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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER; \ BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1882. NO. 49. VOLUME XXVI. Tin* Seasons. The little suowfl ikes como When the singing bird* are dumb, Ami fill the empty nest; And the frost upon the pano Mimics ferns au?l bearded grain, And the blossoms we love best. The pretty wind-flowers rise With an air of sweet surprise When the laughing spring Calls the crocus from its sleep, Lids the grass begin to crecp, And the sparrow sing. The daisies' lint-white flocks Push and jostle: and the locks Of the barberry shiue, When the mosses' fringes spread, And the dodder's jewe'ed thread Make the meadows fine. When the autumn walks abroad, Torches of the golden-rod Bum the liveloDg day; And the b:rds are flying far Wheu witch-hazel's yellow star LeU'ls its little ray. ?Mary A. Prescoll. STRATAGEM. I am a spinster, agpd ? but eo, I will not tell Ton my age?anil I live in a little white house on the side of the hill, sarrounded by fruit trees and lilac bushes, while in the front of the house is a little garden with hollyhocks, marigolds and a plentiful supply of spearmint, which is so nice for soup, and a spriz of wake-robin, which is very good for weak eyec. I am plagued with weak eyes some. Here I live alone by myself?not alone either, for haven't I Towzer. a big black Jog. witb a face that is a mixture of gray and white, and great brown eyes with a look almost hnman in them, and a great deal more expression than hae that simpering Sarah Smythe. She says I am a conceited old maid, only waiting for a chanco to g-1 married? the ninny ! Why f-honldn't I, if I have a good chance? 15 would be handy to have a man bring water, chop kindlings and stretch clotheslines on washdays. ' I mav be out of the market now before ' she is, the- little goose ; for when I turn I my cnp over after drinking tea?I al- I ways do?the grounds say a long jour- < ney with three dots at the end, which ' stands for a crown; and if that isn't < marriage I'd like to know what is? 1 If nothing happens to intercept for- ' tune I shall have him call me Sillie; it 1 is so much more loving an 3 affectionate 1 than Priscilla. Now my name is one of those things that never can be ac- 1 counted for; for why should they name 1 such a loving person Priscilla Nettle- i ton ? And to tell the truth the man J who gets Priscilla might do worse. I 1 don't want to brnjr, but the man or woman who finds any dirt in my house i has got to hunt for it; and I can make piecrust that would melt in your mouth, and rhubarb tarts and huckle- < berrv hollows that would do vour soul 1 good. Iu my mind a man's love has a great deal to do with the condition of his stomach. Then I am not very bad-looking; I have a sweet disposition, dress young? and that makes me think of Sarah Smythe again; that girl is a brier in my flesh. She says, coming home from meeting the other Sunday?so I could hear her, too: "If old Miss Nettleton hasn't got a pink gingham just like mine, and made just like it, with three flounces!" Says I: "You good for-nothing little minx, u o V? r?r* 1 /I r>' fr T V?o a nint rri r>? V? n rr? with three flounces if I pay for it ? Your t father is in debt to everybody in Thom- J asville!" ? Don't you think she got mad just my ? saying that?folks don't get mad as i easy as that unless you bit them pretty J close?and says she : i " You'ro a meddlesome, interfering t old maid!" t Jast think of calling me an interfer- t ing old maid ! Now that is a downright t fabrication. I don't want anybody to be wicked, but if they are I want to i know all about i*, and I won't uphold a anybody in their wicked ways by with- I * holding my? opinion, and if Abby a Nicholas is going to hare a light in her c front room until half-past 10 Sunday i evenings, I bave^r^^rcaf&Tn there]! - - _ aboq.t .,tHf.Wrf5ft if I want to. And if a Sara Perkins and her husband don't get h along I want to know that, toe. I knew ti they wouldn't; why, Sira cau't make s brown bread fit for my Towzer to eat; tl and that sosrgy wliitf bread is what has l1 given poor Perkins '.ha dyspepsia, and i> in my mind it has something to do with p his rheumatism. You have to be very s iiuunu. x uuu u ?i?uu uci, uut i ouy- pose she will bave to come. It's my 1 misfortune to have regions. She came. Now if I don't tell you 1 how she looks you will be wondering 1 what she is like, and think her eyes are ' like sunshine and her hair like spun 1 silk. They aren't neither one nor the i other. She has browa eyes that have such a queer way of shutting together i whenever I say anything, and then she i puts her handkerchief over her mouth. ; I suppose she Bhtits her eyes to take in i better what I have to say, and puts her i hankerchief to her mouth to keep the ; idea in; as if people heard with their ' mouths ! Aad then she has brown hair just the color of her eyes, which she wears braided down her baik with the i end curled: and the time she wastes twisting that one curl would knit a pair of shell stockings. But Dolly don't like to knit nor scour tin pans, nor to learn any accomplishments. However, , she does well enough, and we get along nicely; anybody could get along with as amiable a person as I. One day Dolly says: "Cousin!" Then she makes a long pause and says I: " Dolly, if you have got anything to say, 6ay it, and don't wait till that dishwater gets cold and i he grease settles aronnd the edges of them boilers." "Well, cousin, I was going to say that if you had no objections, I have a friend from Sweetwater, Mr. Howard, thit J. would like to hive coma here once in a while; it is so very lonely." "Lonesome for them that's got nothing to do," says L " Now, Dolly Vance, after all the good advice I've given you! Why, 've talked to you hours and hoars about the frailties and disap c-'remi aoout raising wane oreaa, ior 11 u it stands three minutes too long or too little it is spoilt - just spoilt. n There comes Mary GreeD's sassy boy. u 3 must go out and tell him to wipe his ( feet before he comes in?and if he hasn't t got a letter! Now u letter always sets rae ? shivering like, for they are almost al- t ways trimmed with black; but this one * isn't. I most wish it was, though. c 1' Dear Miss Nettleton*: -1 wrote you a some time ago informing you of the a death of your kinsman, John Vance. I I now feel it incumbent on me as his c friend and the guardian of his onlj s child, Dolly, to say that, as she has no a permanent home, it might be pleasant t for you to have her come to you. If 1 c receive no answer by next week I shall r take silence as consent, and you may f expect her the first of the week after. " Very respectfully, f " W. Keller." t Isn't that cool, thongh? Wh?, she I will be as much trouble as was Towzer t in* nis juvenile days, dancing in and out, c and I shall have the doors to &hut after r her, and my kitchen will have to be & wished twice a day, and she'll waut to t hit in the front room and have the cur- a tains up, and my rag carpet will be all faded out; and I shali never know ' . where to find nothing. Now. if I lay a I thing down it stays there till I pick it ^ up again. Why, i could darn my stock- r ings in the dark, and lay my hands on t the right number of cotton to darn them i with. Number sixteen is in the right * hand corner, number eight is wrapped i in paper, nnmber twelve is in a rag. t Things will be mixed in the family circle. Now I have my corner, Towzer ^ has his and Nepenthe hers. Did I tell 1 you about Nepenthe ? Well, she's a re- i markable cit of three colors, is double- ^ pawed and has great yellow, moon- i like eye3. But it is no reason because "1 there are four corners in the room that ^ I want Dolly Vance set up in the 1 pointments of this world, and I've just wasted my breath. As if wo didn't have work enough to do now ! There's more than forty chips about that chopping block to be picked up, and there's that rising sun bedquilt to be sot together, and squash pies to make, and that old speckled hen's come off with sixteen chicks; of course she'd hatch every one if sire stole her nest. I shouldn't think you'd have thought of such a thing as a beau. Wait until you get a little older?say my age, now." I think she trill remember that, for she clapped her lianas right over her j mouth so as not to forget it. " But I knew it would come to this? I told you so. If it was a deacon or a minister, or some kind of a religious man, I wouldn't have minded so much." But Mr. Howard^is just as "good as?" ' Don't tell mo! I know he is just good for nothing, or he would want some girl that knew something about work, and not one thnt burns her hands every time she turns a pie round in tho oven." After this there was a caim in our mill-pond of an existence?I have read of life's being like a river, and why not like a mill-pond, which is much smoother and more poetical ??and nothing occurred to disturb my sweet, serene disposition, until I saw Tommy Green coming over again with a letter. I declare it set mc in a perspiration all over ! I hoped no moro cousins had died and left their orphans as legacies to me. Dear Miss Nettletox I am a minister in somewhat poor health; have a disease of the heart; and the doctor says I must have qniet and rest for a while. Hearing of your little Eden of a ulaco. I hope and trust it may be my good fortnno to engage board there for a few weeks. Will pay seven dollars per week. Geo. Rushing." Of conrse I would take him ! It would bo flying in the face of Providence and fortune not to. Poor, Jear man ! he had the heart disease, but I'd cure him of that?that is if he would take the catnip tea and thor^ughwort. Seven dollars a week, too! If he stayed four weeks that would be twenty-eight iollars; twenty-five to lay up in the old tea pot, and three left to spend. I decided to buy me a red feather for my bonnet with a dollar and a half, and with the rest get Towzer a new brass brass collar, with a little padlock and key on it "Dolly," says I, as she came in with tier cheeks as red as one of them red tiollyhocks -1 don't like red cheeks myself?" I've got a letter from Parson Rushing, and he wants to come here to ooard a few weeks at S7 a week." " Of course you won't take him," says she. '"Of course I shall 1" says I. The next week the same one-horse jhaise that brought Dolly fetched the Darson, and now he's quite at home. Se is real nice looking; his hair and iiustache is gray, but his eyes are Dlack and bright, and he is not the east bit of trouble, and I think after a vhile he will get over the dyspepsia md that hacking cough of his. It is some better now. He takes long walks u the morning for his health and also u the pursuit of science (he is. very ( earned), and brings home lots of bugs ind beetles?ugh! the nasty things! Sot that exactly, either, for Parson . Rushing says some of them are very ( :urious and quite rare, so of course they , ire. After the sun has gone down they ( ake a row on the river; yes, they, for ( Oolly doesn't steady herself down to inything, and so she is always ready to tet out when the parson is, while I lever, or scarce ever, go with them, as ] have the dishes to wash in the mornng and the pans to ecour and the floor .0 scrub; Parson Rushing does bo like . o see a white floor! At night there is , he bread to toast, and he is so particliar about that. One night I did go rowing, and if it . vasn't a blessing I got back again and , i t nn iL.i i i ...'i-L . 3 j uive: v* ny, mat Doat pnonea ana ocked and dove, till my head buzzed ind my stomach felt so queer, all be- ' sause I was physically bilious, and disnclined toward rowing,the parso.':-,^^ tnt'lie Jid^his best to make~It pleasant j ud rowed until his face was red; and e would go from one side of the boat o the other as quick as lightning to , ee if thero was a fish at my lino, and lien the boat would give one of them 1 arches, till I was afraid it would take i a water at the sides; and I had to j iretend it was delightful, when it was o horrid. It was like a nightmare haeing you over a stony pasture. It was the thankfullest moment in qv life when Towzercame down toward ts and I knew I was on Trilla Frilla that's French) once more. But my roubles weren't but half over, for when ve got home Dolly had scorched the oast and burnt the bread, and the tea J rasn't steeped, and the ejder said if he Irank sucn weak tea as that he was ifraid it would set him in the dyspepsia i igaiD, and looked reproachfully at i )olly. But don't you think that instead >f looking meek and being sorry as she honld, the heartless girl just laughed ' nd laughed until she jarred over the ea in the elder's cup. I always fill his sup full. There are some people who lever do care about other people's ; eelings! Now I am not &ne of that kind, and I elt very much for the parson; but at he same time I thought it would do lim good, for he would now know beter than over how to appreciate my good :ooking; not but what he did, dear oan! but now he would come to a fuller mowledge of it by experience; and, oo, he'd know I'd given Dolly a chance, ,nd not kept her in the background. The other day he was saying thatf it ras a very excellent thing far young ftdies (that's me) to have a thorough cnotflsdge of housekeeping, and he did lot see what some people could be hinking of to bring their daughters up n idleness?now Dolly was brought up ?hen she came here, so that isn't me? lor what men could be thinking of to alro gti m'rla o rrri vn a aaw ouvu guio t*o mv v;oi Parson Rushing had been here three j iveeks to a day, and au awful hot day it I vas, to my thinking, and I had jn6t nade up my"mind that when I finished cashing the floor I would refresh my nind with Dr. Watts' hymns for an aour or r->, and rest my weary brains. Parson Hushing says the mind must java something to feed on as well as he body. Well, I had iusf; got comfortably settled down in my corner, with my feet placed carefully on a sushion, but had not got down to the bottom of the first page when in Towzer 3ame in with? oh. horrors! He had ?calpsd Parson Bushing, for there were bis lovely gray curls, and the dog came and laid the trophy at my feet. I took It up and talked tip-toe to the sitting-room, where Parson Bushing and Dolly were taking notes of their morniDg ramble. Having arrived at the door I paused?why or for what reason I cannot say; it must have been a presentment of the groat sorrow that was already over my head. Having, as I said, come to the door, I paused. Now this door had a aperture?a crack?that extended the whole length of it; unto this aperture I applied my eye, and? but words are inadequate to express my thoughts, letters are not black enough to convey my feelings. There eat Parson Rushing (for it was he) minus the gray curl3, bereft of gray whiskers, which were in a chair, and in their stead were short black side whiskers and mustache and close cropped Vie jk curls; his eyes and nose, which had a little scratch on it from Nepenthe's claws?1 wished she scratched more affectionately !?were the same. Well, there ho eat, looking a3 cool and comfortable, and beside him that little witch, Dolly?I always knew there was something deep about her?and he was talking away, and she a-chattering. By-and-bye he took one of her hands, and, bending over?would you believe it ? I can, hardly?kissed it! At this sign of love, unreciprocated affection burst in from the door. " How dare you thus ttifle with a confiding maiden'B love ? How dare you?" "I am not trifling at all. I was never more in earnest in my life. Allow me to introduce you to my affianced wife." Saying this ho arose and took Dolly by the hand; siio began with : " Cousin, this is the friend I spoke to ' you about when I first came, but you would not allow aim to visit me unless he was a deacon or a agister. Accord* nglv he adopted the latter role. Today the weather was so unbearably warm that he was forced to tako off his whiskers and wig. I hope you will forgive us, cousin." " That I never will!" said I. "A girl who will deliberately steal the affections of a man from such a loving, trusting woman as I?" " But, cousin,"?with a very peculiar smile?" I had his affections before he ever came here. Had I not, George ?" " That you had, my darling, and alwaye will have." Then he said a lot mere of foolish stuff that I don't remember. But the short and the long of it was they went to the city and were married and settled at housekeeping in no time at all. , I Annooinnnllv rlrnn in Jind Via VP H Clin of tea when I go to the city shopping. But I never will forgive them. Towzer has his brass collar, padlock and all. An Ambidexterous Surgeon. In an interesting obituary notice of Dr. Pancoast, the c elebrated surgeon of Philadelphia, the Times of that city J says: The great point in h;s career was his skill as an operator. He was ambidexter, and could perform operations of the most delicate intricacy with : his left hand which were beyond the j skill of others using the right hand , only. It was, in part, the extraordi- i nary facility with which ho could employ both hands at one time which made him so successful in the depart- , ment of plastic surgery. By the re- 3 moval of strips of flesh from the fore- , head and elsewhere he has formed , no less than a dozen noses for j persons 'vho. either through accident ] or disease, were without them. Thare j is a woman standing in tho Callowhill f Street mrjJtet lor wnom ue made a nose ( twenty-two years ago, and no one can i detflct it now from nature's own handi- { work. He was the first to show that after the eyebrow has been destroyed a good-loo king substitute can be made by | raising a flap of the scalp with the soft* , drooping hairs of the temple, and giving , it what is termed a " long pedicle" to run into a bed cut for it in the brow. ! He also fcrnished maimed humanity ^ with eyelic.s and ears. So far did . his fame as an operator extend that one of the things which [ visiting foreigners marked down as of tho greatest interest in Pbiladel- ; phia was "to see Dr. Pancoast oper- ! ate." His hands looked clumsy, but he could take up a large knife, as on the occasion of the visit of the Japanese party some years ago to ( see him perform amputation at the i1 knee-joint., and the next mom ant he 1 could take the finest needle and oper- 1 ate upon an eye. He was among the ? first to resort to the section of the E facal n erve for the relief of neuralgia, c He was remarkably snccessfnl in < operations for cataract, and arly ^ improved upon the operation ol * "couching" bv complete extraction. B In the ireatmert, of strabismus, or c 3quint, ho was in his day unrivaled. At J the same time the record of his larger c operation?, from lithotomy to amputation of xi'e hip-joint, is one of extraordinary brilliancy. He was never sye- t tematic, and was not at all particulai 5 about! lis selection of instruments. On ( several occasions he performed delicate t operations with an ordinary penknife, j because other instruments were not at 3 hand. i ?? t England's Prime Ministers. * Below W9 give a list of the prime * ministers of England since 1762, and it e is worth preservation for reference. 4 The resignation of the Dnko of Nev c castle in 17G2 endeil the long rale of E the Whig party, which had continued uninterruptedly from the death of . Queen Anne. 1 Since Palmerston no prime minister * baa held that important trust so long * as ha;j Beaconsfield. a 17G2?Earl of Bnte^ * ? ?Sr?^{jh>&rgdtjfren vilta !"^5?Marquis of Rcckingham. a 17(xl-Dake of Grafton. 8 1770?Lord North. 6 \pril, 11782? Marquis of llockingham c ?died in office. n rune, 1782?Earl of Shelburne. ? March, 1783?Dake of Portland. f Dec., 1783?William Pitt. " 1801?Henry Addington. n 1804?"William Pitt?died in 8 office, January 23,1806. 18CG ?Lord Grenville, 1807?Duke of Portland. ? 1809?Mr. Percival ? a3sassi- ? nated. * 1S12?Eirl nf LiverDOOh a ^pril, 1827?Mr. Canning?died. n A.ug., 1827?Viscount Godorich. ri 1828?Duke of Wellington. v 1830?Earl Grey. c May, 1834?Viscount Melbourne. ^ Nov., 1834?Duke of Wellington (tem- a, porary appointment.) J1' Dec.. 1834?Sir Robert Peel. ^ 1835?Viscount Melbourno. * 1841?Sir Robert Peel. ? 1816?Lord John Russell. v Feb., 1832?Earl of Derby. 6 Dec., 1^52?Earl of Aberdeen. c 1855- Viscount Palmerston. n 1858?Earl of Derby. 1859?Viscount Palmerston? died October 18, 18G5. , Oct., 1805? Earl Russell (Lord John), r; 18G6?Earl of Derby. Feb., 18G8?Benjamin Disraeli?Re- d signed December 2.18G8. ? Dec., 18G8?William E. Gladstone. Feb., 1874?Earl of Beaconsfield f (Disraeli.) ;! In looking over the foregoing list it will be noticed that William Pitt held ? office much longer than any prime minister before cr after him, that the 7 ... , \ M... ii average tenure 01 oince nas ueen nve years to eacb, and that five prime min- ^ isters have died in cilice. Dentil from a Tower. ' Four suicides during the present cen e tury have been committed at Bologna ^ Itaiy, by jumping M>tn the top of the j famous leaning tflwer, Asinelli, the R climbing of which involves a toilsome * journey up more than -100 worn and 8 dusty stairs. The first case occurred in a 1833, when a shoemaker, whilo sitting ^ astride one of the battlements, drank a 8 flask of wine as he was singing, and e then allowed himself to fall backward e into space. The second was ia 1874, a ? young man, aged twenty-three, allowed * himself to fall, with a handkerchief ^ tied round his eyes, leaving his coat, ^ hat, sleeve cuffs, and two letters be- _ hind him. The third happened two ? years later; an old man went up with (] his boynepbew, ai^d while the boy was E obeying his directions to write the ^ word " infamy" on the wall, threw r himself over the battlement. The fourth suicide has just taken place. A j. joung man who had failed in a certain ^ Avnmirtnlirtn ocflori'ln^ fVin f Awnr n*i f li * CAnuiiuaixvu) aovvuuuvi vuv uv/11^1 miu j the keeper, lighted a cigarette, and c while the keeper was showing him the bell, jumped off. Two ladies and gentlemen came np just after he had jumped, and found that the keeper had fainted from fright. Spontaneous Combustion. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican believes that the burning of Walker 8 hall at Amherst college was caused by spontaneous combustion, the floors having been oiled on the day before. ? It also says that some years ago Contractor Johnson, who built the North- 1 ampton First church and many other 1 similar edifices in the Connecticut valley, " had an impression" one : evening that something was not right t about a church he was finishing, the * pews of which the workmen had been oiling that day; so ho went to the building and unlocked it to find that a "flames were just breaking out near the e entrance of the audienceiroora. When t one of the men left work at G o'clock he ( laid the piece of cotton waste which he j had been using on the rail of the last pew, and the result was spontaneous combustion in three or four hours. y FACTS AXI) COMMENTS. It is a singular and fearful record that fifty-eight petroleum ships which sailed from the shores of the United States for Enropo in four months never were heard of again. A New York chemist declares that the refuse fat of a pork honse in that city is sent to artificial butter factories. He has also found in oleomargarine horse grease and other refuse such as is used in making candles. There are 269 churches in Brooklyn, of which 189 are built ol brick or stone. But Brooklyn is no longer .entitled to the title "City of Churches," as there are now several cities in the Union where the number of churches to the ratio of population exceeds ?5that o Brooklyn. Five United State Senators are of foreign birth: They are Charles "W. Jones, of Florida,born in Ireland; James B. Beck, of Kentucky, bom in Scotland; John P. Jones, of Nevada, born in England; James G. Fair, of Nevada, bom in Ireland; William J. Sewell, of New Jersey, bom in Ireland. German courts do not award damages in breach of promiso suits, but give the girl a pretty tight "comer" on the deceiver instead, Constance Kirkschener has just got a verdict against John" Fundel in the fatherland, and now John can either carry out the contract, remain single or emigrate. The authorities are simply notified all around, and nowhere in his own country can he marry any girl but Constance. A stone bridge to be built at Minneipolis bids fair to become one of the aotablo structures of the world. It will consist of sixteen eighty-feet spans ind four 100-feet spans, and, including :ne Buore pieces, win nave a toiai length of 1,900 feet. It will support ;wo railway tracks at a height of over iixty feet above the water, and will run Jiagonally across the river below St. Anthony's Falls. The cost is estimated it nearly 8500,000. The New York firemen are kept too ausy and the streets are too crowded ;or a proper training of the department lorses. A school has been established it Manhattanville, outside the city. Here they are put through all the maneuvers necessary to accustom them to ;he noise and excitement caused by the ilarm, the engines and other tumults. 1 Green" horses are in this way more juickly and economically turned into he knowing ones that intelligent fire lorsea become. Senator Bayard has contributed to the christian Union a short letter on suc:ess in public life, in which ho states : lis conviction that such success does lot at all involve disregard of the sanons cf punctiliously honorable icticn. He Bays of the young Ameri;an who engages in politics that "the liscovery of much weakness and unporth may often pain and disappoint rim, and he may weary of the work md long for rest; but his hands can be is clean and his soul as white at the ?nd of the journey as when be set out ipon it." The people of Java have some cusoms very different from ours. A rich roung man, whose father is also a Chinese millionaire, has been sentenced o five years' imprisonment at hard abor in chains. His offense was perury, and his perjury consisted in sayng that he did not know that at a cerain port in Java quarantine was being ' inforced, and in coming ashore despite ( he warning of the officials. Fancy a j ion of any American millionaire going j o prison for five years for evading the ' iristoms or nnarantine reoulations and 1 wearing falsely about them! . ! Robert Goddard, of Oak Hill, Maine, ' s the owner of a sheep which a short ime ago gave birth to a jet-black lamb. 'erceiving that it was perfectly healthy 1 md likely to grow tip, and determined ! hat there should be no black sheep in : ~ef famTiy^lfuo"2lotner reiuwfu naV(5 ] nything to do with her offspring, and J ignified by many unmistakable demon- J1 trations that, so far as she was con- * erned, it might starve to death. The nfortunate little creature was therefore J old for fifty cents. Just forty-eight 1 ours afterward, to the amazement of ( er owner, the old sheep becamo the 4 lother of a snow-white lamb, which she 8 reeted with extravagent delight. 0 e There is found, taking the whole c ountry together, an intimate relation J etween losses by fires and the rain-fall. \ 'aking the record of the signal service v nd the reports of fires month by c. lonth it appears that variations in the ' ain-fall are accompanied almost in- * ariably by a corresponding inverse 0 hange in fire losses, and taking the ? ret and dry seasons in California sep 1 ratelv a surprising result is found. In * be six wet months of 1880 the average ass was 8185,733 and in 1881 $153,783, * rhile lor the six dry months ot the ame years the figures are, respectively, 287,650 and 8354,316. So with differnt localities; the losses vary in pretty onstant inverse proportion to the hulidity. ? Marrvintr Biautiful Anmnian. h A few years ago the editor of the * Bombay (India) Herald made a trip 8 brough Asiatic Turkey and wrote { very readable and instructive book c bout what he heard and saw. In it he ( .escribed the Armenian women as the 11 ierfection of female beauty, grace, c Dveliness and virtue. He declared i bat they combined everything that was 8 xcellent in female person and cbarac- 1 er to be found in nil parts of the 1 porld. A rich money-lender residing \ _ n j. i: 1. T> _ l i r a uJQbianimopie, JDemau vy name, * esolved to marry one of the women who 1 lad been landed so highly in the * olume ho had been reading. He sought 3 he society of Armenian people, and c oon found a girl of the race that * xactly suited his fancy. She was i ieautiful as imagination could pictnre. e ler name was not pretty?it was Mar- c ;aretta Amassin?but he did not care or that, as he resolved to change it as a oon as he could get permission. And fl s her father had no income except that c derived from an office that paid a small 8 alary and afforded no stealing, this was f asy to do. Madam was soon found an * xeellent housekeeper, and snowed o ;reat love for literary work. In look- i og over her writings one day to find 1 ome pleasant reading to admire, he 1 [iscovered a letter ready for the 1 iost. It was addressed to her ery dear cousin, whom she lesired to kill Mr. Bekian that they aight obtain his property and live , ogether in happiness. Soon after he ? eceived a letter purporting to be signed ^ >y five refugees, which demanded that y le carry ?1,000 on a given day and f leposit it at a certain place in a forest. | failure to comply with the modest re- | [nest was death. Mr. Bekian did not j (0 out with the money. His loving ( yife, however, left the house and did ] iot return. The matter was reported , 0 the authorities, who, caring nothing j or sentiment or true love, condemned : 1 1 - J ^ A. t 1 _1 j ne iwo cousins 10 a ioiig lerra 01 naru. abor. Mr. Bekian does not read any nore books of travel. Ho regards them is unreliable as novels. Professor Tommasi-Crudeli has lately ihown that malarial infection may bo :aused by the keeping of house-plants, sven in districts where malaria is unknown The unwholesome influence, lowever, is not due to the plants themlelves, but to the damp earth surronndng tbom and the heated and badly venilated condition of the rooms in which hey are kept. A recent return 3bows that in England md Wales there are 1,2G7 building :ocieties. Tho membership of 1,015 of hese amounts to 372,035, and the re- ? :eipts of 1,115 during the year reached he sum of ?18,694,555. ( A 'eature of new walking ackets j1 kce V -shaped waiatcoats. . ' How A. T. Stewart Built Up His Business Tho discontinuance of this great New York dry goods and manufacturing concern of A T. Stewart Sc Co., makes the following account of bow Stowart built up bis immense establishment interesting reading: When Mr. Stewart, after years' experience as a schoolteacher, started in the dry goods business in 1822, in Broadway, near Chambers street, he bad between 81,200 and 81,500 capital, and his store was twen tytwo feet wide by thirty deep. When on April 10, 187G, he died, his retail store, which cost S2,750,000, occupied a city block, and covered an area of 2[ acres, making, with its eight floors, a total of eighteen acres under one roof devoted to the retail dry goods business. The runninc expenses of the establishment were over 81,000,000 a year. It was the largest store in the world, nothing in T A r\n aw P.i?ia f. 1m VlTlll/1 4JVUUVU Ui J.HHO UUW ing in size ov in amount of business done in it. Besides this, he had the wholesale store covering the Broadway end of the block between Chambers and Eeade streets. The combined sales of the two establishments aggregated 8i)0,000,000 a year. In connection with the business, he owned a number of woolen, silk and thread mills?the Mo hawk, the Elboeuf at Little Falls, the New York mills at Holyoke, the Woodward mills at Woodstock, the Yantic mills in New Jersey, the Washington mills near Utica, the Catskill woolen mills, the Waterville woolen mills, the Glenliam woolen mills, and the Gle-n ham carpet factory. He had also large factories at Nottingham, England, and Glasgow, Scotland. He had branch houses at Bradford, Manchester, Belfast, Paris, Lyons, Berlin, and at Chenmitz in Saxony. This great business was built up by assiduous attention to details, exact habits and rigid adherence to fixed principles of conduct. When he started out in his little Broadway store, he and his wifrt lived in a room above it. He TI7Qa hie <->TOn VinnklroonAf Hftlflsmnn ftnd I porter, and he worked from fourteen to eighteen hours a day. He haunted auction rooms, picked up cheap lots and spared no pains to present his goods attractively. Every article was carefully examined, creases were smoothed I out and goods were neatly arranged j and made to look fresh and attractive. He bought for cash, sold quickly and kept his money turning. A principle that lay at the foundation of his success was the rigid honesty of his dealings. Goods were represented to be exactly what they were. The price fixed was as low as possible, and there was no deviation from it. Shoppers were relieved of all care save to find what they wanted. Lots of goods purchased unusually i cheap were sold very cheap, and Stewart's bargains became famous. His thoughtfulness to have everything done which could gain custom was unflagging. When he started his uptown store he ordered that particular attention should be paid to poor persons coming in from the Fourth avenue side, so that he might attract the Bowery trade, and he succeeded. In buying, his judgment was prompt and decisive. : Ho did not have to . watch others to tell what he wanted, and when j importations came in he made his selections while other purchasers were i comparing opinions and thinking over the stock. Buying and selling for cash and striking the market at bottom | prices all the time, ho attained a business position which made him proof against periods of commercial depres- . sion. The panic of 1837 was a rich i harvest to him. The collapse of credit forced down values so that his cashjould make its own price for goods. The curtailment of his : wholesale operations caused by the 1 bad times, was made up for by retailing goods at wholesale prices and j, closing out stocks direct to consumers, i! tn his wholesale operations he gave j, jnly short credit, and no indulgence of | ( tardy payments was shown. Collections i were rigorously pushed, and com-1, promifie of claima refused. An embar-1, rassed firm must at least pay Stewart j ( in full, whatever might be thfj ara.TrfJotuertf :i rouia get~wi~th other creditors:^ lo was rigid and exact in the discharge j tnd demand of every obligation, and ., le died worth about $30,000,000. In the retail store 520-horse power i vas required to heat the building, run ! he elevators, and work the sewing ma-1 shines. There was an army of 2,000 implores under pay. The store was' ( is well known out of town as in the city, ind much of its custom came from tran* ' ient visitors. It was frequented by ail 1 d asses, from the wealthiest to the very i )oor. A constant line of Indies thronged ) n and out of the blue-shaded doors. . Carriages lined the curb, and liveried :oaohmen of the firm opened their loors. Inside the store it was difficult \ o get about because of the crowd. It . ittracted so many people to that part ] if the city that the value of neighborncr properly for store purposes was \ greatly increased. It checfced the up- | own movement of trada, and caused a j ;reat many other retail houses to estab- * iah themselves in the vicinity. The Hindoos. ! They are good-natured; hone3t , imong themselves, prone to verbal luarrels, but easily reconciled; con.iderate, after their own fashion, in heir treatment of women and the iged; c-ireful of and kind to their male ihildren, but apt to be careless of their laughters; frugal in their habits, iicept on special occasions, such is birthp, deaths and marriages; ixtremely submissive to authority; ndustrious, with a somewhat fitful ind desuitory industry; careless and insystematic in most of their arrangenents; very prone to lying, but is often he result of imperfectly understandng what is said to them, and of a looseless of thought and mental limitations vhich are beyond the conception of a European interrogator; averse to any ihange of which the benefit is lot very obviou3 to them, and crav-1 eg few boons of government ( sxcept to be left alone as much as it 1 :an find in its heart to leave them. * 1 * * On the whole, a likable, even i lovable, though not unfrequently a lomewhal; exasperating people; diifi;ult to understand, but well worthy of itudy; who will repay with interest the , sxpendituve, but all who have to deal , vith them, of the whole of the availible stock of tho /our great qualities , vhich they most require and most ap- . jreciate?gentleness, patience, firmless and thoroughness.? Garden of India. 1 Early Japanese Books. The earliest Japanese printed hooks yere reproductions of Chinese classical 1 ind Buddhistical tvorks. The oldest i vliich has come down to modern times ] ;vas produced aboul A. D. 1200 ; but it shows that much skill had been attained < ay the engravers. The first really national work printed in Japan was the tfihongi, or Japan-Chronicles, at the very J 3nd of the sixteenth century; although it i aad been in existence in manuscrij^t most ' probably since A. D. 720. Wi:en the Japinese hero Hideoyshi conquered Corea < in 1594, the Japaneso found that the t Koreans had been employing moveable 1 joppor type 6ince the fourteenth cen- ] iury. One Corean book appears authen- ] bically to date from 1317 and 132-4, 120 1 fears before the earliest printed book i unown in j^urope ; ana mere is a aisiinct mention of the production of ] type in Corea by molding and casting ] lbout 1-120. The Japanese immediately ] idopted the invention, and all their ] book b for thirty or forty years afterward i i?ere printed with moveable tvpes ; but 1 i return was made to blocks, which ] jDntinued to be used for the vast ma 1 joritv of publications. Tho earliest l illustrated Japaneso book kuown is lated 1610, but eneravings of popular ?ods exist as old as 1017 und l!i82.?St. I fames' Jhulget. 1 ? ] Amsterdam, the chief commercial city 1 )f the Netherlands, is to have an inter- I lational exhibition from May to October, 1 1883. t CONGRESSMEN'S CHILDREN. IIow Thev MnkeThlnirs Lively in the Ifoune. Looking clown from the reporters' gallery of the Hons > the wielder of the quill now and then has an opportunity of witnessing some very fnnny sights, and like a man np a tree, makes mental comments and says nothing. Tt often comes under his notice that Congressmen have children, though why they should have is a mystery, and that some of the children are very good, and that some are very pretty, and that othe rs are very ugly and very, very bad, exact couterparts of their fathers, as it were. In this connection it is not out of place to say a word or two of the children that frequently grace the floor of the present House. To start with, there is Congressman Belford's boys, a pair of fiery redheaded cherubs. There is no mistake as to whose boys they are, for their " top-knots " pronounce them veritable chips of the old block. These little lads come up to the House quite often. They are each about two feet high and very bright. Whether the father is present or not they are by no means disconcerted, and scramble over the Utrotio uuu LunAo bucuiocivco ui home, and are favorites with even the gravest statesmen. "Belford's boys" are frequently the envy of the most juvenile of the page3, because they are snch pets. Such members as have red hair are most considerate of this pair. Should a gouty member drop in some morning and anchor himself on a bent pin, " Belford's boys" are held responsible. Should another find his ink well filled with water, " Eelford's boys" are blamed, and so it happens that many boyish pranks of which members are victims are credited to " Belford's boys," however innocent they may be. Leopold Morse nas a pair of bright little lads who often visit the House. Thoy ara mischievous, as their venerable papa used to be, perhaps, but more daring; On more than one occasion they have caused the heart of pater * A. _ _ fiL _ 1 Al lamiuas 10 quase wiiii aiarrn uo (.uujr i approached and asked some 6turdy Representative point blank questions, or when they rolled spittoons over the floor, or drew piotures with chalk on members' desks. Morse is proud of his heirs, but he can't manage them, and the little feHows make it lively enough for him son.?#times. The prettiest and most favored chil dren of the congressional group are the bright-eyed, fair-haired boy and girl of Congressman Skinner. Their pretty manners and charming prattle has made them popular with every one connected with the House. They can climb over desks and all that sort of thing, but unlike the majority of children of their ages are not boisterous or inclined to precooiousness. Mr. Skinner is proud of them, and when the H ouse is in session, and he can sit behind his desk with one on each knee, ho seemfl the happiest man in Congress. Congressman Hammond, of New York, has a fine little son, who always makes friends, and when he stands aronnd the floor he ia dicroified and no lite, and shakes hands and chatb brightly with members on all sides. He's a friend of Belford's boys, and when these. little chaps are together it is a pleasant pictnre to watch their many pranks. Two of the brightest children are the daughters of Congressmen Mills and Dingley. They are handsome girls and always prettily dressed. Little Miss Mills is an especial favorite with Joo Blackbnrn, who takes particular pride in teasing her with reference to her father's political status. Mr.Mills is a Greenbacker,but Blackburn, when talking with the little miss, always speaks of him as being a Republican, at which the little girl fires up with indignation, and with all the language her baby lips can command, rebukes Mr. Blackburn fiercely ; a fact which pleases the latter immensely,and i always attracts a group of statesmen i about the two. Congressman Valentine's boy is i mother who is a favorite in Congress, ind is a friend of Mastor Harry Smith, 3on of the journal clerk. Thesa little chaps are bright, handjome and full of vigor, and complete h^Aigt of as fine a body of youngsters iq f,ver~aft\c>rned a Concrress.? Wnthinn. y-* T . 'V. " * m Critic. The Pot-Lnc^l^). At a meeting? of the Pot-iitfick clnb ?a2h male member, according to^TKpmse, contributed a specimen of thVy> handiwork in the culinary art, and the resnlfc was quite novel. "Here," said the artist, sketching. ;he twentieth letter of the alphabet, " is a drawing of ' T.'" His contribu;ion was highly esteemed. " And here," said the printer, proiucing a handful of type, " is some ' pi' of my own making." He said this :n a crusty tone. "And I've brought a hot goose," said the tailor, dropping his iron on the table. He was greeted with hisses "And I," said the poet, with a Milesian accent, proffering a manuscript, i;have here some tender-lcins." His jffering was voted very beefiting. "And I hope," said a f=ad and timidlooking member, presenting his wife, 'you will relish this 'rib,'" And then ae added in a stage whisper: "I lan spare her, therefore she is a spare ib." The carpenter now stepped forward ind eaid he had prepared "a little plane joard,"?placing the board on the table is he spoke. The shoemaker said he thought some )f the members needed a little brain 'ood, therefore he had brought a "sole," 1 ilso a "tongue." The former was pretty < scaly." j Then a newspaper humorist cast his i 3ye3 over tbe assemblage, called it a f ' rure meet," poured some gritty sub- ] jtanco out of a cone-shaped piece of i paper, and made Joe Miller turn over 1 n bis grave by remarking : " The i jest I can do in the culinary line is the f >and?which is here." 1 The club immediately adjourned out )f respect for his gray-haired pun, eayig that they didn't want any "taffy" 1 their dessert.?New York Judge. ^ Wit of the Little Ones. ] 'What is that man yelling at?" in- ' juired Tommy of his younger brother. j 'At the top of his voice,'' replied the j little on a. A little girl read a composition before ! :he minister. The subject was "a cow." Mie wove iu uiib cjmpiimemury hbutence: "A cow is the most useful animal in the world except religion."' "Ma, am I all made now ?" said a little miss of three and one-half years ut 1 the breakfast table ^yesterday morning. 'Why, dear?" said the fond mother. "Because I have had my ears pierced md was vaccinated yesterday," said 1 little Tot. Nellie has a four-year-old sister Mary, who complains to mamma that her "button shoes" were "hurting." "Why, Matlie, you've put them on the wrong feet." Puzzled and ready to cry, she made answer: ''What'll I do, mamma ? Ihey's all the feet I've got." A lady was singing at a charity con- ' cert in England and the audience in- ' nsted upon hearing her song a second time. Her daughter, a little child, was ' present, and on being asked afterward how her mamma had sung, replied: "Very badly, for they male her do it ' ill over again." ( A young lady Laving " set her cap" for i rather large specimen of the opposite sex, and having failed to win Him, waa telling her sorrows to a conpie of her confidants, when one of :hem confronted her with these words : \ " Never mind, Mollie, thero as good ' Siih in tho sea as ever was caught." ' " Mollie knows tliat," Replied her little J brother, " bat slie wants a whale." 1 i Young man, if you had one and two- t third tons of gold coin, you would be ' svorth jnst one millioa dollars. Every I little piece of gold .you get hold of * throw into the junk pile until you get J that weight. You can then sell it and I become a rich man.?New Haven Regis 1 'er. ] Saved from Cannibalism. On Christmas day, in the Pacific ocean, three boat loads of people ynt off from the hopelessly burning coal ship Milton. Liast evening, sajs the San Francisco Call of recent date, the survivors of the second boat load heard from arrived in this city by the steamer Newbern from Mazatlin. The survivors were Captain McArthur, his wife, two children and one sailor. They had been tnkm from a Mexican coasting schooner by the Newborn on ner down trip. Two days be fore that the schooner had picked them up, the captain and his family looking little better than bronzed skeleton, one aailor a gibbering maniac, the other censeless. A two-year-old child of the captain's was dead. All had been in an open boat forty-six days. For many days they had subsisted upon a mouthful of food and a spoonful of freshened ocean water. When the Mexicans schooner took them on board one sailoi overcome all restraint and drank himself to death with the water furnished. ' 'For the love of God give me passage to some place where my wife and child can have proper care," the wrecked captain said to Captain Huntington, of the Newbern, when the steamer was approached by a boat from the coasting schooner. ll n O n VTT1 TT/\vd fCll/flTl Q V\An V/1 xuo OIU VJIYUIO YTCiO avvuivt* "There is a white man among them for I can tell by his voice," an Eaglish lady on the Newbern said, " but how dreadful that poor squaw looks.'' It was the captain's wife, her exposed flesh burned to a darker hue than an Indian'*, that the lady thought was a equaw. The maniac sailor died from the effect of the water,which he hoped would give him new life, soon after he was lifted on board the steamer. The others were tenderly cared for. The captain's little boy, only four yenrs old, looked wildly strange and unr:atural. " But, blets you," an officer of the Newbern said to a Call reporter, " wc eould just see him grow fat and natural-like from meal to meal." The little fellow, who had stood what killed three of the stiong sailors, was eoon a great favorite with every man on the steamer. The captain's wife, when Mazatlan was reached, after being on the steamer three days, gave birth to a son. It was two weeks old when the sieamer arrived at the wharf, and a lively, bright infant. Such is the story of their rescue. Words cannot picture the sufferings they endured in the forty-six days in an open boat; days when the mother saw one babe waste away to dea'h for the lack of even such scanty nourishment as had to be dealt to all; days when the clear-headed captain had to tie to the thwarts two of the crazy sailors to prevent them from feasting in 'fact upon the weaker ones, upon whom their delirum-lignted eyes flashed hungrily, longingly; days when distant sails would loom up, wildly revive sinking hope, disappear, and drive hope into a greater, blacker distance; days when the sufferings of all were nearly ended by drowning, when the crazed man's .wild plunging nearly capsized the boat. It was a terrible picture, and one which the imagination alone can attempt feebly to paint. " Ah!" the wife and mother said one day on the steamer, as the passengers -l J: tc J L.i i were at umner, * u my near uauy uuy had had each day a mouthful of the water so lavishly "dealt out here." Popular Resorts in a Spanish Town. The people (of Toledo) generally were very simple and good-natured, and in particular a young commerpial traveler lrom Barcelona whom we met exerted himself to entertain us. The chief street was lined with awnings reaching to the curbstone in front of the shops, and every public doorway was screened by a striped curtain. Poshing aside one of these, our new acquaintance introduced us to what seemed a dingy bar, but by a series of turnings opened out into a spacious concealed cafe?that of the Two Brothers?where we frequently repaired with him, to sip chiccory and cognao or play dominoes. On these occasions he kept the tally in pencil on the marble table, marking the side of himself and a friend with their initials, and heading ours "The Strangers." , All travelers in Spain are described by natives as ' Strangers" or "French," and the reputation for a pure Parisian accent which we acquired under these circumstances, though brief, was glorious. To the Two Brothers resorted many soldiers, shopihsf^jers and housewives during fixed honrS1-^ the afternoon and evening, but at ottter times it was as forsaken as L/on itoacrjcK^ paiace. a.nomer piuco af amusement wa?v^h9 Grand Summer theater, lodged witniln the ragged walls Df a large building whmi^Ad been half torn down. Here we sat uncN^he stairs, luxuriating in the most expensKo teats [at eight cents per head), surrounded by a full audience of exceedingly good 1 ispect, including some Toledan ' ladies of great beauty, and listened to a zarzuela, or popular comic Dpera, in which the prompter took an ilmost too energetic part. The ticket : collector came in among the chairs to take up everybody's coupons, with very much the air of being one of the fam- j ily; for while performing his stern duty he smoked a short brier pipe, giving to the act an indescribable dignity, which threw the whole business of the 1 tickets into a proper subordination. 1 lu returning to our inn about midnight, we were attracted by the free 200I sound of a guitar duette. issuing from a dark street that rambled off 1 somewhere like a worm-track in old yood, and, pursuing the sound, we discovered, by the aid of a match lighted for a cigarette, two men stand- 1 Ing in the obscure alley, and serenading I 1 couple of ladies in a balcony, who : positively laughed with pride at the : Mention. The men, it proved, had 1 jeen hired by some admirer, and so our J friend engaged them to perform for us it the hotel the following night.? 1 George P, Latlirop, in Harper. ? I General Torbet's Way. , Torbet, of cavalry fame, who was ; lost at sea last \ ear with the ill-fated 1 Vera Crnz, was a good fighter and a ] hard worker. While having a kindly . heart for the trooper who was always 1 ready for "boots and saddles," he hated a shirk and bad his own way of 1 meeting the complaints urged by shirk- ! :rs to get rid of duty. Just before 1 breaking camp in the spring of 1865 the general attended a sick call to see the state of health in his command. One after another of the boys came in 1 for prescriptions, and by-and-bye a strapping big trooper, who was a notorious shirk, entered the tent with his bands on his stomach. Torbet took him in nil at a clance and then thun-11 deredout: " What are you here for " Sick," was tho faint response. ' What ails yon?'' "Snake in the stomach." " How long has it been there ?" "Six months." " S'irgeon," said the general, as he turned to tho cilicer, "call in two men, cut this man open and remove the snake ! We are going to break camp in ten days, and wo haven't time to coax, the reptile up!" Fifteen minutes after that the man fras out on the line grooming his horse, ind by noon ho looked well enough to iat his way through a barrel of pork.? Detroit. Free Press. A Theory About th6 Moon. When tho earth was verv vouncr. savs : Dr. Ball, ustronomer royal for Ireland, it went ronnd so fast that the day was jnly three hours long. The earth was | Liquid then, and as it spun round and round at that .fearful speed, and as the >un caused ever-increabing tides on tbe surface, it at last burst in two. The , smaller part was the moon, which has ( been going round the earth ever since it an increasing distance. Tho moon low raises tides on the earth, and while ;here was any liquid to operate on in ;he moon the earth returned the compliment. \ FOOD FACTS. Maize, or Indian corn, is one of the most nutritions of the grains, and eontains more of the fatty elements than the others. The substitution of from four to sir drams of glycerine for the amount of sugar usually addod to cream, milk or water, is recommended in preparing food for infants. The better qualities of flaxseed contain about thirty per cent, of oil, and if well masticated may be eaten freely by those whose system requires more fat?such people as are recommended to use cod-liver oil. Beans contain all the elements of true aliment excepting fat. To obtain this it is not necessary to bake beans with pork. A fat piece of corned beef is an excellent substitute and is extensively used by those who entertain a prejudice to pork, During the first two months of an infant's life it should not be fed of tener than once in two hours. After this the interval between meals may be length, ened with advantage, and at the end of six months farinaceous or starchy food may be allowed in small quantity. A writer in the Laws of Life, speaking of pork parasites, tries to make the swine-eaters flinch bv stafcinc that an ounce of flesh may contain a quarter of : a million of the infinitesimal larvre of the trichinae, and that a pork eater may with a few mouthfuls fill himself with 50,000,000 vermicularis. One who has made the calculations ( finds that as a flesh-producing food { eggs are equal to meat; that they sur- , pafs it in ability as a heat and force, | producing agent; and that a pound of corn will be more than twice as valuable if transformed into eggs by means of the hen, as when put into the form of meat by feeding to pigs.?Dr. Footed ' Health Monthly. Subjection of a Horse. One of the amusements of Australian 1 etock-rais9rs is to " run " a "mob" of 1 wild horses, "mob" being the stockman's name for herd. Some of these 1 mobs number among their most active ' members fine animals which have been ' broken, but have run away from a life * of servitude. One day news spread j through a certain district that a mob had been run into the stockyards of a 1 farmer. Many who had lost horses 1 visited the farm, and among them a 1 young man named Fitzgerald. As he ' was looking the mob over he suddenly ' exclaimed: J "Well, that's lucky I I've not seen 1 that gray horse these two years. 1 made sure that some one had stolen bjm. Going into the yard he tried to drive this horse into a corner by himself and catch him. Bat round and ronnd flew the mob like wild deer; thj gray &s wild as any of them. Getting a long, light, greenhide rope, Fitzgerald made a noose at one end. Gathering tip the slacken one hand and holding the noose in the other, he whirled it two or three times round his head and sent it circling through the air at the gray, who kept flying about the yard. For a moment it hovered over the horse's head, and hen settled round his neck. The rope was tightened, and the gray made a plunge or two. Bat his old training resuming its sway he walked toward his master, thoagh straining slightly on the rope. With a long stick Fitzgerald robbed the hcfrse gently over the head and body. Gradually approaching, he slipped on the bridle. But not until his fore leg was strapped up did the I_ CC 1.1- J 1L. ^ ? nuruu Buuer luh huuuiu uuu uiu ur upper to be put on. After giving Harlequin?as the gray was named?a few turns around the yard in order that be might buck if disposed to before being mounted, Mr. Fitzgerald said: 1 Now, Harlequin, old boy, we'll try whether you or I can hold out the longest." He made several attempts to mount, which the horse resisted by plunging. Shortening the reins, and holding the near side ear along with them in a grasp of iron, he pi iced his toe in the stirrup and in an instant was on Harlequin's back. A furious plunge halfway across the yard, and the horse alighted on the ground with all four feet close to each other, his head between his fore-legs, his taH well in, and his back bent like a cat's when a dog barks at her. But this bucking, though repeated again and again, failed to unseat the rider. Bound and round spun the maddened gray, bucking and squealing like a pig, but his rider's vise-like legs retained their grasp. All at once a strap was seen flying loose about the cantle of the saddle. "He's slipped his crupper; Fitzgerald's bound to come of now. ^exclaimed one of the stocknvm. With eacif buck the j saddle ".Vpped iarther on to the fidrae's 1 vidhers. At last a furious buok scntfik. the plucky rider to the ground, with the saddle between his legs, and the bridle, which he had dragged s off, in his hand. Away flew o the horse, smashing the saddle with a b kick which he intended for its owner, v Inspection showed that the gray had a Blipped his tail out of the crupper. The s: horse was again caught and this time ii the Proper was tied to the tail with a * piece of twine. On mounting the con- ti test began again. Whip and* spur had a to be used, and an hour passed before t< the horse was subdued to canter and a stop at the rider's bidding. But the 1< subjection was real, for the master n leaned back on the saddle and patted g the hindquarters, which a few hours be- li fore it would have been almost certain tl death to approach. ii fi Honoring a Painter. v Whoever may be the greatest of vi painters, living or dead, no painter, dead tl ar living, bad ever such honors paid to e: him as have just been lavished upon the n Hungarian artist Munkacsky. In Man- a; kacz, bis birthplace, an inscription was T pnt up announcing that in that town w were born " Arpad, the founder of our vi country, and Munkacsky, the founder tl sf our art." When he was expected in g Pesth special trains were run I from various parts of Hungary in d order to enable Munkacsky's fellow- T 3onntrymen to see him and shake p him by the hand. His famous d picture was on view, and as much as v ?5,500 is said to have been made by y exhibiting it. The Bishop of Pesth- d preached a sermon, or at least an ad- a dress, in praise of the painter whom n his country delighted to honor, and a n Krand cod cert was given, to which tt Munkacsky was specially invited and at a which Hungary's gr?atest musician, C the Abbe Liszt, was present. In the ti course of the entertainment the painter ff was asked whether he was " fond of tl music " and if he played on any instru si ment. He replied that he was devoted u to music, and thf>t he played on nature's tl own instrument. He began to whistle, 1< when his performance was received h with enthusiasm, and he was asked to stand on a chair, that every one might see and hear him. He now whistled an Hungarian national air, on n which the andienco became rapttirons b and even hysterical. Men applauded, fi women wept, and the Abbe Liszt took ti the whistling virtuoso in his arms and ti embraced him. It is recorded of the o late Ole Bull, a showy violinist who a passed with the Norwegians for a man of genius, that on one occasion. at a n moment of political crisis, he was called p upon by an excited audience to furnish Jb suggestions for a revised constitution ; t< and when tho pianist Gottschalk died ii at Rio Janeiro, a writer in one of the tl Rio newspapers named, in a paroxysm d of admiration and grief, the one place b in the region of the blessed which eo n imgelic a player could fitly occupy, s But the enthusiasm of which Mun- ii kacsky has been made tho objeot goes b beyond al 1 previons manifestations of a h like kind.? St. James* Gazelle. h The two highest chimneys in the ^ world are near Glasgow, Scotland. 8 One at Port Dandas is 454 feet above hlio ennnnd find tho SK Unllnr 43.r>l ^ ,ect- a As no roads are so rough as those p that have just been mended, bo no sin- I uers are so intolerant as those who have c just turned saint. t: The U?e of Bank Checks. In the reign of William old men were still living who could remember the days when there was not a single banking house in the city of London* 80 late as the time of the Restoration every trader had his own strong box in his own house, and when an acceptance was presented to him told down the crowns and caroluses on his own counter. But the increase of wealth had produced its natural effect, the subdivision of labor. Before the end of the reign of Oharles the Seoond a new mode of paying and receiving money had come into fashion among the merchants of the capital. A class of agents arose whose office was to keep the cash of the commercial houses. This new branoh of business naturally fell into the hands of the goldsmiths, who were accustomed to traffio largely in precious metals, and who had vanlts in which great masses of bullion could lie secure from fire and from robbers. It was at the shops of the goldsmiths of Lombard street that all the payments in coin were made. Other traders gave and received nothing but paper. The great change did not take place WlbUUUU HI UUll UppUBlLlULL *11U UUUUWe Old-fashioned merchants complained bitterly that a class of men who, thirty * years before, had confined themselves to the proper functions and had made a fair profit by embossing silver bowls and ohargers, by setting jewels for fine ladies, and by selling pistols and dollars to gentlemen setting out for the Continent, had become the treasurers, and were fast becoming the masters o the whole city. These usurers, it wh said, played at hazard with what had been earned by the industry and hoarded by the thrift of other men. If the dice turned up well the knave who kept the cash became an alderman ; if they turned up ill the dupe who fordished the cash became a bankrupt. On the other side the conveniences of the modern practice were set forth in animated language. The new sys? torn, it was said, saved both labor and J money. Two clerks seated in one hunting house, did what, under the old system, must have been done by twenty jlerks in twenty different establishments. A goldsmith's note might be transferred ten times in a morning, and inia a nnnarea guineas, locsea in nis iafe close to the exchange, did what svould formerly have required a thousand guineas, dispersed through many iills, pome on Ludgate hill, some in / iustin Friars and some in Tower street.?Currency Controller Knox. A Sailor Coon. A correspondent of the Forest and Stream, who used tcwail a fast yaoht, /he Decoy, describes one of his ctew, a pet coon, caught when young and aised in the boat-house. The yaoht lever sailed without him. He was 1 forward man." Often when the sea yas heavy it would wash him from the JoaIt l'nfn fliA ViAilinrt /nam Iwit 4m an <? 1UVU vUO h/VlilUg iVOlU} UUV M nu nstant he was again at his post, and jave ns all to understand by a peculiar rattnral sound that he meant businew. Ie delighted to sit on the end of the jowsprit, and when we would cross a joat's bow, or take the wind cut ot her iail, he talked. Sometimes a >oming sea would chase bim up he j ibstay a foot or two, but he never * . ailed to regain his old position* 3 n moderate l.weather, and the watex imooth, he wonld come aft, and looking it me knowingly, would mount the iller; and with one paw placed affeoionately on my arm, wonld sail the >oat for miles. Then he did talk. He lad been shot at several times from ival boats, and he knew them all as veil as we did. Onoe he was badly lurt, and falling from the end of the jowsprit into the water, I picked him ip as he drifted by. The ball had )assed through his intestines. He was i sick coon, almost unto death. We ran nto Gloucester, where a surgeon, riend of ours, attended his wound, low often he thanked that man for his indnesB the God that has given life to ill can only tell, for he was then to reak to talk. We all loved him, ind it - was reciprocated. How >nr hearts * warmed and throbbed n sympathy for that innocent, unof* ending atom of the great creation. He cot well, bat he never ventured out on he bowsprit any more. Qoiet affcer100ns ih the boat-house he would climb ip gently into my hammock, and softly :_l j i .ot-iu v.;0 iUUiU UUWU ill J UCfliU Wiuu Alto |MlWPy >nd brash the flies away until I snorod; ben be knew I was dead to all earthly bings, and in a minute he would have ay watch and money down to the last ient, and, in fact, everything abool my ilothes. Unlike, however, the genua nan?with all his godlike gifts?he ;ave his plunder baok, and told me )lainly he could have robbed me If he ised. ______ Norwegian Glacl ers and Folk-Lore. x, A correspondent of the Nature gives ome curious particulars of the advanoe f a Norwegian glacier incwn as Buerroe, near Odde. on the Sdr//orcL "I isited the place," he says, "in 0674*^ nd the recent plowing up of a coniderable bit of the valley by the vast -resistible ice-plow was very striking, 'hile the glacier itself was very beau- _ Jul. My object, however, is to repeat strange piece of folk-lore, wbioh tends 3 show that in this particular spot the dvance of the glacier must have been niff.Rontmned. The leeend was told le by Asbjorn Olsen, an intelligent aide at Odde, who speaks good Engah. The tale was that long ago he Buer valley extended far ato the mountains, and was fnll of ' irms and cultivation. It had also a illage, a church and a pastor. One inter night when a fearfnl storm was a ' ireatened, three Finns (i. e. Lapps} nteredthe valley and begged shelter 1 vain of the inhabitants. At last they ' sked the priest, and he too refasecL hen the wrath of the heathen wizards as raised and they solemnly <jursed the alley and doomed it to destruction by le crawling power of thefea', until the lacier reached the lake below. The lappa were seen no more, but on their isappearing the snow began to falL 'he winter was terrible. The glacier aproached by awful steps, and by egrees engulfed the cursed alley and farms. Nor is the curse et exhausted, for the glaoier creeps own the valley each year, and has yet r\ kafnu it. ra?nhM ltd dfllti. Uiiic UU gU WO?V*V *V AVWVMWW *? ? ? ation in the lake above Odde. I am o judge of folk-lore, but this weird tie seemed to me a genuine piece of it,c ad not invented for the occasion, u Isea gave it half jokingly as the radition of the district. The rmer who owns the remnant of lie doomed valley wanted then to all it, as he saw his acres swallowed p each year, but no one will buy. If his tale be genuine it points to a proDnged advance of the Folgefond, which as led to the tale of the Lapps' curse." Narcotism from Nutmegs. The fact that nutmegs have strong arcotic properties has long been known, at they are in such common use aa ft ivorite condiment used in small quanities that there dangerous nature, when iken in large quantity, is apt to be verlooked and forgotten, even by those ware of their tendenoy. A physician reports, in one or our ledical exchanges, a case where a lady atient during his absence was induced y her old woman nurse to take nutmeg 2a One and a half nutmegs were used 1 making the tea, and the patient drank he whole of the decoction during the ay. About 10 o'clock at night she egan to get drowsy, and 4 o'clock the rxt morning sho was in a profound tupor. At 10 o'clock the next morn? Qgtle mrcotic effects of the nutmegs egan to wear off, and by 4 p. m. she ad i rctty well recovered. The sympoms were about the same as those proneed by opium, and the remedies iven were the came. Nutmegs in the quantity of two or liree drachms have been known to proace both stupor and delirium; and angerous and fatal consequenoes are aid to hare followed its free use in ndia. Mace, which is the outside overingof the nutmeg, possesses eroenially the same praeyarKef, A