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.'t P 44)1 D 'OLITJW, Z0KRALITY, UVOUC~tlON AN'D' TO THlE 081f I iL INTrET OF TABE OOU ~1Y y D. BRADLEY & 0- PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 15t 1882 VOL f 6t1 Qolina the to the acre. O-Cannot: pay her 6ompysly has shut "d I Sto kes county, N. 0., told for $65 per hun e county, N. 0., has two Oot Z ries in operation and five in r onstructon. - te of Florida peaches sold in 9rk at seventy-five cents apiece. ' 1, 'undred tea plants set out by .-Oner L Duo at Enterprise, 5. ar doing finely. %Flrtida will experiment in the gaow * fichona trees, from the bark of 'V.hichquinine Is made. t drying establishment on a ge seale is to be started at Greensbor o South-Carolina. Vicksburg girls have organized a bid of "sweet sweepers." This is the st Southern craze. ligator hides have become in such deulaid that many alligator farms are being started'in Louisiana and Florida. 'The peo [e of Aberdeen, Miss., are largely e4perimenting in silk culture. The wormrs are fed oi osage orange leave. The wheat crop vow being harvested n West Tennessoc and North Alabama is the largest ever known. The Nashville American says: All the crops in Tennessce are in magnifi centcondi.-ion except cotton, which will average from sixty to eighty per cent. Greater preparations than ever will be made this year to develop the gold and copper mines of hiecklenberg county. North Carolina. 3Many fine walnut trees In South Car olia sell for $40 apiece, the nurcha,, ers reserving the right to remove them when they choose. The Richmond, Va., alms-house con tains reven men who a few years ago were worth from half a million to a ,s millioji doilar8 each.- . Jacksonville, Fla., has just made its first con~viction under the new law pro hibiting the intermarriage ef whites and blacks. The culprit was fined $50. Plenty of illegal votes are cast in Clairke county, Ga. The grand jury of that county has just returned indic t ments against 121. persons for that of fense. Several Alabama farmers report sone damage to cotton'by cut-worms, a means of damage heretofore unknown ; 'and they report that it has had a very soe. rious effect on some fields. The Petersburg. Ga., Index-Appeal says the best and largest fruit crop ever grown in Georgia will be ready for the market in a few weeks. In the seven counties around Griffin, Ga., 150 distilleries will be running this summer. The peach cr9p in the same sec tion will be immense. A boy-genius of Charlotte, N. C., has made a small fire engine,'three feet high and complete in every way. It raises -steam in a minute and throws a tiny -stream of water nerly twenty feet. Cocoanut growing is becoming an im portant indust~y in Florida. They grow to perfection, and promise to add great ly to the wealth of the State. A Jackson, Ga., man has discovered that his stock will feed as readily on Blermuda grass as on hay, as is preparing to harvest a big crop of the long de, spised herbage. The' outlook fcr a peanut crop in vari '.oue parts of Virginia and North Caroli bha, Is very discouraging. Cotton and corn have suffered severely from the cold. The Rome, Ga., Courier says the best evidence that the South presents the best field for cotton manufacture is In the fact that Southern mills run profitably on full time while Northern mills have to curtail their production. Reports from the overflowed territory In Louisiana differ widely. In some places benefits are reported andecrops are * doing wvell. From others the repoits are ust -the reverse. The cut-worms in 1' sonie parts is doiug extensive damage. The increase in cotton spinning in the South Is indicated by the statistics of Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Missis alsppi, Louisiana, North Carolina and 4 outh Carollna, which shows an increase $800600 bpitidles during 1881 and 1882 ehi t9presents an investnient of $9;768, in achinery, and a consumption ,Obalea of cotton a year. at.e~al's ferry, on the I,., ~ $vet Tn, found a box ~ *~t ~hio~m contafined t rowfl ha fo in Berlin, La., recently. It is bronze medal two And three-foitrth inches in di ameter, and weighing five and a half ounces. It was struck to comniemorate the evacuation of Boston by the British d on the 17th day of March, 1776, and was voted to General Washington by Con, U grces. The medal Is much rusted, but i the figure of Washington, finely execu ted on both sides, is very plain. 14 Near Hixburg, Va., three brothers t( named Banton were at work in a fieid when a black snake of enormous size completely enwrapped one of them, lick- ti ing the boy's face until he was uncon scious. When discovered by the other brothers the snake was -foaming at the a mouth, and maintained his hold until cut ti to pieces. The boy was so frightened t( that he became speechless, and it was several days before he could regain the use of his tongue.' _i How to Manage a Kitchen. "A clean kitcben makes a clean house," is a saying which has a great deal of i truth in it. As all the food of the fami y has to be prepared in the kitchen, and t as most working people have to take h their meals and sit in the kitchen-in deed, as the one da -room has to be parlor, kitchen, and all to many honest Si families-it ought to be clean and neat, to or it will not be comfortable and healthy, First of all, the window and the. fire place must be clean and brigA.' No room is cheerful with a dirty, fie-place. Every morning the room npitA be care fully swept, and any heartU-rug,,gnat, or piece of carpet must be taken out of u oors and beat daily. The hearth must be cleaned every day, and the stove brushed, the fire-irons rubbed with a tr leather once a week at least, the grate fr must be black-headed, and the fender . and irons thoroughly polished, and all Si well scoured down twice a week. Cup boards want great care to keep them free from dust, cool and neat. Supposing sc there are two cupboarda, one on each c side of the fire-place, it is well to keep , one for stores, as groceries, etc., and one for crockery. Everything should be clean that is put in the cupboards, and there should be a place for every differ- . ent thing, so that if you wanted anything, even in the dark, you could lay your A hand upon it. Be sure, whether you ti keep the lids bright or not, to keep the c< inside of every pan or pot used in cook ing so clean at it is perfectly dry and sweet. If you neglect his you may be the ni cause of poisonmg yourself and your IV household. Many families have been poisoned by food being cooked in dirty f pans. Besides, even if food is not made poisonous, it is spoiledbynot being clean ly cooked. Be very particular about this. Itisa good plan to have a jar of a' soda in some handy place, where you i can, whenever you wash up, take a bit al and put in the water. It is very cleans- si mig, and both crockery and tins washed in hot water, with a bit of soda in, will be sure to shine and be sweet. All tins should be polished once a week. Kitch en towels require good management. It S is a very nasty habit to be careless about C towels. Tea things and glass should be u wiped with a thin, coarse towel kept for that~ purpose. If you have a plate-rack over the sink, plates should be washed in te hot water, rinsed in cold, and put to 'y draikiin the rack: but if you have no rack you must wipe the plates; keep a ri good dish-cloth to wash them with, andr a good coarse towel to dry them with, and use your dish-cloth and your dish towel for nothing else,. II "Breeding-off" Horns, il The~ question of "breeding-off" the horns <>f native cattle is receiving at tentiona, and there are many who claim that it " can be done." Horns on neat ti cattle are a relic of barbarism, so to 3T speak, They are not only a useless ap- vi pendage, but positively objectionable. Not only do cattle do one another injury in a yard or stable, but they have many ka a time, by their horns, caused the death of, or disabled, other animals. Timid ' people are mortally afraid of cattle with tI horns, but pass by the "mules" with- al out fear. In their wild state cattle had undoubted need of their horns, but domesticated, there are no ferocious ani- wv mals to attackc them. Nature appears to oi be doing gradually and unaided that ~ which a little artificial help would accel-s erate, as comnparison between the spread- u ing and long horns of the Texas steer, 0 and the short ones of the blooded cow indicates. It is suggested that horns may be bred-off by searing them when the calves are young. Everybody knows 0] that dogs and cats have been bred with- S out tails, yet analogy might signify te nothing, as sheep, whose tails are out E close when they are lambs, continue, after many generations, to raise lambs whose tails, in turn, would be long, if. they were not cut. But a family of Ayreshire cattle bred in Scotland, originally had their ears clipped fromA d year to ya to donate ownership. In p time the calves began to be born with n the end of the ear wanting, and now the peculiarity is fixed. The Belle of El Paso. c Almost every other house was a drink- d ing saloon, and the whole place had an air of dissipation which was rather more suggestive than alluring. The worst class of Americans come over from the other side, preying upon the vices of the ~ Mexicans to their own profit, and mak ing what money they can out of their ti propensi ies for gambling, drinking, n and dancing. "Le yin, le /oeu, Zes belie., ri voila nao. seules plaisir, 'seemed itly to describe their lives and occupation at all events during Christmas week. Etfy fellow- asenger back in the hack was 0 iuA arci" belle," who had been up ti t0s4jh "boys," as she called them, h ! h d visited in prison, who were jb ~t~; and during the inter soldier had taken ad 'moikent to rob *I.adkerchief,e Sheropinions* .oouohed in 1 hrtUI '2 TOPIJO OF THE DAY. Wrrww the year the mines of Arisona erritory have paid nearly $1,000,000 in vidends. DENNis KE&rEY pops up sgiD, but At as a politician. He has drawn $8,000 t a lottery. A KAN who buys a glasso of beer in )wa on Sunday renders himself liable > a fine of from $1 to $5. LmvERy stable men in the East say 10 extension of the telephone from vil ge to village is injuring their business. WENDELL PHIInras has declined, and overmor Long has accepted the invita on to deliver the oration July 4 at Bos on. A MONUMENT costing $40,000, and a iuntain $15,000, are to be erected to the emory of Lincoln, in Lincoln Park, hicago. AcconDING to a local paper a man died L Minnesota from what was "prononced i he leprosy by physicians, of the most deous appearance." CHTAns REmADE is writing a series of Lort stories which will appear simul neously in England, the United States, anada, and Australia. THE Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, is issued a proclamation warning drug sts to desist from the practice of sell g liquor " by the drink." THE Toledo Blade says that the ouble with Mrs. Christianoy arose Dm the fact that she wanted to be a 3ter to too many nice young men. Pniczs at the prominent summer re 'rts will be from twenty-five to fifty per nt. higher than they were last year. coud grade people will have to stay at >me. THE Arizona Star declares that by the d of artesian wells the desert lands of rizona can be made the most produo re wheat growing districts in. the >untry. To sHow their respect for Darwin, a imber of students belonging to the [oscow University have resolved to ear a band of crape around their arm >r twelve months. THE Czar of Russia thinks that by in igurating reforms that he can get tings in shape for his coronation in 3out a year. In what abject terror ich a ruler must live. IT Is thought that cork trees can be 1ccessfully raised in' every Southern Late. Of some specimens planted in reorgia many are now thick enough for se. A NAPrHA locomotive is about to be stod on the New York, Lake Frie and Festern Railroad. It is an immense ~ving in fuel, provided it works all ght. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ AN ENGLISH surgeon says the time is >ming when a. man's stomach can be paired and replaced without difficulty. will simply keep him home part of Le Lime. THEs Sultan has refused to permit ebrew exiles from Russia to make set ament in Palestine. Two hundred swish families are on the verge of star ition in Constantinople. HENRY YILLAnD, the millionaire Pres ent of the Northern Pacifie Railroad, as once Washington correspondent of te Chicago Tribune,but late1, degener ed and fell in with monied people. GUITEAU starts on his trip to the next orld just four days before the Fourth July and.862 days after the comnmis on of the crime that placed thie Nation ader a cloud of gloom the last Fourth July. _______ NINE million acres of the best farming nd in Dakota have just been thrown >en to settlement by a decision of the 3cretary of the Interior. Here is a bet r field for enterprise and industry than I Dorado. THrE hundreds of saloons that closed i Ohio in consequence of the Pond quor tax bill, now that the bill has been eclared unconstitutional by the Su rome Court, will probably resume busi ess again. THE Syracuse Herald is in favor of ibstituting steam whistles for church ells. " They can be heard further, reate more disturbance, and it is han ier to drop in and murder the man who ulls the rope." Tuxn contest over the South Carolina >ntested case was terminated in the rnited States House by the adoption of 1e resolutian seating Mackey. The re taining contested seats will now be apidly disposed of. NmrssoN's reason for resuming her wn name is that she is indignant that' ie property which she accumulated by er exertions should pass to her hus and's relatives on his death. The 'hole thing is an outrage. Tin penitentiaries are full of murder, rs who will agree to be "good OIUSMet" the Governoss will pardon ,them a 'his is mrtreg suggested by the ous j4z tm the Got Puog4Jms, OA*PIAra HOWGATS is still in seclusion had everything seems to be all right. Wlether the authorities at Washington I Lre saxious to capture him does not ap. t pa, but perhaps they are not or we should hear more about it than we do. Tun period of three years required by law before # statue can be erected in a publio place in -honor of a deceased per son is nearing its end in the case of I William Cullen Bryant, so Central Park, New York, will soon have a new monu ment. lAhrums Hva died in New York of apoplexy, at a drinking saloon, a few lays ago. He was well knwn BB os ton, Washington, and Ne York as the anacknowledged son of Daniel Webster, and has held several important Federal offices. Ta London World say s: " It is an pen secret in the Irish party that Par aell dare not go to Ireland, and that t in London, when not in the House, he f is in virtual hiding." Mr. Parnell's i rime is that he favors a peaceful settle nent of the troubles in Ireland. Wann a lady called upon Mrs. Secre- . ary Kirkwood the other day she found b that lady iron;ng. Hence, whole columns I Df praise and flattery. Had it been I some woman whose husband had a sal ary of $25 per week, she would have t received the cold out forever after. IT sEMsx that Walt Whitman has t written a book-" Leaves of Grass " bhai is'too dirty to be published. We knew that Walt was old, and thought t also that he was clean, but after all it lon't do to have too good an opinion of M a man. Walt has erred, and that is hu man. eI Ta. Texas Legislature has showereat a public blessing on the morality of that ( State by taxing all persons selling the i Police Gazette, Police News and simi lar illustrated journals $500 per annum, in each county where such papers are sold. That is simply equal to prohibit ing their sale. BPAKIG Of the vast strides made in io railway world, the Railway Age 4 gives the following interesting statistics: We believe it is safO to say that there are at ter.st three hundred and fifty lines, covering, at i moderate estimate, a total of twenty-filve thousind miles, upon which work is now in progress or is proposed to be commenced ,dur ing the present year. MIssoUn1 is in a truly pitiable condi tion. Rather than hunt Frank James :lown and punish him according to law for the crimes he has committed, a great leal of red tape and an unconditional pardon seem to be preferred. What would be the moral of an unconditional pardon to Frank James ? Ta. home for working girls in London, talled Garfield House, at the formal >pe~ninlg at which a fortnight ago Min ster Lowell presided, contains thirty line bed-rooms, a dining-room, a sitting ~oom, and a library, and each occupant will pay for her accommodation -from ixty-five cents to one dollar a week. THIS press generally is circulating the eport that Chicago girls would rather diss a pretty little dog than a man, and me Chicago girl has taken the trouble 0 write a letter for publication acknowl adging the soft impeachment. There sertainly must be something wrong with 1he Chicago manif's breath else dogs' 2oses are a mighty sight cleaner there han they are here. GurrzA.u's act one year ago Interfered w'ith the usual Fourth of July. celebra ~ion. His act this year, we are pleased :o say, will have a tendency to add to he hillarity of the occasion. We do 1ot make merry s.ver the prospective wvent of the sasassin's untimely death *ar from it-but it is a source of gratifi ,ation to know thE~t America is still dis posed to put vicious dogs to death. OCAnnus LocanRUN~an weighs about 100 pounds, his wife 800, and their rola tive strength is fairly represented by the same figures. He ostensibly keeps a restaurant in New Orleans, but she is its real boss, as he complains to a police justice that three days in succession she took him across her lap and spauked him terribly. Being arrested she gave canl to keep the peace, thougn at tone same time she avowed her intention to subject her husband $0 discipline when ever and however she pleased. Taz most serious labor strike of the year began June 1. The proprietors of the Pittsburg iron mills having refused to sign the new scale of wages, a strike was ordered. Some thirty-five or thirty six mills in Pittaburg and vicinity shut down, and more than eighteen thousand workmen are thrown out of employment. In Wheeling upwards of five thousand men went out, and some seven hundred or eight hundred quit work on the other side of the river, in mills whose pro prietors refuse to adopt the new scale, at least until it is aocepted by the Pittsburg mill-owners. The strike Is likely -to spread to all the Iron mills west of the Alleghany Mountains, and will be long and obstinate. It is Impossible to meas nre the loss to the productive interests of the .ountry whicha this strike will at4s ce ta oompute the hardship and g 1i 1 $nto the families of ~e rgred. The Now York Reporter. A reporter's life is not a happy one. Ie is the slave of duty at all hours of he day and night. To-day he is here, o-morrow there. On Monday he may )e among thieves and murderers, on l'esday among politicians and states nen, and on ednesday among ladies 6nd gentlemen. He may be even among Al three on the same da. I remember cold, raw morning in ebrary when I iad to get up long before daylight and nake a breakfast out of Oliver Hitch xock's coffee and cakes and run for a rain. That afternoon I found myself on >oard of a large European steamer, vhich had stranded hgh and on the iew Jersey sands. shared the cap nin's dinner while the waves came dash ng against the vessel's side with a force hat threatened to make us food for sea vorms at any moment. I came back vet and weary that night, but there was to rest for me yet. T Delmonico's I nust go, as muon as I could change my lothing, and partake of a greatbanquet. luch is the life of a newspaper reporter. Ie knows not at any time where he will ake his next meal. He often is sent rom a wedding to a funeral, or from a >all in the Academy to A murder at the i'ive Points. Like an army on the march, te must always have his baggage pre >ared, for at five minutes' notice he may >e sent several hundred miles where kirt-oollars and handkerchiefs are un nown. He may be sent to scour the Pay for missing Jersey shanties, or Long sland woods for mysteriously disappear ng personages. Not only must the reporter be able to ell an interesting story, but he must Iso, if he wants to earn his salt, have a nowledge of the world and possess that act and discretion which comes of such nowledge. Young men fresh from some niand college, who come to New York tewspaper offices under the impression hat reporting is something that they an do if they cannot do anything else, ,re quickly undeceived. One half of the kews which is printed in the local col imns every morning is obtained from eople who do not care to furnish it, and vho have to be "run down" very often vith as much skill as the most cunning >f foxn. And for all this the reporter E paid but is more than the average nechanic. It may surprise some of you o learn that he gets even that much, )ut lie does if he is good for anything. Lhat good ones get no more is mainly lue to the fact that there are so many >ad ones conpeting with them. Yet with all the drawbacks of long d irregular hours, inadequate rerun 3ration and "assignments" that are often incongenial, there is a charm about a reporter's life which all who have ever been members of the profession must ac knowledge. There is a romance cnn aected with it which does not egtirely lie out of even the older members who aow keep to it because they have been spoilt for anything else. The new genera bion of metropolitan reporters, w.hich lifer considerabl from the old, is kept to its work probably more by this flavor f the adventurous than any thing else. rho Bohemian spirit of poetry and beer ias almost died out and the ranks are ecruited from a class which has less of ;ho literary and more of the "be up and loing" spirit about it. They want an Lctive life and they find it here. As they grow older, however, they become more straight in their desires and there are onsequently constant droppings out. Either they work their way into the edi orial chairs or they go into some other >rofession or business and their places xe filled by new-comers, who, nowadays Lre genera~l gaduates of the leading olleges. Soten. here is To tho truthful reporter Who never prints but what he oughiter; An examzplo sublime Of the men of his time. --Georae U. Clement. The Modern Caucus. An aged citizen who was one of the ~arly settlers, was seen coming out on to ~he sidewalk in front of a place where a ~aucus was being held, a few nights be ore election, on his ear. He seemed to e propelled by some unseen power, md as he got up and picked up his hat >ut of the gutter, brushed the mud off his sleeve and wiped the blood off his nose, a friend went up to him and isked what was the matter. The old aman said, "WVell, I hain't attendled a caucus in thirty year, but my nephew wanted me to go to-night, and when I proposed that the meeting be opened with prayer, I think the steve fell over rn me. A fellow said, '0, give us a rest,' and I don't know how I got out hecre, but I did. Why, in '49 they used to open political meetings 'with prauyer, rand close 'em the same way. This can ens opened with a knock down and I s'pose it will close with a riot. Hello, there is another man riding down stairs without any saddle, and I s'pose hec pro posed some old-fashioned custom. Say, do you think my eye will be black ? I told the old lady I was goin' to meetin' and I wouldn't d ke to have her think I had lost my temper and struck the sex ton. WVell, that's the last politics for me." The old man, however, got a policeman to go with him while he voted on election day.-Milwaukee Sun. Wood Weaving. This industry belongs strictly to the town of EhMrenberg, on the Austrian frontier. Sparterie work, or weaving of wood, was introduced more than a cen tury ago, hut has been confined until within a short time to the manufacture of cheap hats, glued together, and worn by the lower clames. Lately, however, owing to the interest taken by the Gov ernment, Ehrenberg has been able to send ont fashionable hats and various fancy articles, all made of wood and sold at very low rates. The aspen 18 tne only tree whose fibers are toughi enough to admit of weaving, and all the timber having been used in the vicinity of the town, the material is broughit from Poland. The process requires the utmost nicety in dividing the wood, and as the dlivider must always follow the direction of the fiber, it is necessary that the threads should be prepared by hand. The weaving itself is done on large looms. Tau most diffusive pesrefrom public speaking is that inwhich the speech oesses, and the suIao can Carious History. When George Washington, who, though only twenty-five, had won re noun by his gallantry under Braddock, visited New York, he was the guest of Beverly Bobinson, a young Virginian, who had come hither a few years pre viously and married an heiress. The latter (Jane Phillipse) owned a manor on the west side of the Hudson twenty miles in extent. This, however, was but half of the paternal estate. On the east side of the river was a similar tract belonging to the other sister-Mary Phillipse. The last mentioned tract contaned the Phillipse manor house which is at present the City Hall of Yonkers. Mary Phillipse was at the time above mentioned, living with her sister, and was rendered, by wealth and personal attractions, one of the leading toasts of the day. Report says that Washington offered his hand to the heiress, but was refused, as she did not care to bury herself on a Virginia planta tion. Another suitor, Capt. Morris, of the British army, was more successful, and having won an opuent bride, he immediately construted a mansion suit_ able to his new position as lord of the manor. Yonkers was too far from the city, and hence he selected the present site. Carpenters were brought from England and the building was erected in a slow and solid manner, its date of completion being 1760. The Idrd of the manor lived here in grand style until the revolution, however, broke up their establishment. When Washington was expelled from New York he passed several days in this vicinity, during which the Morris Hose was headquar ters. His old flame had taken refuge with some Tory families in the vicinity and her husband (now a Colonel) was in the British army. After the war both went to England, where Mary Morris died in 1820 at the age of four score. She always felt a deep interest in Wash ington, and having lived to see her former lover become the chief captain of the age, she survived him twenty yFears, but never mentioned his name without admiration and almost emotion. Perhaps, like Maud Muller, sbe sometimes said to herself, "It might hav been." After the revolution the entire manor was confiscated and the Morris property was sold. Before this took place, how ever, Washington visited the place in company with some of his Cabinet, and a grand dinner was served by the tenant. They were deeply interested in the as sociations of that fearful scene where one disaster after another awaited the patriotic army. The Morris estate after ward had several owners, and was ut last purchased in 1810 by Stephen Jumel, a retired French merchant, the price paid being $10,000. He c.ied in a few yvai-, lcaving his wife sFk, i d 'this woman has given the place a notoriety far greater than Its previous recor Madame Jumel was fascinating and beautiful in early lif a but in later years she displayed many vagaries, and as her years were prolonged to ninety they were marked by many of the weakness of old age. She andA her husband had lived several years i'. Paris, where they gathered many curiosities which still adorn the ancient manision. Visiting the place recently, I passed through an ancient gate and fllowed the road which leads from the turnpike, till I reached the portico which, as has been remarked, has a grand prospect. On entrance one is struck with the breadth and dignity of the hall, which is rich in relies, both of furniture and art. Among the latter is a fine portrait of Madame Jumel with her family, and also a picture of Aaron Burr, who became her second husband. Other works of art adorn its walls, combining the past and the present in a very interesting manner. -.New York Letter. Staving Off a Run. Iben times of severe panic people have noen kown to refuse Bank of England ntsand prefer local notes. In coun try districts of Scotland the old one Ipound notes were greatly preferred to sovereigns. It is said that wh'~n there was a run upon the Bank of England in 1765 the device was resorted to of pay. mng the country people in shillings and sixpences. One acute Manchester firm painted all their premises profusely, and many dapper gentlemen were deterred from approachmng the counter. A story is told of Cunliffe Brook's Bank. When there was an impetuous and unreasoning rush for gold, Mr. Brook obtained a number of sacks of meal, opened them at the top, put a good thick layer of cloth upon the contents, thea placed them untied where the glittering coins would be manfest to all observers. One bank procured a number of ptLoplo as confederates, to whom they paid gold, then slipped round again to a back door and refunded it, and thus the effect of a stage army was produced. At another bank the chief cashier himself examined every note with the most searching scru tiny, holding it up to the light, testing the signature, and making believQ that, on account of alarm as to forgery, there, w~as need of the most scrupulous care. When he had completed his pretended examination he handed the note to one of his subordinates very deliberately, with, in slow and measured terms, "You may pay it." Other plans were to pay the money very languidly, counting it Itwice over, so as to be sure the som~ was right, and to give a sovereign sh'ort, so that the customer should complain, and the counting have to be done over again. At one of the banks pe(ck measures in Iverted were placed in thec windows facing the street, a pile of gold upon the top, after the manar of the fruit exposed for sale at street corners in the summer At another the coin was heated in ahoy cia over the fire in the parlor behind and Ihanded out as "new " at s temperature of 8000 Fahrenheit. The clerk in charge, accommodating his phaseology to the occasion, cried out' loulevery half hour, "Now, Jim, do be gettin' on with them sovereigns ; folks Is waitin' for their money." " Coming, sir, 0om in " was the ready reply andth "ilk" thought the sulppy Ihoundle. It is always the simple-minded and the1 unimformed who constitute on such oc casons the chief portion~ of the throng, lust as the people who go to extremes ,are the alfeducated one. .The afowds~ dif roses, If threlsfor niver oud thrust.bad Ye wats, wid hIm. WuAT is called help to many men tained it, they can put will do th Most good. AN Indian chief 'in to see theIdaOpr Wi W. Whitnley gavea note the chiefy mad: aui outs RET is ad to be the sodtion of uzzing perplexities. It tWsht's ike to solute a puzzlin le t three hundred and pty" oey year.-CurierJourna. AN ImsH gentlem, hearing o friend having a stone coffin made f*.1 A himself, exclaimed: "Be me sowl, an that's a good Idea! Shure, an' a sdem coffin 'ud last a man his lIfetime. A PENNsYLvAA boy recently swu lowed a horge-sho. nail without encing any ill, effects. If it had in his throat it would have medima little horse sure.-Norr*ttwn erol. "Is Tms the front of the Capitol " asked a newly-arrived stranger of an Austin darkey. "No, sh; die heh ide in front am de rear. Ef yer wants tw see the front yer must go aroumd. da behind on de udder side.".-w-bas 51. "My soN," esked a olerioal parent o his hungry boy who was just in the starvation period "I wish you would make a study of '7vtta on the Mind.' "I will, pa, was the quick answer, "as soon as I have studied what's on the stomach." CALouLATED to fill it: "I tell you,' continued Pingrey, "Brown Isn't ut for the place. In fact, I don't know of a place that he is calculated to fill." " Don't be intem perste in your remarks, Pingrey," said Fogg; "you forget his "YES,"' said the Injured party to thq owner of the dog, "I know the dog was only in play when he bit about half a pound of flesh out of me. Certainl he was only in play!i And I was onlyI play when I took an ax and made ah of him. Only in play, sir. Nothing~t get mad about 1" . -1N " TELL your mother I'm coming to wg her," said a lady to -Mrs. Gibsn n and love's little boy, who repliedij LQreen: glad you are coming. Mamma will 1W glad, too." " How do you know your mother will be glad to see me ?" asked thie. lady, . " Because I heard her tell papa, yesterday, that nobody ever came totehoneexce Lanen with )i His exit: There had been a seeming coolness between the lovers. One day Emily's schoolmate ventured to refer to the subject and asked her: " When did you see Charlie last?" "Two weeks ago to-night." " What was he doing?" "Trying to get over the fence." Did he a ppear to be much agitated?" "So greatly," returned Emily~ " that it took all the strength of papa s new bull-dog to hcld him." The Spee~d of Thought. Helmnholtz showed that a wave of thought would require about a minute to traverse a mile of nerve, and Hirsch found that a touch on the face was roog nized by the brain, and responded to by a manual signal, in the seventh of a seo ondl. He also found that the speed of' senso differed for different organs, the sense of hearing being responded t~In a sixth of a second; while that of sih re quired only one-fifth second to befelt and signaled. In all these oases the dis tances traversed was about the same, so the inference is that images travel more slowly than sounds or touch. It still re mained, however, to show the portion of this interval taken up by the action of the brain. Professor Donders by vy delicate apparatus has demonstrated ti to be about seventy-five thousanths of a second. Of the whole Interval fot thousandths are occupied In the simapl act of recognition, and thirty-five thous atndths for the act of willing a repons., When two irritants were caused to oper ate on the same sense one twenty-fith of .1' a second was required for the person to recognize which was the first; but a slightly longer interval was required to determine the priority in the case of the other senses. Thiese results were ob tained from a middle-aged man, but In youths the mental operations are some what quicker than In the adult. The average of many experiments proved that a simple thought occupies one fortieth of a second, Advice to Gifrle. First of all, cultivate industrious hab its ; be willing to wok and try to do your work thoroughly. It Is not enuh to be busy ; we must do our workwel To be thorough in study to be thorough m allwork, ought tobeEhe aimof every girl and every boy. Our methods of female education have encouraged superficiality rather-thn th hness* we have giveni our girls smatterng many things, and mastery of few ins After thoroughness, independence. habit of relymg~ on your own ugni a habit of thmnking for oref caring for yo notacfsiut a true womanly f on.--a hbotak. ing responaibility and bearing it bzravly~ -~ -s one of the habits that wonmen as well as men need to cultivate. Your parents ought to give you n.omo ohsao6 to form this habit ; it is agreatuIt to shield agirl from all care, and t~ by-and-by, when the helpers Oun she has leaned fall by her side,tol~y hrwith d gent untrainedan life. A woman ho d- have ance as well as a man. Gov. Lrin'zz nrwn, of saai nd