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DEVOTED TO 'OLIICs, MORALITY, EPUCITION AND TO THE GENER L INTEREST OF TdIE COU TRY. By D. F. BRADLEY & co, PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY A VOL. XI. NO. 46. * tw NEWS GLEANINGS, The first thing the English veterans asked on getting ashore at Alexandria: "W'ere's Cleopatra ?" No fewer than two German expedi. tions will come to this country to ob serve the transit of Venus next Decem ber: A California young man, hugging his aged grandmother, forgot that it wasn't his sweetheart, and broke four of the okdy'r ribs. John Sullivan, the Boston slugger, who pounded Ryan and Ellsott, offered itug' Wilson, the English champion, $500 to stand up under his soft-glove blows four rounde, and to Sullivan's d'sgust, Wilson went through the ordeal a4d walked off with the money. An American by the name of Living stolie, who has lived in Florence during the past thirry years, is seen almost avery day driving twenty horses--ten spans attached to an ordinary wagon and he manages them with perfet ease. The harness is quite curious in if s adap tion to the purp'se of driving so many horses at once. The appropriation for the signal ser vice bas Leen cut down about $65,000. NEw stations have been established, speciil reports for tobideco, cotton and sugar grcwers have been commenced, the telegraph bills have of course in. creased in ith the extention of the ser Vice. At last a man has beat a bank eashier at his own game. A janitor in a bank at Elizabeth, N. J., fixed a piece of lead with sioemakers wax, and a string, and arranged it in a money drawcr so he could jerk out a bill every few minutes. le got about ninetcen iundrcd dollar all told, mnd then the cashier got onto it. The innitor hould I ave giv in chrono, but. i.e will probably he given three years. Mrs. Lincoln was Lorn December 13, 1818, in Lexington. Kentucky, and was the daughter of Hon. R. S. and Eliza beth P. Todd. She caine to Springfield in 1839. and was married to Mr. Lin coln, November 2, 1842. She (lied in the same house kin which she was mar ried. She leaves three sisters, resident. of Spring field, Illinois, Mrs. C. M. Smith, Mrs. N. W. Edwards and Mrs Dr. Wal lace. Troubulous times are upon the lottery men. In St. Louis three of them were * sent to jail for six months; in Louis ' ville JTustice Matthews dlecided that there was no iurisdiction to enjoin the * 1'ostn iaster from refusingr to del iver let ters to a lottery, and a W:1-Lingtcn spe.. cial says~ l'oktonster Generail Howe, whenever the qunestion is brou'ghit before him, will decide that letters e< ntaining money or money-orders directedl t~o a lottery, shall not pass th ro ugh t lie mails. The receipts of the post ( flice depart ment for the quarter ('nded March 31, 1882, wvere *10,956,2.5 86 ; paynmenits * ~ $9,976,307,81 excess of receipts $979, - 927 9; probable profits on money or ders $75,000 ; total iI,084.827 99. To get the whole amount of ex peinditurcs there should be added to the aimount paidl the amount wit hheld fr om subsi (lized Pacific rail roads, about $250,000. and the amount due radlrondsi unncer tainedl but est imatedi, $2(00'000 ; total $450,000. This makes the net receipts for the p)ostal fervice for the quarter, -~ above all ex pen ditures andI: liabilities, more than $000,000. An effort is making in Conigresis to have Washington Territory adm ittedl into the Union. but it is probable that the amibi tious Washingtonians will have to wait awhile. The Territory is a very beau tiful piece of country. In 1880 the lumbelnmen cut 250,000,000 feet ; about 150,000 tons of coal are pro dunecd ; the manufactured ; rodlucts are valuedl at $6,129,7( 2; the whFeat prcduct last yecar was nearly 2,00)0,000 aushels ; taxale values aggregate $14,000,00', and the population 75,000. M any i mmigrants are going to Washington Territory this year, but it will beC some time before thne State can show enough people to give a would-be congressman a cha~nce. The * required ratio is 151,000. - The New York directoty appears this year with 1302 pages and 289,724 names, an increas~e of 4,5/7 names over last year. It begins as it has (lone for many years with Elizabeth Aah and( ends with Jacob Zypress. A mong the noted names which (disappear this year are Henry W. B3ellows', Lorenz'o D el monico, whose 4 rmne fint 11J ilo I ith( <0iy of R ~ 982 ; Fletcher UT. Harper, one of the original firm, George Law, Cla rkson N. Potter, Samiuel IB. Ruggles, J1. Cotton Smith, E. W. Stoughton, Moses Taylor and James R. Wood. The first directc s ry of New York madie its appearance in 178(, a paper covered pamphlet of eighty pages. Since then there has been one regularly with oneC interval - t . 1788-when the changes are deemed too light to need a no~ 1)book. The shortest name in the present directory is Ox, andl the longest is Pfeitf'entehneider. ON13 of the most terrible diseases wit. which the Italians are afflicted is io lagra. It is attended by emaciation, of the stomach and bowels, with tejrilek suffering and convulsions. It chiefly afficits the poorer classes, who liv'e mainly on Indian corn. After paties~ investigation, Dr. Lambroso has dis. covered that it is caused by diseased . corn, which forms an alkaloid resembling strychnine. Arsenic co-unteracts the disease. He advises a careful and whole sale investigation into the species of corn so affected, and the methodiof oul ti'vation. A ~ ~ ~ -- - - TOPICS OF THE DAY. JAMM RuDPAI has purchased Mo. Gee's Weekly. Tw Prince of Wales' individual in debtedness is $3,000,000. THU Fitz John Porter case will come up in the Senate next December. THU King of Siam has determined to establish a legation at Washington. A Russu colonel was exiled to Si beria for being too lenient to Nihilists. SUSAN B. ANTaoNY is going to Texas to lenture, and perhaps, grow up with the country. OLIVE LOGAN days Bernhardt's hus band is "highly kissable," and nobody knows how she found it out. GENEnAn NEWTON announces that he will be ready in a few days to blow up another section of Hell Gate. Tim completed report of the Depart ment of Agriculture on the condition of crops for July is encouraging. ANARCHY is spreading in Egypt, and meantime Arabi Pasha is marshaling his forces and getting ready to fight. GOVERNOR CORNELL is the champion vetoer. He has refused to sign 123 bills passed by the New York Legislature. IT is stated that visitors to the Mam moth Cave, in Kentucky, were never so scarce as they are at the present season. A CANADIAN widow, some two weeks ago, married her daughter's widower eleven weeks after her husband's death. LONG SING, the Chinese survivor of the Jeannette party, has opened a laundry and tea store in Washington. FRIENDs of the River andl Harbor bill hope to get it down to $18,000,000, but even then they fear the President's voto. IT is stated that the American Presby terian missionaries stationed at Alexan dria during the bombardment, were not harmed. MIca&A*r, DAVrrT, who sailed for En rope a few days ago, collected about $20,000 for the Land League during his stay here. VENNOR, the weather man, is at Ferry Beach, on the Maine coast, and still his predictions call for cool weather and plenty of rain. AT FREMONT, Ohio, the home of Mrs. Hayes, the great female temperance ad vocate, the Sunday closing law is ignored by saloon-keepers. A MISS ALSATIa ALLEN, of Efontgom ery, Alabama, is "the most beautiful young ladIy in the United States," so Oscar Wilde says. Don't forget the ad dress. MR. GEO. L. SENEY, the Brooklyn philanthropist, has given another check for $25,000 to the Wesleyan Female Col lege of Georgia, making his total gifts to that institution $125,000. Ains. SCOVILLE is still indignant. It aggravates her to think that a stranger may realize money on the remains of her brother while she is denied that privi lege and is in a destitute condition. DETRorr Free Press fashion note: "Crushed banana" is no longer a popu lar shade. The woman who crus~hed it came down with such force that she hasn't been out doors since that date. "CnsrIAN REED," the Southern novelist, is Miss Frances C.'Fisher. 11er father fell at the head of his regiment at Bull Run, and is reported to have been the first Confederate killed in the war. SEVERn. ministers are preaching on the Egyptian war, and advancing the theory that the Egyptians of these dafys are being punished for the hard hearted ness of Pharaoh to God's chosen peo ple. A LrrrEnc of Queen Annec at a recent 31ale in London sold for $150. One from Queen H~en rietta Maria to Cardinal Mazaron went for $105. Another of Hienry 1H., Prince dle Conde, sold for Tn'![ public debd (if Egyplt is $500, 000, 000, and the greater paLrt o f it is heIld ini England. Shie also pay :750,.. 000) tribulte to Tuirkey aninually. TPhat i why the natives are making a kick for re'pudiation. .Jusv be foro e 's t e ppe 1 aboard the steamfler for Euirope, MTichael D~at it said that impirisoinmnt ini Enigland would be better thtan the I reatooneit he~ had receiv ed here fromn some of thtose whomn he had ffomerly coiunted as his~ fiends. FRoM it rivrmion received at the of tica oif the O)hio) Stt Board of Agricul toire, ii, seemls that the aippie crop is going to be0 nearly or quite a failure, hiow ever unreasonable .the statement may sound. Tre action of the Senate inl placing th~e tobacco tax at twelve cents is very unsatisfactory to the tobaccn men at Washington. What they wanted was that Congress would leave the tax alone at sixteen cents, or reduce it to eight cets, SMALL snakes have been discovered in the proboscis of flies. They are about one-twelfth of an inch in length, and two-thoianidthsIDI of anl inch in diametfe. It is suggested that the ity m-ty carry disase germs, ial scienitists are invest- I igating the questio'n. A Motosq vlder of S alt Lako has had his thaj'teen wives photoglraphe, both in a groLp and separately. The pictures j have biven placed ill an elegant album, and under each wonyii is engrossed a r quotation of sentimental poetry sugges tive of her best quality. KATE CLAXTON, the actress, who is $ sumnnering at Patchogue, L. I., was on- t joying a sail in her boat, the Coquette, a t few days since, when the craft was upset by a squall. She Was thrown into the Wiater, but rescued without injury, and having passed through bcth fire and water, may consider herself safe. d ti TiHE New York Sun is receiving com- a iumnieations giving remedies for snake I bites. This is the heroic for rattlesnake bitws : Stop the circulaton above the bite; suck it ia .voi 'uutans are all right - ,iut thlree alr:ith ms of gluipow<er in t he voiund, and sit it ol' with a liaitch. Sure (nre. An oIlhr rebll f->r hi es is youid,?l raw ( Iinplihed as ultice, the Salt Lake Tribune says I Poiyga iyl N is a d isgrace w I hich is rea I ized in1 every vtorinanaai hole. In evrv a-n j lione tle plural wives and tlii reblilirn I are l)oked upon as taintel. That this is tiiie is inile e.v-idelt by the aixiety of ill such womien ail chibireln to i ass them selvcs oil' as the first wives or the chibireni of first wives. And it is fiirther made evi- 8 <(alt by tile quarrels which constantly ti Occui r iml Such faunilies, and by the elpithet, a which first wives and children bestow upon t1, the others. c Cannibalism in Fiji. It was only people who lad been g killed that were considered good for t< food. Those who died a natural death f< wero never eaten-invariably buried. o But it certainly is a wonder that the isles were not altogcther depopulated, owing C to the number who were killed. Thus, in Naimena, in the year 1851, fifty bodies r( were cooked for one feast. *And when g the men of Bau were at war with the men of Verata they carried off 260 bodies, \ seventeen of which were piled on a fl canoe and sent to Rewa, vhere they h were received with wil joy, dragged p about town and subjected to every e species of indignity cre they finally reached tie ovens. Then, too, just tililik of the number of lives sacrificed in a coun- : try where infanticide was a recognized L ilstitution, and where wHows were strangled as a matter of course! Wily, on o11 occasioli, when there had been a horrible massacre of Namncala PCOple at Viwa, and up~wardl of 100 lishermnen land been murdered, andl their b~odies carried I as bokola to the ovens at Ban, no less ~ thlan eighty women were stranlgled to do honor to the dead, and corpses lay in ~ every direction about tile mission staitioni. 1 it is just thirty yer sice the Rev. t JTohn& Watsferd, writing from here, dlescribed how twenty-eight victims hand becen seized ill one day while fishing. Thley were broughlt hlere alive, and only i staunned when0~ put into the ovens. Sonme I of the mIiserab~le creatures attempted to escape from the scorchinig bed of red-hot stones but only to be driven back and a buried in that livin~g tomb, whience they i wvere takein a few hours later to feast .Y their barbarons captors, lie adds that t more human beings were eaten on this a little isle of Bau than anaywhiere else in i Fiji. It is very hard, indleed, to realizo F thaut the peaceful village on which I am h now looking has really been thle scene of such horrors as these, anid that miiany of the gentle, kinadly ipeople around me hanve actually taken part in them.--At a Homne in Fiji. 'Un(101'sl l!Hiinlag 3Mci's Nataaar(s. About~ mid-aftcrno0 n yest eray a citi1 zean who pulls (Io wni thle seale's at 1(6 paounds descendeld the fi rst 1 Alight of stairs bevonad thle post-o Ilie in jutst. lhe samei mnnii1er t hat. a hag of oat . w uildl have chiose'i.nand whlen lie brioughat up) at the foot lhe was5 in1 no( frame of inda to chlipi in anythaing foa thle heathlen ini Africa. Th~e first ciizean whoa arri vead on the spot kneaw what his duat y rehliliredI of lham oni such an lc(aii~on, and lie smil ligly remiarked: "1 Idoni't believe you can implrove on the ald way!' ' he ec(onda cit izen pas9si ng was in a hurry; biut lie knew thatt hue must halt ' aund imainirle: 0l "Like thaLt any' beatteri than com'ino- ," dlowni thle way thle rest, aof us5 do? " '' TIhe thlirdla <icie h:aal buasiness at. the post oilice, but lhe turnedau a-ida, cleared ta is throat, anal rennu-ihed: h "Evidlently fell adowin stairs? (Curi.. Onls how it sets tie blaood to1 cirecul atinig! C~ Some of you hadl bet ter see if his nose is ' broken -gooad-bye ?' TFhere was a fo urath spieat ator, aind lie slowlyV enteredl thle doori-vay, hent over h thle v ictim , and ren urked et "'ad han e given a dollar to see himc come d:a*own ! lie's one of the sort whoi ~ brunp111 every stair!' Thle lth manui was abiouit to add his mite when thle s ictim rose ulp. I [is ~ elbows were skinned, his niose barlikedl, his co at Iornl andt his~ back sanda-papleraed ti the whole lenigthi, but lie wa':s a man who hadl t raveled, ie knew t hat ev- k erybhod y ini the croIwd was 1hopinlg to see ' lahim umpi up~ anda dlown andI shake huis P fist 4, andl paw thle air, and to' hie:r him I dheclarae t hat lhe woubIlt lick all the men whIio couihl be inackedt ini a teni- acre loIt, ) anda therefoire lie birouaght ai swveat smile P to his4 face, lift ed hiis haut. like a per'fect b genatleun, anda limnpedl upj stails wvith CI the blanad remiark: "'1lht bbe miy toe als I came in t he door, (i \'oIu know, aaid ('aille niear falling in a heat ."' -1Pctrolli Fr1 /as "O-zmrs of thle jury," said an) Lish lawyer, ''it will be for you to a. ty whther the defeudaant shall lie allow,-.da to come into court with unblushing fo .t e ps, with a cloak of hypocrisy ini hh muivuth, and draw tharee bullockx out o! mn, client's pocket with impunity." A TALE OF A SIRItT. lie Length of Timaae tlee Great lon Ntoloatiessa Wose Onse. [ih-aver Tr ,lne. 1 Aprmpos of (eneral Sherman's visit I Oeuver, a story is told of thc General ,perienco witi Henry Clay Dean. TI vo had been friends for years, and wi lierman becamo Geierail and Dea appeicd to be iii Washiington, the late aturally enough, felt a desire to rene 10 old acquaintanco. He called atShorman's house and wi .ceived with open arms. They talke ver old tiics, and nothing would ut Dean must stay to dinner. " But, Gcneral, ' remonstrated Mr herman in her husband's ear, " I can avo such a dirty looking man at m ble ; can't you spruce him up a li te ?" The General said he'd fix thet, and i t an opl)ortuno moment he hustled M )eain up stairs, ransacked a bureau, a rodue- d a clean shirt for him to put o Irs. Sherman was mollified, and ti inner was really a charming affair, f< bere is no more delightful, entertainin nd instrueuve conversationalist thn [onry Clay Dean. Ono year after this event Generc *hermau was it the Lindell Hotel, S iouis, with his family. A card w. rought up bearing Henry Clay Dean aDIV. Mrs4. Sherman was much please( Ho is Ouch a ciarmAing talker, 7 nist have him to dinner. Only y( mst see that ho looks preseiitable hese were madam's words to ti 'Arrior. So Sherman welcomed Dean, an< ist before going to dinner, slipped hir ito a side room amid gave him a Cler irt to wear. D1ean doffed his coat an 2st, and, after several desperato effort iec"'Cded inl divesting himself of ti iirt he had on-a soiled, grimy, blac ilig, that looked as if it had seen ion Id hard se-r% ice. Then they all wei rwn to dinner, and Mr. Dean wvas moi iarming than ever, and Mr. Sherma as in e sini('eis. The next day, as Mrs. Sherman wt e~tting her hiusband's duds and clothe )gether, preparatory to packing tho >r the onward march, sho gave a so: C a wild, hunted scream. " What is it, my doar," called U eneral from the next room. "1 Just come in here for a minute ,plied Mrs. Sherman, between fai asps. Tie General went in. There %toc Irs. Sherman holding in her left har ic begrimed shirt Henry Clay Dec ad left. With her right Inud al ointed to certain initials on the low, (lge of tei bosom. The initials ret W. S. T." It was the identical shirt Gener berman had loaned Henry Clay Det i Washington twelve months before I Personal Beauty. Thme first principlo of beauty, as pra iLed ini this progressive town, is, "'H 0 b e b'eautiful." Thme wife of an army officer accomp ied her hiusband( mauy years ago to hi i;:'t ii ai distanlt frontier town. Amom lbe acuainitances she formed there w: Indyl who, if reimarkable at all, w oted for being exceedingly homnel; wkwaurd, and1( commonlacime. Sihe he waist like a barrel, shoulders pitchc( >r ward, a rough, thick skin, co'ars lack hair, large, bold eyes, great feel nd besi]des all these phmysical defee hme was dreadfully demonstrativei manner. She was the senior by severi earms of thme officer's wife. After a tin io fortunes of war retired the son< lars, who settled his family in Wasi igtoni. Ini the meantime thme lever< olities ha'd lifted the husband of 113 otmely lad~y into Congress, and the tw4 -jinds met ini society last wvinter. Mr; tars could not believe her eyes, so gre: as tho transformation in the appen ieo of her old acquainitanee. Mr; ongress lookced ten years younr;er thma me junior lady. Th'le many ripplles< >ft auburn hair ; a complex ion smnoot ud white ; a fashion of drooping ti arkly fringed eyelids, with a faji mading on the under lid, gave to th y'es a manrkced exprie~sion of shynie: ad lan!gnor. H er mannmer was full < 'pse and strikinmgly graceful ; her fe4 m perfi ct ion of sx nmmetry, ini F"rene nots ; thme hmm iand ulie reflmemenmt< ink nails amuul taper fin~gers, and eve er voice 1md chanL~ged amnd dropped intl iose sweetly modulated tones whlmic ass current for th<>rough b~reedlingi ood society. Poor, miystilied Mr [ars k.oked and wonderel, ponderin am all thi.-, asking herself and other How in thle world (did she accoftnplis cleh a muetatmorphlosy?" Hiow? H-o ocs the winmmgim horse lap and pas thers and reach the last quarter pole birough training. Money and tinmo am me great factors to sucecss, and thme wa succeed is to succeed. Mrs. Congrei as huoth. Money purchased her beatt ml hair, paid for Turkish baths anr >smet'es, secured the service of a mai ho could give proper shading to be ye-lids and teach her the art of droo] 'g lid1s. It brought her graceler gaire into shapely proportions. It pai tiropodists to treat her feet and mani ares to polish her finger nails, whmi me and thimbles tapered the finger employed dressmakers and illinmer, Llaried a master, wvho instructed 114 ow to enter the room, how, pose, Se: erself and mana~go her train, all wvit 10 poetry of motion. Thme moral nece ty to be beCautiful puts incipient wrir les under tihe embargo of emumlsion mut lher to bed with her face buriedi oultices of Irish oatmeal and1( mill andagedl f',et and pinioned handsi intment-l'ned gloves, and pat i rakes on a too expansive waist. Me ursuo r~mbition, wealth, and that buti le, reputation ; women march up to tI: mnnon 's nmouth -of phlysical torture amn (Ilcomo martyrdlom solely to be beaut di.-WI ashingteon Free P'rens. --The. train-boy, says Progrmess, hi >eomel a dIandly. Hie is dIressied in) 'ea~ uniform, and1( if you cat ch a glimp >f him a few moments beCfore the tra dar:Lts you will see hiim carefully arram nmg hisi hait' before one of the lookir glass panels of the car. lie is still 1liet ed to~i prize ipackages, but lie pedd them now with grraceful dignity. Testimony of Experts. A An action was brought by, an attor ney-at-law against his client to recover $2,000 for legal services, and in proving the value of these services lie put upon the Stand as witnesses live fellow-attor neys, vho estimated their value from $5,4-1 t to 81,000. The plaintiff recov ered a judgient of $1,800, the Court inIgI charged the jury that they slioulo find their verdict on the testi 6 mony of the attorneys, and the defend ant carried the ease up to the Supreme Court. of the United States. In this vase, Head v,. Ilarnave, that court, in April, reversed the judgment. Mr. Jus tice Field, in the opinion, said: " The evidence of experts as to the value of professional services does not di(fer in principle from such evidence as to the v of laborin other do o0 patments of business, or as to thle vlalue of property. So far from laying aside their general knowledoe and ideas, the jury should have applied that knowl e edge and those ideas to the matters of >r fatft in evidence in determining the g wveight to be given to the opinions ex n press((, and it was only in that way that they could arrive at a just conclu sion. While they cannot act in any ease upon. particular facts material to its disposition resting in their private kiowledge, but should be governed by the evidene, adduce(, they ma, 11id to aut intelligentfly they must, mutge ot the wveight amt force of Stha' evidence by their own general kiow'Ielre of tle Subject of iquiry. I f, for example, the iquestion were as to tle daiages sust ained by plaintill from a fracituire of his leg by the carelessness of a lefendant, the jury would ill per form their duty, and probabiy come to d a wrong corn]lusion. if, controlled by 3 the testimony of the surgeons not 1 mne rely as to the injury inflicted, but as k t) tIle m(lniages sustained, they should g ignore their own knowledge and ex it perience of the value of a sound lim1b. 0 Ot her persons beside professional ien n have knovledge of the value of pro feisional services, and, while great L weight should always be given to the s l oinions of t hose familiar with the sub n ject, they are not to be blindly received, rt but a1r to )e ilitelligently eaminiied by the j ury in the lighlt of their own gen lecrual kniowledre; they shoutlI control only S they are founl1d to be reason " able.'--Br'w/st reet. d . It d The Whip-Poor-Will. id As the dusk gathers I hear the fir3t 6 welhome notes of the whip-poor-will. 10 What close observers of the seasons are 3r the biids ! I doubt if the man who has A tdl acceptance in bank is better posted in the calendar. As far back as my al hird register extends I find a record of L the arrival of the nocturnal songster as occurring between the 8th and 10th of May. Dr. Brewer elaims never to have heard these notes later than Augut; but in late September, in a night's walk c. through the hidden glories of thel Rama w po Valley, I have been cheered by his song. No other American bird is so a. shy and retiring as the whip-poor-will, is~ and where is the happy ornithologist gwho has found his apology for a miet? Is 1 once spenlt portions of each (lay of the is entire month of June In searching for such a nest, andI in the end was unre *d wardIed. Thie habitual walker of the d wVods will, sooner or later, stumble on e t heir noondlay retreats, but it is dillicult -to get into close proximityv. They fly s noiselessly and rap)idly and have that ni p~rotective p)lumlage Upon which Mr. i D~arwin laid so much stress. All (lay elong, when undisturb~ed, they will rest >f on thle lower branches of some emi 1- howeredl tree,andl only when the gloam >f ing dleeia'ens (10 they conme fori h in) search 0o of nocturnal insects. Nightly one used o to come and1 sit on a large stone near 4. t he farmhouse. I have stolen softly out it to within a few feet, and watching him, r.- as he would dlart out andl catch an irk 3. sect, returninig to the stone to enjoy his n tidbit, after the manner of the phmbe. ~f I1lis note is precedled by a sort of cluck. h~ Audubon found his song, as he camped e~ in the solitudes of the fore4t, one of t he it most declightful souils of nature, sweet e er to him than that of the nighitinugale, a~ lhrroughs dlescribes a nest stumnbiled >f upon-two elliptical, whitish, sp)ottedl it eggs lying upon dry leaves-and though hi he returned to it day after daIy, it wvas aj always a task to sepa:rate the bird from a hier surroundings, though lhe st~ood wih ,o in a fewv feet of hier, aind he knew just hi where to look .-Inepenlen/. .Let themm Strawberries Alone. g- - 3, That a donkey, by his winter brows h ig of a vine which yields superior W grapes thle next, season, originated the 15 art oif pruiiing, is an old1 story. I stum ? bled by some such accidenit upon01 a very 0 sucicessful,sim)ple way of growing st raw .y berries. An overcrowvded bed hadLO aS yielded such poor returns of simall, dry, 1- inferior berries that i hoed it u~p before d aull the fruit, was off, inltenin g to let d somae current bumshes have all the benelit, ir of the soil. lAter ini thle season at few - lan~ts were found to have escaped, and is they miadei such a handsome start with .d thle fall rainus that where there was plenii i- t y of room somen were sparedt. TIhcseu le 1 beame very strong, and looked l uxuri .antly green andI vigorouis in the spiring 3, amid yieldedl splend(1id fruit. TIhis cuml 3r ture was sCo nearly no culture at all, but it a mere accidental permission to) a few h plants toi grow, thalt I have condIensedl s- umy prae tee inlto the mere dictum :''Let 1- t hem alone.'' I find that this fills the s, bill of reqpuiremeints as to culture if we n ha:ve given Ithe soil for thenm to grow in C, food thamt is not chatrged1 with weedl ni seds, and~ water enough wvhile swelling 0 heir fruit. Winter shelter is useful, but n is afforwded hy their leaves if t he autumn .i -growt hi has been as strong as It should h e, and~ it will he strong if they are d properly let alone. This consists in not 1- only letting them alone one's self by avo(iig bruising or trampjlinlg or cut. ting of roots, but also letting the weeds let them alone by keeping every vesti eo asof weed away, and making themi let e ach other alone, too, by preventing etI ie beginning of overcrowdIing. To nprevent the white grub from interfering is not so easy, hut something can be .don.r to arrest his destoying work, too, and thil~ us "let alone" all around they are LUsafe for productive prosperity.- Cor. g, V. Tri/nue. Sleeping Accommodations. Cleanliness is the great essential. Our life is passive during the hours of sleep, but our breathing goes on constantly, and the demand for pire air in sleeping rooms is very imlortant. There should always be communiention with the out side air, and in warm Weather, the doors and wvinlows ilay till be wide o'pen. If currents of air can sweep thu'rough the rooms in the day time (or in the night without endianrerill(r the sleeirs), so much the better. The bail air that originates inl sleepving r'ooms--the waste substance that esitpcs frtmii humin bodies, by the lungs aiad skini-settles and clings about the carpets, curtaiis, bedding and clothinig, tainitiing thlieim with ilecomposing, and it Imlav be, poisonolus matter, uless a cist mit cleansing process is carried on by plentifilairing, aid tie action of light, especially sunshine. The room shioull contain as little drapery as posible. Rugs are better than carpets, a l no heavy curtains shohlI he used. Ti bed should not be iale i) after using., until the beddingi has been well aired, and the more it can be expostd to bright sunshine, and114 oult-titoir brtews, the better. Tie rotm should b kept as free as possible from : all olors. 'hie nighit clothing shoul he well auird duri'n the day, ani tlt' day helothig placed at nrghit. where' it wvill get niim'l before it. is agailn worn. Sleeping rooms are ofttl nioch Crowded. IU wollhl be well, roulo-h wen ol (entoiugil, h1avre a priv te r0 on aid : a clean bed apiece. A great gain ill health wotuldh result froil this arranc ment. InI our present, . state of pover t we can only insist that no more than two ought to occupy tle sane bI. It. is an t i'trage on infaner to wedge a baby in betweenl two grown-up peo)lt. Much injury is done to tlt- healt b1 and to the morals of children, by t he crowdted sleepilig arran g mntS inl fa mi lies. The practice is Itow Ibtcominillg quite commomn 10W among 1arefuil people, where there are several yoing children, for the parents to divide the teiret of thec little ones, the mother taking the y ung est ill her bed, aid the father attenidingii to thite iext to the yoluIrest, :u1tl to th ers if there is netd. It seins a pit v that the man of the house shoubl 1e broken ot his rest, but it is quitte, as bad a fi ng i to have tle childreni's mit imade sick and nervous from lack of slee), and e xcess of care. \ ith atteii tion to tle laws of iealth, esItcialh- in regart to food anid air, there ieedI he little sulifering from broknci rest, as healthy chiltlreln sleep soundithly antd quietly, and need litt le care. -AJinc rican Agriculturi _ The Origin of Fencing. From the first, invention of the swordi :Owii to thie period when tile lifteelth :entury was drawing to a clo4e, this wLea onl had ail ways beenI usetd as aii :arm11 of oYense. The person wieltilg it tihrl-ust .t or' Ihewed it. itot the boiyt~ ohins ani Lagonist whlenlever hie hiad a ehinint,, :uit :he only tdefenis againust it was stoutL armnor or an initerpotseil shiitl. It is not to ) be l suppsethaIh~t anm ant cin w lu-ritor, ->r one belonging to thle earlier M~itdll Ages, never' thr'ust asitde or pa~rriedl wit h his owni blade ai st roke of his etnem' s swordtI; but tis meit'hod of detfense was not depentdetd upon in t host' days; t lie breast-plate, thie helnwi e or' t he bucitk le r he wa~s (endoeavoring t) get his own lwordI iinto someC ii unprottectetd port4ion of the body tof h's antagtoniist. lut abot t the time of F~erdtinaind aind lsabella of Spain, the .'ciemnce of ft'ncing was ini renited. This new systemll of ligh tin e ;rave an1 i et irely new tV use to thet u sword;I itw became a weapon~i of defene as well as oll'enlse. ILong,( slemilter rapiers, shiarpenedt only at Ite poinit, wten- thle swo~rds uisetd ini fencting.r Armedt with' :me of thieste, a gallant knmight, or' high tonted court ier, whot **hose tIw' netw meithodi~t of sinmgle co011mt, tdisdIa inedl ihe use tof armor~t; thle st rokte- of hiis topplotn - ent were warded off by his own light weapllonl, taal wd~hithlevem' of thlit t wt 4on ~testanuts was- enialed to d1isarml t he oth-i. er, or' to dlive'r a flirute thiebi coil p)oiint of his rapiter ito thle botly tof his apponntthi. if lie felt so iniclintal. TIhe rapier, wh'icth was adlaptetl to combit~i oft tlhi uelist; antd, :is duitls utndt to be piroteet thet life antd hoinomrtf hiimistlf, his family andt his fr'iendts..,/Jo/ms /ai.s, i kt. ichole as. Insect Life in BrazIl. Mr. Eirnest Morris, the young traveler and naturalist, who has just returned from Brazil, repeats the general observa tion of e.xplorers that the exuberance of insect life is thme principal obstacle to the enjoyment of a sojourn in that part of the world. Cockroaches swarm in every house despite theo inroads of an army of spiders which sally forth from overy chinik to prey upon them, scorpions are intrusive and danerus ; small red insect called the "mci"isan intol erable annoyance; at certain hours of the day the air is black with flies and mosquitoes, and ants are a uniiversal plague. To baffle these last-named foes of peace Mr. Morris was obliged to keep his entire collections on hanging shielves, the cords of which were soaked in the oil of copaiba. "' Thme most de structive ant in Brazil," says Mr. Morris, "is the sanha. It will strip trees of their folage mn a single night, and iT] many places orange trees can not bc ~rown for this reason. The tocandeirn us a very small anut, the bite of which is poisonous and makes a pain fuil sore. ] was once rendered unable to work for ii veek from a bite received from ones of these ants. Bone species travel in large' bodies, marching in a straight line, andl never turning to the right or left. If a) honus lies in the track of one of these marching bodies, unless they are com pletely exterminated they pas through. Nothling will be injured, but every crack and cranny will be explored, and not a cockroach or spider wll survive the visitation. They are, therefore, re garded as friends, and their advent is welcomed. Go where you will in Brazil, you will meet ants. You live, sleep, and eat with~ themi-and eat them, too." _71 "IF ' -It oosts a man ble than it does to happy. -The mother-in-IW do ber that she was once a agh -Spanish Proverb. -Minnesota has just skeleton of a woman who stood nine feet high and ha&,a f long as a nail keg. Anybodyaassg from Northern Indiana P-Detroit Press. -The Rector (to Irish plasterer4S ladder pointing a wall): "Tha0mor must have been very bad." Fat (with a grin): "Faix, ye can't explot th likes o good Roman cmint to stick to a rotest ant church, sorr!"-Ptp/. -A journey around the world now takes about ninety days, and the cost can be reduced to $800. And in going round in that time and at that expense you can have about as much fun as you'd get in sitting all night In a rainstorm on a picket fence listening to a bull-dog bark at a cat in a barrel.-Boston Post. -They were courting: "What makes the stars so dim to-mghtP" she said, softly. "Y'our eyes are so much bright er," he whispered, pressing her hand. They are married now. "I wonder how many telegraph poles it would take to reach the stars from hero?" she said, musin glv. "One, if it was long enough," ho growled. "Why don't you talk com mon sense?" -An old peasant on the south shore of Long Island was telling his visitor how pleasaint it was. "But," asked the friend, slapping his face with his hand kerchief, "don't you have a great man7 mos(qu itoes and sand-flies?" "Ya-as, ' said the man, "but then we sorter like them." "How can that be?" "Wa-al, you see, we feel so kinder good when they go away."-N. 1. Tribune. -The King of Bavaria has announced that he will not read books printed in quarto sizo. We shall remember this when we issue our book-provided the King promises to buy eight hundred copies of a 1,000-edition. This would leave only two hundred volumes on our lian(ls as dead stock, which would be doing pretty well, considering the quali ty of the book.-Norristown Herald. --Pat borrowed some money of a friend, and was unable to pay it back when he camie for it; and the friend be came very angry, an(t said: "Now, Pat, if you donrt pay me that money by next Monday, I shall give you a thrash ing." The next day, as Pat was stroll ing alorg the street, he jostled a man, who cried out, "Look out what you are doing, or I will knock you into the middle of next week.'' "ec jabers! an' I wish ye wvud, sorr for then I wud be over Mundy."'-N. 1. Sun. -It is a very cold (lay when a new agony isn't forthcomning. It is now quite the idea for a young lady to send a niniature .Japanese parasol to a kind ly dlisp)osed gentleman friend. It is a small matter, but fraught with this deep sigrnifican(c: "Summer 1 is IScoming by and by. WVill you carry my sun umn brella by the shimmering, shininig sea?'" Thie young gentleman immnedIiateCly pro ceeds to baink his eigar and b~eer mon cy, that he maty have enough on hand for a shore dinner for two.-New Ilavcn A Sad Story of a Wrecked Life. The most thrilling and sadly sugges tive temperance lecture is tho sight of a )Ince ntoble, talented man, left in ruins by into xicating drink. A W'ashington paper tells (f at ragged beggar, well known ini the streets of that city, who onJce held( an important coimmandI in the ar-my, having been pr~omotedl for personal bravery, from a cavalry Lieutenant to nearly the highest rank in military ser v-ice. Onie night, not long ago, when lie hadt~ been too successful m i begging liquior to sate is craving, and while lying helpi ssly drunk in the rear part of a Third street saloon, some men thioughtt to p)lay a joke on him by steal inig his shirt, and p~roecedcd to strip Un dernteath his shtirt, nod suspended b y a string from his ineck, was a small ennvas bag, which the men opened and found it conta-uined his commission as Brevet Major Genaral, two conigratu latory letters-one from 0-cn. Grant and one fromt President Laincoln--a photo greaph of a little girl, and a curl of hei -ai ''chestnut shadow" that doubtless (one (day crept over the brow of sorge loved one. When these things were discovered, even the half-drunken mien who found item felt at respect for the man's for mner gre'atness, ta pity for his fall~n contdit ion, anid quietly returned the bag and its contents to where they found ittemi, and1( replaced the sleeper's clothes Whn reporter tried to interview the mani~, and1( endeavored to learn something of his life- in the past few years, he de elined to communlicate ayth4ing. lie ('ried like at child when told how his right name anid former posibion were aiscrtainied, and, with tears trickling d vni hiischeeks4, said: "For Godl's sake, sir, don't publish myi~ degradation, or my name, at least, if you iare determined to say something ablouit it. it is enough that I knowv my self how low I have become. Will you promuiso that much ? It will do no good, but will do my friends a great deal of harnm, as, unfortunately, they think I dliedl in South Amieric*a, where I went at the close of the war." ltIntmperance and the gaming-table, hie sid, hatd wrought hiis ruim. Honest, Biut not Reliable.. Not long since a lady called on Mose Scebaumburg, to find out if a colored woman, wvho had formerly be-en a servant at hit; house, was honest, she having given him as a reference. "She vas honest, too' honest to suit me, put she vas not reliable." " How in the worldl enn th;. be?" "YVell, you (lay I leaves a five tollar pill on (10 floor, and I (de Matildy to sweep (lot room out. I shoost vant to see if she keep dot pill.' "Well, did sihe keep the bill ?" '"No, she brinigs met (lot pill pack." " That looks very mnuch as if she was reliable." "No she vans not reliable, for dot pill vast countrterfeit. I vas in hope sihe (lakes (lot pill, and den I would never have paidl her dlot twenity dollars I owed her; put she's fooled me) p~y bringing me dot) pad pill pack{, f'o I cannot say she vivs reliable, but maybe she vas honest." Too Smarwt. .-one men, and boys also, are po -.mart as to think they enni dlispense with Ini' Hi(~ty anbl uninally overreach them