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VOL. I.--NO. 42. BEAUFORT, R. C., SEPTEMBER 8. 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
The Worlds Fair, 1876.
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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
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TIIE SOL TREASURE.
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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
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"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.
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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.