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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 20, 1879. VOL. 111.-NO. 126. ON THE BLY. How oft at twilight hour We two went floating off upon tho'wavol The west resplendent with its sunset dower, The east all luminous, yet softly grave The ocean spread around, Just ruffled, yet reflecting every hue, Marking with foam each emerald islet's bound And gliding back its billows to renew. Then the lone sea bird sped Ito trackless way with many a plaintivocry; The winds swept slowly, and from ocean's bed Rose perfumes that e'en now seem gath ering nigh. Loaning on idle oars, We gazed on hills whose feet were on the sand; Their crowns rose grandly where the sunlight ponl s Its last rich flood on rippling sea and land. In all the long. bright past When ocean,earth and sky,in blest accord, Their spell of light, song, motion, round us cast There are no dearer hours in memory's ward The cup our lips did press In'that glad time was trembling to the brim With its swift draft of mortal happiness Not wasted, lost, but grown far-off and dim. The Lost Ring. Had I been my own mistress I should never have served Marie Rosis. But pov erty, the need of food and raiment, the hungry mouths that must be filled, were too strong for me, and I engaged myself to her. True, she asked no reference; but why need she? "You are poor, Louise," she said, with a slight French accent. "Money is of no ac count to ic-I only ask you to be faithful. I said that I should travel; so you must supply your brother's and your sister's wants before we go. I shall be liberal with you. Take this." As she spoke she reached out six or eight half-eagles. I dr3w back my hand. "It Is too much," I said. "Allow me to be the judge of that. I know what will be required of you." A little chill ran over me. What would he required of me f I looked up to see, if possible, what meaning lay hidden beneath her words. "I shall travel as fancy pleases," she con tinued. "One spot i8 as pleasant to me as another. I go in search of something which I have lost. It may be here, it may be there. I have nothing to guide ne in my search. It Is all blind chance.' At first I was not happy in my migra tory. I used to long for home-or what had been home-and for the caresses of those i loved. But this did not last long. Marie Rosis soon grew to be the world to me, and I her bond-slave. Sometmes we rested for two or three weeks from our travels, and then went for ward, day after day and week after week, without stopping. I do not know how long I had been with her, when I discovered that we were not traveling alone-that we had a follower, who pursued us from place to place with unwavering persistence. lie did not seem to be conscience of us. le never addressed us-lhe only followed us like a shadow. I do not know why I did not speak of hihn to Kadame, nor why she did not mention hihn to me. I used to think sometimes that she did not see him. And yet, why noti Her eyes were too sharp to * allow anything to escape them. Perhaps she was afraid that she might alarm me by speaking. We were two women journey ing alone, with no one to protect us.. and I was naturally. timid. Still, about this man with his gentle mouth and clear blue eyes, there was little to alarm any woman. Ordinary people Madame Mario did not notice; and this gentleman's presence was not marked. So I tried to think no more about him. it wa/ Qftcr this stranger came that 1 learned what miads~m ws searching for. _A ring that had mysteriously disappeared from her finger one night while she was sleeping. A strionge ring, with a garnet heart for its pentre, all that she hiqd left of Minieur Rosls. I glanced at her in sur liriso. - "Was it your wedlding ring." "Better than that-Monsleir-Rosis .gate: .It to mep while lie was dying. ie came brck to life to givp it to me-j~ust as we turn 1 bapk when we have forgotiten some thing. - I looked at her keenly. Was the woman erazyi "Hie gave it to me, and said that a eurse * would follow me if I lost it. I did not lose it-It went away from mep; but I aimnot happy. Monsieur Ros was very hard." "But you are not to blame for what you could not help." "Ahm I but if a-lover took it I" she said, shaking her head slowly. "I hid falleri to sleep in the drawing room-the day was warm. When I awoke Monsieur's heart was gone, and the air full of shadows. Ilve been searching ever since for It." She began pacing1 up and down the room. We were stopping for a week'at a'hote- in a large inland town. This conversation had been carried on In the parlr-a long wide room, .ookidig. westward. As maid. ame walked I thought I had never seen pieg * half so beautitpl. SIge wore ,a dress of some soft black stuff, 'which trailed on the * bright hued carpet. This was relieved by a gauzy scarlet- mantle,- sa'delicatel and flmy a the wings of a buttergy, While she-Wety to ad fro ' oy ths strangor pam. ioIselessly inla 15edl4ohb, 'hie did not iotio6-i 'bit 16 Ed Afglit. out-of th'e window to the green tr~e ar md lhyofd thaem to tqrtide sunset. < p~r aypef, I grew angry and h at sistently ? At least I would tell madame. As I started forward to speak the strange gentleman raised his (and to his forehead and I saw something on it that glowed blood red in the sunlight.' 1 looked at it eagerly and saw the shape of a heart out lined on the slender white finger. My heart bounded. Here was the lover who had stolen madam's ring. It should be re stored to her, and once more she should know happiness. Ai, how frightened I got, though I While my lips were parted to speak, and my hand reached forth to touch lia arm, he was gone, and ' I stood quite aloup with Madame Rosis. "What makes you so white ?" she asked, stopping short in her walk. "Why, lie has gone I" "Who has gone ?" "The gentleman who walked beside you." "Indeed, who so honored me?" she said, increduously, "I was busy with my thoughts." 'A'strange gentlenian walked with you -near you-and as I started towards hiim Ie disappeni ed. Matame laughed a low, musical laugh, but I saw that the white hand that clasped her scarlet mantle over her heart was shak Ing. Her lips grow white and dry. "I hope lie was handsome." "Very ; and a mouth like a girl's." Her forehead grew puckered into scowls. "And wh'at else?" * "le wore a ring with a blood--red healrt " I pray that I may never oil earth see a face so fearful as was madame's at that moment. I put ip a quick prayer, for I thought she was about to kill me. Sile clutched both hands about lmy arm and held me closely to her. "How dare you, girl?" "I could not help seeing lim," I said. 'There lie is now outside, looking in at the window.." She cowered down at my feet, and cov evered her eyes with her mantle. I do not know how long I stood there, or how Idng she knelt without moving. I know the figure stood motionless at the window, look ing at uts with steady, unwavering eyes. Would lie never goV Would lie hold us forever with that quiet, unflinching gaze? At that moment I shrieked, and madame sprang to her feet. A crowd came to see us. and I fell back faiting. In the morning we started. It was sum mer time, and our way led through the richest of earth's grounds. All was beauti ful from the sky downward--birds, flowers, fruit and velvety greensward. It spite of everything I was happy. ''We will soon have a long rest," mad amne said, as we whirled along. "You shall hear from the brother and sister at home." I was looking out of the window as sile spoke. As I turned my face towards her I felt soei one touch my shoulder. I turned, around quickly. The stranger was sitting near us in the train. Iia presence seemed so real to me that I spoke out angrily: "If you please, sir- " Madame looked around. "To whom are you speaking, Louise?" I know, then, that whatever I saw, whether man or evil one, Madame Rosis was conscious of nothing. I looked over the face-at the blue eyes and gentle mouth, downm at the white handy anld red rIng, withlout a word. "Monsieur Rease," I thought. "But why does he follow madame ?" We redo the day through withI thle fair, Immovable figure beside us, and the dloctor in the next carriage. The one seemed to counteract the influence of the other. Nothl lng could harm mnc. At night we came to our resting place. "Here we shall find the ring I" said Ma dame, as we hurried out of the train. "It is like an inspiration. I feel it throughl and through." We did not go to a hlotel, but to a houspi near tihe outskirts of thp towni. I hiow the coachmnan of the fly stared at Madame when sheo told him where to drnive us. The night wa very dark. Locking around for mly friphd, I oild nqt see him, mand I thoeught that I was lot .Warm, as4waS, th9 night, the place to which we w~nt was chilly. Madame hatd firps mnado in thme grntes and ordered wvine to be brought. 'Where are we I" I asked. 'Pardon me for not saying. This ms my home. No one dare intrude here." No 0110? Was Madame surei As she0 spoke the pleasant-faced stranger, ghnost, or nmn, camne nolselessly~n, .and sat down by the flire. He wore thn~ame expression as when I, first .seen hin. (3lanelig at lisa hand, I saw the blood-red rIng glowing upon his finger. "You do not drink," Madame said, as I sat holdIng the wino-glass. "What is it ?" -I put down the 's *ith a' shtidder. "Madame Rosis, I want to go home." "This ls your hlome, By day it is .beau tiful. To-nIght I know there are shladows --and it is cold. We can have more tire." "That Is not it--I want my sister.: i seem W e tiflipg erp.". - wl "ellwllIwi)plytoy g wl 8,he threw open thle'plap~nood Idavens, what a wail came from it as hier .delicate fingers ran up and down the keys! iWild unrest, agong, despair found voice in the melody whicb 'shme awakened. Theit hot little handcs p~y4 f~,pftly; doin, An'd tgr Vof1p imi weId adedin itt1g.l- t al I u ould hear thle falling of gh~ostly foet; the "whI*& pre, igoslp*,Qj I9 ,9 'stig6 JMatnpI o4; q1 4a taq was like that of a tomb I Wats I among flesh and blood realities, or had I been drawn into the charnel-house to expiate sonic sin which 1 had committed? Sin, in deed I what did I know of sin I " Don't madame-don't I" I cried. 'You are nervous. You shall go to your room and have supper there." She led me like a child. What could I do? Up stairs It was more cheerful. The fire was fresh, and the lamps gave out a clear, steady lightr I drew a sigh of relief. "You like it ?" said madame. "How can I help it 1'' "I am glad. My room is opposite. In the night, If you are wakeful, you can come to me. But I think you will sleep. I will send your supper up in a moment." I did not wait for supper. Thoroughly exhausted, bodily and mentally, I sank upon the bed. I do not know how long I slept. I started up suddenly from my pil low, a fearful shriek echoing through my brain. It was madame's voice that aroused me. Ini a moment there was a sound of hurried feet In the hall, a murmur of strange voices. and some one threw open the door opposite mine. I stole soft out, and crossed the hall'to mnadame's room. There was a group of strange people standing by her bed-side. A voice said, 'She is dead I" "What is it-what killed her ?" I asked. "I do not know. Probably her heart was diseased. Some sudden fright did it. The detectives have beei on her track for weeks." "The detectives? Why ?" 'She poisoned Monsieur lRosis, her hus. band. That is his portrait yonder," said the physician. I gave one glance towards it. I had lit tie need to look at it, since the face was so terrible familiar to me. "She has escaped justice," some one said, solemnly. "You are mistaken, she has gone to meet it." "See I" cried another, in a startled voice, "She wore his ring again." I looked down at the little waxen hand, now clay cold. On the white forefinger the heart of Monsieur Rosis glowed and burned. It was plain to me, no matter what others taught. Maadame had died of fright when the ring was plachd upon her finger. 1Her impression had been true. She had that night found her ring. Water Supply of Venico. Entering a little square shut in by high houses, and, like most Venetian squares, dominated by the unfinished facade of a time-stained church, I noticed a singular activity among the people. They were scurrying in from every alley, and hasten ing from every house door, with odd-shaped copper buckets on hooked-ended wooden bows, and with little coils of rope. Old men and women, boys and girls, all gathered closely about a covered well curb in the middle of the square: and still they hur ried on, until they stood a dozen deep around it, Presently the church tower slowly struck eight, and a little old imani forced his way through the crowd, passed his ponderous iron key through the lid, and unlocked the well. The kettles went Jangling into it, and came slopping out at an amazing rate, and. the people trudged off home, each with a pair of them swung from the shoulder. The wells are deep cisterns, which are filled during the night, and it Is out of amiable consideration for those who love their morning nap that they are given as good a chance as their neigh bors of getting an unsolled supply. It is the first Instance that has come to my no tice of a commendable municipal restraint upon tihe reprehensible practice of early rising. Few, very few, of those who came for water had had time for their toilets. Their day evidently begins with this ex cursion to the public reservoir. Later In my walk I saw a cistern being rcplenishied. A barge filled witha fresh water lay In a canal near by, and a steam ptump forceti the supply tiirongli a hmose to tho square, where pi gutter caied it to the well, The water is of excellent quality. It is brought through conduits from the E~uganean Hills, near Padua, but Its distribution through the city is carried on in thle original manner indicated. F~or a city where the salt sea Is thme scavenger, where ablutions are not do rigqueur, and where water Is not a bever age, the cost of laying distrlbu.ting mains has wIsely been spared. Draping Forest; Trees with Vines. When we read descriptions of tropical forests we are always struck with the amount of climbers, creepers, lianas, grow ing on the trees and dropping fantiastically from branch to branch. The nearest ap proach that I have seen to these fascinating descriptions wag In the virgin forests of the Sardinia. There the ciematla, wild vine, blackb'erry, ivy, all but realize these de scriptions of tropical scenery, and add mch to tihe beauty Qf the forests. On my return home I determined to imitate this feature of the Sardinian forests, and planted a num bor of climbers at the roots of many of my trees, making soil for them. I had, how ever, no success ; the roots of the trees ate upI tihe soil, and the creepers dwindled away. Eighteen months ago I hit upon a plan which promises to be a complete suic cess., I had some casks, large and entail, cut in two, and holes made at the bottom for drainage. Theni I had holes as larges the half casks maderat tile foot of trees, cutting awity roots to make room. Tile trees no douabt suffer, but they soon recover themselves. Them casks were filled withm good soil, anad the creepers planted~thereig, Vrinian ceepers, Boursault roses, . vlep~s and( ivy. They are all doing verywe, and are run:nin p the trees vigorously.IJy the imetheWoo ofthe .eesk 5 ots the~ plants wil have established themsefves and will, I trust1 be able~ to hold their owp, I expect ia two or thtee years to have, my tteos covered with garlands, fosto of niitthe lianas ofthe topu .eteeei ofild o d 46 qutrt, ato as B IEuMa e~~s Disinfectan. Quicklime may be used to absorb mols ture and putrid fluids. 8prinkle it freely, in powdered form, In all places to be purl led. Gypsum can be mused for the same purpose. Neither should be used in closed drains, catch-basins or sewers, as they de compose soapwater and form a new com pound which obstructs the flow of fluids in those places. Charcoal powder slhouhl( be used to absorb putrid gases. The coal should be fresh, and recently heated, and mixed with lime or gypsun. Peat char coal is equally good, and cheaper. Chol-. oride of lime is good to absorb pultrid eNlu via and to stop putrefaction. Use as lime Is used. Black oxide miaganese may be used for purifying collars and rooms, with out disconmmoding patients. It may be made of forty parts black oxide of magan ese and sixty parts of common salt, and may be distributed on plates. Copperas may be used to disinfect the discharges from patients affected with dangerous dis cases. Ten pounds of copperas in a pail ful of water, and a 'qpart or tN o poure -1 into places needing pirifleation will be ef fectual. Chloride of sine, chloride of man ganese, or proto-chloride of iron, may be used in place of copperas. Permuagnate of potash may be used in, disinfecting clothing and towels. Throw the articles into a tub of water with an oimce of the drug, to every three gallons of water. The per magnate of potash should be used in suill. cient quantities to give a purple tinre to the water. "Lahaquels solution" imay be uscd for the same purpose. Neither of these should be used for the disinfection of colored fabrics is they will bleach Ilhem. Chloride of zinc is equally ats good, and if pure and neutral will neither bleach nor stain. Carbolic acid and the coal tar dis infectants are the most eflicient, and per manent, antiseptics, but are generally too offensive for indoor use. A gill of carbolic acid in a pail of water. is one of the best disinfectants for soeers, drains, catch basins, water-closets, urinals, privies, etc. It should he used in the same manner as copperas. Carbolic acid is often mixed with lime, forming carbolate of lime, to be used for the same purposes. A mixture of ten parts of quicklime and one part of the cheap refuse oils from the distilation of coal tar, is one of the most eflicient, prepa rations for deodorizing foul places in the open air. Bromine, either alone or in so lution, or slbsorbed by quicklime or gypsum is the most prompt and efllcient disinfect ant for unoccupied and infected apartments. The solution should be made in the propor tion of one drachm to a pint of water, and should be shaken until the bromine is dis solved. Then distribute it In earthen plates, or by suspending sheets saturated with the solution. In forty-eight hours at most, the most infectious rooms are diin fected. For use fin occupied rooms one drachm of bromine to a quart of water, placed on plates beneath the bed, may be used. Ncither bromine, chloride, or the parmagnate of potassir should be used In connection with the carbolic acid, as these substances mutually neutralize each other's disinfcctihg qualities. Gaseous Gunpowder in Our Hooms. Gas is essentially a mixture of compounds of carbon and hydrogen, and by itself can not explode, But if it be mixed with from five to ten or twelve times its volume of air we then have a gaseous gunpowder, in which the gas represents the carbon aid sulphur and the air represents the nitre. If a light be Introduced into the mixture the oxygen of the air combines with the carbon and hydrogen of the gas, causing a very sudden evolution of heat, a consequent sud. den increase of volume and ar. explosion. When a leak occurs in gas pipes in a house the escaping gas rises to the ceiling of the room, on its way thither mixing to a certain extent with air. This mixing process is continued after it reaches the ceIling, but the continual supp~ly of gas protects that which has first escaped, so that the state of affairs after a good (deal of gas has escaped~ will be about as followvs:--At the ceiling of the room there will be a layer of nearly pure gas, lower down mere and more air Is mIxed with it, until near the floor pure aIr Is found. If any one finds himself In a room, therefore, In wvhich their is a strong smell of gas, lie may count upon there being In some part of the room an explosive mixture and should on no account adlmit any light, not even a pipe or cigar, much less a candle or match, Thme gas should be shut off from the house at the meter, where there Is a cock for the purpose. The win dows of the room should be thrown down at the top and the door opened, p~rovidedi the draught is from the door to the wiln dows, otherwise the door had better be left closed. The cocks on the gas fixtures should be examiiined to see if any of them are turned on. If no such obvious source pf leakage can be found, a gasfitter should bo sent for and Informed that If lie cannot find the leak without a lIghted candle or miatchi his services will not be made use of. The locality of a leak can be found by time odor of the gas when it is turned on at the moter again. Sometimes gas will leak around the base of the fixtures where they are screwed on the house pipes. In any suchx case, where it is necessary to stop a leak on short notice, a little common soap, not too, dry, may be plastered over the aperture. In many eases a piece of news paper, several folds8 in thickness, and wet so as to form a soft wad, may be put over the leak and tied on so as to temporarIly stop it. These are only expedlents for uise m an emergency. No one should tolerate a leak, as it may prove a very expenslyc affair, Ferrets. Ferrets are of two colors white and brin dle. The white ones have pink eyes look ing ,nineh like the glass beads seen in the heads of artificIal mice. The brindle ones have black eyes. Hecre is another point on which the neutral character of the ferret man is apparent. Nobody can get him to say which color Is best. Heo will say they are both as 'good as they can bqi and that one is no better than theo other., If pressed hard, ho may. tfter long'perseverance and the expcrylltuare of a great. amount of pa tience,. be brougt to adinut. that "the brin dIe are prb~ya more 'arty anImal than the whites, but .the whiites are, ekally as gameoy as th .brindles." . b~ lucid, ex patild isapod to set~y tijn most ingn soextanco )jwvr is o. hoy. more wape u phqtre.t his 8cotch tor qp\ieto 'work bi hand. :A It. (oes not always have where they are not 8o trained. This is one of the draw backs in a ferrets life. Often, when work ing with dogs not used to them, the latter mistake themt for rats and put an end to their existance with a vim that would ,be commendable were It employed on the legitimate prey. There are other little in conviences in the life and business of a ferret which show that it has clouds as well as sunshine. Sometimes they get Into sewers, where the slippy surface affords them no foothold, and the result is they never get out again. As for the scratches and bites they get in their encounters with rats, they are as natural as the scars o i a veteran or bruises on it prize lighter. A well known ferret man of Philadelphia, John Gregory, of Beach street, Kensington, has about thirty ferrets, many of which show marks of their conflict with their nat ural enemy. On a recent occasion the fer rets were employed to rid the house of a gentleman down town, when onc of the largest rats over killed probably was laid out after a desperate tight by one of the ferrets. The latter had its throat pierced by the rat's fangs to such an extent that daylight slone through, and the owner sgarcely thought, it worth while to carry it back home. Despite the rough usage the ferret, with proper care is recovering. A rat bite is not necessarily fatal to a ferret if the rat is not diseased. Many ferrets are lost, however, through being poisoned by the bite of a rat that is suffering front some distemper. Then too, the old plan of poisoning a rat with arsenic and other poi sonous compounds often works disaster to the ferrets, who are poisonied in return. lerret men are chary of places where poi son has bep:i used, and if they know it will not let their ferrets work under the circum stances. "I have lost over *700 worth of ferrets one way or another in one year," said the Kensington ferret the other oay. I've lost a fortune in ferrets in my time. Some were poisoned and some got lost in sewers, I haven't nothin' like the stock of ferrets I used to have. 'Ave 'ad as 'igh as sixty and seventy at a lick in my time." During the war lie took his ferrets (own to Fort Delaware to clear the prisoner's pens ani(d warehouses of rats. It was the largest Job he ever had. "I killed over sixteen thousand rats in three montis (own there. The time when I am busiest is when peo ple go away from their houses for the sum mer or when they return In September. 'l'hat's a montl when I am busy. Keep my dogs aii' ferrets goin' ill the time. Get a great deal to do in the country among farmers. Like to work in the coun try better'n in the city. Ferrets and (logs like it better, too. It's cleaner every way, and the (logs get a better chance at t lie rats. Ferrets arc not so likely to be lost either. The advantage of ridding a place of rats with ferrets over ridding It of them with poison is that after the ferrets have killed or driven 'in out, thait's the ed(( of 'em. When you poison 'em they crawl into their holes and (lie, and then you have to tear the house (Iown to get 'em out111 and remove the smell." F1atnitug. Fainting is so comnion with some per sons, particularly womneil, and the cause of It so little understood by non-professional people, that some knowledge on the sub ject often proves valuable. Faintness con gists in a temporary failure of the activity of tie heart, the blood not buing properly circulated in consequence. Al though it (oes not reach the head, the sufferer loses all clearness of vision, and if not prevented may fall, the fall, not unfrequently restoring the normal condition. There is no convul Sion, and though lie-more probably sie caii hardly be call conscious, lie Is not so profundly unconscious as to be incapable of arousal, as happens in epilepsy. There arc all degrees of faintness, from merely feeling faint and looking somewhat pale to posItive and comp~lete swooning. Ini somte cases, one faint is no sooner ece thiain another amnd another succeedl, hour after htour, even (lay atter (lay. If is scarcely necessary to say that such cases arc seriotus and need( promp~t. treatment. The causes are various. Some personsi are so easily affcctedl that they swoon If they cut their lingers os see any ono bleed. Their de fence Is oversensitive nerves and~ weak muts . cular fibre. 'rho heart is essentially a mas cle, whiicht Is feeble in some, strong In others-feoble generally In womeni and strong In meni. Whatever weakens the heart and imuscles commonly produes faintness, close, foul air being an active cause. Whatever'grcathy affects the nerves sucht as bad ntews or the sight of the (lisa grccablo or horrible may indiuce a swoon; and loss of blood Is another and a serIous Incitement. Sound health naturally ac compaied by firm nerves and( muscles, is the best preventive of fauintness. The ma jorIty of vigorous men go through all kinde of severe and painful experIences without faintinig, whitlo delicate ment and woiment swoon at trithes. American womten, who used to faint contintually-In crowds, at bad news, at scenes of dtistres-now faint comparattively seldom; and thle fact Is as cribed to their relinquishment, for the most part, of thte habit of lacing, to their Iucreats ed exorcise In the open air, and their bet ter physical condition. Not one American woman faints to-day where, thirty years ago, twenty-five women fainted, andl time diminution of thto dIsorder, always the re stilt of direct causes, is an untmistakable evIdence which other things corroborate, of the marked amlelioration of tho. health of the highly organized, extremely sensltive, but flexible and enduring women of our complex race. A Itoeto of Mary Queen of Soors. When Mary Quteen of .Scots was a pris oner In tho castle of Lochiburn In the win ter and early spring of 1508, site drew young George Douglas, the stripliing bro thter of William Douglas, the governor .of Lochhiurn, into her favor for the purpose of effecting her escapo. The youth was won comnpletelf. On the evening 6f the second of May, 1568, the keeper aund lis family being at table, George seizedl the keys and fled across the lake witht thte royal prisoner For this romahtic allegiance Queen Miary presented to George Douglag a lock of v her hair. Now 4t so came about that as time rolled on, this loek--of a silken texture and beautiful pale auburn-was found amuong some old papers at. 'Wishaw,' one of *thte estates of the Douglas family. .And as ti4io again passed, when the late John Car roll Brent visited th9 lateo Mrs. Cathiarine P e Douglae,. of Rose Hall, Scotland, a alie1 shte phoW~d Ihin the l'ok and og eeven years later, Iu 137,b t~ Parlshan Fasih Market. Over the paving-stones thunder the heavy railway vans that bring the "tide"-the sole that you shall eat (iu 'in /lne at your dejiuner, the turbot which shall 11g utre (1, 1'hollanduisc oil the chibi) (' Crle at dinner this evening. The "thie" is pinie tual this morning. To day, at all events, no modern Vatel will be dishonored or need to run him8elf through, like the Prince do Conde's celebrate(I cook, when, as Mne. De 4evigne tells us in one of her most sprightly letters, the "tide" was not forth coming diring t he Grand Monarque's's st ay at Chantilly. lut observe (lhe craimmined railway vans drawn up ii front, of the pa vilion. See how a hundred are stretched out to assist in remov!ng the heavy basket, fuls of fish. The grated gates are thrown widely open by a score of subaltern func tionaries. In the twinkling of an eye the fish is transferred into the market, and soon will be unpacked and laid out on large flat baskets, in which it will be offered for public auction. The noisy, animated scene offers a striking contrast to the aspect precented by the llalles in the days when Paris was blockaded, and when three little gold-lisli or a solitary gurdgeon front the Seine-the only specimens of the piscine species offered for auction-offered the oc casion of it lively competition. The sale does not ordinarily begin till 6 or 7 in the morning, bt we may now step (own into the lale cellars, where all the uisold edi bles are stored ; where all the fresh water fish, coming not merely from he home rivers and lakts, bit also front those of Iolland, Prussia, 'hwitzerlanld aid Italv, is preserved In grated tanks provided witI running witer ; where poultry is killed and live rabbits and ducks are kept till wanted in large wire cages; where butter, cheese and eggs are piled up1) in so-called "pigec.1 holes" thai hold their tons, and placed its fiar- as posstble out of the reach of the giant rats who stalk abroad at deaid of night. Each fish basket bears the name of its son ter and of the factfcur, or salesman, who is to dispose of it. An(l here be it men tioned that the Belgian and English waters supply by far the largest proportion of the Balt water fish which comes to the Paris llallles; half the mussels, too, are sent by Belgiun ; while, as for oysters, now that those of Essex and Ostend ate bought i) for Vienna, St. Petersburg anidl Berlin, Paris mainly relies oi Courseulles and St. WNaast for her upp1ly--the Marennes beds sending now-a-daiys but a few of their small, green bivalves, and the "Portugo" and tie "American,'" though pletlifuil, being at a discount. You have heard tmuch of the Paris tishwives, no doubt-insolent women of the Angot type, ias their reputa tion goes-and, in truth, they are not it all reined females. In the old days, as now, their language was distinguished by rather too much force of expression, and it special edict Wias enacted a hundred and forty years ago, making all ladies of the I [idle convicted of insulting purchasers or passers-by liable to a fin of live hundred livres. I lere, where the fish mart stands, once stood the King's pillory, a sign of his jurisdiction over the mnarket folks. Often ders sentenced to public exposire were shown to the crowd on a platform revolving roiund a coiical-Capped tower, Iigh to-whicl was the residence of "M. De Paris," th, lIed-handed Man of tlie Axe, who, imore over, derivedl his maintenance from a tax levied on the good peonle ot the Ilalles. When Jacques D'Armagnae was beheaded on the market-place, in 1477, before motint ing tihe scaffold he prayed for the last tine in t le lilsIr, whieh, out of honor for his rank, was washed and perfunied with vine gar. Still, the aspersions, however liberal, failed to rob the spot of its piseatory odor, inhaling which, the noble miscreant passed out of the world There is an old, but er roneotis legend to the effect that his children wereC stationedi undoernteathi the scaffol duirinig the executIon, so that, by a refine menit of cruelty, they might lhe baptized wilth his blood. igUiistto u leitter. lit spite of ofllciail warntings and notices alnost without ntumbtler, pe(ople still con tinute to sendt to the Post-oflice articles which cannot, be hiandled or delIvered. Ini the New York ofilce, within the past month, the searcher department, has founad in the miail bags and bel as unmailabhle matter the fo~towintg: llaccei.ed .4livc. -Rattlesnakes, black snakes, coppethead snakes, moccaslin snakes, eats, grasshoppers, b~ees, horntets, wansps, alligattors, cantary bird, pototo bugs, horned frogs, tortoise, turtles. Jtecciued Dead, -Mice,. buitterfilies, humming birds, rats, Insects, squirr, Is, quail, buigs, phieasanit. C'ooked .Articles.-Plumn puddling, boil ed quail, hian', sandwviches, bread an'l but ter, cake, crackers, bread pudding, jolly, custard, cheese, sausages. Miscellaneous. -Pistols, loaded cdrt.. ridlges, torp~edoes, mtedlicines, glassware, clothinag, sol led u ndergarmentts, ahy clothes, hosiery, haIr brushtes, combs, car penter tools, pieces of machinery, fence wire, anid silver watches, jewvelry, novelties andlnationls of all kinds, shrubs, roots, sclons, herbs, fresht and dlriedl ; fruits and flowers, six cases of dlynamnite, whleh wore thrown into the East river to prevent seri ous disaster. Boston -in 1780. Boston, town contiaining about 18,000 inhabitats, is buIlt ont a semni-island, which is greater in lengthi than breadth. Ithink that it is larger than Genova; there arc gardlens, meadows and orchards in the cen tre of the town, anid each famIly has gen orally a house to itself. The houses are seldom higher thtan pno . or two stories. 'They are of brick or wood, s. covered with boards and slates, having flat roofs, and in many places lightning conductors, nearly all of which are three-pointed. There are one or two straight streets; there are nio re-. markablo public buildigs ; there Is a very spacious harbor, protected by islands which leave only tiwo narrow' abannels, a state of things rendering the town impreg1t' abio if fortifid this Is 1 tiltat . have :to tell yot about loton. The inbAb1iants are deol~od of defliay, idtahd knowledgo, .ttnd there is notsiuch to ber sad Mbout tlfei uprlgh(ness, 160rto0a4 regterd hW whofn the n a~on~il~sd~ot~~* ten i uqm r Professors* Phrases. "Does the tail precede or follow the comet, Professor?" "That depends on which way the comet is going." "Would the absolute good of any num her of oysters ever counterbalance the good of the individual eating them?" "Well, I don't know. I doubt if you would be JustifIed in eating all the oysters on the globe at one iieal." "I read in the paver, Professor, that there is a woman in New York who has been unconscious for twenty years, and in that time has eaten nothing. Do you think that is trile?" "Ol, yes, sir; the graveyards are full of "Do you think that I have written enough oin this question ?' "Really, sir, I don't know. We are not accustomed to measure these papers by the yard. " "'W'hat will my rank be this term?" "That is not so easily determined, as it is less than any assignable quantity." "%I haven't the the slightest idea on that point, Professor." "I've noticed that you have been in that painful state of mind for some time." "I can't recite that lesson, Professor, ai not prepared." "Really, sir, I didn't suppose you would let a little thing like that bother you." "Can I translate 'ezto cquo temere,' 'A horse acting at random '? "Your horse hais certainly acted it ran d1om1, Mr. Blank." "What is the trouble with the lesson to tiny ?" "Too long, Professor." "I am afraid that, in your case any lesson would he too long. " 'llow was the velocity of light con puted?" "By caleulations on the satellites of Jupiter." 'Very well, but how ?" '11y astronomical observation-T mean, that is, oh, I see, by eclipses." "That will do, sir; the eclipse seens to be total." "(live mie a dtescription of the stomach of a horse, Mr. L." ''Can't do it, Peofessor." 'llow does the stomtch of the horso differ from that of-the next man-the mule ?" "Will you give the difference between a state and ia condition ?" "I don't think I cta state it, doctor." ''I am sorry yqu are not in a condition to (o so.." "Do you think it Is right to argue on a question against your own convictions ?" "I am not prepared on this lesson." ''Consult your common sense, then. A re you prepared on that ?" ''Why does a cloud stay ti) in the air if the particles of water are heavier Iian those of air?" "I give it up." "The explanation is that it does not stay up; it falls." The Vineyard State, The first vinies planted by the hands ot men in the Golden State were set out by tIhe Spanish priests in 1771, at the Mission Sant Gabriello. Soon following, every Jes uit post in California was supplied with vines from Spain, and the "monks of old" qualfed the sweet wine therefrom an( on joyed the clusters of flaming Tokay many years before the province passed into our hands. One of these old vines is still living at a ruined monastery in Southerin Califor nia, where its roots feed in the warmn moist. soil of a tepid spring. It is trained upon a framework of trellis and its laterals actual ly cover more than an acre of ground. It is not as thrifty now as it has been hn its ye mtger days, wvhen the recordls showv that as uch as two tons of fruit have been gathleredi in a single season from the wrint kied arms of this grand 01(1 Nestor of thte i'aeific vineyards. In 1856 a careful cout of thme planting in Califoraia 'disclosed the fact that there wvere thten .1,500,000 vines growintg under cultivation in thte State, and to-dlay the best authority-thc Prtesident of the Vinieumltural Society of California-es timates from the data in lis h~andls that there are forty and1( forty-five millions of be.iring vines it that Comnnnwealthm. Tils hnuicates very plalily the enormous plant ing of about three thourand acres of vine. yari every year since 1850. Thtis extraor dinary rate of Increase sets the mind to calculation, and in mild astonishment the resutlt of such progress for the coming fifty years will enable the vine-growers of Cali fornia to produtce annually one hundred million gallons .of pure grap wine. Ini Califoriuia to-clay there are 60, 00 acres in vineyards, andi the capital employed in the culture of grapes and tho making of wino is $30,00,000o. rThe annual product amounts to $2,80,000, not raking Into ac couint the surplus stock. .It is also signifi cant that California ,in 187~ produced, exportedl and conspuxed he),s f twice as mutch wine as the v1l eVnited States imported from' France. The Cahifornia wlines are not adulterated; indeed, grapes are so sweet and so cheap thait It would not pay to (10 so. fThey are mna~e fromt the juice of the grape alone, wlthgut thte addi tion of water, sugar, alcohol, coloring mat ter or fiavoring essenced of any kind,. They are often sold howeidr; under 'fa4, guise, with the spurious labeli of Frenoh and Uerman wines iflixed,. Tiie machinet and apparatus a~enerally employed in Cai fornia are vastly s'uperior'to tose used ~ other countrW,' and it' (egd to geml'K " cheapcp the cost of manufgtre A Camp-Meet ng 2IIpispe, Last fall John Baket,g Youudg man of high standing, was inlicte& by the GrndY Jury of G.uadaloupoe ounty -or the um of a~young-man ntjmd a14tt 1I~t11f4'<' After exami~natin,ti'aher was N bail, and hiaselin 'henA M .ibL' E murder being exciiedlaglfattgous h1t' release on;biond. arp~Used ,tl) p1,vI< talked of lynchinghw~tl ~~eq~ w te diyision of,1oib uIyt in whiclA Balkert 1 4l~ botic s(len~ Iec~t7' . Methodistcftmy ee while th4o' ii ~