University of South Carolina Libraries
In some parts of Vermont, last year, foxes were so numerous as to make the raining of turkeys a risky business. There are almost as many foxes in some places in New England now as there were fiftj years ago. ; Miss Sarah A. Hughes, of Raleigh, N. 1 C., was ordained recently by Bishop M. M. Turner, of the Africau Methodist i I Episcopal church. She is a bright niul- j lato, well educated, and is, it is believed, J the first colored woman preacher in the 1 world. 1 - t The civil engineers of New York have t decided that the Egyptian obelisk in i Central Park will have to be housed and kept at an even temperature to prevent disintegration. Five years' residence in j * New York hsis chnncrcd the obelisk more I 1 than 3,500 in Egypt. * ====================== t Dakota is well scattered over with col- d lapsed people from the east, who, ruined ? by speculation, arc endeavoring to grow (i up new fortunes with the country. Gen- : erally they have little knowledge of agri- a culture and no adaptability for the new 3 life. As a consequence they are pretty a miserable. N - 1 1 -- i The United States Marine Band at r "Washington, in addition to playing on * the "marine parade" twice a day, fur- t nishes all the music at the "White House, {l and at the receptions of the secretary of e the navy, according to an old usage. The bandmaster, Prof. Sousa, composes a new piece for each "grand occasion.n w T? D. Curtis, of Syracuse, says there are 16,000,000 cows in the United States. The money value of their yearly product 8! is $1,000,000,000, and the total cost ol ?' the land and plant necessary for their sup- g port $3,800,000,000. Last year 00,000,- a 000 pounds of imitation butter were sold C! from a capital of $2,000,000. This is ,1 hurting the dairy interests. Thomas A. Edison is thought to have * cleared two millions out of his electrical ^ inventions. His purchase of a rural resi- A dence at $400,000 cash, to take his bride u to, is regarded by his intimate friends as t no great extravagance. In appearance g he is a clean-shaven man, youthful in face, * and so nearly deaf that a talker has little o Cun in making himself understood. tl ================= a] v At the recent annual convention of the j{ National Sugar-growers' association, at n St. Louis, it was shown that the amount of gold and silver sent to foreign countries from this for sugar has exceeded the p amount of money coined at home in one A hundred years. "And no better sugar f< than we can make right here in Mis- L sourij" says the St. Louis Jtepublican. t 1" a A petroleum region about one hundred n miles long and from ten to seventy miles e wide has been discovered in Wyoming ter- r ritory, north of Rattlesnake Hills. Near n Independence Rock, on the Sweetwater v route of railroad, are lakes which con- j( tain ninety per cent, of pure soda, "no r bottom" to which has been found to a a depth of forty feqt. By pipe lines and j projected railways Denver is in expecta- ? , . tion of reaping the usufruct of these val- f uablc natural productions, as well as of o o largely increased live stock trade. b n Notwithstanding the sweeping destruc tion of cattle during the war, says the Nashville American, there are ten highly bred animals to-day in the south where ^ there was one in 1800. The stock men of Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and other southern Stfitns. wIikpa nnturni . . , ? grasses would flourish, entered with a ^ zeal and energy into this business, which j has wrought great results. The south a has now over eight hundred millions of 0 dollars invested in milch cows, oxen and v other cattle, sheep, hogs, horses and 0 # mules, Fully one-fourth of all the live s stock in the United States is owned in c the south. * Housekeeping in Japan has few trials, a according to a lady writing from that ^ country. She says: "I do not visit my kitchen once a month, never give an or- ^ der outside of a spoken wish, yet the do- a mestic machinery moves with an ease and a perfection unattainable at home by al?? 8 most any effort on the part of the mis- a tress. The manners of the servants are c amusing, mot to say startling. Every ^ night at bedtime our five retainers ap- s pear, prostrate themselves in succcssion 0 to the earth, and retire. This is to wish * me good-night and to renew their testi- a mony of profound respect and pleasure * over the privilege of serving me." 0 f ===== i Last year the Signal and "Weather Bu- 0 reau announced that special weather pre- ? dictions would be telegraphed to any * __1 - fi * " - - piucc, provmca tne residents thereof -would provide a set of flag signals and make arrangements to notify the neigh* t borhood with them of the predicted I changes in the weather. The people of c a large number of towns and villages, es- r pecially on the sea and lake coasts, act- c ing upon the suggestion, bought the ( necessary flags And in ado tho necessary 1 arrangements. Recently tho Beeond Con- * troller decided that no telegrams could t bo paid for out of appropriations for the < observation and report of storms "except ( for reports at stations.* Under this de 1 cision the Signal and Weather Bureat t has discontinued the special telegrams tc 1 particular places, confining its announce * V? ments to the regular general bulletins. 1 The New York police justices report that last year there were 75,042 arrests made, of which number 64,350 vrere moles and 20,692 females, the usual proportion. Of these 53,683 were held for trial and 108 cases are still pending. The rest were discharged as innocent. The justices in their prefatory remarks complain that there has been little or no improvements in public morals during ;he past year. <4It is the same aad itory," to quote their words, "again epeated, of misery and suffering which ;vcr attends crime, and emphasized by ke aggregation of figures suggestive of ts extent.1' "What is the natural term of a carp's ife? The question is suggested by the announcement bj the Berlin papers that i fish of this kind has been taken from he Spree at the age of 26*8 years. Some lays ago a fisher was plying his vocation irhen, like his olden predecessors, he was avored with a mighty draught. His atch consisted of a carp beneath whose louth a ring was found attached. Scratches upon the ring, we are told, lake it clear that the fish was placcd in he water in the year 1618, or nearly two nd three-quarters centuries ago. This cnerable inhabitant of the Spree reighed thirty-six pounds, and measured hundred centimeters in length and eventy-eight centimeters in circumfernce. The American birds will feel an unronted security this summer on account f the efforts made for their protection. 'Perhaps the most sensible move made gainst the slaughter of birds for millin- J ry purposes," asserts the Boston Travel- t -, "has been started by the Ornitholoists' Union, which has organized a committee on the protection of North Amerian birds for the purpose of obtaining ^ tatistics and facts on the subject as well a to agitate. This is commendable. 11 1 lefore denouncing every hat trimmed dth feathers it will be well to investi- s ate whether the birds are in reality CJ jnerican songsters or are not charming * nitations manufactured from the plum- 1 ge of the American hen. Most of the 1 orgeous real birds in the millinery trade 1 re imported from South Amcrica and 1 ther tropical countries, and their fea- c liers are wrought into many different 0 tapes by skillful designers. But there 11 i nothing more highly appreciated in lillinery than the American cock." 1 ?? v The statement is made in some Euro- 1 ean papers to the effect that the Russian v Jisma, or water plantain, is a remedy v or hydrophobia. The roots are collected h a August, dried, grated and spread on t read and butter. Two or three doses :i re taken in this manner, night and .i norning, and a cure is supposed to be tl ffected. The efficacy attributed to this h emedy is wholly imaginary. The Alis- 1 aa family is a group of aquatic plants, s rhich grows in still water, with tapering ? saves resembling those of plantain, and t ather handsome flowers. Twenty years go Rev. C. A. Johns, an accomplished ' English botanist, wrote of thTs plant: 'The solid part of the root contains arinaceous matter, and, when deprived S( f its acrid properties by drying, is eaten \ y the Kalmucks. From some fanciful |; otion that the fearful disease, hydro- c hobia, could be counteracted by watei ilants, Alisma was idly pitched on as a s pecific by empiries, but it is now no >nger in repute." . f( Hu-Tow-Tai, a great Chinese specnla- (j ar, and probaly the richest merchant in s tie empire, died recently at Hang Chow. n lis progress through life may have been s prosy and uninteresting as that of any s ther common millionaire, but his funeral ras the loudest and one of the grandest t n record. At the head of the procesion a number of coolies trudged along ti arrying little scraps of paper upon which 1S hort sentences full of wisdom and sound n dvice were traced in pencil. Then fol- w awed a crowd of lantern bearers, the interns fastened at the end of long amboo canes. After them came a small jj rmy of musicians with gongs, symbals nd trumpets, making noise enough to s care the sulphur and brimstone out of Q 11 the wicked spirits within range. Next . ame a few hundred little boys, each g lolding in his hand some weapon of trange form intended for the slaughter f evil-disposed devils. The bearers of j he family tablets with the names of the ,'ncestors of the deceased marched after ( he boys. Next in the procession, altars n wheels appeared loaded with choice ^ ruits, the last one bearing the portrait ^ f the deceased. After these altars, two [roups of priests presented themselves, t he first dressed in white robes, richly t mbroidered, and the second in scarlet nd yellow. Between these two groups . here was a crowd bearing lanterns, flags, >arasols and fans, together with all sorts ^ >i queer tilings, i ne master 01 cere- I nonies rode on horsebaek, and was; ^ tressed from head to foot In white, the ^ Chinese mourning. Behind him was a arge white tent carried along by strong nen, and in this the relatives concealed j ^ heir woe. At last the coffin came in I tight mounted npen a magnificent hearse'1 ^ >rnamented in the most-gorgeous style, j ^ md borne along upon the shoulders *61 ? wenty-five men. A large number of ^ nandarins dressed in their official robes, md carried in Japanese chain, closed the ^ procession. t A V . , V y." v.'.'.,-V,:". v> ^ A-: J * \ ' : > * ^.Vv ' ' How to Lire. TjIvo for good that >ou may do; For the errors you may fight; For tbo aid that you can give; For'the needs you can relievo; For the wrongs that you muy righfcl Livo thus?God will prosper you. Live for brave and noble deeds, With an aim and purjx>se high, With a faith and courage true, With a future still in view, Resting, when you come to die, On God's love. To heaven it leads. Live, affliction to console, Giving strength unto the weak, Giving hope to dumb despair, Like an answer to a prayer; Be a help to those that seek, Comforter to heart and youl! Live to learn, and to be wise. And to scatter what you know; Live to sweeten sorrow's cup, And to lift the fallen up; Live for vice's overthrow, And to rescue truth from lies! Live to say: "Thy will bo done!" Even though it seem unjust To your dim, imperfect sight; "What He doeth must l?e right. Keep a firm, unwavering trust, Doubting none and questioning none. Live, that men may all be won To be folio Wei's of the Light; Live in fellowship of love; Live so that, when called above, And you bid the world "Good-night!" God shall welcome you: "Well done!" ?George Dirdseye. THE FOUNTAIN. Out of the shadows of the garden two >cople came into the moonlight, and caned over the little chain that encircled he small fountain, into whose basin a uarhle Ilebe continually emptied her ver-brimming cup. As the girl looked down into the water icr fingers trifled with a lily, and she renarked that one of the leaves had been iroken. It is strange how we notice uch small things when we are thinking f greater ones; yes, and remember them, oo. Ever after Lina Miehcl remembered hat broken lily leaf, and the fluttering eflcction in the water, and the scent of he roses, and the few wind-blown drops hat. were east vpon her neck from the ' up of the llebe at the fountain in that Id garden at Munich, on that sweet tridssuinmer night. The young man stood vbry near her. Ie had a sweet, grave face, and eyes that t*ere as soft and dark as a gazelle's, "hey were not unlike?, these two; both fere spirituelle?both were dark, both fere romantic. The tie of blood was ictween them, for they were cousins, hough, as the Scotch folk say, "far way cousins," and bearing different ames. They had been brought up unler one roof, and Lina Michel's mother iad been all the mother the little orphan Ienri Ivlebcr knew. When, after a little ilence, she turned her eyes toward him, he looked into his without reserve, just s a sister might. "It is cruel of grandpapa," she said. 'It is very cruel, Ifenri. These old peoilc think only of money. Why can they ot let us have peace, when we could be [> happy? It is such an absurd idea. rou and I to marry each other! We arc ke brother and sister. Nothing can hamre that." ''But we tire not brother and sister," iiid lie; "and even first cousins marry. I ave been thinking that?" "Oh, don't, don't!" she said?"Henri, or Heaven's sake, don't begin to be as ad as the rest. Be my good brother till. It would be frightful for us to larry. Besides, one should fall in love rst?should not one? Think how aburd to marry without that." "But I like you so much," said Henri. 'Dear Cousin Lina, let us talk about it." "I will not," said she. "If you desire o quarrel, you can talk about such fool?ll flinfi/1*; Rflf. Of mitNl' n lilro , ?? > ? ie; of course, I like you, and that is just rhy it can't be. Grandpapa ought to be shamed of himself." She paused a moment, then turned her ips toward her cousin. "Give me a kind kiss, brother Henri," aid she, "and never, never, never speak f this "bsurdity again. As for marryig, I shall never marry any one. Why hould I, when I detest the thought?" Henri gave a little sigh. "I shall never marry either, Cousin jina," said he; "but you see we are not rother and sister. You can't make it so iy saying so." Then he kissed her and they walked >ack into the house, where Grandpapa [leber and Granduncle Michel had just ettled the matrimonal prospects of these wo young cousins to their own satisfacion. The result of the young people's rebcll- 1 an was a quarrel. Lina cscaped very easily. It was only | iroper for a girl to be coy; but the young 1 lan was so beset with reproaches that ho inally defied his relatives much as Ajax [id the lightning. In his case the lightning had the best >f it, and the end of all this was that one ine morning Henri Kleber found himself urned out into the world to seek his forune; and long ere his cousin's black eyes vere opened upon the dawn, had left funich and his furious relatives behind lim. From that day nothing was heard of urn by his friends in Munich for many a ong year. x T' v : , * - v-. ' O- "V ' ;i V " Tlic old people were unforgiving. Grandfather Klober died and left all his money to Linn, who had already refused two excellent matches. Grand uncle Michel died also, and Lin a became yet richer. At last her beloved mother also left her. She long remuincd Linn Michel, though her beauty and her wealth had brought many suitors to her door. The love that she had thought necessary to marriage?the mysterious, wonderful love ?had never come to her; and now she believed that it never would, for she was eigh-t-aud-twenty. But, somehow, ever since the morning when she awoke and found that her cousin Henri was gene, her memories of him had grown more sweet and tender with cverv vear. She traveled two years unci heard nothing of her Cousin Henri, and at last found herself in Paris, at the liight of its gay season, and there rested a dove who had not found her olive branch. There is no place to dream like a picture-gallery; no place like Paris for pictures. Lina Michel spent many hours with her eyes fixed on painted faces that she never saw, for the living face that haunted her; but one day she awoke to a wondrous interest in a small picture which hung in a small dealer's gallery in which she found herself. It was a simple scene. A moonlit garden, the distance dying into undefined shadows, a fountain into which a Hebe emptied her cup, and by the fountain's brim a youth and a young girl. The moonlight kissed her face. His was not seen. lie bent toward her, lover-like. His hand touched hers, and hers rested on one of the little posts that held an encircling chain about the fountain. These were crowned with lilies, and as she looked closer, she saw that one had a broken leaf. It was the garden of her grandfather's old house at Munich. And this was more thau chance. Was there such a thing as magic, or had some artist watched Henri and herself on the night when she made that miserable mistake? For that was Henri, and surely that blackhaired girl was not uniikc herself. "Is this picture for sale?" she asked the dealer. rie snruggew 111s siiou liters. "I think the artist is mad," he said. ''This is the first picture any one has wanted to buy, and he refuses t(^ sell it. Perhaps a pricc sufficient will tempt him; but if I give his address the lady will remember my commission?" The lady promised faithfully to do so. "It is a wretched street?he is very poor," said the dealer, and gave her the number written on a card. "The fifth floor," he said with a shrug of his shoulders. Linn Michel stepped into her carriage and soon, followed by her maid, climbed the stairs of a dingy dwelling, rapped upon the door that bore the word "Atelier" upon it. In a moment a man with a long beard, who held a palette in his hand, opened the door for her, and stood regarding the apparition of a closely-vailed lady attended by her maid, with some surprise. "I speak to the painter of the picture at Monsieur s," said the Fraulein Michel. "The garden and fountain. I desire to purchase it at any price." "Madame," replied the artist, "I regret to say that picture is not to be sold." "But I must have it," said the lady. < <T ?i?n <?nvflnnr? ^ - "I um poor," said the artist, "but it lias no price." "Listen, sir,." said the lady. "It is more than a picture that I want?it is a reminiscence. It is like a?a place that I know. I beg for it. I implore you to sell it to me." "Madame," said the artist, "I see you have a heart. I will speak plainly. Long ago I stood with the only woman I ever loved, beside that fountain?a fountain in an old garden in Munich. I was a young idiot. I did not even know my own heart; but I know it now. I have known it for years. One day the memory of the spot and of the hour returned to me as if by magic. I painted the picture in a few hours. Then again she stood before me. I saw the moonlight on her face. I saw her white hand lying in mine. I saw the whole picture. Never before could I put it upon canvas. I know I never can again. And, Madame, while I live, I must look upon that picture. When I die, I must cast my last glance upon it. I shall never see her again. Long since she has become the wife of some one she loves well, no doubt; but I?I shall never love any other. So I must keep her picture; I must. You see that, Madame." A nrl no Ua T 1 1 1 1*9 i*v o|iuiVLj ijllUl iUlt'HUl K11CW Heuri Klebor?knew him despite the flowing beard and all the changes of twelve long years. And as he ceased, she threw back her vail and held both her hands toward him. "Henri," she sighed, "Henri 1 Oh Henri, do you not know me?" And then 1 he had clasped her in his arms, and she lay sobbing on his bosom. mi ii ? - - - -I w nun mey siooa Dcside the fountain in the old garden at Munich again, they 1 were man and wife. ' Hope on, hope ever," is the motto of I the man who does no advertising; the : man who advertises has no time for such < sentimentality; he is kept busj pocket- < ing the receipts. i A Talk With a Taxidermist. "We will undertake to preserve and fix up any kind of a bird or animal, from a humming-bird to an elephant," said n taxidermist to a reporter for tb^ New York Mail and Express recently, "and, I might just well add, from a bee to mammoths." "Are there many in this eity who pursue your art?" "About twenty. Too many altogether for any of us to do any decent business. It is not an easy trade to learn. Sometimes a man may accomplish it in a few months; sometimes it will take a much longer time; it depends upon the natural good judgment and dexterity of the pupil. A little carelessness or want of skill will often spoil a job. In the preparation of our subjects we use a large amount of arsenic in a powdered form. During the manipulation this powder is shaken into the air and is inhaled by t,lic operator. As arsenic is an accumulative poison it will remain in the system until there is enough to cause serious results. Very often a man is compelled to quit the business in order to save his life. Life insurance companies hesitate to take risks on men engaged in our business. Arsenic is used to preserve the skin, fin and feathers of birds and animals. Several substitutes for this poison have beeu tried, but none of them have been found to be any good." "What do you most work on?" "We drive a thriving business in the canary bird line. People bring their little birds here to have them stuffed. The owners are mostly ladies, and you can imagine what a comfort it is to have theii little feathered pets preserved in such i> manner that their beauty and form oJ feather can be seen and admired long after their sweet voices are hushed. "Love-birds are preserved in great numbers. Cardinals are somewhat rare. and their plumnge is so bright-colored and beautiful, that when they die they arc seldom thrown away. There fs always a ready market for them, and wc will pay good prices for them. Lov birds are brought to us in pairs. It it customary when one of these affectionate little things die to bring its dead body and the living mate to us. We kill the live bird and preserve the two together." "Could the skin of a man be stuffed?" "Certainly in the same manner that a monkey's skin is. I would undertake the job, but it would cost a great deal ol money. They say that the human skin is very much like the skill of a hog, and that if subjected to a tanning process it would be very thick and strong?the same as the hog leather which is used foi saddles and trunks." A Check on Watchmen. "There has been a great demand ol late years for a clock that wo'uld record the going and coming of night watchmen in factories, hotels and other large buildings," said a manufacturer. "You may provide a building liberally with fireescapes, but they arc of little use if tht watchman, being asleep, neglects to givt the alarm when the fire breaks out. Thus the best of all precautions is the 'electric watchman's clock and register.' Watchmen are no better than other mortals, they will grow weary and sleepy, and some of them vfould rather doze all night in an arm-chair in some snug corner than march their appointed rounds. But the clectric clock and register is an invention that serves as the most potent stimulus to the watchman to make him go his rounds. It is so arranged ns to serve for any desired number of stations, 'and controlling from one to ten watchmen if necessary. At each station the watchman inserts a key and gives one full turn. This makes its unfailing record on a blank which is locked inside the clock in the office, and whiph ifl an r\lnpnfl +l*af wn4-/>U II M.WM ?W MV |??l?VVV KIAUW ilU U U V^UlUiUlj however ingenius or sly, can tamper with it. The record wlu n taken out in the morning shows exactly what stations the watchman visited in the night and the time of his visits."?New York Mail and Express. Damp Beds. The London Lancet, referring to the death of Mr. Maas, the well-known tenor, i calls attention to the peril of sleeping in a damp bed. As a matter of fact, this peril is of the greatest, and it is almost ever-present. The experienced travelei rarely hazards the risks of sleeping between sheets, which are nearly sure to be damp, until they have been aired under his personal supervision at a fire in his bed room. If this be impracticable, he wrap9 his rug around him, or pulh out the sheets and sleens between the blankets?a disagreeable btlt often prudent expedient. The direst mischief may result from the contact of an imperfectly heated body with sheets which retain moisture. The body heat is not sufficient to raise the temperature of t'he sheets to a safe point, and the result must be disastrous in the extreme if, as is sure to happen, the skin be cooled by contact with a surface colder than itself and steadily abstracting heat all the night through. There is no excuse for the neglect of proper precaution to insure dry beds. Servants are never to be trusted in this matter, and the managers of hotels, even of the beat description, are singularly careless in respect to it.?Scientific Amir .. . . ^ ; ' I , '* ' 1' . ' i ' ' i V ' SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Statistics are said to show that over ninety per cent, of mad dogs are re! trievers, or animals so-called, and that j mongrels are much more liable to hydroI phobia than dogs of pure breed. j Tlte generation of heat by friction has j been applied in England to the produc tion of a friction still, with which survivors of shipwrecks may obtain steam and fresh water from sea-water without I the aid of tire. A paper machine shipped from South j Windham, Conn., recently, weighed i *niicty-Jive tons, and is declared to be J the largest machine of the kind ever . tnanufneturcd in the east. Nine freight cars were reouired for it? uiii>nt>/>?f I It is computed that a twelve-inch wall j of hard-burned bricks and good lime and sand mortar could be built 1000 feet 1 high before the Ixittom layers would bo i crushed. If Portland cement were added to the mortar t^ie height might reach 2700 feet. A comparative statement of the death rate in England and Wales in the two decennials periods 1871-1880 and 18011870 has just been published, and shows a decrease of 1100 deaths a year in each million inhabitants. The deaths from diphtheria and fevers supposed to be due to unhealthy surroundings were greatly reduced in number. The Paris Figaro has published an article on the "manufacture of skeletons," in which the writer says that just outside of Paris there is an establishment wherehuman bones of all sorts are collected. and after being carefully prepared are fastened together with wires, and when the work is done it is impossible even for the scientific eye to detect anything wrong in a skeleton that has been made up from the bones of several different individuals. Perhaps no more striking illustration of the wonderful reproductive powers of certain insects could be given than that contained in a new work by Mr. Theodore Wood, an English entomologist. Itis assumed, first, that 100 aphides weigh 110 more collectively than a single grain;, and secondly, that only a very stout man can weigh as much as 2,000,000 grains. A Then it is found that if multiplication were entirely unchecked, the tenth brood alone of the descendants of a single aphis would be equivalent in point of actual matter to more than 500,000,000 very stout men, or one-third of the human : population of the globe supposing each | person to weigh 280 pounds. An Under-waiter Boat. A boat has already been invented, and is actually in existence, which can sink below the surfaee of the water at will and travel many miles entirely out of sight; and many keen and fertile brain^^ are at work perfecting the horrible vention. Such a vessel, on sighting a hostile fleet or vessel, would immediately dive down and make for her foe unseen, and absolutely impervious to attack. Her enemy can not tell where she is, 01 when she may blow her to pieces. She has absolutely no means of defense. Flight is her only resource. The difficulty the undcr-watcr boat has to contend * with is that of seeing through the water. Even now there arc signs of the solution of the problem, but even if it is not overcome the boat can rise to the surface when she likes, take a fresh observation of her enemy's whereabouts, and dive down again preparatory to the final blow. A few such boats would be more terrible lo a hostile fleet than a whole row ot ironclad forts. They would be an intangible, haunting danger that would demoralise the stoutest heart.?All the Year Round. The Weaker Force Generally Worsted. From Gen. Buell's "Shiloh Reviewed'* in the Century we quote as follows r < "Nowhere in history is the profane idea that in a fair field fight, Providence is on the side of the strongest battalions, more uiu iui uny au^uiiuuu liihh in our civil war. It presents no example of the triumph of 15,000 or even 20,000 men against 25,000. r It affords some such instances where the stronger force was surprised by rapid and unexpected movements, and still others where it was dircctcd with a want of skill against chosen positions strengthened by the art of defence; but nowhere else. The weaker force is uniformly defeated or compelled to retire." Unable to Tell. "Hello, Ned! You've been getting married, have you?" "Guess I have, Tom." "Good move, I suppose? Father-io~ law well off ?" "I hope so." "Hope so! Why, don4 you know?" "Nothing definite. You see, he died about two weeks ago, and we haven't any information from him yet as to whether he's well off or not."?Y<mker*t Qazettt. - ) A ' He Was In a Hurry. "Do not intercept me, or del&y me a moment." said a crentleman to si friend j "for I am in an awful hurry/7 V "What's the matter,'r replied hi? friend. I ^ "Oh, nothing, only I have just bought my wife a new bonnet ana I Want to got home bcfoie the style c^an^es."?Ccni PreUet. Ik < I