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VoL.xiii. BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., MAY 8, 1890, I 90 MY GAIT, 1 i 1 jr> tny gait; with n^'er a whine ijr.inurmumuH ton* at that or thin, £ Deot> huryiiiK tn this heart hf mine Hejrret for Joys that ! may miss. Whether in jwUIih of wt#e or bliss I gd • I go my frait, be smile or frown jJy i^rtion 90 life's thoroujfhfaro, Upward 1 look a nit never dooN'h; A smiling face 1 choose to wear AcThunil in hand, sometimes with carb, 1 go my gait. ♦ * 1 go my gait, nil snre 0* this— Who inishes sb-adity ahead Must gain at last some goal of bliss, If hungry will at last l«e fed. With dauntless heart and dauntless tread I go my gait. —Chiengu Inter Ocean. -r 1 -- • _ , . A # a 1. ». 1 host, as we arose from tbe table: “a flowers growing in a sort of rude back c i, at( . au „ m ebbe so. 1 ' court, llie place bad a very ancient'! singing and playing stopjied as if tbe bouse bad been theie so H ] lor ^ as our footfalls on the pass;tgc- .ong thftt it was sinkingm the gionnd, i w ^y announced our appi^acb br ute while thc wss and vines and moss n)()tn in wllich t]lt , im ,Kicians. had t\ civ enveloping it. The boards of the , gathered. I heard a scampering of the [Wf hegres as they ran out through a >ide ORIGIN OF TELEGRAPHY. SLEEPING IN THE WOODS, fputretl by a C«wrvkit. Tlioy wcm sjteakittg r f .slaving. “it was up at Folsom, and .1 ttdgo with lichens,* w ltile the walls,made of pine 1 o(fs, were awry from the decay ; of fhc foundation, and the rude posts j of the veranda were weather beaten J and far from perpendicular. The girl and a man who had met j her at the. landing turned at* the threshold to look back at die when ! they heard niv hoi'se’s feet. 1 saw that they were father and daughter; their j attitude and appearance told this. 1mmediate]y iheman ta;me b>ward ■ ■'-tne tnid - ^pn1r» r T6Ti 1 eTii Frt*neli, wh ieh riwa'ntiful I’en I*l ;ture «f,i» Night by “AiU . rumlwck” Murray. " ^ MurpUy had gone m> dferCtf! at (jeh. Imagine your bed chamber of o<lnr- [-MidiWdn* invitation to jfoe how the ons hark, and your bed of pungent prison was run,’’ said a *ews*|Kipcr boughs. Yum? couch made under ‘ murmuring trees and within'Tr few door with much giggling aud sui>- prossed chatUyriug My host satavitli me until late, tell ing me much about his wife and chil dren in Paris and about the mansion lie intended to. build for them when they returned. “Me wife is varoe fair, varee blonde; yah, salt, she varoe pale,;’ he insisted;. “an 1 zcm shilrain, too, za varce fair— yal 1. salt, onite as snow l" : IgTTT was “"son and was run, man. n lT« arrived on Saturday night, and next morninglafter breakfast the yardsof tie: lazily’ moving water,whoso, vvuedoir asked him if he didn’t want to motions caiess rather than chafe the be shaved, adding that there was an excellent barber snore. Stretched your full length on such a couch, spread in such a place, establishment. The judge said that the process of falling asleep becomes, was just exactly what he did want, tin experience. You lie and -Watch and lie was shown ^the way to the yourself to observe the gradual de- shop. A very quiet young negro was par tit re of your senses. Little by little there, with a white coat oyer bis con- yon feel yourself passing^nway. --"{"Tiet jdiirt'/hhd'tlie judge knew before Slowly and easily as,ajA t c.bjjiiig.tide T li^‘ had-beeu iu the A 9yM«m That Was la Vugno Before the Chrinliiiii Kra—“igtml* by I.lghta. There was a system of telegraphy betw«sDn the site of Chicago and that of the #k v of Mexico before the days -of Morse*; before Fraukli 1 ds discovery; before the discovery of America by ; Columbus—perhaps before the days of Christ. Snell are the assertions of a Chicago Tribune correspondent who , asks consideration of his statement on .the following liasis: . j Chicago was certainly the northern terminus of a telegraph line whose other end was in M'‘xr(“<>. at so remote j a period of the world's history tlmttlie ( ^ ^ . n im . 1 _ hi T . Amw 11 umc.4jL.UM» i-a^--thwPVutfHrit is 1 •.m 0 fa7i expert. ; of 51 fashionable park and garden. TiurieTTin oblivion. It was not the In- } sensible realmJii'Voml the line-of feel- The ‘first time over’ was through,-and *- Among the ice Kathcr Awlreertli Tliere. were two pretty- sister* who had nurried, one un eminent lawyer^' Hie other a distinguwdied literary mao* Literary man dir*, and leave* younger sister a widow. v :2u: Borne vears roll away, and the widow lays aside her weeds. « Now, then, it happens that a certain author and .... Clitic has occasion on a broiling day coimcctcd with the in summer to call on the eminent law-* verphunbuild of tbe elder sister; * limls the lawyer pleading and swelter ing in a crowded court, sees that the; ‘ ‘ l?i lawyer is su tie ring dreadfully from the heat, i>ities him, rejoices that he hjoi- self is not a lawyer, and goes for ft hue on a horseback journey through a secluded and somewhat watery nook of southern Louisiana I lost my way and wandered for the Whole-of a bright and breezy after noon through a region at once the wildest and most flfiierbal in aspect can jss-uliarity.' Is.oking over his f ,p-i rTt i iwi M w,iw built the huge mounds of earth that ! your ears drowsily siirrciiTler the lin head at his daughter 1 saw that she was a shade darker tlianjie, and the negro dash appeared to liave come iuto lier fac«% witb some emphasis, but uotdisa- tbat <*ver met my eyes. ! greeubly. ^ . j No bouses, no plantations, no sign l» In a nioment l w^aguesf. ^I^ hoiae - » Avns e:Tro(i r <t ,. .1 I.uI^iihI I avals wel-f coined into itlie sijuat but spacious and other jkimj) 11♦'r 11 alia of wo^il equijtped dshing folk.' One of them 1 iveogni/.cd as tlio gii*l I had seen in the pirogue tilt eveiiimr l>efi>ee — .—- At breakfast m v host was not s<) gay fbelgcring murmur of—beach and pine; the vour ev<'S droon their lids little hv lit- are met with everywhere 111 Mississippi vallev and down to the j your eyes droop their lids little by lit- Atlantic ct»ast. We call tie; jM'ojile of tie; your nose*slightly senses the odor liliiit sge snnply-. Mound Kittkirry for } of the piny air, aa you mechanically ^ want a la*tter tirime. T'he raTcTTs T di-aw it iii; the chest, falls as it passes as he had been at dinner, and hiw —death The hist man of them had 1 as mechanically out, and then—you of human lift*, save what an occasion al lierd of thin, wiry domestic cattle might suggest, as breaking fort Ik from i borne fringe of 1 veils, or ^•amjKiring 1 across a vertluous ojs niirg -in the gloomv winxls. the half wild kttleani • mnls ifed from me with deer like agil ity, and, what made the solitude most ’ notable, the booming Of alligators cat he from eta-tain bavous and pends ntar , » ,,( '"|'i t d l)y lank, longctuvtl, snoozing which 1 i> i vM'd.-~— -bounds. ' -Tim , >111 wrvrhm hrtlTrWsf, almost.} -^naif of rudeyleanliness that was down to the horizon in fact, wi.cn, af ; ^"lostjuxury jKU vmdciUthe place, and . I sweet, faintly'fnigrtmt, jus if pc.rfuined dia-ns. The ancestors of T* ctiniM-ii ami ( ipg, -Vf n moniont-mHnt^in which thn jmigiiciqsie out of a nice litth'do/.- rots midway Ijctwcen that of XeNy Lki-i K , a ne rnre In-rh t -r-rlrr^dti 11 iawatita ;i n* inodiuais compared with J, yuu^ kno-w you are jmssing ovcrTTiQ »-and lav watching the fellow. Pretty h‘ans ami the- pa hits T>r the "negrme^ m' mornmir whoiri hTok(>dour of the earlipi- race. T— — i very verge of consciouMiessi, You are f goon the judge said: - -a 1 Ilt' was very dark, almost black, w ith jyjy whulow 1 saw live ^vouug persons I he lii*st telegraphic system was T1 aware - you are about to full asleep, j “ ‘Haven't I seen vou Ijcfore? 1 wavy--dead-black hair and beakd,, but ]; ditfereiit and regularly graduated employed some centuries ago by -1 Y u ur cheek but partially interprets: “‘1 guesssq,’safdtUefellbw,wet- lils features showed little, if any, Afri- ; ages get into a small smack and sail curious race of people that j the cool pressure of the night wind ft ting the judge's face for the‘second time.’ ; ‘Where was it?’ “ ‘In your court, judge.’ “ Ts that so? What—what was it about?’ ‘ : “ ‘Well, judge, I'll tell you,’ said the fellow, lie was then -cunring down over the judge's chin and was Swiiejjing down toward his throat. ‘My name is Wjlliams, and you s«»ut mo up here for life for killing wo man on Bush street,’ ‘“As he said tin's the fellow laidilio cold edge of the razor against the judge's Adaqi's apple, and the judge closed his eyes, liirkuew there, wasn't another person but themselves in the room, and for an* instants ho had the wild inclination to jiiTitp up and y4*ll houst*.’ where the lirst thing that at- tracted my eve^ was a rack of antlers, ujsm which lay three long, heavy flint lock guns, one of which was magniti- centlv jnount'd with silver. Skins pushed to Ij.is eternal -rest long before this land became the home of the works of tiiose simple iieoplc live after them, W<‘ look upon their great earth- and like Volnev hung about the walls of the hall or wen*spread upon tlie tloqr, two of tliem | bnakiniS tlmmgh a Jans,- tanirleof l1 "' '■'!»** c f K. fr " m '<«> a>Ij,;nmig f bay bliala-H liTakihL- my way -tor 1 '""'"* "r , T bamilln-ly sweat and l u ll. ; • ana .Iwlanao umlar m,,..sv. Imv I,an- ‘.Cai.-.Hj that Urn U,a,r N ,ma on cillicr | wore a look, as, I thought, of vexa tion,* The fat 11 ogress was very atten live tons, but not much was said. When I was ready to resume my 'ourney the man went to fetch my mrso while I arranged some, things in works, amt like \ oiney among his niv saddle [lack;- As I cainc out of my : ouly feel that tu them is rcsim I was eon fronted hy the m*gix i ss.-j dm* our veneration. k or Hiem wo “That iiiaTfTsjny hnsbiml.'' she said nui>i entertain at leatit a fading of ro? lit patois: “lte‘s ashaiu^d of > 1110 and s|*evf, bemg; as tiiev -are, the last i*e- of his children because you are hero, mainuig vestiges ol a race most re- He w ishes you to consider hini a white markable :pid most inteis-f ting of all man ; but he's a negro, just as much as the men on earth, springing mysteri I and the children arciiegi'iii'S. lie sa OUFIT mtu mvistence, living for cen- ahdfinallydi are asleep. The hours pass, and still you sleep modern red men. But the mighty . on. The IhhIv, in obetHence to some occult law of force within the inseitsi hie frame, still keejKs up its respira tions; but you aWK somew here—sleep ing. At last Ibe pirre above you, in the d eep hush whicli pivcr^k's the com- iiig <)f dawn, stills its monotone, and silence weaves its airy web amid the motionless steins. The water falls Tbe loon's head is under its crowd lliere, lie meets pie younger the two sisters, and for a moment thinks be is talking to the elder. ' *“0h, Mr. says the ladyv; _ “how oreadfully hot it is hereS” > .i “Yes. madam,” repliA our luckless < Critic.A’it is hot here; but I can assure... you the heat of this place isn't a cir- eumsUnee when compared with the heat of the place where your poor dear - Imsbahd is suffering today.’* A horror stricken expression comes over the face of the lady; she riseft from her chair; And flounces indig nantly away. —Now York Ledger. Tb* I>*>**• jr »f Ilcvrim*. ^Hoiv surprising it would ho to any Nineteenth >»ntui’y^man wlm shouldr read tlui Psalm* for the first time ~it the age of rellectiou, to note l*ow filftt yid (or whoever did Unit terrible cur*- ing) was in contimm! cottistdn with The word occurs ninety- lurie ‘lip. if ’'ntjr Sh^ jpoke very genii v. without "the«' pleu*! V from tlie face of the .,v;irt Iras si do of ^!m? y, \\cv& yt k ry nwcIq^ sdww of- Huiitinir in^u n * tlionjfli thw ncvt*r luul WotMi lk>rn. | , r .«ii ' ; iinLitoa»Lm—anTruTJBiiigher dtiid hlaRc.Y*hW>-b I»vtng w)lolly uuTcTiown to oilier the ? rooms, into one of Which 1 was con ing, live, oak boughs, ! carm fkc expansion'of one of v ,, v ■ . . , , r - , Imyous. Here mvniml Iftn'se ktoj>iH*tl | dlfCtSI b^.m.vdusky Lmst of his own accord, -uud, lifting his ' Bit down, la: said, and left me, re- ln*ad, neiglaMl shrillv - No 1 turning a few minutes later with So’ •,','ue run 1,1 l„M.lv , 1 mi 11 i >>"«!<• of wio*- »*«l » f'P-of n-TTie inh. 1 wat.v rot^-tis '* * n, ‘‘ ' lt ' " as ol, M gdanetdovei rthe TTHim. In ony corner a magnilicenl 1 mahogany four post bedstead, exqui sit<*ly carve«l. amt ctirtaim-tl w ith n il Itrocaflc, curiouHtaml old; in another a , low sofa of the no. rich stutF, much WfurfTjut still lM*autiful, and over the 1 rude mantel a grimy, smoke dimmed painting of the Virgin, were strangely and struck.the water with long blades J eontrastwhlj the rough walls 1 ami o! crimson and gold. Smthward lay a ! “>'«‘Vcn l*>ard th»or, to say nothing «»t dark, solemn ovpros.s swamp; norths i * !M ‘ W1 ’be l»vllyjncd chairs ami tin* lit 1 tie holm? nm«h* cypress table, on which “thf blur as thi: w ing of a jay and ;is still TK the sky ov«*r om* half of it. while tB'er the other half the breeze was Icupinggh cfull v, bearing I .rig! ii£wa ve lds before it. The snnirght, reddened by a slight fog that whs beginning' t*i rise IhmoiuI tiie lake, fell level Hcn^sVa' vast grassv uiar*li like a sheet of Hame ft cypress want tbe lagoon sw ung j-oitmi tluMive mi* wood*mL was lu>t. 1 was not very ln-ar the gull coast, but the nnmistuu- al>b* salt f ragrance was in the air. It was May ami the magnolias were beginning t«> bloom; my horse s feet w ere l»allie<l in fountains of blue and *viId violets. Fverywlien: the colors of tbe rainbow thisheil, and on every breath I drew in a bewtkieriug sense of m rfumes. * 1 llumght tbe s|v»t a good one on which to pass the night, ami was piv- paring to dismount w hen a d<*g U*g.m t)»lKiy ju.-t Ian*01 nl a thH*k«*t of » , «alars. It was a deep voiced hound barking a.- if for sm*er idleness. The sound was ns welcome as it was musical, for it told me that a cabin must l*e near Settling niv.self at ease in niv saddle JW isteneu. A noise of row locks or of a |uuldle touch mg a skill's side now renebed my car; and 1 wondered why 1 had not Is-fore noticed tire pirogue . and the person that proisdled it were well prs served and authentic. Sarcelv »*<i yards awav, and .skim- S.ane«sneof the forefathers, proba- lumg swiftly over the water, tlie bh not the original Uw»u from S;ui ; graceful little vessel came shorowant. -Homingo. had U*en a grbat scholar, so Iks <K*cupaiit, a sh'iidef^/giri apjkmmt- | j 4, . v host said, and had col!.pcte«l niany 1' iv, ^it m ar the stern and wielded the hooks ami a tew pieturcaduringl.is an- paddle with vigor and ease. 1 uu '\ l v,s!{s l{ ' i 1 :iris an, i l Avignon, til© ' Kvidentlv the dog was Laving her I n ‘ ll a, “'‘ ,slra i \' hir '' 0 ‘ t!i e tamily. minmd an antiquated iron lailqi. At the one square window some tattered but carefully rhmifcdLheavv silk <*Hr- faliis nistlej in -the air that llowtxl j through. “How long have you lived here?” 1 j inquired, in voluntarily, as 1 Unik the cheer the man-offered. “1 bay 11 yah w'en I s Imj'u sah,” he answered, jMilite]y striving to mate his J English with mine. “You were U»rn h**re?'’ “An' my fahu-rau’ grau'fahter, l>o’n \*fih. yas. s;ili, all Ihi'ii yah.lk^ His story-w as a simple one when presently he wbl iL Ati ancestor, he was not sun* of the generation back. • had coim* frofh San Hoiningo, fieefng I from the aw ful insirrrcctions, and had [-settled her* on this very spot with Ids ! fdhves. iK.uhth-ssTie luul history sadly ; mixed, hut thefs.* was internal evideiiee that the larger farts of the. tradition ly kinked hair With lu r Left hand. TTPt” tTusband's f<k»T soumlcd on tlw veranda, ami she hurried away. The man had brought out his own pony, aiid r hii-ru4*c-with nte to put me in the right road some four miles dis taut. All along la* tidied of his abv nt wife ami children, and sighed as he re marked that it would Ix^ a long while to wait for them to return from Paris. 1 offered him money when we wei*c parting; but lie refused it with a great show of polite contempt for tlie thought. 1 could not insist, and so, bidding him good by with many thanks, turmsl nrv hor-e logo. “Dem negro,'' lie ventured to mur mur; “yah, sah, dem iiegri*s lx- varee please cef yon gtf'em two <lollaiis*. ] convey eet to 'em \rarec easy—yah, I looked deep into hi* mild dark eyes as I handed him the coins for tie* ne- gres, ami wondered how tlie man could l>ear mV sc*rutiuv. There was _ _ to peoples of t lui r times. w««Jia*c. ico 4h*ta on which t4> base a reliable history of this jmtuliar race of men. Ouranti- tpiarUTbTTeTT us that they built sule Ztanlial cities: tiiat they were tiller* of TVtttrrwm usd Browning.' not to w^iik of jdii>j4ftgijil^ r ewlpT and~Wtii£ 1 tt* ,r . giving ftttemie* Mica a place in- C w ith the smell of the sikI ami the ism»i hu '€ mold of the underlying earth!— Murray's “Igiko Chumplain and its Shores.” not a fljcker in hi* codntmtance. _ ^ . Maurico Thouipbon in The iadepend sisslppl to Arliaiitifta «ijfl on wind in 1 ent. . . more or loss straight line to the ter- tiie all, the sleejM-r slcc]»s. What sleep such sleeping is! and what a ministry is ix-ing ministered unto niind mid ImmIv thi-ough the cool, jmre air. ]mn ofthestril; that they kncwi ilie prifici- gent with gnininy’odors and strong ilea of art; (hat they bad a written anguag-* and a religion filial they bud a commercial .system, ami that they could send a message across the coun try w ith the velocity of light. A telegraph in prehistoric times, as we l»K*k hack U}M»n it, J;eeu;s eertiiinly a myth, yet it is after all the simplest thing imaginable. The writer dill not claim for it the electric principle of the Morse telegraph. Trie electricity which Franklin found himself able to control would have been totally un available in the hands of primitive people. _ .. Tlie Mound Buildgrs' telegraphic sys tem consisted of a chain of large mounds, starting nt Chicago, heme bearing across the country to Prairie du (Turn.’ Wii., thence down the Mis- euemies* m to uriip up ami yen j four times in the 15<J Paolms; tliirty- spotted wing, and the owl lx.'jcamus—-ont-for help. Then lie thought letter 1 live times joined with the possessive mute. The doer has left the shore, and j of it. and said us placidly as he conhHl ltriiiUJUn “mijie.” Can w e couc*|.vft lies curved irt its im>ssy ImsI. The rats “ ‘Ain yes^ JL-i^iueiaWr; vury mmI 1*0 longer siwn their across case. Well; I hope yoTPre mlhMgirp tlie frogs hnre rease<P~ youh cmliUi ’VYilhains.V. * tlx ir^ro*king. All Uquiet. In thftlJL^—l’raUy gnnd, r rrpliod the convict [ tneir hyiniisT ^m-en Yicbirm has a profound quiet, fiiiff hiiconscions of it barber, aud tbo razor slid softly up 1 gorwl dr*al larger froiAser than David, from tlie judge’s tbroAt aud was put , and may lie ofilciull lu*ck in its 5h.xo. A few more minutes 1 enemies all over and the hulgo had ituitUnl the chair and left tug room, smiling and thank ful. hut w^fen he rejoined the warden ami party they told hifn he looked as though lie had - ”seen a ghost.”—Ban Francisco Chronicle. - FflVct of m Bit*. The taxidermist of the Victoria mu seum, Ixindon, was !jitt**n in the hand hy a cobra, from which tin* nobuni bag had Imth extraebst. while feeding it. Sun]K>j»ing tlx* bite to lx* harmh ss, he tool: no notice of it till pain and nan son began. Then ail the u-nial anti dotes wen* tried without effect. The man. lost the power of s]x*eoh, became paralyzed in his muscular system and ceased to breathe. Artificial respira tion was applied for eight hourr, after which he began to. breathe again and gradually regained consciousness. After two days he was able io t»*ll his friends that he had been fully aware of .ill that uns going on during the efforts to restore him, but had not more or loss straight line to the I minus at the City of Mexico, then 1 capital of the Aztec empire. These i mounds w ere built in the most suitable Itieatioiis. so that a lire lighted atone point could be .sciMt* distinctly at-tbo next, and thus a signal light could lie lutstily trausiuitUxl from om .station to another over the thousands of mi^es w hich separate the two terminal points of the line. |> The. signal stations art* locat* d often at a distance of many nub s, |>ei lmps a half tio»*n sjKinning a hundred miles; thus, as may readily lx* seen, a danger signal could lx- sent across a state witli the speed of light. Around these sig- | nul inoumltuire usually grou[x*d thou- Siimls tif a h^ssxr size, and sometinit s a fortification or otln r earthwork, indi cating that a city of a large si^* h^ Treoanreit In Catxt. ft - is n'ot long since a Paris Imnk clerk left papers representing aomc JJuO.tWO frunes in a can, and was lucky enough to -find them several hours after lying untouched on the mat. A provincial banker who Ux»k a cab on the bullIcVfiKTx one aftermxhi drove to the Northern statioii, mid was equally absentmimled, but was not so fortu nate. After dismissing the cab nt the station and taking a ticket he remem bered that he hud loft on the neat a portfolio containing hank notes and papers to the value of 80,000 franc*. lie rushed ‘to the station enlruuca, only to find thf,cab gone, and thence to tlie stand from which be had taken it. The particular vehicle he lunged to set eyes upon had not yet returned. The distracted banker confided lift* troubles to the policeman on duty at tbe. spmd, ami was advised to await Why 100O Will X-.t !!« ik Lrap Tear. j The question is often asked, “Will j tbe year 1900 be a leap year?” It will i not. When Julius (‘msar revised the calendar ho ap{)oiutod an extra day j every four years, and bis calendar j lusted until A. D. V&2. Now tbe or- j dinnry year is 11 niiuuteti amt 11 sec- J onds abort of being JP55I day* in I length, no that there Isn’t really a foil sized extra day to lie added to Febru- I ary every fouft years. C'aftuir didn't 1 know this, or didn't care about it, and for 1,800 yeftrs w*o kept borrowing I fn»ni the future, until in 1582 we’d “’ r borrowed ten days. Pope Gregory ®m<n»g the XIII started ta correct this. Hear- der»d Oct. 5, 1582, to be called Octo- l>er 15, and, to square things, ordered that centuml years should not, as a rule, Im? b ap years. But if leap year is oniitted regular lly sunpoeed to have [ffie globe; but even when we sing “God Save the Queen’* we are content to wish their “knavish tricks” frustrated and their,“politics” coiifoumh*d, and do uot want to take their little ones and dash them against the stones. But not only may we congratulate ourselves on tltft waning of the dread passions of hatred and revenge; we iiiay also, I feel sure, rejoice in the positive development of the converse xaiitiuienta of beuevo- lence tn id syfilputliy, Tlie eutbusitMra of bumuuily is a truly modem pae* sion.—Frances Power Uobbft in Fo rum. HnT»xl hy a Do*. ; Alont anccdotff Have been published under the aliove title, in wtiich dogs have figured in preserving human life. We bud a dog once noted saving thjpgn, but there wasn’t a B Among theni. He kept the tbinge he saved under the summer kitchen, aud bis hiding place wasn’t discovered for a long time; not, indeed, until it became neweaiary to tear up the kitcli- , en floor to find a gmai place to deposiC» somd brnoridc of lime during a chol- v«4.Ciiiue as hho -ivturuvd fioin Tic w;is vatee fttipeytw rrmn*. rat ^rr CU.3 - I V.tll i -1 i VJIM • £VV * W »—rsrv f -Sr-V-* a^-^-exeW^-fnr »:oxv n.fipff r v . Tii if TOVATT been able to move a ut^e»W«li^e-x< ^ d' iffitl*' 1 fe sec and ” thus al Th,m-,b«,r-.. la . in addition ly each hundredth year, wo pav liack \ f ra sea * >M *, then we found .what had I nearly a day too much; *0Pope Greg- ‘saved by a dog there the n*turu of the* cul>. At tlie t orv fiytb^r ^x)nlf*red tliut every centu- I Tiicre wofo a couple of kittens, & end of au hour two cabs drove up.to . rial year which could be divided by *00 c *h twoor thros rats and a chicken, the stand, and the hanker recognized should lx? a leap year after all. Bo wo v< r >’ dead} a large assortment of 11 is dr Ivor. The hittor.tolcl the jxilice* Lljorrow eleven luiuutesoacli your from bones^ tlie refunuuts of uti oitoinuii. man tiiat aft<*r leaying the railway 1 the future; more than jiav our bor- | grille theft of which the best hired station he bad driven two ladies to the rowings back by o!uRtiug|/thrce leap j K* r ^ we ever had was discharged; a to- Palais.de rindustrio. As thev quitted ! years in this** centuriesy&nd finally ' ,ul *h) can, a couple of teuspoonz, a the cal> they remarked to the Jehu that l square mutters by having a leap year b>ru volume of Hoyle s games, an old eseat. There in the fourth centurial year. Tliis ar- boopskui, a canary bird, a nutmeg rangemeut is ho exact that we borrow g ra h‘»‘» a plaster of Paris pigeon and a zette. , moiH tha»-we pav back to the extent w M) k Ixxjk. It is ruroly that thei*e is*o of only one day In 3,808 years. i>ix- ,,1UC “ **''<** by a dog, for they afft • ti,cu hmidrad was a h-up year, gUUfl j generalty improvident.—*T will--be, but TOOft will %tit r bez Xhy ®gC them was a |KJi tf<*lio on th wxs—built was empty.—Pall Mall Ga ThTh-d 1 lit* ffiV \\ :is tiiriiinir from ht lH*r lu tla* boriztm, tbe fog was turning from rose purple t<)silver gray; and-1 no tired tlnn the nearly full iiaxm was van against the eastern sky. Above the dark jungle of the swamp vane ■wide winged birds were slowly hailing southward. “Itoo la! hoo-laMioo-ee!’ r quivered a loud, sweet voice from the pirogue. “Hoo la—la 1km>, la hoo-hoo-eel'" an- sweml a baritone from the .shore just bevond tlu* cedar thicket. iTicg irl waved her paddle in the air and repluxl with a yinlel that sent its silvery ripples to every dreamy nook of the bayou. ' -■ - 1 kliow not how to suggest the feel ing that came over me; it was as if I Jiad a glimpse of old Arcadia, as if a waft of perfect jxjaee and quiet joy had rear bed'me from some landof eternal apple blooms. ■„ Overhead some wild fowl were blowing their elangerous pipes; and allliou^Ti 1 did not look up 1 knew that their wings were shining against the sapphire sky. In my mind ttoeks of poems, like strange singing birds, rustled their silken phrases and flooded me with unutterable rnebxlyr V'ery soon tlie pirogue touched shore at.some distance from me, amll saw tlio tall girl spring out and loop the little painter around a stake; • then,’ Springing up the bluff, she was lost to my view. I could not clearly make out her features, but I felt that she was not ill looking; her form was litheness it- self and tlie very embodiment of wild grace. * Quito sure of finding a house on the Other side of the cedar thicket, I turned' my horse’s ’head that way 'and rode through. f To my surprise 1 came ujioii Tin orange orchard of perhaps 500 large trees, beyond which the low,, broad roof of a vine covered cottage showed dim and gr^y under the wide boughs of an enormous live oak. The picture Struck me as one of remarkable ,ex- pression-r-a sort of vignette from some «5lJ romance. - me across tin* hall into an x»m; and, sure enough, there : were shelves of books,-none of them ! especially valuable,-unless an old edi tion of Voltaire or of fh»uss»-au or of Fern-Ion could be so called; and there hung some niniits, once l)oautiful, hut now so smoked with pine smoke- that they were worthless. On a peg in the wall, above tlie life place but bciowMtlie high mantel, hung two long llintToek pistols, the barrels id brass with hell muzzles, and each having the flashpun on top of the breech,• w here the vent >ed hear and fro), but not move or twitch. He was afterward attacked by high fever and inflammation of tie* lungs, from which ho died on tiie Sundav following tlie \Yt dnesday on which he was bitten.—Philadelphia Ledger. ,W«**v Drying; .Glu®. Blow drying glue is stronger than quick drying, and for general use no method gives such-good results as the following: Break (he glue small and cover it with water in an iron kettle and let it soak twelve hours- after shaking, boil till done, then pour il j to one of the most remarkable inclos- • uit earthworks of tlu* continent, flier* are mounds of all shapes and sizes, the number running un into the thou sands. No belt< r srleetkm of a signal j station could have been secured tlrun I this. On tbe very brow* of a great* j bluff overlooking the Mississippi are ; located the eight huge conical mounds of eai*th upon which the signal fires JUiUing G<m>»® JS__^ faneg jM.sffTutr w Iib do .not indulge in one or two side issues for the purpose of swelling their in- \ comes. Billy King, the city passenger centurial year that can bo divided by i 400 will* bo a leap year.—Hartford j Times, Que®r Mark Twain. Whenever Mark Twain has a large were lighted, away Ixick in another age of the world’s history,-telling a j tale of danger or festivity, this ]X>int would be instantly observed U Muscatine, the next stufion'. tw ent v ■ was stopped' with a si 1 iidl quilXnTrurrotiglit box, and whenColil • mil s to the north, or Fliiit Hills, now ro rod pec la Fs wing. i cover it tight. As it is required, cut 4 Burlim*- When dinner was announced I was show 11 into a rea r si led rix im, on 1 y ha 1 f of whicli was fhx>ml. This was Iroth kiteheng and dining room, the floored part st'rving as the latter, the earthen part as the former; while through a low window l could (from my scat at the immaculately tidy board) loolr right into a very dirty stable. My host sat at the table with me: but no otherrneTubeFof tiie household joined us. We were served by a large, stout, jot black negro woman, who scarcely spoke during the meal, which was homely, well cooked, savory, de lieimis. -r r ^~> . • •We ate by the light of a curious iron lamp, whose oil hud tlie singular fra grance of candle berries. During tbo j w ho meal two sweet and powerful voices ; nietl the words of whicli I out a portion ami rrit-U iTrrhc'TrVTT.'Tt way, exposing no moi-e of ,tije made glue to tlie atmosphere than is ne.ees sary, as the atmosphere is injurious to made glue. > ()f course it never should lx) su!)je.ct(*d to diroct heat. It .is lx-t ter io irsc'g*iu? r Tftiite thin, working it into the wood, rather than too thick. —j’ r Exeepting veneering, glue both ngton, awaV in the h)i/y distance, thirty miles to the south,, and thence could In* transmitted from mound to agent of the Burlington road, for 111 stance, has engaged in an outside ven ture which will doubtless bring him in good money. - He had read a ginnl deal about ostrich farms in California and of the vask-prefits accruing then*from, and he decided to go into a similar business oil a small scale. According ly he Tias purchased a flock of gees© and a small plot of ground on which A H 'l/t. at | keep-tftem. lie has also engaged a niaii toatteud to the lloek-gnud Tie i» jitiTTi si g goose eggs on the market. Pep nio may think that there is no money in goose eggs, but from every one to whom Mr. King has told about his grxj.M- eggs there has Gome a hearty re sponse. (loose eggs apjiear to be in attacked hy the dilute sulphuric acid dinner party at his homo in Hartfora, A New Yuitaio luttenr. ' [ particularly when he Ium auy English- A novel form of voltaic battery is j * m ‘ u j 1 or guests, lie is in thft habik it made ’03* an Italian inventor in ibis simple manner; A conical cast iron bowl, partly filled with strong nitric acid; is fixed in a stand, and in it is placed a similar bowl of jiorous earth enware partly filled with dilute sul phuric acid. Then follows a second iron cone with a second earthenware is said, of rising at whpt he cousideni the proper moment, without at# warning or explanation, mid begin ning a set speech of a humoroua kind. He usually occupies from fifteen to twenty minutes, and does his best to entertain and tickle his auditors.; Sometimes his efforts, always preuiedi- o^ one, and so on inn series, each vessel bited and caretiBlj' prepared, are highly successful; sometimes they are not. Humor cannot be fabricated to faces and never have the wood heated. New York Telegram. mound, from station to station, hun dreds of miles'in either direction. This telegraphic Lystem employed by the MouirI Builders is tlie greatest wtmder of the western Avorld. Nor is ... , .. . . . it a mytii, a.s so frequently oi-igiuates uhmstry but thero us money m it sur- ! jn the fertile imagination of the news vhicago Herald. containing its respecti ve^acid. Bv this arrangement the 111 nor surface o^each i 1*011 vesuel is ex]k»wHl to nitric acid and Incomes passive, acting the part of the platinum or carbon of the ordi nary cell; while the outer surface is greater denunid than geese, and it look's and takes tlie place of zinc^ No con- J. very much as though Mr. King would j ncctmns arciiecessary. Apileof flirty * XA 1 to enlarge the little goose j or forty of thes * eleineutsgivcsastrong n« * oblignl farm he has. 1 Voplo. laugh at such<111 JPIslithiK tlie Striker®. A Bcofcli baker named Cameron* in Melbourne, bad a strike in hiVslnm,. and when bis delivery wagon werft Tine i 1 out of out it was followed bv. a buggy eohjuimug pickets of tliy strikers, endeavored to induce the in tbe wagon to qyut work, hiird another buggv ami pajx*!* writer, but the. mounds and earthworks are there to show for them selves, and their puri>ose is self evident. Now forests have grown up, so that lietweeh many of the stations the line of observation is cut off; hence the sang a song, tiie words of which l : Cameron could not catch, some one playing tlie j drove along behind the pickets with an* on a dulcimer that I had seen Hi j a ‘ (ruil ju .,. oss . -his knees., Wheh- the horary (as I may call it) and un- ever the pickets attempted to talk to other joining m with a flute. = I his men on the delivorv wagon he repair archieology assert and believe that the thousands of mounds in the long line from Chicago to Mexico City were, be yond a doubt, signal stations in the first and original telegraph system. ‘Dem s ma negres smgm zat song. i umi)( . ( , down ami threatened U» si loot. Yah, sah, 1113* negres, said my host. •] }[ e succeeded in makiiig the pickets I give Ins pronunciatipn of English ! abandon their work, hut Tve w^t'^iH- hut imjv'rfectly, as the spelling loses jnom*tl to appertr'iTi~*ouYt forintimida- tlie nuicliliable sweetness of the into- ; tiqji witharmed wcaisms.—Exchange® nation. • ’ r ' “He call he shilrain lie negres,” lisped the fat negress, with low r ' chuckle^ winking at me. ' - . _ - J “Me sliilrain evairone at ztTschool in 1 liiding around the^ingle of the or ^rd I came infrofiTof the house and td. A clump of pear trees grew at ic side and a great fxiwerof seupper- nong vines flanked a little rt«c gar den. In front of % wide veranda a “Di'm’s me negres in zare singin’.” The negress chuckled again,, but said no mow?. . • . “Me ouife,,sah. she in “Paris, too,” the man added; “she come back nax year—mebbe sor.” ^"'magnificent oleander spread, its, gloss}’ . rareo < “ rue greenery. A siiacious. oi>en hufl ran niurmureil die ouian withakmyw'ing eutirely throu([b the low, ' im ‘ l " •"■' l * - H ” [ atmoft roUe«. huBding*, g glimpse of luxuriants tufts rj tlug like ^anta bearing great Muinmlrd Grocixlilex. , - British enterprise having been de- lig’nted with Egyiftian cats, is now ( turning its attention to- the crocodile I pets at Maabeteh, wliere there is a rich ^SUp}-»Ptttttitr”of^TttTTtfff*?rT^ • mi me use extent j f ,,ai The crocodiles aro laid like sardines in ; a box, with palm leaves between tliem. i ' IxMit Ills lirst Cuw. -A-certain milkman not far from here recently lost a good cow. Shortly - 1, • , 1 • • 1 ^ . 1 aftervwxrd liis well caved in. and a I am; yak sah, m 1 am, w U-eu to i tl, c latk-r dr- > wirs 4uuv, . quickly S|toka mj> tlie man. ^^ulaataiice, askwl if ho l.ad aot *. A W:t*lier«oinun Princc-sn. Pope Sextus Y was. a.s all the world knows, of the very'.humblest origin. He had been a goatherd and one of h i s sistei-s was axvas h < • r w om a 11. When, l)ut students of i however, lu* became supreme pontiff he brpuglit liis kinswonutu, the laun diess. to Rome, made her a princess and installed 1 ier in a magniflee!it p:ila<*c’ The next ihiy the Statue of Pasquin -was found to be endued with a shirt, the cleanliness of which left much to* be desired. The iuimilable Marforio asked, in a placard whicli was read witii a universal grin, tbe why and tbe wherefore of the grimy undergarment, and the next Piisq 1 " 1 * ^pli^j coiOd not get his liuc.n washed because his washerwoman bad become ^princess.—London Telegraph. current, which diminishes to about one half in five hours.—New Y'ork Telegram. "'T* ran Count 180 Deacendanta. The Marietta (0.fJRegist#5r tells of a somewhat renuwkablc family in that vicinity. Joseph Burke, a freeman from Prince William count}’, Va., came with his family in 1854. to New- **port, vvhci*e he died three weeks after ward, leaving a wife and twelve chil dren. The widow still- survives, and most of her children. A recent census of the family, including children, grandchildren and greatgrandchil dren, gives an aggregate of 180 souls. Mrs. Hannah Burke, now aged 87, is probably tlie most motherly woman in Ohio. order. But they are invariably laughed at, pf course. It is an abso lute requirement of common polite ness that they should be, when a host demands laughter as a return for hos pitality. Twain likes to be regarded a.s eccentric and original; and this is unquestionably original.—New York Commercial Ad vertiser. f> ~ 7' j ;hi m a bit of paper that called ?arly twenty differantsubstances, g which were a lock of hair from Remarkable Injjredlentx. Not loii£ ago a young colored man brought m a bit of paper that called for nearh among the head of a baby, 1 five whole black lieppeis, the tooth of a eat. a nail from the left hind paw of. a dog. a bit of gum bezoin, and a drop of blood from the veins,iff a living man. All the were to be put jAigether at midirigl when the moon was in a certain ter. To be taken internally? C you, no. It was to*be wdrn ii about the neck, and was, relic of some old darta; plantation da}’s.—* " York Evening" Sun the w i th ] with quite a ISH lah l}’. ’ The reply. though innocenti}* made, was a little Muqiirious: “Yes,- Yes; lost' the best cow l had.’’—Pittsfield Advertiser. At th« BoarUlng llonta. Miss Betteruuies—Mamma, I wish interstices being filled up FuroiiHrcratril Groiiml. done up in Xundles, covered with: YVlieu Molicredjed in Paris in 1673 cloth. It is believcd*thut beyond these the archbishop obstinately refused per- are vaults containing mummied croco- ! inission to have him buried in conse- diles, and in wbicTi* vast treasures are crated ground, and he remained alike stored.—Chicago Herald, j ohdurate to threats and entreaties. ... — ——— j When Louis XiV s;.\V tiiatnrgumi iits were without avail, he suddenly asked the prelate: “To what depths does the con>M*crated groun(l extqjidt” “All ‘ihconscipas Of the drift of this question; the archbishop suBenlv re- 'iedi A^Eight fprt, jauui » Gn}ii|e Koum) the Ksrt-h. Tlie time recuired for a journey around the earth, by a nmu walking day and night, without resting, would be 428 days; ai i ex press train, 40 days; sound, al a medium ** nSifitf o/ Letteni. Not long ago I sent a letter inclos ing $5 to a relative and it was pur loined. So I wrote a second note, also inclosing $5, and on tlie upper left hand corner I printed in bold characters: “Notice to post office agents aud road a agenjs, this contains $5. * ‘ to the 6a me place c< ~ sum and was stolen b alxive.” The. letter wei double quick time in m New Y r ork Letter. DnwiJ In the com Ban Bias, with, i nuts. 000' TXffvrenc® Detvroau When.thread hn is termed yani these sewing thread. ... ; Tided into the ‘ ■■■PPIPi I Moliei'e and will be four feet below thecoas<*crated flax