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V Labor. Toil swings the ax, and forests bow ; The seLds break ont in radiant bloom ; Itich harvests smile behind the plow. And cities cluster ronnd the loom. Where towering domes and tapering spires Adorn the vale and crown the hill, Stout labor lights his beacon fires. And plumes with smoke the forge and mill. ^[rtn monarch oak. the woodland s pride, JVhoso trunk is seemed with lightning scars, launches on the restless tide, nd there unrolls the flag of stars ; e engine with his lungs of flame, With ribs of brass and joints of steel, lain t's plastic fingers came, sobbing valve and whirling wheel Dor works the inngic press, [turns the crank in h'vea of toil, ckons angels down to bless jstrious hands on sea and soil. ' ID-browned toil with shining spade, Make to lake wirh silver ties, 1 ick with palaces of trade, t uples towering to the skies. .0tOT^, VOL. III. NO. 149. OLD SERIES. VOL. VII. NO. AIKEN, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, -1877. $2.00 per Annum, in Advance. tlpia^ Pupil and Mamma. . .. ating the corn and potatoes, Helping to scatter the seeds, Feedi" ae hens and the chickens, Freeing the garden from weeds, Driving the cows to the pasture, Feeding the horse in the stall, We little children are busy, Sure there is work for us all, Helpiug papa. “^reading the hay in the sunshine, P." ; ng it up when dry, " " u ar pies and peaches . .e orchard hard by ; apes in tho ▼i*»«yard, g cats in the fall, - •_ children are busy, ■re is work for us all, riel ping papa. .aping and washing the dishes, bringing the wood from the sbed, oning, sewing, and knitting, Peiping to make up the ted, faking good c.ire of tho baby, Watching her lest she should fall, re little children are busy, Oh, there is w ork for us all, Ipiug mamma. makes us cheerful and happy, . - us both active and strong ; k— ij»y ail the better we have labored so long, '•dly we help our kind parents, sickly we come to their call : Children should love to be busy, There is much work for all, Helping papa and mamma. cedar trees before it. “ The Cedars," I’ve heal’d tho place called. I’d heard something about the master of it, but not much. Miss Demar was fond of tho beach while there were few persons upon it, and would find her way to Red Cliff quite early in the morning. One morn ing, as she sat there, she commenced ! singing an old song. I recqll the old song very well, and she sang it very low and sweet. But it ( frightened mo half out of my wits to see that there was a man seated just below j us on the cliff, and that he turned ami looked at her. He was a large man, with a beard half gray, and would have I saw r her, as he slept, softly stroke his disfigured cheek. The physician came, prescribed and went away. Monsieur Auxerre slept on undisturbed. Miss Demar sent Varai to bed, and would have watched alone, but that I begged to stay with her. Toward midnight, I laid down on a couch; I was very sleepy. The clock struck twelve; I saw Miss Demar kneel in prayer at the foot of the bed. Suddenly, there was a stir in the room. The great dog, who had lain under the table, came out aud licked his master’s hand. I saw that Monsieur Auxerre’s eyes were open. “ Mogul, old boy, you have not left CREMATION. been very handsome, but for a scar from : me,” lie said, quietly. MISS DEMAR I am Clotilde, Miss Demar’s maid, if you please, sir, and I can tell the whole story. You see, sir, Miss Demar came here, to the Surf House, last July. I was out of a place, having been bred lady’s-maid, and not being fit for anything else, was very uneasy, though I was taking care of the landlady’s children. Mrs. Ray had said to me: “ Now, Clotilde, if you will take good care of the children, till the summer visitors comedown, I’ll get you a nice place with some of the ladies.” I was impatient enough for them to come, ‘U’d in June they bqgan to arrive. But it was not until the 1st of July that Miss Demar eume. I was peeping through the blinds, as her carriage came up, and when I saw her step out, I said to Mrs. Ray : “ There’s a lady I’d like to se^fe.” “ It’c Miss Demar,” said she. “ What menu thai elio’s come without I was rocking iittle Harry to |‘ that evening, when Mrs. Ray came info J ** the nursery. “ Clotilde,” said she, “ Miss Demnr’s Marie was taken ill on the journey, and she was forced to send her back.* And. she wants a maid. ” “ A nd may I apply to her, Mrs. Ray.” '‘\es. I think you hail better,” she > •! tliere, across t'ui hall, instant; aiTN. anyway, to said. Sol laid the baby in the cradle, and went up and knocked at Miss Demar's door. She called “ Come in!” and 1 went in. There she sat by the window, reading. “I heard you wished a lady’s-maid, Miss Demar,” said I, courtesying. “ Aud you are Clotilde ?” “Yes, ma’am.” “ Mrs. Ray has recommended you. I will engage you at once, if you are ready. ” I said that I was, aud then she went on reading, and I began putting the dressing-table in order. It was all strewn uith jewels, and ribbons, and silver combs, and bracelets of gold lace, aH ’twere, they were wrought so fine, like embroidery. And everything about hej, uinl belonging to her, showed her the lady that I know her to be the mo ment I set eyes on her. She read for a while, aud then she said : ...-“Clotilde, will you take down mv 1 hair? My head aches.” No wonder, sir. That purple-black hair came unrolling in my hands, until it lay in coils on the fl > >r. And it was lino aud lustrous, and soft as silk. Nothing false in her make-up, sir, and I was dumb with surprise. I was combing her hair, she me questions about myself, in a ' OM it, kind way—how long I had IO this country, aud had I any ,i ’•■i I think I should be happy with her? Oh, in all her ways, she was a thorough lady, sir ! I didn’t tell you she was handsome, did I ? Well, I didn’t know it myself, at first, for she had none of that Hush and animation that makes you think women handsome when they are not. I Rut her face was just like one cut on a cameo, with all the Hues smooth and I giaceful. Her skin was dark, but fine and shining like satin, and her eyes were steel-blue, steady and bright, with curled M ick lashes aud white brows. I remember that she wore black and while, with piukcoral ornaments, a great deal, and she was very fond of roses in her hair. Sometimes she would seem to think much more of there things, and then she would be quite indifferent, nor mind what I put her in, in the least. Absent aud sorrowful-like she would be. And .she would have these spells, often, when there were gay gentlemen in love with h-r, as was plain to be seen. How she managed it, or why it was, I never could ; co, but she never encouraged anv of them. She was fond of the place—of tho beach, and the rocks, and the rea. There was a place called Rod Cliff, that she a ; fond of ascending; the water washel its base, and swept away, so wild aud free. She used often to take me with her, to “take care of her,” she said; for she was apt to grow absent-minded, in such places, and to come away and forget a shawl, or book, or glove, and once she came near being cut off from the shore by tho tide. Tho hotel was the only house in sight, <o*'pt a stone one which stood upon the ■ >cks, a mile up the beach, with three his temple to his lips. She did not see ! him at all, and I was afraid of telling i her, for fear of terrifying her too much. ! It was such a lonesome spot, you see. i But pretty soon he got up, and went down the cbff, and when he was below, ! she spied him. “ Clotilde, who is that ?” she said, wonderiugly. “I don’t know, Miss Demar, but I fancy it must be the master of The I Cedars, there—a lone kind of man, who lives there with one servant. ” Her mind seemed to wander, and she began singing again, and I was very ! glad, for it gave me a disagreeable feel- ' ing to see how he looked at her—not ; fierce, or evil-like, but with his eyes ! dilated, and his lips twitching, so that it J was quite startling to see him. I dream- | ed of him that night, and resolved that, , in the morning, I would beg Miss Demar ! never to go about the beach alone. The next day was rainy, and she did I not go out, but sat, all the morning, in her room, with an old letter in her hand. The sheet was quite yellow, and there I was a little picture on ivory iu it, I saw— for she laid it down at last, aud, wrapping a shawl about her, went out on the long, covered porch to walk, as she did, some times, when a kind of restlessness seemed to possess her. I peeped—I could not help it—I was so curious to see the picture. I just caught a glimpse of a handsome man, with blue eyes aud a blonde beard, and then the words of the letter caught my eye, for it was written as clear as print, and one might have read it running: “Since my accident, I am horribly disfigured. I give you up—tie your blooming life to the sickly wreck of mine, Elinor, ray beautiful one! Farewell! God bless aud keep you! Gerard.” ,-Lv ef these words, , for Miss I )r it At WfiTr'rrr-- _ and likely to come in anv i was very wrong **f me, | be p< • at her secrets, and | ^r!ie so good ne! ^^j^curiosity causes many a wicked sin, sir. Having found out so muc,,T broke away from the temptation, and ran>n v w n stairs, sorry to know what 1 did, shiV. I’d no right to it, and yet satisfied iu my mind why Mr. Alcester got such cool hows, and why she never would drive out with Colonel Grafton. When I went up to dress her for dinner, I saw that she had been crying, and yet she danced that evening till twelve o’clock. It was less than a week later that there came a cold, rainy time, and the people 1 uf the Surf House were thrown moi’e to- ; gether, and got more familiar; and Mr. Alcester and Colonel Grafton both offered themselves to Miss Demar, aud were re- ! fused. She was playing upon the piano one 1 evening when the colonel was talking aud walking with Mr. Ray upon tho long porch, just outside the windows, and she saw, as I did, the queer figure of an old Frenchman, iu a velvet coat, ; come running across the sands, and up the hotel steps, to speak to Mr. Ray. Mr. Ray went to meet him. “ What is it, Varai ?” he said. Miss Demar started from her seat, and went to the door. , “ Some help, monsieur ! Monsieur Auxerre lies very ill—he has the fever ! I leave him all alone, while I come to you. Will you bring one doctor to us? Monsieur Auxerre is near to death very, very ill.” The little old Frenchman was the pic ture of distress. To my surprise, Miss Demar pushed through the gentlemen, aud laid her hand upon his arm. “ Varai, where is your master?” “Mon Dieu, Mees Elinor!” he shouted. “Hush! Where is Monsieur Aux erre ?” “ At The Cedars,” he answered, shiv ering as though he had seen a ghost. She flew up to her room, I following. She began hunting for her cloak. I found it for her ; and then she bade me take a shawl, and come with her. It had begun to rain in torrents, bait away we went across the sands, her movements like lightning, her cheeks in a fever. The rain drenched us, the surf hissed at us, the darkuess closed heavily around us, but she led the way straight to the door of The Cedars. She pushed open tho door. A mons- : trims houud rose from a mat in tho hall, aud gave voice. “Mogul, Mogul,” she said, gently, aud gave him her hand to smell of. He licked her fingers, and then led the way to a closed-inner door. Miss Demar softly opened it. The room was a sort of study, full of books and chemical apparatus ; but there was a couch in it, and a man lying, with closed eyes, upon the pillows. Trem bling very much, Miss Demar knelt down by him. “ Gerard !” Ho only moaned and muttered. I thought she was as sick as he, but she got fresh water in a Miss Demar started up. She came to tho bedside. She crept close to the pillow, and laid her cheek close to Monsietir Auxerre’s, as her arm stole around his neck. “Elinor !” ho whispered. “Darling!” she murmured. Aud that these two were born to be one, you never to your dying day would have doubted, sir, had you seen them | looking into each other’s eyes. I never asked any qiiestions. I guessed j enough, and so can you, sir; but Miss Demar was quietly married as soon as Monsieur Auxerre recovered, and a hap pier, more radiant bride I never saw. Why, all the flush and sparkle of the most brilliant woman I ever saw came into her face when she said those two little words, “ I will!” the fragrance of orange flowers about her. Oh, it was beautiful, believe me! Facts in Krunril to the I’roarcss .Unite In the Cnusc of Incineration in Europe and America. The cause of cremation is making some progress both in the old world and the new. There is a society in London iu the third year of its existence which is laboring to establish affiliated associa tions and collect and publish arguments and statistics. In Germany, according to a report issued by this society, the idea is very popular ; a congress of cre- mationists was held at Dresden last year, which was attended by delegates from England, France, Holland and Switzer land, and large sums were raised for the construction at Gotha of a crematorium, on the Siemens plan, with slight modifi cations. Switzerland has several socie ties, that of Zurich with over four hun dred members. In Holland the central association has several branches ; several legacies have placed its funds in a fa vorable shape, and it publishes a paper in advocacy of the cause. There are limiting Down a Murderer. William Newlund, son of Richard Newland, an old aud well-known farm er, of Washington county. Ind., in 1867, with his young wife and a child less than a year old, left his home to settle in Kansas. In company went Charles Waller and wife and their son, neigh bors. When they reached Webster county, Mo., Newland, his wife and child were murdered under circum stances that led to the arrest of Charles Waller and wife, the son having escaped. Some days after the bloody tragedy the remains of Newland were found iu the woods, aud those of his wife were dis covered in a ravine about six miles be yond. The remains of the child were never discovered, but bones wei’e found which some of the citizens thought might be those of the child. Charles Waller was put upon trial for the mur der and was found guilty, and in 1872 expiated his crime on the gallows. His wife was also tried for being accessory to the murder, and was sentenced to two societies in Austria, where, how- | three years’ imprisonment in the Mis- Uofliiis to Rent. The poor people of New York are said to have an unaccountable mania for funeral pomps and ceremonies ; conse quently when a member of a family dies all available funds are expended in laying the body in state, and in an impressive cortege. The matter of carriages is not vexatious to the purse of the mourners, as their occupants are expected to con tribute their quota to the expense of conveyances, a privilege eagerly em braced by hundreds who regard a funeral procession in the light of a gala parade. Rut the lying in state, to be imposing, is a costly luxury, particularly with the impecunious; cousequeutly as a corpse is au object of curious inspection by ad miring friends, the beauty of the exhi bition can be secured at a smaller ex pense through the hire of a casket than through its purchase outright. Iu an undertaker’s window can bo seen a cof- •n of the most costly fabrication, with a superabundance of silver ornamentation, “uCn j1?1r satin, and otherwise adorned munificently. A , t «._ • of this $300 casket can be hireu of its ex hibitor, who supplies an exquisite lining in accordanco with the rules of the trade, pink for a brunette, light blue for a Monde, and so on, aud into the loaned rect ptacle places the corpse until the bour of burial arrives, when the inside frame of the coffin is slipped out and the deceased transferred to a cheap stained wood imitation of the costly outer casket, and “planted” without the im posture being detected. At present a handsome external case demands a rental of five dollars a day, and as the body is generally “laid out” for three days, this, with incidentals, constitutes a good source of revenue. New York’s Suspended Siir!r.*» Banks. Eighteen savings banks in New York have passed into the hands of receivers since 1871, and the New Y’ork Times has compiled a history of such settlements as have been made witn their depositors. Three of the banks failed during the ! may be done aud what may be effected present year and no dividends have yet \ by limited means, united with benevo- been declared ; one of the banks was ! leuce of heart and activity of mind. ever, the subject has not been so favora bly received as in the neighboring na tions. But little interest has been ex cited iu France. In Italy since last March the cremation of the dead is per mitted by law, the only preliminary formality being the obtaining from the municipal authorities of a permit, which is given on the recommendation of the board of health. At the recent medical convention at Milan the Teiuzzi-Betti apparatus was to have been tested with a body from th ■ dissecting school. The report claims that there are seven societies in this country, and that besides Dr. Lemoyne’s furnace at Wash ington, Pa., there are two crematories building—one at Brooklyn and one at Chicago. The English society, it may be added, has a full treasury, and one of the me tropolitan cemeteries has offered it ground for the erection of a crema torium, but the idea seems repugnant to the ecclesiastical authorities. The following is a complete list of the crema tions during the past decade that have been scientifically noted : 1869—At Padua ; woman of thirty ; weight of corpse, 116 pounds; of ashes, six pounds. 1869— At Padua; man weighing ninety- nine pounds ; weight of ashes, four pounds, one ounce. Also, man of ninety pounds; weight of ashes, three pounds, one ounce ; time of process, forty-five minutes ; cost of firing, sixty cents. 1870— At Milan ; man of seventy-six. weighing — pounds ; weight of ashes, six pounds ; time occupied, one hour, thirty minutes. i»ii—At ; woman of seventy- two, weighing seventy pouniTo , Hma oc cupied, one hour, fifteen minutes ; cost of process, §1. 1874—At Dresden ; two women of twenty-three aud twenty-six ; time occu pied, one hour, fifteen minutes, aud one hour, eighteen minutes ; weight of ashes, three pounds, twelve ounces, and four pounds. 1876—At Milan; man of seventy three ; time occupied, one hour, thirty minutes. 1876— At Washington, Pn.; Baron von Palm ; time occupied, two hours ; cost of prooons, £7.60. 1877— At Salt Lake City; Dr. Fred erick Winslow ; weight of corpse, 126 pounds ; of ashes, four pounds, eleven ounces. Words of Wisdom. Usefulness is confined to no station, and it is astonishing how much good FEARFUL NIGHT. Eighteen Hours In n Ninnll Ilont on the Bil lows of Luke Huron. It appears from the story of tho sur vivors of the wreck of the Nettie Weaver that wheu tl”' storm arose they reefed all sail and allowed the vessel to drift with the wind, although under partial control. Between three and four o’clock, and whilst about fifty miles from Kin cardine, the vessel sprang a leak, and as it was impossible for the crew to work the pumps, Capt. Reynolds at once saw that the vessel could not long keep above water, she being heavily laden and the water gaining fast. The captain gave orders that the yawl should be launched, which was accomplished with some diffi culty. A passenger named Birch, from Buffalo, declined to leave the vessel, saying he was safer on the schooner than the boat. Emery Robertson, one of the seaman, who belonged to St. Catharines, when he heard that the vessel was to be deserted, went below to get some addi tional clothing and his valuables. Ere he had time to return the vessel foun dered, and both Birch and Robertson went down with her. The schooner sank within a couple of minutes after the crew had left her, but of course it was impossible to do anything to save the two unfortunate men. In order to keep their boat steady, the crew had the presence of mind to take with them a small ice-box, which they tied to the stern of the frail craft, and to this pre caution, in a great measure, they say they owe their lives. They were unable to take any provisions with them, and were but scantily clad, several of them not having been able to take their coats. In this manner, with the water running sonri penitentiary. Charles Waller was always reticent about the murder, main- taming his innocence stoutly up to a short time before his executiou. Then he admitted that he had gone out hunt ing with Newland and shot him in the woods. Upon his return he told his son that he had disposed of Newland, and that they must dispose of the wife and child to cover up their tracks. Richard Newland, the father of the murdered man, determined that the son of Waller should also be brought to jus tice. For five years he has been search ing, through detectives, to discover his whereabouts. His search was finally successful, the son being found residing ! mountains high, and on a farm up in Minnesota. He was nr-!<« thunder guns,” the rested aud taken to Webster county, Mo., some time ago, and soon after the trial took place, and he confessed to manslaughter,aud was sentenced for for ty years to the penitentiary. One of the main facts which led to his conviction was the identification of a bed-spread and other articles belonging to the mur dered family. These articles were iden tified. by Mr. Newland as the property of his daughter-in-law. The father of the murdered man has spent large sums of money in ferreting out and bringing to justice the murderers, and has had the satisfaction of being rewarded for his labors. wound up by private agreement, and its depositors have been paid iu full, and the receiver of another bank refused to give any information to the Times’ re- j porter. The thirteen remaining banks ; owed depositors at the time of their sus- pension more than eight and a half mil- I lion dollars, and tho several receivers have thus far paid the depositors a little less than four aud a half million dollars. Silence is the softest response for all | the contradictions that arise from im- ! pertinence, vulgarity aud envy. i There is nothing more awkward than breaking off au acquaintance, except i the renewal of one which has been 1 broken off. Seeking to soothe a ruffian by reason, is like attempting to bind a buffalo with A Struggle for a Million. Several mouths ago Joseph L. Lewis, an eccentric millionaire of Hoboken, N. J., died and willed his fortune to tho United States government, to be used toward paying the national debt. It was supposed that Lewis had no relatives, but two claimants for his money appear ed, one claiitiiTig Is- i.iu wife and the other his son. Recently the case ca.ae up before Master in Chancery C. S. See, iu Jersey city, the Hon. Robert Gilchrist appearing for the executors, and the Hon. C. H. Winfield for the claimants. Mr. Winfield astonished the other party by producing a marriage certificate, and one of the witnesses to it. Tho certificate, which was iu three pieces, set forth that Joseph L. Lewis aud June Hastings were married at the house of Mr. Lewis, in Hoboken, on November 18, 1858, by Etheridge Fish, a justice of the peace, with George Bowne and George R. Bradford as wit- I nesses. Bradford testified that he went with Fish to act as witness to the ; marriage of the claimant to Mr. Lewis, ; aud identified his signature. The other I side will try to prove that Bradford is an impostor, aud that the certificate is j either a spurious document, or that all the parties being dead, it has fallen into the hands of the assumed Mrs. Lewis, aud is being used by her to secure the j money. The case will be a hard fight j on both sides. the wind blowing unfortunate marim^s were tossed about for eighteen long in expectation every minute of being consigned to a watery grave. Time and again did the surf envelope the tiny craft, and each time it came out, righting itself in all sorts of semi capsized positions, almost as if by a miracle. When daylight appeared, al most dead with cold, and as hungry as men could possibly be, no sight of land could be seen, aud the crew were inclined to think that if the weather did not moderate, it would be impossible for them to reach shore, and ns there was but a slim chance of being picked up there was a tendency to become dis heartened. Capt. Reynolds, by kind words of encouragement, nerved his men to endure the terrible cold and equally objectionable hunger. Shortly before noon it was evident that the boat was fast drifting toward the Canadia shore. The storm had meanwhile abated somewhat, although tho lake was rougher than it had been for many a day past. Kincardino harbor was reached *'"•1 n-ofely entered, although with much difficulty, and the six men, much ex haufcteJ by their exposure to the ele ments in their most terrific form, were takeu care «f by the authorities, and comfortably fed and clothed. With the true nature of the tar, the request of one of the seamen on reaching terra /irma was : “ Can you loan me a chew of tobacco?”—Toronto Globe. About §250,000 will probably be paid in :i ^ arlaU(l of roKeH - settlement of the affairs of the banks, leaving a net loss to depositors of nearly four million dollars. One bank paid only fifteen cents on the dollar and noth ing more is expected, but another, which failed in 1871, paid ninety-five cents on the dollar, aud the remaining assets are expected to yield enough to enable the receiver to pay depositors in full. The story of these failures is a sad one, how ever. The thirty-five thousand deposit ors could evidently ill afford to lose their small savings, and yet, taking the aver age, each was obliged to sustain a loss of over one hundred dollars. Remarkable Scientific Results. The Philadelphia Public lit cord says that Mr. E. A. Outer-bridge, of the assay department of the mint, has, by means of a galvanic battery, succeeded in spreading gold into layers so thin that it would require 2,798,000 of them to equal au inch in thickness. The gold layer can be disengaged from the copper J plate on which the galvanic current de- I posits it, by dissolving the copper in a ; weak solution of nitric acid, on which | the gold leaf remains floating. The | same series of experiments have shown that gold can be boiled, and even va porized, by means of electricity, and j that when a cylindrical bar of silver is I coated with gold and drawn into wire, | one grain of gold can be made to cover | a length of 7,345.6 feet. The same au- ! thority states that tests of clay from the The Crusts of Paris. What becomes of the old moons ? What becomes of the old crusts of bread in Paris? asks Figaro, and then tells their transformations. The boufant/t r envieux, “Raker of tho Old” freely translated, utilizes the pieces of dry, damaged aud abandoned bread. He gathers the crusts in boarding-houses, convents and hotels. These morsels, covered with sand, stained with ink, and often picked from heaps of refuse, are sold by servants to the “ Baker of Old,” who turns them into new preparations. The merchandize is first carefully di vided. The fragments which are judged to be still iu a presentable condition are dried in an oven aud form (routes an pot, which are used in soup at low-class restaurants. Almost nil the Those beings only are fit for solitude, who like nobody, are like nobody, and are liked by nobody. Conceit is generally proportionate with high station, and the greatest geniuses have not been entirely free from it; what indeed is ambition but an immoderate love of praise ? It is difficult to avoid envy without laying ourselves open to contempt ; for in being too scrupulous not to trespass on others, we lay ourselves open to be trilled with and trampled on. When they themselves know it not, men’s hearts will work ; a sense of right ! l ,e d underlying Philadelphia show forty will sometimes steal upon their sleep, and an instinct of goodness will gush forth like silver water from the rook. Love is but a solitary leaf, but neither storm nor blight can fade it ; like the j perfume that a dead flower sends forth, it is sweet when all the gay sunshine has departed ; wheu all its bloom is past, it | has the fragrance of memory ; it is the j last lingering beam, that glows long after the sun and star have set—a refuge i from the tempestuous and bereaving storms of life. cents of gold to the ton, and that the whole bed contains more gold than has yet been procured from California or Australia. A specimen of galena from Bucks county has also yielded gold in the proportion of ten cents per ton. The thinnest layers of gold produced before Mr. Outorbridge’s experiments are 367,500 to the inch. The Percheron. Kate Field writes from France to the New York Herald about a breed of horses called by the above name : “ What has struck mo iu Havre aud its neighboring horse-raising country is the great size and endurance of the truck horse called Percheron—a cross between the Arabian aud the original Norman draught horse. The Percheron weighs from one to three thousand pounds, aud has the comparative action of the Arabian thoroughbred with thecompara tive strength of the elephant. A Pcr- cheron will haul with ease twenty-five bales of American cotton, which is equal to two loads of cotton hauled iu New York by two horses. In fact, one Per- cherou is equal to four American truck horses, and why our farmers do not wake up to a realizing sense of their de ficiencies in this respect is not a little surprising. So far we seem to have had but two ideas in the matter of horses— tho production of trotting and of race horses. Unlike our ordinary custom, we have thought more of pleasure than of business. We have bred mongrels where we have not the turf iu view, whereas in Europe the classes of horses 1 are kept entirely extinct. In our great country there is room for all classes, and common sense demands that we should have as fine dray horses as trot ters aud racers. The West is particu larly iu need of enduring work horses, ami the farmers who are sufficiently en- ! terprising to import a few Percherons will thank the Herald for having made ' tin Egyptian Mummy Pits. A correspondent in Egypt writes The mummy pits around the Pyramids and the site of ancient Thebes have for some time been spoliated on for old bones for shipment to England, ti manure the fields of that country witl their phosphab^ . aetically, the an cient EpoujUlW^ire of no use to anybody. nniL^p^^Yhem selves could not object, on their own theory, to have their bodies converted to the benefit of the living. Millions on millions of the inhabitants of ancient Egypt are buried in the mum my pits that line the border of thi desert from Grand Cairo to the cataract at Assouan. Iucju^£ visited near the pyramid which was part, no doubt, oi the cemetery of Mem phis, thousandf^^^Ahousauds of mum the to an ‘pth. When dragged out their icked like dry wood, and thrown up<^ a fire the air was filled with aromatic perfumes from the substances in which they were em balmed. One of the Arabs with us, who incautiously’ jumped int a the pit, almost sank out of sight as he crashed through tho brittle mass of dry bones and withered skeletons. Every mummy has a papyrus scroll around his waist de scriptive of his genealogy and personal history’—a kind of autobiography iu brief. Whera many are entombed to gether it was a receptacle of the com mon dead. The great, the royal, the noble and the military caste were placed in separate tombs, their bodies encased in a triple series of gauilily-painted chests covered all over with hieroglyphics aud emblematic devices, and the face varnished with gold. A gilded face al ways indicates a mummy of rank, who in his day played an important part in the affairs of his country. The skulls have not much breadth of front or height of brow, and they do not denote a highly intellectual race. Neverthe less, the old Egyptians did great things in their day. They invented letters, they cradled the arts aud sciences, and they built the most colossal aud impos ing and enduring monuments of archi tecture the world has ever seen. The Copts of modern Egypt are said to be descended from them, and probably they are, for they have the same grave, mys terious, Sphinx-like features the ancient dwellers of tho country had, as pic tured on the painted walls of the royal sepulchres at Thebes aud Deuderah. Like their ancestors, they do not assimi late with other races, and keep up their gofferic characteristics and purity of blood. The Khedive has tolerated the commerce of the common run of mum mies, but he has for several years past forbidden the export or sale of the aris tocratic class, whose precious remains are so elegantly preserved in ornamental chests of high intrinsic value. A Tramp’s Terrible Ride. A tramp who arrived here a few days ago from the West, says the Cheyenne (Wy.) Leader, tells a good story about how he deadheaded over the Union Pa cific from Cheyenne to Green River 1 <st year by climbing upon the roof of a coaeli of the celebrated Jarrett & Palmer fast train. He says that from here to Sherman he rather enjoyed the ride, but that between Sherman and Green. River his experience was one never to be for gotten. The rapiil movement of the train and the rocking of the coach forced him to wind his arms and legs around a stovepipe and hang on for dear life. His hat flew off early in the ordeal, and aft r the train left Laramie he was dis covered by the engineer, who began throwing a heavy shower of cinders, but so rapid was the movement of the train that the heaviest ones merely cut through his clothes like bullets, while the lighter ones passed above him. His coat tails flapped so hard that he realized that he must part with them, but ho dared not loosen a hand to tuck them under him, and they were soon torn oft to blow away. Although he managed to keep his face behind the pipe nearly all the time he was frequently struck iu the face by flying cinders, so that when he reached Green River his neck and face were badly cut and scratched. So great was the poor tramp’s fear of being killed that this, added to the terrible strain of hanging to the pipe by main strength for so long a distance and the intense | suffering from the wounds inflicted by the cinders, caused hi.s hair to turn gray, ' and when he climbed down at Green | River he looked like a man who had seen ! fifty summers instead of twenty-two sum- 1 mers. skirts Fashion 'N^es. ’X.itin ami —in" nbi ished off wi facings.” Side forms at the ba still run to the shouldej is much liked. “ Drug ” braid, used to pr bottom of the skirt, is^ewed on are fla- ,4 |Wired alonaise ipde Tiot bound as formerly. The “Czarina” is a fashionabla blouse waist, or rather polonaise. Thd design is becoming to slender figures. A widow’s veil should be three yards df a vard in depth, are worn. long, and h< hem Short mourniiig vc:!- are There ai u< arbitrary i to the modes of bridal satin, Indian ensbmere, lace with tulh an worn. Tiie “ Anneri ” Itasque is very dis tingue. The iasmon ol the neck is a fa Pompadour. The sleeves come to the elbow; tho bodice shape is of the cuirass. Silver filigree necklaces are pretty ornaments for full-dress wear. The “ Davenport ” style of dress ia very handsome, and is quito a favorite model with society ladies. This mode is very like the Princesse when first in troduced. All fine shades of hair come much higher than the ordinary colors, such as black and very dark brown. Blonde, ash tinted, red hair, flaxen hued, silver gray, aud genuine curly hair, all bring high prices. Refined yak is used in making up switches of gray hair. The “ Elfride ” polonaise is an en tirely new model ; every detail presents graceful curves aud artistic effects. Ths back design is a combination of lovely effects, and yet there is no appearance of intricacy in the character of the pat* tern. The lower portion of the front breadth is draped. Peter Cooper. The venerable Peter Cooper paid a visit to Trenton, N. J., recently, and waa received by Hon. Charles Hewitt, who conducted him through the extensive works of the Trenton Iron Co , and the New Jersey Steel aud Iron Co. Mr. Cooper is the founder of these establish ments. Mr. Hewitt, in his address of welcome, said that the workingmen dis liked demagogues, because they had a million of words for them while Mr. Cooper had given them millions of dol lars. On being introduced to the work- ingmoifc Mr. Cooper made a brief specel*, during which he said that he was always a workingman in every sense of tho word, particularly irr his early years. He is now devoting all the pow ers of his intellect to the interests of the workingmen of the country. He hoped to see the time changed, when people would not try to get the most they could out of the workingmen and give the least for it. He hoped to see them well paid for their labor. The remedy for their wrongs did not lie iu revolution, but by casting their votes for the wisest aud best men. He hoped they would always prosper, never fear to do right, and always avoid doing wrong. He said that during the Lst year there had been 609.000 readers in tho Cooper Union and 3,000 pupils. He shook each man by the hand warmly, after which three rousing cheers were given for him. He was highly pleased with the cordiality shown him aud tho men were delighted with his visit. A Remarkable Memory. One of the most extraordinary casea of reading and memory, that we ever hoard of, says tho Albany (N. Y.) Press, was developed iu court last week. A witness who was on tho stand gave his evidence upon tho question involved in an important case, from memory, although the affair occurred many years previous. Tho counsel on tho other side questioned tl.o accuracy of his statement, because ho had no notes or memoranda from which to refresh his memory upon vital points. When the wife of this witness was called to testify, she made some remarkable statements relative to her husband’s memory. She stated for the past ten years it had been his custom to ari e at two o'clock each morning, aud read until three o’clock, wheu he would again retire. Through tins practice he had mastered and com mitted to memory most of Shakespeare’s works, all of Byron’s poems, the consti tutions of the State and United States, the declaration of in lepeudeuee, Wash ington’s and Jackson’s farewell ad dresses, and President Lincoln’s emanci pation proclamation, There was no ouger doubt upon the question of hie ability to remember names or events, and it was taken for granted that his evidence was about correct. If it wasn’t it certainly should be. suggestion.” shaped crusts served in dishes of vegeta bles have this origin. The crumbs aud defective crusts are pounded in a mortar until they become a white paste, which butchers use to adorn cutlets. All the Important Life Insurance Decision. Life insurance companies have now the authority of the supreme court of the United States for their claim that tho suicide of the insured vitiates the lozenge- policy on his life, whether he is or is not insane at the time of tho commission of the deed, provided, of course, the phrase “sane or insane ” follows the the suicide proviso. The decision is unmistakable : “ If tho assured be conscious of the his hot forehead and parched lips. At length he drew a long sigh, turned on | hi* f>ide, and went to sleep. And then, to my astonishment, I rec ognized the man on the cliff, with the scar on his face. ewer, and bathed i material that appears absolutely incapa- physical nature of the act he is commit- blo of further service is roasted, re duced to charcoal, ground into powder, and by the addition of a few drops of essence of mint is converted into tooth paste. Such is one of the metamorphoses of Parisian industry. i ting, aud intended by it to cause death, the policy is voided, althqj] the time ho was incapable of jud£ tween right and wrong, understand the moral cone what he was doing. ” A Chinese Giant. Yoon Shan, a Chinese giant, of eight ' feet, three inches in height, and still ! growing, is now on his way to England, where he intends to exhibit himself. He tells a strange st >ry about his mar velous growth. When eighteen years of age he was no taller than his com panions of that ago. One day, however, he caught a strange-looking, smooth skin fish, cooked it and it. Soon af ter this feast he beejon. - ry sick, and wheu’after several we e. > ifraement to his bed, he left it, he •ii >v< rid that he had grown during the sickni SM. and has ever since gone on growing H's head! is very small iu compa' -on with his : fght. This he says, was < aintedby lus :h< Brutal Alfred Stone Alfred Stone, of Poplar, England, has surpassed many rivals in brutality. Re turning to his home from work recently upon a Saturday evening, in a bad tem per, he opened the door of a parrot’s cage and attempted to take the bird out. The bird resisting, he pulled it violently out of the cage, put the poor creature beneath one of his feet and said to his wife: “Jane, I’ll kill it; it is the last thing you have got belonging to your father.” He then took the bird from the floor and twisted its neck, but failing to kill it threw it struggling into the fire. He then left tho house, but returned about one o’clock Sunday morning and struck his wife. She ran from the house pursued by the brute, who after a short chase caught iq with d knocked her down. lie then tn. > lift her above hi« head but faded i dropping he’- Idenly she received a severe m t 1 . oack of the head. The police tin roapon arrested Stone and nr hr - ^ u eo been sentenced to six montL 1 -rd labor in prison for the ns- upon his wife, and two months’ ad- ial hard labor for the cruelty to the The Shah's Destructive Present. The Shah of Persia one day expressed a longing for a Krupp cannon in presence of tho Russian [minister, who j at once informed the czar of the shah’s! desire The czar, who was anxious to gratify the shah, by return mail, as it were, sent one of tho monster cannon—a ; 300 pounder—to his ally. The present ! was landed at Enzili, on the Caspian sea, • but it took a month’s labor by a regi- j ment of the Persian army to get the can- i non to Teheran. Arrived there a day ! was appointed to fire it. Tho court aud | almost the entire population of the city j assembled. Rang ! went the cannon, j away scampered half the multitude, and j down tumbled the minaret off me of the j city gates, near which the gun had been ! placed. But there was another disaster. ! In an hour’s time a messenger arrived J from a village five miles away, and re- ! ported that its inhabitants ivere bewail- | ing the loss of their mosque. The can- | non-hall from the cannon had struck the I building aud ruined it. The shah was ! so dismayed by the effect that he never ! permitted the cannon to be fired again. ! A Boyish lliishaml’s Earnings. The divorce suit of Shiuberg against Shiuberg, in which the wife is plaintiff, was before Judge Robinson recently, in the special term of the court of com mon pleas. New York city, on a motion by the plaintiff for alimony and counsel fee. J. P. Solomon, who appeared for tho defendant, caused considerable mer riment by producing his client in court. The client is a very small-sized boy of eighteen, who has apparently been only a short time in this country and knows hardly anything of the language. He is j a native of Russia, and says he was en trapped into an alleged marriage with the plaintiff, who “ looks big enough to eat him,” as the saying is. The defend ant says he believed what is now claimed to have been a marriage was merely an engagement or betrothal whereby he agreed to marry the girl after twelve months, her parents in the meanwhile giving him board and eh‘thing gratui tously. Ho also made affi lavit that he is only earning four dollars per week, and that he is under medical treatment nearly all the time. On this state of facts Judge R dunsm denied the motion for alimony and o ninst-l fees. riar.d The Turks on top of the Balkans at Shipka Pass are willing to live nine days on a handful of dates, but when it comes to one meal a day on snowballs they feel a little anxious about next year’s cam paign. Telegraphy in Switzcr'am]. Telegraphing is cheaper in i- wit than in any other country. B- iug a part of the postal system, the telegraph is as common as the post-office. There is not a village, however small, or wherever situated, even in the highest regions of the Alps, that has not a tele graph working night and day. The charge for a message to any part of Switzerland is only ten cents. The double postal cards is also another great | advantage. This enables you to send a business order, etc., on one part, and ! on the other your own address, so in- during an immediate answer without expense or trouble to the receiver. THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM