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TI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JANUARY , 1880. V LIFE. Oh sadness of decay! The autumn flelds are gray. And long forgotten is the hedge row tuno; How alek the shattered fern, How harsh the woods and stern. How palo and palsied is the afternoon! Oh gladno a of decoay! The wild buds storo the May, The hushed.lanos liston for the blackbird's song; The dumb trees hoard their strongth, The shy fern pops, at length Old Death is quickened and the days are long.. How Phil Gained His Foint. Phil Copoly visited the Southern family. Nothing strange in that, perhaps, except that Phil was the most irresponsible, clever, graceless, good-for-nothing Bohemian in the world, and the Southerns .were the most aristocratic and wealthy people within a hundred miles. The dear old world, who never could, can, or will let other folks' bnsiness alone, shrugged her mighty shoulders, and whis pered to her lady's maid, the moon, that It wasn't proper. The moon turned pale, winked, and said something must be done. But Phil Copely kept on visiting the Southern family. ''0, Phil!" Such a charming voice-such perfect lips -as pronounced those simple words one fine afternoon, while my scapegrace was taking a look at the conservatory with Alice Southern What delicious little suggestions of bon-bons, of honey, of cream dates, of rahdatee-locoomb-or whatever It is called -of nectar and ambrosla-in a word, as Keats so toothsomely has it: "Jellies smother than the creamy curb And iuco..t sirops Linot with ci nanon" -there were in that voice! Did you ever observe, 0 gentle and eflul gent reader, how differently your name sounds when uttered by different persons? Why, I have heard my plain cognomen made more mellifluously musical than Weber's last wtxltz played by two French horns, which I consider the most mnellifin ously musical performance I ever heard, save in/,t.he instance mentioned. But you know, 0mnot susceptiblel To r drn, to Phil Copely; when he heard Alice Southern say, "0, Phil!" as above, he experienced various extraordinary emo tions in the left thoracie region, and looked upon the young lady in a peculiar way, much av at dyspeptic patient might look upon a perigord pati aux truffes. fO. Phil!4" tWell, I don't carol It is trute. I am a worthless vagabondl" right to say so." "I've a good mind to go and drown my self 1" "Phil Copely, If you don't stop talking so, i'll never speak to you again!" She had about as much idea of executing her threat as he had of executing his. "Well, just look at the case. Don't you sce that I arm a villain and a scotindrel to keep coming here every day or two, wheon I have no business here at allt Don't you know that I haven't a cent-exel)t the miserable pittance my aunt left m--I wish she had taken it with her when she diedl And your father would as soon see you marry a coal-heaver as me? Am I not a yiper in the bosom of the family? Oughtn't I to be thoroughly ashamed of myself? Yes, by George, I am, tool" "O0, Phill" Imploringly this thne, and with a certain hazy humidity in the clear (let me steal a charming epithet from one of Aldrich's poems), "bronze-brown" eyes, that was no (detrimenrt to their beauty, but which wounded Phil Copely like a twvo-edged s word. "I will go away, somewhere," lie said; - I will join the navy, or the army. I will "go to Hong Kong, before the mast-turn missionary, or sonmethitug. ,What shtall I (10'' Theore was real, earnest suffering in til last question; for Alice's eyes were full up on him, and lie felt thrat while they could look thus, lie was not only incapable of go luig to Hong Kong, but aniy other distance of more than ten feet was equrally unsur -mounutable. So Iho stayed just where ho was, and the effect, artistically considered, was much the better for lis presen&e. SThe two were sitting on a rustic scat, cu riously fashioned of fantastic arnd misshapen branches. Tropical cacti; looking like vegetable sausages, stdod stiffly around, with thteir ragged blossoms of scarlet and yellow hanging from theni, as if they did not belong there at all. Orange trees per fumed the: atmosphere with their creamy floers an cat asoft, greenish shadow through the conservatory, wvhere camelias, red and white, bloomed all about contrasted Iwith water-lilies of rare'kinds; passion -lowers; rosea of endless variety and beau ty; fucesas as large as the end of my fin ger; air plants, daintily trailing their deli date tracery down from pretty little wire baskets, hung high aloft; and, in short, all tho curious and beautiful flowers and plants thtat gardeners and poets love. Next to the body of the Academy of hfu sIe, on a grand opera night, I like the green rouse. IjThete sat the lovers, looking very sad, very affectionate, andi very hrandsomeo;-as manry another douplo have sat before-and considering themselves the miost unfortu nato yottng people in "the world-also as many another couple have done, "and, - more betoken, will (10, to the end of time." ''0, PhIll'' Ils hand hasl f'ound hers in some mys terious way ((do08 anybody ever know htow hands got .together' tider Bach circumn stances?), and thteir fingers were lopsely in terlaced. [Leanktg against the back of thre gitPaint seat, theoir henids somehow rested very close to cacti othrr so that Phil a lips touched ege- of Alice's r nglete--a groat showery sploztdor of geld lAnd mlkhoaty. - color; notred, nund you, not. 'eddish ~ut unst the leAst- i of, a suggestiori of. reddlsh~ ~rowmn In eertainu half llgl.ts; all thread ad shtining with pale goid, so as'to liipt'> feetly I don't knowv what. Phil's breath stirred ti ringlet, chang Ing-the play of its 11 ~ndshadow. Phil's hand clasped the delct ditsa oe closely. Ph 'siout the -and Xi' until it teste l~soQidr strain of melody. Did you ever hear a skillful violinist play Do Berlots's sixth air? That was the sound that completed this little episode picture. Mr. Southern, Alice's father was rather an odd specimen of that odd animal, man. A rake in his youth, he expected to (Ind all young men rakes; quite contrary to the no tions of old gentlenen, who -expect young men to be radically different in habits, prin cIples and practices fromt the young fellows of thirty or forty years ago. Mr. Southern liked Phil Copely immense ly, because he was accomiplished, intelligent courteous, good-looking, unsolfish and proud. Phil played a splendid violoncello accomnpaninent to the old gentleman's vio liii. Phil could ride the old gentleman 's own black mare. Phil could shoot with the old gentleman's ebony-stocked pistols as well as the old gentleman himself. Phil could leave as imany empty bottles by his plate as anybody. Phil could talk metaphysics and thleology so well that he sometnnes got a little the best -of the parson in a doctrinal discussion after dinner, to the old g-ntle man's intense delight. But-ah. what a pity that word was ever invented; but Mr. Southern knew that Phil had only a trifling income, no pr<.fession, no expectations worth mentioning. and was of that peculiar, easy, lazy, good-natured stamp that would preclude the possibility of brilliant distinction or great wealth ac cruing to him. Then again, he thought that Phil, being a good fellow and an excellent companion, nmust be what lie himself had been at five and-twenty-a roue. le took great pains, therefore, never to permit cither of his daughters to meet the younggentlenmaii, save at evening parties, receptions, etc., and would have had a "conniption lit" if lie had known that Alice and Phil met privately, on an average, seven times, weekly. "Demino, sir," lie once said, to an an cient friend, '"my girls are not unprotected. I am too old-my hali- is too white-to go out on the field myself, but my nephews are plucky boys, sir, plucky boys; and they would stanti up for Alice and Oracie, sir, as long as they could hold a pistolI" Mr. Southern, after playing, very softly and sweetly, the Sixth Air of De Beriot, was seized with a desire. to smoke a cigar. In the Southern mansion, the conserva tory was the smoking-room also, and thither the old gentleman repaired. It struck him as very singular that the glass door between the dining-room and conservatory shculd be locked, and its curtain drawn, on the other side; so lie went around another way, through the garden, and entered by the out side door-an ingress but little used. I have already described the picture that was presented by tile interior of the green house. Let it sutilce for the reader to know that Phil Copely for the flrst, last, and only time in his life, fled ignominiouly from a quarrel. White hairs and a pretty daughter ought to insure any old gentleman the re spect of all us young fry. The next morning Phil was awakened at eight or nine o'clock-early, for him-by a violent rapping at his chamber door. He bade the visitor enter and in strode a stal wart and comely main, with ani immense black mustache, and a 'ood deal of the Satanic in his eyes. "Mr. Philip Copely?" demanded lie. "That is my name, sir; and you are-?" "Mr. Rufus Dawes, at your service." "I am glad to see you, ir. I have leard of you often, through your cousins, the Misses Southern, I think. Excuse my re ceiving you in this manner, but I rise late, and-" "Nevei mind, sir. My business is very brief. It concerns one the young ladies you have just named. 1Her father has told me all, and has sent me to offer you two alternatives, marry the younglady immedi ately, sir, or else meet me according to the Code of Honor!" "Marry her. You ai-e crazy!" "Very wvell, sir. Ydu refuse, then!" "N-o-o-o! That Is just what I most wish to do, but was afrakltthat her father would not hear of it." "Whati Have you, then, been perfectly honorable in your Intentions?" P'hil colored and his eyes flashed. "I should like to see the man who insinu ates that Alice would drem of anything else. Tell Mr. Southern that I will mar-ry his daughter- this afternoon, if she Is will "I atuspect that my uncle has judged you a little hastily. I know lie was very gay when lie w as young, and 1 sulipose he thinks you one of the same sort. I am glad It has turned out differently, and--" "And If you will wait till I am dressed, we will have a drop of something cool over it, elh?" "if you please." Alice did not wilsh to be married that af ternoon-It was rather too sudden-so her father wvas persuaded to allow them a month f or preparations. ie was too shrewvd to show his mortIfication, when ho had dis covered how he had deceived himself, but apologized fairly and squarely to Phil, in private. "Cousin Rufus" and thme bridegroom-elect became great friend;, and time black mu~s tache captivated ever so many hearts at thme wedding party. A tioh Diseovory of Coin. It has just been learned that early on a certain morning last summer a lad engaged In repairing the drain of a house In Rome caine upon a quantity of buried coins dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and very rich in value, beIng gold. The lad at first found only a single p iece. This ho put into his pocket, and when occasion offered lie show It to a goldsmith across thme way and agreed to sell It for $4. As the bargain was about to close the head mason and the owner of the hmowso happened to see tihe transaction, and going across the street pitt an end to it. Furthmet search was ade for coin in the same spot and 142 gold pieces were unearthed between the drain and the wall of the house. A quantity of dirt which had b~een taken away from the draini and wts on the roaui in carts to a p'blmi outside the walls was sent for, anid forty-two more pieces- were talien out -of it, making 184 gold coinsof the largest so~ and As fresh as if they hp4 jpst. boon taken~ from the mint. As works of art the pieceshavospeclahn-erit, atnd well they may, for the greatest, part of themn were coined by Alexander VI., Julius II., Lob X. Cleme~nt VII. and Paul III., aind hmonenm belonged to the great art age. ara hem saii~t beo~ pquisite a no~ d~~yAtt 'who sdemn brhrto tnd the 60e f Ionatello and Co--.ll librt~e dihog'i t Nn,i,lon and~ St. Helena. Napoleon arrived at St. Ilelena. October I, 1 81 5, in the sip11) Northumberland, com ma1tlided by Sir (eorge Cockburn, and wias atteided by General and Mle. Bertrand, General and tme. Montholon, Count Las Cases,, General Gougaud and suite. I'hie next day lie went ashore, and stopped over night in Jaimestown, an1(d On the following day the Emlperor, in company with Adni rl Cockburn and Count Bertrand, visited Longwood, the place which had been sc lected for his future residence, the house intended for hi being then occupied by the Lieutenant-Governor of the Island. The Emperor requested permia4ion to stop in a building called the "Briars," which iequest was granted, and he remained there a little over two months. From the "Briars" he was removed to Longwood and there occu pied what Is known a1s the "Old House." In 1819 the British Government commen ced the erection of a large, commodious residence for his reception, but. before it was finished Napoleon I. was no more. On the 5th of May, 1821, the conqueror of a hundredbatt les, creator of kings and princes, the legislator and hero of the age, died at Longwood, age( ilfty-two years. The dis ease which caused his death is alleged by some to have been hereditary ulceration of the stomach, and by otlhers, gastro-hepatitis. On the 8th of May he wits buried in Saue Valley, Longwood. The Governor, Adii ral and staff, all the garrison and about one half the p,) pulition of the 1sland attended tile funeral. The pall-bearers were Count Bertrand and Moitholon, Mershand (the faithful valet, of the Emperor), and young Napoleon [iertratnd. The iousehold of the late Emperor sailed for England May 21st, 1821, on the storeship Camel. On the 8th of October, 1840, Prinec do Joinville and suite, including General Bertrand, Montho lon. Baron Las Casas, former companion of Napoleon's exile, arrived at, St. Hlelena in tile frigate La Bello Poule, accompaui'ed by tile corvette, Favorite, for tile purpose of conveying the remains of the Emperor to France; and oil the 15th of Octcber, at midnight, just twenty-five years from the day ie landed, the exhumation took place, the coliln was lifted, and conveyed to a tent, where it wis opened and the remains fully identified, being but a little changed in appearance from what some of the mourners had 'gazed upon nearly twenty years before. The cofln was thou closed, and the remains were deposited, with fune ral huno.is, in the La Belle Poule, which sailed fo': France on the 18th of- October. Upon their arrival in Paris, the mortal re mains of the First Napoleon were deposited under the (1ome1 of the luvalides, where they still remain. From all accounts, his life here was most dreary. Among tile ar chives of ilc island are tile original papers that were to have been sent to France, giv ing plans of easy landing places and the manner in whichi he was to have been re8 cu1ed; but through the inquisitiveness of his valet's parents, the papers fell Into the hands of the Governor, Sir Hudson Lowe. After that, the strict surveillance and in dignities that were ieaped upon hhn1 broke the spirit and heart of the man that had defied the world. The original paper from tile King of England, ordering that Napo leon should be addressed as General and not Empero.a, is still here. 13y ordinance of Sir Edward Drummond fay, Governor of St. llelena, dated March 18, 1858. rati fled and conilrned by order of the Queen, My 7, 1858, the lands in the Itland of St. lie na forming the site of the tomb of the Emperor Nanoleon, also the lands forming the site of the tenement of Longwood and its appurtenances, formerly the residence of Napoleon, was vested in his Majesty the late Napoleon 111. and his heirs forever, as absolute owners thereof in fee'simple. In 1859 the French Government sent an Offl. cer of the Legion of Honor to St. Helena to look after and take( care of tile house anid grounds. The present oflicer, Major Mare chal, whlo is an- Ollicer of tile Legion of Honoer, also, is a mlost obliging anld couirte 0118 genltlemlan ; he8 has very little to do, for all thlat hle does not like livIng so far awvay from Paris, and proposes to leave for, France soon on a leave of abseuco for one year. There are at good mlany remlinis cnCes of Napoleon's exile thlat neither re fleet credlit On hhnmself nor tile represenlta tive of tile Englih G.avernmlent, Sir Hudcson Lowe. Tile Big Lakel Unlder Micnigan. Michigan p~eople are beginning' to thlink that State is a vast floating peninsula, as some1 of thlem~ have been asserting for a long tIme. There ara'~ in tile State dozens of little lakes wihoult outlets, and yet ne0ver stagnant, and apparently fathlomless. Species of fishl and amphtibious animals are found In thleso ponds(1, wihel exist only in thle larger bodies of fresh water. The Battle Creek corresp~ondent says thlat several years ago, on lake Gognac, near tile former city, some summer-resorters tried several times to build a kind of log causeway across the edge between two of thoese small lakes, but it sunk out of sight every time. St. Mary's lake is four miles north of Battle Creek. Its water-level* is muchl higher thlan thlat of thle othler lakes In tl'e surrouinding counltry, and there ex lets at present nleither a source from whichl Its body Is derived nor a stream emanatinig from it. Several years ago an effort was made to stock it with eels, and sp~clmens were precured. and deposited In thle lake. Some time after an eel was caught at the Verona mill1 dam, in thle Battle Crock river, five miles dIstant. altho~ugh none hlad ever been placed In thlat river, and 110 connection) exists above gfroundl. Thie descrIption of thoseo eels correspond~ to the Identical ones placdd in the lake, and~ as nlone of tile eels, nor any of theIr progeny, were over after ward seen in tile bike, tile conclusion ar ived at Is that an underground chanlnel exists betweenr them. Tile lake, wilch Is about - three miles In circumferene,. h11s decreased In depth between five and sfrx feet In as mniy years, tile former water' umarks being distinctly visible. Tile amount of water contained in a foot I deptl), and o1- thle area of the lake Is simply enormous, and when) taken inte consideration wIth thle small amonunt of raid and snow whichl goes Into it, rend~ers the evaporation thleory al most absurd, Theo fayorlte theory ,ul the neighborhood is that the bottonU has-fallen out In the dleepest poirtion, and that the, lake Is slowly but surelys leaking- out and will eventually ank to 1h0 common' NJatgr level, or dry up and be known only amiong the traditional history of the pan. thit althoughl the result m be d,'t' is belle od bv, nye6 Drinakingr Hard. Jasper Throckmorton, who lives out oi Sunnier street, Boston, is the father of ten children. Recently, Mr. Throckmor ton was just oi the point uf putting on his hat to start for the oflice, when M1rs. Throcknorton called after him from the kitchen. "'Stop at Sodders, and tell him to come up and ilx the water pipe and get a big~tin dipper and bring It with you this noon. Don't tell them to send it, they'll forget it.I Mr. Throckmorton said lie would. and then he put on his hat and started. As lie reached the front door his eldest daughter shouted from up stairs: "Pa! pa! pal Go to Greenbaum & Schroders and ask Mr. Scott to give you two yards and a-half of brown satin, cut oi the bias, to the dress I gotl'last week; he'll know the kind. I don't wan't to wait for it." And Mr Throckniorton, pausing with his hand on the door said lie would got it, and then sighed and opened - the door. Just then his oldest son shouted from the sitting room: "Father! the man was up here twice yes terday for the money for my new boat, and I just gave him a note t9 you, and he'll call at the'office to day for his money, and will give au a pair of patent oar locks and a dip net. Bring them np with you when you come to dinner." Mr. Throckmorton kind of stilled a groan like, and saying lie would attend to it, went out. As he passed down the porch step his second daughter leaned out of the front window and cried: "Oh, pa; do stop at Parson's as you come to dinner, and tell them to send a man to lay the new hall carpet when they send it up, and you get ten pounds of cot ton batting and bring it up with you, for we wan't it right away and can't wait." The parent paused with his hand on the gate latch, and with a visable effort prom ised to remember and bring up the cotton batting, amd opened the gate. But the voice of his younger son from the side yard, caught his car and held lnim a mo ment: "Pa)p, oh pap Wan't ten .cents for a winder I broke in the school house, and I can't go to Sunday school till I get a new hat and some shoes, and please can't I have a quarter to go to the picnic?" Air. Throckmorton silently registered a flogging for the broken glass, a negative for the picnic, and said he would get the boots and hat. Then lie turned to go, but as lie passed down the street his six younger children came running after him. "Oh, pa, don't forget to stop and see if the old umbrella's fixed, ma says." "Stop at the dentist's and see when lie can fill my teeth." "Bring my shoe home from the shoe maker's." "Aa says be sure - to tell the doctor to come up to-day and vaccinate the baby!" "Pap Kin I go swininig in Hawkeye Krick to-night?" "Pa, oh, pal glinne me five cents to ride on the street cars?" And Mr. Throckmorton went down town and amazed Fred. Scott by telling him to cut off thirteen feet of water pipe, on the bias, and lie asked Mr. Parsons to let him have eleven dozen skeins of cot ton batting and send him up a man with a tin dipper; he told Dr. Cochran, the den tist, to come right up and fill the baby's teeth, and begged the doctor to hurry right away and put a half-sole on the school house window, and then ran to to the shoe maker's and asked him if he had vaccin ated his little girl's shoe and amazed a street-car driver by asking him for a bath ticket, and when the man came around with the oar-locks and dipper lie told him to take them up and lay them in the front hall-the girls would show him where. And by three in thme afternoon It had got all around that old Throckmnorton was drinking as hard as ever again and hadn't drawn a sober breath all day. Riow To Make Musinfias. .Many of the wants which create a de mand for articles of merchandise are artI ficial. Our ancestors felt no need of tea and coffee, yet they are now used by every family in the hardest times, and forty years ago there was no domandl for photograph pictures, but now they are seen In the humblest dwellings, and the living of many persons Is made by preparlng them. It many be said that when Wtages' are small inost people cannot afford to buy anythIng beyond what subsistence and ordinary comforts re quire; but whein there was the most coift plaint of a lack of employment, a Fourth of July did not pass without a large business being done in fireworks and crackers. "Where there is a will there Is a way,'' and if new things of a desirab~le character be introduced they wvill find purchasers. It Is, therefore, the true policy of a conm munity to Invent or prepare new articles, which will gratify seome persons, in order that they may be induced to buy them. A portion of the time9 of boys and gIrls, and of many adults, isnotemnployed, and experience has shown thmat when they have been so In structed as to, acquIre skill in some art, they will willingly work when there is a prospect of pay. An important part of their home training should be to lead them to exercise their powers in efforts to make something which will have value, and'to (d0 this they should be provided with somie inexpensive imystruments and mnaterlals with which they may begin work. When they can tashion a toy whIch will amse a child, their work beglns to have value, arid in this ,branch of industry there Is a scope for a large amount of work adapted to learners, In every de partmnent of labor the ability to .draw is of great value, and children should be sppplied with the things needed at an early ago. The use of wter colors affords much inno cent amusement, and whenever a gori of talent for drawing. or coloring appears, It should be developed. The instruments for muechianical dr ing should also be provided, andi thme habit ofobserving and 4Qllneathmig the'forms of thfngs shogli he encoeuraged. T~p ihduce 'fantile to poujs the thi'ngs de aired for 'the. begiining ,of mannaI wtork, voild considerabhl Iacrease. some 'kids of Diiness, and wherevor' sufficiently sktil may be deyeloped ,to produce fiew doolgns aid things of ornamogt, fje resources 'of learners-would foorease, and their ability to pnrehaso betteor %strutnpnt., neohip ry, la6tajort of d ellngiter a at things needed for recreation Is ihcreased. In the rural (istricts and in suburban parts of large cities, much more productive work for young persons is practicable than can be done inl tile smnall houses in which many of the people of the city live. With a little <lirection, boys and girls can nake a little ground produce things of value which would enable them to procure the many de 8irable articles which the juvenile inechanics and artists of the city could make for them. The question will naturally be asked, "How can the youth of the cities and the country be induced to begin productive work ?" The beginning is the chief difil culty, and this should be undertaken by or ganization. We have many associations of minors, but they do not suliciently inculeate the idea that skill in useful arts is honorable, and entitles the possessor to the respcct of all worthy people. Men who are prominent in the community should give countenance to all who can be induced to associate for the purpose of elevating themselves In the social scale by productive work; and a sys ten of degrees, orders and decorations, to indicate the acquirements of every one, should be prepared and conferred upon t hose entitled to them. More decorous conduct, as well as business improvements, would re sult fron the establishment of such an in stitution. Drinking Smoke. We gathered' hi tl-e cosiest corner of the room. We clapped our hands; a servant who was nodding in the hall entered and at once began preparing the pipes. le placed a crystal vase before each of us; It was moulnted with fretted silver, and was topped with an elaborately gilden carthern bowl; from its neck the snake-life stem, a fathom long, wound with threads of gold and silver, stretchd to the lips, upon which rested a moutlhpiece of clouded amber. The vase was half-filled with rose water, and in each vase a handful of fresh rose leaves was sop ped in this water. The pipe-bearer then took a handful of tumpak. a mild, sweet, Persian weed; plunged it into a basin of water an([ wrung it out like a sponge. We regarded willi curi->us eyes the preparation so would you. Tile tumbak is still damp; he presses it. into the pipe-bowl and heaps it up, making a little nest in the centre of it. Then a live coal is placed In the nest, where it. sends up a thin, fragrant steam. You throw yourself back upon the cushi'ons of the divan; you place upon your lips the sluperb amber mouthpiece, three or four inches In length, and carved or girdled with hoops of gold. You exhaust your lings, and draw in, through the glittering coils of the stem, volumes of cool, deodorized smoke. If this smoke has any lavor it Is not that of tobacco; it Is infinitely finer, sweeter, more delicate. Is it the rose water through which the smoke has passed by means of a tube that extends from tho base of tile bowl nearly to th'j bottom of the vase and then rises in bubbles like snowballs and enters the Jlexible stem near (he throat of the vase? Or it is the moist tumbak, exuding some subtile essence under the hot breath of the glowing coals? Or It is only a fancy that possesses one when the narglloh Is well lighted and the pipp bearer sits by, watch Ing it as if life hung upon the consumma tion of this solitary smoke? Occasionally lie probes the bowl oi places fresh coal with. In it, and then lie smiles as the white clouds pour forth In immense volumes and fill the chamber with the Incense of the Orient. The Inhalation is complete; one breaths the smoke of tumbak as lie breaths the very air; the bosom.hcaves like the rise and fall of a great wave at sea; you imagine you are doubling your Inches across the chest; a pleasurable thrill Is communicated to every nerve in the body. You floon your whole interior with smoke. A happy thought strikes you, you laugh, and the cloud that is dlischiargedl from your mouth Is like smoke blelched fromn a cannon. There is something suggestive of intoxication In all this. The water bubbles In the cIstern of the pipe ; the rose loaves tumble about and delight the eyes; the gurgle soothes the ear; the palate is enchanted with long draughts of Impalpable essence from a source that seems absolutely inexhaustible. "Drinking smoke," the Arabs call it It is the only term they use to express the act. And pray why should they not drinmk It, when It hass been tried by fire, filtered in a bath of roses, chilled In its flight through that writhing steim and slid at last through a handful of glowing am ber? A Relic of WVateorloo. George 8haw, a brave Englishman, when surrounded on time field of Waterloo, by a nuamber of the enemy, made a gallant struggle for existence, and fought his way back to his comrades over the dead bodies of a (dozen Frenchmnan whiom lie had slain. As a reward for his bravery, Wellington sent for the soldier, and in thea course of his conversation with him, gave him per misesion to take with him whatever relic he chose from the battle-fild. Shaw's choice was the skeletonm of a French general, killed In the action. The ghastly trop~hy-was safe ly transported to England and hung in the soldier's closet at Hlanley in Staflordshire, England, till he came to regard It as a nul snce aund disposed of It to 8amnuel Bullock, a mnanufacturer of china. As bones form a proportion of tihe ingredients from which English china are made, it ocecured to the manufacturer thlat the remains of the poor general would look much better made up into some hiandsonme ornament than dang. llng from a peg inl an obscure closet; and in accordance wvith this InspIration, the Frenchi general was ground down, and, in dt time, was metamorphosed into teacups and saucemd; in which condition lie adorns to -this dlay the museum at Hawley, ap propriately inscribed wlnh the history of his transformation. It happened one day that Miarshal Boult visited the museum, and his attention was attracted by the china, which hans a bright pink tint and is ornamented with flowers. But1 when lisa eye rested upon the label, which enabled hhh to re-' cognizo in the collection the remains of one of hIs former' generals, thme marshial was deeply shocked, and wrapping "his martial cloak around him," walked indignantly away Hie did not forget to inform Na. poleon, then at Ste Helena, of the indignity' whioh had been offered tatthe themory of their departed cottntrytnan. "It is ne in. dignity1", quoth' Napoleion; "what nore pleasing dispositien Can- there be of one's bones after death, than tot bos e~ ihto cups ,to Je constantly; in tmo~~pao'ed between the rgsyjll s of 1adi si.tlo ght je delightful.Ea. . ististhe marshal; butbeo, fp U l.t eo a hi qelf with It. ~ (,ol. Pollock of India, says that Asiatic elephants should be divided into two clas ses, the goonius, those that have large tusks, and the nuchnas, or those that have none, Dr only rudinentary ones; the two kinds seldom herding together, and having pecti larities of formation which render them very distinct, although they do not seem to have been noticed by other writers. The muchna is usually taller and more bulky than the tuskor, and has a longer and very ponderous trunk. While some animals of this kind are absolutely without tusks, most of them have short, sharp ones, growing downwards, like those of the walrus, with which they can inflict most formidable blows. Col. Pollock seems to have been greatly impressed with the sagacity of the elephant in its wild state, particularly that displayed in its choice of camping and feed ing grounds, which are often surrounded on three sides by a tortuous river hpassable to ordinary mortals, the fourth being pro tected by a tangled thicket or a quag mire. 'I have ;)een an hour or more,' he says, "trying to penetrate into one of their fast neeses, where 20 or 80 elephants were con gregated within a space nowhere more than 400 yards square; but so well were the ap proaches protected that, at last, when I did succeed in crossing over, at the risk of either being swept away by the force of the current or drowned in its deep bed or boged in the quagmires, the noise we made was suf fleicnt to awaken the seven sleepers, to say nothing of disturbing a herd of elephants, and I had the pleasure of seeing them make their exit one way as I entered on the op posite side, and more 1 he animals were on the move, such was the intricate nature of the county it was useless, indeed inipos ible, to follow them." The Burmese and Assamese, it seems, laugh at the European for firing only for the brain of an elephant, as they aim with considerable success at Lhe point of the shoulder, which it one of its five vulnerable points. It is as amusing to find that there is as much rascality prac tised about the sale of a tame elephant as about that of a horse, the vicious one being drugged and sold as docile, the sleepy one brightened by the use of ginger or brandy, and the useless brute, that never carries flesh, fed up for the time with inassalays and sugar cane. The person accustomed to Dleplhants is perfectly able to judge of their state of mind by the peculiar noise they Litter; the sort of whistling from the drunk [enotes satisfaction, trumpeting Is a sign of rage, the striking the trunk on the ground with a pitiful cry shows alarm, and a kind ,f grunt is used to express Impatience or dissatisfaction. Col. Pollock gives a good deal of information as to the various ways f catching and training them, and he rather defends the nmhouts from the many sins alleged against tliem, saying they are, as a rule, a plucky and not a bad class of men, anally managed if treated with kindness and firmness. The trip up the Irriwaddie to Pagau Myo, Ava, Umrapoorah and Man Jaly is one of the most interesting portions :f Col. Pollock's book. On this occasion lie saw the white elephant, although he was not clad In his state trappings, covered with magniflecnt precious stones, "any one of which if worth a fortune." h''aninal stood about 10J feet high, was handsomely (ade and had tusks seven feet long, which, is they all but touch the ground, required o he slightly shortenc4 each year. A Colossal Work. The expanse of water now lying between )akland Point and the termination of the )ridge at San Francisco is to be crossed by L broad and solid roadway of rock and arth. Upon this roadway will be laid four ieparate tracks, one each for the incoming md~ outgoing overland and local trains. ro the north of these, and divided from hem by railing, will be a road for the pas mage of wagons andi for passengers. When his large embankment Ia completed, a sub itantial and commodious depot is to be1 3rected at its end, similar In plan and con itruction to the magnificent p~assenger lepots of some of the Eastern cities. The hay, on both sides of the roadbed, is to be Iredged to a uniform depth, sufficient for alle anchorage of ships, of the greatest :iraught. In the brief period which has Ilapsed since the beginning of this work It lias progressed with surprising rapidity, and the trestle-work has already been suir rounded, for several hundred yards, with a Irm support of earth and stone. In addi dlon to the vast quantities of filling which ire being dumped from the old bridge, a aew line of piles, surmounted by a railway, is being pushed out some distance to the ( mouth, from which the construction trains laity dlump many carloads of materials. some 45 or 50 mon are constantly em uloyed at the wharf, unloading the trains med leveling and distributing the earth. rhe filling-in material, such large quanti les of which are required for the forward ng of the work, is taken from two differ-. nt sources. The rock is excavated from n i new quarry dug In the side of a mountain it Niles, located 25 miles from the scene of a >peratione. TJie laborers employed at the i luarries, 9f whom there are betgreen 200 nd 800, are nearly all- Chinese. Two< rains of construction cars are kept con tantly busy traifsporting the rock from the 1 inarries to the wharf. Each traIn conslsts >f 45 cars, carrying 10 y'ardi of rock- each, md, as two (falns run from the quarries to )akland every 24 hours, 900 yardds of roul~ ire daily dumped into the bay. .Unole R3en. An old chap called Uncle Ben has boen Iinving a dray or express wagon in Detroit iver since the oldest Inhabitant can reinem >er, and ho Is still at it. Some twenty-f~ ears ago he purchased a p ,g hat and rom the day he put'it on titl recentl no me over saw him outside the gate *it ot I. Snow and rain and sun and frost and lust and mud have all had a .whaolc a t it, >ut yet it is ahat.. : 1%f long ago .some, of hAe id m'anis friend. gtt~~er and p a 58 for a-pretty good "piu aledo j [Jnele -Bed to present 4 ohm ,Ie 'rk ip from hi.s nap on theo,wpgon segV aite freup gathered aroundr listeno at 3nfl oithe speech and then ,ho~tha d "My friemds I ennot acooc the~ iM 4 [t's too dilee for my Wife to use bl ;stoe from do'w cellaE o ronimy ~hhhe w birIW1n lng, an thy oIdhs . eo'u~ als oatets ,&hiahht *t Oflt , NEWS IN BRIEF. -The aggregate vote in Penn sylvan. Ia is nearly 200,OC0short of what it was in 1876. -The deficit in the French sugar beet crop will be between 25 and 50 per cent. less than list year. -The rico crop of South Carolina for the year is estimated at44,000tierces, and that of Georgia at 26,000 tlierces. -it Is estimated that the little phyl loxera has destroyed about $6,000,000 worth of' vintago in France this year. --Three hundred choice sheep have beena taken from Washington county, Pa., to Texas, to improve flocks in that State. --France had 21,992 vessels, with a tonnage of 164,000 tons, and manned by 82,431 sailors, engaged In the i1ls erles last year. -It Is thought that George Wright, the famous base-ball player, will not I)lay next year, but will go Into busi nless. -Out of every 2,000 persons there is one born deaf, There are In the United States between 25,000 and 30,000 deaf Im utes. -Piladelphia has already expended 14,105,370.42 on her new Post-oflfe building, of which amount $1,250,000 was for the site. -Thomias Jackson, an Albany,N. Y., itone cutter, has just recovered $26,000 ror injnries received in the Ashtabula lisaster. -Sarah Hardy, a colored woman, who had reichied tile age of 104 years, lied recently, in the Berks county, Pa. slmushouse. -There have died of Yellow fever it Mempliis this year 40.1 persons. Last year, 3,007 persons (tied of the disease luring the same time. -Within tile past five years the tcreage ot cereals iII the Unleed States Ilas increased from 74,000,000 to 05, )00,000. -President Robinson, of Brown Uni versity, and his wife, have signed a pe tition to allow women to vote for oill ,ers of Providence school boards. -Delaware county (Pa.) School Di rectors have decided that the public rehool children shall make exhibits of tleir progress at the next annual fair. -There has been imported Into New York by sea from California since the beglining of this year 1,156.712 gallons )f wine, and 114,717 gallons of brandy. -Prof, Alexander Agassiz of Hiar vard College has given one hundred lollars toward canceling the debt of he Redwood Library at Newport, R. 1. -The model of tile equestrian statue )f Napoleon II1 , a grand work by the Dhevalier Barzagalla, to be erected at Allan, will sho.rtly. be cast In bronze. -Mr. Dwight Whiting, a citizen of Boston, has gone to South Africa to purchase one hundred ostriches for his farm in the San Joaquin Valley in Cal iforma. -Recent Income-tax retuntis al1ow that ninety persons in Great Britain, . xercising trades and professions, have Incomes over $253,000, and 994 between P50,000 and $250,000. -Illinois is a tolerably well cultiva led State, but, with 20,00,000 acres lider cultivation, it has 8,000,000 acres luimproved, an area as large as Massa .husetts and Connecticut put together. -Montana, during the past siteen cars, hasproduced 153,000,000 of gold md silver. This makes Montana rank text to California as a producer of gold. 'here are already 20,000 quartz mines it the territory. --Dr. J. J. Hayes, the Arctie explor .r, at a recen.t meeting of the American )eographicai Society, said that he was ;horoughly coinvviced the Jean nette vould reach the Notth Poie succogsful y and re~turn lin satfety. -One, lihindired and. seventy-9ight ngs of wool ,omch avoragi ng 600 pounds, v'ere received hI Reading, Pa., recent y to be used in the manufacture of hats. Lbhis Is the largest amount of wool ever ecelved iln that city in one day. -The artesian well at the Paterson N. J.) Rolling Mill has reaehed a lepth of more thian 1,000 feet without ineetinig water. .Sandstone has been ound all the w ay do wn, except one bed >f potter's chy. -TVhe amount of clover-seed annu illy harvested In the United States is iot far from 700,000 bushels, about one Itaif of whlioh Is used at home, the re nainder goes to Eurpemotyo lreat Britain. . p7mstyt --Diphtheria has become a terribi pidemnic in Rlussla,'50 to 75 per cent. if the children being carried offy be ides a large number of. grown pprpons, nd in some districts th9 death of chit iren are far in excesi of the bIrths. --An old custom has been revived in dains county, Pa., of demanding toll rom wedding parties. .Ropes or oi sIns Lre stretched across a road tr'aved by wedding party in carriages ana toll ni money Is asked fromn the -groom. -.In 1630 the royal' library of Paris ontained 890,000 volumes anid obdets f every description. In 1@9 the num.. wr was 1,200,000. Durinag the, last wenty years te einereade hasbeeni more ensible, and the .aetuals fiumber-Is os inaated at 2,000,000, -Hier Britannio Majesty's sh0 at ias beeni.on a cruIse to the Pa Ir'n [slands, and tilaced in the Olhtro an american orgah, the gift of fthe teen. LUhe first tune plyed on . it was-f'God 5 ve the Queen, an wh4$eisad uruuJoined neartl y. hp~$~ sad The3bann ednity W1a.) Agrul ural Sdclety havinigaband tied the fair grounds ' at 'Avonp hve purchased won-yfive.aeres of the Ka farm n o~ Lebe w Q ,0. hiree luldred shareA li took hae ~nIs dted'at *80 per W de,'-to raise sum ~ f $15,00 for, tenoes and building~ "4' ii tawhit o 6vt4 narke.4 w *ik