Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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BErm Sonic find Love late, some find hiin soon, Bra Sonic with the rose in May, Some with the nightingale in June, And some when skies are gray; Love conies to some with smiling eyes, And comes with tears to some, For some Love sings, for some Love sighs. For some Love's lips are dumb. How will you come to me, fair Love? Will you come soon or late "With sad or smiling skies above, By light of sun or moon? Will you be sad, will you be sweet, i Sing, sigh. Love, or be dumb, Will it be summer when we meet, ' Or autumn ere you come? L- - ?Pakenham Beatty. ^ OUR EXPERIMENT. ' I'm sick of it," said Kate, dashing a I liandful of hair-pins upon the table, and If'ffinor a li?cr 1 ?rn\vn <rr\ tnmlilimr ^ v ~ ov kU"'w""b p down her back. "So am I,"' said Heth. "So ab I!" said Nannie, who was suffering with a dreadful cold. "What is it. "iris?"1 said I, turning my book face down in my lap. "It's the suppers," said Beth. "It's the everlasting gossip." said Kate. "It's so differed from hobe," said Nan^ nie, to whom boarding-house life was a new experience. "It's all three, and much more," was what I wanted to say, but being the oldest of the four, it seemed my duty to make the best of things; so I said, quite cheerfully, "I didn't sec anything unu6 ual about the supper to-night." S "That's the trouble," groaned Beth. ''It was altogether too usual. I am so tired of bread and butter and apple sauce and dry cake that I feel like gnashing my teeth at the sight of tliem. I should like a slice of toast or a bowl of bread and milk occasionally, without being made to feel that I had disarranged the whole internal economy of the house."' ' The suppers arc bad enough," said Kate, but they are nothing to the gossip. I I'm tired of hearing it whispered round ' tliat 'Mr. Johnson and his wife had a quarrel in their room last night.' or that 'Miss Robinson has worn three new dresses this month,' or that 'Mr. Jewett came in ever so late the other night, and it sounded as though he fell upstairs.' Bah!" and Kate locked as scornful as a round face with a dimple in it would > allow. "I could stad everythig else," said Nannie, "if it was odly hobe-like. Oh! if I could odly sit dowd in a dead kitclied, with by feet in the stove oved, | | ad see a braided" mat in frod of the stove s with a dice cat od it, I should be per' feglv happy." We all laughed at this idea of bliss, ?*"*?- but after the laugh there was a suddeu silence, for each one of us recalled sucti a kitten, and the presence that had made Iit home-like. We were not sisters, or even kin to each other, but meeting as strangers in a city boarding-house, a strong friend i ship had grown up between us, starting, I think, in the fact that we were each orphaned and had our living to earn, and L strengthened by many congenial tastes. We were doing our daily duties in rather a brave, cheerful way, usually with few complaints, but 4.o-night we were under a cloud. Outside, a November rain was lashing the windows, and inside, the stove smoked. It was pay-day at the manufactory where Kate was book-keeper, and that was always a bard day for her; Beth had worried two of her dullest pupils through their music lesson; and I had had a time Lin school that afternoon with a wretch of a boy, and was at my wits' end what to do with him on the morrow; and Nannie was more than half sick?so we sat there quite still for awhile. Finally Beth spoke: "I sup? pose we might make these rooms look a little pleasanter. We each tiave a few pictures aau KmcKnacKs.' Hi "Do you suppose I would hang my Un few pictures against this awful paper ?" said Kate. "Besides, what wouiu be the Mff use ? Just as we got everything nicely k fixed, some man would want the room, B| and we should be invited to go up highIB er. I've boarded in this house two -3 il.?i il T1 -J! J Iv >car*, iiuu iu umt nine i ve uuvauceu from the first floor back to the third floor I front, and two moves more will take me * out on the roof." "We bight go sub where else," said Nannie. "Oh! you poor little innocent!" laughed Beth. "You'd 'change the place and keep the pain.' They're all about alike." At this Nannie lifted such a woe-be| gone face that I felt something must be I done. L "Girls!" said I, in my most impressive K school-room manner. m- But here there was an interruption, for Nannie left the rocking-chair and rushed toward the bed. Oh,Nannie '."cried Kate, "don't muss the bed; it's hard enough anyway." But she spoke too late, for under the combined influence of homesickness and influenza, Nannie had flung herself on the bed in a forlorn little heap, and was lifting up her voice in a hoarse.cry. This was.simply dreadful. Beth and I purred over and cuddled her. and Kate slipped downstairs and | :oaxed the cross kitchen girl into mak-1 mg a uowi 01 sage tea, ana i>y me time she was back with it the invalid was somewhat comforted. When quiet was restored, I spoke again. ' Girls! let's go to housekeepg* iiig." Nannie stopped the bowl half way to her li|>s, lietli sat upright on the "trunk, and Kate dropped the stick of wood in her hand back into the box. " WHere's the furniture coming from?'' said she. " Who'll pay the bills?" said Nannie. "Who'll do the work?" said Beth, who was born south of Mu3on'sand Dixon's line. He 11 ail no u, said i. amwering I the last question first; " and as for the furnishing, that needn't cost so very B^^^^^inuch; and about the bill.s?Kate, how ^^^^^^uuch do we all pay a week?" '' Four times five is twenty, and two H^HH^Bbllars for washing makes twenty two," said Ki'.te, with bookkeeper promptness. " Why," ?aid Beth, beginning to be .^^^^eager, '"lots of families live oj^iess than and pay for everything out of it? ?nd doctor's bills and every^V^lve tl^'P/i'till midnight, and the ""wmn spf/^ed, the more feasible the S<- shoul/me^' anc* ^ was decided that ^Int' the ver\ commence tenement-hunting \ d I bncxt morning; and after Beth RE*jSi an vd gone to our own room, Kftte WjfHa. u rrv i ng across to say she had ^H^Ag^Home spoons and forks which had been B?|^^^Hier mother's, and that Nannie said she ^^H^^yknew how to make lovely waffles. - ? * -i? *! jj rw v>eexpocteua reuious ume uuuiug u f rent within our means; but it is aaton' fortune helps those who try to help themselves. That very week nice little, scholar of Nannie's stopped after school to say that her parents were going to move out of the city. We knew where she lived?a pleasant house in a respectable locality; so after supper Ivate and I hunted up the landlord, the next day we went in a body to inspect the place, and the bargain was conceded. Bw Between that time and our departure j BB ; we bade fair to lose our reputation of j being the quietest .boarders in the house, I for every night there was talking and P^? laughing in one room or the other, while we stitched and hemmed and figured? this last the hardest of all. Kate, with a confidence born of much handling of money, made out a list in a Ec twinkling, which list was perfectly sat isfactory to all of us?until we inquired M prices. One thing we were agreed upon, and that was, rigid economy, so we cheapened this and left out that, until it looked quite reasonable. Well, the first day of December found us in ''our own hired house," and as Beth g turned the key iu the hall door, we felt I that we had burned our ships behind us. The outgoing tenants seemed to rejjaru | our experiment in the light of a hu?e f joke, which they were willing to help along, so they gave us a number of liousekeeping things, among others a braided HM mat, and a half-dozen plants all in blosHSH soin, and sold us their range at a very ^low price. Beside this, we had a couple 'of bedsteadsjwith the furnishings, a few dishes, our trunks, and a half-dozen packing boxes of different sizes. The next fortnight was a busy one. "We rose early and went to bed late, and lived B^B^*Tin picnic fashion, while we painted and Hi pounded, and planned. We were in a state of mind where we wished for no Hb advice, much less help, from anybody RS outside; but after jamming considerable , plaster from the walls, and skin from our knuckles, we decide 1 there were times when a man could b' made useful, and at Nannie's suggestion a certain young E- architect from the boarding house was ? 'r taken into our confidence, and did valft| iant tervicc in putting up shelves and fj- hooks. K One Friday night, with the last screw in the kitchen clock shelf, the work was done, and I doubt il many brides, goiug into houses luxuriantly appointed without care of theirs, feel half the satisfaction that we did in looking rouud on the result of our ingenuity and hardwork. And it was a right cosy little place. There was a good-sized si ting-room with two sleeping-rooms opening from it, a kitchen adjoining, a store-room, closets, etc.,and as the house was on a corner, we Uad the sun most of the day. Kate and Nannie painted the floor of their room soft gray, and covercd their dressing-table and wash-stand with blue and drab chintz. The one window was draped with full curtains of unbleached cotton, trimmed and looped back, with bands of the chintz, and a low cushioned chair and ottoman were covered with the same blue and drab covering. A low painted bedstead and chest of drawers completed their furniture, and strips of blue and gray carpeting before the larger pieces took away any suspicion of bareness. The room Beth and I shared was precisely similar, except that our floor was painted a bright warm brown, and our cretonne covers and bits of carpet were scarlet and white. But it was on our common sitting-room tnat we lavished our greatest skill. The three windows were curtained with full draperies of cheese-cloth, over cream colored shades, a big crimson bow at the top of each window where the draperies parted. Nannie, who was not in the least aesthetic, pleaded to have the whole floor covered, but as this meant twenty-five yards of carpeting, she was voted down x/Q the score of economy as well as of art. A wide margin was staiued a most delightful dead-leaf brown, and nine yards of crimson and wood colored carpet made a square large enough to come well out around the center table. And the table?we saw it one day in front of an auction-room. The top looked as though opposing forces had fought across it, but the standard was good and solid; so home it went, and wl\(<u it was covered with Beth's old gray I dyed crimson, and the studcpt-TSifcJp set over tlie darn in tnc middle, the effect was all that could be desired. Then we had Beth's piano and the plants, and nobody knows until she tries it how far a piano and plants go toward furnishing a room. We had a comfortable lounge, bought "in the cloth," and covered by our own hands, a big Shaker rocking-chair, and two or three smaller rockers and camp-chairs. The wall-paper was subdued, and our few pictures and brackets made quite a show, and when we had scattered our books and trinkets about the room, it was a decided success. "There, Nannie," said Kate, when we reached the cozy kitchen on our tour of inspection, "you can tuck your little feet right into the oven, and feast your eyes on the braided mat, and if the cat was only here, you would have reached the climax of earthly happiness." The young architect looked inquiringly, and Nannie's ideal of bliss was explained to him. He made ni comments, but looked at her with a peculiar expresion in his handsome eyes, and I felt that the stability of the society was threatened. The next night as we were sitting down cozily to our tea and toast, and baked apples and milk, there was a ring ?6t the door, and Kate, answering it, came back with a basket. "It's directed to you, Nannie," she said, holding it to the light. So Nannie opened it, when out stepped a plump, self-satisfied Maltese kitten,and attached to one forc-naw was a card which said: ' The Climax." Beth tamed the card over, and read the young architect's name. "Oh, Nannie?" she said, turning on her reproachfully, "I hope you arc not going to spoil "everything." But Nannie was busy filling a saucer for the new comer, and made no answer. I may as well say here that, soon after, the young man came to me in a very straightforward way, made known his intentions in regard to Nannie, and asked permission to visit her. That night, while she was gone on an errand, T laid thi? miftstion before the other girls. 'I move," said Kate, who was rather given to sounding phrases?"I move that he be granted leave to withdraw." "Oh, let him come!" said Beth, with true Southern obliviousness of consequences. Well, he came, and came again, and the little romance unfolded in a kindlier atmosphere than that of a boardinghouse parlor, and after a while I think we all rather enjoyed him, as he was a high-minded, intelligent young fellow, who conducted his wooing with very little nonsense. Some evenings he would come in with his drawing-board under his arm, and establishing himself at our kitchen table, put in his marvelouslv fine lines and figures, with Nannie sitting beside him with her sewing, making quite a Darby-and-Joan picture. Kate sometimes shook her fist at him from the covert of the sitting' room, out she usually ended with "Bless the children!" 4 B^t to turn from love to figures. How UIUUU VIiu it iwai j Now, I do not expect to be believed when I say that our entire furnishing, from the small mirrors in our bedrooms to the big iron spoon in the pantry, cost exactly $128.03; nevertheless, that was the exact total. - It may seem more creditable when it is understood that our dressing-tables, wash-stands, and ottomans were packing-boxes, aud that the inviting cushioned chairs were originally barrels. Of course our bedsteads were not furnished with hair mattresses and rose blankets, but we had warm coverings, and clean straw-filled ticks, which were simply luxurious after boardinghouse mattresses. Our table was not set forth with cutglass and silver (except Kate's spoons and forks), but it was clean, and the food wholesome and varied. And about the -cost of living? pl/Wpf) TCnifi treasurer, and e>Y?>rv Satnr dny night each of.us, y/tft five dollars and a half into .a.-box kept for the purpose, and she paid for everything out of it. "VVe/questioucd her often, during the first Tuonth, how the money was holding out, but she made no satisfactory answer. The first day of January we each found on our plate at supper the following notice: "The first monthly meeting of the Home Co operative Society will be held this evening in the kitchen, as soon as the dishes arc done. A full attendance is desired, to hear the report of the treasurer." Every member -was present, and the treasurer read her report. After setting forth at some length the origin and object of the society, she presented the following figures: In Account with Home Co-orciUTivE Society. Dr. I Cr. ToCa?h..r.r... $97.43 ! By ton coal $ ~.t> ) " groceries 22.00 " meat and vegetables 1C.75 " milk.... 2 50 .' " labor (washing, ironing and cleaning}... G.ro " rent ix.00 $72.75 " balance on hand 24.C8 t?7.43 *97.41 ' Which means," said Kate," dropping her official manner, "that we have had all this good time, and den't owe a cent for anything, and have six dollars and seventeen cents apiece coming back to us;" and she counted out four little piles of money. "And coal in the bin, and food in the larder," added Beth. The next month we paid fiv'e dollars a week eaeh, and had a surplus, and after that, four dollars a week usually covered all expenses. When we started, though we asked no advice, we had lloods of it, and no end of dismal predictions. "You'll quarrel," "You'll run in debt," "You'll find the work too hard," "You'll get tired of it," and, most dreadful of all, "You'll be talked about." "Well," said Kate, when this was brought up, "if a good name in the past, and orderly living in the future won't save us, why, let them talk. They must talk about something, and while we are under discussion somebody else will escape." So that was disposed of. And we did not run into debt, and wc did not quarrel. It would be too much to say that we never differed, but our differences were never bitter. "We used to think sometimes that Beth shirked her share of the work, but she was the sweetest-tempered creature living, and always willing to make amends. Then we had to hold a tight rein on Kate, who was apt to waut luxuries out of season, at exorbitant prices: and I was sometimes a trial about cooking, being absent-minded, and apt to burn things up. As to Nannie, she was never anything but a comfort. "VVe didn't keep j her long, for one day, toward our lirst j Thanksgiving, there was an unusual i flutter in the house. "We trimmed the ' rooms with flowers, and tied a white satin ribbon on The Climax; the minister and a few friends came in and almost before we knew it,Nannie and the young ' architect had gone off together in a hack, with The Climax wailing in a basket on the front seat. I But this did not break up the society, for another good friend stood ready to fill the vacancy, and stepped promptly in. And did wc not find the work too hard? Well, sometimes it seemed a bother, but, divided among four, it was not oppressive; and if the larder got empty, or other work pressed, wc took our dinners out for a day or two. And we did not get tired of it, but after a three years' trial of the plan, arc more and more satisfied, for it is home. AVc leave it in the morning with regret, and return to it gladly at night, feeling that it is ours, that we are not there ou sufFcreucc, but by right. And this sense of security and permanently encourage us to add comforts and even luxuries to our surroundings, and I think you might hunt up and down the city and not find a more contented and comfortable set of people than the members of the Home Co-opcrntivc society.?liarl>cr\t Bazar. The Year Without a Snmmer. The year 1810 was known thoughout the United States and Europe as the coldest ever experienced by any person then living. Very few persons now living can recollect it. June was the coldest ever known in this latitude; frost and ice were common. Almost every green thing was killed, fruit nearly all destroyed. Snow fell to the depth of teu inches in Vermont, seven in Maine, three in the interior of New York, and also in Massachusetts. There were a few warm days. All classes looked for them in that memorable cold summer sixtyeight years ago. It was called a dry season. But little rain fell. The wind i?i?.tlw? nnrtVi nnlrl finr] tierce. Mothers knit extra socks and mittens for their children in the spring, and woodpiles that usually disappeared during the warm spell in front of the houses were speedily built up again. Planting and shivering were done together, and the farmers who worked out their taxes on the country roads wore overcoats and mittens. In a town in Vermont a flock of sheep belonging to a farmer had been sent, as usual, to their pasture. On June 17 a heavy snow fell; the cold was intense, and the owner started away at noon to look for his sheep. "Better start the neighbors soon, wife," he said in jest before leaving; "being in the middle of June I may get losfc in the snow." Night came, the storm increased, and lie did not return. The next morning the family sent out for help and started in search. One after another of the neighbors turned out to look for the missing man. The snow had covcred up all tracks, and not until the end of the third day did they find him on the side of a hill, with both feet frozen, unable to move. A farmer who had a large field of corn in Tewksbury built fires around it to ward off the frost; many an evening he and his men took turns watching it. He was rewarded with the only crop of com in the neighborhood. Considerable damage was done in New Orleans in consequence of the rapid rise of the Mississippi river; the suburbs were covered with water and the roads were passable only in boats, r ears tnac the sun was cooling off abounded, and throughout New England all picnics were strictly prohibited. July was accompanied with frost and ice. On the 5 th ice was formed of the thickness of window glass throughout New England, New York, and some parts of Pennsylvania. Indian corn was nearly ail destroyed; some favorably situated ficids escaped. This was true of some of the hill farms of Massachusetts. August was more cheerless, if possible, than the summer months which prccccded it. Ice was formed half an inch in thickness. Indian corn was so frozen that the greaterpart was cut down and dried for fodder. Almost everygreen thing was destroyed in this country and in Europe. On the 30th snow fell at Barnet, forty miles from London. Papers received from England stated "that it would be remembered by the present generation that the year 1816 was a year in which there was no summer." Very little com ripened in New England and the Middle States; farmers supplied themselves from corn produced in 1815 for seed in the spring of 1817. It sold at from $4 to $5 per bushel. September furnished about two weeks of the mildest weather of the season. Soon after the middle, it became cold and frosty; ice formed a quarter of an inch in thickness. October produced more than its share of cold weather; frost and ice were common. The summer and autumn of 181G, cold, rainy, and ungeuial throughout Europe, were peculiarly so in France. Constant rains fell during the months of July, August, and September. But for an abundant potato crop, famine, with all its horrors, would have been her lot.' The minister of the interior established granaries throughout, the kingdom, where corn was sold to the destitute at a reduced price. Prices rose, however, to more than double, and hundreds perished of actual want. November was cold and blustering; snow fell so as to make good sleighing. December was mild and comfortable.?Boston Transcript. The Cowboy's Favorite Gun. I dropped into a large store on El Paso afrp^t. whifli oninvs thtt wniltiition of selling more amis than any other house in the city, writes a correspondent of the St. I.ouis Globe-Democrat. While inspecting the glittering array of pistols of all kinds which filled half a dozen showcases, a young fellow of about twentythree entered. lie was dressed in approved frontier style, sombrero it would take three days to walk around the rim of, white handkerchief tied loosely round the neck, blue shirt, pants stuck in his boots, and large Mexican spurs up.au.. his heels, jingling ashe luaAfced: fie wished to buy a "guy^hi the expressiveness uTVii laconic tongue of the frontier a "gun" is a revolver; a rifle* is called by the name of the maker; and the weapon of the sportsman, uncurtailed of its fair proportions, is known as a shotgun. Selecting from the case a handsomely mounted Colt's forty-five calibre revolver, the clerk said: "How would you like this? It is the newest thing out? a double action forty-five." "Ain't worth a row of beans. No man 'ccpt. he is a tenderfoot wants that kind of thing. Give me old reliable all the time. You see a man that's used to the old style is apt to get fooled?not pull her off in time?and then he'll"be laid out colder'n a wedge." lie was handed a single-action Colt's of the same model, which, after carefully examining, he proceeded to cock and tire, twirling the pistol oround his forefinger and pressing the trigger the moment the butt came into palm of his hand. After some little "kick" about the price the weapon was paid for and the customer left the store. "There arc few men," observed the clerk, as his customer left, "that can do that trick. I have been ten years on the Southwest frontier, among the worst classes, and don't know more nor half a dozen, 'jiiu me is.iu coiuu uo 11; so can Pat Garret, former sheriff of Lincoln county; so can Dan Tucker, deputy sheriff of Doming. Curly Bill could do it best of the lot, and that's how he killed Sheriff White at Tombstone. "How was that?" "Well, you see Curly Bill was trying to paint the town red, and White heard of it, and going up to him, covered him with his six-shooter, and told him lie had got to give up his gun. Bill handed the gun out butt first, but kept his linger inside the guard, and as the sheriff reached for it he gave it that twist you've seen, turned her loose, and the sheriff passed in hia checks." The Jumping Bean. Mr. Fred. Frclinghuysen, son of Secretary Frelinghuysen, possesses a number of Mexican jumping beans, which he procured from the United States agricultural department. According to Mr. Frelinghuysen these acrobatic beans are vnru mm Thov nro rnrfninlv pnnsidnrnrl ""J -?J J a great currosity by all those who have see them, and no one yet has explained what they are. Each pod contains three kernels. Each segment is rounded on one side and A shaped on the other, greenish yellow in color, and in circumference about the size of a silver threecent piece. When placed on a table they roll over and skip about, sometimes jumping a couple of inches. When held between the thumb and forefinger they are Jelt to beat ns strongly ns the throbbing of a strong man's pulse. Old man Pettigrew, of Austin, is very precise in his statements, and is also a strict constructionist. One morning a neighbor rushed in on Pettigrew, while the latter was eating his breakfast, and exclaimed excitedly: "Your house is on fire." "Sir ?" "Your house is burning up." "You are wrong sir."! "Wrong?" "Yes, sir, thi- is not my ! house. I only rent it."? Texas Si/tings. ? miMMkr-"-* FORTUNES WON AND LOST. WHAT A HOTED GAMBLES SATS AS OUT PL ATI HO. ( niublm Never Fitted for Anything EInc?<>anibling Endt in Dlsslpa* lion. Quite early yesterday morning a rather young-looking man of about thirty-five entered the IIofTman honsc and greeted those present with a pleasant good-morn ing. JIc was dressed in a ncat-fittin" suit of some light material, and appeared as bright as a new gold dollar. He chatted plensantly a few moments with those about him, and then went to breakfast. This man was Billy Deutsch, at one time the manager of Booth's theatre, and Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Florence. Billy Deutsch is quite a celebrated man in his way. lie was known, and is yet, as a mighty gambler. He has chained a certain kind of fame as a noted oacc arat bank breaker, and mentioned in Paris as "The King of Baccarat." He is almost six feet tall, and wears a black mus tachc. After breakfast Mr. Deutscli indulged in conversation. Of course, gambling was mentioned. In his long experience lie had come to the conclusion that those who touch cards or gamble are almost lost. However intelligent a player was, after he had won n few times he was unfitted for anything else but the life of a gambler. He stated that hie favorite game was baccarat, at which he had lost ovcr$r>00,000, which result all could expect if they continued to follow the game. On one occasion, being out ?.")0,000 on the game, be bet $20,000 on the turn of a card and won. The title "The Kiug of Baccarat" was bestowed on him in Paris. Some time ago, for twenty-eight days in succession, he won $340,000. The smallest lie won during that time was $:},G00, and the largest $32,000 in one nicht. He had often made bets of $(1,000, and other large amounts. In playing he always re mnins cool, and never loses his lieaa. Mr. Deutsch played thirty games of cards arid won $1,000 on Foxhall when he won the Grand Prix de Paris. Mr. Dcutsch claims that he is not a professional gambler, and only played for pastime. Ilis experience had taught him that a man who wins money on cards simply squanders and dissipates it. He also forms habits which unlit him for any legitimate business. Gambling was the cause of a majority of suicides. Gambling in London was not allowed as it was in Paris. In France every one plays, from the highest to the lowest. Gambling there is looked upon as a pastime, and not as a vice. Mr. Dcutsch stated in conclusion that he had sworn never to touch cards again, and would go into the brokerage or theatrical business, probably the theatrical. ?New York Truth. Drunken women in juonuun. During two months in London, says a correspondent of the New York Tribune, 1 think I have seen more drunken women than drunken men in the streets. Statistics of this kind are apt to be misleading, of course. I happened to see more public drunkenness in Paris than in London, and yet in hard drinking London no doubt takes a long lead. But the drunken women and the drinking women that are among the sights of the poorer quarters in London arc not pleasing to the eye of the American, who is not accustomed to see women on either side of the bar. Here they are to be found on both sides.- Barmaids serve the liquor in almost every " puonc uousc or gin palace," and in every one you pass you can see women drinking. Sometimes there may be only a few, and sometimes they form a large share of the crowd. You will often see respectably dressed women, apparentlywell-to-do, walking opeuly into these places, and evidently thinking nothing of it. They may be going in merely for a glass of beer, but their "less prosperous sisters are more likely to be taking gin. Walking through Drury lane or some other squalid street at midnight of a Saturday night you see a spectacle of wretchedness an<1 vice that is fairly disheartening. The street swarms with dirty, half-naked children and gossiping, tipsy women, some of whom not even gray hairs will keep from cursing, quarreling and lighting. Whether the presence of the bar-maid behind the counter encourages the women to come in and drink or whether sheis put there to encourage the men to come in, or simply because her labor is cheaper than a man's, is a problem SVin ia tViorft tn stn.v. annarentlv. ivu.. v,.~ .w 1 and seems to be regarded as one of the established institutions of the country. It is the custom to speak of her as the "pretty barmaid." Perhaps this was true of the first generation of barmaids, but it is not easy to find the justification for it now. The barmaid of the period has a business-like, resolute look, as if she could exercise the functions of an American "bouncer" on occasion, but those we happened to see were certainly not beautiful. The one making most pretentions to prettiness was a modestlooking girl in the foyer of the handsome new Empire theatre. She tried to open a bottle of soda water for us. The cork was obstinate. "When she put the bottle between her knees and began to tug with all her strength, I confcss that my American instincts overcame. I took the bottle away from her and pulled the cork myself. Probably this was a very ridiculous thing to do. Sir Lepcl Grif? J * .1?<T? | iin says uiu uugicu ux uuucicuuc [miu iu women in America is absurd .or something of that sort. An American (from "Wisconsin) told an Englishman, with some Western intensity, that in America the man who put a woman bduatJf'the l?ar to sell his whisky wgu'id be lynched >>y the men who draijJUrYt. The Englishman seeiTftd vepy/much amused. Swordsmen of the Deep. Imagine whales fencing with one another for amusement! It seems as if such a thing could not be; and yet there are whales of a certain species which not only fence with one another, but use their teeth for swords. It is the narwhal that fences. One of the teeth of the male narwhal always fVirrvurrli flio nnnpp lin nnrl stnnfls 6.W..O ~ "I - - ? out like a spear, straight iu front of the animal. It seems as if all the material that should have gone to fill the narwahl's mouth with teeth had gone to the one tooth that grows out through the lip; for sometimes this tooth is eight feet long. The animal itself, from head to tail, is seldom more than sixteen feet in length. Of what use such an enormous tooth is to the narwhal 110 one knows. Some persons say it is used for spearing fish; others, that its use is to stir up the mud , in the bottom of the ocean in order to scare out the fish that may be hiding there; and one man says the tooth is for the purpose of breaking holes in the ice in winter; for the narwhal, like all whales, is obliged to come to tlie surlacc at intervals to breathe. Whatever the tooth is intended to be used for, it is certain that when the narwhal wishes to play it finds another narwhal of a like mind, and away they charge at each other t;ll the long toothswords clash together. They are active as well as frolicsome, and sailors tell of seeing them crossing swords in this way, thrusting and parrying, and rolling and darting about with marvelous agility and grace. The narwhal is light gray in color, and covered with black spots. For a great many reasons it is valued by the Greenlanders. It furnishes a very fine quality of oil, its flesh is used for food, and its skin, made into a jelly, and called miWtk, is considered a dainty too choice for ordinary occasions. This "swordsman of the deep," as I have called him, is a warm blooded animal, and must not be confounded with the saw-fish or sword-fish, both of which arc entirely different irom the narwhal.? John Ji. Coryell, in St. Nicholas. The Cost of Reyalty. As a sample of what royalty costs the people of Great Britain alone, Whitakcr eives the following annuities to the royal family: Her Majesty? Privy purse ? 60,000 Salaries of household 131,260 Expenses of household 172,500 Hoyai lx>uuty, etc 13,500 U nappropriafced 8,540 ?385,000 Prince of Wales ?40,000 Princess of W ales 10 000 Crown Princess of Prussia 8,000 Duke of Edinburgh 25,00:) Princess Christian of SchleswigHolstein 0,000 Princess Louise (Marchioness of Lorne) 0,000 Duke of Connaught 25,000 Duke of Albany 25,000 Duke of Cambridge 0,000 ' Duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz .'{,000 . I Duke of Cambridge 12,000 J i Duchess of Teck 5,000 i ? ( ! The diver is the man who weights for ! , the tide.?New York Journal. 1 . v .i ' - " ; - * / SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL A plan for lessening the violence of storms has been submitted to the French Academy of Sciences by M. Minard, who proposes to use a great number of lightning rods elevated on telegraph posts and connccted with the iron tracks of railways. Mineral wool is used for packing to deaden the sound between floors in buildings, and being incombustible it is now pretty generally used between the floors and ceilings in new houses. Mineral wool is obtained from the slag from blast furnaces, and is produced by throwing a jet of steam against the stream of slag as it flows from the furnace. Experiments have been made at one of the large collieries in England with compressed lime for bringing down coal from the ledges. Holes are bored iuto the vein of coal, filled in with compressed lime nncl rubbisb and men water is forced in. which causes the charge to expand and bring down great masses os the fuel in solid lumps. The experiments arc said to have been highly satisfactory. The reign of Charles II. of England was a great era in science. Sir Isaac Newton discovered the wondrous law that holds the sun and planets in their orbits; Halley commenced his learned investigation of tides, comets, and the earth's magnetism; Boyle improved the air pump and studied by its aid the properties of the atmosphere; Ilobbcs and Locke discoursed of the human mind, its laws and relations to matter. When pure platinum is as soft as silver, but by the addition of iridium it becomes the hardest of metals. The great difficulty in manipulating platinum is its excessive resistance to heat. A temperatcre that will make steel run like water and melt down lire clay has absolutely no effect upon it. You may put a piece of platinum wire not thicker than human hair into a blast furnace where ingots of steel are melting down all around it and the bit of wire will come out as absolutely unchanged as if it had been in an icebox all the time. It is said that an electric hand lamp has been invented, the illuminating principle of which is generated by some simple chemicals that are redicuously cheap and easily manipulated. A little sliding drawer at the bottom of the lamp holds the electric spnrk in the solution, while, by simple touching a button, a magnificent light is developed or extinguished, as the case may be. This lamp does not specially differ in appearance from the ordinary kerosene affair, and can be used in thte ?ame way, but with a complete absence of trouble, odor or danger. HEALTH HINTS, Do not imagine you need medicine if you feci a little sick. Take a rest. In many cases a good bath and a few hours sleep are all that is necessary. A cucumber, in lieu of icc, is cut in slices and laid upon the heads of fever patients in England. The effect is said to be cool, grateful and refreshing. For the relief of earache?put five drops of chloroform in a little cotton or wool in the bowl of a clay pipe, and blow the vapor through the stem into the aching ear. A California physician claims that the juice from eucalyptus leaves has induced ? v:.. u_i,? l A ti? ilie nair to grow uii ma ucau. xxc was in the habit of pounding to a pulp the leaves, which he applied to his hea for the cure of headache, and was Surprised to find a new and abundant crop of hair commence to grow. Superfluous hair can be removed successfully and permanently by using a paste composed of water and any properly prepared depilatory powder, such as are put up by all of the leading chemists and pharmacists. Allow the paste to remain on for two minutes then remove it, and the hair and its follicles will have been completely destroyed. Pcpilatorv powders are very injurious, however, if improperly prepared.?Health and Home An Antique Town Still Unchanged. Why, I saw houses in Nuremburg that are not a day more than a hundred and fifty years old! I was shocked by the sight of a dozen, at least, plate' glass windows. There is gas in Nuremburg. They have street cars there. Some of the city wall has been torn down to let in more of the nineteenth century. But hardly a sight or sound within the circuit of Rothenburg breaks in upon your midia:val dream. The narrow, dingy streets are lighted ?so far as lighted at all?by lanterns. These are hung on wires stretched across the street, ana are drawn in by pulleys at one side to be replenished. Street-rail or gas-lamp there nrn nnnn Tho tr>wn is hlirrrrefl com M4V "v'"v' * *w DO I pletely around with turreted gates. And the towers, as they throw their arms ten- I dcrly about their charge, look back to bid defiance to all modern institutions. At some points, the very water in the moat still sleeps in venerable stagnation. As your omnibus rattles under three or four successive arches into the silent streets, the lingering echoes of our new era die away behind, and you drop <our or five centuries from human history. You wander through the little city (of not more than 0,500 ' inhabitants) wherever your feet incline, I and pass hundreds of houses, any one of j whicii, like a certain old domicile in New London. Ct., or one in Medford. J Mass., would be the chief "lion!l%f*an American town. Most of were standing before the fathers left Holland?marjv.-?T "them before America was discojpgred. With their steep, towering^x^Ttiled roofs, their sculptured pnJteways and corner turrets for defense, "and gloomy court-yards, they look down in lordly compassion on your freshness and your upstart nation beyond the sea. Hour after hour I roam the streets, looking in vain for a modern house. Every street is paved throughout, with not a sidewalk to be seen. The primitive simplicity and naturalness, too, of the Rothenbergers, are charming. About every man you meet recognizes you as a stranger, and feeling that the town owes you a courtesy, touches his hat with a cordial smile. Not a bad example for 6ome of us Americans. It must be granted that the odor of antiquity in some of the bystreets is slightly too strong for the most romantic. Hut one can pardon that and even overlook the torture chamber, under the Rathhaus (of which the present generation is innocent) in consideration of all the wierd fascination of the quaint old town.?Prof. C. D. Wilcox. Center of Earthquake Trouble. Though some terrible earthquakes occur in Europe and Asia, South America seems to be the center of trouble. In 1812 the city of Caracas, in Venezuela, was destroyed in three shocks, each of which did not occupy twenty seconds. In 1859 the city of C'allao was also completely demolished, this being the second time. The first time a wave came in from the sea one hundred feet high, and without warning burst upon the city. In 1822 an earthquake produced some strange changes in the Andes. Mountains were leveled, others were raised, and a tract of land one thousand miles square was bodily elevated about seven feet. It has been learned from old records that the destruction of Herculaneum and Pompeii was nearly accomplished by an earthquake sixteen years before the ashes of Vesuvius covcred them from sight. Biblical records tells us that earthquakes were felt in Syria in the time of Ahab, 900 B.C., and also in the reign of Uzziah, 800 B. C. In Joscphus there is mention of an earthquake that desolated judea at *i.? x:? n HAC l/iuiu ui tiiv; utuiiv/ v/i iiviiuuij i/a w, C., destroying over 10,000 people. Antioch has been visited by some terrible scenes. The worst visitation was in 520, A. D., when over 200,000 persons were destroyed. Sixty years later another shock destroyed 60,000 more. How They Fall. The woman who steps on a banana peel will be down in a heap and up again with a faint little shriek before anybody knows anything about it, while the man will fall the length of the whole block, as usual, waving both hands in the air, kicking with both feet, plunging, throwing hat and umbrella into space, howling at every jump, until, breathless and exhausted, he caroms on an ash barrel at the end of the run and rings down the curtain by rolling downstairs into a barber shop.?Bob Burdette. Absinthe Prinking. The amountof absinthe drinking which takes place at Marseilles, France, is abnormal. The great street is the Hue Cannabierc. which is the boulevard Montmartrc of Paris raised in intensity. The shady side is an almost unbroken series of cafes, and from early morning until late at night usually the tables in front ire occupied by Marseillais, with a little. | iccanter full of syrup of gum,and two or i three bottles containing nbsinthc, from I ivhich they help themselves. I ? X" !A BUCKEYE JESSE JAMES. *HB 8T0B7 OP A BOBBER VOW XV JAIL. Robber and ITIurderer, Then a Be* apected Ohio Jlerchant, and After* ward a Robber' Again. In a letter from Ilillsboro, Ohio, to the New York Sun, the history of a notorious criminal is given as follows: Frank Messmer, a young man serving a ten years' term in the penitentiary for robbery, has been pardoned. Messmer was the pal of Bob McKimmie, the Jesse James of Southern Ohio. Since Messmer has been out of jail he has made many disclosures, which, with the known history of McKimmie, make up a tale equul to those told of the Younger and James criminals. McKimmie was born thirty years ago near Kainsboro. He began stealing when a schoolboy, and at fourteen joined the regular army at Columbus. He went to fight Indians, and deserted in two years. He became a road agent in Utah, and with companions robbed and murdered stage passengers and express agents. He, with others, was captured and sentenced to fifteen xt._ li n?Tr, jrcurs in mc iuunuuu jji;mii;unui jr. ju nine months he escaped with Jack Williamson, a fellow convict. The guard was killed to effect the escape. From Utah McKimmie went to the Black Hills. Jn February, 1877, herobbcd the Cheyenne stag&. He had organized a gang of five cut-thronts who robbed the mail, express and passengers. In March, the gang attempted to rob another stage, and McKimmie killed Johnny Slaughter, the driver. The horses ran away, and the eleven passengers escaped. Later, at the Cheyenne crossing, the same gang robbed three coaches, ana soon had over $20,000. A woman dressed in boy's clothes followed McKimmie in his depredations, and overheard his comrades plotting to kill and rob him. She warned him, and McKimmie, with one companion, took the entire booty and went to Texas. From Texa->, McKimmie came to Hillsboro in September, 1877. lie was ...^.11 nUnn^An/ta r\f mnnou WUii U1(;99CU| 1IUU UUUUUUUUC V/i mvuvj ) and said be bad been successful in caltle herding in Texas. He became a peaceful citizen of Rainsboro, and married Clara Ferguson, an orphan girl, against her uncle's wish. McKimmie bought a store and was soon a merchant in good standing. A few months later, M. F. Leach, of Ogalln, Mo., camc here after a Union Pacific train-robber. He had suspccted McKimmie, but was mistaken, as tie latter had come here the month befose the robbery in question. Leach afterward met Detective Bullock, of Deact wood, and told him about McKimmie's j new start in life. Bullock knew the: j robber from exnerience. and had been. trying to trace him for some time. Ifo came here at once and visited McKimmie's store. Getting him outside he arrested McKimmie on charges of robbery and murder^ McKimmie's lawyers got him out of jail in an hour, but he was immediately rearrested. After much legal! i fighting the case was carried to the su preme court, and McKimmie went to j jail. An attempt to release him by forged j telegrams from Columbus was made by ' his friends, but failed. In January, 1878, 1 while his case was pending he escaped | from jail by shooting the sheriff and i cowing the guards witn a revolver. An : old man seized a gun loaded with shot; and fired at the fugitive. The shot struct. I his cigar-case and his life was saved. He eluded capture, and was secreted, with friends near here for ^eeks. He-, even had a friend arrange to bring Detective Norris into a certain Chillicothe^ ? xt-.i. ^ :_vt ? r,iti,rn.' saioun (uul ue luigut acu him iui iuiuisi recognition. He 8aw the detective: through a knothole. He then went toVirginia, met his wife in Richmond, and lived with her in Raleigh, Charles, ton, Savannah, and at Nassau, N. P. There he became bankrupt and was imprisoned forty-one days for a. board debt. He worked his way to New York, leaving his wife at Nassau,, Coming to Ohio he failed to get money from his lawyers,and plotted with Messmer to rob a, farmer named Roads, living near here; They got eighty dollars, from Roads. With this money the bandit went back to his wife, and cam& here again in October, and planned torol> the Bainbridge bank with New York. Charley, another noted robber. Meanwhile Messmer had been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for robbery. With other pals McKimmie remained in the country, and robbed two* rich old maids in Pike county. Then hewent to New York, intending to go for mifo nf 'Muaenn TTa fume bark. as. the ship would not sail for some time, and lived in an old cabin at Kainsboro. It had been abandoned for yeare, and. neighbors were surprised one morning to see a curl of blue smoke ascend from the old stone chimney. The word wa* given out that McKimmiewas there, and a pos3c of men found him there ready for a fight. He resisted arrest until shot, twice. Efforts were mado to lynch him, but he was taken to the Hillsboro jail, chained and pinioned. The Wyoming authorities attempted to get him, but he was tried for robbery on several indictments, and got a joint term of fifteen years. His conduct in State prison has been good, and he hopes to get out through a pardon before his term ends. If he does, the Wyoming detectives -vtilh be on the watch and take him to rJend-^ wood to be tried for murd?j^fi<rrobbe.iy. He has thrc^a^oTtill Bullock and jr u ? nilf I Cliuiiiir;a 11 lie ?;vci fcoto \juu Changes Going: On in China. The Chinaman is clannish and conservative. But he is remarkably free from prejudice, religious or patriotic, especialy in matters of tangible interest. He has a natural objection to alter his clothes, unlike the Japanese, for they suit him better than any other. But he has no objection to purchasing the article which he judges to be the cheapest and the best, wherever it may come from. He is very sensible in his economy, and if he prefers the home-made article, it is because he finds it cheaper and more enduring. Native patterns of cloth, both woolen and cotton, if scrupulously imitated, will find buyers if laid down cheaper than the native article. Though the Chinese are CUDhUrvailVU, luiciyu ill liliuo uiv vivv<j/iuq into use. Clocks, watches, matches, lamps, red blankets, are now seen not only everywhere in the seaport towns and near the coast, but far inland. The Chinese, contrary to general opinion, have been found to appreciate in a wonderful degree the value of the rapid transmission by wire. The telegraph is being carried from north to south, and from cast to west, along the Yangize and Canton rivers. A line is working in Formosa. Begun with such vigor, there is reason to believe that the network will rapidly spread over the land. The telephone and electric light have made their way into China. Although the first railroad constructed in China, from Shanghai to Woosung, opened and closed in 187G,- was not approved by the government?rhc line being bought and removed to the shores of Formosa, where it now lies?the steam engine is at work. This is on a line to the Kaiping coal mines, a distance of six miles and a half, constructed by LiHung-Chang. Machinery has been introduced not only at the Kaiping mines, but elsewhere. The ?upcrstitions regarding shafts dug through the earth, the "dragon's veins," are giving way. Mines arc being promoted by the Chinese in various parts, but with great rashness, the fact that mines are utterly useless without communication not having been grasped. Gas has long been in use at Shanghai. The flotilla of thirty steamers, with a tonnage of some :i0,000 tous, started by the China Merchants' company, has not been a pecuniary success as yet, mainly owing, however, to maladministration during the late speculative crisis. Insurance companies arc at work at Hong Kong and Shanghai, doing an important and increasing business. In military matters while the late Franco-Chinese difficulty has clearly shown the imperfect condition of the Chinese forces, important chaugcs have been effected. The most important have been tbe arming bodies of men with the breech-loader, the drilling of Li's force, the establishment of dockyards,the introduction of torpedoes, Krupp guns, transports, and gun-boats on the European models. The fact that the military organization is still wretched orlmini?trfitinn r.orrunt does not vitiate the fart of progress having been j made. The native press has made con- I sidcrable strides. Commenced in with the Shun-Pao, there are now some half-dozen papers in China. Their influence is considerable and is extending rapidly. As a proof of their enterprise it may be mentioned that the Shun-Pao sent a "special correspondent" to Tonquin to follow the operations, though he very wisely thought discretion the better part of valor and declined to land on his J arrival at Haiphong.?London Times. An observer says most of the centena, rians in America are from Ireland, though there are many among the col ored people. "Sfc. _ ' MORE IN THE MAN THAN IN THE XAND. I knowed a man, which he lived in Jones, Which Jones is a county of red hills and stones, And he lived prerty ranch by gettin, of loans. And his mules "were nuthin' but skin and bones, And his hogs was flat as his corn-bread pones, And he had 'bout a thousand acres of land. This man?which his namo it was also JonesHe swore that he'd leave them old red hills and stones' Fur ho couldn't make nuthin' but yollerish cotton. And little o' thot, and his fences was rotten, And what little corn he had, hit was 'boughten, And danged if a livin* was in the land. And the longer ho sworo the mndder he got, And ho rizand he walked to the stable lot; And ho hollared to Tom to come thar and hitch, For to emigrate somerwhar whar land was rich, And to quit raisin' cockburs, thistles and sich, And a waistin' their time on the cussed land. So him and Tom they hitched up the mules, Pertestin' that folks was mighty big fools That 'ud stay in Georgy their lifetime out, Just scratchin' a livin' when all of 'em mought Get places in Texas, wharpotton would sprout 3y the time you could i>lant in the land And he driv by a house whar a man named Brown Was a livin' not far from the edge of town, And ho bantered Brown for to buy his place And said that bein' as money was skaco, And bein' as sheriffs was hard o' faco Two dollars and acre would git the land. They closed at a dollar and fifty cents, And Jones he bought him a wagin and tents, A_J I-.J-.J u:_ ?? i AIIU JLUOUCU 11AO <JU1U uiiu ma mxuiiut* uiut truck, And moved to Texas, which it tuck His entiro pile, -with the best 'o luck, To git thar and git him a little land. J3ut Brown moved out on the old Jones farm .And he rolled up his breeches and bared his arm, And he picked all the rocks from ofTn the groun', And he rooted it up and plowed it down; Then he plowed his corn and his wheat in the land. Five years glid by, and Brown, one day (Which he'd got so fat that ho wouldn't weigh), Was a settin down, sorter lazily, To the bulliest dinner you ever see, When one o' the children jumped on his knee, And says: "Yan's Jones, which you bought his land" And thar was Jones, standing out at the fonce, And he hadn't no wagin, nor mules nor tents, l For he had left Texas afoot and cum To Georgy to see if he couldn't get sum Employment, and he was lookirV as humble as ef He had never owned any laud But Brown he arxcd him in, and he sot Him down to his vittles smokin' hot, And when he had filled liisself and the floor Brown looked at him sharp and riz and swore That " whether men's land was rich or poor, Thar was more in the man than thar was in the land.11 ?Sidney Lanier, in Southern Cultivator. 1IUjM.UK UJT Tut, JiAK. i The butcher who trusts loses flesh.? Boston Post. ; Babies know nothing of politics, yet j they are fond of crow.?Puck. I A door ifi sometimes a jar and an earthquake Always is.?Lowell Courier. "The work of reclaiming the Potomac flats is rapidly going on," so says an exchange. "This must be pleasant reading for Washington dudes.?Burlington Free Press. A boarding-house cook has been awarded $430 for the invention of a new and improved, chicken soup. Perhaps the improvement consists of putting in some chickea.?Derrick. "At great heights, dogs lose their ; power of barking." It is a line scheme, ! then, to keep your dog in the garret, : or tie him up to the swaying limb of a ' tall and lonely tree.?Hawkeye. SHE AND ME. She held him fast hi her soft white arms And kissed him warn with a yearning ' hug, For she wa3 a girl of the upper ten, And he?well, ho was tx dogoned pug. ?Merchant-Traveler. Maud?"Isn't this a queer title for a book, mother: 'Not Like Other Girls V I wonder what she can be if she is not like other girls?" Mother?"I don't know, unless she goes into the kitchen HUU IlUIjJS Ufl LUUtUUl AJJOL^MVA VI ILIg in the parlor to read novels."- Life. i A horrible example: A Parisian tloci tor precribed for a lady who had objec; tions against growing stout: "Take exercise, my dear lady. Consider the trees ! of the field; they never take exercise, and as a consequence they go on growing bigger and bigger every year."? ton Journal ? ?*? SELEUT SIFTINGS. The bread eaten at table in Turin is a yard long and an eighth of au inch in diameter, of a pipe stem form, very crisp, and exceedingly palatable. It is called i "grissiai," after the doctor who invented it 011 hygienic principles. The business of monarchy promotes longevity. Witness the ages of the folI lowing rulers: The emperor of Germany j is eighty-seven; the king of the Nether; lands, sixty-seven; the king of Denmark, : sixty-six, and Queen Victoria, sixty-five. Church bells from a Baltimore foundry are in demand in England. Already I China, West Africa, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, the West Indies and parts of South America nave drawn upon tne same establishment for its silver-toned bells. In 1800 we imported half the woolen goods consumed in cloth and in wool. j\row we produce about four-tiftlis of the consumption, and the small proportion imported is largely carpet wools of too low a grade for civilized agriculture to produce. A great plague, called the "black death," beginning on the plains of Western Asia, swept over Europe during the I years 1318-1331, destroying probably oneI third of the whole population. This, by i diminishing the number of people, doui bled the price of labor. | In Alabama is a China tree ten feet in I circumference. Its top was torn away i by a storm; but six feet up the trunk i two more trees have taken root and ; grown up as high as the old tree is. Ilalf way up the trunk of the original tree a peach tree stands out. It is said that no watch -will keep the same time with two people. This is owing to the temperature of the wearer, and it is claimed that even the mere physical difference in gait and movement between different people will affect the time-keeping of a watch, which is probably also affected in .some degree by the magnetism of the wearer. The origin of the trade dollar is thus explained. The Chinese are paid for their tea mainly in silver. In 187:5 the United States coined 155.000,000 of the trade dollars for use in India. Previously the Mexican dollar had nracticallv monono lized the field. The American dollar was heavier and possessed more intrinsic value, but it was found that for some mysterious reason the Chinese merchants preferred the Mexican to the American coin, a fact probably due to their hereditary dislike of novelties, and now no trade dollars are shipped to China. The The Chinese heard some years ago, that our government intended to redeem these dollars at par, and being shrewd ; enough to see an opportunity forspecu lation, they hoarded the coins and sent i them to this country. At all events, they arc said to have disappeared in China as well as in this country. A Circus Elephant in a Rn?c. Cole's huge elephant Sampson severed I his chiiins ut Ilailcy, Idaho, and started to pulverize his keeper, who made u hasty retreat. A cage of lions stood in the way of the infuriated animal, which he picked up and hurled to one side, I killing two horses. The circus people ' called on the crowd to shoot the monster, j and a lively firing hegan, but without appreciable eiTect. Finally a party of ' i men succeeded in roping the beast and j he wits quieted. Thirty bullet holes 1 were found in his hide. Tbe damage ' done by him amounted to -$10,000. f Adolphus?"Why is it, don't you know, that all the young fellahs sit down on me so?" Mary Jane ?"I don't know, Dolly, unless it is that they like a soft seat."?Boston Transcript. Carpets arc of very ancient us^l^^tt East, but were not known in EuropeSr countries until comparatively recent times. Even up to the time of Queen Elizabeth, when there was such prodigal richness in personal adornment, the houses of the wealthy, in England, were scantily furnished and lacked some of the simplest appliances for health and comfort. The noors of beaten and hardened earth were often covered with nothing warmer than a layer of matted straw, and none of the early chroniclers make mention of carpets. Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep awuy a mist, but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. So it is with our moral improvement; we wrestle fiercely with a vicious habit which would have no hold upon us if we ascendcd into a higher moral atmosphere. In the midst of all the cxcitcment concerning it, the north pole remains perfectly cool.?Blizzard. "XtKoMkitfca and everything in the nature of eruption!, blotonee, pimples, ulcers, scrofulous hnmon, and incipient consumption, which 1* nothing ??? lo" +Vion wmfnlinfth* Inner*, mm pletoly oat of the system. It stimulates and invigorates the liver, tones np the stomach, regulates the bowels, purifies the blood, and builds up the weak places of the body. It is a purely vegetable compound, and will do more than Is claimed for it We refer to Dr. Pierce's "Golden Medical Discovery." maintenance (^experimental forest stations. Lydia E. Finkham'a Vegetable Compound is to be had at the nearest drug store for a dollar. It is not claimed that this remedy will cure every disease undo* the sun. but that it does all that it claims to do, thousands of good women know and declare. The New York horse cars last year killed twenty-four persons and injured eighty-nine. " Am Good u New,'1 are the words used by a lady, who was at one time given up by the most eminent physicians, and left to die. 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Children, slow in development.puny,ecrawny and delicate, use "Wells'Health Renewer." Hay-Fever is a type of catarrh having peculiar symptoms. It is attended by aD inflamed condition of the lining membrane of the nostrils, tear-ducts and throat, affectii^ the lungs. An acrid mucus is secreted, the discharge is accompanied with a burning sensation. There aro severe spasni3 of sneezing, frequent attacks of headache, watery and inflamed eyes. Ely's Cream Balm is a remedy founded on a correct diagnosis of this disease, orirl nor? l\n nrvm Krt nfo Mil Hmcr. ?N1U VUU W UOJAJUUOU U^VU< W VWI WW VM gists; 60 eta. by mail. Sample bottle by mail 50 cte. Ely Bros., Druggists, Owego, N. Y. A baldheaded man, who has heard that the hairs of a man's head are numbered, wants to know if there is not some place where he can obtain the back numbers. - Carboline will supply the demand. Night Sweats. 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Philadelphia, Pa. rvUvm W IX "AY FEVER. lean reccmmfcdEly1 L.'VS^^sBH Cream Balm to all Hay ?&CftrAU nMW^I Fever ?u9orerB,ltb?inK SfrxA't""I ? iM my opinion, founded a * Iupon ?i^rionce "d KWnW HFAnl^recure.IvruaCUated W^vcO?O^ntA0lwith He7.F0t? for rHAYFEVERM ^ (JyM twenty-five years, and MJf-' rever before found per y <3^5" fcfel nimicnt relief. ? WebL/J? t?ter H. Haakins, Man h S^SS^\C?S^oP^^3E| (.'ream Balm ! a lrolnedy founded on a U.VA. I correct diagnosis of thia [j ITP^f F" ditjea*? aad can bo derl/\y ""It.bSi V Sill pendol upon. 60o. at Iruggists; flic. by mill. Sampl" bottle by mail, lOe. Sl* uros.. Uru^^:?:5 Owi<o, N. Y. D A nnTTWTC I Th0B- p- Simpson. Washington, . AIIjI" X 3 . U. C. No pay aiiked for patent obtain^. Writ Mnr INVENTOR'S OU1DK. Nervous Debility SZSflTMl GU*t|1wimuALL UHNifis!*!^ Kg Best Cough Syrup. Taateagood. M f?| t?sa In time. Sold by druggists. Prl ism I Masai CtTBjy ' By th? u?e Of tiila ^|H iT.T. BdZDT, tho Bto*y nmnMM aohand Bowtll W^M 21 P??dQ3r "fatathal* or atraagth, aadtba THB blood ia purifiedKIDJUKB Itlaproaounoadbr i T.tvn hundreds of tha b*a? :?*? ?. t^AIVS' B mmur J"***""""-: HH OBOAK8 iTiimWlyw^ DROPSY table, and oureawhea Q OBAVZIi other medlctoea ttO. aiUCT St la pi'ej^arad ?* -S TrtrrnM'i'Mi greatly far theeadla* . H ). anna ,eaaea._aad baa nary \TAHr* "w ?? ? ?# D, One trial wffl eon. - vinoe you. Tonal* H 2? brHd ?i*. j Em y ??*. trrmf <bf ^ ift Pamphlet fl WJttVUUB of T9Bit., 9ZBU8B -livtu^' j . aroaracar *T*w hunt's' Hj OB W SE9GBD7 KOT^rocmoir WriJ a> co? Wk ? ?Sx 1 HUNTS (Kidney and Liver) REMEDY J ua u?d from lingering flinena and death hundred* - - - J rito haTt^een Klrea np by phjccunj to die. ^4B M YMP?38 "-.^I tee.ee *#Y.*|.YmA#E/P*MKHA?I,?e VEGETABLE COMPOUND . ^| ?#is Aposnin com ron?e* vfflB ill tbOM painful Complaint* ';J * and Wcakneasc* to common e * * to onr best #*?* * iM , FEKALE POPULATION. ? ei !> iiamld. nlll er IfloaM Cmb. < I I feS?^3?l I ?nd backache. 13 always permanently cured VyiUjoJe. -9| I CAIN I I Health andJHappiness. '-a <*p ^9 dikotkb *jl OBCntf4 S1 Hi?? DONE. M Are yourKidneys disorder^? 'M% "Kidney Wort broughftte- frem. my snn, mK ?m, aftor 1 had b*en glren an by 13 bWtdoeton ia Detroit." JL W. Dereraux, Mechanic, ftSjlwC ^ Are your nerves weak?, 1 r0? X!dndy:Wort cured me Mm ncrrooi wmlrnem rf* ^sasfiags^&iaaaF* ,-.,y Have you Bright's Disease? I "Kldnoy-Wort cored too when iny water was Jut 1 IOCS chJOJc mad then like blood." _ . .v 'J3M Tr*n!c Wllaon, Pcahody.lflW. ' " ? Suffering from Diabetes ? I ^Kldn*y-WortUtSomc?t (iuccc*ifalramedyIh*T? erer uaed. 6lTee almost Immediate rellA" _ I Sr. I'hUllp C. Ballon, Monkton. Jt 1 Have you Liver Complaint? v I "Kidney-wort cured me of chronlo Llrer Haaaaa .C I after I pr*red to dla." a 'J Henry Ward, late Col. CTthKat.Guard.B.T. V'^H Isyour Back lame and aching? J "Kidney-Wort, a bottle) cared me when J fMM '.M lame I bad to roll out of bed." _ . 0. 1L Tillma^o, Milwaukee, Wla. Have "you Kidney Disease? -I J'lUdn. /-Wortmad 8 mejioun din iwr jnn ? uusuuxomui uwwimh* --i-?. ,w fl0?bQX."-flaml flodgee, Willfijnttowa, Wert Vs. . J Are you Constipated? "Kidney-Wort ctuaei cmt enmllflMMdetwd me after XI year* n?e of other mMJclnee." <._ Nolion Fatathild, Bt, Albans, Tt> g Have you Malaria? '* "Kidney-Wort haa done better than any other 1 "vsessfsa&^n | Aro you Bilious? - f:i3 "Kidney-Wort haa done me znoro good than ?BT J Hhttjtmedj I hare erer taken." 1 lfa*J.T.QalIoyay,Ea?lat,Owi<?. 1 Are yon tormented with Files? "Kidney-Wort permatURtlw cured me of bleeding piles. Dr. W. a Kline recommended It to me." ;-T I Geo. H. Horn, Caahier H. Back, Xjraatowa, Fa. 'M Are you Rheumatism racked? S "Kidney-Wort cured me, after im given Bp to U die by physicUni tnd I hid i offeredthirty vcatb*4 abridgeMUcolm, Wert ftM?t M 2m. * ? -3- ? ? -.-a ?*?n An##MnDoO ' :->.s5?S3 JUOUiBB. mo jrvu duwm..u*b* , , "ZldJiey-Wort curer, a? of pcculUr trovbleiot 1 IT yon would Banish Disease I i and gain Health, Take ' i *?w??CM^MWUgW^ fBBBEBgmas Thi Blood Clbansir. ' 'a 1MWB?IH. I. ' ?I 'J ' WU. wj '~V DR. DAVID KENNEDY'S 1 - ^ 1 REMEDY Forth? Care of Kidney ud plain ta, Conatlpatlon, and all ariain* from an Impure etat* of the To women who eaffer from any of the liar to their mi it ia an unfailing frima* Dmniita. On* Dollar a bottle, or addrea^^^^^^^l Dana gannady, Boadout, N. Y. CONSTIPATIOli I "I mffered from Paralyd* of tho Bowel* and Complaint I finally need DR. 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