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??' ????? ? ?? THE TRIBUNE. .ty ' . VOL. I.--NO. 42. BEAUFORT, R. C., SEPTEMBER 8. 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM. The Worlds Fair, 1876. <? Colombia, puzzled what she should display, W? Of true homo-make on her Centeunial day, ^ Asked Brother Jonathan: he soratceed his p( head, Whittled awhile reflectively, and said: ch " Your own invention and own making, too ? he Why, any child could tell you what to do : 8ft; Show 'em your oivil service, and explain su How all men's loss is everybody's gain ; lej Show your new patent to increase your rents mi By paying quarters for collecting cents ; ur Show your Hhort cut to cure financial ills By making paper collars current bills ; Show your now bleaching process, cheap and 011 brief, Jj| To wit: a jury chosen by the thief ; Show your State legislatures; show your rings t 8e And challenge Europe to produce such things pj, As high oflicials sitting half in sight go To share the plunder and to fix things right; ye If that don't fetch her, why, you only need To show your latost style in martyrs?Tweed ; va She'll lind it hard to hide hor spiteful tears th At such advance in one poor hundred years." Cv ?J. R. LoroeU. va wl TIIE SOL TREASURE. th Attempt to I'inil an Olil Itnrrnn-?or'? t.olil. fo] I had a certain tuuount of appreciation As for Adrien Graab. He was a handsome he young lUitu, somo ten yea& my junior, til of cheerful disposition and winning man- sra lier. Our inauagor in the insurance wr oflioo, I think, had singled him out for on preferment, so when Atlrien had a slight dr attack of some pulmonary disease, po Adrieji was sent to the West Indies for Or the winter to look up the l^sinoss of a ?t? ship which had been wrecked on one of ?tlui islands. th< On Adrien's return I noticed the man kii was changed. His personal appearance thi was improved, but ho seemed to have ' lost his flow of spirits, and was moody ha at times. As in his yonncrer days I had int been lils mentor, and the recipient of ' nuuiy of his boyish troubles, I had no mr hesitation in unking him what was the mi matter. His name I had ofton taken gr< liberties with, dropping the double a, mi and calling him plain (Jrah. " Adrien (Jrab," I said, " what ails on you?" nat "Graub or Grab," he replied, "it is ' all the same to me. We accept the name dr< according to the circumstances. When tic the family was needy, wo were Grabs." en "You hive not,"! inquired, "boon brooding like an owl over the mysteries bit of your family-trei of late, have you ?" he " Yes, I have," ho replied, though to with a smile. " I fancy you have laugh- pn ed at me many a time about it. But you mi must listen to it again, for I want your Cn advice. In 1712 a Do Graab came here lik to New York from the West Indies, sail- 1 ed heio in his own ship, laden with to- It bacco, rum, and sugar." em "And were neither tailors, nor butchers, nor curriers, but grand gentlemen, mj You have often told mo that before, yo Well, you, Adrion Graab, are fourth clerk in an iusurahoe office. That is rel positive. What then?" is ; " They were De Graabs then. When Ih I was in Curacoa last winter, attending to our business, 1 met an offshoot of the da, family, or rather one of the parent stock, rec lie was the master of many miles of m;i sugar-canes, acres of pine-apples, and ft"1 groves of cocoa-nuts and bananas. He mil liad the family tree in all its details, not till only the root but the uppermost twig, otl The departure of a portion of the family U? from Curacoa to Martinique had been Cli noted. That was in 170G ; but all traces wa of this branch, after that, had been lost tid to him. This planter's name was Ciaes tie van Graab, and he let me into the secrets wa of the family. I do not know if ho was m proud of it, but, by Georgo !' I am ; for tin I think it was the brightest plume, the g<" gaudiest feather, that over ornamented Li the Do Gmab helmet." A "A sorry hat I have seen their repre- tai sentativo wear sometimes," I inter- sti rupted. wi " Laugli as you please ; wo were free- eel hooters, sir; buccaneers, filibusters in ft f the old time. The oldest known Graab tin ?ho was Clues Graab?was one of co: Moutbar's men, and inauy a Spanish m< galloon has my ancestor helped to plnn- nei dor. One Graab?it wwmn lm Hi? eli freebooter's sou?went back to Holland 00 in 1080 and founded a family tlioro. In f?< Cities van Oraab's house, at Curacoa, hu there is tho copy of a picture of him, the original of which hangs in tho Hague, ye Bee here, do you notice this little pondulous apendago to my ear?" ge "This is too absurd! You recall, lat Adrion, tho huckleberry and my long- tu lost brother," I exclaimed, out of pa- iz< tieiice. to " As I livo, that portrait showed, under a stately ruff of Moohlin lace, old Clues, with just such a family ear-mark, rel Aurolia saw it." io " Who is Aurelia ?" I inquired. 1ft' "Claes van Oraab's dnughtcr. Hut flu 110 Do Graab over slid into tho infinite no abyss of nothiug all of a sndden. It was bu a hurrieiiuo first that crippled tho Do mi Oraabs of Now York and devastated their plantation. Then, in revolutionary W times, they showed bad judgment and to sided with the king. Next, tho insur- vii rection of tho slaves, in tho French West Indios, ln-ggared thorn. Graab then, I c'l suppose, did sink into Grab. Wo have tb boon drifting ever since " The man won getting melancholy, tli Now, I had hoard \.drien tell me as much an this fifty times before, save tho find- tli jug of a possible relative in the West to Indies. " Nonsense, my good follow. w' It is the old story, only instead of end- hn iug with a laugh, as you nse to do, yon now close your narrative with a whine." he I have never told you all. That old i? Dutchman in Ouraooa gave me a positive intimation of a treasure, which I have hi followod up." yc I "This is pitiful stuff," I exclaimed. When Dumas died, all Monte Cristo is swallowed up, and the last gold bug izzed out of existence with Edgar >o." " It is not romance. When I was a ild, when asking my father for things i could not afford to!purchase, he would y : ' When your snip is found.' A uken ship has been one of the family jends. Claes van Graab has the ost authentic proofs that such a trease exists. In 1G30 the Sol, from Cnragena to Lisbon, laden with ingots of Id and silver and pieces of eight was ptured, and taken in tow by a ship an cestor or mine commanded. Off tlio and of Curacoa the prize sank, with her treasure. That sueli was the fact evident, because at the close of the veuteentli century William Phipps uined a scheme for the finding of the 1. In 1710, oue hundred and more ars after the loss of the Sol, an attempt is mudo to roseuo tli? treasure. Claes u Graab's grandfather was ruined in a endeavor. The family now in iracoa have kept every record. Claes ii Craab told mo that twenty years ago, ion there was some mighty convulsion the land and sea?some submarine rtliquake?the spot whero that ship, ii Sol, had been wrecked was exposed r an hour or more, and then sank again, i if to tempt us there has been an upaval just over the very spot. Somcues in the surf of the Carribean sea ta.ll fragments of coin?gold pieces, rn thin and abraided?aro washed shore. Here is one," and Adrien bw a tarnished bit of metal from his cket. " More that that. Claes van -nab, at last assured that I am of liis >ok "? " One moment," I interrupted, "and i daughter?will sho acknowledge the iship?does she urge the recovery of is fantastic treasure ?" "Yes?even more tliau.her father. I vo received a lottor from Curacoa urgX my coming to the island." 14 Will Ciaos van Graab furnish the ans?" I inquired. "If thoro is a 11 ion dollars there, even if not at any (at depth under water, it will cost a Uion to get it out." "The ship sank in rocky bottom?not a coral reef?there may be a wash of id over it." "Is, then, this Curacoa planter, to >p from the imaginative to tho praci-.l, willing to risk his money in the terprise V " What he will do 1 do not know. Ho Is me come to him. I should supposo was a man of large means. I regret say, however, that no draft aeconinied his commands. Go to him I ist and will. There is a vessel up for iroeoa?she leaves in a week. I would e to sail in her." " And give up your occupation here I is the height of folly. Have you money rmgn ior your expenses ?" " Hardly. By selling ray trinkets, r watch, I will still want $50. Will u lend it to me ?" " You may perhaps be useful to your ative, if such a thing as relationship possible. You can have the money, turn it at your leisure." \drien left for Curacao within tlio ten ys. Some three months "afterward I :eived a kind letter from tlio young iu inclosing me the borrowed money, d with it came the gift of a case of live birds. Adrien's letter was fourths full about the Sol treasure, and the ior fifth was about Aurelia van Granb. itii the next sugar crop was made, lies van Graub would do nothing. It ,s fully eight months before any more lings came from Curacoa, This time ! crop had been sold. The planter .s putting in new machinery, and the mey was wanted for a Itillieux npparah. Adrien was superintendent and neral manager, with a salary of $2,500. iuo or notiiuig was said about tho Sol. small package came to me, too, con ning a bit of old gold. I was iuucted by Adrieu to have a ring made th the gold, and I was to have a pearl ; in it. Thfc size of tho ring indicated emiuine finger. When the ring wtis ished it was to bo Teturned to Curar. Adrien hoped when next he wrote 5 to bo Aurelia's husband. Adrien j it me, too, one hundred weight of ocolate and a bag of very wonderful iTee. Clues van Graab's health was ible (so said tho letter), and Adrien d entire charge of his business. I lost sight of Adriou for fully five ars, when one day he burst into the ice. Everybody, even tho old mnnar, was glad to seo him, and cougratu,ed him on his good looks and his fornes. Our president deigned to patron^ hiin. When wo wero alone, ho said me : "I am hero for machinery." " More Hugar works?" I inquired. " No ; it is for tho Sol businoss. Aulia was an heiress. My poor old fatherlaw must have all his lifo put aside ge sums of money for tho purpose of tding this Sol treasure. His will, if x. positive in regard to thin wrotched isiness, at least indicates that an effort ust bo made." "The Sol business a wretched ono? hy, Adrien, you have changed your ne. I congratulate you 011 being less nonary than you used to be." " Aurelia is ambitious, and has renowthe question of the wreck. She urges e research. I would to God there Lad ver boon any gold or silver sunk in at treacherous sea. My wifo dreams titles, the purcliaso of on old estate in o Netherlands, believes wo liavo claims the rank of the ohl van Graabs, which altli would purchase. Coloninl life is no charms for my wife. We aro very 3I1 ; no fortune on the island equals rs." I noticed something of chagrin his manner. " For God's sake abandon this gold inting if it is distasteful to you. Have >u no children ?" "Alas, 110110 now. The terrible climate was too much for tlio poor little child wo had. The loss of our son lias changed my wife's character. She is more determined than ever to fiud the treasure. My word is pledged. The engagement ring you had made for me was beaten out of a bit of gold washed ashore from the wreek. Before we were married I had promised Aurelia to seek the Sol. It seems that for two centuries those Curacoa van Graalis have brooded over tlio buccaneer's plunder until it has become a family taint. But to busiuess. I have $200,000 to spend. Should we lose it, sugar will make it up again in a few years. I have made explorations, personal ones. Last year n wrecking company sent me some of their most expert hands. J went down with them. I am familiar with diving apparatus. We have pretty nearly satisfied ourselves as to tlio exact spot. There are traces of ship's timbers, eaten by the worms. A dozen pieces of gold coin, worn thin by abrasion, rewarded our toil. Can you doubt now that the Sol is no myth ? We have hunted the old Dutch and Spanish archives. It was not a million of dollars' worth of silver and gold that went down in the Sol, but six millions. Groping for millions some twenty fathoms under water is terriblo work." j "I should think so, Adrien," I re plied, "especially ns in your younger days your lungs were never overstrong." " 1'shaw. The southern climate has restored me. I am getting used to an amphibious life. If the money is found, my wifo will have her title?as for myself, it will bo some good work of charity I shall found. Now, would you mind, my old friend, helping mo ? My absenco from Now York has been so prolonged that I am ignorant of many tilings. A life of somewhat an indolont character lias dulled, perhaps, my energy. Will you act for me ? It may occupy your afternoons. Lot mo assure you, if I do not presume on your kindness, that I should bo glad to oiler you any remuneration you would think suitable." The proposal was so kindly made that I accepted the position of agent for Adrien. Machinery was built, a tug was purchased, and a contract mado with a company who were to send out to Curacoa competent persons acquainted with submarine work. When all was ready and the last bill paid I declined an urgent appeal on the part of Adrien to accompany him. De Graab left, and my lalmrs ceased when the propeller Aurelia Do G. steamed out of the Narrows. I waited after that for months and months. The managers of the wrecking company could only inform me that the propellor and hands had arrived in safety at CJuracon. At last I received a short note from Adrien. Usually ho wrote the neatest of hands; now the words were scrawled and diflicult to decipher. It read as follows: " Found ! I have iust put ut Aurelia's foot an ingot of gold. Its weight is eighteen pounds. It must have weighed double that 250 years ago. Poor Aurelin! I never told you there had been a passing cloud between us. Her love has returned. The work under the sea is terribly trying. I dare not trust the men out of my sight. It is a delirium of wealth which is like to craze me. I shall write you again. Our success is now beyond a doubt, and only a question of time." It was with a feverish ifhxiety that I watched for another letter. Most a year passed and no tidings came. At last, in an insignificant newspaper paragraph among the scanty fragments of news gleaned from South American sources, I read this : " The Sol expedition in search of a treasure-ship, after a most brilliant opening, has been abandoned. The party are returning via Panama." So it ended. The close of this drama can bo better understood by transcribing a letter Adrieu's wife sent me : " I am alone now in this world. Adrian is uo more. Even the poor consolation of seeing his remains has been denied me. I never can have peace agaiu on earth. The ingot of gold he gave me I send you. Have a crucifix made of it. With whatever is left of the gold have masses said in the city where lie was born for the repose of his soul. The crucifix send to me. In my agony praying before it, I will ask pardon for my sins, for it is I who killed my lius nana." Personal Influence. We have the following illustration of personal influence and personal devotion in the history of the Napoleonic campaigns: When the allied army entered France, a company of polish soldiers forming a part wero engaged in the pillage of private property. A grayixaired old man remonstrated against their action, saying : " When I was a soldier the rights and property of peaceful citizons were respected." The Polish soldiers rudely demanded : "Who are you that dares to reprove us ?" Tho old man answered : "I am Kosciusko." Immediately every cap was off, and on their knees they begged the pardon and blessing of that conquered hero whose misfortuues in the causo of his country, ovoj) more than his valor, were embalmed in every Polish heart. A Walking (Jent. The French " Dramatic Cookery " gives this recipe: How to make a tirst walking gentleman?Take a handsome young fellow out of a dry goods shop, lie must be very vain. Teach him always to thrust out his right arm so as to carry his coat sleeve up to the elbow and to hold his shoulders very square. Teach him that it is better to die than to cut his mustache, and that the study of his part is beneath a man of genius. After several years he will make an oxcellent?insurance agent. Lightning and Some of Its Effects. The last two mouths lmve been remarkable for the number of persona who have been killed or injured.during them by lightning. Statistics in regard to this point are not complete, but those that have been gathered show about one person each day struck by this subtle and powerful agent in various parts of the Union, about half as many having been killed as have been merely injured. Death by lightning is not at any time so rare an occurrence as it is commonly thought to be, but electrical disturbances during the present summer have been greater and moro frequent than usual. The heavens have been at war with the earth with water and lire, and have succeeded in doing much injury to their old antagonist. Floods, hurricanes, and cyclones, hail and lightning have wrought uncommon disaster, and, in not predicting the immediate destruction of the world, persons of a prophetic, seventh-seal, and Millerite tendency have not shown themselves fully aware to the opportunities of the time. The " freaks of lightning" has becomo a common phrase, no other force thnu electricity ever being guilty of such enormous and wonderful yet common departures from their ordinary workings with such terrilic effect. If it were possible for gravitation to indulge ill such freaks ; if there were cosmical storms in which the worlds were sent whirling through space on the instant, knocking their heads together, and then the cosmical sky should clear off, the nebula) roll away, tho central sun shine out and all be lovely again? if this wo possible we should havo to seek homes in Mr. Proctor's " Other Worlds than Ours " for peace and quietness. Lightning can never be counted on to act in any given way ; sometimes it appears as a ball of lire rolling along tho ground and exploding with a terrific noiso or going quietly into the earth ; sometimes it hovers and Hashes elose to tho earth or water ; again, in a zigzag lino it leaps from cloud to cloud or-directly to the earth ; sometimes a man is struck and no lightning is seen ; sometimes it touches a man and gently molts his watch, doing no other harm ; anon it strikes a house, ruus down the chimney and, finding nothing of more importance to do, kindly scuds a poker flying through the window, melts a copper kettle and then runs down a rat hole. Iks favorite maneuver is to tear off tho solo of a man's boot on its passage to tho earth. It has a peculiar effect in hastening tho decay of animal tissue, and not infrequently tho person who is killed by it is almost instantly so far putrefied that he has .to l>e buried at once. It is said, though with what truth we know not, that in the eye of a person struck and killed by tho discharge there is always a peculiar spot 011 the eyeball, produced by tho oxtravozatiou of blood caused by tho sudden expansion and rupture of minute blood vessels. It was once supposed that neighboring trees were sometimes photographed 011 the body of tho person struck, but recently it lias boen sliown that the appearance of the tree is but the common aborization of electricity which every one who has noticed a highly charged Leyden jar has seen, as the electricity escapes into tho air or licks around to the tinfoil on tho outside. Tho same effect may be obtained by discharging lightning over a sheet of glass 011 which steam has been condensed. The safest place during a thunder-storm is in the center of n room, and if one is very nervous he may put tumblers under the legs of the chair on which he sits, for electricity always seeks the path of tho least resistance. The French Zouaves. These regiments servo in Africa and nowhere else. They may, in the event of war?as was the case in tho Italian and the Franco-German campaigns?be called upon to take the Held elsewhere, but only for a season. So soon as peace is proclaimed they havo a right to demaud being sent back to Algeria. The men are nearly all volunteers. Tho olli cers can oxouange wim tneir comrades in tlio lino corps, but as a rule it is fountl that in all ranks thoso -\vlio make the best soldiers for Algeria are of little or no use in homo garrisons, and generally seek ere long to return to the wilder life of Africa. In the ranks of these French Algerian corps are to be found a class oi volunteers who shun service in Franco, but who make the very best soldiers for the work they have in Africa. There are men who have failed in life?young men of good family who havo run through their means, who cannot dig, who are ashamed to beg, and would bo almost more ashamed to enlist in a regiment serving in their nativo land. As a mat* tor of course a certain portion of these men go from bad to worse; but as a rule they reform, throw all their energies into their now career, and after some years obtain commissions in tho army. very lew yearn ago there was iu tht French aervico no fewer than two marshals, six generals of division, ten generals of brigade, and some sixty colonels who had gone through this ordeal.? Eraser's Magazine. An Unfortunate Smuggler. A man engaged in smuggling tolmcci into Franco recently clothed himsell from neck to foot with tobacco leaves, and then put on his ordinary garments. The weather was very hot, and he had some distance to walk before crossing tho frontier; so ho got into a violent perspiration, which resulted in such an absorption through the skin of the poisonous qualities of the fragrant weed that tho poor smuggler was taken ill on tho way, was caught by tho customhouse omoors, and now lies in a dying stato. THE AMATEUR ENURAYER ; Or, the IlrmtlnK to nn AdTrrtUrarnt. A few years since tlxo writer of the following' sketch was one of the editors and proprietors of a daily and weekly newspaper, published in one of the large towns in western New York. Among the numerous patrons of the paper was s man whom I shall describe as Levi Lapp, a carpenter by trade, and a verj clever man in his way, but as the sequel shows, entirely unacquainted with the art which claims as its shining lights tin names of Gutteuberg and Faust. Having considerable ingenuity as wel as business qualities, Mr. ILapp had re cently purchased the right to manufac ture a patent pump, which ho was veiy desirous of introducing to the public through the columns of our paper. Iu other words, he wanted to advertise it, 1 and, in the courso of conversation aboui the price and other details, mentioned tc me tlint lie would liko a cut of liis new pump inserted as a heading to his adver tiscment. I replied, " Very well," and 1 immediately asked, 44 Have you the cui hero ?" He replied, " No, but I have got ono at my house, aud will bring if in." He said to mc: "Now you can pet in my cut, and do so at once, for I wish tc see it in print in your paper." " Where is your cut ?" I asked. " On the bill," ho replied, with all the 1 seriousness of a post-captain. I then told him that it would require a block of wood cut by an engraver in the shape aud likeness of a pump ; that this was called a cut or engraving, and that it would have to be used in the press in connection with the types, to make up such an advertisement as he desired. 1 told him who could tlo the job, and the probable expense?some fifteen or twenty dollars. A bright idea appeared to influence Mr. Lapp, and ho informed me that he thought he could do tho job himself, and save just so much outlay. I told him if ho could it would suit mo equally as well; but I thought he would find.it a trifle difficult. We separated, and I saw no more of Levi Lapp for several weeks. In fact, I had forgotten nil about the matter. One momintr lirifrhf. ixrwl * !xr oa T t?ma L?on OJ -,-0 ? ,r , * "?? at tho deski iu came Mr. Lapp in a great blnater ami hurry. He quickly explained himself, and said he had his cut finished, and had brought it as a heading to liis advertisement. ' I said?" Very well; where is it ?" 1 He answered?" Down stairs." Without giving the matter a momont'i ' thought, I said to him : ".Ilringit up.' And lio instantly left the room for that purpose. His bock was hardly turned, how over, boforc tho thought struck mo that he had rather a huge engraving for a paper of limited size like ours. And calling to the foroman to see if I was not correct in my opinion, I turned again to the desk. 1 The foreman was back in an instant, and I was soon aware that Levi Lapp's bright idea had grown into giant propor1 tions, and that the engraviug or cut he had brought for our press was no less ' than a veritable wood pump of full size, even to tho pump-log, chain, crank and 1 water-spout. Lapp was proceeding to bring his 1 " extended cut" into our establishment, but at that very moment was deterred 1 from executing his plan by the shouts and laughter of the entire printing office force, including the devil himself, who otuod at the window making merry at liia expense. 1 The true condition of affairs slowly dawned upon Mr. Lapp's vision ; and when informed that he had made a much larger " cut " than the present condition of the art preservative would justify, he hurriedly replaced his " engraving " on 1 the wagon that brought it to our door, and drovo oil', evidently making a greater impression in this way than the pump could, by any possibility, have made in 1 our limited establishment. I The Antiquity of Invention, To Noah is attributed the invention of wine, 2347 B. C. Ale was known af | least 40-4 B. C., and beer is mentioned by Xenopliou 401 B. O. Backgammon, the most ancient of our games, was invented by Palamedos, of Greece, 1224. ; Chess is of a later date, and originated six hundred and eighty years before tht Christian era. The first circus was built by Tarquin, 005 B. C., and theat rical representations took place as lonf ago as 502 B. C. The first tragody rep | resented was written by Thepis, 536 B C. So it seems that the ancients wort ' not as destitute of amusements as one ' would suppose. Is it not possible thai the great philosopher, Socrates, delight od in chess ? that Sophocles amused hii little friends by taking them to see the ' gladiators and tragodians ? and that evoi the immortal Homer could nlnv n. fail , game of backgammon ? As for musical instruments, tliey possessed the psaltery, harp, flute, and that moHt ancient iustru. ment, the cymbal, which is spoken of as long ago as 1580 B. C. Tho llute was the invention of Hayaginus, 1506 B. O. Organs wore invented by Arcliimides, 220 B. C., and Nero played upon the melodious bagpipe 51 A. D. > r Ninth Ahmy Conrs.?Tho ninth annual reunion of tho socioty of tho armj I of the Cumberland will be held at tlu ; opera house, Utiea, N. Y., on Wodnes; day and Thursday, tho 15th and 16th of i Soptember. The socioty includes overj i oflieer and soldier who lias at any time I served with honor in the army or depart i ment of the Cumberland. Tho exocu tive committeo invite members of otliei ; oorps to unite with them on tho occa sion. Items of Interest. To prevent short weight in coal?Put more in the cart. It doesn't take long for a man with a little mind to make it np. 1 The aggregate population of the earth, ' is now set at 1,391,032,000. | They say that the widowers aro the r jolliest looking men at Saratoga. I Benjamin Franklin said he could tell ; a nice woman by the way she kneaded , dough. An Indiana newspaper mildly but firml ly protests against putting a two dollar - collar on a twenty-five cent dog. Franco keeps a ship of war at Ajaccio r constantly at the order of the Pope, in ' case he Bnonld desire to leave Romo. 1 The 1,150 Mormon recruits lately passing through Chicago are described ' as dirty, ragged, and mostly middle-aged ' mnii on/1 ImmAlw mvu wuu uviuoij ITVlUOii* The man who made strawberry shortl cake in a Chicago restaurant was bo ttn. equaled in his business that he received a I salary of $350 per week during the seal son. A father has filed a notice under tho [ Adair law with the clerk of Omllioothe, i Ohio, wattling saloon keepers not to sell intoxicating liquors to his daughtor and two sons. i Aocording to the Inter-Ocean thero are 25,000 young men in Chicago who > can't afford to marry. And wove no > doubt that 25,000 young women are all > the happier on that aooount. ' Late advices from the Sandwhich 1 islands state that whisky, opium and ! concubinago are carrying off the population so rapidly that natives will be few | and for between in a short time. There is a centennial bed rope. Chas. ! CroEsman, of Brunswick, Me., has it. It 't is mode of whale's sinews, and has never bceiwtaken out of the bedstead since it I was first set up, a hundred years ago. i *A migratory sheep raiser in Beatrice, , Neb., has a flock of eight hundred sheep. His home is on wheels, and with Ins ' family he moves from place to place, wherever ho can find good grazing lands. \ " There's $500 of hard-earned money ' in that dress," said Smith, as he watch' ed Mrs. S. mincing along, before hinr. "'Which explains, remarked his friend, | " why money is so tight." Smith wept. Mrs. Joseph Custer of Woroester. Penn., stung by a bee, died a few days after, her arm swelling to the shoulder, 3 and a yellowish liquid being discharged ' from it in several plaoea where it broke ; out. The suggestion of a fear that Stanley - may have been caught and eaten t by a cannibal, provokes from the Louis - ville Courier-Journal the response that nnhndw rtarao wkaf WWV.J vwvm niUW uauuvunvu a Willi* bal." The losi by destruction of crops through the recent floods hnd rains in the United States will amount to about ' the same as the loss by the Chicago fire; ' in round numbers, two hundred millions ! of dollars. The Milwaukee circuit court has dono something of which it ma^weii be proud, having cheerfully consented to ohange i the name of Mr. Charles Ignatius Syolyepanklieweez, of that city, to Charles Ignatius Engel. i The United States Centennial oomi mittee has resolved -to refuse space to i private exhibitors whose governments, , like those of Russia and Italy, have declined to take official reoogAition of the international exhibition. Another instance of the decline of British justice is found in the fate of an Englishman who recently appropriated another man's umbrella on a rainy day, and has, since been sentenoed to threo months imprisonment by a London magistrate. There are over 2,700 varieties of apples known by over 1,800 names, 2,200 of pears, 200 of oherries, 150 of ploms, 3(X) of our native grapes, fifty of currants, eighty of raspberries, and thirty of blackborries, according to a counting up i of somebody. " Better put on your overcoat," she [ said, as he was starting for down town, "it will surely rain before night." "Not a bit, my dear." But look at those driv: ing clonds !" " Oh, pshaw, that's only [ flying scud." " Very well," she rejoin5 ed, " but you'll find it will be sky-ing 1 flood before dark." ' Twenty-six years ago when a Bohemian [ Jew wished to stop at the mining town of Prizbram, in Bohemia, he oomd stop j for two hours only. He oould not stay ) longer without obtaining official pbrmis l sion. At present there is in the town a well-conducted Jewish congregation, ' which has the good will of tho christian t residents. Introducing Yellow Fever. The Pensacola correspondent of the Atlanta Herald writes as follows, con, corning tho ravages ot tho yellow fever ; at r on narrancas : mo disease lias been definitely ascertained to liave had its origin from the baJk Von Moltke, which , put iuto the port in distress, her crew being down with tho fever. She, it seems, as is customary, was boarded while out of sight of land, by a pilot, and by him brought over tho bar. Dis' covering yellow fever on board of her, ? lie slipped off and wont ashore, and thence proceeded to his house, imf mediately adjoining barrancas. Having f been in close contact with the sick crew i for a number of hours, he of course car ricd the disease to the land in his cloth ing. As soon as it was ascertained that r ho had been on board tho Von Moltke - ho was straightway sent to quarantine, where he will remain until fro*t oomes.