Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-A A- alt 0.~ hr.1 Itt * ~. , p - DEVOTED To FoIJTIC", MonA-, 41401 A TO TIM 92lWER&L ITERIEST OF THE 00U|T. 0 -T .yD .BAtYPCES .C T US A ,JL 2,1 2. ........ *.... t on. e kaaut at EPYIR0-, 7-~ T"nT wo thonisand .Chbctaw Indians still - i toin Miss aijpl. . car atoq is to be establish Ga. <,& :'Y Rx4pOOSga has the finest union de V 46 e South. largest. peach orchard in the Ar6dis in' Alabama. Pepper pods weighing a quarter of a tus d grow at Waldo, Fla. Cedar KeyFla., shipped 4,000 pounds tur tles one day last week. Thecotton crop of Florida will be 66t the same as ,bat of last year. t hathm county, Ga., has shipped 000 worth of cabbages this year. One of.the iichest mica mines in the world h'as been discovered near Athens, 11ve hundred thousand dollars will b1 invesicd in a new cotton mill at Sel r, Ala. The population of Birmingham, Ala., Is estimated at from .8,000 to 12,000 Quite a margin. The authorities of Madison county, Fla., will abolish the lickse of $500 for trading in cotton seed. During the ten years from 1870 to '1830 Tennessee increased the number of Iher farms forty per cent. A Chili squash, raised as an experi ment by a Monticello, Fla., farmer, weighs nearly 200 pounds. Senator Brown is the largest individ nal tax-payer in Atlanta, Ga, and-he pays taxes on $329,500 worth of real a y d personal propeny. A mystsrious rot has made its appear ance among the Tennessee vineyards, and it is feared great damage will be doue the heretofore promising fruit. Within the neighborhood of Talbott's station, Jefferson county, Tenn., over * ye hundred sheep have been ekilled' and as great a number crippled, by dogs In the last twelve months. A canal to be built at Rome, Ga', on heEtowah, river, will be four and g~ half miles long, 262,96 horse power and have a fall of over tv'enty-six feet. It is intended for manufacturing purposes, and will cost $350,000. /A. M. rage, the hero of the great Lowndes bond robberyat Clarksburg, W. Va., who succeeded in getting away with $100,000 in money and bonds, has just been released from prison after serv r irig out seven years of an 'eight years sentence. An inexhaustable mine of corundum .stone, the next hardest known substance to the diamond, has been discovered in >Butts county, Ga. It resembles the - sapphire, is susceptible of high polish, * and is valuable in many ways. * Loreniz Rothenback is the modern Samson, who labors in the iron works at Oedartown, Tenn., and amuses himself and delights the natives by carrying a pair of 506-pound car wheels, attached to the axle, around the yard with per feet ease. Killed by Eating Strawberrles. * Huwh Griffin, aged twenty months, No. 21 lforris street ; cause of death, an * xcessive indulgence in strawberries" was one of the certificates filed in ti Bureau of Vital Statistics yesterday The circumstances surroundinr th1e death of little Hugh were peculiar. His parents were poor people living in a ten muet in one of the filthiest-localities in the city. On Friday afternoon a neigh bor of the Griffin family bought some Strawberries, and called little Hugh into the room to ea~t some of them. He was given all he wantedl, andl, as D)r. F. (G. Merrill said, when he was subsequently summoned to attend the child, "it had fairly gorged itself." About four o'clock p. m. the child was seized with convul-. sions, but it was not until eleven o'clock atnight that the physician's services were ound hecessary, "I was called Just in time to fill out a burial certifi cate," said Dr. Merrill. Convulsions in children from eating strawberrios or al meodt any npecies of fruit, the Doctor said, were not uncommon. Much, how ever, depended on the surroundin a Althou~h the Griflin child was healtIl uto the time it ate the strawberries, * Wi surronding were ~conducive to dis "~ "'~ se. The air n the house was foul, '4the place was flthy. The only ~'~ t1~g that could be done was to admin tet' cathartics, but the child was be yond the Iiluence of' such treatment, >~ and death ensued soon afterward.----N. SY. 2'ines. ______ ~ ~ .The Art of Mezzotint. - -Thes~e attempts at revising the art of messotint as employed upon original work have a specia interest besides that which attaches to them as experiments 00 far successful and promising to be still more so. They show the de V ir. to cultivate a 'very beautiful .i4 nfred style in which English ,li -das the were by utfipictures of . eyolds and mi ore than a hundred ,Br~4at the highest perfec t~LithoshoudeverMber ~al1a into e and be' me A~bch cl and in ~atrou ib~into The Season' and Planng. The season of 1882 will long be ro. nembered for untimely frosts, continued cold weather and deluin rains. These have not been confined to any particu lar portion of the West,but it is general, so that the opening spring, which prom ised everything that could be desired, has given later anything but what was expectO. The winter was mild; wheat wintered adxnlrably, except that in some instances it was too rank. From all that we can leat-n half a crop will be all that may be expected. Spring wheat and oats were late in being sown, and have grown slowly, and continued wet weather has prevented proper growth, but yet seems not to have seriously i jured the crop; as a whole the Injury has been confined to particular portions of farms and to particular localities. The worst feature In the season, how ever, Is'that 'continued rains have pre vented the planting, or when planted, the cultivation of corn. It is true that disabilities of a season are always over rated. As a rule the worst view of the season is a t to be taken by farmers, and natural so. If the soil is wet it is always concluded to be disastrously so. If ,too dry crops are burning up. If frost strikes the blossoms, fruit is en tirely killed, white succeeding days show perhaps that a full crop is lt. Thus this season the outcome of fruit now promises fully half a full crop, or more, except as to early blossoming varieties; the severest loss being strawberries, and next peaches. Winter wheat will proba bly make half a full crop, which means almost or quite an average crop. The damage early anticipated from destrue tive insects will prove next to nothing. For the weather that was bad for crops was fatal to insect life. So far there seems no cause for being disheartened over small grains, as a whole. In relation to corn the matter Is more serious. Our great corn years are those when the corn may be planted early and cultivated right along. Dry sea sons give better crops than wet ones,the best seasons being moderately dry warm spimgs, followed by warm, rather moist weather during June and July. As a rule corn planted in June does not make a full crop to ripen on the stalk, but if cut up at the time of the first frost, it will ripen sound. If the autumn is lata and warm, the June plantings may ripen perfectly on the stalk, but this may not be expected.-Prairie Farmer. Founder of the Christian Church. Alexander Campbell, the acknowl edged founder of the Christian sect named Disciples of Christ (often called Campbellites),.was the son of the Rev. Thomas Campbell, a Presbyterian divine who emigrated from England to America in 1807. Alexander was born in County Antrim, Ireland, in June, 1786. He was educated in the University of Glasgow, where he remained until 1809,- when he followed his father to America, and set tled in Washington County, Pa., near B3ethany, the site ofs Bethany College, West Virginia, which he organized in 1841, and of which he was for many years the President. For a short time after coming to this country he was pastor of a Presbyterian Church, but having adopted the belief that Christians should accept no creed or declaration of faith but the whole Bible he and his father left the Presbyterian comnmunion in 1810 and organized a church at Brush Run, Pa. In 1812 he and his church declared their belief in immersion as the only form of Christian baptism author ized by Christ, and, in conformity with this doctrine, theuy were all immersed. Here, then, at Brush Run, Washingtor. County,.Pa., in the years 18120-1812 may he said to be the p lace and date oi the rise of this sect. T1rue, this little society subsequently united with a Baptist asso ciation for a time, maintaining con stantly, however, their abjuration of all creeds, and with such pertinacity and aggressiveness, that in time they were excluded from fellowship with the Bap tist churches. In 1827, feeling the need of some bond of union among them selves, the several societies who accepted the peculiar doctrine', taught by Dr. Campbell, commenced to form them selves into an association, which has since become a wide-extended church organization, numbering in 1880 567,448 members.________ FIttell to a Chair. In a \fashionably-fulrnished store, 1 didn't at first know what to make of the actions of a young woman. She was elaborately gotten up as to clothes, and had some advantages in the wvay of natural good looks, ~so that she was altogether a thing of considerable beauty. She was in an upholstered easy chair before a big mirror, and striking various poses-now lying back on the soft stuffing, both her arms spread out neolio'ently; now leaning against one of' tife sides, with elbow supporting her body; now sitting bolt upright in the middle. All the wvhile she regarded her reflection in the glass with a oritical air. What do you sup pose she was at? Why, getting herself fitted w~ith a chair. She knew how hard It Is to be graceful in some of the chairs of novel shape, and was bound to have one that would help instead of hinder ing her In posin g prettily before her visitors. When a girl sets out to be a fasciator,, you understand, she must use all the devices available for that purpose. So this creature was neither lunatic nor fool, though the a~par-. ances were a little against her.- ung about covertly, and saw that she finally boug'ht the chair, with the proviso that the sides should be lowered tiro inches. - Cincmnnati Enqusrer. -Historians genserauy agree that General Washington's death was eaused by a cold contracted by e* dure while riding on horseback on-a ebd dDecember d.Mrs. Young, the last survlv dof Wabhingenssteward, 'And be~e~1 ust doeed, rW LALD D. Laid by it my silent ehamber, I hear them stirring below ; Voicel I love are mounding elea, And steps I know are in my eat, Still passing to and fro. And I ask iny heart, Shall I never more Of my own will pass through that door? I ak, Oh I is it forever That I have ceased to be One of the group around the hearth Sharing their sorrow or their mirthf Am I fron henceforth free e ,. From all concern with the things of life, Done with its sorrow, and tol, and strife? Shall they carry me forth in silence With blind and sealed-up eyes? Shall they throw the windows wide to the air And gathor mementoos here and there, 1As they thtink with "t's and sighs, "Tit tie wais ond of -this she wor But she never shall need tem any more." -L__ _ U's Living Ag. Hard and Soft Water. You often 'hear of water for household purposes being called "hard" and "soft.I" The reason why some Waterb especially spring-water, are "hard' is owing to the mineral mattert dissolved in them. Rain-water Is never "hard," because it is nearly free of solid matter. The reason you had such an uncomfort able wash and shave this morning at your friend's house was owing to the water being largely charged with Uimt and magnesia. When the soap is rub bed between the palms in water of this description, the stearic acid in the oil ol the soap combines with the lime and Inagliesi a, and forms compounds whiob the water cannot dissolve; and hence the provoking curdiness you observed. For the lather to be a perfect one, com. plote solution 8f the constituents of the soap must take place, and in pure wate: this would be the case. But some watert are permanently hard, while some ai only temporarily so. Permanent hard. ness is caused when the water is charged with sulphate of lime and magnesia, and temporary hardness by carbonates a lime and magnesia. Pure water dissolve the sulpliates, but not the carbonates. Then how do the carbonates come to bI in the water at allP The reason is this All natural waters, but, especially spring and well water, contain more or less fre carbonic-acid gas in a state of absorp tion., and, when thus charged, are capa ble of dissolving the carbonates; but whenever this gas is expelled from thq water, say by boiling it, the carbonate are at once deposited ; and this account for the incrustation in the kettle; an( when this takes place the water become. quite soft. The boiling does not affec the sulphates to any degree in this wa3 in water that is permanently "hard.' Temporarily hard water can be mad soft by more means than boiling alone If a tubful of it at night be stirred ul with a little "slaked" lime and alloweK to settle, in the morning ther'e will be a white deposit at the bottom of the tub, and the water will be found to be quItA "soft," because the lime added wil. combine with the free carbonic-acid ga. in the water, and the whole of the carbonates will become deposited, it virtue of their insolubility in wvater with out this gas. For drinn purposes, rain-water after being passed through a charcoa filter, to remove the organic matter i contains, is the most wholesome fo adults. The general objection is it tastelessnese. A p inch of salt iyil remedy this. For the young, however solid matter in the water, the right kind such as lime and tnagnesia, is good, ai these go to build up the -bony structure of the child.-COhambers' Journal. The Flery Pepper. "What do you do with your cocoanut shells?" asked a Record reporter of a prominent candy manufacturer. "8.11 them to be made into pppr" said he, and the aroused curiost of die reporter was not quieted byjthe frther statement that the shells wore really ground and used by spice men to adulterate pepper and other of their wares. Further in vestigation showed that a factory where the shells are ground up is situated at the corner of Line street and the rail road in Camden, and is a one-story brick building, the capacity of the mill being about two tons of ground shells per day. The shells are brought to the factory in bags and deposited in the roasting department. Here they are carefully scraped and put in great revolv ing ovens, which are constantly turned over beds of blazing coals. Some of the shells are roasted a light brown, while others come out crisp and black. After being carefully sorted, the dark 8110118 are put in hoppers in the grinding department and reduced to fine powder like pepper. The brown shells are not ground so fine, and come from the milU looking exactly like ground coffee. The Camden factory is said to have been in operation for a about a month. The shells cost very little, and the milling Is done at an expense of about 2 or 24 cents per pound. A representative of a leading spice house, in speaking of this novel prepa ration, said that while his house had go*t used it, he supposed it was a harmless adulteration for spices. "We have our own methods of adulteration," said he, "and sell to the trade probably more adulterated goods than pure. We can't help it,~ There is no pretense on our part that the lower grades of spices are pure. We simply sell the retailer what he wants. We sell them spices as low as eight and nine cents, but it is about as much something else as it is pepper. It would ruin the trade to prohibit adul teration, and, besides, there are not enough spices grown to supply the de mand of the United States alone, if nothing but pure spices were sold. We are constantly making experiments to discover the cheapest harmless foreign matter with which we can make- our , norder to supply the demand owgrades." The powder made fromground ooo aut shells has a fine color, and on ao OQU0It of its weight and apperane is adulterating taeio.--~e *N td hatora--P Inare: In A smt-Pelow at-Work. A.Fargo, Dakota, letter to the floston To,*rnaL says: " After all that has been done with reference to brining gut a steam-plow in this country, remains for an ingenious Englishma to invent and p~laoe in suessful working asteam plow. Mr. J. G. Allen, of Leeds, En land. agent for John Fowler & Co., a manufacturers of steam-plows at Leeds, is aocomolishing some excellent work on the Aurora farm, belonging to Captain Thomas W. Hunt, at Blanchard, Dakota. It is attracting a great deal of attention, and farmers are coming long distances to see the plow at work. Two enormous traction engines are placed about 300 to 500 yards apart. Ben'eath each engine and belted to the boiler is a steel drum about five feet indiameter. To this drum is attached a steel cable about three-quarters of an inch in diameter, 500 yards long, and capable of sustaining a weight of thirty tons, which drags the plow to and fro across the ield. The plow Is a frame-work of iron resting upon two large wheels; on each side of t h frame are firmly fixed six plows with colters that cut six fur rows sixteeh inches wide each time the machine crosses the field. On the ar rival of the plow at the end of the fur row the gauge changes position, and the plows that have been in the air are low ered and ready to start back. One man Is sufficint to guide the plow, and, seated over the body of the machine, directs one of the two large wheels in the furrow last turned by means of a hand-wheel. Each engine is of about forty-horse power, and weighs about sixteen tons. When the plow reaches one side of the field the engine on that sides moves ahead eight feet, the opera tion taking three and one-half minutes only, and the plow is started back to the other side of the field. The plow will break from twenty-five to thirty-five acres per day, according to the soil, location, and lay f the and, etc. It also does harrowing." A Brave Man. At Brother Barnes' moetrng last night, there was tin episode in which a colored brother and the highest judicial officer of the State gave a public exhibi tion of the fraternal relations exi-ning between the white and colored races in Kentucky. While the evangelist stood with outstretched hands asking: "Who will trust the Lord?" Judge Thonas F. Hargis, of the Court of Appeals, was moved to confessloi and took his seat on the front row of chairs. Shortly after themt passed ,down the aisle a penitent, blacker than the midnight eyes of'the sable goddess. Then came others who Brother Barnes observed were careful to choose seats as far away as possible from the dusky brother. Stopping right in the midst of the sing ing, Brother Barnes said: "My dear friends, you see that this colored brother has come forward to confess Christ, and you are staying away simply because you don't want to sit beside him. Here he sits atone on this front row, and all that have come for ward have been careful not to seat themselves near him. Any man com ing forward dlesp'? the prejudice against color and taktfgasetbth side of this colored b r ill beth brave, noble man. I ow that in the eyes of society therd diff'erence be tween you and him; lt, dear friends, before God the difference does not exist. He was born this way. He cannot help his color. Still, he hias a soul to save. If you stay away now it will prove the success of the devil's device. The devil knowh Frankfort people and has taken this advantage of their prejudices. Oh, my friends, this same devil is a sharp old fellow, but Im niging to get ahead of him. He doesn tthmnk any one will have the courage to sit next to this col ored man, and, friends, will you let the devil triumph? A brave man, remiem ber, is he who takes a seat alongsidle the colored friend who has come forward to confess Christ and save his soul from the p eril of eternal damnation'." At this Judg Hagisarose, and, taking the sable penitent by the hand, sat down In the chai next him, Brother Jiarnes in the meanwhile looking on approvingly, andi, with a quiet smile of happy s atts faction, exclaiming: "The Recording Angel will note this in the Book of Life, praise the Lord!" -Frankfort (Ky.) Terrible Predicamient. Messrs. E. S. Early and S. E. Hines, who have just comnpleted( a saw-mill In the mountains above WVolf Creek, East Tennessee, furnished the following par ticulars of a recent ground-hog hunt: A few mornings ago a man living near Wolf Creek wvas attracted by the barking of his dogs, andl going to where they had treed on the side of the moun tain he found his game in a hollow log lying upon the ground with the entrance up-hill. He procured a long pole to reach the game, but this being too short, he crawled In to lengthen the pole and hung his toes over the end of the log. In thiis position ho lost his hold, and do wn ho went into the log on top of the ground-hog, and a lively fight began. The man's superior strength prevailed, but not till he had been bitten in eleven places and badly scratched and scarred. But the trouble had not ended, but the man had, and wrong end down at that, but he could not crawl backward up-hill, so he was a prisoner, and in a critical, not to say ridiculous position, with no means of escape. Fortunately, at this frightful juncture, the family became uneasy and went out to see what had happened, and were horrified at the discovery. Finally, after a round of cursing, praying and crying, the victim was cut out of the lo and -"set right side up," clothed and] n his right mind, but the ground-hog was dead.---Ocat 4anoooa Times. Chalemsnge' Was 4towneA king a. twentysis, was at~o Fance and the aG~a~ at 6wenty. en twles Funeral Flo*wers. During the past five years the beauti. ful custom of sending floral tributes to the funerals of deceased friends has grwn wonderfully, and now the casket that lucloses the remains of a loved one is almost invariably surrounded with handsome floral tributes in various de signs, showing the esteem in which the departed is held. Out of this another beautiful custom has grown. ' Every Easter Sunday the chancels of the churches, especially the Episcopal churches, are filled with handsome me morial pieces, placed there in memory of loved ones gone before. Yesterday afternoon a reporter visited some of the )eading florists of the city and ques tioned them on the subject of memorial flowers. Mr. E. Pleser said that the florists made their own. designs, from which the wireworker made his frames. Each florist tried to protect his new designs for exolesive use, but sooner or later they were copied by others. " What flowers are used principally in this workP" asked the reporter. "Carnations in the winter and bal sams in the summer. Other flowers are also used, but these are the principal ones from which memorial pieces are made." "What do you use in lettorinzP'' "In summer we use imiortellos -uid in winter violets." " What is th3 processs of making up those designs?" '.' The wire frames are filled up with wet moss, and Lho liowers are wired onto toothpicks and stuck in. The work requires considerable labor, care, and taste " " What are the principal designsP" "The 'Gates Ajar' is a favorite de sign, also the 'hour-glhss.' Then there are sickles, scythes, chalices, crowns and crosses, Bibles, crosses, wreaths, hearts, stars, anchors, lyres, harts, broken columns, etc. A handsome de sign is the 'Faith, hope, and charity' cross, crown, and anchor." " How do the prices range P" "In summer from $3 to $150, and in winter from $5 to $200. Where special designs are ordered the price is in creased. We made the design of the engine and tunnel, which was given re cently at the funeral of a prominent railroad official in this city. It cost $400. We also made a floral ledger for the funeral of a young bookkeeper. That cost $100." " How long can these designs be pre. servedP" " We can keep them for eight days i necessary, in good condition, buti whet they leave us they generally frde within forty-eight hours." " Has the demand for these pieces in creased latelyP" " 0, yes. Siace Jan. 1 last there has been a very large demand for funeral flowers of all kinds. We have used more white flowers than ever before." " Do you always have flowers on hand sufficient to fill all orders P" " Yes, either in our store or at our green-houses." " How about Easter memorial de signsP" " The demand for them is large. Some florists use colors in making them up, but we use tints, as being mo~re ap. propriate." John C. Craig was called on by the reporter, He said that more fun era] flowers had been sold recently than ever before, and the demand was increcasino" constantly." " Do you make your own designs?" "Yes, but other florists copy thoem, and it is impossible to keep our new do signs exclusively for our own use.I am the originator of one of the most popular designs for funerals-the ' Gatos Ajar.' It was first used about three Easters ago as a memorial piece at, TJrin Ity Episcopal Church, but since that time has been copied and used largely all through the West." " What flowers do you use in those pieces P" " Carnations, roses, lilies of the valley, hyacinth, and white tulips. Canmcilias Few of them are used here, and in the East they are not used atL all." " What are the favorite funeral pieces?" "I think that for funeral work cut flowers In bunches are being used to a great extent. The casket is studded with them, as is the interior of the grave, which is lined with pine or ar borvita., They give a very rich effect. The newest and 'largest design I have made is that of a broken tree. The 'Gates Ajar' is a favorite piece, and other pieces are the broken column, harp, lyre, cross, crown, and anchor, star, scythe,slckle, cross, chalice, crown, Blible, pillow, sheaf of wheat, hour glaes, wreaths, heart, etc." " How do those pieces range in priceP" " Well, the 'Gates Ajar' is from $25 to $100, andl the other pieces are made from $1 to $300. The season of the year affects the prices considerably. Large pieces and those of special dIesign cost more.". " What flower do you use In' lettering "It deends upon the season of the year. We use immortelles and violets, and at present forget-me-nots." " Are white flowers used, in funoral and Easter work P" "They are, largely; but I think col ored flowers are quite as appropriate. [n the East they are used altogether. 1)elicate pink and white tints are used a great deal. For Easter, spring flowers are popular in memorial pieces. The demand for Easter memorial pIec.e is growing."---Chjicago 'ibune. --Good work from human beings, just as from machinery, requires good treatment, and the finer the quality and the geater the quantity of the work, the bger must be the outlay. Build factories that supply pure air, umnd thE em. les will produce morel .but tho as or more pa~e~ I more f.* The Rungarian lais. At first the plains softly undulating are dimpled here and there with shady hollows; while like golden Islands In an ocean of vivid green lie long stretches of yellow colza and ripening corn. On the gently rising upland yonder a dark round speck appears against the sunlit sky; gardually it elongates, and we hear a voice singing in a quivering treble some national Idyl. It is a husband man emerging from the hollow and trudging homeward along the crest of the undulation. Then all is silence and solitude once more, till coming to a standstill at 'one of the primitive wells by the roadside, we hear the distant rumble of a wagon as its wheels grind heavily along, tie driver of it singing, as it goes, a melancholy ditty in the ad nor key. Then one by one the villages and solitary farms lying on the horizon die away, and we enter the boundless plains. lpw lonely we feel, and what tiny atoms of creation, with no objects to measure ourselves by save birds of prey, and the white clouds sailing far up in the great, blue, glorious sky! Our carriage, though imposing only in the matter of size, proved very comfortable, Its ponderous hood shielding us from the heat of the sun, save where, taking mean advantage of weak places in its constitution, it shot fiery arrows In up on us, scareely less piercing than those that pour down upon the head of the traveler in the desert. The sun reflects itself in the white and dusty road. Above the sQil on either side there Is a flickering motion of the air like the haze from a lime-kiln. Everything is hot and dusty; not an insect is seen hovering about the low bushes which now and then skirt our pathway. All nature is taking its siesta in the dreamy noontide, and nothing is awake but the scarlet pimpernel that-with wide-open, unblinking oye looks straight up at the blazing sun. We now come to a marshy district, where a lonely heron is con templating its lovely image in a small still pool, and then away we go again -out into the broad purble patches of newly upturned soil, bands of emerald corn, and speckled streaks of tobacco, with its large red and green leaves, and 9n through cool labyrinths of maize, till we come to vast tracts of uncultivated land, where wild horses with flying manes go scamperng across its surface with the natural grace of untamed things. As day advances and the shadows of the clouds begin to lengthen across the plains, abreeze springs up and plays about us softly, rustling the large white, surplice-like sleeves of the driver's garment, but not sufliciently strong to stir his black and flowing looks, wlich, weighted with some unctuous matter, rest calmly on his shoulders. Our nearest town is Veszprim, but at the pace we are at present going we are scarcely likely to reach it before night fall, if then. But what does It matter, when we have the whole of to-morrow, and the next day, and the day after that, aye, and our whole lives, to do the distance in If necessary P How delight ful to enjoy for once the true feeling of rest in this world of hur--y-scurry, where we are but too often compelled to live at high pressure! Let, oh! let us for once take life easily under the broad and peaceful canopy of heaven, and re duce the dolce far niente to a science. From -Magjyarland.' France's War Debt. What manner of people th3 French -may be, and how they have borne with such apparent ease their immence finan cial burdens, are questions which a political economist may profitably study. .Ithe figures have been given before, but they are a perennial source of wonder. The German war laid upon France a public debt of $1,500,000,000, and the indemmity she had to pay. was $1,000, 000,000 more. To this should be added the debt previously existing and the cost of the Commune, whicdi was the relatively trifling sum of $50,000,000. The loans required to meet these obliga tions had to be obtained from a people cxhanated and impoverished by war, and it was believed to be impossible to raise them. But not only were they raised, but ten-fold the amount required was tendered to the Government. For the payment of interest the public taxes were increased by about $140,000,000 per annum. , So far from being crushed b~y this new burden, the industries of France flourished under it to such a de gree that a large surplus accumu lated in the treasury, and 660,000,000 has since been remitted. For people who havo been supposed to drag out a miserab~le existence, this is, to Bay the least of it, a creditable record, Fun for the King. .Cetowayo invented a new way of mak. ing change. A dentist having pulled a tooth for him, objected to the amount of gold the Zulu King insisted on heaping upon hin. "All right 1" said Cetewayo, "if it isn't, I'll make it right." The king called in his guardsand bade the dentist to draw their teeth, which was done amidst yells and writhings that CIelewayo hugely enjoyed. In fact, he liked it so much that he pensioned'the dentist, made him one of his household and for a diversionl ordered a general tooth-drawing every Saturday afternoon. A cOrOUs proof of the prevalence of the English language throughout the globe is afforded by a statement In the "Newsaper and Bank Directory of the World,' that out of 84,274 newspapers and periodicals which were published in 1880, no fewer than18O500 were prnt edin our own tongue. iNearly hal the remainder were in German, a quarter in French, and the reter bulk of the rest in Spanish. Daiy papers numbered 4,020, and the orss circulation of the whole periodica press Is estimated *t 10,592,000,000. --To cani raspberries, fill the cans futll .of berries, set thlomn In a boiler of col4 wafet- wit h wpoden slata laid o#~t~ a. tom, and bing the Watprto the boin As the berries bottle a4d t s In thiswe ft 4rip POO a train ---It is man has has been 6500 a week. the Italian langu merely to speak names of stations think he's spea Pbst. -The peculiar lors in Arzona Is scribed by a "to nary weather he tolsin it. When, en another belt when it becomes Winchester ride -Seth, Green their eyes. Fogg they al a hook. Whene fish are all e 'Mnom every oye wide He Ao kept their eyes oitstof pn ness; but, no 1$know can't help I 4p1y d he hated th abefre. - pendent. -Well, die girl s Haven ge 2 to "preclouseet hrn't for me?" o, st. litt sng singer."? No onIyp e singer. tOh,n~ ~ little to m y." "Bu I l dolly." " re too big. sister Jenni pidn't ml if y hers. She sa on was just pl0a1di Sudden ratti of the dishes j', back room-w Jennie was b New Havqu . -"The aAy," says Joe 41 the way t shfs morbin. asked m t aXX bill-& tWenty, know-a . out the matter sho telling h, it Oouldanot be the simple 31 that I badE matter of a 'r or adilam 944 'I knew yo tell ne that,' hit~ 'and It's t .' And,a se up in a ment, shb addei7~ looked In pockets last night. Vm got the ti .' Oh! boys, huwe~ it1~ But what o I do?" -"Heart-d ," said Jemm e am assisted Patri up-end a bar~io cement, "he isease is one of h~~ worst diseas Some -peole alevet know they h till they dhp 4oW dead." T h r you, Jemmie, Kre p lied Patrick and those peoplea whoc x know that have it have to )e moighty ul wid themselves. know a m onst that had It, and he was alwa obliged to. dhrop work about avy minutes before he felt I cominw on. - Somrville Joburnal. A Ludloro tage.Deatha-deene. Camille di night at the 01 nut Street Op house, not only to w music but to unrestrained luh~ of the audio as well. The 6at scence was m by a most laIo~ accident. Wh e curtain arose the last act, w amiller discover lying on a couch ly ioovered, by W fur robe, and the we of death al. reygthering on' buow, the hotgeK wa tland expect M Ater levn the death-chamber n re-enteret and the dying woman herself gre~et him. At that mn ~ er8 an ominous creak, and o ports of the couch gave actress seemed to grasp the instantly, and attempted to con difficulty by heaving a long-dra and throwing horself back, but t tion only made matters worse. death-bed gave way at one corner a crash, and the audience began to ti Nichette, the maid, enteu ed at this ture and kneeling in front of her, tress began her part, but the con lng eience by numierons groan Instability, she arose and w chair up for the dy ing Camille modation. By this tune the ' ~ had fully appreciated the furi the situation and were lau audibly, but when Gaston a h and ho, together with the ma a th 'v> dying woman, obuld not co :hat countenances, the audi -Iiy roared. Camille, after A& . mand's arms, was deposi & obair instead of on the cou d" peared as a very smiling o6 adelvihia Pe***. man with the red nose h his experience at the pra4 He said he was the vilest altogether unworthy of savi He was followed by a modest 11 tie man, who remarked that he 4 corroborate all the deat broth said. Indeed, he would gofut say that the brother was te and most rascally old ourmu town. Then the first 'speakeR~ for moestlittle gentlemani ing setteesinraij l settee-jumper at the same Deacon Jones fiwng the pupit - at the head of the foremnoetynn low ; Bister Brown pulled at lones's coat tails; the lightse t somebod~y bolered 'fit., the wh partmouetm galloping up to~ inghosethree streams were you coull say "Jack ttobi4ni everybody was drenched theA You wouldn't think so much would be raised juust usoni4 wished to help J "Now,' said theJ ness, "yo will. how itbpnc'* The prsnrad ti% dinner e4 l quarreling with adab of