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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
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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. ?
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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
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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.
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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
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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! <
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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