Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TVOTD TOoLIuCv, MORALITY, EDUCIION AND TO THE GENE >L INTREmsT OF TE- 0UTO Y By D. F. BRADLEY & co. PICRENS S. C, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23; 1882. OL. XI. N -- c----- O- - 9.-- - -' EWS GLaEANINGS. The county jail at Atlanta contains 216 prisoners. Tennmeee is extensively shipping oat tle and hogs to Florida. James. B. Pace -is announced as the wealthiest man in Virginfa. The United States jail at Ft. Smith, Ark., contains 100 prisoners. The late Gen. Holt, of Macon, IGa., left an estate valued at $500,000. X itgomery, Ala., expects to handle 0,000 bales of cotton this season. Maryville, Tenn., has a factory where buttons are made of muscle shells.. A carload of German carp have ar, rive at Nashville for distribution. The New Orleans police are making an effort to break up the opium aens o that city. Most of the levee work on the Missis, sippi river below Natchez, Miss., is un der headway. Fulton county, Ga., is taking care of 216 prisoners who are awaiting trial on different criminal charges. I A law in Florida requires that the tickets of candidates for county officers be printed on colored paper. Nineteen Indian boys have been tak en to Trinity College, North Carolina. where they will be educated. The New Orleans papers complain be cpuse the Charity Hospital at that place is overrun by patients from other States. Nashville has no water for fire pur 'poses, and the underwriters are discuss ing the advisability of advancing their rates. Several more Mormon elders have ar rived at Chattanooga and joined the bhnd of Mormon missionaries now work ing up converts in the South. Lord Houghton, of England, has pur chased 60,000 acres of land in South ern Florida, and intends going exten zaively into sugar culture, investing at least $1,000,000. The British steamer Castello left Sa vannah, Ga., Monday, with the most yaluablei cargos ever -cleared from the ~rt. The cargo was 7,100 bales of up. land votton, valued at $406,037 32. A bill to be introduced at the present session of the Georgia Legislature will provide for a registration law, which will debar any person from voting who has not paid his taxes in full. It is thought this bill will be easily passed. A Mr. Johnston, of Atlanta, a cousin ,of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, is the fa ther of twenty-two children, the young. est of them being at' infant. Mr. John ston has been married but once, and his wife is now living and in excellent health. One of the four silver half dollars -coined by the Confederate States gov ernent is in the possession of a gen tlema1 living in Cartersville, Ga. He has been off'ere~d on several occasions the comfortable sum of $500 by numismatic collectors for the coin. Work on the Mobile harbor progressep satisfactorily. The present dimenbionls of the channell are seventy-five 'fe et wid3 by seventeen deep from the mouth of the l iver to deep water down the bav. together wither with an additonal short cut of forty feet wide near the mouth of the river. Thiere are now 979 patients in the Georgia Insane Asylum, 257 of whom were received during the present year. Chathamn county furnishes the~ largest number, six ty-four ; Fulton follows with forty eight, and Richmond with forty-six. The patients range from fil, teen to ninety years of age. The Picayune is informed that a dan gerous $10 conterfeit Treasury note is in circulation in New Orleans. The note is of the same manufacture which appeared in Chicago in 1880, the printer of them being arrested with $25,000 of the money in his possession. They have since appeared in many of the larger cities. By a recent decision of the Supreme Court of South Carolina, characterized by the Charleston News and Courier as 'the most important judicial deliver. ance that has been had since the adop tion of the new constitution," no felon in future has the right to vote. This law is being generally !adopted in the Southern States. Suit has been brought against the Tennessee Brokerage Association, at Nashville, by Calvin Morgan, who seeks to recover $3,150 lost on Corn deals dir ing the month of October. The com plainant alleges that the transactions in which the money was lost were not bona fide, as no real delivery was contracted for. Charleston Ne ws and Courier : The skeleton of a full grown mastodon has been found in the Cowee tunnel, on the Ducktown branch of the Western North Carolina railroad. When the monster was discovered the convicts fled in ter ror, and it was by hard work that they could be induced to return to their picks, It was found six feet below the surface of the earth. It wasn in a per ect state of2tpreservattion, and crumbled to dust as soon as exposed to the air. -A haughty gentleman walking in Baltimore kicked a parcel from the side-. walk into the gutter. A small boy picked it up and cariried it to his mother, who found that it contained $40,000 Turiva UF THE DAY. SENTINELS still gudrd President Gar. field's toMb. A BUSINEss man in Rochester is adveD feet two inchg in' h'eigtI. Mis. LANOTRY, it is said, will go to Australia and Niw Zealand after her American tour. TnE wife of President Gonzales, o1 Mexico, is studying medicine and sur gory in Chicago. Mns. LANGTRY is said to have received $6,000 from Barony for the privilege of photographing her. A nAl of gold was - reoeutly cast in Nevada City, Cal., which weighed 450 pounds, and is said to be the largest ever cast in this country. ARNOLD'S "Light of Asia" has reached its tenth edition in London. More than 100,000 copies of the poem are said to have been disposed of in America. A BosE bush bearing 1,000 buds is the pride of a. gardener in Charlestown, Mass. It is thirty-five years old and covers over 100 square feet of ground. BiacHen has looked over several Sunday school libraries, and it is his candid opinion that eighteen books out of every twenty are too boshy for any intelligent child to read. AT a recent test of plain boiler flues in England against corrugated lues the former collapsed at 225 pounds pei siuare inch, while tho latter withstood 1,620 pounds per square incli. Trx oldest printer activAy engagel in hisj profession is Grandpa Prescott, in [owa, who, at the age (f ninety years, sets type every working day in the con posing room of the Corning GaZcttc. THE wife of the Ciinese MiNlister at Washington is seventeen years of ago. She dees not receive visitors, of course, eut with an attendant she drives out. She is studying the E-glish language. MR. EDwIN BOOTH will spend the Ohristmas holidays in Rome, and scon ifter go to G.-rmany, where engage rnen ta have been made for him at Ber. in, Hamburg, Leipsic, and several other large cities. Mu. EDWARD ATKINSON has written a etter to the managers of the proposed Dotton Exchange in souisville, Ken ;ucky, warmly approving of the project, mud making some valuable suggestion9 as to the construction of the building. THE immense cost of living nI>yp s a very serious matter for the British roops who wvill bhave to re main there. The >rices for everything are enormous, and he whole day's paiy of a- subamltern will >urchase him but one meal at a hotel. "PLUNoEni" WALTON lest $7,500 on us first horse race wager dluring his >resent visit to England, according to a -orrespondlent of the Boston Hferal~i, and or several dlays his luck wvas generally )ad, but b~y winning $'40, 000 on a single iorse he came out $15,000 ahead on the vhole week. A mnnL is before the Vermont Legisla. ,ure prohibhiting a divorced person from narrying within a year, and a p~erson) rom whom a divorce is obhtainied from narrying within five y ears or ever, if he ground of complalint is a crime, ini w~hich caIse criminal proseutioj n must ollow the divorce p~roceedlinigs. B3AnY insuran(ce comipan ica are becom - ng quite popular in New England. The ives of children from one to twelve rears of age are insuiredi to amounts not 3xceeding p250, the charges being a fe w ~ents weekly. It is expected that the >usiness will become a profitable accomn animent of the baby farming industry. IT is stated that a pastry cook at B3ologna hasi produced a very novel sub ititute for a newspaper. It is composed >f ver'y delicate leaves of pas-try, oin whichu witty articles are printed, not with nk, but with chocolate liquor. Thus, rifter its literary contents are devoured, thme reader may devour the production tself. Tira latest phase of the Egyptian ],uestion is the complicity of the Sultani n Arabi Boy's revolutionary mo venmnt. )ftenl denied, and it is no0w maintained by Arabi's counsel that direct encouir igement was given him from the Sultan as well as from the Egyptian people and clergy. ________ A PEw miles away from Philadelphia are living a family of triplets, two men and a woman, who are sixty years of :Ige. Theoy are the children of an old Lutheran clergyman named Rollers, and are all halhe and hearty. These triplets have always lived together. The brothers are married, but 'the sister has remained a spinister. A N eXhibition of skill wvith the lariat at Austin, Texas, a few (days ago, drew a crowd of 10,000 persons. Ten cowboys coaiteited for a silver trimmped saddle worth $300, to be given to him who roped, threw and tied down a steer in the shortest spacedo time. The winnem accomplished the feat in one minute and forty-live seconds. EIGHT ohildren named Fogarty, th< eldest eighteen years and the youngest only ten months, arrived at New York recently from Ireland, having been con pelled to make the voyage alone by the father being arrested, ciarged with. abducting a young girl whom fie had hired to nurse the infant. The father has since arrived to take charge of his family. THE Ting Yueng. the formidable iron clad that has just been built in Germany for the Chinese Government, is to be lighted by 240 Edison electrio lamps. This mysterious method of illuminatton will probably be as satisfactory evidence to the magnates of the Flowery Xing dom that there is sohicthing in Western civilization as any that could be fur nished. S. H. BUTCHER, of Oxford University, a young man of less than thirty-tive, has been elected to the Greek Professorship at Edinburgh University, a place, says the London Spectaor, worth ?2,000 a year. "With Mr. Butcher at Edin burgh, Jebb at Glasgow. Geddes at Ab. erdeen, and Lewis Campbell at 4St. An drew's, the new generation in Scotland should know Greek." O-TIOHUFS are worth $1,400 each, and there is a duty of 20 per cent. on their feathers. A man from Buenos t vres has j'ist brought twenty-two of the birds to this country, and will establish a farm in the South. If his experiment suc ceeds, it will find many imitators. It is cheaper and pleasanter to run an ostrich farm than to shoot down the wild birds on the plains of Africa. THE Russian Royal Commission -to abate drunkenness recommends : 1. Liberty to o )mmittees to close all drink iug shops. 2. Permigsion to communi. ties to establish communal monopolies for the sale of drink. 3. No publie THlE Postoffice authorities will urge the Senate to pass, at as early a day as possible, at the coming session, the bill that passed the House for the modifica tion of the money order system. Dr. McDonald, the Chief of the Money Or der Division, is of the opinion that if that bill shall become a law the rates will so largely increase the business of the department as to be a large source of revniue to the Governimwut. An ef house to be established above 25 per cent. in excess of one per 1,000 of the population. 4. Tea and food to be sold wherever drink is consumed on the )remises. 5. Rigorous supervision of public houses. fort is also to be made to pass the postal currency bill at an early day. There is ai very urgent demand for this bill from many qluarters. S-1x years ago an eccentric Spaniard was in Keokuk, Iowa. lie died in Spain last August. He had an only child, ta girl, twelve years j>ld. It stemsl lhe wanted her raised a Protestant, and in is eccentricity niamed wA orge B!and, a colooed lac2ksmith of Keokuk, as her guardian. He made a contract with a priest in Spain for carrying out his will. The wvill provides that the priest is to re ceive $(08,000 in) case the coniditionis of the wvill are fulfilled, otherwvise nothing. Gleorge .Bland, 10 colored man is to have the same a onnt and the guar i. ahip of the child, who gets $4300,000) aind a lrge amount of diamonds and je welr y. A Turkish F~ait. Before closing this chapter of Turkish gossip, I can not refrain from giving a young Moslem official's account of his. mnfraction of the great fast. "The day was very sultry," said he. "1 had been: at work and was dying with thirst. I| resolved to myself that I would slip out and sneak into some watershop in some out-of-the-way corner and get a glass of water, fast or no fast. The water was there- in crystal and ice; my tongue was bursting. I was just going into the shop when a man crossed the street and stood in front of me. I knew he was a detective, and so I went away. I hunted up another watorshop in an out-of-the-way place, and ho, another detective appeared. I hurried past and a third time found a wvatershop, and again it was watched by a spy. Then I said to myself: 'Here we have a gov ernment that takes revenue from grog ihops and gambling-houses. And this government sets itself up to enforce pious observances. It puts Its spies by the watershon lest some poor wretch may drink in 'fast-time. A fig for such piety. I was going to have five parai' worth of sin. If this Is what piety means I will go to Pera~this minute and get a hunidred paran' worth of sin in the shape of Ice-cream.' I went. I sat in the darkest corner of a great hall and had my ice-cream. [ had just finished about half of it when I saw peering in at the window a man with his rosary in his hand, and I recognized him as one of those meddling pious people who go about as a work of religious duty to) find erring Moslems and warn them of the consequences of breaking the fast. I crammed the other half of the ice-crearei into my mouth at once and bolted out of a side door. If you have never had your month stuffed with Ioc-cream so stiff that you can't open your jaws, yotr can have no conception of what I suffered. But I had my revenge on this government for making money out of vice and then putting guards over the water-jugs. 1 broke my fast in spite of them, and nobody found it out."-om **antinople Lettr. " What's your name ?" asked one little four-year-old miss of another. "I do declare I " replied the second little girl, "you are as inquisitive as grown peoples. Trhey always askses my names, where I got my new boots, and all such fings, A Singular Confession. Prof. Schulte has written a confession of the burning of the pavilion at Ter race Springs, Napa. After saying he set fire to the building to obtain the in surance, $750, he says: "Now, who coul do such a deed such a wrong deedP one who has al ready reached the evening of life, proba bly not distant far from the very hour when night completely and forever shrouds the earthly form-one who thus during almost three score years has never been b..cused of any act offensive to the law P How conid do such a deed one who from the early days of student life steadily walked in the paths of sci enne, literature and even art, the litera ture of all nations, ancient and modern, the vernacular of which he ractically knows and speaksP How could (1o such a deed one with such attainments, such eulture-one who ever since he in the tog of battle had torn from him a limb, returnable to mother earth, when be longing to a medical staff some twenty six years ago; who ever since, I say, became an able lecturer, a most able in structor, and as such active and success ful, more than twenty years in the pri vate high schools of this State, such as the old College of California, (now the Department of LAtters in the State Uni versity,) the defunct Female College of the Pacific, the Mills Seminary, etc., and during his residence in this town, in the Collegiate Institute, the Ladies' Seminary, and Oak Mound Academy. (Alas! that instead of myself another were to state all this as has in the past been done, when, indeed, not needed; my seemingly, and under all other cir cumstances truly immodest self-lauding, admitting of no other rpology but my being confined behind prison bars, lone and severed from friends and the world, no one having as yet been able to raise voice in mv behalf.) flow then, in fine, could do that wrongful deed one who was always known-latest in this very town-to be a man exemplary in his habit, religious even, in harmony, how ever, with the advanced and enlightened convictions of the times; an ever faithful husband, a good and solicitous father, who purest happiness found at home alone; one punctual In his professional duties, ever industrious and persevering, affable and honest in all his dealings. How then ? How in the name of- all that's good and trueP How could such a one do such a deed P A deed most wrong and most co(nmnable! What could make it possible, not excusable P Despair! Despair! Despair unutttnra ble! Despair unknown! Despair not fully understood even by his own falm ily ! I * * * I recoiled, wrongfully recoiled, and as wrongfully conceived that by a rich insurance company the loss of a few hundred dollars would not be felt. I can. The condemnable deed was done. Yet when the flames stir rounded the massive structure, although unoccupied and uninhabited, when t he flames chased darkness, illumining sky and distant horizon all around, pangs of conscience almost overpowered me. I hastened from the scene. On the fol lowing day I had to, and did, publicly dilate, not with my usual enthusiasm in deed, on "Beauties of Modern Litera ture," English, German, French, Span - ish and Italian. comparatively with these In the language of the ancients. TIo day, in the solitude of my barred cell, I inwardly dilate on the prospective hor ror anmd privations of a state prison, with sufferings heightened by the cease less pangs of bitterest remorse. Sic semper justitia! Yet might not, wit h general weighty condemnation,one wee, light grain of pity mingle P"-San F~ran cisco Call. ____ Extraordin~ary Tidal Waves, The reportedl damage done by tida& waves on the Panlama Isthmus during the tr-opical cyclone andl earthquiake of the 7th ult. Is suggestive not only of the connection between these phlenomen, but also of the possibility of predicting thme destructive ocean wvavcs which orig inate under combined tidal and cyclon ic influences. The tidal waves reportedi from Panamamay have been partly (lue to the earthquake, but if as violent as they are represented they must have been intensified by the great fluctua tions of air pressure going on at the time over the Caribbean Sea and its vi cinity. Thie highest spring tides of the year occur in Mar-ch, shortly befor-e the vernal equinox, and in September, shortly after the equinox. But, as has been recently pointed out by liev. James [cearson, an English astronomer, "it is only when a combination of astronomical and atmospheric circumn stances favors their dlevelopment that their olfects become rem irkable." Ob servations at Bre.st have shown that with a depression of one inch in the ha rometer the tide rises sixteen inches above high water mark, and similar though less ditlerences are noticedi at Liverpool and other ports. Low ba rometer causes high tides, and, vice versa, the abnormal rise of the barom eter, as was strikingly illustrated last January In New York Bay, gives rise to unusually low tides. Instances also are recorded in which high winds have obliterated the tides, as (luring the Brit ish hurricane of January 8, 183;9, when theme was no tide at all oni a part of the river TJrent. During the pass age ol West India cyclones along our At tantic seab~oard we may have at any time ex traordinary tidal fluctuations, as have often under such circumstances oc curred, with disastrous ellects. As the periods when the highest and lowest tides due to astronomic causes alone are known, it would 'e easy to make fore oasts of the developnent of very extra. ordlinary tidal ranges due to the con currence of astronomical and weathei ag ncies, which would occasionally give groat additional value to the daily weather reports. -N. .Y. herald. --.yr. P. Popoff has. an article In th Crite showing that American literatur is read in Russia. Longfellow heads th list, Cooper's Indian tales are bette lik ed than any other foreign novels ; an there are feiw educated Russians wh have not read Mrs. Stowe's "Unci Tomi." Bret Harte and Mark Twain als are popular among the subjects of th Oz/ar; but we doubt if even thy oai m ake His Imperial Majesty laug ver nauch, while watching to hear where thi nxmt Nihilist bomb will explod'e,-... Ridiculous Fashions in Dress. The tall hat of civilized life appears to Dr. Alfred Carpenter a monstrosity. It is by universal consent neither beau tiful nor pleasant. Boots are made on the theory that their first duty is to (is guise and misrepresent the contour of the foot. In feminine dress garments are loose where they should be tight, anI tight where they should be loose. Places are protected which would be better without any protection, and others left unguarded which need it the most. Materials are selected without any relation to fitness for the oilee they have to till. If the e\ternal substance be appropriate, a lining is commonly appended which spoils its whole use. '1he animal, veg'etable and mineral worlds have been liberal in exquisite dves for the embell shment o' liumnin cloth ng. Yet the wearers connive g:ad ly at the superiluous eumplon Itent by manufacturers of active poi,ons. Dr. Carpenter is as disda nful of the taste of the fabrics in which his cont em po-aries enclose themselves as of their wholesomeness. They contravene the ines oi true beiauty, il'his . l(gment, as criminally as they violate correct sani tary principles. I here is some consolat ion in the ad vantages the pre-ent generatio-n pos S0sses over n-re than one of its prede Cessors in these mtters. Gentlemen of position are no longer required to shave their heads in order to imiake room for a wig. They have escape( from powder. They are not obliged to put on clothes so un-omprom sing thit their owners, it is recorded. were forced to have themselves (ropped into them from a height'. hey no longer spend fifty or a hundred guineas on a single goreous suit. The silk hat, if uzglier, is chieaper and han(d ier I han the courtly beaver of the days of (Gcorge Ii. anI the Prince Regent. Ma'uline attire is easier an I less painful than formerly. So little (oes it var tihat it is permissi ble to (Irop out of the fashion without being ilagrantly ridicutin us. It is cheap and unostentatious. For, men howev er, there remain many points of costume to which usage alone and aversion 'or the trouble of change can rewoncile the min(d. Intrins'eall there ea-i be noth ing more absulr(d than theo whole ah)pa rattus of rigid collars and ctlls and ne(k ties. Only the clerzy as yet have hat the courage to emalcipate themselves from the servitude of still' hats. Than evening dress never was any greater travesty of elegrmnce and con gruity invented. Th lough young boys ought to raise 1 snubscription a stattu 0 to the discovery of knieke rhockers, their seniors in -olemn steetiles. and useless jc': ets, and sull'cat inr collar, continue to en joy in tteir (ress not much more freeloni than a herald in his tabard. Women have bit, begun to medit ate on enfran hisenment from dres as inr-acefhl as it is in:r01opriate. Men, it their cloth ng is a:1m1o . a g r te- qlue as ever, Iiae at. least (elive-r I themnseh es froi the obigt ioni o pr petual change. Womn wa~nder,. as o f oold, from one utgly fashion to another aus ugly, the slaves of inigentiots an re11 'st Ie s milliners. A test of thle merits of each mod ifiention is the atst onish 9'1 mockerv it encouniters from Ih di Iisciples of its su~c*5-sor. Aw kwardl ' a ii ext ravag"at as a fashtion may Ie dl-c',red by ptoster ity, for womlen i here is no se -urity t hat it will not ret urn. By a happy cluine they have I eon -aved of late from soino rentirkable)1 deforiities above and around thie.m, dev sed by the iin~aina tions of dlressntukier and1( ha irdlreaslrs. But nobody encn sa how long the int er regnum of .sense may last.--Londonj Tiauens. The Personal Appearance of Robert lu rnms. So far as we can form any correct judlgment, Burns was one of the noblest looking men of his age. 'Walter Scott, at the age of 15, saw the poet, ani it made ant endluring implressionl. HeI dc scribes him ask follows :' "His body was stronlg and rob~ust, ando his atppeiaance wats rustic, but not clownish., His muan necr, though plainI, was marked by dtigni fied siml)icity. His count tintce wats more massive than it appear's ini his pi r traits. His eyes were large andI( glowedi (I say literally glowedl) when hIe spioke0 onl aniy subl ject with feooling 01r deep ini terest. I never saw such anrothr eyc in any other mani, though I haive seen h mlost distinginished chiaractcrs oif thIe i:s initerestinig, as the picture of one Ip(oet given bly another. It occuirred att a so eial 'iinner wvhten Scott was mncrely a sp~ectator, b ut he altt racIted atte'ntion by replying to) a <iiuestionl wh ich 1n0 ti cr person)I ini the room could1 aniswer', tand his rewardl wias a smiile [and ani app)rovinig wordl from the poet. How little did the inspired plowman imagine that the lame boy, who thenr attracted his atteinton would reach such a distinction-still less that they two would divide the highest honors in the literature of their nattive land I The Burns statue will attract more attention thtan that of any author in Central Park (except Irving), not be cause he won the admiiratioun of Scot land, but b~ecause he touched the heart with peculiar mastery. He thus won n place ill human affection which lhe will prob~ably always retain. Hlencoe the statue is one of the most welcome and1 appropriatei benefactions thme Central! Park has thus far enjoyed.-Ncw York CJor. Rochester Decrat;. horen. Fr'uits are abundant, bit have s'r lv any llavor, andi. while :i'w rsar ever'ty where to lbe seeni* tohey avie lt ik or nlo fragrance. Valuable dr'o p art found ini the wild and abnlttiit ita -'e b'e v'all(ers andh tabl'-lantd of thle in c rior, thbeir collect io(n a hordIinlg a a att' means of subsistenie to a nioinero'U class o mountain lweller's. Thhr' but btitle ill t he countt ry to a t t r:'i mri i e-igners, as hats been biefore rmia eL a itS re'su-ces beinz alitu'st n, :i/, at1tit Swantgs of its ilaithatis lew- I mny years undle 'ino Iivi'1) i' 3 stilleritlg int thei' endhe~tvor'- to 1l 'n a the Chr'istiant religion withini to bha s', ) are' resp)onsible fort' h sIt attemleni tI h a Korea is rich in mites of gobih a-'' ,di Svet', the working of which, howner lth i Go1uvernmiuet forbids. It is lhi-, jet a hap-v whiicht has given trise to thi' -I - that its rulei s ar'e bur 1.' i ini goblen ot ti nn..-Cor. L orndon E ws. A Plea For Sleep. The truth is that the very rapidity of our life, the vakefulness 1and wasteful ness of our times, the st rain and drive of all pursuits, make longer periods of slee) niecessairy for us th n people liv ing in more quiet countries and at a ower rate. W 0e get tired enough if we ar.e well. an11d if we don't get tired enough to sleep all over and clear through, it is a sign of nervous disorder. Sleeping is something llmi: ioie than a lu-' ury for Americanz, tigl the very op l )osito would be inferred from our inb)its. There is no way by which the wear and tear, the drain' and straini of Ameri, an life can he neutralized but by large f:ast s of slee ' every now and then, a111l a gellert'us Illowm-I(e eve-y twenty tour oitr,. Four liors woric of a Iman who is thirolulIly IAw1k( e and vitialized, at the to(;) of his fuiilt es. are worth more for all pr:ietical business or liter ary Or sovitil piirposes thai fourteen hours o weary muis hs a mladed nerves Itind iaccid ilpulls's. The man at his best is worth 10u ter cent. iore than1 tle -aimle man fati lied, depressed and delmoralized. If he h1:as no vital elec triity playing through him, he is a weariness to others ant a burden to his owni soul, if he is cons-ious of havingV one. And to keep at this top conditioi of fiber and faculty, he must be a goo(l sleeper and sleep well. When Mr. Leclier was asked how lie mannaed to keep his coigregration so 'vide-awlike at a second service, he replied: ''By tak ing a big dose of sleep in the afternoon. It is niv sleeping that keeps my vongrro gat on aw 1ake." The time riven to Sleep is not So illich loss of life, but so iich[ gained, and at a dotibly enhanced val hut iOn. It is easy to say " sleep much and well;" but there are num unfortunate p iople who ealinot, sleep iliuich, :nd the ittle sleep tihey get. is distirbe'd and un re-t fIl. Hlow to sleep is a (uestion which, in Some inst:nevs, taxes tile skill of physicians to Ile uti most to answer. Persons allicted with insonmia :re often great su:erers, and their lives ire shortened with the di-easwi There are persons who re .uire In li le s sleep than others, and it is utieless for then) to woo sort Slulilbers to their pillow, for they vwill not. cime. A pweculiarity of const itIution is not di-e:use. and should not bie doctored. W.th the disorder known as insonmia we shall not ven ture to deal. hut with tle majority of people slee) is regulateI by habit, coin venience, whim. Thev make it yield to every conlsideration. i'Cople who Would lot olit a iieal (I 1 a11 :Iccollilt will 1 briw away half t heir allowance of sleep for the inerest trille. They do not feel the iiiiortae of giving the systom its till of unconicious refreshing, and hire entert6iners to clip oIl t wo or three hoiirs from tihe needed restorative in the eveiniig, :nld set, an alarm clock to cut away an hour or more at. day-break. TIev seemii to think-ilha thev can steal fr'om sleep *witlh iipunit vwhen it is iret tv mih the only th g that pul ishies ever, pilferer of it as lie goes aloni. Ot)hers destroy th e possibility of sleep)ing well by- cai ng all their cal 0s andI troiublles and gr'ies andl~ am bitionls to bedi withI tli', and one might as well seek rest (on ai ra -k as with Nuoch b(edfellorws. The abhilitrx to lay oil enres and perph-exities, Ilk.. ujn s ('lothles, and( dlismiin ever,' thing ih:i e:mn excite the bra in ori dist urb uthe emo11ons, mayL% be ga :inled by conlit iuous .' .hrt even when Overfed Pigs. Wh6? young pigs are ick it may be pretty certainly iuderstood that they have been overfed. Tlhie general treat ment (If p)igs seemls to be b~asedl upon the idlea that they are natiurally~ greedy and gluttonous animlk, and that this habit should 1)e encouraged as much as 1)0s sile. Hlence all the diseaseM which so frequently affect pigs. When young a pig is a tender animal, with a stomach n~ot much lar'ger than that, of a human in fant aibiout as~ old, aind yet 1)0ople will eram the little creatuire with sour slop, gr'ease, milk, and corn meal until it can swallow no~ more. And when the pig is sic'k one wVonder~s wvhat is the matter. We (10 not feed lambs or calves, or colts, in that fashion, hence these are rarely dhiseaised. Cough and dlillcuilty of breathing is cauisedl by indigestion, and the common disease of which par tial paralysis of the hind parts is the chief sy mpton, and which is cerebre spinal meiiningit is, is caus('d by indiges tion and malnutrit ion, which cause dis turbance (If the circulation andI conges tion of the brain and spinal marrow, with loss of nervous power. The treat mlent is to give a (lose (If salts andl one scruphle of sa~lt peteor dlaily afterward, and feed very sparingly.-D~u/>/in It'armer's Mot hs. The word moth was derived from two Gothic words meaning to gnaw and to eat. It was formailly applihed to) moth wormls only, bult is now also applied to millers or ''night but tortlies."' When we say moths we genei'ally mean the little woirmlike eateri'lhlars that eat woolen goods. In May or .June the cloths moth mililler (TI'neaflavif'rontella) is (of a light buff, br'own-color', with a ailky ltuster amt a long narrow body. It dlies arounid at night,and every one seen should be killed if possible. When it rests it (doe0 not foldl its wings out straightt, but rather r'olls them around the body. TIhe miller searches for a good pilace where plenty of wool is fountd andt after dlepositin g the eggs It (dies. Tlhe eggs hatch in about tf teen (lays. TIhe lar'vm begins to gnaw little holirrows througzh the substance in which Ihey are, covering themselves with its sma:11ll paricles. LIn the fall they cease eating, make a sort oIf little ocoon out oIf their food, rema'in dormant all win ter, andl in the following spr'ing change into( puipm before emerging. The good old plani (of house-cleaning in early .June, suinng and beating all wool at ticles, and the use of tobacco, camplhor and carbolie acid, are well-known to all ood housekeepers. Furs may he kept from (destruction by placing camphor mn the box and sealing them up by pasting pap~er over the crack between the *cover' and the box. D~ealers pack fura - tlo commnon tar rooting paper. One mian re'commirenlds petroleum paper foi - thle same yur pose.-Ai~ce B. Walton, ft Iowa Utatea Renieter. * 1ECROU' --A young lady say that mals - of no account from thze th lad4W stop kissing them as infatfts 'til thy commenoe kissing them as lovers. -A facetious boy asked one of his Lymates how a hardware dealer d4 fered from a boot-maker. The latter, somewhat puzzled, gave It up. "Why." said the other, "because the one sold the nais, and the other naildthe soles." -"Does your sister Annie ever say anything about me, sLsy?" asked ak anxious lover of a little irL. "Yes," was the reply. "She said if you had rockers on your shoes they'd make such a nice cradle for my doll"-. Y. Ledger. -An intelligent youth, recently en gaged in a commercial office, made out a shipping bill for "fourt " barrels of flour. His employer call his attention, to an error in the spelling of forty. "Sure euough," replied the promising clerk, "I left out the gh." --Nearly $9,500,000 Is invested In the printing and publishing trade In Boston. and the yeasly product is valued at $5. 467.000. This does not include the amount paid to writers who furnish the matter for printing and publishing, and which, if all added together, aggregates several hundred dollars more. -Phila dclphia News. -A iromising youth of five summers, being about to retire for the evening, was asked by his mother to kneel by her side and repeat the Lord's prayer. The little chap, whose m nd was 'evi dently intent on the beauties of the na tiond game, having reached the middle of the prayer, paused, looked into his mother's face and exclaimed: "Billy Brown Is a boss short-stop." and pro-. ceeded with his devotions as if nothin unusual had transpired.-Boston PSt. -A little five-year-old friend who was alwaN s allowed to choose the prettiest kitten for his pet and playmate before the other nurslings were drowned was taken to his mother's room the other morning to see the two, tiny twin new babes. He looked rellectively from one to the other for a minute or two, then poking his chubby tinger into the eheek of the plum pest baby he said, decided ly: "Save this one."-Chicago Tribune. -11. M., Selma, Ala.: "How can I permanently remove an indelible grease spot from a broadcloth coat?" The only way to permanently remove an in delible greaso spot from a coat is to saw It out of the coat, but that would possi bly injure the coat. On the other hand, if you would saw the coat from the grease spot-but -really we feel inade quate to the task of furnishing the right - brand of advice in this case.-Texas ,230Jings. ______ _____ West India Superstitions. It is very unlucky to tell the name of a boat before it is launched. I recol lect once when a worthy old creole, a connection of the French savant Geof froi St. Hilaire, and who, as I hope, still owns a small island in the Grenadines, was about to launch a sloop, I asked what name he proposed to give it. He led me to where I could see a strip of canvass covering the stern, and told me it was not good to tell the name before the vessel was atloat. A calabash turned upside down in a boat is a sure forerunner of ill-luck, either in weather or fishing. The oil obtained from a shark's liver rubbed over the ..kin is a protec'tion against the atta -k of a shark. Fi-hb brou ght into a place where arrow root or other starch is being prepared prevents a proper separation of the starch sediment from the Impurities suspended in the water used. To turn your boots upside (down brings loss of money, and to open an umbrella in the house prevents your ever marrying. Never wash your hands in water which another person has u ed unless you first make the sign of the cross over it. When a glass cracks suddenly In a house It foretells a death and a horse stopping before a house and neighing is also a sign of death. If a cock crows in a house a stranger may be expected. In the South American colonies no good Catholic cuts a banana a ross. The fruit when so cut shows a mark which is thought to resemble a crucitix. The number of years it will take before a pine plant bears fruit depends on the number of " chops" giv en with the hoe before plaemg the plant in the ground. Black p~eople, nn a rule, before d rinking pour a small qu antity of the liquid on the ground. " When hen drink she lift she ~nad to God andsav: 'Tank you:' when ?'tan dIrinik he drink and say nuffin." 2Votes and Queries. What is Cruelty to a Cat? TIhe trial of Ilugh D~evlin for cruelty to a (cat called forthL-interesting medical testimony at Provide nce recently. Dev lin had confessed that, havinig been an. noyedi by a huge tom-cat, he had chiucked it alive und~er the ground, not wantonly, but because he thiought it was the surest and most merciful? way to inke the animal's nine lives. The. agent of the Humane Society contended that~ I-vlin had done a cruel. wvanton dleed, but phiysicians testified for the de fense that death by suffocation under groundl~ was for any animal as easy and painless as dleath'by drowning. 'The poplari~ horror of being buried alive had its :rigin, not in experience, but in the iimagination, which pictured such a late as terrible. Whatever Devlin's intent, lie had caused the cat no more death agony than if lie had followed the orthodox method and drowned it. Pos sibly, sa id one physician, the cat lived longer by three respirations than it would have done under water. Devln was found not guilty of cruelty to a cat. - H primi /ield ( Mass. ) Re pulblican. Cinders In the Eye. Persons traveling by railway are sub ject to continued annoyance from il ng cindlers. On getting into the eyeses are not only painful for the mioment,but are often the cause of lorng suffaring that en~ds in a total loss of sight. A very simple and effective cure iswithin the reach of every one, and would prevent much Ruffering and expense were it gen erally known. It is simply one or twe grains of fiaxseed. These may be placed in the eye without injury or pain to that delicate organ, and shortly they begin to swell and dissolve a Iutinous sub stance that covers the ba of the eye, enveloping any foreign substance tat may be in It. The irritation of cutting the membrane is thus prevented and the annoyance may soon be washed out. A dozen of these stowed away in the vest pocket may prove In an emergency worth their number In gold.. ..a --There has been another silent