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iv ' W ij w.\ jfefis- .-"*** . -- i> .' ' "< *' m '> ? . wS'"' *,no .'M- . ? - - " - - - VOL XXXVll. ; J 17- 1879 ' NO. 52. lite Camden Smtntal, PUBLISHED BTEBT THURSDAY ?AT? CAMDEN, S. C., BI? C. C. ALEXANDER. ; ' ? Subscription. Itafcs; Oaa uw.\: . ? ?....:.tS!55 r.?ria.oo BizMoaUw "^t'* L0? : ?? - Little by little. One step and then another, 1 VAnd the longest walk is ended; One stitch and then another, i Ami the largest rent is mended; One brick upon another, ,-^And the highest wall is made; vOne flake upon another, And thqtdeepest show is laid. So the little coral-workers, * 1 . .' Jiy their slow but constant motion, HaVe built those pretty islands In the distant dark-blue ocean; And the noblest undertakings < Man's wisdom has conceived, ! By oft-repeated efforts - "Save been patiently achieved. Then do not look disheartened .A v. O'e^the work youflij&tb d&, A ^ | Anlkjajt that such a mighty task ' . .1 . 1 ou never isuyjci uiruugu ; w j But just endeavor day by day ? Another poiht to.guin, . - 1 And soon the mountain which you feared Will prove to be a plain. - - " ' ] "* iT c " Rome was not builded day," 1 The ancient proverb teaohea; Aid nature, by her trees aQ^flowers, J , The same sweet sfertnon preaches.^*' ' r Think not of far-off duties, "? ' ^ > But of duties which are near; And having once begun to work, r Resolve to persevere. jj ' ' ' THE TIDAL WAS& s ^ Lamtn'iT. Sftid O bad iah^3 tales,pi l^intx-piptCTus snift\ as he threw un amiUl OTBITIMIS ,JHIW ~,>v?;rc uu^uwu v to replenisb^he- noo^too generous -flame ( injbe operr^&replueo^-'4 larnin'! YThat's t Uj^good of itr Jlioie. ain't no need of .e *f1C$sTcari sflfe^an' a??for keepin' Hetty t Jadriah -any longer at that 'ere school, . ' an' pay in* such big bills, I jest ain't a- \ IHah," rationstrated Mrs. J Beaks, '* you know there ain'tno schools1 < K hett dt to^en'd otipgal to,.an' we won't, t .s3}e dbmT ow.dpty by htourflesB we give: ner a -gn4&j62aijSation. "How proud 1 . we'll-be" shft oomes home i witlr> di-p|o^P5cF,ij5 able to hold her a ov;Sqhire King's "3 . darters P* IMg 'v ? *' ^OMr' Mandy^lea'd Obadiah, as he j 8flT.;. se^(titw?i^in. a Jow-rush-bottomed <5 7\> . 'chair, "there am** no^ use oi, our xrvm- r :* ?*nd(le:;ik> Squinting's ijgtts^ 9 tori*. They oifTff;qui-t]nd, sin' we t EgSfo. business to ebpy .ffter.r3eni:" / -ji *aady hjj.t not, because she: ,1 tflSr jWaS convinced of the correctness of her htt$b$nu> xpinion. She was an ^inbfc j ;iy?s fwoni.wsri.iore ambitious :Jt*r her v L. ^WL^??% s OF?uIiaJr,-whom it waa-'impossi- a ble*nvrtu> v>..traditions. He "* "wHs,n^iarsim<'mop$ follow. -vto had in-. 3 a-'y..:' :uei itw|i'.u?Jtv. buid washable to 1 'V^''?**?* Upon, and ^%lIoWd in the' ^6 >' footsteps "of his ^redet-essors so literally, y thatthosf who had cvenrseeu old Am<y $ ..-. v Ileal?w, ^>v tly d?*nf jton. wot!.*! . k... /'.hi ;tt. 1 / the same | v .stocks (Ini'-es ma,*nc'* be transmitted. r lmtr-nddities :ire handed down from t gUtfi^ion t'> generation. I Miinlly Itailes was accustomed to tlBjfcfr'mons*rnnees from her husband, c e^P^B-.Vy aft? r the receipt of the quar- t teJBf'l for Iletty's tuition; and as she e diMfgfhc mock orange from the toe of lie"ock she was darning, slie had time r to collect her thoughts and make an- n otlnw^ufri 'al to paternal pride. t Wove as good a right to do as well by our own child as Squire King does by I his'n," said Mrs. Italics, plunging her s nefdfe into tle? ragged edge of a hole the I dimensions of which were rather dis- n cowraging to the (eminine reformer: for 11 it wftked as if, when the wearer of the I: soek set his foot down, he was likely to I y keep it there tirmly uidil something a gatt.w.\v. " Von ain't as proud :is you i r ouWtV> he of Hetty Moriuh." "I am, too," said Obadiah, doggedly. j a "The trouble is, we're too proud ; an1 if I r we go to settin* Iter up an' puttin' high- 11 fangled notions into her head, she won't I think we're tit to 'soeiate with, or that i \ anything in (.'rowfield is good enough t f?.r her. When she was tor home last | vacation she thought the old house j 1 wasn't tit to live in." "Well, it ain't," said Mandy, with |4 considerable spirit. " You know i ain't j i never had a coat of paint on it since we 1 < lived here, nigh on tor twenty years, an' t the roof leaks like a riddle, so that them s upper chambers ain't no use at all, 'crept in clear weather." "Well, it costs money to be makiii' improvements all the time," said Oha- i diah, to whom Mandy's suggestions and i hints were like water on a duck's back. 1 "It costs like Jehu; and what's good 1 enough for me is good enough for my . 1 children. Hut that ain't all," he con- j tinued, the allusion to his own neglect I I of duty increasing his consciousness ofh TT " * ' * . 44 tl'O liiet t Imn ! j HOliy S MIIM"ivoimiig:- , iu<: i.i.-i winv she was tor home she turhed up her nose i! moro'n ever at Tom Kennedy; an' a gal i? don't know which side her bread's but- | tered on when she snubs such a feller as ! that.'' "Tom Kennedy!" said Mandy, with i much the same emphasis and more than < the amount of seornObadiah had thrown < into the " larnin* " with whieh lie began j: the discussion. "Tom Kennedy, in-1 deed! I hope Hetty won't take up with any of that trash. Not but what he's i good enough as far as disposition goes. ! an'clever enough, maybe; but he ain't I ncver'goin" to.set the river on tire." * * t TT..14... 1 " Well, who wants nun tor neiiy ; Moriah may ilo worse thau to raarrv Tom Kennedy, who ain't nobody's fool.^' j The discussions in the Beales family generally began with Iletty Moriah, and ended with Tom, who had long served ! :is a bone of contention. lie had been I in tin* habit of dropping in evenings j ever since Hetty Beales had been old j enough to go out in company, and kept it up, notwithstanding the daughter's ' absence, (juite oblivious of the fact that ! Mrs. Beales, who welcomed him as a j guest, was opposed to him as a son-in- ] ' law. lie had known Hetty ever since she was a little girl?had grown up with her. in fact?and always acted the part of an elder brother, and it was quite j natural that he should want to hear of | her progress :ir scnoni and Uic mw.-ifsiin? with which she filled the letters Mrs. IJeales very kindly made a ; noint ot muling to him. Tom himself was not what you might I call a cultivated gentleman, but he had ; seen a great deal of the world, was ' shrewd and observing, and had his ' miiid stored with a fund of general information. that made him excellent company for those who seldom took the ' trouolc to read even a newspaper. To this class belonged Dial) Beales, who I wouldn't subscribe to anything if he 1 could help it, but would willingly to any one who woWgiWj gratuitous information, and lookeu Upon1 Tom Kennedy as an encyclop^Jia pari* pared lorliis especial benefit. '* ? Tom happened in one evening withliis mind full of a topic in whidh he knew Obadiah would-be interested, and which furnished him >vith an excuse fbr hearing Hetty^ weekly fette^rXvhich lie took ' out of {life boxjo^- hiayway- -to Gtt? wfield. "It's su& to corned said TonS?; te'fer-' ring to the tidal wave. "The signal service department has announced the Fact, and will be able to give tne precise-} tiay and hour when it will reach om& shores." ^ < ."Du tellP exclaimed Obadiah, lifei under jaw drooping lower and lower ajg .lis interest and amazemo^Bfc^ed. tl ' V Yes,v replied Tom, ^HIMVs as my story-teller tojmke itdeep impress I lion On his audience. "There wilr probably be a great convulsion of naxg'&jind it is anticipated that ma? l&fctMs that were once under wateiujggf id again ^bhmerged." * JWBM " You diib'i say soi" said ObjiMjjH^ ,vho admired Tom's way oftellinga^flw ihough lie couldn't understand hftjrtlie. vorfts he used. ; -_. <sJVhich way is it i-oo^tting?^Sg^nmiroi. "'Tain'tjaghit not to^aru Item that live on island t-ogfct their ^oods and chattWytogether, an' give em' a cliance to gWWEfwith a dry skin." "That's so,"ji|fif:,|lom. "Is there a. nap handy?" re ' ; , " *.r "Shoiridn't wonder. ifandVvhaUdt > v A._i ve gumuiyr jv iiung'Hi iou iiuusc* "Aswhat?" : ./. * "A map. Wc used trrji-l; v- one, I?mi avtmsuj^.5' ': '5*^, ."tt fwrit no gflbd,-" sald~Mandy, notrilling'that Tom should know that the-' I fun had^jvashed it so thorough]y it WVyMJte^mpossible to toll where the whether-the Mississippi rivdf fiad- not hamred places within'* AtlantitfObeah. " ill/run over and get one,"" said.Tom. 1 Itwiau'ti take "me alhlhute:'and be ras off Jlash nnd back again *be- ; ore hewaa^iought to have aceora- r disheti m^dthan half the distance. He " deefully^flfcjtodished an old ara wellhunibed cwy of a school jtila^JR * " Tlidre f* he began, before I.cV^ half ^ cHoveredhis breatl|?i^pu see its caning due west, and strike full tilt ittifist that end ~o' 4Mng Island,, and ( i t ii*^mft heir- Vs." 4 ' (Iwl^Py "'^M^nimcd Aland v. us?t wPHk tmHVze, t)i? pVohable J itnarib'n iortRiir?, aiid "the insecurity of fttt*estiiie.r :** Ain't.there-nothing' to top it? Wt$ -don't the folks go i o work 'and huild a; breakwater, so^s to ' i^j'P the'wat^rdrotii crowding where it's , . ,''j* ''V'' ' ^ kfe^refingcr pfesaetf ti gift-" ! .,o TP'! "^imioy s:iy,' answered Tom, pleased rith the interest taken in his hit of icws. " Of course there isn't any ccr- ( ainty about it, but it's .just as well to ic prepared for the worst." 1 " Well, but s'posin' it sweeps right, iver this island?" said Manny, :ts Tom pok up his hat to go. " What'll be- ' pine of us?" " We'll have to take to boats, T eekon," was the laughing reply, which net. with 110 response from the friends , o whom he bade "good-night." Obadiab Heales went about his work, ' >ut was oven more taciturn than usual, 1 o that his wife was heartily glad when letty Moriah came home for the sum- , ? *1 WKufmr/.n lionnnnoil IHT Yillill 1UII. n lltViVTVi imm;viitu, hey would be together, and it did 1 irighten up the old house to have a oung girl in it who wore white dresses 1 md blue ribbons, and hud a world of omance in her heart. " Father, what in the world are you ;oing to do now?" asked Iletty, one norn iug_ in July, when Obadiah and lis hired man were seen removing a ;ood-sized row-boat from the farm vagon and working it slowly toward lie bouse. " Never you mind," said Obadiah. " I vnow what I'm about." "Hut, dear me!" continued Iletty, 'the house looks disreputable enough low; and with that boat in the forecround the neighbors will certainly I hink we have taken leave of our icnses." " Well, let 'em," said # her father. ' What do I care for the neighbors?" Iletty wished that he cared a little | uoiv for the Iooksot tilings, isut as remonstrances were useless, she went into lie house to complain to her mother iliat " father was doing his best to make die old house look just like a junk-shop, ind she was sorry enough she'd invited May Carrol and her brother Sidney to spend a week with her during the vaca- i lion." May was her room-mate, and I Sidney was making a collection of In- J dian curiosities, and she knew Tom would show him where to find arrowheads and other relics, and do his* best to make their brief stay agreeable. But if father was going to be queerer than | ever, and would persist in putting an i old cellar door on the croquet ground j iind cluttering up the door-yard with I what belonged at the back of the house, j why, she would feel more like running j away from than receiving her expected visitors. But the eye soon accustoms itself to j oddities, and after a few days the old boat ceiised to be an unsightly object to Hetty Moriah, who found it necessary to have frequent talks with Tom Kennedy in regard to the proper entertainment of May and Sidney, whom she took pains to extol very highly, that Tom might have a realizing sense of their superiority. Tom happened in at the Beales' one evening in July, ostensibly to exhibit some abclona shells which a friend had just brought him from California, but in vivilitv- tr> ho near ITot.tv. wlioni he couldn't help admiring, because she was \ so unlike the other girls in Crowfield. t Tom lound the family assembled in the sitting room?Mrs. lieales asleep in the rocking chair, Hetty crocheting or pretending to, and her father studying over the map which Tom had left in his possession. ? ? i "I'm niazin giau iu ?><-?, nuu Obadiah. "Take a cheer. Seems to me it's about time for that 'eretid'l wave to come along, ain't it?'' "Shouldn't wonder," said Tom, as he laid the shells on the table where the light of the lamp would shine down upon them and reveal their prismatic beauty. " It '11 rack things," said Obadiah. " Yes, it will," said Tom, busy in listening to Hetty's description oi some op, ^ ^ qn^overeame hisfcetifee- of the hdiattlofeff. -It was, indeed, a rain of terroifr? ? from which an ascent to tb^ upp&r3 regions afforded no mease stable sen3rxrf re'ief. The roof leatts&itomflR^y- 'the vfmd tore, off the shingles, ?ne?cmrJhht- I th&^tou^htfuf Mandy^ Lad piw^dei^a- i beon no starch left in ai^ ,of iiB.'par^fing fpr the waters . boat on a level with histoid* when, in less Mm'' than iS took NojiQ tdetabark,lie would ?. himself and family on "bpritsj/ j including Ton^tepd locate ^omewlrere. s' wVj Ingh-wawrln'afk. .. Vpq^'htsped'Biif^^his arms much closer 'than- was necessary ptttrt aj^egpinde r, no objection,Tind the umbrella was not a vory-hurge ona??K Hetty ;"? & Torn,.in a. whisper^.-" jf; Mkjgp tl?e end of the world, whhf dMffVofrsav to me?" -'dM* ?R^mi't^khi?r,,,Sg.id -Hetty, tuck* iag her lnwy^re closely to liis breast.' . 0 bad iah v.al^R^to'/fnd that individual' ; felt obliged to, relax his ho Id of thh, ? terrified nwderil^vM^ ,ft* ' 4: ' . " DonH go! chm't^learV.aiw^ said-; ] Hetty ..feeling asif without Tbriije'sUR-* port she should s/Jk t'6'thfi '.floor, dndg , become a pirey to'the.^igr*' ;ekiB'erits. r?i t" Pn sbmd by you- foreyer^^sald Tonj3 sprnkingi'apidlyiif^f ygu1UonjjRay?yoi^ j \ l^e.nJw^yB Wed ybij," snhl 'HekvP:I tho4^?j?s and danger favor ing so. bold" u ' V Why didjdTyoti-tBll me so befor?iP,r ' saidUhm, 'dropping the dihbrelta'pi if o were no .furthef nfed of any .90 A pr .taction,' and finding his way to Il#i ! .yP.I'ps by a .sorb of .circuitau^mWKI, Fh'.^ tA/\l- u. 1?nr fArotinod nvPe**1 yr* Xiirg&T, of Course. at ; the final resting place. "Why .didn't , you tell me before?" Tom again repeat- ' i'd, with masculine pertinacity. " Because," said Hetty. with a funny little laugh, " I didn't lind it out until a little while ago!" and tlieanswerseemed ijuitesatisfactory to Ton:, who gave an idliplical acknowledgment, and moved 1 toward his prospective father-in-law. " Tom." said Obadiah, with a sigh of relief. " 1 believe the storm's 'most over." : "Looks like it," said-Tom,'peering .1 i ?i- ? i-.i? *i.~ o..: 1 llU'OUgU llll' H IIIUIMV, UJC ll> llljt 1'IUUIO mil the distant thunder confirming his opinion. All along the western horizon was a line of silver light that shbne hriirhtly ineontrast with the dark cloudsmoving like retreating armies from the scene of conflict. "I'd a sight ruther hoc turnips all day!" exclaimed Obadiah, in a :one of disgust, :is he turned away from tlie window and prepared to descend the stairs. "An' I never want to come so near hein' seairt to death. Mandy, how this roof leaks?" he added, as if lie had just made the discovery. " 1 should think it did," said Mandy; " an' it Ml leak worse than ever now, for the way them shingles ra'tied oil' was a caution. I declare ior't I wa'n't half as much afraid of the tidal wave as I was that the house would tumble down and bury us all under the ruins," " There is a blessing in every calamity," said Tom, giving Hetty's hand an eloquent squeeze, and the storm being ........ (Imwi r>n nvnlleo fnr liia in*: :iny longer; so, having said goodnight. he went oft'with a liapny swing and a lighter heart than he hau carried in his breast for many a day. Obadiah was right in one conjecture. That storm was the prelude to the tidal wave which dashed with such fury against the sandy shore on the eastern end of Long Island that great damage was done and several lives were lost. Hut there were its proud waves stayed, ami Long Island still retains its position and its reputation for scrub oaks and sand. Hut an event took place in Crowlield that astonished sill the inhabitants, and was of sufficient c onsequence to excite the wonder of Squire King's family, who represented the aristocracy of the place. This was nothing less than the demolishing of the old house where Obadiah Beales' father, grandfather and greatgrandfather had lived and died, and under whose roof he had expected to end his days-if the roof had or.ly held out. May Carrol sent word that she and Sidney wouldn't be able to make the promised visit that summer, and Ilctty and Tom bore the disappointment with a wonderful serenity. Mainly superintended the erection of the new house, and Hetty insisted on having a piazza, which Obadiah objected to as an additional and unnecessary expense. But Hetty coaxed'and cried, and by dint of tears and entreaties managed to secure a sort of compromise. It wasn't in Obadiah's nature to be very J liberal, so the piazza was not planned on | that scale; but if it was dreadfully narrow, it was a good sight better than none at all, and with 'lorn as a lover it j didn't really matter very much, Mrs. Beales was reconciled to the match, since it seemed to meet the desire of Hetty's heart, who had never appeared so lovable and charming?far superior, the doting mother thought, to any of Squire King's daughters; while Obadiah was in a state of unspeakable i happiness, for he knew Tom's ways, and , wasjwilling to give his daughter and his dollars into such safe keeping. Tom and Hetty blessed the tidal wave that brought them together, and the old i umbrella under wliirli they told their j love i< preserved as a precious souvenir I of tle.it memorable occasion, when it \ reaWy|!fe6j^!ss IfXong Island would ho arctfeptij^to thiiAtlnntie Ocean.?Harper's \ >Tho bridaerriowui proc ess of eonstrao^oartonne^pgcities of New York nLn^flJrbofayfe^liJjL nave the longest siniljle^^^jQrappiI^odge in the world. Thenwiiil^tbSifc3fc?41 be 1,595 feet six spans 930 feet each. /-l%^bri4^H?w7rv.?ignod in 1SG7 by snKn-X- Roebiing.^ut In lied in 1809, before orpt had begun, and it has been builifntn^ly under the guidnnco'of Roebling, the ^The.b^'dg^^^Wsfvom the junction Sa^^- J^tlFn^Jsli-eetJn Brooklyn, ^^ftgtlr o176,9^ toR the Brooklyn apiiVoad&eteing^f^et, the suspended f&^^Jthe New York apexes .of brick and ^nite arc'lies, which, irben finished, )e ornaments to the |ya(3ties. It .hfS-'akcn nine years to complete thfi toWcrs and anchorages, tfi'^^bfcs, and get everything pffiffijara thfl; suspension of the floor. ,>rreD!jn;ig uKJ'.w.uuumiuns ior uieiow^W?ti?gicie'ofthe n'lost difficult parts of fi 1,600,000 oftheriver rested on rock or on lap On the Brooklyn siail th? icas reached at a depth of fC'rty-^yeJE'J-belo-w high water; but It was neeissf^pbo go seventy-eight ||pt*below higfi wnt^r on the New York si de. The pnetyaiatii; method of sinking caissons is adujfiew, but the operations here. suq?fis?aL% bj their immensity eyerythinjjpti^^i.- -kind that had ever been'ddrie beforo. , fTlie towers are 278 :!^e' anoliorages are 129leet by J19^^at|the. blise. 117 feet by 104 feefc at-the eighty-nine feet high. 5&e.tqtaw|Snntity of granite and limeston'erin^.tini^mwjn^nd anchorages is 145'00p clrtillryitrdoT^id it required the cofctinuloun work fa four years of over twlfttyduard; iitk Moine, Massachusetts, i&^&'Islkaik&jW'^w York to furnish EHe ^BdesasKy^upjH^* In the summer of 1876 iJiemiiioftryj^nU! completed. Oh thp20tii otljte', 1877$ tfta first wire fon;tlJ^'abl&^n^^tretctied across the fiver. Therfciftj^.ibub'oables; each conjjSfeingoOt nntfcfeef If'jamjs, each strand, feo?!fcuning2cOg:^aniia3l east steeljwires, No. 18 ?uago^4tyes^pibles are fifteen ,'ia. diameter. ForMwSp^ing thi ea'Jj^galvanized an.w'irei wKTused. March four j MVwere completed, on ;;<k after they were jj?'P dgo. which is awe feet/BdMjBV / ' - lway, is bustafned'by^lie.T^^bhi . ? reams, and stifV?npijk'oy-"'8p ?\faJVl,'?6l 'trusses. It is l\.'; me*. t- divisions Mr.- '-.-ipill transit ravel' o7fuic*mnm lloor, and intended for-pedest rians. The Aliening trusses will be iron, six in number, the two outer ones nine and a iialf loot high, lite other four sixteen leet in height. The total weight of the bridge will he 13,300 tons. It is proposed to uiove the ears on this bridge by means r>r wire ropes and stationary engines. This method is considered as preferable L - 1^w.s-v?**s-v? ?*?r>c nn n/i/iAimt. lif t.llP IU I Hit I t#I iUl UIIIUll wo Uli Ikvvvuuv wsteep grade of l lie bridge. It is estimated tlint the bridge, when completed, will "have. cost ! '13.500,000, of which $0,500,000. to jl bo spent on the bridge itself, and $4,000,000 in acquiring the necessary real estate. It is hoped that in 1H81 the bridge will be opened to the public.??S?*iaitrfic Amc."ican. A Trick of the Clairvoyants. In drawing out the facts of personal or family history, clairvoyants do not always ask direct questions, but rather make statements with an implied interrogation, to which the vicdm, oftentimes entirely unconsciously, responds by word or look or gesture, or perhaps by all three: and, at a later stage of the interview, these secret facts :.rc artfully given hack to the victim, who luis no recollection of having previously imparted them, and will not bel eve lie has done so, but prefers to believe that he is in the presence of divinity. It is not only possible but easy for a practical adept to draw out in tins way minute and elaborate details ot secret family history. A few years ago, while connected with one of the public institutions of this city, 1 made a number of experiments in this line. [ told the patients alllieted with various forms of nervous and allied disorders not to tell mc about their symptoms, nor give me any facts in their cases, but to let me tell them; and then I would proceed to indicate, after the manner of a clairvoyant, the locality of their maladies and the history of their trouble.?. In the majority of cases I was successful, and made out the diagnosis to the satisfaction of those who sought riy advice, and with good reason, for nothing that T could do prevented them from telling me, although 1 asked,them no questions; unintentionally and tfoeonsciously, they would guide me at every st:ig? of the interview. Ry a littie ijractiee any one could easily acquire this art; and long study, such as professional elairvoyantf bestow upon this subject, develops great skill in thus managing and deluding the unwary and non-expert.?Scritmcr. A Pet Turtle. Mrs. Z. Taylor Lacy, of Reading, Pa., lias a number of pets, among wluch ar< ringdoves, canary birds, white rabbits fancy stock of fowl^ a dog and a I in< tortoise. She said to p, reporter that sh< "hardly knew which she thought tin most of, excepting it might be the lane tortoise, which she would not sell foi any money." She was stroking tin head of the tortoise with her finger,and as she spoke to it, calling it "my pet,' I the shelled animal looked up into hoi face and turned its head to one side am then t.o the other, as if listening to ant understanding what sly said. Wher | the reporter came close it quickly drey hack out of sight into its shell, and sin remarked, "The little pet is afraid o strangers." ? " What do you feed to the little pet?' " Bread and milk in a bucket." 44 How long have you had it?" 44 About two years. I received it fron a friend in Philadelphia. A cousin o mine residing in that city has one tha makes a peculiar noise when it want something to eat, and it follows mem ,.r tlin fnmilv nil niviimd flip vard ! They keep it in the yard in summer, am I at the approach of winter it goes to th I cellar door, when some one opens it am | it goes down and creeps into the ground where it stayu until spring. Anecdotes of the Late French fr'nce. The late Prince Louis Napoleon, killed hy the Zulus in South Africa, celebrated his twenty-third birthday in March. Born three years after Napoleon's marriage to Eugenie de Montijo, he was confided to an English nurse, about twentyfive years old, strong, handsome, of very jovial disposition and pleasing manners. People who have seen Zamaeois' beautiful painting, " The Education of a Prince," have seen a good likeness of her; so far as regards the costume it is a perfect portrait. The prince was slender and had a mild, pleasing countenance; his ears were rather too large, and on this account the Parisians, for whom nothing is sacred, and who always find a nickname for everybody, called him " Prince Oreillard." Ilis christening by Cardinal Patrizi, a? representing Pope Pius IX., was a gonreous court display. The empress showed herself a real mother to the boy, often spending her entire days and nights beside his cradle in spite of court etiquette and the emperor's remonstrances. She had her reward in the boundless affection that the child learned to feel for her?a love which has known no diminution. His father, though lie loved the boy very dearly. rarely petted him save in public. One day the boy, then perhaps five years old. was crying with toothache. The emperor scolded him, saying that the future emperor of France should be above all such weakness. "But it hurts me awfully, papa, replied the boy. " No matter," sternly rejoined the hero of Sedan; "stop up your ears with your fingers, and you will not feel the pain." The boy glanced at him in amazement, but followed his father's advice, and ten "minutes later announced that the pain was over. Mild and amiable as he was, he ocea^?t nl^lo/1 trt fomrvftK strlinn liif OUJilihllJ JL^UIUU IV IV I " UVIi 1IIJ playmates, the sons of Dr. Connoau and Gens. Fleiry and Espinasse, were- not ready to obey his whims. " I am a Napoleon," he said one day to young EsEinasse, who had refused to race with im; " woe to him who will not obey." His father overheard him, and the boy was condemned to bread and water for twenty-four hours. The young prince, when a little boy, could not be induced to mount a pony until he had been threatened with the seveiest punishments, so much did lie fear a tumble. Afterward lie became a fine horseman. Ilis favorite pastime was toijsten to the music that the band of the Imperial Guard played daily in the court of the Tuileries. He took such a stroug liKingfor the cornet'plaver of the band, I)ufour, that he woulanot consent to the hitter's retiring with tire others. Often, when all the others had gone, the colos sal M. I)ufour Was seen either standing before the diminutive prince to play the cornet, or carrying him around in his anils for hours ana'.hours-in succession. One day tlie epi press whs talking witji some of her laxlifs of honor abQut ax;er-.: tain marriage jyhieir had Tecenjly taken place. " I,.-too, .will get hjarfied," said the boy; "I wilt firarry M. Dufour." lYoung LouIS w.-tg,, jfj'ittjiientTy requested * wj in: ? iv?-'---< a ?n x?mdentv "aprince/.*"Jie was told, "shoold never commit himself one way or the other.'1 A short while after he had' been reminded of this duty, the son of Gen. Floury asked him whether he was hungry. " I would not like to express any oninion on tlie subject," young Louis gravely replied. Some two or three years ago l'rince Louis accompanied his mot her on a journey through Austria and Italy. They traveled its the Countess and C Hint of i>;,iv,...fr,T>,U hut their identify was 110 where a secret, and tliev were rceeived wiih' the highest consideration everywhere, except at Vienna, where, it is said; ,tl>e ox-empreSs was refused an audience at court. Perhaps the memory nf the campaigns of 1859 and I860, which deprived the Austrian crown of Lomhardy and Venice, was still too fresh in the mind of the Austrian sovereign. On their way to England the empress and her son had asked permission to cross France, but they were politely advised to take another route. On the Belgian frontier a young gentleman was arrested because of his resemblance to the prince imperial, especially in his thorough English style of dressing. It was said that this journey of the prince abroad had as :??. i nvimnrnt- nnnflinr rnmnr was that it was undertaken for the purpose of forming an alliance between the rope, Austria and the Bonapartes at the expense of Italy. Though with little profit, a propaganda has been constantly carried on in Trance for the destruction of the republic. Prince Louis lent him. self to no intrigues, but he certainly intended to recover the throne that his . father had lost. For the peace of Europe and the triumph of the republic, his death is providential.?Nevi York >un. Falling Thirteen Hundred Feet. Three miners in the Savage mine at Virginia City, Nevada, started up the shaft just as the six o'clock morning whistle blew. They were Nicholas Pickmon, John Champion and T. Iv. Johnson. They had worked all night. ; When fifty feet from the surface and >' 1,300 from the bottom of the shaft they j rang for the cage to stop so that several articles might Tie thrown into a com" partmcnt. ~ Pickmon and Champion were leaning with their backs against > the wall plates and their feet on the 1 cage. Suddenly without warning the ' cage began to go up. The feet of the two men were thrown upward in an instant, and both slipped backward between the cage and the timbers. Champion caught one of the braces of the * cage and saved himself,, but Pickmon ; fell the 1,300 feet to the bottom of the I shaft. Johnson says that when Dick' mon was falling he uttered not a word, - but gave him a look that he will never j forget till- his dying day. When his ? body w:is recovered by the men working r below it w;is mangled beyond the possi bility of recognition. The left arm and ; right leg were severed from the trunk, the abdomen was shockingly lacerated r and the head was utterly annihilated. } The body was gathered up piece by 1 piece and placed in a sack, in which it 1 was carried to the surface. The accir dent was brought about by a blundei \ on the part of the engineer at the mouth 1 of the shaft A man who attends strictly to his own business, says the Quincy Morten, Arrjo, is always busy, but the man whe j. wants to attend strictly to your business ' can go to a lire or circus just as well ai 1 one time as at another. We arc always s ready to give him a vacation. Observe the man who advertises. II( .1 ........... ].iu>iniica .ir.#l (in ilnlvfr r?ir(> J knows it. The man who dnn"t a<lvertis< [ may mean business, but lie is aA'aid t< ? say anything about it.?Modern Myo. TIMELY TOPICS. A thorough test of the power, cost and comparative advantages of the electric light is to be made in the Capitol building at Washington, and three machines for the purpose have already been purchased. It is also proposed to place a light at the summit of tlie dome of such power as to illuminate a large portion of the city. It is stated that at Christiana and at Stockholm, Sweden, the police arrest men who, in the streets and places of ??1 vapavIo in^iilero in ltaKif nf ' UlUilOUlC ICOU1W, lliUVilgU 111 bllV Iltbi/Ib v/l pursuing, addressing and annoying women who freely circulate there. Such offenders are made to pay a fine of twenty-five kroner (equal to about six dollars) and their name, residence and profession are published in all the journals under the head of " Disturbers of the ! Peace of Women." It is needless to say that the public shame thus incurred is now very much shunned by men, and many would willingly pay, if they were allowed, a large sum of money to he permitted to escape. Carlos, an Italian gymnast,well-known from his feats with a charged wooden cannon, was lifting it from its stand, during a recent exhibition in Cervia, when it fell, mouth downward. The gymnast, with the rapidity of lightning, pnrlpfLvovpd to hreak the shock so as to prevent, the weapon's exploding, but he I was unsuccessful; the concussion fired the piece, and as the charge cotild not emerge, the cannon burst. Carlos died almost immediately. The consternation and horror among the spectators at this frightful scene were intense; only one of them was wounded, however, although the splinters of the cannon were driven about in every direction. ^ A recent review of Burmese troops is thus described by an eye-witness: "The number of men drawn up on the parade ground was five thousand, including infantry and cavalry,' in addition to which there were eighty-five elephants. The infantry looked like so many monkeys; for size and soldierly bearing they are utterly contemptible. The cavalry were A IUWUIIlt.'U ULJllll tlilll illiU puilj jmilllO. The guns or the elephant battery were of no greater bore than the common English duck gun. The Burmese were ini- j mensely excited over their warlike display; but it svould be difficult to imagine anything more ridiculous than such a sight to any one with the slightest acquaintance" with the armies of Europe-." The dead body of an old man named Gettings, lying in the lilthy yard of a rear hovel in West Fortieth street, where he had fallen in a lit of beastly in toxication the night before and died with no one near him: a mother, seventyeight years of age, dying of starvation, and a son and daughter insensible with ' liquor,- huddled together like beasts within the shanty?these were the sights that met the eyes of a New York policeman who. bad been summoned to the spot by tlie neighbors at an early liour. d Itfis soblpxn that, a more terrible revels 4 tfon is made of and crime that hide in this Ireajrt. pt a^ great city than that obtained in the reh: volting story of the (jottings family. J it?:.i ? * I?!:..f ,.r ti.> 1 HMUlia UllUlf v/i win-tjv at the dinner of the Massachusetts Medical Society of Boston, called the attention of the members of the society to certain peculiar diseases prevalent among the students of Harvard College. He had found that.in the senior class of two hundred young men. forty-two suffer so severely from diseases of the nose, throat and lungs that it is impossible, in the opinion of members of the Massachusetts Medical Society, for them to go to prayers: and a peculiar feature of the disease is I hat the same members of the society certify that it would be dangerous for them to go to prayers for six months to come. Another peculiarity is that the disease apparently increases the longer the student attends college, for while only ten per centum ot the freshmen arc alllieted, twenty-one per centum of the seniors are. Stili another peculiarity of the disease is that it exists only a few moments in the day, and always about the same time; it docs not prevent the patients from going fo their meals, cvCn though the prayer bell is ringing at the same time; it does not prevent their attending recitations: they can even go to the theater and ride out home in the horse-car late at night in mm-winier; they can row in the boats, play baseball, and even sing in the glee club. It is known that the disease exists, however. for it is certified to by members of the Massachusetts Medical Society. A Spendthrift's Luck. The gambling hell at Monaco returns within a tritle of ?2,500,000 to its proprietor. The princely revenue will be short this year to the'income of a grand duke of Pumpernickel. One of the most remarkable instances of lucky gambling j ever recorded litis just set the crowd tit the little free city afire with envy. Early in the spring there was rumor of disI imni>n<lin<r over an ancient British baronetcy, which lias given heroes, poets and lawyers to the country. The heir ! had inherited 81,000,000 debts, added to a round sum he hid raised at Accommodation Bank interest. When the ; usurers found their security a shadow, I and the mortgagees discovered that the successor to the title and estates had beI gun by dipping the property further, it j was resolved to force payment. A noble : duke, whose name was much mentioned in connection with the Glasgow Bank, generously lent as much as deferred the evil day. But the smash would have come all the same, but for the wonderful | stroke of luck which befel the spendthrift patrician at Monaco. lie broke the bank three nights running. Ilis last i coup made a round 8300,000, in addition ; to the 8100.000 captured by him the two ! nights previous. A Morphine Eater's Pet. I A larly offered 8100 reward for the recovery of a pet white rat in a Syracuse, (X. Y.) paper. The reporters learned : that she was a morphine eater, and on a visit to her father, a respectable gentle man of Syracuse. The drug was taken i to allay pain. After her arrival, when under the influence of opium, the pet rat fell out of the bosom of her dress, where ; she was in the habit of carrying it, and t was killed by market men. The lady > said she could not sleep till she had an> other pet rat, and started for Xew York L to obtain one. Her father says the rat ; was perfectly inme and devoted to its mistress, who is rational upon all other i ? . . nnt ..rwl mnrnhine or I SUI'JITW l'.\lT)IU LIIIJ j?-i. ...... ? opium. She said she was robbed of ) valuable rings whiie under the inlluenee ? of the drug, hut added: " I can buy more i rings but will give S500 to regain my daning rat." + ' /?/ / ' J ' . " / ADVERTISING RATESt Ton! 1 In. X ool |K ool. 1 ooL 1 Week. $ 1.00# 6 00 8 9.00 *16 00 a " 1.76 7 60 1 2 35 20.00 8 44 2.60 9.00 15.25 24.00 4 44 8 00 10.50 18 00 27.60 6 44 8.60 11.75 20.60 81.00 6 4- 4.00 12 60 22.75 84 00 7 44 4 60 13 25 24 75 87 n0 8 44 6 00 14.00 26.00 40 00 Smoothx. 1.50 17.00 82.00 60.00 4 44 .......... 7.50 19.00 89 60 69 00 ? . 44 8.60 24.00 48.00 84.00 9' 44 ......I... 9 60 80.00 69 00.1106.00 19 44 10 26 85.00 63 00'120.00 ^ Transient advertisements most bo accom panied with the cash to insure insertion. The Passing: Pay. Stay, sweet day, lor thou art taiiy Fair, and lull, and calm; "t Crowned through all thy golden hours, With love's freshest, purest flowers, ' . Strong in faith's unshaken powers,. Rich in hope's bright balm. Star, what chance and change may wait, As you glide away; Now ia all so glad and bright, Now we breathe in sure delight! Now we smile in fate's despite. Stay with us, sweet day. Ah! she cannot, may not stop; All things must decay; So with head, and heart, and will, Take the joy that lingers still, Take the pause in strife and ill, Prize the passing day. ?All the Year Round. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Bosom friends?Studs. Iowa has ten counties named after ten ex-Presidents of the United States. A little advertising now and then wil do no harm to business men. An Indiana farmer shot into his smokehouse at a supposed thief, and killed Iris linele. "You follow the local profession, I believe, sir?" Lawyer Pompous; "No, sir; I lead it." Vice-President Wheeler has now, since the death of his sister, no relative nearer than his cousin. Senator Bruce estimates that between 6,000 and 10,000 colored people left Mississippi for Kansas tiuring the " exodus " fever. The recent cyclone in Kansas was riuite popular?many persons were really carried away with it. The Detroit Free Press is sure that the "ability of a statesman docs not depend upon the size of his jaw." The Missouri farmers are reported to be driving posts in the ground to hang to when the cyclones come. In reducing its postage rate from five to three cents, a year ago, the Trench government has suffered a decrease in revenue of ?5,500.000. Oh, 'tis the saddest season of the year; For the terrible mosquito doth appear. Oil, dear! ?Eric Hcral'l. The following includes the names of all the American horses that have ever trotted in less than 2.18: llarus, 2.134; Goldsmith IMaid, 2.14; Ilopeful, 2.14}; v Lulu, 2.15; Smuggler, 2.15: j,uci.le Gold- , dust, 2.164; American Girl,2.16i; Glos- . i ter, 2.17; Dexter,2.174. " '0 ~ . tOVF.'S MELO-DIMUA. Art one, they meet, as in a pleasing dream; - . * id i w ?, *>e'll tieat U> soda and ice-cream; " A>m :lu^e, bi.-, cash, n'as! i.? nearly plaved ; ^ k^ifli^reddr was undeitroing the agreeable operation 06 Juufiiig. hi&Jfiiur combed by his mother, ma he grumbled ' at the maneuver. ' Why, Freddie,* 'V .*" said mamma, "vou ought jiot to make such a fuss. I don't fuss and cry whpn my hair is combed." "yes," replied '?j| the vouthful party. " but your hair ain't ?1 hitched to your head." The Philadelphia Ledger believes that if there were more gymnastic exercises in our public schools there would he fewer [hall-alive people in the world. Iga Don't know about that. We once saw a schoolmaster cliasc a boy six times -'.jB around tlio school-room, over desks and ?g benches, and out of a window, and when he caught him that boy, for the space ' "a oJ an hour, felt only about half alive, -.ia despite the exercise he had just indulged TT l-.J jl- "< in.?JSorrisioiun jicrwu. ^ A (Jncer Chicken. Mr. David Fisliel, of this city, is tJie ' proud and happy possessoi of a queer ^ Fowl that settles for all time the question a of hens' teeth. There is probably hardly a reader of the Herald that has not at v -J some time during his or her life stopped v Jfl to think whether a hen had teeth or not, and then have laughed for entertaining . JH the question. It may be safely said now that the laugh is on the other side. .jw There is a hen that has teeth, and Mr. .JS Fisliel has the hen. The teeth are not very large ones, it is true, hut can be > plainly seen when the chicken's mouth is open, and look very much like a baby's first two or three incisors. There \ arc none on the lower jaw (for the animal seems to have jaws), but its affectionate owner, who, by the way, seems to regard it very much as most men would regard a baby, says that he hopes it will in time develop more masticators. . The hen is somewhat giddy, as yet not y ^ being quite a year old* and was born y and raised in Uino, arriving m una u.j, ^ witli a large invoice of her sisters. cousins and aunts and an occasional . j unclp. about a week acq. She fell into Mr. Fishel's hands in the regular way of }l._ business, and h:is for the past three flays * . *-; , occupied with pride and becoming self- > possession a large show window in his shop. She has no bill, and her head is jgJ something like a monkey's, with a forehead. The nose and nostrils are very . v like;a human's, and the cartilage of the nose is soft, responding freely to the finger touch.?New York Herald. How Gen. Shields was Cured. The late Gen. Shields, at the battle of Cerro (iordo. in Mexico, was severely *\ wounded while leading his men, but he ?' refused to quit the field. lie advanced to the charge, when he was struck In the chest by a copper grapeshot that passed through his lungs. lie tell into the arms of Oglesby, at present United States Senator from Illinois, anu was carried from the battlefield to all ap- - . pearanees lifeless. Obituary notices appeared afterward in nearly all the papers of the country, so convinced were the. brother officers of the impossibility of his surviving such a terrible wound. For weeks he lay at the brink of death in the neighborhood of the battlefield, and his cure seems little short of a miracle. The army surgeons had given him over for death when a Mexican doctor said lie would live if he would let him remove the coagulated blood from the wound. Shields, as a kill or cure rente- \ dy, told him to try, and a line silk handkerchief was worked in and finally drawn through the wound, removing the extravasant blood, when daylight 1-' I.?l? TIn could be seen IIIIUUUII me mm. .... lived to he :i hale and hearty man. free from disease or any inconvenience from the wound, which was considered at thai time mortal. 4