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TII-WEEKLY EDITIONI WINNSBORO, S.. C., SEPTEMBER 27, 1879. VOL. COUNSEL. If thou dost bid thy friend farowell, But for one night though that farowo 1 may be, Press thou his palm with thine. l[ow canst thou toll How far from thoo Fate or caprico may lead his foot Ero that to-morrow comes ? Mon have boon known To lightly turn the corner of a street, And days havo grown To months, and months to lagging years, Before they looked in loving eyes again ; Parting at bost is underlaid with tears, With tears and pain. Therefore lost sudden death should como be tween,' - Or timo, or distanco, olasp with pressure true The hand of him who gooth forth ; unsoon1 Fate gooth too ! Yes, find thou always time to say Pome earnest word between the idle talk, " Lost with thob hondoforth, night and day, Rl r t should walk. Under The Hemlock Tree, At the foot of a largo hemlock a young girl was sitting. 11er lap was full of flowers, her hands wei e clasped idly about her knees, 'her head was thrown slightly back as she gazed about her, looking like some young, sylvan queen taking a survey of her wonderful dominions. But upon a clearer view, one would have added: "She looks the queen, but a very sad, and a very ragged one.' Yes, her face was hopelessly sad, and her garments hopelessly ragged ; hut that did not conceal the beauty of her features, nor the air of retinement, the high-born grace that characterized her. She had pushed back her dilapidated straw hat, thus disclosing her wavy brown hair, and her noble brow : and there she sat, her large, dark eyes roving wistfully from object to object, as if pleading for something-for something she could not have ; for the love, perhaps which was miss ing from her life, or for the pity that was never shown her. Sho was a young, innocent, ignorant. thing-ignorant, that is, of the world and its ways, and of her origin. Since early childhood she had lived with Mamma i Orahlun, who was no kin to her, she knew, but more than that she did not know ; it was all the home she had, and a miserable home it had always been. 11er books had I been her only comfort ; but for them ex istence would have been intolerable. Each day, if possible, she would escape from Man,mia Graham's sharp words, and petty persecutions, and come to the hem lock tree, her favorite spot, and sit and dream of a life in that world which lay be yond her little sphere. On the day on which our story opens, she arose as usual when the sun was sink Ing in the west ; and, as usual, she sighed at the prospect of returning to her cheer less home. She had taken a step or two, when the sound of horses' hoofs startled her from her apathy. Turning quickly, she saw a horse dashing madly by ; in another moment as the dust cleared partially away, she saw a mian lying prostrate on the ground. 3 Instantly she started toward him ; then, her native pride asserted itself, and she f paused, blushing-yes, blushed painfully as she looking down at her ragged dress, and her old worn shoes. But kindness con quered pride, and she finally sprang to the inanimate form of the fallen rider. She leaned over him, and discovered a slight wound near the temple, from which she determined to wash the blood and dust. But, with what? In despair, she turned aside and examined 1 heor dress, wondering if a ilece of that would not answer tile purpose; before she arrived at any decision, an exclamation, seeming to comel from the woundled muau, caused 1her to turn. She shrank back In dismay, as she saw that he had recovered consciousness, and was watchling her with commingled curl osity and amusement. A smile camne to Is hlandsojne face as he saw her confusion. That angered her, and flushing hotly, she turned and fled. But, scramb)ling to 1118 feet, and stagger - ing after her, hle succeeded in detaining her; as hie caughlt hecr by tile arm, shle faced him, saying fiercely : "Let me go I" * "No-no," he replied, gallantly. "You have saved my lhfe, and( must permit me to ] thank you." "I haven't saved your life,"shIe sniapped,i trying to jerk hlerself from hlis 1101(.1 '-Well, you would, if there-.had b)een any necessity for it, so it amounts to the same thing," hie laughed. "You will let me thank you-will you not ?" "IIaven't -you done so?9 Isn't once enough? W ll you let me go, I must go I I don't dare to stay out longer I I think Its rude, very rude in you to hold my arm like this," she sobbed ,at lsat. "Ruido, am I ?" lie said, fainmly, as lie raised one hland to Is head. "I-I fearI 4 exertod my self too soon after my fall. I I--", "You're going to faint I" she cried. "You're whlite even to your lips I 011, sIr, sit down, sit down, and I'll run and I get some water?9" Hie obeyed listlessly, and she hastened tolitesrn erly e~rig h bathled hlis face, and forced the old tin dip T per betwen his teeth. HeIr efforts were -noon reOwardeSd, for 110 opened his eyes, and: looked grat'efully at her ; then, catching her little hand in his, he said , nesty : "How soft and gentle is your touch, my little maid I There-there! don't get angry, and jerk your hland away like that. I mean no offense, I can assure you. will1 you tell me who you are?i" "I don't know," she.rephied, tremuilously. * I am called Betty Graham, and that is all I can tell you 1' "Wha~t a strange little creature you are," lie half miused, as he eyed her critically fronm head to foot, She flushed hotly beneath Is scrutiny, and turnea away, nyng angrily: .4 "It's rather tui aeful i you to maikoe fun of me, I think! I know my clothes are ragged, that my shoos are full of holes.. and that' i1y hat je ttll torn,; but that ,is no c'ason why you shoild-' "Bless my) stars I" ho interrupted, start nug trp suddenir. "~t.t making fun' "I oling,ayu she said owctl$', "Promise me first that. you will see me lgaill. She fairly grasped at tihat. Sec liin1 lgain1 It wits as if i prospect of seeing hat far-off world, for which she had longed so much, had been opened unto her ! l'he idea alone took her breath--she could tot speak. lie caught her hands in h1i-saying -agerly : "You will see me again I I'll conie to norrow. Where ?" ''Nowhere l" she cried, thinking of her ags and of Mammy Graham. "I won't let you go, my little maid, till Vou tell me whoile I can see you. I mean xhat I say-understand that." She pausecl< for a moment, thinking hen, roguishly, she said : "Well, if you will come, colie here." They were standing beneath the ihem ock tree. Before she could say a word she had tarted away, and was soon lost to sight be lind t hill. There was a strange, passionate gladness n her heart, as she ran home, even while the said to herself : "IIe may go there, but lie won't see me here and be won't be able to find me." But the next day she was at her post, ,as 18ual; she made excuses to herself forheinig here, by saying : "le will not come, of course." Yet, all the time, she was looking long ugly down the road. Hours passed, and the sun was near the vestern horizon again; thent she bowed her lead upon her lap and wailed. "Oh, I knew lie would not come ! Why lid 1 hope he would I Almost at the same instantshe' felt a mld on her shoulder, and she heard a roice-his voice: ''What's the matter, my little maid?" She started up t.reubling and confused. "So you thought I wouldn't come," ie laid gently, -"and I made you sad. Alt, lon't contradict?" as she looked up de lantly. "Don't contradict, for I heard rour words as I came up to you." In a week more these two-Clinton Rus 1ell, as lie called himself, and Bettie :rahtam-were lovers. Their happiness ,as stolen as yet, for Bettie-or Ettie, as ic called her-dreaded to tell Manluy :Trahan of it, and wis putting off the evil lay as long as possible. A week, two weeks, three weeks passed, md each (lay Clinton and Etlie met beneath he hemlock tree, and exchanged vows of mdyinlr fidelity. IIe was in earnest, terribly in earnest, or ie would not have yielded to his love for a ilmeless, portionless girl ; and she-well it vas heaven to her, this love that had come o suddenly into her life ! A change came, all too soon. "My father is dying," lie said one day, is he met her later than usual, "and I must o to him. " "And leave me?" she moaned. "For a while, darling-only for a while ion I will come and take you away from icre," Et tie," he added, earnestly, 'promise -promise to love ie, to be true to me till come again." Her promise was fervently given. le teld her to his heart as lie said : "My darling, I am going out into the ;rcat, wide world again, but know this ; tot onc among dhem all can have any harms for me, now that I know and love And so they parted. With his passion ite kiss trembling on her lips, she stood ad watched him out of sight ; then she vent home to wait for him to come again. Alas, what a bitter time followed for ter while waiting in vain I Weeks, months )assed, and lie did not come ; and now, mder the hemlock tree, she sat bowed and vecping, as if by the grave of her buried lopes. The flowers faded, the leaves fell, win cr's breath began to be felt, and( still silo vas alone and desolate. Oni returing to hter hiomte 0110 (day, shte v'as surprised to find there-a man ; a tall, ~rave, htand(somle man, standintg in Manuny irahmam's parlor. As sihe entered the room iamiiy Graham cried out: "TIhere she is, good cir, kintd sir, miost ioble sir I There site is, I say" "That I" exclaimed tile stranger, looking n dlismtay at Bettic and her rags. "Is tht niy child I" "Yes, that's your child I And Bettic, ny little dear, thtat's your father-your rood, kind, noble fathicr I Can't you speak o him I" No, for she was speechlose. IHer father I )lt, joy 1,-shec was to be claitmed by some mnc at last. She ap)proalcd him timidly, icr long dark eyes full of longing. Hie orgot her rags then, and saw only the miage of htis dead wife; and lie cIasp)ed her o his hteart, crying aloud : "My child-my ehtild I- God forgive me or my crulelty to you!-'' Soon she kntew thte whole sad story : Hecr notheor htad (lied in giviig hter birth, for vhtichi hter fether hated her, even when she mas only a helpless infant. As soon as his vife wvas burled lie wvent to far-off-lands, caving his child to the care of the nurse. tlammiy GLrahtam. She, feeling that lie would some day coime to chlim htis girl, do eorninied to punish himi through the child; ience her manner of rearing Bettle, dopriv ng her of everything but books. But all was changed now. 11cr father ook her with him to the world for whtich lie had always longedl; she was no longer 'agged, friendless Bettlo GIrahiam, but the )eautfil and accompillishecd Florence B3rlstol, dlaughter of the wealthy banker. Was she happy?i No ; for above all the 3eace and plenity she now htad, she longed 'or the days whten ClInton Russell's love iad been here. "Fierry," said her father, one morning is lie looked up from a letter, "I've Just re :elved word from young Reed. You have icard ate speak of his father's recent death ; mut I htave never told you that it was lie rho begged me to go for you, Florry." She looked the surprise she felt. "A few words will explain it, my child; 1e had a son, an only son, whom I have ilways loved dearly ; knowing that, lie >leaded w.lth pie to try to biring about a narrlag4 be3tweenlhimi and miy daughter. Why 9 you may ask. So thtat my wealth ~onki save the name of Reed froni disgrace. [ pinised hin t9 do what I could ; I went or you, and-and this letter tells that roung Reed is coming" "Well," she aske, in her old glefiant way "and.then what I" "You will meet, and I hope you will earn t.aefor each otbr. There is no ~ompulsion lethi, remenbor ; but it weould makce me very happy to see yott two man nd *ifo. Florry said nothing, but ehe know that, t would never be, for the memory of the vows mad1e under the hemlock tree would ever stand between her and another love. Several days after. as she was preparing herself for dminer, fastening a scarlet blos som in her dark hair and wondering how Clinton woulI like her in her rich attire, she received word from her father that young 1(eed had arrived. Not a pulse-beat quickened ; perfectly calm and indifferent, she descended to the parlor to meet him. She saw him, bend ing over an album on the center table, and her senses began to reel. As in a dream, she heard her father's voice, saying : "Clinton let me present you to my daughter." Dimly she saw him look up from the album, and she saw the face that had been so dear to her-her lover's, Clinton lHussel's face before her 1 And to the great surprise of the persons present, she sank quietly to the floor unconscious. le did not recognize her, and she was too proud to Unlighten hhn). She saw his card one day-Clinton Russell IHeed-that explained the question of name to her. She received his attentions because she could not send him from her. She loved him still, madly, devotedly ; but oh I what pain was mingled with her love, knowing that he was not ti ue-that ho was one to win a young girl's trusting love, and to cast it aside carelessly when the fancy pleased him. A day came when he asked her to be his wife. She could not reply. How could she refuse him ? Yet, she dared not except him, for never could she have faith in him, knowing what she did. "Well, Florry, what is your answer?" he asked, as she stood silent before him. "Tell me this," she said in return. ' lIave you ever loved before ?" IIe saw her agitation, and attributing it to jealousy and wishing to appease her he replied deliberately: "No !" -She turned aside and moaned. Oh, if lie had only confessed to that other love, she would not have deemed him quite so heartless ! ''Conc to-morrow for your answer," she cried, as she left him abruptly. ''It will be 'no,' " she added to herself. as she hur ried to her room. "I cannot marry him he is false and cruel !" And yet her resolution tortured her, till she felt as if she were going mad. At last, in despair and frenzy, she donned cloak and hat, and left the house In secret. To go where? Back to the hemlock tree-to the grave of her buried hopes. Just at sunset she reached the little vil lage. Oh, wbat memories assailed her as she neared the old trystiug-place I Her eyes were tilled with tears, so that she saw but dimly; and she was almost on the spot before she bocaie aware that another-a man-was already there. She dtew back quickly ; but glancing at him again she saw that it was-Clinton I Instantly, all about and within her seemed to burst out into a loud song of re joicing. Eagerly she sprang forward, cry. ing : "Clinton-Clinton, why are you here ?" IIe started violently, then turning to her, he said coldly : "May I ask why you arc here ?" "Oh, no-no, don't be unkind, Clinton I Only tell me this: Are you here because you still love little ragged Betty Graham ?" "Great Heavens! What do you know about her?" 'Everything I" she cried. "Oil, Clinton, don't you see-must I tell you that I am she l" "You-you I" he gasped. "Oh, God, call it be?" He caught her in his arms, and looked at her keenly; then, raining kisses on her face, he murmured: "Oh, blind, blind fool that I have been! ShIould I not have known these eyces? 0Oh, God1 be praised I--now I can live again!I You think me cruel, little rmald-cruel and heartless! God knowshlow I have suffered I I had to give my promise to 'my dying father to marry Mr. Bristo1's daughter that promise, <-nee given, was sacred to mec; I could( not break it. I dalredl not trust myself to see my darling Ettic-I dared not write to her; it was only safe for mec to keep away-to be cruel to her. I Came heo te-day to bury my love, er~e I re ceived your answer to-morrow, whichl, I flattered mlyself, wouild be 'yes.' Let us thank God,'my darling, that we hlave met andl can renew our vows, here, where we first learned1 to love--under the hemlock tree!" ulrghit?s.Disease and Ice Water. A Baltimore dIruggist of experience and amp)lc op)portunity for observaition, has ad vanced1 thle idea that Bright's disease is at tributaible to the immoderate use of ise wa ter and cold1 drinks. Hie sites the falct that time people of this country use0 nineby per cent. mor~e ice in their drinks than tile peo plo of any other country, Greenlandors not excepted. We have seventy-five per cent. more of Brlghlt's disease. Hie cites the fact thlat tile wvinc-drinking counitrie~s of Europe are comparatively free from theo malady. Travelers hlave observed and commented upon the prejudice which seems to exIst against ice water and Iced drinks in all couintries outside of time United States. Tile Eniglishmnan and the Germani fairly shun ice, though placed in easy reach of' bound less quanltities of It, and time Frenchman whIo sips tli0 light wines would as soon think of taking an emetic as of chilling his stomnachl with an ice draught. Our drug frie'nd points to the fact that Bright.'s dis ease has kept pace in tis co4rntry withl thme Increased consumption of ice and claims that before e became a common hlouse, hold necessity thle malady was scarcely' known among physicIans. There mmay be0 somethling in this theory.-, Deafness from Tobacco Smnoktng. Chewing is mfuchl less liable to cause those troubles than smoking, becatise the tobacco smoke comcs In contact with a much larger surfade than the salita Impregnated with tobacco. Cigaretto smoking is the moot in jurious, because the smoke Is so often blown through thle nose and at the sam6 time enters the eustachian tube, The tobacco smoke is laden with line particles, which gain access to the middle oar an~d frritate Its hining'iemi brane. Wille this does not admit of aetuAr demonstration, it is rendered highly ble bytefe he iti In this manner, and are frequent o1bserved: :In habituanl smolteri The long Oontintoate I Iof Blichirritation glte rise to a ch tno ias. ianWnaltIan of the Anj*' S lialluon-Steering. A party of balloonists started the other (lay from Montreal, with a machine to which was rigged wings, wit )a view of handling the balloon. A Ilerald corres pondent, who was ont' of the navigators, gives a long account of the voyage. We select two paragraphs, showing the prac tical operation of the wings: Mr. Cowan, perched a li Commodore in the rigging, cried out : 'Turn the wings I We have forgotten to use them.' Then colmenced the first experiment of the (lay with the machinery. Mr. Aloulton steered, Mr. Grimley and Mr. Iarper manned the port side of the windlass which worked the wings, and Mr. Browning am' Mr. Page took the otherside. Away went. the wings, while the balloon showed iulnciately that they added considerably to her inomentum. The fans had been fixed to ascend, and we went up very fast, until M1r. Page cried out, "stop I stop I" Ye are sawing away the balloon netting I" And sure enough there was mnch need for caution. The basket had been rigged a little too near the. netting of the balloon. Had the friction of the paddles upon the ropes, which had been hauled tight by the wveight of the car, con tinued, there is little doubt that they would soon have been separAted. The six men and 400 pounds of .ballst. would then have flown to mother eat<th without further trouble. 'We must try and tack," said Mr. Cowan, and again we inanied the wheel, workirg them with greater force than be fore. The result was surprising. Mr. Moulton put his helhn a-lee and away she went, We tacked about two miles toward the clearing in about four minutes, but here a difliculty presented itself. The bal loon being round, gradually answered her helm until the helm had turned her com pletely about and we were running stern foremost. The helm was then put hard a-port and the wings oommenced to take us back to the forest. ;\o one thought of unshipping the rudder,- We stopped the paddles and in a few nments were going bow on again. "We commenced to work again, when the most startling affair of the voyage oc curred. We were working away when Grimley cried out: "'Stop, for God's sake stop I' "At that moment ,lr. Hlarper, whose face was turned In that direction, saw what had caused Grimley's exclamation and was just then inl the act of stopping. The valve rope and the 'rip-line' were hanging from the mouth of the balloon and both had caught in the crank on the lee side of the ship. The 'rip-line' is so contrived that a strong pull rips the whole side of the bal loon open and collapses her. We were about 800 feet from the ground. The reader who sits perusing this may readily imagine what the consequences would have been. Five very white faces watched the professor and the line." A Narrow Eir.ape* ''Caleb,' said Dinah, suddenly, "there isn't a drop of water to make poor Grandma a cup of teal" Instantly, Caleb was overturning things in one corner to get at a water-pail. When It was found, and a rope to make fast to it, the four children went into "mother's room" and Caleb cautiously raised the heavy sash. In caie the cold wind and the colder breath from the great cakes of ice that went surging past the stones of the house; for the river had broken up. The sight was appealing I One young head ventured out and another and another, un til all had had a glance at the wild waste of whirling waters that surrounded Drew's Folly on each and every side. Wif burst into a flood of tears, and Roy said : "I think we'd ought to be a-saying our prayers 'stead of gettig supp)ler to eat, only I am 'most aw ful hungr-y." Wif's tears were not quenched, nor was Roy's little speech noticed, for Caleb had lot the pall down into the boiling, tumbling surge that'rushed b)y, not more than four feet below the window-ledge. As t,he pail touched wvater, an inmense cake of ice struck it, and away wvent pail, rope and ice, although Caleb strove to hold on with such a desperate clutch that the rope cut into his pahns as it was p)ulledl through them. 'The water is rising just awvful now," said Caleb, wvringing his hands hia pain, "Anyhow, water we must have," dhe cidled Dinah ; and whilst Caleb held his hands to endure the pain better, she went to search for another pall. Roy staid with Caleb, and Wif wvcut to help Di)nah, "You shall have the tea soon, now, Grandma, dear," Dinah stoppedl to say, and then began a vigorous overturning of the utensils lying about the room. It was raining no longer, and through a rift in the clouds the moon shone1 down just as Caleb put his head out, and lookIng up the river, saw a mighty tree coming down on tihe flood. "'it '11 come against tihe house, right uip to this window," he cried, and Ils first iml pulse was to close the winudow. It was ar rested by a sound that no tempest ever uit tered a note of. It was a human cry, and it said: "Help I Help I" "Hold( 0n 1 hold on I" yelled Caleb out into the rush and tile roar, and then withI a flash of motion 110 seized the nearest thing to his hand and thrust it forth, bending over the ledge to do so, at the very Instant Dinahl rushed to his side. With the qicek ness of thought, she fell upon her knees be hind him and threw her arms ab)out lisa body, while Wif, with a cry, seized one of his legs and held on with all his strenigth, and Roy tried his utmost-happily, with out suecess-to let the 81a81 down. on his back, so determined was lie not to lose him. Down caime thio4big tree, Its branches struggling in vain in tihe grasp of the wa ters, and its mighty boughs shma"n as no wind had ever smitten them. There clung for life to thle tree, a despairing, helpless mnan,-despairing until be. poroeived that the current would dash the tree full against the house. 'rhe light of the moon gave to him a sight of tho open window, and from it outstretched, awaiting his possible grasp. the friendly chair that Caleb had seized. It .was a strongV, old-fashioned, honestly wrought chair, that had been made by'the orIglea1 Caleb Drow. The tree eamp~ on ; for' an instant it ground against tho niaonry of the F1olly, then a crash of glass in a sash below was hoard as a limb went through it -'a pause-and the tree broke loose and Went on. B34t'in that chance, that puse, that Instant of delay, a hand gapdthe ch*4Ir,.ailother colutched the stodIge and them nt gained fast liold of the still aoe oh ta w msaoinent worth living forti Child-hands had helped to drag in an un known man, and found, when lie was in, that he was the father of six of thoso help ing hands I The joy of a moment like that n.oment will not get into words. It burst the bond of language and utters itself by eyes, and lips, and arms. All that I can tell you that really hap pened within the next few seconds, was, that a tall, flne-looking m't, in drenched garments, stood, like one bewildered in a dream, with four children dancing, scream ing, hugging and kissing; that ho was told that grandmother was all safe and well; that the old cow was In the tower, and that if the watpr Caine above the floor they were all going to -$ together to lift grandma o of bed and" Pry her up there; that he 411 ked how he cane to get into the rloi,' nd all about mother, where she was and how, she was going tt get home, besides forty other questions. Lost Artileos. 'My father was a farmer In East Lothiat for many years. lie had an old watch, by whioh he set great store. One day while superintending the harvest operations he lost his watch. At instant search was made all over the field ; but it could not be found. Many Irish laborers were busy cutting the corr ; they were all examined, but still no clue could be found to the lost chronometer. One day ten years after, as my father was standing in the same field watchilig the sowing of some wheat, he observed some thing extraordinary lying among the newly ploughed eart h. ft. was the old gold watch, looking rather dirty ; but there it had re mained while one crop after another had been sown and reaped ; and singular to re late, through your readers may be iucredu lous, the glass was not even cracked. A friend of mine regained a locket under curious circumstances. She was traveling in Australia, and was walking in Mel bourne one day, when a friend with her in quired whether she had a locket on when she came out. Mrs. Dunn replied that she had ; and putting her hand to her throat, missed it. She retraced her steps and searched carefully ; but no traces could she find. She also advertised the loss and of fered a handsome reward ; but it was no use, and she returned to England soon af ter. She happened to have occasion to go to Southampton, and while walking out, saw in a shop window a locket the gac-sin ile of the one she lost. She entered the shop, and asked to look at it closer, and in quired if it opened. The woman said it did not. But Mrs. Dunn pressedi a spring, and there was the face of a son she had lost, and in whose memory she had the locket made. Upon her claiming it, the woman said that a soldier's wife just come from Australia had sold it to her, saying that shte had picked it up in Melbourne streets. Mrs. Dunn recovered the locket for a small consideration. One evening Mr. and Mrs. A - left their house in the neighborhood of Dublin to' (ine with a friend. The distance being short, they went on foot. The night was wet and stormy, and when nearing the house of their friend, the lady suddenly discovered she was minus a valuable car jewel of Indian workmanship. Looking on this loss as irrecoverable, the lady returned to her home. The loss was keenly felt. not so much from the intrinsic value, al though this was great indeed, as from the fact, that the appendages were the gift of an old friend, It was useless to attempt a search, such was the Inclemency of the night ; but it was decided to try what could be done at daybreak. Mr. A accordingly set out on what he considered a needless errand. Passing over, as near as possible, the same ground as that trav ersed the previous evening, with his eyes attentively fixed on the ground, lie was startled by the voice of a man Inquiring if lhe had observed a (log, which had also been lost t,he p)receding night. Replying in the negative, lhe at, the same time observed the object of his search lying uninjured a few yards trom himn close to the curbstone on the roadway. It was In such a p)osit ion that many vehicles andi pedecstrians must have p)assed over the spot. The Vicotoria Ildge, We steam out, of Montreal on the Grand Triunk railway, passinig through rat her than over, the great Victoria brfdge, the largest, tub)ular bridge in the world, In whIch 250, 000 tons of stone and 7.500 toins of Iron were used, and which cost, about .?1,250. 000. Two abut,ments and twenty-four piers support the superstructure; there arc twenty-five spans, the centre one is 830 feet, each of the others 242 feet ; the bridge, includilng the abutments, Is 7,000 feetl1ong. Thei centre opening Is sixt,y feet above the water level ; the weight of Iron In the tubes Is 8,000 tons. 'The tubes through which the trains pass are twenty-two toot hi1gh by sixteen feet In width, in the mid die span, aiid nineteen by sixteen feet at the ends. The tubes are perfectly air tIght, and when a train wishes to cross the bridge, it is jammed tightly Into the end of the tube, the windows aie all shut down, steam off, and the gateman, placing the end of the tube in his mouth, gives a tremen dous puff and the train shoots through at the rate of four hours a mile. There is the advantage of a tubular over the other kind. A man might blow the never (lying soul out of himself, and lie couldn't blow a train through an ordinary open wvork truss bridge. Too much vent. As it Is, It Is terribly hard on the man at Victoria bridge. HIe has to be relieved every twenty-four hours, and then lie only last. a few years. The fla1ygIng Gardeni of Assyria. Mr. Rassam's excavations on the Mujo libi Mound, have proved that this was the site of the famous hanging gardens, for in Its ruins lhe found wells, aqueducts, and ponderous masses of stone, all provIng that the building had been erected, as the Greek writers say, to imitate mountain scenery. Trho stone used was a black basalt, which Is found only In the Armenian hills, and the immense masses must have boen floated down the river. In a mound to the south of the mass of city ruins, called Jumjuma, Mr. Rlassam discovered the remaius of a rich hall or palacee, with columns composed of enameledbricksand mosa10; the cornices were of painted brick, and the roof of rich Indian black wood. Prom tihe posjtioa of this paleeoog banqueting hal5 it wotijd ap pear to zsave been ultusted og~ the bankl of the river, and was probablf 'he o o f th6 state~ feetit1 and banquets, .Tho insc4p 'oisf .u hv i'as,eaalc Fulas. At the fur-famed falls of the l'assaic, N. J., at novel sight presents itself. A short distance above the chasm is the dam of the Society for the Promotion of Useful Manu factures, which controls the entire water power of the Passaic River, an immense franchise, held by a perpetual charter. The society itself was organized by Alexander Ilamilton. Between this dam and the chasm, usually a rushing torrent, are now to be seen nothing but nake:I trap-rock, and one can cross the river without wetting the siles of his shoes. At one end of the dam at little water is allowed to flow over it so as to supply the steam pimps of the water company on the opposite side. The pecu liar formation of lie precipices constitu ting the falls can now be viewed. Beginl ning lown the river, in the Valley of the Rocks, where the names of some of the Revolutionary soldiers encamped there tin der Washington are still to be seen carved in the rocks, a chasm probably fifty feet wide (livides the immense strata of trap rock and extends some five hundred feet into the solid mass. its sides are perfectly perpendicular, amid vary f1.C.i seventy-two to eighty feet in height. At the base the water has worn away the rock, and it is only a quest ion of time as to when the sides of the chasm will collapse, and gives the falls an entirely new appearance. A bridge crosses the clhasmii anad thotusanl Is of visitors daily gaze into the black depths wit Ii feel ings of awe and amazement. At the end of the ehaasm, some three hundred feet above the bridge, it divides itself into two inimnense fissures.jwhich penetrate deeplinto the heart of the rock, and each enls in a point. The left fissure is the longer,lex tending over two hundred feet, atnad its black, shining, perpendicular sides cause the visitor to turn aside with at shudder ais he remembers the trage(ly, which was en acled in 185:3 on the rocks opposite, and which abnost touches the jagged edges of the right. si(d(e of the fissure. In that year the wife of Rev. Mr. Taylor of New York, while admiring the sublimity of nature from the crag, fell forward into the then seething mass of water below, and her hus band, in at vain attempt to rescue, followed her. The immense rocks that have crumbled from the top and ledges projecting from the sides make the descent of the right fissure possible, though extremely diflicult. Care fully stepping from rock to rock, sometimes moving on hiands (land feet, a I erald repre sentative descended this fissure. At every downward step the increasing chilliness of the atmosphere was plainly perceptible, un til, when the eighty feet of descent had been accomplished, the temperature would certainly have warranted an overcoat. lere among the bleak and threatening rocks, in the very womb of nature, where the stiushine never dispels the prevailing (larkness, and where mani can place his foot perhaps but once ini a generations, were several fisherman, who, neglectful of the Inplied law of nature which seems to have reserved this fissure, had penetratel to this place in quest of sport. The surface of water, interspersed here and there with jagged rocks, which raise their heads oanli ously above the surface, is perhaps some hundred and fifty feet long, and at its great est breadth some twelve feet wide. Where the fissure joins its neighbor to. create the chasm, accident has heaped rock upon rock, making the place all that It. seems-a dungeon for the finny trihe. Black bass were being caught in large numbers, but the principal ail of aill seemed to be to stir up from its hiding place the immense turtle which Is imprisoned there. The animal has been seen frequently in the watery prison during the last few (lays, and from all accounts is a huge ;snapper about five feet long and three wide. How Statues are Made. T1hae bironZo stautuaary just, now so poputlar is amatfacttured by a simple enough prao cess. Over the clay atodel is poured a coat ing of pilaister of Pais, whaich having beeni allowed to set, is takent offilin sections, thus affordliga hollow mould of the figure. From such a miouald isjproduced a stucco duiplicaite, either of the entIre staitue or of such a por tioan thereof as is imnteandedl to be caist at a time, andl ona this againi is formaed a second mould of greatea thickness aund solidity for the receptioni of molten mietal. The mate rial used for thec final amould Is a coamposition of stucco amnd brick-dust. This Is aplplied in a plastic state to the stucco model, fronm which its Inner surface taikes thme form of' .hae figure. Were statues cast, solid1, it would now only be necessary to sepatrate mnould front miodel, aind run metal into the formier mill its interior was filled. This, however, wotuld involve absurd waste, and( In order to economize material, a solid core is placed inside the mould, leavinmg only suach space mll around as will receIvo thme thickniess of maetal deemed neccessAry for the work In hand. The mnouild with Its core havIng been thus comp)letedl and firmly hooped round wIth bands of Iron, Is placed iat a kIln to b)ake to perfect dryaness. TIs pre cautIon is necessary from the cIrcumstance that even a trace of moisture might, on the alpplication of molten metal, occasion a dana gerouas explosion. In the case of the cast Ing now In question the dryIng of the mould occupies some weeks On the removal from the kIln the mcu'd Is buried in dry earth below thme floor of the foundry, only aperture for receivmg the metal and the vomnt-hole for the escape of air remainIng visible. A Snmgutlatr Vat, Story. A fairmer had been troubled with rats for some timo, and finally purchased a cat that was recommended as a good monser. The cat sustained Its reputatIon, aid rats wore soon unknown in the house, and the farmer congratulated himself greatly. Iiadreams of freedom were dIspelled one day, how ever, by the cries of the servant gIrl, who said thtat on going down collar where theo cat was Indulging In its noonday repast she saw a large rat eating at the sanme dish with the cat, and solemnly averred that when she went toward them the rat clased her and made her run up stairs. The cat, she said, seemed to enjoy his company, and ap peared as if charmed by the rat just as a snake charms a bird. The farmer would not credit the story until he saw. the samie tthing a day or two afterward. He allowed the strange fiendship to exist for aev6Ml days, the rat coming regular to parfake of meals with the eat. F~inai the fArmer decided tQ umt ani end to tesingti1r friendship aii taking,a gun went a theo NEWS IN -At Chautauqua L miniature of the lolyrI one acre of la:,d. -The Thomas Iron Cot town, Pa., has 300,000 t0 and hematite ore on!a 4 -'The law prohibitin , tion of An.ortcan eatti"j eastern provinces of on the 6th of August. -France produced in. tU. lug with last Septembor.th amount of over 800,000,000 beet-root sugar. -The Jndianapolis Se?,ttn an estimate, by countles'6 a crop of Indiana and mak a total 55,000,000 bushels. -4 Canadian 6 feet 7ilo. weighing 280 pounds, an 52 inches around the oh'ent his brother in Iydetowd -Every silk mill in PatWst is running to Its fullest oapt some of the manufacturersa, to take all the work that 14 0 -There were eighty-six:'' San Francisco during the A ed on the 30th of June. bttzv w ber twenty-seven wvereor ten ware natives of New T6rI -A block of marble qu' re mont the otier day measured inches in length, 2 fee ,.Iib.. width, and 2 feet 3 iacheutI t Ick et and weighed about 24,0 ads -Bismarck's salary as Atl"' the Empire and a Prus1 $13,500. Dr. Falk, on thirty-three years' service sion of $3,300. ,; yy -Major General Cliffor tt lish army in Zubiland, hi: 9llm tha owner of the horse Fate, o Louis Napoleon unsuccese th mount when fleeing frot -Erastus Corning, of A has made arrangelents "' ul about 200,000,000 feet of,1J71' or from a tract of land belong on the western shore of L $ . an. Some earth and chips -:41'610 the Tuileries, the gift of t ' uhtQr of an oflicial of the Em .d cured them while passing t arlsr on her way to Ciiselhurst burled in the Prince Imperial's c . -A French dollar of a. % of 2 215 grammes, and equivl pVal to the dollar of the Uni now being Issued from the s t e d oa is. It is intended for ci~~~t Cochin, China . -A late resident of Nort Mr. Jesse II. D. Reed, h, will his whole property, 0 ' " $20,000, to three old slaves for their care of him in l d 9 years. i .1) -A memorial chapel totce Imperial is about to be ere i 1s1 Tihe prime movers In -th e " Joachim Murat, president e,Qom mittee; General Fleury, b man, Paul de Cassagnac an u -The watch whlieh Geti sh ington had made in Lond ' Martha Custis, and prcse : e just before their marriage has been added to the collection of rei(os at.Wash ington's h eadquarters in Newburg -''i -It is stated in Boston that;Mrs. Monroe, the widow of the dean R41the School of Oratory of Boston UnIyerAty, will occupy her late husband's char at the autumn tortn. It is aid, fi*ther, that she is perfectly capp ole of gOing the work well. -Time Iowa State Board of: a tion reports that there re34$ O 698 acres of land in that Sta , of an>aver age value of $7.11 per ac Q The total equtalizedl value of land ~n osis ;. $3103,715,046 ; of personalty,8 585. Grand total, $405,763,531. 1 -Joseph r'emple, of Wq) aged 92 years 0 months, a~ his wife, aged 01, were a 15th of February, 1807, and4 together on the same farm own 72 years. Their child sixteen, ten of whom are 11y Sons and three daughters. -Our milling industry to that of Iron. Tihe numb over 25,000, affording empy mere than 60,000 mn,w wages are about $20, 0000, lng out yearly 50,000,00 bar of whilehi 40,000,000 are expo cign countries. -The Narrow ge~ railr point on the Virn la and Railroad to the Aitona coa southwestern Virginia, has pieted and is now ready for mine of coal, inexhaustible and, it is claimed, of a qual the Pennsylvania anthraolte opened. -In tearing down the old Albany depot at North Ada last Thursday, a workma piano laying on a beam, wh been placed over thirty years the depot was first built. good condition and bore th * J. Webb, Pittsfield, Mass, still living, anid to whaom thm will be returned. -Shool teaching in -M is not without its dangers. teacher in Franklin count temapting to correct one of the other day, when thrpe about fourteen years old at throwing her down an ki She got up and left the se butfaitedon the road hom proves to have beek~ ierioI --Mr. James titzer havib his position ais princijpal oft water -(rPenna.) Soldiers' School, tame school was olese~ of August, and the uIs to onme or more of the 01, viz: Uniontown, *et Mercor, Mercer nta ' thQ