Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. 6 W9 ? - ' DEVOTED To POLITICS, MORALIT Y, EDUCATION AND TO THE GESNERALI INTEREST OF THECUTR. ]vD. F. BRADLEY & c0. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY. MAROH 9v 1882, .JVOL. X.. NO. 2 * fti Orpo t1580. adi n lorida Orage this eoaed 7ay preVious year. ?. iron frnaeo aIrming. IcAlr $1A0Cim na inJauay. % w regia pays $1 26 a pound for "ertal broad lof Massachusetts butter. Th -value of railroad property in Georgii increased during 1881, $2,250, LArge numbers nf deer ond other ru fmtaant wild animals have been drowned In the overflow of streams in Mississippi V county, Ark. A Green county (Ga.) farmer put a .4ok of nineteen geese in his nine acre cotton Held, and they kept it clean of worms withput injuring the cotton. After three attempta Mechanicsville hasb voted to be annexed to Knoxville, Which will swell that city's population 3,000 ad give it 12,940 inhabitants. SZmetime since the Chattanooga City VOuncil passed an ordinance appointing two men in each ward to kill out the English sparrows. It has developed that tbe law is unconstitutional. The- Galveston News thinks the cent sus reports overestimate the acreage of Uxerchantable pine thniber in the South at least thirty-five per cent. Not suffi clent allowance is made in the reports - for swamp, river, barren and denuded acres, or for the hammock and other 4 lands covered with a different growth. W. H. Durham died in Harris coun ty, Georgia, lst week of a wound re ' elved at the battle of Chancellorsville, eighteen years ago. He was shot in the hip, thea bullet, it was thought lodging I i n a. bone. A post-mortem examination * was made and the ball was found in the small of the back, lodged against the backbone. Atlanta Constitution : There could be no greater success in any venture than 4 our Exposition. It was gotten up in a year, challenged t)he admiration of thej world by its completeness and magi, tude, and upon its heels will follow a cotton factory stocked at $400,000, which will spin and weave cotton of thej next crop. * 'Prof. N. T. Lupton, of Vanderbuilt 'University, is now eng aged, at the sug gestion of Commissioner Hawkins in naking an analysis of soils from differ ent sections of Tennessee, taking the 'irgin soil and specimecn sotis from ex * hiausted fields. This analysis is being made in order to discover what elements have been lost in exhauste~d groundsa. New Virginia Industries: A chair factory has been started in Culpeper, a c~olen mill at Gordonsville, a cotton factory at IDanville, a new cotton fac S tory at Norfolk, a paper-bag factory in Lynchburg, a straw hat factory in 1ichmond, a sassafras oil dijillery at Charlottesville and an extensive wheat fan factoi y is to be started In Staunton Some months ago a party near Green * ~ ville, Miss., sued out an injunction against his neighbor, restraining~ him * from sowing Johnson grass seed, the pe- i titioner alleging the grass would spread over the adjacent country and destroy the land for cultivation. The Chan- i cery Court granted the injunction. The ~ case .was then carried up to tile Supreme Court of the State and the injunction was dissolved. * Two clergyman of Fauquier, Virginia went into court with their disyute as to the ownership of a $8 calf. Each own- C ed a cow, which ho claimed, was the mother of the calf. The Justice went with'the jury and litigants to a pasture, where the two cows were let loose for the youngster to choose between, and the question was so quickly and unmiB takably settled by the brutes that the - ju4' gave a verdict n ithout further hes * ~' At Centerville, Ark., where there is no B~ergh society, a wager was made as to the endurance of a certain tough mule. The trial drew a crowd, and the betting was heavy. The tread-mill of a threshing-machine was used, the mule being fastened in it and compelled to walir without rest. Whenever he 'was hiellied to stop he was goaded to keep him moving. He a os not allowed food brwate?. For over three days the beast walked, and -when lie finally fell down It was to die. Frank Milim, colered, lost h's life uin der peculiar circumstances at Columbus, Ga. while sacking bran. The bran was banked many thousand of - pounds on the upper floor, and passed to the work e rs on the lower floor through a passage or pipe, which created a funnel shaped depression in the areat bank above. A sack dropped into the depression, and the negro, in trying to get It out, was drawn Into the whirlpoo:l of bran. When discovered only his hand could be seen. Four men failed to pull him out, and when the bran was removed he ~ ~was dead from suffocation.. Smer' Practtce. h elose of Sumner's careet A Bowed" aid to him in his ar 64 oing here without never seea?' he aked, TOPICS OF THE DAY. Onto is legislating against buckel shops, iNDA1NA has a Greenback State tickel in the field. Tmm Cold Water Party has been having the bulge on this country. DEATHs from scarlet fever in New Yorli Dity average about 100 a week. SwAom for the Jeannette's missins hird boat has actively begun. Tan present prospects of the peac), top in Southern Indiana are excellent. Tiu high waters carried off aboul 15,00o worth of distillery cattle at Eouisville. OONGsnsMEN are required to write ad not "stamp" their franks on free nail matter. IN sPrr of the weather and water, iew Orleans, as usual, made Mardi Iras a success. ABOUT the only hope now is, that the teut of the coming summer will not be )ppressive. Ice will be a luxury. Tat Directors of the New York, New laven and Harford Railroad refuse to .low religious services on their road. BY A NEW fast mail services Ail points a Florida will be reached twenty-four to hirty-six hours sooner than heretofore. ON FEBRUARY 17 the visible supply of otton in the United States was 1,442,123 ales, against 1,156,000 bales same time set year. TE Chicago, Rook Island and Pacific ulroad Company has taken I moral fit ad now discharge all employes who are mown to gamble. BLAOKPEET and other Indians in Torthwestern Territory are at it again, 'killing whisky traders and other Lmericans," and committing other lepredations. IT Is estimated that the high waters a the Mississippi Valley has deprived rom 50,000 to 75,000 men of the means >f subsistence. Thfs means destitution o 200,000 souls. Oi EIGnTY-FouR bills passed by the Lentucky House, seventy-five of them rave been to incorporate turnpike comn ianies. Kentucky is determined to have espectable highways. DR. BIesS' bill for services rendered Luring the illness of Garfield has been ut down to one-fith the amount he aked, which was $50,000. Still he gets pretty good round sum. HERBERT SPENcEB, the London Tele. rraph says, is coming to America durng he present year, but he will refuse all >roposals to lecture. The object of his isit is to see the country and people. THEuMexican National Bank has opened or business, and already has large sumne if money on deposit. The Mexican lovernment has made a deposit toward aying installments on the American Leht. Tini prospect for farming in the Mis. Issippi Valley the present season is very ickly indeed. It is conjectured thai he wateis will not have receded suffi. ient for practical purposes before the niddle of April. THEa editor of the Cincinnati Enquire; reated a sensation a few days ago b) ontributing $250 in hard cash to th( larrison revival meetings. Tho con ~regation thereupon united in prayei or thie salvation of that editor's soul. T HEs death of Soteldo, the Washmingtor aurnalist, who was sho't In the Repubti an office, is additional evidence that rhen an editor does try to be honest, omnebody comes along and kills him. ?ditors better keep in the old rut and ivoid trouble. PRESIDENT ARUR has rented a cot age on Cedar avenue, Long Branch, rhere he goes the coming summer. This a announced long in advance so thal young ladies' who are well matured wil know In time where they are going t< ipend the hot months. THERE seems to be no question nO'N is te destitution among the people o Esastern Arkansas and Northern Louisi iana, although their poverty was denlet a short time ago. The appeal to Con gress for aid is su41cient guarantee tha they are in pretty bad shape. Tan Chicago Board of Trade, afte Ithe manner of the N~ew York Produc< E~xchange is making war on the bucke shops., The Board of TPrade quotatiou are the basis upon which the bucke shops do busIness, and without thaen bheir oseupation will be gone. breeohes so tight around the knee. That's just about what it is that makes his lower extremeties wear such a bony look. IT I plain that Bradlaugh cannot se oure his seat in the British House of Commons. He refused to swear when he could, and now that he wants to take the oath, he can't, and the members of that body have bounced him by an over whelming vote. It seems that some times it i "too late to mend." Tas Now York Herald makes the statement that Mme. Nilsson has cried so much over the insanity of her hus band that her sight has become greatly impaired, and she is now obliged to wear glasses. That the unfortunate man is now dead, it is to be hoped that Christine will look at the matter from a philosoph ical standpoint. IT saims that so far as Prof. Jackson is himself concerned, the question is not yet settled as to what caused the explo sion in his laboratory at Chester, Pa., by which seventeen persons were blown to atoms. The business was that of manufacturing sky rockets and such things. It is rather strange what it was that could have exploded. A QUEER suit has just been decided in New York. A boy of twelve picked up a revolver from an open drawer, and play fully pointed it at a tutor, who gave him lessons at his home. The pistol went bMt, the tutor was not dangerously hurt, but confined to his bed for a month. The court held his father guilty of negligence in leaving the pistol around loose, and a jury gave the plaintiff $500. GEN. BRADY'S paper, the Washington Critic, continues to defend the Star Route Ring, in face of the indictments found against the members of that clique. It says : " The manipulators of this wholesale blackmailug-.agbome stand out in their true colors as liars, slanderers, and blood-suckers ; to be known henceforth by the whole world as such, that they may be shunned and avoided by honest men." Just so. A MAN calling himself the second Christ, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, an nounced that he would walk across the Arkansas River at a certain hour. When the hour arrived an immense asse'mblage had collected to witness the perform ance, but the second Christ came not, and there was great disappointment among the people-not that they ex pected to see a miracle performed, but they were allfired mad at being beaten out of seeing a crank drowned. THAT popular humorist, Mr. W. J. Lampton, whose witticisms gave the Steubenville Herald a national 1eputa tion, has been called to the position of city editor of the Louisville Courier Journal. Although the C7ourier-Journal1 is widely known amon~g those who write their editorials with a pair of scissors, the addition of Mr. Lampton to the helm will help the old ship out wonder fully and she will come in with a bettor cargo than ever. Boys, get your scissors ready! GREAT bodies move slowly, and that is why the New York Board of Aldermen only last week adopted resolutions tend ering the thanks of the city to Mr. Wil lianm H. Vanderbilt for his munificence in defraying the entire cost of removing the Alexandrian obelisk from Egypt to its site in Central Park, a year or so ago. The fact of the matter is, the Board of Aldermen wanted to see how they would enjoy having such a thing around before they were willing to bubble over with thanka. They hadn't forgotten it, of course not. THERE 1s a tlheory that the destruction of forests lessens the rainfall and has a tendency to produce drouth. That theory has stood without contradiction since the beginning of the drouth of 1881 up until the present time. What the advocates of that theory have to say now has not yet been announced. Per haps the absence of forests also is pro ductive of great rainfalls : at all events, the cutting away of forests helps to ac celerate the rushing of waters to their terminus and that means inundation to all sections bordering their course. IN THE British House'of Commons the other day Ohaplin stated that all the evi dence before the Royal Commission tended to show that the United States had reached the acme of agricultural prosperity, and-the worst, therefore, had ,been seen of foreign competition. Wel.l, that's all Chaplin knows about it. The United States hasn't fairly got started in the agricultural business yet. Twenty. -five years, from now we will begin tc .show England what we can do h<1 way of "hogs and hominy" and as fo flour, we .expect to be the world' market. IN the presence of Herbert Spencer, alittle bogv said: " What an awfuil lot Sof crows! The hilosopher corrected k the youth by saig: "I have yet to learn, little ase, that there is any thingto hmirxe awe imsuch a bird as the For.~ ~ oce the author of flhst : nhsmatch. The b~ Choosing a ?roresslon. A question which becomes more im. portsat every year is that which concerns the education of young men for the pro. fessions. When it is finally solved, and set at rest, a great good will have been done to the public, and many youths will be kept from feeling in their man hood the heartburnings and the sense of failure in their lives from which so many are now Buffering. It is useless to di. guise the fact that the di 'ty of manual labor, guided by the telligence of special learning, is not generally be heved -in. An excuse for this lack of faith is drawn from the argument that as mechanical trades are so subdivided now that a young man alter learning one branch rarely is given the opportunity to learn another, and that, having but little need to use his brain in his work he usually becomes a sort of animated machine. But is there a controlling reason why a mechanic should thus lose his power-assuming, of course, that he has started with a fair supply of intelli gence and energy? That there is not is shown by the fact that some men with other opportunities than their fellows, b wsing their eyes and wits, learn every branch of their trades, and thereby pro cure commanding positions. For in stance in the pressroom of a newspaper of ~this city there is one man who not only can manage a omplicated press, but can take it apart and put it together, and repair it if it gets out of order. Yet he has had no special advantages over the men whom he directs as a foreman. He has looked and learned, and he is now highly paid for the trouble he took to inform himself. It seems wrong, then, to assert that an energetic, intelli gent boy will have no chance to rise in a trade. The thing to ascertain in the be ginning is the trade for which he is nat urally fitted. This is hard to ascertain and most parents do not make the at tempt. They put their boys into any clerical position that is open to them, or they decide long in advance that the youths shall be clergymen, physicians, or lawyers. In this way many men have been put into professions for which they have no aptitude, and so struggle on and fall.' The question which arises is: Could not this evil be overcome by mak ing it less easy to become a professional ?. . ould not many fathers and mothers in- tance pause and reflect if they knew itaoni cost much time and money to make doc tors, or lawyers, or clergymen of their sons ? But, leaving this question one side, is it right that any ordinary man may obtain permission to practice upon the public health or the public rights after nominally studying medicine or law for two years? As a matter of fact students do not attend the medical or law schools for half that period. Earn est physicians and lawyers who love their professions think profoundly upon this question, and are of the opinion that not only should the periods of study be longer, but that no man should be ad mitted to study unless he has had a col legiate education, or, lacking that, Is able to pass an examnination so as to show that he has a good foundation for special learning, Ignoramuses would not then be so common in the profes sions. If only fit person~s aro given the right of way into the professions the un fit will find plce suited to them, for fond and poor parents will be forced to study the characteristics of their chil dren before marking out careers for them.-N. Y'. Times. An Ingenious Egg Punch. Of the nutritious qualities of the fresh laid egg much has been said, all, how ever, falling far short of the praise which it fairly deserves. Yet how to tell when anl egg is fresh is a difficulty which has puzzled the wisest of earth's sages. HaLppily for oft-deceived humanity, an ingenious American has come to the front, and by a simple invention has, like a second Columbus, solved the great egg problem. According to the Bridgeport Ne wa, an india-rubber stamp, fitted with a moveable dial, is arranged in the nest of every hen, this stamp being fitted wvith a pad of indelible ink. As is well known, when the lien lays an egg she kicks slightly backwards, and, by way of utilizing this curious action, an electric disc is so fixed that as the foot touches it the stamp turns over on the ink-pad, and, revolving, marks the date upon the egg. Then the hen departs and the nest is emptied, the date of the stamp being altered every day. Now, all this is very ingenions and pretty; but the one fault the world will find with it is, we fear, fatal. The farmer may be certain in his own mind from the moment he adopts the invention of the precise age of every egg he sells, and yet the buyer would not be so absolutely convinced. There have been instances in history of even farmers falsifying dates. What if the agriculturalist, in a jocular moment post dated his egg-register, and sold for new laid eggs those which had been laid a month previously? Vendetta. The word "vendetta" (vengeance) o-. iginated, it is said, in Corsica, where the practice was formerly general, and still prevails in remote parts of the island. The custom, one writer remarks grimly, flourishes among the Bedonins. Traces of it are found sometimes among the Montenegrins, Albanians, Druses, and Ciroassians; and, indeed, it may be said that the custom prevailed at one time or another among every tribe and nation. Whenever a person was murdered, the pra'tice among those holding to this custom was to avenge the death; and that duty was impoed upoan the son, brother or nearest kinsman, who forth with sought private vengeance upon him who shed the blood of the relative. As the administration of justice became a more and more settled social institution, the custom disappearetd, although Corsica still clings to at in its most cruel form, and on that island it plays a most Im portant part in social lhfe. Evan enterprise of life, from the simplest to the most complex, has its niecoesary drudgery. On thue faithful pertormaince of this is founded all true 4dt ess ; nd only those who are willing hea dhp burden with courate, pargy 00Q JY9 MwyriWhb 18 0 The Law of Lost Property. What ought the finder of a lost article to do? Most plo will give a ready I answer. He a ou d do his best to dis cover the owner and restore the lost property to him. But this standard of I moral duty being imperfectly reognized by the law it will be interesting. to I review the decisions on this subject. 1. The finder need not take charge of the lost property. There is no legal duty on him to do it: but if he does take it into his possession, he then be oomes a depository, and is bound to keep it for the owner and restore it to him when known. How long he must keep it, or what efibrts he should make to find the owner, have not been laid down. 2. If the finder does not restore the roperty upon discovering the owner, oes he commit thet ? This depends on whether he knew, or had reasonable means of knowing, who the owner was at the time of finding. It has been held that the finder of a pocketbook, having the owner's name le ibly written on it, is a thief if he conceas and appropriates the money ; but if there is nothing to indicate the owner, he does not become a thief in law by so doing. 3. The owner may at any time reclaim his property, and if the finder refuses to give it up, can recover it or the value of it from him. But as against auy one but the owner the finder's title is good. 4. When is a thing to be considered as lost? It has been said in several cases that money or other property laid down and forgotten is not lost in the legal sense of the word. The proprietor of the shop, or bank, or place where it is left is the proper person to take charge of it, and those who pick up the property have no right to keep it. On the other hand, it has been held that where-a conductor found money in a railway car, whose owner could not be ascertained, he had a good title to the money. 5. Is the finder entitled to be paid for his trouble and expense? He need not take charge of it, and it seems that if he does so he must look only to the grat itude and good feeling of the owner for reward. 6. What if a reward be offered? There is no doubt that any one who, seeing the offer, sets to work to find the property, will, if he succeed, be entitled to the reward, and may even retain the prop erty till it be paid. But if he already has the missing article in his possession Wif the ward i offered, or has with held the property in the expectation that a reward would be offered, the rule is the opposite. Beautify Your School-Rooms. Teachers, have you done anything towards beautifying you school-rooms? If you have not, do not permit another week to pass without doing something in this direction. Time and money ex pended in this way will pay you a greater dividend than any other investment that you can make. By doing so, you will not only render your school-rooms at tractive and home-like, bu~t you will have accomlhishied a work that will as sistryou very much in the government of your pupils. It will not only do this, but it will promote the interest of your schools in every respect. It will cause the patrons of your gehools to have a higher regard for you, and they will take a deeper interest and work harder for the success of your schools than they otherwise would have d1onet. It you desire your puplils to attend promp~tly and always be on time, make your school-rooms more pleasant and at tractive than their honmes ; then you wvill accomplish your desire, and not uuitil then. No wonder so many chilidreni abniost hate the schlroom40. How couldl they do otherwise, when they are compelled to sit all (day in a room whose walls are as black and dirty as ai 'arn ? Teachers, decorate your walls with beautiful pic tnres and appropriate muot toes, and you wvill be amp ly paid for your trouble. If you do not think you are able yourself, ask your pupils to assist you ; you will finid many anxious to do what they can. If you secure thir help ini this wvork, instead of trying to tear down their school-house, they will be inter e)sted in its beautification, and (10 all in their power to make it beautiful. By decorating your school-roonms with beau ful works of art and applropriate imot toes, you wvill not only rend~er it p leasant und captivating, but you will cultivate the taste of your pupils and give them a higher conception of the beautiful than thiey otherwise would have acquired. TIeachers, after you have made every thing around you pleasant and fascinat ing, do not forget yourselves. If there is any person in the world that should look neat, surely it is the teacher. IHe should never enter the school-rooim without first making himself as neatanld becoming as circumstan(ces will permit. WVhen you arise in the morning do not forget to put on your smiles, wenr thei to thme school-room, and keep them on all day. Do not take thenm off as soon as you get in sight of the schooi-house, carry them the remainder of the way in your pocket, and then put them in your desk and lock them up for fear some of youir pupils will get one I N'>tt.ithstandin g the inconsistency of such~ actions, yet it does seemi that thiere are some such teachers, or at least they style themselves as such. Shame on siuch a teacher!i Beautify yoursolves with kind words and loving smiles. Aim always to have the most genial counte nance in school. If your faces are beautified in that way, then your pupils will not be hate fuil, and th eir laces will be lit up with cheering smiles, for as the teacher is, so is the school. IPAUr, H. HAYNE was wealthy be~fore thewr but now he is very poor, and too ill to work. His residence is little more than a hut, standing alone in a clump of scrub oak on a sandy knoll, twenty miles from Atlanta, Ga. The commonest necessities of life are all that he can procure ; but he goes on rhym ing, in a room pa ~Ind with~ pictures cut from illustrated newspapers and on a desk made out of an old work-beneh left on the premises by a carpenter. Taru planting Oa elm, maple, and other forest trees at proper distances along tihe high ways increases the value of ing rn rty aItdIa4ds to the4 com 5 the sgit.I The Methods of Drigands. u It is a great mistake to think that I )rigands ill-treat their captives during iogotiations; it is just the reverse. All dhare and share alike, the preference I ying always given to the prisoner when t comes to the last loaf of broad or the 5At glass of wine. At the same time, it -an hardly be called an enviable experi mice to pass night after night in fair weather and foul with no bed but the nountain-side and no shelter but the auopy of heaven. The routine of one lay is so much like that of another dur ing the wandering in the mountains that the description of one twenty -four hours will, I think, be sufficient. Soon after (lark the whole party start, the prisoner having his arms tied loosely behind him by a single piece of small rope, leaving the end trailing behind. This, I may here mention, is simply used as a sigu of captivity and not as a precaution against an attempt to escape, two of "he band being sentry over the captive at a time, 1 the remainder dispersing slightly to as I to have the notice of any danger that i might he close by. After traveling sev- I eral miles, through valleys and over mountains, a halt is made about sunrise in some well-wooded and secluded spot; the prisoner is then left in cbarge of three or four men, and the renmaiider, excepting, of courie, the chief, proceCd with their various duties, some lighting a fire, others preparing the 1101in1 meal, which generally consists of bread, coffee, and perhaps a bit of lamib or goat, and another party go off to get their next day's food from accomplices and spies who have been warned two or three days previously where to bring the provisions. So suspicious are they of treachery that no ni mber of the band is allowed to eat any food brought by a spy until the hearer has tasted it to see if it containe poison. The way in which the fire is lighted is well worthy of notice. Hav ing collected some dry sticks, not large in circumference, and about eighteen inches in length, a aquare heap is built by laying them across each other at right angles, and at the sane time leaving lots of air-space in the center. The top stick is then lighted, and the fire burns downward; by this means a very hot but prfectly smokeless fire is obtained, which of course preventa their locality being discovered from the smoke. When all is prepared breakfast is heartily welcome after the night's journey, but no one thinks of partaking of any fcod until a short prayer has been saxid by the chief and al have crossed them selves three times. I have omitted tc miention that every band of brigands has a tame ram which is used to lead any sheep they steal from out-of-dio-va'l villages, thus saving one man havinp the trouble doing duty as sliepherd. During meals every topic is discussed, no distinction being made between cap tor and captive, nor restriction placed on the latter as long as he does not broach the all-importnut subject of his own release. On that subject they are perfectly reticent ; and one never knows from the day of one's cap)tivity till within a few hours of one's release honi negotiations are proceeding, nor howj one's chances of life and death fluctuate according to the temper of the brigands and the communications brought by the Relative Size of States. The figures commonly employed to in dicate the area of the several States of the Union have been found to be incor rect, and the Census Bureau lhas issued an extra bulletin correcting the preva lent errors so far as it is possible to do so from the data at hand. According to the old estimate the area oif the United States, exclusive of Alaska, Is 3,026,494 square miles. According to the new estimate it is 8,025,600, of which 17,200 are coast water of bays, gulfs, sounds, etc.; 14,500 are made up of the areas of rivers and smaller streams, and 23,900 of the areas of lakes and ponds. There remains a total land surface of about 2,970,000 square miles. Vir ginia, in the old estimate, has a total area of 38,348 equare miles ; in the neOw, 42,450, including a total water surface of 2,325 square miles. It is of interest to observe the wide contrast in area between, for example, Californuia, 'with her 158,860 squaro mniles, and Rhode Island, with 1,850 ; or between Massachusetts, with 8,315 square miles, and Texas, with 265,780. Arizona has 118, 200 square miles of surface ; Color ado, 103,925 ; iDakota, 149,100; Mon tana, 146,080 ; Nevada, 110,700 ; New Mexico. 122,580. Delaware has 2,150, and the District of Columbia 70.- Newv York, which has 49,170, is not as large as North Carolina, wvhich has 52,250, anid lacks nearly 10,000 square miles of the area of Georgia. -New York T1imes. Waiter. Wainter is 8o coinIIInon thatt few perTsonsi think of it as the mos~t importatt factor in thne buikling up andl~ civilzaition Of thne world. Th'le rocks wvere mud and '4and masde bay water and laid down by it, one kind on top of another. Coal, made of plants, was covered( up by water, so that the iotten plants were kep1t there and changed to coaL. Veins of lead ,copper, gold, silver and crystas, were cracks in the rocks1 illed with water that had these preciouts things dissolvedl in it. And water, as ice (glaciers), gr'ound up rocks into earth in which plants can grow, the sea and str'eams he fing to do the work. Water' builds p ants, and1( animals, too. Three-quarters of what they are made of is water. When you pay twenty cent*.for a peck of p otatoe's you are really paying fifteen of thne cents for the water that is in the p~otatoos. A boy who weighs eighty pounds, if pe~r fectly dried up, would only weigh twenty pounds. And there can be no lpotatoos or boy without water. It nmust d1issotlve things to make them into new things ; and it carries them where they are wanted to build the new things. It softens food, and thena as watery blod carries the food to every part of the body to make new flesh and bones, that we grow and have strength. It carries the plant's food up into the plant. Water oarrie~s isaan and goods in boata, and, as.team, ditrea the oars, It maikes the wheels ~9 ~n the tacops. It is a great woar eog 4nQotsI alngwt ob thek t hi, is tre WX AM'ta ans honored Moient nost to be " Tunnu s n~ qonsense I W Leeper in an eating ng for tastes?-B "Brncuss has qorristown hasn't a ut she has more t vompan.-Norrietowi, A CHICAGo girl }10,000 for h nan who would h erves to be -rtomHerald. Tiuna are threr roung woman's lie ected : As a babyshe s roung woman, is huggd s ihe is humbugged. "HAVE YOU ever been rour teacher before?" he was a ispa. And then-the goodlittle bo iever told a lie said: "iNo sir," ie went out he Anisied the sentpene by remarking "But I've been whipped be iind." EXTRACT from a young lady's lett "And, do you know, Maud and I ateo quite sure Captain Popple had taken to much champagne at thebllfr hi 16k out his watch and looked hard4the back of it and then muttered*:.ele my shoull I hadn't any idea It wasthakat time o' night.' " "Youn arguments ma sound, my a and delivered with force," sad the clergyman to his boy, who had ben bangig at away at his drum for an hour or more; "but we have heard quite enough on that head." The boy stop ped at once, with the aid of his mother and hired girl. "WiE I grow up I'll be a man, won't I?" asked a little Austin boy of his mother. "Yes, my son, but if you want to be a man you must be industrious at school, and learn how to behave your self." " Why, mamma, do the lasy boys turn out to be women when they grow up ?" A DETROrr girl has sued a man for $1,000 damages for hugigher twice. That is too confounde hg. But we suppose while he was abt 6t he could have hugged her ten thousand times and it wouldn t have cost any more. Michi. gan men always let up to quick.-Pea'e Sun. A LrirL rascal: A boy who had been watching through the keyhole the anties of a couple of lovers, ran down into the kitchen to announce his discovery to his mother. " Oh, it's such fun I" he ex claimed, "Whiat's such fun?'' gravely asked the old lady. "Why, to see sister Mollie and Mr. Fi p play lunatio asylum. "-Brooklyn~ iale. NATUnAIJ history for little ones:-T is amule. He may look aidable ti he Isn't. He differs from the co or of the Anaes. The condor soars; tle mule sours. That speck on the sky y nder is the man who attempted to ol b the mule's back by catching hold o~ his tail. When he comes down he will tI ellyu. ' that the best way to mount a-mi? e is to drop on him from the limb of a tee. 6Chioaao Tribune. A GENTLEMAN cont1'ibutes to Nau the following account of his experlence~ im India bearing upon the question whether ants produce sounds or not: " Whilst lying awake early one morning . be.fore the servants were stirring, when c~amped in the Deccan, at the present small station of Chota or Chick-Soogoor, on the 0. I. P. Railway, during the win ter 1868-69, I heard a sound repeated at intervals of about a second. It sounded as though the wall of the tent was being struck by a light fringe along one side; bunt noticing that the air was perfectly still, I listened for some minutes wonder in g what it was and trying to fix the lo ,al ity. I got out of bed cautiously awd looked out; the whole of one side of the tent, for a height of two feet, was covered with white ants so thiclgly, tlpat at the fira6 g~lance I thought the wall was covered with a gray-reddish mud to this height." Th le noise ceased suddenly as soon as the ants seemed to become aware of the writer's presence, and in a few minutes they had all disappeared. The impi-es sio produced was that the? had all been strikinig the tent wall at e same time with their heads. Adetectiei machii!ne las been invented hepaeof tehuman kind in general use.It ssimply a camera, so arranged thait whna susp~iis personk enters a banik or other ruoom, ai clerk touches a little buittoni. P'resently, a concealed camera'ii is broughit inito play, the sensi tive pite~ is exoe1 nel~ in aninstant the mn'is p~ho(togap is taken. .Or, again, thei head of the~ house leaves his - businwess and conifidies it to his clerk. Some of the eb1ks 1yg to sleep, or smoke cigars, or skyhairk, or :lo other things not euictly In keepinig with their calling, whien there comil- in a~ heries of plates, worked by chick-wvori:, and every action of the clerks during a series of hours is reco0rdedl. There might be even a pleas ing, though compromising use of this miechanical camuera. With such an in strument all the handsomest women at a Roh'ee mnight lhe p)hotograped without their knowledge, anid galeries of beau tics bo p~ut up .at aniy one's command. A Valuable Glue. Hotuseholders and others will be glad to hear of a very eranent glue-a chrowo glue, which Inmade bysan ad~ mixture with commonglno of due ato - acid ohromate of lime In solutiono five p)arts of g latine. Thoeglue. made in tl manner, after exposure, is insoluble water, and can be used for .sn glas robjects likely to be suitable. AfewlimmersIOiS$1 sufficient to render the ous to wet. It is n nted objects shouldb*t tt light after beingmed, water will have no