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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNERS BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBEB 24. 1884. NO. 13. VOLUME XXIXJB* I THE WAYFARERS. Young man with the keen blue eyes, Clear and bold, Why, as thou dust fare, "With so searching air Scannest thou each face thou dust behold, Each small flower, faint-colered like the skies, Growing by the way? Why gaiest thou O'er the round hill's brow? "Ah, in every bearded face, Looking deep, My heart's friend seek I; In each maiden shy My heart's dearest, dreamed upon in sleep; And in each fair flower a hope I trace; And the hill ma}' hide the flashing sea That doth call to me!" Old man with the pale blue eye?, juuci aim ciear, Why, as thou dost fare, With that pondering air, Into passing faces dost thou peer? Why dost pause where dim, like autumn skies. 6tarry asters grow? Why gazest thou O'er the round hill's brow? "Ah, from each gray-bearded face Would I know What that heart hath found; And in youths that bound See a youth that vanished Ions ago; * In etch flower a memory can I trace; O'er the hill the green, still place may be That doth wait for me." ?Helen Qray Cone, in Harper's Magazine. "WHAT JOIIX FOUND. Recess was nearly over. The boys aad girls gathered m the playground outside of the log schoolhouse. but no play was going on. Most of the bovs had their books in their hands, and were | poring over them as if to make up for all the idle time of their lives: the girls sat i on the wood pile, whispering and lookingat the girls with a kind of awe. The school-house was built just outside ot a mountain village in North Carolina. The boys were dressed in butternut, or blue cloth, the girls in a kind of linsey, all of which their mothers h:id sunn and woven. Outside of the fence was a gang of little negroes, whom the white children ordered about with an air of authority; for, poor as they were, their fathers all were slave owners. There was a row of ihiny black faces at the top of the fence. "Gorry! Look at Mas'"Will! I tink ; he get it!" "Pshaw! G'long, you Victory! Our: Mas' Bob 8 twict as good a scholar. See | how he pokin' into dat book." The others vo.uuteered no opinions, ! but shouted: 'Hooray! "Which of ye agwine to be | de soier? Mas' Bi>b Sevier he grwine!! Cunnel Bob Sevier! Hooray!" Never had there been such a day j known in Uncle Job's school. Bob Sevier, a fair, thin boy, -with j round blue eyes, sat on the steps,turning over the leaves of his 44 Histora Sacre." n._ He knew every word and line; but he ! turned leaf after leaf with his cold, ! shaking fingers. When the little negroes shouted for "Cunnel Bob!" he felt a lump in his throat choking him. If he should not win! Bob had always been head boy in the school, but during the last month he had worked harder than ever. The i cause was this: Judge Peters, who was now congressman irom mis district, nau paid a visit to the village a few weeks I before, and had dropped into the school i one morning and made tht boys a little speech. " I was a pupil here,"he said. "There is the very desk at which I sat. Uncle Job taught me pretty much all I know. My father could not afford to send me to college, and I am sure neither can your fathers afford to send you there. But I want to give some boy here a chance such as I aid not have. I have the aprintment of a cadet to WeBt Point, and propose instead of giving it to some ! ricn man's son, that the boy in this bcxiuui wnu pact's uiu ucst eAuuiiuuuuii a month from now shall have it." This was the speech. It made the boys as wild as if he had put fire into J their brains. Not a boy there who did j not see himself a colonel in full regiment-1 als, preceded by a brass band, riding up j the streets of the village in triumph. They fell to studying, most of them for | the first time in their lives. They never j had done anything but lounge about the . sunny, chilly highland hamlet, listening to the interminable stories of the hunters. | who c^me in with peltry, or playing #*>^ "sisty out" with the little negroes. John Frernoy, the shabbiest of them s' alL sat aoart from the other boys with his sister Louise. "Now, Lou, just hear me this page," | and he began: "'Oharleraange, other-! wise Charles the Great, was the son of Pepin the Short, the first of the Carlovingian?Carlovingian'?oh, what comes , next?" 44 'Dynasty.'" prompted Lou. . "And what's the meaning of 'dynasty,' j I'd like to know ? Such rubbish! I don't! , understand a word of it! There's no use ] to try, Lou!" j Lou's eyes filled, and the tears rolled j j ^ down hor Hushed cheeks; but John only !, shut his jaws a little tirmer, and fixed his j dark eyes on the ground. They were i? honest, kind eyes, but dull: very differ- I cnt from Bob Sevier's, which giowed i iikc lamps. i , "I might as well give up, Lou. Uncle , Job says patience and hard work will take any boys through. But there's a difference in boys. "Now, Bob Sevier don't work half as hard over his books as I do; but just look at him. I reckon he could go over the Carlovingians, or ( any other Vingiun, like a trottin' horse." ( "Oh, yes, I reckon he could," groaned ! Lou. "But only think of West Point, j Jack! You'd be a gentleman and a," soldier, and see the world. An' ef you j you (ftn't get it, why, then?" "Then Uncle Bill will set me to plow- j ing in the Fall. He said only this j \ morning he'd wasted enough money on j j our schooling and you and I be to go to J; work to earn our salt." j, John took up the book and went at I, j the lesson with a desperate energy, while ; j Lou sat crying silently. j j fr The children were orphans and lived ( k with their uncle, a farmer, on Mount j , * ^ Craggy. He was wretchedly poor, like I j all the other mountaineers, and was, be- 1 side, a coarse, hard-natured man. ( The school-bell rung. j ( "It's coming now," 9aid John, ashe), got up and shut the book. |, 'You're powerful on 'rithmetic, John- j, ny, mind that. Jest you keep up," , eagerly whispered Lou,running along be- ! side him. j The boys crowded into the hot [ little school-room, and the girls, fol- | lowed, excepting Lou, who hung back, 1 final I v went to the woodpile acrain. ; . She knew she should not be missed, ' J and she could not bear to hear John's , examination. , The poor little girl had but one friend ] in the world, her brother. She sat down, , her hands shaking as is in a chill. 1 "He'll fail?I know he'll fail!" she ' j said, looking up to the sky and talking . out loud. j j "I can't stand it! Oh, Heavenly i ( Father! I can't!" L As with most Southern children, | j " Heavenly Father" was v^ry real to j , Lou. Then she began to pray, fast and j . hard, to this far-away Friend in the sky j, to help John. 11 "Oh, dear, onlv get him over the j ] Latin, and them Yingians! He'll man- j, age the arithmetic himself." h She sat there an hour or more, hearing j only a droning voice now and then from , the open winaow. , At last there was a hush. Uncle Job was going to give his decision. The little negrees crowded up to the school- | ^ house steps. B Lou stood up and threw her calico t P* tun-bonnet off her head. She did not know what she did, She was stifling j with sudden, terrible heat. Her strained 1 eyes were on the door. Presently she heard Uncle Job's voice in a few brief words. But she did not , catch them. They sounded to her like " John has won?John Fremoy." Suddenly there was a cheer inside. Then the negroes t<?pk it up. "Bob Sevier 1 Gunnel Bob? Hooray for Bob I" Lou sat down aad covered her face with her hands, iler brother came to her in a moment. "Get up, and come along home," he t said roughly. She caught his arm and patted it. "Dott't you mind it, Johnny," she said. "You kin do lots of things Bob Sevier knows nothin' about," she cried, j fiercely. "No, Bob won it fair," he said, sturdily. "I'm a duuce; I didn't deserve it; that's the worst of it." His face was colorless, even to hie . lips, but he showed his disappointment in no other way. Judge Peters came to the village the next day, heard the report of the examination, sent for Sevier, and promised him the appointment. lie then went out to the farm which he owned,near to Cabel Fremoys,Jonn'9 j uncle. The boy crept over, toward night, to catch a glimpse of the great ) man who might have made him happy j for life, but had not done it. He hung miserably about the place until evening, and then set out j homeward. Coming to the edge of Craggy Creek, I just where it turned from the mountain, he sat down on the bank, and put his hot feet into the water. To-morrow he | was to be set plowing with the negroes. ' "It's all ver fit for," his uncle said. "Ye'd a chance for West Point, an1 ye didn't take it. St) ye ken kennel with the darkeys for the rest of yer life. I'll 1 feed ye no more." . I John sat moodily flinging pebbles ; into the water, until dusk came on, and : an owl began to hoot. Suddenly the boy stood up, trembling j with excitement, holding a stone in his i hand up to the fast-fading light. I) j shone with a brilliant luster, like a great 1 drop of dew in the morning sun. As he | mnt-arl if it flocVlorl n hlflflH-fpd atftr 111 liis dirty palm. John had heard of tha J rubv which had once been found in the next gorge. "It was worth thousands of dollars!" he sobbed, rather than spoke. "I heard Judge Peters tell my uncle there was a corundum on his farm, and a ruby is a kind of corundum. I am rich for life." He sat down breathless, carefully rubbing the brilliant lump in his hand, as Aladdin might have done his lamp. "What was West Point to this? Money, beautiful houses, a glimpse of the world, an easy, happy life for himself and Lou. "Poor Lou! I was so cross to her to day! I'll go and tell her." Then he stopped as if some one had struck him. The ruby was not his. He was on Judge Peters' land. The boy sat down again, and for one whole hour the tempter strove with him. | If there was one quality strong and dominant in John Fremoy, it was his hon- | esty; but this was a temptation such as seldom comes in the way of any man. The next morning Judge Peters was mounting his horse to go into the village, j when a bov came across the yard. He ; walked quickly, as if driven by some force from behind. The judge waited, one foot in the J stirrup. As long as John Fremoy lived, he remembered, like a sudden, terrible ^ ii-- ?i~4-1*~ k^IA I picture, me glliriug ui LUC uuic I muddy yard, the staring negro boy j holding the horse, the portly, kindlooking old man awaiting his approach. When John reached the judge, he stopped and was silent. He had his little specch all ready, but his tongue ! was stilf and his throat parched. "Well, my boy, what is it?" asked the judge, kindly. John thrust out his hand. " A ruby, sir. It's worth a great many thousand dollars. I found it on your land." Judge Peters took the stone and examined it eagerly; then he turned to John, and looked at him as curiously. "Why didn't you keep it, if it is worth so much ?" "I had a mind to but it's yours." He turned away. " Stop, boy! Who are you?" "John Freraoy, sir." "Oho! Lncte jod spoKe 01 you to me. Ycu are uncommonly quick at figures, eh?" "If I am, I'm a dunce at everything else. If I had not been*, I might have gone to West Point." "Ye-es," looking very thoughtfully at John. "Very well, Fremoy, I'm very much pleased* with your honesty. Good morning!" And the judge rode abruptly away. He rode directly to Uncle Job's house, and was closeted with him for an hour. The next day the village was electrified by hearing that Judge Peters was going to take John Fremoy to Annapolis to pass an examination in the engineer's department, at the Naval academy, and ' that Lou was to be put to school in Kaleigh by the same kind friend. ******* John Fremoy is now a middle-aged man. ranking high in his profession. He met Judge detersauout a year ago, nt his sister's house, for Lou married a planter in Virginia, and is a happy wife md mother. "I have often wondered, judge," he said, ''why you befriended me as you did. [ certainly was a dunce as far as Latin ivas concerned, aud I am not at all sure if I am accurate about the Carlovingian dynasty yet." "Honesty is a rarer quality than good scholarship, and more useful in the world, Frcmoy." "And another question. Is not that the ruby I found, which you wear on eour watch-chain?" "Yes." 'May I look closely at it?" The judge hesitated, then laughed, ind gave it to him. "Why, it is only colored quartz!" exclaimed Fremoy. "Yes, but it is more valuable to me than any jewel, for it gave me an honest man for a friend."?Rebecca Harding Davis. A Fish Breeding Establishment. A gentleman named Howeittoun has :he largest lish breeding establishment in Great Britain, if not in the world, [t was commenced ten years ago with a stock of about fifty breeding fish. It contains more than 40.000 breeding, 300,000 small fry, and 0,000,000 eggs in process of hatching. The breeding establishment covers eleven acres. The ponds are situated in an inclosure that is very beautifully terraced, the turf between the ponds being kept in the condition of a lawn. Stock fish arc kept autside this place in artificial ponds and streams that are carefully guarded. From ?n elevated summer house, located in the centre of the establishment, every portion of it may be seen. It is planned with an eye to beauty as well as to utility and profit. Each pond is supplied with spring water, and is so arranged that all the water may be drawn from it at any time it is desirable to do so. The large fish are fed during a portion of the year on a species of coarse fish that is of no value as food for man. The food of the little iish consists principally of horse-flesh,which is cut into small pieces ind pounded. One pound per day is re quired for three hundred fish. All the fish are very tame. The appearance of a person on the bank causes them to come iround the spot by thousands. A wave denotes their advance. The fish will dart it meat held in the hand, and will often bite the fingers. The establishment provides a market for all the old horses within many miles. The cost of the establishment was over $00,000, but it pays ten per cent, on the investment. The proprietor thinks he could row construct in establishment equally good for half the money this one cost. In that event it would pay a dividend of twenty per cent. The fish bred are different varities > *?* -v? ??? Dt saimon ana iroui. num; aic laio^u | for the table. They are solely for the purpose of stocking ponds. Some have been sent to Australia and New Zealand. The demand is so good for the fish that the pioprietor of this establishment proposes to start another on a still more extensive scale. Since the fisheries exhibition in London, last season, there has been great interest in fish-breeding, not only in Great Britain, but in most of the countries on the continent of Europe.? Chicago Times. A. Chicago lady who speeds much o her time on horseback has had her hair bleached to match the color of her sorrel bone. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, j Quality in ICgr?"* The Poultry World says that the differ-; ence between an egg laid by a plump, i healthy hen, fed with good, fresh food daily, and an egg laid by a thin, poorly fed hen is as great as the difference between good beef and poor. A fowl fed on garbage and weak slops, with very little grain of anvkind, may lay egg?, to be sure, but when these eggs are broken to be used for cakes, pies, etc., they will spread in a weak, watery way over yonr dish or look a milky white, instead of, having a rich, slightly yellow tinge. A "rich egg" retains its shape as far as possible, and yields to the beating of a knife or spoon with more resistance, and 1 gives you the conviction, that you are really beating something thicker than water or diluted milk. In the Orchard. A. It. Whitney, the well known nil- ; nois horticulturist and farmer, who isal- i ways ready to give the benefit of his long i experience to others, tells why he turns j sheep into his orchards in preference to swine. The latter root up the ground, j taking the best apples and leaving the ' wormy ones; the sheep systematically go : over the orchards and pick up the apples i that drop early, thus destroying large I quantities of worms; they do not root j up the ground, but manage to destroy I and clear out a great variety of weeds. | Mr. "Whitney also makes a distinction in i the sheep; the Merinos browse too much j to suit the orchard?the lower branches of the trees are not safe with them. Any of the lono- wools are nreferable. two 1 0 - # ' # , good Cotswolds to the acre, in his opin- ; ion, are capable of keeping an orchard , free from wormy fruit or weeds. Mr. "Whitney employs a strap of iron curved like a shepherd's crook, and bolted ; to the side of a pole, of sufficient length at the end for gathering apples j for the cider press. This hook is placed i upon a branch aud the fruit broken off, j a much better plan than the usual one of j beating the tree-tops and battering the fruit. Mr. Whitney has found refuse mortar and lime spread about an apple ! tree of great benefit, prairie soils being ! deficient in lime for apple-growing. Growing- Fanilea. This is one of oar most popular flowers, and though it is popular and to be found in most gardens, comparatively i few people understand its proper culti- I vation with a view of obtaining the finest flowers. They will go into the grounds of the florist and express amazement at the great size and beauty of the pansies they see there, will forthwith purchase a supply for their own planting, and will be charmed with them, and be determined to grow the same on their own premises, though their previous efforts have so signally failed. When asked Low they had been growing them, they often reply; "I got some from a neighbor, who has large beds of them, but they are all so small." When told that they should sow the seed of the finest of those obtained from the florist as soon as the seed was matured?say, some time in August?and that that was the only way to nave nne, large nowers, the idea was jumped at. That is the way to get them. Every August the seed of the largest and most desirable ; should be sown, and the old ones dug up and thrown away. And we should say that this is easy enougli to do when it is oncc known. In the winter the plants should be lightly covered. There are new pansies advertised every year, j but any one, growing them carefully and , taking, as we say, the seed from the bos', every year, will be as likely as any- { body to have large new kinds, and will ! thus save the expense of purchasing I them, which, at most, last only for a j single blooming.?Germantown Telegraph. Celery Culture. First?Send where you will be sure to get good seed. Second?Prepare a seed bed out of doors in a sheltered situation. You will get your plants early enough by so doing, tor they giu.v much faster and are much stronger than when grown in a hotbed. Third?Sprinkle the bed often to keep it moist, and when the young plants are about three inches high transplant them into rows, putting them about three inches apart in the rows, and the rows about one foot apart. Fourth?When the plants have become stocky have a trench dug about one foot dee >, put into it equal parts of wood i ashes and good rich dressing and rich, j black soil, and work all tocrether with a I hoe. Fifth?Set the plants about five inches apart, and be sure to straighten out the roots and press the soil firmly about them. Sixth?Sprinkle them enough to keep them fresh until they are firm in their placcs, and then give them all the j water you liave a mind to?the more the j better. Seventh?When they have made I growth enough to cause the branches to , lie over, hill up enough to hold the stalks erect. Continue the hilling process at intervals of two weeks, all summer, being careful to do it when the weather is : dry and in the afternoon when the dew j is off. Be sure when hilling to hold 1 the stalks together, to prevent the 1 soil from getting into the heart of the 1 plants, VinrVi+Vi r^nrfinn oa vrtti -UMaVi fnr early celery bank to the top by Septem- : ber 1; for winter use bank to the top from the 1st to the middle of October.?New York Herald. : i Important Facts in Peacli Culture. The peach affords a striking example ! of the benefits derived from careful, ays- j 1 tematic culture. To a neglect of the j; few essential rules which in every case j j should govern peach growing, may be ;' attributed the large percentages of fail- j1 ures in peac h culture. Josiah Hoopes, j1 West Chester, Ponn., writing to the \ American Penological society on this j1 subject presented some important facts ;1 for consideration. The pcach is especially partial to a j' loose, rich soil well drained and with j1 suitable protection from destructive j' northwest winds. Mr. Hoopes has ob- j served for many years that "excessive ! high winds from the above quarter will j 1 invariably affect trees disastrously, which j 1 coming from other points of the com- i 1 pass even at a lower temperature, would IJ not seriously affect vegetation. Kxcess- ! j ive dryness in conjunction with high ' ' winds and very cold weather is what af- j j fects vitality, and moisture proves a ! safeguard." To produce a vigorous, healthy growth ! in a young peach orchard it is necessary \ ! to stir the soil deeply in advance of planting, at the same time enriching the ' soil, but not with a superabundance of i 1 stimulating organic manures. Trimming, j especially when young, Mr. lloopes re- |. gards favorable to the healthy growth nnd perfect form of a tree. He also em- j pha<dzes the importance of thinning out peaches at an early stage of growth. ! ' This latter opinion is substantiated by ' best orchardists, who have proven that 1 when properly thinned the remaining ' specimens more than compensate in 1 quajity and size for the loss in quantity and labor expended. In regard to the "yellows" Mr. Hoopes says: "The very small fungoid plant, that is undoubtedly the author of ail the mischief, may be defeated to a certain ' extent,if not entirely eradicated." There are three inveterate enemies of the fungi, viz.: potash, lime and sulphur. The Srst of these is undoubtedly the most effective and available for ihe peach orchard, and its use, even in the form of unleachea wooa ashes, has proved a val uable aid in destroying the germs of disease as well as imparting n renewed vigor and health to the tree itself. The weight of proof is in favor of the general belief that a vigorous tree is less liable to contract the yellows then a sickly one.? jVcw York World. Can Hor?c* Travel I'nshod? Whether shoeing is necessary or not remains to be tested to the satisfaction of the majority. Some believe that shoes cannot be dispensed with on cobble , stones of the cities, but are inclined to the opinion that shoes are not altogether j necessary on soft, sandy, or light, grav- , ellv roads. In Chicago a gentleman neglected to shoe his horse, and allowed it to work on the cobble stones. At * * . ' ' - - , - first the feet became somewhat sore, and j the hoofs cracked and seemed very brit- j tic. In time, however, the hoofs began . to harden in texture, became callous to the hard usage, nntil now the owner de- j clares he would not use shoes again un- | der any circumstances. Just here we desire to call attention to the subject, j If the feet, by direct contact with the , earth, improve, and the tenderness and ! brittlcuess of the hoof is changed, it j may be possible that those who have attempted to work their horses unshod have become alarmed at what ! they supposed lameness, when a little patience would have demonstrated : the method as feasible. Any one who . is accustomed to wearing shoes finds it j very inconvenient to walk barefooted for : a few days; but after a short time the ' feet become insensible to substances with j which tney come in contact, auu uuc j then easily manages to walk on stones, | gravel, in the sand, water, or even upon | sharp substances, without the least diffi- j culty. Thus it may be with horses when ! the shoes are removed. They will lind walking awkward, and the feet may become sore, but after u lapse of time they will be able to pull over the worst kind of roads. So far as our own opinions are concerned, we have not given the matter a test; but the experience those who have tried working horses without shoes cannot be ignored. It will be hard to'convince most persons that shoeless horses J are able to endure the hard cobble j stones, but that horses may work upon i good country roads is within the limit of possibility. It would not be a troublesome experiment if farmers should put the matter to a test by leaving the shoes off one or two for comparison. If we could work our horses anywhere without snoes, it woiua oe a great saving in me course of a year, pot only financially, but from the inconviences so often experienced when horses are to be shod during a busy time.?Field and Fireside. Facts Worth Knowing Around th? Laundry. That by adding two parts of cream of tartar to one part of oxalic acid ground fine and kept dry, in a bottle, you will find, by applying a little of the powder to rust stains while the article is wet, that the result is much quicker and better. "Wash out in clear warm water to prevent injury to the goods. That cold rain water and soap will take out inn chine grease, where other means would not be advisable on account of colors running, etc. That turpentine in small quantities may be used in boiling white goods to great advantage, as it improves the color, and the boiling drives off all odor. Resin in soap is quite another thing; it injures and discolors some goods, and shrinks woolens. Soap men argue that on account of the turpentine in the resin it assists in the washing. It is a fraud on the consumer. That kerosene will soften leather belts or boots that have become hard from exposure or use around the wash-room. Good for the harness when hard from rain or dampness. Wash with warm water, then grease with eood animal oil or dressing like the following. That the government harness dressing I is as follows: One gallon of ueatsfoot j oil, two pounds of Bayberry tallow, two j pounds beeswax, two pounds of beef tallow. Put the above in a pan over a ! moderate tire. wnen tnorougmy aissolved add two quarts of castor oil,then while on the fire stir in one ounce of lampblack. Mix well and strain through a line cloth to remove sediment, let cool, and you have as line a dressing forharnces or leather of any kind as can be had. That baking soda gives instant relief to a burn or a scald. Apply either dry or wet to the burned part immediately, the sense of relief is magical. It seems to withdraw the heat and with it the pain. Keep it in the ironingroom. That Javelle water, often met with in works or articles or cleaning and dyeing, is made of one gallon of water and four ponnds of ordinary washing soda, i Boil for live or ten minutes, then odd oue pound of chloride of lime. Let cool, and keep corked in a jug or tight vesiel. That when acid has been dropped on any article of clothing liquid ammonia will kill the acid, and then by applying chloroform you will restore tne color in I most cases. That "cyanide of potassium" will re- i move all indelible inks whose base is nitrate of silver. Being a deadly poison, it will be hard to get from the druggist in most cities. Turpentine or alcohol rubbed in hot removes the new inks,using soda and soap freely in hot wat?r afterward.?Nuiional Laundry Journal. How Imitation Pearls are Made. ''You would hardly think," said a dealer in fancy goods, holding up a j string of glass beads as big as a cherry, | made in imitation of pearls, "that to get j the pearl tint on each one of those little ' globes that the lives of at least fifteen beautiful fish had to be sacrificed, would you! But they do, though, and altnougti they are made in Venice, and that string represents a catch of nearly five hundred fish and the exhaustion of a good many cubic inches of aglassblower's breath. I cm sell it to you for a quarter and make a fair profit. ''They've been turning out beads like these in Venice ever since 1656. There is a fish in the Adriatic they call the iilenk fish, but why bleak I can't say. There is nothing bleak about its appearance. It is a graceful fish, with a glittering armor of silver scales. They are more prolific and swarm in larger schools than herring. One day in 1U50, a resident of Venice, Salvator Jacquin by name, placed several of these fish in a small aquarium to observe their tiabits. After they had been confined in the acquarian for some time, he noticed that the water took on a pearly hue. Believing that this was communicated by the scalcs of she bleak fish, Jacquin tried some experiments with them. He round that water could be so densely sharped with the tint from these scales that glass on being dipped in it and then illowed to dry had every appearance of i pearl. He coaled glass beads with the liquid, and they were readily taken for large pearls. The coating would not resist much friction, however, aud soon rubbed off the surface. Finding that a *reat sale could be had for beads made in imitation of pearls if the coating could ? v j UU lillUlU jJUI IllUIlUUl, ItlV/I.J U1U V.UiiVUiVCU I the idea of having the globes blown j hollow and theu fixing the fish-scala licjuid to the inner surface. This was a I success from the start, and the glass | pearl bead business got its first boom. It requires the scales of four thousand bleak fish to make half a pint of the pearl liquid. They are simply removed from the fish, which are cheap as mossbunkers and soaked in tepid water. Nowadays a very small quantity of sal Ammonia and isinglass is added to the licjuid. It is introduced inside the bead by a small tube, and when it is dry a coating of wax is run over it. Fortunately for the fish, the trade in these beads, pretty and cheap as they are, is not alarmingly lurge." How the Chinese Get Rid of Lepers. The Chinese leper that temporarily escaped from custody while his nineteen companions were being shipped aboard the Oceanic on Thursday was observed hidden under a building and placed on board the steamer before she sailed. It is-anticipated that this last band of twenty pests will meet the sr.me fate as the lepers shipped to China about two years ago. These latter unfortunates were placed on a barge to be conveyed to the Inner rnlnnv in f'nnton hut. nnpmnrn ;? i? j ~ ? * injr they were all found to be dead. The Chinese government reported that the food served them had been poisoned by being cooked in u copper kettle, but others openly expressed a belief that the lepers had been intentionally poisoned to relieve them of their misery.?San Francisco Call. Physicians and dealers in dyestufFs in London are trying to drive aniline colors out of use and restore vegetable dyes. They assert that aniline dyes produce painful and dangerous eruptions of the skin. The cost of the public printing now amounts to $8,000,000 annually. ; Valley of the yosemite. A PLACE WHEBE JTATtTBBfl GBA9D* EBT BCBHEB ABE USVBILED. Guarded by Lofty Granite Walls and Gemmed with Sparkling Waterfall*?A Californlan faradltte. When Doctor Johnsou wrote of that Happy Valley of Amhara, in which Rassdas, the Prince of Abyssinia, and his sister, Nekayah "lived only to know the soft vicissitudes of pleasure and repose," he must have been granted a mental vision of the great Yosemite of California. The pellucid lake, teeming with aquatic life, and the silvery stream which coursed through the valley, could not have been more enchanting than the watery mirror which mingles the reflected pictures of the fleecy clouds floating above and the towering rocky domes about which they hover, or the dashing Merced, bearing to the ocean the icy waters from the eternal glaciers of the mountain summits: nor did they, in their efforts to escape from this pleasure prison to search the world for the true source of happiness, encounter more unscaleable cliffs or loftier walls of rock than those which encircle this valley in the heart of the Sierras. The Indians, whose depredations upon the miners in 181V) lprl tr> t.h<> rlisrnverv of*the vallev. " v "**" "" "" w w * 7 whither they had fled from the wrath of the avenging Americans, called themselves "Yo-Semite," and this name was bestowed upon the valley, though it was afterward learned that the proper Indian name was "Ah-wa-ne." As the natives speak the word it is "Yo-ham-ite," but the accepted pronounciation among the people of California is Yosem-i-te." The Yosemite Valley lies on the headwaters of the Merced river, in the very heart of the Sierra Nevada mountains. It is eight miles long, and varies from one-half to a mile in width, containing about 8,480 acres of ground. It is 3,950 feet above the level of the sea, and is surrounded by an almost unbroken wall of granite rock rising above it to a height varying from 2,500 to 3,300 feet, and overlooked by mountain peaks which pierce the clouds 10,000 feet above the sea level. The scene which opens out before the traveler's eye at many points, while descending the tortuous trail, is one whose reflection can never grow dim on the glass of memory. Though not as grand a view as is offered from many points in the valley itself, yet being the first revelation of the wonders Nature has hidden in those mountain wilds, the impression made is the most vivid and enduring. In one sweep the eye encompasses a large portion of the valley, taking in the lofty granite walls, the guardian domes of rock, and the numerous waterfalls pouring over the canyon's edge and plunging down hundreds, and even thousands, of feet to form tne Merced river, the crystal stream which meanders so peacefully through its entire length. There are many scenes of beauty and nbiecta of wonder in Yosemite. enough to require a week of diligent exertion to see them properly, while even months could be spent there with pleasure to the mind and profit to the body. There are waterfalls to visit and many a dome and spire to ascend before the valley has been seen in all its varied aspects; and when the visitor has accomplished all the feats of climbing required, and seen everything that challenges his admiration, he can depnrt with the quiet satisfaction of having beheld more grand and beautiful sights than can be found associated together in any other spot in the universe.?From the Portland^Or.) West Shore. WISE WORDS. The beggar is the only man in the universe who is not obliged to study appearances. There cannot be a greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse. Good taste rejects excessive nicety; it treats littlejthings as little things, and is not hurt by them. The sting of every reproachful speech is the truth of it; and to be conscious is that which gives keenness to the invective. Let grace> and goodness be the principal lodestone of thy affections, for love which hath ends will have an end; ?* - i _ a _ r j _ j a. wnereas, inai wiuuu is luuuueu uu true virtue will always continue. People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a wounded arm is a sort of draftment upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there. Whenever the desire of durability is woven in human endeavor it ennobles the character as well as the work. How estimable is the labor in any sphere who tries to make his work stable and enduring 1 Whatever be the labor he undertakes, we give him our unqualified respect. We talk much of duty, of morality, of self-denial, of laws and rules for selfgovernment; we impress their necessity upon others, and. if conscientious, we bind them upon ourselves. All this is right; but, so long as we leave out the joy of well-doing, we leave out the soul of which all these are covering. Au Oriental Dainty. The beche-de mer, ortrepang, is found amoner the Polynesian islands and in th( Pacific seas generally, being prepared and sold in Chinese and Japanese markets. The creatures exist on coral reefs and have bodies from six to fifteen inches long. The sltin is sometimes, as here, covered with spicules or pickles, and is sometimes quite smooth, and with or without feet. Five varieties are recognized in the commerce of the Pacific islands, the finest of which is "brown, with teats or feet," which are worth, at the place of their preparation, ?30 per ton." The large bJack, which come next in value, so sayB the authority to which we have referred, bring . 25 per ton; the small black, ?20; ;ed-bellied, ?15, and white, ?12. The finest of these sell for as much as ?100 per ton in China. After they are caught they are boiled for about twenty minutes and then split up and gutted, when they are ready for drying, an operation which is conducted in large sheds on hurdles placed above a brisk fire. Thus dried they are packed up and shipped off.?Pall Mall Budget. A Monster Cook Book for Kings. One of the most sumptuous and expensive books on the culinary art that the world has even seen is the work of a French artist, named Emile Bernard. So large is this volume that it will cover, even when closed, a moderately sized table. The illustrations which adorn it. throughout, are excellent representations of the various dishes treated of, each ovnpnci'ro I yuvH'S.uimv-i "J " * ~"I' ? ' ~ apparatus constructed especially for the purpose. The letter-press, the binding, the gilding?indeed, everything in connection with this huge tome?are most elaborate, and nothing that money can purchase seems to have been stinted. Only a hundred copies were printed, and these are in the exclusive possession of crowned heads and their immediate relatives and friends, by whom tney were subscribed. The total cost of producing this magnificent work was 300,000 marks, or ?15,000, thus bringing the price of each , book to ?150. A Curious Puzzle. The following curious puzzle is said : to beat the celebrated "13-14-15," and i !s well worth investigating: Take a ' strip of paper or cardboard thirteen < inches long, and five wide, thus giving a j surface of sixty-five inches. Now, cut i this strip diagonally as true as you can, giving two pieces in the shape of a triangle, and mensure exactly five inches from the larger end of each strip and cut in two pieces; take these strips, and ; put them into the shape of an exact square, and it will appear to be jusl eight inches each way, or sixty-foui square inches, a loss of one square incb of superficial measurement with no diminuatlon of surface. The question is, what becomes of that inch? P. T. Barnum began his show life as an advertising agent for Turner's circus. 21EWS SUMMARY. tiulern and Middle Statoii A hundred acres of land over a mine near Wilkesbarrro, Penn., suddenly caved in, doing great damage. The financial loss is estimated at $500,000. The sudden death of Charles S. Hill, cashier of the National Bank of New Jersey, at New Brunswick, one of the city's most prominent citizens, was found after investigation to bo undoubtedly a case of suicide brought about by the threatened exposure of large peculations on his part from the institution's funds. Examination immediately aftor his death disciosed a deficiency of $235,'J30.31, of which amount Hill was responsible for $190,820.(54: Speculation in Wall street led to Hill's downfall The funeral of Senator Anthony at Providence, R I., was attended by President Arthur, Attorney-General Brewster, fifteen United States Senators, ex-Senator David Davis, distinguished representatives of the United States government, every officer of the city and State, and hundreds of friends and representatives of every branch of trade in the United States. Mahlon Runyon, president of the National Bank of New Jersey at New Brunswick, followed the example of Cashier Hill and committed suicide. The examination which followed Cashier Hill's suicide showed that he was a defaulter and that President Runyon was also indebted to the bank for a much larger amount than he could possibly make up. The president and cashier had been speculating in Wall street. They were not in partnership, but each evidently knew what the other was doing and both used the bank's money to the extent of wiping away its surplus if not seriously impairitie it* rnnital. President Runvon. an aeed man. appeared at a director's meeting in the bank utterly prostrated. Finally ho went to a closet, and after a while he was found there with his throat cut and gashes in his arms,all inflicted with a penknife. The bank was closed pending the examination by the examiner. First returns from Maine showed the success of the Republican State ticket by a majority variously estimated at from 12,0C0 to 10,000 votes. The election was for a governor, four members of Congress, members of both houses of the legislature and county officers; and a proposed amendment to the State constitution forever prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes and the arts, was voted upon. Governor Robie and other State officers were re-elected and four Republican members of Congress were chosen. The legislature will be largely Republican in both branches, and the constitutional amendment wai carried. Governor Cleveland was present at the 8tate fair in Elmira. N. Y., and his appear ance was made the occasion for a demonstration in his honor by Democratic clubs from Southern New York and Northern Pennsylvania. There was a parade and torch-light procession, and Governor Cleveland addressed the large assemblage. Mahlon Runyon, the self-s]ain president of the New Brunswick National bank, left a note declaring that he had not robbed the institution. Further figures put the Republican plu rality in Maine at about 17,000. The Stat* senate will stand thirty-one Republicans and no Democrats. The house will have 117 Republicans and thirty-four Democrats, a Republican gain of seven. There was an immense attendance at the late Secrelary Folger's funeral in Geneva, N. Y. President Arthur, Governor Cleveland and staff, members of the cabinet and other prominent government officials and distinguished friends of the deceased were present. Much suffering has been caused in New York by the torrid heat, and numerous cases of sunstroke and prostration occurred, many of them resulting in death. Two more tragedies nearly resulted from the double suicide of President Runyon and Cashier Hill, of the New Brunswick (N. J.) National bank. A daughter of the former at. tempted to throw herself down a well, and the wife of the latter tried to shoot herself with a pistol; but both were frustrated by relatives in their attempt to kill themselves. Another banking institution has gone to the wall, the State bank at Fort Edward, N. Y., closing its doors. The cashier stated depositors would be paid in fulL The New Hampshire Prohibitionists have nominated Larkin D. Mason for governor, together with an electoral ticket The Massachusetts Prohibition State convention at Boston put a full ticke, in the field, headed by President Julius H. Seelye, of Amherst college, for governor. New Hampshire Democrats, at their State convention in Concord, placed John M. Hill for governor at the head of their ticket, nominated presidential electors and endorsed Cleveland and Hendricks. At the Connecticut Greenback State convention in Meriden, James L. Curtis was nominated for governor, together with a full ticket and presidential electors who are Dlodeed for Butler. South find West. The Georgia cotton crop has been severely injured, suffering at least twenty per cent, in .iamage by reccnt heavy raina Many Eastern parties have "been involved more or less heavily by the failure of the Mezeppa Mill company, of Redwing, Minn., with liabilities of $140,000. A disastrous drought is prevailing in the eastern part of Ohio and western part of West Virginia. Crops are perishing and stock is being sold at almost any sacrifice for lack of feed. A great fire has destroyed an immense amount of property in a section of Cleveland, Ohio, known as the Cuyahoga flats. These flats separate the east and west portions or the city, and aro covered with hundreds of lumber yards, factories and foundries. The flames swept over the dry, seasoned lumber and ignited a dozen large lumber piles in as many minutes. Telegrams were sent to Toledo, Columbus, Gainesville, Delaware, Youngstown and Akron asking for engines. The nre was witnessed by 100,000 people, and the military wore called out to aid the nolice in Dreservine order. About ten acres of frame buildings and lumber yards were aflame at one time. The origin of the fire is generally ascribed to incenttiaries. The burned district embraces about aighty acres, and the lumber interest of the city is almost paralyzed. The loss by stoppage of business and the destruction of property was put at between two and three millions. A New Orleans dispatch says that the total cotton crop this year is 5,713,200 bales, against 0,949,750 bales the previous year. The Lincoln Savings bank at Fayetteville, Tenn., has suspended. Later returns put the losses by the fire in Cleveland, Ohio, at $1,025,000. A desperado named Orton was discovered at Little Rock, Ark., in the act of setting fire to a building with the intention of burning the town. Ho was arrested and lodged in iiaL A crowd of men took hira out of jail and hanged him to a tree. Ge.ver.al Butler made a political specch at the Nebraska State fair in Onmha. The Missouri Republican State convention at Jefferson City, endorsed the nomination of Nicholas Ford, Greenback candidate for governor, and divided with the Greenbackers on the remainder of the ticket. Two convicts at work on the watocwork reservoir near Lexington, Ky., became rebellious, and were horribly beaten to death by the guards. An important gold discover}' is reported to have been made in the Little Kockv Moun tains, 100 miles nortlu-nst of Denton, Montana, and a regular stampede for the nurii'eroui region is going 011 from various points in the surrounding country. Portions of Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa have been ravaged by terrific tornadoes, resulting in severe Ijss of life and great destruction of property. The town of Cleui Lake, Wis., was laid in ruins, and three jier sons killed. Many houses in Clayton, \\ is., were demolished iti a few minutes. TnE town of Mitchell, Dakota, has been swept by a Are. Tho losses will aggregate 1200,000. A sudden' explosion resulting from some defect in the apparatus blew up the Enterprise distillery at Pekin, 111. The building iell to pieties and several persons were killed. The Wisconsin Democratic State convention at Madison nominated W. D. Fratt for governor. A Cincinnati paper has been investigating the country's corn crop, and finds the yield will be about 1,810,000,000 bushels. This estimate implies an average increase of seventeen per cent, over last year and a crop larger than any previous one. Kuhin^oni Upon reception of the news of Secretary Folger's death the treasury department was closed and the immense building heavily draped in black. An order was also issued to close all custom houses and sub-treasuries throughout the country during the hours of the funeral ceremonies. Upon order of the President the following nrlili-nsuvl In- Aetiiifr-Hecretiirv of State Davis to tho members of the cabinet: "With deep regret I announce to you that the Hon. Charles J. Folger, secretary of the treasury of the United States, died yesterday at his home in Geneva, N. Y. Thus has closed the life of a distinguished and respected citizen, who by his services as an executive officer >of the United States, and as a legislator and judge of his own State won the esteem and regard of his fellow countrymen. '1 !io President directs that all departments of the executive branch of the government, and the ofllces subordinate to them, shall manifest due honor for the memory of tLis eminent citizen in a manner consonant with the dignity of the office thus made vacant, and with the upright character of him who held it. To this end, the President directs that tho treasury department and its dependencies in this capital shall be draped in m uining for a period of thirty days; the several executive departments shall be" closed on the day of the funeral of the deceased, and that on all public buildings of the government throughout the I'liited States the national flag shall be drape' in mourning and displayed at half mast." Foreign. Brigands have been committing great ravages in Macedonia, Greece. During August they killed forty-five persons. i ? Fierce riots have occurred at Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium, brought about by political differences. A large procession in Brussels was attacked by the dense crowds of spectators,and many persons, including several policemen, were injured, three fatally. Troops were called out and one hundred and eighty-five arrests were made. Fully one hundred persons were wounded in the Brussels political riots. Fifty thousand troops were reviewed by the czar of Russia in Warsaw. The Chinese government is reported to have made a declaration of war against France in the form of a manifesto from the emperor to the people. Cholera ravages has caused an entire ce? [ 6ation of business in Naples. | Two schooners have been lost with all on board during a hurricane off St. John's, N. F. j More than three hundred deaths by cholera took place in Naples in one day. Hon. John A. Kasson, the new United : States minister to Germany, presented his credentials to the emperor at Berlin. Great crowds of Europeans and natives welcomed General Wolseley upon his arrival j at Cairo, Egypt, from England, to take charge of the military operations against the Falsa Prophet. A Naples dispatch says there is a com- ! plete breakdown there on the part of the authorities in relation to help for the chclara I victims, owing to the want of medical comforts and stretchers. The sick are left abandoned in the streets, and no measures are taken to remove the dead Lord Dufferin, at present British am" bassador at Constantinople, has been appointed viceroy of India. A freight train 011 the Mexican Central railroad was wrecked near Calara on account of a washout. The engineer and firemen, both Americans, and seven other persons w^re killed. ^ .iMtrajse rropners reoeis nave own defeated with heavy lo s in an attack on Kas?ala in the Soudan. Extraordinary precautions were taken for Ihe safety of the emperors of Russia.Germany and Austria during their contemplated meet- j ing in Warsaw, Poland. Military patrols i were stationed all along the railroad line by ; which the royal visitors expected to travel Sixty-four persons, including several ; women, suspected of conspiring against the . 'zur'n life, were arrested in Waq?w. LATER NEWS. Sitting Bull, the renowned Indian chiof, accompanied by his niece and eight of th? principal chiefs of the Sioux Indians located at the Standing Rock agency in Dakota, arrived in New York a few days since. They have been brought East for purposes of education and exhibition, and after a tour through the Atlantic States will go to Europe. A dispatch from Augusta, Me., says that \ the total vote of the State reaches 142,410, j and that the majority of Robie for governor . over Redman is 20,tilo. J. H. Barry, a promising young Phfla-! delphian, accidentally hung himself while | trying to illustrate the method by which "Bill j Sykes," the villain of Dickens' "Oliver Twist" j became his own executioner in attempting to I escape from the police. An unprecedented rise of rivers in Wisconsin succeeded the tornadoes, and wrought a j heavy loss in property. At Chippewa Falls. the river rose twenty feet and swept every- I thing before it. At Eau Claire ten bridges i and 200 houses were swept away. In and be" tween Eau Clairo and Chippewa Falls the 1 total loss was estimated at $1,500,000. J. H. Squier, the so-called Washington banker and petroleum dealer, who paid ten j per cent interest on deposits and failed two months ago, has committed suicide by cutting his throat. The result of his oixrationi had been the complete ruin of a number of innocent and worthy families. He had been sueu anu wua uesperaw;. Four college students,all residents of Cana- [ da, while rowing on the Welland canal at Niagara Falls, Ontario, were run down by a ferryboat and drowned. A companion was rescued. Fully a thousand arrests of suspected persons were made in Warsaw during the czar'8 visit Notwithstanding these precautions thousands of copies of a threatening circular | issued by the nihil!-its were distributed i throughout the city. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Providence club has made $20,00(1 this season. All the Eastern American teams now finish up in the West. Titwtie liavo hw>n Ava fames t.Ma season in which the score wasl?0.? General W. T. Sherman recently served for two mortal hours as umpire of a basebal game. Boston is credited with the largest receipts this season from ball games of any city In the country. Carpenter, of the Cincinnati Americans, is organizing a team to take to New Orleans next fall ana winter, with the idea of giving exhibitions of baseball i Baseball is " the" sport at the Sandwich Islands. The Hawaii Gazelle of recent date contains this paragraph: The baseball clubs Oceanic and Honolulu met on the diamond at the Recreation grounds on the af-1 ternoon of the l'Jth inst., and there before an audience that completely tilled the pavilion tried conclusions with bat and ball for the championship of the islands. After a rather poorly contested game, numerous errors being made by the fielders on both sides, the Oceanics obtained the victory and the championship by a score of 10 to 9. Vale, HonoluIn St Paul recently, in a game between St. Paul and Milwaukee' a large crowd hod assembled to see Foster pitch. As he pitched the first boll a sharp crack was heard distinctly all over the ground, and the sphere rolled ten feet to the right or the batter. Foster staggered and turned pale, and it vkz afterward became known that he had snapped ! tlio bone of his right arm just above the elbow. He was soon in the hands of a doctor j and the bone properly set, while George Allen nnd George Walsh volunteered to take j up a collection lor the sufferer, $172 Deing contributed in a few minutes, whereupon the spectators settled down in tueir seats to see the game. THE UMPIRE. Who is it now pets all the blame, "When the pet club hus lost a game, And from the cops protection claim. The Umpire. Whe is it stand each jibe and jeer, Who gives decision with great fear, With many missiles falling near? The Umpire. Who is it, when the game is done, Will surely try the crowd to shun, And thinks it time for a home run? The Umpire. -Call At the end of the nineteenth week the record of the League clubs in the championship race was: ? Clubs. IVon. Lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost. 1'rovldence i>9 20 | Chicago .....45 48 Boston 62 27 Cleveland 31 60 lilifTalo 51 37 | I'littiululphia 31 60 New York 50 40 | Uetroit 21 70 The record of the twelve American Associ !> - 1 -f 4.1. ,,r<volr . anon ciuosatuiu enu ui mouwo nw? i was as follows: Cl'ibx. Won. Lout. | Club*. Won. Lott. Metropolitan.61 231 Baltimore....45 34 Columbus....59 27 i B:ooklyn 34 60 St. Louis 51 34 I Toledo 31 65 I I ouifvllle....54 29 I Pittsburgh....25 62 1 Cincinnati....52 35 I Indianapolis..25 60 j Athletic 51 34 I Virginia 7 13 A PLAGUE-STRICKEN CITY, j Harrowing Scenes in ^'aiiicit-T'irec Hundred Heaths in One Day. A Naples (Italy) dispatch says: The condition of affairs here is most harrowing. Scenes of misery and wretchedness of the most pitia- , ble character occur on every side. King Hum- i bert has l>een profoundly affected by the suf - j ferings he has witnessed. He has made a first donation to the relief fund. King Humbert gave audience last evening j to the municipal authorities. Orders have j been issued for the troops to leave tho Maddalena barracks end encamp outside. The barracks will lie converted into a cholera hospital, 'lhe royal party is visiting the poorer quarters of the c ity to day. There j was a riot yesterday among the sellers of; mineral waters because their trallic was r<>itrict.d. The epidemic continues to make great ravages. During the last twenty-four hours then; have been over GOO fresh cases of cholera and ! about aOO deaths in this city. The town pren OOru>/>t. TmO(TA? t\f vjlilltv 1 WJIUJ O UO|/VV?< .t....v with acolytes bearing tapers have l>een borne at the head of processions of women through the principal streets, who invoked the help of1 the Virgin. j King Humbert paid a visit late in the day to the Conocchia hospital. An immense crowd attended upon the king, paying him an ovation as he proceeded through ihe streets. Bonfires have lieen lighted throughout the city, and disinfectants arc freely used- King Humbert declined the us-.- ?>f disinfectants while making a tour of the wards in the hospital The king was ac 'omj anied by his brother, the duke of Aosta. Signor Depretis, minister of the interior, and Signor Mancini, minister of foreign affairs. The burial of the victims of the cholera is found to be very difficult, owing to the unusual large number so suddenly needing interment A soldier who was suffering from a violent attack of cholera was taken to the | hospital, and in his delirium threw himeelf : from a window, dying instantly upon the 1 D&vement i ??? SWEPT BY TORNADOES. Death-Dealing Storms in Western States. One Wisconsin Town Almost Entirely Destroyed, Details of the terrific tornadoes which ravaged portions of the West are given in dispatch?s from various points as follows: From Clear Lake, Wis.: A tornado struck \ this place yesterday afternoon, and devasta- j tion was tho result Three lives were lost j and the greater portion of the town is in j ruins. After the storm had passed men,women j and children were running about in a perfect frenzy of excitement Here and there people could 1)0 seen coming out of their collars almost paralyzed with fear. A house was i taken from its foundation and turned com- I pletely around. A barn was blown away, I leaving the floor and mangers with the i horses peacefully eating then* supper. A j child was taken up by the tempest and j landed in the branches cf a tree only slightly injured. A large frame house was blown completely out of sight, and not one particle of the house or contents could be found, although search for a mile was made in the track of the storm. The family had fortunately taken refuge in the cellar. Many families are left destitute. One-half of the lighter structures in the village of Clayton, Wis., were blown down by the storm. The tornado struck there about 6 p. m., doing nearly all the damage in fifteen minutes. From Stillwater, Minn.: The tornado struck about five miles north of here between 5 and Clast evening. At Marine ten or twelve buildings were destroyed. The Swedish church, five miles northwest of Marine, was *. i. - A?*1 1 u 4i.? burn iujJitK.es. auuiuci uuuicu m me vuiogo i bad the front part of the steeple blown away. The front of Charles Weistengen's houso was damaged, and his barn rolled down the . hill. Part of Mr. Root's house was blown down. The whola family were in the house, and his daughter, who was in her chamber, was blown away with that portion of the house and rolled down an adjaceut hill. The house of Frank Nelson, on the main road, was blown in Page's slough. His wife, who was alone, took to the cellar. In the town of Grant, Judd Smith, A1 Foss. and the owner of the old Carnman farm, had whole rows of fruit trees snatched up by the roots and carried away. The barns and granaries of the farmers were destroyed in many cases, and stacks of wheat were lifted up and borne away. The path of the storm was about five miles wide, blowing from west to east In a small settlement of the town of Grant fully twenty-five buildings were more or less damaged Some of theni were twisted, others unroofed, some partially destroyed, and many wholly so. John ilorrissey's house was thrown into Long lake, 150 feet distant. A tornado struck White Bear Lake, Minn, at about 5 p. M. Its track was less than a mile and a half wide. There was the usual funnel-shaped conformation of the clouds, slightly green in color. Mrs. Drake's fine large house to the west of the town suffered seriously. Most of the windows were blown _ 1 -i-l J m, auu uuicr uaujugc wua uuuc. The sheds of the uuiuth railroad were demolished, and hundreds of trees were blown across the track between White Bear station and Dellwood. Some people assert that there were two storms, one from the southwest and the other from the northwest, and that they met at White Bear. From St. Paul, Minn., the Omaha officials report severe storms on the eastern and northern divisions of their road. From all points reports come of houses being blown down, trees torn up by the roots, washouts on the roads, bridges washed away, and rivers from ten to fifteen feet higher than usual. The bridge north of Bloomer is washed out. Duncan creek bri Igo is also washed out, and is expected o go soon. The telegraph office at Clayton was struck by a tornado, and was gutted out and flooded by water. The n,w iron bridge being built over the river St. Croix, a mile this side of Marine mills, was taken up by the storm. MUSICAL AND DBAMATIG It ^figured that $115,000,000 is the amount invested in theatres in the United States. The reigning prima donna in Paris at present is Mile. Marie Van Zandt, an American girL Clara. Morris -will be seen oftener this leason than she was last, her health being much better, W. D. Howells lias sold a play to the Madison Square (New York) management. It will follow "May Blossom." Mme. Nilsson has signed a contract with Colonel Mapleeou to sing in England and America for $2,400 per night. There is not a single prima donna or tenor of any marked merit in Italy,and the musical [ critics of Rome deplore the fact. The Abbe Liszt, who was reported to have become totally blind, has come out in a letter denying this statement. The famous pianist can work without difficulty. Miss Banks, the daughter of General N. P. Banks, who is soon to appear on the stage, Is, according to the Boston Post, "not a blonde, quite good looking, and is over twenty." It fa gratifying to know that Mr. Daly has been playing a successful engagement in London, as lie is the first manager who ever played an entire American dramatic company in England. A new comedy from the pen of Frod.Marsden is named "Humbug," and is written for Roland Reed, the young actor, who has gained a prominent position among leading comedians in his play, " Cheek." Another young American has attained a place of prominence in the musical world of France, Master Michael Banner was awarded the first prize at a recent examination of violinists mthe Paris conservatory. Mart Anderson is in her twenty-Birth year, one was ooni <jui,v zo, iow, ana urns acted in Louisville, November 27,1875, and has been on the stage eight years. Sarah Bernhardt is forty years ola, and has been on the stage twenty-four years Mr. H. E. "Walton, an English-Australian , actor of extended reputation, has been engaged by Dion Boucicnult as his leading man during this season. Mr. Walton bas never before played on an American stage or been before an American audience. The mu-ic*l composition known as an oratorio gets its nan.<5 from St. Philip NerL He, a devout priest, in the full tide of the Renaissance period, with the aim of attracting young people and keeping them out of mi? chief, more especially on Sunday, gave at his oratory performances of original sacred music, to wldch he gave the name of oratorios. Many of thesa early oratorios still exist. CANNIBALISM AT SEA. A. Dyin; Hoy Killed and liix Fle?h l.'aten by Shipwrecked .Men. A case of frightful suffering at sea has been n^nrriit tn li>hfc hv til*? nj-rival at Falmouth. IS* V?vx ~0 , England, of tho Gorman bark Montezuma from Rangoon, having on board the survivors of the wreck of the yacht Mignonette. The yacht, which was of only thirty-three tons burden, sailed from Southampton for Australia on the 19th of May. On tho 11th of June, when near the equator, in the Indian ocean, she encountered a storm whicli sent her to tho bottom. Four of her coinpany escaped in a dingey. They were the commander, Captain Dudley, two seamen and a bov named Parker. All the provisions they were able to throw into the boat before the vessel sank consisted of a few tins of turnips. They were absolutely without water. They subsisted for five days 011 the canned turnips, and on tho fifth day they caught a small turtle. They were terribly tortured by thirst By tho twelfth day the turtle, including its skin, had been consumed, and there was absolutely nothing left to eat in the little boat. The ?.,,o T.n.L-nuK nf I VVJ J irnagj, T1IW the four sufferers, and it was evident that he was slowly dying. The others hungrily watched his symptoms of dissolution. On the twentieth day, after the entire party had been without a particle of food for eight days, tho captain hast-med young Parker's death by opening a vein in his arm. The three survivors eagerly drank of the boy's blood, and cut his flesh from his bones anil ate it, uncooked, the Captain keeping possession of tho body and serving out to himself and the two sailors only such daily rations as were necessary to preserve their lives. They prolonged their existence in this way until July 5, when they were seen and rescued by the Montezuma. I mring the twenty-four days that had elapsed since the sinking of tho yacht, the dingey had drifted '.ISO miles. The three survivors have been placed under arrest, and the death of the boy will be investigated. NEWSY GLEANINGS, At Shubuta, Miss,, the boys take Che girlj out riding in Implies drawn by oxen. Out of the :?(>,o iO,iiOJ comprising the ]>opulation <>f Japan there are but 10,000 paujiers. A jj^tion.vl convention of cattle men has been announced to meet in St. Louis, Mo., November 17. The Chesapeake frog-hunters send $100,000 worth of their commodity to Northern markets every year. The coming corn crop is estimated at 1,21)7,000,000 bushels, against JS62,0(56,000 hist year, and Sl-J,,771,000 in 18S'2. The once famous Hudson river tunnel, upon which $1,000,000 has been expended, lias been abandoned, it would seem, forever. The sum of $2,500,000,000 is required to furnish the British |>eople with the common articles of food and drink for a year. The State experiment farm of Ohio wil* have an exhibit at the New Orleans exposition, one item of which will bo 100 varieties of wheat. maSg DESTRUCTIVE FLOODS. Tornadoes Followed by Rising Rivers in Wisconsin, ' ~ Jfl Hundreds of Houses and ManvHlSH Bridges Swept Away. -'HJjjBj The destructive tornadoes in the Northwest were followed by floods which caused an im- wfllfH mense loss of property, particularly in Wis* KwBH consin. Early accounts of the havoc wrought H were given as follows in a dispatch dated Eau B H Claire, Wis.: jHB Both the Chippewa and Eau Claire riven jHHjH began falling at noon, after reaching the> <a precedented neignc 01 twenty-six loe^ iun feet higher than the great flood of 18>0 Every bridge on the Chippewa river has gone down; fiVe railroad bridges and live wagou bridges. In this city the loss of pn.pjrty is appal- *B| ling. No satisfactory estimate* can be made at this time. In and between Chippewa Palls < and Eau Claire, the loss will not fall short of SI,500,000, and may greatly exceed that sum, 9 The Eau Claire lias company lost 350 tons of -^frnjU coal and all their buildings, valued at ?4$,- 000." The business houses on all sides 1 of the two rivers are submerged, and great apprehension is felt le.st when tha water recedes ihe founda- tions may be so mach impaired as to cause a the walLs to crumble. In this city over two hundred houses have been swept away, but^ only one life has been lost, so far as hearufroitt^ Three buildings on Bridge street, West^Me, * , 'fl have fallen. / "B From Chippewa Falls, Wiprj came the followmg tale of > disaster: IjH Tie Chippewa river rose st^tdily until 5 o'clock this morning, when ip reached thirty feet, being the highest stage of water ever known at this point, dr feet liigher thanjmM in 1880. At 1 o'clocjj^ifcis morning-ti)e earth-SJlj#8M work at Poir.t Creek dam gave ^?b?yieH^nH booms broke, and at 1:30 the logs ltinSIBiflHpw^H ttt; .u f>w~l iropci II .N-UUSlll unum UJ 1U^,T?^tafxag^m Cuippewa, carrying it over ^2?M and on to the wagon bridge, takin^e^fcjjl^m^Mj two spans of this bridge. It swepHjpBto; jvSg^Q the lower central and St. Paul it entirely demolished. The bridges, together with a full rivefc* Iqgjfc '^^99 swept the two bridges of tho between this place and Eau ClajBHS'TW Omaha bridze, being above the upriftflftipM{|Wfit|aB bridges, stood the testwand to-day fnjjHH means of crossing the rirM-. ] Frenchtowh, on the s( uth side ofp^'Mjalfl WHM is fearfully devastated. AJ1 but K(i?M| twenty-five houses along the bankMjBMM 0?|gHf carried away. One or tw > million have run by. It is just. iported mCsMBB jBreSjaW Falls has gone out. The loss will rfMflKjHH MtaW $1,000,000. Reports from up the TOMr/^H H**SW that there is more watar to comet5flH ^ j^JSSH bridges across the smaller fitreai*?UxroSljH Lsection of the country have beencWMI $|lSH away. Business here is practically suspended prominenFpeoplr m 1 I * .9 Will Carleton is rambling through Sorope, seeking fresh poetical inspirations. ; fl I ^-President Gonzaxes, of Mexico, haP been elected governor of Guanajuato, Mexico- . ;9fl President Jules Grew, of the French republic, was seventy-seven years old on the Kino Alfonso, of Spain, has consumption " and is not expected to live long. Ex-Qomo . '21 Isabella is suspected to be plotting to socoeod Bishop Brondel, of Montana, has exoommunicated John Magensie, a theatrical man- ' J? ager, from the Roman Catholic Church tor bringing Robert G. Ingersoll into Montana IS A 80s of Henry Ward Beecher, captain of :VsB a steamboat plying along the Pacinc coast ; resides in Olympia, Oregon, and is described man wifh a Qiin.hmWnM fta U WCOIUC* - imw ?y iiawwwwM wrm w> ? straw hat, ''looking like a mechanic." : -/jaaM Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, who i? "'fl slightly deaf, says he would not be cored of v'v&j&H hin deafness for $10,000, because it prevents his hearing many things which he does not ^9| wish to hear, such at cars, carte, licensed 9 venders in the morning, bores, telephone calls, political speeches and cata ? General Beaobeoabd is daily seen o? - .;%? J Canal street in New Orleans. He ia of short >'-M stature, the Boston TraTwcripi says, with white hair, mustache, and imperial, and notwithstanding his advanced years, he is C- vSi fl nimble and cheerful as many men years hi? W. w. Corcorait, the aged millionaire '3 hanker and nhilanthroDist. of Washinjfton, is | said to be exceedingly proud of his ancestry.. I He glories in the fact that his father was only a poor, honest shoemaker, and ha treasures 39| the old cobbler's shop sign-board among his choicest possessions. X THE TOBACCO CROP. - "JS The B?st In Growth and Quality' for IVanjr Years. Exhaustive reports on the tobacco crop from 500 correspondents of the Springfield (Mass.) New Englan>i Homestead, covering all tho seed leaf tobacco-growing sections of the United States, indicate that the crop, ' now nearly harvested, is the beat in growth and quality that has been raised for years. :.&*M The total acreage may be slightly less than r rjSB in 1883, but the proportion of Havana seed leaf has greatly increased. Fully tw?? \$A thirds of the entire seed leaf crop is of . ,<? the Havana varietv, the balance being common seed leaf. The tobacco counties of. * Ohio, Dlinois, and Indiana, are the only sections reporting unfavorably. There drought and grasshoppers have done more or less, damage. In New England, New York, Penn-' ' sylvania and Wisconsin there has been an al- ' most entire absence of hail. Only in a few limited localities has it been destructive. Wind, rust and fleas have done comparatively '-V1 little damage. Very slight harm was dons 5^3 by the li^ht frost of Aupust25, principally (.hemun?; count)-, New York. Green worn^ftvi^jjw have been phenomin&lly scarce, and the leafgj^HB| is R'markauly sound, while its good size make it a good wrapper crop. Buyers genergfl 99 ally inspected the crop as it was about bein^y yffyW harvested . SCIENTIFIC AND INDUS TRIAL, j ' '$%& An engraver at Versailles, whose name^j^Jggj is not given, is said to affirm that he discovered a method for taking photographs in colors, being able thus to produce the colors of the individual or ?t?|s|S landscape photographed. / Jsjffl Paper barometers were first introduced from Paris, and can be made by soaking fl the paper in a solution of chloride of co- lyjjrag bait. It then becomes hygroscopic. If it is now exposed to a current of air it I will change from blue to pink, according B as the air becomes moist, regaining the jy9|j? blue as the moisture decreases. ' ggj The amount of carbonic acid generated by lights is thus represented: electric lights, none; argand gas-burner, .46; flat-flame netroleum. .95: colza-oil lieht, 2$ 1; paraffine candle, 1.22; and taflow ''ffifjffjS canale, 1.45. It has been remarked that vSSf the tallow candle, the oldest artificial AfJia light, is not only the hottest but the most unhealthy. The bog peat of Mexico is now being fjjfl used on a considerable scale as fuel foi locomotives, stationary engines, smelting purposes, smiths' fires and household . use. The peat is mixed with a proper proportion of bitumen, and is said not only to burn freely and without smoke 'p. in much quantity, but to give a higher M dynamic equivalent of heat than the same J. amount of wood. The plan of using the enormous water power of the Alps for working electric .>??S _?:i ?Cwif'/arlan/l ta fthflllfc UU lWtt)3 lit ^ ?? * ^Vl 4UUV* to take a definite shape, the idea being ^sj to connect the towns of St. Moritz ana Pontresina by an electric railway fout and three-quarter miles long, the motive power to be supplied by the mountain f streams; the line, in case the plan proves a success, to be extended a considerable | |9 While the eucalyptus or Australian ?H ;|3 blue-gum tree destroys malaria and keep* gafl / off mosquitoes in marshy soil, it has no such effec t upon dry soils. The differ- il&CT ence is ascribed by a German scientist to the fact that the tree is constructed to &$hB j act as an evaporating machine, and-only f:w ;X'-' does its work in marshy land. A featuro ' of the tree is its adaptability to different climates, it being now grown in almost f^SjSP every civilized country where frosts do ^ Watermelon Logic. -ijJj ' How to tell a ripe watermelon," is the heading of a learned article that it now going the rounds of our exchanges. We have nothing to tell a ripe watermelon. All wc want to do with a ripe watermelon is to take it out under the shade of a tree or behind the corn crib and there linger with it a little while in silence.?Free Press. The last legislature of New York amended the penal code by holding any person guilty of a misdemeanor who shall sell, give away, exhibit or otler for sale to any minor child any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper or other printed paper devoted to the publication of or >72 pr.ncipally made up of criminal news, . police reports or accounts of criminal ??? deeds; or who shaltexhibit on any street or highway within the view of any minot