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------ -- I) T1 !'ULITI C, MORALITY, ElUCATIUN AND TO TTF; GENEl L INI'ECS 4)1 Tir; C0Ur yi By 3. F. BRADLEY & (0. PICKENS, S. C , TH URS DAY MARCH 15 18813 VOL ------V-L. XII. NO.2. .TO1ICS. OF THE DA? - Q=AT BnrrArw has no less than .1,674 Generals in her army, but only 250 of them are in active service. Ttn Inspector of Milk, in Hartford, Ct., recently found soven samples of milk out of thirty-five adulterated with water or skim milk. IN Massaohusetts there 1. Ie* divorce to twenty-one marriages ; in Vermont, New Hampshlro and Conneoticut, about one to fourteen ; in Rhodo island, one to twelve ; in Maine, one to Cight. A LATN Assistant Commissioner of Ireland says that a proper system of ar terial drainage is the most practical way of assisting the solution of the "Irish question." ly such a system landsu could hos relainied and farmors would take the place of laborers. AN EMINENT French physician, who has known Prince iisnark well for near ly a quarter of a century, says that all talk about the Chaucellor's health break ing down is sheer nonsense. -is nerves and general constitution are in admniralec condition, and bid fair to remain so for twenty years to come. Wm N Dr. Weeker, tho colebrated German oculist, removed Gambetia's right eye in 1867, the organ was pro. served in spirits. 'It is the oye," the surgeon said, "of a man who is sure to enact an important part in tho world's history." Ho was riglit, and the eye i: still preserved. NEW YORK is soon to havo in readiness a thoroughly drilled and equipped life saving corps to act in conjunction with its Firo )epartment. It will be pro vided with ingenious mechanical coln. triauces for sealing the highest builds ings and bringing iurnatos in safety to - the ground. AcconmNo to the report of the Secre tary of War, the organniz'd strength of the militia of the United Stvtes is 87,611. Of this unmber 0,583 are comlmission d otticers, and 81,081 are non-romnission ed offiers, musicians and privates. The nutnber of men available for military duty, but unorganized. is 6,797,000, IT is reported th.tt there are 30,00 rlegroes in Ind]ian errit.ry denied ihe privilege of franchise and schools, and .re incompotent as sntnessrs and jurors in courts. Thiy were, or are, descond ants frem former slaves of the India,-s. They acsk the Go ernment to remove them from among the Indians and settle them ou.Oklalhomua lands. AoonDING to the MLnchestf,r Guar dian, the latest and largest donation to the fund for England's Royal College of Music came from New York City, and was the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. Its amount was $25,000. The college will, it is thought, be opened in South Kensington in May next with about fifty scholars. A Nsw Yonx surgeon, the other day, successfully tried tram sfusion of blood3 for asphyxia. A manl named Okceburg blew out the gas in his roomn at a hotel, was almost dead when discovered, and, as he was not rov'ived by ordinary rome dies, several ounelos of blood, tale from a healthy negro, were plumpedi into a vein in his arm and he soon regained conscioUuess. A GENIRAl, dteproesion of budness pro. vails in England, one cause of which is believed to be the unfavorable agrienl tural outlook. The wveather has been bad all throngh ihe winter for that inter est, and now the heavy~ ruins prevent the usual preparations for sprmng planting. The proispect in othei E'urop)eau Coun tries in also gloomy. p)articularly France, Germasny, Rlussia~ and Turkey. IMMEN5E fiolds p.nd IlOnlutaiso c have alrea ly appmred off the banks of New-foundlandc. The your, hound to he hiistorica,l for its Iloods. fires, storms and accidlentsf, will ail-o probaibly so momunorabile fo the immnonsity ami d:iu gerousness of its icohurga. 'Thes, great masses of ice are, said( to lbe p)rodnetivo, thr-ough their atmotspheorie influence s, of the violent temipes.ts thait have of late distressed Atheitie mariniers. Tr?Irr it is not good for man to b)0 alone has been the belief of 0,000 years, but it is only recently that the fatal evil of such solicitude his beeni wo rked out l,y the sta tist ii-s. "'Bachlelo rhood," ' u Dr. Stork, ''is motre destructive to 1 f than the most unlwholesome traud. or than residhonco in an unwhioleomec house or district where there has nev. r been the most distant attempt at sani tary imuprovemient." TLurn lato Robert Asa P~alcker, when on a visit to Clonnecticuit in his youn er days, discovered that the c'xcellenit broad on his host's table hadl booni malt by one of his daughters. He sough her out and married her, but they onh~ lived together a few years, not hoimf able to get along at all. Heo afforwn 3 -mariiriedl a daughter of Victor E. I iolmt I with whonm ho lived ias happily ait I . could wvishi, and entertained his friends in regal style. TaxE junior 3t1. P. for Ed4inburgi: has~ im proved upon hijs great colleatgue in thie matter of p)ostal cards. Mr. (latdston. used to writo his, to the greait joy oh autograph colctors. laut Mr. Watddy replies to all applications fromt his 'oin. stituenits with a printed card], as follows: "I beg to acknowledge the receipt of yourii nte. I receive so nmany apuili(a tions of a similar character, that I cani not possibly oOmply with your recquest. I regret my inability to assist you, and am, yours truly, S. D. WVAOvY." T naare several thousand house keepers in the laud who would f.-el gratofidl to the several Legislaturos if they should carry into effect the sugges tion of the Lime Kiln Club, of Detroit, which is as follows :" Resola'd, Dat dic present Liegisobur of a1 is State an or'dered to pass a law makin' it a penal 00cos~e fur a grocer not to delivor onme moud of cheese and deoyen ooenW wat of halibut widin ton minits of de timo ngreed upon when do said articles are rdered and paid for." A COMMr1'rEI to plan an industrial ichool at Springfield, Mass., have de 3ided to teach the rudinents of trade, tnd not to turn out finished mechauics rite desire Is to give the boy a knowl )ego that will enable him to choose a p)ursuit for which ho recognites his own tdaptability, so that three or four years )f his life may not bo wasted after he leaves school in trying to determine how ho will earn his living, and finally Irifting through ignorance and neces sity into work whore manual labor, not brains, is needed. 1VONo CI Foo, editor of the Chi nese American, is elated over the suc cess of his pap-:r, which is now about four weeks old. Wong c tne to this mountry in 1874 with Rev. Mr. (ilsn1, and was mnolbed at San Fra nciso fo trying to liberate twenty-threc Chinea women who had been sent over in bi; Slip by businless agrnts. Sinne thin he has lived in the E ist as.I a e- rer am;d writer on Chineso mat.tcrs. fis thi ic'= Lhe present Chinoso Enlbassy to this ountry is a use!es body, ensl its i poor opinion of the conImnon Chine,o. Americap. AcconD)m to the summary of the Datholic directory for 1883, the hierarchy >f the ;Catholic Church in the United tates comprises 1 Cardinal, 13 Arch bishops, 59 Bishops, 6,54G priests, 5,241 -]hurches, besides 1,180 chapels and 1,768 stations, which are attended by priests, and where mass is oceesionally 14lebrated. The Catholic population is 3nlmputcd to be 6,832,954. There are 31 eclesiastical seminaries for the educa tion of 1,434 ecclesiastical studennts. The number of colleges. 81 ; academio;s, 579; and parochinl schools, 2,491. ThIe 1tnlum ber of pupils attending the Catholic ciools, exclusive of colleges and acade mnies, is given at 428,642. There are 275 tsy'lums of various kinds and 185 hoslpi tals. A comparison of figures will show that there is but a very slight overaver uge of one priest to every church. The number of educational institutions foot up over 3,000, or equal to half the num her of churches. A YOUNa servant girl b, the name of Annie Lennon, who is omploy d in the family of Sheriff Easton, of Non port, R. I., performed an act of brave devotion a few nights ago, of which it is proposed to make some public recognition. She and a five-year-old daughter of Sherill Easton were alone in the house, the rest of the family not having returned from an Odd Fellows' Festival. Soon after midnight she awoke to find her attic room filled with smoke. She waited only to put on a skirt, hurried down stairs, and, being unable to open the door, climbed through a window upon a back porch, jumnped to the ground, eight feet below, and. ran with baro feet ovei the ice and snow to rouse the neighborts. Hastening home again, she appealed tc several persons, who by that Imeo had gathered before the house, to saVe the little gi sleeping upstairs, and, ats in, one responded, she ent)ered the hous; as she had left it, felt her way through the blinding and stifling smoke to the child's room, and escap)ed with her to tIle yar] eniough to scorch their clothing. THEn State of Georgia nmakes a very happy showing inl thle nmatter of decvelop mont of a coulntry by railroads. A few years after tile war the Southern manni racturing State began to move inl tihe di rection of connecting hlerself with outer malhrkets by rail ways. TLhe reslt was lhat farmers began to putin lair~e'r crops, plantors to double their aereage ini cottonx, 11d( stock raisers to increase their expor tat-ion of dlomlestic animals. They hind a rnarket for their prodlucts. Thlis is tie result ini 1882: The State raises th ree timesC as muchl corn and whleat as5 iit did in 1870, anid six times as nmany p otates, In all other farm p)roduc1t5 there has b 'emi a correspondling increase. Since 1X71] the amount of cotton raised ham louhh.d. A largely increased production to Ithe acre shows also that the methods of tillage have improved. The added num b)er of farm animals, horses, muller swine, mnilch cows and sheep is no0 lvo striking. Tile tendency scoems to be it out up tile great estates inito small ones. In 1870 Georgia had 70,000 farms. There are now 139,000. Tihe valuo of faryr products has, in fact, nearly doubledo( since 1870. It is mostly owing to tile building of railroads. A iI:h-'u: (of Amieica ha:s nrisenl amonlilg Enigili noelists inl A mllaji it Edwa-rds, who IIli in he stoy or is i UraLckenbury"~'' 1now publish'ing in //,. lishdwomn:: ". It s(eems to us th li t keepi youir clever pleole at arm'is l-lYh imtroduced, or as if you wanitedi to knoilw aibmout thieir fat hiers anld grandfatherI nos. dare sayV I'mI wr-ong; but11 that is ouri il preSSLJ)iln inA mrien." ''" We s-- crt ail y donim't send a man51 ouit as LambassLadm. to Pauris or Ilirlin h)ranse( hei haippiens to youl areu a great hiistorie ination. You hiave yourt traditioalchol of dliplomaHev --at the Fo reigni ()tlie, isn 't it, Lase'y Rymles?--one of thi- genteel idiot as. ians you mlentioned just now. We. have niothing of that sort---no t radit ions, youl knowv; not e' en so maniy idhiot aisylumis as you have. (ht thenl we hlave nio young'er 50ons (of niohi3 birthl to push1 $ brPouigh i heIL TIE IIAPPY ISLANDS. tlo roaun l1>otit. the tow Iroi (lawn till dlark, Ai1 old In11 w;tli hent forini an<l wlhiti ne( ).Itir, W Ihio (lreaOni the eartli lie tl(.1(.9 Cli o i' It 1):l1,l iliat :ils 1( lI110 a 1h>re Iovor fair, Tihe shoro So tntitt\ 8ek Iu(1 (t< not i11(1. A inong tie IhiaS (row(, li 110(hees It nol, ltut i;O " u1 0oles Io till 0111 )lensilro IWind( The world 1no live-s in suetls v iui forgot Somtitnes lie stops one In tie Crowdel tlu ong And (ilie,tions thiis: "Why (to wo still s( faIr? 1 lunowy fnll well Iho ves'el's couri-I 1< wroig For fII II le(1 south the ll1appV II lan1(s are, Ain whe are near I1hen, for la'-it ui..;ht I he('r< 'Jlo soundt of 111i8if c"oiing;> froma thei 8hore, And elau;ght tihe scent of Ilowe.era, and on, lri:abe bird Flew hio:iiewartd, over i=, to roamnt no mnor "1 aliiio8t h '111-:!ht I (aw hein in thin (iawn, l'' . I.a ti' rIosy peal-; of I'.tra(lieC ; Ilut wben11th(, day brok.:) fully Ihey weretgono' Far, fi- thor soutl1 tho 81101e0 we stearcb fo lies! Il'ray ;o1 they tirn tie ve.l't' re to, lattel \Ilust we saiil by, atv mny tiunes beforo"t They n11ak1 inti'.I:alces, and laty it aill to iato That 'wno hatvo never reached the longe(d-fo s ho 'o." And 14 lie talks the old man's ('i;er pyo. Are looktilg sotthwarl, whrcr 110 lopes t se() Tlhoitsprple .penkc:, Crownedt Witlh stuanl. 4)' rt, 1rise 'Nealher si-s th ha tlhose 4t Italy. No sight of lan<d breakcs onl hiv ho>p fil(yos. "All, we have Ili"a<l 11then, uS se lil betor(: And wo were near, ." 11a1r to then,'' h erel "Must we Hail on an(1 on. tfrevetrinoro!s" lihet'e are owr llappy J+slan(ir! Mun-t whe s:t l orIe"er 11 k a,t It"1h I whe.n S( n'ar they se1-lm1 Illowy front t)he 1se: 'f ht I . I< favoi (;i :s AnT'wtft u, to ol poritics is tit.e.t peent O follow voya :er. nrav' (.o(1tv( we11n, Tile nulst w i ek :::1 '1 not l>t . it by! I),. Ilo 11 to th - 'It it. ineo Ntantt wintv I -or Iore,we (l1in0c. the l(appy ll Itlls li(. -Eben i-. 1|cJ."rd. in Our Conline'nt. Practical Politics. The domnin of politics isthe present, T.ho l)olitician way know theo patst and] divno the flture, but prima:trily h muslt deal with the present. lki operation:1 are with the real. .he mon and meas. utres of to-daty atro beforo him. It is hii. promise to leal with them. iIe muso tako them11 as he finds them. ie car not havo te 111a is hu wisles tlemu There is so much material before 1um, and it is just this ehape. So the practica st"ltesmnan finds a1ffairs. Ile sees at one( that therw mu1st b)0 tdta111tion. '.'he past is deadi. The historian canl retreal into it and reconstru(t it.. TIhere heo ha! no rusistanlce. D emuosther(eso does nso o1)PI1se him. Cicero does not colitrover 11m1. u311r1ko does not Ieat him dowi with his relentloss logic. Wtiebster (oel hot slay hint with a thund'bolt of Ii ciI quelnc:'. Thos historian works amont passive mnateriatl. The philosopher, uI tleorist may rush in to the future and give to his ideas what shapes his fanc3 may hild. 'Th11ere is littid resistanco foi mtan ill citihelr the plst or Lite fuiture. 1 is-the boast of politicians that they ar practtial. That is what colistitute them statesm en of the hour. They mus' Work iu the present. If they are practicla they can1 not work outside of it. It ii the first qualiienttion of a ruler that 11 should know the temper of the peol)1 over whomul 110 rules. This temper ht must r0cognlize. Failing to do tlhi: Iruder'ed Alt-xaldl'r, and causes th< pacselt Czar to hiido limoif from hi., )cople. '.l'lie 1111n who acts truly for 1i; time is also buililg for the future. But is a man servile to his ige? If so, (he lie will not live in the future. Thc practical politicintl too often becomes u lero idle trille(r, toying with the presenlt for tho profit of it, aul for the honor. Such len 110 th weeds on public life. They are neither maples nor oaks. Consider Jeerfli1son. lo was a man for hm day. le lived trliy the life that wa9 before hiim. Io (lid not live inl the pattt with the K ings of Ei'glmlnc, but hle lln Oult his lighit for It peopiln .f hi tim., The hu111p luils niever been 1)11t out. Peophi ml tis counlitry' aro wal king b y its light no0w. lHe was ia pracltical man11 bul op year's later c:11ne J::ch son. lie was n bunlgler beIsid es de ~flerson5), 1buit lewa pra'fet Ica enoiigh toi tight lionopolly. ite of the dlay inl wich they lived; but fle lgic of tihle evenits of 1.11at dlay 1ha1 reach1ed to the0 presenlt. 'The b)o1t' fu tiire is wrallippd upI in then 1bette'r no0w. The pnw'tie.d politician who 11:1s th<( Acolpe to wolrk iunselli-lhly for tile prles''nt is also4 imlingjl' tor tile futu. 111T wL~ ill b'e (cosideredt by till ihistfr151 ol)l th<t lni th i nb.ri1 i,,wns ' 141 aind Iillag~es (4 (iernomy1, it hIS 1b5en thle cuIstoml foi tlw, iron fI r he'iis tires anld hor41sl2ihoes, 11m1 wago budt,. ll to I pure cha:m alllw iron en b-ri:s S into ilm I:lle th Ill en 14thsof. lI 1':r 41i 15 II;h: fil hed11 ll h I till Ufih shalll not rI 1turn1 to tile f Irmer(1 al 11nd at l e .1lting 1fromI thl ir441a,' ul i t InI l hluly X'ints that1lllI' thu farm1r r1main ati; 1:1~ thesho utIll the Jiniliallet tIllord; til t thell' sih sall nt h im flI iito nuwh' 1cabba(Ill. Each 1mit I sho11 has what lis ( 11S:I term d, ''c t i ll" and(i il1 ingli 5:T a st o f4 irs4, ifA thel4 frme I; 144t 4'ff ilin itsh.jl: way tlt "fe hel" d'uty o u ig fe," id l org the4 youa wife, rentive. From ikv alwalyl ph-ntiful. Itr thels 1mith iunl las m. rbd fo r LI(4te mn eaufthe <'ll ho , ors IAh)Ws et. o raset IV13 WORLD BANKRUPT. TheLiarge Amount Owe4 by Governments. An ingenious stisti(intl, who had beIen losing SIecq) inl the pursuits of ecience, 11as addt'd up the nations of the world, anld i: listresst"d to find out that this poor old world is re:lly bankrupt; that it owen more thlan it c:m tv t, and that, an' tho pIrocess of debt-ndiaing is contitinally going on, the inevitable end will be it utivers:vl smashl. ''he gloomy view of the situation is supporled by the magnitude of the figures.---total innount we b.lie ve is soie 2 0,)000,10I00(h>r $:39. 000,000,000-anld it. is platinly true that 'with the exception of the United States, the civilized go,verIent9 of the worblhi ar, rapidly increasing tle.ir indebtedness. Blit we believe that this inmense ag-re gate of d('1bt is ani evidence rather of sol veilcy thiant of bankruptcy; i proof, not that. the world is so poor as to be insul v("nt, but that it is so rich that no exit"rava (Vince can ruin it All the great public debts of the world are the creation of t he Present century, antd many of them of the past. twentty or thirt,y years. At. the C be;giuing of the century France had no e debt at ill and Eigl:uid oily a trilling one. Italy, whielh is (Itite active as a debtor, did not exi.t as a natiton th itv years a;o tntd the Uiitel States h11 no )ubhlic (' lca1 debt of aniy oiamounit twenlt y It, in the coiurttse of eightyv v":id, the nati(ns of tin wiil have sur'.(tl:d inl b loading thenselves 111p wit It a himln of debt to the whole of the estimated wealth of this coiiiry at the last census, it, is a proof tlutt their malterial proesperity ando a:cunlnlat(d re(sonriettes have reached pro portions which would have been conisid.. ered imp)ossiblo and mlylhie:al in any pre'ious era of lustt I. France, which now thrivcs atil t ilris nder an enor mlous deht of SI,7(tH).u,1,0Ui, oi which it 1iayi an aninual int"r,st of S203,00),010), wtould haive found iitlnptssib,lc .l)t years a;u to Iorrow the amiuntl which is tn nmally paid fo' interest. Eiiglaud owes a debt of somu' 81,0)00,u11t0,<00), the foutn dations of which were laid in the atteinpt to prevent, the F"reincI fio m1 1ein;g ruiined by a sove'cign of their own choosin. 1Btt if Eng.ad had liuil alny idea ).c the ountbreakl of the Napole tonie -wars of the outlay which would i:" inutietred, we may heo sure the ablest fitnneiers woutild hatv' said that there was no credit of gover ment or power of authority which would sutliee to carry SO large a dehhi. Now, triumphant ('erm:mny asl:s France for a trifle of $1,000,00(,0(00 as cuolly as if it were a bottle of wine, tod totally mort gages the resources of a nation before It nation is establishied. Wis the world any richer 100 years aigo, whien its lack of credit nrevented its 1orrowinig money? Is it any poorer now, when it has l ir rowed so much that it deInand for pay ment would 1binikrupt it: ? A very simple answer to the question may he had by merely consi-1''ring where all the money came from which is now investud in the Grand Li vre (r )edgir of France, the consols of England, and the bonds of other countrit"s. ]'tt"re. ihio country could h51orotw therein Imst ave been cap)ittilists who luittI the toiniey to lend--andlto sp)are. T1he initions coul not have horrowed tnless the peoi 'lr)e abtleto l0nd(1, itilnif the" worblisabieto lend 8 20,000,0001,100 or .W0o0,())(,000 it c'an hardly he inl datgr rf imnntliatelh:m rup)tcy. In fact, to h1db t; ieit natiins arte merely tie sutrltis of' the i)olle, It small part of th," aetumonia:tiontS which hiave beleI made iu t cc;nt ur of indust 'v and of progress. Stealml, eetricit V, antd patenlt inventtionls h:Laventulntla'ted inl the world such it ilass of wealth ts the old world never dre:uned of; and, as the pro eess of neuinilationt is gin;i on fatster than the Iioeess f hor rowinig, the world is tgrowiig riicie every day, iil-r in spite of wtar' anmd aiiets and( kinigs mali, taitTh anid tatx-eati'rs, anid ot hier iobstneh'..s and there is no call for' any learned stadils tican o st u ofsnihtsini despaiir ever It is iimpossible thiat peole of ord in hi:s torturing discouriises wit iiiiit hiieom ing at last sick oif heairiing of ininit horilrors andu entdle'ss ag~.o'iii. it l,llS very'3 hardI to kh )di-hetedtii pe n to biil lieve tluat the least sini 'xpiosdi it iireat ure( GodI hail niiitie to miwhl exorb ( it piina:lties. ]Elw\arids' whol'e systi mn h:il tioo uimchi of tihe lmrm-iiter oif thii sava\1l reciently beeni ten:muteid. Thl ere wias r' venigei - " r'eveniging jus/le " wi what he cnl led it--inis:iabi1li e, i hauosting its ingimiit.y in ciiitr'iving I hI most exiquisito torinenits; theriiei was the hiereditairy hiattred glaing on tine habin its cradle( ; thire wire thie sitrin w iretch ando t hae plea'isi'd andi ilhin. olsa is-lin. Everyv citurald gracof it1' poisitilon; all Ilm. h:al ionce ino-nw ini thiuswiet ig'mousni s tof youthii, in the (i ( ngi --thet (ouiii lliblinl, ni wmmnguu' hlplessniiiess oif a iiie ; -* o viirtufit,st Platoy haidiiw itji'uoi, e e twlie wiiild witch theti ifew, wich f Beftt atie bakg e linscr iptgin upI i tihem ri tliOithatywere ac ieuer. I (iherit hislno asluiitien renaan fori at- i e. tarkin-th nn>ic'tivis o al-I man mii iS i (ilife, sotholy in asiations,t i o nhi isiotlabriotus, sioiut thoothl i mi erm vi in s the oirk to whihf h lilwa yiv. ,i But Io-afte. ln mtrin 1d,faii'I I'in/ ith tttingu like th;ii-istvthuisihr aauviin' $ .i frthite Aet.d withlif uof Iiy lii nlul! tcrabler pa, hif urotest dlm sto? Ifa I tr t1o1 thtven pin of asti(' ttui Iiui fit chsuic an inna is Iun o It h( wrt hy of it- ii -. i'. r na'utur th'olian.Iis aulim,t 'tletit vithn .shto oiur~ naituilie teiy potl asmhu htihi:.n .. it i ~to ibiz th Deity /21 h. H . What Is Nickel I Since the convenient five cent coin vhich in common talk is called "' a lickol," has conic Into general circula ion, the question abovo is asked, either netally or orally, hundreds of times 1very day, and but few get an intelligent mnswer. In China and India, a white opper", called pattlk-tong, Ilos lollg beenl nw(NVi and has been extensivel.y used )oth there and inl Enrope for (couterif,it ng silver coin. About the year 1701 a )eculiar ore was discovered iii the copper unes of 5axonly which lutd the appo.ir tuce of being very rich, bit in sneltiing, t yielded no copper, and the tminers tallcd it kIupfer-uickel, or falsoe cer. [n 1754, Crolnstadt aiinounced the li; ,overy of a new metal in kupfer-liickel, :<) which lhe gave the inunc of nlickel. It, wras in colminationt with arsenie from wvhich ho could relievo it only in part. lho allo,y of nickel and arsenic whiich Ie )tainled was white, brittle, very hird iud had a melting point nearly is high is cattt-iron. It was not until 1.2M3 that puro nickel was obtained hv analysis of Geriman ilver which lid for a nuiiaer >f,years, heen 1produced at Sul in vSa a. ts composition wias ascertained to 1w copper 10 parts, zino 5, and nickel "p if mnore nickel be uit-d tie, allov is as white is silver and musce,itible of 'i very ligt polish, but b)ecomes too brittle in'd litrdl to Ie haumtercd or r4died. and cann be worked only by castinr;. 'ure nie'kel is 1 wlito metal with a tartitah ri;olily inl the air. Unli!w silver, it is nlot acted on1 by the vapor of suplrlir, aid even tle strong mineral acids attract it lmlt 3lightly. Nickel has tho haridness of Iron1 and like it, has strn g nii:grnetie pr. .p.rties, but cannot be welded and is ioldered with ditlieulty. Pure niekel Ills heretofore been 'used chiefly for )lating, for which puroi>se its lnir1l( md1( power to resist aitmosp herie initli 'nces, altlirilydv adopt, it. Withit the ist. year, the F reni have sucii ciedd ini oling the metal inito plates fr,on wihiell spoons and other table furniture may be )ressed. Nickel bronze, whib ch nsists jf (111 parts of copper and nikiel, with 1 little tini, may b4 cat. into very delicte Ioris, iind is suseeptiblo(If a high p1ish. MIines of nickel are worked at ("Ihathamttu, Uonn., and Lanenster, Pa., and it, is Haid to be founid at Mine Le Motte, 'Mo., and At several points iin Colorado, and New Mexico, where but litilo attention is paid to it.. It, is extensively mined in1 Saxony anid in Sweden, 1)Ilt the ileato 1isclverv f a nlew oro (a silicate of niekel) inl New Caledonia will prol alliy supersede all tho other ones. Tle inexlstitle sipply of this or, the eaise with which it can be smelled and the richness of the ore will probably sulspend the use of the arsenical ores, anid yet 1bring Itiekel into commnl use. Switzerland, ill tho vear 1852, made a coin of German silver, which is identical in coimposition witlI our nickel coin. ''hie United States mande nickel cents in 1856, and eight years litter, coined the five cent pieces. h3elgiumlll adopted nickel ciinage in 18t1) and Germany iu 1873. iinlaud has lately coined niekel pennies for Jtmaica, lmt at home she and France adhere to the cluisy copper small clange. Men's Brains. The human brain is absolutely bigger and1 heavier than that of any animial except the (1(111pant and the larger whal(es, bit in no other alimatl is there Si) great vaitionUll ini brail weights of different individuals as ill manl, ant it i5 p er:iitp4 a curious fact that the higher the cit-ilization the wider the variation. That is to say, the brain weight in saag(e races .> ....:e narly iiitiorm than in enlighitenedl. nations. While in a general way the t'averag< woigliu, of the brain i: great i civilized'4 races, it doe uiot. at aill follow that t.he braiin is an1 inienitionl (If thle degree0 (If intel Iigenlce. IThe aIveIrge wiht o f thle ault Europ eanl mIall biraini is folrty-Iinie toI tifty (tuees. 'That, of! thle female is forty-ftoi ti foty tII ill lines, thle dIifference beinig fu lly3 tenib0 porcent .8 Stai tics fo4r Amiiericei very nealrty (5o incidi with thi. loI 'uilt. Ther1 e are eixamlnehs (If men I I or1remarkca tble intt.ellctuial attanmnits whose blrains thnvg latrgelIy e1xceed(<di the average, a. .D an iel Webcster als~o hadt' a very la:rge biraina. hat (If A gassiz/ wighed( lifty'i-thIree andl a half (Innle-, ntot, v'ery much aboI 111 ve thtietV averge. (h)i lie ot.ht hiand(, high blrain wVem ih hiave alit beer founid where t here fl was ) no V eidece o srio ir iit1.tintna cIapacily. In ai luiglisht iniS-uie atsyhiniu cwarly toen pie ccint. (If Itie (cass (exainedI) sil,wed( I bri wtevigh t. (If over Ii ftv-tive onices feeblle intellect, andit ani abn'ormiall, barge onemy inienate the s:iine. lie t ween the extremlies theroe is a w%i(l <puility tha n (jlantity (If brain miatter I it, it is tsiilted b~y severa':l ('ompo1i antthinig approIiachingi average size,: brin Ie I han t hiirty-sevien (Iuncles fusualty anIted wiih imeea; ility ltI Iothe wrs, ai bratino (ilessj tl hanlIrha wieight, wtiil t,I conf' athea ren oingit fin 1nc.Itlieigaed aIt fi r e itelietc, may1 lst spr aring fr a ibain?o t ir? ouI nces.-'ui i4stt. Reu>iia7n. 1 ta nthe rsevetenhietufcta'ry an tmrelc iteighte and tealy iftur itrd of hitrcum,( ferileneI ighe aOlt east ftou (p(14ItdIs,4 tandie os w ion fvaryiing from1.0 tIt .ilil, andihii ofe moe. re4Iitai theiui'alo wlater, tilds,or glazedir'c I~ wae r, and~ coniituted an horgton atle fty prop smity holord asw yelsw a00 baolu eronm th oPri mnftrer s baii to knoduce its1 size, 1( arnd toeakt it of' tltey and theihurs now lcti fasitn tand thoe goo popl tei ofe thervoiinaytm.,a The Story of a Vlriness. 'Tho several current press notices of the royal order Of Kapiolani, recently )resenlted to the author of I Kalani of Oahu." by King Kalauca, failing to de soribe tlht religo-romantic incident which imparts intrinisic value to the name, I send a brief epitome of the story for publiaetion. The literal mean ing of Kapiolani is "fprisonlr of Heal en." I'rinces'l Kapiolhn, of Hawaii, was daughter o the last l' ig of 11il, and among the first converts of the mission aries. When first seen by the white clergy K\ ap)iolanii wais publicly ano01int ing~ herself with cocoanut oil, wilIc under go. ng some1 heathlen rite of her t abut creed. Fron this state of pa2an ldegra dation the beautiful Princess soon )e camne one of the most devout ('Cristian con verls, glowing with pio s zeal to no complish something winch m'ght break through the suporstitions of her people. Twenty-six thousand idols had been do atroyed by fire, by order of liing Liho liho and the ligh P riest, Ilowahewa, tnd yet the degrading tabu remained unbroken. It was lito for some other overt act to be thought of. InI a state of drunken frenzy 1 iholiho had broken the talmi by eating with the women. A brave act for a yolug King, hut not of sullicientt ilportance 'U alleet the tabu. ilpiolalli now catne to the rescue, aid, With it moral heroism equal to any act of h r sex, she determined to br- avo Pole in her own fiery stronghold of Kilauea, testing the divine power of her new-found Go(by defying the goddess andI breakingr her tabut in the presence of a multitude. News of her intended sacrilego was proclaimed all over the islhmd, creating a feelin of consterna tion, not only for the welfarr of the Princess, but lest the very island should e <lest royed. Many came to plead that Phei would abandon the rash act: and n1on1e Were more terrilied for her safety t,han Nailie, her warrior-husband. Followed by eighty of her terror Ftrielet friends, Kapiolani walked a hulndrecl miles through the moun'ain wilderness on her pi grmniage of terror. Approaching the seet hing crater, lia piolaini was met by a shriveled old priestess of Pele, benring a tiery male diction from 'clc-hot from the dread 11allman-Iman, (house of everlasting fire)--in which Pelo threatened not only death to all coners but destruction of the island. The multitude stood appalled, and be-ged the Prinee-s to des:st from her rash act. bit, <uoting some new learned passages from Scripture to the Kahuna wahine-womanl priost-Ka,t piolanli talked calmly and resolutely to the crater's verge, where the sea of molten lava ra-ed like a storm-lashed ocean lemonst rat ing I e wrath of l'ele. Gathering a handful of sa:red obelo berries, ever consecrated to Pole, she ate them in derision of the tabu rite, instead of casting them into the erater as a peace oflering to the goddess. Gathering uip stones, she threw them into the ier !'ood instead of the a:cus tomed berries. Standing there in the presence of t he most awful natural ph - Iomllela iin earth, confronting the Illost terrible concept ion of a pagan deity, Kaplaiolaani calmly addressed the mult i tude as they stood appalled at their own fears: "Blehold! my people, the gods of Hiawaii are vain gods. Great is ,Jeho vah, my (o I. Ile kl-indles these fires. I-e:ar not I'ele: she is pmverless. Should I periIi, then fear her power. Should ( col preserve IIe,, t ihen break. your tabu, knowing there is but oie t(icl. ,Jeho vah." in commemoration of thisbravo nect (cf Kapciolacni, Re Nui ( thes great)', cthe King's present wife, was named, and the royal Order of Kapiolatni was prioclaimedOc , for the " recompens coi ccf ciis - tiniguishied mier:0. to thce State, for hiu maccity, geius-~ science andc art, sir ices rendeired to ( lurselvyes or ('ur Sue ee,sors5. '- Hoston C'ourkcr. KCnew ils IUnsiness. A few months ago a conductor on one ocf thle Chicoago street-ears sudcdenly ex 1sricecd religiocn and joined a smalli ic ok ini theil nighborhood cli cc( of his~ re'si diccnce. Non morceli dc dcvoiit than hce was toc bec focind ini thel (cuntIry aroundc, and evcry spaire iniccienut frcom his buineilss stren'cgtheincg up thecc littlec church intco wh ichlc c 1c0d crcojected hiiimself. NcotIic incglcis inctcres, his pacstor', to encouragec imc, shovced hcimi clong all he coulcd, andc inc a shcort.t iinc the ncew cconvcrt was a ! hliningc lihit amonccg his fcllow'-wocrshcip persi, andl thle ~Christiani grace with which lhe cpas';dc the1 ' cc j cniu ic cl-pclate oked iikh-s fro whai '~It beor cchcadcc bceen bar *rcic pckeits." no )cc Sulacy mnling a hioodclumn was noccisy, ccndl ice I'cndcccccor quiiitly ocrderidc himcc ccui. lI wentii, bcui, lust Sundicay cvcccincg hcc ucppcarccd with, a mcb of dis - sc biite ci c acciccis bccnt ccn ai ciiliculity. '1leo ecclccictcr heptf. alli evie ol thie lc:dclc itictil (lie dlisfurbaceO becameo tlu f '1'it, cOii I craes ai incmcllt, pc rsonu,' sacid hec, 'ftill I loock after this fare.'' i Apprcocinig thei thccg, hce went for' himi, cccl ipdc cup sevcral yardcs oif aisle with hcimi, andcc then stodcc imc oin his lcgs. I ive cnca for thce kingdom oif (Gol!'' lie dlenciiilccd. Thec hoioclumii said hec djtlic ot have to pay. " Iive cnts fori this rido oc. the Gospel hc cit,'' acid Ihe smacnshedc the ihng ini thec " lit, crc ote,'' remohcst rctedl the pas tccr, "ycu cannocllc t compejcl imc to) con "Never ycu mcincd thact parsoni. Yo)u prch andcc I 'll(' clleet. This mcan can't dc ad-hc on li ticis ocicrtordcx throuighc linec withcuuf putin g upl. lIeside ['im ic. sponcisiblec toc thec e<m)ch'nyc fcor his faric. i've jiiniihd im L.d he'd got to) shiow' he robl i :c eso accminodfates itself tco a miwdc cdiet. talking frucit ini its sea Mr n. but. liinig a'mo1(st wvchly upon wccrmns ini thce early and 1'ter pcortions ofl thle year. andic feeding its young al most exclucsivcly upcon insect food. If thie(11 roin gets too miischtievotus he ree ommendOlc s taking a ncumbcer of him for a poct-pie, as Ice is a vc'ry goodl game bcird whlen fat. It i rba,lo, however, that the fruit eatent by the robin is not In ex coss af what woulId 1)e destroyed by the isects hce oats early in the Spring, if thov Were0 loft to do their work. 1 ome snel a gator laughs when it is only skin deep. HrrTs to housekeepern favorite cats become too p "pool their issues." FAITH moves mountainlm couple of express wagons. ionable woman's baggage. Tax grand and awful twoen a tree and a bore ' leaves in' the spring, and the he never leaves. Tna two urchins who played * ~ Ing from the wreck" by using t mother's holiday dough-trough for alife boat, were lashed together. A xAN in Baltimore has the wooden shutter of the room occupied by Mary > Phillipse, who gave George Washington the mitten. Cupid's blind. TiE bible tells us not to put our trust in riches, and a great many men don't at the present day. Their total lack of riches explains why. A MIJNESOTA farmer, who has five grown-up daughters, hassued the county on a claim that his residence has been used as a "court-room" for the past two years. A HADDENDLD (Cape May) sign roads: " Is cream salon cakes prettzells and canddy and cigars oisters and lodg ing and horses wattered constantly an hand." IT lias been said that poverty treads npon the heels of great and unexpected riches; but then a newspaper man never has corns on his heels, and he can, atand it. ProrRuiToE-" If you boys don't lear out I'll call that officer and have you taken in." Boy-" That's where you'd be taken in; that policeman's my' dad, he is." TiE church Is the pew rest place on earth.-Steubenville Ierald. And one can tell how good the men are by the number of hymns found there.-G incin nala Gazette. SOMEBODY wants to know why we do not go to Europe. Well, the fact is if the rest of Europe resembles the part that has come over here, we've seen enough of it.-Burlington Hawkeye. EHx talked love to her, and dove to her, And tried to squeeze her hand, While she sat up and " esed" and "noed," And yawned behind her fan (Because she had sat up the uight before. With a fellow she had an awful fondness for.) -Neubenvfile Herald. Tirs following advertisement appeared lately in an Irish newspaper: "This is to notify Patrick O'Flaherty, who lately left his lodgings, if he does not return soon and pay for the same lie shall be ad vertised." "WELn, if I ever saw the like," re marked Mr. Whiskyskin, as lie mopped the perspiration from his brow. . " I don't see where all this water comes from that oozes through my pores. I haven't tasted the stuff for ten ye.rs." WHAT a pity that a big heart is so often compelled to keep company with a small income?-N. Y. News. Rather, what a pity that a big income is so often compelled to keep company with a small heart. " Do not know commas when you see them?" said the village school teacher to the book-keeper of a banking-house, whose education had been neglected. "What are these (,, ,, ,,) on your gro cer's bill?" "Beers," said he. POLICE court scone-Judge to an un prepossessing tramp : " What are your means of living?" "I am an inventor." " Ah, indeed. And what have you in vented ?" "Nothing as yet; but I am on the lookout." Mns. D)OMEsTIcITY calls at the kitchen furnishing store. " Have you Cook's stewers?" she asks. The dealer is dumb founded till ho is shown an advertise mnut of "Cook's T1ours," when he di.. reetedl her to the nearest railroad office. TEN residents of Waverly, who wouldn't do a day's work for anything, recently hauled over twenty cords of Wood to get a red squirrel that wasn't there. Then they crack ed a command ment. -Owego RIccord. WHY is it that whisky straight will make a man walk crooked ?-Bioston Glo/>c. Why is it ? Why, it is because you drink it. Did you never think of that? You leave the whisky in the jug, and it will not make you walk crooked. D)oN"T blame the rooster for bragging' over every egg that is laid in the family. Only hunan nature, nothing more. You remember that when that bouncing boy arrived at your house it wasn't the mother who went about doing the crow ing. AN Indian came to an agent in the northern part of Iowa to procure some whisky foi a younger brother, who he said had been hitten by a rattlesnake. "Four quarts I" repeated the agent, with sur pnse ; "' much as that?" "' Yes," repliedl the Indian, " four quarts; snake very big." lintnrail Advatiages on a Small Farm. Amonmg the first of natural advantages on a small farm is a good husband and a good wife. One other thing I will say -whaitevcr you und(ertake to do, do it better than~ you did before. Never mindl whether you exceed your neigh bors or not-beat yourselves. What we admire in a lant or animal we admire more in a man--that is growth. If1 you fre making beef, or perk, or mutton, or milk or butter or cheese, or working oxen or trotting horses, make them bet ter next time, especially if you make thmngz or the judgment day of the mar ket. So of vegetable or fruit products. Let wvithered and inferior goods come by railroad. D)on't let the market know ofyour going back in quallity any. It will despise and never forgive you if you do., Again, don't try to (10 too much tof a kind, nor too many kinds of things. T1o excel in leaping, you can't jump In all directions---you must throw your heft toward one point.,. B. Acott. LAsT Sunday afternoon the superin tendlent of a city Sunday-school was quiestioniing the pupils on the subject of the lesson. Among the questions asked was: "When God found out that Adam and Eve hand sinned in the garden, what dlid ho do?" A little fellow in the rear of the room was just too anxious to reply; his glistening eye and excited frame attracted the attention of the questioner, and unfortunately lie was greeted 'with a nod, indicating that ha might answer. With a voice, the echoes of which could be heard far off in the distant commons he shouted, "Gave 'em the g. b." I'o most of the school thin was perfectly intelligible and satis factory, but to a few it had to be ex plained that it was street arabic for "grand bounce," that Is, removed from the garden. A NEW poem says: "An angel touched his lips, and he smiled." Well, that in a new name for it. The author ha& made too free use of poetic license. For "ne"read "bottle" and why ~ "smle" wllbecome or O apparout