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.7 ii' lipZ - -f 4A~4 AV-~~ .S I J U. . NO, 42. A.41 ~ tblishe~l e ~ 0.~t *fl~be he i rstli n r the Qonfede 6 l p delivered il the aere is a coi Vhet In .ast Tennesse 2,880,000 acres il A decrease from las t tIs troubled with ai ge' fever. Five hun epted. ie have been sold in Geor tap theentire cotton bel 1 ar ago. a crop of this year, so it i p resent appearances, wil: 'Q 00 bales. .,korchard In Nortb Carolint y . P. k'addisou, at Moulte nt. It contqins over 8,000 trees rees Monroe is the largest singh oatn in the world. It has al p .ot over $8,000,000 of money 6 thousand men are now em ed in rAilroad eonstruction in Flor Eighty thoutand people have set St4nhe State in the-past ten years. T last.aporopriation of $125,000 foi ~4g~4)~tr'ucting jottles at the mouth of the - hu' -river, Fla., is nearly ehaust. .nd it is probable the work will cease i4~u the 4th of July. SCharleston, (S.C.) News and Cou ~ las a proof dfi the growth of home ~.Ud ries, mentkons the building of a .tair and the construction of all he, ~ip~~neryin that city. V 0tthe several Governors Alabama Ji*elected, four. were natives of the ~tOEGov. Patton was born in Lau, ,~ . erale, Gov. Winston in Madison, Gov ~ Vttian Buttler, and Gov. Cobb in St. Ufrcounty. ArD~slef Nelms is the oldest citizen-oj ~oroe cpwnty, Ga., being 104 years oi e~yyet chops with an ax, uses th4 eo. inut can 'ge~t about with surprising ~~ itvy. .He has a living son over sev. xifesa..ve years old. v~jj ~n the seven States of Georgia, Ala. biTennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana .ea the two Carolinas there has been ar " tkcreatse of'-86i1,000 in the number of cot, a aditio tothe manufacturing A man at Magnolia, Ark., has somq new in the- potato line. In his Seiabogit thirty potato bushes ar< owng, and the potatoes grow uj u4nog the limbs, like apples, and non< ~ ttached to the roots. The Pulask n.) Citizen tells of similar vines i vMcinity. I. eney said : "If any one Ttski ~oUwy I gave so much money to th4 4eleyan Femiale College, of Georgia 1Ithem it was to honor my mother, t< i~ j~, under Godl, I owe more than to< '~ ~~ae orld beside. .I admire th< women. There are possibili 'r. i4~eouthern women not equalei lson earth." ~ a~oel but profitaible industry in th< aof North aCarolina and Eas ~q~'~ hat of collecting root . a,~i ledi'el). The roots are shippe< '~.~l~~ephia and Boston and used fo: ~nut~wure of door knobs and pipi ~. The roots frequently weigh froni 50 pounds. There Is a constain uad the prices are paid fo: U.*Gen. George Washington J clerk's office at Fairfax ~ %OU1t~,Va., has received s< tvi azkd tear from strangers wh< toeaine it, that the cler) -fi~edesai'y to Inclose it in a glas dto preserve' it. The wi] $86410 heavy unruled. paprj 4~ ase, and every side is cov ~There are twenty-seven pagei ic~l~h have Oen. Washington' etahed except the twenty-third ledd with the words "City c a" and it is supposed that i3 ~ o~*1#te General mistook th *~i~ atggiture, and therefor th pa. The entire wil lttting, and was wri 'arhe died. ~* rOZ0S 0? ThU bAY. Akb"w government has bgin Isming pius.______ ' * t P9unarrAnau, has decided tum r a VAr at Long Branoh. Tin French Senate has rejected th American pork bill. Am now it appears thMt Billy Patter. Sol was struck by lightning. A PMnr of whisky a day Is Sitting Bull's govetament ration. Tis crops in the Northwest promise to be better than ever before. Tus Kentucky wheat crop ls supposed -to reaoh near 18,000,000 bushels. BUT UoUn B. HAYUS is reported as hoeing corn and enjoying himself. WIarnf one week 1,000 Jews have left Lemberg, Austria, for America. AN unusual amount of counterfeit oin and currency is afloat. 'Look out for it. FRoM Hayti comes a contribution of $225 for the Gaifield Memorial Hospital. THE XABrr of going to Europe costs America not less than $125,000,000 a year. .5I CoNolwss adjourns before the mid dle of July the country will be fortu nate. Tan young people at Concord kseep the grave of Emerson covered with fresh flowers. A coroy of 200 families of negroes is about to leave Mississippi to settle in Mexico. SzwING thread is made from pine tim ber in Sweden, and is coming into de mand for export. Foun hundred and forty-one pgunds of tea has been raised on one acre of ground in Georgia. Tan losses caused by the late cyclone in Iowa are variously estimated from $2,576,000 to $3,000,000 in amount. ENGrAND hangs murderers every time -when she catches them; but they don's seem to Qatch them very fast over there. THE British police have at times ar rested as the real Dublin assassins six teen different men, none of whom were within 200 miles of the city that day. A CONCERT at public cost Is given on .Boston ommon every Sundaiy afternoon in summer. There was opposition by the orthodox at first, but it has died out. THEnE are seventy-two men now in Sing Sing prison who used to exercise great political influence in'their various stations. Where else can a politician expect to bring up? THU only way to convince a Southern negro that a farm i not waiting for him in Kansas, is to let him make the trip. In two or three days he gets through asking which road it is on. Evznbion'y on the continent seems to Sknow that Don Cameron has recently been suafering from a jumping tooth ache-the matter going so far as even to effect politics in Pennsylvania. LOUmsIANA is considering whether It t would not be good policy to stop'the lot tery business #n that State. Louisiana and Kentucky are the only States in the r Union that tolerate lotteries within their 3 corporate limits. t Two MICHIGAN men 'got into a boat r and pursued a bear. The boar climbed into the boat and the men climbed out. Had they not been rescued by a tug they wouldn't have got home to tell this little bear story at the family hearth. IT IS TnE~ opinion of a Philadelphia p iditor that a family who don't know S enough to go to church at the proper hour, without hearing the clang of a bell, wouldn't meet a bank note unless the "cashier came and blew a horn in front of ,the house. Tim Helen. independent mentions 'that two cowboys A were arrested at Benton, M. T., and fined $40 each for 2 firing a volley at the comet. -If they B had killed a man It' would have been e all, right. The line is drawn at killing I people out there. Tan OTOrOoN which spread death and destrrlotion in Iowa a few days ago, is described as at times resembling a gi. gantio arm reaching from the heaveis ; then It took the forsn of a vast serpent, and Again resembled a funnel and an hour-glass. It i notable that wherever Ustorma-cloud struck a belt of timber spw~.eisted and took a long jump. F e Presy Its re ba. been sent to the * e has mania for tat tu A OmIftIK -J case of lusus naturm is N#0tded in the 1ocl oolumns of the Oig cinati Commeroial of JIM 22, as fol. lows: A "omen of tbit pelarfreak of natu &heimaphrodlt...% humn beWof~ both sexes-was taken to the oentrl SlatIon lat night by OMoes Gould and Altevrs. The n is colored, about28 years of age, and out the sign of a beard. Ue Oshedclaiu the name of Jack 8mith and the oooupatia of cook at a boarding-house on George attest bi tween Rae and Elm Ho was dressed in mais attire, but a genleman who happened Into the station says he baa soon the same persona in woma a cothes. He was locke4 up on a gen. oal charge. Tau Anu worm seems- ubiquitous. We hear of his ravages in 'New Englanad, New York and Maryland, as well as in the West. -The only successful way that. has been devised to stop their march is that of plowing a furrow, say seven inches deep, and continuously draggng a log, four or five feet in length, back' and forth from daylight till dark every day until the worms have disappeared. By this process the ground in the fur row becomes thoroughly pulverized and the' worms can no% possibly cross it be. Sore the return of the log passing to and ko to cr"-h . As a rule the e a travel eastward. Daphne McN uire. "There is no more pie." "God help us, then," said Daphne McGuire, looking up to her mother with a weary, wistful, why doesn't-somebody buy-me-a-seal-skin-sacque expression on her oval face. Mrs. McGuire did not reply. Leaning her bangless head on a tin white hand -the hand that Vivian 0 Rourke had called "a dimpled 'treasure that one might risk his soul to win," that night, so many years ago, that she had rejected is proffered love and caused him to wander away in wild des pair and marry Girofie Quirk-and thought of how, had she plighted her troth to him, life would now have been a garden in which pretty flowers waved their bright faces, instead of a wind-swept waste, barren alike of flowers and venture. She remembered how, for the first few Years after their marriage, every thing went well with Percicles MecGuire, and hoW, when Daphne was a prattling infant, 43e had come home full one evening and told her in proud tones that he had reached the summit of his ambition, and was a policeman. All these memories of the past-the bitter and the. sweet-came saurging through her mind as she looked out through her tears and saw thmIue Island avenue cars going by like ts in the twilight. "Why do you weep, mamma?" said Daphne, placing her soft West Side arms about the neck of the mother she -loved so dearly-the only mother she had. "I fear me, Bridget," said Mrs. McGuire, using the pet name by which Daphne was known at home, " that, our future must indeed be a cheerless one; that the coming days will. hold for us only sorrow and misery.". " Do not be disheartened, mamma," replied the girl, kicking' the dog off th'e front steps and kissing her mother with a warm, lingering, I-have-.come-to-stay all-winter-and-part,-of - the -spring kiss. " Things may not be so bad as they seem. We have still one hope, you know, one resource in case all else fails." " What is it, child?" asked the mother in hoarse, anxious tones. "What is this hope you ?peak of?" "Doughnuts," replied Daphne, speak ing the word softly, and with infinite tenderness. "We have a jar of them down stairs, you know." "Then let us tackle them at once," said the grief-stricken parent, starting for the pantry at a 2:20 elip.-Ch4icago '&Wbume.___ Eufus Hatch In 'the [ndian- Territory, Rufus Hatch, the noted Wall street, New York, operator, took a trip to the Indian Territory to look after some rail road property and hisi newly established cattle ranche. He writes the scenery on this trip has been beyond description, monstrously grand and beautiful. Sky, land, prairie, grass, then more sky, shrub, grass, small crecks, sky, dust, sand, wmd, sky ; then more sky, clouds, dust, grass; dust, only more so, sky high; clouds, wind, dust, sky, prairie, more prairie, prairie, onie short tree, sky, drove of cattle, horses, cowboy, buffalo skeleton, sky, prairie, dust, prairie dog, coyote, sky, grass, clouds, more sky, antelope, prairie, sun, dtst, heat, sky, snake, prairie, prairie, prairie, clouds, three or four trees, sun, sky, sky, sky, clouds, sun, heat, wind, dried buffalo horns, grass, prairie, more clouds, more sky, more prairie, sky, sky, heav ens, dust, snakes, cowboys on leave of absence, .wolves, sky, prairie, grass, sand, dust, sun, heat, prairie, only more so when we came in full view of more pririe all the time, and sky and clouds, kep eeping over us, and more snakes, buffalo carcasses, and horns, with con tinuous prairiea t.nd more beautiful scenery, until after nearly one hundred miles of delicious driving, ina first class open buggy, under a broiling sun, wiih more sky, clouds, prairie, wind, dust and grass, we landed at this Eldo rado-known on the map as "Spencer & Drew's Cattle Ranche," and now, amid the crack of rifles and Colt's revolvers, the singing of birds, the deliiois moaning and sighing of the fragrant breeze as it ceep. through the full leaved greon brnhsof the trees, the piping of the mocking bird and quail, and the thousand heads of horned cattle gently gazing on rich meadow lands as far as te eye oca reach, the hum of in sects, and the gentle titilation of the unobtrusive mosquito t bid you l good-by, with the gentf remark that if the Indians should overtake and killme, I never will forgive myself for oowyng he~re t-Net I'or Comet 4w. ThO'Ibi etl setping Car. BI~z et I ad M. E., of freo# al no doubt, p and car" h was ayeror 9hario6t, was Vresept4 theR egent of En 47 1whom it was aftsrwards sold Buock' fo 412,500. It event nellyfonditswa to M(adamne Tuasaud's W03 lok mIoon,\where it. Sconvenientof e First ;:4or was built by Symons, of Brus SMt the Russian campaign, and is ad td for the various of a an a kitchen, for it had places or holding and preparing refreshments, whob theaid of a lamp, could be. heatd Ithe camriage. It served also for a bedroom, a dressing-room, an offleet. The seat is divided into two i a. about six. inches high. e of" this ingenious vehicle is of the form and dimensions of our large coaches, excet that it hoe a projection in frnbf .About two feet, the right hand half of which is open to the inside to receive the feet, thus forming a bed, while the left hand hif mf ne a store of various useful tbings. Beyond the projectinA-1ront and nearv to the horses, wa 4ant for the coachman, .u-c-tiously contri' ,o 4 to prevent the driver Imm i 'g ta, interior of the carriage, aud yet so placed as to afford those within a clear sight of the horses and of the surrounding country. Beneath this seat is a receptacle for a box, about two and one-half feet in length and four inches deep, containing a bedstead of polished steel, which could be fitted up in a couple of - minutes. Over the front windowe is a roller blind of strong painted canvas, which, when pulled out, excluded rain, while it ad mitted air. (This might be an advanta geous appendage to our present car windows as well as carriages.) On the ceiling of the carriage is a network for carrying small traveling requisites. In a recess there was a searetaire, ten by eighteen inches, which contained nearly' a hundred articles presented to Napoleon I. by Maria Louise under whose care it was fitted u with' every luxury and conenience that could be imagined. It contained beside the usual requisites for a dressing box, most of which were of solid gold, a magnificent breakfast ser vice, with plates, candle-sticks, knives, spoons, a spirit lamp for making break fast in the carriage, gold case for Na poleon's gold wash-hand basin, a number of essenee bottles, perfumes and an infinite variety of minute articles, down to pins, needles, thread and silk. Each of these articles were fitted into recesses most ingeniously contrived and made in the solid wood, in which they were packed close logether, and many one within the other, in such a narrow sjpace that, on seeihg them arranged, it ap peared impossible for them ever to be put, into so small a compass.- At the bottom of his toilet box, im divided re cesses, were found 2,000 gold Napoleons ($7,700); on the top of it were writing miaterials, a looking-glass, combs, etc., a liquor case, which had two bottles, one of Malaga wine, the other of rum ; a silver sandwich box, containing a plate, knives, spoons, pepper and salt boxes, mustard pot, 'decanter, glasses, etc.; a wardrobe, writing desk, maps, telescopes, arms, etc.; a large silver chronometer, by which the~ watches of tho army were regulated ; two merino mattresses, a green velvet traveling cap, also a dia mond head .dress, (tiara), hat, sword, unuiform and an imperial mantlo, etc. ron .Age. Adulterated Tobacco. A pamphlet has been published, show ing that m Germany'iliousands of tons of beet leaves are transformed .into to bpcco. Iu some places chiccory and cabbage leaves mak6 the fragrant weed. An English chemist found a stuff sold for tobacco was the leaves of a diaphor etic plag~t. It has been impossible to sell the plant as a drug, and it has been turned into tobacco to save loss. Another-writer informs everyboby, or wants to, that chemists have an im portant place in tobacco factories. Fif teen factories in New York employ chem ists to ".lavor " cigars. They can not do much with the wrapper, but they can "heighten and develop, "dhe fillings. It is a relief to know on the authority of the writer quoted that opium is not used, although it used to be formerly, In Eng land, but stringent laws broke the prac tice. The substances used to flavor to bacco are numerous. Every manu facturer has his own formula. Vanilla is the most common. This is employed in the form of an alcoholic tincture to flavor fillings. It is said that few cigars are free from vanilla. Its affects are not harmful if not used in axcess. The tonka bean and balsam hr are used ini the same way and for the same purpose. Cedar oil is also Introduced. The. best imitator of the tabacco flavor is valerian. Valerian and vanilla are the most valu able chemicals now in use by tobaccon ists. By their use the poorest stems may be converted into fair tobacco. Into cigarettes enter not only valerian and vanilla but cascarilla bat). To make oigars burn, amwdonia is used and they are soaked in saltpetre, Te latter is injurious and maks 'young men old with dispatch. The object of Its use Is to cause the cigar to burn freely. It has been noticed by some smokers that an intoxicating effect has been produced by some cigars. This is produced bydip ping the fillings in a solutioni of sulpharic other and bromide of potaqalim, Wen it is known that New England rum is used with vanilla and .valeri, it Is nothing to wonder at that the Oigrr so treated produce' -intoxication. We do not riame the brand that is treated with New England rum. It we did, the de mand wouldexdel the ame py. To make tobaco. or aid In Its dlteration, such other things s iotato leaves, sugar 'potash, ta.marinds, aniseed, mn and various oils not heretofore men ned are uaed to a greatr or leiarextent. In New York alone, 826,6 ~ Q iaare nde aualbu4W 8 8000 an w~u41&t~oisad ONS 50Ff WAYV DAI. issed by a rose, one soft May day, A in the garden blowiug Sby a rose, one soft May day, A My in the gan Ie my brid oh U r,,!i g. Be my bri y white ueen. The lilly niled wi radiantai Smiling sweetly and serene. Kissed by a rose, one soft May day, A o Mrnshpd was dying IX b a rose, one soft May day, A fo fragment ying. My bist a oor; e rose had said, And the air wam of ts breath; My fair whiteqen Is li ng dead And I, * the cause of her death. A red, red rose one soft May day, Was missed Urm the garden flowers; The daivy sighed for the bright red ray, go beautiful in the morning hours. The towers came where the red rose lay, Dead rtud purple, on the lily's breast, And sad were e hearti, that soft May day The red, r had gone to its rest. Weary Woman. Nothing is more reprehensible and thoroughly wrong than the idea that a woman fulfills her duty by doing an amount of work that is far beyond her strength. She not only does not fulfill her duty, but she most signally fails in t, and the failure is trul deplorable. Theka can be no sadder aight t an that ui a broken down, or over-worked wife and mcAiber- -a -an who is tired all of heri lif,' through. If the work of the household cannot be accomplished by order, system, and moderate, without the necessity of wearying, heart-break ing toil-toil that is never onded and never begun, without making life a treadmill of labor, then for the sake of humanity let the work go. .Bettor to live in the midst of disorder than that order should be purchased at so high a price-the cost - of health, strength, happiness, all that makes existence en durable. The woman that spends her life in un necessary labor is, by this very labor, unfitted for the highest duties. Sho should be a haven of rest to the home to which both husband and children turn for peace and refreshment. She should be the careful, intelligent adviser and guide of the one, the tender, confidant and helpmate of the other. -How is it pos sible for a woman exhausted 5a body, as a natural consequence in mind also, to perform either of 'these 'offices ? No, it is not possible. The constant strain is too great. Nature gives sway to it. She loses health and spirits and hope fulness, and more than all, her youth, the last thing a woman should allow to slip from her; for no matter how old she is in years, she should be young in heart and, feeling, for the youth of age is sometimes more attractive than youth itself. - To the overworked woman this green old age is out of the question; old age comes on her, sere and yellow, before its time. Her disposition is ruined, her temper is soured, her very naturo is changed bg the burden which, too heavy to carry, is dragged about as long as wearied feet and tired hands can do - their p art. Even her affections are blunted and she becomes merely a ma chine-a woman without the time to be womanly, a mother without the time to train 'and guide her children as only a mother can, a wife without tho time to sympathize with and cheer her husband, a woman so overworked during the day that when night comes her sole thought and most intense longing is for the resit and sleep that very probably will not come; but even if it should, that she is too tired to enjoy. Bettor by far let every. thing go unfinished, to live as b~est she can, than to entail on herself and family the curse of,. overwork. A Detective's Story. There is a story told of a lady and gen tleman traveling together on an English railroad. They were strangers to each other. Suddenly the gentleman said: " Madam, I will trouble you to lo" cut of the window for a fe w minutca ; I am going to make some changes in my wearing apparel." " Certainly, sir," she replied with great politeness, rising and turning her back upon him. In a short time he said : "Now, Madam, my change is com pleted, and you may resume your seat." When the lady turned she behocld her male companion transformed into a dash ing lady with a heavy veil over her face. "Now, sir, or madam, whichever you are," said 1-.e lady, "I mu-t trouble you to look out of the window, for I also have some changes to make in my apparel." "Certainly, madam," and the gontle man in lady's attire immediately com plied. " Now, sir, y ou may resumo your seat." To his great surprise, on resuming his seat, the gentleman in femalo attire four.d his lady companion transformed into a man. He laughed and said : "It appears that we are bo0th anxious to escape recognition. What have you done ? I have robbed a bank? " " And I," said the whilom lady, as he dexterously fettered his companion's wrists with a pair of handouffs, "I am Detective J-, of Scotland Yard, and in female apparel have shadowed you for two days-now," drawing a revolver, "keep still.". A BnTURN ismned by the German Post master General shows the number of post-cards used in Europe in the year 1878 to have been 842,000,000. Of that number 111,4515,000 were posted in the United Kingdom, 108,74:1,000 in Ger many, and 80,522,000 in France. In the United States durixig the year 1879 240,000,000 cards were dispatched by the postoffiee, anid it is estimated that during 1880 the figure will rise to 800,000,006. The German postal authorities estimate the number of eards in use throghout the postal union at about 700,0,0. COmonas Mn~omr, an Ohio wife mur derr, declared thiat~ his condemnation to deqth. wae"~st and that he would 10 have itoupifhe could. M4 the nigat bte the How to Select a Cow. Ron. H. Lewis, of New York, read a paper before a convention of dairymen In Ontario, from which we extract : Again, one breed of cows will do well on some land, where some other breed would be almost or quite worthless. Hence, I advice every dairymai to select that particular cow or breed best suited to his lands, where she is to obtain her food, and best adapted to that branch of dairy farming in which he is engaged. If, for instano, your pasture lands are rough, or on steep side hills, select a small, active cow, and if butter-making is your business the Jersey or Devon and their grades from our nativo cows will prove satisfactory. But if cheese making is your business or the pro duction of niLilk for market, the Ayr shire is the cow. While her milk is well adapted for cheese or for market, it is better than the average cow's for butter. Again, if your pasture lands are pro ductive and moderately level, with but ter-making your business, select the Holderness or the Princess family of Short-horns, or their grades from our native cows. But if cheese or milk only be your object, the Rolsteins will prove satisfactory. As the selection of individual cows, suited to our several farms and adapted to our "arious wan ts, would be too much of an undertaking, and require so much time and care, it can be dono best by selections from our herds of native cows, aid the use on these of -a thorough-brod bull of that breed deSired. In this way, if the selections be carefidly- made, a herd can be built up in a little wlle founded on our native stock and at small expense, far exceeding in value any of our ordinary herds. It has been a matter of surprise to me that our iutelli gent and progressive dairymen do not more generally adapt their cows to their several wants by breeding a sufficient number each year to make good the annual loss from old age, acci dent and. disease. A cow reared on the farm whero she is to remain is always more valuable to her owner than a strange cow. First, she is acclimated; second, she is acquainted with the herd with which she inudt associato ; third, she !s fa miliar with the lands from which she obtains her food, and can tratvel over it with greater ease than a strange cow. Out of Ills Year. While talking with James Milton Sherrod, the other day, the letter-carrier pulled out of his pocket a very hand some agate, rounded and worn smooth by constant use as an car ornament. It had a hole drilled through the iop and by a deer's sinew this trinket - hai for merly been suspended from the ear of some Sioux brave. The work on the stone showed the crudo and patient efforts of tho untutored red man, On being asked how he secured the agate, Mr. Sherrod, whittling otf some black tobacco with a butcher knife, rubbed it in the palm of his hand a while, and then, after putting it in his pipe and trying ineffectually for a long time to light it, said: " I got it up in the Black Hills in '76. A lot of Siouxc Indians ambuscaded me one evening in thme form of a horse-shoe, and I had to cut my way through. I killed several of them ar~d the rest lit out. When Ii come to assess the dead, I fouind a big .fellowv wearing this here agate and lied on with a deer's sinner, and I just yanked it oute of his year. There wvas another one in his other year that I got, but I lost it. It was the exact fact similar of this here one."-L4ara nmic B~oomeLrung. Dr. Johnuson's Partiality for JIea. In his review of Hanway's " Tea and its Pernicious Consequences," Dr. John son p~roclaims himself as "' a'hiardened anid shameless tea-drinker, who has for many years diluted his meals with only the infusion of this facinating plant, whose kettle ha~s scarcely time te cool, who with tenm amuses the evening, with tea solaces the miidnight and with tea welcomes the morning." Boswell says that he supp)oses no one ever' enjoyed with more relish the fragrant leaf than Johnson. The quantities lie drank of it it all hours wero so great that his nierves must have been uncommonly strong not to have been extrem(ely relaxed by such an intornperate use of it. If, is related of him, but not b~y Roswell, that, while on his Scotch thur, the D~ownger TLady Mac L~eod, having repeatedly helped himi un til she had poured out sixteen cups, then astked him if a small b~asin w~ouild not he more agreeable and save him trouble. "' I wonder, madam," he an swered( roughly, "' why all theo ladies should ask mJe such questions ? It is to save themselves trouble, madami, and not mne." Oni another occasion he said: "What a delightful beverage mast that be that pleases all palates at a time when they can take nothing else at breakfasi, 1" Croker mentions that the doctor's teapot held two quarts.. Pawning liuman Flesh. According to a writer in the Lagos Times, a human pawn system exists in that colohy. It appears that many persons whose necessities compel thorn to borrow money are in the habit of pawning their children or other relatives to the money-lenders of the colony, who, instead of being paid interest in ,the usunal manner, are able to use these unffortnnato, creatures as slaves until the loan is refunded, which may net be for a seories of years. The inhabitant of L oswho makes this statement says: 'I1he pa.wn receives not a fraction of payment for his toil. Should he die be fore ,payment of the loan is made, ox sherd he desert his master, a substitute is to be provided. This wicked slavery is practiced under the eye of British law, and sometimes by prsons calling thetnselves Ohristians." Te same writer states that there are British subjects re ~ijg i who serve onuie n eduties of c eamong the large 5 tonsw Tx A~~tt Europeans, a footion. Smaau 18P5 the been greater in the than any other part of A LA8N whale oo tied hanging himself wth t. ble laid aross th e AN Examsa superstition ear-lobe hwg below the mouth, its possessor will be A swa&M of locusts 9 Boulder City, Colorado ## se six miles to eastern 3ans - souri. FALmoNs are the swiftsg One sent from the Canaries t turned in six hours, the distanc 780 mile3. Tin folloWng sentenoebof on fourletters contains all th. letters alphabet: "John quickly extena five tw bags. A oENruamx, havin gg t-d iore blow on the head, found th" that he had lost his knowldo 4bf but had not suffered any memory. TiGins are said to be plentiful out Siberia, where they rean the winter. They are said to than the Himalayan specim have hair five modaes in len AT THE present time in 8 place of dating a letter should be1fo* "this your house ;" one must ApveriA s7. from "tis my house," as politenes requires him to place it at the disposi tion of his drrespondent IN NEW YonK and ChIogp wires are being put under gro and it is possible that the time is when the underground method graphing will b'e in vogue all country, as it is in Germany.,, OsTnICH farming, is, next tg woR a diamonds, the most importaih idustry of Southern Africa. It was net sneoeus ful until the eggs 'were hatbdya patent incubator, the parentbr performing her duty well In onie ment. IT Is suggested that the derlyti o London is from the Celtic L the moon, and a dun, a city onea hilL. Tat it was " the city of the maan"al Rthe more probable from the tradition th~at the site of St. Paul's was formerly that of a temple of Diana. Tmc greatest flood ever know n RZth Mississippi was that of 1844, .which swept away the levees, overflowed the entiro country, filled up the swamp and ~ romained at high-water mark for months. It was due to the unsoieniocosr. - tion of the levees. Napoleon's First Abdlcation. France, in the latter part of 1818 and the beginning of 1814, was id a very sin settled conditionj. Napoleon had osried on brilliant but weakening ~naps and even the dazzling glory o te commander's exploits In theal Europo could not dispe the dw which had begun to gather bot lmat the capital and throughout Fran& Nor was the prospect beyond the-ra~ n more encouraging. Bernadotte, Prince of Sweden, and late compado of the Emperor, was coming down f'dte the north with 100,000 men; and Mur King of Naples, Napoleon's own broth in-law, had entered into a secret treat " 'with Austria for the expulsion of the French in Italy. The gloom around Na- ~ poleon deepened, . until the allies sue coeded in reaching the exterior defenses ~ of Paris, and the capital, which for so many years had dictated law to all other capitale, was obliged to capitulate, and the allies entered Paris amid the aoola mations of the people. The Senate -I turned their back on Napoleon and de-. clared that " by arbitrary acts and vlo lations of the constitution " he had for-. feited the throne~ and absolved .11 Frenchmen from their allegiance. His own generals insisted that he ought to abdicate, and he signed the surrender of his power. He was allowed the sover eignty of t.he Isle of Elba, with a reve enue of 6,000,000 francs (*1 200,000). Ton mon ths later he was invited to re turn to France by a eonspiraoy of old Republicans joined by Bonapartists. He escoaped from Elba '5'ebruary 26, 18515, and landed at Cannes Marob, 1with an 2 ' escort composed of about 1;000 -of his 0O(d Guard. And 100 days after he had resumed power huis last act on the stage of Europe was played oat, and the soo ond and last abdication was signed. "For Your Brother's Sake." '4 A good story is told by the Providence Journal of a gentleman's mistake while a on the way to the. inaugura on at Wash ington, in March, 1881. Dtween N~ew York and Philadelphia he took a seat beside a portly gentleman, and conver sation began. Polities .were mentioned, aund ' Rhode Islander said he was a ~pbt can, and thought last fall that 1 would not be well for the countr to have a change, but that he had a btheo wbo was a Demoorat, Soon the train stopped at a stai, and the Rhode Islander ste dto th platform d met an aoquain eiwho after a little space, remarked: - "Gen. Hancock' Is on this tale, as I am acquainted with him, ;you would like an introduction~ Of couse he would;- soth7ende* the car, and approached the -~~ tleman just left; the Bhode -8ap introduced to the Generi). wth twinkle of the e e, Geni. Ebno4u -~ "I will shake .with 7# W0i~ ,/ brother's sake." "As ras AmArid y-t David Swing, of Ohi cage (hew and out-spit and oub-alk of the worlj can ho residue of 3C*1y two oee fr