University of South Carolina Libraries
,Tifl-WEEKLY EDTIN W I1NNS.BORRO, S. C., 1F.EBRtUAR .18.VL -O 5 EDITI aO araonn r _. AUTUMN. .In Autumn, soo tho faded leaves Sail slowly down upon tuo wind, Loariug, like Death when lie bereaves, 'Tt'o living germ of Hop bohind. "rTi Autumn, and the suit is dim., As if his liro wore uearly gone; Tile breeze intons a soot ling hymn, And all tho earth is still and Jono. 'Ti+ Autumn; over land and main A vol of azuro haze is thrown, As if the purest heaven again Had claimed onr planet as its own, And the blue vostments of the sky For garniture of glory given; For scarcely can the a raining ryo 'Toll which is earth or which is heaven. 'Only Joe. "Yes; if it is only Joe." said Caroline "he may comle in." A boy of flfteen or sixlen years of air shyly entered. ''te entranceway was the white dlro] aurtain of a white tent pitched oiI the greet mwn of Deersiheld. The interior, with charmimgly transparent wliteness of wial vail elrected by the noonday rays of the Au gust stun, contained three pretty schoolgirls busy with boxes of finery. A negro urs( was opening on a T''urkish mat, tha: carpet ed the tent ground a carton of gaily colore< ribbons. "Now, Joe," said Caroline, "we havi let you in only on one condition, and tha is, you don't tell, and yout don't lcok." "T-:-t-two conditions," staitmered Joe "'Well, keep them both," said Caroline in her shrill, atnthoritative voice. .Joe rested hiniself upon a camp chair it an angle of the awning, with water colo: sketch book in hand. Occasionally, as lii pencil moved, ho glanced critically at the girls, who had strecied theiselves in rap itur"ous attitudes upon the ribbon heaped rug, and who were by this tue too en grossed with their morsels of finery to ob serve the unobstrusive act. "I'm going to Char!ie Evans' ball as th< Enchantress," said Belle. "Never mind if it is a child's ball." "Dear me l I wish I didn't /uwe to hi only a flower girl," sighed .Jane. ''I'm the (laughter of the Regiment,' cried Caroline, striking a martial attitude She mached up to Joe, andt(1 with a quici motion tossed the cap from his head. "tu(le boy you ire iii the Presence of la (ies." "I was for-for-hid-id-den to lo-look." "Look now," said Coroline, "and keep your eyes forever afterward shut." Joe lifted to tie little teriagant hi: bright, distant, but inquisitive eyes. Then he returned to his work ; and Ca rolhine, as she turned away, heard him soft ly repeat her words, without any trace o fatal stammer: 'Forever afterward shut." The family at I)eerslield was rat her sin gularly grouped. 'l'ie children of thi house were of divided parenfaage. Belb was the daughter of Deerstlel's present owner. Jiuo was his orphan niece. Ca roline, tlie only child of a widowed mother, was destined to be heiress of Deerstleh after the lifetime of her 'cousin Bellc' father. Joe was the half-brother of Belk by'her imother's forier marriage. I1 was an orphan, possessed of a substantial patri mony. The guardians of the four children were the master of Deersfield and thi mother of Caroline, who very harmoniously ruled these incongruous eleitents given int their eare by a strange fate. Belle and Jan< were not dillicult to manage. Joe, a genth lad, gifted with a wonderful talent foi coloring to the lite, and afllictyd with i stanmmering speech that made him reticen of talk and shy of coilanionship, was de voted almost to (lhe degree of solitude ii his ceaseless application to his art. Caro line was a tease and( a ronip, forever in dis grace. it was noe matter of surp)rise to Joe thai on the morning after Charlie Evans' fanca ball the (daughtcr of the llegiment was ii solitary confinemnent as punishmnent of somi iuinrdonabic act. She hailed Joe fron her widdowv as lie crossed the lawn, 11o tioning to him that she wvanted to let dowi a basket for provisions, as she would no and1( could not eat "drIy bread." Joe had been her forager before; he: slave lie always was. To say truth, h lovedl this wild, naughty, self-assertiv playmate of his with all the secret fervo of a boy's heart. Caroline was aware o. the hidden senitiment, and1( implosed upoi the homage egregiously. Joe, having satistied himself that (In coast wais clear, receivedl the basket whicl Caroline dropped from her window wvith cord. Tfhe basket contained a three-cor nered note. DsAn .Jon: Its perfectly .shamii'ful thai ['ii locked up. I should starve if it weri not for you. All I did wasi to go up) in th< cupola last night with Charlie Evans to set his caged eagle. Poor thing, it pines And it was so nice; up there, we -staid am hour. Manmna :was awfully angry. 8< was lien, for I was engagedl two (lance, with him, and misased them both. Oh, Joe you ought to have been thiere I It was vers p)oky ini you not to como1 hate, as you p)ro ised. iNell Niito send milned( veal if she ha any-I think she muiist-and( plenity o bread and butter (and someo brown suga to sp)readl), and somne pickles, and a pleci oIf coldi chicken, and anything else that I ice. OAIuolisyn, A <piick, sharp ilush ci0rsed Joe's fac. as lie read this note, not hn dIsgust, a one might imagine, at, the mndnape )) tite of his fair goddess, but at the one seul tenco of the note not marked emiphatical. wi'th~ underlie "'Up in the cupola las night..wit.h Charlie Evans." Joe smlothered his jealous pang, bibei~ Nan, the cook; liberally, nid sent thelma ket uip to Carolhie, so heatlly loaded tha one ounce m~ore. woubl have broken .th cord. Manmma, from a recess of the liihrar window, caught a glimisse of this transac tion buht by the time she reached 'the thij -story, unilockdd the door and confronted h~e prisoner basket and contents had alike v* . nishedl. Carolie's .lips ,wore extremnel red1, [ilst otheryipo'there was no slin thu ianythlng haid bee~n deovonrd d. .hie. sent the window space breaking .bread lait crumbs;t a (lock of wood birds, hovere around her. . "I cannot eat dry bread, mnamma," Si said, "but my birds do; Iheyhdem' t lovo It.1' ', "CarrIe, Catrrio, what a girl ~ou arc? Matid mamma)))f. Slhemnant. in1 .hn enp(qO ful but her voice was not stern ; she was viewing her dugllter in one of those win ning traits that offset her hoiden ways. Caroline, often unkind to people, to ani mals was always kind. Every dumb beast at )eerslield loved her, from the Al derney Cow, wIiose arectionate face shile stroked every morning, to the last little golien-down chticlkeli of the white hen's brood. Sie laid broken to saddle more than one spirited coll, and her pa< k of pet dogs numbered many of formidable breed--one a bloodhound. The rosy clieked, bright eyed Carrie was an attractive creature as she sat mo the stin light feeding the birds, which. answering her (ill, spedl fromt the grove and alighted fearlessly on her head, her hands and her shoulders. Maniina's forgiveness was won by the picture. To Joe, looking from below, the vision was even more pictiuresttue; the dormer wiindov in the gray roof overhung with vines of woodbine and wist 'ria. the dark recess relieving the sunlight figure. the smnililing tace welcoming the birds. As years passe(l on, the three pretty Sclhoolgirls beelnne wining young ladies. Belle married first, then Jane, and now a ('aoline was engfaged to be married, to Charlie 1vans, in spite of the remonstrance of iny of her friends, who know the young man to be as uiprinciplcd in morals as he was handsome in person. Willfull Caroline answered to all remon strance : "1 have loved him all my life; I like him ; and I have promised to be his wife." On the day that this engagement was announced, Joe sailed from America to study in Italy his art. There had been a stormy scene the night before. When Caroline deliberately told Joe that her hand was irrevocably proimsed to his long-dreaded rival, Joe'm nnuish was something too c'mnplete to be hidden ; its intensity and force shocked Caroline. She knew not what to say to this faithful lover of years to alleviate his pain. She holdy sprang to the defensive, and then to an ag gressive c-urse. She sharply, almost coarse ly, reproved him for having lavished his heart upon one who could not by any pas sibility return his affection. They parted more in anger than in sor row. Such was Caroline's caprice: and Joe, renouncing all hopes of happiness, tried to draw consolation from the sole re flection: "I have my art." One August night, a month before the time fixed for Caroline's marriage, a mes sage was brought to her from the village that lay in the beautiful valley at the foot of the rolling uplands of Deersfleld. Close under the gateways there lived a youne woman, who had been for several years ecamst ress at "the mansion," and who, gathering together all carnings, established herself with her aged mother in the modest cottage which she hoped to call home for a happy lifetime. But ceaseless toil with the needle told upon her strength, and she had fallen a victim to consumption. ier days were nearly numbered, and she had sent the niessage to her "dear Miss Caro line, who had always been so indulgent,'' to please to come soon as possible to re veive it dying woman's request. Caroline, although the hour was late, said, "I will go att once." As was her inde pendent way, she started forth on the er rand nattended, and bidding her mothdr "gooki night," added, ")o not be alarmed if f remain until daybreak." The moon was full, and the August night was aln1ost as light as day. But (lay never casts fi i tender, entrancing glances upon its bt world as the. shining night give$ to its spell-hound kitgdom. Caroline'' pathway jay along a terrace bordering i grovq of locust trees of great height, and so foliaged that the arches of their branches oj)ened a perspective that seemed, this enbhanmted night, more like a tenmle than a krove. Beyond this grove lay (lie adjoining comiitry seat wvhero dwelt Charlie Evans; and as Carolinme went slowly along (lie path her gaze penetratedl the re cesses of the great trees, as if to rest upon Isomething dear' beyond. T'he dark eyes grew soft with tender expression, her heart was filled with the imaige of her lover, and the voluptuous atmiosphlere of (lie p)eerless night held senses and( sold in a\ccordl. Below the terrace lay the 'fair map otf widely spreading landscape ; bnut Caroline had no thought for this scene, and did not eveni glance at it until shea rached thie ato. -Then she entered a- village lane, anid (lie direamny look vanished from her face as she coinsidered liar erranid. T[he house sho- entered was a cottage so built (lint Its porch had double entrances. One of these openedl inito (lie dwelling of (lie poor1 seamistress; tie other had been ocipiedl since May by a mlaster wvorkman in a factoty beyond (lie village, himself a stranger' to (lie region, who brought with him as hyousekeeper his.daughter, a girl of unusunl beauty, a rustle quecen, a blonde of that, vital temperament which gives to youthfbhl health its most exp)resshve form. 'ThIis dlrighter, Matg Merritt, became the yn llage belle. 'As Caioline enitered (lie porch (lie Mer mitts portion of the cottage was quite still and1( dark. On (lie other sie (lie lattic was thrown open upon a gardean crowded withI fragrant p)lants and a faint light gheamned out. Thme light was burning in (lie chamber, where, after a word wi thie siniking suilerer, and the niothior enfeebled with grief, Caroline (determhined to remain SaIl night. BIefore midnight the purpose for which the mistress of Deerefleld shad been sum m noned was .duly confldegl to her car; and -t,hint sleep fell on thie suffeorer, and1( Caroline having dismissed (lie aiged wat,chem', was alone. She turned the lamp lowv, and drew her chair by the wIndow, where (lie per fume of (lie garden floatedl In, the mingled br eathI of' entiimlton and rose.* For years after: that night the scent of those precious flowerse seill a thrill to CarrIe's heart and a pallor to-hior hIps like tho poisomn of deadly p)lanits, Near mMivniglit, wvhen pil was stIll save the imAidsn)er )hent 'hummIng lin the -trees, and the'dissifit Vippling of. (lie brook, r' apbroaching voIces 1ero liekid. . :Two people were c6ming along thpieinb towadlie . cottage. Wdikds inistinct at t ik't~ grow clqogr as. Lhey1 cafjie near. Thley - wvrolo s ,30}od "O ~ lihe, fI ye iot for tlhat I : i 4wgiig xE bi. you wo'ld go swth m16; * W6ud'ly tthe far Wqat to . 0alltormola, doui ivul a quecen, Mae N h (li ugC()eJ1ttnal now world. 1would go together to-n1orronv yes,~ "To-m-orrow, dear boy, if it were not. for that." "And when you know so well that I (10 not love her : that I never have loved her; that it is a made match ; a marriage for money I Oh. Mag, how can you be so un reasonable?" ''But she loves you," said the woman's voice, now close at Caroline's ear, under the roof of the porch. "Yes, she loves me ; there's the rub. That rather hurts a fellow ; he doesn't want to be hard on a girl who loves him, and has loved hin all his life. But then, you see, I cannot return her affection-the kind of affections she wants. And she's a spirited creature, Mag ; ought I to marry her as I feel now ? If it hadn't been for you, you witch, I might have coie to care for her in time. But. Mag. I'm a changed man now; 1 know what love is; I dread my marriage like a funeral." A pausc-a litt'- rustling pause. 'T'lien a whisper unheard ; a louder whisper dis tinet: 'Oh, Mag, my darling, say yes.'' "I cannot, CharIhe, with that, woman's image before me. It would haunt us till our dying-" Caroline heard no more. When next a sound reached her, it was the sound, of the work-a-day world. A market wagon had broken near the lane, and the harsh voice of the driver was wreaking upon his horses the anger roused by the disaster. Tle moon had set ; it was nearly (lay. There is nothing so desolate as the break ing of daylight upon a new and over whehning grief. Night has a wing of its own to fold about the sorrowful ; but the tearful eyes, the crushed spirits, shrink from the brazen gaze, the undaunted front, of day. Caroline before noon sent a letter to Charlie Evans that made himt a free man : Something tells me ")at I cannot possibly be your wife. I am sorry that circun stanes have so shaped themselves, but I aitm compelled to withdraw my promise. Do not see me. I shall refuse an interview. When a year has passed, and we meet again-if we meet again-let us meet as friends CAUol.\s. Charlie Evans used his freedom. le obtained, by not strictly honorable means, a sutlicient sum of moncy to venture for tune seeking to California. He was mar ried to Mag Merritt on his way to the West ; and his friends, indignant at the runaway match, bitterly blamed Caroiino. Caroline bitterly blamed herself, but never for any act toward Charlie, Evans. 1Her thoughts flew to her faithful lover whom she had mercilessly trifled with, and dismissed at last cruelly. She felt now what pangs she had inflicted upon earnest-hearted Joe. She, who was so quickly alive to all animal wants, who re ally sulIered sympathetically with the pain and aches, the toils and hungers, of (u11mb creatures, had never given one sigh of compassion to the pangs equally dumb, but infinitely keener-the aches, the hungers, the overburdened sighs, of that silent angel, the human soul. She had no patience with the shrieking victims of the ''slings and arrows of outrageous fortune." She had laughed to scorn "the pangs of unre quited love." Now she would give years of hqr life to cafl back the past, and be a kinder girl to her faith tul friend. Since their parting she lcard but seldom from Joe, and after her uncle's death the unfreuuent tidings altogether ceased. Now she wrote to Bo:le, who lved abroad, to send her some word of "her old friend." Belle wrote saying she was ashamed to confess how ignorant she was, but the last she heard Joe was making a furor with his wonderful paint ings ; he had settled himself in Rome, and she believed* had married the daughter of an American consul at one of the Mediterranean norts. Misfortune followed Caroline. By a se ries of culpable mismanagemnents by people in trust Caroline's inheritance was lest. Before she had enjoyed for three yei;s the possession of her b,eloved Decrsfield that nolIe p)lace was offered at public sakc. Since the day of her great sorrow Caroline had met 1n0 trial like this. Indeed, her heart tad flown to all that was dhear in her country home as8 refuge fronm its bitter ine. hiness.- Now this ref uge was gone. Thel damy ot the sate, atter hatvmng ordered the prep)aration of the house and grounds with carie of every dletail, Caroline mounted Iher favorite riding hor'se, and1( rode far off Jnto the wcod paiths. She( retuirned alften sunset, in thle twilight dusk. Shme -knew as sihe entered thet house that, all was over ;.site felt thtat the home was no lontger hers. She felt, brayc' and1 spirited as she was, that the wvorld to her, save that 'it held her mtothier, was a p)lace of drearest Iexile. She was mtet ini the hall by one of her fathful servants, who seemed to have ben weeping. "'Miss Carolihne." lie faltered, "'the gentleman whlo hasi bought the house is in thte parlor, and wishes to see you." Carolinie had been arbnle-p)ale when this message reached hter, but now theo blood flashed to her cheeks. SIhe echecke'd a vio lent exclamation. 'lier heart arose indig. niant against this last dlemand upon her' on dluranice. Site ionq(uereid hieractlf, anid said, "'I will see him." But the gentleman whlom she. founid in the parlor .was not the dreaded stranger who held her treasure, not the new master of the house whose inimincal form her fancy had already conjured. gNo; it was an old1 friend, ant artist retturned fromi abroad, bringing his laurels with him--an artist who hand conme to tell Caroline that. all his fame had been won by his devotion to her image-a friend came to tell Caroimte that time had not changed and no(ve-woulld change the constancy of his hiedrt. It was only Joe. On the very next cday to the dayv of -her (despair, hope dawned uIpon Caroline. Ti'ie world became something tmore thtan a place of dreary exile. "And youl really bought Deersfield?' . Yes; but on-only with your-your money - the payment for your Image. Carol Ino with the birds; CarolIne with the( blood-hounds; 'Caroline mtanding in tIhe field, with the wild dolta carleering towaird her, only, as one la the plct.ure shows, to IMy tile -trustful hoad. agnifidr shoulder, TIhese pictures brought great prices. .Car'o llne-CArrle, Deerafle11 la yoqrs." "Ahid y6ui-you deAr, dear Jofi?"t. was CarrIe wile statmmered now. "I am yours, too., y oe)yqep my dArlngh i ylve,m qqp -AirIl o1 PJdnotori Theologei $6mlaa aenit to ettoh stu'dent in theSemddya efpf of "Or deWA 0J6a The 14amo of Forfolts, ITcE 'Vne ''O (JOOMASSIE.-A gentleman who holds a silk pocket handkerchief in his hand, passes round the company formed into a circle, extended to its grqatest cir cunference, and led by the pcrsoi paying the forfeit. The gentleman holding the handkerchief kisses all the ladies In turn, and with an air of great deference and politeness wipes the lips of his -guide, as though he had received the kisses, while, in fact, he remains an idle-specta or of the scene, amid the merriment of the ;ompany. Kitomxu -rnE CANDns'rIc.- hen or dered to kiss the candlestick, yo' politely request the lady to hold the cand a for you. As soon as she has it in hand, yo kips her under the supposition ihat she Is t o candle stick. J inE MAUIIAN's JoKi.-Tako wo balls, one in each hand, and stretch tI pm astn dler as far as you can; ask any o e of the company present to lay a wager; that you will not make both of the balls come into whicht hand they anme, without bringing your hands together. Some one will natu rally say you cannot do It, and will take your offer, when you have merely to place one ball on the table, turn yours If round, and take it up again with the otl r hand. Uo, w You UAN.-''ell one ofl the coin pany that you will so clasp his hands to gether that he will be unable to leave the room without unclasping them, undertak ing that you will not confine his feet, nor bind his body, nor in any way interfere with his motion. This trick is performed by clasping the person's hands around one of the legs of a piano, or large table, or other bulky article of furniture, too large for tun to carly throngh the doorway. THE RrEFuL KNIonT. --''e )pla er whose forfeit is cried is so called. lie must take a lighted candle in his hand, and select some other player to be his squire, who takes hold of his arm, and they then go round to all the ladies in the coipany. It is the squire's ollice to kiss the h'id of each lady, and after each kiss to =vipe the knight a mouth with a handkerchief, 'I'Ite knight must carry the candle through the penance, and preserve a grave countenance. 'iHE MAi-CF-ALL, Wo.iic.-Go to service, apply to the party who holds the forfeit for a situation, say a general servant. The questions to be asked are i nnuncrable, but should always be connected with sonic do mestic occupation-"flow do you wash?" ""How do) you iroi?" "1low do you scrub the room?" "'Ilow do you clean tlie boots and shoes?" "llow de you truss a fowll" ''ho process must be minutely and tccu rately performed as the questions are put, and if t,he replies arc satisfactory, the for feit must be given up. THE A.MoND F rEAr.-(et three almonds or any other eatihlhs, and having placed them upon the table a shot t distance apart, put a hat over each. Tell the company that you will eat the three almonds, and, having (lone so, will bring them under whichever hat they please. Whenever you have swailowed each separately, request one of the spectators to polne out the hat under which they shall be. When choice has been made of one of the hats, put it upon your head, and ask -tile company if you have not fulfilled your promtiso. This trick generally causes much laughter. TEi Suol'KEpEa.-The person whose forfeit is called must go round all the coi pany, and acquaint them with the fact thate lie is about to set ill) in business but, tunfor tunately, being without capital, it will be necessary, before lie can do so, to be sup plied with goods on loan by his friends, in order that he make a good lhow when lie opens. lie can, if so mimde, expatiate in an inflated manier on the bright plrospects before him, and tell what an honor it will be to help a friend In misfortune. Every one must lend something to the shopkeeper; the more absurd the article offered, the greater will be the amusement created. When lie 1111 gathered aJl together, lie miust' take them and deposit thenm in a corner of the room, and thus end his penance. TI'2E BEooAn.--A penitence to be inficet edl On gentlemen only. The penItent takes a stalt, andl( approaches a lady. Hie falls on his knees before her, and, thumping his stalT on the grotund, Implores "'Charity." Tlhe lady touched by the poor nian's distress asks him-"Do y'ou want bread?"4 "D)o you wuanit water?" "Do you want a pen ny?" etc., etc. To all questions such as these tihe beggar rep)lies by thumping his staff on the ground Impatiently. At lenigth the lady says, "Do you want a kiss!" At these wvordls, the beggar jumps up and kiases die lady. It is not generally kniown that miany b)ats are to a1 certain extent migratory in their hlabits, p)erforminog journeys more or less extended at the approach of wilnter, or when, for any reason, their food suply fails themi. W'e are told, however, by Dr. Troucasari, of Villeveque, that thIs Is true of several European species, and Mr. Dob son, in his recent great work on thIs order, quotes Ilutton as stating that onie of the frugivorous bats, Ptcropodido (Oynmop.e rusj, maryinatus), willl travel thirty or forty mIles in a night and back again mn aearch of food. These great powers of flight would account In part for the very wide distrIb)ution of this group throughout the islands of the Pacific Ocean, In many of which baits are the only indigenous main nmals. But the fact that Atalaphga Grayl, lihe only species reported from the Sandwich Islands, belongs to an American type, Is not to bo explained in thIs way, sInce these Islands are distant from the AmerIcan coast -nearly twenty-five hundred ile. Fossil bats have been discovered In deposits 'of the Tertiary age, but, as mIght be imngied, from their small size anud the fraIlness of theIr bones, not In any great num.ors. F"romn the . cocese0 gypsum:of .Montmartre (Juvier descrIbed Vos 8port/Ilo parteienni8, amid two genera, Nycehorium and Nyctei 1est65, have been dhscovered in the Biridger eeeo of the 1tocky, Mountains. . Those: specimens, though fragnioidary and. incom p)lete, indicate that tIhe bats are an old type which was firmly esbblied in the Tertiary and reached back vyry likely to Mesozoic time. All the Chiroptera are most vora cious feedot s, and, in coulntrs where'th6f~ abound, the fruit-eating bate do 'an enor-. mous pmount of daimage, and are regArded as nulAtnces,- fromR the injury (whIhIA ahoy. cause to the 'orchiards. kiutton says; "In Nlpsl' this ,bak (Qynoptdrue marg(pate)' is a perfect pest,, fr'om -thO havod A~ 19sCes sa'tong the rIpe 'peats"aidi gt#vses, MrT Dobson trIed an egerijion4 'With n)dis tores t at 14 ago~1J Ut~O sayN,odi Ipt, 0~am by e y~"tJ~t~u j~e~gv 'p baaa. w li ttfi p s y0.ov weighed exactly two ounces. 'eio anni immediately, as if famished with hunge fell upon thc fruit, seizing it between ti thumbs and index fingbra, and took larg lnouthfuls out of it, opening the mouth I the fullest extent, with extreme voracity In the space of three hours the whole friu was consumed. Next morning the bat we killed, and fund to weigh one ounce, ha the weight of the food caten in three hourc Indeed the animal when citing seemed I be a kind of living mill, the food passin from It almost as fast as devoured, antd a parently unaltered, eating being performe alone for the pleasure of eating." It use to be thought that the vampire bat fed oni upon human blood, but it has been show by the investigations of .later travelers the it is mainly frugivorous. Some bats 1iN upon a mixed diet, feeding indiscriminate ly upon insects, fruit., frogsand even smalh bats; and our own southern, or leaf-nose bat (Macrolus naterhounii) is In thi class. Some, too, catch fish, nd eve bathe in thie sea, swinuning with eas< Th'lis group has, until within a short timn been but little studied, owing mainly to th ditliculty of investigating the habits of th different species, all of them being noctur nal In habit. Mr. I)obson's work, whic filled a want long felt, describes about 40 species o[ bats, thus cuttinig off about 40 of the 800 names heretofore given by nats ralists. W0114sfu 1111Weoulth. Some excitement is being created amon the Mexican population of Phonix, Arizo na, by the story of a Alexicanm who arrive' last evening from the Reno mountains. 11 came into town under cover of darkness a he was nearly naked. Ilis hands and fee were torn and bloody, and his face wa gashed in a fearful manner. IIis story wa told with the air ot a man who had beei terribly frightened and had not recoved Willi a companion he started out prospect ing about a month ago going up Salt river They left the river when opposite Supersti tioums Mountain. Their prospecting bega: at this point1. WVhile elimibmg up th mountain, in a little gully, through blac sand, and dIown which a large stream o water had evidently passed years ago, the; were astonished to find that in this sanr were large quantities of fine gold. In somi places the sand was only about. half an incl deep over the granite. Th'le gold in p)iceC the size of a bean and smaller, was fonni in little fisures :n the face of the bed rock Very little washing was necessary, an they found a spring of water which fur nished them what they needed. ''hey ob obtained, they think, about $600 worth i1 half a day's work. About 2 o'clock in th afternoon they were surprised to see an In dian woman coie to the lop of the gulcl above the sp)ring and1( start to come dowvn Upon seeing t,hem she ran back over the hill. '.n less than ten minutes they wer( surrounled by fifty or sixty savages. Th indians were very small and st"emed to b of a different nature than they had eve seen in Arizona. The Mexicans were no armed except with knives, and the survivo: says they were almost instantly caugh with lariats. The Indians took them ul the mountains and put them In t cave. They tortured and killed his comn panion and his fate would have been tah same but for his escape. He succeeded i1 getting away with only a few knife gashid oq his face. They lost their gold with al their outfit. The Ifdlans seemed to b cave Vollers and were evidently excitc over the lace being found by outsiders Our report ''s limited knowledge of th Spanish lanb age, makes it impossible ti obtain all the articulars of the affair. Fo the benefit of non-residents we will sa. that Superstition Mountain derives its namt from the fact that no white man has eve been seen again who attempted its ascension It is a traditloll among te Mexicans tha large deposits of free gold are to be founi In its gulches and1( ravines. It Is not knowl wvhether there is any water there or not. Bratn work and Skull Growth. A writer thus sums up als follows the re suits of some1 very int,erest-inmg measuremnt of heads by two French physicians, Mlessrs Lacassagic and Chliquet: Having the pa tients, dloctors, attendants and officers o the Val de Grace at their dlisposal thme3 nlu;amsured tIle heads of 100 doctors of med iie; 1:33 soldiers who had received al elementary Instruction, 90 soldiers wh< co,uld neither read nor write, and 91 sol diers who were prisonlers. Thte Iistrumenl usedl was tIle samel wvhich hatters emplo: In measuring tIhe heads of their cuistomers and gives a very correct idea of thd pre portions and dimensions of the heads il quYestilon. Tho results were in favor of ti dloctors. the frontal diameter was also mucd more considerable than that of the soldiers Nor are both halves of the head symmetri cally dleveloped. In students thl left frontal region Is moroe (level oped than the right; In illiterate individual the right occipital region Is larger than th left. The auithors have derived tihe follow lag conclusions from their experitnente First, the hieads of studeilts who hay worked muchl with their brains are muc1 ioro developed than those of illiterato in dividmuls, or such as have allowed thlel brains to remain inactive. 8second, In stu dents the frontal region is moie develope than the occipital, or, if thuere should., b any difference in favor of the latter, it I very small, whIle in illitterat'o peQple th latter region is the largest. rortunese Shops. -In Portugal, shops ard -lighted from th door', and hav'e no windows. The sign for different trades are hlun'g out of thea doorways. At one door for instance, yol see a dozen strips of printed cottons tied t a small stick, and fluttering like tile ribbon on a tecruiting serjeaint's hat. T.his tell you that & linen draper stande teedy maiid iwith tape atid - cottons.' - - Farther on a small bundle of fagots, a bunoh of onion. a few roots of garlic, and two or three dan ,dies d'angle from another stick and' deot a grocer.. A shoemaker's sign Is a bnnel of ieather shreds; and -hattger's is-a painte# hat.' 'A bitoli4r tide l a bundle of -oAipt; sausage skins, or a rftd drawing of an o: JMavlng his -horn sawed off,:-the saw aa burg sit the man teho tsea It. Over a inilkman' door ha ga orooked red icow. --k grm: ilotghwbloh reseinbles a branchof arbuttis ,indicaio M inb shop, and iby the additlo of sparig-of boxy tilegrji that sprit ar 'pid thr,u In oth6r ahopps yotj;e b*aud uspded trQt*r#'little wUi~ ~t eWrd8 IK4yU ##gO( andi . I~ris '0;Zilie t in~'ft iA .Cruel Telephone. ''he latest telephoile joke comes from ; Pino Bluff, Arkansas. In that city there is oa prominent man. There are many promi nent menl in Pine Bluf1, but this one is so very prominent in a certain directiion; that his name Is known along the crowded street fand out in the furrowed glebe. It is almost 1unnecessary to call him Col. C. A man of striking intelligence and profound reading, lie has taken up a financial hobby. He i knows so well that the United States gov d ernment should adopt his theory, that he would be willinit to bet his eternal existence on it. Ile'll stop a man on the street and hammer him with arguments, belabor him with deep set expressions, and kick hiln with "important Information" for, hours. When he gets through, the victim Inds it r some trouble to realize whether he has joined a revived erganization of the Sons of Malta, or has just had his gin-house burned. Ilis ideas are too heavy for the most o; men, and the time required for hin to express them generally stops the victim's wutch, because he is kept on the squirm and dodge so long that he forgets to wind it. It is to be hoped that these an lo:atious are sufficiently explieit. Well, the other day, Col. C. went into Ion. M. L. Jones' office, and had just begun to draw himself up for a three hours' speech, when Mr. Jones remarked: "By the way, Colonel, have you ever seen the telephone work?" "No; and I don't believe you can hear any better through that thumg than you can through a cow's horn." "'I've got one here, connected with Col. Grace's office, and if you'll just put your car here I'll show you. I |1 do the talking t --you listen." The parties took position, Col. C. incred ulously, and Mr. Jones called: "Col. Grace, are you there ?" "Yes; is that you, Jones?" "Yea; how (10 you feel?" "I'm about worn out. That. man C. has been around here this morning boreing me to death with his financial business. I guess I'll get rested, though, after a while." Col. C. took his ear away, and remarked: "If he'd only ;istened to me, he would have been smarter in ten minutes more than he ever was before in his lifel' Killed by a Snake. 3 Lovell K. Smith, a prospLfous and n i telligent farmer of Franklin, about six miles from Norwich, Conn. is justly proud of his I crops and stock-especially of a herd of some twenty Alderney cows, mostly of his ewn raising, and of a span large bay earri i age horses that have taken. prizes at two county fairs. About six months ago one of - the most valuable of his cows became rest less and fretful, goring and worrying other cattle whenever near them, and filling the air with doleful bellowings. She lost flesh rapidly, and it was evident that herinternal organs were much deranged. 11er breath ing was difficult at times, and later was ac companied by a strange gurgling sound. 11er appetite was generally ravenous ; and - although she had the best of pasturage, an t abundance of choice hay, and a liberal sup > ply of gram, the suffering beast continued i gradually to waste away. Her malady was . a mystery. Tihe ordinary and extraordi nary remedies were administered in vain. 1 No medicine or treatment that was suggest 3 ed produced any beneficial ef'ect ; and a I few days ago, having become reduced to a 3 mere skeleton, the cow died. There being i no skilled veterinarian in the neighborhood, a regular examination into the causes of the animal's sickness and death was not made; but the mystery was soon solved. The skin r was thought too valuable to be lost, and in removing that Mr. Smith's employes found 3 between the skin and the flesh, on one side of the cow's neck, a dead snake, eleven inches long and three inches in circumfer ,ence, its head embedded in a mamss of coagu I lated blood, which had evidently oozed from a a lacerated artery ! The snake wvas of a dark color, of the conmmon water species, and its tongue was dlightly protrudmng from its mouth. The Indications were that the cow and the snake died about the same time. It is conjectured that the snake wae taken SInto the cow's stomach while she was drink ,lig, p)robably at night, from a small brook -that flows through the p)asture; that It made repeated efforts to escape from her stomach; that. at length, unable to escape, It effected -a lodgmient mn the glands of the throat, andi eventually worked its way to thme spot in which It was found. Saved i.v n watcjh. Wood Yantis, of Jiardtown, Kentucky, is in possession of some interestig relics of his grandfather, Jacob Yantis. who (lied In 1800. One is a silver watch, more than one hundred years. old, which was brou.ghmt to this country from Germany by his grand father when he was quite a youna: mian. It -is of almost spherical shape, of the "bull Seye" pattern, and was made by William Phumley, of London. This watch was for a long while the only time-piece m the old fort of Hlarrodsburg, and to It Mr. Yantis . once owed his life. Hie had gone to the :Blue Lick In company, It is said, with Boone and others, for salt, and, having be I come.Oseparated from his companions, was . discovered and pursued by Indians. Find Ing himself about to be overtaken by the redskns, he drew out his watch, hastily idetached tihe outer ease and drppped it to a the ground, hoping Its brightness would at, Stract the attention of his purstiers while he a could mnako good lis escape. Such was the fortunate, result of his stratagem, and- he succeeded in reachIng the fort In safety. Hie afterward had a'niew case madIe in Bal timore. The'flear as.Lio. Altar. s A singular anedote ls-related in connc ition wIth the plague in Norway. At the > beginning of the fourteentha century It at s tacked one district with snich severity as to . entirely depopulate "thd country for miles rbund. A bout two hundred years afterwards at petdsant was one day hunmthig :a bear In ,that part.of the country. Having discharg ed an arrow att thme animal, it missed its m ark but,' flying onwards. attuck dahinst sontething whicoh gave back a rmgink aoundl. I Curious to discover what was -the cause of r the sWaniger eircuvmstance, thehunter search coed and fouind a .church hidden among thp 3 trees. . 'The ariow bad struck against- the &' bel1t%f tihe: clock idthe church steeple. This i A*as ithe aici6ntohtirchi of liedal, which had ,stood unignoun"g'elice 4h6 visitation of thd i plague and. in,the -Iapse of. time a. large a forat.id grown up a1id concealed the sac I 'ied bul4nitfr'omtlthe e'sof men. 'The humiter ~oe d the ohtUrehtiad slow the boat' ~ at E ho ime',1 *hci- it :Nad t4kei refugee a Tli boeu a kI sIl preaervd iz tle ves 9r1bfthehb 'oii F' NEW~1S IN RlitilW~. --'h u umaub wias formally annexed to the British crown in 1840, --Fayette county, Pa., Is out of debt and has $12,000 in the treasury. -IiI 1763 the ancient province called Iouisiana was sold by Fra..ce to Spain. --The tower of Babel is supposed to date some 2,247 years before Christ's time. -One flir In Reading, Pa., tanned 20,000 aheep, goat and calf aakilus last year. -Antioch was destroyed by an earth quake about 115 years before the time of Christ. -At the destruction of Jerusalem, A. D. 70, over 1,000,000 Jews were pu t to the sn ord. -The immigration for the year end ing with November amounted to 1,310, 000 persons. -Professor Eliot wishes to establish a reti'ing annuity fund for the benefit of Harvard professors. -Victoria (Australia) had a short supply of wheat last harvest, amount ing to U57,000 bushels. -The Chicago, Ailwaukee and St. Paul company has the largest mileage of any road in the world-2,363. --A stock ranch and 300 head of cat tle near Austin, Texas, are cared for by a widow seventy years of age. -According to the last census there are 194 men in France over 100 years old, and 2013 between 95 and 100. -Senor Zamacona, the Spanish Min ister at Waslhington, Is building a skat ing rink In the rear of his residence. --The total debt of Boston at the close of this year will be$42,359,1i16.23, a de crease during tne year of $9,720,624. --Henry M. Stanley is now ascend ing the Congo, bound once more for the heart of At'riea by a different route. -During July the exports of petro leum were over 50,000,000 gallons, of an aggregate value of over $4,250,000. -Lord Derby is enormously rich, having an income of $3,000,000, with an estate constantly Increasing in value. -'l'he deepest mine en the Paciflc slope or in America is the Belcher, which has at.tained a vertical depth of 3000 feet. -Rowell has at length fixed on April t as the date, and London or Manches ter as the place, for the next Astley belt walk. --Benjamin Kirby, of Frostburg, Md., aged 94, has just been placedt on the pension list. lie served in the navy during the war of 1812. -Two hundred flint arrow heads were dug up on the farm of George W. Moore, near Lumberton, N. J., on Ran cocas creek, recently. --The dispensary established by Mrs. Tiburtuss in Berlin has receiaed 1,119 persons in one year. These are gener ally women and children. --A curious sight was presented at Lagrange, Ga., last week. In the midst of a snow storm might have been seen green grass and the peach and pear trees in bloom. --Seventy-five boys from the New York Chiliren's Ali Society have just been supplied with homes among the farmers of Nottoway county, Va. --A butcher in York county, Pa., while cutting rounds from a slaughter ed steer, recently found in the beef a gold dollar, dated 1852. --From the return ef the comparative acreage under flax in Ireland in 1878 and 1870 shows that there was an in creae last year of 16,187 acres. - nlon. Samuel H. Hunt, of Sussex county, N. J., has in hIs possession a cop)y ot' thme sermon of' Rev .iUzaliOgden, delivered before the Masonic Lodge of Morristown, December 27th, 1774. -Think of'what an agricultural fair must be In Californma, with cabbs ges flye feet in circumference, pumpkins weighing a hundred pounds, cucum bers a y au d long, and p)eachies and pears -as lar;ge as your head. -A merchant of Little Rock, Ark., the other day Indulged in a novel bit of advertising. Frozen in the centre of a block of ice weighing 400 pounds were two large fishes, a varieoty of fruit and a bfg advertisement of fresti oysters. -It is not often that a man is killed by a meteor. David Meisenthaler, stockman, of Whi testone, Kansas, late ly, while driving his cows to the barn early in the morning, was struck by an aerolite and instantly killed. -Thie treasurer of the Monmiouth (N. J.) Battle Monument Assoulation rep)orts over $6,000 in cash on handi, with some hundreds due an)d not col- . looted. If ten thousand dlollars cannot be collected a seven thousand monument will be erected. -Tihe uniform ol' the late Prince Louis Napoleon is stated to have been found at a kraal near Ulunt i, the whole front of it having been pierced by asse gals. TIhe. Zulu who actually inficted the death-blow is said to have been Ahango, who was subsequently killed at Uluandi. -The church of the small town of Saventhem, in Beolgi u,m, ,possesses a celebrated picture by Van Dyck, repre senting a scene from the life of St. Martin. Van Dyck has protrayed him self s the saint, and his master, Sir Poter Pauli Rubens, as one of the per sonages in the scene. -T1he Berlin papers describe a sleigh lately presented bythe Prince of Hohen zollern to his bride, a prihicess of the house of.'-Turn and Sails, as a marvel of costly beauty. The body is shaped like a cookle-shel, and is of polished ebony in laid with illver, and the cushi ions are of theo richet velvet, adorned with.silver bolls. -Paris has now over.nine miles of tubing laid.down;uuder the main thor-. oughfares for the putrpose of unifying the time of' all the public' clocks and setting them all by obsertatory time. These pnenmtioclocks will also be -'\ placed in pri, sea, apd in future the tinme o 'be suipplied jutis like kas '4 t -i4Mi 'f'Orstpher Columi bus ar sti I' ogekstatte." One of theta, Don .KeIt 6Columb, gentleman of the .rylc rsna the wedt a o thnd Sl nif,The others Porto R1c6, and hstpe la Cerda, Marquis pfamatca, A~A