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DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIE GENERAL INTERE3T OF THE UOUNTRY. 'By Do Fs BRADLEY & 00 PICKENS,S CTH, 1. VOL. X.--NO, 21. ENGLISH KISSES. estnmaounar to the Xweeteem ot Anglican OaCtation. The women of England (says Polydoro Virgil), in the Parisia not only salute their relations with e kiss, but all per sons promiscuously 'and, this ceremony they repeat, ge . ly touching them with the lips, not or with gace, but without the least im odesty. Such, however, as are of tht) lood-royal do not kiss their inferiors but offer the back of the hand, as mer do by way of saluting each other. Erafnus writes in raptures to one of his fiends on this subject. "Did you but 9 now, my Faustus," says he, "the pleasures which E ngland affords, you would fly hero on wmged fet, and, if .your gout wbuld not allow you, you' would wish . self a Doadalus. To men tion to you,6neamong many things, hero are nymhAs of the loveliest looks, good * humoreo,, easy of access, and whom you would p .cfer even to your favorite muses. Herea iso prevails a custom never enough' to brA commended, that wherever yoa cornm. everyone receives you with a kiss, an.'1 when you take your leave everyone g1ves you a kiss; wheu you return, kisses 'Again meet you. If anyone leaves ybu 4they leave you with a kiss; if you meet anyone the first salutation is a kiss; in short, wherever you go kisses everywhere e about; which, my Faustius, did you once taste how very sweet and how very fragrant they are, you would not, like Solon, wish for ton years' exile in Eng land, but would desire there to spend the vhole of your life." Antonio Perez fSecretary to the Embassay from Philip II. of Spain, writes thus to the Earl of .Essex: "I have this day, accoiding to the custom of your country, kigsed, at an entertainment, seven females, all of them accomplished in mind and beautiful in person." Dr. Pierius Winsemius, his toriographer to their Mightincesses the States of Friozland, in his Chronijck van Prieslandt, printed in 1662, informs us that the pleasant custom was utterly un practiced and unknown in England (just as it is this day in New Zealhid, where sweethearts only know how to touch noses when they wish to be kind) until the fair Princess Rouix, the daughter of King Hongist of Friezland, "pressed the beaker with her lipkins" (little lips) and saluted the amorous Vortigern with a husjon (little kiss.) The Shopping 1ls8or Wives. American shopkeepers and American shoppers alike shQ'uld be interested in the case of the l9.rge sillagoods firm of Delgei am & Feobody i England against Mr. Mllon for the recovery of the cost of d(esses furnished to his wife whom he .ad forbidden to incur bills. The cas 'went from court to court up to - the H rIe of Lords, where it was finally decided by that august tribunal in favor of Ar. Mellon. T1he Lords expressly ri, ed that " Where a husband makes is wife an allowance, and expressly for ids her to run up accounts in his name, lie cannot be held liable for any goods she may obtain by drawing upon is credit ; and, indeed, that, unless the seller can show that special authority hass been con~ferred by the husband on th le wife, the soller cannot-recover judg ment." In this case it was admitted that the 4foods charged for were of a kmnd suitable to Mrs. Mell on's rank and conditican of life, but the presumption usually- created by such an admission in faivo2. of the seller 'n as held to be over ruled by an absolute conjugal prohibi t4an even where the seller was not ap .rised of the prohibition. It was inti mated during the argument that shop keepers, before giving a wife credit, might readily protect themselves by makig inqifries of the husband, and the court held that due care and caution could not be considered to have been exercised where this was not done. No New Jokes. Tb.'ere is absolutely nothing new in 40es They never die. The jokes that are familar to us are those which our .-ancestors enjoyed. They are found in the most ancient litersature that remains, and in hieroglyphics of the ruined monu-. ments of dead emp~ires. Their unchang(ed existence through these ages does not al low that these, like the earth and man, may have been created by a process of development; they must have been created absolutely. At some stage of the work of creation the jokes were launched into being, and they have con tinued to revolve by their own gravity, the same as the Planets. None of themE can be annihilated any more than matter, *nor can anlother be added. No person who attempta originality can get recognized as a wit, but any man can, who has talent for memorizing the old stock jokes and funny stories, and for working them over on all occasions.g How Three Debts Were Paid. A singular coincidence, showing how . much can be done by die payment of even a small debt, happened at Bangor, Me. A gentleman was at the wharf, in tending to purchase some lobsters, when two gentlemen came up and engaged with him in conversation. The first gen tleman said to the second: "I believe I owe you a dollar." "Yes," replied the second, "I believe vou do." The second *man then spoke to Lhe third: "I believe I also owe you a dollar," which fact the third man acknowledged, and he also said that he owed the firat man a dollar, which he desired to pay. In this trans action tho three men each paid their in debtedness to each other, and they did so without passing any money between them. _________ DuiNYER has a policeman Who writes ,poetry and the editor who (refuse~s to publs it is m labl to gtoe sok-n SIGNS OF FOUL WEATHER. BY DB. JENNEB. The hollow winds begin to blow The clouds look black, the glass Is low; The soot falls down the spaniels sleep, And spiders from their cobwebs poei Last night the sun went pale to bed; Tho moon in halos hid her head. The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For, see a rainbow spans the sky. The walls are damp, the ditches smell; Closed Is th, pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark I how the chairs and tables crack.* Old notty's Joints are on the rack Her oorns with shooting pains torment her, And to her bed untimely sent her. Loud quack the ducks; the sa-fowl cry; The distant hills are looking nigh. How restless are the snorting swine I The busy flies disturb the kine. Low o'er the grass the swallow wings; The cricket, too, how sharp lie sings I Puss on the hearth, with velvet paws, Sits wiping o'er her whiskered jaws. The smoke from chimneys right asceids, Then, spreading, book to earth it bends. The wind, unstewly, veers around, Or settling in the south is found. Through the clear stream th filshes rise And nimbly catch the incautions flies. The glowworms numerous, clear and bright, Illumed the dewy hill last night. At dusk the squalid toad was seen, Like quadruped, stalk o'er the green. The whirling wind the dust obeys, .And in the rapid eddy plays. The frog has changed his yellow vest And in a russet coat is dressed. The sky is green, the air is still, The mellow blackbird's voice is shrill. The dog, so altered in his taste, Qiits mutton-bones on grass to feast. iehold tho rooks--how odd their flight I They imitate tho gliding kite, And seen procipitato to fall, As if they felt the piercing balL T'ho tender colts on back do lie, Nor hoed the traveler passing by. In fiery red the sun doth rise, Then wades through clouds to mount the skies. 'Twill surely rain, we sco't with sorrow No working in the flolds to-morrow. 'The Une, "Hark! how the chairs and tables crak," is incorrect, as the cracking-that is, contrac tion-indicates fair weather, from the diminution of moisture.-Steinnwtz. THE RIGHT MAN AFTER ALL. Viola had found a lover; or at least John Ellsworth aspired to that dis tinction. Two years ago, the paternal Ellsworth had given John on his twenty-third birthday a deed of a small, gooA farm near his own. John set aboift making a home for himself, with one of his half dozen sisters to manage it, and went at his farming in earnest. And the younger female portion thought him rather a de sirable object to maneuver for. Perhaps that was one reason why Viola had been so gracious to him. It was something to secure, without an ef fort, attentions that all the other girls schemed for. But John Ellsworth did not realize her ideal. Under her calm exterior, she dreaded romances of the mdst vivid rose-pink. One June night, driving over to see his3 lady, Jolmi found her w-ith an unu sual flush on her fair young face. She rode with him-accepting his invitation in a matter-of-courso way that was dread fully discouraging. It came out, after a little while, that Mrs. Mornington, a great-aunt, had sent for her photograph a month ago, not having seen her since she was a child. Two days ago had come an invitation to spend a couple of months with her (the great-aunt) in New York, and she was goimg to-morrow. "It's no use denying," the young fellow said, his voice growing husky, " that I'm sorry for this. I don't know what will come to you from this. You are not contented here ; you never will be until you have had an experience beyond it --perhaps not then.1I am not wise enough to toll you now, I sup pose ; but I love you, Viola. Mind, I do not ask you now for any return. I shall wait for what~ the future may put in your heart to say." "Indeed I do care for you, John ; and you can't blame me for wanting to go. Aunt needs me, you see ; and no one does here, particularly. And I've never seen anything of so ciety." " I know, dear " And I shall not forget you," inter rupting hum. " I shall always think of you "--giving hinm her hand. "For two whole months," a little sadly. "Good-by, then." kissing tho hand he held. And then Viola found herself alone, and then went to finish her packing. Viola's next two months were delight f ul. She was always prettily dressed, and Frank Thorpe passed his valuable time beside her. John Ellsworth called on her tho night after her return. " You look well and happy," ho said, scanning her face. " I am," she said ; and she told him all about her delightful visit. " And are you going to settle with us n0w?7" " Oh, no!i I stay here only a few days. My aunt is comning for me as she roturns from a visit she is paying." " Poor fellow I" -Viola said, as ne went down the moonlit road. And then Frank Thrn' dreamily sad gray eyes came up before her, and she forgot John Ellsworth's shady brown ones. Mrs. Mornington came and took the young lady away, and Frank Thorpe was once again hanging around her-a mosit desirable matrimonial prize. Thie Christmas holidays came and went. Frank Thorpe lounged in on Christmas day, and was paler and more listless than ever. Mrs. Mornington gave her first bit of advice to her young charge that night. ."Frank Thorpe is not a man to trifle with, my dear. I think he is in love withjyou. You oould hardly do better." "1Do better ?" raising her b~road lids -for a full, steady look. "I hadn't thought there was to ho any calculation. No, Frank does not care for me, aunt." " If he is in love with vou. so much tIhe better. Rut comeo; Mrs. Grove's ball must be attended." Viola went to that ball, and froze Frank Thorpe. who. unconscious of of fense, languidly assumed his usual sta tion near her. Among Mrs. Grove's guests that night was a rather good-looking man, who certainly was no longer young. Having lost one wife. he was now looking for an other. When he was presented to Viola she was barely civil. Mr. Nicolson seemed to like it. Frank Thorpe had ceased being frozen. To tell the truth, Viola made the advances. There was a shado more of languor in his manner, and his sad gray eyes had an added shadow; but he sought no explanation from her. One frosty, sparkling mornin Viola had been out for a walk. On the way she met Frank Thorpe, as she was very apt to do. He accompanied her home and entered the house with her. Then Viola, feeling bright herself, began lect uring him on his purposeless life. "If I were a man-"emphatically. "Thank hleaven you are not I How ever, go on." " You put me out, Mr. Thorpe ; why don't you do something?'" " Do somethina? Don't I? I am your devoted attendant three-fourths of my waking life." " Yes, and get yourself and me talked about by everybody. Not that I care, certainly," hurriedly to recover her blunder. "I shall choose my friends where I please," making matters worse, of course. " You see," lie said, leaning forward and laying his hand confidentially on her armji, "I cannot bear to see a clear hearted, honest girl lowering herself to the ways of these artificial, brainless girls, who have been bred up all their lives in the business of catching a hus band. You don't need any paltry ambi tion. Wait until you find a man worth falling in love with, and then marry him. Wait forever, if you don't find him." Viola sat motionless with astonish ment. If any dumb thing had found voice she would not have been more amazed. And she felt so fully called to administer advice. While she sat, his hand still on her arm, and his eyes still on her face, the door opened, and John E1lsworth was ushered in. Viola swept towarci in with eager, outstretchd hands. Frank Thorpe, being disturbed by this new-comer, who was called John, and re ceived with such an outbreak of enthusi asm, gathered himself up and lounged away. John Ellsworth was in town for a fort night. Viola always accepted his invi tations, and when the time came -for their fulfillment there was some unavoid able obstacle in the way. Then Lent came and there was a sud den cessation of gayety. John was called away by his father's illness, and Viola felt the inevitable reaction. It was alike everywhere. In the nar row circle out of which she had come there were jealousies and heart-burnings, and petty schening-no better and no worse than she had come to know in the past weeks, though possibly less dis guised by smooth, conventional polish of manner. Wait till she met a man she loved ! She might wait until shre was gray and blind. There had never ap peared one to whom sire could give a second thought, unless it was-well, per haps, John Eilsworth, if the life that wvould follow with him were not too niar row to breathe in ; or Frank Thorpe, if lie were niot too lazy to speak. Arid then, by contrast, there came a vision of Mr. Nicolson and all his wealth. If she had shown the first symptoms of her nmoodls to Mr. Nicolson lie would have desisted from his attentions at once. Here was youth and beauty in a statu esque state of perfection. That was what he wanted-the statuesqueness, and everybody considered it a settled I think Viola began to consider it her self. Sire had just one letter from John Ellsworth after his return, anid lie said: " I love you,Viola, and am waiting for you." Sire did niot even answer thre letter. But sihe was cross, even with Mrs. Morn inigton, for two days after it. Theu she was seized with a fit of homesickness, anid, had her friend not b~een taken very suddenly ill, nothing would have kept her there. Mr. Nic olson cameo more frequently than esor; in his way, very kiim and considerate. One night in early spring Frank Thorpe came and took Viola out for a drive. " You are looking tired. We may not have another such night for a month," Frank said(. In th)e half hour they did not speak half a dozen sentences, andl yet when ho set her down at her own door, andl hold her hand for a minute as lie said "Fare well," Viola felt that they were nearer each other than ever before. Viola was one morning summoned to the drawing-room to meet Mr. Nicolson. In the occupation of the past weeks she had had very little opportunity to thrinik ab~out him or his pnurposes. No girl ever went to meet the final question with less determination as to her answer. She knew his errand~ the moment she entered the room. Not that he was con fused or hesitating, or in any wvay dis concerted. - "My dear young lady," he said, "I wa'nt your permission to ask you a per,~ sonal question." " You have it, sir," she said. And then, in a spechb which was more like a set oration than anything elso Viola had ever heard, he offered her his hand and fortune. Shre went up-stairs to Mrs. Morning ton, saying: " And I've done it I And I am so surprisead!" " At what ?" " I refused Mr. Nicolson." " Perhaps you will be sorry that you "Perhaps. I shall never be sur prised at anything again." A servant announced Frank Thorpe. " Aunt, shall I-" and paused. Even in her reckless, over-excited mood she could not complete her sentence. " all you be kinder to him than you have been to Mr. Nicolson?" " Don't ask me." So Viola went down to see her visitor who was at the full tido of his languid, tired indifference. "How very entertaining you are to day. Your conversational powers are something to be wondered at," Viola said at last, impatiently. "Entertainin ?" opening his oyes with mild woner.I " I supposedi thiat your share of the interview. However, if you like, I'll begin. You are not looking as well as usual this morning..' " Thank you. What a very promis ing begnming." " But you havo infinitely the advan tage of Mr. Nicolson, whom i met just now. He seemed laboring under the impression that there had been an carth qualike." "And so there has been. Thero: talk about something else. You needn't be entertaining any more." " Miss Rawdon," the servant an nounced, and that put an end to it all. Viola reasoned herself into the con victioti that she was in love with Frank Thorpe, and, if not actually in that con dition, she might easily find herself there. The crisis was not far off. Coming in irom an erran(, that night, she found all the dimly-lighted house empty, and went on from room to room till, in the library, she opened the door on Frank Thorpe. " Since you were not at home, I came to find for myself a volume Mrs. Morn ington had promised me," he explained. But he closed the door as he gave her a chair, as if the tete-a-tete were a part of his plan. " We might as well begin with a clean record," he said, with a great deal of hard earnestness in his voice. " You are not my first love, Viola. Not quite two years ago she jilted me. I was in an aw f III spoony condition-there's no denying it-and for a few weeks thought it would ho the death of me. One morn ing my letters and trinkets came back to me. There was not a word of ex planation, and I did not choose to ask any." " And the young lady's name?" "Emily Prescott." " Emily Prescott? Why, that is the young lady I met this afternoon. Just home from abroad-in Paris mourning. Her father and mother both died some whero in France in the springr, and she came home with the Mertons. " Viola," staring at her with eager eyes, " I can't believe it," dropping into a chair. " My poor darling---" " It seeins to me, Frank, that the lit tie arrangement we entered into ten minutes ago might as well be quietly annulled. Your 'poor darlinm' is at present with the Mortons. Hafin't you better go up there at once and rear range the programme ?" "I dlon't know. Viola, you will think me a scoundrel, but I believe I love her yet." " Of course you do. Who doubts it ? There, don't say a woman can't be gen erous." After that nothing could keel) her in New York, and three (lays after reaching home, driving her old-fashioned pony chaise over the green country road, she came upon ,John Ellsworth wvalking, anid he necepted her invitation to ride. " It is good to he hero again. I was thoroughly homesiok." " When are you to be married? " "Never ! " with a burst of vehemence: "unless you-oh, John!" with a hys terical sob. At home a telegram awaited her. Mrs. Mornington was dead. Mrs. Mornington died poor. She had spent all her money. So Viola was not an heiress afte~r all. Old-Time Epizootics. Thanks to the general use of steam in traveling, it is comforting to reflect that in spit~e of thme very great anniovance and inconvenijence caused by the horseodis eases in recent years, particularly by the epizootic which prev'ailed in thme year 18S72, the inconvemiences to which peo pie are subjected nowadays in the lack of horses are really much less grave than those which our ancestors had to conl tend with, in similar cirumnstances. For our forefathers, the p~revalenco of a so veoro epizootie meant the cessation of all traveling and transortation, wheth~er for long or for short distances; except ing, of course, such service as may be done by oxen and by men on foot. Some idea of thme gravity of the situation is suggested by the following extracts from an old Birmingham newspaper : On February 4, 1760, notice was published that " the hmorses belonging to the Bir mniinghiam stage coach are so much af fected by the present distemper that pro vatils among them, that its journios are obligedl to he (discontinued until their recovery." And in the week followving another notice appears under that ol F'ebruary 11, 1760, "the horses belong. in g to the Birmingham stago coach are still so bad that it wvould be dangerous kc attemplt their going with the coach this weok; but on Monday next, the 18th, Mr. Peyton proposes that the coach shall set out to go from hence as usual ; aftem which he hopes it will meet with nc other interruption." WirmN a man asks a favor at a newspa per office, gnd states that ho has been a subscriber for a number of years, a de nial becomes an impossihility. Theo ar gamnest is clinched, and he can have the entire0 establishment for the asking. SOUTHERN NEWS. At Brownville, Texas, the recent snow storm was the first in fourteen years. Farm hands are said to be more scarce in Thomas county, Ga., than they have been since the war. Three hundred German carp have been piaced at various points uip the St. John river in Florida. A Louisiana planter says that lie con siders twenty geese in a cotton field equal to one hoc-hand. Negroes are said to be leaving adsden county, Fil., in such numbers that it anounts to an excdus. Toccoa, Ga., liaving l existence of eight years, has acquiredi a thrifty popu lation approximating i thousaind souls. Thousanids of robins roost in a cane brake about fifteen miles from Homer, LU. They are taken to Homer by the sackfull. A clipper ship, brought into Port Royal, S. C., loaded With guano, came up to the (lock at half-tide, drawiing twenty-one feet. In Louisiana the census exhibits -173 Chinese, 819 In-i 'ans and halfbreeds, eight half-Chinese, one West Indian and one East Indian. N. Garbini has been electe(d President of the New Orleans Fruit ai(n Produce Associattion, a new and permanent organi zation of wholesale fruit dealers. In the list four months of 1880 col portuers of the American Bible- Society supplie( 1,913 destitute families and 955 destitite in(lividuals with the Bible. Harry Stephens, the well-known col ored body-servant of H on. Alex. U. Stephens, who died last week, at Craw fordville, was the owner of perhaps $20, 000 worth of property. The St.. Augustine (Fa.) Press says that the majority of the farmers there albouts, instead of raising their own corn, buy it at the city stores. A cotton plantel could scaircely do worse thai that. An amendment of the constituticn o Arkansas has been proposed in the Leg islature, providing that the general elec tions shall occur every fourth year, Stat< Representatives be elected for four vearn and the Legislatur' meet every fourth years. The Perry, Ga., Home Journli sauy that the o0d plantation system, almost universail inl Houston county before thec war, has gone to) its dleathI, and small farmi; now conisti tute the order of augri cultural Work. There are very few ten nule farms in Ifloustoni. he(re2 is a p~ropositioni to form a newi North Carolina county ou of parts of Sampson, .Johm. ston, Wayne. Cumberland andl lar niett counlties. There are several propo sitions to cut off portions of Wake county ior the formation of ncew counties, but Raleigh is averse. At Scarb~oro, Ga., John F. Toole ib President, Warreii R. Wood, Treasurer, and1 .Janes A. Fulchier, Secretary, of the( "First National Non-cursing Society, Scarbero D ivision No. 1.", The object of thme organization is to discontinule the practice of p)rofanet swearing. By a clerical error, in making up the list of cities for census blle~tin No. 45, the p)opullationi of one enumeration dis ract of A thinta was omitted. 'The true enlt of the Census, says, is 37,121, not 34,:398, as p~rev'iously announced. Rteal e'state in the business part of Or angeburg, S. C., is as high as ini Charles. tnn. A cottoni factory with four 1Cem. cut attachments is established. Theo crof of upland rice raised ini the (coun1ty wvil prob~aly reach abuit 410,000 bushels Thec cotton crop is betweeni 30,000 am 40,000 bales. The answer of the citizens of Memphi to the petition of bondhiolders or credi tors of the 01(1 corporation of Memphi alleges thmat the compromise proposedl b: thc taxing (listrict, twenty-five cents om the dollar, and in add~lition, the taxe due the 01(d city, say $1,248,982, is fair just and honlorable. Knloxville, Tfenn., wats laidl out in 1791 and named ini honor of General Knox of Revolutionary fame. 'The first Tfer ritorial Leg(islat ure asse'umledC the(re ii 1791, the conisti tutioa cOI'I(onIventionl i 1795, and the first State Legislatuire ir 1796. T1hue scat of government was~ re moved to Nashville in 1810. Ricbmond l)ispatch :t AIr. Jieffersom lla v i does no4 t make il nmerouls chan~ge. inI his proflb-sheets, lie is unot thme umanu l was in 1 850. 'hen hc ile luuI a 1 hbit a chaniginmg the r-porter's notes to 'uch ai extent that his speeches seemed almost to be new ones, or rather not the same which he had delivered in the Senate. A bill is pending before the Florida Legislature providing for four examining medical boards-at Pensacola,Tallahamsee, Jacksonville and Key West-which shall examine applicants and grant certifloates to those only who are qualified to dis charge the functions of a medical expert. The bill is not retroactive, and will not disqualify physicians now practicing. President Haygood, of Emory College, Georgia, says that in 1876 the improved lands in Georgia amounted to 28,787,539 acres. In 1880 the aggregate had grown to 29,815,581 acres, the increase of four years being sufficient to provide farms of 100 acres cach for nearly 11,000 families. le says the colored people are buying farms of from twenty to fifty acres, and getting excellent returns from them. Evidently lie does not believe in the decadanice of Georgia. Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier: To-day the leading men of Mississippi Arkansas and Texas are Georgians, and in every county and neighborhood, al mort, in those States the controlling spirit is a Georgian. The Governor of Texas is a Georgian, so are both the Sen ators from Mississippi. She has given three( Governors to Texas, two to Mis isippli, a G'overnor and Senator to Ala baina, and her ablest and best men to Arkansas. The mUannfacture of brick is one of the most important industries of Macon, Ga. The material furnished by the land be low Macon, in the Ocmulgee swamp, and a tract extending across the Brunswick railroad is said to be unexcelled in the world for purity and firmness. The Ka con . Telegraph and Messenger thinks there is no reason why the number of manufactories should not be increased, and the production of pottery, pipes, drains, etc., for the whole State entered upon. An old negro near Stockton, Clinch county, Ga., has invented for himself a new plan for planting orange trees, and has planted several hundred. He plants them among the green pines, and leaves the pines standing to protect the orange trees. le clears up a space twelve feet square and plants an orange tree. Two gentlemen in Clinch county propose to plant a grove on an island in the Su wanooche, near Dupont. A gentleman in anl adljoininmg county c intemplates set ting out several thousand~ trees.. A Charlottesville, Va., correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch says that George Rogers Clarke "lived within sight of Charlottesville, though two miles and a half away. I have been to the old house-place. There is not a ves tige of the buildings left, but the situa amtion commalnds a umost beautiful view of a large extent of country, looking wvestwardl and northward, and southward down the Rivanna valley, and is on the Southwest mountains, on the farm now owned lby Mr. Redfield. The Clarke famuily owned thousands of acres of land in that section, embracing even Edge 1l1ll, the residence of the late Thomas J. Randolph, fivn miles away.'' Sedentary habits. The alarming increase of late years in the proportion of sudden deaths is be ginmng to attract the attention of statist icians. It is largely due, no doubt, to more general mental activity without a proportionate increase in bodily exercise. The busy life of the age demands a con stant hurry and excitement, and taxes the physical powers to the utnmost to keep up in the race for money-ge'tting. One of the disadvantages of introducing facilities of transp~ortation is the tempta tion to cut short time and distance by the habitual use of steam cars and horse cars even in the daily transit from the dwelling to the office. A sedentary oc cupation begets an almost unconquera-. blo0 aversion to regular exercise, and the result of yielding to the indisposition is that the mental powers, kept at a steady tension for years, will some day suddenly relax and leave their abuser either life - less or a helpless paralytic. To literary mand professional men is vigorous and regular exorcise especially needful, and the example of its effects in a hale old age will suggest themselves to every one. Trhe exercise needed to keep the mmd in tone and the physical force unabated, up to the three score years and ten, is not a dafily spinl behind a fast stepping horse, but the long swinging gait which puts the walker over a coutry road at the rate of three or five miles an hour, and send1s the blood pusling with invigorat ing life to every .portion of the system. Two hours exercise a day, so far from being a positive waste of time, is a posi tive economy, supplying the nervous force for more and better work In ten hours than the man of street oars and carriages can get out of twelve. -New London Telegqram. SOne passenger Is killed by the rail roads foy every 41,778 775 miles traveled, and one Is either killeA or wounded for everv 11.874.888 miles.