Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HOPE. Hope is as the April showers That freshens the thirsting flowers, Gives life to the budding leaves O'er hill and plain; Makes the feeble heart that grieves Grow strong again. Hope is as the bubbling spring, Bliss to the pilgrim's heart doth bring in the arid desert land, Weary and long; V?kfl5 thp p-rin of the nerveless hand I Grow bold and strong. Hope is as the guiding star That shines from the throne afar O'er waters of trackless waves; Beacon of light To him vrho the ocean braves In gloom of night. Hope is a golden-haired boy Beaming with sunlight and joy; Helping each weary one up Who falt'ring slips; Soothing with draughts from life's cup The parched lips. ?James Lavallin, in Chicago Herald. Story of a Wedding Garment, ; Those of my friends who know me well enough to forego all feelings of1 delicacy and reserve in the matter, often tcil me that I am one of the leanest foung men they ever saw in their lives. When I walk the streets I am grieved by ! the remaaks of a certain class of small i boys who have not had proper home training. These remarks are of a comparative nature?I being one object of comparison, and the lamp posts by which 1 am passing, the other. If I go ten blocks without hearing anvthin.o- said about "bean poles" and .?J 0 A 'living skeletons," I am glad. Being . ju?t six feet three in height does not idd particnlarly to the beauty of my appearance. Let no one suppose because I write so calmly of my leanness that I am not sensitive regarding it. I am. The day I overheard a young lady say a picnic that 1 looked like a section of a railroad bridge was the saddest day of my life; To overcome as far as possible the grotesque appearance caused by my excessive lack of liesh I always wear "heavy-weight" goods, and no tailor ever secures my patronage who does not thoroughly understand the art of ''padding." , I confess to a certain degree of vanity regarding my personal appearance, and when I made the blissful discovery that I was about to be married 1 gave no little thought to the appearance I should pre?ent ,oq an occasion when, more than at ^jarytime' itt my life, so many persons ^would be gating upon me. I read books on etiquette to know if, tauder any circumstances, a man might properly be married with his overcoat ?nd two suits of clothes on, but, to my distress, found this was allowable only ; Jn cases of elopement, and as my wife | bad set her heart on a church wedding | With everybody in full dress, I gradually | forced myself into the conviction that the overcoat and one su.t of clothes would have to be discarded. A man of my "build"' looks positively ?nd irredeemably awful in the conventional, clinging, black,, light weight garments of which most suits are madeWhen I see such a man thus arrayed I am really convinced that tbere is some, thing in the Darwinian theory. But, as it had to be so, I was married In the garments best calculated to make my attenuation glaringly apparent. My friends were kind, however, and said nothing to cast a cloud on my happiness ?all but mv sister Nell She o wed me ? grudge dating back to the days of our childhood, and, as she put her arm3 around my neck and kissed me, sho whispered in my ear. "Oh, Tom, you look awfully shoeliringy in that suit.'" A separation of four years made it pos lib e for me to speak to Nell when we met again, but I sometimes fear that we can never be the dear friends we once were. After our marriage my wife and I went Immediately to a far distant Western city, in which we made our home. I was loo poor to throw or give away my detested wedding garments, but I soon reduced them to a state of great shabbiDgss'by wearing them under my over^^~*eoat when about my work a; a reporter on a daily paper. We were not society people, and I had no idea that I would ever again need a suit of that kind. One day when I went home tb dinner my wife aid: "See here, Tom, it's a shame for you to be wearing that handsome ?75 suit out in that way. Don't you suppose you n?rl r?Af enma m nra fn if o l?l n tuuiu sen ib auu ^V/i/ cvsu&v iuuic ouuttviw 1 and cheaper garments for every-day i wear:" I here take occasion to say that my i wife is a very economical as well as a j practical and sensible woman. Sometimes I think she knows more than I j know. I told her that I would think about I her sugge-tion. A wise man wi 1 never j leemto come into immediate accor.l vvitu Ihe opinions of'his wife. It is always best to bang back and pretend thnt you i have a little sense of own, even though you know that you have not. At 12 o'clock that night, ai 1 was closing my desk at the ohc* preparatory lo going home, the managing editor of my paper said: 4'See here, Dixon; that report you wrote of the trouble up at the L'hristabel mine was uncommonly well done, and will be talked about to-morrow. 1 think I can got your salary laNed on the | itrength of it. In the meantime, here's a Mttle of something to show you that ti j paper appreciate> good work." As he spoke he handed me a crisp, new $"i0 bill. He was rich; the paper j was making a great deal of money, and i I felt that I was not being pa d as much j as I earnid, so I took the money without j any hesitation. Fifty-dollar bills wore very scarce at our house and, as I hurried home through the dark streets. I fancied to myself my wife's pride and pleasure when I should tell her of my good fortune on the morrow. For perfect security I folded and re- j ^ folded the bill until it was about an inch ! H ]i:are, and tucked it down into the B^^^atch-pocket of my pantaloons, a pocket H|^kad never used before, and one that ^HB9^en, clothed in their right minds, j all. [^BHH&^^^pining I was awakeued by a | HH^ffiHHj^^listunt part of the city, and old suit that I kept I^^HHHHBB^ons, I hurried out to the fire, which SnnfflMBMK^^sual magnitude. it was late home wife and old Isaac's, the second-hand and misfit man, and got fifteen dollars for it. "Mary Jane!" I said coldly, anditwa9 the first time I had ever called ber by her full name; and she turned as oale as I was. "Did you, Mary Jane Dixon, look carefully in all the pockets of that suit?"' "Wy, yes, Tom," she said, reassured. "Iu all of ihem," I asked again. "Yes, in all; I'm certain." "In that miserable, wretched, deceptive, useless thing in the trousers called a watch-pocket?" "Why?no?Tom. I didn't?I?I?" She burst into tears, and sat down with her apron over her face. I stalked into another room, and banged the door very hard. I opened it softly in less than three minutes, and?well, we made it ail up again, although we were still very sober over our loss. My wife said she would do without a great many things that she never did do without, and I tried to take an optimistic view of the affair, and said meekly and untruthfully that I supposed it was all for the best. To make matters a little worse, I drew from my pocket a large, square, elegant-looking envelope, a:id said to my wife: "And here's an invitation to the much talked of Smythe-Duraut wedding next week, and I re illy would like to go. I've known Helen Durant all her life, and I like her, if I do despise that snob of a George Smythe she is going to marry." "I'm so sorry," said my wife contritely, "ani here we might havegonca3 well as not if I hadu't so!d your only black suit. It did look real nice, and nnif-o f>5 omnfl as new. I dare sav. by lamplight. I could have worn my wedding dress, and we could have made a very decent appearance. It is too bad!" She began crying again. I said I would go away and never come back if she didn't stop. Suddenly she jumped to her feet aud said excitedly: ''Why, Tom! how foolish we are! It isn't at all likely that old Isaacs has sold the suit yet, and it may be that he hasn't looked in the pockets. Let us hurry right down to his store and buy it back. We can tell him it was a mistake, as it truly was. Let us hurry right off:" We reached the uninviting store of B. Isaacs, dealer in second-hand and misfit garments, in about fifteen minutes, but the suit was gone! "I haf just sold it no more as dree minutes and a halluf ago. It was not worth much. I makes me no money on dot suit. It vood not vit a man dot vays any ding at all." I ra-ed angrily out of the store. "Well," 1 said, as we walked moodily homeward, "I'm not the only hundred pound six-footer in this town. That's evident. I'll keep me eyes on the other living skeletons, nnd if I lind the one who has my trousers, I'll have them back again by fair means or fou!." I kept a sharp lookout for lean men during the next week, and was gratified to discover that there were fifteen or twenty in the city as lean as myself, but all of them were saved the humiliation of being informe 1 by me that they were wearing my clothes, a humiliation that might not, perhaps, have been lessened by the offer of twenty-five that I intended making for their return. As the evening for the wedding before referred to drew near our aesire 10 attend it increased, aad at last I said to my wife: "Well, I just cannot afford to get me another full dross suit that I might not need again for ten years. And I'll stay at home forever and wear rags and tags before I'll wear a hired suit. But we can at least go to the church. It is to be a church weJding, you know, and I can wear my ordinary business suit and overcoat to the church?if I don't find the man who has my clothes." But I did not fiud him, and we went early down to the church that wo might be first there, and our lack of festive garments less noticeable. "If it wasn't for Helen I wouldn't go at all," I said as we sat in the church, awaiting the coming of the bridal party; "I cannot endure Smythe. He thinks himself vastly superior to me and makes me sick with his t lk about fashions and 'best society' and all that. It makes me so mad to be told, as I often am, that he T 1 T)? 1 ,1 looks HKe me. i koow a m iwug auu. lank, but lie?" "Sh-sh-shl" whispered my wife; "they're coming." "With such a flourish of trumpets," I whispered in reply. Down they came in the broad center aisle?five bridesmaids with gorgeous pink and lavender and blue and cream and cardinal trains; five "best men' in ugly black garments, and, last of all, Helen with yards and yards of white satin and tulle and lace: and Kmythe in ?I clutched at my wife's arm and almost shouted in her car: "He has on my weding suit, as sure as you're a living woman I" ATfirv Jane cave mv arm an awful j r_j * ^ ^ pinch in return and an admonishing poke in the side with her fan. 'Xc, my dear," I said, as we walked homeward after the ceremony, "I am not mistaken. Those were my clothes. I w >uld know those trousers if I saw chen ou a Hottentot. Didn't you detect a "Vint odor of gasoline as he went by our pew? I did. To think, my dear, that I cannot go to the most fashionable wedding of the season because the bridegr om has on my clothes! 15ut if I had gone, he'd have had to stay at home, wouldn't he? Lean as we are we couldn't both have worn those " "How perfectly ridiculous you are!" interrupted Mary Jane. "I dont feel at all sure that they were your clothe*." "And, if they were, how are we going to get that fifty-dollar bill out of that pocket?" "We didn't get it. But they were my clothes. I gave old Isaacs a dollar f - - A-li: 4.1.-4. U* /I !4. I or lulling iiiu mm uu uuu suiu i uc suit to Smythe, who bad sworn Isaacs to secrecy on the subject. He looked heart-broken and turned greeu when I told him about that fifty-dollar bill.? Detroit Free Press. Lameness in Horses. Horses often suffer from lameness through some foreign substance working its way into the frog and imbedding itself there, causing inflammatory ulceration and sometimes lock-jaw. Some twenty years ago or more, when Captain Moore's horse Privateer was a two-yearold, his owner had just given him a splendid gallop over the Cra"> ('rchard (Ivy.) track when he suddenly wont lame aud for weeks all treatmont failed to cure him. Finally, Captain Mooie, at the | suggestion of a friend, took Privateer to a veterinarian, who was told to cut into the frog of the ailing foot. The veterin*1%a ^AAf on/1 r?nmni'm/l Ul icUI CAUIlllliCU VliO IKJKJV auu uumuiiv/uj i saying there was nothing there. "Never you mind, but cut away where I tell you," said Moore, in the emphatic style for which he was noted. The ''vet." cut in and a stream of "pus" flowed forth, and on farther examination a ^Lece of walnut hull was found imbedded Hfche frog, which was the cause of the l^^^^rouble. Privateer mended rapidly and his career is a matter of Louis Sayings. __. " BUDGET OF FUN. HUMOROUS SKETCHES FROM VARIOUS SOURCES. Jaw-Breaking Nomenclature?Just About?A Doubtful Compliment ?Experimenting?Of a Financial Nature. There was a Russian came over tbo sea Just when the war was growing hot; And his name it was Tjalikavakaree KarindobrolikauahudarotShibkadirova IvarditztovaSanilik Danerik Varagobhot. A Turk was standing upon the shore? Right where the terrible Russian crossed; And he cried:?"Bismillalil I'm Ab-El-KorBazaron-kilgonautosgobross GetfinpravadiKligekosladji Grivino B ividoJenikodosk!" So they stood like brave men long and well; Aud they called each other with their proper names Till the lockjaw seized them, and where they fell They buried them both by the Irdeshalmme3 Kalatalustchuk MisL-htaribusLeupBulgary Dulbary Sagharimsing. ?Detroit Free Press. Just About. "How much cider did you make this year?" inquired one farmer of another who had offered a specimen for trial. "Fifteen barrels," was the auswer. Another sip. "Well, if you had another apple you might have made another barrel."?Leis- j ure Hours. A Donbtfnl Compliment. First Young Lady?"Fred is getting positively spoony; he called me a flower just before I came upstairs." Rival Belle (with much sweetness)? "You had been sitting against the wall for a long time, but it wasn't nice of him to allude to it."?Providence Journal. Experimenting. Mr. Somborn?"I'm very glad you concluded to come again this season, Miss Elson." Miss Elson?"Is there any special rea- ! son for your joy after your experience of last year?" Mr. Somborn?"Yes, I've joined an amateur dramatic society, and I want ' you to help me rehearse that refusal 1 scene of ours again. I'm going to play : acrusnea iovw.?oaajc. Of a Financial Nature. Bobby (thoughtfully)?"Pa, do men , in business worry about money mat- I tersif" Father?"Sometimes, Bobby. For j instance, when a man "whose credit is not first-class owes me money. I worry more ' or less until I get it. Do you under- I stand:" Bobby?"Yes, pa, and when you owe money to other people I s'pose they j worry until they get it?"?Epo.h. The Progress of Evolution. Visitor (to lunatic asylum a century hence;?"Whata beautiful girl!" Superintendent?"Yes, poor thing. She was a great society belle once?the pride of one of the most fashionable circles in the city. Iler parents' hearts are almost ! broken. It is a pity, a great pity, that' so lovely a casket should contain such a 1 diseased mind. She is not dangerous; j only a monomaniac; but the case seems hopeless." "What is her mania?" "She wants to marry for love."? Omaha World. An Apology. G/*av?a? T'Via annromo oruirf mom fliv ' Wl-CllO. AMV ? | judge3 being seated oa the bench. Air. K. to Judge P. (contemptuously) ?"I thought I was addressing a gentleman." Judge P. (severely)?"What do you mean, sir?" The Chief-Justice (sternly)?"ilr. K., you must retract what you have said; you must apologize." Mr. K. (blandly)?"I will retract, your honor, if I have said anything wrong; ! but what I said was, th;:t I thought I was addressing a gentleman, and 1 still tli'nk so."?Commercial Adccrtiser. His Majesty Excepted. The celebrated court preacher, Kober, oncc preached a very powerful sermon against intemperance. The Grand Duke I ot Saxony, whose nose looked like a Chi ! nese lantern, happened to be present, and I he naturally regarded the remarks as rej ferring to himself; consequently he ! looked very severely at the eloquent court preacher, who, catching the Grand Ducal eye, modified his remarks by say- i ing: "Drunkenness is undoubtedly a great and heinous sin, against which every j true Chri -tian should be warned, except- j ing, of course, our beloved Grand Duke, ' | whom God preserve to us many years | yet. ?Fliefjewle Blaetter. Not His Le?j j They stopped the horse on Second ; j street just as the driver was pitched out j j on the grass. He was laid on the | cushions, the horse tied to a post, and the ambulance telephoned for. The crowd of fifty were waiting to see the j end of it, when a citizen came running up, looked from the trembling horse to ! the wrecked vehicle and then to the man I | with the broken leg, and pushing his i way further he exclaimed! "Why, dear me, something has hap- , I npnpd ! Sav. did vour horse run awav?" I r / ? y - ~t - * ''It isn't that I have broken a leg and 1 I will be laid up for weeks," replied the I victim as he looked around, "but it is I my helplessness to take this fellow and i drive him head first into the ground i three or four feet! Have I any real ; friends here who will do it forme:"-Detroit Free Press. Acceptcd His Refusal Gratefully. "I am truly sorry to give you pain, Mr. Hankiuson," sa:d the young lady, "but please do not allude to the subject agaiu. I can never be your wife." "That is your final answer, Miss ! Irene?" "it is." "Nothing could induce you to change ; I your decision?" I "My mind is fully aud unalterably j m^ule up." ! ".Miss Irene," said the young man rising and looking about for his hat, "before coming here this evening I made a bet of with Van Perkins that you would say no to my proposal. I have j won. It was taking a risk, but I wai ! dead broke. Miss Irene," he continued, his voice quivering with emotion, "you have saved a despairing man from the fate of a suicide, and won the life-long respect and esteem of a grateful heart. Good evening."?Chicajo Tribune. The Man With the Rabbit Eye. 'There," said the beautiful Amelia Wintergreen, casting a diamond ring at the feet of Ethelbert Flitterbat, "take the jewel you gave me. I shall marry Mr. Smithereeu, who owns the horrid dog from which you ran yesterday, leaving me without protection from that dreadful beast. You are a coward, Mr. Flitterbat. If Mr. Smithereen had not kindly saved me," sobbed the charming girl, hysterically, "I should not have been rescued. Please go, Mr. Flitterbat, and forever." 4 Amelia," moaned that wretched young nuu, "hear me. Know that my right eye was ouce a rabbit's. It was with my right eye that I saw Smithereen's cur approaching U9. I knew he was a great nab'nit dog, Amelia, and so I ran. I am the victim of science, but I am no coward." "How romantic!" exclaimed that glorious girl. "Forgiveme, Ethelbert.' ? unuago news. Enough Said. Brave Stranger -"What is the rent of that handsome residence:" Honest Agent?"It is for rent for a song to any one who will take it. The house is haunted." ".Pooh! I'm not afraid of spooks." "Xo tenant has stayed there over one night since a murder was committed in it. They say the racket raised by the spirits is fearful; howls fill the aii.chains rattle, dreadful spectres flit about " "They cau't scare me." -"But tenants complain that the furniture is knocked and broken." "Ill risk it." "And the piano is played by unseen hands." "Whose hands?" "The hands of the woman who was killed. Thcyrecognize her by the fact that the tunc3 were her favorite show p'eces ? 'Maiden's Prayer,' 'Silvery Waves' and 'Boulanger March."' "Show me some other house."? Omaha World. Back and Head. "Brown is like necessity?he knows no law," used to be said of a huge,pompous member of the bar of Western New Tork. One morning the village street which separated the court house from the village tavern was ankle-deep with water, owing to a heavy rainfall during the niffht. Brown stood looking at the water from the tavern piazza, and so did White, another member of the bar, who, though physically a dwarf, was a brilliant and powerful lawyer. "White, my dear fellow, what will you do?' said Brown, with a patronizing air. '-You can never get across the street; yon will drown. I shall have to take you across on my back." 'If you should," retorted White, "you would have more law on your back than you ever had in your head."?Youth's Companion. The Early Supreme Com t Jnd^es. Scarlot and ermine were the robes they wore in the primitive court, with cleanshaven faces and hair drawn back into a queue tied with a black ribbon. Velvet suits, ru.lles, knee breeches and buckles were the only wear. The lawyers were re juired to dres3 in a similar fashion, and a barrister in any other coior than black and without a profusion of ruffles stood a chance of being fined for contempt of court. By the time Marshall arrived on the bench the scarlet robe had given way to the black silk robe, still dear to the heart of the judges. "The l<*nn nnd olinnnrprt nnnt-nlnnn" made alow ?ri"""- r~?; ? progress of that high tribunal for many years, even after pantaloons were in common vogue on the streets. The great Picknev, Attorney-General for Madison, wa9 a famous dandy as well as being the ablest lawyer of his time. He was daring enough to appear in court, and set a fashion in colors for lawyers. His dress was a blue coat with brass buttons, buff waistcoat buckskin breeches and top boots. He wore the Brummel cravat, whu-h required high art to put on tie. His hair was ?hort and unpowdered. But the bar generally stuck to black, even after pantaloons came fully into fashion. .The bench, however, wore small clothes until the advent of Taney. With the great Marylander another dcSirture from precedent is to be noted, e was absolutely the first of Chief Justices to preside at that august tribunal and deliver judgment in trousers, to the horror and dismay of many a barrister and gentleman of the old school. "What sans culotteism was to be expected next? Pigtails had already departed, and what kind of law was to be expected from men in pantaloons, and without powder and pigtails.? Chicajo Herald. .... ttr _ _ n: ,. I. J now suerniuu iyhs msuiinrjeii, "Speaking of California," said General Sherman to a Cincinnati Commn'ciil Gazette reporter, with a twinkle in his left eye, "it reminds me of how I was once discharged by my colored boy Jim. I was first lieutenant in the Fifth artillery in those days, and was ordered out to California. I took my colored boy Jim with me round the Horn, in a clipper ship, I paid him $1(5 a month. I was getting $72 a month then. Big pay? Not very much, for in addition to being first lieutenant I was ad jutant-general of the department, but I didn't get a cent for that. Well, we were down at San ! ~ 1 ~ Diego, ana ?nm wumuu uiuuy pan) steadily. "One day he came in to me and said: 'Boss, I'se gwine to quit. I'se been offered $300 a month to work in a libbery stable up yar, and jou must pay me dat much or 1 quit.' Three hundred dollars a month for a colored boy and I just getting $73 from the L'nited States! That proposition of Jim's rather staggered me. I said: 'Jim, I guess you better go to the livery-man; I can't pay voj that much.' 'Well,' said Jim. showing the whites of his ejes, 'I reckon, then, boss, as how I'se got to discharge you.' Discharge me he did, for Jim left. It was the tirst time I was ever discharged from the army," said the general, ending the story, *'aud by a coiored boy who was earning four times as much money as I was." A Convict's Eden. A paper was read by the Rev. P. S. I.ea, at the Geographical Society, London, on the island of Fcrnasdo do Koronha. This island is the Brazilian con vict settlement and is about tw >hundred and ninc:y miles norllieast of Pernambuco. Mr. Lea was one of a party of three, and was engaged in collecting specimens for the British museum. Three-quarters of the insects taken were new to science; of plants there was 2L0 species, of which about thirty were peculiar to tho island. Crabs of great alacrity ran about ou the rocks, and leaped from one. stone to another, while crayfish and cuttleiish abounded. Fish of the most gorgeous colors?gold, green, violet and scarlet?abounded. There were no fresh-water fish. About fourteen hundred convicts were on the island, and besides them 100 soldiers , and 400 women and children. The convicts met with were neither degraded nor ruffianly, aud discipline was maintained without difficulty.?London Star. "historic misers. ! STARVING RATHER THAN PART WITH THEIR MONEY. Elwes, the Millionaire, Whose Sloth- i er Starved to Death?A Miser Who Was Also a Philanthropist. Perhaps the most famous miser that ever lived was John Elwes, an Englishman, who died from neglect because he. ( ofnooil ?n/*nr tVio ovnonco r\f rvV?uai_ ,ViU^? V*. |/MJ -* ! cinns and nurses, though worth not less than $4,000,000. In the case of John Elwes, his sordid character was not the ! result of ignorance, for he was a graduate of a Swiss university, and later in life was a member of Parliament. His greed of gold was an hereditary sin. He was the son of a. London brewer, who died when the boy was only four years old. His mother survhed, but to such an extent did her passion for money gain a hold upon her that, though she had $ 500,000 in her own right, she actually starved hesself to death. An uncle. Sir Harvey Elwes, was also a miser, and the example of these two blood relatives evercised such an influence upon .John I Elwes, that he became the most famous i I miser of three centuries. After his re- j i turn to England from Geneva, Elwes ; moved in fashionable London society, where his prospective wealth entitled him to recognition. When he visited his nncle in Suffolk, where the latter lived in the most abject penury, his hopeful nephew would play a double part. He would wear his fashionable garments as far as a little inn in Chelmsford, where he exchanged them for a patched pair of trousers, a J wom-out coat, dainecl stockings, ana clodchopper shoes with iron buckles. In this attire he would call upon his uncle. The latter would not permit a fire on cold March days on the score of its being extravagant, and the two would sit with a crust'of bread and oue glass of wine between them until it was too dark to see cach other's faces, and then they would retire to save the expense of the candles. When this uncle died he left his nephew a fortune of $1,000,000. As he grew older. John Elwes developed the terrible avarice that marked his life by a passion for cards. He would sit in his thread-bare clothes with the Duke of Northumberland and play with feverish eye and trembling hand with i thousands at stake, and then, after having lost or won, as the case may be, he ! would walk to his miserable lodgings, three miles distant, in a pelting rain, rather than pay a cab. Elwes owned a magnificent country scat in Berkshire. When he would j leave London to visit it he would put I fhroA VifirH.lioilpH rorrsnnd some rrnsts nf 1 I bread in his pockets, then, mounting a j horse, would ride over fields and through ! lanes, going miles out of his way to | avoid roads where he would have to pay . a few pennies toll. A more than faith- j ful biographer says of him: "He would eat his provisions in the last stage of putrefaction rather than havo a fresh joint from the butcher, and at one time he wore a wig about a fort-1 night which he picked out of a rut in a 1 lane, and which had apparently been , thrown away by a beggar." At his country seat he allowed of no repair save a little brown paper or a bit; of broken glass. During the harvest he j I would amuse himself with going into the i j fields to glean the corn on tbe grounds of his own tenants; and they U3ea to leave j a little more than common to please the ; old gentleman, who wa3 as eager after it: as any pauper in the parish. To save , j bed coverings, before his death, he , would go to sleep completely dressed j with boots anefhat on. Pie died miser- j I ablv, his miued weakened by worry and ! | privation. The value of his fortune, j j which went to two sous, was not less . than $1,000,000. I a AT i^T J : I ^luutucr cuieuiuicu luiaur j^puuuui Lapes Pereira, Baron d'Aguilar, formerly i cashier to the Empress Maria Theresa of j Austria. Strange to say, the early years j of his life at the Austrian court were years of splendor. Then he moved to | England, married a wealthy lady, and j settled down. He lived in sumptuous style; kept several carriages and twenty j servants. He was married twice, and, , after his second marriage he left his family and friends and withdrew h'maelf from the fashionable world. He turned farmer. At this time he was worth $1,000,000. After a year in the country his place began to be known as "Starvation Farmyard." His cattle and poultry i were a mass of skin and bones, and peas-! unts begun to hoot at the Baron when-1 ever he appeared for his mean treatment i ofhis animals. He always insisted on being present when the stock was being fed, so that he might see that there was i nothing sto:en or wasted, lie went, j about his farm clad in mean and dirty ' clothes, and refused to spend money to , I buy new ones. After a life ofseliishness I and meanness he died in March, 1802, j lleaviug property estimated at $1,100,-' i flOf) His r) inmnnds nlr>nr> \vnrr? wnrHi i j $150,000, while his solid silver plate , weighed over 700 pounds. > That a man who expended during his i life and bequeathed to public institu- j ! tions on his death over $1,1)00,000, should be culled a raiser, seems a paradox, and yet such was Thomas Guv, the founder of the famous Guv's Hospital, London, j ! and a man whose memory will be cher- j i ished for hundreds of years to come. Thomas Guv. was the son of a coal dealer in Ilorseljdown. He began life | with a capital of ?100 as a bookseller. I By fortunate investments in the year! 1720 he amassed an immense fortune, i mainly through what was known as I South Sea stock. His whole life was ' marked by a pccuriousness that strangely comported with his lavish public gifts, j He invariably ale his meals alone, using ; an old newspaper as a table cloth. On ! winter niyhts he would bum the half of oue candle and shiver over a few sticks of wood in a brick stove. It was of Guy that the famous story is told how one j Hopkins called upon him to get a lesson on the art of saving. It was night, and j Guy was seated at a plain deal table with ; n linlf.npnnr rfllifllfi. "Is th;itall you came about?" said Guy, | after his visitor was seated, "why, then ! we can talk the matter over in the dark," j and he deliberately extinguished the fee- j ble flame. With all his record of pe.srmal mean- ' ness and penurious habits, the hospital i that bears his name will ever perpetuate , his memory. He spent almost $100,000 j in building it, and then left it endowed j with nearly $1,100,000 at his death. He j left $2000 to the governors of Christ's I Hospital perpetually to care for four poor j children of London, and *.j000 for releasing four prisoners iu the city aud the counties of Middlesex and Surrey.? 1 Pittsburg Dispatch. " j The new Hebrides, which are situated about midway between Eastern and Western Polynesia, embrace a total area of some 3500 square miles, and iiave 200,000 native inhabitants, who are noted for their savage barbaritv. Deadly Dynamite. The following from the Indian Engineer, published at Calcutta, gives the information which many are seeking to know. Dynamite consists of some porous absorbent mineral saturated with nitroglycerine. Several substances have been tried as absorbents of the glycerine, but the most satisfactory is the kieselguhr, an infusorial earth, composed of the silicious shells of extremely small vegetable organisms, and it is of this that Nobel's dynamite is made. It absorbs about three times its weight of the glycerine, <IUU. 1C3ULLIU1CO pULtJ lU upl'caiautc. Thus, a given quantity will contain seventy-tive per cent, of the real explosive, and its blasting power, compared with pure nitro-glycerine, is, of course, represented by the same ratio. In order to explode it, it is necessary to obtain the temperature of 860 degrees Fahrenheit. It freezes in the same way as glycerine, and when in this state must be carefully handled. Nitro-glycerine has an expansive force ten time; that of an equal weight of powder. It is highly dangerous to place dynamite on or near fire stoves, steam pipes, or any highly-heated [ metaL Dynamite must never be put into warm water to thaw it, as the water would free Jjie nitroglycerine, when it i3 most dangerous. I It ought always to be put into a watertight vessel, and then have the vessel put into warm water. It should never be exposed to the direct rays of a tropical sun. When leading it, a wooden iod or squeezer should be used to push home the cartridge, never a metal one, and the cli arge should gently and firmly be pushed down, and not rammed or pounded. If dynamite has to be loaded into tins, avoid smelling it, as it gives a sickly, nervous headache for.severr.l days. Never squeeze the primer containing the detonator, but lower or push it gently till it rests on the charge. In the event of a misfire never attempt to araw ine tamping. If water-tamping has been used, put a fresh primer and detonator on top of the charge. If other than water-tamping has been used, bore a fresh hole. The detonator must be very carefully handled. If one exploded in the baud, the hand would be shattered. "When putting in the fuse cut off the end of it square, and put it in firmly but gently. Dynamite can be burnt with safety, and simply fizzes up harmlessly. It exercises its force in the direelion of most resistance. A siDgle cartridge attached to a rail will break it; a fourounch cartridge will break a 35-pound rail in two. The charge varies from a few cartridges to as much as may be necessary. ? - J A in mm .atiuuuiueuis. "Funny, isn't it," said the keeper of the Baltimore Zoo to a Herald reporter, "how different kinds of animals and birds will become attached to each other when caged up together or confined in adjoining compartments! Now, there's that ring tailed monkey, for instance, he has been making love to the booby owl. The latter sits blinking in the next cage, and the poll parrot and the tomcat in that cage over there are as intimate as two burglars planning to crack a safe. "The funniest thing in the whole lot, however, is the way that snake in the cage over here crawls through the wire snd twists itself around the white monkey's tail. Talk about a monkey and parrot time, the antics of that monkey and snake lay all over anything in that line. They play the mischief sometimes, too. The other day while ' - * -5 periormmg one 01 muir uuuuie-napc/.c acts the snake must have bitten the monkey, for the latter got mad and swung himself around with the rapidity of a roulette ball and dashed through into the next cage. He kept whirling the snake about, knocked down three doves in the pigeon loft, broke the glas3 out of the east window, bursted through the wire netting and started on a dead run for Woodbury. Before they got to the edge of the woods the monkey darted up a tree. The moukey is up the tree yet, but he is minus his tail. The snake didn't want to follow the animal up the tree and twisted itself around the base of the tree, while the monkey made a desperate plunge and parted with his caudal appendage. "The snake then crawled back to the Zoo and entered its cage and hung the monkey's tail up on the imitation tree stump and went to sleep." _ .. South American Mosquitoes. Some ludicrous stories are told about adventures with the mosquitoes. I have been solemnly assured that very often \vben they hare attacked a boat and driven its Captain and crew below, they have broken the windows of the catfin by plunging in swarms against them, and have attempted to burst in the doors. Although this may be something of an exaggeration, it is nevertheless true that frequently horses and cattle, after the most frightful sufferings, have died from mosquito bites on board the vessels. Not long ago a herd of valuable cattle werebein^ taken from the United States to a ranch upou the Magdalena liiver, and became so desperate under the attacks of the mosquitoes, that they broke from their stalls, jumped into the water and all were drowned. Passengers in tending to make the voyage usually provide themselves with protection in the shape of mosquito-bars, head-nets and thick gloves, and when on deck are compelled to tie their sleeves around their wrists, and their pantaloons around their ankles.?American Magazine. Tommy's Prayer. Tommy having got his feet wet, hi3 mother punished him. A few days later he fell into a puddle and drenched himself front head to foot. "When he returned home, which was not immediately, his mother was naturally inquisitive how her offspring had falien into such a plight. The tale was soon told. "But why didn't you come rijjht home?" "I went up on the hill and took off my boots and poured the water out of them, and then I got down on my knees and prayed that God would dry me just as quick as He could." Tommy's mother was pleased to tind her i? J I.-.,*. I in tie son was praveriuuy incuneu, um she suggested the next time anything of the kind happened he'd better come home and do his praying after he had changed his clothing.? Boston Transcript. Land Values in Ireland. The ruinous price3 of hinrl in Ireland was illustrated last week at the auction mart in a most striking manner. The estate in the Island of Achiil owned by the late Lord Cavan, which was referred to the other day, was sold by order of his trustees, consisting of 20i?8 acres of j freehold land?in fact the whole island j ?with houses and entrance lodges, both j furnished. The auctioneer described the ! property as one of the finest sporting 1 estates in Ireland, though he admitted : that the tenants were three years in \ arrcar with their rent. The property ' was sold practically without reserve, and after very slight competition was purchased by a lady at the modest figure of ?6U0, or about six shillings an acre.? Lcndon Figaro. _ . _ .. . , . " r*rr % i- > \ - . -< -i POPULAR SCIENCE. ~ ~-<s~ '' vIcJWS?' A constant ancPdisagreeable sweet taste has been reported iD one case as a result of the substitution of saccharin for sugar. Two French physicists, Violle and Vautier, have established beyond doubt * that the velocity of sound diminisheswith its intensity, but is unaffected by its pitch. The claim is made that Colonel Goss, of Topeka, Kajij, during a trip to the coast of the Gulf of California, discovered l 1 L-e ?1?i-A Wni>. IWU UU US ucrctuiurt* uutvuv/nu w UUVM4aliats. They are said to be "species of the gannet or booby." Vienna is to have an electrical laboratory at which the public, for certain fixed fees, may have tested the power and efficiency of dynamos, the candle power and economical working of arc and incandejceat lamps. Only two per cent, of the sea is included inside a; depth of 500 fathoms, while seventy-seven per cent, lies between 500 and 301) fathoms. If the land were filled into l^e hollgjw, the sea would roll overtha^tftfth's crust to a uniform depth of two miles. The teeth of wnale9 furnish one of the remarkable features indicative of the ; origin of that animal. They form a complete but rudimentary set, characteristic of a more perfectly developed land mammal, but disappear shortly after birth, performing no functions whatever. A magnificent engineering work of the " fifth century, which had been partially destroyed, has been restored in Ceylon. It is an irrigating reservoir covering an area of 4423 acres, or about seven square miles, from which, water is taken to . J-'? smaller distributing tanks, more than fifty miles away. A German protessor nas discovered a new opiate, which he calls ''sulfonaL" 'It belongs to the group of so-called disulphates. It has the property of producing sleep in invalids, particularly in , nervous people and those affected with heart disease, but not in healthy subjects. ~ It is declared to be harmless and a certain means of causing slumber. It has long been known that an attack of erysipelas " exerts a remarkable influence upon other diseases,, and the at-' tempt has been made to cure more*serf-' ous maladies by deliberately inoculating the patient with the virus of erysipelas. In a recent case in Norway, the growth of a cancer was greatly retarded by this - . means, and life was probably prolonged a few weeks or even months, tnough no cure was effected. The oleander is found indigenous inthose parts of Asia Minor that aie com-* - ? ? ?. - a J i_3sm parativeiy iree irom irost. .a. traveler has recently noted that it is quite abun- ... dant on the plains between the Taurus and the Mediterranean. Wherever he could get a view from some elevation he could trace the snake-like course of the . ^ streams by the rosy-purple shade caused by the flowers of the oleander along the banks, as, along our dry plains, the Cottonwood marks the lines of the streams. ??^ / The Jews of the World. Mr. P. D. Mocatta, in his recent interesting lecture on Judaism, estimated the total number of Jews throughout the world as between 8,009,000 and 10,000,000. In the United Kingdom there are about 100,000, of whom seven-tenths are " in London, the great part of the remainder in Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham. Scotlana reckons only -j-' 1500, Ireland only 1000. In the Britlsa Colonies there are something less than 20,000. In France there are about I m nftrt nt nrVirtm ftAfi ura in Paris. <V/,VUV7, Ul ^ __ About 40,000 were transferred upon the . , annexation of the provinces to the German Empire, among whose 50,000,000 o? inhabitants 600,000 belong to this remarkahle race. Jews are found in large numbers along the northern coasts of Africa, as well as in Abyssinia. In America there are 500,000, and Jews are : dwelling in Mexico and in almost every state of South America. There are supfosed to be from 40,000 to 50,000 in ersia, 10,000 to 15,000 in the Khanates, and a like number in India. Switzerland, , ; Belgium and Holland have also considerable Jewish population. The influx of Jews into Palestine from other parts of the Turkish dominions and also from Poland. Russia and Central EuFSpej' which nas been going on from the early. part of the present century, is a note-^ worthy fact. The Turkish Governmenf is described as showing an entire tolera* tioa, but it is not now favorable to an immigration into Palestine, a circuilff? * " ? ' 3 .j | stance attributed to fear ot tnemroaa oi, European ideas. The state of the Jews in the Holy Land is, according to this authority, not a happy one. There is but little outlet for their energies. A large number give themselves entirely up to Hebrew studies, while the bulk of them eke out a miserable livelihood by small industries, apparently aided but in realitj intensified in pauperism by the pernicious system of'Halukah" for distribution of alms sent from various countries, which are doled out among tha Jewish population in small sums.?London Newt. An Improvement in Dentistry. ' A well known Pittsburg dentist has lately received a patent upon an electrical - - ' appliance tnac nas ceriaiuiy qui *ca uuu of the many dilUculties attending the proper handling of the human teeth. Heretofore a whole gold tooth has been | made by the old-fashioned swedgfag process, at once clumsy and hardly effective. The gold cones are technically called galvano-plastic tooth crowns, and the proce>s of making them is very simple. A soft metallic model of the tooth is made, this being done perfectly by first taking an impression of the tooth. The metallic model is then placed in a dynamo elcctric b.;th, and a deposit of pure gold is thus formed all over the modei. "When this gold h :s attained a suitable thickness the soft metal is ea?ily melted out without injuring the cone, leaving a perfect, smooth goia tootn crown. This process is far easier than the old way, and has received marked attention from the scientific dental organs in the East.?Pittabury Dispatch. Metallic Sap. Curious incidents cocur in this land, and one of them is sufficiently so to excite interest. Mrs. Andrews, who lives five or six miles from town, brought recently to the drug store of Mr. Porter a quantity of a certain metul resembling what is known as "babbitt" or pewter, but which, on being struck with a piece of steel, gave forth a clear ringing sound, as of silver. Mrs. Andrews' account of the metal is as follows; One of her sons, duriug the cold snap, bad cut down a tree and put parts of it on the tire for fuel. Presently, when the tire * had well burned, this metal began to pour from an opening in the stick of wood, falling on the hearth in front of the fire. This metal was gathered up in the shape it had taken on the hearth, while among the ashes particles of the same metal were found. The quantity was supposed to be several pounds, and all pronounce it of queer origin. ? Qi\ensboro (N.C.) Workman. t