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_______ _ Yliij||gt *alu mt r?i||?.t - W? save laqaMes ooncernlug the feeding value Of outflage, some of which ehow eome coufmjTpn of ia regard to the subject, llearii a few arenerai principles will Belt) to a better understanding: First?The value of food preserved in a silo depends very greatly on what was put in?its nature and condition. The material used and the degree of maturity of the crop will greatly affect the value. Second?Putting grass, cornstalks or other substance in a silo does not add anything to the'nutriment contained in the material We cannot take out what we did not pat in. Cutting and storing the green food iu a tilo may make it more digestible; may and often dOes'toako it more palatable than when the food is dvlo.l in the open air. Letting the,molsture dry from meadow grass or from graen cornstalks in itself, should not tnakjB tfefcse substances less desirable as food. In fact It does make ttion} les& palat&ble. Preserving much Of this moisture In the ensilaged food may do c? help. Third?If fermentation goes on in the silo to any considerable extent x thero Is"absolute losi of food value. Fourth?Ijteason and exjierlence ? allkfelead'us to conclude that wo can not make ensilaged gnus or cornstalks alone fully take ,$ho place of good grain feed. The latter should be given ia connection with the former. Fifth?Reason and oxperlonce alike show that almost any palatable, nutri tious, succulent plant, kept;Hn a eilo, with reasonable exclusion of the air, makes a palatable and fairly satisfac tory food.?Breeder's QazeU*fx * \*v TrrniBplntttlng 0?t?rr. 1 TUejidU beat adapted to,t^o perfcct growth of celery Is a deep, fallow, Bandy loam, rather moist in character, thoroughly pulverised. Land manured, the fall previous makei, an excellent bed, so does ground that has been lib erally manured ln.tUespiiug/or soiue early^egptable '<$rop, as onions or b^eta/lf ??loW*d itod harrowed after the rfltat crop ha? been harvested. Fresh manure is injurious to tho plants', It'lriduces ft Vou?h growth and renders tho stalk' pithy instead of Stattfseelery plants are set during tho month of July and at the South u month or h(x weeks later-;-Beep-trends -have, for tho mostj mrtt, |jeen abandonteqTfor the leak lalxirious and expfcftftVft rifode- of fur rows dww ^sWMhte heat# or k SelecFcfoudy o?f wct^ wealue# Tof tran&bUtffttf celgrv iwlteairjoaslble. If ? dontoln (VfywetMikit tho 'pllints will veiiuirft repeated waterings and shad ing until they are established. The rows may- M 'liiairtteA OffifgWr Or; five P! feet apart and the plants separated eight or ten inohca in the row. Many cultivators practice cutting baok the top?, at transplanting to render the ^ A mixture fccoinfoendeil by Aomo of od^eOfteauyn^ients ^o incorporate with nantvrtruscd in the furrows oon of salt, soot and lime. This, it is eveiVnot ?j}ly. ppty as a preventive Wornw btit promotes the. growth of HuMW; Tawro^is^o doubt l?ut that the rust UJ&fity is <ftp8(^byp^rtiefc* earth hlch'fa'l in among the stems during the process of liilling when there is rain or d^won the plants. JTlie remedy Is obvlouH; avoid hilling or earthing up1 th6 plants except'when they are quite ^dry, 'and at the Unal occasion neatly dlant and smooth the soil so ns to throw oft the moisture. "'rP'Vf 'j/'i' >' . ? in tlio Poultry Ynrd. Muoh of the trouble >uul vexation created in the management of poultry is caused, by the fowls contracting habits, which, >tfhen onoo formed, are vflry herd to break, tyno of the prin cipal and most aggravating habits is that of eating eggs.' . . . :? jWhen jfowls are' confined In closo quarters and hWe vert little exercise tliey get into tho habit of scratching the stra in their nests for want of some' other exercise. After an ej_ is once broken they, of course, eat it, and in this way the habit is formed. This as well-as all other habits are i'ormod only when - the fowls are con fined in atpall yards and have very little exercise, and anything that offers they are ready atfd willing to do. This is one of thoir worst habits and a very haxa paeitoibreak. Muoh has been said <m this subject; however, preven tion is far hotter and easier than cure. To Hvbld ftfl this. trouble the fowls should have plenty of occupation fttfeide. of the hen-house. Give, them . corn on the cob and let them labor A little for their fooft?i-4he niore the better. Another bad Jutftft, and one that is extremely vexatious to the fancier, is that of feather eating. This hubit is a'so led purely from vmnt of something er to do and an appetite is soon lulrcd.. .{When fowl4 are allowed to tt at large they gathi r innumerable insects as well as vegetable food of all not giTfln thorn ^ ,, habit^ are easily' of thWc habits aro ao breeds, but the rapid id non-setters1 are the worst, ptoses* an almost irresistible myvwtmw* for animal food, and it is the gratifying oftt>ls appetite that. gives usmfcmaay.eggs,, Another habit is byplucin ?the roos^fhigh in the coop., and Jt I tot this reason* principally thafclov. rooeti ate reoommonded. iiemombsr whea foirhraro.oonftped, U*yt depone! entirely on their keeper for their feed, t Which should be given them regularly and ln sufch quantity a that none wiu ' be left to npoll on the grounds : dellgh^ to scratch in loose J}* fltotlori Of their yard IraH1 ,lffOVl lord need. h and' can bo successfully removed from carpets in the following manner; Wring a coarse towel out of dear water, spread it smoothly on the ' n it dry with a good hot tag the operation wherever are wpposed to be? No RjjWrV ';H Mi ] I T? ... I need to pre* hard, and the ply or color1 of the carpet will JWt ba injured, as the moths are destroyed by the heat and the steam. : J *ACT? FOB THE CUKIOtS. Tha palace of Sennacherib at Nine veh stands upon a mound a mile and a half in circumference. ^ The Hindoo* drees their dead in white, with touches of red for crema tion, or sometimes in saffron. Semiahmoo, in Whatcom county, Washington Territory, marks the ex treme northwestern corner of the Uni ted States. 7 A German scientist claims that the white pine is an excellent weather in dicator. If we are to expect rain or snow within a reasonably short time the branches of the last two seasons' growth will be pendulous. If such weather be a long way off the branches will be raised rather than drooped. Those who have confidence in their guessing ability can exercise that talent by giving their judgment as to how many now dollar-bills will balance in the scales a gold double eagle- At a recent trial the guesses varied from 1,000* to 850, but when a trial was mado the beam tipped when thirty four bills were placed in the pan. Seaorl Reynolds, of Black River, may claim the distinction of being the champion Biblo reader. lie is eighty four years of age, and has always oeon a reader of the Bible, but fourteen years ago, after a severe illness, he began to give it increased attention^ and has read it through, on an average, once in every twenty-five days. Among the curiosities of ancient j credulity was the belief that certain birds }jobsessed stones of remarkable tallsmabic virtue. Ono of these was supposed to be found in the brain ot ,the vulture, which gave hoalth to the finder and successful results when so liciting favors. Dioscorldes gives :m fjwjcoiint of the use or an eagle stone in detecting larceny. The aloct >rius, a stone worn by the wrestler Milo, was so ca'led from being taken out of the gizzard of a fowl. A stono like a cryBta', as large as a bean, extracted froin a cock, was considered by the Romans to make the wearer invisible. Tho Africa elephant hunters who go from cool and comparatively hea'thy countries, bravo the hottest and most deleterious Ethiopean regions with impunity, and this they attributo to their habit of dally fumigation of the nuked bwly with sulphur. Again, it appears that in.Slcily, while most of tho t-ulpliur mines aro in high districts and free from malaria, a few are at a low level, where intermittent fever prevails; in the latter districts, it scons, while tho population of tho neighboring villages is attacked by fever in tho propoitlon of ninety per Cent., the worklngmon in tho mines suffer much less, not more than nine or ten per cent, being attacked. THE HOME DOCTOR. Headache. l)r. Ilaley says in the Australian McdU-al Journal that, as a rule, a (lull, beavy headache situated over tho brows and accompanied by languor, chilliness and a feeling of general dis comfort, with distaste of food, which sometimes approaches to nausea, can bo completely removed in about ten minutes by a two-grain doso of iodide of potassium dissolved in half a wine glassful of water, this being sipped so that the whole quantity may do con sumoi in about ten minutes. The F.yeMght. Dr. Lunday lays down the following rults forth? Bfitfer caro of the eyes:, 1J'Avoid reading. anil study by poor light. ; 2. Light should come from the side and not from the back or from the frtatj|; 3. Do not rea,4 or study whije suffer ing great bodily;fatigue or (luring re covery from illness. 4. Do not read whlltf lyiug down. 5. Do not use the eyes too long at a time for near work, but give them oc casional periods of rest. 6. Reading and study should bedono systematically. 7. During study avoid the stooping position, or whatever tends to produco congestion of the head And face. ( .8. Select woll-printed books. 9. Correct errors of refraction with proj^jMWKjB. ; $ \ s" , ? 10. Avoid l ad hygionirf conditions ana tho ttse of alcohol and tobacco. lw Take *sufth)ient exercise in tho opsn air. ) 12. Let the ph; irslcal keep paco with the mentftl culture, ior asthenopia is most usually observed la those who are lacking in physical development. The Rom Family's Sorrow. On a porch overlooking a beautiful lawn in front of ft qUlet-looking resi dence on Walnut lane, Qermantown, sat ihtee persons. An elderly-looking gentleman, dresied in a plain business suit, a nice-looking lady of nearly fifty years, clad In black, Whose flnely molded features bore traces of an inw?t4 sorrow, and a little suppl# lad of epmo Sixteen years comprlifcd a trio moro or less public attention in tho past nine year** Thoy wJWO . tU0k j^arents ar^dT brother of Charlie ltos.s, who nlno year.* nfco 'fho^rief of Mrs. Ross hai npt b^n aSsuftged bytho lapse oftftll these years, artd, llke^Mr- fituKiitiA Sh?.|foff<frs itotbld ahguteh from ftie fee'lngs of suspense are at all ttifas kept by the fact that they do not Rftow whether the boy is allvo or dead. ltWo^id r!!e ft MoF- wfe ; wo torlowd . with of~him being ..among ftliYe lib ibVhls, . tfOihCr e intrusted I tpads and ft^, causes us woul^l /Athgr ti# 'to leu<l a id sod, a di>e? i0 years coufil Tsof^Ur boy r>rs.w?*o < turned ot ot cofoo KiTf.vn Why we ent^r b611ef, o* hOW Wc expect ?I cannot, tell; but, nover ' alive, he Will 00?etantw in re6ol to t)o ilpt of CO* what '?vorj lU*i jflw__, 2k correspond nave carefuXffiflNPVRJPI bef ot children supposed to kidnapped that I hoar of in a your is simply surprising, end I presume there are many disconsolate fathorft and mothers throughout the country who, Ilk* us, are mournhpur the dl* i BHUKKABLE MX. Tk? TwmUm F*l* u4 Ut Tarjr OrMlMt ^ wmmm Willi M ,, m flMLlTiH (*keI#t*n-A Mm 9tWmmimr fld Mratrr. Among people who have become re markublo by their differing frpm the ordinary run of humanity, Charles Domery, called "The Voracious Pole," excited great wonder In his day. He enlisted In the French service, and was captured by the English in 1799 and immured In a Liverpool prison* When in camp, if bread and meat were scarce he made up the deficiency by eating four or five pounds of grass dally. In one year he devoured and skinned 174 cats, dead aud alive. When very hungry lie did not wait to kill them before eating, lie also ate dogs and rats, and even their entrails if food was scarce. When the ship surrendered on which he was on board, finding nothing to eat but a man's leg that had boon shot olT, ho begun to eat it, wben a sailor snatched' it from him and throw it overboard. In the Liverpool prhon, although double rations were allowed him, he devoured everything he could git from the other prisoners, and would even swallow their medicines. Iledaily ate raw a bullock's liver, three pounds of candles and Hoveral pounds of raw beef, and all that they would give him o* beer cr Mater. His stotrach re volted at nothing and retained every thing. The doctors, wishing to try how much lie could eat in one day, ^tested him. At 4 in the. morning Uo broke his fast by eating four pounds of cow's udtler raw. During the day, which was hot, and his appetite poor, he consumed in all: cow's udder, four pounds; raw beef, ten pounds; candles, two pounds, and live bottles of porter. He restrained his appetite on this test occasion bccauso the other prisoner* frightened him by telling him the doc tors wore going to experiment upon him. The grcatost eater that ever lived existed In the days of old,Parr, in the ^beginning of lbOO. Ilia name was Nicholas Wood, of the county of Kent. One of the writers of the time snys: "Ho did eat with ease a wholesheep, find that raw at one meal; at another time thirty c'ozen of pigeons. At Sir William Medley's banquet he did eat as much as would suffice for thirty men. At Lord W-utton's, at one meal, he did eat lour score and four rabbits. On one occasion he devouro.l eighteen yards of black pudding. IIo made an end of a whole pig at once, and after it three peeks ol' damsons. At another thno ho ate t-ix penny loaves, threa six penny veal pies, one pound of butter, one good big dish of thornback, ami a neck loaf in the ?pace of an hour." ?, ^either of these men wero of ex traordinary size, nor in other respects were they different from other indi viduals. V Old Boots" was an object of curi sity in. the last century. Ho was bcotblack and ssrvant at an inn in lllpon, Yorkshire, and was called "Old Boots of Hipon." His nose nnd chin wero so long and so close together that ho could easily hold a piece of money between thom, and visitors wfcre usually so tickled at the oddity of the frat that they seldom failed to witness it, and customers thronged from far and near to see "Old Boots." Peter, the wild boy, was found in 1725, in a forost near Hanover, walk ing on his hands and feet, climbing treos liko a squirrel?nudo, and feed ing on grass and moss. With difficulty he was caught and taken to Zell, Han oyor. IIo was undoubtedly a human being, and was supposed to be about thirteen years of age, but could not speak, consequently no Information could bo obtained from him as to how hecame to bo living among wild beasts. After sev< ral times escaping to tho woods, Peter, as they named him, was taken to England and exhibited, lie vhad hardly any ideas, could scarcoly be induced to wear clothes, and wohld not sleep in a bed, but slept crouched in a corner, which If d to the supposi tion that he had always slept in a tree for security against wild beasts. He could never he taught to converse, though he would get out a few words. Georgo I. gave him a pension, and placed him with a farmer to live. Peter was a giant for strength, though his liolght was .only Ave feet. Ho ac quired many civilized habits, such as overweening fondness for liquor. He whs of a gentlo disposition, notwith standing tho savagery of his early life, but could novcr be induced to notice tho fair sox. He died at the supposed age of seventy-three, now a human bt ing came thus deserted in the woods has ever remained a rrtystery. Tho very first living skeleton, and from whom all subsequent ones take their name, was Claude fSowrat, born in Franco in 1797. He wad tall, and would have been well shaped had there l>een any flesh on him, uuv every bone in his body could bo seen. Ills arms wore Compared to an ivory flute, and the abdomen seemed to cling to the vertebra*. He made a fortune by ex hibiting himself, and went to his nar itlve place to enjoy It, but suddenly ex pired soon after his retirement. Tho first professional corn-cutter on record was named Hardman. ; During tho reign of William III. London swarmed with adventurers from Holland. Among them was Hardman. Ho called himself a chiropodist, and by tho singularity of his dress, and tho airs and elegance he affected soon attracted attention. He becamo patronized by the great, and even ouerated on the toei of the king himself. lie amassed wealth and live 1 in splendor. A man named Magllabechi wiw possesod of an extraordinary memory, lie wai born in Italy, In 1633. His parents', were, go poqr that they were glad to have him engaged as errand-ooy to a gty cer. He could not read, yet was always poring over the old leavos of books used as waste-paper by his employer. A book-seller know ing the boy could not read asked him what he * meant by staring at trine printed paper, lie said he did not kn?w, but >\'ould only tx) lmppy if ho could Hyp with htm who had altaays so many books*. Tile book-sell* r fern ployed him. Ho soon learned to read, and what was most remarkable he read in every language, never having been taught any. iTifl extrAorfllnafy applica tion, remarkable talents and prodigious memorV uaae him'famous. He wafl appointed librarian to the Cardinal de Medici, tte rt'ail ovety thing indiserim inately, and retained not only the sense but the words, and even the manner of spelling. Magliabechl grevf fto reitbwhori tot tn<? vast extent of hli rea<ling and his amazing memory that tho learned usually consulted him when they were writing on any snl> ject. Jf a priest was going to write tho life/0t a d&infi he would request Magllabechi's assistance as to refers enceei, Tfco librarian would tell him who had said anything about that par ticular saint, and name certsin au 'thoft, giving sometimes as many as a hundred, naming the books, the words, and the very number of the page. He did this so frequently and so exactly that he came to be looked up.' n as' nn oracll'. The Grand Pake Casino Illi made him hit librarian. One day the J T-ll I 1 I _ " w * - - - graad duke seal for Mm, and asked him if he oould got him a book that was particularly scarce. 44 No, air," he replied, "it is Impossible, for there la but one in the world. That la in the 'grfchd signior's library at Constanti nople, and is the aeventh book on the seoond shelf, on the right band as you mi r If hat Petroleum Killed. In the proeperous days of New Lon don, Conn., as. many as six whalers used to come In one day to that port. They had made voyages of two, three, and even five years. Six whalers would enter the harbor together, each striving to oome in first. When the auohor was Jet go from the sldo of the first ship to get In a boat was lowered and the burly captain was set ashore. Everybody shook hands with tho cap tain, and to each shake he replied with a grip that would have pulverized an English walnut. This was in the golden years of 1818,1849 and 18M). Prices were high and sales quick, both for oil and bone and1 the voyage afforded splendid "lays," as the whalemen said. Even the dark-facei Portuguese, the Gonza los and Petros, had for their share $100 or $200 in gold ! At that time Beach, lira lley and Porter street were nothing moro than rows of bearding houses and saloons forsallors. All nationa'ities were rep resented at the carousals. There were Portuguese, Kanaka1, Chinamen, Mexi cans, negroes, mulattoes, led Indians, Lascars and Norwegians. Money was poured upon tl o bar and no chanqe wa* asked for. Gold was only go d while it was being spent. Tho New London of that time wa< full of fat negreases in pink and yellow gowns and wearing monstrous earrings and breastpins. Tights were common, and then sheath knives ilashed above tho heads of tho motley merrymakers. Jealousy, inflamed by tirink, was tho usual cause of these affrays. The pro prietor of the dance-house would sjothe his customers into decorum by catering their skulls with the sword of a swordflsli or with an island war club which some native had one day pawned for diink. The return of these richly laden ships (and the fleet was then so large that one whaler came in weekly whi e another* went out) always b.ought prosperity to the commercial world of New London. But whalei became scarce. This was the result of the ln diuriminate slaughter which the whalemen had mado. Before long pe troleum was discovered. T.ie market soon dropped to a point that rendered further successful whaling impracti cable. Not a ship sails out of the port of New London now, and but fow schooners are engaged in sea-elophant and fur-seal fisheries. Tho great fleet of ships, having outlived their useful ness, laid their bones during the rebel lion at the bottom of Charleston and other Southern harbors. The Greed for Gold. One (lay I went to nee tho famous Hank of England, which has a trilling corps of nino hundred employes, to which it pays six poor millions of francs wagos ($1,200,000), and pos sesses in its coffers tho neat sum of 400,000,000 ($80,000,000) in gold and silver, and preserves under a glass bell a banknote worth a bagatello of 25, 000,000 (15,000,000). I entered the great hall where payments were made. A hundred employes, standing at a hundred little windows, distribute gold and silver with jugglers' rapidity, in rolls, handfuls and shovelfuls, and creditors hastily fill pockets and bags and make off like robbers, casting sus picious glances about them. You should seo the gleaming and flashing J of smiles, the very slight workings of the eyebrows and lips, and the thou sand expressive but inexpressible move- | menta of tho faces at the sight of the g^ld; and you should see that gold, ! how it frisks, jumps, sparklis and I clinks l'ko cheery laughter, and does every sort of coquetry, so that it seems i animated and rascally. I, too, before | this spectacle felt for tho flrst time a guilty disturbance, and made such a ! face that any one who had seen me al that moment would have cried, j " Arrest him!" This feeling I should j not have had at eighteen. At that : age one never thinks of not " getting j rich." Youth, as a groat poet has j said, is a " mysterious awaiting," and among the .thousand things expected j in the distant and indefinite futuro is "getting rich;" One hopes still, Vaguely, for legacies from unknown relatives, and for packages of bank notes found on the bedroom table some Evening after the theatre, sent by no One knows whom; but evsry passing year oanoeis one word of the.se fanci ful ' promises of our good genius, and then the sight of gold makes us thoughtful and awakes melancholy longings, not from lovo Qf ease, but for that dear independence'which forced tjepiflYfcjj utf. $f, and to be ablo to work ten year* at a time on a bo6k, to keep at-home font teachers of languages* to travehty Africfc, to offer jyotir lady-love a diadom of rubles and ja palace of granite.- ftdmonla' de Afntbti,/ ,T1 Newspaper U?Wtb? The two American papers o? .^721 and thot^eqty-ftv<? OE177I havegf own into more than 12,000 In 188u, &nd are , about equ*t Jn titttrtb?r ,to all the | Journals of the rest of the worlds { Sometimes the news of old Home wan 1 written in red chalk on the walls of houseand sometimes the tablet was hung, out where tin public eohld rend with more oori venienee.. It, -was W this way that .Ihlius (tesar, \^ho was in his ttmetfc journalist,*Instructed his people both M to the -ttrocfeedlngs of the'Homan sehntA and the OeoUriencf s of thi day;-and perhaps tl?lsVwjw one reason of nis popularity. ? Bltihs, deaths, trials, executions and anecdotes were ptiblUdietl,)^ The reporter | was abroad and too stenographed AlnO, and the I jitter ih'hfs own ^?iy?though wo know not Just-what, that way was? to^k dowh tho speeches of / tho Romnn senators. Stenography had its origin in Home, and its moro modern Use, like many other tilings, is but a restoration of one of the lost arts i Cromwell set the example-so common In our civil war?of Attaching ? print ing press to the iwiny, and tho flivt newspaper printed In Scotland ap- | peat-ed in l.elth lb 1052*5}1. It was only a reprint of the London Journal, 1 rihd Issued for the smusoment of tho Rouifrl Head folloWer.4 of tho Vto tocttff.- N.'nsty years b fore.- 'Venice, thoo.at. war With the Tuk-kp, issued'its Gazette (gazette being the ha'ine of a v small coin) to prevent theclfclilation of falso news. So, when the Spanish Armada throatenod the Invasion of Kngland, Queen Elizabeth, for. tho samo cause, In 1588, IssuM the Tngfish Afertmrle, the first paper printed In England. The llrst Irish paper ap peared In 1700, and the first penny paper in Kngland in 1705.?lfotu Krftfttitfi Itrooh*. Miss Susan B. Anthony and Mr.i. Fllfcabeth Cndy Stanton are t peaking for Amerlcsn women before KnglNh audience. ' "'1r * I OB THE FA IK 8BX. mtmmilmm f BMI>y. When It Is considered how e.xce U ^1chUr>ry Is the idea of be?utv, it n.?l a.dnilt^, ?n exchaijg<\ that it isimpossible to-give a detail of the leading points of it that shall be fttUfactory . to all. Every one then will, in the following list, make such Alterations as his taste or fancy mp.y suggeg$: " ? I 1 1. Youth. 2. Neither too tall nor too short. ?. Neither too fat nor too loan. |ar*fc,mm*<ry "ld propor,io;> to all the ?. Hair long, fine, jurly, and silky soft, facw. 8mooth' delicate imd of fine snr 7. Complexion o!e?r, whi eaud red. a. A smooth, high forehead. r,1? t?mrlo? prominent. cltodli?t*"b'0"" ,rol,,<1 Uke '? ?r baZe1, ?rbit? M fKP~' and of ft sweet expression. i? 3$??^?alhw1?;1* than short. 14. An agreeable smile. 1?. Pouting coral 1 ps. 16. A small mouth. ih 2n.?'hp??r,y whit?' ?veu and well-set. ?i'L%p*. lo"n<1' l"omp ",,d ? Aa?'^knl'k1.i^?1.0,6'0theh??J 21. Hands white, plump and long. 22. Fingers ta; oriug. 28. Nails of pearl and oral. 24. A aweet breath. 25. An agreeable voice, " gentle and low." demeanor?6' unaffeo(6d^a?nerand elegant 27. A noble, free and graoeful oarriage. io. Modest deportment and gait. But ladles, however wondrously beautiful they may bo, should always remember that they are no longer beautiful when they cease to be so in the eyes of their lovers Like coins that are not current when kings are dead cheir beauty is callod in when their lovers are gone. Fnnhlon Note*. Plaids and chessboard pattern goods are all the rage. Wings, crests and breasts of birds trim many hats. Dust gray is the fashionable color for,traveling wear. White stockings are worn only bv brides and bridemalds. Large black fichus aro worn in place of mantles with dresses. Anything like regularity in the arrangement of drapery or dress orna mentation is now considered the opposite of good taste. Canvas-laced shoes, foxed ;with yellow, blue or 1 rown leather, are used for walking in the country, and they are the best shoe for the beach. The most fashionable Parisians are wearing the basket drapery on the hips known as the Mario Antoin tte panniers, and a closo narrow tkiit below. Black, relieved with the merest daub or touch of white In the way of lac ? or flowers, remains the favorite costume of high ceremony with New York women. Ornamental pins or brooches in fanciful designs are used to fasten tho end of the pelerine over thelef t shoulder or to attach a bow or bouquet at the same point. Autumn dresses aro in tho hands of dressmakers, the materials employed being very good English velveteen and r T, 6v f?lr'c?- Th? velveteen rorms t.?e short, narrow plain skirt ? the woolen fabric is u.rcd for the tunic, polonaiso, or the bodice with paniers. Large square nockerchlefs, folded in three-cornered shape, are made of silk musl n, crinkled Japanese silk, mull, plain and dotted, and black and white net. Those of silk muslin may be plain white, pale blue, or shrimp pink with a border of white silk lace, either the Aurllla blonde or the new silk Oriental lace. Black Spanish blonde dressos aro made up over strawberry-reel satin. The skirt-front has threo broad la -e flounces over three satin ones. Laee drapery covers tho back. Tho coat boelice of black satin has a red satin waistcoat, opening with a revors col lar, over a black lace plastron ; a jab ?t of laco surrounds the neck, and tho sleeves are puffed lace. Hod. Preston King's Duel. A correspondent of the New York Sun reca'ls Preston King's duel when a young member of the legislature of the Empire State. The writer says: lie whs a man of great sense as well as humor, was for many years member of Congress from St. Law rence couhty, and afterward fenator from New York. Ills melancholy fate by suiolde from insanity while holding the position of naval officer of this jlort (by jumping into the river, with loaded pockets, from a Hoboken ferry boat), Is still sadly remembered by ibany friends and aomlrdrsi Ills pungent wit In a upcech in thfc legislature once Irritated a feJlow biember, who gave the measure of his own intellect by addressing him a for mal challenge, from which resulted a Correspondence between the, two, run ding ^ through several .days. King began by foregoing his right to hold himself rtot responsible. for words spoken In debate, but prtsumed that' Ills ajlYejsaty would concede to hi.n Ihjrt rights fcltywed by the oode of honor to the chaHehgpd liarty. Bach one of these oondltloris?time, : place anc\ weapons-^boeame the subject of, t\n interchange. of notes. lie? claimod I hat; as lie hadacoepted the charge of jlhe Intercut* of his oottatitirtmCy tor hhat session ? -of the lftftlelature, jind * had Various bills in eharfeo' pending ivliich teouitotf 1^1$ attoYr lion, ho, coui<l not ^r^ts^htty fluty . ?n<l : J?jnor fight Ijrfore close ol the reeslon. This point,being conceded, he next cYMlttfcd m rfctwon ftble, sincere combat 'Ifra* forced on Tilth, that, he-waa n t bound Ut Impose on hltr friend* the trouble and, expense of carrying hi* body home for1 inter ment', In the "event- of a fatal issfle, ftnU he therefore claimed that the ert .-on nter should take plake near hls bWrt home In St. LaWr'indo county, a'nty M named the banks of a stream called, If I remember right, the lifeiok river, ills antagonist accepted, and was the ntore earnest in pushing the affair as Mr. King seemed to be somewhat' lees; tfr>. There remained only the question of the weapons. Mr. King then, under Ills right M the challenged party, re quired that they should stand, the one :m the one side of the stream and the :>ther on the other, and that the wea pons should be broadswords, But ho added that, as his opponent might not he familiar wfth the Droadswerd exer cise, if he should prefer pistoli he was will ng to accommodate him, though he had never In his life fifed any othor than a Fourth of July plAtol. He named a eftrtaln conkal hill (in the Black river, and pritpoMd that they shotild stand back to Back on the top of it, and walk off in opboslto direc tions till they got to the Wiom, and then turn and Are. The history of this model duel elope there. The sensa tions of the young fire-eater from the metropolis (I believe) when he next day watched the circulation of thle correspondence around the 128 seats of the assembly call for no hletorlcal ?> A BATTLE WITH BRIGANDS. i Dftprnie K1?H| Folli cttu ii ud i'lrcwlt* Bandlla. A Sivas (Turkey) letter to the Con stantinople Kustern News says : Eye i witnesses do nut altogether agree as to the details of the capture of Kt*l Tahir's robber band. liut the wain facts aro these: The chief for the | ast three j ytars has been the terror of the roatls i and villages between Sivas and Samsoun and Sivas aud Yusgat. Soldiers and zaptiehs had repeatedly been sent after him, but he had hitherto succeeded in defying them , all, often wounding them with im- ; punity. The villagers were growiug more and more helpless before him, and would glvo up unresistingly what ever gold, or even whatever girl, he demanded. Eight days before he en countered our zaptiehs he came from the direction of Samsoun, adding u> his band of six one new recruit. It is certain that he had s<Tht \w rd to the calmacam of Yenikhan, nine hours from Sivas, that he would soon visit that village, and that as he had given notice beforehand, he would ac cept no excuses in place of the bag of gold ho should demand. From differ ent sourccs came reports, a-< well as from Knoshack, the village where he was finally taken, that he was demand ing and waiting for lilty liras and four girls. On Wednesday the xapth'hs struck his trail, and early on Thursday morning, as they neared the Ki/.ilbash village of Knoshack, seme two days from Sivas, toward Yusgut. they en countered a villager sentinel whom the robbers had forced into their ser vice to watch the approa *h of the zaptiehs. The sentinel took courage and gave no alar.n. The /aj tiehs quickly committed their itor.-es to the charge of the villagers, and crept up on foot, and si'rround d the houso whore the robbers w? r ? renting. < >!ir vali had already ouTawed t'ae whele band, and had promised entire immu nity to any one who sdioul 1 kill them. As the hou-e was surrounded, Chashambcli 11 as?an I b y, one of the robbers, whose horse had been put in a distant stable, was sta ulintr at the outer door, and was turning to en't r the room to raise the n'arm, when lie w as shot (lea I. At the leport of a gun Kel Tahir springs out 1 ke a Hash, draws in t'e body ot his fYllow < om raele, and shuts the di or. The capta:n of zaptiehs calls ou to him: ?? Kel Tahir, enough, Mirreuder, surrender, or we must s'.io;! jou.' l?ut lu> only answer was voliey after volley from revolvers and Winchester ride<. through the w ndows and up thec'.i m ney. The zaptiehs, sixty.in n tinbcr, i were mostly protected lv walls and village carts. They had order.- to re- i serve the r lir.? till the rob:ors were tired. The captain mounts ti.e roof"! over tho i utlaws and shouts again: "Tah:r, why will you compel us to kill ? you? Surrender." Tahir sena:ns, all j the while liring his repeat r into t!ie earth of the t!at rod in the dire tion , of tho captain's voice: " 1 know Si >as pr ion, I wsis there two je,i:s:igo. 1 would rather die somewheie else." The i order was then given t?? b ar off the top of the chiuin y, and to t ra n d >wo lighted straw. lint th * veptiehs were n> quicker than Tahir; lie snatci.ed up tho native , bids and crammeil them into the j chimney t > prevent the smoke from' coming down into the ro m. Tho 1 rigands' bullets now began to tear through the roof, and the order wsi- j given to bore through the side wall of tho house. This done, the captain of . the besieging force drew near an 1 | shouted: "Surrender, 1 say." Tahir j replied: " All right, captain: c m - up ; to the hole you have n:ado in the side and 1 will hand you mv weajions ? through." " No, no, Ta'iir." rejoine I 1 the captain, "you have got as old a fox as yourself to deal with now. Take 1 off your coat and bolt and come out in your shirt, and not a hair of your head shall bo touched. If you don't you sire a dead man." The liring out and in from tho window continues, and a 1 bullet strikes into tho stable, aud Tahir's noble horse falls dead before ( tho manger. Suddenly tho liring from the lvpu.se , cease, all is quiet inside. Tho be siegers strain their eyes with atten- ? tion, and tho word is passed round ; that the brigands are, mounting. The ' captain issues his ilnal orders: "Zap tiehs, stand steady and linn now. Givo them a little, room if they want , to come." Tho door of the house j swings back, and out dash live mounted ' Circassians who put spurs into their [ horses' Hanks and urge them on for ; dear life. Tho new recruit came out j after thoin on foot, with a revolvt r in j each hand. The noble, steeds dashed forward splendidly, but ascor&of riiles [ belch forth upon them a torrent of | flro and lead. Although wounded, the ; horses instinctively continue to struggle \ Along, when three of them are brought down by another volley. Orders are glyen to cripj lo the other two; the Feport follows -onoof the, two remain- i Ing horses is hit, and Tidvr Is seen on ; the other -side of it, determined to tnake a last desperate,stand. Ho mor tally stabs his horse in order that it i Shall not roll and turn in agony, and , jTrom'behind tho bulwark formed by' tho'quiverlng carcass of his expiring : steed Tahir begins to Hro on tho enemy, t Uyt he is surrounded and killed, while the last of his comrades manages to j toaako good his escape. Fivo dead brigands and three dead horses lay *Upon the Held, and a sixth man .wounded. Assuredly, a good day's .work. < ' 1 'On Friday tho five* bodies were (brought ihto Sivas amid triumphal jstfairts'of martial music. As they aro lipid dgwh stiff and jiowerleHs in front !o? uie court-house, their Splendid arms ;and; chest?, all buriv.oyr vali pasha idraSHrs nO?r, examines the woumKin 'tho, head, ohost' ami back, .*nd then, ^turning to the gioat crowd thronging [Around, lie?says: f*Look wrill, and {understand the ondiof a highway rob berfsli* ' . ' . .AfwrtyllVR,"two ]days t-fcposed, the l^i^;are;#Cr;e^ AVlt\t no ceremony," I Oivil or religious, ho .,yindi/ig sheet eyen, without.* soul'In slvus u> speak ifword.of. sympathy oVer their wide pit. i Thelf, >vpjinded< comrade who escaped in de#d< ., et*r * Jr MtBIII ' ?-? I . . r, A iCoqI* Vocation. A young'ftiftn stopped into tin- ,*x pr??SH omco, and tho manager, sno cutnhlng to' tho universal custom, asked: "Doert this weather suit, you?" " Very well," replied tho young man. "I thought you would llnd It ex ceedingly warm," said tho manager. "Oh, no," replied the young man; " I get a cool reception everywhere I K<?" The young mnn was a collector.? Columbus (<?'/.) Huti. " Why," Bald a defeated candidate, '? ami like the earth?" " Hcoausc," aald a listener, "you are covered with dirt.'' "Wrong; guess again." " llo causeyou are always'round." "Wrong, try another." " Hecanso you are wicked." "Tryagain." "(live it up. Why are you?" "Well, It's because I'm flattened at tho poles."- V'rohant* Travrttr. J.O. ROLLINGS, lOMStt TO* Stationary and Portable Steam Enpes. Brown Cotton Gins Wlnnshlp Cotton Cln With Feeders and Condensers Talbot Jt Bona Ehoikb's, MoHAROH E.NOIMW, BkikkuA Wood Ekoinb*, Eooa Oottoh Proa, BcHonrLD Oottoh Pi 1'iXDLrt Con on Pbm% CORN AND W UK AT MlLXJ, Baw Mu.ls, BnArriMo akd Pvllkts, An<l all kinds of mackinory. Do sure to call an 1 *00 my prices bofore purchasing any kind "I innelrnory. J. C. ROLLING-*, Cajujkv. 8. 0. Wagons nnd liuggien HARNESS, ETC. Tho undersigned respectfully calls atten ion to tho large atock ot 1, 2, 3 and 4 horse ??gou*, single and double bnggios, open and top biiKgio*, wagon and buggy harness, etc., which lio now has on band, and which he is !'i )>; at living prices?so low aa to ensmo '.nrgv ?*!<?. Handling the heavy atock I do, I c.?n afford to aull at * small profit. HEPAIRING I i h1 I itrt branches promptly and aatlsfactonlj executed by competent workmon. HORSE SHOEING A specialty. OiTomeaoall. 11. A.. METTB. sop7-lyr OLD il053) EaTABLlCHBD Charleston Ice-Houee, ALVA, GAGE & CO., Mai ket, cor. Cliuroh St., Charleston, S.C. importers And Shippers, Wholesale and Rot&ll wealera in I O E . Ico packod for the country a specialty. Ico by tho oar-load at Bpooial ratoa. Waverly House, OniBUBSToii, S. 0., GEORGE T. ALFORD, .... Managw Rates t2 and 12.50 per Day. This favorito Family "Houso, under its ne* management, io rcoommonded for tho excel. lenco of itscuislno and home-like comforts. 1 <1 niry and vroll vontilatod rooms have lust boon nswly carpeted and elegantly furnished. w a. omrit. ?. a. inuu. OHATBB & O'BRIEN, Wholesale Orooers 205 East Bay St., Charleston, t- C. Agent* for Bx ton's Premium TrMtoB Oraflfc -rt. aag 1?-Iy WDLBERN & PIEPER. Wholesale Grocers And Dealera in Provisions, Liquors, Tobacco &c. 107 and 109 BAST BAT. ang 19 ly CHARLESTON, 8. 0 DB. T. BERWICK LEGARE, DENTIST, Graduate sf the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery. OFFICE?DEK iLR KlOl'ME. v Knlranee on TJron/1 Street NEW ARKIV. W. C. GERALD'S OLD CORNIR (TOM. I h?T? lust return?4 from Mukii vktn I purohM#a?? hsary>tock of all Kinds of Oood%| At the ?'??* Prto??, ud I fefcftA * KiT? my <rt*wrs the b?o?At ct Wh*. pi lo?d purchase*. My atock oooftfctoof Fall and Winter Dry Notions, Hosiery, 4a The beet make and latest styles of Boots and Shoes. ClotUu, It GROCERIES! Io Orocorloe I hate u floe * I took as oan be bo en Id town. HARDWARE! For Plautatlon, Gaidon and Household use. Full line ol Saddlery and Harneee, In fapk. 1 bayo got aliuoat auything you can oall for, md am dctormlucd to sell CHEAP FOR CASH. Call before you buy elsewhere. Bagging and Tlee always on hand. Hlpheit pricon paid for j Cotton in cash. w. 0. GERALD, A t ih* Old Corner Store. Remoielefl and Newly Faroistiei, LATHAM HQjnSB, CAMDEN, s, a: Transient Board $2.00 Per Day. | Ample accommodations. Tables aupplls with tne beat tho market affords. Every ad tentlonpaiJ to the comfort of guests. Connectod with the Houao is a first-class BAR, which is orderly kept. ! Hack to and from the depot. Fare SS ocnts i oach way. ; Feed and Llrory Stable on promisee. 8. B. LATHAM, Proprietor. W. CLYBURN, General Insurance Agent And Cotton Buyer. i Removed to hie old stand at 01 vburn's Block , Will pay the hlghett pnoo for Cotton and bn. Biore freely than erer before. ?7- My country frlsnds will pleas* k1 rs uo a caL'. scglT-tf. PRICES REDUCED. ROBERT D. WHITE, MARBLE I GRANITE WORKS. PLAN8 FURNISHED. Mooting Streo', oor. Rorlbook'e Alloy augl8-yl. CHARLESTON, S. C. A. R. THOMUNSON Manufacturer of HARNESS, of Every Description, SADDLES, BRIDLES, Eta MoC. SADDLES, NEW AND OLIX Importer of English "Uladdlon, Hieol Bits, Bpure.^tirrupe, Et? Factory and sulosioom 137 Mooting St., Bopt. 1-ly. CHARLES TON, 8. 0. VTKTALS, IRON, RAGS, ROPE, COTTON HIDES, SKINS, woouwax, ruaa ALD BINDS OF PAPER STOCK, Ao. 0W Wo aro paying tho Hlghoat Caah Prloes. MOSES OOLDSMITn A SONS, atigl8-l* r. O. Box l"^ FOUNDRY, 50x214 Feot. MACHINE BHOP, 50x250 Foot. BOILER SHOP, 40x130 Feel. GEORGE H. LOMBARD & OO. Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works, - CS-eorgla. BUILDER8 OP Engines and Bollors, Haw MilIb, Orint Mills, and all kinds of Mill maahi* neryof tho late.t iinpioved stylqs. Shafting, Hangers, Pullevs, Ooariog and Journal Box**. W?> liavo a larno assortment or Patterni, Sugar Rollors and Gin Gearing. DEALERS IS Entfino and Mill Snpplu-H, ( l'oular Saws, Filef, Cummers, Swages. Glob* Cbeclc and Safnty Yalvos, WUistios, Gauges, S tun Pipe and Fittings. Babbot metal from If to 40 conln. B-Uirix, hnoinz, Rubber, Hemp, toipstoue and Asbostos Packing, Oil. and OH C'lpx. Wrenr.bos, EiAuiy SVhecIs, otc. AGENTS FOR KcJ,p*? D.-vublo Turbino Whtd, Koiting's TJnivorsal InJootorsj the baaf made. Diadloid Mill Co'*. Portable Mills. Nordyko Jc Marmon Oo.'s Plantation Oo u and Feed Mills. Atlas Englno Works and Erlo City Iron Worke, Portablo and Stationery Engine#, Kunklo'B Pop Hafoty Vrtlvos. Cloud Crook Mill Rooks. $fr Iron and Brass Castings, and all kinds of Hopa rs promptly done. We cast every day, and aro working about one hundrod hands G0NGAREE IRON WORKS, COLUMBIA, BOUTH OABOLLNA. 1 M I' J v y J V F. I> CIRCULAR SAW MILLS. SIMPLE, OII15 VP AND DUR4HLE. We nae the celebrated Friotion F.*od ou all our Saw Mile. We one the tejrf best material in their oonatr notion, au<l *p?re neither lubor nor evpenae to rea der them an near perfeot an poeeifole. Wo warrant all onr work to be well miuU end of good material. We would like if you would oompnre the following Agar* with thoee of other manufaoturera and aee if we do not aell yon a better and Urges Haw Mill.at aame figures: . PRIOHH, No. 1 Mill, with 86 inches,Saw, 18 feet oerrlage $771 Ijv ?? 1 ?? ?? B8 " IS " ?? a ?? ?? 40 " 20 " ?' 9 " "84 ?? 20 " ??8 " " 46 '? 20 " " 8 " " 48 *' 24 " ,.?? ,4 " " 60 ?? 24 " ?? 4 ?? ?? 52 " 24 " . Eitm Oirrinflfo, $8.00 per f^ ot. The abo** mllU cv-t I. to t?? msin belt. Deel ly JOHN aLRX VNDfSR. P oprieto WILSON, OHILDS ft 00., PHILADELPHIA WAGON WO RK 5. I'IIIIj /V U I,riXTA FA f I k if ANuyArrruRiui of all xnrm oy Plantation, Olty, Freight, Bn?in?M, Bzpr?M SPRING WAGONS, TIIUOKB, DlUIB.OAJUTfl. T.MIiltH WHKKUS AND WHEKI.IU.UIIO!