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W INNSBORIO, S. C., AUG UST 30,189VO.1.-.9. 'MI-WEEKLY EDITION. THE RIVER OF LIFE, Tihe more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages: A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gledsone current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Stoals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. But as the careworn choek grows wan, -nd sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Ye stare, that measure life to man, Why seem your coarsos quicker? When joys bavo lost their bloom and breath And lit itself is vapid. Why, yo we near the Falls of Death, Feel we its tide moro rapid ? It may be strange, yet who would change Time's course to slower speeding, When one by one our friends are gone And left our bosoms bleeding ? Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fle?tnese ; And those of youth, a seeming length Proportioned to their sweetness. A Neat Way to Propose. I)r. Gershain throw himself wearily into the great arm-chair in Mrs. Hyde's cozy sitting room. He had just returned from a professional visit, and a long ride in the cold and wind had given him a severe head ache. The doctor was Mrs. Hyde's board er, but he had been so long in the family that he seemed like one of them. Queenie Brian, Mrs. Hyde's niece sat by the window busy with some needle-work. Queenie was a brilliant, slender little thing of seventeen, with short boyish curls, and big, roguish brown eyes. On the death of her parents years before, she had been adopted by her aunt. Queenle was wayward, willful and bewitching, and riled right royally in the little village of Wayland. Her cousins, Tom and Johnny Hyde, were her devoted slaves, and she alternately petted and teased them. Only of Dr. Gershain was she shy ; and some times lie even was not quite safe from her wild pranks. But afterward ho would in variably find a peace-offering in the shape of some favorite delicacy on the tea-table, or perhaps his dressing-gown and slippers comfortably warmed and ready for him on his return from a long, tedious ride. It is not to be supposed; however, that she confessed to any of these weaknesses. I am afraid, on the contrary, that my small heroine manufactured innumerable fibs when questioned closely. I)r. Gershai had grown wise through experience, and generally accepted these little favors with a smile and but few words. On the afternoon of the opening of my story, as the stalwart figure In the arm chair gave a long sigh of weariness and pain, Qucenie threw the work aside and ran from the room. She returned presently with an armful of cushions, which she arranged in vitingly on the .1unge, and wheeling it closer to him, motioned the doctor to the impromptu couch. He smiled and obeyed her gesture, catch ing her hands as he sank back on the pil lows. "Why did you do this, Queenle ?" She laughed archly, trying to release her self. "I don't know-I guess because I love you." "I)o you-do you ?" he asked, his face flushed eagerly. "I don't know. Do you love me ?" "Alt I have you need to ask me that, girlie l Kiss me ?" He endeavored to draw her face down to to his, but she slipped from his grasp. "I shall not kiss you, because the man whom I kiss of my own free will will be my future husband I" and awvay she danced, saluting Torn in the hail with a merry jest. I)r. Gersham sighed. I She is only a child," he said; "a bright, beautiful, hia y child. 1 will be thirty two years o to-morrow-too eld and steady for a little humming-bird like Qucenie." Seve-al evenings later, Queenie entered the library where the doctor sat reading his journal. "Doctor, see if I don't look nice." "0, don't bother me I" he answered, shortly, burying himself still deeper in his journal. "Humnph I Cross thing I I am going with Charlie Vill skating on the creek. There is sure to ho a crowd, and I want to know if I look nice." He put his psper aside and looked at her. it was impossible to help admiring Queenig at any time, and in her jaunty skating cos tume, she was more bewitching than ever. But the doctor only said, as .he struggled with the passionato love In his heart, "You are a vain little thing-you look well en ough." . Q ~ 'ueame shook her skates .together with a musical clash, tried to frown on him, and laughed instead, then asked with mock gravity: "Do you love me as well as you did last Truesday?" *"Yes." Queenie hesitated a moment, swayed to ward him, a roguish dimple coming at one corner of her mouth;1 then her warm breatl swept his face, a. with a sudden movement she turned and loft the prints of her wicke white teeth on his cheek I The riext in stant she had flown, while her tantahzing laugh floated back to the solitary man is the library. Dr. Gersham was a great lover of mnusic; and a handsome organ, his property, occu pied one corner of the parjor. One afternoon, In the -early sprn'<h dloctor was singing, and accompany self on the organ. Hie had thoug'h 41i the sole occupant of the room, and drifted presently,- Into grnd old hymns, soleinr chlants'and weir dirges. Tfhe dee p voic4 rose magnif1elon Surely Dr. Gershanx might well be pibd of his voice. .IHi paused to look ~t some tausic In the rack and.there was a mom*np' silence, brokem suddenl1b ow4h The doctor turnet and saw ueh0oled u In the recess o a windoW . vrbfw'during all bli acquaita jhl~; b4 e seen th child the inow an took u~j'Via i and wouldn't let me go, though I wantec to so much." The doctor laughed. "Queenie, you are an incorrigible sinner Who will be responsible for all your fibs ? "You will-won't you, doctor?" turnini her soft cheek to his. For a moment he strained her close I his arms; then putting her away from him he went silently to his own room. Thus the days went. Sometimes Dr dersham half hoped that Queenie was learn ing to love him. But no sooner did he en denvor to winl one serious word from he than sho was off, with her head full of som new mischief. Mi;. Hyde looked on, not daring to in terfere, for she sympathized with the doe tor, and knew, in tht, depths of her womar ly heart, that he was just the one to guld and protect her wild little niece. But sli was also aware that if Queenie yielded her self to him, it would not be through tit dictation of a third person Onb morning in the early part of Juni while Queonie was dusting and arrangin the parlor, Mrs. Hyde looked in at the doe and said, regretfully : "Queenie, dear, Dr. Gersham is going t leave us next week. lie will return to hi former home in Virginia. I do not suppos we shall ever see him again." She ceased abruptly, for Queenie, drop ping her duster, had vanished, with flushed face and quivering mouth ; and moment after Mrs. Hyde heard the soun of the girl's chamber door as it closed be hind her. The lady raised the duster and went o with the work, while a significant sniil hovered about her lips. "Strange child I She loves him, and wi not confess it, though there is not the sha dow of a reason why she should not." That afternoon, Queenie wandering alon the piazza, cathe upon Dr. Gersham stretch ed at full length on a settee. He appeare to be sleeping, and Queenie paused to lool at him, showing, for once, all her earnes little soul in the expression of her eloquen eyes. She bent over him, her cheek flushin and her breath, coming quickly. and Dr. Gersham, lying in a half dream, fel the pressure of a warm, tender mouth, fui on his. lie opened his eyes suddenly, and sav Queonie's white dress just fluttering aroun the corner of the house. Dr. Gershau knew better than to follow her. He werl up to his room quite happy. "She loves me," he said, with a quie smile. And he remembered her words o a few months before : "The man whom I kiss of my own fre will, will be my future husband." Dr. Gersham laughed softly to himself "Ai, my little lady I You and I wi have a reckoning this evening I" But he was mistaken ; for Queenie wa missing at tea-time. Mrs. Hyde informe him that she had gone to visit a girl frieni in the village, and would not return fc several days. Not until the evening before the doctor departure for the South did she make h< appearance, and it was a very solemn littl face that. he saw when he confronted her i the June twilight, and led her into the gar den, where the old apple tree was droppinj its tinted blooms. Littlq Queenie seemed suddenly to hav lost her roguishness and self-possession and looked the very picture of shame an discomfiture, with her crimson face an heavy-lidded eyes. The doctor evidently had no idea of let ting her escape him. "Queenie, I am going to tell you about strange dream I had the other day." "I guess I think-that is, auntie wi want me now," she stammered, lookin wishfully toward the house. "Auntie cannot have you now, because propose to keep you myself, at least till relate my dream and get your opinion of ii You must know that I was asleep on th piazza, and it seemed as though somebod kissed me with two very sweet little lips and furthermore, I dreamed that it was b the same little girl who made the remarlk some time ago, that the man thus favore would be her fuiture husband." -lHe paused, holding both her hands I his, and looking at her drooping, crimso face. 0, Queenie, Queenie 1 how your face dl burn I And how the old apple tree seeme to whirl about I And how your heart di pound and pound in its prison, trying tli best it knew how to make its voice hear in that dreadful silence I "Queenie," the doctor's laughing vokc was softened and tender as he drew her his'arms, where she was glad to hide hi hot face on his broad shoulder-"litt Queenie, don't be ashamed of loving. Is God's sweetest gift to his children-tI capacity for affection. Think how Ion Iyou have played at cross purposes with mm darling. I might have gone away to ti South without this satisfaction, if it had ni been for that lucky kiss. Ah, that remin< me-I will take another, if you please!I" He was laughing again now, and Queen clung a little closer to him with a quick ge ture. "0, ,no, no I I cannot. I never ca "You must got used to it, lady bird, an you may as wveil begin to practice now." He slipped a ring from his watch chai --a diamond, with a quaint gold setting and p ut it on her slender fere-finger. "This was my mother's ring, Queenie, he said, reverently,-"she died years ag I will give it to you as a token of my love. She turned hon cheeks to his with. movement that was scarcely a caress, was so soft and timid, but she did n speak. "Now, dear, I will take that kiss, at then I will go, for I have an engagement the villake. N~ext fall I shall return fro YVh'glnia to claim my little wife. Come, will gi#e you just two minutes in which kiss me 'of your own free will,' just as y< did on the plase." le drew- out his watch - nd waite Qeenle' standing, directly before hIh laghdnervohsly, and finshed and .tret bled still hesitating. Nevet was' the a rumore timid, bashful creatutne; now th she was fairly conquered.she disred niot evi lift her eyes; to -his face, "Onel inute more, said the doctc standing, watc n hand, like grim Pate. "O, dear" gueen e d' and lodki about her fearfully, as thuhshe we ''about to do somethin draiu1 and th aiddel lifted tw~ or uxi0k lips, I lnw" she dd. M4Once. age Dr),. Gersham felt the sh t~aeof ti fe ntmouth on his,Ql thi tie 1 The ndxt morning, just before his depar ture, the doctor had a conversation in the library with Mrs. Ilyde, and as he re-enter I ed the sitting-loom he overheard Johnnie's exclamation to Tom: "Thomas J. Hyde I Qtcenie has the doctor's ring on her finger. What does i that mean ?" "It means," said )r. Gersham, "that I want you to take good care of Queenie un til next September, and then there will be - a wedding right here." - And there was. Aunerioa'a Wheat FIelin. _ The area of territory which Vemon - Smith points out as the future empire of - wheat production is in that part of British 1 e America beginning at Lake Winnipeg ; it e extends over the valleys of the Upper and . Lower Saskatchewsn, extending respec e tively 1.054 arid 1,082 milles westward to the Rocky Mountains ; both of those rivers are navigable, and, with the Assiniboine, t Red tRiver, and others, empty into Lake 1 Winnipeg. The two Saskatehewans drain t what is known as the "fertile belt," con- i , taming not less than 90,000,000 acres of the t a finest wheat land. These rivers and their t e tributaries are 10,000 miles in length, and I are navigable 4,000 miles. Lake Winnipeg f . empties through Nelson's River into liud- I son's Bay, and the writer looks forward to the time when vessels will leave Winnipeg bearing the wheat of that country to Eu rope. This immense region, lying just t north of the American line, includes 2, 984,000 square miles of territory, while the l area of the whole United states is put t down at 2,933,000 square miles. Includ- t ing the portions of Quebec, Ontario, and ( I the other dominion provinces, Canada i measures 3,346,000 square miles, whilst t a .)Europe contains 3,900,000. This wheat t region, which is yet almost unknown, it is I claimed, has a soil as well adapted to wheat and as fertile as that of Minnesota, and its i t capacity for production is almost unlimited. t t Once peopled and put under cultivation, it r will be able to produce wheat in such t quantities and of such quality as will render wheat cultivation in Europe as unprofitable i t as it has already become in England, and 1 as it is rapidly becoming in France and the 1 other western nalions of Europe. This es timate of the wheat-fields of British Amer ica, and of their magnitude and produc tiveness, leaves out of view altogether the - t wheat-growing districts of tle United States. Wheat-raising will of course cease t to be profitable in all the states east of the < Alleghanies ; western wheat will be sold < there cheaper. than it can be produced in New York or Pennsylvania. Indeed, Ohio I already finds it more profitable to put the I land to other productions. The wheat producing field in the United States is I moving westward, and in a brief time will be confined to the states of Illinois, Michi- t gan, Wisconsin, Kansas, part of Missouri, i Nebraska, Minnesota, Dakota; with por- I r tions of Montana and Wyoming, not in cluding the states on the Pacific. The a great area of British Amnrina, whosa drain- t r age falls into Lake Winnipeg, will, how o over, eventually beccme the great wheat growing region, capable of supplying the I world with bread. The picture of this ter- I ritory and of Its fertility, and of its adapta- I tion to wheat, is not overdrawn. Wonderfni btories. Alberto Do Serpo Pinto is either one I of the greatest adventurers of all time or a second Munchausen. lie claims to have just reached the eastern coast of Africa from an overland journey. He belonged to a Portugese exploring l party. Before starting for the interior i the explorers met Stanley at Loando, and received some important advice and Information from him. The 'first objective point was Bihe, a large place a east of Benguela. Here .Pinto wvasI yr taken sick and was loft by his comnpanr I ons, who went In a i)orthleasterly di-. F rection. 01) hIs recovery 1he fitted up seventy-four damaged rifles, wvhmeh had been left by Lieut. Cameron In the country. For theselie prepared alarge a number of cartridges. From Bibe.our traveler was accompanIed by four hun 3 dred men, and the daughter of the black i king, who provided the m. She wanted to miarry him but thIs honor he de Scliied, on the ground that lie already1 had one wife in Portugal. He made e many important explorations of the 0 Zambesl and its branches, fought bat r tics with the natives, and when he ereached the Dutch-English settienments SIn Kaffraria had lost all but seven of his escort. T1hese seven, all camnibals, we believe, lie took with him.to Europe. e Is most sensational discovery, thoug. t perhaps not his most Important, for hi IS has brought home many maps and the records of many observations, was that e of a tribe with features like the Hot * tentots, yet white as Europeans and pe rfectly baidheaded. T1his is decided ni yImportant, If true, whlichl we are in, cliiied to doubt. d ~ A Wonsmn's Glove. n A woman's glove is to her what a - vest pocket is to a man. But It is more ,capacious, and In n inety-nine instances out of a hundred it is much better reg-. " ulated. A man will carry two hun a udred' dollars .worth of small change, it four matches, half a dozen of tooth 1t pidks, a short pencil, and yet not be d able to find a nickle, or a match, or a Stoothpick, or a pencil or a eard, when a he wants it. Not so with a womab. I 'She has the least bit of a glove and in 0 .that glove she carries the tiniest hand uI and a wad of bills and thits memoranda of hier intendemd purchmase of dry goods and cat' tickets, and matinee checks and ~.maybe a diminutive powder bag. -We re have no idea how she (does it--how she at ma'nages to squeeze those thou'sand anid n one* things into that.woe spade.' I46, she does it every timne, adthe glove iplethoric, or riffiled. And awhen a re woman wants any article concealed in aboat.that glove, she ,de.esn't have ,h least trouble in the world get#ing qt it. n Althla$ is required is a simple tti of the wrist, the dilsappearanoe df two Ofat7 ngera, and th~e desh'ei ~i e i e ruht tolighti it I6 is woll A Floating Naturalist. Captain Waterman, of the ship 11amill Fish, of the Black Ball Line, New Yor nay be called a floating naturalist. 'I' ::aptain recently invited a friend whovisil him on the ship into a room, which was conbination of conservatory, aquarium a r.oo. Above in the windows were i troplical plants, and the captain said th were still more in the steward's roo Jlobes of fishes were hanging from nai and two snakes lay dorniat in anotl )O(edet globe. '"These snkes," said he, "are gla makes. They're really not snakes, but I long to thc lizardl famnily. They're call Iass-snakes, becalbse if you strike tht hey fall to pieces. Those plants right ov our head caine from Cnlifornia. IIere' )lant in this tube ini which you can see t ap circulating. Now, here's something vant to show you, and if they're all 'ou're the first man in this country thn een them." Captain Waterman then tgok down fr< i hook a tube-shaped-bottle that was apt ently empty of everything save water. I et the bottle on a table and then w< baft to attend to some bsiness. The : )orter looked at the bottle and for a tih aw nothing. Then there were two or thi ittle flashes of rainbow light that sudden lisappeared. The captain came back. "I hope they're alive," said he. "Y hey are. Do you notice that iridescene WVell, it's generally been supposed that. t )l>osphorescence at aea has been caused hese little crustacea. .I never believed th ind I have for a long time been trying napture some of them. I succeeded ti royage, off Montauk Point, where the ire millions of these fishes, and I fou hat the iridescence is caused by th ninute scales." These little flashes that Captain Wat( nan had preserved so carefully were alm( oo small for measurement. They cot eadily be seen, however, darting about lie boutle in which they were imprisome "I have a number of them mounted nicroscopic slides," said the Captain, as >roduced a box out of a locket. This b icing opened showed a number of pieces class, each holding a little grayish objo rhe iridescence was all gone. "Do you carry a microscope with you sked the reporter. The Captain laughod. "I carry five of them," he answered. ought to, for I am a member of five micr opical societies. Look here." And the Captain opened locker aft ocker,. showing microscopes, tubes I ioiling infusorla, collecting specimens, & Captain Waterman then developed a n( dink in science. "Here is a little bottle," said lie, "full tiatoms, almost the lowest kind of anin natter. Some time ago I noticed ti ichen, after being taken off a rock a tried for days, could be revivified, and was led to observe if the same thight not he case wi6h1 diatoms-4 I kept these lay for,several days and -then put sot water dn them. Then I put them unc ,ie microscope and was pleased to m hem move. It had been suggested tl his action was owing to the Brunoni novetnent, which occurs amor" all ato tuder the microscope, owing, as sot hink, to the evaporation of water, but ound in this examination the same char eristics that, are noticed when livi liatoms are examined." 1 The Prairie Dog. These interesting animals live in b rows, and great numbers aife found in sme locality, forming communities wh lhe hunters call "dog towns." These vil ges often extend over a distance of seve iles. Before the entrance to each b *ow there Is a little coiiical mound of ear heaped to the height of about 18 inch sad, on the top of this, one of the occupa niay usually be seen sitting, intent ul aatchiing what is going on in the comn sity, or on the lookout for intruders. hle first alarmi caused by an intrudei en'eral scampering takes place through< ~he village, with cries of warning. U reaching their mounds they sit perfec :iuiet, like ho many sentinels, curious know what all the commotion is about. a further alarm they approach still ce o their entrances, ready to dive in, aind i pear to make vehement threats, throw ap their tails in a very -comical mani with each. energetic bark, acoompany this noisy chattering with a liquid gurgll sound. In a twinkling they disappear i1 their burrows in a ludicrons, tumbling mi nor,. and then, after a short. time, they r be seen here and there peeping out to se< the coast Is clear.. Like young pups, tI are very clumsy -in their movements, a when (as rarely occurs) they are surprii at a distance from their burrows and f they cannot escape, they assume an air audacity, and a most singular expressio: defiance,.or of Impotent anger, before alk ling themselves to be captured. They f chiefly at night, their food'consisti.ng aim exclusively of grass and succulent stem In the fertile lands of Centra Kahsas, ti sometimes prove terrible pet to the fai era In the sad havoc they mDnk4 among the fields of growing corn.' Squirrel-li they are prudent enough to lay a full si ply of provender to last them through long and, rigorous winters they often h to endure. It is said that late in' euint one inay frequently meet with burr around t'.o entranice of which, for soe tance, the grass has been ne~h apown left to cure~ and that, #Ae 4~ e later, hey ill b.e ound to be neal gthered and carried into the burrow One of most curious things in regard to the don tie economy of this little duiinal is that its strange comparionship with such uti sbrable guests as the burrowing owl and rattlesnake, both of which are uksually foi Inhabiting its abode. As to the.opl, ii there like other parasites, perhaps,' on a ferance fnerely, and very little notic4 taken ofIs presence by' the.dog. Yet I thme presenee of the intruder # not Iw agreeable' is p roved by the fa~that the often rids himseg of the btai pf uotring his own quarters to ~no* bumrr There sre few birds that pr'eitt isore dlcrotis appearance than tIheosdm I rowing owjs. They spend 6~t,'f ti time during the day standla~gateWntva of their d*eflmuags,. apprenI iae 4,doo6 ee ti.4. When Ie thef s~ Ao~ns~ bo temw ~ hile n t In the majority of cases, these owls are found in coinniunities by themselves, in the Oit" deserted villages of the prairie dogs, their k, presence in many cases having served to he drive the rightful proprietors from their ed dwellings. With regard to the rattlesnake, a nothing of a satisfactory nature is known nd as to the part he plays in the domestic ar ire rangements of this interesting community. re Mr. Kendall, in his narrative of the Santa 1i- Fe Expedition, says that the prairie dogs Is, are compelled to leave them pass in and out OF without molestation. Certain it is, that, although the relation of the snake with both is- the dog and owl are not at all friendly, 1e- they are not so inimical as would naturally ed be imagined. 'The rattlesnake seems never in to be wanton; it simply defends Itself from 'er danger, or procures it food by means of its I a terrible fangs. 'l'his food occasionally con he sists of the young of the prairie (log, but I probably very selom of the full grown ani v1 nal or of the owl. Small animals do not t's usually show much fear of these reptiles when thrown together with them, and the >m prairie (log will unconcernedly pass them >a- by and enter his burrow as they lie basking Ic in the sun at its very entrance. Prairie lit dogs readily become accustomed to the 'e- haunts of man, and their villages are often 1e found on the outskirts of populous towns. ee They prefer, as locations for their villages, ly gently sloping lands skirting valleys, yet I they are often found in the tops of the high est divides, and far down near the streams, es, though always avoiding rocky, marshy, or even moist grounds. le is, Siberian Exiles. to is As soon as they arrive in Siberia the re convicts are divided Into three classes. d First come those condemned for the ir foul'fst crimes known to the Russian law, buch as wou ld in England entail on the criminal penal servitude for life t Id or for a long term of years. These cul in prits are doomed to work in the mines, d. and usually have a hard lot. Such cx Di ties are called in Siberia Katorshuiki lie a terni no doubt derived from Jcateron, t ) the name given to a galley by the By f zantine historians. as well as by the Greeks on the Black Sea al. the present r' day. Next come the Loslannyje na ro botto, or exiles condemned for shorter - periods and for minor offences. Va "I grants at large, rogues worthy of a s- longer term o punishment than im er prisonment, prisoners sentenced by the or communal courts, and in former days, c serfs condemned as refractory laborers w by the government, on application by the proprietors of estates on which they of lived, as minor political offenders who 'al are well out of harm's way, comprise at the bulk of these "unfortunates." The I place they are sent to is proportioned be to their turpitude-tthe worst offenders ln being.. despatched farthest from the no boundaries 8f Iussia, in Europe-for lr. instance to the shores of the Arctic sea cc and the eastern provinces, while the at lighter culprits are permitted to settle an down in western Siberia, immediately ne to the west of the Urals. This class of I convicts are usually condemned only ic- for short terms, and are designed for ng colonists on the expiration of their term of forced labor. Even before that aate they are often employed iin the government service, more like ordinary ar- laborers than as legal slaves. The third he an'd highest class of exiles e the Los ch lannyje na poselenye, wl ' are con Ia- demned for mild crimes. In fact, they ral are considered to have expiated their r- oences as soon as thy arrive in the country, and are at once established as uts proper colonists, sometimes in villages on already existing, 'it another time in mu- new ones already laid out for them. At Siberian society, constItuted to a great a extent of such elements as these des ni cribed, aveygenial, adfrequently tl refined, but not moral.. Many of the to convicts are political offenders, some At of the highest education and nobility of ser character; but a vast number who have IP- gained a certain amount of freedom or, "g whose sentences being expired, have i ettled down in tihe conn try, are of ng quite another class. Actual criminals ito have.no pulace left for them for repent m- ance; they are always uinder the jail ay ban. But offenders of the hIgher. class fand especially political exiles, are rare key ly scowled on. Russian'society is the ndmost tolerant in the worldI, and since ad politIcal exiles have increased, the front of of their offending has ceased to be via of ible. They are, after a year or twvo re w- cetved into the best company, and in ecd every way receive the treatment their ost rank and education would have en 'titled them to at home. It is only the m-worst offenders who are not allowed to the be accompanied by theIr wiv'es and famn ke, les; and, as many or them are people ap- Iof rank, the balls, clubs and card par he; ties of Tobolsk or TJomsk are very dif Sferent from what a similar social gath ering chosen from the detenums of Port B.Arthur would have been. mud the Eau Do cologne. up. the es. Cologne is also noted as the place where of1 the well-known liqu i known as eau do doogehad its origin. It was invented by th oanMaria Farina, several hundred md1 years ago. There are at least half-a-dozen is- manufacturers of cau de Cologne at the uf- present day claiming to be the descendant. isof the' "original John" in~ the ,direct line, han d to-kloipossess thiosecret of its manu mys facturo. T'he competition between the i6g Cologne Farinas is very great. They have ro. their agents in evem part-of the city, and 4w, every hotel keeps Gologne -for sale, which lu- is pressed upon the.visiorby the servants eur of:the btablishment. We were supplied teir 'with half-a-dozens different pampblets, all. ae, etthi%g forth that this or that "John Matia in afia".asthe iht Johm& After a care (lq fulreadibg of all e dcments we de ried cided in favor of the 'ohn' rhohas his sh a N 4. Jeios 1ts'ee to the andiaust* aw"fr Discovery of Skeletons. Pulling down the old Jesuit barracks in ,uebec, Canada, to make room forthe new l'arllament brildings, the workmen have some upon three skeletons, which Dr. LIerbert Larue believes are the remains of Pathers Do Quen, Liogeois and Peron, three >f the pioneer Jesuits of France. No relies )y which they can be positively identified ave been found, but tho description of [heir burial place in the Journal des Jesu. tee leaves no room for doubt. In 1640 the hapel of Notre Dame de Reconvrance, with the house of the Jesuits attached. was mrned down. It stood where the Anglican athodral stands to-day. After the fire the 'everend fathers moved into temporary luarters in the Hotel Dieu. In 1647 they aid the foundation stone of a new buihling m a site of twelve arpents granted them by he company of Now France. 'I'his struc nre was finished on the 18th of October, 651, and a number of young Huron boys whon the fathers were educated for missio iaries were taken as boarders. The young avages were even at that time no mean cholars, for the Journal says, "The savages eceived M. lo Gouverneur in the new hapel, greeting him with Latin and French ddresses." Oin the 29th of May, 1655, ather Jean Liegois, the business man of he Jesuit body and the architect and milder of the new college, was trencher m>Isly murdered by Indians. Ile was work ig in the fields near Sillery when seven or ight savages rushed upon him, and with nit warning killed and beheaded him. some Algonquiis found the remains the text morning and brought them to Quebec. io was buried under the altar on the cast ide of the chapel. On the 8th of October, 658, Father do Quen, the discoverer of .ake St. John, was buried in the same spot. le died of fever contracted in the Gulf. It vas he who on the 15th of April, 1653, elebrated mass when Mary of the Incarna ion, who was canonized last fall, made her >rofession of religion. On the 15th of No romber, 1065, Father Francois du Peron, rho had died at Fort St. Louis, now Cham )ly, on the 10th, was buried under the same itar, and these were the only persons in erred there. It was thought at first that me of the skeletons was that of a nun who lied of fright at the burning of the Hotel 3)eu on the 7th of June, 1755, but Dr. [arue showed that it was that of a man, md reference to the "Journal" disclosed he facts above related. As it is probable hat many more skeletons will be found luring the demolition of the foundations of he old barrack, it is the intention of the Provincial Government to collect them all md inter them with becoming ceremonies, narking their last resting place and hand ng down their venerable history to future generations by an appropriate monument. The Musk-Ox. The mu4k-ox inhabits the Aortic por ;lons of North Amerloa, He occuples in intermediate place between the ox and the sheep. His real name Indieates that he is kin to both. The Latin ovis, iheep, and bos, an ox. He has long, wooly hair, long, crooked horns, upon t large head, small eyes, and short ears and a tail. His color is a brownish black. The female is smaller than the anale, but her horns are like his horns. I'he musk-ox is not abundant, even in is own cold home, and he is so timid that he cannot beeasily captured by the hunter. He feeds mostly upon grass, and his flesh is tough and dark, but it tastes better than it looks. When ilressed, the carcass weighs about three hundred pounds. At a certain; season of the year, these oxen assemble in herdsof some twenty or thirty. If a concealed hunter fires into them, they mistake the noise for thunder, land crowd nearer together, at every shot, as th6ir companions fall around them. If the hunter is seen or scented, the whole herd take themselves out of the way. Their senses are very acute, and they are not often cheated In this way by the hunter in ambush. The bull, when wounded, often turns upon his pursuer at the peril of his life. The Esquimaux are miuch the most success ful hunters of this ox. HIs wool woulSd be useful, if enough of it could be ob tained for manufacturing purposes. IHis horns are used for making cups and spoons. This ox occupies the bar ren lands of North America, bounded by the parallel of latItudes, 00 degrees on the south,.and 75 degrees on the north. We know but one existing species. English Girls as Podest,rians, The Trossach IIotel has been bnlt in the wilderness, just at the p)oint where the passengers coiming from Edinburgh meet those coming around from Glasgow ; an.d as they reach there at about one o'clock, it is the general lunching-place for tourists. Some idea of the number of people (mostly Englishmnen, with their wives and daugh ters) who are now traveling in different parts of Scotland may be judged from the fact that over one hundred anid fifty lunched there recently, and that every room in the house was occupied by guests, most of whom, probably like us, had .made, a halt for fair weather. The scenery around the hotel is most beautiful. The placid waters of Loch Achray on one side ; and'from the steep mountain behind it a roaring moun tain stream with cataracts gives animation to the scene azid sounded during the night as if we were in close proximity to anmin a ture Niagara. There are also qite a nnm.. ber of pedestrians who are spending a month in exploring the Highlands. We pass these frequently on the road, .and they mak~e a sort of a p ionic trip.of it, carrying knap sacks. The English girls are great Walkra and they diverge from the stago roads and make excursions among the' mountailis. There was a party of young English girls at the hotel who have walkced. eroe hundred miles during the past sevqza Their rosy cheeks and te'd hs df tread, as well as the substn I-hoe& they wear, with heels, where - a rexoirs them fordue andoomfot, in to walk ten tines willed W Areau r~ ~ o walkers and it wilt difficut to 6itd a*a kAmrican 1adywWi' *alk mMe of taiie 1 9AI5 ~fIU1 NEWS IN BRIEF. -In Texas there are 80,000 white children over eight years of age who cannot read. -There are 732 children under the age of fifteen employed in the mills of Iawrene,*Maas. -North Carolina farmers have about 420.000 sheep, which I'ield a yearly pro lit of something noar $450;000 -The population of Australia is now 2.500,000, and toe ltport and export trade is ?70,000. n00. -It Is estimated that the Log cron of Wisconsin this year will reach $1,635, D00,000 against 1,075,000,000 last year. --The whole number of communi eants in Congregational churches, in Vermont, is 20,117, about one-seven tcentih of the population. -Senator Gordon has a sheep ranche ir. Georgia com prising 40,000 acres. A stone wall enclosing it is being built by coiored convicts. -Te Methodist Missionary Society has expended $8,000,000 in its work in this country, and 4,000,000 on foreign fields. -The sum of $9,042,213 has been con tributed to the sustentatlon fund of the [iseatablished Irish Episcopal Church since 1870. -,During the month of May the Uni ted States Mints coined gold pieces val ued at $2,878,550; 2.330,000 silver dol lars, and f4,708 in smaller coins. -The total bonded debt of New York city. less the sinking fund, 'on May 31, was $121,532,007.51, an Increase of $2, 109,175,41 over the previous month. -America annually imports $50,000, D00 of ilax, hemp, jute, ramie-all be ing products that may be raised on our )wn soll. -The Municip$l. Pollee Aid Assoola tion in New York city has 640 fnembers. During the last three m.pnths no deaths of members have occurred. -The Countess do Mon tijo,'the moth Dr of the ex-Empress Eugenie, is now eighty-three years old, bed-ridden and si,nost blind. -'rie equestrian statue of the Prince of Wales, presented to the city of Bom bay by Sir Albert bassoon, was unveil 3d recently by the Governor of Bombay. -On the corner of Twenty-third street and Second avenue, New York was once the country seat of General loratio Gates, of Revolutionary fame. -The next Pennsy lvania State Fair will be held in the Permaneht Exhibi tion building, Philadelphia, from the 3th to the 20th of September, both days inclusive. -The little town of Salem, N. C., has shipped this season 3,000.000 pounds of blackberries; result, $45,000, or the equal of 9,000 bales of cotton at ten 3nuts a pound. -A submarine cable, .ia to be laid across the Caspian Sea from Cape (ourgian to'KrasnoVodsk, k distance of 150 miles. It will cost 700,000 rubles, and is to be laid in S,eptember. -The exports of provisions to Europe are falling off very rapidly-the total dluring April being only about $8,b00, D00, or $1,500,000 les3 than during the month of A pril, 1878, -Calculating from the-'number of names recorded in the. new city direc tory, the Rochester papers conclude the population of that city nht be from 85,000 to 90.000. -Six million pounds of wool are raised within a radius of forty miles surrounding Steubenville, Ohio, which at the average price of 32 cents will realize $2,000,000. -1' is estlihated by competent per sons that the amount rafted out of the boomis at Williandsport, Pa.j up to the close of the 2.1 of July, will aggregate between 95,000,000 and 100,000,00 feet. -MIle. Gabrielle Purct,-the grand dlaughter of Cherubini, has just been married in Paris, add the organ music which accompanied the ceremony was takeni fromi the works of oer celebrated grandfather. -What is said to be the largest entry that ever passed through 'the Boston Custom flouse was entei'edi , short time since, conslstting of 3,173,692 pounds of sugar, the duties of which amounted to. $80,257.47. -Thie historian Gregorovius Is now en gaged in preparing a lire of Pope Urban VIlI., and has collected many important documents elucidating the policy pursued by that Pontiff during thie'ihirty Years' War. -The total cost of the new Palace of Justice, at Brussels, is estimated in the report addressed' to the Chamber of Deputies, at about $8,800,000, and give years wvill be required to terminate the building. -it seems Incongruous that the Far West should be holding cenitennial an nilversaries, but Minnesota'celebrated the Fourth of July as the bicentennIal of the discovery of that unexplored wilderness by De Luth, who planted the French flag there on July 2, 1079. -Charles Sumner's grave is to' be marked by a handsome sarcophagus of white Cogcord granite bought with the funds lef t over after paying all ex pen-. ses connected with the Mtatue of Sum ner made by Ball and erected In the Public Garden-in Boston., -A very cheering inpdioation of the improved condition of biisanese In the West is given in t)hi a'ol that the clear. igs of' the Chicago banik. for the first six.months of this ayear- amounted to $533,000,000, ant in~euii 91 nearly $80,. 000,000 or more than )Pj.rcent. over the corresponding 'sr hinths of last -A sword ofiEthtAllen, th~e hero of Ticonderoga, htJAt0ly bearsen This ito es ietc dlrk-edg the hdit in salIioM d liae1n's ic. enoirel' d by the Britls'WroWo, and te whole work is ngsb .,was *e1 $0 a reI urter ~ 6yI~j of Qtea seui~i ito th:ol ,' i *-4he" statltr'ostt,' ?