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?????? II 1 VOL. XXXVII. CAMDEN. S. C., JANUARY 30, 1879. NO. 28. lit; Camden Journal r BL1SHED EVERY THl'RS JtA 1 ? AT? CAMDEN, S. C., ? BY? c. c. ALEXANDER.! SubNcriptlou lluteHS (is advance.) One Year $2.00 > Six Monti:- 1 00 I 1 Epigrams. t. A pompous attorney, while trying a cause, Was quizzing a witness and looking for flaws. The witness, who owed him a personal gradge, Provoked him until he appealed to the judge. " I demand, sir,'' he oried, with a fiery-red faoe, " A little attention while trying this case." ' lour honor,'' responded the meek little man, "Im paying as little as any one can." The judge, with a frown, Looked solemnly down On the squabble, and said, from the bench where he sat, " We want nothing but silence, and little of thai." it. Said young Komeo Butts to Miss Claribel Cutts, (As they^stood in a parlor resplendent with ligl" ~ With a wea^i^ome sigh, 'Oh, I cannot tell why, Bat somehow, I feel like & fool here to-night." Said Miss Claribel Cntts to Romeo Batts, With a pitiless smile that she oonld not conceal : "Yes. your faoe would betray,I am sure, what you say, For yon certainly look all yon say that yon feel." m. . ' Oh, husband!" said Mrs. Ophelia MoMunn, As ehe gazed at her willfnl and passionate son, " Where that boy got his temper, I never could ee; I'm certain be never oould take it from me." "No doubt, my dear wife, your assertion is true? I n^rer have missed any temper from you." ?Chicago Tribune. THE STORY OF TWO SINGERS. Ail Italian vessel bad reached the shores of America. The passengers had landed. The wealthy had been taken to their hotels or their friends' homes in carriages. The poor folk, who still had some certain destination and some one to greet and meet, had been led away under friendly guidance, after many embraces and much gesticulation, or had taken cars and omnibusses for the purpose of reaching their homes and the welcome that awaited them. Some, poor and forlorn, were wandering vaguely about the Battery?the prey of emi- , grant boarding-housekeepers?and one, noorest and most forlorn of all. sat neon a bench ander a great tree and wept silently. Sue was a woman. She was young and of the peasant class. Her husband had died upon tne voyage. { She had not a friend in America, and , some thief had stolen her purse from { under her pillow, as she slept between j her little children in her berth in the | steerage. , 8he bad only a great bag. .witfi_? few- -j shabby garments, and these two ohil- | dren, and a pair of earrings, which Bhe j might, perhaps, sell for a little bread? . in ail the world. As she stared out upon the water, which had swept away the body of her dead husband, and 1 which still covered it, she was very j miserable. " If it bad been the Lord's will that I also should be buried in the sea," she j sobbed. "I and my children." And J she bent her bead upon her hands; her ' eyes were blinded with tears; she saw nothing of what was going on just then. ' .. hi v it., -ij l " Motoer I " cnea me eiuesi oauu. " Mother, look. The bad \pj has carried off onr ba#?." The poor creature started to her feet. ' She stared wildly about her. A boy was running away at full speed with the bag . of clothes on his back. Uttering* a 1 scream, she began to run at full speed. ! People stared at her, but did not know ' why she ran, or understand that the in- 1 terpretation of Ler cry was "stop thief." 1 The boy outran her very soon; her breath failed her. She saw him turning a corner of the street, and regardless of ! the wagons, cars and carriages in her ; path, dashed across the road. There was a cry?a crash; a policeman strode oat upon the crossing and stopped the vehicles, and the body of the Italian woman was lifted from the ground ; her ( black hair fell over her shoulders, her ' eyes were fixed, her face pallid, and the yellow kerchief abont her head soaked < m hlrwvi No one knew anvthimr Abont tf u ? ?her. They carried her to the hospital; thence to the morgue. Afterward she 1 was buried where they bury paupers. When their mother ran after the thief, 1 the little girls sat where she had left them, for awhile; each was playing with something. To amuse them their mother had given them her earrings? two hoops of gold. ?-- They had their own little ears pieroed, but as yet there were only threads in them. Their father had promised that, when he made his fortune, they should have gold earrings like their mother's. But their father was buried in the sea, and their mother was poor. It did not seem likely they should ever have my of thoee nice things that they had been promised when they came to America. However, children are light hearted, and they were on land again and not stuffed into the steerage of the crowded ship; and they had no doubt that their mother ? would catch the boy with the bag. They played with the earrings and stared at the pedestrians and at the carriages, with no anxieties about their mother, until they grew hungry. Then the youngest began to cry. " Mother stavs a long while," said the eldest. "Let'us go and look for her, and teH her we want supper." And away they went, hand in hand, each clutching her earring. The eldest was a haudsome girl of eight; the youngest a little six-year-old beauty, wonderful to contemplate. They spoke only Italian, of oouise. As they wandered on looking for their mother, and growing more and more frightened 1 at every step, there came marohing up Broadway a military procession. The bugles blared, the drums beat, the banners w\ved, a crowd of hangers-on tramped over the sidewalk. Bough men and boys took no heed of the little girls, and they were at last separated. The eldest was helplessly pushed forward by the crowd; the little one, who had' clang to the railings of a restaurant, was left behind. " When the procession and the crowd had passed, she still sat there, weeping bitterly. " What a beantifnl ohild," | said many, and one or two spoke to her, bnt she did not understand, and could ! not. answer them. At last there came along the street an old Italian with an organ on his back, and a monkey perched upon it. He paused in front of the restaurant and held out his hand to the child. 4 4 What has happened to the pretty little girl? Has she lost herself?" he asked ; and the child, glad to hear words that she could comprehend, told him i her story. The old man listened kindly. 44 Dry your tears,pretty one," he said. 44 We will find your mother, and meanwhile, you shall have supper with me ana my monKey. oe? wnai a uue monkey. He will shake hands with yon. Pepa, shake hands with the pretty little girl, and bow."" The monkey pnt oat one brown paw and took off his velvet cap by the crown with the other. His pranks amused the ohild. She trotted along by the side of the organgrinder, and had macaroni with him in a dismal little room in a terribleold tenement honse. She had no donbt that he could find her mother for her?her mother and her little sister Franoesoa: for Bianca was only six years old, and at that age we are always hopeful. But the old man who,after the frugal supper, went about to do what he oould to find the child's mother,soon learned the truth. He knew Bianca was the ohild of the poor woman who had been killed ; and though he kept the knowledge to hira- : self with a dread of mysterious evil, per- < sonal consequenoes peculiar to foreign- i era who do not quite understand the ] laws of the land?and scarcely to be 1 wondered at?he generously resolved to 1 take eare of the little girl, to whom he i did not tell the truth. Bianoa believed that her mother would soon oome back, f until she forgot her grief; but the old i man bought a little bifof black ribbon 1 and suspended to it the solitary earring. " Never part with it," he said. "It i is a memento of your mother, pretty i one." V * He had a little poetry in his breast, as most Italians have, though he was only a poor organ-grinder. Every day when he went out with his monkey and his organ, he took the , ohild with him. She held the plate, into which the patrons of this cheap ooncert dropped their coin. - j After awhile, he taught her to sing [ some little songs. Italian children can always sing ; and it w?s no loss to him * to have adopted this little oreature, for he Dever made half as much before. . The ohild brought him luck. One day a , musician heard her sing, and offered to teach her to sing better. Her voioe was j full and rich. She studied oarefnlly. She was beantifnl and attractive. As * she grew up the old mar- began to see that he must no longer take her into the _ jjretty one," , ie stud: " Study at the acfcnibetter fate awaits you than to sing be- ^ fore windows and catch pennies in a _ platter." 0 The girl was glad to obey. She work- v ed harder than ever to improve. Blie 8 kept the poor place neat; she cooked ber adopted father's meals and made j ber own oheap garments neatly. Hope j rose high within her, bnt, alas ! misior- , tone was at hand. The old man made f eery little, now that his young singer g was not with him. One day the monkey j was killed by a larger one, who threw it c from the ropes where the two dangled ^ together?ropes swung from pulley- \ lines fastened to the windows of the v bouses. Poor Pepa was thrown to the \ pavement below, and his neck broken. a Bread gTew scarce, and the old man, j lamed with rheumatism, oould scarcely <] carry his organ about; and, at last, the * hope that had inspired both perished in s an hour. The kind musician died ; the a free music lessons were over forever, and ?] Oia" for inRtmotiniL ? One day Bianca found her father, as g she called him, acttially ill, and their ?] bumble means of subsistence at an end ] for the present. i "Forever," said Bianca to herself, f "if I oannot earn his bread in his age, as f be has earned mine in my youth. Surely, ] even my little knowledge of music is of c some avail." c Sitting with her head upon her hands, ] she remembered the beautiful young t prima donna who sang at the opera, and 1 whose voice she had heard through the c open window of a oertain great hotel. < "She is said to be charitable," she i Baid; "at least, she would tell a poor i girl if it might be possible for her to earn her living by her voice; where to apply; what to do." And, full of that ardent trust in human nature whioh is part of youth, she tied on her poor little hat, and made her way through the 1 wretched streets in which she lived to the great thoroughfare in which stood ' V>o WKioVi Tuna nrima donna's home. 1 "Can I see signora?" she asked timidiy of a servant who answered her 1 timid ring. " Well, it isn't likely, young woman," i said the man ; " she's just going out to ride. Does she know yon ?" , " No," said the poor girl; " bnt"? " Oh?begging, or something, I sup- 1 pose," said the man. " No, you can't." " Let me be the judge," Baid a soft 1 voice ; and a beautiful lady clad in vel- < vet swept toward her. " What have you to say to me ?" she asked, kindly. And Eianca was about to reply when 1 she suddenly caught sight of something 1 pendent from .a chain which the lady 1 wore that struok her dumb. It was an earriDg?a hoop of gold?the mate to that about poor Bianca's neck. She remembered how her mother had given ' one to eaeh of them to quiet them on that day when she sat desolate upon a foreign shore. Strange fancies filled her mind. Could this be Franoesea? If it were, would she not despise the poor organ-grinder's adopted child ?? an ignorant girl, bo shabby that the servants took her for a beggar. " Come along with me, my ohild," said the beantifnl young lady. "At least you are of my country. I know it by your accent We have that tie. Come." She led her to her sumptuous apartment, and closed the door. " Now, let me know what yon came for," she said, smiling. Bianca bent her head, trembling. "I came for something else," she ~ *? ? W9" said, but I can only think of one thing now?that hoop apon yonr ohain. What is it ? Where did you get it ? And yon look?oh! you look?you are like"? She faltered and paused. " This bit of gold," said the lady, "is all I have to remind me of my lost mother. I wear it for that. And besides?I have been told that it may be a means of?of"? She broke off and oovered her face with her hands. "Why did you notice the ring?" the said, j " Of whom do remind you ?" " Of my mother," said Bianca. V My j mother, who on the day of our arrival in this country, left me with my sister r upon the Battery. She was killed in the j street, though I did not know of it for { vears afterward. An old man?good and j kind, but very poor?cared for me. I never saw my sister again. I came to j see you, signora, to ask you what one oould do with a. good voice and love for musio, but with little musical education. I heard you were charitable, but?Oh, signora, what does it mean ? As we sat on that bench on the Battery, my sister and I, our mother gave us each one of her golden earriDgs to play with. See I j I have mine yet." a She drew it from her bosom. Your name?" cried the prima ? donna. t Bianca," said the girl. r I am Franceses! " cried the other, rj She held out her arms, and the next ^ moment the two girls sobbed upon each other's bosom. c Franoesca hod been adopte^-by a rich man, who bad developed her great tal- g ent by all the means in his power. And j dow she herself was winning fame and ^ fortune. A great joy had oome to her in j the restoration of her sister, and she r took her at once and forever to her heart j wd home. , And the old Italian, in the comfort of r i luxurious home and the society of his ^ idopted daughter, who soon followed in 0 ler sister's footsteps, and became a a great singer, found himself well repaid g or his kindness to the orphan child, a and ended his days in peace and happi- ^ less. . . i f i , . fl Flax Culture* li The oommon flax is a native of Egypt h ?r nnwrihlv the elevated nlains of Ofintrfll 0 tsia, but though no doubt a native of farm climates, the fiber .attains its n rreatest fineness and perfection in tern- b >erate regions; the seed being richer in t1 he tropics. Flax is more extensively b ind more successfully cultivated in t) Belgium than in any other European fi ountry, particularly in East and West d Handera, in which the most beautiful h lax in Europe is produoed, being em- r< iloyed for the manufacture of the T amous Brussels lace, and sold for this u rarpose at $500 to $900 per ton. Im- T a en be quantities of an inferior product ol re also raised and exported! frbm Bus- a ia, especially from the countries bor- h [erin^; on.tfo.Mfci Si! he low oountries befosa the-close* of the b eventeenth century. Flax haB been 11 ultivated from time immemorial as a h riuter crop in India, but only for its ol eod, and not at all for its fiber. tl The estimated production of flax in r< tnssia in 1868. was 193.000 tons; in b 869, 800,000 toss. In Holland there K ;ere In 1809, 66/172 statute acres under c< lax. producing 18,921 tons; in 1870, B 0,520 acres, piroducing 8,918 tons, ei n Belgium, there were at the latest tl iffioial census, 142,612 acres under flax, X reducing 29,582 tons. In Prnssia, in f870. throughou t the eight old pro* iuoes 346,800 aaares under flax, while in Lustria there were in 1871, 253,730 cres under flax, producing 44,523 tons. h Hungary, the yield was 18,150 tons. a ["he average acreage appropriated to the ? growth of flax in France, is 160,550, b tatute acres, and about 15,000 acres * ,re sown with flax in Egypt every year. S; Che entire produoe in Ireland has never ixceeded 64,506 tons (1864), and il; has ? unk as low as 12,929 tons (in, 1871). b Che acreage under flax in Ireland in f .864, was 301,693 ; in 1868, 206,146, and J n 1871, 156,883. The acreage under jj1 lax, However, io nut wwajo ?u awuiavc fnide to the produce, since in 1871, 0 5G.883 acres produced only 13,612 tons n )f fUx', while in 1872, 122 C03 acres pro- 7 luced 18,920 tons. In 1872 there were * 14 Oil acres under flax in England, h righty-foor in Wales, and 1,262 in floot- 8 and. In 1870 the United States pro- 1( luced 13,567 tons of flax, of whioh a quantity the State of Ohio alone raised * 1,940 tons. Thirty-two States produce j! lax in large or small quantities. J; til ? f Words of Wisdom. V He who is hasty fishes in an erapty * jond. t He who knows himself best esteems p liraself least. f Applause is the spur of noble minds, 1 ;he end and aim of weak ones. ' Innate rudeness, in spite of restraint, T trill betray itself by awkwardness. The secret pleasure of a generous 8 lot is the great mind's great bribe. r To give good aooounts of your com- 1 petitors inspires the belief in your own t prosperity. ? Experience teaches us indulgence ; r the wisest man is he who doubts his own 1 judgment with regard to the motives 1 whioh aotuate his fellow-men. t Our eyesight is the most exquisite of 1 our senses, yet it doeB not serve us to ? discern wisdom ; if it did, what a glow 1 of love would she kindle within us. } True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations ; it is seeu with white hairs, and is always young in the heart. Sin first is pleasing, then it growB easy, then delightful, then frequent, then habitual, then confirmed ; then the man is impenitent, then he is obstinate, then he is resolved never to repent, and then he is ruined. A beggar knocked at the door, and f unexpectedly, the bead of the family 1 opened it. " Young man," said the 1 latter, "I came here twenty years ag? \ with two shillings, and washed dishes ? for a living, and now look at me." And ' he threw his chest ont and beamed. 1 "Sir," replied the beggar, "can yon direct me to anytwdy who has a lot of dishes to clean ?" i A Congressman's Funeral. When a Congressman <H?a at Washington while Congress is in session, it is customary to hold the funeral services it the capitol, as in the reoont instances the late Repiesentatives Hartridge ?nd Jlrthlfiinhpr. To oire our readers in idea of the manner in which this impressive ceremony is oonduoted, we ippend the following description of the wene connected with Mr, Schleicher's funeral-: ? The government in all its branches, egislutive, judioiid and Executive, met n the hall of the House at 12 o'clock, rhe House met and adjourned, and the Senate soon afterward reoeiving the ormal message of the House, adjourned too. The House met at 8 o'clock. The Speaker, with white sash over his shouller, fastened by a rosette of blaok and rhite, took his seat before thronged leaks and filled seats, and gave a single ap with his gavel. The swinging doors vere pushed open. A tall,'' wliite-headed nan walked in, so often the head of this >r occasion, and liehind him, two and wo, came the Senate, the tergeant-at trms, French, leading a rseette of black ltd white for son e inecrntable reason n his shoulder. ' Oie^oar-k seper turnid. "Mr. Speakeir,"he;shouted, ae a , oan must to be heard one dranored feet: rbe Speaker arosa. "The Senate of : he United Stateu," said Field, aa the tead of the prooaorion pajwe^ abreast >f him, .. _j.- , ^ "The Senate of the UqiUti States," aid the Speaker, like an echo, and his lammer fell with a single, sharp tap as he pausing prooeesion.i^vecl on. ,The , louse arose, and, through its standing j anks, the Senate passed to its seats, j Jefoic those seats in a cm wing line, | ?ere the green chairs set to tie left and j ight of tne Speaker fdt the federal ju- 3 liciary and the federal executive, due- <J esaively there came the same simple j nnounoement: "Mr. Speaker, the ( luprerae Court of the United States; " ] nd " Mr. Speaker, the Resident of the ] Jnited States;" and eaohtim 9 the gavel all the House and Senate arose ; and rst, a fil j of men in silk gowns, rusthe somewhat, and then another of men c a overooata, just from out doors, step- 8 ed to their seals.] There was no announce aunt at the c ext approach. Thr.dpon were held * aok, and the doorreeper adcanoed and ' med and walked "before the pall- J earers, with long white scarfs. Behind aem men walked with.a heavy burden, , owex-oovered, and behind them the ' ead man's delegation, the associates of | ur o$cial .life. The' great ^audience j we. ooffin *aa aiowjy lowereo, 'he moaariers and thebearers sat 1 the rajKi.ltff tfiam. ihe gavel fell, 'he crowded 'ranks sat again,'and the ' haplain of tba Hooae, rising to the high < igrblo'desk, "b^auj f'latothe resnf-"- ! vitionyAjjda^ h the ! laglafl-gj^jpie service. Atw iWQFfffl -I opressiveness in lihe bold absence of ! insic, in the gavel and the maoe behind ' >mt the notebooks and pencils of the (i [fioial reporters below. It waa, never- ' lelesii, the Senate and Ho ate of Rep- < ;senfcifcives in joint; session assembled. ' t was all soon over. No word was said. ' [en stepped forward and raised the 1 >ffln. Behind it the guests of the < [ouse f ollowed in the order thev had itered?the President and the cabinet, le Supreme Court, and the Senate, he House adjourned. The publio , ineral was over. j ' j Hat Poisoning. An " Old Hatter " writes to the New- . rk (N. J.) Advertiser: In your paper , f the 29th ult, there was an artiole eaded j' How Hatters are Poisoned." 'ho men are afflicted with a nervous , h'akirg of the hands and arms, and : ometimes of the head; and I have , nown instances where the teeth could ; e picked cat with the fingers. In , iany cases they arc unable to gat a cup 3 their lips withou t help. The afflioion is called " The Shakes," and, as ] tated, is charged to the " carrot"used n the fur. It is made by saturating , itrie acid with quihcsilver, to one part of , > hich an eighth of water is used to wet be fur on the skins, and when dry a. >ot iron is passed over them, which ( ivoa the fur a yellow tinge called yel- . aw carrot. This has been used ever ; ince hat bodies have been made of fur, j nd unlal of lata without any bad ef Bote, aud in some c 1 tne large lactones be men are not troubled. I believe j be workmen on fancy oolors are exempt rom them, although the same carrot j 9 used?only the ironing is omitted and b called white carrot. But I suspect ' he blaok oolor has much to do with the 1 rouble. The aaltfi of oopper are all \ Kuson, and they abound in the dust ; rom the hats; especially in t?d]y-ventilated rooms, which are inhere the 'shakes"are found to prevail in the rinter and disappear as the weather 1 rill permit of free ventilation in the pring. The writer has worked at tha?usiiflBn mtiriT vears in the largest factories, las made the oarrol; and used it without >eing in the least affected by it, and eels satisfied that some other cause nust be at the bottom of the trouble. Che furs are now nearly all prepared in Surope, and some cither chemicals may >e used, but I th ink not. I find in 7re's Dictionary of the Arts the same ormula. The use of carrot on the fur s to make its felt close and firm, which aw stock will not co. I would suggest o the doctor to see if arsenic may not )e the cause. Examine the verdigrit ised for it Nearly all the hats worn in the United itates are made in Newark, Orange, Danbury, Norwalk and Brookline, mounting to many millions of dollars yearly, and employing thousands of men Tmrnion Waw York beinc the (neat jenter of distribution for aft the county There is a remi rkable Jfiwieh synagogue in the ancisnt city of Prague, with walls so thick with dirt as to be ibsolutely black. A local tradition says hat somewhere on its walls the name Jehovah is inscribed, and it is believed that if the walls ?ire cleaned the name will be effaoed. The tumultuous sea of life swamps many men with its bill-owes. TIMELY TOPICS. The heretofore-regarded worthless sage barrens of Nevada are found to be exoellent pasturage for Cashmere goats. A single herder, near Carson, has n flock of 8,000. Tbe proportion of soldiers who can read and write in the several armies of Europe is as follows: Germany, 965 in 1,000; Sweden, 930; England, 860; Holland, 750; Belgium, 700; France, 015; Portugal, 495; Spain, 490; Austria, 400; Italy, 450; Russia, 115; Turkey, 75. An Iowa paper reports that William H. Jones, of Lincoln township, 11L, performed the feat of husking 128 bushels and sixty-five pounds of oorn in eleven hours and a quarter.1 The oorn was husked, weighed and cribbed in the above-stated time. A Bock Island man claims to have husked 125 bushels in eleven hours and a half, bnt it was guessed at It will sound a bit funny when the forty-nine Dakotas take their Beats in the obapel of Hampton institute, near Norfolk, Va., to hear the "Facultyman " call out behind his specs: " ManThat-Looks-Around, Frank Yellow-Bird, Laughing Face, Man-That-Hoots, One* Who-Comes-Flying, Lizzie Spider and Walking Cloud." The government will pay the institute $167 apiece for one jrutit a luoiruuuuu. Daring the year 1878 forty-eight American railroads, with a mileage of 1,902 miles and an invested capital of 1 ^811,681,000, were sold or passed into the* hands of receivers, the totals for three years being 182 roads, 11,628 miles and $728,168,000 of capital. In 1 hat period one-seventh of the total 1 mileage and considerably more than one- ,j leventh of the total capital investment lavepassed through the final stage of ' ?&nkruptcy. ' Indiscriminate kissing does not gen- \ srally have the very best results, as ( tome of America's sensational oourt , ecords go to show. The physicians of he late Princess Alice have serious j barges against kissing. They have in- j restated the cause of the peculiar ( rirulence> of the diphtheria which at- ( acked her fa*uiy with such fatal results, , ind have agreed ^t the rapid spread i >f the infection was entirely due to im- , j 11' ? a .Lfi^ y ... 1 jraueui ju*?mk. a uiuiu a sore , hroat ought not to be permitted to kiss my of its companions. The proceedings iaf. the brigands in < Macedonia are such as to cr,?^<--*aj5mne lictricts a panic among the inhaDfrawi~. _ it MonaBtir the alarm, it is stated, has cached such a pitoh evfifo . U'lMj wilnin doors from an lour-'before sunset. The number of out- i aws and brigands, who are the terror of i he country side,it? estimated at not fewer hau 1,600. They spread far and near 1 >ver the district, and not a single place - " *- ^ 3-ir im.Aly? a iree irom rneir aepreuauuuc. nuuro rillages have been brought to ruin by iheir levies of ransom money, and they i >eca8ionally commit atrocious crimes, 1 , Skating on Artificial Ice. The whole interior of Gilmore's garlen is to be floored Besides the Inmber >0,000 ioet of iron pipe have been oorried nto the garden. These are to be grid- \ roned across the whole floor and filled with a freezing mixture. Then the floor sill be flooded and the whole snrfaoe ;ransfonned into a glassy sheet of ice ;or skating. ' Mr. T. L. Rankin, who for many 1 pears has been making ioe artificially at ;ho South, has the enterprise in charge, rhe large steam engine, now in the building, will pump the freezing mix:nre from a tank 250 feet long, now building under the north gallery. The 1 plan is to cover the wooden floor with a water proof material or tarpaulin which j * . ?jii_ i-i? ? LiiBy Dt) reauijjr iuacu ul?, v/^vu vuio the pipes will be laid, ice, pipes and f tarpaulin may easily be removed at any time, leaving a ball-room floor soon fried by steam. Professor Gamgee's rink of artificial ice in London measured ! 14x23 feet. The ice lake in Gilmore's trill have a surfaoe area of over 16,000 feet. The first cost will be large, but 1 Mr. Rankin thinks the cost of maintenance will be little. The garden will i)e wanned as it is now, and so rapid 1 is the congelation from the use of the Freezing mixture, that one of the features i>f the exhibition will probably be the upraying or flooding of the surface each livening and the freezing of the water in twenty minutes. The plan is to throw the garden open daily for ail who may -wish to Bbate, reserving seats for nnch aa may wish to look on. Frank lilwift haa been engaged to attend daily und give lessons in skating, and he ana others will give exhibitions of their nkilL It is intended also to make a speeding track " nine feet wide on the present coarse, on which long-distance libaters may show their speed and endurance. Before Mr. Vanderbilfc would consent to this new enterprise he insisted upon a trial experiment. A tank thirty-two feet long was built, in which the pipes were placed. By forcing the freezing mixture through them with a hand - pump water was turned to dry ice inside of ten minutes, and when a fresh surface was asked for two buoketfuls of water thrown upon the ice became dry, hard ice in the same number of minutes. Daring the holiday week this pond was maintained, and so well satisfied was Mr. Vanderbilt with the test that arrangements were at once made with Mr. Rankin for the use of his appliances. Mr. Rankin says the lake will be ready for use three days after the floor is laid. Next summer Mr. Rankin will remove a portion of the piping to Coney island and establish there a skating rink, while another section will do dnty at Long Branch.? New York World. _____ When Johnny was questioned as to ^hy his engagement with Miss H. had been broken off, he rolled his eyes, looked very muoh j-ained. and groaned, "Oh I she turned out a deceiver." But he forgot to mention that he was the deceiver whom she had turned out CLAY ON CROWS. Caaalaa M. Clay Balm Ilia Voice in Behalf f the Blrda?What Keep* From l ? the Plane* of Egypt. Cassias M. Clay writes to the Richmond Register as follows : I was pained to see in yonr journal lately an account of the slaughtering of the crows, withont protest. Nature seems to have provided for the greatest sum of animal life. First vegetables, then inseets, and then high er animals, man standing at the apex. All insectivorous birds are the allies of man; without birds the human race would have a hard struggle for existence, and would perhaps be exterminated. Over all the world the great breeders of famine?the locusts and grasshoppers?are ruinous only where birds oannot exist. The swarms of locusts, which the Bible tells infested Egypt, exist yet, and will exist until trees shall be planted or caused to grow in all places where grass grows; then. the birds will have come and destroyed the locusts. So the same law prevails in interior Africa and in iDe unitea states, ah aiong me Platte river for hundreds of miles, wherever I saw a few trees and shrnbs there were hawks hovering over to ponnoe down upon and destroy the birds. The prairie ohickens are destroyed by man, and between those two allies the birds are lost and the locusts spread ruin; every green thing is eaten, and men fly for life to other lands or perish! The phylloxera in France, a small insect, has inflicted, by the rain of the vine, more loss than the German war I In early years our State was fall of woodpeckers and kindred birds. They ate some apples and other frnlt; oar fathers destroyed them. Then our vegetables were .fine and perfect; after the birds have been killed we are overran with insects; perfect fruit and vegetables are now almost unknown. I believe that the quails or par-, bridges, though gramnivorous, also destroy many insects. Whilst all our 3ther birds feed mostly npon insects, every bird has his special habitat rhe swallows, several species in Keni 1 ? * L _ ii il 1 mcay, ieea on ine wing; me owib upon the tips of trees and leaves?pinching }ff insects, often unseen by the natural aye. The wren and sparrow are veiy votive feeders near and upon the ground. When the peas are sown I have observed the sparrows following the lines and picking ftp the pea bugs as they emerge from the ground. There are many birds which peck the rose bush and grapevines. All the woodpecker and sapmaker tribe eat bugs and not sap. For many years X have kept a box hominy > rrrfflTTftft varletfes^2ir^ii?tti. i other*, the beautiful red-birds, which, though naturally shy, hare become almost as tame as the sparrows. I had rather a sportsman would shoot down, and carry off a pig than one ofjtttese beautiful songsters 1 And now withj?iig-pref&ce I come to the crows. -Ptfflong years I have oeased~my early war upon the crews. They are eminently insectivorous. The crow, when the weather is very cold, will eat the eyes of weak, prostrate lambs, other birds' eggs and young; take corn from the ground when it is first sprouted, and follow and eat the soft, half-digested oorn from fed cattle in the fields. Bnt for all this they should never be killed. In many lands the buzzard, as a scavenger, is protected by law. The crow is also a most active scavenger, bnt, as I said, is mostly insectivorous. I dissected young crows in the nest, and never found a seed or grain of oorn. I found bags, beetles and, above all, caterpillars. This morning, all over my blnegrass pasture, the mercury standing at twenty-eight de grees nanrenneit, ana a wim umat ui frozen earth and a fine scow existing, there were thousands of crows feeding. They were eating grass and the eggs of grasshoppers. In France the government pays a prioe for the gathering of these eggs. Here the crows do the work mnoh more effectively for nothing. I have in my lite seen whole meadows stripped of blade and seed by grasshoppers. Who can say that the orows do cot keep ns from famine? The announcement by your paper of the destruction of the orows struck me with the same sensibility as if one had boasted that he had dried up all the wells and all the springs of the county 1 Should I arouse the State to pass efficient laws for the protection of orows and other birds, I will have done more for my country than all the politicians and warriors so justly made illustrious. A Chinese Beriew. A Chinese review has just been witnessed and described by a correspondent of the Shanghae Courier. The men, clad in uniforms of red and bine, were ranged in two ranks, every tenth man hclaing a bright scarlet flag, while a sergeant in the middle gave the time to, the advance by waving a hnge crimson standard. At the sound of a horn, which resembled the humming of a gigantic bee, the battalion prepared to receive cavalry. Out popped a soldier brandishing a pike, which he poked at an imaginary assailant, then uttering a i shriek like an owl, he flourished his * ** * 3 " on/1 fn'n. shield, rurneu a Duiuctoauiv, auv. pinglj retired to the ranks. When everybody had popped out, brandished and poked his pike, shrieked like an owl, thrown a somereanlt, and retired, the big horn hummed once more, the soldiers formed in square, and one of them danced gravely but energetically forward, throwing out his right leg with a graceful jerk; then bounding backward he again danced foaward, this time throwing out his left. Then he jumped, he waltzed, and capered, he pranced, he turned head ever heels, rolled himself well in the dust (which rose in olouds), stood on the back of his neck while he flourished his legs in the air, reoovered himself, grasped] wildly with his arms at nothing in particular, made a grotesque courtesy to the viceroy and retired. With this martial spectacle the review concluded. . 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Gold is still found in quartz in California. All you need is to have somebody to pint it out. The Chinese use orange flowers to scent their tea, also rose leaves, jas- mine, and the blossom of the sweet plum tree. In the office of the department of the interior at Washington, there are ninety-six clocks, 657 spittoons and 61h washstands. ; In this age of pedestrian fever the most fashionable performances would appear to be walking away with other people's money. <. The residents of New York oity contributed during the last fiscal year, to benevolent institutions in private gifts^ over $2,000,000. The Esqnimaux are afraid to die on a windy day, lest their souls should be blown away. They believe in the actual resurrection of the body. A Milwaukee astronomer says the earth is lop-sided. This is doubtless because of the unusual size and weight of the Milwaukee man's ears. V. WESTERN EDITORIAL. , , We do not belong to oar patrons; Oar paper is wholly our own. > Whoever may like it may take it. Who don't may last let It alone. A bankrupt was condoled with the other day for his embarrassment. "Oh, I'm not embarrassed at all," said he; "ifc'amv creditors that are embarrass ed. " ^ " 7 ' v V Corner loafers the New Orleans Picayune proposes to utilize by labeling them with the names or the streets they infest, for the convenience of strangers. Skating is a very healthful exercise. It not only pats in play all the muscles of the legs and arms, bat it creates lumps for fature phrenologists to feel of and report on. An official return shows that the number of condemnations for crimes in jamwf. iMPn.sti> i Tntfr^&ii'e much differeno&Tir^^.^-- ? _ ing "hero" and "zero," but yon see "? ? how m slimiyon disosfer that your ears are resdjMo -? <W5p off on the slightest provocation A sailor on board a vessel in the harbor of Zante having been struok by lightning, there was found on his breast the number 44, being an exact copy of the same figures on a part of the ship's rigging. *What's vour oooupation?" asked a viator at the capitof in Washington of a bright boy whom he met in the corridor. The boy happened to be a page in the Honse. "I'm running for Congress," was the reply. Jennie Jane says girls should* betaught to help themselves. We sat opposite to a delicate, blue-eyed, spirituelle creature of sixteen, at the boarding-house table, and saw her help her-, self to & plate of soup, a sirloin steak, a chicken's wing and drumstick, two baked potatoes, three, plates of corn, ' two pickles, four hot rolls, a dish of macaroni, a quarter of a mince pie, a wedge of apple pudding, with sauce, and two dishes of vanilla ioe cream. They do help themselves,?Rochkind Courier. Dumas as a Duellist* One night at the theater of S n Carlo, Naples, Dumas the elder (the celebrated French novelist), found himself chatting familiarly with a stranger who, When the-play was ov:r, said to him patronizinglyT" " I have greatly enjoyWy&u^mjersation, sir, and hope to see m jre ofyows, ^ If ever you visit Paris call on me. I "" ' "* ~ am Alexander Dumas." 44 The deuce you are I So am 11" re?,-'-J Tirtwaitat with a roar of pueu we uvr.v?., __ laughter. By the way, Dumas left Naples under peculiar circumstances. One fine morning he printed an article in which he haifdled the Italian people in a manner more vigorous than courteous. At eight o'olook the paper came out; by ten Dumas received thirty challenges ; by noon, sixty. At one p. m. he called a meeting of tne 120 friends of his challengers, and said unto them : " Gentlemen, I leave Naples to-night, and therefore have not time to fight all your principals singly. Nevertheless I am anxious to give them all the satisfaction that is in my power, so as I have the choice of weapons I propose fighting with pistols; your sixty principals will be collected into a group, and on receiving the word fire a volley at me and I'll blaze away into the crowd." The proposition was not aocepted. "Pith and Point." Why don't some venturoup barber ol the right stripe open a shop at the North pole ? How strange it is that a plain, blunt man usually makes very pointed remarks. Ice cream will be cheap next summer if the milkmen are willing and the cows liberal. " -11 '4' If a race-horse Hadn't iree use 01 an -j , four feet, its owner would more than likely forfeit the stakes, A mail-carrier's protest against his wife's scolding: "Oh, madam, letters have peace 1" she stamped on him, Cultivate modesty, morality and mnstaohee. None are expensive, for fertilizer are required.?New News.