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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNS-UORO, S. C., JANUARY 31, 1880. VOL. P1.-NO.14. THE LITTLE URAVE ON Ti E HILL. There's a spot on the hillside far away, Whore, in summer the grass grows green Where, bonoath a rustling elm tree's shade, A moss-covered stone is soon. 'Tis a quiet and unfroquonted spot, A solitude, lone and wild; Yct-somebod,)',i hopes aro buried there 'Tis the gravo of a littlo child. In winter, alas! that mossy stone is hid 'neath a shroud of snow, But around it, in spring tine.fresh and swoot, The daisies and violets grow; And o'er it the summer breezes blow, With a fragrance soft and mild, And the Autuuin'.i dead leave thickly strew That grave of a little child. And every year there's a rod-breast comes, When the month of May is niah, And build. her nest in this quiet spot, 'Mid the elm tree's brunohes, higl; While ber melody sweet, by the spot, sho trills, As if by the scone beguiled. Perhaps-who knows?-'tis an angel comes. To the grave of that little child. Yes, somebody's hope lies buried thoro, Homebody's mother is weeping In vain, For, though years may come and years may go, 'Twill never come back again. Yet blessed are those who die in youth, The pure and undefiled; 3one road to heaven.perchanoo,runs through The grave of a little child. A Husband's Hint. Women, in some thngs, are so silly and ridiculous I" Hore John IIarding laid down the maga zine article hllhad been reading, and which had for Its theme the apparently inexhaus tiblu one-thu follies and shortcomings of the sex to which he had alluded. Mrs. Harding glanced up from the bow she was fashioning to the solemn face of the speaker. "Ili some things? That is encouraging surelyl I've known numbers of men that were silly and ridiculous in so uany. What is it now, I wonder?" Loftily oblivious to the quiet sarcasm in these words, Mr. Harding continued. "Just look at the way they dross, for in stance." "Oh i" "Not only devoid of'connon sense, but of.all artistic elegance and beauty." 'Really, John," retorted Mrs. Ilirding, drawing her needle through her work with so much energy as to snap the thread, "however silly women may be in your es timation, 1 think they might know how and in what style to dress." - "They might, 1 suppose," was the cool response; "but that they don't is very evi dent. Have you read ' Dress, its Relation to Health and Beauty,' in the last 'Month ly?'" "No," responded Mrs. Harding, with a toss of the head. 'It is written by some man, I suppose." "No matter who it is written by; it is sound sense, every word of it. I wish you would study that article, Mary; it would do you an immense deal of good. I don't mean to say that you haven't sense in a good many things, which surprise me all the more that you should show so little in the way you dress." .Mrs. Iarding's red checks grew stil redder. 'John IIarding!" "There now, Mary, don't Ily Into a pas 11011 because I tell you the trulth, and all for your own good. Just look at ~the tr'immling on the skirt of your dr'ess, for in stance; according to all artistic rule, tile line should be unIbr'oken from the waist to thle feet, and here It Is cut upl anId dlestroyed in half a dozen p)lacesl" "Ilave you ever seen mc inl a dress whlose skirt is enltir'ely lafin, or, as you term it, with the line unbroken from wvaist to feet?" "No; but 1 should1( be glad to (10 so." "You wouild? Have you1 anmy further complaint to make? If youl have, I beg that you won't be at all backward about stating It." "I d' on't men to be. Thecre's the hat youl wear. That is wvhat youi call It, ISlup pose, though for any use It per'formls it might as wvelI be called anything else; a mass15 of rIbbons, feathlers, and flowers piled upl as huih as possible, andl worn uponi thle back of the head." "Anythi.pg -furthe[?"- : "Yes. " Look at tle way the-hair iskWornl by nine-tenthls of the ladles-yours among 'em. Part of It In a snarl 0on thle forehead, and1( thle rest braided and( festooned at the back of the hiead." "HIow-woulrl you have me ar'range It. Mr. Hardinlg?" "Why, sImply . drawn' back from the forehead and( coiled low at the back of thle hlead so as to preserve its classic outline. Somethling like It Is In tIs picture. See?" Mrs. Harding glanced at thed pictut'e to wichl her husband pointed-that of a very lovely girl, wvith small1, regular features, and whose wavy hair was loosely knotted at thle back. "Yes, I see. But I don't think you ever ,saw my haiir dressed In that sLyle." "It would be an hnmense, linprovement f yeol would dross i so: tou'd look lIke iulte another person." "I think I shoul, but hmavo you no fur Ifer suggestions to make? Vomti des are origibal that.tboy interest, me,". "ot et prde pt," returne(i Mr. Harding thrig okjheh ond2f a cigair 119 lntended40 ghit as soon as ho got out on the steps. A few milnutpa later he put his head back * to,the room where his wife wag sitting. "I shall be hierd with t1~.Oips At three, ary. Don't kecep me irs.,Hj4I~ 1pngq t~ thtgg cass ~d1tasli o aVractions depend nmot-e or her strong anti weak point, and how to bring out the one and conceal the other. Mrs. IIarding spent the greater part of the morning in the attic overhauling a chest that belonged to her husband's aunt; ap parently well repaid for her trouble by the garients,llshed up out of its dark depths, and wtiiclh she carried to her own room. Out of these she fashioned it dress similar in style to one for which her husband had expressed so much admiration. "I hate to disfigure myself aol" . she thought, as the straight folds fell lankily around the tall, thin form, making it look still more tall and thin; "but nothing else will cure John;' and if he keeps on, he'll drive in frantic!" 'I'heu she proceeded to take down the hen -y braids of hair, and combing it smoothly from the forehead over the ear, arranging it in a pug low at the back of the head. ''Good gracious! I didn't suppose any thing could make inc look so much like a fool!" ejaculated Mrs. Harding, as she noted the change it made in her appearance. ''But no matter; i" s mly for one, and I think I can stand it, if he can." Taking a round, flat hat, very much in vogue a few years ago, and whose only ornament was a ribbon around the crown, Mrs. Harding went into the parlor. She (lid not have long to wait. Ten minutes later John came up to the door, in an open phteton, drawn by the well matchcd.grays that were the pride of his heart. Running up the steps, ho opened the door of the room where his wife sat. Ile stared at her for a moment in dumnb amazement. "lleaven and earth! Mary, Is it you? I thought it was-I dou't known what! What have you been doing to yourself ?" "I have been trying to carry out the hints you gave me this morning in regard to dress. I hope it suits you, and that you admire its effect ?" "Well, no," responded Mr. Harding, tak ing a critical survey of the odd-looking figure before him; "I can't say that I do. To speak plainly, you look like a fright! "I must say, John," retorted his wife, with an injured air, "that you are very hard to suit and very unreasonable. I have spent the greater part of the morning in following out time suggestions you gave me at breakfast and still you find fault. What is it now, I'd like to know? lIero is the unbroken sweep of skirt; the classic outline of-the head-I think that is what you call it. And you surely cannot say that this hat is too high, or that its elegant. siirlici ty-I quote your own words-is destroyed by any superabundaice of flowers, feathers and ribbons." Mr. Harding turned very red. "That is all nonsense, Mary. I had only three hours at my disposal, and It's now half-past three. I thought I should find you all ready." "I shall be ready in half a minute," re plied his wife, tying on her hat. Mr. Harding looked at her in horrified astonishment. "Do you think that I am going to take 'you out in such a dress as that? Why, you look like an escaped lunaticl" Just then the door-bell rang. "It's Mr. Howe," said Mr. Harding, as ho listened to tho voice, in rep)ly to the ser vaiit who answered it. For pilty's sake go uip stairs andl put On somlethinig decent. I wvouldn't have him moo you ini that dowvdy ting for any considerationi!" "Will you promisc-" "I'll promise anything !" interp)osedl Mr. Hardiing, dIrawinig his wife toward'(s the (leer which openedl Into the back parlor, and through which she disappeared just as thcir visitor was annouiicedl. In an almost incredily short space of time Mrs. Ha1rdilng entered time parlor, whemre lier husband andi( their guest were soatedl, looking so different that no one not mthniately acquaInted with he~r wvould have recognized her. Mr liarding drew a long sigh of relief as lie hooked at thme pretly, tastily-attired woiman of whom lie had often spioken to his friend IIowe, and to whom he was so proud to present her. In the gay and animated conversation that followed, and all the pJeasant thoughts to wbich It gave rise, he forgot everything else; not so Mrsi. H-arding. As soon as the (leer closed after their visitor, she turned her laughing eyes full upon her husband's face. "Nowv, John, lot us have a fair and cleaf .understandiug; I want to suit yo'u If piossi ble. Which of these two styles of dressing do you Wish to adopt?" "I shouldn't suppose you'd ask me such a qupation, Mary. Scomng you once in the pepullar costumoe you assumed Is quite enough fornme' I ass8ure you."' "I assunied It to pleaso you--don't for get that." "You've <failed i your object, thou. To speak franKly, I didn't suppose It possible for you to look so dowhright ugly ini any thing." "You ar'e not over complimMary," she replied, laughing. "But noimatter; If you dre'satisfied, I am. Don't look' so, crest fallen, John; you aro not a bit more inn sislont than the rest of your eex, 'ho give ourq so1rnuch sae advice in-regard to p1iW. t6'rs they:know nothing abot. If the wives ;and' datghteris of thiiso ihedern Solomnons shokd dreus as they ad,iae other people's wives liiuti datghpg to do they w9uldn't bty de&a1 iin t .*ti t1n.n , 13%#ohY ra fve pounnds of tho. 1) t- s d tt tohe k tr A tIthgfne Tho liolmnsly Thisig. iaelinsly had been a charming place in its day. lhut when we found it, it had, as my little sister Jennie expressed it, "rnu to seed." The beautiful grouuds were overrun with weods, covering with their rank growth statues, vases, and fountains. But. as Jennie again sai(l, the old house was "perfectly delicious.' It was of two stories with attics. A great ratmbling old plaec with dim cor- 1 ridors running hither anct thither into the 1 oddest out-of-the-way places. Jcllic and l had gone down with a reti nue of servants to supei intend the cleaning 1 preparatory to the advent of the rest of the family. Late in the evening of the second (lday we were sitting oi the o1(1 settee, in front of a decaying lire, discussing various matters of i it erest. A small lamp burned on the mantel be fore a large mirror had been hung a little before dark. I had just proposed going to bed, as the servants had done so an hour before, and the bare, uncarpeted rooms and halls seemed dreadfully cheerless and lonely. The answer that I received was a clutch on the am. I turned and looked at,Jennie, and shocked 1 as I was by her ghastly face, my eyes in voluntarily foLlowed her to the glass above the mantel. To describe my terror and horror would be impossible. Like .Jennie, I mat petrified, and gazed with eyes that seemed starting from my head. It was so ghastly a thing to confront us'at that hour I It was a sn.all, cowering, dark olject--a shapeless muss with a face of (l-.tlly pallor, from which burned two great shining eyes, 1 a tangle of black hair falling almost to the heavy eyebrows. It crouched just without the open door a leading into one of the niny corridors, eye ing us with terrible intentions. At last I shook off the terror and sprang to my feet. I snatched the lamp from the - mantel with the intention of investigating t,he strange object. My hasty movement extinguished it. The fire was too low to admit of more than a fitful gleam of light, and our sense of hor ror for the moment was frightful. Jennie succumed to it utterly. With a I gurgling cry she sank fainting upon the settee. This spurred me to an effort. Catching a paper from the settee, I tore .' off a piece with frantic haste, and in spit-e of my shaking hands, succeeded in relight ing the lamp. Then I hurried to the doorway. But nothing was there. Lacking the courage to pursue my inves- t tigations, I returned to Jennic, first care fully closini and locking the door. Aft.er a little attention Jennie came to her senses. She looked up at, my pale face and gasped : "Where-where is the thing ?" I told her all I knew about it, and after a little we crept timidly up to our room. 1 WVe slept little ; but in the warm, sunny day that broke the ''thing," ts Je.nnie called it seemed far less terrifying. t The day went on smoothly enough till 1 near twilight, when a piercing shriek from I Jennie called us to the great stairway. ''What is the matter 1 1 cried, as Jennie stood gazing in white terros at the at ie landing far above her head. The thing I the thing !" she shrieked : and again she tainted.. Leaving her in the care of one of the ser vants who had rushed after me, I took the I others, and hurried determinedly up to the att,ics. We searched from one end to tie other, but found nothing. Siuddenly cne of the mni called out, hias tily : UThrlere's something sliaking that roll of I canvas among thte rafters there !" Aiid with the-words Iho jerked it down, and fromi its folds tumbled a little misshiap)en creature-a dwarfed humphack, his un canny form rend(ered still more uncanny by I a short cloak cast about his shoulders. "'You little Imp, wvhat are you dloing I here ?" dleimandedl the servant, graspling I lhim by the shotilder before lie could es- I cape. ''No harmi p)lease ?" piteotusly gasp)ed (liet mite, lifting a pair of great soft eyes to my face. "I'm only Drat, thue litt,le beggnri.I ain't, no fiends, an' I aiin't, no hoiie."' That melted my hteat. "'There, James, let him go,'' I interfered; "youi hturt, him I" And (lien, addressing this singular p)iece of hiuanity, I said: '"Why have you been prowling abhout atnd frIghtening us half to dethl ? Why "'Phease'mt I ain't frightened you half you've frightened me I" whIned thte culpril, a big tear coursing a white lhic over hist dirty cheeks. "But whly did( you not knock at thie dloor and ak for shelter ?" I atsked, wvith (11111-1 culty restraIintg a smile. "'I was afeard they'd give me a pair o' cuffs." Aiid now a full tIde poured cleansingly over hIs cliceks. "A jMr'ol, cuffs lI' I echoed, In amaze ment. But James here burst Into a laugh, ex-I plalning. ''le means1 Miss, that Ite was afraid we'd cuff his cars.' "V es'm"I' assented Drat, as I gave vent loan "'Oh I, . And then ho added : "'I was here fust 'm 1" "'Oh, you wore ?" I Jaughted. I stoodh a miuto looking at him tl.ioughI, fully, after which I asked, slowly : ''Do you think you could work ? Could you make yourself useful If I shiotild keep you, an4 gIve you a home here ?" "'D)eed I kln'm!I" lie gasp)ed, eagerly. "Oh, keep m'm I keep ime I I ain't got no body !" "I[ will," I saId, deeply touched. A'Jamecs,. take him (down anid gIve hIm a bath, andl (lhen get him somethIng to eat. I wIll go r to namufactureoa clean suit of some And so the Hielmsiy Thliig became what Jenile chrnistened the Ilhnly rage. And never di a more faithful servaint and-frIend live than our littlo brat, Ieaven bless hIm I . a Pn'nts"-A '(tZllA $stdey #10o01l11oq4 hlis e iaminer ' 1vently by pierJwIllant rel to the, qttestion: "flow thany a hh*the minoer iMd soM f.Wr twelie d'a A Moan Main. ''Specaking of gall," remarked a printer n a Nevada beer saloon, ''talking of solid lheck, 1 never saw a mtan who had more of t than Pete Blivens of Kansas Cicy. Three )f us used to roona together there in 1872. Jne night III July--it was so hot th it if 'ou'd chuck water on the side of ia he.cscit vo-all sizz like so much hot iron-wc. -on hlded to go down and sleep on one of the imber rafts on the river. Well, we got on he rafts with our blankets. Just beforo urning in, Pete Blivens said he guessed te'd cool off by talking a swim. I knew he current would snatch him right under, Jtu didn't want to give him any advice, nd he dived off the cad of the raft. The incuertow caught. and sent hiun out of sight n about three seconds. As soon as we saw hat. he was drowned, me and the other hap went for his effects. We found $8 50 n his pants pocket and an old watch. We took 'em il) town and soaked the clothes for $J and sold the watch for $12.. Then we went 'round town on a sort of ia jam aorce and spent the money. About 5 o'clock n the morning we were drinking up the iist dollar with some of the boys at the ilue Corner, when who should walk in but P'ete himself in an old suit of clothes that ae'd borrowed of- a man three miles down lie river. And hang me if lie didn't de nand his clothes. and the ncxt day lie was round dunning us for the aialtry sum of 88.50. The gull of some n (11's onougli to mrlyze a Louisiana alligalt.,r." The Coldest Town. This is Jakutsk or Yakootsk, chief town >f the prnovmnce of that name in Eartern iberia, or the left bank of the river Lena, I4 (leg. I min. north, longitude 119 (leg. ai min. east, and distant, from St. Peters mrg 5,951 miles. The ground remains ontinually frozcn to the depth of 300 feet, xcept inmiidsumimer. when it thaws 3 feet it t lie surface. During ten days in August lie thermometer marks 85 degrees, bat from \nvember to F'ebuary it ranges from 42 to 18 degrees below zero, and the river is solid ce for nine months out of the twelve. The ntire industry of the place-population bout 5,a100-is comprised in candtleworks, nd yet it is the principal market of Eastern liberia for trallic with hunting tribes of the luriats. Th'Ite former, mostly nomadic, Laing large herds of horses and cattle, iring to market butter, which is sent on1 iorsuback to the port of Okhotsk. The 3uriats, also nomadic, bring quantities of kims of sable foxes, martens, hares, squirrels nd the like, and many of them are sold at he great fair in Juac, which, with MAty, s the active period of the year. In May :ollected goods are eonveyed to the seaports, vhence they are sent in every direction. 'lhe merchandise, chiefly furs and muamumot I usks, sold at. (lie fair amount inl value .100, 100 roubles ($300,000). Wonderual Racoape. The trail leadinar to the Metamoras mine Vevada is both steep and narrow, and winds ilong the side of Prospect mountain from the >ase to almosi the sumutit. In places the de cent from it. is very precipitous, falling oil ihnost perpendicularly for a distance of wo or three hundrea feet. Several pack nuiles have been killed by being pushed off it tioe points, but no accident has ever tappened Io ti hardy lminer and prospect or vho pass 'over it, unt il recently, and this ortunately was not a fatal one. The snow all had almost obliterated the pathway, naking it peculiarly dangerous, and when Iames Ahearn-attempted to make the as cut, lie was for ced to grope his way blindly rusting to his knowledge of the route to arry him over safely. It was not sulli ient, however, for when about half way ip) he slipped from the icy crust, and before le could recover himself ie was traveling lown the side of t,he mountain at 8 rate of speed only equaled by a meteor. While lie snow was1i the imimediato ciause of U.hearn's disaister, it was also his salvation, or it riot only preserved him from contact vi'hr thre rocks as lie phlrigedl down, but r'e eivedl him in its soft emra'rce att Iris stop ,ing p)lace, some 250 feet from tIre ploint, of lepart.ure. As it wats, his clothes were eat. and( torn, so was his skin ini sunudry ilaces, anrd, whlile no bonies were broken, here were aggregate bruises that will prini.. ully r'emiind himt of Iris experience for sonic imue to coire. Supesttiona,u Ah,,aut Babbts. In near'ly all the languages thre sy'llale ')a is the prefix of tIhe bndian name for abbit, whilo the word for wvhite Is toab or slgp, inadifferenrtly, A writer mentioned nany)3 exampl)es, as wapl.i-e-me, "'whit,g >igeoii."' Th'e IlIlinrois same wvabos wahs pro ably applied to the Lepus Aimericanrus, vhose winter coat Is white, and hence the onnectioni. T1he root -word wab, however, ornms a por'ion of words of seenuingly t,o ally differonrt mea'ning, but .hudge llenrder on thought a key was to be founud to tire vwhole diversity. White is an embllein of amrily aind saced color, and(l. with It is issaciatethe Imdea of lIght, which Isof suchl rtctifylng p)owVer In tIme earth, arnd calls 'orth so imny beauities. With It Is also ssociated tIme idlea of heaven and angels of ~oodnress. Among Lire Cherokees, Leni senrape, and other tribes white was an ema >ol't ot' peace, friendship' prosperity, and roliness ; and tihe Iroquois sacrificed vlhite.d(ogs to tIhe Ghreat Spirit, andi consec 'ated to lim all other albino ainmals. imJong tIre Apaches of the West white >irds were regarded as possesslhg sourle of livino origin, and1( to tire Plains Indians tIhe vhite buffalo is a sacredi obmject, like tIhe vhrito elephant of Slamt; wvhile some of tho )alifornila tribes conrsidler a white wolf-skin abadge of chieftainshilp. Thisrl was carried, o a gr'eat extent, Itu the robes of tIre High P'rmest of the Cherokees, and they all wrap >ed their dleadI In puire white deoer-skIn. V'arlous EFastern tribes sent white wampum, 'eathers, and other objects ars symbols of )eae, jnrst-as redl was a sign of wvar; and1( hey hard "'ImperIal standaltrds"~ of feathers 'romi tire wthilte tall of thre bald-eagle. Unhong tIre Sotherni Indhans tIre white laurel was thme tree of peacc, and they spoke of it rs spreadinug its b)ranchecs over the white r'oundt. Light, or white being sacred, irorefore it Is easy to upydrtand whly wvhite uumimals shrourld be also' regarded so, 'Tho hlird brrothrer of tire Great Spirit,.' Wabosso, wiho fled to tire north as soon as hre saw thre lght, aind whoe chiange<l into a.' whiteo r'ab bit, under that form became .oanonjzed. r'ho nameo of tire greitt.central Dety HIm leIf in. m~any larnguages hras the root "whilto" in it, as al*o tire word tor;thoaven, srnd.theo word fprjiotecdry or . ~*edic1tn." 1'I sacrdtbgard WhillraIt a gr as 4)d'to thto erppst,i a1o islhogljJ thre fact that In Algonquin the syllable i occurs in many of the namnes of reptile: The three lmost sacred atitnils to tt Indian were lie hare, the owl, and th serpent, and they are the ones arou which cluster at host of lyths in the 0l Worki. The superstition about the evi omen of a hare crossing your pitth, for in stance, is very aietcant inhabltants of Irn lod( killedi all ie har1es they fund amoni there cattle on lay day, believing the' witches who huad designs on the bultter. ' Calluck regards the rabbits in the sal lilit, and many prinit.ive ueople used I her for divinalionl, and refused to eat their tlesl The remails of the lake dwellers of %Swity erland and of the ancient Dane show I bones of the hare, for example, thus sui porting Ciesatr's account of the aw fuil horru in which the animal was held by th Britons of his day. Our Castern lndian seem not to have caten it ; but those in tlh West and North did so. Another curion fact is that the animal was sculptured 1 the sacrificial Stole iii allcient. Mexico, an was the "Sign'' of the divine years in ib Mexican Ujalender, while celebrations an2l sacrifices in its lionor were the most. nun crous of all. AineIenI supuretltton t. ''he following siupt"rstitions handed dow by tradition, are yet ferveitly believed i many parts of America : While specks o the nails are luck. Whoever reads epitaplh loses his memory. To rock the cradle whei empty is injurious to the child. To ec while a bell is toil ing for a funeral ciust toothaclhe. The crowing of 2a hen inle icitt som1e approaching disaster. Wuen a mous gnaws a1 gown some misfortune may b apprehended. 1le who has teeth wide nt under must seek his fortune in some dtistani land. Whoever finds 2a four leaf trefo (shamrock) shohii1 wear'it for good lucl< Beggar's bread shoul be giveit to childre who are slow in learning to speak. It i child less than12 twelve months old be brougli ihto a cellar he becomes fearflll. Whei children play soldiers on the roadside i forehodes the approach of war. A chiti grows proud if suffered to look into at mir ror while less than twelve months old. Novel Dlinner Lecurattuonst Not long ago a christening dinner wa given in an uptown residence, in New Yorl one feajure of which was novel In fron of each of the twelve guests at table wa: at miniature model of the font in urae church with 21 Lilipuitian cradle aIt. its basc The font was matde of wood, covered wit silk, and delicatte painted with1 all the sym bols, tracery and even the delicate goh lettering aboult the rim-"Except, a man 1b born of water and of the spirit ho ca2nnc enter. into the kingdom of heaven"-thti appears upon t he orgilnal. Natural ilower filled the fonts. On tie front of eatcht sa11 silken cradle, wrought in fallciful gol letters and foliage and blossoms, appelre the nam1e of the baby '"Ethel," and thi date of her birth. Attached to each cradl was a silken ribbon, uponjwhich was pailnte the name of one of the guests. After dii ncr these pretty things were carried oil' b those before wlom they were placed i souvemrs of tle occasion. The cost >f thes were twenty-five dollars. A Vatunpir Catt. Mr. French, who was staying at thi Virginia Hotel at iMobile, recently retire( to rest at an early hour and soon fell int< a deep slulbur. After the lapse of 312 hou ir two he was aroused by a feeling of over powering Oppression andl suffocationl, an< was horrified to find tlit a hinge cat wi; Sitting on his breast and had its hiead in sorted in his mouth Sucking away his breath lie found himself in an alost exhaustec condition ; SO much s0 that he Mas unabbi to shake off the vampire flend attachinu himl. Struggle as lhe would thle cat onIla fastened its claws the (1001er In his chest and1( wVent on1 at its hiorrible fealst. li groans and1( cr*ies of agoniy, however, fort untly bro0ught some1 ineighiboring lodger to his relief and( lhe was rescued fromi hi fright fuil p)ositionI. Eveni then0 thley wer compllelled1 to turn himl out of bed anld rol him over and1( over on the Iloor before the cat cou1ld1 be made(1 to release its hold( am2 albandon02 its purpose05. Mr1. Frceh's face 2121 che(st bore frightful evidences of his terribli battle with the mionster. Never. Never exaggerate. Never ploint at anlotheOr. Never betray a conlfidce10. Never wvantonily frightteni others. Never leave home11 w~itha un2kind( words. Never noCglect to call1 uponi your frienlds. Never lauigh at the iisforttnes of (others .Never giv'e a1 promisO tha*t you (10 n12 fulfill. Never 8send a p)resenlt hoping for one li returnl. Never speaik much of your ownI perform ancves. Never fail to be punctuail aIt the timle ap Never mlake y'ourself the hero of you own story. Never 1)1ck2 the teethl or clean the na211 In comlpany. Never fail to give a polito answer to civil question. Never present a gift saying it is . of ni usme to youirself. Never read letters whlich you may fin< addressed to others. A 8ingula.r iofence.' A lawsuIt once settled som11 st.rikingl: origInal feattures. Amnong other articles, lady putchased a1 coffee p)ot. Bunt neithle she nor 11er mlaid could make good -coffe: from it, and it wvas returned to. lie dhealer Ho ref used to receIve it, and( tho husbqni suied him. In court the dlefendant maniaged hisa own ease. 'Thle manne111r of proceduri was very unIque, to say the least. 'Th dealer took the coffee pot and( a liberal supl ply of coffee, sugar and1( Cream, a gasolin< stove and( a coffee nmiH into the court-room T1hie coffee was grounid in the presenlce o the jury, the gasolIne lIt In the stove, wate and( Coffee were put mn the pot, and( allowei to boil over the gasoline blaze. At lengtL the concoction was pronounced complete properly mixed with sugar arnd creamn, an' passed1 to the jurors and the justice. Whm jury' could withstand suich sweet blandeh monts11? They called for moire,-aiid'athor was plenty and to spareg their request wa granted. At length the~ jity retired: ft consultation, and on .retUtn1ngd ndeed1 verdict for the mian deho indoA coJfet it generally pay p ejAl o a~tit The Cocknoy Walk. Most. Englirhmen of the lower middle class and the rlower class in cities have a way of walking which is ia distinguishing habit of comm1on life. They Ivtl themnselves out in their walking, as if ti were doing it tiy's work. 'lhey walk 1. only with t heir feet anld letgs, but with tht, :" hips ahd their shouldeis and their arms, .t swirig inI the hitter; .ut arching thei out more or less flrom tlir sides 11111 putt ing thei forward stitly as they step. Withl they look coiiscious of their walking and seem1 well pleased that they are doing the correct thing. TIhis gait and carriage of body is most rentikable in the sokliers that one see about the streets of London il(and of gar rison towns, like ('anterbury, and in the vulgar creature who has come to he known by the generic nameof'Arry. You will meet t wo soldiers tightened up to the extreme of endurance in their scarlet shell jackets, with their little flat caps so flr, down the 1 sides of their heads that You calnlot see why they hesitate at coming down all thu way, and these two fellows, one of whom is pretty sure to carry a rattan with a jaunty air, will take up the room of threb men by the set-out of their four arms from their four sides, anel will walk as if their locomo tion, instead of being by human nmuseles, were by clock-work and steam. The num her of their imitators cannot be told, but. ant English gentleman has none of this toilsome swagger. Ile walks quite easily and, gen erally, with a1 good, manly stride, just as i. imen of corresponling condition of life in s loston, New York or lhuiaephin will 8 walk. Biut inl Ihose p' 'Ces you will not see e in persons of inferior co dition that strange e mode of locomotion which I have endeav ored to describe. l .iA Airaculous IsCap e. 1 1Iar"1c Quinn, a minller, employed in the El l'so mine, on F'reyer llill, Leadville, 1 look a terrible ttunble recently. lie had h just fired olf a blast. at the bottom of the i tshaft, 225> feet below tlie surface, and had l sta-ted down inl the bucket or tiub, which I - was being lowered by i man named Patrick lRoach. When about ten feet from the windlass the brake boll. broke and for a I moment, it. looked as if Quinn's time had I cole. ]htl Roach, with rare presence of w mind, caught. hold of the delliched rope on - c t he lower end of which his friend hung suis t pendecl. "Hllod on here, ,lark, ny boy," shonied Pat, "and I'll bring ye up." Quinn is held on, btt Pal. foumd it. imtpo ssible to hold - hin. Little by little the rope slipped through his h1a1nds. Ile held on like grim death, but the cruel rope dragged through 1 his grasp, tearing away skin and flesh. c Finding le could not sustain the weight, lie t (espairingly cried: 'I can't hoh on no t longer, paIrd-gool bye,'' and let go. I )own a went. Quinn into the dark, deep abyss-a 1 sheer fall of nearly 22i feet. Pit, started 1 off for help to take out., what lie supposed to be, a mangled corpse. The surprise of V the rescuers m11ay be Iingined when, going e down the shaft, they found Mark Quinn 1 almost unlhurt.. Ile wias able to walk home - to hie cabin ithout assistance. Mystery of Rcent. No one hus yet beeln abl,! to analyze or deministrat e the essential act ion of perfume. 1 (ias can be weighed, but not, scent. The I Smallest knmvn crcature-the very mlonadeR of life-can be caught, by a mlicroscoplc 1 lens, and niado to deliver up the s(lcrets of I their organization, but what, is it thatt emi- t nates from tlie pouch of the musk-deer that I tills a whole spaice for years with Its pen1e tratag odor-an odor that an illimable number of extraneous substances can carry on without, diminislhing its size and weight -han( what it is that the warim sumur air Lrings to us from t.ie flowers, no m1ant 1111 yet, beei able to determtine. o fine, so subtle, so imiponderable ; it has eluded our most.1 deliciate weights and measures and o,ur strlongest, senses. If we conmc to the essence of each odor, we shouk(l have miade an eniorimous strhie forward, bull' l hygIene and ini ceilstry, and1( none woi l)proflt mnoire thn the medical profession ir it coudl hei as concliusively demonstrat.ed that such anl odor01 proceeds fromn such undt such a causeC, as8 we ailready kniow of sulphuIur, sul phiate, 1hydtrogen, ammionia and the like. ExecutIons ny Electricity. -- D)r. WT. A. IIammiond,l of New York, says electricity would lbe ai' uncertain agent of I deCath, and1( conmislt the idea (liat It can lie uIsed it capital putnishimet. Even a ter rific stroke of light,nlng does nlot always kill, and1( the spectacle of a crhninal run ning about naked or lying with his limbs broken after a deputy shieriff had1( performcdi on hhn with a galvanIc battery, would be t even miore dhisgracefuli than the scenes which I niow sometimes occur at execut Ions. What Sthe tremendous power of nature cannot ini- I v'ariably do is not, likely to be always ac - compjlishedl by (lie coimparitively ridiculous means for generating electricity at the - conuinandl of mtan. Probably the most ef fectual kind of electricity wvould 1b0 that kntown as statical, which is identical with atmtosphteric lightning ; but the maclines a for genterating It will not work it wet weather, and( If an lnstrumnutt could lie cont Sstructed powerful enough under favorable cIrcumstances to kill1 a muan, the execution would p,robably have to be dieferredi frolm dlay to (lay till the hiygromctric state of thie 1air was suitable. A Itomnan Treasure. Early in the morning of thte 1st of June, a lad engaged int repairing the drain of the Shouse ?No. 28 VIa della Stellatta in Romes, Italy, found a littlo Bhilny pi1cco of metal 1 arnd put It in lis pocket, waiting for this ,chance to shiow it to seime contnoisseuir. in I the iimanwVhile a good deal of the dirt from1 I thle drain was carted away in.the direction of Porte Angelica. 'rho lad had hIs piece0 y examlitod by a goldsmIth opposite, antd hie .was just receivIg twenty fraince for it, when the head mason and the owner of the house, , who~ had heard somehow of thie affair, cameo r to stop the bargaIhr at the rIght momneit. r Mearch wasatade Immediately en tha. Spot, 1 antd 142 gold colns were. fot4ad scattered, i betweent the drain and thie ws Is of thte ,hlouse. Policen:or# actf66 the carte; 'they'overtook the'm Ji'st otitsi.o Portg An t, gelica, examIned the dontents, and'faund . forty-tw&more coins, to LJ1 greate -p~6 ment of the drives, who'hadil ~ ot&-erem6aing gold 'frbtfnu~ aidh V~k Sseqtweftly, 184 colan ot h size, orfedV f~,A~I besti It z~14 hI O% they [he earliest are of Pius II., the others of Innocent VIII., Alexander VI., Julius II., L.o X., Hadrian VI., Clement VII., and P'aul III. Nearly one-third belongs to Ulementt. VII., a few colis to the Viscoun tis of Milan and the Wladslaws of Hungary. [ am sure some were engraved by artists worthy to vie withjDonatello or Benzenuto; hey are of exquisite beauty. The next lay Mgr. Casali, the owner, was offered 36,800 francs for the group. Of course he refused. 'The treasure was not concealed arefully in one single spot ; the pieces lay cattered in more than 1,000 cubic feet of liirt. Electric Eels. The gymnotus is that peculiar fish which it its pleasure gives electric discharges, id thereby stuns the animal it desires to make its prey. Its principal home is in he rivers and lagoons of South Africa, where it is the terror of all other animals, not even excepting the cayman, the Ameri an crocodile. One cf these eels, two metres in length, can give a shock which will reduce to powerlessness the oxen and horses that come down to dlrimk at the points it frequents, and thus render them in easy proy to their aquatic enemies. alan himself, although not so sensitive to the shock as other animals, is still liable to very serious inconvenience from its effects. NI. Marcy has found, during his investi ration that a gymnotus, a metro in length ins an electrical surface of about 000 igquare feet, equal to a very powerful bat cry. The animal owing to its length and supleness of its boly, can produce dif ferent elecrical eflects according as it is in i straight line, convex or concave as regards its prey. Its general mode of procedure s to form i semi-circle and p ace the fish it s intent on in the dianeter of the circuit. When the discharge is delivered, the prey, is if struck by a thunderbolt, is rendered poweriless; the gynotus swius around it is if to be assured of the eflicacy of he shock, and then swallows tn v ihn. These lire not the only fish which possess this singular power of aunching electrical iischargzes on their ,rey or on their enemies. Many others ire known, but far inferior in force to the .errible gymnotus. Among th~nm are the orpeuIlo fish and soie species of make which inltbit the coas's of Great 13iitaltn and Prance, and somne species found in the Nile and 5enegal. wovis+n All. Tle I)ecca musllis of India are among he most wonderful evidences of the han1d dkill of the strange people of the mysterious East. These flabrics, which are spunlt anid woven entirely by hand, and are the pro filets of obscture and curious processes, un nown and unattainable by the Western ui1tions, like the fablriciitioii of Damascus icel and the canel's hair shawls, are mar vels of ingenuity and skill, and they illus rate the poetry of collon. The most deli -ate of these .fabrics is k nown as "woven dr." It can only be miade in the early mornings and in the evenings, when hie air is full of umoisture and the dew is on the rass. The processes by wli'clh it is woven ire kept secret, and the I)cople who do the work are conpelled first to pass through t long course of training and initiation. l'heir delicate wares ire of such ethereal exture as to be almost invisible, and yet hey are so enduring that they will bear vashing and wear in a most wonderful natner. ''his precions stuff is monopo ized for the use of the ladies of the )riental hare101s1, and it is 811 to he worth tundreds of dollars per yard. A Mont.or1 Time-PIece. The large clook at the English House of ?arliament, is the largest one in the world. Phe four dials In this clock are twenty-two 'amt im diameter. Every half minute the niinute ha111ndioves iiearly seven Inches. ('lie clock will go eight (days and( a half, md1( will only strike for seven and a 11alf, hus Indicating aniy neglect In winding it iip. The windinig up of tile striking ap >airat,us takes two hours. The pendu(lumtil a lifteen feet long; the wheels are cast I ron; lhe hlour-bell is eight feet high, and1( nine ct in diamueter, weighing nearly fifteen on15 and( the haniuniier alone1 wveighis more1 han tour hundred pounds(1. T1hiis clock i(oikes the qjuarter hours and by Its striking he short( hand rep)orters regulate their abors. A t, every strllke a new rep)orter akes the p)lace of tho old one, wvhile the list retires to write out t,he notes that he ias taken duing the previous fifteen ninutes. Ho0w D)etuly D)oes the Earth Quake?, TVhe recent earthquake at Virginia City vas not nioticedI at all ini the milning depths, mut only by people on the surface. Th'le aimous earthquake of somec tina~e ago, which hook dowin chimneys and fire-walls, racked brick buildings anid did other (lanm ge, was merely noticed by somes of the niners workiug in thle Upper levels, but It lid no dlamiage, not even shaldng down, 00s0 stones and earth. TIhe sation menh n the varIous shafts felt It the' strongest, mid the deepest point where It was notIced e-as by the station-tender at the 000-foot evel of the Imiperial-Emnpireoshaft--900o 'cet below the suirface. Hie sal(1 It felt like 6sudden faInt throb or'pullsatio, of the air,. ts though a blast had been left off at a die- K ance above, below, or iln some Indefintte lirection, lin some of the mines the shock w'as not noticed at all,,even by station-men. Taste. Dinfer-. Some of thle curious habits Indulged In >y dIstinguished artists In order to retaIn or Itrenigthen thlemlselves in their mnoments of.. ost during the exercise of tile,voice: The 3wedlsh tenor Lobalt ate t,wo.salted cucutn ers; Wachitel swallows (lie yolk of an egg, beaten upwIth sugar; Carl Forms drinks porter; P asta dran porter; hlme. Sontau g ute sardines;. MIle. Doparro ddinks wprn Ivater; Adelina Patti takes seltzer water' 'Jhristine Nilsson, boer; Mmo. Mfalibran, In )>pposition to'all the cnstoms of singers, ale mupper half. an houar beforo the performance; MIiss Klogg (al0e beef tea, andMis P. ae(ry ~ as'Tman l Jerry's,' 1nmeimes. atnd. ometimes porr best resuIts eiillets%n oapiI4, Iudiciusly. Studyr the nattlr o' ~~ sQilb If it is daty 4oidetin tiigas1 ea