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FRANK P. BEARD, Publisher. VOL. X. "T -F 'Jit i_ -*~m> ? .- - ? V ' - 1 > ' * "nr.t.MXi.1 ? ? ; q, flEyf' ??? ? ? ? =* ? BE JUST AND FEAR NOT. ? : ? ... '? .. f. ^ ? CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. Ci, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15. 1883. . ? ' - ? - - - - - - - ? TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. NO. 21. - f \ THK PEOPLE'S PAPER. Pl'BUIBCD AT CAMDEN, S. C. < ' FRANK BEARD. Publisher. ' To Correspondent*. All communication* for tills )>a|<cr tlnmhl be ac companied by the nauie of tUo author, not ncces ??ailly for publication, but as an evidence of good faith on the tort of the writer. Write only on ono ?ado of tte piper. Do particularly careful In glTinf name* and date* to ba?e the letters plain and dIe tiQOt. The. Gazette * * vs Job Printing Office 1? n vr r t it prepared than any other oflic* la town, lo executc la the most >Ur*tHwity>(?tTW)rtocrty tlou of Job Print lug, such as Pamphlet*, UIU Letter and Not* IImmIk U? Brief*. Paster*, IVxl^rrn, Circular*. Hand 1MIU. VTtd&af, Ylc'tlug avd AddrvwaCardj, lousiness Cards. Uhili, A^. .,t< Work lone In Bronse, Ked, 11 lue ana Black j The public must remember that the beat It aliraj* the cheapest. We do work at Charleston Price#, and (varantoa entire satisfaction to oar patrons. We keep constantly on hand the largest stock ot Papers and Cards In town. juittlo b J Little. Utile by little the time gom by? Vihc?ft if jou dug through it, long if 70a ?igb 1 '.artle bj little ? an hoar, a day. Clone with the yean that have vanished away j little by little the race is ran, Trouble and waiting and toil are done. little by little the sky grows clear ; little by little the sau oomes near j Little by little tho dtys smile oat Olnddor aod brighter on paia and doubt ; Little by little tho scod wo sow Into a beautiful yield will grow. Little by little the world grows strong, fighting the bittle of Right and Wrong ; Little by liltlo tho Wrong givo's way, l<ittlo by little thi Right has sway ; little by little r.ll longing houJb Struggle up nearer tho shiniog goals 1 little by littlo tho goo \ in mon Blossoms to beauty for human ken j little by litUe tho nngols boo Prophecioe better of good to bo 1 little by little the Qod of all Liftathe world nearer His pleading call I JOHN JUDSON'S NURSE. "A dozen tea biscuit, did you say MntRooneyr?Hl<lth<, baker's wit?,;' bZl* I'' broml? an<' ? of ' J??t let mo take I >our basket, ma'am. ?n,l I'll pook .om In n deal hotter than you could. Yes ' . 'm* ?ylng. there he lies, clean ' body to take care of him but me. And you may guess ho?v much time I get maam, what with the ahoj> and theRsix toi?rBs.featbertop'a ?id mothor *' But why on earth," said the cus tomer who had ordered tho tea biscuit bread and black gingerbread "don't y<m?nd tho poor Just what the doctor advised his ownself," ?aid Mrs. Feathertop. "But la I the minute you mention the word nrf?'itw"kta would Of hifl head, ]>oor soul. -No, no> no . he says, over and over again, and h'e holds on to the side of the bedpost un til one must have a heart of iron to ry and get him away. And the worst U,I Jll'r1"* be<m ,"rn*' Afrl1U?n(Kl ?Ut ?f 1UsPIftC(i?" repeated :ney' while Miss Price, the palo little seamstress who ronted tho top back room of Mrs. Feathertop and kept herself on infinitesimal morseltfof 2 HnJlmCUt which she picked up ly knew where, paused to listen on her way through the shop. " "Ho was getting good wages in a v manufacturing jeweler's," said the bitkoi s wife, evidently enjoying her ?mail, ?**"* "and Mr. Ooldllovo set store by him, for he'd a way of ' working that he'd learned in foreign ! CS r th0y tel1 mc il'H <luito ? art set them precious stones in tho gold "> as they's stay ??n and <*** their colors to good advantage. And a Particular choice jewd sent there to bo set as a wedding pres ent for some young huly-a sapphire CHHed and It was g'in int^hischurge. And from that day h?nllo?r ^ WnPrt<* there en hearti ?f Mr oiw ? been any one olse Mr doldllove would huvo had him ar wwsLrn thl"John had al ways borne so good- a character and was such an out-and-out resnectablft "an. a, ho hadn't tho hcaTto dot ?M^rged him, of course jt?. And hero the poor follow l? out ot place, with no refer J?* , 1,8 1 know without a penny in his pocket. And what w?V? to do I don't know, for its downright gJJ c,M t "f"" the tlmo to give hlra hi. drops and look after him as ? ai Jk man should be looked after " he frlendS?" M" no" "aM <?? S" ' , "* " ' "lrHnK<" 'n the country. And poor folks, mind von. m?am, don't pick up frl'en,? there and everywhere like the mil llonaires we read about." M!r I>"? mm 'or. "Pl1"' on . "f"1 feathertop," ,ald ?|ie, dim dently, "I em quite alonein the world n.th no ties to keep me tniay. if yriu' ??m '"^^-^'ngdowu ' , Mr' J ',80n " room and take oare JmW* " Mr. Feathertop won't mind the night ? Iiurg^,1' ' 4hL,Vm/T'.M.'"" ,'rice' 11 wouM ho . deed of Ohrto.ian charity," Raid Mr. Jeittho top And uK she afterward said to Mm. ftooney: "It wasn't as If Miss Price were you g an ! pretty. Sho's forty, If she's A day/' said ? he baker's wife. "And she's had Bmaiipox, as you may seo for yoursoli, Mrs. Rooney, ma'am; and h r hatr is red and her eyelashes are white, and 1 ofton think, ma'am, of w lat Fe thertop said when first she engaged our top story bauk; 4P$rgy/ says Feathertop, Bays he, 1 IRje've got iili3 hum idlest woman ih New York for our tenant.' But Mary Price, if sho was neithelr voung nor beautiful, possessed tho rare attrlh\it<* of a slek-nnrse? tho soft a?ip, the quick perception, the noiso Ii-mh, glding movemont-'-and before she had been the guard W genius. of pOOT John Judsott's room for a wcok the fever turned and he began to grow better. 'So/' he said, suddenly, one bleak February afternoon when Mary V ' ice sat stitching silently by his side, " I shall get well." "The doctor says so," silently as sented Miss Price. "Why didn't they let me die?" groaned the poor lapiflary, screwing up his forehead. Miss Price looked at him In amaze ment. ? "?Don't you want to livefc" she said. " What have I got to livo for?" burst out John Judson. "I have neither name nor fame left, and cau't even get tho chance to earn my own living. ! They believe me to be a thief. As well die of fovor as die of starvation. " Miss Price looked gontly at him. " There is no need of either," said she. " I have a few dollars In the savings bank. You are welcome to them until you can work and earn something for yourself." John raised himself on his elbow ' and stared at her. " Why do you give me your hard earned savings?" said he, bluntly. "Because you need them more than I do," said Miss Price, sowing jfway. Judson uttered a low, bitter laugh. " I thought the race of Christians was extinct," said he ; " but I believe there are some left." 1 After that ho recovered rapidly. But on tho day on which he first sat up there came a thundorlng knock at the door and in walked old Mr. Goldi love, plump, clean-shaven and looking eminently respectable in his fur trimmed overcoat and new kid gloves. Judson started. "Have you come to arrest me, sir?" said he. " Not at all, my dear fellow ? not at all 1" said the old gentleman, briskly. " Look here !" And opening his hand he showed snugly reposing in the palm some thing small and spnrkling like a drop of blue dew. " It's the Mordaunt sapphire 1 " ex claimed the lapidary, eagerly. " Exactly J" said Mr. Goldilove; " it's J the Mordaunt sapphire. And where 1 do you suppose we found it? " "I am sure, sir, I do not know," an- ' swered Judson, whose fever-bright eyes were still fixed upon tho glitter ing blue jewel as if he momentarily expected to see it melt away. " Why," chuckled Mr. Goldilove,." I was tho thief, Judson ! 1 stole it my self. Ha, ha, lml" "You. sir?" ejaculated John. " I sent this coat to the furrier's,'' Baid Mr. Goldilove, " to have the trim ming repaired where it had ripped away. And the furrier found the sap phire lodged neatly in a seam. it must have clung to the fur some time when I leaned my elbow carelessly on tho table- -slipped in at the ripped j place and tucked itself comfortably away. And all the time I was scold ing about you, Judson, and be lieving you in my heart to bo a thief, I was carrying about, the missing jowol myself. Good faith, my dear fellow! I've thought since if the Lord judged us jis hardly as we judge each other our chances in tho other world would be mighty slim, eh ? But I'm sorry ? sorry from tho very bottom of my heart? and 1 beg your pardon, Judson! And your old place at the shop 1s waiting for you, with a littlo rlso in wages, whenever you choose to oome back. '? ' And cordially wrung the lapi dary*# hand once moro and hobbled off ; and it was not until he had gone that, jfadsoh discovered that ho had loft a tweflity-dollar bill on the table, folded in an envelope directed to " John Jud son." ? When Miss Price came In as usual on her way home from tho shirt fac tory where she Worked John Judson had a Btory to tell her. " You've kept my hoart up many a time, Mfss *Prlta\"'sai(i he, " when it has l>een like. a lump of lead In my breast, with your tales about the vari ous little adventures you had had seek ing for work in all thoso downtown places, hnd n6w I've got an advonture to relate to you!" Miss Price burst. Into tears when she heard it. ' "Tm bo glad, Mf.- Judsonl" she cried. "Oh, I am rto glad! But I know all along that you never took that jowoll" "tlod .bless you for thnt!" Pa'<l Jud son, in a low voice. When Mr*. Feathertop oamo up she war full of Mr.Gotrtllove's good-nature ? -the pennies ho had given her little ones, tho praise ho had adjudged to tho Shining, glass-topped counter* and piles of wholesome-looking bread. " And so tho sapphire was found after all," sajd*Mr?. Feathertop. "Hut, dear me lhave heard about poor Miss Price. Did she tell you?" " No," said Jud6on. " What is It?" "tho shirt factory has failed," hbIiI Mrs. Feathertop. " The hands are all left without work ; and what's worse their back wages never will l>o paid. Vtt\ dftadful sorry f??r poor Miss Price. J It does seem as if Bhe had nothing hut ill luck in the world. Hut, there ! I've loft Patty in the store an- 1 sho don't 'know tho pric6 of a thing. I niUBt hurry hack as fast as over J r an." Miss Prlco came down in tho hnkery that evening. " Mrs. Feathertop." said she, "l ant going to give up my room." ' 44 1 supposed so," said Mrs. Teather top, wrapping up a loaf of Boetor brown, bread in a paper for a cus tomer. "Well, Miss Price, I'm sorry,'" but ? " " But I didn't tell you all," said Mist Price. " I ? I'm going to be married To Mr. JudBon t" Down rolled the loaf of Boston brown bread to the floor. " Eh ?" cried the baker's wife. "It ain't possible !" But It was. Plain little Miss Price, with the white eyelashes, the red hair, the pock-markod complexion, had won a husband after all. _ "In my eyes, dearest," John Judson had said, " yours Is the swoetest face in the world. It beut over my sick bed when I should have died, save foi its help and sympathy; it lighted up tho dark hours of my weary convales cence; it shone like a star in my ut most need. And if you will trust your self to me, Mary, you shall never, God helping me, have reason to regret it." So they were married, much to the wonder of thvi world in general. " Well," wild Mrs. Feathertop, " if Miss Price has got a husband, then no body need despair." But Mrs. Peathertop'a vision was duller than that of John Judson. She had not seen the glory of Miss Price's puro soul shining through her plain face. ? Helen Forrest Urates. Curiosities oj^ Evidence. The custom of kresing the thumb instead of the book was considered by many an evasion of the moral obliga tion attached to an oath, while to others, holding the Testament upside down was deemed an equally efll cacious release. These mid other dis reputable artillces are, however, vyy little indulged in at the present day. When the celebrated Sergeant Hill conducted a defense at the bar of the house of lords, he propounded a question to a witness which the coun sel on the other side objected to. After much had been said on either side, the law lords themselves dis agreed, and the bar and all Btr angers were ordered to withdraw. After an absence of two hours they were read mitted, and the lord chancellor in formed Mr. ILill that tho house de cided the question might be put, " Please you, my lords," said the ser geant, " it is so long since I asked the question that I forget what it was, but with vonr lordships' permission I will put another !" A witness was lately called on a trial at the old Bailey to prove an alibi. He solemnly swore that the prisoner on the night and at the hour in ques tion (11:25 r. M. ) was at home and in bed at a distant part of the parish. Nothing could shako his testimony, for he said he had looked at the clock just as tho prisoner wont upstairs, and he had set the clock right with the church clock himself tho same day, and it was certainly 11:25 r. m., etc. "Pray what do you make the time now ?" blandly asked tho counsel who crass-examined, pointing to a great white dial over the dock. No answer was given. " Don't bo confused ? take your time. I ask you again ? what is tho time by that clock now?'' The question was repeated .^^sov eral timea and the witness was eventually bound to confess that he could not toll the time by a clock at all. Singularly enough the clock in tho court was standing at 11:25 when he made this avowal. We remember a country witness being called at the assizes to prove that at a particular hour on a certain night the moon was shining and at the full. There happenod to bo no almanac in eriurt, but tho evideneo seemed to bo satisfactory, for he had obtained his information from " a regular gwnl London stationer's al manac." The question was asked In cVoss-examinatlon, "How did you ob tain this London stationer's almanac? .Did you buy it?" ;1*:Buy it! No; my father pasted it behind my kitchen door nine years ago ? the day I was jnarrledl" It need hardly tfle said that information as to the moon's age dur ing a day in the current year was of little valuo from an almanac nine years old. ? Leimire Hour. Ilow II* HI w thft Bear. On Tuesday evening last, when Mr. George Trevors, who had been work ing in the steamship Cohan, then lying at Mr. Nergent's mill wharf, Nelson, was done his day's work, he had occa sion to go up to the store of Mr. Dan iel Baldwin to purchase a few articles. It wai then dark, and when he started for his home in the Douglasfleld he took the short cot across the woods. He had gone about a mile and a half when he was attaekod by a very large hear. Being unarmed, and having no other weapon than a bottle of parartlne oil, he struck the hear and broke the lft>ttls of bil over him. The hear then sprang on him and commenced hug ging him, when George had the pres ence of mind to light a match and set tire to him. In an instant old hruin was all in a blaze and let go of him, nnd in lens than five minutes she was all consumed but the hear! and should ers. (Jeorgo then commenced to carry water In hi* hat t A quwnc.h the fire to save the snout, so as to get the bounty. ?VhaVtam (tf. JU.) Worlrt. LADIES'. DEPARTMENT* . . 1 The English Wniu*i Skin. I A writer in an English fashion paper is moved to inquire whether the natural whiteness of the English woman's skin is a myth, inasmuch as statistics show j that no less than 7,000 swans' skins are annually imported into London alone j for the exclusive manufacture of the ! puffs used for the purpose of laying ? powder on the face. Every swan's skin ; makes ubout sixty puffs, which would I make an annual consumption of 420, ! 000 puffs. The same statistics say that tons of rice and wheat powder are con sumed annually in England. ' American Titled Lndlm. ? The number of American ladies who sport titles, is quite large. It is said the most intimate friend of Queen 1 Victoria for the last thirty years is an I American lady, Mrs. Van der Weyer; ! Lady Randolph Churchill, Lady Man deville; Lady Anglesey, Lady Har court, Lady John Lister Kaye, Lady Fermor-IIesketh and Lady Colin Camp- 1 bell are all Americans; the Princess de Lynar of Berlin came from Columbus, Ohio; the Princess de Noer, a cousin j of Victoria by marriage, and sister-in | law of the dowager queen of Den mark, was a Miss Lee, of New York; the Duchess Laute Delia Novere was a Miss Davis; the Princess Louis de Bourbon, the Duchess de Praslin and the Roman Princess 'Ccncl, Brancaccic and Giustiniani are also Americans; while the crown of Holland, in the person of the late Prince of Orange was refused five years ago by an Amer> can ladv in Paris. Story of a Mpinet. The pedigree and vicissitudes of an antique spinet recently presented to an Edinburgh bride_ are very interesting. It is the identical instrument on which Sir Walter Scott's daughters, Annie ind Sophie, received their earliest music lessons, contains only thirty-six notes, and is probably just si"*b a one as that on which Princess Charlotte, of Mecklenberg-Strelitz, was playing when she attracted the fuvorafcle attention of George III. It bears the name of "John and Hugh Watson, Edinburgh, makers, from London." After being superseded in the Scott family by a more modern piano of larger compass, Sir Walter gave it to a friend who had little girls, in 1817, and in whose schoolroom it did good service for twelve years. The owners did not like ; to part with it, and it accompanied | them through many changes, serving for several years as a lobby table, un dertaking a weary journey in 1854, and being placed in the corn?r of a bath-room, whore it remained till 1872, when another turn of Fortune's wheel brought it back to Edinburgh. The new owner, however, could not affojrd it standing room, and sought to plg.ee It in the relic-room of the Scott mcjnu ment, but it was thought too largo for admission. The legs' were qpnse I qucntly takon off and suspended from i the roof of a butler's pantry* while i tho trunk reposed IgnominlouBly un i der A bed. Now that the cmze for everything antique has sot in, the old piano i8 regarded as a thing of joy and beauty, and, carefully encased in a coat of many colors, the groundwork whereof is a " greenery yallery " sort of cloth, occupies a place of honor among the possessions of the third gen eration, who prize it, not only as n, relic of tho author of " Waverly " h?ut as a " quite too intensely precious " or nament of their drawing-room. Fnntilon Note*. Embossed plushes will be in favor. Hall buttons are no longer fashion able. Shades in olives will be particularly gbod. Terra cotta in all its shades is the coming color, Quantities of ribbons art used in d reus garniture. The latest in both large and small buttons are particularly flat. Matelasse will be used again the coming ?ea*on for cloaking*. Vast- assortments of. fancy feathers will garnish the hats for fall. Terriv-cottas are to be produced in shades bearing closely upon the heli otrope. Roman beads have never been more stylish ; they are shown in all th^new shades. The singular combination of palo bluo and dark green is being selected by many. Velvet in dark shades and short pile plushes will be largely used for dress purposes. K I'ale nun's gray is in vogue, b\kt is becoming to few unless combined with.j ? brighter hue. L . I Nasturtium* are the lending flowef to-day, and they are exquisitely brought forth in velvet. The oddest ornaments for hatsp are the tiny tambourine, guitar, violin, banjo, flute, whip, drum, etc. The latest notion is wear a small fanr.y-l>ordcred handkerchief peeping out of a small pocket on the right or left hip. > ? li? Vw.'-J Ornaments- in cut steel, such as hucklen, large buttons and ffcncy brooche* Will be used on fall quit* of light-tinted ladles' cloth. New Woolens for fall wear have | V ??' raised polka dots of silk brocaded all over their surface, either in the same shade or in a contrasting color. Handkerchiefs with very minute colored borders, and the name em broidered in a color to match that of the border, are very popular. Iloavy corded silk material, and stuffs in silk and in worsted, iigured with velvet, are amor_? the coming novelties in the way of dress goods. It is proposed that ladies shall ad^pt the Turkish style of wearing their veils next winter, that is, over the mouth, chin and nose instead of the eyes. White dresses have occasionally the entire skirt , covered with narrow ? flounces of Oriental lace. The basque j is then trimmed with lace ruffles and cascades. Cut steel buckles for dresses and hats are rich and elaborate, and are the harbinger of the elegant stocl trimmings, which will be prominent ! the coming season. White or black dresses are frequent ly adorned with: multi-colored ribbons, hoops and long streamers, or jabots ir. mixtures of colors ? olive, gray and pink or pale blue cardinal and terra cotta, for instance, being con jointed. Primrose, bronze, brown and crimson form another fashionable combination, but. the slightest error in tint destroys all the good effect. Well blended, this simple trimming sufficiently brighten? the sombrest toilet. CUPPINGS FOR TH E CCRIOI S. | Cereals were so called from Ceres, tho fabled goddess of corn and agri. ! culture. She is generally represented ; as being cro\\^?d with ears of wheat. The oldest t.vin brothers in the United States are Barney and John Kepler, ninety-one years of age. They livo in the same house in Pluinstead township, Pa., and are hi excellent i health. * I A young lady near Biggs, the Ohieo ? (Col.) Rem -d says, named Bessie Don- 1 lop, wears her hair over seven feel long. The hair is blonde, and she is said to be beautiful, with pink lips and sparkling blue eyes. She is seventeen years old, and has admirers in all the land around. The banana "tree" is a shrub. But ofte bunch of fruit is produced on a stalk, which is usually cut with the fruit; the latte. is rarely permitted to ripen. If the stalk is left it dies; but the root throws up now ones the next season. The fruit grows in a single I season from the root. The word ?? book" is derived from ! the Saxon language. Before the in- i vention of paper the Saxons used to j write on blocks of wood. Tho wood | of tho beech tree, called in the Saxon 1 language bok , being cl03c-grained and I hard, was mostly used for that purpose, ' and hence the word book. Black lotter is tho name given to the ! Old English or modern Gothic letter 1 It was introduced into England in the ! fourteenth century, and was the char- \ acter used in manuscript works before 1 the introduction of tho art of printing. Books printed before the year 1500 are I generally in this character and are called black-letter books. The colebrated rose bush at Hildas heim, in Hanover, reputed to have been planted by Charlemagne, and therofore to be more than a thousand years old, has borne more blossoms this season than ever befojpe, and is an object of much curiosity; The brooches of the bush extend to about throe feet and eight inches In height, and three feet and four Inches In width. Roasting a Prisoner on a Spit. Philios Alexih, who died in Lamia ??he other day at the great age of ninety-four, t had in his youth con tributod ? but only under compulsion ???to onre of the most terrible deeds perpetrated by the Turkish forces em- j ployed to crush the Greek rebellion of j 1821. Me WAS plying his trhde as a : master carpenter 1n his native town when Omer Brionis Pasha entered j Lamia In triumph, aftor his victory over the Insurgents at Thermopylae ! where ho had taken several insurreo- ' tionary leaders prisoners, among them ! tho celebrated champion of Hellenic | liberties, Athanasios Diakos. The j fierce Mosl<?m commander doomed [ that heroic youth to bo spitted on a wooden stake and rossted alive ; and j Alexins was -required, y on. pain of I death, , to Supply the execution A* of this barbarous sen ten eft with all the implements needed for Its fulfillment? that, is to say, ? spit of timber flttfxi at 1 olther end with a handle by which it ' might he made iio revolve, and two ' stout wooden treaties provtde<1 with! circular grooved wherein both ex t rem- i eties of the stake might have free p1?y ( during tholuckless patriot's martyrdom. | Oh the aftth of April, 1821, us soon as j Alexin Had completed the ta?k imposed xipon him, the Pasha's inhuman decree was carried out to the letter. Diakos displayed unflinching fortitude through out Ids, horrible torment and his death scene, to which Alexin was a witnoss, and wftlth made an impression on the j laity's mi$a tUftt timet could not efface, i Iferetained it indeed with undiminished ? vividness within a few hours of his j demise. Tones OF THE DAY. In tho la^t two years the world has lost 8,508 vessels, of which 300 were never seen or hoard of after they they bailed out of sight from port. The lives lost number many thou sands. The Canadian wheat harvest for 1882 l? a material improvement over tluit of 1881. The crop of winter wheat is estimated at 82, 300,000 bush els and tho spring wheat crop at 9,800,000, or 41,600,000 bushels in the aggregate. The great granite monument to the Ames brothers, builders of tho Pacific railroad, is nearly completed near Og den, Utah, at the highest point of the road. It is a red granite pyramid Bixty feet square at the base, sixty feet high and will last as long as granite will hold together. A medallion bust of Oakes Ames has been hewn on the west face and one of Oliver Ames on the east. The oost is $00,000. A house was burning at Oshkosh, Wis., and a woman was left inside. Her husband cried, " Five thousand dollars to the man who saves her !" A fireman dashed in at great personal risk and brought her out alive. Although the husband is very wealthy, he refused to give a dollar of tlie reward ; but the supreme court de cides that the offer of $f>,000 waS valid, and that the money must be paid. Preparations are active in England in regard to the great international fish eries exhibition to bo held in London in the early part of i883. Arrange ments have been completed to bold the exhibition in the gardens of the Koyal Horticultural society. With the exist ing buildings and such additional spare as will he covered the total area pro vided for will he some 220.300 square feet. The United States will be exten sively represented. Judge Brown, of the supreme court of Baltimore, has delivered an im portant opinidn bearing upon the ques tion of what constitutes legal resi dence of a government officer, and where he is entitled to vote. The judge held that a citizen who takes an ortlco under the government does not lose his residence by removing to an other place while he is employed by the government, unless he intends to make such place his permanent resi dence. A writer in an English news, paper thinks that the teeth of Americans must be getting into a very disastrous condition when it requires twelve largo factories, turning out 10,000,000 artificial teeth a year, to sup ply the annual loss, and $2,500,000 worth of gold to stop up the cavities that appear in natural teeth. These figures, says tho Chicago lnter'0<*nn, do not prove that our teeth aro worso than they used to bo, but that wo aro taking better care of thein. The Prussian government, alarmed it the continued stato of emigration, has been seriously considering what means to adopt for checking the steady drain upon tho population and re sources of tho country; and it is now proposed to take the ground thai, per sons who intend to emigrate must first prove that in doing so they will not violate any contract obligation, public or private, express or implied, like thoso that may he construed to exist toward municipal and village coinr iu nities, families and employers. Wher ever it is impossible to infer the exist ence of such obligations, the official authorities will doubtless be ingenious In spelling them out, and measures will he taken to prevent emigration in all such eases. Hands of gypsies wander about in largo numbers In soma parts of Ger many, and occasionally, emboldened I by their numerical strength, and rendered reckless by their necessities, they do not hesitate to make serious inroads upon the farms that they come across. Lately a band $ounting over 200 encamped near ft small villftgo in the Hessian territory, and turned their horses loose to graze at will over the meadows and farming lands of the neighborhood. The exasperated farm ers and peasants thereupon armed themselves with pitchforks and other weapons, and attacked the intruders. A pitched battle followed, and it was not Without a severe struggle that the native population remained masters of the field. The interference of the government will probably be required to put an end to the growing evil. From a lately published work by (Ion era! Htrolbitsky it Appears - t hat Europe Is 188/KX) square kilometers, or -about. 15,000 square miles, larger than was supposed. O rmoral St.relbitsky has j founded his calculations on the most ! careful measurements, and ascertained that Europe has a superficies of 10,010, 480 square kilometers, of which 9,340,028 belong to the continent and (KVMftB to the inlands, a calculation which differs considerably from those hitherto made. It General Ktrelhjtsky be correct, the sIzoofScandlnavh.Francoand Hunger v has hithorto been undervalued, while that of Italy, Great Britain, fopaln and Portugal have- been exaggerated. The three smallest European States hav<. the following size: Liechtenstein. 159 ; San Marino, 85, and Andorra, 21 square kilometers, the latter beine. about one-third as lar^e as the city oi Berlin, which has a superficies oi 60.6 square kilometers. CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS. A mountain sheep weighing tw" hundred pounds was recently killed in Arizona. Itosettu Day, aged 110 years, and >? native of Virginia, is an inmate of the Washington almsnou.se. A strange and curious animal wa< recently killed by a hunter in the Stat" of Morclos, Mexico. It was about the size oi an ordinary donkey, ot a grayish color, had very thick liair, and its up" pT lip was some four mHies longer than the lower one. The honor of kissing the toe of the sultan of Turkey is reserved f??r the vizier, ministers and certain privileged pashas. This honing1 is performed j with the utm >st solemnity, and is I marked by every sign of respect w? rthy i of so important an occasion. j The oldest deed in Ann rica is in , possession of Major I>i rid. ot NVw ! York. It is dat d 1'iJ". ? * i t^i* ? ?**?:? v*ar 1 " after the discovery hy ('dutubus, and I conveys l 1 l.n 1. i!i l.,%nj? Island Sound, from certain Indian ' chiefs, t > .lolm Cabot, whose signature it hears. The earlv (ir eks and Persian* used 1 ? ! marine signal ', ma\ing them not bv (lags but by t ic p ? <it ion of their sails j and by holding shield-. in various posi ' tions. A code ot Mag signals wa ? ! made in 1-1:1 > bv \'en -tian captain and the lirst English signal was iutre i dnced by .1 allies II., Duke of York, j In the fifteenth and sixteenth cen ' turie.s the counts of Kaerfenburg kepi I in their castle, a beaker holding tWh I quarts, and eha'lenged guests to drain 1 it at a draught ; but. since l"?8t> very 1 few have been able to perform tin1 feat, and since IVmsia became a king j dom it has not been performed at all. Oswaldus Xorhingerus, who was famous for his minute contrivances, is . said to have made 1,000 dishes of ! turned ivory, all perfect and complete ; in every part, yet no small, thin and I slender that all of them were included , in a cup tinned out of a peppercorn of the common size. They were almost | invisible to the eye. j Where do the red and speckled ear., j of corn conic from when white corn | alone Ts planted, asks an exchange. ! Why don't we ever find an ear with ! an odd number of rows? You can I lind a four-leaf clover, but never the ! odd row on an car of corn. They ' always have fourteen, sixteen, twenty or some other even number. What objections has nature to odd numbers? Some months ago a curious freak ol nature occurred on the farm of Robert Jackson, about six iniles west of Mill dleville, Ihirry county, Mirh. In a corner of one of his fields, where there had never been any appearance of water and where the land was high I and dry, a stream of water about tho size of a man's body suddenly burst forth. A large oak tree which stood in close proximity was prostrated. The water is lugldy charged with sulphur. James Jh-atty, of Huntington, Long Island, has a well on his premises that appear!} to be both a curiosity and a puzzle. The well is twenty-three feet deep, and it is said that it is dry every year from January 1 to the lirst week in March as regular as the days of the year. It will be as full the day before It, dries up as at any time during the year, and on the following morning not a drop is to be seen where a depth id' three or four feet existed before. About. I lie. first week in March tne well lillu again in a few moments, and continues so for the remainder of the year. Miot 1 1 vo Men In Hve Minute*. It does not hoc i ii to be generally known that. Dallas Studenmeyer, I Tni ted States marshal, who was recently killed at El I'aso, is the same man who achieved such notoriety Home t.ionthri ago Ity killing live men in iw; many min utes. The circumstances a.s then re lated are about, /s follows: Ntuden meyer had heen elected marshal of El I'jtso, and the day after the result was declared the ex-marshal and four of his friends came suddenly upon him while, lie was silling in ,pont of the El I'nso hotel, and opened Hrn with shotguns and six shooters. Studenmeyer jrmped up, and draw ng his pistols shot every one of them squarely through the heart, kill ing the whole live instantly, except the ex-marshal, who lived ahout an hour. Things were made so uncomfortab'y warm for him that lie had to leave El I'aso. The .)fa 1 1 gets these facts from an eye witness. Studenmeyer wan dered around the country, visiting Oalveston, llrenbain, Fort Worth, La redo and other points, and finally went hack to his death. He was described as a medium-sized man, very quiet and not easily aroused, but he was invari ably on hand when wanted. Ifo was held in dread by the desperadoes and his loss is universally regretted by his fellow officers. ? (Jalwutnn (Text*) Mail. Field-Paths. Paths of the fields, Ob pleasant paths ! that stray Through t ho doop wind-trod pastures of thl spring. Through all tho glory and the blossoming That summer yields, Companioned of the golden buttercup L'p in heaven's far cloud-flocked sapphire gating? up. Piercing to heights that seo tho sky lark siug. From the w>.rid'>? wear.ncsa, from hope's decay, Lend uu\ Oh lend me, ploasaut paths away? Paths of Iho tk'lda ! Who knows not hours ? Hours who i hfo longs to cense I ts cudkv.> (iiKMtioniug of the mystery Of sorrow ; when the oternal ill wo see Ml hope o'erjowors? Oh in such hours of darkness and of fear, In joy niul quietude alike, bo near : Ntvu in deep trnmpiiluess and gladnossbel Through na'ure's placid caitn, tlirough sweet ro'enso From doubt, from tenn?, Oh load mo, paths of poact? Paths of the fie1 .1 ! ? ' mm C. lienned. P U N (i K NT I? A It AO It A I'll S. An oM feud: The feeling between ague and quinine is exceedingly bitter. In (he cup ot life youth is the sugar, middle ago the cream and old age the dregs. It was Chauecr that appropriately said, " 'I^ere is nothing new but what hiis once been old." Chaucer evidently knew hash when lie saw it. It was verv rude in the old bachelor who was told that a certain lady " had (?no foot in the grave" to ask "if there wasn't room for ltot.li feet." A young lady says t hat males are of no account from the time the ladie.< stop kissing them as infants till they , commence kissing them as lovers. Arabella " Yes. I think this sweet pug is just perfection. Don't you?" ( ieorife ( with feelingV-" No, not, ex act ly: but 1 do think he is very near perfection." A man sent one dollar in response to an advertisement which promised, in a mysterious w ay, to tell "Why I j became a Mason." lie received as an answer, '? Because I didn't, want to be come a carpenter or a shoemaker." Spinks went home the other night, afflicted with double vision. He sat for a time with his sleepy gaze riveted on Mrs. S., and then complacently re marked: "Well, 1 declare, 'f you two gals don't look 'nough like to he twins." An Iowa City man has 153 hives of bees, which are arranged around his hen-house, and when he hears a thief I fooling around that establishment in , the i\arkness he just lies still and waits to hear a hive upset, and then laughs at the sound of wild yells gradually dying away in the distance. Jenkinson is having his for*, night off. As he was leaving the house the other morning Mrs. J. presented her lips for the customary parting kiss; I but Jenkinson, the brute, turned on his heel with the remark: "Not this morning, 'Tilda; I'm on my vacation, you know." Evidently Jenkinson in hound to get all the recreation possible out of his vacation. | "Why, my dear," said poor little , Mr. I'cnheekcr, with a ghastly smile, j " why would the world, without wo man, be like a blank sheet of paper?" 1 Mrs. 1\, who had just been giving the j little man "a piece of her inind," smiled and " couldn't think." "Why, j because, don't you see, love," said the ! long-suffering one, " P would't oven I be ruled." The clergyman's wife had presented | him with a sou, and tho happy father, | as he went his parochial rounds, was i congratulated by the members of his j congregation. There was ono old far mer, however, who received the tidings j very coldly, but when perceiving the pastor's disappointment good-natured ly explained: " I ain't got no spite, it's | all accordin* to natur', I 'spose; but when I think of that hoy of your n I j can't help reek'nin' that In a few years there'll have to bo a new fen *e put 'round my watermelon patch." A Pleasant Experiment With Half. Do y.n want to grow salt, and at. the sain I. have an interesting, hand sonu ... nament? The proceeding is a | novel chemical experiment, that may be tried by any one. Put In a goblet one tablespoon fill of sail and one spoon , lul of bluing. Fill the goblet two thirds full of water and set It In a | position where it will have plenty of warmth and sunlight. fri' a little while sparkling crystals will commence forming on the outside of the glass, and it is both a novel and interesting sight to watch it gradually growing day bv day until the outside of the goblet is entirely covered oVer with beautiful white crystals. Another variation of this beaut ilnl experiment, would be to lake a goblet, with the base broken off and fasten It, in the tenter of a thin piece of board, which may be round, square or oldong After the crystals have formed on the glass set it on a tiny wall-bracket and i place a bright holiday or birthday^-ard in front of it, ; this will hido the base, on which no crystals will form. After this is done till the goblet with flowers or dried grasses, and you will have a vase which will cost comparatively I little. 7