Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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---- --ElI i .1 s .u;? s* - ~DEVOTED, To POLITI1CS, EO10ALITI[, IDUOATI0N AND TO THE GhNEJIAL INTEREST OF THE COUTY By Do. F. BRADLEY & 00.o PICKENS., SDi C., THURDYAC 3 S2. * VL I O 7 URnDA, AC 3 82 eierd Ga A'a~ iro the ev er ren 60*4$400,000 lying idle in the oical seminary for colored * t r Katehex, Miss., las-185 stu Scoont and itEirteen 'possums caught .n oie tree In Dyer county, t l10 W& week. n ensas and Madison parisles, La., kbuflo.gnata arc killing the horses and an*letq an alarming extent. T' diary 'of Sumter county, Ga., azneunces that he will Issue no more license to sell liquor in that county. Pensacola, Fla., has rejected the ap, plication of the Pensacola and Atlanta road to erect shops within the city lim. v A company has been formed in Griffin, Ga., for the manufacture of the Brooke automatic car coupler. The capita stock is placed at $50,000. A. firawberry raiser in Chattanooga says the prospects for tho coming crop are excellent. He expects to raise 80, 000 pounds on a nine acre patch. Crawfishing is a favorite pastime with some of the youngsters about Selma who catch hundreds of them in ditches and ponds on the outskirts of the city. In the internal revenue district in which Nashville is situated, composed of eight countieg, there is not a sjng!e -distillery. Applications for the Collect oriip are altogether scarce. The dredgin: 7f Mobile channel is kogremsing dail/, and it is expected that it will be completed in time to be available for the shipment of the crop f of 1882. Atlanta Constitution: Mr. 0. 0. Gill, of New "York. has carried 10,000 tea- t plants from the 'Heno tea-gardens, Bal timore, to Enterprise, Fla., where lie intends to experiment in tea culture. Tourists are so besieged by the hotel runners of Jacksonville, Fla., that vio lent mean* have to be resorted to to get rid of them. A man last week pulledt hi's pistol on the howling mob for pro tection.( There is a colored boy in Accommac county, Va., who is six feet eight inches -high, weight #84 pounds and wears a six -teen-inch shoe. His principal diet is sweet potatoes, of which he can eat a peck at a time. One of the industries of the moun tains of Western North Carolina and East Tenneseee is the collection of ivyv roiots, which are shipped to Philadel *Phia and Boston to be made into door knobs and bowles for pipes.( While Miss Addie Tenain, a young Aady of Jackson, Tenn., was crossing the railroad her dress caught on the tracic, which threw her down. Just at that time a train came along and paav'ed over her ankles, mangling them in a terrible1 manner. It will be impossible for her to live. The five daughters- of Robert Curry, of Augusta county, Virginia, are still living and in excellent health. Their names and agds are: Annie McDowell, asged eighty-eight ; Jane Young, eighty six; Polly Curry, eiglnty-one; Lyd ia Burdett, eighty-seven, and Sallie Curry, sevesnty-seven. Mr. John D. Cunningham, Jr., drive. leisurely around his gigantic peach or chard of 50,000 bearing trees, near Grif fin, Ga.: observes with satisfaction that the buds are' not too precocious, and K~i. compigcently remarks: "I think this iN my year." He says that his is the big gest peach orchard ?n the world ; but, * leet some jealous grower should presume to dispute the assertion, he intends to s4et 2(00 more acres next fall. "This is the only region in the world," adds Mr. Cunningham, "where a perfect peach can be raised." Nashville World: Mary Birooker was nrraigned before the Recorder yesterday on the charge of soiling "voudoo bags." She had sold one to a young colored girl, Minnie Woodfork, telling her that it would mako her lover marry her. The girl accordingly paid her $2 for it Some time after she lost this bag and could not find it. Some people who werq living in the same house hunted around for it, and after Minnie had gone to work they ripped open the mattress and the little bag jumped out. They assert that the bag jumped out of the mattress across the room. One of these * voudoo bags" was opened and found to containi a small piece of loadstone, some salt, two pieces of chalk and some ashes. Splitting Roots With Dynamite. The destruction of large trees by the E severe storms in England has caused in quiries how to get rid of the tough roots thrown out of the ground. Splitting with wedges was found slow and laborious,j andemn answer to inquiries a correspon- . dent of the Garden describes the mode by which he effectually severed the roots t into fragments by' the use of dynamite. t He remarked that be had employed half a a dozen horses and as many men tng ging and straining at the unyielding t mass of rnrts alarge part of a day, whend a -. few skillings' worth of dynamite in. eludig andfuse, would have blown r *~wo4s Q fr~Irent in ashort time. Oreis some difculty in procuring the * 4dnamitin small quantities, but where ian1Se bM heasrsthtwiei is mre p6V~eta hande, ti munoh easier a safes root neiarly thrug aosp. aanadhe hl1*stA, TOPICS OF THE DAY. TnE Scoville family will all eventually be to the front. MAh AL HENRY, who is to hang Gui teau, is an Ohio man. THz belief prevails that there has been rain enough for the present. PaaeNT prospects are excellent for a full crop and plenty of. fruit. A Nw reciprocity treaty is talked Of between the United States and Mexico. Tiu agricnlturil population of Dakoff, a said to be opposed to its Anniasion as State. Ex-SENATOn SIMON CA3MRON, of Penn iylvania, was eighty-two years old the th of March. Ovan 7,000 bills have been introduced n the present Congress. Of these about i,000 originated in the House. IT is estimated that during.tho present Fear the European immigration will iot fall far short -f 1,000,000. COLonADo ranchmen report that dur ug the past winter grass has been uni ormly excellent, and cattle sleek and at. SCoTLAND has begun to ship butter o this country, but Americans are not >articularly anxious to play the role of onsumer. Tm great pedestrian match in New (ork has finally wound up in a first-class tuarrel over the receipts. It seems that hey all want money. ON THE 9th of March wheat sold in 3bieago, all the year, at $1 'per bushel. "his signifies that there is considerable oufidence in the growing crop. Ti E Univ6rs8li8t Register for 1882 re iorts twenty-five female pastors who have egular charges, and adds that they do s well as tha average male preachers. Ta exceptional mildness of the past vinter has diminished the usual demands or grain winter feeding, esyecially in the Vest and Northwest, thus affording a ompensation for the short crops of last eason. MADUAs had a breakwater built by 3ritish engineers at a cost of $3,000,000; )ut they neglected to band the great )looks of concrete properly, and the first torm has knocked the whole thing to linders. WE~ HASTEN to orrect the report.. ?resident Arthur is not going to Long 3ranch this summer. Furthermore, we Lon't know where he is going. We nake this correction in order to kill that advertisement for Long Branch. HAZEL'S legs earned $19,OQO for Ihim in .40 hours. Hishead never could have Lone that well by him. Ent, then, many Sman's legs have helped him out of rouble that his head had got him into. begs pay best in the "long run," de sidedly. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ SKOBELEFF, whose speech at a ban luet seems to have startled Russia some vhat, loves to be sensational. In Bul raria, in 1877, it is said that he would tartle the correspondents of the English lewspapers by discussing plans for the nvasion of India. A DRUGoIST at Oberlin, Ohio, who ersisted .in selling alcolgol in spite of hose who waged an anti-liquor wvar igainst him, has been burned out, and o have a number of other business men n his neighborhood. For the present he temperance people there hold the rump card. .WHETHIER Capt. Eads' projected ship ailway will be pecuniarily beneficial to he United States is a question upon vhich those in position toknow, differ, ut that Capt. Eads will profit by the cheme is as tacit as the most patent oct in the laws of successful purchase nd sale. Mn. J3BADLAUGu'S re-election to the tritish Parliament does not seem to have edounded to his benefit. He is still re uised permission to take the oath of ifice. It is very evident that Mr. Brad iugh will have to be " born again " (in ither sense you want to put it) if hoover ecomes a member of Parliament. ANr ENGISiH photographer named lexam is said to'have succeeded in tak-. aig afiash of lightning. How he man'aged a remove the cloth from the camiera be,. ween the time the lightning appeared nd disappeared is not explained--.unless, erhaps, the lightning happened to strike ie camera. Int that case it could be one, but the photograper would have a augh time of it. Tim indications are that Capt. E~ads is oing to getsome money out of the Govern ient. The 'Committee of Commerce, i the United States Senate, has baiught i a favorable report conoering his pro lot. All.1 that it is necessary for Capt. *4 tdo nowli to continue to give 'A . d~l's to our statesmei She asks for is lv,,,:ad his tronp of old laces: "There is a regtilar trade in New York in the department of old lace. Machine-made poinfs are bought and skillfully fastened- to pieces of genuine antiques. The entire fabrio is then colored in a solution of coffee or saffron, and sold for real seventeenth century prodict at a high price." AR interesting historical legend is hooked onto the article, to add weight to its value. A Bo'roS girl who has anthropology on the brain, is now living with the Omaha Indians near Sioux City, Neb., in order to learn something of their life and traditions. She intends to go next to the New Mexico Pueblos, and thence to the Flatheads of Washington Ter ritory. The Ban Francisco (al advises her to take in the Piutes and Diggers on her way. Life with them would give her new ideas of the nobility of the Indian character. NEW YORK is imitating California in her war upon the Chinese, and is object ing strenuously to the low and ignorant character of Italians who are being crowded into that city. They come from the poorest Provinces south of Naplbs, and there is often grave suspicion that they are sent by Italian municipalities glad to get rid of them. O'.Seir arri val the adults of both sexes become street scavengers, and their children grow up in filthy cellars or crowded attics, w re decency, morality, and cleanliness are utterly out of the question. WrrH short crops and debts Georgia farmers are said to be greatly distressed, so that they cannot plant the usual acre age of cotton. They cannot buy guano or phosphate (or the crop nor wait for the late returns, and are driven to the raising of an unusual quantity of pro visions. It is thought that the produ# tion of small grains this year will be twice as large as in 1880, and larger than ever before in the history of the State, and some say that if the disaster last year gets the farmers out of their cot ton-planting rut into mixed crop raising, it will be a real blessing in disguise. JESSE JAMES, the notorious outlaw, was reported the other day to have been captured, but the report lacked confirma tion. The report also stated that during the battle that occurred as an accom paniment to his capture, James killed nine men. When we came to that part of the dispatch we thought that perhaps there was some truth in the story, be cause that sounded about right, but still this James has been captured so many times, when he was away oil in some other part of the country, that the public has lost all confidence in the matter, and can hardly over expect now to get even with him. THEnE are from ten to twelve thousand exils sent to Siberia annually, and of this number about one-half of one per cent. are political offenders. The rest are ordinary felons. Only eight per cent, of the exiles are sentenced to hard labor. On an average 400 women and children accompany each 1,000 exiles, and 1,000 of the convicts escape yearly to European Russia. The exiles are not nowadays driven in miserable gangs to a waste region, but carried comfortably to a comparatively fertile country. The highest sentence is twenty years at hard labor, which is the penalty for murder ; the lowest is four years of banishment. THE French police report that they have discovered an active agitation car ried on by the Legitimists. It is most ac tive in the rural districts. A hundred thousand portraits of the Counte d~e Chambard; surrounded by his kingly an cestors, have been put in circulation, and immense quantities of others were ordered. The bankruptcy of the Union Generale has suddenly arrested the agi tation. Most of the great Legitimists and Fusionists are ruined or discredited. Ten thousand portraits of Henry V., which were intended for La Vendee, have been, according to Estafette, seized in one of the faubourgs of Paris, where they were lithographed. A CHARMING little romance has oc curred in Georgia. In a mountain vil lagEi near Dalton a young lady, the belle of the place, was about to leave for a fe male institute in a neighboring town to complete her education. She had a lover, young, handsome and talented, who, frotn timidity, had not pressed his suit, but when at last the young girl's Saratoga trunk was carried to the depot, and with tears in her orbs she was bid ding adieu to her friends, the tardy lover realized that " faint heart never won fair lady," and lie requested an interview ere it was too late. This was granted, and, preeto/ there was a change. The trunk was taken from the depot, the traveling habiliraonts were discarded, and in the. balmy spring-time wedding bells will ring out In the quiet little village. CJnITPRn !fBIDENBER~G, a wealthy German living nxear Indianapokis, Ind., has. had five wives, from, two of whom he h a been~ divorced and three died. Blist wi,.*died afew dayBago wider peoiilianly distressing ciretumstanoeg. She ha4 a is~k for some 'Ame, andb reao ct gM~, latel-pI on, v~ ~s% he lrutal hustaand ~ k~ge~jnMghbors W6 Upon ithe n"i.ng of her death, whem .6 into the house, his utle 4 to aU in some of the I1si Aedther was choking tc death, f complying with the child's relt*e# the =na sat down to bia supper with 4e atmost indiference, and whilatie was eatiag his meal, the womam lied. The excuse which the brute after wards offered was, that the woman was n( account to him -anyhow. HeidenberE owns considerable property in the count3 and in the city of Indianapolis. It is g pity that there is no redress for outraged humanity in cases of such crimiua neglect. RmsPzormG Queen Vicoria, and tho tigh esteem which England holds for hei s a. sovereign, the London Lancet hai this to say: "It is no more figure of speech to say the Queen lives in the hearts of those she rules over. It is, therefore, not in the least surpris, Ing that the notification of her Majesty'# projected visit to Mentone should have excited much remark anid given rise to some anxieties We believe we are justified in stating tha while there is need for the change, there is n< cause for concern as to the health of the sovereign. It seems to -have been forgotter that the Queen is no mere nominal head of thii Empire. Actual and heavy State businesi passes Jaily through her hands and taxes hei attention severely. Her Majesty has novel been in the habit of attaching her sign manua] to unread papers. She ascended the throne it tlimes of difficulty and with a strong sense of duty and responsibility imposed upon her, and during the lengthened period whh-h has elapsed since her accession the Queen has given a large qharc of her attention to public business. Suc. CesBive Ministries have been formed, borne the boat 6f the day and filen, leaving their per sonnel to seek and find relief and recreation 1I retirement, but the Queen has never been free from the burden of State, since first Phe worE the crown. It is a real burden her Majesty bears, a burden, a care and anxiety, and no humat being could fail to feel the continuous strair the bearing of such a burden necessarily pro, duoes. These facts should not be forgotten The need for change of scene and climate jusi now is great, but not in any sense ominous." WILES OF SALESMEN. Ki.a. the Country ierchunta Are Enter talard by Thean. IPhiladelphia sun.j In an interview with a restauranteur v reporter asked: "Who are your best customers ?" "Salesmen, by long odds," was thE reply. " That augurs well for the prosperity of the salesman," remarked the re. porter, glancing at a bill of fare whosm prices would not give any particulai precedence to those of the West End. " They must have almost as much money to throw away as reporters ?" " You don't suppose it comes out of their pockets, do you ?" asked the pro. priq r. " It's mighty little of it they pay'wor. The general expense account lwhtsuffers. ' " And why should the general expense account suffr for a salesman's dissipa tions ?" "Because it makes business. The salesmen who spends money here are those who entertain country customers. I have them here at all times. Some times they'll come in for breakfast after a night's spree. Then it's champagne cocktails to begin with, and brandy and soda, as a settler. I got up a breakfast for a salesman and two gentlemen from the WVest this morning that cost him $25. Lunches and dinners that run from $25 to $50 are common, and I have them heavier, too. Obampagne is the pet drink of all the country merchants who come to Philadelphia. They think nio one here with anyr pretentions to fashion drinks anything else, and if they are good buyers, the salesmen sup plies them without stint. It is the cus tom to treat all customers, big and little, hospitably, but the salesmen never waste money." The dealer who has a bill of a few hundreds of dollars gets a good dinner or two with a bottle or so of wine, but none of the gilt-edged banquets ~and cobwebbed bottles come his way. The people who get them pay for them in directly, you may be bound. Hlowever big the salesman's expense account ruus, it is always well within the profits of the department in whose intoredt it is built up. The system by which the restaura teur profits so much is one which lhas become a fixed feature of the commercial system of the city. Nowadaya the visit of a heavy buyer to Philadelphia always means a spree to him, if hs tastes are at all convival. If they are not, the ac commodating salesman will take him on nice quiet drives, with nice little lunches and dinners at each eud of them, and a swell church to drop in on Sundays, and weave business with gleasure all the while until the buyer s whole trip has been quite as ecstatic a dream to his taste as that of another rural trader Is who has anatomized the elephant from ~tusks to tail, and who carries home with him a head which is as heavy as his bll .-a dream from - which he, possibly, awakes when the invoices begin to come in out in Greentown, and cold common sense demands the auditing of bills. Of course, the buyers spend something on their own accounts, but the salesmen spend more, and spend it with a dash that makes it show for double its actual amount. It is the saleman's business to impress the customer with an ideasof the lavish generosity of the great house he deals with. That impression in ninety cases out of a hundred, means a bigger bill than the impressed party would ever dream of contraeting If It were iot for the delirious recklessness into which his princely entertainmenit transport him, THE editor of an exchange can't see how the leg artists get on their tigets. Of course not. They go in their dress ing rooms and lock the doors, and stufi ings the ohinks just to keep suci flows as him from seeing how th ey ge1 on their tights, but anyboy can see ho~w'he gets on his tight. by just Jook. ~a~beyond the green satted screen, thtstands just insda of the first s'loor ~4q'.Visschaer. A Strange Hallucination. If I were to tell you that I have seen and analyzed the waters of a river which runs two degrees north of the Equator, and found in these waters eleven per cent. of sulphuric acid and one and a half per cent. of hydrochloric, I might cause some surprise, but little or no in credulity, even i I were to add the little known fact that' in that region of the world there is thrown away in twenty four hours more of those two acid# than is artificially produced in Europe in a year. But if I tell you that I once saw, outside of my fancy, a woman who was 2,000 miles off at the time, I shall not only be generally disbelieved, but gen erally laughed at as well. I have often told the story in private life, but not till now have I told it in print. Twenty-three years ago, as I was looking out of the window of General Torico's 'rancho at Chorillos, ten miles south of- Lima, Peru, there passed-by several ladies and gentlemen on horse back. A lady, whom I will call Mrs. Morena (the Spanish rendering of a common English name), was one of the gay cavalcade. She was so beautifnlk that I have remembered her face with the ease with which I am able to re call the Victoria Regina, or the yellow convolvulus, or the blue orchid, as when I first saw these beautiful flowers in their native lands. I had never spoken with Mrs. Morena, nor her husband, who accompanied her, and who was then on his way to Jauja, from the United States, to get healed of consump tion. Three years ago, as one morning I lay musing in my bunk, in a Ounard steamer orossing the Atlantic, in full daylight, and having my eyes wide open, Mrs. Morena came into my cabin, and to my sorrow went out of it as quickly as she came in. Thereupon I rose, bathed, dressed, and went up to breakfast. It was late ; the saloon was nearly de sorted, and I found only two fellow passengers, talking together and eating ham and eggs. I had never seen either. The common name of Morena was men tioned between the two, and I being full of my vision, remarked at a venture to him who sat next to me, " Mrs. Morena Is more plump than she was twenty years ago." My neighbor turned on me a quiet look of inquiring surprinn. Pnt tin his hand in the breast-pocket of his coaI he drew out one of those excellent photographs for which some American photographers exe so celebrated. "Is that the lady you mean ?" he gentl demanded. And I answered: "C ertainly, and you see she is rather stouter." " When did you see her last ?" was the next question, and I answered: "This morning." The gentleman with the photograph was Mr. Morena, the husband of my beautiful lady. We became friends ; we had many social yarns together; he told me of his residence in Jauja, of the complete cure of his lungs, the number of his children, and many more dear, delightful household things, in which I had no interest. He invited me to his house. On our arrival at Now York, Morebia telegraphed to his wife ; who re plied, while lie waited in the telegraph office, that they were all quito well at home. Nothing happened. 1 had not, to my recollection, thought of the Morenas for years before. Is it very difficult to understand, when two or three are met together under given cir' cumstances, that a real presence may be vouchsafed to each ?-A. .J. Duffield in London S~pectat or. Hie Had Recovered Ils Sight. Madame Blank was a woman remark able for her social and tout-afatt indus trial assiduity. She utilized every mo ment of her time in such a way as was best suited to herself. Among her many admirers and visitors she numbered one old friend who was totally blind, and whom she always entertined in her own boudoir. Of toner thavn not, when her pressing duties demianded a rapid change of attire, she would call in the services of her maid and proceed with her coilet the while conversing with her blind friend, who, it is needless to say, was all unconscious of the mysterious wonders being transacted in-his presence. Upon one occasion when he called he inquired whether he would be received upstairs, and sent a message to the mistress, stat ing that he had a piece of good news for her. " Lead Monsieur, as usual, to my boudoir," was the lady's order, which order was- immediately complied with. She was not en toilette for visitors, to be sure, but he could not see, and the maid was busy enough repairing the ravages of timne for the benefit of those who could see. " Ah, my dear madam," ex claimed the gentleman, as he entered, " I have had a stroke of good fortune ;" and he was hastening to toll her in what way when she interrupted him with some soci-P Justags ox .' r own, and kept up such a stream of c<>. versation, and was so occupied with the 'leam of her white arms in the mirror, tt at she neither observed her friend's e 'ident confusion nor gave him an opportunity to speak. Fipally an interval came ; she turned to hdh' , expectantly, and said : "Now, my friend, for your good news." He lowered his head and assured her it was nothing. " Nothing 1" she ex claimed, at the same time noting his perturbed manner. " Nothing," he an swered, " except the my dear madam, I have recovered my sight." Abont Mourning. Speaking abou't the custom of wear ing mourning-concerning which there are many confliothsi opinions--a writer says: "Why mourning abould be worn at all, except at a funeral, I do not under stand. A near and dear relative dies. One may deeply regret the loss, but, as it is irreparab~le, it is the part of wisdom, Iwhich seeks to make the best of every thing, to endeavor to forget it as soon as psible. Why, then, wear for a lengthy 'ime a garb that brings back its recollec tions? A person who is ruined might with equal sense walk about for several months with ap empty cash box affixed 1to hisback.______ A Lost Alligator Recovered. About eighteen months ago the Zoo. logical Garden loaned to the Exposition a young alligator two feet long to adorn the cascade in Horticultural Hall and give an appearance of wildness to the artificial scene by the presence of animal life of a repulsive kind. The alligator behaved very well for sometime, and satiated his appetite with bugs, flies and mosquitoes. But one night he disap peared, and he was mourned for lost or stolen although the Commissionrs thought that there was no man in Oin cinnati mean enough to Carry away an alligator. In a few months the absence of the loathsome creature was forgotten and it was believed that he wandered oh and died. Recently it became necessary to hire the services of a gas fitter at Music Hall and Mr. Tom Wise sent for Mr. P. y. Hogan to connect the street gas *ith the Musio Hall Building. It will be remem bered that the Elm-street front of Horti cultaral Hall is about three feet above the level of the part used for the cas cade and exhibit of plants. Into this raised portion Mr. Hogan went boldly with a wrench and lantern, but he had scarcely disappeared frQi view when a most unearthly yell was eard, and the poor plumber, without lantern, hat or tools, rushed out to where the astonished Wise and his assistants stood. Hogan's hair stood up like bristles on the fretful porcupine, and his eyes rolled with such an expression of terror that the other men ahrunk from him. He could hardly ejaculate: " Be J-s, Ill not go in there agin. There's the most inferrnal-lookin' cratur I ever saw. It opened its big jaws and wagged ite baistly tail at me, and wanted to ait me up. Be heavens, when it moved I moved, too. The gas may go to the divil." Mr. Wise, thinking the man frightened' without cause. undertook to explore the cavern and beard the monster in his den, but he was only absent a few sceonds, and made quieer time in reaching day light than Hogan. He stayed long enough, however, to find out that the riptile was an alligator, and at a rapid glance seemed to measure four feet in length. Here, then, was the alligator which was suposed to be lost and Hogan had foun him. It had protably crawled into this retreat and had hiber nated in the moist, marshy ground. The food which Mr. Alligator had indulged in probably consisted of rats and amall bugs and insects. At any rate, he was still alive and increased his length (lur ing his mysterious absence about two feet. But there seems to be a disposi tion to let him severely alone for the time beiig. Later the floor was removed and Mr. Alligator was captured and re turned to the Zoological Garden.-Oin cinnati Enquirer. The Showman's Trade. A showman, after assuring a reporter that nothing pleases the people more than somethmg full of peril and blood shed, gives the following incident of his career; but we don't vouch for his truth fulness-that is, not quite: " I an a whole season on a lion that hadeaena keeper. The people came in crowds, expecting every day to see him make a breakfast of his trainer. Was he actually dangerous? Dangerous I He eat another trainer, and then I lost him. His widder was actually in love with her husband, and she swore the animal should be killed, and the people sided with her; and as the beast was getting 01(1, and the killin' made a paying sensa tion, I did it. But I made all there was out of it. I insisted that the husband should have a gorgeous funeral. She said there was nothing to bury, as the lion had eaten her husband. ' But ain't the dear departed in the lion ? -It~ we bury the lion, don't we bury* the dear de parted ?' 'Cert,' she said. And we had it, adit was gorgeous. We had a peri csinwith all our wagons in it, the regular street parade, only all our riders had black scarfs on 'em, and the wagons and horses and elephants and sich were draped in black, and the band played a dead march. The widder was in open carriage in full mourning, with a white handkerchief with a black-border to her eyes, lookin' on his minatoor. Ther wasn't no minatoor, but she held a cise just the same. That night the canvas couldent hold the people. We run that two weeks to splendid biz. When the woman got over her grief, she went into the lion trainin' herself, ez 'Senorita Agnardento, the Lion Queen.' I gave her some old lions to practice on, and in less than a month she could do jest as well as the old man. She was a good woman, too. She rid in the grandl en. tree, and rid in 'I he Halt in the Desert,' did thke bar'l act, did a good pad~ act, and is now p~ractisinl' b)arebaick. She juggles tollale, and does a society song and dar~ce in a side-show. When I get taleont, 1 pay and keep it. My treasurer changes the names of my people every season, so as to have fresh attractiones 0. I know my biz." Matchmaking Mothers. In the ve'ry highest circles, as I am informed by the best authorities, this matchmaking goes on. Ah women women ! ah wedded wife I - ah fond mother of fair daughters!I how strange thy passion is to add to thy titles that of *mother-in-law I Iam told that when you have got the title, it is often but a bitterness and a disappointment. Very likely the son-in-law is rude to you, the course ungrateful brute!i and very pos sibly thie daughter rebels, the thankless serpent I And yet you will go on schem ing ; and having met only disappoint ment from Louisa and her husband, you Iwill try to get one for Jemima, and Maria, and down even to little Toddles coming osit of the nursery in her red shoes. When you see her with little Tommy, your neighbor's child, fighting over the samnd Noah's ark, or clambering' on the same rocking horse, I make no doubt in your fond silly head, yo are thinking, " Will these little ?ope meet some twenty year. hence' IAd you give Tommy avery large p Ieee of cake, and have a fine present for him on the Christmas treyuknow you do, though he is but arcdenoisy child, and has already beaiten Todle., and taken her doll away fromi her, and made hor Cr7, W. Jif Takeley. e ohe -~ waer waysiun as great as Tau milk cof1 water ad more than that of any Tua e of an~t b coun the luass es of e bivalve. cate the annual growths. Thu Malays Of ah a large price for the because they liked .i thagactersfiof ~ ~n4 ITAW bees gather bra which fail toa cause the former hav a and are able to find hone. yond the roach of thi blaoh Borx linen and cotton 90k wrought by the Fgydaus, bu the modern work, e warp ally twice or thrice and not seldom times the number of threads in a in that the woof had. Tan leprosy prevalent in tho Hawaian Islands does not differ froteJigrei and Asiatic forms. The ineAudag In tercourse between the Paciie Stae China and the Sandwich lslan vigilance a duty in supp na spread of the disease. A FnENoH soldier, statoidedr so years in the Pontine Marsheh. come entirely of a deep brown de totally distinct from that shad .k in natives of Northern Euro bye posure to the sun of lower latiudes. IN JAPA, owing to the gentleness 09 the people, the crow has fu berto go where he likes. a i le the most densely populted cities swarm with the noisy fellows, who reM. the kindness -shown hem by acting asseav engers. Fo rr years ago onky about thirty aukr nd fory eggs were recorded as be long og to public and private colleoteg AtL c etime $50 were a for two .auk. and two eggs; a ll e later, half that sum for one eg; and not very lang~ 2 since we read tat $500 were given' for 7 one egg. q - ONE reason that the ancient, werg lacking ini museums~ was the SacS that they, lacked efficient methods of pre serning the various forms of life. It was not until the discovery of alcohol and manufacture of glass bottles that m"se urns became of unportance. ST. THOMAS, of Aquinas, gives the most ingenious explanationnof any of the ancients on the subject of earthquakes, He suggests that the confvuusions way be caused by the struggles of the de funct disbelievers trying (by a simul taneous stampede, perhaps,) to escape from the pit of torment. WREN a Kaffir is on a marauding ex pedition he gves utte-anceoth~ cre and hisses in which cattle drivers andlge when they drive a herd before thern thinking in this manner to persuade the gods of the country he Is attacking that he is bringing cattle to their wo 'hp erinstead of coming to take hi head from them. Home Education. The mother, unwijlng to sbether six-year-old boy to the impure aibad light and other evil influences sozt me found about the rooms) grounds and out buildinsof theucoiool, though hesf curacy and dispatc, yt tOSeaheRXsto *ount, and write small numbers. Blhe tears from some old arithmetic a leaf - taining easy,.properly graded exampe in addition without answers-as, for instance, pages 17 and 18 of Fetter's practical arithmetic; and, by some .re ward, trifling in value, perhaps, but prized by te child, induces hIm to add the Examples unt he does it accurately and rapidly. Thnshe gves him the next two pages, but o'nly *hen they are fully mastered the next and so on, until at length,.-4t may not be till after two or three years-the child has mastered thirty pages of examples, and is able to add long examples on the doth p age with as much ease and accuracy as he can count ten, and would be trusted by his father to foot up his ledger .e Under the mother's supervision,- ail very little instruction on her part atte beginning, she furnishes examples for an incentive to practioe ; the cidhas. learned by patce to do what she eag- e not possiby do, and will probably ~ never be ale to do ; what few high school graduates or teachere ai do--. namely, to add columns of figuresj~at ever length with accuracy and rpdt. The mother has in this case donete very best kind of teaching. Though she has seemed to do but little, she has induced the child to do a great deal, always in the right direction, and with such gradual progress from shorter ex amples to longer ones as to make as sistance almost unnecessary. In a vocabulary of drinking terms, the Retailer remarks regarding the " cck tail :'' " A word of very uncertain ori gin. Con jectural etymologists have traced it to the MarsoGothie, the Chi nese, the Cherokee, and the Gumbo; ; one has settled it to his own satisfaetion that it is of Sandwich island origin ; *n Qther that it is OCeltioc; and still another ~at Noah left the recipe to his son Shem, giving the beverage the na~m* Ko'kdal, written in the old Hebrw ohai.-~ acter with the Massoretic points. The probability is tliat the name and te * beverage were invented by the 1~uk ~ builders, and the most promien~b~~( ' ologists are inclining more andm to that opinion." The .Reai* gives the following informationi 4~ cocktail is made of brandy, g~ or champeagn, mixed wthbi sugar, and a small--verysml centage of water. It is an ear ing drink, and is highly te4 i medicinal properties, 4 tionoaf those who usel it never eat solid fand untft . e