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, r *vr; ,*/ ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER.'! BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. 0.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1884. NO. 28. VOLUME XXVIII. v|l THOUGHTS. Thoughts of the past are fragrant flowers that bend Orw the graves of griefs, long laid at rest; Thoughts of the future, silver mists that blend With daylight on the far-off mountain crest. Dawning at last, to make our spirit blest. Thoughts of the present oftentimes are sweet, Ay, far too sweet for tongue or pen to tell; A? when the wind-kissed jasmine's breath doth greet The mellow twilight, while some distant bell With hallowed melody tells, "All is well" ?Eleonora Tudor, in the Continent. "A WITLESS THING." "A document in madness: thoughts and remembrances fitted."?Hamlet, act iv. sc. ">. "Now, remember. Lord Grayton," said the doctor, solemnly, "all I told you. You are very welcome to come to our ball, though, as a rule, we only ask a certain set of v.ise men and maidens who know our ways and their ways. Still, you are pood - looking, humorous and cheer}-, and if you arc sensible you can enjoy yourself, and. maybe, do them a world of good. I believe in electricity as a curative agent?not the quack nouh sense of belts and chains and musical boxes, that only shake the nerve-centers, but the real electricity of animal spirits, the tonic of good health.'' "I shall do exactly as I am bid," said Lord Grayton. a handsome, florid, muscular young man. strong as a horse, buoyant as a balloon, just back after a selfimposed exile of five years in India with the big game; '"but tell me of all those cautions again. I did a lot of dancing of various kinds years ago, before I went after the tigers"?and he laughed as mingled memories of May fair and the Lotus club swam back to him? "and I've tried both the Corroboree and Salonga; but 'pon honor, I never danced with a lunatic trirl vet.'' "Are you quite sure of that?" said the doctor, grimly; "thcv arc to be met with 'outside Cops wood, I can tell you. However, listen; the rule is simple. Be civil and don't contradict. If old Crackton asks you to play chess, play. He's a good player, and will beat you fairly if he can: if he can't he'll make a false move and call 'checkmate.' and you must resign. If poor Snoblv thinks you are the prince, ana 'Sirs1 you nil over the place, and throws out hints about being asked to Sandringham; if you are asked to listen to the chiming clock in Baker's interiors, or to avoid some one else, because he's glass and might break, you must do your best to be courteous !o them all, and* on no account laugh at their fancies." " Bounds rather jumpy. And the ladies?" "I'll see to that, and introduce you to the nicest, and tell you what to avoid speaking about; the men will make the talking for themselves, the women don't talk much." ^ "Sign of insanity, I suppose. And what am I to talk about?" " Everything save one thing?the Empress of Austria, or the stage, or white roses, or Mr. Mallock, or black stockings. I'll give you the cue?never fear; omy it may happen that one of them will ask you to dance, and then you must steer as best you can?talk society or art on chance. My own girls and their friends get on famously with the male patients, and you must do your beat. Come, you are. going to be our best tonic to-night, and you must be oft and dress; 9, sharp, -mind, as they all go to bed at midnight." "Queer thing, this," soliloquized Grayton, as he completed an elaborate dressing, "beginning my first season after five years by dancing with a lot of lunatics. Hope they won't wear straw in their hair; if they do, I shall bolt to the Congletons' dance." He had many strange adventures that evening as he strolled about the pretty ballroom at the Copswood private a?ylum. He was duly defea!ed at chess UJ 111C V CUC1 OU1C vtativiuu, " ately slid back-a captured queen on the board, and performed prodigies of valor with her. He sympathized with the F gentleman who had swallowed a croeoaile, and be noticed the pale cadaverous man who amused himself by counting the lights on each side of the room and ringing softly trt himself: " Sorry I can't admit it, sorry I can't admit it!" He had been an Acrostic editor once upon a time. He noticed the fussy little man, with a pale-blue shaven face, who nanage the sixteen laniteoujlv entreated the ack over ull that again, d get it crisper;"' and ilist who wrote parat-cuffs, and many other passed by in the motley led reasons. Lear," whispered the y foolish fond old man, pward,' passed them. Brighton A's'; "you ?" and he whispered a i's ear that made that softly. t 1. i^?wnose BH should be as mortal as QHue V " asked Grayton, H^Lknew his Shakespeare I^Ktor. n^Keep their secrets. Now, E^wnd the Doctor took [^^Kcup of coiTee. ^B^bird sight altogether, H^Ktched it, it reminded SHB" Dance to Death," HBSnorbid as he thought DHp life. He had once fl^^iis heart to a woman jMTioth idealized and idolJnrouth. brains and position, er he felt he could con<iuer It was an old story: she FK^HTbut to be as loveless as she was |^Vr, and so he took to the timers. He MS got over it all now, but he shuddered Kb he remembered the fret of it all. and thought how near madness he had been driven when he heard of her ultimate fate, and where her life had drifted to. So there were Ophelias here! More like Audreys, he thought, as he watched some rather uncouth gamboling in a corner. His eyes wandered around the f room, and rested last on a face. |l It was an exquisite oval face, somewhat sad and wistful in expression, of that rare delicate olive color one sees in ^ the South, with the skin of so fine u texture that the red flush springs up through the vein-tracery at a moment's excitement; the large brown eyes were soft and dreamy, the chiseled mouth was half parted, and the dark-brown hair, looking black at night, was worn Greek fashion close to the head, sweeping in undulating lines past the tiny rose-tipped ears. She was seated on a low sofa, carelessly clasping one knee with both hands. She wore a simple white frock, just mysteriously frilled round the little white rxf a tV*Tv*uf onrl ft trvont lilfirk rod rose nestled in her breast. One little hieh-archcd foot, in peach-colored netted silk, kept swinging to the music. No one seemed to talk to her except the doctor, who smiled pleasantly as he passed and said something to which she answered with a nod. "Ophelia at last," said Gray ton to himself; and in melancholy vein he wished,he were Hamlet and could lie at her feet and watch the play. " 'Poor Ophelia! divided from herself and her fair judgment!'" (the quotation was irresistable). i'l wonder what sent her here?some brute of a man, or a soldier-lover killed at Knssassin. Gracious! I hope this terrible Meg Merrilies is not going to ask me to dance!" and he moved away, as he saw a sadeyed woman bearing down upon him, to a seat somewhat nearer the* pale girl with the black-red rose. For a time he watched her: then he tried to magnetize her. At last their eyes met; he stared her full in the face. She never shrank from his look, only a sort of pitying light seemed to glow in the v sorrowful eyes. A moment passed, and then she rose quietly and with perfect self-possessed grace warned mcr <.v mm ?to his intense astonishment sat down quietly by his side, and said, in a soft, mu?cal voice: "You seem sad to-night; I am eorry." For & moment he was tongue-tied; then he recollected his instructions and ?ull*d himself together. * . "Well, I think I was sad because yoi were looking sad." "Was I? I suppose I always do then. Of course, being here natural!} j makes one feel sad. " Do you care foi i dancing 2 I'll dance with you, if yoi ilike-" " Dance I with you ?w "Oh, yes, if you like; many of th< 1 others dance, you know." "IIow calmly she seems to recogniz< her sad state!''thought Grayton. as h< | stood up and passed his arm round pool (itiln.li'i'a clfinrlpr wnictv wondorinf' how she would "jig and amlile." The} were playing the " Dream-Faces," anc ! as they swung in undulating rhythm tc ! the pretty song he felt that few Blips ol I sane seventeen rould come up to her. "That's right." said the doctor, en I couragingly; "set a good example.' "Means I'm to be a tonic. I suppose,' ! thought Grayton; so he carried ofl j Ophelia for an ice. "You dance beautifully," she said, j " No, you sit down and I'll get you the ice; there, now, there's a spoon and n ! wafer; now you feel comfortable, don't ; you ? Isn't that a lovely waltz ?" i "Yes, I'm fond of 'dream-faces:' the people one meets in dreams are generally I vastly nicer than the real folk. I have I -i n i inany uit'iiuwrieuus. " Have you ?" she said, looking amused: " tell me of them." " Well, you know, I think I'm married i to a dream-wife?just like Gilbert's Prinj cess Toto, you know, with her dreamj husband. And she comes to me somei times and scolds me if I've done anything in the day; and sometimes she's very loving, and sometimes, she's cross and doesn't come near me for weeks.'' He felt as if he was telling a fairy tale : to a child. " How charming! Do tell me more of her. Is she beautiful ? What is she | like ?" The fanciful couceit seemed to amuse her, so he went on drawing pretty pictures of an ideal woman; then growing I unconsciously eloquent, he burst out: ! "Ah, if one could only meet her alive, ! what a wife she would make! A very i second self, aiding, sympathizing, help ing, loving?at once the ohceriest of j chums and the most idolized of idols." j She had flushed a little as he spoke, i but she went on, " What a pretty pic! ture? "Where did you get your beautiful ' thoughts about marriage?" i " i suppose my dream-girl taught me.** " Is she pretty?" Gray ton wondered if deliberate barej faced compliment would be a good tonic 1 for a lunatic. "Yes, beautiful. She has large brown eyes, wonderful hair, a i low voice, an olive oval face, she dances j superbly, and she wears a black-red rose ! in her white dress." | Ophelia looked a little frightened. "Forgive me, I didn't mean to be rude, but she is?really; you are not an grv with me?" an<l he laid his nand gen! tly on hers. "Oh, no;" then there was a pause. ! "Come, and let me show you some pictures; I'm something of an artist my; self;" and she led him into a long gal1 lory, and talked art so sensibly and symi pathetically that here, at all events, he ! felt there was a very pleasant method in | her madness. "Talking art" is a recognized method . of interchanging sympathies. He was no bad judge of a picture; but he preferred to affect ignorance, and j asked the stupidest questions simply for | the pleasure of hearing her talk. There j was a kind of innocent dignity about her J that fascinated him. She was more like j a vestal virgin than a Bacchante. So the | evening passed all too quickly, tillhesud! denlv bethought himself that there was I un important division in the Lords that | night, and that he was bound to be a | "not content" before the clock struck j eleven, and after that he was due at Lady i Congleton's dance. ' 'Must you go away ?" she said; ' 'why ?" "Well, you see, I'm one of those mucli' abused people that the radicals call he, reditary legislators, and I am not abol! ished yet; I must be in our house at eleven.'' Of course she could not have under1 stood a word he said, for she murmured to herself: "Poor fellow! so young, too!"' He rose and held his hand out. "Good | night; thank you for a very charming evening." "Good-night," said Ophelia, tenderly. "I should like a little memory of this ; meeting; "will you give me that rose \ 1 l'v/. lnnrpinrr fnr it nil tho nvonincr " I I >C UV1U .... WW* ? .^?...&. "Of course I will; why didn't you ask j for it before?" and she took it from her ; dress and fastened it in his coat. "1 shall see you aeain, there will be another dance here soon. How is it that I never saw you before at one?" "This is my lirst (knee," he said, gravely. Why it was that Ophelia's eyes sudj denly filled with tears he couldn't understand, but she left him with a quiet j bow and went back to the dancingroom. j "You've been enjoying yourself, 1 : see," said the doctor, as Grayton came to ; say good-bye, "though I must say it was rather selfish of both of you." j "Selfish! why, I did all I could for j her, poor, dear girl!" "Poor! why, my dear Lord Grayton, : she hns six thousand a year of her own!" "Dear me! and what 19 clone with at r " She does what she likes with it; she helps all the big charities, and she helps me and Oopswood in particular, and she ; generally does a lot of good to our poor | people?picks uj: some one she takes a : fancy to, and cheers him up a bit. She's I one of my best tonics, and this is the I first time I have noticed that she ncvei ! danced once with a patient; that was : your fault, you know." j " Good gracious! then she?isn't?a i ?a patient herself?" The doctor laughed till the tears rolled down his jolly face. " Bless ray heart, no! That's Lady Mary Pettigrew, daugh1 ter of old Lord Polonius, and she's just one of the cleverest and sweetest girls in | the world. I thought you knew her." "Not I! She came over and spoke tc J me, aad?" "I sec it all?took you for a patient! : Oh, this is too lovely!" and the doctoi 1 was positively boisterous in his merri' ment. Grayton bolted to the house, and, hav, ing duly recorded his vote against the | bill sent up from the commons, for chloroforming grouse instead of shooting them, betook himself in a strange stati of bewilderment to Lady Congleton's. His hostess welcomed him warmly, like t the returned prodigal that he was, and insisted upon introducing him to somt one in whom she seemed to have a special interest. I "Really a delightful girl, Lord Gravi ton, quite alter your own heart?devoted ! to art and philanthropy, you know." Grayton was too full of thought tc ) protest, so submitted meekly. Whal , were girls to him just then? He wa; J thinking over Copswood as his hostesj , took his arm and they set out on a pil gi image. ' .Yli, here she is! Lady Mary Petti I trrew. Lord Grayton. I'm sure you twe I will get along capitally;" and her lady j ship was oif, leaving Grayton staring . vaguely nt his fascinating lunatic. | Ladv Mary could hardly suppress a i scream as she turned her head and blushec j as deep as the rose he still wore in hi; j button hole. "How?how did you get out?" sh< asked, awkwardly. 4'I never was in, Lady Mary: the fac is. I'm afraid there has been a little mis take on both sides. I only found ou from the doctor as I left that you weren't a? She put her feathery fan up with i warning "Hush!" then said, "wha ; brought you there if" "f'lirinoifw (111(1 VOtlV" vu. ?vr?.v , 1 "I often go there and try to do somi ! good. I cheer them up sometimes; bu ! to-night! Oh, how wroDg and stupid o ! me!" { There was a little pause as he lookei at her with his frank, kindly eyes. "Let forget and forgive, Lady Mary after all, you were very good to poo Hamlet." ' 'And you were very nice and kind t< foolish Ophelia. Listen! there's th< 'Dream Faces' again; let us see if wi can dance it in our right minds," shi said, as she rose, with a nervous smili quivering in the corners of her lips. And it so happened that in a montl they both same to their right minds, anc i the doctor was at the wedding.?London ! World> _ ? A Senator's Carious Faculty. r "Talking about peculiarities of mcn'? . 1 minds, I lieard United States Senator . Beck, of Kentucky, tell a queer story." j said a gentleman to some friends, tho i other night. " We were all discussing ] the same subject that is up now, when J j Senator Beck remarked that he thought J i a peculiarity of his brain had done him r j a great deal of harm in. his life. 11 first | r j noticed it,' said the Senator, ' when I I . ? Km. in Sonflnnd I ? U. U. UUJ iv C>V?VVI ... I | I had a strict old preacher for a tutor, ! > and, with a number of other boys, went f to the parsonage to be educated. One : night I was very sleepy, and still had a long Latin lesson to get off. I tried i ' hard to learn it: but almost before I ' was aware I would be dozing. 1 f At length I read the exercise j i through in a half-dreaming condition, , I and with the Latin all a jumble in my j *' head, I went to sleep. I awoke the next i i morning with my brain thoroughly clear, I ;! and, strange to say, all the ambiguities j { of my difficult lesson were made plain, I > j and I read the Latin without a balk. ! ' | The same thing happened a second time, j and I again found that when I went to j sleep with a confused idea of my lesson, ; learning it while half dozing, I awoko i with all the knotted points unraveled. . It became my custom after that to read | my task over just before going to bed, : and I never failed to have them in the J i morning. My strict old tutor saw that i ; I never studied, and thought one of the ( other boys was helping me. At length ; he gave me a page of Livy to translate, ! and told me if I did not have it for ; i him the next morning he would flog j | me. Then he forbid any of the . boys to come near me and i watched my actions. I read the lines as , [ usual before going to sleep, and sure , j enough the next day I had them pat as you please. He never troubled me after i i that. Well, the year passed by, and I j ! began to put too much faith in it, and I depended almost entirely upon my mysI terious helper. Some time ago a phrenoli ogist came to examine my family's heads, I and they all went wild over him. I paid J no attention to their talk, though my wife urged me to give the man a trial. One day, however, he met me, and was po persistent that I at length sat down to ; him. He said that he would examine my I head for $3, and give me a chart for $5. I told him $3 was all I would throw away, j and he began to name my characteristics. At length ne said: liYou have one faculty that is fully developed. It is spirituality. You have that faculty developed to a marked degree. You would have made a fine medium. Your mind is capable cf working separate from your body?that is, it can perform mental labor while the ? Jo of met on/1 Irnnwc rmtViinrr r>f it | WVU., - ^ j You sometimes solve difficult problems 1 while you are asleep, and wake up in the morning without knowing that you have been at work." "Here is live dollars," said I; "a man who knows as much as you do deserves it." "My strange facI ulty," continued Senator Beck, "whether ! it is spirituality or not, is growing weaker. ! I can hardly explain the action of my | mind during these abnormal spells. I see the lines and words before my mind's ! eye, and, without knowing the process, j or indeed, being aware of any process, I \ work on the problem."?Courier-Journal. Japanese Religious Festivals. I TV,? To nnnooo oro omftnfr thf> finest, I ! floriculturists, and 110 habitation, how! ever small, but has its bed of flowers, in I some cases not two feet square. Their , I religious beliefs are, and always have '1 been, a source of constant mystery to | foreigners, as the methods of worship of ' j their deities vary according to the whims ; I of the reigning governors. There is one I festival, however, which they have al- j j ways kept for ages out of mind, and is a ! j parade in honor of the god Sweva, or I the patron of the province. This festi- ; I val, which is the more brilliant from its I chancing to coincide in point of time' ! with one of the annual religious festivals I common to the whole realm, Ls of ten days' duration, and begins by devotional i' rites in the temple. Everybody visits the temple in his j ;' robes of ceremony, prays there, and j ' makes the usual offering, which is on a j , scale commensurate with their means, j ,1 and always includes a cup of saki, which 1 i> the national beverage, .something like ! ginger ale. The image of the god is ! then taken upon the shoulders of stout | , men, and, with all his (the god's) pos- i I sessions, such as offerings, etc., is placed ' ! on a pedestal in the public sijuare, ' I where all can pay devotional visits. In ! the nrocession mav be seen all imaeina I ble shapes and things; in the lead a: j number of two-sworded gentry, who ! carry !i<rht poles, to the top of which ; , are affixed large brass rings, and the j I poles being struck upon the ground at j ' every pace, a most confused jangle is the i i result. Next comes a giant-statured fel- j . j low, whose flowing robes are covered | ' j with all kinds of emblematic devices, j I such as birds or beasts that are ! favorites, some renowned man or | ,! celebrated woman, the instruments j | of a particular trade, or some- ; i thiug alluding to the prosperity of the I , j country, or sometimes of a locality, or j ,! that recalls the fame or the simplicity of i , I the early Japanese. Next come the mu- j (j sicians, blowing horns and reed pipes, ' i and beating tom-toms, drums and gongs, j [ | and in general creating a most deafening I r.nrnnr ivlierpnt the lionullicc shout and i , -X" ? 1 I" -i 11 dance for glee. The Ottona. or mayor, j comes next, leading a train of children j I in mimic representation of one of the mikado's grand campaigns, and cach lit- i j tie one is clad and armed in the exact j : costume of the time of the battle, and i j is an exact counterpart of the heroes of j old. Next in order is a miniature repre- | ' | sentation of the Japanese court by chil- j 1 dren dressed to ape the manners of the j sovereign and his courtiers, and the , truth to life which these children put j into their parts is very amusing to their 1 ( parents. There arc two religious fes- ; tivals in all parts of the empire in every month, the grandest of which, however, j . is the festival of the New Year. This festival is preceded by the payment of all | debts contracted in the past year, and in j ! that feature is worthy of imitation among j : more civilized people. No Japanese, !! however poor, but will make sacrifices in j | order to meet the New Year demand. ' '! One of the most touching ceremonies is ! ! the putting afloat upon the bay a myriad- j j lighted and highly-colored lantern, which ! i represents the souls of the friends who ' 1 have departed this life, and the eagerness ' ! with which the career of cach individual ' j lamp is watched as it tosses upon the bil- j ! lows of the open bay, now lost to sight, j ' : again up brightly burning, while the L! trustful heart watching it is strung to a | fearful tension till it finally drifts beyond j '; the aching vision, a sure proof that the V?oo "hio rfwflwl in thp }' Japanese heaven. New York's Statues. George Alfred Townsend writes about j the public statuary of New York as fol> lows: The public statuary of this city ; now includes an equestrian Washington, '1 an heroic Washington, heroic statues of j | Franklin, Webster and Seward, Lincoln, | Lafayette, Farragut, Shakespeare, nearly 1 I colossal Burns and Sir Walter Scott, Fitz3 i Greene Halleck, Alexander Hamilton, j Morse, Commodore Yanderbilt, and large ' | out-of-door busts of Mazzini, Bryant, ; Humboldt, Goethe, Schiller and "Tom" t j Moore. There is a monument to the vol i unteer soldiers, and fanciful statuary of I | the Falconer, the Angel, the Indian k j Hunter, Insurance, etc. Brooklyn has i Lincoln, Fulton, busts of Irving and i J Moore, and much cemetery statuary. II Proper subjects for other statues in New j York would be Columbus, Hudson, De Witt Clinton and Cromwell. The New * "* ' * ' ? -.1-r.n/li. fll ?1 i | iun^ianci cicmi'm huh uir-uu) u^iiuilu w?v, t' hitter subject. There exists in all New f j England only one statue of Cromwell, i and that is the gift of a lady to the city 1 ; of Manchester. A magnificent monu1 mcnt to Washington is soon to be erected : j in Philadelphia, a costly monument to r j Garfield in Cincinnati, a statue of Garfield in Washington and of General Rey> j nolds in Philadelphia. The Bartholdi ? statue of Freedom for Bedloe's Island s will be matched by few monuments in 2 the world, as by the Arch of the Star in a Paris and the Prince Albert monument in London. American portrait sculpture i1 is not surpassed in gjace and expression 1 by any Northern nation. I MAKING ICE BY MACHINERY HOW WATER CAN BE FROZEN EVEN iN THE faOTTEST COUNTRIBB. Fish and Bird** prcucrvci in the Con' tcr of TrnnN|>nr?!iit ('nbcn of Icc? Wonderful Icc Cavern*. "The latest ice scheme,"said a man interested in the ice business to a New York <S?//i reporter, "is to build a railroad from the top of some of the mountains near the equator, such as the Andes, load the cats with blocks and shoot them down into the vnlleys below, By an arrangement of break they could be sent into any town or village within a reasonable distance. I believe such a plan has been tried in some countries, and it is not impracticable. The ice machine, however, is the best thing for southern countries. You know the ice machine is not entirely a modern invention, for the wealthy Greeks, Romans and Indians had their ice manufactured in some way. But the late inventions have been an outgrowth of the demand for cheap ice in the south, and now nearly every tropical city of any size has artifical ice even under the blazing nun of the equator. It can also be manufactured aboard ships, or, in fact, anywhere, and it makes possible the transportation of a thousand articles that without it could not be carried from one part of the world to another. "The first practical attempt to make ice in modern times ;vas by Gorric in 1849. This was followed by Kirk's machine in 18G3, and Win lhausen'sin 1870, and a host of others. One exhibited at the late exhibition in Vienna made a ton and a half of ice in an hour, at a cost of thirty shillings. The two methods that find most favor among practical men are somewhat difficult to explain. One method utilizes the lowering of temperature that is the result of the rapid expansion of a compressed gas, while the other makes use of the similar thermal effect resulting from the volatilization of some liquid. In the first-mentioned machines atmospheric air is compresscd to three or four atmospheres, and kept cool by water in circulation or by other means. It is then allowed to expand, and the heat absorbed during the expansion comes from the water to be frozen, or from a solution of brine which is not affected at the freezing point of water, and which then becomes, as it were, a vehicle for the cokL "Uncle's ice-making macnine, some twenty-two of which were in operation at the Dusscldorf exhibition of 1880, is the latest form of ammonia machine. The danger of explosion, one of the great disadvantages of ammonia, is obviated by carrying the liquefied gas through narrow iron tubes, and by employing only a small quantity of the substance at one time. Blocks of icc are formed between the spokes of a revolving drum, which, being cooled internally by the evaporating liquid, dips into a tank of water, Metliylic ether is in some respects better than ammonia, having a higher boiling point, and requinng smaller pressures, without the necessity of heating. In Teller's machine, which is specially intended for use in ships, the methvlic ether evaporates in a closed metallic vessel, the sides of which arc in immediate contact with the water to be frozen. ' Many of these machines will have their greatest value in keeping articles cool instead of actually making icc. Such a machine will some time be made that will keejt the rooms of a house cool without injury to the occupants. "1 visited an ice manuiactory in i\ew Orleans some time ago, and it was an interesting sight. Tlicy had some curious samples on exhibition, blocks of ice a foot square, as clear as crystal, and having in the interior a bouquet of flowers, a fish, a quail, or a woodcock, showing how game can be sent and preserved indefinitely. Other cakes were of ornamental shape, and hollowed to hold claret punch or lemonade. "In many countres ice is obtained from natural ice houses, wherein, while the ordinary temperature outside ia eighty degrees, ice is continually forming. Such a ravine or cavern has been found in New Jersey, and near Lincoln, Vermont, there is a glen in which snow and ice lie all the year round. One of the most remarkable of these ice caverns ia that of Dobschan, in Hungary. It is quite near the town, and is approached through a narrow, winding limestone valley, called 'Stracenaer Thai.' It is in the interior of a mountain, having a general direction east and west. The entrance is near the top, and extremely narrow, and was only discovered by accident. Once inside, a remarkable scene is beheld, the ice, which seems formed in manv lavers. havine as 6umcd peculiar shapes that characterize the limestone caves of our own country. The total rock and ice surface in the cave is about 24, SCO square feet, the ice alone occupying about 21,000 square feet. "The cave is divided into two parts, upper and lower. In the upper part the roof is of limestone and the floor of Bolid icc, and it "is divided into two great halls of wondrous beauty. The roof of the largest hall is supported by three enormous pillars of clear ice, one of which is hollow, and through which flows a stream from above, producing strange echoes and reverberations. All about are fantastic forms of ice, resem bling human beings, pulpits, monuments. and so on, giving to the cave a most grotesque appearance. In one end the ice forms an exact representation of a large cascade, as if a rushing stream with its spray had suddenly been Irozen solid. Descending to the lower room the passage is GOO feet in length, and by following down through the ice you come to the natural omlet of the water. " In all countries such caves have been found. So extensive is the ice cavern on the peak of Teneriffe that it affords a permanent source of supply, and even vessels arc loaded with its ice. This ice is columnar in shape and does not melt easily, and so can be transported without great loss. Near the village of Stelitzc in the Carpathian mountains, there is one of the largest ice caverns in the world, and, curiously enough, it freezes in the summer and melts in the winter. For instance, in midsummer the roof is entirely covered with icicles, but in winter they disappear, and by Christmas time the cavern is dry and warm compared to the outside world. Ice begins to form as soon as spring opens. In some deep mines ice forms at certain periods. This is the ease in some of the salt mines of the Ural Mountains. Great cavities are formed in the gypsum, and in the winter ??" fill/./l witli j-lnnr u-jitpr lint in the Rummer they are frozen solid. " We have similar cases nearer home. In this State are several icc wells, and an ice cave has been found at Decorah, Iowa." Banana Plantations. Jamaica contains numerous banana plantations, varying in size from twentyfive thousand to two hundred thousand plants, for the most part cultivated by the small settlers in the different parishes. These holdings generally consist of three or four acres of land. The culti%-ation is very primitive. The land being cleared by a big iron hoe, a hole is dug, and the sucker is planted in it, in most cases nature doiny all that is necessary; but, in larger plantations, the bananas, the | trunks of which reach a height of eight or ten feet, are planted with some degree : of system in the form of squares, and trenches are dug for irrigation, the banana thriving best in damp, stiff soil. A Lake Full of Herrings. In one of the Lofoden Islands, off the 1 roast of Norway, is a deep and tideless | lake of considerable extent, connected i with an inlet from the ocean by a short - j ~i_.ii?Tk/. ana nuhiiuw uiiuii. x iic iiii|fu?vui?v uiu j c-ovcry has lately been made that this ; iakc, though it contains so little salt that ! the water is not unpleasant to the taste, is stocked with herrings, which not only j i hrive but breed there. They are so numerous that thirty tons of them were j netted in a few days this season. The I story is that they multiply faster and j llourish better than in the sea, for the ' reason that the lake contains none of their natural enemies. The total number of deaf mutes in tho United States is H4,000, or one out of every 1,500 people. The constitution of Michigan prohibits any form of religious service in either '.ouse of her legislature. . farm, garden And household. ITieat for Effcaj Meat scraps and refuse at four or five cents a pound, producing eggs which sail for thirty or forty cents a dozen, would seem to be a profitable business, and so it is. If asked what is the secret of making hens lay in winter, we should reply?1st, a dry, warm, sunny house; 2d, meat: given both, artd your hens niid pullets will turnout the flggs, depend Upon it. Of course we don't mean to say feed meat and nothing else. Oh, no! But feed meat as a winter "extra." 1 > ? . ^ II it is tnc ngnt Kina 01 meat council, lean, and chopped in small pieces, it won't hurt your hens a bit, but it will make them lay eggs. It is just what they want and crave, but usually don't get. Give it to them every day, a little at a time, just as they'd get it for themselves if it were summer, and grasshoppers plenty. In feeding for eggs, give shells, bone, lime, warm mush, warm water, red pepper, and so on; but whatever else you forget, don't miss the meat, and mind we are recommending good, wholesome lean meat, well cooked, though it may be cheap livers, pluck, scraps, etc., but not putrid fat, or wormy bacon.?Poultry Bulletin. Planting Potatoes. It has long been the custom of many large potato growers to discard the seed *?nH nf flip nntritn in nlnnfinrr. The UCn eral belief has thus been created that the seed end is of no account. Professor Sturtevant has, however, been experimenting a little with this question, and finds according to dame Nature that if anything the seed end of the potato is the best. The last season he planted on the New York experiment farm onetwentieth of an acre with single eyes in drills, three and a half feet apart, and the eyes a foot apart in the drills. The total number of eyes planted was 582. Of these, four from the seed end, five from the center, and sixteen from the stem end failed to grow. At harvest 100 hills of each were dug and carefully weighed. The total product of the hundred hills was, for the butt eyes, 104 pounds; centre eyes, 131 ponnds; seed end'eyes, 142 pounds. This gives a result to the acre, allowing all the eyes to have grown, of 206 bushels for the butt eyes, 259 bushels for the center eyes, and 282 bushels for the seed end eyes. In commenting upon this result, Doc lur oiuricvtuiL ??>?. "While one experiment hardly affords sufficient data for the purpose of generalization, yet an experiment as carefully conducted as this one, and with the method of planting, should possess some value as indicating the influence of position upon the seed eves used. Yet we must remember, however, that if we had used more or less of the eyes in our trial the result would not have figured, in all probability, relatively the same. We can, however, truthfully express the fact that in this experiment we have gained increase of crop from the eyes taken from the seed-end portion of the potato, and we may be justified in coming to the general conclusion that until further evidence is obtained the seedends, hitherto rejected by many, may be considered of equal value with that portion of the potato usually selected for planting. Indeed, the general summary oi our experience wun me pouuo as ncntofore represented, as well as the result of the present experiment, goes to show that the vitality of eyes used as seed improves according to the position they occupy upon the potato toward the terminal position. Tlic Ilckt Time to Fell Fore%t Tree*. Farmers as a rule find it convenient to fell timber, both for fuel and for rails, during the winter months, after the harvest is well over and before early spring work begins. Every season the question is agitated as to the desirability of this custom, and the best season for, cutting wood becomes the subject for discussion at clubs and elsewhere. , " j The question is certainly an important one when the trees felled are to bo consumed as fuel. r\e .1 jVi.,1 Vnlf i 1./j green wuuu ujil"*inn vi iv uuu'iiaii | or more oi its weight is water, partly | depending upon the time of cutting, i Experience appears to prove that all I kinds of wood cut in January contain from fifteen to twenty-five per cent, less water than after the sap is net in motion in the spring. In Schuller's experiments one hundred pounds of ash wood cut in January was found to contain twentynine pounds of water, while the same amount cut in April contained thirtyeight pounds of water; one hundred pounds of sycamore cut in January contained thirty-three pounds of water, and forty cut in April. White pine cut in January contained fifty-two pounds; cut in April, sixty-one ppunds of water. George 15. Emerson, in his work on trees and shmbs, gives the result of circulars sent out by him to different parts of the State of Massachusetts, asking ' What season of the year is found best for felling a forest?" To this question the testimony was various, but all the correspondents concurred in saying that the tree should be felled when not in leaf, the majority favoring the winter months?any time between November and April. Another enterprising Massachusetts writer who has investigated this subject says: "It is considered preferable for the future growth to fell a forest in April and May, but the wood is not so good as when cut between Novemberand Auril." As wood naturally seasons 'in the air, thereby losing much of its weight of water, there is a large waste of strength in hauling green wood. This fact accounts for the custom in many sections of felling trees in winter, but often not working them up for some months. Another important fact is the waste in burning green wood for fuel. "While in reality a cord of green wood produces just as much heat as a cord' of the same wood dry, the cord of green wood will not supply for use one-half as much heat as the dry cord. The explanation is simple: The sap in green wood must be expelled before its carbon comes into play to produce heat. This takes place gradually in the form of vapor, which carries off a large amount of heat that is not rendered available. As wood seasons more rapidly when split in small picccs, it is a wise provision to have firewood cut in shape for winter use as early as practicable. In selecting wood for fuel it becomes a matter of economy to take for firewood such sorts as will do best service in range and stove, leaving behind for rails, timber and fence posts the varieties which, while possessing little value as regards their heating qualities, stand in the fore most rank for durability under exposure ! to the weather. Shellbark hiokorv represent among forest trees the highest standard for fuel. Calling hickory, 100, other trees will compare with it for real value as fuel as follows: Shellbark hickory, 100; pignut hickory, M; white ash, fct?; white oak, 88; dogwood. 75; fern oak, 73; white hazel, 72; apple tree, 70; red oak, 67; white beech, (55; black birch, 03; yellow oak, 60; hard maple, 5!l; white elm, 58; red cedar. 5(5; wild cherry, 55; yellow pine, 54; chestnut, 52; yellow poplar, 44; butternut and white birch, 4:5, and white pine, 30. A number of these woods which show a very low value for fuel are highly estimated for fine cabinet work and interior wood work.?New YorkWorld. Fnrm and Cinrdon Note*. One hundred bushels of shelled corn will shrink to ninety in the bin. By ensilage and partial soiling a fifty acre farm can be made to keep fifty cows and a team. Keep steel bits in a warm place until wanted for use. It is cruel to put a frosty bit in a horse's mouth. The effect of short manure unon licrht soils and of long manures upon heavy soils are to improve greatly the physical character of each. Remember that sheep are fond of succulent food and will not thrive when kept on dry food only. Like other animals, they relish a variety of materials. Professor Brown, of Ontario Agricultural college, decides, after a number of experiments,- that the best results are obtained from superphosphates when used in connection with barnyard manure. . .i'iu To a limited extent farmers can grow tomatoes as a farm crop with advantage uiid prolit. They will yield more bushels per ncrc than potatoes and the crop usually sells at fair priccs, A trial wns mndc Inst seuson in Scotj land to test the feeding value of an acre ! of Swedish turnips for fattening sheep, | and it was found that the cabbages were j worth very nearly $20 the most. Give cattle as much as they will eat up clean at each feed, and as much water I and salt at all times as they will take. | As soon as an animal begins to fret for | food it begins to lose flesh, and the fat- tening process is chcckcd. ! A little pruning should be done every I year. If large limbs arc cut off the j j wound heals over slowly or not at all. | ! With trees properly cared for it will j ! never be necessary to use any implement : ! larger than a jack knife. Pruning shears I j are objectionable, as they injure the ! | bark, which prevents making a clean j I cut. Oat straw is generally preferred to any j I other for feeding horses, though analysis shows it less nutritive than wheat. Bariey straw is objectional for most kinds of stock, on account of its rough beards. It is probable that the softer texture of oat straw makes it practically superior to that from wheat, as the softer texture of the oat induces animals the more j readily to cat it. One of the noticeable facts which attracted the attention of an intelligent English farmer, in American farm practice, was the width of the furrow. Anything over a foot seemed extra wide in his opinion. The English plan is to plow i narrow furrows and turn them more on I edge.. To get over the most ground is I AAwmAn A rwnnoon l/l OH in "nloWITlfr. as in everything else, and for this wide, shallow furrows turned flat are best adapted. I Household Illntw and Recipe*. A spoonful of kerosene oil put into ! cold starch will prevent the iron from sticking. A good dressing for leather is made of one quart of vinegar, two ounces of spermaceti oil and six ounces each of molasses and ivory black. Often one has gravy left from a roast of beef, and if you have no soup stock to j which it may be added, use it to fry sliccd cold boiled potatoes in for brcakj fast. This makes an excellent dish. To cook cabbage with milk, boil until I tender in clear water, drain, then set aside until perfectly cold. Chop fine and add two beaten eggs, teaspoonful of butter and a half cup of rich cream or milk; mix well and bake in a deep butj tered dish. This is a very palatable dish | | and is a favorite with many who cannot ! fat cabbage cooked in the common way. | I To make excellent soft gingerbread ! i take one cup of sugar, one cup of butter, ! one cup of New Orleans molasses, one cup of sour milk, a pinch of cinnamon, two eggs, and about five cups of Hour, enough to make a thick batter. Mix the molusses, sugar and butter to a cream j and place on the fire until warm; beat the i ! eggs thoroughly, add the milk to the warmed mixture, then the eggs, and 1 lastly the flour. Beat hard for ten min- j ,1 t -I i utcs, ana men dukl* in u simuun uu. An Army of Working Women. Every night of this wintry season, under | the darkness of 6 o'clock, you can see , J trudging through the streets of New j j York, to their boarding houses or other i j quarters, thousands and tens of thousands i | of young working women. They have ; i been toiling from early daylight at some 1 I one or other of the hundred industries ' j through which they find scanty means of , I livelihood. Thev arc now in the horse . j cars and elevated trains; they crowd their j way along Nassau street and City Hall . park; thev swann through the Bowery;) they march in long procession up Second i and Third avenues, Sixth and Eighth 1 avenues, and other lines of busy travel and j traffic on the East and West sides of the island. They have been variously cm- I j ployed through the day as: j Dressmakers, Seamstresses, j Paper 1k>jc niakers Lrico workers, Artificial flower hands, Tailoresses, Silk embroiderers, Collar makers, | j Crochet work mm, Necktie n akers. ! Kid-glove makers, l a; er-hag niak. rs, : Shoo fitters, Cigarette rollers, Photograph colorers, Kea i workers, I Fringe makers, Tobacco strippers, I | Fcatner workers, Suspender ira cers, j j J.aunJre^e.-*, Upholsterers. | Mi liners, Bookfolders i * tt t J. j i5nse-Dau nanux, oiuan. munci... Candy packers, Yarn spoolers, | Type writers, Hat finishers, Cashiers, Fur sewers, Tor makers, Flap makers, Umbrella makers, PocUetbook hand Straw sewers, Fruit canners, Hair workers, Errand girls, China painters, Bookstitchers, ; Piano-action makers, (iovernes e.;, i Nurses, . Canvasser.-", ! Housekeepers, Cash girls j Corset mukers, Perfumery makers, j Costumers, Labeler.i, l Gold-leaf workers, Hoop-skirt makers, | or in scores of other industries, where their labor can be mado available. They turn out an army 100,000 ' strong, for that is their number ns near as can be ascertained ! from the imperfect statistics that have been compiled. No accurate census has 1 ! ever been made of these working women, i | but the Protective Union, which keeps a ! free registry of those t seeking work j through its agency, has thirty thousand \ names on its books, and as many more ' are on the rolls of the Women's Christian association and other organizations. At least as many more, it is estimated by i those best informed, are seeking employ- j merit and livelihood through their own ; ! individual efforts,ho that 100,000 is likuly j j to be below rather than above the actual number of women bread-winners in this ! city.?iJohn Sainton'1* Pujwr. A Relniniscence of Guitcnu. _ According to the Washington /W, ( j Colonel Crook, who signs land patents j j for the President, was so struck with the j j antics of Guiteau that he made a little , j sketch of his head in his note-book upon j j the lJJth of May proceeding the assassij nation. Colonel Crook says that Gui1 tcau came up to his desk 011 that day | ] and borrowed two or thtee sheets of j ' paper. He was very impudent and was | very indignant because Colonel Crook 1 j gave him plain paper instead of the olli- , .cial paper. Colonel Crook said very ; shortly: "You can take that or none." j Then Guitcau said with a thump upon his breast: "Perhaps you don't know j who I am.'' Dashing down his card lit ! continued: "I am one of the men who i made General Garfield President.'' The j colonel was so struck with the appear- ! i * ; 1 * j | a lire arm pretensions m um u?ni|> mm, , I he then and there made a little sketch of j his face. lie wrote under the sketch, | I "Charles Guiteau, of Illinois, one of the , I men who made General (Jartield PrcsiI dent." By the side of this sketch he | wrote: " This fellow put on more airs I ; than is usual for a man who is begging 1 I for office." When Garfield was shot, ! ! Colonel Crook turned to his hook and j found that the assassin and his impudent j caller were the same. Matches. ' That match you arc lighting your cigar with is v very small thing, isn't it?'' said a passenger who had shared my seat I for a few miles. "A small tiling, but you wouldn't believe the American people paid out $'27,000,000 for matches last year, would you? It looks big, but it is a fact. Now, take a pencil and figure it out. Fifty millions of people in this country: they use on an average five matches each per day; that is 250,000.nnn .i,?D ,?.' > r.00 00(1 Iidvos rif . VW UliUUIiVO HIIIIJ, w. 100 matches in u box, every tiny. Last year these boxes retailed at an average of three cents each, making $70,000 a day for matches, or $27,;$7.'>,000 a year. And then to think that three-fourths of all these matches were supplied by one company! j If they didn't make SS,000,000 clear | profit out of it they didn't make a cent." I They own thousands of acres of timber j land" in Michigan, anrl their lumber is cut by their own men and shipped on their own boats. And then they have contracted for nearly all the world's supply of phosphorus years ahead, and the new manufacturers starting into the business find themselves overmatched in many ways by the old company, which can still control the trade and make a fair profit on its investments. They control twenty-two factories and one of them has a capacity of 72,000,000 of matches daily.?Chicago Herald. ( MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. M.me. Nilsson is an expert on the banjo. A Boston paper states that Mr. Hemchel and J'r. Howells are engaged in writing; a comic opera. IIenry Irving drew $lfi,0(i0 the first, and 17,'iiiO the second week of his I'iiiiadelpiiia engagement. Twenty men handle tlio scenery of " Tho S'ranglers of Paris" and nearly e?;;hty people play ia the ple.-e. Miss Kate Vaughn receives $275 a week salary at Drury I ane, as Cinderella in the Christmas piece! John McCaull. the New York theatre ttrnm 5'Aimwfill .InnVcnne frnctor) scout in th" lata war. Gorhm' says that Mine, Nordica has paid Colonel Man es >n $10,1/00 for the privilege of singing with his opera company. Salvisi the Italian tragedian, essays Hamlet in the English language at tno C'ovoat Harden theatre. London, in March. Biornstkin B Johnson, the novelist, ha just c jmpleted two dramas, one entitled "A Glove." and the other, "Beyond his Powers.' " Bon Fillibustro," an American comic orera, the scenes of which are laid on the Mexican frontier, will be proJuced in New York soon. Ristori's native town, finding that fun''a ran short for the monument its people were erecting to her, applied to her for ai l for it, which the eminent Italian actress sent. St. Louis is to have a great musc-hall, after the same general plan as that in Cin cinnati, and the contracts stinulate that i. shall be completed before November 1,1-SSlf-, B. C. Stevenson has adapted Wil'iam Black's "Sunrise,"' having considerably changed. with the author's permission, tho plot of that curious story of revolutionary nlnt.tincr. It is said that the Duke of Edinburg wi!l pose as a composer of opera in London next May. The title of the piece will be "The Massacri of Glencoe,"and Bret Harris the writer of the book. It is rumored among clubs of New York that the money bas been subscribed to build Henry Irving a theatre in New York which he is to manage in connection with his London Lyceum. Prominent citizens of Galveston, Texas, representing one hundred million dollars, have invited Clara Morris to visit their city and give a series of performances. Miss 11 orris has accepte 1 the "invitation. A blind Bostonian, Mr. E. B. Perry, ha? been earning golden opinions from the Stuttgart critics by his piano-playing, ile is especially praised for his gra-efuland feeling interpretation of Chopin's compositions. Flobence says that only two actors have ever held foreign appointments at the hands of the United States government. Mr. Cooper was appointed by President Tyler and John Howard Payne was consul at Tunis when he died. Sir George Macfarrak's "King David" is something ot a marvel in the way of a musical composition, from the fact that the composer wa< over seventy years of age, and was compelled, by loss of eyesight, to dictate the complote oratorio. A recent important musical event was the production of Ponctiinelli's opera. "L^ Gioconda,v at the Metropolitan opera-hou-e in New "York, with Mauamo Nilsson in the title role. The opera had never before been 4-Uir. /.A.mfnif pi UUUl'D^l 1U bUiO UUUnui T The eminent basso. Karl Formes, tells American parents that they make a grave mistake in sending tbeir children to Italy to : tudy music wheri tliev can obtain mur.-h better results at home, lie >ay* musical science is at its lowest level in Italy, and the great singers are not Italians. Mary Anderson's success in London appears to be social as well as professional. It is said she recently received a telegram from a parvenu millionaire, asking: "What will vi.u charge for dining at my house.' You will meet the Prince of "W'a'es and be treated as a guest.'' The telegram remained unanswered. The rulers of the Society of Friends in England have just issued a revised edition of the yuaker regulations to the members of their body. Suc'i ''foolish and wicked pastimes'' us ' balls, gaming places, horseraces and playhouses" are strongly denounced, but "needful recreation'' is prescribed as a "duty." Music is now permitted, but "musical entertainments" are still forbidden. Durino tho performance ol th? Molly Maguiro s:-ene in the play of "Tho B.'ack Diamond" at Leadville, Col., a crowd of miners, among whom, it is reported, was Mike Costello, a member of the legislature, throw rotten eggs and stones at the actors and broke up the play for a time. Eventually most of the miners were arrested, and Miko Costello among the number. Ix the Chinese theatre, at Ran Francisco, the members o? the orchestra sit in a row on the stage, smoking their pipes and keeping up a mat awful discord. Ihe "supe" sits ac their bead like an "end man" in ? minstrel band, in bis check shirt, and occasionally get* up and pulls off or puts on hjjjult suiiiu KUIIIC) III U13 VAVK V?MV.?* ? I tho rifle from Griffin's hand and accidentally shot himself dead. The thirteen-year-old son of Joseph Burns, of Chacon, Texas, while preparing for a hunt, accidentally shot his sister Bessie, killing her instantly. Her younger brother, wild with grief, ran out of "the house and has not been heard of since. Ho was last seen on the prairie seven miles froin home. A TALE OF HORROR Appalling Siciios on a Steamship Humeri in tlic> II ay of Hi sen}'. Tho steamer (rrantully landed at Dover England, one passenger, the chief engineer and fifteen men, who were rescued with grea difficulty from tho burning steamer St Augustine in the Bay of Biscay on the previous Sunday. A heavy sea was running at the time, rendering futile all elt'orts to get the b^a's alongside the vessel, and tho rescue 1 men were huuled on beard the Grantully with lines and buoys. They were the last that left the ship. The second "mate shot himself, and a sailor stabbed himself during the fire thiough fright. The Blcamer John Williamson rescued six more nun from tho Saint Augustine and landed them on the Tyne. The men report that the scenes on board tho Saint At gustine during the tiro were perfecjly appalling. Something fell from aloft, cutting oif one of the captain's .'ois. At his own re :-l quest a wavy mi ill-, uivm... U.^ waist, Jin J lie was thrown into the sea. Several of tlio sailors drowned themselves ill (lcspa:r. The fire spread with such ra])iility tint everybody 011 board be.ame panicstricken. Tli Jo!in Williamson rescue t six iren. including the second engineer, with n lifeWmt, which was s i ashed by the sea lis thev were drawn on board. Othor persons were seen 011 the burning vessel, and several ladies in the water. QQEER SUICIDES, Frank Avneh. of tircen River, Wyoming, blew out his brains because he hud the rheumatism. Cuaiu.es X. Mass-.y. n boll-ringer for auctions in the town .-f Te-serv.llo, III., took arsenic because he was suirering from a lame leg. William Ott. of Davenport, Iowa, first cut his tonsils and then shot liimself through the breast. He had been for thirty years a merchant of Davenport. A machink for drawing wire into smaller M/cs was attended by (Jeorgi' Kellogg, a convict in the 1II i ois State prison. lie nickel tip one of the loops from the coil of wire that he was feeding to the machine and t >ssed it over his neck. Ho was drawn down to the :i.i_ < 1 l.o,l I bit ck instnnuy w.ui uti ihh- mm-, .m.i u..? ;> H* time to say " (tood-byeto tlio convict standing next to him lief ore ho was killed. Jti-t before committim.? the act he went 10 his keeper nnd told him he wishe.l to see the warden, nnd being told he was absent, he replied: 'Well, I wanted to make a confession to him. I nm the manthat committedthedouble-mur:ler at Atlanta. 111.'' In his cell he left a letter addressed to Chaplain Rutlidge, saying: '1 have been treated well in the prison. I have no malice toward any one. 1 am innocent of the robbery that'I am sent here for. bir. it iss methin^olse that worries me. I was ia:sed a Methcdist, but what am I nowt I nm nothing. Mv God, forgive me and be merclfnl to me. It is more than I have been to myself." Kellogg wns about twenty years old. __ JNEWS UF THJfi WiSM.. Eastern and Middle States. Within two days sixteen horses wera 1 burned to de*th in three different fires in i New York 1 George i). TVkstervelt and William Mc- , Norton, the former a prominent oil operator, were killed by a boiler explosion at a wo'J near A lien town, N. Y. > A fire in Syracuse, N. Y.. destroyed the J stables of a street railroad company and suffocated twenty-four horses. At the annual dinner of the New England society, of Phi'adel[ bia. President Arthur and Secretary Chandler wore among the i speakers. 1 *-? - 1? mnffitiff JMCjllT COnVl'.'lM, llIIUVl kuieuv?? ..~t?r, from one to Ave years, arrived at Concord, N. H., from Washington, being the first ins'ailment of government prisoners received i at the New Hampshire penitentiary under a contract recently made ny the governor and council for their labor. Six of the lsoners were colored. One of the heavioi: failures noted in soma time Is that of Anios D. Smith & Co., the ? Providence cotton goods manufacturers. The firm havo run three concerns and five mills, the Groton manufacturing company. Ihe franklin manufacturing company and the Frovidence Steam M?ll company, com| rising the Durfee mill and the Steam r_ill in Frovidence. the Groton mi lat Woonsocket, and the Franklin and Merino mills in Johnston, In all these manufactories run S7,00(] spindles and furnish employment for from 10,0 0 to 12,00.) people. The amount of lia' r - - ? 41 AAA _ bilities is variously estimated at irom ?i,vuv,- i 0.0 to #1,7.0,000. The bark Mohawk, which sailed from New York for Calcutta, had to stop near New Haven, as eleven of her twenty men were badly frostbitten. Nine of the crew were tnken to New L'aven, all having their hands and feet badly frozen. One of the crew?a young Japanese?wa3 killed by falling from aloft. South and West. A family named Gray, consisting of husband, wife and child, and two middleaged ladies, were moving from Illinois into Arkansas when their covered wagon was overturned in a creek and they were all drowned. A Cleveland (Ohio) dispatch says tnat there is a stagnation in the iron trade; that a number of mills have already shut down in various localities, and that more will follow. Ex-Governor Ralph P. Lows, of Iowa, for the past eight years practising law ir. Washington, died there a few days ago in his soventy-ninth year. Mrs. Olive Gc>teh, eighty years old, her daughter and crand-daughter, residing near Moncure, N. C., were murdered with an or While a cage containing twenty convict laborers was descending a shaft in the Pratt mines near Biimingham, Ala., the engine became unmanageable for a moment, and the cage fell to the bo .torn, a dis ance of 204 feet, and rebounded sixty feet. One of the men was killed and thirteen others were injured Two fires on the Bame night in 8t. Louis resulted in the death of two firemen, injuries to six others, and the destruction of property worth about $500,000. An avalanche of snow, descending from a mountain near Ouray, CoL, struck a boarding house in which were eleven miners, carrying it away and burying the men under fifteen or twenty feet of mow, rocks and timbers. Six of the men were Instantly killed and the other five were probably fatally injured. A train on the Louisville, New Albany and Chicazo railroad ran into the Blue river, near Salem, Ind., a bridge having been swept away, and seven persons were killed. Lampborn & Gray, bankers at Alliance. Ohio, have failed. The losses are heavy, ana | many poor people are among the creditors. some piece or toggery icr an actor, or uw?n a chair from < ne place to another, and then resumes Lis pij e and hi* cross-legged position qs end man. A very reprehensible "joke" was perf.e trated the other evening at one of the most popular theatres in Paris. An individual dropped a number of smn'l glass globe; filled with a afutida in the foyer and passages. The globes crushed noiselessly beneath the feet of promenaders, and the result was a smell so inconceivably nauseous that a large proportion of the audience abruptly quitted the theatre, which had to be thoroughly fumigate 1 on the following day in order to get rid of the sickening odors. HUNTING ACCIDENTS, Jonx Martin*, of Elkhart, while preparing for a hunt shot himself dea<L In letting dow.i a rail of a fence. vV. S. Moore, of Freedom, ()., wa; killed by tho discharge of his gun, the rail having hit the hammer. ? Jerry Dcnevant. of Christianburg, Ky , be came so excited when his dog treed a 'coon that he fell from a chestnut tree and suffered fatal injuries. % As he fai cd to return home at night, search was lr+de for the feventeen-vear-old son of William Carroll, of Vandalia, 111., and he was found in the wo ds with one side of his head blown oil. C1 se by him lay his empty gun. Henry Story, of FayetteviUe, Tenn., always carried a whisky flask in his game bag. He bet ame so e'ated while hunting at his unusual good ii.c'c that he drained the flask, lost his way, fell into a river, and was drowned. In the Calumet Swamp, near Chicago,^ hun'.er shot a rtucK ana uurnea auer it. no stopped into the mire and but for timely assistance would have been suffocated. Tho water was up to his chin when he was rescued. Two boys of Marion county, AV. Va., Richard Anderson and John Griffin, went out hunting with but one rifle. When Anderson ? :_.i ;,, i,;e .lift o-rnhhprl Charles Harvey, a worthless character, murdered and robbed Henry Custel, Jr., a young clerk of Petersburg, Ind. Harvey was arrested, but a crowd of men took him from jail and hanged him to a tree. Three meu of bad character were taken from a saloon at Mo Dade, Texas, by fifty masked men and hanged. Six of their friends came to town, and in a tight two of their number and one of the citizens were killed. A qvarrel between white men and negroes, at Yazoo City, Miss., resulted in three of the former being shot and killed from an ambush. Two other white men were wounded. John James, the leader of the negroes in the difficulty, was shot dead while I resisting arrest I An outbreak of smallpox in the Wilmington (Del.) jail caused much excitement. Mrs. Martha Staves died suddenly in her church pew at Moriah, N. Y., while the congregation were singing. I Tw enty branch associations from various parts of the country were represented at the three days' biennial session of the Socialist Labor oougrew, held in Baltimore. * Another Colorado snow-slide?this time at the Mendota mine near Telluride? carried away a house in which were fourteen miners, j eight of whom were killed outright and two i injured. A man named Boss, his wife and their seven children were all drowned during a freenet in Hardis creak, Ind. Mrs. Elizabeth Sommerfield, a widow, and her two young children, who lived in a lonely cabin near .Beverly, vr. va., were | found brutally murdered and their hou-e a i mass of ruins, the murderers having cut the J bodies of their victims to pieces and set fire ' to the place in the hope of concealing all evidence of the crime. Washington The centenary of General "Washington's j surrender to Congress of his commission as | commander-in-chief of the Continental army was celebrated in the national capital by the early closing of the/department# and the exhibition at the State department of documents and relics illustrating the progress of Washington's military career. Hon. George A. Post is the youngest member of Congress. He is twenty-nine years old. At tweuty-two he was mavor of Susquehanna, Pa. Speaker Carlisle has laid before the I House a message from the President transI mitting the report of the secretary of state, and communications, documents and papers ! relating to the trial, conviction and execution I of Patrick O'Dcunell. j Sf.kc-.eant Mason, who shot at Gniteaa, i -will settle in Washington as a shoemaker. President Arthur received six gold- J headed canes and six silk umbrellas with gold and silver handles among his holiday pres- ! ents. I Mr. blanify huiriuan of the House com- j mitteo on coinage, weights and measures, j favors recoining' the trade dollars into , standard dollars, and thinks that the present I coinage of the latter should not bestoppel. Mr. I Blnnd is of the opinion that a mint ought to j be established in the Mississippi Valley, and, i ' becau>e of the advantages offered at St. j Louis favors that city as the place to bo j selected. | Foreign, Lisbon, Portugal, has been well shaken j by a strong shock of earthquake. Moody and Sankey, the American evan- I gelists, are holding largely-attended meetings ) enKnrha nf T^inilAn. Half of the Spanish seaport town of Mamole, together with much of the shipping in the harbor, has been destroyed by a pale. M. Jourdan, the Portuguese consul-general at Constantinople, committed suicide by stabbing. A Panama disj atch says that the English steamer Severn exploded her boiler at Cor- I thagenu. killing seven men and doing con- j sidernbie damage. A married woman named Van der Linden lias been arrested at Leyden, Holland,charged with having murdered in the last few vears | sixteen persons. Her victims were nearly all membei-s of her own family. She insured their lives first and received the insurance money after their deaths. The woman has confessed her guilt. It is supposed that she poisoned five of her own children. In a formidable riot l>etwecn Orangemen and an opposing faction at Harbor Grace, Newfoundland, three men were instantly I killed and several others mortally or severely wounded. Several detachments of military were sent bv steamer to quel] thu disturbance. A Romh dispatch says that a now American I " 1 1 \1 U cardinal will lie cre&ieu ui .uaiu, Xckman* Lockykk, a noted English scien- 1 tist, declares liis lx>lief that the recent remarkable sunsets witnessed in Europe and j America were caused by the Java earth- j quakes. _______________ A TEXAS TKAGEDY. j Five Men Stilled uml Two Tlortally Wounded. Particulars of the lynching and sanguinary i street light at M' Dade, Texas are as follows: j Tl e trouble Iwgan at 11 :-*i0 p. m., when , Henry l fiilfer, Wright AIcLemore, and I Thad".VcI.eiuore were taken from a saloon I in Mcl a le l>y fifty marked men and carrie 1 i a mile into the" brush, where they were j hanged t > a tree. Thad MeLemore ha 1 been | arreste I early in the evening on a charge of buig'nvy. The other two happened to l>e I jii tsent when the lynchers arrived. Pfeiffer \va under ii dictn.ent for horse theft. I The next day six men, friends and relatives ; I of tlu' niPii hangen, weni m mcueuk, juckeu | I a ((\iairol with Tom Bi-hop and G'eorgt | | Milloir, mid a fight with shotguns and revolvers ensued. Jack L'ay ley and Asa Bayley ! were killed, rnd Hayward Bayley was badly j wounded. The; ren aiirng three escatcd. j "Willis tiridin. of Mcl'ale, while ns-isting j Millom and Bishop to defend themselves, was j shot through the head and mortally wcuudeii by Hayward Bayley. C. J. Kkux and Cornelius Lake found the body of a man in the Kankakee marsh, Ind., j leaning face downward across his gun. He was in mud up to his waisr. As Frederick .Armitage, of Orange, Mass., raise* his gun to lire at a fox that was pan- ; ning toward him, th? w cation exploded prematurely, ami Armitage was killed. j LATEK JNJSW& General Geant, while alighting froui his & :oupe in front of his house in New York a -/ 'ew days ago, slipped and fell on his side, bustabling a gainful injury to his leg and compelling bis removal to bed. John A. Clark, was hanged in the Botenan (Montana) jail for the murd.rof Thomas Rogers. For the first five months of the present fiscal year the total internal revenue collections , *^ amounted to $ol,2?!?,438, being $11,943,971 V-_less than during the corresponding period of -fy ast vear. The French government has decided again to prohibit the importation of American salted meats until the French chambers have :* proncunced upon a now bill. The dragoons stationed at a village in tha . province of Volhyma, Russia, eu.ldcnly at- -1 tacked and plundered the Jews of the vi- ... :'-r cinity. A rabbi and several of his confrere? ': '$k died from injuries received. * -Sjjg A banking house at Antwerp, Belgium, has failed for $2,000.00). Friends of C61onel Henry R. Ratbbone, a prominent resident of Albany, N. Y., but for some time past living in Hanover, Ger- ?j- ? many, were shocked at receiving a cable dis- fjg patch announcing that he had shot his wife dead and then mortally wounded -'J* himself. Mrs. RatLbone was a daughter and Colonel Rathbono a stepson of the Utte . United State j Senator Ha ris, of New York. When Lincoln was Assassinated Col met Bathbone and Miss Harris were the only other occupants of the President's 'isg? box at Ford's theatre, and Colonel Rathbone tried to intercept Booth, and was stabbed in the arm. Colonel Rati.boao was about forty- j? eight years old, and five or six years ago ^ went abroad with his family. He was said 4 to bo subject to fits of violent tempar, TIE PAST YEAR'S OEOPS. J Estimates of the Agricultural B?> paxtmcnt. iSj Mr. J. R. Dodge, the statistician of the agricultural department, has just completed ,'v| preliminary estimates of the principal crops of the country, for the year 1883. They show tb&t potatoes.as well as all other root&and oats have grown luxuriantly and yielded largely. .' The average yieid of c >rn per acre for the past year, Mr. Dodgo says, is nearly twen- 7:^ tv-three bushels, or more exactly uy pieuur ... nary estimates, 22.7, which is twelve per c*?at lesj tlian the average yield for a series of years, or 1,551,060.885 bushels. This stands for the quantity of the present crop! Th quality, he >ays? is am tb.r consideration. If soft corn is cribbed in masses. . and after a few weeks of mild and moist 7"? wiather is badly injured, or even spoiled, it . ' -jg does not change the fact that the corn was . v grown and harvested. II is doubt'esi true, :Zd that the quality of corn north of the parallel '% of forty degrees is worse than for many years, increasing practically the amount of ' Jj shortage indicated by the number of buahek. "f The wheat crop, Mr. Dodge says, is slightly > in excess of 400,UK),000 bushels, and the cotton product, as shown by the December returns, is about 6,0j0,010 bales. . rg FASHION NOTES Boniton lace is again in style. Colored gems are much worn. Little girls are carrying macreme cord /* bags. The ruby is being employed in engage- ' $$ menf rings. Italian furniture of early Florentine &? styles is coming into use. Fur-lined garments are made in shapes similar to those of sealskin. It is said that curls are again to be worn at the back of the head.. Jockey hats are not nearly so popular 'v; as it was supposed they would be. - --& Eider down flannel in evening shades Kj makes a very pretty wrap for evening H| Parisian women are powdering their J .;| hair and arranging it a la Mary Stuart io the evening. Some of the now seal jackets are mad&jfe; with high puffed shoulders. This 'nwnjp them less aoaotonous. ^ Veils are worn short, bardjimc&i?|gM below the, eyes, ?nd are omitted aUvrggfl gether by' those whose complexions do I not need protection. ^ Among the various kinds of beads, 1 ' ? large ana small, which arc used to em- flNj belish and add finish to the modern royal J ^ toilet, the large Roman pearls are just ^^1 now more fashionably worn for evening decoration than beads of any other description. ;.-fr3a The old-fashioned pointed girdles are again in vogue, and the handsomest of xj these are made of tinted satin for evening wear, and nearly covered with gaycolored embroideries of silk and chenille, or with a richly colored and heavy beadwork, made to resemble precious gems. Elephants' heads, tigers' teetn, ana other India designs are in vogue for clasps, pins and many small trinkets and are said to have been first worn by the Princess of "Wales. The new pendants to chatelaines are lizard-shaped scent bottles, silver hunting-horns, a tiny mirror set in the shell of a tortoise, and a pencil shaped like a caterpillar. Plush is seen in many of the new win- \ ter suits combined with O.toman silk. With these costumes the suitable outside garment is a tight-fitting jacket of the plush} with fullness in the back like a postillion basque. A broad revers collar a fa. art wifVi nttnmnn silk, and the revere may be, if desired, extended the ?_3fj length of the jacket in the form of a '% vest. . _ ' 'i SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. 1 According to Professor Newton it..-J takes 100,000,000 years for meteors, J though falling at the rate of 3,000,000,000 fragments a year, to increase the ' diameter of the earth one inch. JIany cows in France arc fed upon beet-pulp. An investigation into the A physiological elTccts of this food show that it causes the milk to increase in ?1 quantity but deteriorate in quality. A new fiber for paper-making has been Ml discovered by Mous. Reynaud in Algi-ria. It exists in the dwarf palm, a great enemy of the agriculturists. The plant is full of fiber, and means have been found for utilizing the whole of it above the roots. Concerning the ratio in weight between grain and its straw, Netihaus-Selchow lias lately made known the results of his experiments. In wheat and rye the^^J weight of grain is about one-third of -- u.._i? / ?? 'NIlCJlUj 111 UU? 1U V 11U1U wu^* iiiu iv halt. The rest is straw and chaff For several years past the Swco^Hflfl government employed an entoinologi^^^B to assist the farmers in distinguishing and destroying insects that prove hurt- I fill to the crops. The demand for his services has been so very great, and the work he has done has been so useful, that the office of govemnlont entomolo- ^ gist is to be made a permanent one. A simple and useful belt has been in- j vented by Mr. Arnott, of the Lyceum theatre (London), having for it's object the fastening ot doors 01 ineiures auu other public buildings, so that thev can be opened by mere Jj rets J re against the door from the inside, and not at all from the outside, dispensing with all other ^ fastenings, which cause so many accidents in case of panic. One advantage is, that being once unfastened it cannot be rebolted by accident. The Albany Ecenintj Journal says: "A large proportion of the molding sand consumed in the foundries of the Uuitcd States is dug out of the hills of Albany county. It is said that everything insoluble metal, from a Krupp gun to a heel plate lor a lady's shoe, has been cast in Albany sand. Quantities of it have besn exported as ballast. The annual shipmeet of sand obtained hereabouts from this city is estimated at from To,000 to 100,000 tons, the price paid for it, delivered on board the cars or boats, being about $1.25 per ton. A Mansfield (Ohio) company is said to be manufacturing a roofing material from a wood-pulp board, consisting of twotliirds spruce and one-third poplar. It is then prepared, under patents owned exclusively by the company, in such a * * * . ^ "? L.M manner as to give sue greatest uuraouity. and adapt it generally for roofing purposes. It is claimed to be the b?st ?: roofing in the world, all things considered. It is not affected by heat or cold, as metallic roofs are, nor can it corrode. j It is practically fire-proof, though not t absolutely non-combustible. J I