Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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__ _ "Woman's sphero, rolling along tto jtrack of time, grows larger and larger, 'like a snow ball in winter. Soon tliore prill be no pursuit which man can call oxiclusivcly his own. Spain lias now a woman bull-fighter. Iler namo is Dolores Sane hcz, and the citics of the land of Cervantes contend with fierce rivalry tfor her presence on groat occasions. ? ?? " ' Somuambulistn and bicycling arc not Tdndred weaknesses. William Forbes, >>< M- ? of Morrisonville, Illinois, is a wheelman of more than local celebrity. He i*3 a somnambulist as well. A few nights ago he arose from his sleep, put on his hat and clothes, bestrode his bicycle and struck out at a prize-winning rate (through the streets of the slumbering jvillage. Ho was headed off by a policcimau, who was not afraid of ghosts on 'wheels. With difficulty he was awak,cned from his dream as the champion wheelman of the world. Once awakened, he speedily abandoned the turf ,and hurried home. ; The entire globe, it seems, is likely to jbe at last girdled with electricity,thanks j Ifn fViiif \vr>l I UlUipilMII^ [corporation,the Canadian Pat ific Itailroad ICorapa y. Its a-*ent,Mr. S.inford Fleming, is in England conferring with the ilmperial Government and Australian representatives in regard to cable communication between Canada, Japan, jChina and Australia. The idea is to Iny a cable from Vancouver, British Columbia, the terminus of theCauadian Pacific, .to the Aleutian or Sandwich Islands; then-e to Yeddo, Japan; thenc? to Hong iKong; and from there to Australia and Now Zealand. "The dwelling receutly purchased by President Cleveland on Georgetown Heights has been remodeled, enlarged and so improved that scarcely a vestige of the former appenrancc of the structure is now visible," writes a Washington .correspondent of the New York Ifernlj. J*'At least, the two-story stone rosidcuce j :which Mr. Cleveland bought has disap- j ,'peared, and on the site stands a3 beauti- | !ful a f-uburban villa as adorns any of tho summer resorts alone: the occan banks of New Jersey. There aio few localities in this part of the eountrjr where the stretch of landscape is as diversified as jit is at this elevation looking southward 'from tho President's private residence. , Other executives have been owners of real estate ut the capitol, but Presideut Cleveland is the first to build a couutry "home for himself in the neighborhood of , the White House." , * ???????? There are now pretenders to both the Bwedisli and Danish thrones. One of these, in East Gothland, assumes to be Princo Gustaf (elder brother of the [ reigning King), who at the beginning of i the century fell from his horse during a ' field manoeuvre at Skone, and died of j his injuries. Most of the peasants be- j liovc thit Gusta? is still alive: that. li? - vvas curried ofl: to Norway, becausc he was bent on marrying a girl of humble \ birth; that he escaped to Italy, and, j under the name of Garibaldi, liberated | i that country. Recently there arrived at { Copenhagen, from Stettin, two men, i lather and son, aged respectively sixty j and twenty-one, having a trunk full of ! i documents to prove that they are the 1 direct descendants of the house of Old- j \ enburg. They contend that if they had i 1 had these when Frederic VII. died they i could easily have established their right f to the crown. They have the original i J, name, 13ech, of the house of Gluckburg, ] and their assumptions are supported by i { the highest German authorities. They : have an inheritance of 2,500,001) marks c to help their cause. Neither of the two ! i looks like :ui :id venturer. The elder j strikingly resembles the late Czar of Kus- j t Bia, and the younger resembles Princc ? 1 j, , Waldemar. It is not in the least likely a ?*> - .1 A ' ' cnat rney will gain anything, but their j )j claims are very plausible, and they are n obviously resolved to push them to the i furthest. ^ The headwaters of two of the greatest j ? rivers upon this continent, the Missouri j find Columbia, are among the vast forests ! of Northern Montana ar.d Idaho. That j n lumbermen will lnng spare these forests j t cannot be believed. The lumberman j t has ravaged large portions of New Eng- i fc land, New York and Northern Michi- t gan, and the devastation caused by r Wholesale destruction of our forests has f been realized when it was too late for a i remedy. It is now proposed to act in I k time, and to establish a national forest r reservation in Northern Montana. The d cutting away of the3c forests would n mean the ruin of vast tracts of arablo c lands along the rivers by sudde i floods, a and subsequent injury to the* streams v as lrghways by their shoaling, f >r it is a a -familiar fact that forest* ieg :'atc the t? drainage of water into rivers, The dam- t! age which would follow mav hr> < mated roughly by recalling the yearly i{ floods along tho Ohio and Monongalurla ; c but it should be remembered that the communities all the way from Montana : to the Gulf of Maxico are directly interested in the protaction of the forests at a ,the headwaters of the Missouri. The Adirondack region has been seriously "ft 'injured by reckless timber catting, and p the Hudson has suffered despite persistent efforts to protect the North Woods. U Forest protection in Montana involves f< infinitely greater interests. The bill es- d tatlishing the reservation ought to become a law. tic "i', * J* 1 ? \ VW >; ' ' . wait for the mornino, Wait for the morning?it will come indeed As surely as tho night hath given need. The yearning eyes, at last, will strain their sight No more unanswered by the morning light; No longer will they vainly strive through tears To pierce the darkness of thy doubts and fears. But, bathed in balmy dews and rays of dawn, Will smile with rapture o'er tho darkneej gono. Wait for tho morning, O thou smitten child, Scorned. 8(*01ir<TnH nnii nnn.nn..t-?^ 1 ? ?? I/WIOUVUVUU ?uu 1 o* vilcd, Atbirst ami famishing, none pitying the?, Crowned with tho twistod thorns of agony? No faintest gloam of sunlight through tho denso Infinity of gloom to leal thee thonco? Wait thou for morning; it will come indeed As 3urely as tha night hath givon noed. ?James Whit comb Rilny. A WOMAN'S WIT. I used to laugh at tho idea that a j woman could outwit a man. I used to J say that, smart as she might bo, a man with his senses about him was smarter | still. That she ccu!d be detected in an instant, and that whatever her purpose was she showed it so plainly in her face that no one could be deceived for a moment. And that as she could go nowhere without attracting attention, and needed a male protector, whenever alio did anything out of the common, such as taking a journey or going out after dark, as she never knew how to dispatch parcels or messages quietly, and had no idea of the hours of railway trains, or I the wav to eret :i:ivwl?nr? ?->?- ? uu OIIJ LUlllg loyally, the man who suffered himself to be outwitted by her was little short of an idiot. I have altered my mind now. I have been the guardian of Miss Matilda Middlebury for twenty-four hours, and I revoke all that I have said. A woman cannot tic up a parcel,get to an unknown part of the world, cut anything with a knife, or give a direction properly; but when she makes up her mind to marry some one who is willing, old cloven hoof and all his imps could not bafllo her. Sho'll have her way. Miss Matilda Middlcbury is a young lady of twenty-two years. I, as her father's legal adviser, know her exact age. Before last Thursday I had never seen her face to face. Last Thursday I made her acquaintance. It was in this wise: There came to me, per post, a letter dated Clemencc Hill, and written, as I law at once, by some person in a violent rage. Lines all crooked. Letters any shapes. Th's is what it said to me : Clkmenck Hill. Saturday. Mr. Martin, Dear Sir: I shall make no apology for troubling you about a matter which you will porlmps considor a little out of your sphere. I should not make any apology to the king of anywhere for asking him bo pull me out of the water if 1 were drowning. This is a life and death matter to me; 1 pou mus,t help me. Besides, you are my . legal advisor, and I waut you to take the law Into your own hands. That is all. 1 I have a daughter?Matilda Middlebury. You have inudemy will in her favor. It is possible that you may havo to alter it yet; 1 but that is neither hero nor there. That j laughter is now twenty-two years old; con- , ;onnf?ntlv nf ' j, ucr u?n mistress. 8ho | I aas chosen to fall in lovo with a contempti- i ble, Rood-for-nothing rascal, whom I have forbidden her t:> speak tj again, and she is ' determined to marry him. She triod to hum- 1 bug mo, the jade, and promisod to give him up; but I havo positive information that she las resolved to marry him on Thursday 1 i!ternoon. All prejHirations aro mado, and 1 he trunks packed for a departuro to Europe, t forgot to spy that she is visiting a friend at t street, Now York. . , The rascal comes thero ovary evening, ' >lays the piano, sings sentimental songs, f nakes love. The other girl is in the plot, ! > ind is going to be bridesmaid. And hero am j r. with tho gout in my right foot, chained ; lown nt Clenionce Hill, without a friend I lare to trust in the world save you. I For Heaven's sake, find me the girl. Take ler iuto custody. Arrost her. Do what you ihooje with hor?only don't lose sight of her mtil you bring hor safo to me. I don't care vhat itco>t<; doit. I'm a rich man. Any , >:il will be considered reasonable. You have i 1 ho undying gratitude of your old friond in j :lie bargain, of course. " | Matilda dos?n't know anything nbout law, j R md is awfully aftaid of it. Ro.i e:iibor, out ! I. tf your sight ono moment and all is over. | ?hank Heaven you never married and nave | 10 daughter. a Yours truly, i j. 1j. Middlebury. No. street. Don't forget. Lady if the name of Stark, wife of Dr. Stark, is ho person she is visiting. - J. P. M. I My friends, the man who would desert I lis fellow-man under such circumstances h nust bo lower than brutes. I confided a he business to my partner, telling him 3 hat affairs of importance called me from o lomc, and with a small carpet-bag con- P fining some linen and a brush and comb, ii iiilked over to No. street without ii urthcr delay, and requested to see Miss Intilda Middlcbury. P In five minutes she come into the w oom?a short, plump, very broad-shoul- ^ ered young woman, with a turned-up m osc, big black eyes, long eve-lashes and ^ risp, curly black hair. Her color came a ud went, so that one moment her cheek ^ ras dappled with red and the next hi clear b unettc tint. She had white eeth and pre' ty hands, and I knew by he wav sli2 looked at me that she had a m pirit; but I knew also that women are norunt of law. and I thought. th?f. r t> . ? o? ?" * ou*d manngc lior. f "Miss Middl"bury?" saidl. b< <4Y'!8, sir," said she. le "Ma-tin?of Martin, Grub & Co."? m \id I, bowing. "Very much pleased to sec you, Mr. in [artin," said she. "I've often heard apa speak of you." <lMy dearest friend?o*e of them, at sast," sa^rf I. "Your feher is a man sa >r a daugh-er to be proud of, M'ss Mid- cc lebury.", cl 4'Yes,said she, "I suppose so. And hi 'hat did papa tell you to say to met" ' -* j- > v v- T'V"*" .? fs,\ ,$i v"/ '- i -<i.*x .A:, 'ffj . .y '1-. >*\?l "My dear young lady," said I, "do you know that you are aviously offending your good papa?" "To be seriously olended is pa's nor ~ w mal condition," sa:d sue, "so it don't much matter." 4 4 You are a ware that I made a will in your favor sometime ago?" said I. "And papa threatens to alter it il 1 how any desire to please myself in a?>7thing," said Miss Matilda. "I presume he sent you here to say so. lie has taid it very often himscll, very often, indeed and I tell you, as I told him, that money, though desirable, is nothing when it stands in the way of the strongest feelings of one's life. What is the use of mincing matters? You know lie ob jects I to my marriage, but I am of age; he is unreasonable. I in to'id to do a"} I pleas?. There's your answer." "Madame," said I, "my me-sago from your father is this: You are to return i In>* c, under my es< ort, at once." We.hops I shall refuse to go," saic*. she. "Madame," said I, "I am prepared for that." And then I brought in the legal hocus-pocus with which I had armed myself. "Madame," said I, "though of age, it is nccessary for you to show just cause before you can refuse te return to a pavent's roof. Nine days are necessarv for a quit-claim. Meanwhile you are legally a minor. Pending your proof before a magistrate, I havo authority to arrest you and take you homo. I do so in the name of the law. I trust you will not force me to put handcuffs upon a lady's wrists or to call in four police ofiiccra and lodge you iu jail all night; but, boing under bonds to your father, I shall be obliged to do so if you resist; otherwise, I can offer you my arm, and escort you, as any gentleman might, to the railway station." As she listened, all the pretty red color faded from Miss Matilda's cheeks.* "What a dreadful thing law is!" she said. "I had no idea such laws existed. Then I suppose I must go with you. But I'm not a baby. Show me your proofs?your papers?whatever gives you your right." I took from my pocket a lease written on parchment and tied with red tape. a i ----- ajua; warrant, maaain," 1 said. I turned over the edge of my waistcoat and exhibited the pin of the Jolly Good Fellows' Club of which I am a member. "My badge of office, madam," I said. She turned paler still; she sat down and bogan to cry. Suddenly she wiped her eyes. "May I write a note to tell somebody why I break au engagement ?" she said. "And before I go down to that stupid holo where papa wants to bury me, will you go with me to the dressmaker's ?" "Certainly," I said. To myself I re- j marked: "She will plan to escape me ' at the dressmaker's. I must watch her there." Miss Matilda wrote the note. She sent it off befote my eyes, and without leaving the room, she called a maid to bring tier her lace shawl and a hat and vail"And my pearl-colored gloves, Rose," | she added. "And, remember, pack every- ! Lhing nicely." Then, having bidden good-by to her seeping friend, who called her papa "a ** 11 tn " O ?> ' * * * turn w no rauseu to oc introduced :o me, we started off. As we left the louse I watched lier closely. There was something iu her facc I did not like, but [ felt that I was master of the situation. "Where docs your dressmaker live?" I isked. She gave me the address. It was not , i store?a fashionable set of parlors in street. There lay tho danger, and knew it. "31ias Matilda," said I, "you will for- ( ;ivo 1112 for reminding you that I cannot : save you even for a moment."' I 4'No need to remind me of that," she , nswered, in a tone that was not, to say , he least of it, very complimentary. , We walked down the street together, j nd I, as an elderly gentleman, felt that ' , nfight offer her my arm. She was capa le, I saw, of running away at any mo- , lent, but she did not run. She s;inntered , lowly, staring at the shops as she went ( n, and makincr remarks nhnnf th*? J'-vr- J le we passed. She carried a little bag 1 her hand,and twirled it, as she walked, j i a reckless sort of manner. What happened might have been exected. At the turn of the street a young lan, dressed in respectable clothing, ^ arted up and snatched the bag, and imLcdiately turned and fled. However, he ^ id not run far, fo* before I could utter ^ word a stout poilcemnn had darted Q om a shop-door, seized the -thief and 2ld him, pale with terror and shaking ke an aspen leaf, until we walked up. "Your bag, missus?" asked the policenn. t "Oh, yes," said Matilda. "I'm bo i lankful you caught him. Oh, dear, I i (It so dreadfully! Oh, how could you i 3 so wicked? But perhaps I'd better f t you off, young man, now I've got the i< oney back." t 4 'Sec if it is safe, miss," said the police- n an. t< Matilda opened the bag. ti "It's empty," said she. p "What I have you played that game?" ? id the policeman. "You'll have to >me up to the office, miss, and make a large. We'll scarch him; he must c we it about him." 2 "I'll give it up, sir," said the young \ Vfl '< ' - " >v ' U v. r -V o * <vv rJyffi* 4 *\ * <v '-v ; v: ?' v* v v*.f 'v!S man. "Here is tho money," and ho handed a ten-dollar b'.ll to tho policeman. "Oh, miss, I'm really not au old offonder. Circumstances drove me to the commission of the crime. Forgive me!" "That's all humbug," said the policeman; "come along. You follow, if you please, miss. I don't consider it the duty of good citizens to let such fellows off, for my part." "Nor I," said I. "Come on, Miss Matilda." The policeman led the way with the vouncr man. As wn wnllrud kokitwi t I - o * particularly uoticcd that ho had a very gentlemanly appearance. New York thieves often have. My heart really bled for him. He was one who should have played a better part. We arrived at the station and were led into a sort of private parlor, whero we were asked to wait awhile; the prisoner being led away by the policeman. I saw the door of the room in which the justice sat opon , I saw him at his desk. I saw the prisoner stauding before him. Then ! it closed with a banir. In another instant the policeman returned. "Miss," said he, "His Honor wishes to see you alone. Our young man declares the affair a conspiracy against him, and you will be questioned separately. No i offense, sir." "None," said I. Then I beckoned to the policeman apart and slipped two dollars into his hand. "Don't lose sight ; of the young lady until she rejoins me," j I said." "No, sir; on no account," said he. And off they went together. They were gone ten minutes, and re- ! turned as they went. Miss Matilda had j been weeping. i "The lady's evidence was all suffi-' cient," said the man. "Then they have committed him?" j said I. "Yes, he's committed," said Matilda. 1 "Oh, poor fellow. I?I'll go now, Mr. Martin." I led her away. As we went I saw the policeman grin-, ning after us. I couldn't think whv. 1 We said, very little as we walked on, and were at the dressmaker's in no time, j Now or never would she baffle me. She i might escape by the back door or the j poof; how could I tell. I refused to al- j low her to go into the next room. I ! 3tarcd at her while madam?all indig- , nation?measured her shoulders and the ! length of her skirt. When she went be- i hind a screen to be "tried on," I watched i iter little feet below it, and when I got > her out of the house I rejoiced. We caught the train by a hair's breadth. I did not doubt that she tried to miss it altogether, and all night I watched her, lc3t at some station she should even yet elude me. When, j twenty-four hours from our first meeting, j f rang the bell of her father's residence I j was a jaded being, but I was triumph- ! int. I walked into her father's chamber | with Matilda on my arm. "Sir," I said, "I have done my duty. Here is Miss Matilda Middlebury." Shall I ever forget that moment? A? [ spoke Matilda turned about with o laugh. "You've made a mistake," said she. "A married woman bears her husband's name. Mrs. Jackson, if you please. Pupa, liore is my certificate, and this is ray ring." She drew off her glove as she spoke, < md a heavy wedding-ring, which she uai not worn when we started, glittered i jn her finger. "You were afraid of the dressmaker's j 1 iiouse," she said. "There was no danger I -.here. I was married at the police j station. You drove me to that vulgar i et, papa. The theft \va< a sham. Dharlcs was the thief. The arrest was I i sham. The policeman was bribed. ! i lie merely ushered Charles into the pres- j ;nce of the Justice of the Peace, escorted j , ne afterward into the sAme room, and j ;vas witness to the ceremony. "The law is very hard upon us poor j roung women," she added, with a mean- J ng glance at me; "and the parchment i vas very imposing. But those whom , < Jod has joined no man can put asunder. ! 1 Ynd papa must forgive me before ray j i lusband comes to-morrow." ; < I suppose Mr. Middlebury did forgivo { < lis daughter, for I never altered his will: i 1 >ut I went back to the city that day in. uch a boiling rnge that if it had been < n my power to have disinheritod her, ! 1 Hatilda would now bo penniless. ( ? I got over my anger long ago, and I tavo learned a leason by it. It is this: i I willful woman will have her way, and ] 10 man can stop hex. ?New York Newt. 1 An Appetite for Hot Water. It is said that people who have been in ( he habit of drinking hot water isamed* 1 cine for some time, form an appetite for { t that is difficult to break. They waut ] t hotter and hotter and more and mora requently. Is it possible that mankind ^ s threatened with another mania, and hat the time is coming when hospitals ^ lust be provided for the euro of victims ^ d the hot water habit? Perhaps 60cieies will be formed to induce men to ledge themselves to abstain from tho ^ jtemperate use of hot water.?Siftingt, The population of Rhode Island, acording to the census of 1885, was 304,84, of whom 140,398 were males and 57*891 females. 1 S y*v- vyv<-v r'.?\ * ,. " vr : r?' >: '? \ ; v^- ' ; TAKING SNUFF. i A CUSTOM ONCE GENERAL NOW DYING OUT. Distinguished People Who Were Addictcd to Siiuft'-Takiiijr?A Senatorial Snufl-Box?A Dandy's Stock of Snufl's. I ? "Snuff-taking is not much indulged in nowadays." said a tobacconist to the Herald scribe, "though we kenp snuff on hand and have a fair custom for it. Our co'.orcd sisters buy it quite generally for rubbing, and there are a good many ! white women in Chicago who are votaj lies of that habit. The principal snuffj takers are old or elderly people, who . stick to the habits and fash'ons of their J youth. Some of our young swells carry | asnuil-box and take a pinch by way of j humorous bravado, but snu'.T taking as a fashion lias long since passed away." Time was when it was a universal cusI torn. Washington indulged his fine lioman nose with the titillating pleasure. Hamilton, who carricd his nose in the air, as the French say, took snuff, and his rival, Burr, could give a pinch or take a pinch with a grace which was I peculiarly his own. Jefferson snuffed enormously, as his waistcoat and shirt front showed. I)r. Johnson and Fredcr* iclv the Great were alike in one thing: the}' could not bear a snullb >.\, but carried the article loose in the capacious pockets of their waistcoats, thence carrying it in great palmfuls to their noses. Henry Clay was noted for the grace with which he could take a pinch of j snutT. Once, in the midst of an argil- 1 ment berorc the Supreme Court of the i United States, he noticed one of the i Judges producing his snuff-box. Step- ' ping up to the bench he took a pinch ; from the open box, and, after enjoying it ! a moment, said: "I perceive your Honor sticks to the Scotch;" then resumed his ; argument. Choate once said, as reported ; ill Parker's reminiscences, that he had j seen Clay in the middle of a speech in ! the Senate completely flabbergasted for j want of a pinch of snuff. He further ' added that it,was the only stimulus he ever knew him to use. It is more of a fancy than a fashion now in the United States Senate, but a number of our grave and reverend seigniors occasionally take ; a pinch, and it is well known there i9 a ; Vice-Presidential snuff-box, free for all. J Napoleon was a prodigious snuff-taker, j so was Wellington. In fact, the habit I has been confined to no country or class, j High and low have partaken habitually of j the fragrant pinch. Pope and Swift, Addison, Bolingbrolce and Congrovc were! all among its devotees, and so wt-re their i footmen and kitchen maids. In Ireland 1 it was calledsmutchin. and ?o fjvrrlid Pat carry his love of it tliat it was the custom, when .1 wake was on. to put a plate full of snuff upon the body of the dead j man or woman, from which < ach guest! I was expected to take a pinch upon being introduced to the corpse. An old Scotch lady, of snuff-loving habits, provided in licr will that instead of flowers her bocly should be covered with the best Scotch snuff. Six men, the greatest snuff-takers in the parish, were to carry her to the "rave. She selected a half I dozen old maids to walk in procession, and they were to be supplied with boxes of snuff wherewith to refresh themselves on the road. The threshold of the house where she died was to be strewn with two bushels of snuff, and with every i legacy she bequeathed also one pound of ! the grand cordial of nature. licau Brummell and the Prince Regent i prided themselves on their snuff-boxes, > and upon the graceful manner with which i they could open the box with the left j band only. One of the dandies of the | time boosted of a stock of snuffs worth j fir,,000, while his collection of boxes was I something wonderful?a different box ! for every day in the year. The ingenu- j ity of maker and artist was taxed in de- | vising new forms and designs for snuff boxes, and at one time there was a craze for collecting them, just as in our times dilettanti collect old china, vases, and orchids. At fashionable dinner parties Fiftcr the removal of the cloth there was often a good deal of snuff gossip, and snuff-boxes were handed arouDd, and pinches were interchanged. At the coronation of George IV. tho coronation gifts were snuff-boxes, and were given away to the value of ?^,000, , >r $40,000. From the time of Queen i Anne down tn timna /-inifn ivnun* klin .?-J [ masculine nose had no monopoly of the ' piquant powder. No one could be a fine lady without a snuff-box. She that with puro tobacco will not prime Her noso can be no lady of tho time, l wrote one of tho wits. Snuff was a sov- i :reign remedy for fashionable feminine I lilments: Doe pinch of snuff relieved tho vaporod head. ttomoved the spleen, removed tho qualmisl' . . fit> ?.na gave a DrisKer tone to female wit. Jarrick presented his wife with a gold muff-box. Queen Charlotte snutfed. Charles Lamb did not object to his sister ollowing the mode, because he thought t decent to see an old maid taking muff. So late as 1830 snuff was somehing which almost every well-bred man >resented to every woman. But its ca- 1 eer in the world of fashion soon after eased. ? Chicago Herald. J A wise man changes his mind, but | fool never. . ; .V' "/ ' V. ' ACTS FOR THE CURIOUo. '' One-half of tho children born into the world die before they reach the age of five years. Few people p:obably realize the great size of California. The Stuto is 770 miles long and 330 wide in its broadest nnrfc. 1 ? Queen Victoria lias presented the Third Battalion of the Royal Welsh Fusi leers I with a fine white goat from the famous | herd in "Windsor Great Pa^-k. This rcgi| ment is always preceded in its inarches by : a goat. 'J he Romans sifted their flour through : two kinds of .sieves, called respectively i excussoria and pollcnaria, the latter of I which gave the finest Hour, termed pol| len. Sieves of horsehair were first mado j by the Gauls, those of linen by the; Kpnn| iard3, and of papyrus and rushes by tho Egyptians. A San Francisco citizen has a chicken ; that is buck d like a camel, has two tails J and three well-developed legs. When i the fowl is in cpose it rests on all threo i legs after the manner of a milking stool. I When it walks it uses but two, the third, I it is said, "sticking- out behind like a ! ship's spankcrivooin." I The statement is made that all the varied machinery of Great Britain, now ! operated by steam power, is capablc of ! r : i fiuriuriiiiujj more worK, ana Hence pro- * j ducing more products, than could bo produced by the labor of 400,001), 0<!0 | able-bodied men, a greater number than | all the ablc-b::dicd men on earth. | At the age of over ninety years,on July ! 4, 1828, Charles Carroll, one of thesi^jn! ers of the Declaration of Independence, laid the corner-stone of the BalU?iiore <Sb Ohio Railroad. The story that lie appended "of C'arrollton"' to his namo defiantly, to enable the British crown to identify him, is a fiction. lie was accustomed to sign it to avoid confusion, as there was snother Charles Carroll. In the deep stillness if one listens to a faintly heard sound, like that of the ticking of a watch, it will be noticed that at irregular iutcrvals the tones aro wholly inaudible, while at other times they are di?tmctly recognized. Sig. Raggi, an Italian scientist, has ascertained by experiments on different porsons that the intervals of silence usually vary between seven and twenty-two see- , onds; f>hile the periods of sounu-perccption are between seven and clc'"-a seconds in duration, with a maximum of fifteen. lie *lso found that the variation wes not due to extraneous sound nor to the blood circulation or respiration, and concludes that it results from the inability to keip the attention for long periods at a .sufficient degree of tension for the perccptiod of faint sounds or possibly^ to a variao'.e physiological receptivitv tho auditory nerves. Why Good Swimmers Drown. A professor of swimming, in conversation with a New York Mail and Express reporter about the fact that so many good swimmers get drowned when an accident occurs on board of a vessel, said: ''The reason is that a good swimmer is as liable to take a cramp as a bad swimmer or one who cannot swim at all. There is where the great danger lies. A good swimmer thinks he is not far from shore, in fact sees the land only a few hundred yards distant, and gives himself no trouble to 3eizc a floating spar of some kind when he jumps from the sinking or burning boat. He forgets that the water is cold, that it is November or December, and that what he could do in (lie summer fnontlis he cannot do in the fall and winter seasons. In a few minutes after he reaches the water and boldly begins to swim for the shore, he takes a crnmp from the cold water and in a little while sinks. It doesn't take long in cold water to give one a cramp. But in the hurry and excitement of jumping from a boat that fact is not considered. Many ail sxpert swimmer has lost lmlifc by taking i cramp. My adviec to goad swimmers is not to rely upon their strength to carry them even a hundred yards to shore, if they can get a plank or something to assist them in floating. They frequently iwim too fast, overtaxing their wind in Hin hpfrinninn Thnw olinnlrl etirim olomt<> ? *"VJ UMVUIU onimoiunij ?t first, keep their mouths closed, breathe through their noses and get off their shoes and coats, if possible. In reading / the record of disasters to pleasure boats, in nearly every instance the laud is not fnr. Yet just as many good swimmers drown as those who cannot swim well. When the laud is only a few yards distant then of course it is not so much due to cramps in the water as to excitement and hurry in leaving tho vessel. Many are killed by being jumped upon after they reach the water. Others arc pulled under by those already struggling in tho water. My advice to good swimmers in the matter of leaving the vessel is not to jump with a crowd, especially the first who leave. Remain until tho majority nave got into tno water ana quietly leap into a clear place and strike out." m t Mrs. Cleveland is beginning to experience some of the annoyances of her position. She recently started a "children's country week" movement at Washington, and her charitable disposition, thus mado known, has caused her to be flooded with begging letters. Even male officeseekera beg her for iQflugpce with her husband.