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VC L IL MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY. S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4 1886. NO.18. II .. How esav n n 1a::: . d0. 11o''I could; reuo M r aibout hi In.- ~ht et the N. Y. W' ': ( 1t a re porter o th N.t - .r about the well-kurivn . ion n nn Charley Ransom. %..o died . --There is one story abouthhn wh!,*,h! the papers have nut lj'J d it. Chatrlev and I made toe olwh't:n of wat we t.hloutI to be:tt ry . . I), man at the oht u: : 'roduced to ,s v r n ci of noilee hea.duuan r 'vru rw ere Branch. Chartlv :ie:m up to this city On anI varv - r new aequamice btmi I saw him after thd' but' ..rby on day met him 01n Broadwaya, n:rT ,:3-hr .tet Th~ey w,-nt to the., Fi: .... .n::o hote l to et, 'a r Ink., 1' tk w ex ::el how it wa, bmthatsamen boh icat to not wi.sa mih urt hi1 p:-, n f:tir b nesvu w a n i '.1 *'~-for hi.;s own szke. CIarl;y w :m honeist fellow, howver :nh- !:ed aSquare game. Our new f ori d ropp. -!.,75 that iight. all he had in hit I,,sso. Ie made an appoitment flr th next evening in tne hop>e ort~ even1. b.! a1 a:n ouit a Ioser. '. 'me he tarow up his hanis to u of . . They kept playig evry ~11 n .ht util the Id die of tim '--:! : Dcmbr. Our '(dn to h :n :1 iation "l .t Chaley w hI) ive up pokcr half a dozn ':m. fo 0 lest this amoult, t he refued. The fellow co 0'"n'ed to dIrink like a fish .an1d Ch.al. e. identi.1v to4ld m"e he'd (!hn ' b ee'd ' down with imt agin. lie never dd play af ter that., ah"I::,.h fe!!.ow; accused 11i1m A 01 - : r .I rn s1ts ' t-on. --Qnle mornh':::ouL 1t o.*ioek Char wrv :1d . wai . wo ci.-?e sport on Si'xt avne i-a pr l moxicait eu,. azd n ce (Ie notel I'e hlti '.. - ) .d for severI nights. Chr'...n....reto get away from h1n on :' f bu.ness. itt it w . ... - rn ed on to) t hen-' e of : . c., :t: a :issted Lt k 1 T'u . I VI ..,b Z I wereQ O tIhat to.X rclir o .t room ald inu le in a ..1 d ould not have e.. .::. i:d tn n - tonre he6 Sid." . .\Gl boll, were tI a i : of years c)une tip and tue'.'d 'the leV of ' Char ae't foih re T ewa a little S.'low on h . n .. little fel Of boo. 0 l a hoeca, nor10 n o , 1n-1 1 r: 1 4ly looke-l the picuro nryTnin our mends~i a~eoy.:am ::aieyoften to'I no aLre YOU U.om11 n1. ewar se ~'1.1I . . . . . 1.3 Uo . 1 :1 1 e a air~u, n::u!ove.r for You. .,ve -.1most mnad, and I i W w 11Irghfl oaths, wh boy to e. . ta : -a es: an the ma eC 'Ve r. ~ ..ri --C har' ha h I'e v u..:: ctre'k walkne int'1 -: aei ota mowme' Ie ein wn m tong - Hied ovroi n a Teeny:it stt rmnn fa ' aor - d *I e \':. tewnd ho the n 1d.- - ::n maer ied io -'r ::: d w a steehos n:-1.:: 3ia i er beint. ne: '. 'dstarved, av n'hiw. -r e:: r-:, h m of tat usi u.s aroor m antee hni. * !:::i t an a hoae w ' h a day na haP a. .n~ . wailed 1,e - .. ett r .i'..i th. thtt pr o: any cn .')j li ot .:e:'P r seeret, or - - w er sosberenee wale'. a btteri man tiitn G n l on'yTe l1' to ret et oh!e-:mith' this thisse rmJh Will You Do It? The nur -r ovvv r-erowd d. There aer e onein it. of two, six and Yt. .- J.n, the r ! pin the bd with : ye Oi, zntd vt yon go to your rol. .t moer, night after nit:ht from vour~ paritv. or l*cuire, or reciving, zt home, too tih-ed or careless to think of -mting hat your own personal fn N ien tle baby frets :id grows white anid, hollow-eyed. you wonder whv it i., thnt yourt childre z%;IEsapp(oIint you 1_r1,;Oey 11ow.u. H1 was n heal~h. alile little fel>'ow. but he is bec-minii m!lke the re-.t, and lo,ing all Soks, and Clara, the six year t.' is it!. and acts more like an old w-vmn thai*n anything else. whil Ethel *ers 1(nd gaarrelsome to that degree yU''are never 'ure of her, al have got *a ov-r tw liabit of callling her down to tl :-celpol-roomi to see visitors. T :-. i, pr:ious little co:nifort to be had ,- . al of them. you cry. Now h-t us whisper a hint. Take n w! out of the nursery. and put her : >that room at the end of the hail. an 1 iewning into yours. : tiat is m'v dressing-room," you Ne know it, but we are going to have it for hier. Very well, so far, so good. No. conics the greatest difficulty, what to ' with Clara. There is no other smll room for her connected with the roons. and she is too littre to be Shut fby herself. Ahl! we have it: vou m'tv take back your dre'sin!:-room. The i r'e squ re room - across the hall, the on' With three windows, is just the t. Now put two siall b'ds in it, a:di give it to the two little sisters for Svrv ownl. t:! is Tom's room; he is devo d to th-at phace. and would never give if up in tile word. it is his para 11- wIll soon have another that he S::k! M: b tter. for you know von 1!-p r allowed him to :nvite the boyts n. isro,,:n. or- to do certainl thing'S ; it, as ias so many i nie fornishings :tld it is so sightiv at tlt head of rIont Stair.; it must always be in per mOlto. L-t u. have that largge 0 ro, 11 tih utper st'ory. - Whn orv iumbier cie-et ?" T k,* I. ve "Irm. Now if von will look . u- . acumulattion of used-up. - ti o nia'-hionable householdl ar - - bt a Ve llowed to be stored there. that just one-third of tIi m! i aiuvou will cart to retini. These e::n b . p -' up snugly in that smaller ra hk. lTh next step is to . thrv e:iptv roou, uing all VU : o ave. for a boy's oecupan . nvite him up into it. Our word thing he will say will be :ou have turned our house up d dw' with a veng-ance. ever1 1min1d aing us. Will you do .apre JSidmf y. in Good Houa.' The Womail who Translated New ton's "Principia." t thr wom-e:. wiose nmes are less known. wrote. on astronomy during the Se i enth centMrv. We may cite Maria Cunitz, datnUdier of a Silcsl:n doctor, who publishetl a:tronomical tables in 1-6.50: Jeanne Panme. who in 1G50 wrote a book defnling the Copernican ss t-m urainsi "seientitc" attacks upon 0t. O1 more ;ndern date was Madame Ga~ibr:ea Endili de Breteuil. Marquise du Chatelet. w as for fifteen years the constant friend of Voltaire, and in hrrtetat Cirev devoted hrwhole life to the sciences. She it was who first madee known to France. then devoted to sItitic Cartesian~im and the doctrine of elemeta~ry vor'tices, tihe masterly wiork of Newton. This was a title to "liorv which mighlt have made the fort I ne'Cof more thtan one scientific man, and it fll upon a woman. Mademoi selic de Breteuii had rcceived a very care'ful eduxcation, but her natural taste for study and serious occupations did not ',revent her fronm shining brilliant lv ini the society of the courts of the Re gency for sonic years after her marriage with M. du Chatelet. One of thc best evidences of her genius that we have is in the bearing toward her of Voltaire, who had no respecct for any mecntal gifts. H~e had returned from Great Britain full of enthusiasm for English science and philosophly, and occupied with the dream of making Newton known to his countrvxmen and dethroning Descartes at the Academy. It may appear singu latr that lie seleceted Madame du Chate let for his work; but the choice was not extratordinary after all. She had al ready mlatie .sonme progress in mathe mfatical sttudies tunder the direction of Mlaupertius and Clairaut, and Voltaire was looking for the assistance he needed to some one outside of tile official scien tiie circle. The translation of Newton's -Prineinta" would be the best means of Imaking~ known in France the English geomeltricianl and the admirable simpli eity wich this theorT of attraction lent to the study of the movements of stars. Thlis worki Madame dui Chatelet did well. But she did more than make a simp31le translation. The algebraic comn mentary which follows the translation is ini 1'arge part the work of this lady, atlthoughl it was composed under the directon of Clairaut and revised by him "W~e have witnessed two prodi gies.- said Voltaire in his historical in Er oduti~ton to the "Principia-"one that Newton should have composed this wona and tile other that a woman shoul d hav'~e translated and elucidated it--From'1 -Women in Astronomy." by E L 1agranfge, in Popular Science ionti for Fdbruary. Onl Hig~hbrook Ro)ad, Mount Desert, -Mo ie hail," theC new cottage of Mr.13 Blne is beting~ erected. The site is a very pretty one, being wvell ele vatd, ndcomniltding an excellent vi. of Frenehman'saliar,:t with its amtx''rous islands, the villatson the other shiore, and tile lovely grounds of several whoe-t side lrocte near by. At t-he wesernsid, fom heupper windows, a goodI view i.- had of Green Mountain anid othier pointS of interest. The main buiding is Gix28 feet, with a wing 32x%1 teet. The main01 entrance is on the west side. and to the left of the vestibulie is thle r'eceptioni-r'om, 11x14 feet. The hall is 18x25 feat, and to the ri:ght, ont the east side, is located the dning-room, which is 17x22 feet, while on the left is the parlor, of the same dimensiorm. "Its a terrib'e t hiln to be cold," said Chiet Enginecr Mjhille, of thez United 1 States n;ivv, at the roon of the United < Service club. "-but it is nore terrible to I suanir the pangs of hunger, to crawl on C hands and knees on the ice, as I have done. that nv comrades might be saved. I It was not for mys If. but for my coun- S try and my fello'w-man.. Enginpt'r Mciville. who looked the picture of rosy heahh. was surrounded by distinguished oicers and .ex-offieers 1 of the armw and navy as he read his in teresting paper on Arctic exploration. Amon g theim were Gen. Joshua T. Owen, Capt. Richard C. Collum. Pay Director Russell, and Co!. Nicholson. In his opening remarks Mr. Melville said: "When I returned from Siberia 1 promised myself and the whole world that I would never lecture on the trials and sufferi ngs of Aretic explorations that I wouldl nver coin money out of C the blood1 and bones of my dead comn- 1 januions." Continuing he said: "For < iore than 300 years some of the < best blood and brains of the world have I b.-en devoted to solving the problem of the far north. It was for a grand and t noble purpose-the benelit of man, that r we may have knowledge, which is i wealth.'pover and happiness. Mr. 'Melville spoke of the peculiar ab sence of scurvv in the later American expeditions, particularly those of the a Polaris. Jeannette. and Gretly party, while Sir George Nares' exploring party were terribly aflllieted. He thought it Y was a matter of food, clothing and well- r ventiiated quarters. le had fre- i qu'ntiy been asked how he hoped to es capet the fate of those who had gone be fore him if he attempted to reach the t pole. His aznswer was that the bitter ' school of exp.,rience led him to believe 1 that the pole ceuld be reached safely, i and that the proper route was by Franz h Josteph Land, the southern end of which f was :er-essible, everv vear. %Ir. Melville then diseribed the Arctic t out lits necessary for explorers. and the c mistakes made in making them too s heavy. le sail: "I have slept comfort- n ahly on top of a slid in a leeping-bag, S witi the tlernmo:meter 10W degreesbelow t the freezing point of water." t The Are:ie shping-bags. he exphtin- : ed.W. wre w..ornl with the hlair inlside, thius h re, rt in: nature. itwas the only fur s lothing'worn th;it vay. Ie thought m the very iiea of :nlimitd appropriations 6 by con,.ress a ld n Areie expedition t 0 b ioaded down witI the worthless t rubbage of every crank in the land. His s sl'eeping-bag weighed .leven pounds. C The Greely expedition bags weighed a twenty-tuW pound -"elegant things to L sleep in, but death to tlo.- hvio attempt- '. ed to carry them." In conclusion the fi chief engieer said that with lWs know- 1: ledgeborn of experience, he expected a at som_ futuro day : conduct a party in C safety to the Aretti regions, and to tind a grind. public-spirited citizen of vast n mneans who would aid him in solving the problem of a commercial pole. The o road was one of trial and tribulation, a but the object was attainable and the t( scientific world would not be satisfied t until it was reached.-Philadelphia Tincs. s The Universality of Inventions. n We do not often stop to think how h little man has or enjoys that is not the d fruit of invention. Things which man i has long had we ceasc to think of as in- u ventions, and we are apt to apply that f term only to modern things-to things v the origin of which we know. Yet it s will be hard for any of us to name any- a thing which we usc or enjoy which is il not an invention, or the subject of an it invention, in its adaptation to our use. n The air we breathc and the water we :rink are provided by Nature. But we ft :rink but very little water except from fi a cup or vessel of some kind, which is a d human invention. Even if we drink n fronm the shell of a gourd, we are using a a thing which, in the shape we use it, is si a human contrivance, and the con triv- t) nces which man has devised for obtain- b ing water and distributing it have been b among the most wonderful and ingeni- ia :us of any which have ocerpied the hu- b mlan mind. Bountifully as Nature has provided water and placoed it within the reach of man, yet we do in fact get or use but little of it except by the aid of inventions. The air surrounds us at all times ti and we cannot help using it if we would; but, if we want it eithedihotter or colder than we find it, we must resort to y some invention to gratify our want. If 0 we want it to blow upon us when it is e still, we must set it in motion by some n :ontrivance, and fans amono other a things have been invented for t71at putr-n pose. A large amiount of human in- h genuity has been expended upon devices t for moving air when we want it moved, , upon fans, blowers, and ventilators. How small a part of our food do we take as animals do, in the form provided by Nature, and how very large a share i in some form contrived ' man! We drink infusions of tea or coffee without thinking that the compounds are human inventions. How large a place the milk of the cow has in the food of man, but b how little of it could we have but for a a multitude of contrivances! We think i. of butter as we (do of milk, that it is a o production of Nature; and so it is, but N its separation from milk is tan invention s< which has been followed by a host of in- N ventions to eff'ect the separation easier 1 or better. S: Sugar is a production of Nature, but p little known a few hundred years ago. ti Separated form the plants in which it is b formed, it is an invention of man. The a savage who first crushed some kernels lI of wheat between two stones, and separ- hi ated the mealy interior from the outer o skin, invented flour, and the human si mind has not vet ceased to be exercised e: on the subject of implrovement.-C'haunl- a cey Smilk, in Popular Scienee Monthly b for February. i A State street merchaint put a hand- i someI plaster figure in his store window ~ and prepared himself to enjoy it with his customers. Along in the afternoon the wife of an artist came :n and notic- 5 ed it at once. "Ah, Mr. B." she said, ' "that's a handsome figure in your win- ( dow." "Yes," replied the merchant, "I call it so myself, 1 do." "Your taste is d excellent," putrsuled the lady, "and I'm glad to sec a love of art developing in commercial circles. What is the figure -Hebe?" "0, no, ma'am; it's plaster ~ ne pari& ".-Mmrhant Traweler. The Model f'or a Marble Hand. After the restoration of Louis Philippe o the French throne, many of Napol on's soldiers were left in comparative >overty. One of them, a famous Gen ral, had a beautiful daughter whom he vished to marry rich, but who fell in ove with a pool- young man-an under ecretary or something of that kind. ;he married at her father's request a 'ich Count, but refused at the weddina eremony to allow the ring to be placec ipon her left hand, upon which *she vore a ruby, put there by her lover. ler jealous husband was not long in inding out what was the matter, and, nterce )ting a letter in whieh the ardent oung lover claimed Matilda's hand as [is, he determined upon an awful re -enge. One night as the celebrated surgeon ,isfrance was returning from a profes ional visit. he was captured by a party f men. blindfold'ed and taken to a dis ant palace. and led through a labyrinth f passages and rooms, At lengti his onductor, stopping, said: "Doctor, we ave arrived; remove your bandage." 'he doctor, whose fears had given place o a restless curiosity and a vague ap rehension, obeyed, and found himself a a small chaniber furnished with re Lrkable luxury, and half lit by an labaster lamp hung from the ceiling. he windows were hermetically sealed s well as the curtains of an alcove at he end of the room. Here the doctor found himself alone rith one of his abductors. He was a an of imposing height and command ag air, and his whole exterior of the lost aristocratic stamp. His black yes gleamed through the half mask bit covered the upper part of his face, id a nervous agitation shook his color ss lips. and the thick black beard that aframed the lower. "Doctor," said .c, in an abrupt, loud voice, "prepare >r your work -an amputation." Where is the patient?' asked the doc >r, turning toward the alcove. The urt~ains moved slightly, and he heard a titled sigh. "Prepare, sir," said the ian convulsively. "But, sir, I must ae the patient." "You will see only ic hand you are to cut of." The doe >r, foldihig his arms and looking firmly t the other, said: "Siryou brought me ere by force. If you need my profes onal assistance I shall do my duty ithout caring for that or troubling my If about your secrets; but if you wish ) commit a crime you can not force me > be your accomplice." "Be content, r," replied the other, "there is no rime in this," and leading him to the leove he drew from the curtains a and. "It is this you are to cut off." 'he doctor took the han, in his; his neers trembled at the touch. It was a y's hand, small, beautifully molded nd its pure white set oft' by a magnifi 3nt rubv encircled with diamonds. But," cried the doctor, "there is no ced of amputation; nothing is--" And I, sir! I say," thunlered the ther, "if you refuse I will do it myself," nd, seizing a hatchet, lie drew the hand )ward a small table and seemed about > strike. The doctor arrested his arm. Do your duty then, doctor." "Oh, ut this is an atrocious act," said the irgeon. "What is that to you? It ust be done. I wish it; madam wishes ; also; if necessary she will demand it erself. Conic, niadam, request the octor to do you this service." The octor, nonplused, and almost fainting nder the torture of his feelings, heard om the alcove, in a half-expiring Dice and an inexpressible accent of de )air and resignation: "Sir, since you re a surgeon-yes-I entreat you-let be you and not-Oh, yes; you! you! ian mec! Well, doctor," said the i,"you or I." The resolution of this man was so -ihtful, the prayer of the poor lady so d7 of entreaty and despair, that~ the octor felt that even humianity com tanded of him compliance with the ppeal of the victim. He took his in ruments with a last imploring look at t unknown, who only pointed to the and, and then with a sinking heart egan the operation. For the first time ihis experience his hand trembled; t the knife was doing its work. There 'as a cry from the alcove, and then all as silent. Nothing was heard but te horrid sound of the operation till te hand and the saw fell together on te floor. - Lisfranc wore the ruby upon his -atch-chain, where it was seen by the Dung lover on his return to Paris, and at of it grew a duel that led to the dis tosure of the infamous crime. The torning after the young lover's arrival Sthe capital lie was piosented by a tan in livery with an ebony box. pening it lie discovered a bleeding and, Matilda's, and on it a paper' with ese words: "Sec how the Count of ieps his oath." After the duel the ung man fleed to Brussels, where the ledino hand was transfeirred to can is. Hfart seeing the 'painting copied in marble.-Lexington (Ky.) Leter Cincinnati Enquircr. One of the daughters of Mrs. Eliza th Cady Stanton gives an amusino ~count ~of the way' her mother ania iss Susan B. Anthon - work together i their "History of \\ oman Suffrage." rs. Stanton is a stickler for the philo phy of the s uff'rage movemient, and iss~Anthony is puinctilious about dates. he adies often get into excited discus ons over their subject, anid dip their ms into theiir miucilage-bottles and cir mucilage-brushes into their ink >ts in their excitement over their ork. They sit at opposite sides of a .re dlouble desk in Mrs. Stanton's bary, and occasionally they find each :her so p)ersistent in opiniioii that they t back and stare at each other in a silI ice that is very neatr anger. Once in while they will march out of the room r different doors, and there seemis like hood that their friendship of forty yars is about to be broken, but after a hile they will be found peaceably at ork again together. "WXasn't that Mr'. Talkaway to whomi o itrosiued mie this imornIng an old ~ilege chum of yours?" :tsked Mrs. usher. -Yes," replied heri husband. Then why didn't you invite hini to inner''" ~"I was afraid he'd como.'' Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes is still a equent visitor to the Old Corner Book. GENUE1L NEWS ITEMS. Facts of Interest. Gathered from Various Quarters. -Representative Randall is suffering from the gout. -Moody and Sankey are meeting with success in Atlanta. -The revolutionists in Buenos Ayres have been completely defeated. -Statistics show that in Eurpe the women have a majority of 4,509,000. -Europe is stated to have an avail able military force of 9,000,000 sol diers. -Thousands of negroes in Alabama will require active help for many weeks. -The captured Apaches have been sent to Fort Marion, St. Augustine., Florida. -Poker playing in the Kimball House, Atlanta, has been broken up by the authorities. -If the weather is favorable, a yn naval review will come off at PeiIa cola on Wednesday. -Rochefort and several of his Frenelich Radical triends have been arrested oni charges of irciting riot. -The naval evolutions at Pensacola, on Tuesday, were very successful and were continued several days. -Hon. Win. E. Forster, Chief See retary for Ireland under the previous Gladstone Ministry, is dead. -The steamer Mountain Boy was turned over at Owensboro, Ky., by a i gale and three men were drowned. ---The Bland silver bill was defeated in the House of Representatives on Thursday, by a vote of 162 to 126. --W. C. Ackerman, the celebratcd "hoy preacher," attempted suicide in New York. Disappointed in love. -Thomas A. Thatcher, Professor of Latin and Literature in Yale College, was found dead in his bed last week. -The Mexicans are down on the Chinese. An Anti-Chinese demon stration was recently made at Mazat lan. -The Gem City Mills, Quincy, Ill., the largest flour mills in that section, were burnt last week; loss nearly $200,000. -Several prominent Mormons have been arrested in Salt Lake City, charg ed with unlawful cohabitation. They gave bail. -The people in portions of Labra dor are suffering for food and are con suming their dogs. Actual starvation is imminent. --Dr. Lucy C. Waite, of Chicago, has been admiiitted to the Universary of Vienna on equal terms with the male students. - -Representative Houk, of Tennes see, is a hopeful man. He actualIy supposes the Republicans may elect a Governor there! -The past winter has been very severe and distructive to birds in Great Britain. Large numbers have died from want of food. -Harvard's 250th anniversary occurs next October, and the students want to celebrate it, but the faculty remain silent on the subject. -Witnesses before the telephone in vestigating committee last week were not public men and the testimony was of no general interest. -The King of Greece and his Min isters have decided to abandon war preparations, as Prince Alexander has, yielded to the powers. -Gen. Pope left San Francisco on his journey into retirement in a special train. Time was when he was glad to retire with his baggage train. -The Republicans of Cincinnati carried the municipal election by an overwheming majority, the Demo crats being kept home by bad weather. -A Paris paper states that ti enty five cases of cholera have appeared in the town of Audierne, in Finisterre, and that one of them has proved fatal. --Dr. Printon 11. Warner, a well known physician of Baltimore, died of hydrophobia, on Tuesday. Hle was bitten by a small dog Christmias day. -Four wild trains on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad caine into collision on the outskirts of Beloit, Wis. Three persons were badly in jured. -Secretary Manning continues to improve. He was permitted to get out of bed and sit up a short time oni Thursday, the first attempt since his attack. -Ex-Senator McDonald denies hav ing a grievance against the Adminis tration and says he has expressed no opinion as to the effects of Cleveland's policy. e-Rioting has been renewed in East St. Louis and the police had to bring their Winchester rifles to bear on the crowd before th1ey could be made to retire. -.1 im Knights of Labor have issued an address from St. Louis, signed by three of the executive boards, in which it is declared that Jay Gould must be overthrown. -A juvenile vagabond, wvho had been convicted of the murder of a workman on the Champs de Mars, was executed at Paris, last week, with the guillotine. -Every railroad bridge between Newport,~ Tenn., and Asheville, N. C., except the iron bridge near Warm Springs was carried away by the recent floods. -The Geheral Convention of the Episcopal Church will be held in Chi cago in October. That city has already subscribed $8,000 for the entertaii ment of the body. --A question likely soon to comec to the front is the practicability of tun neling between England and ireland At one point the distance is less than twenty-two miles. -The lower house of the Prussian Landtag, by a vote of 214 to 120, adopted a bill expropriating the land of Poles in Posen~ and colonizing the province with Germans. -The Balkan Conference will ap point Prince Alexander Governor of East Roumelia for five years, ignoring the Prince's refusal to accept the ap oinment for that term. -Win. Ellis, of St. Francis, Ark., a hard drinker, who habitually beat his wife, shot her and her infant fatally with a Winchester rifle. He was hur ried to jail to avoid lynching. -A fire in the Central Railroad warehouses at Savannah, on Tuesday, destroyed forty-five car loads of corn and damaged three hundred bales of cotton; estimated loss $25,000. -The Mormons have just closed a four days' session at Proro, Utah, over ten thousand people being in attend ance. They have no intention of emi grating by wholesale from Utah. -The boiler of the British steamship .Enchantress, ashore on Frving Pan Shoals off Wilmington, N. C., explod ed last week. Three wreckers were badly scalded-one dangerously. -The Republicans have elected the Mayor of Madison, Wis., for the first time since 1880. Racine and Kenosha also elect Republicans. The emire Republieni ticket was elected at La Crosse. -In the recent municipal election at Fort Worth, Texas, every Alderman chosen was a Knight of Labor and the Mavor leans that way. Incandiary speeches were made at a recent public mieetinig. -Louis P. Schmidt, of Freeport, Illinois, killed himself-driven to the act, :. is believed, through dismissal from the Knights of Labor. He was chlired with ilivulging the secrets of the Order. -A - - broke out in a lumber yard in La Crose, Wis., on Tuesday, and spread in different directions; tire engines from adjacent towns had to be called in. The loss will reach fully $1,500,000. -Representative Samuel J. Ran all's admirers are talking of him as a successor to Mr. Manning in the Treasury Department. Counting chickens before they are hatched is an old habit of the sanguine. -Isadore Seidenbaum, a young mai, went into the sleeping room of Annie Rosentein, a pretty girl of fifteen, in Mlilwaukie, and killed her and theu himself with a pistol. No cause is ssigned for the terrible act. -A strike of cotton spinsters and weavers against th lowering of wages is in. progress at Ensiiede, Holland. So tar no disorders have occurred, Ilthough the Socialists are urging the strikers to resort to forcible measures. -Dr. Luther C. Rose, of Palmyra, Dhio, claims to have invented a most scellent telephone transmitter. In a test over 87$ miles of wire a whisper was heard distinctly, and al:o the tick ing of a watch held ten feet from the transmtitter. -The report of the Royal Commis ion a-ppoiited to in~qnire into the business depression throughout Great Blcitiani con taitIs soic veVy strong tatements abont the damage to the trade of that country by high tariffs in the United States. -The Chinese Minister was grossly insulted on his arrival in San Fraucisco last Tuesday. The Collector of Cus Loins refused to let him land, without an inst)ection of his credentials. The Affair caused quite a sensation, but this as quieted down. --The monh of March, with its dry wids, has always been a disastrous tme in the fre record. Tile waste for this country and Canada for that month has averaged $7,000,000. Last year the March losses footed up $9,000,000, -id this year they were $10,050,000. -B. C. Coyle, a respected citizen of Dalton, Ga., was takenm from his home Rd whipped severely by masked men. 'wo young females were whipped b3 he same p~arty. The whipped indi riduals are charged with reporting the whippers for running illicit distilleries. -Sheriff Slatch, of Cochise county, Arizona, went to Gein. Crook with a warrant for Geronimio amid forty one 'John Does." Gen. Crook replied .hat the Indians are held as prisoners >f war under instructionms from Wash ngtoni, and lie would not give them ip. --Onie of tihe mail cars attached to ast mail train No. 4, which left Chica o at 5.30 p. in. on Thursday onm the Lake Shore Railroad, was burned at )ak Harbor, Ohio. The car contained, >esides the mail, a casket in which vere the remains of a mother and her aew-born babe. -Illinois Republicans are pluming hemselves over "patronage" dissen ions among the Democrats in the Eighteenth ~Congressional district, of hat State. Of course the suggestion s made that these will cause Colonel ~Iorrison's defeat. The same thing as bceen said before. -M.ms. Foster, wife of the late Sena or from Connecticut, who was the ictinig Vice-President and President of :he Senate pro temn. from 1865-G7, after pending the winiter in Washinigton, las gone to Beaufort, S. C., for a visit : the family of Lieutenant Lyman, nited States navy. -it seems to be a general impres tion in Washington Mr. T. L. Fortune, ditor of the Freeman, the independ t organ of the colored people, would ke to have the Recordership of Deeds t Washington in case Mr. Matthews s not confirmed. Mr. Fortune's rieids think he will get it. -Will. S. Ihays, the noet-author, les not.wanmt the Louisville Postoffice nid has telegraphed to Washington: 'Tell President Cleveland for the Lord's sake not to appoint me Post naster. I don't want to be annoyed > 100,000 citizens wanting places. d rather engineer a balky mule." -M. Sarrien, Minister of the Inte -ior, has ordered all the mayors and refects of the country to do their tmost to dissuade Frenchmen from migrating. Thme officials are instruct d to expatiate on the obstacles and isappointments which await -new ~omers in all parts of the world, par icularly in America. -Governor Lee, of Virginia has ssued a strong appeal to thme people of mis State, asserting taat the debt ques on can be forevei settled by the )atriotic citizens of the old Common vealth refusimng to deal in ihe detested ~oupons. A call has been issued for ubic meetings to denounce the men -Representative Herbert has intro dued a resolution to appropriate $300,. 000, to be immediately available, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War in the purchase and distribution of subsistence, stores and other necessary articles to aid in the relief of destitute persons in the over flowed districts of Alabama. --Mr. George Hearst, of California just appointed United States Senator in place of the late General Miller, is not only one of the very rich men of that State in lands, mines and money, but he is also a public-spirited citizen and a Democrat. Ile has won the honor at Governor Stoneman's hands, and will fill the place with credit. -Robert G. Phillips was hanged at Indianapolis last Friday noon for wife murder. Phillips attempted suicide at the same time he killed his wife, by cutting his throat. The wound had never thoroughly healed, and he has breathed through a tube since June 24 last. His body was taken down in twenty mitnutes after the drop fell. The Government University at Tokio, in Japao, is to be raised to a higher standard, and celebrated pro fessors will be invited from different countries. Four other universities, secondary in importance, are to be es tablished. Greek, Latin and some other languages will be added to the curriculum of the Tokio University. -A passenger train over the Fitch burg, Mass., Railroad was thrown from the track down an embankment of two hundred feet, near West Deer field, Thursday -evening. Several per sons were killecf and many others seriously wounded, some of whom will die. The cars caught fire from the stoves, and two or three were de stroved. -The testimony of the Chicago builders. is practically the same as that of those at Washington. Contracts for buildings that would give weeks of steady employment to mechanics and laborers are being pigeonholed or rejected because tee unsettled condition of industrial matters makes the accept ance of a contract a matter of almost certain loss. -Republicans have drawn three of the four great military prizes. Gen. Terry and Gen. Howard became Major Generals, and Col. Ruger steps into the shoes of a Brigadier General. They are all well known both for military and political service, and two of the three especially for the latter quality. Col. Potter, who becomes a Brigadier General, has the merit ot being a Dem ocrat. -The present Cabinet is one of heavy weights. The President weighs over 300 pounds. J r. Manning, at the time of his attack, weighed 325. Mr. Garland and Mr. Lamar are both large men, weighing over 200 pounds each. Messrs. Bayard, and Ludicott, though tall, are rather spare. They each tip the scale at about 200, while Messrs. Whitney and Vilas will each mark about 175 pounds. -Mr. Manning's serious illness shows that a Cabinet position is not altogether a bed of roses. Mr. Vilas has not maintained robust health, though he is quite well at present. Mr. Lamar's friends are always anx ious about him. Mr. Garland has lost flesh lately, and Mr. Bayard shows the marks of his great sorrow. Sec retary Endicott is by no means robust but Mr- Whitney shows as much phys ical as mental virility. -The activity of the temperance folks in Massachusetts has incited the liquor men of that State to form an organization which will be called "The Massachusetts Protective Liquor .)cal ers', Brewers', Distillers' and Clerks' Association." According to the con stitution, no disreputable person, no one who sells to minors, no keeper of a house of ill-fame, no one under 18 3ears of age, and only such druggists as pay an annual forfeit of $50, will be allowed to become members. Instinct as a Guide to Health. Many of our progre-.s-loving con temporaries would bc rather alarmed at the discovery that the principle of our social, medical, and educational re forms during the last two hundred years as been a restored trust in the comp~c ence of our natural instincts. So for eign was that rule of conduct to the moral standards of the middle ages that its importance was recognized only in its apparent exceptions, the supp)osed "evil propensities of our unregenerate. nature," such as poison-habits, sloth, and sexual excesses. The real signifi eantce of such aberrations would reveal the difference between natural appetites and abnormal (artiticially acquired) ap petencics, and teach us the necessity of applying the tests of that distinction to all pecrsuasive instincts, and occasional ly to otherwise unexplained aversions. But even within those limits a critical study of our protective intuitions would suprisingly show in how many respects the hygienic reforms of the last two undred years could have been antici pated by the simple teachings of our senses. For the wards of instinct a temn peance sermon would be as superfluouas as a lecture on the folly of drinking boiling petroleum, for to the palate of a normal living being-human or, animal -alcohol is not only unattractive, but iolently repulsive, and the baneful pas sion to which that repugnance can be forced to yield is so clearly abnormal that only the inf-iuation of the natural epravity dogma could ever mistake it for innate appetite. In defense of the resiratory organs, nature fights almost to the last. The blinded dupe of the night-air superstition would hardly as sert that he finds the hot miasma of his nventilated bedroom more pleasant than fresh air. He thinks it safer, in spite-or perhaps because-of its re pulsiveness. "Mistrust all' pleasant things" was the watchword of the medioval cosmogony. Long before Jahn and Pestalozzi-~demonstrated the byginic implortnce of gymnastics, :hdren embraced every opportunmty or outdoor exercise with a zeal which only persistent restraint could abate. Dr." Fe!'x L. Osuwaid, in Popular Sci mce Monthly for February. The word Shenandoah means "the