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DEDVOTED TO I'OLITICS, MORIALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIIE G~ENEIL INTEREST OF' THE COUNTRtY.
By D. F. BRADLEY & CO, 1I1CKENS, S. C., TIHIURSDAY, MARCH 8,1883. V OL. XII. NO.24
NFWS GLEANINGSS
Orange trees are being shipped to
South Florida.
A perfect gold fever is raging in Polk
county, North Carolina.
There is a negro boy in Nash county,
A N. C., that is seven feet high.
Freight trains are prohibited from
running on Sunday in Alabama.
West Virginia contains 52,000 persons
over ten years of age who cannot read.
here were 1,350 arrivals at the Cedar
Keys hotels during the month of Janu
ary.
About $5,000,000 is the amount now
invested in the manufacture of pig iron
in Alabama.
A bill making it a criminal offenFo to
deal in futures has pasied the Alabama
State Senate.
Sixteen very large whales drifted
ashore on thc sea beach near Cananeral.
Florida, recently.
A negro in Newberry county, South
Carolina, has forty-two children and
824 grandchildren.
A man living in Polk county, Tenn.
i had six acres in tobacco last year, and it
made him $75 per acre.
A remarkable rich vein of ore has been
struck in the Gold Valley mine, in Row
an county, North Carolina.
Frederick county, Va., has fine cloth
manufactories, turning out over 300,000
yards of cloth per annum.
Only four miles of iron has got to be
laid to complete the railroad from Pen
sacola to the Apalachicola river.
Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were
packed last year. Nearly half of it was
done in Maryland and Virginia.
, The horse trade of Texas is rapidly
growing in importance, and assuming
proportions only surpassed by its cattle
trade.
The grand jury of Mobile has been in
session two weeks, during which time it
h1p examined 250 witnesses and found
143 indictments.
There are 40,000 square miles of al
most unbroken forests in North Caroli
na, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma
ple, beech and hickory timber,
Land at Gaffney City, Spartanburg
county, S. C., which was worth about
$2 an acre ten or fifteen years ago, now
find- ready sale at from $20 to $50.
The North Carolina Legislature is fa
vorbly disposed towaid a bill which
makes null and void all contracts for
cotton futures. The measure has passed
first reading.
In Anderson county, Tenn., there is
a well which emits a perpetual stream of
illumi natine- gas, and it is said that
crude petroleum may be found in the
same locality.
Perh.'ps the rarest curiosities ever
brought to .Taceonville, Fla., are two
monkey-faced owls, recently Capt ured in
one of the cavernis in Fort Marion, at
St. Augustine.
It is very probable that the city of
Atlanta will get a special appro3priationl
of $75,000 to buy land and( begin the
erection of permanent UJnitedl States
Sbarracks in that city.
A rich vein of gold quartz, over seven
feet thich, ha4 been struck in the Mor
row gold mine, Virginia. It yields now
$90 a day. The new machinery, now
being add(edl, will greatly increase theI
yield.
The Alabama Legislature recent:v re
fusedl to grant a charter for the Rome
4 (Oa.) and D)ecatur railroad, saying it
was against the p)olicy of the State to
grant charters to roads leading out of
the State.
The a labama Legis.lature has passed
* . an appropriation bill in favor of the Mo
bile Medical College. An appropriation
of $900,000 in favor cf the Uiiiversity
and Agricultural College of that State
has also been passed.
Maj. A. D. Hitt, who, in ante-bellum
-days, was one of the larget~ cotton buy
era in Columbia, S. C., and p)os.sessedl a
fortune-estimated at $200,000, (lied in
the'alms-house of that city on Saturday
last, agced seventy-eight years. lie was:
never married.
When Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, was
a lad the ladies of the Presbyterian
4 church, appreciating the great capabili
.ties aiid fine promise, aided in having
him educated for a minister ; but he, be
coming a lawyer, made the money at
his profession and refunded it.
The salaries of the city oficials, in
cluding the Police force of Pensacola
were paid in cash last Saturday, for the
first time in many years, and the city
dministrat ion will hereafter be run on
a cash basis. Thle enlaries of city officials
have been reduced about one-half.
Of the 730 murders recorde<d for the
country last year, 212 were commnittedl in
the Southern States and 131 were com
mittedl in the State of New York alone.
This is rather severe on Northern sta
tisticiansI who would locate all thme mnur,
ders in the South. It appears moreover
that, of the executions for murder, half
of them took place in the South.
The City Council of D)alton, Ga., has
unanimously refused to grant license to
sell intoxicating liquors in that city. It
is not to be sold in dIrug stores under
the name of bitters nor from any other
pace, nor in any quantity. Great re
joicing among the people. Out of a vot
ing population of 400, 885 signed the
petition asking the Council not to grant
licenses.
New Orleanis formerly took 2,000,000O
b)ush.els f Pittsburgh coal rnnually,
New she receives less than half th
amount, the remainder coming from tb
coal fields near Birmingham, Alabam
Still the Pittsburgh miners stand or
for their four cents, and one large oper
ator has made up his mind to go to tb
mountain, and has already taken u
5,000 acres in Alabama.
The United States Government In
purchased the Gumman property, ad
joining the site of the former custom
house, at Pensacola. The land purchai
ed by the Government has a front c
seventy feet on Government street, an
they paid for it $18,000. This is th
first move in a tangible shape to rende
ivailable the appropriation of $250,00
made by the last Congress to replace th
-ustom heuse that was destroyed by fir
i December, 1880.
One of the most noted housekeepers i
ralbotton, Ga., has not bought a poun
)f store lard in forty-five years. She al
io has never failed to plant her Irish pc
tato crop during the dark nights of Fel
ruary in forty-five years, and this year i
the first year in forty-ive that she hr
railed to put hog hair on her potatoei
he maintains that nothing helps Iris
potatoes like a small bunch of hog h'ai
put on top of each seed potato placed i
the ground.
Women and the Headache.
The headache only becomes a wenpoi
>f feminine despotism when it is employe<
ay the mistress of the household agains
those who daily bow to her domesti
scepter. There is no sight in the worb
;o actually painful to every right-minde<
man as the spectaolo of a woman, t
whom ho has any sort of attachment, ii
pain. It would be too much to say tha
Lt is because the professional cultivato
of headaches knows this that she sue
cumbs so entirely to the attack. On th
contrary, it is rather because she realize
this fact so iimperetly that the headaebt
is really welcomed by the fair invalid
The feminine imagination suggests sonl
slight or detects with perverse ingenuit,
some ground of grievance, and the natun
development, and expression3 of this sen ti
ment are the headache. The ailnenl
when it is thus generated, is not. at ic"r
affection. It is actually experience; it i
the resort to which natures that lIe
energy are inevitably prone. It is
species of protest against a purely in:
aginary wrong and an unwise and nmo:
distressing way of resenting an injur
that, as a matter of fact., has never bee
inflicted or meant.
Of the headaches which are only e"
pressive of momentary disappointlmeni
of annoyance that some meditated plet
sure has been abandoned, or that soim
source of expenditure has been retrenl tei
it is needless to speak. For all varietit
of the malady which periodically at tache
Mrs. Wenham there is one remedy thl
is tolerably certain to prove eflectua
They are the consequences not so mue
of physical debility as of moral weaknesm
Nothing is more certain provocative c
feminine headacho than the hIaitu:
brooding over triles till thev seem to at
smie the importance of practical gravit)
In proportion as the interests of life aI
'mniltiplied in number and the health
energies arc <lnickened, the tendency t
headaehos will disappear. Above 1a
things, a disingenous reserve is the fertil
parent of these indispositions. Womue
h tnpride themselves on prescrv1in
silence in their troubles of mind or both
absolutely woo the headache which i
destructive of tihe peace of household:
It is given to extremely few persons t
conceal from the inspection of those wh
are constantly about thenm the emotion
which they experience, and unless the
can be concealed with artistic completi
ness it may ho said without parado
that they are aggressively transp)aren
There is really no altrnative. The wori
of it is that the headache of the v'ariet
nlow sp)oken of, after having b)een or
casionally exp)erienced for a certaui
length (of time, becomes more or less<
an abiding condition, and there are not
few ladies who may 1he said to pass thei
lives in the p)redlicamenlt of hecadach<l
Perpetual pain in the region of the ey<
brows-pami whieh candIor and courap
and occupation would almost always a
leviate- --recurring day after (lay, suiperbl
duces a kind of moral and menti
languor, and from languor to obstructivi
ness is but a step. The state (If ind i
which ladies abstain from pronouncing
definite opinion, or expressing a decid<
preference whein alternative suggestio.
are offered, may be one0 of discomfort
thiemaelves, but is one of positive tortu:
with all whom they have to dleal. PrI
pensity to headaches in women is alnmo
as bad as a propensity to drink wi
men; and is to he0 struggled against
resolutely, if peace and happniess ai
contentment are io be for thcloming.
London WVorld.
What Patnuey Is Dolig.
Mrs. HloolahIan, whose1 rathier colti'
sonl, Patsey, went out WVest a f
months ago to seek his fortune, r
eivedl great news from him yeste'rdaL
" Did Patsev write to you ?" wei
(ilired. "' N'o, he jahers, lhe las0 iv
wrnitten a line in1ce lhe lift, buit one
the Conner b'ys wvho went to I inver
fortnight ago promised to hunt up P':
soy4 and1( let 111e know what liII is41 biji
I got a hitter to-day, and C~onner tells ni
that Paztsey lias a great situaIt iIon
supjer'intenident of ai free-lunch r(untIIl
which extends pretty much over ti
whole city.'' " That must beu a pret
nice thing," we suIggesIt ed. "' Well,
should say so. Pat sey is a nice Il>y, atI
I knew he'd dlo well if lie bad a ebanice
retulrned the confhidinug (old w 1iaan1, hi
innocent, miothierly old tface brlightenh
at the thoughts of her wayward boIy
success, andl shiowinig no0 trace( of1 su
picioni that "'the Conner bv'y was~ I
mug to be funny biy perpetrating ai j.
on a loving and unsuspectinug
woman.
" IN choosing a wife," says the Ph;
no logical Journal, " be governed
her chin." The worst of it ia that, afi
having chosen a wife, one is apt
kenn on bimg gov,.ne in te --n
f TOPICS OF THE DAY. rec
a Tss latest Washington real estate wen
olaimant is one who asserts a title to the of l
arsenal grounds. ness
0 A REGULAn branch. of the "crook" o
P profession in New York now, is the steal- doo
ing of valuable pot dogs, Mal
THE land olaims in Huron District,
Dakota, during the last quarter of 1882, Chi
- amounted to 745,893 acres. des
dea
A Youa lady of Bamberg, Germany, th
l has been punished by a flue and costs he
e for the offense of playing the piano at gag
r night by an open window. tee
d (ee
MERRITr H. DEMNT, a Chicago man, He
e claims to have invented a machine One
e with which a person can beat fifteen av- oit.
erage compositors in setting type, mo
Tn customs ofilcers at New York
seized a Bible a few days ago, because its
set in a space neatly cut in one of the we
thick backs was a diamond ring valued 1,1
at $150. The package was addressed to an
s a lady in San Francisco. 156
. , att
Tu Asiatic Society is about to erect em
h a monument on the site of the Black ha
r 11010 of Calcutta, the dungeon in which con
r146 British prisoners were confined on YOr'
the night of June 20, 1756, and from rea
which only twenty-three were taken out in <
alive the next morning. lac]
TuE feeling on the lower Mississippi
in consequence of the flood is one of 7
dread and expectancy. The terrible dis- wh:
asters of last year are still fresh in mind des
1 and their repetition is feared. At various opi
points the population is abandoning the ont
low lands.
t -___ion__
r JAY GOULD expresses the opinion that t.i
~ there are no good grounds to fear a com- (<is
mercial and financial panic in this coun- St
n
a try. He thinks a large percentage of the br
new railways being built are useless, and his
e the building of parellel competing lines lg
simply to soil is ruinous. ifo1
py - ly
LAST spring two women were clected wc
school directors in Philadelphia. Their
s services have been so satisfactory that .
k eight or ten more prominent ladies have
a been put forward by their friends as can
didates for similar positions soon to be cal
vacant. They will, it is expected, stand
a good chance of success.
W. W. STORY has expressed his will- lat
ingness to make a bronze statue of Dan- as
e- iol Webster, to be erected on Boston COi
e Common, his reward to be either $15,000 1V
or $10,000, according to size. About fr
8a
$5,000 have been subscribed, and it is an
likely that Mr. Story will be commission- c
ed to undertake the work. mi
ThE Rev. W. C. Winslow has loaned wil
f to the Boston Society the ancient door- cl
l knocker, once in use on the door of his lia
famous ancestor, Governor Winslow of Pe;
the Plymouth Colony. The venerable
y relic is of solid yellow brass, and is al)- Tr
? propriately mounted upon a piece of
I English oak that might have accompan- r
' ied the knocker over in the Mayflower.
AN APPLE In perfect preservation, al- be
s though ninety-six yea:s old, is in posses- ".,
.sion of a gentlemaau in Ulster County,
o) New York. As it rounded up from thewh
0 blossom of the p)arent stem in the early b
summier of 1787, a bottle was drawn
t
over it and attached to the branch, am rat
,c after the aplple had ripened the stem o
.was severed and the b)Ottle sealed tightly.,i
t pr<
Y VANnnuInIIT has sold1 the block onP
which the Madison Square Garden eel
stands to Edward S. Stokes and Wil- bil
a hiam Mackey, the bonanza king, for tra
r $950,000. It is intended by the pur- t
'chasers to erect a handsome and costly
theater and to cover the rest of the be
block with a series of splendid coimpart
Smont houses. bai
AN eccentric New Hampshire man re
~quested that after death he should be
Sburied standing in his coffin and a pipe
Splaced in his mouth; also, that he should m
o be heculed to the grave in a hay-rack. (
'e Hie died the other day, and his unsymn- ir
opathiing relatives planted him in a lif
st hiorizontal p)ositionl, and were glad to get n
him under in aysae
_A VAsv amont of cheap fish in an
ually wa-sted-in Enigl and because the g
people ignorantly suppose it is not fit to w
eat and won't buy it. One of the useful fa
h features of the coming International tU
"'Fisheries Exhibition at Londlon will be0 n
-daily dlemonstrations by the School of
j:Cookery that these so-called inferior ta
r. sorts of fish are savory_and nutritious. n
aA MAs5iAcnu.sierrs man is curing him-- dI
ti self of d yspe psi., by a ten-days fast. At w
the end of fiye days lie saidI ho felt full ni
of energy, had no sense of hunger, and
expeoted to taste nothing until his time g
wa uip. T1hr is no manner of doubt fa
vthat fasting will cure dyspepsia, or any w
other dlisease, if the sufferer will only vi
ref rain fromn eating long onongh.t
RwrNDIJINI practices by hirooklyn un- ag
d'rtakers have been exposed1 by the el
Commissioners of King's Ca3unty, Now f(
York. The law reqires expenses of (1
'burying soldiers and sailors who die in W
destitution to be paid by the Commia- I
sioners. The beard repoit that many ci
.e. bills p)resenIted to it hy Brooklyn under- tI
ytakers have already been paid by friends g
rof the deceased.t
ii
no RUORo now denies any~ intention on the d
part of Hon. David Davis to marry. A di
nt Bloomington, Ill., dispatch says
rge P. Davis, who, with his wife,
t to Washington with the intention
'roceeding to North Carolina to wit
his father's wedding, has returned
is home. Tho Vice President's half
her, Mr. Lyman Betts, emphatically
ion all reports concerning Mr. Davis'
rimonial intention.
PHYSIOIAN rented his stable in
cage to some men who had said they
ired to roast over again some coffee
t had been damaged by wetting; but
soon discovered that they were en
ed in treating worthless coffee with
ionous chemicals, so that it could be
eptively sold for the very best Java.
informed the Board of Health, and
of the largest grocery firms in the
has been exposed as the real pro
ter of the fraud.
iOARLATINA surpasses diphtheria in
ravages in Russia. In 1882 there
-o 1,323 deaths from the former, and
16 from the latter in St. Petersburg,
during five years there have been
.027 fatal cases out of 463.018 nersons
icked by these two diseases in the
pire. The Golos remarks that no war
ever been eo d'sastrous, and that,
sidering the large proportion of
mug people among the victims, it is
Ily the future of the country that is
luestion. The great difficulty is the
r of competent physicians.
'HE question of the adoption of the
ipping-post for wife-beaters and other
picablo criminals is one upon which
nion is much divided, and also
regarding which many men's opin
s frequently change. To-day a man
Aks a whipping-post law would be a
grace upon the statute books of a
to ; to-morrow a miserable crime is
ught to his attention, and a ppeals to
wrath, and he thinks the lash too
it a punishment for the culprit. Cal
-nia is the State that has most recent
refused to add a whipping-post amend
ut to its Constitution.
1 MAN named Peter Wendling, living
Bismarck, Penn., was recently exam
d by the Philadelphia County Medi
Society and prononneed a wonderful
dical curiosity. He has neither hair
e teeth, does not possess the sense of
ell, and has no pores in his skin. The
ter fact is the cause ef much wonder,
it has been hold that no person
ild live without a porous skin.
endling experiences great discomfort
m his incapacity for perspiration,
I his body grows so hot that his
thing has to be kept wet in order to
tigate his discomfort. He has al
ye been in good health, and has a
,e and eight children. None of the
ildren partake of their father's pecu
rities, except that none of them have
rfeet teeth.
i'nu Executive Conimittee of the
unk lines and managers of Western
ds have signed the following agree
nt: "We hereby pledge ourselves
t we will not allow any variations to
made from the established eastbound
es, by an officer, agent, or employe of
roads controlled by us ; and that
on the request of the Commissioner,
en evidlence satisfactory to him has
mn presented, that the established
es have been cut by a connecting road
its connections, even though reduc
a may be made in its or their owni
portion 3f rate, we will withdraw all
rating arrangements and will not ac
>t from such connecting roads through
ls or through cars, but will cause a
nsfer and rebilling of property at full
iff rates from the junction point ;
1 we further agrece, that any agent
der our control who may be showvn to
quoting less than, or instrumental in
dting established rates, either by re
te or otherwiuse, shall be dscharged."
RussIan ('ourage,
I should rather incline to) think that
are ecuraige is more geinei-al among
issians thani aimotng aniy other 1)0ople
wadlays. I miean tIe uunreasoniing,
-sponib~le readliness of a do(g to risk
(1 and1 liberity upon01 provocation. Not
nre volunteers irush ouit, when a des
i-ate e-nterprlise is miooitedl, thay fr-om
r owni ranks ; moe than all is a
atheimatical absurdity. lIut the En
ishman stakes his life in another, a
-and(er- spirut, lie feels and reckons
itli the peril.- le-fore meeting it, so
r as I have seetn examples, lie is quiet,
otughtfiul, contemphlatin1g the worst and
aking his ar.ranmgement s. A lRussian
orns all that, does not even think oif it.
fler assuritng himself, rat,her roughly,
int t lie needfiul disnositions have been
ade, lie becomes ~tIhe lighte(-st-earted
the compa)iny toi which hile hastens.i
>lnot say affects to become, for- it. may
ell he t hat (dadtly danger strs him to
irthI as. it siirs aucAther man equally
'av(i to self -comunmuin-. f can umot for
't an istac iilonl Ha(liSOVo) 11il the
o"ning of the great, attaiik. An iin
iitriy regimtenit stoodi at, ease in t It rain11,
aling the oirder to descendm itoi that,
riley blintd withI smoke, echoin g with
11ud of guns and angry crackle of muns
str-y. The C'oloniel and a staff Captain
>prioachmed and asked u1s to aiCept
marge of letters for- hir wives, fo be
rwardedc( iln casC (If acciident. Then
(iy stood chatting of I A)ndont and Paris
ich thme war-mth of men whose hearts
erc there, though thme biattle raged
oser, andl at ball now andc then nmusi
Lly spunl above our heads. 'They asked
.0 precise stor-y of a scandal half-for
>tten now, and their shrewd comments
ld they were attending closely, when
1aidle came galloping through the
1st. Three uminutes afterward the
omedl regiment tiled away down to
ard the valley of denah..
A llndoo Juggler.
The automaton I shall now deseribo
is a hugo carbuncle, in form and appear
anco just like an ordinary date, such as
any one would handle and attelpt to eat
without suspecting deception. It was
Dwncd and exhibited by a Hindoo von
trilxuigt, who was also a juggler, and
he culled his carbuncle " the speaking
late." Whenever ho spoko to it, the
answer came promptly and appropriately,
as it seemed, from the very heart of the
:lato, which lay on a tablo several feet
from the exhibitor.
It was not always, however, an obe
dient servant, for sometimes, when the
master gave an order, the date argued
the point, making objections, offering
excuses, and finally yielding, as it were,
under protest.
It would complain that it was ''sleepy,"
or " tired of doing the same thing over
and over," or " the people were not pay
ing attention." But all this only enhanced
the interest of the occasion; and when,
at last, the rebellious little thing conelud
ed to do as it was bidden, the audience
was in ecstacies.
A tree was mado to grow, in our pres
ence, putting forth its long, pointed
leaves, then the dainty bloomlls and finally
a chump of luscious fruit. But of this
we are not invited to partake, for it dis
appeared suddenly, and only the single
little golden brown date we had seen at
the first remained. This was, of course,
only a specinen of the Slight-of-hanld
" tricks " that Ilindoo jugglers kinow so
well how to perform, while the apparent
speaking of i1e date was the result of
ventriloquism-the juggler being ab le to
make his voice sound as if it had coie
from where the date lay, and so induced
the audience to think that the voice came
out of the fruit-like carbuncle itself.
But iater this the stoni jumped, walked,
ran, and finally, with head and wings
s luldenly at tached, flew across the stage,
and alighted between the conjurer's join
ed hands. This was accomplished by
means of machinery adroitly hidden be
tween the earlhtunclo and the gol(deni
tripod upon which it lay. Curious and
startling as were the movcnints, they
were wonders of meclanlism, and of.
course had nothing to do with the super
natural powers, such as the ventriloquist
pretended to uossess.-Prom an Indian
Letter.
Educational Gifts.
Do not Americans appreciate educa
tion ? Here is a list of their benface
tions : $1,300 000 by Mr. Simmons, of
Boston, for the industrial education of
women ; $1,000,000 by Daniel Drew, to
endow a theelegical seminary, to which
Abel Menand adds $100,000 more " for
the education of women for the min
istry ;" $200 000 by Erastus Corning, for
a female coilege ; $400,000 by Robert
Barnes,.of Indmana, for the edlucation of
orphans in the State ; $100,000 by Or
ange Judd, the agricultural-hook pulb
lisher, for scientific department in Wes
loyan University ; $60,000 by Cyrus
M'eCormiek, the reaper, for the tie( -
logical seminary at Chicago ; $100,000
by Daniel Appleton the book publisher,
for the Chancellorship and library in
New York University ; $100,000 by
Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, to Harvard
University ; $100,000 by Chauncey Rose,
of Terre Haute, Indl., for a fenale col
lege ; $100,000 by Henry Sage, of
brooklyn, N. Y., for a female-college
building at Cornell Univesity ; $.;00,000
by Mr. Shaw, of St. Louis, 'or park and
botnmie garden - $200,000 by Mr. Plar
dee, of Pensyivania, for scienttifie de
pairtlient. at Lafayette College, at Easton,
Pa.; $75,000 by 'Iiram Sibley, of Roeh
ester, N. Y., for a library building at
Rochester University ; $50,000 by the
Rev. Jesse T. Peck to the new university
ait Syracuse, N. YV., which has1 been ill
creased by othler citiz/enls to ai million
and a half ; $160,000 by Saunuel Willis
ton for educational p)urp)oses in East
hamipton. Mss.
Corn and Ho0gs.
F'rom carefuIlly-conduhIcted exp eri..
mient s by dIi lerent, persons,5 it li has bei
tisoertaiiined tha lt one( I ushel of corni willI
maike a little over ten and1( one half
po)umis of por,k, grioss. 'Ta:kinog thiis re
sult as a basis, (lie following deduct ions
atre mado(1, which all our1 tarmlier's would
do well to lay nly for Ia coniveienlt refor
enc(e-thazt:
Wh len corn solls for 12 cents per
bushel. por'k costs lI cents1( per h' pound.
\\ h10n corln costs i een1t s 1per bushel,
por'k costs 2 (eent s per pound11(,
Wh len corn1 costs 25 cents jper buishlel,
pork costs :scenits per pound.
Whena orn ('osts ::,cents per' b ushel,
p)ork costs -1 (enlt s por' I (1und(.
Whe 1 corn co11 (st 501 cenits per hiushiel,
pork costs :, ients per' pouid .
'The following' statements11 show what
the farmner real izes 'in 1his corn wh'len
sol in the form1i of pork:
When por'k sells for (icets per' pound0,
it binigs 25' (ents per) bulshel in Corn'l.
Wihen~ pork sel ls for' ('ilnts 1pcr pound1(,
it binlgs :12 cent s per buishiel ill coin.
Whlen pork sells for 5 ents per
.pound, it brings 45 cenlts5 per bushoel ill
corn. im-; 71 r'icanl Furme)/r.
A Vonidoo "('harm."
A gentleman boulght to) our ofico the
oitheri daiy 'i "charm'i," so cal led, t ha t wa's
dIrawnl ouit oif the well oif a 'olor1Edt waor
have beenl piliaced therei b'y one1 of his of.
fended codlred neighblors5, wIho clims 1 to
ho a conjurer. The " charm"c' oinsistedl of
a poitioni of a black hug, a benit p)in, a
snud1!1)1 pri(cle of co(tton11, thr ieadh-hke root
oIf some11 kind habout1 two iinches lonug, and
a inc o01(f hair fronm 1' negro's head1, all
of which wa'is wrapp ed up) ii 8111n1iall ico
of diitty cot toni clth 1, tha 1 had11( been sat
turalte'in IIomo)( kindi of grea1.i or oil. It
is qulito commonl)l to) fiind thitsoeconIjurers
amniag '. co li "' peop , who clacimli to)
k{ind l another111) i to olu lt firogs, ui'ards,
aakes, and1( the1 like in coilrtini port ions
of a per'son'si body. Th'1:s is done1(, tL'oy
claim, b y placinig theiir I"' charms"i5ii undr
the steps or ths'ir v'icti:a's hioisos, or by;
placinig them ini tneir wells or springs, or
their clothing. 'The greoat unas of the
colored peoplo are credulous enough to
believethe conjurers possess51 all the
p~ower' they climii, andl ar'e generally care
fai not to jIrovoko or offonid thnemu.-.. A -
Eugenie's GLft.
Whatever opinion may be entertained
f Bonapartism and the late Emperor,
ho bitterest opponents of the dynasty
md of Napoleon III. must render hom
go to the generous high-niindedness
hat (tistingulishes his august widow. It
vill be fresh in the memory of our read
's that the city of Marseilles, which
>verflowed with liberality to Napo
con Ili. when he was in the zenith
>f his glory, sought to recover its gift
vith Interest as soon as blind fortune
urned her back upon his dynasty. The
nunicipality of the great commercial
mnlporium so famous for the modesty of
ts citizens presented to the late Emperor
1 certain plot of ground, then valued at
1,300,000 francs. Napoleon spent 1,000,
)00 francs more in building a palace
and laying out grounds, so that the
present value of the Pharo property
even assuming that the price of land has
not increased during the past do
cade-must be put down at nearly
3,000,000 francs. The chivalrous muni
cipality brought an action against the
Empress, after her husband's death, for
the recovery of the property; but the
Phocian burghers were nonsuited in the
courts of their own quondam imperialis
tic and now radiially republican city.
They then carried the case on appeal to
the higher tribunal at Aix, but were
again defeated there. The Empress has
thus triumphed, but, as though to give
a lesson to certain Princes of
another repudiated dynasty, she now,
having established her right by the laws
of the country which is still hers,though
she is in exile, abandons her claim in
favor of the city which has used her so
ill, and gives up voluntarily what she
refused to yield to threats. It is be
lieved that the exiled Empress is by no
means so rich as are the Orleans Princes,
who accepted the restitution of their
contiseated property before even the
war indemnity to Germany was paid.
Her generosity is all the more to her
credit, and Englishmen will read with
interest the simple and dignified words
in which she signifies to an old political
friend the determination to which she
has come:
FAaNnohouoli iIILL, Iants, Dec. 15, 155.
MY itit M. ioulUnt: I have juist received
the letter in wilich you inforn n that, the
Air Court of Alieal has confiriue t the juclg.
ment given byv the Marseilles courJ't in the
action brought against mle by the 'rown
Council of the latter town. in ateeidlin! my
rights before the law courts I was specially
annimatod by respect for the "renlh nagis
tracy, for to have believei that ly cause was
lost 'beforehan<d wouldt have been tantamount
to alIt a<inission that passion or personal in.
terest could influf,nce t,he course of
justice in our country. Now, however,
that these rights have been recognti.e<l
i do not wish to retai the grouinld which the
city of Marseilles once gtave of its own free
will to the Eimperor, and tihe possetsson of
which it now disputes. Therefore you are to
take the nlecoessar'y stops for the presentatii
to the towi iII my name of the pik ancl
chateaul of the l'haro, the latter of wilich
the Etuperor built at his own ex)pnse. In
acting thus I think that I am I wllaving Its
those who are now no inore would have
wished, anti I trust that, you, who were their
devoted friend, will approve of my lecision.
I can not eniicluade this letter withfnt asking
you to thank on liy behalf the flistingulislied
lawyor who, iltioigi separate froi us by
his p)olitioni opiniots, has, oonsuiltinlg onny
e<qnity an<l law, diefended mny intcresta with
the itillost t itlent. I ri aiI, etc.,
-London Neles.
Month Breathing as a IMsease Pro
ducer.
Dr. Carl Seller recently addressed the
Philadelphia Pharimieuiticitl Associa
tion) at the ('o1la'g( of l'htrlmat'y, on the
subject of "Mloutii BIreathinig." He atitl
that many ills that are subscribed to
other causes are in reality due to the ef
fects of this habit. Nat ire intended the
(nose to be used for inlialng and exhal
uig the atmosphere, and fitted it up for
that purpose. T ihe mcous membrane
contains whiat are tormedt serous glands,
which give moisture to the air as it is in
hitled, while it is war med and pulrifiedl by
its passage through the nose. Whien
taken directly through the mouth into
the lungs, the air is apt, by reason of its
hack of moisture, im purity or improper
temnperaturie, or all tlireo, to act
as aii irritant, esptoiinlly inl the
larynx and in the air cells of the
lungs. O wing tol tilt im petrfect oIxygena
tion of air inllhld tdirettly b)y the mouth
hiabitua:lly, there is often. set upi in the
sytemi a condtitionl that gives the symp
tomns of dy~sp)epsiat, 'onsumtiIption, etc.
The lecturer described the development
of nasal catarirh and thle diseased formna
titons that enisue from it, and after speak
ing of the ecessaive pin that attetndedi
attemupts to treat theitm withl the kn ife or'
nitriceiacid, stated a timle prtocess for
bulrnling thelsei fornmatjint with tin in1
eanidescent plaintinum wire, a lan which
het decltared to be plainless to thle patient,
as the int ense heat of- the( cau tterizinig
Rgent destroys the nerves b)ef(lo thley
have time to comimuicaelte with tihe brain,
Kissing in Paris.
at party of young ieople in Paris
sillbje'lt o f ikissinig, andit th pit' stiotin was
p)ropoundedlI'( whot of the yoiing men(1
pr'eseint could boa-st (If having g:~ven or
becintg al e to givo his gil" the1 most
kisss, Var1iousi were the rel'')ies this
quesI!t ilon cliled out. Finally a young
mantl andit the gi to whorm he was be
trotihed be(t 200 francs thalt they could
kiss 10,000h( timles ini ten hours, p)rovided't
they would bet allwe'd to take an oc
?lastinal glass "' between."l' Two persons
wecre appolilinta commxjjittee to count the
1jnmber oif kisses, aiid .h~e work began.
D)urinig thie first hourli they ciunited 2,000
kisses. D)uring the second hour the
kisses were not nebarly as numerous, for
After tile third hour, duiritng which they
mnaiged to score but 1,750, further
Iopilrat ions wore broug h,t to a sudden
statndstill. The( lips of the yon man
were stleie with a cramlp, and lit wits
carr'ied oil' in a faitingll contitioii. The
r'l,a iewdys later, was stricken with
'>ram If(everl. Whein the peopjle whlo hatd
won the bet tdemanded their money, tile
parenxts o~f the girl refused to pay hter
share of it. Thule matter was then takt'n
to> the courtas; there it was decided that
the bet must be paitd.
'A rrrranunon deteetive observes that
shere .are few fat men amnong'the cerimuinal
classes. The leani and hlungry Cassiius
is the baa man. "Our most desperate
criminals," tile detective remarks to a
reporter, 'are mostly small-sizedl men
.'with light 'uonnionma"
AND ; 4
-One lawyer iDs Mote. 0
ias put through 189 divorce osewilthin"
year. The fare to Des Moines 1s
bout seven dollars.--Moago Wyn
-The New York Cbmmercial Adtier.
iser suddenly remarks that: "The man
who bangs his hair hasn't enough sense
blow out his brains, even if he pos
eased any."
-Highly sugar-coated: A New York
ivoroe lawyer's advertisement reads:
'Hymeneal Incompatibilities as a spe
,lalty, carefully adjusted. 'Tis slavery
o detain the hand after the heart hath
led."
-A Pennsylvania paper tells of a
'amily which has been poisoned by eat
ng pie containing arsenic. It seems
Ike a work of supererogation to put ar
renic into pie. A pie that can not kill a
!amily without the help of arsenic is a
very weak pie indeed.--Burlington
EIawkei,e.
-An African traveler gives e. thrilling
iccount of a "vegetable vampre'-a
tree which envelops a person with its
branches and strangles him to death.
T'he nearest approach we have In this
,ountry to a veg.tible vampire is the
"dead beat," who also u"es upon oth
srs.-Norristown Herald.
- " My mother's awful fickle," eaild
little Edith to Mrs. Smith, who was
making a call. "When she saw you
Doming up the street, she said: 'There's
that horrid Mis' Smith; I hope she Isn't
coming here;' and a minute after she told
you she was real glad to see you. Mother
says I'm fickle, but I guess I don't
ohange my mind as quick as that."
N. Y. Graphic.
-It took me four years to save my
first thousand dollars. It was saved
from a soldier's pay in the army, and
the boys often said: "Charlie, you
might as well spend your money, for
you may never get home to use it." It
required courage to resist the influence
to spend all, but the schooling of those
four years was worth more than the
thousand dollars, for I learned to save
money.-Charles W. Black.
-An old man would not believe he
could hear his wife talk a distance of
five miles by telephone. His better half
was in a country store several miles
away, where there was a telephone, and
the skeptic was also in a place where
there was a similar instrument, and, on
being told how to operate it, he walked
boldl up and shouted, "hello, Jane!"
At that instant lightning struck the
telephone-wire and knocked the man
down, and as he scrambled to his feet he
excitedly cried, "That's Jan( ;-:Qry
time."-Modern Argo.
-".James, dear, Reginald desires a
new sled. I think you had better get
him one." " What's a sled good for to
himP You've brought him up to stay
in the house and look pretty. He
wouldn't know what to do with one."
"Oh, I don't mean one of those great
big out-door sleds. I mean a little
house sled that he can plhv with in the
front hall, dear, just to get him accus
tomed to the idea, you know." Lots of
little Reginalds are being cultivated in
doors, and they will either go to early
graves or grow up to be flats.-Boston
Globe.
-If we must talk about the weather,
why not vary the formula, "It is a
pleasant day." Every one is tired of
admitting that it is. Why not be scien
tIfically accurate when one meets a
friend P The following is submitted as a
specimen dialogue:. Jones--"Ah, Mr.
Smith, I see we have cloudy weather
with light rains." Smith (with a cheer
ful smude)-"Yes, and variable winds
shifting to colder northeamsterly, station
ary or higher pressure." Jones
"Quite so; but it is gratifying to know
that the rivers will remain nearly sta
tionary andl that the temperaturc has
fallen thirty' degrees in the lRio Grande
Valley. Good-morning, sir. "-Boston
Advertiser.
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVP.
-Plunge a well-polishled knitting
needle in)to a vessel of milk andl with
dlrawv it immediately in a vertical p)osi
tion. If the milk be pure, a few dIrops
of it will remaiin aittachecd to the needle;
if, howveer, only aL small quantity of
water lhas been addedc( nlone will adhere.
-he~ consumption of par.nips9 is
largely inc.reaLingv in townis. At one
time t hey wvere' only salable in the spring
aft er they had been frozen awl thalwed.
They are now in demnand all winter.
Some raisers dig thlemr in Ihe~ fall, allow
themii toi freeze, andi~ keep) them in that
condiition till they are sent to market.
-Far a wvhiite fruit-eake use one cup
of butt.or and two cups5 of white sugar,
and( beat I hem together thorougidy;
then add onie cup of milk, t wo and a half
cups of ilour, the whites of seven eggs,
and twvo teaspoonfuls of baking powder;
heat all well before add(ling the fr it.
Take inae poun(t each of raisins, figs,
dlates, and( blanedt almonds, andi a
quarter of aL po0und of ciitron; euit all
very line, sprinkle with, flour, aind mix
the other ingredients. hake slowly.
C'hi'ago M n-s.
--Orange Shortleake: One quart of
flour, two spoon anls of butter, a tea
spooniful anud a half of baking powder, a
little saIl and swe'et milk to i. Sift
the h aking powd r wi th the flour and
rub the b4tter thriouugh it. Mix as soft
tis possible. RtollI into twvo thin sheets
an'd bake mi a quick oven. The o -anges
should h be! p)eel, cuit inito small pieces,
fr-eed from seeds andl st.trared at least anm
hour~ beforie wan ted. W\hen flhe pastry
is dlone, piut the -rangeo between the
layeris and) serve wvith swveetened cream.
-IThe editor of an Eastern agricult
ural ourmnal say.a: "In the course of a
ride of live miiles, in a good farming
county iv. Massachusetts lately, wve saw
three nmowing mnaehines standing out
in the sniow, just whmero their careless
owners hiad left them when they got
thriough using them last, summer. If
we wore miakinug 0or selling mowing
mac-hines we shiouldi be tickledi to
death~ when we sawv the farmers rusting
out their tools more: in one winter thani
they coul wvari t hem out in three
soiminers.'
-Rtegardling the valute of birds to the
farmer, Prof. SteaLrns, in a paper read
beforeo the (Connect cota tate Board of
Agriculture, states thmaa young robin
In the nest re ire .' La aly supply of
food morie than e iuilenmt to its owni
weight. Tihue swallows are'4 the natur-al
enemies of t he m-ridge's andi similar small
insects that prey ''n grainm. It is esti
matedi that the nestlinogs of a single
pair of swallows w 11 in three weeks
consuime half a milli n insects. Blue
birds prote(ct fruit trees from insects.
The king-bird is strictly insectivorous
and a greait protector. The wrens can
be indiucedl to remain near houses if
suitable boxes are providedl, and, they
war without ceasinir upon caterpillars.
.Ti capacity of our country for the
production of live stock is so vat that ;
too much attention cannot be bestowe d