Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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PLYrITo r9LIU, MORALITY, IDWCITIQX AND TO THE (UNNERf iL INTIRUST OF THlE COUNTcY Dy . E. BADLY &Co. PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTBR9,18.VLXI.N.. NEWS GLEANINGS. One of the most successful cotton growers in Alabama is a negro. Texas will have over 200 new distil leries by the close of the present year. The colored Baptists in Tennessee number 60,000 and have 150 churches. Work on'the jetties in harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, has been resumed, In spite of the overflow, probably in consequence of it, the Louisiana sugar crop is the best since the war. Jack Butler, who burned his little child to death at Florance, Ala., has been sent to the penitentiary for life. The Nickle church, to be built at Pal estine, Tex., is te be. paid for by not less s than 200,000 persons contributing a nickle a piece. Para grass grows to an enormous a length in Florida. Near Orange City some is growing that is eighteen feet and a half long. A terrapin farm has its existence at g Waveland, Miss., and last week 900 lit. . tle turtles were hatched. They will be full grown in three years. Tn Heard county, Georgia, resides a el family of eight persons, named Ray, a] of whom are deaf mutes. Nevertheless, of they are all industrious and happy. The average corn crop in Tennessee Is al 6000,000 buehels, but It will reach re V 100,000,000 bushels this year. The m wheat crop will reach nearly 12,000,000. ' The Farmer's Co-operative Union, of Florida, are said to have secured a sim.. L( ple but effectual plan for preparing or'. m anges for market in such a manner that in they will keep for months. Pe The monument to be erected at Vicks burg, Miss., to the memory of Gari baldi, will be surmounted by a life sized :i statue of that personaIc, and will be one of the finest in the United States. go A large shot-tower is to be erected in New Orleans by a local company who have abundant means and plenty of ex- cu perience. The tower will be the eleventh co in the United States when completed. da The progress of railroad building and * raihr.ad business in the South last year Po was unprecedented. About 1,500 miles of road were put in operation, an~d the co gross earnirgs amounted to t63,0~00,000 10 Roberts & Salter, 'of Bullock county, a Ala., had twenty-six acres of heavy i timbered bottom land which they want- or ed cleared. In ten hours 106 axmen with 200 log rollers and brush p~ilers completed the job. ch4 The Hot Springs creek on the Gov th<i inment reservation at Hot Springs, Go Ark., is to be strengthened and protect% Ii 4 ed from sewage water and iefuse, and fri generally to have *127,000 worth of im provements put on it. The Times-Democrat, in an article on the health of New Orleans, claims that gr there are no less than 11.900 people in I that city over sixty years of age or one- v eighteenth of the population, while 195 sp havet passed ninety. Dallas, Tes., is said to be built over a ru grave yard of mastodons, and for five or c six years past excavations for buildingo so: have seldom failed to bring up their mn bones. A large number of these mastom. no don remains were unearthed a few days of ago, and some of the bones were of enor mous size. The officers of the Pawnee, Stonewall ce: Jackson, AEsthetic and Chief Marriag ha Associations of Little Rock, Ark., have been fined $25 each for violating a city ordinance which prohibits "gift" enter* do prises being conducted in that city. The mi State Gazette dubs them, "Wildcat schemes to fleece thie innocent." A colored man, J. R. Ballard, was re ently'ordained in St. John's church, 1 cacksonville, Fla., which is called the d k most artistic church in the State, by ye Bishop Young, in the presence of a dis- W( tinguished audience. It was~ the first p1 ase in the State that a colored man has been ordained in a white church. Charlotte, (N. C.) Observer: It has lii only been a few months since Prof. WI Zn E. Hidden, an employe of Edison, the de distinguished electrician, in search of ta platinum, discovered in Alexander Co., hs and broughmt to the attention of the il, world the now far-famed hiddenite. He has now discovered another stone only a little less valuable, if any, than tihe ju~ gem which bears his name, lie believes tli it to be a new mineral, unknown to sci-- th entific geologists, perfectly transparent, t resembling thme diamond, but belonging o to a diff'erent geologicalf amily. It is one t degree softer than quartz, of higher lus ter, complex form, a1nd he proposes to call it Edisonite. It is found in the neighborhood oft the place in Alexander o" eounty where he discovered the hidden- be ite. of RliigFllrse. cu ey One of the most senselera, and yet a ac very common habit of the American as people, is the reining of driving horses so tight as to inflict upon them a great r deal of pain, under the mistaken idea 34 -that it adds to tile stylish appearance of 1)1 the animal. When people see a horse'b head drawn up by tho bearing rein, and see him stepping short and chainping ni the 'J~ tossing his head and rattling the er: hari1 , they assume that he is acting n, in the pride of his strength and fullness of spirit, whereas the animal is really suffering agonies of pain, and is trying ~ to g@ by these movements montary tO friele. Toour view, a horse looks bet- hi ter, an 1 we know he feels better, when th pursumg a natural, leisurely, swingn , gait. It is as necessary for his heat~ oscillate in response to the motions ofli his body asit is for aman's hands todo the same thing. A horse allowed his head will work easier and last longer P( than one on which a check is used. Blinds are another popular absurdity jfn TOP-CSOF~THE DAY. A YOUNG Boston widow this season rore a bathing suit of full mourning. SENATOR PENDLETON'S new home in Vashington has large glded sunflowers t the top of the lightning rods. A FRENCH artist has represented Time a woman instead of a man. He ar ies that women have more of it than tybody else. THE centennary of Bolivar is to be oel rated on July 24, 1883, at Caraccas, .1nezuela, by the dedication of a statue Washington. THE Flathead Indians have agreed to ow a railroad to be built across their servation in Montana, upon the pay 3nt of $23,000. The price asked was ,000,000. THE $1,000,000 bequeathed by Mr. wis, of New Jersey, to the govern mnt, to be applied towards extinguish K the national debt, will make its ap arance in the next monthly statement. ROBERT T. LINCOLN has shipped from ringfield, Illinois, to Washington ty-two trunks belonging to his >ther, which were filled with dress ods and trinkets purchased in Europe. NRn. BURNHAM, a scientic Connecti. b farmer, recently sold one of his young ws for $4,800. This animal, in 372 Y8, has given in milk ten times her It weight-10,000 pounds-and 1,000 unds of butter. k CALIFORNIAN has invented a sheep inting machine. It counts up to 000, registers the number, then gives mnap, jumps back, and begins count. F again. It never misses a sheep, old young, fat or lean. EIo. JAMEs G. BLAINE has sent his ack for $50 toward the monument )posed to be erected to the memory of late Senator R. H. Hill, at Atlanta, Though differing in politics, Messrs. 11 and Blaine were warm personal -nds. V'IFTY young ladies from six counties North Carolina, took part in breaking uud for the Clinton and Point Cas l Railroad, near Raleigh, recently. ey plied their shovels with great ,or, and were applauded by 5,000 ctators. NRs. LANGTRY, according to the latest mor, will be accompanied to this intry by a band of male admirers, nething after the style of the lovesick tidens in "Patience." An English bleman, it is siid, will be the leader the party. PRESIDENT BAnIIOs, of Guatemala, re yes a salary of $1,000 a month. He a been in office twelve years, and is rth $8,000,000. The debt of his Lintry is $9,000,000 and growing, ich would seem to indicate that he es not allow any one else to take ich. ALCTING on the suggestion that letter stage be reduced to two cents a half nce, a Post office Department official a figured nut that on that basia the ficit of last year, one of the most pros rous in the history of the service, iuld be $10,000,000, instead of a sur is of $1,500,000. KINos and Princes are getting down wadays to the same prosaic, business e ways of thinking and doing as other >rtals. Oscar II., sovereign of Swe n and Norway, being about to under ke a journey to the latter coun try, lha d his life insured in favor of his famn for the sum of 6,000 crowns. A TRAINING school for servants has st been established at St. Louis under e management of leading ladies of at city. Practical housekeeping ini all Sdepartments will complrise thuu course training, and a nursery for poor01 chil *.n, wher1' they shall also be0 taught to ow and sweep and spin," is to be at lied. IT 1.s proposed to perform an operation the eyes of Thurlow Weed, who has en blind for five years, with the hope restoring his sight. It is intended to t away the double cataract over his es and fit a double convc x lens of glass Lurately in front of the eye, so focussed to prop~lerly cast an image upon the ina. if the retina has not lost its risitiveness, it is thought that he will 'able to see. TnE sealskin clothes worn by Engi er Melville (luring his terrible experi ces in the Arctic regions are objects of neh interest at the Navy Department, ashmngton. Among the relics is a ullhantly cvlored foxskin cap belongmg Lieut. Bet ry, which was presented to m by an Esquimaux damsel, She con cated his old csp begcange it was not etty, and gave him one she had made raelf in return. A Mtiw use has been discovered for tatoes. They can be converted. into a bytance resembling celluloid by peel g them, and, after soaking in water, pregnated with eight parts of sulph ic acid, drying and pressing betwe eets of blottinig paper. In Freuice, pas are mades of this substanoe, scarce distinguishable from meeschaum. By bjecting the mass to ptaa prom hilliard balls can be made of it rivaling ivory in hardness. A NUw style of car is about to be in troduced on the Sonthern Pacific Rail road, destined to be run from California to the gulf as wheat cars, and on their return as emigrant cars. The interior will be like other freight cars. Along the ides will be sleeping bunks, lowered and suspended by an iron rod and hinge, but capable of being closed up flush when freight is carried. There are win dows, of course, and it is said the cars will be as oomtortable and warm as the most luxurious Pullman sleeping oar. AT THE marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Georae Harris, at Mount Meridian Vir ginia, the bride refused to say "Yes" to the question whether she would obey her husband. She said that she saw no reason in such a promise, and he con cluded that no harm would be done by omitting it, since he intended to "make her mind anyhow." Two years elapsed, and a few days ago the unsettled ques tion arose again. George ordered his wife to fry a chicken for dinner, and she insisted on roasting it. He brought in a horsewhip and declared that he would Rog her until she obeyed. She shot and killed him. A FENxON savant has called in the aid of Darwin's theory of evolution to ex plain the graceful gait of the Parisian ladies. ' According to his reasoning the streets of Paris were for a long time a ter the foundation of the city in a very poor condition, as is indeed apparent From its original name-Lutetia, or the "City of Mud." The Parisian ladies, in rrder not to soil their shoes, were forced to walk on tip-toe, which in due time re suited in high heels, and finally in that -harming gait which is the admiration ind envy of all the womerrof the civil zed world, The Probable Wheat Yield, The only statistics which have yet been given for the yield per acre of the present crop are those of Illinois, where the official report places the yield at 181 bushels per acre, against 17-7 in 1880. It is. of course, not assumed that the yield per acre in Illinois is to be ac ceptedas the average for the United States. But there are some reasons why the yield per acre in Illinois may be accepted as an index to the average yield of the United States, in preference to accepting the yield of almost any other one State as such an index: First --Illinois is the largest wheat-raising State in the Union, and in the three years from 1879 to 188-1 inclusive pro duced about twelve per sent. of all the wheat raised in the United States. Second-Illinois lies nearly in the center of the group of ten States comprising Ohio, Indina, Illinois, Michigan, Wis consin, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, which produced in 1880 about three-fourths of the wvheat crop) of the United States. Illinois may therefore be presumed to represent the average of the meteorological experience and crop conditions of this group of States. In 1880 the average yield per acre in Illinois was 16-7 bushels, while that of the United States was 13-1 bushels per acre. Illinois was therefore 22 per cnt. above the general average. It is an established fact that the average yield of wheat per acre in different sec tions of the United Etates con tinues at atbout the same rela tive difference, as, for Instance, the ave rage in the Southern States is always only about half as much per acre as in the group of States above men tioned wh'l e in the far Northwest the yield is always greater per acre than in the ten States mentione. There seems no objection, therefore, to assuming that certain States are always above and oth ers always below the gneral average of the United States. Now, if we may as suime that the present vield of 18k bushels in Illinois is also about 22 per cent. above the average, it would make the average for the United Stats say 14 43J-100 bushels per acre, or just about 10 per~ cent, over 1880, which, upon an area of 37,000.000 acres, would be 533. 910,000 bushels, a result which differs less than the half of one per cent. from our previous estimate, which was made without any such calculation as produces the present figures. Some argument will of course be made against assumhing' an increased average yield per~ acre of ten per cent. over the crop of 1880. But It will be remember ed that there has been no year before this when the cropsM of spring wheat and winter wheat were both good-ecep)t possibly 1877, when the average crop of wheat throughout the United States was 13 86-1(00 bushels per acre, or only about four per cent. hess than we have as siumed as the average yield per ac:re for the present crop to p oduce an aggre g ate of 533,910,000 bi hels on 37,00, 00acres.-N. Y'. Evenina Post. Beat Him. Dan and Flasher were in the habit of tyng their wits on each other. Once they were discusasing the rela tive rmerits of rifle vs. bow and arrow. "I can beat you even at short range," ald Flasher, boastingly. " Try it," said Dan. They tried. Dan discharged an arrow In pursuit of a hen that they saw in a yard that they were passing, and missed the hen. Flasher, with a shot of his rifle, killed the hen. " There," he exclaimed, "1 told you that I could beat you." " But I have boat ye," coolly said D)an. " How can that be i You missed the hen, while I killed her" "Still I have beat ye, because you~ must pay for the hen .You killed her.'' Verdict for Dan from referee.---De ---Ak Missouri tree has yilded 800 ,3) ke-ot, ten cords of sqwirrelsand one raccoon. It isaupce to have been 800 years ahL--uww~b Where the Ape is Honored. The ancient Egyptians did not repro sent the ape as a caricature of man, but idealized it and paid it religious honors, as they did to many other animals. A oynocephaluls war kept and worshiped in the temple t HeIrmopolis, while a cercopithecus was honored at Thebes. Mummies of apes have been found in both of thebe cities. The ape also has its place in the hierogI phics as the rep resentative of the soundl "en," and is called ein in Co ptic. The god Anubis, who, at the judgment of the dead in Amenti (or the land df doath), put the heart of the deceased in. the balance of justice in order to report the result to Tboth, is figured with the head of a cynocephalus, or dog-faced baboon. Thoth himself generally appears asso ciated with the attribute of the cyno cephalus, the emblem of the dow-star. The temple of Queen Hatasu, at fer-el bahri, is adorned with inscriptions re lating to a grand expedition into the balsam-bearing land of Punt, the EgVp tian Ophir. in which the ofVeings sent by the King of that country are de scribed: "The transports were louded to the full with the wonderful products of the land of Punt, and the various building-woods of the godly land. with heaps of balsams of incense, with green incense-trees, with ebony, .with iv orv, adorned with gold from the land 'of Amu, with liquorice-wood. ehleit-wood, with frankineenze, holy balsans and eye-paints, with tynolehaluse and baboons and grey-houm s, and wit h leopard-skins. Never was the like brought to any King of Egypt since the world has stood." According to Brugsch, the incense-trees stood oil the decks of the vessels, and the apes, let loose, gamboled in the rigging, to the great delight of the sailors. In the Indian Ramavana, where the sninals are praised as'allies of Rama, apes are depicted in groups, under the direction of a King who obeys the n o(s of Rama. They are not, however, in troduced as idealized apes, changed men or incarnate demons, but as verita ble apes with all their less pleasant pe oullaritics realistically poriraved. A favorite figure of the poem is H'anuinan, the fool of the serious drama, around whom a fabulous atmosphere has al ready gathered. In him may be recog nized the Hulman of the Hindoos, the Mandi of the Malabars, the sacred ape, Semnopithecus entefius. He is an Atlas, who bears mountains on his shoulders. A child of the wind and the air, he affords the most agreeable symbolism of the simian character. Like a rash child, he tried to go up to the sun, and still carries a romembrancer (if his mis hap irr the deformity of his lower jaw, which is longer than the upper one. With his foolhardy, comic ways, he cheered and comforted Rama's beloved wife Sita, and helped deliver her from the terribie Lanka, the city of the 1)e mon-King Ravana, In gratitude for this, Rama crowned him and embraced him in the sight of both hosts, of men and of gods.--Dr. Placzek, in Pojmlar Science Monthly. And Now Toronto Hlas a Sea-Serpent, Yesterday morning was cool, and perhaps this was the reason why some of the workmen engaged at the targets on the Garrison raunges say the serpeont they sawv was not muore than fifty feet long and the size of a man's body. 'rho story, as told by one of them, is in sub stance as follows: Between eight. and nine o'clock, while placing theO tarYets in position on No. 1 range, a boy ruslede~ up saying that there was a queer thing floating near the shore. Some of the men were curious enough to leave their wvork and hasten dlown to the shore. There, sure enough, was a large bluish grav mass floating lazily near' thle shore. Ith had every appearance of >eing asleep, as its body yielde to every ripple. Part was subnmerged but the upper portion of the head floated just above the water. That part which was visible was (overed w ith short, 'tifi' bristhes in front, whuich increased inl Jength to)ward' the sides, arid extended for a distance of aubout ten feet on each side. T' ie back, or at least that port ion of it whichi appeI~ared above the water, was lighter colored thant the head. A good view was had of the rulonster for upward of three mn-n utes, whien, suddenly raising its head out of the water, it gauve a swish with its tail aind staurted directly sonth, in lhe direct ion of one of the steamers Its head, as it raised it above tihe water. was very much like thait. of ain eel, withI lhe excep tion of the longr t railing hair or whiskers. Its eyes 'were small, amd as it dashed ofl one of the mni said lie thought lie heard it give a short, sharp bark. A line of foam marked its prog ress ouit ipto the lake for about lhtala mile, wh'len, turning sharp aroundil it dashed toward the Exhibition whiarf, and againu out ito the lake, where they sooni ost si ghlt or it. T1he meni dIid noit appealr at all ait~outs to speak of t he matter, as they fearedl their verneliv would be questioined. As it is, thei~r story is given for what it is worth, but surely the word of three men who saw it is worth that of thirty who did not see it.--Toronto Mail. A Nobleman on a " lark." An incident In the reckless career of the Marquis of Hlastings is related by a traveler who chanced to be staying in the chief hotel at Sheffield, one evening, when . mnd a few companions resolved on what they termed a "lark." The frolic took the turn of demolishing the mirrors, chandeliers, pictures and furni ture *of two large drawing-rooms. "If ever I saw a madman," says the narra tor, "it was the Marquis that night, as, with the butt end of a heavy riding whip, he frantically dashed out win dows, ruined statuettes and vases, and defacedJ bookcases and sideboards, shrieking the while like an incarnate demon. Then, when he had done, he dre-w forth his check book, signed a bank draft, and, with an oath, ordered the manager to pay himself for the dam age done, which, [ have no doubt, the maer did without omitting a single -A. B. Chase, of Stoerholmr, St. Lawrence County, N. Y., was awakened early in the morninwr by the barking of his dog. He opened the door and the dog bpunded In, thus escaping two full grown wolves which were outside. The Age of High Pressure. It has become almost a truism to say thal every age has its distinguishing feru turo, which gives to it an individuality as unmistakable as that which difforen. tiates the several menmbers of the ;a;me family; and it needs but little examin a. tion to discover that the distinguishing feature of the present age Is "hig I pressure." Physical science has taught mankind tha conversation and utiliza, tion of the forces of nature, and recent experiment has shown that "high pres sure" is the means by which the great est amount of force may be extracted from a ton of coals. Humanity is fond of analogy, and Is ever ready to trans for its re-.soning from the physical to to the psychic world. Moreover, the advanot -f physical cience, and the application thereof to the appliandes of life, iust in time ne cessitate a corre4ponding movement in the world of action. As the locomotive or steam vessel inere-ses in speed, so must human bnings i move more rapidly in thought and action. The humblest servant upon a line of railway is affected In his movements by every mile of inl. creased speed of the trains runningover that line. The lowest clerk in an otlica is affected materially% by each i nereunq of postal deliveries, by every decreine in the rates for telegrams, by e- erv arhti. tion to the foreign alnd oiial imai Ir vices. It is quite trite t hat we dt) nf)t spenid so iiiany hours i' onr oil,- :, d our1 ramidfathers buit w ur in the shorter hours than thev did, and we know nothing of the iinteivals of quietude which they enjoyed durin g the business day. Every man itust work at the top of his speed, andl. by the time his day's work is over he finds his powers are exhausted, and he has scarcely en. ergy left to seek the means ;f reerentiou which lie around him. Otur businos and professional friends are cionstan utlv urging as an exvuse for failire- in t hie exercise of social virtues the plea that they are too weary to umnert ake that exercise save at widely sunderwed inter vals, and the weary business man asks for nothing when his day's labors are ended save "to be let alo'ne." Such a state of things can not fail to tell seri ously upon the character and genius of a people. Leisure is a thing unknown to the bulk of men, or is regarded as some far distant haven which he searcely hopes to reach in futurc years. And to the few fortunate ones who do reach it, it too frequently comes when all capacity for its enjoyment is gone, worn out by the weary struggh-.s and stre-. of the voyage. The principals of oir coin mercial houses are already beginning to see the resit of this hight pressure upon their cmployees. There is a lack of springiness or elasticity about them, and a nervous hurriedne.,s in their work, which freiuently defeats their efforts. With a growing average intelligence, and a general spread of knowledge, there is also anm increasing lack of busm ness "genius." It. is more thani ever easy to get a huindlredi men of ordin-ary abltand in we diflicult to get one main of originality and keen insight. Men or more mecluinical and less sponr taneous than they were. Specialists may be obtained for all departments, but men of ''all round m( inds,"' capatble of taking wide views,are few and far be. tween.-ondon Gllobe. Shark vs. Swordflsh. Gen. Spinner, the hero who used to sign the Treasury notes, sends the fol lowing descriptive letter of a fight amongf sea monsters on the coast of Foia, on South Beach, below May-. port: "Early yesterday morning, as I went for my usual surf bath, accomi panied by my daughter, Mrs. Sch~u macher, we wvitnessed what has proba bly seldom been seen. Tlhe ocean wa~s unusually placid, but a strange commio tion in the surf was noticed. Oni near ing the shore it 'was seen that a fierce battle was raging betweeni two schools of fishes, one of sharks and the other of saw-fish. It was high tide, anid the water was quite shallow, so that the caudal and dorsal fins of both these kinds of sea mote.I~rs were constanitly seen above the water. The onslaught of each of the combatants, of which from sixteen to twenty wer'e ini view, was fierce and terrific. A disabled saw fish was stranded. I wad~ed into hint,F and with t he edge of a piece of floor board gave him the eamp de' grwe. lie measured nearly lifteen feet and carr'iied a swordl saw three and a half feet long, with over fifty teeth on its outer margin. It was found that one of t lie shar'ks had bitten a piece out of his sideO equaiil to a foot square, through which his bowels protruded. " At one time it looked ars if another pair of the combatants would be strand ed1, for in their struggle they came so near the shore that they touched1 bottom all the time, but they finally managed to join their companions in dIeep Water, and after fifteen minutes all the bellig erents disappeared, to the great relief of those who cared more for sea hathing tihan for seoing the terrific fights of sea monsters. Myd daughter will carry the saw of the capture(1 fish to her home as a memento and trophy of the great conflict, and for an addition to her cabinet of ocean curiosities.''-Florida Dispatch. -American art seems to have been accorded a prominent place at the Paris Salon this year, both by the critics and the judges as well 'as by the public. Eighty-six American artist~s were r'epre sented. Mr'. Albert Wolff, the well known critic of the Figaro, declared that the Americans held a front place in the exhibition, and in French artistic circles the high charactor of the Amer can pictures has occasioned a good deal of comment. Several o~f the best p or traits in thme Salon wore by American artists.-Chiago Journal. -A Philatielphua cra~nk, who wears an exceedingly high hat, " to precvent the lightning from striking him,' places upon the roof of his house every day a large quantity of fruit for an imaginary girl to eat. A small boy, who has learned of the occentrio con duct of the old gentleman, ci'mbs to the roof daily on a lightn'ng rol and does muich to confirm the old man's belief in %he mythical female. -- Ph/iadetnhia PreB The European Concert. The doe:rine of a balance of power in Eui-ope was exph ded many years since. The Euro)pe.an concert, has taken its p oth miv in some measure agree mn origin and o1 b.ects ; p ey operate by a different procedure and amid different oiremnstances. The balance of power was positive, and worked by positive moans. Nations combined actively to pit down the attempt of another to over step its boundaries. Concerts are of various kind. The European concert is of a very peculiar sort indeed. It re sembles the effect p)roduced by the In trusion of an explorer into a cavern ten anted by bats and other night birds, or by the approach of a boat within gun shot of a rocky haunt of sea-fowl. There may have been silence solemn and pro found the instant before. In a moment the air rings and Nibrates with hundreds an I thiousand.s of screans. At the Eu rtican concert the performers are fixed a' their post,. They are mute, or if they touch their instruments the reiilt is as faint as a whisper. But 'iey are always ready to burst int. a tunault of "ound. They are waiting oily for toe one to stir, though it be but a member of their own corneAmny roused by a disturbing dream. Nobotdy hears of the concert of Eu ro1pe unaless who ii the whole 1ook of S' attis ha. been aw akeed to full discord. The tuning of the instruimnents occupies I SO liu2yze it spaee In ti performance that t- 11e 1 iiinlmNy, if 4r1 wilen it is reachied, sea reely se ls ti have filtnrislied the (410n1iion for call ing the audience togetI er. At thie psesit time and for a ong tiie a1:t'd it i. hardly possible to instance : -inigle State whieh do. flot find vause fir mortal aixiety in the designs, real 'r su)1, ppo'4ed, of its ieiglbl ors. Rtussia, 1)ide'ls her II-stiteare, cn not. dis imlue that he dread Ge(manyV, elvies Enghul, :ud isjealous of 'Austria. Autra e-prvasthe sentiment ofII andi:t, and ha. until itely benwi mis trult ful of Italy. Itily looAN amsklance at France, isialmd is al:rniw(I HIM, in anly pos sible territoriial scraimbfle she may fail to obtaii her legitiiate slhire. 'French aggrres";,-in in Tisi- dismas eod hier. She is prepalred to fall into a pllic at imw inary British eneroavicimnts on the Nil . Spain regards the North .frican coast as lyicg within her traditional province. Sie has recently di sovered that. as a Mediterr:inean P Iwer she is bound to be senwed by the chastisement of Arab mu tineers. France is conscious of an obli gation to convi'ince horselt of her strength by its use, while resolved to rcserve her acl' forcet fir future and diss-mnilar continigenciies. She wvishes that nothinn shouh he set! ld without her, und noth ing he done b- ler. 1 l'lllland anid 111 giu im :111 ii DkIunMk are not free frou their own grnoiuds of apprehllensions of change4 omtsile which nm:Ly affect, them. New Stales like ( reece and hmannia an1 S,'ria aid Iaulga ria are at, the stao of national life wheni the demarcation of ltrioti-fmh and1(l seltish' s iS isimpercepti blle. lTu rkeyc kntows t ha; t she is loo ked uiponi by t he ent ire Continent as a car cas doomed to be ou.t up; she harbors, llenthe w the grantde4t projects of' retrievaml and~ en:l iationi. Sinice the Her 01n C'on1gre-: thi i- 1as bee'n thle relationI of Eur'ope ini itS .JI'IhndL pairN; yet Eu ro - e has mnage tozgr(IL sm-irei . Th ere have 'een i~'jlcontimitl ('reakingo and1( granT a~. Aitt Lw" or t bre perimils a 'jpa-m hais traver-32d I ha mia.~s which1 it. tras man:LlifestlyV too da~.nigerus not to enideaLv effoi t at paclilat ion hias oni eaclh ocea2i Muiln beeni foulh~wed by ano outbreak of dii e'ords 5whIici hiave a'fIfruihted t he world as. if ai beginning of disoluution They are I hie regula mt in ia il nehic a Eu - rEpeanIi ''lneert St :u-t. Aftr a lit tle morel'( expertince maindi~t~ will r'efuise to ben fretted) exces i V ly b y su h 5rmtorns'JI. ThJey are at tribl4U to thle v'.ii of thec themte wich lini tlv duniniates arni hari m~oniz/es the whoh' -/)flon) Trn/Ap'. 1)11lli of.(I 'enasus Tnin itg. W\heni th. -uiinsu Wa- t mkeni at Chvrry .1 ill t h'-r- u a-. :m gn-aut flthtering :iinen th tw popul i''n. anid it is ru-bital. that all the ane Int uninarrholiIt ti),, with thei :i n , 'I hIi n 'i hi a' si- L l. i ~.ui' . '4 .a''l t a look Il t i 4' ,1 hd k ta ,w g till iir ' l 14* \ 1 l ' i. l'l-i-' 1. ii o!Tki~ I e Is4n iIto tiI -iiii f < ait o . as nI il !!'- mlh-n i lotte reii-h'd. 'Thin thsee the Cth-lbn-'n t orruiigi s oe enun-l. r STer ' sit-Wg I. h y ou ai'.h-d inJao- lodl iste wefud o eloe, wint "on You notni huu ol'r yo, iwn't t n, Ad ty diorlitil? aedt enumerator, : Un mrrld, \i i rat ge.vot Y-' -' her whichhows th. Iob have oturied4 i'd wantued4 to!,, ro are llo o.nld nr o M owiss Pratt '?'he th asked/iu theeueaore wiping shis foe "'ThIv'1e seti ag thtyo when terttms r Jack Dod sisnt.'' rfsedrma to eoewth poTi: - Fenah eter!"rj~ti~'ott "Any fmily?" ako the ernetnum eto tr, "u Yi . hI(havlTim Fletcher. cut hve hour bnd by yoff is wifej whose I ok out old&ht o-oute whien ,yo wstated -Thm eitraodhinar reportof hUrcleom meorys Cain"di pullzted dydw the c "tha mnt " igemi lshee remrkst the pobsthaser, ars s 2akes hoer ar o ta hooks-N and, (jyes fis Uwie'. drs 0s PERSONAL A"D LITE3AkV -Ben Hill's lst wordsw to his pastor, Rev. C. A. Evans, a were: " Almost home." -Secretary Folgee, of the Trea , is called a perfect picture of Bena Franklin, and with good reson, fo Franklin's mother was a Folger. -Says F. J. Furnivall, the Shakespe. rian critic: "Shakespeare's own five signatures prove that the most authentlo form of spelling his name is ' Shake pere.' " -Roza Bonheur is sixty-two years old and has quit wearing pantaloons and dresses lik any other woman. This leaves Mary Walker in the full enjoy. ment of a dangerous monopoly. Ilawkeye -Hans Von Bulow, the pianist, is go. ing to marry a woman named Maria Anmalia Katharina Josepha Sehauzer. Wheii she adds Von Bulow she will have a real seven-octave name.-Lowel Couricr. --Berlioz, the composer, when he was in love, said to the adored one: " Ariel, I adore you, I bless you; in a vord, I love you more than the weak French tonue can say: give me an or hestra of 100 performers and a chorus )f 150 voices and I can toll you. " -The best prose sentence ever writ ;en on this side of the Atlantic, accord. ng to Mr. E. P. Whipple, is this from Emerson's lecture on Shakespeare: 6 The recitation begins; one lden vord leaps out immortal from I1 this )ainted pedantry, and sweetly torments is with invitations to its own inaccessi a1e homes. " - Some Sanserit manuscripts of parts )f the bible of the Buddhists have been ound in Japan. It is thought that nany relies in Sanscrit of great value nay yet be discovered in China and Jap:ut though probably not any that vill have any inportant bearing upon .he religion either of the Jews or of the lIristians.- - Chicag Journal. -Antoiue Gerin-Lajoie, who recent ly died at Ottawa, will be long remem bered hv his countrymen in Canada, for hll wrote their national song. " Le Ca niadien Errant." There is hardly a man, W01tinani 0 cl14d in Canada w10 does not know the simple song by heart, and it .:-n he heard albost any evening aig the C'anadians of New England fiacteir towns and in the French settle menit-s of the far West. --N. Y. Sun. - A correspondent relates tle follow. in-, incident in the life of the Rev. Will am Art huir, father of the President: " While presiding over the Baptist in West 'i roy. his choir drawled :>lt the lbY mn with variat ions, Vhic ldid niot plas himi so beC took his text and p~reneb~ed two. hours and1( fort minutes. lii s head dleacon grewv inpatient and Lconsuh'lte hiis watt chi. ' Keepyl)OUr watch in yourm pocket. Iheon ,iones,' said he, '. ou hli. a long sing, :uid nmow 1 am no ing to preacht till I get thIirough.' ' -- 011 on Troubled Waters. The Scr itual adlage of p)ouring u On troubled waters has engaged the at tention of lhe English G;overnment, th rough the e lort s of Lord Carnarvon, who introduce~d the matter in P'arlia ment recently with such success that the Board of Tr:'ude is about to adIopt imeas ures to test the value of experiments, and if thmey prove to he of practical im port ance will institute further measures for the p~rot'ct ion of life and property by this priocess. In his argument Lor'd Carnarvon called attention to p rivate experiments which had been made, and erbich were very interesting in their results. AMr. Sh'iels, of Perth, observ ing t hat the oil which camne from somie machinery Stilled the surface of a p)ond, laid pe(rforated pipes under a danger ons. har across thle mou01th of Peterhead Harbor, and theni puimped( oil inito them from a reservoir on shore. As the re suit, het .says: "Huige green billows from ten to twenty feet high, which Curled in white ('rests as hynae the harbor mouth, aind breoke in madtt surf over the bar, wer reduced ito 43sw elling waIves 'Te renmarks nuale in Parlianment by I'arioust speakers showt that thiS process >)f stilling troubled water's is not at all aew but hats not. ben ste ~iatically .ised4. The quieting viritue i:*-l oIil have seen!I kri Wln for centie The'' I'i Syrian is-hei~rineni have ailway uLM :ed it,. and P3ersian boatiunen are inIi te habit of tow. .zg astern of their crafts bladders hiled t'ithb oil and pricked so that it cani leak >uit grad.ua'ly. in Pliny'.s time the -ponger4-d ivter, in thie Mediterranean. zs.,d oil so as : o. obtain a smooth surface vbecn they rose! Whaleis have alwanys bserved the etfeet when bhlber is cut il along~side of thle ship. Fishermen n the Shietland I slantds, Courn wall, and mi the coaIst of Nowyueagreat deal if oil for soothint- thle seat. SinCce the alwnriitiLnts at Peterhe.ad, referred to thove, the L-ondon .Sandahrd says inineroums (cases of t he Use of oil havo woni re3i(ced. and it nmentions the fol "'3 Ii intnce, two lItltna rosmiW~ the4 Atf. ant? 4 fr t'ror lin~en ,s A yres to thu .Met. pirr 3-an in satil311 3 siling1 teat, wvhlelr was subs8! IIuEntY ly h ibil:I inl hiihin. They 4xperl -nived rough~ weai)the'r, but by the treen ise of bi ro3-I. thruyh th e wv vs wit hout 'shipping a .iuck.et i'u. M ha b-rs5 haiv bieen knowta to cairni ho, -,uriia-e by to~wing pier,'" 4)1 of lubb.er ailong echtr l t4!1)1 hat *?5 bI e V. wuth avl e b..een lost ni the 11)ty (3f liistny 1331 it nth be.en fri hits I3r3-ight in3 pour4n1 il on I the tro3ub)ld - Pos. O tt' Mub I liar11i a schooner lets been 'e'n to tear! her. Way thirough at Sea ila4ihed tito T)f 'h'i i ant b y one1 aot th ilenit uto~rins wvhich w e I that inhosp5121 It - 4E iniut stIn y by113 *1 Id ig 0111 bliubber an1t( traIn oil,. thoug1Ih 1n the linelt gaile troany stotutr thip w)e Vnt to) the bat n. .Another Iei 41St' i on3 retco rd of a1 vessel f5lelh w as. t hi reat (feed by braker. 31o high t hat 09.9 34Qe1tned li key every iiinat* to1 Iigulf the h!P. Hiowve33r, no~ sofner dhi, they atppron4et he (3i-cov1 trd Surf ace of1 Ithe sea,. which ex i-'.d lee hiiired fe'et fromif the side, than hey fell. at d prnuilttd the vessel to survive -ine general fact seemns t~o be well es abhlishied that oil will eahin the troubhled ('n, though it sornetimes fails Owing to he action tof tides andi CUrretts which weep) it oif ibef'ore it ennl accomplish its >acibe work. but its use in nrivate ands(1 for hundreds' of years is a suffi itnt test of etlicacy, and were scientifie non to give it attention, discovering he best kind otf oil andI the best meth >ds of using it,. and the amount to be used, the area of its usefulness might >e largely inicreased. TIhis is what the English Government now prop~oe te lo, and all the oflieials of the Bioardl ot ['ride and thle Adhniralty, as well as hose of thie National Life-boat Institu ion, have been ordered to experiment, tnt report results. If oil has this oo~hin~g efflet't upon salt water with its trong titles and currents, why should n have a sti i. more marked effect pn t he water of our lakes, whieh are t influbencedl to any >erceptle ex nt. or tides or cnrrents ?A i rermie.