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E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politics. VOLUME I. ORANGEB?RG, SOUTH CAROLS^ SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1S75. MY LITTLE LABORER. A tiny man, with flURorn noft and louder, AH IU\V lady'* fair ; Sweet eye? or blue, a form l)i)tli Trail and Blonder, And rurln of minny hair ; A houtfeliold toy. a Iragie thine "f beauty Yet with each riping cnn Urchin bin round of toil - a BOlemii duty That must be dnllv done. To-?l?y lie's buddinu cant?o, house and tower, With wend roan art and ?kill ; Or labora with ht? hammer by tho bour, With Htrong. determined will. Amin, with little loaded cart hu'u plying A brigit ami driving trade ; Again, with thoughtful, earnest brow io trying Some book'a dark lore to rond. Now, laden Uko ?OHIO little beast or burden, He drags himself along ; And new hi? lordly llttlo voice lu heard in . nolitti-rouB Binnu aud Bong ; Another hour IK apt-lit in busy I oiling, With hoop, and top, and ball, And with a patience that la nevcr-failing, Ile tries and cotiquorB all lint Bleei) at laKt overtaken my little rover, And on his mother'a breaBt, Toya thrown anide, the day's hard labor over, lie Milka tn quiet robt ; And a? I fold him to my bosom, Bleeping, I think 'mid gathering tearp, Of what tho futuro may In ?.toro bo keeping, AM work for niauhoodVi years. Must he with toil lila daily bread be earning lu I he world's Inlay mart ; JJUVH bitter lennon every day bo learning, With patient, ?1 niggling heart 7 Or Bimi! my little architect be building Sumo monument of fame Ou which, lu letter* bright with glory's gilding, Tho world may read hi? narnu? IVrliapB pome humble, lowly ordination, Hut Hliarod with nwcot content ; lvrliap? a life lu loftier, prouder Rtalloil, lu Hellish pleasure P])elit. 1\JI chance these little fret may crow Hie portal Of learning"* loftly fame; lliH lid-w.irk bo tu neat ter trulim immortal, Among tho Minn of men A Clerical Episode. "It's a very disagreeable duty," thought the Rev. Mr. Thornton, as he entered Mrs. Mason's parlor, "but as I've been thoughtless euough to make tho promise, there's no way of avoiding it." Mr. Thornton was a young and rather handsome gentleman, whose thorough earnestness and sincerity, joined to a fair shave of mental ability j and a very largo amount of kind-heart edno fi, had mado him extremely popu lar with the people of the country town iu which he was located, and with no ono more so than with the lady whose house he had just entered. Hbo con sidered him almost pr rfect, aud would have been deeply insulted if the had hr ard anyone rashly calliug in question tho soundness of his judgment on any subject. On the present occasion he had come to fulfill a promise to her that he would call and havo an inter "yiqw with her niece, Miss Hattie.- Hal ""iriwell, who was spending a few weeks at her house. Miss Hallowell was ono of the reign ing b.llcs of a neighboring city, and her miiDiior toward gentlemen, though not actually unlady-like, WAB far too fro 3 and unconstrained to suit her mint's old-fashioned and rather narrow minded ideas of propriety, and the lat ter had begged hor minister to give the young lady some wholesome auvice on tho subject. After promising to com ply, Mr. Thornton had become more and more conscious that ho had placed himself in a very awkward position, and that tho only result likely to ensue from this undertaking to advise Miss Hallowell was a great deal of displeas ure on her part. And though unwilling to give v ay to what ho feared might be a mero want of moral courage, he was a good doal embarrassed when tho limo came for tho duty to be performed. His embarrassment was by no means lessoned when Miss Hallowell carno into the room, looking really lovely in her handsome, dark-blue morning-dtoss, which enhanced, by contrast, ibo brightness of hot blonde complexi?n and beautiful light hair. The truth was, sbo had iaado up her mind some days bofore that tho minister waa " the only civilized man in tho wholo stupid little town," and had taken semi? pains that morning to appear at her best be fore him. .She greeted bim very cordially, and, ns ho noticed how frank and pleasant ber manner really was, ho was troubiod by a still greater uneasiness about lec turing her on that point. But after some- preliminary conversation-duriDg wbiob sbo noticed that he was very nervous and ill at ease-bo made a do teriuinod effort to get through with his dis?viee?b?o task. "Mies Hallowell," ho said, "lam sure you know what a high regard I feol for you, and how very much inter ested I havo becomo ju you since you have been here." "Tm very glad, indeed, that you like me so much, Mr. Thornton," sbo an swered, with a charming smile. He found it impossible to say any thing moro at first, and there was au awkward pause. Then, nuder a SCDSO that something must bc said, aud not knowing exactly what it was to be, he went on in a strain that was rather stronger than the facts of tho caso warranted. ? "I feel as if I wero more thau a friend to you," he enid. "Indeed, I haven't seen anybody for a long timo who exoited my interest as vou havo done." Hare there was another pause, during which bo became moro embarrassed thau ever, while his companion began to entertain a certain idea about his monning. "I want to ask you somothing," he said finally, in a hesitating way, "I'm afraid you'll think it very strange in me to say suoh a thiDg to you when Tva only known you a few weeks ; but I think you will-I mean, I hope-" Hero he carno to a dead stop and was entirely at a loss how to go on. But bofore be could put an end to his hesitation the lady herself snddonly brought matters to a climax in n way that put a very different aspect on tho affair. "Mr. Thornton," she said, with a manner in which kind feeling waa com bined with d?cisive firmness, "I think I know what you want to say to me, and I'm sure- it will bo better to stop you before you say it. I belicvo jon woro going to ask me to marry yon. I can always esteem and honor you very much ; but it would bo impossible for me to be moro tltau your friend, oven if I. wished to, for I'll toll you frankly that I'm engaged to some ono else." If Miss Hallowell bad euddouiy spo ken to bim in pure Snnscript or the choicest Iroquois, Mr. Thornton could not have been more astounded. He sat for a few moments iii silent amazement. But tho utter ridiculousness of tho thing'soon oanie to him in its full force, aud, without any premonitory symp toms, ho fell into a violent paroxysm of laughter. His efforts to control him self wero quito useless, and ono or two faint attempts which ho made to speak were instantly smothered in a frosh outburst. Miss Hallowell'^ astonishment was, at first, aa great as his had beet). She, loo, Boon recovered from that feeling ; but, instead of being succeeded by mirth, it was followed, iu her case, by a passionate fit of finger. With a look of ineffable scorn ehe Rot up, walked out of the parlor, and went straight to her own room. Mr. Thornton left the hottso feeling unable to make tiny ex plnhnUoo at that time. In the mean time Miss Hallowell indulged in Humor ous rather wild planH tor being revenged upon the man who, she thought, had treated ber so sharLcfully in return tor ber consideration and kindness. But nt last she found relief in a flood of tears, pnd soon afterward was half-in clined to laugh at tho wholo affair her self. Sho returned to tho city a few days after this little episode ; and one morn ing, when sho had been at homo nearly a week, Bhe received tho following note: KncuLANEDM, Jan. 2, 1873. MY DEAU MISS HALLOWELL,- I hardly know how to apologize for what munt havo Boomed to you tho mont outrageous mdeno-is. Hut aa tho exact truth of tho matter is all that can afford any excuse for mo. I will give it at onco. I called that morning at Mrs. Maaon'u request, having promised hor to give you Homo advico about your manner to gentlemen; and fceliiiR. after tho promise was made, that you could hardly fail to consider such action very ofli cioua and unwarrantahlo, I 'waa awkward and embarrassed, and conducted myself in a way whioti led to the very natural iuietaku you made. I heg yon to holiove that I am heartily sorry for baying acted so foolishly throughout, and hopo you will not rofuso to number among yourfrjonds yonr sincero woll-wiHhor. . ALAN TnoRN rpM. .Miss Halloweli's reply was an invita tion to her wedding.-Hearth and Home. ; How Some Men Have Risen Tweed began as a brush maker, at journeyman's wages. Had he remained ut his trndo and continued honest, his native talent would have insured wealth -but ho arose to a dizzy height, and then B'tddonly tell. '* Hook Smith," who died in his official career of police commissioner, began as a driver on tho Erio canal, and reached at one timo a mombership in tho ring which gave him (as it was ostiriated) a million. Of thin but little is left, and his widow is living in a distant village. Tho Into polico superintendent, Jourdan, began as a i newspaper folder in tho service of tho Tribune. Ho was in thc office of su perintendent for three years, and left au estate worth, ns it is Baid, 8200,000. The salary of this offico is 87,500, but the facility of receiving bribes enables the incumbent to get, rich rapidly. It has boon Raid that Jourdan kuew tho f-ccret of tho Nathan horror, and that nn enormous fee secured a pledge of immunity in favor of tho guilty parties. Another man who ha3 risen from poverty to wealth, is Brown, the noted sexton of Graco church. Ho begnn lifo as a citrpontor, but being of a portly turn ho found tho tindo laborious, and obtained au appointment as inspector of carriegos. Next bo was mado sexton of Graco church, and for twenty years ho bas bad all tho patronage of that rich sooiety. no is t xtensively em ployed to manage social reunions and receptions, in which branch ho is an adept. He bas thc run of nil tho fash ionablo young men, und many a 85 note in handed him to rofresb his mem ory when invitations uro to bo circu hibd. Such a man may assist a friond to an en! raneo into a certain class of sooiety, if not into tho best. In this manner Brown, though occupying a second-rate position, is in fnct an auto crat among many of the faehionablo world, utloast in that which is next to tho creme dc fa eremr. Instead of shot big the plane at 815 a week, ho now lina a. country scat, and is ostimatod at a rpiarter million. Oliver Chufiiek, who is now president of the Long Island railroad, and is considered a millionaire, began busi ness tis tho keeper of a grocery on the wharf, where tho profits of the orgies of sailors and longfthoromon gave him both money and political influence. Ohnrlick was nt .one time a leader in the city government, and this was a lion source of plunder. Of course bo be came wealthy. These results, and others which could bo roforrcd to, f-how what curious changOR occur amid tho social revolutions of a great city. -And ho gave it for hi? opinion that whoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of graBs to grow upon a spot of ground where only ono grow before, would deserve better of man kind, and do more essential eervice io his country than the wholo race of poli ticians put together.-Swift. -Mrs. Swissholm lays down ns Wroad principle regarding tho male portion of the human race: " Only in Ids coffin in it safo for n woman to kiss any one man in a thousand." I Little Stories from the Scandinavian. Traunlatcd l>y ll. Hanson. THU UNOUATEFUIi OnitiDREN. It is justly Biiid that God, parents and teachers can never ho repaid for the kindness they have bestowed on any one.. But nias ! in this world it goes too oft eu according to the well-known problem, that a father cm easier sup port six children than six children ono father. Hero we have such a unrration about a fatbor who, while living, gavo all that ho owned to his children and expected them to support him after wards iu his old age. But when ho had lived a while with his eldest son be bo came tired of him, and said : " Father, last night my wife gavo birth to a sou, and where your nrm chair stood the cradle must now stand. Will you not move over to my brother's ? Ho has got moro room than 1 have." After n wude, the second BOU also be came tired of him, and said : "Father you always liked a warm room, and I have tho headache from it ; would you not like to go to my brother, wino is a baker, he eau stand it better." The father went, and after he bad stayed some time, tho third son said : *' In roy house wo aro always running in and out, so you can never get your afternoon sleep ; wouid you not rather po to sister Kima, who lives outside tho city gate ? You will be moro quiet with her." The old mau looked at tho clock and said : " Very well, 1 willgoaud try and live with my daughters." Worn n have generally n tenderer heart than men. But, after he had stayed a while, the daughter became anxious to get rid of him also, and pretended to bo very much frightened whenever her father bad to pass down the high stairway, either when going to church or any where else, and said: "At sister Ma ria's you need not go down any steps, as she lives on the first fioor." The old man admitted that she was right, in order that everything should go on quietly and peacefully, and went to his second daughter's. When he had stayed a couple of days, he beeame a burden to her also, and she gave him to under stand, through a third person, that her bouse, hoing too near the water, was top damp for a man a-bo suffered with rheumatism ; but ber sister who was married lo the sexton of St. John's graveyard had a dryer and healthier house. Ho ho went to tho house of his young est daughter, Laurina. He had stayed a. v?vy-??horfc t'?tje ***'ioii her per gCAjSVcz* him : " Mother, told Aunt Hilda, yes terday, that for you there were no bet ter qunrters than such as father was digging in the graveyard." When the aged parent heard these cruel words, his heart broke, and he fell back into his atm-chair aud died. St. John's graveyard received him, and showed more mercy towards him than his six children lind shown ; there be eau Bleep ; lintis! orbed. .rm-: NOUDK-IIEAKTED SONS. Tin re lived once in Stockholm an old man of nearly a hundred winters. Ho was a tailor by profession and had twelve sons, who all had served under Charles XTI. Oneo they got a fow days' leave of absence from their regi ments to go and seo their old father, whom they found on their arrival with out broad and nearly starving. "Fa thor has no bread," said ono of them, "yet bo has given to Sweden twelve warriors !" Cur dear father must be helped; but how?" "Can't wo fiud eomebody who would bo willing to loud us a little money?" asked tho youngest, who had a good ?leal of faith in God and Rood-hoar ted people. "Try to borrow money, when wo have nothing to givo in security ! What good will that do ?" asked another. " Have we nothing at. all ?" asked tho youngest ; " my brothorH, I will show you that we haye. Our father is a tailor, and ha? carried on Iiis Irado a great many years, and is now about to die of starvation. This ia sufficient proof of his boDosty. We, II?B som?, have served for many years in tho ranks of the Swedish army, and no one can yet show a stain upoi our honor. Lot na givo this, our honor ns security ; I think wo m iq ht borrow t little money on such a pledge." This idea won their general approval Tho twelve brothers wrote and signei tho following letter: "We, twolv Swedes, sons of a tailor who is nearl; one huudrod years of age, deprived (i tho necessary means of support, pru; the directora of tho national bank fo tho sum of two hundred dollars, to b used for tho support of our old an helpless father. Wo pledge our bone ns security, and promise to pay tb above named sum to the bank with i ono year. This letter was handed 1 the directors. The sum asked for wi given to them, pud the lotter torn t pieces; furthermore, tho directors pron i?cd to take caro of their old father i long ns ho lived. Scarcely had tb happened before it was made know through tho entiro city, and rich an poor paid visits to the old whit?-beadt man, and nouo went empty Laude? Tho tailor was thus placed in good oi cu instances, and after hi? death left small capital for each of his sons, roward for their filial love. THE TJITTLE FLOWER. One day, two young girls went town. They wore both daughters of gardener. Eaoh of them carried a ba ket full of fruit or flowers. As th? went along, one of them became dissa iefkd at tho weight of her basket ; tl other went oasily, singing all the tim " I cannot understand why you sing said tho first to her sister'; "you a not any stronger than I am, and yo basket is just ns houvy ns mine." " Tho reason is," said the othr smiling, "that ? have put a litt flower in my baskot, which keeps t Trom feeling ?B weight. Do you like wise." ^ "That must bo u very costly llower," snit! her sitter. " but t should Uko lo own it very much; pienso tell mo ils mimo." "Thc litt lo flower," said the other, u which makes the heaviest burden onay, is called-Patience." How to Keep the Children Pure " Will you not usc your influence in trying lo deter hugo boys from eonte.mi nuting the minds of small boys? Things which should be told iu a whole some mnuncr and aa solemn truths are distorted into vilo shapes, and perma nent injury is douc to children's minds. "Would it not bc better for tho body lo ba poisoned than tho mind, that parents might soc the harm done, and thereby bo < nablcd to noe cures and antidotes ? But I nm norry to say that I think tho trouble lies deepor than with thc big Voy?. I have boon looking around, and ara quito sure that it docs. A jury might acquit them with tho verdict, more sinned against than Dinning. It ia the men that. I am coming at, for just b:j loug as they meot iu groceries, on street corners, aud in shops, tolling Stories unfit for the ears of their moth ers, sisters, wives and daughters, just so long big boys will listen and think it cunning to emulate the filthy example. Ia it not a terrible thing to look into a young man's face and think of tho im purities his mind must bo loaded with unless he has strength to cast off tKe unclean thing aud be a nobleman ?" No subject more vital in its bearing ou tho monds of tho young conld have place in this column, says tho New York Tribune, in reply to ttio above letter. There aro parents who recognize among the duties they owe their childreu that of instructing them with rebpeet to fho origin of life. This is left shroudou in impenetrable mystery, aud all manner of lies nre told in reply to the questions which at a very carly age children will ark. The mother leaves this matter for bor daughter to be told about by any chance schoolmate, who, with tho few g ains of truth sho may communicate, in1''more than likely to sow tares that noror can be weeded out. Tho iuno eiht-hoartod boy learus from his rough companions what his own father or nether should have told him with per f("ii simplicity and inge uousncss, and Ir.trns a grejitdeal that they would never lc'tahad hin? to know. Truth is sacred, t.:.' h la pure and never corrupts any * ^ yS?*5 the vile admixture, of false-; hoocl'with it that contaminates. J?vory fa\il in human physiology can bc so communicated to a pure mind that its delicuey shall not be iu the least of iojided. Tho time to make these facts known ?B wh n tho desire to inquire into them manifests itself, and the best teacher is the parent. As between hus band and wife, so between parent and child there is no place for shame. Whero virtue reigns shume cannot come. A child thus taken into sacred inti macy with its parent will instinctively revolt from whatever is vulgar aud base ?nd obscene. At every period in the d velopment of the young life the parent should bo before overybody oise in preparing and fortifying his son or daughter against tho dangers which lie in h is or her path. There is nothing that so strongly biuds a child to virtuo and honor and chastity, as perfect aud unrestrained intimacy between it and tho father and mother. We aro nnrefnl about tho sewago of our houses, about ventilating them, aud seo to it with diligence that every nook and corner is kept neat and sweet. Lot us carry tho same thing into character and open all tho doors and windows of tho soul by total frankness and transparent sim plicity, that tho puro air and sunshine of heaven may havo access to them and keep them pure, Ono word moro. If home is made so attractivo that boys and men prefer it to tho corner groceries, an ounce of \ in vention will bo found better than many pounds of cure. A Prescription for the Cure of Drunk enness. There is a curious proscription in Eni land for tho euro Ol drunkenness, by which thousands are Kidd to have been assisted in recovering themselves. The recipe carno into notoriety through tho efforts of John Vino Hall, fat hoi of Itov. Newman Hall and Oapt. Vine Hall, commander of the Groat Easton: steamship. Ho had fallon irto BUCL habitual drunkenness that his utmost effort to regain himsolf proved un availing. At length ho sought tho ad vice of au eminent physician, who gav? him a pros sri pt ion, which ho followed faithfully for so,aral months, and a tho end of thnt timo he had lost all de aire for liquors, although ho had fo: many years boen led captive by a mos debasing appetite. The recipe, whicl he afterwards published, and by whicl so many have boon assisted to reform is as follows: "Sulphate of iron, I grains ; magnesia, 10 grains ; pepper mint watt-r, ll grains ; spirit of nut meg, one d radi m ; to bo taken twioo day." This preparation nota as a toni and stimulant, and partly suppli?e th place of the accustomed liquor, an prevents that absoluto physical un moral prostration that follows a sudde breaking off from tho use of slime lating drinks. - Scientists now tell us that the ic roads of grasshoppers into the nortfc weat, of late years, is due mainly to th h a voe, made among tho prairie hone which are slaughtered by tenp of thou sands every yoar to gratify the epicure of this country and Europe. Th prairie chickens used to " absorb" th grasshoppers before tho latter reaehe tho settlements, but they aro no longe equal to the emergency. The Volcanoes of Iceland. Iceland is situated nt tho termination of the great volcanic linc, skirting tho extreme west of tho Old World, which has existed since the Cretaceous period certainly, whilst tho points of eruption appear to have traveled northwards. As nil tho rocka are igneous, or igneous derivatives, no stratigraphical arrange ment can bc mode out. Basaltic lava streams aro common in the vicinity of Reykjavik, though no active volcano oxists in this part of tho island, which is in the secondary stnge of soifatnrus and bot springs. These soifatnrus arc mero juts of bluish white siliceous mud, tho result of decomposition of contig uous tufa. The principal gas exhaled is sulphuretted hydrogen. Their posi tion changes. Tho hot springs are working out their own destruction by the accumulation of sinter ; tho com position of this varies in springs within a few yards of each other, The large rifts in the old lava at Thingvnht were attributed to the flowing away of the undercurrent of lava into a yet deeper depression, thus leaving the unsup ported crust to siuk down in tho mi idle. All tho lavas of Hcckla are basaltic, and contain crystals of felspar and oliviue. Au ash and cinder forms tho summit of tho mountain. There were four craters; tho longest one is an elliptical depres sion 250 feet deep, at the bottom of which lay snow, though some abbes and clay were still quito hot. Tho district of Mydals Joktill, containing thu terri ble volcano Kotluiin, is remarkable for the confused intermixture of aqueous and igneous,ejeotamenta, producing ag glomerates and tufas. Sand and hot water are the principal productions of Kotlujin itself, which hus not been known to produce lavis, though ancient felsitic lavas were noted at its base. These floods two produced, in addition to tho melting of tho Jokull, by the bursting of large cavities iu which water has accumulatid for years. Such n res ervoir was noted iu a small neighboring crater, nt the bottom of which was a deep pool of turpid water, into which several small streams emptied them selves, but none ran out again. To Vatua. Jokull tho principal volcanic forces of Iceland seem now to have re treated. This is a vast tract of suow and ice. which rests upon a nest of vol canoes, many of which have been in eruption during historical time. The Vatua rises from a series of basaltic platforms. Tho existence of perma nentlyractive vomanoes in tho unknown iiiLt?Viur o? Lh?B foll?t^U^OuUOiuiAodTiOt improbable. ; How Fish May Bo Improved. It is now well known that tho.rich, delicate flavor of the white-fish in many western lakes comes from a celery-fed parasite on which it lives. This celery is the marine plant that gives to the canvas-buck duck its glory among con noisseurs of the table. Here is a good hint in tho lino of fish culture. Why may not the common varieties bo mado table delicacies, for instance, by put ting them on a mild diet of Worcester shire sane . before they are served? It is tho creosoto aud gas parasite, how ever-the deudiy refuse of oil and paper mille-that should be first looked to. Clams and oysters and evou ?RII are titus being foully impregnated and sometimes killed. The fish of the Geneses river wore recently found so tainted with kerosene from oil mills as tc render them unfit for food. A simi lar condition in tho rivor Iscr, produc ing au appeal from the fishermen of Munich to tho government, has called ottt an eminout chemist, Frof. A. Wag ner, who shows by experiments, that, in wator with ono per cent, of gas roftiao, fish dio in six minutes, with one-half por cont, they die in thirty minutes, whilo one-tenth por cent, kills the hard iest Tiver fish in twenty-four hours. A partial guard against this, the profes sor suggests, is to allow a gradnal dis charge of tho refuso into tho stream, instead of tho wholesale dumping now practiced, An Italian Sunset. A correspondent of the Hartford Times writes from Italy : "J-iiist night we wore driving slowly homo, laden with flowers, after a warm, gobion after noon, when tho air about us became suddenly glorifiod, and looking back wo saw tho most wonderful sunset of our lives. Driving to a commanding point wo gazed at tho marvelous scone, tho setting sun and dazzling western clouds being only a part of it. The bills around Ftoronco on overy side wero bathed in purple light, soft and tender, and exquisite as a dream, while tho sky abovo, after tho fitst blaze of western glory, was aglow with rosy light that flooded the heavens aud rolled in billows ovor tho hills and even seemed to touch our cheeks in its omnipresence. At homo I have Been equally brilliant displays iu tho weBt ; they have seemed liko a far-off wonder in which I had no part-a panorama to bo admired at a distance. Hore tho whole world seemed tremulous with color, sky and oarlh glowed together, and it was near us ; we were ir it. Tho very air wo breathed was rosy rad, and ovor all the.ro was a softness, a poetry of color, an ecstasy of illumination porfeotly indescribable, th? owing such a glamour over us that when at last the light died out of every thing we awakened as from a ti ance, and, breaking the long silence, ex claimed : 'So this is an Italian sunset ! Well, I shall always feel that I havo been in one !' " -Mr. Hallwoll, tho Shnksponrean enthusiast, has obtained leavo to search the paneling of tho bouse of Lady Barnard, the grand-daughter of tho Bard, for Shakpoare's missing papers. FACTS AND FANCIES. 'Tis Ann Surc WANTS : A aoal-.ddn Hack und a camota hair shawl. Diamoii?H, rubiofi and ormino : A brown ntono houno and marble liall, And a boan to ?lauco tho Gorman. A front row hos at tho opora, Whenever I wanted to go; . A nent conno and landau, too. And mouin- a la Delmonico. Thon in nnnimor go to Newport. With drumo? rich ami many; And lo nco my un mo in tho fashion report. While pa hanlin ont tho money. -A Chicago mun thinks that tho worst Hpeller ought to got tho diction ary, and tho winner should huvo a "wreath <>f sorrel, or some other garden sass, like them Greeks." -The production of raisins- from California grapes is a growing business and is strongly urged an likely to be of great profit, Tho ?bite muscat of Alexandria is named as the best raisin grape. -Amoug (he numerous pbttseB of erime tinily developed, did you ever hear nf anything equal to tho act of the Jersey Oby man arrested for forgery, who Hays he did it in order to bo seilt, to i he stat o prison to escape from his wife ! As an illustration of the limitless number of combinations which tho three primary colors are capable o{, it may be interesting to know that in tho Gobelin tapestry manufacture 28,000 distinct shadings of yarn are employed, each one distinguished by tho practiced eye. -A French soldier is to lie puaisbed with death for insulting au upstart offi cer. This gives Victor Hugo an oppor tunity t<> thus campare the ease with that of Bazaine : Having sold his flugt having surrendered bis army, having betrayed bis country-life ; having struck his corporal-death !" -Pereire got a little tired of roturn ing the hows of an uncomfortable polite maa in his fslnblisbmtnt, and finally gave the polite mau this conundrum, at point blank ratige : "Sir, what, would become of the hours if the min ute-hand stopped to bow to the second hand everv time they met." -The Parisians devour 100,000,000 apples every winter. An eminent French physician thinks that the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris is owiug> io ibo increased consum? tion vf this fruit, which i?? maintains, is au admirable prophyacuv. nd tonio, os well as a vorv nourif-hiu? and. eusi}y digestel articlo of food. -Mr, Valentine, the sculptor, has nearly completed the life-size recumbent statue of the late Geu. Lee, and it will bc placed over tho contemplated mau soleum at Lexington. Mr. Valentino modeled a bust of tho general from lifo in 1870, and after tho hero's death it was determined that he should be se eote 1 tn exec tte the statue. -" Well, Uncle Billy, don t you want any more civil rights !" " Not any ting mo', I tank you,' replied Billy. " Near ly done min i now. Hey t*i pay my own doctor's bill, los*, all my money in the Freedman's bank, te boor got no forty i cres an' de mule dey promised me, an' can't help myself to a littlo chicken, fryin' size, widottt gwine to do penitentiary. I'so got 'uulf eibbil rights !" J KAN V.\ l-l KAN - A merry wight, fond of hin oaao, While ho Dings his nongs and slrokoa Ilia knece, And light an tho air which ?warn the leaven, I? Joan Val joan, tho cobbler. riirougb tho hummer's day ho min and nin^n Df 1 lin olden dayn and of ancient, things, Of Hut damon of yore und of bygone 1UI?KH-? Hingn, .Te!1.!: Valjean. tho cobbler. Tho bird* ai o Hinging in every tree Till tho air in tilled with tho melody Of nong an light and gay and freo An Jenn Valjcan'n, tho cobbler. With tho waning nliadowa tho hird in ita n--'I, And Joan in II?H cot, each aeok the real.\. Which aweet aleop hringn, with no carra op pro-ned, Ah ! happy Jean, tho cobbler. -Tho London Sporting Gazette, ref er ring to tho statement that tho Emperor William has forbidden tho exportation of horses beyond tho Gcrninn frontier, says: "This startling aunouncemont heralds a revolution, the results of whL'h are likely to vory sorioiudy affect lim horse trade in England, as three fourths of the carriage and draft horses in London nt this moment havo been imported from Germany, Moreover, we are dependent ou Germany in a very urge degree for our troop-horses, aud it is not clo ir whence wo shall obtain the necessary supply now that wc are. shut, nut from Germany, especially as both Franco and Spain ero also in want of tro'jp-horst s. tho former requiring 10,000, and the latter 5,000. -In Brington church oro two sepul chral stones, ono bearing the dato of 1616 over tho grave of the father of Washington, tho emigrant, in which his arma appear impaled with those of Iiis wifo. Tho other stone covers tho remains of hts uncle, and presents on a buss the simple family shield with tho crescent appropriate to a younger brother. Wo haye boforn us a tran script of this shield, and from it wo aro constrained to believo that tho United States flag i?s soon now very certainly took its origin. In this shield aro five horizontal stripes, of nltornate gules and white, os: are tboso of the national flag, while the three stars in the uoper stripe have the parallel! poouliarity of beiDg five-pointed. All this may not he of interost to those who caro very littlo whether George Washington had a grandfather or not, bnt then again there may be others who will not think any tho less of the fatbor of tho great repub lic because his ancestors fought aj?aiu3t Cromwell and his Ironsides'to keep Charles' head upon bis Shoulders.->SV. IMU?S Jicpubfican.