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7 . " " . cc< \ < "" \ j . VOL. XLVIII. CAMDEN, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 17, 1800 / NO. 42. ___________ THE MILLER AND HIS MILL* Once a jolly miller had a. mill, mill, mill, Every one was pleased to fill his till, till, till, ! The grain went in the hopper, The stone went whirling round. And a chorus from the miller WoUki through the mil! resound: -He 'ohe, and a heigh-hc-'.ieigh, There are plenty others for to grind, With the water that goes by. The miller did not murmur and sigh, sigh, sigh, Because a little water went by, by, by, ^'ut heaping up the hopper High with the yellow grain, His soul went out in music, In this glad refrain: He 'o he, and a heigh-ho-heigh, There are plenty others for to grind, ; With the water that goes by. A lesson from the miller and his mill, mill, mill. If fortune has been heaping in your till, till, j till. If you do have a fortune. To greet you at your birth, When old enough to know it Don't scramble for the earth. Ke !o he, and a heigh-ho- heigh, There are plenty others for to grind, j With the water that goes by. ?DomiUl H. McGregor. /"-AN ECCENTRIC HEIRESS.1 BY LOIS GREY. I Over ;he long brown level of the landscape the pink coats made vivid spots. The gray uppiled clouds parted here and there, giving passage to silver lances of ; I slanting light. There was a sea wind at large, but it was tempered by immediate 1 spaces of sandbar and of dead stretch of' meadow grass, shriveled and dry. The hunt was over. The wind blew up more keenly. "It's veering to the east," said the youug man who rode at Miss Brockton's 1 side and who had managed to keep near ! her from start to finish. "Fortunate we ! had such a capital day. There'll be rain 1 to-morrow." Nothing original in the remarks. But I then why expect originality? Mr. Thomas I Ashington Revery was a good-looking ! vnnfV, tv'n/-, enfr his mnnnt. well and was I quite faultless in the matter of coats and collar, nails and hands und boots. What | more could one ask? But Miss Grcraldine Brockton appeared j to have an attitude of asking the absurd, j the impossible. ? Had she not owned a I million in her own right such peculari- ! ties as hers?such marked, curiqps ways ' of looking at things and doing things? j would really have seemed in questionable ! form. She was even as unseizable at! every point as those long rays of silver- j white light that filtered through the' clouds and melted and was' gone again I as you looked. Here, a few minutes ago, | with the glad blood in her cheeks caused j by the rapid motion, she had seemed i vivid, animated, pleased with herself, j with life, with her companion, perbaps. And now that the latter had simply uttered a word or two in a softer strain she had stiffened and frozen, abruptly, unapproachably. When Miss Brockton had dismounted at her own door she went straight into 1 the pretty room where sat her chaperone, j relative aud companion, Mrs. Gwynne. i making tea. . J This lady glanced up, caught the look in the girl's eye aud said. "What has Mr. Re very been doing?" i "Doing?" Miss Brockton's magnificent eyes flashed fire. "Do you suppose I care what that?creature does?" "If you dou't care for him he cares ! for you." y "For me!" Geraldine laughed with ineffable scorn. "For my money you "mean. So that was the trouble agaiu. Mrs. Gwynnc had perceived at once that the girl was in one of her moods." "I shall advise you, Gernldine, to rid yourself of that prepossession of yours. You are grown morbid on the subject. You are quite capable of being liked for yourself, even if you are an heiress. Be ! reasonable. I suppose you are not pre- [ pared to be an old maid? Then don't! fisk too much of men." Geraldinc looked at her. "I hate my money?" she said, with { slow, vibrant intensity. "I hate it!" j _ "You would hate more being without it," observed Mrs. Gwynnt, sipping her j tPs? "You think so?'1 said the girl coldly, j "Yoy^sre mistaken!" ^ne paused abruptly. lad had burst into the room, followed by a young man, tall and dark. This was Eddy, Miss Brockton's brother and pet, and his tutor. The boy began to chatter away to his sister, but the tutor presently said: "Come, my boy." "Shall I give you a cup of tea, Mr. Severn?" asked Mrs. Gwynne. "Thank you; no." He was gone with the boy. Gcraldine had not sjoken. After a little while she laughed: "What a model tutor it is! How well he keeps to his place!"' Mrs. Gwynne flushed angrily. "I wonder at you, Geraldine! There j are times when you seem lacking not ! only in fecliug but in good taste! Mr. Severn is a gentleman?a scholar! More ! of a gentleman and undoubtedly more of j a scholar than any Gwynne or Brockton, j perhaps!" Gcraldine turned a little pale. "How very cutting! How you take Mr. Severn's part! Happy Mr. Severn!" Then, abruptly, without warning of any j sort, she bridged the space between her- j self and the little Moorish staud, and Mrs. Gwynnc, in dee]) surprise, felt the convulsive clasp of two strong young arms about her ncek. "Oh, Aunt Martha! Aunt Martha! Aunt Martha! Don't mind me! Don't scold me! I?I?I am unhappy! And in doubt! I am so tossed about? So? so?*! ' 'Why?why?Gcraldinc!" But the storm?or that phase of it, at least?had passed already. Geraldine drew herself up. She set her teeth; her lips s "But I shall not be any longer! I am resolved! I shall know what to expect!" ller eyes shone, a brilliant smile flashed oyer the traces of tears. She opened the door and vauished. When Thomas Ashington Revcry called the next day Mrs. Gwynne was constrained to tell him that Miss Brockton had gone to town. ' What! Already? She told me she expected to remain out until after the last meet!" "Oh, she is only goue in for two or three days," Mrs. Gwynne hastened to explain. "She told me that she wished j to see her lawyer and her guardian." i Mrs. Gwynne smiled. "You know, she i is a creature of moods." Full well '.id Tom Revery know it! Did one ever see clearly how one stood i with her? He departed crestfallen ; in- | wardly fuming. She had seemed sometimes to like him well?very well, and she was certainly a very handsome girl, and he, well, he was undoubtedly iu love Via,, onfi tnppp wii<5 the money! It appeared outrageous to the young man, I whose owu patrimony was less ample than he could have wished it, that a j mere girl and a stripling should each have inherited such wealth. That was the stripling riding by now, and the tall, dark fellow with him was his tutor. It ! occurred to Tom Revery to wonder, in i passing, whether the tutor ever saw much J of his pupil's sister. "Must be rather rough on the poor chap if he's susceptible at all!" It was a week later, and Miss Brockton was not only at home this time, but had been sitting with Mr. Revery for j nearly an hour. There had now fallen over the room a heavy silence. It lasted only a few secor:ds, but the pause seemed an endless one. Miss Brockton had risen suddenly and was standing with an elbow against the mautel. As her visitor seemed helplessly to fumble for the fitting word she repeated a little nervously: "I am sorrv?very sorry?for this. misunderstanding. But?I?cannot marry you, Mr. Revery. I shall never marry at all." At this unlikely statement the suitor regained courage. "Miss Brockton! Geraldinc!" "Xo; it is improbable that I should ever marry. Of course, many men might be tempted to propose to me, thinking me rich. But my property will soon, by my own desire, be so disposed of that I shall have only ?. moderate income. Even should I marry, my will is so made that nothing I have,in case of my death, would go to ray husbaud. So you see, such considerations may act as deter- I rents." "Miss Brockton, you?you caunot I think, it is not possible that you would believe me " Revery was turning, iu rapid succession, from red to white, from white to red. The girl pitied his discomfiture. "Not at ail, Mr. Revery. I suspect j you of no interested motives. But I do ! not care for you?in the way you ! mean." Five minutes afterward she was sit- j tiug by the tire alone, a scornful smile j on her lips that presently faded away j and into a sigh. Some one came in at J the door as she sat there, but turned j again, retreating. At the sound Geraldine glanced around. "Don't go, Mr. Severn; let me tell you of an interview I have just had." ; She had started to her feet again and stood in the attitude she had assumed a little before,, with her arms resting on ] the chimney top. Dusk was coming on ) and the room was in a penumbra, save i for the tirelight. These leaping flames j | illuminated the face above them. Such j | a face! Arthur Severn lelt dizzy for a ; moment. He had never seen her look | like that. She had never flashed that j smile, that eyebeani, upon him. She had j usver addressed him in that friendly, jesting tone. S'ue was suddenly all life, all softness, all charm. She seemed to wish to atone for her sullenness, her arrogance. What a will o' the wisp she was! Changeful as a witch. "An interview?" said the young man guardedly. He would not let himself go. He kept a tight rein on himself. i j "With Mr. Kevery; yes?fancy! I have all at once come to the conclusion that L wish to be married, if I am married : at all. for mvself. The heiress, Miss j Brockton, will in u short time have prac tically ceased to exist and there will re mam only Geraldine Brockton, with a j small iucoine. Well, I told Mr. Bevery j this. And would you believe it? lie j did not propose to Geraldine Brockton, ! though a moment before he had offered ! his hand and heart to Miss Brockton, the heiress!" She was laughing now. Her eyes continued to flash upon him with that . strange, lambent persistence. It was almost like a challenge. What could she mean? Again Severn seemed to turn ; dizzy. He kept his outward composure | by a tremendous clfort. "If what you say is true. Miss Brockton, you will regret it, perhaps." "Regret giving nearly all my fortune i to charitable institutions? Ah, you judge j as the world judges, do you? I had | thought differently of you, Mr. Severn. Why should I wish to be so rich?" she j cried, with a sort of tierceness. "Other j women may be able to stand the test. I I could not. It was making me hard, suspicious. It was making me doubt the whole world. It was stifling me. I shall have enough left for all the deccn cies and comforts of life. And I am j free! Yes, I am free now. Before I j was a slave?a slave to flatterers, to for- j tune hunters, to every form of human j hypocrisy. Other people may feel them- , selves exalted by such a position. I felt j myself degraded!" She stopped. She almost seemed to j pant. The blood rushed to Severn's | brain, lie took a step forward. What ' was he about to do?what to say? What- ! ever it might have been the portier was j drawn aside and Mrs. Gwynnc came in. I The words remained unuttered on his ! lips. But Miss Brockton spoke. A strange spirit appeared to possess her, urging her , on, goading her to abrupt disclosures. "Ah, Aunt Martha! I wonder if you'll be surprised, too, at my news? I have made an announcement which has stricken two men dumb with astonishment already. And yet it does not seem so strange, does it? Mr. Severn seeins scarcely to believe that 1 have given away nearly all my fortune." "What nonsense!"said Mrs. Gyanc. Severn had vanished. "You do say such extraordinary things at times," declared Mrs. Gwynne. "People will really believe, at length, that you are not quite right, Geraldinc." "Aunt Martha!" Geraldinc stood upright before her. "You don't believe me, either? It is true?true! That was why I went to town to see the lawyer and*?" Mrs. Gwynuc had fallen into a chair. "What! Then all I have to say, Geraldinc, is that you are insane! absolutely insane! Who ever heard of a girl giving away her fortune before?" "Perhaps not, but?" mi " 1 OU "Will regret tuts. Geraldine gave a strnDge, slightly bitter smile. "I hope not." "Jerry! Jerry!" It wa3 her youug brother's voice, an.l it startled her from a fitful sleep. She started up confusedly. The boy called again. His room was just across the hall. An acrid odor of smoke touched her nostrils. Throwing on her wrapper and weak-kneed with fear she threw herself against the door. The hall was dark. She opened the door of the boy's room?a deuse cloud rose toward her and smote her in the face. She cried out aloud?once, twice?for help and then uttered the boy's name. But there was no answer. The fire, which had smouldered at first, now broke out fiercely. "Eddy! Eddy!" cried the girl and threw herself into the room.- She could see nothing. She was blinded?she could not breathe. She stumbled over a prostrate body. |!) flfAmmororl OfMin *'JDUUJ' i sue siauiui&ivu ugiviu* Then she felt herself wrenched away by a strong arm, and some one had seized the boy's inanimate form and dragged it out of the room and her with it. The next clear thing of which she was conscious was a tongue of flame running up her pretty dressing-gown and of being suddenly enveloped in Arthur Severn's coat, while this covering and his hands and arms stifled the just-born blaze. They stood in the hall and the cloak?and the arms?were still around her and she was trembling in their clasp. Lights flashed out at the other end of the hall and people came rushing along it, and Mrs. Gwynne appeared, white and breathless. "Merciful heaven!" It was only a little fire, after all, started from the boy's bed-curtain having taken the blaze of a candle which he had left near it as he dropped asleep. It was not long before the lad had been reof/-v.-n 1 tr> />nncninncnPM *hhf? tattered CUI* tains torn down, the charred bedding removed. But Mre. Gwynnc did not regain her color. "What was that she had seen? Should she ever forget it? Gcraldine? Arthur Severn! Why, he had held her in his arras! lie had held her in his arms nnd she had not seemed to struggle ?she had not seemed to move! All the next day Mrs. Gwynne went about in a sort of dream. Finally, entering the drawing-room at twilight, a3 she had done the day before, she staggered back. If there had been any doubt in the night there was no doubt now. Geraldine and Severn were there near the tire, very close together, and he was bending, beudiug down over the uplifted face. "Aunt Martha!" "Arthur Severn started and stood upright. It is a man's misfortune never to look heroic thus caught in the act. But Geraldine only smiled a divine smile. "Aunt Martha, Mr. Severn and I are to be married next month." An hour later Mrs. G wynne said: "And so this was the reason for your giviug up your money?" "Yes. My money kept him away from me. And?and I wanted, beside, to make sure that he loved me for myself. And he does! He does!" Mrs. Gwynae looked at the radiant face for u long, silent minute. "You are certainly," she observed, with slow deliberation, "the mo3t eccentric girl I ever knew in my life!" And Geraldine only laughed?New York Mercury. A Rare Leather Exhibit. A small purse made of frog skin, with gold clasps, another of elephant hide, also heavily ornamented with gold clasps, a dainty card case of white cream morocco, with filagree ornaments of gold, studded with diamonds, arc among the articles on exhibition at a jewelry store on Union Square. The exhibit comprises some of the rarest leathers and hides that it is possible to collect?the ?1..,? " bJ/.v, if if ic ?mnftc?ih!n t.n nsfci " " A LONG LIFE. . A NOTED DOCTOR TELLS BOW IT MAY BE ATTAINED. He Advocates Throwing Physic to the Dogs ? What Should be Done to Prolong Existence? A Cure lor Consumption. Dr. Lewis A. Savre, a noted 'Acvf York surgeon, tells a Herald representative what should be done to prolong human existence. He says' : ''Everybody, under ordinary .circumstances, ought to be one hundred years old. As it is. people live from eight to fifteen years longer than their forefathers did. They have learned to eat and dr nk; how to keep their homes ventilated and their sewers drained, and how to generally take better care of themselves. I Still they do not live anything line as long as they ought to, because they do not yet live as they ought to. They have too much to do, too much to think about and too much care to bear. Many are very much distressed as younger men to know how they are going to make sure of a living. By and by when their reputation has grown they are driven to death with the work forced upon tt.em. If I had lived anywhere near right in the earlier part of my professional carear I believe my life would have been prolonged beyond a century. I never used to know what it was to lie tired, hungry or sleepy. When the decline begins the face loses its color, thc-plurup, vigorous look of the skin vanishes and lassitude takes the place of elasticity. "Open grates are far preferable to any other means of heating a house, for i hey help ventilation, which is an important factor in the prolongation of life I never allow a furnace to be lighted in my house except when there is danger of the water pipes ircezing up. . "One of the greatest dangers to hu nan life is the candy shop, which dest 'oys the stomachs of children. "Tobacco is decidedly injurious when used to excess, the same as liquor. A mild cigar smoked after dinner, however, has a soothing effect, and the smoker sustains less injury from it than lie would from rushing off to work on a full stomach. No injury will result from sleeping after a meal. Old j>e"ple are benefited by a nap after eating. Animals afford an example. Feed two dogs and let one curl up oeforc the fire while the other is taken out to hunt rabbits. Then on the return from the hunting expedition kill both dogs. The stomach of the one that has been sleeping will be cleau, while the food in.the stomach of the other will be found undigested. The dog that has been hunting has expended all his energies in the chase and the food has had no chance to digest. "Ice water, which people generally gulp down in unlimited quantities, paralyzes the nerves of the stomach, and is one of the greatest causes of dyspepsia in this country. People should drink water at its natural temperature. Boiling water drunk an hour or so before meals is a valuable aid to digestion in many instances. The majority of people eat more than they ought, and they also eat too fast. In eating it is not a question how much ,1 nersnn nsn devour but how much ? J -- ? he cau digest. Some people are better off on two meals a day than on three. "Turning night into day?that is, working at night and sleeping in the day time?does not mean that the person who does it is doomed to an early grave. Men who work nights may live to a good old age. Wm. Cnllen Bryant was accustomed to work nights and attained a ripe old age. Still I consider that people who work during the day and sleep during the night are better off. One thing is certain, a person must have Sleep at sometime, whether it is at night or during the day. The average person ought to have eight hours' sleep. When I was young 1 read tiiau Napoleon only took four hours' sleep in twenty-four. I thought that no great man needed more than four hours, so that was all I took. I found out the error of that idea later. "The great mortality from phthisis or consumption is due to the varying temperature aud the foul air breathed. It is contagious, and healthy persons can contract it. The sputum, or expectoratiou. becomes dry and is converted into a powder, which floats iu the air and may be inhaled. The next ten years will ViWUU Ul V? li*U4l A t# 1W AO mate on a market basis. The skins in the rough form a collection which it has taken twelve years to put in its present form. They arc intended for jewelry and silverware cases, traveling bags, pocket books, dressing cases and all sorts of fancy articles in which leather is used. There is a boa constrictor's skin twenty feet long, a rare assortment of chameleon skins and the skins of the eel, cassowary and unborn calf, armadillo hide, shark, woodchuck, buffalo, panther, skunk, luwack, anteater, wolf, peccary, nilgau, waterbok, gnu, hartebecst, lion, koodoo, zebra, tapir and other rare and curious animals. These formed a part of an exhibit at the Paris Exposition. Thev are now being made up to suit the tastes of those who can afford to pay for them, a pocket-book costing, for instance, from $12 to $350. The exhibit is attracting a good deal of interest on the part of dealers in leather. The articles are purchased mostly for presents to persons in Europe. ?New York New*. show a great diminution in deaths lrom phthisis. Consumption can be cured. The way to cure it is to put the patient in the mountains where the air is dry, and keep him away from the doctor and the apothecary shop. He does not need medicine. There is too much medioinc used iu many kinds of disease. "Insanity, I should say, is increasing, and the explanation is to be found ie the way in which wc live. Men rush to secure millious when they ought to be satisfied with hundreds of thousands. They likewise rush to spend their money and then worry to meet their financial engagements. Insanity may be caused by functional disturbance or by an organic change. In cns& of an organic change it is doubtful if insanity is curable. "Dreams do not indicateaphysica .defcct. They indicate that the dreamer's stomach is out of order or that ho is worried Dreams ofteu seem of long dura I tiou, but it should be remembered tnat thoughts fly so fast that they cannot be measured. They will travel over pretty much the entire universe in tive minutes. If a person keeps his mouth shut he will not snore. If he cannot keep it 3hut any other way he ought to tie a bandage under his chin and over his head. The nose is the proper thing to breithe through. But. snoring will not do any harm. A person who appreciates humor and has a good hearty laugh now and then is the better for it, but to be eternally giggling and smirking, when there is no cause for the risibility, is neither beueflcial nor interesting. A giggler is a fool. Crying often affords relief. If a person is sufferitr from great grief and he is unable shed tears, there is decided danger of . oablc in his mind. "Whether the jovial or the / quiet person is apt to live longest is per liaps a question. Some people are s( solemn that they have not life enough tc die, and keep on earth to curse ev<?y body they are acquainted witb^-^Tt ii not the length of time one lives-; but the good he does. Some mcn^fould live i hundred years and be of no benefit Others could in twenty years accomplish wonders by their energy and the propel use of their abilities. ,:One man may know no fear, whih another may be frightened at his owi shadow. It is a mental affair. The mat with a good healthy stomach is apt t( have more courage than the man with dyspepsia. Every healthy man ought t< love a vroman if he can find one worthy of his affection." A New Wild Horse. The great Russian traveler, Prezevnl v- J- j - ?... ...Jia SKJ, uait UISOOVClcu. n uot nine iiuioc raorc nearly allied to the domestic hor3( than any previously known species Prezevalsky, on his return from Centra Asia, brought with him one of these new species. The horse is described as hav ing warts on his hini legs as well as 01 its fore legs, and has hard hoofs like th< true horse. But the long hairs of th( tail, instead of commencing at the base do not begin until nbout half way dowr the tail, says an exchange. In this respect the animal is interme diate between the horse and the ass. I j is also different from the typical horse ii | having a short, erect mane, and having I no forelock. It has no dorsal stripe j which, though by no means universal, i often found in the typical horse, and i: almost always present in the ass. It whole general color is of a whitish gray paler and whiter beneath and reddish 01 the head. The legs are reddish to thi knees, and then blackish down to th< hoofs. It is of small stature, but th< legs are very thick and strong, and th< head is large and heavy. The ears are smaller than those of th< ass. This horse was found on the greal ! Dsungarian desert, between the Alfalant Tianschan Mountains, where it is callcc by the Tartars kcrtag, and by the Mon gols stafur. It is met in troops of fron five to fifteen individuals, led by the old stallion. They are very shy, with highly developed, organs ot sight and smell Prezevalsky's specimen was ovcrtaker and shot in the winter, when water w& plentiful from melted snow. But for thi1 it could not have been followed at all, a; it frequents the waterless districts. During the whole time of his stay it the Dsungarian desert Prezevalsky mel with only two herds of this will horse, ! He and his companions fired into a herd I but missed", and with uplifted head and ' outstretched tail the stallion led the way ! with the speed of the winds. The see j ond herd met with was surprised. It wa< approached from one side of the hill, and when within 150 yards a shot was fired, which broke the leg of a mare, and il was captured. This specimen is now in the museum of the Academy of Science at St. Petersburg, and is the only one ol this species in Europe. A Buddhist Marriage. A missionary describes a marriage ceremony which he witnessed in the palace i of the Governor of Cambodia, as follows: "I wns ushered, amid a tremendous die of gongs, into a large room beyond the reception hall, where were seated the Governor and about a hundred noblemen and invited guests. The bridegroom, a youug man about twenty years of age, elegantly attired in silk garments, was also there. "By the time we foreigners were seated, a procession?headed by the bride, sup ported on either side by demure-looking matrons, composed principally of aged 01 married women, all elegantly attired? entered and slowly marched toward the I Governor. '?L- I ?....... uit.l-innlni.lc in'oc. IIlie unite niii uui> i?.?> estiu!^ as regards personal charras; she | was youug, however, and dressed j richly and in good taste. Besides her j silk dress she wore a gold-embroidered j scarf upon her shoulders; also goldringi j upon her fingers, bracelets upon hei j wrists and armlets above the elbows. The bride took up her position near the ! bridegroom, both sitting upon the floor, | but not looking toward each other; in fact, throughout the entire ceremony they both were perfectly impassive and nonchalant. The marriage ceremony proper now began. A number of wftx candles were brought iu a salver, and then lighte* by one of the nobles. The silver waiter was then passed round before the company eight times, each one in turn salutI ing the couple and wishing them good ! fortune by waving or blowing the smoke ; toward tbem. thus expressing something ; like the old English custom of throwing I the slipper after a newly married couple | ?the band of string instruments playing the meanwhile. Two large velvet cushions having been previously placed before the bride and bridegroom, and upon them a large sword, the leader of the theatricals now came forward and went through, foi a few moments, a most fantastical sword exercise. Dishes had been placed before I 4l? with P O V P FI lUC uuupi^ npuu tub uvui) ? ?.. WW.?upon them. Nothing, however, was eaten. Next the hands of the expectant couple were bound together, and to cacti other, with silken threads, by the women attendants, probably some near relatives. Thus were they truly joined in Buddhist wedlock. And this completed the simple, yet effective ceremony. Legal Descent of Property. "Where a husband and wife are lost al sea, the law always assumes that he, being the stronger, survived her by some minutes or hours. On this supposition he inherits her property (during the fex\ | moments that he survives her), and or j his death his relatives inherit it frou I him. In seven different cases, followed , up in the French courts within the last j ten years, it was found that the wife out | lived her husband, and the practice ol ! the law had to be reversed. Rice is the main food of 470,000,001 persons, or more than one-third of the whole human race, and it enters lurgelj into the diet of the remainder. \ I ^ POPULAR SCIENCE. j-f' - Ladie3 who bite thread slowly commil 5 1 suicide. Most silks are soaked in acetate , of lead, which is deadly poison. i I One factory in New York is credited . ! with making filty different kinds ol ! i cloth for wearing apparel out of hemp i ! fibre. Recently in Sweden a glass composed 5 of fourteen substances, of which phos1 phorus and boron, are the most impor i tant, has been produced. 5 Dr. Brown-Sequard is not discouraged 1 by the sudden collapse of his lifo elixii 5 sensation. He is still engaged in manuf factoring the elixir and professes bound' less faith in it. It is claimed by practical scientists as a demonstrated fact that the material de velopment of the United States has beer i in almost exact coincidence with th< 5 growth of our patent system. Tit* WAvmn*-? ITorr anvo fViaf fVlO 11QO O narcotics and stimulants by woman is o> the increase. Alcohol leads the list and then follows chloral, chlorodyne, ether. * chloroform, sal-volatile, enu de Cologne * The last is usually taken on lumps of cu ' sugar. | A Belgian has lately invented a musi cal shirt, on the cuffs of which fragment of a score are printed, so that if the in t strumentalist be a flutist, harpist or cor j netist, he has his entire part under hi: , eyes, and need not carry any furthe 3 music about with him. J s An Austrian sculptor, Friederich Beer ? has discovered a process for dissolving s marble, and then molding it like metals, } The name of the marble thus treated ii i beryt. The new product costs litth ? more than plaster, and is well adapted t( 5 the ornamentation of houses. ' The increase of capacity of. the Suej i Canal resulting from the use of the elec trie light for night passages is equiva J lent to widening the canal from its pres I ent bottom width of twenty-two metre< 1 to thirty-two metres?an operation whicl 1 would cost at least $20,000,000. An interesting astronomical discover 1 is announced from Italy. After ten year of investigation Schiaparelli has foun< f that Mercury, the- planet nearest to th * sun, has a rotation like that of the moon 1 The planet turns once on its axis durin; i the period of its revolution round th 5 sun, so that the same side is alway ' turned toward the sun. A prominent English scientist, on hear t ing the news of the sudden death of thi late Joseph Biggar, said that the famoui Triclimnn mirrht he still alive if he liaC A*??Oj "7 ^ happened to have at the time of his at tack a dose of nitro-glycerine in his pos session. Nitro-glycerine, taken in smal doses, will ward off a severe attack 0 , angina pectoris, of which Jklr. Bigga died. ; Captain Zalinski, of pneumatic gut , fame, is now engaged upon the produc , tion of a quick firing gun similar to thi f Hotchkiss six and three pound guns but to discharge shells filled witl blasting gelatine. If such a gun can b devised capable of being quickly aime< and used with accuracy, it will be hope less for any torpedo boats to attack large ship. Chinese and Japanese. One of the largest rilk importers ii [ China, says the Chicago Tribune, claim! that the Chinese are a much superior raci ! to the Japanese. "I've lived in China for twenty years,' said he, "and have had plenty of time t< study the land and people. The storie it/mi lionr nliont the Oriental countries an . written by people wlio remain a shor time and never take the trouble to sub , stantiate any weird story or rumor, an< it is to be expected that their writing should be unreliable. It is true tha Japan has railroads and many Europeai and American industries cannot be foum in China, but the latter country does no want nor need these latter-day improve ( ments. "The development in Japan is not du to the Japanese. These improvement , were torced upon them by the European and Americaus. Railroads, mining an< irrigating schemes, manufacturing indus tries and impracticable enterprises nr springing up like mushroons in the lam of the Mikado. Half of these venture are not needed, and just as soon as thii is discovered by the Japanese there wil be (i big collapse. They arc jumpim . into civilization by the rapid-transit line and often that route is dangerous. "On the other hand, the Chinese an slowly coming to the front. They are i , conservative people and use their think ! I ing faculties more in an hour than do th? I Tononnoo nil rlav Th? Chinese xrel I know that foreigners are imposing upo: the Japanese, and they are awaiting th' result. For years Englishmen have beei , trying to construct a railroad at Shang I hai. It would be of no value. The sur ' rounding country is so lined with canal . or natural creeks that it now costs les to bring in silks and teas than is woul< , be if a railway was built. The Chines argue that as they were civilized befor Englishmen were on earth, they can ge along now with the old methods of life and they want no nation to furnish then with bright ideas." Kis-ku-dah's Life-Loug Grief. ' j Kis-ku-dah is an Indian now serving life sentence in the penitentiary, tie i almost literally alone in the world, for though there are other Indians in prison they are not of the same tribe and spea! ' a different language. But one link bind i him to the world, and that is a cowbo ! who speaks the same tongue, but wh 1 hits only a few months to stay. Kis-ku ' dah is sick in the hospital, where h 1 grieves and mourns day in and day out 1 j For hours he will kneel with his blanke I j about his head and never move. Who ^ | the night nurses take their places Kis-ku ' : dah's face brightens up, for then his cow ^ boy friend, who is a night nurse, come j to him, and they have a friendly talk | This "untutored" sons pines for liberty ' . his only thought is of his native plain ! ; and hills, and how sweet would be hi ' j revenge for depriving him of that liberty ? Columbus Dispatch. FROM BEYOND THE SEA. Think not, because the changing floods divide ! My face from thine, that memory grows i cold. Dost fear the Past ends as a tale is told, | Or, while we journey, keeps not by our r'de? f Each thing we suffer, be it joy or pain, ' Leaves us its image in a lasting mould: It may have passed unmarked?it shall reI main Long as our very selves together hold. So, though we seem, to the light outward gaze, 1 Only to be enduring life's command, ' Only to squander harnessed heart and hand In a dull dynasty of useful days? E'en then our soul turns in the lull of strife To look upon some secret inward seal 1 Stamped long ago, an earnest to reveal ' The thin fair landscape of an iaier me. t ; I cannot count these images in me, For Time hath not jet bid me know them I all; l Yet from their ranks how fair a one of the9 I Comes like a blessing, when on thee I call 1 , And when perchance long days shall cast a pall t Over my graver self, Til cross the sea Upon the golden wings of gayer thought, < . Setting the prose of day by day at naught, v s And in thy vision once again be free. ?Owen Wister, in Lippincott. r PITH AND POINT. f , Every day is a fine one to the Police r Justice. An early spring?Jumping out of bed 3 at 5 o'clock.?Texas Si/tings. '> * "The dear old times"?When a greenback was worth about forty cents. A lobster can't be styled "well red" until it has been boiled.?Merchant Trot[ eler. Sword swallcwers ought to try saws , awhile. They would be more toothsome, j ?Toledo Blade. I Even the humblest toiler in the land j I can resolve to live for a Hire purpose.? 3 New York News. I Only a truly selfish man can realize e fully how utterly selfish other men can be.?Somerville Journal. I The slow thinker can at least clain e that there is plenty of wait to his mind. 3 ?Binghamton Republican. She became a good compositor, This Vassar maiden spry, 3 Commanded highest wages for ~ She never could make pL j "Why are you here, my poor fellow?" asked the visitor of the prisoner. "De walls is so thick I can't git out. Datj j why, see?"?Racket. f When reports relating to the Indian! r are filed in the Interior Department w< suppose the.IncluUJ, fi.c is the one used. 1 ?Pittsburg Chronicler? 1-1?' - /. "Now, my little man, tell me, whatij 3 your place at school?" "Please, sir, if 1 get promoted, I shall be the last but 3 j one."?Flicgende Blaetlcr. 2 I Judge?"Prisoner. do you confess you: i | guilt?" "No. your Honor, the speech o: - j my lawyer has convinced even me of mj a entire innocence."?Fliegtnde Blaetter. The man who's always deep in debt Is seldom known to float On fame's high wave?yet none the less He is a man of note. 1 ?Washington rosi. J Everything depends on a good begin 3 ning, and when a baker starts in businesi ) he should remember that a great deal de pcnds upon his making a first-class tart. J ?Statesman. " "Mind, I don't want to be flattered," ^ said a feminine voice confidentially behind a photographer's screen, "but dc j try and idealize it all you can."?Phila^ delphia Record. t "What make3 the tea so weak, Mrs. a Brown?" asked Jones, the wag of the j boarding-house. "It's bceu listening tc t i your jokes about the hash, I reckon," reI plied Mrs. Brown. "Doctors are queer men," remarked 0 Dobbin to his wife. "Why?" asked tht 9 lady. "Because you can't show then 9 your tongue, without they show yoc 1 their bill."?Washington Star. Dudley?"You look at me as if yot e thought I was a fool, eh?" Stranger? 3 "Why, no; you can't be such a fool aftei 9 all. Your remark shows that you read a. s man's thoughts at a glance."? Texas Sift1 ings. t!l J ? I Visitor (to a school)?"l\ow, cnuureu, ? j what do you suppose was the first thing I did when I went to school?" Small 2 Boy (on a back seat)?"I'll bet you stuck 1 a bent pin in the teacher's chair!"?Neu York Sun. I Mastered Its Intricacies.?Man?"Are ! you getting an insight into your employj er's business?" Boy?"Well, I should smile! I know it better than he does." "How long have you been here?" "A week."?Chicago Times. s Wife?"Did you find out whet ailed 3 the clock last night after I told you it 3 wouldn't run?" Husband?"No; I sat e up till nearly midnight and took it all to e pieces, and I saw nothing wrong with it." t Wife?"Well, I've thought what is the matter with it. I forgot to wind it." a ? Kangaroo Skins. When brought to bay, the kangaroo { imns like a flash for a hunter's chest, I J?I a and tries to crush it in with his fore feet. g i To prevent this, each man wears across . his breast a two or three inch thick mati ting. Armed with a spear, with a club (j attachment at the other end, they ride 9 upon swift horses into the herd. With y the agility and equiposc of circus riders, 0 they stand erect upon their horses, and _ use their spears and clubs. The kanga? | roo is able to jump clear over a horse. ! As the game is bagged it is sKiunea, aua .J j the skin is stretched on the ground and a I pegged down to prevent shrinkage. The h I flesh furnishes meat for the camp. Each | man places his private tsark upon his 3 j booty, and when they have one hundred I skins apiece, they return back to civiliza*. I tkm. There are twenty varieties of kan3 1 garoos, among them the blue, red Walla-* :s by, black gray and forester, the latter furnishing the best leather, as it lives mainly in wooded sections.?Nature, ??