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* ..*- - -.-.- . * -H - TRIOMWEEKLY EDJTIQN WINNSBORO, S. C., AVOL. IV.-NO. 39. BY THK STREAM. h Sweet tangled banks, whore ox-oyed dais ies grow And scarlet poppies gleam; Sweet changing lights that over come and go 0 Upon the quiet stream! Once more I see the flash of splendid wings, As dragon flies flit by; f Once more for me the small so lge warbler V slugs Beneath a sapphiro sky. t Once more I fool the simple fresh contout a I found in stream and soil f When golden summers slowly came and wont i And mine was all their spoil. I find amid the loheysuoklo flowers., And shy forget-me-not, r Old boyish memories of lonely hours, r Passed in this silent spot. Oh, God of nature, how thy kindness keeps Some changeless things on earthl - And he who roams far ofr and toils and weeps, t Comes home W learn their worth. r Gay visions vanish, worldly schemes may tail; Hope proves an idle dream, c But still the blossoms flourish rod and pale, r Beside my native stream. r A Municipal Nosegay. ^ t1 A royal visit was promised to Mistbo rough, and when the notification to that effect reached the mayor, he summoned the town council to deliberate in the usual way on the sort of festivities that should be pro vided. The occasion of the royal visit was to be the unveiling of a statue erected to Alderman Nobuddy, a departed worthy of the town, and the council soon agreed to furnish a banquet, a procession with Volun teer bands, an adress on Illuninated vel lum, -id some speeches. Then came the questIu of gifts. A large album full of photographic views of Mistborough seemed the most appropriate present; and, of 0 c course, there would have to be a bouquet. 1 But who should tender' this last offering? Mr. Mayor Wheeker happened to be the 1 only unmarried member of the corporation, c wherefore Alderman Gabbs, who was a v facetious fellow and the father of three buxom daughters, said jestingly: "I vote t that Wheeker be appointed to . select the prettiest girl in Mlstbo.rough, and she shall give the bookey." "I don't see what prettiest has to do with such a matter," remonstrated Alderman Scruffle, a virtuous but morose person, who was the father of four plain virgins. "Well, Wheeker shall select the ugliest girl in-the town then," said the funny a Alderman Gabbs, and he winked, laughing at alL his brother councilors, one of whomy suggted, however, that his worship's chqice be not limited to damsels. "Let . us give Wheeker carte blanche," said he; "if he pitches upon q pretty or an ugly married woman, rather than upon a girl let him have his own way. He Is a fine judge p of the sex, Is Wheeker." "What makes you think that, Puttison?" asked the Mayor mildly, for he was a pla- a cid sort of a man, who had no very keen t eye for jokes. "Why, because you've remained single," responded Puttisou, amid general merri- y ment. . "Oh, but they say, WJieeker is a- bit C sweet on the young woman who sits behind the counter at Jamme's the pastry cook's," replied Aldermian Gabba- with a new wink. 3 ''What's her name, Wheeker? Out with I It ? she's too pretty to be ashamed of." 8 "I really don't know what you mean " t said poor Wheeker, reddening up to the d ridge of his ears. N "Ok, we mean Daisy Belfast, who nods to you every time you pass up High street " t said Puttison greatly enjoying the mayor's h discomfiture.. "Why Wheeker, P've seen you eating bath-buns at Jamme's shop at h least three times witin the past week, and h *we kn'ow you cant bear pastry, for you ' never eat any when you dine with oneef tE us."a Unfortunately for Mr. Wheeker, it soon *got to be known in tire town that he had I been deputed to act, as an arbiter pulchora- I rum; and many ladies, both single and ' married, began to pay their courts to him li with a 'view to being selected for preoenting the bouquet. Mr. Wheoker soon began to C think that -it would he more prudent to r - offer twenty nosegays to thme lloyal Princess ~ Instead of one, in order that nobody might tI be offended ; hut his opinion was not shared- by the town council. .The mayor. was exhorted with- a- pertinacity, half-se- I rious, half..comical, to do his duty in choos- I *ilg the fittest;. and lie failed to get any as sistance from his brother coujpollors, for each of them, being married, felt some de- t licacy- m -recogwmending a lady fromi inside ti his family circle or outside,of it. ti There was another tour at this, and Mr.' * Wheeker looked ps guilty as a tom-eat who a had been caught near a cream jug. But, ~ in a sum, this mayor was such a good fel- t~ low. that hmis'bhrothren were loth to press ,c their jokes too tird on him. . Every 1an, V except the mnoroke Serufile, slapped hit-on the baek In. passing out, and bade him do b his best in selecting a young lady who h should do honor to -Mistborough. Mr. -Whieeker groaned inwardly, for he much tr' disliked this task, which laid upo;1m1m a y larger responsibility than lie everigared to assume spontaneously i s .pi1lic or -privete relations.' If lie :hltd otide ~ tively vQted as to who was thi lveiesi ~ presentative of girlhood -in Mist roughj'~ would certainl have gIe~h~ suffrag6 - ;MistDai B fast.. utao f unscoe j - tin $~ ~t dare. sils Mr'. Wjik)d t etimade~j marry MIs iss * Ij'a A b' means eure l' eililt tow'ras him3I.t - futhe mitf heker w a(I~I , * Msscoming out of ch i61 r borr the conmoly wife of oloel Bulborry, t4 a rO r4 uiitar Tarfar, This/ 'Iv as' a ptthespr no of .life-say th e *'4aut v6~va~ s,and th~ nidte~f"V 'tos%rt atons as her lookin 'gah e i tim ih anoe TitIng '4 tbo I thejprb whero MNr. Wheeker ii a tOlfdand preceU.c d a~ayiiO~i~tl' forthe rayor used o or smart attire, pink cheeks, and sparkling yes, looking undeniably pretty. "You're joking, I suppose," retorted the idy. "It you want me to give the bou uet twrie pilncess it muot be a very nice no." "Oh, it shall be !" protested the Mayor. "And you must lot me play a chief part i all the festivities-receive your guests >r you, and all that - otierwige there rould be no fun In the thing, Y9u' know. , you're a bachelor,you must have- a lady act for you." 'I should feel mudh obliled if you would at- for me, Mrs. Bilberry, said the mayor, 3eling as if a weight had; been taken off Is shoulders. "Well, we will see about it. I don't sMy es or no, for the -present," replied the olonel'i wife, noddjing pleasantly, and she ashed off, feaving Miatborough's Mayor ither overwhelmed by a sense of her con esconsion. As 4 matter of fact Mrs. Bulberry had or own reasons for acting as adroitly as Lo-had done. Independently of her amnbi. on to be the prettiesi person in Mistbo )ugh, she much desired to obtain a post ndor government for her husband, and lought this object might be attained if she ould lean for a whole day'on the arm of a oyal prince and enlist his Interest in her ehalf by her sweet and plausible chatter. 'here was not a better talker in all Mistbo )ugh and the whole country around than ire. Bulberry, who, according to her ad irers, could have charmed a bird out of a *ee, or who, as. her detractors avouched, ras equal to fooling a pig out of a potato. So while Mr. Whecker was blessing hin 3lf at having been extricated from a di immla, Mrs. Bulberry went home in tri mph; but there she met her husband, who ras not pleased to regard her achievement rith favor. CVolonel Bqlb was one of lose mei w1o:can never bp ftught to see i at. once what is go99rg . .lHe al rays allowed himself be led In tlhi end*; but, efore submitting to the guidance.he jibbed. tiied and brayed like the most obtinate of mur-footed animals. In the p -esent in ance he declared, with a sinIn'ling. of aths which he was inuch given to employ. ig in domestic conversation, that he would ot, by George, allow his wife to make a lanked guy of herself in the company of e esemiongering aldermen, blanked if lie uld. Mrs. Bulberry, who was elated by ie results of her diplomacy, answered im atiently by requesting her lord and master ot to make a fool of hlimspf, But this ras a false move, for it sent off the Colonel i a towering passion to blow up Mr. [ayor Wheeker, whose blank nose, 'he wld, lie would tweak in the public stteets. "I say, sir," cried he, accosting this in irensive dignitary, whon he met taking a afternoon walk in the. sunshine. "I ry, I'm not going to. let it be said that ou're spoony on my wife." "I Colonel ?" replied the mayor, aston lied and uneasy. "Yes sir, you're a bachelor, and a gay og by all .accounts;. don't deny it, for our goings on with the sex are matters of ablic notoriety. But I won't have you angling after Mrs. Bulberry, mind that." "Really, Colonel, I don't- understand. [rs. Bulberry- was good enough to say that ie would not mind presenting the bouquet her Royal Highness, and I thought- " "You thought she was setting her cap at oU ; is that what you was going to say? (ellk I admire your cheek, I do,' bluste'r I the. Colonel, retreating a step or two, as to take a better survey of the mayor, ,ho certainly looked no Adonis. "Well, [r. Saucebox, remember that my name' ulberry, and I stand no blanked n6hi m=o from anybody. Just get-your pas y-cook girl, to give your bouquet; shb'll' D very well for: such work, but my wife 'oi't. . Go)d day to you." . J?oor Mr. Wheeker gasped In wonder as ie truculent swashbuckler swung n his eel, HIe doubted whether the Colonel ran sober. As for the valiant Bulberry, a strode home ; but, as often happened to kin, Iris valor began to ooze away as lie eared the conjugal dwelling, Hie ,felt rat he had put Iris foot into it. Swagger ho would, he was no match for his wife tongue warfare ; and, presently, ien a had to confess what he had done, Madam ow into one of those fine rages which iake a man wish that he could strike a ole through , the floor with his heel and anish through it. In the upshot the ylonel might have been seen on tihe mor w looking very sheepish as he wended is way toward the town hail, to seek out me mayor and offei' Ihii kifrd apology. e was quite alive now, poor wreich, to me service which Iris wife wished to rep(er Efilfit sI'nting flowers to the princess oZ to blood. But, to Colonel. Bulberry's mort1iation~ [r. Wheeker had} already informed; the~ >wn council 1>f his previous day's advep ire; and it was unapL'o, ly decided that ic mayor had'received "ah's aflibt. whiehi luSt preehnds tire Bailti6kies' fMi taling ny part in the municipal feptivities, everj I guests at tIre banquet. (ht'iflfayor, eit ng in his official room at:tho. town:hall, muveydth ho the colonel as delieately ag issib do a edpropitIatory assuiWinee hlsi hib (d1( not feel offended; mt upon this the colonel, as usual; made sate to lose his temper. "By George, sir," cried hre, . "am I lieing ifli th ? You first ask my wife t6/do d ~,and now you tell me that oput us both in disgrace. your disgusting dinner. I ot mean to. say anyting of "'said the meek payor, you to say gesterday smisunderstandir gthgs, y r iffIever sawasuch aJm tof. I Auppose you' tell wif snot pretty eq~ deal Iam sure everybd - . Bulberry will admit-" ~r bl'anked compinme ~'n thrc nel. "You've a great. d 1 o imica soft patter about you to please ne, My last word to you is that- if ife 1eyou tile ihonor to accept the prd Madee,ti&fT d"VMture to put her you ad yorfellow e the reason why, ot 'm blatmkd fI n h 0 a'Yo nd hdtrn but he could n3t find them, and so lie turned into-the shop of Jaime, the pastry cook, under the pretext of taking luncheon, but really to comfort himself a little in the society of Miss Daisy Belfast, whose bright eyes had flashed through the window. Said Miss Daisy coldly to the mayor, -a she helped him to a glass of sherry and a sandwich; "What's this I hear, Mr. Wheeker? You think old Mrs. Btilberry the prettiest womni in MiRtborongh ?" "Not old Alrs. Bulberry; young Mrs. Bulberry," answered the mayor naively. faucying there 'as a confusion of persons. "But I don't think her so pretty as you, Miss Belfast." "I judge by acts, not by words. Mr. Wheeker," said Daisy, with a toss of her comely head. "And, indeed, if you think that old colonel's wife pretty, you're no judge." Mr. Wheeker sighed as lie munched his sandwich, for lie did not know how to utter what he should have liked to say next. But just at this moment the door opened, and Gabbs, Puttison,and some of the others of the town councif walked in laughing.. "Sherry. all around, miss, if you please,' said the cheery voice of Alderman Gabbs. "What's the mayor been telling you, eh ?" "Mr. Wheeker seems to have lost the use of his voice," answered Daisy, with a shrug and a reproachful look at Mistbo rough's chief magistrate, who, having fin Ished his first sandwich, was dolefully commencing another. "Well, we shall have to speak for him thon." proceeded Gabbs, with a wink that made the girl blush. "We are going to elect you our Queen of Beauty, Miss Daisy." "Oh I" exclaimed Daisy, turning scarlet red this time. "And when Is the royal visit to be, Mr. Gabbs I" "Not till three months from now, so there'll be plenty of time for you and Wheeker to get talking together about the bookey." "And my opinion is that when you pre sent the bookey' you had better be intro duced to the Princess as Mrs. Wheeker," opined Puttison. "It would sound more proper, certain ly," was all that the bashful mayor could find to say. ''Ai, you are all making fun of me, I suspect," said Daisy: but her hand trem bled just a little as she poured out the sher ry with which the gallant town councilors proceded to drink her health. One has only to add that it was Mrs. Whecker who presented the bouquet, but that Mrs. Bulberry, not to be outdone, pre sented another on her own pccoint, got an hour's talk with the Prince, and obtained his interest on behalf of her husband, who was soon afterward sent off to the antipodes as a colonial governor, while his clever wife stayed at home.. Thus pacified, the colonel did not cut off the ears of all the tqwn councilors and thread them on a string, but lie remained unshakable in his opinion that Mr. Wheceker was a gay dog, too much forward with the sex, and lie told Mrs. Wheeker so at the corporation dinner, where, by-the-by, lie got tipsy. Unre of Ashes. In the disposition of ashes, at - least two points should be kept in mind, safety and coleanlinems. If the ashes are from wood, .o sifting is necessary. They should, if possible, be remoVed from the stove only when cold, that no live coals may be In them. In case this can not be done, great care should be taken that no fire is dropped pn the floor, and in all cases a deep iron pall, hould be used; with a closely fitting over. Wood ashes sh'ould never be put in a bar;el, or in any other wooden receptacle; the number of destructive fires that have resulted from a disregard of this caution Is a fearful warning. Even when no fire is visible, there is still danger. The length of time for which a fragient of live coal, no larger than a pea, will keep alive, when coveredi witb warm, light ashes, Is some thing .astonishing; It hass been known to last thus for .days. A pit of stone or brick, and fire-proof, should be provided for keep ing ashes in a convenient, secluded place a short distance froin the house. With these precautions there is little (hanger of these fires which, when left unheeded, are not rare in town and countm'y. Besides, ashes are worth twentyAlve cents -a bushel, and are far too valuable to be thrown asway. Coal ashes, though not so valuable, should be properly provied for, on the ground of neatness, if for no other reason. Nothing Is mnore'tlistressing than to see, as Is too of ten thme ease, a pan of coal ashes in on: place andl a box, or barrel, running over In t&otbcr. sThese wvill bg sown broadcast by 'wd s 'Ic . ho.snow.. or ground, to be tiIed ihto t'he ,hou*e at every step. Coal, thid hard-coal, Is rarely bhuricd so.com pletely.ths,t it will not.pay to sift the ashes to save the 'nburned coal contained In them. When the clink'ers are picked out of thb sifted, portion It is qutite as valuable as fresh coal. Trhere are various- aifters, which allowv the sifting to be done without :dtfat, and If the ashosraro sited daily, the task 1apasy.. Coal ashes are of: almiost no value as manure, . but they are useful on heavy soils, just as sand would be to lighten thoem; ..they. make excellent paths and reads yrken mixed with.earth whmile for the earth clodet they are as useful as dried earth. , W.hen toStike in Fi.-Fishing. Jiuch of ,the finesse, of sportsmnanship dannot be~aught the.novlce by 'written. in.. Atrudtion's There-are cett'ain indispensable pQlnts i lle.pcOessifti praetice of othe art #,f, fly-dshi ng.which must come to the ox potol fterexei-efe nd- discipline. We may talk'o b.tho. twist -of the'wrlst," but to ma~ke that twist- so neatly and ef fetthat e hrepetition- of it. means a ked nn~methi * peiiustbe quite m~ppnd tefitl'if1f books.1 of the bestto,t Ayqms of the land and dMi6gh dahthb sam1oz in the an streams, hold and maintain #er difefent thcote.on this point. - One wiltell yodt .tisaMtrikes ad sbon ge liAedees theTfisli move and before he feels .the touch. An other claims that .the only- proper method is to wait until you feel .the touch "of the fish, and then, by a movement as quick as ~1m ,fsonhim... ptr wn roo 1 974Vw a nlta hrb leic A Pennsylvania avel A wonderful cave hai been 'discovered in Pennsylvania, about kree-founths of a mile to the left, toward Ilercer, of the old Franklin and Mercer road and ,l about one mile andi a quarter from the line of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Itail road, Franklhi division, near the beautiful little hamlet of Waterloo. on a ttact of land 'owned by Mr. Saimuel It. McKenzie, who lives on a farm in the vicinity. On Christmas a party of coal iners from the minics at Stoneboro, ho gre having I a jolly time In the village, lie 1d of- this I wonderful place, and one of th 1 W-ho -had I worked In soie of the (lep miles in I England, laughed at thb fears 0 the rustics I and proposed to go and explo it. ihcy i procured ropes atn. ladders, ild, with A F few tools and their miners' lat*s, set out k for the spot. Arriving Oil the ,round two I of the miners, Jack llenderson and David E Davis, niadc one end of a suck r-rod line, about five 'hundred feet. long fast about their waists, leaving a'space o a few feet t between them, and with thei ~tools and i lamps and a supply of oil, st rted down t the Incline. They proceeded nt this way i for about two hundred feet I a southerly direction and downward, at n angle of v forty-five degrees, through a -ooked and ( very rough passage, when they caine to an r obstruction caused by the great number of t boulders which had been thrown in from e above, and were about to give up and re- t turn when they discovered that tiel.- gentle v current of air still pressed the flame of their r lamps in the direction of the surface and s concluded to make anl effort to remove the I obstruction, After considerable delay aiid 1 labor, they found that a passage still con- t tinued, but raised abruptly for about sixteen a feet, and which "had made the barrier to t the progress of the boulders thrown in from o above. Davis then returned and procured c a ladder, and was accompanied by several 8 more of the liarty, who had now become a bolder. . With the assistance of the ladder, a they passed up over a bank or wall of rock t some sixteen or eighteen feet highi, and I found themselves hI a long, Irregular- t shaped room or space, fifty feet wide at the widestpomt and at places less than t.wenty five feet wide, and upwards of 150 feet long, in which hung and glidtened count less stalagmitic formations of every imagi- 0 nable shape and size. The roof and sides 1 are linestone. The most wonderful thing about the whole matter was the ilding of a quantity of bituminous coal on one side of this large, irregular-shaped room, and I which evidently had been conveyed there d frot)n soniid other place, as no coal cropped out anywhere in the cave. Digging up the debris at a certain spot coal ashes or b burnt clay several inches thick was found, r so solid that a pick was required to move the deposit. At the extremity of this room, and running away from it at right agles ' was found another passage or fissure in the lime rock. down the sides of which water t trickled, and extending about fifty or sixty feet to the right hand with a gradual 1 downward slope, whlien - tliey/ante to an- 1 other stopping placd. This time it proved I to ble only a dozen feet downward, and the ladder soon helped them to safe footing again. This proved to be another immensa room, somewhat in the forn of a huge let ter S, very irregular, with one end longer and higher tian the other. Here more coal was again found. All were impressed with the idea that this coal hiad not been brought from the surface, but were of the opinion that it had been brought there fron I some place in the cave--perhaps further down. So they proceeded to prosecute the search and at length discovered another passage or split In the rock, near the taper end of the 8, which led downward, much like the opening at the surface, only muoh larger. After pursultig this, which led through a small- room, about forty yards, they came Sudenly to a ha at tie edge of a precipice, down wichl they clambered for ab)out twenty feet, ando found themselves in a long, narrow tunnImel, apparantly withl out end, either way. Tile bottom of tis tunniel or enltry was covered with a soft, sticky mud, almost like p)utty. Tile end to the left, it was thought, would lead to the surface or side of tihe hill, evidently not very far above the level of the stream in the valley. The other end led in the oppo site, direction and across the line of and nearly below the (lrat roboin exp)lored, , underneath the body-of tile mountain. A furthler investigation showed that coal cropped out all along the line of tile canal or sides of the cavern. and after a careful examination and imeasuremlent. the whole space appeared to Ihave been'hlled with coal, whichl had been removed, and the perpendicular sides, which were gray with age, left standing. Masses of the lime stone rock had fallen in several places, , over which .the party strulggled with dii cu. ty. After proceeding about one hlun- * dred yards fronm the point .where tile coal drift was struck, a measurement showed the vein of coal. -to' 1be eight feet thmree ~ inches in thickness, and tile walls more clearly defined and-regular,. At. this point remains of masonry wore fo1mnd, and the tunnel or drift divided and e ran in different directions. . To the right si hand -seemed the most desirable route and it wAs e*plored first.' This room or chi- a bor:is pleaitifuilly huqy with stalagmite, of the moat beautiful descriptionv.hmaginnb,le, which have boon formed by the,gteady drip through tlie lintestone for unknwn ages piaSt. 'fleautiful formationsj as. 'fOlz~eated- -a into the walls, ii1 many places ap,ar; It oe would be imlposi.ble to describe the various hi turnings and directions in which the ftinue, l1 fot.mine it Is, 1'as been worked; but all of M which radiate in all directio'nsfoi- upwalrds e of two thousand feet into the body of .tho n lspountain frorg 'the ni&in. entry, as the. b mniners style-It,d .This roof of:; the entry is f< solid lim tone; *dth.lere add the!re 'ret i dark rifts overhead, which~ awe' roJiblf Bi the entranes ooter unexo e oMeftn v As intedotip As tho alredeti pd'gd ne descrilled , ;TheaiI6es an4.dt,o th'e~ be potedne agreed ainong''theln1 to lidy rId the matter secret, and' did so fot' a short' it ,tinme, in order taqe Il1 brhaethe o1 trabit6f landin abap 't~ f et qf the ' 'valuable coail soAn bkt d t ti* Out th(rough the ,anl o 'td 6the-yr tiesM Th1eys ~ bddhH,i tdin ing a mineral o(f nd l 4 % bliI it three .hundred acres,- and it .once ed'" me~nced opi atione- AftWr Ma u stVyp 4i~tb, oUd 11e eolO% t'. Atr i niadimentadhnaA e .a,o )pd off and slid or suuk downward, and li iat way- effectually sealed up and oblitera ed the whole existence of the mine ant merhaps left the fissure or crack In thi ocks first fouud higher up.' ''lhe shoulder, or bench, around the sldi )f the mountain that this iminense slidi would cause is plainly visible. It wai hrough the just-fluished opening, whi1l lad been diven from both ends, that you ,orrespondent entered. I reached the spo nI a Monday morning about 10.80, ac ompanedt by a Mr. James 11. Raymond iis po, a lad of fifteen, two ladies and twi ;entlemen, residents of Waterloo. W4 )rocceded through the outer opening to tim nain artery and along it to the point wher t was first entered. 1Iere Isone of the most in creating things I saw. The mud and loosi tones having been removed, a flight o: iteps are. found to have been cut in th4 ock, with a raise of about ten Inches to ti< tep, connecting with the passage above, l'hese steps are worn in the centre to I lepth of at least three Inclies-assuminj hat they were originally rtraight. Thit vouhi indicate their long use, and suggesti he idea that this may have been used foi tigress and egress after the mouth wam ,losed up. On either side of this stairway, nd eight feet four inches apart, are tw( olumnns of stone neatly dressed, and fron: ippearances placed there as supports t( he roof. They are each about four b3 ix feet. All the supports or pillars I sam here were of hown stone-nowhere hat my evidence of timbers been found. Nu. aerous blocks of hown stone cati be seer cattered through tle various parts of th< ine, some of them half burled In t< >aste-like bottom. At "the Intersection ol lie main portions these walls pr pillais- art cen in all tWe parts I visited. The only ools or implements of any kind found ar< number of curious-shaped wedges madh f a metal which, If it is not, closely re embles copper and Is very, hard. . They ,re eighteen inches in length and two and -half Inches in diameter and rounded al lie head, flattened toward the centre tc early four inches in width, and tapering o a wedge about one-and-a-half Inchef road at the small end. Four of theac vedges have been found in all, one in the lebris at the foot of the stairway and three t the fall of the coal at the extremity of no of the chambers, driven half thch 3ngth into the coal near the top of the cin. Two of these have been picked out ly the miners and the other still remainE vhiere the mysterious hands that drove it aft off their labors. No other tools of any escription have so far been discovered, ut further investigation may bring many aore curiosities to lighlt. Everything vial 'le goes to show the great antiquity of the lace. As to who the miners were, or the Ipso of time since the work was done, it simply conjecture. The surface of the iountain and the country on that side of lig Sandy for several miles would indicate i the most casual observer thate it had ever been occupied since the country has een known to Europeans, the surface iing rough and rocky. What is now sup. osed to be tle same coal veln, about six ailes west of there, has been worked foi everal years. Several oil wells, wilthbut uccess, have been drilled along the stream ,bove and below, but they were all shrted Mow the level of the coal. - Limestonc ias been quarried in several places, but tc to great depth. One eminit. gentleman, Prof. Rugby, of Llleglieny College, has already visited the >lace and carried away interesting speci nios. Specimens of the stalagmite havc teen carried all over the neighborhood, and fine collection are on exhibition In the 'illage store. Deport,tent. Keep your nails pared, and keel) paired ,ourself. Single blessedness Is am empty nockery, Toe out, not ini. Especially if you arc n emlhoyer, you would better turn out our feet than your hands. Keep your face cleanly shaved, ahd. stop here. Don't shave your custoiners. Don't talk'with your mouth filled with nod. And there Is no call for your talking inch under normal conditions. Keep your clothing well brushed. If on have no brush, tell your wife how you ang for your mother's cookery, and you vill have one instanter. See that your collar'button Is secure be ore you leave home in the mornIng. Else ou will find your chooher rIsing before right. When talking, don't keep fumbling your Fce as though you were fingering a miusi al-Instrument. Don't walk the streets with your cano r umbrella thrust under your arm at right ngles with your body. The policeman miy take you for a cross Tnd take you up. Don't interrupt a pdrson in his talk. Trhe atural limit of a man'& life Is threcacore ears and ten, and lie can't go on forever. Never put your knife in your mouth. 'he Anouthi is p very poor place to keep Knife in. Apt to miike i't rusty. Don't tuick yotai napkin under your shirt ollar. The waiEer may think f*ou would heal it. Never say N' won't," even if it. be your ront to feet hat way. .. A Bea'Vstt. . The White Stat steahlp p3Celtie, .which rrived at New4 York, from JA,'eipool, re inthy, brought a s ttange pitalir whfo ad boarded thmat vesole n' In id.6ean A irge whiteQgyl droppaI ont doe of thd for.. ard spars ha an exhpufsted oouidItion one rening *hen' the 'ves*ol was albout 800 ils off the cgast obefoudland. Whlen ought to the- deck by A sallorfthe owi was und to be nearly dod fromn oold and hun. W, and almbet' too wEek to eat. It had ecomeo gt'atly rexiulated, and "trenmbjed loentfin edoavoring to swalldw thid Brst lorSel'Of EVea64Wt h:h ;was pMOa .i~ fak. t'he.6tfl *lt 3-' ootbri%d 6d atW ~ierfebt17' d11~ is~1 aliaid bird, n Moliad' for sonle days peviois pr Lor*' Ahidiug Ite6)f ends out Maea th4 obatflys ceaaeds f#klng bffotte to r~ m6laUd and haA rlfted bfor -tt hofr ruln UHtt , 'BAMMwafi.N :1 ~rt The Medical Ant. Besides the necessary organs for preserv ing all the functions of the body in healthy exercise, we find the ant providcd with a bag of irritant spirituous liquor, which at pleasure it can eject, to the great annoy ance of intruders upon its privacy. This spirit, elaborated in the secret distillery of the little people, i8 called their formic aeld. Its subtle presence may readily be detected by Its peculiar though agreeable perfumte. It the head be held over a nest of F)orm ica rufa which has been disturbed, it will be immediately appreciated, though it will be found exceedingly difficult to maintain the same position long with any comfort, so powerful is the emanation. This formic acid has been utilized for the purpose of alleviating human pain in #,he prepatration of chloroform, as the name would tell us, and it is also used in photography. The fornuc acid is sometimes most annoying to the human family, as was the experience of a modern Udiliver while on his journey through Norway with a knapsack. Being overtaken by the shades of night, and wa ried with his da's exertions, lie stroved to find respose within the precincts'of a hay barn. Ile tried to sleep, and thus refresh himself for the morrow's labors. In vain his effort. The little people, among other tribes of animated creatures, made his body the object of their attention,. which their enterpriRing disposition led them to explore, by crawling under his clothes and a!l about his skin. lie adds: "If I had ever doubted the theory of their irritant acid perspiration, this night's experience must have convinced me." Tke acid perspiration, instead of being annoying, is sometimes most benefi cial to the lords of the creation, for in some cases of sickness its irritant properties act as a restorative. I have been told by a friend of a well authenticated instance. A missionary in the tropics was interrupted in his dauntless labors for his Master by a dangerous illness, which prostrated him with countless boils. He was lying help lefs and alone in lile hammock, when, be hold, myriads of ants of ferocious aspect approached him, as he thought and feared, with deadly intent. They came nearer and nearer, surrounding him, and swarmed all over his body ; but instead of keeping him down, as the inhabitants of Lilliput did Leinuel Gulliver, they assisted him to rise, for, after anointing the prostrate sufferer with a prof use supply of their irritant acid, whith proved to be a remedy suited to his peculiar malady, they left him.speedily to recover and assume his happy work with gratitude to his God, who had- used this. lit tle people as his effectual preservers. About Chamyagne. We Americans drink so much champagne -it is said that they consume nearly half of the whole vintage, inlot to speak of thQ many imitation which go by the name that it may almost be called the national drink, at least of the well-to do classes. As not a few of us may never have tasted the gbnuine wine, it may be of intereqt .to know something about it -historically.. -Is. early as the end of the fifth century t. Remil, reputed to be the first Christian ICig of France, owned large vineyards at Rheims and Laon. Toward the middle of the ninth century Bishop Pardulus, of Laon, is men tioned as alvising Archbishop Hinemar. to take the wine of Epernay for digestion. Nobles and princes quaffed the juice of the grape raised in the Proylnce of Champagne for generations, but it was more like Bur gundy, having no sparkle, than the chain pagne of to-day. Indeed, this wine proper was not created until the latter part of the seventeenth century. Dom Perignon was the first persom who is identified-it was in 1688-with champagne of our kind. He was a jolly monk, and the abbey over which lie presided depended for revenue upon the tithes awarded by the vine-growers of the dlistrict. Ho made the earliest experiments, and finally discovered the offer vescing liq uid, which he relished greatly. Marquis de 81l1eri improved upon the monk's achieve mients, and introdluced thme delicious wine at many feasts, where it was poured out by handsome young women attired as baccha nals. At Rheim, near where Donm Perignon was inspired to make the delicious drink, Is the largest champagne establishment in France. In one vast sub cellar are depos ited 1,000,000 lbottles of the raw wine, and in an other part of the town are some 8, 000,000 bottles. The wine is treated most delicately, and thousands of men, women and children, very carefully trained, are employed in the process, to complAete whieh requires three years. 'The F~reach and English think that champagne grows better with ago, even though it may lose its sparkie and brilliancy; but we Americans have another opinion-that the fresher it Ja, 'the more delicious. The cellars in wvhich the wine is stored are cut out of the calcarous' rock. Any quantity of spurious wine is sold in France by charging other light wines with carbonic acid gas, and thme Germans have recently succeeded so well In prepar lag Rheishi, Malm, Neckar,, Meissner and Naumburg after the manner of champagne that it may deceive even connoiseurs. -Old Churches in New England, Ii is a curious fat-a fact which differ ent readers wi.ll be disposed to. aceiount for i1i different ways, but still a fact-that- th6 old, original, Calvinietic churelies in - tits old historleal portion of New England ee almost all now in the hands of that dpnomi nation whiclh is furthest removed, in faith, from the early Calvinistic Congregatioha1. lsm of New EInglandsl'i ot only is the,fIrst church In Flynmouth Unitarian, andlathe fIrst church In barchester, Uitarlan,,n the fiest ?hrh in flostoh, Viain u *hea w come to to nq6f oot ty of ~ Wo' n~ ho tJl**~igoldest i~rhe n t6'lowtagrldot bt1e' niita now gtiotnUitran oahin, ciI.1 d NEWS IN BRIEF. -We sent last year to Europe 1,500,. 000 hIdes. -The Katahdin iron -works have never been so busy as now. -Stelm and horee railroads in this country require 100,000 men to labor on Sunday. -Ohio has a school f)opulation of 1,043,320, of whom 734,657 are enrolled scholars. -A factory in Oshkosh, Wis., cut up 2,000,000 feet of lumber into Matches last year. -'here has been no Issue of silver five cent and copper two cent pieces since 1872. -Brocton, Mass., slhoe shipments are almost four thes as great as they were a year ago. -The combined length of the new railroads projected for 1880 'will be 9U00 Inilee. -The militia forces of the United States are put at 117,000 men with 8,800 oflicers. - Largo quantities of land have been leased in Potter county Pa., to put down test oil wells. -Th6 Penobscot lumbermen antici pate a better business in the spring than for many years past. --Mrs. Chisholm has been promoted to a clerkship in the Treasury Depart ment, with a salary .of $1200. . -Adelina Patti Is reported to have been paid $1,000 a night during her en gagement at Pesthl; Nicolini, $000. -The total coluage of the mints dur ing January . reached $9,570,500, of which $2,450,000 were silver dollars. -The late Mr. Buckle determined never to marry until he had an Income of $15,000 a year. lie never married. -The returns by cfinties where the chief distress exists in Ireland show thq number of the sufforers to be 312,370. -Over 1,500 persons are employed in chair making in Gardner, Mass., turn ing out over $2,000,000 worth annually. -The sea Is to the land, in round millions of square miles, as one hun dred and sixty to forty, or as four to one. --The firstgas ever exhibited in New York was from a lamp erected by the old gas company in 1823, In Franklin Square. -In the Pennsylvania oil region the past month ther'e were 320 wells com pleted, giving a produotign ~of 4,800 -Gov. Holliday, of Virginia, has re fused the petition to commit the sen tonce of John E. Pomdexter to one year in jail. -Everybody who ascends BuAiker Hill monument countts the steps-295. The ascensions yielded -$2,880 in fees during the past year. -A sale by auction of a tract of land fifty-one by. thirty eight miles in area, in Kansas, Is to be made to satisfy a mortgage of $4,000,000. -Mrs. Zachailah Chandler has been very ill since the death of her.husband, but is now recovering.o Her daughtAr, Mrs. Hale, Is still with her. -Thie rolling' stock of the Union O.a cite railroad consists of 170 locono tives, 100 passenger baggage and sleep ing cars, and 3,216 reight cars. -'Tho Comnmissioners of Allegheny county, Pa., have called for the pay mnt of the money subscribed to pay the Pennsylvania Raillhd claims. -There were five Sundays in Febru ary, 1824, in February, 1852, and in February, 1830. The 'next Avp Sunday February will not occur until 1920. -The annual blessing of Lhe Nova took place at St. Petersburg oIi the 18th of January, the ECniperor and his household attending th'e cei'emony. -Anson D. Stephenson, a clerk in Boston, on several ocQasi9ns.befriended a young lady who hias just died leaving 0o%Stepheonson property valued at $50,.. -One hiumidred and tiii'ti Indlians were confirmed by bishop Hare, of the Protest,ant Episcopal Ciumrch9 during the last year, and 'seventy 1 .ee Indian adults were baptised. -Geital Robert Eleo has' a pew in the old Chris$ Church in Aletandria, Va., where. Washington .. once wor shipped; and .every button has been. taken from the Oushions lhy curiosity. hnnters. -The ox-Empress Eugenid's party to Natal, Africa, will cbnslet 9! one or two ladies oft her hepsplW,Sir Evelyn and Lady Wood, Mrs .Rorpld Camp bell, the Duo do Bassa:;o, and surgeon Major Scott. -in 1807 42,000000 head' of shee produced 1470 00pounds of wool; in 1877 35,00,h0ead produced 208, 000,000 pounds, This showsa,.wonder ful improvement fin the scferad of sheep husbandry." --T~'Ihe Speaker of the Br itish House of' Commons has-$20,000 a .year, a house rent Cree, $4,000 of equimnt moniey, 2,000 outnces.of silr t l ,hik elec-. t(on, $500 for statihryeAch ~'ear, and fees amounting to 415, a fir. ---Chicago'lias eigiit Reformed Epis- ' copal churches' and:tet -cle'rymen of that denominatiop. Chis Qurch and St. Paul's, the slio proiap,lh --T here, ard tomgtrtded $6Jntei Ponnsyl1vania free. ffomldebt.. These manna, *ashi d usquond hould hot mnake over'416