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w THE CAMDEN JOURNAL. AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY PAPER, PUBLISHED BY JOIIIV KERSHAW. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One year, in advance $2 50 Six months 1 50 Three months 75. ssr Transient Advertisements must be pa,id for in advance. How Falataff Lost H$s Fa.t. Vm. - - - # * C iwk. %. -7I , ?m?"ggggggg i^ VOL. XXXI. CAMDEN,S.C., THIIBSDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1873. - NO.23 ?????? ^? ?*?????a Some years a;*o. when the rcnownod Baron Hackett, (who died T>oc. 2?th, 1871.) revolved in a regular orbit, and was a rejru lar star, instead of the erratic comet he afterwards became, when he performed but semi-occasionally. and dropped down like a june bufj anions some managers in distress who would seize him lor "one nijrht only.,' he commenced an enjracrement of six nijrhfs in the old National theatre. Cincinnati, appearing in his favorite character of 'Falstaff,' in tho "Merry Wives of Windsor." He had. durinprthc previous week, played at the Louisville theatre, then under the same manajrement. and to which place a portion of the Cincinnati company had been t? support him. Amonp them was 8am B , one of -the "respectable utility people' to whom Hack eft did not show, as Sam thought, t b:itamount <>f resppct due from one actor to another. Hackeft seemed to single poor Saui out as the particular object upon which to concentrate all his peevishness and ill nature, and though Sam had to grin and bear it.be made up his mind to be revenged, and swore it in the most melodramatic and stately style.? Accordingly, when Ilackett transferred himself and his baggage to Cincinnati, and Sam received orders from Dave Sarsedas. the stage manager. to return with him. he chuckled with delight. and looked unutterable things as he took his parting drink with his brother arlists. at the bar of the fast steamer, Pike No. 4. % Therehersnl passed on in tne mornmp. m rineinnatl. without any demonstration. The ctar more eyaot?ner than ever with poor c:.ii wpn Vi'.-o fll1 with a patient shrup. and t "ded h'" t'me with aM thepatienep ho cmld i muster \hrht ran;e. and with it a crowd .-d house. for TTaehet* at that time was in the zenith ef'lils popularity. and on his appear- 1 nnce the nndienee aoso almost en masse, and round after round of hearty weloominp applause preeted him He looked splendidly; his make-up was admirable, and in his false obesity he was the < living: embodiment of the hearty, sly, witty, vapabondizinp fat knipht. Tlie dress he wore was one in whieh ho took preat pride, and was one of his own in- 1 ventinn. Tt was eonstmeted nn the plan of a life pres-rver, and after beinp put on was blown up by means of a tube, until it assnm- I ed the necessary rotundity, and the wearer was surrounded by an immense air oham- 1 her. s This made the dress lipht. oonl, and port- ' * 1 *11 J nn imrimpn. aDic, ann was in an ie?|r?:vu5 <m ment nn the old method of stufFinjr. ^ As the rdav progressed on the nijrht in question, the audience in front heeomincr J more end more delighted, and ?am was seen , hv his brother artists, behind, to become [ . more and more excited. At last the scene came in which TTaclcett j 1 had the sta<re to himself, and the star stood j i in the entrance, wrrtinrfnr his eno term on, |* and close behind stood ?am loolcinc datrcers. t with a carpenter's brad awl grasped in his i hand. 3 The cue was criven and in went. TTaclcett. But he had not commenced the scene, when | i amid the death-like silence of the audience j an audible and prolonged hiss was distinctly heard. j TTaclcett s owled and looked about him. into the pit. the boxes and the ?rnllerv. in search i of the vile wretch who dared to hiss him. i ? - - ' - 1 1 TT 1 .11 But the fuss continued. ann nacKotr cnm-t i mencod his lines. Tliss again ! ITe stop- t ped and once more looked about him. but the < hiss continued, and crew louder every mo- i mcnt. The audience cried "order." Sove- I ral enthusiastic individuals cried "put him out." but still the hissinff continued. Again r JIackett commenced his soliloquy, but that i infernal hiss still ran? in his ears and ho j could not <ro on. t The audience now becran to titter, the star o grew more and more nervous, and walkinar i down to the foot lichts. he appealed to the audience to know the cause of these marks J of disapproval and "this ebullition of their c mirth." I The onlv response was a burst of lunch- v tor, and the star stood looking unutterable t things. and lost in wonder and amazement \ at this unaccountable demonstration. s As the audience stopped laughing for a moment the abomniable hiss greeted bis ears gain, but now it seemed to come from behind him, and as he turned half around, an- f other shout of laughter drove him nearly mad. as he preecived that not only the audience but the actors, who bad congregated at the entrance, joined in the mirth; none louder than Sam R , whose face was per- t /ecfcly resplendent with delight. t At last the prompter came to the rescue. a ^Valking on the stage, he stepped up to the t jstar and whispered in bis ear. Hackett stood \ ^bj a moment as if paralyzed, and then com- f fenced a survey of himself. His rotundity j 4was pone. His obese proportions had van- 1 phed and here he stood, ''his hose a world t }r> .wide for h's shanks;" his '.'corporation" i dwindled to nothing, and his dress hanging ( . fund him in voluminous folds like a main t sail hare/nig from a yard. The secret was | out. The air chamber had been punctured, i and there he had been standing growing < "smaller by degrees, and beautifully less," , for the Jast five minutes. ; Giving one look at the audience, and an- j o)ther at his legs, he rushed ofl the stage amid suoh bursts of laughter as even he had 1 never created before. i Sam stood at the entrance as his enemy ] came off. a sardonic smilp upon his counten- i ance, and the fatal br^d awl which had done ] the business, concealed in his bosom. As he turned to look at the crest-fallen knight, he muttered: "Who would fardals heap, to groan and sweat Under a (star's airs) and graces; Whea he .himself coqlt} his ..quietus make With a bare bodkin ?" A Perfect Cure. A contributor tells an exchange how he was permanently cured of fits. lie was ridins in the mining districts of Nevada, one of those mushroom growths common in the territories, when night came upon him. Tired and hungry, lie drew up at a greasy, dirty shanty which was called a tavern, and sought accommodation. He thus details hisuight's experience. The landlord could only give me a ropju with a bed-fellow. ''Very well, I don't object," said I. as he led the way by the light of a miserable tallow dip, which he left witl\ me to light ni? to bed I surveyed the room, and particularly my bed fellow. He w?9-a mihl-tooking uiai^, I thought?perhaps a class-leader iu souio primitive log church near by. His repose i:i.? W!IS SO CJUiet UI1U CIIIIU-IIM; IIIUK 1 UIUU^IIU nv, would sleep peacefully together for the night; but beforel had blown out the light he opened a snore that seemed liko a cross between filing a saw and sawing a hoard, and my feelings at onee became malicious toward him. 1 blewout the light and turned in, and still the snore continued. The moon had now risen, making every object in the room visible. I punched my friend, and as he opened his eyes with a snap lie said: "liy jingo! how you scared me, Mister! You going to sleep here to-night?" ' Yes." "Well I'm mighty glad of it. I always like company. It's kinder lonesome to sleep alone." "Yes, it is so. Pardon nic for wakingyou, but I thought it my duty to tell you that I sometimes take fits." ' What, fits! You don't say so Mister?" ' Yes. 1 do. I'm not particularly dan geroqr. but 1 bite sometimes; so be careful tljut 1 don't get my teeth into you?" Well, I'll bo doggoned? I hope you won't have any fits," "So do 1." "I hope, Mister, you won't bito me, if you Jo have any fits." "0, I hope not" lie drew a long breath and then siad : "Weil, I'm afraid I won't sleep auy to night." . ' 0, don't lose any sleep.' ' But how aui I to kuow when you are ;oing to have fits ?" ' (J, I groan and breathe hard, and foam it the mouth ; and and, when you hear me >uap my teeth like a dog, then you'd better ook out." ' Well, I'm blamed if I ain't sorry. Mister,' ,ou come in here. I'm afraid you'll be more Jouipaiiy than I want." "0, don't be uneasyj I sometimes do not lave any for months. Let's go to sleep;" md I pretended to drop offinto peaceful sluwicr. My companion rolled and tumbled uneasiy for some time, then dropped off into a estless sleep, and saon commenced that old more just where lie left off when I woke him i]?. That decided me i.pou having a fit, and villi a fearful snore, and a horrible groaning, [ set my nails into his arm, and my teeth ino his shoulder, just hard enough to nip lively, but it was enough for the purpose. nr-.i" l 11 I... |.A,1 I >> 1111 ti lUFl 1U1U \UH lie IIUUI liiu IJMu, md went fiying down stairs, exclaimed : '*0 dear, he's got tits, he's got fits! tie's jit a piece out of my shoulder!" The landlord, with a crowd from the bar ooin, came hurrying up, and found uie ju6t ccovcring from the effects of the fit. andgivng me a hot toddy from his own private botle. he left me. lie carried with him the slothing of my bed fellow, who had turned n on a blanket down stairs, rosolved to be jittcn no more by men having fits. It was delicious to have the whole bed to nyself, an 1 luxuriated in it by stretching nyselfentirely across it. Iliad soon dropicd into a peaceful slumber as innocent us uy childhood, whan I was aroused by some me roughly shaking my shoulder, and say ng: ^ ''Wake up. stranger, and move over, i lalf this bed's mine." I ojiencd my eyes j n a six f'jot teamster, who was pulling off, lis hoots. A rough-looking specimen, he | vas; but he annoyed me most by taking up | wo-thirds oft he bed and crowding me to the ! rail. 1 coucludcd to try another fit, and j aid : ' My friend!" '*0! shut ilp your trap; I'm sleepy." "Hut I thought I'd tell you that I have t. its." "Well, fit away, snynn don't wako mo " "Hut 1 bite when 1 have them." "Well, bite the bed post, then." Now, this ought to have convinced me ; hat he was tho wrong customer, but it j lidu't; and, waiting until he was sound i islccp, like a fool I buckled in, and set my ccth and nails into him in splendid style, vhile I groaned fearfully. It was the best it I had ever had. a perfect success on my jart; but the way that chap jumped out of >ea and mauled me around that room was lie most perfect succes in pugilistic treatnent I ever experienced, lie bruught rnc ?ut <>f that fit. lie cured mo of it. I don't hink I'll ever have another, but I didn't like his Mfi'lifiiii!. ISIy e\cs all lilac krd up. iiyimsc bloodied. lip slit open, oce c.arllattento my head, my shirr-l'nmt all torn ofl'. md to make the matter worse the fellow was i tslccp in live minute# after, as th ugh n tli i in?r had happened The next morning ! went d \vn late to j breakfast, and all crowded around iomo the man who had fits, and to tell mo that my borsp had been stolen. The mild looking man, iny first fied-l'ellow, had gone off with bun. The Grand Duke Alexts was snowballed in St. Louis by the gamin* as he was on his way to the Merchants' Exchange. One ball knocked off his hat. One of the St. Louis officials explained that snow was very iarc in that region of the country, when it did come the populace tyeijt nearly wild with deight. I Bqjq ButlerA New York paper declares to-day thatGeneral Butler was govcr considered a jack ass or an idiot-. Not lie never was so considered. What Butler considers himself can be gathered from his satisfaction at not "being called a d?Ji fool; go matter if they do call me a d?scoundrel."- It ought to bo added that Butler never considered it important whoso initials were on spoons and * sgcli,.. A propos of this genial confiscator of the contents of disloyal sideboards; the f? l- j lowing story will be found bot new and true. . While Ben bossed New Orleans, he informed a waggish but very ill Con federate officer, (ben sik at his home in the city, that he - ? - -? i ? ?A m: 4,._ must take tne oatn oreiear out. j.iub uruct n was peremptory. The confederate demurred as much as possible, alleging that he vria . used up anyhow, that he didn't believo in i the old government at all, and that the odds were he would soon die and sccedo perman- ' ontly. It was of no uso, so he got Ben to administer the dose to him himself. Ben complied, holding the book behind the back of his neck so as to bring it within rango of his serviceable orb. Tim officer swallowed the oath with sincere and suggestive grimaces. At its close he seemed rejuvennted, and he asked Butler, "Ain't I as good a Union man ( as you novf, General ?" "Yes, if you liye up to that oath," rejoined Ben. "And I can J abuse the South as loud as the worst of you ?" 1 inquired the officer. "To your heart's con- | tent," replied the Beauty. "Well, then, , General," added the sick man, rising in bed, ( and "fixing" Butlca's one eye, with bis two, j "If you and I had that d?d old Rebel Lee, , in our hands, rconhhit- ice steal kis Gatch!" , The oath-taker got four days in the guard, j ' Kn ltrna Wi'fli t.llP II- HIM*. UUI HC saiu ne nuo ouvipuwu nivw ?Mv j p.-ice he paid for it.?Brooklyn Eagle. Tobacco?By a Small Boy.?Tobacco j grows something like cabbages, though I j never saw any of it bJiled, although I huvc j eaten hoiled cabbage and vinegar on it, and I heard men say that cigars'that was given j1 to them (in election day for nothing, was cabbage leaves. Tobacco stores are mostly ^ kept by wooden Injuns, who satnd at the i' door and try to fool little boys by offering !, them a bunch of cigars which is glued into ; the Injun's hands, and is made of wood also. Hogs do not like tobacco?ueithcr do I.? 1 I tried to smoke cigar once, and it made me 1 feel like Kpsoni salts. Tobacco was invented by a man named Walter Kaleigh. When the people first saw him smoking they <; thought he was a steamboat, and as they had ; never seen a stoauibuat they frightened. 3fy. ^ sistef Nancy is a girl. I don't know whether she likes tobacco or not. There ir- a yonfe^. ^ man named Leroy who oouies to sec her."? lie was standing on the steps one night, and 1 j had a eigar in his uiouth. and he said he ! ^ didn't know as she would like it, and she , j said: ';Leroy, the peofumc is acreeablo." Hut when my big brother Tom lighted his ' pipe, Nancy said : '-(Jet out of the house, 1 ^ you horrid creature. The smell of tobacco ^ makes nic sick." j fj Some time since it was announced that a j man at Titusvillc. Pa., eomuiitted suicide i c for the reason that lie was his own grand- j ^ father, .caving a dying slatamcut explain-j 9 ing this singular circumstance. Wo will; t not attempt to unravel it, but give his ex-1 v plauation of the uiixed-up condition of his L kinsfolk in his own words. He says : ,;I j married a widow with a grown-up daughter, q My father visited our house very often, fell > in love with my step daughter, and married ' s her. So my father became my soi "lilaw : n and nly step-daughter became my mother, j ^ because she is my father's wife. Some time A 1 I? .1 1- J 1 aiterwuru my iamer naa a sun; no was my i father's brother-in-law and my uncle, for he I . was the brother of my step-mother. My j f' fuller's wife?that is, my step daughter? ! had also a son; he was of course my brother, and in the meantime my grandchild, for he ^ was the son of my daughter. My wife was c my grandmother, because she was mother of I1 my daughter. I was my wife's husband and grandchild afc the same tiuie?and as the ^ husband of a person's grandmother is his u grandfather, I am my own grandfather." An Involuntary Deserter.?During one of Napoleon's remarkable campaigns a t; detachment of a Corps, commanded by Da- ' vnnst. occupied the isle of llugen, which j they wore to evacuate. They embarked with such precipitation that they forgot one of their sentinels, who was posted in a re- J tired spot, so deeply absorbed in the perusal j of u newspaper containing an account of one pj of the Kmperor's splendid vie' rics as to be tj totally unconscious of their departure. Aftor going to and fro for many hours upon ^ his post, he lost patience and returned to the guard-room, which he found empty. On inquiry, he learned with despair what had * happened, and cried : "Alas, ulus ! I shall l.n looked unon rs a deserter; dishonored, i. lost, unhappy wretch that I am." His la- " mentations excited the compassion of a a worthy tradesman, who took him to his house, did all in his power to console him, taught hiui to make bread, for he was a ha- ^ kcr, and after some months gave him his ii only daughter. Justine, in marriage. r Five years afterward a stranger sail was seen to approach the island. The inhabitants Y flocked ti> the beach, and soon discovered in *' the itdvancing party a number of soldiers h wearing tho uniform of the French army, t i'ln <1 no f'-r n< w?mv bread is baked." a cried the. d:s:naycd hushand of Justine. An . idea, however, suddenly occurred to him 1 and revived his courage. lie ran to the v house, slipped into his uniform, and seining 1 his 6re-lock. returned to the beach and post- f ed himself as sentry at the moment the t French wore landing. "Who goes there ho cried in a voice like thunder. "Who c goes there, yourself?" replied one in the 1 bont. "Who are you ?" "A sentinel." t "How long have you been on guard here ?" "Five years," rejoined our man. Pavoust laughed at this quaint reply, and gave a ( discharge in due form to this involuntary ? deserter, I AFemale Physician Wounds one man -and Kills Another in a Street Car in ' Utica. A telegram from Utica New York, to the Associate Proas, under date of the 17th inst., gives the following account of the shooting of two men, one fatally, in a street car in that city: Milton H. Thompson pf this city, was th'? afternoon shot through the nose and check, and H. H. Hall, a coal dealer of Ogdcnsbnrg, was shot i^ the head and instantly killed, by a woman giving the name of McCartey of Albany. Tho woman McCarty got on the street car somewhere near the head pjf- Goneasoe street. Thompson and Hall,-who was a relative, got on the cars at Tfwtopaoo's residence. Some words passed between Mrs. Mc Carty and Thompson when the. woman drew a revolver and shot at Thompsoih, the ball passed through his face and struck Hall in the heart. The latter sprqng from his seat and fell dead upon the bottom of the car. Thompson's wound is not considered dangerous. The wornan is under, arrest. The Albany Journal of last evening makes , the following, explanations: , This Mrs. McOarty is the "female physi- , clan"' oi this city,"known as Mrs. Burleigh, j some of whose professional works have given her considerable notoriety in the past few ( months. It seems that she travels ( under different names, generally "Burleign" f but sometimes Seymour, as iu Utica McOarty. , rhe police of Utica have telegraphed for her ( zenoral character, but have no other partic- { alars than the above. It seems that there , nas a cause for the quarrel with the man , Ihompson, whom Mrs. Burleigh attempted ( ;o kill. Some three years ago she, claims, ( lie enticed her into a stateroom on one of ( jiir steamboats. The result was a daughter j vho is now living, and she commetfccd to t ilackmail Thompson. Among other valua- ? jles which she obtained from him was the jo'uSC which she recently occupied in IIow ird street. Ilaving then refused ' to contin- ( 10 his benefactions she infonri&a ufs family p if -.*liat had transpired. Upon this Thomp- r ;on foreclosed tho mortgago on the Howard j treet hoin:e, and on last Monday the'woman t )cw?me houseless, Sho at once", proceeded .. o Utica, and thiB murder is the result. The ( uan she intended to kill will probubly live. ] kn innocent man was killed. & Tni officers of the steamer Florida, the J iverhauling and soarching of which by a ( Spanish craise^Jttts created considerable exiteWnVftrmi made the following statement { ^ ?-?-- ~ "At 8 M., a Spanish war. vessel, the j Faseo*5iuncx de Balboa, which had been't ratching the Florida in port, was seen pass- ( ng Water Island under steam and sailing lirectly in the track of the Florida, At j ;30 A. M., the war steamer bore down on r ho Florida. At 1:5G A. M., the smoke of * team vessels wa- seen to windward, when he war steamer hauled to the northward in J ?tpIiK nf1 flio VlnriVla [KllUUCU WUICU TT I l II tlluv v/A vuv .'ho strange steamer proved to bcthc Halifax j nd St. Thomas mail boat. Tho war steamer ^ lien bore down on the Florida, with her . row at quarters and her guns run out ready or action. When the war steamer was in 0 peaking distance, she fired a blank shot at he Florida and lowered a boat nearly to the ratcr'r edge. The United States flag was hen hoisted on the Florida and no further oticc was taken of the hostile demonstration, v 'en minutes after the firing of the first gun, i: lie war steamer fired a second gun. and a e hot was seen to riochet astern of tho Florida a lie Florida was then hove to. and a cutttcr h roui the war steamer came towards her." t Grand Transformation Scene.?This t ime the scene is laid in Pennsylvania; the f ero of the play is a teamster, '-native and to a lie manor born," and the plot had something o ) do with benzine. Mr. Teamster is riding y heerfully along the public highway seated '? pon a load of benzine. As he travels he n as an idea that a social cigar would prove a o ood companion, so ho lights a cheroot, ana ? msing on the things certain and uncertain, a ermits the team to continue the journey d ecording to their own pleasure. 13ut all a liings, good, bad and indifferent must, have r n end, and a cigar is no exception. In duo p line the cigar was burnt dowii to an uupleas- I nt proximity to our heroes moustache.? I loused from his meditation he throw's the p tump behind liini. and is instantly a partic- s [>ant in a grand transformation scene. Nu- a njrcuit. barrels of the excitable fluid united v ;i one grand burst of harmony and light.? a 'lie astonished driver concludes to stop on t lie road, while the Frightened horses plunged d head at the top of their speed, leaving be- f iud a fire}' train which bears out the simile h f a sort sf a terrestrial comet. A collision p tops the horses, the frightened peasants imgirie the niilleniuui, the owner loses his ben- v nie, and the driver finds nut a single screw u jft to remind him that he had once owned t wagon, and?the curtain falls. li c Tiie Use of Advertising.?A New i Tor k wholosale grocer who has become rich 0 . c n his business, has lately made the following g evolutions. He says his rule always was, c rhen he sold a bill of goods on credit, to c inmcdiately subscribe for the local paper of a lis debtor. So long as his customer udveriscd liberally and vigorously, he rested; but s soon as lie began to contract his advertis- ? ng he took the fact as evidence that there ^ ras trouble ahead, and he invariably went t or his debt. -For," said he, "the man who 1 t eels too poor to make his business known, is ( oo poor to do business." The withdrawing , >f an advertisement is an evidence of weak- i icss that business men are not slow to ob- 1 terve. 5 The corporation of London discoverd an ' jrror of ?20 in thoir accounts. A profes- ( lional accountant was called in and fixed the \ iing right. His charge was ?482, ' j, American Absurdities In Dress. IIow shocked would these ladies of our "first society" be, if they knew that the torturing and ill forming shoe on whose stiltlike heels thoy tilt and suffer, no Paris shop keeper would offer to a lady. To suffer the excruciating pain of the inquisition, to be crippled for life for the sake of paying the , French lady, would be hard enough; but af- i] ter such martyrdom, to bo only likcjthe dtfni monde of the boulevards is too bad. . Fer, more than two years, American wonjed^eSn j pecially young girls have walked the public j streets, with conspicuous chains and lockets * or flaunting bows and ribbons attracting the ! attention-of evory passing tgazer to their { bare throats and dressca-open a couer, solac- j ing themselves for the exposition by the f thought that it was "perfectly French." If \ an it Brno o onotnmo tvkir>ll nn Proncll lltdv 1 OV/ 11/ VT414) I* VVOI.UU4W " -V * J | I would wear on the public pavement. The J 8 dress of the .French lady is artistic, simply t faultless?faultless often because of its siui- j plieity itself. She may wear brilliant colors t in her drawing room and in her carriage? fc never on the street. When sho walks she 4 wears black or grey, and it never drags on jj the ground. When she goes to church she ^ wears the same colors auij is always attired t in the simplest manner. This is true also of c Italy. In the Sistine chapel, Rome, no lady t can enter unless attired in black, with no ^ covering on her head except a vail of the } jamo hue. What a contrast to the church 0 nf AniniMonn uminon ! 'Tliov nrfi no. U customed to consider themselves as perfect f, mints compared with Italian and French \\ ^omen, yet they enter the house of God as t< ;hey would a theatre They don their gavist plumage, hang on their chains and lockits, take off their kid gloves to show their ^ liamond rings in the sacred temple just as tj n the academy of music. Worse, they 'm itare and comment on each others costumes, jj ind absolutely make the house of worship a p dace in which to study the fashions?this s not French.;-The same lack of fitness in ^ Iress is seen in the utter disregard to age as J is well as occasion in the adaptation of dress. ^ rhc woman of 30 or 40 may be as beautiful C( is the woman of 20 by her "own right, if C( here is no incongruity between her years. aj ind her attiro. It is only when the woman ^ >f 40 dresses like the girl of twenty that s^e tj ooks absurd. We despise her not for what a] ihe is but fur trying to bo that whiehkso pal- p >ably she is not. A French married lady w lever wears a round hat, an English maid- j m never to church. Yet, everywhere", C( Imnrinan mnlpfltlJ mflr Krt RPPT1 With ? >y hats, set on their grey heads like helmets ^ lofltfweired and befealhereH, and more fan- w astic than the ones fforn by their little r< laughters of 10, while the little gills of ten nay be seen dancing at Dodsworth's in bro:udo silk and point-lace collars, old and ?( jrand enough for their grandmothers. Flan c lei and linncn and muslin are worn by little irinces and princcscs abroad,?but arc by no tj ueans fine enough for the little princes and ^ irinccsscs of America All of which is not ^ French, though to be perfectly French has ^ ?een the alpha and omega of our alphabet jj n dress. Plainly we must begin to learn it ^ vcr again, j1; y, Professor Tyndall and the Boya. sc cc Professor Tyndall?best of all living sa- m ants for making the truths of siencc famil- hi :ir to the meanm>t understanding?signuliz- cc .1 ?V.? I'Uu.tmW ill London 1)V nl U tuc V/Uiwiiuoo M4lUi.v.wH.j ... -J , talk to the boys. A correspondent says of -ej liin: A Dr Tyndall is more like an older and bet- of cr informed boy talking to the others, when tr alking to boys, than I thought it possible or a professor to be, while his illustrations' nd asides take his address completely out f the dull and dry category, and put his ourig audience completely at their ease.? Vhy, he lit his cigar in one of his experi- C< ucn|s and positively smoked it for a moment r t\fo, telling us all that when he did the L amd thing at Cambridge some years ago he stoiiished the dons there very much. "I (c on't suppose any one had ventured to light C cig^r in Cambridge Senate-house before," of emnrked the professor, "and the great peo- B Ie assembled in it looked as if they thought es hadn't ought to have taken the liberty." M 'his said while a cigar is being lit, and as a w ru'u le to its being put between tlio profes- sq ional lips and puffed at, delighted the boys ?' nd girls.- One professor outraging the con- 0( cntional susceptibilities of other professors, m nd telling the story as a good jolce, is just h he thing to hit boy-nature, and if Dr. Tynall bad wanted volunteers for a desparately orlorn hope yesterday, my opinion is that p! ie might have counted upon half the lads p.. iresent. Again, while explaining the process by p .Inch frost and snow had been produced on 0j nc of the vessels before him. and scraping he snow from its sides, the lecturer won all n icarts. ''There is more snow than I expect* d to find; enough to make a snow-ball; and jc f T were very wicked I could make a snow ball iut of this, and pelt Mr. Plank, (the lcctur- sc rs assistant) with it." Professor Tyndall uitcd the action to the words, and having lOUiprcSscd the snow until it was hard and. :ouipact. took elaborate aim at the gentleman issisting him (whose back was turned) and ent the ball spinning past him and within 8 wo inches of his head. ^ | It may be imagined how the boys roared - it this; and although thc.-e demonstrations vcre exceptional, the pleasant familiar and riendly, manner and speech maintained 'u hroughout were equally noteworthy, as were .he surprising pains taken to follow each :hain of reasoning fairly out. The boy or W rirl who fails to master the principles of w vhat is being put before thein at the Iloyal cc institute must be singularly obtuse. ' tn Some of the grave, reverend professors of d< icience in this country might usefully study d< his lesson. They talk quite over the heads ui )f o.ur boys. Hut American lads would be e< is willing as the English to be so pleasantly et instructed and entertained. ti i j.-" - ' : n "" ADVERTISING RATES. rSi?AtB. 151. ai^f ? M. 6.M- IT." luquaw i <'5:00 - 6 00 8'0(>| 12 00 16 GO, a-oquares 6 00-~r00 12 00 18 00 26 &J 3 squares .. 9 00*13 00 16 00 24 60 36 00 4 squares 12 00 J6 00 20 00 SO 00 43 00 } column Io OQ 19 00 24 00 34 0( 60 00 J column Hr 20 00 80 00 40 00 55 00 80 00 ^ column 30 00 60 00 60 00 90 00 150 00 All Transient Advertisements will be charged OSe Dollar per Square for the first and Seves* tt-fit* Oexts per Square for each subsequent insertion, . 'A' i . , ' EXTRAORDINARY GyRATIONNS OP A Steam Boiler.?The Chicago Times of a recent date, contains the following: The explosion at Wahl't glue factory, la$$ Sunday afternoon, was in every respect 1 most peculiar one. The toiler was one of the most perpendicular, kind, with its base resting on solid masonry! It was 15 fit. high, and 42 inches in diameter. It was made .of the b^t boiler iron, strongly rivited, and was, in tl\e opipion of skilled mechanics, in pxqpllont prdor. At 5:30 o'clock occurred the exniosion. The boiler was lifted from. its fastenings -and hurled bodily through space to a distance of nearly 400 feel, passed upward along a large b/ick chimney, nade its exit through, the roof' of tbfr engiue'oom, w^ht straight up a distance of- urob; ib!y 100 ft, then toward the West and to^, n the ote^k.' $Tta lower end of the batter ' truck the extrefne^ upper end of the top*:' nast with suffiotent.force to cause it to loisq ; ts balance, but not hard enough to ..bsgajk^ he timber. l!hcn "the Ik'rge mass of iron. . > >egan slowly to revolve; iand at the same irne bogpn its-, descent, up til almost! p an ' ostant it struck ^he earth,'.acr||p the river,' ml* such force that one,.. burifd i|Lt ho clary a distance, p'f 4,& ?It V&s in this.; onditieH^ standing almost "perpendicular, hat the boiler wasfQund-hy Wahl's eih[loyecs. Apparently it was. uninjured.*^ :esteraaywomnen aug it ap ana piacea it . n some titioters. Then an examination pf t was made, and barring the absence of the , urnace-door and a slight break on the inside ining, there is absolutely nothing the matjr with the boiler, ^n incident occurred recentiy which, cerlinly,'for good sense and proper* appropria- * ion of the rules.of etjqdette oja the . part of * iq principle actors' certainly spqak^ y?ry ? tfclv Blr. garner, Ameri^_ Minister to ; ehma^'indV\irother-ibrla^.,tp^a Presi- t ent;Vasii^centiy present at a.4inner gim: - ' y the German Minister^all the resident <U- ; / loBmts heing presdnt': During'the time,*ifc >' as stated by Mr. Cramer that ha_was in ra- \ ript of a lptter from his goyerpmient trhich' jntaiiicd an explanation of the Catacazy ') fair 'wliich he vtWdicad. to them. - This ; > as objected to by ihe Russian Minister on . ic ground that the place was pot suitable, ad that itconcomed Duly the American and iussian Governments. lMr. Cramer, arose ' ith' the letter in his hand, and the Buaeian linister was'about to leave, stating that he mid not remain to heoir it. ? The German liniatar Raid Via orrald not allow the- loiter to ) his colleagues. Cramer thee said that ho ould Call on each one the next day and jad the letter, which was done. IIow is this relished by the people of the nited States ? Do they like to see their jverninent thus brought into contempt? IIale Old Age.?A nonogenerian beyond le Mississippi, who is as lively aiB a boy, atibutes his hale old age to the fact that he as scrubbed himself every morning since is youth with a corn-cob. Kali Journal of [ealth suggests that if he had scrubbed imself thoroughly at night as well, he might ave lived to be one hundred and eighty jars old. The secret of a bajpy old age ems to be quite itnpenitrable. Expcrien:s as to old age differ sufficiently to castout any theories, of the right and wrong in the lbits of living. But hearty old ago is exsptional in any case, and it is none the less ain that life on the whole, will be lengthred by a proper observance of hygenio laws, -? ? ? ?J ? *\A in man may survivu hiiu ucuuuio uiu m ojumj ! many transgressions; it is none the less ue that the multitude shorten their lives j thoir follies. The following letter from Mr. DuPre, In* ndant of Abbeville, was published in the plumbia-. Union of Saturday; Abbeville C. H., S. C., Jan. 19,1872 teiTy Union, Columbia, S. C.: A fire-occurcd in our town this A. M., >ne o'clock,) which entirely consumed the ourt House, the Marshall House, the stores *;J. Knox, Trowbridge k Co., Traegar & evuest, and Kapham k Sklarz, also, liquor itablishnient1 of L. H. Russell, Christain & Wilson, J. Knox aud Lee Russell, together itli all the smallar buildings on the two [uares occupied by frcedmen. Loss about r5,000. Insurance about 810,000 or $12, )0. Clerk, Sheriff and Probate Judge lost ) any valuable papors. i'J. !F. C. DuPRE, itenda'nt. /. Teutonic Coolness A few days ago a xir of Bismarcks were playing a duet on a ird table, with an accompaniment by Gain-* -inus, in an uptown saloon,' when a third euton entered excitedly aud addressing ono ? the players, said: "Shinglcdiddlcr, your boss and vagon has in avay I" t'Ish dat so ? Vy you not shtop hirjx von etle r "Coz he vos haaf a square away before X e him." "How you know he vos my hoss and vagx ?" t "Vy, he had your name on de vagon," "Is dat so ? Yell, you dink you putty, imart, aint it ? But dat ijh not my vagon -it ish mine vifc's hoss'u vagon. Hurry up liakc. (to his partner,) blay out dish game. ' Uaf Imca'ti vjitrnn frih Rhmashed un ven I UUl/ UWUW .-jy?. 0-w -r t home to-night, my vife give me hell .Congus." The Largest Dert in tiie "World.? 'hen the German indemnity is paid France ill have the largest national debt of any >untry in the world, amounting in round ambers to $4,500,00.0,000, or more than auble the present amount of the public ibt of the United States. An idea of this oprecedentcd national burden may beform1 when.we state that it represents a sum jual to $125 per head of the entire populaonof France.