Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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p. - . 10 4.4 _______'____Q___ . DOTED TO POLITICM, MORALIT!, EDUOATION AD TO THE ENERAL INTEREST OF THE COUNTRY v D. .e BADLEY & 000 PICKE - -DFBA0 I, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1882. VOL X28 I __._N O._. 4 Kot Carona for the dttit. i~ Lcuidana has of late vthring ifdustry, and to-day 6.10undaut production. ors atoney is coming into the Texas 6 Tr''sury from the sale of school dsan from taxec and all other In 1865 Florence, S. 0., contained only en houses. I#tnow bs a population of over 2,000, and last year over 100 houses were built. A Florida paper says that vast quanti ties of blind miosquitoes are caught in the swamp eof that State for fertilizing purposes. Nearly every day from 100 to' 150 per sons pass through Chattanooga, going West. Thero are from Western North Carolina aid Southeast Tennessee. Owing to the crowded condition of the Alabama State Asylum, Bulloch county is at the expense of caring forits insane paupers at the County Poor-house. The poor-house of Choctaw county, Ala., has but one inmate, the first for several years past. It is an old negro woman whose age is stated at "122 or thereabouts." Atlanta Constitution: The silver vein -of Magruder mine grows richer with the continual digging. The ore has assayed as much as $86 of silver to the ton, and the lead in the ore is also. in -ufficient quantity to be valuable. Some hunters near Douglasville, Ga., last week, whfle fox-chasing, ran a strange aninal to its den, which proved to be a Wild dog. They found a mother and four puppies, 'all of which got away but one of the latter. Within three months ground hais been surveyed or broken for three moie blast furnaces,, and steel and iron rolling-mill a nail factory, and a dozen or more small er establishments have been started, and will soon be in full operation in Bir mingham. The area of land which will bo re claimed in Florida by the draining of Lake Okeechobee, work on the canals for doing which has aire ady beer' begun, is larger than the States of New Jersey, Connecticut, D~eleware and Rhode Is land. 4 ~ Mr. WV. D. Graydon, a farmer of But \er county, Ala., made last season from one acre of ground 830 gallons of molas ses, besides putting some of the cane on the market, saving 3,008 stalks for seed and reserving about one thousand stalks for consumption by his family. Charleston'Nows and Courier: A Mrs: Coh~er, with her three children, in an ox cart, was going home from Perry, Ga. .. The road they traveled pass*ed through very rank wire grass, which had beeni set on fire. In trying to get out of the -way the cart and oxen became fastened among pine logs and the fire overtook them. The cart was consumed with the two' children inside, and the oxen were burned to death. The woman attempt-ed te escape with her infant, but her cloth ing caught fire and she and the other ehild were so badly burned that they have since died. Good Eating and Good WritIng. In old monastic days good eating was under a ban. It was imagined that the brain could best be kept clear and vigor one on a low diet. Romantic young ladies in our time love to think of their favorite authors as fed on a divine ambrosia. It brings S them down to a common level to associ ate them with roast beef and mutton. * Poor Charlotte Bronte was once dison'. chanted of her hero- worship. Thackeray was her favorite author, and in her lonely home on the moors, her imagination in vested hum with all ideal graces. On a visit to London she was lifted to the summit of happiness by an invitation to a dinner where Thackeray was to be one of the guests. She was introduced to-the great man, and Bat next to him. It was a red-letter day in her life, and Smemory was on the alert to retain all his * bright sayings, and report them to her sisters. Thackeray, however, did little talking, but much eating. He had recently re covered from a severe attack of typhoid * fever, which left him with a ravenous ap petite, while the dinner was exception ally good. Charlotto looked -o in won der at his feats, and the surprise gradu ally changed to disgust. One more idol -- had turned to clay. If she had known ,the mdern law of the conservation of forces, her charity might not have failed herx Feeding Horses Straw Hats. In clearing away the debria of a fire at St. Louis, it was noticed straw hats that had been dama~ged by water and leather were thrown from the windows anid promptly confiscated by men and ~old women, on the street, before they setely had time to reach the ground. One old man was especially active in dodging about and collecting mutilated and charred straw hats. When asked what he ~rpsed to do with the -hats, 4 he pr~ replied :, I n o feed 'em to my horsa, of course." "Don't you think they will make your horse sick ?" inquirfd a bystander. "Of course not. Why should a straw hat make a horse sick ? Straw doesn't os~ case to be straw when it is putlinto a bed or hat any more than a plantceases tbea pant when taken from the pwd~'~&dput in a~ dower pot. My borse IUeat straw hats. I've tried him. lar anld feed are very dear now, and aIt save in feeding my horse is clear gain." At thiis pon e disoovte4 several iairge broaimmed hats ftoating from Abe third-story windows above his head, ##d brot h the conversation to a and Sdet alaa oinin himself in post-o Tlyrt1U OF THE DAY. JAY GOULD Owns $53,000,000 in stocks. XEsTETIG Easter cards, it is id, will be the rage. PITTsBURG has several colored polioe men on the force. EDISON is recuperating in Florida and giving electricity a rest. WHEN lunacy is no longer an excuse for crime, crime will perceptibly diminish. TRAmrs may no* be expected in the -ole of " Mississippi overflow sufferers.' Viaron Huoo is of opinion that if the Czar will not spare the people, God will not spare the Czar. THE woman who rode a bicycle 600 miles in six consecutive days, at St. Louis, is a Canadian. ACCORDING to Cardinal Manning, it is an indictable offense in England for a man to propagate atheism. THE American Express Company has organized a money order system'cheaper than that of the postoffice. A RussIAN traveler says that one. third of Asia and a considerable part of Europe still remain unexplored. .a. A CmcAGo Grand Jury last week re turned ~an indictment against a dead man. Live criminals are scarce up there. THE report of the Secretary of War shows that our Indian wars in the last ten years have cost $5,055,821 in actual money. JusT what the Mormons think of their present prospects we are not prepared to say, but they evidently are not well pleased. MB. TOURGEE, the novelist, allows himself to be called, in his own. paper,' Our Ccntinent, "Hon." Albion W. Tourgee. CONoREss should make a law especially adapted to the punishmeit ol the inspired crank element. The need of such a law is daily increasing. MASON'S sentence to eight years in the Penitentiary for shooting at Guiteau was certainly quite enough. Guiteau doubt less approves the sentence. THlE Mississippi House of Representa tives has passed a bill preventing the sale of tobacco to minors without an order from their parents or guardians. A BOGUS priest named Ddflohan, ar-C rested in Chicago, and familiar with five languages, has borne in his brief exist enco of thirty-one years, twenty-five I aliases. IT is reported that John Russell ~ Young, the newly appointed Minister to China, will soon marry Miss Julia E. 0 Coleman, a niece of ex Governor Jewell, t of Connecticut. LIEUTENANT SOJIwATKrA, of the Arctic Expedition of 1879, speaking of the Jeannette's crew, says there is no hope for DeLong and party, and little for Chip's boat's crew. ROBERT IBONNEn thinks the time will come when two minutes 'will be very ordinary time for a trotter. As Bonner is opposed to betting, there is no chance here to lay a wager. TmE visit of General Sherman to the West will probably result in the abandon ment of several military forts in Texas, and the establishment of posts at San' Antonio and Fort ihss. HAnIr1E HuroHINsON, a little girl nine years old, is probably the youngest tele graph operator in the world. She i stationed at a town in Texas where she has entire charge of an offiee. THE~ indications are that Mason will I sventually be pardoned. Petitions ask ing for, his pardon are flooding in to the President from Legislatures, societiesE and citizens in groat numbers.t Tnrs is the question which Mormons asik our Congressmen: "How do you know it's bad to have a dozen 'wives?< You haven't tried It. We have." That I may be regarded as a clincher.4 ARCHIIBAnJD FOnBRs has discovered that an American audience's estimate on a lecture is to be discovered, not from the applause, but from the number of people who sit till the lecture is ended. IT is stated that the Czar, having re- . ceived convincing proofs that the Nihilists 1 are determined to abandon their policy of assassination, imperial clemency will1 consequently be extended to political1 prisoners. Tr Sunday salo question, just now, Is the tropic of Interest in Ohio--whether it isdetter to go in by the front door or by *he baok door. No Saloonit6 was eve kMew14 to keep bot)doors looked at geration Is not stated. Perhaps it was all exaggeration. Fouu women in the vicinity of Rich mond, Td.,- and a Methodist preacher and two women at North Lewisburg, Champaign County, Ohio, have gone insane over religion the past two weeks and been placed in lunatic asylums. Thu beautiful Mrs. Langtry would like to come to this country but her agent wants so much that she will prob ably be denied the privilege. As a rule managers endeavor to make contracts with a view to making something for themselves. Dn. GEORBi H. LAMsON, of London, tried for the murder of his brother-in. law, Percy Malcolm John, a mere boy, thilt he might come into possession of his property, has been found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The evidence was circumstantial, but conclusive. Tiru outlook on the Lower Mississippi is everything but promising. The whole country is flooded, without any prospect of the water receding at an early day. In the vicinity of Helena, Arkansas, the country for forty miles around, on either side of the river, is like an ocean. AN rrEm to sausage-eaters from the Louisville Courier-Journal: "A man who detected a piece of bark in hi sausage visited the butcher shop to know what had become of the rest of the dog. The butcher was so affected that he could giv'e him only a part of the tale." Tam Police Commissioners of Balti more have dismissed a policeman fot not arresting a woman who was assault Ing another with a horsewhip. As she was his wife and the assaulted woman his sweet-heart, he felt that he could not Interfere without great embarrassment. rhe Commissioners relieved him ok all further embarrassment by relieving Aim. HALF the silver dollars circulated in Nontana are alleged to be counterfeits made by the Chinese in San Francisco. They are described as of exactly the weight of the genuine ones, and one thirty-second part of an inch larger im diameter. They contain only sixteen cents' worth of silver, which is all on the surface. EIGHTY-FIVE houses in South Bethle em, Pennsylvania, are quarantined be ause of smallpox, and the disease is re iorted on the increaso. Why this di. ase has become so alarming there it is ifficult to say. The town is high and Lealthy, and is the home of the Mo avians, than whom no one could be leaner or more particular in neatness. Mns. SAnAa E. HowE, the defaulting loston Bank President, who has beeni entenced to the House of Correction for term of three years, may well congrat Llate her~self. She promised to pay hei epositors an interest that amounted to 0 per cent.., and in consequence failed o return the principal, by which the de >ositors lost something like $475,000. THE Milwaukee Sun suggests a plan or " saving the country." It says : " Let forthern people go South in the winter, .nd Southern people go North in the unmmer, and let the young of both sec ions fall in love with each other and do little marrying, and when Northern mnd Southern grandmothers go traveling >ack and forth to visit the babies that vmill naturally come upon the scene, that vill naturally end all sectional feeling." THEn Paris Pigaro says o: Skobeleff : 'This General has not changed during he last four years. He is now thirty.. oven, or thereabouts. He is very tall -so tall that in a campaigning time xe can not stand uiprightin his tent. His ace is exceedingly intelligent, his eyes >luo and keen and quick, his forehead ulil, and his beard brightly blonde; at he very first glance his person reveals he energetic and loyal soldier, ready to lare all and sacrifice everything." THE~ Galveston News suggestively laye: " When a President is shot, every hing in the United States can be turned opsey turvey, and the occupant of al nost every office, from Secretary eof statte to the humblest tide waiter, mhanged. Had Maccean succeeded in mis nefarious attempt on the life of the Jueen, hardly a particle of difference vould have occurred in the Government >f England; not an offiee would have thanged from Prime Minister down to etter carrier." THE most dangerons element in this sountry is the inspired crank. Uenry lemshaw, the "embassador from ieaven sent by Guiteau to shoot Dr. Irray " of the Vale Lunatic Asylum, at DJtica, N. Y., when arrested, had upon" uis person two navy revolvers, one single arel revolver, one repeater, one dirk, sleaver, one bottle of chloroform and hirty bundles of cartridges. As an renial he was evidently prepared to do 1011 klling. Dr. Gray, fortunately, eoeived only a desh wound. Dr. Gray Was the0 9hief medioal expert of the lorni .116 @uiteau trial. A M*owksea l mto b the in Aitdan Chi Juvenile Nortality. One of the most maysterious phenoE ens of human existence is the large contage of mortality among Young a dren. A fearful proportion of the deat] everywhere are those of persons wl have just begun to live. Even whc due allowance is mide for faults of nur bg'and training, it appears hardly pos ble that any improvement can off5 the inherited weakness from which i many children suffer, and, as yet, scien< has taught little concerning those ep demics which find the majority of the victims among the litte ones. Still,. il telligent care and favorable surrbundinj can do much. The English statistic much more full and accurate than thoi of our own country, show that in t: rural eounties the mortality of childre under five years of age does not excee( and often falls below, forty in the thoi sand. In the cities and towns the ave: age is much greater, ranging from abou fifty-nine in the thousand, in Portsmoutl to over ninety-five in Birmingham an Sheffield, and to over one hundred an three in Liverpool. In nineteen larR towns, containmig an aggregate of a mi lion and nearly twenty-four thousan children, the deaths for a year from the number were 82,250. This is a fearfi number, and no doubt the figures wer increased through causes which migi have been -avoided. Still, had ever, thing been done, the little vYitims mul have been counted by myriads. A things are, it is probable that in ver many cases continued life would not ha% been a bessing, but the quaint old ep taph, "So soon was I done for I wonder what I was begun for, will nevertheless suggest itself.-Cinch, nati Gazette. To Cure Sheep-Eilling Dogs. The question of how to protect shee from the caresses of destructive dogi which has so long agitated the agricul tural mind, seems to have been happil settled by the farmers of Hunterdon an Somerset counties, New Jersey. The tried the experiment of mixing in a fe goats with their sheep and after tb goats and sheep had afiliated for a fe ays, they procured some dogs, reguls sheep-killers and started them for th folds. The dogs, regarding the affair c a sort of picnic, went for wool and cam back shorn of their conceit. The seem to run against goats in the moi unexpected places, and were struck 1 the singular nature of the thing and a most drove into the ground by the for< of the remarks made by the goats wit their heads, in the heat of the debat Mutton, which the dogs had always r, garded as a delicacy, suddenly pall( upon the taste and they felt coyed. ]N doubt the goats, with customary polit< ness, asked their guests to pass the plates and have some of the muttoi but the dogs did not care for muttoi They came out of the field limping o three legs, and no word of encourag( ment from the firmer could induce theo to go back. They had been broke c suckmng eggs. Squeaking Shoes. A correspondent of the Country Ocn ttceman gives the following remedies fo the ab)ove nuisance : Not long ago I went to my shoestor; and asked if the squeaking could be lpre vented in my shoes. I wasi told it conl1 bo0 very easily, aiid it Wats done by open ing the soles of umy shoes at the shank pouiniig in powdered soapstone, t-th ing care to have tno solo well-filled to th< too, andl then pegging or sewing then up agatin. My shoes did -not sqtuel after that. A shoemazker's reeni 4t 6 prevent squeaking is to put a pieee o cloth (sheeting) b~etweenl every tw;o lav se of leathier on~ the sole. L'a4 sum mer I purchased a pair of line boots wvhich anmnoyed mec very much by mna ing. So on very hot (lays i ~hnying (urned thm up to the direct rnys of th 8111 andlt put On preasie ; as fa.,t .-i~ dried up( I applied more, untfil th> would tak no imore, antd they haive nic er troubled me since. Our own plan i to stanld the~ shor s in a hlollow pain an< then pour in luke wvarm water uut il tr a )o es n're nec~rly inmmersoed. Keep th, water as1 nearly lukewarm na possibbd for tweunty-fonir lioutrz, and put on 1hi 4h1oes while the soles are stiil amp L'lhey should no~t biecome wet inside. Deogrees of Consideration. " I believe you are connected witlh the church in Elm street, are you not, Mr. Dickson ?" said the customer. " No, sah, not all." " What! are you not a member of th( African church ?" "Not dis year, salh!" " Why did you leave their communion, Mr. Dickson, if I may be permitted tc ask ?" "Well, I'll tell you, sah," said Mr. Dickson, stropping a concave razor or: the palm of his hand, "it was jes like dis. I jined de church in good fait' I gave ten dollars toward the state( gospel de futs' yeah, and de church peopk call me 'Brudder Dickson; second yeah, my business being not so good, and] gib only five dollars. That yeah thn people call me ' Mr. Dickson.' Dis razoa hurt you, sah?" " No, the razor goes tolerably wvel I.' " Well, sah, de third yeah I fell berry podr ; had sickness in my family ;1 didn't give noffin' for preachin'. Well sah, arter dat d- call me 'dat old nig ger Dickson,' and I left 'em 1" An Actress' Ambition. Mrs. Sara Jewett, the actress, was asked whether she did not tire of pa ing the same roles. She said : " Weli it depends a great deal upon how well suited they are to me. In ' The Bank. er's Daughter,' for Instance, having cried 800 times in as many eveninga about nothing, I felt a little wearied of it, but even after a play has been run ning a long time, there is always an in terest in watching its effect upon the au dience and in the effort to preserve oneself from sinking into mechanical actnL But I know no greater satisfac tion In mastering a rol, whicb I dc not lkfor If I do succe.&X fee as if I had a victory over myrejudics the~i1 blie aimvieco mein the pakt X streD a m power of Torce Exerted In Piano Playing. The celebrated pianist,Gottschalk, was highly amused on finding his performaces studied very closely by a scientist who had published treatite on the num 10 ber of muscular 6fforts that may be made s. a given time, for this learned savant found that in one brilliant piece Gottschalk exceededrgreatly the estimate he had made after careful consideration. ;0 The number of consecutive percussions )a riven out were found to be quite aston ashing. Although Gottschalk pretended to be grately entertained by his critics and their widely differing oints of views yet he must have already known that his physical strength was great. Although to all appearance delicately constituted, ' he wrestled with the muscular giants n who were engaged in moving his heavy oonoert pianos, and with a success that astonished them so greatly as to make it a subject of eonversation to the present d hen Bulow was on his concert tour d through Germany and Austria he met e Rubenstein at Vienna. They wore both playing on the Bozendorfer pianofortes, d but Bulow would not play on Ruben ir stein's instrument. He would have an ir other one provided for his use. Prof. e Schmidt, of that city, being curious to it learn the real reason of this deternina tion, examined the " touch " of each in i strument, respecting the depth the key sank and the weight required to depress them to the lowest point. The piano r forte that Rubenstein played required an average weight of eighty-eight grams (one gram being equal to fifteen and a balf grains), while Bulow's required an average of 105 grams. Therefore the keys of the Rubenstein pianoforte were easier to put in action than thohe of 'Bu low's pianoforte ; but on the other hand the keys sank fully twenty-five per cent. deeper than Bulow's, so that tho p action of both pianos made pretty equal 1i demands on the physical powera of the respective performers. Uut if Bulow y had played on Rubenstein's instrument d he would have found his hands sinking y too deep, for they are small. To play v on an instrument with a deep touch one e must have long fingers. IV Prof. Schmidt counted the number of .r notes played by Rubinstein at one of his e concerta and found them to be 62,990 in s number, and therefore equal to a pres e sure of 9881 pounds in weight. On the y Bulow instrument they would be equal it to a pressure of 1,190 5-8 pounds. When It is considered that something - more than pressure is needed in a bril e liant fortissimo, and on a large instru h ment m a large hall, and that a high de 3. gree of velocity must be given to the - hammer and not the mere motion due to !d some weight, some estimate of the ex o penditure of force necessary to deliver :- such percussive accents from the fingers, ir may be made.--Home Journal. in Mosnies. The first authentic account to be found ai of any mosaic work in ancient Rome is fgiven' us by Pliny, who says that Sylla causedl somne "stone-laid " work to be made; and from his and other sources of evidence we are justified in assuming the -time of its introduction here to have been about eighty years B. C. This date corre sponds with the destruction of Corinth, when p~recious objects of all kinds were carried to Rome, and naturally created a wish in the minds of wealthy'Romns to p ossess mosaies as well as other luxurious emb]ellishm1fents. A very learned Italian writer has divided Roman mosaics into four classes, namenly-te'sselated anid see tile, app~lied to pavements generally; fic tile and vermnicuclated or pictorial applied to walls and vaults. Of these the tesse latedl is probably thme most ancient, and consisted of small cubes of marble, sel dom averaging more than three-quarters of an inch square, workedl by hkand into such geometrical figures as, 'when comn bined, 'would best compose a larger figure eqally geometrical, but of course more intricate. It is probabile that the first colors usedl were black and whlite. The best samlies of this tessehated work oc ,cur a~t Pompeii and at the baths of Caracalla; but very fine specimens have been found in this country. Thme sectile or sliced w6rk wvas (ormed, some say, of the different slices of marble of which figures and ornaments were made; others hold that thmese slices were never em ployed to imitate figures or any actual subject, but produced their effect solely through the shape, color and vein of thme mnarles which were contrasted. It is believed that no piece of fragment of ancient sectile work imitating a subject of any kind has yet been found; and if it had beenl so employed we must have had examp~les at Pompeii, where the student may find all varieties of mosaic pavement known to either Greek or Roman. T1hie most noble specimen of sectile work now extant is the splendid pavement of the Pantheon at Rome, where the principal marbles are arranged, each of great superficial extent, of alternate round and square slabs. The building of the Pantheon was finished about thirty years before the Chlristian era. This kind of work required the employment of costly marbles, and no remains of it have been -discovered in any other country than in Italy.-P-otecry Gazette. Commercial Statistics. Uncle Nace and Jim Webster got into a dispute on Austin avenue. Uncle Nace is one of the wealthiest colored property owners in Austin, anid puts on style accordingly, while Jim Webster is comparatively poor. "I kin Bell you out forty times befoah yer kin sell me out one time," said Nace pomp~ously. " Of course yer kin. Who am gwine ter make me an offer for sich a wnfiless, knock-kneed, goggle eyed moke as you' is. "-Texas Sitns Stopping or Staying. .t Eypercritical folks will have it that itis not proper to say "stopping " ata hotel. " Staying " is the Pight expres sion. In the name of common sense, why Arson stop. " whr he any choice betwee~ the W~2 sahould be1,eferred. A ma ortyoft nght. To stay at a goe ~ ql a lon prio Ho Forgot the Bullet. It is but seldom that the oomIe ele. ment enters'into attempts at suiolde. A diverting except-ign to this general rule is afforded wby .the suicidal enter prise of a Hungarian engineer, resident at Temesvar, who, being a steadfast vo tary of Bacehus, had drunk himself into so unsatisfactory a state of mind that a few days ago h;e determined to put an end to his existence. Having provided himself with a pistol, and locked bim self up in a private room of a hotel in the town, which apartment he had spec. ially hired for the purpose, he pressed the muzzle of tho weapon agahist his left breast and pulled the trigger. The usual explosion followed, and the would-be sil cido fell to the ground, where he lay pa tiently ior several minutes, waiting for death. Dissolution, however failing to set in as promptly as he had expected he presently arose, left the hotel and walked home, with a view to dying com fortably in his own apartment. A little later on, perplexed by his unaccountable vitality, he sent for a surgeon to examine the wound. Beyond a slight scorching of the skin, no injury could be detected; and, while the surgeon was vainly search ng for a mortal hurt, his patient anx iously inquired "where the bull6t had lodged?" "I fancy," was the reply, "that you must have forgotten to put it into the pistol." "Give me my waist coat,"ejaculated the intended self-slayer, and, sure enough, safely ensconced in the watch-pocket of that garment was found the missile with which he had de signed to extinguish his yital spark. Since this discovery he has quitted Temesvar, in which town lie found that his rash attempt to kill himself -with a charge of powder and a wad had ren dered him the object of more publio notice, attended by uncontrollable hi larity, than was altogether agreeable to him.-London Telegraph. Practlcal Husband H1unting. It is related of a Connecticut woman whose husband died a short time ago, that instead of lounging and languish ing about until some one asked her to marry again, she plainly announced that she wanted a new husband, and she named the price that she was ready to pay for a satisfactory article. Of course there were plenty of applicants, and at least one of them met the widow's views, for there was a wedding that very day. There is nothing romantic about this sort of match-making, but, on the other hand, there is no nonsense about it. In r.tad of listening to a story so tender and ardent that she could not have the heart to question the suitor's fitness for the place to which he aspired, the widow adopted a method that enabled her to talk sense before marriage, and learn what promise there would be of a senti ment afterward. She did not consume a number of the best years of her life in wishing that one or another man would proiose, but.she ascertained, like a sen sible woman, who was really in the mar ket, and made her choice from those that were available. Sentimen talists may sneeringly say that the man married for money, but will they mention any other man who failed to do likewise when he had a chance ? The wid~ow and her new husband began life with a dis tinct understanding and withor't htaving hafd any lovers' quarnrels ; let sentimnen tal couples showv a better beginning if they can.-Ncw York Herald. Chinese Printing. The blocks arc all of the same size, about eight by twvelve inches, and about half an inch thick. Each block repre sents two leaves, or four pages of thie boo0k, being engraved on both sides. 'Ihe blo0l1's for a comp11lete work can thus be stowed away in a very small compass. The cost of engraving a page of these wooden blocks is said to be but little more than the e'xp)ense of setting up a pa1ge of Chinese type and preparing it for the press. An edition of one copy can be printed if no moro are required, and thus the expense of keep)ing a large stock of printed books on hand is en tirely avoided. Any errors or misp~rints that may be discovered can, as a rule, be correctedI on the blocks with but very little trouble. A skillful printer can print b~y hand 5,000 leaves of two pages each a day, usumg no press or machinery whamtever. ile supli hi own tools, and receives as wages about one shilling a day. The paper ordinarily used is white, and of the best quality, although a yellowish kind is also madle use of at a redluction of twenty Ter cent, on the sell ing price. The books arc bounid in the usual Chinese style, and fastened with white silk thread. 'They present an ap pearance which satisfies the taste of the most fastidious native. The leaves are printed only on one side. Love Lcd by Lucre. " No Cigaret-Charley," she said, using the name by which he was known among the wild, reckless set with which he as sociated; "I can never be your bride." " Pansy-Miss Perkins," said Regin sl1, in those deep, thrilling tones of his, " I cannotr-indeed I cannot let you go I Btny one moment--only one moment I" How tar'rich voico rang in her cars I Despit~e herself it moved her strangely. " Very well," she said, " I will stay." Darting hastily to the hat-rack in the front hall, Reginald fumbled for a mo. mrent in the upper left-hand pocket of his overcoat and drow therefrom a piece of white paper. Returning to the par lor he knelt beside the fauteuilon which Pansy had thrown herself in an agony of grief, and kissed away the bitter tears of pain and sorrow that were welling up mnto the beautiful brown eyes. " See, my darlin g,"h he exclaimed, eagerly, placing the paper before her. " Look at this, my precious one." Pansy opened her eyes and gazed languidly at the paper. "What is it, Tootsie ?" she murmured. Drawing himself up proudly and holding in one hand the paper and in the other his pan cake hat, Reginald said in proud tones : " It is a notice of my promotion to the 'C ribbon counter. Hearafter my salary , will beo$12prweek. Pansy, my proosone,, we are saved." The girl looked se i lingly. " You bet wel *r'e,' she aid And her armsa he rsA and shels Toh's a col! -Boeton Tan best e heard ofaso as slow to t $0out 11 Wn thewahr young man's a shirt-ealler? qkt Herald. "Molr makes im Skeesicks when his iA a $20 greenback, left ft shoppig tour. ENQUIRm: Are plans*, room unhealthy? Not no" seen some very healthy pla in sleeping rooms. "DON'T yoR think that ile a very sweet girl?"' asked en yes, very sweet," replied se; * to say, sho is well preserved." "Ana you dead, Tim?" said an Zilh rather to his son, who had fallgdowhj well. "Not dead, father, but Ap0Ae less," came up from the depths, No WOMAN o'er contented is, No matter what she' got; For w hen she builds a little house bho always wants a lot. -BaAenack hqiwess~s "IT is poor taste to laugh at your ownA " ', jokes," said Fenderson; "something I never do, through I do say it." "Does anybody else ever laugh at them ?' asked liogg. A BRooKLYN man has just found hig sister from whom ho has been separated fifty years. She was the cook in his boarding house, and he recognised the style of her hash. " HAVE you an faith'in mince pie A a cure for headache?" asked one young married lady of another. " iYes, was the reply, "bring out your mine . I get mince-pie headaches regularly. WHEN Brown complained of a rush of blood to the head Fogg endeavored to ease his mind by reminding him that nature abhors a. vacuum, and Brown's blood rushed to his head worse than ever. "MAN and wife are all one, are they?" said she. "Ye what of it ?" said he suspiciousIy. "Why, in 'that cse" said his wife, "I came home awf tipsy lest night and feel terribly ashamed of myself this morning." He never said a word. AT A YOUNG ladies' seminary reogt, during an examination in history, one of the pupils was interrogated thus: " Mary, did Martin Luther die a natural death ?" " No," was the reply; "he was excommunicated by a bull'-Harvard Lampoon. LrrrLE EDITH was terribly sleepy the other night. She began her customary prayer upon retiring, but when she got as far as "Our Father," her eyes closed and her head tumnbled on to the pillow. "1I tan't tay it to-night," she said "'rm too s'eepy. Hie knows the yest oi it." A LECTURER was once in a dilemma which he will probably never forget. While talking about art he ventured the assertion, "Art can never improve na ture." And at that moment some one in the audience cried out in a gruff voice, " Can't he? Well, then, how do you - -- think you would look without your wig?" " MEMORY is a wonderful thing " said Jack Mdller to his friend Dan (Vatte. " Just think of what a fellow's head can hold! lIt's gigantic, sir-.-gigantioel Watts-'"I have often heard your friends Bay you have a very ine memory, Jaoh.~ Miller (flattered)-"Well, that's very kind. Yes, I have a pretty good memory." Watts-" Do you think you can recall the ten dollars 1 lent you three years Manitoba. This than which perhaps there is not to be Xound a more inhospitable region below the latitude of Greenland, is pie. tured as a Northern paradise, and ren dered magnificently attractive on pag. A fa~t country, almost without tumn swept during the greater part of thea year by high winds surcharged with snow and sleet, called, in the expressive phlrase of the denizens, "blizzards," frozen during the winter hard as an ice berg, and to a fearful depth, and deluged wit h water in the spring, itposse many attractions for an Esquimaux. Horses and cattle fare poorlynMn Loba, since if they escape te loss 'of their ears by fro'st, they are subject tc. gradual starvation during the long win ter. It is doubtless pleasant enough during the brief summer, and a returned nxplorer gives it as his opinion that the land is propuctive, although he found It difficult to reach a correct conclusion in regard to it in the spring, while it was several inches under water.-Canadian. Letter' in Cincinnati Gazette. Tamerlane's Human Pyramid. The great conqueror of Central Asia, [n ten years from the time he struck the [lrst blow, had risen to absolute authority. aver a numerous and warlike peple. Pimur (also called Timur-Beg o1 'imur beng, for his lameness, apd known imong Western writers as Tamerlane? aad successfully warred against the Kalmucks and the tribes Khaurezin, and burned his attention, between these-cam paigns, to supporting Toktemeeh Khan, >f the claimants to the throne of Kipe-. ak, ultimately, in 1876, placIng him in indisputed possession. Then, with the view of restoring Its former limits to the 3mpire of Jagatal, he summoned the Prince of Herat and the other chiefs of NRorthern Khorassan, and, on their 'efusal, immediately attacked and re luced them to submission, lyiga sontribution as a penalty. But, a13 the people of Herat again rebelled,an aiurdered the envoys whom he sent to r~emonstrate with them. Timur avenge this by attacking and capturing the ct. Hle took 2,000 of the garrison and bul them up with alternate layer. of briek and mortar in the form of a pyramid, as aihorribly singular and effective reminder of the consequences of rebellion. Delays Are Dangerous. Mrs. Dagerreotype B. Watermeloe~' ' salled on Mr~Amnerious Vesjhua very fashionable Austin lady. The ~. [owing conversation took place' "So your son is ging to getmtalr4 aretty soon, I hear.. "Yes, hewllget m zLihafi~ " H issooung. I shoul4 ould make im wait until he' he ageof disoreton "Ono," responed the mother i