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/ ? 4 % THE BEAUFORT TRIBUNE AND PORT ROYAL COMMERCIAL. VOL. V. NO. 22. BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 3, 1877. 8.10 Itr Hun. iiitlt On S CmH O Mother's Eyes. A traveler once, who long did roam. Was returning back to his own old home. Now, who knew h"? the first when he struck < the town ? His shoes was dusty, his skin was brown? I The hotel man was his friend so dear? They had drank together many schooners of beer. I But the hotel man didn't know him again? He was so changed with the wind and rain. Hi-> Direr ho with a nod and a smile. And a little :gh, fcr about half a mile. By & window high his sweetheart sat; He smiled l smile and removed his hat . And his sweetheart didn't know him again. He was so changed with the wind and rain. And as he wandered further yet, j < His pretty good cheek with fiv6 tears was wet His poor old mother was walking too, In the very street he was walking through. " Good morning!" he says, but she cried with joy, As she whispered out loud : "My Fritz ! my 1 - boy!" I, * I I The wind and the rain can do what they will, Kn old mother's eyes will fool them s ill. ?Oofty Goofty. j I l = THE WRONG COAT. i She had promised him that she would j mend the lining of his overcoat, if he ; would wear another and leave that at 1 j home, and so, as he had left it, she took j it from the hall and carried it into her sewing-room. Mrs. Wilton had been } married five years and never during that time had had one unhappy moment. : Mr. Wilton had been very attentive, ( very kind, very generous, and never made her jealous. She often said she j was the happiest woman living. < Now, as she looked at the lining and compared the silk with which she was I , about to replace the torn portion, she : was thinking these thoughts. ! j They had never had any children, but hen people are all in all to each other, i that i3 no very great grief; all her care as for him?all bis for her. ( " And he is just the dearest, best, tru- ] .est fellow in the world," said Ev? Wilton to herself. "I'm not half good \ enousrh for him. I wonder what this is in his pocket; it bulges it all out of j shape." She put her hand into the breast pocket as she spoke, and drew out a lit- j tie package, wrapped up in silver paper, ! ? and tied with blue ribbon. " Something he has bought for me, I j j expect," said Eve. "I wonder what it ' is. I think I won't open it until he j comes home." Then she laid the silk across the hole and cut it out and basted it down. ] " I wonder what it is," said she. " It doesn't seem like a book. It might be | lace wound on a card?real lace "? ! ] She looked at the package again. ] "I do wonder what it is," said she, i \ hemming the patch down. 11 " There wasn't much to mend, after ( all," she said; "I thought the tear much j { longer. He caught it on a nail at the i ( office, I know. Now I do wonder what j there can be in that package." Eve put the coat over a chair and took { up the little parcel. j "Tom wouldn't mind," she said; "I will just take a peep. I'm sure it is for < . me." Then she undid the ribbon, unfolded 1 the paper, and saw letters. j [ "Dear Tom," said she. "He must i W keep my old letters next his heart, and he'never has told me.". f But the writing was not hers; she saw j j that at a glance. t " His mother's letters," she said. { " He lov 1 his mother so." j \ Then s. a began to tremble a little, for i the letter ^ did not begin " My dear son," i J nor anything like it. She cast her eyes over them. j < They were love letters. ; ] "Tom has loved some other woman | before he met me," she said, beginning j | to cry. " Ob, what shall I do ?" Then she cried out: j "Oh, foolish, foolish creature that I i am ! Of course she died, and he only j ^ loves me now. It was all over before j j we met. I must not mind "? ] But there she paused, gave a scream, ( and threw the letter from her as though it had been a serpent and had bitten her. '. It was dated the past week. j i It was not four days old. ! ] " Oh !" cried Eve, " oh, what shall I; j do? Oh. where shall I cro?" i At every ory a thought pierced her ] breast like an actual stab. i " Tom?my Tom ! What shall I do? 1 Tom ! to be false?Tom ! Oh, I have j gone mad ! No, there they are ; they i are really there, those letters. Why do ( I not die ??why do I not die ? Do peo- j ] pie live through such things as these ?" 1 Then she knelt down on the floer and ! gathered up the letters, and steadily j read them through. There were ten of them. Such love letters! ^ No other interpretation could be put upon them. 1 They were absurd love letters, such as are always produced in court in cases of 1 breach of promise, and they were all signed "Tour own Nellie." ' 1 *4 It is all true," said poor Eve, wring- ( ing her hands; "and it is worse than ;: anything I ever heard of. I trusted him : 1 so; I believed in him so." f. Then she wiped her eyes, gathered up the letters, packed them up, wrapped i I the silver paper about them, tied the j . blue ribbon, put them back in the breast I Socket of that dreadful overcoat, and ung it in the hall again. j1 " Tom shall never know," she said ; " I'll not reproach him. I will never see him again. When he comes home I shall be dead. I will not live to bear 1 this." Then she sat down to think over the 1 best means of suicide. She could hang herself to the chandelier with a window blind cord, but then she would be black in the face and hideous. She could drown herself, but then her body would go floating down the river o tne sea, and drowned people looked even worn than strangled ones, t She was too much afraid of firearms to j shoot herself even in this strait She would take poison. Yes, that would be best; and though , she would never see Tom again, ho j would see her, and remorse would sting him. Here she made a great mistake. A man who is coolly treacherous to women never has any remorse. Remorse in love affairs is a purely I feminine quality, and even the worst of ! the sex are not without it However, it is natural to believe that remorse is possible to a man whom one has heretofore believed to bo an angel in human form, and Eve took a little j miserable comfort in the thought that ; Tom would luieel beside iier coffin, and j burst into tears and passionate exclama- ; tions of regret, which she, perhaps, j might see from 6ome spiritual post of I observation. So, having put on a hat and a thick veil, Eve betook herself down the street and around the corner to the nearest druggist. The druggist was an old man,a benevo- j lent-looking one, with red cheeks and a j smiling mouth; and when she asked for : "poison for rats" he said?"So!" and , beamed mildly upon her. "I want it very strong," said Eve. "So 1" said the druggist. "But not to give more pain than is | necessary," said Eve. "To the rats ?" asked the druggist. "Yes," said Eve, "of course; and it j must be quick, and not make one black i in the face." "So!" said the druggist, slowly, j "Well, what shall I give you that shall I not make a rat black in the face ?" And with a grave countenance he com- J pounded a powder and handed it across the counter. Eve took it, and paid the few pence he isked, and walked away. , Once home, she went directly to her room and retired to bed, taking the powler with her. Once or twice she tasted it with the ;ip of her tongue, hoping it was not very iisagrecable. Then finding it sweet, she bravely swallowed it. "It is over," she 6aid. "Oh, Heaven "orgive me, and forgive Tom." And then she laid herself down upon ipr Tvillnw r??* Just as she did so, the familiar sound )f a latch-key in the door below startled ler. Tom never came home at noon?but here he was now. No one else but Tom could walk in in hat cool way. ( And now he was calling her. "Eve, Eve, Eve ! Where are you ?" ' Never before had she refused to an- 1 iwer that voice. Why had he come to torture her dying ) noments ? Hark! ( Now hr was bounding upstairs. He was in the room. "What is the matter?are you ill, 1 Eve ?" he cried. 1 "No," stud she faintly; "only tired." 1 " Ah, you look tired, little one," said le. "I came home to get the overcoat. < [ suppose you have found out by this ;ime that that in the hall is not mine. I j vore Johnson s overcoat home from the i )ffice last night by mistake, and he is ( unions about it. He asked if there was ] nno in tlio linnoo n-lin Wfillld ItA 11 nf , UiJ VUC AU IIUV AAVHUV rt UV .W v.v? ^ j v to meddle with papers or anything in the 11 oockets. I said I thought not I hadn't j i jealous wife?eh ? Why, what's the 1 -natter 9" "Oh, Tom," cried Eve, hysterically, j ( " oh, Tom, say it again. It was not your 1 ( ?at? Oh, Tom, kiss me." ?' " What is the matter, Eve ?" cried * Tom. " You must be ill!" Then Eve remembered all. " Oh, I am a wicked woman, Tom !" | ^ jhe cried. " There were letters in the ! ( socket?love letters. I read them?I | < thought you false to me?I?I took poi- 1 Jon, Tom?I'm going to die?and I long ] to live so ! Oh, Tom, save me ?" < "Yes, yes?" cried Tom. *' Oh, good J Eeaven ! what poison ?" " Mr. Hoffman will know. I bought it j 1 )f him. Perhaps he can save me," cried j 1 Eve, in piteous tones. < And a vay went Tom, white as death, J to the druggist's around the corner. He bnrst into the shop something like j1 i whirlwind. I 1 "The lady," he gasped, "the lady M vho bought poison here an hour ago? ' ?he took it by mistake ! Can you save 1 ler?hare you an antidote? She is I lying." ! 1 " No, no," said the old man; " becalm ! * ?be at rest. No, no, she cannot die of ! 1 :hat. When a lady asks me for poison, i 1 [ say to myself?" So !" and I give her j 1 n the paper a little sugar and some- j J thing. She could take a pound. Go i home and tell her so. I never sell poi- j < jon to women; so be calm." j ] So Tom flew home again, and Eve re- J ] joiced; and hearing that Johnson was a ; < single man, who admitted himself to be h engaged, she did not rip the patch off | 1 his coat as she at first intended. I ] 1 1 __ ^ Who are Blessed! I Blessed is the man who minds his own \ business. * ' j Blessed is the woman who never says : 1 to her husband : " I told you so." * \ Blessed is the man who can sew on his j buttons wlien the baby is crying. , Blessed is the woman who won't marry ] a widower?providing he's your father. ] Blessed is the mother-in-law who never , reminds you that you married above your station. ! Blessed is the rich relation who never , looks down on you?when you are in the j . gutter. ( Blessed is the poor relation who never , ( looks up to you?for money. Blessed is the old maid that don't hate J old people and children. Blessed is the old bachelor that don't hate cats and pincushions. j ( Blessed are the married people that | don't wish they were single. ! ( Blessed are the single people that are I content to remain so. I Blessed is the husband who never says j ( his mother's pies were better than liis wife's are. # Hammer, the historian of the Ottoman i empire, relates that from 1453 to 1773 there were 162 grand viziers, of whom only one voluntarilv left his office. ; TV -mty-feror of them were put death, j FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. Questions and Answers. How prepare maple sugar for th? market ? First see that it is clean and pure; then if the amount to be disposed of is bmall, make it up in fancy cakes of small ' size; if, however, the quantity is large, it { will probably pay best to put most of it in large cakes or tubs. Are Carter's new varieties of peas satisfactory i Carter's first crop are among the earliest in cultivation, but are pronounced 1 1 -?AT 11 J At ny goou uuuionues us sumui uxiu ruuier deficient in flavor. Carter's extra early premium gem are not so early, but are larger and comparatively flavorless. Is there anything that will prevent bitter rot in apples ? Sometimes an application of ashes or lime will do it; a dressing of fresh wood ashes, lightly plowed under, turning the furrows toward the trees, has been advised for this trouble. Give some directions for growing sage for market. Sow the seed in the early spring and keep carefully from weeds; a rich mellow soil is best. In June and July the plants will be ready to set out in beds. DC1UIC ILLtO IB UUilC IUC giuuuu iuuoii u& enriched (well rotted manure is best) and raked fine. Set the plants about eight inches apart, in rowa twelve or fourteen inches apart. In September every other row may be cut out and prepared for market, the remaining ones left to grow; soon their branches will meet and these reserved plants be ready to cut by the time the others are sold. How should the ground be prepared for raspberries. One fanner says the same as for corn; draw the furrows six feet apart and place the plants three feet apart and cover about tw? inches deep. "Will corn planted in between do any harm ? The same authority thinks not, if done the first year. Can apple and pear trees that have reached some twelve feet in height and four or five inches in diameter be safely transplanted. With care large trees can be successfully moved, though there is always more or less time lost by so doing. The process, according to one who has tried it, is to take off the surface soil until the roots are laid bare; then begin four or five feet from the base of the tree and lig a trench one foot deep; next dig underneath the roots, gently lifting them mt, one person holding them as they are relieved of the earth. With this method tnost of the roots will be preserved and the tree transplanted * without injury. When moviug trees any time from Au- 1 just to October, it is best to clip the leaves; if done before the buds start in the spring, delay heading back the limbs until the buds swell. Trees should i sever be transplanted when they are making terminal growth. Is there any remedy for the red spots m animals that lose their hair ? Well, refined petroleum rubbed in the parts affected, vigorously and quickly , with the palm of the hand, every three lays, until six or eight applications have seen made, is recommended. In the lases of horses' tails and manes more ipplications are needed. Something About Butter. Mr. J. M. Peters, of New York, ail- ' lresseil the National Butter Association j convention on " The Dairy Interest from ] i Commercial Standpoint," in which he . jaid that while the trade of the past year i lad not been so satisfactory as it prom- j sed at the opening, still dairymen had ittle to complain of when they contrast- j ?d their interest with other branches of commerce. Dairy produce had shrunk . n value less than most other articles of provision except pork and beef. The j Centennial trade last year used up the ine butter until well into October, and < :he export trade since has relieved the ] narket considerably. But the make of : outter has been unusually large and the quality was not fully up to the standard. ] Dairymen held for to? high prices in the 'all, had checked consumption through i he winter, and were now obliged to sell heir dairies very much below what was 1 Did for thqni and refused six months ] igo. New York State dairymen had ! Deen resting on their reputations of late fears and the West was going ahead of 1 hem, but they were waking up again md would make a strong fight, and the Western men must not think that they i lad made the best butter and cheese ] hat could be made. He cautioned them < igainst being misled by the quotations 1 'or fancy butter in any market. Those quotations did not represent over five < per cent, of the crop, and were special prices, which had no bearing whatever 1 m the production. He favored the com- ] nission business in dairy products, and urged the utmost sympathy between the ] producer, the shipper, and the distribu- ! x>r, as being necessary to their mutual ] I rDsperity. He cautioned the couven- \ tion against circulars sent out by irre sponsible liouses, ana mamtainea xnai trustworthy newspapers gave the reports most to be relied upon. The speaker urged the Western dairymen to improve the product of their farm dairies, rather ' than to depend upon the factory system , 3f reworking store butter to give them a j merchantable butter. This system had helped the product of the West in com- , inerce very much, but it would be far ] bet^r if the batter were made good in 1 the first place. Making butter good wrs the only safe way to fight oleomar- ! garine, an article which had become an ' established competitor of butter, and could not be suppressed by simply vot- ing it a fraud. He had observed its manufacture closely, and it was perfectly harmless; and, as made in New York, more cleanly than much of the butter coming to that market. It was far bet- ! ter than rancid or poor butter, but no one would prefer it to fine butter, and by giving consumers all the fine butter they could use the sale of oleomargarine , could be effectually stopped. The pa- ; rent company in New York made on-^ the oil, which they sold chiefly for ex- ^ port. They had melted as high as 800,000 pounds of caul fat in a week, but , usually melted about 500,000 pounds. One factory in New York bought oil from'the companv and "made "butter," of which they sold some 30.000 pounds % daily, an amount equal to nearly onefifth the average daily receipts of the New York market. He knew that it was also being manufactured in Illinois and Ohio. Discussion upon Mr. Peters' address brought out the fact that oleomargarine is being mixed with butter by some of the creamery men of the West, and the convention expressed the sentiment that there was more necessity for looking after such butter makers than there was for legislating against tke_oleomargarme manufacturers. How to Make an Omelet. The first consideration is that the eggs should be beaten very light and separately, the whites stirred in just before cooking?this, notwithstanding it is the custom of most cooks to make one matter of the egg beating. The pan should be moderately hot; if too not, while there' is difficulty in preventing the burning of the outside, the insitje will be left half raw and accordingly disagreeable. ( If possible after the omfljf is on the fire it should not be toucheuby a knife or spoon. In fact, it is worth while going in training to acquire the art of turning the omelet by a species of coaxing such as is practiced by professed cooks. This is done by taking the handle of the pan and gently though abruptly jerking it so that the omelet will raise itself gradually, and finally make the required flop. When done it should be turned over on a folded napkin and doubled. So much for the omelet proper, which is capable of taking on a new color every day. To make oyster omelet, cut '1 il . J 3 ?1 i. / on tne gristly pnns, mince wie rest iuie, and stir in the mixture or spread on the outside before folding. Cold cauliflower, minced, the tops of asparagus cooked and cut fine, Doth mate nice omelets. Cooked tomatoes stirred in the mixture make a handsome as well as palatable dish. For au omelet aux fine herbes, stir in two spoonfuls of chopped thyme, parsley and sweet majoram. For a course at breakfast, jelly and jam spread on the omelet before folding is an agreeable variety. These are hints sufficient as to the possibilities of the omelet, but be it remembered that all are vain unless the dish be served up hot. Leaning Trees. Often in a fine orchard we find one or more trees leaning over so far as to destroy the beauty of the whole orchard. It is also much more difficult to cultivate around a leaning tree. This may easily be remedied while the trees are young, by partly diggingup and replanting the trees. The roots will usually be found smallest on the side from which the tree leans, therefore these roots should be loosened from the earth, the tree set in a perpendicular position and fnnlMAnA/1 Ktt r^nlrna ntid miva i uaxriuilj ouiaco uuu guj o, and the earth replaced around the roots. It would be well to add some rich compost to promote their growth. If, as is very probable, the top of the tree has become one sided it should be pruned so as to restore the balance. In this way wo have "righted up" pear trees six inches through the stem; but the best way is to look after the young trees and not permit them to depart from the way of uprightness. . I A Humorist's Swim for Life. Says the St. Louis Desjyatch : The I Amaranth was within three hundred i yards of the Boreas, and still gaining. ' Presently the pilot bent over the speak- ; ing tube leading to the engine room, and roared out to the engineer: "The' Amaranth's just turned the point, and i 3he's just u humping herself, too ! What | is she carrying now V" Engineer?"A hundred and sixty- i five, sir!" Captain (speaking through the tube) ! ?" How's your wood, Harry ?" Engineer?"Pine all out; cypress all j jone; eating up Cottonwood like pie !" Soon the boat was plunging and quiv- ; ?ring* and screaming; but the Ara-1 tnanth's bow was almost up to the Boreas' etern. i Captain?" How's your steam now, Harry ?" Engineer?" Hundred and eighty-two, rir!" Captain?"Break up the casks of! bacon in the forward hold! Pile it in ! ! Levy on the turpentine in the fan tail! ! Drench every stick of wood with it!" The steamer was a moving earthquake ! by this time. Captain?" How is she now ?" Engineer?"A hundred and ninety-; six, and still swelling?water below the | middle gagecock?carrying every pound j she can stand?boy roosted on the safety J ralve!" Captain?"Good! How's your draft?" Engineer?"Bully! Every time a hoy heaves a stick of wood into the fur- j aace he goes out the chimney with it!" Then there was a splash heard in the river, and the cup pilot was seen boldly striking for the shore. A few months iater he turned up in Nevada under the nam deplume of "Mark Twain." Xcw England and Shipping. It may not be generally known that [ >ew UWUOUUC-UIUU mv UIUUUV.1 jf sailing vessels and about one-lialf the tonnage of the country. We give the statistics as follows: JVtf. of Yt??*U. Tonnajt. j Maine owns 2,878 497,141 1 S'ew Hampshire 71 11,809 Vermont 10 554 Massachusetts 2,463 450,720 Connecticut 734 53,101 lihode Island 228 20,264 6,384 1,033,589 ill other States own 11,873 1,575,102 Total 18,257 2,608,691 j It is estimated that New England's in- j vestment in shipping is in amount about 510,000,000. Thou Hast. The Court Journal relates that not! long since a Quaker wedding took place j within a hundred miles of Malvern, and an the conclusion of the ceremony the following teleg^m was sent by the mother of the bride to the father of the bridegroom : "The knot is tied. The deed is done. Thou hast a daughter, And X a too," ! Policeman's Comic Song. RECOMMENDED FOB ADOPTION BY THE NEW YORK AND BROOKLYN POLICE AUTHORITIES. As I was walking t'other night Upon mv lonely beat A female gave me such a fright By fallin' at my feet. " Git up,'' I sez, old woman, or A 11 uato iu i uu ?vu ui, She heaved a eigh as smelt, Oh, Lor! I Quite awful strong o' gin ! i . Spoken.?Yes, there she lay a-sighin' an' a-groanin', but I knowed tjie complaint, so I just hoists her up on my arm and lugs her oft to the station, a-saying to myself as I goes along: I -wonder whether she's Drunk or dying, tiddy iddy fol, Drunk or dying, fol lol lay. Drunk or dying, whack fol de rol, Drunk or dying, rum turn tay. I lugs her to the station house And chucks her in a cell, ' I , She lies as quiet as a mouse Although I shakes her well. I locks the door, and goes away. Next morn I'm horrified To hear our surgeon come and say That female's gone and died. Spoken.?Yes, actually gone and died, and the wust of it was she'd got her head j cut open, as we never noticed, and the . surgeon said she'd been chucked out of a ; cart or something, and was a-dying fast ; when I brought her in ; but I sez, it's ! all bosh, sez I, she was drunk fust and I broke her head afterwards. I should think a policeman ought to know better I i i.ii -i: ?_ | tnan a sawDones wnemer ? ci>iiiiui d? Drunk or dying, tiddy iddy fol, etc. # It's a most disgusting, on my word, The row tho public makes, Such Bobbyry I never heard About a few mistakes. I never sees a female funk, That if I take3 her arter all She'll die and not be drunk. Spoken.?But it's their own faults arter all. The streets wasn't made for people to die in, and the perleese has got somethin' better to do than a-cartin' a lot of obstropulous civilians about, and a-feeling their pulsis, and a-smellin' their breath, etc., just to see if they're * Drunk or dying, tiddy iddy fol, etc. ?San Francisco MailI A Legal Question. It is well known that when a person disappears and is not heard of for seven years, the law presumes such person to 1 be dead. But when seven yearsjiave ' thus elapsed after a man's disappearance, and the presumption of death j arises, it may often be important to the rights of survivors to determine at what i particular time within that period of ' seven years his death actually took . place. How is this to be determined ? Most courts iu such cases assume that death did not occur until the last day of ' the seventh year? A decision lately made in tho English chancery division * indicates that they arc not required to do this, but should endeavor to ascertain the probable time of death from the cir- 1 cumstances under which the person disappeared. To illustrate, said one of the ( justices of appeal, " suppose a person ; nt tpTI rtVlnolf ! ' Ull^UUlUg IV JLC h(U U uviuv MV ?VM w ? at night does not appear, there is no presumption that he is dead. But if | after a week he is found with his skull : broken in a wood, you can then concludo that he was killed before ten o'clock on ; the night on which he disappeared." |] There will rarely be a caso where the ; j circumstances surrounding the person!s ! departure or disappearance will not , 1 afford some evidence, althougli perhaps j1 very slight, upon which a court can base j1 a conclusion as to the date of death. In , 1 the chancery case we have mentioned it ; 1 was held that the absentee must be pre- , 1 sumed to have died very soon after the . 1 time of disappearance. ? |j Removing Disabilities. Price M. B. Young, a recent represeu- J tative in Congress from Georgia, was a j Confederate general and a graduate of ! West Point. He came to Washington j ; soon after the war, seekiug to have Irs disabilities removed. He is a fine, man- ( i ly fellow, and seems to have accepted the results of the war in good faith. He { went to Tliad Stevens, and Thad began to play with him, as he sometimes did i with those whom he intended to make his victims. He said : j " You are a graduate of We6t Point, I ; believe ?" 44 Yes, sir." 4 4 Educated at the expense of the United States, I believe, which you < swore faithfully to forever defend ?" 44 Yes, sir." I 44 You went into the service of the in- j < fernal rebellion ?" 44 Yes, sir." j \ 44 You were a brigade commander in the raid into Pennsylvania which de- ! i stroyed the property of so many of my i constituents?" I i 44 Yes, sir." ^ "it was a sqnau or oneu uuuci jum j direct charge and under your personal command that burned my rolling mill ?" j " Yes, sir." Young thought he was gone, but see- i ing that the old veteran had come into the possession of the last fact, which ] Young did not dream he knew, it was j impossible to deny the truth of his question. Thad roared out: "Well, Hike t y? ur impudence. I will see that your j disabilities are removed. Good morn- ! < ing." And the next day the bill passed the House. j " I j Up i* the Attic.?One of the parties ; ] in a divorce suit in San Francisco testi- ! ties that he has been a persecuted in- ; ' dividual, having been harassed and im- ! posed upon for forty years by his wife, i1 who is a quarrelsome and most uneom fortahle sort of a person to get aloDg 1 with, and that he has borne his afflic- ! tions with humility and patience, and whenever his wife became annoying always sequestered himself in the attic. j . , ? The total emigration from the United j 3 Kingdom dnnng 1876 was 138,222, and ; 1 the immigration,91,647. This is a small- j \ er excess of emigrants over immigrants j s than for any year sicca the Irish efcodue ' ; began. i < HOW THE NEW SPLTAN LIVES. Ills Honrs, Habits ud Intimates?After Dinner Talks?Fondness for Mule. The Pall Mall Gazette says: The sultan leads a quiet and orderly life, is systematic in his habits, and takes care of his health. He retires early?generally before eleven o'clock?and by six in the morning he is in his library or cabi- ' net de travil (a fact of which I myself am a frequent witness), where he spends the greater part of the day. Here lie receives the papers sent to him from the Porte; all of these he reads carefully? j his uncle never did?and never signs , 1-1 J 4- to ifo : one until ne uiorougmy uuuugwuuo iw purport. Among the people he likes to see are George Zariff, the banker, and Hobart Pasha. With the former, a shrewd pld man of seventy, well versed in matters of public interest, he talks by J the hour as to what may be done to im prove the state of the country. With j the admiral his relations are more confi-1 dential; he makes him the channel of his unofficial intercourse with our embassy. , In the evening the sultan frequently asks one or more of the ministers to dine j at the palace, and after they have dined ; engages them in conversation on public ! affairs, which are often protracted to a j late hour. The day before yesterday Safvet Pasha mentioned to me casually in conversation that on the previous Sunday evening the sultan had thus detained him in a tete-a-tcte colloquy, i which lasted for three hours. Recently, j too, Edhem, Djevdet, and Redif Pashas ' passed the whole evening with the sul-1 tan discussincr public affairs. Again, Ali | Pasha, lately recalled from his miserable governorship of Mostar to be Vali of Adrianople?the Ali who preceded Sadjk as ambassador at Paris?had a long interview with the sultan before going to his new post. In this interview the sultan cross-questioned him very minutely regarding the causes of provincial maladministration. Ali Pashi explained to him the vice of the whole system, the sultan listening with marked attention. In taking leave of Ali the sultan requested him to come to Constantinople once a month in order to confer with him on provincial affairs. Another person who has lately seen the sultan is Photiades Bey, the Ottoman J minister at Athens, who says that the sultan asked hiai a number of very sensible questions about Greek politics and the social and industrial condition of Greece as compared with that of Turkey. Ail these men, who have lately seen the ! sultan, bear testimony to the soundness of his bodily health and of his mental powers. No one say3 he is a great genius, but all agree that he is modest, intelligent, eager for information, ami greatly interested in the affairs of the empire. As regards amusements, I learn that he inherits his father's fondness for music, aud that he has a " turn " for mechanics. Paul Dussap was the music master of his bovhood. aud he it is who 1 conducts tho sultan's musical evenings, j I asked D. how these evenings were j passed?unless the sultan is very busy ; there is always music?and he replied: " The sultan likes the piano with stringed quatuor; after playing a few pieces thus arranged, he generally asks me to sing, and then he talks of music. He i likes the quaint wildness which belongs to Turkish music and to its more civilized Hungarian brother. At his request I composed a march for him, in which < he particularly wished to have the rhythm of the " Marseillaise " combined with the characteristic modulations of Turkish and Hungarian music. He told me to " keep it as much like his father's awn march as I could." D. played the march to me, adding that the sultan had J made several little changes before au-! thorizing him to have it scored for the j,1 full orchestra. These little matters, j wholly unimportant in themselves, help i to throw light upon this question, and | < ?ive au insight into the sultan's mode of life. / , i ? ??>? ?j v-? Jtrooktjn HUll .UMT IVim Iiuu^rt Construction cAnmenced January 2, 1870. | Length of river span, 1,595 feet six |, inches. Length of each land span, 930 feet1 ;i,860 feet). Length of Brooklyn approach, 971 feet. Length of New York approach, 1,562 feet six inches. Total length of bridge, 5,989 feet. Width of bridge, eighty-five feet. Number of cables, four. Diameter of each cable, fifteen and i Dne-half inches. Each cable consists of 6,300 parallel: fuot twisted) steel wires, No. 7 gauge, do&ely wrapped to solid cylinder. Ultimate strength of each cable, 11,200 tons. # |' Depth of tower foundation below high ;1 crater, Brooklyn, forty-five feet. Depth of tower foundation below high crater, New York, seventy-eight feet. j i Size of towers at high water line, 140x 1 a -a. I ieet. Size of towers at roof course, 136x53 ! feet. Total height of towers above high j seater, 277 feet. Clear height of bridge in center of , river span above high water, at fifty decrees Fahrenheit, 135 feet. Height of floor at towers above high j svater, 119 feet three inches. j. Grade of roadway, three and onejuarter feet in one hundred feet. Size of anchorages at base, 129x119 feet. ) Size of anchorages at t:-p, 117x101 i. feet. Weight of each anchor plate, twentythree tons. Total cost of bridge, exclusive of land requisition, $9,000,000. Cost of land, say $3,500,000. { < Old Enough. The following is told of a grave digger i :n a cathedral town in the north of England : One day, whilst " gathering in " the remains of on aged parishoner, tie observed some women weeping by the grave x side. Turning round, he iharplv demanded of them: "What are ye Giving for ? If yc dinna bring Ym *t sighty, when wad jo bring 'em ? Items of Interest, What is that which by losing an eya has nothing but a nose loft ? A noise. In England the chief jockey gets better pay than the prime minister. The Legislature of "Virginia has passed an act paying the members $540 per session. The druggists in Augusta, Me., have agreed not to sell or give away any liquor, either for medictil or other usee. An Irish waiter, speaking of a lady's black eyes, says : "They are mourning for the murders they have committed. In the village of Stockton, Pa., eight children were poisoned by eating wild parsnip. Three died; the condition of the others is critical. An advertisement in a Boston newspaper is as follows : "Wanted, a young man in the dry goods trade; to be partlv out-doors and partly behind the counter. A Chicago girl, who claims to have proved it. by experiment, says that by putting a lover in the light of a blue glass window he can be made to propose at one sitting. Some one said to a parvenu whose brother had remained in poverty: "You are, I believe, the brother of M. Durand ?" " No, sir; I am not his brother ?he is mine !" * A copy of the first edition of the Mor- * mon Bible is owned by Mr. Henry OH. Tucker of the Troy Times, whose father owned the Palmyra newspaper office in which it was printed for Joe Smith. The New Hampshire man who married five wives and tried to defend his action on the ground that Solomon had a thousand, discovered that tiroes had changed somewhat. He got a fifteen-year sentence. The latest report to the National Grange shows that the receipts of money during 1876 were $69,735.06, against $102,143.07 for 1875. The loss in active membership during the year is estimated at 175,000. "Aw ! from Titnsville I see," said the magnificent hotel clerk to the guest who had just booked. "You are in oil, I take it!" "In oil," thundered the farmer. " No ! Do you suppose that I'm a sardine, like you ?" The Southern humorist known as Bill Arp was recently killed in Texas by falling from a wagon. He was not a literary man by profession, but was a farmer. His quaint ideas were put into shape for publication by a newspaper friend. The history of the Second zouaves, one of the most (listing oished regiments in the French army, l as been published. It states that during the nineteen years of its existence no less than two hundred of its officers and 5,000 privates have fallen in battle. Tradition says that years ago, when the headwaters of the Chesapeake swarmed with wild fowl, the hands employed at an iron forge at Havre de Grace once upon a time refused to work because they were fed upon canvas-back ducks instead of bacon. The Duke of Wellington was once told that the late George Jones, R. A., looked so much like him as to be often stopped in the street in mistake for him. " Indeed," was the Iron Duke's grim answer, " that is odd, I have never been stopped in the street for Mr. Jones." Minneapolis, Minn., is not yet thirty years old. More than 1,000,000 barrels of flour were exported, from that plaoe last year, and more th an 200,000,000 feet of lumber made. One flouring mill has forty-one run of stones, capable of turning out 1,200 barrels of flour a day. Woman's Words says : We are glad that there are no women besieging the White House, as claimants for the honor of having been first to nominate President Hayes. The number of gentlemen now in Washington laying chum to that distinction is perfectly surprising to us." People generally will be glad to "know that charcoal has be ?n discovered to be a sure cure for burns. By laying a small piece of cold charc< al on the burn the pain subsides immediately. By leaving the charcoal on for an hour the wound is healed, as has been demonstrated on several occasions. Capt. Boynton has regretfully declined to swim across the stra ts of Messina, having been prudently deterred from the feat by good auth jrities cn the matter, who say that he would be most likely to encounter shoals of dog fish while crossing. The king of Italy has conferred upon him the Cross of a Cavalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy. " Why do we live; what is there for us in life ?" inquires the Christian Register. We don't pretend to answer the question, but we do know that when a man has walked four miles through the mud to see a girl and finds another fellow sitting up with her, it comes home, 1t comes home.?Norwich Bulletin. He was praising her beautiful liair, and begging for one tiny curl, when her little brother said: "Oh, my! 'taint nothin' now. You just ought to have seen how long it hangs down when she hangs it on the side of the table to comb it." Then they laughed, and she called her brother a cute i.ttle angel, and when the young man was going and heard that boy' yelling, he thought the lad was taken suddenly ill. The Nebraska Legislature has authorized a grasshopper war. Road supervisors throurhout the State are authorized to order out all the voters in their respective precincts to do twelve day's work each in killing grasshoppers, for which each person is to l>e paid two dollars a day in county warrants. Besides this, grasshopper " war clubs " art generally forming throughout the S'aie. Disagreeable news for agttcnJtarists and the public generally has been received by the British commissioners of ?a. rru? nntflto beetle CUSl/ULLil?. jLiic ,.. haa been discovered in a living state at Bremen upon goods brought tromJNew # York, and specimens of the beetle have been seen at other places in Germany. The commissioners h ive issued a circular to the collectors of customs at the various ports in the United Kingdom, directing that instructions already given for detecting the beetle be at once applied to potatoes imported from Bremen or any other place in the German empire.