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LIFE IN GREENLAND. 80ME FACTS ABOUT THE REGION OF ROCKS AND SNOW. What a Veteran Tourist and Explore? Bay's of the Country?Fine Scenery, Scant Vegetation and Clouds of ZUiisqui toos?Bleak and Lonely Heights. "So you want to know something about Greenland," said a veteran tourist and ex plorer. "I've been there. Propound your conundrums. 'Is it easy getting there?' Why, as easy as it is to get from here to Coney island. Ice? Yes, you meet some, and so you .do when you go to England, but the fast steamers ran right ahead all the same. I went up in July, and naviga tion was easy enough then, though I only touched at the settlements on the weBt coast. But I have been quite well up. I was within sixty miles of where they found Greely, and I shouldn't have any hesitation in going there again, if I had another, or two other, stanch vessels with me. That's the way to carry on arctic explorations. Let a little fleet go up, and not send a lit tle 400-ton ship there all by herself. That's the way the rescue party worked up through Smith's Sound. After you get that far you might as well turn around and come home again, unless you are anxious to beat Xrreely'atecyj^ for'a*,that point you .bring' up - againis ice that is simply impenetrable. It may be 100 feet thick, and your vessel may be nipped for the entire winter. Whalers are often frozen in. FINE SCENERY AND GLORIOUS COLORS. "But if yot. vent in summer, and didn't try to go up the fancy latitudes, I think you would enjoy Greenland?a few weeks of it. The scenery is fine; grand, some times. There are great cliffs and steep mountains along the shore, often too nearly perpendicular for snow to lie on, even in winter, and the colors that they take on in the light of the midnight sun? a kind of continual sunset?are something wonderful. Most people imagine (and 1 used to think the same) that Greenland-is buried under snow and ice the whole year round. Wait until I open this portfolio. There, do you see those dried mosses aud flowers? They would hardly grow in snow, would they? Well, I picked those in Greenland, and not in the most south ern part either. Berries grow there, and dwarf willows. In summer" for a dis tance of two to twenty miles back from the sea there are valleys opening into the mountains that are beautiful, they are so full of green moss. MusQuitoes I've seen there in clouds. No, the temperature isn't torrid, but dressed as those people, and living in tightly' built houses or closely sheathed vessels, they don't suffer any more from cold than we do down here in winter." "Thawer.th.er is often disagreeable in southern Greenland, particularly in spring and fall, on account of rains and fogs, and in winter everything Is snowed up, but the summer suits me a blamed sight better ?than some of the New York summer*. Fancy an August when the thermometer didn't go beyond 55 or 60 degrees. How does that strike your The idea that Green land was covered with ice and snow comes, I suppose, from the fact that the interior has never been explored, and that it seems to be, in fact, Tve no doubt it is, covered by a tremendous glacier starting near the pole and giving off little side branches that come down through the fjords of canyons opening from the sea. The branch glaciers supply the icebergs. The ice current pushes out until it reaches water deep enough to float it, and then it breaks off in mountainous chunks, and goes south with the current. One of the crawliest feelings I ever had was when I climbed a goodlsh sort of a hill near Godthaab to take the bearings p{. tihbags. There was open water on the west, and little valleys that looked pretty enough to camp out in, and there was the settlement with its church, brick church, mind you. Oh, they can put on style. SNOWY HEIGHTS, BLEAK AND LONELY. "Then when you turned the other way there was a long line of snowy heights, bleak and desolate, that seemed to lead away and away t?l you couldn't stand it to think pf the-horrible chill and.loneliness. There was a long white line that might have been fifty miles off, and that was the horizon, nothing but ice. It made me feel homesick for awhile. The interior mountains don't make much of an exhibi tion, though if the glacier was to be lifted off I suppose they would show up for quite respectable hills. Some of the cliffs along the coast must be 1,000 feet high, and on the east side.I believe there's a peak that's put down at 11,000 feet. As to living, they aU seem to have enough up there, such as it is. The Esquimaux eat fish and most any kind of meat they can get, and the Danish settlers live on much the same sort of grub. A government steamer goes from Denmark twice a year, -with letters, cheese, flour, potatoes, beef, wood and bud butter. There are no cows or horses. Stop! I did see a cow, I think it was at Godthaab, that's the biggest settlement; nearly 1,000 people. The critter had been sent from Denmark to the parson there, and wa: picking up a living on bunch grass am. barrel hoops. "You can hardly say that there are any industries in Greenland. There's a cryo lite mine; that's about all. A few coal mines are worked just enough to supply the settlements, but not to export any thing. Of course, there's whaling and sealing and fishing, but not much hunt ing, for the land animals have nearly been killed off. Perhaps there's a field for the enterprising agriculturalist who will go up there and raise things under glass. A man in Frederickshaab told me he had eaten native strawberries, and I have seen lettuce and radishes growing under cover and doing pretty well. I had a quantity of cannjed stuff with me, or I couldn't have stood it."?Brooklyn Times Interview. Wrote Uis Letters in English. Merrlt (in a ball-room)?I suppose you speak both German and English quite fluently? Miss Snyder (twirling her fan)?Oh, yes; but I always write my letters in English. Merrit (unsophistically)?And may I ask why? Miss Snyder (unconsciously)?Oh, you see there are no italics in the German lan guage.?Judge. Makes Pumpkin Pie and Doughnuts. Wales' sister, the crown princess of Ger many, learned from the late Mrs. Ban croft, when her husband was United States minster at Berlin, some American culinary curiosities in the way of pumpkin pie and doughnuts, which she delights to display on her table. It is remarked that Bismarck is shy of the hospitalities of the crown princess.?Chicago Herald. Investigation has shown that the air in the houses of parliament hi dangerously contaminated by sewer gas. PRISONERS AT CAMP CHASE. The Enterprise Displayed in Planning and Constructing Tunnels?Tools Used. While at Camp Chase we learned in va rious ways how some of our fellow-prison ers at Camp Morton were killed?wan tonly as we thought?while attempting to escape by tunnels which they had made from within cheir prison inclosure. Pos sibly these statements were made to check us in similar efforts for escape, as the planning and constructing of tunnels, car ried on with great secrecy, was a popular enterprise for several months in Camp Chase after all hopes of an early exchange were destroyed. We learned and had rea sons to believe that when it was known by those in command at Camp Morton that such a tunnel would come out at a certain point beyond the walls, the guards had orders to shoot any prisoners who made their exit there, and that some were so shot without any other attempt to secure them. For the correctness of this state ment we must rely on men then confined at Camp Morton to corroborate or deny it. Certain it is that attempts at "tunneling out" were continued at Camp Chase in spite of such statements, up to the very time that all officers confined at Colum bus, Ohio, including those of Gen. John H. Morgan, were removed in March, 1664, to Fort Delaware, where, if they suc ceeded in tunneling, their tunnels would come out in the waters of Delaware bay. When we left, a shaft and tunnel were in progress under the floor of our mess-room. Some idea of the extreme difficulty and slowness of theBe efforts for liberty may be formed from the following facts: All the work was done in the darkness of the night, after "taps" by details and reliefs from the most trusted men of our number.' for spies were kept among us, and it was hard to identify them. After "taps" our fire was allowed to die down. The stove was moved enough from its position to take up some of the rough boards of tho loose floor as noiselesly as possible. In this way the shaft was sunk in the oarth immediately under the stove, the floor being near the ground. Toward morning everything was carefully put back in its place, and no visible traces of tho night's work were left. It may be asked, how did you get tools for digging, and what was done with the dirt removed from these tunnels!' A file was obtained by careful management; then a "strap-hinge" was taken from an out house. This hinge made two excellent small hoes for tunnel ing. How? With the file the two "straps" of the hinge were cut apart where they unite. The broad part of each "strap" was heated and bent, and then sharpened like a hoe on the broad edge. Each "strap" was fastened with the screws taken from the hinge to a small wooden handle, less than a foot long. This made a convenient and effective hoe for such work, "in close quarters," as the men did who formed the working force in their unique mining. The dirt removed from the tunnels was put in large "pockets" concealed in the clothes of the workers. When these pockets were filled they were emptied into the common "sink," within the prison walls, to which prisoners were allowed access at all hours of the night. Our "sappers and miners" found this work warmer than one might suppose on those winter nights in Ohio; for they were working in narrow tuntrelB underground, and they were buoyed by the exciting hope of escape. Your readers would be astonished if informed of the amount of work accomplished by these sim ple contrivances of our southern soldiers. ?J. W. A. Wright in Southern Bivouac. How Travelers Write Their Names. A veteran hotel clerk, who has yelled "front" in every prominent tavern in this country, told me a story about the man nerisms of travelers in registering.' The man from Boston writes the name of his town first. "In case of sudden death, be fore he puts down his" name he wants you to know where he hails from." The New York man is always in a hurry. If he can abbreviate his surname he will do it, and after that he/ write*.''N. Y."".A Philadel phia man ia just the other" way. ? If he has three given nameg "he w?l Bpell them all out in the regliter,-?nd afterthe-name is completed he writes: "Philadelphia, Penn sylvania.*'- Heia -neveriin a hurry, and generally misses his train. A St. Louis man comes in, holds on to his crip-sack, lays down oh the hook, grabs the pen staff as if he thought somebody was going to take it away from him, sticks out his tongue, and, having written his name In a serpent's-trail fashion-, writes after it "Mo.," without the name of the town. "Then he asks what time o' day we have the first meaL" "A Chicago man comes in and tells his name to the clerk, who writes it. The clerk doesn't ask him where he is from. He knows. You can tell a Chicago man as far as you can see him."?Chicago Herald. The Percentage of Good Looks. What proportion ot good-looking people does one see in the crowded thorough fares of a city, at the theatres, the balls, the hotels the restaurants:' Should the observer count up all he sees in a single day he might make a respectable aggregate, but would the percentage of good looks be one in a hundred:-' There is usually something the matter with the face. It is either too long or too short, too red or too sallow; the nose is retrousse, too ]uti_r, too short, too highly bridged, or has no bridge at all. is too thin or too bulbous; the eyes are too near together or too far apart, have an undesirable color, are too large, too small, or have an evil expression; the fore head is too high, too low, too narrow, too broad, or out of shape from a phrenolog ical standpoint; the chin is too short, too weak, too square, too pointed; the mouth, thought by many to bo the most expresive feature of the face, may have nameless and numberless deviations from the true type of beauty, while the hair, ears and complexion may be all wrong, and the profile either that of a fish or a pair of nut crackers. It is sad that we are born and live under such fateful and melancholy conditions, we Americans even, who pride ourselves on being the handsomest people in tho universe.?San Francisco Chronical. One Way to Strengthen the Market. Every day in the Suarket here we re ceive reports of so many boat-loads taken for export. This is followed the next day by reports that the wheat taken the day before has been sold again, making it ap pear that they really did not lake any for export, and that it was only a dodge to give the market strength. Now, some of the wheat reported taken is really bought for export, but at the same time the buyer takes considerable more, and after he has had it reported dumps his surplus, and gets the beuelit of the weakness that follows. This is a better game than has ever been played before.?St. Louis Globe Democrat. A South Carolina judge decides that tree climbing is an inalienable right of boys, over which municipal authorities have no jurisdiction. A WOMAN'S KNOWLEDGE. A rose to smell a- moment, then to I earn, Chance strain of song you smile at a* you pass, Bubble that breaks before you lip the "glass, Chain frail as the frail threads that spi ders weave; Oh, do not think that I myself deceive; Thus, and not otherwise, to you am I, A moment's pleasure as you pass me by, Powerless, rt best, to make you joy or grieve. And you to me, my sun-god and my sun, Who warmed my heart to life with care less ray! Forever will that burning memory stay, And warm me in the Tave when life is done. What farther grace has woman won? Since your chance gift you can not take away. \ ?Louise Chandler Moulton in Llppin cott's. Curious -Ways of a Book Crank. Perpaps the most curious buyer of books in Washington is a-wealthy, crank who seems to be haH-luhatie, but who under stands the value of books perfectly, and whb bids high prices for .what he wants. I have often seen him about, the auction room, a big man, with a round, bulleti head, and a little, low derby hat, several sizes too small for him, placed on tlw front of it and down so as to almost hide his eyes. The back of his neck is painted black, and his big cheeks show the sus picion of rouge. He wears a sack-coat with sleeves several times too large for him, and he has very small hands .and feet. He is proud of these hands, and the cuffs which surround them are. always of ?the whitest, and they are so largo that-he can pull his hands up-into them' out of sight. His shoulders are padded out so that they become a.deformlty, and where the sleeves fall at the end of the shoulders they hang in a hollow, limp wrinkle, as though the coat was hung on a wire frame other than on a human being. He wears very small shoes, made like those of a lady with the heel near the middle of his foot, and he walks necessarily in a minc ing way. At the book auctions he always has a book in his hand, and while the sale is not in progress he is reading. He speaks to no one, and seems to be a sort of misanthrope. I could tell you his name, but it will suf fice to say that he is the son of wealthy pa rents, who have left him a fortune so tied up that he gets only the iucome, which, by the way, is a large amount, and is paid to him regularly. He has one of the finest private libraries in. Washington, and adds to it every day.?Washington Cor. Cleve land Leader; The Photographer Afoot in Spain. The eye of the* Spanish douanier is vigl ant and unsleeping, and the ambulant photographer Is evidently not a common obje-.t of the Spanish mountains. Lord Frederick Bruce and two friends a few days ago made an expedition from Biar ritz-across the frontier, accompanied, by a photographic apparatus. Having pene trated as far as the picturesque village of Vera, they prepared for action, hoping to carry away some impressions of lovely views surrounding them, when they found themselves observed with suspicion by the local representatives of the Spanish army. As no amount of argument could con vince the honest "carabineros" that a guileless heart may beat beneath the British suit of tweed, or that the nttifrida of the artist, crouching beneath the Black cloth spread over the camera, was entirely unconnected with the bombardment of the viUage, the indignant tourists were forthwith escorted to the officer of the guard. That personage, by great good luck, had recently had his portrait taken, and being further reassured by some'snc ccssful photograph he was able to per suade his subordinates of the intrinsic harralessness of the camera when under Bkllled management, and of the conse quent immunity from danger to the lives and property of these peaceful subjects of"laReyna Regente de Espana-"?Lon don World, Incipient Stages of Mental Disease. A mousing German?one Dr. J. Pohl Pincus,.x)f Berlin?aftex twenty-five years of laborious?resdaxctfhas" estabhshed that by an examination of the roots of the hair Incipient stages of bodily and mental dis ease may be detected before other symp toms are discernible, if the hairs that are combed or brushed out daily fte ex amined microscopically, by polarized light, the enlarged bulbous end of the root will show a white contour and a yellowish or brownish-red center, if the individual be in a healthy condition of body and mind. Various departures from these characters indicate approaching or existing diseases without any apparent bodily or mental symptom. Thus violet, blue, or bluish green colors of the center points to emo tional disturbance of moderate grade; while green, yellow, or orange warns of the onset ol serious trouble.?Chicago News. Nihilism Not Dead in Russia. Nihilism in Russia, though compara tively quiet now in manifesting itself, is by no means dormant nor idle. No one need be astonished at any time at an out break more tremendous, far-reachiug and dangerous to Russian absolutism than any in the past. The blood of our martyrs will yet be avenged, perhaps much sooner than the worid suspects; but of my reasons for this I have now no right to cuter into any explanation.?Leo Hart mann in New York Star. The Prayer of Two Little Tots. A public school principal relates that the other day one of his teachers, on enter ing her room at intermission, found two little tots solemnly kneeling at a settee with their heads in their hands and a man ner of great preoccupation. At first glimpse it seemed that they had faUen asleep, but they had not. "What are you doing, dears?" Bhe asked, approaching them. "Oh," spoke Up one, "we*re praying God that we can get 100 per cent, in our papers."?Albauy Argus._ The Excellence of Bamboo Oil. The oil of an African bamboo is reported by Catholic missionaries tobe an excellent lubricator, and, when refined, to form a fair substitute for olive oil in the cuisine. Its preparation bids fair to become air im portant industry in the Freuch Congo re gion.? Arkansaw Traveler. Two Things Win i), .. "What produces a feeling of \ ration in the spring?'' asks a correspondent. Two things will do it?doubting the veracity of a pugilist and Trying to coax a bicycle over a stone.?Burlington Free Press. Birds Closely Related to Reptile*. Since Agassiz died ornith.jlotdsts have discovered, mainly through fossil re mains, that birds ar. closely related to reptiles in their structure. ? Boston Budget. Removed TO OUR NEWLY FITTED UP STORE OPPOSITE THE TEXT. NOTICE. We do not propose to undersell everyone else, but we are ready to meet fair competition. Our Stock is now complete: give us a call Mr. I. S. C?MMINGS is with us, and will be glad to see his old friends and customers. We sell the. ROYAL 1ST. JOHN SEWING MACHINES. Machines of all makes repaired. Large Wogo.i Yard in rear of Store. VOSE & SALLEY, SPRING CLOTHING. MY NEW SPRING CLOTHING has arrived and been placed on the counters and ready for a critical inspection. New goods opened in every department for the SPRING TRADE: this large assort ment of SPRING CLOTHING for Men, Youths and Boys are selected from the largest and most reliable Manufacturers in the country. This stock is unusually attractive in STYLES and PATTERNS, the ONE and THREE BUTTON CUTAWAYS are of imported. CORKSCREWS, WHIPCORD and CHEVIOTS, made and trimmed equal to any custom made garment, also will fit and cling to the figure and hold their shape. See my line of the PATENT SQUARE SHOUL DER garments in SACK and CUT AWAY SUITS. I am the sole agent of these goods, and those who have worn them can" testify to their superiority over all other garments in fit, wear and holding their shape. Every department, GENT'S FURNR5H1NG GOODS, HATS, SHOES, and BOY'S, are full of choice novelties for the SPRING AND SUMMER SEASON. Call early and make vour selection. RESPECBFULLY, JI. I,. KI>AR?, _COLUMBIA, S. C. C. MAYH.SW. J. M. MATHEW. 0. Mayhew & Son, COLUMBIA, s. (\. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTS ! AND BUILDERS, Manufacturers of and Dealers in All Kinds of AMERICAN AND ITALIAN I i MARBLE WORK. Mantels, Monuments and Tablets | furnished to any design i at Lowest Prices. Polished Granite Work, either Na1 j live or Foreign, to order. Building Stone of all kind furnished. Correspondence solicited with those in want of any work in the above line. .Ian 7-lyr. B.nml Tor Kult?. rpiIE WHOLE OR A PART OF 1 my Farm, two miles below tin- town of Orangeburg, on the South Carolina Rail-! way and die public roads leading to Char leston, containing about son acres, a pan cleared, balance finely timbered. Sune splendid swamp land." 233 acres heavily pint timbered, adjoining ami lying East and West of mads to Charleston. To be subdivided in lets of ?o to so acres and sold, unless sold in entire. These lols will bei line lots for residences. Jan A. D. FREDERICK, j STOJNTO Phosphate Company CHARLESTON, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1870. HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS! HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS! SOLUBLE GUANO (highly animoiriated.) DISSOLVED BONE. ACID PHOSPHATE. ASH ELEMENT. PHOSPHATE FLOATS. GERMAN KANLT. 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WANNAMAKER, W ILL < ?N THE 15THGF MARCH ; Proprietress. t* resume business, and invites the at- ?.-? lentioii of the Ladies to her stock of new n. 1?. moss. c. o. dast-xek ^?-r:^-r-A-I ' ATTOBSE? AT LA? Al'.IAI. LATIIliOl'. F. M. WA.NNAMAKI.U. j_' 1,1 K('' " ' ' 1 Orangcbuig, S. C. St. Matthews, S. C j i?? xlic* Pulilic. ATHROP & WANNAMAKER. L ATTORNEYS AT LAW, OnASGEBURG, S. C. Office Up Stairs Over the Postoffice. I T A K K PLEA SUR K IN AN 1 iiounciiiif tint I will run the Ice Busi ness from May 1st, is*). Customers please reserve your orders and oblige. Yours trulv, Jau-e CHARLES P. BRUNSON.