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THE TRIBUNE.
VOL. II.?NO. 19. BEAUFORT, S. ., MARCH 29. 1876. $1.50 PER ANNUM.
Watching.
He loitered up through tho moadow,
Hia foot in tho trailing swath ;
He atoopod where the keen scythe's blade had
passed.
And plackod tho aftermath.
And oh, love ! and ah, love!
And what shall my Bad heart nay ?
What bold prayer breathe by night, love,
It dimd not breathe by day ?
She sat by tho open window,
Looking unto the west;
And the son wont down, and the stare came up
Beyond the gray hill'a crest.
And oh, love ! and ah, love !
And when will hia footstepa fall ?
The skiea are empty and barren, love,
But Ood ia over all!
A etep on the garden walk,
A shadow under the stars,
And the moon's first gleam slides sudden
through
Tho twilight's jealous bars.
And oh, lo ve! and ah, love 1
And open love to me !
My heart ia knocking at thy door,
Ah ! lift the latch and eeo !
Membranous Croup.
A SKETCH BY " MARK TWAIN'1
"Well," said MoWilliams, "to go
back to where 1 was before I digressed
to explain to von how that frightful and
incurable disease, meihbrauous croup,
was ravaging the town and driving all
mothers mad with terror, I called Mrs.
McWilliams' attention to little Penelope,
and said :
" Darling, I wouldn't let that child
bo chewing that pine stick if I were
you."
"Precious, where's tho harm in it?"
said she, lint at the same time preparing
to tako away the stick, for women can
not receive oveu tlio most palpably judicious
suggestion without arguing it?
that is, mariic-d women.
Liove, it in notorious that pine is
tho leaust nutritious wood that a child can
eat."
My wife's hand paused, in the act of
taking the stick, and returned it to her
lap. She bridled perceptibly, and tiaid
44 Hubby, you know batter than that.
You know yon do. Doctors all say that
the turpentine in pine wood is good for
weak back and tho kidneys."
44 Ah ! I was under a misapprehension.
I did not kuow that the child's kidneys
and spine were affected, and that the
family physician had recommended "?
44 Who said that tho child's spine and
kidneys wero affected?"
44 My love, you intimated it."
44 The idea! I never intimated anything
of the kind."
44 Why, my dear, it hasn't been two ,
minutes since you said"?
44 Bother what I said 1 I don't care
what I did say. There isn't any harm in
the child'H chewing a bit of pine stick
if she wants to, und you kuow it perfectly
well. Aud she shall chow it, too!
So there, now 1"
4'Say no more, my deal. I now see
the force of your roasoning, aud I v.ill
go aud order two or three cords of the
best pino wood to-day. No child of
mine shall want while I "?
44 Oh, ploaso go tdong to your office
and let me have some peace. A body
can never make tho simplest remark but
you must take it up and go to arguing
ana arguing aua arguing, till you don't
know what you are talking about, and
you never do."
' Very well, it shall be as you say.
But there is a want of logic in your last
remark which "? 1
? However, she was gone with a flourish i
before I could finish, and had taken the '
child with her. That night at dinner she
confronted me with a face as white as a
sheet. 1
" Oh, Mortimer, there's auother !
Little Qoorgie Qordon is taken."
" Membranous croup ?"
'' Membranous croup."
" Is there any hope for him ?"
" None in the wide world. Oh, what
is to become of us?"
By-and-bye out nurse brought in our i
Penelope to say good-night and offer the
customary prayer a' the mother's knee.
In the midst of " Now I lay me down to
sleep," she g ive a slight cough. My i
wife fell back liko one stricken with
death. But the next moment she was
up and running away with the activeness i
which terror inspires. i
She commanded that tho child's crib i
be removed from the nursery to our
bedroom; and she went along to see the
order executed, title took me with her,
of course. We got matters arranged |
with ppecd. A cot bed was put iu my
wife's dressing-room for tho nurse. But i
now Mrs. Mo Williams said we wore too
far away from the other baby, and what
if be were to have the symptoms iu tho i
night?and she blanched again, poor
thing.
We then restored the crib, and the
nurse to the nursery, and put up a
bed for ourselves in a room adjoining. i
Presently, however, Mrs. MoWilliams
said, suppose the baby should catch it
from Penelope? This thought struck a
new panic to her heart, and the tribo of
us couldn't got the crib out of the nursery
agafu fast enough to satisfy my wife,
though alio assisted in her own person
and well nigh pulled the crib to pieces
in her front c hurry.
Wo moved down stairs, but there was
no place to stow tho nurse, aud Mrs.
MoWilliams said the nurse's experience
would bo an inestimable help. So wo
were turned, bag and baggage, to our
own bedrooms onoe more, and felt a
great gladness, liko storm-buffeted birds
that have found their nest again.
Mrs. McWilliains sped to the nursery
to see how things were going on there.
She was back in a moment with a new
dread. She said :
" What can make the baby sleep so ?"
I said :
" Why, my darling, baby always
sleeps like a graven image."
" I know, I know; but there's something
peculiar about his sleep now. Ho
seems to breathe so regularly. Oh, this
is dreadful !"
"But, my dear, he always breathes
regularly."
"Oh, I know it, but there's something
dreadful about it now. His nurse is too
youug and inexperienced. Maria shall
stay there with her, and be on hand if |
anything happens."
"That is a good idea; but who will
help you ?"
"You can help me all I want. I
wouldn't allow anybody to do anything
but myself, anyhow, at such a time as
this."
I said I would feel mean to lie abed
aud sleep, and leave her to watch and
toil over our little patient all the weary
night. But she reconciled mo to it. So
old Maria departed and took up her ancient
quarters in the nursery.
Penelope coughed'twice in her sleep.
" Oh, why don't the doctor come ?
Mortimer, this room is too warm. This
room certainly too warm. Turn off
the register?quick !"
I shut it off, glanoing at the thermometer
at the same time, and wondering to
myself if seventy was too warm for n
sick child.
The coachman arrived from down
town now with the news that onr physiciau
was ill and confined to his bed.
Mrs. Mo Williams turned a dead eye
upon me, and said in a dead voice :
" There is Providence in it. It is foreordained.
Ho never was sick before.
Never. We have not been living as we
ought to live. Mortimer, time and time
again I have told you so. Now you so3
the result. 0u? child will never get
well. Be thankful if you can forgive
yourself. I never can forgive myself."
I said, without intent to hurt, but
with heedless choice of words, that I
could not see that we had been living
such an abandoned life.
4 4 Mortimer! Do you want to bring
tho judgment upon the baby, too ?"
Then she began to cry, but suddenly
exclaimed :
44 Tho doctor-must liavo sent medicines
1"
I said:
44 Certainly ; they are hero. I was
only Waiting for you to give me a
chance."
44 Well, do give them to mo ! Don't
yon know that every moment is precious
now ? But what was the use in sending
mediciues when he knows that the
disease is incurable?"
I said that while there was life there
was hope. .
44 Hope ! Mortimer, yon know no
more what you are talking about than
the child unborn. If you would? As
I live, the directions say give one teaspoonful
once an hour ! Once an hour
?as if we hrd a whole year before us to
save tho child in! Mortimer, please
Lurry. Give tho poor, perishing thing
a tablespoon ful, and try to be quick !"
" Why, my dear, a tablespoonfnl
might"? "Don't drivo mo frantic!
* * * There, thero, there, my
precious, my own ; it's nasty, bitter
stuff, but it's good for Nelly?good for
m other's precious darling; and it will
make her well. Thero, there, there;
put the little head on mamma's breast,
and go to sleep, aud pretty soon? Oh,
I know she can't, live till morning!
Mortimer, a tablespoonfnl every half
hour will? Oh, the child needs belladonna,
too; I know she does?aud
aconite. Get them, Mortimer. Now
do .lot mo have my way. You know
nothing about these matters."
We now went to bed, placing the crib
close to my wife's pillow. All this turmoil
had worn upon me, and within two
minutes I was something more than
half asleep. Mrs. McWilliams roused
me :
" Darling, is that register turned on?"
" No."
" I thought as much. Please turn it
on at onoe. This room is cold."
I turned it cn, and presently fell
asleep again. I was aroused oneo more.
"Dea:ie, would yon mind moving
tho crib to your side of the bed ? It is
nearer the register."
I moved it, but had a collision with j
the rug and woko up tho child. I dozed i
off onoe moro, while my wife quieted
tho sufferer. Hut iu n little while thope ;
words oame murmuring remotely
Hiy?/iiirrV? fhn fnet nf mir rlrrm/jinnou
? '"{ > "* *"J v.. .
" Mortimer, if we only bad some
goose grease. Will yon ring ?"
I climbed drearily out, and stepped
od a cat, which responded with a protest,
and would have got a convincing
kick for it if a chair had not got it instead.
"Now, Mortimer, why do you want
to turn up the gas and wake up the child
again f"
"Because I want to see how much I
am hurt, Caroline."
" Woll, look at the chair, too. I have
no doubt it is ruined. Poor cat, snpposo
you had "?
" Now I am not going to suppose anything
about the cat. It never would
have occurred if Maria had been allowed
to remain horo and attend to these
duties, which are in her line and are not
in mine."
" Now, Mortimer, I should think yon
would be ashamed to make a remark
like that. It is a pity if yon cannot do
the few little things that I ask of you at
snch an awful time as this, when our
ohild
"There, there; I will do anything
you want. But I can't raise anybody
with this bell. They're all gone to bed.
Where is the goose grease ?
" On the mantelpiece in the nursery.
If you will step there and speak to
Maria "?
I brought the goose grease and went
to sleep again. Onco moro I was
called.
"Mortimer, I so hato to disturb you,
but the room is still too cold for mo to
try to apply this stuff. Would you mind
lighting tho fire ? It is all ready to
touch a match to."
I dragged myself out and lit tho fire,
and then sat down, disconsolate.
" Mortimer, don't sit thero and catch
your death of cold. Come to bed."
As I was stepping in, she Baid:
" But wait a moment. Please give
tho child some more of the medicine."
Which I did. It was a medicine
which made a child more or less lively;
so my wife made uso of its waking interval
to strip it and grease it all over
with the goose oil. I was soon asleep
once more, but once moro I had to get
up.
"Mortimer, I feel a draught. I feel
it distinctly. Thero is nothing so bad
for this disease as a draught. Pleaso
move the crib iu front of tho fire."
I did it and collided with' the rug
again, which I threw into the five. Mrs.
McWilliams 6prang out of bed and rescued
it, aud we had somo words. I had
another trifliug interval of sleep aud
thou got up, by request, aud constructed
a flaxseed poultice. This was placed
upou the child's breast and left there to
do its healiug work.
A wood tiro is not a permanent thiug.
I got up every twenty minutes and renewed
ours, and this gave Mrs. McWilliums
an opportunity to shorten the
times of giving the medicines by ten
minutes, which was a great satisfaction
to her. Now and then, between times,
I reorganized the flaxseed poultices, and
applied sinapisms and other blisters
whore unoccupied places could be fouud
upou the child. Well, toward morning
the wood gave out, and my wife wanted
| mc to go down cellar and get some
more. I said:
" My door, it is a laborious job, and
the child must bo nearly warm enough,
with her extra clothing. Now, mightn't
we put on another layer of poultices
aud "?
I did not finish beoause I was interrupted.
I lugged up wood from below
for some little time, and then turned in
and fell to snoring as only a man can
whose soul is worn out. Last at bjoad
daylight I felt a grip on my shoulder
that brought me to my senses suddenly.
My wife was glaring down on mo and
gasping. As soon as she could command
her tongue she said :
" It is over ! All over ! The child's
perspiring! What shall we do."
" Mercy, how you terrify mo ! I
don't know what we ought to do. Maybe
if we scraped her and put her in the
draft again"?
"Oh, idiot! There is nota moment
to lose. Go for the doctor. Go yourself.
Tell him he must come, dead or
alive."
I dragged that poor sick man from his
bed and brought him. He looked at
tlio child and said she was not dying.
Tbis was joy unspeakable to me, but it
made my wife as if he had offered a personal
affront. Then he said the child's
cough was only caused by some trifling
irritation or other in the throat. At t'.ds
I thought my wife had a mind to show
him the door. Now the doctor said he
would mako the child cough harder and
dislodge the trouble. J3o he gave Lu r
something that sont her into a spasm of
coughing, and presently up came a little
wood splinter or so.
" This child has no membranous
croup," said he. "She has been chewing
a bit of pine shingle or something
of the kind, and got some little slivers
in her throat. They won't do her any
hurt."
" No," said I. " I can well believe
that. Indeed, the turpentine that is in
them is very good for certain sorts cf
diseases that are peculiar to children.
My wife will tell you so."
But she did not. She turned away in
disdain, and left the room; and since
that time there is one episode in our life
which we never refer to. Hence the
tide of our days flows by in deep and
untroubled serenity.
A Large Increase.
It may be said that the population of
England increased in the quarter of a
century about twenty per cent.; that the
peoplo living in 1874 were, on an average,
at least twice as well oil as they
weie in 1851; that they drank in 1874
twice as much tea and sugar as thoy did
in 1851, and forty percent, morospirits,
wine and boer; that they had saved
twice as much and traveled nearlv five !
times as much; that, taking the increase
of population into acconut, serions
crime nad decreased by nearlv seventy
per cent., pauperism by more tlran twenty-five
per cent., while primary education
had becomo six times as general.
These are striking symptoms of material
and social progress.
That Rule.
A yonng woman who seems to be opposed
to girls being taught to sew,
writes as follows to the Woman'h Journal
: Some time since a gentleman of
Ithaca said, in quite a company: "I
mean to offor a prize for the best shirt
made by the lady students of the univ<*nity.
' "If you do," I rejoined, impulsively,
" I will offer an equal one for
the best chemise made by a male student.
It is a poor rule that won't work
both ways."
A BIG GAME.
An Intrrcitlng Inrldrnl of I.llc on the mi?
initlppi During (hp War.
In the latter part of 'G4 I made a trip
down the river. Thero came on board
at Cairo a young paymaster who was on
his way to pay a brigade of troops somewhere
in the neighborhood of Vicksbnrg.
It was very quiet on the boat, and on
the tirst night below Cairo the paymaster
sp?nt a good deal of his time after supper
walking up and down the saloon.
There was also walking up and down the
saloon a trim, square-shouldered man
who seemed to be suffering from the
same tediousness; and when they had
met a few times the stranger smiled a
little at the paymaster and said :
" Dull."
"Vory dull," said the paymaster.
"Suppose we have a little game of
draw," said the stranger.
"Good idea," said the payma3ter,
and they sat down and went at it.
Both of them were playing merely to
pass time, at last the paymaster was, and
the other man seemed to be. Thoy had
it one way and the other for an hour or i
two, playing alxmt 85 for a top bet, and
neither of them winning or losing much,
but still gotting more and *noro interested.
Finally oacli seemed to get a big
hand, and thoy began betting heavy in i
the most natural sort of way. The fire
had been smoldering, you see, and it
broke out apparently without their kuowing
it.
Neither of them seemed disposed to i
lay dawn, and they kept on raising and
raising till they were making betsof two,
threo, five hundred dollars, and they (
got the pot up to about seven thousand.
Then the stranger rested his eye on the ?
paymaster for a moment, and made an <
estimate of the amount of his pluck and <
the probable size of his pile, and the result
of his observations seemed to be a j
belief that ho could bluff him or freeze i
him out, for he threw his hand down on
tho table, and leaned over and pulled a 1
bowio knife out of his boot, and drove i
the point of it down through the cards i
into tho table. Then he took a big wallet
out of his breast pockot, and counted 1
out twenty-one five-huudred-dollar
notes. Ho saw the paymaster's last bet <
of five hundred, and then hauled a revolver
off his liip, pushed the twenty I
other bills into the pot, and said: I
" I raise you ten thousand dollars." j
The paymaster looked at the gambler :
about two seconds. Then he beckoned
to his colored boy, a bright young fel- i
lun ?uu wuuiu uuvo giyeu his iliiihwar
tho wink if bo bad ever happened to .
look in bis direotioa, which bo hadu't. (
But be brightened up when be benrd tho ;
word, and walked straight off for the i
paymaster's stateroom. He disappeared I
a moment, and soon showed up again, (
backing through tho door, dragging a !
truuk after him; and he came down the 1
saloon rolling that trunk along on its 1
end, just as handy as though he had I
smashed baggage on a through line all ]
his life. i
The paymaster took a key out of his i
vest pocket, threw up the lid of tho ]
trunk, and took off a sheet of sole leath- i
er that seemed to servo as a sort of binder
for tho bundles of bills underneath.
Ho took two big packages out of the end
and laid them upon one side of the
table. Then he began taking out the
other bundles and stacking them up on
the table in frontof him. Hekepttaking
out and stacking up till he had built a
big triangle-shaped pile, like two pairs
of stairs meeting at the top and all tilled
in solid underneath.
Then he threw his hand down on the
table and pulled a bowie knife out of Iris
boot and spiked it down through the
cards, and while tho handle was still
shivering he handed the two bundles
into the middle of the table and said :
"I see your ton thousand dollars"?
here he braced himself back against the
pile and began moving it up to the
table, continuing to talk all the while?
"and I raise you a hnndred and seventyfive
thousand 1" and then (he did it so
quick that I couldn't see when it was
done) he had a pistol off of each hip and
was resting an elbow about half way up
on each aide of the greenback stairs, both
shooters coveriug tho gambler, and holding
them very straight and steady, too.
Sow, tho gambler was an older man
and of much more experience than the
paymaster, and under any sort qf ordi
nary circumstances he could have j
handled him ten to ono, and ho knew it,
and had no thought of laying down even '
then, and ho seemed to revolvo the 1
thing in his mind for about a quarter of 1
a minute, and when ho had settled what 1
to do he looked up ready to act, but ono
glance at t he joy master inndo him 1
change his mind; for ho could boo 1
shining through the young man's face (
all the accumulated unused grit of years,
and a man with half an oyo could seo
that he meant business.
The gambler realized that fact. Ho <
pulled his knife out of the table, stuck ,
his pistol into his pocket, and walked ofF ,
down the saloon, whistling " llosa Leo" ,
just as soft and pleasant as though he ;
was going for u cigar after diunei. |
Then the paymaster booted his knife ]
and slung his shooters aud packed his (
trunk, putting in along with the rest the
thirteen thousand odd of the gambler's ,
money ; and he didn't ploy any raoro ,
draw that trip. . J
And I am told that he was so much t
impressed l>y the rovclation to himself j
of his own backlwne aud nervo that he
made up his mind there was something !
better for him to do than wasting his j
time iu gumonng, nun uo nasn t handled
a card since.
Lisbon, N. H., raises 100,000 bushels <
of potatoes a year, which are oouverted t
into starch. i
A LESSON TO A DEBTOR.
A <;ood Square Hit that waa Well Deserved.
Says the Boston Commercial Bulletin:
The following, with but slight
variation, sufficient not to betray the
identity of the parties, is the report of a
recent actnal interview ; and the foroible
truths expressed in the conclusion of the
dialogue will doubtless be recognized as
applicable to many similar cases of greater
or lesser magnitude.
A business man in difficulties calls,
with a long face, on one of his principal
creditors, and says :
"Mr. Prompt, I find, owing to the
pressuro of the times, I shall bo obliged
to call a meeting of my creditors."
"Indeed," said Prompt, "then you
cannot meet your liabilities."
Debtor?" I regret to say I cannot."
Prompt?" Well, lot me see, how long
have you been in business?"
Debtor?" About eight years."
Prompt?" How much capital did you
have to start with ?"
Debtor (proudly)?" I had only one
tuousuiiu aouars, Bir, ana my Knowledge
of the business, in which I was
salesman."
Prompt?"You were since married?"
Debtor?" Yes."
Prompt?" Wife any property ?"
Debtor?" None at all ; I have done
everything by my own unaided exertions."
Prompt?" How much do you expect
to be able to pay your creditors?"
Debtor?" Well, I think I could get
out for twenty cents on a dollar."
Prompt?"How much would that
leave you after you got your bankruptcy
discharge ?"
Debtor?" Well, if I could go right
on with the old stock, I might realize a
couple of thousand dollars, but the
ireditors couldn't do so much with it." '
Prompt?" But how about your house
in the suburbs ? That goes in with the
assets, I suppose."
Debtor?" Well, hardly. That's only 1
worth six or seven thousand dollars,
and I settled that on my wife two years
ago."
Prompt?" H'm, hum ! Let mo see ;
what are your liabilities ?"
Debtor?" I should say, at a rough
calculation, twenty thousand dollars."
Prompt (iudiguautly)?"Why, oontoaand
it, sir, it is just such men as you
bliat have been cheating and are cheating
honest men either through your
rascality or accursed ignorance. You
haven't been solvent, according to your
own confession, the whole eight years
you've been in trade, I'll be bound.
Here yon acknowledge you started with
only one thousand dollars of real capital; 1
you have your family living eight years,
saved out a ?7,000 house, and after settling
with your creditors will have i
louble the capital you began with.
4n oli mno rnn liown wa 4- 4-**
1UU1I 4*0 J v? uu?o UU Xtl^ub VU UO Ui
business for themselves, but should be 1
khe employees of those who have brains ]
to guide them. I'll acoept no pro- I
position, and only wish creditors, in?tendof
' setting on their feet' such shams ,
is you to compete with genuine busi- (
ness men, would send you back into the
ranks where you belong."
A Hundred Years Ago.
A gentleman of the olden time, writing
of the Maryland planter one hundred
years ago, says: They shipped their
awn tobacco?brought to a lauding in 1
stout hogsheads, with a revolving axle 1
driven through the middle, and dragged
by a ptrong mule guided by a {rfantation i
band, over what are still known as the i
rolling roads. In return they reoeived i
not only all kinds of necessaries for <
their own consumption, but for supply- 1
iug the lesser planters and their servants.
Of provisions they never had ]
any lack. They raised their own mut- |
ton and beef and pork; then there was ,
venison to be had in the forest, wild <
ducks in abuudance in their season,
Eisk and oysters in the estuaries of the
bay and in the rivers that flowed into
it. They led a life of independence in
, ~ ? ?1 i. -3 It tt- ?
* ill 11 vi UI UW?H UU tueir OWIJ
states, surrounded by their servants,
md dispensed to all comers a lavish hospitality.
Their chief pleasnres were of
the ruder sort. They had their horses
ind hounds, and hunted and tlshcd;
wore fond of races and cock fighting;
aftcn drank freely, and sometimes
gambled heavily. At Doughoregan
manor saddle horses were regularly
brought every summer morning and
bitched under the trees in a picturesque,
nervous group, and any one of the
guests was free to take his choice, and
gallop off over the hills either alone or
with chosen companions. The custom
is still kept up there. Ladies were
Among the boldest of riders. It was the
only mode of quick journeying.
How to Make Mischief.
Keep your eye on your neighbors.
Like care of them. Do not let them
stir without watching. They may do
something wrong if you do. To bo sure
yon never knew them to do anything
very bad, but it may be on your account
they have not. Perhaps if it had not
been for your kind care they might have
usgraoeu memseives long ago. xnen *
Jo uot relax in your efforts to keep them I
where they ought to be. Never mind *
pour own business?that will take care '
jf itself. If yon find any symptoms of *
my one passing out of the path of duty, *
;eil every one elso what you see, and be
particular to see a great many. It is a s
food way to circulate such things, thongh \
t .may not benefit yourself, or any one a
>articnlarly. Do keep something a-going t
?silence is a dreadful thing. It is said ]
ihere was silence in heaven for the spaoe i
if half an hour. Do not let any suoh ]
hing occur on earth. It would be too a
nuch for this mundane sphere. 1
Western Lore.
A youth of Indiana, in lore with a girl
in Minnesota, addresses her in this beautiful
strain:]
I just come down from the baok-ojre state?
some pleasure for to find a handsome
girl from minsplis Jnst salted to my
mind.
Her rosy cheeks and rolling eyes like arrows
pearced my brent and they oalled her
handsome olara the liley of the west.
I oorted her for Jast three days, her lore I
thought to gain to soon, to soon she
slited me wliloh gare me grief and
pain.
she robbed me of my liberty and deprlrdB me
of my rest bat still I lore my clara the
liley of the weet.
MY DREAM.
I dreamp a dream the other night down by
yon ehady grove i saw a ohap of high
degree oonyeroing with my love.
he sung he snng so merryly while I was soar
opreet and he snng to lovely clara the
liley of the west.
I rushed np to my rival a dager in my hand
I tore him from my true love and boldly
bad him stand.
being mad to desperation my dagger pearced
his breet, and I was be trade by clara
the liley of the west.
Items of Interest.
Daniel Murphy, of Tulare, CaL, has
bought 9,000 square miles of land in
Mexioo at two cents an aare.
Frenoh sardine paokers are now putting
up sprats, mackerel, and even more
common species, for the American market.
The question is asked, why newspapers
will persist in abbreviating a son
of temperance and making a 8. <). T. of
him.
Money is very scaroe in Howell oounty,
Mo., and oows form the principal circulating
medium. Galves are used to
make ohonge with.
The Earl of Shaftsbuzy said that if
Loudon had not its four hundred city
missionaries it would have to employ
forty thousand more policemen.
A survey of all the large merchant
steamships has been made by the British
government, with the view to their use
as a part of tho royal navy in case of a
foreign war.
A Portsmouth baby which recently
died was mourned by a father and mother,
two grandfathers, and two grandmothers,
three great grandfathers, and three great
grandmothers.
Daring the reign of the present czar
Russia has gained square miles of
territory and 22,540,000 souls in popuIq^ion.
And reduoed the national debt by
50,000,000 roubles.
A purchaser of a riverside property
asked the real estate agent if the river
didn't sometimes overflow its banks.
"Well," responded he, " it isn't one of
those sickly streams that are always oonfined
to beds."
Bad luck is a man with his hands in
hiB pockets and his pipe in his month,
looking on to see how it will come out.
Good luck is a man of pluck with his
sleeves rolled up and working to make it
come out right.
The Farmers' olub of the;American Institute
have asked Congress to make the
subject of tree culture and economy a
standing branch of study in agricultural
colleges receiving aid or support from
bhe government.
A Middletown compositor has calculated
that in the course of a year's type
setting the average compositor will pat
ap more than 7,000,000 separate pieces,
which, with their distribution, requires
15,000,000 motions of the hand.
By the German census, taken Dec. 1,
it appears that the population of Berlin
has increased sinoe 1871 about 16.7 per
cent.; Breslan, fifteen per cent.; Hamburg,
13.83 per oent.: Frankfort, thirteen
per cent.; and Leipeic, eighteen
per oent.
A young woman looking for a situation
was attracted by an advertisement
for some one to do " light housework."
Bhe called at the address given, and in
:?j i - a.1 i:-Li l ? J it
Siurtju wu?rw uio u^ub uuuw wuu uuu u
iere was any way of getting on shore
on Sundays.
Thirty-three mines in Colorado have
been opened to a depth of from one hundred
to nine hundred feet sinoe 1859.
Five of them were idle last year, but the
rest produced ore valued at nearly $2,[)00,000.
Since their dieoovery they have
yielded 826,980,000.
Pennsylvania court stenographers
iiavo to take this oath : " You solemnly
swear that the testimony that you take in
;his case shall be the truth, the whole
irnth, and nothing but the truth." This
vould seem to do away entirely with the
lecessity of swearing witnesses.
When the wind storm that reeentty
levastated Tejon pass began there were
100,000 sheep feeding on the plains,
houBonds of whioh were blown into the
?}lches and buried by the driving sand.
ver 30,000 sheep were lost. On the
iau Emido, cattle whioh took refuge in
>ods of streams were in some places
juried out of sight.
Two brave men, having fought and
ihaken hands, are the last men in the
rorld to cherish small animosities
gainst eaoli other. No point in any
irnma is more heartily appreciated by an
Snglish or Amerioanaudianoe than that
n the " Lady of Lyons " where Colonel
Oamaa remarks how mnoh he likes
mother man after he has fought with
lim.