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' ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER1 BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MAECH 21, 1883. NO.,40. YOLTOEXXVII^^H THINGS THAT NEVER DIE. It never dies?a mother's holy love Strengthens with every ill that may bei tide; i In every phase of life its waters move I With current strong, and fathomless, and I wide. 3 From the heart's other flames may rise, And while they seem as warm, and grand, and high, * The incense of one lives to reach the skies? A mother's tender love can never die. They never die?the songs of other days, The unstrung harps all covered o'er with dust. Are in some rambling storehouse laid away With many other wrecks of love and trust, At eventide, when all nronnd is still. Each harp throws off tho dust with gentle sigh, And voices long sincc hushed our chambers fill With songs of other dajs that never die. It never dies?the memory of a wrong Done to an innocent and trusting heart: Though outwardly it seemeth well and strong, A pain is there which never can depart; Time o'er the spot may weave a fair new skin, And every trace be hidden from the eye, j- But all the agony is closed within, L And wounds thus healed are never known ^ to die. They never die?the kindly deed and word Given to the needy without pomp and | pride; B Sooner or later they reap their reward ? . Who pass not over to the other side; A Tirl ornmKcs fKne noef " +V?a eon viuiuwo uiuo vuot u^/uu me aoa ui iiio May not return as man is sailing o'er But when he rests from agony and strife, He'll find the loaves upon the other shore. It never dies?the bow of promise set In every landscape, be it bleak or fair, There's hope for all upon life's billow yet, k For Gr>d's own hand had placed the token there; Though overwhelming storms of wind and rain Chase every sunbeam from the pilgrim's > sky, After much peril 'twill gleam forth again, For rainbows come and ;o but never die. t They never die?the moon, and stars, and sun Have shone upon the wicked and the just Since God's most glorious handiwork was done, And men arose so mighty from the dust; For when we close our eyes upon this world, rTo open them in Heaven by-and-bye, The same blue banner there will be unfurled, With sun, and moon, and stars, that never die.} ?Mrs. K. O. Jewell. A CLOUDED MIND. ^ Lu stood behind the little counter I where she passed 50 many hours of her life, her fingers resti g upon the glass of the show-case, which she tapped impatiently, while her eyes roved from Xed Snyder, behind the opposite counter, to the door through which she hoped some customer would enter. Ned's attention was divided between leering at Lu with his shocking contortions of face, and volunteering various clownish remarks, each of which elicited from their object only a movement of impatience, a sharper tapping * of the glass with her fingers, but no word of answer. Finally Xed left his place, sauntered around behind Lu's counter, and ended the maneuver l by thrusting his face up before hers. " un, go away, jn eci, sne exciaimect, turning from him, "do go now!" [. " "VVhat'll I go away for?" he demanded, creeping up again in front of , --her face. " Go. because I aui tired and you ! want to go," this in a tone of marked impatience, which Ned evidently understood that it would net do for him ito disregard. " Go back behind your ( own counter, or stay here and 1*11 go there. "What do you suppose customers would think to see you acting in this way ?" Xed hustled over to his own side of < the room before he answered, m a mat- \ ter-of-fact way: ' . " Suppose they'd think we ought to ' be married!" il w.,1 ?nii fnnlisli fnllnn, I Wl.w Iiurtiiiou?juu JLuv/uaii icuvn . IT uj j - do you keep talking such nonsense?" . " W'al, now I tell you there is lots \ of folks that talk in that way, whether | you'd think it or not, and course they're right about it. Tell you one thing? | when we be married you don't drive , me round this way; just make up your ' mind about that." 1 The last part of Ned's information , had been volunteered as the door ] opened to admit Homer Harkness; and ] Lu had scowled silence at the wagging , tongue in vain. But if that young , man who entered had heard anything , of what was being said he did not indicate it by any change of expression. ( He greeted the twain with a friendly . word to each, and passed through to \ the dining-room. When his footsteps died away, Lu turned her great brown , eyes to Ned, and said, sorrowfully: \ jNeci, wny win you iaiK so, ana oe- . II fore people most of all? Don't you ( m know that I don't want you to talk H that way, and you mustn't!" " Mustn't! Lord, what words you ( B use! But you'll get over it some day ?won't always feel as bashful." A voice from below called Ned, and he tumbled from sight, much to Lu's JB. relief. Any person seeing Lu Towner, day \ by day, would have understood how ] cheerless her young life really was. An ( B evil star had seemed to rule at her ( . birth. Iler father, formerly engaged in a comfortable business, had taken to ] drink, ruined liis custom, squandered his little property, and finally died, . soon after Lu's birth. j IAAV& iiivvuvi ) iyivi\vu-?viui/tu, ?5ti U^" gled with adverse fortune for a few I years, and then she, too, died, leaving ' her little daughter to the care of her only relative, a married aunt. The aunt was kind, in so far as her nature knew the meaning of the word; but she had j made Mammon her God, and nature had given her great power for physicid endurance?two dangerous qualities for the same person to possess, especially if that person be a woman. Lu's uncle was the proprietor of a bakerj', and in connection was a salesroom . and a boarding-house. Mr. Towner superintended the former; his wife the latter; and so it was that when Lu had mastered the rudiments of the common school education, she was taken in as a sort of general help for her aunt. It was as though the sunlight of her dawning life had gone behind some great cloud. There was so much that she could do, and she was so willing to do whatever might be demanded of her. From peeling potatoes, chopping hash and washing dishes, hpr snhprp r>f nipfnlnesQ <rr;uln-1 I ally extended through all the departments of the boarding-house and salesroom, till now we find her, at tho age of twenty, after eight years of incessant toil, with no prospect of any change so long as life and health should remain. From very early in the morning till very late at night, through seven long days in every week, with only an hour ortwo of respite on Sunday, she was here, there, wherever her services were demanded, not conscious that she was doing more actual physical labor than L two like her should perform, beside " shutting out from her young life the ^ joys of companionship, and ignoring all those social privileges which are so dear to young life. Lu was not especially pretty. At first glance she seemed so?her small, compact figure, oval features and great brown eyes, so full of honest truth, were certainly the elements of beauty ?but her incessant toil had wrought its liru i upon hands and face, insufficient sleep, continued care and the absence of social joy, tinged and shaded her whole life with a hue of sadness. Xed Snyder was familiarly known as "the fool." In some respects the epithet was quite appropriate, for while he had sufficient intelligence to be of much service in the bakery, and even in the salesroom, lie was yet of such uneven mental balance as to puzzle the most acute philosopher as to his degree of soundness and accounta* bility. Xed, too, had been adopted by Mr. Towner, just as he would have taken a horse for its keeping. It would bfc handy to have such a boy about the establishment, there was always something for him to do, and there were fragments enough left after the thirty or forty boarders had finished their meals to give the poor fool a royal repast. At first, life had not many pleasures for Xed, but as his sphere of usefulness began to develop and he sometimes talked about "packing up his duds" and going to sea?for Xed had a way of talking whatever came into his mind?he began to receive better clothes, and occasionally little presents, and spare half days, till his lot really in comparison became quite enviable. Lu had always been kind to him, out of the kindness of her heart, and many a favor she had taken pains to bestow upon him because she pitied his forlorn condition. Generally at the table she would procure for him a nicer piece of meat or some little delicacy which had never been intended for him, and this she delighted to do, even though hesoon came to look upon such favors jis a matter of course, and to scold and growl if they were not bestowed. Yet, after all, Ned did not mean to be ungrateful, and as he could think of no other way of repaying Lu's kindness, he had grown up into a conviction that lie must marry her at some time in the unknown future. Dreadful :is such a thought must have been to her, could she have brought herself for single moment to a realization, and annoying as was Ned's constant reference to the purpose of his heart, it had become his mental food and drink? the inspiration of his life. No more he talked of the sea; no more of shouldering his "Turk." Even his nature bowed to the sway of love, and in the presence of Lu only was he happy or r> r\r\ f a r\ 4" cu 1 tvuvcuuvu* f Naturally enough the belief soon gained ground that Ned did not speak unadvisedly, and that some arrangements had been made by which Lu was actually to become his wife. The girl's uncle and aunt came in for more blame than they deserved. "It's just like them," said one boarder to another, standing at a little distance and looking upon Lu, busy behind the counter, while Ned, near by, was feasting his weird eyes upon her. "Lu's indispensable to them, and Ned is a treasure, in his way. Get the two married, and they are bound to stay as long as they can render any service." " I hope you are wrong," the other returned, "for I don't like to think anybody can be that mean. It would l.? .. .nnnm. ue a uuv> oiiaiiic tu maiij siilu a good, faithful, kind-hearted girl as Lu to that born idiot! I'd kick the man who'd do such a thing, if there were no other way to punish him." It was Homer Ilarkness who said this and shortly afterward passed through the salesroom, which was deserted save by Ned. Mr. Ilarkness j was a young business man of the city, ; very comfortably situated in life, and 1 having for several years taken his meals there, he was on quite friendly 1 terms with the feeble-minded youth. "Xed," he asked, bending over the counter, half-confidentially, " you are going to invite me to the wedding, I suppose?" "What?me and Lu?" "Yes." "Yes, going to invite all the boarders," the fool said in a very businesslike manner. " When will it probably take place, Ned?" .<-r?i i :c t i r .. ...... lilitllieu 11 JL MlUtV iJU V>\Jli t oay. Say Lu," the door had opened to ad- ] mit her at that moment, "when be we 1 ^oin'to get married? This gentleman , wants to know." j Lu looked up at Mr. Ilarkness, for ] it was getting dusk in the salesroom, < tnd the gas had not been lighted. A j moment her lip quivered, and then . :ears sprang to her eyes. " Go downstairs, Ned," she replied, turning away. " Mr. Towner wants fou." 1 " No he don't either. You've got to ( tell me now," and the poor youth < jprang forward with a sort of frenzy, < 3ut at that moment the sharp tones of ] lis master sounded his name so em- j phatically that he at once turned and < went blundering away down the stairs. j Lu was so evidently pained by the ( jccurrence that the young man, self- j iffiiswL went, near to her and stani- , iuered out an apology. " Indeed, you are not to blame," she ? said, quickly, smiling through her , Lears. 141 am foolish to let this talk , mnoyme; but I?I can't help it. I lon't blame the poor fellow much, but j [ can't stand it; at least I feel as though ( [ couldn't, though 1 don't know how I j an help myself." , " I will tell you how you can put a j stop to his nonsense." ( " Will you ? Then tell me." , " Marry me!" , Lu's lip trembled as she cast a fur- \ tive glance up into the young man's ] face, and her whole soul thrilled a*she i-aught the magnetic love-beam of his J lark eyes. ".What do you mean?" she demanded. , ? Tnct wlmt. T sav T.n T ndmire you; love you. 1 have long wanted to Lell you so, and to ask you this. Surely you prefer me to Ned. Now what say you?will you be mine?" What could she say ? She knew Mr. Ilarkness too well to suppose for a moment that he was trifling with her; but it seemed impossible to realize! that the man she most revered of all \ in her limited circle of acquaintances i had really asked her to become his wife. Why did his request touch so deed a chord in her soul? "Was it because it was an answer of an aspiration she had not dared acknowledge, j much less to cherish ?, Before she i coulcl command herself to frame an j answer a dull foot-fall sounded upon I the stairs. " Let me go; uncle is coming." j And she tried to withdraw her hand. I "Quick, then ; yes or no?" " 1 guess so," and with a skip she bounded into the dining-room to hide the joy-llush which would mantle her cheeks with a strange glow. Homer Harkness did not allow the matter to rest long in that state. Satisfactory terms were arranged with the j uncle and aunt, and it was decided I that the marriage should take place in a month. Early in the evening the ceremony was very quietly performed, and the happy husband started with his bride for a flying visit to the home of his parents in a neighboring town. Ned j IishJ hcpn fiven :i holiday for twenty- i 0 -- y v four hours, which he was passing with a relative in another portion of the city ; so that an unusual sense of quiet, almost amounting to desertion, settled over the usually bustling establishment of the Towners. But at midnight the quiet was rudely broken and the neighborhood rang with the sharp cries of " Fire !" A defective flue in the bakery had caused the misfortune; the flames leaped rapidly from room to room of the old wooden building, so that when the fire department reached the scene they found the fire bursting out from basement to attic. i J list as the firemen commenced oper I at ions Xed dashed upon the scene, i breathless and excited, lie saw the : dense smoke pouring from the broken | window of Lu's room and wildly in: quired for the occupant. But no one i answered his question, for none understood his meaning. Calling her name wildly, he rushed ; up the stairway. "What transpired ! afterward only the eye of the Infinite i saw. A daring fireman attempted to , follow him a few moments afterward, j but the hall at the head of the stairs was a sea of (lames, through which none could pass and live. Hours later, when the fire was extinguished, from out the ruins was taken something which, though bear; ing little resemblance to the human ; form, could still be identified as all that remained on earth of Xed Snyder. Lu, recalled from the strange dream of her new-found happiness, stood beside the coffined remains and heard the story of his death. The memory of the disiurrePiibln riiivs and vparswaKfl.il ! gone now; she remembered only his many uncouth acts of devotion and the heroic manner of his death, in a supposed effort to save her from the flames. " Who would have though that he cared so much for me V" she said. " Poor fellow! poor fellow!" "Yes, dear Lu," her husband responded, "you see that even such as he may love so that life is disregarded in trying to render service to the object of that love. Poor fellow, indeed; but his death shall noi, be in vain, for I will learn from his example to devote my life to you, as long as life shall last, and it would indeed be to my shame should my love prove less unselfish than the love of a fool." Street Scenes iu Oberammergau. In the Century, Mrs. Jackson has a sketch of travel, entitled " The Village of Oberammergau," where the "Passion Play " annually attracts thousands of visitois. Wequotethefollowing picture of Oberammergau life: The open square in front of the house is a perpetual stage of tableaux. The people come and go, and linger there around the great water-tanks as at a sort of Bethesda, sunk to profaner uses of every-day cleansing. The commonest labors become picturesque per formed in open air, with a background of mountains, by men and women with bare heads and bare legs and feet. Whenever I loyked out of my windows I saw a picture worth painting. For instance, a woman washing her windows iD the tanks, holding each window under the running stream, tipping it and turning it so quickly in the sunshine that the waters glidingoff it took millions of prismatic hues, till she seemed to be scrubbing with rainbows. Another, with two tubs full of clothes, which she had brought there to wash, her petticoat tucked up to her knees, her arms bare to the shoulder, a bright red handkerchief knotted round her head, and her eyes Hashing as she beat and lifted, wringing and tossing the clothes, and Hinging out a sharp or a laughing word to every passer. Another, coining home at night with a big bundle of green grass under one arm, her rake over her shoulder, a free, open glance, and a smile and a bow to a gay postilion watering his horses; another, who had brought, apparently, her whole stock of kitchen utensils there to be made clean?jugs, and crocks, and brass pans. How they glittered as she splashed them in and out! She did not wipe them, only set them down on the ground to dry, which seemed likely to leave them but half clean after all. Then there came a dashing young fellow from the Tyrol, with three kinds of feathers in his green hat, short brown breeches, bare knees, gray yarn stock ings with a pattern of green wreath knit in at the top, a happy-go-lucky look on his face, stooping down to take !i mouthful of the swift-running water from the spout, and getting well splashed by missing aim with his mouth, to the uproarious delight of two women just coming in from their haymaking in the meadows, one of them balancing a hay rake and pitchfork on tier shoulder with one hand, and with the other holding her dark-blue petticoat carefully gathered up in front, full of hay; the others drawing behind lier (not wheeling it) a low, scoopshaped wheelbarrow full of green grass and clover?these are a few of any day's pictures. The Marriacre of " Freaks." The marriage of li. K. Moflitt, the tattooed man, and Miss Leo Ilernanlez, the bearded woman, led old John [Jeary, the sword-swallower, who is the stepfather of the bride, to discourse at length to a Philadelphia Times reporter on the marriage of "freaks." Ihev usually marry opposites, he said. lie only knew one fat man to marry a fat woman. Ilannah Battersby weighs 300 pounds, and is gaining constantly in flesh, but her husband turns the scale at sixty. They have a mighty liandsome daughter who isn'# a 14 freak." Fat Lottie Grant is married to a lean ventriloquist. Colonel Goshen, the giant, got stuck on little Daisy Henry, who isn't much higher than his knee. Fanny Burdette, one the smallest women in the country, is the wife of big Bill Bristol, a sideshow blower. Osmund, the hairy man, married the "three-handed lady." She ;lied, and he liked the family so well that he married her mother, who is a snake charmer. Lurline, the water jueen, ain't exactly a lreak, but she's in the business. Her right na e is Sallie Swift, and she first came out as a dub-swinger. She married a nobleman in London, and lives in b;inff-un stvle. Mr. Geary said one would l?e astonished to know how many young women fall in love with "freaks." The ugly Chinese dwarf with IJarnum last summer was on the llirt all the time, and is engaged to a (ine-looking white woman. Half a dozen of those (.'ape Town negroes that were exhibited as Zulus are married to English women. Jiarnum's india-rubber man, that guy that can pull his skin around and let it snap back like gum, has a wife and eight children in Germany. Mr. (Jeary added: Talking about funny things, there's that freak, the double-headed girl?Millie Christine, I mean. "Well, I'll bet that more than a dozen men have offered to marry her. I guess the most of 'em were after her money, but she knows it and won't take 'em up. Why, one cranky chap followed that double-headed girl from Merlin to St. Petersburg and sent her an offer of marriage every day. I guess that fellow dropped about $2,000 traveling around after that double-headed gal. Yegetable-Raisini? on a Larga Scale. The Prairie Farmer gives an account of the great establishment of K. J. Lewis, of Chicago, for raising vegetables in winter. lie first put up eight glass houses four years ;igo, making 264 feet in length with twentytwo feet wide. He has lately added fourteen more, each about 132 feet long and mostly about the same width, lie intends next year to put up eight more houses. To heat the twenty-two houses already in operation, in the winter, from forty-five degrees to fifty degrees in all weathers, requires 300 tons of Pittsburg nut coal. The hot water pipes have a total length of 22,000 feet or a little over four miles. The amount of capital invested in these houses is $35,000. The land they cover is worth as much more. From ten to twelve persons are required for attendance, including two men who attend constantly to the fires. No person wants straw spelt backward on the end of his nose. A REMARKABLE RECOVERY. HOW A MAN LIVED THE EE YEAHS WITH A HALF-BROKEN NECfi. Itfrrivlnir Injuries Which UcmiltiHI In Toftl I'nriil.vniH?limbic to Move Hand or Foo ?A Chho Which Puzzled the Doctor*. The Hartford Times gives the details of the most remarkable recovery of -Mr. Eddie Crowell, now in his eighteenth year: In February, 1880, young Crowell, while practicing on a trapeze bar in a German gymnasium, Io.st his hold and went head lirst, with tremendous l'orce, to the (loor, striking upon a sawdust stuffed bag. His youth (he was in his sixteenth year) probably saved his life. It was found that the blow had broken the atlas, the peculiar ringlike bone which articulates with the occipital bone, and thus sustains the head, and makes practicable its free movement. Partially stunned he arose, with a feeling, as he expressed it, "as if his head had been jammed down between his shoulders." , He walked home alone, but soon found himself unable to move his head without moving his body with it. This . f /./mh'nnn,! T+ itrna A r, aiciLt; ui i/iiAiiga v/viiiLI 11 nun* ?ao uicided, after due consultation with ; medical authorities, to let the boy finish his course at the high school, and ' he accordingly rejoined his class and engaged actively in his studies. His inability to turn or bow his head con- 1 tinned, and, after awhile, other indica- 1 tions began gradually to point to the 1 advisability of removing him from school. He was at length kept most i in the house, though the torchlight ' parades of the presidential election ] drew him out one evening, eager to < march with his companions. This did 1 not prove to be well for him; he became worse, and soon paralysis ensued, s This speedily became total. He could ] not move hand or foot. His parents, 1 distressed beyond measure, omitted no 1 possible means of relief. Dr. Jarvis < and other eminent surgeons were consulted, but they, after carefully exam- ining the case^ could not give much, if ( any, hope of the boy's living. Dr. . Jarvis was convinced, to use his own | expression, that " the boy's neck was < broken," meaning, of course, that one ] of the vertebric had been dislocated. . The puzzle to the surgeons was, how \ the bov could have lived as long as he had. They had no hope of his sur- j viving long. Of course he could not , have lived had the spinal cord been 1 actually separated. The fracture was so great, as it was, as to render the J fact of continued life remarkable; but j it is even more remarkable that this could be, with the "atlas" actually split or splintered, and a piece of it j uroKen on. xne paralysis was hi- j tributed less to the dislocation of the vertebne we have named ( (with its accompanying bending of the spinal cord) than to a new growth of bone to make good the displacement of the piece that was broken off. The new growth, it is be- A lieved, pressed directly upon the now ] somewhat displaced nervous matter of j the spinal cord, and the more the bone . grew the greater the pressure; hence f the paralysis. The only hope afforded , by the doctors was that life might pos- , sibly last until the effort of nature to , repair the broken bone had ceased, and { that, if this improbable state of things f should fortunately occur, the boy, t being aided by his youth, might then A possibly survive, and recover partially ^ (or perhaps even wholly) from the j paralysis. (The piece of bone broken j off from the atlas is, we think, sup- f posed to be retained by the ligaments, ^ side by side with the injured vertebne). l The chances being at least one bun- ( dred to one against any other than a j speedily fatal result, the surgeons were ( not a little surprised at. the fact that { the paralyzed boy continued to live; g and now, after a long period of slowly J increasing power?first, the ability to , move a little linger; later, the power ? olnvwl 4-a u-ollr on/1 fn rirlo mif TTd , tu ^taau, uu vt aizv auu vv/ nuu vnwi xaw j now goes out daily to walk or ride, and 5 liis complete recovery is confidently ex- ^ pected. ! The Land of Opposites. [ The contrarieties of the Chinese, as compared with us, have often been commented on. The Rev. Selah Brown i writes about them in the Christian i Advocate. We shake hands as a salu- } tation; a Chinaman shakes hands with i himself. He stands at a distance, i and, clasping botli hands together, he shakes them up and down at you. We s uncover the head as a mark of re- s spect; they keep their heads covered, { but take off their shoes for politeness, t We shave the face; they shave the i head and eyebrows. We cut our finger ( nails; they consider it aristocratic to 1 have nails from three to five inches i long, which they are obliged to protect t in silver cases. The Chinaman's waist- 1 coat is outside his coat, and his draw- ( ers outside his trousers. We blacken i our shoes; lie whitens them. We have i soup as a first course at dinner, and s dessert at last; they have dessert at t first and soup at last. Here people 1 take wines ice cold; the Chinese drink i theirs scalding hot. We bury in theearth; t they on its surface. With us black i clothing is a badge of mourning; with i them white garments in icate the loss 1 of friends. In that land of opposites i it is the old men who fly kites, walk on stilts and play the shuttlecock, and, i to keep up their odd ways of doing 1 things, they play the latter with their ^ feet instead of their hands. In China 1 women do men's work, and men are 1 the milliners, dressmakers and washer- 1 women. With us the right hand is the < place of honor; with them it is the 1 left hand. In dating letters we place s the year last; they write the year first. I They always speak of the mariner's ] compass (their own invention) as ] pointing to the south. We pay our i physicians when we art; sick; they pay \ wliili*. thifv are well, but as soon as thev ] get sick tiie pay stops. Ilere men kill i their enemies; a Chinaman gets re- ] /enge by killing himself. "We use a < soft pillow; they a block of wood. They launch ships sidewise, ring bells from the outside, and actually turn their screws in the opposite direction , from ours. A Haiul for a J>ccoration. A one-armed and aged soldier was found by the first Napoleon wearing a faded uniform, with a sword by his side, and breaking stones in the road. The emperor stopped his horse and inquired of the veteran, who had lost his left arm, why the government neglected him and allowed him to work on the road for a living. The soldier refused io hear a word said against the justice and liberality of the emperor, and when \ ae well-pleased Napoleon revealed himself the man was frantic with delight. The emperor took from his breast an order which he wore and fastened it to the veteran's tattered coat. a rPl?Io io Cnr* vnnr luct. firm 99 Sm'rl hp* " when you lose your other hand I will give you the cross of the Legion of Honor." " Is that a promise, my emperor," exclaimed the veteran. " It is," replied Napoleon. Quick as thought the brave old soldier drew his sword, and severing the remaining hand from his arm, at the wrist, dropped on his knees before the emperor and claimed the redemption of his pledge. [After reading the foregoing "yarn," the intelligent reader will be lost in wonderment how a man with only one arm could "draw his sword" and sever "the remaining hand !" Such a feat would require dexterity of a phenomenal order. ] A New York music teacher boasts that he has taught 1,500 boys to play on the violin, which goes to prove that sometimes men can become so depraved that they will actually boast of and glory in their crimes.?Sif tings. FASHION NOTES. Xew grenadines come in beautiful Spanish lace designs. English walking jackets are tailor made and very plain. Hammered metal buttons appear among new dross trimmings. Trimmings of spring bonnets will be massed in clusters on the top. Ottoman silk and satin de Lyon are combined in new street costumes. The new foule cloths come in all shades of new colors for street wear Ituches and chicorees around the bottom of the skirt remain in favor. Amber and tortoise shell pins appear among new millinery ornaments. Kobe dresses with embroidered llowtrs appear among spring importations. A dinner dress, whether simple and inexpensive, or expensively costly and elegant, should never be made in a style that would render it unsuitable for a ball toilet. A long and slender vase of Japanese .'n 1a..? 4- /"?r* [JULt/Cijr 111 JU>Y UU11CO l/J. 1/U1U1, n ucu filled with dry grasses, etc., is pretty to stand before the hearth on either side of the brass fender. Foulard silks for summer dresses have nautilus shell patterns of white on dark-red or blue grounds, and also the Mosaic patterns that cover the ground with tiny bits of color. Light tinted crepe de chine draperies are on dinner dresses of dark velvet. Copper-red velvets with hip draperies and plastron of pale shrimp color, are worn by blondes as well as brunettes. Sardine cases, casters, butter-dishes, salts and peppers are shown in the popular Irish oak, so highly polished that it looks like onyx, and are mounted ivith nickel and china in the most delicate designs. A walking dress recently made for i French countess was of striped limjusine, the color "burned bread." The ill-round skirt is bordered with two lounces, embroidered in dark red square tabs or turrets. A sfcarf, simiarly embroidered, encircles the hips ; radthe blouse bodice is gathered at ;he waist. Cloth costumes are made with two jodices, that for the house is a basque A'ith vest, collar and cuffs trimmed ivith cord gimp in designs of Gothic )oints; that for out-door wear is a ong pelisse with full plaiting at the jack, trimmed with gimp twice the vidtli of that of the basque. The skirt vhich is to be worn with either of these jodices is plain, in front falling on a > 1..U1? orwi 1,00 oil ;fU f..n_ JtlJ lUUlldC juaiLllig, UiiU HUO <*aa no less drawn to the back and mossed in luadruple box-plaits. Sun-Spots. The great atmosphere of the sun, vhose breath is llame, is yet, says Mr. .'roctor, so cool compared with his ntensely glowing surface that it ibsorbs a large proportion of his light is well as of his heat. But while the jeneral absorptive action of the sun is vonderful, the story is still more vonderl'id which the spectroscope has ,o tell about the specific absorptive iffectsdue to'its constitution. "We find .hat whereas in our air the vapor of vater is present (to condense into vater drops and form clouds at certain evels, and to change to ice crystals and brm cirrus at high levels), in the sun he atmosphere is laden with the rapors of iron, copper, zinc, sodium, nagnesium and like elements, to form :louds of metallic drops, great gatherngs of metallic crystals, while the rains hat pour down toward the concealed rue globe of the sun are mighty ihowers of molten metal. When a hur icane occurs in the sun, the clouds vliich form the sun's surface are iwept along, or whirled around, not at ;he rate at which we measure our itorms, but with a velocity compared .vitli which their swiftest motion is at est. The solar tornadoes rage, not >ver a few hundred square miles, but >ver regions as large {is the whole surace of the earth, over hundreds, even housands of millions of square miles ind they travel over these enormous egions'at a rate not of so many miles, ier hour or per minute, but of so many niles, sometimes more than a hundred niles, in every second of time. Such storms are in progress when we lee the spots upon the snn. Such itorms tell us of the activity of that jreat central engine whose throbs are he life-beats of the solar system. We neasure the sun's work, perforce, by nir own forms of work. "We speak of lis emission of light and heat ;is corresponding to what would result from ,he burning of eleven thousand milion of millions of tons of the finest :oal in every second of time. But ,vhat mind can conceive the real vitalty of that mighty orb which seems so iilent and so still in our skies ? The ihrobbing of the great engine which ipats out life and light to the whole 'amily of planets can only be seen by ;he mind's eye, and as yet that eye is 10 more capable of seeing the sun's .vork as it really is than is the jodily eye of seeing the distant milions of suns which the great gauging el escopes of the Ilerschels bring with1 our ken. Nor can the mental ear jearken to the uproar and tumult ivith which the work of the great central engine is accomplished, or imagine ivhat would be heard if one could visit ;hat spot which looks like a tiny speck m the sun's surface, and, passing below ;he limit of the solar air so that sound waves could reach him, could ind (as assuredly he would if he could i'x-q af <i rpimipr.it,lirP! which turns the hardest metal into vapor) all forms of aoise known to us?the roar of the typhoon, the crash of thunder, even the li'ideous groaning of the earth-throe? surpassed a million-fold by what takes l>lace within every square mile of that disturbed region. Tannin?. The appended recipe for tanning skins with the wool or fur on?for use in sleighs or wagons, as house rugs or other purposes?is given by City and Country, and will interest some: If the hides are not freshly taken oil' soak them in water with a little salt until they are soft as when green. Then scrape the flesh oil' with a fleshing knife, or with a butcher's knife with a smooth round edge, and with sheepskins the wool should be washed clean with soft soap and water and the suds be thoroughly rinsed out. For each skin take four ounces of alum and one-half ounce of borax. Dissolve these in one quart of hot water, and when cool enough to bear the hand stir in sufficient rye meal to make a thick paste with half an ounce of Spanish whiting. This paste is to be thoroughly spread over every part of the flesh side of the skin, which should be folded together lengthwise, wool side out, and left two weeks in an airy place. Then remove the paste, wash and dry the skin; when not quite dry it must he worked and pulled and scraped with a knife made for the purpose, shaped like a chopping knife, or with a piece of hard wood made with a sharp edge. The more the skin is worked and scraped as it dries the more pliable it will be. On the Rhine vessels are loaded and unloaded of grain by sturdy fellows, naked to the waist, who stand in rows. A sack is passed such a distance by one man, who dumps it upon the shoulder of another, who is in exact position to receive it, and so on till it reaches its destination. It takes a dozen men to take a brick from the sidewalk to the man who puts it into the wall, at the back of the building. To tell the age of a horse never look the mouth of a jockey,?Picayune. " , , A STRAN&E MAN'S MISSION." the life history or "johitoy AFPLESEED." A ."Han Who Went About tlie Country l'lnntln? Apple Suetlx?."Hnkinv n Wildernetn i JUooiii Like ihc Homo lor Other*' Benefit. ( Jonathan Chapman, better known as " Johnny Appleseed," was born in Boston about the year 1775. lie early drifted to "Western Pennsylvania, ( where in its wild frontier life his ] mania for planting apple seeds was first ( discovered. Tired of the rapid settle- j ment of that wilderness, he soon pushed 3 out for the "West. In 1801 he visited . Ohio with a horse load of apple seeds, j which he had gathered from the cider | presses of Western Pennsylvania. He ( planted his seeds on the fertile spots, j on the banks of the Licking creek. In ^ 1806 he was seen by a settler drifting ] down the Ohio river in two canoes ^ lashed together, and loaded with apple seeds, destined for the western border of the white settlement. lie often A planted as high as a bushel of seed in . one locality, then inclosed the spot a with a slight fence or guard of J. brush, when he would leave the ' place till the trees had in a measure j, grown. Planting one stock of seeds, j. he returned to Pennsylvania for an- n other, which he gathered from the ^ cider presses in different places. lie ? first carried the seeds in linen bags, j. but tlie dense underbrush, hostile with ^ tliorns and briars, made leather bags ^ the only safe ones for his purpose. r Sometimes the bags found transporta- * tion on the back of an old broken-down horse, but more often on his own sturdy J shoulders. He was a man of vigorous muscle and gre.it endurance, or he , could not have stood the long, weary ^ journeys through the lonely and track- " less wilderness for so many years, ^ journeys in which he was loaded like a mule ascending the Andes, He al- a ways planted his seeds in some remote a picturesque spot, and there let them ? grow to be claimed by the settlers, 1 whose homes sprang up in the isolated a clearings. In this way the wilderness s' was made to blossom like a rose, and 0 the foundation was laid for that im- 11 mense growth of fruit trees whose P yield to-day forms so important a part ^ of the annual products of Ohio. ? "When the trees were large enough J; for sale, Johnny either sold them or left them to be sold by some settler for e him. In this business he was as v methodical a3 a merchant. The really f poor got trees for nothing, of others more able lie took old clothing, some meal or anything he could use, in ex- S change. Of those able to pny he demanded money, which he was seldom without. lie usually took notes payable at some indefinite period. This ^ done, lie paid no more attention to the ^ matter; quite often it was the last a time he ever saw the giver of the note. C His wants were few, and he cared little c .about money. He used what money a he got in buying Swedenborgian books, 0 which he gave to the settlers where he v stayed, and he very often helped poor F families in need of the necessaries of F life. t An old, infirm horse excited his pity. I1 Buying up old broken-down horses and 11 leaving them in charge of some one 11 who was pledged to care for them, was t another part of this strange man's t mission. He had at times quite a drove of aged and maimed horses F under the care of some humane farmer. Inllicting pain on a dumb 8 creature was with him an unpardon- s able sin. This sympathy extended to the smallest animals, even to insects. 8 He put out the fire in the camp in the ^ 4Ur. WUUU9, UCU1U3C tun niuu uicn mc mosquitoes into the llanie, saying as lie quenched the blaze: "God forbid that r 1 should build a fire for my comfort t which should be the means of destroy- t ing any of Ilis creatures." He once s built a fire at the end of a hollow log lj in which he intended to pass the c night, but finding a bear and Iter q cubs occupying it, he removed the t 'fire to the other end and slept i] in the snow rather than disturb the c bears. A snake having bit him, a t friend asked him in regard to it. r Johnny drew a long sigli and replied; t " Poor fellow ! he only just touched g me, when I an imgodly passion put the q heel of my scythe in him and went h home." "While at work in the woods g a hornet got underneath his shirt, and o although repeatedly stung by the en- t raged insect, he deliberately took off o his shirt and liberated the intruder, d His friend laughed at him and asked 1) why he did not kill the little imp, to r which Johnny replied: " It would not d be right to kill the poor thing, for it ij did not intend to hurt me." h He lived the roughest life, camping y out in tne woous, or, n sieepmg m u c house, occupying the iloor; his (fress h was an indescribable medley, composed n of cast-off clothing he had taken in c exchange for apple trees. In later ti years this second-hand raiment he n thought too luxurious, and wore as a principal garment an old coffeesack, in the bottom and sides of ^ which he cut holes to thrust ^ his head and arms through. e lie thought this a cloak good enough for any ma* to wear. lie t, seldom wore shoes except in winter. a For traveling on rough roads he wore c a rude pair of sandals. He bought no g covering l'or his feet, used old cast-off boots or shoes, generally unmatched ^ and wore them while they would stick n to his feet. He made his own head- r gear; for a long time he wore the tl large tin dipper in which he cooked j, his mush while traveling. Hut it ,, failed to shade his face from the sun. e Hence he made a hat of pasteboard, j, with an immense peak in front and f bent down at the sides to protect his v face from the heat. He led a blame- ? less and moral life. The physician ^ who was present at his death was v heard to inquire what was Johnny 0 Appleseetl's religion; lie liacl never seen a man in so placid a state at the approach of death, and so ready to enter upon another life.?Grange Visitor Paper Domes. The special feature of the new observatory at Columbia college, Xew ' York, will be a paper dome. "This will be the fourth paper dome in the I world," said Professor Pees. " They I have all been made by a firm manufacturing paper boats at Troy, X. Y., and are all in this country. The first one made is at the Troy Polytechnic institute, the second at "West Point, and the third at Heloit college. While that at "West Point is the largest, ours is the best in construction and ar- 2 rangement. The method used in the manufacture of the paper is kept a f secret, the makers using a private, pat- ] ented process. The dome is made in t sections?semi-lunes, as they are tech- * nically called. There are twenty-four i of these sections. They are bent over t toward the inside at the edges, and j bolted to ribs of wood. The thickness i of the shell is only 3-32 of an inch, ( but it is as stiff as sheet-iron. On one \ ? - r n 1 Slue 01 Mieuomu IS W1U uuiuiig upniuig I for the telescope, and this is a shutter 1 (likewise of paper, but stiffened with ; wood lining) which slides around on ? the outside of the dome. ; " The whole dome is so light tliat i the hand can turn it. The inside di- i ameter is twenty feet and the height is eleven feet. The iloor of the observatory is 100 feet above the ground; ; we were obliged to build it so high because of the tall buildings around it. The building is rapidly approaching completion, and the dome is already in place." His excellency: "You have brothers?" Captain?" One, your excellency." His excellency?" It's curious. I was talking with your sister, and she said she had two brothers. How is that 1"*-Fliegendo Blatter FACTS AND COMMENTS. Idaho is relatively stronger in Mormonism than is Utah, there being ten Mormon representatives in its legislature, one of whom is a bishop in the church, and fully one-third of the 65,000 inhabitants are adherents of the Mormon faith. The cost of American railroads, according to the census report, is over four thousand millions, or an average of $47,000 a mile. Their gross earnings in 1880 were $880,450,594, and the aet $119,344,597, or less than three percent, on their cost. Their dividends imounted to a little more than $70,)00,000, or about two and a half per ;ent. on the capital. The average number of passengers to a train was fortyive, and the number of men employed jy all the railroads in the country was 118,957. It is estimated that there are 200,000 agabonds and beggars in the German smpire, including thieves, pickpockets tnd other swindlers, and the authoriies estimate the annual loss to honest leoplc by their operations at the enor nous sum ox iszo.uuu.uuv. Many or hese evildoers are brought before the magistrates from time to time, but ioth judges and juries are accused of dministering too mildly even the'mild aws of Germany against vagabondge. The evil has become so great that he government is understood to be reparing a severe law for bringing coundrels of the vagabond class to ustice. The Chicago Tribune calls attention d the fact that "wheat belt" of the forth west is of wonderful extent. It ites in proof the report of Colonel ! 'aylor, United States consul general I t Winnipeg, who exhibited before the , gricultural association of Manitoba ! pecimens of Red Fife wheat sowed lay 1, and harvested August 20,1882, t Fort Dunvegan, in latitude fifty- ' even degrees, longitude 118 degrees, n the banks of 'the Peace river, 1,200 1 liles northwest of Winnipeg. Its 1 roduct was forty bushels to the acre, ritli a corresponding weight, and Mr. IcDougal, who had been in charge of he post since 1877, assured him that ; here had never been a failure in quivalent crops of barley, oats and egetables. This makes the wheat belt : ome 2,000 miles long from southeast < o northwest, and the northern por- i ion of it is settling up very rapidly by J olonies of well-to-do farmers from ireat Britain. John Ilartwell, alias "Anna Ross, lie seeress of New York," alias "Me- i hratton, the great seer of England," lias the ' Philosophical Astrologer, ; }rand Master of the Mysteries, Enhanter, Sorcerer and Dealer in Magic 1 ,nd Spells," was arrested again the 1 ther day at Birmingham, charged 1 i'ith defrauding a large number of lersons by pretending to possess suiernatural powers. In his defense he prisoner calmly remarked: "I lave always noticed that my being mprisoned lias been attended by great 1 lational disasters, and I am informed 1 hat unless I am discharged" this counry and its rulers will be ruined, and hat too forever." But this frightful icture evidently did not produce the i esired effect upon the court, for tho 1 eer was forthwith committed to the essions as an incorrigible rogue, and, laving been previously convicted on a imilar charge, he was ordered to be :ept at hard labor pending his trial. n l\on01* its IIIU tiling in yapcx ao puygi ails. It is claimed they are superior o steel or iron in almost every point, he cost per mile one-third that of teel, and they will last much longer, ieing almost indestructible, there is no ontraction from heat or cold, conseuently no loose or open joints, and ieing so much lighter than steel or ron, the rails can be made longer and onnections perfectly solid, making he road as smooth as one continuous ail. The adhesion of the drivers of he engine to this material will be ;reater than that of steel, conse[uently the same weight engine will lave a larger load. There will be a ,reat saving of fuel; the smoothness if the rail will lessen the wear and ear of rolling stock, and to say nothing f the difference in first cost, the reliction in machinery and repairs will >e a big item. The rails will neither ! ust nor rot, and there will be no anger of accidents from broken rails a frosty weather. Paper car-wheels ave been in use for many years, and re have paper houses, paper table- 1 loths and napkins, paper boxes, paper ats, paper soles to our boots, and paper 1 loney. The inventive genius of the J ountry seems to be set in the direcion of making paper fill the greatest ] umber of uses possible. j < The ghastliest example of red-tape I luis far recorded is reported from the Russian town of Samara. A local gov- ] rnment clerk, named Tichenow, after rinking heavily for some days, ut- ' 2rly collapsed one night, and to all ppearance died. It is not the Russian . ustom to keep a body- long above round, and as a burial can't take place tiring the holidays, the relatives of ; lie dead man decided to have the fu- j eral fortwith. When the body arived at the church the priest noticed ' liat there was moisture on the l'oreead, and suggested that it might be 1 erspiration; but the relatives quickly xplained that it was nothing lore than melted snow which had ;illen there while they were on their ray to the church. This simple ex- i ilanation satisfied the priest and the I iody was buried. A few hours after- ] rard some men who were digging an- i Vim. frivivn nnnr lipiiril rii'S of agony which seemed to pro- ; eed from the ground. They ran off in error to the priest, but he said that lisinterments could be ordered only by he police. The police in turn delared that permission must be obained from a superior functionary, vho happened not to be within reach. Die police finally yielded to popular lamor, and with many misgivings alowed the grave to be opened; but by his time the wretched Tichenow was ictually dead,body and clothes showing >lainly the fearful struggle which he lad vainly made. Divining Bods. Itossiter W. Raymond lectured in sew York city recently on the " l)i'ining ltoil " lie stated that at diferent times three theories had been leld by its adherents with reference o it; the first being that there was icine affinity between the branch or od used and the thing to be discov red; the second, that emanations rom the object affected the rod, and ;he thirJ, that the effect was due to nirrents of electricity. The whole tenor of the lecturer's remarks was to jxpose the fraud, or at least self-decepl;? -c tu ...I.. 1 1 ,1 nf. Liun, ul tnuae ?uu iiau piuutiucu wits *rt; but finally he asked the question: "Is there any truth in it?" This he answered by denying any eftlcincy in the use of the rod itself, and he said that the gift of discovering wells, of which there was undoubted instances, was due to a sort of instinct or unconscious habit?which might be inherited?by which a man, from certain signs, such as the kind of plants, the amount of vapor rising in the morning or the difference in temperature,1 unconsciously inferred the presence of water in certain spots, and this state of mind induced the muscular motions which made the forked branch dip. Women were first employed as compositors in 1491, liiiMir- f' iiiIm ! SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. In the Elm colliery, Buckley, Wales, a mineral oil has been discovered which yields a very bright flame with very little smoke. As yet it is not known how valuable it may be commercially. It is not generally known that the pearls found in the Gulf of California are considered as fine as those found in oriental waters. One measuring an inch in diameter has just been discovered there, said to be the largest in the world. Dr. Skinner, of the Academy of Nat ural Science, referring to the circum stance that butterflies are in the habit of depositing their eggs on such plants as afford the proper nourishment to the larvae, i. e., the plants upon which the caterpillars of a given species feed, stated that he had observed the female of a certain species drop her eggs while in flight, a singular performance which the speaker verified through repeated observation. The eggs thus distributed from a considerable distance above , ground fell upon a mass of grass and violet leaves. , Dr. Franzius finds that the tooth : most often affected by decay is the 1 third molar, such cases forming one- i h alf of the total number. The teeth begin to decay in a certain successive 1 order, the lower third molar being first ] attacked, then the upper, then the ( lower fourth molar, and so on, the in- i cisors and the canine teeth of the < lower jaw being the last reached. The ' upper teeth are more durable than the ( lower in the proportion of three to two. ] The right teeth show a greater vitality , than the left. The durability of teeth } is less in light persons than in dark, , and less in tall than in short persons. } These results were obtained by an examination of 650 Russian soldiers, of whom 258 had unsound teeth. Two species of india rubber yielding ( trees have recently been discovered in , British Guiana of a character which in- ) 3ures their future profit to the colony. ' One is known to the aborigines by the name of Hatie. It is about sixty feet , high, with a trunk diameter of twenty , inches, and is found on the alluvial J oft-flooded lands of the creeks and banks of the lower parts of the rivers, where in places it is abundant. The 3econd is not scientifically known yet, | as flowering specimens of it have not 1 been obtained. It is one of the largest 1 trees of a forest flora peculiarly rich in ) large types. The trunk is four or five ' feet in'diameter, and runs up straight J sixty or seventy feet unbranched, above which the head extends many feet 5 more. Oa its discovery recently a few 1 branchlets could only be obtained by * 3hooting them off with large shot. The ( bark is thick and wonderfully rich in ' milk of excellent quality, and the 1 elasticity and tenacity of the rubber ( 3eem to be unsurpassed. 1 _ __ _ __ ^ MnwInA MAnafnvu iUflllUV 1UVUOIVVOI Ships are often imperiled by striking * water-logged wrecks, and they also : encounter dangers from floating ! obstacles of an animate nature. In ! regard to the latter, an old sea captain recently said: ^ Whales and other sea monsters have * sunk or disabled vessels in a number j of instances, and captains of steamers ; have reported losing blades of their i propellers by coming in contact with , them. One of the Havana steamships ' was caught in a school of whales about . a year ago, when thirty-six hours out ! from Xew York. Several of the plates 1 in her bow were driven in, and in order : to save the propeller she was forced to lay to until the school had passed. There was a time when mariners ( stood in great fear of the cut-throal ' swordfish, which used to go about * "knifing" inoffensive merchantmen J without the slightest provocation. But ' the iron ships of the present day are 1 quite secure from such attacks, and 1 the swordfish is forced to realize its ! own littleness and devote itself to the ! destruction of whales. Other sea monsters have been known to assault vessels. It is said that devil- 1 fish have seized the cables of small 1 crafts and dragged them out to sex ' Some years ago a vessel bound for ( the East Indies put into St. Helena in 1 distress, and reported having been run t into by a huge sea monster. After- J ward, when she was placed in a dry J dock, an immense horn was found im- ! bedded among her timbers. There is a peculiar breed of whale ? which, instead of using its tail as a weapon of offense or defense, plunges 1 headlong at whatever approaches. It 1 was nrobablv a full-crown specimen of * this kind that sank the Norwegian bark Columbia in the fall of 1879. The bark was somewhere near Ihe banks of Newfoundland, and was sailing due west under a full spread of lanvas. It was a line, bracing morning, and the whale was getting its blood in circulation by a little run of a few hundred miles toward the eastward. The result was a violent concussion. The whale's blood dyed the water a deep red, while a large hole was knocked in the Columbia's bow beneath the water-mark. After the whale had splashed about for a moment he disappeared, and soon afterward the crew were obliged to take to their boats. They had barely lone this when the bark sank. They were picked up the same afternoon by ' i liotterdam steamship. i ^______ s i Tricking1 Animals. 1 There is hardly any doubt that ani- 1 mals must possess some means of com- * municating their ideas. Arsenic has ( no perceptible taste or odor, and an 1 ounce of it mixed with a bushel of ^ cornmeal will destroy a cartload of 1 sewer-rats in a single day; but all pro- ' fessional vermin-killers agree tuat sucn receipts lose their efficacy in a very ] short time. Somehow or other the sur? vivors manage to tractthe mischief to its cause; and old rats have been ob- ; served in the act of driving their young from a dish of poisoned hash. When the British lirst effected a settlement in Singapore, the traffic in monkeys soon became a regular branch of industry. The ubiquitous Chinaman used to go on trapping expeditions to the hills at a time of the year when the mountain macaques were rather hard up for provisions and could be baited with " fuddle-cakes"?i. e., ricebread soaked in a mixture of sugar and rum. The trapper used to hide behind a tree and let the monkey assemblage enjoy his bounty till their antics suggest a1 that it was time for him to rush in liL-o f'vrna ?ntr> tlio hnnmiot. Violl nf ***> ' "" *""" v"v Belshazzar. Experience, however, soon taught the little mountaineers to change their tactics. Instead of devouring the fuddle-cakes on the spot, they learned to gather them up and defer the feast till they reached a retreat where they could hope to be left alone in their glory. But the trappers, too, have since changed their plan. They manufacture a sort of narrow-necked jars, about the size of sarsaparilla bottles, and, after filling them with a melange of syrup anil alcohol, they tie them firmly to the root of a tree and withdraw out of sight. The monkeys come down and sip the nectar, a little at a time, till many a mickle has muddled their perceptives to the degree which the founder of Buddhism would have called the first stage of Nirvanna?in{difference to earthly concernments in general. The trapper then appruai'hes and collects his guests, whose exalted feelings often manifest themselves in a peculiar way. Some receive their captor with open arms, some hug their bottles with approbative grunts, while others lie on the ground, contemplating the sky in ecstatic silence.?Popular Hciencv Monthly. ' ' WISE WORDS. |H One true friend adds more to ou^^H happiness than a thousand enemies tfl I our unhappiness. Do not feel proud at having supB^J ported your misfortune. How couU^^H you not have supported it? Both erudition and agricultureough^^H to be encouraged by government; Wi^^H and manufactures will come of theuifl^H selves. No man can possibly improve in any^^H company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint. ^^9 A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment. HH The best government - is not that which renders the individual happiest, ^H| but that which renders the greatest Hh number happy. Hfl The talent of success is not^g^jH more than doing what you^^H^H^H well, and doing whatever you out a thought of fame. Have the courage to show spect for honesty in whatevei^^^^^HH appears, and your contempt honesty and duplicity, by whojnsft^^^^H exhibited. The young, obscure years ought be incessantly employed in gaining knowledge of things worth knowing;- ]BB especially of heroic human souls worth knowing; and the obscurer such Shears are, it is apt to be the better. Though psychologists make no mention of the fact, yet it has been undeaiably proved, from past history, as well as from present experience, that nen are as fully skves to certain^^H whims and fancies as the weakest wo- ;HH nan ever born. An Indian Winter (jarne. ^8 The boys of the United States and. Janada are indebted to the Indians tor \ numV-r of their most interesting HE sports. But while many of their . BBS games are well known, the Indiana SB ir.ve others peculiar to themselves, and p ith which even their near neighbors, flm ?,re but slightly acquainted. Throw- ' ? ng the snow-snake is one of the latter. gsm The "snow-snake," or "ka-whant," HB is it is called in tlie Onondaga dialect, MS is made on the principle of the sleighrunner, and consists of a long hickory jh?| pole or stick, with a slight upward Mnl iurve and point at one end, while the MBaS! Dther is provided with a small notch. IjBgB rhe under side is made flat and- BaBI smooth, so as to slip easily over the HB| mow or ice, upon which, when skillfully thrown, it will slide for a long Eraj listance. To make it glide still more rasj easily, the under surface is waxed ind rubbed with a piece of 11m ;loth until beautifully smooth and Bh polished. The pointed end is fur- KfjS lished with a tip of lead or solder, sometimes of a very fancy design. Hn The length and weight of the snow- V|| snake varies in proportion to the B|| aronrrth nf tho norann fnr U'hfiSA llSft * Hk9 t i3 intended. Those made for young l||i joys are not more than four or five :eet long, while for larger boys and Jig rou ng men they range from six to )?? jight feet in length. They are made IffijS lomewhat tapering, being largest near ;he curved end, where they are usually Kl ibout an inch or an inch and a quarter m&s n width; while they diminish gradu- risS dly until, at the notched end, the /Bpa >vidth is not more than five-eighths or ,H|i ;hree-quarters of an inch. In throwng, theka-whant is held at the smaller flrci md by the thumb and first and second B|g iDgere. At the Indian reservation in Onon- |H[ laga county, New York, where the winters are long and usually severe, ;he snow-snake is a great favorite, and SI i continuous source of amusement...As soon as the jingle of the bells is heard K? ilong the frozen highway, and the runtiers of the heavy "bobs" and woodWeighs have furrowed the roads with -Wsj ieep, polished grooms, the Indian boys are out, following the sleigh- H|| tracks in small parties, throwing the ka-whant in the deep ruts, which AifnwtT AIIOTPA cVmninrr LUUUWS Uliuu^a cygij vuitc, on.i^|yiu^ _? >ver the lumps of ice and other In- Hj| qualities, more like a living ere n fen hanaplain hickory stick, and sug- S| jesting at once the very appropriate lame of the "sQow-snake." Although , ,s| h? beaten roadway is usjftlly pre.'erred, the snow-snake may be thrown n almost any situation where the mow is firm. The game, as generally played, is 1^ nerely a trial of skill between the ' 1:^ jlayers. A line being drawn to mark 8B he starting-point, the players step 9| >ack a few paces. Each grasps his ,J|I mow-snake, runs forward in his turn o the mark, and, with a vigorous |9 weep of his arm, sends it sliding and lancing over the snow with the swiftless of an arrow. Each snow-snake >ears its owner's mark (an arrow, ross, or star), so that he readily rec- EBj >gnizes it, and he whose missile is arthest in advance is declared the vinner. In this way a regular cham- ^ lion is chosen. The distance that U-|! h ps? contrivances are thrown is almost K] ncredible, skillful players sometimes flh naking casts ot nearly a quarter of a H nile.--S?. Nicholas. ;'j| Lies of Different Kinds. " A well-matched pair," said Doctor Talmage, of Brooklyn, one Sunday noming, when he had finished the j?a|| itory of Ananias and Sapphira. "There wj&i s no such thing as a white lie. All jjgjB ies are as black as perdition. At 9M -lines the air of our cities is filled with dSBj falsehoods, lies of all classes, from that Kga )f the mechanic's hammer to the lyraS merchant's yardsticks, and sometimes lies sit in the doors cf churches. The woods are always honest. The rye ^ H Joes not move out over flight. Corn sheaves never make false weight. The |aH mountain brook is always current. ?H| The golden wheat is no counterfeit. '|rV " A ladv said the other day: 'I have told my last fashionable lie.' There had been a knock at her door during jgg| the day, and she sent word, 'Xot at home.' That night she learned that a j&tt dear friend on the point of death had sent for her, a friend with whom she 3^8 had an agreement to be at her dying bedside to receive a secret which" she was to disclose. "Social life is full of lying apologies. People apologize that the furnace is out of order, when they have not JKag had a fire in it all winter. They apolo- "fig gize for the fare at their tables, when fryj you know they never live any better. ,? They deprecate their most luxurious entertainments so as to extort compli- IB ments from you. They tell you that ^H| ihe pictures on their walls are the ujffl work of great masters, heirlooms in the family, presenieu uy uuivca grandfathers. People who will lie ?g3 about nothing else will lie about pictares. Society is crowded with shams, ^jij cheats and counterfeits. You must not laugh outright; you must smile. JHj You must not dash quickly across room, because it is vulgar. Society is full of grimaces and ahs an;l simpering nainby-pambvism. The tortured guest retires from a banquet and says he lias enjoyed himself. The mountain -fa cabin, with its good cheer and freedom, has more enjoyment in it than the frescoed ice-houses and refrigerators of the metropolis. "It is lying to deprecate the value of what you are buying. '/Phe Bible alludes to this class when'-.it says, 'It is naught; it is naught sarth the buyer* and when he hath gone his way he boasteth.'" 'xgr' : Ar after-dfnner speaker who was call?d upon after many of the coro