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A.' # VOLUMEL Patriotic Widow of the / Conproo. (Copyrighted, li-ss, by Funk A^ngnnlln. 1 was at Fort Motto station, near I tho Contraroo Fiver, in South Carolina, not far from tho junction of 1 that stream with tho Wateree, on a bright, frosty morning in January,' 1849. r "Will you direct me to tho Fort ^ Motto plantation I said to a lad. i*oinlino up a irentlo slopo ho said, "On tho top o1 tho hill is Mr. I .ovo's house, which they call Fort | , Motto. It is only a short walk from* hero nil that dirt ro;'d." At the summit I found a very aged man, with thin while hair and wariulv clad, sit'ing upon a log by the wayside, lie was resting his rounds upon a long stalT, and smiled pleasantly as 1 approached, /ftter a cordial greeting I asked, "Is that Fort Motto?" pointing toward a rather line-looking house for the region standing on the high rolling plain which sloped l( the swamps on over} side. "So they call it," said thoold man; "but it ain't the fort we tuck from the British inoro'n sixty yc. ? ago? burnt 'em out, you may sav." "Were you one of 'Is captors?" I asked. "1 reckon 1 wuz," replied the old man. "IV ye seo that scar?" poin- j ting to his fore arm, which he had j bared of its sleovc. "A redcoat's1 bullet made it in a scrimmage afore j the siege. I was Horry's leftennnt. I 1 lorry, yon know, was Marion's | i I......J 'o.. i ii^m iikimi tiidii ^ urn i i 11 l i i i 11 iii-' litis. 1 le stuttered when hurried to! s:iy anything quick. Coining suddenly on a Tory camp one night, he i wanted to tell us to lite quick. lie said, TTli-li-li shoot, darn ve!' and * we bla/.ecj awnj in the dark." "Why was this called Fort Motto?" 1 I inquired . "Bless your soul!" said the old j soldier, with animation. '"Don't you i know Becky Mj?tte -Becky Brewton that was ?lived here? Mighty plucky woman was Becky Motto. A purly woman, too; as purtv as a picture, thcrtgh she was well-nigh forty years old, and had a darter married to (tineral Pinckney. She was a Charleston lady, daughter of a Britisher, and this was her nest coun- ! try house a mighty hea'.thy place on this hill. The British druv Becky I out^nf her house, dug a big ditch all | around it, piled up a high hank o' I dirt 'round the ditch, next the house, j and so made a fort of it?a purty j stroiic; fort ami) musket and rides. I It was a nice house, hut not so fine as Mr. Love's, which Becky built I right away after the war. I helped draw timber to l>> ild it." "The British drove Mrs. Motto and her family out of her house, did they? Where did they go?" 1 as-j ked. "To her overseer's, on yon hill," he replied. "Becky was a rich widder; lost her husband earlv in the! war, and lived here in the summer ; At that farm-house she showed raal j grit, 1 tell ye; grit that madt^ us all j feel as if we would willingly die for) her?v(*s, die for her." "Ilow did she show yfrit?'" 1 asked as 1 seated myself on the log beside ; the veteran hi the bright sunshine. "Well, you see,"'said the old pa- j triot, as his voice waxed stronger by the stimulus of vivid recollections, "they had her house, and live hunv dred rodcoats^wero in and around it. Lcftenunt-Colonel Leo?Legion Ilarvy, you know -yon must have heard , of him a dashing young trooper then of my ago twenty-five had joined us with his lighthorsomen, ?r$(d tvo all pushed forward, horse nnri foot, for this place to drive off #t.,? ri.mm...*. i tnu uiiunuuin. 1 Hill very IIIOrillN Borne troopers from Charleston came to the fort with dispatches for Lord Itawdon at Camden. They word about to leave when wo appeared at Becky's farm-house. They wuz skccred and didn't go. Lee had a little six-pounder cannon which he placed in battery on the knoll you see yonder, speckled with the stumps of some trees lately cut down. The redcoats had no artillery, so we had 'em, weYeckoned.*' "Who were Lee's troopors?" I asked. Mostly young Virginians, I iockon " 3E T3R.TTIE xm TON, i:oitoi>. i i. K<XJ miH. l'ultllMlior. ( ready to go when he might lead; and] ho was ready to lead wherever Ins country needed bravo men. He was a handsome young man, with lar?b Mark eyes and brown hair. The if ay uniform of his men made i the homespun clothes of Marion's brigade appear meaner than ever, Hut we had the grit as) well as they.1' i,lIow did you take tin* fort with only that little field-piece?" 1 in- ! ijuired. "I'll tell ye. Lee dismounted his * | troopers, led 'em into a narrow bob j low up to a short way from the fort, j and with the help of some niggers began to'dig toward it. and threw np breastworks whilst we took post nt tho field-piece to defend it in case the redcoats should come out and attack us. Thev were ordered to surrender. They said they wouldn't, list then wo heard that Hawdon | was retreating from Camden and had sent troops to join the garrison at Fort Motto. That, verv night their camp-fires were seen on a hill not far away. The sight made us: livdv. ! teil you. Something must he done quickly. To batter bowu their works with our baby cannon or reach thmn by digging trenches! would take too much time. But i Lee was up to anything. 'We must j burn em out,' he said. uTho shingles on the house wuz; dry as tinder, for the sunshine wuzj hot on that day, at the middle of Mi#V. ll can send fire on 'em with arrows,'said Lee,'ami. they'll blaze in a minute.' But he didn't 'ike to do it. Becky Mottc wu/. his friend;; her son-in-law wuz his friend; but he I thought of his country first and his friends afterwards. When he mentioned it to Becky, ,tho plucky woman clapped her hands and said, 'GoodI good! Do it if you can. Burn tho house if they won't surrender.' Wasn't that real grit?real patriotism? "Lee sent another order for tho redcoats to surrender. They know help was nigh and they wouldn't do it. He asked Marion, 'Have you a man who can shoot straight with a how and arrow?' 'Yes,' tho (iineral said; 'Nathan Savage is as goo 1 a shot as any 1 ndian.' "A bow and arrow wore quickly made and taken to Lee's headquarters at the overseer's house witli Nathan. lie trie.ll tho how and said, 'It ain't strong enough.' 'Here, darter,' saiil Becky to the youngest who married Colonel Alston, 'run and git the Indian bow and arrows.' Turpentine torches wore fastened to two or three of the arrows, when Natho sent them like blazin' stars straight to the roof. The shingles smoked and wo hurrahed. They bla/.ed, and we shouted. 'The redcoats ran up and began to knock ofl the burning shingles. Shots from the six-pounder raked the loft and sent the Britishers scampering poll moll below. Pretty soon a white flag was seen waving, and at noon we had 'em: the redcoats were all our prisoners. Wasn't we happy fellers? I didn't mind the bullet-hole in my arm a bit, just then. Becky Motte? plucky j Becky Motte? was as happy as any of us, though her fine house wuz in ruins, bhe invited the British ofli eers, as well as ours, to the farm house to lunch, and perfect lady as she was everywhere, she wuz sis purlite to her country's enemies as to its friends. "While wo were at table,'' continued the old soldier, "word came to our Gihorul that some of his men wuz amusing themselves by hanging Torios. Marion hurried out and with his drawn sword ran to the spot in time to save the life of one of 'em. It was Tom Cunningham, one of the worst, who died at Kingston last year. The Gineral threatened to kill any man who should attempt to harm another prisoner. A just man a brave man, a Christian man was General Marion." When the venerable soldier had finished his story 1 strolled on the houso of Mr. Love, where 1 spent several hours very pleasantly, lie said the narrator was a worthy pensioner and a man of truth, and that the traditions of the country as well as oflicial roports were in genoral agreement with his story of the cnp tureof Fort Motto by Lee and Marion. 1 wrote the name of the vener able pensioner on a scrap of paper, soon lost it and have beeit unable to recall it. The remains of the entrenchment around the house were still quite prominent. Bknkon J. r.osstxo, LL,D. # to "Y"CXJK CONWAY MONEY WELL SPEN i\ Capt. Itixhy Show* tin' (iront Vnluo of Klver Improvements. i mtkii Statks Km;i s kick < >kkk k > Wilmington, N. 0. Mar. 10,*88 \ To the Kditor of the Now that river ami harbor question is again before Congress, i wish to call your atten,;on to the groat lieu- i oftt which the country derives from such work. 1m*w people realize the advantageous commercial, agricultural and | colonizing effects produced l?v the governmental improvements of rivers and harbors of the I'nited States, and especially of the South Atlantic atid (.iuIf States. The rivers and creeks of the South Atlantic and 'Julf States are, as a rule, streams of gentle slope, considerable length and moderate dep' 01 obstructed mainly by sunken 1<^S* snugs and fallen or overlain'1" "i trees. Were the laMer obstf^ thoroughly removed (usuall done at a comparatively su'"* these rivers and creeks wi u 11 '1 appear in their true role o and economical navigable u similar to and rivalling tlue ' '''^B and more expensive canal;' Northern and .Middle States. ^As soon as tine of these st:' rn^Bvf opened to commerco too rodui*1 height charges is so oodsiden'"'^B to oncouaago the rapid devoir s of such towns as are already istenco along its length, and- V tainty and eheapn ing and traveling facilities an "' 11 m the establishment of continmn* ' r"'^l extended seltK incuts all ah banks over largo areas of goo'f* ' n n ^ until thou so deprived of transpoi. tion facilities that the sale of faun products would not oven pay the expenses of their transport to the nearest market. Mom than this, the removal of obstructions from* the bed and banks of the stream facilities the free movement of water in the stream and aids so greatly the natural drainage of the river bottoms and other adjacent lands, that land until then malarious and sickly becomes tit for habitation and culture. In this way we readily see that the governmental improvement of such rivers and harbors not only in- j creases the existing commerce of such waterways, but improves the drainage, culture, value and health of the adjacent lands, Jmi'lds up the existing towns and encourages the ..... . I . r > nmiiuiiiuiii 01 previously unoccupied territories. In no other way can so small an expenditure of public money produce such valauble results in tho development of the country at large. As an exainpl i of this good work let us look at the results obtained in the States of North and South Carolina during the last few years preceding the 1st of July, 1887. Since 187(1 on seven rivers in these States a total of 582 miles length of river has been open to easy steamer navigation at a total expense of ?500,000, thereby reducing freight, charges from 12 per cent to 75 per cent and developing ?12,050,000 of annual cominorco, an average development of ?25 of annual commerce for each dollar once spent by trie (jrovenunent. The two towns on tho Contcntea River bank in North Carolina havo nearly doubled in population and property. The town of Greenville, on the, Pamlico River, North Carolina, litis increased from 012 population and ?200,000 real estate in 1880 up to 2,505 population and ?000,000 real estate in 1880, almost entirely due' to tlic river improvement. The neighborhood of tlio Neuse Uivor, North Carolina, is steadily gaining m settlement and prosperity under the influence of better transportation. On the the recently commenced, but unfinished, improvements of waterway between Newborno and Beaufort, Beaufort harbor; waterway botwoen Beaufort harbor and New Jiiver. ^tlirnnirli ltfiimA SI.>> -! A v~... 1 \ fS Hiver Capo Fear ltivur, below Wilmington, and Black Hiver, North Carolina, and (ieo^etown harbor, Winyah Bay, San tee River to Winyall Bay, and Santee ' River, South Carolina, the work is of too recent l ^3sriD -sroxj-:rc , S. T., Till lv'SDAY. . date, or not sulUeientlv advuttced, to have produced tlio expected results. On the improvements of Watoreo RiVer and Conguroo River, South Carolina, an expected development of from *Lb00,0(H) to *3,()00,lKK) of river commerce is prevented, mainly by the bridge obstructions of the South Carolina Railway. On the improvements of Lockwood's Lolly River and Lumber River, North Carolina, and Little Pee Dee River, Clark's Creek, Black Mingo and Alligator River, South Carolina, tho work, though recommenced, has not yet received any appropriation from Conorossf hut in all casus tho present indications are that the completion of the improve* inents will give returns at least equal (if not superior) to those of tho . 'tlwt j I&feijrihfcd waterways. %Tho -pht)n Winyah Hay means n the development Dee ha"il> the ^p\*olina; and a ,,r BJ^uld undoubt , iin a .titional B^rce of $8,000,m m improvements B? '1' good re* the eonn'EL'f s ate to-d; v Hfunpleted; ami P*Vo that further F ' .ee mi pan lad Jpnhs on ouch rivAl" sueh improve 'C-: ? 1? fully double I ''ol v spent by t lie '-..^eJsPMIr. juient. I will kleic. ho/tf"l,y, vour obedient stands . .itif \\ M. II. IJiXuv, 4*t NW^lM Knginuers, I'.S. Army. I'oiMilar Science. A .valuable instrument lias been invented for determining the degree | of impurity of the atmosphere of a | living room. It isn't the frost acting directly on the iron which breaks a length of rail, but, it is . the fro/en ground beneath it failing to givo under the pressure. 1 The J/< <//co/ h'ecoi'tl says expired air is optically pure and contains no microbes. Respiration, therefore, purilics air as far as microbes are concerned. It is admitted by foreign electricians that the progress made in the United States in the utilization of electricity is far in advance of that of any other nation. Owing to the constant cheapening of gas the average size of gas engines is increasing; fifteen to tnuill) *IIVU IIUISO urn IHMV ClimMIl size, and ton to twolvo tlio avennM . Paper bedclothes arc made at a fnctory in New .Jersey. They are doubled shoots of tnunilla paper strengthened with twine, and valuable by reason of the peculiar proper* ies of paper as a non-conductor, of heat. Tliey have a warmth-preserving power far out of proportion to | tlreir thickness and weight. f Professor Rogers, of <kVashington, has just mathematically proved that the dynamic power of a pound of rood stean.-eoal is equivalent to the work of one man for a day, that three tons wiil represent his labor for twent, years, and that one square i mile of a four-foot seam w'M effect j as much as one million men can do I in twenty years. From seventy-five to eighty per cent, of the earth tremors observed in Tokio, according to Prof. Milne, ; may be accounted for on the supI position that they have been produj ced oigter by local or distant winds. The only connection beween earth tremors and earthquakes in Central I .Japan is that they are both more frequent about the same season. A new process of manufacturing electric light carbons of |-.nnoi 1 and battel v plates consists in dccompo! sing natrual gas unjler high beat and pressure, which gives a hard, very I corn pact and almost .chemically nure carbon. It is then crushed, ground and molded in about the same way as coke, from which electric light carbons are made (procurable from gas-housB and oil relinory j retort*.) 'Are you superstitious?' 'Not very. Why?' 'Do you believe it is a sign ol death when a dog howls under youi | window at night?' 'Yes, if 1 can find my gun bofor* ! the dog gets away.' -Omaha War/if For a eold on the chest, a flannel | rag rung out in boiling water au< 'sprinkled with turpentine, laid on the I chest, gives the greatest relief. Z1.C -^ 1ST ID "Y"OTJH COT \ PR IL 5, 1888. ci i i ciriN Tin: ni:\\ soi rn. ?"T" How One of the Wards of tlio Nation got 10 von wiili a Vankoc. It grows cloarer every (lay that if the New South doesn't lose her head she has got a grout and paying fn. tare lieforo her. If she run stand prosperity she is hound to prosper. A special to the Tribune yesterday from lllackshoar, (ia., showed what {rrout progress the valise-carrying industry has inudo in tlmt Stuto of lute. The dispatch stated tliut u well-known Now Vorkor "paid a neoro la? 1 $10 yesterday for currying 11is valise to llluckshenr a distance of a mile." 'There is notliinu {joino to prove that thene<rro hoy in question possessed any particular {renins for valise-carrvinir. lie is j not referred to as the llofinann of i valise carriers, as though he wore a prodigy. It is safe to eoiudude, therefore, that it was an ordinary evorv-day neirro hoy that received $ lOvor currying a valise to Hlackshear, a distance of a mile. 'That hoy has {rot a yughty {rood t-hinir of it if business doesn't fall otT Say ho carries four valises an hoar j only works ten hours a day, and al: lows himself a month vacation in the watermelon season. That would {rive him $1,(100 a day or $0,(100 a iwook; or * ;>>, I'm a month; or * KJ'J, 400 a year It is clour from thofco figures thut the lllacksheur nojrro boy, in case lio abstains from "poli' oy," is on tlio highroad to fortune. illow few persons, en/raged in the j same braimli of business outside t!ie New South belt, can make - I'J'j,|-100 a your! It is also clear from these ligures that if trade generally in and about Bluekshear and the rest | of Georgia, pays as handsome a profit as valise-currying, everybody must bo feelino lirst-rate, and all ... sorts of business prospects, includible town lots and alligator pocketbooks, must be enjoying a most gratifying boom. Young man, go South. ? A". ) . Tribune. I 'raise Your Wife. 1'raise your wife, man; for pity's sake, /rive her a little encouragement it won't hurt her. She doesn't ox pert it; it will make her eyes open wider and wider than they have for the last ten years; but it will do her /rood for all that, and you, too. There are inanv women to-dav ' ~ J thirsting for a word of praise and encouragement. You know that if the lloor is clean, labor has boon pcrfomcd to make it so. Yon know that if you can take from your drawer a clean shirt whenever you want it, somebody's fingers have toiled. Why don't you come out with it heartily; "Why how pleasant you make things look, wife," or, "I am obliged to you for taking so much pains." If you gave a hundred and sixteenth part of the compliments you almost choked them with before they were married; if you would stop the badinage of women you are going to have when number one is dead (such things wives may laugh at, but they sink deep sometimes,) j fewer women would seek for other . sources oi happiness. "No, Sis, Sim." A Goorgia professor has suggested a substitute for the "his or her" which has so long been the despair of (franunuriaus, rhetoricians and n authors. The Georgia professor takes the substitute directly from the Latin. It is "so," and stands foi himself, herself or itself. The following declension is suggested: Nominative, sc. possessive si's, objective Stilt. i, A sentence constructed on this basis would be immense, and a column of matter besprinkled with i x/.v, siw. would turn the ordinary i reader's head both ways in the ecu( tre of the week for Sunday. Innovation is tin? watchword of the times, and our American lan guago oilers a rich Held for the in- j jgetiuilyof tiio inventor; but .sv, six, j .s/w, we must say, looks and sounds i entirely torynnovutive to constitute Jan acceptable innovation. ,V? o York I'jiwni/if/ k>u/i. -? ? A l'ro<lij{) on the Piano. London, March 20. Ono of the now youthful pianoforte prodigies* F innde his appearance before a critical j private audience last night. The name of the child is Otto Hefner, a little * fellow in a black . velvet Knickor. hockot suit, lie is of (ierman oxtraoI tioti, and although only ten years of I aoe, has the confidence and bearing I j of a man of thirty, lie has been ) trained from infancy for the musical i profession, and his tuition has been % flf^ Hi.no ivr Aiiiiiun. { based upon lines of thorough practical work rather than on the desire for early maturity. Yesterday's experiment revealed too little wonder, if anything, superior to j youn^ llofman. lie is fully eoual to that child. In mechanical precision, and in dealing with technical ditTi. 1 culties ho may be considered his superior. In thorough musical s knowledge he is a Ioiijj way beyond Hofmann. lie has been trained first, by his father until (1 years of a?p>, ' and after that by Fran/ Krieker for four years. Since that time he l has been under 'the direction of IblllS llillmr llii. /I i ul I i?n I - ,,,w ^ composer *of llusie, while Alford (ilous^ave the child practical and theoretical training at the same time. K.\ports now say that the child is a finished pianist, ' 1 lis rendering yesterday of ('hopin's study in A Hat was considered perfect, ? while in lh?cthovon,s sonata in It llat ^ he showed a marvellons decree of musical fooling. A ) A'fenin<j Sun O Mrs. Cleveland. 11 The papers have boeft calling at- * tention recently to the presence in ' Washington of a ladv who is said to resemble Mrs. Cleveland so nearly hat their identity is frequently con- J" fused. A orea' many youn s ladies, both in Washington and in other i 11 parts of the country, are frequently mistaken at first siedit for Mrs. Clove- r land; not that there are any strono points of natural resemblance betweou thein, but because they "make " up" as much as possiblo like that lady of the White House. There has ( been a u( 'leveland craze" atnon^ tin j(l ladies of the 1 nitod States ever! n since the Western tour of the President and his wife last summer. It ii threatens to fur e<-lipso the Lanjjtry ?? era/* of a few years o^o. Youno1 la- ) <lies of widely different types, ima^rinin*r that they resemble Mrs. C'lovoland in some respect, seek to carry out that resemblance by dressing as ^ nearly like her as is possible, by arrantpno' their hair in a similar manner and in other artificial ways. Mis. ( i Cleveland is occasionally asked by I ingenious youn^ ladies if she thinks | they resoluble her. She* made one i warm friend in St. Louis during her visit there by ^renting one young ladv who was introduced to her with: j "()fi, is this the Miss S who is ( said to resoinble mo so much?M-. II ihuimjton Proportion of Heaths by Idyllt- | ulnar. c li The yearly average number of deaths from lightning in England is x twonty-threo, or four and four-tenths per 100,000 deaths. As a general t i illV II nuuilin HIUl UIIIUSS poi.SOIl.S lire v killed on tho sj>ot bv lightning they ( recover. A person struck by lightning ( is more or loss stunned, and deprived of consciousness for a time, often, no doubt, by more fright, in which ' ease the effect is transient; but some- ' times in consequence of a shock giv- * en to the brain, in which case there 1 is a certain amount of paralysis of motion and sensation. The appear- ( ances after ddath of bodies which ) havo been struck by lightning vary | extremely. Sometimes they retain ' the position which they occupied , when struck; while in other cases they may be dashed to a codsidera- ( bio distanco. Their clothes are often burnt or torn, and have a peculiar singed smell. Metallic substances about the body present signs of fusion, while such as are composed of steel become magnetic. A Woman tit the Kc!>n. Some years ago tlitis "is to say, :U>out four or live -there was a small steamboat plying on the Mississippi river and officered by a certain Cnpt. Miller. lb- was still a young man, though in a responsible position, and was but lately married. So j fond of his wife, moreover, that lie could , not bear to leave her at heme, as did the I oilier river captains, but carried liei bark j and forth with him, trip after trip, between ' New Orleans and M< mphis. She grew in time quit familiar with his duties, and I during a sudden Illness of her husband [ a* sinned command of the boat, and managed her so well that the mates and rous tal'xHits acquired a wholesome respect for her authority and judgement. Later the husband died, and having nothing but his j salary as captain and a pi^ ownership in I the boat, the widow founu herself under! I the necessity of doing something for her living. Such a thing was quite wlthopt precedent, hut she went before the proper ! authorities, passed a searching exainina tiou as to iter qualifications and was per mitted to assume the command of the baat, under the title of ('apt. Mary Miller.! She lias retained the position ever since, filially securing entire ownership of the j i little steamer, and is a great favorite all j j along the line of ports that lie between the ; , two points of her route. Now a company in Huston is playing a lit Ho steamboat drama, entitled "('apt. Mary Miller," founded upon the stirring experiences of the first female stenmliout captain.?N. ) . World. * '' " ' * * NUMBER 38. IlrlCHi-tfrnc. What to expect in bonnet* Women. The Milliard * la told to jjo to tho nnt, >ut ho generally goc%tn hi* Uncle. Epicure* Mill hold that good raw nys .era do not r<'<|itiro any condiment. If you want to know what a sliding wale is try to handle a wet fish. What part of the turkey miirht summon lln tritOv}< til <lln??i?rV !'!??? rleiimut o>L- - Tin? bootblack deserves to succeed. He (cts right down t<? business. At the dose of the lust fiscal year there vere UK},007 pensioners on the pension oil of the government. A man who is naturally a genius can ouduct himself in such a manner that he ie may be considered a chump. A man is a good deal like a foghorn, iftcr all, and when things look dark and ;looiny, lie is apt to go oil' on a toot. A better way to make money than by hooting pigona is to saw a cord of wood ?r shovel coal. If you live on less than you earn you rill soon 1>< able to count up your cash in he savings fund. We knew ii would come at last. A oung man recently died from the too requenf use of a b;ass mouth organ. This s a terrible warning. "Lizzie, did tin doetor propose to you D-day?" "No. mamma; he only asked if oil would live with me after I got mar led." . .'ho chewing gum habit is said to have leconie quite common among C'ongn vslien, some of \hr>m should beware ??f VITI.MMIU' llll'ir JUU A little boy r<?' iiti> infoimc.d ?? * that ils fuihcr whs suiTering wiili iiilluiiiiiiatioii f the hllig*. We always thought lie was terrible blowc There is a yotui; lad.t in a girls' school it this Slate Vlio goes by the e.h klinine of Postscript." Iler real na~xto is Adeline iloore. What mainly puzzles the small boy khen he begins to study polities is this: How does it happen that a drum major ias never been elected President? Tltt? spirit of Captain Kidd lately told a nodinin that he buried no treasure at all. le said he intended to, but'he paid a lumber's bill in a lit of absent minded less. Whatever you tuny bo sure of, be sure it least of this, that you are dreadfully ike other people. Human nature has a nucli greater genius for sameness than or originality. ".My errand here to-night," said a young awyer 10 a daimffd on whom he had call d, "reminds ma of the cry of an owl." 'Indeed," said the maiden; "what is your uraud here to night?" "Courtship. To vit, to woo." The be St dressed gentlemen are always he ones whose appearance is never couipicu >us. It is not the coat, the tnjusers, he scarf, or the hat that makes the gentle nan, but those who wear these things. It is a noteworthy fact that, of the sev ral hotel proprietors who have lately lied in various parts of the country, icareely one was under sixty years of age, md several were nearer eighty. * Scientists,tell us that a man's brain decreases In size ns lie grows old. The liu. nan brain, it appears, weighs the heaviest ctween the ages of fourteen ami twenty. This explains why young men know so nucli more than their elders. The girl who wm" the most constant in tier attendance at the sowing circle where dot lies were made for the heathen, is now the wife of the man who lias to s<-w in his own buttons. Friday Washington horn on Friday. Queen Victoria married 01. Friday. Xapoloou Bonaparte horn on Friday. Battle of Bunk r iI 11 fought on Faiday. America discovered on Friday. Mayflower landed on Friday. Jean of Aie hinned at the stake on Friday. Battle of Wat' rloo f >n??iit on Friday. Bastilo destroyed on Friday. Declaration of Independence signed on Friday. Battle of .Marengo fought on Fri day. Julius Cjesar assassinated on Friday. Moscow burned on Friday. Shakespeare horn on Friday. King Charles I beheaded on Fri day. Battle ( f New (trleans fought on Friday. Lincoln assassinated on Friday. Family Pride. Dying Man (faintly:) "Darling?" Sorrowing Wife (notween sol>s:) "Yes, dear." Dying Man: "When 1 am gone, love, I desire that you shall marry again as soon as you can." Sorrowing Wife: "Oh, why do you talk like that?" Dying Man: "Because I know you will anyway, and 1 want people to understand that it was my request.' Lnirrfl Citizen. ' .