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TRI-WEKY EDITION. WINNSBOR09 S. C., DECE~MBER21180. VO VNE1. COMED1 They parted, watn clasps of band, And kisses, and burning tears. They me in a foreign land, After some twenty years; Met as acquaintanoes mots, Smilingly, tranquil-eyed Not even the least little beat Of the heart upon either Side I They cbatted of this and that, The notbings that make up life; She In a Galusborough hat, - And he in black for his wife. Ah. what a comedy this is Neither was hurt, It appears: She had forgotten his kisses, And be had forgotten hr.r teas. The Golden Dollar. Sunset burnished the apple trees and checkered the path winding through them and crossed the ragged and discolored coat of the man crouching in the tall blue grass, munching a great red apple. There was a raxenous look in his glittei Ing black eyes as he turned then restlessly from side to side; a ravenous expression in his pinch ed and swarthy face, and something ex ceedingly ravenous in the way he set his small white teeth into the apple, and bolt ed the mouthfuls. There was also an alert look in his eyes as if he dreaded detection, and he shrunk back behind the tree, and crouched lower In the grass, as the laugh of a child and the patter of little feet came down the beaten path near by. There came simultaneously with these sounds the clatter of a horse's hoofs on the 'turnpike road beyond, and the hun gry black eyes, 9eering through the tall grass heads, sw the blue dress and white apron of a little girl flying down the path towards the gate, and a !arge bearded man entering it, and at the sane time throwing the reins of his horse over one of the posts. He stopped and held out his arnis to the little girl as she ran gleefully towards him, and folding them around her, tossed her bghtly upon his broad shoulder. "What's that?" asked the colld, cling ing with one arm to his neck, and pointing with the other to a small bag he carried in his hand-a linen bag lettered with blie. "Aloney, ny little lady," he said, shak ing the bag until it gave out a metallic ring. "Little, shiny gold dollars,as bright as your eyes and as yellow as your hair." "Give them to me, " said the clild, im periously reaching down her dimpled hand. ."Too many," he said, shaking his head in her imprisoned arms, as he walked slow ly up the path. "It's too heavy for yoh." "iow many?" she Inquired, still reach hag down her hand. "Three hundred." he answered ; "three hundred round, yellow dolilirs, and l1 give you one of them with a hole in it to wear around your neck when we get into the house '" And they passed out of sight, buns egg- e.nc n1 nm m The mau-he was a very young man scarely more than a boy-croiching low in the grass, stared hungrily after them, until their voices, as well as their Jorns, were lost to his sight, and then, as, he rais ed himseif to a half-sitting posture, he muttered: "Three hundred bright, shiny dollars oh I "and there was given to the respiration, long drawn out, an exceedingly ravenous sound. ie burnished light died on the etctOps, to be replaced by the adve- tissue of moonlight. The dove ),.shed her silvery Song on the hill no'. oy; and perfect quiet s;ettled down ova' the white washed house in the orclWd, where the bearded man slept wia the golden head of his mother less -imid on lis breast, and the bag of wi4den dollars under- his piilowv. The ancien, clock shows in the dim light of the night lamp like a tall sentinel in the corner, tolling out the seconds, throb by throb. With a preparatory gurgle in its throat, it hoarsely proclaims the hour midnight. Its voice drowns the slight noise at the wilndow, as the sash slides up. A dark figure, with eyes that gleam in a pale scared face, ceeps stealthily through and stands within the room, breathless and shivering. The head of the sleeping man moves, restlessly, and he throws up one arm, raising a corner of the pillow, and an end of the blue lettered bag becomes visible. The silent figure, standing like a statuie near the window, steals noiselessly towards the bed. and reachung out a shaking hand, grasps the bag of gold and begins to draw It carefully from its hiding p'lace. Just at that inoment the blue eyes of the child open, and she shrieks out in affrighit. The sleeping man suddenly awakened, springs fronm the' bed, and fastened his hands on the neck of the throat of the in truder. "Thief I" he exclaims, "you would steal my money, would you ?" And he shakes him until the slender man in his grasp sinks upon his knees on the floor, gasping and purple-faced. "Papa, don't, dion't, i" and the hands of the child grasp and tug at tier father's arm. "Lt him go I" she shrieks, "-lot himt go I" As these words, half pleading, half comi mnding, and wholly [rightened, ring through the room, the muscular hands drop from the throat of the victim, and lie spurns himi with lia foot. The blue letter ed bag has fallen upon the floor. "Go, you scoundrel l"lie says in fierce anger, "but for the-child I think I should kill you, sneak thief that you are 1" The man remains crouched upon the floor, and look about him in a dazed way. The little girl goes up to him, and hals bef ore hun. "Did you want to steal papa's dollars? There's too many of them, and you oughtn't to steal-it's wicked. ll give you one,"anid she draws a blue ribbon upon which is suspended a gold (dollar over her curly head, and gives at into' his hand, which mechanically cloees over it. "Eva," says her father, sternly, and he reaches out his hand to take back the coir. "Lect hin have it," cries the child, stamnpinag her saal, baro foot, impjerionshy, and again her fatther hiarkens to tier voice, ano drops his hand. "Go," 'le says, contemptuously, pointing to the open widow. "Go as you came, Uhrdugh the window." The man, grasping the blue ribbon it his Aingers, rises slowly, and goes to thu window, and ohmrbe out. Bie returns anm coke back, and sees the child Eva standing at the open easement. "I was starving," he mutters, looking at her. "Poor man," she says, "buy something to eat with the gold dollar," and as he goes away into the night she leans her curly head out of the window, and calls after him in her sweet voice: "Don't over try to steal any more I" Years afterward, when the child Eva had grown luto a beautiful woman, and when the apples dropped upon her father's grave, and the whitewashed house in the. orchard had passed into other hands, she was pre sent at a brilliant assemblage. She was among them, but not of thei; she was there not to be amused, but to amuse; she was not a guest, but only a voice. "Who is she I''inquired the diet luguished statesman In whose honor the assemblage had n.et. "Only msy governess," answered the vel vet-robed and diamond-decked hostess. "But she has a wonderful voice,' she add ed, aprilogetically, "so I had her come In to sing." "The statesman :ooked after her with strange Intentness. "What Is her name ?" he asked. "Eva, Errom,"answered the lady depre catingly, as if she thought somehow the name might be offensive, and should there fore be spoken apologetically. 'rhe gentleman was looking at the black robed figare ot the girl at the piano, whose wonderful voice was thrilling through the room, and he made no response for a min ute, and at the end of that time he was the centre of admirers and satellites that were always eager to gather around hi1. Later on, when the marvellous voice was hushed, and the black-robed form had van ished, as was expected, with its sound, the political star with his circle of satellites was standing near an open window looking out upon the flowery lawn, over which the moonlight lay like a silvery mit. As he talked to those about him in his cold, proud way-for it was said of him, that he was all brain, but heartless, so far as the tender passions were concerned-he glanced oc casionally out in the night. And in one of these glances, perhaps, he saw the figure moving like a dark shadow among the trees. Five minutes afterward he was making his apologies and adieus to the regretful hostess who bewilled the.pressing business which called him Away; and then the sta' faded from its satellites, and the very walls seemed to mourn the light withdi awn. Miss Errom, the governess, wandering alone over the lawn, hearing a step behind her, turned to find the star shining upon her obscurity. He stood before her in the moonlight with his bared head bowed in a kind of reverential manner that bewildered her. Alter a sta tled ionent In which she had involuntarily hqlted, she bent her head C slightly in acknowledgmueot of hispresence, ad was about to pass on. "Pordon me, Miss Errom," he said do. c taming her with a gesture; "I have follow nt'ance, wmAi ilu...A n-- ~-- a~ me. of the great debt of gratitude I owe u youi." "You owe me no acknowledgments." she said, interrupting him, and speakina f coldly, while she drew her Slight form up C haughtily, in the moonlight," It my mu- 8 sic has entertained you, I have given it be- I cause I was hired to do so. I am a paid 1 governess in the house and of my own free will would not have entered the parlors to night," and with a haughty Inclination of the head, she again made a movement to pass on, and again he detained her by an almost imploring gesture. 1 "Miss Erron,' he said, "I beg that you will not misconstrue my motives in seeking you to-night. I have sought you for five years, "and he looked steadily Into her face, I as she stared in a kind of' dumb bewiler ment at him. "Whatever I am-whatever I may be of good, under God, I owe to you." ils voice was low and vibrating, and he stood,as lie had stood throughout the inter view, in a reverential attitude before her, with the muoonlighst sllvering his bowed head. "I don't understand what you are say lng," she stammered. "Probably not," he responded. "The little drama in which you took a part with me years ago, and which lifted me out of darkness into light--out of vice into virtue -would naturally make a deeper impres sion upon me than upon you, a little child." Still ese stated in dumb bewilderment at hsim. Hie reached up and drew from his bosam a strip of narrow, faded blue ribbon, on which gleamed a small gold coin. "Do you remember this?" ho asked, holding it towards her. Shie stitred from it to him, and a faint recollection seemed struggling into her face. "I don't know," she said confusedly. "I seem to remember someth ing about a goldi dollar which I gave to-" "Exactly I" he said, "which you gave to a midnight robber. It hsas been mny talis man ever since." .*And lhe touched it rev erently withs his lips, and replaced it ins his bosom. "But how-. Wnere did you get it ?" she asked, in ambzement. 'It was to me yout gave it,"1 he answered. "And you were-"' ese commenced, and halted ini the speechitworking her fingers nervously together. "I was the would'-be-robber," ho said, "and but for you, would now be tilling a felon's cell or a felon's grave," and lie dropped before her as before a presence not of this earth. For full five minutes ho remained stanid mug silent and bowed before her, while she stared at him with the bewliderment slowly passing out of her face. Whens she spoke it, was in her own natui'al tones, unbroken by embarrassment: "It has beens a dead secret, as it were," she said gently, "all these years. Let it remain so." F'rom that evening for several months the velvet-robed aud diamond-decked host can of the stately mansion became t~he en vied of all the other aspirants to the states. man's favor, by the attractions her home seemed to possess for him, 10 frequent were his visits. And ambitious parents andi blooming daughters were scandalized when six months after, tihe great political star,en tering a carriage one morning,met the gov erness at the gate of the stately mansion, and driving with her to alittle church near by, qnietly married hor. .Witing. The first method of presenting thoughts to the eye was the pictorial system. rhis mode of writing is quite profusely given in the Egyptian hieroglyphics. which the priests employed in a symbolical and alle eorical manner. "The eye, for instance, became a symbol of Providence, the bird an emblem of swiftness, the scaling-ladder a representative of a siege." Chainpollion claims that the hieroglyphics are divisible into three distinct classes, the symbolic, the phonetic ial figurative signs. It Is unknown when picture writing was in. vented. Some writers aflirn that letters came into use when -the abbreviations of pictorial signs became necessary as the system extended. For example, two hands and a' bow took the place of an archer; an eye and sceptre slgnified a nionarch. In time even these curtalled signs were found to be Inadequate to the wants of the people in giving signs to thoughts. Figures were employed to re present language and its separate organic elements. It is unknown when alphabetic or letter writing was first discovored. It Is supposed that Moses was acquainted with the art of writing, which proves that its existence was know n at a very early period. The Greeks and Romans asserted that the Phwnicians we-e the inventors of letters. Some attribute the invention of letters to Moses, others believe that Abraham. knew the art of writing, and we are also told by some learned historians that Abel knew the use of letters. The Jewish Rabbi say "God created letters on the evening of tue first Sabbath." A very singular invention of a syllable alphabet is related of a Cherokee Indian, who was ignorant of the Englisli tongue, and could not read a word in any language. This poor savage succeeded In producing in 1824 an alphabet so complete that lie was able to write a letter. The Cherokees were delighted, the youth of the band travelled a great distance to learn the new art of writing and reading, which fron the peculiarity of the alphabet and language they could acquire in three lays sulliciently to practice themselves and to teach others. I'ypes for printing in this character have bcen- cast. The appearance of the lan guage thus printed is singularly uncouth md barbarous. The invention of marks for punctuation s ascribed to Aristophanes, the famous F Ireek gramnarlan. Abbreviations of ( words were not made in ancient. writing, t )xcept upon coins and inscriptions. There t tre extant some remains of an ancient sys- L em of writing in which all the characters a re formed by diferent combinations of I we simple element. No satisfactory F nethod of interpretation has ever been iL liven of these writings. Of all books now 11 n existence the writings of Moses and the a look of Job are considered the most i icient. h The Mexicans used the pictural method 0 f writing. It is related that "they ap- V rised their King, Montezuma, of the land- a ag of the Spaniards by means of a linen c loth, on which this event was represented D imns, beginning at the bottom to read. he Japanese and Chinese also write in olumns, but they read from the top, going 1 rom the right to the left. The Germans trat wrote in the Latin characters ; their lphabet was not in general use until the hirtecenth century, The "monastic" alpha- I et was used in Germany as early as the N leventh century. About the time of the toman conquest writing was first prae iced in Britain. Tie several forms of Prencli writings derive their names from lie different races of kings who have ruld hat country. The Greeks have ever manifested great 0 inthusiasm in promoting knowledge. Tme 1 irst library that is known was collected by 1 ?isistratus, who lived at Athens. _ King attalus had a library that conitainedl 2009, )00 books on rolls. Trhe celebrated library )f Alexandria was founded by Ptolemy P~hiladelphius; it is said to have numbered r00, 000 volumes. It was destroyed in U42 IL. D. The first private library is sup-, ,osed to be the one founded by P. Emi ius, 167 B. C. The first, public library was founided by Asmnius Palilo, in the haill >f the Temple of Liberty on Mount Aven .ue Augustus founded the celebrated ibrary in the Temple of Apollo on Mount Palatine. The'lo mans had several large private lib~raries. 'Tyrannio, a native of Pontus, who was taken prisoner by Lucul us and brought to Rome as a slave, and receiving his freedom. taught gramimar and rhetoric, investing much of his earn ings in buying books, and is sa d to have collected a library of 30,000 volunes. U'onstantius established a public library ait Condtantliople. Its contents increased from timie to time to 120,000 voluimes. It was destroyed b~y fire in A. D). 477. Iiindhmag a lirenco. Tomi Newlanai nas an indian who places a high estimate on Is equestrian ability. There wvas a horse to be brought to town a few days ago and tihe Indiani was given the job. He was told ho was "bronco," but it was "csa bueno me sabe." Hitch lng the animal to a tree, he carefully placed the sweat cloth on him; thon the blanket, the bridle and the saddle; at each p~erform-. ance giving vent to a satisfiedi "A'a, hash," each ejaculation growing intenser, till he got into the sadidle. All this time the "bronco," l.ooked as5 unlike Alexanuier the Great's war horse, Blucephialus, as a car penter's saw-horse. rThe lIndian started, lie gained the crest of the hilt wh~ere tho scrub eak was thickest; heo turned and gave another "Ah, bali," which was followed so closely by "whoa" that it sounded like a compound word. Then something rose to a few feet in the air, went back and rose again. There was a cloud of dust, a heap of Apache talk, a hlash of bright colcres, and-silence. When Tom went up, lie found thme horse griazing in the most ortho dox fashion and a strip of white breech Clout and a p~air of brown legs surmountedl red stockings and iron-clad shoes sticking up from the mididle of a serub oak, like a newv sort of plant. Tomi got liim out of the brush and whetn lie said: "Ah,hah,'' the Indian looked as though lie wanted to goon the war-path. During a late thunaler-stornm near London, England, a great ball of fire wvas seen to descend from the clouds into a lake, A fter the storm was over a hundred dlead fish, Izueitiding two carp, weighing together twenty-three pounds, wore found floating on tihe surface near thme 5f ) where the fire b~all was soon to ottr 0, At the Table. It Is imnpossible to estimate properly the immense influence which is exerted upor the household by the atmosphere of the family table. If It is true that one doei not come out of a room the same person. who went in, the mind ever after retain. ing the impress of what affected it there, what great results must be achieved from the meeting three times a day In the dining room, from the conversation indulged in, and the sentiments habitually expressed there. A neat well-ordered table, is In itself a lesson to the children. I have noticed that a sensitive child almost in variably has better manners when dressed in its best, and have seen with surprise the effect produced upon a certain small boy of my acquaintance by handsomel dressed ladies who are polite to him. To the inviting table, where there should be always something attractive, however iln ple the meal may be, most children wil! come prepared to behave properly. At this table the mother will not take her seat with disordered hair and soiled collar, remarking, with the air of a martyr, that it i the first time she has sat down to-day. The head of the house, if the dinner Is not exactly to his mind, will not resent it as a peisonal affront. It really Is worth while, and when philosophically considered Is a matter of great importance, to lay aside as far as possible all thoughts of the hard work done before and to be done after a meal, and to allow no vexatious questions to be discussed at this time. The habit of brooding over our work and exhausting ourselves by going it all over in our minds is one to be studiously avoided. There is nothing whioh takes front one's energy more than this, and it is a frequent cause f insanity. Everybody knows that food ligests better when eaten in agreeable 3onpany. It was something more than a pleasantry which made a friend remark, haat lie could not have his wife and child ass the summer vacation away from him, is it gave hilnm dyspepsia. The poor child Ao comes to grief at the table, and-Is tent away from it with his dinner half mten, and who suffers the whole afternoon vith an undigested lump of food in lite Itomach, is to be pitied, and it is a wise )Ian to explain to children, that in ,his vay they will be pubished for bad conduct t the table. It follows, then, that pleasant urprises in the way of preparing favorite lishes, that good taste, too much pains aking in arranging all the appointments of he tablo and dining-room, rise above a aere ministering to the aninial existence, nd affect the finer issues of life. Good chavior and cheerfulness ought to accom any each meal as naturally and unvary agly as bread and butter. The happy mughter which distributes nervous force, nd calls the blood from the brain, allow ag the stomach to get its share, should be card more frequently at our tables. No nie should feel at liberty to say one word !hlch is not at least kind and thoughtful, ny more than lie would withhold a il-ffi lent Quant-ity of food. r~hee facts need tore careful considce-' The dbnee fogs which so frequently con ert London day into night, while the sur. unding country is bright with sunshine, re commonly attributed to the smoky coal 'hich London burns; and it has been pro (Rsed to import Pennsylvania anthracite as remedy. Doubtless smoke has something > do with the density and blackness of ondon fogs; but we very much doubt the ossibility of largely dispelling them by any hange of fuel. It is, we believe, not so inch the smoke of London fires as the rest volume of water vapor which they roduce that serves as the primary cause f.the fogs. A necessary product of com ustion is water; and the millions or more res of London must send Intp the air of ,e cit y enormous volumes of teat vapor in dditiona to the steam of boili ~g water ic cnt to cooking, mantufacturi g, and simi ir operations. While the mnosphere of ,ondoni is titus being kept a~ the point of aturatlon, the manner in wh h~l the city is Id out prevents any free pas e of wmdl I) sweep away the~ super--ab nadant moiAs ure. London is made up of congeri ss of owns scattered over a hui dIred square niles or more of area, each th its pecu jar net-work of streets and >ads, and all ~rown together into such a si ri of passa ecs, all short and nearly all ooked, that hurricane wouldi be confusec and lost in in attemplt to pass through t city. No >thier large city in the wor beat-s any :ompa'rison with London In his respect,. All other large cities have 1 g thorough ~ares through which the wing can sweep hIeir entire length or breadt . In most Aties such avenues are not o' long and road btut measurably stratih~ The near est approach to such a thor:>ujhfar'e in Lon. :on begmns at Shepherd's Blih and rune lilong the Uxbrldge road, d vna Oxford street to Hlolbert Viaduct 'flis ailowts the west winds to penectrate o the very heart of the mietropolis, ani it a fact well ustabhshed by observation ha this route Is singularly free from fop. Ihe native Londoner is apt to deride lie lhess-board plan of most American andm y Europe an cities, with streets crosmg~ ach other at right angles and runninign I onotonons straight lines, mile after me. his plan may not, tend itself so readi' to architect iural effects as the short andang ed streets of London, but Its sanitary ad1 mmniercial adlvantages are beyond queio4 It may be that after all is said andhom e Lond~oni may have to choose hbetwee ce luring anu almost ever-present fog or ti bimking up of its beloved labyrinths by mtt} og broad and straight avenues, in varns irections,. aicross the lenagth and bread of the ci ty. The hose of Shian. The so-calied Rosec of Bhona is one of the most exquisite flowersa shape and hue, its blossoms are bel-aped, and ofI many mingled hues aund dyei But Its his. 1 tory is legendary and roman in the high est degree. In the Ear throughout 1-yria, Judeca and Arabia, Is regarded with the profoundest reence. The leaves that encircle the rod blossoms I dry and close together whiehe season of I blossoms is over, and the skc, withering completely away from the s, the flow.1 er Is blown away at last frcthe stemi on which it grew, havmng dried theshapeou bali,to which is carried awaiy the breezeo a great distances. In this y it is borne g over the wastes and ssnd arts, until/ at last, touching some nplace, i: clhngs to the soil, where imediately takes fresh root and sprinto life and I beautyv aan Oreat utorim in tihe Snu. Observers of the sun fonnd indications of intense connnotion on the 11th, 12th and 18th of August. The son spots wore nu. merous, large and active, and protuber ances shot up their rose-colored tongues with Increased force and veloclty fron the surface. The earth made instantaneous re. sponse to the solar storm. A magnetic disturbance suddenly commenced, accom panled by an unusual - exhibition of earth currents continuous and strong. It is years since the ireenwich observatory has re corded magnetic disturbances of equal mag ultude, and it sends forth a timely warning to telegraph engineers, and especially to those concerned in the laying of submarine cables, that earth currents may now become frequent as compared with the quietness of recent years. A superb exhibition of auro ra accompanied the magnetic disturbance. An observer at the Stoneyhurst Observa tory describes it as recalling the magnifi. centdisplays of 1869, '70 and '71, while the play of the magnets was one of the most violent ever recorded at that observatory. The auroral display was extensively ob served in England and Sc3tland. One ob server describes it as an ontburst of stream era, appearing like wavy, swaying curtains from the zenith to the near horizon, with the loveliest green tints near the zenith; another writes that the streaks extended froni horizon to zenith, . the color being principally pale blue with a reddish tinge; another paints the display as a brilliant band of white light followed by streamers, each streamer fading away before the suc ceeding one became very brihht, and still another records a glowing celestial picture of the northern horizon skirted by a bright white haze, terminating In an ill-defined arch, from which sprang a large number of broad streamers, stretching toward the zenith. The same phenomenon was seen by American observers, although it did not receive the attention bestowed upon it by European observers. It is evident, how ever, that the epoch of grand auroras and magnetic storms has returned, and that our northern skies for months to come will probably be hghted with auroral flames. More earnestly than ever arises the ques tion of the cause of the sun spot cycle and its intimate connection with electric and magnetic phenomena. No one doubts that the commotion in the solar orb is reflected on the earth in the flashes of auroral light and the erratic movements of the magnetic needle. We can see the cause and note the effect. But no one, if the theory of the distrihuting influence of the great planets is rejected, has' found the clow to the se cret of sun spots. We can only grope in darkness while we wait for persistent searchers to solve the problem, and admire with mingled reverence and awe the migh ty power with which the sun sways his re tinue of worlds, and the strength of the i sympathetic chord by which each planet in the system reflects in auroral light and dis- I turbed magnetism the abnormal condition I of the great central orb. < sesbot eerm aia ong bceen 01 -thI . a.s the telescope is a clumsy method of supplying the deficiency of eye power, and some months ago he undertook to ascertain if there was any way by which IJ we could be able to dispense with artificial ( lenses. It is a well ascertained fact that, I persons who are near-sighted, or in other u words, can see only such objects as are 0 near to them, hiave the ball of the eye a globular and protuberant, while those r whose vision enables them to see objects at b a long distance from them br.ve the eye s flattened and sunken. The obvious ex- r1 planation of the fact is the theory that t when the eye is flattened, the lenses are a compressed, ani thus focal distance is in- a creased, while the opposite effect follows I the too great rotundity of the eye. Acting h: in accordance with this theory, lie i conceived the plan of Inereasing the power i; of the eye, not by tising artiticial glans dI lenses, but by improving the natural j lenses. IHe desaigned an instrument, con- a slating of two smalil imetalic disks, each a, piercedi witha an exccedingly small hole, b and connected by a light steel band. These t) disks are to be placed one directly over ni the centre of each eye, while the steel band bi lassing arount thie head, holds thema in p pla1ce. This band is sa made that it can ti be shiortenedl or lengthened by turning a si thumbscrew, and of course, just in propor- a tion as it is shot tened the disks press against I the eyes aid fiamt'm them. The inventor p tried lia instrumeco uaon himself betore (2 exhibiting it to anyone. Ueo found that Ca when the disks were put in poesition andi c the screw was gradually tuirned- his po wer I of seeing distant objects steadily increased. tI A very adght. increase of piressuire on the n eyes gave a very imarked increase of via- a nal power.. lie made exp~erimients both by si day and night, and in every cane with ti miarked sucess. Hie founid that in the kc daytime lie couild read the Times at a udis- gi Lanace of twenty rods by giving the screw re two complete turns, andi at night lie couldi ol percive the moons oif Jupiter and the ring t00 af 8aturn with six turns of the screw. Up in to this point, the operation of the instrni mont was quite painless, but any attempt to give greater eye-p~ower was attended with a sharp p~aini in the eyes and a dazzling light, which rendered all objects invisible. Professor Alerrill has calculated, however, n< hat six turns of the thumbscrew l r~ive lia eyes a power equal to that of am efracting telescope of forty-two lent focal al listance, and that, in fact, there is nmo tel-0 ~scope in existence which han anything A ike the power of his eyes when they have >con properly adjusted by the help of lisa tow imstruient.tl "squeezer, Sir 1" A gontleman resIding in thie subturbs o ois )etroit, finding that lia otherwise well-or hi leredf household was withlout that india- pc >ensable article of modern civilization fa mnowu as a lemon-squeezer, and having fa ried for several days In vain to think to p1 >riiig one out wIth him from town, finally n< lireetedi is man to remind him of it on Ti lhe following morning before his departure hi or the clay. Standing on thle coor-step sh fter breakfast the next day, and just as sh me was about to bid lis wIfe his usual af- Ti octionate farewell, lie heard, in atentorian br ones from the region of the stable the 1a4 vords, ''Squeezer, sir I" The lady was hi tartledl, and it was well for theo faithful am lomestic that lis employer had only just pa ime enough to catch the train; but there ch now a lemota-squeezer of - the latest pat ern in the house. A WAG got hold of an editor's whisky I ottle and labelled it, "TXo be contin- cc ted In our necks." La Marriage In Poland. In Poland it seems, it is not the would. be bride groom who proposes to his lady. love, but a friend. The two go together to the young girl's house, carrying with them a loaf of bread, a bottle of brandy and a new pocket-handkeehief. When they are shown into the "best" room the friend asks for a wine-glass. If this Is procured at once, it is a good sign; if not, they take their leave without aupther word, as they understand their proposal will not be accepte d. Suppose, however, that the friend drinks to the fatlitr's and mother's health, and then asks where their daughter is, upon which the mother goes to fetch her. When she comes into the room the friend (always the friend) offers her the glass filled with brandy. If she puts It to her lips she Is willing, and then the pro posal is nade at once. But it is the fash ion to refuse it several times before finally accepting. Then the friend takes out the new handkerchief and ties the young peo ple's hands together with it, after which it Is tied around the young girl's head, and she wears it as a sign of betrothal until her wedding-day, which is very soon after wards, as on the Sunday following the pro - posal the hanng are published. On the wedding-day all the bridesmen and brides maids go round to the friends and acquain tances of the two families and invite them to the wedding. At each house they must dance a.Cracovian. (Let us hope that the dance is a short one, for the sake of their feet and breath.) During this the bride is being dressed by other young friends of iers, whilst young men sing virtuous itroplies to h r. When all the guests are usembled the bil-le kneels for her parents' )leasing, and thea she is placed in a carri ige with her betrothed and friend. Upon eturning home bread and salt are present -d to the young couple, and wheat is thrown >ver their heads. This wheat is picked up mud afterward sown; if it bears good fruit he younir couple will be prosperous. Lancing, singing and feasting are kept up ill morning, when the young couple are Leconmpailed to their room. But before hen the bride's hair has to be out off, and la ia coi~f/c with the matron's cap. This ustunm is terrible, but it has to be coin. )lied with. Ttie wedding festivities are Lept up for seven days and seven nights vihout interruption, after which the wed ling visits begins, commencing with the old at proprietor or lord of the neighborhood. )nce upon a time this visit was paid on lie wedding-day, but now it is delayed intil after the last wedding reel has ceased. t is better thus. Tiger stunting. In 18:18, in the month of April, when neamped at Sirpur, the villagers gave )utran informat'on of a tiger that had been iarked down in the thorny jangal to the ortn of the village. This part of the ountry was plain, and there was no hill or )utranm followed him on foot three imles, and eventually speared him to leath. This act, it Is affirmed, has never eon equaled before or since in Kandesh. )n another occasion lie stood spear in hand, ke a gladiator in the arena of a Roman iphitheatre ready for the throwing openi f the wild beast's cage. The bushes were t on fire, and the tiger, by no means ilishing the smoke, came, puffing and lowing like a porppise, every live or six 3conids, to get a little fresh air, but, scent ig the elephant, he was always fain to re eat again. This sort of work went on for >me time, and bush after bush blazed way without producing the desired effect. " could not have stood the suspense whoen fe was at stake. At last there was a low, ugry growl, and a scutlling rastle in the assage. The tiger sprang out, and udown escendedc~ the long lance into his neck, ist behind the (dexter ear. WVith one roke of his powerful paw he smashed the lear close to the head. This was a p~retty ~ usiness. Mr. Tiger one step) below, with ~ V ie steel sticking ini his neck, which by no. ieans impiiroved his tempei~r, had 'gathered is huge hindquarters below him for a des- a erate sp~rinig, and my f rieid, armed after r ae fashion of the South iSea Islanders, anding onf a hlttin mon0od(, breathing deli nice and brandishing his bamboo on hIgh. ~ ventumally the tiger was shot b~y one of the z arty. utramn had sonie narrow escapes. nice, while pursuing a tiger on foot, his >mpainion being on horseback, the animal i larged, seizedt Outranm, and rolled down .a me hilh with him. Being released fromt 1e claws of the fqrocious beast for a mo.. ent, Outranm, with great presence of a lad, drew a pistol lhe had with lhim, and P ot the tiger dead. The Bhils, on seh~ ' at lie had been ijijuredi, were one and ah ud in their grief and express.:.ns of re- "i 'CL; but O)utramn quieted thmem with the J' mark: "What (10 1 care for the clawing a a cat!" This speech was rite among e Bhulls for many years afterward, amid ?A sy be so until this day. . Marriage in t he Celustiai Etrei. Thirty pairs of embroidered slippers arc cessary for tihe trousseau of a Chinese C :iy of position, and her boudoir is cram ed with confectionery, and fruits, burnt a luends, barley sugar, syrup of aloe., sages, ginger, and shiaddocks, in confu mn with rich silks, jewels of wrought >(d and preclous stones, rings, bracelets, i sea of nails, bodkins for tihe hair, and a t ousand other charming nick-nacks. In is strange country a young girl when she ol orrtes never has a dowry. She is literally ~ 'rchmased either by the husband himseli '~ by his relations. Although she may s yve no brothers, ushe cannot inherit any irtion of her paternal fortune unless her ~ ther makes aun express declaration in her ~ vor. Such arrangements are always com Lted before the marriage, and are usually a gotiated by agents, called, "Me jin.'' ac young fance is next presented to her W ebands's p~arents. The husband himself d a never sees until the wedding clay, when ~ a 18 carried ut a closed chair to the house. ~ ie key of the chair is handed to the degr#/om, who opens the door, an d if the 01 ly within pleases his taste he holds out ' hand to her-; if not; he slams the door, o d the engagement is at an (nd, the girl's rents having the right to retain the pur see money. "WR.L,P~at, JIm didn't quite kill you ih th the briek bat, did lie ?" "No i but '3 5?1sh he had. "Why so?" C i , ' ft aid have seen him hung, to n! " dc FOOD FOR THOUGHT. On the whole, perhaps, we think too much abous ourselves. Following mafty vocations has ru Ined the life of many a man. Unbidden guests are often welcom est when they are gone. He is happy who has conquered tai ness once and forever. Ridicule is the weapon of weak minds invective of shallow ones. They are never alone that are accom panied with noble thoughts. A judicious silence Is better than truth spoken without charity. We must be in eternity before we can be secure against change. Conceived is a passion, great ideas themselves fructify in a calm. 8:n has a great many toois, but a lie is a handle which fits them all. The Ideal saint of the young mora list is cut from sappy timber. No one will dare mailatain that It is better to do justloe than to bear at. Actions, looks, words, from the steps by which we may spell oharac ters. le who knows his own incapacity knows something - few men know that. Cunsidering one's own weakness Is a great help togentlemen dealing with others. God Is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than In many formal prayers. When a young man has learned to wait, lie has mastered the hardest les son iI his life. As the pricklient leaves are the irl et, so the pertest fellows are generally the most barren. God bears no more than the. heart speaks; and if the heart ia dumb, God will certainly be deal. Every man throws on his surround Ings the sunshine or the shadow that axists in his own seiu. No place, no company, no ag, no person is temptation free. Lot no Luau boast that he is free. The most matured and happy Uhris Liano are, for the most part, those who 3arly come to tihe Saviour. "[Heaven made virtue; man.the ap pearance"l-an(l, very naturally, muan prefers his own invention. A devout thought, a plous deslro, a ioly purpose, is better than a greates. ate or an earthly kingdom. Tc-morrow in this life may take care )f itself, but to-morrow in the Great Beyond must be provided for. To attain long life-lova nothing too VIolently : hate nothlug too passionate y; fear nothing too strongly. Moderation Is the father of health, sheerfulness, and old age. Excess has tube rous e.L A sanI (O o-WI aniil on wor s o It. It is strange how soon, when a great nan dies,his place is filled; and so com )lotcly that he seems no longer want Al. God is a sure paymaster. He may not may at the end of the week, month or 'ear; but remember he pays in the nd. Tie time for reasoning is, before we ave approached near enough to the' Drbitddent fruit to look at it and ad dire. You may abrink from the far-re earching solitudes of .our heart, but o other foot than yours can tread lem. A wise man ought to hope for the est, be prepared for the worst, and ear with equanimity whatever may appen. A doubter is very like a weather Dok, he is veered around with every assing breea~s, be it a zephyr or a rhirlwind. Thore are two stars which rise andi at with men, and whose benefil iys encircle hilm, viz., hope and re iem brance. Tears are time gift whlch loye be ows upon the memory of the abseng, nd they will avail to keep the heart om suffocation. Things that will wear are not to be ad cheap. Whether it be a fabric or principle, if Is is to endure, it must artaliy cost something. Of all the actions of man's life hi. arriage does least concern other peo le, ye; of all the actions of our life It ust meddled with .by other people. Flattery Is the hocus-pocus nonsense Ilh which our ears are sometimes ca Lecd, in order that we may be more lectually bamboozled andtdeceived. Mere lmnmensity of slme always as unds, but our wonder at the vast re ilts accomplished by Comparatively nali umeans remains the longest with Wistlom is better than rIches. WIs. >m guards thee, but thou must guard iy riches. Rtiches diminish In the SIng; but wisdom increases in the use it. Anman has no right to occupy such ghm moral grounds that lie is con.. antly so far above his fellows that can be of no earthly assistanco to em. There is some help for all the defects fortune; for If a man cannot attain the length of his wishes. he may ~ve his remedy by cutting of them~ urter. A pretty answer was given by a little otoh girl. When her class was ex mined, she replied to the question. Whiat is patience?" "Walt a wee, Ld dinna weary." It Is not gavenm to all mortals to be al.. aye wise. "IL there be those whose lany has never appeared," **says Las Doihefoucauld." 'It is beociuse It has iver been closely loolad tor." While ten meni watch for chances, me man makes chance.; while ten en na t for something to turn ,up; ue rulns something 'up; so, hile ten fail, one succeeds and Is lied a man of luck. Beware of judging character by sin e deeds, and be even reticent ia dgingit. et all. Oily a perfect mpathy, bl, which we can see tings om anothers a stnd-point alnd forget, r the Ilike our own, can enable us to Justie.