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Tll-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., MAY 25, 1880. VOL. I THE FOOL PRAYER. Tho royal feast was dono ; tho King liought some nqw siort to banisk care, And to this jester crled, "ir Fool, Kneel now, and make for us a prayor I" The jester dofred his cap and bells, And stood the mocking court beforo; They could not soo the bitter smilo B3ohiud the painted grin he wore. H1e bowed his head, and bont his knoo Upon the monarch's silken sto ; Iil pleading voice arose : "0 Lord, 13e merciful to me, a fool ! "No pity, Lord, could'ehango the hoart From red with wrong j0 white as wool The rod must heal the ein ; but, Lord, Bo moroiful to me, a fool I "'Tis not by guilt the onward swoop Of truth and right, 0 Lord, we stay 'Ti by our follies that so long We hold the earth from heaven away. "Those clumsy feet, still in the miro, Go crushing blossoms without end Theso hard, well-moanmng hands we thrust Among the iert-strinigs of a filond. "The ill-timed truth we might have kept Who knows how sharp it,piE :od and stu The word we had not sense to say Who knows how gran-!ly it had rung? "Our faults nd tendernees should ask. The cha'tenlng stripos must cleaso them a But for our blunders-oh, in shame Before the eyes of hoavon we fall "Earth bears no balsam f,.r mistakes Men crown the knave, and scourgo the-t That did his will ; but Thou, 0 Lord, De meroiful to me, a fool I" The room was hushed ; in silence rose The King, and sought bis gardens cool, And walked apait, and'nurmurcd low, "Do merciful to ne, a fool I" Blake's Widow. Jei Blake was shot dead in his oi di orway by Antonio Gueldo, and the t was to conie off directly. The extraordinary interest in the aff was less due to the murder and Its pecul circuistancs, than to the fact that t was the first case tried at San Saba in a more formal court than the tine honor .institution of Jtudge Lynch. Jen had be a quiet man and a good neighbor, wit] hand always ready to help one who i %ut of luck, so public sentiment rani pret high against Antonio. -If the general inc nation had been followed-as, up to tli time it always had-the last-named gent man would have found very scant opp< tunity to make any remarks in his own I half. However, thing were advancing at S Sabu as well as elsewhere, and it wouldi do to hang Antonio without a regular tri no matter how agreeable such a proceedi might be to the people at large. So ran the opinilon expressed brJud Pitblado whose ideas on such subje( were usually accepted witiout comme1 Nevertheless there was more than oi dissenter in the present Instance, to wh<c It was by no mecans clear that there coli be any sense or profit !in thus beating abc the bush. ''EF Antonio's goin ter be hung, why - don't we hang him?" This was the pertinent query of Ja Smith, the leader of the opposing factic and1( lis view of the, question put it In clear a light that the Judge had great dii culty In impressing plell with his cc viction. Hie said that things had gone in an irregular wvay long enough; and he was a way to start the law in p~rop~erl and give it a lair show. Be3ides, it didh iiake any kind of dhihferencee; Antonio hi Alhot Jemu, hadn't lhe ? W~eil, then, whl was the use of talkinug ? All the jtt would have to do now was to returnit thi< verdict of guilty In the' flr'st degree, a: theme you were all comfortable. It was just the sam thin in the end "I tell ycr," said thme judge, who felt t weight of his title, albeit '~he samne was .together one of courtesy; "I tell yer ther< nothiin' like doini' a thing rea'lar; part1 ikt lally when yer know just how it's coi out." 80 the judge's) argunent, supported 1 his influence, and Inereasing bias at 8 Sabain favor of more civilized views, s( tied the i at a~ n1 It awt decided thm Antonio uel shild b tA d before j, wvas liatg&d. , s. ir. .A for hero wits no place spCcially arrangi frsuch ceremonies, Judge Pitblado he pitably offered the use of his shed. Here a rough table and-chair were:paci for the judge, the other necessary fur:1 ture, intenuded to rep~rcsent the dock, tl stand, etc.,~ being eked out with box -from Silas Baggett's gi ocery store. Jake SmIth looked on at these prepar .tions for a tine withI frowning 'dIsconten and then strolled dowa the road, turnn Into the lane that led to Blake's. When lie reathedl te door of the shiani he learned against the. jemnb and pok1ed( b naked head InsIde, fanning himself in r embarrassed way with limsgreasy fragmei of a hat. He had comto there, with the i1 tintlon of saying something, but the sigi withIn made him forget It. Blake's widow sat there, as she had si pretty mueoi all the tinie slice the imurde: staying straight before her, with her cli In her paln. fl'he smynight struck throng the foliage of tiii red oik, trees that gre' before the door, amid checkered with ide ering.bright ese thge floor and cradle I Swlihi Jiat1s-beibf was'sleeping. Trher9 it ws' Ju st~ ag t rha~I bee ,tltrt .ays agd; (cmihd U driIf be thuee days' just a. it had been when she went mit th Irbbrnt cradle, (how fond he was of the baby?) jtist as it was when she heard the crack of the pistol, and ran in with an awful sense of suffocating fright; Just the same as she had found hhn lying upon the cradle, dab bling jts white Ilnen with his blood, and the baby playing with his hair. She screamed once, the first and last complaint anyone had heard her make, then she was (luiet and helpful through it till; when the inen came and lifted him up; when they laid him on the rough bed in the other room; wicn they carried him to the grave, site following with the baby in her arms Jake Smith was trying to find the link missing in his thoughts; he snifTed with perplexity-or somtething-and Blake's widow looked up without speaking. .Jake nolded pleasantly four or live t imcs. "Poorty chipper ?" "Blake's widow smiled sadly, bent ove the sleeping child and smoothed the clothes with a tender touch. "'Teicy'rc agoin' ter try him il a court," Jakce went onl, "an' I don't believe-" "'Try who-Antonio?" she turned to ward the burly figure in the door with a flash of interest In her black eyes. 11; "Yes. The judge is making a court out of his sied. I hope It'll turn out all right, but it soems like giving thut Mexi cal devil a chance he oughtn't ter have.'" :>I "Ile can't get clear, can lie?" she asked, rocking the cradle gently and patting the coverlet. "I don't see how, but he's got some kind of a law cuss to speak for him-a fel ler that stopped here a day or two ago on his way to Ulveston, and it makes Me kind o' nervolus." Blake's widow did not appear to notice the last remark, for the child, disturbedby the talking, laid awakened and sat up in vn his cradle with a wondering look. ial "Pooty, aint lie ?" said Jake, regarding the small figure with interest. "Looks iir Just like-ahem!.--you. Poor little-----a iar -" lie stamtn red and treated his hat like lis i mortal enemy. "Of course ihea' had Iy you've got-there aint nothin' I oould do ed fur yer, maybe ?" S Site answered with a grateful look, but a it wts' accompanied by a shake of the as head. ty .Jake bent down, and, with his big fore hi. finger, softly rumbled the hair of the baby's at head: then ie went out and left them, c- Blake's widow sitting as lie had found her, .and the baby atring (own the path after him. lie walked on until lie reached the top of the- little hill, where he could look (own upon the roof which covered the piteous scenei he had just left. Here lie seemed to ig have half a mind to turn back, for lie hesitated and stoppled, but lie changedhis ge partial intentibn af ter lingering a moment, :Is and walked meditatively onward, with the 1 it. exclamation, "Wall, some women do beat ne the d--I amazin'.'t mn * * * * * * * Id Of course everybody catte to the trial. i tit The arrangements were soon found to be altogether too meager. Pitblado's sted hi was filled to overflowing, and Baggett made a clean sweep of every empty box in ke his store. t., Antoni's lawyer, a sharp-eyed, sharp so) featured fellow from (Galveston, had bus I1- tled1 about with surprising agility on the n- dlay previous, holding my3st etious con'fer mt etnce wvith 11-conditioned fellowvs of re Gueldo's kidney. v, Jake Smith was highly dissatisfied, and Seven the judg~e wvas' heaird to utter som1: d misgivings, hiowever; by the time the pro it ceedinugs had really cottmenced he gainied y confidence. ir. The court was assembled, the jury had id1 been chosen, and the witnesses were adl ptesent save one---Blake's widow. - Pretty soon there was, a stir at,- the door then a mnurnur of surprise ran through the to crowdedl 100om. I- "May I be di-di," Said Jake Smith, a' aiudibly '"if she han't brought, her baby!' r. What retason shte may htave had for not aleaving the little thing in charge of some symnpathtizing wvomani-anid there are plenity >y wvho wouild have been glad of thme' trust in waIs not aipparent; htowever that mtighit be, t- there it was clasped firmly in her aims, its . 4t brightt - red cheel ctirs I ng fYth her1 iO wliiteness5,4gdl; him fha(8j~ y hia~r< unmingling withieiIr k loeW i ad With some dilliculty way wats madie 8- through the throng to her scat, which had j been placed on the side of the judge, dl id rectly opposite' the candhle-box on the 0.hecr, I- where Antonio sat. Shte took hier place 10 and never moved during the whole trial, as exceptinig as site was required to testify, and once whoa the baby tugged at some 0 :- glistening thing that lay hiidden ~in the ~ a g to distract Its attention with a chip from the floor. *y As'for the ba~by it satthero with its big, C is blue eyes open to their fullest extent, en n ttrely absorbed in time novel scene, save It when that irresistible glitter caught its a 'r eye: - s it Every one being now present, the trial b went on in good earnest. A number of it witnesses w'ere examined, whose testimony t ', showed'that Gueoldo's had had trouble with a a Blake, and more titan one threatented his c hi lIfe; ghiat RuQgido pietol was one charge ti y empty 'ont tfie evening of the clay of the ~ - nurder, whereas in the muormnag it had n been full; that ho was seen that morning ii around Blake's house, and ngre thian thtat b e Blake's widow htad heard Gueldo's voice e 2) just before the fatal shot, andljImad neefhi, bl ut retreating formt as she ran out. '9 tils last point thle Galveston lawye or i tho witness a few question reg ing how she knew it was Gueldo's and how she had recognilzed the voice for his. She did not know how exactly, but was none the less sure for that. There had been i rumor about that some one had heard Antoio make a boast of having "done for Blake this thne," but if there were a witness for this lie could not be found now. And so the prosecution olosed. The Galveston lawyer began by involv ing in a wdripool of hopeless contradic. tion, the witness who had sworn to having seen Useldo near Blake's house. Then lie expatiated on the ecse with which one per son may be mistaken for an'other, and brought a witness to show how (tteldo had already been said to resemble someone In the village. Finally, Ie produced three of the ill-conditioned fellows before referred to, who swore that Antonio was with them on a hunting expedition (uring the wholo of Lhe day on which the murder was com miltted. It was a clear case of alibi. Jako Smith's astonishment at the case with. which the thing had been accomplished was unbounded. Ile threw a disgusted look towards Pitblado, but the judge was nonplussed, tid didn't seem to be inter ested with things in Jake's vicinity. (entlemen of the jury," said lie, "things has took a turn I didn't altogether expec'. I don't know as there's much to be said. I suppose you've got to go by the evidence, an' that don't need any explainin'. Ef you kin make out accordin' ter that, that Altonio Gieldo killed Jen Blake, why, just recollect, that'swhat yer here fair." Trho jury filed out, and the expectant audience occupied itself with tobacco and whispering conunents. Jake Snuth fidgeted about on his box, and cast anxious glances through the open door towards the clumlp of nopals where the jury were deliberating. Antonio talked awd laughed in an under tone with his counsel, and Blake's widow sat staring at theni with compressed lipe, and a strong expression of determination coaing Into her face. It wasn't long before the jury filed in igain, all seating themselves by the spokss. 1an, and Juago Pitblado rose wiping his forehead with his shirt sleeve. "Straightened it out, have yer?" asked ie, nodding to the Spokesman. The man nodded slowly in return. "Wal, Ic's have it thel." "Yor see," said the spokesman, with a tesitating and disappointed air, "cf yer ladn't a corralled us with stickin' ter the .vidence, we might a done better, but ac ,ordin' ter that, Antonio wasn't thar when ,he murder was. done, ain' of lie warn't liar, he couldn't a done It, an' of lie didn't io it, why-then-of course he's-not guilty."' Pitblado didn't dare to look at any )ody; he stared up at the raiters-down Lt the table-nowhere in particular; auid lien tMrned half-way towards Antonio. "You kin go," said lie, speaking with great leliberation, "but I wouidn't stay -ouind here too long." There wias a dead pause for a moment, Lad nobody moved. Jake Smith exploded a single expressive vord, which lie had held in for some time >ast, and Blake's widow stood up. "11ave you got through, judge?" she isked. "And there is nothing more to be0 ionec?" "I'm afraid thier aint." "And lie's free to go ?" Antoio Gueldo rose with an insolent ;rin, and picked up his hat. Th'le baby crowvedi, for It sawv the glitter ng thing again. There wvas a sharp report-Autonio >ltchied forward in a heap upon the floor, md1( Blake's widow stood with the plstul )rcased to her breast. A line of clear blue smoke curled up romn the muzzle of the weapon, amid ormed a halo around the child's flaxen tead. The glittering ting was quite wear the little hanuds now, and they took it rom the yielding grasp of the mother.. Blake's ividow looked steadily at the igure on the loor--it was quite mnotioniless -then she turned, and went through the vide passage openedl for her by the silent rowd,, holding tihe baby very tenderly, nd the baby carrying die pistol. Thle child laughed with delight; it had ot Its shining plaything at last. Sanad P'ilars. We have often witnessed( a pheniomemonon a the sanady plains of Central Asia, which ccounts in sonic measure for the innum rable Randly mnoundis that are found in ome regions. When seen at a distance or tie first time, it madie a strong imipres ion upon my mind. A bout tweaty pil irs were in view, wheeling round and lick sg up the sand. As they pssed along a loud( of dust, was raised on the groundh, pparently eight or ten yards In diameter. 'hIs gradIually rsusimed the form of a olunmn, that eontinuied'to grow in height nd diameter as It moved ov r the plain, bpoathzig like a 'mighity sc WAt ren'ring is head aloft, aind, twisting his huge body ito contortions in his efforts to ascend. 'lie pillars were of various sizer, some wventy or thirty feet high, other fifty, Ixty, and one hundred feet, and some as ended to nearly two hundred feet. As lie wiiurlwinds began gathering up the uast one ighit have fancied that antedilu Ian monsters were rising into life and etivity. Theii smaller ones seemed to trip ,ligh'.ly over the plain,, bending their 0od1e8 in graceful curves as they passed rebi other; WillIe those of lar'gei dimienslozls ivolved with gravity, swelling out their -'unks. *s .they moved .onwar'di till the mndy fabrIc suddenly dissolved, for~t fiat. was swept over the dei'$.,~ A Mile In Mid-Air. Barrington Brown, during his meminorable survey of Guiana, reached the foot of Hora ima a111nd ascended Its sloping portion to i height of 6, 100 feet above the level of tie sea. Between the highest point lie reached and the foot of the highest perpendicular portion which towered above is a band of thick forest. Looking up at the great wall of rock 2,000 feet in height, he could see that a forest covered its top, and that in places on its sides where small trees or shrubs could gain a hold, there they clung. The gigantic cliff Itself is composed of beds of white, pmnk and red sandstone, interbeddedI with layers of red shale, the whole resting on at great bed of red diorite. The length of Roraima Is about 'ight or ten miles ; Kukenam Is perhaps larger; and the area of Illebeapeus is certainly more exten sive. It Is impossible to view this wonder ful group of mountains without realizing that far back in the youth of the world they formed pairt of an archipelago in tropical seas. That they are well wooded and watered Is made certain by visible trees and the enormous waterfall which pours at least frot Roraima. A grand view of this cata ract was obtained by Barrington Brown from the mouth of a cave, inhabited by guacharo birds, and situated 1,882 feet above the level of the sea. 'Through the clear atmosphere was distinctly visible at a distance of thirty iles the white thread of the wvaterfall. The Indians said it was the head of a branch'of the Cotliiga river, but it is more probably the head of the Caroni, a branch of of the Orinoko. TIiis tropical Staubbach is probably the highest fall in the world, and is at the same time of con siderable bulk. Tho cliff of Roraima is 2, 000 feet in height, "over the upper half of which it fell like a plunb-line and then de scended with a slight slope outward. The remaining 3,000 feet to the valley below slopes at an angle of forty-five degrees, a. I being tree-covered, the rest of the fall is hidden by foliage. The invisible attraction of the curious range of Savanna island mountains to naturalists arise from the in accessibility. This should dtot be under stood as the mere desire to egcel others in a feat of climbing, but as the hope that soei relies of the mammillian life of the so called "inocene" period may have survived on these isolated altitudes, cut off from all communication with the living, moving worlh. If any of the 'miocene" mammals lived upon them when the sea washed over. their bases. the descendants of those ani mals may exist there still, as the leniurs ex ist lin Madagascar, and a whole family of narsupials, such as the kangaroo, in Austra lia.. Perhaps a balloon may one day solve te mystery which londs a charm to these island mountains, and the happy naturalist who lands-as one will. of course, and In time-on the summit of Roraima, may find himself among the descendants of the races long since blotted from the lower world in which the evidence of their existence is re corded in the great stone books alone. Amid the forest depths, on which rests a huge cloud, lie may find not, the gigantic saurians of the youthiful world, grim mon sters of the ish-lizard and bird-lizard form, but the great progenitors of existing mammahia. Leaving the tapir, one of the most ancient of extant creaLures, at the bot tom of the Roraima cascade, he may find at its ummit its gigantic cogeners-liuge her. bivorous animals fifteen and eighteen feet in length; the dinotherium, a tapir-like creature, larger than the elephant ; antique analogues of the mastodon ; ancestors of the horse, the hog and the greater'cats, which in the known parts of the continent are represented by the jaguar, the puia, and the ocelot. A prosi-ect of the dino therium alone would be sufflicient to cam pensate an enthusiastic naturalist for the labor of years. It is the largest of the ter restrial mammals which have inhabited our globe. and1( deservedly stands at the head of the thick-skinned animals, as the nmegathe riunm or gigantic sloth at that of thle tandi grades. Probably the dilnothierium would be found, if found at all, pursulig a life like that of the hippopotamus, its great hlead ,and tusks are fitted for grubbing up aquatic plants, andit like those of the walrus, for hielping tihe animal out of tile water. lBnt tile dinotherium Is but one of tile start ling forms whicil, might be looked for on lloraima if its clff be really as diflicul as p~aintedl. Lizardis in' the seml-ophladian stage might be encountered, and other ani mals whlich, as5 the little boy sale who had been taken into a lecture of Prof. Owen's, "had not quite niade up their minds what they wvere going to be." A Puzzled P'arson. An old1 gentleman from the East, of a clerical aspect, took the stage from Deniven Southi in ante-railroad daiys. The journey wais not altogether a saf'e one, and lie was not re-assured by the sight of a number . of rufles deposited in the coach, and nervously asked for what they were. "Perhaps you'll find out before you git to the Divide," was the cheering reply. Among the passengers was a particularly (it seemed to him11) fierce-looking an, girded with a belt full of revolvers and cartridges, andl clearly a road agent or 'as sassin. Some miles ou~t, this person, taking out a large flask, take~d, "Stranger, do you irrIgate ?" "If you mean drinik, sir, I-do not." "[Do you object, stranger, to our irrigat ing ?" "No, Si:." And they drank according After a further distance had been traver sed, the supposed brIgand asked, "Stiranger, do you fiunigato?" "If you mean smoke, sir, I do not." "Do you object, stranger, to our fumi gatmng?" "No, sir." And they proceeded to smoke. At tie dlining-p~lace, when our friend came to tend(er ils money, the proprietor saidh, "Your bill's >aId." "Who paid it?" "Thiat ma"-pointimr to the supposedl hilghwaymian, who, 'on being asked if lie had1( not made a mnistake,- replied, 9fNot at all. You see, when we saw that you didn't irrigate anid dIdn't fumigate, we knew that you was a parson. And your bills are all rilght as long as you travel wIth tils crowd. We've got a respect for the Chiurch-ybu bet I" It was no highwayman, but a re spectable resident of Defavor, TIhe nimid builds its own house,. alggisnaus-'sgar b ofpul hi. he gra fault Is to be conscioute none. A New SwIing for Ladles. A smart Illinois boy, namied Sloane in. vented a trap on the principle of those used in Africa for trapping game-tant is to say, lie constructed a slip-noose of thongs, and attached it to the top of a stout Sapiilng, which he bent down by the aid of a hoist ing-tackle, and faster.ed it to the ground. Now Master Sloane had a sister, a young lady of great worth and of very decided character. Other girls, who were envious of her beauty, said ile was an ill-tempered, red-haired thing, but this was probably mere calumny. At all events, so thought the young minister who wis settled over the Seventeenth Cougregational Church, and who was generally believed to be Miss Sloane's accepted lover. . That lie went to see Miiss Sloane on the very evening when the reckless boy Met his Central Africa trap was not strange, for he usually spent three or four ovemngs every week at the Sloane mansion, but is was a coincidence that oil that precise evening lie proposed a walk, and led Miss Sloane toward the Identical lane wh(re the trap was waiting for victims. How It happened that neither tle young minister nor Sliss Sloane noticed the beat sapling or the rope, no one can understand, unless they were so deeply engaged in the (iscussion of theological questions that they were oblivious to all earthly things. Still more dillicult is it to comprehend how they could both have stepped within the noose, not ioie than a tfoot in diameter. It is )lain, however, that the lady was reading a hymnbook and that her companion had approached extremely close to her in order to see if the hymn was correctly printed. lowever this may be, the fact remahis that Mis Sloane and the minister were just within the nocas when tle trap sprung, and the elastic sapling suddenly lifted them twenty feet in the Mir, wh( re they remained hanging like two cherries on a single stemn, adl expressing In lively tones their suspicion that something unusual had happenx. I lalf an hour later the Clinton and IIohnesillie stage passed that way, and the driver and his I)ssen gers were astonished beyond measure. For some timtie it was supposed that some new and curiously complicated animal was swinging fron the top of Ltie saphng; but just as one of the passengers was about to fire at it, the driver recognized the iin ister, though lie was not able to recognize his fellow-prisoner. The latter's voice was somewhat nuflied, but she was distinctly heard to revile the minister, and to assert that she never would forgive him, no mat ter how lie might try to excuse himself. Six strong men finally bent down the sap ling, released the victims. Fortunately, neitier of blaster Sloane's victims were ser iously Injured, and were both able to walk home on opposite sides of the street. The result of this affair were iumerous. Miss Sloane left town the next day on a visit to the East, and has not since returned. The minister was tried for indiscrectly hanging from the tops of trees with young ladies, aud thereby .bringing reproach upon his profession, but was acquitted by a close vote. As for Master Sloane, Is Is bel:eved and hoped that his father has killed him. At any rate, he has not been seen, and the rumor that lie has been sent to the House of Reluge in Chicago is not generally be lieved. The Cod. Besides being the most. prolific of food fishes, he is large, easily taken and quickly prepared for market, while his dilferent parts are utilized as generally as those of iis land rival hog. Professor Baird says that besides the nmuscular parts, the o:mnds and moes ar-e used as food, the oil is vii 1able for medical and mechanical ptirp e , Ltie olal is converted into a valuable manure, the bones make good fuel, while the skins serve many nations for leather and lkth lug. ThIs fish, like the more prominient of his relatives, ss at home omily in coh(1 watr (lie hatitude of Cape May being is extiea no southern boundary, while he lives ase close to the pole as lie cani without risk of being frozeni in. He probably exists farther south than the line indicated above, but, if so, .it is mi cool depths too retireid to adit of successful intervie wing. At certain poin's off the Massachusetts coast lie fhids a sulil cienitly low tenmperatuire im a llow water, aiid at these places lie Is frequently seeni and caught by fisherman, but his favorite American haunts are thie semi-Iincloie.h waters of the coast of Canada and adjac.nt islands. Fond, however, as lie Is of very cold water.. there are teimperatures which lie will uder no0 circumstances endlure, erven though they be but two or three do grae removed from thie normal. Among thiese is the water that comes from melting salt ice, and slowly sinks to thielevel to whichi its specifdc gravity entitles it. Ini such water thie cod Will not remain; lie will not go throughi it, even though lis dinner be on Uie opposite side, (lie dilstance very short, anti the cod very hungry. lie pre' fers to circunavigate such an inhospia'>le regio:i f ho has business on the ether side, as fahiermani have learned to their own ex eeding prof It. Trie are different atirieves of the e->d, amnd thie entire lack of evidence of miixed blood, and the rarity with which more than ones variety Is found lai any giving locality, prove either that the cod Is a non-migra tory fIsh, or that h~e regards the preserva tion of easte as a paramount duly. LIke arlstocralte every where, lie is an omnivo~ous feeder. Trhe "dd" is considered by naturalists to be the best implement wIth wliech to obtaIn information ut~o. deep-sea life; but Professor Baird says that (lie stomuachi of the cod ma thes best of all dredges, for it generally contuans niorseis of every sort ot iiarmne resident witIn reach. With a high-borni contempt of the requniremints of trade, the cod feeds largely upon hesring anid maokerel, but, ho Is partial .to crabs, lobsters, and most other lieu. Asise diges tion is not equal to the task of assinia.i ag these last-.nameid Items of (lie ocean nmenu, lie stews themi away in the side of his stomach, and when the quantity bec.>mee burdenssome, he disposes of themi according to thie methiod to which Jonah owed his es 081)0 from submarine lodgings. Whime not migratory by Inclination, any faIlure or de terluratton of hIs habitual larder will cause himn to remove to thie nearest resoht of good livers. Years ago cod-fish were qtuite plentifuil off New bury p6rt, Massae,' but disappeared as (lie Merlmack Ittker was depleted of fish; sInce thle rdstockihig of the rIver, however, .willh shad an'd ale wIves, the cod hias reaipeafsd' st'hits ol dining-place, gladdening the hmeam'W of the Oehermda, and gracing the 8mdiay break fast table of the degooecdents of the 1't1. i e ood resortls to thq shoNvo fe ug smTu'on cares always to be In the vicilit of the dining-room? Naturally he is at off-shore, deep water fish, for at a distanc from the land he is always sure of findini those stratti of cold water Ili whici he do lights. There are timeas when lie will no leave these, even for food; but the season i whicih fresh-water fish revisit the scenek of their cildhood aire also the seasons whoi the water is cool inshore. While ho weather remains, with sea-water warm en ough to lurehuiman beings into the surf the cod abh(ars the beach, and takes wha food is nearest at hand, preferding, ikt summer lodgers elsewhere, to endure tit plainest fare for the sake of cool quarter. Whlen, however, tihe temperature of til water allows him to I 'Iw the shad ant fish to the shore, he n ;v" traveli aloni; it lie is not accompanied u- . family, he take so much company witl 1ilm that those wh< extend hospitable selties to receive him take somnethines as ilany as thirty thousant fishI at a single haul. The cod is wonterfully prolific, deposit. big frot three to seven millions of eggs i a thie. It not only prefers to spawn it the winter mouths, but in the coldest watel it can find, and yet avoid an icy coverlet; a temperature of thirty-two degrees is til favorite, while nothing above forty dogree is tolerated. The largest spawning grounds of the cod are lin the vicinity of the Lof, foden Islands, though thu Aniicnmi mm. bers of the fihuly put up with such accoi mtodations as they can find no.tr home. The domestie arrangements of thh filsh aril so informal that thle eggs have no special ab.ding-place, ,nor any protect ion what - evCI-. Of the illioIs of eggs that are de )osited by a single female, not more than a hundred thousaid, prob.tbly not ioro thani tenl thou sand, result in full-grown fish. Like the small boy who, If lie could not whip a larger boy, could at least make faces at his sister, the small fish upon which the cod preys fiind delicloas revenge in cat ing the eggs of the latter, wilile the mias ut -Jow down'' intiabitants of thu ocean are true to the inistiict of low-downer every where to prey up.ni ar s oracy, pa. taclar ly upon time younger scions threof. It is prouabie, too, that miany of the eggs which esCap' tme keen eyes (if seareners after dulicacies do not become fertilized. Purni'out Peciuiarit It-n. About forty yeis ago I had a lad in ily employ who had the habit when unexpect odly spoken to of pricking up his c'ars in st decisive a nmanner as to remind one of til cars of P1uss or of Tray when suddenly called. AMarie Lomise, the second wife 01 the great Napoleon, was hi the habit of amusing the ladies ofl her court at their pri vate soirees by turning her ears almost com pletely round, and In a manner closing themii up. She did this by a peculiar mo tioll of the jaw, and she is said to have prided herself oi the exploit not a little. A man I knew well wore an enormous shock of iaven hair, and would allow him sell to be lifted by the hair from the ground by ainy one atrong enough to do it, and to be swung to and fro like a pendulum, or to be dragged along the floor. The faculty of sleeping it will was one of the endowments of the first Napoleon, who it is said could sleep any length of. tie, long or short, and awaike at tihe time, al most to the IminIte,.he had eCsolved IplOn. Amnomig time muscular uiovemnenIs not common, I have noticed several instances of pesonms who could throw back the four ftigers of either hand until they stood per peIdicIuar to the back of the hand and w.ist. (At er instances I have seei, though but a etw, of persons who can project tihe lower' joint o' tihe thumb almost io the hollow of the palm. Ii neither of these persons is the ordinnry use or the symmiietry of tihe hand at, all alfected. Of left-handed people we have all seen many, and they aibounid amnong the working classes ; but of the artlihandist, or' both handed,-'that Is, of per'sons who could do evei'ythiing with either hand, as wvell with onie as thme other, I have knowni but one ini the whole courlse of my life. TIhis was an orph~lan boy, who had1( haud no pmarentmal care, but had1( been left, ali miost to himiiself fronm Infmancy. Quick, ac tive, and sharp-witted, lie lal tmhit him self many things tolerably well, could draw fmairly, could play the fiddle andi the flute, andi wrote atdiilrably iad with unriivalledi riilty with ii her hanmd. Thlero mare mnany persons who, from cannies they can miever' explain, have a repugmiance, alnost amiounting to horror In somie c'ises, for certeaIn aimals. TIhie French (lemneral Jumnot, who was as cool as a cuemuber amidust a perfect storm of bullets, and1( would face time cmnoni's mouth un.iioved, would take to his heels at the sight, of a live frog, amnd would not recover his equalmity for hours. I have known amian who would not touch mnutton, hiowever cooked, while lie would eat hecaitily of any other mecat. Somq there are in whomil the thought of eating hare or rabbit excites loathing ; some who.: would stmarve rather' thant eat shell-fish of any kinid and there are not a few to whiom butter and cheese etre aboiiinateons. Othiers are equal *ly prejudiced against certain vegetables, but why or wherefore they can never toil you. Skteletoni Loaves. At ma recent mengof thie scientfic comn nmittee of the Royal B~rhtish lHorticultural Society some begutiful specimens of skele ton leaves wereshown, the cxi bitor staut lng thiit'they were prepared In accordlance with these general priciples: For the dis section of lipaves macoration1lp too long mand tedIious, to hy-nothinug of the uncertainty as to the rqs alts. , VTe uise of alkali ini sat uratedi solution is preferable, the spe imens ton be Introdiuced while the liquid is sieated to boin~g poinit. The ime of limnterslon le to be regulmated by'19 chapiactor' of the Varlous leaves, and the '14ture of the epi - dermis to be renibved. Whon the''speel pi en Is freed from epidermis and cellular tIssue, it imst 1be subjected to .the action o'f chilotime to destroy the coloring matter. Tlhie introduction of remoxaiJle of hydrogen nerves not ongytoke ~er th6 lace like speel mens piurei' in qohor,' btf reservde it also. Ini destroyIng tI',e 'colodfig mattet In ferns this ls also habaluable; added to the chlo rine it gives a solidity to the bleach'ed fronds, amid appears to equalize th~ action of the ciorine. For skeletonizi hg cap sules, the sjowv lrocess of macerition by steeping inrahii water Is alone avaithble-a niodorate lie t may be applied to Jiaten tyepu o ss, i, alkalis useles. .' Tifeofily knon ik r vich danlb4 Idedef Is the hymXmkingdyponice. 6' pt'oieida ure q 14betalh rendtys It toa $ sk14106iz 'p. the pertef thist lb frbof It g-Ws. 0kel9 tosIv d 1 arid caiu~ et tOIK in'l1'6 A High-Toned Cook. Mrs. Vandewater has lately exptrknce(d a great deal of trouble In securing a go d servant girl. Ilo last one she had was told to boll an egg hi the coffee, and she put it in whole. On another occasion, when instructed to stuff'the ducks with onions and potatoes, she put them In whole. Site also made apple pies in a similar man ier. Her predecessors were equally neg ligent and ignorant, and Mrs. Vandewater determined to have a better girl at all hazards. It was with the Intention of se curing one that she went to the city. She went to an intelligence oflice and asked to be shown some of the best specimens In stock. A burly girl of thirty-two stepped for ward, and the following dialogue took place: "'Can you cook in the French style?" e'Ys, muil." 'an you get up German dishes?" 'Yes ium." "I shppose you are a church member ?" "Yes.' "You have no objection to splitting wood ?"' 'Not any. "What time do you wake up in the morn ing?" r"Five o'clock; and I can play the gui t ar." "You never kindle fires with kerosene?" "Never, missus, never; and I aint strong mimded. I ain't In favor of women vot lng." She suited first-rate; but before sho con sented to be engaged, she wanted to asic soie (uiestions: ''low many folks in the family?" "Five." "'husband drink any ?'' "No."1 "IDo your daughters whistle 'Pinafore' airs?" "Never." "llaivo you any oil platings in the house, and Aximinister tapestriei, and pots of hya einth on the shelf?" "I have." ''Have I got to hunt off book agents?" "I'm never troubled that Wk." "Do you expect me to wish the dog?" "I have none." "Do your boys go out crabbing and come home covvredI with mud, and ha'ye four shirts apiece In the wash every week?" "'My children are all girls.'' "What part of the city do you live In?" '"I live in Paterson, N. J.'" "Then you can't hire me. I don't go to the country If I knows myself. My beau don't get through work till seven o'clock, and by the time he'd get shaved and put on his swallow.tall coat and get out to Paterson, it would be breakfast time. I don't wan't country In mine. I'm a city gal. 'lhen she took her place on the bench, and waiting for tin eligible employer to comlie along. Oois - "Usually," said Mr. Carter,, "young men who are in a position to handle much chaiige begin to notice the old American cents and to lay them aside. They soon become interested i making a complete series of them and the that then-devolops. Soon they begin wxith half-dimes and then ditmes. Then the qppetite gr-w and they undertale a collectibn .of quarters, and so they go through halves and (ollara. Though in the American minteserlea'there is n6th ing of interest but the date, still curiously enough the few rare dates in lmhio condition will comniand higher prices than the rare coins of almost any other spries. In war timues, when .mioney was higii, I have known an American dollar of 1804 to sell for $700, andi siiuce then dlollars of that date have several times brought as much a $300. Americani cents of 1798, 1799 and'1504l are very rare and brIng high prices. Of course nauchm of their dlerived value depehde on their conditioif-apd cplor.., A coin that does not~show thliithatks of circulation and still bears the m'int lustre Is mnuel esteem edl. Some'collectors take greait pride in matching their selles in color, and' while one has a taste for purple cents another p~refers the olive. 's "Is not this a costly diversiol??" "The American coins can be eolected, with a few ekeeptions of very rare coins, at a slight cost. But frequently when fathers are called upon to pay the bill for the collection which their Sons have made they begln to. take an interest lui. tire sub ject. In my own ease I of course wanted to do something a little better than my son luul done, and I1 began collecting ancient Rloman and Greek coins,'in which I took much interest. In these 01(d coins I found a link to the dead past, and when I read of Greek and Rioman wars and hold Ia my hand a coin of the 'dates in question, or conmmemorative of *8nme battle'ooi- some fighting emperor, I feel that 1 have some tangible connection witiy the pvents which otherwise must seem too,)ong past to be of much lntereht in thuis age. 1'he Roman 4ebin are Interesing for the po~a which they bear of the einpdrors? Au1dIthms one beconmes interested in theo -historysof the people who bougut, and1. Sold witju these antique andl misahappen pIeces of. t;umnped muetal." "What, Mr. Carter, l's the sum'Auce of thme genuineness of thesd old coins, and how can opo trace the coinQ frqua the coffers of Commodus tipronglt the aggs t9,t,1.q collecl. tor's "cabinet, "for instance, in modern Brooklyn P" "It is dlifficult to exphlii how We know a genumne antique. But there are. no two anin niaalkmnsaa and appear ance. andl an expert wyill sort out the coun terfeits-vhhmdro foihmhon, and, as I un dierstand are manufacturo'I in q ntities lin Birmingham-as'readlily' as a b uIk teller will detect the bad bills wh'lch~ mndy pass through hiW hianda.. The appearance of a 4puutte old Ainh t is ui$stakaWje tend ha Rleedmtly at thie Plifolo matitnIe~ o gatint .individualjiwith legs as Itte bI tigd m t~q, siam 4IJte b0xtIn %O th Laisltht he in