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__ ' THE TRIBUNE. Y0L. I.--NO. 44. REAUFORT, S. C., SEPTEM HER 22, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM. _ , In the Shelter of the Fold. There wore ninoty and nino that safely lay ' In the shelter of the fold ; But one was out on the hills away Far off from the gates of gold. Away on the mountains wild and bare, i Away from the tender Shepherd's care. j "Lord, Thou hast hero Thy ninety and nino ; Aro they not enough for Thee ?" Bui the Shepherd made answer: "This of ( mine Has waildered away from me ; And althongli the road be rough and steep, I I go to the desert ts find my sheep." j But none of the ransomed over knew j How deep were the waters crossed ; , Nor how dark was the night that the Lord passed through, I 'Ero Ho found His sheep that was lost. Out in the desert He heard its cry, Hio.lr an 1 linlnlnao o??*1 ' ??? ??v ..V.J.IVO.7, Muu i vaUJ (.U UIO. I "Lord, whonce aro thoso blood tracks all the way That mark out tho mountain's track ?" " Thoy wore shod for one who had gone astray 'Ere tho Shepherd could bring him back." tl Lord, whence are Thy handB so rent and torn V" " Thoy are pierced to-night by many a thorn.' And all thro' tho .mountains, thunder riven, And up from the rocky steep, Tiiore rose a ory to the gate of heaven, " Kejoioe ! I have found my sheep !" And tho angels echoed around the throne, " Rojoico ! for the Lord briugs back His own !" ?Moody awl Sankey's Hymn. "WILD ROSE OF CAPE COD. Nearly nil the roses in Massachusetts uro born iu June, but Wild, the little daughter of John Rose, was born in l^ecember. and on C!nr>? C!nrl. ton Well, 011 Capo Cod, as I said, Wild ' Rose was born ; but tliat was twelve ' years ago, so, this last December, was celebrated lier twelfth birthday. It 1 wasn't much of a celebration, to be sure, 1 for there weron't many persons to cele- 1 brate it?only Mrs. Rose and Johnny, 1 and Wild herself, for Captain Rose was 1 gono on a fishing trip. 1 At tea that night there was upon the table a big load of ginger-cake?frosted, 1 too?aud around about it?not on it, ( mind you?twelve small tallow candles. 1 41 Twelve dips," Johnny said, " that 1 made as much light as the Highland it- 1 self." And Johnny ought to know, for \ the keeper of Cape Cod light is a great 1 friend of Johnny's and often in summer 1 lets the lad go up with him to see him J "light up." This Highland light stands out on the I blenk cape, and is oftentimes the first i light that greets the sight of seamen i when approaching the coast of New England from over the Atlantic ocean. j Even in summer the wind blows so hard at the Highland that it blows the t wings of yonug turkeys over their heads, < and in winter it blows nobody knows how hard. 1 I am quite certain you never saw a 1 homo like Wild Rose's home. It is hidden away in the very bottom of a big 1 hollow in the sand, and is protected on 1 all sides by a high fence to keep the sand from covering it up. In the first 1 place the house had been built upon 1 spiles driven into the sand, but the I?>nco wag uftorwards added, and outside 1 of the fence was a barricade of seaweed, i Over the stilts, fence, sea-weed and all I was the fisherman's cabin, as snug and warm and comfortable as anywhere on i Capo Cod could be. Not far away on the Atlantic coast was a charity house, ] not a poorhouso where poor folks could I go and livo when they hadn't anywhere else to live, but a rude room, inclosed i by a rude outside, into which a poor ^ shipwrecked mariner might crawl and i possibly keep himself from freezing to ? death until help should arrive. Wood i and matches and straw are supposed to bo kept in every charity house along the coast. I Johnny Rose was two years younger 1 than his only sister Wild, but a ton- 1 year-old lad on Cape Cod knows more of the sea and ships and fishing than the < wipesi grown-up man in the world who lives inland. The Little Katie was Captain Rose's 1 fishing schrtoner, and the Little Katie was frozen fast in the ice right ill sight < from the laud up the bank above the cabin. Two weeks passed by and still the ice held the fishing boats and would not let them go. Stout little steam tugs ] went rasping away with firm bows and good intent at the ice day after day in order to break it up and tow the boats I out of danger, but the cold came down stronger than ever and knit the ice i cake - firmer and firmer. Every day, Johnny, bundled up until he looked like < I don't know what, made the toilsome journey over to the Highland to look I through the "glass" at his father's < scnooner, ami, every ingnt ior two 1 weeks, with a faoe on liro from the fric- i tion of the wind, he came back with the good news, " No signal up yet." ' "No signal up yet " meant that there j was still something left to eat and wood I to burn 011 the Little Katie, and hopes I also of gutting free of the ice without ? sinking. 1 Now and then a neighhor came down into the hollow and walked in without ! knocking at tho cabin door, to inquire 1 how Mrs. Rose was getting on, and to say yet again: "Cape Cod has seen harder times than this, Mrs. Rose. 1 Keep up a stout heart, and we'll hnvo 1 the fleet safo into Providence harbor be- l fore many days." And then Mrs. Rose would put on a bright look and say, in a cheery voice, " Oh, I hope so," but in her heart she feared all tilings, for did she not know that every dwelling on Cape Cod had its widow sooner o later ?" At last there came a dav when Mrs Roso said that Wild miglit go to th? light with Johnny to learn tlio news. The two children set off iu high glee The sky was clear, and the wind wai blowing from the west. The Highlant lighthouse was not more than a mil< away, and what could happen to tin children ? Nevertheless, Mrs. ltos< gave them many commands. Thei were to return as soon as they found ou what news from Little Katie, and. if i should biiow, they were to go back o; forward, whichever way should be tin nearer, and, if near the coast, they en to go to the charity house iu tlio bauk and wait there for rescue. The wind helped them on tlier way and, to write the exact truth, blew st hard and so fast, that it camo very neai blowing thorn past tho lighthouse ove; the high bauk into the ocean. " It's a tough day, a tough day, evei for the Cape," ssid the lightkeeper, whei they reached the lighthouse, "and tin boats have drifted, Johnny. For tin tho life of me, I can't make out tho Lit tie Katie." Hut Johnny made her oul without the slightest difficulty. O; Bourse ho did 1 Does not every Cap< Cod boy know his father's boat ? Mon than all, there hung the signal of dis tress. The light-keeper saw it, and Wilt looked at it, and Johnny looked again ffld declared that: " Come what would he'd get out there, and find out what tin matter was." Then the glass was put away, ant they all went down, and the children thoroughly warmed, started for home. A little cloud over Cape Cod bay grev ind came nearer and spread more ant more, and at last began to drop dowi like white snow on the sand. " Come ! pitch into it as fast as yot Ban while we can see," said Johnny, seizing Wild's hand and bowing-to tlit wi ud. "We're three-quarters home ant we'll make it iu no timo." It was not dark, and Johnny know tin land marks well. Here a bnneli of nnv arty grass and there a forlorn clump o bayberry, whose outlines he knew jus is he knew the outlines of the boats anc jails, served to guide him when the oil was thick with snow. "We're lost!" said Wild, pulling back and trying to stop Johnny; but tin sturdy little fellow declared that thej wern't-lost at all; didn't he know a! ibout it? Hadn't lie "fogged" it mam l time to the light and back ? Why there, right ahead, was a polo that h< knew. Of course it was, right on top o borne; and there was mother calling tlii minute, not fifty feet away. All of which statements were quit true ; and in five minutes they were saf< in the cabin, and had told their newi from the ice bound boats. "Nothing to eat, maybo, and cold perhaps. Not sick, I hope," said Mrs wild ; and then, in rather -a dismal way die set forth the little table for tliei; evening meal. " I should think you'd feel gladde: ibout our getting homo Bafe, mother,' laid Wild ; " for just see how it snows.' " I am," said Mrs. Wild ; " but I wai dunking of some way to help you: father." "Do you think there is a way?" askei Wild. " You know the boats can't ge there, and the ice isn't safe." " If I was God," said Johnny, " I'< fetch a big wind along that 'ud cracl ;liat ice up small as fisli scales in u< time." "Yes, and sink every boat in no time !' suggested Wild, with scorn. "Oh, dear 1" said Johnny, "I gues [ was in too much of a hurry ; but some thing's got to be done!" The wind had boen blowing two hour liter dark, ana tlie snow and sand wen whirling abont in a long, ronud dance iftor the fashion of Capo Cod sand an< mow, when Wild called ont of the dark less to Johnny: " Are you asleep t" Johnny guessed he wssn't asleep, al bough he had been fast asleep whei Wild's voice reached him, and waute< Jo know what was the matter. 'I've thought of away, I guess, w san reaeh the Little Katie, Johnny." " How ?" Johnny was up in the bed, leaning oi lis hands, interested, in a moment. "You know that big hank of net-twin^ >f father's ?" " What of it ?" with disappointment " Don't you believe 'twould reach ?" " Whoso goin' to reach it, I shouli ,ike to know ?" " When the wind blows right"? "What, then, Wild Roso ? Are yoi talking in your sleep ?" "Send a kite over!" suggested Wild aot heeding the interruption. "Whew !" exclaimed Jhhnny, sinking lown into his warm bed again. He didn't speak, and poor Wih thought ho held her scheme in oxtrenn ierision ; nevertheless, Johnny wa .1. -/i? ? ^uuiniug, oveu uner mo tiibUJr wai ileeping. The next day it snowed all day rhere was no chance to hear one won From the fishing fleet. Johnny declare! that he must go to the nearest neigh bor's house. He know the way wel snougli; but it was after nine o'clocl before he set forth. Presently he returned wit'n his friend Peter Petit, and the two lads spent tin morning, with barred door, in Captoii Itose's net-room. Wild peeped into the place when tin boys were out of it eatiug tlioir dinner and beheld, to her amazoinont, the skole ton of a lingo kite. "Oh, Johnny! aro you going to tr it ?" she cried, running out to liini. At first, Johnny was vexed that sin had found it out, buj in a minute or tw< he was all over the pot, and was in higl r glee when Wild and her mother joined in the work. An hoar before the sun . went down across the bay, the kite was 0 done and the snow ceased to fall. It was too late to go to the Highland light to . see the signal on the Little Katie ; it was s too late to do anything with the kito, 1 even had the wind been right. 0 The ue\t morning the wind blew just a right, and almost at the break of day 0 the boyV set forth, accompanied by live p or six men, for idlers are always to be t found cu Cape Cod iu winter. t The kito was made of good stout par per, and was covered with messages to 9 the captain of the Little Katie, or any 3 other captain over whoso boat it might , chance to fall, or get entangled. The wind was ofl shoro, and away went the , kite, the men paying ontthe seine twine; ) but alas! the kite went high above the r boats and did not roach them. It was r cold work flying kite on the awful icebound shore, but the novelty of it 1 brought a crowd of men to tho spot. To l their own surprise they entered into tho 3 work with spirit, but every attempt that 3 morning failed. Tho kite fell short, or - flew too high, or wont off in the wrong t direction. f " Run home, laddies, and get your 3 dinner, and get warm clear through 3 your bones," said one of the men to - Johnny and Peter, about eleven of the 1 clock, "and we'll see what can be done , with the kite this afternoon." , When Johnny reached home he de3 clared that he wasn't cold the least bit, nor hungry the least atom, but ho sat in 1 front of a blazing drift-wood fire and , ate like a giant, and got up to go to the coast again. Wild didn't Beo why she couldn't go, too. It was her fathor just as much as Johnny's, and sho cared as much about tho Littlo Katie as any of them diil. And so Wild, bundled up until all resemblance to a twelve-year-old girl was lost, set forth, toiling through the snow and sand to the coast. At a short distance in the rear, Mrs. Wild followed on. It seemed to her, as Bhe Jrew near tho shore, that half the inhabitants of the next village were gatli, ered to see the flying of a kite. It was just ready to start on its over-ice journey when Wild came upon the sceno. 44 Don't you see, there won't be anything to catch hold of ?" she said to Johnny. 44 Catch hold of?" repeated Johnny, who #felt that he could not, in justice, despite Wild's suggestions any more. 44 I'll show you," she said, 44 if you'll hold on a minute. Tie some long strings, now and then, near the kite, that will s hang down." The strings were tied on, half a dozen s of them, at intervals, and away went e tho kite, with more 44 string to it," than s any other kite that ever flew. 44 Twon't reach ! It flies too high ! , No go ? Let out! Give it string I . Hurrah 1" as the kite seeming to meet , wind in another current began to flutter, r turn, and actuallv did fall on the ice within reaching distance of tlie Little r Katie's crew. ' Then such a shout as went up from '* tlio Cape Cod shore, for, was there not a 3 line fast from one of the ice-bound boats r to the firm old mainland, and did it not mean tbat bread at least could be drawn 1 across the frozen sea to thd famishing ? t Tho men on the Littlo Katio wero pulling in the kite, which looked a good 1 deal worn, but still tlioy gathered around ? it, and read in Johnny's boy-hand tho *> words : ' If you get the kite, don't pull in the string, for we'll put something to " eat on it if you are hungry, and you can pull it over. Everybody's well over 8 here. Wild and Johnny." i- Captain Roso read the words, and then he and his crew tried to shout back, but b tho wind carried their voices across tho o bay. , Within tho next twenty Jour hours tho .1 cord had been doubled, and food in small packages went along the novel roadway from hour to hour, until miles of seine twino lay on the deck of tlio [- Little Katie, and many loaves of bread, a with small packages of "salt meat," .1 sugar, tea and coffee, had been secured from the sea. o The next morning the wind blew again on Capo Cod. The inhabitants were on the watch for the kite, and, lo I it was a seen rising in the air. On, on, it came. It sailed over the heads of the group on 0 shore ; it went right across the "Wrist" of Capo Cou. It would have gono out ,. upon the ocean, but for the Highland lighthouse, that caught and held the 1 great fluttering bird of man. Wild and Jolinny were the first to reach the light and cry out "What a news?" to the keeper, who had just succeeded in recovering the batterod kite. , " Come and see with your young eyes." Wild and Johnny found the 5 words: "We had had nothing to eat for two days. Now we'll weather the ice, 1 God willing, and get in all right. We've a supplied the Mary from our stores." s And there, right at the door, the firsts comers, who had followed the kite, were Mrs. Rose and the friends of tho men . of the Mary. 1 "Whose idea was the kite?" asked an 1 old fisherman. - ' " Wild's," shouted Johnny. 1 [ "Johnny made it though. I couldn't i inako ft kite," paid Wild; but not a soul sftvo Johnny heard her, for the wild air about tho light was ringing with the a shout of "Long livo Wild ltoso of Cape ! Cod!" 9 Coarse plug tobacco made Into a , strong solution, will, in two or three - applications, kill ringworm. An equally sure remedy for this disease, mange in P animals, or itch, is equal parts of blue precipitate, soft soap and lard, mixed, a rubbed in and kept on over night J washing off with castile soap and warm i water in tho morning. Insanity in tlie Sexes. A contributor to Popular Science Monthly says : We obtained an idea of lovo differentially as it exists in tho sexes by observing the degreo to which it affects men and women as a probable cause of insanity. In the same manner, I think, wo can gain a knowledge of the comparative intensity with which emotions and states of consciousness, common to both sexes, exist in intellection, by observing the extent to which they react as a probable cause of mental alienation. For my purpose I shall use Dr. Kirkbrido's report for the Pennsylvania hospital for the insane. The analysis is based upon tho supposed causes of iusauity in 6,899 cases. Domestic voluo, to his heirs, remarking coolly that '' means would be found to eay*y his intentions into effect." Mallett: Ay, I remember the fact very well, and I remember also that means were found, and that a large sum was raised by public subscription to pay off his debts and carry his intentions into effect. I wonder if the public would do that for us? Belton : Immediately after his death a statute was proposed to bo erected to him, and, in view of the debts ho owed, Outis suggested that it should b?* cast in brass from tho aars alievo ho left. Mallett : Bravo ! And I believe it was the same person who remarked on hearing that this same great person ago had paid tho debt of natnre : " Thank God 1 It is the only debt I over know him to pay." Detroit Free Press CiirrencyTlie mosquitoes haven't put in a very profitable season thus far. Thn?a ,1/xI.^aa .1 11- 1 uuicuicies are 1110 proDaDie causes 01 mental diseaso in forty-Beven men and eighty-six women. Nearly two to one expresses the difference in intensity in the action of this cause. Fright resulted in insanity in sixteen men and thirtysix women ; grief affected soventy-seven men and two hundred and fifty-six womon, a difference of more than three to ono ; religious excitement acts as the cause in seventy-nine men and one nundred and twenty-seven women, a difference of sixty-two per cent. ; nostalgia, seven women and no men ; from mental anxiety there are one hundred and sixtyfour men and two hundred and sixty-one womon insane. These causes, which present such dissimilarity, have one band of union ; they affect the emotional part of the physical nature. From this I would not conclude that women are loss able to bear the operation of theso exciting causes than men; but that the emotional nature of women is more largely developed, and thus more exposed to the action of such causey as directly affect it. If I am right in this, W3 would expect to see in women the emotionnl forms of insanity devoloped in excess of the same in men ; and this is just what we find. Continuing to an myze iuo uiuie.s oi ut. narKunue relating to the same cases as above, we find the number of women to be 3,220, the number of men exceeding them by 459 ; and yet thero are 1,032 cases of malancholia among the women to 832 in men. Prof. Maudsley defines this form of in sanity as " great oppression of their self-feeling, with corresponding gloomy, morbid ideas." Loud Manners toward Ladies. Recent events, says a writer, liavo called public attention to the intimate relation of morals and manners. It may be said that there is no greater peril to morality than much that is called merely free and easy manners. Young men, and even young women, permit themselves a freedom and license of manner which, having all the aspect of impropriety, may very readily acquire its substance. Edward addresses Emily with a loud and jesting intimacy of tone and conduct, which might bo expected in the sailor saloons, but which is repulsive and odious in the drawing-room or among refined or gentle persons. Edward and Emily would be amazed to be told that they have not the manners of a gentleman or of a lady. They think that they above all others know what is the rule of high society. But they are merely vulgar, and have the manners of those who aro worse than merely vulgar. Coarseness cannot be gilded into refinement. The young woman who habitually calls her young friends of the other sex by their Christian names, or who suffers anything that can bo called familiarity, although it fall short of actual indecorum, should reflect carefully. "Sir," said a lady to a policeman who took her elbow to pass her over the street, "if I wish you to touch me I will ask you." No woman of a high sense of personal dignity wishes any man to lay his hand upon her thoughtlessly or unnecessarily. Nor will such a woman permit any kind of rudeness in the tone or manner of men. The Vineland Case. Mr. Carruth, the editor who was shot, and his family have returned to Vinelaud, N. J. Carruth, says a correspondent, has become very corpulent and looks remarkably woll. His sight is very much impaired, and he has to move his head to cover the width of a newspaper column. Ho thinks the ball is lodged behind his right eye, and if it should trouble him seriously in that region he intends to have the eye taken out, so that the ball may bo sought through the socket. He can walk or ride without much inconvenience, but exertion is invariably followed by loss of strength. In addition to the thirteen acres of land which ho owns in Vineland, and which is free from incumbrance, he owns property in Wisconsin. Ho is determined to spend tlio remaindor of his life in his Vineland homo. If his incomo bo exhausted before his death, he says he will go to the poorhouse of Cumberland county. Ho has no', made a complaint against Eaiulis, as he says he supposes the people will do what is right about it. His recollection of the incidents attending the shooting are very much confused. The report that negotiations were progressing lietween him and Landis on the question of damages is unfounded. Neither party lias as yet made any advances to the other on the subject. A complaint is made in an English magazine that instead of studying her own maritime interests, England has uicntuii iivd unvui liuweifl, VHTIllIlIiy , Turkey, Spain, Brazil and Peru, by permitting tlie construction, on the Tunnies ami Clyde, of iron-clads superior to any in lior navy for these countries. It is urged that tlie lords of the admiralty should take immediate steps to have this business broken up. i xucou uiu imi.1. buu uuuuirj aro very annoying to old drunkards. "I'll talk it over with Susan," is tho last slang expression coined in New York. Keep it in mind that it isn't positively necessary to strike each separate stair in falling down stairs. It is believed that a good many more people could increase tho conscience fund if they only would. Army regulations aro to bo altered so as to allow men to enlist as cooks. Tho question is, can a cook be a patriot ? "How much is a meter*?" asks a Cleveland paper. Wait till the gas man comes around?he'll give liberal figures. A Now York tailor says that if all men would pay cash down for clothes the tailors could knock thirty cents off of prices. There is no such word as " liar " in the Chinese language, and the Chinese get along about as well as any other nation. A Wyoming lius'oand has givou his full consent for his wife to run for office, but he didn't give it until after a conflict which broke every dish in the house. The Pall Mall Gazette defends the practico of man kissing each other's wives. It may do for England, but the practice has fallen into decay on this side of tho ocean. Would you think that Gideon Welles, when you stand and look at him, over carried candy mottoes in his pocket or ever sat on the stile with his girl at twilight and chewed gum ? A .Boston man spent $13,000 in lottery tickets nrnl drew about $600 in prizes. If this isn't sufficient encouragement for beginners we havo twenty sevon other cases to bring forward. Mr. Charles P. Clark, of East Gran by, Conn., has tho original deed of tho farm on which ho lives, and which has been in the family one hundred and sixty-two years, and also has in daily uso a wooden vessel for straining milk which was usod by his ancestors in the seventeenth century. The number of sailing vessels has gTeatly decreased throughout the world since 1870, while a steady increase is noted in steamships. According to a report presented to a London society the total tonnage of the great nations indicate their relative rank an follows: First, Great Britain; second, the United States ; third, Sweden and Norway ; fourth, Italy ; fifth. Germany; and sixth, France. In 1874 tho total tonnngo was 5,526,380. Eccentric Will-Makers. An eccentric old gentleman of his acquaintance called upon him one day and asked him to draw np a will for him. " Certainly," said my father; "explain to me how you wish to dispose of your property and I will make a note of your wishes and put them into regular form." So the old gentleman began : "I wish to give a hundred thousand dollars to my old friend Alexander Tomkins. Poor man, he is not very well ofY in worldly fortune, but he is an excellent person and I think this sum would make liim comfortable for life. Please note that down. Then another hundred thousand to Mrs. Elizabeth Jones. I was in love i with her once, but she married Jones, 1 and Jones has left her poor. Then there is young Maulstick. Ho is showing a good deal of talent?but he is suffering from the ' rea angusta domi '?married u rvenI tl?^11 T> ? L ? |/vv*| IJIMVVJ ^111 IUU UUI OIUIJ. JC lit him down nt 850,000. And put down 850, (MX) to tho hospital of decayed gontlowomen. It is an excellent institution." My father paused, and looking up, said, " I am delighted to see by these dispositions of your property that you are so rich. I had no idea that you possessed such a fortune." "Fortune?" said the old gentleman ; " God bless you, I have no fortune. I am a poor man." "Poor?" said my father ; " why, you have already disposed to strangers of 8300,000, and as I suppose you mean to leave your family at least an equal amount, I should scarcely call you a poor man." "Bless your soul," Baid the old gentleman, "my whole possessions would not amount to one-tentli of tho sums I have named, but 1 put them down in my will to bIiow what 1 would do if I had a fortune. I wish to show my good will to all those friends." Belton : That is precisely my case. Excellent old man ! I wish I had known him. Do you know it reminds mo of the will of one of the greatest men of America, who died not many years ago ? He had, as ho said, lived like a gentleman all his life?meaning, of course, that he had spent all he could get, and considerably more, and was head over ears in debt ; but, liko this old gentleman of whom you spoke, he made a will disposing of large sums just as if he had them, and leaving his real wliinli wnfl mnrLTonrn/l fr* full Items of Interest, The American board of foreign missions is behind 8200,000 for the year closing August 81. There has not been any one hanged in Iowa for a great many years, and there is complaint abont it. Eastern Switzerland is afflicted with the locust plague, and nearly all the grain has been destroyed. In the two hundred and twenty-five churches in Brooklyn, N. Y., $170,850 is paid annually for music. Because two persons are of the one mind it does not follow that they have not brains enough for two heads. It is estimated that during the last six months over 96,103 persons in the United Qi.l 1 1 v 1 v outHjH uuvti uBt-ii Kxuea oj violence. " Walk in & Sear " is the firm name of two female partners in the skirt-making business at Chicago, and people do. A man in Paris has a pair of spectacles in his stomach. He got them there in an effort to produce vomiting by poking them down his throat. They are trying to acclimate the Florida cedar tree in Germany, as it furnishes the only kind of wood suitable for the manufacture of lead pencils. The Presbyterian Church in the United States has thirty-six synods, 4,706 ministers, 606,034 oommunieants, and 520,452 Sunday-school children. There will be a great gathering of grangers at ljouisville, Ky., Oct 1. The national and State executive committee and all the purchasing agents will be present. An accommodating man?Buggs? "Hello, rripe, moving?" Tripe?"Yes." Buggs?"What for?" Tripe?"Well, times are a little hard, and I am moving to please my landlady." A Milwaukee man mads three attempts to blow his brains out, and then his wife told him : "Don't try it again John ; you haven't got any." He goes about now saying that he owes his life to that woman. And again ihe watering place hotel keeper lights big fires in his parlors, puts on his overcoat and promenades his vacant corridors, even wishing that he were dead. But the coal dealer saith "Aha!" Lead and silver have been found at Haverhill. Mum. r?n the farm where Hio poet Whitiier was born, and a ahatt twenty feet deep has been sunk, from which ore equal to that found at Newbury has been taken. It is a singular coincidence that the examination of the unearthed remains of Azteo villages in Arizona and the mounds in the Grand Traverse region of Michigan reveal large quantities of charcoal in close proximity to human bones. Sinoe the year 1800 England has waged forty-nine wars ; France, thirtyeight ; Russia, twenty-two j Austria, twelve ; Prussia, eight; and in spito of all the peaoe societies and international conventions they all appear anxious for another. Respect old age. If you have a maiden aunt thirty-three years old, and she is passing herself off for a girl of nineteen, there is no excuse for you to expose her. The more you respect her age and keep still about it, the more she will respect you, Danbury has the champion patient boy. He comes from a chronically borrowing family. .The other day he went to a neighbor's for a cup of sour milk. "I haven't anything but sweet milk," said the woman, pettishly. "Til wait till it soars," said the obliging youth, ainlting into a chair. The recent discovery of extensive ooal deposits in California will add much to the prosperity of the State in more ways than one. Last year the sum of $10,000,000 was paid for iron, which cest half as much more for transportation from Eastern and foreign factories. The following notice from the war offico appeared m the London Gazette : ?" Half-pay ? Lientenant-Colonel and Brevet-Colonel Valentine Baker, halfpay, late Tenth Hussars, has been removed from the army, her majesty having no farther occasion for his services. Dated August, 1873. The Sultan of Zanzibar showed himself generally a very smart chap to the Europeans. He didn't wear any stars, and garters, and crosses, and medals of his own, nor would he accept of any, as the wearing of such gewgaws is contrary to the customs of his country, perhaps because, as the evening and morning dress of his subjects is simple nakedness, they wonld have to cut buttonholes in their skins to adopt such a fashion. A chicken died in Auburn, Illinois It belonged to Mr. Ney or Mr. Loch ridge, whose yards adjoined, but to which could not be determined. They quarreled about it, and tossed the carcass back and forth to each other over tho intervening fence. Then Ney shot at Lochridgo without hitting him. Then Lochridge seised * a club and chased Noy. In the fight that ensued the revolver and the club were both used freely, and Ney was killed. A Chicago man accidentally struck his gas meter with a base-ball club, and as a result his monthly bills declined from $30 to less than $5. Presently a man came round to " have a look at the mctor," and took it off with him, leaving another one in its plaoe, which, being uiiclnbbed, immediately set to work ana rolled up a $30 bill against the leasee. Tho simple fact that a means has been discovered of persuading these unconscionable gas meters into something like reasonable conduct will l>e received with * joy by thousands of citizens.