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The aristocracy of blood looks down Upo the nouveaux riches and in disdain Tea ve ee of the intellectual frown n , and worship at the shrine of Brain. "tq elasses here." the clerman has said; "We are one family." You see his rage Iad horror when his favorite son would wed Bee pure and potty player on the stage. xts sthe.valn, and natural human way Of vaunting our weak selves, our pride, our worth i Net till the long delayed millennial day $hsll we behold "No olasses" on God's earth. -Ulia Wheeler Wilox, In Town Topics. MY WIDOW. She was the meekest and most docile little personage you ever saw. That, of eourse, was before she became my widow. How could she becomo my widow. when I'm here alive and flourishing. to tell my own story? Just wait until rve finished, and you will see. She was very pretty, too, with pink apple cheeks, and eyes of that pecu iar translucent beryl-greon that you see so seldom, a slender lithe figure, and a step as noiseless as it she wore - the famous shoes of silence. There was something cat-like about her-at least, so Fits-Brown said, but Fitz Brown was always prejudiced against Lucilla. "Depend upon it, old fellow, she's married you for your money," said Iits-Brown. "It doesn't stand to reas on that a girl of eighteen should tio herself to a fat old heathen of fifty-four unless there is some motive lurking un derneath." "Fitz-Brown." I broke in irritably, "you're a fool!" "I may be a fool." answered that gentleman calmly, "but a single fool is not so bad as a married fool. in any point of view you choose to take it." There was no use arguing with Fitz. Brown. He was a stubborn, opinion ated old fellow at best, and he was de termined not to like Lucilla from the very first. How he did exult when he came down to my office and told me that Harry Sykes was spending the evening with Lucilla-that same reck less young good-for-naught who had been wont to hang around her before we were married. And Lucilla had told me she was going to take tea with her mother. Nevertheless I put on a bold face. "Well, let him spend the evening," said L "Where's the harm?" "Yes; but-but the curtains were not drawn, and-and it isn't necessary for him to sit on the same sofa, with his arm round her waist." I went straight home, but Mr. Sykes had departed, and Lucilla was darning my stodkings by the tire. "Luilla, said I sternly, "I must 'forbid an7 more of Henry Sykes's vis its here.' "Yes, Josiah," said my wife; "Harry is rather troublesome." "And you will please receive no more young Fentlemen visitors in my ab sence. "No, Josiah." "Tihe fact is, Lucilla, I am afraid you read too many novels." "Perhaps 1 do," said my wife meek ~"I will bring ,up a set of 'Rollins' * ~ Ancient History' to-morrow and some sermons for you to read. All lighter literature must be banished at once." "Certainly, Josiah." Could Fitz-Brown himself have ex peted more complete and dutiful ao quaintanoe in all my demands? Lucilla was preternaturally affeetion ate the next two or three days. She hung round mo in the moat bewitching manner, sewed my shirt-buttons oni, ran for my slippers, and would insist on toasting the broad herself, until her pretty face was the color of a soarlet tomato, "because cook is so careless, and dear Josiah likes his toast browned jnst so." "What shall I order ior dinner, dear? The butcher's man is here. Steaks or a roasting piece?" "I don't care," I answered meehan "F,4 t youko your wishes are my pleasure, love." "Steaks then." "And about the pudding, sweet? 8hall I tell cook to make a real old anglish plum er would you prefer Really it was very nie to hear one's wishes consulted in this sort of man ner. And when I departed from the omole, Luclla herself stood on tiptoe to ti, the worsted muffer round my eek. ."For if you should take cold, dear est, and anything should happen, it woul d,break your dear little wife's Under these harmonious circumstan. see that sudden voyage to India came like a thunderbolt across the serene horison of our matrimonial life. "How shall I live without you slic months, my dearest?" sobbed Lucilla her lovely beryl eyes swimming n But we cannot always control no ecssity, and, after a mournful farewell, in which my wife fairl sncumbed and wentint bstrics, 1 aedon ne. entar uinhefoth r f Mine and Mrtake,I myself being the sfore. said Mortlake. oew it happened that my name was erroneously lugged into the details of that massacre in which the barbarons coolies murdered so many of the fQr sign populdion, when I was actuall tens miles farther up the country,i neer knew, and then my long fever seing whleh I found it impossible to write or obtain an amanuenas. served to oiomplicate matters. When I re .overed. I resolved to foeed ltme diately back to my naI~v "I'l not write 1I .~ little heart How delighted she will beV' So I took passage in the first Eng. lisb steamer that sailed, pretty well cured of all my romantic ideas of trav sling in foreign climes, and thoroughly convinced that when a man has lived fifty odd years in bhe world his best place Is at home. Half-way across, we hailed an Eng lish craft. outwardsbound, and there was an exchange of newspapers and other civilities. As I unfolded a London paper,soaroe ly more than six weeks old, 1 saw, under the obituary notices, my own name. So I was supposed to be dead. A curious sensation, like the running of.cold water, orept down my spinal column-an involuntary shudder. It is a sudden shook to read of your own death, and calculate how long you have been under ground, and not by any means an agreeable one. "I don't think I'm dead," said I, stretching out my arms and legs, giv ing myself a pinch, and feeling the strong pulses that projected healthy currents through my veins, "and yet this evidence is certainly very convinc ing-that I was murdered by barbarous natives on the night of the 26th of May. Poor, dear little Lucillal how inconso lable she must be?" So it happened, you see, that I was going home to comfort my widow. It was a curious experience, to be landing at last-to shrink away from the observation of one's fellow-mortals, as if one had no business in this created world; to feel like a disembodied spirit. come back to revisit the scenes of its mortality, or a ghost, prowling abroad by garish daylight. I slunk through by-ways of back lanes towards my home, not altogether certain whether someone would not attempt to exorcise me. It was late in the afternoon when we entered port, and the shadows of the autumn evening were gathering round as I crept up the doorsteps of my own mansion, and catered, stealthily as a robber. Were the shutters down, the win dows draped, the house dressed in seemly habiliments of woo? Not at all; lights glowed brilliantly behind the curtains, gay voices echoed from the 1 parlor, und--eould my car have de ceived me? No, surely that was Lucil la's laugh ringing me'rrily on the air. "A little hysterical, perhaps," I thought, but nevertheless, instead of boldly entering the drawing-room and confronting my wife, I instinctively passed on to the glaced extension room behind, communicating, by draperies of purple silk, with the large apart ment-a room where I had been wont to keep my books, and which I digni fied by the title of 'library.' It was but faintly lighted by the bor rowed lustre of the drawing-room chandelier, and as I entered I stum bled over something-it was my own pbrtrait, ignominiously turned with its face to the wall. I crept forward with an ominous foreboding-a sudden disagreeable re collection of Fitz-Brown s croaking predictions. But as I put aside the Tyrian folds of the curtain a most un welcome vision met my eye. Lucilla in her widow's weeds. She looked very pretty in them, to be sure; the close crimped cap could not hide her clustering ripples of gold en-brown hair, and her beautiful green gray eyes certainly did not seem to have wept themselves dim. Moreover, there were dimpled roses in her cheeks, and smiles upon her lips; and her dress of sombre black only seemed to relieve the fair, transparent style of her wax doll beauty. But she was not alonb. Close beside her on the sofa, actually playing with her soft little white hand, and bending devotedly over the border of the widow's calp, sat Harry Sykes! "Come, Lucill1a," he said impatient ly, "you have tantalised me long enough. When will you give me this little treasure of a hand, and let me "What nonsen, Harry?" said my widow coquettishly, but she didn't withdraw her hand, "when you know that my husband hasn't been dead six months." "Oh, hang the old duffer! Whoecares whether ho has boon dead six days or six monthsP He's gone, thanks to the coolies, and he's willed you all the cash. You know very well you never cared for him, Lucilla." My widow did not contradict this sweeping statement. "But the look of the thing,you know, Harry doar. Don't squeeze my hand so." "Lucilla, don't you love me?" "Of course I do, ' with a charming little pout. "Then, my heart's queen, what is the use of keeping me in suspense?" "Really, Harry," she murmured, "I don't knowv what to say." "Tkhen say yes." Lucilla's head dropped until the widow's cap nearly touched her com panioni's shoulder. "Yes," she murmured at last. ] Human nature could stand this no longer. I dlashed aside the purple silk draperies, and entered precipitate ly on the scene-quite an unexpected addition to the dramatis personae. "Not so fast,madame,if you please?" I cried with a sort of demoniac exul tation. " I may be an 'old duffer,' and you may 'never have cared' for me, but nevertheless you and Mr. Sykes here are getting along altogether to smooth ly," Lucilla sprang to her feet with an eldritch scream. "It's a ghost! it's Josiah's ghost!" Mr. Harry Sykes stared helplessly at me, as If he had been paralysed. "No, madamo, i's not Josiah's ghost -it's his living self. You thonght you had got rid of me, did you? An awk ward mistake to make, under the oir euaastanesa. Walk out of this house, sir, and never let me see your counte nanee agin!" Mr. ykes obeyed sheepishly onough. If there had but been something of the supernatural inscrutably 1.n1e in my sudden appearauoe and vehemsent ajurations, e might have stood by his oolors and LueWa, As It washow ever, he adjourned sine die, without a vorti of apology to ma or farewell to -As for you, madame." I said stern y, turning to my sobbing wife-no onger widow---yon may go home to rour mother. I w.int no m'ore of your reacherous wiles. Fitz-Brown was ight!" ' Vehemently ringing the bell, I or lered a carriage and packed the be wildered woman ofl' ti-m ro sho could remonstrate. C That was the .sm of my matrimnonial Pxperience, for L'icilla has never yet rentured to return to the shadow of 1 ny roof. Fitz-Brown and I are keeping house A ogether, after un orthodox baei elor i !ashion. I think k'i:z is sincerely sor- k .y for me,but he i.c never yet insulted me with the truism: "I told you so!" Heaven Was with Him. "I was in Custer City three years ago, and as dead broke as a skinned I wolf," he said, its the boys pumped I him to toll how he got such a sear on i his face. 'No, sir, I hadn't a blessed nickel, I and I didn't know a human being in ' that town. Thore was no work, no I way to get out, and I leaned against a s dead wall and wondered how much I my revolver would sell for, and which f way I should head if I had $10. Tell c you, gents, I was feeling powerful blue when Hope cum scootinu around c the corner to pat me on the >ack and give me a boost. If you remember, 4 the poet says its always the darkest ust afore dawn, and somebody has written that Providence never goes c back on a man who means to do the squar' thing." 1 "Who was Hope?" asked one. "She was a female-a woman. I c don't remember whether she was as aurty as an angel or as homely as a Digger squaw. She few up to me and says, says she: " 'Do I address a gentleman?' 4 "'Madam, you haven't made any nistake,' says L "'Have you got sand?' c " 'Tons of it, madam.' "'And do you want to make $50?' tays she. "'If I don't, then an Injun never e iankered for scalps,' says I. "With that she puts five ten-dollar )ills in my paw. walks me to the corner, s md, pinting up the street to the St. rouis Red Front saloon, contiuers: I "'He's in there! Go and shoot I iim!' 'Who might it be, mna'an?' "'My husband! He's a brute and a yrant! He's just run me outdoors at he muzzle of a revolver! He's a big, ed-faced fellow with a broken nose. Jo, and may heaven be with you.' "'Certingly, ma'am, certingly.' says [, and I makes a bee line for the Red Front. "The tyrannical husband was pre pared for me. When 1 was a hundred [eet away he takes a dead squint on me and pops off his guns. The bullet rips open my cheek, as tisii 'cre scar makes aflidavy. I was whirled around and sent to grass, but I whips over on my stomach, gets a quick sight on him, and before ho could squint agin he was my meat. ''hat 'ere woman's ippeal to heaven was answered.'' "Kill him at once?" "As dead as this 'ore curbs:un! He never kicked around or mussed up the saloon a bit. Time iunjoored wifo climbed Dver him and took possession, the coroner came to conduct the funeral, and a chap with a lot, of sticking plaster fixed up my hu,rt and said Custer's groat need was a dozen Romans like myself."-N. Y. Sun. Gitving People Taffy Does no (Goodl. My son, If I should publish a daily paper for twenty years--if you can just strain your credulity to the point of believing that I could keep a daily pa per going longer than six weeks-if I should publish a daily paper for twenty years, and In sall that time take occa sion to mention you about twice ai week as "our distinguisbmod fellow townsman" and "that eminent man of letters and merchant prince," and hould say every time you crossed the river on the ferry that you had "de parted" for the 'East, and when you name back I should notice that "our justly-popular fellow-citizen" had "re turned;" If I should in all these years praise your dog, your horse, your goods, your wife and babies, your Dlothes, and your character, and then iome day, when I was away attending a conversation, my local editor shsould Dall the attention of the Town Marshal to the filthy condition of the stroet and sidewalk in front of your store, would you ever forgive me? Would youP? You would denounce the paper as a "scurrilous sheet" and its editor as a "lying scandal-monger that ought to' be whipped out of the community." T'hat is tihe reason my son why there ~ are but two kinds of editors. One is a, meek, smiling, timid little scrivener, who pays all the bills and allows his neighbors to edit the paper; the other ~ iditer is a truculent savage, who vi- I alously scratches out the nice little - personal the local editor has written A ibout your arrival home, and sendis It n--"By some inscrutable decree of a stern and relentless Providence old Jake Diff'enbau gh has been permitted ~ to come back home alive," and then / rneets you at the head of the stairs with a blackjack and pounds the top ~ f your head in wvhen you come to see ibout it.-Burdette in BJrocklyn Eagle. A pretty little story is told of the way Herr Cohn, the private banker oft the Emperor of Germany, gained the imporial favor. Years ago, when the present Empres. was still a Princess of Prussia, ase nade a railway journey to Dessau. On the way her feet got cold, so she sent out an attendiant at the next station to procure a flask of C hot water. Unfortunately the cook at the railway restaurant had just used 0 up every drop of hot water in making fresh coffee for those who had jusi arrived onl tihe train. The restaurateur was in despair, whesn one of the guests sudidenly got up, seized the pot of 7 fresh coffee, and p)ouredi it into the imperialflask. Thie attenidant hastened i away with it, but soon returned, as the ii Empress wihed to knowv thme name oi e the man who had had thme happy f thought of utilizins; the coffee. And a she did not forgrot ham.o STOOK-TRANiAV TIONS. asMh Value of Annual Transaetios in th, New York Stock Ezchange. The cash value of the annual trans otions of New York stock-brokers de lea ordinary comprehension. On Feb 16, 1881, 721,808 shares of stocks of he regular list wore sold on the floo if the Exchange, 848.940 shares on No ,ember 22. 1882, and 8.022.407 in thi veek ending March 26. 1881. Thl argest single sale recorded is that o V. H. Vanderbilt to a syndicate o ,merican and foreign bankers an< ailroad operators. Public sontimen oeing decidedly averse to the contro if the Now York Contral Railroad bi single family, he, in deference to It old less than half his interest in it Wut what he did sell amounted to tin normous sum of thirty million dollars )ne hundred and fifty thousand shares t 120. were sold outright, and the op ion of a hundred thousand more a he same price was subsequently takei tp by the same purchasers. The secu ities daily bought and loaned ro pai< or by chocks on city banks. Thi ,early business of the New York Clear ng-house exceeds fifty billion dollars nd the principal part. of this is fron ho transactions of the Now Yorl tock Exchange. The London systen f settlement twice a mouth by th )ayments of differences has failed o tdoption in our chief money mart, ant a certainly neither so safe nor so judi ious as that of cash payments. The methods of business in thi ational monetary institution are pro .ise, positive, and suited to its nature At 9.60 A. x. the members may ente: ho Board Room; at 10 the gavel of thi >residing officer announces that it ii >pen for business; at 8 r. al., precisely t is closed. A fine of fifty dollars iL mposed for each offense in public trad ng before or after those hours, an< uy contract thus made will not be re ognized or enforced by the Governing )ommittee. Collected in groups, like spring hickons in a rural boardin g-house teoper's hen-yard, Now York Central orthwestern, Milwaukee & St. P'aul eing special points of attraction, n< ooner does the gavel fall than a dozer )lending thunder-storms break loose L'ho air is rent by explosive cries hrieks, yells, hoots, irregularly risinl nd falling in gust ungovernable, )roken only by the deep bellowings o road-chested sons of Boanerges. An< hhus for five long hours the tempos ages, with accompaniments of flittinl 'orms, fierce gestures, uplifted hands ossing heads and other inexplicabli onfusions that shroud the innocen pectator in appalling mystery. Her nd there are individuals cool and col cctod as if in church, but they onl .brow the anarchic uproar into mor itriking relief. "Mad, sirs!-mad a 1arch hares!" But there is wondrou Method in this madness. Each offer the stock he has to sell-cries it loudl3 number of shares, prico. Buyers natu the prices and conditions they bid fo desired stocks. Hundreds are vocifoi ating at the sano moment; every es is attent to what the owner wishes t catch. The brokers take it all in, somt times buy and sell without looking n each other, so familiar are they wit, each other's voices; cry out whilescrit bling memoranda, "Take 'em, "Sold," "1 bought 500 of you at 97, and aiterward report to principals wh the active trallickers were, thus su: plying thomn with drta for guessing a the treud of the market. In the Bon< ltoon comparative order reigns. Al uire seated. Occasionally manners ar free, laughter loud, and jokes practical The bids and offelrs to soll are intolligi bie'. Between bond calls the broker whol deal ini these securities transac buisiness in one corner of the Boar< Room, to which they descend by al ,levator, with the stock-brokers lroni whiom th'ey receive orders. There thi voices or the trailickers are torn int< tattered shreds of sound, which con vey no more tuonnming to the uneducat d oar thant the gutturals of so miana Ohoctaws. At times the nloise is terri ble, especially In panics. Heard b~y p)articlpants in the crush ng throng, the sounds are distinci mou)1gh. "Five hundred [Noew York Jenitral] at 85-aut 4g."' "Take 'em, lhouts a buyer. '"One hundred [Cli :neo anud Northwestern] at 84, cash.' 'Eighty-three and three-quarters foi .00,' with shako of uplifted land froni mayer. "'Sold." rejoins the seller 'I<ive thousand [Northern Paucihic Pro erred] at 42. buyer 80." "PIl give 41 or the lot."' '"Sold.'' Hlundred [La:kt shore] amt j, buyer 3.'' "Three-eighths, oiler 3. for 100." (Delaware, Luceka vana, and Western) "'-any p)art ol 000 at i cash." "Onie hundred at j.' 'I will give 117 for 500" (Chicago, urin gton, & Quiincy). "Sold the lot.' 'PIll give ( [4i11] for 300." (New Jer cy Central) "''ll loan 200.'' ''Ill takt 00, liat.'' "Fifty [Rook Island] atl 14." ''hundred at F'' ''Il seli 50( acre.'' "Take 'em."' '"Give It for 00) more." "Sold." '"What's the rco?" (Lk Shore). "Thre-igh thi -i"Wa i" "W'hy, 64g."' 'Il ivo j for 1000."' "Sold the lot.'' Bid, roe monosyllabic as possible. Names f stocks are not vocalized in the 10. alities where the stocks are sold. brokers waste no breath in trading. m1 oft'ers made and accepted aro bind. ig. The securities on the free list are or, called unless asked for. Sales are either for cash, in which aco delivery is miade on the same day t or before 2.15 a..M., or in the regu. ir way, when delivery is made on the ay following, or on time, usually three, sn, thirty, or sixty days. More fro neatly option sales are for three days: rhen stock is cliqued they may be fer birty or sixty days. In option sales be delivery of the stock within the poeihied time may be at the buyer's ption or at the seller's option. I unst be within sixty days at the long. it. In all option contracts extenadinq ver three days twent,y-four hours otico must be given, not later than 2 x. ., before securities can be delivered r demanded.-II. Whaaley,in liar er's Magazine for N' mber. Chorus choirs of male voices have scomes the fashionable church music New York. There are six or seven angregations which will begin this til their first experience In male ohoeirs, nd the chorus of boys' voices is in reasing in popularity. It is quite En. lish An 01d-Time Southern Supper. It was a treat to sit down to a South ern supper the other day, where there . wore half a dozen ladies of the old . school-their respectivo ages being be , tween 70 and 85. Ah, there were rem i iniscences for you! Courteous of man r nor, happy and with no thought of yet yielding up their t'ays; dressed In black silks with soft laces; every head silver crowned--indeed they were a joy, and presented a picture worthy of preser I vation. Four of them had been neigh. I bors and intimate friends of General Jackson, and all had the kindliest ap preciation of his much-wounded wife. whom he so loved. The uncle of one had something to do with Jackson's duel, and a relative of another per formed one of Old Hickory's marriage ceremonies. A lady, hale in her eighties, who rejoicu:l in her second sight, and reads everything, scorning spectacles, and possesses line conver sational powers, related remembrances of Aaron Burr. He had come to Ten t nessee, and was wined and dined about all the grand plantations. Her uncle entertained him, and she well remom bers her father and mother being in vited to dinner during the time. They rode over on horseback. her father carrying her in front of him. She was four or live years of age, and it was at an era when parents "wont abroad" (as they denominated visiting), and the chiidron were never left at home. She was perched up at the table beside her mother, and stared to her content at the handsome lion of the day. This was after his retirement from the Vice Presidency-Jefferson having been President-and his maneuvers in the Southwest gave rise to the suspi cion that lie was organizing an expedi tion to invade Mexico, with the pur pose of establishing an empire there which should embrace some of the Southwestern States of this confedera cy. le was arrested for treason at Richmond, Va., and tried for treason beforo Chief Justice Marshall and ac quitted in 1807. The stately matron, who continued to grow inure eloquent over the famous Adonis and statesman, began ufter awhile to give much interesting history of Jefferson's private life-her depart ed husband having been an inmate of that great man's home for several years of his boyhood. Another of the dames had been a so I cial leader at Washington-had dined frequently at the White House with more than one President and had en tertained distinguished people from all lands, including heirs to thrones. And her husband was Congressman a during Buchanan's Administration, and yet another related to that President and to his magnilicent niece, who pre s sided so grandly over the White House s and was so admired by Victoria at th< s Court of St. James. They gave vivic s descriptions of Miss Harriet Lane an( Mrs. Douglas, Mrs. Weller and Mrs o McClellan and others who queened i r over the realm, and witnessed ever' move made by the Prince of Wale r when he was a guest of the President o --aan Francisco Post. t He Saw His Father. "Father," ho began, after taking the old man out back of the barn, "youi years are many." "Yes, my son." "You have toiled early and late, ant t by the sweat of your brow you have amassed this big farm." "T''hat's so, William." "It has pained me more than I car tell to see you, at your age, troubling yourself with the caresof life. Father, your declining days should1( be spent in the ,okt ar'mchiar in the chimney cor ner. feeble and helpless, give me a deed of the farm and you and mother live out your few remaining days with me and Sally." "W'ilianm," said the old man, as lhe pushed back his sleeves, "I think I see the drift o' them remarks. When i'm ready to start for the p)oor-hIouse I'll play fool and hand over the deed. Will iam!" "Yes, sir." "In order to dispel any dlelusion on your part that I'm old and feeble and helpless I'm going to knock down half an acre of corn-stalks with your heels!" And when the convention finally ad journed William crawled to the near est hay-stack and cautiously whispered to himself: "And Sally was to broach the same thing to ma at the same time! I wvon dor if she is mortally injured or only crippled for life."'-. Y. Bun. Statistics show that the people of the United States from being one of the haLrdest dIrinking nations are becoming rauong the most sparing consumers of spirituous liquors. When D)r. Rush, in 1785, bogan his attack upon intem perance, wvhiisky and rum were regard ed as amnv'i g the necessaries of life, and were "a.most as free as water." In farma labor ardent spirits were a regu lar daily ration. It is related by writ ers of the period that "in the country clergymen drank as hard as their par ishioners; that, women and children joined in tihe revels, and that it was no mere uncommon to meet a tipsy cler gyman than to see a woman or half growni boy staggering under an over loadt of spirits, or- a farmt hand lying blind dIrunk by the roadsido." In Pennsylvania there were in 1790 no less than 6,000 stills in operation in s population of 434,373, or one still for every eighty-seven of the inhabitants. A novel use is being made out of oys ter shells by a Hartford, Conn., man, who is coining money in his new en terprise. The shells are p laced In a patented mill and groundi. It has a eapacity of five tons a day. By an in genious arrangement sieves are kept at work Assorting the dust into fiue, coarse and insufficiently treated, The tine and the coarse are taken by ele vator belts to tihe floor below, where through canvas chutes, regulated by wooden slides, barrels are rapidliyfill ed. The product is sold1 for ohhloken feed. Twenty tons and more are sent yearly to San Francisco, orders are fill ed from Western states, and Berauda andI the Sandwich Islands have been nnnlited. HOW TO TRAVFEL. Iale, for Psasengers Whielb Diter Slightly from the Golden Bute, First, please keep off the grass. Travelers without baggage must pay in advance. 9o must travelers with too much baggage. Second. the trav eler who has never before been twenty miles away from home is permitted to sit in one mseat and put his feet on an other. Third. the man who plants his dusty boots on plush furniture at home and in his frind s house is expected to conduct himself in a like manner on a train. Fourth, gas burned after four o'clock will be charged extra. Fifth, the passenger who knows the least about anything is particularly request ed to talk the loudest about everything. Sixth. whenever the conductor calls "all aboard," all passengers who are taking their irst trip in a railway car will shout, "if you can't get a board get a rail." Tihis will enable the con ductor to pick them out without any trouble. Seventh, the passenger who has been "aboard" (Cook's excursion ist, Europe, Asia and Africa in ninety days). will please give accounts of the fabulous speed and superior comforts of continental railways; (two days and ninety seconds from Boulogne to Paris including stops). Eighth, all loose change in possession of the passengers may be safely intrusted to the train boy, who will deposit it in a safe place, and give you collateral security for the same. Ninth, no smoking abatt the shaft. Tenth, please to remember the porter. Eleventh, when the brakeman tills his cheek with half an apple, just cribbed from the train boy, and shouts. "Owwowwollowollockalowal-" and smashes the rest of it into atoms by banging the door shut, get off; that is your station. Twelfth, when you show you baggage checks to the conductor, and he says "donnonoth 'bout 'tav task I aggishmast.," and hurries on, put your cheek back iu your poclcet and trust to luck. Thirteenth, no pas sengor may smoke a fragrant 25-cent imported cigar anywhere save in tun cattle car set apart for a smoking room, but he may till his jaws wilh navy plug, and spit all over the wlow.m train from headlight to rear brake, u he wishes. Fourteenth, always abuse the financial and mecuanical manaige tuent of the road over which you ale traveling to the brakeman; it's all iis falt that the road isn't run in your in terest. Fifteenth, passengers will bear in mind that the brakeman's name is "Johnny;" never call him anything else. The conductor may be formally addressed as "Say, George," or if his appearance is usually impressive, you may say "Mister." Sixteenth, at the dining-station, the man who at ihome has meat three times a week and one hot meal on Sunday, is expected to growi at the bill of fare, keep the waiter busy, swear he is starved to death every time he goes over that line, gorge his way through the whole bill of fare twice, then kick at the bill and rave because the company doesn't allow its passen gers half the time for their moets. Seventeenth, this is a free country, and any passenger has a right to force his company upon any helpless stranger, wade into conversation with him, as,, him a million questions about himsel, his family, his business, his persou.i affairs, and may even compui him to remain awake to participate in sue., conversati.on. Eigiiteenth, do not pick any leaf, flower or shruu. Niucteeuti, at intervals, it is expected that tUe poorest whistler inl the car will wlllYtiu a tune which ho does not know, ani nobody eise ever hoard. Twontiet, it is the earnest desiro of the c)mpan:ui y over whose road you now travming, that as soon as you hear- any other oss senger whistling, you will toot, up a tuneless nielody of your 0Owu1. This pleases the vassor.gers who o not whistle. Ti centy..irst, "sass'" the brakeman i.ll you can wvhilo ot. the train. It might break your back it you postponed it, until hie took his uniformi The Problem of Huanan Flight. The subject ot miy paiper-fly;ng-ma chines-In a general waly, is of inter est to everybody. But, to thojo whio have given it more p)artliular at tention, It is not only interesting nut fascinat ing, and a lhttle dangerous. The path way has been strewvn with wrecks; and I fear there Is a feeling prevalent that, after all. it leads niow here inp particu lar, unless it be to the almishouso or lunatic asylum. Still, thern are times when 'ye hecarti ly envy the birds their wonderful po0w er. I remember In reading, I thinik, Mr. Wallace's book on the Amaz.ons, that lie was once stand ing on the shore of the mighty river, confronted by an impenetrabile wall o)f gren, concealing within itself doubtless no end of new plants and beetles; and whien a gavly painted mIIIaw came sailing l azily along and disappeared behind thle tree tops without any sort of trouble, he gave vent emphatically to the general wish to fly, and to a feeling of surprise that apparently so simple a problem should have remained so long uin solved. hrooe re to give an account of soe f heattempts to lythat have been madle in the past, and are now being made; and to try to explain the principles involved, and why success has not been achieved. TVhe old Greeks andt Romans very sensibly appear to have been content to give the gods and birds and butter flies a monopoly of the air; for, except ing the story of Dsdulus and Icarus, little mention has been made by classi cal writers of attempts to fly, or of fly Ing-machines. Daaus, it seems, had killed a man In Athens, and with his unfortunate son fled to Crete, whero King Minos very properly detained birn; bus. de tern:ned to escape, ho made wings of feathers cemented with wax, and, In structing learus to fly neither too high nor too low, but to tlosely follow him, launched himself Into the air, and took a bee-line for Greeee. The young man, however, was ambitious, and, flying too neat the sun, the wax melted, and he perished In the sea-a warning to future generations. - "Flying-Mla chine,," by 1. W, Mathmer, in Popular Sclence Mlonthly for November. Thomas A Edison does not like to sib C for a photogrraph. Ho is too busy.j Arranging for Organisatis ang 1Oy union xest TMr. ^ By request, a number of gentlet members of the Wallace Rouse, met Wright's Hotel, Coltumbls, on the'( evening of the 11th Inst. PenA F. A. Connor Abbeville; 1. 8. berg, Barnwell; John B. Erwin caster; J. B. Humbert, J. Wpsh WOW J Laurens; John S. Verer, Ocon.e D. F. Bradley, Pickens ' E. 8. AIen, Spartanburt; : A. E..H iulchinson, W. H, r Massey, York. The followili- ofoerl of the House were present? John oT Sloan, clerk ; W. MCB. Slon . aslet.. ant clerk; C. 0. Marshall, dorkeeper. On motion Mr. B. H. Massey was called to the chair and John T. Sloan was appointed secretary. The secretary handed the chairman the gavel used in the organization of the Wallace House. [Applause.] The chairman stated that the meeting' had been requested for the purpose of con. sulting with the view of organizing a permanent society of the members of the Wallace House of Reoiresentativ's who organized in the Carolina )Ra , November, 1876. The following reso lutions were unanimnously agreed to: Resolved, That the secretary prepare and publish a list of the members' of the House of Representatives who- or ganized, in the Carolina Hall on No. vemnber, 1876, known as the Wallace House, and that they be requested to meet in Carolina Hall, in the city of Columbia, on Wednesday or Thurs day of the next State Fair for the pur pose of organizing a permanent so ciety. ROLL OF MEMBETRS. rFrom Abbeville--W. K. Bradley, teceased It. R. llemphill, F. A. Con nor, William Hood, T. L. Moore. From Aiken--C. E. Sawyer, J. J. Woodward, L. M. Asbill, .J. G. Guign. ardl. From Ander,,on-HI. It. Vandiver it. W. Simif>son, W. C. Brown, do cea-ed, Jumtrs L. Orr. From Barsuwell - L. W. Yonmana, Ml. A. Ilounttree, R. Ibrrt Aklrich, I. S. Baunber g, John W. Iltines. Frot I3aeattort-I'la"'thot Has[lmilton, N. B. M N ers, lreciseal. From Clestea tield--J. C. Coui, D. 'I'. tedi'tearni. Froms ('a Ilet.ar -- II. E. Bis'01, W ml. Ma ree, decea c ', J. M. :unmiaags, L. 1E. Par ler", It.ibert J.-nes. Front Elgetield-W. S. Allen J. C. Sheppard, Juiaes Ialiison, TI. E9. Jen itings, ii. A. Shaaw. From Snmter-J.,i. Westberry. From Union--W. I. ,G.D. Penke, William Jefferies. c Fron Greenville-J. F. Mc)onald, deceased, J. T. Austin, J. W. Gray, J. L. Westmoreland. From Ilorry-L. D. Bryan, J. IR. Cooper. From Lancaster-John B. Erwin J. C. Blakenev, deceased. Frot Laaures-J. B. Ilumbert, J. Wiash Watts, ). W. Audersou. Frt:: Lexingtoi -G. Leaphart, 0. 111rller. From lMarion-J. G. Blue, James Nieltue, It. If. It gers, J. P. Davis. Fro, Marlboro-'. M. hamer,T.N. Eden,us. From Oconee- 3, Frank Sloan, John S. Verner. Fromu ( )ranrgeburg-W. H. ieedish. From Pir.ke"rs- D. F. Bitadle% , E. H1. iBares. Fr-il Slarta r;bnrrg-W. T. Compton, deceaised, J. W. Woflord, E. S. Allen, Ctin-les Pettt". From York- A ' E. llutchinson, . I1_ Ma., Ji. A. D)eal, deceased, Resolved, Tihat ex-Governor' Wade IlaIityon, the Senate andl its officers of 876, the State officers of 1876 and Jndge A C. IIaskeit be, and thev are hereby, inavited to attend( the mee~ting. Resolved, That a committee of three hc appointed to inivite the Ion. W. H1. Wallace to add(ress the mecethitg ont the nistory' of' the eventful struggle of the Wallace flouse, whe'reupon the chair nan annuonneed Mesasrs. Verner', Bamn >erg and1( Allen, of the committee. Resolved, Tlhat a commit tee of three le appointed to make arrangments for the contemplated nmeeting, whereupon the Chair announced Mesqrs.Eri Bradley anid Con nor, of the committee. The meeting then adjourned. -Miss Angelina Brown, of New ork cit.v, has sued her physicians, ir. A. 8. Purdv andi his son D)r. A. E. M. Pimrdy, for $10,000 damages For having falsely reported that she bud smallpox and causing her to be. lent to the smallpox hospital on Black vell's Island. -rhe census of Kansas, just com )letedl by the State board .f. agricul nre, shows a population of 1,268,482, galin of 372,466 in the past five years. hle grteater p)ortion of this increase is withi[n the past two years, during vhich time the almost depopulated vestern counties have nearly regained Former numbers. -Mr. T1hompson andl Mrs. Wood Fall went to the agency at Lawrence, Kan., to be married. The ceremony was performed at 9 o'clock a. m. and 'homnpson died at nooni of dropsy of the heart and was buried at 10 o'clock l)ext day. The minister who married Lhe couple preached the flunerai ser mon, and In the evening married the woman to another man. -The Atlanta Prohibitionists ofi'ered to pay the taxes of any colored man .who desired to vote the temperance ticket at the election this week, and the liquor men, hearing of this, blue ribbcned t wo hundred anti-prohibition negroes, sent them early next morning to the temp)erance headquarters and ad two hundred votes qualIid, at a ost to the Prohibitionists of nearly -1,000. Somebodly has discovered the dis emraging fact that five G*overmors of ow York have dIropped dead i/f heart isease. Still the position will b ought after. 4Dvron To MoTr(gRS. Nas. WLwrNs Sni sTan? sbou1 Q " ays be eaed for children teeth,g. itsotE L chIld. softens the guw~ -~agfn~ ures wthd colic. and Ii h etrMy ~~,c tanm.Tenty-Avye centsa aots