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WINNSBORO, C., AUGUST 24, 1-NO.102. VT~PVrlm ICTUarnn-nT___ The flake, fall white and fast and soft -tl In a no144 Obi10o0the v446. 4oft, Ans hiiial *rid,g5 fair a On slith i browih breast throug the darkened air ; So reft-the rose-bush looks and wan, mill Metbinks her blooming jo all undone, for .And leafless tre4ndad,j and low t.hc epeath their branches' crown of snow. roh A robin pased in his flight too long In his frozen tbroat is a silent Bong; And.novermore shall his dead heart beat With its love of the norland true and sweet. Southward bin winged spates have flown, a But this redbreast died at' home alone. tile Through the b.lded boughs you may dimly h1o see I Aebird of snow in a oedar-tree - Al My life, dead birJ, Is the oe9dar-treo, frh And my heart iu its branohes is dead like thee; pol Twas red as thy breast in its love and youth. But tiue snow-flakea fell on its truet and truth I When the singers hie them on ballpy wing To leafy arches in pomp of spr.ng, be Their merry carole may mook the hito, bel but th.ne and mine shall bi chilled and aute! she die 'I The Hand of Fate. per she After A Ilford Dunout married Annie allu Lee in a fit of pique aud jealousy, Ellen' and Harland, once his betrothed wife, suf- bleq fered more than words can tell. Sat %he had loved hin in her wild iasslon- in t ate way, -and had nbVer thought she conld' You lose hint; but she had trusted t'oo much in 'J htcr own power, and another woman was sol the wife of the young millionaire. She out nearly went mad with rage and pride and wit] wounded passion, but she had sense enough wer to hle her heart from envious eyes. As il 1 as long as she felt that inWilford's presence A she would turn pale; gte loig as she coult froi not bear his voice or glance without wic m1(c ing, she kept out of his way, under pre- i tence of visiting an aunt at a distance; but in the sprightly Ietters that she wrote her bittl friends, she spoke of being rlad that Wil- the ford Dumont had not felt her dismissal of a c hini to severely too be comforted. And aI when she was once more mistress of her- and self she called upon the bride, and Mrs. the Dumont, who knew nothing of the old he love story welcomed her heartily, and told hers Wilford, on his return home, that she was fron, delighted with lia old friend Miss Har- 44 land. sec. "She cannot have cared for me," thought sIt Wilford Duiont. with a pang no husband goin should have felt at such a thought, but the Eve little wife never guessed It and it lid not idle harin her. She returned the young lady's gay call and an Intimacy began at once. .80 t that, when the Dunonts wont to tnear A] place on the Hudson for the summer sea- a nl son, Annie sent a warm invitation to Miss -tle a Harland. - Ellen thought it over. It was an offer not th u to be despised by a fashionab'C girl with a bach small income. A She desired to marry, and iotels at wa tering-places were expensive. All the sef men of, they set- would be at Wilford Di- look mont''at one tine or another. The neigh -laok boring residents were people of position. host She could'dress aiid ilirt to her heart's con tent, and Wilford could see what: W prize L he had lost, lven-whle slo gave liIn plain- She ly to understand that she was glad she had wh14 escaped the natrimonial yoke. And then kno she wrote a loving note to- Annie, a.nd held stan an inteAview with herjp'esaker. And Wilford Dumiont-well lie had She loved this girl, and had married Annie be. SOil bause she had made him angry. And self " Annie was so-sweet and mild and gentle. her, And now lie was waiting for her coining WIva w'.th a guilty feeling In his heart. lieth ad wanted to aeeker, to sit b)y her, to hear an her sang. As her host, he' couleldo tls, at least, Hie went to the depot to drive her fr home. 'Annie hadl, of course, expected lham to do that, but she had not expected nea what followed; for when they wvere in the all little wvaggonette side by side, and she turned and looked into lis eyes, Wilford tma Dumont had kissed 'the gIrl. ft wvas nilght; ted and, though the moont was brighit, th~e shady lanes which'~led to Dumnont Park were still and- lonely. No human eyes looked clown uyon thoem, and their lips lad :An met so often-oh, so oftent-bef'ore. .on ln Elen dr-e a 1. i slaclrlet, ~ You forget you. are a marriedl man, cor si'." an~ .And Wilford answered: hoe "'Yes, I did forget. Pardon mec."ha That and nA>thing more. Then there lIv( was slence, each of those two suif'ered in a different way, and yet somehow there was fes a pleasure in the pain. ,,'fli After thljt(ey goijld grot stad ota .tile ,y caln, friendlyfoSit thae'fiiboth hoped heo for. He, at least, meant no wrong. She' tha had hoped that he might be regretfusl of the gir past, but had not dreamt 'that lie would tue dare presume upon it. .liC For an hour or so after--thie eening was tha over--the long NirinOr tha nusie in the he. parlor, the da.i, tha.w k in the mooplight, gra with the fd1I j' yi arm about her do, waist--Ellen intemidaf to make lhef ; itt 3m very brIef.' Ina little while, howevei, sho ir changed her mind. She would staV. -Yes lo0 stay; and this wife, who bstedl t9 her of hie her husband's, lovp, should sui er ~ little 9 also. What.was she to>come between them? of And now all that was evil asserted Itself In Ellan Ifarland's heart, sand where evil once kn abides it grows stronger dlay by day. so. She laughed, she lilrtedh, she dlancedi with other anon, but she met': Wilfoi d aloiie by de the banks of the river. She sang d(iets th with this one, looked merrily lnte the eyes q1 6t that, blat in the lonely wioods she sat by Wilford's sideo with hals armi about her c waist. ..ca T1hey talked freely of the past niow. lie tii had confessedl that she w*s yet maore to eh 1 than any ot her woman; more than his sting, Unsuspicious wife. Only that ,o life stood between tlie,ip, and often, 9ileU.lookq.at Annie, aiofelt that she oid be glaw to see her in her cofflin. 'et the end of her vielt approached. She at go, since she would have no excuse lingering, and in her absence might not wife win the heart of one who already s.ted aad admired her, though his pas a was another's? $urely. lo, with the fiend's whisper in her ears, en Iarland one day walked out alone, king the purchase of some little trille in village 'an excuse for a solitary ir. Por a while she battled with her hate for nde, knowing her to have none but ndly feelings to herself, but it over vered hr at last. 'If that.little thing were dead," she said, hould have Wilford for my own-I should he lady of the Park-honored, admired, -ved. N>w I-walk here alone, while fills my place. If she would but 11 Ilien, suddenly-surely,Satan was wiis ing in her ears--she reiembered that had heard of a drag, which, though. an oat instantaneous poison, left little trace was tasteless. For a moment she trem I and fiung the suggestion from her; but n is strong. There was a drug store le village, and the proprietor had left a ig, emptypated clerk in charge. 'lie poison , which would not have been by the older man to any stranger with a doctor's prescription, was dealt out iout a thought by*this boy, and Ellen it hiom1e witithe tiny puckage hidden er bosom. unie was watching for h6r pming ci the veranda. 8he came fori'rd to t her guest with a sweet smile. '1 P 'ihe others have had lunch Iaid ii t I waited for you. ' I have ffit-Oar table dbt#hi'Ahe b'W41IAd,I with view of the river. We shall 1)14 en she led the way to the dining.room,l. tossing her hat and inantle on a sofa young hostess poured the coffee and led a cup to her guest, taking one for =If. At that moment some one called I the hall: Joine, b3th of yon; something to was only a great pleasure barge g up the river with a picnic party. ready for anything amusing in those 9 tours, the household always made a pretence of deep interdst in these par- c mue left the little room. Ellen delayed aute before she followed. In that lit lace of time she had emptied the pol- I ito poor Annie's cup ot coffee, and 0 it the crumpled paper that had held it, into ler-bosonm. inic returned first. As she seated her- r she happened to notice that the cup ,a( passed to Ellen was over-filled. It ad untidy, neither had yet been tasted, I with the natural impulse of a careful I a, Annie changed the cups. te did sne guess what she was doing. C only.destred'to set before her guest that qh was neatest. And little did Ellen I m what had happened in that brief In to looked to see her rival iun' pale. ;vatched for some token that the pa1 ad begua its wvork. Instead she her felt a strange faintness creeping over was conscious of a sudden agony. It brief. The fate she had decreed for nnocent young wife was to be her own, it came to swiftly too leave much time hought; efore the man who had ridden fast and musly across the country to find the rest doctor, had performfedl his errand, ~as over, vying, Ellen Hlarland understood only In some way Providence had outwit her. -- Pray for me," she whispered to Annie. dare not pray for myself." nd with her hands held fast between ibe's, with Annie's tears failing fast up er pillow, Ellen died. iey found the crumnpled paper wvlth ison" wrRdeki on it, in her bosom. The iner's jury gave a yerdlct .of stiid4, remorse' illed Wilford' Dumont's t-for lie believed that Elleni Ilarland killed herself 'because she 'could not without him.. n his trouble lie made a sort of a can don to lia wife. No man ever made a and true one under sucly cirvmymstances. at 4ne gathiegdd fr'anij it . as, that own attractions had made himn forget so of Ellen Hlarland, and that the poor couild not endure the sight of their mu tendlerness: and Bo to this (lay she be-; ecs, and often goes wvith her husband to elhurchi-yardl whierg Ellen lies, andi with own falf hands plant flowe rs upon the vye og the woman who would fain have ic her to death that she might win for owp the jmiuan4'whof tli6igh not as e adid perf'ect- as AnnidelletesWs'huim, now 's her very fondly; loves -lher, though remembers, with a pang, the passioigg attro(who, as hie fan le, died for love him. n this worldl the truth wvill never be >wn, anid' it is better that it shouIld be ENCgUsNl straWborries ,are sm,ihl, it Os n6t fellow that t,bere are more of inn to the quart, for the quart s frc antly ispade 'stollier to match thle aw beraries, A RkPORTERI who attended a banquet nel uded his dlescription with t,he radhd statement that "it is not (di ictly remembered by- anybody pres ,t who imade the bauit speechi. iaukt rJForia. In the winter of 1870 1 was encamped in the great Turnbull swaiip, ninety miles t south of j. Augustine, hunting deer, bears, wild cats, cougars, and wild turkeys. There - was a great drouth, and the mivninas and t swamps were dry. Scores of alligators paraded the dry savannas Ii search of water. One day Capt. Frank Sais and Tom Murray, two eil-known guides, rode past the encumpimlent. They were looking for sour oratige stumps, with the attention of tratisplanting and grafting them. A t hundred yards fron camp they reined n their horses on a burnt savanna, and began to shout. Snatching a double-barrel gun, I ran out on the savanna. Their horses were prancing around an enormons bull alligator, who had crawled out of tile dry swaip a and who was headed for the 19illsborourl river. He was confused by the shouts'of c the guides and the prancing of their horses, t and I approached him unseen. Stealing C behind him I au a long paltnetto splinter in his eye. H1e turned lumberingly over the blackened stubble, and the guides struck at him with cowhides. Driven to wearl- a ness, he crouched close to the ground 0 puffed out his throat, opened his cavernous b mouth, and made a noise like the rushing 0 of a wind. A moment afterward I dis charged a load of buckshot into each eye. Tit, monster shuddered and stretelaed him self in the agonies of death. Capt. Sams dismounted and buried his axe in the rep tile's tail. The vertebra was severed, and Ie was no longer dangerous, although there )a was still life in the tail. It moved slowly e and uneasily, like the tail of a wounded ti snake, and theguides declared that it would c0 not,dle until the setting of the sun. At b intervals the cayman roared like a Central Park lion. Toward night I went to the swaaup to mark the roosts of wild turkeds. p The day was oppressively hot. I was returning towards camp long after dark, t( when I found myself upon the burnt savan- c na. To my surprise, the whole savanna di 3eeied a ive and moving. Nearly worn n Dut with exhaustion, I fancied that my b liend was reeling, a sure sign of malari-d y, [ever. Tle phenomenon was quickly ex- ft plained. A thousand buzzards were in the 3amp near the'great alligator, awaiting the rc light of day to secure their prey. A year at iterward I found the skeleton of this iaurian, and knobked out its t.eeth. The cc mnvanna was then covered with water a la oot deep. w In the following winter I was sho)tlug gi luimed herons on the great savainns at the th lend of Indian river. My guide was the w vell-know'n Judge Coamor, once a Metho- se list clergyman. * One morning, while rid- fo ng over the vast prairie on horseback, we at net an alligator longe than the moral Jaiw 'Shoot him." said the judge. ti 'Oh, no," I replied; "I don't want to ot ill him. The report of the gun will scare p every lcron within a mile, and I shall oll et no plumes." th "But, Lord blast my buttons," said the adge, "he eats my hogs and yoing calves n the range. Shoot him." ik ei1J 'fj Plumes, and I don't intend to go ack without them." "Well," said Connor, "you're the first tic ankee I ever saw who won't pull a trigger su n a 'gator." "I'll take a look at him. anyhow," I le' aid, as I hitched my Iforse to a .palmetto lel idwAy between two creeks. The grass an 7as kigh and rank.. As I walked toward lie reptile lie raised hiniself on his- four i "gs, opened his jaws, puted out his throat Pc ike a bullfrog, andi made a noise like the Lumming of a buzz-saw. I stopped ten dc ct away, and stamped and shouted. The at udge sat .upon his horse watching the pro cedings. The alligator did not quail. yC )n the contrary, he squatted close to the ;round, and began to creep towards me as cat would creep toward a mouse. Walk- ar ag back to the palmetto, 1 gathered five or Ix of its huge dried fans, held them toward I ny body, struck a match, and set them se iblaze. The ugly monster watcelrd me Ike a dragon. I held the fans down, hid- pm ng the blaze, and nmarchied 'toward him. ini Iis lhugo mouath was open, and looked like ii anewly-bricked tunanel. ,Within reach, I i uddenly raised the fans, and thrusk the gi )lazlng maiss in his throat. Hie closedl ds ponderous jaws, turned pale, and ran. [lgghting a fresh fan, I ran around hin, aettmng the coars'e, dry grass of the savanna >n fire. He wvas encircled with fiamws. Ele raisedI his body, gazed at the fire with I0 bipodshot eycs, and then shuffled himself Ci into the w.et sandl, and calmly awaited the ir result. There was a fair breeze from the at northeast. In three inutcs the fire had St i*ept over him, buryins: him in the black- t( mned grass. lie renmalned as lie had planted n hImself. 1 wecnt through the smnoke and ti touched him with the barrel of the gun, 5 but lie did not move. Hie seemied dated ; s~ possibly lie had fai'nted. I remounted the P horso,, and we rode off. A hundred yards si away we'looked back. The monster had Ji recovered, and was traveling leisurely over a the smhoking savanna toward a little stream g that pours into the head of lIdian river, a Two years before this I had visited Lake l Worth, twelve miles below Jupiter lighitr I At that time Charles Moore, a jolly beach comber, was the only person livmng oni the 5 shore of the lake. We wenit through an il arm of the everglades, and diepositedl our camp equipage and p)rovisions on the hiardl ' sand at the niorthiern end of the lake. The r sand was frungedl with liuge rushes. We Ii had hauled our boat over the strip of sand a sep)arating the waters of the lake from thei everglades, Intending to rnm down to y Moore's cabin before suindown. The wincd, a however, died away, and., we concluded to t camp for the night. We fouand a clearedl spot in the gerub a hiundred feet back from. the shore. Ridge poles an(t cro}ched( posts ind(icateid that it was a favorite camping groundl for the Seminoles. On returning to the beach I fonddl a twelve-foot alligator 11 crawling toward our bag of pork. A score of companIons were anchored o1! the rushes, and one or two were gllowing in his wake, Oin hearing my footsteps the ohci' gllow turned apcd aced mec. Our guns lay on a chest withiff t.aree feet of him and we. were cut off from 'ur base of supplies. Moore and Hammond, a Pennsylvanian, 1 who had preempted land on the lake, I joined me. We shouted and hieavedl ridge. I poles at the savage scoundrel, buit it was I nie go.. iIe hbld the pass and his compan ions were moving on the pork. 3omnethmag must be done praye woud be lett without provisions. Mly eyes fell on a bed of dried palmettoeg that had been used by the Indi -1 an.. To gather aid set them ablaze was the work of a few seconds. With the flam ing mass we advaaced 6n the great lizards. la the light of the blaze they retreated to the lake. We susp,ended the bag qf pork from a tree that hung over the baic., an.. a the mormng the sand looked as tho ebol brigade had been thrown reaches. % 'Tho inlet connecting the lake witi cean has been closed by a bank of brown up in an easterly hurricane. hi bank I encamped for a week. Bc 'f spot.ed bass, snappers, groupers, cro ad white drum had been shut in the y the closing of the inlet. At hilgI lie water fron the: ocean perco brough the sand, and ihe fishes swa > the bay to get a taste of the fresli rater. While fishing here I discover uge alligator regarding my movei rith apparent interest. As he so iVL and not evily-disposed, I threw I a twenty-pound bass, and he ate it relish. For six days lie remained ie, reaping the harvest. lie at las Lite so tame that lie stationed Iii jirty feet away, and received his fish vident pleasure. Nur did he act the r display any ingratitude. He took to fish that were thrown to hi. Ai me a vicious bluefish snapped the bove the float, and a huge white drun IT with the bait. I followed the float oat and secured it. When I returne Id alligator was at his station, and a r choice fiah that I had reserved for bif were undisturbed., That's a tact. "That's a fact," said Mr. Hopkins a hid down his paper the other evei every man, woman and child in the c y ought to know how to swim. Nc in tell what minute lie will be u own ip or knocked overboard. Ain mi going to learn you how to swim." "Learn me," queried the wife aw aused in her sewing. "Yes, you. Your life is very pre< me, and I don't want you to lose ii Luse you can't swim ashore when an 4 ,at takes place. I can swim like a 4 kyself, and I feel guilty to think li .ei married twenty-one years and )U'd go to twe bottom like a stone if i overboard." "Why, I never had te' least fear," plied. "There Is always soeie 01111d to rescue a lady," "Mo one wants to depend on heroes. urse, I'd jump into the water to sai y; but there are lots of men ouldn't. Stand up, Amanda, and let ve you Ihe motions of swimming. I en, put your hands so, push them ard so, take a sweep and bring them 1 . See how easy it's done ? You mu rget to kick every time you move 3 Ills. She went through the motions sev nies, but so awkwardly that he ca "That isn't the way I Tle iotl ght to be perfectly natural. Now imni it you are out on all excursion. "Yes." "You suddenly grow dizzy and tuu adlong Into the river. .iow what ns would you make as you rose to rface? What Would you do? "Well,,if a hero jumped In after me Ln my hehd on his shoulder like this him put his right arm around my w (I support me until help arrive(." "Hero be-hanged I A hero would 1 3e holding up one huudrcd and al unds, wouldn't he?" "1e'd look as nice as you would n't believe you could keep your I ove water to save your life." "I couldn't, eliI Then I won't li u a single stroke about swlIming I" "Then you needn't I" "Ani If any man ever jumps overb d rescues you I'll punch dis head I" "And if you ever jump in after anyl .now I'll have to pay the funeral ox s out of my share of this property I" "Very well," said Mr. -Hopkins a it on his coalt, "I ace I am not wa my owvn house. If I am not hom ght it won't do you any good1 to telep] e at, the ollice, for I shall have the ice Withou,t. w reezin,g. A new skating surface, called "cr e," has been invented by Dr. Calati its, of Scarborough, England. Cons g that after all ice is merely a crysta ibstance, and t,hat there is no lack of ances that are crystalline at ordi miperature~s, Dr. Calantarients ex entedi with a variety of salts, and afi imc suCccde in maiking a ilxture sting mainly of carbonate and suipha >da, which, when laid as a floor by an, can be skated on with ordhinary oates ; the resistance of the surfac 1st equal to thait of ice, It looks like rid indleed when it has been skated ori ft "cut up" a little, the deception Is utonlshling; a small experimental floo een laid In the skating rink a Prince's as proved1 so suiccessful that no dour irgo floor will be laid there or at her convenient phace in the autumn. oor wIll obviously hiave great advant oth over art,ificia Ice floors, whic cry expensive indeed, and over floor ller skating.. Tlhe floor can at any e made smooth again by steaming wi pparatus for the pur~pose, and the self, when once lai:l will last for ears. Th'le mIxture of salts usedl cor bout 60 per cent. of wvater of crysta on, so that after all the floor co: hiefly of solidi (ied water. *"ir. IIenry i" At a plitical meeting, the speakeri ud(lence were very much disturbed inn who constantly called for Mr. II YVhedevbr a new speaiker came on the hIs mant bawledl out, "Mr. Henry I Henry I Honry I I ci ir. Ilonryl1 -After several interruptions of thfl it each speech, a yoiung man asicend<( >lat formn, and was soon airing his eloq n magnitlcent, style, when the same n >efore was heard bawiling out at the I ds voice, "Mr. Henry! Henry! iHenry I1 'or Mr. Henry to make a speech!l" TIhe chairman arose ane'l refnarked t would ob)lige the audience if the g nan wouldi refrain from further calli W1r. Henry, as that gentleman was peaking. "Is that Mr. Henry ?" said the dis >f the meeting, "Tihat can't be Mr, 11 Why, that's the little fellow that t( to holler." igh a Nellie and heC mLittil Lamb. up Two yea's ago a band of gypsies uIm- Th the camped at Ginger tidge, near West Union, Loril sand Adams County, Ohio. The farmers in the hard On vicinity missed sheep, pigs and poultry, no I hools charged theirlosses to the gypsies. The dent akers leaders of the band were -arrested, exami- only lake ned and discharged for want of sufliclent iII tho A-tide proof to convict them of sheep stealing, speem ited pig-sty pilfering and lien-roost robbing. the I rned The gypsies moved away, inutteringtthrepts cherr salt against Mr, John iainforth, their prindI- to th ed a pal prosecutor. They crossed the Ohio was aents river, and encanlled on the Kentuckyshore. aniou amed On the same day little Nellie lRahforth was for V l11D missing. She Was a four-year old, with Robe with smny face and golden liuir, and was last (oun near seen playing with a lamb on the ledge of a Bend be- rocky ridge, a short distance from the the f ,nself house. Tho pet lamb was gone too, and imanil with neither Nellie nor her lamb could be found One 0. hog, anywhere in the Ginger Ridge region. lng91a only Rainforth charged the gypsies with steal- stood, One Ing his child, and with assistance ransacked deteri line their Kentucky camp. The little golden been I ran sunbeam could not be found in the canipt Minst in a and the gypsies denied all knowledge of the candi I the child. Still they might have known, and for I pile some story-tellar in after years might find had mly- the materials for another romance of Nellie aMniU Rainfortlh'sgypsy life. At all events, the hangi -- parents were convinced that their child had est of been stolen by tile gypsies, and might somcI Lorillt lay turn up alive and well. There was prove, sone consolation in the hope. The other reach( a. le day Rainforth lost a sheep, anUd got on the som1et ig, trail of its disapperance. There was blood blue % Dun- and wool on the grass and across fences went 1 1One where the lost sheep had evidently been down dset, dragged. The trail led to a cavern in a selves, nda, ledge of rocks, with an openinr large ning, enough to admit the body of a man, but save she nobody was willing to crawl into it. A wis. c blast of powder widened the apporture and Or wit 30bus let in the lighit. It wats a cave of bones nlot at I be- and horrors. . The blast had killed a black lifting M snake full fifteen feet long, and two feet clent I l,ck around in the thickest part. The sheep was (lte '0 VC lying on the floor of the cave among the "dran yet ghastly relics of serpents' feasts-dead and cIiem1C YOU sinmy. An explorer Picked up a small hu- was 1 man skull and handed it to Rainfoitli. Ile last t she said, "Poor little Nellie." The mystery and il lero was s ilved. Th1ie gypsies were exonerated. one of The rest of Nellie's bones--all that could turned Of be found-were gathered together and nounlc4 'e a buried near where she was last seen play- lat,er v01o ing with her lamb-and a veracious cor- shout < me responiuent of a New York paper saw the the joJ low snake and vouches for the whole story. heai I for- That there might be no doubt about tie lHossito aek human bones and to whom they belonged. curse, si't a gold chain which the child wore around lie hall our her neck was found aniong the bones. too lit, The mother of the child was nlot informed ed ini eral of these discoveries in the black snake's returni ie du, or the funeral on the ridge, as the -wha father preferred to let her dream on that Were in 01s her little golden-haired girl is alive among to carr ,Ine the gypsies. the Su F1rencli gation into the history and bresent condi-i conie t kbie tion of the fisheries of the United States wonde io. forms one of the most interesting and im- amon, the portant, inquiriesin taking the telthI Coils. least i, it is placed in charge of Prof. S F. Baird, lnoble I'd United btates commilsoner of fisheries. highly and His final report will include imports and aist exports of fish and lish products from 1820 to the present tiine, besides foreign Ali ,ok shipments. A few of these tables have iety been prepared, an(l exhibit som0 remark- 4o11 abel features, such as the growth of the verltaij I oyster export trade from $85,089 11In 1860, and g< ead when the first reliable information begins, Well, to $453,301 in 1879, and the decrease in to dliim arn exports of sperniaceti for candles which in young 1836 was $841,907, and in 1857 was but nurser $35,121, since which time it has gradually -131 ard fallen off to a condition of absolute stagna- kitteiE tion. The.work is divided into several see th< (tdy sections, each one in the hands of an ex- port bi on- pert In his particular branch. It. E. Earll a "Fa work has been peculiarly successful, rc- The s lhe suiting in a discovery which Prof. Baird poe nted pronounces one of great importance. Th'le entere to- most important, food fish of southern wa- that at ione ters is the Spanish mackerel, 1t is only ini saft vire found in certain localities, however, and 'sg~ has never been propagated because no0 one tihe ok knew when or where it spawined. Mr. "B, Earl, after careful watching, found that, d'ye in the lower part of Chesapeake bay, known stable' as Mob Jack bay, was the place andl June and1 fa fatal the time. Next June the Fishmhawk will seeing tari. be taken to tihe spot and, with her impirovced might ider-- apparatus, take up a quanttity of the eggs, sO, yO lline whiicTi will be hatched on b)oard and sub- more. sub- sequently dlistribiutedl in favorable local- -w iiary ties, If tihe young fish survive, the well- ate o11 p)eri- known principle that they wIll at any risk into ti er a or labor return to spawnm to the Apot wvhereol 01a coin. they 11 a si w light is dlependied on to insure 11idd(1 te of their first residence in thteir new habitation. "I) this Ab)out fifteen new varieties of food fish woodl ice have been already aded, by the labors of 'p, e is this dlepartmlenit of the census, to the 173 eeg ice, common food tishes of this country. Prof. '.y andl Baird contemplates the formation of a per- ''g luite mianent b)ureaui for the collection of stati's- dlo ye -has tical information in1 co,nnectlin with the Bhe ht ,and fish corannission at the close of the present in it I bt a work.- ________ there seof itj This 11ow Ramiliroad Timo ,s Ke01,1,a.( ages, i lare There are in use between Albany, and( i for New York thiirtecen electric clocks, tw o of time the inmber being placed in the waiting th an rooms and one in the dispatcher's office lit On floor the GIrandi Ceintral dlepot, New York. Thie ward nany time on the clock in tihe dlepot at East Al- cent3 talns bany corresp)ondsi exactly with the time mn sat um hliza- New York. Enchi one of these clocks is down asists connccted wvithm the general superintendent's spire( office in New York, in wihmch the railroadl ed, hi tiiie is kept oin what is called the "big hour, 'clock." Conductors, train mteni,and( others said:. are compelled to keel) their watches in "L I an(i strict conformity with the superintendent's sun-s by a clocK. It is set by stand(ardl timle and con. " enry. nlectedi with the service department of the ply. itand gold aiid stock telegraph. The time is "'I dhistributedl over the line eacll weck (lay as shad<(1 di for follows: At teit o'clock fifty-eight minutes "I andl three seconds1 A. si. the wordl "timie" is "I: kind sent b)y the main ollice to the telegraph asket d the stations between New Yol'k andl Albany. "~ tience This word ia repeatedl for twenty-eight own man as secondsl, (huring which tine operators must dead, op of ee that their inlstrumiients are adljustedl. At S1 ten o'clock an~d fIfty seconds, seconds, was call conmmence beating and continue son ( for fifty seconds. TIheo word '"switch" is the< that then sent over the wire andl operators hay- "' entle. ing electric clocks connect them imumedia- is th< ig for telSy with the circuit known as number nine sit oi now wire. Ten seconds are allowed in a ichm corn to make the connecti".l. At eleven A. ii., ter S urber with one touch of the Now York key, the jmn enry I hands on the different clocks are set to deat Id me eleven o'clock. If they are fast or slow can they change all at once to the hiomr named,. anyt Rot Day-sit Down. The captain of the Central Staion, De. troit, had a day-dream cf burglars rudely shattered the other day by the event of a gaunt, tall woman about forty yepsr of age who carried a closed umbrella in a threat ening way. She refused his salutation of: "Hot day, imadam-sit down." but slowly advanced to the desk, gave it a rap with her umbrella, and solemnly asked: "Am I a human being-a person-a woman?" The startled captain was so long In an swering the question that she continued : "If I ain't I want to know it, and that's what I am here for " "What is your case?" he cautiously in Ituired. "Why, I've been passed over by the census men the same as if I were a (log I Not one of the gang has been near me!" 4 Iaven't, eiI Well I suppose they have missed a few." "But there Is some spite work about It, ind you can't make me believe there ivasn't " she exclaimed as she waved her iveapon around his head. "They might tccidently miss some little dwarf of a Nonan, but how could they get past me? tell you.It was a put up job, and I don't eel right over it." "It won't make no great difference, I tippose," mused the Captain. "low do you know it won't?" she in lignantly demanded. Don't I live here ? )oU't I count one ? Haven't I just as nany rights as any other woman? Do I >clong In the census of people or of goats? know when I am stepped on as well as 6nybody else I" 'It's too bad." "It's eican, that's what It is! Every &d polk of a maid on our street, every girl nd every old woman, has got her nanie iown, while I've been left out in the cold , If I belonged In AfrIca You've got to inke this thing right " "Me?i" "ies, sir, youl Now the, write It own. i'm forty-three years old, and no ring. I've been married three times and i the mother of nine living children. My r,ther was born in England, andi my moth r in this country. I was born In New 0rsey, and my occupation Is that of a ridow who don't care two cents for all the ien you can pile into a ten acre lot I (Jot lat all down ?" "Yes, but you see-" "I don't see nothing. If I am put In the Hnsuifl, all right. If I find I ain't there, ou'll see mc again I Good (lay, sir I" With that she gav6 her umbrella an extra ourish, upset the chair on which she had :sted her foot, and sailed out without, a ok behind. HIs Hoeou,ld Dei,arment. One day recently anll editor was startled y a whole tornado of raps at his saflctui TtIdFna'nt detetrmiatiom oler face, and dish or pan under her arm. "Are you the-the-party who said In at week's paper that salad dressing could o improved by an ounc of cayenne and ine powdered borax?" said one. ''1- I-suppose so," admitted the edi >r. "Ohl you are, cli," said the woman, isplaying a sticky green compound. Well, perhaps you'd like to finish this it. I've got four children home at the oint of death from It now." "Andyou are the miserable 11 r who ated that the only way to clean sealskin as to boil it in iulk I" screamed another, olding upi) what appeared to be a drowned uppy. Look at that I" "l-r-ahem-really-" mumbled the 'retched journalist, "the printer must ave nixed it up with the broken china cli." "And didn't you print a recipe saying uat a fewv pinches of copperas gave a rich ark color to sponmre cake? My husband as been throwing up steadily since the ay before yesterday morningl" sobbed nother, exhibiting what appeared to be ai uink of stone coal. "Yes," put in aiiother irate dame, hold ug up a tattered basque; "and y'ou said lint vitriol would take ink stains out or 'civet. You disgusting old piratel" "I-I-tidnk it must have been my as istant, Clipemn," stammered the editor. "I lon't think I wrote anything for that issue rxcept a leader on our "Accursed Moiio >olics." '"That's too thin," shirieked another dhe rastatedi female, putting up a green vail aud displaying a parboiled countenance. 'Didnl't you advise me, dlownl at the mari tet, yesterday, to cut out your infailble )rlental recip)e for taking out freckies? .It ,ook 'em out, andi the skin wvith 'em; aund ho doctor says it is two to one I never see ut of that eye again. Therel You're wel meii to wvhat's left!" And the half scalped victim broke a bot Gle on his nose, while the rest hammecredl ibn over the head with ssprted1 slabs of Lidigestion, built according to the Clean np's speelieations; rammed unrison douighi lui his mouth, and poured a coal tar, arse ime and sulphur remEedy for chicken pip down the back of his neck When they were done, the mouiler of public op)inionl picked himself up, iimnited for the foreman'samallet, smashed the stereo type "llousehold Hints" into forty thousand bits, kicked the dlevil downstairs, and went out to trade a special notice on the first page for some courtplaster. Saved il,s ,5rot.Im,r. Recently, a boy of about twelve went up street in D)etrolt, at such a rate of speedi that everyb)ody who saw him was satistleud that lhe was running for a doctor. A man with a kindly expression of countenance caught the flying boy by the arm and asked him: "$onny, Is there any one right sick at, your house ?"' - "No, but there will be if you dlon't turn mec loose." "Who is it, buffy? "Will yer let me ~o If I tell yer?" "I will, my boy.' "Well, then, it's my brother Bob. HIe will be a remains before night if I don't got home right off. You see, we 'have ecu eumnbers, green corn, clabber, watermelon and cabbage for dinner, andi if I ain't there to get my share he will founder himself andl die. Please let me go -so I can save my little brother's life." /A GECNTLEMAN4 nmiing Lad whisky punich a little to hot, M$u w Jt with hits breath to coQl it, "!Biio lomg your own. horn, I see,"' said ti4 tcomrad.e Engand's Derby. ere were a few Americans around Mr. ard's Boreas, at the last trying very to Iancy he mnight win;but the colt has 'ry gentlemanly air, and it was ovi r,bat the racing blood of the States was to be represented by a commoner; yet race he seemed to show a turn of for, passing Sherwood's, lie went to lead, and carried Air. Lorillard's r and black hoops in front almost mile-post. The betting at the start principally marked by the large lit of ioney thrown Into the market, on der Tann, the strong position of t the Devil, Aluncaster, and Ercil !, and the comparative opposition to Or-for how a horse having shown, >rm that lie had shown, and stripping estly well, should have had two to Tered against him, instead of odds be Id upon him, is not yet quite under But, perhaps, the reasons of this nined hosility were his not having ried at home, and the Duke of West -r having Aluncaster so dangerous a late, and not declaring a preference end Ur. However, If Bend Or ?)astInIte enemies, lie had a vast it of firm friends, and the cloud ig over hun only added to the inter. the race- After the start,which Mir. %rd' 8 on of Saxon vso not ably im 1, and as soon 118 that point was d when position began to mean iung, the color of white and sky ?ere seen leading the field, ani(k a cry il for Robert the )evil, running the hne faster than the horses them. On caie the Devil, brimful of run md nothing emerged from the field Bend Or, but the yellow and black osing very slowly. At the bell Bend s a beaten horse. But Archer was jeaten jockey-and lie fell to fairly his horse along, while the self-sutl ilockhelad, Rossiter, u,t "the Devil" I stiff, with the egotistical idea of ing it fhie." The strain of deep ex nt as Bend Or grmdually drw upi >ninfully intense, and when, in the wenty yards, the pair Joined issie ow past tae post the s -ne was m1om1entar3 maIness. Every glance c to the one SIlOt Its the judge pro id his verdict, an([ when a moment i 'No. 7'' rose in the air, the ringing 1 1 exult ation that urose seemed like t cry of a mighty nation. A short and Archer's riding did it. Little !r must have cursed a bitter C for no -)ie knew so well as lie that Y called on his horse just ten seconds 3. In an instant the track was turn .0 a stormy sea, surging arounl(d the r, ng jockeys. What roars for Archer I( ; a madness of enthusiasni There ten there who wouli have rejoiced y him ill triiniph-those who, On Wday before, had seen him pluck the b Deiby froni the lIrefer M. ' y . vlIl lie bt.LatIl, ArenCI A O- o lie best jockey that ever lived. A a -ul popular Derby win it was; and the ciuses for gratification not the If as the sympathy felt for Bend Or's b cwicr, a thorough sporistan Uan td (so honable a man. irishi 1111nn111er1 of 11t0bilipig a At e10. 49 r folks" have got a Biddy of the It lest, kind. .h was a queer duck >od nattired "as i basket of chips." tst Sun(ay,am we were sitting down a ier we found the 01( cat with three % grimalkins largely engaged in the 1 r business under tie table. Idy," sa(I we "'take this cat and her and put them Where we shalh nee.r y mI more." A hint of (Iealdfll imll- I it not understood. ith mir, that I will." feline family was remiovedl, and1 we t Lied to dinie. By and biy Biddy re I, w.th aii impression on her face y emedl to say, "he (dad, 1 guess they're a keeping niow." 311 Biddy, whiat have you (done wvithli cat and her kittens." gor, sir, they're safe enough, sure ind the wood1 house forninst the i Well I puit them all ini there, stened tile dloors and windles. Then, there was a hole b)esidecs whlere they get out, I stopptedi that, up too and Li see, they won't troiible you any were sIatisfedl ''av course," andl( we r (diner in peace; afterwards walked ic yardi when we saw the "dlntical" amid her kittens at liberty. Calling we said(: dl you say youi faistned the cat in the house 14 nth tan' I dhid sir.'' 'i stoppedi the hole?" as sir " eli, she had, that's a fact but what suppose she stopped( the hole with ? id stuck a section of a stove pipe We thlought we would split. And sat, one of the little imps at, the mouth uist as5 it crawledi out licking its paws, >oking as sausy as thutndter. "Get the ulige on EUm." one of the hottest corners' of Wood avenue, D)ctrolt, at hugh noon re , a small boy with a boot-black's jit diner the full blaze of a sun pourlhig for all it wasq worth. The boy per I, roastedl oistered andl almost melt it lie 1had stuck there for htalf an when a had1y passing by halted amid itt,1e bio?, aren't you afraid of being ruck '' (es, maii'am," was the prompilt re hen wvhy don't 'you get inito the can't." idl anyone tell you to walt here ?" sheo I. ro, marml, but I am (doing it on may 11ook. It's awful hot and( I'm miost but I've got to staind it." c looked to see if lie was f.led, andlI ibout to go on and regard hun11 as the f a blrutal father in a saloon arouind Lorner when the 18ad explained: 'here lie is nowi That boy up there chap I was walmg for, and I iiad to t here to see him when lie turned the ~r. lie's the feller that called my sis poke-eyed rabbit, and I'm goIng to in on him and lick him most to ii I wishm you'd held my box so I get the bulge on iiln aforo he AsuspctIs lmnr."