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A'BBEYILLR PRESS AND BANNER^ BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1883 NO. 20. VOLUME XXVIII M IF. | if you your lips "Would keep from slips, Five things observe with car? Of whom you speak, To whom you speak, And how, and when, and where. If yon your ears "Woul 1 save from jeers, These things keep meekly hid; Myself and I, And mind and my, Ajid how I do or did. ?Christian Advocate. MISS LIRRIPIP'S LOVERS. I Lydia Lirripip had a pretty face and five thousand pounds a year, not to speak of expectations. Pretty faces are com- j mon enough, even in these days of agricultural depression and stagnant trade; but a girl with five thousand a year is a rarity; and a girl with five! thousand a year and a pretty face into j the bargain is a positive phenomenon, j and, as such, cannot fail to be greatly admired by a number of more or less j eligible young men with a taste for' beauty of the most substantial kind, j Even middle-aged bachelors awake from i their habitual indifference when, on being ' introduced to a lovely damsel of two-and- j ^ twenty, they arc conscious that the pos-1 * sessor of a considerable fortune stands before them; for although money is no doubt the root of all evil, it i3 a root j which most people very willingly under- j take the risk of cultivating. Since Lydia Lirripip was thus beauti- i ful and thus rich, it is not surprising: that she had not only admirers?men who j dared to wish uncertain things; but j lovers, too?men who had the prosump- : tion to hope. It is true that Lydia encouraged none of them; for she was j quite satisfied to live at home with her father. General Lirripip, in Bruton street, Grosvenor square, aud to ride in Rotten Row in the morniug, and to drive in the I park in the afternoon. But, fortunately, : young men do not require encourage- j ment; nay, in certain affairs, the less en- j ? ?-? ? a *1?a i couragtniL'UL uwv mv ?iv,?<.v< their persistency becomes; and considering that healthily-constituted young women seldom, if ever, give a^y encouragement to young men, the persistency of these latter in the face of aiming difficulties is a matter on which all of us may heartily congratulate ourselves. Indeed, but for the persistency, who knows whether the world would go round ? ^ It was the height of the London season, " and Lydia Lirripip went with her father one evening to a great ball at the Countess of Carnaby's. Everybody was there ?that is, of rank and fashion; and ere she had been in the brightly lighted rooms for five minutes Lydia was engaged for all the dances on the programme. Ifow, to most of her partners she was onlv enjracrcd for a sincle waltz orpolka; but, for old acquaintance's sake, or for j some other reason, she allowed three gentlemen to take two dances each. It was no doubt very indiscreet of C5r to do so. But in one case at least it was also very good-natured of her, for she permitted old Sir Pertinax Popinjay, who, as every one knew, was far too still and gouty to move about properly, to put down his name for the only two sets of landers. Sir Pertinax was effusively grateful, and smiled his sweetest upon her as he returned her programme; and! Lydia, instead of regretting her kind- j ness, felt thoroughly rewarded by seeing that she was giving pleasure to the grayhaired baronet, who thirty years before j had been a noted dandy, but who now j struck her as being simply a prosy old | fellow whom very few girls would be likely to dance with. Lydia's other fa-1 YOreu parxners were -nr. riorace r rcaM.-, i a young artist who had that year, for the first time, exhibited at the Royal Acade- j my. and Mr. Merton Murley, a man who had no profession and no occupation and who. if he had a private income, derived it from a source not generally known even j to his friends. In this world many strange coiuci- j dences happen. Two chemists have been j known to make exactly the same discov-1 erv on the same day; and two astrono-| mers have claimed to catch sight of a ! new comet at almost the same moment. It 13 not, thereiore, increaiDie tnat, wane dancing these six dances with her three favored partners. Lydia casually mentioned to each of them that upon the following evening her father was going to take the chair" at the annual meeting of the Society for the Encouragement of Cold Water Bathing on the Continent; that she was not going, but would be b alone at home; that she wished that girls were able, like men, to amuse themselves, and that she envied her partners their clubs, their theatres, and their social smoking concerts. Nor is it incredible that, having heard this, Sir Pertinax . Popinjay, Mr. Horace Frcake and Mr. Merton Murley all made up their minds to call upon Miss Lirripip upon the following evening, and to make her certain avowals, which, although they had long meditated them, they now felt impelled to make as soon as possible and without imnfi/>?cportr nnlov Vincn i OllJ UUUVVbdOUtJ UV1UJ ?l bUVOV avowals were may be guessed; but why the three gentlemen all determined at the same time to make them is a question which cannot be explained, although the fact that Lydia that evening looked even prettier than usual may possibly have been one of the causes of the extraordinary coincidence. Lydia little dreamed, when in the small hours of the morning she dropped off to sleep, of what was hanging over her. Sir Pertinax had made no sign; Mr. Murley had not been more attentive than had for some time been his wont: and Mr. Freake had been actually j more dull and uninteresting than Miss Lirripip had ever seen him. She there-1 fore sl. pt soundly, and was undisturbed 1 by fears of the coining evening and its visitors. The followir.;; day was wet. The1 general, who had lived for many years in ' India, and hud a liver which caused him to be somewhat irascible, shut himself up in his library and savagely studied the | statistics of cold-water bathing, and | Lydia, who eoulu not go out. painted in her boudoir. The Lirripips dined at half-past 5, to enable the general to get to the meeting ; at_half-past 7. and as he had taken 1 no exercise during the day, and had j been quite unable to master all the ! intorination he required relative to the average ofcleiiulinssupon the continent. | Lydia's father v as not in the best of tempers. " Sit up for mc/ icsaid; "I shall be | in by half-past 11." These were his * is! words as, the car-j ringe having been announced, he hurried : away from the tabic, stopping for an in-1 Btaut at Lydia's side to kiss her hastily on the toj> of the head. And Miss Lirripi]> was left alone in solitary grandeur, | sitting at one end of the dining-room, j She did not stay there long, but went to . the drawing-room, whither she bade a servant bring two candles, which but dimly lighted the large apartment. Then, j taking her seat at the piano, Lydia began i to play and to sing alternately. The drawing-room at lJruton street ; was like many other London drawing- > room?. It occupied the whole of the j first floor of the house, save where in one j corner the staircase ascended, and it was | therefore L-shaped, the longer arm of the ; L having three windows looking out into the street, and the shorter anr one win- [ dow looking out over some m?ws in the j rear. Heavy curtains of tapestry hung j between the back and front portions of ! fVin rnnm tint were llSliallv looned UT>. vuvivvui, . | "1 - j and in the back room was the piano, at I which, within the halo of the two I candles, Lydia Lirripip played and I King. She had considerable knowledge of J irtixsic and a fine voice, and, wrapped up ! in her occupation, she started when the | door of thf; front room opened, and a! servant, who was to her invisible, an- ! nounccd Mr. Horace Freakc. j Lydia rose and received her visitor, I meantime ordering the gas to be lighted. ! It was half-past. 8. Why had he called at that hour? "Why had he not come in the daytime, while she was so dull, rather than just when she was singing? But, upon the whole, ehe was glad to see Horace, who, no doubt, simply desired to inquire how she was after the dance of the previous evening, and had not been able to do so earlier. As he be-' k I trayed, nevertheless, a certain hesitation t i in his manner, she led the conversation, :? and asked him whether he had enjoyed ! Lady Carnaby's ball, lie had, he said, pretty well; and then there ensued a f pause, during which Horace rather i awkwardly took a seat at Lydia's side on 1 an ottoman and gazed at the carpet. Mr. 1 . Frcake was not altogether stupid, but 1 f even wits often become rather dull when i they are meditating an immediate pro- ! posal; and the situation is so trying to I t j almost every man who finds himself in it. ( i that it amply excuses the exhibition of a t little uneasiness and nervousness. Mr. i1 Fronke cerhiinlv was nervous, but he C soon recovered himself. i t j " Your father is at the meeting. I .*up-! c pose. Don't you feel it very dull ail by j yourself here, .Miss Lirripip?"' "Oh, no! I have been singing; and 1 all day I have been painting.'' 11 'But dull, I mean, without society? 1 know that I do; and I have much more s society, I suspect, than you have. I'nicss \ 1 go nut, the evenings, I find, pass very 11 slowly. I cannot get the excitement of | work, for, of course, one can't paint by ' t artificial light; and if I try to read, It gem-rally go to sleep over my book.'' j "I think that you must be dilficult to j t please, Mr. Freakc. You have a lovely : ' studio, and you ought always to be able i to amuse yourself among such beautiful j things as you have in your house." | t ''No! I don't think that I am (lilli- I c cult to please. Miss Lirripip; for I know , 1 exactly what I want. The fact is that a ! bachelor s existence is not suiterl for a s man of my feelings and sympathies. I t live wrapped up iu my selfishness, and :i feel my heart growing colder and colder j every day. I have beautiful things in j ( my house, but they don't satisfy me. I j t want living beauty?something which 11 c may really care for and do for?some- j 11 thing which shall make my life complete. | e And it was to talk to you about this, j li Miss Lirripip, that I came to see you this evening." r Lydia experienced a curious sensation a which she had never felt before. c " You know, I suppose. Miss Lirripip," ^ he continued, "what I mean. You know that since I first saw you, three or four P years ago, I have loved you." And Hor- p ace took Lydia's unwilling hand. "Can i1 you," he went on. "learn to love me? v Will you be my?" a Ratatattatattattat! There was a knock J at the front door, and Lydia was greatly 11 relieved. P 'Is somebody coming up?" asked r Horace, anxiously. "Oh, I do so much want to tell you all. Say you are not in. Send them away. But let me stay. Promise to let me stay." A voice, evidently Mr. Merton Murley's, 1 was now audible from below, the drawing- C room windows being open and the voice i: being loud. v "It is Mr. Murley," said Lydia. "I * expect that he only wants mc to give me J some message for him to my father. He 1 will not detain me. But if I let you stay, s you must not talk any more as you have 0 been talking, Mr. Freake." j 1 At this moment there were footsteps on | n the staircase; and Horace, without another c word, fled incontinently into the back r drawing-room, and rapidly drew the cur- o tains behind him, so as to conceal himself non-Minor tvhr> immndintolv ^ HWUl . I j afterward was announced. j 1 Mr. Murley was not so nervous as Mr. j f Freake had been upon his first appearance, j * He shook hands with Lydia in an easy | f and light-hearted manner, paid her airy [ f compliment, seated himself comfortably [ P opposite her, and, without many prelimi- s naries, revealed the object of his visit. ( "I know that your father is out, Miss 1 Lirripip," he .said; "and I may as well s confess at once that I have deliberately 0 taken advantage of his absence to come 11 and sec you upon a subject which nearly concerns my happiness. I should have I; spoken about it last night, but that I could a not command your intention save for a s few minutes at a time. Now, however, a iv<> :irp snfe from intcrruDtion." s "But, Mr. Murley," said Lydia, "it c would be so much better if you would ?' call -when my father is in." 11 "Oh. that is not important, my dear j v Miss Lirripip. It is a subject that may |t be settled by you alone." J* "Please, Mr. Murley, do not tell me i ^ about it now," pleaded Lydia, "The! windows arc open, you know; and there j v ure servants about the house; and?" v Ratatattaattattat! I1 This time Horace, as well as Lydia, were greatly relieved; but Mr. Murley ; ^ was furious. "Let me see you to-morrow," he said i11 hastily. 0 b "Yes! no! no!" returned Miss Lirri-! a pip, thankful for any opportunity of t. getting rid of him. "Good-bye, Mr. c Murley, good-bye!" And the same ser- v vaut who showed up Sir Pcrtinax Popin-1 jay showed down Mr. Merton Murley, who glared at the baronet with a look i n wliich spoke volumes. "My dear Lydia," said Sir Pertinax, n as he offered both his hands to Miss Lirri- t) pip, "you wero really charming last night. S( 1 never saw such a perfect syl ph in my life, j, and many people agreed with me. You t] were the belle of the room. There is no p doubt about it." g, '' T'tn euro it in vftrv f^ood of VOU. Sir r. Pertinax, to suv so," returned Lydia. "But I thought that the countess herself?" " Oh, the countess? She and you cannot he mentioned together, my dear, o Every one said so. And beside, the tl countess of course is married. She has a: met her fate. Ila, ha! But you?you n are still?my dear Miss Lydia. I may be h a fool; but, upon my honor, I have come si here this evening with the determined in- h tention of asking you whether you will ci have me. You know I worship the very b ground you stand on." And to Lydia's y great consternation the old gentleman, t< ere she could prevent him, gallantly n knelt at her fret and took her hand with the evident intention of pressing it to his lips. s 'Do get up, please, Sir Pertinax," n said Miss Lirripip, forgetting for a mo- 1; inent that Horace Freake was within f hearing, but anxious that the baronet i; should not make himself unnecessarily I ridiculous even to her. "You can talk a just as well if you sit down; but really n you musn't talii in that way. I don't want e to be married; indeed, I don't. You 1 know I like ycu very much; b'.t I could ; t not possibly marry you." s Sir Pertinax rose with dignity, and ' t looked rather disappointed, j I "I had lnped, Lydia, that you liked |c me well enough for a husband. "What | t you say, however, may not be final, be- j 1 cause nothing can alter mv reirard for < you; and perhaps in tne luture you may | c think better of me." j j " I could not think better of you than j 1 I do," returned Miss Lirripip, feelingly; c "and you don't know how sorry I inn 11 that this has happened. We ran never I a a<min be the same to each other. I am J j ? > 1 so sorry.' jr Sir Pcrtinax began to l'eel sorry too, for. up to that evening, he and Lydia had always been like uncle and niece;! and, in an uneasy way, lie turned the j conversation into another c hannel. But J r he could not for long carry it on; and in ; less than a quarter of an hour he said 1i good-bye, like the sensible man he was, j < in spite of his weakness, and de- i < parted. Xo sooner had he quitted the room 1j than Horace emerged from his hiding- ' rclace. Lydia blushed to remember all j 1 that he bad overheard; but he did not i 1 allude to it. J < "Lydia," he continued, almost as if; i nothing had happened to disturb him, ; t "I love you truly, and with all my heart. 1 Will you, can you. learn to love inc. for J your iove alone will make me completely j happy ?" ] "Do not ask me,'" replied Lydia, who was once more seated. "You know 11 what I have just gone through. Mv j < head is iu a whirl." |] " But think how happy you can make j < me, Lydia! You would be everything to j ] me, as indeed you arc already, and I I ] would spend all my days in making you ! < happy." 1 < It is unnecessary to chronicle the I whole of the further conversation that ] took place. Suffice it to say, that at last ! Miss Lirripip discovered not only that 1 she could, but that she actually did love i Horace Freakc a little; and on the ! 1 strength of that she promised to marry i i him. < 1 Horace was in the act of presuming i upon this promise by kissing Lydia for I ' th? first time, and was enjoying one of 1 he happiest moments of his life, -when mother one of those furious ratattatats hook the house. "Another?'' said Mr. Frcakc, with a wile. "I shall go h:.ek to my retreat mtil we know who has arrived; for now . must be 011 the spot to look after you." Vnd in spite of Lydia's protestations he >nce more retired to the back drawing00111. Two minutes afterward the general, cry hot and very angry, stamped upstairs and burst into the j resence of his laughter. "Everything has gone vnmg!" he exclaimed. "Thcv voted me jut of tlw chair; they Hew in my face; hey decided that the wretched foreign>rs d\n't want cold baths." And he jounc M with his stick which I10 had irought up with him, and looked at Adia :us though she were the cause of lis discomfiture. "Well, papa," said Miss Lirripip, oothingly, "all the better. Now ou won't have to go to any more of heir horrid meetings." At this juncture Horace, who was roublod with a slight cold, gave forth a titled and inlinitesimally small sneeze. "J.ydia," cried the general, as he lircw himself wearily into an armchair, ' I'm sure there's a cat in the back drawng-room. Go and turn it out." And Miss Lirripip, having no alternaive, went cautiously behind the heavy urtains, and was there received in her over's arms. " Vou cannot speak to him to-night,'v he whispered. " lie would not listen u you. You see how cross he is. Come gain to morrow." Horace, therefore, silently took anithcrkiss; and Lydia, having unlocked he little-used door of the back room, hascd him with many expressions of aniuosity down the softly-carpeted stairase, and with a cry of "Shoo, cat!" inally let him out of the front door. When she returned to the drawingoom General Lirripip gave vent to some nirrv expressions oi hostility toward tne ntire feline tribe, and when he had thus lelivered himself went oil to bed. IIow the story ended may easily be iiessed. When Lydia's father was in a ooler mood Horace found no difficulty n obtaining his consent to the marriage, I'hich took place three months afterward; nd to the end of their days neither Sir 'crtinax Popinjay nor Mr. Morton Mur<jy had any idea that a third person was iresent when they proposed to Miss Liripip in Bruton street, Grosvenor square. How to Avoid Getting Fat. A new book on "Corpulence and its >eatment" has lately been published in iormany by Professor Ebstein, of Gottngen. He is not, iike the English " saior of the stout," full of overflowing hankfulness for relief from disease; trobably he has not even suffered from t, for corpulent men are rarely stern and trict. His method also differs from that f Banting. According to Ebstein the irimary cause of corpulency is the want 'f sufficient energy to renounce the soalled attractions of life. He firmly naintains that fat is produced merely by vereating and drinking. Water and [linking cures arc altogether condemned iv Professor Ebstein; and while the Janting system teaches that " fat makoa tit," tins doctrine is curccuy uppuseu uy 'rofessor Kbstein, in whose ideal of fare or those suffering from corpulency fat orms a great ifeature. "The 250 rrammes of bacon," says Professor Ebtein, " which our emperor ordered to be lelivered daily to all soldiers taking tart in the French campaign of 1870, are, o to speak, an official acknowledgment if the importance of fat in the rational lourishment of a hard-working man." The annexed bill of fare is that protosed by Professor Ebstein for an aver- I ge case of corpulency, the invalid being apposed to be forty-one years of age, J nd having suffered from increasing toutness for twenty-five years. The disasc is supposed to be contracted by inufficient bodily exercise, a diet consistng of such things as are hurtful, among .hich are named all sweet dishes ana hose containing much albumen and I hose devoid of a sufficient quantity of at. Breakfast?A large cup of black tea ] without milk or sugar; fifty grammes of I'hite bread, or toasted brown bread with ilentv of butter. Dinner?Soup (frequently and with one marrow), 120 to 180 grammes meat, nv rrxieforl TV i til f:it. CrrftVV fat leat being preferable; a small quantity f vegetables, particularly liguminous, ut also all kinds of cabbage. Turnips re excluded because of the sugar con- ! lined in them; potatoes are altogether xcluded. After dinner some fresli fruit, ! 'hen in season, as dessert; a salad or j aked fruit without sugar. Soon after j inner a large cup of black tea, without rilk or sugar. Supper?In winter regularly, in sumler occasionally, a large cup of black ?a without milk or sugar. An egg or i>mc fat roast beef, or both, sometimes \t ham, smoked or fresh fish, about iirty grammes of white bread, with lenty of butter, and occasionally a mall quantity of checse and some fresh uit.?Pall Mull Gazette. t Brazilian Cannibals. "The Indians of North America take ! nly a scalp, but these Mandrucans take j le whole head, scalp and skull-bones j ad brains. When lie has killed an eneiv he cuts his head neatly off, leaving is body for the vultures to eat; then licking the bloody head on the end of is lance, he hastens to his village to reeive the applause of his chiefs, and to ; ecorae the envy of the less fortunate j oung men, as well as the bone of con- i sntion over whom the Mandrucan 1 laidens wrangle.*' "The head, you say, is preserved?" "Yes, sir; sun-dried and embalmed by ome process known to these Indians, nade to look as hideous as possible. Tha irains and eyeballs are taken out, and also eyeballs inserted, which roll about j n these heads with every motion. The ] onghair is carefully combed and parted, 1 nd gaudy feathers of the rock-cock and toisy macaw are fastened behind the 1 ars and twisted in the hanging tresses. I fancy string or cord is then run through he dried and out-lapping tongue, and uspendcdto one of the huge beams about Tf lift + Ill; liuusu. x i> n mi; iii'/.-i, uviwviv ever saw?several hundred of these Iried heads, tied by the tongue, hanging o the beams amid ;i gay plumage of the nosl gorgeous feathers you ever saw. iVhcn they go out to work they take >ut these heads, and. stuck on lances, )lant them around the scene of their abors; and when they have war dance; >r feasts these trophies are trotted out, ind there is tin* horrible evidence of the varrior's prowess, which the father can xmit out to his young son, and which lobodycan deny."?Cincinnati Enquirer. Paralyzing n Dog With Awe. The Hon. Phil. Iloync, of Chicago, is iccountable for the following: "I was going along the other evening ivhen a savage dog flew out on me, cvilentlv ready to rend ine in pieces. Now, ivhat d'ye suppose I did?" "Whipped out your pistol, I presume, ind let lly at him." "Not a bit of it. I simply lifted my i u 1UI. IJUU t liiu^n. i iiu looked at mc, growled and finally Touched back to the doorstep and began ivagging his tail. I have done the same hinpr over and over again with the same result." 'IIow do you account for the result?" "This is how I figure it out," said Mr. floyne. "Dogs, in my opinion, think ?in a crude way. They see a man, such is I, walking along, say with a plug hat >n his head, and so forth. To him I present a complete picture, just as a log with flapping cars, swishing tail and four legs presents one equally complete. Now, mark! The four-footed picture annot, so to speak, disintegrate. No dog ivcr saw another dog take off his tail, or lay down his ears, or throw away one of lis hind legs. This human apparition 1 " ?1 ( suddenly Begins iu uuvu uuuocu iu picccs. lie lifts his hat. The clog don't tnow what is coming next, perhaps. lie icgins to think, fie is overawed. He neets with a power which is beyond his comprehension, and he succumbs. Mind, rou, this is only my theory, but I have ried it on several times, and I Always found it to succeed." ! FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Pruning. " Too much pruning," says a -writer in ! the Icica. lityi*tcr, "is worse than no j pruning. "When will farmers learn to commence pruning their trees when first planted, and prune a little every year? just enough to give them shape?and enough each year to keep them in shape and no more, and not neglect them for years to caro for themselves through I hardship find grief, till finally, impatient I that the trees do not bear, they conic to i the conclusion that something must be ! done, and so go into them with ax and ! law and butcher them to death." Dead Animals. i The carcasses of animals dying on the , farm, and as many more as can be sci cured from other sources, should be; ! utilized for manure, not buried or drawn ! away to the woods, but kept where they j ; can at once be used as available manure, i j Nothing more is needed for this than to j I cover them with sulphuric acid?oil ol i vitriol. This will convert the carcass ] into a thick syrupy substance, with little j ! offensive odor, and which may be ad- | ! vantageously thrown on any compost j heap. The oil of vitriol alone is exj cellent for the compost heap, as it has a ! strong affinity for ammonia.? Cultivator. To Fatten Chickens. Set rice over the fire with skimmed milk?only as much as will serve one day. Let it boil till the rice is quite swelled out; you may add a teaspoonful of sugar I or molasses, but it will do well without. [ Feed them three times a day in common pans, giving them only as much as will J quite nil them at once. When you give them fresh feed let the pans be set in water, that no sourness may be conveyed to the fowls, as that prevents them from fattening. Give them clean water or the milk of rice to drink; but the less wet the latter is the better. By this method the j flesh will have a clear whiteness, which I no other food gives, and when it is con eidcred how far a pound of ricc will go and how much time is saved by this mode it will bo found to be cheap.? Moitbray. Feedlag Cows and Horses* The old practice of feeding cows every three hours, giving the last feed just before retiring at night, has been very generally abandoned. Now the most successful farmers feed only morning and night. The whole morning or evening feed is not put before them at one time, because experience has taught that it is best to put before a cow a small quantity at one time, adding more as soon as it is eaten up, so that the morning and evening meals are made up of several small feeds, perhaps of different materials. ; Some farmers who have tried this method of feeding cows find it better than the old way, and without considering the fact that the horse and cow are entirely different in their physical structure, decide to feed their horses in the same way; but this is wrong, for the horse has not I nv+rn ofnmo^ in cfnro Tin fnnfl tf> masticatc at leisure, but he has only a small stomacb, where the food is rapidly formed into material to nourish the system. When fed but twice a day and fed j large quantities of hay the coarse food is | pushed beyond the position where it can t bo digested, and is thus passed oft with but little of its nutriment extracted. It is evident that horses and pigs should be fed oftener than cows ana oxen.?Massachusetts Ploughman. Crop* Grown (or ?cod* j The most exhausting crops are those J j grown for their seeds, which are sold oil | the farm; whereas the ameliorating | crops, as they are sometimes termed, are usually consumed in a green state on ( the farm. Much, of course, depends on the capacity of the plants for obtaining food from various sources and assimilating it in different forms. A crop of wheat, for example, collects only about forty-five pounds of nitrogen per acre, while a crop of clover contains nearly three times that amount of nitrogen, and yet the wheat exhausts the land of nitrogen and the clover enriches it. This is ' explained by the fact that the cereal crop contains in its seeds a large amount of non-nitrogenous compounds, the deposit of which has required the passage through their system of much nitrogen, and this, together with the mineral matter carried off by the crop, produces exhaustion of the soil. On the other hand, clover derives but a small part of its organized structure from the soil, while by its large system of leaves it absorbs a considerable quantity of nourishment from the atmosphere, and probably by shading the ground retains i evaporable nutritive substances in the 6oil. Leguminous crops in general, also presses anil broad-leaved root crops, arc, for similar reasons, less exhausting than the cereals. Itlannre* First. Hake and save all you can. Second. Guard against losing this by too much fermentation, leaking and leaching by rains. Third. In hauling in matter for compost, have a due regard for the nature of the soil upon which you intend to apply compost?using muck for uplands and high soil for meadows. Fourth. Use due care in preparing and selecting such kind9 of manure as the crops you require to grow demand. For instance, crops that ripen during the summer require fertilizers, or fermented manure that will contribute directly to their growth, while for those that ripen in the fall long, coarse, unfcrmented mfirmrfl IQ linttor Fifth. Do not bury your manure too deeply, or let it evaporate upon the surface. Unfermcntcd impure should be covered deep enough to keep moist, so that it -will ferment as the crop requires it. Fermented manures should be near the surface, to work downward. Theorists are in favor of always manuring broadcast, but practical farmers generally prefer placing the manure where the first roots of the growing crop can feed Jrom it, without having to travel over the field after it. cji.fv. Wrn gov T would nlant I UlAbU. livivi utaj . .. _ more land if I had more manure. Make j it. Manure is the farmer's capital, and if more farmers would have large sheds i of manure in the spring instead of; ! money at interest, they would be better i ! off in the end. The most absurd idea in I i the head of a New England farmer is I that he must invest his money some, where else than on his farm.?Ilostvn \ I Budget. ! Management of Currant Itiihlicn. The currant is a fruit that hns grown I in importance within the past few years, i Good varieties command paying prices I and the cost of growing it is compara| tively small. Currants may be planted J with about equal success during the j j autumn any lime after the leaves fall or j the wood is ripe and in the early spring, i j One-year-old plants make strong, vigorous bushes, flrnl should be cut back after ] planting at least one-half to insure new ; growth. For the garden, when fruit is desired as soon as possible, plants two or I three years old are preferable. Currants ! are also readily propagated from cuttings, provided these be kept moist and cool, but if subjected to heat and drought they are liable to failure. Cuttings succeed best when planted in the early fall. They also succeed in moist lands if set out in the spring. The currant^vill live under hard treatment, but is most profitable when receiving generous feeding and culture. A top-dressing of compost or other fertilizer in the fall or spring pays for the i expense and trouble with interest, and young bushes thrive best when cultivated and kept clear from weeds. The pruning of currant, bushes may be ' i done any time after the leaves fall. .Tiirlirinus shortening hack nnrl thinnincr I ' out add greatly 1o the productiveness and ' the size of the fruit. There is no set rule for this pruning; each farmer uses ! the knife according to the requirements | of each special bush or his own ideas, i The usual plan is to allow a number of stems to grow from each root. Occasionally there is a cultivator who lets but oue stalk spring from each root, keeping the twigs shortened back. This latter ' plan produces large berries, but the bush form is the better plan where quality is i an object. All branches that becomo | black or enfeebled from ago or disease should be cut out. In pruning this fiuit' remember that too much very young wood and too much old wood cause unfruitfulncss. Cutting back nnd shortening branches develop fruit buds. Air and light are essential, and a judicious ( , employment of the knife makes space for < them. I Roripc** Potato Balls.?Season cold mashed potatoes; beat to a cream with melted ! 1 butter. Add three beaten eggs. Roll ; into balls; dip in beaten eggs, then in I breadcrumbs, fry in hot lard. Stewf.d Rabiut.?Cut the rabbit up in nice-sized pieces, wash well, and dry. Then fry a tiiee brown. Take two large onions, slice very thin, and fry also, and j dredge with Hour. Put all in a sauce- j pan with pepper, salt and some good stock or water. Lot it stew gently two ! i hours, adding a little catsup ten minutes \ ] hpfnrp si?rvinrr. Stir all together. ~ ? o* ?O Fried Celery.?Cut the celery into j i pieces three or four inches long; boil , 1 them tender in salted water; drain them; J make a hatter in the proportion of two j eggs to a cupful of rich milk; mix flour or line bread or cracker crumbs, enough | , to give it consistency; roll the pieces of ! celery in it, and fry them to a light ! brown in hot lard. Serve very hot. ' Celery can also be cooked as asparagus, | j boiled tender, and served with a white j j sauce. Tea Cake.?Breadcrumbs may be i j made into a very nice tea cake by the ad- ! dition of the same things which would ( make flour into tea cake. Mix two i ounces and a half of crumbs with four ounces of melted butter, and to them add \ the beaten yolks of six eggs and a teaspoonful of grated lemon peel. Two ( ounces of chopped raisins, a few blanched and chopped almonds must be mixed i with these, and. last of all, the whites of i the eggs must be added to the com- J pound. It should be baked in a carefully ] papered tin, ana it is wen 10 scorc u i , into squares before puttingit in the oven, i Maryland Stewed Chicken*.?Pluck j and singe a tender chicken, wipe it with a wet towel, draw it without breaking the entrails, and cut it in joints as for fricassee; cut the gall from the liver, j ! clean the gizzard, and .put them with the | 1 chicken; husk a dozen cars of green , corn, free them from silk and cut the ( grains from the cobs; put the corn and the chicken into a saucepan with enough i boiling water to covei them; season < them with salt and pepper and stew them ; j gently until the chicken is quite tender, adding a little more water to prevent , burning. When the chicken is tender rub ft tablespoonful of flour with a table- < spoonful of butter, and stir them into i tlie stew, together with half ? pint of cream. Let it boil once and then serve ! it hot. ] Yenice and Her Glass-Bead Industry. J Beads arc largely made in Venice, , where classmakinir has always been a j principle industry. It is said that the invention of beads dates from the thirteenth century, and is due to two Venetians?Miotti and Imbriani?who were urged to make experiments by the celebrated Venetian traveler, Marco Polo. Under the Venetian republic, and for some years after its fall, says our consul at Venice, the exportation of beads had not reached the importance it has now attained. This was, perhaps, owing to the smallncss of the furnaces and to the J difficulty and length of the technical pro- i cesses required for the composition of the | paste. The Morelli, however, who in 1070 were the principal bead manufacturers, had four ships at sea carrying beads to the East on their own account, and they became so rich that they entered .the rank of the Venetian nobility on payment of a sum of 100,000 ducats to the republic. Since 181o this industry has become so important as to give at the present time employment to about 15,- j 000 persons. The trattic is earned on ! with all the world, but the principal ex- ( portntion of beads is to the ports of Asia nnd Africa. An extraordinary , stimulus was given to this industry a few i years ago by the prevailing taste for i beads for trimming ladies' dresses. A ' jreat extension of the manufacture took ] place and the labor was paid sohL'h that ! all who could do so gave up their usual , trades for bcadmaking. But when the i demand for beads declined most of the < workmen who had been allured by fancy wages to the bead manufacture were j thrown out of work and compelled to return to their former occupations. What- ' ever be the case, bcadmaking has always i been the special privilege of Venice, in I spite of all foreign attempts to manufacture this article elsewhere. The wages ( in glass works arc for a first master about ' $1.00 a day, for a second master ninety < cents a day, and for the ordinary work- < "?" ff.i'l m.nta i(\ 5:1 a (lnv t Dining the last five years the average animal exportation of beads has been 25,- j 000 quintals, of the approximate value of .$1,100,000. , - < The Habits of Tornadoes. ? Tornadoes furnished the subject of an ] interesting paper by Professor Willhm j P. Trowbridge, read before the New ' York Academy of Sciences. Professor I Trowbridge said there was seldom a day , or a week in June or July in which a j tornado did not occur, with its conse- ' qucnt loss of life and property. The 1 center o! great irequency was in ivuuau?, Nebraska and Missouri, but tornadoes were experienced in every State and in J every part of tiie globe with more or less 1 frequency. The roar of their approach had been compared to the eomingof 1,000 j railroad trains. < Professor Trowbridge exhibited a num- i ber of pictures of famous tornadoes and 1 described their characteristics in detail. The Lee Summit tornado, in Missouri, on < August 30, 1ST'.), extended sixty miles, i and was funnel-shaped, appearing like a great serpent with its tail curling and ) lashing. The funnel careened, accord in# to one observer, like a ballon, and (( the roar could be heard seventeen miles. , In one house, the first intimation of it? < approach was a violent rainstorm, and | < the family lied to the cellar. The house j 1 was soon whipped to pieccs, even the > 1 bedclothimr being torn into shreds. A | i lumber wagon was carried 1,000 feet I 3 across a ravine and a tree was borne | j five miles awav. The Irving tornado, in I ] Kansas, drew many houses into its vortex I as it passed over the country. Tornadoes I were most frequent in June and usually ! occurred in tlie afternoon. The width j of their path varied from forty feet to I two miles, the average being 1,000 feet. Out of 11 large number of tornadoes observed, their coining was heralded by the sudden appearance of dark and portent nous clouds, which rushed to a common center. In a century Kansas had experienced 02 tornadoes, New York, 45; Indiana, 27: Massachusetts, 11; Ohio, 28 and Georgia, 1:5. Professor Newberry remarked that observations carried over hundreds of years would probably give a more even distribution. The professor had seen tornadoes of various sizes in the West, and on one occasion chickens were stripped of their feathers. Before the Camera. j , " Colored people never sit but once," | says a Chicago photographer, "and are ; always pleased with the first negative, and the Germans arc very apt to be the same way about it. Men arc easier to satisfy than women, but most women like to sit at least live times. They then { most invariably selcct the first negative j out of the whole batch." " Do they like j to select their own postures?'' "Some of j them are very fond of choosing their own postures and their own accessories on the J first silting, and they always make a botch of it. A girl with a sharp, turncdup nose, who has spent most of her life over the washtub, will sometimes insist on having a profile likeness and on being taken leaning against the piazza pillar of an Oriental palace because she has seen it., in 1 :?:? I lie llKeiiess Ul miiiic i i'mmnj; uum: uiiyuu in thnt way. When she has ono view of herself in that fix, however, she very meekly resigns herself into my hands to j be arranged for a second sitting. The ( artist himself is always the best judge of f the point of view for a face, the posture ' of the bodyand the artistic surroundings. I Nobody will get a good picture who runs < these things to suit himself." i -T? I Very soon the piano cover will be taken off at night and used for a quilt.?Puck. ' NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States. A few days since at Stratford. Conn., Mr. find Mrs. Henry Curtis, agod respectively el: hty-nine and ninety, celebrated th sixt rth nnniversiry of th.ir marrince, in the presence of (hildren, grand children and greaterand-chil ren. By nn explosion of Are damp in a mine near Fitt^t.n, Peiin., two miners (brothers) were ki led and six others injured, three of H*nm t/> t. tViof tlioir rmnvArv 1VA_s considered doubtiul. Five men were blown to pieces by the explosion of l.'-O) pounds of dynomito used for blasting a railroad tunnel near Confluence, I'enn. A freight train was standing i,oar the magazine containing the dynamite, and four of the train hands wore talking to the watchman. Suddenly there was a terrific exp'osion. Houses for fifte?n mill's arou ul were shaken to thfir foundations an 1 windows for a distance of seven tnil-'s werj shattered. Trees were upro itcd. hu crocks were torn asunder Find telegraph p >les f< r 1 alt' a milo wore I r i: trate I. Jw.thb'g remained of the nnsraz no. and the nu n wlv> stood near it jus; before t ho cxplision were m'sslng. All must liavo been instan'ly kill d. Portions of b d es, including le^s, arm-, bind* and heails (vere j'ick d up ha f a mile distant, but so badly di figured as to be unrecognizab'e. The appearance o" alr.rg- school of porpoises in New York hay a lew days ago indicates, according to an old sailor, early cold ivcahcr. Irving, the great English actor, made his first nppi a' nnco before an Amorican audience at the .Star th'atro in Now York, appearing in tho " Bolls."' The New York critics sj>eak highly of his acting. C. Dickfon* was overcome by tho foul air in a wel' down which ho had" gone at Alleghany ( jiy. Penn. Two oth?r men named Schrader nr.l Schultz went t > his assistance, md were also overcomo. Whi-n hauled out ill three w; re found dead. Matthew Arnold, the celebrate<l English ??sayist, opened his lecturo tour in this country by a lecture in New York on "Numbers." Johnson* L. Lynch, a well known lawyer Uti< a, N. Y., was shot dead at Batav a. N. Y., by E N. Rowel 1, r j aj:er-box manufac turer of Batavia. Tho tragedy occurred in the latter's homo at Batavia. Lynch was infatuated with Rowell's young and beautiful wife. Mrs. Rowell informed Lynch of her busbanu's supposed absence, and tho two met md were fout:d together by Rowell, who immediately shot Lvn -h dead and then gave iiimsell up. The two m~n had formerly been neighbors in Uticn. South and West. In Todd county. Minn., a farmer named Steinbach engaged in a fight with a neighbor named .Saulley. During the combat the wife if the latter drove the t ne of a pitchfork into Steinbach's brain. The Saulleys were irrested. By a collision between a passenger and a froighc train at Joliet's Crossing, 111., an sngineer. brakeman and flagman were instantly killed and three other train hands badly hurt. Chief Justice Bartol, of Maryland, has resigned. While Alfred Go sett (colored) was on his way to the criminal court at New Orleans, to receive a life sentence for the murder of Polic?man John Corfey last April, the sou of Coffey, age 1 nine een years, stepped up behind Gossett. who was handcuffed, and shot him dead. The deputy in chargeof t .e murierer immediately arrested Coffey. The coffin in which Mrs. David Moes, the 517 founds bride, was bur ed at Baltimore was six feet long, two feet six inches deep and throe fpet wide. It took the united strength of twelve men to carry the remains to the hearse. An attempt made by e ght aien t> steal tho bo ly w is frustrate f. The Spiritualists of the South have organized as a religious body, with headquarters it Chattanooga, Te::n. A tcgboat exploded her b .i'er in Mobile bay, sinking immediately and carrying down the capt iin, mate a-d a coloied flrcm-.n. The c< ok al-o died from injuries received, and the engineer was painfully hurt. A machine for pi'king cotton in the field ,ias ust been complete<l and teste 1 at Sumter S. C. Practical fanners say that it is iestined to create a revolution in the agricultural intcro ts of the cotton States. During a tei rifle st irnnn Bourbon county, ! K}\, a n sidenco, a stow house, was blown 1 lown, and the whole fa*n:ly, four ]x?ople, were kil o 1. Toba co barns were destroyed Find the contrnt- blown away. A fire at Charleston, S. C., destroyed 4,010 bales of cotton, causing a los3 of about $100,x0. S. J. Hudson, of Belvidere. 111., who came to Waupun. Wis., recently with twochildren, in starch of his rui uway wife, found her Ires ed in man's attire and callirg herself Fi ank Dub i.?. She was liv ng with Gertrude Fuller, ha :'ng been marred to her early la-t spring at the home of the bride's mother. nn inr'n ,triniis pnlnrorl nan of Tomh-boro, Ga., ard two whito ineni ivore ia puiMiit of live ngro-s who had stolen ( o ne of thu former s h >gs. While is!eei> they were altncke I by tho five ne- I jnes. aiul in the li<:ht which followed Holder and three nf tho robbers were killed. JJaxtee Sti.noi.ey, a city mnr-hil at Sali3a. Col., was fntillv s-hot while attempting to irrest "Frank' Reed, a cowboy, for stealing :attle. The first bale of cotton ever picked from :he fie!d by ma h'nerv was exhibit'd at the Charleston (S. C.) cotton exchange a few days a?o, and a: traded general attention. The c ndition of I he cotton was pronounced as p od as hand-picked cotton of the same jrade. Among the entries at the Louisville (ICy.) log show were seven canines valued at $KJ,OJO ?ach. A new company, who-e cap:tal is to ba | *75,000,000, ha< been formed at San Franc sx? for the purpose of building a railroad be;ween that city and Denver, Col. Two c< 1 red men and the keeper of a norgue in Richmond, Va., have been arrested ! "or stealing corpes. MAJOR-GE.NER.vr. JOHN M. SCUOFIELD. who j succee ls General Sheridan in command of the j livision gf Ihc MLss.iuri, has arrive! at Chicago and as timed formal command. A fire at Savannah, Ga., destroyed 300 louses, frame buildings mostly occupied by negroes, a Ifirge cotton factory containing.-',000 sales of cotton. n.:ul oriier property, causing i in estimated aggregate loss of f 1.0U0.OW. j The charred bodies of three t>eop!e?a white j nan. a negro and a colored woman?were ; found in tho ruins of the cotton factory, a;:d ' several other persons ura believei to have perished. Washington. Two more i>oiisi< n attorneys?one of them ' Mrs. Belva l.ockwood, the well-known female J i awyer?have been suspended from practice ! it Washington for di-honesi transactions. j District-Attornev Ci>rkiiill, ut AVash- 1 ngton, is daily receiving a large number of ! jomplaints from every section of the country j ' n regard tj the dishonest trail-actions of j ?nsi< n agents. During the post fscal year tho total ocpipt< of the pistofiiee depart Runt were vly.O and the expenditures $11:,S1<!,'*0J? t caving a surplus of The estimate 1 an-oent of postal revenuss 1 'or tho fiscal year beginning July 1, including ! ?4"<i,0 ID estimate. I receipts from tho money!] rder business, is $47, UH,07S. The e-timated ; >x|ienditure for the same time is ?o(l,0:2(1,18si, | ivhic h m ill ,'eavn a deficiency in the revenue j if SiMi.Vvl 11. 'lho estimate f<r compensation ' ' if postmasters for tha next ycnr is Sl'-V-iK),- j j K.O, nil iiscim'e o:' over tho appro-; 1 irntion ft r tho pres-.-nt \ear. The commissioners aprointel by President j Arthur nil er tin? ant:-polyganiy~act of ltu>t ; ! ,'ear have submitted their' second annual re- j sort to the secretary of !ho interior. 'Ihe i ep irt is largely taken u:< by a re anitula- ' 1 ion of the various lo?ral enactrnenti now J I 11 tin) statute books, having lor their tj >b V t tho huf predion of jtolygamy and a | ; jortrayal of the results which have followed m attempt to enrorcu them. '1 liey have ! ( ) ><-li prart'callv a dead letter until th parage ' if the Edmunds act, under which th comnis ion is a ting. A lare;e number of j wlygamists have been exciu 'ed from the i M'.lis u:;dor the Kdmun Is a-t Tho j commissioners : u' mit a recommendation : :hat a marriage law b > enrcte I by Congress, j1 ivhich, they think, would I e an t lllcient aux- I liary in the suppression of polygamy. j Skcuftarv Lrxcoj.x. :n a letter to the United States s-ignnl offi er, sc\ erelv eritl- ' :i:ei Lieutenant Gnrtingioi:, of the 1< st teair.er Proteu:, .cent to the relief of the jirtvly expnl tiiiii in the Arctic regions. A j ;ourt of imjuiry was onlere !. General Sherman has reared from the i ictivc command of I he army, un.l been sue:co ie i by General f-hc: i inn. Foreign. Cardinal Bonnechose, archbishop of ' Rouen, 1 r.mce, is dead. A heavy oirthqwike shvk, accompanied , jv a roar and trembling of the earth, visi j i"d the island of Jiermu in. Asi.i Minor has 1 ( ilso again been .shaken by an earthquake, j | ?\t Your.a Iti'.i pereons were seriously and ! ( iixty-onc slightly injured. A ten-mile race was run at Winnipeg, j VIcnit- b>. b. nveen George Irvine, champion j j >f Cur d;!, and Little I'luin, son of the chief j < >f tl e I! :.c':foot Indians. A numb r of fouls , ? I 1 ?1: - - 1 ) ( 111 re i' iri-iy irvilic iuiulacu iuu muiuu | i 1 i\vn severely injure I bim by st: mping 1 , in li s wrist w.tii -piked sli> es. Kevorth less j lr; Indian regained 1i:k ieet find renewed ttio ' ii' o. winning l?y fiv? yar.ls in fifty-five niin- ! lie , end tell fainting at tho winning-post, i ! I'lie excitement wa. intene. Fimo lias almost o .tirely destroyed Tort ; ] \ntonio, Jamaica, causing an aggregate e ti- j witcd lass i f $!,0;) >,WW. ] A jjodv of k.o Egyptian soldiers were re- | i ently surprised and mi^saero I by tho hill ;r.b:\"; in jvi.tfilfl in Ni b a. 1 a letter from Saigon, in Annam, to the faris Franco states th .tunhe.ud of eruellie* .vere committed near ilue en tho occasion of > ts cloture by the Fren -h sailors. A'bniral 1 ,'ourbet dirorto I innn ofTlcinl or.'erthitthere i hould be no quarter 2;iven to men, women or i hi dren. Three hnndre'l Annamites who hvl 1 a!: u refuge in the mouth of the bay of 1 fhu'ir were killotdl of them be^ng shot. I Ono bundre 1 and fifty more who were drift- 1 ng in a junk without arms or oars were aLo 1 nassacred. Mohk than 400 jrersoas have been attacked }y trichinosis at Emaleben, Gormany, and i digbtetn deaths have occurred. The river Falembria, In Thessaly, Greco?, bos overflowed its banks, causing widespread de vast if ion. One hundred houses have been destroyed and several Ihes have been lost. Larissa and the villages in its vicinity were surrounded by water. Portugal has adopted a Jaw rirecting that for the future every human corpse bhall be burned, either at once or in five years after burial. Fourteen* thousand Chinese troops have been ordered to enter Tonquin. A number of French vessels have been sent to the Chinese waters. General Don Fernandez de Cordova, formerly captain-general of Cuba, is dead in h.'s ninety-first yonr. Ax international lator conference has been in session at Paris. Morris Ranger, a London cotton broker, has failed for about $3,2. 0,000. His suspension va- followed by that of several other Englis-h co.ton biokors. Great excitement has been caused in Ivon don by two explosions,supposed to be the work of Fenians, near different underground stations on the Metronoliian railway. The two trains whih were allected by tho explosions were considerably damaged, and a tout forty persona were injured more or le-w severely. A quantity of dynamite was maliciously explrd^d in the offic; of the chief of j oliceat ] rankfort on-the-Alain and the building was baaly damaged. Vennor, tho Canadian weather prophet, ia j again indulging in weather prognostications. Mi scat, Arabia, has b"rn fce-iejjed by the brother of the present ruler. The British 8ul>;o ;ts le t tho town and went on board a Britisli gunboat which shelled the camp of tho besiegers. S. Walsh, of Hamilton, Ontario, has sued a Mrs. Pirie, his former sweetheart, for $5,UUU damag03 for breach of promise. The Sj.anish government b-s ordered the abolishment of corporal punisnmont Co slaves iii Cuba. Kamieniec, ft town in Russia, has been severely shaken hy an earthquake. Intense excitement pievailed in London over the attempt to blow up the tunnel of the underground railway. A large force of special policeman was put on guard at the various railway stations and in the vicinity of the houses of parliament and other public buildings. Nitroglycerine was the agent employed in both explosions. The Dublin Steam company's steamer Holyhead collide 1 with the German ship Alhanibra, and both vessels sank. Thirteen of the Alhambra'a crew and two of the Holyhead's were drowned. The British barkontine Jane Hunter, from Pernambuco, Brazil, to St. Johns, has b.en lost off the coast of Newfoundland. Captain Bowden, the first and second officers and all th>, crew except two seamen perisheJ. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Hme Christine Nilsson says she will make her permanent home in America. Mrs. Langtry and her company will p'ay at Baldwin's theatre, San Francisco, early in May. Six concerts will be given this season by Dr. Damrosch's Symphony society in New York. Miss Marie Prescott is meeting with great succcssin her new play, "Belmont's tfrido." John McCcllough, the actor, tells a reporter that his personal profits last year were $<0.00 >. The Western papers are highly laudatory of Miss Anua Dickinson's peril finance of Anna Boleyn. Reiorts from the Hess Opera company conl.rm ihe managerial accounts of big business everywhere. A new American comic opera called " Dom Pedro." recently produced in Phi.adelphia, is sai. I to have been"an instant failure. Mine. Rist ori is playirg in the country towns of hngiand, doiti^ very p .or business. In Gloucester she drew less than 100 people. It is announced that the great English baritone singer, Mr. fc'antley, has been .betrothed to a b.-auciful South American heiress, and that the marriage will talie placa shortly. HhllmksiiekoER, the distinguished Viennese violinist, recently injurai his hand so severely in eudeavoring to close a window that he wid probably nwver again be abio tJ play. Agnes Huntington, a young contralto, who hxs studiel wiih Lamberti. and sang abroad, is engaged as the soloist for the first concert 01 the New York Philharmonic society. Anton Dvorak's concerto for piano and 1 orchestra has been published in Brcsiau. It is said to be by far the most original and ef- | feetive work of the kind that has bean writ- j ten lor years. Bronson Howard has received $12,500 from j tho Madison Square theatre for his " Young ! Mrs. Winthrop." His royally is ?100 a week j lrom each of tne two companies now playing j it ia tli.s country. Mme. Alhani has returned to London after j a tour in Sco land. teh.> will not return to America this winter, but intends nakinga tour through Fiance, Germany and B.-lgiuin, appeal ing in concert and oj em. Mr.. James E. Vooriiees, son of Senator i D. W. Voorheei. of Indiana, who lias tigured in several theatrical enterpnses and was ambitious to becon.e a star actor, became suddenly insane in New York recently. " Peril," Mrs. Langtry's "now plav," is sai l to be an adaptation of Sardou s Noa Intimes," made by Messrs. B. C. Stephenson and Clement Scott, and originally acted at the Prince of Wale.' theatre in London. Tho posthumous songs ot tho composer Frederick Von Fiotow have just been published iu Berlin. These melooiouscompositions have at once beeu taken up by seviral promi* ! nent singers, an 1 promise to bo one of the leading leatures of the coming season. Tliii novel of " Kiss ng tho Hod," by Edmund Rates, has been adapted to the stage by Mr. God.rey, u..der the t.tleor "Self"? which, by tho way, is the name of an old iilav bv Mrs. Bateman, in which Mr. John E. Uvvens*acted the chief part, Johu Unit. The piece will bo performed at the Court theatre, London. Frank Lincoln, the American humor.'st, who is so much pctied by the Pr.nce of Wa'es, and consequently in great demand for j private entertainments, was formerly a clerk in New York, and his real namo is Uus i Hopkins. He was also a caricaturist whose | signature " Hop'' was familiar to the readers j of the New York Graphic. A German stage statistician has made the , marriage of actresses tho subject ot his le- I starches, i. e., the union in wedlock during | the past twenty years entered into by ac- ) tresses with princes of the blood, dukes, aroh- j dukes, counts, barons, bankers merchants | and with actors Tho result of his investigations demonstrates the fact that the chances | for nn n.rtri>s< becjiiiinc the wife of a prince ut the blood are equal to 1 in W(i; of a duko 1 in 512; of a prince 1 in 405; of a count 1 in :.0U: of a baron 1 in 170 PROMINENT PEOPLE. i Grant.?General Grant is expected to soon become a permanent resident of Washington. McOlellax.?General Geor?o 13. M"Clel- j Inn and family will spend tho winter in Wa.-h- ; ngton. Millais. ? Millais, tho great English . painter, is a fran.c, robust, fresh-looki.g | man, above iho medium height aad sturdy of i bail 1. Irving.?John Henry Brodribb Irving is the full name of the most prominent of Eng- j lish actor.-, now pla.\ ing an engagement in New York. Knott.?Governor Proctor Knott, of Kentucky, presented to President Arthur on be- | half of a number of distinguishe i Kentucky j ;entk'n:a t, a fi hing rod, taid to be tne finest j in tho United States. liCRDETr-Cot'TTS.?The Paroness Burdett- : Coutts, the wealthiest w man in Eu^ia id, now figures as the patroness of the great Yarmouth fishing tleet for which she b lilt no less than thirty smacks for poor fi-hermen. AViiiim'LB.?Mr. E. P. Whi;?pli', who n lil Years a^o was tho mo->t populir cs:oyist in An.er ca, a id who was kri >wn a< ' hippie the Essa\ ist,'" is s??Kl in seen oatsi e his Boston houie. He is sixty-four years olu. I'arnell.?Mr. I'arneU, leader of the Irish hon.e rulers, has accepted an invitation l'ro.a j Lhe promoter of the I'arnell testimonial : lund to atte. d a banquet to ! e given m his ; In .nor in tho rotunda at DuM.n on ti.o loth i of December. TitOLi.Oi e.?Tlie largest sum which tho | la:e Anthony Trollope, the English novel.st, ever receive i fur a novel was $l."?,r?;5. lie realisea that on "Orlev Farm." lie received ; a larger rate l or a shorter story. " Thj Ckverings " was sold for $1-1,UJ0. Mcrr w.?Mrs. Muriav, the wife of "A 'ircn lack" Muriay, has jus. return? 1 from Euro. o witha diploma from the Vienna inedi?ai college, both as physician and surgeon, i being, her friends say, the only woman in the country with this certificate. i Kellogg.?'Iho Cnivago News savs: Clara i Louise Kellogg is now said to bo en;.*ig d to i Mr. Royal M. Bassetf, of Birmingham, t L'onn. This leaves Buthold.'s Statue of I iiio. ty the only person on tho continent to 1 whom Miss Kellocg has nut by run.o.- b en ; m^aged. Montefiore.?To Sir Moses Montefiore tho Hebrews of England owe more than they owe Lo Beaconslield. lis will, if ho lives, I) 100 years old next year, Uctob.r -4. His face has a look of benevoionce. He was ! knighted when he w.is sheriff of London in ISHi, and was raised to t h burtonetcy in I * [t was he who was selecte 1 to secure the rights and lives of tho Jews in Damascus in 1?H0, nn I he has u- dertakin several mis ions to other countries for the same purpose. Christian Burkhardt, of Circ'niiati, first >hot himself in tb?? mouth, thinking to si nd the bullet into his brain. It did not Kill him, md he then put ihepstol behind his righ: ear ind llri'd tho second time. Still he was rot kilo I. and at the third attempt he nii-sed hs head allogo'her. The fourth time ho pressed the pistol against h:s a!) loinen. The ! ali'. erof tlie weopi n was small, and he is j i.^elv to recover from his woudds. George Atkinson, of San Francisco, Cal., ' staked bis life on his horse, and losing, im- 1 mediately paid tb? forfeit with a pistol 6hot. i . LATER NEWS, As a freight train on tin Southern Pacific railroad was crossing the Santa Anna river bridge near Colton, CoL, a wheel broke and eighteen cars were precipitated into the river causing a heavy loss. Two tramps wero killed and two brakemen injured. A volley of shots was fired into a crowded circus at Kingsland, Ark., the bullets passing through all parts of the largo audience. One of the performers, a contortionist, was truck, an l died iu tha ring. A i ire whic!i broke out in Garfield, Col., ex ende 1 to a store containing GOO pounds of giant powder. This exploded, hurling blazing timbers and fragments of buildings in every direction. The postofflce, the hotels, and, in fact, the ontire business portion of the town, was destroyed. Nine bodies were discovered in the ruins on the se:ond day after the fire at Savannah, Ga. During October the national debt was decreased $10,304,7118.83. Further particulars concerning the debt are: Decrease of debt sinoo June 30, 1833, $39,581,470.33; ca;h in treasury, $304,247,J501.93; gold certificates out. standing, $.S3,33^,910 ; silver certificates outstanding, $99,579,141; certificates of deposit outstanding, $12,6C0,000 ; refunding certificates outstanding, $325,*50 ; legal tenders outstanding, $340,031,016 ; fra> tinvinl nnrrATi/*v nnfcfnnrHnr* OOO 303 31 When General Sherman assumed com niand of tho United States army in March 1861 >, it consisted of (>82 staff officers, 2,?03 line officers and 4(.),i>47 enlisted men, making an aggregate force of 52,935; but the army of which he has just relinquished command to General Sheridan numbers only 27,'lTti officers and men (exclusive of cadets nd retired officers)?namely, 580 staff offlcors. 1,5'JO regimental officers and 25,000 rank and file. According to the annual report of the oomptrolltr of tho currency, just published, tho number of national banks reporting on the 2(1 inst. was 2,501, an increase of 230 since October 3, 1832. The capital atoc'i was t50:\0( 0,00.), an increase of $2tf,030,000 during the last year. The increaso in surplus is >11,OUO,UU), while the bank circu'ation on October 3, 1882, of the going banlts was $314,721,215, an 1 on October 2,1883, it was 1314,931,575, an increase of only $210,300. Orangemen seized the city hall at Londonderry, Ireland, in order to prevent the lord mayor of Dublin from delivering a lecture on the franchise, and fired upon a procession of nationalists from Donegal, wounding two persons, one with fatal result The military and police dispersed the crowd. PENSION FRAUDS. How Dishonest Agents Swindle Soldiers and Their Heirs. * An Enormous Evil Being Investigated by the Government. The dishonest practices of pension claim agents are being vigorously investigated by District-Attorney Corkhill, of Washington A uiaj'tii/uil iruui tuu uauuiuu tjapxuu aa/a. Unless District-Attorney Corktxill is greit ly deceived as to tho weight and value of the testimony in his i ossossion, showing fraud and deception on the part of a large number of pension claim 8gents in Washington, these persons will be so busy for the next few months in efforts to keep out of the penitentiary that ti:ey will not be able to push with their utu.il vigor the various schemes they tave on hand to secure further legislation, os'ensiblv for the benefit of the late soldiers of the Union, but really to All their own pockets at the expense of the taxpayers. For months pnst claim agents have been busy circulating petitions aud obtaining signatures from ex-soldiers and others praying Congress to reniovo the restrictions as to tlw time for filling claims for arrearages of pensions, and there is reason to be'.ieve that they have thus succeeded in obtaining material enough already to impress a great many credulous and wenk-knefd Congressmen with tho belief that an overwhelming public sentiment demands the proposed legislation. Colonel Corkhill describe one of thefavorit? methods used by dishonest claim agents to obtain money under false pretences, a3 follows: " There was a poor widow in Pennsylvania who got one or tlrso circulars. Tr.e agent obtained her name, I suppose, through a letter to the postmaster. You can see what tho effect of one of these circulars would be wrhrtn conf i n r?n irrnr^rn r.f". ruaro^n min OP woman. Thecircularsnys: " Vou are entitled to a pension Mease fi 1 up the enclcsed blank." Immediately it raises expectations. Then the pension attorneys begin " m.Iking'' for money?one dollar for postage, etc. One of these things was addressed to this widow. She thought that the pension attorneys, of course, knew whether she was entitled to a pension or not, and so she signed th i papers and sent tliem 011. Some time afterward the express agent told her that there was a package f r her m&rktd "collect on delivery ten dollars." What in the world could it be? The expre-sman brought up one of tha<o large on velopes with the U nion fag and words ' C'nitrd States Pension Agent" printed on it. She had only $10 in the worldsome money sent her by former friends of her husban 1, who are now living ilk Nebraska. This she intended to use in buying her winter Hour or coal. The express agent went with her to the justice of the peace, who said the package undoubtedly came from the pension agent and that the $10 was his fee allowed by law. They wont also to the lawyer who said that it was tho pea?ion certificate. She went home, got the *10, which was more to her than $10,000 to some people, and went to tho express oftico joyfully with the money. She tol< I the express agent it was God's doings that brought her n pension just at the time mat sho was almost starving. She gave tha money. The express ageut opened the package and read the contents. It was simply a paper from a pension asrenfc in this city with the inscription: ' Received our fee, $10.' The expressman said : ' This is such an outrageous ca<-e, madame, I will retain the en- j velope and write to tho man." Ho wrote, but, got no further satisfaction, I believe than that ! was tho fee allowed by law." There is some evi lence indicating that one ! or more claim a euts have attempted to pro- i cure pension-; for ex-Confe lerate soldiers, or j at least have collected money from them j umier the pretense that they were entitled to j pensions. Tho District attorney meunonea | one case of this kind. He said : "Another letter of one of the i fit ins that I think has suspende 1?a letter to j a Confederate soldier ? says : ' There is a balance of jo still due on "our fee. Ycu have paid only $5. PI' a-e ^end us the ba!a ce as s on ns possible, so ti at we cm proceed.' I haven't time to go over all the papers that you f ee beforo me ; bat what I have read are fair samples." ICCINTRIO SUICIDES. A member of the Texas bar committed j suiri 'o bd.iiuse his client berated him for j losing h.s c;ise. Jennie Roberts, of Pi'tsfield, Mass., flung herse.f into a stream alter being rei'used per- . ntis-ion to go to a ball. J. Lnnge, of St. Paul, while riding on a | railroad train, (ir.-t cut his wr.srs witharazor j and then jumped through a car window. j A Kan-os mil'cr drowned himself in his j mill-pon i be nu e a dam he had just built failed to collect water enough to turn the wheel. Mrs. Joseph Sl aw, of Gatesvi'le, Texas, j saturated her c!"th ng with kiro.-ene, lashed i hers 'It secure y to a tree, an 1 set her cothos I on lire. Ross Callion, of L'nvinpton, in<i., nivinp j lo t h s I:c:ilt!i through a wound rectivid in a ' stru p'e with a tramp, ended hu life with a , liistol ball. 1 i l'.el gious excitement unsf tt'rd the mind of Ms. Henry Bee.mnn, of D er Park, Md., und >-l;c killed herself by eating two handfula of blue vitriol. "While plowing, Joseph Moore, of Cowden, 111., suddenly determine 1 to kil. herself, and taking a re.n he hanged himself fr> m a bush | overhang.n;* a ravine near by. An insane convict in the Chio penitentiary | tried to c -nm it sui 'ide by swallowinga large j S[<oon. Failiu; in this, he thrust the spot n down his throat so forcibly that the handle bro! e oil' and he was strangled. MizaHill, of Se\ moiir, i_'< nn., got her dress | wet, and her stepmother would not 1 't her put ?>n her b st div-s. 'i he j-irl took her father s gup, put the niuz.le over her he.irt,; tiiuehod the trigger with her toe, and fell; deal. THANKSGIVING DAY. Tlic !'i? .it'.cuC s Annual Proclamation. President Arthur lias issued the following j Thanksgiving prockim ition: In furtherance of the custom of this people j nt the cLs.u; of each year to engage upon a ; day set apart for the purpose in a special feslival of praise to the Giver of all good, I, ; Chester A. Arthur, President of the u'nited,( States, d<? h reby designate Thursday, the, >0th day of November next, as a day of national thanks>ivin.T. 'J he year which is drawing to an end has : been replete wi h evidences o;' Divine good-' ne<.s The prevalcnc oi h aith, the fuiiiess of the hn*vests, ilio stability of peace and ord r, the growth of i'r.tt r.ial fe.-Jing, ths sprtadof intelligence and learning, the c.n- j tinued enjoyment o!' civil and religious lib- j erty.'all these and countless other blessing# | are" cause for reverent rejoicing. I do, there* i :*-*? tore, recommend that on the day above apKintcd the people rest iroin their accu-t med .: jors, and, meeting in their several phcei of worship, express their devout gratitude *to God that Ho hath dealt so bountifu ly witn this nation, and pray that His grace ana favor abide wi; h it forever. In witness thereof I hive hereunto set nay ' $ hand, and cause the teal of the Unit2d States to be affixed. Done at the city of "Washington, this26th -"A day ot October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-tnree, nnd of tha independence of the United States the onehuiidred and eighth. Chester A. Arthur ; By the President. .vJa Frederick T. Freunghtysen, Secretary of State. GENERAL 0? TffE ARMY, 5 Retirement of <>cn rnlsliorm^n and Inutalia ion oi General shctilan? General P. H. Sheridan has succeeded General W. T. Sherman as commander of the ; armies of the United States. The transfer was made at the army headquarters in Wash- * *. j mrr+An tirifhAiif /?n?"nnmn\r nv?inf. f.Vlofl t.llA ?V? ?! lugwu nuuuuu v.vi\;aivujf w/ vuuv staff officers were present in full dre b uniform- '% General bh.rinan went through the forma* . ? process of delivering control of the books ,'&t uii'i pipers to Gener n Sheridan, and quietly - 5 retired from his position. He left for thilir ojSj delpnia, from which place he proc.eded to St. Louis. . 4"t?I General Sherman, in hi-! letter notifying Secretary Lin oln that he will attain tiie age of sixty-four years on February 8, 1884, and ? therefore entitled to retirement, says: " I rc- ' *? quest authority to turn over the command r of the army to Lieutenant-General Sheridan ft cn the first day of November, 1883, and that ijgj I be ordered to my home at St. Louis, there - jj to await the date of my legal retirement. j By or before the 1st of November I can complete all my official reports, and I -l believe 1 can surrender the army to my su.'ce&sur in gooa snaps una cuuumuu, we!l provided in all respects, and distribute! for the best interests of the country. I am S& grateful that my physical and mental strength remains unimpaired by years and ' am thankful for the liberal provision male "S by Congress for my declining years, wnich will enable me to respond promptly to an/ m call the President may make for my military "i service or judgment as long as I live." . The secretary in granting the request ?aid : "In signifying his approval the rresi- -7 dent directs me to express to you his earnest -?g hope that there will be given you yet many years of health and happiness in which to en- r. joy the gratitude of your fellow-citizens^ well. P, earned by your most distinguished public borvices." ^ A London Cripple. Annie Wakeman, in a London letter to 'M the Boston Herald, describes a visit which. ^ she paid, in the company of a detective, to the slums of the English metropolis Among other things she says: Passim, under a lump. I observed a crippled fellow industriously etching on the walk Ks|S with a few bits of crayon, aided in his labor by the light of a flaring cr.udle WM& stuck in a bottle. I had several timet* B|sJ|| seen these etchers and commisse rated them. This one only drew a flower pot, which contained the represents! tion of a Be|| rather impossible-looking flower, which I might be a rose or a cabbage, or a drop- W&& sical gooseberry. I noticed that he worked very slowly, which fact I've. Kbe l>efore observed in the daytime, on the curbstone. "How is it, Mr. Punks," I W4m asked, "that these fellows don't ever seem to get on rapidly. I always see Rag them drawing fantastic flower pots, at 1 rjg the sides of houses already completed H|| and which seem generally of a higher order of art. if that term be not a sat- 1 M casm." "Why, Miss," Punks informed me, 44 tluit is a regular trade, and lots of them live here in the Dials. There is one I'|jjj| man you see?that's the governor of the I lot. Pie hires a company of fellows-who . Hre have some idea of etching, and early in H|| the day they go around, so many to a B&I particular walk or district, and chalk R|| out a rough landscape. Later on comes '? a cripple, the more miserable the better. He squats down with a lot of different colored crayon and boberishes up the j$|S sketch here and there with little bits, such I i , 3 as auy one who had never even handled a I Js crayon before could do. These cripples rafl hire the flagging from the 4 guv'ner,' who hires the artists. It is a money-making Kiiamaca 4r\+. oil lmnrlc Tim i^nc(i^ra.Kv UIU1UCSS Ull liUUVlO, M. AAV J^UWV.W m,J seldom fail to give the crippled artist a . * few ])ence, and during the day he collec.ts enough to be able to pay the guv'ner. , ' ? a good sum for his flagstone privilege. Most of the cripples live about the Seven /. Dials. That one under the lamp is practicing to show the guv'ner what he can do." I had the curiosity to interview;**?|?SS this etcher. First securing his attention by the magic and sure means of a penny '% I approached the lamp and asked him how * he lost his legs. "I tvere in the pre- jjj&BS servin' line, mis9, and I lost my jobwhen C .y the pertaters got scarce. Me and a lot" """S-K more was turned out 'cos they had too ; r.i many 'elpers. Then 1 got into the cat's meal line, and one day a bloomin' cab ?? 3 came dashin' down the road and knocked i$3 me down and nmned over me bloomin' pins. I was in the 'orspital, but it ?jjs| didn't do no good, and the doctor chaps one day sawed off what was left of me pins, and so I went in fur h'art."' The boy certainly had run the gamut of avocation. "You said you were in the preserving line, but the po- $<? tatoes ran short. Do thev preserve poi ^ -n i?_J >*? T UoM HUOt'S III XiU^liiUU, JJ1 iij> I suiu i. uuv . . the boy grinned, and said: '"Taint per- V.5 taters, but raspberry jam they calls it." Curious to know what possible connection there was between two such dissimi- ;'[ lar productions. I begged an explanation. "Well, you see. miss, the;, takes pertaters; puts 'em in 'ot water, soaks off the t ^ dirt, then keeps lettin' 'em drean off, addin' more water, till the blessed fruit is clean and the peel most off. Then they *' v? pounds 'em down with a big stone masher. and pushes 'em through a canvas rot J into a vat. Then they puts 'em through two or three more finer ones till they're all pulped as fine as sand. Then they puts some pink colerin in 'em, and a dash of raspberry juice to flavor 'em; then they packs 'em in jars and sells 'em for each, and you 'ave your jam. It takes aiot of'elpers to mush'em Into the mashers." I shall respect in future the manufacture of ->'s wooden nutmegs, and confess I've known of the industry being outdone. " . $ rn^Al in A owl w"* "w"v - r .S Carbolic acid is an excellent disin- ?, fectant, and an English doctor says tli t a tablespoonful of it in the sumtmr morning's bath will allay the irritation of * . ' prickly heat," and oiler a discouragement to mosquitoes. But it is a poison, when drank, for which there is no Vj| antidote. The following cases, related in an exchange, show its deadly elFect: Some years ago a nurse in a hospital, mistaking one bottle for another in the dim dawn of a foggy morning, gave a poor woman a teacupful of concentrated carbolic acid, instead of black draught. The unfortunate patient drank half of it, and might have taken it all before discovering the mistake had slic not paused for breath. She died in great agony in a few minutes. Medical men were of course 011 the spot, but nothing could be done. There is no antidote to carbolic acid: and the mouth, throat and?as we afterward found?the stomach we:e so burnt that it was impossible to use the stomach-pump; they were in fact charred white, like a stick. It appears extraordinary that any one should drink such a quantity of fluid to intensely corrosive as this acid without lindfng the mistake directly it touched the lips. IJut medicines, never agreeable. arc usually swallowed as hastily as possible, and the patient does not stop to analyze any specially unpleasant sensations. when he knows that some such are inevitable. A curious parallel to this case was brought before me at sea, where a quartermaster went into the cabin of au ofli ecr on watch in the middle of the night, and seizing what he took to be a bottle of brandy, drank about six ounces of the contents. It was pure carbolic acid, and the man fell dead before he could* summon assistance; but here, too, wc may account for the large amount swallowed before the character of the liquid was recognized. He was consciously in the commission ?>i ;i mtn, ?mt ucmg, moreover, in danger of detection every moment, no doubt hurried to secure the brandy as rapidly as he could, the expected fluid being also of a burning na* tare to the palate and throat. In this last case the carbolic acid, though not in its own characteristic bottle. was labeled 44 Poison," and was kept in the oflicer's washing-locker. The quartermaster had no doubt caught sight of the bottle there, and imagined it was stowed away Tor concealment, ?Youth'* ?"Jj Companion.