The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, March 17, 1881, Image 1

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TI-WEEKLY TION WINNSBORO, S. C., MARCH 17, 1881. ESTABLISHE ONLY ONE. There are gems of pure affection Fparkling all along life's way ; There are shrines where fond devotion Hourly kneels, its vows to pay ; There at e reoros of outor chambers Where the frieds we lovo may throng In the beart's most sacred temple There is room for only one I You may count your friends by hundreds, You may find some kindred souls, You may cherish precious nemories Writ lit light on fade1ess sorolls ; But thro' all life's changeful seaqpns, Wintry snows. or summer's sun, In your heart's most sacr9d temple There is room for only one I I have hand clasps for the many, Ad good cheer for all who come; I have wealth In loyal friendships And the tenderer Jovs of home ; Above all others, Becuru- apart-alone In my heart's most sacred temple Toro is room for only one I How She Married for Money. Addle Arlington looked at herself in the mirror, and then turned away with a little smile of happy satisfaction, that rippled over into a joyous laugh as she caught her cousin Ellie's eyes. "You are thinkiug that I am vain as a peacock, aren't you, Ellie T Well, I do look well, don't 1 And I'm awfully glad of it, becaise, cousin mine, it will be all the easier for me to come off victorious in the campaign I have laid out for myself dur ing my three monthb' visit with you." She spoke with a charming frankness, that made MiEs Nelliston smile back in the lovely, girlish face. "And what may your plans be, Addle? Of course it is a slttled question that you snall take New York by storm. You know, of course, also, that your pretty face will secure that happiness to you. But further than that, what, little mischief-maker?" She looked fondly, proudly, at Addie, whose dusky eyes were glowing like stars. "Oh, only my arrangement for the chief end of woman-marriage I I tell you, El lie, I am*going to make my bay while the sun shines-in other woids, while I am in New York. I am going to secure some rich -oh, some awfully rich fellow, who can just smother me with diamonds and dresses and give me all the money I want-enough to buy everything I can think of 1'' Miss Nelliston laughed at the girl's hon est enthusiasm. "You rapacious little cormorant I You certainly have erected a very ambiious standard, but I cannot see who or where the desirable party is. I am quite . sure you deserve just what you want, dear; but the question is, can you get it ?" Addle shrugged her pretty shoulders. "Ellie, 1 shall got it I I know just ex actly my own worth. Now don's pu. ,nU down as a vain, silly creature, because I frankly admit I regard myself good-look ing, and quite desirable for a wife gener ally. I am fairly good-natured-am I not, Ellie?-and 1 ought-to have a good hus band, oughtn't I1" She leaned her soft, fair check caress ingly on Miss Nelliston's face. "Indeed you ought, my darling. And if I could, I woula conjure one to order for you. Addie, you are beautiful enough to win the highest and test in the land." And she was very beautiful-and all the more so that she was not in the least vain of her charms. Standing there, beside the dressing mir ror, in her evening dres of delicate pink silk, with her fair, white arms bared just below the dimpled elbow, the dainty hands eased in creamy kids, the joyous, happy face, whose features were so exquisite, whose complexion was.so richly warmi and satiny in its pale, brunette beauty, whose eyes were so deeply dusk, and lustrous, and cager-Addie Arlington was certainly sweet lir~oughi, and winsome enough to warrant Miss Nelliston's loving assertion. "If oinly there was any body rich enough, in or about New York, unmarried, to sat isf'y you, childie !" Addie laughed. "l'il tell you a secret, Ellic. I'm going to take my fort by storm; and when you see me the betrothed bride of an English milord, Ellie-" Miss I~elliston gave a gasp of.. positive horror at the girl's audacity. "Addie Arlington, you don't mean you actually have dlesigns on the illustrious guest that the Vain Rtensellaere are expect ing-the English nobleman all New York is on the qfui vsvc about I" Thie ghm l's silvery laugh accompanied a very dellantly positive shake of her silken skirts, as if that graceful little gesture added incontrovertible emphasis. "Exactly, cousin Ellie. You needn't look so horrified. I'm sure the prospect of having a Lady Grosvenor ini the family ought to (dehght, you." But Miss Nellieton was too taken aback to apprecIate the prospective honor. "Addle, how wild you talk I 'rie ideal Why, you never have seen him ; you don't *know whether lhe is younig or old, a gentle or a--a-not a gentleman, Suppose lie is o1(d, and fat, andl ugly, atnd short breathed like papa's British friend, Bir Williani Wiggieton ?" "TIhe charming estate everybody knows Lord Grosvenor owns, and lia rent-roil of a hundred thQusand dollars a year, and his wonderful mimics in W ales,. and his tr eas ures of costly elegance In his town house In Park Lane, and his country houses in Sussex and Cornwall, will cure all these defects, Ele. Come, We'll be late at Jennie Jer nyngham's, and you know Jennie always expects me first of any one." "And so does Jemi,ie's brother I I am ready, ,Addle"* 'I he music, hidden in a covert of fernis and rose trellises, was playing a lovely tan tasie, In low, softly-delicious chords, and dozens of couples. were promenadmng the suites of rooms, Addle Arlhngton and Fre'd Jernmymgham amnong them, and the young geutlenanh eyiently not delIghtfully inter ested:Ai thne tenor of the young lady's ani nl~ ed conversation. "WIy, he la the handsomest man I ever faw in my-liftoI Of courde, I'll except you, Fred-l" and ile pearly lileth twinkled in a (smile for a second. ".But I want ,to hear .his name. I wan't to iknow all about him, lIrced, .is he rich ?'' It Is Jmpossible for m'atter~of.fsget young J9 synghemn to undentalid whethier or not "Ilia nan- in.--tnn; .. iko nothing whatever about hiu, except that he is a member of an engineer corps at present in the city. 1 don't see what there is about him so remarkably hand some." He glared at the unconscious. target of his and Addle's eyes with a scowl that do lighted her. "You're not.to be supposed to see any masculine attraction beyond - your own, Freddie. But if he's only an engineer hark I that's our waltz." And off they glided, a faint flush on Addle's cheeks, as Mr. Melton's handsome blue eyes caught hers and held her glance a second, despite herself. That was the way it began ; and a month later, when New York society was stirred to its soul by the deferrdd advent of Lord Cuthbert Grosvenor, Miss Nelliston won dered why it was that Addie's enthusiasn had so completely died out. "You're a mystery to me, Addie," she said, as they drove home from the crush at Mrs. Van Rensellaer's, on the occasion of Lo-d Grosvenoi 's complimentary reception. And, for the first time, Addie's reply was a little sharp : "I don't see where the mystery is, I'm sure. Whatever there is about a little, fat, bald headed old man to admire, I can't sec. "But he's a loid all the same, Addle." "No, it's not all the same at all, Ellie I How insufferably hot the rooms were to night I I have the most wretched head ache." The next afternoon, a magnificent coach and pair, with the armorial bearings of the house of Silverland-Lord Grosvenor's il lustrious family-with coachman and foot man, in his lordship's livery of silver and maroon, drew up at Miss Nelliston's door, and the little, fat, pully old gentleman de scended, to pay his compliments to the prettiest girl of the night before-the only girl who had at all interested him-Addie Arlington. After that-well, Ellie hardly knew Ad die, so variable and capricious she grow; now in the wildest spirits, again dejected and petulant: until one day there canme, by one of the liveried servants, a written pro posal of marriage, on a satiny sheet of paper, bearing a crest and a monogram in silver and maroon, and ,igned in a little crabbed, spidery hand "Grosvenor"-a let ter that offered her, in a very gehtlemanly, unenthusiastic way, all the grand, good things that It had been her sole aim in life to possess and enjoy.* While by mail, not ten minutes later, had come another letter, that made the girl's heart thrill, and all her pulses stir, as she read the passionate prayer for herself to be given to the man who loved her-Philip Melton, with his handsome face, and his salary as an engineer. For several hours, Ellie wondered what Addie was doing, so long alone in her room; and then, by-and-by, she came softly down stairs, a sweet flush on her race, a teoder pride in her eyes, a thrill of perfect content in her voice. "Ellie, dear, I want to tell you. I have refused Lord Grosvenor's offer of marriage, and-accepted limnp. And without a question, Ellie put her arms about the slight forai, and kissed her. "You have done right," she said, simply, gravely. "if you .will permit me, might I ask why you decline my offer ?" Lord Grosve nor said, an hour later, when, her gentle refusal having reached him by messenger, he post-hasted to the house. And Addie's lips trembled with' actual happiness and pride as she answered, with a sweetness that was charming: "Because, sir, I-1 loved Mr. Melton best. You won't be angry ?" "Mr. Melton I . fellow on a salary I" "Pardon me, my lord-a gentleman, rich in nobility, in. goodness, and in love for me." "Oh, that's it I But about the money ? .Miss Arlington, there is not a wish inm lie world that shall - remain a moment un gratified, that money can procure, if you will honor mec." "1 shali want only what Philip can give me, sir." . 11i8 kindly eyes twinkled good-naturedly. "Then, MIss Arlington, anm I to consider your answer absolutei You positively (de chine to become Lady Grosvenor, to live at Bihverland Park, to be a leader- of Loindon society ?" She smiled sweetly, proudly. "I am sure I have decided. I thank you ror the great honor you have paid mie--l shall be proud of it all my life, but I can not, because I love Philip Melton more than1 all the world and what is in it." "Addle, my true little darling!i Addle, little love!" And Philip Mclton step~ped out from behind the curtains of the bay window, and took her in his arms, lis handsome face all smiling and proud, as lie tunied te Lord Grosvenor. "I told you so, sir I She loves me, and is true; thi- 'cet In her loyalty to the mani she ad t oi e, perhaps you will nol miligle r4 ci that, after a!!, you wi. uo~ M - venor some day? PcFo Lora -:4. nero Is my father, and] am Philip Molten bilverland, next in suc cession. Addle, you will not be angry with us f or our little ruse ? We had heard you were so desperately determined to muarry money, and the moment I saw you I knew~ there was a heart that would conqluer am bitIon-a heart I wanted to conquer eon my own merits.'' Addie listened, bewildered, and Lor. Grosvenor laughed. "Bless your bright eyes, child!i You nearly tempted ine to be treacherous ti Bilverland there. But you'll not, refuse m< for a father-in-law, I hope ?" And, In her almost royal home, Addi< is happy as thes summer (lays are long ant shining.____________ Irelandt'u (Ireat Landlowners. The following figures In regard to the ownership of irish land are interesting, Onie mani owns 170,000 acres; thr-ee mer own 100,000 acres each; fourteen men 50, 000 pecres each; ninety mien, 20,000 aece each; 125 men, 10,000 acres each; and 451 men, 5,000 acres each. 'I he associaution1 01 Sal terstown 19,000 acres; I le Darpers. 27,. 000 acres; the Merchants 21,000 acres;. th< 8kinners, 24,000 6ucres; the Fishamongrg 20,050 acres, the Ironmnongers, 10,000,ant the Grocers, 10,000 acres. .It is not,thiere fore, any exoggeration to say that of thu $115,000,00,0 which Is annual Irish rentel 'at leas't $60,000,000 18 spent out of thei country, andt where, as in the case of ire land, the countiy Is not wealthy, and hs no other industry exeppt agrlculture, thi; statfilhingd, nitil reinc'dlcd,' will be pro ductive ni want and misery. A Watch for at 3tie. It used to be the saying in the army: "When a soldier is riding a hoss, and the hoss plays out, the soldier Is played. " When my mule played out after an all day's ride through a Missouri snow storm.I dropped off into snow a foot deep, and more caming, and felt a bit discouraged. It was a back county, if there are any back counties in that State, and the settlers had located their cabins just six miles apart, to a rod. When I aut out to walk, and pull the mule to boot, lie looked up at the iky, around at the wqods, and keeled over iii despair. I was trudging along In the snow over imy boot tops, thinking how muc'h easier It was to drown than to freeze to (loath; when the sound of a fiddle reached me between the snowflakes, and I discovered that I had reached a six-mile cabiu. "Come in, old hoss," sang out a voice as I fell against the door. When I opened it I was in a room about sixteen feet square- -the only one in the house. The big fireplace gave light, and the furniture was home-made. A gaunt, long haired pioneer sat on a shake down bed, playing the fiddle; a gaunt, slim woman was dancing in the'centre of the floor, and several children were scattered around as spectators. "Keep it up, ole woman-'d evening stranger; be through in a ininit ; find a cheer-go in fur all yer wuth, Mary I" called the fiddler, as I shut the door be hind nie. As I walked to the fire. one of the child ree wheeled up a block of wood, and the father remarked : "Powerfi storm outside, stranger-keep them feet gwine, old lady-you children wipe off your mouths and sing with me: "I was forty miles from Pake. And the road was i ull of enow. And the wind was gittin' realy Fur to hump itself and blow. "Faster now-change off-kick higher up with them hoofs-round with yn-hoe'er down-ladies change-that's all-stranger, howdy ?" I was made at home. "Wall, now, but this saoems to be the hand of Providence," as I drew up to the table. "lere ye are, snowed in, and here we are chock full of pervishuns ard happi ness, and to-morrer is Caristmas. Straager, Ill show ye more high steps, more hoots and yells, more music and feastin' and dan cin', and gittin' up sta'rs to-morrer than ye ever saw in all yer born days I Ole wo man, if.this ain't the Lord's dom's, then I'm a petrified reptile, and never got re ligion." "Bon, yer right I" added the wife, as she poured out another cup of burnt corn coffee. "We is a lios-pit-able family. When we can't .whoop 'er up fur a stranger on Thanksgiving or Christmas or N ew Year's nobody else need try." After supper one of the boys took the fiddle and the rest of the family limbered up for Christmas. When this process was ended it was time to go to bed, and the old man said: "N *"n.* Vn kin sen that we hain' bilin' rich. Here's two beds, and nine of us. Mc and the ole woman take one, you take t'other, and if the children can't keep warm afore the fire I'll liven their blood with a gad. Git right into bed, stranger, and if the children git to fightin' in the night heave yer boots at 'em." If the children got into a rew I didn't hear them. It didn't seem as if I had slept an hour, when the pioneer shook me by the shoulder and called out: "Say, stranger, daylight has arrove, and Christmas am here. Git up and prepar' to jine In the festivities." The snow was four feet deep and still comifig; but the prospect delighted my host, who cracked his heels together and exclaimed: "If this hain't Divine Providence biled do'wn, then 1 don't like coon and corn. You children, stop that qumarreling. Thomas Jefferson, did you forgit to say yer prayers? If ye dlid, I'll wolilp ye like blazes I'" We had corn, meat, corn (lodgers, apple sauce and coffee for breakfast. -Seats were madle for the pioneer and myself, and the motheir and children stoodi up. There was a long andi embharassing pause after wve were all ready, and finally thc man said: "Strangper, I was givin' ye a chance to throw yerself on a blessin', but ye didn't tumble. Old wvoman, reel oflisuthin purty." She closed her eyes and uttered the fol *lowing as if she had repeated it a thousand timies: "Now I lay me down to sleep, and less this meat and bread and1( sass. We are thanklul for what we've got, and not jealous of our betters. Keep us in good health, make coons lenity, and cause us to escape the itch .'nd maeasels. Amen I" When the table had been cleared away the pioneer and his wife held a consulta twio in a corner, and when it endled the man app~roachied and asked : ''Stranger, arc ye wvillin' to 1beip us make this a whoop in' old (lay ?" "GJood 1 As a family we are 99 per cent on a rough and tumble. I'm about twice ycr size and1( heft, andi It wvouldni't be a fair show, but, the old woman is a pretty even match, and she's just achin' to lay ye on yer back 1" "lBut I never wvresthcd with a woman In pny life." . "Well, it's a good tine to begin. She's wiry and quick, and she'll lay ye if she kin. Stand right up, stranger, and~do ycr level best, to olhige me." I obliged. The situation was ncw andl novel, and in twventy seconds I was thrown over one of the slfake-downs with a crash that, jarredi the house. lhe wvoman cracked her heels together and crowca lustily, the chlildlren laughed, and the pioneer helped me up with the explanation: "Stranger, she's practiced this for ten years, and she'll down any mnan in this county 'cept me.c. I knowed how it would be, buit I am much obleeged for your great kmdness. Thme hull family will now swar m for their paternal (lad." I retreatedl to a corner, and the old1 we man and her six child~ren made a rush for the father. TIhey Were seven to one. They attacked hhm on all'sides with great vigor, and were pickted uip and flung tecn feet without being a bit (discouraged. They finally got him~ foul and brought him dfown), .andi as he lay on his back he observed : I"Children, ye may well feel proud over this. It shows that ye are healthy and flil of pluck, andi that the itch has no busi ness in a family llIke this." We lhad hickory nuts, popcorn, cider and apples for lunch, and at dinner we had b ear meat, pumpkin pie, roast woodchuck, aapple-lamtter .andI gingerbread. After the mecal a half-tame bear, about a year old, was brought in, the fno,. cleare, .a a grand hugging match took place. rhe old woman led off. Standing face to face with the cub, lie hugged and she squeezed. It was nip and tuck., She sighed and coughed and he growled and strained ; but at last lie whined in token that his ribs could stand no more. Then; the two big boys tackled him, but Bruin ind laid them both out. After the bear we had it jumping match. in which the old woman beat the crowd, Then followed a target shoot, in which every one beat me. Thln the bear and the dog had a bout, and the OIog was used up. In the evening we had a dance. played old sledge and drank hot ci r, and as we got ready for bed the old w nian read seven or eight lines from a batter d Bible, and then the man knelt down in l I seriousness and' prayed :. "This 'ere day has dr"'Wed to a close,and we are one peg nigher to the grave. A t stranger cum along ad we took him in. We've fed on the fat o1 the land, and had a bustin' old time and cpects to sleep like L i load of brick. Keep us from growin' I pizen mean, continue our whoopin' goot I health, and reserve pIp nty of room in t heaven for us all. Thai a about all, onless ye want to put it into the mind of the stranger to offer me his watch even Up for 1 my old amul,.. Anien P A Trip to the Gient Geyseirs, i C In the late afternoon, the sky being some what overcast, "Koch,' the guide, thought it a good time to see the "0reat Geysers." From the hotel piazza cy did not look so 0 "great" in any sense of khe word. In fact, all we could see was !a constant steam- c cloud, drifting ip and away from a rusty I brown streak on the ihillside. But the t place turned out to be infernally interest ing. The approach is very deceptive. A winding trail from theihotel leads down to a Sulphur Creek-cool and clear; and over a rustic bridge and a series of steps on tlp opposite bank you coiAe to the mouth of , Geyser Canyon, where Pluton Creek tun- C bles along its hot and ' sulphur blue-green I water, as the lirst intimnation of the toil and a trouble and cauldrou bubble further up tie na row and smoking way. Across the f bank again, in and out, over and around v rocks and under laurel bushes the narrow trail leads into the great laundry. First a we step up to the "Devil's Ollice''-but t not to settle, as many of us will have to do s some day; but pass through "Proserpime's * Grotto" to sit in the "Devil's Armciair." The "Devil's Kitchen" a little further on, is more than ordinarily fascinating, al though the old follow's diet appears to be ' principally hell-broth. This kitchen is a ross between the "Poodle-Dog" range and c a steam fire-engine. Here and there in C the shelving rock are little springs and ba- J sins, bubbling, blubbering, and only wait- 9 mug for some carrot-haired Eastern tourist i to fall in, in order to translorm the whole ravine into a savory soup-house. Just out- f side the "Devil's Kitchen" is the "Devil's 0 [nkstand," and the "Devil's Punch-bowl" and "Geyser Smoke -stak," and "Witches' "Safety ' a -anu - the "Steamboat N 5pring,'' and the "Devils Pulpit," and the ievil knwvs what else. rhesd things have t been so often described that it is a crime to t 1o it again. Sullice it to say, that there is t a canyon filled with fretting steam and boil- J ing. water, and spongy mineral-streaked L ground, that smokes like the ruins of a re cently burned city. Commotion every where. Water hot enough to boil eggs harder than Pharaoh's heart. Steam that 1 puifs and blows and shrieks and wheezes and climbs up your trousers-legs, and takes 8 all the starch out of the Boston school- C lna'am's underskirts, and brings the bando. line out of the New York girl's hair, and turns the bismuth pcwder on the San Fran .isco belle blacker than her bang. It is as L though the devil had uipset, here fie entire I apothecary shop and then turnedI on the bydrant. Leaving lie canyon, we conic suddenly on the ''Postollce,'' and the I "Lover's Retrcat," andi thme "Lover's Leap, " and the ''Lava Beds,'' and the "'Indiant Sweat- bath," where the natives in their I: early days used to parboil their old rheu nmatic bucks. While pitching pebbles into the nozzle of the Decvil's Ten-kettle, "Koch'' told us of all sorts of wonderful springs--the iiron spring, thet hot acid spring, the eye-wattr spring, the lemmonade spring, and a dozmi other springs-but noise of them half at interesting or ninible as the "RUix sp)rinsg, wnen he saw wha~t he took for "a bear r-ea~hinsg for a leaf." A bear skin had been stuhfed and laced on the hillside, and ly strings cleverly coin trived and worked komi beihind ai trece the1 fiaud was made to go through bear mo tions to life. Oine look wvas enough for everybody, the gukie iscluded, ausd the boys beat thme lover/' reti cat all to pieces in their frantic endeavars to shake the du(st of that hillsi'de fr-on. off their flyin~g feet. The bear adventuic wound up the first, day to every body's satisfamction. InstInct of Iects nnel ilrnis, Let uis examine the marvelous instinct of the solitary was> in providhing for the I worm that will lssm from her egg after her< own death. She irings grubs-food that, as a wasp she ncvir tasted-and deposits< them over the egg, read1(y for the larvie so will never sce. 'ihe life hilstory of every insect exhibits instincts of this perplexing description. L~ook at the instinctive char- I acter of bees in thdr far-sighted provisions< for tihe future. Witness the caterpillar, how at the proper timie it, selects a suitable situation and spins ior- itself a silken cocoon. Marvelous instincts are muet with otitaidle of the insect world every little bird is his I own skillful accotcher. We once observ ed the self-dehiyciy of thme chickens. Thelie prison wall Is not buret, in pieces b~y strug gles. By a regular series of strokes the shell Is cut 1if two'-cipIped round in a a perfect circle soiae dhistance from the lar ger end. Th'le bird has a special instru meat for this workd-a hard, sharp horn ona the top of time umpper inandible, which, be-< lag reqiuired for no other purpose, disap pears in a few (lays. Obviously each indi vidual bird no more acquires the art of breaking Its wily out than it furnisjies It self with the littie pick-hiammcr used In thme operation; and it hs quite clear that a bird< could have never escaped from the egg without this instinct. hlow were eggs hatched before birds had~ acqluired the In stinct to sit uypIs tlii' A fowl that never befo willngly shared a crumb with a companion vilI now starve herself to feed her chicke, whichisho calls by a lan guage-she nes-er. before used--may havel never heard-bu~ which they are born to' understanid. . } i1.: A 'Imalsi. In the Bad Lands of Colorado an aul. nal has Wcen found which Is by f ar the argest animal supro osed to be capable of moving on dry land. It fed on the forcats )f the time, a fact proved by the remains round with it. It was called the Titanasau 'us, a huge anlimal, seventy feet il length mnd eighty in height. That ago abounded n ]lying reptiles and turtles, beside the nionster saurians already nientioned. Some >f the land turtles were nine feet. in length mud proportionately high. One specimen low extinct would easily hideor cover two non, being about four feet high. At that m'oud a great revolution was culminating, nerceptible change is noticed that Mations of a new cra. The body sted instead of being dragged 4 .e limbs were lengthened, and in uimal life at that period the iguanodon akes a prominent position. 'The thigh vhen full-grown was more than four and half feet in length, and the circumfer ace around the head was four and a halt ect. The teeth were obtusely conical and aterally compressed, so as to present a cut ing edge, which was serrated like the teeth f the Mexican iguaLnla, froni Which it was amed, As restored by Mr. Hawkins, it as a slight resemblance to an immense ti er. Mr. Hawkins sa3s, to give an idea of lie size of that animal, that the iguanodon a it now stands in the Crystal Palace is omposed of four iron columns nine feet in igui by seven inches in diameter, six iundred i4ricks, fifteen hundred and fifty iles, thirty-eight casks of cement, ninety asks of broken stone, with one hundred met of iron hooping and twenty feet of ubic inch bar. The specimen was mod. led atter the great Horstiam specimen, and o show more clearly the size,, the mold vas afterward converted into a "salle a ianger," in which Professor Forbes,Owen ud twenty other gentlemen sat down to inner. 'I he great cretaceous ocean of the West, hiat is now only known to us by its arid eserts and chalky plains was no less re iarkable for its lishes than its reptiles,and warmued with large forms relate(, to the simon and saury. Vertebriu and other ragients of those species project froni the iorn limestone in many places, and one of lem attracts attention by its formidable ppearance. The denasity apd hardness of lie bones hal shed the rain off on either ide, so that the radiating gutters and ra ines finally isolated the stony monster. 'he head was some inches longer than that f a full-grown grizzly bear, and the jaws icre deeper in proportion to their length. 'he muzzle was snorter and deeper than liat of a bull-dog. The teeth were all sharp ylindric fangs, sillooth and glistening, and f irre.,ular size- hAt certain points in each aw they projected three inches above the um, and were .sunk one inch into deep its, being .thug as long as the fangs of a iger, but niore slender. Two pairs of such angs crossed each other on each side of the ad of the snout. That fish is known as 'ortheus Molossus. Beside the smaller shes the reptiles no doubt supplied the iemaunds of their appetite. The ocean in vMuen LoUnenboUU 16AA --L ous life was at last completely inclosed on he west by elevations of sea bottom, so hat it only cowmunicated with the Atlan ic and Pacitic at the Gulf of Mexico and Lrctic Sea. The continued elevation of oth eastern and western shores contract d its area, and when ridges ot the sea but Dm reached the surface, Loiming long, I ~w ars, parts of the water ai e &vwre inetosed, id connection with salt, nwer prevelt-u. 'hus were the living beiha., ii;prisoned and ubjected to many new ru. b. btioner ould more readily capture the weaker, Vhile the fishes wou;d gradually perisu bIrougih the consta i, I nlmeuemng ol the vater. With the uuth of any considera ile class the balaune us foud supply would me lost, and~ miany~ argt r species wol dus *ppear from the scene. Thle niost, emiuer ng would longest resist the 'approach of tarvation, but would linally yield to iex ratble fate; the iast 01n0 beiig caught by lie shilfting bottom among the shallow mools, I romi which his exhausted energies oult not extricate hinm. Makiniga Do:sf Man Hefar, Funny how thIngs will happen sometimes dfessrs. Gallagher and Rtagbag are strani ;ers, and the other day they went down to cc old Mr. Crops, who is very (leaf. (either knew Crops, but, both were aware if his infirmity. Rtagbag reiiched the place nd found Crops outi, but sat, (downi to wait or him, Preecntly Gallagher caime in. cach thought the othier to be Crops. Ihag sag wvent utp to Gallagher, put, his mouth o that gentleman's ear,and in a loud voice :riedh: "Got, any hogs to sell?'' The yell nade Gallagher Jtunp like a steer, and at lrst lie was imad, But lie recollected that leaf peo0ple talked very loud, and so placing uis miouth at Ragbag's ear lie roared: "'I vaunt to buy a miule." Tlhat nearly split, aig bag's head and lie jumpei)d in goodhshapje. 1i'hen lie saw thtat lie wasn't understuood Lndl yelled louder "hlogs are tie things to leal in!" anid then Gallagher saw that lie .vasn't complrehecnded~ and~ cried, "1 muist inve a mule that won't, kick." Ragbag put, ma more steam andt yelled, "I1 tell you I vant, fat hogs," Gallagher tuned up loud nough to be heard halt a mile away and~ mowled: "Mulel mulch bdndhe color pro erredI." "No westerni hogs for mie. I tell rou I want to buy some good fat hogs" bel owed Ragbag. "I wIsh I could make the >Id ass understand that I want, to buy a nule," thought, Gallagher. "have y, u got, Sbridle mule to sell'?' lie howled getting rery red in tne face, "This 01(1 numbhead a awful deal," thoulght Ragbag, and then me nearly tore the top of lisa head off in vhooping out: "If you'vo got any hogs to telI, 1 want to see 'ema." By this time both non were mad~ and each Inwardly swore ie'dl make the old fellow hear,or die in the httemplt. "MuheI muilcl mule, I tell you nulel" madly shrieked Gallagher, dancing bout, "ilogs! I saId; hogal hogs is what 1 vantl hlogs!" sct'caimed Ragbag, with ani ifrort that splIt his shirt the .whole length if hIs back. By that time the neighbor iood was aroused. Crops' son caime in and usked what In somewhere was ,the matter. '1 can't muakc this deaf old ams hear any. hhing," cried Ragbag. "Yen mIght fire a ~annon beside hlin and lie would'nt notice t," said Gallagher. An explanation on mued. TIhen the disgust, of both men was )aiful to behold. Each said the other was n liiot, and altogether to blame in the nlatter, and It was hard work to keep thiemi rom lIghting. They unitee, however, in irequest that the matter be kept secret, but It, wasn't, and they are keeping con ~eaied to avoid payIng the drinks to about lifty peonle who lKnow of the affair. The Demand for Nuts During recent years the trade In forelgn and donestic nuts has developed wonder fully. New York city has become the most important centre of the trade, the extent of which indicates that people have either sc cured patent stomachs, or that indigestion has lost Its terrors. Africa used to Eupply us with peanuts, sending them by ship-loads, but our Southern states have so success fully cultivated this popular nut that we are now Independent. Tho states that fur. nih the bulk of the supply are Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. During the past season the crop of Virginia was 1,100,000 bushels, of Tennessee, 55,000 bushels, and of North Carolina, 120,000. The nut probably the most popular after the per~nut is the pecan. The Texas pecan is especially in deiand. While a few years ago several barrels of pecans abundantly supplied the demand, car loads and in voices of one or two hundred barrels are nOw not uncomm11i11On. Of the other nuts the hickory Is among the mllost popular. While in many locali ties, especially in the E-stern states, they are becoming scarce, In the Western states they are sullielently plentiful to ship to New York half a dozen car loads a week when demanded. That delicious nut, the. chestnut, is be coming scarcer every year, and there is much dilliculty in obtaining thei sound and in large quantities. Tiicir great popu larity will probably pr,event their total dis appearance, for they are already being cul tavated, and it is expected that within a few years tihe cultivated nut will equal in quality the high-priced Italian chestnuts. Black walnuts and butternuts are re garded as too rich and oily for table use; but the former is largely used by confect ioners. The Anierican hazel nuts are not an important article of commerce, the fil bert largely taking their place. Only a few English hazel iiuts find their way to the American market. It Is stated that growers in California contemplate intro ucing a number of varieties of nuts native to Spain and Italy. Tie trade In foreign nuts is enormous. The demand is said to have tripled during the last live years. As everybody knows the almond always has been in demand, and probably always will be. The "Eig hh" walnuts, formerly called Madeira wal nuts, mainly come fromi France and Spai, the English crop being consumed at home. Tacy have been successfully raised in the states on the Pacific coast. The Brazil nuts are a kind of "linked grease long drawn out"-a few of them go a long way. For cocoanuts the demiand is steady and so inmense that our dealers feel safe in buy ing themi by tle hundred thousand. The process of dessicating them has widened their family use, and they are now a favor ite ingredient of pies, cakes and candies. A Scono In Russia. At the trial of fourteen persons in Rus sia, charged with beloniging to a secret so ciety, a painful scene occurred. Among the prisoners were Prof. Sytzianko and its onn A lovander. a vouth of nineteen. The defence was conducted very poorly, all the counsel being appointed by the court from aniong the military counsel. The trial of the youth, 83 tzianko, produced aii uiiiusual excitement in the court. Dr. Sytzianko had all the sympathy of the public, being esteemed both as an able professor of the University of Kharkoff anl as a physician. Eight months of prison life had made Iruni almost unrecognizable; his face was deadly pale. Still when examined he defended hinself ably. His son, Alexander, agym naisiuim 1 pupil, was undoubtedly the most remarkable of all the accused. His beau tiful face, his clear and charming voice, and his eloquence produced a very favora ble inimression on the public. T2hAe most striking moment of the trial was this: The attornley for t he Stato asked Alexander why, on the preliminary examination, lie had made certain statements, which on the tihe trial, he recalled, in explanation the youth dlescribed mhost eloquently all the horrors of the prIson life lie hiad been sub mined to. ils physical sufferings andl mental tortures, lie asid, had reduced him to a cOnidition in which iio person can be0 responsible eihmer for his actions, lie told how he felt when (durimng the wvinter hie was shut, in a small, dlark, (lamp, uiider ground cell, aiid subsisted for a time on1 one glass of water that was given to him onice m twenty-foiir hours. Th'le fathber of the youth colhd iiot stand such a dreadful tale; lie fainted iand s0 put1 ani 01nd to the expo si',ion of the secrets of the p~olitical prison. A most, exciting scene followed. All the ladies p)resenit in the court room criedl andl sobbed, amid tears were seen on the faces of the stoutest mecn. The court, adjourned. When It, re-opened the attorney for the prosecutiomi requested that the prison au therities and guatrdians should be summoned as witnesses. On the next day they were brought. Alexander Sytzianko wats re questedh to rcepeat what lie had said on the previous (liy about the abuse15 received by him at the hands of the prison authorities. This lhe did, and1( add~edl some1 detahus even iiore shocking. Again his father felt sick, and~ requested the court to be allowed to leave thei court room. TIhme petitioni was granted. The prison authorities were uin able to contradict the startling revelutions of the youthful prisoner. Tnes sargasso sea. This Is the niame given to a portion of thei Atlantic Ocean covered with the sea weedh, Sargassum. Its boundaries may be indlicated b~y tracing a triangle, of which the three corners are represeontedl by the Azores, the CanarIes andl Cape (10 Verd]. Within those limits thme sea is clothed on Its surface wIth a garment of vegetable mater ial, so thick as to ro'ard the progress of vessels sailing through It, Steamers avoId It because of the fouling of their screws and paddlcs by the weed ; but sailing-ves sels bound to the West Indies, South Amer ica, the Cape of Oiood hope, etc., must pass5 through it. When Coiumibus, on lisa 'first, voyage, had got, some1 distance to the westward of the Canary islands, lhe was amnazed to I id his ships In what looked like a meadow. As far as ho could see, the water was covered with a grceish-y.el low plant, as water-dImies cover a pond. Trhis was the first tIme such a thing had been seen and tno sailors were scared. Co lumbus could not oxplain the sIght lhe saw, nnmd might have thought with his men, that the weed was the covering of some dangerous rock which lay a short distance down, ready to tear ana read them. The lead was hove but no bottom was found. The ships kept on their course, and In a few days,. they not clear of thn wnnd. BRIEFS. -To soften bris, heat it up to a cherry red and plunge it into water. -T're population ofr London Is 3.707,. 130, an increase of 452,870 since 1871. -The Ohio Central railroad will build a $2,000,000 rolling mill Ii Tolede. -President Hayes was tha gruest of the ltidmore Prem Club on Febuary 12. -Father Ilennepin discovered coal in 1669, in what Is now called Ottawa, 111. -The new consus shows the total nn mher of Chinese In California to be 75,025. --The richest man in the United States Senate Is said to be Mr. Fair, of Nevad a. -Airs. Thackara, General Sherman's daughter, is now considered out of d angie r. -Th-e value of the tobacco crop in Cil n ton count y in 1880 is 6timated at $100,000. -The most durable woods In Ory places are cedar, oak, yellow pine and Chestnut. -Sound ice, ten inches thick, will bear a pressure of 1,000 tons to tho Fequare foot. -Wisconsin's railroad facilittes have increased from ten miles In 1851 to, 3, 133 miles Ili 1881. -Senator-elect sawyer bestowed $100,000 each on his two daughters as vedding presents.. - -It Is estimated that 40,060 'ods of wood are annually coiauned by .the people of Dubuque. -In one grove, In California are 1380 trees, none ieasuting less than six feet in diameter. -The average doposits in the Biat Lake banks In 1880, were more than double those of 1876. -Canada has a public-debt of Z30, 000,000 which Is equal to L7 10j. per head of her population. -Ten vineyardists In Napa county, California, produeed last year- over 1,100,000 gallons of wine. -A sister of the King of Sweden is a missionary in Lapiland, and has sold her jewels to aid her in her work. -Mr. Thomas, the widow of the General, is now living quietly at Troy, N. York. Sh rimsclves no pension. -The salary of that noted liorsonan, Joseph Cannon, as "trainer to Lord Rosebery," is said to be $10,000 a year. -Pope Leo, who has been very il for several weeks, is now recovered. lie will be seventy nmine years old in March. --Mrs. Leopold de Rothschleld-has a new necklace which, although it Is only a single row of pearls, is valued at $100,000. -Tie theatres and other places of amusement iII St. Lois are openon Sunday evenings, and some of them give matInees. -The St. Louis and San Francisco railroad has sold 150,000 acres of land in Barry county, Missouri, to a colony of Scotchmnen, -The late E. A. Sothern, the actor, it is baid, left only about $40,0u, al thought lie had carried an annual li coie of $150,000. -en Butler sends his yacht to Nor folk in February, and will embark from that port for a three months' cruise Iin the West indles. -Lord Suffolk has sold his famous LA Vierge aux Rochers, by Leonardo ti Viuci, to the National Gallery, of London, for the sum of $45,000, --The New Mexico and Rio Grande Railway, incorporated, capital $1,000, 000, from Arapahoe county, Colorado, to $oecor~o county, New Mexico. -Th'le net cost of the war in Afgha nistano, includIng that of the frontier rail ways, was about twenty-one crores of irupecs, or ?17,500,000 sterling. -According, to the recent census, Switzerlanid has a po~pulationl of 2,890, 00)0, or 120,000 momam than In 1877 .when the last previous censuis was taken, -Up to the close of thme year the Lake SuperIor copper inos have pro dlucedI siuce their commencenemint 300, 000 tons of Ingot copper, valued at $140, 000,000. -A braham Linicol n, the grand fatherm of thme groat President of that name, wvas killed by Indianis on Linkhorn's Runi, as tihe stream in Kentucky was ttien called. -School attendlane in Georgia has haid a remarkable increase. From 49,. 570 In 1871, It ran lip to 226,627 In 1870, O1 time latter number 79,435 were color ed chilren. -The peach orchard of John Par nell, In Troup county, Gem., is the largest In the world. 1t covers 250 acres of lanmd, and will probably y'lid $70,000 this year. -An ounce of silver is worth $1.04; a poun'i (sixteen ounces)$10.80; a ton (2,240 p)ounds) $37,632. A cauble Inch is worth $11; a cuc foot, $19,00$; a cubic yard, $613,216. -Thie number of the'boo hives in this country is estimateti at 2,000,000, and the aniual produact at $i4,000,000, or seven dollars to the hive. 1'he boe keepers number 70,000. -The racing fund in the United States for the current year wIll ap proximate $1,000,000. Nine Englsish norses have reached New York, to be entered in our summer contests. -T1he Nordenskjold, the largest tor pedo boat In existence, was recently launched at Copenhagen. She mneas ures 216 feet In length and 42 fe'et In breath, She can mnajie fifteen miles an lieur. -Shipbuilding on the Clyde was un usually active lyt year. TIwo hundreu anld lorty-one vessels of all kinds were launched, of a total of fullf,239.000 tons, an excess of 71,000 tonls over 1810. Tacir marketable value represents an outlay of .acDout $30,000,000. -At Steyer, which Is 1110 largest ?Ifle manufactoz y in~ Austria, one thousand addItIonal workmen were recently en gaged, and all the shops are in full swing, doing work for thie Govern mnents of Bulgaria, Servia, Raumania and even lor Lnat of France. -Th'ie Introduction of Amerhoan street ears Into Rio de ,Janeiro has pro duced a great change in the social and . business life of the people. There are two kinds of ears-one for she bare footed people, 5 cents; and one for those who wear shoes 10 cents.