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’ 1: - /•.*'> tf* jiiln 1 u ^r ^^"-‘fcrWijfii Ir xMMMdfc jru^.-Jr-l- -T-i« At 1HE *■ . v - ---.e ■ • V -. i' 1 - •. i Vol. XU. BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., AUGUST 8, 1889. No. UULLABY. - Daylight to dyinjr, > HoinvwarU an> Ilyins' Birds to tbo soft, tluwuy nest; The sun bides bis hood III the dark ooean'* issl. And thou on Ut« heart Mint loves beat. The lamb" ou the wold Are necking tbo fold As shadows ktow eombrr and j.-ray; While the finHly'a K|>ark drams in the dark To show the« to dreamland the way. , ---Hweet flowers nm sleeping, Pale mists crorplwj; Over the mead, up the hill, lo shadowy nooks. By tho rippling htsxikA Wboso waters Unquiet nod still LINCOLN AS A LOVER. ENGLISH VISITING CADS. map- and, ; Thron^li the cloud's silr'ry Taco The unxm'sgentle face Bt-O'to w ith a tender good uight; Then wiiisper thy prayer On the calou solemn air, And dumber till luuruiug i.i bright. *tay the star* ie* they sbijnj ; Ou this jewel of intno Not find thiv, my darling aw '.L^ Out Niuilb o'er tli) elrepnig, With fund toigeN Keeping Watch fur llio Holy One's *nko ! _I - - Var;'iei ito F^con. Women im Drivers. “Why i.i it that women never learn to drivef” said one citizen to another as they held up the |>Ost<»l1kT r Trmt watched a wonmn drive a Itu^gy around the corner on one wheel. “llt'cause rtft re never was a woman yet who wottld acknowledge thalAhe "*■ couldn’t drive. On« of th« Ktrungrst Proposata of Mar riage Kver WritteN. Abruham Ijncoln’s otter of riage was a very curious one. siugularly enough, it has hut recently come to li"ht. ' Numerous his bi- ogi'ftphers have been, and closely as they have gleaned' for new facts and materials, it was left for the latest'one, Mr. Jesse Welle, of Grcelicustle, to dis cover this unique and characteristic pisHlmtion of Mr. Lincoln’s almost untutored mind. The letter is one of several written, presumably, to tho lady ho afterward married. Addiv*sed to "My Dear Mary,” itreadsns lidlows 'J'Yoii tnust know thut-1 XUIUnuCADB: 1 you or think of you with r nil rein iliircreneo,—and yol it may be that yob pii! inistakeikiu regaid ,to what my'ival feelings lovr.ml you an-. It l knew }ou were nm. 1 si rot i hi not ,1 rouble \on with this letter I’erhaps any olhei't.inaii would kiunv enough without ftirlhcr inlojifiation, but 1 consider* it mv peculiar right to plead ignorance ami your lioundcn <luty to allow the plea. I want in all cases to I do right, and mor>t particularly so in all cases with women. J want at this particular lime, more than nnvthing el*e. todn right with you, ami if 1 knew’ il would be doing right, as I raiher sus|tcct it would, to let you alone, 1 t-would do iu And. for the jiur|K>soof n.^king tho matter as plain us jHrs- A CrltUlivai. If one were to shavo tho hair of your Hercules there would mrt. t»o skull enough left to hold his brain; it s:i}s that it is impossible U> (listin* They funnily Cet n Very Cool HereptIon iu llofctoii—Th< Ir II.til Urenitv. The comiCs paj i rs have long made merry unon the ( ihjccJ. of Amcricaii imitation of Knglish ways so .that their jests begin to have ut least the merit ,of antiquity, but the truth is that the unglomuniae fever—if the idiocy is projierly so to be designated —has never extended verv widely or - taken hold very deeply in flostou. In the lirst place, it is dillicult to induce the true Ikjstonian to imitate nnythiug except himself, and this n-lono would have rendered it well nigh hopeless lor tho nnglonianiacs to attempt a t, Ti i ,c fe-i'S ; ™.ni of n.^on,-iiw nw dome of our state house*, is gilded at guish wla tln r hia fe-uturcs nro those H»f a’man or of something between a horse and an ox; tho face, 'too, is turn ’d away front the action of the figures, and is so badly set upon the neck, with such poverty of art ami so ill a grace, that nothing worse was ever seen; his sprawling shoulders arc like the Iwo ponmulM of an ass’ pack saddle^, his -brca*t5 amf allsthe muscles of the b<xly are not Ix’traycd from a man, but f ♦’m a big sick full sibie. I Iiottnaiy you can drop the sub its a wonder to me jecL dismiss your thoughts—if you they cror get nunvhere. or ever get‘ ever had any—from me hn ver, umi haclr again. They will ta‘ tome oi our state house, is gUl home, and after home tmxIrD. Moreover,, it is es’K'cially hard to make anything go here that has been first taken up in New York. Thcrohave been instances where it was necessary tf> receive somcihing at second huml from that city, but as a- rule tho at tempt is ho|xdess. Tho imitation of Englishmen was taken up so slruugly . •in New York that it was felt in Doston that to follow in that track would Ixi t simply to acknowledge that Gotham- ites know a good thing when they see jt, and sooner than come to that tho Boston dude would abandon hi-> dude IkxxI and descend to the level of ordi nary imutals. Tlu*t*e have been a few marriages made betwprn IJoston girls and British subjects,. but they have ; i*Nie*jtw.ty V 1 ' iixhIcIihI from a hag of lanky pumpkins; nobody ran ti ll how hi* two legs are attached to that vile trmilq it i> inrjHissible tosjiy on which leg he stands or which he um's to exert his strength; nor dots ho seem fo lx ifsling upon lx>th, ns sculptors who know something of their art have occasionally set the fig ure. It is obvious that the bodv is loaning foaw ai'd moi'c than one-llilrd of a cubit, which alone is the greatest and most insu, _ * ‘o fault commit- tod by vulgar, commonplace pretend ers. Concerning the arms* they say that these are Ixith stretched out w ilh- out One touch —sf»nrk of artistic talent, just as if you had never seen a nnkcsl model. Again, the right leg of Ilercuh-s umL that elf “Cucus have gin imu m.'msnfMttwh t>c- Fr»>m >v Corpse to • Tlg-r^n*. A traveler from the wilds of ICwon gai has told us the following weird story; A native’s wife was taken | very ill, and before she died she told : her husband (with whom she had | lived on the best of terms, bearing ono | son); *'l have a secret to con tide to , you, which 1 never told before for your sake and the child's. When 1 din do not nail up my cottin, but leave it for a time out on the mountain. Have two live fowls, ready in the house, for after 1 hav6 l»cen dead a hundred days I will return to the ryllm of living men for a time and come back' to our home. Near not; but if 1 make f<>r the child otter 'mo the 4wn» fowl* enrLbuy that you your-, self will^hcml the infant and that, I need not Ini anxious; that Ik*!weei the dead and. the living a gulf is fixed, ami that I should rest among th4fd«qHU»to4 and not—come bark to trouble the child.^ 1 will hx>k at you fixedly fora speB, take the fowls, strangle them and begone, never to return. My Ixxly will not.lie down again iu'ita cottin, hut will Ixitnmsformcd into a ■ Hriug tty.r; nnd if hemifR'r you homo out to the place rind sec the clothing lying by the cottin you will know that mv words have come truer” 1 folding her husband's hand she ex- SVIirii IVrf^etlim Brin** W»Sl. Ilorsc racing, in Itself, Is Jicithcr de grading nor anything tlso U»at t* bad; a race is a heautifarand exhilarating sjsx - tacle, and quiet men, who never bet, aro taken out of thctnaclves in a delightful Cashion when the exquisite tltonxigl^-' hreds thunder |Kist. No sensible man supposes for a moment that owners and tminers Imyo any delilierato intention of improving the bretsl ©f horses, but. uevey- tlieless, these sjdcndid tests of six-ed aim endurance undoubtedly tend indirectly to produce a fine breed, and that is worth taking into account. The survival of tho fittest is the law tl*at governs racing studs: the thought and observation of clever men arc constantly exercised wUK a view to preserving excellence and Chi DAM WlM* Wine ousting is said to have existed for thousands of years beforu the lotro- ductioiv of distilling. The process Is slm-*. pic. Glutinous rice, or hsTang-nil, (p [•laced over a fire in a large iron [Bin Mid softened w ith warm water. It Is roada into a thick, solid sort of gruel This steeped rice Is placed on a A*hk> with raised edges to prevent Uto fluid fron\ overflowing. Over the rice, when in, this state, the leaven to aid Yenuctitatiori is sprinkled. The whole Is then mixed and numbed with an iron muMicr, and remains in a large stoneware jar foy several days. 1/ the wine U desired us be of a sweet taste two days sru enough; but for wine witliout sweet taste four or tivu days are required. To. otaku the ethinews a view ki|lJ of wlne Wronger the Chinese etiminatin^ «> U.at llttln byiittte - brewcr ^ , irit Aftor we have.contrived' in tho enur*. of a tlie aIM , U uli logrtbet UgiUU. Aliev win tako hair- brt-adtli chancrK that n.mTTr frightf n ruan, uhlt ttiink notliingof tlieni.’’ ymi r\cr unti-e one thing?" od oiii* (»T the sotrms. “When a oman drives she will alway* h t the p rolx* hang over the wheel. Now look there- look tlx re I” , ' T’he woman whfrharHirTVC’n-around tip; rornt-r Wur .mmLug—UaA 1 UtU:- ) i.Tftnn7.1S w r rc~v'tmT»Tu"~ nT TtT« -"shT; •' .iT the buggy. Imt.Ikcy, nhidird-hL leave tiii* letter unaiisweivd without calling forth one uccttxing mur mur from mo. .And 1-will*even go further, ami say that if it Will add anything to rrmr eomfort and |»caco «>f ijiind to do so, il is my sincoro uiwh flurt-Vmi should. Do—rmt umJerstuiul by this -that 1 w ish to cut vour uc- q(tnn»t.viH ; .e7 F frr-nrPTu) such thing. 4 do wi-*h - tv -tbirt-rrar furtticr «las)i Isntnl. und sawed the reins in a manner that made tin sides of the road at once. She drew up to the curbstone with n flourish. “(ItiC-.H she kimws you,' fsud the man who had last sjM.ken. “Yes. ll’s my other sheepishly as buggy nndOet wile." said the lie .stepped^into tlie buggy and let hi* wife drive him liome.—Detroit Five I’rvsu, acquaintance s>hall bo (a-i>erur upon Xuithcr acquaiut- hucc would contribute nothing to horse take U»th—your tinpj.incsS, l ;nu s»pre it would iH*t to imlie. If .you feel yourself in *iv degree Umnd to me, 1 tun now willing to release you w ish it; while, on the am willing ami even anxious to bind not bcenso uumerou.sas in New York, y**'---- •• e . and iu any cvwo ll., v have not intro Iween Ihvm. w that IT ll,o.v w.-.-c to 1« .laved tde dednen of beinn la.-tfih. •' yi«'-atvd n.,t only one o hen, bn a U i» also iwssibltt ill.a Uouoninn. i'<<thev. wonld he lefl ivnhoni are h ^s able to einbmr+tie an f* 11 a ‘!, hc l“'iht «beiT they are onteln romance of avert««-vlas,of Ktlglfcllii ">!?• They say. too that Here,, les has link than are .\evv VovUvrs. Il is.witl, 0 ," c ’°T r "' t “",*»■ " l " 1 , ° leas iodulveoec that wo leceivo tbo Ibe other seems o Iw rodmiton coals; prajila and odditiesof |sa>plc uUost> lAiivcnuto bellml bymotids. o'C-vident1 yftiCf tt»Kt hr , ^ ——■— — - kn» tlivy haro -cuuus. to u u»sUa*«.-UM T^ 1 ’! jlilfl*iV“‘TiiltliflHlifiu«—■ i land wTu'he it is no loncror necessary The largest tree in Great Britain, to olwerve lira proprieties of life; a nml ono of the most famous, is tho fashion which' beget* ~a gruyo suspi- ^_L'ion that rcsjKx'LiIde manners Aiust Imj ut all times uncommonly irksotsc to •c''Ti pired. Tho ghost appeared at due date, of jym^o or one n.ar did .'ns tire living wife had foretold and disapiieared in tho jungle, and when the man visited the eottin some days after he found Lite cast olF grave cluth(*s. and wept when he thought of Thrfr former happy IITe together and her straugo fato. While indulging his tears lie saw a tigress stalk from century to approach equine perfection. If a twelve stone man'were put up on Bendigo that magnificent animal could give half a mtio starj, to any Aral) steeti that ever was foaled and run away from tho Arab at tho finish of a four mile cmirso. Weight need not be considered, for if the eastern bred horse only carried a [vwtago stamp tho result would be much about llio same. Minting could carry fourteen stone across a country, while if we come to mere sfieod there Is ratty no knowing what horaea. liko Ormonde, Energy, Prince Charlie and others might have done had they been pressed. If ThA Gently he stroktsl its stri|*cd bock and with u melancholy roar it lx»UJided away. No deed of blood w:is ever known to t>o wrought by this most the average Englishman sine f C he so 0>wthor|>c oak, in Yorkshire, which is Ix'lieveihto l>e some fifteen hundnsl years old. When Evelyn undo hr* “Silva,” in the Seventeenth century, iia .provided vou^ gladly lays them aside on the si igditcst its circumferrnco at the ground sy: 'other hand I jx.ssilde excuse.. The idea of being ' 7b feet, hut lati^carth was Tanked u A <'*Uovt Arll«t. In the I’arnell eomnii- sion court a youth was engaged in making .some sketches for an illustrated |m»ik.t, and liehind a hurlv genthnian, who might liavc been tak'-n for n « ouutry. magistrate. The % latter ^watched tho young nrtis’t.for a whll«-. nnd lhe<i^ touching him ou the s!ioUhter,.V( h- turod to ol>scrve that thi* aid that t .f 1 1 I. » v. ^ ind tho other jM.ints of ih - >' ■ i«'!i v.< re not s-xactly wliat they .should Ik*. The nr- simply r. phV;l l.y /inquiring: “WhaLdo yo i kuo-.v alk.ut itf’ - Tin) gcnth iruin )H-isisted igj,judly an'hjs'r- MiaJvo rfhii’isih. Atl«*ugui tl^c Vouili, convinced that afteruu, th'* criticism was just- iiwb'isl, the gentleman had himself taken tho - drawing block n d made the nccesviry alterations with his ow ii hand . ivinarkul: “W-.ll, you do ti.'cni t ) know something aU.iit it, certainly,” adding, “nra you otiyiny pajH-rt' VNo, ' aiisweird llie ggnt|e : ito-iu. “I nm not on-any p.i|»er, hut I dou lutid juiuting nowauahtluui My_ name is JoiiU Millais, ^t’iucajointer Uccau. vou fasier, if l can be convinced tiiat it will iu toiv degreo add to your ban- IHlie.vi. Tlijs, ill dtwd, is the whole qacstion with me. Nothing would make me mure miserable fliaii to l)e- heve you miserable; nothing more happy than to know 1 yon were so. Ih what 1 have now said I think i cannot be misunderstood ; and to indie my*cif irndeAtood is tho only object of this letter. If it suits \ou lr*st not to answer this, farewell. A long life and a in* rry one attejnl you. But if y* i ci.uenuie lu-v. rite-bm k. speak as d.difly as I do. There can l»e neither inrm nor danger iu s.iying to me any* thinir \mu think, just iu the manner \ou think it.- Your friend, EimvLN.’* Erohably this is the qinei'est lovo letter on.ie«'ord and the most remark 1 nblegtlVrof marriage ever inadc. Itisa Ime 1( Iter witlmal a word of love and a projsis.il of. marriage that dcx’A uoi [uojiose. — indiana|M)lis JournaL f.onl I.cm.»U«I«-'<» lUu.Mlrr. All tin* way around from England ttc grt—tho information that l/.rd journey towar Ixmsdahvin bis journey toward the north imiIc. came \ijh>ii a. nation of Es quimaux. th«*i'artiM.ti and ^ilH»n Diver and-4h;*t jd»*vvi*Fe «U.rtH-»>six tiuinlKi .d nitfiifti>t»l» imd feet tall, ami have a way of (ih coVating a very heavy rent iv p^id for the pl.-./a, tvtiul a ll.tll ri^lit Cotin. The cost of one of’these corrida/r may Re Ssifoly reckoned at not less than Ad.aUO. Then: are g< ucrally six hulls killed, and these average fiom ITO to LUX) cachr Horses nix* con tracted for, and are bought flit simjdy “kidmkcj*' jii ices'; sometimes as iiumy as twenty-live aro dtmo to death. Then: an: gonendly three espados, and these, with thiir ciudrillus, may Ik; taken, (»no with aiftjtlicr, at a|)OUt A'c’.V) each. ’ Then HTei-o i* a verv lango anti tlie govcrnmenl lax, or “contrihu- cion," is also a considci'ahle item. Tho “gate’’ may be estimated, given a “full house"—aid it is almost always fairly filled—at somu AUidJ'JU- 1 am told that tts regards tho amount a famous t^pnrhi may make thr.t Gucr- rita, a very famous espada, though harilly more than a boy—for be is still in hi.s^lth year—has uli'cady, ut only tho beginning i f the season, signed engagements lor sixty four corridas* at rj'JO each 1 When it is calculated that, nt tho outsHle, Ids' following will ut*t tako more than about ITO of this, tho amount that is left upjK'ni'sp very fair salary for a man —or. to s|>cak nioi-o com*ctly, a lad— who probably had a dillieulty in attaching his signaluro lo his contracts. — All tho Year Hound. '"ihein.selves with a gash in the cla-ew for every enemy killed. This is jmro nonsense; ft>r no Esquiinaux trilx.-yv* .eragos 5 feel 8 hu^ies. ami tione jt»f jthem are givch to killing or to tattoo ing. Tho Esquimaux do not "o to war, rarely kill u [H'rson, Hint aro Tjflj*nj4eKs ctoeopt in tho way of theft. ? J'h(*y arc relies of the old cave dwell* —ers of ante-historic |*eriods. and never an' know n i:s warritu-s. War i* a de velopment of later races. . land l>»us- dalo made a mistake iu not g**ing on t(? the jh'Ic jin iinagination. lie could easily have reached it.—Bt. Louis (Ho be-Democrat. Genius Sti(Tt*r» Another luji.kltee. ■ It is learned that tho so called Pigs in-Clovcr seheino was jiatent cl ten oj: iiioro years ngo. and that when the latest “iiirenloi'” Hjiiilied for a iintent lie discovered that it was not obtain- • able for this reason. 1 le is said to havo, realized moi'c than $lU(>,(itTt) of before tho game played out, and ho was only brought up with a round turn rt short time ago, when the orig inal patentee secured an iniunction i*e- straining him from conducting his business any longer. But by tfmt timo tho craze had died out, and the orig inal inventor is no liDtlcr off than ho would have been if he had not discov ered that his natenlhad been infringed. “■—lmiiaiia|>olis Journal. cent beveragrs. Cii^tt.u* nit of iimu.iicntfi. In cxefcisili 0 , A collector of Japanese art basin to bo afraid of tho his [Hisscssion a wry curious bit of tho sanio'time, to dioose violent diver- handiemft, a “cobweb iMtli^ a boo on- sions. ^ The youth or maiden who is --tangled in its meshes.” This ca.storn ; in ylio Jiahit of playing baseball or gem is so eoiisfructed as to “eover lho lawti leiinis and quite accustomed to hasp or latch on two halves of a slid- i the exercise may.pluy it on a hot day UuU'» for Hot \Ve:»llier. Peviccs for mitigating the cfTc.cts of the hot weather are endless, and most of them useless. I lore are three tried and trustworthy iimxims % for hot weather condul't, and outside of them tbero is no trick or device by means of which the dog star can \k> circumvented. Those maxims arc: 1. W car as light and loose clothing as you dare. 2. Take plenty of exercise, but in a calm way. 1 3. Drink no alcoholic or efferves ce in exercising, the great point is not o neat; but not, at polite out of consideration for himself is up|»arciiliy one which lias n.-ver ih iK irutcd into the head of an Eng tishman, or if it has he lias been kept carefully at home, that foreign lia- tunwshtmld not nco him and discover, the weakness of the land I One of the well known Britishers who have been here on lecturi-ng Itmrs during the last few years was invited with Ids wife to stay at house of peojilc t>) whom he nan brought It tiers of intixxluetitm. The |m-oj>1u were of old Boston families, and of an exiiuisite courtesy such us England miglil well envy weiv there any gmund for aupjxasing could ai'preciate il. —A ♦Vinner was made lo honor the English quests,j and to it were hidden jieople ot nq»u- tations which tifiind on In>iIi sides of tho water. When the guests came into tho.drawing room after dinner, the distinguished lecturer, w ho was a ininnto man, looktsl contemptuouslv about, and then cast himself at fuH length on the heal th rug, remarking iu a lone of much indignation: “These Americans are so beastly ; 'big; nmt Thry never think to get « chair any ordinary mortal fan .sitDiI" Tho feelings of tlie host may be im- ; aginod. Un another occasion this fiume gen tleinan was at breakfusLut the Iioiisc of a lady hci'o, Vk>licu ho took occasion to*say, in his most blatant manner: ■ | ^Uh, you know thercain't any com- j pariso n between English mail tiers and • yonrS over lien*. Yvt: iTorfl expect %'oU Ju knoAv any of the relinemeiiU of life.-** “But we learn a little from visiting Englishmen," smoothly and sweetly i oflserved tho daughter of the house, a ' girl just out of-Achool. Again a cockney who would in England never have been received at ali into thd- house's of what In* was pleased tosjicak of : s the“genti*y,'’save for Inc fact that he had done some heavy historical work, looked about him in the parlor of a gentleman ' whoso nunio even his counjiymen know enough to honor, and observed sujKi'ciliou.sly -. “Its so inlcresting to mingle with # the lower classes. 1 never do ut homo, you know.” •" “lie must bo.deucedly lonely, then,” , was the comment' usido by ono who overheard .him, but was Uk> jK)lito to .jsay it aloud. • ; t)n a not herjoccasion, however, when 1 lids sumo cad mado a sinuiar speech he did get an answer according lo his foil up amund it, which covered some con siderable projections nnd reduced its girth. At the beginning of llm century its branches overshadowctl an area of half an acix* of gixmtid. The toj> or leading hnmch fell at aotno un- ivcor<l<sJ <l:it' > .cqi iou-.lv slij'j.ingslow u into tlie he How tj-unk, where, it re maiitcd. In the last century one of tho main brunches which was blown vcsl to he IMi feet in h ngUk and yielded five tonsof timber. Whi n carefully in.-n*tmd by Dr. Jtasoj). in 1821) the girt IT" of the tiec at—the gmund was GO feet, and nt a yard above 4.) feet; the chief remaining limb was 50 feet long, and its eircum- fen neo 8 fe t and tlie luighlof tlie tree was 15 f.-i t. It was then hollow to the top. for many veal's saplings raised from tjiis treo w< resold.in jxjts by the villagers for us much iw* a guinea apiece. It is now a vcnecablo ruin, but !ii»*t picturesque in its de cay. It stands in a gireil pmklock. C.Tn fullv protected from injury, with its ancient limbs muj»j*oi ti tl by jirojis. lYu idiu of il-i size may he gathered from the i*t:rt(inciit that »:t h ast forty j.rr5tn:s can stand withtti its cavity, und that its circumference is greater than that of tho Eddy: tone lighthouse, which was confessetty designed on tho model of un oak.- Garden and Forest. , Emir of Hail were to bring over fifl)t «f Ids best mares tho New market trainers could pick cut fifty fillies from among , i i.® J. i • < •# their arcoml rate aninials, nnd the worst he jungle nnd knew it was his wifo_. J . ^..-r m-xr* 1^. .i i . # . r ~ 1 ; .-trf tlie fillies could distance tlie best of transformed into a new existence., *v . . . . the Aral^ r.n any teruiN; w lule, tf fifty hents w ora run off over any coursHtfroni half a mile to four ruilea, the BngliKh homes would not Umo one. The ebam- penile ligrtsisca on tho nioiUrtWHL- H 0 ** Arab of tho wt^ld svafl utaU^ied 'jTTrti thrTfiitd hus grown irp aridprcer " tlwwswt tliorought>re«U- Tn training; tho English “plator” carried about II vo stono tuoro than tba pride of ' tho east, and won by a quarter of a mile. Uncortsciously tbo brooder* of racem ! have Ixx-n evolving for us tho ewiftost, ! strongest and most courageous liorno known to the woild, and we cann<4 afford to neglect that consideration, for [tcoplo will not strive after perfection unlesa perfection brings proJiL—llw Contemporary Review. [ws.—5Sun Francisco Chromclc. 4 Wuia-n Who C»n*t KtrrrUr. • But no matter how lino a w<Mnan’s eostumo may bo, she must have phy sical health if she wishes to l*o attract hm, and foe Hra pfrr[*»w; eTerrisn is’ necowisy. Many women are unable -to take exercise, fiowever. Ono of the into a pivssing chest of wood caUed the wine presa. A heavy sLnne presaew il down and the w ine flow* out from a sort of teapot spout in the side of th* press. Thfr remainder of solid matter lscaUe<t tsan, and is UM-d to feed animats or as a ferment Tho method of dbtiiitBg waft introduced k\ tlv* Yge* dyws*ty. Tct tlie wooden cylinder which bokia th* millet there uro three cover*. Tho outer and upjwr ono contains cold water keeps tlie second ono cool to com tlie spirit. The spirit rises front softened jpl rurtVt below, which iss n under manipulation for days, and |.nssc» through tho first to flie Hee.iinL It hers becouMS densed und flow* down tho sides i»t«* a triangular trough which receives, t| aiid delivers it from a spout WINLma and Morrison’s dictionary and Lcgg't classics seem to have been compiled wit)} the impression thattheCfcineae practiced distjlUtiiinJp apciouttiiui s. This is or* error. Tlie Chim**# only knew tbs or dinary process of fermentation Recorder. n on to M;tk« an llolinn Ifurp. Ilavo any of our young fi-icmlscver seen nn eolian harjif It greatest olxtaclo* ih the way of j)re- scribtn^ exorcise for TliC aiTments of women is the fact that tlie constitu tions of many women are so weak that nn ordinary amount of tnuscuhtr exercise tires them out and really does 1 them harm; nnd if 1 limit them to a simple exercise liko walking, my ; treat limit inspires no coiihdcnoe. Mo-t jx-f.ple think that no good can lx; derived from a Tntrsculor exercise that does not consist in revolving iiround a horizontal liar, swingingclul»*;dM»ut the head, bounding over u tennis lawn, or pro|»ollmg n bicycle or tri- t cycie, and many women who try this kind of thing and find it d.M-s them harm give up exercise in despair und take to i)H*diciuc f«.r r. li* f. Tlie fact is that a genemtion or two of idiciio.ss or lack of p:s»|^-r physicnl culture on *hc jKirt of t’uoir female nn ' cc^tor.s bns cu'.:. • 1 tlij C'*tr'l*‘ution of | a largo proixirtion. oi the women of i this generation to Ih-unlit for physical exi-rtion of any sort hut the most nnxl- rmte kind. The [.n sout mge (or out- 1 door sjHjrts on the part of young girls Is a welcome assursniec that before long tho phjsiquc of tho average wo man will attain something like its proper standard. It seems almosjlim- ' jKis*ihle, however, to jH-rsuads h const i j tuliouully weak woman to lake regu- | larly that blight amount of cxqmso •w bich she can stand ii|thout doing her harm. It seems so trilling that she Chll.l XVhrM. The Indian reformers whq have taken- -Vernon. . j'’ A Ikus no faith in it—rhysiciau in New instrument made by the Greeks many y^.g Tribune centuries ago.-nud hung among the trees, or where the wind could blow I ujhih it, making a low, soft, uiu*i» al | sound. The Bajitist -Weekly tells hi.w to make one, # which is very easily done and inexponsiye, for most of the material can be found nlxmt the house: ! “Wax a jiieco flnf buttonhole tw ist alxmt two and a half feet long; tic each end strongly to a small |H-g, and thrust tho jx'gs down tho creyice be tween the two snshesof yofirsoiitjicrn' or w(stern windows, stretching tho .yilk as tight cs jiossible. It will sur- puiso \ou the sweetness nnd variety of tho tones the wind will bring from it. I lin ing dono this you may bo moved to go further nml prepare a more elalH>ralo eolian hnrp. i Tl.»* VnIi.« of Slorp. \V(* all know that sleep is ns neccs- sary to the support of’animal life as f*HHl. . Our viLil machinery would k<mmi wear out without it, nnd if it were not for tho intervals of ‘health ful ins* irsiliility that sleep affords to tho brain we. should all go mad- with too much thinking. Ami, although some very smart modern philnsophcrs have advanced tho th(*ory that it is.: possible for man to live and enjoy life without sleep, the doctrine, liko tho equn 11y, a bsu I'd dogma that it is jH>*.si- hle to hvo without sustenance, is m \ manifestly ttljsurd that common senso laughs it to wcorn. — Bui Ih.h1 is not for bleep solely. Wo in hand tho remarriagoof girl widows find no difficulty in obtaining plenty of candidates. Where tnxff.h) cornea in is as to tiio <liH|xwnl of llieso matriiLsmi.dly disjHswHl ladies pending the disrovery of suitable partners. No sooner <hie« a widow announce her intention of snrnr- iug another husbmvl if shn ran t)mn nhe is disowned by alt her kitli ami kin. cut by her acquaintances nnd iu Home coms sent adrift lo pick upa living for herself. Tho reformers feel under or. obligation. tlwH'furo, to soften tho severity of tlie martyrdom Iu best ot their ability, and with Uiat object widow- homes have t»oun CbtaLihibcu hero and there. Tlie cxjiedieut is, p rhajw, as g(HMl a ono ns could Ik> devised,,but the.managers of tho laHnes aro not to boenvie*!. In order to carry «xit tho rest u4 the srhemo suit ors havo to Is) admitted to tusks ehoieo among tho bereaved beauties, aud then, of course, a certain amount of philan dering in list be allowed to enahio the idgli contracting parties to come u^erins. All maternal heads of families well know* that oven when only ono affair of tills sort is going on in a household, a deal of finesse and circumspection often. Live to be exercised. Dire, then, must have been tho jwrplcxltlc* of tho native matron at tho Julpigori itomo lately, w hen twenty-five uumrous youths were daily courting ns many skittish widows. Tho bridegrooms ox|x*ctant actually had tho audacity to apply for lodgings in Die bouse» but tli la icuvMd was. ot course, sternly refused. Since, however, the system apjicara to bring nts.ut a consid erable tin in Lrr of marriages, tiieso littlo b«lkM mi Wa Of the relics of Gen. George Washings ton nono, perhaps,, exceed in interest o* aro more valuable on account of tlwir associations than the oollectk.it nom ow ned by Mr. Lawrence Washington, of .Marshall. Fauquier county, Virginia, who inherited llu-m from his fnth<T, CoL John Augustine Washingtm^ th# List of the family In ownership of Uounl This gentleman inherited thorn from Judge Hiuhrod Waahington, ant| ho frtxu lien. Wasbingtoo. Those rcll^ kept nt Mount Vernon from the time of Wasliington till that property passed from tho possession of th# Washington (aniily to tlie I<adW association, are more intimately associated with Wash ington’s homo aud,- having been for nonrly a century in the poeeewdon of hig midu heirs, arc probabljmoro tatimatcljs assoebted with his name Uuui any other collection, and while every article in it h highly interesting thee# are two pfec(# Of turqiassing biU*reat net only to Albi cans, but also to tho people of Franco. Tin-first ia j.omi of hiterrst isafuli length engraving of Louis XVI, presented to Wusliingtou lv that unfortunsto mon- arch, wlHMe su[ip.rt of tli# American colonies in th.-ir struggle for indepepd- mbs ao largely contriliuVed to hisow r^ desfructiorf by the impetus gi'en t<^ litienil klens. Tlih engravtag (the ontf one of its kind, tho plate, having been de stroyed with that ioto^t), to'make th# present more of u personal coiiipliiuent, was accompanied by an autograph letter from Ixxii.% w hich was burned «itli % nuuils'r of other vaiuabl# popers about tiio eliHo of tho lute civil war. Tho oilier relic deserving special node# is a statuette of Neckar, to die pedestal of which nro attached two flhias plates, On tlie upper pinto is the inscription, “(Jui nobis rcstituit rein," and on th# lower, “Presented t# Oeorg# Wosiiing- ton. rr(*si.lviit of the United State# of America,’ by his most dutiful, meet obedient und most humble servant. E#< talng, a citizen of tiio stato of Georgia, imperfections in tho machinery may be by act of February U,n«a.#nd#citi*on pardoned. TIkto is no fato more terri ble than that of tho Indian child w idow*, doomed tonn isolated und hopeless cx- inicnco whllo yet in ber early teens,— Ixiudon Globe, of France, 1700.”—Washington Cor. Noaf York Herald. lake some quuiti r inch \\(vk1 nnd j* |0 ( j owll toslutnlx-r, but wc |),*u»s many muke a box the h-iiglli of your wm^.; an |, our j n bed calculating, ))laiining, clou hanu'. four or h\o iik Ucs deep hoping, imagining. Tho course of our and six or seven incli.-s wide. Lorca i; v L iZ ^l.u.w-L L.nu, A.toMfc ^ .dIV. - . “I flliould think it would -givo ycfii noonle a queer feelhig to go to En^- laud und meet your social suj'criors, ’ ho observed to a couple of ladies who were infinitely abovo him in every way. - “It must bo a strango scr.s:ition,” ono of them replied, with tho serene air of one who comments ujioii tho weather. “Don't you find ilsor” And it luis never bolm whether the cockney saw tho pointer uoL The chances aro that ho did uoL —Boston Courier. few* .small holes in a circle near w liat v. ill ho the upjM r side of tho back of the box when placed in Ilia window ~ - with the open snip of'the box. Fasten two bridges like violin bridge's, ono ut each end, and alren-liV>n them several strings of fine catgut, contriving ft scries of screw pins to aid iu the tight stretching necessary, and allow of ! their being tuned to ono nolo. Then , raise your sash on tho tho house; and tho wind through the hole and* over the string? will, m its rising nml falling, maK< vert music..”—Boston Budget lives is shaped, to some ejiU'.nt, a« wo lie between the sh(*ets nnd blanket-*. Of the still night nnd early morning a is* born mighty schemes Oint a/c car ried out iu the stirring day. Tho mind aw akes from a profound and dreamless slumber with all its faculties invigor ated and emboldened. Difficulties that njqiallcd us when fatigued and over worn, lose half their terrors in tho of nn intellect strengthened I Ills Accnn.pli<.hed Mottier. The family clergyman was paying a social visit to tlie household, and a lit tle boy about 5 yeai-s old was brought rase may.pluy it on a Lot day tlo boy about a y ean old whs brought >u»4»»>r f -tot.(vhaiX -ot the Uons# ro- iciJwIcly #wd jiia)pJa.4iho.ai^. ou^,^^uMf.)uax>^^^U5J^i^wivus. maining on the fixed loaf, while tho in the habit o? rralkiu" n fair amount During hi« nor lion of tho prog^aiiTmo other half may lx; drawn away.” Tho . have nothing to fear, but everything ho shewed the clergyman how" nicely ^vprkmuushij) of both weh nlml insect to gniipfrom keeping up their custom- ho could turn a handspring. He then are described as remarkably delicate nry exercises in summer. But exeem asked tho minister—if ho could—du and beautiful, attracting marked at- tionul pbysiuul tests should certainly that. The niumler said he guessed ho toutiou.—Har| >c, ’ ,,, Bazar. ( l<>»cil Room*. Queen Victoria is in the habit of keening rooms which have been occu pied by deceased relatives locked up. The njiurtineuts at Claremont iu which tho Princess Charlotte diod more than seventy years ago ai^c closed, and ik>: '* . , » presence ot nil intellecl strenglnencd w indy sido of by perfect rest. Sle<*j) to the brain viml passing what pro-dration on (lie bosom of their . , ^ mother earth was to tho Titans; wo falling, make from it “giants refreshed.” There an; both strength and wisdom in tho pillow, else why should tho propriety of consulting it have into a i>ioverb?—Boston Globe. fliMtlj Addicted to the ItallriMMl Fam TInbit. A k.bbyist at Springfield, Ills., wlto had been a mtlroad (feadheud for many j years, was called to bis home, about forty miles from Lbteago, by n telegram an, j uouncing the serious illness of his wire. ' When he reached Chicago It waaJato in tho evening, and there was Imt ono morb train to his town that night. As ho wa& waiting fur the train timo ho noticed the conductor was a hew man, whom ho did not know, and then for tho first timo ho called to mind tho fact that ho had left his annual [.ass over that road in his room at Springfield, Approaching tbo con ductor, ho introduced himself and told tho circumstances, said that all tho old conductors knew him, and he never had to show his puss to them, so he had been , n m [ tho few people wha happen to p#,-’ careless nlxmt it.' tronize tlH’in aro s|tU Mwe to havp # fojf “I havo no doubt it is all riglit," said tbo conductor, .“but I cannot carry you.'* “But,” said tho gentleman, pleadingly, W hat 'Mvka* Hi# poft# At least in ono way tho public gener ally have been benefited by tho influx of Mongolians into this country. Tbo Chin ncso nt one time threatened to com-, ph-tely tnono[x>lizo tho kaundry businee# throughout the United* State# Thera was only one w-ay for the American laundry men-to fight them, pad that waft by doing superior work. TTie American^ realized this, and rose to tho occaskm. Every device for improving their tuodo of washing ond ironing ctothea W04 rapidly taken tip. &iean* laundries multiplied everywhere, and their sys- tem w as gradually perfected until mow no ktundry workmanship •» finer than the American. Ou the other band th# Chinese Ifttvc not made the slight**! effort*to keep up with th# Americar; system. They havo no bfe* o| progrees. .# bo avoided under a burning sun. Father sod Son. There is tho wxll known story of ■clergyman wbo was preaching in lit son’s church. The son was addict- Lgjd to w hat Ins father considered fool- r "V£ '^»h excchses iu ritual, uud w hen the pld geutleinau gave out us his text, -DHtGfiS.* uixiu. my son, • . • . * | * lunatic.” the smile winch went the. church might he well cx- iierolhu um;x[x*ctcd iiluc-ssof cniiarced by the for jesting. —All And absolute inaction is as bad in hot weather as at uuy other time.—Iks* tou Transcript. -• LA — : • '• EV Aston (•hi ng Caduranc*. A local society woman tends this Story: “Un# night at the tea table tbo couldn’t now, but he could when ho was a littlo boy. “Then you aiu’t 'as smart as my mother,” returned young America, “for slio can do it just as ell as I can.”—Bridgeport News. Dot* In the Kitchen Store. A lady on Middle street, on taking conversation turned to the seven bro- -off tho cover of her stove-yesterday Albert s aua'rTrncTi'is- a homo aud Bulinoral arc.nll kcjH pre cisely ns they were w hen ho was alive, and on the wall of the ro#m hi w hich ho died thoro is a tablet, with an in scription recording.tho fact that “this ! ajurtment was lite scene of his de mise.” John Brown’s rooms at Wind sor have also been closed since his death and marked with a large brass sign, with an inscription commemo rating his virtues aijd deploiqug his loss. —London ixstterT^”^- Tltw Secret «f Ilmutj. The secret q(Jx;auty is health. Tlioso wjio desili* to he beautiful should do all they can to restore their health; if ^ nnu l ’ rm f‘ > i,i|Vft| l ;'rrn|y ^ 11 )f they (V !! M : so r? * I:IV 0. it , No ono con lay clown T T1.« eonrf.»>»n» specific rules for other jHxmle in these mutters. Tho w’ork whicu one may do, the rest he must take, lus baths, his diet, his e.xerciso, are mattersof in dividual consideration, but they must he carefully thought of and never ueglected. As a rule, when a nersoti feels well he looks well, and wfien he f( > eD badly he looks badly as a general tliirg. There are times when one could guess, w ithout looking iu the glass, that his eyes were dull aud his skin was mottled. This is not a ease my wife is very ill. I must go home on this train.” “I am sorry,” replied tho conductor, “but l cannot carry you.” “Is there anybody around hero author* Ized to iskiuo a pass? Anybody wlio can with John aud to run # very tykely chance of losing tlftdr linen If they should happen to mislay the pigtail’s hieroglyphic check, which he furnishes in the first place as a receipt for tho clothe*.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho'conduetor knew of nobody around tho depot who had tiiat authority. “Well,” said tho lobbyist in despair, “1 Khali havo-to drive out there, and I don’t know the road, and It will taka.me all night anyway.” Tho conductor was at bat touched by the lobbyist’s predicament and aokl: “1 can’t carry you for hothing.'btit 1 will advance tho money to you ir 4 “Thunder and Ugbtntngr* exclaimed the lobbyist, smiling it! over; *Tvego| a thousand dollars right here in my pocW after the other married-iW i ii r-■ —, —-t j- - --- - man, os each one died the brother next impossible for the dove to have entereu younger marrying the widow. ‘For any other way ihan down the chimney pity’* sake I* cried our 8 year-old Ixiy, snd through me stovepipe, pferhaf*# •bow long did the w idow lastf n —' having fallen into the chimuey during - ” lw - j- the nighW—Kewburyport Ilerold.’ nu ITa.n Dealer. turkey, ora Imshel and a half of pom, or ten pounds of cotton, or h.bushel and a half of jioiatoca, will pay for The Weekly Star out* year. — W dming- ton Star. -v uglily. To have id bright cyco. jlio circaEuar n'nuscsoTn # fresh complex tot} am ev^n to have white hands ami a grace ful figure, you must be well.—I^unr-* Vcrly Itcview. When he came hoeY he sold: On th* FAs* *f ## Kx^lnston. A doctor hapixincd lo be telling ItU f&nuiyof an: uesjed at a patient's house during th# day. “Mr. Browu,** said th* doctor “was not seriously ill, hut his wife {*#ty mado mailers worse andJiersety supreme ly ridiculous by rushing in hud out fik# a wet hm.” Tlte doctor's tou. very bright bojrof aU, 1 his fatlirr said this, a word*. A day or two-ftftarwprd* Brown called o# and wlwn Bob came into tha i down on a stool and visitor. By and by he i ly. “Mrs. “Conduct.>r. if you hadn't mentiooed money 1 olivxild never have thought of r iytag my fora Haul forgotu*n that , could travel on anything but a pass.” i —