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TO OLfT10ts XeRALITY, ECDIUAT19N AND TO THE VENERtL INITERE~r OF THE OQUNIty Bly D. F.l B3RADLEY & co, PICKENS, S. C.,t TH URSDA Y, O(1 BER 2 82 O .XI O Selma, Ala., has sixty artesian wells. Nashville has a total indebtednes fo 6- ~ ~ (Atx* a4t(:he neo Th. city tax in Tallahame, Florada, s but seven mills on the $m0. Gadsden, ' G"..a, has doubled its population In the last twelve months. Georgia's sirplus crop of sweet pota. -", -0, bvshela thi year. rHng ia Tin Sing, two China , have embarked in the grocery bus, iness at Nashville. Florida Is making preparations to re ceivg an unuquallZ-vlarge number of new eettlers this winter. The Georgia prohibitionists have noMatCd. legislative candidates in &wintylihie bountibs. 0 A meteor fell a few days ago near Orange City, Florida killing a colored women, whom it struck. 'he watierwerks at Hot Springs, *ArkMnas, are completed, and are said to be the best in the State. Annie Hubbard, who murdered her hild in Colbert county, Ala., goes to the penitentiary for ten years. Te Vrebsburg Commercial says la borers were never in such denand in the valley of the Lower Mississippi as now. .A eomptlant comes from several por tions of Florida that the orange crop is turning out bad, and will be short about one-third. The ashes of a common weed, known by some In Florida as sickle weed, are almost pure potash, being as strong as baking pods. It is believed that the orange crop of Florida will this year be worth nearly -double thatkof 1880, which brought over $672,000. A West Indian has purchased ten acres af ground near Tampa, Fla., which he will.plant In mulberries for the pur. pose of raising silk-worms. The Vicksburg, Mississippi, papers complain that, with a ropulation of from 15,000 to 18,000, they can count Supon but one mail per week. A cow fell into a pit near Cedar key, Fla., and remained there forty'two days without food or water. When discov ered thec taimiaal presented a pitable pict ure'of pelt and bones, but was still able o waik. Dr. W. H Bennett, an eccentric citi eiltizen of Meridian, Miss., died a (day or two ago, and his estate, valued at *50,000- was left to a negro cook, cut ting off his wife and heirs. Tihe will is to be contested. Georgia's cern crop is the largest since 1859, and will reach 30,000,000 bushels. The oat crop reached 8,000,000 bushels, and the wheat crop 5,600,000 bushels. 1It is thought 1,000,000 bales of cotton will be raised. Mrs. Ann Talley, of iSpottsylvania county, Va., aged seventy years and In robust!. health, became impressed with the idea that she would die at a certain hour on a certain day. She prepared for the anticipated event, and, true to her prvemontion, her death came. Uoldsboro, (N. C.,) Messenger : A pe.. culiar and frightful disease has appear ed in Northampton and other counties in the northeastern part of the State. It is called yellow chills or hemorrhagic *fever, and is generally fatal in its re sults. Persons aff'ected turn yellow and - vomit blood. New Orleans will experiment with mesquite wood 'for paving streets. It -4 is a native of Texas, partakes almost of the hardness of iron, is very durable, and it is believed will make a better street than granite. It grows abun dantly in Texas, and can be easily and cheaply transported. Mrs. Lizzie Walley, convicted at Nashville and sentenced to a term of three years in the penitentiary for al leged cohabitation with Owen Prentiss, e x-city editor of the World, is said to be a rnelce of the distinguished Codfed erate General Bragg. It is hinted that Prentiss will be released on bend, and the case against him will never come to a trial. At Columbus, Texas, about twenty boys, whose ages range from ten to six.. teen years, about six months ago organ * led a band of robbers, and since tha 4time have been engaged in stealing. They undertook to rob a freight car, * which led to their discovery. They hadi a cave abross the river where they'de posited their plunder. These boys are sons of 'respected citizens, and had no object In theiving other than to gratify a desire for adventure, which they had formed from reading dime novels, a number of which were found in their headquarters-the cave. Boston Culture. The rapidity with which a crowd can be gathered ori a public thoroughfare wvas demnonstrated on Tuesday afternoon. A couple of young women were passinig the Revere Horise at the time mention-* Sd, both dressed ira the height of fash ion, one of them being arrayed in a terra-cotta .suit, whjob set off her well ?eveloped form..to the best advantage. Upon avri .'t thejnain entrance to the ReVre ~ they espied a boot black with the finplem~ents of his call ing, whereupon the young female in her.~~ stoppd drew up shaery foortot"hnrs " pae box Te . apy fnt otsbocaln anerxTh ) roceeded at oe to black up and polish the WoQ.8 edal axtremit,. u are lie a6 TOP108 OF TE DAY. FEGHT ladies have clerkships in tho Oregon Legislature. T OscAN WXi68 has cleared about *15, 000 ont of his lectures 'alone. IT Is said that there are one million more paupeis in England than voters. d A CRAYON portrait of Garfiold - has o been, by sugestion of the Queen, placed 51 in Westm ter Abbey. t GEN. GRANT has given it out at ez Philadelphia again that be has no inter- pl est in politics or in the present cam. ht paign. IT is said that the tev. loseph Cook c< is to be the editor of the new Congrega tionalist paper which is to be started in I Boston. TaE engagement is announced of Miss mabel Bayard, daughter of 'senator ai Bayard, to Mr. Samuel D. Warren, of tc Boston. hi ci Miss NORTON, the young American R prima donna, is meeting with a great and tj increasing success at the Grand Opera. c house, Paris. MATTHEw ARNOnD has discovered that m the great want of the French is moral' u Ity; of the Germans civil courage, and a f the English lucidity. H b, IT ts said that the invention and sub- ; sequent improvements of the American f plow made a saving on last year's crop in c this country of $90,000,000. ci h4 BOMB one has suggested that Saturday a, replace Thursday as Thanksgiving Day. tl The idea is not a bad one, as the combi nation of two holidays would be a satis factory combination to most people. MR. HENRY VILLARD, President of the Northern Pacific Railroad, has of fered to endow Oregon University -with $50,000 if the State will increase its an nual legislative allowance from $2,500 to I $5,000. t< a1 n TE steam yacht for Jay Gould, to be ' c completed by spring, will be constructed of iron and steel, and have steel boilers. It will be 210 feet long, 27 feet beam, and 16 feet deep, and will have 1,500 in dicated horse power. TE fastest long run by railway ever (. made west of Chicago was that by the " Burlington special train which brought t the Vanderbilt party from Burlington 207 miies-at the average rate of fity- n nine miles per honr. 1 BY THE death of Sir George Gray, Mr. d Gladstone now sits at the Privy Council 4 as the senior commoner, having " kissed H hands on his appointment forty-one ti years ago last September, when the a queen had been only four years on the throne. 1 11 THE late Daniel Cook, of San Fran- 9 cisco, left a fortune of about $1,500,000. He was as poor as poverty itself in 1858, ~ but between that time and his death, at t the age of forty-five years, acquired <1 from books an education, and from mines 1 piles of gold. MR. TInDEN .is described by the Yonkers Gazette as greatly enjoying the il newspaper reports of his feebleness, c while he takes two carriage drives a day, 1 usually an hour's walk, and frequently a ride of some distance. His eye is bright, and his mind clear and quick. THE wampum belt which Win. Penn gave the Indians in part payment for the territory now known as Pennsylvania, E afterward reclaimed and held as an heir loom in the Penn family in England until 1856, is in the museum of the His- ~ torical Society of Pennsylvania.t ABDU KERII PASHA En-ZAHAR, who I Is shortly coming to this country to make arrangements for the emigration of e certain of Arabi Bey's followers, is one ' of the most noted Oriental scholars. Hae 0 was graduated at Cambridge University, England, and he has translated Homier Into Arabic. AN English artist has come over to 1 make studies for a painting of the battle t In Mobile Bay, Angust 5, 1864-Far- t ragut's great victory. The painting is a private commission, but, when corn Pleted, an engraving will be publishcd at London, and the work itself may be ex- t hibited in America. EsTIMATre of the damage done at Alexandria during and after the bombard ment vary widely. Claims made by the owners foot up to nearly $17,500,000; but it is said that an eminent authority has expressed a willingness to rebuild and refurnish the entire property de stroyed for $6,250,000. A vnTrAIN. who claims to be an officer I in the British army that invaded Egypt, I made a cold-blooded confession to the London Vanity Fair. " After somei Egyptian wounded fired on our men," he says, "I ordered every wounded man to be bayoneted. No end of officers and snen were killed in that way." Arar AwNIIB H. 8-rEPH ENS declared in a recent speech at Macon, Ga., that the rheumatisim which has disabled him from walking for the past twelve years, was contracted durang his imprisonmnent .Q Warae itrthe war, J" was Lt in a dtingeon to* down,') he says, &, dkipping with water; walls five a* tIdk. I was there three months. iat"' h6 added, "is a part of my war oord." ANNA DIOKINso writes to the Phila lphia Pres to say that she has been indored by the report that she had olared against woman's suffrage. "No Le but .a fool would believe the story," Le adds. She'may have remarked that ore was too much votin, but if venal en have the right, venal women should ijoy the same privilege. The life com 6Iious of male birutes "should have on bud a rbtaff of pkotection and defense." A CONNECTIOUT thread manufacturing >mpany had planned to exhibit at the aston fair the old fashioned way of iinning and weaving cotton in the >uth, but have struck an unlooked for Lag. Their Georgia agent writes them: [ had arranged with one negro man id four negro women to go to the B)s n fair to spin and weave, and should kve been there now, but some fool roulated a story that they would bw ld when I got them to Boston, and all iunder couldn't convince them to the mirary." IN SRVERAL provincial districts of Fin ud a religious sect has appeared, based on the fundamental principal of "fe ale supremacy and male subjection." usbands and lovers bind themselves r oath to Wear whatever yoke their p5at 'rs choose to place upon them, and xrthermore to make unrserved mnfession once a week of all delinqueu es. A woman who has been chosen by 3r sister rulers to exercise unlimited ithority within the community, allots te penalties, which are promptly in icted by resolute matrons. Thrifty Farming. A great deal of the work in the newer rimting districts of the State is done by en .,t small neanis, who often have )t fiiisheld pIaing for their land, )netines they complain that it is hard get ahead, and it is true indeed that any drawbacks exist which it is hard overcome No matter if the crop ils the family must be supported, the dinary expenses borne and the taxes 1(1 interest proviided for. All this, :we'er, liing admitted, the agricult rI t: uth re.. ains that. failure oftenest "i es from want of care and economy, atit of observation, and want of ener y, or stated as a whole, thriftiness. Of o industry oi earth (anl it be more -Ill said that ''a penny saved is a enM y gained Yet, there is no in ust ryesu.'e to so much waste as this, ethta' nemis more care to pr'event 'nks, and few thaot receix e less. A farm ghtlyl considered is a netwvork of in uist ries, .a vast cojnbination of ma lines. Nothing must be allowedl to go waMt e. Indueed, this seems a',solute -unntecssary with the varied oppor. mit'aes of d spo~sing Of all that is umso'u'l ad utsing~ all refuse as a fertilizer. Btt als is not half the story. It needs ev vy energy to develop~ the capacity of t(' soil to receive ftitilizers, to assinmi t liete n and1 to give them forth again hount iful craps. He' t uist learn howv >cult ivate thle soil, how~ to drain it. len the soil and hlimt wi l prouc iirty huihe!i pl er* acr e wh r~aise half that ur~nt it v ? WVheni sixty bushlIs of corn can e~ rised~( .per aicre w i l t as only thirty? an huitit that can be made to produco so tons of hay whyi be content with tie? If it be lack of fertilization apply tat to be 0ob tied t) half the land. If I c for lack of labor to give proper uiltivation, fatr better to work half the ui an : ftt et thle balance grow what it :il, to be fed oif by the stock. Thle ew fac ms muay not be fitted for high irtn ing. butt g. od farm'ng cenn be every here' applied. TIhere is no need of aisinig two hetadl of tattle to p~roducet' hie samne tn.eat that cenn easily be grown i(one, nor of feeding twto sheep to4 pro0 nece woo l I hat tone cani easily growv. Nr i s tis a (comptlet e statement of lie muann ter int whtitch success is wrought utt byv the toiler. TIhe farmer, all other hings beinrg eqitul, who is most acus amt(d(l 14 siuday intg crops elsewhiere, re oris, st at istics, met htods of farmiing anti 1l I hat will gathter I he( great est proftt rm his invest nmnts anti labor. When veryb otly is planting a certaini crop he eII not huastent to entlarge his acreage f thI 1e1rop. WVhen an ty crop is a drug n the market lie will nmot. hasten to ig ('te its cul Iitiitn the followving year. l'arters miore thtan any other. class of copie mtay live well at a little exlpend Lure of cash. On a t hrifty farm near y all that is eaten can be prodIuced on lie farm. In consideration of the fact hat a large p~roportiont of the gtod hings of life in the food line can be and ,rc growvn on the soil of our owvn cli nate, it is lamentahle to see how poorly unopiied are~o mnuy farnmer's tables with hose sanme article. 'There can he an ndless roumd of fruits arid vegetables or the whole three huindred and sixty ve days of the year. The whole list of ~rains'and meat's cani be had, all of the test quality anid at cost price, no mid lie-man's commission or retailer's profit dt(ded. It is true that the lack of ready mon y~ often prevents farm improvements. loney couild lbe usedl t o good advan tage, tonly montey coutld be had. Labor is ostly and on new farms it does not ring ready returns, whfle most of it LoCs into capital pnly in the way of per nanent implrovements. Hand labor specially is expensive andl slowv and the airmer' must as soon as possible avail timhelf of all the help attainable in the vav of machines and mechanical helps. n newver neighborhoods fame' can lub together for purchase of stock or mplements other wise quite beyond t heir reach. T1hey can buy mowvers, harvest ers, seed drills. ditchers. dredgers, levee builders antd many other useful and la bor saving implements; always remem bering that. the occasions are few wher it will pay to run in debt for any ol the. l'a, dayt always comes and th( extl ect ationts 4 t ten full short. -Ko Pod.~ and Tribuni. . roftable intestlethk The safest and most profitable invest ment that can anywhere be found at this time for money, the use of which is not needed for a few years, is in the purchase of well selected real estate. This general fact probably no intelligent man would dispute, though some men deny the application to particular cases when it does not suit their interests. It is well k'ecognised that real estate falls faster, as a rule, and further when tuines are good, than any other kind of prop erty of real and solid value. The in trinsic value changes on13 with the grTowth of 0 6ohimiinity Ur State, or the ibnpi'Vement of theans of cobimunication; ho that for production or use in residence Or in cointnerbe the value nay increase rapidly aid giceatly, but can decrease a'Owly and moderately. But the prioe, on the contrary, depends upon a market that is more variable than almost any other. At times real estate is wholly unsaleable, no matter what its real value or its price may be. At other times it is the object of the wildest speculation, with a very little re-ference to the present legitimat- deinaiid As a consequence when real estatte is not wanted, it sells for a song or nor at all: but when it is wanted, tlre is scareeh any limit to Its price. Hence, long. headed mnh are ways on the ulert ti get possession of real estate after <very period of great depression: to *sucli shrewd purchases the wM.(1 or grein t 1mu t of almost every colossal for'tine maNy .e traced. We are just emerging fjoin a period of unekampled prostration. I he jrico, of real estate has fallen, as it tisually does at suli'tnies, iii greater ratio than that of almo-t auiy () her class of property ofsubstantial ehaarac; vr. Now, if ever, the purchase of real i sutu. nmy be considered certain 'o viald excep tionally large profits, if tli property is judiciously selected. Another fact, which, as a geticral one no intelligent man will dleny, isi that the advance in the price, as a rule, is certain to be greater in Western than in Easter-n real estate. Western State inid citivs are growing rapidly; Fastcrin lo wly. Every man knows the faet, 91a imimniwise volumes of statistics could he gi en to prove or illustrate it; and yet t Iro are some men who refuse to admit the obvious consequence. Now York City is growing in population at the rate of seven per cent. in five years, and the State at the rate of 7.2 per cent., whilo Chicago or St. Louis gains 50 or 60 per cent., and Kansas 100 per cent., and yet some persons refuse to see that the value of property in the Western city oz State is certain to increase in the long run, and, as a rule, more rapidly thar the Eastern. New railroads and greatei reduction in the rates of freight are con. stantly adding enormously to the valu( of Western property, and as yet so poteni are interested motives in blinding men, that there are some who still insist that real estate loans in Western cities and States, as a rule, are less safe than loan on Eastern property, where multiplication of roads is slow, and tends mainly tc divert residents and industries from cities that are already over-crowded.-. Netw York Publio. A Newport Romance. The .Je wish cenmetery lies not far from the synagogue in the~ sweep made b~y Kay street where it joins rourio. In this quiet spot twvelve Jewish famnilies lie buried, and as we stood beneath the trees that spread protecting arms overi the graves. Longiellow's p)oem, written after a visit to this cemetery, came most vividly to mflind. One verse especially, as we looked at the neatly kept flower bed, the turf so soft and wvell cared for, the buds that bloomed above the dead, camne to our lips: " Gone are the living, but the deadl( remain And nmot noglected, for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty iUke summer rain, Still keeps their graves andl :nemiory gren." In the inclosure are two graves sc near each other that '.-:you stand by one~ your shadow falls upon the other; with in them sleep two lovers, separated dlur ing life, but united long since by dleath. Judah Touro and Catherine Hays wert cousins, and among the Jews'it is ai crime for those so near of kin to marry. TIrue to the religion and traidit ions o1 their race, they separated niever to meel again, although they lived to be old p~eo pie. Neither of them married, contenmi with the memory of their love an d th< hearing of each other's welfare fron mutual friends. TIhey both died in .Jan uary, 1754, when he was seventy-nim years of awe andl Catherine wvas seventy sevYen. if s name was the last word shi uittered, andl in his delirium before deat I called him he talked of walking in beautiful garden withI Catherine Illays his first and only love. JIudah Tlouro howe ver, (lid not let disappointment cm bitter his life, for he spent it. in activt benevolence, and from a fund le-ft b) him the means are provided to keep th< cemetery in orde~r. It is told of hin that he built churches in New Orlcan: for all sects, even contributing towardl the creetion of a Unitarian place of wor shuip, On his mnonhumenit thme following words are (cut: ''The last of his n-ume he inscribed it in the book of philan thropy to be remembered forever." N wnor (fR. I. ) CJor. Prot-irience Journal An Affecting Incident. In the hand of Madame Aubheri when her body was taken out fr-om th recent railroad wreck in the tunnel nenm New York, was a note which she wva writing at the time of the aez-idenmt, a follows: " My Dear Sister: Many th:inks f: your kind letter received last nght Moer seems very much weaken et but she is a little bit better this morr ing. When we will get to the city do not know, nor what is the matti Every few minutes we start, then haed then we start again. It is all the. mor annoying t hat I have lots of things t attend to to-day. a'; we move in nr Saturday, 30th instant. If I possibi can I will run over to sea von to-da) if not, on Monday We have coneic a dead stop again shout One IHnredt street. Hop n:g to reauh New York t< dav, with lovE to all my 'family,i SalP" After writin theI1 word ''all'" Mi AuMbrt was kild.N Y. T1ribunc. fruit Juices. There is often a decided objection to the use of our coarsest fruits, especially in sickness, or when the stomach or bowels may be in a sensitive state, on account of the irritation of the angular and sharp seed, and peel or skin. Like the hull of the wheat-or hulls, as there are five different layers, wikch should be removed, in most if not all cases, from the flour-those seeds and rinds are often sources of irritation to the sensitive coats of the stomach, caus ing many forms of disease, particularly in the hot weather. It is exceedingly fortunate that these juices do not re quire digestion like the solids, but, like gater, enter the system unchanged, there to he assimilated, of course afford ing nutrition, with no use of the digest ive apparatus, or but slight effort, that of absorption. (It desirable, these juices may be prepared at this season, thoroughly scalded, canned like fruit, kept from the air and in a cool place, and used in the following spring, when such are exceedingly valuable, especially for those having debilitated digestion.) It is very plain that if they demand no digestion, still containing all of the nourishment of the berry, seenring rest for the stomach, the dyspeptic, etc., may well use this juice as a substitute for solids, for such a part of the time as will allow rest, time for the digestive organs to recuperate and become suffi ciently strong to perform their usual amount of labor. I will here remark that their use all the time, instead of at the last meal, or when the appetite may be particularly imperfect,would tend 'to debilitate the stomach, since, like all unused organs, the time would come when it would lose the power of action. As a general principle, the substitution of these for solids for one or two meals at most, using the Rimplest form of solids, as the raw egg, or boiled rice, would be as much as would be advisable, save in extreme cases, when such nourishment for a week or less would be a choice of evils. Milk should not be regarded as of this class, since it is molidified before diges tion. It is not a proper drink between meals, since it requires digestion like solids. When there is much feverish ness, with some appetite, the more acid juices, like that of the strawberry or the currant, may prove of great value with out sugar, for. that is a "heater." These tend to reduce feverishness, though, i too acid, they may irritate the stomach producing the canker. The fresh juice of the apple-not for mented juice, or cider-is very appro priate and useful, the apple containing more nourishment than the potato These juices may be used with grea propriety when the appetite seems -wan ing, or when but little food is indicated for nourishment is obtained withou labor.--Golden Rule. Cash Arter ma;.rriage. One freqjuent cauise of t r'ouble~ in mar net.ss Il att ters. A\ lia l i marries 1 iSeti to takingE 1n0 miore thIouhi5t as to how shte shiouli be clothled thban t.he~ lii ies inl the liebi. ie begins by Riot lik ing' to r'efuse iany of her'i r'erests. IIe wviil n!ot hint, so long~ ais lhe enni help it, at care in tritiling ceiinses - -he does niot like to a'-sot'iate himsielf in biei 'ijais. And slie, wholit woni have heei wvill inRg eniough, 'in the Ii 'swet e'agerne(ss to phmese of laer girl'iish liIove, to give ti any whims or faniets of her own what, ever, t ails inlto hiabit s of eRi'eieMS er travagance and~ feels herself inju11re< lieni : at last, a remostranc ':lie comies I low noch('l wiser'W) would have been per' P(ecjt'lipe' in the beginning! ''\ :ave juist so- mucih mioniey to spend' t liE (Ter thuos 01r thus'.'" was thle uiuestion11 still youn~ger bidei Riot long go, :am1 all thle womanhooi10d iln her aniiswer'ed t< this demiad upon01 it, aloi her' help a phoing and counse(l iung proved l1:t)i hing to be dlespised,. lthogh hithlert< slit hiad 'fUed upon1 thle rosesP, andt lail :iinonig the lilies. of life."' I ami speak inge not. of mr1ur'iages~ it are*( noi miar ('an1 hiee'aise Vulcan prs p-red at hi forge- - ilt niriages w her'ie I wO14 1 l he(arts have set. ouit togetie-r, for loveP' sake, -to learil the he.son% of liie, alid t( live together till deaith shall pan- themi And one of the first. le .sons for themn t< leal'fl Is to truit, ce oilier enitirelv Thie mi st fri vololls gir of ali ''thet r' M l ilt ga ten f il'I , if shie t riily lov(s ne' juireS solliet liili of womaniline Ironi li er love, alnd i' r'eatly to plani :an Thei( (apli. 'EThe carlin is ai small fish, of the sal - mon species, abt )0t hei size/ of tl he smelt i andl ver'y like it. ilnil apa ranRce. ft n)ev'.e ,varies more than I 1w) or' thlree daysi - the time of its 'omin~g to) the Newfouint - land shor'es, w.her '. Ihate inl.i ,IC, it, Sld -(enly thlronigs a lli ie haysV ini prod igliu numbier's. A single boy withi a smali dip net can eaitch .s.eeral tonis a day and a few mni (enl r'eadily securie schooner 1load. Th'le waves (dash thi 'caplin on the shores ini grealt nRumbers o and thle r'esidtl~is o teni ear't them awa r for mianurie. Alt houigh a udelicious fishi 9 much like thle t rout in flavor, thle capli is rar'ely eaten. Inideed, for a fishiin polthese islands are amazing] r backwar'd in the use of their' food fisl -Few of them even knowv how t~o con 'the codi so ais to be eatable; they rarel eat the tr'out w.ith which their inlan waters are fill; and though thev i'ai the best potatoes in the world, the 'seem profoundly igenorant of that del e cious product of i anikeo-Iand, the ('0t 0 fish-hall. After' the caplin go away,i t July, the squid come in, and after thei Y the herring, so that Providence has pr< ', vided a triple series of cod baits, wit1 4 out any one of which a third of the se h sn wuldbe lost. --Newfoundland Co .Y.Post. _________ -, -Ahundred mien imake an encamn 4.9 Jmbnt -iial onle womRan nmak' ., hi'nli. The Sultan's Title. The idea of a united Islam under the rule of a single Caliph being a funda mental conception of the Museulman religioil, is as old as that religion itself, and was, duriner aitore than a century, practically readized. Under the early Caliphs Islam was not merely an ab' stract religious system but a highly or' ganized social and political community, with a monarchical fbrm of government which rapidly developed into an unlim ited despotism. The known world was divided into two parts, the Daru '1 Is lam and the Daru 'I Harb-the land of the faithful and the land of the infidel Und throughout the whole extent of the former the Caliph exercised uncontrolled temporal and spiritual authority. Such was the caliphate of the Ommayades, with Damacus as its capital. With the fall of that dynasty, about 120 years after the death of the prophet,, the political tunity of Islam came to an end. When the Abbassides seized the supreme pow er and removed the seat of govern ment to Bagdad, the Moors of Spain, refusing to recornize the usurpation, elected a Calipni of their own from among the survivors of the dethroned dynasty, and at a later period a third I Independent caliphate wa.s formed in Egypt by the so-called Fatimite dynasty. TIus the Mussulman world was split into three parts. and since that moment it has never been politically reunited. The Western and Egyptian caliphates passed through many crises and finally perished, but, the Eastern Caliphs could not prolit by the weakness andd isasters of their rivals. They were in fact no longer Caliphs in the old sense of the term. Ambitious provincial govern. ments and insubordinate Tartar chief tains had created for themselves and their descendants semi-independent sovereignties, itid the little central authority that remained was wield ed by a band of - Prxetorians, or by a Vizier resembling the Mayor of the palace in the Frankisi monarchv. As successors of the prophet, the Caliphs continued to enjoy popular veneration, and their names were regularly recited every Friday in the mosques; but they had lost all real power, and their cief political functions consistedt inlegalizing successful usurpation by performing thc ceremony of investiture for those whc had made themselves practically inde pendent rulers. The caliphate had be come, in fact, a loose confederation ol practically independent States undei the nominal sovereignty of a spiritua head, and might be compared in som< resl)ets to medioeval Christendom un der the spiritual sovereignty of th Pope. In this etherealized form it ha continued to survive to the presen t (lay. Extinguished in Bagdad by th . great Tartar invasion of the thirteent century, it was revived immediatel' t afterward in Egypt. A mysterious in dividual, professing to bo an Abbassid who had escaped the massacre of hi family in Bagdad, appeared in Cair and declared hiimself to be the legiti mate representative of the venerate< dynasty. The Mameluke Sultan of thi time, perceiving the advantages of hav ing a Caliph of his own, caused thi stranger to be recognized by the Ulema andl~ thius began~ a new series of puppe Caliphs, calling themselves Abbassides which lasted for more than two centu ries and a half (1250-1517). Whei Egypt was conqueredI by the Turks ir I117, the Sultan Selim mnade the p upp e ICaliph of the moment cedle to him hi:~ caliphate rights, and ever since tha time the Ottoman Sultans, who have D( p retensions to being descendants of thi Pro pheCt, have hiad the title of Caliph. (Confstanltinlo)le Cor. London Times. Domnne Sills~ona's Wit. Yest erday' s mieeting of the Haptisl ministers waar opened1 with prayer b)3 Fat her St imson, of Kansas. Fathlii Sftmsoni is eighty years old1. andl hi preached for lifty years. . Stories an~ told of himii ini which thiose whoi( expecWt ed to raise a laugh at thle old D om'.nih found the talesC turnied against them uselves ini thle miost. un~expectedl ma~une r One 1runs as follows: l'ather Stimson owned a good horse - but. the keeping of thle beast wvas some .. What of a drain on the l)ominie's5 pock .. et, andl he wa's in the habit~ of dropping a hint to his parishlioner'Is oncP in; while that a lit:tle luty wvould be accept able. Onie day a chu'rch mnembier askt't limn to bring .\lrs. Stimison to iinner. " '('prtainly," sa'dIl-':the'r Stims~on "and , as i t's haying t ime, I gues.s I'I {ult somre liar oti lhe wagoli whieil I gi baZck homne." "'All rght, Fathier,'' replied thi r Fathei~r Stimisoni took his wi'e to sup pe" in~ a wagon)I w Ih an amle hiay'-riel ''.-' here1,' N.iil the p)ar shioner, a lie hi'el Alls. S'tini:-oii olut oIf the lilay ri- k. ouI sad youi were going ti mIH'n a olle-h,-Pit wi'n a" i r ''lil, 1 Ve bioligh t I lie one hors hav-ik---t ha~t's a Iwohos hav--rick. -5 tw'.eet y-I wo I undrl ed poumIIIS of h iy. 71 im; himself~. A tellow who p~assedl hii 0 oin' mornlii ng as lie waIa hard at work (i ,his tint. iinlleli to him11 ini a lou I voice: y 1"1i lo t here' Arec you go;'.ng to hasI' n Y Yes," said tie pre(a(cher, cor~tinuin g his wor-k wit hout looking up, "' and l' y loo. ng for a h> ihoon. 1)0n' t vou wal 1. itore Vour-elf 'or 0o0.?" kc h~ preaichie. was C'haplain in ti y Notfh .rew York (':aare im the wa di Thei ('oloneil w:'s fond( of lead ing ti e soiliers through deep pinddles at il y regular drill, and1( the ( 'haplain oneC di 1- rodehi :rouinl the putddleC, and t heret 1- felt out of the regia" order. Tfhe (c n oniel nloticedl it, and at. the close o: ti rn drtill, whlen the oflicers e..ime togethe r>- said, with a sneer: li- " If Canta' Stimson is alfraid to ridi a- thluough mullddy water for fear of s0i r. ing his clot hin'g, I will carry him acro. the puddle myself." "Thianlk vou," the Chapla~in saic "hut as tlie Government p)rovidt - horse's, I don't see any13 reaisonl wvhy abould ride on a jakais,"-N, V. & W AM~ -An exohaags 0akM: Whal it P troleum?" It Is a very easy method ef ttin rid of fire-kindling servant. MaatoJIdedent. -A Baltimore belle has mardued a policeman. His beat was in front of or house for over a year, and she no ced that he never snored. -Jllael phia Nw& -v -In 1869 eleven cars managed to ship all the poach crop of Delaware that was sent outside of the State by rail. To-day it takes sixteen engines, 400 cars and ninety-six men. -A correspondent wants to know **how we pronounce Rae-el-Tin?" We don'tpronounce is at all; we only write it. Do you suppose we read the papers to the suboribers?--Courier d'ourna. -The Egyptian war will give about a hundred paragraphers the opportunity to say that the Bedouins are no great sheiks, and that no matter how they are treated they will always Be-do-in some thing atrocious and inexcusable. War is, indeed, a great evil.-- Texas Sfftings. -A Chicago lady who had gone into the country at the invitation of some relatives, wroto to her husband: "Dear Charley-When I left home I forgot to bring m7 slippers with me. Send them at once. She recelveda telegram the next day to the following effect: "Ex press companies can't spare the room to transport them. Buy a now pair." Brooklyn Bagle. -Courage.-"Suffering sisters," ex claimed the speaker, energetically shaking the hair pins from her head in her excitement, "women will never ob tain their rights until they display more courage. Let me say to you, in the words of a famous French orator, 'Courage! courage! courage!' " At this stage of the proceedings somebody threw a box of caterpillars upon the platform and the meeting broke up in great terror and confusion.-N. Y. Post. -A nouveau riche had his house robbed of several valuable pictures. He appreciated them because they cost him a great deal of money, and when he made his appearance in an art-shop he was in a very excited state. "I want you to get my pictures for me," he said. "What do you mean?" replied the polite attendant. "Why, I was robbed of them the other nlght, and 1 corpe to you for satisfaction, ' was the answer. "But, my dear sir, we are not receivers of stolen goods, nor are we detective officers," said the dealer. " Then," shouted the indignant million aire, "you had better take in your sign', 'Oil-paintings restored.' "-Bostors PERSONAL AND LITERARY. -Prof. Storer, a blind musician of North Adams, Mass., has been appoint ed a teacher in the Royal College for the Blind at London. -Wilkie Collins is paying the pen. alty for trespassing upon the capaoity of that most abused organ of the hut man anatomy--the eye. His sight is failing, and he can no longer read or write. He is dependent upon an aman uensis.-N. Y. Jndipendent. -Ex-Governor Horatio Seymour. of New York, insists that he is an old man, andl it is true that he suff'ers from physi cal weakness in his logs, which disables him seriously in walking; but he retains a his old simplicity of manner and con i versation, as well as vigor of mind. Chicago Jousrnal. --Mr. and Mrs. Squibbs, of Sullivan SCounty, Tennessee, were married about Stwo years ago, and now seven little ' Squibbses make it interesting for the fond parents. Three of them were bonaout a year ago, and the quar tets are but a week or two old. This squib) is the eighth. -William S. Jett, the man who led the soldiers to the hiding place of Wilkes Booth after the assassination of President Lincoln, and who, for his connection with the capture of Booth andl Harold, has been immortalized in history, was a few days ago sent to the Maryland State Insane Asylum a raving lunatic-N. Y. Herald. -- One of the most noted women in New York journalism is Miss Middy Morgan, who does the cattle reports for four New York papers, among them the Tlrib~une and Times. She has acquired a fund of knowledge of cattle and horses, both on the farm and turf, which mnay be envied by the most experienced mnale sportsmen. -Mr. Mudford, who controls the Lon-. don Standlard, Is sometimes called the "irresponsible editor." Though he owns no share in the paper, thie late proprietor's confidence in him was so great that he provided in his will that Mr. Mudford should have sole control of the paper while he lived, or as long as he might see fit to retain It. -It is not generally known, says the Philadelphia Press, that Mr. Joseph - Sailer, who has recently retired from Sthe financial editorship of the Phila ' delphia Ledger, was not only the oldest -editor In that position in this country, I but the first to write a regular money article for any, daily paper, as' the Ledger was the first In this country to Sprint a money article. -In a little red cottage on the shore of a lake called the Bowl, near Lenox, 3 Mass., Hawthorne wrote "The House - of the Seven Gables." Mr. J. T. Fields used~ to tell of carrying out to him there one hundred dollars in advance of work, C but after accepting, Hawthorne's sensi tiveness foun dthe obligation Irksome, 4 andl he handed It back. " Take It, - Fields." said he; "the house isn't big 'enough to hold It." - Locat'ng a Fault In an Ocean Cable. re The work of locating a break or flaw e in the (ah)!c a process seem rin'rly so ab 'stru'e is, wit hi t he pre'sent improved h~ in't. iuent s. compauratively (jptick and e.;sy. J )isearding t&IIechniaities', we may o sav bretly thaiUt lhe w hole electric po n tency of the (able when fully charged n~ is knowvn, aLnd the saime can be quickly n ascertained of the two pairts created by *a break. A deliente machine adjusted e to the nicest fractions discloses the elec tric units or 'ohims"' In each part, and g as the number of ohms to the mile is known, the miles and fractions of miles it in bo0th parts canj be found out at each end' of the encble. In the case of a clean ,e break the locating of it takes about fifteen . m'nues. But a ver~y angular break, or te a law, makes perturbations of the e measurement which it now and then y takes s<,me hours to rectify. The usual cause of breaks or Ilaws is attrition on . rocks 01r sand; and sometimes a brealk Sin ery denn water Indicaten that sa