Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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fw. b;$O I'EU TO t'OL rU;w, 31ORLAI,I Y, 111UCITION AND TO THEP GENkR sL 1N I'LESH OF 1,,il? COU titY. By D. F. BRADLEY & CO. PICKI.NS, S. C, '1IIURS.DAY, MARCH 29,1883. VOL X-I_ NO 27.-- __ ao. has been made a slgpa ie;; tatlon. A three hundred pound Porpoise has en caught near Wilmington, N. 0. The amount of naval ttor'es produced tin North Carolina is more than double 'lbs yield of all the other States com 14ned. There is about the usual average of wheat sown in Tennessee, and farmers are expecting good crops. A raft of 400 walnut logs for New Orleane, to be shfpped to Boston, is Xf4y to leave tittle Rock. A. M. Scott, of Hill county, Texas, raised last season'680;bushels of sweet pot.tees ou one acre of ground. Bitds-eye maple, which sells for $150 per 1.000 feet in England, is used for Are wood in North Carolina. Eighteen Mormon elders are in Chat.. tanooga, on their way to different points South, where they Lo proselyting. A New York fin will shortly estab lish a regular lumber trade with Mobile, and will at first send out a vessel once a month. The Railroad bill row pending in the North Carolina Legislature provides for three Railroad Commissioners at a -alary of $3 0JO a year each. 'Over $30,000 worth of whale oil has been shipped from Brunswick, Ga., this year, and it promises to become an im portant and flourishing business in that locality. Within the next twelve months be tween 100 and 160 acres of grape vines will be set out in the neighborhcod of Gordonsville, Va. Forest fires extending eighty miles above Chattanooga, alng the Cincin rnati Southern road, are causing great jstruction of timber. The Hot Springs property, in lath county, Va., containing 1,196 acres of land, hotels, cottages, baths and nume rous buildings, have been sold for $100, 000. A State Military Academy will te built at Savannah. Bonds to the amount of $20,000 will be issued at five per cent interest, to run thirty years. A committee has been appointed to can vas for subscriptions. A block of marble was shipped a few days ago from the Hawkins, Tennessee, quarries. It contained 186 cubic feet, weighed 84,800 pounds and sold for over $400. New Orleans D-mocrat: " What the Atlanta cotton exposition did for the ! South, and we are now realizing the fact that it brought millions of dollars here, and that to it is due the investment of $15,000,000 in southern cotton mills alone." At Griffin, Ga., some tne threw a lump of poisened dough in Abel A. Wright's fiin pond, causing the death of no less ttsan. 500 fine Carp. The Georgia Wine Company has 100 acres in vines no0W produciny, and 80 xacres for future use. They expect to make 20,000 gallons this year. They get four gallons to the bushel, and geun erally gather 160 to 250 bushels to the acre. Dr. Charles, the Forsythe county, Ga' miner, wgites an interesting letter to tihe Clarion. He says the Franklin mine makes from three to four pounds1 (f gold per week, and not running their mills in full regular time. The expen sea'are about $1,000 per month, which is $12,000 per year, and in this way money is scattered over the country. A curiosity is exciting the colored people of Macon, Ga., says the A tlanta Constitution. A negro boy, called "the snake baby," fourteen years old, camne from an adjacent county. His body is very diminutive, his arms and legs are the size of a buggy wheel spoke. lie lies prone on his stomach all the time yith his feet dIrawn back. In tile mid die of his hack white spots are seena. His tongue licks out~ of his mneuth hence the name, "snake baby." Hie can't talk intelligently. The English colony, at Rugby, Tenn., which hmas been in financial straits for some'time, has just receivedl a loan of $125,000 from a wealthy Englhshman. Henry Kimber by name and a solicitor by profession. The lender receives, a< security, a first mortgage on the Rugby tract of 25,000) acres and the imp)rove ment. belonging to the board. Mr. Kimlber is one o'f th:e original stockhold-. era in the enlter pri-e. The project of eatahishir g a coaling station at Port R?oyal hangs fire, owing to the fact th:'t no pafrt of the appro ;oriations voltel last ye ar for a store hause and1 (lock could be used for the purchlase of land for the site of the sta tion. Parry's Island has been agreed upon, and an amendment to the Syndry Civil Bill appropriates $5,000 fcr thle pulchase of the land required * ~ The planters of Polk county, Ga. have prepared for the next crop, andt( have ,ntde more composts than they have :nade in the ten preceediing years all pu't together. They have generally used Furman's formula, whlichl has been used in that vicinity withl great success There is doub)tless real wisdom in aban. doning high-priced comme cial fert il zers, and, by saving and using domestit manures, muck, leaves, scrapings fron fence corriers, etc., they get a muel better fertilizer at a small fraction oj the cost. Bron CmoxuN PIE.-Oover the bottom of a puddingedish with slicca of broiled ham ; cut up a a 'd chicken and nearly fill 'ihe di'h ; pour iL' gravy or melted butter to fill the di'h : add chopped onions, if you like, or a little curry pow der, which is better ; then add boiled rice tofil all interstices and to cover the top thick. Bake it for one4%4 jp three. aurtrof n our. - TOPICS OF THE DAY. ARABX PASIIA is said to complain that he is not receiving an r.dequato allow snce, as was agreed by the Khedive. TEn fund for the sufferers fram the Braidwood (Ill.) mine disaster anounts to $28,000, which will keep those in need for one year. A MATHFATICIAN interested in thc sugar trade has estimated that the re duction in the duty on sugar will at:on to seventeen cents annually for each per -on in the United States. UnAUNCY \VAnNEn, of Cambridge, Vt., has made arrangements to present thI .town of St. Albans with a $3),000 houss for use as a free hospital. He will pro. vide a $25,000 endowment fund, alfso. SEnVIA is dependent on foreign coun. tries for her salt supply, and to stini late explorations the governmenit offer; a prize of $80,000 to the discoverer of ii workable salt mine in the kingdom. Tiru Arkansas Legislature has passed a law which prohibits for two years the selling of liquor within two miles of aum church or school house, except on peh. lion of a majority of the adult inhal,it ants. In Now England such a law would give practical prolibition. Ex-Gov. SrnAovac's bride is described us having regular, pleasant features, fair complexion, dark brown hair, and dark blue eyes ; graceful in iovement, of medium height and fine figure. She 'raveled in a dark blue walking-dress with a crimson sash, and on her hat were red ostrich plumes. A LIEVENANr of the English Rifk Volunteers has received iustruction from the War ,ecretary to form an Army Tel egraph Corps to take the field in time of War. The corps will contain two hun. dred men, and will be orgsnized on tli same basis as the Army Postal Corps. All the necessary field equipments will be supplied, and the men will be drilled in its use. IMPORTERS have been consulting law yers as to the constitutionality of tla new tariff bill. The only ground upoi which a supposition even can be base( is that it is a revenue bill, an-1 origin ated in the Senate. But among the Senate and House lawyers, includint those opposed to the passage of the bill the point of its constitutionality was no seriously called into question. Tux provision in the last Army bil excluding from calculation as part of th, regular retired list preseribed by law not to exceed four hundred, all cflieeri retired under the law of last year he cause of having reached sixty-four years or having served forty years, reiieve( the regular retired list to the extent o making thirteen vacancies, which wil be filled at once by ti e retirement ( disabled officers. Tu State prisons of New York havt paid their way of late, but it is no probable that they will 1d so hreafter as a bill has already been passed prohih Ating hatmaking by convicts, and othei measures intended to take from such in. st-itutions remunerative em p oy men t are under consideration. This is dont to meet the approval of a class of labol agitators who believe that prison pro duction is an injury to outside labor. THE question whether a man Rlhould be permited to marry his deceased wife's sister is of perennial interest in England Bills to give this porzaission have re peatedly passed the House of Commions, but have alwvays been rejected bcy t hi lords. The Bishoj,a ie 'eunerally on posed- to the chnr;, some oif themn r garding it with horror, imai(1 :--h1ing ii iot even an act of Parli:unecnt wubLl : far sat idy their conIscii'n.c is to aii. them to sanction by (hn c. ronh le the chutrchi a union wh 1ich t h.v bh .v to be immioral and expressly f.>rhbieh by the laws of (God. JRF,v. I)a. MonoANx n)ix, of W:cshing Ion, 1). C.,-in a reenIt sermon, saidl thL there is a criminal iaxityv in the regari for the marriagc tie amng l4 many, wome >f fashion. The.1v care for noI reall ham,ii he says ; they wish to avojid the pa in and the cares and( dutties of mnirimnon: lhe care of their children tocv hoii over to servants. Th'ley lave lax no0 oi about divorce; and there is ac gr.i indifference to this "'chief of all sdeb abominations" Spceaking generdl Dr. Dix affirmos that it is thle flait h le;.ne. of women to do her duty anid missil that emboldens the "eonspiramur aigami: her honor." AoCOnDINo TO tlie Census, the nTilt of horses in the Unitecd Std.-ce is I o),g 8 111; mules 1,871,07:* inilch cows, 13 125,685; oth1er cat'tle, 28,046,077; slhee, 19,237,291; hogs, 43,270,086. Thle al gregate value of all thes- annuials $2,338,197,968. The average value, horses is 670.59; mules, $79.. 4; Cow: $80.21; other cattle, $21.80; shee; 62.53; hogs, $6.75. The highest aves age price of horses (8102. 14) is in Mie sachusette, and the lowest ($37.68) isi Texas. Illinois has more horses tha any other State, the numb)er bein 1,017,915. New York is next highies with an2.8ao MR. WYMAN, the newly appointed United States Treasurer, is of Uiiited States parentage, though born in Canada He is somewhat over middle age, and Tory popular and conpetent oflirer. Ifi was appointed to a clerkiip in ti Treasury Department in Arril, 18fl3;w.i A-sistant Treasurer frorn 1875 unttil it7ti, when he succeeded to tho'Treasurershi, holding that position until 1877, mhlwn he resigned becauso of ill health. Sine, the latter date, tipon which the retiring_ Treasurer was appointed, he has he,; assistant. Mr. Wyman brings to th olice the experience of many years, nmi will, doubtless, fill the place made vacami by Mr. Gilfillan's resigiation ably. Ex-Gov. CRAWFoRD, a resident of Washington, agent of the State of Kan sas, filed at the Interior )opartnent r, cently, a brief in support of the position taken by the State authorities on sundry long-pending questions in regard to th-. Atchison, Topeka & Santa 1 a R;iload land grant, and the ease will prolalh come before the Secretary for oral argu ment at an early day. The brief nrgnee that adjustment of the grant under th< Supreme Court deci-ion of 1R75 concern ing it would give the State title to about 800,000 acres of land alleged to have been ille;ily certifled to th1 a i lire company, and that, in any ..cn" it, iin State is entitled to some 300,0)0 acres now held by the railroad. THEur recently died near IAwiston, Me., a woman named Latimer, who was the most persistent devour,.r of boolci and newspapers the world has ever known. But she derived n; benefit thereform, for it was literally and not figuratively that she clevoueit them. Sh developed a mania for this singular diet very early in life; indeed, she herself dated it from that eventful epoch of in fancy known as the period of teething. She would eat letter and wrapper paprr if she could not get a book or a nowspa per, but printer's ink was the Rauce which gave her an appetite. It is said that she was an intelligent woman and iudulged in no other freak, and, more over, that she inherited her morbid taste, which, strange to say, was not the cause' of her death. Trw Washington correspondent of the dostoin A-li rix, r hins some interesti;t 4ossip about the owuersh,ip of tl: ttogers-lmuso, near the White-house. tlenry Clay uisel to own the lot oi vliieli it stands. IIe was etpeciall- I, voted to the Ashland fnia and the liv stock upon it. One lay old C,iomodore 101Jn logers came home from the M li terranean with hi.- naval vessel full of live stock which lie had piek,d ill ibroad. The cargo iinelirled on th1 Aiuniahi-iui jacka'n. Ciay wanted it foi his farm. All his off. rs wero rtj. ctel until one dty the (onnodore sail, in ; joke: '- You cnn haiv' him f,r vuir l, uppsito the Whit-ine." " Done. was Clay's reply, and the aninnd wi 'hipped ol' to Kointi'kv. 'I he (.2mo lore Ibuilt the now historie huise, whiel Seerctary Seward o-m-upie 1 during tIn war. -tere Payne en Ieavored to a:os aiiatI him on the night whenlI' resieidl Lincoln was shot. The lot is now valie it $40.000. An(rew ,iaclson. Cheovalier- Wikoff, in his delightful "1b miisejumneies,"' give theii f llo'wing ac' iHouise, one evringi, to~ be pri)tedtS t< thi Pr'ienit. Wh'len tin-y iieriv id, the Pienit wvia asill et diinir, hmt it was act long befi-ore thIe doo. rs were thriown openm, mal (Gene;ra I Jackson~ enter( d ai ilt thle le:nil of his coinpanyi, tailkiing and lauigh ing wih muuh aintion. Hie sewd in high glee. Sentinjg himiiself nar the himl. I was -itorbe-d for somie lumitest ini scaingii~ thle fale anmein o(21(f t his re miIakali n n. fui pesoin lhe wa iall, was long,lbut 'iarroiiw, mali coveri-i with tiek' giray hair tiltd toodi iii-t , as iihough iro11pre.ede withilo hidtianit siriit; li browi was- delly fuirrowedl, and( hii (eye, eveni in his prisnmt. iaoodl, was oie "tIi threate-n aind comannd." H'is niose was prminen~-t, ad indicited for-co. lliP adI f.iigot all telse. Myv frii-nd inti mated-'4 he4 wuld presen~t tenthifr Preseinitly a genitliiIn2 nut uily -n and-whispen i ini his -ir. in ia hmomlen hesprng from his c-hair, his ey-s ihtl-h "Hy the Ete-rnal!"' I heard hiim ex c(1im "1II l ms them!" I1er on neli' iar him2 j umpeiWiot his fe-i a tioundedi at ihi udeni exlJisioni. if wras siurroiune, and1( all were1-( dlennnlinu ii it h12 iad crredi. I wase eli-ctilitdil tillh ipetacle. Liko( a Ilion g:ili-d t fury hei kep1 t on gtticu lating andi d< 2 nounc12(ing' som1o ouitrage hie wiothl w lurook. At. h-ogh I' was- to ld thalit inifiom lion wasa briought huim tha2t till Sionat had1 r-ji-itedl Vanu linren2's nomIlination t -2 sonal1 insuilt. The1 (oppisition in iaullionec brecaking ny the (Cabint for his:- ot-nl Jlpurpos4s. O p-in war was~ now derb:re,i lb-twien ( adhun nndI ,Jacken. Th 4was siugg?ed bi y myl fiind that2 unde1 theiC1i22' cicntanef myi in troiuttion 111n bectte r he i pot poed. I readily ngreed 121)n no1 fany to applroac(h thle viol-an inl erution.l I conisideri-d jiny-If for-tu nalt-, however, in having s'-ien thle tir Ii hero in (one his4 to)werl2ig pass51ion. Whla n a contrast t-o is first p)has2o! t- ---A block of bumildhings in Phila leIphi is 2insu1red for -' .!, A00,00t, orI atl ies rat< of %5 i(HL(HOU) pnr are. EASY TO SAY. 'Tis easy to say: "Io brave! be strong I" wlnn the ttdep of troubl rnn Hwift alofl, Ca And the bltke4t of eloiuds oleur tho ,ntn w1 Ere yet the coveted prilzu is won. 'Tin en'v to any: "Now slhow iouir pluokl fa Anal hope to-unorrow for better luCk !" D1 it hard to wAlk on the slantin <took Of a shlip that's sutierod at total wroek. tl fu 'Tin eaey to say: "Forgot! forgivo !" We hoar it often oeah day we live; A Christ inn's tlut.v-Itt, otl, how few a' But lind it a dilileult thing to do I fo 'Tim eany to say anotler might to tlave e(onpirOeti it an un<lttia fight; ha lut wre we int ei lli4 toes to mt Cet We might huve Hutf(red at worso defeat. ha 'Tis easy to Hity: "1 know how far Oi I cue .to'' il f')llv's et''w'en-ltng tail'; tRut ea'ily, easily (itown wte (Ir 1) Until deatl gives the coulnan to stop. W 'Tis easy to say wa w,onld not vield a A SingIo pointii on the batto-lilltl; m1 But though i hero wve mnay aitlnire, hF The courig witI us uay not stantid fire. di Brave words are oamy enough to say ; fo Brave decads, hiowever, will w in tlie dav; And the stoutest he'art itn:y it 1 owner fall, though well protected by co:tt of mall ft If weak or strong, when put to the test, tie aloes tis duty who dloes his best, And Inin(1 each iyav-it la sal but true-- f( That easy to say has ba-ln harti ta, do.t -Josephine 'ollard. in N. 2. Ledoer. b Flatboat Pays. si That brave old warrior, General Wm. W 0. Butler, who died not long ago at his IC home in Kentucky, at the advanced ago " of cihty-seven, was emeting m1oe r than a soldir. He ws at poet, and lad 1e at times given undoitl'd evidence of n po,sse's:eing the divine afllatus. HIs poom h comm1n1entcin g, " 0 boatmann, wii that horn agsyw b F r never diad the liste'1ng air b U;pin tits I;ambnt hog')m hiar s> wild, tssoft, so sweet a a+train," will long hold its place among the gemar al of American poetry. But the days w;'oa k the only meats of transportation on itu O great Western rivers was the flath a:it t have passed awl'ay. It may almost .e f said to be a thing of the past, and hiaeo ri the fine flavor of General Butler', poem t< is lost to a great degree to a generatiol tt who only know of it by tradition. m A voyage from Pittsburg to New Or- ,a leans by flatloat was an eniterprise once e of greater peril than a tour around the e woral is now. It was ci't+tin to be full of n adventure. It required months for itt, 11 atccomU lishmlnert. A shot. fromii the shore by some 1 dian or reckle.s deap'rad(( might term11inate abruptly tne voyaiag(: and the lives of the navigators ill blood. A momnt's neglect of the steetrsml:t.m nlight d wreck thu unnihapely craft and all the a hopes of ita owners, hundreds of miles C from home and in an inhospitable wilder- a nes/. There was danger everywhere-in e the currents. eddies, wh irlpools, hayous I I01ad miagi of the tortuous Father of C Waiters; but there was no less danger l froman the half civilized dwellers on the t Ibanks. The o,utlawed criminals and the q desperate adventurers from civilization 0 ukulkel r.long the ahores, or prowled e with light a'intoes among the bavons and C ereeks witehitg for chances to k)lunder, C even if imirdehr was necessary to ml then. 9 A flathoat voyage down the great riv'ers C was p(wrilmis enouigh froin natu)'al causes, fi evtn if n's ihumtlanity to m in had not a iuc'reasled the peril. In those days the I gover11anment. had not thought of sntag- 0 bai:ts, ilad the Mississippi w as full of half- B Idalct dangers. The current was con- m sttttly claligiag. It was ensv to he de- f c<ived into an1 +old chfannel from whicht I there wilas l nt return. IlaLyouIs were often a t.r;aps----wat:'ry culs-do'-siac---leading n1) where ulit. to ruin. The orgtanlized river t pirattei and wreckers were always on the 0 lo kiiuit for untwarv voyagers, so that a n a slight itihlp generally eided in con pl(taI dis:aster. If, under such circunl- C stnccas, thi hat ho utatani reached his dis- ? tant. hone, foota.-re and weary but penni- i less, mointhas after leavinig it, lie watsr lucky. Ini then early dlays of flathloating C a i-af rentun, evaen whent th venlture' hiadt ntt paro ven fin aanaiatlly parotitabhlo, wais aIL gruand tevent, iad the occaion) of tumnul-. nouais joay. Thel buI lsiness fired a slpecial clatss wit> sought it for its atdventutre and dangersaa als mtaihltas for its proftits. The ia river pirates miet in theo fltoalt:tmlano if Sthat early (liy a claiss ready, e'ager iandtl willinag foar the fray-a class whichi, like thea rianchleros of thIe lian, atcounited a tripa tamto anid spirit less if uniatte,nded(l with tdanger. '[hey were rough and e ready, c'areltess tad care-free. D)reamily , floaLtinig slowl,y down the Ohaio, they whiledl away with sonig atnda dancee the lazy hoturs. Tj~ haa boatmain's lierna wakedl tho1 echotes fromt distantt hills morer miusicad than steaiabosat whajit l or that car-dis tractinyg horroar, thet calli ape. It wait a roanit. e life, hetit t ing theo graindscentery and riida timte. Nintety days andt a slow, moaviing tlat iin,at, the iceery con stantly chainging buat aver wildI anid bematiful, siae tat <blagpr ain it aly gave it zest. Aln oecasiomadla wiaenturila with liver, (hrsolyrl5 e motian/ly anid ad d1od inlteres't.-iniImaapoitornl .. Of all theii aotton atprodneiiaed inO Chna, tthe motist remftiakale, ats well as thhai - most Ibe-auttifuil, is thait useid in tho fahl tricatiaan aof thle calico knowa~n ini Europea 1 undeilr the name oaf nanikin tar nanalkeenl.1 It hias baeen laaig a miatter oft debaate ' wheiathert thet texture called nankeent wvau maltnufaturedl froam a raw mnatelrial, ha1v inIg, parev'ious tan anty mniuatlital, thto yelloawisht hueti wh ieh dIistinagtuihes it, oar A wh -thlar it o'wedl its pteculhiar shtade to a light dy e. Mr. Vaii Brnuun , ho0 wits at thte hieadi ottf thte e >iimmercial mlissioni senIt taut lay llHollanda toi Pekin ill 17941, htad been ini e stru'tedt hay the Europlen merchatas toa o re<iest liat the nanikeen destitied fair -thaeir ditriereint malrkeOta might fair thet o) filutura lho dyetd a dleepear color thtan tfhty " lada been fo;r some time panst ; anud lhe ' Ihad an oppaortunity during hais stay of I asc-tuung thiat thet coloir oaf these text 1 uriis was natural tAt the r'aw materniai, anal nott subhjeact to fadet. t Sir George Staunlton, onle of ILord1 Ma r eartnety's embiassy, found, onh goiig 1 through thme priovince (If Kiangnan, thait athe cotton it produces is niaturt-ally of thae " yellow color, wvhiich it retains lafte'r spiln Sning and weatving. lit also says thtat V whten thle nantkini cotton is translatedct t to another province iL degenerates and honometlaS whaita. 3 To prn'.anv clothes pin i: Bloil andt aniokly dry them onaano twu a wo,th Repair Mhop on the Farm. Every farmer who has any mechan' genius should have some plac tore in rough or stormy weather h n go in and make such repairs on hi rm implements as his knowledge c ochanios will enable him to do well. I o farm be large and the farmer skill I, It pays to have a small building b elf, where not only carpenters' tool 0 to be found, Out also a blacksmith rge, with a few of the most importan :s. Tie farmer who can turn hi nd so as to use successfully both th rpenter's plano and the blacksmith' ,mmer, is truly fortunate, because ables him to not only mend his fart tplements during leisure hours in th nter, but It also enables him to ropa sudden break-down in the busy seasot uch quicker than he usually could had to depend on others living at stance. It is not, however good polic r the farmer to turn his attention t uch to mechanics as to neglect h rm - there is a point beyond which it ithor nrofitable nor good policy to g( Farming should be the principal bus tas of the farmer's life; to this occutp: Mn he shoul< give his principal and h tst thoughts; whatever other busine: 3 may engage in, he should treat as de business, and never let, it interfei ith his principal business. He wi ts the weeds grow while he is build g a wagon, had better be without pair shop, but he who only spends h isure hours in repairing farm inph onts, will find his repair shop amnon ,s best investments. On a farm where there is a family < )ys the repair shop is a necessity, it ti ys are to receive thorough instruct.ioi id the farm is to be iade attractiv he boy who is able to make his ow ed feels an independence which is iml town to the boy who has never had a portunity to become acqluainted wit e u-ze of tools, and when he has rn of his own the practice which ti pair shop gave him, will enab'e hi readily make most of thb repairs < ie farm, and if h has leisure, mal any new improventents. A rep:% op sI ould always be a building by i If, because if in connection wih ot s, it increases the risk of fire, at akes the rate of insurance very mu< iher.-Ak*sachusetts Plouvhmau. Chest Pevelopmnent. It is stated ''that during the In renty-five years not a single singer hi ied of coniuntption at St. Petersbur Ithough this disease has outstripped t thers, and now holds the first pla mong the causes of death at the Rn ian capital." From this and other fact )r. Vasilieff draws an inference in fav f the exercise involved in singing, as reventivo measure against consun ion. There would seem to be room f uestion as to the relation of cause a: frect. It may either Ihappen that sin rs are not consunmptiv(e 1hecauise thi an use your chest and throat freed r that consutnptivo persons are ii ingers because the weakness which pr edes incapacitates the chest and tir romn action. Both of these h ypoi (th re true to a certain point, hut neith oldrs good in all cases. A very lit hiservation will suflice to show tai od singing voice iay coexist witli reak or disabled chest, win-rens the fu etly healthy may bo unable to sin t Was a commnon practice, furl y yei go, to give consutptive put ientts p ecially-arranged tubs to Ibreat brough with a view of ex' res'ig host. We venture to hope the expe tent will not he reIeated. Clh< evelopmnent can only ' he omplished inl a umtsnner e( istent with health during the gro tg stage of childhood, and then t ost natural andl conlveni int in tle.d xerciso are the hest. Liater on in I reat mischief umy03 (done1 by unah training the muscwles of the thorax x btose~ of the throat, beside thei p, ri Ijuring the sinitler tubiles iri irii-v. les of the lunig biy violenit iirt ion, rhich the organs of resiirat1'in a oice are not adate4d heeause the 113a~ (ot been early trinedi. Rats. Rtei are ai great pest in every' city a mlwn, ail, indeed, everywheie in il omi try3. ft. seimS niearly u1 iisail et rid1 of thtemt, andti aniy muth liE ri mises to secinro this 'moi st diraOl nid is worth trying. SHomiibody reci, liindis covern lg sti)l-i, r:ift 'rs,a vieryt hart ofi ia cellatr withI oiuria -hi iteash, maidii y(l lowv wvit1.h cpp ranniy whlere a rat may ..'t, onil seat 'tg it inl thei corfhnrs on the 1loor. us tried it. rel)itedly, and thi e r's as 1been at general retreait (If bot ml id ratta, not one0 of whichl h:hil nt I enouniits returmnd. it is sahl thi:i a cellair, will not onily bantish thoise r ty pheid fevir. Ilvrtiniug iata huould hie iariiuilly sieinred ni~uin alvages o,f rats, wliih arc so, i:1,l. hey ennm get niixt to noithing ti ea '(I at we ta miost troubhled with Iis irownt rat,, miuch largir, st ii >ie.'r, liii odi nioire laveioils thoirii thle I,il;iik intving bteen driven oil' or xtiiiinal >y the moret( fiormiidiulei seits. ' >rowni rat is freq innt ly oniiled thiie N vay rat, front thle ierroniiious unpresi M .hat it. cameui frin Norwuay, whieb~ I ioi .ry it dliid not reach unil iiit hlnibel dhuundant ini Britaini aiiil Amriii. I t weared first at Astrakhaniii, in the hie; linig oif the eighitenth ceniit,uIry, ia ~tadually ipreadl over W.stern Euiii vhenice we hiavi deived it. It was o he Ifritishi Jaii b-is wire pleh in to invo thant it ('100mo i wi t.he I iiiuso [lantover, A French secumlator. A reckliiss spitinlatorW tconsult s htis i or, who says to lhin "Tho oxciting lifo thatt you 1ead yeaurintg youh (out raplidly. If youi I t up you will be a dead matn hy this d wel vemtontht." "By Jtove, sir," cries the resth pecufator, "if I were only sure of that nake a fortune-I'd go to a life insi mece eom pany and insure myself mlf a mill ion I It would be the biig peration of the centur."--PIirom n 114 -Italy bat ore*> 4 ' voted to opera. -The Prince of Waess with growing old faster than tt and giving evidence of impaired and strength in many ways. -" Marian, the Amazon Queen now exhibiting in Glasgow. She fI" native of Germany, seventeen years o ; age, and over eight feet high. She la plump and of good figure. -It Is said that the old Omnibus . < Company, of London, which runs about 650 Vehicles, loses an average of $350,000 a year by dishonest conductors. Posi. tions as conductors are consequently much sought after. -Near Mets a tame bear was walking in the woods and suddenly came upon an Alsatian hunter, who pointed hi egan to fire, when the bear stood on his hind legs and danced. The hunter thought it was the devil and fled. ---The population of Manila was being decimated by cholera, says a co!onial paper, when a tremendous hurricane swept over the island and acted a1i a meteorological antiseptic, for on the fol lowing day not a single additional case of cholera broke out, and none have been reported since. -The London Truth does not re member to have ever seen the following lines in print, which, rightr or wrong ly, are ascribed to the late Lord 13ea consfield: Fo- hiress-huntin, to eternal rame ltelongi Long Tylney Well -loy Longpole's Bttt asure he wais not tit to iaek thv bo("ts. Coutt- - flit tett-Ashmonti Bartlott- Iltdett Ooutte. -A most extraordinary and painful phenomenon hais lately occurred1 in Warsaw. A lady died under somewhat peculiar circumstances, which gave riso to a report that her death had been caused by her husband's ill-treitment. Hence several weeks after the intermnent her body w'as exhumed for poRt-mortein examination, when it was found that in the grave a perfectly healthy child had been born. -Mr. O')onovan, the intrepid Merv correspondent of the IAmdon /hui1!, News, after havingl been paid liberally for his services, was, on his return to England, presented by the proprietors of that newspaper with a cheek for $5,000. "I owe my success and good fortune," Mr. O')onovan recently said, "to Ireland, that reared me; to my old frieze coat, that protected me ; to the Daily News, that encouraged me, and to Mery, that imprisoned me." -Sir Julius Benedict, the veteran English musician, now seventy-two years of age, is as hale and hearty a; ie was when he came to America wi:h Jenny hUnd, a trip of which ho is still fond of talking. lie recently sat up composing music forty hours without a moment's sleep or rest, and when at last the work in hand was finished, and Lady Benedict urged him to go to bedi and rest, he gayly responded: -Yes, after I've read the evening papers." Maginn's Humor. William Maginnt met Bllackwoo,t in this amusing way. lie had already con tributed to the magazin', but was uu known to the editor. Wishing to have an interview with Blackwood, Magi nii set out for Edinburgh from Cork, whoer ho arrived on a Sunday evening, andt earley Monday morning preseitel hitm self in the famous shop in Prince's street, It will be recalled that the papiiers con-i tributed by Maginn wvere spicy and stinging, and that lackOlwood hiad re ceived several furious letters from Tre land demanding the nnme of the anthior of such obnoxious articles, a facet wvihih Maginn had heard of. Bllackwood now mistook Maginn, who was a thorough Irishman ini appearance, for (one of 1his angry corresp)ond(ents comIo to seek n reckoning, so the following col loq~uiy took place : " You are Mr. Black wood, I presume? "I am." "I have rather an unipleasant buisiness.' with you, then, respectiig somec thincg which apipear ini your mahgazine. 'itiv are (so and so). Would you he :.n'd eniough to give me the inme of theo author ?" "1That requires consideratjin, and I must first 1)e satisfied of your pulrposes.5" "Your contributor resides in ( o rk, does lie not? You need not make1( any mystery abiout that." " I decinme at present giving anly in formation on that head before I know more of your business and who you are."' "You are very shy, sir. I thought you1 corresXpon)ded( with M'ir. Heoc tt in Cork"'(thie atssumie*d name undi'er wvhiichi Maginn had conitributted his papeari). "' I beg to dlecline any informnat ion oin that matter." "If you do not know him, theni, pe haps you could know your own hand writing" (drawing from his poc-ket a bundle of letters). "' You n, ed not denyv your corresp)ondenco wit h that pe.rso'n with these p)roofs in miy piossessioni." " fow, in heaven's name. did you pro eure those letters ?"' "I am the gentleman han iielft." A Learty hmigh, a wvaram hands:haik' and( a wee (drap) of auld iu-pobthi made(l all things right, and resa,ned in :a pleasanuit evenlin g and a ci rdial acin-uiit ance between thle (caumtiu 1011 or andi hum<in'ouis author of the 0,h>htc to (Irenmatances Alter Seine ('as'u. The11 case wais that of a mali who wa aceiuied oif discharging lire-arms in the~ Recorer-"Xou fi red off a gun t w iee did y-ou kill anybody ?"' "No, ,vour Honor." "IDonmt von know that it is a very so rimus malftt4r to lire off a gin and ii't kill an yiody ? D)on't you know thnit vin 'ii i liabl to h)ipunishled soverely fir such carelh ssnless ?" " i o, y:mnr Honor ; but tiu-r~ 1110 mi (rtigqr('umlstanie-s." "'XVhat are they, and1( are thiere maniiy of thiem ?" "They are cats, and there are0 aniy number (if them." Rl.eordler (brig~htening up)-"' So you are bothieredl with cats, too, aro( you ? Come here one maioent. TIell mte, how "'Phree~ wth tho first barrel and two with the secoind." "Splendid I Glorious I What size shot do you misc? "I iuse dluck-shot." "That fetches 'ema, (does it ? Htum'h I Couldn't-yoiu-lnd-mo-you---g g for-a-fowv (lays ?" "Certainly, your Honor ; but you .nnust remiembear that vou are liale toi ho punished very severely if youi shoot oIl a gum inside t-he city hmiitst anid do njot killI anyb)ody" "You can go. Yell will (do, but don't let it happen again."-,t L,ol, p's/ier. -Mr. Abraham keiriieksors, resid ing ini West port, N. t . hias a p,owder horn on which is carveu~ a coat of m:m with the ataem RELIOIOS AND EDUCATIONAL. - Girl graduato3 in Fngland wear 0 gowns precisely like those worn by uni u vorsity men. -ThoeLtt li.ran Chureb in the United fstates has: Mlinistera, 's,501, gin11 l17; :hurchos, 6,171, gain 320; connuni 31ants, X01. 186, gain s 2.073. William I. Vanderbilt has just add ad _101,000 to tis $1,000,000 endow nt it of Vanderbilt I nivorsity. The ln ' Mrs. Atkinson, of Memphis, left the s mame institut on ,50.0004 - artard has students from overy t St:ate in the Un'on except \ ebraska. I)revo in inil Virgin a. Besides th're sre stuleuts roml the )istrit tof ( olui b ia. Idaho, ".Iontant. Utah, Arneiiia. in A sia, Iah:la:t Isi ":lm , C anada, Fran ce, a ir wi t C!:, Nova 'cot a antd 'russia. -- Ageil I atili"t in nisters have rea,on Y 1o th tnk at wealth y 1ia.ttst, wvhose name is ought to he known, for the gift of a :ix is teoln-roomned house and ant aero and a Lt;uar,er of ground in the t went.y-third wvard. T1here the, mnav findl a~ homeu towhen their work is eided, and the even ;ng ttl - life has comle.--Y. Y. t'ommlerrial a -The .Japanoe-o Christians of San "e Francisco have it Japanes( Gospel "0. o 2iety, who,e aim i.s to extend the Go; - pu'I amilont.r the Japane(se who are not a' ('hristians. TIhey. have also providedi a Is temporary residence, at it cio:ep rate, ; for th se of their ci 0un try men who are g ati of lmploytment. o" are poor or sick. --7T" w te'rrl. >f - The thirty-seven Methodist colle ges t in this country have -', stue(lnlts and t, f.100 0 0 ilneuome. the I hirty-one Biptist s. colleges I,tit): studeIltS, and :*1:1100I,u 1 n income the twonty-six ('ongrerational 1- clolleges 2,86i2 stuldenls, amnt :,'031 ft ilneoille, and tho thirtn e(' s ' yterianl h colleoses 1,-17 students, and s21 ',10 It it("onte. --\t a receit Wnshallint'ton reo:oin f (oneral C_'hamb:rhniiin ni'gel in a lit 11 t1e gloritication of Iiowdoin ('ol ego e over which he presides. l'e reports a ir conisiderah'e relaxation o d7scilit, a d htis the sttalietn's '" worthy o: all It- tlhe Contidenee which H rep o-sed in d them." h'lat insttttion has '" furnished lh to the N ation it I'reS:olo. t went y-t wo Senators aid I epresontativos in ('on gress, fourte:'n dudges of high courts, nino G;overnor. - of States, eigeen vcl tlee PresidIts, a I.oug.ellow a llaw . thore atd an S. S. Prentiss." Ill. -Thu "Brick C'hurch," of l;ochester .- (P'resbverian intro,intued a notw s method of taking its annual collecti ns , 'ibout ten y ears ago. It decided to take or plate collections each mlorning ani even a ing anil to divide the total amloing the . several claims, ac or iug to a prear or ranged proportion. 'lThia arratngement hl 1as increas,d tihIt henevoloneo of the onregation the total amount from , l;: t 1 -'2, ilu lusive, I eiug 23,163, he iiles .X70 for the poor fund, an'l t *9,75 raise I from the Suuuny-school a-classes.-lit,cesh r 1.\'. . )E.pes it. omie 'eats in SMimtmning. r Somewhat ovier 1t) yeats ago I seaman le bolonigin g to l,-r .i1ajt"styi's ship Orestcs Sthrow tiniself ivtrbiarrd 1s at means of Ia c:iap)ingl pnitti1ishmniit for in.tiiie ofienise. - He was pitiikl upi ih a fishing-boat seven hours attlerwal oll'thl ("(iaist of Spiailn, ty atnd1 staHted HinIt h d l ee lin ttihmting st townt,l th b il all the time. Ablout tIe esamne period tw o lnen swam up) the river h(e Mersey from .liI aierp l to Rtuneorn. 1Thev ner"otnplir+lwd' the dlistancev in Homo t thin' lo- titam four htours. Patssing over (-a long int1erval, dulring; which rlnany swi11ns t(ere recotrdledl of at fewt honurs' durat11ion, w- ne cor'' to th luin,o recent texpiloits of h' ('.pt. Webb.l.1, ctinl y the i st iemar.. 'k iiali swti inner of win,in wet have aufthieti iti li: riecordi. A fter seino m>ot:able aciiiIvio ii ntts lin lie Iish s -a, lie IlldIriook the astoiihin1g fiat oif swimmiiiing arsh -desipi ti its X iry' rough~I ieai. On the trat hI wayl, and iiwa~s fr' saf't y brughii.lt hnick by~i an atti'edant 'tt-arnmer. hlis seio:i at tinyit inm lW>? n mas uite suiaccessful; ho idfri aI i iover to ih Frc'h icioait niear C al il; hei wa iupid 'ituc'nsionailiy with h rfrsmiints by persons5 fntar at hatnd, duL~iimring t his prolioniged interval. in the samelti tyeart a yiong dalfusel, Miss Agnes Jinki th , daughi1ter 'f Bi'ckwith, the tA ih of I' siningiit, gaive clear proisf timi t then wi'akir isex is strnitg eouitgh ti) niiv'ii remfinarkable iresults ini this artt; bidigei to ( ireen wltichl, ridiii i thi'iirowdied sllhip~pinig if tinet part oif thec river. lIn a sii . fii pIii t i m, ~ ;X zinij I lar't(% ey,i t i i'-i hi tlyi'iiS <-:a -l,-d A i - mli li kith'f bridh e toi la :dl . ('aii tli,t .erither ian in miittg int nIplis orwthiiits sttix hu. InI i half di i t fa, Ia; heof was molre itri nahi te( foratof ii t.he sunft', bietindown of ilvt hi hed and ntt lunsine:o icrn intt its esthan miii greatii ii lenth of tim tat psi onis lit re i t h aii Iiaidnil ih r orli ithonts tswimmig. At tet Weaytininterit agna he - rimuina bire; tankm coistucted tor he r- t item'aryarlct nr)i tfiion of ivalte.I Sthirttuee t Agnes. Bieckwttith rmautied tig lsil or ie of ith tank,ii singn th ae ofciieittle a ofcaioayt reaingcu a tnews vaper tan lii) awa y temt drear montony,ii andittikmgy retieIngalet ane toii nhvr Theiiwaitii hadi' or s)tttrng Jifusono (sIam ay11.that Iti 'p. Webb hats Iclips11o davr tin aIlelse ofil th icdk nwt' tite toe Oget mon th of May' lii rhits ed si he [w.il tt a pnknleassma tn 60t- hofrs:ci. r iumoly foing p ll the ittimt, and neverlii ayr Them in tha hins bei;ve tho usiteo a-r Ia rotl ipt-tos itnioe ha (: ori sO~ .erail ['d 'ear sprnlfta msmallte inteiy of sue.