University of South Carolina Libraries
? 1^ 1 I \ - " " : - v . ~~ "V" , ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER. I i ? ? . ... , BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1882. NO. 26. VOLUME XXVII. | A Sight Watch, Slowly the silver twilight .sailed Beyond the purple bars; And now the lonely lakelet holds Its mirror to the stars. A.11 roand the wood-encompassed shoro No insect song, no breeze: No ripple on the gloomy lake, No murmur in the tress. Far down the dim reflected heaven's Suffusing atmosphere Orion drops his fiery darts, Great Jupiter his spear. Along the darkly wooded cape Black cliffs of shadow lie; The near oaks rear their antlered tops Against the solemn sky. Above the quiet leafless boughs The slow stars drift, and soon. Behind its fringe of pines, the east Will brighten with the moon. There reigns throughout the universe A stillness as of death: The world's great heart has beased to beat, Creation holds its breath. Swift orb, whose passing leaves no wake, Whose axles never burn. How fast you cleave the trackless bluo, How noislessly they turn! By day, b^ night, through boundless space, The unresting planet rolls With all her oceans, lands and climes, And all her freight of souls. I listen till the silence roars; What is the sound I hear? The thunder of the parted heavens, The rushing of the sphere! Each moment from our place we speed, And come to it no more; Infinity behind us lies, Infinity before. Man has no fixed abiding-place: Through pathless deeps we roam: This native soil, this steadfast earth, Is but a wandering home. As evermore the whirling ball Along its orbit flies, Still evermore the sun leads on To yet remoter skies. Even while I pause to ponder it, With headlong silent force The orb has sped a thousand leagues Upon her fearful course. Oh voyager on the driving ship, Where is thy destined shore? Eternity behind thee lies, Eternity before! ?J. T. Trowbridge, in the Companion. T?L.ti Ifl.lSSl.Ntr WIXJN^SS. . " I'm afraid it's a bad case," I said to ruvself, its I laid down my brief after reading it over for the third or fourth time, and leaned back in my chair to reconsider it for about the twentieth. " A bad case, and I am sorry for it." I was a barrister, young both in years and in professional standing, and this was the first brief of any importance I had ever held. My client was an Italian sailor named Luigi Bernini, and the crime of which he was accused was robbery; the plunder being a lifelong savings of a woman upward of eighty years of age, which the poor creature kept hidden in the thatch of her little cabin. The witnesses were the old woman herself, who had been stunned by a severe blow from the perpetrator of the theft, and a neighbor,who deposed to having met the prisoner in the immediate vicinity of the cabin. When Bernini was arrested some days later a curious foreign coin, identified as a part of the stolen hoard, was found in his pocket. This, however, he accounted for by saying that he had picked it up on the road. The weak point in the chain of evidence was a scarcely perceptible hesitation on the part of one of the witnesses. She had at first declared positively that the prisoner was the man whom she had seen going toward old Joan's cabin, and had afterward adhered to this statement with what afterward anneared to be dosrced "XX DO obstinacy, rather than real conviction. The prisoner himself positively denied having been in the neighborhood at all on the day of the robbery, but unfortunately he could not speak with certainty as to his whereabouts. lie had been lately dismissed from hospital, scarcely convalescent, after a b;ul fever; his own ship had left the port, and he had been rejected by the caj>tains to whom he had offered his services, as not being sufficiently robust for a sailor's work. lie had a little money left, and therefore took to wandering aimlessly about the country, intending, as soon as the Columbia returned, to ship aboard of her again. His mind had been weakened and confused by his illness, and although he knew that for several days preceding and following that of the robbery, he had been in a part of the country fully twenty miles distant, he could not possibly say where he had been, or to whom he had spoken on the day in question. Many inquiries had been made and many persons interviewed who remembered "the poor foreign chap," but no accurate information as to dates was forthcoming. As the testimony of a person who had extended her hospitality to him, "either of a Tuesday or a Thursday, she couldn't rightly say which," would not, unfortunately, carry much weight in a court of justice, I had to trust for a defense flip r?rnc?.PYqininufinn fha nesses, whose character for veracity I hoped, by judicious management of the usual forensic weapons, to compel them to annihilate with their own lips. I much regretted this want of evidence, as I was strongly prepossessed in favor of the prisoner ; something frank and honest in his face making it difficult for me to believe him guilty of the cowardly crime of which he was accused. Besides, it was, as I have said, my first important case, and self-interest and professional instinct alike prompted me to desire its successful issue. But of this I had little hope. I laid aside my brief at length and went up to the drawing-room, where I was greeted by my cousin and hostess with a somewhat petulant reproof for having lingered so long over those musty law papers. Alice and I had been children together?a big girl and a little boy? we had grown from playfellows into menus, and since her marriage ner house in Carrigarvan h;ul been my resting-place in assize times. I was at no loss to understand the cause of her vexation at my tardy appearance. She was somewhat ot a matchmaker, and having no one but myself on whom to exercise her talents, she had devoted them exclusively to my service. She had already decided on a suitable wife for me, and was exerting herself o? .the utmost to bring about the marriage. The chosen young lady was preseut, and I knew that Alice was much annoyed with me for devoting the evening to my brief instead of to Dora Lvne. The latter was the daughter of a solicitor in good practice, and was herself a very pretty, urigiu-iooKing gin, wno would, 1 was compelled to admit, be a most desirable wife for a young unknown barrister. I was thoroughly fond of Alice, and she was my chosen confidante whenever I needed one ; but I could not tell her even that the true reason which prevented Dora Lyne's brown eyes and sweet voice making their due impression on me was the remembrance of a face seen but during a three-hours' railway journey, a face with dark gray eyes -and quiet, thoughtful expression, and of a voice heard at somewhat rare intervals in the space of time, whose low-pitched tones still vibrated in my imagination. Alice would have been too good-natured to laugh at me, but I jelt sure that, had she known the state of the case, she would have entertained, and probably expressed, fears that overstudy had affected mv brain?an opinion that would probably have been shafed by all persons wliose characteristic was common sense. Miss Lyne,. perceiving that Alice was vexed with me, and wishing, I think, to show that she did not share the feeling, called me over to look at some prints and photographs which she was examining. " Alice," said Miss Lyne, at length, lu nil* lunijj aim oi;i uum/.cu iu . "W. M. IX, but I cannot make out the date. Stay, I liave it. May 10th, 18?" "May 10?why, that was the very day of the robbery," I said. Then the full significance of this date flashed suddenly upon me and I absolutely turned giddy. "The alibi!" I gasped ?"it we could find the man who did that sketch, we might succeed in proving the alibi." Dora Lyne grasped my meaning with ready quickness. " Morrison's library that book came from, was it not, Alice? They ought to be able to tell you there who had it on, or immediately after, the 10th of May." " And the person, whoever she or he is, will have to be hunted up," I said, " and there's so little time. This is Monday and the trial is fixed for Wednesday. I suppose Morrison's is closed by this, Alice?" "Indeed it is." she answered. " You would find no one there now but a caretaker. You must just wait patiently until to-morrow, Richard." I had perforce to wait; as to the patience with which I did soothe less said the better. The following morning found me at Morrison's library. On explaining my business. I was referred to the clerk in charge of the library department, from wnoin l toiany iaueu 10 ooiuin uie required information. The young man who usually attended to that part of the business was away; if I could call next week I intimated with what appeared to me, at the time, most praiseworthy self-control, that next week would not do, giving a partial explanation of the circumstances. But the clerk, although apparently willing to help me, professed himself quite unable to do so. "You see, sir," he said, "if you wanted to know what book any subscriber had out at a given time 1 could probably'tell you, but as for ascertaining the whereabouts of a special book ?it's an impossibility. If you like to look over our entries for yourself, you are welcome to do so." I accepted this offer, and spent a good part of the day in turning over the blotted pages wherein were inscribed the names and course of reading of the subscribers to Morrison's. And an unprofitable morning's work it was. The record was to all appearance imperfectly kept, and I failed to trace the second volume of the "Stones of Venice" through a period longer than three weeks, during which it had twice changed hands. Some hours more were spent in linntinn im tho tiwrennu in \vhfl?P Tins. ""o "r J"?" ? i? session it had been for that length of time, neither of whom could give any information concerning the sketch. An application to Bernini himself was equally fruitless. He remembered that a lady and gentleman whom he had met during his wanderings had asked him to sit to them, but he did not know who they were, nor could he even make it clear where the incident had occurred. I returned home at dinner-time, tired and baffled, to report my failure to Alice and her husband, from whom I received much sympathy but no suggestion of any practical value. I had given up hope, and was endeavoring to dismiss the subject from my thoughts, when late in the evening the hall bell door- sounded and a message came up that a person wanted to speak to Mr. Lestrange. (Joing down I found waiting for me a bright-looking boy, one of the shop assistants at Mr. Morrison's. who had been for a short time aiding in my investigation of the entries. "I think I have what you want, sir," he said, as I entered the room. " It was in my mind all that day that I had given out that book to some one, I couldn't think who, and a chance word that I heard this evening brought it all back to me like a Hash. It was to Mrs. French, of liedcourt, that I gave it, and it must have been on the 5id or 4th of May. Here is the lady's name and address, sir and lie handed me a slip of paper on which was written "Mrs. French, liedcourt, Kilcarran." It was in Kilcarran or the neighborhood that, according to Bernini's own statement, he had spent the day of thy robbery. Thanking and dismissing the lad, I returned to the drawing-room with my prize. The next step was to communicate with Mrs. French. Kilcarran was fully fifteen miles from Carrigarvan, and the trial was to begin the following morning. "Hand me over that railway guide, Dick," said Alice's husband. " I thought so?no train before ten. There's nothing for it but for me to drive to Kilcarran the first thing in the morning?the mare can easily do it in two hours?and if I lirid that any one there can trive evidence worth having, I'll brii.g them back with me, and have thein in court before the case fur the tlefense opens." The. trial began next morning, proceeding at an unusually rapid rate. It seemed to me that the learned counsel for the prosecution had never before put forth his wisdom and legal knowledge in so condensed form. The crossexamination of the witnesses was of course in my hands, and I did my best to make it as tedious as possible, totally failing, however, in my attempts to confuse them or cause them to contradict themselves. My only hope lay now in the unknown witness, imd of him there were no tidings. The case for the prosecution closed and the court adjourned for lunch; I was standing in the barroom, thinking over my speech for the defense, and mentally rearranging my sentences after the manner of the most prosy member of the circuit, when a note-was handed to me: "A)' rk'ht?the witness is in the sheriff's room.' (ioing into the sheriff's room I found my cousin, accompanied by a strange lady and gentleman. " This is the prisoner's counsel," said the former, as I entered. " Allow me to introduce Mr. Lestrange?Miss "(lid you show Mr. Lestrange the] sketch you found in that 'nook?" "No," said Alice; "1 forgot it. You will find it in that volume of the 'Stones of Venice' on niv table, Richard. It is really a beautiful sketch. I wonder how it came to be forgotten in the book." I brought the book to Dora Lyne, who turned over the leaves until she found the drawing, which she put into my hands. The moment I saw it 1 uttered an exclamation of surprise, which brought my cousin at once to my side. It was a spirited water-colored sketch of a man's head?a dark, foreign-looking 'ace surmounted by a red cap. It was, however, neither the skill of the artist nor the picturesque beauty of the model that attracted my attention; it was in the fact that in the somewhat peculiar features of the latter I recognized those of my cliyit, Luigi Bernini. " What an odd coincidence!" said Alice, when I had explained. " I wonder who could have taken the sketch?some one who knows how to handle a brush," she added, looking critically at it. "See, here are initials and a date, but they are so faint that I cannot make them out." "Let me try," said Dora; "I have good sight." She took the sketch over I>arcv, Mr. French." I turned to the. lady as her name was pronounced, and, I sun afraid, forgot to bow, in my suri prise and delight at recognizing in the tall, fair-haired girl before me my dream of the last six months; my unknown love, another glimpse of whom had been my chief desire ever since I lost sight of her as she stood on the platform of the little roadside station where slip had alighted. '< It, wns I ):irt'V \v1in <li<l -flint. sketch," said my cousin, "and she remembers all about it." "Yes," said the girl, "the sketch was taken at Kilcarran on the 10th of May. I remember all the circumstances perfectly, and should have no difficulty in identifying the original." Having by a few hurried questions convinced myself of the value of Miss Darcy's testimony, I took her and her brother-in-law, placing them where they had a full view of the prisoner. Miss Darcy looked attentively at the latter for a minute and then said, decidedly : "Yes, that is the man." J opened the case for the defense in as few words as possible, and then called up my witness?Winifred Darcy. She gave her evidence very well, in grave, concise language, without irrelevance or circumlocution. She stated that she lived at Kedcourt with her sister, Mrs. French, and that on the 10th of May she and her cousin had spent the greater part of the day sketching by the river-side at Kilcarran. At about 2 o'clock a gust of wind had carried her hat into the stream, whence it was recovered by the prisoner, who happened to pass by at the moment. Interested by something in his appearance, they tried to enter into conversation with him, but without much success, his English being very imperfect. They, however, managed to make him understand that they wished to employ him as a model, and he sat to the'm patiently for more than an hour, at the end of which time he went away with manv expressions of crati tude for the money they gave him. Miss Darcy would have been certain as to the date, even if it had not been affixed to the drawing (which was produced in court), as her cousin had arrived at Kilcarran on the 9th of May, and left on the lltli. .Cross-examination failed to cast any doubt on the accuracy of Miss Darcy's evidence, while her veracity was of course above suspicion. The jury professed themselves satisfied with the evidence, and, declining to hear counsel for the defense, returned a verdict of "Not Guilty." The prisoner was seized upon by some of his compatriots, *vho were serving on the mixed jury, and carried off in triumph, somewhat dazed by the change in his prospects. Some months afterward, a man, dying from the effects of a hurt received in a drunken brawl, acknowledged himself guilty of the crime of which Bernini had been accused. lie also was an Italian, and bore sufficient resemblance to his countryman in height and complexion to account in some degree for the mistake of the witnesses. As for me, I date the beginning of both my professional success and of my life's happiness from the day of Bernini's trial. A Tunisian Court. In Tunis, the highest judge in the land is the bey himself. The subordinate judges are the commanders of towns and the governors of provinces. If a person is dissatisfied with their judgment he may appeal to the bey. If two persons wish a dispute decided, and are unwilling to trust the town cadi, they may travel to Tunis and * _ 11.-!- 4-1. ? nring meir uuseuenue me m-?. Strange as it may seem, the Tunisians prefer a single judge'to several,as they have only to bribe one instead of two or more. The ambition of government servants is to become a judge, its then they may secure a large income from bribes, and are saved from falling into the hands of other judges who would lleece them. Every Saturday morning the bey holds public court in one of his palaces, and is then accessible to the lowest of his subjects. Any one may present his grievance before his sovereign with the knowledge that the bey will do him justice, as well as his wisdom will permit. A traveler, who saw the bey administer justice, describes the litigants as showing the greatest confidence in his judgment. The scene, as photographed by the foreign visitor, reciills the Biblical days, when the judge sat on the gate and heard the cause of the oppressed. The bey sat on a gilt throne of red velvet, which stood on a raised dais at one end of the judgment hall. On the left were the princes of his house; on his right were placed the prime minister, the generals, the chiefs of ministerial divisions and the clerks of the court. In the background was a com puny 01 ms royai guaru. A colonel of gigantic size?the chief of the police?stepped into the open space in front of the throne. Addressing himself to the waiting crowd without, he called out in a loud voice : " The prince salutes you and is here to render justice." An officer handed the hey a pipe, a servant lit it, and then the first two litigants were brought forward. They stood about eight feet from the throne, bowed low and touched their chests with crossed hands. First the one spoke, then the second defended himself, whereupon botli talked so violently and with such wild gestures, that the colonel had to stop them. The bey murmured a few words, the two men bowed low and walked away. Others came forward, the proceedings were repeated; some behaved quietly, while others screamed. After each decision there vas a greater noise. The parties neat uieir arms, and were only restrained by the soldiers from throwing themselves at the bey's feet. The visitor expressed astonishment at the demonstration. " Yon don't understand these good people," said the dragoman; " what they say is their expression of thanks for the bev's justice, in which both the accuser and convicted one join." The sentences ordered bv the bey were lines, imprisonment and the bastinado. The last case-was that of a murder committed by two l'cdouins, father and son. They were brought in with their hands tied. On their pleading guilty, the bey emitted thick clouds of smoke, hesitated, and at last lifted his right hand slowly, with the palm downward. | Suddcnl\?he turned it upward?it was the sentence of death. Without a word being said, the murderers were taken away by two policemen, and the bey, evidently much moved, rose, bowed and left the hall. It is said that he rarely pronounces the sentence of death, and when compelled to do so spends the day alone and in prayer. t IVonlrtmcQ for lfnfe_ A man has just been convicted at a Paris police court for stealing a hat from a cafe. It appears that it was his practice to go into a cafe bareheaded and come out with the best hat lie could lay Ids hands on. In this case lie had taken the hat of a man who boasted that he had the biggest head in the city. At the prisoner's lodgings no less than forty-seven hats were discovered. The prisoner pleaded that he was absent-minded and had no head at all; the judge thought he had i too many hats for a man with no head j and gave him six months' imprison rnent. A BRILLIANT BATTLE. Vivid Description of an Action Between a Confederate Knni and Severn! (.'unboat*. Itev. II. A. Skinner writes as follows in the Philadelphia Times: On a ' brilliant day in August, 1864, the Al- " beniarle, commanded by Lieutenant ^ Cook, and accompanied by a small !' tender carrying extra supplies of am- j. munition and provisions, made her ap- . pearance and started on her cruise through the sounds. The mosquito lleet fled like sheep before her and were soon out of sight beyond Sanjv Point, which stretched its long tongue far j1 out from our shore a couple of miles below. Their precipitate flight was only prudent, for their wooden sides ^ could' not have stood a moment before the ram. That strange j' craft, a novel si?ht to those 1 ' - - O waters, moved leisurely and silently on, . conscious of her superiority and reserving her force for a greater foe, and 11 one which her gallant commander lit- 0 tie dreamed was so near. .She looked like the four-sided roof of a house sub- ? merged to the eaves, while a dark line at each end, just above the water, indicated her deck fore and aft, her form- ri idable iron prow or horn being, of j1 course, wholly under water. The Con- ' federate Hag floated from a short stall' ' cn the forward end of her roof, and ' amidships was her smoke-stack. lie- i1 sides these there were no other projecting objects about her. She carried two ,li very heavy guns, one on each side, and r( a picked crew of tried men; but her J' ports were closed; men and guns were 'l concealed within her mailed walls, and ' there was no indication of life about ' her, except her steady, stealthy motion, 1 and an infrequent cloud of murky P smoke from her chimney, as fresh fuel *. was thrown into her furnaces. Such <l a mysterious, almost solemn, object had never been beheld on the fair Al- . bemarle sound. She had ju t passed my house, and ' was hidden from view by intervening . trees, when my ear was startled by the * booming of a heavy gun. Hastening , to the shore a hundred yards distant, I could easily take in the scene. The ': ram had lired a shot, as the cloud of ? smoke in her vicinity showed, of de- r ? ' r iiance to an approaching enemy, and . had taken her position for a light ' Several steamers of unusual size and ( rig were moving rapidly up the sound, ri and were just rounding Sandy Point. P Hurrying back to the house, 1 notified .7 my household, already excited by the first appearance of the ram, and all, 11 white and black, including several 'l. guests, ran to the fishery, about 300 yards down the shore, and gathered upon a shady knoll commanding a fine , view of the scene at a distance of , about two miles. J By this time the strange vessels were in full view, moving swiftly .. upon the ram, which lay sullen and motionless, surprised but not intimi- s' dated, while her tender, a few hundred s yards in advance, unarmed and help- , less, awaited certain capture or destruction. One, two, three, in single ' file came on the attacking ships, under ^ full steam, with sails close furled and decks cleared for action. They were .. large, sea-going gunboats of light draft, of the class known as " double/?T\rlriT?L? 99 otwI r?n rrvir\(? ol\A1lf +f?n CHUtlO, <11114 V/U11J11A? l.dVll UVV'UU VVAA J I guns, of which the bow and stern chasers were 100-pounders. They , were of a size far beyond any vessels 'l, ever seen in our waters before, and as .. they loomed up the ram seemed but a sj speck in comparison. Any one of the (v three appeared large enough to take ?r her aboard and stow her between ^ decks. "When within about a mile of the ram the foremost ship fired a shot 0 at her, but it was aimed too high, and . we saw it richochet far beyond her. * She, however, reserved her lire till they r' were close upon her, when the light !' began in earnest. Meanwhile the inosquito fleet, which had evidently ' warned the larger vessels of the pres- ' enee of the ram and thus hastened the 1 attack, had now cautiously moved up, and lay in the oiling to watch the conlliet. J1 The attacking vessels strictly main- ' tained their lirst order. Each in her turn advanced bow on tow ard the ram, j' fired as she approached her, gave her a ',l broadside as she passed to the lar. board, rounded her stern with another ;. shot, then delivered another broadside , :is shprpniisspil to the starboard. This terrific waltz continued for some time, I1 to the music of tremendous rever- j1 berations,' which waked the echoes ? along shore and far inland, amid the depths of silent woods and somber F swamps. Our party gazed with IJ strained vision and bated breath?the negroes groaning and shrieking and ,l almost fearing that the end of the ri world had come. But the ram?what had become of herV For more than . once we lost sight of her. "When the huge hulks of her adversaries circling ^ about her did not conceal her from e' view she was enveloped in thick clouds 11 of smoke, which clung to her like a ? shroud. Once and again we thought she was sunk, but the steady, gentle beeeze would sweep aside the smoke, and we had glimpses of the intrepid j, Albemarle still afloat and bravely returning the murderous lire of her foes. . Repeatedly one or other endeavored to '' run her down and sink her by sheer ,l force and weight, keeping up at the n same, time their furious cannonade. .She was like a tiny beetle surrounded e by infuriated wasps; unharmed by f their stings, undismayed by their size i] and buzzing. But the activity of the more easily-handled gun-boats and the a vast superiority of their guns in num- n ber, if not in caliber, were more than li a match for her." Her lire began to slacken. Then as the light south wind f( scattered the smoke clouds over the tl blue, rippling waters and the august t sun shone clear upon the little ram, c Ave could see that her llagstalT was gone and her smoke-stack shot away. Yet f| she kept her position, only liring at ^ longer intervals, and her adversaries jplainly showed the effect of her fire- ^ One of them had actually been placed liors du combat and had dropped out of the fight, while the other two, 1 without ceasing their attacks, were ^ evidently using more caution. # Pros- ' entlv the ram was seen slowly to : retire, pursued by them at long range, }; and returnin-r v"'? an occasional gun 11 the fire which im-y still kept up. She was eighteen miles from the mouth of 11 *,W1 *? !, t\r% /?/* swttnn (] tin* nwdiiunr, ? nuiivv; niu. uu\i *.vmuv . about live hours before. One of her a two guns, as we afterward learned, y had its muzzle shot away, and in con- i sequence of the loss of her chimney it { was impossible to keep up sullieicnt steam. In tliis crippled state she must make her way back, pursued by two e swift and heavily-armed ships. r Her commander proved equal to the 1 emergency. Among her stores was a 1 large supply of salt pork. This he f ordered to be used l'or fuel instead of t the coal, which was now useless. The fierce heat thus rapidly produced made } up for the lack of draught in the in- t jural smokestack, and so she steadily j retreated, fighting all the way with , her remaining gun until she reached j t>e mouth of the river, where she lired f the last shot of defiance, as she had j fired the first. The gunboats had ( meanwhile ceased the pursuit, and the engagement was ended. The crippled j double-ended steamed slowly below ^ Sandy Point, where she lay a couple j of weeks repairing damages. It leaked out that a solid shot from the ram had j gone through her boiler, killing several of her men and wounding others by its ^ effect. For several weeks the sound shore in the vicinity of the fight was strewn with splinters and other frag- . ments, some painted, some carved or i gilded, showing the results of the [ tarn's fire upon the wooden hulks of i her adversaries. Sorrow is not a blessing until it turnB to joy, ? . 1HE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD. Giving IHeillrincs to Animal*. Professor D. JD. Slade, of Harvard iniversity, writes as follows in the 1 merioan Agriculturist : In administering medicines to his tnimals the knowledge of how to do it s most essential to every larmer, ana le may not be able always to acquire t from his books at hand. The most eady manner of giving medicinalsubtanees is by mixing them with the ood or the drink. This, however, is lot always practicable, as the animal nay refuse the mixture, or may be too mik to make the effort to take it. It uust then be given by ball, or by drench rom a horn or bottle. One most esential anatomical point to be romemered by every one in the givihg of ledicine, especially in the liquid form, > that the tongue should be free. It s mainly by the muscular movements f this organ that the entrance to the windpipe is closed during the passage f food or liquid into the gullet. The itroduction of the smallest quantity ito the air passages at once causes iritation made evident by coughing. By revent.ing natural movements of the >ngue we run much risk of producing allocation. To illustrate: An ox, after iting heartily and drinking late in the lorning was puffed up, the swelllg disappearing after work. On gain drinking at night the swelling iturned. Some medicine was preared, but the swelling had abated, nd the animal was eating hay. But ) prevent a recurrence of the disorer, the medicine was given by holding is tongue out of his mouth while ouring it down his throat. He fell own and died immediately. On exmination eight inches of the windipe was completely filled with chewed ay, conveyed there by the liquid, and ^angulation was produced. When practicable the ball is the lost convenient form of administerig medicine to a horse when he will ot take it in food. The ball should e prepared with oil rather than with mip, and both in size and shape nould resemble a small hen's egg. One erson can give it by standing at the ight shoulder of the animal when acked into a stall. With the left hand raw the tongue out gently upon the ight side, not pulling it, but simly pressing it upon the lower jaw. 'he ball, held between the tips of the ngers of the right hand, is conveyed lto the posterior portion of the mouth, nd the hand quickly withdrawn and le tongue liberated. If the ball is ot seen to pass down the gullet on ie left side of the throat, a gentle low on the chin will cause the animal ) swallow, or water may be offered, rhere the animal is at all refractory r vicious, it may be necessary to hold ie jaws open by the halter-rope, or in )me cases by-the balling-iron, an inrnnmnt m!wl? fnr tliis ncfi In giving it drench to a horse, a horn fiould be used instead of a bottle, >r fear of breakage. Standing at the ght shoulder, raise the head with ic left hand under the jaw, and *ith the right hand pass the lip of ic horn into the side of the mouth nd empty its contents, the head being ept up until they are swallowed. If tie animal is violent, place a twitch pon the nose, to be held by an assistnt; or if he refuses to open the mouth lie tongue may.be gently held to one ide, the horn introduced, quickly inptied, and the tongue liberated at nee. Under all circumstances the reatest gentleness must be exercised. Nothing can be gained by impatience r by harsh treatment. For the ox or cow liquid medicine i preferable, given from the bottle cither than the horn. The bottle is lore manageable, and one is less mpted to use it to pry open the jaws, nd perhaps thus lacerate the tongue Iso. Elevate the head only nough to prevent the liquid unning from the mouth. The bottle lould not be pushed back far into the iroat. The tongue should be left ree. The following is a very neat and [ficacious method: If standing, lace the left side of the animal against wall, and standing on the right side iize hold of tiie upper jaw by passing le left arm over the head, and bending le Intter far round to the right, lightly elevating it. With the right and, pour the contents of the bottle lto the mouth at its angle, using the :ast possible force. Medicinal substances can be readily iven to the cat, after properly securlg the animal. An efficient method i as follows: (Jrasp the hind legs bove the hocks, between the little and ing lingers of each hand, the fore xtremities above the elbow, between lie other two lingers, and place the liumbs against the posterior-lateral arts of the head at the base of the iirs. Being thus firmly held, the ledicine, either solid or liquid, may be iven from a common spoon. Fnrni and (Jnrdon Note*. In turning under sod or green maerial a sprinkling of lime will be very enefici.al. T i -1 .. '.>.1 4-1wi4> 4-U A CiirA/1 A <-?* nli^n 11/ 1?"> ClcllIUt'U LilUU tilt" OUCUC U1 1 Ulif agu is less affected by the worm than re the rough-leafed varieties of turips. For bedding, leaves should be gathred in dry weather and stored where liey can be kept dry. For compost jg, wet leaves are all right. Some of the best catches of clove re made from fall seeding. It then eeds no shading, and usually gees sufcient rain to give it a good start. Do not depend upon fertilizers alone or good crops of small grain, but let he harrow do its perfect work. Culivation has much to do with the succss of a wheat lield. . Sows may farrow at any time if the uarters are warm and comfortable, ut if the pigs are not properly cared or they will be checked in growth if he weather is cold. A good test for roots is to weigh hem in water, as the weight in water rill give the amount in solid matter, ometimes the large mangolds will loat, which shows them to be deficient a nourishment, while the small ones [i variably sink. Ashes should never be thrown upon nan lire heaps nor mixed with any kind if manure, as the caustic potash liberies tlie ammonia, which is very dilliult to save. Therefore, spread ashes mmediately upon the land, whether jrass or cultivated. Horses slobber from eating clover. Vn exchange says: This is annoying, specially in the driving horse, but the emedv is very simple and easy at tand, consisting of a head of cabbage ed to the horse, just before using him br work or driving. It is cheap and flective. Nations composed entirely of timothy lav, though not so good for horses as hose mixed with clover, yet an; preferred by horsemen, and clear timothy ommands the highest price. Thereore, if hay is to be sold, timothy alone ihould be sown ; but if wanted for loine use a mixture of clover is no letriment. The practice of pasturing sheep or logs in orchards is excellent, less for ;ho value of the pasture than for the jenefit to the fruit by destroying wormy specimens. The animals should be fed liberally daily, but not late at night or wirly in the morning, so as to encourage them to make early forays for fallen fruit. Most horticulturists have more or less trouble with tree labels, most of those offered for sale being complex and costly. The Country (Ji-ntlemun advocates the use of a label of scrap zinc, cut into strips a few inches long, half or three-fourths of an inch wide at one end and half as wide at the I other. The name is written on the zinc with a common lead pencil when moist, and this writing will last yearsThe other end of the strip is coiled round the Iwanch, the coil expanding lis the branch gror/s. In feeding for beef the notions of .each animal should be consulted?his preferences, likes and dislikes. The object of feeding usually is to get the animal to eat all that he will digest well. Hence a variety should always be at hand, and the ration should be varied by feeding cooked, soaked or dry meal, as the case may be, with hay and roots. Take great care not to overfeed, ana in case or oveneeuing let starvation be the cure. Thus the animal will soon take to feeding again, but will be less likely to fall oft much in lleshthan if physicked. It is usually quite as well to have cows calve in the fall, particularly where milk and butter are more important than the calf. With ensilage feeding winter will prove the best time for butter making, and the silo system will be so slow in coming into general use that tho winter price of butter, must be high for many years to come. The worst season of all to have a cow calve is in late spring or early summer. The first How of milk then comes at a time when it is least valuable and costs most labor and trouble to make into butter.?American Cultivator. \ Sunday Dinner. The National Farmer, of "Washington, in its "house lore" for the wives of American farmers, gives the following recipes for a Sunday dinner: Baked Soup. Fillet of Veal. Cannelon of Potatoes. French Beans a la Cream. Tomato Sauce. Neapolitainoes. Coffee and Whipped Cream. Baked Soup.?Three pounds of beef; two pounds of veal; half pound of lean ham; one onion; two carrots; . two tablespoonfuls of farina; one can of corn, drained and chopped; two stalks of celery; pepper and salt; six quarts of water. Cut the meat into, long strips, the vegetables into dice, and pack into alternate layers, in a broad, low jar, that will go into the oven. Strew the layers with farina and corn, fill up with the water; cover the jar closely, putting a paste of flour and water over the top or about the edges, to exclude the air and keep in the steam. Do this on Saturday night. At bedtime, set in the oven in a pan of cold water, that it may heat gradually as the range warms in the morning. Let it bake until dinnertime. Pons into a bowl, take out the meat, season, and put into the stockpot. Pour over it as much as you can. spare of the soup, season, and set by for to-morrow. Add pepper and salt to that left for to-day, and serve. Fillet of Veal.?Take out the bone of the joint (you can add it on Saturday to your baked soup); make a deep incision between the meat and the " flap," which your butcher will skewer around the fillet. Fill this and the hole left by taking out the bone with a force-meat of crumbs, chopped salt pork, chopped thyme and parsley,grated lemon-peel, pepper, salt and the juice of a lemon. Bind the iillet into shape with*tapes; cover the top with a paste of Hour and water, and bake twelve minutes to the pound; putting a cup of boiling water into the pan. "When done, pull off the paste, dredge with flfinr :tnrl Wf'll with lilltt.fT. The me.it should have been very freely' basted while cooking. Dish the meat when browned; season and thicken the gravy; boil up and pour into a boat. Cannelon ov Potatoes.?Mash the potatoes thoroughly; beat light with butter, milk and two raw eggs. Heat in a greiised frying pan, stirring constantly, until stiff enough to handle. Make into a long roll; brush over with beaten eggs and sift .crumbs over it. Lay in a buttered baking-pan and brown nicely in a quick oven. Dish, and pour over it a cup of good drawn butter. French Beans a la Creme.?Open a can of string beans ; clip them into short pieces, and cook twenty minutes in hot salted water. Drain. Have.ready in a saucepan two tablespoonfuls of cream and as much butter, heated together ; pour upon a beaten egg ; return to the saucepan ; season with pepper and salt; stir in a tablespoonful of hot vinegar ; take from the lire ; dish the beans and pour the sauce over them. 'Py?>r wn C ? Clfour fVlO r>r>n f PT11 <J 1V.UA1V/ ^vvii uiiu of u can of toinatoe.-^twenty minutes. Strain and pulp through a colander. Add butter, rolled in Hour, a little sugar, salt and pepper; cook ten minutes and pour out. Xkai'olitaixoes.?Make enough puff-paste for a pie; roll out into a sheet half an inch thick and cut into strips three inches long and half as wide. Bake in a quick oven. "When cold, spread half of them with sweet jam or jelly and stick the others over them in pairs?the jelly being, of course, in the middle. Ice with a" frosting made of the whites of two eggs whipped stiff with half a pound of sugar. Make these on Saturday. Pjvss with them strong, hot coffee, with .? tiwrw.nfnl nf irliitmofl r*rp:ini nn ci ^luau r?|;</uiiviu */?. ii ut|>|/v\? w? the surface of each cupful. The Rag Business. Tim rag business in any large city is f ne of no mean importance. In ISew York there are estimated to lie 2.0U0 Italian rag-pickers, averaging in earnings about thirty-live cents per day each, and picking up $750,000 worth of rags in the course of a year. This class get their rags from ash barrels, gutters, etc., while there is another class that go from house to house with carts, buying, who do a business of $3,000,000 per year. Besides these there is the regular purchaser. Cotton rags are the only kind imported, there being no duty, and they come from almost every city in the world. This variety brings from one and one-fourth to six cents a pound, according to' condition and quality. Those coming from foreign countries are more worn and dirtier than those got from home, and the latter bring the best prices. Last year's importations of cotton rags were $10,000,000, and tin? total business in this kind is placed at $22,000,000.' "Woolen rags, in which a business of $0,000,000 annually is said to be done in New York, are used in manufacturing shoddies, and are gathered from Eastern and Western cities. Xone are imported, the tariff amounting to twelve cents per pound, while the rags are worth from three to thirtylive cents. About eight hundred dealers. distinct from the Italians and pur chasers of housewives, make New York their place of business, out of which number one hundred and fifty are large operators. Less than a dozen largo houses are credited with being capable of controlling the rag market. Twenty-live years ago the rag business I was unknown in New York. A. Miner's Uich Find. It is related of a Mack Ilills miner, who had discovered a big tiling, that he went to a party in Denver to have ' a drawing made of the site and its surroundings, and he was asked: " Do you intend to work this mine?" " No. I guess not." " Will you go East and form a stock company and sell out'the shares?" " I think I will." " Then what you want of me is a sketch showing the mouth of your mine with about $.'300,000 worth of silver ore piled up around it. When you get to Chicago you can get an artist there to put in a river and a railroad track, and if you go as far as Boston it will be the duty of the artist there to put three steamboats on the river, two trains on the railroad and surround your mine with a town of 600 inhabitants"?Wall titreet News'. Halloween. From the earliest times men have been trying to look ahead. The ancient Egyptians had oracles where their gods were supposed to answer the questions of men by dreams and-other ways; the onniant f!rnolru oIca liorl fa tyi mic nr. acles, which people came from fa^-off lands to consult; the Romans killed certain fowls or animals, and guessed at the future by the looks of their internal organs; the Hebrews and the Babylonians had their own peculiar ways of finding out what was to happen. The world has not yet outgrown the longing to look ahead. The Hindoo to-day sets a lamp afloat on his sacred river, and judges of the future by the length of time it burns; the Chinaman consults his "wise men," who pretend to understand signs; the ignorant African takes notice of the cries of birds and animals; the English ' ?not long ago?tried to learn by help of what they call "witches;" and spiritualists even now believe the predictions of a "medium." No serious attempt to look into the , future has been made for a long time by intelligent people, and the old customs have become a frolicsome try- ' ing of "charms," especially on one night of the year. It is curious enough that the night selected is the eve of the festival of All Saints, which was established in the seventh century by a pope of Ilome, in honor of all the saints who had no particular day assigned to them. The Romans brought this festival to England ; there it became All Hallows, and the evening u TT?n ueiuru n xinuuvv -eveu ui xictnuweeu, and the seventeenth century England ; gave up the night to feasting and ] frolicking. Nuts and apples were ! plenty from one end of the island to the . other, and "Xut-crack night" was the name given to it. In England the revels were for fun, such as diving for apples floating in a tub of water, and of course getting : very wet; or trying to snatch in the 1 teeth an apple olf one end of a stick, 1 which had a lighted candle at the other ] end, and, being hung by a string, could be spun around very fast, so that the 1 players often seized the candle instead ' of the fruit; or a playful fortune-telling by naming nuts, roasting them be- : fore "the fire, and watching their con- 1 duct when heated?whether they J burned steadily or bounced away, or ' burst with a noise, each movement of ] the charmed nut being of great impor- ( tance; . ^ One nut test was tried by grinding * and mixing together a walnut, hazel- s nut and nutmeg, making into pills, * with butter and sugar, and swallowing 1 them on going to bed. "Wonderful dreams would follow (which was not surprising). In Scotland the night was given en- 1 tirely to serious and sometimes fright- ( ful attempts to peer into the future by ^ means of charms. One way of trying fortune was to throw a ball of blue 1 varn out of a window and wind it into ( a ball again from the other end. Near 1 the last something would hold it fast, 1 when the winder must ask: MVho 1 holds?" The answer would name one ' who was to have importance <in the 1 questioner's future. ! Another Scotch custom was "pull- 1 ing kale-stalks." A young person went 1 blindfolded into the garden, pulled up ] the lirst kale or cabbage stalk he 1 touched and carried it into the house. 1 The whole future was read from that stalk; the size indicated the stature of 1 the future partner in life; the quan- | tity of earth at the roots showed the amount of his or her fortune; the taste of the pith told what the temper : would be; and when the stalk 1 was placed over the door, the first name of the person entering was the fated name. The island of Lewes, on the coast of Scotland, had some curious customs. Young women made a "dumb cake" : and baked, it lief ore the fire with certain ceremonies and in perfect silence, expecting to see wonders; and the people also sacrificed to a sea-god called Shong, throwing a cup of ale into the sea. and calling on him to give them plenty of sea-weed to enrich their grounds. In another Scotch trial a girl would go into a barn, holding a winnowing sieve and stand alone, with both doors open, to see her fate. The fashion of trying charms is now nearly outgrown among English-speaking people. It survives in America as a pleasant frolic for a social gathering. In our own day young people "sow heinpseed," "eat apples before the glass," "go down the cellar stairs backward," holding a candle and a mirror. They also "pop chestnuts," "launch walnut shells" holding tapers, and try the "three saucer" test of the future. In some of our cities the boys on Halloween collect old tea-kettles, boots, j ot.m/io n+n ?inil rliuinuif thpm in KU^U Oiv;iuo, WVVi^ UUV1 v?iv<*? ... clean vestibules, ringing the door bell and runni g away. Out of the Depths. Mary Jackson entered tlie Chicago police court-room and asked to l>c sent to the workhouse. Her story as told the court was a sad one, and we give it here: Do you think, judge, if I had any place to go to that I would come here and ask that something he done for me? Do you think I would ask to be sent to the workhouse? Look at me, judge! I have no money, and who will give me any? Look at me! Ij am clothed in rags, and who will give me clothing? I am hungry, who will feed me or give me a home? I am tired. I am forty-seven years of age. and can't do as I once did. For ten long years I have had no home, and I have done nothing but make the same old round iroin micKtown to the station-house; from the station to this court, to listen to the same old sentence; from the court-room to the workhouse, from the workhouse to the whisky shops, bark to the station. And so year after year I have been kept moving. Oh ! I'm terribly tired of life! Relatives? Yes; I have two brothers, but God knows where?I don't. I have not seen them fotwentv-two long years. Once I was somebody?now, as you see, I am nobody. What has brought me to this? Why, drink and bad company. What j else ever brings anybody to mv con. dition? I was born .and raised in Owen county, Kv. In 1801 I came to Cincinnati. There was plenty of bad company here and 1 fell into it. Why not go-to Kentucky when I get out of the workhouse and lind mv brothers? Where in the last ten years was I to lind respectable clothing, where was I | to get money? Who would give me either? I tell you it has been j from one whisky shop to another, then to the station, then I to the workhouse, for ten years, iiml I am getting old. My right name | is Ellen Smith. Oh, the workhouse is i not so bad a place ! J have been in | worse, much worse. I come before J you in my sober mind, judge, and ask i you to send me there. There is notli-1 ing more for me in the world but' misery. I ;rm broken down. I can ; never be anybody now. JJut once,! judge?once?1 ?was?" Her despondent tone nnd tearful face, together with her graphic description of her condition, moistened the eyes of many who listened in the sol-1 emn quiet that prevailed in the courtroom. " Yours is a sad, sad story, Ellen!" said Judge lliglev, visibly affected, j "Would the infirmary nut be a better place?" " Ob, I would be glad to go there if they will take me. I am very tired." The court continued the case with a j view to have her admitted to the in-1 flrmary, if possible, * / ' . ' .-v-frta?r ... SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Experiments conducted between Munich and Miesbach have proved conclusively that electrical energy capable of being converted into motive power can be sent over an ordinary telegraph wire. Captain "Webb seems to think that t.hp imp nf nnpnnieo nil rnhVinrl all nvpr tlie body and even the face prevents the chilling action of cold water affecting the vital parts of swifflmers who remain a long time in the water. All professionals, he says, now use oil. Artificial ivory of a pure white color and very durable has lately been made by the inventor of celluloid. It is pre- : pared by dissolving shellac in ammonia, mixing the solution with oxide of zinc, driving off the ammonia by heating, and afterward powdering the residue and strongly compressing it in . molds. F. J. Faraday is inclined to the belief that the breathing of air devoid of the usual quantity of oxygen is apt to develop germs otherwise harmless into those which produce consumption. As giving support to his hypothesis he cites the decrease of consumption in well-ventilated barracks, and the relief afforded to patients by sea voyages, the air of pine woods and the inhalation of carbolic acid. The new liability to fire resulting from the introduction, of electric lighting apparatus lends new interest to a 1 method of preparing the wire lately ' brought to the attention of the French Academy of Sciences by M. Geoffroy. ] A copper wire is insulated with asbestos and threaded tftrough a lead pipe. A sample of the conductor of this wire ] was entirely volatilized without affect- | ing the leaden pipe in the slightest de- < gree, the volatilization taking place in the fraction of a second. After all, M. Faye maintains there J is nothing very difficult about under* J standing the reasons why comets undergo sudden changes of form as ] they approach or recede from the sun. ? Two causes are assigned. First, solar J attraction tends to decompose bodies . 3f very small mass and great bulk ] when they come within its influence. A.nd comets are concededly very light n comparison with the quantity of matter they contain. Secondly, there , ;omes into play the action of solar re- i pulsion, which arises from the lncandes:enGe of cometary materials when J freed from great pressure and subjected ;o intense heat. What was relatively * solid becomes nebulous. But these ( ;heories do not appear to cover the ( ivhole ground. ( Romance of a Gold Mine. i In 1852 a party of five unknown miners were working in the bed of one )f our rivers, where they took out a ;arge amount of gold?one chunk weighing $1,500, with quartz attached. It is well known that in those lays, little, if anything, was known ibout gold-bearing quartz by the common California miner. However, the \ proof of the pudding was in the eat- 3 ing, anil to find the common carrier of ( this gold was the question which j sorely puzzled them. Above their ( claim to the right was a large conical , mountain, standing with nearly per- pendicular sides and rising 2,000 feet ] above the river, where the miners supposed the gold to come from which fed the river. To as- , cerid this for the gold-hunt was at- : tended with|great danger and difficulty, ' having to cut steps for a foothold in ' the solid slate rock at the top. Upon : arriving at the summit the scenery at , either quarter was grand as far as the ! eye could reach. But scenery was thin 1 gruel to miners' hungry for gold, and . they had no stomach for it when such an inviting spectacle lay exposed to view at their very feet. Here the footsteps of man had never before intruded. Mammon was t^e only god who had ! hid in this secluded basin this vast profusion of yellow, shining, glittering gold and had used the elements of the storm king as the milling process 1 Here truly was the picture for high art. They collected $30,00) in a short time, and, covering up their footsteps as they descended, returned to San Francisco. Here shortly after their nrrk'nl nnp of thft mrtv died: not. 1 however, until he had made a map and given a description of the mine to his wife, and also the $1,500 specimen. In the meantime the surviving four parties returned for more lucre, and it was on their homeward trip to the "Bay" that they were murdered, not far from their claim, by a number of Mexicans, supposed to be the band of Joaquin Murietta, with a large amount of gold in their possession?the graves of these unfortunate men being wellknown to the old residents of this locality, which partially confirms the statement. IIow many "Will-'o-the-wisps" and "wild-goose-chases" in the shape of big deposits have miners followed without successful termination ! The air is teeming with them* from " Gold Lake" up?a period covering thirtymrrxty-c* In T11 Mfl A Ull L'C >L"UiO 1IX \jauiuiuiu. w**v> under our present notice is the first of the many "secret expeditions" in our mind that has been realized. Uysome unexplained means Dr. Draper became .acquainted with this legend, also the widow of thirty years' bereavement. The interview was satisfactory, and the identical $1,500 lump, which had been religiously kept, produced. Six weeks ago, armed with the description and map above alluded to, in company with four others, he had no difficulty in finding the deserted claim andJocating the grounds. In less than six days' work, lowering the ore with ropes down the mountain side, they have taken from the mine the round sum of $05,000, which the receipts of the San Francisco mint, in Draper's possession, will show. The doctor also informs us that there is at least one hundred tons of rich ore on hand ready for the milling process. This claim will undoubtedly ' develop the boss bonanzaof the State.?Tuolumne (Cal.) Independent. Arabi and Toiilba Pasha. As seen in his prison. Arabi Pasha is ;i ninn or singnum v wm icuu.i mun-. ners; tall, burly, not uncomely, with a tendency to baldness and snowiness about the beard. He should be a man of fifty-live, but Orientals are inscrutable in the matter of age, some of them looking 100, while in reality they have but just turned thirty. He is a fellah of the fellaheen. The shape of his eyes and cast of his countenance shows this. He has thP ignorance of the fellah, his boundless trust and grotesquely selfish belief that Allah's time is occupied with specially watching him above all other creatures. Previous to the recent Egyptian w*r no one ever heard .of Toulba Pasha, the Saneho Panza to Arabi's Don Quixote, his alter eg<> and the sharer of his captivity. lie rose from the dregs of society, is short, dark, corpulent, with twinkling eyes, an impudent leer, and nervous lai nanus always 011 tin* move. lie willfully deceived his mast-r, who trusted in him, for, in the telegrams which are extant, he prated always of great victories and promised others. Without Toulba's lying, plausible counsel it is unlikely that Arabi would ever have succumbed to his rash ambition. He pinned his faith to Toulba, and Toulba, an adventurer, reckless of consequences, led him floundering into the mire. More than one-half of all the barley produced in the United States is raised in New York, California and Wisconsin. The average yield is 23.5 bushels per acre, and the total product will | reach 45,000,000 bushels, A Farewell. Come not to my grave with y ur mournings * With your lamentations and tears, With your sad forebodings and fears; When my lips are dumb, Do not come! Bring no long train of carriages, No hearse crowned with waving plumes, Which the gaunt glory of Death illumec; But with hands on my breast T m f? rAcf If, in my fair youth time, attended By hope and delig everyday, I could spurn the sweet baseness of clay, Can you honor me, try Till you die. Insult not my dust with your pity, Ye who're left on this desolate shore, ' Still to suffer and lose and deplore? 'Tis I should, as I do, Pity you. For me no more are the hardships, The bitterness, heartaches and strife, The sadness and sorrow of life. * But the glory divine This is mine! Poor creatures! Afraid of the darkness,. Who groan at the anguish to come. How silent I go to my home! Cea^e your sorrowful bell; i'r."s I am well. HUMOR 0*' THE DAY Although an expert penman may rise to distinction he will.never make 'his mark." The cultured no longer call it hash. Mosaic nutriment is the correct form. ?Transcript. A Milwaukee woman has kept a / iettle of boiling water on the stove for ;he past twenty-two years in order to >j scald burglars. >r$mM A young lady of Missouri slashed in insulting fop with a knife. She probably wanted to rut a swell.?: t r;? Courier-Journal. A woman has suggested that ween Tien break their hearts 'it is all the same as when a lobster breaks one of lis claws, another sprouting immedirtely and growing in its place.?Hartford Times. A trade journal gives directions for preserving harness. Preserved harness jq nay be considered very palatable to Jj ;hose who like that sort of thing, but . ive don't want a bit in our mouth.? Norristoion Herald. . The postoffice department has ruled J;hat a husband has no control over the 'i correspondence of his wife. But this lecision will not prevent a man from carrying his wife's letter in his inside coat pocket three weeks before mailing .< t .?Picayune. A poet wooed a beauteous maid, And by his honeyed rhvmeB Did win her heart; bnt when had passed The tender courting times He found her obstinate, and asked The fair one to rehearse The reason; she replied 'twas cause He'd gotten her per verse. ?Ycmker's Gazette. Mrs. Yerger is one of the most extravagant women in Austin. On the recent occasion of her husband's birth- ,> lay, she presented him .with an ele 5?int pocKeiuooti, sayiug; -jjiuw, .-frzj lear, whenever you take out this pock- ' % jtbook,-think of me." "You bet I ^ will," he replied, with a vociferous jj heartiness that surprised her.?Sift" Papa, what is a tornado?" asked a ;-v?p pung hopeful. "My son," said the '-^j father, glancing cautiously around to see if the coast was clear, " did you '; liear your mother tell me tliis morning jjwSj what she thought of a man who would stay out all night to see the comet?" v?ewd| "Yes, sir," replied the awe-stricken 4|jW boy. "Well, that was about as near a * tornado as a man can get without being hurt. But you needn't tell your mother I said so."?New York Commercial. A well-known and eccentric minister of Newbury port was many years ajjo being ferried over to Ring island to see a sick brother. The night was stormy ^ and the timid divine was praying au- ' -Jtjm iJibly, when the ferryman said: "Par- ^ son, I shouldn't think such a good mail-. as you are would be afraid anywhere."' ' ** "Good gracious!" said the minister; with considerable display of temper, ' "You don't suppose I want to go to 1 heaven bv water, do vou?"?Boston Journal. An 01(1 Trick Revived. While a crowd of men g?'iged recently in contests of skill, lir\ the shooting gallery on Clinton stree^P^|fe there entered a tall and sinister-looking- '' ; stranger, who stood with folded arms watching the marksmen. Pretty soop, [ when there was a lull in the shooting, , jjjt he stepped up to the counter, against * which the shooters always stand, and picked up one of the guns, loaded it, * ^ laid down a nickel for the shot, and, ' ' firing off-hand at the smallest and most difficult target, hit the bull's-eye with ease. Then he examined the gun "fj closely and with a sneer asked the proprietor why he kept such worthless I * rilles to shoot with. This query net- . tied the boss of the miniature rifle X".:? range, and he retorted that they were " nrr??l onoiiLrh cuns for anv one to shoot with."0 ? . " '$m " That may be," responded the scoffing visitor, " but they are perfect toys, and I would not be afraid to be ' shot at forty times a day with such old popguns. Why," and he picked up a cartridge and inserted it in the breach " ? of the rifle he held, "you can't shoot through a sheet of paper'with this and . * I can hold the ball in the old thing with ray finger. It is loaded now as * you see and I will put my thumb over , v-. the muzzle and your old popgun c^n^t drive the ball out." The shooting gallery man looked at . the stranger with an expression ths^'' * plainly said that he thought of calling - ^ the police to take charge of an escaped lunatic and then there came in nis eye a steely glitter which boded no good > >' to the man who jeered at his guns, and he began to fumble around the trigger of the rille, over the muzzle of which the scoffer held his thumb. " Pull the trigger if you want to," urged the stranger. " All right, I'm blamed if I don't," said the owner ot the weapon; "you fellers here are witness that if I blow his whole hand off it is his own fault," and he pressed the little curved piece of iron that released the hammer. ? There was a very faint and dull report, totally unlike the sharp, whiplike crack a rille ordinarily makes, not a particle of smoke was seen, the stranger's thumb was intact over the >r muzzle and the bullet was heard to rattle back in the barrel. The specta* "* - - 1-. r..i 1 tors stood agnasi, aim siuwiv ic-n uaun. as though the stranger was something uncanny, while the proprietor of the gallery was as pale as a ghost. "Are you the devil?" he finally gasped, while the stranger smiled, and removing his thumb, turned up the gun, let the bullet roll out on the floor, set it up against the wall and walked out. The stranger had simply performed an old trick, showing the resistance of ' > the air to guns. His thumb prevented the air from escaping from the barrel of the weapon, and the ;ur acted as a cushion between the thumb and the bullet.?Fort Wayne Gazette. From Hand to Month. " What a well dressed gentleman that is!" remarked a stranger from Onion Creek, as a gentleman in an elegant turnout dashed down Austin avenue. " Yes, but he just lives from hand to mouth." " Why, that's very singular. lie don't look as if he was in straitened circumstances." " There is nothing singular in his living from hand to mouth. He is the leading dentist in the place."?Texan Sifting a