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''TI-W EEKL,Y EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C, JUNE 14, 879 SLEEP. Away, unlovely dreams ! Away false shapes of sloop! lie his, as heaven seems, Clear, and bright, and deop I Soft as love, and calm as death, Sweet as a summer naght, without a breath. 8 eep, sleep I our song s laden W.ta the soul of slumber ; It was sung by a Samlan maiden, Who e lover was of the number Vho now keep That oa m sleep Whence aone may wake. whenco none s!,all weep. 1 touch thy temples palo ! I breathe my soul on theo! And could my prayers avail, All my joy should be Dead, and I would live to weep, 8o tho u might'st win one hour of quiet sleep. Renfrew. 'Shure, and you had betther be in a hur .ry, for the red divils are near," cried Pat Malloy to the Renfrew sisters as he hurried past the little ,pjottage in which the girls lived. The alarm had already been given of the presence of the Indians in the neighbor hood and the Renfrew girls had each a horse nearly ready for the purpose of es caping on horseback when the IrIshman passed. The sisters lived alone in a small log house on the banks of the Ant.ietam. 'Thcy were very pretty girls, young and nmuch courted by the rustic beaux of the settle ment. They were very industrious, with al;-could cook to perfection and their cot tage was a model of neatness and cleanli ness. Just previous to the time when the Irishman passed, calling upon theni to make haste in effecting their escape, they had been cnagaged in washing clothes and hang ing them upon a line to dry. As the Antietam flowed by, reflecting their lithe forms and pretty faces and flow ing hair in the crystal waters, and holding itself up to them as a mirror in which to see their beauty and loveliness, they little dreamed that in the bushes on the other side of the stream were concealed two sav ages intently watching the shadows with which the bubbling brook was toying. "If Hobby and Argyle could see us now." said one of the sisters, laughing and draw ing her wet garments round her well shaped ankles, "they might not think we are such pretty girls an they always say we are." "They would have to look in the stream." .he other answered contemplating hersclf mirrored in the water. "The Antietam is a looking-glass that always flatters ne in my own eyes and 1 think our beaux would like to see the picture." "Humphi" muttered one of the salvages as if preparing for a spring. Just then a fleeing famnily came down the road past the mill and seeing the girls at work gave them notice of the danger. In alarm the sisters began at once to saddle their horses, lint they were as brave as they were pretty, and their neighbors were out. of sight before the horses were ready. The Indians, still crouching in the bushes, nar rowly watched their Intended victims and wer'e taking deliberate aim to slay the de fenceless girls when the Irishman appeared. "'Shure, and you had betther be in a hir ry, the red divils are near," the Irishman cried, and then jassed on, little dreaming that he was leaving the two girls to their fate. Passing over the brow of the hill lie soon disappeared and a mile away lie met Hobby and Argyle descending from a spur of the mountain where they had been all the morning hunting. Quickly comnmuni eating the danger of the Henfrew girls to their lovers, he continued his retreat, while they, well armed and skilled in Indian war fare, hurriedly moved towardls the cottage to save their sweethc;arts from a foe they knew to hi' relentless. Unfortunuately It was then already too late. As soon as the Irishman disappeared over the hill1 the savages . again took deliberate aim, each of,his allotted victim--for there were 6nly two of the monsters--and as the girls were about mounting their horses they both fell dead, pierced by a bullet. The lovers heard the shots and increrased their speed, but before they reached the scene of the tragedy the Indians had made their es cape. The sight that met the gaze of the two men brought anguish to their hearts and tears to their eyes. On the.ground near the door of their cot tage lay the sisters dead and scalped. "Revenge! revenge!" cried Robby, 5sob ping with grief. "We'll pursue the red brutes and punish them for this crime," Argyle answered, re pressing the sorrow at his heart. The hunters lifted the lifeless forms of the murdered girls from the ground and car ried their dead bodies, still warm with the life-blood which had only ceased to flow, into the cotetage. Placing thorn on a couch side by sidb, the men smoothed the few locks that remained over the scalp wounds which the savages had made, and then stood for awhile in silent grief over the inanimiate remains they loved so well. "Revenge! revenge!" Robby again uit tered, sadly movking toward the door. "We must,.find the trail," Araylo said, and closing the door softly behiind him, the hunters started in search of the murderers. It was not long until the trail was struck. It led away to the westward. Pursuing It steadily,.the hunters,were far in the monntemins before nightfall, but the darkness of the night compelled them to de lay their pursuit until the next day. With the dawn they were again on the trail and by noon they had teached Sldeling 11111, e bold spur of the of theo blue mounta ns, far to tihe westward of the Kittochitinny ranges. Above thorm frowned the overhanging rtoeke wvhich give a threatening aspect to the wild mpuntaip..scenery of the. Upper Juniata, while belotthe,n vote the deep gorges and valleys of si singularly picturesque locality. The hot sun of 'neon p6ured 'its blistering rays even upon the mountain side, and the men, who had eaten:nothing and slept but little, began to feel overcorgme with the heat, with fastig and with prejtion, Btfil they did not relatx thir efforts.and as keenly at at the start th,ey lookedi about them for the trnil , "We neist be more:and' mo careful,' Argyle aid. The trailL ias geg frcanei and I tink e are now vewty lose to the brtutes for whorn we are lookWzf." 19qhl miati bpeiibg nThe treed ah.~d'1 lobbya w ediaw jsyr;- "1 sh9uA~ot. snn*&Iif thO'Ztdla ON'er in tI1*J4ot11the nodl(est. ~ cautiouly drew near to th pot inflicated by iRobby and peered throngl sthe co"p with anxious eyes. It wa s a small open glade, and sever wild plum trees fringed its sides. ''The murderers"-there they are," ex claimed Argyle, in a suppressed whisper and at the same moment Robby saw th two savages standing under a plum tree cautiously plucking the fruit and slowl; eating it. Each would carefully reach ul for a plum, pull it olT and then, glancInp round the open area, eat it In a listening at titude. They were so quiet that the only sound that could be heard was the whisper ing breezes. The hearts of the hunters leaped with joy when they saw the monsters, the slayers o their sweethearts, in their po er. "I will take the man under the low hang ing branch to the left, and leave the othe to you," Robby whispered to- his com panion. Again the Indians raised a plum to theii mOuths, looking cautiously round them. "We are not near enough," Argyle an swered, in the same sippressed whisper "we uust not tire until we are near enougl to see the plum seed drop front the moutli of each savage. "Very good, ' Rpbby said; "now let i move upon the enemy." Stealthily the two men crept toward the savages. The Indians were unconscious o the approach of their pursuers, but still or the alert, they reached up for another phu ''he time agreed upon by the white men had come-they had seen the plum seedi drop from the mouths of the savages. Ex changing it took, each understood that the other was ready to lire when the next seed fell. Slowly the plumi was pulled and eater the seeds dropping simultaneously. Simul taneously the hunters fired, and, springing up, they rushed forward to complete theii work, if need be, with their knives. It needed no completion. The bullets had sped with deadly aim and already the savages were still In death. '"The brute!" cried Argyle, stamping up on the heart of the savage and tearing tne scalp from the skull. "The mnonster," Robby exclaimed at the same time showing a similar attention to the other Indian. In the possession of the savages. he lovers found the scalps of their sweethearts and, securing these, they started, hungr) and footsore as they were, to retrace their st eps. The funeral train bearing the bodies of the Renfrew sisters was about to si art for the place of burial. Many sympathizing friends and neigh. bors stood round the double bier, and aiong theni was Pat. Malloy, the Irishman wh< had advised the two girls to hasten their escape. "If they had done as I bid them," Pal said, "they might be here now, livin' an well, and a takin' part, in their own funeral and their two lovers with them. By the by, I wonder what has become of lRobb and Ar gi:e Gone anter tue muraerin' sa v ages I li uld say. I tould them that the red bastes were down here near the mil and thi Ienfrew girls a-saddlin' their horses to get away, and at the, word, over the hills they went like .mad. Nobody has seen aither of thim since." As Pat spoke the hunters were seen ap proaching the house, and the Irishmau's speech was scarcely finished when they en tered the doorway and quietly made their way to the coffin in which the two mur dered girls had been placed. By each o the bodies they laid down two scalps, on taken from the head of one of the savages and the other from that of his victim Neither spoke a word, but their eyes werc filled with tears and their brawny athletic bodies were shaken with an emotion thea could not suppress. "Let us pray," said the demure Presby terian minister who had been summone< from the neighboring village to say the las sad rites for the dead. All knelt around the bier~. Alli-No not all. The hunters stood insensible to every thing around them, gazing Intently at, the faces of the (lead. When the parson's prayer was finlsshe the scalps of the murdered girls and of thel murderers were placed In the coffin with the reinains, the lids of the caskets wveri closed and they were borne to a sequesteret grave on a quiet hillside in view of the his toric stream, the Antetam. The grave may still be seen marked as I is by a flat stone, set edgewise. - It might have been forgotten long er< this hlad not the two hunters, their lover and their avengers, thus marked the spo and with their own hands carved upon thi rude stone In still ruder letters the simpli inscription: REmNFREmw. Hiatting Arnotheor Dy'er's. 'The wonma who was ready to die In de fence of her rights, was escorted out by BI jah 1in Is most gallant manner, and Ito tongue got rightt to work, without any los of tinme. BaI( she: "You see, I was rIpping up my gra: skirt, calculating to have It dyed over phum black, and when I got It ripped, I weon dlown to the dyer's, and, said I, htow mucd to dye thtis beautiftil goods? Says he, can't dye It phuimlack because of the bee stains. Says I, where's beer stains, an< says he, right here, antd here, and here Says I, how dare yout, sir! And says he I'm only telling the trumth. Says I--" "Mrs. Blebee, what does all tIs mean?' interrupted thte Court. "Why, sir, 'haven't you been paying at tention to my legal speech?" "Hlaven't heard a word-ntot a wvord ou are charged with disturbing the peace.' "What peace?" "The1 public peace, madam." "I never did, sir! All I did was to tel that dyer that ho lied, sir, and to ge out c1 the 'walk, and give him my opinion of hin and his shopl There were only two nigger there at all, and they didn't seem die turbed." "Were there any beer stains on th dress?" lie asked. "Never a one, sir. Those stains wer where I had spilled ten andl coffee and I ca1 prove it by my seven children and thre sisters." "Cleopatra didn't go around amontg th~ dye-houbecs and raise rowe," suggested II Honor. "I can't help It if she didn't. .I know m;2 rights and I'll have 'em or~ - rish I" "I shall have to fine yentt5 Mrs. Bebee. "Corret, sir-here is the cash. It wea w6rth the money to tell that man tit whms thought of hIm. I'll go back ada "And get fise~d $10 fpr It," bg pjt;In. Shie, oneidded t, anM takn he t~A4c~pdr ?6rarm she left t1horn "'Tarnal Unto." "'Was the prisoner disorderly ?" ask ed Justiee Wandell, eyeing Dallas _ Barnes, of Blooming Grove. I'a. ot "Only demonstrative, Jedge," Dallas himself iuterru[pted. ''1 challenge the vote if he says anything else only dcm- th onstrative.' Dallas looked like an inIluted I t1l berry Sellers. lat, raiment, gesture all were identical; only lie had more body. "le wasn't very drunk," said tle er oflicer. "Just as you see him." a "Discharged,'' said hl liionor, turn Ing to the clerk. go Dallas caught. the wihisper, hit not the meaning. ch "Look-a-here, Jedge," he literrupt ed. "None o' that whisp'rin. I'm till- kn nal cute, I am, and it takes mor"e'nt one Yorker t' fleece me. ''en dollars 1 shall pay for this drunk ; it's worth cv- ltg cry cent of it, but no more. 'Ten dol- on lars your figure? You can't raise it on ' mec. I won't give a red more." IIe waved a bill and frantically ly. forced it on the clerk. ret "All right," said Ills IIonor, ph1lo- tIn sophically, "as you've fixed the price, at so be it." Dallas cane smiling dtwn. ''Didn't Vol get the best of me, I tell yer," lie nut- kv tered, with a wink. "Cute, wasn't I ? Equal to a whole regiment of Yorkers." I "Yer darned fool, he was a discharg- am Ii' of yer," was forced from the ofilcer he spoke to-the one who had arrested him. "What !" cried Dallas stopping short, I 'r while his jaw fell several inches. 1 ita' 'Ihen lie turned to the bar. ni, "Jedge, this is downright, extortion to -downright, extortion," he said. I T he J ustice bowed blandly.In "I would not for the wiurll disagree wo with so clever a gentlemtntt's estimate tor of a drunk," i' said. "Good-bye; safe $1C home to Pike." f lul 1allas never once gl;uane:d back as he for left the rooli. a b Duwt on the Atlantic, the A bout the latitude of the Uape Verde un Islands on the Atlantic it Is a frequent experi.ence of voyagers to observe falls of red dust and a dry kind of miat. The ' materil d of the dust mass wias examin- he ed mhiroscopically many years ago by siz Elirenberg, and his opinion was that ver small particles carried aloft from c'oun- des tries here formed a transparent diast cl, zone from which they sometimes sank fro down, and in a whirling moment came ral: to the earth's surface. '['he material fan ooservautont opel to Ehirenberg was CO somewhat scanty. Tle phenomenon a v has therefore been lately studied am:,w, lY and in a more thorough way, by Herr Sot Hellman, who examined the log-books lee f 1,196 ships that hied passed through of the region in question during the year net 1854 to 1871, IIe deals with the case str chiefly from meteorological poilt of ant view, and the following are soie of the col facts elicited : Most of the dust fill lov occurs in the zone of the Atlantle be- tIn1 tween 0 deg. and 16 deg. north. South Ci of the 6 (leg. north they are extremely nil rare, and the furthest south hitherto fer was In 2 deg. 50 m. north, 20 deg. west. tra The two furthest west were both in 38 an< dog. 5 in. west, both about 300 miles res from Cape Verde. I)ustfalls often oc- esi cur simultaneously at very diflerent of points of the "Dunklo Meer," or Dark ge Sea (as Ehrenberg called It); in One of' case tbey were 150 miles apart. Thley. tio also of'ten last for several days, e. g. teln ont (April, 1759). Surfaces of very diffe,r- api ent size uip to 100,000 square miles, may is receive dust falls. There Is a yearly pk( p)eriod in the frequency of tige falls, It of seems that near the Afirican coast most anr occur In winteir; further west, ini the ovi early sprIng. The directioni of the wind yel duiring dustfalls was fronm -the east tal quadrant, and most frequently firom tic ntorth-northeast to noirtheast. T1he wl dustfalls observed are veiry Irregularly Ml dIstrIbuted over the yeat's In questIon, bIh SOf slxty-three, taken at r'andom, there al1 were eight falls of' sand( and three of to isd or' dlust. Somletimes santd and -eri dus't fall simutltaneously. i'Te (dust pa falls with great ex'enit east and( wvest inj aire denser nlearer' the Afrlcani coast. Til In forty out of sixty-fIve instainces L:ie 1)0 ecolor of the dust was red. Someties me t there is no coloratIon. Th'le (ry m1ist fr< on the Dark Sea la in casual -connectin Its withl dustfalls. Herr Hleliman eon- ml eludes from the facts that thle (lust ma- i1k terhal Comeis pintcipally froni AfrIca. its and Western dahlara. 'Thle possibility thia of occasional mIxture of' partIcles f'rom ex South America is not excluded. The distributIon of the diistfalls, both in space and in time (they follow thle , movements of the trade winds) sup- ~ ports the hy'pothlesis, as also does the zot tact that thme falling material is coarser dir In the East than In the West. -vol History of ratagomia. t api HIe wvalked up to the bar and called for a cigar. T1he man int attendance the laid out a box, from which he0 selected tra one, put It into his mouth, and laid teoi down five cents. HIe was abottollght tra it, when the bartender leaned over and inl SsaId : tri "Five cents, please." "1 just gave you flye cenits." dlr "I know you did," weint ont the it other, "but that is a ten center." thet 3Tile young man felt .throu~gh Is wil Iclothles, but ho couldn't find any more for money. pr~ "I thlink you'll have to put that on enl the slate." p14 "We keep nione, sIr," responlded the Cc bartender.co *"Well, now, you can~ bet I'm aquare, tn atgl as i haven't money euough to pay abi r. you in full, I'l1 just .out this, olgar in Al( . tie middle," Mt the sande tigne off'ering dli one (4 the man behind the bar, oni "h'Iere's your other live cents." ''That aln't business, I want mnoney.' "You do wint money ?'' tterietd the ter with emphasis. Yes, I do.'' 'Doyoui waut muney iore than any iug else i tit- world ?'' It do; it's all I work for." 'WoIld you be willing to work very very hard ?" 'Yes, sir." 'Well, Iknow where r.he waiit. sev tl men to whom they give a cmmis n of 25 per cent. l'he bartender had by this time for tten all about the unpaid for cigar. '1)o you think youi coild get me a lince?" lie said. 'Do I think so? Of coirse 1 do! - 1 ow it. My utcle is lie proprietor." 'Ilave another cigar." L'he cigar was prom pt.ly accepted aa.d hted after whlieh the hartender went ''What are you going to drink ?'' 'Give mei a beer." te swallowed the beer pretty quick After he laid the glass down he narked that he felt rather chilled ; t the beer wa ; a little cooler titan lie tlrst' anticipated it would he. 'Wont you take sometting to warm t up? Now how would a hot will s go?" 'First rate let's have one.'' Ie swallowed it wiped his mouth, I went on 'Now, about this businits. I believe y guarantee you somethihg like $10 diiy, and you have to put in no cap I, execpt your time and brains. It's e, easv work ; all you have to do is walk into a parlor, ask to see -the y of the house, and tell her you uld like her to buy from you a Ills 3' of Patagonia, in seven volunes, at per volume. Then you get on.. trter-$17i.50. Isn't that good pay ten minutes talking ?" 'lie bartender didn't reply, but made ce line for the mai who had duped . The latter dodged the well tnt kick of his pursuer. which ai st took the knob otY t.he loor. The Giant Rum ntig Dird. 'lie giant humining bird of Chill is largest t,f its family. and besides its ditiYers from all the rest in sonme y noteworthy respects. Mr. Gould cribes It as a bold and vigorous fly quick in all Its actiors, passing mn flower to flower with the greatest lidity. Unlike other speeles of its illy It ntln.' be free nent ly s .n ,nl.b on dome Pmall tree v a,rnb. It has cry extensive distribution over near all the more southern portions of ith American. M. Warszewic col ted specimens in Bylivla at i height iearly fourteen thousand feet. The t is a somewhat large, cup-shaped Licture composed of mosses, lichens 1 similar materials put together with >webs and placed in the fork of a branch of a tree, gemierally one tt overhangs it turbulent stretan. ariles Darwin, in his narrative Jour i of the voyage of the "Beagle," re a to this species as a resident, of een I Chili during the breeding season, .1 bhi account of it (lifters, in some pects, from those of other writers, eielally that relating to the ats tie.3 the rapid vibrations of the wings, lerally suiposed t.o be a peculiarity all humming-birds, without excep n. lie states that this species, when the wing, presents a'very singular pearanlce. Like others of the family inoves from pilace to place with at ra lty whieh may lie compared to that syrphus among flies, and the sphinlx ong moths; but while hovering r a flower, it flaps its wings wvith a ry slowv and powerful movement, to ly different from that vibratory mo. nl commion to most of the sp)ecies and dech produces the h.umminug noise. .Darwin had tnever seen any other d the force of wings appelHared (as in mntterfly) so powerufl ini proportion the weight of its body, Wh'len hoy ng by a Ilower, its tall was being ex nd(ed and shut like a fan, the body be ( kept In a nearly vertieal position. is actIon appeared to steady and sup rL the bird betweeni the slowv move mnts of its wings. A lthough it flow >m flower to flower In search of food, stomach contained abundant re tins el insects which Mr. Darwin be ved to lie imuch moire II objects of search than honey. Its note, like 1it of nearly the whlole family, was tremely shrill. Italiway Optical I)elusions. When a landscape is observed from a ving train, all objccts to the remote hori appear to be passing in the contrary ection, those nearest having the greatest ocity. Consequently if the attention be 3d upon any object at some distance fronm line, all objects beyond will relatively ear to be moving forward with the train vhile objects nearer appear to be moving ~kward. Tho combined effect is to make landscape appear to be revolving een Ily round whatever point we fix our at ition upon. Rain seen fromi a moving in always scorn to fall obliquely (except a very strong gale in the direction of the in's motion) in a direction opposite to it of the motion of the train. But if an Ler train happens to pass in an opposite ection, and we look out at this and follow vith our eyes, rain-drops falling.between two trains will scorn to be flying forward th ourselves. If we stand upon the plat mi of a station and watch a train ap >ach, the end of the engine appears to argo or sWell as it approaches and oceu * a larger area of the field of vision. nversely, the end of the last cat of a re ating train appears to shtink doiwn and tract as itdimaishes in gare*t nagn1 1e. An observor of some'sliht elevation ve a railraeein to trMn p ng the 1hies ta mi~iofe ections 'will reeive ofi~prt I long train moeving round cr.l Stuh, of tiho Titnes and Othertisuo4. BY D). W. CUnRT1s. The antiquity of signs which were fornil erly mostly pictorial, is very great. They can be traced back as far as Egypt, and in the excavations at Pompeii there have been found pictures of winged cupids with shoes in their hands, which are now so often seen on store cards; the "Bush," and porters bearing a wine cask, figured in front of a wine store, while a cow gave notice that milk was sold on the premises. A full description of these necessary ad juncts to trade, their history and influence on the public, would ill a large hook and should be illustrated. I will, lhowever, miake mention of a few Odd ones,'as well as other facts. Before education was so widely dif fused and newspaper adverlising, and home numbering made signs a mere guide board, they were of much greater importance than now. '[The general public easily understood the rude pictures, although they would have been unable to read lettered ones. In 1195 the British house of Commons proposed to raise over half a million poumds by a tax on signs, which they averred could be (lone with "great ease.'' Pictures of a dead dog and the words "Trust is dead" &c., figures of Turks,' In dians, &c., for tobacconists, plows for ag r cultural stores, and many other similar ones have been in use for centuries. Sign painters are responsible for many droll looking signs by their Improper use, or neglect of the rules of nunctuation as well as of bad spelling. Unlike printers, they cannot readily correct their proofs. Her are a few comical mistakes: % A Wood Smith, Lamb Butcher ; Fre Sheggs, Moon Gilder. There is a colored artist in lime in Wash ington by the appropriate name of Black, whose sign reads "A Black white and colored Whitewasher." Ilere are some more odd ones Fresh Sea water sold here. Sage & Gos ling, and Rumlit and Cutwell tailors. Wood & Carpenter Read & Wright. The largest sign-board in this country is in Florida. It may be plainly read at a dis tance of six miles and is a sign worth pay ing for. It shows tourists on the St. John's river the location of "Or.unge Park," and measures 200 feet in length and each of the ten letters are twelve feet high and fifteen feet wide. Signs are more numerous and ornamen tal, it Is said, in America than in English cities, though we do not use the emblems of trade to any great extent and have nearly done away .with the old custom of nmmuing houses like vessels. Window and other in-door signs ire a new and distinct variety. Such odd signs as .Jane Smith and Brotjer are sometimes met, with. The study of sign boards from an English point. of view is much more interesting than names of the public houses alone giving ample employment. An interesting book called the "Hlistory of Sign Boards" treats fully on the matter. The comical names of some of the public houses in England Is attributable to corruption of spelling and is true to the pronunciation of the word - itself thus : "Bacehanals," became Bag o' Nails, "Caton Fidele," the Cat and Fiddle. Signs in the old countries were often taken like trade marks in the utilitarian age, from the coats of arms of families. The names of streets were In turn often de rived from a public house bearing a well known sign. An Electrical Lady. In Nevada City resides a lady of high social standing who presents a singular case for the consideration of scientists. For many years she has been afilicted with acute neuralgic pains In various parts of' the body, and, some time ago hoping for relief, resorted to the use of an electric battery. She used the ap paratus for six months but found nore 1ief. At this time nothing was noted of an unusual character as the result, and although several months have since elapsed, It was only when the winter cold weather comumenced that an extra. ordhiary symiptom followed. One night in the winter thme lady had occasion to enter a dark roomi and ple0k up a a woolen coat which was lying there As she did so she was both surprised and frIghtened to observe a bright light surrounding the hand that hel the garment. A t the same time the' elec tric current p)assedl along the arm shoeking her quite severely. When her husband was told of the fact hedis credited.its reality, thinking there was more itmmaginatlon than anything else In it. So the next evening, to convince her incredulous better half, she turned the gas out in the room whore they were sitting, and letting her hair down began combIng it. A remarkable dis play of light wuas the reut. T'he sparks fiew aroutnd In -every dIrection and there was a sharp, crackling sound as the teeth of the comb passed between thme hair. in laying her hmands upon Iron thme lady does not observe the p)0 culiarities roferred to, but the instant she touches a wvoolen cloth the fire be gins to fly andl the shocks follow one another in rapid succession. Death of a "Robber King." Tho Hutngarian papers an'mounce the death mn the prison of Szamos-UJvar, of the celebrated .bandit, Rosza Sandor, known in Hungary as the "robber King." He was born et Szejedin in 1813, and both his father and grand father were robbers by profession. His achievements, however, soon eclipsed those of his family, and hie was admir ed as much as ho was feared. The reck less courage with which ho attacked the police, and even military escorts, on the high road in broad daylight, his generosity toward ti,. poor, and his gallantry toward women made hism a sort of national hero. Some thirty years ago few' people of the wealthier olasses ventured to travel in) Hungary withott paying himu tylbute, His bands Wver6 well armed and organized, and the e,egony logenyaE ( poor fp9low) as *e 'batudita w e aled I ~bsa~), ~ ~ong tepsn k4~~ prisoned in 1836, butescaped in the fol lowing year by the assistance of' hie miistress, a peas ant woman named Kati, whose husband he had killect by blow ing his brains out with a pistol. Dur ing the revolution of 1848, Iosza San dor was pardoned by Kossuth, and he then organized a free corps which did good service against the Government troops. After the suppression of the rising, Sandor resumed his former ca reer, lie did not again fall into the hands of the authorities until 185U, when lie was betrayed by one of his compantions, whom he shot as the sol diers were advancing to capture him. After at trial which lasted three years, Sandor was sentenced to be hanged, but the sentence was coamute) to im - prisoi ment for life, Ile remained eight years in ,he fortress of Kufstein, and was then set at liberty by virtue of a general amnesty. But he soon resun. ed his old pursuits. In 1868 he attaek edl with some of hais conpanions, a rail way train at Felegyhaiza. The Govern nent sent a body of' troops. under Count Gedeon Raday, to capture him; and four years later lie was again brought. before the eriminal tribunal, together with a number of his aaccom pices, among whom were several mag istrates and high civic functionaries le was again sentenced to death, and the sentence was again commuted to imprisonment for life. The prison to which he was thein sent. is the one in whlahi he died. The Wrong Main. When Thomas Mann IRandolph was Gov ernor of Virginia, he was once arrested within a few hundred yards of his home and carried a prisoner to his own house. The Governor was on a visit to his home, and finding that the fencing on his plantation was pulled down and burned by wagoners passing along from the valley to ltichmond, he determined to detect and punish them. One evening he observed a party go into camp on the roadside, and after dark he strolled down to a point where he could conveniently watch them. lie staid out all night but the wagoners made no depreda tions on his fences. In the early morning, however, when they were about to kindle a fire to prepare breakfast, they started out to gather up what fuel they might find for that purpose, when they spied a man sitting on a fence a short distance ahead. Now, it appears that. it short time before Governor Randolph had issued his proelamation, of fering a reward for the capture of an es caped horse thief, and the wagoners, who had seen a description of the convict, thlarittthe diRCVere a clq rgn caped felon. Ho thoroughly satisfied were they that they would receive the reward for his arrest that they approached and ant nounced that he was their prisoner. One of them proposed, as he cracked his wagon whip, to give him a thrashing and then let him go, but his companion protested that it was proper to ascertain whether he was the guilty party before inflicting the punish ment, and proposed to take hin to the resi dence of Gov. lRandolph, which was near by, and get his advice. Accordingly they marched their prisoner up to the house, and knocking at the front door, a servant made his appearance, of whom they in quire(': "is your master at honme ?" The man opened his eyes in astonishment at the inquiry and replied, vointing to the Governor, "That's master.' It is said that the Goyernor then promptly confirmed the statement of the servant, and joined heartily in the laugh that followed. lie then told the man who had p-rop.osed to whip hin without the opportunity of de fense to remain outsidie and lhe would send him a morning diranm, at the samue tIme uan buttoning his coat and exposing a pair of horse pistols, and remarking that ho should certainly have used thoem had an attempt been made to carry the threat of castigat,ion into excntion. The other wagoner lie in vited to join him in a hot breakfast. The Antiquity of Weavling The earliest records of time art of weaving are to be found In the Old Testament. Pharaoh arr'ayed Joseph in "vestures of fine hnen," and Job lamented that his days were swifter than thme wveavers shuttle, the uisc of the simile proving fthat the shuttle was a commnon and1( well-known object at the time. Portions of woven cloth and a weaver's shuttle have been found among the remiiins of the Lake dIwellinigs, and as the latter are believed to belong to the stone age, the origin of the art may possibily have been nearly coIncident with thme exIstence of man. Few if any savage raceshave been discovered altogether ignorant of the art, and many of them have brought it to a con siderable degree of perfection; while the relics of the ancient Peruvians and Egyp (lane show that they were skilled weavers. Sanme fragments of Egyptian cloth were found, on examination, to be woven with threads of about 100) hank to time pound, with 140 threads to thme inch in thme warp, andi 64 in the woof. Although the art was practiced extensively, and with no mean skill, in very ancient times, it progressed slowly and gradually-by small steps, at long intervals. 'The great advances in the.' art of weaving have been mamdo during the past 800 years, mainly during the past cen tury. _______ Diamndsn Unieartheud. As love without esteem is volatile and capricious, esteem without love Is languid and cold. Hie that falls Into sin is a man; that grieves at it may be a saInt ; that boasteth of it Is a devil. A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. Short, isolated sentences was thme mode in which ancient wisdonm delighted to. convey its precepts for the reguilation of human con duet. Yea I this is life. Meko this forenoon sublime, this afternoo: a' pslmj this nmIgl$t a prayer, and timlo las conqutetd and; thy crown Is won~ a Cbiidesstging b6~1it Paradise: elear iIudtte tt t1Iiilips #xid or liin#ofate~ Tum Flisneam Claims. Sinytig to at n.lier, oaie' of a family, ''What Iaiy led you to uane this cliia ''itu Finnegan ?" he reDled : "Well, stranger, it was at Prescott, and inc and Tuscan Jake was playin' a game of cursock, Jist fur the drinks, you know, wuen in comes one of them cramv, blood-thirsty blood-houids that turns loose in mining camp-, some times, ripped out his six-shooter and shot the barkeeper dead; and thou turning on me and Jake. he said : "'Now, either of' yen move an inch, anti I'll blow the top of your--lieads otl'!' We know'tl he'd do It. Thhr was th'e barkeeper dead, aid thar was the pistol iluted right at ts. It was fear ll ; we dari.u't take a full breath. Jake's feellns worked on himi so pow erfiilly that ie coildi't keep still; he hitehed around a little. Quick as light,nin a bullet laid him at my feet. Now the pistol was turned towards me with the muzzle within three feet of my face, .ad tha eyes of the scoundrel fairly blazed as ie said : " -Move, move- you, Jist the tenth part of an inclt !' ''It was the mtost horrible time of any life. 'ihee sweat stood on my face like cobble-stones. I knowed he'd kill me, if I moved a inger, and it seemed all the time that I was going to move in spite of unyself. I even wished that he would shoot te, and have itall over with. Jist then a pistol lashed behind the wild beast, and he fell dead in his boots. Tim Finnegan had gottoo much whiskey early in the evening, amd stretched himself out on some barrels in the corner and went to sleep. The shots that had killed the barkeeper and Jake waked him. And being sobered by his nap, he, nubeknownst to me and the iturderer, very easily and gradual ly drew his pistol and sont the blood hound to kingdom comle." "You tled from the scene of horror ?" "I hngged and kissed Tim." "'hat is the name of this prospect in front of us?" "Tiii Finnegan No. 2." "The one on the right?" ''Ti in Finnegan No. 3' "And this on the loft?' ".im Finnegan No. 4.' "Ilow many locations have you on this hill?" "Sixteen.'' h[ow is it that you have No. 19, and only sixteen locatons?'' "My boy, and my (log and my horse is 'T'im Flnnegan No. 16,17 and 18. "Yoa have not nitimed your wife that.?" "No: but If I diled 'fore her and Tim -Ie's a t>alelor--[ wait her to be Mrs. Tim11 Finnegan." Statlstios for Girls. A young English statistician who was paying court to a young lady,-thought to surprise her with his immense erttdltion. Producing his' note-book, she thought lie was about to indite a love sonnet, It was slightly taken aback by the followlhg htues tion :a "How many meals do you cat_a day?" "Why, three, of course; but of all the oddest questions-" "Never mind, dear, I'll tell you ill about It In a moment." ils peneil was rapidly at work. At last, fondly clasping her slender waist: "Now, my darling, I've got it, anid if you wish to know how much has paused - through that adorable little mouth In the last seventcen years, I can 'give yotl the exact figures." "Goodness IG(raelousi What cap. you inean?" "Now just listen," says he, "ang you will hear exactly what you hav~e 'been obliged to.absorb to maintain those charms which are to make tihe happiness 6f my life." , "But I don't want to bear." .. "All, you are surprised ~o doubt, but statiRtles are wonderful thiiag.' J.uet liaton. You are now eevenateen years old, so that in fifteen years you have QbsreJ,--qIqp or calves, 5; sheep and lambs, 14; chohekens, 827; clucks, 204; geese 1 .turkeys, 100; game of various kinds 824, fiihes, '160; eggs, 8,124; ve'getables (bunchesi) 200; fruit, (baskets,) 608; ,cheese, 10$; bread, (barrelp,) 11; water, (getllona,)89Q At thIs the maiden i'eVolte, ana ing up, exclaimed: 'i "I think you are very imprtiInn'tf'and disgustiag besides, an4 MlI n9t-61,ay to listen to youl!"upon wh)ich,spefie)y W9 the house. lie gazed after her with ar' aI At:&ek air, and left,.saying tohimiself: . "If she kopt talking at that rate, -twelve hours out of twenty-four, her. jewaaroilld in twenty years, travel a dIstanc9 o M854124 mites. The maiden, within tuvo theaths; sniied a well-to-do grocer, who *as no statiatfolan. A reaunsa but Nsstve cure Harr Stanley, atesided has suffered severely pi1 t rheumnatim. IFrom a at hetba was reduced almost to ak th especia)ly the orq, prq M the -cords andn casew9 toe 1 of the buth b su the id6a of bathin lv He was taked to ~o~t ing Warm bIoofris maim.A son tt~ hislosjiywn4