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D EY1 I hD TO YOLI 'It s, MORALl1 Y, EDUCATION AND TO THE GENER L INTEREST OF THE COU vTKY. By D. F. BRADLEY & (0. PICKENS, S. C.,THURSDAY JANUARY 4, 1883. Vnt, xrT Nn . ,Ruhterford oonty, at noes, 'aghed 860 pounds net. A firy for making illuminating ad lubricating oil out of cotton seed has been started at New Orleans. Of sixty one prisoners working out ones in the chain-gang on the streets of Atlanta, tw'enty seven are women. An unusual amount of cotto remains unpicked in Alabama, and that picked and packed is being held by planters for better prices. The South Carolina Legisla ture has passed a bill raising the limit of interest on money to ten per cent. The limit heretofore has been seven pot cent. The New- Orleans street railway comn * pany have begun using a patent car atarter, which takes away the strain on a car mule and necessarily lightens its Ia bore. Mississippi has 1,479 manufacturing establishments, with a capital of $4,727, 600. They employ 0,827 persons, and produces goods worth $7,495,882 per an num. Austin Statesman : Texas has $1,000, r0 lying idle in her treasury. She owes $5,000,000, but her credit is so good that creditors ask $1 40 for bonds, and she declines to pay a forty-cent premium on them. Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser: A bill has been introduced in the Senate ap propriating for the next two years the sum of $5,000 per annum for the comple tion of the geological and agricultural survey of the State. Atlanta Constitution : Yesterda' Mr W. D. Burke received an order from George Earl Church, of Providence, for 10,001) twenty dollar -Confederate bills, to be used for advertising purpose!. Mr. Burke filled the order, and has $8.000, 00 left. Richmond (Va.) Dispatch : The agita tion of the tobacco tax question in Con gress has had a fearful effect upon the factories here. In the uncertainty pro vailing manufacturers do not know what to do. Most of them have sus pended operati< us. The Supreme Court of Tennessee is .4 .over four years behind the 'ocket, and the lawyers of Nashville met and ap pointed a committee to devise some ways and means to obtain relief for the court and their clients, so that the docket may be cleared and the cases disposed of. A t Lile<ville, N. C., Alexander Dock ery and wife murdered Slawson Mapes and Richard Cribbs and then escaped. The murdered men were former losers of the woman, but dcserted her, and, becoming.incensed at them, she confess ed her former guilt to her husband, urg ing him to kill the men, which he did with an axe. The Rugby Colony, in Tennessee, has taken a new lease of life. A great deal of land has been sold recently for fruit raisiug purposes, a large canning factory is being built, new settlers are constant ly comig in, thme schools are flouri4h ing, new busines s houses are being erect-' ed and everything points toward the future succerss of the colony. Savannah, News: Uncle Sam's mail yesterday contained the longh1 ok-ed for recognitio4n of the late Confedercy in the shape of a ten-cent Confederate i-tamp, with ex-President Davis' face upon it, upon a registered letter. Tlhe !citer was sent by merchant in Wiregra4s, Ga., to another in this city, and had safely run the gauntlet of two UJnitedl States Post masters. Wolfe Trap ligh t-house, on C.iesapeamke Bay, Mathews county, Va., is inmfested by a ghost, which drives k.eepers of the light house out as quicfly as they are engaged. One night recently a daughter of the then keeper was slapped in the face while asleep, and for hours after bore the prints of the ghostly fingers on her cheek. The haunted house has rais ed quite a sensation in the county. Athens, Ga., is a city of modern Sam sons. One man named Jacks carries six full bags of shot in each hand with ease, and can hold out three bags at arm's length ; Wmn. Beuse lifts a k-og of heer over his head with one hand wit hout the same tor.ching his head in being raised I Jud':e Nicholson has taken a large anvi - i. each hand and carried them across a r'oom; Wyatt Uphaw, colored, has been seen to carry a bale of cotton on his shoulder", and a man nameod Harrison carried three sacks of salt, weighing 200 pounds each, on his shoulders at one 4 time. Savannah News: The results of crime in Georgia, as gleaned from the statis tics contained in the report of the keep er of the Georgia Penitentiary, show the following fbets: One hund red con victs are there for murder, fifty for shooting at another not in defense, 120 for burglary in the daytim.,, sevenity-. five for burglary in the night, fifty-five for bigamy, forty-three for simple lar ceny, ten for horse-stealing, fifteen for cattle-stealing, six teen for hmog-steal Ing, fifty for larceny from the house, twenty seven fo r larceny after trust, forty five for rape, twenty-five for attempt to rape and eight for eeduction. Of the total number of convicts in the peniten tiary only 110 are white. Montezutma (Ga-) Weekly : Probably one of the greatest dleformitieso in the world is that of a Mr. Gaultney, now living in Taylor county. There seems to be an accumulation of adipose matter about,every joint in his body, and the nearer the joints of course the greater amount of this fatty matter. Conise quently his feet and hands are enormous each of his hands weighing over sixteen pounda, and being several times larger than his~ head. He is twenty-three years old a,nd only thirty.-siz inches in height, he 10I#6 ueem to have taken away al flesh from the other 'parts of his body and the limbs look like threads support ing enormous weights, and so great Is the weight of his hands that they hang helpless at his sides, he being unable to lift them of his own accord. This fatty matter continues to increase, and his hands and feet get larger every year. Ton Atlantic cables in all have been successfully laid, and the first two are dlead or lost. A brief reference to these, snd to the conditions under which the thers came into existence, can scarcely ail to prove of interest at this time Dr. Franklin, toward the close of the ast century, directed attention to the ubject of deep sea soundiugp, and hinted hat science might be' a great gainer roni an examination of the Atlantic >i;tom, Up to thirty years ago, how- 1 ver, the ocean was regarded as being in nany parts too deep for soundings. In he year 1853 a seriet of careful exami tations revealed the fact that between ewfoundland and the Irish coast there tretches a vast plain, 1,600 miles long ud 400 miles wide. At either side of his plain, or roadway, the land rises rom 4,000 to 7,000 feet, forming a de livity steep as Mont Blanc. The Azores nd Bahamas were shown to be moun ains higher than the Himalayas, and vhich rise precipitiously from unknown lepths. The diecovery of the compara ively level ocean floor encouraged those who had been dreaming of connecting .he continents by the electric wires. A ompany was organized, called the Lon lon, Newfound!nd and New York Tel graph Company, with Messrs. C W. Field, Moses Taylor, Marshall 0. Rob !rts, Wilson G. Hunt and Peter Cooper is its promoters. They established a I ~able between Newfoundland and Nova scotia. and Mr. Field obtaind the exclu ,ive right to land cables in Newfound and. He then went to Eng!and, and mucceeded in convincing the capitalists here. The cable lines have an ageregate shore mapital of $64,' 00,000. How much of his has real value ba'k of it and how nuch is fictitious may be estimated up )n the basis ", the cost of the new and mproved cable about to be laid. This Is 3aid to be $2,20,,O( 0. Supposing the ictual cost of the old cabies to be $2, 1I,o00 on the average, they represent iome $20,0' 0,000 of property, and the emnaining $14,)000,000 of share capital is water. Dividonds cannot be earned by t twenty-five-cent tarifl. Of the eight !ables only three are in really good or ler, thu other five being old and having ittle chance of continued life. The verage life of a cable is only ten yearr. mne of the eight was laid in 1879, anoth r in 1873, a. third in 1874, a fourth is he old cable of 1866, repaired in 188u, while a fifth was laid in 1875. The more -ecent three are the French (Pouyer Quertier) cable of 1879, and the two new Jouln cables. The oldest company, the Anglo-American, is the owner of the rour oldest cables, including the patched me of 1880. Three of these it laid, while the cable of 1809 was laid by the ld French Company, and canme to the Anglo American when it absorbed that :-ompany. These four old cables are represented by a capital of $12,582,550, preferred six per cent. shares, a like amount o,f deferred shares, and $9,884, Dot) of ordinary shares--in all $85,000, Li00, Their total length is 12,819 miles and( the capital i s therefore $2,765, per A Distnguished Dwarf. A breakfast is to be given to Mr. Sauil Salomon, the member of the colonial legislature for Cape Town, in the South African Cape Colony, who is now on a vit to the metropolis. '[he testi monial Is in recognition of his services on behalf of the native races of South Africa, an honor to which he is justly entitled. But he doeserves even greater credit than this formal announcement conveys. Saul Salomon is one of the leading men of the colony; ho is the power behind the colonial throne; he mnakes anid unimakes ministries, and has .nore intluence than any other man In his country. Yet he is not more than three feet high. Born of very poor pa rents, on the island made famous by Napoleon's captivity-St. HeLena-this midget left hiu isolated ocean home and went to Cape Town, where, in spite of his extreme diminutiveness, he worked his way tIll he became the head of the le'mding paper of the colony, the em ployer of over two hundred muen, an(i amassod a large fortune. Hie isi not a dwarf of the Tom Thumb ordor, his head being almost of a normal size, but his body arnd legs are of miniature pro portions. When he speaks in the as semubly he has to be placed on a table, or climbs up on his seat and, leaninG against the back, dIctates the policy 0ri the country from the Cape of Storias almost to the Limpopo. It is not im probable that her majesty will mark her sense of the triumph of brains over the most potent of natural disadvantages, as well as of his large-hearted humani tarianismn, by creatIn him a Knight of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, the dignity reserved for colonists of ex eeptional fame.-Lonadon Times. -(hn the day thaet a divorce was granuted to Mrsu. Perkins, a fhansea womian, sheo waus lying dead1 in the house and the body of her husband was han.ging to the limb of a tree-one dy nof hartdsae ad the other cop *mda S61QIYe-Dfnyg ~f~t4fn, TOPICS OF THE DAY. LorHsu MONTAGUE, the professional beauty of Foropaugh's Circus, is now tending bar in a saloon of her own in Philadelphia. A nsoENT trial has elicited the fact that many German girls cultivate thei hair for sale. Really fine hair brings some $5 an ounce. IT Is estimated the newer counties of Michigan have, during the past year, aulded seventy-five thousand to their population by immigration. JuDoE FisHEI, of Baltimore, has de. cided that the city is not liable for in jiles to persons who fall on slippery sidewalks, there being no law which im poses the duty of removing ice and snow froA the public streets upon the aity. THE heirs of Blademore, a colonial set tler, are about to prosecute a claim of great magnitude, involving 480 acres in the District of Columbia, on which are lie Government buildings; also property in Washington County, Pa., and a big lonanza in the Bank of England. IT is believed that the verdict of one rear in the penitentiary of Theresa Sturla, f Chicago, for the murder of her lover, Jharles Stiles, will be acquiesced in. It vould take six months to get a motion or- a new trial, prepared and argued. Perhaps it would take a year. It would :ost a good deal of money besides. A WIsaoNsIN millionaire divided his 'state among his three children, with he provision that half of each portion : to be kept by trustees until the child ,c whom it is left is thirty years old, and Ghen is not to be delivered until proof is <iven that at least one-half of the por Lion previously paid has not been squan icred. SoMR astonishmun t has been created in England by the discovery that a bov erage extensively sold as "Good Temp lar" champagne and consumed as a tem perance drink, contains alcohol equiva tent to 25 per cent of proof spirit, which is considerably in excess of the intoxi cating properties of real champagne. A chemical analysis revealed the secret. Miss SUMNER, of Waterford, Minn., being about to elope with Edward Lam phere was careful to instruct him which of the two honses to take from her father's stable, because one was slow and the other fast, and she knew that the remaining beast would be used for pur suit. But Lamphere made a mi-take, and the pair were overtaken before they reached a minister. Du. G oRoE W. WIENER, a Balti more oculist, cured a rich man of blind ness, and the grateful patient be queathed him a large property. When the man died, years after, his daughter was left a pauper, and she wrote to the Doctor for aid. He at once sailed for Europe, and placed the entire fortune in her hands. Now that he is dead, this act is recalled to his credit, kEv. OnANDO WrrHERsPooN, form erly of Cincinnati, an Episcopal clergy man of Birmingham, Ct., recently enter tained the New Haven clergy with ani essay looking forward to the times when the prayer of faith should again save the sick, and when the Christian physiciani of the future should acknowledge that "there may be medical virtue in faith and prayer and oil, as well as in herbs and minerals." A MRs. PrGEON instituted, at Rich mond, Va., recently, divorce proc,ed ings against one Richard Pigeon, an.d the lady, who visited Richmond in comi pany with a New York attorney, to be gin the suit, is said to be Mrs. Labou chore, who was until lately Mrs. Lang. try's companion. In her petition she states that she was formerly a resident of Riichmond, and that about five years ego she was deserted by Pigeon. DURING the late war a large sum of money was raised by the United States oy direct taxes on the people of insur rectionary States. The Internal Rleve une Bureau is now preparing a state mont of the amount so raised to assist upon the question as to whether the act imposing the direct taxes did not provide for the return after the war of one-half of the tawes collected to the States wherever they mere collected. OFFICIAL records show that thte four States of Pennsylvania, Ohiio, Indiana, and Illinois mailed in 1880 over 260,0 00, 000 letters and the Western States ant Territories 218,000,000, while the aib Ne w England States only mailed 127,000. 000. Newv York came to the front witl 211,000,000, Pennsylvania has half thas number, while Illinois and Massachu setts, each with about 69,000,000, art contestanta for the third place. Tan Sultan of Turkey is ins constan fear of assassination. Whether in hii bomb. proof carriage or out of is, he ear rics two big revolvers, with which hi' friends are afraid he will shoot himsel or some innocent bystander. Recent, one of his trusted servant., unarmed came to him to ask a leave of absence and on putting his hand in his bosom t< draw out the petition, the Sultan in panio "pulled his aun" andsht the ma4a A soo'rox dootor who was sojourning at Monte Carlo, reoently, went frequent 'y to the gamin establishien there not to play, but to look on. rtotiomng, how over, that some numbers came up oftener than others at the roulet-tables, he came to the oonclusion that the cylinders must be faulty, and by careful observa tion he discovered the numbers that carne up most frequently during the space I a week or two at the tables. He then constantly backed these numbers and in three weeks won 8,000,000 franos. Tan Rev. J. Fletcher Wiloox became pastor of the Christian Church in Chicago, with the understanding that, in lieu of salary, he should be permitted to preach whatever doctrines he pleased. This arrangement proved a failure on the first trial. In his opening sermon he told the congregation that the right eous would literally inherit the earth for a thousand years, and that the wicked would be utterly destroyed at death. He was informed by a committee on the following day that the church could not listen to such a belief, and that his pas torate was ended. Wrmz driving recently from Godollo to a hunting meet. near the Hungarian village of Magoroyd, the Empress of Austria saw an old woman almost on the edge of a high bank overhanging a rapid stream. Without uttering a word to any one, her Majesty sprang out of the car riage and ran to the poor creature. whom she overtook just in time to save her from faiiing into the river. It turned out that the old woman was blind, and that the m're child- who acted as her guide lagged behind. When the little girl came up the Empress gave her a scolding and the old woman a handsome gratuity. Mus. LANOTaY still manages to keep herself prominently before the public in no very flattering light, by reason of her continued flirtation with Fred Gebhardt, of New York. Sie dined with the afore said y oung man just prior to her de parture from Boston for Philadelphia, and in consequence missed the train drawing the parlor car engaged for her. She took the next train, however, but only arrived in Philadelphia at 7:50 p. m., just ten m*nutes before the hour she was to appear upon the stage. Gebhardt followed her to Philadelphia, and is her constant escort. Latest intelligepce re vealed the fact that they were stopping at the same hotel. A MEMORABLE year 10 the history of trtillery science has ended with some ,onclusive experiments at Spezia. The sow steel and compound armor plates 4re shown to be able to withstand any mown projectile, even the two thousand pound Whitworth steel shot from the new one hundred ton gun. Artillerists abandon the idea of perforating the irmor of the future, and will now turn zheir attentions to the construction of larger guns and the use of enormous projectiles, so as to gain the greatest possible total e"iergy of blow. Hereafter the effort will not be to perforate a ship's armor, but to crush in the whole side by the impact of a projectile weigh ing two or three tons, and having a striking velocity of 1,500 feet per second, and a total energy of about 100,000 foot tons. A nIECENT visitor to the Dismal Swamp in Virginia found it much reduced in extent compared to what it was twenty years ago. It now contains some of the best farming land in the State. A rail road runs across it. and it is on its way to final extinction. The drainage of Lake Drummond, a central body of water lying higher than the average level of the swamp would make the whole area fertile. This a p)roject of Governor Benjamin F. Butler, who once had surveys made, but at length abandoned it. The great industry of the swamp is lumbering. It in pene. trated by small ditches in connection with larger eanals, and by rnde tramn roads, over which the logs are hauled to be sawed up into shingles, railroad ties, and fencing. The lake, Itself, how ever, with it. almost impenetrable fringe of cypress, and its projecting roc.ts and broken stumps, is quito as dismal as ever. _________ Mrs. Partington aind Ike. "Don't carry on so," said Mrs. Pa~rt ingtoni to Ike, as sho saw him rest n is head on the ground in a vain at tempt to throw his heels into the air. There wvas solicitude in her tone, and corn-bruoom in her hand, as she looked at him. "You miust not not so gvw. nastically, my dear," continued she, "you will force all the brains v ou' v got into your hea-i If you do'~ Yor: can t do like the circus-riders, beaust P'rovidence h,as imade thiemi 0' purpost( for what they do, out of lngee-rubber: an' It dona't hurt 'ern at all. 'They ain'l got bones like other pe'ople, nnd car turn heels over head with per~ e<-t imii puriti. D)on't do it.'' scre'amed shi e, at the boy stood on one leg on the wood, horse and made a feint as if to t h row surmmerset. "you'll desecrate youm neck by aind by, with your nons9ense and you'll regret it as long ats you live. Ike desisted as the dlame rsmiled ani held a creahu pieae of coppenr be'for his gaze; such potency had that smmil< o ier hIm, backed by thu o pper. - -/os ton Post.____ Tracnan-" Feminine of friar?" Firs brgtby---"Ilasn't any." Teacher. "et"Second bright boyr -"Nun.' Teacher-"Thiat's right." First brighi boy indinatly ejaQtulae-"TIhat's juw The Return of the Mule. You could see that sho was Innocent an i confiding by the way she hold that y big brown toy. mInule undor her arm as t she jogged along Woodward avenue, y and no old woman's face over wore a more satistied look than her's did when c she finally entered a store and placod r that mule on the counter, and said: 1 "I a! sakes, but. I'tm nearly tuckered r out! This is the place where 1 bought c this ,mulo three days befor Christ 1 was." "Yes, that top came from our store," replied the clerk. "I gin a dollar for it: bought it for my grandson. lets such a boy for f horses and mules and wagons and t whips. and so on, that I thought it 1 would tickle him 'most to death." "Yes." "But it didn't. Ho's the disappoint. edest child you over saw. Like to cry himself to death Sunday." "'What is wrong with the muleP'' "Everything. In the first place my t grondson wants a mule Which opens his mouth and can be stuft'od full of hay. 1 This mnle's jaws are sot. " "Yes, but-" "And he wants a mule which will t roll his eyes and drop his ears." "'lIut we haven't any such mules.'' t "No. I supposo n>t; but the boy . wants one just the same. This mulo i don't even kick." t "Of course not." "And he hasn't. got any harness on." i "'No."'' 'C'hon what's the good of him? If c he won't eat, nor bite, nor kick, nor t roll his eyes, what's the boy going to t do? Haven't you got a toy horse I which runs away and smashes things?" "No." "Nor a lion which paws and roars!" "No, ma'an." Nor a cow which boilers when you f squeeze on her?" "Sorry to say we haven't." s 'Well, I've got to trade this mule for t sunthin' or other to nmuse that boy. I If you had a tiger which frothed at the t mouth I--" "tiut we haven't got.." "Iinve you a goose which flop ber 1 'Au. The only toy of any account 1 we have loft is a bin k boy who rolls i his eyes and utters a squeak when you hit him on the back." "'hiatd do-- that's jint the thing, and tvo'l trade even' ie'-11 put in to-day punching the black boy between the shoulders, use up to-morrer digging out his eyes, and next day he'll cut him up and str ng him over the back yard, and by that time his father will be home fron New York with a drum, four moutht-orgns and a hoy's chest of tools. liere's your mule-g mnio the blacka- . moor!" -Detrot f"rec Press. A Festive Goat. A goat while browsing among the fragrant garbage-boxes in (iansevoort street recently came upon a pail of beer, where it had been placed by some work men until they should be ready for din ner. Before they had been aware of the goat's prence he had treated himself to the beverage, taking it all at a draught. Its effects were not isntmediately appa rent, but very soon the remarkable an ties of the animal began to attract at tention. lie bounded into the air as if to find out how many times he could crack his toes togethor before touching the pavement, and thon lie went through aseries of extraordinary girations that would have been worth a fortune for any show. -The sidewalk became too narw nd ho butted indi.-criminately at he sh-arrlsand at the legi of passing pedesOtrianms, wilo hastenett to got, out of his reach. The crowd that soon calecd was und(er the Impression that the goat hasd escaped from some Masonic lodlge-roomn. After numuerours abortive attempults to stand on his head, the goat stre ihed himsuelf at, full longth on the pavement, limitn his perfoirm Ianees to an occasionial roll and kicking~ his feet sp)asmodiically in the air. B3y this time a policeman had arrived, andl whiile ho was considering in a p erlex ed way how to dispose of au subject t.hat showved no reverence for his club a little old Irish woman, ev'idonth\ the owner of the goat, came rushing' up in groat anxiety. She belab->red the animal withs a stick and upbrnided it in the severest terms on seeingr its condition, to wvhich the goat's only response was an effort, to rise and butt his~ mistres lnt) the gutter. At last., with much illicult y and by the per-us.vor use o,f time cudgel and the aid of thle police ofiler, the goat was safely housed. --. Consmrption of W1atch (Basses. According to the Revue C)hronomne triq,ue, there are annually manufactured 2,500,000 watches, and during the last fifty years mnore than 70,000,00u have been p)ut on the market; there remains y et for us to add a stock of not less than 50,000,000 of old watches, which makes a total of 8G,0LO,000 to 87,000,000 wat, hes requiring glasses. TIhe new watches conisume neanrly 4,I500,t)0), which maokes an annual consumption of not less than 4I7,000,000 o: glasses. lBut we must adld that every watch-nmaker away tromi a town sees the lie ossity of always has >mg on huand an assortmment corres ponding to theowants of his cuIstom-l o.rs. ''he if we take into account clil-. direnr's waftches, lockets, compasses, etc., one finds one's self with astonish ment in the face of an annual conusump tion whic~h cannot he less than 100, 000.000 of glasses. --Setntiflo Amer-i can. --The Irish Lambs, a Montreal smiol. ty, took offence at the manner In which the Irishmen of the New York shanties were put on the stage, in the play of "Squatter Sovereignty," and sent word to the theater that they would whip the entire company it a reformation was not made. On the following ntgnt the actors appeared in eveningd dress, with faces cleani and halr neatly brushed.--.. N. Y'. ,&n. -One of the wealthiest men in Dan-. ville, Pa., has all his notes and choks made payable to bearer, and has never lo0topORO Ofthm Wei naa Ba Ras, Live Stock In Winter. All life upon the farn requires ,reater degree of watchfulness In wiu er tlitn it does at other seasons of th, ear. In summer, for instance, there i reo range in the open air with plent; f exercise, and all that the anima eeds in the way of food or drink, or a east that shoult bo the case. The ant ual is comp erat:vely free to make it, wn selection, and utualy does so rl h sutlielcet wisdom to Insure it. tealth. But with tho winter comes lnt >risonmuent and a greater degroe of do endenco for necessaries and comforts u the summer it ca" sleep In the opor tir, with the green grass for a bed. II he wiuter It must, or should have, pro ection frout the cold, stormy weather mud a bed furnshed It. Its comfort, thould be studied. for discomn'orts ae >lther a fulling oi' in condition. or th+ ,onsump tion of food without improve nent. Having Huplllid it with adelquate ihelter, its bedding should be comfort tble and es pocialty should it be dry All stables should be so elrstructed tha he beddings of anuimals should not ro nain wet, and that cau be prevented b, rranging to carry oil all water. Som 'econmend slat ttoors, through whiel he water can run and thus keep the lit or as dry as it practically can be kopt .t need not be stated that saturato odding must have a tendency to cii he animal, either when it lies (down ul a it, or rises from It. and the object t >o sought in the winter keep of stock I varmth. We ought to avoid the t essity- of feeding to keep up an un tecessary waste of i amal heat, and I hat wore not a consideration, th >reservation of health, which is alway ndangered by permitting an animal t lo or stand in that condition, shou d b tl'licient to prompt us to keep the aul nal well housed and otherwise con ortablo. We must not forget, either, that sun hino is a grand promoter of health, an< hat It Is just as necessary to our ani nals as it Is t' ourselves. Stables ough o be arranged so that the sunshine cat ret into them some portion of the day resh air and sunshine are the cheauos hinge that, we have, and we ought t itilize them. We hardly need say ,hrefore, that we are not partial t aasement stablOs. But if such are used wen though we may not be able to ge ho sunhin into them, by all mean et us have the best possib aventilatior When stab!os can he constructed sothn htev can have the benefit of the monrr n' suu, and are vell ent ilatJl, the onstituto the most perfect statbles. lI'e/ern Rural. A 3Tan to Tie To. He was pacsing the City Hall on tl Michigan avenue side at tw o o'lo yesterday afternoon when he stru t icy spot. Usual result. Tho ice slipped under him towari Woodward avenue, and he slippe ahead towards Grisu o'd street. It has been figured that only one mi In 3,251,807 can savo himself und such circumstanes. He claved--ho wobbled-ho wei down. Hat to the right-cane to the left. legs all over--pavement unhurt. Usual number of bov3 around-nsu yells of delight. together with at lea iifty sarcastic inquiries as to whether t intended to have his pholograph takt then or wait till some dark night. A few feet awa y a lone Itman stoc leaning agyainst a post:. His ears begs to work, hs face grow red, and it wi plain that he wanted to yell right ou ut sometething restra nod him. Tl viet im arose, picked up his hat and can and with a benign oxp)ressionf oni h face walked up to tho man at the po and said: "Mr. Btown, did you soe me tun "Yes, sir." "A nd you want to laugh?" "N-no, sir." "'Yes, you dho! D)on't lie about it, f< I've been right thiere myself! You wai to laugh, and yet you k-now that I ho] a mocrtgago on your house and lot an can foreeloso. Now, then, I'll extea the time a iull year, and you go ahem and laugh all you want to!' "'Shut up! Laugh, sir-laugh! Go< daho oltlzen walked away with a im gazing straIght before him, and the nu at the post let go and laughed until poh(eman, came. along and rubbed sna on the hack of htis neck. Tihat's the kindl of peop!e there mire Detroit. They don' t slip up amid olai aronad and tai e a drop without expet Ing to make the world brighter and be ter for some poor morta).-Ddrod Pr 1/re4s. ____ Business Maxinmis. A promiuent nuetebuant has comipil< the followinig max.imsw for his own mqjur and ex perience: 1. Choose the kind of busitess y< uniderstanjd. 2. Ca~pita&l is positively required bu.,eveni ii you hiavo real esta outside aind credit ever so good. 3J. One kind of business is as miuch Ia an cnnu manago successfulinly. Inve imnts on the outsido do unot general pay, especially if you require the mon Ut your business. 4. Butiy cautiously and just what y. want, and (10 not bei persuaded to pi ebaie what you do not nteed ; if1 you you will soon waunit what you can't be *. Inisuro your stock;- insure (2 store ; insure your dwollmng, if yon h one. If the rate in high it is onily I causo the risk is great, and of 'omI you should not take the risk yoursc A business that will not pay for insuri will nt iustify running, 6. Mell to good, retspnsible part ordy. Bell on a speicitio time, and wh your mioney is (du.e demand it ; do let the account stand without note or. terest for an indefinite period. '7. Sell at a reaisontable p)roflt and nei mnisrepresent to effect a sale. 8.iiLve within your intoome ; ke3 your b'use to yourself ; have ptatioJ and you will sueceAl. (. Cmpetition is the life of trade, b business be Carefl you do not run yoa self out. 10. Alvertise your business~ in yoy home paper. It vae to patronze t] othe In Vgt owuo~b ether line "quoted.".M7 AdvertOer. -Young ladles who Vt4* A*d lovers are after thm fot their can make an effective defense by - larly buckling down to the was.Jp and filling the back-yard with wh linen every Monday morning.-.--oa Inter Ocean. --Wo are sorely purzvl by an 0"o, elated press dispatch, which says the" country seat of an editor, near Long Branch, was robbed on Sunday night. There is something about this dispatch we cannot underaand. Transoript. -A 1New York man .y he kee chops and steaks for wrovral days La the hottest weather by burying them in meal. Meal is a d th g in any weather for stea and chop. We more particularly efer just now to the morning meal.- anbury News. -Oatmeal is really a very good thing to make t o skin fine and soft. if it is used in col water as a wash. We always had a p ion that oatmeal could ue put n some good us4. Heretofore it has been pr noipally used by cranks who keep boa diug houses as a mean of killing app _ Judge. -"So you've weaned the baby," said a lady to her next doorne gl.>ur. "Yes. I did that some time ago. Why?" The t querist stepped out on the front porch i as she replied: "Well, judging from the > clapping noise I heard last night. I knew you were bringing him up by hand!" The door closed with a bang that could have been hoard over in the next coun ty.-Norristown Hcrald. -Hundreds of thousanda of men .ae annually from strong drink.-Kansa Prohiitionist. We never undertake to criticise any other editor, but we do not believe that any man can die annually. Annually means everyyear, and no man can (lie every year, for any great length of time, rless he has a great deal of praotU :e aud experience at the businejs. -'I exas Siftings. -The seashort correspondents of some of our variously esteemed oontem porarios appear to find the ocean in a highly devotional and reverential mood this season. One of this ilk speaks of ."the loud hosannas of the waves," an other of "the solemn hymns of the surges." 4nd a third of "the deep Te Deum of the midnight tide." All of which is very beautiful and poetic. But, even when you come down to hard and prosaic fact., the idea seems to be car ried out and strengthened. One does not need to go very far from Boston any day to see Ocean Spray. A key to this joke will be furnished readers on application at this otloe.-Boston Joure . The Major's Artifieial Leg. Major Tod !, of Bangor, 1ie., lost his t right log at the battle of Fredoricksb rg. 8 and some time ago he purcha=ed an ar tilicial log from a man in Washin..ton. , 10,contained a system of springs whieh enab ed the Ma'or to use it in such a natural manner that When ho was walk ing a'ong the street nobody would for a moment suppose that he had not both of his own legs. One Sunday, while the Major was on his way to church, he slipped up on the ice and gCave the store leg a severe wrench. 'lie mus4t have dislocated sonme of the springs; for, after reaching the church and taking his seat, and while the clergyman was reading the Script-. ures. the leg suddenlv flew up and rest ed on the back of the seat in front of him. 'Ihe congregation looked at him Din amazemeLnt, anid hie grew very rod in r the face. As soon as he took It down tIt jumped up again and wiggled about ton the back of the pew, finally kicking Mrs. Thompson's bonnet to rags. Then - the Major suppressed it again, and held it down. but It astantly began a eon vulsive movement in his own pew, dun it Ing-wh oh It upset the stools, plunged e around nmong the hymn boo ks and n hats, and hammered the board beneath tbhe seat until the minister had to stop. .1 he sexton came rushing in to find out a what was the matter, and the Major, 18 after explaining the ditheculty In a whis per. asked the sexk n to let him lean O on him while ho chargel on the front ~'door. As soon as the Major got into 5 the aisle tha~t dialoontedi leg kicked the 5t s,exton sixteen or seventoen times In a most insolent manner, varying the ox.. ~ eoses by making eccentric swoops of! to one side, during which It kicked eight of the high hats at the pew doors into black silk chaos. rl1v the t.ime the Major reached tihe tr vestibule the leg had becorne perfectly reckless. It t'ew up before and it toew d up i ehind. It butted against the good d :',. and darted out sidewise, and de seribed circles, and tried to Insert its toes in the Major's coat-tail pockets, and to whack him on the nose. When the sexton came with the hack andl put the Major in It the leg banged through the window-glass, and when the driver P' at down to see about it the leg brand ihed Itself in his face, and donoluided a the exorcise by planting a terrible blow rv in his stomaeb. TIhen the Major told the dIriver that lie would give him ten ndollars to take the leg off, and the W driver accepted the offer. For several p~ minutes it eluded all his etTorts to catch it as It danced about. but finally ho got ~C hold of It and hung on while the Major tried to unbuckle he straps. Then it came off and rolled the driver in the .4 mud. le -got up to watch it. It -y writhed and kicked and jumped and throbb,ed and hopped; and whenever it >u would make a dash to one sie or the other the crowd would scatter in order in to give it tull play. Finally lBen Wool ic ly set his dog on it, and a most excit ing Conwst ensued, the leg two or three as times rmnig o I with the dog; and it t- seemed like that the dog would got ly whipped. brr. Woollev got a crow-basr y ndl aimed a blow at the leg with the intent to snrash it. But he missed it and nearly k lied the doy~ As soon as r. the dog retired, str. Wdoliey whacked e it aga n and( burst :t .ito 1inders, sad y' then there was peace. T1 e Ma or ur drove home and got his crutches, and ye since then he has contIned him4elf to the use of a woodten leg without -a springs. - C'/icag. hicrald. if. 8A quack's Success. les A medical writer tells this story of a en celebrated English quack: He was once ot visited by an old acquaintance from the n- country, do aidressed him as "Zam." "Im glad to see thee'st got on so -er vin ly, Zamn," said the rus*ti, "but how is't, muan? Thee know'st thee never op) had no more brains nor a pumpkin." eeo Taking him to a window, the quack r>ade hiu. co.unt the pasra-by. "fHow uit many have paased?' asked the quaAk of after a few minutes, r- "Nointy, or mxayhap a hudred." "And how many 'wise men do you mup1 i.r pose were among this hundred' aghag one."