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w ? * ' 4 ? / > ^ The Journal. 9. 6. ALEXANDER, - Proprie or CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA iik "* ~~ "" The Sower's Sons. Novr hands to seed-sheet, boys. We stop and we cast; old Tide's on wins; And would yo part&ko of harveet Joys, v The corn must bo sown In spring. Fall gently and still, good corn, $ Lie warm in thy earthy bed, ^ And stand so yellow some morn That beast and man may be fed. Old Earth is a pleasure to see In sunshiny cloak of red and green ; The furrow lies fresh; this year will bo As the years that are past have been. Fall gently and still, etc. Old Mother, receive this corn, The seed of six thousand golden sires ; All these on thy kindiy breast were born; One more thy poor child requires. For gently and still, etc. Now steady and euro again. And measure of step and stroke we keep; Thus up and thus down wo cast our grain; Sow well, and you gladly reap, Fall gently and still, etc. A ?Thomas Carlyle. " MOTHER CAREY'S CUSHION." "Now, Octavia," said Mrs. Oland, " do be a little careful to-day. Don't, ^ lor pity's sake, let your wild spirits un away with you 1" Octavia Oland, in her pink muslin dress, tiecThere and there with jaunty little bows of ribbon, and a straw gypsy hat garlanded with pink poppies, turned around, the very incarnation of .radiant glee. V Mamma," said she, " why should * you grudge me my little holiday? Don't I work behind Miss Fanshr.we's counter all the year like any African * slave? Don't I lose my very identify in shirs and puffings, and toil my fin gers off in flounces and tucks! Do let me play I am a child again just this once So this beautiful young Euphrosyne danced away, leaving only the sweet echo of her laughter in the gloomy apartment, and Mrs. Oland sighed. " She is so thoughtless," said the mother. "And Duncan Ray and Harrv Bolton are both going on this sailing party?and somehow I feel as if to-day < were going to be the turning point of her life. I Wish she could bring herself to like Duncan?he's a steady, noble-souled lad, as his father was before^him, but there isn't much outside show about him* And Bolton's a handsome, dashing young fellow, just the sort to attract any girl. But somehow I can't quite believe in him. Octavia says I haven't any knowledge of the world. Well, perhaps she is right. But I think we quiet, stay-at-home bodies are sometimes gifted with a sort j^oteistinot in these matters." tfhe d 1 n a* P the-4??ftrsion Bteamer, fluttering with gay flags and sound of music, glided majestically along; the Bea air breathed ne*? strength into wehry lungs and touohed fevered brows with achemic power; and all these over-tired, overworked sewing girls forgot for a brief while that life was nothing more than a tread mill to them. ^ They laughed, they danced, they sang; they flang flowers into the water that floated around the wheel house, they counted the glimmering sails that leaned up against the horizon; and - finally when the boat landed at White Crags they all scattered in various directions over the silver shingled beach in merry pursuit of shells, seaweed and pebbles, as so many newly liberated school ohildren might have done. And Octavia Oland, the prettiest girl in ail tne tnrong, reignea as a sore 01 princess among them. ."Mother Carey's Cushion ?" said she; merrily, eohoing the words of an ancient salt who was mending his nets in a sunny spot with an old pipe in his mouth, and a picturesque long beard " * blowing about in the wind. " Is that what they call yonder rock ?" " That 'ere's what they hails her by, lady-miss," said the old sailor, his dim eyes resting with evident, approbation on Octavia's fresh young lilies and roses. "And well it's knowed hereabouts." " But why do they call it so ?" persisted the girl. "Beoause of the cushion, jpy lady~ ~ miss," answered the fisherman, laying his pipe down on the sand out ol respect to tnis cnarming young presence. "And the Mother Carey'8 chickens as oirole round the point of a dark day when there's a storm comin' up. It's a round rock, near to the top?d'ye see?" pointing his knotty forefinger?"with grass and mosses growin' on it, in a oircle, like a cushion. And a-back, all of the nateral rock. There's them, my lady-miss," he added, * " as has climbed to the very top and -?^ sat on the cushion. I and my sweetheart?as has been dead these thirty years?did onoe. But we didn't care to stay there long, I tell ye. For the wind howled and the seagulls shrieked, and the tide roared like a hungry shark around us, and it was as much as ever wo oould do to get down again with whole bones." " Why," said Bolton, "it doesn't look nuch a height." " Mebbe not?mebbe not!" said the old man. " A quarter of a mile makes a dearo1 difference in the look of things. And them as ain't nsed to distanoes can't calculate." And he went on with his work While "-Jlhe little group strolled on, bright Octafia with her ribbons and curls floatt ing, Bolton carrying her shawl, and L Duncan Bay walking silently on* the ^Uot^fede. ^ I overtook them and there was a die- a cuseion as to where the site should be ] for their impromptu banquet; and J presently Duncan Ray looked around. \ " "Where's Octavia ?" he asked*, I Everybody had some answer to make. Auriette Hall had seen her not five ? mintites before ; Helen Ray was quite < certain that she was hiding behind the 1 rained boat-house on the edge of the beach; Lois Fielding suggested that * she had probably gone back to the 1 steamer for a scent-bottle or a hand- 1 kerchief, or some such trifle. 1 - " She'll be here presently,' said they. " In the meantime, let us get the lunch 1 ready, for there's a dark little edge of ' cloud down in the west that the cap- 1 tain says he don't half-like the looksof." And where all this time was Oe- 1 tavia Oland ? She was springing up the steep and 1 winding ledge of the rock, quioker and lighter than any mountain ohamois, her ( veil floating back like a white wreath of 1 mist, an exquisite scarlet dyeing her cheek, : * " If other people can climb to Mother . Carey's Cushion, so can I,'* said dauntess Octavia, keeping her face reso utely away from the furious waves that boiled and raged below, lest, perchance, it should render her giddy, ( And how astonished they will bell when they see me waving my handkerchief to them from that diBzy r peak I" Long before the cold fowls, chicken salad and sandwiches were spread upon the grass the captain came up from the ' steamer. "Ladies and gentlemen,*1 said he, " I'm sorry to spoil sport, but there's a i squall brewin', if ever there was one, 1 and we'll all be safer well out at sea 1 than on these ragged points of rook especially as the tide is comin* in a deaf faster than we'd calculated on. So il you'll all step lively I shall be particularly obliged." The ladies began hurriedly to pack the as yet incomplete repast, and to gather up their hats, veils, parasols and gloves?the gentlemen looked around for shawl-straps, books and baskets; and once again ran the question: " B ut Octavia I Where is Octavia V And Dorsey Wheeler, straining hie eyes through the gray mist which was already beginning to gather over the landscape, exclaimed: "Who has an opera-glass? I see something on that tall rock that seems to lean toward the water?something, I an quite certain, whioh moves 1" The captain produced his glass. "Though, to be sure," said he, ^ "glasses ain't muoh use in such a plaguey Scotch mist as this. But I de- ' clare, there is something up there flat- ] tering in the wind, like some one waving a signal of distress 1" snatched ithe glaafe from the s 1 "Yerevan's hand anavarriedl^ adjusted it to his own eyes. "It is Octavia's veil," he said. -."I ^ can see the pink flowers like little dote, of color on her head. Good heavens! ' and she has been mad enough to olimb that rook, all for a spirit of crazy ad- ^ venture!" * " It's a bad job for her, then," said ' the old fisherman, who, having left his 2 nets to take care of themselves, had ( mingled, blaok pipe and all, in the gen- 2 eral confusion. " For now the tide is 2 in, there ain't nobody nor nothin' can * get near Mother Carey's Rocks; and if 3 the wind rises, as it's goin' to do, she'll 3 be blowed into .kingdom come at the ^ very first puff!'' 1 "Can nobody help her?" cried the ' horrified group. The old salt shook his head. "You'd only come to your own death," said he, "witho ut helpin' her ^ mite. There was a man killed there ' twenty-one year ago come October. 3 He?" 3 " We are losing time," said the cap- ( tain, impatiently. "There's a black 1 squall driving up on the wind, and I'd * not give muoh for our lives if we don't ' get clear of them confounded rocks. 1 Of course we're all sorry for the yonng lady ; but so far as I oan see she'll have ' to take the consequences of her own folly. It's impossible to risk a whole barge-load for her. Ladies and gentlemen, all forward now, if yon please!' But Dnncan Bay stepped out from the ranks. " Bolton !" said he. "McDowell! * Christian men, all of yoa! Are yon 1 going deliberately off to leave the sweetest aDd mo3t precions of onr , number to perish in the winds and waves ?" " I?I don't see that we can do anything !" stammered Bolton. "ThiB good man says that we shonld not risk onr own lives to no pnrpose." "And yon must see, yourself," added Mr. Launcelot McDowell, "that it would be certain death to try to cross the water, now that the tide is rising so fast!" "There's no time to parley!" said the captain, impatiently. "The bell will ring directly, and whoever isn't on board then isn't on board at all! Eh! Where are you going, Mr. Ray ?" "To the top of jonder cliff," said r\ ii- *_ f. _i Uuncan, puning jixb cat resoiuieiy over his brows. "To rescue that girl or to die in the attempt 1" But at the same moment a slender figure, with a zephyr shawl drawn lightly over its head, stepped out from behind the old bulkhead?Ootavia Oland herself. - * "Do not risk your life, Duncan Ray!' she said, in a sweet, dear voioe. " I am quite safe. My -weil and hat blew off, and I could not disentangle them from the sharp rooks. But I, myself, was ^rfcunate enough to make good my retreat befpre &e dreadful wind got too . J^jLAnll cafrie up behind yon^Mi f ; ' knd heard your talk, and?and? Oh, 3onoan. I can't bear to think of it all I Let us go back to the eteatner as fast as ve can, and get out of this frightful Mace!" f 1 She covered her eyes with one hand 1 is she spoke, while with-the other she 1 slung to Duncan Ray's arm> as if it ( irere a refuge beyond all Computation. 1 But all the Way baok to tfew York ' ihe never onoe condescended to rpeak ' ;o Harry Bolton or Mr. McDowell; and vhen she returned home that evening 1 she was engaged to Dnncan Ray. " For I know now,* she Baid, with a little tremor in her voice, " who, and vho alone, would have risked his life v for such a silly child as I i" And Harry Bolton and Mr. McDowell felt like recreant knights, indeed ! "Decidedly awkward 1" Baid the formed "Yes," assented the latter. "Puts me?ahem!??in such an awkward position.?He fen Fan til Graves. literary impostors. An impudent impostor has been flgur ing extensively in Oork, Ireland, a Mark Twain, the Courant tells us Mark has been in Hartford all the season, and has sent a dispatch to the Lonion Times saying the man w.is a oheat, Dnt the latest advices from abroad are ;hat the fellow is still snccessfnlly making his way in Ireland as Mark rwain. It is extremely difficult to put lown such frauds, simple as it seems at irst. A recent issue of the New York Journal of Commerce- told the following , acts to i11' strate a similar point: Similar occurrences are not unusual. k year or two ago a carriage accident in i distant city led to a telegraphio statement that a well-known and accomplished lady author was dangerously inrt, and exposed the faot that the perion injured had long assumed the name ind reputation of that lady, who was at he time in this city, where she resided gentleman was greatly surprised at a vatering-place a few years ago on being ntroduced to a lady, a poet of wide :ame, whereas he happened to be an inornate friend of that lady, who was vnifn onstfViai* nflWJAn And l'n fViin roun id determined were people in their willngness to be defranded the impostor riumphed, and the gentleman was ireated as a tradncer. Not many years ago a very brilliant md attractive woman imposed on a arge nnmber of intelligent persons, md obtained and held a high social position in this city, representing herjelf to be the author of a series of lovels, then published anonymously in England, which were able and justly popular. She was for more than a year idmired and respected by many of the sest people in social and literary circles, md it does not appear that she robbed my one of anything except that_admirar iion which wasun reality due to another ady. Her exposure was the result of m accident. A gentleman who had net her at a reception where Bhe was Hade specially prominent mentioned the circumstance to a friend, who happened to be the adviser of the American publishers of the foreign novelist, md who Vas one of the very few pir 30DB who ?new that lady's name, lie >f course t(51d"hiJ friend that the claimant was an impostor, and the resnlt was in interview between friends o! the daimant and persons who were able to make the truth very clear. The shock in the circles in whioh the imposture iiad been so long successful was severe, out was soon over, and the fraudulent lovelist silently disappeared. Rescued from the Grave. "It sounds like a good deal to say, but [ once knew a man who died and was ouried on the overland trail to Oaliforlia, and afterward mads his appearance in the Placer mines of Prickly Pear 3itv?and it wasn't his ghost either, bat himself in the flesh." This was ;he reply which a well-known resident of Helena, Montana, made to a reporter. " In the spring of '49," continned the citizen, " when the California gold excitement was at its height, in company vith a large party J crossed the plains, ifter getting well nnder way the cholera broke out among ns and several died. Among other deaths was that of i man named W. H. Clark, of Henry county, Mo. "We bnried him near the point where the old Santa Fe trail * 'V a 1 - TTT_ L. J oroseea ine Arkansas rivar. we uau no coffin, but wrapped him in his blankets, and inclosing him in a covering of oark stripped from the cottonwood ;rees, we planted him abont seven feet leep in the sand and piled logs on the ?rave to keep the wolves from digging sim np. The next morning we moved on. '' I remained in California nntil 1865, md waa then attracted to Montana by the gold exoitement. In 1868, while in the diggings of what is known as Montana City, I was startled at meeting Dlark, whom with my own eyes I had leon buried on the Arkansas river nine ieen years before. The recognition was mutual, and on my expressing my surprise he related to me that after our rarby had buried him and proceeded on award California, a patty of Indians same along, and, seeing his new-made jrave, dug him up for the sake of fcia blankets and olothing. As he showed signs of life, they applied restoratives md the result was that he was brought >ac& to lifd and health. He lived among he Indians for years, and afterward same to Montana. At the time I met lim he was working for Jerry Embry. Fir ere is absolutely no doubt as to 31"||^entity, and he is now living in PraflHI Arizona, I believe." ____?-??. ^^^Ka doctor cures you for nothing EWgRtff nature's no-bilj-men. ISSIm * 1 FOB THE FAIR SEX. A Sunshiny Woman. What a blessing to a household is a merry, cheerful woman?oile whose spirits are not affected by wet days, or little disappointments, or whose milk of hitman kindness does hot sbur in the sunshine of prosperity. Such a woman in the darkest hours brightens the house like a little^ piece of sunshiny weather. The magnetism of iter smiles and the electrical brightness of her lookB an^.jtfoVements infect "every one Tho children go to school with a sense of something great to foe achieved, her husband goes into the world in a oon queror's spirit. No matter how people annoy ahd Worry him all day, far off her presence shinhs, ahd he wbisp?rs to himself: "At home I shall find rest." So day by day she laterally renews his strength and energy, and if yon know a man with a beaming face, a hind heart and a prosperous business, in nine cases out of ten you will find he has a wife uf this kindi Women ol Ancient Histerr. There was one place among the ancients where the wife and mother had many more privileges and rights than most people are aware of. Professor George Ebers, the accomplished Egyptologist, informs us that in Egypt 500 years B. 0., not only did women have their own revenues) but " they had entire disposal of their property, no matter in what it consisted; in short, the weaker sex seems to have enjoyed equal influence with the stronger. During the reign of the Ptolemies many coins were stamped with, the queen's image and oities were given queens' names. Moreover, sons in speaking of their descent more frequently reokoned it 1 * 11?4 a trom IQ3 fflouuor n vuuu iuo iM?uw? w side." All this speaks highly lor the wisdom and justice of certaiu periods, at least, of Egyptian history. Our strong-minded friends would do well to study up the Egyptian papyri, as by so doing they might draw from antiquity a few arguments for woman's rights, and at the same tin^e pull a few of the feathers out of the plume of our boasted civilization.?Christian at Work. 4, ??? Faihlna Notes. Two deep box pkitiugs arranged as puffs make a beautiful tablier for summer silk dresses Light blue military cloth andoheoked material i3 a f^VontV^combination for summer cosfUmes. \ The latest summer manti^s are of ficelle lace, over Canton crapoxor thin silk of the /ame gray color. The lops rediugote is worn cvorV skirt trimmed with only one flounce or a hanXrv mr.he at the bottom. TJfie balusters itf many New York bonnes *??*??(* ^ i ither side with rar7 fringe. Qaeen Victoria c6nfBWe?a to patronize English alpacas, apdJ^^^n terials are steadily on theiBrease. y Chemisettes or gnimpee of plai/ted white mnll are worn with B#rplice waists of dark lawn or fonlar^rdresses. Ajosdleaf or sprig of T^rbensf or a geranium leafcis oftea/imbstituted in finger bowls in""p!aoe of a slice o lemon. I - Th^-kilV-platted* flonnoes placed at the bottom of sometoo'nted bodices are remarkably becommg to both slender and full figures. 1 Some men are wlh their character much as they are with their money? *?.?? Vio.Ttt_. tViA mnrn fiarefnl LUU 1CDO WUOJ "?* * vj ??< ? hey have to be. Tunnel Under the English Channel. The preliminary e^avations for this enterprise are being actively put forward at Sangatte, ce&r Calais, at a spot ffbere the cliffs hare an altitude of seventy feet above the level of the sea at high water. A point has been chosen where the rocks of gray chalk which have to be traversed by the tunnel oome to show their heads at the surface of the soil On the opposite shore similar borings have been begun, so that the works are proceeding simultaneously. - The soundings that have been made during the past few years demonstrate that the base of the channel oonsists of a compact mass of chalk, resting on banks of slate. This mass, which is easy eneugh to pierce, is said at the time to resist filtration sufficiently. It would, therefore, present a substance excellently adapted for per foration. But what j*t remains to be proved is whether the succession of these chalk layers will not disclose some irregularities or1 ruptures which would render the enterprise impossible. The shaft at Sangatttfhas now reached a depth of nearly 200 feet, or about 130 feet below the level of high water. It has a width of ten fe^Tand is lined with oak, so that the water cannot penetrate very freely, not more than seventeen gallons a minute.- This Water is not salt, which is thought to prove th*at the layers hitherto traversed have their point of contact sufficiently far from the shore to prevent the sea from ascending the shaft. It is intended to sink to a depth of 800 feet, and then a gallery Httll V*A AVMM?*n??% #1 i'aiAAi.AM nl Will UD CIUOVAICU ill #UCT~ 11VI tx;LIUU Ul England. Up to the present the engineers are highly satisfied with the results obtained. ' -* Longest Iron Rod In the World. The longest three-quarter inch rod ever made was rolled a', the Albany iron works recently. It is 263 feet long, free of flaw and phmp from end to end. It is forty feet longer than any rod ever before prodtal^Un this or any other conn try, the nex^Bgest hav ing been made in PennsjMfeia. The manufacture was -experinatal to determine howlong-a rod oo^dbe rolled. V"-' 0 c A Yonng Sea Serpent* The Arnprior (Canada) Chronicle says It is but a few years sino9 Mr. .Robert . Young, one of our most worthy a d re ' spected citizens, caught a glimpse of an aquaiic monster in Chats lake, near J Arnprior, Canada, which he desoribes ^ as being of ehormotls si2e afld propor* tions. Captain Brown, of the steamer 1 Alliance, also got a view of one of these monsters in the same waters the sum- ' mer before last, and various other people 1 claim to have seen large specimens at ^ different times and at divers places. But fhin toealr xrrt ?wa in a rinfllfcinn to an nounce the oapttire of probably one of the progeny of the real original old Ohats lake serpent, which has often struct terror to the hearts of superstitious river men. While coming down the Snow rapids With a toW last Monday morning, and while cff Blackwell's island the crew of the Levi Young noticed a huge serpent swimming ahead of the bout. Mr. John Dugan, chief engineer, and a dedk hand flamed Shaw jumped into a boat and started in pursuit of the reptile. They succeeded in getting within striking distanoe of the serpent, when Mr, Dngan struok it , blow over fhe head with his oar. The beast then turned and made for the occupants of the boat, literally churning the water with his tail in his fury. Another pdwetful and well directed blow with an oar on the neck of the serpent laid it out dead when it was taken in tow and brought aboard the steamer. The crew of the boat stretohed it out on the rail and measured it with a rule. Its total .1 i ^_ lengtn was eleven xeei, wnue me uuuj was thirteen inches in ciroumference, Its jaws were pried open and a pair of compasses inserted, whioh were opened out to a distance of six inohes. The description given of this reptile is the same as that given by Mr. Young and Captain Brown, so that it is possible that the one just killed is a lineal descendant of the old king snake who has sported himself in Chats lake for years past. All and Arab! Alike. A correspondent makes the following interesting comparison between Arab Bey and Ali Pacha, an earlier Turkish rebel: The defiance that Arabi has shown to his superiors, the khedive and the sultan, in Lis rebellions venture, is like tho rise of Ali Pacha in 1822. Ali in 1822, in Albania, was in a similar state of rebellion. He was once a freeboote chief, as snch becoming rich and strong. His fameas a military chief commenced when he was engaged by the 8ult#n , Mahmoud against Austria and Rosl3ia. He was made a pecha, and soon Iheld high appointments. He proved uc^overnaatoh for other r paohas,-andIbeoame fiendishly ornel and vindicative to these who opposed him. He I conquered all the petty ohiefs in that If region, and punished all other robbers I wif.li /Ioaf.lv TTo Viad mado .Tamna his capital, which he strongly fortified. He' sought to enlarge his dominion He took possession of the oity of Prevessa and other towns. He entered into intrigues, and became a prince of high renown, and his aid and favor was songht by Asiatio and European courts. Sultan Mahmond was well informed and resolute to crush out the anarohy that prevailed in his kingdom by such vassals as Ali. At length the sultan being threatened, Ali wa3 pronounced a rebel, and all the faithful ordered to destroy him. Iu the first few battles Ali was victorious, but the sultau persevered until Ali's strongholds were wrested from him and his troops began to desert. At 'length he was closely besieged in the oity of Janina. Mahmoud deolared if any spoke in his favor he should be put to death. The Turkish troops steadily pressed the siege and at last Aii treated for a surrender. Kamdish Pacha, who com manded, pledged himself that the sultan's pardon had been secured, but after the surrender his head was slashed off with a cimeter and sent to Oonstanti nople, where the sultan held it forth n front of his ministers " in grim triumph." A Chicken Trade. Captain Faraow, of Isleboro, Me., tells a good story at his own expense. The captain was trading in a small vessel along the coast, and at Tampa bay he parchased twenty dozen omcKens, paying $4 a dozen for them. They were of all ages and sizes, some being ready for the pot and others scarcely done with their shells. At Key West a hotel keeper cam9 along side and asked the price of the chiokens. The captain an* swered: "If yon pick them ont I shall charge yon $6 a dozen; but if yon will et me piok them ont yon can have them for $3 a dozen." "All right," said the hotel man, "yon piok them ont." The captain selected several dozens of the fledglings, expecting [every moment to hear the purchaser cry "enough." Bat still he said "go on." The captain saw the point st last, bnt he stnok to his Viovrrain anrl fVin Aniiitt lnf of vnigaiu nuu uviuvuvu vaav vuvuv iv?j hv a net loss to himself of $20. "A youth to fortune and to fame unknown" sent Dumas the manusoript of 1 a new play, asking the great dramatist i to become his eolaborer. Dumas was I for a moment petrified, then seized his I pen and replied: " How dare you, sir, propose to yoke together a horse and an ass?" The author, by return of post: " How dare you, sir, call me a horse ?" Dumas, by next mail: "Bend me your play, my young friend." A woman in Philadelphia was badly burned by the explosion of a doughnu i in a frying-pan. , J , * n t .:r - ^ t THE FAMILY DOCTOB. Pat a quantity of elder flowers into a ag, ponr boiling water on them, let thnixtnre stand for twenty-foor hoars, ' md etrain throngh muslin. Wash the 'ace every morning with th$ decoction, tt will remove sunburn and freckles, md will beautify the skin. All living roOff s and slseping room should be thoroughly aired, the winlows raised at the bottom and lowered < it the top, and bed olothing so stirred that the air can pass throngh and dispel any exhalations from the body that might adhere to them. The belief that swallowing Water is hnrtfal when the body is heated arises from prejudice. Of course, some precaution must be used if the liquid is very cold. It is important not to swallow a large quantity at a draught; it is better to drink more often and less at a time. To wait long that the bo4y may become cool is useless; a few minutes suffice. In cases of nose bleeding, says Dr. Footc's Health Monthly, apply something cold to the back of the neok or forohead, and' snuff warm water up the nostrils, as it assists coagulation of the blood; or stuff the nostril with soft paper and retain it there for several minutes. A Concert in India. We were once misguided enough to inquire of some native officials in India what instruments of music their town possessed, and were waited upon next day, in consequence, by all the musicians of the place. First came a group of nine women who sang some wild and plaintive strains in unison in a minor ikey; one of them kept time by oocaonally snapping her finjer3, wail another performed a rude accompaniment on a small barrel-shaped drum, the ends of which were covered with goatskin. The head-dress of some of these singers was peculiar, and consisted ofjfolds of calioo over the head and round the throat, rather like the drapery of some orders of nuns, and similar to that given by painters to St Anna and other holy women of the Bible. The grouping of these people, as they sat olose together on the ground, was extremely picturesque; and listening to the sad sweetness of their strains, one could easily imagine such to havbeen the appearance and the melody of the daughters of Jerusalem as they -lamented by the waters of Babylon. The singing ended, a man was seen to rise in the baokground, lifting an enormous brazen trumpet nearly as long as himself, on whioh he blew two most te'rriflo folasts, excruciating to English ears. Tmese sounds were prolonged, and seeded to sink down through along wailing (foscord inexpressibly painful to listen "toflmt not unfrequently to' be heard in that district of the Punjab, considerable, and we were glad to make this an excuse for hearing no more of it, and submitted with the best graoe we could to a performance of tom-tom, while two more men exercised their lnnars noon horrid little trumpets of a smaller size. When the3e were dis missed we had a kind of dnet all on one note from two men, one of whom beat a small dram open at one end, like a very deep tambourine, while another played upon something like a fonr-etringed banjo. The lower part of this instrument was made of a gourd, and two or three strings were passed throngh blue glass beads, while the other two were raised by cowries of different sizes; the banjo was further adorned by the green and gold label from some English cotton-reel or piece of calico, stuok on the stem by way of ornament. Perhaps this concert was an unusual amount of native musio for English people to hear at once, but no one can be long in India without meeting with some of it.?Tannic B tr. A Medley of Facts. There are two thousand seven hundred and fifty languages. Two persons die every second. Sound moves seven hundred and forty-three miles per hour A square mile contains six hundred and forty acres. A storm blows tftirty-six miles per hour. The average human life is thirty-one years. An aore contains four thousand eight hundred and forty square yards. Slow rivers flow Ave miles per hour. A hurricane moves eighty miles per hour. A rifle-ball moves one thousand miles per hour. Rapid rivers flow seven miles per hour. A hand (horse measure) is four inches. Electricity i. T J?J J J.Ll. mov?b iwu uuuureu uuu eigmj'-wigub thousand miles per hour. The first Inciter match was made in 1829. Gold was disoovered in California in 1848. A mile is five thonsand two hundred and eighty feet, or one thousand seven hundred and sixty yards in length. A moderate wind blows seven miles per hour. The first use of a locomotive in America was in 1820. The first steam engine on the continent of America was brought from England in 1753. Until 1776, cotton spinning was performed by he hand spinning wheel. A Russian Jew who reached Atlanta, Ga., some months ago with four dollars in his pocket is now bnilding two neat oottages on city lots that he has paid for. The secret of his snccess lies in the fact that his family, a wife and five children, all work as well as himself, and contribnte something to the gen eral income.' He averages thirty dol lars a week as a tailor. The American consnl at Rheims says that two years of constant work and o ?r? are necessary to make a good bpttle f tkuapagne. >. : "'M&+ * " JV : * . V ' A- " ?? Rose Leaf. lose Leaf, Roee Leaf; Rose Leaf, ire called her For she was, oh I so dainty-sweet and hloa- j som-like and fair! .. .j rhe flush of morning in her facc^ and in her eyes the evening; The red of rosea in her lipe, the summer la her hair. . Rose Leaf! Roee Leaf! Oar tendereet stresses Wore never half so tender as her toaohee in reply; v !' ' > The fondlings of the fairy palms abd pinky * * velvet fingers, Tbo clinging of the dimpled arms, the love* ' illumined eye! Rose Leaf! Rose Leaf! The very airs of hnnTfifl They loved her, and camo down to her, and caaght her in delight, And far away, across a day of wailing autumn 1 weather, * She glimmered, wavered, swooned away, and drifted out of sight. ?James W. RUey, in Harper's Baiar. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. _ > * ?? \ %" "Louise, dear, don't let the men eome too near you when you are odurting.* "Ob, no, mamma; when Charles is here we have a chair between us all the time." Mamma thinks the answer was rather ambiguous. "Don't you think I have a good faoe> * for the stage ?' asked a young lady with histrionic aspirations, "I. don't know about the stage," replied her gallant companion, "but you have a lovely faoe for a 'bus." , ? "Won't you please play us some* thing, Miss Hammerandbang ?' asked Fogg. "I should like to, ever so I much," she said, looking at her watch, I liUt .Mill. T V>nrra Tlrt fl'mfl '' "8n I UUU icauj A uaiv MV M?w. ? have heard," said Fogg, "but we will overlook that) you know." " When did George Washington die f' asked a teacher of a large boy. " Is he dead ?" was the astonished reply. "Why it is not more than six months ago that they were celebrating his birthday, and now he is dead. Its a bad year on children. I reckon his folks let him eat something that didn't agree with him." GOADED TO DESPEEATIOJf. When falls the soulful moonbeams, Upon the back-yard fence, _____ And tnnefal felloe choristers Their serenade commence, The coffering esthetic, His ntterSess forgot, Hnrls madly through the midnight air His too-too sunflower pot. The prize-in-every-package tea stores are at present the snbjeot of a general crusade. When a man buys a fifty-cent package of tea expeoting to get a five dollar prize, and takes it to the wife of his bosom who opens it and finds therein a pewter spoon, he feels a yearning desire to go out nnder the silent stars, by the each fence, and kick himself. . It was a youth of modest poise Said soft tin to a maid: ?rcm,?-K 'J n? j 8 i liaw^i nuuiuijuw.i i ?1 _ Ice cream or lemonade 7" Across the maiden's rosy cheek Fast flits a winning smile; "I'll order eome of both," she said. Heaven help the young man's pile. A Watch Returned. Charles Dovey, a commercial traveler, whose home is in Philadelphia, was agreeably surprised one day recently by receiving by express a valuable gold watch which he had handed to Jesse James in June, 1880, at the letter's request, a loaded revolver being one of the arguments nsed by Mr. James. * At that time Mr. Dovey had oharge of a coal mining company's office in Ken-, tacky, and the unexpected visit of Jesse James and'his three confederates was made on pay day. It happened that the money had been delayed on its way. * ll-~ fha mhhimi crnt nnlv iroui LUC uouu nuu vuu vw.w. ? a few dollars and Mr. Dovey*s watch, which has been returned by Mrs. James with the following note: "Kansas City June 15, 1882 ?Mr. Charles Dovey? Dear sir: Inclosed yon will find a watch. If it is yours please send me by return mail a receipt for the same. Yours respectfully, Mrs. Jesse James." Mr. Dovey is informed that Mrs. James is making a general restoration of the stolen property left by her husband, so far as she can ascertain to whom it belongs. A Valuable Button. It is probable that Mr. Fritsoh, of New York, will be the first man in America to offer a reward for a button. He was presented last season with a ee. of twelve large buttons for his coach ing club top ooat. They were sqnt from across the ooean, hand-made, and entirely unique. Eaoh button bears a miniature painting of some ooaching scene?the stables, the start, on theroad, reaching home, and so on. Without any of these buttons the set is incomplete, and its beauty is spoiled. One of them has mysteriously disappeared since the spring parade, Whether it is lost, strayed, or stolen nobody knows. And it wonld not be well for the thief, if it is stolen, to let some of the masonlar members of the coaobing clnb lay hands on him, for. the buttons are the club's pets. An Active Life. ;* * Few men in Maine have orowded more genuine hard work into their lives than Elder John Spinner, of Starks, a Freewill Baptist olergyman, sixty-four years old. The old gentleman is a blacksmith by trade, having worked twenty ' years at that business. When nine * vears old he commenced preaching, frequently walking ten miles to achuroh on Sunday, preaching two sermons, and returning on foot at night. Iff his life he has mcved thirty-eight times and has erected twenty-three buildings. j Among other things he has delivered over 8,000 sfrmons, attended over 4100 f nr. e tark s, married ^|r 200