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DENT At SURGEON,
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hie residence on R.E. Ayenue.
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i^rmrd Pr0T ® d .•/P li,nce »- He .hnllld be
Ini . d MT * ral «*?» previous to their com.
in? to prevent any di.appointraent—thouzh
nrdayS 0 *™ ^ bB Rt h ' S offic * ou S * 1,
• *» U con, i““« to attend eallt
throughout Barnwell and adjoining eonn-
umfr ly
M. B. i. QUATTLI
BURGEON DENTIST,
WILLISTON, 8.-0.
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033ce over Oapt. W. H. Kennedy’s store.
Calls attended throughout Barnwell
Md ^discent countie?. PntioaU W U1
find it to their advantage to haye wo»V
done at kfa office. 1( |
‘ DK. J, RYERSON SMITff,
Opfrative aod Werhn’iical Dcgtist.
r. wiixjston, s. 9.
jaeS‘‘in"? * V " th,Qa « hont thi » *“ d « '
for ( »» t* 8 " t'oore Kati.tpctorily per-
' iTth sll the Y" r r’° 1P ' , ‘ hich 8r * «PPHed
It the re.' / apj.liance*, than
J ... ” re * ^euecx of-pjrtienl*.
tending (lisnppcintments, patients inr
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BARNWKhlirC. II., S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1883.
$2 sTear.
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HfMME'S BESfAUfiANT
238 King: Street,
'Oppoaite Academy of Music,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
Rsorns to let at . r >0 rente a night.: Heel*
St hJI hotm—Onters in erorj style-
Ales, Wiiirg, Liquor., Hegare, Ac.[mar.301y
CHARLES C. LESLIE
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
Fish, (iiidif, Lobstfrs, TnrEJfs, Ttrrapins,
Oysters. Ktc. Ktc.
8tiUe, Noe. 18 and 20 Fish Market
CHARLESTON, S. 0.
AH orders promptly attended to.
Terms Cash 0/ City Acceptance.
•ogMly]
f« A. PATTERSON,
Surgeon Dentist,
Office at ihe Barnwell Court House.
Patients waited on at residence if de
sired. Will attend calls in any portion
0/ Barnwell and Hampton counties.
Sstialaction guaranteed. Terms cash
^^MngSUyj
ROBT. D. WHITE
M A HB J.K
—AND—
GRANITE WORKS
AIEETINO STREET,
' ((Turwr Borlb-ck’a Alley,)
CHARI r.Si ON, 7* T’ U n
fttneMy} * “ U
&
—WHOLESALE—
102 and 104 East Bay Street,
sngSlly CHARLESTON, 8. C.
* ’ " — *
epotof Biiltio? Mif*:i»'s N j.9) Rut Bay
SasHj Blinds, Doors, Glass, Etc.
Devereux & Co.,
' DELLBR8 IN......
Linf, feaent, Laths Flatsw, Bair,
• Slates and Marble Mantles,
?p7l>1 CHARLESTON, 8. C.
THOS. McG. CARS,
FASHIONABLE ri_l-L
Shaving: and flair Dressing: Saloon,
114 Market Street,
(One Door Eut of King Street,)
MtrUOly] CHARLESTON,^’ C.
THE SAD FAfcol? AHNAliKr. LEE.
Mnny n year has gone down In the (Me
Of Mie restless, rolling s,’:i,
Slneo I and my newly-wedded bride,
The beautiful Anualx-l 1.00,
Went, on onr brtdn! nil ro«d ride.
That jyas so disastious to me.
She was fair, and I was young—
I and tny Annabel I.e«;
I had the ears and she had the tongue.
And tliev who were there to neo
Say t hat tho very ear roof rung
With the taKy she gave to me.
But the ri<*h maroon of that hectic noon
Will never lose terrors for me.
We stopped-for grub, but not too soon *
Kor the beautiful Annabel I^n;
For she wan faint as a hungry hoar,
From her ivoay feet to Iter cardinal hair,
l Was my beautiful Annabel Lee,
And she went Into builafiBft then and there.
My unfonuiiuto AunaboTLeel ~ ,
Tho pork and doughnuts,- and pieklea and
beans,
Disappeared like a frightened flea,
And I thought It lucky that adequate means
Hud been iuvested in mu.
To pay' for tilling my f|itcen of queens,
My beantlftil Aunui/el l>o«.
Site looked no love, stf snake' ni> snecch; ,
With her 'twas a matter of silence and reach,
Until I began to be
A little afraid, and compelled to beseech
My dar mg, my darling, my sweetheart, tny
To let up on the g-r-u-b 1
And that Is the reason that years gone by
My beautiful Annabel Ia*o
Went for a piece of raib oud pie.
And slid up tho f l u m-e,
For she w as htman, and her gastrin force,
Though good, wasn’t that of a thoroughbred
horse,
,. Or a steam e-n^-^n e.
And so it happened that on that pie „
,M v ihirllng. tuv darling, went up to the sky,
My Mkutlful Annabel Igse.
Andi f 1 In tho night tide I turn on iffy'right
stdtv— >
Ami curious dreams come to mo,
01 ntv darling, m.v lovo. lu the realms above,
BtUl wreatllngtlia; ro igii p i e.
—- —Uialci iTmtltii’ .VjfiuHmi,
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Import nut Agricnltnrc Statistlcf.
A, writer in the International Review,
who seems to have drawn his facts and
Hguren from official sources, furnishes
Rcmie interesting and important informa
tion in regard to the increase of various
crops in this country. Ho says that in
the last fifteen years the production of
wheat and barley has trebled; Corn, cot
ton and tobacco more than doubled; bay
increased more than one-third, and oats
almost 140,000^00- DusheU. Haro rue
the statistics: In 1 SOT tho wheat emp
was 148,558,000 bushels; iu 18?.), 448 -
756,000: com, in 1805, 701,427,000 bush
els, and in 1879, 1,544,8fK).000: ontn, in'
1869, 235,252,000, and in 1^, 864,2.58,-
000, rye, 19.544,OOfK-22,646,000; bar
ley, 11,391,000—40,184,000: potatoes,
40M8S,000-181,369,000: hay, 28,588, -
000 tons—35,648,000; UAmcoo, 18.5,327,*
000 ]>onmls—to 884,059,000; cotton 2,-
229,000 bales—5,020,00a
The writer attributes tho increase in
cereals to the increased population and
development of the Western aud North
western States. He says that during the
present generation the corn has been
transferred from tho South to the West,
and the wheat centre from the Middle
States to the for West. In 1812, 59 par
cent, and in 1859, 52 per oeift q£ uiit
corn was grown in the Southern States.
Iir 1877, 859,000,0i*a btwhvis came f rum
Ohio, IndiiHi.'v, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri,
Kansas ami Nebraska. The product of
Americans m eotjope.
A correspondent Write* lo ihe Spring-
flohl Republican; The majority of
Americana, when they .come to Enrol*;
for tho first time, are always amazed at
the expense of foreign traveling. They
hod always harbored the impression that
the cost of everything on this side of the
AUautic—railway ticket*, hotel bills,
etc,, were at leant only one-half -what
they were in America; fcut, on Hie con-
traryj they find,it costs much more to
travel here than it does at home. In
tho best American hotels the pried of
three and four dollars a day seems ex
travagant, bat they cannot comprehend
why It is that in a first-class foreign ho
tel, where the price of a room is onlv
three or four franc* a day, And the othe'r
charge* seem so moderate, their bills
foot up to such high figure*.
\yhile taking my breakfast ohe morn
ing at tho Hotel Chatham in Paris, five
Amerioahs entered the dining-room and
ig-i
seated themselves^ at a table near mo.
There was the father and mother, a son
of about 14, and two daughters alwut
15 and 12. From their conversation I
learned it was thoIrnrtiCtrip toRnropo,
and that they hod coma’directly to Paris
on landing at Liverpool, and had no
hail a “square meal” since they left
home. After •c&nvaasifig among them
selves ns to what thoir appetites craved
and demanded on the bill of fare, the
head of the family gave the
waiter the following order; Five plates
of melon, Which were then Very ex
pensive, five fried soles, five pots of cof
fee, five ham and eggs, fried hominy^
five beefsteaks, hot rolls, five fried ix>ta-
toea, butter* radishes, etc. tf they had
ordered tw#dishc* of a kjftd, so gener
ous Was the supply, it would have lieen
more than enough to satisfy their appe
tites ; but they were “Americans,” and
evidently thought tho reputation of their
country, in the eyes of other strangers
in the dining.room, demanded nothing
le** tlmo -n full complement to each per-
fcOfi. As near a* I could figure up their
account, that breakfort cost iu the neigh
borhood of $16. The table d'hote ({in
ner at night was at a fixed pnee, and
their lunch, at 1 o’clock, corresponded
with their breakfast, no wonder surprise
is manifested at the Ingh rates of living
in foreign hotels.
OaUfttroph
Tim yoar has opened with a series of
terrible warnings of the fragmentanness
of human life. The old year isuniloral
ly dismissed without regret as weari
some And disappointing, if not down
right unlucky. The new year is hailed
with eager haste as one that may be des
tined to stand out in human memory
as a brighter and happier |>eriod, in
Which the depressing imitiences of un- i
foreseen calamities add economic dis- I
ns ers htAy be avoided. Eighteen Ima- J
tlf
MROIffi THU TilMC)
THE GREAT REMEDY FOR'
■V
\
PULMONARY DISEASES,
COUGHS, COLDS,
BRONCHITIS, Ac.,
AND GENERAL DEBILITY.
SURE CURE FOR
^Malaria and Jfyspepsia
IN ALL IIS STAGES.
*^.For Sale by all GROCERS aod
DRUGGISTS.
ad the rest of tho Union was only -194,-
558,000 bushels. Tit*' tobaicco increase—
100,0(X),000 pounds from 1870 to 1378-—
has been, of course, mainly in the South.
In tho same section and same period
cotton has increased from 3,042,Odd to
5,216,009 bales, Arkansas and Texes
being the leading St tl v in this ad
vance. Li tho former,*! 11 • M,00d pound*-'
were raised in 1870, and AiiT.OOO.OOO in
.1878; iu the latter, in 1870, 157,000,000
pounds, and in 1878, 500,000.000* - >
Only about 9 per cent., it is said, of
thchiational grain crop is exported, in
cluding 24.76 percent of the wheat, aljd
6.49’of tlie corn. Tho total exports of
all grams wvro 39,6)9,OK} bushels m
1868; in 1878 tlmy had risen to 189,000,-
000. The exports are likely to increasn
with the p’.tl'i'tiou, though in afar
smaller proportioiT}' and the time is not.
far distant when the Uiiited States will
be tho dominant power in the grain mar
kets of the world . ..
The Perils of Pearl iming.
The number of shells is not any giiido
to the number of jiearls, and even the
roughest average whieh the diver may
make of tho value of the season's collec
tion is, therefore, liable to be utterly
wrong. I The shells themselves are, how
ever, of greatcoinmercnd value, and often
yield a larger revenue than the season's
find of gems, so that the diY. r rVn'iry
never goes down in vain. The diver has
always encouragement in perilous labor;
and to the last, even when he takes his
fatal (live to the waiting shark, he Inis
still Ihe fascination before Kim of a pos
sible prize that shall send him homo to
live at ease for the rest of his.life. So
he calls out to the shark-charmer lo
charm his Wst, and, w ith the delusive
spell ringing in Ilia ears, plunges down,
to death. But the monster of the d<YP
that has been lying waiting for him far
under the shadow of the boat, cares little
for exorcism or enchftntineufcr and so the
diver is never seen again. His comrades
in the boat feel the roi>e suddenly slack
en and as suddenly raised; the lessened
strain tellsits grim story at once, and then
the empty bucket comes fluatintpup to
tho surface, a message that the diver is
dead. In the vast majority of cases,
however, tho divers grow old at their
toil, neither meeting with sharks nor
King’s ransoms in their’ gropings along
shell-strewn banks, and the Bahrein
speak of it as a monotonous and labor
ious 'means of livelihood, and one in
which they seldom earn a competence.
| [The surroundings of their work are
squalid, almost revolting; for the shore
is heaped with decayiiifc masses of oys
ters, a sea breeze perpetually blows the
smell of them across tho encampment of
the fishers, which lie sweltering under
a terrible sun, and but poorly provided
with even the few things that go to make
the Oriental comfortable,
matters are but little better, as far a*
the divers are personally concerned, and
in China and Japan the i
Ihe Court eons Lawyer.
You recognize the courteous lawyer at
once. He places a choir gracefuuy for
his client, whether Hie client is an ele
gantly attired lady in sealskins and
diamonds or a clumsy bumpkin in homo-
spun and liquor. He smiles sweetly at
his opponent, and bows to the jury in a
deferentially familiar way; He pays the
fees to the clerk before lie has the
trouble to ask for them, and draws tho
bills out of his pocket book slowly, one
by ('lie, ns gently as he would lead a
belle from her carriageTo the Vmll-room.
His bow to the court is almost an apology
for ha\ tng come into the profession con-
temi*»rapeously with his Honor. He
handles a- witness as though he was the
frail golden setting and Lis testimony the
geinne was trying to remove^ His topes
are carefully modulated, and he appeals
for a reply to the kindly sensibilities of
the witness, “ Be so good ” is tho cap
tivating exordium, and “ thank you ’’the
pallititive peroration. If he wounds with
a question, ho linds up the sore,the
next momentAvith the liniment of polity-
ucss. To his opponent he overflows
with generous waiver, and—admissions,
and if by chance ho int< iqHtlutos a re
mark, he does it as though he was put
ting a boquet in lus adversary’s button
hole. Ho thinks he understands tho
court. He hopes he docs not misappre
hend his htaraed friend. He trusts the
witness knows what he moons. In ad
dressing' the jury, he unlsiaomA his ap
preciation of tbeir Intelligenfie uort
ability. Ho lays hi* arguments before
them with respect amounting almost to
reverencoj as~“though they were pro
pitiatory offerings to a deity whom he
wished to placate. To the court his
whole demeanor is redolent of respect.
The-eourt is most honorable; the judge
most distinguished. He is, in short, so
filled with human consideration for every
thing and everybody around him, that he
finds excuses igr the jury that beats him
and for the eeurt that nonsuits Turn. It
is true, he has been know to revile nu
adversary in private, to curse surrepti
tiously, and to sneer at tue judiciary in
the social circle. It is also true that he
cap wrench a fs* num a client in a ruth-
lesi raeni jui and take a snap judgment
when he thinks it safe. But these little
trifles sidy show that he is human, and
he knows that men are not apt to believe
that a head with such a halo of polite
ness around it cun have for its pedestal a
cldYen foot 1 ‘ . »
Joking on High Olympus. -» *'
It was a bright Afternoon, and the im
mortals were sitting on high Olympus,
watching the cremation of some insane
American, who thought thoro wasn't
enough land on this continent to bury
him in, when the blue-eyed maid re
marked: -,4
“Mars.” ., ",
The Colonel hastily folded up his mn
of th# lavs beds and slipped it into Ills
pocket.
“ Sjieak, Minerva, the class is up. Go
red and’ eighty-three, however, has ahead with tlio oral.”
dawned with leaden skies and portents “When they put a man into the erema-
of evil. In France the greatest Re pub ; lory or retort, orwliatfcyu:. tlieyculi jt,
lican htlS been stricken iitwn f and h s | whatfigure of expression does it remma
death ha-- been followed by many signs : you of?” ...
Of nolit eal incanacity, social agitat oil | The Colonel scratched his grieved shin
and n At ion A1 dc^pOildetlcy. Un the | (now don't ask us what it was grieved
l ontinent (he lb oils have borne devas- t ftlxmt, or wo will tell you it was grieved
tation an 1 misery in their train. From , about to tho knee, (pr wo are in no hu-
every quarter there are tidings of dis- 1 mor for nonsense), and pr*d'ntly ho said
aster. Tile h'oifii fire in Milwaukee; the ho wasn’t much of a scholar un.rawgrum-
(irctis catastro))ho in Uussia, the ra iway mar, but he believed it was a kind of
accident near Tehiohipa I’ass. the loss.^erysipelas, “something left out, you
of two staunch ocean xteArusliips, and 1 know.” - — .
limnflrnilsJitiiay end jmbM^YtU)” mid the.goddesA^f* hut "hut
and. are hot < nly appalling horrors, but is left out?”
omens of depression and gloom. Men
Are Already sAyilig in ibeir hearts: “It
will be a disagreeable year, if nothing
w iso:”
I!e r ore the agcnc cs of s cam, elec
tricity add the public press Were multi-
blied ( the effect of sudden catAstronhcA
Wasconiitted to the localities in which
they ofeurped. When tiro tower in
Bilcam fell, there was no lack of talk in
the neighboring village*, and the
f Vigilance lf(*e«Mary In Bslldinl.
| The difficulty of geit’ng a house imilt
toonsVsattafact on is well illustrated in
the experience of a Chicago gentleman.
As rclaied iu tiro Sanitaiy AV’is. who
hjs just completed a comfortable home,
lie gave his architect mo-t dutinito in
structions, but he soon found that hard
ly anything was being done as he had
ireeted. Nobody employed about the
buiid ng seemed to inanifo-ttho slightest
interest in his work, and bricks and
boards were put together'with the ut
most disregard of the fitness of things.
Lumber w.yi wasted as though it
■wrvw ■■■to - -A* -—
ling. Tho gentleman (smo to tho eon-
c us ion that it, would 1*’ advisable to
stay about the premises, and he d d to
mo-t of the time, watching as many of
the movements as lie could. The result
whs that c:ich day usually opened with
tearing down or pulling apart the work
0: ihe day previous. I or ovample, ho
1 thought he stoV something wrong in the
laying of the main drain lor the sewer-
j ago. Itn reporto i to the architect, who
j 1 r IIWrld Iv f*.. xk^*\,w'a.
■ The wor m n insisted tha every thin;
was ever a
tirak
Staboh b
causes explosion
old man finds it
qollarits..,,
A Boston paper 1 ,
a street-ear m that mrir took-9001
last Sunday, but is enfirelr sikbtss lo
how many the company goi.
Th* Crown Prino* of Gennanr frta
more puffing over giving 1 f8 fidua to a
blind boy toon an American dosa oral
leaving $40,000 to an orphan asyltun.
Tiierb is a fortune in stare far tha mil
liner who shall devise a bonnet that eon
be worn in any part of a church and si*
its trimmed side to ihe ana*
The CoTond hesitated a moment, and • had been duuc just. o-neUy as it shout
said lie h:idn t considered mv rcgarils of | have been. The dra'ns were dug up.
that, and Hermes remarked that it teas f-n^nji’llie'es'i. nad - i wras found that no
probably an interpolation, because the
man was put iu.
Vulcan, who happened along with a
fiCw hinge for the front gate, asked if it
wasn’t botology.
Juno didn’t thinkit could 1« tautology,
because it wasn’t always the same man;
LCUittof j indeed, it ncveewns-tlro wimo man.
. ..... - , t iJ er i u * “It’s the same man tots time, ian’l
satonr-tTitn rtnr-hdbeoairtry, but the 1 lt n , kr d ) I?r ~
wor.d outside d,d not know what had throwing up his elbow to the level will
great | hi* head.
Ganymede, tho barkeeper, said bo
happened. The collapse of tiro
chimney -stack in Bradford a few weeks
ago was telegraphed instantly to tho
ends of the earth, so that it was known
simultaneously itt Calcutta, the Eu
ropean capitals. Sati Francisco and Now
York that sixty men. women and chil
dren had suddenly ceased to exist iu tho
Workaday World. But outside Bradford
there was si arcely a single point of hit-
if <t raan interest in tiro calamity. Archi
tects may' have been warned against
sacrificing the principles of security to
hapely proportions, and life insurances
canvassers may have obtained a now
fact to lay before working people; but
the human suftering which had been
cnined left no impression upon tifo
minds of readers at a distance. Throe
hundred people «re trampled under
foot or burned to death in a circus in
Boland; but the fact excites no more
emotion in tho heart /of an American
reader than the footings of a table of
mortality statistics. Four hundred
emigrants and sailors are suddenly
swallowed up by the sea. There is a
Bljort Controversy respecting compart
ments in a ship’s hull and a momentary
curios ty to learn what excuse the com
mander of the other steamship can offer
for not attempting a rescue; but the
agony which was caused in a single in
stant, when hundreds of tliesc quiet and
simple j casants and working people
were'brought face to face with their
doom, issonly a vague generalization.
In a week it is forgotten by the general
public.
conurction had been made with the
street sewer at a!L7 The last section of
pipe hod beon too short bv several
im'.hev nn l to the crafty drain la\cr,
who was interested in tea v ng time and
material, it was not considered necessary
to Iciigihcn i . Tho fresh air duct lead
ing to the fmnuve. had bciru ordered
built of unusual capa ity, for tho icason
“ttrnt"the^trwner■ rrrtrr*e4 ■more--of the*
i common difficulty about getting suf-
i ficicnt nir to venthate a^ well as warm
. ., | his house. Ho watched the work on this
thought it was a hyperbole, Ikwiuho it a.r duct very closely and was congratu-
was awfully extravagant; $35 |>er man at latlng himself that it* was well made,
the Washington (Pa. j Crematory was the ’
regular charge for every barbecue,
nre:
Bstum, who came up tliis aftornoon,
It being Friday, with a string of fish,
said he thought it was synedoche; tvnt on
being asked whet syneuoche was, frank
ly confessed that
went down three.
Apollo thought it was a bit of trochaic
meter, because the man ivas ymt~ hr. I its,
coffin. .1
It took tho Immortals a long time to
catch on to this, and theji Jupiter re
marked that they weren’t running a col
lege infirmary up there.
“ No,” said his amiable maiTuidJiwter,,
“no, -pharmacy’s sake, don’t talk doctor-
shop. What do you think it is, Miner
va?” ™ . .
The blue-eyed goddess turned down
her place in Emerson, adjusted her eye
glasses ayd said, with great precision:
“ WTiy, the retort scorches. Does not
it strike you that way?”
* But after ajnomout of silence the Col
onel said he wasn’t, up to this new
fangled pronunciation very well, and tho
immortal Jove cailled to Ganymede to
bring him a “light one,” at the some
time holding up all tho fingers on one
band behind his wife's head.
the hiSTen* with Uu^hter
doing
uldn’t
but, at last, discovered that thowork-
| roan purrowed thoNnlet bv drawing in
each succeeding course of bricks as ho
I neared the top. When remonstrated
: with,, he said ho thought he was
' tho proper thing, as ihe duct w
to didn't know, and . let in so much cold air if smaller. So
. _ in everything done about the horse—
tho workmen had no more conception
of the purpose which a healthy, com
fortable. and convenient house was to
serve than tho to Is which they used.
By hiring an architect to watch them,
and then w atching the architect himself,
ho succeeded at length in getting a
house iu whieh l;d itakes some pride;
but it was at the expensoof extra hind';
much valuable tinieaa I patient waiting.
II. B ISC HOFF * CO.,
Charleston, 8. C.
MsauLe’.arers ted Proprietors
oirMfia
Ladies Dress in Persia.
a bright red satin skirt,
'* How
Site wbre
richly embroidered with gold lace; itwas
very full and short, barely reaching to
her knees; a loose jacket of blue velvet,
also mufch trimmed—tliiiTTimo with sil
ver lace; the sleeves were made of cash-
mere shawl buttoned by about twenty
small buttons. She wore several neck
laces, most of them very massive, stud
ded with fine turquoises. On her head
she wore a white shawl, with a band of
jewels round her forehead, and at one
side a large pearl star. She had on l>oth
arms at least a dozen bracelets—some
handsome ones, some only bands of col
ored glass. Her feet were covered with
coarse white socks; her shoes green
leather with scarlet heels. Some of the
ladies wore bright red trousers, reaching
to tiro ankle; but this was quite the ex
ception. They wear a long veil, reaching
from head to foot, generally made of some
smart print of muslin. I ought to men
tion that every lady wore a small leather
case around "her neck, containing some
earth from Mecca and verses from the
Koran. The faces of my hostess and
Ceylon friends were much decorated, the eye
brows broadened and carried quite across
the nose.' Some bad email designs tat
tooed on the cheeks. The hair is very
* it is
It s only in exceptional instance^ that
these tragic occurrences leave any per
manent impression upon the public,
mind outside the immediate localities
where they occur. The facts are known,
but suffering is not brought-eJese to Hie
emotions and sympathies. A day
) as e-/, and men are thinking of some
thing newer and pleasanter. A month
goes by, and 1883 is not considered
especially unlucky, but only an average
year, With starti ng o currences now
and then, but with the i.sual out omo
of peace, prosperity and Tecucky, A
year rolls by. and there U a vague feclin
of d sappointment and depression an
an eager hope that another year will bo
checnor and brighter. There is in
variably a speedy reaction fpnm the (Iis‘-
coura:einent and sense of insecurity
caused by the vicissitudes of human
destiny.
r lt may be that the world as it grows
older is becoming more ai^d more ac
customed to the conditions of its being.
( erta nly the impressions of helples -
ness caused by catastrophes like those
which Uav# : l)cen recently recorded are
only vague and transitory. Tho thrill
of horror o'.qlted by such reclfals is felt
only momentarily;'the sense of insecur
ity and the feeling of unrest soon pass
away. Men learn to expect catastro
phes and to make allowance for them
in the Providential scheme of the uni
verse. Yet they can not explain (hem.
That seventy weary travelers' and hotel
servants should suddenly be exposed to
the horeors of an agonizing death, that
ihree hundred men, women and chil
dren hoiild be wrenched out df life
with tortures unspeakable while en toy
ing a town show in 1 oland, or tha' four
hundred emigrants seeking their fort
unes in a new land should be drowned
before they have fairly lost sight of the
old country, is as inexplicable to-VTay as
the death of the thirty victims of the
Tower of Mloam was Tb the .Jews of
old. The question is no longefr asked,
as it was then: “Have these men sinned
or their fathers, that they should pfcriih
•o miserably I”’ But it is no easier now
than it was then to reconcile tho vicis-
sbudes and mysteries of human fate
with an orderly scheme of government
for the unh er.-e.—N. Y. Tribune.
1UV/UUU..UU Japan the industry is one , _. , „ ,
that attracts only the k»w*r orders. From Jong and Buck, generally died red;
these sources most of tire gems of our
markets pm derived, bnt the pearl oys
ter k of such extensive distribution, a
creature of every shore, that nearly oH
countries contribute pearls to the general
stock.—London TzUgraph. ?
A woman who has four sons, all sail
ors, compares herself with a year, be
cause she
Tribune,]
ha* four seasons, —Kokomo
worn plaited in many thin tails, twisted
with gold thread. The hands are well
shaped, bnt nails and palms are stained
a dork red.—Tins In/’* Magazine.
— ^ 1 ■ ■ ■ /'
“ Wn,” asked a governess of her lit
tle charge, “ do we pray God to give us
our daily breed ? ... Why don’t we ask for
four days, or five days, or a week ?”
“ Becausa^e want it fresh,” replied tho
iagentooe-chiid.
Laughed all the godi;
broke,
And wise Mruerrs thought ’twu at her juke.
—Burlington ilaukryo.
Mammoth Trees in California.'
A correspondent who has been visiting
the grove of big trees in Calaveras
County, CaL, writes as follows:
' It has always been so difficult for me
to form any conception of the size of the
mammoth trees from given figures, but
when I went into the grove and saw them
standing, and elimlitd twenty-six stoop
stops to reach the upper side of a fallen
sequoya.and became dizzy on looking
down to the ground I rcAlized their im
mense proportions ; .one of tho gentle
men of the party reaehdd his arms’ lit
full length and it took eight measures to
span one of the smaller trees.
Visitors have the privilege of naming
any of the big troos, and placing a mar
ble slab with the inscription thereon.
One noble great tree was called the
“Mother,” another tho “F'ather," the
“Three Graces,” “Henry Ward
Beecher," “General Grant,” etc., etc. •
In this grove there are
trees within eighty acres,
horses and rode six miles to
where wo saw the largest
world, “Old Goliah.” In
tbi
Preparing the Uronnl For a Law*.
ninety-nine
We took
the “Son”
tree in the,
tins grove
there are thirteen hundred and eighty
less than six feet
trees, none measuring
in diameter.
We rode our eight horses into the side
of one tree that nad been burned out;
the guide said tin ro was room for ten
more, and we could well believe it, for
wc aid not take up one-third of the
room; and yet the fire had not affected
tlio life of the tree ; there was enough
vitality to . grow on unconcerned. In
this grove many of the big trees were
named for States, which seemed more
appropriate.
The succes-i of a lawn depends upon a
vast deal of work that La quite out
of sight. We expect more o
the soil devoted to the lawn
than wo do of any other part
of the grounds, for we are (ontmually
cropping it, nnd it ban only give a con
stant succcsaion of g ass when the roots
have a deep soil ami sufficient nourish
ment. it is desirable lo have thO
grass well established be ore hot
weather comes, the seed mu-it hi
sown early, aud to this end the soil
must ho prepared as early as the
season will ftitow. Only small areas,
such as fruit yards, croquet and
tennis grounds, should be perfect
ly level. A slightly undulating
surface is more pleasing to the eye than
a dead .level, and it may be mado logive
the impression df a greater extent if the
surfaceMs laid out in gentle swells, and
will give a better effect if s’fghtlv higher
us it approaches the house. Of course
there must be nothing like abrupt hills
and hollows and ifauysuchoco ir where
tho lawn is to be, they m st be either
cut down or filled iu. If the lawn is
simli Out it would require dramiu
to fit it for garden crops, then it wi
need draining for a lawn. Indeed all
Ink very light sandy soils will be im-
proved bv draining wUh tiles. The
depth an 1 dislanc ■ apart o the dra ns
should be such as are found bed in the
fields of the \io'nity. The next re-
quis t<vk a deeply worked soil In En
gland thb soil is thoroughly trenched
two spades d ep, but we can hardly ex
pect our | oople, who avoid the use of
the spado wnere er possible, to tren h
the ground for a law n. Ths most we
(an hope for is the deep st pra-ticable
p o’vu g.w th ths use ef the snbsoM plo^
If the sod is j oor, a generous coating©
manure sho.iht be turned under, but
itln fair condition, lop dr ssin s may
bn depended upon for fertilizing. After
this preliminary work, the ground
shouM remain as Png as ’possible be
fore sowing, in order that it may proper
4ey% present:
grugation. j- ■' ■ I
A poultry ctithority says that “ chick
ens should have an ampk range.” II
depends upon the number of chickens.
little chicken will broil pretty well
over a very small stove.
Many persons who rake through an*
other’s character with a fine-tooth oomb,
to discover a fault, could find cue with
less trouble by going over their own
character with a horae-raka. ^
It cost* more than a hundred milhona
of doUam annually-to keep the fences of
this country in repair. Now, gentlemen,
get off the fence and stay off till after
election, and save your country a few
millions of this outlay.
Growth-up sister—“Oh, Chalky, tf
you must go away can t von introduce
me to one of your school-fellows, to look
after me till you come back?” Charley—
“Ob, no, it wouldn’t'SM B would bo
too rough on a fellow to kg him out like
that”—Punch. — j
Somebody who appears to knoy how
fashionable schools are managed, says:
“To educate young ladies is to let them
know all about the ogies, omeniee, the
ifics, the ties and the mistios; but nothing
about the ingysoch as sewing, darning,
washing, baking and ”
“I BAY, mister, this is a dcmble seaA
and yon can’t lay over it in that way,*
said a stand-up passenger in a crowded
car to another passenger Who was — fci "g
himself too much at home. “Can’t lay
over the seat?" echoed the loafer. “Bet
your life I can. See here, I hove a lav
over cheek from the conductor, and ii m
good.”
—The colored
bannock, Va., are
a-
populution of Tapp^
excited over the dis
ci, line recently employed in the case of
u ' ' ’ ~
Principal of the Colored igraded sehefw.
The girl pleaded a headache for tardi
ness, and the teacher adopted the fob
lowing novel remedy to cure both: A
boy was sent to the druggist for castor-
oiL and on his return the teacher then
and there attempted to make her swal
low it After a long struggle he suc
ceeded in tying the hands of the girl,
and adminis'ered the oiL—Chicago
Times. ■ ‘
Changes In Jerusalem.
A wonderful change has taken place in
Jerusalem of late years, and it is proba
bly now a mare comfortable residence
than ever before in it* history. Mr.
Schick, who holds the appointment of
Surveyor of Buildings in the Holy City,
has lately Issued a verjr instructive re
port. He tells us that ruined houses
have been restored or rebuilt by iudi-
viduals or companies, and buildings ou
the Peabody plan have been erected by
associations. The streets arc now
lighted, kept, for an Eastern city, most
exceptionally clean, and the aqueduct
from the pools of Solomon has been iv*
a colored female scholar by C. A. Yancy. stored, and water brought theuce to the
New Carrots with Cream.—Trim a
quantity of the smallest new carrot* that
can be obtained, and boil them in salted
water. When done, drain off the water.
Melt one ounce of butter in a saucepan,
add to it a deaert-spoonful of flour, in-p-
per, salt, grated nutmeg, a pinch of pow
dered aagnr, and a small quantity gf
cream. Put in the carrofs, simmer fcoa-
tly »few miuutee, tad ffjrvo.
city. Tanneries and slaughter-houses
have boon removed outside the town.
The sanitary department in under the
control of a flaftnetf pkyiidou. Bethle
hem and Nazareth are cagcrlv emulating
tho progress of the capital. In the
latter place windows ore becoming quite
frequent. It is asserted tliat there is a
fixed resolution on the part of thouonds
in Prussia to make that country as hot cs
possible for Jews, and it'fs not unlikely
that this may in a measure increase the
already considerable number now return!
ing to Palestine, more especially as the
the German Jews already are a power
in Jerusalem. The improvements are,
further, likely to lead to rnanj Europeans
wintering there.
“Sure, the wood won’t burfi. IT
, thry a little of warsdf, me dariint," as
Bridget said to the koroeone. “You
Wowed I” as the kerosene said to Bridget,
A young lady received the following
note, accompanied by a bouquet of
flowers: Dear -—, I send you W the
boy a bucket of floura. This is like my
love fear u. The nito shade menea kepe
dark. The dog fend menea I am yaw
slave. Boeis red and poais pad, my love
for you shal never fate.”
The flowing reporter who wrote, with
reference to a well-known belle, “Her
dainty feet were encased in shoes that
might be taken for fehr boots,” tied .Mb
wardrobe up in e handkerchief end left
far parts unknown when it appeared the
next morning: “Her dirty fort feet wen
encased in shoes that might be I
ferryboats.”
A Young lady who k studying I
lately wrote to her parents Oat she
invited to a cUjeuner the day before, end
was going to a fete champetre the nasi
day. The professor of the college was
surprised to reoeiae a dispatch from the
“old man” a day or two after saying:
“If you don’t keep my daughter away
from these menageries mid ride shows, I
will come down and ase what ads her.
It is amusing to watch a slim
weigh himself. He steps on to ihe)
form as an elephant steps upon 1
with an awful fear of breaking t
down, and then puts the three-li
pound weight on the end of the
Of course lie takes it off
does this unostentatiously,
that he weighs, say, one handled
twenty, if you watch him carefully;
will see him slide tho Wright al
one hundred and seventy-five.
^George!” he will exclaim 1
“I’ve lost ten pounds l
He doesn’t say how much he weighs
now; if you wish to know there k the
scale. He know* you wifl look.
night, a coach, a minister and the
ie of a friend, and the elopement is
y settle. If in any place ihe ground
settles unevenly; then iresh soil must bfc
(led, where needed, to bring the low
soots up to the proper level, Whether
the lan is to I c laid down with seed, or
as is sometimes pro erable, if the area
is small, with turf, the prel minary
nreparation mu-t be e junlly thorough,
if a line and permanent turf is desired.
Agriculturist,
^ Elopement Fashions.
Tho fashions for girls who elope just
how are vary plain. Some white drapery,
a convenient window, a long ladder, a
dark
house
over. If the irate father, armed with a'
double-barreled coal shovel and a town
constable, does not pursue, the affair is,
although picturesque, not exactly a suc
cessful elopement If the father of the
bride relents within two days the fool kb
couple are not happy. If it leaks out
that the mother of the bride is in the
much of the pleasure of the trip
If both the father and mother
bride are in tiro secret of her going
away, and have actually left the ladder
near the window, and that fact k found
out, the clo]X‘mcnt is a failure. In the
olden time tho eloping bride packed all
her portable goods on herself and went
away heavily laden. Now, as she is
alx>ut to return in a day or two in her
lady friend’s dress, ahe goes away quite
light
—A young girl who has tried it^sajrs
few idgMe
al one of the
tbs story that kissing wool l cure
les lacks the important element of truth;
but there is one thing, she almits.
greatly in favor of the remedy - it is not
disagreeable to take. Hors, however,
may be a deep-rooted, stubborn case,
and she shouldn't feel discouraged he- {
eau.ve fifteen or sixteen bundftrepp^'
““ cations failed to eflhrt *
I OOfli ID Bull
*1 ~s
In the
Shortly after 12 o’clock a
ago a Philadelphia guest
arge Atlantic City hotels
37 a nudge from the sharpest of
wife's sharp knuckles. Ae he opened
us eyes he sew by means of the mtr
roly faint light that ]
the hail ipto the 1
man, wljb stood silent
and v %feo, as it ^ . .
tor whatever valuables might fell into
his clutches. Tho wife dung to
husband’s arm and trembled so violently
that the latter feared lert the ‘
should hear and
the 1 ’ bed and* hofdmg hk pillow as t
shield, he reached the burglar fetal
In tho midst of crushed
broken bric-a-brac tha
down, with hk smrilent on top.
robber struggled hard to ike, hot,
; the occupant of mni
had the thief spread oak aff MB
with the pillow on hk hand. H
quercr’a wife rtroek a light ee qnkto
its poasibleandnmg shandy far * *
tendon t. """ **
the room y ^ , t
uhkt figure of which
Othello strangling it
the middle of the floor,
was set in
pillow ^
showed him to be fte MgMy
t of toe adjetefeg
above rcprce®b. He
taken toe
and when
hesawathrimagtofaln