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A NEW JERSEY TOBOGGAN CLUB. Lads and Lassos Taking a Slide?Sens* tlons of "Mcdlfled Rapture" The toboggan slide at Orange, N. J., consists of two rows of posts that become lines of red flags by day and of fire and coal oil smoke by night. Between these runs a long trough that looks like a grain chute a mile long. This wanders down a long hill, across a little valley, and up a smaller hilL It is mied half full of loose snow. The participants in the sport, with their toboggan, are fed in at the upper end, and in due process of time are shot out of the lower end. Then they climb np to the top, and the operation is repeated. The toboggan resembles a buckboard without wheels, turned up in front. Those of the Essex County club were of maple and hickory. The Indian article is put together with catgut; the American imitation with rivets. The more luxurious ones hare cushions. To thoroughly enjoy tobor^aning one must be gotten up in correct toboggan costume. The outfit of tho omb members consists of a knit cap with a tassel, a warm tunic like ga- Tituiy Tyith a big hood, knicker bockers, loggings and moccasins. The cc^cume for women is. similar, with the customary substitution of a . short skirt for the knickerbockers, and a greater ex ercise of tasio in cut and color. Tie modo of procedure the other night was as follows: The toboggan wat put into the end of the chute, which came up to a square platform, like a spout into a well-curb. The bow-oars man?so to speak?sat cross-legged, with his knees resting on the dashboard. He seized the ropes and braced himself. No. 2 sat down in the same fashion. She clutched No. 1 by the shoulders and murmured that they would die together. No. 8 did likewise. The steersman doubled up his left leg and sat on it, trailing the other behind in much the same manner that the rudder is appended to a canalboat. When the starter saw the last party disappear over the brow of the hill, he said "Go!" and go they did with a rush. When the steersman put the helm hard a-port he kicked up a perfect cloud oi snow. The sharp wind and the sharper particles of snow smote the riders in the face. The lamps and people floated by in a confused mass. Everything faded and grew mdistinct except the con sciousness taat the riders ' were shoot ing through space and snow with a gentle, undulating motion, with out jolt or jar. When the steers man understood hia business the toboggan kept in the middle of the road. When he didn't it carromed first on .one side, of the trough and then on the other; but it couldn't go astray, neither could it run into a convenient lamprpost. There was none of the rumbling and thumping that accompanies a ride on the "double runner" of New England or the less pretentious "bob-sled'' of Pennsyl vania. There was no "riseto tell how fast the toboggan was going. The sensa tions combined all the delights of falling down, 'down through unlimited space, without 'the fHMHtt of* bringing- Trp against something hard. When the ex perience is ventured in any other than the regulation suit, it is a case of "modi fied rapture." The rider's hat blows off; he has a faint sense of being out of place, and a young geyser of snow spouts up each sleeve to meet and mingle some* where in the neighborhood of the back bone.?Now York Tribune. Scene at an Iadian Agency. five hundred Indian warriors, armed with Winchesters and the best revolvers, were there co kill the beef,. Steer afto: steer was let out of the pens, and these warriors ran them over tile , prairie, lull ing them as they would buffalo. One old copr^r-skinned rascal stood by the chute, and as the gate would be raised to let out the aniaalhe woula hit him on the root of tho tail with a. stone hammer to make him run. The poor, brute would roar with pain, and then the gate would be raised andhe would dash ..out acrqse the prairie with nalf-a-do?en ycung In dians after him. ' Then the ?jport.-would, begin. First one young warrior .would shoot a horn off, then. anotusr would break a leg, and so en. "She poor aul nral woui'dbe^turedto death , by slew dejja^Chla .deathibeing- put. .off as long a*^peasibla soothe sporfcmigbt last longer, -Gen. J. S. Brwbirv ? ?? Churactejr of th> Vnxaaae. & is. cdnu&t.: impossible to .understand the character of the Burmese. Asian w?l net-injure a Worm*^ his religioner bids the shedding of blood; he wiQ starre rather. j^hanikiB a cow or bullock,th-oBgh thiixoie.no fodflor for then. TbotefSho foHnwj?heohase-are looked upon, as ac cursed, yet there are always one or two in every remote village who kill game, which the people readily buy; but they case no more for .taking the fife of a human being, often with the greatest tortures, than we should think of killing a flea,?Sacramento Bee. In Dread of tho Evil Eye. Theophile Gau tier lived in dread of the evil eye. Offenbach was credited with being a jot tatore (one who has the evil eye), and Gautier would never write the name of Offenbach. When it became absolutely necessary that this name should figure in his copy, Gautier would pick up a newspaper and clip out the necessary letters, which he would paste in order upon his manuscript. Theratat name was there, but Gau'ier had not written it, thus escaping the jettatura.? Exchange. Esquimaux Woman of Quality. The Esquimaux woman or quality wears dainty boots of dressed seal skin, with high leather tops stained different colors, and reaching about the knee. Then come tho trunks of seal skin, with the fur on, reaching half way down the thigh. The upper part of the body is covered by a loose-fitting smock, pulled on over the head and fitted with an at tached hood, which can be worn or thrown off tho head at will,?Exchange. It dean meek no diffunce how big er bar er pusson is he hates de pusson dat wont tell de truth.?-Arkanaaw FOLLOWED BY A BIG SHARK. Kot To Be Token In by a Dummy?Greas ing a Yellow Dog for Bait. In 1874 I was mate of a coasting schooner voyaging between Charleston, Beaufort, Savannah, and other points on the southern coast. She was built at Charleston, and I went out on the first voyage. The name of the captain was Martin, an " easy-going, good-natured man, and we had three men before the mast. "We left Charleston in the afternoon, and were scarcely clear of the bar when a monster shark was observed in our wake. There are always sharks in plenty in Charleston harbor, and this chap would not have received much notice ex cept for his size and the grim, persistent manner in which he followed us. He ranged up on the starboard quarter, not more than ten feet away, and there he stuck. When we had made our ofiing and set our course, the captain deter mined to get rid of the unpleasant visitor. When a sailor sees a shark following his ship he feels as a landsman would if a wolf was pursuing his carriage. The shark is there to eat you, if opportunity occurs, and you feel a spirit of revenge sturing you up to .get rid of him. We had a big shark hook on board, and after the decks had "been cleared we brought it out, baited it with a chunk of pork, and the morsel was dropped over board'and the rope paid out until the pork was right at the shark's nose. He refused to touch it. Sharks are always hungry, and sharks aren't a bit particu lar whether they eat pork or sailor, but this fellow seemed to know that we had formed a conspiracy to destroy him. We made up a dummy and carried it aloft and heaved it overboard with great out cry, but that trick also failed. The shark paid no attention to the splash, but kopt his wicked eyes on the man at the wheel, and remained where we first discovered him. We had a slow passage down to the in let, and as we entered it the shark sud denly disappeared. We went up to Beaufort, unloaded a part of our cargo, took on some cotton, and came down again, and we had scarcely crossed the bar when the big fish again took his po sition on the starboard quarter. It was the same when we started, into Savan nah, and the same at Brunswick, and we dropped him. again off Charleston as wo returned after an absence of two weeks. We tried-every way known to sailors to drive the fellow off, but he wouldn't budge. At Charleston the captain con sulted a colored clairvoyant, and she sold him about an ounce of pink salve and told him that he must buy a yellow dog, grease its paws with the salve, and use the dog to bait the shark hook. He paid $9 for the salve and was a whole day finding a yellow dog. One was finally discovered following a colored man about, and an offer of $8 made him our dog. On this occasion we left Charles ton just at daybreak, having been in the harbor three days. Aa day fully dawned we picked up our old enemy, and all hands wiUingly turned up to see what locJc we--wotdcl -Imvvs *vHUt3i&'new''bait. We greased the paws of the dog, and he at once began to howl in the most dis mal manner. You'd have believed from his actiOTiS that he knew what was com ing. When we had lashed him fast to the hook we: found that the shark had neared the ship by several feet, and that he seemei to be a bit nervous. Well, when all was ready over went the dog, and he had scarcely touched the water when the shark had him. He had dog, hook, and all at one snap, and started to make a skip when the hook brought him up. We took the line to the capstain and walked the old chap alongside, and when we had his lie ad out of water we nV?d two charges of buckshot into it. Wo vb an drew him aboard and finished him off, and after breakfast wo fell to and slit him open to see what sort of cargo he tarried, .There was the .dog, swsllpwed almost whole, ahnman hand, a beef bone, the heel of a boot, a pint bottle, two.feet of small chain, & score-of buttons, a-silver-plated table knife- and two iron spoons, and several othor trifles which he | had picked up while cruising ajround and waiting, for uc to come cut. We hovo him over after the examination, and though the . schooner ran on that same .rot}to for the .ensuing aleven : months, none of .us. sighted. rhi^rki large or small The gre^se^^g\bui3?<ERS. seemed to have given the whole fraternity-a valuable hint.?-New York Bun;. ; - ?" ?"? ? Ft* Not m Yankee XaTentton. Pie ia not one oi. the myen^fons which a jpinitixe proiritSancs Mfc for:the e-c?r>: cpe of Yankeo genius. -Jt iD very muoh older than America, so far as the mod ern age knows anything about America. It is French, Spanish, Italian, English, German. It is of the north'. It was car ried into the British Islands by the ma rauding migrants from the northern seas. Our own word is a corruption of a very early British word, and is, in etymology, a first cousin of "pastie" or "pasty." Pie is our name for what is now more familiarly known as "tart" in the land where all was once pasty. The tart of to-day differs from con temporaneous pie only in this: The in terior of the tart is thicker than the in terior of the pie. It takes more apples to make a tart 'han to make a pie, if the pie-maker be frugal, as she generally is. In the European countries the tart is baked in a deep earthen dish. In Yan keeland pie is stewed into sogginess in a tin pan.?Chicago Herald. Mountain Air as a Specific' In mild cases of norvous disturbance, in simple overwork, and mental ex haustion from worry and anxiety, mountain air is often a specific. Its tonic properties, the distraction of magnificent 6cenery, the purity of the air, tho still ness of high altitudes, all contribute to the beneficiai result.?Phrenological Journal. Russia an an Iron Producer. Fifty years ago Russia stood almost first among iron-producing nations; now hex name ia nearly last, and her imports of iron and steel amount to more than $76, ? 000,000. HOUSEHOLD SERVANTS IN JAPAN. Capable and Faithful Retainers?A Kind "Good-Night"?A Lost Hairpin. Housekeeping hore has no trials. The worn and vexed spirits of American chatelaines ought to rest in Japan after death. Capable and faithful servants are plenty and cheap. Our establishment boasts five, and for these we pay about what two would cost in New York. I do not visit my kitchen once a month, never give an order outside of a spoken wish, yet the domestic machinery moves with an ease and perfection unattainable at home by almost any effort on the part of the mistress. The manners of the serv ants are amusing, not to say startling, to an American accustomed to the cheerful familiarity of her native help. Every night at bedtime our five retainers ap pear, prostrate themselves in succession to the earth, and retire. This is to wish me good-night and to renew their testi mony of profound respect and pleasure over the privilege of serving me. It was difficult at first to preserve the necessary dignity for the ceremony, but now lam as majestically gracious as any other po tentate. The other day, on one of my rare visits to the kitchen, a hairpin became loosened and^^ropped- without my notice. I had 1 been seated in my own' room-only a few momentewhen my houseman entered, : bearing a small salver, which he pre sented to me with many genuflections. Fancy my surprise to see a little hairpin 1 upon it, and "to learn from my proud but embarrassed servitor that it had fallen to the kitchen floor from my head. After ward I found there had been a discussion as to who should pick it up, and almost a quarrel as to whom belonged the ines timable honor of bearing it to its owner. ?Foreign Letter. A Few Facts About Red Snow. Even to-day the wild theories about the red snow are not yet ended. Seeing that the young spores of th'e algae moved incessantly backward and forward in the water, the idea arose that they were ani malcules, and red Bnow only the lowest form of animal life. By degrees, how ever, it came to be an accepted fact that , thiB voluntary motion does not belong ex clusively to animal life, and the young spores of the lower plants, although they, move freely about in the water, and are plentifully provided with fine hair-like I threads like the real infusoria, still re I main plants, and never turn into ani mals, and thus the plant nature of the "enow blossom" was finally settled. I The red snow alga found on the Alps, I Pyrenees, and Carpathians, and also on I the summits of' the North American mountains as far down as California, is not, however, such a determined enemy to heat as its having its home in the ice region would imply. In the arctic circle, as well as on our own mountains of perpetual snow, especially .on Mpnto Rosa, the red snow is seen in summer like alight rose-colored film, which gradually deepons in color, par ticularly in the track of human foot steps^ till atjengthit.tuiru^nlnic^bu Irfthis state, howover, it is not a rotten mass, but consists principally of care fully capsuled "quiescent spores," in which state these microscopic atoms pass the winter, bearing in this form the greatest extremes of temperature.? Chamber's Journal. i _ Henry Yi'ard Beeoher on Music Some men Bay that they would rathei hear one ballad than the whole ol Beethoven. No doubt persons who have advanced but a single step would say so. Melodies are only one step away from love of singlo . sound, as of the horn 01 bugle, or what not; v,hen one has ad vanced beyond that, the love of melodic strains is developed, People say they do not care for what is called harmony. Of course they don't; they are not high enough up. When persons come to harmonies they have only simple ones. That is natural. But when we come to Handelt to Bach, to Beethoven, wo have then the suprem est developments of music, and the mere outward form is comparatively lost in the'sweeps ?ol ? the uiwardneas that it is carrying along-with it. Aetfie vas i mul titude of persons are not .developedy ery highly, so the vast multitude of person* ?dp.not like these.: masters; but, if they live' long enough, they will; for I thuih !we,sha)lhay^ something of the music of earth even in heaven.?Exchange, Making Up Skeletons In Paris. There iff in cwdf thooutrjihg quarters of Paris a building in which corpses are boiled in huge caldrons until the bones are perfectly free , and white; but inas much a?it. is Very difficult to obtain a r^rfcc^.corp3w>--a3siiming that all those ivhieh ore boiled have already passed through the dissecting-rooms of the hos pitals?a number of persons of both sexes are employed to make up skeletons from the promiscuous mass of bones which have undergone the boiling pro cess. Then they are fastened together with wires, and when the work part is complete, it is impossible for the scientific eye to detect anything wrong in a skele ton that has been made up from the bones of several individuals. ? Paris Figaro. Rendering Woven Fabrics Incombustible A simple preparation for rendering woven fabrics more or less incombustible consists of three parts of borax and two and a half of sulphate of' magnesia, mixed with twenty parts of water just bofore using. The fabrics are first thor oughly impregnated with this solution, then wrung out, aud washed after hav ing become nearly dry. *A mixture of | sulphate of ammonia and sulphate of I lime is used by some.?Sciontific Jour- j nal. A Wilderness of Dirt und Dust. Pekin, the capital of the Celestial empire, is said to be the dreariest wilder ness of dirt and dust that can be con ceived. The streets are in a shocking condition. The city is nothing more than an overgrown, straggling village of one storied houses. In every direction there is the appearance of neglect and decay, unBwept streets, stagnant sewere, dirty crowds, and evils odors,?CMcago Timts. GIVEN AWAY. The balance of Henry Kohn's Immense Stock of WINTER DRY GOODS, CLOTH ING and SHOES will be sold at prices to astonish you. I have carried over too many heavy goods, and as I want to make room for SPRING GOODS, the balance of my WINJH3B. STOCK.?Will bo given away at i ? COST. COME ONE ! COME ALL ! HENRY KOHN. I5nnATHES there a man with soul so dead Who never to his wife h:ith said, *' I will a ilowcr garden make. Both fur my own and thy dear sake, And sow with seeds to come up quick, Which you, of course, will buy of VickI" If such there be, I pray repent, And have an order quickly sent. Then sweet thy rest, I'm sure, will be, And thy dear wife will smile on thee. TheGumrj is a work of 15c pages, Colored Plates, 10? Illustrations, with descriptions of the best Klowcrs and Vegetables, prices of Seeds and plants, and how to grow them. It tells you what you want for the garden, and how to get it. Printed in English and German. Prie? only 10 cents, which may be deducted from first order BUY ONLY VICE'S SEEDS, AT HEADQUARTERS. JAMES VICE, SEEDSMAN. Rochester, N. Y. 'TVTEW V?RK CT|ORI ll EW I ORK pTjORI ALWAYS AHEAD! Upward and Onward, MY MOTTO! I Defy Competition Always lie Leafler of LowPrices! Having Enlarged My Store it is Now the Largest in the City and Fill ed With Every Desirable Goods Imaginable at the Very Lowest PRICES ! To See is to Believe! What We Say, We Do, or Money Refunded. It would take this entire paper to enumerate everything we keep to sell, Our Stock embraces $50,000 worth of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOT AND SHOES HATS AND CAPS, OIL PAINTINGS, . SHIRTS, TRUNKS, DOMESTICS, CARPETS, RUGS, WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, &c., &c., &c. CAJLE AAI> SEE US! AND SAVE MONEY! CARPETS, WINDOW SHADES and LACE CURTAINS big specialties. CALIFORNIA BLANKETS at a great | sacrifice. GUNS to suit any price. Come and Sec. Don't fail to Come and See Us. Once dealing will bring you again. :D. EPSTIN, New York Store. URIC GUANO TO THE MANY ENQUIRERS I WOULD state that one car has arrived. The de mand -for this MANURE will he larger than supposed. To CASH BUYERS the price will bo re markably low. Orders filled as rapidly as possible. TO OWNERS OF STEAM MILLS, &C., &C 1 have just received a lot of WROUGHT IRON X and 1 inch, PHTNG, COUP LINGS, ELBOWS, B. G. BRASS VALVES, CHECK VALVES and PACKING STUFF. AN INVOICE OF FEESH FLOUE. GOOD at 85.00. BEST AT 56.00. ALSO. BRICK, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, LIME, HAIR. Stock Food and Hay ON HAND. John A. Hamilton. C. MAYHEW. J. M. MAYHEW. 0. Mayhew & Son, COLUMBIA, S. C, MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, COLUMBIA MARBEL WORKS. Manufacturers of and Dealers in All Kinds of AMERICAN AND ITALIAN MARBLE WORK. Mantels, Monuments and Tablets furnished to any design at Lowest Prices. Polished Granite Work, either Na tiye or Foreign, to order. Building Stone of all kind furnished. Correspondence solicited with those in want of any work in the above line. Jan 7-1 yr. fflrs.L.M.SB!IOAK_ Wishes to inform her friends and the public that she has KEMOYED her Millinery Establisliment next door to B. B. Owen, where will be found constantly in Stock all the Latest Novelties in LADIES' HATS AND BONNETS, NECK WEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, LACES, EMBROIDER Y, &C. Agent far the Genuine ISINGER SEWING MACHINES. NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS. Orangeburg ?. H., S. C. April 16._ FEUTT! FRUIT!! FRUIT!!! Finest variety of Tropical Fruits In Mar* ket. Fresh cargoes every week. MALAGA GRAPES. BANANAS, ORANGES, COCOANUTS, Northern Fruits. APPLES, PEANUTS, NUTS, CITRON, RAISINS, FIGS. ^"Orders filled with dispatch. C. BART & CO., 53, 55 and 57, Market Street, oct 22-61U3 CHARLESTON, S. C. Van (Mell'sFliotiipi Gallery OVER B. B. OWEN'S, Russell Street, Oraugehurg, S. C. To the Public : I have opened a first class Photo Gallery. I would he pleased to have samples of work examined at Gallery. All werk strickly Brst-ciass. Photos of Groups and Babies a speciality by Instant method. All Vowing Exteriors, Dwellings, Horses, Dogs and Animals taken at short notice by instant method. Old pictures copled|and enlarged. Special attention given to this branch of work. Pictures finished in water colors, India Ink and Crayon. Also Photo taken from the size, of smallest pocket to full life 3x5 feet All work done with neatness ami dispatch. Yewing any where iu the State. Special discounts on all orders over?10.00. Give me a call, I will assure satisfaction. All work CASH ON DELIVERY. Postively no credit. VAN ORSDELL, A rtist, July 17 Russell Street, Orangeburg, S. C. TU OMAS' IC EST A IK A AT Is constantly supplied with the very best Oysters and Fish that the Charleston Market affords, which is sold at a reasona ble price. Meals can be had at the Restau rant at any hour and cooked in a way that will please the most fastidious. boy 5-5m