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t rJ"! 1K TRIBUNE. I VOL. I.?NO. 10. BEAUFORT, S. C.. MARCH 10. 1875. . $2.00 PER ANNUM. Oyer tlio "Way. Over tho way, over tlio way, I've Hcen a head that's fair and gray; I've Been kind eves not new to teaiH, A form of grace, though full of years. Her fifty bummers liavo left no Haw? And I, a youth of twenty-three, Ho lovo this lady, fair to see, I want her for my mothor-in-law ! Over tho way, over the way, I'vo seen her with tlio children play. I've seen her with a royal graco Beforo tho mirror adjust her lace; A kinder woman none over saw ; (1 >d bless an 1 cheer her onward path, And bless all treasures that she hath. And lot her bo my mother-in-law ! Over tho way, over the way, I think I'll venture, doar, somo day (If yon will lend a helping hand, And sanctify the scheme I've planned), I'll kneol in loving, reverent awe, Down at tho lady's feet, and say: " I've loved your daughter many a day? ricasc, won't you be my mother-in-law ?Scrikwr's Monthly. i THE BABES IX THE CLOUDS. Yours ago thoro suddenly burst upon the western world u magnificent stranger from foreign parts, 4 with all his traveling glories 011." It was the great comet of 1858, 011 the grand tour of the universe. We remember that comet summer, not so much for its great astronomical event as for two singular incidents that more nearly touched our human sympathies, which will grovel in pooreartlily affairs, even within sight of the most august celestial phenomena. One pleasant Saturday afternoon during the comet's appearance, an aeronaut, after a fprosperous voyage, descended upon a farm in the neighborhood of a large market town in one of the Western States. He was soon surrounded by a curious group of the farmer's family and laborers, all asking eager questions ubout the voyage and the management of the balloon. That secured by an anchor and a rope iu the hand of the aeronaut, its car being a foot or two above the ground, was swaying leisurely backward and for ward in uiu evening air. at was u goon | deal out of wind, and was a sleepy and i innocent monster in the eyes of the j farmer, who, with the owner's permis- j siou, led it up to his house, where, as he i said, he could hitch it to his fence. But j before lie had thus secured it, his three ! children, aged respectively ten, eight and three, begged him to lift them "into that big basket," that they might "sit on thoso pretty red cushions." While the attention of the aeronaut was diverted by more curious questioners from a neighboring farm, this rash father lifted his darlings one by one into tliecar. Chubby little Johnny proved the "ounce too much " for the aerial camel, and brought him to the ground; and then, unluckily, not th s baby, but the eldest hope of the family, was lifted out. The relief was too great for the monster. The volatile creature's spirit rose at once, he jerked his halter out of the father's hand, and, with a wild bound, mounted into the air ! Vain was the aeronaut's anchor. It caught for a moment in a fence, but it tore away, and was off, dangling uselessly after the runaway balloon, which so swiftly and steadily rose that in a few minutes those two little white faces, peering over the edge of the cor, grow indistinct, and those t |iiieuu5urivsui -rupu! iuiu "Aiammu!" grow faint and fainter, up in the air. When distance and twilight mists l.ad swallowed up voices and faces, and nothing could bo seen but the dark cruel shape, sailing triumphantly away, with its precious booty, like an aerial privateer, the poor father sank down helpless and speechless; but the mother, frantic with grief, still Rtrotclied her yearning arms towards the inexorable heavens, and called wildly into the uuauswering void. The aeronaut strove to console the wretched parents with assurances that . the balloon would descend within thirty miles of the town, and that all might be well with the children, provided that it did not come down in water or in deep woods. In the event of its descending in a favorable spot, he thought that the older clxilil might step out leaving the younger in the balloon. Then it might again arise and continue its voyage. " Ah, no," replied the mother, " Jennio would never stir from the car without Johnny in her arms." The balloon passed directly over the market town, and tlio children seeing 1 many people in the streets, stretched out their hands and called loudly for help. But the villagers, though they saw the bright little heads, heard no calls. Amazed at thestrango apparition, they micrlit have thouclit the translated little creatures small angel navigators, 011 some voyage of discovery, some little cherubic venture of their own, as, heading towards the rosy cloudlauds and purple islands of sunset splendor, they sailed deeper and deeper into the west, and faded away. When tho sunlight all went away, and the great comet came blazing out, little Johnny was appreheusivo that tho comet might come too near tho a'ry eraft, and set it on fire with a whisk of its dreadful tail. Hut when his sister assured him that tho liery dragon was "as much as twenty miles away," and that God wouldn't let him hurt them, ho was tranquilized, but soon afterward said, "I wish he would cornea little nearer, so I could warm myself, I'm so cold !" Then Jenuio took off her apron, and WTapped it about the child, .saying tenderly, " This is all sister has to make you r warm, darling, but she'll hug you close " in her arms, and wo will say our prayors and you shall go to sleep." "Why, how can I say my prayers beforo I have my supper?'* asked little Johnny. " Sister hasn't any supper for you or for herself, but we must pray all the harder, solemnly responded Jennie. So the two baby wanderers, alone in the wide heavens, uuawed by darkness, immensity and silence, by the presence of the great comet and the millions of unpitying stars, lifted their little clasped hands, and sobbed out their sorrowful " Our father," and then that quaint little supplementary prayer: Now I lay mo down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to keep: If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord mv soul to take. "There! God heard that, easy; for we are close to Him up here," said innocent little Johnny. Doubtless Divine love stooped to the little ones and folded them in perfect peace?for soon the younger, seated on the bottom of the car, with his head leaning against his sister's knee, slept as soundly as though he were lying in his own little bed at home, while the elder watched through the long, long hours, and the car lloated gently on in the still night air, till it begun to sway and rock on the fresh morning wind. Who can divine that simple little child's thoughts, speculations, and wild imaginings, while watching through those hoursShe may have foarecl coming in collision with a meteor?for many were abroad that night, scouts and hernlds of the great comet?or, perhaps being cast away on some desolate starisland, or more dreary still, floating and floating on, night and day, till they should both die of cold anil hunger. Poor babes in the clouds ! At length, a happy chance, or Providence?we will say Providence?guidt d the little girl's wandering hand to a cord connected with the valve ; something told her to pull it. At once the balloon began to sink, slowly and gently, as though some celestial pilot guided it through the wild currents of air, not letting it drop into lake, or river, lofty wood, or impenetrable swamp, where this strange, nnchild-likc experience might have been closed by a death of unspeakable horror ; but causing it to descend as softly as a bird alights, on a spot where human care and pity awaited it. The sun had not yet risen, but the morning twilight had come, wheu the little girl, looking over the edge of the car, saw the dear old earth coming nearer?"rising towards them," she said. But when the car stopped, to her great disappointment it was not on the ground, but caught fast in the topmost branches of a tree. Yet she saw they were near a house whence help might soon come, so she awakened her brother and told him the good news, and together il 1 - 1 # 1 1* nuvy wsicueu mid waned ior uenvc.rance, bugging each other for joy ami warmth, for they were cold. Farmer Burton, who lived in n lonely house, 011 the edge of his own private prairie, was a famous sleeper in general, but on this particular morning he awoke before the dawn, and though he turned and turned again, he could sleep 110 more. So, at last, he said to his good wife, whom ho had kindly awakened to inform her of his unaccountable wakefulness, " It's no use, I'll just get, up and dress, and have a look at the comet." The next that worthy woman heard from her wakeful spouse was a hasty summons to the outer door. It seems that no sooner did he step forth from his house than his eyes fell on a strange portentous shape, hanging on a large pear tree, about twenty yeards distant. He could see 110 likeness in it to anything earthly, and ho half fancied that it might be the comet, who, having put out his light, had come down there to perch. In his fright and perplexity he did what every wise man would do in a like extremity; he called upon his valiant wife. Reinforced by her he drew near the tree, cautiously reconnoitering. Surely pear tree never bore such fruit. Suddenly there descended from the thing a plaintive, trembling little voice: "Please take us down. We are very cold." Then a second little voice said: 4 4 And hungry, too. Please take us down." 44 Why, who ure you i And "where are von The first little voice said: "It's us, niul we rumicd away with a balloon. Please take us down." Dimly comprehending the situation, the former, gett ing hold of a dangling rope, succeeded in pulling down the balloon. The first lifted out littlo Johnny, who ran rapidly a few yards toward the house, then turned round and stood for a few moments curiously surveying the balloon. The faithful little sister was s.? chilled and exhausted that she had to be carried into the house, where, trembling, she told the wonderful story. Before sunrise a mounted messenger was dispatched to the Harwood home, with glad tidings of great joy. He reached it in tho afternoon, and a few hours later the children themselves arrived in state, with banners and music, and conveyed in a covered liny-wagon and four. Joy-bells were rung in the neighboring town, and in tho farmer's brown house tho happiest family on tho continent thanked Clod that night. It would seem that this comet had some occult maddening influence on tho balloons, for during its appearance there occurred in another Western State an involuntary ascension, similar to the 0110 1 have related, but more tragical in its termination. An acronant, while, if I remember rightly, repairing the net-work of his balloon, was seated 011 a slight wooden cross-piece, suspended under it ; the ear liaviug beou removed a few feet ubovo the ground by merely a ropo in the j hand of an assistant. From a too careless grin?]) this rope escaped, and in an instant the gigantic bubble shot upward, i carrying the aeronaut on his frail support. The balloon rose rapidly, but unsteadly, swaying and pitcliiug in the evening wind. As long as it remained in sight the form of the aeronaut could be dis- ' tiuguislied, swinging beneath it. And as he was known to be a man of uncommon nerve and presence of mind, it was hoped that even from his dizzy perch he might manage to operate on the valve, i or at least to puncture a small hole in the balloon, and thus effect a descent. ! But such efforts, if he made any, were j vain, as for many days and nights there j was anxious inquiry and patient search over a wide extent of country, with 110 ! result. We gave him up. Only wifely I love hoped on, and looked and waited. ; At last in a wild spot, the wreck of the balloon was found, and that was all. Still, wifely love hoped 011, until, a month or two later, some children nutting in a wood, many miles away from where the balloon was found, discovered half buried in the ground, a strange dark mass that looked like a heap of old 1?1 ii.?i 11 ........ ?.?11.:.. uiutut'a) uui iiiut iiu'iu u nuuifiiuu^, ? shapeless and fearless, holding it together. It was thought the aeronaut parted company with his balloon by loosening his hold on the cords above liim, in desperate eflbits to open the valve; but lamay, after whirling in swift vortexes, or plunging and mounting, through cloudy abysses of air, have become unnerved by the awful silence of the upper night, by the comet's fearful companionship, by whelming immensity and infinity, and wearily let go his hold, to drop earthward. i " ?~ ! Children and Dogs. " Dogs is healthy for children," says the old wives, and not without foundation in fact. The iulluenee of these ' lively and affectionate playmates of cliildI hood is very happy ; so much so that we have sometimes thought that a boy who has never had a pot dog has been cheated out of half the enjoyment aud no i small part of tlio moral culture of in| fancy. Dut dogs have bad tricks, and ! unless properly trained, are apt to be anything but "healthy" for children. | They express their affection in a very ' bad wav. We know that it is a common | opinion that there is something wouder, fully wliolesomo about a dope's tongue, j I and that his natural habit of licking the i objects of his affection is rather to been1 cournged than repressed. Nevertheless i i one of the first requirements in a dog j for a chihl'n pet is that lie be trained to I | emulate prudent humanity and lestraiu j his tongue. It is not " healthy," whatj ever the old wives may say. This, set{ ting aside the question of rabies altoj getlier. A much more common affection t j of dogs is a tape worm, for whose development both men and dogs have to ; I contribute. Its immature or cyst ice real stage is spent in the human body, often ! | causing great mischief ; then it migrates ! to the dog, completes its development, I ! and makes provision for a new crop to 1 | infest humanity, forming cystsor hollow i I tumors in various partsof the hotly, The ! full grown worm is the smallest tamia ! | known, only about one-quarter of an I inch iu length. The embryo is often as j I small as one two-hundredth of an inch; j ! yet, according to Cobbold, death has j ! been caused by a single individual lodged ; in the brain. At a late meeting of the ! Australian Microscopical Society, Mr. Sidney Gibbons exhibited specimens re- 1 cently taken from a human subject, and i ,.?.\1 4l...?? J 1. , .... 41...4 41 ' OiUU IUU1U L'UUiU UU UW llVMIUt lUUt I IH j wore frequently implanted in children as a couRequence of allowing dogs to lick their hands and faces. It is a nasty I practice at best, and a pet dog's first lesson should bo to keep his tongue to himself.?Scientific American. Anecdote of nil Emperor. Another story of Paul I. of Russia. One morning the emperor met a young officer on a great wooden bridge. The officer was a wag, and on this particular j occasion his assurance was stimulated , by plenty of good old wine. The oldest i I generals in the army trembled before ; | the crazy emperor, but the young soldier j had 110 fear of liim. As I10 passed he I I gave the usual salute, but in a decidedly j : devil-may-care fashion, which attracted } the emperor's attention. "Come this l way," said the majesty fiercely. The j | officer obeyed. "You belong to the' stupid squad?the fellows who know nothing." "Oh, sire, excuse nio; I know everything." "Indeed! Then how many nails are there in this bridge ?" j "Seventeen billions, one hundred ami eighty-four millions, three hundred and j fifty-eight thousand, nine hundred anil 1 fifty-six, and four tacks." "Sure of I that f" "Perfectly sure, sire." '"Hem, ; hem! How many fishes in the sea ?" ! ; "Three hundred and sixty-nine billions. nine hundred and twenty-six millions, , four hundred and forty-eight thousand, 1 six hundred and thirty-eight, and three I | sprats." "Sure of that, too?" "l'er- ! ! feetly sure, sire, without counting the j flukes." The emperor looked pleased and turned to go away, when the cun- : j ning soldier remarked, with great modesty, " Hut there are two things, ' sire, that I don't know." "What are j they?" said Paul turning round fiercely, j " Where I live and what's my name." The emperor at once made a count of j ' him and gave him a splendid estate, j DrrifTHEitiA.?A thorough investiga- ! tiun into the nature of diphtheria and its causes is being made by the New York \ , Medical Society. Jt is a good thing to ! I do. A man with largo feet should never stand upon trifles. At the Diamond Mines. When n new placer is discovered nl the South African diamond mines, eacl miner chooses, or rather takes at a venture, a piece of land thirty-one feel square, nt the four corners of which he places garden-pickets to establish his possession, as well as his boundary lines. This is the sole title of ownership, and ho has sometimes to defend it with blows. Indeed, the last comers often seek to obtain possession of a claim by stratagem or force; they await the moment when the owner, going to breakfast, takes away his tools, and leaves the ground unoccupied, to establish themselves in his place, and declare that they have placed there the boundary lines. A trial follows, which is decided 011 the spot by a boxing match, and the claim belongs to the strongest. As soon as the existence of diamonds is really established, the miners meet togetliei and nominate a committee to admiuistei justice, and to decide legid questions without further appeal. The first uvrt of the committee is to determine when r claim may be considered as abandoned. It is decided that any claim that is not worked for three entire days is supposed to be given up, and may be taken by the first comer. An exception is made in case of illness or any other cause independent of the will ol the miner. The owner, once established, is lie more at the mercy of brutal force, and any one desirous of procuring a portion of land must purchase it of the holder. At New-Rush the original propi it-tors parceled out their claims in ?m... ,.t,. *i....... "'""I till" mtnu liuimuin always commanded u high price. One of my neighbors, owning a half claim, already worked to the depth of over sixty feet, at the time of my departure was bargaining to sell it for twenty thousand dollars. This is the reason why bo few fortunes are made at the mines. Retrenchment Extraordinary. The following story is told of a pretty well-known gentleman, formerly connected with the Pittsburgh press: This person was in the habit of taking a "wee drap " too much at times, and when in the resultant condition of exhilaration he was, as many are, inclined to a liberality and extravagance of expenditure to which his sober self was an utter stranger. While on one of his periodical benders, the fancy of our hero was struck with the beauty of a certain pair of vases of rare workmanship and exquisite finish. With the sentiment, " darn the expense," in his heart and on his lips, he bought these vases, at an immense price, and bore them home, and triumphantly called in his wife to admire them. " Why, John," said she, the moment she set lier eyes on them, " what induced you to lmy such costly ornaments as these? We can't afford to spend money this way. You will ruin us, you know you will;" and the poor lady raised her apron to her eyes and began to cry. The sight was too much for our printer. " You are right, Mary," he said, "you are right, and I am wrong. We can't afford these vases; it was extravagant in me to buy them. But don't cry; I'll fix jt all right." So saying he let drive his list through the two beautiful vases, and as their fragments rattled about the floor, he turned to his astonished and dismayed wife and said, "Now, Mary, we've got rid of those; I'll go and buy a couple of cheap ones, my darling." Not so Funny for Charles. tJlmrlcs \\ imams, of \N estcliester, Fa., was found guilty of libeling the pastor and officers of the First Presbyterian church. The article charged the pastor with gross immorality, and that he was being tried before a committee of the church, and that although the testimony elicited was so damaging as to create fears that the reverend gentleman would be lynched, there was no doubt but that he would be acquitted. Williams took the stand after the testimony had been elicited for the prosecution, turd admitted that he had written the article. iin<l sent it to a New York paper, in which paper it was published. He alsc stated that he knew there was not a word of truth in his statement, but that lit hiul written it for fun, and to create n sensation. They Were l'oor Then. Twenty-five years ago society in Washington was not what it is to-day. Senators and Representatives and officers were poor. A correspondent, in writing of that time, says : Hut the order was shabbiuess and poverty, and, I think, it conduced to general sociability and enjoyment. The officers oi the army and navy (always our aristocracy), and those who served the government in other capacities, were professionally poor, of course. Therefore it became, in a measure, fashionable to br poor, and it was wittingly said by n Washington lady, when the wife of an officer in the army happened to have ti rich father, who bought her a house, that she rather lost caste in the best so eiety of Washington thereby, and wiu looked upon as a uourcait ric/ic. Notmino Mokr.?An old farmer pur chased some sweet oil in a drug store mi<l lii'inir iiultml if ilwiro wuu (t nnHiiiir else," ho laid so vera 1 packages oil tin counter, liohl uj? a hand with severs strings tied on tho fingers, and said "Lot's soo ! That rod string is for tin bar-soap ; that rag is for a broom ; thai bluo cord is for a calico dross ; that brnii moans four pounds of sugar, and this other string is for sweet oil. No?noth iug more." How to Keep House on a Small Salary. I A clerk's wife sends to Scribner's i magazine the following bit of experience, - which may have for many of our readers t an interest both timely and practical: > After many years of married life passed ! in comparative aflluenco reverses camo, and my husband was obliged to accept a [ situation in a large city, with a small i salary of eight hundred dollars per year. i I felt that this could suffice for our maintenance only by the exercise of the strictest economy. A little over fifteen dollars a week ! " How many times I dii vided that eight hundred dollars by fifty i two and tried to make it come out a little : more. Still I determined to solve the problem of the day?namely, whether t one could keep lion*' 011 a small salary, ! or whether boarding-house life was a 1 [ necessity, us so many clerks' wives as ! sort. We had neither of us been ac | customed to economizing, and I felt it j whs but just, if my husband worked j hard for his salary, that I should per> | form the labor of making it go as far as t 1 possible. j Thirty replies were received to our ad: J vertisement for two unfurnished rooms, - | tuuiiMii ut'iuvi. hi* iu > ! carefully, I selected half-a-dozen which I came within our means, ami started on | an exploring expedition. In a pleasant r house and neighborhood I found a lady : willing to rent two adjoining rooms, with closets and water conveniences, for f the modest sum of twelve dollars per month. In one room there were two deep south windows, where I could keep a few plants in the winter. I consulted my husband, and with his approval engaged the rooms. We had one hundred and seventy-five dollars, ready money. With this we bought bright, but inexpensive carpets, a parlor cook stove,an oiled black walnut set of furniture, a table, a student lamp, a few dishes, and some coal. With the few pictures, a rack of books, and some ornaments in our possession, we decked the rooms tastefully, and commenced the serious business of keeping house on eight hundred dollars per year. We determined from the first that we should not have any accounts, but would pay cash for everything, and when we could not afford an article, do without it. After paying rent and washerwoman we had fifty dollars per month for other expenses. Twenty dollars of this furnished us a plentiful supply of food and paid car fare. I learned to love my work. Strength came with each day's labor, and renewed health repaid each effort put forth to make my little home ! pleasant and restful to my husband, j And how we did enjoy that little home ! i When the stormy nights came, we drew our curtains, shutting out the world, with a bright tire, and the soft glow of our reading-lamp upon the crimson cloth, reading a magazine or evening paper (in which we were able to indulge), with a "God pity the poor ! this dreadful night," forgetting in our j | cozy and comfortable home how many i fl....... ......... 5? 41... ......of ..if. ( 1UK HH,II Otil lulling UUVU I. , of thirty feet shall lmvo been secured, for whieli the government will agree to ]>ay Mr. Kads $8,000,000, and the annual 1 sum of 6150,000 thereafter for the maintenance of the channel at a depth of thirty feet. The tirst $300,000 is to be paid when a channel of twenty-two feet [ in depth and two hundred feet in width is obtained, and $500,000 more when tli is depth is maintained for a year. A , million of dollars each year is to be paid . j for the addition of two feet permanent depth to the channel, and when the ' depth of thirty feet' is finally obtained f tho remaining $2,000,000 are to bo re. | taincd by the government, one-lialf for ten years and the other half for twenty years, as a guarantee of the permanence ; of the work. The bill is strongly ginrd. ed. The first $500,000, necessary to bei gin the work, is appropriated by the bill, i and it is provided that Kads shall take t five per cent, bonds if the government .1 ..i A. . 1 * ll,nA ( j tuect I'liv 111111 in lunv 4 Cruelly. A recent writer notices tlie striking similarity of tlie monkey's fondness for - cruelty to that of man, and says that , every one does not know how much ? trouble an average monkey will put liim> j self to in order that lie may enjoy the 1 sufferings of other creatures. The rnon: ! keys <>f India feign sleep for hours when > they want to cat eh and torture a crow, t and exhibit intense delight in plucking 1 it alive. The tiger in man is, perhaps, s more money than tiger. Our cruel man - is simply a monkey in human shape, and not a noble beast at all. Items of Interest. No other living thing can go bo bIow on an errand as a boy. The American eaglos of Texas county, Mo., have been stealing sheep. People who are always wanting something new should try neuralgia. Poor men and hens are obliged to scratch to get along in this world. *Tlie saying, "excuse hosto and a bad pen," has been attributed to a pig who ran away from home. A soft answer turueth away wrath, but we lose our patience with people who are 1 continually asking soft questions. If you want to get an idea how the Brooklyn court room looks during the Beecher trial, look at a box of sardines. The man who makes a will these days is only paving the way for the court to Erenounce him a fool or a lunatic after is death. The other dav a Buffalo man named Farthing married a young girl whose mother, although quite wealthy, wouldn't give her assent. An Illinois farmer, who has fourteen children and a healthy wife, says that the bottom of the potato bin seems made of India rubber. "The great need of Cairo," said a capitalist after being taken over the town, " is a line-tooth comb factory, with a retail store in connection." A young lady in a neighboring town is engaged to be married to a gentleman named Homer Place; and you can judgo ?" "??v. ..VU.A. call us poor. We always kept within niy husband's salary, wearing plain but good and respectable clothing, and eating simple but substantial food. And now, as circumstances have been improving with us, and we are living in a house all , our own, with servants, and thousands instead of hundreds a year, we look back to the year spent in our simple, frugal little home, and know that it will always be the happiest portion of our Jives. Improvement of the Mississippi. The passage of the bill for the improvement of Jthe mouth of tlio Missis i n. . 12 i: ?t sippi river, uy inu u[)[!iiniiiuii 01 iuujcu^ system to tho southwest puss, was accomplished in the United States House, in substantially the same shape in which it was reported by the committee on commerce. The bill authorizes Captain James Ji. Ends, of St. Louis, to construct jetties at the southwest pass, provided there is no means employed which shall hiudcr navigation. The basis of the agreement is that Eads agrees to obtain a depth of twenty feet of water throughout this pass within thirty months from the date of the approval of the act, and an additional two feet duri;.w? ?,o;i ? for yourself whether she thinks "there s 011 I'lftce like Homer" not. A gentleman, who was formerly an officer in tlie Coldstream guards, was brought up at the Southwick (Loudon) tiolice court recently on the cliargo of laviiig stolen an umbrella, and was committed for trial. A matter-of-fact doctor's wife attempted to move him by her tears. " Ah 1" 1jaid he, " tears are useless. I have analyzed them. They contain a little phosphate of lime, some chlorate of sodium and water." Neeuali wants some one to discover a lead mine in that vicinity, to bring down the price of the metal. A policeman there has been shooting at a mad dog for three weeks and the city lias to furnish the material. A New York editor, says an exchange, is engaged to marry a foreign princess. Sho will not lose caste by the match, for the young editor is of noble blood himself. He is a count, one of the old original line of Noah Counts. A very flexible temperance pledge is this, which is circulated among Boston fusliiouable ladies: I promise that no intoxicating liquor shall be used in this house for cooking purposes, and in sickness, that it shall be given conscientiously. It rarely happens that a death occuia at a funeral. Mr. Symonds, of Saugua, Mass., was seized with apoplexy while attending the funeral of a friend, and died instantly. He had oelebrated the fortieth anniversary of his wedding the night previous. London street thieves steal the fur trimming from ladies' sacks. Going behind a lady with a sharp knife they cut the fur down just at the center of the back, and then, giving a quick tug with each hand, tear off as much fur as will come off at one pull. A gentleman passing across the playground of a public school was affronted by the boys, and was advised to complain to the principal, which he did: "I have been abused by some rascals of the place, and I camo to acquaint you of it, as I understand you are the principal." A Milford (N. H.) boy was charged with stealing a gold pen, pleaded guilty, and was sent to the reform school. A young girl lias since been detected stealing from the same store, and the identical pen which the boy was said to have stolen was found in her possession. The boy is to be pardoned. Economy in business matters is now the rule. The head of a Arm observing one of his men loitering about lately said: "John, times aro so dull we shall have to lay you off awhile. Stay around and wo will give you job work at the usual rate, forty cents an hour." John stayed ; he got about eight hours a day job work, right along, and he thanks his employer for doing what he did to him ; for his wages before were only 81.75 per day. Moral: Let well enough alone. A California Hnsband's Wrongs. Her mother had told her not to marry until sho was able to support a husband; but sho heeded not her gentle mother's warning; she went and got civil-contracted to a man who was a fine, ong-wmueu talker, and wlio could sit aroutul and keep a stove warm better than any one she ever saw in lier life. And then how proficient he was in lying in bed and snoring, on a December morning, while she got up and split the wood, made the fire, fed the horses, swept the floor, boiled tlio coffee, blacked his boots, mended that hole in his coat, sewed on that shirt button, and laid a a pipeful of tobacco and the matches alongside his pillow. And how loving she must have felt toward him, when ho got up at last at about ten o'clock, cursing her for making a noise, and wanted to know why there was no beefsteak and eggs on the table, and why ahe hadn't pawned her watch?it was a dying mother's gift?in order to give lum whisky money. And when, after three years of this, she left him, and . went to work as a sewing girl, people spoke of the depravity of the woman who i left her husband.