Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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KERSHAW GAZETTE OAMDEN, S. O. FRANK P. BEARD, Proprietor. UENKHAL NKW8 NOTBW. Theentire Italian ministry have resigned. Macon, Ga., is taking steps to liavo a paid Are department. - At Winona, Miss., iron ore has been dis covered in abundance. The Railroad Commission of Alabama has been duly organized. The strike in the Now York docks con tinues, with no prospect of a settlement. Tlie vote of the Senate iu rejecting the nomination of Matthows stood 31 to 17. The strikers on the Now York docks are rapidly returning to work. The Senate has confirmed the nomination of L. K. Church as Qovernor of Dakotu. The Supremo Court of Louisiana sus tains the constitutionality of the Sunday laws. The House has oassod tho Senate hill ap propriating ${>0,000 for a public buildiug at Augusta, Ga. Alderman O'Neill, of New York, has been sentenced to four and a half years' im prisonment and fined $2,000. The Boston street-car drivers have struck for two hours for meals, out of tho twelve for which they are paid. Tho President has nominated E. C. Moore, of Missouri, Consul General at the City of Mexloo. Mr. Paroell denies that he ie going to the continent. He says his physician is well satisfied with his progress. The Indiana fund for a monument to Hendricks has not yet reached Its first thousand. Manton Marble says there is no ground for apprehonsion concerning Secretary Manning's condition. Governor Beaver, of Pennsylvania, lias signed the prohibitory amendment of the joint resolution. The grand jury of Now Orleans have In dieted 81 persons for. gambling, including a number of professionals. Tho Volcano Mauna Loa, on the Hawaii Island, Is again active. No damage is now anticipated. ? Tho President has signed the bill for the erection of a public building at Charleston, S. C. A London dispatch says that German agonts are busily employod in purchasing horses in Yorkshire. lloth houses of the Novada Legislature havo adopted resolutions disfranchising Mormons In Nevada. Tho latest report from the White River Junction (Vt.) disaster puts the number of killed at 83 and of wounded at 80. The Dennlson Paper Company of Me chanics Falls, Me., has suspended. It is supposed that the liabilities amount to $450,000. Tho caso of ex-Aldorman Cleary, Indicted with McQuade, O'Neill, McCabe and oth ers, was called In court and trial set for Wednesday of next week. The Norwegian ship Dagmar, Captain Stollbcrg, from Pensacola, December 21, for Liverpool, foundered at sea. The crew have arrived at Queenstown. Christian Schon, of Erie, Pa., who shot and killed one of his daughters and wound od another, two months ago, committed _guiclde by hanging in^tho Etje Jail. A (strong Mormon lobby lias left Salt Lake City for Washington to work Against tho Edmunds-TuOkor bill. Joint ballots wero taken for United Statee Senator by the Legislatures of Now Jersey and West Virginia yesterday, but without result. An incendiary ]set fire to tho law office formerly of E. A. Glover, at Edgefield, on Tuesday. Timely discovery prevented a disastrous conllagratfon. A Brussels young lady, who was solicited for a subscription to the funds of the local band subscribed a kiss, and the band boys are disputing about who shall collect it. At St. Etlenno, 82 miles southwest of Lyons, a bomb was thrown at the polico station. Eight men havo been arrested, charged with tho offence. About 30 witnesses! summoned to testify boforo tho Senate committoo regarding tho alleged Washington county outrages, have lest llrenham, Texas, for Washington. Tho House has pMMd the bill to indem nify the Chineso sufTorors from mob vio lonco at Rock Strings, Wyoming Territory, on beptember 2,1885. The Rev. J. W. Wolllng* one of tho ablest and most zealous workers in the Methodist conference, will shortly take his departure for Prasll, where he will labor In future in the capacity of a missionary. Tho Popo has decided to recall tho pres ent Nuncio at Parts and to appoint in his place Mgr. Ferrata, who is now Nuncio at Brussels. The Canadian Pacific railroad is blocked \iy snow and inoir-slid^^ There has been no through mail for 1*, days, and it is un certain when, one will get through. Tho mail is coming tia American roads. "The family of Samuel J. Tilden" were registered at Fort Sumter Tuesday morn ing. "Tho family" oonstaed of tho slster in-law of .the great statesman and two of her daughters. .Representative Weaver, of Iowa, says (W the President has ordered Secretary Matting to oomply with the law as to the fMiianoo of one end two-dollar notes. The Secretary says he has received no such order. A demmuetoation from the supervising architect transmitted to Congress by the Secretary of the Treasury, recommends that tki cost of the public building at Jaok* aonvitte, Fie., be Increased ?o $260,000. The Supreme Court of Louisiana ren dered a decision finding Civil District Judge Hfeuy L. Lasarus guilty of mal fensttnee in toe administration of the estate at widow Omaaaaro, Cspt. F. 8. Lilly, a hero of three wars- - the Florida, Mexican and civil?was In stantly killed by aetreet car running over ' him in Dayton. He had Jutt received his Mclean pension papers. The Paris ffaato publishes an article, signet by Aureuan flohell, imputing the grossest Immorality to German women. This will raise a storm of indigent pro test in Germany. A man nawd Newberry, in Gllmore county, Ga? sussed of Informing on Illicit distillers, wee visited by maskMmen on Sunday night and beaten almost to The committee of the French Chamlw ?of Deputies on the abrogation of the oon Vcordat Iim affirmed, by a vote of 11 to 9, ithe principle of the separation oi Church And State. : J \Tfce strike of tho Hew York longshore Men is how said to be a d*o||fed Failure. Freight Is being moved by new men with the utmost facility. Tho striker* are strag gling back to work on tho old terms. Eulogies on tho lato John A Logan were delivered in tho Senate yesterday. Senator Hampton was one of the shakers. The House eulogized tho late Representative Price, of Wisconsiu. James Lutz and It. C. Moody fought with pistols in tho streets of Barnwell yes terday. The difficulty grew out of the prosecution of Lut/.'s son for larceny. Lutz was very seriously wounded. Mr. Reed of Maine has introduced a bill -to protect tho tisheries of the United States, subjecting tho offending vessel to seizure and tho persons employed on the same to a fine of f5Q each. Dr. Windhorst, leader of the Catholic party in tho German Reichstag, says that it is impossible for him or his followers to comply with the Pope's desire for a policy of conciliation. Dr. T. O. Ford, \ylio pleaded ' guilty of manslaughter in having killed Johu C. Kirkpatvlck, of Shreveport, La., recently, has been sentenced to 15 years' imprison ment in tho penitentiary at "hard labor. A Pittsburg, Pa., dispatch says that the strike of 6,000 Monongahela miners is practically settled, and work will be re sumed iu nearly all the mines in tho first, second and third pools. At Paterson, N. J., a general strike of silk dyers has begun. They demand sfl a week more wages, aud that 55 hours shall constitute a week's work. About 1,500 hands arc out. The loss of cattlc in Montana, uear Fort Awdnuboine, is estimated at 75 per cent. Sixty dollars is refused for a ton of coal, and greeu willow poles are selling at $11 a load. Flour aud oil arc also scarce. Tho ballot taken in joint assembly of the West Virginia Legislature for United States Senator was very tame, and ipdi cated that tho members are tiring of tho deadlock, but neither faction will yield an Inch. In tho Pennsylvania IIouso tlft; joint resolution providing for tho submission of the fjuestion of a prohibition amendment to a vote of the people was passed by a vole of 130 to (10. . It has already passed the Senate. Two bombs were simulUuieously ex Eloded yosterday in front of the police eadquartors' oittoe 111 Lyons. France. The bombs struck against the railing and wore thiw prevented from expendi:i? their force on tho building. Heavy rains and the breaking up of the ice in the ofreatns ha>; caused iioods in nearly all the streams in Western New York, Northern Oliio, Southern Michigan and Northern Illinois. Grcat damage to property resulted in some caaoa, Johu C. Leighton, for 10 years clerk x>f the Muoicipal Criminal Court of Boston, is short to his accounts in a large sum? said to reach 4200,000. Another statement is that the shortage is insignificant,, and that Leiqhton is a man of means, Edward Locw, city editor of the Mil waukee Arbiter Zeitung, was sentenced to 30 d.iys' labor in tho house of correction for .contempt of court in causing to bo pub lishfld libelous stotomcnts in connection with Paul Grattkau, the angrchtet. Tho Commissioner of Pensions has start ed a roquleWan for $18,780,000, which is to moke payout of pensions due March 4th next. Thlt will be the largest pay ment for current twiuions made in any one quurior In tho history oi tftp government. ^j-'UdeUn M^U. .near 1 Vw/Mrn. VU?.( BUUt X1IW TYUC IHiatljr uu DIIIKIIA^ Kllglll. I They had lived together happily until the birth of their child, three weefcs ago, when he began! to maltreat hor. The child has since died. A party aro in pursuit of the brute. Numerous acts of inesndfarlsm at Pine Hill, Ark., recently caused considerable uneasiness. Saturday a gin house aud ( Sunday night a church and public school' houHU were burned. Monday night the Sheriff's posse discovered three incendiaries when a hot fight ensued and two of the in cendiaries were killod and ono escapcd. , Tho proposition# to establish a State Rail road Commission for tho regulation of freights and fares, and to change tho pres ent i)omocratlc system of county govern ment, wore both voted down in tho IIousu of Representatives of North Carolina. Raymond It. Noonun, a young clerk In tho mail service on the Now York, Susque hanna and Western railroad, wae arrested at Joraey City, N. J., for robbing the nu^le. Noonan has been in the service only threej weeks, and peculations have beou reported on his route every day since he went on. Arnot's extensive livery stable at St. Louis was burned last night. Loss est! j mated at $160,000; insurance $510,000. A number of firemen wero buried under a falling wall and three were taken out dead, Among tho property was the hearse that carrion tho remains of Llnooln to his tomb. Counsel for Mm. Ford, of New Orleans, have filed suit for dlvorco from liar hus band, Dr. T. G. Ford, who was repentjy sentenced to the penitentiary for 10 years for killing J. C. Kirkpatrlck, tho seuueer of his wife. The suit is brought.on the ground that Ford is a convictod felon. The Western National Bank was organ laed yesterday by tho election of Secretary Manning as Prosident, United States Treas urcr Jordan as Vice President, and F. Blankonhorn as Cashier. There is no doubt that Manning and Jordan will leavo the United States Treasury to accept these po sitions. - I Two freight trains on the Host Tonnes, see, Virginia and Georgia railroad collided yesterday morning at Dubois, Ga., badly Injuring the dnglnooT and killing a negro tramp. The locomotives aro'a complete wreck. Tho injured engjneer and his fire man are supposed to have been asleep. Iron ore, in paying quantities and evi dently of splendid quality, baa been dlscov pred near Natchez, Miss. 'Samples of the ore ara bpjng amayod, and if it proves as good as it looks to local experts, a company will bo formed to develop tho lead, whiejf) Is many miles In extent. In the Suporlor Court for Mccklenhurg oounty, N. 0., last Saturday, the Jury gavo $1,200 for Fet*er& Wadsworth Against tho Wos{/jjn Union Telegraph Company, dam ages olaimid for failure to deliver a tele gram ordering ?'futures." An appeal was taken. Two colored men, named Ituekor and Heppard, of Albany, (4a., fought a duel? Heppard using a revolver and Kticker a mm. Ituekor received five bullets and was klU/yJ. Heppard got lK>th loads of buck shot, suffetfcg sjvoro, and probably fatal, wounds. Flro on Monday morning destroyed t|jo wholesale drug house of M. T. Hpragnek Co., Mobile, Ala. Loss on building $8,(KM), Imcyrance *15,000; loss on stock $20,000, in*ur$#q0 $12,000. James McDowell, a well known merchant, was killed by a fall ing wall, and pefftons wore Injured. ' A decided improvement in tho situation ' oo Now York jners is now reported, Freight Is with con aid era are rapidly becomi and tho indications of the strike is bro! After a dispute al some goods, Nathan Toombsboro, Qa.. chall man, white, to a flglit. tho road. Four shots were flred. was fatally wounded. Freeman have acted in self-dofenoe. Mrs. David Routli, a highly resj, -1 woman of Pekin, 111., was taken asylum at Jacksonville, having been by religious ^xcitemcnt. This Is th<j| ease of insanity caused by tho excltv: attendiug a revival In progress at ] ?*"?' and the citizens are taking steps to rf movo the revivalists from tho city. The Coast Defence Congress or, at DcFuniak Springs, Fla., yes Resolutions wero adopted calling c gross to improve the coast defences. tens were read from a number of j ncut gcutlcuien?among them Goi Kichardson, of South Carolina. Treasurer Jordan, acting on boli Ihe Directors of the Western Nation il of the city of New York, called on tary Manning and formally teuderc the Presidency of that institution. Secretary took the offer uudor con* tion. saying ho would give his answt short time. The steamer Cherokee, shortly leaving her dock In Charleston fori . York yesterday morning, was dlscC lTfre(J to be on lire. She was towod to the by tugs, and the tlames were extlngvl,8Uoa after very little damage. There \> '!? panic among the passengers?about ? number. On Monday night train-wreckers roi a rail on the Carol.na Central road, in nulc^ east of Charlotte, which resulted fjl prc' clpitating tho englno and tender east bound pfisoengcr tr^ln down aif\ bankment 12 foot. The ouglneef an man were daugerously, If not fatal jurcn. No other casualties aro repor Ten thousaud Socialists aatembl Tuesday In London to celebrate tho rl February 8, 1880. Thero were huudr pollcc {)re%oi)(, ojj foor$eback and oi Some inccndlary sp??ech<w mad the Socialists attempted to light to but wero prevented from doing so I police. Tho crowd afterwards dUp making much noiso, but doing uo ha A 6hock of earthquake about 4 o Sunday morning was reported fro 'alf of Bank ?tecre him The lidera r in n .after New Illinois and Indiana. Dispatches fr< points give substantially tho same nc of tho time and duration of tho shoe) damage was douo at any placc so *fl Lewd frw Ten weeks J. rp. Lane, of CI III., was bitten on the ariktQ b# ^ :x A fow days ago ho was taken witl< i dy which, in somo respects, resembW droplioblft. |Io was in such mental that he beoam# violently inwne. \ duy he was sent to Jacksonville fori ment. He was placed in jail and ij hours aftorwards was discovered " his cell. M tiiji) Virpinia Military Institute, the uightoi tho e^oj+ly aft< t o'olook, as the sentinel was walking ? ?rgo ap * rate pray Jfaol^au'y The following story appears A1 Richmond State: I send you a thrilling and true i --.'hi/di-'iiMll m 12 V UiVVAt BO WUV OVUIUUUl TT IK) H|U|MU{ ? his lonely boat, his attention was attn oted through tho sally port to the fror t of tho barraoks by a slight sound re ?ni bling tho rustling of loaves by a g mtle wind. Ihatantly, between tho two 1 forty-six pound siege piooes, there poarod (f. soldier dressed inaConfod uniform and p)ount^4 01) ft largo horso. His sword was dr$YPi fof* tightly reined up, and twp white pluwpes floated gracefully about his hat. (The sentinel at ftyst, almost paralyzed vith terror, had gazod upon fop onjoot, Ibut in an instant, when the horse had'sUp"'1 through the sally port into the oo yard at a round trpt, oroBsing tho seikti nol's beat, making no audible sound, [al* though ho was passing over a solid brick pavement, tho sentinel, true to his nflli tnry principle, challenged with a lt|ii<l vpipe, "Who goes there?" The rider not hepd the challenge, but passed 01 tho samo pape pnpjl arriving at abrupt, dangerous and impasse tile pjiek pico in the i-ear of the barraoks ho vr lahed. On (he next night a similar pi nomenon occurred. An old veteran pr ent recognized the grand and imposi rider to be none other than that General btonowall Jaokson. Ho far explanation can be given. Jambs T. Hilton, . Lexington, Va. Halo of 200,000 Mexican H?rw?. Probably the largest transaction In Bto<fk over consummated in Fort Worth or ai Texas city was that closed Saturday. Ben Adolf Bundez, of Durango, Mexico, m> to J. II. Watle, I). W. Humphries, D. 1 Dugan, Q. II. McCarthy, Frank II. Sit! cnar and O. II. Dugan, a corporation whl< has purchased large pasturage and atocl yard# near Fort Worth, ^OQiQOO Medical horsoa, to bo delivered to the company f agent in Kl Pago in installment* twice ] week. The company will establish a larg horse market In Fort Worth, where Soutr crn farmers and fitook men can be auppll A Oil Mill. Mossrs. Lookablll & Co., have started now enterprise at Chester. It is a sassafrai oil mill. Tho mill is located near the Co lumbla road on tho small branch that rum through that town. The enterprising pro pnotors have bIk olimlnants which con sume dally 3,400 pounds of sassafras roots. Tho oil Is obtainod by means of ovapora tlon. Messrs. I<ookablll & Co. havo orders for all tho oil they can manufacture. They intend to increase the number of olimloanu whon their supplv of roots increases. An official Investigation of the railroad disaster noar White Hlver Junction, Vt?, it now in progress, directed by tho Hallj^l CotnmlHslon of Vermont. Prof. Flotflff Chief of the Engineering Department) Dartmouth (College, who has made a close examination of tho track leading to the bridge, fyyfl piprp were three rails U>rn up at tho point where tho sleeper MFflgrim ' probably left tho track. TJiese nils nil show signs of defects In tho maternal and In construction, Professor KletehWthinks that an nxlo on tho "Pilgrim" broke, caus ing Its derailment, and that that was the only car which loft tho track until tfck bridge was reached. y J < lE^UBBLE AT THE BRIM. l it gayly smiling and lightly dancing up, jrtle ft ml beguiling it peeps across the 'C^lipl , ? 9, or twill wttjhaut you aa it bcelcons from the Km? W ''Come, kisa me, darliuf?, can't youf" laughs tho bubblo at the brim. How tenderly It flushes, how modestly It flies! It a pen a maiden's blushes when diva:.is of lore | arise: It softly King* and glistens, Ulco tho shining sera- I phlm? But woe to hiin who listens to tbo bubblo at the j brim. Perhaps 'tis beauty's flnger that fills tho rosy gloss; How sweet it Is to linger, how hard it is to pass! Tis lato to curse tbo revel when tho lights uro burning dim, You are bartered to tho devil by tho bubblo al tho brim. ?Samuel Mluturn l\jck. ! Pulmonary Diseases In llerlln. Tho death rate from pulmonary dis eases increases alarmingly In Berlin from year to year. T1." r'.imate Is certainly un favorable for ah ??ith tho least tendency to weak lungs. Tho atmosphere has a greater percentage of moisture than that of almost any other city on tho conti nent. Rain and fog alternate. In tho early morning the mist is so dense that one's clothes become damp and his skin unpleasantly moist. Tho street,"", even in the hot months of summer, are seldom dry, but usually dank and wet, emitting a vapor which frightens tho weak lunged. Catarrh has been called tho curso of America, but perlin pc ,p]o fmijy hol<4 their own In that complaint. It is nafo to say that every one has u cold from tho beginning of October till the end of April, and oven during the summer months, owing to the changeable weather, few aro entirely exempt. Though tho weather has been exceedingly damp, as already stated, no snow has yet fallen, and winter under clotliing has been unnecessary. I ast wycyM inphv* pf lay on' tho ground on Thanksgiving day. Tho country for milea about Berlin is flat and unbroken as a western prairie, and the ground being very sandy?Borlin, In fact, ia built upon sand?tho roads aro very heavy where not woll cared for< which, howevef, it} the except,!^ rathe? than Vhfl nilq. tyho statistics v) tho Moablfn hospital, recently published, show that no less than one-llftli of tho inmates MO consumptive, In tlda hospital alone the number of lung diseased patients reached 580, being seventy-four moro than last year, and 13.5 per cent, of all who had been under treatment against 10.5 per cent. In 1885. The^death rate rose as high as 42.2 per cent., only JW 1-8 per penf {? o\tred. Upon tho whole, tlio munbev ia not eucouraging for the Inhabitants of Berlin, and cor tainly deplorable considering tho annual lncreose of the population.?Berlin Cor. New York Tribune. Mechanical Salutations In Germany. Nothing pan possibly be jnpro mechanl cal than the way the Germans in prdlnary life make use of theso expressions, es pecially domestics and employes of hotels and public places of fill kinds. Being in your chamber In a Gorman house, thero is n rapping nt the door loud onough to wako the seven sleepers. You open it. It is only the chambermaid. Sho stands bolt upright and as rigid as a copps^. {{or fooe t? the utter vacuity of expression. She saya "Guten tag" or "Quten abend" In Buddeh way that is not exactly explosive. It gives you t.h^ im IBM* ffift nas dropped someth 1 ng very heavy, ?nd yon Involuntarily recoil and look down to wo what it is. Jf you gq to buy a glass of scnty ^vatQT in tho Unter den frfnden the woman in the kiosk Area off an \incxnectod "Quten tag" to you. If yon enter ft shop it is flung at you on all sides. So also when you go In or oufc of your hotel, when you go to pub lic institutions, such oh baths, or when yon go into the hotel dining room. Every body utters tho salutation appropriate to the time of dny; and, as the employes arc numoroua, you aro thundered at in front find ?$a* and on either flank JlUyoiir on Irancit or exlV'peems like (Ho advance or retrogrado movement of the )lght brigade. It is simply perfunctory. Nobody smiles; no one moves the body or nods the heodi as in France py ii> Italy, jh Austria it la eveq fnore ?o, ?ho salutation a of om ployea aro more numerous and qulto as mechanical. The Hungarians aro some what more mobile, but, except In the cities, are neither refined nor polito.?Snn Francisco Chronicle. Ella Wheeler Wilcox. "She writes yrlth tho utmost facilityj I never saw anything Hko It," Bald Mrs. IiOslle, from among her books and letters as sho sat at her groat deak, at once the very pictnre of buslnossliko Industry and the figure of a woman of fashion. She sat upon oither a platform or very high chair, and won clad In a rich and striking cos tume. Sho wrote constantly, yet listened and put In a pertinent sentenco hpre and panlonahip. "She can write in a room crowded with persons all talking." sho added. "Yes," said tho vivacious poetess, "I learned to do that at home. I woa brought up In a humble homo and wrote In tho sit ting room, where it was Blmply n questlpu whether my comfort or that pj tho'rest of the family \ms be aonsld&rod. I easily acquired the facility for writing In a room jn ^vlilch the ohllflrcn were at piny and tho plder folks were talking wf reading or nt work. I began to write ftt 14, you know. Not long ago I yrfta visiting a Mend In Connecticut anq there were povofftl persons |n the room, but none expected anything o< roe, so that when 1 was seized with nn idea for somo verses I cleared a little space on the center table nnd sat down and wroto my poem." "And was It finished without revision?" "Oh, yes; I seldom need to alter what I write. I have what' I want to write Well Irt mind, and I wrlto it nn l )i*v\t formed itfnflptelly.W-Jtew yirk Sun. A Poet's PreooolouN Offspring* .Tnanltft Miller, tho 0-year-old daughter of Joaquin Miller, the poet. Is an unusu ally Interesting little maiden, gifted by hat tire with a truly remarkable memory. She can repeat, without changing or mfs laclng ft Blnglo \yord, evcuy llpo which " fathe? hod evtar written. This Is not In parrot fashion, as would l>o tho with most chtldron. Her declama Is clear, comprehensive and charming iVery respect. Sho has a quaint man [and an odd way of making observn Jl upon people nnd things which tlces thought far beyond hor years. As t*r of course sho Is tho spcclal prU\o ?'miration pi he? ialhsr,' who rievt'r desoantlhg upoVi her perfections ilevements. Juanlta and her passing the winter with Joa at his log -cabin, beyond thr hd Slxteehth street, washing ihurg Dispatch. Expense* lit Vale College. At tho most democratic collcgo In the country (tho adjective, of course, not be ing used in a party sense), and nil institu tion where money counts little in the social status of an undergraduate, tho ollicial estimate of the expenses of stu dents given in tho new Yale university command wide perusal. The estimates cover thirty-seven weeks of the year, tho period when tho college is actually in ses sion, and are grade I as follows; Lowest estimate of the ordinary college expenses, >5> for the thirty-seven wcvk>; general avernge, Si*SO; ami very liberal. JflKiO. These llgures emit charge for clothing, and are necessarily mere approximation;*, but they will impress most of the Yalo graduates as substantially correct. Of courso thcro are striking exceptions to the figures printed above. We remem ber one case of a student who went through one year at Yale on aln ut ?'.00. l)ut ho lived on a scale little above abject poverty, lie had a single suit of cloth.es. and a few crackers with quarter of a pound of cheese bought at a grocery were hl'J ovdhiary meal, lie had also bin tuition fees re mitted, and wo believe got hi s college room froe. Another Yale graduate we recall, "who has since risen to a post more lucra tive and responsible than pcrh:m? any of his collcge mates in the same < !:iss. 1!?_ began hia freshman year with jn-t $?'> in his pocket and worked his way thv< ugh without incurring a cingle permanent debt. Wo all know whet the usual ?? It is in tho case of these poor They go t > coJlc^c to mnVf tt.u most of an op portunity, ....a ihey almost Invariably do mi, To tho special and peculiar hovor of Yale, b" it said, thiso ncadende hercc-j never lose at college their social c.iv.IIty because their coals aro threadbare and their dollars few. Tho moral leader of or.c of tho largest reccnt classes at Yalo was one who thus earned his way to ?1!-f?iunia ?and ho wasn't a man c,' Vn'Mnnt intel lectual faculty* eilticr.?New Haven Ncw<i, Tlio llogKnra of London. Perhaps tho most obstinately iwrscvcr ing sol'citors. who nre?p? no denial ai.d tiro stolidly infusible to rebtiff, arc the squalid, females with a couple of children, one generally in arms, and both, if report speak truth, Jn most c;u?es hired for the day. Their stock in trade usually consists of a few faded (lowers?lavender in autumn ?or half n dozen pencils; and as they in variably frequent the streets whero the absence of shops deprives their victim of any possible place of refuge, a lady walk ins without escort, especially when carry ing a bag or porimonnaie, has no chance with them. Others, somewhat more re spectably attired, are provided with bas kets containing an assortment of culTs, collars or knitted gloves, according to the season, and lie in wait for any carriage that may chance to stop whilo a card or message is Ixsing delivered, accompanying the display of their wures with the never failing professional whin?. Some years ago, passing along Grosve nor street, I policed a brougham standing in front of a houso near Bond street, in which sat a lady, evidently awaiting the return of a friend who had just gone in. At the door of the carriage a stout, red faced female had taken up her post, and notwithstanding repeated refusals tHo part of the occupant, periled in thrust ing her basket Vhwugh the open Window, ;;ntil the lady, annoyed by her importuni ; ties, sharply pulled up he glass. "Did yo over roe tho like?" Indignantly exclaimed the disappointed harpy with a , strong Milesian accenU "Is lt._ fduitt iiui ttfo w;flc!Aw Vri mo 7ace~ye're after? f and may the gates of h?1 \io th? fevarne to ye!"?Loudon Society, The "lion" Reception. Tho victims of tlieso receptions aro cer tainly to be pitied profoundly enough. A young girl who is not yet "out" ensconced herself behind some curtains at the back of Miss Fortescue at a reception given the actress In New York recently, and counted seventy-ono time3 that In one foijn or another a guest nnId i "4 am sq happy to meet personally one to whom I owo so touch pleasure;" always to bo answered, ''Thanks; so kind!" The oountlng was stoppod, not by a elutngo In tho dialogue, but by the rem aval of tho young lady. ThM reminds one of tho remark of Mme. Ouvaut-Grcvllle, who, after ono of tho receptions given her her said that 400 peoplo came up to her in .urn to say: "I am so glad to meet yov;,: .nd that just as tho last arrived tho first ? .s ready to take leavo by saying: "I an so glnd to hov? met you;" so that 800 times she, tu<*rd tho two phrases. Few ean be moro ilat^ stalft find unprofltnlaft than this sort oU mooting people, but It is a recognized part of tho social routino. It must, how over, consumo a great deal of energv( ftnfl there is a grain of truth in tl,o cynical observation of a club man who last win* tor cxcuscd himself for not attending a reception by declaring that \>y {h$ tlmo a celebrity wai *q (<ip nlejifv an to bo willing to bo fO 'innUy. V.met,u ho wua no far to>y^r<^ tlio exhaustion of bin powers as to have cearnl to bo worth meeting.? Arlo Bates in rrovldenoo Journal. T.itt of Mlstmeil Words. Acoustics is always singular. Cut bias, and not cut on tho bift*. Allow should not be vngd for admit. Como to aco mo, ana not como and seo me. i Bursted la not elegnnt and is rarely cor rect. Almost, with a negative, Is ridiculous. "Almost nothing" is absurd. Tho burden of a song means tho refrain or chorus, not Its sotiso or meaning. Bountiful applies to persons, not to things, and has no reforenco to quantity. Affable only applies when speaking of tho manner of superiors to inferiors. Methinka In formed by tho fmpergonal verb think, meaning seem, and tho dative me; and is literally rendered, It seems to mo. Admlro should not bo followed wit h tho infinitive. Nev^ soy-, many do, "I should iidprifro to go with you," etc. This errop Htigulsrly fashionable Just now. Allude is now frequently misused when a thing is unmet), spoken of or described. It should only bo used v/lien anything is hinted nt in a playfnl or passing manner, "Allusion is tho by-pi ay of languftg^'S-. Tweed's Now Grammar. flnlmon Driven Awnjr. Formerly ilio salmon In the spawning season aaccndcd tho Fraoor river by tho million, and they could bo scooped out of tho water by tho Imrrolfnl with any kind f f a vcmol largo enough. But nlnco tho C:\nrvdlr:n Pacific traina-liavo l>cgi\n run ning regularly along tho l?ai\ks pf tho Frasor the fi:di have ^>er:un to desert tho r.lroi'.Mi, find H N foarod that in a year or co thero will bo very few of theso fish Whero in former years they wero pMsotifc In counties*! numbers. Tho nols? of tho engine and tho vibration Imparted to tho water by tho trains running along tho banks aro supposed to have scared ther^ end therefore caused their departure.-^ Toronto Globe. GOD, THE BELOVED. Tho face* of the beloved, tho sun and the moon, are nil three one; Iler atatutv, tho cypress and tho pine, are all three one. I have not the least need either of honey or of suKur; For the Hps of the beloved, honey and sugar, arc are all three om*. When 1 am roe lining ui>on my couch, without her by tn.v side. Fire, thorns and thUcouoh of mine, are all thrvo ? oue. When 1 am soiled with any dust of the alley ahe dwelle! h in, Vhlsdnst and musk and amber are all throe one. Oh, (.)?*!, make no oue acquainted with aUaeuc* from Ins Ion-, For invasion, ma.vsacru and such absence are all three one. ?From the Afghan. Frank IMoroo'n folloge Fun. Frank Pierce was nit her wild when ho was a student at Uowdohi colle.m\ OiumiC his pranks occurred when I^ifnyetto, who was everywhere hailed with joy, was vis i(in? the New Kr.jihmd states. The re nowned patriot h.:d pit as far cast ilk Portsmouth, when ?i became doubtful if ho would proceed I urther. It hail, how ever, been ivportc<l that ho would paxa through Brunswick, ami ho it wns pro po. eil by l'ieree to fiivo l-afayetto a recep tion. Accordingly tho students hired ear liaises, secured :i cannon and went lit the proper time out on the Brunswick road ti> meet the general and his stnfT. About !) o'clock in the evening there was seen coining up the road tho procession of students all ablaze. By a preconcerted arrangement it was annoanced at the mo ment throunh all Iho town that Lafayette was near. The people rushed out of their honyi-s, th'? i;ulics waved their handker chief-; and cheer rose npon cheer. Th? Mineral bowed in acknowledgment-, and finally not down from his carriage and condescended to kiss several of the fair yonnix ladies. That man wns not Gen. Tiafayetto, but John Cleveland, a student* w|>> had personated the character to per fection. The whole affair wound np with a r.npper, n good jofie, and so the people of Brunswick nevt>v saw the real hero.?Beni. l'erley Pootw A Fortune Tollrr'n Cflnfciulnn. Aside from those ordinary implements of our profession. the cards, I ihid that cabalistic signs impress 1110x4 t>f my cli ents with the truth of my Vwwledge and loadings. (Jo to a fortune teller of tho better class who has some education, nnd, if hy the power he or she has of judging human nature in a general way, it is seen that ignorant Jargon will not catch yoo? you will he reached through slims. Now,, these calmlistic sigmi are nothing of special nature, and our stock in trade em braces llarret's "Mngus," opening it ?t one nf the pages ornamented with them. 1 make effective us<.> also of tho third vol ume of ,,lVn,y*H Japan," containing tho maps uj ttie constelli^j|jiiH where, accord ing to .Japanese astrology, an answer can usually be found that suits uuch queriesas may he asked by the client. The idea of the ordinary visitor (female gender enu* chilly) when they consult a fortune t<^W is that ?";nu*(hing of a mysterious tenure. 1* to be supplied, ami we rcidfae this; happy idea by a combination of somber ef fects and a fair knowledge of human nature. We contrive to y?fcixfy their ctt> riosity in an innocent, manner and at tho same time enjoy 11 prosperous 11- elllioodas a result of l\urmt"?R credulity. . Fortuno Teller ii\ Uh^KM)cmocrnt. ??lIU/.olW* I was under the impression that tt** peine fortu et dure system of InqulslUMV was obsolete in Knglnnd; but, to jpdgfr from the proceedings consequent ?n anj attempted burglary at the Miuiw house,, Shlpton, Oxfordshire, not long ago, I wan wrong. Mr. Purrott, it aeems, heard o ik iso in hi.'} houw (uie morning, and threw up hlB btxlnoem window. He then saw a bTlTfl^Vf escaping through the dining room window. Having a gun, he challenged him, but tho man only ran the faster, until he stumbled and fell on the lav; n. Mr. Poriott llred, sorlounly wounding tho runaway, who was then shut up jn the stable till a policeman arrived '.vvo hours later. Itemovod to tho Hadcjiffp infirm ary at Oxford, the mar. "obstinately rf fused 3lis name or address;" but, ac cording to tho re-;>ort.a in the papers, tho doctor was equal t<? the occasion, nnd ap plied the buttery to tho wounded victim. jvw smart shocks seemed to have tho desired effect, and the tor tnrcd man stood, or lay, coirfe?<;cd as Thotnars V ilson, of the Plasterers' Anns, Bt. Thoinns,?l^abouchero In Ixmdon Truth. t Thieves in tho llrltlnh Mnnmiiu. Something ought to lie dono to gunrd against tho conscquencos of tho sudden collapse of the electric light at the British museum reading room. An accident ot this kind was threatened two or three weeks ago, and last week It caiire off In earnest. Tho room was plunged in dark ness for soiiio minutes, and in the confiw Ion which followed, there would havo been* 110 difTlctilty in any of tho two oiVthreo hundred readers present eloping with what liooks or other portable property they could lay thoir hands on. Thte is not an Imaginary danger. It Is well known that somo of tho roadors at tho British museum g?? there in pursuit of other thlnua besides knowledge. An at tendant there onco told me that, many pfi them would steal anything that could be carried away. It has licen found uwetesa for this reason to provide soap in tbe lava tories, and tho nail brushes have to bo chained up. Kven tlterollem upon which tho towels hang havo lieen stolen.?Lon don Truth. N'-rv York"* ?Ttpkiioi* Club. The quaintest olttb In Now York Is (h?> .Tapatuv? club. It was established sev eral yearn back by the leading Japanese merchants and attochos of legfttton set tled In this city and now numbers somo twcnty-flvo members. Thoy aro all men of means and influence and entertain any of their countrymen who may pass through tho city tn tho most hospitable way. It had Imported a native cook aiuil has commenced to glvo dinners prepared ond served tn the "ilapanese style, at one of which recently the first CftvcjudAU guests the club has dined'^ero enter tained Tho dinner was glyw* In honor of Mr. Oknkurn, tlie visltlw* commissioner of the Jlno arts for Japan, ? Alf red Tmmble. MlnUtorlnl Qimlin?mtlonii. We wc? speaking of preachers having fine voices, and one minister said: "They tell a grand story on flrother H , whom yon all know. He wn? detailed to <*> a. little missionary work among tho negroes.. When t he time was up he was reappointed* One of the class leaders ot tfio darker church caine to him and soldi 'Brother 8-?, we's glad (fey dgne sent yon back to preach to \wl* , " 'Why soU queried the minister, V.?^Kn^e de culled folks nil lack yoft. |)ey nay yon got de ma'nfaVtai' voice,? Atlanta CotwUtUtioa. ,