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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1883. NO. 4. VOLUME XXVIII. Jffp
A CHARGE TO THE BEES.
Go forth, Obees, at blush of prime,
Go forth, 0 bees, and waste no time :
Into the jeweled chnli-e climb
Of every bloom, that opens fre*li this hour;
And be ye sure ye find the apple flower.
Oh, slight the violet, if ye will.
And slight the green-gold daffodil,
And hyacinth made sweeter still
By soft caressings of the midnight shower;
But see ye pass not by the apple flower.
I could forgive ye, that ye missed
The lilac tubes of amethyst.
Lilies, th; t heaven's breath has ki>sed?
And all the sweets in wildwood Flora's bower:
But see ye pass not by the apple flcwer.
0 bees, though ye were now released
To search the gardens of the east,
I'll call ye home, amidst your feast;
I charge you, bring me honey for my dower;
Bring me the honey of the apple flower.
LOVE IN ASHES.
"Scant of nine, and the washing all
out," mused thrifty Mrs. ("butter, as
he scrubbed the porch. " Deacon, I'll
get you to set the big tub down the
cellar, if y.?u will."
' l'#?rtn:n ?il'o" rp^nnnrlnil fcho ilna.
Cun from his c;i.t in the door yard.
" There comes Kendall's new basket
^ wagon, with two women in it," pursued
the lady, wringing her mop.
' Isn't that the horse that balks?"
lieing in the critical act of emptying
a four-g;ii:on bucket of soap the good
man vouchsafed no reply. When the
jellied mass had quivered and splashed
into the barrel in waiting, he 1< oked
up just in season to see the gay little
pony shy at the cart and go tearing
down the road.
" They'll upset! they'll be killed !
Iiun after 'em! Do something!"
shrieked Mrs. (/h utter.
" Don't get excit-jd, wife; they're all
right now. That girl drives like a
man."
And picking up his bucket the
moderate dencon marched off for a
Bficond supply of soap. But though the
little incident had failed to shake his
nerves, it did make him oblivious of
his wife's washtub poised on the landing
of the dim stairway, and as a
natural consequence he put his fo:>t in
it. The tub ro!levl, the deacon swayed
like a pestle in a mortar; there was a
lively succession of bumps, followed by
a clatter and a thud, and deacon, tub
and bucket strewed the cellar floor.
"Adaband Alihu!" ejaculated the
fallen saint, with sinful energy.
"What's up, uncle?" cried* an anxious
voice overhead.
" I can tell you what's down," was
the grim response. "Come and brace
me while I try to step."
The owner of the voi^e, a fine-lookIng
youth of one-and-twenty, was al^^^ready
groping his way among the
H^Kiebris, his aunt in the rear with the
camphor.
Y The deacon's attempted locomotion
resulted in a gro.-n.
"I must have sprained my ankle,
Ilarvev. If I'd postponed this tub
race till after I'd been my rounds,
'twould have been better calculation."
"Oh, 1 wouldn't worry about my
rounds, uncle. "What's the hurry?"
" My customers expect me to-day,
that's the point. I hate masterly to
break my word. Now there's the
widow ('leaves waiting for me to take
her ashes, so she can scrub after my
with the boiling suds, and up at
Kendall's they're clean out of soap." i
i "And not clean without it, eh?''
laughed the young man. "See here,
or.
III1UIC f diiiuu y U"u aic u\j igu ou ,
uneasy about disappointing the people,
why not send me in your stead?"
"You, in your fine clothes! I
should smile." mumbled Mrs. Chutter,
with the stopper of the camphor bottle
between her teeth.
" Why can't my uncle's mantle fall
upon me, auntie? I was intending to
borrow the frock."
" Well, if 1 do say it, you've got the
Vance common sense. Some young
men of your bringing up would be
ashamed to drive a soap cart.''
" Humph! Some young men would
be fools," s;iid the deacon, with
warmth. "Nobody has any call to be
ashamed to deliver such soap as I
make. If you've a mind to run the
team to-day, Harvey, I shall be obleeged
_ to you."
Fifteen minutes later the worthy
deacon was extending his aching
length upon the sitting-room lounge,
and gazing through the open window
after his youthful proxy, who,
duly initiated into the mysteries
of the casing, was driving away in
the big blue cart. Behind jounced and
creaked an empty ash-bin, flanked by
two covere i barrels or soap; out tne
swinging seat was clean and comfortable,
commanding a fine view of the
surrounding country.
A half mile and more the road wound
through his uncle's fertile acres, for
Deacon Chutter was withal a farmer.
Farming, indeed, was his chief vocation,
soap-boiling being an accessory
venture growing out of sundry extensive
experiments in the use of leached
ashes as a fertilizer. It was one of
those tuneful mornings in early June
when all nature joins in a glad doxology.
The newly-arrived bobolinks,
tipsy with glee, carroled in the meadows.
The oriolts, hanging their hammocks
in the elms, could scarcely work
for singing. Gay breezes whispered
love to the graceful young clover, then
danced away to flirt with the coy hillfide
birches. Everywhere were life
and motion irradiated by the benignant
sun. For Harvey Vance's studyweakened
eyes there was too much
glare, too much flutter. lie lost no
* time in putting on his blue goggles.
-1- ~-1-..
" >V 110 care.s J1 Uitjy uo uiane nieiuutv.
like a frog?" mused he, as he settled
them astride his aristocratic nose.
" Thanks to them and to change of air,
my pour optics are undoubtedly improving.
I shall be back to college by
fall. Ha ! ha ! if the fellows could only
see me now !"
And here, to the infinite surprise of
staid Djbbin, his new master broke
into a rollicking class song?a song
abruptly ended as a turn in the road
revealed a near farmhouse.
"If I peddle soap, I'll peddle it with
due decorum," soliloquized the youth,
knocking upon the back door with the
handle of his whip.
To have seen the capable air with
which ho measured ashes bushel by
bushel, giving in exchange money, or
gallons of soap, according to the customer's
desire, one would have pronounced
him bred to the soap business.
Since his month's rustication at his
Aunt Cliutter's he had made the ac'
1 ? ? - ^ ' > ?
quamuuice ui uiust ui laiuicio
a'ong the river, and these expressed
their gratification at meeting "a judge's
son that wasn't afraid to work," but
outside the parish limits his triumphal
march terminated. He was a
stranger in a strange land. One man
asked if he had bought out the deacon;
a second hoped he wasn't proposing
to run an opposition team; and the
loyal widow Cleaves could hardly be
persuaded to surrender her ashes, because,
forsooth, she preferred to trade
with Deacon Chutter.
Obedient to his uncle's instructions,
at her cottage the young man took a
crossroad to Kendall's, a summer hotel,
familiarly styled " The Eyrie."
"You'll find it a long three miles,"
had been Mrs. Cleaves'parting remark.
"Three miles, and not a neighbor
I b tween here and there; I couldn't
' blame the widow if she should want to
change her situation," mused the deacon's
deputy, scanning the western
horizon. "Shouldn't wonder if that
* jluud yonder meant business. I
thought the sun was too bright this
morning. "Well, a little high-toned
thunder will drown this everlasting
racket."
Facing about to wedge in position
an empty soap barrel he observed two
ladies driving up the hill in a basket
phaeton.
" That looks like Kendall's team that
gave auntie such a panic this morning,''
thought lie. " Those ladies are !
some of his boarders, I suppose?Tom :
Cavender's mother and sister, for
aught I know. 1 have heard they were
stopping a* the Eyrie. Goodness! j
wouldn't it be a joke if I should fall
in with them today !"
Meanwhile the younger lady in the
carriage was merrily commenting on j
the quasi soap-man's active ligure,
conspicuously and amply clad in the j
deacon's canvas frock and overalls,
j " I hope he isn't a perambulating
! maniac, mamma."
" It's the very cart that frightened
j the pony !" was the terrified response.
I " Do let me get out. Lila! Oh ! oh !,?
But .already (lie horse was backing
down the hiil. Ilarvey sprang from
the cart, and grasped the refractory
animal by the bridle just in sfason to
j prevent the < arriage from overturning
in the ditch.
"Thank you, sir- thank you very
much," said the girlish driver, the]
color rushing back to her face. " Now, |
if you'll be kind enough to lead our
| pony past your cart we shall be yet :
more obl'ge 1."
I "A pretty girl?stylish too, but j
' abominably patronizing." thought the '
young Sopliom r<*, stalking resentfully j
at, the pony's head.
" There, now your cart i:> behind us, j
we shall have n > further trouble. I'm ;
sorry to have detained you, sir. In- j
finitely obliged."
i In leaving the ladies Harvey me-,
c-liani.-ally raised his hat, the deacon's {
hat?alas ! yellowed and frayed by '
farm service. The touch set Hying the
ashes upon its brim, giving our re- i
! ceding hi-ro the effect of being caught
I away in a clo id. A little blinded, but
i laughing behind his goggles, he went ,
back to old Dobbin and waited for the i
ladies to go on in advance.
Hut what ailed that surprising i
pony? The young lady chirruped to j
' him; he would not budge. .She, 1
I snapped the whip; he stood as stiff as ,
the wooden horse of the Trojans.
"Oh, daughter, daughter, he's balk- <
ing!" cried the elder lady, who appeared
to be an invalid. "If there is ]
; anything I'm afraid of, it's a balking
; horse.' <
" Allow me, madame," said Harvey,
again advancing.
He twisted the animal's ear a mo- i'
[ ment to divert his attention, then took '
him by the bit and led him several!1
' paces.
"See, mamma, the pony has got over j
i his sulks. Thank you, sir."
TIip vmiritr ladv resumed the reins: I
the fractious quadruped promptly rei
fused to stir.
j "Let me get out, Lila; I won't go '
' another step with him."
" III- doesn't seem to be going,'' said
the daughter, with a vexed laugh. '
i"You know you can't walk a rod. | j
, You'll surely have a relapse, mamma, i'
' if you dm't sit still."
I Again Ilarvey le.l the pony. Again i
the tantalizing nag stitfenel in his j i
j harness the instant Miss Lila t )ok the j
! reins. Many times was this farce re- j
J peated, and many were the minutes j1
; wasted. Meantime the sky had become j'
; overcast, and thunder was muttering 1
: in the distance. ! 1
"My mother has been very ill. If ; 1
she is caught in the shower she may l
get her death," cried Miss Lila, in dis- ! <
tress. "Oh, what shall we do?" j i
| "If you will pardon the suggestion, |
j I might drive you to the Eyrie, if that j i
is your destination," said Ilarvey, with ; <
a deprecatory glance at his masquer- j4
| ading costume. I}
I " Oh, will you ? But there is your ; i
horse and cart r"
j " [ could come back for them." 11
" And with all mamma's shawls and j
pillows the pha -ton is hardly wide 1
' enough for us two." i
" That is true; it is a lilliputian af- 1
fair." The youth was gravely testing 1
its light springs and bra es.
" Is then- danger of breaking downy <
Then you go with mamma, and I'll; i
i drive the cart." ]
" Lila Cavender! The idea 1" ex- j t
postulated the invalid. 11
"Tom Cavender's mother and sister,! 1
by the ashes of my uncle ! What a 1
j scrape!" was the young soap merchant's
inward ejaculations as he
l awaited the ladieV pleasure.
"What better can 1 do, mamma? j
! I shall ride famously. Unless you're
; afraid to trust me with your horse," ,
j the young lady added, with a glance |
toward llarvey. .
"Not in the least. He's far from .
j being a tiery Bucephalus." I
Struck with the incongruity of tlie j
j remark from such a source Miss Lila ' ?
I lost all control of her dimples. i \
j " That seat is suspended between the I j
heavens and the earth, like Moham- j j
! med's coffin. mamma," she jested, by j (
i way of clocking her untimely mirth, j }
i " One ought to be shot into it out of a <
! catapult." 11
To aid the young lady in \
j mounting, Harvey silently extended ! ^
! a hand, whose exceeding smut- j \
; tiness was intensifud by a seal ring j (
that glittered upon the little finger. : 1
! Miss Lila glanced curiously at the fine [ (
i cameo w ith its quaint setting. Who ]
\i*ne Miia nnnm.'ilnlis lifinrr who SDOfted ; 1
costly ornaments and quote.l from the 1
I classics ? And where, where had she !
seen that peculiar cameo befoie, or one J
just like it? Ah ! now she recollected; j
Tom had worn it home List vacation,
: when he and his chum had exchange 1 j
! rings. But how had this soap-man bei
come possessed of it ? Could it be that
I he and Harvey Vance were identical ?
' Tom had said that Harvey was spending
the summer in the neighborhood,
j This must be he. Yes, she was sure of
it.
Obedient to the young man's will,
that unaccountable pony darted away
on the wings of the wind. Close bej
hind, head down, tail up, followed old
i Dobbin in a heavy canter which seemed
! to shake the very leaves on the trees.
Charged upon by the empty soap bar!
rel, Miss Lila slipped to the other side
of the seat and clung to the ash-bin.
; A mile was passed, two miles. The j
l gable-roofed Kyrie loomed in the dis|
tance. On sped the pony; on lumbere'l
old Dobbin ; on swooped the storincloud.
A dozen guests crowded out <
i upon the hotel piazza to witness the
| exciting race.
I "How white Mrs. Cavender looks !"
cried one. " Where did she pick up
that fantastic driver?"
"Is that Miss Lila in the cart?"ex.
claimed the gentleman addressed
" Well, she's a girl of mettle ! Ha!
IM
; liere comes me ram:
I As the phavton dashed uplie rushed |
I out with an open umbrella to escort
I Mrs. Ca\ender into the house. In
, mounting the steps she turned toward
j Harvey.
"You have done us a great service,
[ sir. I assure you we are grateful. My
daughter will see that you are recompensed
for your time and trouble."
" The dickens she will!" thought the
deacon's indignant substitute.
Standing beneath the dripping eaves,
with rivulets of lye coursing down
his cheeks, he assisted the moist young
! lady to alight. " I am?we are deeply
j indebted to you," she stammered,
blushingly. "My mother?"
" lias taken no cold, I trust," said
' he, loftily. " Good-afternoon."
j And horse, cart and driver disappeared
kitchenward.
In putting the cart to rights that
evening Harold discovered a grimy object
caught between the seat and the
ash-bin. It proved to be a lady's
pocket-handkerchief, bearing in one
corner the name of "Lila Cavender."
He handed it to his aunt for bleaching
purposes, and received in return a letter
from Tom.
" My mother and sister have perched
at the Eyrie, on Emden Hill," it ran.
"My mother Is getting up from a
fever, and is bound to get as high up
as she ran. If you're anywhere near
their secluded nest do peep in upon
them. They'll be charmed to make
your acquaintance."
" I believe I'll take that handkerchief
to Miss Cavender to-morrow,
anntie, and have it off my mind," remarked
Harvey, carelessly, as he folded
the letter.
" Well?or you might send it by the
stage." But Harvey was deaf to the
suggestion.
The next evening, falsely attired,
and minus spectacles, he presented
himself at the Eyrie, and was cordially
welcomed by both Mrs. Cavender and
her daughter. Convinced that he was
not recognized as squire of the soap
cart, he saw no necessity for proclaiming
himself such. In making his first
call why should he introduce himself I
as h clown y
"You've mad.? quite a visit," was
his aunt's salutation when Ilarvey
enteied the sitting-room. "Was the
girl gla 1 to get lier handkerchief?'
" To tell the truth, auntie, I didn't
give it to her."
''Humph! Strange how* a handsome
young woman will weaken a
chap's memory," observed the deacon,
slyly, as his wife bandaged the oflending
ankle. " 1 don't see but Harvey'll
have to call again."'
He did call again, and again, and
again. Indeed, his rides to the Eyrie
grew so frequent that his uncle one
day teasingly counseled him to buy a
second saddle-horse.
" Or get a carriage that will hold
two," amended his aunt. At which
the youth flushed guiltily, confirming
Mrs. Chutter in her private opinion
that he was " very far gone."
He went further yet that evening?
even to the length of proposing to Miss
Lila.
The little cojuette only laughed,
and bade him not to be absurd.
AbuirdV lie would really like to
know what she meant.
Oh, they were both so young.
Harvey looke.l hurt, and intimated
that he, at least, was nearing the downhill
of life.
And he didn't know her well
pnmirrh.
~ O
The youth eagerly protested that he
knew her well enough to love her.
" Jteaide, I'm not sure but I like anather
young man better."
"Oh, if you care for somebody else,
ivliv then?why, in that case?" Harvey
found the English language terribly
intri< ate, and rose with precipitation.
" I met him first, you know," said
Miss Lila, dropping her eyes apologetically,
" and I am under great obligations
to him."
" Oh, it's all right. You're all right,
[ mean; but I think Tom might have
told me."
" Told you what?''
" About this other fellow."'
" There isn't much to tell," said Miss
Lila, demurely. " He hasn't come forward."
Harvey drew on his glove
ivith a mystified air. " Jiut 1 am looking
for him any day now, lor the Eyrie
is nearly out of soap."
" You bewitching little tease !"
.Miss Lila's cheeks were eddying
with dimples deep enough to drown a
nan's heart. 1'erhaps they made Ilarkey's
head swim. I can't say. I only
know that he laid hold of the young
lady's hands at that moment in the
most giddy fashi on, and she seemed
ji;ite willing to let him steady himself
n this manner.
" Well, Harvey, I expect to be on
ny legs again to-morrow," observed
;he facetious deacon, at breakfast;
' and when I call at the Eyrie I guess
rtuM l.ottor lit-. m<i orivp that, vouncr
mvvi/v. -v. 0- - ? c
v >man her handkerchief.
"Thank you very much; I attended
o that Lvt night."
" it didn't seem just right to keep
ler out of it so long, llarvey," renarked
his aunt, dryly, as sh passed
lis coffee. " You ought to have paid
ler interest."
" Humph! don't you he a mite concerned,
wife," said the dea on, with a
mischievous wink. 44 Depend upon it,
(larvey has squared his accounts with
;hat young woman before this, and
:aken her note of hand. He's driven
msiness since that day I set him up in
;he cart."?Bazar.
Care or the Hair.
When not the consequence of old age
aaldness is a disease, and it is a far
more terrible enemy to overcome than
white hair. No healthy person should
uegin to he bald till after lifty years of
age, and yet a general lamentation
irises of young people, barely in their
;wenties, losing their hair. Ilere,
therefore, must be some delect of con-LH...A.Z?
JlllUMUll, 5UU1C UJSCa-tO UL wiu uau,
;hat should not exist. Headaches,
ind indeed almost every kind of suffering,
whether of the mind onjfbody, frequently
cause the liair to fall. Too
much study or thought or application
)f any kind will have a similar effect.
Women are less subject to baldness
han their brothers. Man works more
ivith his brains, generally speaking,
;han woman. He also indulges in
lrink or other excesses more than
ivomen, and, ;is a rule, k'*eps his head
covered more than women do. An
[talian proverb says that hats kill hair.
Hygienic precautions may do much
toward maintaining the hair thick.
rh? writer knew of a man who kept
lis hair thick, almost black, by never
rearing a hat all his life. At eighty
.le married a third wife and had a
;hird lainily of children. You must
lot expe: t, however, that your hair
rt-ill never fall, even in health, nor
leed you be dismayed when you see
:iair come off when brushing or coinbng.
Ilair falls at certain se:isons as
l,msl Inntrno -fVivm tfOOtf 1l?nL*0 mnm
icau 1CUTCO IIUIU vw muuv .Vu..*
tor new ones to grow. If, however,
fou see too many come o!T and the fall
ontinues too long, then cut the hair
is you would cut a faded plant; it will
;row stronger, richer afterward. It'
people cut their hair regularly liairIressers
would have little to do, and
wig-makers would be ruined. Kre]uent
washing in cold salt water is
dso recommended to prevent the hair
from falling, and daily friction is good.
How tlio tzar Looks.
Alexander III., czar of Kussia, is
six feet high and is deep-che;ted and
broad-shouldered. His light gray eyes
resemble those of his mother's relations
at Hesse Darmstadt more than
his father, the late emperor, who had
dark blue eyes ^sucn as m<; r reaui
call blue black) which are to be seen
in the pictures of Alexandria 1., Paul
and Peter the (Jreat. Jn figure and
style lie is also like his uncle, the late
grand duke of Hesse Darmstadt. The
shape of his head, which is above the
average size, like most of his family,
is rather peculiar. His forehead is
high. A small mouth with extremely
good teeth, which he only shows when
he laughs. His hair is auburn, and his
complexion very fair. In St. Petersburg
he is always attired in uniform,
but when on a holiday lie weirs the
black and white shepherd's plaid, s ieh
a favorite with English noblemen, a
black tie, white hat, but no gloves
though he carries them, ring or watcii.
That he has been no carpet soldier is
evident from the frost bites on the
third and fourth fingers on his left
hand and a scar 011 his temple, where
a Turkish bullet grazed his head.
Spare Leers.
A little girl was standing at the
depot to see her father and a gentleman
friend off, when she suddenly ob
served to her father, referring to his
friend, who was tall and lank, "If the
cars run off the track and any legs
must be broke, 1 hope they'll be Mr.
IPs." "What's that for?" said the
startled II. " Because," she added,
artlessly, "Aunt Mary says you hav.>
a pair of spare legs." Tho "Ail
aboard 1" of the conductor pr ivente l,
any explanation. ^
2?
FASHION NOTES.
Young girls dress their hair close in
braids or torsades looped up in the
baek.
The most fashionable stockings are
of silk or lisle thread in plain colois or
black.
Flowers and lace inter more and
more into the decorati ms of evening
dressc<.
The prevailing colors in furniture
call for brass, mahogany and Louis
XVI. styles.
Colors are combined as much as possible
in the ribbon decorations of white
house dresses.
One of the prettiest novelties in
costume is the basket of flowers attached
to the dress.
Shoulder knots and trimmings are
revived, but they are becoming to
slender ligures only.
I (rides' dr.-sses are dcmi-trained, high
in the neck, and with half or threequarters
long sleeve?.
" Xeuralgia hood " is the appropriate
name bestowed on a.soft black plush
hood, lined inside and quilted.
Xovelty trimmings of printed cotton
sateen bands, with grounds of indigo
blue and Turkey red, are used to trim
i...re t J.nlnrr
UIIIL 1 U??UIC ailxn, ?/wu Manila uuu?
applique to the silk, with gold braid
or cord.
An exquisite toilet for a rosy brunette
is of olive vigogne, with silk
galloon trimmings in old gold, worn
with an old gold straw hat, .pale gold
feathers, and golden brown velvet
lining in the hem.
The Chine>e and Japanese styles of
headdress are in high vogue among
ultra-fashionable New York women,
and the stars and heads of the pins
they use to thrust through the topknots
are often studded with diamonds,
rubies and pearls of rare value.
A new development of the jersey is
an open lace work, tight-fitting bodice,
made in all shades, for evening wear.
It is without sleeves, and is intended
to wear over another basque, buttoning
up at the back, with a quantity of
small silk buttons, jer.-ey style.
Spun silk stockings of all colors,
embroidered with guld-col .red silk, the
favorite pattern being a cluster of
wheat ears, which extends up the front
of the stocking for nearly half a yard
in length, are popular. Thread hose
of all hues, exquisitely embroidered,
thre.iten to supersede Balbriggan.
iunong me most cusujr munus mi
summer evening toilets are zephyr
brocades and brocatelles, with brilliantly
colored exotics on dark grounds;
magnificent Indian tissues, woven with
threads of gold or silver; heavy otto
mans in all the new artistic shades;
lam pas, with satin stripes figured with
velvet (lowers and damasks, with huge
,single flowers or bouquets in clusters,
raised on sheeny satin grounds of
j rimrose, pineapple, cinnamon and
golden brown, tearose, shrimp-pink,
cameo, mauve and endless shades of
green,
A pretty and serviceable fabric for
adorning summer dresses of white
organdie, French muslin, and the like,
is a new very sheer cambric, with a
solid embroidery covering its entire
surface from selvage to selvage, the
embroidery being done in exquisite
Swiss, Venetian, old Flemish and Irish
point patterns. This material will be
used lor jersey-cut bodices to be attached,
to skirts covered with rulttes
embroidered in a pattern to correspond,
the joining of skirt and bodice being
concealed by a sash drapery of extremely
wide moire or satin ribbon.
Children's entire costumes will be made
of this elegant material.
Many of the new parasols of silk and
satin arc lined with Watteau-patterned
foulards, with laced arranged on the
outside in f.in plaitings. These are
e-pecially designed for garden party
use, coaching and like occasions, and
not for the promenade. Other styles
are of broche satin, edged with marabout,
and all are large and coup-shape,
witn the llaos on each gore arranged
in the same way as last year, xuu
prettiest sunshade seen thus far this
season was one covered with biscuitcolored
broche satin, wrought sparingly
here and there with gold embroidery,
and bordered with a wide
band of leather trimming of the same
color. It was lined with the new
China blu", and made a perfect bit
of color.
Population of European Cities.
The statistical researches of Behm
and Wagner show the following totals
for the population of the great
cities of Europe:
Cities Population.
London 3,K32,440
Paris 3,225,910
Berlin 1,222,;.00
Vienna 1,103,110
St. Petersburg 87U.570
Moscow (ill,970
Constantinople G00,0>3
Glasgow /WW),940
Liverpool 652,430
Naple; 493,110
ITauibarg 410,120
Birmingham 4CO,7CO
Lyons 372,890
Madrid 367.280
Budapest 300,580
Marseilles 357,520
Manchester 341,510
Warsaw 339.340
? **>i em
Lille 177,1)40
Salford 17)5,2:50
Belfast 174,110
Florence H 9,000
Ri?n 1CS,?10
Stockholm 10N,770
Prague 102,320
Brussels 101,820
Kinyston-upon-Hull 154,.HO
Valencia 151$,4G0
Antwerp 150,050
Adrianople 150,000
Leipzig 14!),0H0
Rotterdam 14^,000
Nowcastle-on-Tyne 145,180
Cologne : 144,710
Kcjeniirsberg 140, 910
Dundee 139,120
Mngdebourg 137,130
Frankfort-on-Main i:!G,H20
Toilonso 130,0:0
Venice 132,8 ?
Wosthnm
Kherson 12S.080
Portsmouth 127,950
Ghent 127,0*0
Kit f 127,250
Messina 120,;'0)
Bremen 123,'i9'J
B)lo?na 123,270
Hanover 122.840
Leicester 11-2,.'150
Nantes 121,900
Kaint-Etienno 120,120
Seville ll.s,8.)0
Stuttgart 1I7,:'01
S mderland 110,210
ijiejre
The Hnirue na,4<'><>
Kischinef 112,110
Olillmm Ill.:t41
l);mt/.i?r ios,:',to
Brighton 107,^*50
(Ip)rto 10">.810
Ho I ton 105,21')
Rouen l< 4,7;"jO
Strasbourg 104,470
Hlaekburn 101,010
Havre 1)2,(110
Kharkow 101.170
Catania 100,2-10
There are in Europe, according to
this cal illation, ninety-two cities the
population of which exceeds 100,000
inhabitants, and four cities with a
population of over-1,000,000. (Jre.it,
Uritain heads the list in respe:t to the
density of town population.
The English sparrow has found his
way into every city and town in tin
South.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The gauntlet was first introduced in
1225.
Insects form an important food of
the liantus, a tribe inhabiting Southeastern
Africa.
It is considered a disgrace for a Hindoo
girl not to be married when she is
eleven or twelve years old.
The Indians, believing the noise
made by telegraph wires is the voices
of departed braves, never disturb them.
Idolatry was revived in Britain by
the Saxons about 47:3, but it gave way
alter the eominir of Aucrustin. in 597,
A California editor states that Chinamen
freshen up stale llsh and eliminate
their odor by dipping them in diluted
uric acid.
In probably no other place in the
world but Strobeck, Germany, does
chess form a regular course of study
in the schools.
An electric light about the size of a
small bean has been constructed and
used successfully in illuminating interior
portions of the human body.
One letter out of every 800 sent is
unclaimed in the office to which it goes.
One letter in 283 sent turns up at the
dead letter oflice. One letter out of
3,100 sent is held for postage at the
oflice of mailing, and this amounts to
nearly 3( 0,000.
The natives of Northern India have
found light woolen clothing to be far
more h althy and comfortable than the
colt'jn which has I e?n worn from time
immemorial. Inconsequence, themanufacture
of light, cheap woolen goods
has greatly increased there.
A curious custom prevails along the
seacoast of Massachusetts in regard to
selling pools on fishermen?to see which
one of them will catch the first fish
while out on an excursion. In a number
of the seaport towns regular exchanges
are established, where this
pool-selling goes on, and each man in
every fishing excursion that goe3 out
is bought up by the adventurous gamblers
in the same manner that horse3
entered for a race are bought. These
pools often run up as high as five or
six hundred dollars each, according to
the number of fishermen, and the first
man that catches a fish is declared th?
winner, and his backer takes the pot;
the man who gets second place, however,
takes some share.
WISE WORDS.
Be silent and safe; silence never betrays
you.
Ailliclion, like the iron smith, shapes
as it strikes.
It is a crime to consider any wickedness
a sign of ability.
If you boast of a contempt for the
world, avoid getting into debt. It is
giving to gnats the fang.s of vipers.
The temperate are the most truly
luxurious. By abstaining from most
tilings, it is surprising how many things 1
we enjoy. j
A loving act does more good than a i
fiery exhortation. What mankind
neids is not more good talkers, but
more good Samaritans.
Old age is the night of life, as night
is the old age of the day. Still, nigh
is full of magnificence, and for many
it is more brilliant than the day.
Aim high. You may not touch the J
mark, but by a high aim you will come
ne arer to it than by not trying at all.
Then by making the effort many persons
have come nearer to it than at
first anticipated.
Hope rises and falls by the accidents
of war, as the mercury of the thermometer
changes by the accidents of
heat and cold. Let us rather t;ike for
our symbol the sailor's barometer, |
which faithfully forewarns him of the j
tpirmnnt. ,'inrl fives him unerring nrom- i
ALxiim
Amsterdam 317,010
Dublin 314,GCO
Leeds Ii0i).l;$0
Rome i'0.),470
Sheffield 2^4.410
Breslau 272,910
Turin 2:",2,81:0
Lisbon 240,^10
Oil |?fV\
l'alerino
Copenhagen 234,850
Munich 2:50,020
Bucharest 221,800
Bordeaux 220, !>C0
Dresden 220.820
Barcelona 215,9 X)
Edinburgh Hl/?, J/iO
Bristol 200,500
Odessa liM.OlO
Klberfield 180,480
Nottingham 18(5,<?G0
Bradford 18.i.0:(0
170.510
| 1 ' u ? ,
ise of serene skies and peaceful seas, j
It is undeniable that tlio more fully
we come to know the average man or
woman, the more unexpected good we
lind in t^iem, and the greater allowance
we see ought to he made for their defects.
One good rule, then, for securing
justice in this matter would ba to
speak no ill, and, a< far as possible, to
think no ill, of strangers or enemies,
simply because in the on-case we have |
no adequate means of judging, and in j
the other we are disqualified from doing j
eo by our feelings.
Not a Native.
A man called on the secretary of
state, and, drawing the high oflicial
aside, said: j
" 1 heard somebody say that er man
what was born in a fureign country
could not be gov'ner of the Xcwnited
States; is tliar any truth in what I
heered?"
"No one who was born in a foreign
country can be President of the Unite!
States," replied the secretary.
" Wall, tnat strikes me purty hard,
fur I ain't ?,'Ot nigii s:ch encouragement
ter go to the night school what I
jined i-onie time ago. I don't say that
1 ever would'T been President, still I'd
feel a heap better efl thought that the
thing was in reach. Wall, sir, since I
first heered that it bothered me powerful,'
an' my wife is so pestered that
slip's fallen away to a mere skeletoi.."
" Where were you born?" asked the
secretary.
" Down here in Saline county."
"Saline county is not foreign," re
plied the secretary, with a smile. "Vou
are a a native of tho United States,
and are legible, so far as birth is conj
cerivd, to the highest ollice in the
I land."
"(iimma your hand, pardner.
I You've lifted a load as heavy as a \
horse-Mock oll'en my shoulders. I'll
go right home an' tell my wife, an'
then buy her a head of cabbage. Vase
she ii'n't eat nothin' since, we heered
the distractin' news. It'll be wuth a
dollar to see that woman eat."?Ar- |
kantnw Tract hr.
A Chance for Inventors.
In the heavy thunderstorms which
cceurred in various parts of the country,
says a New York Sun editorial, the
lightning manifested its well-known 1
allinity for petroleum. Three large j
* ?- a? r I
oil tanks were su'iick. uuu ui tiii-iu
was near Olean, in this Slate, anotlier
at Muncy Station, I'enn , and the third |
in the yard of tlie Standard Oil company
at Com/iunipaw, X. .7. This last
one had very little oil in it, and was
not eonsuiiHd, but the others, with
their contents, were burned.
The a'tractive inlhienc9 exerted by
! petroleum, or its vapor, which renders
these great oil tanks so liable to destruction
by thunderbolts, does not :
seem to be vi ry well understood. If I
it was, we should hardly he without |
any c.Ticient means of guarding such
structures against lightning. The
subjiHt is well worthy of attention
and study on the part of men of science.
At present the safeguards are so ina
lequate that an o'l tank is not only
very likely to be destroyed by any
thunderstorm, but to act also as a firebrand
to every building anywhere near
it.
The inventor who devises a method i
which shall afford to oil tanks absolute ;
protection against lightning, ought to
be able to make a million of dollars by
tho invention.
A l'rcclse Witness.
A witness in court, who had been
cautioned to give a precise answer to
very question, and not talk about
what ho might think the question
meant, was interrogated as follows:
"You drive a wagon?" "No, sir, I
do not." " Why, sir, did you not tell
my learned friend so this moment V"
" No, sir, I did not." " Now, sir, I
put it to you on your oath: i^o you
drive a wag m?" " No, sir." "What
is your occupation, then?" "I drive a
)W*"
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States
A biot among Italian railroad laborers at
Esorus, N. Y., caused by exhilaration resulting
from prolonged drinking, ended in the
death of two men and injuries to many
others.
Amono the applicants for admission to the
West Point military nc:idemy who have
paBsed tho examination is John H. Alexander,
a young colored man from Ohio.
Eight men were arraigned in the criminal
court at Wilkesbarre, Penn., charged with
riot and with participating in the murder of
William Briggs, a merchant, in Shickshinny
on February 10. Each prisoner demanded
a separate trial, which the court granted.
A dam covering several acres in the outskirts
of Wilkesbarre, Pa., gave way, nnd the
water rushed into several mine openings,
washing out the props and causing the earth
to sink for half an acre. One house and
many gardens were engulfed, and, as it takes
from three to six months to pump out an
overflowed mine, the damage done may
amount to millions.
TnE Pennsylvania senate has adopted a
Republican congressional apportionment, |
and the house a Democratic legislative apportionment.
Dn. Isaac J. Hathyway, in the cellar of
whose residence in Philadelphia the remains
of a number of infants were recently found
buried, was convicted of criminal malpractice,
and wns sentenced to pay a fine of
$f>C0 and undergo an imprisonment of seven
years?the fullest extont of tho law.
A cargo of ten whicli reached rsow lorK a
few days ago was examine! by a tea appraiser,
in conformity with the law recent!;/
passed by Congress. Of the cargo 3,100
packages, having a retail valne of $22,030,
were rejected. These were green teas, and
under analysis showed an adulteration with
sand, grave!, exhiusted leaver., nnd oven dirt
and raste artistically molded.
Maud Lennox, the young daughter of John
Lonnon, of Lockport, New York, died the
other morning in convulsions from blood
poisoning, caused by a prick of a tack in her
forehead received the previous week. The
case is a very unusual one.
The Harvard college crew easily defeated
the Yale college crew in the annaal fourtaile,
eight-oared boat race, at New London,
Conn.
A VIOOEOU8 war against the trade dollar
has been inaugurated in New York, all
classes now refusing to take it, and unfortunate
holders of the coin being unable to get
rid of it except at a reduction of ten or fifteen
oents on its face value.
Sout'i and Weit
By the floods on the Illinois side of the
Mississippi river six villages were inundated,
from 2.C00 to 15,000 lamiues ariven irom meir
homes, hundreds of thousands of bushels of
grain ready for the reaper wero destroyed,
and more than U,OOU head of cattle were
drowned.
The receiver for McGeoch, Everingham &
Co., the suspended Chicago lard speculators,
Enys their liabilities are over ?f5,000,0u0.
The Planters' Cottonseed Oil works at
Algiers, La., was struck by lightning during
a thunder-storm, set on firo and entirely
destroyed. This was the largest cottonseed
oil mill in existence. The loss is estimated
at $1,000,000.
Colonel B. L. Fabintiolt, of Essox
county, Ya , 1 caring of throats made by a
blacksmith with whom he had some trouble,
went to his shop armed with a five-pound
weight; bat before ho could US3 it, his opponent
assaulted him with a hnmnier and
crushed his skull, killing him instantly.
A cyclone which passed over Elberton,
Ga., killed a colored man named Bell and
blew down sixteen buildings, including three
churches.
General James Connebs, ex-attorneygeneral
of South Carolina, and one of the
toost prominent lawyers in the State, died
the other morning at Richmond, Va.
A gravel train, with about one hundred
Chinamen on board, ran into a wood train
near Missoula, Montana, instantly killing
eighteen Chinamen and wounding about
twenty-five others. The engineer of the
gravel train was killed and the fireman badly
hurt.
A dispute about the boundary line of
adjoining property occurred at Collinsvilb,
Ala., between A. B. Hall and so.i on one
Fide and Bob and John Mullens on the other.
Pistols wore draw.i, and thres of the inen
were killed mid the fourth mortally wounde.1.
Ax the Iowa Republican Slate convention
in Des Moines the present Slate oilicers,
headed by Governor Shorinan, were renominated
by ncclamatioa, and a prohibition,
lariff-proteclion, civil service platform was
adopted witlio.it dissent.
Great excitement prevails in Bates couutj-,
Mo., over the discovery of petroleum, a
*ell which had Leon sunk GOO feet producing
what was pronounced by experts to be crude
oil in its purest state. Wells are being sunk
in every direction, anu property nus rapiuiy
udvanced in value.
G.)veuno? Huiiuakd, of Minnesota, has
been renominated at the Republican State
convention.
A life-size recumbent statue of General
Robert E. Lee was unveiled at his tomb in
Lexington, Va., in presence of 0,000 persons.
General Jubal A. Early presided, Major John
W. Daniel delivered the oration, and a poem
by Father Ryan was read.
Aftzj? a seven days' te3t a Baltimore cow
Is doclared the champion butter producerThe
cow was milked at intervals of eight
hours, yielding :5:-7 pounds of milk, from
which was produced twenty-five pounds and
t,vo and eleven-twelfths ounces of butter.
The cow was bred in New Jersey, and was
purchased last fall by her present owners for
?2,0.'0. She is pronounced the best butter,
producing cow in the United States.
Mrs. 1'ope, of Milan, Tenn., was stung on
the nose by a bee and died in live minutes.
While C. II. Ross, a successful merchant
of Lampasas, Texas, was at table with his
fam'ly, his wife, who w is in delicate health,
shot and killed herself in her room. Mr.
Ross rushed out, alarmed the neighbors, re
(timed and shot himself denu over ms wue s
body.
Prom Washington.
The Rov. \V. H. Egleston, of Williamslown,
Mas?., has been appointed chief of tho
forestry division of the department of agriculture.
Pbkbident Abtiiub has issued an order
reducing the number of internal revenue
districts from ll'G to eighty-two.
Secbetaby Folger has directed Collector
Robertson, of New York, to co-operate with
the New York emigration board in keeping
out pauper emigrants. Those emigrants at
Castle Garden who prove to bo paupers, the
"secretary says, must be sent back to Great
iritain.
Fob mit/appropriating the funds intrusted
to his charge Paymaster Wnsson has been
sentenced to dismissal and to hard labor for
eighteen months in some prison.
pottafasteb-GENERAi. Gbksham has ordered
an investigation of charges against
Panrcnn. nf New York, made by
the special agent of the department, who
alleges that Mr. Pearson was a lending
director of a private postoflice. It is sought
to be established that Mr. Pearson is or was
personally interested in the private delivery
of letters in New York to the detriment of
the city's postoflice revenues.
Foreign News.
Gold coinage has been resumed in tho '
English mint, after two years without any.
Owing to the rapid iucroase of emigration,
the Canadian government has decided to
mnko no further grants to colonization and
railway companies in the Northwest for the J
pre-ent.
A number of warehouses used for storing
herrings and cotton situated on an island
in tho mouth of tho Neva, Russia, together
with several mills and factories, .1,000 bales
of cotton and four or live vessels, were destroyed
by firo, cnusing a total estimated loss
of 1/03,000 rubles.
A gambmno dispute at Curragh, Ireland, between
Dublin and North Mayo militiamen,
resulted in a bloody fight, which was only
quelled after tho officers threatened to firo
upon the men, seventeen of whom were so
verely injured.
Advices from Bolivia, South America,
6tato that groat lawlessness prevails in the
department of Beni, where Indians of both
sexes are being stolen in great numbers and
io droves as slaves to work either in the
vicinity or on plantations in the heart of
Brazil.
Eight persons were killed and many mora
injured by a railroad collision in Cuba.
An officer was recently sent from Manzanilla
to Santiago, Cuba, with $14,0C0 in gold
belonging to the administration. While the
officer was leaning over the rail of thq
steamei the strap of the satchel which contained
the money broke, and the money
dropped into the sea.
At a woman's rights meeting in London
addresses were delivered by Miss Snsan B.
Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
the well-known American woman suffragists.
Six fishermen were drowned at Trepassy,
Newfoundland, by the swamping of their
boat in a heavy sea.
Recent British operations against Chief
Gbpowe, in Sierra Leone, Africa, were attended
with great atrocities on the part of
native allies, who butchered nnl ~ritihted ,
all tho male persons taken prisoners, xno I
allies loss over 100 men killed daring the at, 1
tack upon the main fort, which was captured.
Eighty-two of the enemy were killed by a
single shell.
Deaths from yellow fever at the rr^of
fifteen a day are reported from Vera Crnz,
Mexico.
General Sib Edwabd Sabine, president
of the British Royal society, is dead in his
ninety-sixth year.
The Paris city council have appropriated
$4,000 to send a delegation of workmen to
Boston next year to attend the foreign exhibition.
The American riQe team arrived safely in
Qaeenstown, and were all in excellent health
and spirits after their ocam voyage. From
Qaeenstown they proceeded to Liverpool,
accompanied by Sir Henry Halford and Mr.
Waller, of the British team. At Liverpool a
waim reception was given the team by a
committee of citizens headed by the mayor.
An Alexandria dispatch states that a panic
prevails over the prevalence of cholera in
Eg* pt, and many Europeans are fleeing
from the city. All the cabinet ministers
have been recalled to Cairo, and the festivals
usually held on the anniversary of the
khedive's accession to the throne will be
stopped.
Demetbio Ozabio, an officer in the Yucatan
army, was arrested at Leziruen for assaulting
a young lady. He bribed the guard, and,
with a party of desperadoes, attacked the
authorities, murdering the political chief,
Senor Rosaro, his brother, Mayor Espito,
and Pedro Navrez, and wounding othe-s.
Cabey, Ihe informer and ex-member of
the Dublin council, whose testimony caused
the conviction and execution of the men who
killed Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke, has
left Dublin for America, it is believed.
POLITICAL MATTERS.
Iowa ItcimbMrnii State Convention.
The Iowa Republican State convention at
Des Moines was the largest ever held of
the rarty, the number of delegates
present being 844. The Hon. John A. Kasson
was called to the chair as temporary presiding
officer. At the afternoon session Colonel
D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, was chosen
permanent chairman. Buren G. Sherman
was renominated for governor by acclamation.
The present lieutenant-governor,
0. H. Manning, nnl the present State
5uperin(e:;dent of schools. John Akers, we:e
nlso renominated by acclamation. Judge
J. G. Reed, of Couucil Bluffs,
was nominated on tho first formal
ballot for judge of the supreme court.
The platform ad >pted reaffirms the Republican
platform of 1 -10 and insists on its enforcement
in its re'ation to ihe revenue affairs
of the nation, and demands that ample
1 rotection be afforded to American citizens.
Polygamy i* denounced, 'lho prohibitory
constitution-d amendment is supported, i t
being declared that the Republican party of
[own acc3i.ts the result of the vote on that
amendment as final. It is also stated
that Repaid.cans recognize the moral
nnd political obligation which requires
the next geneial assembly to again
pass the amendment. Railroad discrimination
is denounced, and a law again >t railroad
passes is favored. The Democratic
pa;ty is e!o:;ounced for "its persistent efforts
to so change the customs laws as to establish
f>ee trade'': and the declaration ismade
that the Repaid cans of Iowa "insist npon
such revenue laws as win encour.vge a nenean
indu-trio; and proteit American labor
in order that the American workinginan
shall have a fair day's wages for a fair day's
work." The pa.-s.igo of revenue leformand
civil service reform laws by Congress is
praised. A more favored pension law is favored
and an amendme: t of the criminal
laws of the State is suggested. The Slate
administration is praised for low taxes. The
last plank of the platform states ''that the
wise and conservative administration of
President Arthur meets with the hearty approval
of the Republicans of Iowa, and we
co dially approve tho promise given by him
to the delegation appointed by the Philadelphia
convention of Irish-American citizens
that the sul)j ct grievance contained in
the r; solution of said bo ly presented to him
should have thorough i nd exhaustive investigation
and such action as our government
may lawfully take."
FRIHIITFCL DISASTER.
Forty-acvcn Persons Burned nt a Puppet
Show in Italy.
Intelligence of a frightful calamity at a
place of amusement in the town of Dorvio
on the shoro of tho Lake of Como, Italy,
has been received. Tho advices of tho
d.paster state that while a performance was
in progress at a puppet theatre at that placo
tho structure took fire and was entirely
destroyed. Forty-seven persons lost their
lives nnd twelve oiners were mjureu.
The show was held in a large hall over a
tavern. There were ninety persons in the
hall. A Bengal light was used to represent
fire, and sparks from this set fire to a quantity
of straw and firewood stored in an adjacent
room. On perceiving the flames the
showman shouted "Fire!" but tho spectators
thought the cry was merely a realistic
detail of the show and remained seated.
Cries of fire were soon raised outsido the
hall.
The audience, thinking an affray had
arisen in the street, barred with a heavy table j
the door leading from the hall. They did i
not discovor their mistake until the flames
burst into the room. After the fire was extingnished
forty-seven charred corpses were
found near the table, includingtho bodiesof
the showman and his wife.
A large portion of the dead bodies were
those ot women and children. The wounded |
were hurt by loaping through the windows.
A child was flung out of a window by its
mother and fell upon a pile of straw. This
is the only one of the-spectators in the hall
that was not hurt.
FOWL FREAKS.
Mr. P. B. Powell, residing about a mile
northeast of Troy, Ala., has a chicken with
four legs?three on the right and one on the
left side?that is two woeks old and thriving I
as well as the remainder of the brood.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier says: Mr. James
D. Kirkpatrick, of Kirk's Grove, Alabama
who makes a specialty of raising line game
chickens, has a fine game hen that is quite a
curi sity in that she growls or barks like a j
dog.^ ^
4 "'???? folia Imw o vf?+nrnn I
.V ??UMCIU liua niUi,T tvtin nun i. ? v?w.M.. ,
sitter hatched out three well-formed bird?, j
representing n cross between a chicken and i
a duck. They were web-footed, with bills
somewhat flat, but not so much so as a genuine
duck's.
The Milton < X. C.) C/ico?n'c/fdeclares that I
Solomon Merritt, of Leasburg, has a hen
that had her lirst brood of chickens the ee.'- |
onl year of the war. To day the same hen
is the mother of a brood of eleven little
chickens that follow her, and she is still
lively and active.
The St. Johns (Fla.) UVeMj/saysMr. A. L
Ximanies has a duck a few days old which
has three distinct legs well formed. Two are
in their proper places and the third one i-;
attached to the hip and projects over the
wing. The duck walks about and appears to
be strong and healthy.
The Nebraska City (Kan.) News says: Mr
Prank McCartney, 1'epaty county clerk, informs
us to-dny that at his home near Wyoming
there is an olJ hen that has hatched out a
three-legged chicken that is perfectly forme.l
and well developed. The little chick uses all
three legs in navigation.
In November last a Montreal lady Ios'? a
gold ring which had beon sent to her by a
son in California, and after looking for it for
a time gave up all hope.i of ever feeing it
again. Recently she opened the gizzard of
a chicken she was dressing for dinner, when
out popped the missing ring.
The Dahlonega (Ga.) Si(i>ial says that Phil
Bvrd, of that place, sold a duck to little Ben j
Wnivir. Bon's mother killed it for culinary |
purposes, and found in its gizzard n fchIo of
gold nearly as large as a urain of corn,
though not so thick. Mr. Byrd has more of
these gold-bearing ducks, but the probability
is that the price of ducks in Dahlonega has
advanced.
i The Albia (Iowa) Union says: Mr. Milton
Hanks, two miles east of Albia, has left cn
our table a curiosity indeed?a hen egg, the
main body of which is about the rizo of a
quail's egg, alittleover an inch in diameter,
two and a quarter inches in^ength. It is in
shape about like the old-fashioned gourds in
use with our grandfathers for drinking water
at the spring. It has a handle like a gourd.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
The Cincinnati and Columbus clubs have
pfopped playing championship games in
their cities on Sunday.
Thf. Boston club has engaged Smith, of
the Holyoke team, who last season played as
change catcher for the Yale nine.
MaKaofb Fehouson, of the Philadelphia
club, visited New Haven to try and indnce
Messrs. Jones and Hubbard, of thechampion
Yalcs, to become professionals for the next
ten weeks, but ho failed in his mission.
Ath inuing game played at St. Louis b3tween
the St. Louis club and the Metropolitans,
of New York, was stubbornly contested
throughout and resulted as follows:
Metropolitan.. .0 10200021 1?7
St. Louiu 0 00023010 3?8
A joint stock baseball association 1 as been
organized at Richmond, Va., to be known as
the Virginia Baseball association. The association
will apply at once for a charter,
and will make arrangements to secure a
Ftrong nine to play matches with Northern
nnd Western professional clubs. The baseball
excitement is running high at Richmond.
Fiintnrfl nt ronant cramps bv the Amflri
can association was that between the St.
Louis and Metropolitans at the former city,
which the New Yorkers won after a game of
thirteen innings. The following is the
fft?Loui3 1 00000000000 0?1
Metropolitan. ..0 0 0 1 00 0 00 0 0 0 X?2
Base hits?St. Louis. 11; Metropolitan, 8.
Errors?St Louis, 4; Metropolitan, 2.
Pitchers?Keefe and McGinms.
LEAGUE CLUB BECOBD.
The ofBcinl record of the league championship
games pluyed up to the 24th is as follows:
CLUB. . | ? t | |j?
a ? |ll gl;2 -? tj S'S
15 2 g ? 2j? 3, 'g 11 a
I ? a '2 '.2 o' ? -3 2
IM n jo O Q;? * Pi o,o
BoBton - 3 2 3 5 1 6 0 2036
Buffalo 2?| 2 3 1 3 4 1 1633
Chicago 4 0,? 0 3 4 6 2i 19 36
Cleveland 4 3; 1- 2355 22 35
Detroit 2 0 3 1- 3 5 2 16 ?7
New York 4 2 3 2 4?01 1635
Philadelphia.... 031220? 0838
Providence 0 6 5 2 4 6 5|? 2738
Games lost.... 1617 17 1321 19 3011 ?
AMEB1CAN ABSQOIAnOS HEOOBD.
| ' .1
cira- ? d ill. ? ? N
J.llllig'9 8 8
ta ? ? 5 o< * >-5 a a
= 3|.a-3^j|u ss
< < a o o a 2 ? o o
Allegheny ? 0 4 1 3 2 iil 1 13 34
Athletio 5? 633 161 2334
Baltimore 2 1 ? 1 2 ll 2; 0 9 ?5
Cincinnati 342? 6 2143133
Columbus 4 1 1 1? 2 0 2 11 ?5
Eclipse 1 2 6 2 4?I 4 3 22;33
Metropolitan ....4 1 4 2 3 0,? 1 15]34
St. Louis 2 2 4 2 4 3 6 ? 22|34
? Games lost.... 2l!ll 26 12 24 llll912?!?'
COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP BEOOBD.
The champion Yales sustained one defeat,
losinp thoir last game with the Princetons,
played on the Polo grounds in New York, by
a score of 3 to 2. This game, however, did
not affect the championship, which had
already been won by Yale. The result of
this series of game gives Yale the championship
of the American College association for
another year. Princeton takes second place,
Amherst third, Harvard fourth, and Brown
last. The complete record of the season's
work follows:
F" ~'t
n a
2;?i'5
Clot. g g! a d: S i S
? c'-s i: g gig
* "C;8 8 2 :?!?
M no o
Yale ! - 1! 2 2 2 7| 8
Princeton ! 1?} 1{ 2 2, fi, 8
Amherst 0 1?,12 4 8
Harvaid 0 0 1? j 12 8
Brown [?( 0 0( 1? 1! 8
Gam63 lost I II 2: 4 6; 7 |
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC,
Tom Karl, the tenor, will summer at Worcester,
Mas*.
Mlle. Modjeska, Mr. Earrett and Mt
Wyndham are in San Francisco.
A New York paper pays M. B. Cnrti9 has
made $140,0C0 with " Sam'l of Po.?en."
Mary Anlerson lias crashed Oscar Wilde
by refusing the new drama which he wrote.
James Collier will have four companies
on the road next season playing "The Lights
o' London."
Fanny Davenport is of opinion that the
general acting in America is quite as good
as in England.
The Metropolitan Opera-house, New York,
will have a seating capacity of 3,050, and will
cost $1,000,000.
Bjobsstkrne Bjornson, the well-known
author, has been writing a three-act comedy
called "The Glove."
Gertrude Griswold, the A merican singer,
has signed an engagement at Brussels, and
will make her debut there as Ophelia in August.
Boom's handsome thefttro in New York
hns been torn down. The granite fronts,
which originally cost $15,000, were sold foi
$1,000.
Lotta intends traveling through Asia, as
that climate is considered very beneficial for
thiojt diseases. She will be accompanied
by lier pnysician.
The theatre which is to be built for George
Edgar in New York city will cost, it is said,
^.'.00,000. It will be constructed of iron, Philadelphia
pressed brick and oak. It will not
bo opened until the fall of 1885.
Tue queen of Roumnnia, writing under
the name of Carmen Silvia, has invited the
Swedish composer, Hallstroem, to compose
the music for a new opera written by her,
and of which the action is laid in Roumania.
Madame Nilsson writes from London that
she will leave for America on August 18.
Prior to her depaiture she will spend the
time at various watering places. She emphatically
declares it to be a "downright
fib" that Mr. Gyo has gained any suit
against her.
The Brooklyn Eagle says that indications
of an overwhelming Shakesperean revival
next year grow apace. In the first
place, the two greatest Shakespearean actors
in the English tongue will be cleverly played
against one another. Henry Irving, who
comes ovor to this country with a magnificent
company,will be brought out by Abb?y at the
Star theatre, in New York, on the first of
November. About the same time Edwin
Booth will appear in New York as a counter
attraction. About the same time that these
two men are playing against each other in
New York, John McCullough will appear in
Brooklyn, and Lawrence Barrett will play at
the Grand Opera-house, Janauschek vjiH do
hiavy tragedy, and Modjeska, Mrs. Latrgtry,
Rhea, and probably one or two aspirants will
do tho lightor Shakespearean roles elsewnere.
Then George Edgar, with his company
headed by Sara Jewett, will keep up the excitement.
Lovers of Shakespeare will hardly
get time to eat
ASSISTED EMIGRATION.
A Delegation of Lending Irishmen Protect to
ibe 1'rmiilcnt.
A deputation of representative Irishmen,
headed by Alexander Sullivan, president of
the Irish National league, waited upon the
President aud presented to bim the resolulution
concerning "assisted emigration,"
adopted at the recent convention in Philadelphia.
Mr. Sullivan addressed the President,
reciting the resolution of the Philadelphia
convention, which protested against "that
1 olicy of the English government in first
reducing the Irish peasantry to abject
poverty and then sending them
penniless to the United States, dependents
upon American charity," aud instructed a
committee to urge upon the President "that
it is tho duty of tho government of the
United States to decline to support paupers
whose pauperism began under and is
the rosult of English mi-government, and
to demand of England that she send no
more of her paupers to these shores to become
a burden to tho American people."
Mr. Sullivan, in his speech, suggested
that "intho absence of legislation on the
subject, the President of the Uni ed States
make official protest to the government of
Great Hritain against the fnrther deposit on
the territory of the United States
of persons reduced by misrale
to pauperism in Ireland," etc.,
H. L. Hoaget, prasident of the Irish Emigrant
savings bank of New York, and James
I.vnch. of New York, president of the Irish
Emigrant society, also addressed the President,
urging him to take action in the matter.
The President, who paid careful attention
to each speaker in turn, replied to the
addresses as follows:
"Tha subject you present will receive my
careful consideration. It has already been
under consideration by_ the secretary of
sta'e. Correspondence in regard to it has
1 ecu had with our diplomatic and consul;!
r ] epre-sentatives, and an investigation
into the f.icts is now being made by
them. It is, of course, proper that this government
should ascertain whether any nation
with which it holds amicable relations is
violating any obligation of international
friendship before calling attention to any
such matter.- In the meautime, the law now
provides that the officers of the treasury
shall examine.into the condition of the passengers
arriving as einigrunts at any port
of tho United State?, nnd if there
should be found any convict, Innatic,
idiot or any person unable to take
care of himself without becoming a
public charge, they shall report tho same in
writing to the collector of such port, and
snch person will not be pormitted to land.
The investigation will be thorough and exhaustive
on this side of the Atlantic and on
tho other, and in the meantime tho law will
bo strictly enforced "
Each of the delegates was then introduced
to the President by Mr. Sullivan, and tho
conference was cloeed.
i
Aff EXGINEEK'S DEROfSM.
Bow He Hared a Tra.'n C'onta'nfnj ISO Ptr? '
feengrra nt the Expense of Ills Own Lllc. ;
The fa-t express train from Sommerville,
S. G., when throe miles from Charleston, the Hf&l
other morniDg, was turned from the main
track to a siding by a misplaced 6witch and
same in collision with t ro loaded cirs which '' 'jpgf
ivere standing on the siding. The engineer, gsb
J. 8. Smith, was instantly killed, pnd the
colored fireman, Paul Washington, received
injnries from which ha died later in ^
the c'ay. The engine was demolished, and
tho engineer's be dy cut'completely in two. '
There were about 150 passengers on the train, jS^H
none of whom was hurt. They owo tiieii SgHM
lives to the heroism of the engineer who, inatead
of jumping from the engine after the W&m
(rain left the main track, occupied himself H
during the run of seven:y-five yards to the SWg
scene of tha collision in reversing the engine
find nnttinc on the air brakes. The accident
was caasedf by the carelessness of a sectioa jSSM
master, who was repairing the switch at th6
time. The coroner's jury in their verdict
placed all the blrnm on tl e section master,
H. G. Stewart He was arrested end committed
to jail in default of $2,0C0 bail. IMPOttTANT
CABISEF MEETING. '- "'Wm
Pnnpera Whi) Have Been Amtnted to Em> - ;^jMg|
grate to Thli Country to be .Dent Back.
At a regular cabinet meeting, attended by
all the members except Secretaries Frelinghujsan
and Teller, who were both out of the ^
city, the principal question considered was
in relation to tho alleged shipment of pauper
Emigrants to this country from Ireland by
the British authorities. Tho result of the de- .
liberations on this subject was shown in the
subsequent action of the secretary of :-5a8
the treasury, who telegraphed Inst
ructions to the collector of customs of New ( 'a
York to co-operate with the commissioners Hrafl
of emigration at that port to prevent the
landiug of all emigrants found to be vJgQ^:
paupers within the meaning of the law. In '"ajgHS
tho event that such pauper emigrants may H|
have already landed, the collector is instrncted
to take all practicable measures to jgijjSMj
have them reshipped to the port whence they
came. j^^KSS
CTPIT urnTTY. $8m
WAV V
Wretched Condition of the'Indlana at Stand- KSjfflB
log Rock Agency* ^wBsH
The Sioux on the Standing Bock reservo- BraaSM
tion are reported by Sorgaant Ham, of the ^^shU|
Seventh cavalry, stationed at Fort Yates, to HjO|a?
be in a wretched condition and dying off at flgsgHK
a frightful rate. " The principal cause," he Hh
eay3, " is pulmonary disease, caused by exposure
and aggravated by irregular habits of
eating and sleeping, lnck of nourishing fooi .^9
and warm clothing. They eat until overything
at hand is gone, and then go without
food for several days, perhaps- Five yards flftHH
of calico furnishes a full suit for a squaw, H?K9
and when a new piece is received it is put ou aPgfjBB
over the old one, until the accumulations M 8|
reach four or five. When pieces of cloth are H&aHfl
wanted, the under or oldest garment is re- S| mm
sorted to until it is thus used up. They eat SagM
the refuse of a carcass half cooked, with
equal relish as the choicest parts."
Ocean Etiquette. '
Eighty thousand Americans annu- SB
ally visit Europe. Of this number B&B
50,000 sail from the port of New York. '
They spend upon an average while Hj|f9
abroad $2,500 apiece. The greater ?3fB
number are ladies. Such is the state- Bp|B
| ment made by a Broadway (New
lorKj i raveling cum mission nrm to a www
reporter, The importance of these annual
pilgrimages, which are increasing {WSn
year by year, has developed a system of H&fl
ocean etiquette that governs the con- MaH
duct of what may be termed the best. B&5BH
circles of " maritime society." Nowadays
the captain of a crack ocean flKgKH
steamer must not only be a first-class - 'BraSS
sailor, but he must also be a man of
infinite tact and method, with a thorough
knowledge of what "society" requires
at his hands. " ;~r
To sit at the " right of the captain "
at table at once accords to the occupants
of that distinguished honor the
highest place in the social scale on
board ship, and the position is com- 9
peted for with an amount of anxiety
that is very amusing. The senior sur- M
geon and his assistant (when two are
carried) act as deputies, and rank so- ' 'gBiA
cially next in importance to the captain ^
himself. How to accommodate the var I
rious claims for this coveted distinction
is a matter of serious moment. The
personnel of the passenger list is
closely searched at least forty-eight
hours before the vessel sails. Very
often the purser is called into consul- ,
tation, and the difficulty is finally settled
by placing a card bearing the passenger's
name upon his or her plate. ti
From this decision there is no appeal.
It frequently happens, however, that uxW
one or more persons may consider
themselves slighted, and where it is *
probable that the imaginary slight will
disturb the social harmony the captain ,
t>Qpnr>p<t hvt.alrintf hi?j rnpftl? in hi<* nwn '
room.?Boston Traveler.
Clay Pipes.
The red clay pipe is made at the rate . v-#$g
of about two million a year, worth five
or ten cents apiece, or ten or twenty
thousand dollars. The clay comes from
Martha's Vineyard, Governor's Island, $
New York, and Lake Michigan. Three
hundred tons are used in a year. The y:y4B
three kinds of clay are mixed or
ground together. A workman with a
pile of clay beside him makes from it
single rolls of clay, each large enough
places the clay in pipe mold, runs a ^^**1
wire into the stem part, puts it under a 'jpS
lever and makes the bowl. Fifteen
hundred a day are molded by one man.
The molds may be of various designs to
form the decorated bowl.
After the molding process the pipes ,
are laid away to dry or drain until the
water is well out of them. They are
then put in fire-clay receivers, one hundred
and ninety in each, and placed in
the furnace kiln to be burned. They
are then heated to a white heat. The
red clay pipe has a wooden stem and a
silver band. The stems are made from
maple by machinery for the purpose.
They are* made black by the process of
enameling. The band is made from a ',%&
circular piece of brass, that is to say,
a circular piece of brass without break HHRlra
or seam is turned into a cylinder about
an inch in length. Some of the pipes
are stained, while others are left in the
color of the clay, to be stained or colored
by the smoker.
A New Industry of Sew England. ^
Not a small part of Central and pe , ~1|8|
Southern New England, no longer
profitable for agriculture, is now growing
up with white pine, and this white
j pine, if it can only be protected, will j?||
! in a few years, it is safe to predict, ex- SjEMtaa
i ceed in value the net profit all the New
England farms can produce during the JqS
next fifty years. In some parts of
Vow F.norlanri this second crnwth of
, ^ " ??o o~ - - in 1,TTBM
pine has been growing for a considerabie
time, and has already given rise
| to large and profitable industries. The
value of logs cut in Massachusetts dur- jftg xzSM
I ing the census year reached nearly r'
j $2,000,000; at least one-half were sec1
ond growth white pine. More than
100,000,000 feet of second growth &
white pine were sawed during the
same year in Vermont and New Hampshire,
and nearly if not quite as much
more in Maine. The manufacture of
wooilen ware, an important and growj
ing Massachusetts industry depending
[ upon this second growth of pine, has
made "Winchendon, Worcester county,
nnnfnti nf fV%io Knoinnaa in thp
l/UU giuau V/CUVCl Ul bllio UUOIUCOO lu vuv . -H
S United States, if not in the world. I
These young forests of pine are al- - |1
ready of great value in New England; I
at no distant day they must become I
one of the most important factors in I
its prosperity.?Boston Herald. B
According to the I'nited States com
missioner of education, $61,475,000 has I
been given by private individuals for ^
1 educational purposes in this country I
! within ten years. This does not inelude
the recent gift of Slater and I
I others, amounting to $8,000,000. "'Ml
It is now the season when the young I
I man buys a city map, marks on it with
a blue pencil the places in the legality I
of his girl's residence where ice cream
and soda water are sold, and carefully I
studies it to avoid them in his moon- 9
t light ramblinga with her,?Fu c/c, 1