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VOL. I.--NO. 32. EEAUFOET, S. C.. .TUNE 30, 1875. $2.00 P^R ANNUM.
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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
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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.