Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-li *; ?f ion .E. DEVOTED 7 0 POLITICS, XMALtY, DOATIOJ A'T* TEE VIENBBALATRTOFTEOUT. B, D. F BRADLY & CoPICKENS.- S. C., THURSoDAY, APRIL ,27, 1882. .VL I O 2 b".o burg bas sod near g' io of as oil hinoe the Wfnt own and left the ountry * 6~tilag with these peAte. wiel (Ga.) Sun: 0. L. Bowen, artwell, bas a rooster that was twen, e ars old JaApril. He brought ,th hiM fom South Carolina. tlanta Constitution: The. slave roperty of Georgia amounted to $34.1 00000 mre than the aggregate valua Of all her present taxable property. One thousand' eoven hundred and eIghty-nine oasks of spirits of turpen due and 8,982 barrelp of rosin have been Ahpped from Live Oak, Fla., since last August.Cbnlr Mr. Ctero Obandler, of Athens, drives a boree that was in Dahlgren's raid te Richmod, and the animal ham been shot three times. The horse doeb SW1 service now. W. R. Anro, of Orlardo, Fla., em ployed a negro boy to eat 1,000 orangep and save the eced. The boy eat ninety.. three oranges the first day and then gave the job up in disgust. Dr. L. M. Moore, of Orange county, 719., recently extracted one of his own teeth, fi)led the cmvity srd bad it rese u his jaw, and the tooth is now doing eniital duty on Florida bee', In the orchaid of Mr. George Hupu ey, West Point, Gi., is a tree that t b are from two to'three peaches from a single bud. By maturity the peacbes have grown Into each other, Gen. Saniord has growing on his pltce in Orange- county, Fla., the camphor and cinnr.mon tree, bergamot oravgeb and Jewons, India crab grass, the Aus.. tralia' clive wood, golden apples and the razilian palm. Rartwell (Ge.) Sun: A Wyoman in this county had named her baby Uharles, and called him Charlie until Guiteau killed the President, when she changed bis name just because the assassin re-. 4 jOled in that cognomenr. A deposit of $250 was made in one of the ravings banks of Mebile rearly t wen .ty-two years ago, atnd has been drawing interest and compounding interest at five per cent, for all that time. The deposit, which had amounted to $678. was withdrawn a few days since. At the residence of Mr. Jesse McCol ham, two miles from Canton, Ga., there a growing a rose-bush that was planted since the war, in a flouriebhing condition, eleven inches and a half in circumfer ence, measured six inches above the ground. An Atlanta jeweler tells a reporter of the Constitution that he has had more broken mainsprings in watches to repair during the last three months than in three years previously, because competi. tion ha! reduced the price, and conse. quently the quality of the material * used- in their manufacture. The committee appointed in Nashville by the county court in 1879 to investi-' -gate official stealago in the county has Ailed a report In which they say that a sum exceeding $100,000 was lost the ocunty during the administration of W. A. Knight, Trustee, and urge vigo rous prosecution of the delinquent parties2. Ini Surrey county, Vs., last Fri y a double murder was committed by the administration of - poison, Mrs. Gray 'and Mr, Jones drank some coffee for breakfnst in which arsenic had been Place~d, and died in a few hours after * war~d. A negro boy In Crawford county, Gs., being bound to Mr. Yarcey Jordan for a year, got tired ot work and concluded to pofron the whole family. He poure:l a bo'x of rat poison in the coffte-pot, and they were alt made sick, but ' none o them died. The French steamship Opal struck on a shoal reef near Key West the past week, but was relieved by Capt. She Dave's boat, who received $5,000 for the job. Tihe monsy was in kegs, and before She Ikive's boat feached land a Equal! struo't it and the money kegs rolled over~ bos:rd. There is a running stream in Stonc wall county, eighty miles northwest of - *Abilene, that is Imisregnated with salt to such an extent that a man's body will float on it without the least exzertion on bis part, and It requires the ordinary strength of a man to sink his hand or o) t the bottom. Atlanta Constitution ; There is an old lady in Macon who has a mania for pumping water. She goes to the Floyd House pump one hundred times every day, by actual count, and takes away a bucket of water. Though closely watch-. ad, no one knows what she does with so much water, as she could not verf well dri*3k all of If, and she pn't . nnder con tract to supply a canal. Hrnce the mystery. _______ Did Not Ubderstand Journalism. I[ recolleet ,sitting a6 table in London beside the editor of a leading joaal * osl one of navy ,gular eriterk.'" I did not know about journalm at th ut. TOFICS OF TIUE DAY. Nuw gold discoveries have been made in Montana. Baonan denies the report that he to soon to retire from the pulpit. Dz. D. W. B ss is to go to Europe for a rest. The rest will be general. Tu "boy preacher" Harrison has inado 1,800 converts in Cincinnati. JUDGE BLATOMFORD is perhaps the wealthiest man who ever sat upon the 3upreme Bench. Tmu~E are 285 persons or firms in Washington prosecuting claims before the Pension Bureau. BucAusa of the veto of the Chinese bill, they burn President Arthur in effigy in Ban Francisco. TaE French Government. will have 3ight expeditions taking observations of the transit of Venus, December 6. AN ATTEmrT to pass a bill in the Ohio General Assembly to prohibit the sale of fre arms to minors was defeated. LoNGFELLOw One gave this sensible advice to a student who desired a rule to guide him in writing: " Be yourself; work out your own individuality." IT is a consolation to know that the Chinese have discovered that there is imch a country an British Columbia. rhey are going there by ship' loads. HENRY M. STANLEY writes from "far up the Congo River" that his expedition is prospering and will probably be brought to a successful close this y9ar. MR. W. X. VANDERur, of New York, has given a house and grounds complete on the sonth shore of Long Island to be used as a place of summer resort for the poor children of that city. THE Memphis Avalanche says that the only thing Congress can do to improve the Mississippi River will be to build a mountain range on either side of it to keep it within its boundaries. THE Star Route swindlers who at first wanted a speedy trial, and then after ward didn't seem to be in a hurry about it, are to be tried speedily whether their anxiety tends that way or not. Saoun Mr. Scoville commit suicide no surprise need be felt. Only twenty persons turned out to hear him lepture the other night. A school boy could have drawn a larger audience. TxiE report has begun to circulate again through the newspapers that Mr. Tilden is in feeble health. This report will reappear with increased frequency as the summer of 1884 draws nearer. THE fight in Ohio, as it is being drawn, seems to be between the churches and the saloons, and "other people," of which there are doubtless many, do not ap. pear to have much to say in the matter. .DAvin SwING, of Iowa, aged eighty three years, had to pay $.3,000 damages for kissing his hired girl. Strange one of his age and experience could not do so slight a turn without damaging the girL. _ _ _ _ _ _ THERE is only one sad fact connected with the death of the murderer, Jesse James. Sentimentalists did not get a chance to present him with a bouquet in his last moments, although he had killed fifty men in his time. WELLu, well I And so dishonesty has crept into the Ohio Legislature, and that, too, in the shape of bribery I The very last place on earth one would have looked for it. It is no wonder honest men refuse to run for office. SARAH BRRNHAniDT was married the other day, and now .a cablegram says she is attending bull fights at Madrid. Spitting blood-married-attending bull fights I Well, well!I If .that isn't going it by strides then we don't know what is, A CORRESPONDENT describes the wife of Sergeant Masoni as being twenty-seveu years old, tall and spare built, with uns graceful figure. But she has fine, light brown hair, pleusant eyes, ani aquiline nose, rosy lips, oval chin and a slender neck. Mit. SOovIrLrE's applice tion to Congress for pay for services rendered in the de fonse of the President's murderer was not exactly unexpected. It requires no more nerve than was required of Dr. Bliss when he set his figures for services at $50,000.______ HxsTonIAN BANOBOFT, who professes to be a judge, says be "never ate finer dinners in any European court than President Arthur. provides for his friends," which loads us to remark that Aithur has a wonderfnl craving for good things. MAnsUAL HENntY says Mrs. Garfield is in wretohe(1 health, the recent attacks gpon her husband almost crushing her. A fOWIt ago sh~ wrote him that her more' Qai she could bear, not foe her children iot seem that lobbyists hesitate to offer I aoney to members of the Ohio Legisla ure for their votes. - What the country Leeds is a law that will look upon .the obbyist as a common criminal and hold lis vocation to be on a par with that of aograncy. BARINS, the Kentucky evangelist, ac. epted a purse of $800 for. his highly upoessful revival work in the village of Paris. This fact is being used against I aim, on the ground that he possesses ut er disinterestedness. He replies that the money will be devoted to the educa 'ion of his daughter. 40, A PRIoE is set upon the heads of wild riorses in three of the AustrUan colonies, rhey hang upon the outskirts of civiliza, 'ion, and are a ceaseless cause of annoy. Me and loss to outlying squatters. rhey are vicious, physically weak, and wvorthless as work horses. Stalking 'hem with the rifse, or running them lown, is a favorite sport. IF THERB is a summer hotel in this country that doesn'tmistake cockroaches for raisins in preparing food for the table, it should make it a point to adver tise the fact. Hotels in which cook roaches do' not get miied up in things In which they have nobusiness to med. die, are -getting to be 'ibout as scarce as rich editors, MNIUPACTURERS of oleomargarine are in Washington resisting the proposition to tax them. If a tax is to bo placed on this vile stuff it should be heavy enough to have the effect to increase its market price to a figure by which the innocent purchaser can distinguish it from the genuino article of butter. Frauds are altogether too numerous. DAnNUM has lauded an elephant in this country le calls Jumbo, and most of the metropolitan aailies seem to have taken a fit over the matter. Why this particular elephant should excite so much or more attention than some gi. gantic swindle or a presidential election is hard to understand, inless it is because he can be assailed without the danger of D lible suit or a first-class fight. CAPr. HoWaATE, who owes the Gov, 6rnlent something like 8160,000, ac companied by a bailiff, went to his resi dence to see his daughter, *ho had just returned from. Vassar College. It seems that the Vassar girl turned the bailiff's head, for at a moment when his mind was not centered on his charge, the bird took flight and was gone. Really an attrac tive girl is worth something in' an emergency. THE recent statement that the time would arrive in a few days for the usual announcement that the peach crop has been killed, has finally reached~ us, but the joke end has been cut off, leaving us alone with the Bad fact. And it is not only true that the peach crop has been all but completely killed, but with it go all early apples, pears, cherries and other fruit upon which we had relied for an abundant yield. In Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, there will be little if any early fruit. THEi promenade over the East River Bridge, New York, promises to be the most attractive of any in the world. The walk for foot passengers is in the center of the bridge, and nine feet above the roadway for carriages and railroad cars, and the view, taking in the bay, the river, a glimpse of the sound, and the area of the two densely populated cities, will be such as thousands will de light to linger over. The distance be tween the towers is 1,595 feet 5 inches, and including the approaches, about a mile. ________ A sTRANGE circumstance is connected with the shooting of Sergeant Mason at Guiteau. When the bullet struck the wall of the murderer's cell it flattened itself out into a thin piece of lead in the outer lines of which the superstitious see a startlingly distinct profile of the mur derer. It excited profound curiosity at the time, and a shrewd dealer obtained of Warden Crocker permission to make a cast from the original piece of lead. By a very little scraping here and there the likeness of the self-appointed "agent of the Diety" was made perfect, and since then hundreds have been sold, accom panied by the Warden's printed certifi cate of correctness as faa similes. The uncanny souvenirs, which have found their way into countless pockets, have been bored with holes and - hung upon watch chains~ and ladies' bracelets, show the receding forehead, long lean nose and sharp chin as perfectly as if the as sassin had sat for the picture. Absence of Mind. A citizen who was flurried antd angry entered a grocery store on Antoine street and called out to the owner: " Why in the-- do you keep a dog around here to eat folks up ?" " Didt my dog eat you oop?" was the innocent query in rep ly. " Not quite, but he tore my coat half off my back, and you've got to pay for it I," " How much ?" "Well1 it will cost as much as 2 to gt it repaired. You'll either pay it or I1l have the dog shot." "Oh, I'l pay dot," said the goe, and he did; butthe man washadyout of sight before he .jumped a foot hg and called out: "PDunder und blitzen, but I et gf-eatest abackass in America. I sells dot dog to my fader-in-law a' sis W99 kgROg "-. rf4 J* f 1il1 Arp is Mad Because the Old Now Opens Gates. Pom the Constitution.j The 'more a man does the more lie can lo, especially if there is a gentle pires, are liehind hita whieh says, doln't stop, ceep movIng here is another little job or you to do. A farming man may nap out is work for to-morrow ever ocarefully, but it Is mighty lard to work up to it, for the first thing he rnows the plow poinite are too dull or a ingle-tree breaks in the new groutnd, or i nabors hogs, that have got no pasture )ut the big road, have broke thtotigh ;he water gap, and it takes an hour to lun 'en out again, for a hog wont go )ut at the same hole he came in. Thee iogs that pester me so come three quiar .era of a nelle every day to peruse ny premises, and they have lived on me Ill winter, and I've dog'd 'em pretty bad, but they come back again next day Id lie round a-watching, and water rapa and gates are no protection for they ae educated hogs. Cobe told me to catch one and mash his tail on a rock, but it did no good. I can fix a gate that that old sow can't root open, lUt ['m not going to do It, for she has no right to put her nose under It and shake it and rock it and lift it uutil she gets it open; and I'm not going to stake down my water-gap on the lower side either, for the creek rises rapidly, and some times in the night, and brings the rif raf down, and the gate must be free to rise with it. The fact is, nobody has itny right to keep stch hogA utinless they keep 'em at home, and I've borne with it until patience is exhausted and I'll have to stand by my arms. Why, last Sunday we all shut tip the house and went up to spend the day with our mar ried offspring, and when we come back in the shank of the afternoon the old sow and all her shoats were under the house and had broke up two hen's nests, and when I made war on her in my wrath she actually showed fight and kumblumoxed at me like the premiseE were her's. THE FBNRI0 LAW AN) Tit1 HGB. the fence law as it is gives these hogs a pasture in a lane'nearly a mile long an d open at both ends, and they have got to forage on somebody or meat will be scarce next fall. There is a power of work to do now and it looks like my share of it is bigger than usual for one of the boys has gone to railroading and another ia puny. Well he Is not dowr in bed sick but he is not able-bodied enough to do hard work. and keep at it, but just feeble enough to go a-fishing and set on the bank and get the biggesi bites and catch the smallest fish in th( creek. Mrs. Arp is mighty particulai about her children when their eyes lool hollow and they complain of pains and she is a mighty good doctor, but shE knows I have no time to get sick, and so it's William this and William that, and the other day she called me a quar ter of a mile off, and when I came puffin' and blodin' she said the winde> curtain had fell dewn and wanted me to fix it. Some more new dirt wa: wanted for the flower pots and boxes and I had to bring her samples fron seven fence corners before I got th, right kind, and the big old fish gerani umns that don't smell good nor look pret ty had to be divided and set out in th< ground, and the scuppendine vine ha< to have an arbor built and two mor< coops for the little chickens that wer hatching out had to be fixed up, an the new-born ducks had to have thei tails cut off and the peas were to stlc1 and the little chaps are always sayin; papa this and papa that, and yesterda, I had to take a basket and a digging ho and go way down in the meadow, and og the creek, and dig up lillies, and violets and all sorts of wild flowers for them t plant in their little flower gar den, an< they had to have hen's eggs, and pigeo etggs blowed out to paint and dye an fix up for Easter and I had to mak 'em a draft boardf, and saw spools in tw for draft men, and dye half of 'em wit ink, and it's some new thing every da to do, and it is a good thing for a famil to have a wiliing horse to work in an sort of barness, and though I say it my self I'm that sort of a horse, and I thin it suits me, for it is a varygated labc and less monotony in it than all-da work at one thing, and it changes th muscles and lets one set rest while ar other set is at work, and so a man don get tired at all unless he wants to. thought I was going to dodge the potr to slip business this year, but I had t go at it, and I feel to-night like I was hundred years old in the back ; but Mr, Arp got me up a good supper, for shi knew I'd come a grumbling, and beside I brought her some sweetshrubs an whlte honeysuckles from the woods, an these were her favorites in the days c auld lang syne, and yesterday I cleane out the old. rubbish in the flower-pot fo her, for she said she knew there was snake in there somewhere and I didn find the snake but found two eggs in nest and she wasn't right sure the wasn't snake eggs until the old hen comn cackling out of there this morning. MRS. ARP's WORK. But my work won't compare wit her's by no means, for there's an evel lastin sight of sewinag and patching an, (larmng going oi all the time and sb never gets done and every week's wast> ing is to look over and sort qpit and tbJ missing buttons to sew on and the reni to close up and the churning is to dc and sometimes the dasher goes flippit; flop for two hours before the butter wi come, and now she is teaching the littl chaps to write little letters and whe they get into mischief and iiave to comn to headquarters, they come a little ti nighest of getting a wvhippin of an children in the world, only they don quite get it, and I haven' kept an book account, but my opinion is thi not less than 3,700 waippln= have ben promniled 'em, and are now due an unpaid. 1 overheard a voice say thi other day "now, Car),I will whip you ft that," and I echoed in gentle accent "about what time, but Carl got it on credit au usual. Nabor Dobbins had had eleven shee killed last Sunday by the dogs. I brin mine up to the fold every night, be still I'm on ttie expectation all the tim< and still I wonder if there is no rejined and never will be for these sort of ais asters--these little troubles that exas 9 rate a man and make him grow old fore his time. Life is full of 'em and I reckon they are sent upon us to mak us get tired of life and the better to fit and prepare us for heaven. f hope so. . BILL A rp. Eating Before Sleeplng. Man is the only atimal that can be taught to sleep quietly on an empt stomadha The brute creation resent al efforts to coax them to such a violation of the laws of nature. The lion roars ti the forest, until he has found his prey, and when he lia devoured it he sleeps over until he needs another MeaL The horse will paw all night in the stable and the pig will squeal in the pen, refueig all rest or sleep until they are fed. The animals which chew the cud have their own provisions for a late meal just before dropping off to their nightly slumbers. Man can train himself to the habit of sleeping without a preceding meal, but only after long years of practice. As he comes into the world nature is too strong for him, and he must be fed before he will sleep. A child's stomach is small, and when perfectly filled, if no sickness disturbs it, sleep follows naturally and inevitably. As digestion goes on, the stomach begins to empty. A single fold in it will make the little sleeper restless two will waken it; and if it is hushed again to repose the nap is short, and three folds put an end to the slumber. Paregoric or other narcotic may close its eyes again, but without either food or some stupefying drug it will not sleep, no matter how healthy 't may be. Not even an angel who learned the art of minstrelsy in a celestial choir can sing a babe to sleep upon an empty stOmaoh. We use the oft-quoted illustration, "sleeping as sweetly as an infant," be cause this slumber of a child follows im mediately after its etomach is complete ly filled with wholesome food. Tho sleep which comes to adults long hours aftef partaking of food, and when the stomach is nearly or quite empty, is not After the ty r, of infantile repose. There is all the difference in the worldbetweeu the sleep of refreshment and the sleep of exhaustion. To sleep well blood that swells the veins in the head during our busy hours must flow back, leaving a greatly dimin ished volume behind the brow that late ly throbbed with such vehemence. To digest well, this blood is needed at the stomach, and nearer the fountains of : life. It is a fact established beyond the possibility of contradition that sleep aids this digestion, and that the process of digestion is conducive to refreshing sleep. It needs no argument to con vince us of this mutual relation. The drowsiness which always follows the well-ordered meal is itself a testimony of nature to this inter-depEndence. New York Journal qf Commerce. Almost Incredible Distance of the stars. .ft would take a ray of light traveling at the rate of 186,006 miles per second three years and eight months to go to a the nearest fixed star. In order that - the mind may be less confused in the - mlidst of these thousands of sparkling a points it hais been agreed from the high I est antiquity to class the stars according' -to their apparent brightness. The a brightest stars have been called stars of I the first order or magnitude, although r this term does not imply anything rela c tive to the actual size or brightness of gthe stars ; those which follow, still in , the order of their appar'ent brightness, have been called stars of the second a Imagnitude; then comes those of the third, fourth, and fifth magnitude, ac Scording as they appear smaller ; stars of the sixth magnitude are the last stars visible to the naked eye. Iti generally thought that the e bighestare the nearest, though this is h twe ,00ad,00srsvisible t h naked eye. But when our feeble sight gives way, the telescope, that giant eye wh ichincreass from century to century, pieringthedepths of the heaven~s, con stantly discovers new stars. After the r sixth magnitude the first glasses revealed the seventh. They then reacheil the eeighth, the ninth. It is thus that thous ands have increased to tens of thousands, and that tens of thousands have become hundreds of thousands. More perfect instruments have cleared those distances, Iand have found stars of the tenth and eleventh magnitudes. From this period a they began to count by millions. The ' number of the stars of the twelf th magni e tude is9 9556,000 ; de t h eee preceding magnitudes, the total exceeds Sfourteen millions. By the aid of still Sgreater magnifying power these limits are again surpassed. At the present time the total number r of stars, from the first to the thir a teenth magnitude, inclusive, is calcu t lated at 43,000,000. The sky is truly a transformed. In the field of the tele scope neither constellations nor dlivisionis e are distinguishied; but a fine dust shines in the place where the eye, left to its own power, only sees darkness, on which stand out two or three stars. In pro iportion as the wonderful discoveries in optics will increase the visual power, all ereg'ons of the sky will be covered with e hsfine golden saind. e " Onu cow's milk" may be worse than s~ the mixed article, as proven by a case in ~,which a baby fed on thei milk of one cow, sickened and died of tubercular disease, II the cow itself dying two months later of Le tuberculosis. JNad the milk of that cow n been mixed with milk obtained from a * dozen others, the child would not have Ce received daily such large doses of the Y diseased milk, and mighit have lived. t Probably condensed milk is as safe a food Y as can be used when there is any doubt Lt as to the quality of the ordinary milk n' served to a family. eUANADA bae become more emphatically a dairy coury than the United States. > With a population of 5,000,000, the' a manufacture annually 60,000,000 pon% of cheese, equal to 12ounds peroaia while we, with 50 .000, mu . 000,000, or 6 pounds per oapia - Wit~ a population not exaeeding ope-tenth of ,ous their exports of battet are about 079 oetaats gn.M as 0 - Morning Work. Sir Walter Scott used to do a good day's work before his guest* were up. Daniel Webster also worked in the morning, and both seemed at leisure, though it was not known how it was Beetired. A good story is told of Turner which shows his appreciation of the morning hours: Lord Egremont once invited Turner to stay a week at Petworth and paint two pictures for him of some favorite bits of scenery on the estate. On the first morning of his visit Lord Egremont asked Turner what he should like to do, and the great painter replied he would go fishing. The next morning at breakfast Lord Egremont inquired again what It would please Mr. Turner to do; and he re plied that, having enjoyed himself so much yesterday, he would go fishing again. On the third morning Lord Egremont thought he would wait for Turner to an nounce his own plans, and was greatly amused when he quietly said he was again going a flshing. On the fourth *morning, Lord Egre mont, unable to conceal his anxiety, said : " Well, Mr. Turner, I am only too glad for you to enjoy yourself, but you are talking of going away to-morrow, and I felt anxious about the pictures." "Come up stairs to my room," said Turner, "and set your mind at rest." Nothing could exceed the surprise and delight of Lord Egremont when Turner introduced him to two exquisite pictures painted as he had desired. The great man had risen each morning with the sun, and before breakfast hdi by a good day's work, earned his pleas. uro in fishing.-Manchestcr Tines. Social Pests. We have no toleration for whining and we have no pity for whiners. They are among the most tormenting of social pests. Affected sensibility is disgusting, morbid sensibility is vexatious; but worst of all is the drawling dolefulness with which certain self-consecrated martyrs Iersecute any acquaintance who has patience and good nature enough to listen to them. It is the hearer who is truly the great sufferer. These talkative afflicted ones have no mercy, no compas siodi; without consideration or remorse, they continue to the extremity of endur ance their slow, wasting torture, and care nothing for their victim's pain; are not sensible to his mute anguish; give no heed to his imploring looks, iind no hear ing to his stifled groans. - We once heard a olorgyman preach upon the duty of people bearing each other's burdens. We told him after service that it would be as well to preach another sermon on the duty of people bearing their own burdens. In this matter of bearing burdens their is seldom any reciprocity. The bearing is usually all on one side, and the supp~ly of burdens all on the other. One person furnishes the load, and another person has to carry it. Such persons are entirely opposite in character and class. The martyr side or ethics, as the most repugnant to instinct, is naturally the side which moralists the most strenu ously urge; but ncedfnl in general as this is, the urgency maj b)e excessive and unreason able. The constant exhor Lation is, "Care nothing for self ; care everything for others." Think and work for the comfort andl happiness of your brethren; but as to your own lot, be con tent, even joyful, with suffiering and sac rinlce.-llcurv Gilc. A Tough Frenchman. It seems almost impossible to believe the accounts of the severe injuries from which the brain sometimes recovers. An instance is related in which a French man drove a dagger through his skull with a mallet, in an attempt to commit suicide, Hie struck the dagger about a dozen times. The weapon, wvhich was ten centimeters long and one wide, was nearly embedded. In order to remove the 'lagger, the patient was placed on the ground, and while two strong men hold his shoulders, the dagger was forci ly pulled with carpenters' pincers, but to no avail. Strange to say, these pro ceedings did not cause any pain, and al though patient and assistants were raised off the ground, the weapon remained im movable. At last the man, walking, without much difficulty, was taken to a coppersmith, and there the handle of the dagger was fastened by strong pincers to a chain, which was passed over a cyl inder turned by steam power. The man was then secured to rings fixed-in the ground and the cylinder set gently in motion, when, ofter the second turn, the dagger camne out. No pain had been sulfferedl by the patient dturing all these maneuvers, and after remainmng in the hospital for ten days, lhe returned to his work and the wound gradually healed. The Hour. ________ Ameriea's Future. Of course some (day the movement of people from the Old World to the New will cease ; the population of the two hemispheres will becoma equalized, and thle disappearance of cheap lands will remove the incentive that now maintainm the moverhient. But when that day shall come, it will see in the United States i strange, conglomerate people, the lik of which was never seen before on thi earth-a people numbering 100,000,000 made up of all languages and tribes with the imperial Saxon element pre dominating, and capable of exerting force which has not been witnessed o: felt since the days of the Roman em pire.--St&. Louiu Repubtican. -"ConvalescentP' A country phyvsician of limited sense and "limiteder"' education, was called to see Mr. R.'s little boy, who was quite ill. H~e gavri some medicine and left, promising to call again on the following morning. When he arrived mi. R. met him at the gate and informed him that the child was convalescent. " Convalescent ' said the doctor " convalescent ? Thenlif he$is that bai off you'll have to call in i42n other plhysician ; I never treated a case of it it~ my life I" And with that he nmounted his horse and departed.-Defroit 14 the bestf I -CAapg.t Hat1 . the oe Doi' assumu see how clover everybody else is I Taur ta Q5naga to obtain a little teal serves neither liber?O GnrAT Ideas tral51 a time noieslesuly feet were shod witL LovJ issasterof all s1 And puts into humasaads The strangest thing p TAT indifereto , t Mf though it often makes a *Wiis is the basis of his sublind*- 4 does not. AV. arraar upon yourpsent of which every man your past misfortunes of Wh have some. EVm! man's work, pursued tends to become an end in goes to bridge over the loveless Y of his life. Loox on this beautiful world sad read tObeth In her fair page; se every iesso bis New change to her of everlsxtingyout. -.0. -r100. THAT quick sensibility whioh is e0 groundwork of all advances-towards 0 tection increases the pungency of and vexations. VioE may be defined to be a missal culation of chances, a mistake in ei mating the value of pleasure and pains It is false arithmetic. No own in accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart though unknown Responds unto his own. -H. W. LonUfeowe WE mn members of one great body. Nature has made us relatives when it begat us from the same materials and for the same destines. SHAKE5PzABR sets his readers' souls on fire with flashes of genius ; le common tators follow close behind with buckets of water putting out the flames. DIFFoIorY, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man. Kindle the Inner geniul life of him, you have a flame that burns up all lovpr considerations. I SHOULD as soon think of swimining across Charles River when I wish to go to Boston as of reading all my books mn originals when I have them rendered ' for me in my mother tongue.-Emer MEN thin away into insignificance and oblivion quite as often b~y not making the most of ~ood spirits when they have them ashby rfacking good spirits when they are indispensable.. THOsE who have the power of re" proaching in silence, may find it a means more effective than words. There are accents in the eye which are not on the tongue, and more tales come from pals lips than can enter an ear. - BY oULTIVATING an interest in a few good books which contain the result of the toil or the quintessence of the genius of some of the most gifted thinersof the world, we need not lie on the marsh and in the nists. The slopes and ridges invite us. POPULAR S3CENCE. TmiE mean depth of the sea is 1877 fathoms. ' TOADs, tortoises, turtles and some lix ards are entirely destitute of teeth. CAMOMJIE flowers are sometimes tised f or the adulteration of smoking tobacco. CHEusE is really but coagulated mil in a more or less advanced stage of de cay. IN THEi swamps surrounding the ".1* licks" of Kentucky, buffalo bopes are found packed in the soil in great quantia ties. TM~nE is no appreciable diflerejice, for the feeding of silk-worms, between the leaves of the osage orange and the mul berry. TiuE sea urchin is remiarkable as being the only animal below mollusks and articulates possessing organs for msI cation. * THE~ heat of lava at the botto of the crater may be estimated at 2,000*, for refactory metals meT in contact with burning lava. IT HAs been estimated that the evaporation from the soil of the forest is rather more than one-third ss'great as that from open soil. Fon lead poisoning sulphate of soda or Epsom salts is the prescribed anti dote ; powdered charcoal and sulphate of magnesia are also used. TaEs experiment has been tried exteni sively in France of planting trees in belts at certain distances apart, with marked benefit to the elimate. CULORAL does not act as an ana0sthetic on the sensitive plant while ether and chloroform have an oeot on itsnimila to that they exert on animals. Tus existence of rays beyond the violet end of the spectrum, though al most invisible to our eyes, has long been ' shown by their chemical action. WHAT has been commonly knows as the fat of an eel is seen, under a micto scope, to consist of egoells of whipmh a singler fish may contamn 9,00,000. IT HAS been discovered that the ,en00 of the Lacheai. rhambeaWa, a eo of snake, possesses the power of op~ ing albuminous substances and emals fying fats. TREEs, during rain storms, retelf na -quantities of water. The soil ' with forests receives six-t#fths the 'rainfall, the trees having inteepe four-tenths. Tan light which falls from the, satellites of equivalent to what a IAm ~ a which the sun shone at W~bt Iwould redlect to Boston. Taiu man who said he laeshk1 ingon an eon mustebe~a_