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RIEDITION. WINNSBOlO, S. C., OCTOB.ER 9, 1879. VOL. II.-NO. 108. THE OU UF ULAY. There was a house of clay, Wheroin the inmato sat all day, Morry an-1 poor; For Hopo sat with her, heart to heart, Fond and krn., Vowing he nevor would depart Till all at once he changed his Mind: "Sweetheart, good by I" lie skipped away -l And shut the door. But Love came past, and looking in, With smilo that pierced like sunbeam thin Through wall, roof, floor, )Stood in the midst of that poor room, Grand and fair, 3Makinj a glory out of gloom Till at the window mocokod grim Care; Lovoe sighed: "All lose, and nothing win?" lie shut the door. Then o'or the oloso-barred house of clay Kind clematis and woodbino gay Crept more and more; And boes hummed morrily outside, Loud and strong, The inner silentness to bide, The patient silence all day long; Till evening touched with finger gray The bolted door. ost like the next stops passing by Will be the Angel's, whose calm eye Marks rich, marks poor; Who, fearing not, at any gato Wtands and calls; At which the inmato opens straight Whom, er. the crumbl ng clay house falls, lie takes in kind armi silently, And shuts the door. Turning The Tables. Tom Hills, sometime huntsman of the Old Surrey Hounds, were once sent to buy a Cox in Leadenhall Market for service the next (lay. The commission was not at all to Tomi's liking ; but obeying orders, lie rode to town, got his fox, and putting him, securely strapped, legs upward, in a capa cious pocket in his overcoat, turned his horse's head homeward. Somewhere about midnight he reached Streathamn Common, to be suddenly stopped with the once familiar challenge "Your inon-y or your Slitel" '"My moncy I" exclained Hills. "I haven't got any ; I am only a servant; and you Wouldn't take my life, surely V" The highwayman told him to look sharp, emphasizing the injunction by pointing a pistol at, the huntaman's head. "Well, my nhn," said the latter, "we won't fall out. I want my life; so, as I've no money, I suppose you must have money's worth. You'll find something <iuite as good in my pocket here ; so pray hel) yourself." The robber's disengaged hand dived into Tom's pocket instanter, and Master Rey nard's teeth closed as quickly upon it, caus ing the follow to yel in dismay, and drop pistol and reins ; while Tom galloped off at' his best pace, leaving his unwelcome ac (uaintance to bandage his hand and digest lilB disappointment at leisure. Relating his Indian experiences, Colonel Meadows Taylor tells of his being beset by hundreds of pilgrimis and travelers, crying out against the bunias, or flour-sellers, who not only gave their customers short weight, but adulterated the flour so abominably with sand that cakes made of it were utterly uneatable. The colonel determined to pun ish the chats; and this is how he did it. "I tod," says lie, "501me rellable mneun of my escort to go qumetly into the baz.ars, and each buy flour at a separate shop, being careful to note whose shop it was. The flour was brought to me. I tested every samiple, and found it full of sand as I p~assed it under my teeth. I then desired aill the pers5ons named in my list to be sent to me1, with their baskets of flour, their wieighits and scales. Shortly afterward they arrivedl, evidently suspecting nothing, and were placed in a rowv on the grass before my tent. 'Now,' said I, gravely, 'each of you 18 to weigh out a seer [two pounds] of your flour ;' which was done. " 'Is it for the pilgrimsi' asked one. "No, said I, quietly, though I had much -(difliculty to keep my countenance. 'You must eat It yourselves.. "They saw that I was in earnest, and offere'd to pay any fine I imposed. "Not so,' I retuifned ; 'you have made many eat your -flour; why should you object to eat It yourselves?9' "They were horrdbly' frighiteneds and amid the screams of. laughter and jders of the by tanders some of thoem actually began to cat, sputtering out the half--moistened flour, which could be heard crunching be tween their teeth. At last some of thoem flung themselves on their faces, abjectly be seeching pardon." And so, with a severe admonition, they were let off. No more was heard of the bad flour It is a pity rascals at home can not be0 servedi in the same way, pure food would be the rule, If the concocters and venders of vle make believers were liable to comipulsory consumption of their own wares. Sir John McNeihl, a shrewd Scotch~dipho mnatist'gaincdthe repute ot being thi only * uropean who ever got the better of a dory ish. During the 'New Year's festival the Persiari religiohiA touewdleants ply their voca tion most vigordusly, not merely asking for alms 'but demanding such sums as they doom proper, According to the rank of. the giver. A dervish tried t6oextract an ex travagant trIbute from 81r John, and the ambassador proving obstinate, proceeded to "sit upon hhn ;" titat is to say, lie eqtab lished hiimself Inu Sir John's garden, just be fore his *tudy windows, And relieved his feelings by makinga dpuhla ao eoiied to mako short Wtork of'athe nuisance, butWaQ: '3red that violony nweasures would be dangorou$, "Get rid tf himn Ifou catu," patd hie Persian advisers; '"but do not touch him." Sir John sent for a bricklayer, and gave the order: "Build a wall all round that howling beggar in my garden, ard tlhen roof it in." The dervish looked oil comtposedly while the wall slowly rose round him, and made more noise than before; but when the roof ing process commenced, and he awoke to the knowledge that it was really intended to entomb him alive, he clambered over the wall, and rushed away like a madman, never to trouble McNeill again. Some sixty years ago, a certain York shire living was held by a company-loving parson much in request at marriage merry makings, whose clerk was equally welcome at chri tening tea-fights. These two wor thics contrived to fall out : so it caie to pass that when the clerk was due at a tea party, he found himself obliged to forego the anticipated muflin feast by reason of the parson requiring his attendance. He bore the disappointment with tolerably good grace, hoping for ani opportunity for re taliation. It was not long coming. On Sunday-morning advised that the clergy man was going to dine with a newly wed ded pair, instead of giving out only part of the hundred and nineteenth psalm, the wicked fellow said, "Let us sing to the praise and glory of God the hutndred-and nineteenth psalm-all on't." Bef,!re his victim was well aware of the treat in store the musicians were fairly on their way, rc solved to go through their task, come what might. It was weary work, but they gravely persevered. -Sometimes only one list riment accompanymtg a single voice was to be heard; but singers and players were determined to do their duty, and held on somehow to the end ; and the parson had to dine at homte, inwardly confessing the tables had fairly been turned upon him. The Rev. Dr. Maclead, father of Dr. Norman Macicod, passing through the crowd gathered before the doors of a new church lie was about to open, was stopped by tin elderly mai with : "Doctor, if you please, I wish to speak to you." Asked if lie could not wait until after worship, lie replied that it was a mattcr upon his con science. ''Oh, since it is a matter of conscience, Duncan," said the good-natured minister, "I will hear what it is." "Well, doctor," said Duncan, ''the mat ter is this. Ye see the clock yonderon the new church. Now there is really no clock there, only the face of one; there is no truth there, only once in twelve hours; and in my mind that is wrong, very wrong, amid quite against the conscience, that there should be a lie on the face of the house of the Lord." The doctor promised to consider the mat ter. "But," said lie, 'I'm glad to see you looking so well, man. "Yon're not young. I remember you for many years; but you have a fine head of hair still." "Eli, doctor I" exclaimed the unsuspect Ing Duncan, "now ye're joking. It's long since I had my hair." Dr. Macleod looked shocked, and an swered, in a tone of reproach: ''Oh Dun can I Duncan I are you going imto the house of the Lord with a lie on your head ?" le heard io more of the lie on the face of the church. A well-merited repartee was dealt by a smart mihlslipmaA to the daughter of a K. C. B. at a ball given by the latter to the naval ofilccrs on the North- Pacific station. The middy wvas bold enough to ask thte young lady to accep~t him for her partner. "Oh (lear, no," said Ite supercilious bnauty. "Ma niever allows me to dance with mnidship~men." Bomlebodly let her knowv the middy was a Lotrd, anid she repented, anid reminded him1) thtat he w~as engaged to her for the next dance. 'rTe youngster however, was not so easily mollifiedl, and remembering the lady had native blood ini her veins, smilingly replied: "Oh dear, no. Ma ncyvcr allows me to dance with squaws." Said oneo play-going young fellow to an other: "I was at the Gaiety inst night for the sixteenth time, and took a look round the pilt to see if you wvere there." But noways disconcerted by the insliua Lion, the subject of lis "chaff" retorted: "What I been so nmany times to thme Gaiety, and not knowv that you can't see the pilt from the gallery?9 . Fairly paid ha her own colin wasthie Pai sti an am wnto, answermng a wet-tooted visitor's request for theo loan of a pair of slippers, by saying, "Certainly, my dear, If you think mine will fit you," received the clover rejoinoer : "I dare say they will, dear, if you tell your maid ,to put a cork' sole Inside them." "You have given me Scotch whisky ; I asked for Irlsh," comp~lained a hurried Im biber. "Never mnind,'J said the publican; "fancy it's Irish." The muan drank up the liquor, and madIe for the door. "Stop I" cried Boniface; "you haven't paid me." "Never mind; fancy I have," said his ecustomer, and away lie Went. '.Too 'trusting. "Mary Jatie Marsh, didn't I say. to last week that the next time you eame bore undet' the charge of driankenness I shmotild send you up) for sixty days?'", asked lisa Honor of a five-and-forty-fe mmil e, "I think you said so, Jndge, but I think. I had too much faith In you to believe you'd do any such thing,"' she replIed. ~"Well, you trusted, too muoh. You ar4 kegularly booked."- ' "~And Pm regularly sorry. Your Honor, because I can niever believe In 'you pgajin. It's.a sad day when a man losbe~th6edenjdce of the puibi in hlsa Bee anlciaIr In failfrila. This is a faillou country for bees ando the making of lo.jcy, and at many a breakfast table iII distant Europe to-day the wallte is spread with sweets that have been filehed from the hearts of a thou aid C-1ilfornila flowers. I n the m1onth of al most every ainon there is at bee ranch l*or aplary, whose Owner grows indolent and prosperous from tihe labors of his industrious subjects. lere there are no long winters with dearth of flowers, through which the patient workers must be nursed and fed in order that they may live umitil the open Ing of tihe next field season. These bee-ranches are mi1O(e18 of netneIStis andl domestic comfort, and the profession of bee-keeping Is rapidly becoming popular among persons of little physi cal strength or small financial capital, or both ; such as maiden ladies, broken downi ministers, bachelor students, and those dilettante farmers who fancy that tile royal road to bucoll' hapi)e,4s lies through the flowery beds of a bec-pas ture. Their expenses are as light as those of a hermit in lis cage, and what stores of honey are laid ipi are so much elear gain, as the bees board themselves while they work, md work unceasingly in preparation for the whiter which never comes. When the hilve is full the cakes of comb are removed, tile liquid Is strained from tile cells, and the empty cups are replaced to be filled again and again. Thiseconoieal pro cess prevents a waste of labor and tine in tile gathering of wax and the build Ing of new bins in the store-house. Walking out in the morning in the green brushwood of these canons you hear a loud and continuous buzzing of wings, and, altholghi there may not be a flower in sight, it is as ceaseless and strong as in a buckwheat patch or clover field at home. This hiummin*ig of bees is nature's tenor voice, as Lie roaring of water is her bass. There is a cure for homesickness in tile bees' mono toie, even though the authors thereof be perfectly wild, as, indeed, many of tiese are. II such a country you canl not feel utterly lonesome and lost. rhe Most Wonlorful of Calculating Boys. When Bidder wias ten ye-.irs old lie answered iII two minutes the following q uestion : What is the interest of ?4,444 for 4,444 days at 4, per cent. per an num. Thie answer is ?2,434 16s 5%d. A fewmonths later,when bewasyet lv aln years old, lie was asked, how long would acistern one mile cube be filling If receiving from a river 120 gallons per minute, without intermission 9 In two minutes le gave the correct an swer, 14,300 years 285 days 12 hours and 40 minutes. A year later lie divid ed correctly in less than a minitate 168,592,413,063 by 0,076. 1 have tried how long this takes me with pen and paper; and, after getting an incorrect resul'; in ono and a quarter minute, went through the sum again, with cor rect result, (51,629,838 and 5,875 over,) In about the same time. At twelve years of age lie answered in less thaln a minute the question, If a distance of 9D) Inches Is passed over in a second of tilme, how many Inches will be passed over In 365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, 55 seconds? Much more surprising, however, was his success, when 13 years 0old, in dealing wvith the question, w hat is the cube root of 897,339,273,874, 002,153? lie obtained tile answer in two Aud a half minutes, viz., 964.537. 1(do not believe one arithimetieian in a thlousand wvould get Ouit this answer correctly, at a first trial, in less than a quarter of an hour. But I con fess I have not tried the exlperiment, feeling, indeed, perfectly sattisfied'that [ should not got the aaswer -correctly in half a dozen trials. No dato is given to the following case: "Th'le question was put by Sir William Herschel, at Slough, near Windsor. to Master Bidder, and an swvered in one minute: Light travels from the sun to the earth in eight min utes, and tile sun being 08.000,000 of miles oflf, [of course, this is quite wrong, but sixty years ago it was near enough tothe acceptedl valuie],if lighitlwould take six years and four. months traveling at tihe same rate from the nearest flxed star, how far is that from the eartth, reckoning 365 (lays and six hours to each year,'and 28 days to cacth month ?" The correct answer was qickly given to this pleasing question, viz., '40,033, 840,000,000 miles. On one occasion we learn the proposer of a question was not satisfled with Bidder's answer. The boy salid the answer wvas correct, and reqjuested tile proposer to work his suni over again. During the operatlon, Bidder said( he felt certain he was righ t, for he had1( worked the question in anxother way, and before the prpoe found thxt lie was Wrong and Bidder right the boy told the company that he had calculated the question by a third method. The cannIng Wolves. It is said, a traveler in Germany writes, that whenever several of the larger wolves associate together for mischief, in the German forests and their neighborhood, there Is always a numerous train of smaller ones to fol low In the .rear, and act as auxiliaries in the work of destruction. T wo large wolves are sufficient to dlestroy the most powerful horse, and seldom more thani two ever begin the assault, at though ther'e may be a, score in the gang. It is no less curious than amus ing to witness this ingenious mode of attack. If there Is no0 snow, or but lit-. $10 on, the ground, t wo wolves approach In the indst playful and caressIng man per, )7ng, r'olling and frisking about, until the to* CreduiouiS andi hiunananoa ouis vleti. la completely put oil his guard by curiosity and familiarity. During thls time, the gang, squatted on their hind-quarters, look on at a dis tatice. After some tio spent lin this Way', the two assallants separate, whent one approaitces tlle lorse's head, and the other his tall, wvitli a shyntess and einning peculiar to themselves. At this stage of the attack their frolicsome aiproiacihes become very interesting-It is right good earnest; the former is a lere decoy, tle latter is the real assail ant, and keeps his eye steadily fixed on the hamstring or hank of the horse. The critical imomement -is then watched, and the attack Is sltimultaneous; both wolves spring at their victim the same moment-one to the throat and the other to the lank-and it successful, wihleh they generaly13' are, the hind one never lets go his hold till the horse is completely disabled. Instead (i spring Ing forward or kicklug to disengage himself, the horse turns round and round without attempting a defense. Tle wolf before then sjrings behind to assist the other. Tihe sinews are cut, and in half the time '. have been, des cribing It the horse ls on his side; his struggles are fruitless-the victory is won. At this signal the lookers-on close in a gallop; but the small fry of followers keel) at ai respectful dlistanlce until their superiors are gorged, and then they take their turn unnolested. Witches at the lewes. Now, my son Roderick-my young est son, who Is twenty-one next month -was ]aist year at the herrin' fishery at Frazerberg. One night he went ashore, and met a strange woman and man walking. They did stop, and did ask who lie was, and where lie tdil come from. "1From 2okh Inver,'" says lie. "And so do we," says they (which was singular, as hd did never set eyes on them before) "Come with us, and, we will give you a drink-" of heer or of rum, or of whisky, or of gin, I do not rightly mind which it was wiat offer. You must know sir, that each boat, at the herrin' fishery thne, takes a woman on board to cook meat and wash for them; there will be aniy women go to sea in this I.aile-. Well, they ask my son at the tavern, "Did you have any good luck with the herrin' to day ?" "No, very bad." "Did you yesterday ?" "No worse again."' "Ah I but," says she, "you will have to-miorrow." Well sure enough lie did ill1 his boat next day with very ni1ny crans of herrini', and did get ?15 for his share that one day. It was a wonderful thing. But lie did tell Ie that that gold (id do him no good; lie had no idea how it did get spent what effer. That day lie did go looking about after the man and womani all over, but lie did never see .them again; I did not here of his ever again seeing thei. ''Roderick I I do hope you will never agala have anything to do with these witches.'' "No, father, I will never again, so long as I do live." Ile is away to Frazerberg tills year again. I did hear of another witch In the Lewes, 15 year agone. She lived at Stornoway, and did sell winds to sail ors. One of our Loch Inver boats did not get away that autumn for weeks. Th'le wind was almost dead againist them. Well, Lhey did go to her, and wvaat they paid hier. I did not hoar, but shec gave them a black string tied wvith three knots, and sai, "Ye'll be getting awa' to miorrowv. Now, if the wind Is not strong enough, loose one kniot; if even then it Is not enough, loose the seeondl; but on youi life I on your life!i dlnna loose the third I'" Well, they got off buie enough next nmorning with a fair breeze; and theni thke skipper loosed one knot. On the boat sprang, and the wind rose. Soon lie loosed the second, anid they tore over the wvaves, and were very soon over the lunch near Loch Iniver. Tlhey got to the en trance of the harbor necar the store house -ye ken it? on the t ight-and the skipper says, "We're a' richut now; if tihe deil himself withstands me, I will loose the thtird 1" ie did loose it, amid thioughso near home, the boat was only got ashore ini little bits!I Site was al thotagh broken up ! The men wvere all saved. Adventure With a Snake, Robert G. Pillowv, a son of the late ox-Confederate General Pillow, lives on an Arkansas plantation, across the rIver from Memphis. A few days ago, accompanied by Aleek, one of the eel ored men on the place, lie was out hunt lng a wIld hog that had been seen in the vieinity. Pillowv had a gun and Aleek had armed himself wilth a pint b)ottle filled with whiskey. Thei hog was found and shot, amid just as Pillow went up to the writhing animal an im mense "cotton-mouth" snake, whose bite Is fatal as that of a rattlesnake, fats toned its fangs on the calf of his leg. Pillow Is not easily - frighfened. H~e took in the situation in a moment, and instead of exhibIting alarm ho turned to his companion and quietly remarked : "Aleok, I think I'll try a little of that whiskey now," whiskey being consid ered an infallIble remedy. He poured every drop down his thrpoat wvithot stopping to venture any remarks as to its quality. Thent shouldering his gun he rapidly walked to the houtse, a half mile distant, where lhe drank the eon tents of three ordinary glass tumblers filled with whiskey. Hie was soon in what he caliera "Niagara Falls of a per. spiratlon," which rapidly expelled the poison and save.d his life. For a day or two afte he says, that he was be. lek estfnan in all Arkansas. ThE Century Plant. ''hle American aloe, or centiury plant -a rarely file Ppeelmen of which Is now growing ill Brooklyn, and about to flower, seldom reaches that perfection vlich resilts in flowers, in temperate climates. I is growth here is so slow that its popular name is derived from the belief that. a fu'ill term of IOU years is requ ired before tih blossoms appear But in Its na tive soil, in tropical and semi-tropleal climes, extending to thie thirt-y-second parallel on either side of the equator, it comes to perfection in much less time; ofteni in twenty or Liei ty years. The same plant never Ilootus ilmore thanl once. Whenl tihe tine comes the flower-stalk shoots up with great rapidity from tihem centro of the crown, around which the leaves radiate, growing often fifteen or eigh teen iliehes a day, until a height of thirty amid sometimes, lin an exception ally vigorous plant, of forty feet is reached. le arms of this stalk. like those of a branching candlestick, bear tihe cup-shaped flowers, which hamve no reniarkable beauty. The aloe b-,tongs to the agave family of the oider of Amaryllidaceme. Tle leaves are thick at tile base and terminate in a shari poilit. It Is one of tihe most useful I)Ilts found in Mexico and Central America. From the fibres of the leaves at thread Is obtained which can be wo ven into cloth and twisted into ropes, and these leaves make a substaitial thatch roof. A part of tile stalk Is used for food, and the hard pithy cenitre at tle base forms a good whetstone, ais silica enters largely Ilto its composition, while the fermented sap of tile aloe, or maguey, as it is Called, is an intoxicat inig beverage known as pulque', whicl is byzgely consumed by the natives. Large specimens of tle ceitury plant are valued highly by florists here, and ats much as several hundred dollars i [lot uineollmnloly j]ald for a fille one. A Strangor's Noxo. Some of those chaps who wear their elbows down t'in leaning on saloon counters have an artificial fly with n fine thread attached to the back, and Sometimes time toys Caln be haildled to tIhe amusement of a small crowd. When an unknown man fell asleep in a saloon tile youing man with an artificial fly waF there. lie took position behlind his victfli, who wias lying back on l. chair, and presently the fly alighted o tile stranger's nose, walked up the bridge and down, and settled for a mo ment on tile tip end. Tle isleeper nev or moved a finger. The fly went over the old route, (love into the corner of the left eye, galloped over to the right, and caime down to th grand stand on the dead run, but the sleeper slept on. It began to appear that lie was used to fies, and so the game was changed. By sticking a pin through one of these tops you can make quite a bee of it, the pin being the stinger. When the "bee" descended on the stranger's nose everybody expected tc see a sudden start, but it did not come After a Jab at the tip end the "bee' crawled along l), walting for develop ments, and getting in an occasional sting, but not event a sigh escaped thie sleeper. The young man with the in. sect was gettmng tired, who n the stran ger lazily openled hlis eyes, Slowly rose uip from his chair, and coolly remarked: "Now, theh, if you have got thlroughi fooling with my nose, Ill fool witli yours for awhile I' It isn't likely that partlcular young man11 ill e Ver danigle artificial files any more, lie wVas doubledl upj, straighlten. 0(1 out, choked, mopped anid slammed so thoroughly that his appetite will run: to chicken broth and arnica for somt days to come. When the cyclone hiad passed the stranger called for gin, drank it, and said to tihe wvhite-faced crowd 01n time bench : "Gentlemen, if alny more of you set anything pecullar about my niose, pleas< call around and let me know I" Two Little Rhoes. Chiarley Bunnell was runnling 1m108 songer on the J. M. and I. R. RI. and tells this story : "Bluff old Jack Mills rouigh, but kind hlearted, was the 0n gineer. About a mile and a half till sidfe of Columbus there is a fine stretch of road, and Jack had 'pumlled her wid< open'' to make uip lost tme, r,nd th< old engine and train were rocklng along at a rate of about thirty miles tm ho'ur. A country road runs paralle with the track ihere for some distance and finally crosses it. But a short dis Lance, and finially crosses it. Biti short distance from time crossing, otn Lh< day referred to, there wvas suddenl3 dhiscovered a man, evidlently half druni in a two horse country wagon, and it it was his wilfe with hIlm. Thle mat was standing iup driving like mnad, but the train was se close upon him that n< one dr'eamned of his attempting to cross but mnaklng a sudden turn to the left he endeavored to cross the railroat track. By the time the wagon wva fairly on the track, tihe locomotivy struck it, smashed the wagon to splin. ters, killed the horses, and mangled t< death the man and woman. The trait ran somne distance before it could be stopped, atnd when it was flnall3 checked Bunnell went forward and found EngIneer Jack Mills, swearingj like a trooper, his engine all 'mussed, and he was damning the drunken too In the wagon for his criminal careless ness which brought oni tile accident Jack was hot. As lhe turned to get or his engine to reverse' her and keturn t< the scene of the accident, his eyes caught slekt of a. tiny pair. of. baby.' shoes, which had haan amneika nte, the pllreltses of the man in the wagonal and knocked out. They had fallen on the holler of the loconoti ve, and there they rested its gently as a (love sitting in it cantiou's mouth. A flood of recol lections of tie little ones at home watching and waiting for their parents wiho woubd never oollc-thoughlts, it may be, of the little feet at hoime-was too natucl for the true and tenider heart of the rough 11and hardy engineer, and he lealled on Charlie Bun nell's shoil.: der an(] sobbed aloud. 'Just look it them little shoes, Charlie,' lie said, be tweeni his tears, '1--did n't min1d so much rumining over that drunken fool who tried to cross ahiead of uts when he cotildn't, but the little one, Charlie, tile little kid that's waitin' for 'em, that's too rough !" The Itarttlespnakeo. It has beeii observed by some natuir alists that if we wit ihold water from snakes when about to shed their epider mils, they are thereby prevented from divesting tlIemiiselves entirely of the old skinl. I always kept a small bird,s bathing cup, filled wkh clean water Once at d" V, in the case coitllinling mily eretalus. The first skinl lie east oil', in July, %as entire and without a blem ish. At the seoid chanige, however, abott the last, Of SI)tLember, I removed the cip one night, intending to replace it shortly afterwards, brt I forgot to (10 so. The lext mornrming I round por tionls of loose skinl all over the floor of the case, and inmuch mo e hanging In shreds frotn variouis parts of the body of the simike. Other purts seenied not to be detached yet. I had not, silp posed that the ophidial wits (uite ready for a change. lie was over two Iontlis in divesting himself of hlis torn trotisers Was it (lute to the fact that water had been wiitliheld at the last time? Both Changes occurred in the Iiglt, and I failed to observe the Interesting pro cess ofdivestment. To test the qItes tion of so-called blindness occurring during the time when the pupil is cov cred by a whitish flim or thin mem brane becoming detatehed, and occlud ilg tie slght of' the eye, I )lace( s0111 very active mice repeatedly In the case during the period of' change of epider mis. The oplidian attacked the mice In quick tuirn, without even missing his fIrst victim. On other occaslous, however, when llls slgit was unob st'Icted, I hav.: seen him -strike at and miss the mark repeatedly. After mak Ing a few misses lie woild then strike about with intensified fury. Thesnake never wlthotit dirst striking his victim. He did noteat more than two m1icel at a ieal, aid sometimes an hour lapsed be fore eating the second 0110 lIe never killed his prey witonly; oil tihe con trary hie permitted miicee to keep his collpaniy while his appetite was ap liCsed. CuttImgr Wlaas With Scissoro. Many persons imay not be aware that glass canl be out under water with great ease to almost any shape by simply using a pair of shears or strong scissors. In order to insure success two points must be attended to. First ad most important, the glass imilst be kept (tite level hai the water while the scissors are auplied0(, and1(, seCondly, to avoid risk, It is better to begin tihe cutting by takiing off sma111ll iecs att the corners anid along the edges, and so reducie thbe saegradually to that requtiredl, as If alny attemplt Is made to etut tihe glass all at on1Ce to the shlape as we could cut a piece of card board, It wvill mlost likely break where it is not wan ed Some kinds of glass cut imeh hetter thtan others, the softer glasses being the best for this puirpose. Th'Ie selssors need not be at all sharp, as their action does not appear' to depend Onl the state of' tile edges priesenlted to the glass. When the operation goes on well the glass breaks away from the scissors in small plheees in a straight 111ne with tile 1lades. T1hiis method of eutting glass has often been of ser'vice whien a dialmond has1 not been at hand for etutting ovals and segmnents, and thouigh the edges are aot sosothas maight be desired for soe pturposes, yet, It, will answer' in a great umny eases. Th'le hiuts given above, if strictly followed, wvill always Insuire Tame Hioreots. Th''iere is no accoutinlg for taste~s Mrs. incoln, of Boston keeps twvo big pet lions, amnd now we hear of a West ern farmer who has dome~stlented a lot of creatures that belong quite as appro priately out of door. In a letter he says :-"In the middle of my parlor I have a curious republie of iniduistrious hornets; thleir nest hangs to the cell lug by the same twig on which it was so adlmirably built and eontrived ini tihe woods. Its removal ditd not displease thenm, for they find In my house plen ty of food, and I have left a little hole in one of thle panes of glass that an swors all purposes. By this kind usage Sthey have become quite harm less. 'They live on thle flies, whilh are very trouble some to us throuigh the summer. TIhey are Constatly btusy catching' thoem, even oni thle eyel'ds of my chIldren. By Stheir assistariee I am but little troubled with flies. All my family are so ac customed to their strong buzzing thai no one takes any notice of them, and though they are fierce and vindictive; yet kindness has made them useful and harmless. When a person isoverheated and ex Shausted, both the handa and feet should be bathed Is Cold) wated r' something warm should. be takotD at 9nees-hoi S lemonade, gliger -water, er aomething Fat Horses an d Personal Equations We Ihelar iimuchi nIowadays aboumt tie extraord I lit1-y seliced Shown by this or thlt horse at somie race Imecting. These itne tests are regarded its much i part of the recoid as tihe winning of the race itself. litt wihile the general publie may be satisiled with annoumiced results soie of its would like to know more about tihe contest than Is told lin tho brief statement that "'Rarms trotted a ittle here to-day in 2 13," or whatever it mty be. It has become so that a frac tion of a second makes a great difler enice in tihe record as well as w'ell as in the valie of a horse; and yet it seldom happens that two me:i iIn tihe tilnibers' staid agree as to the exact time made. While it is true that in the well regu lated imind of inan, the will )Osesses suprene direction over the whole cur remt of thought, poliey and action, can it be said with positiveness that lie who ocettotis tile positson of a timing judge on a race course has a well-regulated mind? Sensation and perception are tile two things mi0st intimately con nected with the proper timing of fast horses. The horse speeds arouid tihe course, lie approaches "the wire," and amid great excitement, passes under it. The timer, who may or may not be fim bued with this same exctement, or who may have anm active or anl inactivo brain, sees tie horse and becomes con scious of the fact, but he Is not done yet. There has to go back from the brain, so to speak, ai electric spark along time nerves, which produces a contraction of the muscles of the arim, aMid a 1miotioni of the thumb and finger follows. These press time spriig, and tile hands of Lite watchi are stopped. But tie activit.y with which all this Is accomplished differs lin men materially. At best, the nerves transmit their share iI tile work it Lite rate of only seventy feet a second, which Is less than double the rate of speed it which the iorse is moving in the samie period of time. There exists a pienomneion called"ier sonal efmtioi," and so long as quick w itted persons and slow-witted persons are to decide time speed at which race horses travel, just so long will tie time test, be int irresponsible one. In making the common observation of the exact inomenit whOni a star travels aoross the fine vercleal wire intersecting the ilecd of view of a telescope some astronomers Ilways anticipate the event, and others allow it to 1)118 before they succeed InI notimig it. This Is by 1no meanis tie ef feet of' inexperience or maladroitness, but is a persisten t, characteristio of each individual, however practiced in the art o minking observations lie may be. The diflermice between the tie of a manm1m's noticing time event and thmat of Its actual occumrm 1nce Is called his per sonlmi eInatiom, and is carefully mser talined lor every assistant InI every iab oratory. The adoption of a similar plan oi our race courses can alonegive us the correct time made by fast hmorses. Too Polito for nomurders. The dull beaches of this sandy coast have been conslderably stirred over an event that will be heard around the world. You know what Narraganset is-at least you know what It ias been, for time piace, I believe is yours by dis covery. I would nmot like to say how imny years ago you amid Doctor Gama liel iley mand his lovely famnily found by imere accident, that ojposite New port was ma beach quite as I avormable to batinmg, amid adjoining it was one hotel aind onme boarding house. Tme onme was Whialey's, iinemal desenmdamit of Whmal hey ; time othber a crude little place, half tavern and half boardinig house, filled with pe(pie fmomi Philadelphmia. In those days one left time rail-road mat Kingtoni, amid wended lis weary way to time Pier by an old fashionedl coach. At the Pier there was one horse, known as Old Smnooth Tooth, that could lbe hired at a dollar a day, with a vehicle thmrown In, that impressed oneo with time belief thait it had beeni Noah's famIly carriage, amnd hmad yet clinging to its wheels, seine of the mud left from the flood. Primitive days amid primnitlve people. I remember the Taylor pecople took oni airs and pro temnded to look dowmn on the Whalloy's. Thiey weme poor smnobs, whoso poeket books would mnot permit life at New p~ort, so they aped Newport at Taylor's A good story was told of General Schmenek aniemnt this tavern, Hie was out bathing one day, when hie encoun tered a couple of females splashimng in time breakers, amid very courteously of fered his services to them. After a lively time the General escorted his damsels to thme bathing houses, and coming out himself was met by a grin mn ing frienid. "I say, Sehmenek, -we have enjoyed a laugh at your expense," lie cried. "How so ?" responded the grIm M. C. "Why donit youm know you have been bathing two oi Taylor's servant gIrls?" "W~ell, responded 8., "1 thou hit they wore too polite for board. Length of the Days, At London, England, and Bromen, Prus sia, time longest day has sixcteen and a half hours. -At Stoekholm, Sweden, thme longest day hua eighteen and a half hours. At Hamburg, Germany, and Dantzie, Prussia~ the longest day has nineteen hours and thme shortest five hours. At Boinoo, iSinland - the longest day hias twenty-one and abhalf, and the shortest two and a half.: At'Wardhuy in Norway,' the day lasts from the' 21st of May to the 28d of :July, wlthdut inter ruption; and at Spitzbrgen tho lob'gest dy the longest day,-June 18, ias ~ten_~~K anid fifty-she miautes, amt Motr [ and a half hours. Bout tW la* d~6 all though~ one no~e ef ~ ,.