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m’ ■ '4*-4 r ^v; ri' v tv mUbUL. !.-:::i,..,L ^~m. r .., VOL. VIII. A Woman's Way. *yl | »Jy know that her face was fair, one knew that the artist was famed and many a day site came at his call. Ana In his studio posed In state. In a robe of violet velvet drvst, l/™**’'! *n laces fllmy and fine, , , iP^ljn a shaaat ' v _ ileus tessme H'Slled >a from her shoulders—shape divine. fair and fairer the ; icture frrew, llay by day 'neath the artist’s hand, and sofUir the light of the eyes, Of my lady’s eyes, as the weeks were span* ned. She gazed on the Vtlst all the day. Watching the touch of his mminc hand. H Ci Picture aa so much—paint; Mio thought but of him—you understand. hon the picture was done she went her way, . •»ut she carried a dream to the end of life; When the picture was done—ho forget her name And entered the picture as Somebody 1 * w ife. The same old story, you’ve heard it oft, 1 he ways of fate are a trifle stern— Aud when one enters on love's domain It is hard to predict bow be may return. Hut I almost envy her the dream, So sweet, so subtle, so slow to fade, To love is better than to possess, A.iH we love so long when by fate betrayed. Hattie Tyng Griswold. THE RIVAL WIDOWS. "You could not possibly take cold ia this summer air, and you shall hare my zephyr,” said Mrs! Langley, with her sweetest and most persuasive smiie. What could Mrs. Belton do? How could sho roia^ft . with th«^ « TT 8fL ol all especially “the major’s ' a little sur- say, wi2 Sho was a very pretty little ami, though nearly forty, with widow, a com plexion as fresli as though she had been lifteen years younger, and hair of a lovely golden yellow, disposed about her bead in a series of curls, which was simply ravishing. She was evidently vain of it, for she never passcil a mirror without glanc ing at it, and if there happened to bo any disorder or unbeeomingness, she would hasten to her room to remedy it At least so Mrs. Langley said; but then, some of the ladies whispered among themselves that Mrs. Langley, the tall, handsome brunette widow, was jealous of Mrs. Belton. There were but two or throe unmar ried men at the -‘Lake Hotel” of an age suited to these fair widows, and of them the major was by far thb most important Time and again had he appeared smitten with the charms of some fair lady, and time and again drawn back just as the fact was becoming patent to the lookers on. This time, however, the major was undeniably smitten. Some said that he was in love with the golden locks of the blonde widow, while others insist ed that the dark eyes of Mrs. Langley had won him captive. The major himself was evidently un decided upon the subject, being al ternately in attendance on one or the other. And so the two ladies, beneath a sur face of extreme politeness, were at daggers drawn with each other. The brunette widow was certain that, had she the lield to herself, she could bring the major to her feet with little trouble. So she w.is thinking, as with her lit tle pet dog beside her, sho reclined up on her lounge at the time of the after noon’s siesta. The day was warm, and the doors of all the ladies’ apartments opening upon the corridor were ajar. Most of the fair inmates were taking their beauty-sleep. "Lie still. Puck,” she said, as the silky little spaniel awoke from his nap and became restless. Puck submitted for a few minutes, and then noiselessly sliding to the floor, slipped out into the passage and sought amusement in his own way. It was not five minutes after this that Puck’s mistress aroused from the be ginning of her nap. It was the dog that woke her. There he was flying round and round the room, dragging after him what looked like, yes, most decidedly like,—the head of Mrs. Belton! Mrs. Langley sprang up, for no other 'lady at the hotel had precisely that shade and color of hair. It was—good heavens! It was a wig! Here was a discovery, indeed! And a light of mingled surprise,amusement, and triumph sparkled in the eyes dl the handsome brunette, as she surveyed the unexpected prize. ~ Then, with the wig in her hand, she sol ‘ outside cautious peep within. There reclined the fair, plump, little widow herself, fair still, though her snowy complcxion’and delicate features were set on by only a thin mist of short golden hair, which, if twisted all together, would not have made a strand as large as her little firger. Mrs. Langley gently tossed the ruin ed wig upon the floor, and ^retiring to her own robin, closed the door securely on Puck. Mrs. Belton did not come down to tea, though her aunt did. The old lady seemed considerably upset, and glanced suspiciously round upon the faces of the ladies. But all looked so innocent, and all— especially Mrs. Langley—inquired so naturally as to the cause of her niece’s absence, that her doubts were quieted- They could know nothing about it. It was a lovely moonlight night, ami there was music and dancing in the saloon, aud promenading on the lake terrace. Mrs. Belton, listening to the music, grew tired of staying in her own room. 8he could not possibly^show herself in public for a day or two. in which time she might have her wig restored to its normal condition. Why, therefore, should she not take advantage of the moonlight obscurity to enjoy herself as sho might be per mitted r Mrs. Langley stared, and the major brightened, as they saw her step upon the terrace. Her face was shaded by the folds of a silk scarf, which, fall!; to her shoulders, entirely conoei her head. Thus, she said, she must jrotect herself from the dews and the npuu IMHf eyes, who already looked prised at her hesitancy. Suddenly a thought flashed npon her. She raised her eyes and looked steadily at her rival. She saw it all in a mo ment; her secret had been discovered, and to-morrow, without doubt,it would be made known. For an instant her heart failed her; but then she nerved herself to a brave resolve. “I am very sorry that I cannot let you have the scarf,” sho said, in a voice which faltered despite herself. "Why?” persisted her merciless tor mentor, with an air of innocent sur prise. "Because”—it was hard to after all—"because I have not my on. "Flora!” gasped Mrs. (Jaylord. "I shall have to make a clean breust of it,” sho said, with a little laugh. "One of the ladies’ pet dogs—was it not yours. Mrs. Langley?—got hold of my wig this evening, and has complete ly spoiled it.” The major turned his eyes upon her with a sudden and glad surprise. "So you wear a wig, madam! So do I. How rejoiced I am to lind a lady who happens to bo in the same predica ment as myself! Why. 1 would have married long ago but for the haunting fear of .shocking my bride with the knowledge of my bald head.” 1 hen there was a tableau! Mrs. Belton blushed and smiled—a glad smile; the major looked delighted, and Mrs. Langley s face was white as she turned away. "I lost my hair in a severe illness, and it has never grown again, ” Mrs. Bolton explained. "1 had it rurvle up into a wig. So you see it is mv own hair, after all. When the company broke up at the "Lake Hotel,” it was perfectly well mpwmr . * m BARNWELL, DAY, JULY 16,1885. , "ft. 1 ”' '■ FAKM TOPICS. UMful Hint* In Regard to tho of Cattle and Horae*.—Gnu* dead In tho Poeketa. Plant* for Beautifying the Winder Qalck-Selllnc and ' Priced Batter. known to everybodv and Mrs. Belton «erc> t Aud it was all Puck’ that the ngngod. , doin':. A Mexican <’ity. msjor scribes oftly glided into the passage, paused utside Mrs. Belton's door, and took a A newspaper correspondent d the approach to tho city of Chihuahua, as follows: At a turn of the road the city itself came in sight, nestled at the foot of the hills, the two tall campanile of the great cathedral dominating tho landscape, and the low, white, llat- roofed houses lying upon the terra cot ta surface of the ground wiUi a most Oriental etlect. Indeed, everything about the spot is distinctly Eastern. Aeross the plains as we rode from the station to the ground, the gay serapes of the horsemen recall at once tho bur nous of the Arab. The magnificent horsemanship, us they fly across the open country, is another point of re semblance. Dressed in a short jacket, with wide, flowing trousers, feel tlirust into immense hanging stirrups of or- | namented leather, deeply fringed; a fantastic broad-brim rued hat; a bril liant blanket, tossed somewhere across the man or the animal, and au air of well-bred ea»e about the lithe, easy figure, these people aro wonderfully picturesque adjuncts to tho setting which nature gives him. You meet a woman, on her head au earthen jar of water from tho spring; another washing soiled clothes by the border of tho brook and spreading them on flat stones to dry; a group of Indians mounted above a heap of rags on the long-suffering burros; an ox team, drawn by two yoke of steers in clumsy, but effective trapping*, and with wheels cut from a single roond of solid wood.^the blank wall of some white-washed adobe dwelling, with a pink flush of peach IcKe^soms rfalling across aft angle, and the shining eyes of a dark-skinned irfpchacho .w itching you from the*arched doorway. Nearer still, after entering the city streets, the long cloisters inclosed und<*r Moor ish arches, which form colonnridcs out side of every house and offer grateful shelter from the noonday sun; the mosque-like domes of the churches, with graceful open campaniles beside the colored frescoes on the ouke? walls, bright blue, yellow or red, accentuating the prevalent tints of white and pale- brick color—all are Oriental. So are the women creeping noiseless ly through the dark alcoves with the grateful shawl thrown over the head and covering all the face bnt tho dark tyes; so are tho little children, with one single thin cotton garusent for cov ering; so aro tho draped silent figures standing at street corners or huddled around the fountains in the plazas. Broad stone scats with high backs, like those we see in Alma Tadoma’s pictures, line the principal streets under the soft shadows of the fan-like trees; great clumps of Mexican aloe and prickly cactus hedge the roadways, where the high mud walls give a glimpse behind; streams of sparkling water run through the narrow ditches of red clay, fashioned by the highway; the very flat plain itself and back ground of low mountains repeat the landscape of the Holy Land. i TURNING TO PASTURK. The depth to which the frost has en« tered tho ground, or, the case of deep snows, has tended to keep vegetatioa dormant, and the saturation of the soil from the continual melting of the sno# and ice acts flso to retard plowingi the North. One effect of untcwali weather is to cause those who do ad study closely the practical, to tun stock out to pasture before there is sufficient, growth to give animals a bit*. The constant effect of this is that stoek refuse hay and at the same time injur* the pasture by gnawing down to tka roots. Another source of injury is tka poaching of meadows by the feetbefon. the sward becomes firm. The three fold effect is the wasting of the stock, permanent injury to the grass, and dis ability of tbe soil from the effect d* poaching. There is no economy in turuing stock, especially cattle and horses, up on pasture until the grass is up so as to afford a full bite. When the blades lint spring tin they induce root action— that is, the annual roots are called into growth and thus furnish strong growth in the tops. If fed close early ia tho spring this root growth is checked, and lienee the burden of grass is lessened, the poaching of soil kills or checks growth also, and this, together with the gnawing of stock down into the grass roots, where persisted in, may lessen the crop fully one-half. For horses grass should have madl^ a growth of not less than two inches fore it is pastured, aud not then if Wit weather renders the ground soft. Those, on the other hand, who k*ep their stock from pasture until the grass is flush, although they may increan the annual outcome, do so neverthelsas, at a loss to their herds. Cattle, shesp, ami horses are subject to bloat from too greedy feeding, and also to scour ing from a too sudden change from dry to green food. Cattle should be turned upon grass when it is of such a hight that they can comfortably fill themselves in half a day’s grazing, and the same rule will apply to sheep. Of course, the soil being firm, shoep will find good picking where cattle would starve. Horses bite much closer than cattle and fully as closely as sheep. Their stomachs are small com pared to those of cattle and digestion is continuous. They may be turned on a firm pasture, when they can satisfy themselves by pretty industrious gras- ing during the day. As a rule, farmers are anxious to get their stock upon grass as early in the spring as possible, and stock are as eager for the grass as their masters are anxioiw to iutermit tho foddering. Every person must draw the line for himself and decide according to the circumstances governing his particular case. The practical working, however, will be found as we have stated, unless exceptional cases, such as scarcity of fodder or such au abundance of past ure that the stock cannot consnme it as fast as it grows. The remedy here is to increase the stock.—VMpayo Tribune. or we •eft-lea ip* * fEwts » eitR*- “»ck” P 1 bi ireezes. They were all seated in a group when k Langley said,— Indian scarf- Mrs.0iyT5MTnan«Jtr*Bd begged a description ef it ” would show it toy on if I had a •earl, ar tf Mis- Beltea would ha good eneagk to kad^toa hers lor a Grass'Widow* in Zion. The other day one of) the fidthfel of Zion was in town with prodtice, and he took the trouble to inform us that now it is that the golden opj5<nvtnrity pre sents itself to go out into Utah and "strike it rich. ’ He said the whole country was filled with grata widows, who poesessed good ranchoe, and that a man from this country could go out there and pick up a gin widow who has been well broken in to both field and house-work, with a good ranch, just for the trip. "Kick a sage brash In that country,” said rite old man, “and a grass widow is pretty certain to be started up.” The cause of ao grass widows being in the coua- that they arq the wives of polyg- ►coining alarmed at the way htf wmy 1ftg >tTrg itotstu ton* baes amatod, fled tbe reentry and permitted thair plural #ivcs to taka of thamsalvea. This b indeed % ler tue» oat of em- wbo wtah to go to raaeWng. many | try is GRASS SEED IN POCKItS. There should be no time lost Ul the seeding of meadows and pastSUpm in the spring. If there is any indiaatkm of freezing out, throw on a little grass seed over the weak or thin places and always of varieties suited to the tion. An old man famous for his in grass, being asked for bis secret, rs- pliod, “Always carry your coat-poekata full of seed in the spring, and don’t be afraid to use it when you find a bare or thin spot.” Timothy is especially apt to kill. This is from, two princjga} causes. It forms a bulb just at the 101^ face of the ground late in the seaaoa* this is the storehouse for the next sea son’s growth. Hogs, sheep, andhonea are fond of this, and, in close grazing, are apt to destroy it. Tramping also injures it Hence while one of the hsst meadow grasses it is one of the worst for close-fed pasture*. Clover is ant to freeze out by the gradual lifting of the crown throngh successive freezing and thawing. Hence upon soils much liable to heave Alsiko should take its place. White clover also does well os moist soils, but not on one permanently wet Orchard grass is one of the bejU past ure grasses, starting early in Me sea son and springing quickly after being grazed. It likes a good loam or even a sandy soil if rich. Red-top ik excel lent grass for moist situations and re tains its hold on the soil for a long time. In fact we have too few pasture f rasses, or rather farmers are not suf- ciently awake to the importance of variety in pasture grasses. WINDOW PLANTS. There is a great rush just now for the annual purdiase of plants tc beautify the windows and subsequently do duty in the iittle beds of the city and village. They will do nicely in the windows H the pots are protected from drying cot in the usually dry heat of liv tg-rooms. They also require plenty o fresh air. This is easily managed, i plenty ef fresh air is required by the usehold— more, indeed, than man) get One good way to protect flowt -pots from undue drying at the sides is to inclose them in paraffine paper. If is placed a little spaguum very beat condition cured. Do not water too often, an< never allow the saucers to permanently. Let tfe* become rather dry Not to such a degree arto ing, varying, of counto. the nature of the p] water do so thoro runs tinoe until tbe water gathers in the If yota do this gradually the is probably all right. At the end h«H an hour empty what water is tot reabsorbed and there will be little gar of water-soaking, unless you are continually watering. Strong, young and vigorous plants require more water for their size ^an older ones. Callas and all that class of plants require a large amount of water; all this class should bare the pots protect- •d from dryingtmt through the pores of the pots. The same is true of all -lesrved plants, as geraniums, oo- etc. All the oactii and spined generally 'require very little wa ter except during the season of growth. ■0W HE HADE "GILT-KDGED” BUTTER. A Berkshire County (Massachusetts) former writes the ScimUfic American kow he makes quick-selling and high- prioed batter. It has^jpaimoiisense truths in it. He says; "My object has always been to make the best butter—not the most profitable BMessarily. but the best Having this object in view, J have been compelled to discard oil meal, and thus reduce the quantity of mv butter and the value of the manure. 1* have been obliged to take the cows out of all basement cel- lan, and have consequently received lass butter for a given amount of food. I have been forced, instead of dropping tbe manure infto a convenient cellar be low the cows, to give up this cellar and wheel manrure into a shed. I have boon obliged to discard deep setting Mid to content myself with tho open, •hallow method, which is more expen sive, and requires more attention, and returns less butter. I have been obliged to reject all feeds except corn, Hheat, hay, beets, and carrots. 1 have bstn obliged to give up using the milk of Cows that have calved too recently or too remotely. I have for a dozen years carefully and faithfully tried to make good butter—a* good as it oould be made. This has always been the firat consideration; profitableness has always been secondary. The result has been for many years this butter has brought a higher price than any butter in the County of Berkshire, where so ranch good butter is made, and it has taken the first prize over the connty. It has been in such constant demand at sixty-five cents a pound the year thfough that when making 100 pounds a week there have been unfilled orders for twenty-five to thirty pounds more.” Rorelma. The top of Roraima, perhaps the most remarkable mountain in the world, has at last been reached by Mr. Fxlward F. im Thurn, who was sent to South America last October by three ol the leading societies of Great Britain, to study the famous mountain and its wonderful starroundings. and to learn if its summit wss really inaccessible, as other travelers had reported. A telegram from him announcing that he has reached the top has just been re ceived in England. Humboldt once said that no rock six teen hundred feet in perpendicular height had beeu found in the Swiss Alps. Roraimi lifts above its sloping sides a solid block of red sandstone about two thousand feet high, some oi which, according to Sir Robert Schom- burgh, are "as perpendicular as if erected with a plumb-line.” It is the highest and most wonderful of a group of table-topped mountains situated in an almost inaccessible part of British Guiana. Its flat top was believed to m about aevsn miles square, but Mr m Thurn’a dispatches say the nearly evel summit is twelve miles long, and that it is covered with vegetation The mountain’s sides are sloping and wooded to a height of 7,750 feet above the sea. Then rise the vertical walls of the vast sandstone formation. Cas cades pour over the edge, the water ailing 2,000 feet to the forests below, forming the sources of rivers that; starting from tho same place, separate widely and flow to the Orinoco, the Easeqnibd, and the Amazon. Other cascades break out from the sides of the mountain a little way below its summit. In the rainy season some of the streams thus formed aro impassa ble. The rivers that fall from its crown A PARADISE FOR LAZY MEM. Where the People ant Born Tired and Caa I4ve on TS Cente a Week. quickly th thing is wrong.' some! something of dfter. looked become that Or hardened inside of and noir jarred from the tits ' the stem of orms most may have nk away The plants xamination soil and inverting top of tbs Key West has, without exception,the finest climate in the United States. There is always a breeze and rarely a gale, an 1 you may wuar a stray hat with propriety every day in the year. It is solely due to the monumental sluggishness of the population that Key West is almost unknown to the tourist and health-seeker. Key West is reach ed by steamers from Now York, from Now Orleans, and by a mail steamer from Tampa Bay. The key has about as much snape as a camel, but in a gen eral way lies east and west, ami eon- tains about six square miles. It is as flat as a pan-cake, tho highest point be ing sixteen feet above mean sea level. To the casual visitor it looks as though the ses. particularly fn a storm, would submerge this insignificant rise; but it is a matter of record that it never has. The city proper covers tho western end of the key. It is densely settled, and about as un-American as possible,bear ing a strong resemblance to a West In dian town. The houses are of wood, plainly built, and, with a few excep tions, painted white. There are.I think, oniy three brick buildings, certainly not more than nix. Piazzas abound, and occasionally some lattice-work is seen, but there is no attempt at decora tion or display. Many of tho business houses have no signs, and there is a general air of don’t,care-whetber-I-sell- or-not about tho shops. The houses are of all sizes, jumbled up in tho oddest way, ami anv where but on the line of the street. The interior of each block is filled up with one-story shanties, ac cess to which is had by going np alleys, through fences,or over somebody else’* yard. Tho population being 14,000, land is precious. Lots are divided and subdivided, and houses built in yards and gardens are wedged in here, there, and everywhere, facing sixteen ways for Sunday. Where there is no room for a house they build a stable or a pig pen, and sprinkle chickens around in the corners. Tbe richest people do not thus disdain to thus add from (3 to $6 a month to their income, although it destroys their privacy and disfigures their grounds. The streets sre of good width, toler ably straight and passably clean. The roadway ia coral rock. There is no soil. What passes for soil is merely triturated coral, wonderfully rich ia ihcsphatcs, and making an excellent crtiltzer, but, by itself, deficient in fat To garden you must use a pick instead of a hoe. No vegetables are raised on the key, and the vegetation is confined mainly to cocoannt trees. Here and there you will find a pine or an olean der, a star of India, or a royal poin- ciaua; but in the main there is a crimi nal lack of foliage. The nature of the on is thus shown. The key been settled for fifty years; every tropical or semi-tropical tree, shrub or flower known to man has but to be planted to grow, and the city is bare, hot, and vcrdureless. The white houses, without a vine or climbing flower, the dazzling streets, without a tree and with no sidewalks, —dusty and glaring wherever you look —it is enough to make you wish for hurricane to stir the city's blood. Yet, to the student of sociology,the explana tion is plain. The colored folks drive the drays and hacks, act as porters and stevedores, and do the bulk of the heavy sitting around. Everybody takes a turn at the latter work, however, and the whole community offers to the historian the moet striking example of people born tired. It is an edifying spectacle to northern eyes to see a native of Key West going on an errand or doi; pieoc of work. Usually he moves a snail If you are not particular, yon can live for 75 cents a week. A stick of sugar-cane costs only 3 cents,banan as and oranges can be hooked from the auctioneers, hominy is cheap, and a string of fish can be caught from soy whan. What a country for a tramp! What a climate for the poor!—Cor. N. T. Hun. ftclentifta Mtecettapy, ' !■ I S ■llll** • ^ .Under electric Ulnmissilos, Dr. Theodore Stain finds MfossH abts to photograph the throat and larynx ia health or disease. The foroais of ths United States eons- prise 412 species of tree*, beioagiay to 158 genera. Of these, 48 genera and 60 species are peculiar to Florida.. An interesting case of phosphores cent snow has been observed by a Philadelphia geologist, a mountain covered with this snow shining in n dark night as if illuminated by the moon. A botanical phenomenon wae wit nessed last season on the shorn of Todos Santos Bay, lower California, where an apple-tree blossomed and bore large perfect fruit on its rank, an inch from the ground. An accident in a Melbourne foundry has led to the diacovenUhatr plunging iron castings iqto a mixture of toMOfo and water softens the metal to subh a degree that it can be punched, bored and tapped as readily as wrought iron. Experiments have been made in France with electricity as an agent to prevent tho inenutetion of Coilcra. Tho passage of a current through a boiler not only caused the impurities of tho water to settle as a loose powder but detached the old incraateUon. The anchorages of Narrakal and Al- Icppy, in India, arc stated to be per fectly smooth and uuiet even when the sea outside is tumbling in before strong southwesterly gale*. To explain this. Dr. W. King mentions that analysis *46 proves the existence of oil in tho moddy bottoms of these anchorages, and he supposes that there are deposits of pe troleum, cither beneath the aea bottom or along the coast, from which oil con tinually oozes up, and calms tbe other wise troubled waters. A remarkable phenomenon of ths North of England is there known the helm wind. A lata description states that it blows out o( clouds which collect on tho Pennine range of moun tains, and makes a rushing noise like tho roar of tho heavy ses breaking upon a rocky i-horo. Its lifting force is so great that it sometimes overturns vehicles, ami takes animals off their feet. It prevails chiefly in the Carlisle r-TIto ''Bkpffct ia| to *80^84.14. —Ths OOTM* StMfo dsn Opera House urw Phst Grand Master J. D. log tbe stone. v - The annual rsiMon of B, Utah 8, C. Cavahr, Goad veteran*, will bs tola sit C. U n on the 25th Instant. —There ere 1 AM Kens < foie year in FuiriM ing f 186,000, which Is per cent, leas jlbaa last year. -Mary Ann Williams, aecf bar fifo la Alton eoimty i whjln aH1i r[ling to ktofone toroeeoe. —The Spartanburg am Rathroad is now graded to within fire miles of Hendersonville, and 850 mm are at work on tbs lest seettoa. —The Motional Bank of Hunter, after running eighteen months, deetar* •d a dividend of over seventeen per cent, lie net profits were 08^0134. The Rev. N. W. JBdmands sad family, of Banter, have gme to ftofr country home in Richkad where they will spend their —A party of fishermen from Mew- berry went down to Freeway's, m Broad River, on tbe Sal and they caught about three hundred poemfr off fish. -Upto Jnly let, there were food to Clerk’s ofl ‘ * and Asheville at a greater from its ap- surround Roraima with a perpetually moist atmosphere, which explains in f iart the remarkable development of ts flora. The three botanists who have visited the mountain found many plants there that were now to science. Of about two hundred species of ferns growing on the elopes of Roraims, nearly one-half are peculiar to it. From 1885 to 1882 seven white trav elers visited the mountain. All of them loft it, owing to lack of provis ions, before tltey had surveyed it on all sides. All but two pronounced its summit unattainable. Whiteiy said perhaps it was accessible from foe west side, which he had not seen. Another visitor refrained from expressing an inion. Only McTurk and Boddam etbam ever saw tbe west side of the mouMtein. They caught a glimpse of t, ansi thought in was a repetition of the other faces. It was this aide that Mr. im Thurn hoped to acale, though he thought the north side would, per haps, offer meaus of ascent He said ao would not employ a balloon in his attempt to reach the top. It would be highly interesting to learn how he gained the goal that crowned his la bors with perfect success, and to get the results of his scientific studies on the isolated, but verdure-crowned table-top, and on tbe slopes below, which his latest dispatch says are "a chids and most bean- strange plan ts. ”—iNriar Fork Sun. very garden of orchi tiful and The principal of a New York school for teaching deaf mute children to talk and'understeud what is said to them by watching tbe Upe o< the speaker ia a reoest lecture delivered to shdw to what perfection foe system has been carried had foe lights lowered and tod a deaf boy interpret his uttaranoes by watching the shadows made on wall by nis lip*- It appears from observations made veedttyftn ywaw, fost fog iM slepn—I ef rag- etable life is retarded by an average of nearly four days ler each additional 100 yards of altitude. The arrival ef the chimney swallow is delayed about two days for epch toerease ef 100 yaids to tolghi Destiny In Worts. / i — The fate of nations and men often tarn on the merest trifles. It would be indeed curious if tho destiny of En gland and Egypt was to be materially affected by tbe presence of two warts •n the cheek of a Khartoum ship’s car penter. The occurrence of such a con tingency, seems, however, to be quite witoin the bounds of possibility. In his address to the Soudanese, Mohammed Ahmed wrote: "Has not God Himself given me the signs of ray mission—the two warts on tho left check which are spoken of in Hi* book?” This cogent reasoning would seem to hare had its effect, for the officers of tbe Kordofan army who-joined his standard exhorted their companions to follow their ex ample, declaring that the medhi "is al ways smiling, and his countenance is beaming as the full moon. On fats right cheek i« a warb and other signs which *’ <• wriiUm in the books qf the law." mere is, it is true, a grave dis crepancy as to the position of foe warts; but it might nevertheless have been better for tbe peace of the world if Mohammed Ahmed had been born without any warts at all—London World. Mr. F. Tapper’s letter on his em- narassments, which is printed in foe Brooklyn Magazine, contains tbe fol lowing: "Ine simple truth (whieh with perfect propriety you ask for and with plain caaripr .I jicrv supply) Is this: "I never had any abundaaM df riches, though I ml ways lived honestly and liberally, and for tho matter of actual poverty I undoubtedly tieeline to plead it while everybody else is suffer ing from the hardness of the times. However, it is true that 1 have lost for tune ami am vexed by debt, incurred not for my own fault, though I do not care to accuse others specifically. Of course, I have to complain that a life of some useful labor hns cone to 76 years without adequate reward, fort after all God provides for every day, and I trust in Him to do so to foe end, here and hereafter.” The California legislators j bill apnropriatfof ftfhOOO to hotel for travelers Yalky- * district, and is seldom felt distance than seven miles parent place of origin. Tho gigantic animals which existed in tho western nsrt of the United States during tho tertiary age, and which con stitute an order known to science the Dinocerta, form tbe subject of an elaborate treatise by Professor O. CL Marsh, of Yale college. A basin In Wyoming Territory, drained by Green river, is the only locality in foe world where remains of these creatures have been found. This basin, now from 6,000 to 8,000 feet above sea-level. Is the site of an ancient lake, on whose borders the great beasts, nearly equal ing elephants in size, roamed In great numbers, and In which many of th were entombed. In the same region ancestral forms of tho tapir, the bone aud the pig flourished at the same geo logical period; and the lake ewa with crocodiles, tortoises, snakes sad fishes, while its shores were fringw with palms and other plants which are now characteristic of the troptee. Professor Marsh believes tbs age a great mammals to be pest, end that ths elephants must soon (Osappsar from tho earth. A German physicist attributes foe well-known phenomenon of tho parent enlargement of fog sun moon, when rising or setting, to physiological casses. One ie< the greater ssnsUiveases of fooffymte ar magnitudes whil som bur' and the other in me eflbot of light renohiag us from tho ►odies when near tho horiaou, ation ten received. of foeeo theories, nan shows tho surdity of tho that intervening _ ... ter to estimate the real tine of them and moon. Am-* A PrcvalUng Malady Hundreds of women all erer the country are suffering from nowrslgls hi such an extent, in many oases, as find life a bnrden. Ths tract from foe Brititk gives one solution as to the “There is no recognised reason why, of lata years, neunufia of ths lass aa* scalp should have increased somaeh to the female sex as compared with m own. There is no doubt that it is one of the most common femalnmaladias— one of foe moet painful and difitoah off treatment. It la alsoa cause of ‘ mental depression, and often to habits of intemperance than any other. This growing tremlnaes of neuralgia may to soma extant to re ferred to the effect of cold upon tha terminal branches of tto nerves dis tributed to tto skin: and (to ream why men are lee* subject to II than wo men may, to a great extent, I think, ha "tto much greater nrftou tion afforded by tha moos ia whiok tto former cover their ] in the open sir. It may be i that the strtfaoe ef foe head ' actually covered ia max te at three ttmoa that which fashion allows to a woman; indeed, tto points off con tact between the hat or boaaut aad tto head are so irregular oa praettea^r to destroy any nrotectkm wMeh might otherwise be afforfisd BI wen to re port to tto journals a the Clerk’s office In Lancaster lyfilO liens. Of these, 1,886 were for rep lies, S58 for rent of land, and far ire of work animate. Tto ttsas for •applies alone aggregate 81I8,90(L —A convention of tto Methodist Sander sebooTs of Lfexiafton etoteffr ~~«- wiUhe held at Rad Baakltoteqrcw tbs 29th instant A basket pUate wfU be given, and a cordial fBVltteiea ton here extended to Meade ef nomination. —The Peabody Teaeton? will meet in AUaata oa Ji * continue for four wt H. Carlisle, preskka lege, will deffrer severel ... before tbe lintltote daring tta weak in Aggate —Captain D. D. Mogrvef HU1, died 0* tto Sal, m| served la tto WijHtefhankf C. B. Infantry and O 8. C. Cavalry, was a Mem, death Grand ConaaiL Mr JaSfo near Jsforeea, aeram foe l line. White hie handling a gftft fired, and the tea*. Us (Mrteeitryoatreid bar * -Mr. H. L.: Dnatonsvllte comity, to three salutee < time a child Is •od. Ho J*ar an abate of i -B. F,