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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER! BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WAKDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1882. NO. 8. VOLUME XXVII. My Little Girl. Perhaps you never saw her? My little girl! So have no tenderness for her, This little girl; Nor any sort of feeling You fancy needs concealing, Because von know she is my little girl. Well, then, I'll show her to you? My little girl. 8he'd tell yon, if she knew you, This little girl, That though she's small of stature, She's out of frocks, and that you're Not to think she's such a very little girl. She likes to have me call her My little girl; And feels a fall inch tailor, This little girl, When her hand within ray arm, I unfold the little palm And whisper, "Dear, you're little, but?oh, my!' She has two big brown eves ? My little girl; And when to scold me she ti ies, This little girl, i laugu Decnuse nereyes spean To mo a language not Greek? For my little wife she'll be, bv-and-bye. ? The Chivch Union, Miss Lyddy's Wedding Gown. "Oh, missus, missus I Somefin's done happened 1" Blank horror and dismay w ere depicted upon the face of my young African as she stood upcn my threshold with upraised hands and eyeballs that seemed starting from their sockets. Her pause was one of preparation, for with the innate consideration of her race she sought to break the news gentlv to me, but the burden of it was too great for her, and with the next breath she exclaimed: "Dem pigs done chawed up Miss Lyddy's weddin' eown!" "Glory," I exclaimed (she had been piously christened Gloriana), "Glory, how did it happen ?" "Dunno!" said Glory. "Tears to me dem pigs has got Satan in 'em. Guess dej's 'scended from de ole lot what run down a steep place inter de a?o T'll rrr\ ort/3 ro o '' oca. JL 11 ouu jvj a pivw. She sped out and instantly returned with a tattered shred of India mull that had once been white, and still bore some resemblance to a gown. Poor Miss Lyddy 1 This was all that remained of her dream of wedding splendors. It was too pitiful I I felt at once that the bonds of good neighborhood had been irretiievably broken, and that Major Hf.wthorue must be made aware of this last and worst depredation of his unseemly pigs. But who would break the news to Miss Lyddy ? " Glory," said I, " where is she?" "Gone over to de buryin'-place to tend to de ancesters," answered Glory. Poor, faithful soul, even in those last days of her maidenhood, with the vague terrors, of matrimony and the still more appalling responsibilities of unsaved heathen souls hanging over her, she did not forget the ancestors. Long lines or Ludkinses lay buried in little sunken hillocks in the familv burvina place. which lay juBt in sight of her sittingroom window. She herself was the last of her race, and nniil within three weeks it had seemed that tho only fate which awaited her w?ir to live out her little space nndei tho ancestral rooftree and then take her place in the silent ranks of those who had gone before. But a change bad come. It came in the person of a returned missionary from the Micronesian Islands, who had bnried the first and second partners of bis joys 8nd torrows somewhere und< r tho palm tree s of those tropical lands, and bad come back to the scenes of his youth to rccrait hi6 health, serve the canso and look up partner number three. He met Mif-s Lyddyat a woman's mifcfiionary meeting. He c alled the next aftfrnoon arid waR invited to stay to tea. He uccepted the invitation and the next morning Miss Lyddy came into my rot m?for I, too, domioiled under tbe LrdkiDs roof-txee, for a comadera tiou?and with much hesitation and many faint and delicate blushes informed me that the had promised to share tbe future lot of the Rev. Nehimiah Applebloom, to take care ol his six children and sustain and support him in bis arduous labcrs among the heathen of the Micronesian Islands. 1 was struck dumb with amazemf-nt. *'3Iits Ly'die,1' I eaid at length, " have you (uly considered .lm project''" Her thin figu-e quivered and her white face, that had yet a delicate remembrance of jouth in it, grew tender xirifch fAAlinc " Yes," she said, " I think I have. I have always had a presentiment that I nbonld marry a mini-ter or a missionary.'' Admirable and pathetic faith! "And Mr. Applebloom says he knew the moment he set e>es upon me that I was crdained to be his wife; so you see it is not the surprise to either of us that it is likely to be to our friends." I knew then thather miud was fully made up, so I demurred no longer, but lent mytelf at once to a discussion of the wedding, which I plainly paw was what Miss Lyddy desired of me. " You will be married in church, I suppose ?" "Ob, no," said Miss Lyddy, with gentle dffc;*ion. "Iam the last of the Ludkinses. All the Ludkinpes hav<= been married at home. I will go oat fiom under my own roof-tree. If I must seem to forsake the ancestors"? she paused to regulate a little cboking in her throat?" 1 will not at leatt forpake their tradi'.iona. I shall leave a little money with the parish clerk that he may see that the graves of my dead are Kept in orner, as 1 always nave loved to keep them, ami I hope tbej will forgive my departure; but I will at least go as u Lndkins should. It is mj dtsirc tn be married in my grandmother's wedding-gown." Miss Lyddy's voioo trembled, and there was a humidity in her eyes at which I did not wonder, for it wa3 mud like a funeral after all. "1 thought, perhaps,went on Miss Lyddy, "if I brought the veneratec relic to you, you would tell me if anything wero necessaty to be done to fit il to mo. I don't care for the fashions, you know, and my grandmother, as J remember her, was about my height but still, you know?something?som< changes might be advisable." "Certainly," I said, "do bring it t< me. I should so like to see it." "It is sprigged India (she called i Ingy) mull My grandfather, Captaii Simon Ln kins, brought it home fron ov?r the seas. I'll bring ic." *' 'ke some paie and gentle ghost sh< rose then and went to a bureau drawe: and unroll- d from folds of linen tha smelt of lavender the fair, frail relic o Mrs Captain Simon Ladkins' weddinj state. It was tine embroidered mull the undoubted product of Indiai looms. " It is lovely." I said, " and so wel kept that it will bo ja.^t the thing fo you. Will you try it on ? We can tel then }*ost what it neeris." Miss Lyddy proceeded to disrobe her s 'If and put on the spider-net gown As she did so tue changes in fashion" mandates became only too evident. I hid no waist to ppeak of aud just a lit tie lace-trimmecl puff for sleeves. Mit Lyddy was evidently surprised. Sh bad not thought of tbis. I knew wei what the troubled look upon her fac ) eant, and I pitied her maiden pensi biiities. Could it be possible tha'. he grandmother, Mr-. Captain Simon Lad i;ins, had ever worn such a gown a this ? She said rot a word that cjuI indicate tbo depth of her mortiticatioi but her face was a study for an artis " There must bj sleeves,'' Bbo qui mured, after a few moments of silt-i and embarrassed contemplation. "Yes," I replied, cheerfully as ra constrained gravity would allow. "An you might have a fichu and a flounce o v ihe bottom." She looked down. She had not b< fore realized that the shirt of the veu rated rrj c lacked a full quarter of yard of touching the floor. Bowcvercculdthey I" sheejacul.tt< in an undertone. But she quickly recovered herself and looked up to me cheerfully over her spectacles. " How ingenious you are!" she said, with an air of sweet relief. u I knew jon would help me put." We wennt out together and bought the requisite mull that day, but wnen we came to put it beside the "venerated relic" of Mrs. Captain Ludkins it was evident that time had so enriched the color of the latter that the two were most nnforluuatelv iwlil-e. " We can l?y it tut on the praf-s," I said; 44these June dewa are just the; filing fnv if qn11 oc if Trill hp Af^ninrr ' ?? *' > ?"" w. c, | j nobody will in the least notice." Again Mies Lyddy smiled gracefully, and declared that my suggestion shouid be carried out in the most faithful manner The Rive. Nebemiab Applebloom?" A lovely name, don't you think so ?" said Miss Lyddy, and she blushed and smiled like a schoolgiil in her teens? bad but a shoit furlough, and the marriage was to transpire next week, bo the relic was put out to bleach forthwith, j It lud already beeu upon the gras3 three ! days and nights and been religiously j watered by Miss Lyddy at morn and ' noon and dewy eve, and the next day it was to be taken up early and put in the dressmaker's bands for the necessary alterations, when tbe dreadful event occurred with which this story opens. " Glory," I said, " do you keep watch for Miss Lyddy when she returns. Say i nothinc about what has happened un less she misses the gown from t^ie gras-*. ! In that case tell her that I thoaght it was bleached enough and took it up to dry, and you don't know where I have , put it. I am going out now, but if she asks where tell her you don't know." j Glory was faithful, and had besides j the natural craft of her race, and I knew that Rhe could be trusted. As for me, j I swiftly donned ray bonnet and set out I to find Major Hawthorne. It was a; bright June evening, and my walk j through the meadow and the grove | that skirted Hawthorndeau would have I been a delightful one if I had borne a ! miud more at case. The major was a ! gentleman by birth, but he had lived j out l)is fifty bachelor years in a gay and ! careless way that had seemed to set the gentler part of creation at defiance. In the lifetime of his parents Hawthorndeau had been a beau'ifal es'ate. It still retained many marks of wealthy and cultivated ownership, but it was sadly run down, as tho home of a bachelor is apt to be. The grove, which had once been the pride of the place, was grown up to brush now, and the sore leaves of many summers' growth rustled under my feet as I walked through it. At one point, e ming suddenly around a thick clump of undergrowth, I heard a chorus of tiny snorts and the srampering of [ nnmbt-rle-'s hoofs, and knew that I had invaded a haunt of the major's last agricultuial freak, the very brood of: Berkshire pigs that were the pource , of all my borrowed woes. Away they scampered, their snouts well raised in the air, and each with a curl ! ir? itn loil f.Viaf. Hopmpfl t.nn ornamental ] to be wholly the product of nature and j to justify the village rumor that the i major's own nnn put those tails in carl- j papers every night. They had the air j of spoiled children, every one, and were j evidently the major's j ets. But that! didn't matter; they had ruined Miss : Lyddy's wedding gown, to say nothing of a dozen other aggravating exploits which do not belong to this story, and 1 was determined to have satisfaction out of their owDer. I found tbe major fitting on his piazza with au after-dinner look upon his, handsome, good humored face He rose to greet me with an air of old-school politeness, dashed with a faint wonder that I, a woman, should have the hardihood to approach a place so little frequented by women. "Good-evening, Miss Grace. I am happy to see you. In what can I have ! the honor to serve you?" Hft liad read my face and knew the.t I i had come on a mission. " Major Hawthorne," I raid, paying ; no attention to his offer of a chair, " I j have come on a very painful errand.'' " Sit down, inailame," paid the major, politely. " I cannot possibly permit a lady to stand on my piazza. 1 ought, peroaps, to ask you to walk ia, but it is ratler ttuffy indoors this eveniDg." " No," I said, " I will sit here, if you please."' To tell the truth, indoors, as seen through the window, had not the most inviting look, and I was glad to oompromire. "You have, no doubt, heard"? plunging in medi'ts res?"that Bliss Lvdia Ludkins is about to be married." 44 Married! 3Iise Lycia I No I Hadn't j heard a word cf it," taid the major in : genuine amazement. " Who is the for-1 tunate man, pray ?" 41 The Rev. Nehemiah Applebloom, a missionary to the Micronesian Islands, who has come home to recrnit his health and find a wife." ' I know him,"' said the major. " Saw him down at the station?a lontr, Jean, j 1 lank individual?jn-t fit for his voca-! 1 tion; no tomptation whatever to canni-1 balsl Bat what the dence is ho going! to do with Mi6s Lydia ? What will j j Balaam's Corners do without her?'' " Balaam's Corners mnst do the b"8t 1 it can," I said?I fear a little sharply? for my mind was still in a most agpressiee state toward the major. " They are to be married next week, and?" 1 44 What will become of the 'ances-1 1 tors'?'' interpolated the major, inwnom - 3 i._ 1 4.4. 1UA 1 i. I surprise seeuieu to u?ve guinea iua ucw ter of habitual politeness. "Oh, she has made arrangements with Mr. Crow about that." " Just like her ! Dear, faithful girl." > The major had all his life loved all : the sex?not one?and I was not to be I beguiled by this show of feeling. 1 " She had set her heart upon being married in her grandmothers wedding1 gown." " Old Mrs. Captain Simon ? I remem ber her well. A mighty fine woman. She never would L-ave gone to the ' ends of the earth with a missionary. i Tf'o nroTtoaf oo^oma F &VOY XI O IUW Vi OVUVAUV V ? V* AAWM. v. ' of." I began to fear I ehould never get to ' my errand. I "It was put out on the glass to ' bleach, being a little yellow with age. & It was a lovely embroidered India muslin ? that the old captain brought home from ' India himself." ? " How well I remember him in my J boyhood! A jolly eonl 1 A granddaughter of his go off to the Cannibal > Islands to be eaten up *y savages! I won't have it I" t "Her heart is set upon going," I con1 tinned. '-The wedd'ng-gown was put i out to bleach, and this very afternoon those little Berkshire pigs of yours? 9 they are a nuisance to the whole ueigh> r borhood, mr.jor?trampled and rooted t it to pieces, so that it, is utterly ruined." f "Little black rascals." said the major, I with a chuckle behind his neck-cloth. ? "And I have come, without her i knowledge, to tell yon of it, because I was sure that, under the circumstances, I a gentleman of your breeding would r feel in honor bound to make some 1 reparation to Mies Lydia." The major mused and looked at his - boot for a moment in silence. ' Miss Grace," he said at length, " I s thank you for the service you have rent dered me in this matter. Will you have - the goodness to say to Miss LthIs kins, with my compliments, tbat I shail e do myself the honor to wait upon her 1 to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock to ade just this unfortunate matter ? I be^ in i- the meantime that she will give herself r I as little solicitude as possible, for 1- though I cannot restore the ancient and .6 venerated dry goods, I will do I he best d possible under the circumstances to ., make the loss good." t. He bowed over my hand and the aur dience was evidently concluded. Was it I satisfied? No, indeed ! What woman wonld not have felt wronged to be left v at the end of a mission of disinterested d benevolence in suoh a state of doubt 'a and uncertainty as this? But I v/as obliged to go home n3vertheless, and 3- wait as patiently as I could for the a- stroke of 10 next morning. a Glory had been in hearing when the message had been delivered to Miss d Lyddy and she too was on the Witch. At last she scndded in from the hedge, her ivories all a-glisten, and her ejet wide open and fall of a rather incomprehensible mirth. " He's a-comin'," she Baid; "and lfc. snch a sight I* 81 At that minute the gate clicked and jj.13 up the walk strode indeed a most astonishing figure. The major had gotten te' himself up in a continental Buit, which he must have tiahed out of the unknown dppths of the ancient attics at Haw- i thnrndean; black velvet coat with lace j :h ruffles at the wribt, knee breeches, white satin waistcoat, slippers with Bhce 00 ? tt.:?mi UUtRICO, pV VY UCICU nxiu tUvHCU unu. He was sis feet tall, portly and well wc formed, and ho looked every inch a 8e signer of the Declaration at the very cn least. He was followed by his colored man who carried a large brown paper parcel. g&\ " He's come a-conrtin', missus," said ^e' Glory ; "ye can see it in his face." no I had cot the instinct of Glory, and doubted ; but what his errand was I -n was dying to know. Qj But he disappeared into Mies Lydia's wa parlor, and I was left ontside to temper my impatience as best I could. Present- ^ ' ly Glory entered on tiptoe. me " Missus, missus," she whispered. "Do do's swung open jess de leas' <vn( crack, an' its je*s opposite do big mur- ' ror, an* if ye come out here in de hall, ? yc can see it all in de murror as plain as day, an' it's a heep better'n a play." cr( It was a temptation, but believe me, ^ dear reader, I resisted it. Only as Glory ran back to her peeping, I followed to pull her away and send her out of doors ?that wan simply my duty?and there , he was full on his knees before her, and | she with tbat rapt seraphic look upon ^ her face which no woman ever wears .. except on the most vitally interesting . occasions. But GI017 disposed of, i went back to my sewing and waited as , Viaaf T ArmM fVia nrmnlnninn nf fliA mrv * Q T mentous interview. The major came out at length, as smiling as a May morning, leaving the brown paper parcel be- J* hind him. . It was very still in Mi6s Lydia aroom 1 for a quarter of an hoar, and then she, * too, emerged from her retreat. Spread over her hands was a pown of crt-amcolored brocade embellished with the i ! loveliest roses in full bloom, with bine forget-me-nots trailing hero and theie among them. It had an ample waist, elbow sleeves, and a train a yard and a . half long. "My dear Grace," she said, "the major h^s brought me hie mother's wedding gown to be married in." "It is beautiful," I said; "but who is j to be the bridegroom ?" ^ She smiled as angels do, and looked ^ afar; a delicate flutter of pink hung out j in her cbeek to deprecate her recreancy, as she whispered in a tone of gentle but j consummate triumph: h "The major himself! Didn't he look nQ gr ind in his knee breeches!" " And Mr. Applebloom ?'1 nt "Major HawtLorne will adjust that matter." b ; " That matter," indeed I She spoke . as though it were already as remote -m from her as the pyramids. ? " I congratulate you, Miss Lydia," I said, growing formal, for she had behaved shamefully. mc "Don't blame me," pLo murmured. ^ "Major Hawthorne declares tbatjae Las loved me sinco I was a child, but never ? thought himself worthy of me (the gay deceiver!); and Mr. Applebloom, you know, is only the acquaintance of a ^ ' day." I wanted to ask her how she had dis- exJ posed of her presentiment, but did not dure. Major Hawthorne subscribed fifty ? dollars to the Micronesian mission and Bent Mr. Applebloom elsewhere to look * -'i- J Ll. J:-4. iur a Wlie, UliU tUU YOlUi<JU Ul juaiaaui o j Corners was that he had done the hand. tn< some thing. a "'Fore goodness!" said Glory, "ef dere weren't a clar' relation between j dem pigs an1 Providence den I don't know nothin'." Miss Lydia took the s,ime pious view j of the matter, and made tho major the most dainty and dignified of wives. P Our Continent. ^ English Journalism. The first weekly newspaper was ma established in England, we are told, by be; one Nathaniel Batler, in 1622. Before he that time English gentlemen who lived on their country estates a portion of the year, clubbed together and employed a ] news writer, who gathered the gossip cf thi the day and sent it to thorn at regular , intervals. These writers were some- ^ ' times retired captains, sometimes prin- Qn ters, sometimes men who made this , work a profession by itself. A peer kept his special correspondent and paid Pr< him a handsome salary. Milton, Dry- P.r( den, Andrew Marvel and Defoe were 0 , all contributors to the weekly news paper press daring the Commonwealth 0 The first daily paper in London was 8P( called the Courant. It appeared in nei 1702, three days after tho accession of J Qneen Anna. It was about the size of ue: a single page of the Spectator, was wo printed only on one side, and contained am nothing but a few scraps of intelligence j that would hardly pass for news at this ap; day. Till the year 1729 there was no to BUUil ItUiUg U a pttL JLiULUCJUiai J icpi/iir, . ^ (. and these were made at first agaiost the j fat wishes of the house of oommons and the ] house of lords, whose members thousht so the press had to right to discuss political thi questions. The plan of reporting was he lor two or three persons to steal into in the gallery, listen attentively, then retire to an alehouse, where they oom- an pared memories and wrote out tlie cj( result. This was for several years the eu labor of Dr. Johnson, who did the vork ^ in a garret or behind a scfeen at St. John's gate. The right of the press to criticise the royal speeches and the . conduct of parliament came through the North Briton and the arrest of TT Wilkee, before which time such liberties bad not been attempted. To the love of f/eedom may be ascribed the letters of Junius, which were published soon alterward by Sampson W? Woodfall in the Public Advertiser. This newspaper had at the time a circn- m' lation of 75,000 copies monthly. |on It thereby increased in popularity, and Pa took a position at the head of the London press. The Morning Chronicle was started about the same time, and greatly w< changed the character of parliamentary fQ reporting, principally through the re- a8 maikable memory of William Woodfall, who, it is said, could walk down to the kf house of commons with a hard-boiled wi egg in his pocket, and then returning in without a single scrap of paper write h( ont fifteen or sixteen short col- ea umns of speeches. A story somewhat fr similar is told of Coleridge, who, having ta to report a speech of Pitt, fell asleep ca and only heard a few words of the end ar of it; yet having received a few hints frrm others, he proceeded to write out a flr brilliant oration, whose authenticity ^ was only discovered some time after- p] ward. The Morning Chronicle, invented y( the leading editorial, which, through m the skill and learning of Coleridge ! fc in the Morning Post and I j8 Courier, was developed into i a a work of art. This was near the close <j( of the eighteenth centurv, about which tl time English journalism began to iake the shape it has at present, with edi torials, public reports and other depnrt- j . ments covering every branch of news. ' Bnt as Charles Peabody, the author of j _ thisinterestingvolumoof Casseil's Pop ular Library, remarks, the story of English journalism is yet to bo told, and ^ there is certainly no place for its elab| oration in those columns. j ^ After a cruise of a few mouths in the j J South Pacific, a French man-of-war was I recently found to have specimens of living corals growing upon hor hull. a! The interesting discovery has thrown 0 somo light on the question of the rapid- a ity of growth of corals. The evidence 8 tends to show that the vessel, on pass- J ing a reef of the Gambier Islands, ^ against which she rubbed, had picked N up a voung fnngia, which adhered to w the sheathing and grew to a diameter of nine inches and a weight of two and 8 one-half pounds in nine weeks. 1] ?^? g The de^pe.st mico in the world is the c, Priband silver mine in Bohemia, which t extends 3,300 feet below the surface. i THE FABM AND HOUSEHOLD. g S Suit nnd Com for Cowa. g Cows will rarely take too much salt if i is freely offered to them, bat if it is c veil to them very seldom and they get t ingry for it they may take too much. ) le ounce a day is not too much, but t a ounces in one dose every tenth day l mid be dangerous, and it might possi- f y be swallowed. It is safest to give ? It regularly in stated quantities and s en a cow might be sately loft with a I rrel full near by without risk. Dry, C rn is not a right food for cows. Meal ly be given, but not the grain, which >uld be swallowed whole and not di sted, and indigestion produces loss of d. r v Sod an n Fertilizer. t An old farmer writing to an exchange t 78: There is do way manure can e furnished so cheaply as in sod. Sod t only enriches the land but improves t mechanically, the decay of the roots q the sod making the soil, and that,too, E the best quality. Sod mannre is al- a ys adapted to the soil, and no teat- t,( j is necessary to know whether it will 8 nefit the crop or not as with com?rcial fertilizers. With the sod mare it is all gain, both in mechanical i fertilizing effects. To get best re- ? Its the rotation of crops should be ^ ick and the land got into clover d grass sod as quick as the fourth j >p, so that the organic elements of 8 9 soil are not too heavily drawn t 0D- a Wnter Homes Often. 3ays the Farmers' Magazine: Horses P juire water as often as do men, and t oulc! have it every five or six miles, the weather is warm. If the horse ^ VOIJ IliUUU UVOIUCOI/OU, J uou WkVJLXJ ming to a watering-place, Bay a quar- 8 1 of a mile or so before, ''slow tip'' to ? calk, and when yon get to where yon l1 3 give the horse water he will be V Died off considerably ; then, too, he Dnld have his month sponged ont and 0 Dut a half bucketful of water. Noth c f refreshes a tired, jaded horse so 81 ich as a drink of water, and if he has ?! it regnlar intervals he will keep up it a long distance. He can do much 1 tter for a whole day and over a long irney withont food than withont ter. If this item of watering was ire carefully attended to we would d ir of fewer cases of horses being jroome by the heat during the warm v mmer months. c Snoflower Seed for Ponltrr. Every exhibitor of fanoy poultry tl ives to get his fowls in good condition b the Bhows, and hundreds who do not b aibit at all are just as desirous of sing the plumage of thfir fowl pes o ikinc briffht anJ clossv. Corn. oats, ii eat or any other kind of giain can- f, t always be relied on to effect this, g 3 to sunflower seed belongs the oredit being able to do it. The ripened seeds of sunflowers have an known for years by those who ^ ve used them to have properties of ^ parting to the plumage of adult j( vis a superior gloss that no other ^ lin will produoe. A small quantity, s] I occasionally during the process of >lting, and again before preparing exhibition,, will necessarily uid in ring the desired gloss, as has been termined by frequent practical ex- ? riments. s rhere is no doubt, if fowls are fed c ) often on the seeds of the sunflower, P 3 in large quantities at a time, to the * jlusion of most other kinds of food, a ;y may cause an iD]ury to the crop, 6 ing to the tough or leathery nature their covering. Some times we hear ^ fowls being crop-bound by eating F aflower seeds, but it is well known r' pis have been crop-bound when sy ate other kinds of food. Sunwer seeds are best when crushed and xed with meal. ^ Fowls like this seed when they bene accustomed to it. The common sflower has been grown by well-in- " mecl fanoiers annually for the pur- '( se of giving a bright aud glossy ap- 6 irance to the plumago oi their fowls, is very easily raised on most any * id of mellow soil. It should be inted in May, and we recommend the a .tumoth Russian variety to be the 4 it, principally because it will yield a a ivier crop.?Poultry Monthly. \ . I a Pnrin anri Garden Note*. Early cut gras3 makes better liay .1 in that which is cut late. a r The best cure for harness wounds on rses is burnt leather. Rub the ashes ? the sore and a cure is soon effected. ? e The nearer a fattening animal ap- v caches maturity the gieater is the f, jportion of fat in tho gross increase c tained. ^ rhe slovenly management and waste manure is one of the most general $ jcimens of the ignorance or ciireloss- ^ 38 of farmers. v i tree overloaded with fruit can I ither perfect the fruit nor ripen its od properly. A great many trees aie anally ruined by too much cropping, kll concentrated fertilizers should be t plied by broadcasting, in preference n % M _ AL . 1--M1 i. J placing tnem in tue mii, as iuu itugo [uantity in a small area is sometimes nl to n.f di. Eorses are social animals, particularly in the case of young horses. Tliey rive best when in the society of others, nee the advantage of pasturing several one field when practicable. For iron rnst take dry cream of tartar d rub on with the finger while the >th is wet. Hang or place where the n will Bhine directly upon it. Should e rust not come out with the first apication repeat. In order of earliness of green fodder ants that have been cultivated at the perimental farms, lucerne is first, on cumfrey, red clover, rye, tares, ts, millet, rape, corn and cabbage. ? ?? ? ? ? '/->*-? V/vna 4 l average pruuucuuu ui bun icou tuuo . c een weight and three tons dry weight j t 19 secured. i I Remedies for diseases of sheep are J * my, but few are effectual. This :s J f ring to the fondness of sheep for com-1 * nionship. Disease once introduced : i to a flock spreads rapidly, and sick j 8 eop, as a general thing, never get j f ill. Farmers who wish to be success-! I with sheep should guard them ;ainsl; exposure and contagion. Two or three hives of bees can be t jpt as well as not on every farm, and i ith the present progress of bee-keep- { g a large quantity of good extracted i mey can be procured at no expense, j :eept for starting. "With movable i amea and a smoker, bees are as tracble as chickens, and comb foundation >Q be bought and placed in the hive \ id the bees can go right to work. f Tho observations of Dumas, Peyen ] id Bouissingault have shown the fact 1 lat a cow gives healthy milk in exact < roportion to the surplus of food be- ' ind what is necessary for her own i aintcnance. If the animal is kept on iod barely euflicient for proper nonrhment the milk produced must bo at j loss of animal tissue, with general j aterioration of the milk and also of j ' le cow. Mos* growers concede that three fe e i x inches each way is the beet distance , >r planting corn, dropping three ker- \ els in a hill as nearly as possible. The ! rguinent in favor of close planting is j lat it admits of more thorough culti-' ition, allowing the cultivator to meet! etween the rows and stir all the ground, i he Chester county mammoth and other j ill growing varieties, however, will do : ell if planted threa feet six inchts j ich way. One of the most prevalent errors' mong average farmera is tho neglect i f making and preserving manure and j Iso its improper application to the , round. Collect all the refuse material j ou can, use your chip dirt from tho 1 'oud pile in absorbing liquids. Apply j ; to the flat lands at any time during j 'inter. It can then be thrown on roadoast and plowed in as soon as tho round opens. The necessity of returnag as muoh vegetable nutriment to tho round as has been taken off by the crop annot be too strongly impressed upon be attention of our farmers. Keep nursing ewes by themselves and ;ive scalded bran or oatmeal dail Sugar beets or potatoes, sliced and iprinkled with a qaart of middlings or >ran fox each ewe, will produce abunlant and rioh milk. Eeep lambs where hey will have plenty of sunshine. Vhen rough, sheddy wool appears in he fleeces or the wool drops off in ocks, the sheep are not healthy, or the ood has been too dry and heating Jtop the cornmeal and give some lineeii oil-cake meal; a few potatoes will >e urteful if rools are not to be had. Jive salt frequently and freely. Keclpp*. Caleoannon. ?Make some good aashed potatoes in the usual way, to phich add about oue-third of the quanity of finely chopped greens. Mix hem together, senson with pepper and alt and serve like mashed potatot'.. Pickled Peabs.?Ten pounds of pears, hree pounds of light brown sugar, one uart of vinegar, one ounce of cinnaaon, one ounce of cloves (ground); put 11 together and boil till the pears are ender ; skim the pears out and let the yrup boil a half aD hour longer. Ox-Taib Soup.?Take two tails, wash nd put into a kettle with about one allon of cold water and a little salt. Ikim off the broth. When the meat is rell cooked, take out the bones tin/ dd a litt le onion, carrot and tomatoes, t is better made the day before using, o that the fat can be taken from the ? aj,i i?i,i K/vi'l jp. auu v f^muuica juoau v*uuu wii ii hour and a half longer. Moonshine.?This dessert combines a retty appearance with palatable flavor, nd is a good substitute for ice cream teat the whites of six eggs in a broad late to a very stiff froth, then add radually six tablespoons of powdered agar, beating for not less than Ihirtv linutes; then beat in about one heapis; tablespoon of preserved peaches cut i tiny bits (soft, ripe, fresh fruit is etter if jou can get it, or some use no cup ok' jelly). Set on ice until ooled. In serving, pour in each saucer omo rich cream sweetened and flavored nth vanilla, and on tho cream place a beral portion of the moonshine. This uantity is enough for eight persons. IlonseAiold Hint*. Kerosene lamps-which are trimmed aily never explode. Leaves of parsley eaten with a little inegar will prevent the disagreeable onsequences of tainted breath by nions. If j on desire to restore velvets, hold La article over a basin of boiling water, i- j tl _:n I cWJtt. UUWfl. Xb W1JJL IQljUiic a iuu^ biuii;, i ut the nap will surely rise. You can get a bottle or barrel of oil ff any carpct or woolen stnflf by applyig dry buckwheat plentifully * and iithfully. Never put water to such a Tease spot or liquid of any kind. It is a good plan to boil onions in lilk and water an it diminishes tbe trong taste of that vegetable. Chop hem after they are boiled and put them i a stewpan with a little cream and at them stand abont fifteen minntes. !his gives them a fine flnvor and they hould be servod hot, . . __.i A Clieap Oration. Thetb is yet living in Central Michian a lawyer who, some fifteen or ixteen years ago, was waited upon by a ommittee from a small village /or the urpose of engaging him to deliver a 'ourth of July oration. When they sked his prici), he said that he considred $'25 cheap enonp;h. "Mercy on me!' explained the hairman, "bat we can't pay no such rice as that J That must be for a egular Henry Clay oration." "Weill, yes. I think it will compare ivorablv with anything Henry got off " "Oh, bat wo can't stand it?we must ave a cheaper one." "How cheap?" "Not over ti7e dollars. We'll give yon ve dollars, yonr dinner, and all tho amonade you can drink for the cheap- | in WAH* '' I ou in juui auttui Til do it!" replied the lawyer, and lie mouey was paid him on the spot. He was on hand on the glorious day, ud by-and-bye the procession moved to he grove, the orator took the stand nd was introdaced, and without any ooling around ha walked to the front ad said: " Fellow-country men : We whipped Ingland twi.je and Mexico or ce. We re a frt o pecple. This is the glorious i'oUrth. Give 'era 'Hail Columbia' and ;o in for a gcod time?the end." He had given them a $5 oration, and very soul in the crowd except cne 'old ?oman wai perlectlv satisfied. She ollowed the orator around until she had ornered him, and then expressed her ieguat by saying: " Seems to me that if you had really lesired to please the crowd you wouldn't iave chopped that off without a single 1 i. U fr'Uru UUUUli nuau n am ut mo wab?io wi iiunker Hill 1"?Free Press. Wearing the Hair in Japan. In Japan much may ba read from he arrangement of a woman's hair. ?hat of my friend, the teacher, told hat she was a widow and never meant o marry again. The age and sex of a ?aby may be known by the tuft in the >ack of the neck, or the ring around he crown, or the bunch left in froDt chile all the reft is shaved. A girl of ighti or nine has lier hair made up into bow on the back and wound round ?ith red crape, while the front is shaved I >are and bangs dangle at the sides. A 'onng lady combs her's high in front >nd arranges it as a bntterfly en the tack of her head, plnmaged with gold >r silver cord and gay hairpins of gilt lalls. Some very stylish yonng ladies >refer to have their baok hair resemble \ half-open fan instead of a butterfly. i married woman must heep the waterall style, while a widow who is willing o think of matrimony wears her hair Jed und twisted around a long shell lairpin placed horizontally across the >ack of the head. But when a widow t1TT rnortltrco norftr fn Aha iffA liAT I lame again she cuts off her h.-iir eliort n her neck and combs it back without iny part. This is the way my new riend, the teacher, wore hers. Two-Handed Swords. The claymore, once famous in Scotish history, was a very long sword, ivith a hilt so Urge that it conld be 'rasped by both the hands of the war ior who wielded it, and when the trenendous weapon was swung around by my of the bravo "Scots, wha ha' \vi' Wallace blod, Scots, wham Bruce has aftcn led," :here was overy reason for the opposing joldiers to want to get as far away as possible. Long two-handed sworde iverc in use in various parts of Europe luring the middle ages, but it is from Ssotland that W6 have heard the most ibout them. Some of tho Gorman swords, used by the soldiers in the French religious wars, were enormous two-handed weapons, with Eharp points, jagged edges, uud groat spikes near tho base of the blade; bat these heavy swords wcro used only by soldiers who were uncommonly strong and skillful; for any awkwardDesB on the ' part of a man swinging snob a trem< ndons blado was apt to inflict as much injury on his companions as on the enemy. Some ol the Ion2 swords of tie middle ages wero used more forshow and ceremony than for actual service. Tho sword of Edwnrd the Third, which is preserved in Westminister Abbay, is seven feet long and weighs eignteen pounds. This, it is said, was carried before the king in processions, and was probably never used in any othsr way .?St. Nicholas. Ostrich farming is, next to wool and diamonds, the most important industry of Southern Africa. It was not succets* ful until tho eggs were hatched by a patent incubator, tho parent bird not performing her duty well in confinement. Oregon's wool olip last year was 8,000,000 pounds, and this year's yield is expected to bo 1,000,000 pounds greater, SWINDLERS OUTWITTED. L'ancft In Which lite filler Hbi dot IIIHeii , Hardly a day passesj says a New York paper, that, a complaint is net lodged at some one of the police stations by a ( stranger in the city who has been vi> i timized by confidence operators, bat 1 SDmetimee the confidence operator picks up the wrong man, and instead of ' swindling him gets the worst of the , oamn himcolf Hft tlifl fnw ilifit:inSPR I given below will show. The neighborhood cf the Astor Louse and the City Hall park is a favorite resort for these " crooks," owing to the proximity of the Jersey ferries. Not long flince a gentlemen was noticed by one of the fraternity of swindlers crossing the park, and, as he stopped to inspect the architectural monstrosities of tho pofitcffloe, tho operator approached him and eaid: "O.in I be mistaken V Ir not this Mr. Edwards, of Bobton?" "No, sir, I am not," was the reply." "My name is Andrews, I'm from Chicago." The opertor bepged his pardon. The likeness to his friend Mr. Edwardp, of Boston, was so remarkable it misled him, and he withdrew. The gentleman had hardly gone fifty feet from tho spot where he bad been accosted when a well dressed man of perhaps thirty five slapped him on the back and eaid: "Why, Andrews, old boy, how are-you? What _re you doing so far East as this ? How are all the boys in Chicago ? Come in and have a drink and tell me the news ?' Mr. Andrews accepted the invitation, and bottle after bottle of champagne wae ordered and drunk, always at the exoonse of the operator. Mr. Andrews I i explained that be had only abont 810 in his pocket and a check for $8,500 that he was going to cash at the bank the next morning. This he showed his friend, and the sight of that and the diamond etnds.and gold watch and chain he wore were enough to make the "crook" determine to "pliy" him. Mr. Andrews dined with his "old friend," wont to the theatre and then on a spree all over the city, the friend paying all expenses, and at 4 o'clock in the morning they parted, after Mr, Andrews had made an engagement to meet his companion at 9:45 tho next morning and go to the bank, get the check cashed, and then " own the town." As he stepped into the hack tho "crook" called and paid for, he said, feeling in his pockets: " By the way, some one in the last dive must have picked my pooket of that $10 bill, Lsnd me $50 till morning, as I haven't a cent in mv pocket." " Certainly, here it is. Remember 9:45 tomorrow. or, rather to-dav, sharp. Goodnight." Mr. Andrews has not yet shown up. He has probably returned to New Orleans, where, nnder his own name, he s runs a very popular and wcll-pajing j faro bank. P. T. Barnum was picked up a few < xvpokq arm cifc tVio rtnfnpr nf TTiff.h ava. i nno and Twenty third street by a gen- j tleman who insisted that he knew him, ; and that his name was Robinson and came from Scranton, Pa. It vas not till Mr. Barnum had convinced him that he was from Bridgeport, Conn., j that he was induced to depart. j Not long since a man, loosely put to- j1 gether, and wearing clothes that did not ' (it him particularly well, so that he looked like a well to do farmer, was sauntering down the Bowery, when he was accosted by a man who claimed to 1 kne w him well and treated him to a 1 drink for old acquaintance sake. Then ' Ei visit was proposed to one of the many | side-shows, where a gambling establish- j ] mint is the " raison d' otre.' Both men ! joked in a game known as tho "envelope game," and the countryman won some four dollars. The dealer thought ho bad encouraged him-sufficiently, and began to win back from him. The supposed countryman stopped plajing and pock- j eted what was left of the winnings. The I proprietor tried to persuade him to con- j tinuo plajing, and he finally consented, j paying, 411 guess I will, but we will ad- \ journ to police headquarters for the I continuation, so as to give the super in- i tendent and commissioners a chance.'': Thon throwing open his coat, ho showed j his credentials as u central office detective, and took the implements of the ; game as wtll as the dealer, the proprietor and the " capper " to the station- j house. A well known club man in the city ! was annroached bv one of theso ODera- ! tora on Fourth avenue, near Twentysixth street, ono morning as ho got off; the street-car. "My name is not Jobn- J son," said the intended 'victim, and then added: "It's Thompson, and I I don't come from Flushing, L. I., but ir from Kingston, Ulster county, N. Y." i' Th? nnprator of course beecred his Dtr-'! don and departed. But as the gentle- j m^n from "up the river" neared the | fountain iu the center of Madison Square i on his way to his club confTdenoe-man No. 2, a partner of No. 1, met him and said: " Well, Thompson, upon my soul I'm glad to see you! How'd all the folks up in Kingston ?" "They're pooty well. How's ycurj" folks?" "Good, thank you; what'd the news | up in Ulster county?" "Well, there ain't much news, 'cept! I've been gittiog married lately," and j here a deep blush and a genial smile i spread over tho elderly gentleman's' faca. "You don't mean it; who did you! marry ?" "Little Katy; you know she lived two ! houses below the hot?" " Why, certainly I knew her; lived 1 just below tne notei. do tou marnea i little Katy ?" "Do you know my little Katy, my little j girl, my dear little wife ?" said the in-' tended prey, a% though delighted at! meeting some one who knew his be loved Eaty. Then enoirling the operator with his arms, and getting a grip j with hifi right hand on his left wrist, j he began to hug the slim tignre of the 1 "crook" with tho vigor of a polar; bear, at the same time expeotor-; ating o. miniature Niagara of to-; bacco-jnice over the expanse of shirt bosom displayed by the lowcat vest of the swindler, scraping in 1j paroxysm of delight his muddy and ' heavy shoes down the irreproachableolad shins of his new-found friend, and | landing on his neatly shod feet with the f weight of an elephant. Finally the j operator was turned over to the tender ! mercies of a park policeman. An amusing oeso was that of a young 1 stockbroker, who was standing late one ! night in front of the Fi?th Avenue hotol, j finishing his cigar before going to bed, 1 when he was spoken to by a very gen tlemanly-like man, who, afrer speaking ' of the weather, suggested a drink by i way of a nightcap. Thecffer was accepted, and while the drink9 were being poured out tho nice - looking man j said ho thought he would \ po round to play faro for half an hour. Would the young broker like to go and j see him play and perhaps make a little i money himself? The young broker i said that he would, and "together they , went to a well-known gambling house in the neighborhood. As they entered i the room the proprietor said to the young broker: "Good-evening, Willie; could you sell that Lake Sboro for me ! to-day V" " Biz," a Commercial >Tame. " I never was in favor of war," said j an old Arkaiisawer, "but I notico that eome' of the world's greatest men are j not of my opinion. Now there's old , Trademark. He's a great man, and he ! believes in war." i "Old who?" auked a bystander. "Old Trademark." "Who the deuce is Trademark ?" "No wonder they call us ignorant, when 6uch fellars as you show your ' lack of 8choolin\ Didn't you never hear of the great German military man, ! Trademark ?"' "I've heard of Bismarck." "That's a fact. 'Biz'-mark. Iknowed; that it ww pome sort of a commercial j name.'" The people of Geneva, Switzerland,! expend more money for wine than they do for bread, the average amount spent by each person for this arti;le being 300 francs yearly. RESCUED FROM A MINE. Die Htery or n. Dimmer inl'the Coini Iiodri The Virginia City (Nev.) Enit)\ jive the following account of the ;ue of the miners from the flooded nine: In the afternoon abont 3 o'cl srhen the water in the mouth ol Iriffc had been reduced to about t "eet, John Vau Dozen onto.-ed the i He had on him au appuratns inve ind constructed by Andrew Peasle ;his city. This armor consisted aaak for the face, from which t **ds a rubber breathing-tube pas ,nto a tin box strapped on the n back, which box was filled with : treats of ice and perforated with 1 ;o allow of air passsing throngh oounded ice. Wearing this armor Dusen struck boldly into the drift, vas gone about half un honr, \ ;boao at the station heard a cry aelp. Men went in the directio ;he cry, and when out about a hun :eet from tbo t-haft found Van Dus< in exhausted and fainting cond rhey brought him out and suppt liim on the case till he reached inrface. Here he became unconst or a time, 'i'be pnysiciuns in an loce gave bim stimulants and in a i iime he fully revived. As soon as Van Dusen was ab ;onveree he said that he had found seventeen originally imprisoned in Irift alive and all right. He said srere in the cooliog-ofi house, abou mndred feet from the face of the ( With picks or bars thej had brokei pipe carrying compressed air, and :ben so bent it as to carry the end Iho cooling-house. In this hi [rhen they were first imprisoned, lad nearly a barrel of ice-w When this was exhausted they pc nto the barrel hot water from Irift. Then they twieted the end o 3ompressed air pipe down into water in the barrel and allowed ixhaust tbere. This rendered the \ juite cool and drinkable. They i light in the cooling house, nothing to eat. The great heat lered them weak and feverish. T :he air as cool and frdsh as possibl men all crowded round the barre wreathed it as it came up through water in the vessel. When the men found that there ice in the box whioh Van Dusen ca it his back, they pulled the slide v served as a door, and, taking oul lumps of ice, crushed them in mouths as though they had bee much lump sugar. At last oue o men warned the others to take no 5f the ice, sayin<? tbat if they di Van Dusen would be unable to ge }f the drift. Mr. Van Dnsen told the rue would inform their friends that were all right, and Msured them i host of brave men were outside c ill that could be done by human b< for their rescue. As his ice was melting away, Mr. Van Dasen couli remain long with the men; beside was anxious to get out and give n of their being alive and of their ition. It was owing to the cons tion of the ice in the box at his tbat Mr. Van Dusen came near 1< bis life. There being bat a few li rolling about, much hot air and foi entered his armor, whereas had Deen the proper quantity all the ai teriug the mask must have been c< and purified by coming in contact the air fragments among whic passed. Whilo the majority were inc to believe the account of his a< tures, as given by Mr. Van Dusen, were not a few who thought ho gone out into the foul air, wane about and becomo delirious?in thut he had seen all the things h scribed in a delirious dream. Last evening about 7 o'clock, men entered the drift, and, at the of their lives, pushed their way thr to tbe cooling-bouse. They ca with them some milk punch and ice. They found tbe men aboi described above ; indeed, the six were in a worse fitate when they ren /lAnlinff-atofiAn titan n/orn tiincn bUU VUUiaUg lUMMVU W MMM T? V? V found in it. However, they reeo1 on reaching the iresh air sent in 1> compressor. The men in the cooling-st tried to persuade the new arriva stay and take their chances with t instead of venturing back. This, ever, they dared not do, as it \ have left their friends outside in i as to their fate, and would have ci great anxiety. The men in the st informed the new-comers that ir morning they had seen lights appr ing far oat in the drift, and asked it was that hal been trying to : thera. The lights they saw were doul those of William Bennett and ] CalJahan, as they were trying to their way in with the boats. Th the six men had seen the bodi Bennett and Callahan while on 11 11 t.1 1L\ 1 . way in, iney tnougut it uesii iu any ing about their having lost their The imprisoned men then asked if saw any dead bodies in the drift as camo in, they wishing to know if a! escaped at the time the bulkhead way. They were told that all go but themselves. After restiDg and recuperating time the six men set out on their r trip and got out to the station greatly exhausted condition, bat j that they were able to bring 6uch news as they were the bearers of. Work was then pushed with vigor on the air-pipe, and at len, current from the blower was through its whole length. This | ually forced out the belt of foul air presently it was decided to mal attempt to bring out the bodii Bennett and Callahan. This pro hard task. One of the bodies m four hundred feet, and the othe hundred feet from the station. A of five men was sent in, and they only able to bring a body out half when they were forced to 1? ave it ai to tbe station. Then another shif sent in to bring the body the rema of the wav to the station. The men abont the mine becai exhausted by abont 9 o'clock Lsti that Ihey sent np from the mine to perintendent McKenzie, of the S Nevada, to send down a fresh from his mine. Meantime the air eo far improved that the imp)is men could be visited. By the adv the physicians they were given si lanta and refreshments, and kept i cooling-house to get some stre before an attempt was mado to 1 them out. The men told tlaeir vii that they had at no time been i alarmed for their ultimate safely, eaid that before the accident pened they had frequently telkcd i what tbey would do in cusoof the htal giving way, and had concluc would be best to remain in the t nd of the drift and wait for the \ to be pnmped out. The faces of of the men ure said to be conside swollen by the heat, and Morris Cor tongue was swollen so that he con] talk very &1 biy. They were brought up to the 1,500 level, and allowed to remain und cjoI off time, h8 to have at once brought up into the cool air would have them very sick. When the men were all safelj of the drift the Alta whistle bet prolonged scream, and this was up all along the lode. It was kej for about live minutes, just as in c fire in the early days, aud for a the whole country was made to he Mr. B. Hurlbut, Portland, Mich, he knows by two years' successft perience that a dash of soapsu death to currant worms. "Try it tells the Fruit Recorder, "in just strength a', will curl them in a s< of time." He uses it very strong after it has served this good pn the rains wanh it down and it act stimulant to the bushes. Choose for your friend him t wise and good, and secret-and jne genious and honest, and iu those t which have a latitude use youi liberty. i FOR THE LADIES. itock News and Note# for Women. There are three women doctors ir prise Portland, Me. r?8* Of the 1,150 convicts in the Ohic Alta penitentiary, bnt seventeen are women, , , There are now employed in the psb ^ J I lirt onlirtAlo f. t \faflOO/?Vin doffo ft ftfil f fUrt I liU OUUVUIO Ut l>&nwuHVMWUVW?w wj WWhree teuC^ers' ?' ^hom 7,727 are women. Irift. The nex'i annual meeting of the nteti i Americ iu Wumon Suffrage association yi 0f: will ho held iu Omaha, Neb , early ir 0f a October. here Dr. Mary P. Thomas, of Richmond ising Ind., read a paper on employing ladj ian'H physicians in hospitals for insane frag- women, before a convention of regulai loles physicians recently. the The Woman's Christian Temperance Van union of Des Moines recently purchased He two acres of land north of the city, anc vhen will prepare a home for fallen womei for in the building now on the property. ? Mr*. Emma B. Knight canvassed Ina vale precinct, Webster county, Neb. m for signers to the petition asking mer fa to vo^e 'or *ke impartial suffrage >rtea amendment, and out of thirty womei .t"e setn in one day twenty-nine signed it Mrs. Ma M. Bittenbender, of Osceola ,ena- u?i. short ^ eu'1 Prt!Hiut)Ul ui iiuo ueutas&n nviuai Saffrage association, has been admitted 1 to to ^ar a<5 Pracfclc'n8 attorney. Th< i the ia<^ge' 'n admitting Mrs. Bittenbender t^e at the close of the questioning, spoke ii thev highest terms of the manner ii t one w*"?k B^? had passed the ordeal, statinj Irift was *ar a^ove average. All th( the ettorneys present freely admitted it wai , , the best examination they had ever wit into ??88?^' 3use ^ *be adding of Prince Leopolc they Prince88 Beatrioe was called npon t< ater. 8*Sn her name in the register. Shi ured Save ^or bouquet to the Bishop of Lon tfle don to hold, and then she qnite forgo f the to rec^aim the fragrant burden from th< right reverend divine. "In his di ^ lemma," says the London World, "thi vater bishop turned to the lord chancellor who was standing near him, and havinf ]jU{. consulted the highest legal author it; ren. in England on the subject, the bishoj 0 decided to retain possession of th< a the same-" 1 and Mrs. Mary Beecher is forewoman o the a department containing 200 girls ii the Naugatuok (Conn) Rubber Sho i wa8 company, with full power in referent rried to engaging and discharging help. A1 rhich though all the other rooms of this larg ; the establishment are in charge of men their ^erR is admitted to be the best con m so dncted. She apparently does very lifctl f the watching, having work of her own t more do, snch as looking over the shoes be d go fore they are packed, making "samples, t oat &Qd getting utrnew designs. - Bat man; a girl who gets behindhand is quietl; d he helped forward by the deft and tireles they fingers of the forewoman; aud thn that helped and encouraged, the large nam loing b8r under her supervision.give entir sings satisfaction. Mrs." Beecher is said t fast have an interest in the firm. 3 not g kg Fashion Fancies. otice Lunar dots are the latest. Terr; situ- cotta shades are very fashionable, amp- Japanese costume1 are rivaling the back Greek dress in the favor of Londoi using reithetes. imps Fruit blossoms, cherry blooms ee il air peciallr, are exceedingly popular ii there millinery. soled ^hite "Indiana" Bilk is a sheen; ... material much used for evening dres ih -t or young girls. I The latest shade for evening wear i i:?i I nailed "dawn.'' and is a delicate ros lmeu , . , Jven- Pink? 3ust tlD6e^ W1"* 8^7there Cardinal parasols are decidedly fasb had ionable, a freak which will probabl lered prove profitable to the oculist. fact, It is the coirect thing to have th o de- whole costume en suite, and fans a I well as parasols are shown to mate , six | sateen, foulard and brocade dresses risk Ruches of silk, pinked out on th ough I ejgCS) or else cut bias nnd fringed out mod j are Ugain jn fashion for trimming drest some C8 They should be very full to loo it as! wout ichfid i ^ UPW ^ow *or 8ar?iture 0 i thnv i tlrefl8e8 ^a<} tDr2e colors 01 rxoDoa m i rered sac^ a' ^U9' re^ aD(* bronze w^e the i l^ark s^a^e8 ar0 u,e^t while for lighte ^ ; bows pink tilleul green and sky blu ution are combinet\. ls t0 i The now colored voils of chenill hem, I dotted talle add a gay touch to th how'. j costume, but they require the flowei ?ould I or feather garniture of the email boE loubt i uet aQdftrG n?t becoming to the fac wised I iQ warm weathor. ;ation Light colored grenadine dresses ar t the again in fashion. Turquoise blue, Nil oach- green and lavender shades are chose who for young ladies. They are trimme reach with silk laces, and worn with man }tless natural flowers. Denis rjhe design for a pretty fan, forwhio make a prize was awarded to a young Japan ough ese aitist, fhows four different views es 01 representing the foliage oi ttie aiiiereu their seasons. Held in one way the fres noth- green leaves of spring are seen; anothe lives. vjew 0f this side shows the rosy bins they 0( snmmer blossoms. On the opposit they side are drifting red antumn leave* II had while in another view there is seen gave ]ono bird cn a bare bongh amid the fal t ont idg bdow. . Jaunty-looking corsages for yonn ?r a girls are fhown, made of tinted satin . rn to be worn over skirts of white sural a nun's veiling or French muslin, adornei , with embroideries. They are high at th g?0(i throat, with Marguerite sleeves reachin to the elbow. In front they are opei all the way down, but laced togethe ^ a I over a chemisette of silk-embroiderei Be*} tnlle, with silken cords the color of th ?ra<\ corsage material. For older person ' aQd , this style is reproduced in fabrics c ce an | yejvet; or moire. 08 01 | _ asfin Mr* and MrS* WIckIe" r five 1 man an<* his wkil shift I walkiQg along the ttreet going hom were ! from a mite society, engaged in a quat way: rel. jd bo * "* am nofc 70u an7 morc t wa., j Samuel," eaid Mrs. Wickle. "You ar inder '00 a mim *? ca'tIPl*10 Wll7 ?on ^ [ to-night. The idea of an old man whi ne so-i ^as rheumatism so bad that lie can' aicht' Pat 1,13 socks 00 morniD83? K?inS t0 i ga_ | mite meeting and cavorting and romp i.v "! ing as you have done to-night! I aa; force i it'a a shame." ija(j "I may liwe rheumatism," said th< loned olJ man' " but 1 haven't 8ot dyspepsia ice of * (*onti &row^ an(* 8UaP afc everybody timu- ^ou ^ave been ?row*n? worse for th n the last ton years. If you didn't have m sneth *? at * believo you'd dio." brine " * won'fc wa^ a mal ^at ac* itors ' ^0 11 rhinoceros." jjnch ! "How does a rhinoceros act ?" nskei They i the old mau, thinking that lie wouh haif- ca!c^ on natnra* historv. iboat I l'ke a '0?1? that's how lie acts, bulk-' aD(* ^rR" ^ wjlked rapidly aw.iy led it leaviQS l^e ?ld man several paces be mner kind. caught up jast as vater Joun8 maa came walking u'ong. . " You are walking pretty fast," sail rably gentleman. mors Hts wife didn't soy anything. ^ not " It's clouding up," he remarked, " i gr8l must be going to rain." there ^e old lady made no reply, but lb for a ycl1D? maD to?k the situation. them " ^'ou '' h0 exclaimei ma,}0 addreesing Mr. Wickle, "what do yo mean by attempting to thrnet yot r ou^ company upon a lady who does n< a waut Ton? It's becomiug too frequei I I for ladies to be insulted on the streel ! by loafers. Gei back !" " f I The young man struck at Wickl time 0*1* *a'*-v d^bed her umbrella, an |Wj I'xclaiming " That's raj husband," ga^ the joung man an undignified blow. The old man, encouraged by his wife , says fltrjbe for union, jumped on tl J.1 e^" young man and held him while the ra ? ,18 tling ribs of the umbrella fell on tl '? 6 youth's head with a sound like the fal 800,1 ing of hail stones. econd "Samuel, no one can break up oi '? una domestic felicity," said his wife, aft rP080 the battle. 9 as a ,< pjr)t, fa-(| t^e 0jj ?'Wh< 1 a man trips to destroy the domestic ha I piness of my household he catches n bat is | consolidate.! power of wrath."?Iioum t, in- rang. hings owe Happiness is something to hope I and something to love. I Life's Lessou. Tired ? Well, what of that ? Didst fancy life was upent on beds of eaao, l ! Fluttering the rose leaves scattered by the I breeze? ) I Coino, reuse tboo ! Work while it is callod day . Coward, aiiae ! Go forth UDon thv war. Lonely ? And what of that ? ? Some must be lonely; 'tis notjjiren to all To feel a heart responsive rise and fall, 5 To blend another life into its own. 1 Work may bo done in loneliness. Work on! Dark ? Well, what ol that ? [ Didst f.>ndly dream the sun wonld never set ? r Dost fear to lose thy way ? Take courage yet 5 Learn thou to walk by faith, and not by sight r Thy steps will guided be, ami guided right. Eard ? Well, what of that ? J Didst fancy life one summer holiday ? J With lessons none to learn anil naught but play ? 1 Go, got theo to thy task. C >nquer or die! It must bo learned; learn it, then, pationtly. I ! HU310H Ot THE DAY. I | Has it ever occurred to baseball men I that a milk pitcher is generally a good ' | fly catcher ? 'I " I am a broken m^u," said a poet | - "Well," eaid his friend, "I inferred J j that from your piecea." ! " A babe," says a writer, " is n j ' mother's anchor." We have o(tea l j heard that the first thing she doei is to , | weigh it. 31 " What makes Colonel so pop5 ; ular ? I'm snre he's very stupid. Ha .! can hardly see beyond his nose," said a lady to a friend, whoreplied: "My dear, j sbarp-sightedness is net what makes a j person popular. It is what the colonel , doesn't see that gives him such popular! ifcy?" j. There are a number of circumstances that will take the conceit oat of a man, and one of the chief is, afrer taking a * turn up the street and judging by the . way they look at yon that you are ' makincr a stunnine impression on the * girls, to find on your return that your bat has been on wrong side foremost all the time. The notion was prevalent in the f Middle Ages that the diamond, lateen x internally, is a deadly poison. Ben 0 venuto Cellini details an attempt to e poison him by cautiag diamond powder to ba mixed with his salad, and 0 attributes his escape to tho rascality of the lapidary employed, who kept the diamond, and administered powdered 0 glass. or "This is a funny doctrine!" exclaimed . Brown, who had been reading of metem" psychosis. "The idea of tho human Y soul entering the body of an animal! y According to ?his doctrine, my soul, s after I get through with It, may inhabit a ; the body of a jackase!" "And why not?' - i asked Fogg, demurely. "It would cerq j tainiy feel more at home there than o I anywhere else." ! Some years ago, at a public dinner, a I Dutchman, just from Holland, was one of the company; and during tho banquet a he paid so much attention to a roasted sucking-pig immediately in fiont of his j plate that ha devoured tho entire ani_ mal. As he finished the last morsel, unctuous and savory, a bustling waiter asked him what ho would 1 ko to be helped to next. "Oh," replied the 1 feeder, "I'll dank you for von more of dem leetle hoksi"' " P A commercial traveler, who is some8 thing of a wag, thus relates his experience: He and his companions were s the sole occnpanta of the smoking car. y J They tried to converse, bnt the read Mas so rough they were pitched from i- side to side like a ship's passengers, y At last they were able to mAke eaoh other understood. One said, "Dan, the e old thing is running smoother." To a which Dan replied: "Yes, I gue83 she h has got off the track." SUC1I IS LU'E. I A girl, , A whir!, x j' I A dance, , A glance, Some coy, coqnettish intrigue. K ,{ | A walk, it I A taIk> q A sweet r ; Retreat, G | A pensive eigh half sliding. * A gate, e ; (Juite late, Q J Oh, bliss, | A kiss! I ; Wb&t wonld my mamma aay, sir ? e A thick Aah stick, q j A whack ! e . lly back ! n " You're getting quite too gay, tir." d . ~ y The Opium EifL The use of opium in the United k States is iuorea&ing at an alarming rate. The amount consumed has rapid3 ly grown until in 1880 there was imJ ported 533,451 pounds of opium and v 8.822 ounces of morphin. In 1876 it ,j was estimated that there were 201 >,000 opium eaters in the United States, eone fined principally to tho well to-do ' classes, and it is said that the number ^ now reaches 400,000, who spend $5,000,l_ 000 annually. It is also estimated that upward of G.000 Americans are opium smokers, and smoking dens are in full 3 blast in New York. A great deal of the l? drug is absorbed in cigars and ciJ: garettes. The opium is used in a liquid state, the tobacco beiuq; saturatc-d with 6 a solution of greater or less strength. 8 This must generate an appotito for Q opinm that will lead to tho use of the T pure article. A druggist in New York asserts that its use his greatly increased 0 since the introdncticn of hypodermic ? injections. Largo q nan ti ties are also ' used in a number of quack medicines, ! which thus become a prolific source of j evil. Albany, New York, consumes annually 3,500 pounds of opiam and e 550 ounces of morphia, four-fifths of e which is said to be consumed by women. '* Oae of the most deplorable facts in con: nection with the custom is the preva! lence of the habit among women. There e j is sufficient cause for alarm, and l_ie 1 j Friends have done well to call atteno ' tion to the impending danger, and their address will do much to form "a healthy a | and well informed public opinion on the 1 evils and extent of opium use, wtuc& y ; are comoaratively little ucd-rstood." To be forewarned is to be forearmed. i I The evil could be successfully dealt >. i with now, aud if the people of tho ' | United States ctn be awakened to a e ; sense cf their danger tho tiling may be e j nipped in the bad. if tho habit is ali lowed to grow it will speedily a-ssamo s | the form of a difficult social problem.? j Guardian. A ! " Lynch Law." ! This tGim, as comm-nly in uie in tho > i United States, is a pcrsoniticatien of , ! vii,l?p.t and illegr.1 justice. According ,1! to tome authorities, the term was dea i rived from a Virginia farmer named i Lynch. But it can be traced to a much j earlier date in Ireland. When, in 1493 ; James Fitz-stophena Lynch was mayor aud warden of Oalwav, ho iraded it largely with Spain, and sent his son thither to pnrchaso a cargo e of wiuo. The young mau squandered the money iutrusted to him, but 1 succeeded in ruoniag in debt for a cargo to a Spaniard, by -whose nephew ir he was accompanied iu tho ret-irn voyjt i ago to Ireland, where the money was to j be paid Young Lynch, to conceal his t8 | defalcation, caused .tho Spaniard to be ! thrown overboard, and was received at q4 home with great honor, lint a r.ailor d revealed to the mayor of Gal say the re crime which his son had committed. The young mun wa< tried before his ,'8 i own father, convicted and sentenced to ,e j be hanged. His family hikI others j. determined to prevent the execpj0 I tion. The father. finding that |i. | the sentence could not bo carried into " i effect the usual way, conducted his son ar to a window ov<r!ooking the public Rr street, with his own Innds fastened the ! halter attached to his neck to a staple Jn ' in tho wall, and ncled as hi* execup j tionor. In the council books of Gal way ,y I theio is said to lio a minute that James ip.! Lynch, mayor of Gal way, hanged his owq son ont of tho window for defrauding ! and killing stranger;1, without martial ot j or common law, to shov a good examI pie to posterity.