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Wfrjiy * qp?^?n???WMM Si -THE JOUKJN AJji G. G. ALEXANDER, Proprietor. ^ HSglFcAllDEX, : SOUTH CAROLINA. i mm ii ii ^ p C'apt. Ei>gell, of the .Seventeenth Lancers, when shot at UlunJi, fell back nto the arras of a comrade, a Dublin man, exclaiming at his last words, "See that the men spare the wounded. Spare the wounded." One of his soldiers rode in the charge with a wooden pipe in his ^BT mouth, and when shot down asked with his latest breath, '"Give the pipe to brothel ________ rji.uv, physics and divinity are well supplied with feminine members in the United States. The lady doctors number .">30, dentists 420, while sixty-eight are preachers and twenty practice :is # lawyers. Some ladies adopt two or three callings at once. A lady living in ^ St. Louis notifies on her door-plate that Hkf she is an i: elocutionist, poetess, washer and ironer." W ? . Tun San Francisco Chronicle savs tha m the Farls Baron Hirsh, .who is worth ^20,000,000 and recently won S100,(J5o in a lottery ticket, is almost rich enough to live in San Francisco. The existence of rich men in that city has rendered necessary a course of scientific instruction for burglars. A professor of the art, a recent graduate of the State Prison, has begun a scries of lectures on the subject, for which fifty cents a head is charged. The first night the lesson consisted of a trca the, with a practical illustration, upon the operation of breaking open a safe. The outer door was opened in forty-five minutes, and would have been accomplished in even less time had not the pro * fessor been so unlucky a> to break off his drill. A goodly number of well-known thieves and burglars were present in the public hall where the exhibition took place, and for fifty cents obtained information which they could have got otherwise only by months or years of study. At the end of the lesson a detective appeared and cleared the Jiaiioi ine mot iioionuu> ?f them. Thk ruddy planet Mars, now nearly at its brightest, is under close telescopic scrutiny. The two moons which for so many years escaped telescopic detection have to be newly timed and rated. The astronomers at Washington hoja-d to rediscover these minute bodies about the middle of Octol?er. But Mr. Common, of Jvondon, caught sight of them as early as September 21, when Mars was far front liAj^^^being at its "brightest. He us<h1 a tele.juTx^M^o^ ' rc^ect'no lunging a thrlfe feet'in diameter, and regarded by some (despite its inferiority to the Ross telescope in size) as the most powerful telescope in existence. The inner satellite has siuee been rediscovered. Phobos (for so the little moon is called) w;ls about tlirec-quartors of an hour ahead of its computed time, judged by the rating of 1877. Of eon rise, astronomers infer, as it is easier to suppose, that that the Washington astronomers calculated a period of revolution a few seconds too long, not. that the little moon lias really been accelerated in its motions. Tim annual report of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics contains sonic interesting matter. The value of the exports of domestic merchandise during the last fiscal year was greater than during any previous year in th<- history of the country. ; From 1803 in 1873 the value of imports exceeded that of exports in an average of about $100,000,000 per annum. Duriug the last four years, the excess of the value of exports over imports has amounted to $733,000,000. The exports of merchandise during the l""4 linva innrpiisetl frnm 8?73 000.000 in I860 to .<098,000,000 in 1879. The value of the exports of bread and breadstuff* during each of the last two years has exceeded the value of the exports of any other commodity. During all the preeceding years in the commercial history of the country since 1S21 (except during the war between the States), the value of the exports of rawcotton exceeded that of any other commodity. From 1821 to 1800, cotton fur' 1 > A _r i1.? ,.f rUKnOU ?>V per veill. Ui nil- ivuu ui exports of merchandise, but, during the last two fiscal years, it has only amounted to about 25 per cent. It must be remcmbercd, however, that, while the foreign demand for cotton is regular and constant, a staple, in faut, like the crop itself, the demand for breadstufls and provisions Is exceedingly fluctuating and irregular, dependent upon contingency upon which no man can safely build. A Cruel Hoax. I Laet evening, just before sundown, a gentleman who was sitting by hi3 wincow on North B street, casually remarked: " There goes the woman that Cleorge Brown's dead gone on." His wife who was in a bark room ting supjK-r ready, dropped a plate on the Jloor, stumbled over iho baby, and ran like a quarter-horse to the window with: " Where? where? Toil me quick!" "Theone with the long cloak?just at the corner." Then the woman at the window sad in tone* of deep disgust: " Why, that 8 Brown's wife." " Yes, exactly,*" remarked the brutal husband, quietly. Then the dir-appoinled woman wont hack and got the supper ready, but her usually sweet disposition was toured for the entire evening. -*4, 71 '^^^^^HML.itt ('arolina:.KP'' jfifty in IVJcmplul^^H^^^^K^ | nj^H'-ksbu rg is I "riy ,,ow! aniountsjJJlMTOT-t-'s.' Tramps are ^flocking into Florida for their*winter quarters. Texas would make thirty-five states thrt size of Massachusetts. A new town in Lauderdale county, Tenn., is named Pilljerk. A South Carolina man cut22,000shingles from one cypress tree. The cause of education Is looming in many eoudtiesin Alabama. Chestnuts sell at twenty-five cents per bushel in southern Virginia. The sewerage question is the leading topic of interest in Memphis. The third crop of figs for 1879 is nearly ripe in Oglethorpe county, Ga. There wore 113 deaths in New Orleans during the week ending Sunday. The wool clip of Texas this year is estimated at 22,000,000 pounds. The colored Baptists are erecting a $3,000'church at Dallas, Texas. There were sixty-one vessels in the jxjrt ofjjavaunah, Ga., Saturday. Alex. II. Stephens is a consistent inember of the Presbyterian church. Arkansas has a state society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. Over fifty new firms have commenced business in Atlanta, Ga., this year. A Texas boy sixteen years old Is being searched for on the charge of rape. The Alabama Great .Southern railroad will soon receive 100 now coal cars. A cotton gin with 17?> bales of cotton burned near Dallas, Texas, Saturday. A Memphis gun store was robbed of SI.000 worth of pistols Sunday night. Panthers are said to abound yet in the mountains of western North Carolina. Some of the Arkansas papers advocate spelling the name of the State Arkansaw. The tendency of the people of Georgia to emigrate to Texas is not so great as it ! was. i A penalty of four per cent, has been added to the delinquent tax list of Memphis. ! The burden of the North Carolina papers is of heavy crops and new rail- : roads. The people of San Antonio, Texas, have suWribed ?2,000 for an emigrants' home. i The enrollment in the public schools of Chattanooga, Tent)., last month, was l,t>l 4. Colonel Robert M. Nimw, well known throughout Virginia, died at Newark Friday. A woolen-mill at New BraunfeLs, Texas, yielded a net profit of $81,000 last year. The Collierville Tribune is the latest addition to the democratic press of Tennessee. t The Grand Lodge of Tennessee, F. and A. M., met in annual session in Nashville, Monday. The expenses of the city government of Galveston, Tex., for Octolxr, amounted to ?9,440.08. There was an increase of forty in the number of post others in North Carolina during October. Taxes have been paid more promptly this year in South Carolina than for many years before. \ colored man in Tennessee goes to the State penitentiary for three years for stealing fifty cents. John Arnold, of Mineral county, W. Va., raised this year ten barrels of corn from one ear's planting. The Council of Wheeling, W. Va., rctuses ti? encourage the introduction of he telephone in that city. The Groesbeck New Era says that onefourth of the cotton gins in Texas are destroyed by fire every year. A widow seventy years of age, residing near Austin. Texas, takes care of a stock ranche and 300 head of cattle. Four calves were found near Talbolton, Ga., with their throats cut. It is thought the deed was done by wildcats. Texas papers are complaining of an invasion of tramps from the north since the beginning of cold weather up there. During the first seven days of this month, 32,SOI letters and packages were handled in the Columbus ( Ga.) postoffice. The registration of the voters of Charleston, JS. C., closed Tuesday, the number being 10,777, against 0,086 in 1877. The Robesonian says there is a well in Robeson county, North Carolina, over 1U0 years old, wuicn naa never iaueu mi this fall. The circuit court of Rockbridge county, Virginia, granted a decree last week for the sale of the Rockbridge alunt springs. A lot of 149 Sliort-born cattle, averaging 1.570 pounds, were shipped for Europe last week by Francis Bell, of Augusta county, Vu. Two men engaged in digging a well near Sherman, Texas, two or three days since, were overcome by diimp and died from the effects. A contract has been completed for tho erection of water works at Knoxville, Tenn., and the Dispatch thinks that gas works will follow. The Board of Health of Augusta, Ga., has advised the City Council to abandon pumps and wells in the city as nuisances and injurious to heahh. The jailorof Yancey county, N. C., has lw>rt for com rdieitv in the recent escape of the two murderers, the Booncs, from the Burnsville jail. The Rome (C?a.) Tribune says that it is impossible to get cars enough to haul iron from Georgia aid Alabama to fill northern and eastern orders. Knoxville (Term.) Dispatch: Thero Ls hardly an idle mechaiic in the city, or an idle laborer of anv sort. All rcexn to 1>? employed and at fair The Observer says that every railroad - niinr1nttr> "NT. (1. has done iuiwiwIq nu,n ... ( a larger business this season than at any other time within their history. It will cost at least $150,000 to furnish the maimed Confederate soldiers of Georgia with artificial limbs, as contemplated by an act of the last legislature. Last Friday th3 Eagle and Phoenix cotton mills at Co umbus Ga., sold $45,000 worth of their products?Rescue plaids and ball serins thread. . James Rice, confined in-jail at Ash- . land, Ala., for giving his step-daughter medicine to produce abortion, hung himself in his cell Friday morning. Orangcfield, (S.C.) Democrat: A larger number of trains are employed now on the South Carolina railroad than at any previous time to move the freight. The Cincinnati Times says that during the past six months five colonies have gone from Cincinnati to settle 011 lands in Tennessee and Alabama. Rev. \V. G. Veal, of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, ot Texas, has been deposed from the ministry oil at- j count of charges of gross immorality. [ The J^ancaster, (S. C.,) Ledger says that a number of persons who emigrated to Texas last year are coming back to their old homes in Lancaster county. Texas exports $50,000,000 worth of exports annually, and the Groesbcck New Era says that if it were not for the imports the state would soon waxji.ch. , Upon the' resignation, hist week, of AT' Shaw, superintendent of the Richmond i and Petersburg railroad, he was presented : by the employes with an elegant gold watch. A fire started in a cotton gin in Winsboro, S. C., the other day, and before it could be checked three cottages and a ! colored Methodist church was destroyed. Thursday afternoon a negro woman and her child were burned together in a j house in Union county, S. C. The tire j was caused from a wood chimney catching fire. j A colored woman, aixmi miy years uiu ; and in feeble health, while alone in her residence in Richmond, Va., last Satur- < day evening, caught tire and was burned to death. A meeting of farmers will be held at Ilendersonville, N. C., this week to con- ; sider the advisability of planting a large. J crop of tobacco in Henderson county : next year. Carrollton, Ga., charges a license of $2,500 for the privilege of selling liquor ; in that town by the quart or less, and $2,000 for wiling it in amounts more than a quart. The Gulf City Steamship company, ' of Mobile, Ala., has advices from Glasgow, Scotland, that the fast steamship built for the company has just been launched and will soon reach Mobile. There arc 754 patients in the Georgia : State Lunatic Asylum. The current , expenses of the institution mounted to $80,029,19, an average of expense per capita per diem of 32 9-10 cents. 1 In Washington county, Mississippi, a colored man was elected circuit clerk jr. I over two winte competitor*, ne was voted for by a good many white people ; on the score of superior fitness and reliability. A. J. Killian, a quiet and highly-respected citizen of Kllijay, Ga., cpmmitted suicide the other day. He tied a I rope around his neck, fixed it to the limb ' of a tree and then shot himself through' 1 the brain. ] The Raleigh (N. C.) Observer is of J the opinion that the reports of the As- 1 sessors for the present year will show an. j increase of the valuation of property in , tliut state over last year's figures of $1,- ! 000.000. The city of Richmond, Va., is asked to contribute $750,000 for a railroad up the James river, such road to lie con- i ?*....ntosl Iirwlnr ftin nf tllA J.IIllPii l ^UUtlCU UI1U\.4 WI\. u --- . , River and Kanawha Canal Company. Nashville American: Lightning en- < tered the capitol Monday via the tele- ' phone wires, and produced loud reports in the rotunda, iu the comptrol ler s office and in that of the clerk of the supreme court. The owners of established factories in Georgia complain of the legislative ex- 1 emption of new factorfes from taxation for ten years, and it is said that the valid- i ity of the exemption is to he tested in the courts. Lynchburg Virginian: One bf the most remarkable results of the late clec- J tion in Virginia was that in which an old politician who had been frequently elected to the legislature, was defeated by his former slave. Charleston (S. C.) News: In the past three days three large steamships have passed out from this port for European ivrt.-fu u'jfVi oVmiit IQ.Oflf) hales of cotton. and on a submersion of sixteen and a half to over eighteen feet. The law passed at the last session of the Alabama legislature, prohibiting the buying of cotton in seed, has ]>een decided unconstitutional by the circuit court in Lowndes county. An appeal will be taken to the supreme court. The Journal says immense beds of salt have been found in the Elm fork of the Jlig Wichita, seventy-five miles west of Henrietta. Texas. Two wagons loaded with 5,000 pounds of the salt sold in Henrietta last week at one and a half cents a pound. The Georgia Legislature, at its last session, enacted a law prohibiting the sale of immoral or obscene literature, and now it is rumored that the next grand jury will indict all vendors of Pol ice On zettes ana omer similar uiusiriueu pajxTunder the law. Washington (Ga.) Gazette : We were shown u S'JO gold pieec a few days ago that was made from Lincoln county gold. Some parties interested in the Sale mine sent some gold on to the Philadelphia mint and requested that it be made into money and sent baek. Austin (Tex.) Re view : The next Legislature will probably supplement our t^nnl iymIo hv .n nro vision makintr it a misdemeanor at least, if not a felony, for a railway company to give, or for any one not a paid employe of a railroad, or a pauper, to accept, a free pass. Captain Crook, of Calhoun, Alabama, has imported some premium Jersey cattle from England for his farm. Hia example in this matter has aroused a great desire on the part of farmers to in troduce1 blooded stock altogether to take the' places of the common kind now raised, i < During the recent session of Pasquo- < tank court, in South Carolina, a negro i swore a lie at 12 m. The Tarboro South- j cmor says the solicitor was instructed to 1 draw a bill for perjury ; the grand jury ; found it true; trial and conviction at once 1 ensued, and by .r? p. m. the perjurer ' was sentenced to the penitentiary for five < years. j Dublin (Ga.) Gazette: We learn that ( "fliere is not a sufficient Quantity of labor j in the county to house tnc cotton crop of ' the present year, and, furthermore, that ; some farmers in various parts of the ' county have icsorted to very unfair ' means, and arc actually going to the fields and hiring the laborers from their employers. Jvducational progress Is apparent in many counties in South Carolina. In | Fairfield county many districts have petitioned the right of local taxation, and upon the expectation that these petitions will be granted, several graded schools have already been established. State and county courts were closed in San Antonio, Texas, last week, in honor of the circus. Families came from a distance and camped near the city for ] three days before the "big show," and, < when it came, there had to be three ex- " hibitions in one day to satisfy the anxiotia sight-seers. ' < The Mississippi Valley Cotton Planters' Association held its annual medting at Vicksburg this week. The president, j in his opening address, said that if the planters of the south would only raise the feed consumed by their teams, it would add to their wealth every year i>32,000,000, which they now expend for ( this item. . j Dallas (Tex.) Herald : Two or three 1 \cars ago au enterprising lightning-rod man, with prophecy in his soul and faith in his heart, visited the Valley View 1 neighhorhood, ia Cook, county, and rodiled every house at good figures, taking t notes therefor, payable when the*railroad reached Gainsville. It has reached 1 (iainsville, and that ageut wants his i money. Little Kock (Ark.) Gazette: A company composed of ex-Senators Dorsey ' and McDonald and others have recently purchased silver mines in Colorado for * the sum of ?700,0U0, and the purchase ( money paid in cash. It is reported that , ln?th of our ex-senators have, recently ' made enormous sums by lucky invest- J mcntfl in mining stocks. 1 Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Free Press: Mr. \ J. M. Yearwood showed us on Tuesday < a red careless weed which grew on his t farm in this county, it l>eing twelve feet 1 high, ten and three-quarter inches around i :tt the ground end, and had limbs upon I it that measured seven feet in length. Mr. Yearwood stated that it had seed enough upon it to sow a ten-acre field. Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times: A farmer of McMinn county was arrested Sat- ! urday by a U. S. revenue officer for sell- ' ing seventy-five cents worth of tobacco r.f his own production. He was found guilty and thrown into prison, where he ( must remain until the Federal court eon- ! veaofl in Knoxville about a year henci. ' He will then be fined perhaps ?100. Considerable interest is being mani- j ?? iU/x CauII. in vneror/1 tlm mnn? IV^IVU 111 L11U %J*JUllX 111 iVqUiu wv vmv iiiuM 4 ufacturc of sugar from the sorghum plant, which, with the new varieties of plants, promise to be both practicable ind profitable. The interest has attained uich proportions as to warrant the organization of the Mississippi Valley Cane Growers sssociation, which will hold its first annual meeting at St. Louis, Mo., commencing on the 3d of December and continuing several days. Shelby (N. C.) Aurora: The first ease of corporal punishment in this date since 1F.GG occurred in this place last Saturday. When General Holland, a boy, was convicted of an assault upon tlie person of Julia McSwain, Judge Jiuxton informed his father that he would not pronounce sentence if he would thrash the boy in the presence of the Sheriff. The boy's father took him into the Sheriffs office aud executed the sentence of the court. ('larksvillc (Tenn.) Tobacco Leaf: For some time there has been doubt as to 1 1 X" L..J1K whether the uwensnoro ana ;>;wnnn; railroad would run by way of Springfield, Tenn., that place not l>eing in the air-line by several miles, but the qucs tion has now been settled on very favor- ^ able terms to Springfield. The demand f made upon that place for the diversion * was $20,000. The committee appointed < to raise the sum failed, and tendered the 1 company as a bonus four acres of ground j and a fine brick depot building, which ' Colonel Cole accepted, and now the J Springfield people ean rejoice. ^ Richmond (Va.) State: It is sad to ' think that the burning of the Academic hall at Hampton was the work of an incendiary black man. This institution is . supported by the government, the State and the people for the especial lienelit of , that race, and it was a matricidal hand that applied the torch. An appeal has , been made to the country for money to rebuild the hall and cover the loss, by ' Gen Armstrong, and we hope it will not J be iu vain. This Ls among our most useful institutions, and in the success <Jf its various experiments in race culture and discipline all have a deep interest. Charleston (8. C.) News: The following is about the present condition of the crop in this .State: Weather for picking in October and .November very lavoraoie: some damage from the drouth, which lessened the 'abundance ? f the fruit: amount pickea in the upper section of the State, seventy*five per cent., and in the lower and middle sect oils eighty to ninety per cent.; injury from rust, limited; tne total out-turn for the State, while showing some irregularity, is cxpcctd to about equal last year's growth. Savannah (Ga.) News: Laet night about nine o'clock a white woman was seen on Broughton street in a shameful state of intoxication, reeling from one side of the pavement, to the other. She was loading by the hand a little girl some five years old. Aa the woman staggered about the child was in great danger uf being injured. At one time tho little 0110 was thrown upon the rubbish in front of the building next to the Masonic hall. The inebriate was plainly clothed, but child was very neatly dressed. Dallas (Tex.) Herald: Dallas has in Seed a cosmopolitan population. Tin patient on the first ben as you enter tin dty hospital is a negro, the next a Swede cue tmra oea is occupiea oy an rmguhii man. followed by orte in which a son o: the Emerald Isles swears away the hour is he discusses what he claims is the ty rannical rule of the English government Hie fifth bed is occupied by an Anieri ;an, who seconds the Irishman's argu nents, declaring that a republican forir if government is the best under the sun V Hebrew Occupies the sixth lied, ant listens to the others quarrel. Next isj: Polander, and last a Russian. A fev lays ago a Mexican was discharged fron this institution. Punishing Violation or Marriage Vows, The Indians are very severe in theii punishment of marital infidelity. Ever among the civilized tribes of the Indiat Territory, the Choc taws. Creeks, Chieka saws, ChcrokeesandSeminoles, who havt flourishing churches and schools, adul tery is a crime punishable according t( their ancient laws. A citizen of Ala bama has just been circulating among these tribes, and says: The Creeks have no marital laws, bul the .Baptist Association adopted i memorial on the subject, urging the nexl council to pass a proper marriage lair, Iheir custom allowed several wives, but the churches have so altered public opinion that it is rare to find a man with two wives. " How do you punish a violation oi marriage vow?" I asked an Jndiat lawyer. " You see that man there?" " Yes." " Well, his wife was taken by anothei man, and one night he went with some other men, arrested the betrayer, beal him senseless, and then cut his ear* of with a dull knife." " How did they treat the woman?" " The same way. Sometimes they Iel her off easier than the man." " What became of the man and woman?" " They are living together as man and rvife, and the injured husband got liim another wife." " Was that your custom?" " Yes; the chief made that law, and Bverybouy louoweu it." Sometimes they cut the woman's nose ift by way of variety. If the criminalcould hide out till aftei 'Busk," the annual festival, he went free. Some of the tribes had cities of refuge, like the Israelites. The severity of the Indian custom of aunishment prevents many violations of ihe marriage vows. The Creeks have Irafted a memorial to the Legislature for ;he enactment of the Christian plan. If his is done the Indian lawyers will bejin to reap a rich harvest in the courts laving jurisdiction of divorce. How Soldiers Snffer. The London Times publishes a terribh iccount of the sufi'erin~s of the Europeai soldiers marched back into India, from a f.?vionictnr> last. .Tune, throucrh the Khyber Pass. They had only one hunlrecl and seventeen miles to go, but the march occupied twelve days, the men Dcing able, from the heat, to march only n the early morning, and the nighl narch usual in India being abandoned, for fear of attacks from the hill tribes Although every precaution had beer taken, cholera broke out en route, and ' on reaching Jamrud and Hurri-Singka Boori, and especially as they made thfii 5nal marches, their distress was very apparent; their clofkcs were stiff and iirty from the profuse perspiration and lust; their countenances betokened jreat nervors exhaustion, combined witl \ wild expiession difficult to describe; the eyes injected, and even sunken; s burning skin, black with the effects ol mn and dirt, a dry tongue, a weak voice tnd a thirst which no amount of fluid! seemed to relieve. Many of these men staggered rather than marched intc their tents, and threw themselves down, ltterly incapable of further exertion intil refreshed by sleep and food." The nedical officers were worn out, and jefore they reached Peshawur, six officers ind one hundred and twenty-one men lad died from cholera in the second livision alone; more, perhaps, than it ivould have lost in a severe engagement Signs Attending Feigned Grief. The expression of grief has recently >een a subject of investigation by at Italian physiologist, M. Paolo Mentejazza, who has studied with great care ill the contractions which suiTcring pn> luces in the human face, and endeavored :o arrive at an exact distinction of the phenomena of real from those of simulated sorrow. All the forms of dolorou: Hypocrisy he exposes mercilessly. The following, according to M. Mentcgazza ire sisns of grief: 1. The expression i: nearly Always exaggerated relatively tc the cause of the grief; 2. The visage it not pale, and the muscular disturbanc< is intermittent; 3. The skin has its nor rnai heat; I. There is not harmony ir the mimicry of grief, and one sees cer tain contractions, certain relaxations which are wholly wanting in real grief 5. The pulse is frequent in consequence of the exaggerated muscular movement (5. A surprise, or any object which viv idly attracts the attention, suffices t< make the tragic mask suddenly fall off 7. Sometimes ono succeeds in discover ing among the tears, the sobs, and heart rending lamentations, the presence of : chuckle, which expresses, perhaps, tin malignant pleasure of practising a de ception; 8. Tlie expression is eccentric or is wholly wanting in eoncentrii forms. An Uncompleted Education. Some of tin so seminary graduates cat throw a very powerful stream of word from the engine of their cultivated in tcllects, but they can't bluft' everybody The other day a fully diplomaed miss o eighteen walked into a music store oj Kearney street and asked the clerk fo a song entitled "Demonstrate by ocula proof the verdue of my sepulchre;1' and as he handed her a copy or "8ee That M; Grave's Kept Green," and raked ii thirtv cents over the counter, he smilei blandly and said: "Is the ditty know a 'Argentine filamen's interspersed will the aureate capillary attractions' i novelty to your auricular repertory?' She concluded to go back to school fa one raoro year. * ** 1W* WAITS AND WHIMS. ^ Cashmet.e slippers are worn with fou ; lard wrappers. They are trimmed with - large foulard bows. F Only those, according the Elmira A& s vertiser, with warts or blemishes on their f v J 1 J 1. - ioreneaa, wear uaiigeu uair. Golden-legged green beetles, that * look like painted cockroaches, are seen " on some of the new bonnets. 4 1 Black surah petticoats, bordered : with kilt plaitings, are to be. worn thiswinter, it is said. Very long and absolutely plain silk t waists of plain or brocade silk are made^^BH for young ladies to wear in the evcning.^^^^J A Davenport lady is about to sue foj^Hgnj a divorce on the ground that her hum^MHj ' band "has no style about him." BH A member of a London ladies' club1 was requested to resign for kissing herBHSf ' brother in the dining-room. Bfl Hoops are coming into fashion again. 9 Hoops are tilings to put around w -m" j to keep them from bursting with v?x ^^9 "John! John!" shouted the farm ; wife, " the butter won't come. Ru> sBH quick, and get me another sack \ hair." - HH i It's not at alfr surprising that AWare 9 fc fell. He had Eve'constantly about jgHjfl , talking about a nude dress, ano s. gjj^Mj t one every day. In a discussion with, a i lecturer, a tope^asked: If water^HHBH your bootafwhriHRfctinust it have E the coat of your stomach? ' "Yes, Mr. Barkeeper; I am not like the rest who, when they owe you money, never show themselves any more; I re. main faithful to you. Giv's 'nothei I bottle I" 5 Professor?"Now, I ask you> as a [ practical miner, what spade do you think is the very best?" Third-year man (scornfully)?"Why, the ace, of course. \ (Sensation.) An exchange has an article on " How to run a newspaper." Thi9 should be read only by editors, as every otter per- . 1 6on in the world knows just ln?w a news-t paper ought to be run. Knowledge is the right bower, and one of the showiest cards in the pack, ?' ret in the game of life, cheek is the ittle joker that is oftentimes the 1 winner. "Money does everything for a man," ' said one old gentleman, pompously. : "Yes," replied the other one, *but money won't do as much for a man aa , some men will do for money." Mb. Thomas thinks it is one of the | most touching things in me to near a , Western liog singing to its youngest, " There's a litter in the uiire, baby mine, | baby mine." i That was an observing fellow, if he was but six years old, who said, "Papa, I wish you'd quarantine against Tom Jones comic.' here every night to see Jennie. It's got to be too epidemic." i The Boston Post, lias invented a new 1 gun for the use of the didn't-know-itr i was-loadcd people. The Post explains > that "it lets the charge out at the * breech." ? Russian ladies have just begun to i take part in boat races. In Saratoff the ' first prize, a golden bracelet, and the sec- *"**' ~ ; ond, a golden breastpin, were adjudged , to the two young ladies who handled the . rudder. i A Chinese maxim says: "We require 1 four tilings from woman?that virtue * dwells in her heart, that modesty playe * on her brow, that sweetness flows from ' her lips, that industry occupies her I hand." | The girls ought to be comparatively 1 happy. They are wearing boy's hate, 1 boy's ties, boy's cravats, and it is hinted i that they contemplate a raid upon an\ other important part^of the male's ap 1 parel?according to Dr. Marv WaiJccr. , A young man who had lost a bet of the oysters with three of his friends, said t he wouldn't pay it unless he was four Btew. He has since made a bet with [ nine of his friends, and says he in ten , stew this time, if he loses." Later: He declares two of the bets off, and when he ? | comes to lose and pay, it will appear that he eight stetf. A whiter in the August Gentleman's , Magazine says that it is true of nations as of individuals that a sneer is almost as unpleasant to bear as a blow, and that he is not sure that Dickens' "American Notes " did not do more to estrange . for a time the two countries than th? , Alabama difficulty. A London gent, walking in Dublin , for the first time, got into easy oonver. eation with a native, and chaffed him [ considerably, winding up with this > smart observation: "Now, tell me, Pat, where you would be if the devil got hi? j dues?" Pat replied with feigned sim5 glicity, "Sure, then, I'd be rlone, year , Honor." 3 At a social gathering in Ireland the ) conversation turned, by some accident, 3 upon marriage. One of the girls, ad3 dressing a handsome young man, quite . unconsciously, as she explained, sai(f: "If i I were you and you were me I would . have married long ago." , 4. Yorkshire trainer recently re; vealed his method of meeting a conjugal 5 storm. His plan, he said, was to keep; silence and nod his acquiescence toevery thing, no matter what was said by his uV.ull rnmnrl-nri (inn of hlS ) | Bpuuac* ivc, ? I friends, "'but then she has it all her own - way." "Just so," replied the Tyke, - with satisfaction; "ana nothing annoys i her so much. There is nothing women ? hate like a walk-over." , The Postal Service In Europe. 21 On the 31st of December. 1877, there ; wore 58,546 post offices in Europe, with | 223,517 persons employed, or one postal j establishment for every tl, 134 inhabij tants. These post offices are most , thickly planted in Switzerland, in Great . Britain and Ireland. A striking con! trust to these two countries is afforded f by ltussia and Turkey; there being in j the former only one post office to every _ 5,768, and in the latter, one to every r 1,105 square miles. Altogether, 5,682,000,000 letters, papers, etc., were sent I by post in Europe in 1877, 3,597,000,000 , being letters or post-cards, 1,522,000,000 j newspapers, and 503,000,000 pattenw g and tne like; and the greatest number j of letter?, papers, etc., were scut in Great . Britain and Ireland, the total number i dispatched being 1,483,075,000, or at the r rate of 84.7 letters and 0.4 newspaper* for every inhabitant.