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VOL. Vfll. COMPETITION BOUNCED. PADGETT LEADS ALL OTHERS! WALNUT BEDROOM SUITES, 10 PIECES, $42.50. A NICE BEDROOM SUITE $18.00 ET EVERY KIND AND EVERY VARIETY OF FURNITURE. ~ COOKING STOVES AT ALL PRICES. L- PADGETT’S FURNITURE AND STOVE HOUSE. 1110 and 1112 BR^AD STREET - - - - AUGUSTA, GA. ryRefer yoa to the Editor of tliis j>aj)er. IM ^ BE FORGOT: ST" Importer of and Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Fine'Cigars, Smoking and Chew ing Tobacco, Wines, Brandies, Whiskies, Gin, Ale, Porter, &c. €37 |nd C3‘J BROAD STREET - - - AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. Country orders accompanied with the cash promptly attended to. ~ Yon May'Tali AM loor FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS’ FURNISH- ING GOODS, BUT * ' L L. STANSELL, ' | • 746 BROAD STREET, UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, Can get away with them-all in the way of FINE CLOTHING, HATS AND GENTS' FURNISHING GOODS for this Fall and Winter in the very Latest Styles and at Prices that astonish everybody that looks at'them. He means to outsell them all. Give him a trial and you will go home the best pleascil man in the Slate. CF Don’t forgetithe place. X. X_i. RT-A-XT SXDXjXj, — r r— 74C BROAD STREET. UNDER GLOBE HOTEL, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. MEASURE AND UROEIT TO ALL. “ WATCH AND JEWELRY REPAIRING AND FULL LINE OF GOODS. XOXXlsr IX. Dealer in Diamonds, Watches, Clocks and Jewelry, 729 Broad Street, Opposite Central Hotel, Augusta, Ga. GEANDYS & ZORN, ROUGH AND DRESSED LUMBER. Contractors and Buildets, Manufacturers and Dealers in all kinds of Lum ber and Building Material. We arc prepared to take contracts or give esti mates on all kinds of buildings. Our Saw and Planing Mills are at “Grandys, - ’ S. C., postotfleo Windsor, S. C. Wc also keep in stock at our yard on corner of Watkins and Twiggs Sts., Augusta. Ga., a.I kinds of material as above stated. All orders sent to either place will be promptly attended to. Wc are, respectfully, GRANDYS & ZORN. BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 80, 1884. Made to be Fsinted, Not to be Kissed. “Made to bo painted”—o MIUIm nil#lit ptvo A fortune to rtrady that exquisite face— Tbe fuce is nfortune—aLawrenco mipM livo Anew in oacli line of that Ugufo** stilt grace. ~ The pose is perfection, a model eilch limb, SVom the delicti to foot to the clast-lcol i lieadt > Out the altuonU-bluo oyos, with their smiling, look dim. And lips to be loved want alriile more red. StatucsqucT No, a Psyche, let's soy, in re pose— A Psyche whoso Cupid bcacechos in vaiu— Wo sign as the nlirbtiiiralo sighs to tbe rose That declines (it’s averred) to give siglis buck again, * * * If the wind shook the rose? Then n shower would fail Of sweet-scented pctalato gntl'cr who list: If a sigh shook my Psjchc? She’d yawn that is alt. ^ She’s made to be painteil, and not to bo kissed. NANCY’S DEVICE. Jas. W. Turley’s SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS TO SENSIBLE PEOPLE. — —:—o— TDX^Y G-OOXDS. Knowing full well that our ytcoplc in general are economizing, yet desiring First Class Dry Goods, and seeing they know how to appreciate them, I have •determined to give them the full benefit of ray extraordinary purchases, and •dispose of my Stock of Goods at the smallest profits. GRAND DTSPLA V OF FALL AND WINDER IMPORTATIONS OF DRESS GOODS!! 1 Embracing the verv Latest Novelties in Fabric Colors, and intermixtures of colorings of the most pronounced and RELIABLE STYLES AT POPULAR PRICES, In Plaids, Brocade*, and 8olid Colors, Irom It) cents per yard up to the fluest. ef-the NEWEST SHADES IN SILKS AND SATINS.^J A handsome line of Velvets and Velveteens, comprising all the new and pretty shades from 6') cents to the finest Silk Velvet. An* elegant Tine of Black am! Colored Groe Grain Silks from it) cents per yard up to the finest quality; also a complete stock of Black and Colored U. I). Cashmeres, a celebrated make. Jackets, LTsterettes, Pel isos, New Markets, Circulars, Jerseys. Handsome Jackets from $2.2.5 up to $1.5.00. Shoulder‘Shawls, 2.5c, 3.5c, 30c, 75c. Large Shawls, 2 yards square, $1 and $1.50 each. Large Wool Shawl*, black and colored, $2, $3, $3.50. Ladies’ Cloth, und Flannel Skirts, 50c. to $2 each. White Blankets, $1.50, $-'.00, $3.00, $4.00 to $10.00 per pair. 1 In our Woolen Department can be found one of the largest as well as the best assortments of Kentucky Jeans, Kerseys, Cashmeres, Rcpellants, Water Proofs, Diagonals, Broadcloths, &c., all at bottom prices. Plain Red and White Flannels from 15c. per yard up. An extra good quality in Red Twilled at 25c, 35c, 40c. and 60c. Opera Flannels in all shades: also Basket Flannels, in the new Fall colors. Dark, Gray and Blue Gray SKirt Flannels. Bleached and Unbleached Colton Flannels from the lowest prices up to the very heaviest quality. Thousands of dozens Ladies’, Misses’ and Children's Fancy Hose at 10c. up to the finest, and fresh stock. The South Carolina Seamless Hosiery, in Men’s Half Hose, New Fall Mix tures Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s, in Fall colors. C#* A yisit of inspection is desired. No trouble to show goods. JAMES W . TURLEY, SOS Broad St., Anguata, Ga. CLEVELAND “IS AHEAD IN POLITCS, —r—BUT WE LEAD IN FXJR.1SIITXJR.E ! M OUR MOTTO, like his, is “Reform”—Old High Prices must get out of the way and give way to the New Low Prices. We buy for Cash, heuce 01*0 able to get the Bottom, as our Prices will prove. Read and wonder. SOLID WALNUT MARBLE TOP SUITES, WITH TOILET WASHSTAND, TEN PIECES, FOR FIFTY DOLLARS. Thi* is what Cash docs. Wc have Suites from this np to $500. Wo are now fitting np two Hotels, who bought n^chean from ns os they could buy from the factories, and a little chcaiwr. Wc defy all competition. Call and aeo ns. BT All goods packed ami shipped free of charge. J. L. BOWLES & CO., S4S BROAD STREET, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. A daintily shaped “little head, oyer- running with curls,” enshrouding a fair, winsome face of perfect oval, that seemed made for smiles and laughter only, and generally fulfilled the expec tations it aroused; but on the present occasion it must be confessed that the prevailing expression of Hetty Blake's features was very cross indeed, as she sat in the wide window sill, swinging her pretty little'fect and pouting a pair of exquisitely-curved scarlet lips, as she plaited and unplaitod the strings of her broad-rimmed gipsy hat. — M I don’t cure,” said Miss Hetty. “1 don’t love Mr. Meredith! And 1 don’t want to marry him. So there now.” And she nibbled at the hat strings and frowned under her level brown brows, like a pretty rebel as she was. “Hetty, hold your tongue,” said La- vinia, her elder sister. Aw “You don’t know what you’re talU* ing about,” severely uttered Mrs. Blake, who was mixing up a batch of bfead at the kitchen table. “Mr. Mer edith has a house and farm worth ten thousands pounds. And it’s a great compliment for him to speak to your father about marrying yon.” “Then I wish he’d keep his compli ments to himself,” said the incorrigible Hetty. "Look here, Lavinia, why won’t you marry him?” Lavinia, overcome with indignation, dealt her roguish little sister a box on the ear, which Hetty narrowly escaped by a sudden depression of her head. “No, but it.would suit so exactly,” said Hetty. “Lavinia is just that sort of person!” “Hetty, don’t be a fool!” said Mrs. Blake. “You should thank Frovidenco that Mr. Meredith is pleased to marry you, and put all nonsensical ideas about Harry Waite out of your head at once!” But Hetty frowned and pouted more and more, and tried resolutely to keep the big, bright tears from falling on her hands, “What shall I do?” said Hetty to herself. “For 1 never, never can mar ry that bald-headed old man who talks through his uOsc and carries a yellow silk pocket-handkerchief! And I'm sure Harry would shoot himself when bo heard of it!” But all Hetty Blake’s tears and lam entations availed nothing. Her father was a practical man of the world. Her mother understood the fall meaning of money, and so the match was to be hurried on. regardless of the feelings of the bride-elect. But Providence interfered—that kind ly Providence'which has the interests of true lovers ever under its care. Mr. and Mrs. Blake had gone to at- teqb a chapel meeting twenty miles away, with Lavinia in their train. Hetty, being "unrcgoncrate,” was left at home to meditate over a volume of sermons. “Now be sure, Hetty, you look well after the bouse,” said Mrs. Blake; “and see that Nancy feeds the young calves regularly, and cares for the gos lings and the chickens. And lock up the house at ton o’clock every night, and be sure you don’t lot inr.uy tramps nor peddlers." ‘Til be very careful,” said Hetty. “We shall bo back on Friday,” said Mrs. Blake, “without fail; and if you have any leisure time you can turn the sheets in the wash-basket, and darn the thin places In the back-parlor carpet, and do any other useful odd jobs about the house.” So Mrs. Blake climbed into tho cart, whore her husband and Lavinia were already seated, and droye away, call ing out directions to Hetty as long os the houso was in sight The heads of tho family had not been S me for more than two hours, when etty came flying put to the kitchen, where Nancy was making softsoap. “Oh, Nancy, what shall I do?” cried shd. “Hero’s Mr. Meredith, get ting out of a one-horso chaiso at the door.” “Why, go up and see him of course,” said Nancy, who was one of the old family servants, who are becoming, as a race, extinct in England. “Can’t I tell him that father and mother are gone away?” pleaded Hetty. “Nonsense!” said Nancy, stirring desperately away at her monster ket tle. “You don’t suppose it’s your father and mother that ne comes to see, do you? Oh, dear; and there isn’t a scrap of fresh meat in the house. I thought boiled eggs and cold ham would do for our noon bite.” “So it will,” said Hetty. “If we make things too agreeable for him, Nancy, he’ll stay too long.” Nancy looked found in amazement. “And don’t you wau’t him to stay?” said she. “No!” mied Miss Hetty, with a startled look, as some unseen umbrella- handle rapped smartly on the door be yond, “I can’t endure him, Nancy. I-I hate him!” And then she burst into a storm of tears. Nancy comprehended in an instant “Poor dear!” said she. "So that’s the war tbe wind blows. Is itP It is a shame! Never mind. Miss Hetty; we’ll settle him.” “Settle hlmP” vaguely repeated the girl “Hush!” said brisk Nancy. “Go and let him in. I know the man. My cou sin, Mary Ann Potts, lived as house keeper to him for a year. He’s one of those people that want everything to go smooth. Never would let Mmry Ann whitewash a culling or scrub off a door with sind ami soapsuds. And ot all Abominates things in the world boase-deanlng. We'll while he’s hero, Hetty, The girl’s brilliant #ee Apuckled through her quickly-djjed tears; • lovely carmine color moimted late her cheeks. “Nancy,” she cried, “yottsrea seo- bnd Talleyrand 1” “Go along with you!” said Nancy, with a chuckle, not at ail knowing who < Talleyrand was, but quite sensible thnl a compliment of some kind was tended by tho comparison. Mr. Meredith was standing on the door-stop all greasy smiles, wu< ty came to the door, with her frizzes tied up in a pockct-handkerchis# and a huge bib-apron eclipsing her ! pretty figure. . 4'- “My dear Mtro Hetty.- how are yout'*’" said Mr. Meredith. “Your father was so good as to invito me to eomo here whenever it was convenient; so, as my housekeeper is- gone for a Week, I have concluded-” * “Oh, yes, very glad to see you, Pm sure!”said Hetty, hurriedly. “Walk in. Father, and mother, and Lavinia have gone to Hereford to the opening of the new chapel that has been tuilt there for Uaclo Jared by his congrega tion, and they won’t bo back until tho day after to-morrrow. But Nancy is here. Nancy and I arc cleaning house.” Mr. Meredith's face elongated itself. “Cleaning house!” he repeated, dol orously. "But that’s all nonsense. No propefly kept house ever needs clean ing.” Ho came on sloV ly. A step-ladder stood at tho end of the hall—hurriedly stirred-up nnils of whitewash foamed on either side, >vhi> Nancy, in a faded calico dross, nd viuhmvI. “Walk iii, Mr. Meredith,” said she— “walk right in. We’ll try and make you as comfortable as we can. I told Miss Hetty, says I, ‘Just as certain as, you pull up the things and go to house- cleaning, company’ll come. They al ways do,’ says I. But Miss*Hetty, she does set so much store by house-clean ing. She says she’s going to clean house once a month when she has a house of her own.” Mr. Meredith simply gasped, and said nothing. “Oh, yes,” said Hetty, artlessly, clasping her hands. “Cleanlliress is next to^rodliness, you know-.’ And I do so delight in soapsuds and white- washin?, and floor-scrubbing, and all that sort of thing. That’s right, Mr. Meredith, sit yourself down. We shan’t tear this room to pieces until after dinner.” “I’m very glad of that,” delectedly uttered the middle-aged swain. "I think myself that house-cleaning—” ’.And I’ll got tho dinner at once,” - ijn bad , •Shi would havq scrubbed and, cloanad the whole establishment fatfR 1 the wdtkhonse Jo a year,” said n% ' “i’m well eat of the bustnecs. On* can discharge «biMekecper if she don't •alt, bat nit • DifeY So Ur. Meredith adhered to tho stand ard of old baohoiordom. and pretty Betty married Mr. Waite after aU. Bat string* to say, Mr. Waite Mver complained of hie wife’s addletim to hoowtofeauing rites. And ho sever eoqld understand why it wae that Mr. Meredith always cast such pitying cos upon him when they mot. For Hetty tad kef fiMTttT-'febtafeder. ate, Nancy, bod kept thoir secret well. A Myntcriou* ftanse. SCme thirly-two years ago, era Indiana, with a company of per haps s half-dozen men and boys, I was on a hot August forenoon binding a small pieco of grain that had lain sev eral days in swath to dry after being bradled. At that scasoh tho mns- | sasauga (the small brown and white rattlcsnako of tho region) is said to be blind, and does noU rattlo when ap- 1 proached. The snakes arc quito apt to crawl under swaths'of hay and grain, and to lie thcro a long time if not dis turbed. For some reason—perhapo it , looked like rain—ail hands wero set t* bind and shock this little patch, and as something was tho matter with 090 of my hands so that I could not bind, I rakod up the bundles for two others to bind. the old ’spiolons ’'bout die 11 ain’t say pinch, t watch 4o ease. Hake bin • powerful bo*’ m keep my ey* on his motion*, Jlo’ BO#, as I was * passin’ his house I beta • mighty .inglng and patting *b 4* Rob UkwBruddcr Dick fool monstrous bap- -T—n py. Don I peep* <ro> de crook, BW dar, brew God, I*eed 4oold sinner j a taring de fodders onten doe pulW —u— , Den I walked back a fow slope and eot L up neignal, too; and when 1 gate til- his house I holler* out: •BrudderDick, is ytm dorr bei* wae wi “Be* ho fewer* • wpr ‘Iso bore, Bruddor Aba. What’* yet and I shuffles about like there la a Is powerful site o’ mad on my feet, kaeeJ was boun’ fnr to hab a loetl* ton, mt I wanted to gib do olo mao time H hide do pullet. “Whe* I goes la 6rudder Dick wai Jls’ a shovin’ a basket ob tedders under do bed. *Hab * choer, bruddeiv* says he, powerful perlite; Tse sure glad fer tor see yer. Bring dot cheer nigher to de fiah. “Don we talks and talks, and while I was lookin’ roun’ I soos a piece ob dat pullet a slickin’ outon his pocket “‘Brudder Dick,’says L ’dus you carry a rabbit foot for good luckf And Having heard of tho propensity of <!? < j hlckon * but “°- e mrnYm-ra to hide under «w,oh, br0M “ L ° rd * tbo Y®, “ a , n 100 cart for me, and ho clap ho han the massasauga to hido under swaths at this season and to keep quiet, I was careful in rolling up tho swath into a I bundle, always to rako tho Lundlo off rtho swath before leaving it, lest a binder should gather up a snake in his term*. As wo wore tmishing tho last of tho , patch the two who wero binding after me began to race, and it was almost impossible to get a bundle raked up and off' tho swath before the binder would bo ready for it. Still I managed until the last, and was very strongly : impressed that I must not let tho bind er—who was jumping to get it and ; bind it before tho other finished his— I catch iTup before I raked it quite off tho ground. Ho had his band all made and was just stooping, when I said: “Hold on, Jimmy! There’s a snake under thisl” "Nonsense!” said ho, and gave mo a shove so that ho , could pick up tho bundle. But so sure was I that there was a snake there—although we had not met one in tho field—that 1 struggled with him, each shoving tho other, until 1 got a chance to reach out my rako and pull 1 the bundle off tho swath. There lay coiled a massasauga about three feet interrupted Nancy. “Hetty is a queer girl. She don t like to cookj. she 8 ; ‘y 9 long, with his head up and ready for when she s married she s going to roast hn-inM. JfJ « w„r,id’ or boil once a week, and livo off cold victuals the rest of the time.” “But it seems to mo that Is a mis taken idea,” argued Mr. Meredith. “My mother was a famous c^>k. She always baked pies fresh every day, and made hot rolls for breakfast; and 1’vo a recipe of hers for chicken and ham pie that I wouldn’t exchange for its weight in gold.” “I despise cooking!” said Hetty, in differently. “And 1 don’t mean to slave over tho kiteken-grate, to suit tho pre judice of any man living." Mr. Meredith stared at her once more, and in default of any pitying re ply, opened and closed his fat mouth in a fishy way; oven Hetty’s eigilleen- ear old beauty could hardly reconcile f hi im to such heretical opinions as these. Dinner was served. Boiled eggs, cold bacon cut in thin, pink shavings, broad and butter, and tea, weak almost to inanation, formed tho bill of fare. Mr. Meredith ate with a knife of one pattern and a fork of another, and sweetened his tea with brown sugar, on account of tho white variety having been mislaid. “Nothing matters much when you are cleaning house,” said Hetty, rad iantly. But Mr. Meredith, who fully appre ciated all the creature comforts of this world, entertained a very different opinion. After this rather unsatisfac tory meal, Hetty set her elderly loyer to beating a hearth-rug which was stretched over a clothcs-nno. •Tm sure you’d rather be doing something than sitting still,” said Het ty, as she put a long hazel sapling Into the hands of Mr. Meredith, and adjured him “to Eeat tlie thm places carefully. And after you’ve finished this,” she added, with a gracious smile, "you shall get upon tho ladder and help Nancy with the ceiling.” '■ Mr. Meredith worked like a day lab orer until tbe friendly darkness came to his aid. Even then ho was set to getting nails out of a carpet with a screwdriver, on his knees, by tho light of a spluttering oil-lamp. “We are getting along so splqpdidlyi with tho house-cleaning!” chirped Het ty, with an exultant laugh. Mr. Meredith supped off bread-and- cheese and beer, and slept on a bed stead which occupied a desolate waste of newly-scrubbed floor. He woke up, the next morning, with darting rheumatio pains in all hie bones, and came down stairs with- a lowering brow. Hetty was there, in the highest spir its, with her head already tied up in an apron. “You arc just the person we want, Mr. Meredith,” said she. “Nancy wants all the bureaus and heavy furni ture moved outside, so than wo can be gin to clean the parlor at once.” “Then,” said Mr. Meredith, irately, “she will have to get someone else to do it for her. I hate house-cleaning— and I’ll have nothing more to de it!” • - “1 won’t marry any man who won’t allow mo to clean house as often a* I want,” said Hetty, with spirit. “I shall not ask you to make the sac rifice for mo, Mies Hetty,” said Mr. Meredith. “1 see too plainly that our tastes are not congenial And having both our interests at heart, I must beg to be released front the engagement 1 was foolish enough to contract.” “With all iny heart, ” assented Het- 5 r, and making a low courtesy, she row the engagement ring off her fin ger and handed it to him. There wae an end, matrimonially •peaking, of Mr. Meredith. He went away thanking hie stars for the escape business, “and saying not a word. •j * A few bIopa nway in a com fiijld was a hoe, tho snake’s head was quickly so- j verod from the body, and my cousin, tho owner of tho field, picked the snake up by the tail to pull off the rattles, which, by thoir number, showed that the reptile was seven years old. Tho moment ho began to pnll the bleeding neck How up as quick as a flash and struck him on the under side of tho wrist. Had tho head been there tho poison fangs would probably have been buried in one of tho veins of tho wrist. My cousin dropped tho body, and was so faint with fright that ho had to loan against a tree. Some interesting questions suggest themselves: First, why had I such a certainty that there was a snake under that~Tast end of the last swath, al though wo hod found no other in the lieldi? Was there anything like the peari mr me, anu no clap no nan’' on his pocket and ho holler out: ‘Don’t touch my rabbit foot, kaso you’ll spile ail my luck.’ ‘“Dat’s the truff,’says I; den I sot to Pinking how 1 was gwine to get dat pullet odlon dat pocket “Artcr awhilo says I: ‘Brudder Dick I’se dun los’ dat fine Plymouth Rock pullet what 1 sot so moon store by.’ “‘You ain’t toll me so,’ he ’plies, iuncrccnt like as a dove; ‘how dot dun happen, bnnfifer?’ “ *1 can’t in no wise tell/ e»ye I. ‘but I hress do niggali what eata dat c^jckcn. kaso 1 is dun pat do ebil spell on it, and it is conjured clar to de back bone. I is shuro seen dat pullet afore now stan’ on its head and walk on its tail.’ “ ‘You ain’t say so,’ ho ’sclaims, and hie eyes look like doy wus gwine to |H>p oulen his head, and I see him hitch back his coat like he was skeert fur de pocket to touch him. Tinke I, ole man, you’so all right now, and I tells him good nUe and leabe. “Den 1 hides behind a tree fur to see what ho gwino^ur to «lo uex’, and bimoby he comes to the door and peep out; he ain’t scon nobody aqd be gin* run and (lung the chicken Inter my yard. Den 1 hear he rtr to hlsseJT, •Bf dat dere chicken is t oonjured I is dun fixed up olo man Abe’s dog, kase Casn is boun’ fur to oat it afore mornln’..’ Den ho slips in do house and 1 gels to dat pullet In a hurry and here it is, now ready for do cooking, olo ’oman. Ha! ha! ha!” laughed tho negro. “lie cunnin’ us a coon; It is hard to ketch up wia dis niggak."—fkilackipkia Time*. Hot Weather Precaution*. of his enemy friend wb*et to* tour of ta ran up end U tho hands of General Abo, •’fair plaf 7 t combine aga “Brother To; knife of glltt rush fof the quickly than Abe, with 00 fellow by Um lightning an Indian, mod crown of hie a sudden twi as one wouh “Now d— as he cooUy to one ekm “now go, d- torative woi your head * ed fellow, that kind < head in botl as if Captai wero oloaOPI I was ho •calp I had homo Buford how barous thin “He ougl own buam willing, the ed, to aeop it out, had hie friend 1 would hav him.”—Nd Ffcdfl In Engli abuse—of <1 abuse on Is fore tho w O’Donovan Uah parline Uno manuf plosive, an bidding U •toode of contrary, t appears td pie as a de exploding At any r dynamite adopt the governmei the coast c a law is al end to it the sea is use of dyn telepathy of which our English friends arc beginning to talk? Second, what was tho mysterious senso of direction that made that headless neck siriko so swift and straight, just as it would had tho head been on it? Is thcro a less necoeeary connection •between tho brain and the rest of tho nervous system in cold blooded animals than in other verte brates?—N. Y. Tost. Anew When the RrUlo wo* Born* A rather curious incident occurred lately at the Recorder’s office. An old, white-haired darky, leaning on his cane, poked his head in the door of tho marriage license department and, taking, off his hat, said: "Scuso me, boss, but I’so looking for de place whar doy git a license to Now that tho hot weather has set in, and it is time for tho reappearance of that large class of amiable people who can never meet without telling you frankly "what one ought to do,” Itnmy i tw 4tf THn '^ not be Of f m place to quote the“regule, ^, ion ab lions which wore published by the MoniUur de P Armct as official* advice to French troops going to Canton in 1859. Tho Times gives tho following translation of them, which 1 hav* OOOM upon accidentally; tho rnles are OOT- tainly amusing, and seem just a* ap plicable to America as Asia. 1. Have warm clothing in winter. 2. Never remain in damp or w*4 clothes, unless you are at work. 3. In summer wear light cloi soft wool. Be careful to wash clothing when it is soaked with pers piration. 4. .Wear flannel both a4 a waistcoat and found tho abdomen. Never leayo' It off. 5. Never sleep on tho bare ground. marry.” •‘Como in, then,” replied tho clerk; “you’ve struck it the first timo.”^ “Como on hyar, chillcn,” the old man said, beckoning to some one on thp outside. “Those ’ere two wants to get married, boss, and I came Tong wid’em kaso this gal ain’t got no father nor mother ’ceptin’ me.” “How old is she?” asked the clerk. “She’s berry nigh nineteen.” “Where’s her father?” “Dead, bos*. ” “And her mother?” “Dead, too.” "How do you know she is nineteen? She looks younger.^ “How’d I know? I know kase I brung her up.” “Where was she born?” “Now, lemmo sec; her father died befo’ do war, and she was born just after Mnrst’ Lincoln was shot.” “Why, that wae four years after her father’s death!” “I know it, dat’s right, boss, she was born four years after her father died.” “Oh, that can’t be!” .. “Buf-Tftell you boss, I knows it Her mother war living’ wid my folks at do time, and it war just four years after her old man died.” The clerk was stumped, so ho called with I np Recorder Farrell/to know what he should da The old darky failed to bd shaken in his statement, and as it was certain that she had a father at some limo tho license was granted and the’ three sailed out to find a preacher.— &L Louis Post-Dispatch. - A now out door game for ladies and gentlemen called enchantment, is be coming fashionable in England. It is played with small, light hoops, thrown with wands, something after tho man ner of grace hoops, though tho wand (• of a novel construction. Involving * peculiar method of casting the hoop. A moderately large piece of ground is suitable Put a plank under your feet when you stand still. 6. In summer put a little straw open your plank. 7. Never drink water, always tea. & Clarify your water when muddy with rock alum. 9. Drink in moderation tho spirits of tho country, taking care to warm them first * 10. Eat moderately. 11. Never eat ducks. 12. Eat but sparingly of sweets and fruits. Tho sngar-cano is almost the only wholesome sweet thing. All others are either too heating or set cold on the stomach. * , 13. As soon as you arrive in the country, acquire the habit of eating rioo as the nativea cook it. 14. When you smoko, spit as little as possible. 15. At night take care to cover yonr head well, and more particularly your eyes. 16. In hot weather avoid cold pl*06S; draughts are always dangerous. *• i H. In spring and autnmn take on* never to get wet-footed in the morning. 18. Never take a nap in the day time. , Not bad advice on the whole, and worth following at the present time, when wo are on the eve of the Coney Island season, the fail campaign, and other risky experiments.—Gw. N. Y. PosL The proeent average of speaking in the Unitod States Senate is about IM words per minute, though there are several speakers who utter more than 200. Among tho fastest speakers at ? resent are Senators Beck, Hawley, lumb, and Morgan. Book leads the list Senator George, of Mississippi, is perhaps the slowest Daniel debater was a very alow talker, and be would not average over 100 words a minute. Henry Clay spoke nsneh faster, rolling out about IM words u minute. Caiaoua was also alow until be became roused up with enthusiasm of his subject, when his words would flow more rapidly-—N. O. 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