding the reptilian iffinities of birds. A Consilience ?r Titles. This is not a "Winter's Tale," for it vas in midsummer when "The Two | jrentlemen of Verona," by the wish of | 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre," set forth to j isit "The Merry Wives of Windsor." now begins a "Comedy of Errors," for : lamlot's ghost was their guide. He ed them through the corridors of the j >ast: into ancient castles where the i ragio and comic scenes of life were en- j cted; all of which were made familiar i >y Shakespeare's matchless genius. On "The Twelfth Night" of the jourley "The Tempest" arose, and the two ;entlemen of Verona being in the city if Venice, gave a traveler's homage to 'Othello the Moor," from whom they ' eceived greetings to "Julius Cflesar." ' Vishing to bear some gift to the virtu- i us Romans, they bought of the famous i 'Merchant of Venice" a beautiful pet sp which "Antony and Cleopatra" apireciated highly. They met, as they ourneyed from tho city, "Timon of it hens,"" who told them that he had ar- ! ived from Verona, and as he passed by 1 Japulet's residence, in the early hours J f the morning, his attention was arested by gentle sounds, like as the coo- ] ug of doves. He stopped to listen, and I j Doking around belield a uoble youth in | j lie garden, who sent sweet glances of j ove with words to verify them to a 'indow from whence leaned as beantinl a maiden as ever was created by inev, or by the moulder of all things icantiful, and she did wink at him the emler message, just "As you Like It." Juoth the gentleman, "they were 'Roieo and Juliet.'" As the travelers approached Rome, "The Passionate Pil;rim" told them about the terrible domestic tragedy of "Titus Adronicus" nd then made a silly "Lover's Cornlain t" on account of his "Love's Labor jost." : After tarrying in the city of Rome for day, Hamlet's ghost led the gentleman I f Verona to Denmark, and "Hamlet" id actually see his father's ghost. From ' >enmark they journeyed directly to lomlon, from thence to Windsor. As bey approached their destination, there eemed to be a great commotion. Six ; irge men were beating one frail woman, 1 'ho cut deeper with her tongue than ! le men did with their lash. They 1 *ked what meant such barbarous conuct. "It is the'Taming of the Shrew,'" as the reply, lint the bitter tongue f women testifies that the shrew still ives "Measure for Measure." The travelers nowariived at Windsor, nd the merry wives had a great banquet their honor. Kings and princes were i attendance. "Cymbeline" being the ldest, was master of ceremonies, 'King Richard III.," having killed 'Henry IV.," was in a killing mood to roo the lovely Imogen. After they had 11 feasted, "Henry VIII." made a toast n "free love." "King Lear" arose, but lis fool was not present, and he became onfused. "King John" arose, made : Mivr'i Ado About Nothing," and sat [own. "Richard II," "Henry Wand 'Henry VI." were discussing the uiuta ility of the kings of England, when hive witches cried out to "Macbeth," 'When shall we meet again ?" Then a great change came over the cene ; fill faded into mist, and as the wo gentlemen of Verona disappeared, hey whispered to the merry wives of Yindsor, "All's Well That Ends Well." ' awoke; my Shakespeare was by my ide. Then I knew I hud had "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Pineapple. The pine apple, or ananas, (Ananassd Saliva) is a plant of the natural order Bromelir.cere, justly highly esteemed for its luscious and delightful fruit. It is ; a native of Lropieal America, and is found in greatest profusion throughout the West India Islands and in the sandy maritime portions of the northeastern \jr\ part of South America. In these sec- \l tions it was originally a wild fruit, but a has been greatly improved by care and cultivation. It has gradually diffused over tropical and sub-tropical countries/' : until it has become naturalized in many sections of the world, notably in Asia and Africa. Its strong, hardy nature bas enabled it to withstand the unavoidable differences of its several new locations, until it has spread over nearly all - > the warm, sandy countries on the face of >' the globe; while its delightful flavor and refreshing moisture has made it a wonderful favorito among all the nations. The fruit is a "sorosfe," formed by M calyces and bracts of a close spike of flowers becoming succulent and combined. It has a number o? long, serrated, sharp-pointed, rigid leaves springing from the root, in the midst of which '{ a short flower-stem is thrown up, and bearing thereon a single fruit. From the summit of the fruit springs a crown, or tuft, of small leaves, capable of becoming a new plant; it being propagated, in cultivation, entirely by crdwns and suckers, as in a bitrh state of culti vation the perfect seed is almost never produced. In size the Pine Apple varies from 2t M to 12 pounds, and etains its flavor and juiceness for an extremely long period of time. In many countries, notably, China, Japan and the Phillipine Inlands, its fibre is much used for mauufacturing purposes, the natives being peculiarly pQ skilled in 1 his species of work. Exquisite handkerchiefs, curtains, shawls, etc., " are produced, which command almost > fabulous prices among the more aristocratic circles of Europe and Asia. la this country no attempt of any magnitude has been made in this direction, its uiJity from this stand-point be<?jyamafcter for development at some future day. In our home market, the "Bahama Pino Apple," is the favorite fruit, and ? the demand and supply have been kepi . at a pretty even ratio. Immense quantfcv^ ties are processed and canned for shSjwap^ ment to all parts of the world, and findi'^> prompt aim ready saie. in irns peonliar branch of trade our city has invariably taken the lead, the reputation for square and honorable dealing of her merchants has become world-wide, while their goods are proverbially celebrated for pureness, fine quality and reasonableness of price. Nassau, in the island of New Providence, has always been considered the most favorable point for the purchase and shipment of Pines. Tbe island- ' itself seems to bristle with them. Qn every side as far as the eye can reach, loom up the brilliant green, pink and yellow apples, seated royally upon their $ cactus-like looking thrones, and diffus- . jSl ing tbeir delighiful odor throughout -2 their surrounding neighborhood. On $ some plantations lrom 70,000 to 80,000 dr/.en8 are cut per annum, and dozens of cargoes are shipped to the varioue ports of the United States and Europe, k Many are also packed and canned by ths producers, some parties shipping as many as from 40,000 to 50,000 dozen of cans ; of course these are tbe larger dealers, but hundreds and hundreds of * negroes engage in the same tiafSc for their account, and when their crops ripen and become marketable, throng the wharves and business places,, offer iilg: their stocks to the traders and buyersw^h a perseverance and pertinacity almost ftnendurable. . j As regardiTtkeirmethod of canning^^ they are of courss^K^1*11^ the perfected and establish- ??%S| raents, with which we afisJ^Jore^^ here, and lack the requisite nlft^hi-^^l no 17, and, in fact, the necesaM^^^j knowledge of detail required, in ordqr ijto elevate the business to the same superiority which it has acquired with us! ; The skill and rapidity, however, of the negro employees in paring the fibrous, unyielding fruit, is something wonderful in dexterity and manipulation. .? After them como the "slicers/ who cut the pines in regular slices and places them properly in the cans, from whence \ they are transferred to another depart- ^_ J ment, there to receive their proper,?<gj? quantity of pure, sweet syrup, which always of the finest quality made from pure rain water anil the bigliest grades . of sugar. The cans are then securely ? sealed and soldered, weighed and passed ^ into the boiling room, in which are great steaming cauldrons of boiling water, into which the cans are lowered by r a tackle of the most primitive and un- * pretending style. In this hot bath they remain until the air within them is well * j expanded?sav some four or five minutes,?when they are re-hoisted, and a small hole punctured in each, which is imniediafely soldered up again, a* soon as the confined air has had an opportu- _ nifir fn when thev are acain re-iowered into the boiling water and .3 alloweil to remain until properly cooked. After the cooling, then comes the labelling, which being finished they are ready for shipment, and take their voyages to every port in the entire world. Hottentot and Malay, Arab and Turk, nil extend to them a hearty welcome. 0 Their own merits speak for themselves, their delicate flavor and cooling properties are unequalled by any fruit which * bounteous nature lias so lavi.-hly bestowed upon mankind, and their cheering presence uppn the taoles of rich md poor alike prove an acceptable and ' much coveted addition thereto. Unique Swindling. The confessions of the swindlers arrested in Kentucky and now in prison [n New York, repeals a most unique ;ase of swindling. The two men say hat they were unable to obtain em- # nlovmont dnrincr last autumn, though^ they traveled far and - wide fv it. , At" last, when they bad"5nlv fc^cjApis be:ween them, one of them Wfeffc-'ivgd a plan of gettin" credit ofTariouu "7 iianufacturing plated silverware, which * tvas to be sold and the money devoted :o their needs. Their plan was to go :o a place, select the name of a man .loin# a business nearly 'ike that in tvhich they were embarked, and order ?oods in his name. For instance, in * Due place J. Warren was a hardware ? Sealer. Tlie schemers ordered a small bill of silver-plated ware in his name, making sure to tell him what they had Jone, and that they expected the goods. As the name of the party in whose name the goods were ordered was good, the swindlers had no trouble in getting a bill of goods. When the goods were ^ obtained the parties immediately left town and sold them. Then thcv re- ~ peated the process. Since December they have obtained of a dozen iirms manufactured ]>lated-ware to the vabie of ^ Slit1,000, and have sold it in thirty-one States, making a tour of the South and Southwestern States. They were discovered by rinkerton's detectives. Long Courtships. Beyond a certain point there is no progress in courtship. When the parties to the affair have arrived at the conviction that they were "made for each other." and cannot be happy apart, the sooner they become "one and inseparable" the better. Antenuptial affection is as mobile as quicksilver, and when it ha* reached its highest point, the safest policy is to merge it in matrimonial bliss. Otherwise, it may retrograde. Very long courtships often end in a backout on one side or the other-?the retiring party being in most cases "inconstant man." And we would hint to that unreliable being that he has no right to dangle after an estimable woman for years without any tixed intention of marrying lmr. The best thing a lady can do under such circumstarces is to bring matters to a focus, by asking the point-no-point gentleman what he means, and ir)te?? She can either do that or dismiss him altogether. Perhaps the latter plan would in most instances be the better one; for a man who is alow to matrimony is generally slow in all the concerns of life. A