Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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mm The re U DO death! T To (iM upon MM fairy abore, And bright In Hearen'a JmM ocowa Thoy akin* f 01 erermore. Tlwn t? no daath! Tho dOrf we tread * To golden into, or bmDow frnlt, :3m To feed tha hanging mom they b?u; Vm fortri Weee drink dally life From out Um tWwUm air. 'There* no deeM TImJmwm may falC The flowtti M# dd?M^M away They only #al it throogh wintry boar* For ooMlaf of Um May. V> ' ? 1* . There la do death! Aa angel form Walk# 6>r Mm earth with alleat tread ( He bf are oar beat lored tbinge away, And then? we oall than df*d. , ) He Imtm oar hMrU all desolate, ' He pltfclujto falhKt, twoetMt flowera, TraoaptanUd Into bllaa, they now Adon?WWb<J!Sr-eoorld ,p. The bird-like rotoe whoee Joyoaa aotee Hade ttian of a(a and etrife, ?tta ggMfBTO' And whfn h* Acda a amll* too bright, Of heart too par* for Ulnt or vioe, Born into that untying life, . , , . They leart at bat to ocftne agajp; With Joy wo welcome them the Hint, 1 A** H:*Uttt?i,>OMM?, . . , ;>;? , The dear immortal ppifiU tread, Foi all die,* unlVerpo <t life?there are no dead! x -1 s. ptmmmmmm ? ? M 1 , , f a f ' # 'Now, yer honor,. ^Lat lie quiet aqd the ourlew'a cry, and then look out, for * the bird* '11 be Within shot of ye. ' ?V kn, h tUud (be lMtDonob oi Heather my quivering body, and having Mt __led himiMf that 1 ?ii perfeotly well L oonoealed from human Bight, he pre v #d topreep off to the ?pot where he aeeathfe wlld-getee alight, in order to drive the unoonaoiou* victim* directly ? an promised implicitly to obey his eom meads. Bat I felt anything but oom lettable in my novel position. My bed vriKth* bare bpg-land, foay and eoft with the soaking of the heavy winter tain*, my eovering the half-withered heather >Msh Shawn had UpMetad from tha hill aide. And til# month was March! Suddenly I heard the faint whistle of tha outlaw; two, minute* after I saw a ffoo k- of wfld^gue*e pas* almost and wliiMi Then I found that my garment* wire deep in .ifet.iqouy ground-nosy, more, that they were only prevented from sinking farther by some obstruction exhume my half buried limbs, my next to uuearttt, tha substMOS which had prevent^Ane' y*bm sinking utterly. This latter proved to be no ea*y matter, but gttkUb* help, of the^MQJhioh cSWSiSMi clearing away a good deal of oarth, and diteoverlbg thai Mt life-preserver was a deal box aom* Ave feet long, atained almost VJmK with bog water, and fast ened dqsrn with half a doaen rusty Shawn/ ^BF8oT UturneS Trom SS goose- driving, (did hie beet to dis&uade mo from stieh a prooeedfng. " " v * honor,' Sf44 ?na?n^ looking at the *ame time b ) profoundly unoomfortable a* to eause my curiosity to increase. 'May be it's a little **fce(fc **t II* boys gY-fojftftgpjlif # o) m But I(mt htm short, and insiatad thai 'l ha should awtat+??nhha<eattd open the M box. Seeing thal J ws#determia*V he M ?engtMN*Ht*'?iMlv tM*"he >??*<??< ; took the^spa^is) ftom his hSod, inserted . it in thsCfevkto upon whteh Shawn had 8 hs*o working, Md wttfc VH powerful wrenoh forced off the lid? Wa both: recoiled in horror? the box eontained a ocrp*s I. ???. ;? ^ . . *>. . <* ?w? Shawn/ J <>in!?lmtwl, >u || a ?n on* both m ?rS*P ... In order to efcplain the etrange dr onmstenee wbloh enabled dm to reeog X'Ka'^rf.'Sur! On th? fifteenth day MU>t t?' ?,f-j the , ? ? ? # ilT* "" TnTTT* Munnil winter helct M^orte Olere, #??%^f^tkl?,>?il^hli 'dV| alwaye oreated * goodjleel of excitement k wm always oon gala dayj'bntthe mi 4M? jwop# had bepn bed thai , 1 the nteerable, half -started ten i bad A*eeifc?Mble to eorape together ? enough money to pe^ the rent, no the proetorhed* enmmoned them to attend ?3i??scrs not deliver op the whole of their worldly "?o.\h.5HJH?4l d.y, whW, n,h ered in with hllit lull fin of biyioc eleet, I or?5fiK^to bHngoSTL hone end ear. that we might drive into . i wire eo erowded that It w?? almoet to ingke onefe way along* In f^W3ofroey-eheeked . ^tood welting to be hlted} and MjnealediMithe dvovw to bnyj the wni'fm t of the Inn oom forte ? the wild, woe begone vi whom he bad mm \determtnodty ihak heart broken eaid; 'Vm vfld pjree, thai* famished (MM, their kntblini bodiea elad in the dirty rat which were their sole protection from | the cold. And aa X glanced from then to the fro? i window-penee, and th? sleet which fell, covering with a thin erjetel eheet the ourb-ttone of the street, mj heart tamed si ok. ?Poor, miserable, half-starred wretch es!' I thought, 'most of joo will hare ?ore hearts to-night, for joa will loee your little allj God help you! and there will be nothing but starvation left/ H6*rt siok at the sight o I so much woe W^iUh X was utterly powerless to relie**k4FaroM and was abont to leare the room, when my eye wm suddenly by the Window. Pits minntee before, I had seen this man eronohed like a ttrioken beast before, the agent, his skeleton hands outstretched, his parched lipe suing for mercy. ?For the lore of God, Toney Monna ghan, niver be hard on a poor boy/ he bad said; 'all my potatoee had the black disease this year, and they rotted in the ground. My pig took the siokness and died. I hare two little ohildren down wld a ferer, and if ye take away my oow 111 have no dhrap of milk to gire them, aod they'll diet* " ' This appeisl, heart-breaking as it was, hftil m arllh n.fi.l <un<itui wv* ntvu *uv UBHIU *V|/UIDOt 'Doni't bring yer lies to mei. Tell go before them aa'll make je pey.' Bo the . men had erept back into the shadow, end u I saw him eroaohed beside the window, I notioed that the piteous look of appeal had left hie faoe; hia features were strangely oonmlaed, hie wild eyes gleamed, and hia hand clinched and nnolinohed in nervous dread. 'That man meaaa micohief,' I aald a a I paaaed out into the street. At t*o o'olook the tenants' oaaea were to be celled on, and aa the hands of the elook approaobed that hour I made my way through the crowded streets in the dlreotion of the oonri. The wind .blew bitterly, thin flakes of snow were falling, and aajl walked X felt the ioe oraoking and breaking beneath my feek I no tioed to my wonder that the streets through which 1 paesed were almost desertod. Presently * suooeesion of nthttt ]and oriea strnek upon my ear; then I notioed that people were running excitedly, and following the direction whioh they took, I at length found my* self oq the outskirts of a great orowd whioh was.oollected in the principal atreet Wore the open door of the oourt, Boeing my own servant amongst the tbrong^ I questioned him aa to the cause of ihe. excitement, for I notioed that many of the people were wringing their hands, | others moaned feebly, while others * glared around them with wild ejee, ahd then seemed to utter sighs of relief. Instead of replying to my ques tion, Bhawn took me by the shoulders and gently propelled me into the middle Of the throng. There I saw the oause of the die A S > Ml , J ,*.?! toriiig on the eurb-stoney his head isjsppoz^ed in the arms of a polioeman, his faoe open to the wondering gase of hundreds of ejee, was the agent, stone dead. ! His bodywss surrounded by polioemen-warder^of the oonri? nay, at this cry of murder the very judge upon Inoh had. stopped the oourse of m kwn; 'how did this happen?' he fey, and laid his head ' down and C'rv*>'iv~ -?*!. 'yn* .< ?Murdered? 'f' ? ? ?Oh, God forbidl yer honor ; what for ahoul4 he be kilt At all at all?' Nevertheless, I felt ocnvlnoed that my supposition was right) nay, more, I be lieved that X oould point out the very man who had done the deed. > Thai a murder, had acta ally been eetm tt be provod U the spot, 1 ut the manner of the man's death I was sc ^ to eall for a coroner*^ The b<^,"mSefOTe, was at onoe re moves to the inn, and several hoturs Sites J Is removal the tvo principal doe tori < f the town were on their way, . armed With the implements neoeeeary ^KSiiS having at length solved the aofeiered tb?t no taohdeeeeration of ! dead ahould be allowed. Before v$ llonndfrftfin bfHtMifr i land m?rt he bad been one Of Ihemuelvca, and thong h he had Um a little hard upe? them of late, there waan't one a amoDi r them bnt. wonld ralee hit yoL. ?gain ft having Mm p<>d* boy'* body out up like a bcaaft'e. The opnueqnenoe wan- i riot. The polioewAre overpow ered, the dootor* eent, peeking, the inn tafcenj by ttotih. - *or two nighte the )^y [lay in ?tat?t' being waked by tta l will aomradei. Aft the end of that time qaietly buried. 1? the grave above it, popular excitement were eatlifled; the authdritiee were not. Everybody be lieved that a Murder had been ted# and that the subsequent riot waa only lin effort fto prevent the disoovery of the murderer. No aooner, therefore, waa the unfortunate man burled, thin the doctors received an order authoris ing them to exhume the body and make g poa* mortem examination in atoreft. Ode night, two nighta after the fnneral, they aeft oat on their miaaiop with hope ful heart*. It ifrae bitter winter weather. The night wail blaok dark; the ground wss froten hard, and thiekly covered with enow. Making straight for the graveyard, the doetora amployed them ?elTM in opening up the grata. For never ft l hours they worked with piekaxe and spsde; at laat they eame upon the fcfto, raised it up, and opened the ltd. Ift wai empty I At thia piece of audaoity on the paH of tome' persons unknown, everybody waa more amaaed than ever, and again oeme the eonvlotlou, stronger than be fore, that mnrder had been done. Bat try aa they would, they eould dieeover nothing. The whole oouuty waa thrown I into ? tauaoU. and oooular mlt-mri* wa* at itai height 5ST7 unwittingly eotved the terrible eeorei by finding the body in the bog. V : ?' Having mm Bhftwn to eeoreoy, X m - eleted him to re-inter the box, end forth with eeat word ef the diaoovevy to the msglatiata. The bos wee el mm re moved, the poet mrati examination oonotaded, end the dieoovety made thftt the nfoitnele wen bed died of heart dieeeee. Again ererybody wee amaaed, end thie time the wonder wee mixed with ahame. After the anamination wee made, the ootoner's inquiry waa harried Aver, end onoe more, in solemn poop end with ell the ritee of the ohnroh, the egent wee leid in hie grave. ?midst the solemn oonooorse which attended thie seoopd loners), I noticed the wild, wen feee which bed haunted me ever since that day when I bed seen it by the froaen window of the inn? the feee of Ihie very man whom in myowh mind 1 had aooneed of murdetl For e moment I hung beok ashamed, then I boldly walked forward and preased a bank* note into the wretohed creature'u hsnd. He looked from it to me in dseed amssement, then the sight of one of his ragged ohildren eeemed to make him reelise what the money wonld do. He olntched it oloser, and with one lsat look down the open grave, he orept aoroes the bogs toward his home. By whose hand the oorpse was con veyed from the ohnrchyard to the bog was never dii covered. It was generally believed, however, that news of the in (Anilail aMmlntllnn V* .<1 lum ? I abroad, and that the agent wu exhumed and hidden solely with a Yiew to pre venting his body being 'out up.'? Harper'* . Dickens la a New Light. Jenny lone in a letter to the Balti more American^ remarking of the great author ssys: The reoent pablioation of the intimate oovrespondenoe of Mr. Obarlee Diokens, and the death of hia wife, haa retired the floating talk and grtsip 1 in regard to their unfortunate I aeparation and its oauaee. Of oourse, the real truth la no secret among the peraonal frienda of the great novelist and hia family; but it haa been kept from the publio with remarkable loyalty to the reputation and memory of a popular author, and eren at the expense of a suffering woman, who lived and endured, but mad o no sign. The nearest to a vindication of the ^H/e of twenty-five yean and the mother of ten ohildxen, whioh her sister and daughter hare per mitted themselves, is the publication of her husband's letters before any person had ever oome botwetn them? before the shadow of his infatuation for the woman who blasted her life hsd crossed her path. It ia only fair to admit that the reti oenoe was partly due to consideration for the partner in his wrong-doing, who wsa known to hare straggled for a long time againaj a mutual sentiment, and had maintained, exoeptin this one instance, an irreprosohable oharaoter. The Woman waa young, and a governess. She was well provided for by Mr. Diokens' will, and went abroad ? to Home? soon after his dsath, wearing deep mourning, and carrying letters to some of his American friends there, who were not informed until a considerable time afterward of her true relations to the author of 'Pick wick' an* 'David OopperflsfaV < Jtmust have been pretty hard for the wife, in view of the fads, to submit to see it stated in the publio prints that her temper* wtoftbe oauseof the Reparation, when in reality, if it waa anything, it waa too easy, too Suitable, andfeadslses capable of resistance by delisste health. Oharli j Dleks^>f spoil td b^ the adulation of lrien^a sad women, snd grew to believathst genius such ss his Wp#^ omnipotent, snd amenable to no law/ divine or human. Moofa, of oourae, is forgiven te those who have done muoh for their kind; but bow much higher and nobler his plaoe would have been hsd ha been a true sad strong man right Straight through, instead of a weak one, yielding like a boy to the sudden im pales of momentary peasioo, end leaving the cruel results to blight the livssdear est to bias. " ? * l 'i 1 fosperate BstOs BstwssnMsn and Do*. ? New York jonrnal relates a thrilling fight bltwsan a saya go Siberian blood - * and its keeper, near that oity ?d is owned by esJndge Troy, lyn. ThedotfU nutted fetan in Unit iron omo his kiepev, B, Htkria^ eetand ' the bmie. : Heering set the p?n - <? lbs floor. an saw that 'Baton' was in one woist humors; and tarnsd to go the oege. He hsA no sooner turned his baok then the animal sprang npon him. Haering threw hhneelf to one s^do, but the dog e paw* elrnck hi A < n the ehonlder , end dog end man fell o the floor together. Storing the uian's right arm. Heering, qulok its lightning, pitohed the dog ov?r on hie beok, and was jnnt going to Jump on his pews, es the brats recovered hunsslt And eprang loir Ifaer ing's throat. With ons band Heering grasped the dog's lsg, and with the other ecmght him by the upper eyelid, sad did not let go his hold nntil he had torn the animal's eeelp to the beok of the heed. The dog fell beok with Heering on top. Both got their feet, and Heering sprang for the gets of the oege. The dog dnehed at him again, and H*e ring olinohed the brnts and tried to shnt his teeth into his skeggy neok.? He failed, tmt eanght the dog's snr with his teeth and held on until hs had out it off, and then hs hurled the brnts to the floor and foil himself. Heering then throw himself on the dog end set his tooth into his throet, and at the eases time grasped ths dog by the upper jew with his right hand, pressing down ths lower jaw with his left trm until the flesh et the sides of ths dog's mouth wss torn by the etreln. Dog and man stragglsd shout theesgeforat loss Are minutes. At lsst they reaehsd the door, and Haering, still keeping his teeth fixed in ths animal's neok,, lifted him up and pinned him egalnet the side of the oege. Then with his right bend ho unbolted the door of ths oege,. and got outside. Heering Is ssrsrsly injured, but is re covering. The dug has been poisoned. - vvJ t * v - _L ^ v ? * A Straage rnmmm Thai *Wlh is etranger 4m fiction' ie mu won aptly exemplified by tii? fol io wiag ouiooi sunthf (ran Luoee, Italy. 'Boom years ago ? native of Pwmififli rrnr eaignUd to Ameriot, leeving behind him his wife and two ahildreitf Shortly altar hia anlnl in the etetee, where ha promptly found lucrative employment, ha sent 100 lire to the priest of hie native pieoe, to bahgr bin oonveyed to hie family. A few months later th|i remfttanitt waa fol lowed by a second of 1,000 lire; add el subsequent periods otter nmi were for warded in the same manner, to the total amount of 26,000 lire, or 96,000. The priest, however, to whom all thia money waa transmitted, pad it in hia own pock et. One day, having oome to the oon elusion that ha had derived sufficient profit from hia HOMJ* he aent for the woman and informed her, with, many oonsolatory reflections, that her hnebsnd waa dead. About the eame time he wrote to the emigrant, stating that the letter's wife and children had suoeumbed to an epldemio whleh had all but depopulated Ossamaggiore, and incloeed in his letter an offlaial oertifioate of their death sad burial. , It appeara that, after a while, the emigrant, believing himself to be a widower, married again. He prospered in buaineae, became a wealthy man, and, a few montha ago, determined to revisit the plaoe*of his birth. In due time he arrived with his seoond wife and family at Oaaamaggiore, where he tpok up his qaartera at the principal inn. Strolling ont to look np some of his old aoquaint anoee, a little beggar boy followed him, importuning him for alms. Something in the ohild's appeeranoe arrested his attention. He aaked the boy his name, and found him to be hia pwn son.-? Further inquiry aoon elieited the faet that hia wife and two ohildren were liv ing, but in the utmost poverty and dia trees. The reverend embeaaler, when confronted with his victims, offered to refund the 26,000 lire; but the affair had oome to the knowledge of the police author! tiee, who refused to permit any oompromise, and arrested the holy man, againat whom prooeedinga have been taken by the state. Meanwhile, hia un fortunate ez- parishioner finds himself saddled with two living wives and fam ilies, between whoee olaima upon his affeotion and support there ia, equitably speaking, nothing to ohooee either way. Military Skaters. The oorps of skaters, a force peculiar to the Norwegian a ray, has been lately reorganised, and oousists bow of Ave oonapanlas, each of 110 meo, whteh in time of war oan be reinforoed b y eaUing in 370 skaters belonging to the land* wehr. The man of this oorpe are armed with rifles, and oan be maneuvered upon ioe or orer the snow-fields of the moun tains with a rapidity eqnal to that of the best trained cavalry. The skates thsy use are admirably adapted for traveling over rongh and broken ioe or froaen snow , being six inohss broad and be tween nine and ten inohsa long. In as* oending steep slopes the men take a aigsag oourse, taeking up the mountain aide as a ship does against a head wind. As an inatanoe of the speed at whioh they oan go, it is mentioned that lfcst winter a messenger dispatched Jsom Boeraaa at three o'oloek in the morning, arrived at Drontheim at 9.80 in the evening of the same day, luting, conse quently, accomplished 190 miles in eigh teen and a half hoars. It most be add ed, however, thst Roeraas Ilea somo 9,000 feet higher than Dronthein , so that the oourse of the slater J?f? < own I'hiU the whole way. On the return j >ur ney the same man toek HHy-four hburs rough and broken snow-fltilds, w iloh rendered great oautlon and sldw skating 1 . . ? rr The Bommm of the Indian Outbreak* Hu Lyman, a prairie soout, Who lirod kt the White Biter agenoy * year and a half, and knew the Mdekera Inti mately, tells this story to a reporter of the Dubuqne Times'. 'Onray waft In lot* with the oldest daughter of Agent Meeker, and I think that had thii\not been the oese every one of the M<4)ter family woold hare been bntohered. He often told me that he loved the white girl, and it made him feel badly to think that he oould nerer marry her. I hare seen Onray follow her around and watoh over her as. If she were a ehfld. He woul<J do anything to pjeaseher. Onlay's slater knew her pother loved the ICefker family and ao took good oar* thai no harm should oomato th*m, I was tbere when the women were brought took, and Onray was eo happy that he rnthed np to the Meeker girl and shook her hand for an h6nr. He tried hard to atop her from weeping, bnt^he ajrid, 'Onniy* you knew this trouble was oomiiig all the time, and 1 oan n?hrer for give you.' I learn now that ha la detng all in his power to bring the bad Indiana !*/?=<*? n? ' = I . I - .? I I I I n ' (HWjFSWP?W? ' i'I'i )?' ? ? ;f| \\i\f . I A YalaaMe Suggestion* j Mention la asade In a foreign pejper of a plan pnrsned by an Ingenfcma phyai oian for insnrlng a supply of ioe fofcMse in ?iok rooms during the hottest nights, aad without disturbing the patient.? This plan la to out * ple&e of flaenet about nine Inohta square, and secure it by ligatures round the mouth of an ordi nary tumbler, so aa to leave a mip -ahap ed depression of flannel within |he tumbler to about half lis depth. In the , flannel eup so formed pieeea of ioe aaay be preserved many hours? all the long er if a pleee of flannel from four to Ave ioohee square be used as a looee oover to the lee eup. Cheap flannel, with comparatively open meahea, la prefera ble, aa the water easily drains through it, and the ioe ia thus kept quite dry. The Chinese Retiring. The Ohinese in California seem to un derstand that they must go, notwith standing the veto of the anti Ohinese Mil. A steamer recently took 001 from Hen ftraneieoo to Hong Kong, and while the Ohtneee who Immigrated during the year ending November 1, 1870, number ed 6,12ft, the emigrants numbered ft, 740, the excess of departures over arrivals being 9,il6. It le estimated that there are now on the Paetfle ooeet about no, 000 Ohfnamen, while at the 'beginning of the Obineae agitation thdre were over 100,000, and the total number of (Jbi neee arrlvala In thla oountry during the laet twenty yejrs la 167,000. 1 lie Art *t Washing Clethts. Equal or neoad only in hygienic im pottanoe lo pcnoul oleanliness is the washing o I VMfiog apparel, and this, when rightly understood and practiced, beeosnes a rtal act, though iU essays may never happen to exceed the soope and ?kill of the ordinary laundress. The use ol what is known in laundry 'tech* nique' as a strong 'bleaoh' ? whioh con sists in mixing potash, chloride of lime, eta, with the water? is doubtless ef fectual for the moment, but very disas trous after vard, as people oan teatify whose clothes arc rotted and burned by the powerful chemical action to whioh they are submitted in this prooess. ?ft the risk of its being already proba bly well known, we would jremind our readers that the ordinary yellow soap is the best for washing clothes, and the oommon blue mottled rariety for house hold olothee, etc. Also, that sof t water, [when obtainable, is xnuoh better for cleansing, for the reason that, instead of ''decomposing the soap as hard water does, earning it to lie on the surface in Hakes, it unites with and melts it, thus dissolving the grease stains. Hard water is, however, not without its advantages, one being that oolors run lees easily' when washed and rinsed in it. After separating the oommon cloths from the olothee, and again dividing the liner class of these from the more ordi nary, they must be all thoroughly soaped in the most soiled plaoes, thrown into plenty of fresh water, and left to soak for at least twenty- four hours. Next day they are taken out for a good rub, whioh, it should be notioed, is no oom mon rubbing; the things must not be torn by violent -sorubbing, and yet the. dirt ought to be thoroughly eliminated. The rubbing should, of oourse, be so orrding to the strength and quality of the material; some must be rubbed very hard, and others. not at all, only kneaded and pressed, such as muslins and flan nels. The wise laundress knows that she might as well attempt to wash a fabrio of iron wires as to rub her cloth aorto* the threads, or [to use a favorite expres sion of gentlemen who profess much knowledge of the materials of ladies' attire] *on the bias' ? it would never oome clean; she is therefore oareful to rub the straight way of her material, and with the threads. This is the more im* portant with linen, being harder to oleanse than calioo. _ The next prooees is to boil all the white things in large ooppers full of soapy water, to insure a good color. When taken out they are thoroughly rinsed in two waters, the seoond having a little blue in it, still further to improve the oolor. The use of blue is often abused by oareless washerwomen, who., with an extra tinge of jit hope to oonoeal the results of inefficient washing. To rinte olothee effeotually a laundress must have no stint of water? she oan not rinse too muoh. When soda is used [as it generally ia with soap, in boiling] for under-linen, it must be rinsed cut in at least three disr tinot waters, without whioh the material ia not perfectly freed from the ohanoe of injurious effeots if worn next the skin. In fact, one of the greatest evils attend ant on town-washod olothcs is that, where the supply of water is limited, they sel dom if ever get the neoeesary amount of rinsing, hence the offensive smell that so often pervades the newly sent homo linen. " To Wiring any article with an even pressure, care mnst be taken to gather itupih a long bunch, allowing it to make its ovfn folds in and out alike: thus, when garbed, the strain on the material Will be Atenly dispelled; but ; careless wringers will fold or roll the sides of the garment all into the middle, leaving the outside smooth and tight over the mass, the result of whioh is that the strain in wringing'oomee upon the thin onteide, whiofe givoe way or oraoks. * Borne people prefer using their ataroh raw, mixed with oold water, and after straining it through muslin, sucoeed in ?tiffaiing their linen verynioely; other* And II neoeeisry to boil it, or at any rate to ulix it with boiling water; to thi* Is sometimes added a piebe ot sngar, or the whole pndding is stirred round with an ignominioTts tallow candle, whioh Is ft I sp? ol flo for preventing the starch stick ing, or glnelng the sleeves, etc., of olothee together. The beautiful glaae so highly prised in the appeeranee of a gentle man's shirt front, collar, or cuflb, is pro duced by the admixture of turpentine with the starch. . ' Ootton garments should bare all starch thoroughly rinsed out of them, and be 'rough-dried,' befotfe putting away or Utomg' for any length of time. The ad dition <4 a larger quantity of blue than usual greatlj 'aids in preserving both ,the'4>lor and material of white things. All colored things should be w*?\ed In OoOlish hard water, then rinsed in oold in Which salt h*4 Men dissolved, Of 'ft lUtie|vincg*r added; after this comes Wifor* rinix, ,t ud .,,y Ordinary color will remain fast. Fotihe 1 exquisite blues whi6hM tempt f.ir pur chaser*, and afterward so iry the skill of the laundress, sngar of lead is India pensable; ibis is, hdWsver, snoh k tor t Ible poison and so in jbviou* to the h*ndt of the *aahet, that we would deprrcsto its nie except in some very' extreme nnse. The wise tiling to do in buying oolorrd ootton* oi any kind, Whether muslin or ealloo, ^ to brihg home ft 1i4? tie pieOe to Vash first, before getting the quantity teqnired; and the most abiding and enduring eblors are generally found i best in French prints.? Harper's Ba ' **r' ? . ....... Advanced Mchoel Ideas. The Boston school committee have done a eredit able thing In deeiding to establish' an industrial school. The plan I* to give eaeh pupil an opportu nity to try various kind* of manual labor, and when it to determined whieh he should make his' specialty, shops will be provided where he can be Instructed In this details of hi* work. These schoo shop* are to be provided for by the pub lie fund*. They *re a step in the right direction. There are thousands of ehil dren that are given an education in our high schools who would have made far better citisen* and been of far greater use to the world had they been In an In dustrial school and leftrned something beside Greek, tiatih and the various ologies. We believe that these Sohools are probably destined to be ** import ant ft factor of our school systetfn 1* the high school. KewNk Pewer. Profeaeor OuptBtw mji thai whik lecturing onoe is Mmm, N. J., ot hit BMNMrie power, he strongly wished Uwl ? mftn living in Pernio, six miles distent the best subject that ever came under hia notioe ? vu present. The professor vu astonished, ft boot mine o'olook in lh? ovening, to Me this mftn walk into the room end come upon the ?lege. He said he vm 41 work Ihftl evening, ftnd thought the professor eftllei him. Ho was so b t rougl j aff doted Ihftl he oould work no longer, threw down his apron, end finding himself too late for the train, walked or ran the six miles between JVteraon and Passaic, so es to reeoh the former plaoo in time.? Dr. S. B. Britten, of New York, says that one night while on the Connecticut shore of Long Island sound the thought ooounred to him to try the experiment of affecting the. mind of ft lady friend, then ftt her residence, thirty or forty miles distant. Furst ascertaining the hour, ho brought her imftge mentally before him, and then Greeted ft mental pioture ? a soene of great natural beftuty, with hills ftnd vales, streams and water falls, and with oertain features of the landscape altogether peculiar and strik ing. When next ho met the lady her first question wan: 'Where were you on suoh an ' evening (aaming the date and hour), and what were you seeing I' Be ing asked the reason of her question, the lady proceeded to deeoribe the ideal landscape he had projected, detail by detail, with astonishing aoouraoy, and she told Dr. B. that in this soene she saw him? though ehe had not recently met or thought of him. On another oc casion Dr. Brittan went to Waterbury To see a mas on business, but on arriv ing found that he had utterly forgotten his friend's name, and, a stranger there himself, he knew not where to look for him. In this dilemma he went to bis hotel, shut himself in his room, and re calling the* personal appearanoe of his friend, oonoentrated his mind upofi him and Willed him to oome to that room. ? He had never before attempted this ex periment with thai man. Alter the lapse of perhaps fifteen minutes the door opened and in walked the young man himself. His first inquiry was: 'What do you want with me ?' He said he was at work in his faotory? one of the brass rolling mills, we believe when he fell himself oalled or drawn by Dr. Brittan to thai hotel and that room, and finally the attraction beoame so great thai he threw down his tools, put on his ooat and obeyed the summons. How We Catch Cold. The Lancet says this pertinent ques tion is just now engaging attention. There is another qaestion which should be answered first ? namely, what is ooldf The idea of a 'ohill' is perhaps nearer the notions of a 'oold.' Tb's hypothesis wonld seem to bo that a oold, beoause, it is said, 'Yon do not oatoh oold unless yon are oold.' The faot 1b, there are probably so many di verse ooourrenoes grouped and oou (ounded under the generic title of oold oatohing as diseases covered by that popular term fever, which is made to oomprise every state in whioh the pulse is quickened and the temperature raised. Ay a parallel prooess of reasoning 'oold' ought to be limiied to oases in whioh the phenomena are those of a 'ohill.' When a person 'oatohes oold' eithor of several morbid aooidents may occur ? first, he may have suoh a ohill of the surfaoe aa shall drive the blood in on the internal organs and hamper some weak or dis ordered and infiuenoe some diseased vis oils; seoond, the oold may so infringe on the inperfloial nerves that serious dis turbances of the system will ensue and a morbid state be developed; third, the onrrent of air whioh oauaes the oold, may in faot, be laden with propagatiog 'germs' of disease; or fourth, the vitali ty of the organism as a whole or of some one or more of its parts may be so de pressed by a sudden attraction of heat that reoovery may be impossible, or a severe and mieohievous reaction ensue. The philosophy of prevention is ob viously to preserve the nataral and healthy aotion of the organiam aa a whole, and of the surfaoe in particular, while habituating the akin to bear severe alter ations of temperature by judioious ex posure, and natural stimulation by pure air, and oleanwater, and orderly habits. How Webster's Speech was Preserved. The true story of the diamond neok laee Daniel Webster gave to Mrs. Joseph ti)ei is said to be this: When Mr. etot*r made his oelebrated reply to nator Hayne, of South Carolina, Mr. Qalek the senior editor of the National InteUlffenoer, undertook to report It, at the' request of the orator, who assured Mr. G, that the speech wonld not be mor4 than half an hour long. The edi tor was busy, J?ut he thought he could spare time to.ftake down and write ont so short a speeoh. But as Mr. Webster was ascending the steps of the oapitol on tye morning that he was to speak, he njet Judge Story, who told him it was a good opportunity to give his views upon the constitution. Webster acted upon this suggestion, and instead of speaking for only half an hour, he spoke for three hours. Mr. Oales, under the spell of the orator, wrote on, perfectly unoonsoioui of the lapse of time. But when he came to look over his note* he found they were no voluminous that he would never have time to transcrN>e them. The speeoh not appearing in the /ntttHr/enoer In due time, Mr. Webster oalled upon the editor at his house, who told him that the speeoh was so long, and his time so muoh oocupied, that he feared he oould not find time to write it ont for publication. While the orator was expoetulsting with the editor, and endeavoring to urge him to the work, Mrs. Gales appeared snd said she thought she oould write out the speech, as she had been in the habit of assisting her hnsbend in transcribing his notes. She undertook the task, and in twodays sent Mr. Webeter his speeoh in full. A magnificent diamond neoklaoe was the rich reward of the Massachusetts Sena tor. And thus wss preserved to Ameri can literature the maeterpleoe of one of onr greatest orators. 'A newspaper reporter says that one of the ladies at the late ball 'took every body'" eye.' What an eye-dear. The White House at Washington is teventy-nlne years old. nit r^wui All ookxed beads ooetinue in ae? (or the trimming of bonnets. Horaeehoe ornaments now have a bnnoh of four-leaf ?lover attached. ? favorite ohatelaine ornament ia an oblong silver locket containing a look* fngglasn, which may be put to praotioal use. L Pekins with broad Btripee are oat of date; they are replaoed by those ha ring line ? tripes of velvet or satin on gl*s*d groundings. A novelty to be worn around the neck outside an evening eloak is a long, round boa, made of many rows of orepe lisse plaiting sewed together on the plain edge and branching outward. New handkerchiefs of sheer linen lawn have colored foulard hems, with palm leaves in old gold and red, pale blue, and olive oolors, stamped on gendarme blue and black grounds, and edged with needlework. Bolid colored stockings are preferred for misses and ohildren. The peaoook blue and garnet a took tags oome in shades to matoh colored dresses, and are also worn with white dresses. Sootch plaid and striped stookings are the second ohoioe. Tho^e is no change in the white dress es worn by little girls under four years of age. Mothers who do not like to use white dresses all the winter got solid oolored flannels in the new peaoook bine and dark olaret oolors, and make pretty little box -plaited blouses precisely like the white muslin slips so often de scribed. They have merely three box plaits in front and behind nearly the whole length of the garment, and a wide belt of the flannel is strapped on low on the hip*. These are preferred to plaids or oheoks for the tiny girls. A Cow Whips an Alligator. A man living at Dooly, Ga,, waa look ing (or some hogs he had missed (or seyeral days, and was nearing the river when he heard a oow bellowing. Upon going to the bank o( the river he saw on a sand bar an alligator, a cow and young calf. The alligator was between the cow and oal( and the river. The alligator ma-Je a dart toward the oalf, when the oow rushed be tween them and a (earful fight ensued. While this was raging, the eal( got into the wood and (aoed about, bleating plaintively. The alligator was not more than seven (eet long, and strnok at the oow furiously with its tail. The oow avoided as many of the blows as possible, but reoeived a number, one of whioh knocked her rolling over (or about tea (eet. The alligator rushed upon her with open month, and tried to seise her by the nose, but ahe was up in time to horn the alligator under the throat, and throw it over backward, and be(ore it oould strike another blow or de(end itself, she was on it. The cow tossed the saurian high in the air, and it (ell into the water with a splash, and did not venture to the land again. The oow, a(ter rushing around looking for her enemy, ran to her calf, and made tracks through the wood for home, looking baok oooasionally to see whether she was pursued. Odd Facts About Ostriches. A singular thing about these birds is the way they bring up their babiosi To begin with, there are a great many eggs in the nest, and they are the eggs of as many different mothers (Mr. Darwin says) . The ostrioh does not lay an egg every day, as thehon does; they are so far apart that they would not hatoh out together. So, aft I said, when a bird prepares a nest all her friends contribute an egg apieoe, ani % suppose she returns the favor in dno time. Then.lhe feeding is another odd thing. Ton know our birds leave the little ones in the nest, and both father and mother go off to hunt worms and other (ood (or them. But no suoh way will do (or baby ostriches.- Both parents stay at home to proteot them, and other ostriches ? nurses, I suppose, they ought to be called ? oome and lay eggs (or the babies. When they need lnneh one o( the oggs is broken and they are (ed. Orttrioh eggs are much nioer than hena' eggs, and one of them weighs three pounds and is equal to about two dosen of the hen's. They are very oon venient for the hunter to find in the desert, for th?y not only furnish a de lirious meal, but the dish to oook it in. He jcist sets the egg on the fire, breaks a hole in the top, and puts in a stick to stir it, and when done he eats it out of the same dish. The natives ure the shells instead of oups and pails to bring water. A native wotnan takes a bag full of shells whioh have only one hole in them, carrying it off on her baok, and returning in the same way with the shells full. Home-sick Heal. An Ioelander, Msjoo Uroh by name, had two Ume seals at his home near Portsmouth. N. H. Mr. Uroh'a seals were bin pot*. They were *a tame m dogs, And dearly loved children te Visit them at their tank. A short time ago one of the aeala died. The other seal waa very and at the losa of ita compan ion, and kept oalling ont is low, piteona orlos. Mr. (Jroh, after a while, oonolnd ed to let the living aeal go, no that it might awim ont to rea and find a com panion. He took the tank to the river and let the aeal ont. The aeal awam all oyer the river, very glad to be free. It came np alongside aeveral boats and frightened the boatmen with ita peonliar whistle. Boon, however, it swam back to where ita tank had been. The tank was not in ita former place. The seal was In distress, snd kept moving abont, ?rying all the time. When it at last saw the tank bn the river bank, it flop ped across the beaoh and got in it, showing by its manner that its joy was great. Binoe then the sent has kept in the tank, refnsinft to leave it for any body. A New York confcotioner ha? just forwarded to Madrid, Bpain, a first ship ment of 100 pounds of chocolate cara mels, which have been ordered for the apeoial nse of the household of King Alfonso. With 100 pounds of oaramela Alfonso ought to be able to get through the coming holidaya comfortably. . i * ? The errand boy who aatd he eouldn't carry a bundle on his shoulder had to take a box on hie ear. Advice to dreasmakera? be sure yon are right and then gore ahead. VARIETIES, Soarlet (?r?r has dl*p?n?d the schools in OiIUm, Xu. Arkansaa City, Kan., now bu eighty j iotm oi stook jard*. Count Dorohoff, of the Gorman lega tion, who vh with General Adams when the Ute oap tires were rescued, present ed Oursy with a gold watch. The vineyard* of Malaga, eovering an area of 29,600 hectares, hare been at tacked by phylloxera. The peet is de> creasing in G?.rona and Catalonia, Mr. John B. Clay ia the only child of Henry Clay who is now living. He haa a oom for table home at Lexington, Ky., owning 200 of the paternal aorea and many beautiful horse*. The London Times sajs that $10,000 is tho least sum that will secure an eleo tion to a seat (unsalaried) in parliament, and that $26,000 are frequently expend ed in oarrying an elootion. General Thomas' widow, who lives i n Albany, N. Y., refused to go to Wash ington to see his statue unvailed, saying that the sight would overoome her. Bhe intends to go quietly this winter and see the atatue. An election to dispose of $1,800,000 worth of railroad ?took belonging to Arapahoe oounty, Colorado, to Jay Gould for a quarter of a million dollars, tock plaoe, and the proposition was ao oepted ten to one. Fifty years ago only one oitizen of New York city, John Jaoob Astor, was worth more than $1,000,000. Now it is asserted that there are over five hundred men in the metropolis whose wealth is estimated at $1,000,000 and over. The latest developed mushroom min ing town is Eareka. Ark. On Jnlv 4th there were but six persons there and not ? house. On the 15th of Nevembcr it had 800 houses and a popnlation of 2,. 000, and the only attractions are lead mines. Nine out of every ten women in America bay their hair instead of "king it. Snch a state of affairs should not exist in a oountry that annually spends thousands of dol lars for the support of an agricultural bureau. The sporting fraternity of Louisville are about to present to Governor Black burn, of Kentuoky, a magnifioent ear .* ag?, ooeting $2,000, in retarn for par dons extended and fines remitted against gamblers, amounting to many thousand dollars, for the reoovery of whioh execu tions had been issued. As late as 1840 a postmaster was re quired to know something about dis tanoes and arithmetic. A letter going thirty mile* or lees was charged six and ? quarter cents; up to eighty miles, ten cents; between eighty and 160 miles tar iff was twelve and a half oents; from 160 to 400 miles the postage was 18f oents, end over 400 miles the rate was twenty five oents. * A company has been formed in New York, entitiod the Metropolitan Build lng oompany, limited with a oapital of $1,000,000. It has purohased forty-four lots, consisting of the block between tho Ninth and Tenth avonues and Ninely Nino,y-flM utreets, npon ? 14 wiU burid a number of houses to wnt from $300 to $600 per annum. _ It is said the plan has worked <r?ty oessfully in Philadelphia. The latest swindle reported, is that of a man who visits houses and solicits the job of mending *tove*. If he suooeeds in scouring a job, he puts the stoves in a push-oart and osrries them away with him. In the oourse of a day or two he will roturn to the person from whom he obtained the stoves, and stating his ina bility to finish the Job without putting m a new grate, borrows money to pur chase this article. The man, it is un necessary to say, never returns. York'8 millionaires, esti mated to have been worth $280,000,000, dropped off olose together. Johu Jacob then iQ qnlok ?nc oe*lon Commodore Vanderbilt, A T ni""!?"14 W??- ?' and now the money-worshiper Ooelet. As ters wealth was estimate! at $60,000, 000, Vanderbilts at $100,000,000 and Stewart s about the same. Rhinelander's property represented, it i? supposed $10,000,000 and Goelet's Is estimated at $20,000,000. . The contractor to oonstruot the mon ument in Tivioli Olrole, New Orleans, to the late General R >bert E. Lee, has found in a quarry near Kuoxville, Tann., the qualify of marble desired and re quired by the Leo Monumental afsoo**. Hon for the oolumn, die and statue.? Mr. Roy, the contractor, who also de signed the monument, bad ntended obtaining the marble in New York, but was so well ploased with tho prodnot 6t the East Tennessee quarries that ho went no further. Tho president of the sooiety for the protection of obildren has addressed a letter to President Htyes, requeuing hie interposition with the Chinese gov ,ern?ent for the release of the small obildren of a prominent Asiatfo rebel, 7* b<*n condemned to a terrible rfther' 0n bHn# UkeD orally killed, and *11 his adult relatives put to death. The four boys have been oondoimed to prison until thoy arrive * oertain age, when thfy are to be ?maculated and tnrned over to the ?oldiery for a purpose which, as Lord Ooke says, not so ranch as to bo named among Christians.' The sooietr oittni 40 nn<l eduoate tho children if released. Infttirance And Firm. The ficiinliflc Amcrionn diftonaainR the immonae mm annually paid ont bj inaurenoe oompanioa, aage'y reraarka: ? What we want ia better legialation to oontrol the erection of buildinga, and legialation to prevent inanranoo oompa nlea from encouraging inoendiariam by paying more for property that ia de atroyed by Are than it waa worth while a tending. In other worda, the payment of loesee by inaunufte oompenioa abonld be restricted to two-thirds the value of the property destroyed. With amh a lew in foroe, property owners would be cot* pelted to earry one third of the riak themselves, and this would destroy all motive to inoeftdieriam, end induce prudence and cere iu the management of property. Hnoh e lew enforced rigid ly in every atate would reduce our Are loeeee more than fifty per cent, the flrat yeer. ,