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** Vr - *** "*" ~ ' .* ' . ?v * ? ' "V. * ^| * * * . - - ?. ^ ' -' ?+\ '- Si - i THE TRIBUNE <* . VOL. I.--NO. 32. EEAUFOET, S. C.. .TUNE 30, 1875. $2.00 P^R ANNUM. I ' *J or Ago. Tlioy tell mo I'm a man to-day : Tlioy Bay I'm twonty-ono : That twenty years ago last Slay, SIv mother had a son ; They tell 1110 that my boyhood's days Ilavo mingled with the past; They apeak of " hauteur," " manly ways," Of "dignity" and "caste;" Tlioy paint in rarest liuos serene An " honored age," and such? And lead old profligacy in, Assisted by a crutch. m Then farewell, vonth, thon dear old friend, I'm told to leave thee here; But let us in tlio wiueglasa blond The joy, the hope, the fear. The visions wo alone have known, Our chatoaux-en-Espagne. With wisdom's dignity and frown, Itcmembcr I'm a man ; Uemombor I must bid adieu To shallow jo\ s and dreams ; Bat most I d-ead to part with you. A man !?how Htrauge it Bcenis. I But ntill, nietliinUH, there's some mi' take ! ' I mot a friend just then, Who greeted mo with hearty Kliako, And naid, "old boy!" And when I asked him if lie Haw no change, He smiled and asked, "OfbhlrtV" ^ I told him I had come of age; lie asked mo if it hurt. ( I dropped bin hand and turned away, , And to myself I mimed : '.Shall I assume a role to-day To which I am unused V" ] No! Come along ! Old time lias lied, And cheated mo and yon ; AVo'll battle with life's changing tido, ^ And cull her pleasures, too. , We'll laugh old dignity to scorn, j And elap liia rigid face. ] Tit nno to o1in?lr liiVu nlmninrAu horn i There's littlo Btately grace. ! Anil so, vaiu pomp and pride, away, 1 And some one else allure ; They tell me I'm a man to-day, ] Perhaps?I am not sure. 1 i THE SAFE KEY. j In tlio city of New York tliero are 1 many very large and elegant buildings, ' whoso first and second floors are used for ' offices of insurance, banking and other ' companies. In most instances these offi- | 4 ces are fitted up in elegaut and expensive '* stylo. Here clerks work until late in the afternoon, and the rooms are then ' left iu charge of janitors, who come to J put tlio desks and furniture to rights, ! and dust and sweep, and get everything . ready'for another day. In some cases 1 the janitors and their families occupy 1 upper rooms in these buildings, and ' live very comfortably, high up in the J air above the world. The janitor of the East India Buildings lived iu this way. Besides his wife and two girls, ho had ( one son, who used to help him in his i work. This boy's name wos*5achary, or ) " Zack, as lie was commonly ciilleu. i At the time wo introduce liim to the render, there was nothing peculiar about Zack, unless perhaps it was his intense love of reading, and, I am sorry to say, his utter carelessness of his personal appearance. Heading books did not make liim a good sweeper or duster, and his father often scolded him sharply for what ho called his sliiftlessuess. Zack, however, had one friend who sympathized with him, not only in his love of reading, but iu liis boyish disappointments and difliculties. This friend was a middle-aged bookkeeper, named Farley, a thin, pale, weak-voiced man, who worked faithfully for his employers, often staying in the oflice as late as midnight, to make out his accounts and to finish balancing his books. Farley delighted in getting Zack to talk of American history, for ttie boy lovod to read about his own country, and remembered a great deal of what he read. Farley had never given much time to sueh reading. It was pleasant to Bee the gaunt bookkeeper sitting upon liis stool at night, eagerly listening, while the shock-headed Zack, upon another stool, with a silk dusting-cloth iu ono hand, and a feather whisk in the other, related stories of the fights of the Hpaniards with the Indians iif Florida, or described the grand ceremonies that attended the journey of Washington through the country after "the close of the Itovolutionnry wa*. Zack was full of interesting facts relnting to the great i mnn a( fimnci mul P.iwIaw UK'H W1 V/UI lllllVOj UUll X JUinj Ull/Cil >* UI1" dered how it was tliat so little a fellow > came to know so much. In return for i theso entertainments, Parley taught * % Zack many of the small mystories of 1 account-keeping, showed him how to 1 take care of hooks, and various office duties. Zack looked with wonder on t the huge ledgers and journals, and at the mighty sufo, set like a great cup- i board in the walls, large enough for a ? man to walk inside and stand erect. Ho 1 grow to have a sort of affection for the broad white pages of Farley's folios, I with, their beautiful writing and figures. ( At odd hours ho learned to do a great ? deal in the way of nddiug columns and 1 filing papers, while poor Furlev, with 1 his bent back and red eyes, was leaning 1 over his desks and toiling through the < long reckonings, making no sound save 1 the scratcliing of his pen and the laying i down of his pencil. This hard work 1 told upon Farley severely; so much so ' < as oven to cause him to faint at times; and Zoole had more than once revived him by bringing ice water and ammonia, and throwing open the windows for air. Thus the two became fast friends. > Zack took a grout interest in the huge locks on the safe, and two or three times he had happened in in the morning when Farley was alone, and stood by to see him open the one under his care,' He istcned with curious wonder to the iieavy clink of the holts, and the signiicant rattle of the odd-looking key in lie wards, and ho kept his eyes open to ill the straugo maneuvers that seemed necessary to perform the work. One particular part of the unlocking was ividently a secret, for Farley never ex plained it, or said anything about it. After inserting the key ho used to turn the k.nob of the door a certain number of times, apparently counting or calculating as he did so, until the lock seemed to give a muffled signal inside and the loor was easily pulled open. The mystery was in the number. Zaek was sure that this .number was not always the same, and that was all ho could make lilt. The key itself was entirely uuliko any variety of the ordinary form of key, and its use would scarcely be suspected by in uninitiated person. It was of tlio " combination " sort, and was composed if bits of steel, each stamped with a number, and all fastened together with i long slide, which ran through little grooves. The place into which the key fitted "Was arranged to correspond, and whenever it was thought that too many persons in or about the office knew how lih" itejr wiw muuti uji, i-nw onu iiiat una sbarge of tlie safe had only to take the key apart, change the positions of the pieces, and make a similar change in the lock. Then, so long a? ho kept secret the combination, no amount of guess-work would enable a burglar or <ny dishonest person to open the door. Hie closing of the door was a more simple matter, for when once arranged by the numbers, the lock would set itself without the aid of a key. Zack, seeing that Farley was not disposed to explain tho secret of the key, :>f course said nothing about it, and contented himself with trying to understand fully what the good clerk was disposed to explain. Meantime, the boy had to sweep and dust the oflice as ever, and on the nights when Farley stayed late, which lie did usually at tho end of each month, *Zaek hastened his labors in order to get the sooner into his friend's society. On other nights, when Farley left early, Zack was lonely enough, and moped through his task without the slightest enthusiasm. 3>ut he always lusted Farley's desks with the greatest ;nre, aud emptied his waste basket, and denned his pens, and filled his inkitauds, and arranged everything with scrupulous and affectionate neatness. It vexed lnm to discover while moving lbout among these desks a great many ihings that he did not understand, and ibat seemed to bo constantly used by Farley. For instance, there were the Interest tables, and the foreign money ates, and the mercantile agency reports, uid, besides these, all sorts of canceling itamps, and passbooks, and memoranJa, ;liat he could not make head or tail of. lliuirv in iiorii/mlui' nii77ln?l liim ixoessivcly. Ho dropped 11 largo book yliile bo was dusting, and on picking it ip. lie found these words written faintly n pencil at the top of 0110 of the leaves : " The landing of Columbus and the lays o*f the year make the key, Nov. 20, ^809." "What on earth," queried Zack to liraself, "can that mean ?" and he repeated it over and over again. It became taxed in his memory, but 10 solution of it came to hand. It renained a mystery. Occasionally it was ecalied, when he happened to catch light of the book that contained it. He lid not dream that theso words would lave a life-ami death importance by-and>3*6. The writing was the work of Farey, done to aid his memory, and which le had intended sometime to erase. As the winter went on, Farley, though 11 much of the time, continued to initruct his young friend, and Zack, under lis tuition, was initiated into the seirots of double-entry bookkeeping. In ha course of a month or two he masterid most of them, and was proud of his luccess. It seemed, too, to have a beueicial effect upon his personal habits, le took pains to polish his shoes, and o smooth his lia r, and to conduct liimiclf like a gentleman. Though ho still lischarged his duties as sweeper, he wore mold coat and an old straw hat to proect himself from fcho dust. In fact ho aegan to be and feel like a new man, and ic attributed it all to Farley. Poor Farley ! His tasks seemed to jrow more heavy every week, and he jent under them so perceptibly that Sack's heart ached. " Can't you go nway, sir, for a little vhile on a vacation ? asked Zaek one lay. "No, I'm afraid not, Zaek," said Farey " I don't think the officers would et mo." " Then they must bo brutes, that's ill !" cried the boy. "Sh-sli-sh 1" whispered Farley, looking around cautiously. " Don't say mch things, Zaek !" and his thin linnds trembled from sheer nervousness. "I?I wish," said Zaek, hardly able to control hisvoico, "that I knew how to do something for you, sir, you have Jono so much for me. But I can't. I'd like to give you a thousand dollars?and let you go into the country for a year or two?or do all your work for you?or something !" Farley gazed at him with thankful earnestness iu his dim eyes, but made no reply. But Zaek had a chance to help Farley in a way ho little dreamed of. It was late in the afternoon of a bitterly cold day. Tho snow was blowing liorcely without, anil strong inon shivered as tliev danced through the windows into the bleak anil darkening streets. At four o'clock the occupants of the ollloes began to look up their books, and wrap themselves for their homeward walk or ride. Farley was preparing to go home, and tho office boy was assisting him to put away liia folios in the safe, ! and secure everything for the night. : Busy in the gathering darkness, and I supposing that all was ready for the final locking up, the boy shut the great safe ' door and looked about impatiently, ex- j pectiug Farley to tell him he might go. Not seeing Farley, he concluded that he had gone to the closet to wash his hands. After waiting a minute, feeling in a < hurry, he went to look. There was no one in the closet. Perhaps Farley had gone away. No, there hung his coat and muffler and oldfashioned hat. The boy hunted through all the other offices, for he was anxious to go home, and he was never permitted to do so unless Farley gave him permission. The man was missing, no ono could account for him. Two of the officers of the company which employed Farley, elderly gentlemen, were still in the building; and they now came from their private office and joined in tho search. They began to feel some alarm. All at once the boy cried out : " Hark!" A muffled noise, as of some ono pounding, seemed to come from the wall. The three stared at each other in silenee. The noise was repeated, but more faintly The boy niu to tlio safe. The terrible truth flashed upon him that he had shut the door upon Farley. The bolts had springs, and the poor clerk had been locked inside. He cried out in dismay, and turned pale as a ghost. The two gentlemen were in despair. Farley undoubtedly had the safe key in his pocket! "Run, run to the nearest machinist, and call some workmen, quick!" cried the oldest partner. And the frightened boy darted from the office. Tliero were no sounds now from the interior of the safe. Farley must be suffocating. While they waited in an agony of impatience, Zack came into tlio office. Roth the old gentlemen knew howfriendly to each other he and the head clerk were, and seizing upon tlio smallest hope in their distress, they at once told him the situation. "Farley is locked iu the safe. We suppose he has the key iu his pocket! " Zack's heart sank within him. Ho knew that a person could not live long shut up in that stilling place. But he did not lose his presence of mind. He thought rapidly, and began to look about him with all his eyes. It was possible that Farley had not the key in his pocket. He was sure ho had sometimes seen him do that the last thing before he left the office. His desk was still nn1^.^1,^/1 ...An ? iwncu, mitt linn ? iix it lit ill I Ulllfll III hope to Zack. Tho gas hail been lit now, ami with eager haste, the two officers and their young assistant searched among the papers and through the tills. There was no key to bo seen. At that instant tho panting office boy returned, bringing two machinists with drills and sledges. "How long will it take you to force the door ?" "Can't tell. Several hours." There was no chance, then, of getting Farley out alive ! The partners were just ordering the ; smiths to begin their work, when a joyful " Hold 011!" was heard from Zack, who still bent over the open desk. 1 lie had found the key ! 1 Tho old gentlemen reached for it with 1 trembling liaste. They looked at it and 1 groaned. They did not know the combination. Farley changed the numbers i at will, and was not required to com- 1 municato the secret to his employers. ' Only one officer of tho company would < possibly know it, and he was gone far I up town, 1 in tno consternation of the moment Znck's mind was not idle. He had seized the. hint of the penciled words accidentally thrown under his eyes some time ago, about "the landing of Columbus and the days of the year," nud his thoughts wero busy, trying to work it out. The familiar old date gavo him four figures, the days of the year three more. Zack took the key from the passive hand of the senior partner and studied it. An arrangement of the figures occurred to him. It might be tlio right ono but ho dared not say so. J le stepped to the door and inserted the key in the lock. Then he stood a moment looking intently at tlio mysterious knob. There was a scale marked [ around the rim of the revolving guard, I where it fitted the door. Noting carefully its exact position, ho began to turn. | Slowly, once, and again, and again, till ho thought ho had the necessary uurn| bers. i iir.'ii. _ i-i 1. t i-t-.-i ?? mi 11 jJiuyer 111 ins neari, jio wuwaieu the fignro on the scale, nucl listened for j the muffled signal. It came! Zack j trembled bo that he conld hardly stand. Evenrbody in the room stood breath- ' iess. Hie faltering hand prossed the key. It moved softly in tho oiled | tumblers of the lock. Tho groat door . yielded, and swung silently open ! There lay poor Farley, a lifeless heap, with his bald head pressed closo to the door, as if ho had hoped to get some air j there, llut Zack did not seo him. lie, too, had fainted on tho floor. It was nearly an hour before the physi- 1 cian, hurriedly summoned to the spot, restored the unfortunato bookkeeper to consciousness. Then all present stood ready to greet him, and Zack among the rest. It wuh a fearfully narrow escape. Two days afterward Zack sat besido Farley in his chamber at home. Tho old clerk was pale, but a hopeful smile brightened his face. "Zack," said he, "I think now I am in your debt. What can I do for you?" I '?Wo wont talk about that," said Zaek ; " but I waut to knsw if the firm ire going to give you a vacation, or any fair treatment at all ?" "Yea. I start to-morrow to go South, j riioy pay all my expenses, anil my salary ^ goos on i>esiiles." r Zaek jumped up. Ilia eyes lighted R with pleasure. " And you," continued j Farley, " are coming into the office as a y clerk, at three hundred a year." Zaek could not express his surprise * and gratitude ; but in honor of this j, grand turn in the fortunes of both the ^ two friends, they had a little private dinner together that day, and in the ^ course of it I hey toasted the firm in cups j. of chocolate. no relormeu era, sir. " No, it was you that ?litl it, Znck." " No, it was y?ou." "Wrong, Zack, all wrong. Let's compromise. It was our nerves. Mine gave out, ami yours held ou till you made a tirst-rate guess that saved my life."? Youth's Conrpanfon. An Indian Hear Story. A curious bear story, illustrating the peculiar characteristics of the Indian mind, was that of two Crees, who, suddenly surprised by a grizzly,ineffectually discharged their gnus ami rushed to climb the nearest tree for refuge. The tree, as it happened, was a high, naked pole, with but one lateral branch sufficient t<> support the weight of a man. One Indian was able to rest on this branch, but the other was obliged to save ^ himself from the clutch of the monster by hugging the bare tree-trunk in the most painful position, clinging by the hands and knees. Such a position could not long be endured. The poor fellow's strength rapidly gave out, and he burst into tears and lamentation at the thought " of his wife and children, while the callous wretch above him, in safety, laughed and flouted at his agony. At last the 1 fatal moment came, nnd ho abandoned r himself to his fate with stoic resignation. ' Now, as it chanced, at that very instant 1 the grizzly was in so exact a line beneath that our Indian friend, instead of dash- 1 iug upon the hard ground, plunged !' right upon the auimal's back, a catastro- ' phe which so astonished the boar that he rushed in a panic, as hard as his legs e could earrv him. Finding that the enemy hml 110 intention of returning, the second Indian after 41 time descended, and, resuming their guns, the two pro- ' ceeded together to the encampment, whore they both had their home. As 1 they were on the way, the unlucky hunter, tilled with alarm in anticipating the fi ridicule he would meet, with were lifs weakness under prospect of death pro- ? claimed to the tribe, exerted himself in ' the most munificent oilers to his companion, in the hope of purchasing his 8 silence; and he did at length succeed in y extracting a promise of secrecy, but only * by the sacrifice of everything he pos- 11 sensed in the world of theslightest luxury or value. Stripped of all but the bare 1 necessaries of life, the poor fellow " could yet bo happy?his self-respect was saved. (' But, as might be imagined, the man V who could take so base an advantage of * a friend's misfortune was not likely to 8 prove a trustworthy guardian of the , secret he had sworn to preserve. Not j; many months afterward, this worthless ~ villain, as he came staggering through !' the camp in one of his accustomed fits 11 of drunkenness, began loudly to pro- 11 claim the story of his friend's disgrace, Sl and hold him up to the bitterest con- l1 foivmt 11ml riilii>ii1i> ? The outraged Indian went straight ^ into his tent and armed himself with a a loaded gun, then, returning to the place where the knave was utturiug his seauilals, he took aim at him iu sight of all . the people, and shot him through his J' lieart. A Happy Couple. A man should always be a little older, ^ i little braver and a little stronger, a ^ ittlo wiser, and a little more in lovo with v tier than she is with him. u. A woman should always be a little ^ younger, and a little prettier, and a ^ ittle more considerate than her husband. ^ He should bestow upon her all his worldly goods, and she should bike good * we of them, tie may owe her every ^ :ure and tenderness that affection can irompt; but pecuniary indebtedness to n] ler will become a burthen. Hotter live nj >;i a crust that he earns than on a fortuno | ihut she lias brought him. I Neither must be jealous, nor givo the ^ )ther cause for jealousy. Neither must C( mcourage sentimental friendships with he opposite sex. Perfect confidence in u ach other, and reticence concerning v heir mutual affairs, even to members of .neir own t amines, is u lirst necessity. I Q, A wife should dress herself becoming- j ^ j y whenever she expects to meet her i -y Husband's eye. The man should not I jrow slovenly, even ut home. ^ Fault-finding, long arguments, or icoldiugs, ends the happiness that ^ aeginsin kisses and lovcmakiug. Sisters unl brothers may quarrel and " make Q iil>." Lovers aro lovers no longer after uieli disturbances occur, aud married peoplo who aro not lovers arc bound by red-hot chains. If a man admires his wife most in striped calico, slio is sidy y not to wear it. ^ The Cumberland (Md.) News states n that an adopted son of a brother of v Miller, the Millerite preacher, has, ever n since tlio failure of the Millerite predie- f tious, been partly insane, ami a few c days ago was seized with a brain fever r that terminated in his death. The t physicians state that the disease was di- i rectly traceable to the terrible mental < excitement under which the unfortunate i youth labored for many days. ] " (Irandpa." He came along from the East with his ? oil anil his son's wife and three cliil- oni lien, and they ware waiting at the lichigan Southern depot for a trniu. |oa| )no of the children, a boy of thirteen, npr eenied chncked full of ugliness. His ather was np town and his mother's . rord had no effect upon him. He would e louud on the windows, run out doors, a8c nake faces at people and use impudent I ingunge when spoken to. Grandpa, a cri nan of eighty or thereabouts, with mil nowy hair and a cracked voice, watched ] he boy's antics for some time, and be iually said : Th "See here, Helen, do you see liow ] hat boy is acting up ?" ^ej, " Yes, but I can't do anything with lim," she replied. , The old man hobbled across the roem, ook tho boy by the ear, drew him to a HV: lent and saiil : ,? "Sit down there, Milton. Do you vnnt to disgrace us all? Don't 3*011 see ^ he folks alookin' at ye ? If you don't nP piit cuttin' up I liave to dust yer the acket!" me The boy sulked away until the old ] nan left his seat to get a drink of wa- she er, and then Milton slipped out doors, noi I rand pa hobbled out into the freight wo louse, caught him by the diair, and as r le led him back he remarked : " I know what ails ye. Ye are aching ^ or a good training. Everybody out a ^ iVest hero is alookin' at ye, and yer ather's family is to be disgraced through ? . ret conduct!" . "I guess I want to see tilings," growled tlio hoy. "Oh! if I was only thirty years " rouuger!" exclaimed grandpa, as the f?rf ud tried to bite his hand. 'J18 He hung to the boy, sat him down, "it ind the mother said : r. " I guess Milton doesn't feel well." Un "I guess ho want a regular old Vcr- poi nont thrashing?that's what 1 guess!" pre etorted grandpa. "You know I don't of jelieve in maulin' youngsters, but if he \ lon't behave lnssoLf he'll catch it." The boy edged around, dug at the 14 Mastering, and iiually crawled away fh igain and kicked his brother for chuck- ]isj ing over his situation. , " There goes that young man again !" ' sxclaimed the old man, jumping tip.* f. c Come here, sir " " I shan't!" bluntly replied the boy. " Now then, Helen, tell me that that \ toy isn't aching for a thrashing, will J rou?" continued grandpa, turning to the nother. ma "Oh, well, I guess he'll bo good," 001 he replied. " Helen," said the old man as he but- v*c oned his coat, " Solomon was right, and ?' t is my duty to dust that boy's jacket! nei ,Ve are in a land of strangers, and stran- rec [era will judge us by tho way our chil- tlia iron act. We ain't on a farm now, $3? leleu; we're right where, folks can see dra is. Come here, sir ?" ( The boy refused to move, ami grand- 0fts >n cornered him, secured a firm hold on aiu lis collar and pulled him to a seat. c]^, " Now then," ho continued as he sat aw) I own " lav over m v knee, mul if va ? ? 7 ? ?*> ?j ? ? J w u i| rite or kick it'll bo the worse for ye, ami i,e( he louder yo holler the harder I'll the trike!" r He bent Milton over his left knee, lirew his right leg over to hold the boy's eet down, and then and there proceeded t> administer au old fashioned spankng?one that made every woman's Qf ( loath water. The boy howled uutil a ?or core of passengers gathered, but grand- ft gj a wont right along with his work as if ntirely alone. When his elbow ached ' e let up, twisted the boy into a seat Op . nd remarked: 1 " Thar, I'll bet a thousand dollars you feft ?el better!" And it struck all the other passengers *llV ist that way.?Detroit Dree Press* Pn the Ileer Hung Up to Dry. gu* The dried beef is a production of the win Irisons, for which they are indebted to apj leir climate. At the altitude ol their Tin alleys, the air is so dry that for nine mai ninths out of the twelvo meat has no whi mdency to decomposition. Availing bat lemselves of this favorable condition is v ley kill in the autumn the beef and ? ork which they will require in the en- t|a^ ting year. It is slightly salted nnd Rjie ung up to dry. Nothing more is done jja, ) it excent eatinc it. In three or four , lontlis' time it is not only dried, but not so cooked, that is to say, tko air has iven it all the cooking it will ever re- ^j10 uvo. It has become as dry and as wai urd as a board, and internally, of the ~ )lor of an old mahogany table. Ex- , rnally there is nothing to suggest the j ^ lea of meat ; it is covered with cobebs, dust, and mold, and is indis- 5. nguishablo from fragments of the tummies of the sacred bulls taken from ^ le catacombs of the Serapeum at cie! [emphis. When your host brnigs from ^n. is cellar the leg of tho mummy of a iriscon cow, shrunk to the dimensions ^ f the human limb, and tells you that it Rre t to bo your dinner, you are disposed 2,0 5 advise him to take it to the trustees str f the British museum. He is, however, 00i bout to preparo some for your repast, o' nd you watch the process with curi- "" sity. It is a very simple one; the C11T material is cut across the grain with a ^y cry sharp knife in shavings no thicker ev' ban writing pupor. Were it cut tho 0R fmgth of tho flbro it would be as unnanageable in tho mouth as a piece of ar riiipcord, or a fiddlestring. Curiosity wl :>? ouiucuauv niuuiuutru i?v uniXMKtitj, nc or tlio only alternative is tlio meager so :heeso, at last impels you, with many ar nisgivings, ami after much deliberation, tl: .0 carry one of the shavings to your ai south. After a week or two's experi- T ince yon will begin to think that it is ai lot badly flavored, nor unusually re- tl juguont to the proM<m of digestion. lc Items of Interest. Ah!" says the grasshopper, " in on there is strength." Vhen the polioe want to invest in fere they can always find a choioe cor lot. k. Hendricks county (Ind.) man has d of a nail swallowed twenty years . Belgium proposes to punish intended me the same as that actually oomfcted. in Paris the name Duval appears to equivalent to Smith in this country, ere are 4,900 of Ihem. Between an enemy with the worst tuitions, and a friend with the best, ire is but little to choose, it is said that active natures are rarely lancholy. The fellows who have but le life are those who do not want to 9. Che re is some talk of a Summer hotel in the Black Hills, with Bed Cloud as i chief of the hair-dressing departnt. [t is estimated that at least 1,000 sep and lambs have been killed in rthwestern Wisconsin this season by Ives. rhe more stoutly a man protests he'll i a bachelor, the more oertipn you may ?*? 4/\ V*?? woilrlin/v wifViin ui uu in t iMibivu wu nin nuvivuug wi?h?h ivelvemonth. Idttle boys are reminded that it ia sinto steal a ride. When they take sh a thing, they take that which they inot give back. Che post-offices are complaining of the mt number of boxes of grasshoppers it Western sufferers are sending cast ough the mails. [ho production poultry in the ited States is about 260,000,000 uuds annually, worth $5,000,000, the iduct of eggs yielding a like amount money. rha number of persons killed on the lways of Great Britain last year was L25, and the number injured, 5,050. ero were one hundred and thirty colions of trains. ' rhe Legislature of California has wed. a law forbidding any diacriminan against the female teacher in the iter of pay. In future it must be ual salary for eqttrf grade. By the aid of petroleum oil, the Ganain lighthouses and lightships are kintained at a cheaper rate than any in try in the world. Ninety thousand lions of oil were required for the ser:e last year. ray Cooke's country seat, " Ogontz, " ir Philadelphia, was offered at auction :entlyby the trustees. It cost more m 81,000,000, but the upset prioe, >0,000, was not bid, and it was withiwn for private sale. Old cellars are a frnitful source of dise. The drains should be looked to 1 put in order, old barrels removed or nnan/1 ottCww onrAiifinrr fill\or falran ay, and a coat of whitewash, to which uanity of copperas in solation has ni added, be liberally spread upon i whole. There is a hardy fellow at Caen, in rmainly, who has twice saved the lives men in the water at the peril of his n. No notice was taken of these mts. But recently he saved the life i half drowned cat and the " Society the Protection," etc., has given him ilvor medal. L boy recently discharged a catapult a train, in one saloon of which the # ucess of Wales and her children were ted. The bullet went through one of large plate-glass windows without -ting any one, though it startled the ncess and her children, and fell into saloon, causing considerable damage. low would you like to have your ,111- whitened with the bones of men o died for their country? They are mrently having it that way in France. ?y have formed a factory for the nufacture of animal oharooal at Metz, ich is supplied with bones from the tie fields o'ver there. This product ised in refining sugar. 'Yes, you may come again next Sun evening, Horace, dear, but"?and? hesitated, "What^ is it, darling re I given you snv pkin ?" he asked die still remained silent. "You did mean to, I'm sure," she responded, it next time please don't wear one of se collars with points turning out d; tliey scratch so." "he bride-elect of General Sheridan is cribed as a very pretty," rather jollyking girl of nineteen or thereabouts. 1 j is the second daughter of General H. Backer, has been acquainted for rs as a schoolgirl, and later as a so y young lady> with General Sheridan [ the match is considered by mutua aids as eminently suitable. Clio earthquakes in Asia Minor, which reported to have caused the loss of 00 lives, do not appear to have deoyed any towns of note, and probably nirrod at some distance from the cities the seacoast. Large as the loss of > is, it doos not compare with that ised by the great Calabrian earthquake, which 30,000 people wore killed, or on with the slaughter caused by the rthquake of Lisbon. Tlio most hideous women in the world a said to live in the valley of Spiti, iiich is a monnioin-bound, almost incessible place, 12,000 feet above the a, among the Himalaya. Their features o large and coarse, the expression of icir faces is usually a natural grimace, id they bang huge rinps in their noses, hey drees in thick tonics and trousers, id their heaw boots, ccmixur above le knees, ere often filled eroond their 'gs with floor for ifarmth.