Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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HRNH Tried and coudeuincd, the rough-bearda curb their ragr. And watuh him itrido In freedom from the hall. “Return on Frldar. to be *hot to death I" So ran the sentence—It waa Monday nl/rht. The dead man's comrades drew a well-pleased breath: Then all n^ht long the gambling dens were The days sped slowly; but the Friday came. And flocked the miners to the shooting- ground; They chose six riflemen of deadly aim. And with low voices sat and lounged around. “He’s not a fool.” “The free must face the “he will not come.” men Whd set the savage blame.” A Choctaw brave smiled bitterly, and then Smiled proudly, with raised bead, as Dixon came. her Silent and stern—a woman at bis heels; He motions to the brave, who stays tread. Next minute—flamo the guns; the woman reels And drops without a moan—Dixon Is dead. —John Boyle O'Kellly. THE LAST CONTEST. A soldier, who had won imperisha ble fame on the baUle-tields of his country was confrontod by a gaunt stranger clad all in black and wearing an impenetrable mask. “Who are you that you dare soldier was dying abd that Nellie had been sent lor across the sea, all iho ing tho last moments uf the famous man, for ho was beloved by all, and all were bound to him by bonds of patri otic gratitude, since he had been so brave a soldier upon tho batllc-lields of his country, lint the soldier did not heed their words of sympathy; ihe voice of fame, which in the past had stirred a fever in his blood and fallen most pleasantly upon his cars, awaken ed no emotion in his bosom now. Tho soldier thought only of Nellie, and he awaited her comiug. An old comrade came and pressed his hand, and talked of the times when they went to tho wars together; an i the old comrade told ot this bailie and of that, and how such n victory was won and how such a city was Liken. Uut the soldier's cars heard no sound of batllo now, and ids eyes could sec no Hash of sabre oysmoke of war. So the people came and spoke words of veneration and love and hope, and so with quiet fortitude, but witii a hun gry heart, the soldier waited for Nellie, his little girl j She came across the broad, tempest uous ocean. The gulls llew far out from land and told the winds, and the winds blew farther still and sai l lo the ship: “Speed on, oh ship! speed on in thy swift, straight course, lor you are bearing a treasure to a father’s heart!” Thou tho ship leaped forward in her pathway, ami the waves were very still, and the winds kept whispering: “Speed on, O ship,” till at Ibu tho ship was como to port and llio liule girl was clasped in the soldier’s anus. Then lor a season the soldier seemed hand quite himself again, and people said: “Ho. wiil live,” and then prayed that to block my way?” demanded tho sol dier. Then tho stranger threw aside his mask and tho soldier knew that he was Death. "Have you como for me?” asked tho soldier. "If so, I will not go with you; so go your way alone.” Hut Death held out his bony and beckoned to tho soldier. “No," cried tho soldier, resolutely; j 1^ mi.rni. Uni Clmiu.Imiuik and prav- “luj^tlTne norcomc. Sec, here are | ers were vain. Death's seal was on tho How ArtUt* In Patting Psnple • Ilf 11«» iriimnr. ‘'here are tho histories I am writing—no hand but mine can finish them—I will go when they are done.” '* “1 have hidden by your side day and night,” said Death; “I have hovered about you on a hundred battle-fields, but no sight of mo could chill your heart till now. and now I hold you in my power. Como!” And with these words Death’ seized upon tho soldier and strove to bear him hence, but the soldier struggled so desperately that he prevailed against Death, and tho strange phantom do- parted alone. Then when he had gone the soldier found upon his throat the imprint of Death’s cruel fingers—so fierce hod been tho struggle. And nothing could wash them away, for they were disease, lingering, agonizing, fatal disease. Hut with quiet valor the soldier returned to his histories, and for many days thereafter he toiled up on them as tho last and best work of his noble life. “How thin and pale the soldier is getting," said the people. “His hair is whitening and his eyes are weary. Ho should not have undertaken the histories—the labor is killing him." They did not know of this struggle with Death, nor had they sqpu^ The marks upon the soldier’s throat. Hut the physicians who came to him and saw the marks of Death’s cruel lingers, ■hook their heads and said the soldier could not live to complete his work upon which his whole heart was set. And the soldier know it, too, and many a time he paused in his writing and laid his pen asule and bewod his Lead upon his hands, and strove for consolation in tho thought of tho groat fume ho had already won. So when Death camo a second time lie found the soldier weak and trembling and emaciated. “It would be vain for you to strug gle with mo now,” said Death. “My poison is in your veins, and sec, my iluw is on your brow. Hut you are a bravo man and 1 w ill not bear you with me till you havo asked ouo favor, which I will grant" “Give mo an hour to ask the favor,” ■aid the soldier. “There are so many things—my histories and all—give mo an hour that I may decide what I shall ask?" And as Death tarried, the soldier communed with himaclf. Before ho closed his eyes forever what boon *Wttld ho ask of Death? And the sol dier’s thoughts sited back over the years and his whole life came to him like a lightning Hash--the companionship and smiles of kings, the glories of govern ment and political power, the honors of peace, and joys of conquest, the din of oattle, the sweets of a quiet home life upon a western prairie, the gentle devotion of a wife, tho clamor of noisy boys and tho face of a little girl—ah, there his thoughts lingered and clung. “Tjme to complete our work—our books—our histories,” counseled am bition. “Ask Death for time to do this last and crowning act of our great life.” But tho soldier's ears were deaf to tho cries of ambition; they heard anoth er voice—tho voice of the soldier’s heart—and tho voice whispered “Nellie —Nellie—Nellie.” That was all-no other words bnt those, and tho soldier struggled to his feet, and stretched forth his hands and called to Death, and heftring him dalling, Death came to him and stood before him “I have made my choice," said the soldier. “Tho books?” asked Death with a scornful smile. “No, not thorn,” said tho soldier, “but my little girl—my Nellie! Give me ft lease of luo till 1 have held her in these arms, and then come for me and 1 will go!” Then Death’s hideous asp changed; his stern features relaxed and a look of pity came upon them. And Death said, “It shall bo so,” and say- ' ing this he went his way. • Now the soldier’s child was far away —many, many leagues from where the soldier lived; beyond a broad, tempost- vooe ocean. She was not as you might suppose, a little child, although the ■oMUer spoke of her as such. She was a wife and a mother; yet even in her womanhood she was to the soldier’s hurt the same had held upon his knee many and many a lime while his rough Hands Weaved prairie Bowers in her soft, fair amih And the soldier called for Nellie did then, when she sat of her dolls. ers were vain, soldier and there was no release. iho last days of the-soldier’s life were tho most beautiful of all—but what a mockery of ambition and fame, and ail tho grand pretentious things of life they were! They were iho triumph of a human heart, and what is better or purer or sweeter than that? No thought of the hundred battle fields upon which bis valor had shown conspicuous came to the soldier now — nor tho echo of his eternal fame—nor even yet tho murmurs of a sorrowing icoplc. Nolhc was by his side, ami his Hungry, fainting heart fed on her dear love and his soul' went back with her to the years long agonc. Away beyond the western horizon upon the prairie stands a little hoiho over which the vines trail. All about it is the tall, waving grass, and over yonder is the swale with a legion of chattering black-birds perched on its swaying reeds and rushes. Bright wild tlowers bloom ou every side, tho quail whistles on the pasture fence,and from his home in the chimney corner the cricket begins to chirrup an echo to the lonely bird’s call. In this little I irairio homo we see a man holding on iis knee a little girl, whole telling him of her play as he smooths her fair curl or strokes her tiny velvet hands; perhaps she is singing him ouo of her baby songs, or asking him strange questions of the groat wide world that is new to her; or perhaps he binds tho wild flowers she has brought iuto a lit tle nosegay for her new gingham dress, or—but we see it all, and so, too, does the soldier, and so (foes Nellie, and so they hear tho black-bird’s twitter and the quail’s shrill call and tho cricket’s faint echo, anti all about them is the sweet subtle, holy fragrance of mem ory. And so at last when Death came and the soldier fell asleep forever, Nellie, his little girl, was holding his hands and whispering to him of those days. Hers were the last words ho hoard, and by tho smile that rested on *his faco when he was dead you might hare thought tho soldier was dreaming of a time when Nellie prattled on his knee and badh’him weave tho wild flowers in her curls. “Lot me tell you,” said a salesman in the picture brsiucss the other day, “that artists as a class ftre the most trying and short-sighted people in the world. For instance, they will neiunlly try to spoil each other's sale, 'itioy can not be made lo see that whatever helps one i elps tho market” “How can they spoil e:.ch other’s snlos?’’ • "In many wj)s. . I’ll give you a:; in stance, anti will take a case that hap pened a good many years ngo, so that no oiie.’s feelings shall he hmh I had for a customer a wealthy gentleman, ami had just about persuaded him to buy a really good landscape by a lead ing artist; juice, £700. In fact, tho gentleman bad virtually bought tho picture. He was just beginning to sjieak about making a payment win .i un artist, a mutual acquaintance, strolled into tho room. Now tho gen tleman wanted confirmation of his judgment, as pcojdu often do, anil so iijipealed to the artist coming in, and a>ked his opinion of the jnirchaso. The artist fell a twingo of jealousy. He ■balanced himself lirst on his heels and then on his iocs, made opera-glasses out of his hands, and squinted, at the picture from every possible i>oint of view. Finally he spoke. ‘It is a lino picture. It is well conceived, drawing first rate, admirable color. 1 like the trees, the sky, the water. In fact, it’s an excoilcut work of art. Still, if you really want my opinion. I’ll tell you something. You see that small figure in tho distance—the figure of a man fishing? Well, if you will take the trouble to find the scale of measure ment, you will discover that the man’s (ishing-poJo is certainly over fifteen feet long!’ “When 1 hoard that 1 knew in a minute that my bargain was oft'. The gentleman buying tho picture did not roly enough upon his own judgment, aud besides i had had experience. The artist criticising tho picture ai>pcurod to be fair and square. Ho had really given tho work its due praise, to begin with. But he had got bis deadly work in after all. That splendid work of art was sjiotled for that purchaser by a little brush stroke intended to rojire- sent a tisliing-]>ole. Thu gentleman never looked at it again that it did not _ , Miss Cleveland’s book will WilUiL»*Th# r Caqute, “took much Delight in HonU I v i. i i - ,« ing. and,” according to eighteenth oen- /"T' 0 ; “ V tury historians, “had suolf a Fury for woi * h len loM - gratifying that Passion that he reserved ' ««ors:o W. Childs acts as usher every all Hunting and isjM.rting in his Forests Sunday in alittlo Ixmg Branch church, to himself, or t<> such as he thought | President Polk's widow believes proper lo indulge.” These chroniclers that “she still liros iu her husband’s thou proceed to give a terrible picture momory." of the King depopulating largo tracts j Sam Jones calls his coarse and un- of Hampshire in order lo form a New grammatical style “tho nigh cut in th* Forest, although he already had sever- English language.” al in the country—"turuiug out all the ig i Inhabitants, destroying tho Houses, Gardens, and even Churches, which stood in that tract of land in order to make it a desert." This view of Wil liam’s conduct with regard to the New Forest has fallen before modern exam ination of tho district. The Keltic and West Saxon barrows are still to bo scon; the stt.es of the dwelling of the Romans are clearly visible. The pot ter's work, left carelessly upon the ground by the Roman potters, is found undisturbod.aud unbroken but a few indies below tho surface. What can account for the total disappearance of every trace o( those houses and church es which William destroyed—some 60 churches, as it is staled in certain chronicles, and, of necessity, a number of villages to house Hie people who worshiped there. The only two church es entered in “Domesday,” those at Brockenhurst and Milford, still stand; and immediately after tho afforestation two new ones wore built in the very heart of the wild forest, one at Boldre and one al Hurdle. Must of the “cas- tlos"in the forests wore merely earthen intrenchmcnts made by the Rolls and West Saxons: and though a few for est names end in ton, which indicate tho existence of >souio scattered home steads, many more end with hurst, which means “wood." Then there are such names os Roydon, the rough round; Bramshaw, tho bramblewood; ^nuy, the furzy ground; Stockleigh, tho woody place; and Staneswood, Arnewood, and Testwood. Modern authorities consider that William did not commit the folly of turning a high ly cultivated district into a desert, where tho deer would havo found no shelter for many years; but that ho ■imply converted a wild woodland into a royal forest Yteue, the "furzy coun try, ’ became the New Forest A great part of this district which he afforested he already held in demesne. It all now became subject to forest laws. There wore inhabitants, even manors, within tho forest: these had to aubihit to its rule, and were also granted its privi leges. In the Charta do Foresta of Ca nute mention is made of horses, cows, and wild goats, which were protected in tho forest, and also of certain privi leges of the people. So, under Will iam, there were homesteads to which rights were attached of pasturing cat tle, feeding swine, and cutting of tim ber! aud turf. Severe laws existed in respect lo hunting the deer, as they did iu the days of Canute. Hut it is very doubtful whether William did not rath er benefit the district iu making it a royal forest than otherwise, lie waft haled because he wished to make of the English a race of slaves; ami iu the for est it was well understood to be a much lighter oft'uiiso lo kill a man lliau a deer. And so the story grew of his cruelty and tyranny. Iu this forest William the Red was' killed, and his brotner and uephew; tho records of their strange aud sudden deaths are very unsatisfactory; and tradition has attributed them to the tengeanco of Heaven, visiting William the Conquer or's cruelty ujiou his dcsceuduuis. It seems most j Tollable that Rutus was tho victim of a conspiracy, and that his brother's and nephew's death* were merely accident* in name. — Jut Kny- LsA lUuitlntUU .l. ay a ime. .jMtMb* How I'TjT'ift I‘Tsh Fly. An excellent opportunity of observ ing the aeri&l means of propulsion in tho flying fish was afforded me during a six days’ calm lately when crossing the Bay of Bengal. I watched day by day some hundreds rise under tho bows of tho ship. Tho water surface was a, glassy cairn. As each fish roso it spread its wings at once, apparently beating the surface with them two or three strokes before they steadied out. I say apparently, for it was not a defi nite beat so much as a struggle to rise. The tail which, of course under water was in rapid motion to escape from tho ship, now gave teu or a dozuti rapid boats, which could be counted by tho ripples on the stilt surface, and the fish was off in aerial flight. As each fish lost the impetus of tho first rise, which generally happened at about forty yards, the binoculars show ed us the anal fins, which had till now been fully extended, drooping to fool tho water. As soou as the surface was felt the tail was introduced and live or six smart strokes, also indicated by ripples, brought the impetus up again and carried tli* fish about another thirty yards, when another drop sent it on a^ain, and so forth, some of the older hsh traveling iu tlds way 400 to 600 yards. Tho younger fish frequent ly fell awkwardly in this attempt to regain impetus. When waves are running it requires a clover fish to gain impetus by a few judicious strokes on tho crest of a wavo, and many a fish tumbles over in the attempt. I once saw a fish rise close to tho ship’s quarter, and it flow parallel with the ship, pursued below by a dolphin or bonita. Tho latter followed every sway of the fish, keeping almost un der it At tho first dip of the tail tho pnrsuer made a dart forward, but missed it and again dogged its prey by keeping just under it Ou tho sec ond dip the tail went into the pursuer's mouth, and theru was an end of tho flyor. It always struck mo that it seem to him to bu all iHliing-pole, and he iiually told me the fishing-jioie had made the picture odious to him, and ho would not buy it.” “And you say that artist* often do that sort of tiling?” "Yes, they’ve sjioiled a good many sales for each other, in my exjiericnce. Hut, miud you, I don’t say that they have any malicious intention or always realize what they are doing. It is tho easiest tiling in the world to discover some iittio, trilling, good for nothing detect tiiat will turn a person against a picture." * Hut suppose a purchaser is put out of conceit with Smith's picluro, doesn’t that, make him all the more likely to turn aroutiJ and try one of Brown's?" “No, it docs not. And that is why I say artists are short-sighted. In my experience, if a man buys a picture and is happy aud satisfied over his purchase lie is more than likely to turn around and buy more pictures. Tho appetite grows ou him. But if bo is checked and made to loe-l dissatrsfled witii Ids own taste and his own judg ment jiikt as he is about to buy a pict ure lie is thrown back on himself, grows disgusted, and turns ids back on tho whole bu-diiess.” “How do you think the tostvi for picture-buying may be promoted?” “Third** tio telling anything about it. Picture-buying hero iu Suu Fran cisco comes on at ii regular intervals like orr ujmiotiuc. Sometimes 1 think it comes in waves, like hut weather, or like any thing else wo don't under stand. “is it not possible the trade should ever become equalized, mid a steady, regular demand for pictures bo estab lished?” ••Well, if yon ask mo that question, I shall have to toll you that hero afflidn the artists are at fault. In dull tpies the artists go along slowly and care fully. They growl a good deal, but do pretty good work. Ixit tho market im- f irove ever so little and they get jier- cctly wild and turn out pictures by the dozen. They reason that if they can sell a possible three out of four pictures why not fifteen out of twenty? The consoquenco is they kill tho goose that lays the golden egg. They glut the market with poor pictures, exhaust purchasers at the earliest possible mo ment, and flatten out a boom’which began favorably ami might havo been coaxed to last a long time.” “When do you think tho artists will learn to manage thoii: business affairs with discretion?” “Not before thomillonnium."—San Francisco Chronicle. ♦- * North Carolinsds receiving the ben efit of a steady flow of immigration, the average number of immigrants per month being about 160. The State Commissioner of Immigration says that they como maiuiy from Pennsylvania, but all the Middle and Now England States arc represented. Most of the newcomers aro farmers or mechanics. Tho majority go to tho westorn part of the state. Charleston, Swain county, is the objective point of many. Dr. Clark Whittier, brother of the poet, John G. Whittier, has bought 60,000 acres of land there, being about ona- third of Swain county. Tie proposes to divide it iuto 1,000 farms of sixty acres each, and on these to settle 1,000 families. Dr. J. M. Riggs, of Hartford, Conn., claims to havo unearthed the first spec imens of a now potato bug. Sir Mosos Montefiorc is called by one of his eulogists the most illustrious Jew since David aud Solamon. Chief Justice Waite is in Scotland trying to recover his health by eating oatmeal in all its native hildnoss. Frank R Stockton, the .story-teller, “has soft brown ay or in which his gen tle humor shines as he speaks.” Dr. Prime’s estate is estimated al $300,000, most of which he is said to have made out of editing the Ob- server. James Russell Lowell will resume his literary labors in America by writ ing a biography of Nathaniel Haw thorne. Walt Whitman is the chief cariosity in tho town of Camden and every street car driver loves to talk to strangers about him. George R Sims, who wrote "The Cry of the Londou Poor,” is about to pub lish what soems a sequel to it, “Rogues and Vagabonds." Speaker Aldrich, of tho New Hamp shire House of Representatives, is so. like president Cleveland that he U sometimes addressed as Mr. President. Judge William T. Crow, of Carnes villa, Ga., has all Ids six children and forty-seven grandchildren living within a mile of the old homestead. Lord Tennyson's poem on the mar riago of tho Princess Beatrice is re ferred lo ns an epilhalamium by ouo writer. When poetry gets awful bad it is hard to find a name for it. Dr. Tiffany says Grant told him that all music seemed to affect him as dis cord would the aenaitive, skilled and cultured oar. Ho would go a mile out of hia way rather than liaton to a band. Pope Loo'a encouragementof bistori cal studies bos been such a marked fea ture of his policy that tbe papal medal commemorative of the eight yeara of his pontificate, joat struck, boars a fig- are representing History, Moriz Jokai is a Hungarian novelist, not a newspaper funny man, aa the name might indicate. He has hit upon a good plan for disposing of the auto graph bore. He announces that he is willing to send a page of htft manu script, with hia signature, to any per son who will send two florins to a cer tain charitable institution of which he is a member. Karl Blind claims that Victor Hugo was of Gorman origin, and Frenchman only by the accident of circumstances. He states that the great poet’s first name, Victor, is really only a Franco- Latin substitute for the true name of Hugo’s father, Sigisbett, which means “brilliant with victory.” He says that there ie ample documentary evidence to prove that Victor Hugo'* ancestors were German artisans. Miss Catherine Wolfe, the philan thropist and religious archaeologist. Greek Ilri'_*uuil*. From data of his own the editor ot the Montgomery (N. Y.) Maud irj has satisfied aimed.f that the Horseshoe Falls have worn ftway more than fifty fltet daring the past thirteen years. Geu. Grant did not like coarse sto ries. It is related that on the Gener al's staff in onu of his campaigns was a rough and ready fighter, “fall of strange oaths” and fttraiiger vulgari ties. One ovoning, in the presence of Gen. Grant and several brotheroflleera, got a mighty good thing to toll yoa. It would hardT u by .a Greek, a cavalry lieutenant, gives sotno very curious accounts of tho system of brig andage as it is now carried on in the Graeco-Turkish boundaries. Tho brl- K aud’s code of laws, ns at present ex- ing, is n strange mixture Of barbari ty and chivalry. It contains several clauses, some of which run as follows: “All traitor* to bo killed and exposed. Tbe rich to flo captured, and not allow ed to depart till they have paid ransom and sworn nut to injuro the brigand* by a relation of tbeir adventures to the authorities. All soldiers to be killed. Tho bearers of tbe ransom to be respect ed and small money to be given them on tbeir dejiarlure. All robbers plot ting with government to bo killed. Should a captive escape, his keeper is to be held responsible and expelled from tho baud. Never to steal the goats aud sheep from the shepherd but to pay for all taken. To offer gifts at any monastery or hermitage, by way of expiatiou for sin.” It is the shep herds who support tho brigands, and by whose means they are so well hid from tho authorities. They supply them with bread, meat, and wine,aerv* them as guides in times of danger, and it is their children that are educated to be brigands and who reinforce their ranks. Immense precautions are taken by tho robbers against surprises. They always travel by night, proceeding in file through the open country, never through the narrow passes, for fear of ambushes. The smallest object, the faintest sonnd startles them, and down they drop flat on thoir stomachs till their confidence is renewed. Before starting on any of those journeys, they always appoint a rendezvous in ease of separation. Their scouts go on in front; driving horses or oxen, and habited as drovers. Under their shelter follows the main body, peeping cautiously be neath the cattle to see if an onemy is approachiog, and behind come the van guard, who, if anything is amiss, whis tles like a-night bird, and tho band dis perses. ogts not a “Garden o7 Eden crank” the Rev. Dr. William Hayes Ward explains, and it was not with the object of verifying the Garden of Eden story she sent him to Asia; although ho adds: “I have thought it worth while to mention that it was in the city of Sippara, the site o which was discovered by E dition, that the Chaldean historian, rosus, says that the records of the antediluvian world were buried, by the command of the gods, that they might be dag ap after the flood.” —Compiled by the Detroit Free Free*. The Hair of Awn Arbor Studenta. legs The The pompadour hair-cut worn by Ann Arbor students is self explanatory, aad the only thing of Its kind known to fame. It is severely classical, Julius Caesar having been taken down with it the night he rolled np his trousers le and waded across the Hellespont barber who performs tho delicate o; ation was pulled green and ripened to order. He has got the business down fine and can talk his customers to death in all the ancient and modern lan- f uages. He always makes change in Qglish, however. The student pom padour is low-necked and short-sleeved on the sides, and is cut en train over the skylight of the intellect This builds the head up in the swamp lands which nature often gives over to hard ness of heart and imparts a collegiate torn of mind to the architectural plan of the whnlo stage business. A young man often enters tbe university with heaa constructed on the cottage plan, with all the bedrooms downstairs, and leaves it, after a few years of intimacy leaves it, after a tow years of intimacy with the pompadour barber, to all ap pearances a thoroughly reformed man. Nature has a way of getting i wn beside Ll na^ed Oil and tte Uses. correspondent to a trado journal writes: Linseed oil ie generally pro- tarod by cold or warm pressing of axsecd. Its employment in the man- nfacturo of oil paints is owing to its drying properties. When spread out in thin layers it dries and forms a solid varnish-liko body. Fresh linseed oil always contains watery and gummy bodies, from which it must be separat ed before being used. The simplest method for purifying and clarifying llnsoed oil consists in storing , it for several months and then carefully drawing it off from the sediment The coloration and oxidation of linseed oil is duo to tho absorption of oxygen from tho air, and it is for this reason that inseod oil should be stored in hermet ically sealed vessels, if possible in tho dark. When linseed oil is to be used for jaints, its drying properties must be in proved; that is, it must be converted into a varnish. For this purpose 2) tarts of litharge are placed into an ron or copper boiler with fifty parts of old clarified linseed oil The oil is then carefully heated to boiling. At the end of about one hour a dirty scam forms on the surface of tbe oil, which must be removed as it forms. Precautions must be taken to prevent tho oil from boiling over. It is advisable to have a proper cover and wot cloths at hand for extinguishing the lira in case tho oil should become overheated. On a argo scale jacketed boilers heated by ■team aro used. After tbe oil kas boil ed three-quarters of an hour, it U al lowed to cool and settle. At tho end of two or three days, sometimes after twenty-four hours, tho dear oil ie drawn off. The linseed-oil varnish ob tained in this way has a pale wine col or..!* clear and irauspareutr-and Mere viscous than the original oil. It does not froth when poured out, and dries to au almost colorless mass. Linseed- oil varnish should bo kept in bottles. It may be grouud with various colors, and used for painting wood, iron, brick-work, etc. Melted together with resins, csjtocially with copal and am ber, it may bo used as a waterproof paint on wood, etc. To make a white oil point, this lin seed-oil varnish ie generally ground with lead; aud iti case colored paiula are to be prepared, ocher, Naples yel low, terra de sienna, chrome red, ver milion, oto-, are added. When wood en floors are to bo painted, they ehould first be saturated with linseed oiL For this purpose tho oil should not be need cold, bat alweys warm, because the heated oil is more fluid, and penetrates tho wood to a greater depth. Oil putties generally consist of lin seed oil, varnish, and litharge, or cal cinod chalk. This putty is gradually couverted into a soap, which u perfect ly insoluble in water. Its hardness may be increased by tho addition of quarts sand er brick-dust la paint ing, the fines; purified and bleached linseed oil is often required. Buoh an oil may bo prepared by treating the varuish, prepared as above, with n so lution of sugar of lead. The sugar of lead solution is prepared by dissolving one part of sugar of load in sixteen pails of alcohol; one hundred pounds of liusuod oil are healed to 86 or 20 de grees, and then thoroughly mixed with five or six pounds of the alcoholic lead solution, i'ho oil is then leil at rest for three or four days, and the clear, bleached oil is drawn off from the sed iment The sediment may be freed from the gummy matter by filtration Like Gen. Grant, the first Napoleon died of cancer. In his ease the cancer was in tho stomach Instead of in the throat. 'It Caused him much severer pain than Grant lufforod. Toward the last ho could not digest hie food. He was tormented by e constant thirst His pulse beat with a feverish quick ness. Ho improved, grew worse, and had oil tho hope, depression and de spair that marked Grant’s illness. Un like the American soldier, ho did not retain is mental faculties to the lest The * j u ms tan ces were different Napoloou was a vanquished men, ft prisoner deserted by his wife, and sur rounded only by the members of hie military family. His last words.j%, ferred to his son and tho army. Graft! not only suffered lees, but his last hours were brightened by a thousand loving words and tributes from wife and children, old army comrades, hie former foes, and the most distinguished men of the world. The beet EagUsh society no the Fall MM iJaaetUtor r Louisville Courier-JtumoL It is as easy to tell a lie as it in to toll the troth, bat U is oot bap so lonesome. —BotUm FttL A Burlington nan asked a what in bis opinion caused the: sickness the year rooad. The < replied without hesitation, •'The Fro* hlnitory law."—BurttngUm Free Prut. An alleged Improvement on the once fashionable onckoe eloek le one in which an owl appears instead of tho cuckoo when the eloek strikes, end “toots” quite naturally. His daylight appearance, however, ie not quite na tural.—New York Evening PoeL The fellow who sent Mr. Cleveland a four-leaved clover, one leef of which wes stuck on the stem with mucilage, will have no influence with the Admin istration hereafter. The latter may be taken in onoe, bnt it will not be twiee by the same person.—Foeton PoeL Thin is the season of the year when Lacy and John come is ruefully from the back piasza and try to explain to an onsympathiziag audience how it was that Lucy’s fragile 100 pounds has broken down the hammock that her pa’e solid 186 pounds swung safely in all the afternoon.—BomervUle Jem naL He was from Louisville. They nt Brighton Beach. She—Yoo-ew have seen Henry Werd Beecher, aw suppose? He—O yes, often. She Eh, and what do yon think cf hie de livery? He—His delivery? O yea Why I don't think U equals either Hecker or Moois, He has no curve, you know.—rilltburg Chronicle-Tele graph. •-SK**!**.-!—* • •• - An old darky was preaching s time since and he sew one of his < gregallon asleep, so he began: “Yon remember when Panl wes prenehiag in the Temple e damsel wes asleep in the fourth story, and she fell down, smash ing all the smashers, aad the frag ments they picked np twelve beeket- fui, and whoso wife will the be in de resurrection?” A gram, Austria, has a comic paper called the Scourge, hut it isn’t as fan ny as it formerly waa The editor has jost gone to the penitentiary for two years, with two fasting days thrown In. and tho publisher got ton months, A humorous article on tbe Unegariaa Parliament, in which the anthoritiee failed to perceive the fun, was the cause of the trouble. His panto alarm me so,” the maid- said (referring to her poodle, which en unruly sow e ebase had led) as she walked with Fitznoodle “Am they too tight?” tbe unteught File re plied, his indignation rising. (H* thought the maiden s mind be oeou- pied, and her soliloquising). Sharp ly she turned, and in her pretty head ' er eyes glowed like a mouaer’st I’ll wod co man so ignorant,” she •aid, “he uses •peats’ for ‘trooserer ” A clergyman’s sou bad heard a greet deal of Jiecoesioa about the manner in which Sunday should be spent, aad in the coarse of it has heard that “God K ve us Sunday ae a day iat made aa Impressioa Last month he heard the and torpedoes exploded la the a treats days In advance of the Feurth. He told a little companion that it wan wrong to anlieipate the day la that way. •God has given os one day oa wkiek to make ail the noise wo can," said ha Harper'i Bazar. A youngster ot 4, rather noted far his depravity than otherwise, was ta ken into his mother’s bedroom the other day aad introdooed to his baby sister, 1 day old. He seemed to look on the new arrival with considerable embarrassment, not oamixed with dis approval, and at the same time to ap- upon him. K iato tbe fact tk^ it devolved upon to say something worthy the oc casion. Finally he remarked, with a rising inflection expressive of great unetuoasness, “Well, I hope sheTlbe a Christian!”—Boston Beoord. A year or mom ago this city had for sale pathie medicines. All a lot of Aa ancient burying ground was re cently unearthed in Paris while di, a trench in the Roe Salanda. % ly do to repeat, of course, in tbe presouce of lad tea” “Well,” Grunt Interrupted, in his firm bat quiet way, “allow mu to suggest, then, that if might be advisable to omit It M thn presence of »» ii—* have beau traced to the seveath, eighth and ninth centuries. They pointed to the east aad had crosses inscribed oa a circle, symbolical of eter nity, end other emblems of Christian ity. The ooflas were fleuad fitted with dirt, their ooeen having given way. loroughly a way of getting tint sometimes, and lying down beside her work and going to sleep before the ■npper-bell rings. This gives the Ann Arbor barber a chance to demonstrate wherein he knows mors about hia bus iness than tbe original architect. By pruning from tbe side of the head and putting on a hip roof where nature had let it go at composition, be generally manages to impart an air of intellectu ality that is warranted to hatch chick ens from door-knobs. If tbe patient has been playing with the university for several years, the intellect is allow ed to project over the brow, to indicate that seats inside are selling at a pre mium. This is tbe only true reason why Ann Arbor students are longer- headed than the rest of mankind.—JPe- troti Journal. - mm $ 'mm\ All of tbe old California towns ere in a deenjed or condition. Some of them, most inking from 1849 to 1861 or 1854, from existence sad lost In , save in the immedinto neigh* whMU they mining deeeving flour- are One of the pillars of our State, n member of the Assembly, with no ed ucation to speak of, but plenty of con' fidence and fondnosi for tbe scand of his own voice, grew excited during the last session over what ho called the “pressure under a bill." ‘•There’s something mysterious in that bill,” said he. “It struck me suddenly, &s if a little bird brought the news. I cap see it in tho air; I can feel it in my bones. At any mo ment there may bo an explosion be neath our feet, and then we will how blind wn zn."—Harper’s Bazar. “I am honest in whet I say, Fm honest!" he shouted, jumping up and down end cracking his heels together. “I want to Bek somebody or get. lick ed! Pm spilin’ for a fight! 1 want gore—gallons of it—an’ I am willing to shed barrels! Gimme exercise • or gimme death!” The crowd dosed in and pounded Mm, and walked on him, and jumped on him, and fell on him and wMpped him cold. Two honre later his only remaining eye opened slightly and ho whispered with a sigh of content: “Boys, I was h6nest This le para dise l”—Drake’/ Magazine. American journalism responds nobly to tbe strain imposed by the silly sea son. A mammoth cave, ehaekfolof writhing rattlesnakes, has been dis covered in Alabama this week; th* Jackson (Ga.) Newt has noted the stoppage of a grist-mill, owing to all the snakes la the pond having erawlad —‘ ri—“sassnaiy n sue tksmss' thereby lowering the water-heed eral feet; the New York enriched the ~ with a snake xjr asaou ner: "ws i that homeopathic -?” She replied: use it, and it was tt did you medieiii*, “I thought ed of in one lot, there being kinds of medicines in the nsaae. A boarding-house keeper bought the let, and some days after the pnrehase the auctioneer asked her: “What did you do with Mrs. I could' •o 1 crushed it toe roller aad filled my sugar-bowls with It Thu boarders seemed to like it aad espec ially when powdered over pies.”—Doe- fern Traveller. No, Claribel we cannot tell you the best way to make elam-frittom We have never eaten a dam-fritter. We have often tried to; but we are com pelled to confess with shame aad ha* millation that we have always filled. We have eaten home-made boarding house bread, and wo live to tail u. And we have even got awir with a rubber doll-beby by mistake for a cruller. But we ham. asuct jut sue- td in eating a dam-fritter. We managed toe fritter part, Ctasi- bat the dam part has always so* to point tho finger ot aeon at us, aad we are wflllag that It thodd do so till the sod of Saw rather than tackleit again, Claribel.—/Wk Smuggling from Canada into too UnitedStates ie oot only very brick, but too eaunten am bald ho tag their budneee. The ▼ertisemeat appears ia tbe border: “For sale—, two milee of too booadaij BaT of Le* colic. Pro vinos of Qnobou ea whfleh a have; row of buildiagB has •pedally for trams pan —#'■ '‘jr- ,, *■>* *•' H-X.