Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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At the present moment, so says an English paper, fortune telling is one of the most flourishing systems of imposture in that country, and there is scarcely a town or village without its resident or visiting cheat of this description. Patagonia has been obliterated from the map of South Ainerier. To Chili has been assigned all the western slope of the Cordilleras to the southern extremity of the Continent. The remainder becomes the nronertv of tho Argentine Confederation. Terra del Fucro is parted equally, while Chili takos all the othj* islands. James Tucker (colored) of Sanjiystone, Sussex County, has the distinction . of being the most extensive producer of eggs in New Jersey. His poultry yards contain 609 hens of the white Leghorn breed, and from the e he obtains thirty dozen eggs a day. Mr. Tucker has been so successful in poultry raising that his methods are being widely adopted, and he is quoted as authority on questions relating to the business. According to a Cleveland (Ohio) letter, James A. Garfield has been studying law with Judge Boynton in Cleveland, and is looked upon by friends of his father as the son most like him in every way. He has his father's size, complexion, eyes and manner. Both sons are now inen, and have, it is said, great ambition. Miss Mollie. the onlv daucrhter. is now a young woman, tailor than her mother, and has about finished her studies. A tea ship that recently arrived at Portland, Oregon, had on board a very peculiar bird, called the Japanese tumbler. It has a habit of jumping from its perch, turning a somersault, and coming down on the perch all standing, and this trick it will perform dozens ol times in succession, till beholders deem the bird demented. It is considerably larger than a canary, and of rather pret ty plumage, but not much in the musical line. There is real English thrift indicated in a recent tata from Cheltenham, wliicl: is a very enlightened town, especially noted for its many excellent schools. And yet the who'.e town is worked uj over the alleged appearance of an ole lady's ghost who wants to show some body where she buried ?500 beforo i he diarl Tlio miininmnl on fi,o i~. ? AMW a>AUUAV/A|/(4i ItUWUV/t IWlV/Oj UUUCI the advice of the ghost, have offered ?GC to any one who will find the treasure: and regular "ghost trains'* are run ic from tho suburbs for the convenience ol those wh,o want to see the old lady.1# shadd ' A. Spanish shepherd killed by lightning recently was made tho subject of t scientific post mortem to discover how the electric bolt had done its fatal work. His eyebrows and eyelashes were burned off, his eyeballs were dried up, all his left side was scorched and burned in spots down to the nnkle, while tho right side of the body and right leg wero uninjured. Serioas as these injuries were, none of them appeared suOicient to have caused his instant death. But at soon as the breast was opened the cau^e <>i death wa3 apparent. The lungs were fr'ghtfully congested aud the lieai t wae enormously d.luted and filled witb coagulated blood. With all this damage to the man his clothing was very little injured, the only traces of tho lightning upon it being a small hole bored through the rim of the hat and a slight singeing of the shirt collar. ?A representation of Marshal Bazninea* - a stage villain has nearly caused a not in Paris. What long memories those Parisians hive I If Marshal Bazaine had been an American, says the New York Graphic, he might have created and lost a dozen governments and been forgotten in five year*. Tne Mexican "expedition," on which the play is founded, haa more of ro.naucj iu it than anything els? in the continental or international politics of the la*t thirty years It has material for an excellent play. It has not been half written up for book-!. There was never a more interesting character than Maximilian, the only import/d Emperor that Mexico has had; and the heroism attending his execution has not been half celebrated. His wife, Carlotta, still lives in one or the sequestered establishments of the Hapsburgs, hopelessly insane. The Princess Salm-Salm, originally a circus-rider, was one of the most brillhrat members of the Court at (Jueretaro. Tin misfortunes of the last Napoleon as a ruler began - in Mexico, to ba ended at ' Sedan. Marshal Bazaine led the French forces that wero to establish a French foothold in Mexico. His Emperor wm exiled, i Maximilian was shot. The Prinfee Imperial died with a spear in his sile in the country of the Zulua. Of that imperial establishment' only Eugenie remains, heart sore and old. The only victory of Marshal Bazaine in Mexico was winning a young Mexican woman, who accompanied him to France as his bride. In the war with Germany that followed the losa of Mexico, the death of Maximilian and the end of our Civil War, the Marshal ( 'i f, . was hopelessly disgraced for military in' capacity and sentenced to confinement for a term of years. The Mexican lady -helped him to escape, and sinco then he has passed out of the memory and interest of this basv world. rn V. ' t fiif. Lri'" *?. % 14 i V \ yS*. '-Jt-\ * DOWNHEARTED. AS rf?/) 3 PoVifiTwl ftiAVA^a cnl/lnm ann_. A lane without a turning! Each desert has a spot of green. In spite of bright Sol's burning. Your friends have failed you? Well, whai then? Remember changing Poter; Borrow has tried the best of men, AnJ life is all the sweeter. What adds a zest to summer's joy? Is it not a winter weary? Peace would to tame without alloy. Past grief makes solace cheery. All cannot win though all must run Wben oncj life's race is started: Yet all may hear the words: "Well dons," So never be downhearted. CLEM'S CURE. BY PAUL DKAYTOJi What's the matter? What's the matter, my boy? Sit down. Sit down and quiet yourself and then tell me what's the mutter <" That's the way I talked to Clem?short for Clemence?Alburtis as I took him I by the arm one day when he rushed i MIIU-VJ vu uuu iiiica Ojjtti-iiuu liitu my o.'iice, and seated him on the lounge. "Doc," bo said in a helpless tone? my profession is that of a physician? "I'm crazy. I can't collect my thoughts, and ti.e pain in my head drives me mad." "I know it." I said. "I've told you it would be so many times. You have a buzzing in the ears, black'spccks floating before the eyes, and " "Yes! Yes! that's it. Nervous twitohes of the muscles of the face and numbness of the limbs, and *' "Depression of mind and melancholia," I went on. "A disposition to suicide," ho almost thouted. "I feel it almost necessary to commit suicide. Doc, what'11 I do? How 11 I stop it? Kb' liow'U I keep from blowing out my brain9't" "Nonsense 1'' I said, angrily. "Don't talk to me about brains, if you go on the way you're going now, you won't have auy brains to blow out in a few days. You'll bo in the lunatic asylum, as brainless as a born idiot." "1 know it! I know it!" and Clem wrung his bands wildly, and endeavored to spring from the lounge, but I forced bim back into his scat. "And so I am deiermined to put an <nd to my life at once. Cod bless you! Good by: I can't enduro this agony any longer!'- And once more he made an effort to rise. "Sit still;*' I thundered out, now almost angry myself, "or I'll send for a policeman and have you committed to the.Charities an l Correction*, to be examined as a lunatic. Now, do you really want to be cured of this attack of teezeeweezccj you've got?" "Yes," he said, a little more calmly, finding he had a Superi -r power to coiltend with. "Very well, thon, givj up all book Work. Lay aside pens, ink and paper, I go into the country, fish, walk into the woods, feed the chickens, do anything, but don't read anything but" trash for two montbsj^nd. abo.c all, don't think of anything scientific until next winter without my permission " "But what's to become of my paper on 'The Origin of the Megatherium I'm to read it before the Fe Fi Fo Fuin Society on the 15th of next month, you know, and it hn't half d >ne yet." "Confound your Megatheriums!" I exclaimed, angr.ly. "Ifvou want to barter your lifo, or what you have left of your senses, for a Megatherium, why take your Megatheriums and do it, but don't come bothering me ab:>ut your symptoms. I tell you that you must have a complete mental and physical diversion, or you'll be a lunatic or a dead man in a nrnth." ' And drop my book on 'The Puerility of Prehistoric Power?'" said Clem, mournfully. "Drop every book, written nnd unwritten, and write not a line but au occassional letter until I tell you that you may." The poor fellow b rriecl his face in his hands, nnd sat the picture of despair, but I knew 1 was right. Clem had gruduated from college with high honors, aud gone to the bar with high hopes, when suddenly his mind had, som.hcw, become diverted to science, in which, unfortunate^', he could alTord to indulge, from the fact that he possessed u sma'l but comfortable income, left him by his grandmother, so that law could be made oniv un ornamental part ot li s life. More than this, be was a remarkably handsome felow, and, outside of his scientific studies, possessed more than ordinary common sense. The fact wa-s ho had overdone the matter, and he was suffering accordingly, from insomnia and over brain-work. Entire and complete cessation from study wa? his only hope. Just as I had told him this there came a gentle tap at my door, and to my summons of it ''Come," it opened, ?nd two ladies entered?one, Miss Alartlm JV'cLriims, an old maid of sixtyfive, my patient, with nothing at all the matter with Ler but tho want of oxerciae and employment, and who would not wait for mo to call on her, but hunted me down with her moans and troubles daily. Iler companion was her niece Lillian, and "airy, lairy Lill;an"shc wr.s. A inoro beautilul little creature 1 never saw. and never exppct to soe aga:n, and as go d at she was pretty. Their coming ju*t then embarrassed mj exceedingly. I co.uld not dismisi Mi?s Mig.ims, and I mint bear with hei usual ha f hour of groans and grunts,fo; wiiidi 1 wnsso well remunerated, and at the sume time I did not dure to let Clem go, for I knew he wis in a dangcrouc condition of mind, and might carry out h!s threat. Introducing him and bringing him into our conference was out ol the question, and there wus but one waj for it, which was to stuff him into my little back room, from whence there wai no escape but by a skylight or the dooi i which led into the office. i' This I turned on him to do when IsaM that he had risen from the lounge, and was standing as one entranced, gazing on Miss Lillian Br wn with a most un mistakab'e look of admiration, which 1 , fancied was returned shyly by the youn( lady. "Clem, you'll oblige me if you*ll atej into the next room for a few minutes,*'. aid, "I'll soon be disongaped." C ertainly! ccrtainty! " he said, iroy ing slowly across the office, bowing to the two ladies as he went, but not shotting the door after him on his disappearance, so that he could hear all that might be said. This was not much that could entertain or instruct him, consistfc ing only of tho old woman's usual recounting of the malac es which she could not have possibly hud if she had been poor and obliged to walk instead of ride, and the occasional musical tones of lillian, answering my questions, or encouraging her aunt. Over a quarter of an hour was passed in this way, which would have been longer had not Lillian, knowing that I had Clem in another room waiting for me, hurried Misa .Megrims awny. ' Who is that, Doc?" said Clem, eagerly, as he rushed back into tho room as eoen as the office door had closed on the ladies. "Tbfctfe-tbe rich Miss Megrims,'' I said. "She's got more money than she's pot time to spend it in, and so pluy.s sick." t40h, pshaw! " he said petulantly, "I don't inean the old one. , "Ah! that's her niece and supposable heiress, Miss Lillian Brown!" I replied, ; carelessly. "She's rather pretty! " l "Rather pro:tyI"he almost shouted. "By the gzuat ichthyos mrus, sir, she's , lovely: simply lovely. I never saw anything more bc.iutiiul in my entire existence." "Gone!" I thought to myself. "His brain has given way," and I took poor Clem by the hand and felt his pulse. "Oh, I'm all right, Doc," he said, laughing, and then resuming his seat upon the loungo and becoming quite calm. "But really she is very handsome, and I don't know that I've e^er seen any one that has made such an impression on me. Can't you introduce me, doctor!" "Oh, you're too much mixed up with Yegatheriums and Prehistoric Power to even talk sensibly to n lady, and Miss Browu is a very sensible and practical J girl." "Oh! bother the megatheriums and prehislorics. Pm not thinking of them just now. I want an introduction to Miss Brown," said Clem, earnestly. "PU give it to you to-morrow." I answered, 4"if you'll promise to do just what I tell you until then." "Certainly, I will," he exclaimed eagerly. "Very well. I am to call on Miss Megrims to-morrow at r. m. Promise me that you won't opeu a b >ok, touch a pen. or think of megatheriums or prehistorics i until men, -ana cnut you will go to the j j theatre withmc to-night, and I will ta'<e ; ! you with rae to-morrow." "Done!" he said, enthusiastically. 1 "Then we'll go anil take a walk in the j Park,'' and [ sh iok h inds with Clem on . the ba-giin, an'i we marched away for a j smoke and a talk all about l.iliiau Brown. That night I took Cl?m to aee au exj ceedingly funny burlesque, and wasgrat, itied at his appreciation of it in hearty i bursts of laughter,and tho following day . ho madb his appearance at the otiice 1 fault!? sly dressed, something I had not | known hm to bo sjrge he embraced | ' science, and looking so much handsomer | 1 aud better than the day befo.e that it j j hardly seemed he w s the same man. Of j I course I carried out my promise, and of , course Miss Megrims looked surprised at i my bringing Ciena, but I did not care for that, for at the same time I saw Miss Lillian was gratifie.l. For the first time within my memory i Miss Megrims seemed to for ct her ail| meuts, and devoted herself to Clem.who j ; had corralledLillianon the opposite side of the room and appealed to be making tho , best use possible of his time, which, 1 had warned him, could not be more than fif' teen minute*. She eyed him with a look j that amounted almost to a glare, and poured in bnalside after brmdside of questions about him that would have taken tl e skill of n diplo' mat to answer, though of course I did it as favorably as I could for Clem, but I came out of the encounter strongly impressed w'th the idea that Miss Me' grims did not want her niece to marry at | all, or have gentlemen friends, ami that she consider d her too youno:?sin was j twenty? to think of such a thing at all. I : When Clem got into the street he was in j raptures. Lillian was an angel; her : beauty was almost beyond the earth, I i and her voice mu^ic itself. He was in I 1 love, and Lillian had a?ke(l him to call ; j again?which, bv the way, I had noticed : was more than Miss Megrims did. Well, time sped on, and I saw plainly , ; that Clem had dropped everything but I 1 Lillian. I saw him every day, and heard j 1 all about it. He had called again and ! , had been rob iffed by Miss Megrim=>. He ! had called sever.il times more, but Mis? ; Megrims never left the room. Clem did ! not intend to be rebuffed, but Miss Megrims finally denie 1 him the hou?e or an i opportunity of seeing Lillian. Then I stepped in aid carried a formal proposal i : to Mi s Megrims, which I backed up i ' with mv best efforts, but received n for- 1 J . - j mal refusal. Miss Megrims did not ini ' tead that her niece should marry for J some years to come. My reply to this selfishness was my be- > coming letter bearer between the lovers, i ' and a few days aftei ward they mi't in j i j Central Park, although it must have j , bi;en a hard job for Lillian t*> have jfot, ten the chance. From the meeting ! Clem rushed into the office, exclaiming: ' It's all right-. Doc. We're engaged, j ; j Lillie's going to try and soften the old- j j hippogriff, and, if sho can't, we'll get , married nnvhow nnd cfo abroad." i 01cm hnd carried the w;?r into Afrioi, j ! and meant to stay there all the time, he i paid. Ho hnd forgotten all about mega- j tfc-riums and preh'storic*. and had no ! more symptoms and tendencies to ! \ suicide. In fa t he was completely j cured, and, stranger still. Miss Megrims j had become a? robust as a prize-fighter, , ; and not a word ever came out of her i month about pains or aches, though she i ? would not give up daily calls, but ali wnys filled them up with denunciations of Clem and declarations that if T illiai f j married him, she should never touch a r rp.iife of h?r tnnnnv r i "Doctor," she said one day, "I never j i knew a runaway marriage to turn out well in my life," "Oh! that's a mistake, Miss Megrims," r I said. "Ihorve known many, Mr. Al" I , bcrtis's own parents wtere a runaway r match. She was a great belle, a Miss I Elite Clark, and?" [ ' "Whati" screamed Miss Megr'ms." j jumping to her feet. ''His mother ray Kllico. ray darling Ellicel It can't bo! > Why didn't you say so before, doctor? t [ Tho dearest girl friend I ever had in my j life, and Ire treated her soi so bad!v. 1 It's shameful it you, doctor. Go and ; , ft A* t . pv&j /1: v',v,. rv o ~JL] 'S ' \ ,r .fcjjrrt- 3'' fyi-"'*)'' - !<Vi"& "bring the dear fellow hero directly.* I did, and when he came she scripturally fell upon his neck and wept, and men tbey leu to talking about Ulcm'a mother until Clem cried in concert. Well, they did not have a runaway, but did up the affair in style, and all went to Europe together, and the last letter I have from Clem declares the hippogriff to be one of the most charming, old maids the world ever produced. ?New York Star. Japanese Marriages. A marriage in Japan is preceded by the ccrcmony of betrothal, at which ail j the members of the two families are ; present. It often happens that the parties concerned then for the first time are informed of the intentions of their parents with regard to them. From this time the couple ore allow* d to see each other on every opportunity. Visits,.invitations, presents, preparations for furnishing their future homo, and the betrothed are soon satisfied with their approaching future. The wedding generally takes place when the bridegroom is over twenty years old, and the bride in her seventeenth year or over. The morning of the appointed day the groom dresses, and the toilet articles of the bride are carried to the bridegroom's house and arranged in the room appointed for the ccrcmony. Among many decorations the small table supports figures representing long life, such as the stork and turtle, supposed to live longer than any other creatures. In the evening a splendid procession enters the hall, headed by the young wife, clothed and veiled in white silk, escorted by two bridemaids and followed by a crowd of relatives and neighbors; also friends in full costume, all glittering with brocaded scarlet and embroidery. The two bridesmaids and two or three young? girls who arc friends of the bride volunteer for the service, perform the honors of the house, arrange the guests, and flutter from one place to another to see that all arc mado comfortable. Among the objects displayed in the middle of the circle of guests there is a deep saucer of soft ware made for the ocoasion. It has a metal vase which is furnished with two spouts and elegantly adorned with artificial flowers. At a given signal one of the bridesmaids tills j the vase with "shake," a queer liquid , poured into the saucer. The bride . drinks one-hilf of the liquid and the bridegroom drinks the other half. After ' this everybody is invited to the dining- I room, where the "bsst man" sings the happy pong and serve* out the great dinner to all. With the exception of certain Buddhist sects and Christians, a priest or clergyman never takes part in the celebration. The person known as the "best man" acts as priest and performs the marriage ceremony. The next (Vay after the marriage follows a festival given by the police otlicerwho has given permission for the nuptials. He then places the newly-married couple on hia list. * ( Madstouo. An American reporter was shown a I "rear* madstone, which came to this city | yesterday, and which, it is claimed, has i been instrumental in saving hundreds of people from the tortures and terrible consequonces of hydrophobia. The stone was originally brought from England to North Carolina, and from there about six years ajo to Teecas, where it was owned by Mr. Bunipas, of Farmersville, where people for miles around, when bitten by dogs or j-nakes, went to have the wonderful little rock applied, and it proved as efficacious in the latter < a e of bite* as well as the former. Incisions the size of the stone are made where the wound is, and the magic healer after it has been soaked well in wirm w.iter bound to the place. In case there is no poison it docs not stick, but if there is, it holds on like a leech till every bit is out, and by then soaking it in warm milk the poison, of a greonish color, which has b.en absorbed, AAmri* Aiif i ?i mill* i WiltVH UUI) III II III Km The stoite is of a black or greenish bla k color, about an inch and a half long and three-quarters of an inch wide pnd very light. It was sent to Mr. Rodney Wetherby by his brother-ia-law, Mr. Bum pas, for the use of Dr. Hallowell in the hospital. Mr. Wetherby says in every case in which'it lias been applied complete cures have followed. He has Seen , it work several t me< himself, and men- | tioned one instance whore three men had 1 been attacked an 1 bitt. n by a very rabid dog; two had the ma Istonj applied and never were given any troub e, but the oth r. who u-cl the ordinary method, had the hydrophobia aud died.?JVa?Atitle (, J'enn.) American. The Emhlcnmtfc HorstvShoe. And now it is authoritatively stated that the horse shoo is not the emblem of good luck it has s* lon^ been supposed. On the contrary, it brings the reverse of luck to people who treasure it. The __ ! 1 1 1? l_ i* _ J superstitious wiii pieusu isko nonce, ana cease to pick up this offending piece of iron wherover und whenever they chant e to sea it, as has long been their custom. One of the greatest scamps on record, a person who would have so'ld his mother's false teeth if the "flt took him," once said nothing on earth or in heaven would prevent him stopping to pick up a horseshoe, for, if he knew his fortuno was at stake should he mist a certain train, he would rather lose both than pass thi* emblem by 1 It is melancholy to acknowledge he was nlwayt a lucky fellow till he aiod, and tfien, who can tell whether he was or not? At all events ho left a large collection of horss-slioca of all sizes ana conditions to moHrn his loss, and henceforth exercise their thaumaturgical power in some neighboring junk-snop. ?lioHton Herald. 91d*Fa*hloited Beds. Two hundred years and more ago the beds in England were bags tilled with straw or leaves, but not upholstered or s piared with modern noatness. The bag could be opeued and the litter remade do-llv. There were few bedrooms in the houses of ancient England. The master and mistress of the Anglo-Saxon house had a chamber or shed built against the wall that inclosed the mansion and it* dependencies; their daughter* had the rame. Young men and guests slept ia the great hall, which was the only noticeable room in the house, on tables or benches. Woo'en coverlids were provided for warmth; polea or hooks on which they could hang their clothes projected from the wail; perches were provided for their hawks. Attendants and servants slept upon the fio ?r. HIRING PASTURE FOR BEES FARM WHERE HONEY IS MADE BY" THE WHOLESALE. 4l Shrewd Yankee Agent's Peviee for Getting: the American Article on the Queen's Table. "Did you ever hear of such a thing as a man hiring pasture for beestf" asked a gentleman l'roin Cherry Valley, N. Y.. Avho was waiting at Oobleskill for a train. The New York Times reporter, of whom the nutation w?? naWf-rl >?iwl certainly never heard of anything of the kind, and s<> informed his questioner. "I whs quite sure you hadn't, and that's the reason I asked you," suid the gentleman. "I always like to put the question to every stranger in this neighborhood I happen to meet, for I enjoy the way it puzzles them, and then it alw.iys does me good to tell them about the man who hires pasture for bees. You know, of course, that all through this region hops is the mainstay of the people. Almost everybody is engaged in hop ra:sing, and I can tell you that I've seen seasons when they wished they weren't. But you don't know, 1 lake it, that at Ulierry Valley?historic Cherry Valley, the garden spot of Sjho.-.arie?we have probably one of the most extensive bee farms in this or any other country. California is, of eourse, the greatest bee-ranching or liouey making region in the world, owing to the excellence of its climate and the endless variety of its honey-yielding flowers. There are no long winter in California, with dearth of flowers, through which the bees must be fei by artificial means, and in tho month of almost every canyon there is a bee ranch or aniarv. Whv. & W ? sir, the beekeeper of the Pacific coast don't known how well he i3 olF. He is beset by none of the dilliculties of his Eastern brethien. He grows indolent and rich from the labor of his ever-industrious brown-winged servants. You see men, women, and children out there who own extensive bee rauchcs, so easily are they started and kept up. There is a constant buzzing of wings in the canyons, caused by the endless comings and go ngs of the bejs, and the burden of noney they carry collectively is so great that the air is perpetually filled with the fragrance of the fields. "But hold on, l\n coming to it; in spite of all that, the quality of California honey doe; not excel, even if it equals, the honey made right up lure in Cherry Valley. That's an admitted fact, and Capt. Hetheringtou?oh, yes; the man who hires pastu.e for his bees: he's the man?Capt. Iletherington, of Cherry Valley, whose apiaries turn out over 100,OuO pounds of honey every year, and the hum of whese 2,600 swarms of bees? equal to 10,000,000 busy little servants? is heard all along Cherry \ alley Creek, from the t me the first blossom opens in the spring until the last one tumbles to the frost in the fa 1. Two steam sawmills a.e kept l.usy five weeks in every year manufaetu.ing the lumber for the boxes in which the honey made by his bees is stored. Almost 150,000 panes of glass, six inches square, are used in these boxes. Captain Hetheriugton hasn't enough clover, buckwheat, basswood tree , &c., of his own to supply his bees, and so lie pays a rent to every farmer in tl?c viciuity for the privilege of his bees working on their premises. He won't have his bees running loose on his neighbors any more than he would have his cows, and so he hires pasture for them, and they go on and pile up so much honey for him that some years he gets no less than $25,000 for it. "And then there's the way our same Xp\v Yrtrlf SvtrtfA lmnnw "TAfl* o/l ? + ? wam ? w. ? s/ww ?v Tf I'l l\vu 1 bO *? UJ on to Queen Victoria's table. Did you ever hear how that was done? No? That was a stroke of Yankee genius that never was beaten. You know, of course, because everybody knows t'iatf that there was positively no market in England for American honey up to lb?r. Oh, yesl They wouldn't have American honey at all, the d~?ilers wouldn't, and the traie papers kept crying it down. The home article was so much inferior to ours that those interested in tho former knew the introduction of ours on the market would kill the demand for their*. A big wholesale grocer; house in New York City was very anxious to get New York State honey on sale in I.ondon,and thev sent an atrent over there to moo wh it he could do. His name wa* Hogc, but after he bad worked London on the honey question for a month or so he made up his mind his name was Dennis, and lie was on the point of coming home in disgust, when one day the landlord of the hotel where ho was stopping said to him: 4- 'What you want to do, Iloge,' said he, 'ii to get some af your honey on the Queen's table. After you've done that you're made. Kvervbody'll buy American honey then.' 44 'That's so!' said Iloge, opening his eyes. 4How'U I do that?' 4 4Punno,'replied the landlord, and walked away. "But Iloge was smart, and by the way the landlord walked o5f he knew that the landlord did know how lie could get American honey on the Queen's table if it was only made worth his while. You've got to make it worth everybody's while in Englnnd, as of course you know. So Hogc made it woith the landlord's Will 10. ???i?ve g0t a friend,' said the landlord, 'who used to be the Lord Steward to the Q.ieen. He quit Lord Stewarduig some time ago and is now in pickles. Ho wants to sell a big order of his goods in America. He's a great friend of the present Lord Steward. Tho Lord Steward, by tho bye. has charge of tho things that go on tha Queen's table, and I'll introduce you to my friend,' said tho landlord, and he did that same evening. "When tho ex-Lord Stoward went home that night he h id the biggest order for pickles he had ever received, and the Yankee salesman had a letter to the Lord Steward. In a few days the latter sent Hoge a letter, by order of the Queen, nrateinff the Araoaicnn honev that she had sampled, and an order for ten cases. That settled the American honey question. Ifoge wasn't a great while making the fact of the royal pleasure with his goods known in London,and when he returned to New York he had orders for more than AGO, 000 pounds of American honey in his pocket. That's the way our trade in honey with Europo began, and the man that hires pasture for his bees isn't getting loft in nis share of it. But here comes my train, and some other l>ointft about honey I intended to give ron will have to vfrait. Ucod-byal" WISE WORDS. An error becomes a fault when it i? repeated. Progress is attained by tho perfection of tho individual. It is always best to overlook and despise illiberal censurc. ?t;n ? ? * ? -j"i> wuiki uuuuiuos corrupt; mt running stream is limpid. Many pcop'e are bu<=y in this world gathering a handful of thorns to sit upon. No man is more severely punished than he who is subject to the whip of his own remorse. Look around the habitable earth, how few know their own good, or how topursue it. It is cleur that in whatever it is our duty to act. those mutttrs also it is our duty to study. The first in conversation is truth, thenext good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit. That .cunning may succeed for thctim? being is perhaps true; that it will fail in the end is e jually true. Hope without action is a broken staff. We should always hope for thinys that are possible and probable. | As the skill of the navigator is not required in a smooth sou. so virtue, inactive in prosperity, reveals itself in adversity. The man who does a good turn to ? neighbor to day will find >omebotly doing a good turn to him next year. This is an eterjal law. Such as thy words are, s ch will thy affections be esteemeil; and such will thy deeds as thy affections, and such thy life as thy deeds. Somptimn* t.Vir* rmvar/1 ?'? ? - i V .1 ??? V* ivt ilUUVOWJ AC far froin equal to the homage rendered rascality. We demand honeaty, yet too often fail to rec-ogui e it. There is no occupation in which one may 60 constantly see and realize the presence of an overruling providence as in the cultivation of the earth. Hope nothing from luck, and the probability is thnt you will be so prepared, so forewarned and forearmed, that all shallow observers will call you lucky. Quaint Epitaphs. .. Fan Franciscan on the occasion of a rcc nt visit to the East discovered in an old graveyard iu Greene, Trumbull County, Onio, the following quaint and humorous?if su- h a word can be used in connection with a graveyard?epitaphs, which he copied. On one old, fat. brown headstone, fallen down and broken in two, is written: WYMAN WAKE.FIELD. * During his life lio voted for c - belpetl to elect the following Presidents: v^eorpe vv asuington, John Adams, Thomas JelFerson, James Madia m, Ja>i es Munroe, , Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, James K. Po:k, Franklin Pierce. On a smull white marble shaft in th? same cemetery wa9 read the following w<2/ider.'ul inscription: JOIIN o. EVANS, v * * Our father lies beneath the sod, . His spirit's gone up to his liod; We never more shall hear his tread, Nor see the u en upon his head. The only distinguishing trait of this old man was that while livincr his head was ndorned with a large ar.d beautiful wen, an I his children, wishing to record and perpetuate his virtue, hau the above touching and appropriate lines engraved upon h's tombstone. Cn a plain white marble slab was read the following: RUTH, DAUGHTER OF L AND M. SIBUINE. * * ? Strange us it i>\ but it is so, Hero are three sisters in h. row; w e were cut aown in au our prime, The (laughters of I. aud M. Sirrine. * We have j aid the debt you plainly see, Yet to bo paid, my friend, by tbe<?. The above was written and caused to b3 recorded upon the stone by the father of the th* ee sisters. The above-named Isaac Stirrlne "was a man of very ecc entric character in his day in Northeastern Oh o. Before his death he wrote the first four lines of the following epitaph, which can be seen upon his tombstone in a graveyard in C herry Valley, Ashtabula county, O. The last two line* were added by his brother after his death: H^re fie old man lies; Nobo lv laujjhs aud nobody erie*. Where' he's gone, how he l'ai es, Nobody knows, nobody cares. Bufc h's brother James and his wife Emelinor W\?re his good friendj all the time. Ileallh Hints for Cold Wealfer. Keep your temper. If you would do this always, don't step on a piece of oilcloth till you have your shoes on. Avoid domestic coOlness. Ifvourwife _ _ ? ^ speaks coldly to you, put on your overcoat and take a br.sk walk. Do not carry a poem on winter to an editor while he is shoveling a bank of snow off his sidewalk. Do not go to sleep with your feet in the oven of the kitchen rnngo, lest you suffer from excitement and dream unpleasantly of the hereafter. Beware of hot dr nks. I have known two or t'nce hot drinks to came an illness that laste I through the stationhouse, the police court, and a domestic scene that makes a pauper of description. Do not sit on an lev nuvement. It i? safer, however, to sit on an icy pavement than to stand on your head on it. If you must do one or the other, choose the former course. The cold morning plunge bath i? a good thing in winter. That is, it is a good thing to recommend to the man who meets you with his head hilf open and says: "Is this cold enough for you?" when the mercury is twenty-nine below zero and still failing. Some men advise this person to move to a hot cli mace, witnout ueiay, due i aonx tninK it is just the thing he needs. fcloigh'ng is the most dangerous to health of all our winter rccr ations. Thousands of our bright and promisine young men and lovely young women tall victims- to it every year. (This is all bosh; but young men who are receiving only ten dollar* a Week may find it useful to read aloud at ' times, when a sleigh-ride is mentioned and liverymen are asking two dollars an hour for a horse and cutter.)?Stott Way, in TidJH(*.