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VOL. T.--NO. 48. . BEAUFORT, S. C., OCTOBER 20, 1875. $1.50 PER ANNUM;
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Her Answer. I
If the lovo that yon ask for 1 offor you horo, *
Can I promise to follow yon without foar ? 8
Will yon take my bands in your own, dear,
And keep them soft and warm ? t
Will yon teach me to trust each word yon say? ^
Will yon keep my feet so they never can stray ? 1
Will you be my guide in the one right way,
My refuge in every storm ? *
\
Then I'll lovingly follow wherever you guide, g
Though our way may lie through a desert g
wide;. * e
All through the journey, safe by your side, s
V -t " ?
iuii bubu ioau me everywhere. t
It is sweeter to walk by faith than sight, 8
If only yon feel you are going aright.
May I trust you always to find the light, *1
And guido mo safely there ?
i
EDWARD BROWN, STOKER.
d
" Polly," I sayh, one day after b
convalescence, and we were taking a bit r
of a wnlk in the-churchyard, "ain't this h
heavenly?" - 1;
"And yon feel better?" says she, lay- S
ing her hand on mine. d
" Better 1" I says, taking a long h
draught of the soft, sweet-scented air,
and tilling my chest; " better, old girl! v
I feel as if I were growing backwards
into a boy." y
"And yon fifty last week 1" sho says. a
" Yes," I Fays, Rmiling, " and you
forty-seven next week." ?
And then wo sat thinking for a bit. v
" Polly," I says at last, as I sat there
drinking in that soft breeze, and feel- B
ing it give mo strength, "it's" worth being
ill to feel as I do now." r
For you see I'd been very bad, else I
daro say I'm not the man to go hanging <
about churchyards and watching funer- ^
als; I'm a stoker, and my work lies in n
steamers trading to the East. I'd come B
home from my last voyage bad with
fever, caught out in one of those nasty, a
hot, bad nmelling ports?been carried 0
home to die, as my mates thought; and j
it was being like this, and getting better, j]
t.linf. llflfl flpf nin 1~
... VJ viUUAlUg DO DCUUUOlJ'i 1 Q
and made me so quiet; not that I was j|
ever a noisy sort of man, as any one-who
knows me will say. And now, after get- ?
ting 1 Hotter, the doctor hod said I must g
go into the country to get strong; so as
there was no more voyaging till I was
strong, there was nothing for it but to j
leave the youngsters nnder the care of (]
the eldest girl and a neighbor, and come e
and take lodgings out in this quiet Sur- ?<
rev village. , ?
Polly never thought I should get bet- n
ter, and one time no more did I; for v
about a month before this time, as I lay n
hollow-eyed' aind yellow on tho bed, j
knowing, too, how bad I looked?for I
used to make young Dick bring we the
looking-glass every morning?the doctor
came as usual, and like a blunt English- ^
mnn I put it to him flat.
" Doctor," I says, "yon don't think
I shall get better ?" and I looked him
straight in the face. > ' x.
" Oh, come, come, my man 1" ho says, ft
smiling, ' we never look at the black
side like that."
" None Of that, doctor," I says; ,rout Q
with it like a man. I can stand it; I've 8
been expecting to be drowned or.blown
up half my life, so I shan't be soared at ^
what you say."
"Well, my 'man," ho says, "your ^
Srmptoms $re, of. a very grave nature.
on see tho fever hod undermined vmi
before you came home, and unless"?
"All right, doctor, I says; "I un- r
derstund ; you moan that unless you can Jget
a new plate in the boiler, she won't '
stand another voyage." > 8
" Oh, come ! we won't look npon it as v
a hopeless case," ho says ; " there's al- f
ways hope and after a little'more talk, 1
ho shook hands and went away.
Nl?xt day when he came, I had been *
thinking it all over, and was reedy for 8
him. I don't believe I was a bit better ; 8
in fast, I know I was drifting fast, and I J
saw >t in his eye as well.
I waited till he had asked mo his different
questions, and then just as he was
getting up to go, I asked him to sit ?
down again. *
" Polly, v my dear," I says, "I just 1
want a few words with the doctor and 8
she put her apron up to her eyes and G
went out, closing the door after her very c
softly, while the doctor looked at me
very curious like, and waited for me to 1
speuk.
"Doettof,'r I sajfc, "ycu've about 1
givon me upf There, don't shake your
head, Ipr I know. Now don't you think 1
I'm afraid to die, for I don't believe I 1
am, but look here : there's seven chil- J
dren down stairs, and If I leave my wife *
a widow with the few peuuds I've been J.
able to save, what's to become of them f *
Can't von nnll me thrnncdi t" ^
" Bjjy?*bl?r fellow," he nays, honestly. 1
"I've done everything I can for your c
case." . 1 I
" That'awhat you tkiuk, doctor," I *
aaya, " but look here : Tve been at sea *
thirty yeata^ and in seven wrecks. It's '
been like dodging death with me a score 1
of tintoe, . .Why, I pulled iny wife there 1
regularly out of the hands of death, and 1
I'm not going to give up now. I've 1
been"?T
"Stop, stop," he nays, gently, t
" You're exciting yourself." 1
" Not a bit," 1 says, though my voice f
was quite a whisper. "Ivehad this i
over all night, and I've come to think I <
must be up and doing my duty." <.
" But, my good man"?he began. <
n t ~ j?i? i " a
uininu mj um-wir, x tiixyn. " A
scoro of times I might have given up
""S and l>een drowned, but I made a fight
v for it, and was saved. Now I mean to
make a fight for it, here, for the sake of
the wife and bairns. I don't mean to
die, doctor, without a struggle. I l>oliovo
this here, that life's given to us all
as a treasure to keep ; we might throw
.it awuy by v.\vr ? wu folly at any time,
>ut there's hundreds of times when
nay preserve it, and we never ki
whether we can save it till we try. Gi
i drink of that water."
He held the glass to my lips, an
ook a big draught and went on,
teeming all the time to be stopping
tumor me in my madness.
" That's better, doctor," I si
Now look here, sir, speaking as
rho has sailed the seas, it's a terri
tormy time with me ; there's a
hore close ut hand, the fires are dro
d ont, and unless wo can get up a bi
ail there's no chance for me. N
hen, doctor, can you get up a bii
ail?"
" I'll go and send something that 1
[uiet you," ho said, rising.
" Thankey, doctor," I says, smilinj
ayself. '' And now look here, I'm
;oing to give up till the last ; and wl
hat last comes, and the ship's go
town, why, I shall have a try if I a
wim to safety. If that fails, and I
eally foel that it is to be, why, I*hoj
hall go down into the great deep ca
p, liko a hopeful man, praying t
something above will forgive me all 1
!ono amiss, and stretch out His fath?
land to my little ones."
He went away, and I dropped asle
rorn out with my exertion.
When I woke, Polly was standing
he bedside watching me, with a bo
nd glass on the little table.
As soou as she saw my eyes open,
hook up the stuff, and poured it int
rine glass.
" Is that what the doctor sent?
ays.
"Yes, dear ; you were to take it
octly."
" Then I shan't take it," I sn
' He's give me up, and that stuff's o
a keep me quiet. Polly, you go f
lake me some beef tea, and mak?
troug."
She looked horrified, poor old g
nd was about to bog of me to take h
f flio rrvf foil life Kol f
a vuv> awinai IIIU-UVIV UU U OCUU 1X1^1 U]
hold out my shaking hand for it, t<
ke glass, and let it tilt over?there 1
nly about a couple of teaspoonfuls
i, and the stuff fell on the carpet.
I saw the tears come in her eyes, 1
he said nothing?only put down
lass, and ran ont to make the b
so.
The doctor didn't come till late n
ay, and I was lying very still i
rowsy, half asleep like, but I was aw
nougli to hear him whisper to Po
1 Sinking fast and I heard her %
uch a heart-broken sob thufc ' as
oxt great wave came on the sea whei
ras floating, I struck out with all
light, rose over it, and floated gor
own the other side.
For the next four days?putting it
drowning man striving for hiH life 1
true-hearted fellow?it was like gi
Darning waves coming to wash over i
>ut the shore, still in sight, and me 1
Dg hard to reach it.
And it was a grim, hard fight; a do
imes I could have given up, folded
rms, and said good-bye to the dear
retching face safe on shore ; but a I
i iuui aiways ciieereu me, aua x ion
>n again and again, till at last the
eemed to go down, and, in utter we
k'-hb, I turned on my back to float r
nlly with the tide bearing me sh<
pard, till I touched tlie sands, crept
hem, and fell down worn out, to si
n the warm sun?safe !
' That's a curious way of putting it,;
nay say, but it seems natural to rnt
nix it up with the things of sea-go
ife, and the manner in which I've s
0 many fight hard for their lives.
p;is just like striving in the nndst <
torm to mo, and when at last I did
nto a deep sleep, I felt surprised-lik
hid myself lying in my own bed, \
3olly watching by me ; and who
tretched out- my hand, and took h
he let loose that which she had 1j
lidden from me bofore, and, falling
icr knees by my bedside,she sobbed
'fry joy.
Aa much beof-tea and brandy as ;
an get him to take," the doctor si
hat afternoon ; and it wasn't long be!
got from slops to solids, and. then
eut, as I told yon, into the conntrj
;et strong, while the dootor got no
>f praise for the core ho had made.
I never said a word though, even
'oily, for he did his best; but I di
hint any medicino would have cu
no then.
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J. WilM Miyillg U 111UU Willie UUCK I 111
>tillod my wife regularly out of
lands of death, and of oonrse that
rlien we wero both quite youug, thoi
or the matter of that I don't feel m
lifferciit and can't well see tho char
Chat was in one of the Cape stean
?hen I first took to stoking. They ?
ittle ram-shackle sort of boats in tl
lays, and how it was moro weren't
inzzles me. It was more due to
feather than the make or finding of
ihips, I can tell you, that they usee'
ind their way safe to port; and yet
lassengers, poor things, knowing
letter, used to take passage, ay,
nake a voyage too from which t
lever got back.
Well, I was workingon board a ste
>r as they used to call the Equator,
leavy laden and with about twenty ]
lengers on board, we started down cl
lei with all well, till we got right d<
iff the west coast of Africa, when tl
airoo one of the heaviost storms I
iver in. Even for a well-found stoat
mch as they can bnild to-day, it wc
acvo been a hard fight ; bat with
poor shaky wooden tub, it was a hope
3ase from the first.
Our skipper made a brave fight <
though, and tried hard to make for
if the ports ; but, bless you, what
i man do when, after ten days' knocl
ibout, the coals run out, and tho 1
that have been kept going with w
wo aud ?U? everything that can b
low thrust into the furnaces, are drowned
ve'a when the paddle-wheels are only in tb
way, every bit of sail set is blown clea
(1 I out of the bolt-ropes, and at last tb
he sbip begins to drift fast for a lee shore
r to There was our case, and every hoe
the sea seemed to get higher, and tb
ivs. wind more fierce, while I heard froi
one more than one man how fast the wate
ible was gaining below,
lee My mate and I didn't want any telliu
wn- though. We'd been drives up out c
itof the stoke-hole ljken pairof drowned ratf
ow, and I came on dock to find the bulwark
k of ripped away, and the sea every now an
then leaping aboard, nnd washing th
will lumber about in all directions.
The skipper was behaving very well
? to and he kept us all at the pumps, tur
not and turn in spells, but we might as wel
lien have tried to pump the sea dry ; an
ing when, with the water gaining fast, w
>n't told him what wo thought, ho owned a
can it was no use, and we gave up.
>e I We'd all been at it, crew and passer
lm- frora nlmnf fm-fw nf na "
QV..W, t.uv/UV iUiWJ Wi no illivgctliui 9 1U
hnt eluding the women?five of them the;
['ve were, and they were all on deck, lashei
jrly in a sheltered place, close to the poop
And very pitiful it was to see them fighl
op, ing hard at first and clinging to the side
but only to grow weaker, lialf-drownei
by as they were ; and I saw two sink dowi
ttle at last, and hang drooping-like fror
their lashings, dead, for not a soul couli
she do them a turn.
0 a I was holding on by the shrouds whei
the mate got to the skipper's side, and
" J saw in his blank face wliat he was tellinj
him. Of courso we couldn't hear hi
Ji_ words iu such a storm, but wo didn'
want to, for his lipp said plainly enough
lys. " She's sinking P'
nly Next moment thero was a rush mad
ind for the boats, and two of the passer
J it gers cut loose a couple of the women
place was made for them before the firs
irl, boat was too full, and she was lowerei
old down, cast off, and a big wave carrie
lien her clear of the steamer. I saw her fo
10k a moment on the top of the ridge, annas
then she plunged down the other aid
1 in out of our sight?and that of evarj
body else ; for how long she lived, wh
but can say ? She was never picked up o
the heard of again.
eef Giving a bit of a cheer, our cliajp
turned to the noxt, and wore getting i
ext when thero came a wavo like a mountain
ind ripped her from the davits, and when
ako shook the water from my eyes, ther
11 v, she was hanging by one end, stove it
jve and the men who had tried to launc
the her gone?skipper and mate as well.
:o I There were only sovon of us now, am
T could see beside the three womei
lt]y lashed to the side, and only one of tlier
was alive; and for a bit no one moved
> a? everybody being stunncd-like with hoi
ike ror ; but there came a lull, and feelinj
"eat that the steamer was sinking, I shoutet
me, out to the boys to come on, and we rai
try- to the last boat, climbed in, and wer
casting oil', when I happened to catcl
zeii sight of the women lashed under th
my "bulwarks there.
old ?? Hold hard !" I roars, for I saw on
??k of them wave her hand,
ghfc ?? Como 011, you fool!" shouts m
sea mate, " she's going down!"
ari- I pray I may never be put to it agai
est- like that, with all a man's solfish desir
3re' for life lighting against him. For
up moment I shut my eyes, and then bega
eeP to lower ; but I was obliged to ope
them again, aud as I did so I saw a wile
jron scared face, with long wet hair clingin
s to round it, and a pair of little white hand
ing were stretched out to mo as if for help,
eeu " Hold hard !" I shouts.
It " No, no I" roared out two er three
if a "there isn't a moment!" and as th
fall boat was being lowered from the davitf
e to I made a jump, caught the bulwark
ritli with my liondB, and climbed back o
n I board, just as the boat kissed the watei
era, was unhooked, and floated away.
:ept Then as I crept, hand-over-liand, t
Oil flia flrirl'fl qiiIa U'limnnrl nnf. m XT lrni#
v..~ "-*rru" v,"u '"j ......
?or and Wii8 cutting her looae, while he
weak arms clung to me, I felt a horribl
you feeling of despair come over me, for th
*ys, boat was leaving us, and I knew what
Fere coward I was at heart, as I had to figb
was with myself so as not to leave the girl t
r to her fate, and leap overboard to swim fo
end my life. I got tlio better of it, thoughwent
down on my knees so as not to se
1 to the boat, and got the poor, trembling
* clinging creature loose,
ired " Now, my lass,"! says, "quick!
and I raised her up ; " hold on by th
I side while I make fast a rope rouni
the you."
WftS And thon I stood np to hail the boatthe
boat as wam't there, for in thosi
uch brief momenls she must have capsized
*8?- and we wore alone on tiki sinking steam
iers or> -which now lay in the trough of th
rere sea. .
lose s?oii as I gotovor the horror of th
lost feeling, a sort of stony despair cameove
tu? me, but when I saw that little pale, ap
the pealing faco at my side, looking to m
* *? for help), that brought the manhooi
"*e back, and in saying encouragiug thing
to Jier I did myself good.
kU'l My first idea was to muko somothin,
"?y that would float us, but I gave that u;
directly, for I could feel that I wftslielf
am- loss, aud getting tho poor girl more int
and shelter, I took a bit of tobacco in a nor
pas- of stolid way, and sat down with a cor!
ion- lifo-buoy over my arm?one which Ilia<
)wn cut leoso from whtue it had hung forgo!
lere ten behind ilio wheel,
was lint I never used it, for the atom
oer, went down fast, and the steamer floatei
mid still, water-logged, for throo days, who;
our we were picked up by a passing vessel
less half-starved, but hoping. Ami dnrin;
that time my companion had told m
>f it that she was the attendant of one of th
one lady passengers on board, and at l:vs|
can when we parted, she kissed iuy hand
ting and called me her hero, who lirfH suvo<
ires her lifo?poor grimy me', you know,
ood Wo waru't long, though, before w
to met again, for somehow we'd settled
; that we'd write, and a twelvemonth after
ie Mary was back in England and my wife,
n That's why I said I took her like out of
ie the hands of death, though in a seltlsli
f sort of way, being far, you know, from
ir perfect. But what I say, speaking as
e Edward Brown, stoker, is this: Make a
n good fight of it, no matter how black
ir things may look, and leave the rest to
Him.
g
What they Eat.
a To get sorno idea of the enormous eat(]
ing power of guests who reside in <
e hotels, it is only necessary to say that in
one ordinary day's feedings one of the i
. leading hotels in New York city con- i
' sumes 1,959 pounds of beef, short loins <
Fj and ribs, 1,800 pounds of mutton chops, i
, nearly 4,000 pounds of spring lamb, 80 i
1 dozens of sweetbreads and 1,000 pounds ]
e of the hind quarters of veal for roasting
3 and cutlets. The same hotels averaged (
40 pounds a day of prime corned beef, i
or from 1,400 to 1,600 pounds of corned i
ueei per weeic. JijXtra uoef, which only )
? includes the fonr quarters. and excludes <
the hides, fat and offal, brings $13 to i
' $14 a hundred weight nt the yards. The I
f best comes from Illinois, and it is stipe- <
'* rior to the beef raised in any other State <
in the Union. Many butchers will, how- 1
a ever, tell their customers that the beef i
l} which comes from Texas is native to II- 1
linois. Ohio sends a fair quality of beef. <
But if it were not for the vast quantities i
brought from Texas to tho city beef t
would bring fifty cents a pound in the <
? market steadily. Dutchess county and <
? Orange county occasionally send some 1
_ fancy beef to private parties, but it is <
only a drop in tho ocean. Somo meat is 1
hardly fit to cat when brought to market, i
o and one morning at Washington market i
i- Superintendent Devoo seized no less '
; than 357 quarters of bob veal, which i
>t were almost in a state of putrefaction, i
d This slides the danger formerly encoun- i
d tered by housewives who were fond of <
r roast veal or nice little cutlets. Tho 1
d worst kind of beef brings nt tho yards $8 1
e a hundred weight, and Texan beef brings ]
r- about $9.50 a hundred when it is in good <
0 condition. About 250 goats and kids i
i" are brought to market every year in this (
city, and they will average 45 pounds a i
s carcass dressed, but their meat is never <
Q in any great demand, and is only eaten
'? by people whose palates are in an ex1
hausted state. Sixty roasting pigs are
e sold weekly on an average and woigh
i? from 15 to 20 pounds each. The conh
sumption of hams in the city amounts to
from 5,000 to 7,500 hams per week, and
d they chiefly come from tho Western
a States. Of tamo turkeys, ducks of all
ii kinds, geese and guinea fowls there are
|f delivered to the Now York markets about
- 1,500 tons a week, and their price varies
? according to season, but they are at the
j maximum rates about tho holidays.?
a New York Herald.
Wanted to Pay Taxes.
One day a residont of tho northern
o part of Detroit, says tho Free Press,
called at the city hall, and finding the
y official who received taxes, ho said:
"I called here to pay some taxes,
n How muoh shall I pay ?"
e " Where's your property ?" asked the
a official.
n " Haven't got any."
n " And what arc you going to pay taxes
1, on ?"
g "I dunno, but I want to pay 'em.
s I've had it flung up to me a dozen times
lliat I hain't no taxpayer and hain't no
business talking around, and now I want
i; to pay in whatever is right and bo as j
e good as anybody."
?, " But you are not taxed." ,
;s "Why hain't I? Ain't I as good as
n anybody ?"
r, "Yes, but you can't be taxed when '
you have no taxable property." <
0 " "I can't, eh? Well, there are other i
0 towns besides Detroit, and if I can't feel ]
,r as good as anybody else here I can pack 1
e up and leave." ^
e And he put up his wallet and went ]
a out. <
* !
0 Shade Trees. i
r Many farmers now see how much they
~ have missed it by permitting the wliolo- ,
e sale destruction of forest trees upon
'? their lauds. From the nakedness of tho
n country, droughts are becoming com- j
mou. From tho scarcity of timber trees, ,
? the cost of fencing and erecting build- ,
ings is annually increasing. But there
is one way whereby amends may partly
~ be made. Let thero bo one united plan
0 to have rows of beautiful and useful
'? trees set out on both sides of all our
* public highways. Lot sugar trees, wal0
nut trees, oak trees, chestnut trees, loom
t trees, catnlpa trees, silver-leafed
6 poplar trees, etc., strotch their long nver
nues in every direction all over tho country.
How it would relievo the naked?
ness of tho land ! What a grateful shade
^ they would givo to tho weary traveler!
d The value of farms would become id
most immediately enhanced oh soon as (
K theso rows of beautiful trees were plantP
ed out. And in the distant future, ,
when those trees should arrive at matu0
rity of growth, the value of the timber .
^ itself would become a most important ]
* item. Let grangers and others take hold .
J* of this matter.
r* i
n Chuelty.?Some Pnissian army ofti- |
il cers are under arrest for cruelty to n I
n soldier. They compelled him to go
I, through with exhausting drills, and when 1
g lie complained of sickness, they added i
o increased tasks as a punishment for i
e "shamming." Ho died nt last, and then 1
;, it was found that he had lieon suffering ' i
I, from n brain disease. The cose reminds \ <
it one of th it of Connolly, tho It lack well's i
island convict, who was tortured by the
o keepers. i
T1IE POPULATION OF CHINA.
What an Authority at flame Hayi A bant U.
Says tlio Shanghai Courier: The
subject of the population of Ohina is the
riddle of the Sphinx, ever guessed at
but never solved. And if it were solved
no one would ever know it, because
there can bo no verification. In connection
with our first knowledge of China
we are taught that its population is immense.
Its millions teem. The delusion
of one or two generations ago that
Jeddo and Pekiu aro the world's great
centers of population is scarcely yet dispelled.
Many of the cities of tho eighteen
provinces, esi>ocially in tho south,
ire undoubtedly enormous, and to the
casual traveler all Chinese cities are presumptively
tho same. He has learned
in his geography or read in his encyclopedia
that the population of Tientsin is
500,000, and that of Pekin from 1,500,)00
to 2,000,000. These round numbers
ire generally accepted without question,
md on this scale smaller cities aro
gauged. Thus we meet the most confident
estimates of population, formed on
jcanty data, or on no data at all, by every 1
latest traveler, who, like a supreme
court, has the last guess at the case. The
difference between tho high soole and
tho low scalo of estimating Chinese
cities is a difference of nearly one-half.
There are those who cling to the old tra- '
litiou that the population of Pekin is :
2,000,000, and there aro others who consider
700,000 a liberal estimate. Little i
cr no dependence is to be placed on the ]
sti mates of transient travelers. Even 1
long residents hesitate to express a decided
opinion, for experience has taught j
them that such conjectures are often |
Misleading. It is as idle to inquire the ,
lumber of families in a large city of
" intelligent natives," as it wpuld be to
isk an " intelligent native " tho death (
ate of Liverpool. There is, no doubt,
i death rate, and somewhere it is recorded.
But it is not in the line of any
but physicians and coroners to know I
what it is, unless it may have been pub- 1
iished in the morning paper. But the !
Chinese have no morning papers, nor
wiy other papor. At certain yamens, no
iloubt, some approximate statistics are
on file, but such things aro utterly foreign
to the thought of ordinary Chinese.
In small villages the munber of families
is known to all ; in large cities it is practically
not known at all. It would be
wrong to disturb the world's faith in the
proposition that China contains 400,000,000
inhabitants, a proportion now generally
accepted in spite of De Qninoey's
skepticism. Hut let this multitude of
human beings be apportioned in a fair
and equitable manner among the smaller
towns and villages, and not thrust by
hundreds of thousands upon half empty
walled towns where they will find no
visible means of support. If these remarks
should lead the casual reader to
inquire the population of Tai-yunn-fu,
he is informed that according to the doctrine
of the relativity of human knowledge,
if Pekiu still keeps her 2,000,000
as iu the geographies, then the capital
of Shansi has 300,000. But if Pekin is
reduced to 750,000, then does Toi-yuon
iu orop w) iuu,uuu, " ue mo same more
or less. The average Englishman, whose
faith is said to be such that if a safety
valve were only labeled "statistics " he
would sit on it with perfect safety, is invited
to take notice.
If Not, Why Not
A medical journal published in Cleveland
addresses the followiug queer query
to the profession:
"Qiteby? Has any pbysioian ever seen or
treated a bald-beaded consumptive V '
Wo should say that there must be, and
that there must have been, bald-headed
consumptives ; yet the fact that donbt
is thrown over the existence of snoh
persons by a medical journal would seem
to show that they are not so common as
to be within the knowledge of every
physician. We ourselves have not, of
course, seen as many sufferers from the
malady in question as liavo come under
tho observation of some doctors; but
we cannot at this moment think of any
:>ne of those we have seen who was baldlieaded.
Consumption is a disease that
preys upon old people as well as young
nid middle-aged people; and we suppose
its victims are subject to the ordinary
aws that regulate the growth of hair. If
not, why not <
New York 1 lata.
We do not mean the flats who stand
lbout hotels and street corners with
their hair parted in the middle, but
those largo buildings, each floor of which
constitutes a dwelling house. Of these
Llata a writer says: No flat that is of any
dimensions or surroundings above a
brown stone tenement-house can be hod
diort of $1,000 a year, or $80 a month.
Indeed, uiue-tenths of these flats are
tenement-nouses cauea ny a less injurious
nnmo. It is n good way for lazy
women and people with small furniture
to affect to live. It is better than boarding,
in that you eat your own hnsh. It
is purgatory, between the heaven of
householding and the topliet of a dyspeptic's
public table. It is a device to
make unrentable houses rentable by
farming out the floors And putting in
wash-tubs.
Said Jeff. Davis at one of the fairs in
Missouri, the other day : It gladdened
my heart as I drovo to these grounds to
=teo the number of side-saddles on the
liorses hitched along the way. I had almost
begun to fear that my American
countrywomen had lost the art of riding,
it, least the art of ridiug on horseback,
rimuk you, ladies, for coming on sid-*mddles.
Jack and JUL
" To climb that stately eminence,"
Says Jill to Jack, "I go; ,
And if thou lor'st, then follow me.
Follow in weal or woe." ,
Says Jack to Jill: " Wbate'er thoo wilt,
Thy will is law to me;
And if to climb tbon dost desire,
? Lead on ! Til follow thee *"
They climbed the hill, bnt all too soon
Bepentaace camo to Jill;
For Jack he tripped upon a stone,
And tumbled down the hill.
" O Jack ! O Jack ! My own true lore !
Oh, * What a fall was there 1'
Behold 1 Like thee, I'll crack my crown,
For what thou dar'st, I dare! '
" I called on thee to follow me,
Whil'st climbing up the hill."
With one wild shriek, VI follow thee
Were the last words of Jill. ?Items
of Interest.
Ode to my landlady?three Lvteeks'
board. ' "?, " * '
A new definition of an old maid is?a
woman who lias been maid for a long
time. ,
The leather business of the United
States represents a working capital of
570,000,000.
" Shingle weddings " are now comiag
into fashion. This novel wedding takes
plaoe when the first born m old enough
to spank. , , . . ,
A St. Louis woman enumerates among
Iter friends twenty-two women who have
become bald from wearing heavy masses
of false hair.
An aspiring lady of Utica, N. Y.? is
expending $16,000 to put aspire two hunIred
and fifty feet high on one of the
zhurches of that city.
Col. Arthur Oinn has a ten-acre orange
ijrove On Lake Monroe, Fla., which contains
seven hundred trees, yielding from
510,000 to $18,000 per year.
A Poltney (ft. Y.) girl put in a lively
ten hours' work the other day. She nailed
in that time 900 grape-boxes, driving
10,000 nails and handling 3,000 pieces oi
wood.
Miss Hnlett, the Chicago lawyer, will
not move in a divorce case, believing, as
she says, that " any woman who will
marry a an ought to be forced to live
with him."
" What makes your face so red ?" said
an inspecting generalto a hard-drinking
soldier. " It'B modesty,"'replied the
soldier. I always blush when spoken to
by a general." ,
It is stated that the Philadelphia confectioner
who advertised " Centennial
Kisses" can't sell any. They are too
old. The sixteen-iafci are- preferred by
men of taste. : _> , , ,
The Booheeter Express suggests that
the baby without a , back bone, recently
born, be brought up with especial reference
to the art of conciliating political
opponents.
As a novelty, the application of the
camera obscura has been introduoed in
English railway carriages, exhibiting to
the traveler a moving picture of the
country through which he is passing.
The editor of the Kearney (Neb.)
Press acknowledges the receipt of a cucumber
five feet eight inches in length.
And yet some people insist that Nebraska
is not an agricultural country,
An impressionable Indiana, journalist
has " seen swaying lily-like above the
churn a beauty more perfect than that
which bloomed fdllgro^n from the
bright foousof the sea's ecstatic travail."
When a foreigner finds that plague is
a word of one syllable, and ague, a part
of the plague, is a word of two, he wishes
that t\io plague might take one-half the
English language, and the ague the
other.
It is hard to say who the happiest man
is, but the happiest women, according to
the Danbury .Areu>8) is she who is called
upon to decade the question as to which
is the cunningest of two of the cunningest
babies "that over lived.
There is sanotity in suffering' when
meekly borne. Our duty, though set
about by thorns, may still bo a staff,
supporting even while it tortures, Oast
it away, and like the prpphot's wand, it
changes to a snake.
The Grand Duke Alexis, third son uf
the emperor of Russia, who some years
ago, owing to a secret marriage with a
lady of the court of the empress, had
incurred the displeasure of his father,
has now been divoroed from his wife.
An uub?npy nine year-old boy, near
Reading, Pa., oomplains that he sees
reptiles all around him, and his friends
are laboring under the delusion that he
has l>een bewitched by an old woman,
whom he saw sitting ou a basket at a
neighbor's house, and laughed at becauso
of her eccentric movements.
Since 1824 New England has received
from the general government for improvement
of its rivers and harbors the
sum of $6,375,488; the Middle States,
$11,758,915 ; the Southern States.
$6,400,833; Indiana, Illinois and Ohio,
$4,580,510; Missouri, Iowa, and Minneflota,
$675,500; and Michigan and Wisconsin,
$8,799,776.
A man thirty years of age, a platelayer
on the Settle and Carlisle railway,
England, hang himself on a poet in m
public drying gronnd at Carlisle the
other morning. Before doing so he
wrote with a piece of chalk on a neighboring
wall the following message: "I
take the pleasure of ritiug these few
lines if it will be a warning to all young
men, and never live with a mother-inlaw.
Now I end my misopible life."