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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
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BARNWELL,
DAY, JULY 16,1885.
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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
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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.
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become
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Or
hardened
inside of
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the stem of
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most
may have
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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,
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.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,