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TfRI-WEEKLY__ EDI____-2, 8O EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., NOVEMBER 2, TR -UN9AINGRABLI DuD. They change not though thie world is ever ehanging In memory still they live, the dear ones gone, While others fee, they seemed to tondly huger, To cheer our pathway as we wander lone. They live to bless us ever, Dissevered from us never. The world's great throng is swiftly by us hast ing, Their eyes intent on luing prises sought, While our loved'dead look kindly en us ever, With smiles more sweet than gold has ever brought, Their eyes look coldly never, Iheir love endures forever. Upon our minds, our looks, our senses falling, Time ehiqels changes as the years lit by, Still ehwels none upon the features loving, smiling upon us with an undimmed eye, They look and love forever, UnLindly gazing never. When all our years have fled, the last depart bg, WJien friends have olbanged. have been and passid away, Unohanged our dead are near, the only living Adown eternal years prolonging stay. Our dead desert us never, Are with us now and ever. "My choice is made, sister Belle- Give me your approval." Belle Lawson looked serious. "8tella,"she said, "I'm sorry. Not that I bear Clarence Henshaw any ill-will, but, child, you are not suited to be a poor man's wife. Remember you are proud, and have been reared in comfort. Follow my advice and inarry Henry Lakeman." "Ao, Belle; I wouldn't marry Henry Lakeman if he was a hundred times richer than he is." She slipped a picture into Its envelope, with a long glance at the view it imaged: "It's a lovely place," she sighed, and I would like to live there." "Don't be too hasty, Stella. If you covet this pretty home of Henry Lakeman's, ac cept it." "But I love Clarence Henshaw I prefer a' cottage with him to a mansion with Hen ry." "Stella," she continued, very gravely, "I have acted the part of a mother for many years; my wish has ever been that you form a wealthy marriage. You love luxury, you enjoy display, and I am not saying too much when I add that you wor ship beautiful apparel. Henry Lakman can give you all of these. Clarence Hen shaw cannot. Think well of it. I shall let you have your own choice in regard to marriage." "My mind Is made up," Stella respond ed readily. She tooklup the view, slipping a letter into Its envelope while she spoke. "If I favored his suit, I was to keep it, sister Belle," she continued, touching the edge of the wrapper to her rosy lips, and sealing it with a heavy slap of the hand. "I do ngt, you will observe. "I'll never be sorry, I know." she murmured, turning the envelope to look at its supercription. "Your happiness is within your own grasp, Stella. You'll recall my words some day." And with a stately gait Belle Lawson left her. * Stella ran lightly up the stairs to her own room and touched the - bell in great haste. "You will oblige me by mailing this at once," she said to the servant who answer ed her call, handing him this very envelope, "and," she said, smiling and blushing, "be careful of this, "putting another letter Into his hand. "Leave it with no one but the person to whom it is addressed. Mindl'' she called, "to obey". Three months later they were marred. They were a happy and hopeful couple. The lfe upon which they had entered was like a new and unexplored country, but Clarence meant to work hard, and felt lit tle or no doubt in1 regard to thcir future. - He had been a head beokeeper for many years, and had the promise of something a little better yet the coming season. So the first few months of their married life 'ran smoothly. They rented a house in a pleas ant part of the city, kept a servant, and Btella wore the pretty clothes which had been provlds 4 at the time of her marriage, and wondered why sister Belle had such funny notions about marrying a poor man. But toward the close of the nist year of their wedded life, his firm was said to be under heavy liabilities, and the anniver sary of their marriage found the house bankrupt and Clarence out of a-situation. H~e applIed at this and that place, but month after month slipped by and he found no opening. They moved out of the house and took cheaper rooms in another part of the city. By this time their funds began to run low, and t8tolla wanted something new for her wardrobe. Already she had begun to show signs of discontent. "I shall find something by and by," the husband said bravely. It was at this trying time that a little speck of humanity was put into Stella's arms, and Its feeble cry told that the re sponsIbIlity of motherhood was hers. "I am the happiest man alive," Clarence exclaimed, caresaing wife and child. "Th'le very happiest," lie repeated again, kissinig the baby boy. "?Let pride go to the dogs, Stella," he added, remembering that now his responsi bility was greater than before. "They wrant workmen in the new city hall. i'll teke my ha~mmer.-mt will give us bread. "How can you expect, me to live among such surroundings, Clarence ?" was her ap peal when the husband begaed of her to be of good cheer. "It's truol in you," she sobbed. "I want to be back In my old home among my own friends." The warm glow came to his face, and lie drew her tenderly towards him without a word, but there was a look piteous to see in his handsome eye, while his resolve was to work stall harder. There came a day, later a little--"for some dafs must be dark and weary" when It did scoem that matters had come to a crisis.,. The city hall was finished long ago, the Odd Fellows' building completed, and the last stroke had been given to the new church. Clarence must look for something .new. Jennie, who had minded Freddy for two or three months, had to go, and all the household cares fel. upon Stella's hands. The) had-mov'ad from phaa o nipan since Freeley's birth, hoping to find a house with which Stella would be content. . "But thWee poople are all alike, 'she said, "and I nay as well be in one place as another," was her reply to Clarence, when he suggested that they move into a new block, It was unwomanly in her to say this,she know, the moment the words had escaped her lips, and she thought to have run af. ter her husband and beg his forgivenas, but just then Freddy caught in - her dress, causing her to spill the water she was pour Ing In theitea-kettle, which only increased her vexation. "You troublesome little thing I" she said imapatiently. "Take that I" laying her hand heavily on the little bare should ers. "1 am sick to death with you always hanging to my skirts." Freddy, with the' prints of her fingers still red on his neck, toddled to her side, and tried to climb into her lap. But she pushed him off crossfy, with "Go play with your blocks and horses; I don't want you near me," and her hand was raised to lay on the rosy heeks. "Don't do anything you'll be sorry for by-and-by, Stellet," Clarence said, coming into the room just then. Something in his face stayed her hand just on 1he moment, and she rose to hei feet, flushing with shame and anger. "I thought you'd gone down town," she replied, sharply. "Oh, dear; If I'd mind ed sister Belle I shouldn't have been here. She was right. I had no business to marry a poor man. "You are not qnite yourself this morn ing Stella," and his eyes were full of un. shed tears as he caught sight of the red marks on their baby's neck. "Do 3 ou suppose I can endure. every thing " she cried spitefully. "You are nervous and tired, dear. Come here," and he put his hand to clasp her. She glided from him and went into the adjoining room. Something wet fell on the baby's head, and he pressed him closely to his bosom, as he caught the sound of her sobbing. -I"I have heard something new tis morn ing, Stella, I'm go'ng to New York by the train." "1 ou're always hearing of something now," was her quick reply; but what does it amount to ?" "So I am hoping for something better, and think I have found it now." He rocked Freddy to sleep, put him into his crib, and then went to the door of his wife's room. "Are you going to klas me good-by, Stella I" he asked, opening the door very softly. "I may be gone a day or two." "No," she replied coldly, "you'll be back soon enough." "I will come fse soon as I can; but I might never return, you know." "$ee If you are not back as soon as you can come, with the same old story." Clarence turned quickly, but she saw the look on his faco, and never forgot It. She heard him cross the room, and knew he bent over Freddy's crib, and kiss ed the little sleeper again and again. "He'll come back to me betore he really goes," she whispered to herself, starting up and going toward the door; but a turn in the street hid him from sight when she reached the window. He had gore, and for the first time without kissing her good bye. She sat quite still until Freddy awoke, then with a cry of terror she ran across the hall to the nearest neighbor, with. "Please come, Mrs. Wilson, my baby's dying." Mrs. Wilson came, for though rough of manner, she was kind of heart, "He's in a fit," she said, the moment her eyes rested on the little sufferer. "Bring me some water, quick," she called, "and help to get off his clothes." Stella obeyed. "Hold him so," was her'command, put ting him into the bath. "I will run home and got some medicine. Such women as you amn't fit for mothers," she continued, returning with her hands f ull of bottles. "0, Freddy," cried Stella, dropping on her knees, "if you'll only get well, I will try so hard to bear everthing." "And what trials have you to bearf" asked Mrs. Wilson, You have a pretty home," looking about the room, 'if it was put in order." "It isn't lieo the houses I am used to." "Young people don't enpect to begin where the old ones loft olf. They must make theii- own homes." "I never understood it so. Sister Belle is the only mother I ever knew, and her advice was never to marry a poor man." "Se you keep finding fauft and com plaining when your husband la, trying in every way to make an honest living. It Is a wonder that you haven't driven him to drink long ago." "My baby will get well, won't hot" was said pleadingly, and the poor thing sobbed again as if her heart would break, "Yes, indeed." "And you will stay with me through the night?" forgetting she was one of .those people.' ."I'd stay with you ht whole blessed week," replied true-hearted Mrs. Wilson, "If 1 could make you a wife worthy of your husband." All through the long night hours, while Freddy lay between life and death, Mrs. Wilson worked over him bravely,andi told to the girl-mother chapters in her own hife-experienees. There were passages over ,whlch Stella wept bitterly,- and when~ morning dawned, giving back the cid from danger, in place of the fickle, untea sonable woman, there was one ready to meet life's work with a firm purpose and strong heart. "I do wish Clarence would come," she kept saying next morning. "What detains him ?" she continued, when the clock was on the stroke of twelve o'clock. "What if -" and her heart lay like lead in her bosom as she recalled the look she last saw on his face. "What if he never comes back!" she murmured, going into her own room. "Mrs. Wilson," she called, "whore is my husband." In an instant the dear good soul was be side her her resting a hand tenderly on the aching head, "True-hearted woman? She shruuk from saying it had been a dreadful night on the Sound, and that the steamer had collied with the New York boat. "Hecr husband travels by boat," had boon her conclu sion. Stella caught at her arm, the sound of her voice answering Freddy, and, with a ery she fell. Poor. tired. inexperienced wit and mother 1 Was the ordeal so ordered? With the help of a heighbor Mrs. Wilson laid her on the bed. "iRun for a doctor," she said to Miss Williams. "But you don't knov "I do," she interrupted. "Mrs. Henshaw will have a run of nervous fever, and whether her husband is dead or alive, I can't say." Wnen Stella opened her eyes again it was nearly night. She knew no one about the bedbut talked to Clarence and Freddy and sister Belle. Lats that evening Clarence came in sight of hom Contrary to Mrs. Wilson's con jecture, he came by a different route. He had thought to telegraph, "But Stel la won't worry," be said, "if I am late." The light faded from his eyes and hlo face turned ghastly white when he looked into the rooms. , "Both gone ". he groatiod, walklag from the bed to the crib. "No, no," Mrs. Wilson said comforting ly "Baby's better, and jour wife will come out of this. All she need is good? nursing, and that she shall have," turning aside her head and drying her eyes with the corner of her apron. It was painful to listen to the wild talk. "If I might endure it," Clarence said so many times. When at lengtb Stella awoke from the terrible dreams, her husband was bending over her. "Clarence." she said very softly at first, "Clarence," she repeated, putting her arms about his nec, "if you'll forgive me for striking Freddy, I'll kiss you, 0, so many t. nes." Foolish fellow I he cried like a 'baby. 'Listen, Stella," he said, as soon as he could command his voice, "listen I I did get the situation, and you can have every thing youwant,"touching his lips to cheek and forehead; "and you are going to have such a pretty house in Brooklyn." "All I want is your love," clasping him close. "and that Freddy get well. I'm ready to be a poor man's wife." Bousehold Notes. Ladies who do their own work'will find a garnet ring quite becoming in the marked contrast made by its connection with the white dough of morning biscult. Dia monds are no longer considered in good taste, though they are occasionally used with good effect in mixing gingerbread. Soap should be usea sparingly on child ren's hands and faces. Much money is thrown away on soap that might be more profitably employed in buying bonbons and caramels. Even the children are aware of this fact. The unesthetic gloss on marble may be easily removed by setting glasses wet with lemonade upon the slab. Almost any acid will serve, but lemonade is the favorite agent. A great many young housekeepers fall into-the very natural error of thinking that bolled potatoes should be served with the core au natureL. They preserve their forms much better that way, it is true, but the men folks have got into the incurable habit of eating potatoes boiled into a form less pulp. In canning peaches, mothers should have their little boys help them peel the fruit. A great deal of labor is thus obviated. A mother informs us that the peaches she had supposed would fill six -jars only made live. She had her little son's help in peel ing, and, therefore, got through her can ning quicker than she had anticipated. A great deal of sickness in children may be avoided by parents eating the green fruit on their place themselves. A united effort in a neighborhood is necessary to make this remody effectual. Hens and children are prone to ramble. The only known way to make pickles keep is to lock them up in the store c'oset and then throw away the key. Many other methods have been tried, but this is the only practical one, ld Voteae. Considering that most civilized beings haive worn a suit of new clothes at least1 once in a life time, there miust be a vast quantity of old clothes In the worldi. There ought to be about four million suits of themi yearly contributed by London alone, and it is calculated--for there are no sta. tistics on the subject-that the cast off gar ments of London are muich larger in qiian tity than the cast-off clothes of any city in the world, not excepting Pekin ; for in Pekin the thrifty; Celestials wear out their finery. The old clothes trade is not there- I fore, a Chinese institution. But every town in the world, and every parish not in the town, centributes its share to the1 stock of old clothes. Where do the cast-off< suits ao to? What becomes of these ghosts of decency? What que'stionable shape do they ultimately assume? The matutinal cry of "Old Clo'l ssiggests eli these queries. They let nothing go to waste in the region < of Old Clothes. From morn to nIght, as you pass through it, your ears are dinned with the clatter of sewing machines, or the hammering of the shoemaker, carrying on the process of renovation. The most use less thing in clothes is umade of some use to I somebody here. Every man,. woman and child of them is busy in the pursuit of Mlammon; and so it comes to pass that no] one is peer, whilst many are very rich in I the "'old clothes" line, and some leave it I for ever almost millionaires. They worka hard, and do gcood; gor if all the old clothes were thriowa away, hundreds of thousande of people would be clothed less comforta bly and respectably than they now are. The origin of the "old clo"' man Is one of our social mysteries. As every one living in any suburb knows, he is almost always an old man. He may have been hanging about your house forty years or so. He was an old man when goti saw him first, and he does not appear a day older now. Was he ever young, and 'what was lie when young? Tineture of Insees Fowder. A concentrated tincture of insect powder is highly recommended asan insecticide by Finseiberg, who prepares it by digesting one part of Pei'sian misect powder in ten parts absolute alcohol, and claims that in order to prove edlcaciotus it-should be scat. tered by means of an ordinary perfumery atomizer. When thus used in closedrooms all fles soon drop dead; while scattering It over linen, etc., acts as a protection agains Aeaa. e. A Warm ar's Home in oChina. Crossing a small stream we prepare to enter a farmhouse for rest and refreshment. -As usual, our first salutation came from the dogs, who were speedily quieted by the men. These were Chinese settlers who had intermarried with Mongols,and although the elders retained their Chinese traits of countenance, the offspring were clearly of a mixed race. A number of Tangoats were stretched upon the ground sleeping, having arrived in the morning with a num ber of sheep for the market town of IAang Chu, to the the west. rhe building, in lieu of possessing an iner and outer wall, consisted only of a qupdrangular court yard. On the upper side was the dwelling .houses, with large epen windows. On each side of the doorWay the women sat sewing and mending clothes. Mules and ponies were engaged In the open space threshing out the wheat. This rude oper ation consists of dragging a heavy stone roller to within a few inches of the head of the grain. The grain was winno*ed by men with wooden shovels, who gather it up and toss it agaist the wind. In the house we savy an old crone grinding millet and wheat for family use in a hollow stone mortar with a heavy wooden pestle, The straw was stacked in heaps at the angle of the yard. Agricultural *niplements, of a bygone ago, were lyin around; square harrows, with long Iro prongs ; plows with iumense shares of peculiar shape: the rough carts used for transport. Heaps of manure were lying ardind for future use when dried. The dung of the camels, or argol, as it is called, which Is used for fuel, was to be seen in one of the outhouses. Having obtained permisilon to enter the house, we found ourselves in a square room. The furniture consisted of a round pine table, with some two-legged stools of the commonest kind. Toe picture of the Buddha hung immediately opposite the door. Perilous Adventure la a Small Boat. A short time ago a young telegraph clerk from Otranto, named Salvator Montarini, was picked up on the high seas, at about an equal distance from the Italian a-id Dalma. I tian coast, by the Russian bark Jenny,Cap lain Hallstrom. 3tontarini, two days be rore his rscue, had hired a small boat with 1 the intention of enjoying an afternoon's i 5shing, and had rowed himself out two or i three miles, when one of the sudden gales J ,hat render Adriatic navigation so perilous i irose, and, despite his desperate efforts to I reach the shore, soon drove him out of eight i )f land. For marly forty-eight hours he I itruggled against wind and waves, and con- < rived to keep his tiny craft afloat,although I ie lost an oar early in his involuntary I %ruise, and sustained severe hurts upon his i iead, right foot, chest and both hands. To- I ward sunset of the second day, when he I liad given up all hope of human aid, he es- I pied afar off the smoke arising from a t iteamer's funfiel. By almost superhuman < ffort he succeeded in approaching the I teamer within hailing distance, and I iteo sly implored the captain to take him i n board. The latter addressing him in B'rench, asked him "how much he would tive to be saved," to which barbarous ques ion Montarini replied, "A thousand 'rancs. " " That is too little," rejoined 1 us Inhuman intorculator, and the steamer 6 roceeded on her way. Eleven hours later I 2e was rescued by the Jenny, however, I ilmost exhausted by fatiguo, hunger and t oss of blood, and was subsequently put I kshore at Ivica, where he communicated < he details of his dreadful adventures to 4 he local authorities and obtained their as- I istance to effect his return to his duties at I )tranto. Belies of Frakln's~Men. In the rooms ot the Amerlean Geco graphical Society, in T wenty-ninth street, New York, are collected the last relics of he men who accompanied Sir John Frank~ lin in his Arctic search. Lieuteniant 3chwatka has carefully preserved the very imaliest objtct~s in any way connected wvithi that ill-fated expedition, and they are uow being carefully labeled, preparatory o being placed on private exhibition be oro being sent to England. 8ome of I hese articles were picked up by Lieuton mt Schwatka and his companions them elves; others were obtained by barter rronm the Esquimaux; and the searchers were directed to places where they found >thers by the tales of the Esquimaux whom hey met. For a generation these me nuentoos have been lying in the sand or now, or have been in the possession of he Esqulmaux, and their battered and un lightly appearance can hardly fail to add omething to the pathetic interest that en. !lopcs theml. Bome of the earliest die overiles were made at Irving Bay, and the kat article found there was a rusty pick- ~ Ix, bearing the broad arrow of England t 'till distinctly visible. A wooden block, >art of the tackle cof a ship or boat, some lopper pipes a canvas belt, a pewter pail, ~ Ind sonic pieces of suspender buckles were alo found at Irving Bay. Near Lieuten Int Irving's grave the exploreri picked up rusty tin box, a prize medal, the objeot ;lass of a telescope, somo brass buttons, n >leces of cloth, and small shoe buckleA. rhe most melancholy interest attaches to c large handkerchief from Lieutenant rving's grave, which, judging from its a osition, was probably placed under his a mead when he was ld to rest by hIs voary and discouraged companions. This t a very large, apparently of silk, with a e lark background, on which are fanoiful e iesigns, apparently once of a brilliant red. When unfolded, the handkerchief is seen r ,o be tattered and incrusted in spots with m heavy mold. Many wooden articles wonderfully well preserved have been brought back. They ire part of a boat found by the natives it Wilmot Bay, the prow of a boat from IErebus Bay, the blade of an oar piokod up at Washington Bay, and some snow-shose made by the natives from wood, belonging' to the wrecked ships apd boats. Thten,, there are an old boot and shoe gaping open so widely at the seams, that their appear ance would be ludicrous, did one forget their history. From Cape Felix have boen brouaght thue top of a tin can, marked "Edwards' P're served Potatoes," and bearing the knglish I coat-of-arnme; the top of a glass can, mark ed, "Powell, Bristoi;" a pair of scissors, some buttons, a piece of porcelain teacup, some shot, a piece of untkraclts coal, anu A a forlorn old hair-brush. At the boat' place in Erebus Bay, a aor was found. The broken blado. half eden up hy rusti still swings on its pivots, although the handle is broken and chipped to the last point of dilapidation. There are also two combs, or rather the remains of t" combs and some fish lines. The top of a boat mast, with the small Iron block and ring still in place, and a piece of a measuring stick, have been brought back from Star vation Cove. Some wire gause, osee usei in snow goggles, came from a grave east of the Pfeffer river. A sled-rope and buckle were found at Erebus Bay, the latter being from a grave. At Wall Bay were discov ered some bullets, the staves of a cask, and an ax. The latter was found through the direction of some Esquimaux. From the same place are a tin can, marked "J. Cowen, iron monger, Woolwich," some tin cups, canteens and boxes. The bowl of a spoon in this collection was given to Lieutenant Schwatka by an Inuit. A large roll of lead was probably carried by the survivors of Franklin to aid in repairing their boat. The uses of a moldy strip of leather are not clearly indicated. Some heavy blue cloth, half decayed, was taken In parts from graves. Among several pieces of iron, belonging to various im plements are some sharply notched spear heads. The copper that Franklin's men .ither took from the ships for repairing purposes when they started southward, or )lse abandoned with other articles in the ihips, has been turned to a variety of user Mblily, if not entirely, by the Esquimaux. [n addition to the copper plates there are many rude fish hooks fashioned out of )opper, with bone and lead sinkers. The )opper appears again in some curious Lnives. The heavy handles of whale or valrus bone, are from six to eight inches I n length. In some cases the handles have 4 )eon cracked and are wound with small i itrips of hide. One knife bas a blade only I wo or three inckes in length, while in I mother, the blade Is crescent-shaped, like 1 he domestic chopping knife, and the han. a lie is of drift-wood. The most curious umong these knives ia a dagger made en irely of bone. The handle is slahtly iotched, and the long, narrow blade is oncave on any side. Among these knives I tppears an instrument of bone and iron re iembling somewhat a three-pronged fish pear. The iron and copper in these in truments undonbtedly originally came rom the Erebus and Terror, but they vere made generally, if not in every case, )y the Esquimaux The same is true of I ome heavy hammers and one or two little ares of copper. Among the other relies of Pranklin's men are the shafts of a spear, a ome little iron wheels and bits of tackle. Pour large blubber stoves, still in a fair tate ot preservation, have been brought . rom Irving lay, together with a fragment i a shovel. In the basement of the build og occupied by the Ueographical Society, Aeutenant 8chwatka has placed the run iers of a sled used by the unfortunate men a a their journey southward. They are teavy pieces of hard tihber, perhaps live aches wide and three in thickness and fif een feet in length. This completes the ollection of relics that Lieutenant Schwat a has discovered. Lieutenant Irving's ones, are of course, carefully packed way. Feeding on One's "Ir. r When the human body suffers from a %ck of food it practically fceds upon it elf and absorbs its own substance as food. ivery one knows that certain animals nor mally exhibit this process of feeding upon j hemselves under certain conditions. The i umps ot the camel or those of the Indian attIc visibly decease, and may disappear f Itogether, if the animals are starved. A uperfinous store of fat, In other words, is nado use of under the exigency of hunger. lo it is with the bears and other animals j vhich hibernate or sleep through the win er's cold. The bear, which in autumn , etires to winter quarters in a well-favored a xmndition, comes forth in spring lean and g neager. His fats have been absorbed in e uls nutrition, and the succeeding summer o vili lay the foundation of new stores of aj taple food to be utilized during the next j vinter-. With man, we repeat, the phe..o- e iomcna of starvation are essontlally simil- t ar. In the starving man the fats of the >ody are the Brat substances to disappear. rhe fats lose weight to the extent of 98 i >er cent.; next in order the blood suffers; hen the internal organs, such as liver and a pleen suffer; the muscles, bones, and nor 'ous system being the last to lose weight., e n due time, also, the he'at of the body de- a reases to such an extent that ultimately a loath in a ease of starvation is really a 'j aso of death from loss of heat. When the samperature falls toabout 80 dog. Faren- | cilt death ensues. This decrease arise t< rom the want of~bodily fuel or food; but * he hnmmediate cause of the fatal ending of c uch a case is decrease of temperature. It , a likewise a curious fact that the applica- *j Ion of external warmth Is even more ef- , actual in reviving animals dying of starva- f on than a supply of food. In exhausting g iseases in man, in which the phenomena a re strikingly like, and, indeed, thorough f analagous to those of starvation, the a uine facts are observed. Lest the Cembanation, "You can talk abont wrestling, gentle len," said a man on the mackerel barrel, but unless you know my famous lock atch, you've no business in the ring." ' "What d'ye call your lock ketch?" ' sked a man, who was cutting his name in ' cracker box. "I don't believe I can ezpiln. it, bu ? hero don't any one want to tackle it. It' ~ sure throw every fhip, and no man can ~ ieet it." "Wot does it cost to learn?" asked a I ian, looking up from a game of solitaire. "If a man is wrestling with mo he's lla lo to get it," returned the man on the ' sackerel barrel, "and if he can remember 4, he's so much ahead." ''What'lt you wrestle fort' Inquired the nan who was carving his name, as ho shut ip his knlfe. "Is one round o' comfort for I lie crowd any temptation to yern" "I'll go one for the gang,"' rejoined the 1 vrostler. "Collar and elbow grip. Catch iold. Rteady?" Then his antagonist raised hims an'd I Iropped him and wiped up the floor and I mnocked over the stove and broke the fur- I miture-with him. "Lock ketch didn't .com .to work, did I ti" dryly asked the man. with the cards. 'Leastwise I didn't notice it when you put t on.s* "iWall right, gentlemen," panted the I yrestler. "1 made no complaints. It's I he best catch in the business, the look a atch, only I reckon I've temporarily lost I he eombinatioa.. What'hl yon ave?"-' Lodging in Leadon. Americans who desire to combine com fort and economy in traveling, are begin. ning to find that London lodgings are both pleasant and inexpensive. In them a family soon feels thoroughly at home. Your cares are few. Everything is cosy, good-natured, and neat. Life Is without ailgles. A short confab in the morning as to what the day may need, a short stroll among the most amiable of providers of bread and fish and milk and meat-for they do their own marketing; a little maid, pretty, in white cap. and polite, who three times daily appears and deftly arranges the dishes oli your table and removes them, who says "thank you" to whatever you tell her, not without incongruous unsulta bility sometimes; fruit-vendors flock to the door, and serve the most delicious berries upon grape leaves. But, after all, you have romething to learn. Your own pur chasing will amuse you, and your land lady's trst weekly bill will both amuse and amaze you. In solid column it will foot up every item of your consumption or alsing. Apartments are so much, and then everything is extra. The soap you wash with; the candle which dimly attends your undressing; the bath-tub that presides at your morning ablutions; the washing of lowels, table-cloths, napkine ; the firr that leats your water and makes your coffee Ind roast your mutton; the salt and mus. ;ard-item, "condiments" one shilling Flverywhere you detect a handy percentage or your hostess, and yet it is not an ox ensive luxury. Who Is it that says of Africa that it is a place where one may live n a state of nature and be happy? Here mo may live in a reason able economy, mntortured by daily contact with things oathed in housekeeping, while he enjoys ,he comforts of a cosy home of his own, in which he is never interfered with under my circumstances. in Deop Disgust. "Now then," said trampNo.1 to No.2 as hey turned into Montcalm street from ffoodward avenue Detroit, "here is the ;ame, you walk down the street and ring he bell of some house; when the lady an wers, you tell her that you haven't had mything to eat for three days. If she lon't care, tell her tlat you are desperate ad ready to commit any crime. If she tarts to slam the door on you, hold it open vith your foot and roll your eyes and look avage. i'll arrive just about then, and I'll ake you by the neck, slam you around iud pitch you out of the yard. I'm the ady's protector and the hero of the hour, rou see. I'll be very modest and claw off, Put I'll tell her I'm a stranger and need i o quarter to buy food. bhe'll hand it >ver, and I'll join you around the corner oud divide. bee I "Magnificent I" replied No. 2; "you ought to be in tjie Unnd States tSenate I Neill here I go." He passed down the street and selected house, and the programme was carefully ollowed out until he reached the point vbere he said he was desperate. At that natant the hall door was pulled wide open, and a six foot husband shot out with his Ight hand and knocked No.2 clear off the Diwer step. No.1 was Just rushing in, ud six-footer thought he might as well ill two birds with one stone, so he gave im one on the jaw, and when tired of v alking around on their prostrate bodies ,e flung-them over the fence. The tramps mped down ta the corner, looked at each ther in deep disgust, and then separated Drever. Indiano atnopping. Miss Fitzgibbon in writing in relation to lanitoba, says: I watched some Indians [lopping, and was astonished to see how ivariably they waived aside inferior goods nd chose such materials as merinos at 1,50 to $2 (7s. 6d. to 108.) a yard. One1 f the merchants told me it, was useless to ifer them anything but the best. An In Ian, who could not speak English nor 'reneh, and wanted five things divided his ioney according to his idea of their reha yve cost in little piles on the counter, andI 3ing through a pantomime description of is wants, was handed first some silk hand erchiels. ' Taking one up he felt it, held up to the light, atad, throwing it aside, C hook his head vigorously, uttering an 4Ugh I" of disgust. When shown a better ' no, he was doubtful ; but, upon a much ' uiperior article being produced, he took it, ud willingly handed over one pile for it. I 'his, however, was too muoh, and when lyen the change ho put it on one of the thor pies and proceeded an the same way > make the rest of his purchase. "flow asily they could be cheated," I said to the lerk after the Indian had loft. "No," aid he, "net so easily as would appear. 'hey generally come in from their camps i great numbers once a year, to sell their urs and make purchases. TIhey go to dif irent shops, and on their return compare otes as to the cost and quality of their oods. Then, if one has paid ' more than nother, or has been cheated in quality, he dill never enter the shop again; and the rm that gives the greatest bargains is most atronized on their return." An Artificial Monaaster-y. Thie owner of a' rich villa, a Sieilian oblemian at Bargeria, near P~alermo, has fondness for satire, which lie has ex mpillied in a novel manner. After occa ying it for a time, he turned it into an arti elal monastery, which yon understand nly after entering it. in the cloisters you es groups of n.onks standing, sitting, and neeling, and you are about to retire, be eying that you have invaded their pri 'acy, when you discover that they are wrax.. They look exceesiingly pious and oloe, as if they had entireiy relinquished ublunary affairs, and fixed their hopes and boughts on a very melancholy heaven. Jhe sarcasm hi'is in their exactrosemblance a face, form, and manner to the noble uan's different acquaintances, noted for heir worldly and seJltish dispositlons-wl& red egotists and sycophants, who frcquent he tatiles of the rich and hang on the fav irs of thme titled. Trheir secular expression s skilfully blended with one of sanctimnon ousness, and yet the likeness is aocurately >rescrved. The effect is ludicrous, and hie figures are stinging sarcasms embodied a wax. The orhgiinais do not like it, a. nay be supposed, but they do not want tQ iuarrel with the nobleman, of whom they peak as a humorist that will have his way, nd so try-to hide their chagrin. A an er of now toad-eate:. have, carefully kept uway from the hiclian's entertainment$ earing that they shalt be reproduced in hi.s nonexey. BRIEFS. -The even ing high school of Boston . -0 has about 500 pupili cf both sexes, " mostly adultF. -Tile Second International Geolo v cal Congress will be hold at Boli0z 1 In September, 18s1. - 4 -Bell, the telephone man, has bdeil W elected professor in Johns 'Hopkins University, Baltimore. -r , , -John E. Owens, the ator .hs given up the stage for mining specu - lation in Ban Francisco. -The British Parliament has ih'i; creased the grant for scientific expert-. ments from $5,000 to 25,000. -The Testamint has been printed i eighty-four languages, and the Ol Testament in 187 languages. -Ofioial records show that in 1879 the railroads of New York state killed 409 persons and injured 826. -In 1810 there was a heavy frost in July all through the New England V States and the corn crop failed. -An amount of blood equal to the whole quantity of the body passes through the heart every minute. -Of the 35.000,000 acres embraced within the limits of Iowa, only 13,000, U00 acres are under cultivation. -An estate near Hampton, Va., for which $75,000 was refused before the war, was recently sold for $95,000. -A new comet. with a tail fifty mIn utes long, has Just been discovered by Professor Harrington, of Ann Arbor. -Another lake village, assigned by experts to the age of bronse, Las been discovered at Auvenler, rear Neucha, -Thus far this year there have epn built 3.938 nulles of railroad against 2. 28 9miles reported at the same time-In' 1879. -Bob Toombs, of Georgia, proposes at last to do something practical by building a $200,000 cotton factory Ii that State. -France sent 309,268 soldieri t6 the' Jrlmean -war, of which 10,240:were tillcd in battle and 85,375 died' from >ther causes. -The Synod of the Russian Church A sending a Greek priest with some 40VO to purebase a site for a ohurqh in ian Francisco. -Providence, R. I., has twenty-five iational ban ka, with a capital of $15,.. 45,000 and $3 251,208 surplus and un-, livided profits. -In one German nity, Breslau, there tre 8000 people who do no - receive their orrespondence until it has been;' ex-, unined by the police. -The Pope, it is stated, will. soon lismiss his "Swis Uuards" He wilif till have his "Noble Guard" and th 'Palatine Guard of H1onor - -A joint stock company, with acapi al of $1,000,000, has been organised at L'oronto for the purpose of dovelophing he tiiiber-resouroes of the Dominion. -The Postal Savings Banks in Italy hke in twice as much money ast they >ay out, the institution being co4sid red safe and convenient by the people. -The earnings of the. -Manhattyi levated railroad company during the irst six days of October, amounted "' 84,254.10, an average of 18,040,35 per lay. -The Chicago fruit trade amounts to 6,000,000 yearly. About $500,000 ,re-. >resents the value of the Californts nd West India fruit imports to that Ity. Doiring the year 1879 the earaings of he railroads In the United states were iver $500.000,000, or nearly double the intire revenue of the national govern nent. -There is said to be 10,000 buffaloes ,etween the end of the Northern Pa ific track and Dead wood, D. T., drive vithin the limits of civilization by thi ndians. -J udah P. Benjamini recently suffer di a fall from s carriage which injra urm seriouslyi. Ho lives in Paris irit ie family and goes back to Lonidon vhenevor wanted. -Of sixty-seven queens of Prattee nly th irteen have dited without leaving heir histories 'a record of misery and in. Eleven were divorced, two e uted, nine died young. A boy was carrying two pourids of 'owder and a fuse in a cigar-box, at libraltar. Pa. 'The end of the fuse iroitruded and a practical joker was at and to light it. The explosion killeJ he boy. The smallest newspaper In the world B the Modoc~ Star, a weekly published n Canada. Th'ie size is royal 04 meo,, ach page being 82 inches. It bears he apt motto, "T.1wiakle, twinkle, t. he star." -The ancient English Church of Sb. ilchael's, Winchester, is about to be eostored. The base of the tower was uilt very early in the rain- of King oh n, fifteen years before the signIng if Miagna Chiarta, -The observatory founded In Call. ornia by James Li'k is ini good Wrork.,. ng order. It is 2000 feet above the og range, and altogether 4200 fee' uigh, on Mount Hamilton, sixty miles outh of San Franclsco.. . --Salmon have boon so abundant Isa Ian Francisco binee the expirieuep% 'close time," September loth~ hey have sold in large numibrsat ight to fifteen cents apieoe. The suypa ihy for o day was twenty-ail thou. and. -There are five men to one wotaan n Leadville, Cororado; at Silver' 0Oli he ratio is seven to o ne; at Pitkin1 evonteen to one. The older - itiesior' JoloradIo, such as Denver,. '#lp94q, ipringe, P'uebio, Georgetown, 1(oulJer1 entral and Golden,'show a fait 'D~rif >ortion of wvomen. -The one-hundred-ton guh at Wo rich was tested by 6ne disohargo; ots he 18th of September. This gun velghe 101 tons, is SA reot long, wisih ? ireech iameter of aix- feet. The bharge was 425 pounds of power arid4 >rojtetile weIghing 2,021 pounds, 17 acnes in diameter, andi neari, t4ixee --The exports of refined, petrolea irade and iiaptha,irom ports,fromAR 4 to OIAIl1, 1880, ar~e as follows ;i;q Sostouy 8b8l 1,887 galions; ?so.Vh.1 ~ i Boiphita, 44,691L,686 galLons;-'b nond, l,00,'J408 g alLgnal rorkO .16,72,6 gallionas to U27S0; wotal Loxport4,.Aronjt states, 258.66,086, i