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VOL. VIIL BARNWELL, S. C„ THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1884. The Pokfr' Bonnet. admire the bewitching poke Bow moeh I bonnet, Which hmf bMea the roaei that bloom la her f*oe! j Why, Cupid, I know, baa hit throne there upon it. Concealed in ita trimming* of mat) or of lace. The tty le ian’t new, for our grandqpthera wore It, And they were not wanting In beauty or TheirVrandidaughtera love it, the young men adore it— The charming poke bonnet that hi dee a aweet face; The rarlahing bonnet, the exquiatte bon net. Bewildering bonnet, that ahadea a aweet face. The fair, ahapely head la half bidden within And part of tbo beautiful face ditappeara— . Bow often I've kitted the lip* glowing warm In it. The while the coarte fibres were tickling my Murfl* Away with the hat with the feather upon itl Wtthla pty iMiction 'twill ne’er have a place. Oh, give m- t< e mull-trimmed, the coarae atruw poke bonnet. The bcHrt-snariiig bonnet that shade* a aweet face; The beautiful bonnet, the exqulaite bon net. The rHvbhing bonnet that bide* a tweet face. —SumcrviUe Journal. CRUEL KINDNESS. “Martha!” I called, hearing a step in the room next my own almping- room, whero I sat reading & letter just received. “Yes, ma’am,” was the prompt an- •wer; rad Martha came in—a quiet, middle-hfed woman, who had been ip my service tweniy long years; who had nursed my children, now lying in the cemetery, had bceu my own devoted nurse when my husband’s sudden destfc E rostrated me for weeks. A servant, ut my most devoted friend as well. “Martha,” I said. "I have a letter from Mrs. Joyce.” Martha waited for further informa tion. * “Miss Bertha,” I laid, "wants to Mma hei% aad have Dr. Preston oper- aha apt*4»ar eyea. Dr. Preston saya tho operation will be a ihflicult and dangerous oqe, and the result very doubtful. But Miss Berths who has been so resigned to her loss of sight, •o submissive and patient, has becomo restless and irritable, and insists upon the operation. What 1 called you for Martha, was to ask if you will take tho brain fever. * 1 followed his advice, and Bertha eagerly obeyed the doctor’s directions She understood that the operation mnst be delayed until her nerves wore calm ed; and it was pitiful to see how she strove to be tranquil, and hpw the very ~ defeat its object. effort seemed to It was nearly three weeks before Dr. Preston was willing to undertake the operation, and in that time I waa too sorrowfully convinced of the causa of poor Bertha’s anxiety to Again her sight Every day, for hours together, she would listen to Martha’s long de scriptions of my nephew’s perfections. More than once I saw Bertha steal into his room and gropo about there, touching the objects with which he was associated. She had Martha tell her Where he usually sat which was his fa vorite chair, and sho had taken his photograph to her own room, delight ed to pass lier fingers over the flat sur face, no doubt fancying she could traco the features. 1 wrote my sister, and the letter con- firhfed my tears. Governed by the ten der sympathy any true man must feel for such afflictions as Bertha’s, Fred had joined the family in their devotion to the blind girl. Not dreaming of the harm he was doing, he had been ever ready to guide her, to read to her, to describe for her the scenes around them, and most innocently he had won a woman'* heart, whero he had thought it was but a child’s affection offered to him. The operation performed by Dr. Preston was successful as far as he comd judge, but Bertha’s eyes were most* cnreiully bandaged, and. every precaution taken to keep out every ray of ligiit. She was much ca;mcr when the ordeal was once passed, but it QUARTZ JEWELRY. An Industry'Confined to the Stale California. The makingof quartz jewelry is pten- llornia industry. Its inan- liarly a Calitornia industry, ufneture was begun in the early days following the gold discovery. Though quartz tit for the art of the jeweler is found all over California, tho best is that coming from tho mines of the Grass valle;?i It is not often the miner comes nerdss rock wfflek wonld find a sale among the jewelers. The gold has to be evenly districted and not lumpy, so that it has passed through the nec essary stages to prepare it for setting tho -Pols r.ji l seams are well scattered through tiie rock. Tho quartz which a miner thus procures is sent down either to a bank or an assay office, and from there tue jeweler receives notice that a consignment is ready for auction. The bids then depend entirely upon tho ■tato of the stock held by the different bidders, and should a jeweler happen to Ut in want of quunz, the amount paid wou.d be douuio that which he would pay oa any otnor occasion. As a rule the jeweler pays much higiier for the rough quartz than would one who desired lo purchase the gold to ineit. The quartz as taken by the jeweicr is brought tn lumps weighing from one to ten pounds, and in this condition it is handed over to a me chanic for the purpose of being cut into slab'. The process is An easy one and nearly similar to that followed bv the marble-cutters. The saw by which this operation is performed is circular and inado of sheet tin find charged with A sherbet spoon is from one to two feet in length; the bowl, cat from • solid block, holds from a claret glass to a tomblor of the liquid. This bowl is sb thin as to be gemi-trnnspnrent, and is frequently ornamented with an inscription, the lettera of which are in high relief. To retain their semi- transparency, each letter is undercut, so that, although standing up an eighth of an inch from the surface of the bowl, yot the whole is of the same light and delicate texture, no part thicker than another. One-half of the surface of tho apoon-howl is covered by two cleverly applied pieces of carv- oppcqrs to bo carved Is is not the mented there, in such a doll- Imost filmy in _ fine lacework. L’ho handle of spoon—at times twenty inches long—p formed in a separata piece, and Hportcd into the edge of tbe bowl in a groove cut to re ceive it This handle is also elabo rately carved in delicate tracery, and & wonderful effect is produced by the rhomboid-shaped handle, at times fonr inches broad at tho widest part and only a tenth at an inch thick. The groove whore tbe handle is inserted in to the edge of tho boyi of tho spoon and the point of junction are hidden by a rosette of carved wood, circular in shape, only a tenth of an inch thick.. This, too, is carved in laoe-lika work, and it is cemented to the shaft of the spoon. A kind of flying bnUress of similar delicate wood-work unites the ed wood, which from one block, case—they are These places am cate manner water and emery. The quartz is held back part of tho shaft to the shoulder )ained me to see how pale and drawn care of her—take her out, sloop in her >1 Susie Joyc room, devote your whole time to Iter?” “Gladly, ma'am. The poor afflicted darling!” “Ami will you go to Castloton for her? You will be glad to see Mr. Fred.” The aid woman’s face brightened. Fredrick Stevenson, my husband’s nephew, who had been our adopted son as well, was tho very idol of Martha’s heart. To.believe her was to believe Mr. Fred the model of p«r*ee- tion, physically and mentally. It wis oaly natural that my slater should make her bouse a second home to him, and I was fearful from her let ter that it was some hastily spoken opinion of his that has caused Bertha’s sudden resolution. For ten years, since she was a chil4 of eight, she had borne the loss of Mrbt—caused by ill- ntss—without comphdnt, and had felt it as little as a family of devoted broth ers and sisters could make her. She was the darling of all of them, from Susie, who was two years older than herself, and was feet, hands, and eyes to her, down to baby Johnnie, who carefully led her to her seat in the house or garden gently and as suc cessfully a* Susie herself. Nobody was, ever too busy to wait on Bertha, and er face had becomo, how slowly and languidly sho njoved. Summer weather was coming, when one morning as I sat in my little sluing room, Fred came in. “How I startled you,” he said, “laughing at tho jump he gave; “you did not expect me. But 1 must tell you mv good news myself. You must con gratulate me first.” I looked up, but did not answer him. A strange dread of what was coming kept me silent. “I have won my wife,” he said, gai ly. “Did you guess from my letter mat ,9“ It was not I who spoke. A low, wailing tone was in the voice, and we both started as Bertha came in, her hands, as usual,ouistretched before her. Fred sprang to meet her, and took tho little white hands in his own. • “You will be my dear little sister,” ho said, so utterly unsuspicious, that, if he had had any doubt before, it was gono>then. "Yourlittlo sister! Yes,” and then, before I could stop i.«.t, she threw off the bandage from her eyes. Widely ■training them, she cried— “I see you! I soo you!” and fainted away. For nine long days sho raved in wild est delirium, repealing the secret of her { iure, young lieart seeming to see Fred’s a ■ho had often laughingly, said her af-"*** 1 CO™® 10 “H 5 -helped to nurse fliction gave her & throne she never in tended to vacate. Never shall 1 forget the first inter view we had with Dr. Preston. I had asked him to call in a day or two after Bertha’s arrival, wishing to give her the opportunity to rest after the jour ney. But sho had not been an hour in the house when she asked me to send for him, or take her to his surgery. She was trembling with excitmcnt, and her very lips were white, so that I did not dare to take her out, and sent for him. Sho was not still a moment until he came, pacing np and down tho long parlors, her shaking hands ontstretch- ed before her, or standing at the win dow, as if she could watch for him. Every few momenta she did what I hod never seen her do before in all the ten years of darkness, opened her eye* wide, to their fullest extent, and strain ed them in a stare that was sickenl to see. It was qnite in vain that tried by eVefy fbtmg device tb win her to sit quietly beside me, to talk, even to plav for mo. She could not rest. When at last the doctor entered tbe room, sho went ouickly to him, crying: "Dr. Preston, 1 must see! I must! You will open my eyes for me!” He took both her extended hands in his own, and led her to a seat. “Every hour of this excitement less ens your chance,” ho answered. “You are in a fever now and I can do noth- her, and many bitter ISars poor Susie shed as the pitiful cries to “see Fred once” told her tho secret of her sister’s illness. “Oply once!” sho would cry; but af- -te^lhe first removal of tho bandage Ust'ittght was hopelessly gone. Tho wBoeie, dangerous operation might ha*e been successful, but the rash act Ahat let a noonday glare fall upon the •yea was fatal. Borina saw Fred once, ana again the night of blindness fell upon her.* He stood beside her, one oi our sor rowful group, as sho passed away. She had takes the Holy Communion for the last time, had listened lo the prayer of oar good minister, and, knowing the end. was near, asked for Fred.. Ho took ittle hand she stretched out as she his step, and bending over, ing. And indeed the poor child’s cheeks wore crimson, and the veins upon her temples throbbing visibly. “You will look at themP You will look at my eyosP” she pleaded. “I will bo so obediont, so patient, doctor. You will not refuse meP” “I will not refuse you,” he said; “but I can do nothing until you have conquered this excitement You must bo tranquil, orl cannot operate.” “I will be. Give mo one ray of hope, and 1 will be quiet!” It was pitiful to see how she tried, even then, to control her restless Au gers and quiverinir lips. The doctor motioned me to follow him and call Martha. I sent Bertha to her own room with the doctor’s orders to lie down for an hoar or two. “I will perform the operation, Mrs. Stevenson,” he said to me, “because jour niece will have it done by some one else if I refuse. Bat I tell you frankly, It is not advisable.” “There is a chance, thoughP” I ask ed, olmoet as eagerly os poor Bertha herself. “Yea BtiT.'What has so changed herf” “I dare not ask myself,” I sold sad ly. “I know nothing.’' “I will see her again to-morrow. In the meantime I would strongly advise yea to call in four family physician, to wie if he can control this feverish ex- ‘ ah* teems on the vergh of ace constantly before ner. His sor row waa very sincere, as ho realized, at last, tho mischief ho had so innocently committed. ^ “She seemed such a child,” ho said to me, “and iier affliction seemed to set her apart from tho thought of love- making. I never even dreamed of this.” The fever left Bertha at last, only to increase our fear. Utterly exhausted, without will or power to rally, we knew she was dying. Her motiier and Susie up to it, and in its revolutions it divides the quariz. The slabs in which the quartz is cut do not generally exceed one-eighth of an inch in thickness. Tb^ preliminary work is then over. It is not tilt the jewely is made, the fittings, ns it were, that these slabs ore again cut, then titled into tiie gold and cemented. It is tiicn ground off level wim the gold and finally polished until it assumes tiiat brightness as when ex posed for sale. The coloring of quartz is extremely rich and varied, being found in the same section of country in white and black and pink and blue. Hitherto there lias been no preference expressed by the buyer for the color of tho quartz in the trinket. Perhaps this has been obviated by the j weior, who, in the manufacture of oven the smallest arti cle, never fails to give as va; icd on as sortment of quartz as is possible. The method of tiie valuation of quartz rock is peculiar. It is first weighed as any other material, and then under water, ns rock weighs next to nothing when under water surface. Tho amount of gold imbedded in the rock can by this process bo determined. There have not been men wan who have attempted to make quartz to be used in tho manufacture of large goods, in the way of card to- b.es and similar articles, but decided failure has followed each and every at tempt. Whether quartz jewelry will ever becomo fashionable is a question which the business men of this city give no long thought. They declare their inability to use quartz fantastically, or to sufficiently fine it down so ns to cut it into delicate flowers and leaves. There is an air of substantiality about ail the trinkets made for ladies, which, though handsome, have somewhat of a clumsy look. And the jeweler has to contend against a difficulty which lies on the opposite side. Quartz cannot be had in sufficiently large pieces to use in the manufacture of objects of use and ornament. Some years ago a jewel-casket was made in this city for the wife of a cer tain rich judge, which in itself was a marvel of beauty and elegance, it being of solid gold and quartz, having four panels, each five inches in length and three ia width. The cost incurred in this work was enormous and the amount of labor incredible. Some slight estimate of the trouble may be formed wheu the maker of the casket had to employ a man who traveled for two cm to months through the mines in search for quartz of sufficient size to execute the order. After diligent inquiry among several workers it was estimated that not over $150,000 worth of quartz jewelry is dish posed of in this city during a year and worth is bought for people ed his lips upon her forehead 1” she whispered. •Good-bye will think of me sometimes! 'You I am giaditls-Susie you love.” fev not $25,000 to wear in San Francisco.- cisco Chronicle. -San Fran- The Keystone of a Orest Tower Laid. e spoxe a few words only Bertha heaaA andlhon made a hasty motion to urto come again to her. Holding his hand, hearing his voice, our poor, blind child had passed away. Cariosity of Medical Life. An English paper gives some of the ar curiosities of medical life. It is the duty .of one doctor to take lunch every day at a great castle belonging to a noble lord. The household is immense, and there is jnst the chance that there may be some case of indisposition de manding attention. He gets some of tho best company and best lunches in England, and only charges a guinea for each attendance. There is a wealthy man near a great city who cannot bear to be left for tho night. There is a physician of great ability who drives cat of town nightly to sleep at his residence; he is consequently de barred evening society, and if he goes out to dinner has to leave his friends before wine. He has to charge his pa tient £1,000 a year. One young doctor has a standing engagement of £400 a year to look after tho health of an old lady. She had to be inspected three times a day, was atrong as a horse, and se selfish and perverse that he had great trouble with her.—Troy Time*. The best cocoanuts come from Cen tral and 8oath America. They are not picked nor shaken from the trees, bat when ripe fall off themselves. From 10 to 80 per cent, arc lost in transporto- tion. Those partly spoiled are made into chean confectionery; the others are burned, shell and all, and ground np into what is called spice mixture, whicn is used to adulterate pepper, cinnamon, allspice, etc. There is thus but little or damage except to tho con- is W Three hundred people, with upturn ed faces and staring eyes watched the monster marble keystone of the arch of the big tower of tho Public Buildings at Philadelphia as it swung in air. slight board railing kept tho cro from getting under the stone, *1 two-inch steel cables, looking hardly strong enough to bear a workman’s weight, helti the mass. A tall man, with reddish whiskers, made the sig nal to “hoist away,” and a black giant arm stretching out from above the mar ble top, 190 feet in the air, gathered in the slender cords. The figure of a workman, seeming as thongh viewed from the large end of a telescope, walked ont upon the giant’s arm and looked down. Beneath the stone a mason nonchalantly chipped away with hammer and chisel at a marble block. The grimy giant’s arm made a sweep and srf^ipeu over the aperture where the six tons of marblo were to lodge. From the courtyard below the immense block looked as though two men could lift it. Acrosf Penn Square the brass hands'of the Broad Street Station clock noted the flight of two hours be fore the keystone was in place. “Tho heaviest stone in the tower is the covering piece in tho circle form ing the lower front of tho tower. It weighs thirty-two tons,” said Foreman Lawrence. “I expect lo have all Uw stonework completed by the e^of \tm season of 1886. Tho height ofAe tow er then will be 34© feet. From that elevation the iron work comjpences and goes up 195 feet higher, unw, to the crown of William Penn’s hat, the height of 535 feet is reached.^'—PAtla- de’phia Timet. of the bowl. The spoon which, when it leaves the carver’s bench, is white, is varnished with Kaman oil, which acts as water proof and preservative^ and dyes the whole of a fine gamboge yellow similar to our boxwood. The weight of the sooon is in the largestsises two ounces. The tools used by the carver ssre a plane, a rough sort of gouge, tuid a common penknife. Each spoon is of a separate and original design, no two being alike, save when ordered in pairs or sets. The price of the finest speci mens is from 5 shillings to 15 shillings each. These sherbet spoons are really works of art, and are valued by Orien tal amateurs. Mauy of the merchants are very proud oi their sherbet spoons, and being wood, they are “lawful;” for a metal spoon, if of sitver, is an abom ination; consequently, the teaspoons in Persia have a filigree bole in tne bowl, and thus can be used for stirring the tea only, and not for tbs unlawful act of conveying it to tbe mouth in a sil ver spoon. Of course, these high-art sherbet spoons are only seen at tbe bouses of the belter classes, a coarser wooden spoon being used by tbe lower iW spoons atflln ner serve as drinking vessels, for tumblers are un known; and tbe metal drinking cups so much in use are m#ely for traveling, or tne pottle deep potations of tho irre ligious.— Chambers' Journal. A Place Whero “8poa*in*~ la the Rejcs&ar and Congenial Basineea. Two Props at Slam. It is not a long circuit from the gate of the Captain’s garden to that of the famous temple, but even that short distance shows us a few sights which would be sufficiently amazing in any other part of the world. A native house is gravely comine up the river by itself, the father steering it with a long oar, while the children watch its E rogress from tho ladder leading down ito tbe water from the veranda. Under the shade of a huge banyan tree, h&l' a dozen bare-limhed, dnsky Siamese boatmen are playing a kind of aborigi nal lawn-tennis, using their feet in stead of their hands to keep np the bail. Just beyond them, a small na tive child, with nothing on bat the or namental wreath whicn encircles the bristly tuft of black hair sarmounting its otherwise shaven head, is admiring a magnificent butterfly, almost as large os s sparrow. A little farther on a group of amphibious youngsters are playing in the thick, greasy, soap-col ored water, as Western children might play oa land, while just across the river we espy a flotilla of light canoes laden with fruit and vegetables, and manned by Siamesa market-women, wno keep up a perMfiaol clamor of bargaining as fhrill it a chorus of an- There is no tingle industry of so much financial importance to Nauan, 1 think, os the sponge fisheries. “Spong ing” is a regular business In Nassau, of such large proportions that a Sponge Exchange boa been established, gov erned by rules on the plan of the Stock Exchange; and to do a sponge business saocessfally in Nassaa a firm most be represented in the Exchange. Sponge is an important thing in Nassan. It is plenty, of coarse, and cheap. Yos see sponge* lying in the streets and kick- log about the wharves that in New York we wonld have to pay fifty cents or $1 for. Wherever sponge can be used in plaoe of cotton or woolen cloths it is used. Kitchen maids use sponges for “dishcloths,” and frequently the seat in a boat is nothing bat an im mense sponge as big as half a barrel Windows are invariably washed with them, glasses polished with them, and they are used for almost every con ceivable purpose. Around the hotel in the winter are always two or three "boys” with long string* of them, try ing to sell them to the Americans. Hardly any visitor leaves Nassau with out taking a box of them along. I bought a siring of about fifteen sponges that stretched out far higher than my head, for “ono-nnd-six, or thirty-sev en and a half cents. They make very fine presents to give to your frl^d* when you get home, they are so chel£ and a sponge is more valuable when you know it has just been brought by somebody you know from the sponge fisheries. The sponging float is composed of small schooner* ranging from ten #o forty tons. Each schooner carries from four to six men, and makes periodical trips out to the sponge beds arobnd Abaco, Audros Island and Exuma. Tho men do not dive for them, as sponge fishers in thu Mediterranean do, but use long handled things like oyster tongs to fish them out the wa.er. In this clear water they can see every inch of the bottom, make uff their minds wliat sponges to lake, and seize ho.d of one carefully, detach it from the rock to which It clings, and lift it into tho boat. They ofA not the nice, delicate, hign-oolorev* Ibings we see in shop windows. When taken first from the water they look and feel more like a piece of raw liver than anything else I can compare them with. They are slippery, slimy, ugly, and smell bad. Their color is generally a sort of brown, very much like thu color of gulf weed, only a little darker. Most people are taught, in their days of freshness and innocence, that the sponge is an animal, and wnen they visit Nassau they expect, perhaps, to t*e sponges swimming ’he har bor, if indeed they do not surprise some i of tbe more athletic ones climbing trees or making little excursions over tho hills. But they are disappointed when they learn that tho animal part disap pears entirely long before the sponge reaches a market; and that the part we use for mopping up fluids' is only his house, the many-roomed residence in which ho sheltered himself while at sea. After the sponges roach the deck of the vessel they are cleaned and dried and go through a curing process. I They then becomo the sponges of com merce, and are divided into eight va- j rieties in the Bahamas. Some, called I “lambswool,” or "sheepswool,” are as I fine and soft as silk ana very strong. ; Others, although l*rgo and perhaps tough, are coarse and comparatively worthless. There are, too, bouqnet sponges, silk sponges, wire sponges, and finger and glove sponges Tbs process for curing them, 1 believe, is to keep them on duck for two or throe days, which “kills” them. Then they are pat in a crawl and kept there for eight or ten days, and are afterward cleaned ami bleached ia the sun on the beach. When they reach Nassau the roots are cut off, and the sponges are trimmed and dressed for exportation. Tbe death of Mary Clemmer Hudson Is the latest breach in American author ship. She was at one time tho moat attractive writer on tho Intipende-U, and Bowen has never been able to fill her place. The most interesting fea ture, however, in her life, la her inti macy with the sisters Alice and Fheho Cary, whose memoirs she gave the world la a very attractive form. Tho Cary* were the most remarkable pair of ststera New York ever contained. competency. They lived, however, long enough to win the admiration of tho nest intellects of the dav, and bore, an important part in founding Soroaia, “tdi which is the most admirable club in this city. To return to Mrs. Hudson, -one is reminded by her death of that bril liant array of female writers which has so recently passed away. Among these mav be mentioned Sarah Parton (Fan ny ^ern), the Cary sisters. Miss Chub- buck (Fannr Forrestor); also Amelia B. Welly, Mrs. Osgood, Anna Cora Mowatt, Elizabeth Oakes Smith and Lydia Maria Child. It may be said that Mrs Hudson was one of the few female writers who won a position in Washington, and commanded the re spect of the highest dignitaries of the Nation. The success of these clever woman .should not be mentioned with a view of leading others to depend on literature. Without going into details, the painful fact is everywhere apparent that both journalism and book-making are too crowded to allow anv encouragement. Coming down from literature to other emDloyments, the female population in this city is so disproportionally great that even the struggle for existence be comes intense. A few days ago a crowd of women thronged a public building to a degree that excited gen eral inquiry, it waa explained by the foot that an advertisement for a girl in an office appeared that morning and a situation wlncu hardly yielded a mea ger living was sought for by hundreds, nil of wnom, with out one exception, were disappointed. It was a sad spec tacle, but such is tho reality. Tho poor }tipp girls, or “while slaves,” os they are sometimes called, niuv be objects of pity, but not more so than tho book binders, vest hands, cap makers and followers of a score’ of other employ- menu. Type-writing Is a very neat kind of work, but is entirely overdone. Telegraphy probably pays the best of all female employments, but there are a hundred applications for every va cancy. The only kind of employment that is not overdone is housework, and we all know that American girls are above the kitchen. What a pity that this ridteuious notion of taste should be a bar to u*o4u1ihm«1—A’sts fork Let ter if* Utica Her ad. How to Furnish Bedrooms. •M a er**ui 11 is a ut the moment we pass ths deep. grv parrots. P* lowbrowed gateway all this vanishes as if it hod never been. With one stride we go from the present to the past. The mighty ruins that start up through masses of clinging foliage, in tne depths of the Java foreath could hard ly look more lonely and forsaken than this strange eld fortress of Eastern su perstition. Upon every foot of its damp, slimy courtyard, iU gaffed, crumbling walls, its storm-worn pil lars, its dark, tomb-like galleries, its voiceless cells and shattered images, lies the brand of grim and irrevocable desolation: "Tbe iraiewiiva of tbe Barmecide ire choked with fallen leaves. And In tbe halia of Azamat her web the apid- er weave*; The jackal and the aerpent now their mid night vlgila keep Where Nadir, lord of Kuat and Weat, once reve:ed and drank deep." Gatberlng Gropes. The young man who ran away with Signor Morosiui’s daughter should Jm shot—not for tbs elopement, bat for reviving ths coachman joke in 7,000 newspapers. It is sometimes recommended that the grapes should bo gathered as they ripen, by going over a vineyard two or three times and picking* off tot only bunches that are ripe, leaving the green ones, but even picking off separately three or four grapes from each bunch whdre it is not evenly ripened; and this is the practice that is followed to-day in making the great white wines of France and Germany; but it will cer tainly not be adopted in California while labor is os dear and wine os cheap os it is at present. Instead, that practice will be followed which is reo- ommendod by those writers wbe advise that the grapes of each variety be left on the vines till they ore all fairly ripe, and that they be gathered clean at one picking. Where, however, different varieties are planted in the same vine yard, which ripen at different periods, those only should be pfoked at the same time which ripen together.—California Wine Frets. tjkwwir The Britiah have records of tV earthquakes in the last $6$ years, and the iali lee are still there. Bedrooms are more luxurious tha« ever in the modern Amerioan houses, and this is altogether the wrong place for luxurious or sumptuous furnishing. A bedroom should have as little furni ture as possible beyond what is abso lutely essential. No draperies which can hold the dust, no staffed furniture, and no carpets other than soft rugs for tho feet French bedrooms ore furnish ed much in this way, and are only used as sleeping apartments. A boudoir leading off tbe chamber may be as lux urious and tempting as possible, but the bedchamber should not be a loung ing place ever, lest the air becomes vi tiated. An English brass bedstead ia always a most admirable piece of fur niture for a bedroom, since it combines cleanliness and duarbility. These bed steads are not costly in the end, and are easily kept bright An open grate fireplace should be in every chamber in the house. The floor should be of hard wood, with a smooth aarfaee, or, if of pine, it should be painted or shel lacked and varnished. There should be no hangings over the bed or at the windows. If the bedroom is to be at tractive, its attractiveness should be ia its simplicity and extreme cleanliness. There are other rooms in which it is possible to exhibit os mneb grace and taste as inclination dictates, bat the narsery and bedrooms should have no pretensions aside from healthfal and comfortable fittinga—San Francisco Argonaut. Blood Heat. Blood heat is set down on Fahren heit thermometers at 98 degrees, bat more carelul investigation has shown that the temperature of a healthy per son ia between 102 and 1(J3T~ One-half a degree either way indicates an ab normal condition while 1 degree below, wonld make a doctor shake his head ominously. When a fever sends thd temperature up to 106 or 107 it depends entirely upon thf amount of fuel on hand how long the fire will coatinoe to barn. The tinder in the blood may be removed before the machinery is horn ed out and the fires smothered, or the vitality may be kept up until the tlwdhe is all consumed and the fires go down of their own accord. —PiUtburg Jht- paMA Pretty Riders In Pink. Now, in place of foxes, these gallant -oreeoh- knigbts of the pink coats, knee- es, whips, ’ounds, etc., had—what do you supposeP Nothing more nor less ttiun an old bag of anissaeed, which they caused to be dragged around over a few miles of easy cross country. Let one "hunt" serve as a sample. Lem,a farmer's man, from Schuylerville way, was hired to hitch up his eld mare to the bag of aniseseed and perfume tbe line of march. He was told to avoid stumpy, stouy countrv, ravines, water over a foot deep, brush that would tear tho “pink,” etc., and to otherwise do as a live fox fleeing for his life would not da Lem obeyed to the letter. He picked oat broad, smooth fields, and when he came to a fence wonld let down the bars or take off ths top rails. After dragging the old rag-bag around and around, in plain sight of some fa vored spot where the “kerridges” would be subsequently located, Lem would hide the fox in a little damp of bushes in a big field, to be oaaght at the finish. At a proper time away would go the horses and doga, who were to be pitied for being in such silly company, and after disporting themselves m sight of some ladies and gentlemen—always very few—for half aa~ hoar, the dogs wpnld smiff ont the seed-bag, and np would rush one of the huntsmen and capture the “brush”—which wonld Iw in a real fox—the animal’s tail, and an other would capture the “mask,” or face, and the dandy cocksparrow war riors, spattered a little, perhaps, with mnd, wonld move along Broadway prouder than peacocks.—Troy Times. A controversy as to why women bat- 1 ton their clothes Jrom right to left, and ignt men from left to right, has led to an elaborate display of*learning and wit. One writer declares that men have hdt- toned from loft to right sinoe the earli est Assyrian dynasties. Another as sorts that the mode of buttoning dis tinguishes the Mussulman and the Hindoo in Indio, while a third taya that the writer need not go os far os India for an illustration, as tbe women of America are recognicable by t^s male system of buttoning from left w ht. The ladies of New Orleans, o helu to the other fashion to a rfo cent period, did f.o Decause of the French colonization of LouMand. ▲ lady insists tlpt her sex button from fit to left because the dressmakers rigt wht rigli so fix their dr ases, and denies that man has any right to draw invidious inferences; white a sardonic and sar castic enemy of female rights declares that the placing of ths right thumb over the left is p ruling mind. positive proof of n A wild man. captured in Oohsecee tan. cs Swamp, • near fohattahooohoe, and ried to Tallahassee, hod been swim ming in Ocheecee Lake, from island to island, and when taken was entirely destitute of clothing, emaciated and entirely covered with a phenomenal growth of hair. He oould give no ac count of himself, and tho theory is that he escaped from an asylum in some other state. «„ An Arkansas man thinks ha has ex humed ths petrified head of a fairy. Tho soppoeed fossil is about tho oiao of a largo walnut Tho features of the Aomen face—eye* nose, month, fore- and chin—may all be dis thy of tho g gey Wdtlfi it taytigl tho result* Hde slow y rid* foatyo* tnntom The Walnut dolphin, oldest tb laaUy built i«aa Mbd the oentor of fiBpolth. 11 ’dftSTtfe Tho building in IfiOfi, A dog inthn faH Angelos, Cal, Is pnw * gratify homey and to i U*os whenever an Hs fcas grown quite a MM MQ MB MtHMfc with great dexterity. A phUanthrmie L bought land In Manlte dian Pacific Railway, a llsh a colony of deaf i f trovide an ins tractor i to expend a consider ty in that experiment Tbe paper with tho Uon in tho world ft tht Paris. It now eireada C r day. Ita dlrootM orinoni, is tho inven noni perfecting prssss nally a cattle herder. China is losing tho foreign oflioers in her just when she needs t Gormans are being oal ernraent, which is just friendly relations witl English officers seem voluntarily. While tbe elderly 1 Coutta appears olwsyi ed In the quietest bloc lively young hosbaa BurJett-CoutU, is dial dressing in elotb**i fashionable cut and loud colors A retuVned mission* Zulu* In their native tne finest rooea in tin men are honest and chaste. But as soon verted to Chriatiaait; wear clothes, they g vicious and dissolute. In Martha's Viney deaf mutes to tho pop every 150 persons, a i itner in any other povtiot Two centuries ago tv May hew family WOI which can be traced of deaf mutes. WnltlfhiU cent earthauake, sal believe witn Kant in ily ot thioira It is < see around ut has ■ Everything is Uelu shaky.” Walt mot bling in railway ate< When it rains in 1 Pachuca a number oi a bridge when a slot them ran under tbs i The river rose so qal not escape, and wa stream many milsa, on tbe trees and atot The old woman of have boon provided disciples with distal and looms, and airs toned lines fabrics s thorn ere in demand makegood and tn old woman of the Tbs moat artistic mod# from proatoqi Id, mosaics and ‘ in Bergamo bv a arid manehip oao much •ign connoisseur* I patoots and count: The new prooiom ooaplo of year* a Bridgewater, N. CL “Hiddenlte.” is snl to the diamond. I tiful grass green i diamond, and is v has aroused much i land than in this « Cremation la matt France. The Prefect to establish Siemens al of the oemetefiss « poses to eroaow i bodies ore not cialaM If this experiment a tho Government wfl duee n general MR « New Jersey ha* drsn of tho poor fi authorities want b they ora ooastant opposition of pars) ogee of their child to represent it as | ia, in order that fruits of thoir oft bar. The inoulriea of C aulsin the various world seem to estnl tlon tho foot that 1 generally done on t In some countries th be carried further t all resort to Ik who meat is 01*11* or am or the country ia rid A few years ago S »at onion tract of ( ante, V. Y.. was of land TD-day Iti 190,000 1 frown, wMehi $135,000. IU be stun larger, T1 equally largo onion < try. < ▲ oslebnted Germany divides to two gn ual and tiw i ofthtfimti North.