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"Never, under any circunstan es whatever !" said Mr. Parrham. "Isn't that rather a sweeping declaration ?" said Miss Kitty AGlenn, who sat opposite. And the other ladies in the room -arched their eyebrows and ex exchanged private feminine signals 'with each other. Mr. Parrham was a rich bache 4or, portly, sleek and well-to-do, and his "never" applied to the ;-rea: question of matrimony as Xegarding himself. Kitty Glenn was-well, she certainly was not .an old maid, but she was twenty nine years old, with brown velvet 'eyes and bright chestnut hair, ,crepe over her fair forehead, and sips fresh and erimson as the ear lliest wild strawberry of the sea --son. And Mrs. Parrham, the old bachelor's sister-in-law, had been doing her best to "get up a match" between that gentleman and Kit ty, and this eventful moment saw the erial foundation-of her chateau en Espagne leveled to the dust. Kitty was quite equal to the situation, however. She crocheted on, without so much as a quiver of the eyelashes; and as for her red cheeks, why, wouldn't any lady's cheeks be red, sitting right in front of the fire as she did ? Of course there was nothing in that. "No," said Mr. Parrham, "I don't think it is. Marriage is altogcth er a mistake." "Oh, Paulus !" chir1ed M r s. Parrham, with a tiny shudder, that's a direct flying in the face of S.ripture." - "How, I should like to know ?" demanded Mr. Parrham,full primed for an argument. "Do 3't the Bible say, 'It is not good for man to be alone?' "Ah-h-h," said Mr. Parrham convincingly ; "but we haven't lived.up to the Bible ever since. We have degenerated, Sarah, de gen-er-ated ! Do you see anything about me that reminds you of the patriarch Abraham ? Or is-we are speaking only by way of ex ample, rc!cemeber-is Miss Glenn 4t all like Rebecca or Rachel ? It's like putting new wine into old bottlesi, this trying to adapt our hmodern selves to the usages of two or three thousand years ago !" And Mr. Parrham looked tri ~umphantly round, as if he thought 'he had given his audience quite ,enough of scriptural quotations. "Marriage is a mistake," he -slowly repeated, nodding his head. -"Any man who sells his birthright .f freedom and independence for a wedding ring and a pretty face .deserves to be put in bondage. I .si1i never be such a fool !" Did Kitty Glenn's fair head, '-when the shmning tangles of hair -were turned to ruddy threads of Aold in the firelight, droop a very trifle as Mi-s. Parr-ham watched :her? Nevertheless there was a -very perceptible movement of re Ilief in the room when the door opened and Charley MLarch enter .ed-a tall, robust young fellow, with laughing black eyes and a healthy brown complexion. "You don't know what you have . lost, Mr. March," said Mrs. Par rham, lightly. "What have I lost ?" demanded Charley. "A dissertation on the all-impor -tant questi an of matrimony." "Oh," said Charley March,shrug 'I ging his shoulders, "that's a ques -tion that I have nothing to do -with." And he glanced as he spoke at IXitty Glenn. "It's too bad,"- said Mi-s. Par-' tham to Kitty, as the twain sat that night by the for-mers bed room fire, busily engaged in mend ing the household linen-for Mrs. Parrham belonged to the race de nominated -'reduced gentry," and kept "a few select boarders," which, translated into or-dinary parlance, meant a house as full as she could1 pack it, and Kitty Glenn helped hecr in a thousaiid intangi ble, nameless ways. "What is too bad ?" questioned IKitty innocently. "WhyV~~ , Pauluis is too bad. When "Oh," said Kitty, nipping off the end of her thread with pearl white teeth, "I hadn't an idea what you meant !" "IIe would have made you such a splendid husband," sighed Mrs. Parrham plaintively. "Pooh !" said Kitty. "That's all past and gone !" She was a brave little Kitty to hide her wounds, but she couldn't deceive the keen eye of her sister woman. Yet Mrs. Parrham said no more-where was the use ? While Mr. Paulus Parrham, in his own snug room, dressing gowned, slippered, and enwrapped, as it were, in the blue spicy fra grance of a real Havana cigar, chuckled to himself as he thought how nicely he had outwitted that scheming clique of women down stairs. "I'm not such a fool yet !" medi tated Mr. Parrham, staring into the embers, which seemed to wink I redly back at him. "Not but what Kitty Glenn is a fine, tall shapely girl enough, if a man wanted a wife. But I am a little too inde pendent to tie myself down in that sort of way!-a leetle too ir.depen dent." And Mr. Parrham hugged him self in the spirit. Just a reek afterward and the mental and spiritual clime had changed. "I'm not going to be very sick, am I ?" pleaded Mr. Parrham. "Oh, no!" answered Dr. Med brick, gayly. "It's nothing but a little touch of inflammatory rheu matism ! I had a patient last week who's been down with it for seven weeks. Couldn't lift his finger without screaming out sufficient to rouse the whole block, I assure you !" What Job's comforters these doctors are ! Was there ever yet one called in who didn't lknow of a case ten times worse than your own particular affliction ? It is only when the family physician lifts the vail that one has any idea of what a howling wilderness one lives in. "I can't take care of him any longer, Kitty," said poor little Mrs. Parrham. coming out, pale and haggard, at the expiration of a weary fortnight. "Ie says I get the gruel too hot and the tea too cold, and I step like an ele phant, and rustle my dress as if I w~er'e robed in newspapers; anid do what I will, I can't please him. And he won't have a hired nurse -a mere mercenary, he calls it and what shall I do ?" "There, there," soothed Kitty ; "don't cry ; I'll see what I can do. I should just like to hear him scold me !" And she went into the sick room as Van Amburgh walks into one of his lion cages. Some people have dewy coolness in their finger ends, mesmeric in fluences in every step or touch. Kitty Glenn was one of those fa vored few. The invalid's fevered imp)atience subsided as she moved softly about the room, her slip pered feet falling like red leaves in autumn time, graceful and noiseless, h:r dress making no sound, her beautiful figure posing itself like a dream of artistic beau ty. "If you were to stay and nurse me I should get well," he said pit eously, as Kitty "spooned" out his gruel, never spilling a drop, and sliced up fragrant lemons for a cooling drink. "Then I'll do my best," said Kit ty quietly. "Only, if you are not good, I shall go away." Mr. Parrham frowned slightly, and then smiled. After all, digni ty aside, there was something very pleasant in thus becoming a mere spoiled, humored child in such beautiful hands as those of Kitty Glenn, and being admonished that he must be "good" by a voice> which was as sweet as a bird's trilling song. at twilight. Yes, that wa actually Mr. Par rham's synonym for Kitty's voice, as he lay there, between the acute t winges of rheumitie.gout. There was a leaven of, romance about him still.] Two days she watched besideC: him more than a "ministering a n-h For ministering angels don't have xcary feet, and aching backs, and throbbing temples-at least, it is -o be hoped they don't-and hu man women do. And the third day, is Mr. Parrham was waiting eager y for his chicken soup, in came his ister-in-law. "Where's Kitty ?" he demanded lolorously, wrinkling up his broad )row like a four year old about to 3ry. "She's gone to the Central Park with Mr. March. It's quite an old mgagernent, and she couldn't very well escape it; but she will be back by 4 o'clock." "Four o'clock !" whined our in ralid. "And how am I to get ilong until then ?" "I'm sure I dont' know," said little Mrs. Parrham, who possessed )ne great disqualification for a sick ahamber-she was easily made ervous. "Try your chicken broth, Paulus, dear; it's very nice." "It's sea-a-alding," screamed the nvalid ; and poor Mrs. Parrham ;tarted back so suddenly that the rest of the broth went over the overlet, and the china bowl tum )led on the floor in three pieces. "How can people be so clumsy ?" rctted Parrham. "I wish Kitty .vould come back !" "So do I, I'm sure," echoed Mrs. Parrham, with the utmost ferven y. "Shall I bring you a little rucl?" "I won't touch a mouthful till die comes back to give it to me !" ,aid her brother-in-law, screwing ip his mouth. 'Do, Paulus,' urged Mrs. Par -ham nervously. 'Oh, dear, dear, what will the doctor say ?' 'I don't care what he says,' ;rowled the sick man. '1 may as vell die and be out of people's vay!' And his sister-in-law's gentle ears were powerless to shake his 'esolve. Kitty Glenn would have dopted a very different system of ,aetics with him. When she caine back Mrs. Par -ham indulged in a burst of hys :crical sobs upon h ,r sympathizing )osom. 'Don't leave us again, Kitty,' he bewailed, 'or I shall certainly lie! lie is such a trial ' And Kitty laughed, and went straight into the sick room, with er bonnet and shawl still on, to scold the patient for his bad be bavior'. 'I shall be better, now you have ~ome,' he said radiantly. 'As if it made any difference who ;avc you your medicine and iinks !' said Kitty lightly. But she remained at her post thereafter, until such time as Mr. Parrham sat up in his easy-chair, :onvalescent. Kitty,' said he, one twilight, as she stood opposite him, looking very pretty and very graceful, how can I ever thank you for all you have done ? it will take a whole lifetime to express my grati ude.' '1 hope not,' said Kitty, shrug ing her shoulders. 'That would be very tiresome to both of us !' 'Nevertheless, I shall try it,' said Mr. Parrham. 'Kitty, I've a iuestion I want to ask you.' 'Ask away,' said Kitty blithely. 'Will you be my wife?' 'Thank you,' said Kitty, 'but i'm mgaged." 'ngaged !' 'Yes, to Mr. March. WVe are to >c married in May.' 'But, Kitty,' stammered Mr. Larrhamn, '1 can't live without you! ~ou have become necessary to my appiness!' 'That,s just what Mr. March ays,' answecred Kitty demurely. 'But, Kitty--' 'Frs come, first served,' assert d the young lady cailmly. 'I von't deny, Mr. Parrhiam, that I lid fancy you a little once, but ou declared yourself devoted to -elibacy, and Mr. March was very ressing and eager, and- Dear n! what w~as a girl to do ?' 'is it-is it too late now ?' gasped~ >ur hero. 'Altogcther too late,' Miss Glenn mswered definitely. 'I have learn. d to love one of Charley March's >rown curls better than the whole >f your person ne!. And I think hat's his knork mnow. You will And as she ran blithely away,\ Mr. Parrham sank back in his t chair firmly convinced that he was tbc most miserable of men, ini that he had made his eligible mat rimonial offer--'too late.' Gov. Alcorn's Rebuke. One of the most remarkable letters which has appeared in this remarkable age, we 'nd in the Weekly Examiner, published at r Aberdeen, Miss. It is from Gov. Alcorn, the Radical Chief Magis trate of that State, who has been regarded as the idol and examplar of Southern Radicalism. The cir- 1 cumstances under which this let- s ter has been written, are as fol-, lows: A certain individual by the name of Flournoy had some sort of a conditional promise of the Governor to appoint him a briga dier-general of the State. Before, Lowever, the Governor had made up his mind to sign the commis sion, Flournoy uttered two unfor tunate speeches; one was a de nunciation, in the vulgar and ma lignant style of Radical ultraism, of the great and good Robert E.f Lee, and the other was an assault upon the principal university of the State, where the best of her r citizens and the most distinguish ed of her sons had received their collegiate education. By these unfortunate, but truly and consist ently Radical utterances, Gov. Al corn concludes that Flournoy has shown himself unworthy to re ceive a commission in the service of the State. IIe announces this conclusion in the following manly but rather extraordinary letter, i every word of which will be found C worthy of perusal, romembrance r and reflection : I feel it a duty to my State to refuse the issue of a commission r that would be even an apparent approval of your language on the death of Gen. Lee, and the policy of the Legislature and Executive I in reference to the University at Oxford. I am pledged to the establish- I ment, on a sure foundation, of the t freedom of the negro. I am so r pledged with a singleness of lur pose which turns neither to the right nor left in any spirit of self seeking. If the colored people are content with this on my part, I well ; if they are not content, again well. My earnestness in thc cause is, in either case, none the less positive in its conviction, that a people plucked su(denly from s'avery cannot be trusted byt anxious thoughtfulness to main-t tain their freedom in hostility to the wealth, intelligence and pas sions of a powverful mass, trained in all the skill of politics, and nursed in the exercise of social and moral power-. My devotion to the cause of free labor pledges, therefore to the duty of main taining the attitudo of mediator between the two classes. My oath of office demands an enfor-ce- I ment of the law, a.ad forbids mec to comnpr-omise my mission of con-f ciliation by even an appareont sanction of a line of thought cal culated to make that enforcement impossible by the inflammation of* popular passion. Gien. Lee was, perhaps, a "rch el," yet, in a much humbler po sition, I myselt stand guilty of the same offense. Neither must I overlook the fact that my party embraces in its ranks men who have been amongst the most de voted soldiers of the South. I cannot thcrcfore, seemingly ap prove of any slur east upon the memory of Gen. Lee, because of his participation in the "rebellion." A wise conciliation would lose sight of the "rebel," in presene of the noble qualities of the man, and shining achievements of the soldier. 'The University of Oxford is one of the traditions which piatriotismI holds it a duty to cherish. Pre cious as it is to the cultivated minds of the State, that noble remnant of the past retains a strong hold upon the affections of the mass of citizens of my race. Against that inheritance of my people, no muan or set of men shall, with my acquiescence. dlare1 to raise a sacreilegeous hand. I cn never fo-ret th.at 1 ..m -a I vhite man, with all the pride of Kin ,he race that has given to the vorld that crowning glory of civ- S lization, liberty. And if I canno hapj msh the negro forward on the calel ,lorious pathway opened before cour im by God, without arresting wa, he Caucassion in his Heaven-in- seen pired progress, then must negro r1ol iberty learn, so far as I am con- ject< erned, to take care of itself. cirel If the Shaw University does is th ot meet the wants of higher ed- by ication amongst the freedmen, I 11, m determined, as far as in me pal < es, that it shall be made to do ed fi o, but am not the less determined ran( hat the University of Oxford twar hall never be plucked a star from Pop ts orbit, to subserve any political the mbition of mine or that of any repr >ther man. ,the I hope I have satisfied you that pror he misapprehension which has thoiu laced you in a false position has cred ot originated in any improper in- that ention. In fulness of the explan- this tions which I have here made of Pru. he reasons why I cannot issue Ger: ommission to whose issue you who ,re pledged, without proving the dso to the great purpose to prof vhich I stand committed by de- cure -otion to the interests and happi- of o ess of my State and people, be- in E ieve me, my dear sir, very truly Frai -ours, J. A. ALCOR N mig COL. R. W. FLourtNOY. to t] [Columbia Ph<ni.r. The Many Disasters in Rich- may mond. men Ga: At the opening of this new alm< car it is not without mournful aboi nterest, to look back at the great ral lisasters that have befallen Rich- Pop nond since it became a city. In con( 311, the theatre on Broad street, fron vhere the Monumental Church that iow stands, was destroyed by fire, plisl tnd seventy two persons, includ- will ng the Governor of Virginia. stor vere burned to death. During Wh< he war, besides the sufferings tion isual in a beseiged city, the am- thy nunition factory on Brown's Is- see 1 and exploded in 1863, killing be c ,hirty-threc young girls and six ing nales, including Rev. J. If. Wood- com :ock, engaged there. In 1865, at ble. he evacuation, nearly the entire ever >usiness portion of the city was in t lestroyed by fire. In 1SS, at a hi olitical celebra,ion on Mayo's last, sland. the br-idge go r-oke down, ras ~illing Col. James R. Branch, one Chr >our first citizens. and four oth- ship r pesos Tihc year- 1870 was si hick with disasters. In Apr-il. pre he flooring of the Court Room at conu he Capitol gave way, killing fifty emne even, and wounding over 100 orde( ersons. A few months afterwards, the large portion of the city was suel: ubmerged by a flood, causing him ~reat destruction of property ; mar nid on Christmas morning, the may spotswood IIotel, with the valu- thin ble block of buildings adjoining, pear! v-as destroyed by fire, and eight do a mman beings burned to death, ent esdes four never heard from and subj upposed to have shared the same cour te.-IRichmon)fd Dispiatchz. for - ny c A Balloon letter received at Io-deaux discusses Paris fashiions. a re Juet colors are in favor, and the use of jewels is dispensed with.-- tir ['his is a delicate homage paid to corn ie mourning and grief of those cu vho have lost friends and kin- of at Ired. "Paris," the writer main- Catl ains, in spite of adversity, "will dom uot cease to dictate to the wholecin vorld the supreme laws of ele- dmt ~anee and good taste." Victor to o lugo might have written that en entence ; but only some young witi iss with flowing tresses could ave wrote this: "Taking ad-ao -antage of the flight of certain ersoages wvho h-ad gray thin, orA -ed hair, and who inflicted on f>rn 'ashion their indispensable false. air, our Parisian ladies haLve atan nee restored to liberty their own ocks, so long hid under the des- lw otic, artilicial c-hignon. Br-own e e lait3, carefully smoothed down, ight ringlets, at once gr-aceful plaec ud natural, have alone adorned aetic or some dayvs the delicate and are retty heads of our young ladies, seral vho arc delightedl to have t henr -cad nst beautiful ador-nment restored o them."top Aan cu- .,thr' throat at Char- hr g William and the Pope many strange things hav< )ened, and so many sagaciou: rlations been defeated by th( se of events in the presen1 that even statements whiel upon the face of them im able are not as promptly re d as they might be under thi imstanees. Of this charaete1 e intelligence communicate' lispatch to the New Yorl Id, December 16, that the Pa mnvoy at Versailes has receiv "om King William the assu e that so soon as the presen" is ended he will restore th< 3 to his temporal power. Thal Protestant King of Prussia esenting the Protestants o: North, should make such iise, seems strange enough gh before we regard it as in ible we must bear in min( he expects to coie out o: war not simply as King o sia, but as Emperor of U nitet nany, a large proportion o se population are attached ti R<oman Catholic Church. T< itial e this population, and se to Germany the good wishe: her Roman Catholic nation.: urope, and even to conciliat< ice, the Emperor of German, it consider it policy to restor< i Pope his temporal power hat the feeling in Firatce : be inferred from the state t published by the Pill JIal tIe, of London, wl:eh come st sim.u!tanccus!v with th< -e ar.nouncement, that Gene Trochu has written to th< e lamenting that the presen lition of France prevents hei I coming to his assistance, an< as soon as he has accom icd his mission at Paris, h1 make it his next duty to re the Pope his triple crown n, amidst her own tribula s. France evinces such sympa with the Pope, it is easy t< hat Bismarek might suppost ould improve the French fee! toward Germny by aid an( fort to the i'u.. in his trou It will e rememibe'rcI that as Kin.- nPmsi ,W!!' he correspoundenee betwee: elf 1 and t he I'oe. i: Aurus1 assurel his holiness that ht "united to him in bonds c stian charity and true friend 'pposing~ these words to b apted simply by a desire t< iliate the Roman Catholie el ot. it is conceivable that, ir r to make Germany a unit same motive might lead t< action as is attributed t< in a late despatchi. So many re!s are happening that wt well cease to wonder at any ~. Willham, from present ap ances, will be in condition tc s he pleases when the pres war is ended. is Protestant e'ts may forgive him, on ne t of the glory he has acquired .russia, for an act wh ichl ma. f them will look upon as oj ract ical imnportance, either it igious or temploral point 01 .whilst thle (Cathol ic popula of the new Emp,ire will be. Shis active friends. In this try, so remote from the scenc tion, nd where the Romar tolie clement does not pro inate, we are perhaps not in id to appreciate the force of yes which may be supposed. perate upon European Gov 'ents in matters connected a religion which prevaih~ ng so many millions of' people ([Baltimore Sun. Chicago lawyer has a mod 2 for divorce 1)11 printed, leav planks for names and dates including all the causes for rees known to the Illi:a' .When he classes down h,is t he fills up his printed form parties' names, date aind Sof marringe, and cause 0f n, erasing those counts wich ict needed, and with a few .hes of the pen hie has a bill v to be illedI in proper form. ls way lie has been know~ n -epare and fi!e as many as y or forty divorce bills in one Taste in Dress. John r. Saxe writes as follows: We have plenty of flippant de nunciations of fine clothes, and an abundance of grave animadver sions of the ;ir and folly of ex travagance in appare!, but scarce l an ess-1y can be found touching the asthetic and morale of dress as constituting a study worthy to be ranked among the fine arts, not less than architecture, music and sculpture. It was an observa tion of Lavator that persons hab itually atteutive to dress, display the same regularity in their do niestic affairs. "Young women," says he, "who neglect their toilet, and manifest little concern about their apparel, indicate in this very particular a disregard of order; a mind but little adapted to the details of house-keeping; a de ficiency of taste and of qualities P that inspire love. The girl of eighteen who desires not to please. will be a sloven and a shrew at twenty-five." It is a great mis take in women to suppose that they may throw offall care of dress with their celibacy, as if husbands had less taste than suitors ; or as if wires had less need than mis trcs,es of the advantage of elegant and tasteful apparel. An old writer says, with a heavy em phasis, "it is one of the moral du ties of every married woman to Sippea'r well dressed in the presence of her husband." To effect this. however, expensive attire is by no means essential. The simplest robe may evince the wearer's taste as truly as the most costly gown of moire antique. But how rare a quality is good taste! In the mere matter of propriety and harniory of colors, there is room for a treatise which has yet to be writen by some one thoroughly pro ficient in the cesthetics of dress. Even the simpler laws, though pretty generally understood, are constantly neglected. TuE Cow TREE.-Among the many curious phenomena which presented themselves to me in the our s of my travels, says II:m bohit, I confes.s there were few by '- "w'hie my iia4ginaltion was so pow erfilly affectedl as by the cow tree. On the narehed side of a rock on the mo)unt:air:s of Venezuela grows a tree with dry and leathery foliage its large woody roots scarcey peJ)netratinig into the ground. For several months in the i-ear, its leaves are not moistened by a shower. Its branches look as if it were dead andl withered ; but when the trunk is bored, a bland and nourishing milrk flows from it. It is at sun rise that the vegetah!e funtain flows most freely. At that time, the blacks andl natives are seen coming fro-n all parts, provided with large bowls -to receive the milk, whicb grows yellow arnd thick~ens at its snrfa~cc. Some empty their vcesels on the spot. while others carry them to their children. One ima:gines he sees the family of a shepherd, w~ho is distributing the milk of his flock. A Fisu S-roaR.-Wte met a boy on the street yesterday, and with out the ceremony of asking our name, he exelaimed: "You just orter been down to the river a while ago!" -'Why ?" we inquired. "Because, a nigger was in there swimming and a big eat-fish came up behind him and swallowed bo;.h of his feet and went swim ming along on the top of the water with him and thie-o came behinLd anmother big fish, and the niggrer swallowed his tail, and the niger and two fish went swim muin'' about ! "We'l, theni what?" VtWhy, after' a while the nigger 'swa!!Owed his fish, anid the other fis swllowed the niigger. and iht' the last I saw of either of them." "Sonny ," said we, with a feeling of alarm for the boy, ":you are in a fair way to become an editor.'' The editor of the Weston (Mis sari andmuark asks his readers to exenm.e the looks of the papeor, as he is ini bed from the effets of a fight with a delingue:st suibscri Fifth Avenue Guzzling. A New York letter says. If wine drinking can make a people happy, the Fifth avenue should be in a stato of extreme beatitude ; for notwfthstin ling the high pries occasioned ly the war, the most costly brands here find a rapid market. If any:, one will stop on a pleasant afternoon at any one of the first-class grucery establishments in Broadway; he may witness the delightful task of liquor tasting performed by little knots of the aristocracy, who stop in to leave orders. In all families, whether of the highest or less re pute, we find wine a staple,and the way it is drunk would. excito the admiration of all teetotalers. Hardly a grocer's cart backs up to a house but you see the champagne basket. After dinner the wino circulates and is duly praised, for it is of good American manufac. ture. The only man in the secret is the fellow who comes around every week to buy the empty bottles. He takes them down to the bottling house, where theyaro filled, and in due time they are re turned with fresh brands and silver tops. It seems absurd that the wine-drinking c o m m u it y should b. ignorant of this, when almost opposite the Academy of Music there is a large warehouse devoted to this branch of trade. Here one may behold vast quanti ties of second-hand bottles received daily. There is no necessity of penetrating the mysteries of this place, for they aie not beyoid the power of good guessing. The transformation of Jersey cider and petroleum into IIeidsieck and Veuve Cliquot is so rapid and marvelous that it is a wondet it-is not reckoned among the fine arts. HELP YoURsELF.-An old Orien tal story relates that one day Moolla Mascetoden, in a mosque, ascended the desk and thus ad dressed his audience: "Oh, children of the faithful do you know what I am going to say ?" "They answered, "No!" "Weli, then," replied he, "it. is of no use f'ur me to waste my time on so stupid a set of people ;and saying this he came down and dismissed them. Next day he again mounted the desk and asked: "'Oh true Mussulmnen, do you know what I am going to say ?" "We do," said they. "Then," replied he, "thecre is no need for me to tell you ;" and again he let them go. The third time, his audience thought they should catch him; and on putting the usu3l qucstionj, they answered: "Some of us do, and some of us don't," "Well, then," he replied, "let those who know tell those who don't." THE WIDOW's AR.-Speaking of the liability of English states men of repute to marry widows, and the bappy.- relations incident to these matches, the New York World makes this flne point: We decline to entertain for a moment the hypothesis that theo skill which is so often displayed by a lady was acquired at the e.3 pense of her first sponse, on which she experimented as on a corptra cile until h8e became a corpus cold. Par more probable is it that the first was made even more happy than the second-so happy that flesh and blood could not stand it -and that, being wa.ned by this exp)erience, the widow who te comes a wife gives to her second husband only just that amount of bliss that is good for him ,and no more. A German girl, Fanny Lewald by name, writes to the Cologno Gazette, and endeavors t') stimulate Ge,rmanm feeling. Among the eon un drums she asks in the following : ":Will you, while your sons stand bforc the Freneb cannon,, and thousands among them shed their noble young heairt's blood for th'e independence of Germany, will you still run about w' aring tower ing, insane -looking French chig nons, and will you still alow your clothes to be madle according to