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By D. F. BRADLEY & Co, PICKENS, S. C THURSDAY, JANUARY 18,1883. VOL. XII. NO.
_ iNW8 GLEANIVGs..
The new directory of Savannah, Gq.,
gves that city a population of over 40,
000.
The Nashville Street Railway Com
. pany havo reduced fa1e to two and one
half cents per trip.
All deadly weapons found on prison
era in Memphis are thrown into the
river by the officers.
Savannah, Ga, has coritracted to have
the city lighted by electricity, at an
annual cost of $18,000.
There were 466 more liquor salons in
Georgia in 1881 than in 1882. 'There
are still 2,517 saloons in the State.
The census report shows that the mar
ufacture of clothing is the greatest of all
Industries-of course next to politics.
A farmer living near Maplesville, Ala.
has practically demonstrated the fact
that fine rice can be grown in Alabama.
The Hoosac tunnel has cost Massa
ohusetts some $21,000,000, and costs the
people of this commonwealth $2,000 for
interest every blessed day of their lives.
R. J. Redding, Assistant Commis
sioner of Agriculture of Georgia rays
the farmers of that State are in a better
condition than they have been for ten
years.
Nashville American : A fruit distiller
in Warren county has, lately, from 100
bushels of fruit made 112 gallons of
proof spirits. This is said to be some
thing unprecedented.
Montgomery Advertiser : The receipt)
o' cottoc at this >ifn.t are 25,662 bales
ahead of this date last year, ani they
are about 12,000 greater than our entire
receipts from September 1, 1881, up to
the first of September this year.
New Orleans Times-Democrat: One
million standarci dollars were Friday
transferred from the vaults of the Sub
Treasury, in the custom house, to the
United States Mint. One of the large
wagons of the Southern Express Com
pany was used, and, although large loads
were taken, it required something over
- half a dozen trips by the wagon to make
the transfer.
Wilmington (N. C) Star, 3 th : Yes.
terday there were forty-six large vesels
in port, of which seventeen Norwegian
barques, three British barques, six Ger
man barques, one Swedish barque, and
three Danish barques, one Italian and
one Danish brig ; one British and eleven
American schooners, and two steamships.
This does not include small coasting
schooners, river steanmers, tugs, lighters,
etc.
The total immigration to the United
States for 1882, at all ports, was about
785,00u. This estimate is based on cus.
tom house official returns for all months
excep)Lng December, and the arrivals in
. +at month are placed at 8),000. The
total immigration at all p)orts for 1881
was a little over 719,000, showing an in,
crease of abou t 16,000 in thec past year
The countries from which the immi
grants came, and the number contribut
ed by a.ach, were as fellows: Ger.nanv,
282,00; England and WVales, 81,000 ;
-Irelandl, 80,000( ; Scot land, 170,000O; Swe.
den, 95,000 ; Nor way, 27,000 ; Canad a.
89,000 ; all other countries, 1 60,000.
The New York Telegram, in an article
on crimes, crcdits Virginma with forty
three murders last year, TeXxas thirty
one, Arkansas twenty-four, Tennessee
twenty-e, North Carolina nineteen,
Georgia si,xteen, Mississippi fifteen, Ala
bama eight, Louisiana and South Caroli
na seven each and Florida three. 01
the legal executions Georgia had eleven,
South Carolina nine, Louisiana seven,
North Carolina six, Tennecssee andI Tex
as four each ; Arkansas, Virginia and
Mississippi three each and Alabamna and
Florida one each. Judge Lynch exe
cuted five persons in Alabam, four in
Louisiana, four in South Carolina, two
each in Florida, Texas and Mississij,pi
and one in Virginia. Suiides were re
ported as follows: Arkansas six, North
Carolina five, Alabama, Georgia aitd
Virginia four each and Louisiana and
Mississippi three each. These statistics
do not cover one fifth part of the crime,
but even at the greatest figure there was
no more in the South than was enacted
East and North.
The Moon and the Weather.
A great many people believe the moon
has more or less to do with the weather,
and, they watch the changes of that
luminary and from It judge of what the
weather is to bo.
Some persons believe if the moon
change: at certain times the weather for
the next seven days, or until the moon
changes again, will be so and so. For
instance, if the moon's change takes
place hetween the hours of twelve andl
two o'clock in the morning, then the
next seven days will be good~ weather
and so on throughout,pho various hours
of the day and night. I have for some
time been In the habit of keening a daily
reoard of the weather, and a's I had juist
heard it predicted that the seven clays,
beginning with the 12th of October and
ending with the 19th, would be mild
weather because the moon had changed
about o,ne o'clock In the morning, I took
our,,almanae and note-book and *am
pated results. Going back with its bo
ginning of the year up to this time, I
find the moon has changed thirty-eight
times. Out of these at the time of day
- of change the. weather changed seven
teen times, while the other twenty-one
timdes thei'e was flo change of weather
at all. "Now, these weather prophets or
moon believers, always antielp ate a
change of weather when the moon
changes. This rule does not hold good
as it has failed more than half the time.
I kept an account a year ago last
summer at each of the mnoon's chianges,
but as we had duch an unprecedented
long 4aught 1.hardly considered it a fair
test; but this year the weather has been
ye hangeablo and I think the test
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
IT IS estimated that 20,000 buildinf
in Philadelphia which ought to have fu
escapes have not.
NEARLY 2,000 deer have been shippe
this winter, from one point on the Wi
nonsin Central Railway.
FOURTEEN miles of now building
costing $20,000,000 is the constructih
record of Chicago for 1882. It is a ma
nificont showing.
Tan Queen of England bought sever
of the mules used in the Egyptian can
paign to carry deer and game on the
backs at Windsor and Balmoral.
TirE largest insurance upon the life
any one person in the United Sta tes
held by one G. K. Anderson, of ' Titu
Ville, Pa., and amounts to $315,000.
GEo. W. CHILDS, proprietor of th
Philadelphia Ledger, made his employ(
happy on Christmas day by distributir
$6,000 worth of presents among thea.
EFFORTs are being made to establish
wine cellar company in Warrenton, V,
eSveral varieties of wine-making grap<
grow to perfection in central Fauquie
Dunnco the last year 20t drownc
bodies have been found floating on th
waters that surround Manhattan Islan(
The ghastly aggregate for thirteen yea1
is 2,309.
SARGENT and Stewart, two America
artists in Paris, represent the Unite
States in the International Society c
Painters and Sculptors, founded by Br
tien Lepage.
THE Trustees of the old St. Patrick
Cathedral in New York have decided I
remove the bodies from its former gravc
yard. There were about 25,000 inte:
ients in it.
THE South Carolina Legislature :
credited with doing some excellent wor
during its late Eossion. It sat but twor
ty days, yet passed 181 important an
much-needed acts.
Tri n is a deficit in the city budg<
of Baltimore of about $200,000 for th
year. Either the rate of taxation, $1.3
per $100 must go up or the approprin
tions come down.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR'S Christmas tab
hore a huge platter of roast beef, th
choicest beef of Iowa's famous Crimsc
Hord, sent to him with the complimon
of the State by Senator Allison.
IT Is said that the life of the pO
Whittier is much disturbed by womei
One wealthy widow actually propost
td him, and other women have mad
violent love to him without avail.
OVER four hndred per cent. is t
increase of cotton future speculation i
New York since 1876. Then 8,000, 0G
bales, were sold. In the year endin
May, 1882, there wore 32,700,00 bah
sold.
THERE are 90,000,000 gallons
whisky in bond in this country which,
is calculated, will make 500,000,0(
drinks. T1his is ninety drinks to evei
man, woman and child in the Unit(
States.
CoNoRESS, it is thought, will make a
propriations to purchase the Washain
ton relies now in England and oflcr<
for sale by distant connections of tI
family who have lately becomeoemba
rassed.
Dn. CORvI8ANTr, who was a deyot,
friend of Napoleon, and physician to t1
young Prince Imperial, has just died
Paris. He never recoveredl, it is sai
from the shock caused by young Na1i
leon's death.
SINoE 1875 there has been a most r
markable decrease in crime in Now Yoa
city. In that year the total cases a
raignod was 84,399; convictions, 54,65
Last year the total cases was 69,135, ai
the convictions, 45,309.
)V. J. LASrrTON, the humorous jor
naalist, formerly of the Steuhenvillo (C
Iferald, but late of the Louisville Go
ricr-Journa/, has taken editorial char1
theO Drummner a well-known humnoro
paper of Cincinnati. Mr. Lampton ran
among the best American hiunorists.
A WAsurNoTON iirm ha& sued t1
A dams Express Company for $10,001
claiming that a diamond and emera
butterfly broch, head ornament al
ring setting, of this value, forwarded 1
them to a person in New York, on V
10th ult., never reached their destin
tion.
Tra Louisiana Lottery Company
occupying the attention of a good mai
people just now in Washington, both
and out of Congress. It seems to1
preotty certain that a movement of son
ind with regard to this company Is
foot, but just what it is nobody ory t1
outside appecars to know.
JUnos JAurSs OARLAND, of Lyne
burg, Virginia, has recently retired fro
the bench at the age of ninety-one. H:
tory records but one instance before tk
of a Judge reaching his ninetieth ye
while yet performing the duties of V
bench. That was Sir John Moore, a'
Judge Garland exeedrs even him.
- u . a. goen f h 'nIi
lum on Ward's Island is to be investi
zated. Of late a number of persons
re l ave been brought before the courts and
released as sane. Considering the
crowded state of these public asylums,
( it is very surprising that it is possible to
include in them any excepting those
who are very positively insane.
, AN Italian - vessel has just returned
n from a scientific expedition to the South
Pacific, and the voyagers havo settled
the question of the former existence of
a race of giants in Patagonia, reported
l by Magellan. In wandering over Terra
t del Fuego the travelers found human
r craniums and bones of such an enormous
size as to prove the existence of a raco
> which has now disappeared, and thus at
* test the veracity of Magellan.
IN 1780 Congross adopted a resolution
to erect at Annapolis, Md., a monument
e to the memory of De Ktlb, but no money
s was appropriated to carry out that reso
g lution. During the last session of Con
gress Senator Gorman introduced a res
olution appropriating $10,000 for that
purpose. It was called up last week,
and passed the Senate with but one dis
senting vote. Tius, 102 years after the
original action the work is fairly on the
way of speedy accomplishment.
e Trz proceeds of the recent sale of ar.
tieles accumulated in the dead-letter
s office in Washington, aftero deducting
expenses, amount to $4,407.67, which
sum has been deposited in the Treasury
n to the credit of the Postoflice Depart
d ment. The prices realized were some_
if what below the average value of the
i- articles sold. The amount realized from
the sale of any parcel can be recovered
by either the sender or person addressed
8 at any time within four years from the
date of its registry in the dead-letter
office.
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON, of Geor
gia, came home recently from Europe
k proud of his country. He said to a re
L. porter: "It is enough to make an
al American proud to ride through the
streets of London, with its civilization of
two thousand years, and see American
4 implements, American sewing-machines,
s American tools, and American goods
7 displayed on every hand, and know that
American watches are being sold in the
stores, and American fields are feeding
the English people, and American facto
ries beginning to clotho them."
a BoUQUET JoHNNY, a widely known
a Philadelphia flower peddler, wasa Lang
try victim. Whether his regard for the
t beauty was a matter of sentiment or bus
iness is conjectural ; but it is certain
a that he decided to give her an immense
e and costly bouquet in Philadelphia. le
went to her hotel, sent up his card, and
was met by a handsomo young woman,
e to whom he handed the flowers with a
neat speech. She accepted the gift very
graciously, and he retired in a state of
g wild delight, only to he plunged down to
despair by learning that he had only
seen Mrs. Langtry's maid.
>f
it STATISTICs compiled by the officials of
10 the United States Internal Revenue Do
'y partment show that in the year 1881 95,
d 000,000 gallons of beer were consumed in
the country, and 780,000,000 on the conti
nient of Europe and in Great Britain and
Ireland. The total value of this heer
1was $250,000,000. T.he United States
stands third on the list of beer-drinking
-countries, the average being about two
and a half gallons for each inhabitant.
Belgium stands fli'et on the list. Little
al beer is consumed in Scotland and Tre
ec land, whisky being the national beverage.
in The English average ton gallons of bcer
1, per head per annum.
A Thucal Schoohnaster.
A few months ago the report ran the
rounds of the press th.at the wealthy
kDutchess of G3allivra had bestowed twvo
r- splendid estates upon01 the Pope for use
during his lifetime. Tihe story of the
enorn ou inmereae of this old1 lady's
riches is not generally known, and it is
certainly a curious one. The late D)uko
possessed a fortune of 300,000,000 francs,
r- and an only son, During his father's
.lifetime the heir declared his intention
.- of renouneing the world. Inistead of
Sfollowing the examples of the Kings and
nobles of earlier ages when they were
aseized with this passion andl ret iiing into
is a cloister, the young iman, at the ago of
twenty, crossed into the territory of
IN ice, and applied for a situationi as a
10 village slchlnmastor. His father re
garded it as a mere freak, and sent his
'son every year a stun of 300,0)00 francs.
1(d The1 young man accep)ted it, but refused
1(i to spondl it uponl hiimself, sending tho
>ywholo to Paris, with a request that
it should bie ex penaded anonymously upon
tihe poor of tihe Frenh capital, while lhe
himsdf existed entirely upon theo income
which he earned as a schoohuaster. Th'le
is secret of tihe aristrocratic origin andl
brilliant p)rosp)ects of the village peda
7goguio couild noet he0 kept, aund after ho
mU had been at work for three years the
>o French Minister of Education sent him
oe a nomination as "'Of1icer (10 l'Academie."
Meanwhil' 'me father (lied, and the cc
10 (cntriec5 ,oolmna'ter hadl become the
IDuke of Gallivra, and the rightful pos.
sessor'of enormous riches. He do
a.. termfined, however, to adhlere to his vow
m of renunciation, lHe wrote a p)olite letter
to the F"rench minister, declining the
"' honor which had been offered him, saying
isthat his threeyears' service was too mean
rto be compensated withm such a dignity.
irIho~ young Duke is 6iiil contented teachl
id ing the ehildron of the peasants in his
Nice village, and never interferes withl
his mother, regarding himself dead to
world in whioh he OnenO lived-Imla4
Phosphorescent Beetles.
The beetles (elater) are the most re
splendent forms of the South. Over
seventy distinct species of them aro
known from Chili to the Southern States
of Nort America. They have two yol
low phosphorescent spots upon the back,
and two others hidden under the wing
cases, which are only visible when the
insect flies. We have frequontly read
by their light; allowing the insect to
cling t3 the finger, and passing it along
the page, aspot two incnes in diameter
would berendered luminous by the dor
sal lights. The sight produced by these
tropical fire-flies is often extremely
maonificent, and has been aptly do
scribed by Southey:
" Sorrowing we behold
rho night aomo on; but soon did night dils
More wonders than it veiled; innunerous
tribes
From the wood cover swarmed, and darkness
mado
Their ebeautles visible; one while they
stroamed
A bright blue radiance upon flowers which
closed
Their gorgous colors from the eye of (lay;
Now, motionloss and dark, oluded search,
Solt'-shrouded; and anon, starring the sky,
Roso like a shower of fire."
Now a red glare dashes by, followed by
an intermittent blaze of rich orange
yellow, while in the foliage all about
the brilliant green light of the photuris
appears, dying away a mimic revolving
light. At times these att~-et others of
golden hues, and a bevy of flashing in
candescent bodies circle about cach
other for a moment, and then dart
away like flaming meteors to illumine
the gloom beyond. One, the pyro
phorus, emits, when at liberty, a rich,
ruddy glow, and again a yellowish
orange, but in captivity it seems dif
fused with a pale, green glow. These
are the insects the early Spanish in
vaders took for the lights of an im
mense army as they advanced upon the
ancient capital of Mexico. At this
time they were used by the natives at
night. numbcrs of them being tied to
the feet. Soutthey refers to this in the
poem already quoted. When Coatel was
guiing Madoc through the cavern,
"he b ckt'ne,, and 'escendedi, antl trew out
Front tinelen'h her vest i eaice, or nit
it rAther inight e calleitl, so tine Ihe wigs
Which knit it, where, contilned, two fire-iiies
save
Their Inater."
In parts of the South to this (lay they
are in common use as a decoration b'y
the ladies; and among the peasantry of
Italy and Groece a gala toilet would not
seem complete without a diadem of
flashing fire-ilies that gleans and scin
tillates like a veritable halo about their
heads. As evening falls these maids of
the sun follow the gleaming insects,
and bedeck one another with living
gems that only Nature can produce.
Upon one occasion Don Domingo Conde,
of ('olombia, appeared upon the evening
promenade with an enormous live beetle
as a catch to his Panama hat, which in
turn was ornamented with a loop of
blazing fire-flies; and in his palace
cages of silver wire I "lfig, imprisoning
myriads of the glca.n.ug inscets.
Charles F. IJoldcr, in Iarv r's IMau(azine.
Hosiery.
Black stockings are most in favor at
present, in wool, cotton and silk alike;
they are worn both for the street and
for full evening dress, with either slip
pers or high shoes, and are liked as well
for children as for ladies; terra-cotta
shades are next in favor, but theo
colors are not so well brought out in
w: 01 stockings as in those of silk or
thread. La lies who re-luire great
warmth, and those whose feet are never
moistened by perspiration, like the line,
soft, French cash.mcre stockings. Those
of solid color. with very narrow clocks
at the sides, are most used. and are
chosen in black, cardinal, wine, blue,
clive anl plum colors, with reference to
the dress wvith which they arc worn. It
is poor economy to buy the lowv-price-l
roughly woven wool htosiery that falls
into a great hole as sooni as a thread
breaks. lleavy black Ifalb)riggan hose
with wvhite soles are usedl by those to
whose flesh wool is irritating, anti the
similar white half-footed stocking is
shown in dark cardinal, b)ronlze and
cadlet blue shades. L,adies whlo wear
silk stockings all the year choose those
of raw silk woven in ribs for street, wear
in the winter; black anti re(d are lire
fer'red, butt eve-y shade is shown to
match suits. Lightecr qualitie.s of
ribbed silk hose in black an' I in
colors are prieferred to wear in
the house with slippers. Some of
thie handsomest silk st ockings have
op)en-wvorkedl clocks twvo inches wide up
each side; ethers, of the lightest bloc
or pink or black plain silk, have rose
buds or stars embroideredi all ovey' the
instep andl an kles; still mioreC costlyV
than these are thte French lace sto:k ingt%
with open silk-work like latee forming
the entire stocking, and embrtoidory on
tihe sidles or instep; most costly of all
are ihose with Chtant illy laco set in ott
the instepl of pink, blute, or (artdinal
silk. The only stripeid stocking~s are
those that have thle ribbed strtipe lengtht
wise, with a plain contrastint,tip
b)etween. W\heni black stockmntr are
niot uisedl with even.ing tress the stock
ing mnatches the' (01 >rof the dIress, or of
somtethting promlbaictt in its triiiinuitgt.
lHibbed stockings wear be~st for' chiil:
dlren, and shape t hemnsolves properly to
the chil's growing feet anti legrs.
Black ribbed cotton, or rib)bedl wool,"or
raw silk stockings ate the fashion of the
moment for children to wvear wvith dress
es of any color; those wvith white feet
that are not ribbed are liked by a >nme,
bitt the ribbed legs are preferre'd by al;
tihe wool stockinzs wvith cottoni feet, andt
the e wvith dlouIbled knees, heels and
toes, wear best, and need not be clumtisy
if the quality is good. Dark cardi,:dl,
terra cotta, bronze and the dleepest blue
are the col'ored hose wor'n to mat chi
children's dresses. White silk stock
ings in the long lace -like patternIs are
chosen for brides. -HIarpe's B azar'.
- -ho finny OCcupants of a large
aquaritmti at Llmira, N. Y., becamet itt
volved int a fight a few (lays ago, andt ini
splahin at:out upset a p)ile of rotcXs
th a t had sto di iln the water. tne rock
?ell against the glass side and br'oke it,
and( the three hutndred gallons of
wvater and alithe fishes were diischargedm
unon t he Iloor.
-Brass bedsteads that were entirely
unknown in Amerlea a few years ago
are ranidivy gainine infam
The Law of Mistakes.
The source of almost every law-suit is
to be found In mistakes. 'These are of
two kinds: mistakes of fact, and mis
takes of law. Experience has provoeL
that the ablest men sometimes make
blunders, and the law has decided that
a real mistake of fact in an important
part of a contract will excuse the party
mistaken from performing his part of
the agreement.
For instance: a man made a contract
with one ice company and refused to
deal with another. When the hilt was
presented ho found that the latter com
pany had supplied his ico. He refused
to pay the bill, and it was decided that
the mistake freed him from liability.
A horse was sold by a trader ant, paid
for on the spot. While the trade was
going on the horse died. The buor
brought suit for the money paid, and it
was decided it should be paid back,
since both parties had made a mistake
of fact, in supposing the horse to be
alive when the trade was onded.
If a farmor intending to sell hay sells
oats by mistake instead, he may refuse
to deliver the oats on that ground. It
sometimes happens that a bill is paid by
mistake with counterfoit bank notes.
In such a case the payment is void and
the recoipt taken is worthiess.
A mistake in the quality of the thing
bargained for is no ground for break
ing an agreement. i a man buys a
cheap thing, with the idea that it'will
serve his purpose as well as a more ee
pensive article, he can not, because he
was mistaken, send it back and recover
the money paid.
A mistake of law is no ground for re
fusing to carry out a contract. This
rule is founded on the old maxi in, I Ig
norance of the law doth lot excn'e.'
And every man is supposed to know the
law of the land ho lives in.
Suppose a debtor gives his note,
p romisig to pay a sum:i of nmoney with
lawful interest, thinking that the legal
rate is six per cent. If ten por cent. is
the legal rate, his ignorance of the fact
will not excuse him from paying the
ten per cent.
n ahenl well-known legal words are used
in a contract, with a mlistak,en idea of
their meaning, they are binding, in their
legal sense, upon the person u:simltr t helm.
' If land is deeded to a man and to his
heirs, he receives the estate abeolutely,
although both parties intended that he
should only have the estate during his
own life.
Some mistakes of law put an end to
agreements on the ground that they are
rather mistakes of fact than of law. An
executor of a will pays money to a per
son whom he thinks is an heir. If the
supposed heir he an impostor, the mone,
can be recovered. If, under a compli
cated will, a person buys rights which
are his already, he may get back what
he paid for them.
Mistakes of law in civil cases only
cost money; but mistakes of the crimi
nal law havo more serious effects, in
the loss of respectability and reputat ion.
Here the plea of ignorance of the law
will not be accepted. A criminal nmust.
sttfTr the penalty of his deed, though
he thought it lawful when he commit
ted it.
Formerly an outlaw might be slain by
anybody; luit If a private perion shoulI
now kill an outlaw, with the idea that
he had a right to do so, it would be pun
ishable as murder.
An old law book gives a curiotui in
stance of the plea of ignorance. Sir
John Johnstone, a Scotchman, was
tried for stealing and marrying one(
Mary Wharton, an heiress, 'to tho
great displeasure of Almighty God, to
the great displaragement, of the said
Mary, and to the utter sorrow and af
1lietion of her friends." When he was
found guilty and sentenced, he ask ed,
with surp)rise, if it was a hanging mat
ter'. lHe was told that it was, and he
wans sentenced and "executedl on a gib
bet, he fore his ladyv's door in (reat Q ueenl
St r'eet."'
Happily the days of harsh andI cruel
lawvs are pJast, anid penalties are now
impjosedl to reform the olenders rathier
than to avenge the oihenso. --yotg
Compan ion.
Ntilsance of Titles.
I road with interest the other day, in
a leading provincial paper, that ''His
Excellency, the Right Hon. J. R. Low
ell, the American Minister, is staying at
the Royal Hotel, in Whitby." It is true
that Mr. Lowell was in: Whitby, but
why call hinm ''Right Honorable?" The
mistake is analogous to that which the
American is wont to make in dealing
with Fughish titles ; prefixing, for ex
ample, "'Hon." to the name of a political
no*ab)iIity. An 'English writer seldom
speaks of an Arkansas Senator as the
'lHon." John Smith, because "HIoniora
ble" in England is never a political title.
It is applied b)y courtesy to the soni or
daughter of a Peer supl)posinig the son or
daughter has no higher courtcsy title.
'"Right IJonorable,"' whlich I su pposo
does not exist in America, is, in a sense,
a political designation. Membershuip of
t3 e Privy Council confers it. Member
ship of P arliament does not. Mr. Biright
is the Right Hion. Jolhn1Brigh t heeau ::
lie is a Privy Coutncilor, not at all lbe
cause he sits for Birminghaem itt the
House of Commons. 'lTho onmly distinec
tion appertainiing to him in tlie latter
capacity is the right to eflix the magic
letters '1. P. to his namte. His proper
address is ''The Right Honi. John Iright,
M. Pi." If heo woro ntot in the 1Privy
Council it would he, "'John Bi right, Esq.,
M.P." "RJight Hbonoralo," moreover, is
an ppelaionto hih Persassuch
havo a claim, but it is going out of
u150, andl needl not he' takeni ito accont m
for piractical lpurposes.- -Lowlon Cor.
New York Tr',ibn'.
-The Pope has ordered a collection
to be made from the publdic and the so
et archives of the Vatican of all the
dliplomatie relations and ether doon..
ments concerning theo first 14ep arat.ion of
England from the Church of lRome, antd
everything relating to that "'schism"
from that time to thme p)resent. It is ho-.
lieved that certain impt ortant documents
may be found, calcnlated to facilitate
those negotiations for the resumption oif
diplomatie initorcouirse which were ii
tiated two years ago, hut have hitherto
failed to overome tho djficulIes itt th
way.
--1as any onb found b
Waterways. -
--Question in Natural
toes a optamount to?
--Aminadab says the balance o
s generally some two ounces shor
-Said a loving wife to her - hug
"Do you know, my dear, that butter'
)rnaments are very fashioffabld i
Perhaps so," he gruffly replied, "b :a4
,rub Is the great desideratum." ..
-The verdict of the Coroner's jurysnt
['unbridge Wells on the death of a
hild was: "The child was suffocatgd,,
out there is no evidence to show that
he suffocation was before or after
oath."
-"Julia, my little cherub, when does
our sister Emma return?" Julia: "I
on't know." "Didn't she say any
lina before she went away?" Julia:
She sa:d, if ou came to see her, that
[ie'd be gon till doomsday."
-"What impudence!", exclaimed
Irs. Shoddy. "Here is a man applying
y letter for a situation as coaobman,
-h f!gna !"mAlf 'Your obedient ser
ant,' and I have not even t.hought of
iring him yet-'-Philadelphia ews.
-Where a chap gets ahead of old.
ather Time is when bo dreams. He
in dream of going to England ahd
)oling around for a year and returning
ome again in ten seconds. It also
Ives expenses.-Detroit Free Press.
-Mr. J. J. II. Gregory says that an
ere of land may contain six tons of
,orms. So it may; but, if Mr. Gregory
ver tried to dig a box of bait on ten
Iinutes' notice of an invitation to go
shing in a dry time he knows it don t.
-Lowell Courier.
-An old darky said to his wife at the
ircus: "Look ahere, Suse, yer jest got
make up yer mind; ef yor gwine to
ike do shoes yer can't go to de circus,
n' of yor is gwine to do circus yer can't
et de shoes." Just about this tim-s
he band struck up a lively air, and
use told the old man she would go
arefooted a while longer. - She was
ound to see do circus.
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.
-The new Governor of Colorado Is
)nly about thirty years old.
-Senator Bayard is ranked by George
1. Sala as the best story-teller in *-e
%ountry.
--Milton received $25 for his "Para
liso Lost," and Tennyson $5,000 for his
'Promise of May."
-Mr. Bill Nye, of the Laramie Boom.
rang, speaks of Elder Cannon as a four
ly l'ater-familins.
--Mie.' Nilsson, speaking of Oscar
Vilde to a Chicago reporter, s'id: "lie
ugrht to have been taken by the ear
mnd iaken to the boat and driven out of
his country."
-)avy Green. of Ballard County,
y., an eight-year old boy, without edu
at ion, er.n do pencil sketching worthy
)t an obl artist, and can copy, true to
iffe, anything he once sees.
-In the opinion of the Philadelphia
Press Mrs. Lan rtry could have "got
into" her critics in the most cruel way
[>y saying: "llow much money did you
fellows earn while I was making *62,
300.
-It is now said that Governor Cleve.
land is a direct lineal descendant of
.enry Sewell, q., wh , in the days of
Q.ueen Elizabeth, was several times
chosen mayor of Coventry.
--Mis. Charlotte Carpenter, who be
camoe the wvife of Walter Scott, wrote
before marriage that she did not ap
prove of reflecting, and bade adieu to
all thoughts, for she meant to have a
good time.
-A mong the honors to be conferred
umponi Sir Garnect Wolseloy will, it is an
nouincedl, be tho placing of his name on
ho list of olicers eligible for appoint..
ment as Colonel of one of the regiments
>ft Household Cavalry.
--The Len don correspondent of the
\1anclhester ("uardian says that Herbert
spencer looks well, but protests that his
>ronze.d look is only a temporary conse
iuence of tho sea voeyago, and that he
eels in reality the reverse of benefited
>y his trip.
-Thelm prospective Mrs. Cleveland,
vho is exp)ected to preside over the ox
3eutive mansion at Albany, is Miss May
Ihirlingamei, a lady residing near Utica.
yhe G overnor elect has been about six
year s making up his mind to it, but the
liusto is saidl to have been poppe)d at
-- Sergeant Ballantine, though a cele
>rated and elotquent sp:eakor,lis rather
w~kward in manner and has an odd
vav of atterinig his phrases like a law
er' dictating an implortant brief to an
umlli(nanuess. lie has spoken six houirs
day in court for three succeeding days
vithbout notes, but says that lie is afraid
:0 adldress an American audience.
-Dr):. D)avid P'arsons, the old-time
pastor of the church in Amherst, was
iotedt for his eccntrieities, and, among
)ther vanaries, used to have a p late set
it his ta>le for a favorite cat. One day,
vbile askinmg a blessing at the mornting
neal, lie was taken wvith a fit of cough
ng, and1 before the paroxysm was over
ho cat mewed. As soon as the par
on could speak he turned to the cat
md( 6xclaimTed: "Shut up! I can got
ilong wvithout your help." and then
truck in where he had left off and fin
shed the blessimr.
Heroism liot Obsolete.
Tales of heroism at sea never lose
their charm for landemen. The last one
la found in the 8t. Jamese Gazette. A pan
senger on board the Orient line steam
ship Liguria, on her voyage from Si
mon's B3ay to Melbourne, gives, in a pri
vato letter, the following account ofI an
act of bravery and devotion on the
part of one of the officers and several of
the crow of the ship : " While the sea
was tremendlously high a sailor fell
overboard. There was no chance of his
recovery. T1ho ship was stopped as soon
as possible, but after the iirst minute ho
was never seen again. Nevertheless in
five minutcs a boat was launched, with
out tho orders of the captain, who cried
when ho heard it. 'There go ten more
men.' It was an awful time while the
boat was out. The ofllcer in charge said
that twice he gave up all hope of ever
getting back a:gain. After about ,au
hour, dulrinig which we were turning,
h)acking, and sto)pping, rolling fearfuhy
all the timo, we anid the boat got near to)
each othier again. Ultimately, she
reached the side of the ship, and amid
the groatest excitement the men were
hauled up one after the other with ropes,
biut the captain said he would have no
lives lost in trying to save the boat,
which was immediately smashed by a
blow from the rudder."
-I. New Orlea man broke two legs
with one kiek. One belonged to a cbair,
and the other was part of hisa o' W
anatomy. During his convalesOOene
his amiable wife p laced the amaaIpt
chair where he could eaily seo It,
Th#J, (Ypmrqmm adur,r
FOREIGN GOSSIP.
t
-A church in Bavaria $ccommodat
n 1,000 people has been almost entire
yluilt of paper-mache, which can be 8
ipplied at a cost little above that of
plaster. It can be made to imitate the
finest marble, as it takes a polish supe
rior to slate.
-The earliest money struck In Ire
land was in the latter part of the tenth
:ontury, in the reign of the IIiberno
Danish Sihtric III., King of Dublin, a
contemporary of A.thelred I., sole c
monarch of Saxon England, whose coins f
were inited by the Dublin King.
-Tlhe Bermondsey Vcstry in England
has decided that a tradesman who had
sold a cat as a rabbit should be exon
crated from all blame, because the est,
one of a parcel of genuine rabbits im- e
ported from Ostend, was bought and in
sold in good faith as a specimen of the
latter aniial. The purchaser had taken -
a fancy to that particular rabbit, but
atterward took it back, whereupon the c
vender took it to )r. Dixon (the local t
medical oflicor) for examination. It was t
then found to be a cat.
-The Advanced Republicans of k
France, who already have civil marriages s
and civil funerals, are now teginning to t
practice civil baptisms. A fortnight I
ago, at a village in the Indre-et-Loire,
thu Mayor otliciated, and pouring some
white wine on the child's head, pro
nounced t ie words: "Pierre Victor, I
baptize thee in the name of liberty,
equality, fraternity. Vivo la Repub
liqluol
-In New Zealand they co-operate for
medica. attendance. A correspondent
of the Lancet says "A systemi exists of
getting up clubs which contain nine
tenths of the population, and are sub.
scribed to by men who would blush to
do so in England ; well-to-do people,
who would be shocked over here at the
thought of attending a dispensary. The
doctor's fee per annum for a member
varies from $4 to $5. This includes
medicines and attendance." lie earn
estly advises young doctors to stay at
home.
-In 1736 there died in the Fleet
Prison, London, a person-named Yard
ley, who had been contined for ten years
for a debt of $500, which, with the ob
stinacy of the defendant in itardell vs.
Pickwick, he refused to pay. In his
room were found securities worth $25,
000, and he had a real estate income of
$3,500 a year. Prisoners with means
could have every comfort, and it was
the place of all others for good stories
and good fellowship.
-In recognition of his distinguished
services in Egypt, the German Emperor
has sent to the I)uke of Connaught the
Order pour lc Mcrilc, founded by Fred
erick the Great, and the highest mili
tary decoration in the gift of the Prus
sian Crown. This is the same order as
the Emperor conferred upon his victo
rious son, the Crown Prince, on meet
ing him on the field of Koniggratz. The
l)uko of Connaught, by his marriage
with a lauighter of Prince Frederick
Charles, the stormer of )appel and the
capturer of Metz, may now be regarded
as a member of the royal family of
Prussia.
-The municipality of Paris have de
cided t' erect in prominent placos posts
for signaling to the police oflicers in
case of an afarm of fire or other mishap.
The system is the most complete of the
kir.d yet, devised. In a box at the to)
of the post eight buttons will be fixed,
and directions will be given as to their
use. Thus on pulling No. 1 a sinal
meatninlg "fire" will be transmitted aI'ong
a telegraphic wire. No. '2 will signify
a great fire ; No. 3, ani accident; No. 4,
a riot; No. 5, a robbery; No. 6, aecrinme
with violence; No. 7, a suicido, andl No.
8, a great catastrop)he. A policenian
will const antly lbe stationed near by to
give verbal instructionis to the put.blio in
ca,e of need.
A n Aritli metihcal 'uriosit y.
To fin th le day oif thet week for any
date wvit hin thle first thirt y ccitulriest of
the Christiani era:
F'roim the mnnhor i indicating the year
drop aill to thle left of tfhe ttons. To t his
result add ifs fourthI parit. (rerdless oif
aniy riinai nderi) , thle diay of thie mtonithI,
index of thle month I, ioni index o thIle
centuriv. D)ivido thme snm by 7, and tihe
reimaindler vill to lie dlay o~f t ho week,
counitinig Sundaliy I. Alonday 2, ITuesday
and Wddy -I, Thuriisd ay 5, Friday 6,
adSaturday 0.
...n..ary.......:i \n.. ...~.I ~iIIeptinbr ... .1
F... r.. ary..... .o . ........0<t tote ....
....r..h.... ........liv......2 Novr,icb'.
.Aprii.........: Augn .... leeinber. . . ..
Fotr l,enpyear Ihe indtlices for- dJaniary
and hc-brur noiubl111 eaclmhe b 011n less
t han in ithe abore t able:
-r.. ni. or I N Iitm t- n' CP.tNTmuF,8E .
j---- i ,x ton'1 , 1.
2. i J.- for 0, 12, 15, l';, 21, 25.
r t- l i l- or :C., .4
T) find th index of thie century for
any giveon ye ar, Iind ini thle t able thle
in 1nber o drtopped frotm thle year, and its
intdex w'ill be thme ilde x ret<iuired.
lueiried upon whad.t day of the w~cek
tteI lith:tion I (1 of Jludepenid:neo w~as
signied. Juily *i, 177th:
A dd it tourrih pat........................... 19
Ar.t (the day t'rtii mionth.................
da odox ofr th mem.t lb....................
da index of thes century...................
Bumn-:- '11(
14
and 5 remaining, or T1hmisday, answer.
-ThIle dresses of LolIIa Paulina, the
rival of Aggripina, wvere valued at.4:?,
764,480, nlot incluinig her j(twetl5,
which cost as much more. It has slipped
011r mlenmory whethe1r NIliss Pautzlina
was the daughter of a plumber or ani
editor, but 01ur imlpresioni is thait site
wvas.--Norristown IIerald.
- -TLhe pigeon that. i. Thurlow Weed
was so fond of, and constantly p)ottO(d
until lie became too ill to permlit its
presence in the sick chamber, grew
very disconsolato) after it's master's
death. Mr. Seward said1 the bird oould
hardly be gnieted. IL aeems to b
wareoQfits loss