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D- o 10 To rOLIlIS, MORALIlY, EDUCATION AND TO THE ENEW L INTEREsTr OF TIHE COU . y D F. BRADLEY & GO PICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, OCTO2 VO I NEWB APANINGS. Virginia has the larges mAs trop 16own for years. The Virginia penitehtiary now con tains 682 convlce, About three-fourtbs of the fruit crop of .Gorg3a bas been dried. At Gainesville, Gp., 'Mrs. Clitmber -r'died at the age of 100 years. The south will make 7,000,000 gal 4 Ions of cotton Feed oil this year. Bee-keeping is becoming a large and profitable industry in Mississippi, The trade In cotton in Montgomery, Ala., last year footed up $6,006^0. Florida has shipped, during the sea on ju st closed, 25,000 'head of cattle to Cuba. Tn some Pbrtiohs of North Alabama corn is bffered at twenty-five cents a buahel. 'clay county, N. C., polls but twenty negro votes, while Wake heads the list with 5,128. 'The colored military co.npanies in the Suth will hold an encampment in At lanta this fall The Sehina, Ala., cotton millq have jnst 14hiyped five car loads of cotton go%.s to China. Hale county, Ala., is looking out for 4her moss industry and is gathering thousands of tons. Macon, Ga., has a bonded debt of but $700,000, and taxable property amount ing to $10,000,000. Memphis has one-seventh of the 'whole number of cotton-seed oil mills in the whole country. The first and only Etown clock in the State of Florida surmounts the new court house at Tampa, Large and very rich deposits of iron ore have recently been discovered in Marshall county, Ala. A grove of eighty bananna trees., ightl-en months old, is bearing good frv.it at Waynesboro, Ga. An effort is being made to found a college at Greenville, Miss., for the ed ucation of colored youths. A stalk of Sea Island cotton'nine feet in height and having forty-two brances and 250 bolls, is on exhiibitioni at Piron son. Fin. The Georgia Lwnatic Asylum is full to overflowing, and cannot acconmm) (ate a large number of insane persons waiting treatment. It is estimated tnnt over one-half of 'lthe new manufactories started in thme South (luring the last two years belong to Northern capitalists. Little Roak, Ark., votedl on the "license" quelstion at the recent election :mnd decided b~y an overwhelming ma .Iority to continue to "sip of the flowing The New Orleans Times-Demo cratsat it is quite probable that the amount paid by the South to the WVest for food. stuffs this year will be $l0),000,09 less than paid in 1881.t The b.jlanta Constitution publishes a table showing the taxable property of Georria to be worth, as returned from taxation, $200,000,l00, an imcrease over s list y-ear's returns of $1G,000,000. There are now twenty-two iron fur naces in Alabama. The BIirmine ham t * Age says that within a radius of fifty miles of Birmingham there is enough iron to supply a thousandl furnaces for r a the,usand years. Two more of the old guard have pass- (C ed over the dark river. Michael Hlol- c hert, aged 101 years, died last week in c Matrioni county. West Va., arnd .Jamest Stalwart, aged 111 years, has just died 1 in Accomac county, Va-. The Americus (Ga.) Recordler says| that during the present cyclone the wells in the eastern part of the cit y o were liown dry. These wells, upt to I~ the time of the gale, were unfailimr-. The explanation of this remarkable occurrence is the existence of subterra nean passages and the violent agitation on the surface opened channels of es eajpe for the water to these. *A curious looking specimen o f t he| hovine race was exhibited on the streetsC of Greensboro, N. C., recently. Thme animal is a Devonshire bull calf, three 'j months old, with a tajil andl hide similar |ti to those of an elephant. The calf is g about the usual size, and apparent'y r well arid hcarty.' Its hide is entirely a' destitute of hair, lies in heavy folds '1 like an elephant'h, and is of ab~out the same color. The tail is short andl piked. O~ver 400 mines, including silver, coi- r per and other minerals, are being work ed in North~ Carolina. Florida wvill soon be a perfect~ net- a work of rail ways, and the rapid devel- t opmnent of the State will of cor'1r'e fel low. Her resources are wonderful, and a few years will place her among i~he (1 liveliest of the Southern States. t North Caroolina' s rice crop is good, and this year will reach 65,000 bushels of tide-water and 200,000 bushels of up- e land. M~any val uable articles ha Ive recently been contributedl to the Tennessee i torical Society. Amemng t hem mire the wvritings of Tlhon'.a Paine, prited ini 1792; an eight~ dolbar Continental cnr~ rency bill of 1777; n Spanish silver dob. lar of 117&B: an Indian tomahaw ~k fom .d . in 1914; a copy of A rrowsuinitIi:m : d Lewis' General Atlas, pubishmed in 18Mi the first volume of Maronix de ( hiat te! lunx's TJravels in North l Anim a in 1 7&O __1781. 17829 an n,1 y --t,-. --~;..... rekted in the opera house of that city for occupying a seat for which he had ice coupon, although lie bad a ticket of admission. The seat was the only va- f cant one in the house. Now he will ask the courts to decide whether or not the theatre is compelled to furnish seats when a ticket is sold for it and the money paid. uave Jewelry. "Here is something new in the way of ornamentation," a salesman in a large 1 up-town jewelry store said, openin a box. Out walked a monster beetle, fully four inches in length. About its body was a solid gold band, locked by a p iny padlock, to which was attached a ostly gold chain, about two inches in ength, fastened to a pin. The beetle,s ack glistened in light, having been I )reated to a dress of gold, and as it umbered along its long legs worked to ;ether in a curious fashion. "It's a tl hawl pinm, You see the pin is used to I asten the face of a shawl, or perhaps worn )n the bonnet, the insect crawling iround the length of the chain. Thoy ire perfectly harmless and not expensive , ts they live on air-that is, they have ti lover been seen to eat. This one was irought here to mdunt, which is a very ine operation, asi the legs and antenna) ft re al so delicate. 'After all, there is sc 1othing objectionable about them, ex !ept the idea of having them e.rawl over rou. They all come from South A meri- 0 a, and the only lot in the city is to bo aken to France, where the owne; wVill ry to introduce the fashion of wearing hem. They cost from $10 to $50, depend ng entirely on the amount of the ring. tl L'here is nothing cruel about it, as thoy 1U tre bound loosely, and the gold has n'o 4ffect upon their hard sides. In Brazil the fashion of wearing bcetle ti s carried to a great extent. A wel! cnown resident has a beetle with a col- hi ar of gold which meets at the top, and P s there ornamented with a diamond of great value. The insect has a cage sur 'ounded by the plants among which it ives in its native state, and nothing is h< ieglected to make it as comfortable as 0: >ossible. But the most popular insect ised for an ornament in Brazil is a smali Ahosphorescent beetle. These are often 7< vorn fastened in the hair, and as the two th >hosphorescent or light-giving spots are )n the sides of the head, the black in lect is,of course, invisible, especially vhen in the raven locks of the fair Bra ,ilians. Twenty or thirty of these bee- b ,les will throw out a light sufficient to at 'ead by, and when arranged around the sl ied' in a circle, or grouped over the orchead and held in place, the effect ilo )eautiful.-New York Sun. Putting Away Tools. di The wearing out of farm implemen s, as a rule, due more to neglect I han o use. If tools can be well taken care C if, it will pay to b~uy t hose mn (Ie of the ei est steel, aind finished in the best nmn-. a Ler; but in common hlandls, and~ witha omumon care, such are of lit tie advait 01 go. Iron anid steel parts should b e Jeaned with dlry sand and a cob, or craped with a, pice of soft irc n, washiedi nid oiled if necessary, aind in a day or al wo cleaned o11' with the corn-cob,, 'and b ry sandl. Finalty painit the iron purt 8( nlth rosin and becswax, ini the pro- or ion of four of rosin, to one of wax, rselted1 together and apilied hot. TJhis good for the iron or steel plarts of very sort of tool. Wood wtor~k should(1 e painted with good, boiled, linseed e ii, white lead ant turpentine, colored e f any desired tint; red is probably theo est color. Keep the cattle away until Lie p~aint is dry and hard. or they will ck, with death as the result. 'If it is a ot dlesiredl to use paint 0on handit tools, 1 be boiled oil w th turp~entinie and wV liquiid dIrier,'" does just as well. er lany prefer to saturate the wood-work f farm implements wit h (crud(e pet ro. mmr. This cant not be used( wvith <olr uit is aplplied by itself, so long' as noi is a bsorb~ed by the pores of the woodl..-. [uriczuurut. ct H~ow to 1K1l1 a Rtattlesniake. A working party on a railroad here is iade tup of mountaineers and Georgians. H ine of the latter performed a foolhardv at sat the other (lay that imade the bloo'd fa f the unaccustomed spectators run cold. 1, 'hey wei-e at work clearing away the iick underbrush, in advance. of tihe en ineer, when sonme one shouted: "' Ware f rattlesnakes I" Hie saw oneO ot these 3ptiles abou~t four feet long and five or x inches in diameter lying just ahead. 'he Georgian cut a short stick with a a >rked end, and creeping up to the O' 'iake he deftly pinned it to the earth by pc ushin g the forked end on either side of id Is neck. Then, seizing the tail in his. ight hand, he ran his left down t he W nake's kodly, and grasping it firmnly just ack of the head lhe held it up at arm's mg~th and called on the others to "look 01 t th1e var minit's motuth." It was any- j' iing but a pleasant sight, and( most of he spectators were horrified. A fter olding it a few nimite for general in- m pection , he suddtenily swuung thle sn a'e s v'er his head wit h I-.is rii-ht hi'nd, l't- ni *ng go the hold of the left , andl dh -di 4 wit h great force aintarock, killi ig it instantly. It was a c~ool and de. rious5 feat, bu(t very trying to the look- N rs-on, who censuredl the man for hii " 'folly," at wvhich he seemedl to be hr uightily amused. o fl -Thlle Mexican women are wonder- at olly gracefuil. Th'lis is partly (111 to g heir mnner of carrying ha~sketsq and ,andles, begiin in early childhod. I :iat (Ihed a Alexican girl carry an im-~ In('ISe baiskebt of (dllhes home to be " Ilindried. l-'irst she se'lected from the Y masket a towe I, and tw iting it tightly, in voundji it round10 andi rotund unitil the~ cir- w umfnerenceit was the size of her head, on i' v'hich she placed it; then, helpedl by a h ~ompniiioni, she 1liftedl the bask1et, a veiwhing at least thirty p~oundsl on top) y f t~e roll. She ba:laniced it by touch ng It lightly, first with oneI hand and (1 hen the other. After she hadl gone a bort distance shte folded hier handl~ls inn 1er shw, walking with the g rrat est base and uncnscnonnness. -- JIrh/aIl:/p/hia 'fOPICS OF THE DAY. Amom three-fourths of the' Georgi rmit crop has been dried. I * BEN. BuTrIER has been retained by lie Dorseys in the Star Route trials. THE last of the Irish suspects have eon released from Kilmainham jail. A PA-mER at Valdosta, Georgia, hau Mde two cr-ops of corn on one pioce ol Lnd. THE proposed introduction of Chinese .bor into England is meeting with op D8itiOn. HEREAFTER no breobloading riflee :o to be included in storos for uncivilzed Id ians. A FATAL case of blood poisoning from to bito of a mosquito is reported from ouisville, Ky. SIR GARNET WOLSELEY is a one-eyed tan, and was left for dead in the enches at Sabastopol. OLIvER ArES, Republican nominee r Lieutenant-Governor of Massachu tts, is a son of Oakes Ames. "ONE country, one starry banner, and le wife," is the platform of an editor hose field adjoiis Mormondom. ACCORDING to the Minneapolis Trbune kere is not enough low grade wheat in 'innesota this year to feed the chickens. LIEUTENANT DANENHOwER will enter e lecture field in a few days,having for s subject "Arctic" and Siberian ex 3riences. THE United Presbyterians have ,reed to raise a fund of $500,000 in mor of the twenty-fifth year of their -ganization. IT Is the thing now for young men of >ciety who have nothing to do, to claim oy " write for the papers." It makes LCm seem to have brains. TEN thousand acres of oysters have en discovered in the North Sea. The tention of managers of church festivals kould be called to this item. HALF a ton of the silver three cent eces which originated under Buchan i's administration was shipped a few kys ago from Boston to the Philadol iia mint. A RECENT decision of the Sipreme >urt of Florida makes railroad prop. ty iiable to taxation, and thus adds >out $5, 000,000 to the taxable property the State. TuE Egyptian war helped the sale of nglish journals wonderfully. The Lon >n Standard, on the day succeeding the >mba~rrdment of Alexandria, sold over 0,000 copies. I e t IT IS stated that a block of creosoted ne, in use in the street pavement in dlveston for seven years, was recently amined and found to have lost but aa ghth of an inch. SPECIAL inducements to plant trees e offered in Dakota, where for every re acres of trees, forty acres of land th $1,000 in improvements are ex ripted from taxation. MOSES WILLIAMS, who died in Boston fow days ago, leaving a fortune of ,000,000, began life peddling milk in e streets of that city. That's what mes of selling milk where water is so >undant. A BOSTON banker went to the Oceanio ouse at the Isle of Shoals for recre ion, taking five rooms for himself and muily. When he went away, Septembe'r lhe paid his three months' bill of $8, 0 and saidl it was cheap enough. HLEUnEvr SPENCER is in tis~ country. d he is sick, yet withal he is able te o this forcible language in speaking of icar Wilde: "H~e is that outlandish rson who 'attempted to reconcile locy with art and namby pambyism th sentiment." THE Louisville Courier-Jornal ex esses the opinion that if ,Alfred mnyson were to go through a news jer waste basket, and attach his .me to all the original poetry he ould tind in it, he would still be read, mnire~d, and paid. WHrAT sort of doctors have they in aw Jersey ? A Jersey paragraph says: ['he h ealth authorities of Paterson .vo declared the office and residence Dr. Daeumer untenantable from th, and the inmates are to be0 removed Ad the premises cleaned and fumi btedl." A NUJMnEIR of immigrants of various itionalities passed up Broadway, New 'rk, the other morning. The Italian en carried deep carpet sacks, and the rmen. left far in the rear, and wearing nk and green costumes, carried or led ilf-growun children. The Scotch women ul men were about equally laden. The uglishmen carried nothing at all, while in wom~en, endeavoring to keep up with joem, were burdened with a heavy port. umtceau in each hand. TFur African expedition under Stanley, eut out by the King of Belgium, le said to have established the first four of a line of various stations which, starting from the Conwo. will for com mer9' purposes tap the most populous districts of Central Africa. These four stations Are described as cities in embryo. They possess houses and gardens; they are connected by well constructed roads,and at each a European acts as Chief of the community, having anothet European as suib-chief, Mias D. W. LINCOLN. of Portland. Maine, lately fell heir to $175,000, the estate of her consin, Erven W. S. Noughton, cf California, formerly of Maine, deceased. There is a romantio history connected with the bequest. Mr. Noughten and Miss Lincoln, in their younger days, were intimate friends, and would probably have been married had it not been for opposition Qf relatives. Mr. Noughton started for the West, de claring he would never come back. He kept his word. Business prospered with him and he became wealthy. SPEAKING of the Princess Louise. as she appeared in that city, the Omaha (Neb.) Bee says: " The Princess made her appearance on the rear platform of her car to watch the antics of her little terrier, in charge of the porter. She was accompanied by one of her ladies. and only remained a moment, and few of the crowd suspected who she was. She was attired in the most modest man ner imaginable. Her dreas was of dark lawn, and a spray of violets on her bo som, a plain bracelet, and a couple of plain gold rings werr the only ornaments she wore. She is i well-formed, hale. looking woman of thirty-five, or there. about, and is said to have the features of lior mother, and, like her husband, a 1podest yet frank demeanor. Her face is bright and intelligent, and lights up very pleasantly when Phe smiles." The Tiger. Speaking of King Faro in Nlw York and Boston, the Boston Globe says: The miere mechanism of a game which can scarcely be learned otherwise than by observation and practice is not easy of description. How can the mysteries be conveyed to those who know not of "coppering," "singleout," "break evens," "odds" and "evenq," of the refined arLicle o. switching and the unavailing of the "whipsawP" Let it merely be said that a ful pack of cards is inserted faces upward in a metal box, open at one side; that the alternate cards from the top one win, and the alternate cards from the second one lose. This is the order of rotation from the top; the first card, of course, being considered dead, the third,fifth,seventh, ninth and 8o on will win, and the sec ond, fourth, sixth, eighth and so on will lose. Cards may be backed to win or lose. All bets are even, save when only one turn, i. e., four cards remain in the box. Of these four cards two are con sidered dead, the top one as belonging to the previous turn and the one at the bottom as being the last in the pack, and for bets made on the other two, odds of four to one are offered against naming them in their order. This, at first sight, seems a liberal proposition ; but a slight reckoning of the many dif ferent combinations that may be made with the cards will show how great an advantage the banker has in this case over the better. The latter characeter istic is, indeed, general with faro, as with most other banking games. The only ostensible advantage of the bank at faro is in the splits, or the coming together of two single cards, in whichi case one-half of the bets fall to the banker instead of being considered even. The game is recorded on a small in strument called a case or cue keeper, resembling the framed wires strung with wooden balls used for counting at school. The proportion in favor of the banik is estimated at fifteen per cent. against any individual player, but, of course, the collective advantage is far greater. The success of the game, backed by sufficient capital to resist a few lucky bete, is a mathematical cer tainty, like roulette and other games, to which dupes and spendthrifts have been contributing for centuries. The devices for cheating at faro are numerous, and even in an honestly con ducted house a player constantly back ing certain cards or pursuing a system would be liable to lose, for the dealer who shuffles and cuts for himself is gen erally practiced enough to arrange the deal or at least some part of it mutch to his own wish. The dealers of faro acquire their calling only by long and careful practice. T[hey are generally sharp, keen and impassive men. An expert dealer can always command a fair salary, generally from $25 to $100 per week, and even larger prices are paidl when the services ren dered justify it. illimItable Gold. Recently Captain Butrton, the trav eler, reporte' rthat almost illimitable gold (enn he obtained on the Gold Coast. A frica, a district which has been aurif ('rously prolific for centuries, lHe says the region is equal to half a dlozen ( ali fornias. in this he is supported by the English Commander Cameron, who in. vestigated the Gold Coast in his com pany. Gold is found in the sea sand, it the (dust of the roads and in the nmd walls of native huts. A siubject of suck importance has of course been wid1ely discussed by experts in England, and by this time larg~e numbers of pros p~ector-s nere doubtless verifying ma'ters on the spot. Notwvithstanding all t he di Iliculties that would confrop t gold ininers in Africa --the insalubrious e-li. mate, the savage inhabitants, the haos tility of the native rulers, and other- oh. stacles equally as great-there is ne doubt tha~t when proof piositive~ is ob tained that a greaut gol deposit existe therne all thecse d itli cult ies will be over c-ome, and that. t bie wvhite menm and1 the capital and energy of civilization will flow thit her to confront t bos c? nature and hiarharism. DILIGENCE IN BUSINESS. A Lay Sermon. "oest thou a man dillen.t In his imne.q? e shall stant btforo XIi,; he Ald not stand bofore rnean ie."- roe rih .r.ri. ?. Dearly beloved, you will not listen to any Scripture in oth .er pulpits this morn ing that carries moro truth to the squaro inch than this. And the especial atten tion of the young men inl the congrega tion is called to t e text. The reason why, or at least one relson why, the Psalmist, alter he had been young, and was old, could not rememn) ber ever to have seen the righteous for saken or his seed bering bread, was because a lazy man can't be very right cous. Not righteous enougl to huIrt him. The spectacle of a la.y Christ ian would be as great. a rarity as a fat skel eton. If your Bible teneies you anything it teaches you that there is no room in this hive for a drone. "The hand of tihe diligeit shall bear rule; but the sloth III shall be under tribute." "'The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns; but the way of the r'ghteouIs i made plain." "The desire of the sloth ful killeth him, for his hands refuse to labor." " the slu"'pard will not, plow by reason of the col, therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing." "The soul of the sluggard desireth, itil hath nothing; but the soul of the dili gent shall be made fat." -Not slot hful in business; fervent in spirit serving thie Lord." "An idle soul shall suller hun - ger." A lazy Christian, brethren, would find but cold coimfort if he should exert himself to read his Bible. The diligent soul always possessed the land. Not the man or woman who steps into a dead man's shoes and a fort une, but the boy and girl wlo learii in their teens what a dollar is worth. and how to gam and use a power that money cannot buy, nre the people who move the world. Gifford, the first edi tor of the Quarterly Re ci %w was only a common sailor: Ben. Johnson was a bricklayer; John Binyan was a tinker; Hugh Miller was a quarryman; Shakes neare's father was so Hliterate he didn't know how to spell his son's name; neither did his son, and no more do you, for that matter; De Foe, the au thor of Robinson Crusoe, was almost wholly self-taught; Edgar A. Poe was the son of strolling players; Ben. F-ranklin, tie printer, was the son of a tallow chandler; Sir Richard Ark wright, iventor of the cotton spinning ila chine, was a barber; Tom Moore was the soin of a grocer; Gerald Massey he gan life as an errand boy; and Caxton, who set up the first printing press in England, was a weaver's appirentive; John Adams was the son of a farmer; President Lincoln was a farm hand and flat boatman; Andrew Johnson was a tailor; Grant was a tanner; Garfield was a canal boV--none of these men were renowned for their great wealth, erhaps, but, they were diligent in their business, and they stood before Kings; a long,.long wis before most Kingrs. 'Ihere is no partieular merit in b~eingr a King. Any man wh'Jo happens to be born at tile right time into the right family, can't help being a King. But all the kmngcraft in the world couldn't make a De Foe. a H-ugh Miller, a Burns, or a Bunyan, if the boy didn't make himself. i early beloved, it may be that this congregat ion is not madle up exclusive ly of future Presidnts, and of peoj le whose nameIIs shall be wvritten the fore most of all in their time. But there is little doubt that it is largely made up oif menl and~ women who) are not doing all the world has a right to explect of them. Ask yourselves hiow many of you deC serve to stand before Kings for your diligene? Possibly, my young brothe(r may' not wvish to stand before King's. Very well, then he dtoesn)'t. have to.! But if lhe dfoes, there is only one way for him to get there; he must he (diligent. in business, whatever hiis bus.iniess is; e ni. stantly activye; persisten't. andI devoted'( in his ap~pliention). lie wants to keep his elbows, not. his feet, on is deCsk. He mushit workl liart' ini thle morning of his lire, just. when lhe wants to play, than lhe will ini the afterntoon. It won't lbe at all easy for you, deaLrly beloved, to be '' d iligent inll buiness.' A mni is oft en veryl busy who isni't a. all dIiligenit ini business. 'The most netL ive main I ever sawv was a man11 who dlid less t han you woul supipose ten meni could (10. He lived on the street. i~e tal k('d nolit ies t en hours a (lay. ie was alwvays going to run for some otlice, but nobody ever nomninat ed hinm. lie would dl:-ag you away from ynour deCsk or hook, to talk to you by the hour abouit some tiling you didn't care aL cent for; lie knew a little about every living man's buw15ness 8a~ e uiMs ownI; hie spent thle 1mosf (If his t ime ini eatuu and IU t he rest of it in eomn lt ion arn(i procession, and yet, whien you wenit into that mlan's oflice, there was a great legend staring at you from the wvall, right over his desk-"Tfime is money.'' Be diligent in your business, (dearly beloved, andl you will have no time to manage yu neghbor's aff'airs, and this will keep you out of trouble andl mischief. And jus~t as soon as your neighbor niinds that your time is too vat unable to be wastedl upon0 him for nothi ing, he will want it, and pay for it. Men always want whait is hardl for thenm to get. lie dIiligent , aind your "thI ought s Will tendl to plenlty."' Be~ diligent, anid "out of Asher your tbreatf shalt be fat."' lie diliget, and I God shall give thee af the de(w of heaven, andl then fatnuess af tte eart h. and1( plenty of corn and wine,'' andi a whole chiap)ter of amenduui ments ean't keep jit from you. lie dili gent, and your fullest manihood wvill be developed ; the wor'ld will be glad thuat. you have lived ini it. andl society will miss you when you are calledi p) higher. Hie dlilige'nt in your businueas, and t he thousand~ andl one templtat ions that be set tile lazy man cannot be heard by you, absorbed in your own hon'iest affairs. lie dliligenit andl "rejoie~ in y our labor; this is the gift of' God,'' and "it is good and comely for one '. enjoy the good of all his labor that he taket h under the sun all the days of his life; for it is his port ion." lie (diligent, and rest and refreshing will followv your' toil, for "'thle sleep) of a laboring man is sweet, whethier lhe eat little or much." " Seest thou a man diligent in his busi ness? lie shall st andl before hKings; lie shall niot stand before, mean men.'' Cut~ that text out, my young brother, and paste it over your desk. It may save sour situation. There will be no collection this morn ing. If the sexton wants any money from this congregation, he will be a lit le more dihigent in his business and dust the pCws back under the gallery, samc as the body pews down in front, and sweep the carpets at least once u mont h1. --Bu rinaon IMAk"uc. Imaginary Birds. Tie phonix, an everybody knows, gathers dry sticks to make its funereal pyro, which it then contrives to set alight, and is presently consumed in the lnmes. From its ashes a worm crawls out, and, being gradually covered witli feathers, takes the form of its parent bird. The eagle, which fears nothing else, dreads the approach of venomous serpents. To avert evil from its eaglets it paces two agates ini its nest. When its beak grows too long it breaks off the supe fluous pieCo Against a iock. Tho serre is a very powerful bird, aundl takes iimiense flights. It is fond of the comn pany of ships, but if a vessel happlns to be an unusually swift sailer, it clises its wings and sinks to the ottolI of the sea. A sentimental bird is the fo'male turtle-dove. Should its mate chanee to die, it never again alighjts oit a leify tree. It is remarkable for its cbastity but is averse from melody. If it hea'rs the warbling of other biris it groan:s dismally. Inl wiiiter tine it loses its feathers, and shelters it-elf in holes and hollows. It is related of lie wood peeher that if any one drives in a peg to close the entrance to the 'hole in) tio tree in which its nest is built it, flis of4 in quest of a partieular herb witi which it toucheis the peg, whiereupon it. fuls out. This, too, is curious. 'ihie hoise is ln ablbe to moult in a natural ima:.nr. Its young ones, therefore, pu1l out its f.'ath ers, and cover and feed her till they aro full grown. The stork's youn;: on, . aro not less filial. So long as I I lIrent bird has provided for her br.(. ! ISO loi will her brood provide for he'. (h1 the other humnd, ile 1i:11e cro)%w iS (rie'l to its offspring, :md ieeks at and 1 hats them till their feathers are is bhu-k as his own. The vainest auid hi itst o)f all birds is the peacock. When it looks upon its brilliant 1li0a it. is so de lighted that it spreads out the g ics of its tail, but when it looks down! --on its feet it is so disgusted and so wdiasj:'td of itself that its tail droops to the ground. It is said to have the voice of a 1b.nd the head of a sni:ake, and tie galt of a thief. Thec swan likes to be aoiniiiiied by iL harp, and is mwst nu i lodimis diing the last year of its life. It, is al .o iiter esting to learni thin the - %al!w is p ble of restoring iiht to it. "eahlow brood" when carried away into enp:ivity and bli nded. Any one ginig v. er snakes abound will do wll to inke ', th hui soimo iurned vultuure' fTh. The heart of a vulture wrappd inl ic e kin of a lion or of a wol! frigh.B ns y demlcons. It is quite nutru4 tYt vulture's were originally a race of utn hou ~l we're cruel to the pygmies. unt how is it that medical men'i do0 not make:( e' fi 'r e (f the calaiu~i'ls? If this biautifuli, slow white little bird, which is as nalvet of ,leruisalemn, he0 hield in friet of a niumo whose death is certain,, it aivers it, head, and( will ini no wise look at b me ; huat, if on the 'onltrar'y, the t'i'k num11 is de' tinted to live ini ite of his phNIiN:ut:, tii: enadrius tiurnis to himi, a~s Johnli T1;..v.sa expresses it, "fauinynge amd play sn." -A l the Year' Houwl. Sunakes as Tiroait Catch~er's. Mr. George W . !"1 rri , of lBridge wvater, thuinks i ihermenI'l)c ha l heIter go into thie sna~ke-killin' buien~- along~ the brooks if they wvi'.h to haiv.' anyi trout fishing. Thle ot lher <day, while' ihewas at~ work near a brook necar the Brbhlee. wvater' and1 luxurty line, the cies.' of a manLT in the Iithl c (s h-CIv atuaet e'd his attention, andl going to his help hie found a vrery le.r'ge water snake, a4 saney as you pleatse, jumping aLt the in in. Thle snake waLs disposed of, and, noticing that it had somethinig inside ot it, he pressed0( upon~ the snjaki' with hi fot, and( a trout, which wast aibout six in'hues long, appear'ed ini view. Alt' gether' he forced three good-siz/edl t rout. fr'omi the snaIke, the last one being pre'ttty well gone. At another tio, ias Mir. Iloris was passing~ ailmg the bank of a brook, he saw a large water snaik e gid e frnomi he roots of ai tree into) t he wat er. lie thiought inoltin g of it at Ii rt, as hie sup.~ p)osed thle s nakeo h1:( dIisappiwie-I he cause of his approiach, butii soon) thwre was a e mon itioni in the water', auid looking doyn into) the pool,1 where a number of suekers hl~ gathier'ed , ho saw that oiie of t h em hi al beenI :I1 ennat in the headO b)y the snake :uni w.es whip ping the water wuhI it. taiil at! a tre m'uendous rat '.Theil sna:ke sucede in luding its '4rey4, when it wa< killed, amil thle suimker', wvhiebi appeared to lbe uniiharmed, I wa s set fre e by v M r. .\l orris. No Nonsewnso AbouiIl ier. "'I tell you what it is,"' sahd v'onne Spilkins, "that Podger 'irlis just thli right kind or a guir. 'lhere s no non sense5 a bout h ier, you kniow, :anl Ms'ms .;o obiser'ving, you know; sees 'veri'.I n-e there is to bie seti, :uiil s.he' na a ('conomlical andi miodest-l kRe as "'-h<'mi be. I took her' out to walk t hi (it hi'r evenhig, atnd she saw every'tinu- in lihe .,hiop windmvs. Aoi'e thanit a doir'in nicei" And two or'Ili' thr ums. as we weret' going by, ani opent (lotr, she said.: 'I low lovely that smell1 s! I t sium Is just like i('e-creami, does't'I it.' B ut, ha! not withlst anding she w.ol like tO) haive had somec, she never onc ea o'e mue to give her any. I tell vyo:, loys. you dhon'tI oftenu limI aL gir'I like that., so, thoutg'ht fru! aind e0onmteal, you know. " Spilk iis'iys if hie (ever g's nui):ii'I Alsodes shall be t Ih' hap py wonum(,it' but Spilk iin umay be mnistaken. Al iss iii:Ls ma have aL wvord t') '-ay. /, Lr< ii ['rce Pre'ss' -dames Feld~r ohta:hied a pronnse~ from d1enny Alel leur v anud hIer pmart''i,~ in l'hiladelpJhiia, that shie woutld he'ronwii i .' wife when she was sixteen. heri aig at that t ime being twelve; butt onl heri "i (cidef insi'tead oj mnarryintg, for' the giri refu'ised to kann the n'eement.-. V. P", ..... ... . SSCIENC~'~I~IIBg -A driver in 0ra ment has Invented a coati .van which his horses are unbar simply pulling the reins.- .2((N. T0 2Ymes. -Dr. Isador Kitsee, of Cincinnati, has patented a device for discovering Sre damp in mines before the miners enter them. Electricity is used to fue little pieces of metal at various n -si a mine, and if an explosion of amp o006r a bell is rung.-. Y. Post. -The Journal of Science says that at the soiree of the Society of Chemical Industry, held at Owens College, Mr. Fletcher, of Warrington, Eng., demon strated the possibility of the combustion of gas without visible game, the heat obtained from a quarter-inch gas-pipe being sufficient to fuse iron Into drops. -A gun invented by a man in Ripley, Miss., is, if It is what it Is claimed to be, one of the most wonderful Inventions of the age. It can be fired from ten to twenty thousand times a minute, can be elevated or depressed or turned to the right or left, inclined to cover the slope of a hi'l, contracted so as to bring -the fire to bear on one spot or expanded to cover a wide area, and all with the great est ease and in the simplest manner, by merely turning a crank. - Ohiag 'Titnes. -It i said that alcohol equal to that madd from grain can be produced from acorns. The acorns are freed from the shell and ground finey; then they are mashed with malt, and altwed to fer ment. Acorns contain about 20 per cent. of starch and 18 per cent. of gIu ten. They would be a valuable article for human food if it were not for the taitiic acid (about 3 per cent.) which they conttin. Vast quantitias which go to) wate -tvery year, where hogs are not fed in the woo ds, might be gathered by bov anit converted into alcohol for use in the arts, thus freeing an equivalent aniount of grain for use as food. -Considerable progress is being made in reviving the mining industries of the Isthnius of Panama. For many years its mines excited the cupidity of Span iards and buccaneers. Indian and no gro slaves were made to work in quartz and placer by the most primitive proc e~scs, and almost entirely without ma chinery, but their labors were very pro ductive, according to tradition. It is centuries, however, since most of the wines were abandoned. Some were worked out, others were not rich enough to pay with hired labor, and all required an investment of capital which the un. settled condition of the country; and especially the fear all foreigners enter tained for isthmus fever, effectually pre vented from being made.-N. Y. Sun. -An impetus has been given to the nickel indust ry by the improved process. es of making it malleable. Many useful as wecll as ornamental articles are now made of this material. Nickel table utenisils especially are in great favor abroad. This class of goocds is now be ing mnanufac (tuired largely in Prussia, andI is preferred to similar articles of other materials. The hardness of the metal renders it capable of receiving a high polish, wvhich is not readily in jured b~y frict ion of any usual kind; on account., too, of the peculiar smoothness of the surface, matters dto not adhere firmly to it., and cleaning requires but little attetntion or effort. It also pos sesses ihe ad vantage of not tarnishing, like some other substances, when fre quently used .-Chsicago Trib~une. Life In the Deep Sea. Thle conditions under which life exists in the deep sea arc very remarkable. The presure exerted by the water at great dep~ths is enormous, and almost b~eyoind comiprehmension. It amounts roughly to a ton weight on the square inch for every 1,000 fathoms of d epth, so that at the dep1th of 2,500 fathoms there is a pressuire of two tous and a half per squaire inch of surface, which maty be 'onitrastedl with the fifteen potunds per square-inch pressure to which we are nieuritojmed at the level of the sea surface. An experiment made by Mr. Buchtantan enabled us to realize the vatstnecss of the dleep-sea pressure more fully than any other facts. Mr. Mr. iBuchuanant hermetically sealed up at btoth (ends1 a thick glass tube full of air several inchtes in length. He wrapped t htis sealed tube in flannel, d place it, so wrapped up, in a wide copper tube, whlich wa one of those used to pro( tect the dleep)-sea thermometers when sent down with the sounding apparatus. Tihe~ coppe~tr caIse containing the sealed glass tube was sent down to a depth of 2,000 fathoms, andl drawn up agamn. It was then found that the cop per wall of the case was bulhgedl and bent inward oppoite~ the pla1ce where the glass tube lay, just as if it had been crumpled in ward by being violently squeezed. The glass tube itself, wi bin its flannel wrap per, was found, wvhen withdrawn, re (duled to a1 fine powder, like snow al mttt. -Notes by~ a Naturallist on thne (Cthlwr. The Telephone Improved. To overcome ther local noises charac terizing mills andt~ other places, and whtichl, as is well known, disturbs the suc(ces.sful operat ion (of the ordinary telephone, ain inst rument has been dlevi-cd, contsisting of a square box, in wich :o'e placed both at transmitting amt(i receiving dliap)hragnm; from the cithamer of t he latter two sound tubes exitend, to) be reenivedl one in each ear, thtese( being keot. in place by a small spiral spritng, tending to draw the tubes t otrether, sund t bus k eep the small rubber ason t he endas (f Ihe sound tubes in pl1ace inl thle ear. Thie effect of these c aps. is t o shut out. all extraneous sounds, and eonftine those of the receiving tele phtonie so that their full force is felt on the ear. T1hte lower nart of the box conttins the t.ransi'mit te', which is made very sens it ive ; pr'e-sin," a buttim brings he bauttery inuto circuit, wit hi the trans m itteri. It. i s eliimed that this instru met will talk '200t miles or nmore.-N. LI;. aun. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Sur I(lea'tth to Lice. TFake a lhar of common soap; place in a pant cotiningit a little water; thien hteat totil nw ted dlowni; then add car holi. aicryt l (carbolic acid crys tals enn lhe hi:il o: a dIruggist in one ound ho; tlhes at seventy-five cents each), at. least oneo ounce of acid to ce IiIpoundl of soap used ; there is no an:uger if used stronger. To reduhce the cry 'u to a hutid state remove the cor'k Ir irom thle bottie, plaec in water and heat t he wanter, when it may be easily )onrEd out uandi mixed with the soap. \v'htan cool, aL strong suds1 made with Ithis soap will be sure death to all in se'(ts that live Otn dlomestitc animals. It will enre mnuge, barn itch, and all cu tti(n(ouI dliseatses. atnd make acheap and