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VOL. I.?NO. 23. BEAUFOllT, 8. C.. APRIL 28. 1875. $2.00 PER ANNUM.
The Two Angels.
(Sod called tho nearest angels who dwell with
him above :
Tho tendercsb one waa pity, the dearest one
was love. I
"Arise," he said, "my angels! avail of woe
and sin ,
Stoals through the gates of lieavcu, and saddens
all within.
" My harps take up the mournful strain that
from a lest world swells,
'The smoke of torment clouds the light and
. blights the asphodels.
" Fly downward to that under world, and 011
its souls of pain
Lot lovo drop smiles like sunshine, and pity
tears like rain !'
Two facos bowed before tlio throne veiled in j
thoir golden hair;
Four wliito wings lossonod swiftly down the
dark abyss of air;.
Tho way was strange, tho Hight was long ; at
last the angels came
Where swung the lost and nether world, redwrapped
in rayless flame.
Tliero pitv, shuddering, went: but love, with
faith too strong for fear.
Took heart from God's almiglitiness and smiled
a tmiilo of cheer.
. * ' And" lo! that to tr of pity quenched tho flarao
whereon it fell,
And, with tho sruisliine of that smile, hope entered
into hell!
Two nnveiled faces full of joy looked upward
to the throne,
. Four white wings folded at the feet of Him who
?iat thereon! *
.And deeper than tho sound of seap, more soft
than falling il&kc,.
' Amidr-t the hush of whig and song the Voice
Eternal spake:
. VWelcome, my angels! ye have brought a
holier joy to heaven ;
Henceforth its sweetest song shall be the song
of sin forgiven!"
.?Jchii G. Whitl'tr.
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THE IDOL OF HER HEART.
" A light nt Inst!" exclaimed, fervently,'
the ypnng American who accompa
nicU a Russian embassador in this his
third stage from Uralsk, in the route of
a long journey south ward. " Heaven
bo pi.T.lsed, we are nearing a human
habitation!"
Through the driving sleet his keen
<*ye had discovered the twinkling of a
lamp-light. They had crossed thirty
miles of wintry desert without encountering
a1 sign of life. The good news
failed, however, to arouse his semidormaut
companion. The younger man
turned toward him a glance of compassion.
Thrown from the sledge some
miles back on that day's journey, the
poor embassador had sustained an.injury
so painful that only for tho last hour,
and under the influence of opiates, he
had ceased from moaning.
Xlu> isolated dwelling which the
travelers approached, and where tho
sledges conveying their luggage had
arrived, proved to be the house of a
Russian peasant. No sooner li id they
passed its wind-guarded passages, carefully
lined with felt, aud entered from
the .intense cold of the out door air into
tho no less intense heat of the stovewariried
interior, than tho embassador
fainted.
Tho energies of the American were
"devoted ii: mediately to the care of his
friend. Ho had. already ordered his
servant to bring tho medicine .chest
fr<9m tho sledge, and he speedily selected
and applied, with expressions of tender
solicitude, tho proDor stimulants, lotions,
and bandages. "He had tho satisfaction
to see the embassador slowly revive,
and to convince himself iliat tho
injury was nothing more serious than a
sprained ankle, which delay in .affording
remedv. and untoward ptWhi-o
hail rendered painful. ^
Not only a handsome youth, mall',
straight, broad-shouldered, and sunnily
blonde, -was the .young American, Hart?
. ley Berne, but a dashing, spirited,
merry-voiced individual, who, as quickly
as ho found lus patient recovering,
broke forth into pleasant sallies, which
had the effect to make tho embassador's
face relax from its dreary askew, and
to draw his big features into au approach
to a laugh.
It was nearly midnight when the
doctoring was finished. Tea had been
Htocped in tho groat Russian tea-urn,
and had been swallowed in prodigious
quantities The embassador, muttering
maqy byt not various adjectives of depreciation,
had been hoisted upton tho
bed of state?tlio solo family bed, be it
\Vhispered?namely, tho fur-spread roof
of the huge stove, where gradually his
groans, in tho soothiug spell of a skillfully
concocted draught, subsided into
satisfied grunts. Then Hartloy Berne had
leisure to study critically his surroundings.
He was not loug iu comprehending the
f?ABf.Pnf? flio /?w?mnA-l /.UomKov noovltt
Viiv VI MU^/DU OiittUAWXy* f
one-fourth of whose space was occupied
by the mud-furnace, whoso flattened
dome was now peacefully graced by his
comrade. A taolo of rnde deal, occupying
the center, supported his own contemplative
elbows. A bench, rough like
the table, surrounded the room. On the
dingy wall, between two double-glazed
windows, hung a gilded picture of Saint
Nicholas. In one corner a pitcher of
water, saerod to scanty ablution, was
suspended from the ceiling, and a shelf
opposite upheld a crude black stone, resembling
a miscarved Otalieitan idol.
On the bench under the gilded saiut
wero seated the womert who had watched
the stranger's medicinal performance
with such admiring fascination. They
spoke Russian, and as our trawler was
no novice in that language, and Irad patiently
acquainted himself with such
phrases of gallantry as usually give
pleasure, he lost no time in rendering
himself agreeable.
lie did this the more readily since,
although one of the women was middleaged
and ugly, the other was young and
| pretty. Yes, in spite of her coarse garb,
tlio critic pronounced her decidedly, and
| even?after he had paid a few compliments,
and had seen her dark eyes glisten,
her cheeks flmsh like the ripened
peach, and across her glancing white
j teeth her red lips redden?"confoundedly
" pretty.
They talked of many things, and it was
not until the host liad returned from his
care of the beasts that conversation turned
upon the one objet dc virtu, and the
guest inquired the significance of the
black stone.
"It is Reva's god," said the eldei
woman, with an inimical leer and a viI
cious emphasis.
" It is a curiosity," said tlio host,
glaucing angrily at his wife, "and my
daughter here has a right to it, since she
picked it up herself last winter, in the
snow."
I "It came to me," said tlio girl, sulIlenlv.
TLo guest arose and examined th?
stone. " A meteorite," ho pronounced
it, "and an interesting specimen."
When the host hinted, or growled,
rather, that it was bed-time, all retired tc
the state bed excepting Reva. Modesty,
perhaps, bnt more probably the fact
that the embassador took much room,
caused her to determine to keep watch
that night. In the dim fire-liglit the
young American, through his halfclosed
eyelids, saw her without surprise,
for his vanity had perceived the attraction
he possessed, draw near alid nearer
him, until at last she was quietly seated
by his side.
So the night waned. When indisputable
slumber was atte sted by a trio of
snoring, Reva whispered to the stranger,
who rested but did not sleep:
"Wise youth, for you converse, I
think, with tlio stars, and unravel secrets,
have you tlio willingness to help a
j poor.girl much troubled?"
The flashiug eyes of the wild beauty,
| her confiding air, and the evident
j confessional nature of her appeal aroused
the youth's cautiousness as sensibly as
I his cordiality.
"If I can help you," ho said, not altogether
sympathetically, "with advice,
perhaps, I shall not be unwilling."
"Counsel me, then, kind stranger,
how I shall find my way to the land,
native to my fancy. I am not n Russian.
So is my father, so likewise is my
step-mother, but not I. I am a Kirgliis.
My mother was a slave, taken in skir
nnsli; a slave, also a wife. She ilied in
giving me life. I would gladly, now
that I comprehend all tilings, exchange
gifts with her. Every day I feel that I
would prefer to be far distant, for my
step-mother is not beloved by me, and
?shall I tell you??I am betrothed to a
ruffian utterly abhorrent. Do not now
now give mo answer," she added, as he
bestirred himself respousively, " but
sleep, ?my stranger, for you are wearied
of your journeys; and while you sleep I
wilt hold yony ham) ?nd conduct you
through the dream-world. Then the door
will appear to you tliat shall open to
givd freedom to a girl most unhappy,
who would escape.'
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" I must go on if I die," said the embassador,
in a really irasqjble tone.
" Wo must have horses if they are' nothiug
moro tliau skeletons. Wo must
have a driver."
" If lie is a death's-head," said Berne.
" I agree with you; we shall go on, my
friend, this hour."
At night-fall, after a day intolerable to
the embassador, a day made tolerable to
his companion by the novel beauty,
offspring of mixed races, and the simple
but charming coquetry, of t,ho darkeyed
daughter of the desert, the travelers
resumed their joumoy.
All night they glided along over the
shining compact snow, the embassador
peacefully somnolent, and hiscompanion
moodily wakeful, vexed by a pair of
black eves, "burniner vet, tender." He
gave himself for a night to the delicious
torment of one regretful whim; on the
morrow ho would arouse himself from
such weakness.
Near daybreak horsemen approached.
Swift riders they were, seven in number,
who seemed making speed with exprese
intent to waylay tho embassador, or tc:
pounce with plimderous force upon the
loaded sledge of tempting luggage that
preceded him.
j The aspect of those horseman as they
I rushed into clear view betokened lios!
tility. The embassador, frightened from
his lethargy, and his companion, nervously
alert, prepared to defend themselves.
As their horsos were seized, and
their driver, a gigantic follow, wrapped
to his chin in sheep-skins, was uncere1
monionsly dragged down from his seat,
j Berne sprang from tho sledge, and witli
i his foretiugor upon tho trigger of hi*
revolver, mode parley.
"It is not you that wo want," cried
' one of the ruffians, who had immediately
, dismounted; " it is your driver."
"Our driver?" said tho relieved em
I bassodor. "You aro welcome to him,
i friend, so long as yon furnish us witli
i onnfhor. TipI. nn? nf vonr numlvo. ir.
I his place; and make otf with him in wel
i noma. I ahall be glad to bo rid of tin
lazy dog, who lias alopt at his post
i egrcgiously, or wo would liavo been bj
j this time breakfasting in Kazala."
But Berno said, "Givo usa reason foi
| this capture. I will not consent to tin
I kidnapping of an honest man."
"You cannot keep liim, for he is ouri
I already," cried the chief of the baud
I scornfully.
i "Wo will prove that," answered
Berne, in defiance. " The man has been
i employed by us; lie is under our protecs
tion. Touch him if you dare."
At this moment the driver, with a
llourisli of bravado, began to cast aside
his sheep-skins, tossed on the snow one
after another his fleecy coverings, and
. stood before them a slender girl, her
head raised dauntless, her dark eyes
i flashing, her lips curled with scorn.
The young American turned pale in
his astonishment. The exclamation died
i upon his lips, "Iteva!"
! "She is mine already," shouted the
ruffian, whom the girl in her confession
had named " utterly abhorrent." He
had snatched from the hand of Berne in
i that one moment of surprise and selfforgetfulness
the loaded pistol, and flung
> it in the snow. Keva sprang forward and
! seized the weapon."
" I shall defend her with my life,"
' cried Berne, as the stalwart barbarian
closed with him in combat.
n..i ? U..1.1 i ?n;.i
J-/UI viiriij IXUIII . iirjiiV) miut
the wort! truly. I belong to liira. Take
' off thy clutch, Mersnicho, from the
s stranger. I am thine when my father
gives me. I am thine so soon as I perform
the task given by my father, and
bring these strangers to Kazala."
After some further parley the sledge
moved onward, driven by one of the
i horsemen. Reva's abhorrent ruffian
formed with two faithful followers a
dreary escort. Reva, loosely robed in
> her furs, crouched on the sledge floor
leaning her head on. " her stranger's "
; knee, aud weeping bitterly. In this
style the embassador's cortege entered
i Kazala.
*******
A night scene in a tent pitched in the
spring-touched Asiatic wilderness a hundred
miles southward of Kazala; a young
manin the uniform of an American offi- I
cer busy with papers at his improvised
desk; a Kirgliis boy noiselessly removing
; the remnants of a repast; the young
officer, Hartley Berne; the Kirgliis
slave, his page, his servant, his adorer,
Reva.
At Kazala Borne had parted with the
embassador to continue his journey to
Khiva under native escort alone. It
was not until two days' journey had
parted him from the Russian peasant
that the young American discovered that
the boyish attendant furnished by his ,
1 Kirgliis guide was no other than the ,
wild beauty of the desert, who, with tlio
art of a Parisian diplomatist, had accomplished
her will, and who, with tlio
impetuosity of Juliet, passionately worshiped
him.
If aflnnnf fin <1otniu1 fltnf f 1 iorn umu
something in Hartley Berne's nature that
responded to the isolation and idolatry
of this desert romviice. He was not insensible
to the charms of the beautiful
and adoring Reva. Nevertheless her
presence troubled him. His manner
' toward her became daily more cold; his
brow darkened when she approached.
And as she had seen the meteor cool and <
darken, slio now saw this idol of her j
heart resolve from a star into a stone. i
This evening, as Berne bent studious- i
ly over his papers, Reva, her task done, i
threw herself upon a pallet in the tent's i
shadowy recess, and pretended to sleep, i
But from time to time she cast at the
American stealthy glances. He, too, <
occasionally glanced covertly at her. i
Whenever lie did so he sighed. At last,
sure that she slept, he drew from his 1
bosom a gold-encased miniature. He i
set it up before him, and as he continued
writing he gazed upon it at the close of 1
each paragraph or page, eveiy time i
scorning to draw from it something calm- i
> ing, encouraging, inspiring. <
At midnight an uuusual sound with- 1
out his tent arrested his attention. He !
' sprang up suddenly, and parting the i
curtains of his tent, went out upon the i
? moon-lit moor.
i "At last! at last!" said, or rather i
hissed, between her closed teeth, in ' i
Russian patois, the disguised page Revn, (
as, with the coiling silentncgs of a ser- ]
pent, she drew herself from the shadowy
pallet to the lighted desk?" at last !"
She held in her hands the miniature. ] !
She turned toward herself the gilded 1
disk, but she could not interpret the en- i
graved inscription, " In arnpre : Ger- 1
trade Atherton." She interpreted, how- i
ever, with the qnickness of jealousy, the *
significance of the portrait. <
That night Hartley Berne dreamed of i
Gertrude Atherton. "When morning
came his garment was not dusted, his
spnrs were not brightened, his repast
i was not spread. His little valet, his
? slave, his inamorata, had fled. Ho saw
i her no more. Once, indeed, farther on ,
; his journey, deeper in tho south, he j
spent ono night in the picturesque tent \
' of a Itighis prince, and fancied, as he .
lay half sleeping, fanned by salubrious ,
i odors and soothed by tho dulcet tink- i
ling of a guitar, that in ono of the j
glancing forms of Hfro young maidens
1 called sisters he recognized his vanished ,
1 Reva. ,
Two years after Hartley Bonio's adventurous
Asiatic pilgrimmogo, when his
I rJorlni?1n A f nul/o<1 ou
i wlmt woman would not?whether, in all
hia wanderings, in heart and thought he
1 had been true to her, ho auswered, with
' love's enthusiasm, "Yes." i
And if Hartley Berne could have seen j
at that momont his once passionate little
, idolator, Reva, he would hardly hare
i Known her in the sweet, satisfied wife of
> the Uighis chieftain, sharing with him
the simple happy days, moving from
> point to point along tho river-kissed
t wilderness, in his free nomadic life.
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f A lad in Eddyville, Iowa, lately found
> $00,000 under his father's born, and
there was great rejoicing in the family
i until it was discovered that the cash was
, all counterfeit, ami a very bad counter- i
feit at that.
Henry Ward Beecher's Oath. 1
I
When the defendant in the great suit
of Tiltou r*. Beechcr was called as a
witness, the scene which ensued is de- c
scribed as follows: r
Mr. Evarts said: "Mr. Beeclier will u
bo sworn." The defendant rose amid a v
bustle in the room, aud, carrying his t
soft hat folded together in his hand, t
made his way behind the jury-box, name v
to the front with a gray ami rigid face, s
and stopped up upon the stand. The t
officer offered him a Bible, but he put t
it aside, and, looking straight ahead of ii
him at the clerk, held up his right hand. F
" You do solemnly aflhm and declare" f'
? began Mr. Mallisou. 1<
" Wait a moment," put in Mr. 1?
Beach, springing up, and Mr. Evarts 1;
got up too. i]
"You do solemnly affirm and declare" a
? renewed the clerk. p
" Wait a moment, sir!" shouted Mr. i<
Beach. Then he said, solemnly, to the >'
judge: " I object to this form of oath, h
sir, uuless Mr. Beeclier shall declare tl
that he has conscientious scruples against n
sweariug upon the Scriptures." v
The witness did not move a muscle, tl
but stood upright and gray, looking tl
straight at tho clerk, or over his liearl a
and ont of the window.
Judge Xcilson?Any form that Mr. t!
ijucciu'i coiisiuers win umu ms coil- ?
Bcience. . ii
Mr. Bench?The statute, sir?the e
stntuto is that a witness shall be sworn n
upon the Scriptures unless ho declares H
he has conscientious scruples against s
that mode of swearing. 8
Whereupon, upon these harsh voices 8
broke Mr. Beeclier's mellow one, and he F
said, in grave fashion, uumoved by the i]
ungracious incident: ti
" I have conscientious scrnpies against a
swearing on the Bible." c
Mr. Madison began again: "You do
solemnly affirm and declare"? and Mr. h
Beecher had put up his hand again, when v
Mr. Evarts said, "Stop!" The clerk a
stopped, and Mr. Evarts told him: n
' He swears with uplifted hand by li
the ever-Uving God, as is the custom in o
New England, the distinction between an v
oath and an affirmation being the same n
there as here." t
The clerk suited all parties at last, ad- e
ministering this oath: d
" You do solemnly swear, in the pres- tl
ence of the ever-living God, that the a
evidence you shall give in this isstie
joined between Theodore Tilton, plain- t
tiff, and Henry Ward Beecher, defend- 1'
ant, shall bo tlie truth, the whole truth, c
and nothing but the truth." t
" I do," said Mr. Beecher, and settled a
in liis seat at once in a lounging, com- H
fortable attitude.
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National Tree Culture. d
n
A bit of gossip is going the rounds of g
the press telling how a certain good ti
citizen recently cut down an immense u
oak tree on his premises, because its H
gigantic size and wonderful beauty drew t
so many visitors. The treo had passed
its second century of life and deserved
a better fate. Its fall brought forcibly
iiw. ~.r ? ? i i
vkj iiiiuu tui; miyiug ui Ull UllCli'lllf lover
L>f the forest, that the man who would h
wantonly kill a shade tree would slay n
one of his fellow creatures. It would be ti
siid to believe this, however, for the &
waste of forest trees in our land has a
been indiscriminate and universal. So a
far lias it gone that in some parts of o
New England aud the Middle States h
liu-ge manufactories are kept in enforced j<
idleness during part of the winter a
months by reason ot drougtli, and the ^
character of the soil in other sections tl
lias undergone a change for the worse, o
It would not be a bad idea if the North v
should follow tlio example of the West lj
in availing itself of the provision made tl
by national legislation for the eucour- y
igement of tree planting. In Minne- f,
aota, since the act in question was pass- ii
cd, fifteen million trees liavo been a
planted in about seven thousand acres, tl
In addition the number planted on pri- h
rate places, and not embraced in the tl
issessor's returns and on the railroad A
lines, will bring the total for the State a
up to twenty millions. This is just so lj
much solid wealth added to the coffers v
of the State, and the trouble has been tl
comparatively trifling. In the great 1<
decrease of forest trees, the item of a h
national system of tree culturo is biff v
with the promise of future riches. ii
ii
Story About Boys.
A doting father has two hopeful sons, li
one five" and the other two years old. A 11
few evenings sineo, after some pleading, c
they got papa tuned up and listened in a
silent delight?the little one on his knee c
and the elder by his side?while he sang s
the beautiful song of "Ben Bolt." Ho j t
feelingly traced tho story of the bold : t
mariner and with intense pathos portray- > (
ed tho death of his sweet. Alice, who ! s
sleeps beneath the gray, cold granite in c
the old churchyard r
*' Iu a corner obscure and alone."
When the song was ended there was j
profound silence. They were too full for
utterance. Tho younger boy leaned
against liis father's bosom. Tho elder
gazed dreamily into the fire. After some
moments he turned his eyes, glowing
with tllfi fervor of in fen ha ercifeiiieiif In i
liin father and asked: ' t
" Papa, what is a skewrand ?" t
" A what, my son ?" c
"A skewrand." t
" A skewrand ! Why, my son, I have a
not the slightest idea. Wnere did you I:
ever hear such a word as that t" n
" Why, papa, when you were singing e
you said; ?In a comer of a skowrand c
alono!'" tl
Ah it was Into and tho boy was sound 1;
oaleep, mother was oallod and tho inspire. I t
youths wove put to bed. j
lies Arc Useful?An Interesting Experiment
Made.
It lias generally been believed that the
ommon house lly was a nuisance and of
lo earthly use. Prof. Einerson, a
to to .I English chemist, found that flies
irere not so useless as they are supposed
o be, but that as scavengers of the air
hey are indispensable. Did you ever
ratcli a fly who has just alighted after
oariug about thy room for some little
inie ? Ho goes through a series of operaions
which remind you of a cat lickug
herself after a meal, or of a bird
htming its feathers. First, tho hind
eet are rubbed together, then each hind
:>g is passed over a wing, then the fore
?g8 undergo a like treatment; and lasty,
if you look sharp, you will see the
osect carry his proboscis over his legs
nd body as far as ho can reach. The
linute trunk is perfectly retractile, and
o lenmnaies 111 two large looes, wiucn
ou can see spread out when tho insect
iegins n meal on a lump of sugar. Now
lie rubbing together of legs and wings
lay be a smoothing operation; but for
rliat purpose is this carefully going over
lie body with the trunk, especially when
lint organ is not fitted for licking, but
imply for grasping and sucking of food.
Prof. Emetaou found 011 examination
lint the action of the flies was to gather
nimnlcules, which had attached to them
11 llyiug about tho room. He took a
heet of white paper into the kitchen
nd waved it around, taking care that 110
lies touched it, went back to the microcope
and there found animalcues, the
nine as on flies. He had now arrived at
omething definite; they were not the
irogeny of the fly, but animalcules float ng
in the air; and tho quick motions of
he flies gathered them 011 their bodies,
ud tho flies then went into some quiet
orner to have their dainty meal.
The investigator goes on to describe
ow he continued the experiment in a
ariety of localities, and how, in dirty
ud bad smelling quarters, ho found the
ly rinds of flies which existed there
iterally covered with animalcules, wliile
ther flies, captured in bed rooms or
roll ventilated, clean apartments, were
lisernbly lean and entirely free from
lieu- prey. Wherever filth existed,
voicing germs which might generate
iseose, there were the flies, covering
hemselves with tho minute organisms
nd greedily devouring the same.
Mr. Emerson, whilo thus proving the
itility of the fly, has added another and
ower link to that curious and necessary
haiu of destruction which exists in amnated
nature. These infinitesimal
uimalcules form food for the flies, the
lies for the spiders, the spiders for the
lirds, the birds for the quadrupeds, and
o on up to the last of the series, serving
he samor purpose to man. He certainly
leserves credit for an interesting and
ovel investigation, and for an intellient
discernment which might even atack
the difficult task of teaching us the
ises?for nature makes nothing without
ome beneficial end?of the* animalcules
hemselves.
Native Cruelty in India.
A Barodn correspondent of the Bomay
Cr'azeffc furnishes the following relarkable,
and, if true, atrocious par
iculars of a case of cruelty, which, he
nys, has created a profound sensation,
s well it might. It appeal's, says this
uthority, that one of Mulhar Rao's
ourtiers, who was in great favor with
is highness, was looked upon with
ialousy l>y some of his fellow courtiers,
io, to get him into trouble with the
laliarajnh, they reported to his highness
liat the favorite had been casting amor118
glances at the Queen. The poor man
ras then seized under?as I hear it will
e satisfactorily proved?the orders of
Ue Maharajah, and cast into prison,
ipeeial fetters and manacles were forged
jr him. I have seen them. A great
:on bar nearly as thick as your wrist
nd about eighteen inches long, with
liick heavy rings fitting on it for the
ands to go in to secure his arms. These
liings alone weighed twenty-two pounds,
in iron ring of great weight was put
round his neck, and a chain was, I beeve,
attached to it. Huge iron bars
rith rings attached, together weighing
Irirty-ftvo pounds, were fastened to his
?gs, so that it must have been impossi
>le for the poor fellow to walk even a
aril. Ho could neither stand, sit, nor
ie down. I am told the weight of the'
ron attached to his hands must have
een almost always on his chest, and the
ron around his neck must have bent
lis body down so that his sufferings
mist have been terrible. But they disovered
a way of adding to them. For
bout sixteen days they fed him on
liutney made of chillies, and gave him
alt water to drink. At the end of this
ime he died. Every ono who has seen
liese fetters feels sick at tho very thought
>f what this poor wretch must have
offered. All this time there was no
harge made against him, and there is no
eason to suppose that any notice would
ver have been taken of the circumstance
f it had not been for the inquiry which
ins been ordered to bo held.
A Noted Lion.
rn . i:^.. n T. ? ?? .nhi/>h
lilt* 1IUI1 (Mill, Wll^U Sin-* jllDfc UA>ired
nt an eastern innnngorie, had a liis>ry
of its own. He was captured when
wo years old, and, with ouo or two exleptious,
was the largest lion in captiviy.
Ho was twenty-eight years of age,
,nd had resisted every efforted to tame
lim, being nt the time of his death almost
as wild as when tirst captured. At
no time breaking loose, he attacked an
leplmnt, and the elephant threw him
lowu, breaking two of his ribs. During
lis career the lion killed one man and
hirtcen animals, besides seriously inuring
a number of his keepers.
Items of Interest.
Photographs have been obtained in
Paris four feet three inches long by throe
feet four inches in height.
The Smithsonian Institute lias eight
Alaska mummies, taken from a cave on
one of the Aleutian Islands.
The bad boys don't all escape punishment.
There are more than 221,000
schoolteachers in the United States.
A mother asked her little daughter to
do something, and the daughter's reply
was: " A general tiredness pervades
me."
There is to be a foot raoe at Dayton,
Ohio, shortly, between a gentleman of
eighty and a lady of eighty-one. Frisky
children I
The editor of the Manchester Union
concludes hie first letter from Florida:
Yours, truly, in slippers and shirt
sleeves.
The fashionable thing now in cards
for on ovening reception is to have the
words " On spellera' printed on the leftband
corner.
If you are thinking of offering your
hand to a lady, and fear she won't accept
it, as good a time as any is when she is
getting out of a wagon.
Here is a little conundrum for strikers:
Tf. ftja tlipv nlnim. ihov cannot live nn tlie
reduced wages offereitby employers, how
is it that they live without any wages at
all?
A house and born of Calvin B. Bay, of
Bristol, N. H.t were set on flre by
matches, with which the little son of tho
owner was playing. The lad perished in
the flames.
It is not a pleasant spectacle to sec an
able-bodied young man shielding a storo
box from the sun's rays, when a good
horse cau be purchased for $1.60. We
mean a saw-horse.
A member of the Illinois "Legislature
has introduced a bill providing that any
person asking another to drink any intoxicating
liquor shnll be lined not less
tlian $20 and not more than $100.
The Saturday Hevicw is of the opinion
that there is no better sign of the prosperity
of the world than tne liberal incomes
now allowed by the authors of
novels to their heroes and heroines.
A bee tree, discovered in Schuyler
county, N. Y., a short time since, yielded
one hundred and eighty-six pounds of
solid honey and seventeen pounds of
comb and honey.
The population of Denmark and her
possessions in 1874 was 2,003,200, an increase
since 1870 of not quite 100,000.
Of this number 1,884,600 belong to
Denmark, 71,100 to Iceland, 87,700 to
tho Danish Antilles, and 9,800 to Greenland.
" The kind of a woman that I particularly
abhor," says an old bachelor,
ia tliA wifli n aiiirif. nf *liermfnf,inn
in her soul, who picks me ur> on the
point of a sharp sentence as though I
were a dropped stitch in her knitting
work."
A man out West named Jack Be gar
has been sentenced to twenty years imprisonment
and a fine of one hundred
dollars. He has a right to pnt in the
plea tliat since time is money the State
will owe him some change *hen he
comes out.
A young woman in Macoupin county,
111., recently sawed, a cord of wood in
105 minutes, cutting each stick twice.
Pretty and not quite eighteen, sho per
formed this feat because her mother told
her that sho was good for nothing but to
read novels.
A girl screamed in a lecture audience
iu Lafayette, Oregon. Then all the
other girls screamed. General consternation
ensued, and a rush for the doors.
People were bruised, clothes torn, and
the room at length emptied. The first
screamer had seen a rat.
A destitute woman in the suburbs,
being asked by a benevolent visitor what
she needed, said she didn't want to put
anybody out, or be thought to be a complaimng
disposition, but if it was not
asking too much, she would like a lockbox
in the post-office.
The citizens of a quiet Texas town
are somewhat agitated over the discovery
that the $500 which a few of them recently
won from a countryman at a
friendly little game of "bunko" bod
been intrusted to the loser for tho purchase
of lumber for a church.
Miss Lucy Osborn lost her scalp by
accident some months ago, in New Milford,
Conn. Since then over one hundred
pieces of skin taken from her body have
l>een grafted on her head, but very few
of them have retained their vitality, and
Miss Osborne's head is in an unsatisfactory
condition.
The King of Sweden has transmitted
to the Riksdag a proposition, asking for
400,000 Swedish kroner, or about $130,000,
for the worthy representation of
that country at the exhibition in Philadelphia
next year. Last year the Riksdag
ordered about $20,000 to be paid out
for the same purpose.
The Rev. Henry Coggswell, a former
Royal Arch Mason and lecturer in the
order, lias renounced and denonnoed
Freemasonry. At an anti-Masonic convention
in Mansfield, Ohio, he read a
/ l I.A: m ^ii xi AI a
luruitu msuiittuuu ui ail me oains 01
secrecy which he had taken. He said
that he should feel in honor bonnd, however,
to reveal none of the workings of
Masonry.
Bret Harte once worked for his board
up in one of the Sierra valleys, but the
old fellow he lived with thinks he hardly
paid hw way. " Do you see that fenoe?
said the old man to a party of visitors
lately, pointing to a stump-snd-brush
ntViiir around liis garden, "Well, Bret
staid with me two year, an' 'bout all he
done was to help me build that."