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RI1lLWNBEKLY EIPTION. ~_ WINNSBORO, S. C., FEBRUARY 24 1881 AWAKI. 'lihe un gets upin the miorniog ' And ltftifhlistatel' bead; Opefi you oyeJB, my si'oep skie, -The sui fcott of bed! TIto moon is very timid, Sle daro not meet t4e sun. N th a heigh ho! the, stars must gQ, And hide theojselves ono by one. The stun gets up in the morning, TIg world'is all alight, -Every troeo full of glee,. Every blossom bright; 'Every bird Is singhig . A welco etto his King, Miti a I WIldone, 1b*itifI sun You glorify everything." lhe sun1 gete-up in the morning, And so must ehildren, too; How dar you keep fast asloep, The sun is calling you! Mid all the birds a Iblossoms Youir merry voices raise W*ith a h?4rrah ! How glad we are Wo have got'a sua to praiso! A'Fiery-Steed. For once May gave pronwise of being a bay worthy of the many beautiful songrs which have been sung iii.her praise. She came dancing along after -her sister April who had just left in a shower of tears with a bright smile upon her lips and a wondrous rainbow halo about her head. The young maples- began to blush 'in happy consciousness of her approach, aind the delioate pink and white blossoms on the orchard trees opened their dainty leaves and shyly flung a welcoming fragrance on the soft, clear air. All through the fields and meadows, the vales and woodlands,' and over the hills ran the violets and trailhug arbutus and May-buds and daisies and theilr sister flow ers. telling glad tidings of sunny days and' moonlit nights and lovely butterflies and sparkling raitt-drops cnd busy humming bee, and birds, swinging on slender green boughs, sang in sweet twittering notes to each other: Neighbor, soon we shall see the roses. Along a pleasant, winding, lonely coun try road, with splendid ;esat apple and pear trees standing on either side, and the spring flowers dotting the green carpet so thickly that the green Is almost hidden, comes slow ly cu this poel's blay day, a diminutive, old, odd-looking white horse, drawing a small market wagon filled with household furniture, accompanied by an enormous shaggy Newfoundland dog, and as pretty a country maid as ever milked a cow, or made a pot of golden butter. The broad-brmimed straw hat she wears shades a low brow to which clings babyish ringlets of hair the color of glossy, satin smooth buttgrcups, a pair of innocently roguish eyes, cheeks of brown with an un dqrlying tinge of rose,a.charming red-lipped mouth, and a firm. minax Across the brow, however, at this mo ment flits the shadow of a frown, and a look of comic perplexity conies into the sweet young face. The odd-looking horse has stopped in the middle of the road and remains perfectly motionless, staring straight before hhn, save when he bene his head to take a nibble at the flower-thick grass, as though suddenly oblivious of everything under the sun except the tran quility of the Junc-like May afternoon. "Oh, Charley! Charley I go on-do I that's a dear I" goaxes the girl coming to his side andgently patting his head with her little brown ungloved hand ; but Chg ley merely whisks a too familiar fly away with his forlorn old tail and makes no fur ther sign. "Olarley, good horse, Charley-ohl why didn't I bring some carrots with me ? Charley, you bad, bad fellow, If you don't go on,1'll whil'you sure as you st and there. Come, be a darling." And thins she alter nately begs and threatens, Lion assisting in dog language, with aii occasional dash at the heels of his obstinate equine frieiid,but Charley refuses to be a "darlin,'' plaints his feet more firmly and never stirs; andi at last, with an air of resignation, she goes back to the p~ath, seats herself on a rude seat formed by nature of the gnarled roo.ts of a misshapen 01(1 tree, and waits patient ly for at least ten minutes. At the end of this time Charley looks about with a just waiked-up expression in his eyes, as who should say, "Dear I D~ear I I quite forgot thereswas wvork to be (lone," and starts off with a qjuick step that graduially becomes slower and slower. Wi a sigh of relief the young girl arises and follows-Lion bounding baek from the wood, whlere lhe has been making hasty ex plorations, having it in his mind that his mistress is not to be left without his pro tection for more than two minutes at a time, takes lia place a~t her side-and the PeI plexed look' fades away into a smile that brings to )ight two rows of p~earl-whlite teeth. But alas I the smile is prenmature. In another ten minutes again overcome by theo beauty and peacefulness of the (lay, Charley falls into reverie, stops once more, and1( once more refuses most decidedly .to "go on." And in this manner does that dreadful horse behave f or a whole hour, making short progresses and~ long pauses, until coming to the conclusion thait there had been quite enough of this sort of thing, lie dleliberately drags thiewagoni to the side of the road, takes up his station beneath a wide-spreading oak and proceeds to munch the young grass at his feet, with a look in lia eyes that say as plain as words: "From this spot naove me If y ou can." "0, Cncrly I Charley I howv can you ?" begins the young girl, loudily and m ndig nantly f ollowing him with her small br own hands clasped beseechingly. "Oh, you wicked, wicked Charley I" ''Did you call me ?'' asks a masculine voice, to her great astonishmnent ; andi as with a alight tlart she tuns In the direc lion of the voice, she sees a young nian walking rapidly towards her the sound of his approaching footsteps having been com pletely lost In the inquiring bow-wows of her canine guardlian. '"Did y ou call me ?" lhe repeuats. "~No, sir," she replies, blushilng prettily, and looking at hiiu with fuank, child-hike eyes. "I was speaking u' thue horse. tie still, Lion?" "Beg pardon. I thought for .tn instedL you were speaking to me. It seems that I have the honor of being a namesake of your fiery ster d. But you are In trouble. What i, thie luatter ? Can I help you in any way ?" 47herq is nothing very serious the mat. 'she says with a smile. "We are mov ing to day, and father went on ahead a long *hile ago, having sone business to *SettleowlJi our new landlord. and he must be at this very moment waiting fo me at the new house, and wondering what in the 'world has become of me. You see, we have 40 boys in our family, and the other girls are youilger than myself, and father and ,mother both thought-this being -a very quiet road-that Lion and I cot d look after Charlfy and the furniture, but, Char ley,who generally behaves pretty well, has ween awfully contrary, and has stopped ev ery few moments, and the consequence is that we have already been two hours on a journey that should have taken us but one, and there's just as longa distance to go yet; and with Charley-oh, you wicked horsel standing under that tree, I don't know how we are ever to get to Grasstown." "Iti.almost as bad a plight as the old wo mnan was withi her pig, when he wouldn't go under the stile, and she was afraid she couldn't get home that night," laughs the young man-a nice looking fellow he is, with gentleman stamped on every feature of his handsome lace. "But suppose I cut you a switch I Perhaps that, used with discretln, might have sonic intlueice on the fiery steed. " "0, no, that wouli never do I" she says, shaking her head emphatically. "Charley was never whipped in his life. He'd be so scared at the very sight of a switch that I believe he'd run away.." "Wouldn't that be a desirable thing, un der the circumstances ?" asks the young man, with a broad smile; the idea of the old horse,whose principle desire appeared to be not to move at all, running away, striking hin as inexpressibly conic, and thinking "Bless her kind little heartl" lie continues: .Well, since you refuse the switch, I will try how a command in a masculine voice will affect him ;" and lie commanded "G'long, Charley I" Charley started, turned his head toward the speaker, recognizing a master, backed away from the oak and went off on a quick walk. "Well, the idea I" exclaimed his young mistress. "And now with your permission, I'll walk with you to the end of your jou I'mrney,for sure if I leave you, Charley will-note my sience immediately, and stop under the irst tree." '"0 no indeed I you must not," says the pretty country maid. "You were going in in entirely different direction. I could not Ihink of taking you so far out of your way. lany thanks for your kind offer, but in leed,,sir, I couldn't. Charley will behave vell now. Won't you, Charley ?" "Good heavens I I never knew my name vas so musical before," thinks the young lan, and then explains: I was going in an ntirely different direction because I miss ,d my train at the last station, and, if I had vaied would have to hours for another; nut being rathdr impatient by nature, and ciupted by the fine day, I set out to walk, " p ation bemg the next village. And nuch pleasanter waik,diclfi Ln'e-i''Caar, and lose no time after all. Lion approves if my plan. Don't you Lion ?" And Lion isually very suspicious of strangers, comes nd lays his startlingly cold iose In his new riend's hand. And so the two young people walk along I ide by side, crushing the pretty flowers un- I ter their feet as they go, but Charley, look- j ng back every now and then out of the I iorner of his right eye to see if the mascu ine voice is still there, never falters, but < teeps steadily on his winding way. After I L few molient's silence the innocent little I naid raises her blue eyes --they have been iidden by tlie long lashes-and says, in a I ihy voice: "You said you were going to Daisyville. have lived there all my life." "Not a very long times" says the young tnan with a snile. "Seventeen years. -I was born andl my three sisters were born in the samne little f arm house we are leaving now." And a tear trenmbles on the long Iashes and rolls down her round rosy cheek. TIhe young man looks at the tear wvith pitying wYonder. "And were you very happy there ?" lie asks. "So happy," replies the girl, ''that we fear we will never be half as happy any where else. And"-a sudden light break ing over her f ace-"I believe that is what ails Charley. He knows it isn't right that we should be going to a strange place, and( does his best, p)oor fellow, to prevent our going." "Unidoubtedly," gravely asserts her companion. " But why, if you will per mit me to ask are you bidding farewell to Daisy ville ?-G'iong, Charley, " as Char Icy evinces a desire to listen to the conver sat ion. "Father didn't own the piace. Ile had it on a long lease, which ran out the very week (a month ago) our old landlady dhiedl, and her heir-a nephew-and lis mother are coming to take possession of the estate, and they want our farm house for their gardener, Whoe Mrs. Marks was alive her gardener had rooms over the stable, and very comfortable rooms they were, too, and the kitchein garden was just back of the big house. But I suppose the new people are more stylish than the old ones, want their kitchen-garden further away thin Mrs. Marks' was, and so they take from us our hionme, and we are obliged to move to Grass town,.4 And arc your father and mother as much attached to D~aiisyville as you and your sis ters are I" he asks. "E~ven more attached to it,''she a nswers, "if that be possible. it alnost breaks my heart to see mother's sad face. But I miust try to make the new home as bright for them as I can-that is, if I tver get there. o dear I how very unfortunate that Char Icy should have taken it into his head to be so naughty this day of all others!I" "On the contrary, I think, Miss Grey " it has transpiredi that her name is Bessie Grey-"that it is the most'. forpunatc thing that could have happrened." Hecr blue cyas anid her redh mouth open in wondher. "Because"-anwermg the look-"if Charley had behaved well insteadI of Ladly you would have been at (rasatown long befoie this, and 1 should not have had the -pleasuire of meeting you. And now 1 am aibout proposing'imething which will se.em extremely absurd to you, although the wisest, thing that could be done under the circumst ances. Suppose we turin Charley's hes~d in the direction of lisa old home and see what speed he will make then ?" "But," looking at flim half frightened,as Lion bounds forward with a loud ch'eerful bark to ieet a stalwart old man who comes suddenly around a corner, his hat inl one hand and a red silk handkerchief in the other, and who .houts the moment he catches sight of her: "Why, girl, where have you been? What on earth's the matter ?" Bessie leaves unfluished the "But"--be gun speech and runs laughingly to hin, and, taking the hat fromi his hand, fans him eni ergetically -while she explains: "Charley was the matter, father. You can't think how aggravating he's been. lie wouldn't go until -this Kentleman"-with another pretty blush-"was kind enough to make hin go." The old man looked keonly at the young one. "And pray where (lid you come from, and who may you be ?" he asked ,harply. "I will telt you where I cane from, and how I happened to meet your daughter, at some future tine. Meanwhile you will learn from this who I am''--handing a card to the old farmer, on whiqh was engraved "Charles Marks, Jr." 'Qfur old landlady's nephew and heir ?" I 'The sanie, at you' service; and having no desire, in spite of my agent's arrange ments to the contrary, to begin my life at Daisyville by turning so worthy a tenant " (in his heart he added 'with so pretty a daughter") "out of the house he has occu pied so many years,I was just proposing to Miss Grey as you made your appearance that Charley should be stopped in his mad career, and once for all be turned toward his old home." "Are you quite in earnest air ?" Never more so in my life. Whoa, Char ley, poor old boy I" and around went horse and wagon, and off started the fiery steed so fast that they could no longer follow him, Lion "leaped a yard in the air," in the exuberance of his delight galloping by his side. "IHe's all right," said the old nian, his face beaming with happiness. And won't mother look wondei fully surprised when ihe sees hi coming up the lane? I don't know how to thank you, sir." "lDon't thank me. I deserve no thanks , gays Charles Marks, holding aside a low banging tree branch that Bessie may pass Lnder. "And the new gardener?" asks B3essic, looking back at him. "Will have rooms over the stable. You cnow you said they were 'very comfort ible.'"I "But ycur train ?" persists Bessie, with he first gleamh of coquetry that ever spark ed in her blue eyes. "I'd much rather walk," says Mr. larke. . - Nailed ui, in a Hou o. On the border of the Flushingse Madows, n Long Island, in a bleak spot west of the rillage, near Ireland Mills, is the old Texi lo mansion, formerly the residence of the I ate Captain Manuel Texido. On his death f lie house was soli. It passed into the I tauds of Senator, now Chief Justice Prince t f New Mexico, who now owns the farm. i vas let to a Mrs. Allen, from New York. I 1he represented herself to be the. sister-in- I iw of a prominent official of the last State lovernmnct. She was greatly interested I a religious matters. She said she had a irother who is a clergyman of the Episco- I )al Church in the western part of the State. E kbout a month ago Mrs. Allen, who had I nother woman living with her, moved to < .ew York. Before going, Mrs. Allen ask - d a lady here if it was safe to leave the )remises without any occupant. When old that it might not be safe, she said: "Well, I've got a competent person to ive there in my absence." Miss Clarkson,who (lid not know of Mrs. ilen's removal, recently went to collect he rent dtue. 11cr summons at the door received no response until it was vigorous. y repeated. TIhen a window was opened, izd a woman's head was thrust out. The wonman looked wild, and~ lien . hair was di ihevelled. She immediately began- chat tering to Miss Clarkson. She said she had not seen~ Mrs. Allen, and was starvinig. Mliss Clarkson not knowing what else to dio, camie back to thme village for assistance. She called upon a lady Iriend, who return ad with her to the old mansion. Trhiey took a loaf of bread with them. On their knock ing at the door they saw the head again thrust out of the \vindow. The woman madle a heart rending appeal for something to eat. 'I lie two ladies procured a rail froii a fence in an adjoining fld, and sticking time loaf on the end, held the bread up to the famished woman. She showed the greatest anxiety to secure the food. No sooner did she get it in her hands(1 than she began ravenousy to devour it. Tlhen she begged for water, saying that a dog that she had with her for company was also famished. The ladies got a p~iee of cord and threyv it to thme woman, who by it let (down a pail. The ladles tilled the pail with waer apd the woman drew it up. 8till they were unable to get into thme house, andl once more they returned to the village called upon a Justice, who relerred thenm to County Superintendent of the Poor Sullivan. Hie, with the ladies, returned to thme mansion. Mr. Bullivan triedi to get in by a window, but it was firmly secured. Hie then crawled through the cellar and wvorked his way upstairs to the roomi where the woman was. He found the (loon not only locked, but nailed up with boards,and the handle was tied with a rope to the han (die of another door across the hall. Mr. Sullivan tore away thiese obstacles and bumr~it the door open. In the middle oi the roomi 1tood thme wo man, dlressed eonly in a tin cotton skirt and a jacket of similar stuff. Under her arms was the remains of the loaf, andl a (log, barking aiid snarling at the lntrudiers, was at her side. Tlhe only articles in the room were a plie of mecadow grass in one corner, on which lay a piece of covering hour feet square, aiid a pall. Thelmre was no erove. hlow the woiman livedi through the recently very coldI weather it is hard tell ing. Mr. Sullivan and the ladies questioned lien,.but all that she would say was that Mrs. Allen land been very kind to her. She said she had somie property at Locust Val ley, L. I., andl had been so importuned by hirs. Allen that she lihly assigned it to her,the deed being on recordl in thme County (Jlerk's office in Jamaica. The woman had been conhined for over a month. She look ed like a livmng skeleton. It was iearned that she hard a sister In Locust Valley, and after being cared for she was sent there by I'uperinionennt Rnlihvan. A Hufftlo Hunt. The second afternoon out, a buffalo-herd was discovered feeding far to the south, resembling a flock of black shcop ilk thie distance. A halt was at once called, and preparations made for a descent upon the game'in the morning.. 'T'lhj, horses were tethered by long raW-hides, -0nd the men proceeded to put their guns -*nd amiuni tion In order. - Ind ning dawned fresh and clear. The buffal es were still in sight, thougil faithjer wia ; and, as the wind blow from thehiiuitel toward the lierd, a long detour was made In order to approach them from thU optpbsite side. At lenth, the hunters - dashedj among them and commenced the - work of destruction.' Will's horse, the , ureliablo Bonanza. be. haved well while ainong his companions - but no sooner did they, scatter than lie be came unmanageable,, ind his rider heartily wished he had taken his father's advice in relation to the anihal, as lid found lie was going to be left-out of the' sport. There were no breech-loading ging In the party, and it would astonish a crack sportsman with his repeating Winchester and ready loaded shells in a convenliedt belt-to see a horseman charge a muzzle-loader fIron the saddle. The report of the hunter's rifles gradually diffused uneasfiess among the buffaloes, which numbered' two thousand or more, and they began to'nove, followed by the relentless horsemen. In their course they again approached the horse of our dis appointed friend. Will tried desperately to get close enough for a shot.. He sue cecued, but a scared bull, with a shaggy front aid furious, twinkling eyes, charged toward Bonanza, and that animal turned and fled ignominiously. ' The now terrified buffaloes closed in upon' the panic-strickon horse, and soon Will was surrounded by the shaggy herd. Ile tugged vainly at the bit ; and the loud laughtei- of his compan ions, who remembered his boaston starting ut, grew fainter as lie was borne swiftly way. He was not at all alarmed till lie looked back and saw that lie was fast leav ng the men out of sight. Then flashed ipon him the thought of how powerless he was in the midst of the unwieldy herd. le was completely surrounded, and the 'rightened buffaloss were running at their I iwiftest speed, which they would probably -ontinue for hours. He-thought of stop >ing his horse by taking off his coat and )utting it over th ammal's eyes. But hun, should the horse stop, lie would be mocked down by the buffaloes, and then )oth of them be pounded to death beneath he feet of the herd. 8o powerful are hese clumsy beasts that in a large herd I hey are almost invincible. They leave a t rack behind which much resembles ai flowed field. Should one of the number os its footing it is alnobt sure to be killed )y its compahions, as those in the rear, -rOwding upon-the forward ranks, makes ( , pause impossible. Crocker observed his i on's peril first. Ile was heard to cry out i uddenly, and then, applying his spurs, he : alloped in the rear of the fast-retreating t erd. Leclerc and Dutch followed hard C, pon his heels, but; the cooler-blooded Mex- c -ans remaine to. skia 14- JYa.t F :oked his peril in the face, with a courage cgrotten of a life among dangers. Bud lenly a desperate thought occurred to him Ic had heard drovers and trappers tell of ndian hunters whose mode of killing but aloes was by running on their backs, and pearing them as they ran. Why could lot he escape that way ? The animals were lose together and, though a misstep would I )o fatal, to remain in his present position i vas certain death. A dense cloud of black I lust hung over the ht rd, through which i a ight was visible but th. tosiing sea of )easts near him. le, therefore, had no dea how many animals intervened between iimself and safety. His chances of es ape seemed not one in ten, but the stun ling of his horse decided~ him to make the attempilt. More thoughtful than most, boys would have been in the face of a dhanger like this, lie unbuckled his horses bridle amnd tiedi it around his gun (which lie car ried strapped to his back), and then, get, ting of1' his saddle on to the horse's withers, lie 1oosedi the girth and let, it, fall to the ground, initendling, shld lie make his es cape, to go back aind pick it tip, lie now rose to lia feet, on the horse a back, holding to the aninal's inane, and in an instant leapedi to thei nearest buffalo, holding his gun, like a balancing-pole, in both hands. TVhe animal plunged, but lhe jumnpedi to the next, and~ the next, like Eliza, crossing thbc Ohio on the ice, In "'Uncle Toni's Cabmn.'' lie had accomplished half the distance, wheu one of the buffaloes, seeinghimi coin ing, jumpedl to one side. The boy fell between, but dropped his gun in, time to grasp the animal by its long hair, andi with difliculty ho climbed upon the terrifIed andl 1)1unging creature, andl jumnped (desperately on till lie reached the outside of the herd, when lie fell to the grouind and~ rolled over and~ over, with his head swimming and a heart leaping for joy. lIe was yet in dan ger from the stragglers en the edge of the herd, but the cloud of dust andl the animals it obscured passed by, and faded into a snioke-like billow, leaving him uninjured. Ten minutes after, Crocker and his two followers galloped iup andl, to their great joy, found the boy unihurt beyond a few bruises. Will rode hoine behind his father's saddle, but whether or not the ad venture hiad any effect for good on his stubborn nature, the chronicle saith inot. 110w to Slang Thermomeoters. In the fnrst place the lcmnlerature of the wall of any buildinmg, at any hour of the night or (lay, is not thbe true temperature of the circulating air and is of no use to science. A wood wall radiates its heat more rapidly than a brick or a stone, andl the amateur scienitist wvho hangs his ther mometer on a woodl wall can force his mercury (down below the amateur who selects a brick wall. The proper way to expose your t hermomneter is to surround it with a light wood frame covered with slats, like shutter work, and roofed over. 'lThism i ill protect it from the direct rays of the sun and reflected heat. Run a light wood bar across the centre of your instrument shelter, to which you can attache ther mometers, which should be, when properly exposedl, on thme north side of the building andi the thermometer at least one foot from all objects. If these directions are followed erroneous reports of extreme cold weather will not find their way mnto print so often. It Is not a very funny thing (or the press to report 25 deg. below zero when 15 deg. represented the true temperature of the circulating air. It gives persons a wrong impression of your climate.. JImany's Scalp. Tlis was the way it happened. - I was playing Indian in the yard. I had a wood. en tomahawk and a wooden scalping knife and a bow an' arrow. I was dressed up in his father's old coat turned inside out, and had six chicken feathers in my hair. I was playing that I was Green Thunder the Delaware Chief, and was hunting for pale faces in the yard. It was just after supper, and I was having a real nice time. Sir. Travers camne, and he said, "Jinny, what are you up to now?" 6q i told bin I wias Green Thunder, and was on the war path. Said he: "Jimmy, I think I saw Air. Martin on his way here. Do you think you would nund scalping him?" I said I wouldn't scalp Iim for nothing, for that would be cruelty; but if Mr. Travers was sure that Air. Martin w-ts the enemy of the red Mian,then Green Thunder's heart wo.ild acliq for revenge, and I'd scalp hin with pleasure. Air. Travers said that the gen tiian wias a notorious enemy of the In dians, and gavp ie ten cents and saiud that as soonl as A1r. Aartin should coie. and be sitting comfortably on the piazza, I was to give the war. whoop and scalp hiini. Well, in a few minutes lie caine, and lie and Ar. Travers and Susan gat on the plazza and talked as if they were all pleas ed to see each other, which was the high est hypocrisy in the world. After a while Martin saw ine and said: "llow silly boys arel that boy makes believe he is an Indi in, when he is only a silly nuisance." Now Lhis iade ine mad, and I thought I would give hint a good scare, just to teach him tiot to call me nanies, I began to steal softly up the steps, sid to get around be iind him When I got within about six reet of him I gave a war-whoop and jump. ,d at him. I caught hold of his scalp-lock fvith one hianid and drew my wooden knife tround his head with the other. I never gtot such a fright in my whole ife! Aly knife was that dull it would not .ut butter, but tiue as I sit here, Ar. Alar in's whole scalp cminie right off in my hand. thought I had killed lin, and I dropped uis scalp and said: "For mercy sakel I lidn t nicav to do it, and I'm awful sorry." 3ut he just took up lils scalp, stuffed it in ns pocket, clapped his hat on his head, nd'Iwalked off, saying to Susan, 11 didn't omie here to be insulted by a little wretch Yho deserves the gallows." Air. Travers and Susan never said a word intil he had gone, and then they laughed mutil the noise brought father out to see vhat was the matter. When he Leard vhat had happened, lie did not laugh, but ,oKed very angry, and said that Air. Alar in was a very worthy man, "My son, you ay come up stairs with me." If you have ever been a boy you know htat happened upstairs, and I needn't say ny more on a very painful subject. I idn't mind it so much, for I thought my ictim would die, and I would be put in Al and hung, but before she went to bed usan came to my door and whispered Ltrough the key-hole that it was all right; tat Alartin was. made that way, so he ould be taken apart easy,and that I hadn't urt hini. I'll have to stay in iy room itsfcAIlps ciRwnmy -cUAU , m'j. _.- _ E a boy just touches them, it isn't fair to lame the boy. Tie Toad. It has been denionsirated that the toad s highly venomous. Dogs and other ani nals inoculated with toad poison have ioon died: A boy in Paris accidentally eized a toad, received the poison through , wound in his hand, and in spite of the test medical assistance, shortly after died. J'liis poison exudes through the skin of the Jack when the animal is violently molested, md is the only defence it has against its aumerons foes,'for it cannot bite like the make, nor bound out of sight in a single ipring like the frog. A toad might be tandled a thousand times without ill re mults, since It is a necessary conidition that the skiin of the hand should be broken to ifford the liquid poison Ingress to the veins; yet considiering what has been| proved by patient investigation, it is not uniimportant to warn all, but particularly boys, who are su often inclined to emiulatb each other in clever feats, not to me~ke a plaything or a Pet o'f the toad, nor, on the other hand, to ill-treat it, but simiply to let It alone. D~ogs froth at the muouth when encouraged to worry a toad, and eats, it is said can never be got to touch them. TIhe poison has been proved by recent experi ment to be exceedingly actIve, and no one can be too careful in avoiding contact with it. At the same time the creature is per fectly harmless when not meddled with, aiid useful as a destroyer of inets. When it is overtaken in the lane, or on the foot p~ath, it will always show the greatest, humi bleness and respect ; it will hobble away out. of sight as fast as it. can, and give you all the road to pass. The eye is the only part of the toad that can be called be.auti fuil, but is seldom observed. Th'le lustrous eye is unquestionably a jewel of rare vaine, aiid it is the only attractive feature that. the toad Ia endowed with to comp~ensatec for its general ugliness. I Don4& rare. At 10 o'clock a boot-black stood at the south door of the Postollice. in Detroit looking across Larned street. A woman camne out of the ohlce and bangedi the door against his head and back and heels and lfted him clear off the steps by the con cusion. "I dlon't care--you liad no business there !" she snappedt as he picked hiself uip "Say, that was real mean," he said, as lie rubbed Is head. "Well, then, keep away frein the dIoos. goin' to makce you a Christmiat present," lie remarked as he followed hei up Larned street. "1 don't, want any." "Yes, 1 was goin' to buy you a fifty. pound sack of flour and put it in yec stockin'." "'I dlon't care I" 'That's what I wr.igoin' to do, biut'v( concluded not to. f 'or see, It would slij dlown into the foot of your stockim' an' fl so clus thatL ye couldn't git it out without buildin' a stagin' an' hirin' carpenters an goin' to more trouble than the flour wai worth I" She gave him one awful look rind ho fel back, but she had no sdbner turned th edrner than she halted beforeawin-dow fo no other purpose than to get a sly -look a her foot and see if tney had swelled an: sine alma left home. A Honiano of the soa. The British steamer West Indian. which arrived at Baltimore in the early part of January, brought from Jamaica the news of one of the most heartrending marine disasters which even the present tempest lous winter has caused. About the middle of December th l3ritish barque Fontabelle, Captain Nixon, sailed from Jamaica for London, having oil bard a crew of twen ty-five men and ten passengers, including the captain's wife and three children, and two young couples, who had been marrieaI only six weeks before. The voyage opened with promise ; the wind was fair and gentle, and everything indicated a quick and pleasant passage to the English shores. The Vest Iiidhan seas, however, are treacherous, and when one day out the wind fell and the vessel lay becalmed, rolling lazily upon the long waves. Fer days after sailing, when every sail wias set to catch the listless breeze, a hurricane of prodigious fury fell without warning upon the barque, and stripped her of masts siul rigging in, teni minutes' time. The gale lncreased in fury, and the dismasted hulk was driven violently before it, being re peatedly swept by huge waves, which mao mentarily threatened to sink it by the very weight of the tons of water which they threw on board. The passengers and crew, abandoning hope, crouched under the bulwarks, and through the long night listened to the howling of the wind and the shrieks of anguish, as, one by one, their numbers were diminished by the relentless seas. Vivid flashes of lightning at. times illumined the scene, making its detalis more terrible. With every flash the Iassengers who crouched in the stern could perceive one of the young married couples clinging to the wreck and to each other, the Is band standing over his wife to shield her from the force of the waves. One wave of unusual power struck the pair and tore from the body of the young wife the night clothing in which she was wrapped, where upon the husband, stripping oil his own clothing, fastened it about his wife, and leaving her bound securely to the side, plunged down into the hol, at, the risk of his life, and brought up for her more suit able attire. Just as the dawn was break ing the climax caime. A tremendous wave hurled tie vessel high in air ; it came down crashing upon a reef ; another torrent of water struck the deck, and the captain and teln men, with the young bride, were hurled into ile sea. As she was torn from her husband's arms the latter appeared stupelied, but the next, moment lie leampei after her with a terrible cry, and he, too, was swept, away and out of sight of Lthe horrified survivors. To these the prospect of instant death was not to be avoided, and they clung to their fastenings and watched with despair the slow crumbling of the vessel beneath the blows of the sea. About noon the storm abated, and the survivors began to gather a little courage. The night came, and the other tride, overcome by exhaustion, died in the arims of her husband. Day dawned again, but only to arouse one of the seamen, who, crazed by thirst, leaped into the sea before the eyes them, it lodgeffi"E"11ll'ow-1f' nuo6m; Toward night the wind again rose, and the storm raged so fiercely that, wihen the morn ing came, seven more had Ween swept away, and only the mate, one seaman and time captain's wife remained alive. Late in the afternoon of this awful (lily a vessel hove in eight, perceived the plight, of the surviv ors and sent a crew of six men to rescue them. But the pitiless seal had 'not yet been appeased with victimis ; a wave over turned tile boat when it hadt(I almost reached the barque, and the entire crew were drowied in the surf beneath the very eyes of those whom their bravery had vainly attempted to save. Another boat was sent off, however, and at great, risk brought, oin board the men and the womaii whlo had sat with death for eight and forty hours. Tis is but one1 of the terrible tales which are every year brought, home by those who go downi to the sea in ships), mind wvhichi ilmke the romances of imaiginative writers seem like idle tales. It is raicely thait a ship wreck occurs whIch is attended by more distrcsing details, but the seas are full of terrors, many of which are knuwn only to those who (lie in them, and whose fate is never knowni. Buch narratives as these give a lively stimulus to thme imagination in thinking of the multitudinous wrecks from which no survivor has ever come, and which go to sweli the chiap~tcrs of romance of the muysterious and threateninig deep,. Dlssipated D~ogs. Of all the rakes whose principal pleasure Is to turn night into day, none1 are more in veterate noctambul ists than two charactecrs well known to that portion of Paris so ciety which repairs during the small11 hours to Peters', the Holder, etc., for supper andl gay converse. The hiardiened roues In quiestion are two (logs, a poodiie of extreme wooliness, and a nondescript, who is gen orally clothed round~ hko a blaniket, with mud1(, as Sancho Panza was with sleep. Tis pair of constant comrades lead an ex istence of the most regular irregularity. Every night, at about twelve, they may be seen, always quite masterless, lounging about the boulevardly and earnestly seeking for some person with the air of a noctam buliat, till, having made(1 a choice after much deliberation, they follow their victim like his shadow until he has reaced~ some1 restauriant with Intent to slip. If the ca nine confidence is misplaced andi the pass cr-by goes soberly home, those roystering blades, the dogs, make their waty along up the broad marble staircase of Peters', where, being well known to the frequenters of that establishment, they are cordimlily received andl plicd with all the (delicacies of the festive board. At the hour of two they disappear from Peters', turning upl a moment afterward at the Helder, oin the other side of the boulevard, and they top off the evening's excitement at a distant all1 night estabilistiinent niear the central mar ket, Baratte's by name. When the light of early morning peeps in upon the scene of their revels, they disappear with the last of the nmght birds and are b~ehld~ no more tili one a. mn. has again come round. Those who have made the personal acquaintance of this remarkable pair state that their grave enjoyment, of their nightly dissipa. tlion is most edifying to witness, andu that their general demeanor reminds one strongly of that character in a novel by Murger, w believe, whose pure and patrIarchal fact was never seen but at seome pot~house irl I, the deepest hours of the night, beamims complacently at the drunken reveilen arouind him. NEWS Til IRIRr. -1t is 13ai10 that the wine crop of Californ la this year will be 10,000,000 gallons. -Tie lose by fire in New Orleans 11-1i19 the past year has been only $121,740. -The Pittsburg pension agency pays Out two million dollars annually in pensions. -Thirty tholtsand square miles -of pine timber are now awaiting the saws at Beaumont, Texas. -Tite statement of the Imperial Ilank of (ernany shows a decrease in spefe of 74,000 marks. -Charles O'Conor aged 70, has be come a eleien of Vatntucket, where ho is at work on a law treatise. --It Is stated tihit it will cost over $31,000,000 to run the Sew York city government the coming year. -General Walker has already esti mated that hi 1900 this eountry will have a populatian of 65,000,000. -The duke of Westminstor, the rich est man i Englaid, was ralsed to his present title by Mr. Gladstone. -Tie Washlagton banker'Uorcoran has given away $4,000,000 and has only about $1,000,000 left for himself, -Tiore are .10,000 negroes In Wash ington, of whom not more than 5,000 '-re steady at work during the year. -it is estimated that the Indian river country of Florida will alone pro duce this year 70,000 boxes of oranges. -A farmor in Chilton county Ala batna, raised 408 bushels of yellow yais on a half acre of common pine latit d. --Miscourl, Kl entucky and Tennessee are the three most populous states of the bouth., Georgia ranks next to Ten -The wife of Gen. Sherman is In such uneomfortable health that she will notr perform any soclal duties this season. -The Colorado bullion production for 1880, is ostmated at $22,000,000, of wh ich eadville is credited with $15, 000,do. -A silver dollar of 1708, "In excel lent condition," is worth about $1,50. l:tif. dollars of 1812 are worth about sixty cents. -Uommissioner L- Duc has located his experituental tea farm 20 imiles tromn Otarleiton on the South Caro 1l I iatilroad.. -Kansas harvested 25,000 acres of EgyPtinu or rice corn laat year, the average yield being twenty-live bush els to the iero. -it takes two and a half million dol lars to pay the annual expenses of the 20,009 hounds said to he owned in Groat Britain. -D)uraig the past seven years the mines of the iMnited States have pro olueod $28,000,000 of gold and $271-. 500,000 of Silver. -The total coinage of all coins, gold, backs, $362 588 424, national bank notes, $313,210,933 -total, $805,808,307 in paper icurrency. -ThItle-it turnpike over made in the United States was that construoted be twoen Philadelphia and Lancaster in 1703, cost ing $500,000. -The first time the White Houle, at Washing' on, was thrown open to the public was at the New Year's levee of 1'resiuent Adams, in 1801. -The Russian Army has 25,000 ef1l cers, wileh iustgequals the wvhoe army of' Lihe Uni'ed Stales, counting In hos-. pital stewatrds and the rest. -Nearly $9500 has been contributed ini Cineinnati for the benefit of the famuilies of live liremen who lost their hv es at, a r-ecent lire in that city. -Th'le numibor of croquet sets sold ia this country during the p)ast flveyoars, is estimatited at 8,000,000, and still we cotlinue to send mIssionaries to Africa. --Vanderbilt draws $510,000 fromt the gover-nment every ninety days, that amount, bein1g the qluarterly inter-. est on tihe 4I per centt. honds hlcd by him. -'Te gross earnings of the Missonri Pajcitlie railwvay for the year endIng IDecemnber 31, 1880, werec $25,404,100.08, an inc(rease of $4,884,401.34 over those of 1879. -An English writer places the num ber of horses in the world at 49,000, 000, o1 which the Ui~ated States andi Canada have 11,'000,0,adRsi 21,000,000.,00ad usi -Eastport, Me., exported 65,000 cases of sar-dirnes last year-, woth $050, 000, agaInst 25,000 in 1870. Seven new l actoris wore ctreeted, makiug thirteen no0w ml operattionl. -It is estimated that the railroads of the country have tequii'ed this year 1,595 new locomotIves and 8,420 ears, worth $65,679,920, and $71,140,000 wortht of new ties anid rails. -The exports of grain from the port of New %>rtk dluring the year 1890 reached 107,000,000 bushels, an excess of near-ly 13,000,000 busticfs over the exports of aniy previous year. -T1he most, careful estimates, allow ing for thte losses by bad woatuer and the scarcity of labor, puts the cotton Orop) of' 188J at 6,017,.101 bales,' an in crease over 1879 of 250,000 bales. -TIhe .L'erson noi of the German Navy comuprises 10,000 men, of whieh nutm tier during the twelve months ending on the 1st of April last, on an avet-age, 5,107 wero afloat atnd 4962 on shiol'e. -T1he Mahtara~lah Dhuleep Silngh, the well-known Eaist Indian prtnce who lives in EFngland, advertises 8,000 pheasants aund 1,000 hares for sale, all oni the Elvedon estate, necar Tihetford. -rThe Moccasints, necklace and other barbarous persotnal property of "D)on't Knowv-llow," a member of the Y ank.. tonnals tribe of sloux, have been re eived by decietary dehurz by mail, thtat Indian having no furdier use for -The total number of paubers in London on the last day of the third week in December was 02,262, of whom 51,500 were In workhouses, and 40,706 received outdoor relief. Compared with the correspondiug week in 1870, these .tigures shtow a decreaso of 8,550 ; but as compared with 1878 and 1877 they show an inoropso of 6,061 and (,604 respectively.