Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A FAMILY QUARREL. Ornoll Ending After the Poet Shelley Ind Interfered. hils "lossetti I'llers" Wilam etti 4a4sI that whenl. She1lley was Ing in tie vilbt of the Gisbornes ot droll 11iiet oceillrred. It ap i's that his ,wrvants. Giusevpe and tuzi.ifia. wio) were 111ni1n 1and wvife. reled,. ald '1elt.y. ' arinlg Glu c atisiig lis wife ver1y savagely alo i u1:1.er ra.Ahed tuponl h1m1 tih a pi1A.1411. shotillng: "I' l soP yOu! I shoot you!" -' he snirtl-4u fellow n for hIs Very life. Sheliy after m, till the serv.ldnt. comin!, ton a11 shrubl) ry of iuireis. inaiagedI to sip etiior them, Slelley, in his emgvrniess. (1a1rting 'Past him11. The servN*'lt inl av% few 1mn utes found it p(ssible to dodge back to the house un1e1rceived. Shelley. -seeing himl) no more, at last weit back to the house, where, to his unutterable '.11surprise, lie folnd Giuseppe and An iunziata sitting logethi(-r in the most "Imieable manneL, addressing each oth or as "caro" and "carissinia." "But Were you not quarreling even now?" exclaiied the perplexed poet. "Quar ring?" gasped Giuseppe iln aiize ment. "No, signor, we never quarrel ed." "But I have been running after you In order to shoot you." "No, si gnor, you never ran after 11e, for I have been sitting here for the last hour or more. You must have fancied all this." And Giuseppe and Annunziata, who had both 'Jen considerably frightened, continuing to assure hinm that they had had no quarrel, and Mary Shelley, whom they had let into the secret, say ing the same, Shelley was at last utter ly rnystified and inclined himisvif to be lieve that he must have fancied it. Excessive Energy. Energy is a ine thing, but, like steam, it needs a little restraint a114 careful guiding. If the safety valve doesn't work there's likely to be a breakdown or a blow up now andi tilel. The nervousy, fidgety woman is a dreadful bore. She ruflies up tile at Imosphere and makes everybo(dy wish she would take 11 vaaeation and rest up like sixty. Some of those people who fy airound the( fastest (1o :he least work, and the proper thing to acqu'ire is balance. W,ork as hard a1s you Want to, but let up when the moment for letting up arrives. There is a limit to hunum endurance, and when you go beyond the limit you never get back into the valve of strong elIurllance an( fine vitllity. It is tile luan or tile w-. in anWho knows hIONw to wvork and how to rest who gets things done all line and shipshape a1( witlout tearillg tile roof oI' its feet. Thse '1arks Illy be blullt, like a chisel, but they're as true as the 'act tiat tile Lord Ima.Ide lit tle alecs.-Clicago Iecord-H1erald. Odd Street Nitem. In Clerkenwell, Elgland, there is a street called Pickled Egg walk. It takes its name1c froim Pickled Egg tav ern, whichH formerly stood there and made a specialty of serving pickle(d eggs. Ani Interesting Lonldon thorough fare Is Hanilging SwNord alley, whielh Is men"tion1ed In Dickens' "Tatle of Two Cities." London lls a8lso Pickleher ring street. In Leicester is a street called tile 1IIY Bones andl(] another called Gallows Tree Gate. Hull has a street with tile extraordinary Ilanlle, tile Land of Green Ginger. Cory(don 11a1 a street ned Pump Pail, and there som11 years a)go lived Pe(ter' Pottle', a (eloe r iln fulrniture. Th'le most5 dlarinlg of farce wrIters Iiiht w(ell hlave hesi taltoll to inlvenit a1 combIlinati oln of 11111e and add(1ress so i mproble411 as thalt which relly belonged to P'eter Pottle of P'ump [Pa11. Th'Ie L,nbor of a W1atch. The little balance whleel of a watch vibrates five time11s per' se'ond. Imai~g 1110 tihat tis wh'leel, Instead of swinIg lng baclk and for'thi like ai penldlum,II should1( roll ont coniniulouisly Over a1 given1 surface. Its c101ircumference1 ini a gOl e'e sweep) inI0 achi directi on of' a1bout thiroe fourb 1of 01Its (circumfI'ere. 11n olther' wVord(s, It woul ta1verse~ in 0one seconld ai dtance1401 meIasurin g about11 elit and11( aI hlfA inches. 'Aooord(ing (o tisi com4 1)utation)1. A le hb)11-I' wheel of aI Watch wlouh11 l tvl in a1 yea '1 'over 1a distanc1e0 of t,.'77 muile's IinP1114 o lul Illnhers, and1( It wouhld 'akle th e litt le wh 1ee'l just six~ yearI Is eight IIuonth11s to olreollIlmvolve hte globe' by wayI. of'114 the 11ilitOP. nrmen1log n isboe 'Thle tl iiinh:.g 1r14 is a fealture In all early mythilology. especially so amlonlg Europe4, A sia'am .\ Afriea where t rols ulres were' hithlen or whlere wa ter' mnight be0 readl(ily fIlond. l-'rin th1 le forked banch11'i 4)f a1 I re' it waIs but1 aI st(l) to the forked4'I li' jie ofI a1 blirl, atul1 Ibhis wvises oIf those' who14 in brea;)king' ib cIe tained the foke part11K , fo ii wleS is TwoI oIf a s s Ki. 'Si'' Saidl t sjjing elerk. " 'lboubll lik to as ten my11 lInother-n-l Illw's IllneraIl t I'l row." blng draIwIn (lut. "'1 ha xe beenl '11 watig to do likewvise for' ihirt'ole-'.<. yIll5'I. GUMMING THE STAMPS. Preenutions Taken to Insure Uni fornifty fn the Work. n The precaitions taken to insure uni formity in the gumming of. postage stamps tire the most lnteresting part St of the work. E'ach morning when the so workmen report for duty they get ai pr series of blaiks, which they are to ill of out during the (lay is their work pro pt grosses. Tlhe government keers a most ec careful account of every ounce of gum w given theiml aind -very she t of stalms vt they handle. The system 11s an abso- te lute check on the stamp. sheets, but bn was designed to insure the use of the proper quantity of gum in proportion in to the stamp sheets. ti When they start work in the morn- so ing, each of the men is charged with w 1,000 sheets of stamps and twenty-si\ at pounds of gum. le must spread that n< amount of gum over the given null ber of sheets. Ixhaustive experiments pi and exact scientifie calculations have th determined the proportion of gum and I paper. Rlgi1 and continuous inspection and the keeping of a running account so with each operator In the gumming room make it alimst impossible to neg- it lect any sheet or to dispose of the gum pc except by spreading It with absolute to uniformity over the shcets. The little vats which hang over the rollers 'con- gI tain (ielleate instriuments which show yc the temperature at which the gunt is kept and its spectile gravity. Fr.om " time to time the superintendent of the e) gumnming rooi inspects these instru. 1u melnts. le requires nI absolute tell) portiture of 80 degrees and a specitle (i gravity of 2J.-New York Tribune. el ii How Work K111m Mumic. Did you ever hear of a telegrapher who could play the plano? If so, howN' many? Not how many pianos, of course, but how%, imany telegraphers. o Telegraph operators 11it(n tiat after they Of have worked at a key for several years di I their forearms and their fingers lose of that flexibility that is essential to mu- gi sicinly work onl the piano. As many to of the men are fond of music and have 1i pianos of their own they find it hard ti to be cut off from the enjoymient* of the imisic they could make for them- al selves if it were not for the strained w conditions of the muscles. I lo There are few other lines of work V1 that ilcapalcitate 11 111111 [*()r picking out I)l the sluirlps anlld flats, bitt tihle telegra.- Cl phers say tlat they kow fev tuenl In 1i their ranks who ean use a pialao w%,Ith c( anyl) effiect. it Whii they sit down before o1, aI their first inove is the old implulsv that I operatiitg the key gives themli. They i wanlt to ulse tha:1:tfim-,er that they ulsv in ending Imessliges, and they find it SI diflicult even after they struggle for a long time to ImIke theilselves players T of more than ordinary attainments. Chicago Tribune. tt ei B.tiquette by Preeedent. s For example of how mnivi matiy live c. and act according to precedent there 1) can be no better reference thia to the 9< lord clnberlain's ollice in I.ondon. If There in (ilet rooms day after day al men learned in state etiuette, court ti dress and royal functions reach down 01 hoavy volumes to see what was done at on such and such an occasiol. iteauti- s1 ful pictures showing with minute ex. h) netness the details of the court costume n inder various circumstances iare ready I' to their hands. h<i Is the shaih of Persia coining? is the ai kaiser soon to arriv'e? Is the king go- (!l ing to receive the mionarcha of Siam? l0 Is one of the royal parinacesses to lbe 01 miarried? Whein any of these events st happenms, thle ofhicialIs at the lord chiamli- III berlaint's oillee know exactly waut to doC. And if some11 point shloulul crop up wich'l hais not been raisedi for a conI Itury or m iore they13 ha1ve the falithlful 51 oflielal recordls as5 to wihait was done On 8 tile last like o(casionl. 11 A Curious Clock. . a Tn one of thte cief wa'ltdlhaklng Cs- W tabl)lihmenIts in Zu rich Ithere is to be to1 seen1 a1 remalirkab1le cuiousity ini the wayi i:a of watch 01r clock m11aig. The tine piece is ini the f'orm ofl a ball,1 which h:l moves impilerceptlibly down an Inclined oft surface wIitt rolling. The length of' tO thIs inClineCd sulrface, which Is sixteen 'a' inchies long, Is accomiplished0( from top mi to haottonm ini twenity-fotur hours. Thetn re the ball 0on1y ineeds lIftIng to the top ha aigaIin. 'Ihlis extIraordilnary' timfepieCe w. has no spiing amnl ther'efor'e nieds n4 sh ining. Thear hands are keplt in mo-0 tiotn lay tile slidinig a1lonIg ain inClneld ph11 ne.--lOlldlon (I lobe. Blefore Marrtage. Ii' I"uddyi3-Th'lere wlouhlIi bei fewer un- liI happjy maiaig''es?J' in thle wo'(rli If men thi and woilmlen woaiuhl try' to linad (out (each hI oilier's dislposlial(ttioduing courlitsly in hi steI'l o(f dioinmg thIei r best to decelive one T I t hy---Yes, I gtiess theare w~old lie. a1 as you1 saiy, fewer'i ona1ppy lulu'rlaiges. lii Ill f'act, thier'e wouild be fewier' miar n rho ges of anty kid 11(1 gulegg,--_Ilti t(o In the DIark. ha'lu kim'-ed you., did heC?'" ha "V"i wl-tlO ~~ "Si 'IllS I. Yout sOe', hie melCt mie it at dhark' 4(ianir af than' l'i.aza and"' hi' pniin it."'---rhl.ngo l'Cat itc SAGACITY OF MR. SAGE. In Reapion For Ilefumttnig to Ativance Another I,out. I 31ne day a young iilti of Itussell ge's acqua I tl lce -- In fact. the graniid. n of anl olt friend of other dtys-p otched bhim oil ite subject of1 a loan $10 for two weeks 21nd--got It. Ile oiised faithfully to return the mon at a stated hour. aid the promise is as faithfully kept. Mr. 14age had I ry llttlk to say when lie gave Up the 11 Iil tuite its little whenl he got it ek. A week or teln days later the youing lu1i Ct1' to see him aglii 1111d "his it( asked him for $100. mnaking aill -ts of representations of ilutt lie Juld do with it. Mr. Sage refused to ite. The young ma,,n was surprised. t to say pained. 'Why," he exclaimed, "you know I'll y It aill right. DIdn't I Say I'd hae ait tell for you on Monday. and wvasn't [here to the inuitite with It?" k1r. Sage beaned softly oil the groid n of hIs old friend. 'My boy." lie suid. with no trace of iditliess in hiIs tone, "you disap inled tue once. anId I donl't wlint yolu do It againl." "I beg your parclonl. I (Id not," ar et th youth. "I said I would pay ut ha:ck. and I 111(d." MYes. bo hy.'' [)ritd Nilr. Sage. oil paidl back (the- ten,. and I niever pvcted, youj woul. Nmw, if I let youi ve a1 1111dred i sholil expect you to y it back. and you o wultii't. One Salipoilnotit at ily tie of life Is ough, iny boy. GAood inorning."--Col T's8 Weekly, A Peruniinn Supertition. The girls of the 'erugian highlands lieve as firmly ats ainy heroine of The ritus that t person possessing a lock 1110thr person's 1111ir Caln will pinl, sease and even death to the owner the ha.ir, and thus When maidens ve their betrothed lovers the cus mary plaited tress it is virtually their 'e anmd all their power of suffering at they give into those trusted hands. If the 11n1111 shouh prove iunfaithful id dismase diescend u1ponl the unha11ppy mim. she I; not. however, utterly it. Tle experienced mitrons of holr h11ge have imnan1s to tralisfer the coml1 ainit to a tree to Jinl anl or to .st it into running witer. ihe patient list rise In tite varly dmhtwi1. touch a -rt ain 1 int In 21 certainl m11an1ner, say 9. ".\May hou lwither and I flourish ,atin.- '-r hind her cotilip:hinL to it trtw 1 givi'll f:shio , iakitig care liever ;m t g:in efore thiat tree lest the ste, reeonizing Its f'ormer posses oil. retilil to Ie' :kg:liii. reeN In .Janm Saeretd to the Godm. Near every temuple in .Jlaii lire cer In 't'es that aire supposed to be po iliarly loved by the go(is and to be cr''l to them. A ny one injuring or ushig to be i1nji.'t(c onet of thel will 'lig down the wrath of the kani or )41 llose particuiar property it is. Ilie trees he injured iln the natme of' 1y one the kamd avveng s blinself :1n at liir,on instead. So when a girl Ils that 1 swal's love has cooled id slh- thinks revenge Nould he swi'eet tV iNdkws a straw mnanikin and caills 1i 1 [.111 ae. II' she is very vellgefll m' u:iy A.,m iike onv of her hated r*:!1. At '. o'clock tt nighlit (valled th or of2 th ci ol) he r11ise, nd cadi he. onr: her fet,i her hair hnglug it andt' crowned wil.ith anv lir'on ti'id. )Il whi''chthrte13.e l slhtd takdes are120 nk.1 she 3.1r oletiIlo thlhin'e of. then' h1'rnIte ttlYou e Pri's it our wtife 13'. Win, fo 3ty's ries lIt' 21t3 wrl'' t Ir tae any. 1u3h 21 Iinnytes1111 tcigh is her 1-fro1 I id' ee the apy be herc la tovwng ld ii'lnlionally.I t f l e takes3'Il ins5 'he it.n w i'hioly: ill3I'c 3hi i ' Id Iu iny paper'n Ia i tillftak you 111 d aultut tlnetkshrand Sj1t 1S'1 er she is thetbt if ell ntOiwn. 'tI (wili tilt itt beta painvg iet-1 .21rti in' iintrtltsdt etnrc 'nd wsligt Ior for your1' lSI2 tco tnfort. vi ng prai.se t1 ill lighten213 h'Xhor wonderfullys t antdOlt Anitl imat'lcland tc ght ntedwte 'ccihes cit ly t tvery I8 range ilo'. lilt half'2 their ow igth Ths wil snin,pernipe un :eyt a-lr. lhuh oeo VIUI AIR LINE - FT NORTH SOUTH -- Two Daily Pullman Vestibu Between SOUTH and F!RST-CLASS DINING Th.- B3est Rates and Route Via Richmond and W, j Norfolk and Steamers. Nashville, Memc)his, Louis, Chicago, New Points South and Southwest. and Jacksonville and allI and Cuba. POSITIVEi THE SAHORTES NOR TUH A -- D AW-~For detailed information, ra man reservations, etc., apply to board Air Line Railway, or 3. Passenger Agent, Columbia, S. F. STEW A , Asst SAVANNAI ER E 1 THH LIN F THM LINE P THE LINE F V THE SUMME THERT Complete So 4LWFo dMailed Free C. F. STEWART Asst e . .s ce p 'p pn ER. P S!'P:.'ITHB. LIN F lIMalted.Free Sif. ii -- - ' .5. pm .. ',e ':. whep*rr - (. T '' iR Y 5 . 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