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S lir I)EYOTED TO POLITIs, MOI;AITY EDUCATION ANI) TO!fE GENERAL INTEREN-9 OF? THE COUNT__ By D. . B-ADLEY & CO. IICKENS, S. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22 1883, VOL. XII. NO. 22. -- --- -_- --- .- F BRUA Y 2, lb 3,Vol X1 . . NEWS GLEANINGS. There are 60,000 colored Baptists in T neesee, with 150 churches. West Virginia contains 52,00 persons o er ten years of age who cannot read. .Acording to the official statistics there 9ere in Arkansae on June 80, 1882, 1,415 school-houses. The new city hall at Rome, Ga.; has just been completed at a cost of $16,000. The street car companies of New Or - . le.gns/altogether collect about 70,000 fares daily.. Ex-Gov. Warmoth, of Louisiana, has been in Maine buying machinery for a beet- root factory on his plantation. Two years ago Werson, Miss., was on 'ly a pine.forest. It has now a cotton mill empldying 1,000 hands, and nearly 8,00 inhabitants. The Texas cattle drive for the coining spring is estimated at 220,000 head. Of these not moie than 120,000 will reach the open market. The rest will be re servid for rebch purpoves. Convict labor is being utilized upon plAntations in Arkansas. One hundred are now employed upon the plantation of Mr. Neil, below Little Rock. They profess to like working there better than staying in prison. The question of .a canning factory is beginning to be agitated in Greenville, S.C. Practical men are figuring on the subject, and have demonstrated that such a factory will pay large profits on the small capital required. Northernnanufacturers are ex ploring the Virginia mineral lands. Recently a purchase of 13,000 acres was made by a Peinsylvania company. A superior quality of ore has been found, and it will be shipped to Pennsylvania fur naces. In the seven months of this fiscal year the public debt has been reduced a tri fle over ninety five millions. This gives promise of a total reduction in a yegr of fully 150 millions. We still owe nearly 1,600 millione, about one half of which arieunt is now redeemable, but one half of the redeemable debt does not bear h trest. Memphis Avalanche : The Atlanta Constitution states that the Marietta and North Georgia road is the great route for quail hunters. The other day there was $2,000 worth of dogs (cash valuation) in the baggage car on that road, attended by $6,000 worth of ie groes (old valuation.) On the return trip they had $5.80 worth of birds, which they counted while eating $20 worth of lunch. Jim Chang, a Chinese merchant who Burke county, Ga., was visitedl by a party of men who proceeded to break up his show e:ares and otherwise abuse hi property. They then ordered him to abut up his store and leave at once, which he did. The indignation seems due to the fact that a Burke county white girl had sometime before married a Chinaman, and indiscriminate ven gence was 'considered in order. There are 40,0(0 square mile3 of al most unbroken forests in North Caroli na, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma ple, beach and hickory timber in their finest growth. It is estimated that in ten years the timber:alone in North Car oli,na will exceed in value the present total valuation of'all the property in the State, including land. The State grows nineteen varieties of oak, and its pine Sforests are of the heaviest. T1ho build ing of new railroads will rapidly open1 this region to the Northern and Eastern lumber m'narkets. An inebriated citizen of Butts county, * Ga., got In. front of an approaching train on the new roadl not long since, andi by wildly waving the tatteredl remains of a sanguinary-looking kerchief suc ceeded in stopping it. The conductor alighted and inquired the object of the danger signal, when the inebriated citi zen solemnly drew a bottle from the depths of his inner pocket and remarked that he merely wanted to "set 'emf uip.'' It Is recorded of the ungrateful official that he acknowledged the kind invita tion by the vigorous application of a box-toed-number 10. There was a new dleparture a few nights since at McMinnville, Tlenn., to raise mohey to buy a church organ. The plan devised was a sale of the young la di'es to the highest bidder. The young men were out en masse, and one by one the fair ladies were knocked down by he auctioneer to the highest bidder. Mfany of the belles brought fabulous prices, one ecstatic bachelor bidding "heaven and earth" for the girl of his choice. As barter was not taken, he wsM required to make his bid in dotllars and cents, which he did in a handsome price and got his prize. The sale resulted in plenty of money and lots of fun. ,Or.~aguannd Is a word of recent origin, from the French oleine, Latin o(eum,-oil, the thin, oily par of fat, and from niar-gariM-, a pearly-like substlance, extredfrond vegetables, oils an animal fats. Te butter flavor comes from mix ing milk, eream and unsalable butter with colored tallow and other unctuous Ingredients. The lard may come from ear-loads of fead hop, or suet from cat tle that may hav ed in overcrowded cars, oranimala that dieti of disease or even 'pequestionable souroes, iike some ~6 'the : oil extracted from soap. ~ from the city, exported itheWest, whence comes the ladle, peeked butter._______ " a are ou doing out there, my duhe,tin e night dew?" said the kiil l ~teman on the piazza ae j~j~.gT4eing," was the awee reply~ she loued over the pickets til har fle was dread4fully close o Wil TUriU UF TH1E DAY. Tux French army is reported not to t like the expulsion bill adopted by the t cabinet, and an intimation to that effect c has been carried to President Grevy. e Tms United States Government pays foreign steamers an average of two cents R per letter for postage. During the past I forty years the mails have cost $30,204,. 467. GEN. CHARLES P. STONE, who has for years been an officer in high command in the Khedive's army, has left Egypt, and will return to live in the United States. C WALcorr, the thirty-day quail eater, r finished his task, said lie never felt bet ter in his life, and pocketed the $500, besides winning any number of bets from silly people. MONTGOMtERY BLAIR is reported to be seriously ill ut his country place, Silver Spring, a few miles from Washington. Mr. Herndon, the Alabama Congress man, is now on the road to full recovery. TIE scandal about the failure of Mr. Julian Hawthorne to finish "Foiune's Fool," is increased by the announce ment that he had received pay in full in advance. Mr. Hawthorne is thus far si lent on the subject. WILLAM GALLOWAY, the ~oldest loco- i motive engineer in this country, recent- r ly guided a train at the speed of a mile Y a minute ovei a portion of the Baltimore < and Ohio railroad. Mr. Galloway is z seventy-four years old. t Mu. W. C. CARRINGTON, a Richmond (Va.) attorney, has received from Lon don the certificate of marriage of Mr. and Mrs. Pigeon (Labourchere). It was I intended to be used in the divorce suit 1 of Mrs. Pigeon v.i. Mr. Pigeon. A NEW protes3ion, that of accompany. lag young girls to and from bells, is re ported to hero boon recently started. Hairdressers advertise that they will dress the hair of ladies and then escort them to their place of destination. Ix some parts of Germiany the police have lately had the new duty instructed to them of prohibiting boys under six teen from smoking in the streets or from entering alone establishments where intoxicating liquors are sold. Ma. HOLMAN HUNT spent five ye9rs in the Holy Land in painting "The Flight into Egypt," and, when he had finished it, found that the Syria!i canvas, which he had used, was too rotten to bear the i strain of travel. The picture fell to I pieces and was patched, but is now an irretrievable ruin. C.rT. R. B. Fonnxs, of Boston, makes the sensible suggestion that there is al together too much signaling in naviga tion rules, which leads to confusion. He says "on the ocean it is enough to indi cate northerly, southerly, easterly and l westerly. In narrow waters where many steamers are apt to congregate the less tooting the better." Tlcs Emperor of Austro-Hungary has decorated Hon. CharLi. Gibson, of St. Louis, his counsel in the. case against Baron Von Beehtolsheim, late Austro Hungary consul at St. Louis, who em bezzled funds of his office, as Knight Commander of the Order of Franz Joseph. The order itself is as high as any in the empire or in Europe. Tax practicability of photographing landscapes from the windows of trains running at a rate of forty miles an hour, has been recently proved by Dr. Can dize, who uses what he calls a gyrograph for the purpose. An exposure of only one one-hundredth of a second was needed, and after a little practice won derfully distinct views were obtained. Ross, the shotgun messenger of Wells, Farg & Co.'s Express, who saved the treasure when the recent effort was made to rob the east-bound express of the Central Pacific, in California, stands six feet four in his stockings, and began life as a gambler. This is the fourth time that ho has beaten off the road age4e~. EDWIN FORREKs;' costum'js ard~ silver ware, left by him to t>e Forest Home, Philadelphia, are soon to be sold at p)ub lio auction. Among the costumes are those worn by the characters of Coriola nus, Lear, Tell and Spartacusa, and the silverware includes fifteen pieces besides a dozen knives, four dozen forks, and four dozen spoons. .WHAT Is claimed to be the largest pen sion pai4 to one person in the Uniited States nias been acdtled in St. Louis. The pensioner was honorably discharged irom the army in 1864 on account of injuries, and in four days thereafter he became totally blind, and has so rma ed ever since. His ease has been perad lng for sixteen years. The aggregate sum accruing to date, and which he re ceived, was $9,063.A7. IHe will hereafter reoeive duming his life $72 per month. Tu Metropolitan Horse Car Comn pany, of Boston, has recently introduced the registering clock for recording fares. The other day an elderly lady desired to get off the eat. She rose energetically and pulled the strap which rang in the er desist she had not only been carried couple of blocks beyond her destina ion, but had registered not less than wenty fares, for which, according to the ompany's rules, the conductor was re ponsible. Tun robust health of the English in enoral is said to be due to their diet, hay are good and substantial eaters. 'hey like plain, solid food, well cooked, nd do not, as a rule, demand variety. feat, vegetables, and puddings are heir staple dishes, and thin soups and oreign kickshaws find no favor in their yes. They despise alike French dishes s rich and unwholesome, and German ookery as coarse and unpalatable. The oast beef of Old England is their staff >f life, and ham and eggs come next in heir good graces. Ice. water is a rarity mong the mass of the population, who ook on it almost as poison. EVIDENCE of the extent of the busi tess done by Fleming and Meriam and >ther professional grain brokers at Chi !ago, the delivery of money letters to vhom was stopped by the Postal De >artment a few days ago, accumulates rom day to day. It appears they not wly received money from farms, towns nd villages all over the country, but Jlso from Canada, and even from some >oints in England and Scotland. The ums transmitted to them, for invest sent in grain futures, are estimated to each into the millions, and it is inti nated that certain respected and highly onneoted persons joined hands with the ecognized gambling element in working he scheme. PrnTTAT)EmI nAlawyers have a question vhich stumps them at last. The Con rollership of that city became vacant >y resignation. The Common Council lected a now man. The person left in thargo by the resigning Controller ro uses to give up the oflice, and the Court mstains him. Lawyers are divided upon he point whether the otlico is a county >r a city one, to be filled by the State 3overnor or city goverment in case of vacancy. The most serious Teature of the whole trouble is that all the police non, school teachers, departmen+ clerks md laborers are kept out of their pay, because no bills can be cashed before they are approved by the Controller, md there is no recognized Controller to lo it. JOHN W. BARON, Treasurer of the Dexter (Me.) Savings Bank, was found n the vault of the bank on February 22, .878, dying from wounds whrich ho re teived during the night. Many will ecall the thrill of admiration that swept >ver the country when the news was mblished of Barron's heroic death in lefense of the treasure in his keeping, md the painful reaction when the tharge was made that the wounds were elf-inflicted to hido a defalcation. suit >rought by the bank against Barron's statc led to an examinl tion. For four rears the trial has been postponed, and a now about to ho resumed. New ovi ience is said to have been found to prove fhat Cashier Barron was really nurder-ed at his post of duty. It is wvorthi much to have this almost solitary instanco of fidelity in a wide waste of b)anking treachery and criminality. ~SEcRFTARY 1FOriol':R has sent alettcr to Zlongress recomnmending the con soh lation of customs districts in many in itances, in order to efi'et a saving in the malaries of oflicers at ports where the I>usiness is very small anid does not in 3rease from year to year. The Scre ar.y'a recommendations would in effect aot lessen the number of collection dis bricts, but in some cu.es reduce the unumber of officers at the port which, ifter thme reorgan i zation, would comp lrise all the consolidated p)orts, andl reduce the aggregate cost for salaries $491,295. The Western ports which would bo0 affected by the proposed consolidations are thme following: It is proposed to consolidate with the district of Chicago, the (districts of Galena, Omaha, D)ubuque, andl Bur lington; to increase the number of officers land emaployes from seventy-six t o ninety one, and the ecost for salaries from $94, 418 to $111,880. It is prop)osed to con solidate with the Minnesota District, at St. Paul, the districts of Duluth, Montana andl Idaho, to increase the number of officers and employes from twenty-five to thirty-two, and the cost for salaries from 132.302 to E38,800. The greatest reduction of officers and employes will take place at the chief eastern ports. NO'r a few of the thlrnkinf; farmers of IIlinois anid the States ad jo4in ng, express thme convict ion that lie whoS wold ( raiso cattlen in the futuroe withioit p;rsitive loss, imust raise those which will at anm ear-ly age dev'elopo inito ripe, hE av~y a'imals of good style and izi everv 'a v s'zite~d to the neceds of the best amini ost exacting markets, there anid abroad. Tnn following process is rcC'imo tmnde for cleaning white Shetland shawls. Puit the- soiled article inlto a lamrge bo'(wl; throw over it half a teacupful of flour, "dry," rub thoroughly, as if wvasing, then thoroughly shake out the flour. If the article ms not clean repeat time 1pro geain clears flour. Articles cle'aned by this p'rocess will retin a now lookc as long an there is a thread left Tn's mnn who ate his dinner with the fork of a river ha~s b,ecn trv'ing to aini a FAIR BU'1' co. Her cheek's a sentry in advance, A moon that makes the darknoes day; Her stature is like any lance And like a waving reed doth sway. Her eyes are ever wide awake Though dreamy as a fawnts to see. The moon is blurred for her sweet sake The branch Is drooping on the tree. The fawn before her flies for shame Toward the desert far and wide; No peer has she, and none can claini OiT, be regarded by her side. The fawn that in the glade doth stray The idol of the fano is she ! Thou who didst bid me hope. I pray That I may ne'er despair of thee I To me, thou art so coy and cold; To others, ever kind and near. Our quarrel tike the wars of old Doth linger on from year to year. Ai I that is why thy young cheek glows With yonler ruddy hue so fair, As though it were a distant roso Thou takost for a veil to wear. Zaandam Windmills. Zaandam Is rather anl important )laco. Many ships and boats are built here, many windmills thresh the air vith their white arms. And grind every ort of thing that can be ground, and vhen they ion'I. do that they saw wood mnd pump water. Its inhabitants are carfully ricl}t at every jaunty villa we -ano to our guide stop)ped us to inlpress >in u1s som notion of 'k owner's vealth. ''I/l these rich peope are wind nillers:" he could spea - tolerable I'n ;lish, so we were spared the wild panto nime which, when expressive of four iun(lrod windmills, takes some consid srable room in a village street. We vori ferried over the watery avenuo vhich seems to be really the n'main thor 1 ghfare of the town. There were iho IIi s, suro enough, miles of them --som10 'our, I think--on each side of the way, i^s far into the dil distanceo a3 the evo ould reach. It looked like a lesson in lerspectivo to try for the exact vanish ng point. * * . . If any one desires to see ITolland from is willllilly side, let that person by all nealns come to Zaanlal, and he yur feited forever after. ''hev all socled to e thriviing amd flourisliig, too; and when a wNin(Imilly totvn does flourish, it is (from a flourishing point of view) a thing to reuember. it. seens to lack reposefulness, if one cares for it, but for one of an active teiperament it. is high ly stimulating. It is 11o. the place for a moony or absent-minded person, as there is always a t"haneo of heinIg brainiml by the merry wind -sail, unless one is somewhat alert. There seems to )e an unfathomable variety of individual tasto in the matter of 'adorning and dec orating some of these mills. 'Tey were nearly all as bright its pa lit or wash of every known hue could make them. None of the w-sthetic. faded-leaf tones here eitlher, but good, riototis, roaring reds, greens and blues, that seemed to sit at once on any mild talk of 'broken tints" or "m'elting comnbinations." Somehow they seemed to get the right tone 1ulder that delicious gray-blue haze that hangs so often over the landscalpe in IIollaud. Many m11is had their lit tle tlower-gardens running down to the river's edge, and the little summer house overlIanging the Water, with its inevitable little miotto ex pressiv of the owner's sweet, con;ent, like "Lust in Hust," which at first si ght looks like bad and improper English. It only means IG..3tic felicity. Hero sit Van Dunk ant friends in the shades of even ing, smoking their pipes, sipping their beverages, and listeling to the frogs. Oeoryc 1. Boughton, in lIarper's Mhaazine. ArctIc lee. Th'le uluhhcky prisonler in the immense115 field ice dlurinig thlt imuposinig, unbroken lonIeliniess of the long Arctic nxight, whmen the wind is calmn, cani hear the crackle of the snow undIter the stealthy tread of the p)olar bear at an astonishing distance, and( hear what a mani, sipeak ing loud, says at 1,000 meltresM distanice. It can, therefore, he0 well u1ndersto)od htow~ the sound of ice-p)res.sures must travel to hiis ear fr om enormous distances. "Sometimes," thle author writes, "' tIhe 1n0ise of tihe ice movements wa'is searcely' to be heard--a mere murmur-and came to our ears as8 does the pay of thle waves on1 a steep) coast from th11 far tdistalnce. SomefltimUes it hmnmed anId roatred closter to) us, as if a whole column of he(avily laden wagons were b eing drai n over the unlevenl ice surface." In thec sounId wats cominled all mnanner of nloises caulsetd by' crackling, grinding, falling o)f blocks, crnshing and( many other phlenlomenila of ice life. "'It is astonmishing how far and hoWv clearly every noise is coinducted ini the ice. '.lho noise at the v'ery margin of the field Onl whlich we were seemal to ocur immediately at our feet. It we phiced our ears to the ice, thle sounId was~ h eardl s0 loudly that we might hlave ex petetd the ice too pen under our feet th, next. mlomenCt. The whlole dry ice-cov' uring was a vast tJounding--hmoard Whenever, at i lay downa to sleep, I tcedi my ear against tile dry, woolei slip's side, I heard at humminlg anld buzx zo1g whlich was noting else but lii sum11 of all the noises whlichi occurred ii tho ice at at great distance~ fromi tli ship1."' The surface of an) expanseR of younl' salt-water ice on wich 1no siuo,, Juity fallen is soft, so thlat tIle footstep is im pIressed 1upon1 its white covering as ii mielting snow. Thlis is to 1b0 obseirve evein at a tempLeratuire of 40 dleg. C 'ThIe unlfrozeni fhud is not water, but conJcenltrated1 solution of salt thrown ti by the freezing of the ico beneath. When summer b)egins the thaowinp that occurs is v'ery local andt une<qnal. Any13 dark. body, such nas a heap of :oes, or the dlroppiing of hlears, eats its wayt' into the snotw, ab)sorb)ing the rays ofl hieat which aire reflec'ted off agnin 1by the general white surface. '[he 1hear droppings eat their way init> thie snow, and theni into tile ice, !r.nd the " ionil 11o1( thtus formed tIlls itself vt ithi wiater. It may at last eat its way right through tihe ice0 whlere not very thick. Thulis art formed the greater part of those holes in drift-ice which are usallyl ascribe)d to seals, The author never saw asel hole in winter. Wav is pap.r money more valuable than gold? ~Vhen yout pult it inl y'tom jlocket you doule it, anid when y'ou tatkt i utvo fnditsil inres, Money by Telephone. "Say, miss," said a rather haid-look ing customer to the young lady in charge sui of the central toloplhono oflice, one day E. last week, "say, miss, I'd like to talk er with Mr. Joseph Snooks a moment." an The lady called Snooks and turned the instrument over to the guest.. bc "Hello, hello! Mr. Snooks!" n Snooks answered, and in the ensuing i colloquy the lady could of course only li hear the hard-looking customer. St ''Snooks, old boy, I can't come up for st that money to-day; I'm too busy." cI "EhI?" it "No, can't get away." "I know, but I'm sorry; I've got to I meet Brace about your atla ir." fr "But I'd jeopardize all our interests. lil I postively can't come. Can you send at the money down?" ''Down here." w "I don't believe she'll do it, \ill she?" gt "No, I don't know her. She's a hand- m some girl with blue eyes and light hair. je Know her?" "I'll ask her about it. Wait, keep mo your ear there [miss, Mr. Snooks wants to pay me four dollars, and says for youl bx to let me have the money. I'll ask again tr to make sure.] Snooks, did you mean sli for this flie young lady to pay me and Cr charge it to you?" a "Don't hear you.'' br "Yes, yes, all right. [Ile says, miss, for you to take my receipts and iet, i ti have the cash. You are to put it in his t telephone bill.] All right, Snoolis, go)d- s1 by, see ,you to-morrow," and he hung the mi mouthpiece on the hook. in 'Fine fellow, Snooks," ho continued, bi looking pleasantly at the mallnagress. "1 never heard of sending money by tele- m phono before, did you?" 1I "No," responded the lady. bi "4Perhaps you haven't the change iI handy?" t I.s," said she. "You'll trust Snooks, I persume," he p went on in a faltering mraanner. v ''Certainly,'' she replied, ''if he says to 4 let you have it." a "You don't think the telephone would d lie, (10 you?" g "Assuredly not.. I'll just ask Mr. Snooks." g ''No, no. He's a sensitive man; he 11 wouldn't like to have so much fuss over g a small amount. Make it two dollars a and I will give him a receipt on ae- c count." 0 "I'll pay anything Mr. Snooks iays. g I'll call him." t< "Rather than bother him again, I'll n make it a dollar. Gii e me a dollar-" 1 "But I perfer to call him." to "Miss,'' said the man, ''don't go near" the wire now. There's a eloud c'oamnin} L up. You're going to be struck by light -I unmg. Rather than that, I'd take fifty f centa, a luarter." I "Oh! I'm not afraid," and she ap- V preached the instrument. "Keep away from that wire!" he 1 howled, "don't call Snooks. IIe might be struck. If you don't care for yoturself, a have some mercy on his fatily. You n needn't pay the amount at all. l'iouldn't u risk Snooks for all the money in Brook- v lyn." t "I shall either call Snooks or a police- t man," said the girl firmly. ''Make it a pltiieeman and I'll go fot d him myself," shoutted the tramp, as he t jumped over the rail. t And then she called Snooks, who had a been swearing at his end of the wire in s the hope of making some one hear him, 'l and told him it was all right, she hadn't t quite paid the money. t liow Site Won film. I have ju1-t heard the most romarka 1)1 story of t he evenness of the fe male I tempier'. It is a beautiful lit tie fairy story, and may appropriate!y lbe callel "'Ilow She Won lim.'' It. happ ented here in P'hilad elph ia, and is on( thli. wvise: There was a beautiful d inner given "'many years ago,'' and shte sat oppolt a wine-colored1 silk withi a square neck, and1( otherwise :rra veil as never* werie tihe lilies In any valty of this poor earthI. W~ell the wvaiter in hianing the soap upr,et the enitire contetts of a pl ate in her hnip. ,Jutst tin k ojf it, girls! 'he whole' front. breadth ui ttterl y ruine d, and it eoul not be match d! W'ell, whlat (1id slht dto? D)id she faint?I D)id she say: "Y oui thorri a' >id i she scream? Noat at all: she 1passed ;ho thing 00l in some w itt y remmark abotut fiery haptism, and (cabuitly re'uuedi he'r dinuner. Hie, of course, was dielighuted, thbought her a most remarkable woman, and, in (deed, she wvas; became at tenttive to lher, and tinatlly mairried her. One eveninug, long after the event, they were siti tng hefore the fire, thle chiliren having gaito to bed, and were t alkintg about ohi times, wvhen he saId: "My dear, i.-never faold you, i thinuk, how I lirst thlought I woul like Ito nuar ry you, did I?" "Why, grationsgoodnuoes' no never!' "Well,' h sid ' (10 you remt mn her that dinnier at alrs. Simpikinsl', where your driess was5 spoilt by thle soup?"' "Indteed 1 do(!'' shoel)ied. 'I shall never forget it as long as I lire-' 50 well abou t it that I t houight yon a porfect. jewel." " Yes,'' sihe answered, "'I retmemobor behaving very wall about it at the timiie; bitt, good land, you shouldi hav~e seen a the miarks of m ' teeth on thei betd-post< that night:''-- /,fhldlphia Qui -Medicine was administered to a sic'k olergyman on Long Island by several (of his kindly dispiosed parishiloners. In stead of giving him pills and plasters, they gave him somo wood antd coal, whtich they put in the cellar. I'To this they addled some money, which they pleas anttly plaed( ini hiis hand as they shook hands at his bedside. It was agrteed by all concerned that these romedhies were the best that coutld have been admtinis-j tered to the suffering pastor. Hie is nov: oouvalescent-N. Y. S'un._ Tun oinly cooi tapig which b,as been seen in town for the paot weelk ia the fol. low who comes into the office, smokes some other fellow's pipe, uses some other fellowv'n desk, and then asks if you are niot go)ing to say beer before he has to go. ...aQe(on CQinhe The Sick Room. From an ir.teresting paper on this bject in the (hristian Union, by Miss R. Soovil, of tho Massachusetta Gen il Hospital, we cull the following hints d recipes: * The puro juico may be extracted from of in two ways: First, by cutting the oat in small pieces, putting them in a fhltly corked bottle, inniersing it in >t water, and boiling for several hours. scond, by taking a thick pie'se of juicy mnk, broiling it on a gridiron over a L'ar fire for a few muomenity, then cutting iml strips and pressing it in a lenon iteezer. 'ThIto juice ltis obtained may > given either cold or hot. It miay be ozen, broken into hlups, and given (e cr"aacked ice. A little salt should bo Ided before ising it. An iiivaalid who is tired of hot beef tea ill soetimes drink it cold or iced with -eat relish. Enough isinglass or gelaitio ay hto added to the jiice to iiake a lly, which can be flavored with sherry, sence of celery, or anything the patient ay fancyt Raw meat is very nutritious, and may 3 li'pdrt d by shredding the beef ex eniely fine, removing every particle of in or fat, and mixing it with cracker inlbs. A little salt and lepper may lie bded, and the mixture rolled into tiny ills. In convalescence after typhoid fever e greatest care is uecessiry with regard the food, and no new article of diet 10111d le given without tho express per ission of the doctor. Even so sli ht an i)rudeince as eating a raw apple has It'll known to cause death. While roast, boiled atid 1roiled chiicken, uttoi chop and beef steak have long -Id a roecognized position in the ilvalid's 11 of fare, the imerits of a veal sweet ncal have been sadly overlooked. hen properly cooked it is r, delicious "h, and may tempt a capricious ill. -tito that has grown wear of othe. ands. A sweethreid sholtlai ho piar ,iled for a short. tiine tuntil quite sit, id then fried in ia little butter to a Alieato brown. It may be served r"ith ravy or white sauce. Port wine jelly may soime'tinies be ivetn where the wine itself would excite isgust. Dissolve half an ouneo of elatino in three talilespoonfuils of water; Lid a little white sugar, and nutmeg or iniiainon if the taste is liked; let it mielt ver iL very gentle heat, put in five wine lassfulte of port, and stir constintly for n mine tes. Strain it into a inold moist-''\., with cold water. A piece a1s irge a1s an egg should be eaten two or Liree times a day. Delicious oatmeal gruel may be made y stirring a cupful of oatmeal into a owl of water, allowing it to stand for a w minutes until the coarsest hmrticles ave fallen to the bottoiml, pouiring of the "ater, and'releating this oice or twice. he water imust tIn be 1)>iled, stirring t constantly until it, is suitlicietat cooked. Fow p er ;ons u'iderstand plrop1ey 1irly the rt of making 1 noinulo. The lenon hould first be roll d between the 1aum(ls ntil it is <iuite 9 oft, the skin removed itlh a slnp kt.ife, anl everv pip ex raeted, the lemon being held over a imbler that no jitice lumly be lost in the *j)erat ion. '1he pulp sliould then be livided into sniill pieces, and the sugar i>rottghl,y mixed witi it. Last. of all he reitisita anlmomtit of wiater shoihl be dded. Orangcile nilty be 11111de in the amnie way as lonii,iade, ysing less sugar. hev shouh(1 lie icedl. imp1 erial drink is nade iy alilng a snla(11 tiasp )onfiul of relamt of tairtar ilissolvel in boiling waler o eaeh pilt of lem,aioiamle. In stle d(iseaises it, is iip ssil ie to ;ivo anything colttitiiig auid, ald then he iigemtity of the nurse is te:.ted to >rovido vi+ som bevorage lt, ice coolinig md( illahtab1 lt. iceed tell and1 ci tl'ee are0 xceIlient when'i the,y ore likedi, andl miay 10 tak~en either with or withouiit milk. hirley water is niinlo Iby bilinig two mn:lees of pear~ il baiirley, priev tisy wiellI vashod, for twenlty mliinteis itn aL pint andi( - half of wtater. It is t hell st rauiied and latvored withI Jl(mon petel anl d sulgarl to aIstO. Th'lis miay lie ailterinatedl with liaxseed teln. Steep hatlf anx ouiieo of tun iruised flaxseed ini at pint of bosjIilig walter. act it suil inl a ciovered jiar near ia tire foir bree or four hours; thien strinl and1( flnver. The~ Salt of the Ocean. Even the prinit ive sea must have been lighily elmlrgedl withl saline matters of all siiiils. Whien the 'airth1 was still intense y loated, the whole oif the water iniw onl ,ts surface mnust hiave bieen pre'(senlt as gas5 in its aitmsl w 5 i ire, at first no) diuti I issitsso ciated, 1but afteirward an a< joe ous1 vapor ~. Since, if thle si'i-b ottom1 and formu leve'l, flh' s'a wotild still stfithie te cover' lie entire' i'arith to a idepith of ovier 1,0001 fathioms, acpn'ouIs vapomr eriul to a liver of watieir of ftatiikness must haivi' *x istedi in thle atmo sphiere andlt hiavo pirodiu'ed a pre'issur' cif imore tlhn a ton onl theii squareili inelh at the earthl's surifaoce. Ti, this pre'issure' muIst hiavit beieni flld thiit pri'iliced bty all the othear vapiorE wi Iithwhich: the pr iivow atmiosphe tre miiust have b een IiIled. As the earth .~soold thie wiater condioniied' on the cool "at spts from time to timie, boiled, and -'I as( 11vapllor againl. Mr. Mallet cion. entulres that the first water formed on lie eaIrthi's surfalco may have been eoei is hot as( mol(deni east iron. At last per. nanen('ht seafS were estab lishied. The x .ate'rs of these hieat.ed to ani intenisely uigh temlIperatui'e uindeir great, pr'essuri, inust have dissolved salts ini abundtanhce 'rioim tIhe freshly consolidated eai'th's -ruist, andl being coiistantly inl a state of uolition. as thme pressure diminuishied at lie surface with the growvth of the seias, ir t he tempileratulro of tholeiarthi's suir riace varied ini differeint places, must have itkien til vast quantitities oif rock mlatteir i 5 isuspenionct, aind becomoe thickly Ilharged with violeanio miudt. JItenIsely. hiot raini must haivo fallen on the land riid have washed down more salts aind nmid inito the siea. Tho11 whole oceani nuist have conlsistedl of a vast mass of seething mud. it must have required a protracted period (or theC ocean to become clear, and for its deposit, which was per hapai somewhat like the present deep sea red maud, to settle, and possibly the deeper water kong remained unialud>iita lo, beig overchar'ge'd with various gasea an~d salta and susp)ene'd mud. - There is ani enrollmient of I1%,574 In thte MIinnesota schools, the State hav. ing schooil popultion 01 uJ5,1J8. HUMOROUS. --"Selection." Brown (as he .wa. leaving our art convereazione, after a rattling scramble In the cloak room) "Confound Itl Got my own hat after alll"--London Punch. - -An obscure, but yet not wholly un Intelligible joke in regard to the mule Is that 'though he cares very little for precious stones in general, yet he gen erally affects topaz. '--N. Y. Graphic. Canal mules do soP-"-Boston Post. -Judge Tourgee Is delivering a leet tire on "A Family of Fools." We haven't heard it, but presume he rotors to the girl who kindled a fire with kerosene, the boy who "didn't inow it was loaded," and the man who asks: "Is It cold enough for youP"-N. Y. Advertiser. -High clausic-" Can you compre hend meP" "I am, perhaps, a little obtuse, but you may be sure that I shall get at your meaning presently." Low classic-" Can you catch on?" "Well, perhaps I don't drop as sid denly as some, but you bet 1l tumble as quick as the average."-The Judge. -A magazine writer has recently published a long article about " women's noses." The best thing we know about a woman's nose is a mustache. The best kind is a pale brown, and waxed at the ends. For sample, and instruction in best method of application, apply at this olice, after business hour.-Bur liny!on Iawkece. -So you have got twins at your house?" said Mrs. Be uinbo to little Toniny Samuelson. " Yes, ina'am, two of 'em." "' What. are you going .to call them" " Thunder and Lightning." "Why, those are stran ro names to call children." "Well, ti tl's what pa called them as soon as he heard they were in the house."-Tczas A'$iings. -" Justico,your Honor!"exclaimed a legal comet in one of his eccentric por orations, "is not like the fabulated liriarious of old, whose eyes wore as miultiplical as the sands of the sea, nor yet like the famed Cyclops whose vision p'erforated only the arena of the coming luturity, but like the sportive demon st ration of 'blind man's hull'' She pursues her way unseeing and unseen, holding the steelyards that weigh w ith coeval vicissitude the carats of gold and the carrots of horticulture, and knowing no North,no South, no East,no Weost !"I-Rlome ( N. 1. ) 'Sentincl. -A report comes from London that there is a change in the fashion in dogs. Young ladies who have been wet ring English pugs to match their coniplexion, trimmed with plastrons and things, or the Italian greyhound or King Charles spaniol, cut entrain with ja' ot aul poionaise. will regret to learn that they have gone out of 1ashion, and they might as well ho givoi to the poor er sold to the old rag-nn:(:. The new style of (log is the Ilutly white P'omcranian, wit h( ia nose in point applique and shir red ears; or the Malteso terrier, with a silk jacket" and velvet lingerio-orsome thintr that way.-Aorristown Hferald FACTS A'D FIGURES. --Alabania has 1,919 miles of railroad, anti the railroads furnish: cloven per cent. of all the taxable property in tho State. - -lirovard County, Fla., is t.he largest of thoe 2, 559 counties in the United States. It hlas an area of over 5,000 sqjuamr miles. * Th'le tirst apponran~ce of cotton as an art j,l' of commerce was a shipment of Se'von bales fromllCha:rlestowni inl 1757. .In 1880-81 tile crop) wias (i,(00,000 bales. -According to a comp lrehiensivo sta tiNtlcal ietuirn lately publdish1 ed ill Ger many, t here are ill lI-:uopo ninety-two cities withl more~ than12 100,000 inhlabit ants, out of which:l four cap)itals show each over' a million polalltionl, as fol lows: I .olndon, 8,832,44t0; P'aris, 2,225, 910; itorlin, 1.122,500: Vienna, 1,10:1,110. Out of thle ninet y-two cities and( towns referred to, Englanid lams 2t, G ermnany 1t, It aul v 11, i ranee t2111(an llussia 8. TIhe othr a11Szre dlividedl among thle smaller St ates. TIhere weore ill the Unit-. Cdl States in 1850 twenlty cites hiaviner eachi 10', l0t inhabitants~and upwartd Th''le first. annuaIll rep)ort of tile State ('ommissioner of Hailr'oadi Taxationl in New ,J ersey contauiins the following par11 agraph: '" ow ,Jersey has1 In all some 1, 800 miles oft road,. standling seconld in the list of States in the matter of rail way facilities. Theb only State whlich clain;s5 to havo mor01 mliles of road1( than our own is Massachuisetts. Newv Jrsey has necarly a mi1le of track for every four s<quare miles of area, wvhich is considIered tile miaximlum. Thei total cap)itall in vested in railroad property in thnis State is $214t,0@M,349. TIhe cost of railroads an d1 tiheir e qui pment s has boen $1G;8,6 18, -I 'e industrial ceonsuis of Phiiladecl ph.ia, as taken by tihe Police D)epartment undter tile direction of I.orin BlUodgett. is sublstalntiallly comp111letfi, antd the roe turns are so fully compliledI as to showl a largem inecase as5 com111pred withi tilt consuls of 1880. F"rom the figures il ready comnpilod over 10,000 establish mon0211 aro shiown, withI 222, 152 opera tivos, showing :in increaso of 2,000 estab,lishen1ts and1( of 510,0t0 0 persgons onmployedl, and1( it is bielieved that the en211ire comnplot ion of tihe revisionl will shiow 12,01)0 ost ablishlnnts, wvith 240O, 000 pesn em p)layOd. - Philatilphsia Press. - Vrious02 signs of the unsatisfactory state of ltussian tinances a1re consta:ntly at)i carint.r in tile St. l'etersbuir, pr'ess. A~1though the generial ta\es col4ected in 1881 exceeded those of tile presenlt year by 8,871 ,4tt8 rubles, nevertheless tile general [amlounIt of airreaIrs ill 1881 was very largrely increased. For 1881 they were calcul 1at oil at. 81, 2C6,(i29 rubles, and for the year 1882 these figures rose to 85,547,707 rubles, or ,284,078 rubles more, ind1eendentl y of 1,6f73, 321 ruhles of arroars excludo4 from the general sum11 On acun1t of irreguularities, and1( of the hiopeile'ssnless of any ait-temp1t at get, CHIAnasJ PF.RnAU /r a French writ9r wasn tile aiuthor of "Cinderella's Slip~per - story. At the accession of Francis II. h lusbIand of Mary Queen of Scots), 'aris was inlvelVd in1 continued broils b)y the struggles for precedency between tile conlfraternlities of the drapers, thle mercers and the fulrriers, in which the furriers finally triuimphed. Two cent.. uries ago furs were so rare, and there fore so h ighly valued, that thle wearing of thlem w'fas restricted by several sumpt uary laws to Kings and Princes. Bable, in thos80 laws called vair, was the subject of countless regulations. The exact qumalityv pormittedk o be worn by persons Iof dineont grades, and the artieles of Idress to which it might be applied, were Idenined imost strictly. Perrault's tale of Cinderella originally marked the dig nity conferred on het by the fairy, by her wearing a alirner of vair, a privilege thncned to, the highest rank of . Priceses.An error of thle press, now bocomo inveterate, changed vair into verre, and the slper of sable was su4 denly aavata inf g)ala alir,