Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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IY~ -i ,., DVOTED TO POLITICS, NQALITY, NDUCATION AND TO THE EIkNERAL INTERNT OF THE COUTRY. D , F. BRADLEY & 00 PI K- ~ iTHIURSDAY, APRIL 20,982 O .X O 1 .~ WV,1 .~a~aj u wa Ovier anold sow ts sotived at Liilngj Texs, lansit wek ) favor et the T ~R4dat. The costA were $54.80. lliam Smith, of North Carolina d his t~bitcco crop in Lynchburg, iW20or$0%,00 7694 hundred dollars worth of snuft ws old by a Outhbert, da., house the Atlanta and Chicago parties have or ganized a fertilizer company, the manu factory to be situated at Nashville. A sbark was caught near Tatmpa, Fla., he other day, -weighing 700 pounds. It had, when caught, seven rows of teeth. Col. Pratt, of the Palatka, Florida, Herald, says that alligator oil beats lard Sa)lhollow, and that alligator steaks beat the frogs of Paris. There are over half a million acres of land in Fulton county, Ga, the county in which Atlanta is situated, valued at only eight cente an acre. Atlanta Constitution: Fifty persons left-~ Rome for Utah on Wednesday morning. They were mostly snuff dip. pirgvwnmn who had beccme Mormon Columbia, Ala., has made'more im provements in the past twenty-four mo9t a than she has made in twenty fouk years before. A fire in Mobile last week destroyed the entomological collection of F. Elshes It was the result of fourteen years' labor and contained 8,000 specimens, Mr. Richard Outlaw, residing near Hartselle, Ala., is ninety-nine years old, I and expects to make his five bales o 1 cotton this year. *A young Frenchman, of Hamilton Ga., spends his spare time catching but terfies, which lhe sells to parties in New York, Philadelphia and Boston at five cents a piece. Lnychburg Advance: The gold boom is starting all over Virginia. Gold bear ing guartz is being developed in several counties, said to be as rich as any found in the Rooky Mountains. There is a young student a t the Uni-. versity of Georgia who eats the hind legs of every rat he can find. Ho also diets on those large size tad-poles, stewed like oysters. He _says that both make delicious dishes. The latest .form of cruelty is that adopted by a negro of Whitesville, Ga. His mule was levied upon by'his creditors whereupon he ceased to feed it. The animal died promptly, and the negro i happy. Caldwell, Texas, Register: A widowv -lady living on Dry creek lost a calf dur ing the last storm. After search it was found back of H. N. Smith's plantation lodged. in the fork of a tree, supposed to have 'blown there. -A man, Jake Brooks by name, living near Argus, Crenshaw county, A la. *some months ago made two hand wagons, putting his household goods in one and his three children in the other, and took a trip to Florida and returned lately, he pulling the chattels and his wife the children. 'The bones of a woman and baby have just been fonnd in an old shaft near Villa Rica, Ga. They are supposed to be those of a young lady who, seventeen years ago, havmng committed a social indiscretion, disappeared and was never afterwards heard from. *Mr. A. W. Martin of Milledgeville, Ga., was seventy two years of age on the 12th ult., and never had a lawsuit, was never'a witness in court and ncver ferved on a jury but twice, never learned to play at cards, and has not taken a drink of liquor in fifty years.( Rome Courier : The guano trade has been almost entirely abandonded by our ~ merchants. They find it does not in the sequel prove profitable to themselves nor g to the farmers. There is not one-half as 1 much sold this season as was the last r Farmers are learning to depend more on r their own resources for fer tilizers than ' uponI bought stuffb. Midnight Sun. The days and nights are egraal all over the world on the 22d of March and.22d of September, the vernal and autumnal eqininoxes. TIake a point on the Arctic a circle, Greenland, for instance, whieh is i S just within. At wile tere euno the days and nights ilthr 0twelve hours long; but as we approach the sum mer solsti0e, reached June 21, being thet farthest point from the equator reached by tho sun, the whole Arctic circle will ~ t come more and more into the light, on account of the inclination of the axis. 8 When we are at the solstice we cannot I get out of the light, and see the sun, n~ which never sets, . due north. Passin n hei.solstice we approach the autumnal equinox, where the days and nights are each twelve hours long. To show you Swhere the midnight sun occurs we will state that atlttde 66 degre, 82 min- P utes froin the egnator the dasbegin to a be twenty-four hours long; at 67a-grees, t 28 minutes the~y are one menth long, in- a ceaing until at 90 degrees, or the pole, they are six months in ienrh, The color ~o the~ son,i ren oits being so ~ earhd orion isredertha ttaerally si with us, but probably not more s.. ...t TOPICS OF THE DA. ZurND is suffering the ravages of a faniine. Parnma Brsiuanw is having decidedly poor health. WwAIA= Mormons have an average of twelve wives each. Juses JAMXB was killed sure enough this time, and there is no doubt about it. Thu auction sale of Wolfe's collection of paintings in New York the past week aetted $181,805. BowING Of spring wheat will occur about three weeks earlier than ousual in Minnesota and Dakota this year. $WEN MArZoNET and James Weefen, Pittsburg pugilists, will fight June 13, in West Virginia, for a purse of $1,000. Tim liquor tax bill, in 'Ohio, gave the Democrats a boom pretty much all over ,he State in the late municipal elections. Tim statement that the Chinaman sOuld be kicked out seems to be a mis. take. The Chinaman is a heftier fellow Li this country than we suspected. IT Is surmised that Frank James will ittempt to avenge his brother Jesse's nurder. The Ford brothers, who killed Fesse, express no fear of personal injury. A KNTUCKIAN, eighty-nine years old, ook out a marriage licence at Cincinnati a few days ago. He was hale and hearty, )ut his eyesight was somewhat impaired y age. TnE fleecing of Charles Francis Ldams out of $19,350 by bunko sharks, md his forgetting the swindle, has be rayed the fact that his memory is sadly mpaired. EVIDENTLY another anti-Chinese immi ration bill, less objectionable perhaps n its features than the one vetoed, will )o adopted during the present session of Jongress. SAYs the Toledo Tclegrqam: Crow Dog, who murdered Spotted Tail, has )een sentenced to be hanged May 11. L'his is a case in which the Tail went be ore the Dog. THE Coroner's jury in the case of Jornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of Wi. l. Vanderbilt, returned a verdict of loath from suicide, committed under emporary mental depression. BENNETT's Polar expedition will not sost him less than $200,000, boeides the nost excruciating torture to his men re itulting in the death of several of their iumber, and science has gained nothing. INVITATIONS are out for the coronation >f the Czar in August. If they are ac sompanied with passes and the where. withal for extra expenses--well, we don't mow what we might do under the cir inmstances. LONoFELLOw'S Will makes no puibliC be lueats, the bulk of the property being riven to his children. Rlichard H. Dana, un., the executor named in the will, being lead, the poet's son, Ernest, will be nade administrator. DIscoURAGING reports of the maple ugar crop come from New Hampshire. 3ad weather has caused a poor run of sap nd poor sugar. Choice syrup from )anterbury retails in Concord at $1.25 a ~allon and Hillsboro sugar at thirty cents pound._____ FRAN~K HAJTON, First Assistant Post naster General, writes the Postmaster bt Cincinnati that postal clerks and ther employes may accept municipal >ffices, unless such offiees interfere vith the official discharge of their duties n the postoffice. ____ IT sHOULD be generally known that arah Bernhardt now has a bona iAde msband, " a Greek gentleman, tolerably ich,-sand good lookite." If Sarah can aaster her blood-spitting proclivity she vill keep right on playing just as if othing unusual had happened. A woMAN living in a suburb of Lead, ille a few days ago, gave birth to a nonstrosity with a head resembling a izard and hands like fins. It gives out n articulato sound. The father had to 'e held to prevent his killing the child. t bids fair to live. THE faot of the matter is, "Betty and he baby" are going to be rich. All the rominent newspaper offices in the coun ry are collecting a fund for the Ser eant's family. and among them is the hiladelphia Press, whose fund alone ow amounts to $2,20J. It Mason should appen ,to get out he ma~y proceed toen >y life in the most approved style. 'Tire site on which St. Xavier's Church 'as located, on Sycamore street, Cin innati, seems to a fated one. When lie old structure was being torn down, ime years ago, to give place to the ew, a wall foil, crushing a dozen Work men to. death under it. The new dature,, which burned a few ays ago ithfuritre and fixtures, was valued 3~fa.0p~ y. ~ rites to the Am asked hehb sza 'wting the reply that some six yefors ago he and I agreed to be each other's biographers, and from that time to this have kept the intention in view. The materials are abundant, particularly the family letters, all of which have been put at my dis posal." . . Tim resignation of State Senator Bar. rett, of Tennessee, has created much talk, as his resignation will very oonsid. erably change the complexion of the Senate in the event a proposition to settle the State debt is submitted. The bill to settle the debt at 100-3 was passed by the Senato at the regular session by a bare majority, Barrett being one out of the thirteen who voted for it. EX-GOVERNOR STANFORD, of Cali fornia, says that ultimately the entire output of California grain for Europe and the Atlantic coast %vill go over the Southern Pacific Railroad. Ships which will take the grain from Now Orleans to Europe will be fitted to carry back emi grants to New Orleans at a very low rate. He says that the popular table wines o California are better than the ordinary poor stuff of France, Germany and Italy. A rADY writes from Boston relating a little episode that happened when Oscn Wilde drove out to Cambridge to call or Longfellow. Oscar asked him if he was not a great admirer of Browning. Long fellow replied that he liked the very fev poems he could understand, but the mass of Browning's pieces were incom prehensible to him. Oscar slapped th( poet familiarly on the shoulder and re marked : "They are as clear to me as , running brook. I comprehend them al fully." THE London World says that therc i still a strain of Puritanism in America and that the sons of the people whi ordained the Blue laws of Connecticut who made swearing a finable offense kissing one's wife ou Sunday a misde meanor, less insipid sorts of osculation crime-still regard weekly beans as burnt offering, and assoicate the domesti virtues with an annuai feast of roas turkey and pumpkin pies. We do no like to dispute so eminent an authorith as the World. FORD, who shot James, and who livei with lin at St. Joseph since last Novem ber, says of James' daily habits "During the day he would stay arouni the house and in the evening he wouli go down town to the news depot and gel the papers. He said there were men here who ought to know him, but they' never did. He took the Chicago Tri b~une, Cincinnati Commercial, and Kansas City Times regularly, and always knew what was going on all over the world. About a week ago ho read a piece in one of the papers that Jesse James' career wvas over, and Charlie said he was awful mad about it." BEECLIER is in favor of Chinese imnmi gration to America. He says they are, by nature, calculated to do a low elass of work at which other races revolt. To give the reader an idlea of how low down in the social scale the Rev. Mr. Beecher places the Chinaman, as well as other races of the human family, we quote the following from his sermon on the sub ject: "What the Americans discard the Germans will eat, what the Germans reject the Jew will consume, and what the Jews throw awvay the Chinamnan will subsist on." This is, to say the least, rather a severe classification. However, the question now is, What does the Chinaman eat ? THE story circulates that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher contemplates retiring from the pastorate of Plymouth Church, and permanently from the ministry, on the completion of his seventieth birthday, which will be June 24, next year. This is not because he is in full p~hysical and mental vigor-his admirers say his pres ent sermons are among the best he has ever preached-but because, as is re ported, lie is unwilling to run any risk of intellectual decline in the pulpit, of which he seems to have a dread. His father, Rev. Lyman Beecher, lived to be more than eighty-seven, b~ut had not preached regularly for a number of years previous to his deathi. DURING August of last year, at the time the Cincinnati C?omnmercial was managing the " Cook One Cent Fund " to aid Capt. Cook in patying a fine assessed him for slapping a man who ''wished Carfield would die," that paper receiv'ed the following, which, at this time, sceems of peculiar interest : "KANsAS CITY, Mo., Augu8t 13, 1881. " To the E-litor of the Commercial: " Although dJoitndA~ and deenised. and feared by a good many, andi only *20.000 of a re war d offot ed for us (lead or other wise, and for all of the above wo honor anid respect our Preidemnt, and stand ready not only to slap, but to aboot, if itnieed be, for him. Sorry it is not dollars instend of cents that is rolling in to the honor able and patriotic old (Captain Cook. FRANK AND) ?IESsE JAMES. " Missouri's Awful Outlaws. "Please copy It al.l for Missouri's Governor's sake. I have not seen his name in your paper yet. . '~g AFTER a short vigit two ladies are about to pay their compliments to the Countess Santa-Grue and lake their de parture. " Pray," she sayts graciously, " remain a little longer.' "Indeed," answered one of the ladies in her most winning way, "were I to stay another flive minutes I should never be able to go (whispering to the other lady), for I shonld b~e fast Igeop~.," "UT TUE SEA, gEPT.'*19, 18SL.9 NY MaN. 13Auc2s HODGsON BUnNETe. Watchman! what of the night? Ad we In grie &ait the end. A light is burntng in a silent room, But we-we bae no light in all the gloom. Watchman I what of the night? Frind, strong men watoh the light With te etramp mist of tears before their sight, And woene at eah hearthstone sob and pray That the great darkness end at last in day. Watnhman I how goes the nightr Wearily, riends, for hni Yet Is heart qualls not, though the light burm 41m As bravely as he fought the geld of lif, He bears ninse in this, the Anal strife. Watchman I what of the night ? Friends, we are left no word To tell of all the bitter sorrow stirred In our sad souls, We stand and rail at fate Who leavez hands empty and heart. desolato. " Are pure, great souls so many In the land That we should lose the chosen of the band ?" We cry I But he who suffers 1ee, Meting sharp-weaponed pain with steadfast eyoa And makes no Pkint while on the threshold death. Half draws his keen sword from Its glittering sheath And looking inward pauses-lingering long, Falteriug-himself thew eak before the strong. Watchman I how goes the night? In tear y friend, and praise Of his hig truth and generous, trusting ways; Of his warm love and buoyant hope and faith Which passed life's Ares free from all blight or scathe. Strange I we forget the laurel wreath we gave, And only love him, standing near his grave. Watchman I what of the night? Friend, when it in past, We wonder what our grief can bring at last, To lay upoa his broad, true, tender breast What ;lower whose awcctneas 4l"0l outiaat !he ro's And this we set from all the bloom apart; lie woke new love and faith in every heart." Watchman! what of the night? Would God that it were gone And we inight see onco more the rising (lawn! The darkness deoper grows -the light burrns low, There sweeps o'er land and sea a cry of woo l watchman I What now I What now I Hush, friend--we may not say Only that-all the pain has passed away. -Cinwinnati Conmercial. OLD STEP TO A NEW TUNE. " One, two, three, four, five, six ! One, two, three, four, five, six ! Moro evenly, monsieur, if you please. You must not riso so much on the four. Again I Four, five, six I One, two, three, four, five, six I" with a monot onous regularity that seemed to tell of a round of more or less stupid pupils succeeding one another unendingly. But Mademoiselle Gervaux, flehion able dancing mistress of Silver stieet Golden Square, and every one admitted who had ever taken a lesson of her one I of the prettiest girls to be met with in town or country, had quick, laughing eyes, which at present told of more in terest than her business-like tone gave a hint of. She wai of dark coiplexion, with rather vivid color, and below the middle height, and was more richly dressed than, knowing her station, on'e would have expected. Her present pupil had observed this; and, bent as he was on attaining the ob ject for which lie had sought Silver street, and on attaining it as quickly as possible, he had yet given more atten tion than he otherwise wvould to his teacher's personal appearance. It 'was only 11 o'clock in the morning, and, however dazzling such persons~ may appear at their weekly assemblies and evening classes, he had not expected to find such a paragon of neatness and taste at that hour in the morning. Cir cling round the room by oneself, with one's hands hanging in an ostentatiously easy position,' and one's figure reflected in a number of full-length mirrors, is not a way in which a young man, even Iof little vanity, ,would care to present Ihimself before a pretty girl ; and the V icomte Alphonse Carmignol, of the French navy, was quite as vain-having indeed such reason as a good-looking face and a slight figure can give a man to be so--as most young men. He was a Frenchman who had been for some time serving abroad, and with distinction. He had just arrived in London, and, rich, high-born and in a small way famous, he fbund himself warmly welcomed. Invitations to all the best houses flowed in ; and Monsieur le Vicomte found It necessary to get the assistance of friends well acquainted with London society before lie could de termine which of his cards he should use, and which he should tacitly or ex pressly lay aside. But of his many invitations one had been accepted beforehand, and, in fact, was the cause of his visit to England. He was engaged to be married, and had come over to be engaged to his fianece --literally to be introduced to her, for they had never met. Their families had, im rench fashion, made up the match, and the two persons w hom Englisli p~eople would have considered most in terested had never come together at all. This was Monday. On Wednesday week there was to be a state dinner at the French Embassy, followed by a ball, for the purpose of introducin gMonsieur Alphonse to the daughter of the Marquis de la Penthiere, French Ambassador at St. James'. A little of English preju dice had been allowed to creep in, in deference to which the Vicomnte had re ceived a private invitation to tea on the same.afternoon, until which time, owing to her absence on a visit in Shropshire, the young larly would 'be invisiblo. I one more week from that date they were to be married-a queer arrangement to the En glish minds, but to the two famil ies, and indeed to the two persons who in English eyes would have been consid ered?'ictims to it, the most natural state of things in the world. Oddly enough, the Vicomte could not danen the newest waltz which was then the rage in London. New descriptions of that (lance succeeded one another so quickly that in these days it is easy for a sailor, French by birth and fashiona ble by station though he be, to return from the service of his country and find himself still " at sea " on the well-waxed boards of a ball-room. Such a state of th ings could not be permitted to con tinue, more especially as Mademoiselle de la Penthi'ere would certainly expect Iher fiancee to dance, and to dance well. So the Vicomte had called in Silver street orne morning at an early hour, had sent up his card, and had been duly received by Mademoiselle Gervaux, and had teken his first lesson at once. She was not at all like the dancing-mistress wbom,^from the description given by the-friends who had recommended him to apply to her, he had expected to see. But she evidently knew how to dance, and she was .very handsome and lady like; and the young man found a new kind of pleasure in returning to take his second lesson. "Mademoiselle," said he, as he stopped to rest and sat down on a stiff backed chair "shall I be perfect by Wednesda ?' In his Fronoh way, so entirely desti tute of shyness, he had told her all about the important event which was to oome off on that Wednesday, had ox plained how anxious he was to see his future wife, and how graceful and charmante she was-she must be " that angel of a demolsele." But all this had taken place at the first lesson, and for some reason Monsieur le Vicomte on this occasion had said much less of the forthcoming event. "Assuredly, monsieur, mademoiselle shall have no reason to complain. But you are no doubt conbumed with anxiety to see her?" "Ah, am I not ?" replied the Vi comte, with a French ejaculation. "But mademoiselle herself is entirely charm ing I" and the young man looked very sincere as he said this, though he added no word of emphasis ; while mademoi selle, who should have been hardened by long practice against the warmest flat. tery, seemed unacountably embar rassed, and resumed the business of the hour with wonderful alaerity. If they were not already in love, they were rapidly approaching that stage; and on this day, as the young French man stood in the dingy street waiting for his cab, the gloomy faded neighbor hood struck him with a full sense of in congruity, it seemed to accord so ill with the grace and elegance that siill im pressed his mind. How much more at home, he thought, sie would look in Eaton Square or in the spacious rooms at the Embassy I And unconsciously he breathed a hope that Mademoiselle do Ia Penthiere might be like her. Three more lessons-the calcalatiun came nat urally to him-three more lessons, she had said, would make him perfect. Wherever he went during the next thre days, to park, dinner or ball, the Vicomte could not avoid comparing all the ladies whom he met with his dano ing mistress ; and, when the last occasion actually came on which he was to see her, his ecys were open to the fact that he was in love-he, a Frenchman, a man of the world, 30 years old, and ready to range himself, was positively in love I So at the last lesson this little scene brought itself to pass. The pupil had taken his final turn with his teacher, and she had pronounced that only prac tice was needed to give him the smooth ness of the perfect waltzer. " I must bid you adieu, then ?" said he softly, taking her hand instead of making the low bow that, as a teacher of deportment, she could have exacted. "Yes, monsieur ; I amn certain that you wvill not forget the step." "Forget it, Adrienne ! Ah, could I ever forget it ?'' And the Vicomite caught her in his arms and kissed her. The result g'as quito contrary to his expectations. First, she boxed his cars soundly, or rather one of them, and then burst into tears, which, whether caused by rage or confusion, were certainly sin cere and more effective. The Vicomte flung himself on his knees and set himself fervently to pac ify her and p)ut things on a proper foot inig. But mademoiselle was mortally oflended. Never hand he known such an offense regarded so severely. She wvas inconsolable ; and she was silent save for sobs. At last she suddenly made for the door, and Monsieur le Vicomite, his future bride, the event of the coming Wednesday, and thme wrath of the fanmi lies forgotten, in an ecstasy of repent ance impllored her to marry him, to be his wife. " Monsieur," replied she with dlignity, stopping sh)ort, " you forget that you are to marry another !". " But, Adrienne, my darling, listen I love only you !" " And what of your miothier and the Marquis dle la Penthiere ?" "I am thinking only of yon ! ' cried ho in a tone of despair, as the indigna tion of these persons occurred to him. "' Nay, Monsieur, I will not suller this madness. You have insulted me, but I will not exact such a punishment. Hear me. On one condition I will forgive you.' " Whatover it be, I will win your par don." "I take you at your word1. You will, before you marry-nay, at your first meeting with Mile. de la Penthiere tell her of your recent misconduct. You have wronged her as much as myself." "I have promised, Mile. Adrienne," he cried, with a groan. " But what of you?" " Of me ?" said she p'Oundly, bowing low. "' I pardon you. A' eu, l~onsieur 1' And, before the young man could again interposo, she d isap uared, the (door closed behind her, and he was left alone in the unfurnmished talon. "Well, I am a fPoll!" he soliloquized, as he picked hims way through Golden Square and Beak street. "I'd have married her, though what madame my mother would have saidl I don't know, and, as to Mademoiselle do la P'eithiero, how I shall toll her T don't know. But I've promised, and the Carmignols keep their wordl," he added with a groan, a he remembered how a few minutes ear lier he had offered to break his most solemn engagement. Even at the French Embassy, that stately building wihich, flanking the Albert Gate, induces country cousins to ask what it is, a great ball is heralded by some slight but perceptiblo prepara heons ; but these were little apparent as the Vicomte was ushered up the spacious staircase to the smallest dlrawmng-ropm. Hero the)~ Marquis do la Penthiere re coived him very cordially; for they were old friends, as far as men of different ages can be, and the Marquis had im bibed sufficient English pre'udices not to have handed over his daughter to the most unexceptionable part4 had not he felt sure that the man himself wason likely to make her happy. He was an indulgent sather, and she had been allowed muchv more liberty than French girls generally enjoy be. fore marriage. Possibly, therefore she was not quite so resigned to her faie as those around her supposed; but she gave no sign of discontent, and perhape was waiting to see her future husband before she decided to oppose her father's wishes. More probably she looked on the union as a matter of course. Mademoisello de la Penthiere bowed low in answer to the Vicomte's reveren tial salutation ; but, with the modesty of a young French girl she shaded her < face from his eyes with Lier large orient al fan, so that in the gathering dusk he t could not at once determine what she was like, save that sho was elegant, graceful and very beautifully dressed. After a few phrases of cordial court-I esy, the Marquis glided from the room -a proceeding not at all in accordance I with strict '1'roech etiquette-and the f two were left together. Then the Vicomte knew that his time was come. It might be that he would not see her alone again until their mar riage ; and he had promised "her" that she should be told of his recent strange forgetfulness. He drew a deep sigh this was worse than a cutting-out ex pedition 1-then he braced himself up, and, after requesting permission to tell her something that was a little disa grecable, but which he would make as short a i possible, lie received a gracious acquiescence, and, plunging in media. r0C, he tbld her all in as shamefaced a way as a Frenchman couid. " But Monsieur le Vicomte, do you love-this-woman ?" Eaid the aristocrat ic beauty, in cold tones, from behind her fan, when he had told his story and made 1 some sort of an apology. " Mademoiselle, f i o love her ; but, when I havo known your charming vir tues for a jahort time, 2>0uf, they will drive away her memory I What chance shall I, who am so susceptible, have in your presence? But it was evident from the Vicomte's tone that he had no very sanguine ex pectations that such would be the case. " Well, monsieur, before I answer your compliment, I too have a confess ion to make. I also have a great friend in London; she is my foster-sister, and is a dancing-mistress, living in Silver street, near Golden Square. No, do not interrupt me ; I will hear any reproaches you have to utter afterward. My father is indulgent, and I often visit her at tended only by my maid. A week ago I returned unexpectedly from a country visit, and it chanced that while I was there my foster-sister was called away to fulfill a business engagoment. I stayed a few minutes in her room practising some new music, when a gentleman's card was brought up to me by the serv at.t, who thought her mistress was still at home. Innocently curious, I looked at it and recognizedl the name as one very familiar to me. In a spirit of mis chief I saw the gentleman, made ap pointments with him, and, with madem oiselle's concurrence and in her name, gave him several lessons." "Alon Dieu ." cried tihe Vicomte, snatching away the fan which she kept before her face. "Adrienne, my dar 1ing, am I not happy ?'~ " And I ?" saidl she. " You have not forgotten tihe step ?" Very lucky it wvas that Monsieur le Marquis did not enter for several mo ments, or the lurking distrust which he, as a (diplomatist, felt might have been considerably strengthened. A week later the marriage of tho Vi comte and Mademoiselle de la Penthiiere formed the most fashionab~le item ill the Morning Post. And as peop~le conned the description of the dIresses and the presents, they expiressed their. pity for, the two victims of French marriage cus toms. But not even yet has anything been known to have hiappenied to thlem out of tile common-not even yet ; for these things happenedl in the most brilliant days of Louis Napoleon. rooa for the SIc1L The following advice as to adminis tering food to the sick deserves the at tenitioni of nurses and of all wvho are called upon to look after nervous pa tients: It is a great mistake to have largg quanILtities of fruit, biseuits, etc., lying about a sick-room. A very few grapes, an orange peeledl and divide(1, aind two or three milk or water biscuits are quite enough to have dlisplayed at one time. The same may be said of food. I hatve often been pafined, when visit ing some of my sick pensioners, to see their friends, with wel1-meant but mis takeni kindness, bring large basinfuls of horrible compo( uds, wich they dignify with thle name of gruel, or sago, or tap iaas the case may be0. The mere sight of the food seemed to set thenm against it. Whereas:, if a little care had b~een bestowed upon its prep aration, and a small cupful provided in stead of the large quantity .I name, they probably would have partaken of it with pleasure. Another error, committed with the best of intentions, is to keep asking the patients what they would like, if they could take this thing or the other. The sickened, wearied expression I have often seen flit over the faces of people~ who are rccovering from a lingering illness, when their offieious relatives come teas inig them as to their requirements I Dm-ing the lingering illness of a dear relative, I verily believe we made her often eat, just by providing dainty mor sels of food, displaying them temptingly arranged, and taking them to her bed side qjuito unexpectedly. If she had been asked could she eat anything, I feel confident the answer would have inevitably been: "No; thanks. I don't feel at all inclined to eat." A very simple . and expeditious way of cooking a little bit of chicken or fish is to butter a paper thickly, place the food to be cooke within the paper, and pla~ce it on the gridiron over ~a clear fire. A very short time suftloes to cook it thor oughly, and I have often found that to be eateni when all other modes of invalid cookery have been tried in vain. iontho 11llVprevelt Pie Osuros :erosn, Wamp oda water. Sar~u OWree i in the milk two!". ea and. coffee. . IN 130MMO rater. It will prev2 )o1oring black. . .. IN MAING a rst of nelt the lard in four. ure the crust. OnanM that In to bw tot be butter cream, Ihst ihange to butter. A rmz comb loosens te dea he scalp just as friet- a earf skin of the body. A rww dried or presrved vith stones out are the * 14 >ossible to grnish sweet d DoUnLI. cream stands on its wenty-four hours, and cream foi requently stands forty-eight hours. IN PoTosx the mpt violent to very common ere, are cured mutting the feet in hot water. A SOLnTION of commO salt gieW-i1 nediately is said to be a 'stroosful ;emedy for strychinia g. SALT extracts the Uices. of net in - 3ooking. . Steaks ongt therefore no) to be salted until they have been hroil IN RoINmG dumpling Of a put them in the water one at a r. they are put in together they will stiZ with each other. Tim only sure and efficient way to warm cold feet is to dip them in od water and then rub them dry briski with a coarse towel. To aEAT the white of eggs quickly put u a pinch of salt. The cooler the og he qui(;Ker they will froth. Salt coo md also freshens them. T ninn is a greenness in onions and otatoes that renders them hard to digs. L or health's Bake ptthem in Warmi water for an hour before coking. XVREN washing oil-cloths, put a litl nilk in the last water they are w eed with. This will keep them bright and : alean longer than clear water. FURNITURE needs cleaning as muoh as other wood-work. It may be washe4 with warm sOap Buds, quickl wi d dry and then rubbed with an oily clo . To MAKE silk which has been wrinkled anpear exactly like new, spopige it on the surf ace with a weak solution of gum arabio or white glue, and iron on the wrong side. A PAarE made of whiting and benzine will clean marble, and one made of wi~)t ing and chloride of soda spread-and lef.6 to dry (in the sun if possible) on the marble will remove spots. Eaas coated with butter in which two or three per cont. of salleylic acid has been dissolved and then packed in dry sawdust without touching one anothda will keep fresh for a year'. N Something About Gems.4 The rub~y is more valuable than the diamond, if it is large, without flaw, andl of the true pigeon's blood color. The largest known ruby belongs to the King of Burmath, being the size of a pigeon's egg. A fine stone of four aarats' weight is worth about two thous md dollars; but above this rate they are very rare, and could command fancy prices. The ruby has been most sue eessfully imitated in paste, and garnete backed by a ruby foil are often met with. The monster ruby of Charles the B~old, set in the middle of a golden rose for a pendant, which was captured by the Burnese after his rout at Granson, turned out to be false. The Sapphire is not so valuable when of great size as the ruby, but a fine stone brmngs a great price. The largest sapphire is the " wooden spoon Seller," so called from the occupation of the finder in Bengal. Its weight is 132 1-16 carats, and it was sold to a French jeweler for 684,000. Lady Burdett Coutts, of London, has one of the finest sapphires. It was for merly one of the crown jewels of Frances The emerald is so rarely perfect that " an emerald without a flaw hnas passed into a proverb, and fine specimens aro worth from one hundred to two hundred dollars a carat. In the middle ages its value was enormous, Cellini putting it at four times the diamond. The largest emerald known is the Devonshire, which was purchased by the Duke of Devon shire for Don Pedro. It is not cut, and is two iuches in diameter, weighing eight ounces, eighteen pennyweights. The turquoise is found in Peasia, a~id the Shah is supposed to have In his posses sion all the finest gems, as he allows only those of inferior quality to leave the country. In consequence, large turquoise of good quality and fine color are extremely rare and bring great prica. The opal is esteemed unlucky, but the absurd superstition cannot be traced further back than Scott's novel of " Anne of Geirstein," in which the Baroness Hermoine of Arnheim wears one. The Empress Josephine's opal, called the " Burning of Troy,," from the innumerable red flames blazing on Its surface, was considered to be the finest stone of modern times, but its present owner is unknown. In the Museum of Vienna is an opal of \Qraordinary size for which two hundred , ousand dollars has been refused. The largest 1onl record is now In Russia. It 'was ro ib from India in 1620, and sold to Pii IV of Spain. ____ Broom Corn. Broom corn was introduced into this country by Dr. Franklin. He saw'a secd on a broom', planted it, and the seeds from this single plant were the b)eginning of broom corn as ant American. agricultural prodIuct. The credit of the br'oom-makkinlg industry is due to the Shakers, who, raising the plants in ther gardlens, mafaciture~tiid the brooma ana sold them for 50 cents, or more, apiece, Immediately after the war, so great was the profit from its cultivation, that A was 80o!n ordone, and the may who had( rushed into the businos were od*