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THI VOL. V. NO. 4( The News of Olden Time. We hold a paper iu our hands? " A Journal of To- Day So reads its modest title-page. Now dim with age, and gray; 'Pis filled with startling incident, With essay, tale and rhyme? The doings of the Long Ago? The rews of olden time. The nimble fingers, deft and spry. That set this type of yore, IIave mingled with their kindred dust Full fifty years or more; flnno lnntr ?im ihn hngT nrih* That drove the good quill-pen ; CJosed, years a gone, the eyes that read The thoughts of hoDest men. And yet, in those time-honored days, They had their little spites And jealousies, and quarreled o'er Their fancied wrongs and rights; The factions, led to victory, Or beaten, left the field; Poor,-human hearts !?so much like ours? They'd rather die than yield. We ran our eyes across the page, And up and down each oolumn ; Wo read the list of marriages And births?the deaths, so solemn ; And then we wonder who will read, When we have passed away, A hundred years or more to come, Our "Journal of To-day!" A QUEER COURTSHIP. You can just fancy how I felt when Sam drove up to the door one night, and I went out to get the package, to see brother Joshua's daughter Jemima on the seat with Sam, chatting and laugbing away as merry as a cricket I was powerful glad to see the child, but dreadfully mortified to find her tucked in there with the driver. I told Sam pretty sharply that he ought to know better, for tnere was plenty of room in side, and I didn't know what the boarders crver the way would think of it. "She was bound to ride outside," said Sam ; "and a willfnl woman must have her way." " Why, it's all the fashion up our way," said Mime. "The summer boarders swarm all over the tops of the coaches like so nlany lovely bees ; but if it hurts anybody's feelings, I'm. sorry. A school-marm must mind her p's and o's." I 44 A Bohool-raarm ?" I said, wondering what the child meant. Then 6he told me she'd come out to take the poor little widow woman's place; that she'd written to Mr. Steele, the schoolmaster, for she couldn't get along at the school there. 4 4 It would take a saint to put up with their airs and their interference, and you know I like to have my own way," said my niece Jemima. * 44 Out of the fryiDg-pan into the fire, Mime," I said. 44 The schoolmaster has it all his own way here, and he's little better than a brute. I've seen under ray own eyes a woman's heart almost broken with him." Then I went on to tell how he'd tormented the poor widow woman into giving up the place, and how I'd seen her worry and fret till the skin fairly dropped off her bones. 44 Pooh! pooh 1" said my niece ; 44 the skin won't drop off my bones, aunty." And I couldn't help thinking what a pity it would be if it did, for whiter and IUltjr tUiU tlllUlOOUlUCi OBUl JL UOIDl UiU I eee. It was the kind that so oftdh comes | with red hair, and a lovelier color never was in a blossom than bloomed in Mime's cheek when she cried out: 44 I've got to tight it out somewhere, aunty ; let him mind his own business, and I'll mind mine !" I couldn't bear the thoughts of her spirits and health bein^ broken by that dreadful Mr. Steele. 44 I'll tell you, Mime," I said, as she dried the dishes for me, 44 what we'll do. You shall stay at home with me and help about the shop; there's bon nets now and then to trim, and lots of little knickknackB in worsted work to be | made." * 41 Now, aunty," said Mime, ,4a buffalo would be less clumsy at trimming a bonnet than I would, and as for worsted work "? 441 suppose so," I said, for I could i see she was determined to teach. t The next morning she went to school, i and for a month or so everything went1 right, and I didn't hear a word of complaint from, her. She made fun enough for the schoolmaster, ana saia j he didn't know how to manage the boys, and made himself more trouble than was 1 necessary ; that a coaxing word of liers went further than a dozen slashes with ; that rod of his; but every one had their own way, and it was none of her busi- j ness. She was getting along splendid-! t, ly, and the smaller children were quite j delighted with a way she had ofi picturing out things on the blackboard. Mime was quite ready with her i pencil, and had made us laugh, Sam Riley and me, many a time by scrawling off funny conceits on paper. Sam Riley began to drop in at night, and I noticed he was quite taken with Mime. Sam was well-to-do, and, outside of his line of stages, owned a fine house down on ] the main road. Sam didn't mind being hit off himself once in a while?him and his horses and passengers and all; he used to sit back in his chair and laugh till the tears rolled down his cheeks, and look over at me, winking and blink ing, asd whispering, under his breath, ! what a wonderful woman she was. 44 She's as fresh and handsome as a j rose," he would say when Mime was out of the room ; 44 and what health she's got, and what spirits!" I could see how things were going. Dear! dear 1 I used to sit and picture it all out to myself, and think how nice it would be to have Mime settled near me for life. So when she came home one afternoon from school, with a bright spot burning on either cheek, an angry flame in her eyes, and said to me that war had begun between her and Mr. Steele, I didn't so much mind, for I thought the sooner she got discouraged the better. Sam was well on to thirty, and though Mime's skin made her look younger than she was, there wasn't so much difference as you'd think between their ages. 44 He's forbidden my illustration on the blackboard, aunty," said Mime; and though I didn't know one bit of board 2 BI ). Irom another, I could see by the wa^ she felt about it that it was a great spit< to Mime. 44 He calls them pernicioui and exciting to the imagination, and in nrious'to more practical requirements,' said Jemima. And I couldn't quite ge the hang of his objections, for ever word of the schoolmaster's was as lon$ as the moral law, but I could tell it wai some imposition of his. 44 He's a nar row-minded idiot, and I shall tell hin so if he persists in this notion," sai< Mime. 44 If he persists," I said, 44you'< better give it up. He's so set in hii way, there's no use crossing him." 441 won't let him cross me," saic Mime, and she didn't. She went on witl * ? ?i i i ill _ # 1 I ner pictures on tne DiacKDoaru ior a iui week or more, till one night there was i rap at the sitting-room door, and it gav< me quite a turn to see the long bom figure of the schoolmaster standing 01 the threshold. Mime started up, a hot color leaping into her face, and stood there confront ing him like a young Jezebel. The man looked pale enough himself sinking into the chair I set for him as i he was quite worn and spent like, and h< deemed beat out in some way; for thougl he fixed his eyes savagely on Mime, ther< was something in 'em that looked tira and hunted. "I have come here to remonstrat< with your niece, madam," he said to me '* though I've found it of very little us< and profit heretofore ; but howeve: capable and efficient she may be, anc however judicious it may seem to retail her services, her spirit of insubordina tion is too dangerous an "example to th< naturally rebellious and headstrong tern perament of youth. She must confint herself strictly to the rules that goverr the method of instruction. The trustee " Don't put it on the trustees," broke in Mime; and I was glad she took it upor herself to answer him, for I couldn'1 make out head or tail of what he wat saying, what with his long words ami the fluster I was in. " The trustees are mere lay figures for you to dress youi petty 'schemes of conceit and tyrannj upon." He waved his hand impatiently, and went on: " It is the will of the trustees that you shall put aside the puerile and reprehensible course you have taken in exciting the imagination and creating frivolous and miscnievous emotions. The pursuits of my own class have been interrupted, their attention distracted "? 44 Why don't your class mind theii own business?" said Mime. 44 Why dc yon look at me, or listen to me, or bother with me at all ? It is not your class that is disturbed, Mr. Steele, it is you." The schoolmaster's face suddenly reddened, then grew paler than before; he wiped the perspiration from his long, high forehead, and his bony fingers actually trembled on his knees. I don't wonder he was mad, for Mime went on in the most outrageous way. Her spunk wae up. and she wasn't a bit afraid of him. 44 You can't bear to .see knowledge made easy and pleasant," she said. 44 You'd like to knock every new idea into the brain with- a sledge-hammer; you hate to look over at the children and me, and see us making light of our task?it's gall and wormwood to you, Mr Steele." 44Hu8h, Mime!" I said, for I could see that he was getting more and more excited, and I didn't know but what he'd fling the lamp at her head, or something. But he mastered himself, and up he got and went away without another word; and pretty soon Sam Riley came in. I thought we'd have a nice evening, for Mime was in high feather; and sitting down to the table, she caught up a pencil and made the' schoolmaster take every ridiculous shape that she could. Her eyes shone and her cheeks glowed, and I didn't wonder Sam couldn't take his eyes off her face. "Sity the word, Mime," said Sam, " and I'll punch the idiot's head." " Who are you calling an idiot?" said Mime, turning straight upon Sam. " If you had the hundredth part of his intelligence, you might be glad." " I thought you called him so yourself," said Sam, meekly, for he was head-over-ears in love with the young termagant. "If I did," said Mime, "it was absurd, and I'll never do it again. No, Sam, I'll beat him with his own weapons. I'll go to the trustees myself. If he can wheedle and coax them, so can I; and if he can bully them, perhaps I can do that too." " You can do anything," said poor Sam. And soon after that Mime said she was tired and sleepy, and sent Sam off, as cool as you please. Then she got upon her feet and walked about the floor, and I could see she was terribly put out and excited by the schoolmaster's visit. " You'll wear yourself out for nothing," I said, for it vexed me to see her all in a fret that way from pure spite. " He'll break your health and spirits like >i*? did with that Door little bodv that was here before you." " I don't believe all those stories about that womaD, aunty. I've found out she had heavier troubles than those put upon her by the schoolmaster. You musn't believe all that you hear." That was the way with Mime?she was that contrary when she was vexed that she'd swear black was white, and. take the part of the evil one himself. She began from that time out to fight hard for her own way, and it got to be pretty well known she was winning over ; the trustees. The children had never liked anybody as they did Mime, and little Bill Pritchard, that used to play truant half the time, and would rather take a beating any day than be pent up in school, went there as regular as clock work now, and began to mark out horses and dogs with a stump of a pencil himself; and Mr. Pritchard he was one oi the trustees, and thought the world and all of my niece Jemima. But somehow or other, just as I said, the continual worriment of it fretted Mime, and she got thin and lost liei pretty color; and the night sjie caim home and said she had got the best o! the schoolmaster, and the notice had been served on him that day that he wai to let her have her own way of teaching that night I made up my mind it was ? 5AU1 AND POET BEAUFORT, S. C, 7 about time it was settled in some way, j 5 for Mime was more fidgety and contrary b than ever; and I don't believe every ' - thing wonld have turned out as it did if Mime had been in her sober senses. 1 The girl was about half wild, and I don't , believe she knew what she was about; for it stands to reason she must have j hated the schoolmaster, and yet when I began to glory over his defeat, and say j how glad Sam Riley would be, she shut me up in a minute. "Sam Riley and Mr. Steele," she ] said, " are two very different men." " I should hope so," I said. , " Sam is made of different stuff," she } went on to say. " The little pricks and torments that sting the soul of Mr. Steele to madness would be utterly unfelt by Sam. Sam is a good fellow ? . " Thank you for Sam," I said, for she waa enough to provoke a saint. " But he has not th#? capacity for suffering that Mr. Steele has; and oh, aunty, he does suffer I" " Serve him right, the monster," I , said ; and had scarce got the words out of my mouth when there was a rap at , the door. I went over, thinking it was i Sam Riley, when there was the thin, , gaunt face of the schoolmaster again. 1 He came in and bowed as grave as an owl, and sat down on a chair by the , door; his cane rolled down beside him . on the floor, and for a full minute or so , he couldn't find a word out of that long P dictionary in his head. ' r I was glad to see that Mime's spun* I came back at the sight of him. Her i eyes were as bright as they ootild be, - and her cheeks like the heart of a hollyi hock. "My errand here, Miss Jemima," he } began, "is altogether a friendly one. 1 You have so much spirit and determination that I think your present subordinate position is unfit for you. I know i of one that will be shortly vacant, which i you can fill with great credit to yourt self and all concerned." j "I'm much obliged to you." said I Mime, her lips beginning to curl, and ? the color of her cheeks deepening to a flame, " but I'm quite satisfied where I r am. I can well understand that you'd be glad to be rid of me, but I must beg [ to decline. I'm not going away from , I here." | " But I am going away from here," t said the schoolmaster, getting upon his r feet " It is my place that will be vacant, and I think you may have it if you choose." "You?you!" said Mime; and I don't wonder the child was astounded at the news. I was quite flustered myself. " Yes," said the schoolmaster ; " you can have your own way now." And he went out the door, bowing awkwardly as I bo w?nt. a oueer miserable smile strug . ?- ? ? -9 ? ^ - w gling into his face. ^ Dear! dear! the contrariness of ^ woman ! No sooner was the door well shut on him thf* Mime put her head on the table and began to cry. Her hair * i got loose and fell all about her, and, to ^ t make the matter worse, I heard a foot- ^ step outside, and this time I thought it i must be Sam Riley. ^ " For goodness' sake, Mime," I said, , " don't let Sam Riley see you in this i : wa7 i" " t But the door opened, and there stood . the schoolmaster again. He said he had come back for his cane ; but he never stooped to pick it up, but stood e staring at Mime as if she was a ghost j instead of the fresh, pretty, wholesome ( creature that she was. She raised her j; head, and though her face was half hid- ^ den by her hair, her eyelashes were wet, and the tears not dried yet on her cheeks. ? The school master, not minding me ^ otiv ikiato fViQn if T woa a hlrv?k of wood E or something, walked straight over to Mime. 4 " You know very well," he said, " that I am only going away from here because ^ I love you. Because it'was not the class Q that was distracted by your pretty ways ^ and devices; it was I. You know all c this very well, and can tell me whether I had better go or not. Now tell me, shall I stay ?" ^ You might have knocked me down c with a feather when I saw Mime put her ? hand out timidly to the school master, a and he tnrn pale and catch it in both his g own. t " Of course not," I broke in, for I was near distracted by the way things were ? going. " If you're an honorable man, ^ and got any sense left, and an eye in j your head, 3 ou'd see that my niece is as a good as engaged to Sam Riley." J a " Sam Riley!" said Mime, as scornful g as if poor Sam was a toad or something, & and" holding on to the school master's ^ horny hands as if she was drowning. a Like enough they'll beat her some day, n and if so she'll like him all the better for ^ it, for before I'd got out of the room I heard her tell him she'd teach any way ^ that suited him best; and my only hope ^ is that he's got a little money laid bv, s for he said he didn't intend she should teach at all. But, dear ! dear ! when I 1j heard the crack of Sam Riley's whip t outside, and knew the evening stage was q in, and poor Sam not knowing what was n in store for him, I had to go up stairs h " ' 11 t. -1* A oil T I ana nave a cry an wj iujbch. auu an *. ^ can 8ay is, if Mime marries the school j( master, it's a mighty queer courtship.? Harper's Weekly. ? ?1? c A Simple Cure for Drunkenness. tl A Brooklyn* man writes to the New ti i York Sun: I drank more intoxicating 0 I liquor from the year 1857 to the last day i of 1873 than any other person I ever * knew or heard of; and in the meantime, ; knowing this sure cure, did not practice s i it on myself, but for fun, did practice it g on many others, and effected permanent i ' cures. The remedy of the cure is this: p When a person finds he must have a fJ r drink, let him take a drink of water, say v two or three swallows, as often as the y i thirst or craving may desire. Let him a : continue this practice. His old chums I i will laugh; bHt let him persevere, and it v will not be a week before the appetite 1: f for any kind of. stimulant will disappear c T altogether, and water betaken to quench p the natural thirst. If at any time the \ , victim should feel a craving, let him take t I the first opportunity and obtain a swal- t r low of water, and he can pass and repass t i all saloons. When he goes ^ home at t f night lie will feel satisfied and be sober o 1 and have money in his pocket. I com- 1 i menced this practice the first day of 1874, 1 , and never think of taking a drink of t 3 stimulant. c "OR1 ROYAL C( , THURSDAY, SE] BREAD. The Use of This Indispensable Article of Food From the Earliest Period?The Different Kinds of Bread. The original signification of this word was anything that may be eaten, or, in general, food; but as now used it signifies a preparation of some of the cereal grains. Since the day that " Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and mid: Make ready three measures of fine neal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth," bread has been among all nvilized nations a staple article of food. The various processes used by the indent Egyptians in making bread are distinctly represented to-day in the paintings on their tombs. T?he primitive mode of making bread was to stir the cereal, ground fine, with water until i thin dough was formed. This was nade into cakes, laid on hot coals and covered with ashes and cooked, then A'l'f? A AwaVva /\^ A rtvucu ncuiu, jl uc oxauo ui iuiu ugovav still employ this method. Later, ovens were invented. These were round vessels of brass or earthenware, which'were leated by a fire kindled around them. CVhen hot the dough was spread upon heir sides in thin flakes. During the war with Perseus, king of Macedon, ibout 200 years before the Christian era, ;he Romans learned the art of fermentng bread, and on their return from Macedonia brought bakers with them. Fhese bakers and their successors held rery high place in the public estimation; hey had tne care of the public granaries md enjoyed many privileges. From Rome the art of bread-making with fernentation found its way into France; 3ut not until near the close of the seventeenth century was yeast in general use n the north of Europe for bread-making, [n 1688 the college of physicians m Paris, Frafice, declared bread made with reast to be injurious to health, wherelpon the government prohibited jokers rom using it under a severe penalty, rat the superiority of yeast bread became so apparent that tne prohibitory aws were enforced, and soon became a lead letter. Before yeast was used in raising bread, leaven was employed for bis purpose. This was made by mixing lour and water into dough, and keeping t in a temperature of from 70 ? to 80 ? mtil it fermented, which would be in hree or four days. This leaven was hen mixed with* a quantity of fresh lough, and when the whole mass was ermented it was ready for the oven, and* ill baked, save a pound or more, which vas reserved for the next batch of bread, [f buried in a sack of flour the leaven could keep many days without spoiling. ^.8 wheaten flour contains more gluten ban the flour of any other of .the cereals, t is very difficult to make wheaten bread ipongy and porous without the use of ome kind of fermentation. In the South mmmered biaouit-are in request on account of their freedom from yeast and reast powers. They are made of flour, cater or milk, and salt, hammered with he rolling-pin for an hour or so, made nto tiny shapes and baked in a quick iven. The hammering introduces air >etween the particles of dough, and thus nokes it light. Oatmeal, cornmeal and >arlevmeal contain much less gluten lian wheat flour, and can therefore be eadily made into light, thin cakes without any fermenting agent. Barley and >atmeal were for a long time the dependince of our Saxon ancestors for bread, it was probably barley bannocks the freat King Alfred was set to watch when le took refuge in the swine-herd's cotage. "With the facilities within reach if almost every housekeeper, there is no food reason wny every household should tot have a perpetual peacemaker in the amily in the shape of well-compounded, lutritious and palpable bread. The Potato Starch Industry. The Springfield Republican says of he potato starch industry, which has Iready assumed considerable proporions in Washington, Clinton and Essex ounties of New York: One of the most important manufactured products of the small country owns of New England and New York Itate is potato starch. It is believed hat nearly 3,000,000 bushels of potatoes re frequently consumed per year in the Itates of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont and New York in the production of otato starch. This amount is threeighths as large as the potato crop of laine, three-fourths as large as that of few Hampshire, three-fifths as large s that of Vermont, one-tenth as large s that of New York State, of about the ame magnitude as that of Massachuetts, and much larger than the crops of Jonnecticut or Rhode Island. There re about 225 factories engaged in the aanufacture of potato starch, and probacy all of them, with one or two exceptions, re located in the States of New York, laine, New Hampshire and Vermont. ?he average price paid for potatoes by tarch manufacturers during the past eason has been tliirty cents per bushel. ?he aggregate annual production of all he factories is usually from 6,000 to 11,00 tons. A bfishel of potatoes generally lakes eight pounds of- starch, 250 ushels, therefore being required for a on. As the average market quotation or potato starch is about five cents per ound, it follows that a bushel of potaoes brings only forty cents after being onverted into starcn, and the value of he total production of potato starch in he country is from $800,000 to $1,200,00 per annum. low Two-Grocers Came to New lork. The Troy (N. Y.) 1 Vhig tells this tory: A couple of clerks in a large grocery store on River street, not far rom Washington square, had a very ileasant trip to New York on the City of 1 rn 1 M .Toy, xuesaay evening, oujjib poeAogeo rere to be shipped by the boat, and the oung men were hurried off with them , few moments previous to departure, n their haste to get to the craft they rent in their shirt sleeves, and without iats. On board the boat they met a ouple of fair ones uith whom they stop>ed to converse a moment, and the chat ras so interesting that they did not hear he cry " all aboard " nor realize until oo late that the boat had moved from he dock, and they were obliged to make he trip to the metropolis minus hats md coats, and what was still more emmrrassing, without cask in their pockets, rhey managed to negotiate a loan whan lie boat arrived, and with borrowed ;oats and hats returned the next evening. T T 5MMBR0IAL. PTEMBER 6, 1877. MOHAMMED. A Condensed History of the Fonader of the Turkish Religion. We briefly record the story of the founder of the present Mohammedan religion: Arabia never was conquered by any foreign nation. Its sands nave been its security, and the poverty of the scattered people offered no temptation. It was always the native country of romance and superstition. In it Sabeanism, or star-worship, prevailed for indefinite ages, till overturned by Mohammed, who was born at Mecca, in 569. His father was Abdallah and his mother Amina, both of good family and great personal beauty. His grandfather, Mo Milieu, nnu iuua ui mm, uiuu av the age of 110. His nncle, Abn Taleb, brought him up as his own son, and took him, with a caravan, to Egypt and Syria; and he afterward served in a campaign under his uncle, who was the commander and guardian of the ancient temple of the Caaba. At twenty-five he married Cadiga, a rich and noble widow, and lived in opulence. The religions of the Arabs were the ancient Sabeanism, Jewish and Christian. At forty he announced himself a prophet, and taught the Unity of God in opposition to the Trinity, and disclaimed the reverence bestowed on Ezra. His first converts were his wife, his cousin Ali, his servant Zeid, and Abu-Bekr, a man of distinction, who made five proselytes. He now preached in publio the belief and worship of one God, in the courts of the Caaba, and began to produoe the Koran. This, he pretended, was brought to him ready written by Che angel Gabriel, and its florid composition, in splendid Arabic language, imposed on the vulgar. The Koreah now sought his life, and he fled with Abu-Bekr to Medina in 622 (the Hegira), j^where five hundred disciples met him. Here he adopted the kingly and sacerdotal office, established a mosque, and publicly preached. He banished seven hundred of his opponents and buried seven hundred alive, chiefly Jews, seizing their wealth. He soon after had a battle with one thousand of the Koresh forces, and defeated them in the battle of Beber, in 623, after which he had one thousand warriors, but at the battle of Ohnd was defeated, and Medina was besieged by twelve thousand and defended by three thousand; but the besiegers being baffled, a ten years' peace was concluded. Two years after he gained a victory at Muta, over a large army of the Eastern empire; and in 629, with ten thousand men, took Mecca, and destroying the three hundred and sixty idols m the Caaba, consecrated it to his own religion, called Islamism. In another year all Arabia listened to his pretensions, and he now marched with thirty thousand men against the Eastern empire, securing a peace by his approach. He returned to Medina and performed the Pilgrimage of the Valedi.tion, with a train of 114,000 believers. 'Soon after he was supposed to be poisoned, and died at Medina in 632, aged sixty-three. He was regarded as a man adorned with every virtue. ? Fashion Notes. Colored laces are too much worn. Clair de hnie jet means colored jet The reign of striped hosiery is over. White caps are fashionable at New port. Box plaited basques will be much worn this fall. Fashionable pique suits for children are no longer braided. Colored jet beads bid fair to be the rage as a fashionable trimming. Little boys and girls under six or seven wear the same styles of dresses. Lace buttons are revived for organdy and Swiss mHslin garments. All new polonaises and hotel basques simulate men's frock and dress coats. Pique is the fall dress fabric for little folks, combined with Hamburg or open work trimming. The suits for small children of both sexes are the princess robe, the English frock, and the Scotch kilt. A profusion of ribbon bows with tight straps and long loops and ends are seen on some of the importations of dresses for fall wear. Chenille net polonaises, embroidered with chenille, are the latest costly novelties for upper garments to be worn over silk skirts and bodices. Very pretty boots are now shown in fancy styles especially adapted for the Esrcale toilettes. Many now wear the gh slipper, which almost conceals the TralVinnr nnrl Um"innOr , 1VSVSU, iWA muorng . Q. The colored bead passementeries which will be used on fall dresses will give them the appearance of being strewn with precious stones. Snch passementeries will be applied only to evening and reception toilets. For very small children, the most effective pique dresses are cut pompadour or square in the neck, the sleeves are short, and the whole trimmed with ruffles and flounces of Hamburg embroidery, headed with insertings of the same. A new style of infants' cloak is made with a waist plaited skirt, a coachman's or short military cape covering the shoulders and turning back in front with a silk lining. The colors chosen for these > novelties are pale blue, pink, grav, and even tilleul, but white is not exploded, and is the handsomest of all. A Singular Compact. Mr. Ronay de Maly Sambor, in the province of Tchernikoff, Russia, committed suicide recently under singular circumstances. As the gentleman was very rich, and had excellent reasons for remaining in the world, his voluntary exit was puzzling, but was explained by a letter found in his desk, alongside of a pistol case. Ten years before he had engaged to fight a duel, but instead of going into the field it was decided that one of the two contestants should kill himself in ten years, unless his adversary gave him permission to live. Lots were drawn in order to decide who should be the victim, and Mr. Ronay was the unlucky man. The time for the suicide was May 11, 1677, and accordingly on the tenth he received a letter from his cold blooded antagonist demanding the fulfillment of.his word. RIBI i $2.00 per I A Dangerous Cigar Trap. A late issue of the Cincinnati Commercial has the following: A few eveningB since a man walked into a cigar stand on Vine street and lighted a cigar, or rather relighted it. As he threw away the taper and whiffed vigorously at the weed, something occurred that rather startled him and those who happened to be standing near. It was an explosion, a sharp crack. There were smoke and flying tobacco and an odor of powder, in the midst of which the victim vanished, without waiting for the sympathy and interrogatories that were sure to have been poured upon him. j Yesterday noon Police Commissioner ! Carson was standing on Fifth street, when he and a friend were startled by a report, as if of the explosion of a pistol. Looking across the street they saw a young man with his head bowed and his hands up to his face, as if in Buffering, i " Somebody must have shot him," said one. "Perhaps he has tried suicide," said the other, as there was nobody near to do- the shooting. They crossed over to the young man, and the party entered a drug store, where the young man, evidently badly scared, was found to be but little worse for the explosion. His face was not burned, but there was a slight burning of the roof of the mouth on the left side. Mr. Carson asked him his name and where he lived. He answered that it was William Brown, and that he lived on Sycamore street. Soon afterward he acknowledged that he had not told the truth. He then said that his name was James McOarthv. He had given the wrong name and address,in the first place, through fear of getting his name into the newspapers. The officer accompanied him to his home. As the officer was about to leave he was accosted by Alexander Oorbin, who' keeps a little policy office with a " coal" sign and a small cigar stand for a " stall," with a question as to the trouble. The officer informed him, whereupon Corbin, in great triumph, informed the offioer that the ciflrar that had caused the trouble had doubtless been stolen from his case. He had for a long time been troubled by cigar thieves, who had robbed him of three hundred dollars' worth. To detect and punish them, if possible, he had lately charged twenty-five cigars with powder in small tin cylinders. Some of these cigars had been stolen. He thought that- if the officer would search young McCarthy he would, perhaps, find more of the same kind on his person. The search was made, and, sure enough, another of the loaded weeds was found. A reporter for the Commercial procured one of these small infernal machines and examined it. The cigar js of A--l_ 3 1- /? II common bloc a, unrn. wrapper, um duv. Exactly one-third of its length?the middle third?is occupied by a tin cylinder, about an inch and a fifth in length aud about a fifth of an inch in diameter. The end toward the month is of tin, and well secured; but that toward the other end of the cigar is covered only with paper, and very thin paper at that The inevitable result of the smoking of one of these cigars is an explosion when the cigar is about one-third burned. How Franklin Got a Seat. In the year 1772 Franklin visited Boston, and on his return to Philadelphia at every stopping place he was beset with officious inquiries, etc., on which he determined to be beforehand with interrogatories in future. At the next tavern he registered him- ' self as Benjamin Franklin, from Boston to Philadelphia, a printer not worth a dollar, eighteen years of age, i single i man seeking his fortune, etc., and his singular introduction checked ail further \ inquiries and effectually repulsed the daring propensity of native inquisitive- i ness. At one of the public houses the fireplace was surrounded by men so closely packed our traveler could not approach near enough to feel any of its agreeable wasmth, and being cold and 1 chilled he called out: " Hostler, have you any oysters ?" " Yes, sir," said the man. % < " Well, then, give my horse a peck," said Franklin. i " What, give your horse oysters ?" " Yes," retorted Franklin ; "give him < a peck of oysters." j The hostler carried out the oysters and many of the occupants of the fire- 1 place went with him to witness the < great curiosity of a horse eating oysters, j Franklin seated himself comfortably < before the fire and derived much satis- ; faction and enjoyment from the funny j experiment. Soon the men came in, and the company with rueful faces exm/uil AamAaA ri l" aao f 1B10/?t.ifill fit piCOOCU lliUDU UUV1VIVU ?their diBappointment. " The horse would not eat the oysters, sir," and they had lost their cosey, com- 1 fortable, warm seats. 1 " Well, if the horse won't eat them I'll 1 eat them myself, and you may try him with a peck of oats." J No More Turkey. 1 a fmvolpr rlfinartinc from Oriental { scenes breaks out in the following J rhapsody : Farewell to the gay gardens, ' the spicy bazaars, to the splash of 1 fountains and the gleam of golden-tipp- J ed minarets! Farewell to the perfect ' morns, the balmy twilights, the still heat of the blue noons, the splendor of moon and stars ( Farewell to the glare of the white crags, the tawny wastes of J dead sand, the valleys of oleander, the 4 hills of myrtle and spices ! Farewell to 4 the bath, agent of purity aod peace, and parent of delicious dreams? to the shebook, whose fragrant fumes are breathed from the lips of patience and 4 contentment?to the narghileh, crowned 1 with that blessed plant which grows in the gardens of shiras, while a fountain more delightful than those of samarcand babbles in its crystal bosom ! Farewell j to the red cap and slippers, to the big ( turban, the flowing trousers, and the j gaudy shawl?to squatting on broad di- < vans, to sipping black coffee in acorn cups, to grave faces' and salaam alei- ; kooms, and touching of the lips and : forehead! Farewell to the evening ; meal in the tent door, to the couch on j the friendly earth, to the yells of the ; muleteers, to the deliberate marches of the plodding horse, and the endless . rocking of the dromedary that knoweth j its master! Farewell, finally, to annoy- j ance without anger, delay without vexa- i tion, indolence without ennui, endurance 1 without fatigue, appetite without in- j temperance, enjoyment without pall! < X \ JNE [mm. Single Copy 5 Cools. A Woman's u No." He spoke (0 her with manly word? With honest speech and slow ; She felt she loved him as she heard, But yet she answered 11 No." She saw him rise, she saw him stand, As staggering from a blow; She oould hare kissed bis trembling hand. Bat still she answered " No." And so he goes?to come no more !j But let him only go, Her voice will call him from the door? Who trusts a woman's " No?" Items of Interest A new Chinese theater ia to be erected on Washington street, San Francisco, at a cost of 830,000. ,,,L- ? a inn in TflTOfl vhlVIl 1UC iViCUiou v/i a JUJ.J w lately granted a divorce to a woman, married her the same day. Many of the wagons going to the Black Hills are drawn by oows, which fnrnish sufficient milk to pay the tolls. Three good-looking young ladies the other day stood beside a grocer's sign which read: " Don't squee2e these peaches." An international congress is to take measures against the phylloxera and Colorado beetle, the destroyers of vines and potatoes. The inhabitants of the mountain valleys of North Italy are embarking in large numbers from Mediterranean ports for Amenca. ? The United States occupies the third place in the list of hop-growing countries, Germany taking the lead and England ranking second. Some Europeans think that Europe can take 2,000,000 American cattle every year, because some of the old countries have reached the limit of cattle-raising. A post-mortem examination on the body of a New York man who had died of consumption showed that the heart was on the right side and the liver on the left. Turkish soldiers are taller than the Bussians, and will average at least five feet and ten inches. They wean full beards, but have their heads shaved, or the hair cut very short. A market street lady .purchased a nice new door mat the other morning with the word " Welcome" stamped thereon lottura an/1 the first to come ill _ along and plank his number elevens on it was a book agent. A wandering old portrait painter named Cooper, always seen with a rusty satohel under his arm, has been found dead near Martinville, Ky., and the bundle when opened was found to contain $65,000 in government bonds. A farmer named Reuben White, while cutting oats in a field near Washington Courthouse, Ohio, cut through a nest of bees. His horses, maddened by the stings of the insects, threw him from his seat before the sickle. He was so badly mangled that he died in a few minntes. A contemporary says in a recent article: " If you wish to know whether a man is ' superior to the prejudices of the world, ask him to carry a parcel for you." A fellow tried this plan a few days since, upon a well-dressed man he met at a railway station. The well-dressed man took the parcel, and the other was satis fled that he was superior to the prejudices of society, but he has not seen the parcel since. They were walking arm in arm up the street, and just ahead of them was a woman in a new Princesse dress. The setting sun was gilding the western heaven, and throwing a beautiful crimson glow over all the earth. He said in a subdued tone: "Isn't it lovely?" " Well, I don't know," was the reply of his fair companion ; "I don't think the trimming matches very well, and it doesn't fit her for any thing." He shuddered. A gentleman had been bothered so constantly with tramps and their entreaties for something to eat that he instructed his cook to tell them she had nothing. The other day one of them dropped in and made the usual plea and inquiry. The cook responded promptly: " We have nothing at all." The tramp then courteously asked : " Have you an old basket you could let me have ? The . girl replied: " No! What do you want with a baskets" Tramp?" Oh, I thought I would run over to the poor-house and get you some cold victuals." Why They Often Fall. Young men often fail to get on in this world because they neglect small opportunities. Not being faithful in little things, they are not promoted to the charge of greater things. A young man who gets a subordinate situation sometimes thinks it is not necessary ior mm w guc n, uuw WUIA/U tion. He will wait till he gets a place yf responsibility, and then he will show people w. at he can do. This is a very great mistake. Whatever his situation mayabe, he should master it in all its details, and perform all its duties faith fully. The habit of doing his work thoroughly and conscientiously is what is most likely to enable a young man to make his way. With this habit, a person of roly ordinary abilities would outstrip roe of greater talents who is in the habit of slighting subordinate matters. But, after all, mere adoption by a young man, of this great essential rule Df success, shows him to be possessed of superior abilities. A Valuable Table for Reference. A sum of mouey placed at compound Interest at the rate stated in the first xdamn, doubles itself iu the time given in columns opposite, in the following table : Yfart. MotA*. Day*. U per cent. . .46 6 19$ 2 " ....35 0 1 2} 44 ....28 0 25 3 " ....23 5 10* U 44 ....20 0 52 18-24 i " ....17 8 1017-24 ii " ....15 9 20 22-24 5 44 ....14 2 13 51 " ...12 11 10 6' 44 ....11 10 21* 7 " ....10 2* 27* 8 44 .... 9 4 3-24 9 44 .... 8 0 *0