DEVOTED TO POLITICS, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY.
By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. ..PICKENS, S. C. THURSD y AUGUST 18 1881- VOL. X. NO. 49.
NEWS GLEANINGS.
A Mormon has: mnarried a Methodis
lady in Falkville, Ala.
Sackson, Tennessee, is to have a cotton
factory.
The total income tax assessed in Vir
ginia for 1880, was $3,322,460.
Over 80,001 pouids of tomatoes have
heei sliipped from Chattanooga during
the sea'son.
Montgomery, Alabama, has an arte
sian well that discharges 25,000 gallons
of pure drinking' water .every (lay.
An oak tree on the Vevser farm, Page
county, Va., is twenty:two feet in eir
cumference.
The deati rai.e in July in Chat
tanooga, from a basis of 17,000 popula
tion, was only a little over I8 per cent.
per thousand.
'Robert Thomas, a colored man of Cocke
county, Teinsswe, has boglit the Car
son farm of 205 acres, near Dandridge,
for $8,525.
Jefferson's old clock at Monticello is
being repaired. It is a remarkable time
piece on a granl scale, and a splendid
piece of mechanism.
A Mississippian by the name of Darl
ing P. Dear. has died at, West Enter
prise. Wonder if the "P." stands for
Pet?
The Coosawbatcic swam p in Hamp
ton county is drying up rapidly, and
quantities of fish are being devoured by
the huzzards.
John Colbert, of Etowall, has lost
three wives, being married thirtv-six
years, hs buried t;enty-two children,
has lost one arm and thirty liorses, and
is but fifty years old.
Tn the death of Colonel Randolph L
Mott, of Columbus, Ga., the Macon
Volunteers lost the last of the originrl
an,1 charter members. The company
was organized A pril 23, 1825.
Cork frees are being successfully raised
in Georgia. Tie cork on some of them
is already thick enough for use. Tt is
supposed these trees can be successfully
raised in most of the Southern States.
Apalac1hicoli, 1 )irida, has a popula
tion of over 2,000 souis, IorNy or fifty
Vessels erngged ill the sJ'ongev and fishing
trades, and five large mills, with a ca
pacity of over 250,000 feet, of lumber per
day.
Coal oil has been discovered nea r May
flower, Arkansas, ain( two local compan
ies have been formed, who are leasilg
aull the land in the neigrhborhiood. Pros
pectors and speculators are flocking in
In great numbers.
John Boswell, colored. formerly vState
Senatori in,,Florida, andi~ a prominen t
candlidate for Congress from that State,
is nowv working'out a sentance for (is
orderly conduct in tile street-gang of
Gal veston.
A bill dleclaring a wife a) competent
witness against her ihusband, ,vhere he
'ommnitts an assault upon0 hler, has pas'ed
tile Georgia Senlate. Likewise One to
make it a misdemeanor to ca"rry intoxi..
cating drinks to anyv pulic gathering.
The Georgia Redla ten says "the Hou,1se
1has on hland oven 900 bills, or enouigh,
if each sheet were detached and pastedl
together, to encircle tie city of Atlan
ta, which is nineW miles in circumferenlce.
No adljournment in sight, even with a
first-class telescopie."
The farmers ill Fouth Gco'gia suff'er
so much froml watermelon thieves that
they poison fine lmelons frequently to
catch tihe thieves. A fewv nighits since a
panty of young men of tile best failies
of Decatur coun ty were ou t late at nigh t
and took a melon from a neighbor's
patch. All wom~ desperately sick and
0one has (lied.
One of tile fibest light-houses ini the
world is being rected at Cape Henry,
in Chesapena y. It measures fron
top to base 1fi feet ; (diameter. at the
base, thirty feef; at the top, 15 feet. It
has six stories, iad above there is asrv
ice room, wvatcliroom and lanten-room.u
It is constructa of cast-iron, and the
interior is sheetiron. The lighlt room is
a circular sted frame, twelve feet in
diameter and lone feet high. The glass
usedl for the chinnleys will be of Frnchl~I
glass.
A negro boyliving in Chalottsville
Virginia, fell *oma tree about six weeks>
ago uipon a Shifpstake, whlichI penetratedo
his hiver*. A s'ortin (of thle organ I pro
trudedl from t e wound. Jh.. WVillian a
(4 - Rogers attad (ed tile case. He 1+di ppo
off' A piece ofthe torn and protrudingt
liver about tio size of a marble and
Sewedl upl the rifihee. H~e expected the
boy wVould d$, hut hie got liette r f roms
the first and n ol51(w runining abou11t as.
eusual.
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TOPIG OF THlE DAY.
GUITJRAU is 'ous to be admitted to
bail.
TuE Grange dea has just reached
Brazil.
PnOHIBITION \ts overwhelmingly do
feated in North arolina.
JIM KEENE,' great speoulator, is
not in good sta ~ug in London, report
says.
TrinE aro 50 ten in Now York worth
$3,000,000 and ( -r. We hold that they
are lucky.
TnE Presidei is now anxious to try
his legs, but l back is a little bit too
sore for that.
Tr.an yield of teat in Indiana is esti
nated a' 21,000, )0 hushcls against 47,
000,000 bushels ,r 1880.
IT HAS been b-iled by a Pittsburg
Judge that ini oity is not sufficient
grounds for div -o.
MAY blessing low profuisely ulponl the
heads of corre-i Ant-s wIn have ceased
to dilate upon t lunatic Giteitau.
A -riontoMCliu -1 Jndian has been
appoiiiteda cle in the Indian ollice,
and "' tiiiigs is vorkin'."
M1111. H. BeUT1, 0ses to ride on the
cari. He think they want to gut him
where they can oak his 1ieck.
EX-MINLSTEuR IUsrIxANC,: has paid to
Mrs. Cliristiane 11(1 coins-l so far, for
alimoiny and co sel fees, over S2.,000.
THE. rei and 'roinal property in the
United States i. ahliod $70,000,000,000.
It don't look li very Much on paper.
SOME time a Senator Ben Hill had
a cancer cut m his tongne, since
which time h has been unable to
talk.
TaE anti-trei ng law in Wisconsin is
a dead letter, lie people-that is, the
drinkers-drin 'ogether just as they
always did.
CANADA is n accused of stealing,
but at the sam ime the Postofliee De
mont thinks tI like to use our maiJ
bags up there ighty well.
A ST. Loui Fenian has a plan for
sending up bal ns and dropping down
torpedoes on e hated Saxon, as a
means of "fre ig Ireland."
Tire bunllt the President's body
has been loca I by the aid of Bell's
electric machit but for the present the
soctors will let remain where it is.
THE Paris America is called Cin
ciuhotter by e Louisville Cour-ier
JoUuna. Wa rson refers to excessive
warmth. Hie familiar with the topic.
LAwTON B. VANS, of Atlanta, eigh
teen years of a , is the youngest Master
of Arts in the e< ntry. He received the
degree from e State University at
Athens.
A nrou peak n 0110 of tihe *mountains
opposiite Corn allis, Mon., fell with a
terrific crash th other day, thousands of
tons of rocks * ng hurled into the val
iey beneath.
THE Philade hia Ileraldi says if you
will catch a fe flies and stick them in
bhe butter you aln imagine yourself at a
seaside resort. The Philadelphia 1Her
rld is ai pseud1 ogist.
THEi Ute Ii * ns will be removed to
bheir new res vation about the 1st of
september. 'hey consist of Uncom
paghre, Uint iand White River Indians,
mmhnlerinlg ii all about 2,700.
TusE Russi n Jews are erossing the
icerman fron 'er in considerable nutm
lers, intendi g to form settlements in
\lmerica. N4 obstacle is offered to their
lepariture by' the Government.
Tan white woman in Ohio who re
sently mairried Wahi Sing, a Chinese
aundryman, has eloped with a white
naul. Shte got enough of the cheap
abor b)usiness in a pretty big hurry.
IN ONE of his verses, Oscar Wilde, the
esthietic poet, alludes to "' the barren
unmry of unkissed kisses." An uni
:issedj kiss prob~ably is the barreniest
hinag wvithin the range of human experi
ErrnorE~ will not want much bread
tufl's this year, and while the farnmers
Iay nlot be particularly pleased wit h
his news, the poor man may laugh ini
Is sleeve. Our granaries will not heC
verstocked from present indications.
AN HICHAINGE says " it is much safer
o fight a duel in Europe than it is to
all a man a liar iiintucky," a we
may add, the man who does not believe
it had better try it, but fight the duel
fIrst to be sure yon will experience both.
CAPTAIN C. A. Cooic, of Brownsville,
Ohio, made himself great by slapping
George Morrison in the mouth for hop
ing the President would die. The way
the cent subscriptions aro pouring in
upon him, he will be able to buy him
self a farm.
A FitnEnij Yewspaper tells a pretty
tough story. A millionaire who lost all
of a large fortune, but 100,000 francs,
died of grief in tweuty-four hours. His
brother and solo heir died of joy on the
sudden receipt of what he considered so
large a fortune.
LATEST reports stat3 that Jay Gould
owns 7,000 miles of railroad valued at
$140,000,000. lie seeis to be getting
the bulge on us. If King Kalakaua was
smart now he would cultivate Gould's
acquaitancq. He could buy up his do
minion and not miss the money.
C. A. COOK, Brownville, Licking
County, Ohio, is the address of the man
who was fined $10 and costs ($32) for
slapping a man named Morrison who
Paid he hoped Garfield wonld die. Mor
rison, at the time, was flourishing a re
volver in protection of his right to his
viows.
TiE Stenbenvillo licrald, a little folio
paper containing only twelve columns to
the page, is seventy-five years old. Its re
markable vigor may be attributed to that
risible geniiis, J. W. Lampton. whose
" mixed drinks " have been known to
intoxicate whole families at one sitting.
THE spot where Gen. McPherson fell
is described as a small enclosure. railed
n with musket barrels, Cappet with
spears, and covers a littlo glade in the
forest, two and a half miles from Atlant a.
From a grauite base in the center a
thirty-two pound cannon rises in the
air, its square cut face rounded by a
shell held in the mouth.
A WOrAN belonging to the sect called
Perfectionists undertook to run herself
to death at Dallas, Texas. She got the
idea from the Scriptural passage about
" running the race to the end," that if
she ran till she died she would go direct
to heaven. She could not kill herself
by pedestrianisni, however, and resorted
to drowning instead.
Missislstrr County, Missouri, is the
great watermelon region of the world.
Over 4,000 acres are this year devoted
to watermelons alone, and the yield is
about a car-load an acre, so that 4,000
ear-loads will be shipped to St. Louis,
Cincinnati. Detroit and Indiana. Con
tracts have been made with many farms
ait $110 a car. The general prices run
from $60 to $106 a car during the season.
TiH homocopathic physicians of Wash
ington City are endeavoring to estalish
a homoopathio hospital there. There
are now 7,000 hiomoeopathic physicianis
in the United States, and the school
maintains eleven colleges, thirty-eight
hospitals, twenty dispensaries, sixteen
journals, 105 local societies, twenty-three
State societies, and 0one national society.
Trhere) are thirty homoeopathic physicians
in Washsington.
Mrss MONTAGUE, Forpaugh's ton-thous
and-dolla!r beauty, got sick, antd as she
had to be hlL behind, and it wvouhin't
(10 to be without a ten-thousand-dollar
beauty, a Miss Josie Sutherland was em
ployed to succeed her. Miss Montague
nowv suies Forpaughi for the $1 0,000
which, the siurrounmdiung circu mstansces
wvould make it apjpeari, she never got.
On with thme music, and let these th ings
all come out.
MrI. HIENRY VInrIAuwI pr'edicts that thme
Northern P~acific Railroad will be Comn
lated withini two yeairs. Hie also states
that the Oregon Trans-cont inut al Comiu
panfy, which conitr's theo Northiernm Pa
eitic and Oregon Railway andl NaLvigaL
tion Companies, will probably b~uild 800
miles of tributary railway east of the
Rocky Moumntainis and will have 2,000
miles of trihbu t ay roads completed 1by
thme time the tranis-conitinsenstal line i
open, and that the entire system will
embrace about (,000 miles of rajihvay.
DUmING the past year over two hun
dIred men and women have emigrated
from Georgia to Utah, converts to the
Mormon faih. Several Mormona
(chulrches flousrish in Haralson and adjoin
ing counties of the State. A bill las
b~eeni introduedl in the Georgia Legis
lature to suppress Mormnonism ini
Gkeorgia. It provides that any person
convicted of teaching such principals or
endeavoring to decoy emigrants to Utah,
shall be fined not exceeding $1,000 or
imprisoned not more than one year, or
both, at the discretion of the Court.
A McAN's rood breeding is the best
security against other people's ill-man
ners
FEELING THE EARTH MOVE,
Account of ome CugIoatIteon of the Wind
by a Phlosopher on the Roof.
[New York Simn.1 01
"Would you like to feel the motion of W<
the earth whirling on its axis just as you Ne
feel the motion of a buggy by the air A]
driven against your face?' 0
The man who asked this singular r
question looked both saie and serious. V4
As ho spoke he touched with his finger C<
a small globe, which, with the slight a
impulse thus Communicated, began to 01
revolvo smoothly and swiftly within a A
brass rmig and a broad wooden zone, on a
which were pictured the odd-looking ti
figures that represent the twelve signs it
of the zodiac. The green painted occaug 0
and the variously tinted contine- -s on
the little globe blended into a coufusiod ci
lumblo of color with the motion. Europo 0
and America, the Atlantio and the I
Pacific lost their outlines. Greenland 01
made a dark circle about the pole like li
a streak on a hoy's top. ii
"'You know the earth is whirling like til
that-nmany times faster than that," said r<
the philosopher, "and if the atmosphere r
dlid not partake of tli sameio motion there
would be a constant, hurricane lowing d
at the rate of a thousand miles an hour. C
Most )ersoc113 IlCe)t the explanation (
that the atmosphero revolves as fast as
the solid ground without inqiuiring any M
further, a.!l so they lose sight of on1o of tl
the most startling facts in nature. Just g
step up here." f
Th ie reporter followed tho philosopher
to the flat r* oot of the house. ti
"D1on't you1 feel tha't?" asked the phil- 81
osopher, putting his hand to his
cheek.
"I feel a wind from the northeast," t
replied the e repirter. ' i
"Well, that's it, then," said the phil- t
osopher. "'A s the surface of the earth 3
revolves eastward, it meets a Current of 13
air flowing frolm the nort h, which has
not yet acquired a velocity of rotation p
equal to that of the ground it passes r
over. So objects oil the earthi ae driven C'
by the (arth's mo!ion through air that a
is movwing more slo),wly to the eastward
than they are. . The result is that the f
wind which started to Ilow from the
poles toward the cqiuat.or, itistead of.
movigi straigit from n orth to south ap
)ears to c(oite fro(m the iorthe ast. The t
reason of this will be plain the minutO
you hook at a revolving g)bw. You see
that close to tle poles the revolution of
the surface is very ui nieb slower than at 8
th. equator, just as a point on the hub
of a wheel moves more slowly than a
Poit (In the tire. t
"You must not, however, suppose that
every wid front the northieast is the re
mult 4)' this curious low. lin fact, in this
I.litibule it is very dillicl(t to say when
the trie wind of revolution, if I IIy so
speak of it, is felt, heeause there or so
niny local causes that govern the diree
thon of tlie wind. Nevertheless, when
ever a current of air starts from the far a
north toward the equitor, this pheniiomel
11011 will be eXp)erieiced in ll thlie placr,
it passes over, althouigh it is very often L.
obisenired by t he (changes of diretioni 4
valleys anid lfoal temnperatures. But the
curious fact remiu s that we cani feel in "
the wind~ the whlin g of our globe about 1
its axes. In the tr r-pies this p~henlome- P'
110n manifests itself perfectly in the fa- a
mlolls trade wvind(s. Iiu fact t he wecst and lP
souithwest winids that prevail here a large C
part of thie year are the retiuring tradle ir
winids. .fn tis case the air, mnovinug
froml the' equatoir, whiero the revolution B
is fastest toward the poies wvhere it is a"
slowest, has, as it adlvatnces, aL westward "
motion greater thaui that of the surface si
r~ver which it passes. So marked is the e4
prevalence of this wind that sailors call
it 'down hill' from here to lEnglanid on1
riccount of the easy sailing with the M
w~intd. So, you see, t hat, ailtho ugh thi
w~inds alone wou hI never enabtle us to !
]etect te facUt thiat the earth revolves,
yet no0w 1 hat tht fact is known, we see
Li them one of its most striking re,
3ults."
1.
Graves at Culloden. a
Many will be interest~ed to learn that "
thie graves or trenches in whlich the hod
i('s of the unfortunato Hlighlaniders '
were buried after the battle of Culloden V
are being cared for by the present p~ro- h
prie tor of the estate of Culloden. Formerly L
1.110 graves were distinguishable in the t
level green sward at the roadside only a
by the slightly-raised sod. But stones
bearing the names of the clans have just a
beeni erectedl at the head of each trench.
On 0on0 stone is4 inscribed the names of c
the clns "M'Gillivray, M'Lean and
M'Lauchlan," and there are separatea
stones for "Clan Stuart of Appin," "Clan
Cameron," and " Clan Mackintosh."
TVwo graves are marked "COlans mixed."
At the abortive "great cairn" a slab ~
hals been placed bearing the following
iniscription :" The battle of Culloden
was fought on this moor, 16th April, t
1746. The graves of the gallant High-t
landers who fought for Scotland and k
Prine Charlie are marked by the namesI
of their elans." The interesting prehis- j
toreo remains at Olava have also received
sonme attention from the owner of the
p)rop)erty. Bome of the standing stonea
which had fallen down have been set up;
unfortunately, one or two have been
made to face in the reverse way fromjr
what they did originally. The placo
other wise has been improved. In clear
ing up the ground round. the largest
circle, paved, or rather cause
wayed, paths have been discovered head
ing from the base of the cairn in a
straight line to threeoof thoouter standing
sto nvs. Local archteologists have also
fo)undI a great number of "CIup mark.
ings" on the stones in this locality. One
itonic discoveredl bad cup marks upon
lot h sides-said to be a very unusual
thin g.--Edinbiurgh jScoteman.
The Ways of Plants.
In a great many cases leaves are said
sleep; that is to say, at the approach
night they change their position, and
Vmetime fold themselves up, thus pre
nting a smaller surface for radiation
id being in consequence less exposed to
)ld. Mr. Darwin has proved experi
entally that leaves which were pro
mnted from moving suffered more from
>ld than those which were allowed to
isume their natural position. He has
served with reference to one plant,
raranta arundinacea, the arrow-root,
West Indian species allied to Canna,
kat if the plant has had a severe shock
cannot get to sleep for the next two
e three nights.
The sleep of flowers is also probably a
ise of the same kind, though, as I havo
Sewhere attempted to show, it has now,
believe, special reference to the visits
insects; those flowers which are ferti
zed by bees, butterflies, and other day
isects, sleep by night, if at all; ' liilo
lose which are dependent on iuoths
>use themselves toward evening, as al
,ady mentioned, and sleep by day.
heso motions, indeed, have but an in
irect reference to our present subject.
n the other hand, in the dandelion
ieontodo n), the flower-stalk is upright
hile the floVer is expanded, a period
hich lasts for three or four days; it
ien lowers itself and lies close to the
round for about twelvo days, whilo the
-nits are ripening, and tlie rises again
hen they are mature. In the Q/e/amcn
wo stalk curls itself up into a beautif ul
ire after the flower has faded.
The flower of the little Linarin of our
'alls (L. cymbalaria) pushes out into
io light and sunshine, but as soon as it
i fertilized it turns round and endenvors
) find some hole or cranny in which it
iay remain safely ensconced until the
3ed is ripe.
In some water-planta the flower ex
ands at the surface, but after it is faded
dtreats again to the bottom. Th is is the
Lso for instance, with the water-blies,
me species of the Patamogcton ( I'ra0a
atans). In Valiancria, again, the
malo flowers are borne on
mg stalks, which reach to the surface of
ic water, on which the flowers float.
lie male flowers on the con
ary, havo short, straight stalks, from
hich, when mature, the pollen
etaches itself, rises to the surface,
nd, floating freely on it, is wafted about,
) tiat it conies in contact with the fe
1al flowers. After fertilization, how
ver, the long stalk coils ui) spirally, and
bus carries the ovary down to the
ottom, where the seeds can ripen with
reat safety.--Sir John Lubbock, in the
'opular Science Monidy.
The StyTe.
Though1ll11 it would seem that the People
r III! Coluitries arv o(ua - %lly velieiiit, inl
le psrsut. of this p0hanlitoll, style, yet inl
boost) All of theml therlo isl a;trng
iversity inl opin1ion ais to what, conli
ites its essnt'ice ; iand every dif i'enit
as~s, like thle pag~m init in, adoreCs it
Ioder ai difl'erenit form. lai Englanid aui
)11t nest ciie packs uip hiiimself, his famn
y, and(1 his style ini a bulggy or tm
htisky, and rattle away to q pend Sun
ity. A baronet reqirest a chai~riot anid
air; a lorid miust n eeds Iimve a baurouiche
ad1 four: buit, a duikc, O' a dluke, cann1ot
4ssibly lumibe~r his style along1 unldetl a
)3eh~ &.d .six, and1( lmzll aL82 core of ot I
id biariniony (of unmiy ai hiousehiold, for.
' 80ooner do they set up for style, thn
1 th hone1111 st old com1 ifoirItie *'unfs cere
monr funitulre is discarfded, and1( you
-alk emUi IIin.ly ) abuit, ainoiigst thei uni
>mtfortabl te sp)lendo i( Lf( Grcian chairs,
~gyp)tiani tablles anid EtruIscanI valses.
lhe vast imprl~ov(menit ini furniture de
an ds an1 inicrease ini the dominest ic e'stab
sihmtenit, anid Ia famiily that on~o re
utiredl two ori three servaints for coniveni
neie, no0w emiploys half aL dozen1for style.
eli l Brazen wa on (ie o f thes p(Uiattern r-~
fstyle; and1( wlmtever' freak she wasl
[ized ~ with1, however iprhposterouis, ,vas
u~plicitly followed by all who would be
ons8idered( a18 admlit ted in the st ylish
,hi m-whami that tiikled thle whol ic ourit.
lie could not1 lav down to take ani aifter
001's loll butt shte must have one Ser
anit to scraitchi lier had, t wo to tickle
er feet, anmd a fourth to fani her dlIechte
lo person while she sliimbhered. T1hie
iiig took--it btecatni theii rage, and no(t
sale bohelle in al11 1Ha:vti buit what ini
sted uponl being fann ted and1( scratcheid
nd( tickled in the true illmperiaml style.
neer4 no t ait tis~ p~icture, miy mo's t eX
lent towns~womeni for wvho amionig you
lut are daily following fashions eqwdly
bsurd.-lringq.
Husb~ands antd Wives.
A good lhsani ilmakes a good wife.
omoe men can nleithier do withouit wives
or wvith thiem they~ are wvretched alono
I what is cailled Smlgle lesse~dness, and
bey make their hlomlES miserabile when
bey get married; they are like Tlomp,
inis' dog, vwh cold not bear to bef
>Ose, and1( howled wheni it was4 tied up.
Ia jpy hachelors are likely to be happy
uishatIds, and a hiappy htusbanid is t hn
appwl 'nAof raen. A well- malt~lced i coupe
arry a joyful life heat wenni them, as the
wope (carriedl the (cluster of Eshicol.
'I fy are aL brace of birds of Pairadise.
'hey mul1 ti ply their joys b y sharing them,
nd lessen their troubles by dividing
hlem. T'his isfine arithmetic. The wagou
f(care rolls lightly a long as they p~ull to
'ft h er; and whnit drags a little hleivily,
ir there isi a hitch anywher'e, they" lo've
nh oilher all ihe more, and so lhghten
he lablor.--./hn /Nou~/unan.
"' IN whatcondiitin wats thme pa3triareb
iob at the( #ind of his libi -:" and at 5
iy tte flit o the clssoy.ea
BITS OF INFORMATION.
Sin Hu-rrnanv )AvYinvented his safe.
ty lamp, to prevent accidents which are
hiablo to occur in coal mines, so early as
1815.
THE signaturo of " Boz," used
Dickens, was adopted from "Moses,
prononneed through the nose-a nick
name of his younger bother.
Tn plirso "' piping hot " originated
from ti cuitoin of a baker blowing a
pipe or horn in tho villages of En gland
to let the people know lie had just
drawn his bread hot from the oven.
MOTASSEsx, liquorico paste, a decoo
tion of figg, and glycerino are used in the
manfacture of plug tobacco to impart a
sweet taste, give color and prevent rapid
drying ; conmron stalt and oilier salts are
used for flavoring ; aniso and other aro
natics arc added for their fliwor.
BANcnor'r, in his history, has the fol
lowing in regard to the introduction of
slavOs int() wh..:.-.- .-- * ' , 1.0. ,
terrirtc
1619,
river m
This,:
negro
The r
dito I
Mm
of 1
AtRu
of Mr
ill, Ao doctor was asking the gir
mother what she had been eating. Mrs.
Habo who had just como over to the
house, heard the iothe- say : " Mary
liad a little lamb, andl Mary loves lambs,
you know." These simple words touched
Mrs. Hale so deeply that she went home
and wrote the immortal poein.
IT is said that the custom of present
iug eggs at Eastor is the survival of an
o!d pagan custom celebrating the anni
versary of the creation or tho deluge.
The ogg presented by the pagans was an
allusion to the imiunlaino egg, for which
Orinuzl and Alirinan were to contend
till the consunimiation of all things.
Tihe custom of dyeing eggs at Easter is
very old and eoulnmmon ti all countries,
but may have been taken back to the
East by hr6istian travelers.
Tan house of John o' Groat's was sit.
uated onl Duncan's Bay Head, the most
northerly point in Great Britain. It re
coived its name from John of Groat and
his brothers, who caie from Holland in
1489. The house was octagon in shape
being one room, with eight wintdows and
eight doors, to admit, tight members of
tim family, tho heads of different
branches of it, to prevent their quarrels
for precedeneo at itable, which on one
o(einsion nearly proved fatal. By this
Coltrivan1e eaich came inl at his own
door, and sat at an octagon table, at
wich, of course, their places were all
alike.
THE Spaniarid vis ited Canada previ
oIs to the French, and, fiding no gold
or silver which they were in search of,
often said aiionig thiemselves, " Aca
nada," there is nothiung here. The In
dianls learnied this sentence and its moan
inig. The French arrivedi, and the In
diauns, who did not want their company,
amnd supp~osin~g they were also Spaniards
onl the saime missionf, were aniious5 to
inform them in thme Spaniish sentonce
"I( aradua."' Thme Frenich, who knew
mas little SpanUish ais the Indians, sup
posed t his~ jneesant reecurrimng sound was
thme namo of the country, and gave it the
nme mm ot' " Canada," which it has borne
ever sinlcC.
Somne Definitions.
One of Thackeray's daughters has just
pubilishied a little book ab~out hmer friend,
Miss Evans, bA which she prints some
delightful definitions made bythlay
Some of these are as follow,: ht ay
"A privileged person-One who is so
munch a savage whmen thwarted that civil
ized persons avoid thwarting him."
"A liberal-minmded manm-One who dia..
dains to p)refer right to wrong."
"Rhadicals-Men who maintain the
supposed right of each of us to help ruin
us all."
"Liberal-Men who flatter Radi
cals."
"Conservatives-Menm who give way to
Radicals."
"A domestic Woman-A woman like a
domestic."
"Hlumor-Thinking in fun while we
feel in earnest."
"A musical woman--One who has
strength enough to make much noise,
and obtuseness enough not to mind it.'"
Kissing.
A. lady of experience gives advice om
kisaing to a younger l'ady friend, as
follows: "Be frugal in your bestowals of
such favors. In the first plaop I would
cut off all uncles, cousins, and brothers
in-law; let them kiss their own wives
and daughters; and I would not kiss the
minster, or the doctor, or the lawyer
who gets you. a divorce." You see thisla
dy understands her business, and does not
leave out the editor; he of all others
needs these osculatory attentions to
"lighten up the gloom;" she's a jolly,
s9nsible woman, with a heart in the
right place.
BAYs the Hawk e solemnly: " Ye,
daughter, you should go somewhere this
summer. You cannot stay at home dur
ing warm weather and live. To be sure
your mother, who hasn't been out of
town since she was married, can stand it,
but then she is old-fashioned and doesn't
know any better, and besides, she has
fun enough doing the washing and iron
ing. By all means go. Get a linen
duster and a basket and go at one."