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T1I-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., SEPTEMBER 27, 1881 ESTABLISHED 1865. A XOTHiER'S UHEAIT. A little dreamuing, such as ruothers know; A little lingering over dainty things; A happy heart, wherein hope all aglow Stirs like a bird at dawn that wakes anl sings And that Is all. A little clasping to her yearning breast A little musing over future years; A heart that prays, " Dear Lord, Thou know oat best, But spare my flower life's bitterest ralit or tears;" And that is all. A little spirit speeding through the night; A little loane grown lonely, dark anad chill; A sad heart, groping blindly for the light; A little snow-clad grave beneath the hill Anti that, is all. A little gathering of life's broken threal A tittle patience keeping back tile tears; A heart that sings, "ThIy darling is not leati, Uodl keeps its safe tirouglh 1118 eternal years " Antid that is all. TIlE BRAKEMAN'S STOlIY. A roughilooking man ? Yes, perhaps I am. We ain't all of us responsible for our outside husk, no more than a horse-chestnut or at hazel-nut is. The kind of life. I lead can't be lived in white kid gloves and dress coats. I wasn't brought up with many odvan tages, and I'm only a brakeman on the Rensselaer and Saratoga line. Old Jones was telling you about me, was he, sir? He'd better hold his tongue. There's more proiltable subjects of con versation than I am. But old Jones means iwell enough, and if he told you to ask me how that stripe of white hair came on my black inano, I ain't the mai to go back, on him. Oh, you needn't beg my pardon, sir I I don't mind talking about it now, though the time was when I couldn't speak of it without a big lump coming in my throat. We hadn't been married long, Polly and me, when it happened. Polly was as trim, bright-eyed slip cf a girl am ever you'd wish to see. She was one of the waitresses in the Albany lunch room ; and the first time I ever set eyes uponl her I matde ill) my mind to iake that girl my wife. So, wiei they raised my wages, I took heart and asked her if she would have them with nie, with a wedding-ring thrown into the bargain. "Do you really mean it, Jake ?" said she, looking me full in the face, with those dark blue eyes of hers, that are like the akies at night. "I J do really mean it, Polly," said I. "Then ' maid she, putting both her hands in-mine, "I'll trust you. I've no living relation to advise me, so I can only take counsel with my own heart." So we were inarried. I rented a little onie-story house, under the hill on the height, that overlooked the Hudson-a cozy place with a good-sized wood-pile at the rear, for winter meant winter in those parts, and the snow used to be drifted up even with our door-yard fence many and many a cold gray morning. And everything went smooth until Polly began to object to my mates ait the White Blackbird, and the Satur day evenings I spolnt with the boys, after my train was safely run onto the side track at the junction. "'Why, Poelly, girl," aid T, where's thae harm ? A marn cianh't live by htimself, like an oyster in its shell, and a social glass never yet hiaramed any one." '"No," said Polly, "ntot a social glass, Jake, but the habit, And if you would onily put every five-cent piece that you spend for liquor inlto little .Beatie's tiny savings baank-" "Paihaw I" said I. "'I'ii ot a-drunk ardi, anid I niever mieatn to b)ecomle one'. And no one likes to be0 p)rehed to by bis wife, Polly. Remember that imy girl, andl yout'll save yourself a deal of I kissed her, and went away. But that was thIe beginning of the little, grave shadow thaat grew on my Polly's facee, like a creepuing fog over the hills, anId that ehe has never got rid of since. It was a sore p)oint between us-what the p)oliticianls called a vexed queation. .I felt that Polly was alwvays watchjing me1 ; and I didn't choose to 1)o put in leading-strings by a woman. So-I shame to say it-I went to the White Blackbird of tenor than ever, and I didn't always count the glasses of beer that I drank, and once or twice, of a p)articu lairly cold night, I let myself be per suaded into drinkinlg somueth ing stronger than b)eer ; and my brain wasn't the kind that could stand liquid fire with imu puniity. And Polly cried, and I lost my temper, andl-well I don't like to think of all these things niow. Thank good necas they're over and gonoe! That afternoon, na8 1 stood on thle back platform of my car, with my arms fold ed and my eyes fixed on the snowy wans of flat fields through which the iron track seemedl to extenmd itself like anu endles black serpent, I looked my own life in the face. I mnatd up my minld that I hand b)eenl hehaivig like a brute. "Whaat are those senselesa5 followvs at the Whaite Blackbird to me," muttered I, '"as comparedl with One of Polly's sweet bright looks? I will give the whole thing up. I'll draw the line just here no0w. We shall he0 oft' dulty early to-night. I'll go homo and aIstonaish Polly i", But, es night fell, the blinding drift of agreat stormi came with it. We were lie rails, and when we renched Earldahe there was a little girl, who had bel aent on in care of the conductor wb. must either wait three of four hours ror a way traiii in the cold and cheerless station, or be taken home across a w sniowy field by some one who know the u way. I thought or my own little children. p "I'll take her," maid i-and lifting N her ip I gathered my coarse, warm coat i about her, and I started for the long, 0 cold walk under the whisperiig pinem b along the edge of the river. I honestly o bolievo she would haive frozen to death It if she had been left in the cold station a until the way train could call for her. E And when I had left her safe inl chargo I of her aunt, I saw by the old kitchen i tillC-icCO that it was ten o'clock. n "Polly will think I have slipped back hito the Slough of Despond," I said to n myself, with half a smile ; "ut I'll give b her an agreeable surpriso I" b Plowing down amid the siow-drift, I through a grove of pine trees that edged 1 a ravine at the back of my house, I L sprang lightly on the doorstep ; the door tj was shit and locked. I went wround to ti the front. E re I effected an entrance, j but the fire was dying on the heart.h,I and little Bortie, tucked up in his crib, r4 called out :R 'Papa, is that you ?" I "Where is mammin l, my soln ?" said I, - looking eagerly around at tile desolate e roomi. "Gone out with the baby ill her arms b to look for you," he said. "Didn't you v ieet her, pa ?" - d I stood a miiiute in sileice. ti "Lie still, Bertio," said I, ill a voice 1; that Boiided stranige. and husky even k to myself. "I will go anid bring her J back." 1) And I thought with dismay of the )lidilg sniow-storii outside, the treach erous gorges which lay between here and the White Blackbird, the trackless woods, through which it was diflicult ti enough to find oneo's way eveni in the 9 siinslihine of noonday, and-worst of all ti --the lonely track, across which all i "express" shot like a meteor at a few p iiinutes before midnight. Oh, heaven ! 11 what possible doom might I not have a brougbt upon myself by the wrtehied Passion in 'Which 1 1111 1 gon1e away that b umorning. L The town clock, sounding dii and t 1nflied through tile storm,' struck eleven as I hurried dowit n Eleven-and who knew what a length i of time mtight elapse before I could find b her? And like at fiery phantasmlagoria i before my mind's eye, T behold the wild I rush of the imidnlight express, and e dreaded-I kiiew not, what. For all that i I could realize was that the storm was growing fiercer witi every ioient, Cl anld Polly and the baby were out inl its 0 fury I It As steadily as I could I worked muy 0 way down toward the track, but iore a thian otic I becaiie bewildered, and bad 0 to stop and reflect before I could resume it ily quest. And wheii, at length, I caime 1 out close to a ruined wood and water u station on the edge of tle track, I knew a that I was full a half a mile below the p White Blackbird. 1 And in the distance I heard the long, . shIrill shIrieko of the midnight train I b Some one0 else had heard it, too, for, as I stood thus, I saw, faintly visible through the blinding snow, a shadowy figure issue from tile riiined shed ando u: comie out upon0 thie track, looking with a U bewildered, uncertain air upl aMid down ii -the form of Polly, my wvife, with tihe t little biaby in h1cr arms11 I 1 hurried down to her as fast as the t rapidly incereasinlg 'sniow-dlrifts would ii let mie, bumt I was only julst ill time to a~ dratg hzer fromi the lacte of peril, anid a stand(', bireathilessly hiolding her back, 'j while the fiery-eyed monster of steam u sw'ept bty wViith ai rush and a rattle that 1: nearly took our bireth away I -14 "Polly I'" I cried, "'Polly ! speak to e me I" t Shte turtned her wuanderinug gaze toward a me, with her vague eyes that seemued i: scarcely to recognize met. "Have you seen my htusbiand ?" said f she. ''One Jacob Cotterol, birakemtan a oni thie local express5 ?"1 "PFolly I little woman 1 don1't you kno1w e me ?" I gasped. ''And ] thought, pecrhiaps," sihe addeltd,1 vacantly, ''yell might htave met him. It's very col here, and-and-"2 And thien she fainted ill my airms. The lon1g, long birain fever that follow edi wuas a sort of death. Thlere wals a timne wheni they told( 1me shte niever wouhl kniow 111 again, bunt, thianik (God, she did. She recoveredi at last. And sincet that night I never have tasted1 a drop of liqulor, ando, please heaven, I never will againl. The baby, b)less its dear littlet heart, wasit't hlarmled at all. It lay sung and warmi on its mnothleir's breast all thie while. But if I hiadni't happened to lie culose biy thtemi at that instanut the night elxpress wouldl have grouind themi ito And the white stripe came iito m.y 1 htair upiont the nit of thant fearful snow 1 storm. Th1lat's how it hlapplened(, sir., t' Professor' A/ars/h, of Yale college, h1iis recenutly (IIscovered mi thte eretaccous (10- I pi)(ts of Kanss the remains of a great utitmber ot t~'oothed biirds Scienttsts aver that thte discovery and study of these re miarkahilo extinct forms by Professor Marsh has thIrowi nmuch light upon01 the derivation ( of t'e bilrds, and furnmahes another very i strong link in the chain of evidhence in fa-t vor' of the theory of evolution, which Is now, almost universally accepted by nuaturallsts, to account for the orIiht cf the et hetmng korne' nf nr'ranio lifea, / Lane Sublilded. The late John Pettit in the years 1854 5 al the circuit Judge by appointment of ov. Wright, and with all his aultls was igarded a one of the best nial.prius Judges rer on the bench in Indiana. lie was romlpt and fearless, and If not alwayt >rrect was at the least honest. Wim. F. ane, better known as Frank Lane, was ke leadiug crimnal lawyer in Pettit's mrt. 11e was not a man of much ability at coulh talk all day about nothing. On ie occasion he defended a man for steal ig, and on the coming in of the jury with verdih t of guilty, Frank entered the usual totion for a new trial. The -inext morn Ig aftr the clerk had read the minutes udge Pettit, turning to Lane, remarket Lat lie worild take up the motion for a ow trial made the day before. Frank re. lied that the prosecuting attorney was not a court, and that of courie the CaSe could ot be taken up in his absence. " Go on, Ir. Lane, it is the prosecuting attorney's usiness to be here," replied the J udge. 4ut I am not ready, your Honor," inter use<a Lane; "I want time to look up au iorities," " No authorities are necessary i this case in this coart, Mx. Laie," said ic Judge, "and no other business will be lkeni up until this case is disposed of. Go L with your argument, Mr. Lar.e." Frank und lie was in for it, and coinmenced uLking, talking on vLry little that was -lev4nt to his case ; the truth was lie had o case. About the time lie had exhausted ettit's patience the prosecuting attoricy -the late Charles A. Naylor-entered the )urt room, and listecing a moment at the atrance to the bar, kind llnding that Lime as tullking about the cas@ tried the iny Lfore, inquired of the Judge what Lane rae doing with it In his absence. " What oaes Mr. Lane want?" ''I don't know," -spon(led'Pettit; " I have been listening > him here for three-quarters of an hour, -ying to fin out, and( I don't believe lie nows himself P" Lane subsided, the udge overruled the motion, ordered tie risoner to be br-jught in, who was sent to ti Jef1ersonville prison, aid the Case was an end. Englaimd's Great Urewerm. Among those who ha've been for a long me at the top of fortumi's tree are the reat Brittish Brewers at Burton on-Trent, Lit even they have now for sonic tinme been ireatened with dimiished proilts. The rat 11rm which took to brewing "East India ale ale" was that of the Abbotts, of fow, u .r London ; but eventually the Basses ud Alsops, of Burton-on-Trent, got hold f tie traidC and 1mIade it their own. 1Jass' randfather was a carrier, residing at, Asi ourne, in )erbyshire. in the days when ir. Johnson used to pay visits to his friend ic rich parson tiere. He owned the uormous vans, wtL tour horses, which ien (lid all time traillc betwixt that part of IC country and London, and with some1 of is accunulatel profits his smn went into usiness at Burton-on-Tront. Tile India -ade in great measure made him, but now is falliug off, not only becauso )CO)C nd hght wiiies suit them bettei, but be Ause the Indian breweries are iow ClUing large business. .in Australia, too, liour. ihing breweries are cutting into las' 'ade, while here lager beer is a serious .mipetitor. In Guinuess' stout the falling If is far less marked, because it, is so irgely prescribed as a tonic, and, more ver, many pers:is can take it, who camot Mke ale. Air. lass, worth soeic $ti,uou, 00, is a very public-spirited citizen o1 munificent character. lie has k/lag been k Parliament, and1 may, nio doubt, if Ie lease, have from Air. Gladstone a Baron Ley, as his neighbor, bir Henry Alsop, ad from Lord Benconsfleld. Tiere is a revalent notion that the famous ale's ex -Ilence is due to the water of thme Treat. at, as a matter of fact it is mde froin )rinz water within the preciicts of ti,e rewery, rhe. ChesnImut H1arv~et in the Ap3ennminmes. Th'le ehestnmut harvest, which takes lace in October, is the greatest event f the year in thme Apennines, anid fur ishies ai recr'eationm, raithler' thani a task, > al classes of thme p)opuIlationI. Thle .hls()1 haive their anniual viacat ion ini mat imonth, that the chlildrein may assist iit ; and it is difficult to fid hanmmds for ny eixtra' househol work while a pleas mit gipsy life goes oni iunder thme trees. 'lie steep woods are thmen alive with mrry part,ies pickimng th e mahdogan~y rown nuts from anmonmg the falleni ~aves, and( dlropp)ing them into) lonig manm p)ouchmes slung at the waist for me purpose. The boughs are never banken to, detach them, and the buriis ci1 singly as they ripen, rustling iroughm the loaves, and breaking the >rest silence with a heavy thud as they Irike the ground. They lie till picked p from dany to dlay, during the app1oinit dl time for gathering them, which lasts month, and is fixed Iy mnunicip)al roclanimtion-comm nonlhy from Michael ias Day, Septemb)er 29, to theo feast of S. bimoni anid Judy, October 28, bumt imetimies ext.endling by specil requesut, thme season be unmusually late, for ten ays longer. Any onie wandeiring off iie recogn izedC( pathai th rough ith e w%oodhs uring that period is liable to be shot by bie pr'opr'ietor', ns ini thei SwisS viined'It vintage time, butt this sanguinary law eemS to reminm a dead letter. After bie legal term has exp)iredl, time 'woods r-c free to thme whole 'world, and are ini adled biy troops of b,eggars, gleaning ny chance belated chiestnmuts 'which fall mg now, are the pr1ize. of thme first comner. 'hose wvhich drop at anmy time on a road 'assabhle for 'wheeled velhes are also imlie prop)erty, and, as the highway uns throughm ehestnmut woods, the po00r aSve a little~ harvest by the roadside. 'lie prioprmietors of w(oodS too extensive rr thme gathering to bie done biy the mnem 01ra of their own household engage a umber of girls to ~assist, givinig thiem ood and( lodging foi fort,y dlays, andl to achm two sacks of (chest,nt flour on heri epamrture. After their clay's 'work in lie woods they are expreted to spini or veavo in the evening for the beniefit of lhe housewife, who thius gets her- supply ft varn or linen nretty well advancd in~ this month. Thie poor - girls look for 'ward to being employed in this way as v great treat, and will often tlirow up otiei occupations rather than lose it. In v dry season it is indeed suileiently pleas ant, for the lovely weather of a dry Oc tober among these Tuscan highland, conjuro Ip a moro dismal picture thaii that presented by the dripping chestnil woods if the autumn rains have choser that mouth for their own, whenl thi sleeting floods of heaven thresh dowi the withered leaves as they fall, and ti soaked hurrs have to be fished out o: the swirling yellow torrents that fur row the ground in all directions. We or dry, however, Oetober, unless tlt yield he exceptionally seaty, is a sea son of abundance and rejoicing througl the count,ry, while the peaisats con8unt the fresh chestnuts by the sackful, no makes open-air life unadloyed pleasure but, on the other hand, one can Tiardli roasted, as they are catenl in the citio4 but plainly boiled and eaten hot fron the husk. The great mass are 4prom on the floor of the drying-hous.-bljln deserted-looking buildings scatteret through the woods for this purpose und which in the atitumn seem t< 811moulder internally, ats the smoke of lh, fire lit to extract the moisture from thl fresh chestnuts escapes through all th< intorstices of the roof and walls. Frou the drying-house they are taken to li mill and ground into farina io/ce, fine meal of pinkish color and siekl sweet flavor, which forms tle stal food of the pOpl1ation. Flll this the make polenda or porridge, in other dis tricts iade from Indian meal, an-1 nvcvi round cakes baked between chesthm leaves, which are kept. and dried for th, purpose, with the result of-imparting i slightly pungent flavor of smoke thu the stranger will hardly Iind anl improve ment. Other delicacies, too, are mad from the chelitliut flour, such as cake; cO0vered with chovolate and sugar, bu none of them are likely to colillem themselves to northern palates. " He laI Our'n! One of the post-oflive agelts who wn making a trip through the northern par ot the Lower Peninsula, Michiganl, thil suinie, canIe across a mail rolut through the woods from mne lhailet t4 another, with a weekly . averago of tw< letters and one paper in the bagm. Thi carrier wore a coon-skin cap and rode j pony about as fat is a case-knife, aml he took things so easy that the agen saw fit to question him a little : "ly man. (10 you realize that yoi represent the United States ?" "Wall, I kinder reekon." "And you feel the responsibility, presulne Y" "Iet, yer goggles I dew." "You know you miust'brave all peril to get your mails safely through ?" "That thar' hoss an' me ar' good fu anything twice our size, I reckon." "If attacked by robbers, what wouh you do ?" "Bury 'em !" "Suipose you were ol'bred money< give pii the mail bau ?" "No danger o' that, mister. I don' helieve the hull county could serape u fifty cents." "There are awful fires in these wood, som1etinmes ?" "'K'reet, I'v'e seen b'ars roaste< alive when they wasn't within a mile o the fhllames." "WXell, no0w, if you werie to iad youri self surrounded by a flerce for,st fir what would yon do( ?'' "F1'ire all around1 ?" '"Yes." '"No chance .to hurrtow unuder or flt over ?" "No." "'Wall, mister, it would lie kinde tful, lbut 1I'd remembe ar that. I repIresenl the goverinmnt. I'd kill miy hioss, eni the mail, andc die shmontinig: "' We hav< me. te inemny, and he is our'n I" Pur,e Old Cognnic. "Gie e a little old brandy doctor, replied the repor iter. "Vr wvell, sir," replied D)r. LeflYman who is the state nmicroscopist oif Pennsyl vanuia. "'You shall have a bottle to pu inl *your pocket. As you see, I take abiou half a pint of rectified spirit and mi: with it a fewv drops of colorinug solutiom and( conlcentratedl essenice of brandy that is, the brandy flavor p)repar'ed b: the diruggist, ando biy b)risk agitation thi mtixtuure aicquires the appllear'ance o cogniac. You like a little bead ? Ver; well ; I add a little (lut of this vial, preparation of nitro-henz11oA~it or airti ficin Oil of 1hitter almnonds. Now, as5 T phmri out, the buhbbles remain for 5some0 1im at the top, Hfowever, it dloe miot tit ripe 01' full-blooded yet, so T add( a feu dlrophs of a prepartatioii prinicipally com11 po(sedl of glycerine and called by th, tradle 'tage andl bo(dy.' Another gooi shake, anid all I neced is a label certifyin1 that the article is 'ten year o1(1 (ogna birtandy,' and there you have my brand; ready for market. Of course, the cx pierimenit iEha been a very hlasty onie, simiply initenlded tol show you the princi ple. In practice taboutt half a pound1( (1 ('eh oif thte subhstances5 T have just mnad ulse oif wold( be added to forty gallon oIf rectifIed spirits, and( a very respectal ando by no( mieanms inijuriouts brandyi the result. TIn brief, the adhuleration c sp)irituoust liqfuids-thiat is the arti flii pru1ctioni in a fewv hours by chmemico pirocess of a similar result to thin attainied bly nature iln the course c monIths, or even years.--has every clair to be regardled as a triumplhl (If sciOnICe. ~Some of the samiples of ice analyzed b: A. lRudiger yIelded large quan Itmee of al huinnl ammonia, A Hotnan Banquet. The following is a description of a lto man banquet which took place about 75 RI ,., on the ninth Caleuds of September, This supper, which corresponded morn nearly with the dinner of modern times was given by Lentulus, to celebrate hi inauguration as Flaien lartiahs, an li1 cer who ranked among the lammes secom only to the Flamen Dialis. The compan3 comprised seven of the pontiflecs, Q. Uati hus, hi. Em"Ililiuls Lopius, D). Sylhallus, P1 Setuvola Sextus, Q. Cornelius, P. Volui nius, 1'. Albimovanus, the rex saciror-un C. Ciuser, and L. Julius Ciusar the augur The party, however, wap not limited t< inen. There were present four of the ves tals-Popiha, Perpenia, Liriia, and Arun cia (the remaining two of their colleapuei were probably obliged to remain at tho temel to attend the sacred fires), the wifi of Lentilus, Publicia, the flaminica, am his iother-in-law Sempronia. The pres ence of the vestals may occasion some sur prise, but their position was in many re spects anomalous. The honors paid to them were very runarkable. They wer attended by a hctor wien they went out, and even consuls anid governors made wa for thema. Like the peers of Enliglanid they gave their evidence without taking i oath. The duties of their oflice were re iuired to be very strictly performed, an the most terrible.punishments awaited unj violation of their vows. They enjoyed i fair amount of liberty, and were allowei to walk about the city, to attend theatre and gladiatorial exhibilions, where the bes places were reserved for them, and the: were, as we see, sometimes present at so cial entertaiments. They were evei atble, after thirty years' service as vestals to uiconsecrate themselves and to marry The company at. Lentuilus' banquet was at ranged in three triclinia, with ivory couch es. The pont lces occupied two of th trichnia, and the third was given to thi ladies. From the recumbent positions o I lie guests, who were saii to lie in tIh hosoms of each other (alieijus in sim cubarc), it would not have been decoroi fur the ladies and geitlemen to occupy thi samie pTUcIh, an( it waS, inde6d, only in th later days of Rome that tle ladies adoptei the custom'of reclining at table. The 1e past generally commenced with the anh. cena, for which It was usual to serve hop-, i d'muvres for tie purpose of stimulating thi 1. appetite. hnt, on this occasion the -meu o the antceena or yustatio contained somi dishes which were tolerably solid. lbav oysters (t discretion (ostrct crudi quantum ecllent), several kinds of she] fish ("echim, pelerldes, spondyli, glyco marides, murices, purpurte, balani albi e nigri urlieae"), thrushes, aspialragus, fattc fowls, oyster patties, ortolans, haunches o a goat and wild boar, and rich meat madi into pastics. For the cimt there wer, pork, wild boar, fish patties, pork pieE ducks, tool soup, hares, rich ment roasted wheatein cakes and rolls. The conversa tion io not, recorded, but it is to be hopel that the company (following tle advic given i the "Attcie Noctes' of Aulus Uel lius) avok'ed painful and involved sumbjects and liiited their discourse to the commo, topics of every-day life. 'rh Colmoiul or USent 1e-intllk On the night of April 1 the populat.io 4 of the Uiitel Kingdom of Great Britai and Irelund, ineludieg the islan)d8 i British waters (the Isle of Mai amid th Chanmm4 Islands), together with th ainny anmd invy and inorelialit soainle abhroad, wats found to be 3115,241f,y562, a imcrelase of 4, 1417,236 as compared wit the retiris of the etisus of 1871. Th females exceed the nales by a little ovu 700,000. The percentage of populatio j for Englainid was t. 8 ; for Wales, 3.8 for Scotland, 10.6 ; for relanId 14. The remaind"r, 1.2 per cent1. was di.e tributed betweeni the Isle of Mam 0.2; the Chanel Tslamds (0.3), and tIhe army1 navy, and seamen abroad (0.7). Th'l denlsity of piopuIltioni ini Englantd ai WVales is 44(0 to thme square mtile. Th greatest density is in thme ammig ani imaimfacturing couniities. Lancasirm has over 1,700 to1 thme square mile, ani Middlesex (outside oh Londoni), 1,36] 1 Six comtities in England aimd one i 1.Wales haivo over 5001 to thme s<piar-e ili London hals 48(6,286 houses aiid a pitm lation of 3,814,571, having imncrease, over half a millioni inl thme past ten year.e T1hme density olfXpoplationin iLono Iili nmow 32,326 to the sqiuarte Imile. Livei pool ranks ne0xt to LolOnm ini Emnghiml with a popul1ationm over 5,50,000) ; lih - mingham hns oveir 400,0)00 ; Manchleste L aind Leedas each e xceed 300),000) ; Shel t field ami J3ristoi have over 200,000( ii imhabitants (each. Curiously the popu)1k1 tioni of Manchester hams f'allenm ofi' 10,00] - sincee tIhe census11 of 1871. ihemlone lai Chaunged to1 lack. fA recent paplier froIm Prof. Prentiss, rt cords a very remar1lkale changei color of the hair of a lady patient whi Shad been treated( nieverid months fi i blod po2isoningt. wit,h jab oranidi, t. Brazilian plant used ini medlicinoe. T1h meldicinte, wvhichl is given to produet swotiting in c'ertini rare cases', was i givent to the( palt.ienit inl subcueutaneous ii jectionis in D)ecembenr bat. At that tinii -anid p)reviouisly, her hair was a high blomndo, butt withini about two weeks c hamngo toward a darker color was Sperep1tible, which iincreamsed util, ini th ididle of .January, the haidr became of c heatuult color1. Ini May the coloIr wr nemiarly a pure blmack, whlichi it utill re4 -tains, although there is a slightly appai)2 [ omnt t<midemncy toe re'turn1 againi to a lighnt4 - color. -At this is tihe only recordied cam o (f this plant (wvhich is no)t, htowever,i common use) hmavin g produedanmy pel op)tile chanuge in tIhe color1 of hmuma hair, it b4eomnen a matter of imtrest t Sknow how thmis change wasU brougi Sabout amid howI~ of ten it might accompan fthe use0 of this remnedy. A microscopi 1 examinmationi shown' the hair to) contaimn Sgreatly incereasedl qutantity of pigmeu matter, andL scientists now await with ii torest the results of future growths 'fascertain whether they will retain thme iiold color or retain that newly acquiire< -Tme rose gardlons of Adric nople co er 14,000 acres. - -ocaches wore first~ let for hire A Silver-Tipped Hear. Mr. Robbins, of Pine river, Colorado, recently killed a silver.tipped bear, which weighed when dressed about three hun dred pounds. The brute was killed by Mr. Itollins single handed. At one time, acCOrtling to his report, it was a mooted questioni whether he would come out first or second best. When first seen by him te beatr was about two hundred vards be fore him on the mountain side and in aiong thick underbrush. The bear was moving around feeding. Taking deliber ate aim, Mr. It. fired and hil. him just in fro't of one shoulder, the ball coining out on the opposite side in the rear of the other. lie then started to run. Mr. Itobbins fired agaim and ats lie wais running from tim, lie hit him in the rump aid Ilen started in pursuit. The underbrush being very denlse lie could not easily cal culate his whereabouts aind in the eager ness of the pursuit lie unwittingly got too near and the bear saw him for the first time. lie at once raised oil his hund feet and started in the direction of his assailant. As he did so Mr. It. got inl another shot, which broke his jaw, but did not stop lits progress. Mr. 11. cuoly awaited his com ing with his gun at a rest. The latter was a muagaziie Spencer, which lie had reloaded by this time, feeling the importance of get ,ig in ia home shot. When within about iftluen yards lie "turned loose," the ball penetrating the breast of the inumal. Even this did not stop him, but on lie caine, pro a pelled ini a measure by the nonienttum.of L his own speed. lie came on so rapidly that Robbins did not have titne even to work the lever to throw another cartridge into his gun ; so as lie caine within reach lie Jainmed the muzzle in the bear's mouth. The shock threw RIobbins to the ground and the bear on to) of him, but the latter immediately rolled over dead at his side. The last shot, had finished him. I lad it been otherwise. Mr. 1(obbins would have r hardly been able to tell the story of lils narrow escape. The silver-tipped bear is the most fornidable of the beat kind, un less it be the grizzly, and vone assert that it is evenl a Worse toe to contlend with. It is equally savage and tenacIous of life anid is more nimble on foot. Alr. tobbins says that lie supoosed this oie to be a black bear, else lie would not have followed hi. Truo Sitoreti Abom Animalm. One day, chiiaen, wiuln the menagerie had been quiet for a long time, the hyenai was looking so loiesome min desolate that the elephant said he remlinded him or "the lhowl of the wilderness" every time lie t spoke. "1 You can't prove it," satid the hyena. " You pel-i-caln," said the elephant, which was ieither good English, good granmar, nor good fun, and liobody laughed but, the elephant. I gnu you'd say that," said the 'possum. "lIello, old Tail-1holt," said the elephant, 'don't you know it's no consequenem what you think in this show?" The bison interfered here and said the 'possmn might not be a very huarte-beast, but I he ad- a right to speak if-'' I'Well, well, old bififaloai'e-,g'' langhed the elephaint, "I reckon you're here as the pionitention of justice, are yoni, youl old bisonl of at gun. i'd like to see anyboldy pull the wool over your eyes." The bay niule dowil in tile a corner here remarked that he'd like to see Sanyboty pull the wool on the end or his til, buit nobtidy let on1 they heard him. ' Then, when the eagle tried to say some e thing the elepliant amked him if Ie hadn't e jiast got olf a imxth ward lpolitical transpa a reicy, and then said lie I hought. he remiem ered seeing him on a barber's pole. Then tile bear spoke p aid said they'd ant opoligl of that nonsense, and the elephite told him he'd better hail hiinself in it r I lie flat store before it ralied, anid askedur. I soft elft would be imuch worn this wint to And then lie finally got the monkey crying by calling him Mr. Darwin a telling him lie looked enou)igh like ai mani to run for Congress. And in a little while lie had the meniigerie In snch an uproar t hat, thle lights hiad to be pu1t out and3( the peop)le sent, home. lamiii yes, children, the trouble they uise(d to have with the ole pint, no0 tonigule can tell, lie was aitways such a tease. Pi'iilsag 'inii, to Steep. he ide-a of subjecting the reniarkable Senlsitive laat to the action of anthlsletics wais natural, and several experiments of .the kind are recordled, the lanIt, hlaving - beenl placedi in vapors of ether or chloro 1 form. Itecently M. Ar!omng huas made somie interesting obse2rvationsR of t,he efTeet 'of chIloral, chlloroform aind ('ther- presenltedl Sfor absRorp)tioni by the roots. The 1p0ts -were sprinkled with aqueous sohotionis or t,beso substances, then coveredl with care -to pirevenit escape of thie valpors. After r* absorpt-ion of chloroform or ether, one notes primary and secondary effects ;tile -Cormer are phlenomienia of (xeitation similar I- to those arising fromi mechamnical irritationa, and1( coimplarab)le to those in anmmals when () . amlestheotlzed. They occn~r successi vely from the biottonm to the top) of the stem. In thirty to sixty nilnutes the common pe licies (or leaf stems) straighten and the lealects separate, beginning from the top of thle steimi; but thle p)lant is now found 33 to have lost its senii)lity. TIhie secondary 0 effects consist of elhminat,ion of the aiam ir thietic. Th'e sensibaility often oes~ not re aL tuarin for one lad a hlalf or two hours, a Chiloral does not act aniatheticalhly on the 0 sensitive planit. TIhiese observations af it forded Mr. Arloing ani opp)ortumIty of as i- ce!rtaininlg the velocity of liquids in the 3, stein andi( branchecs of lhant~s under st,rictly it physiological condit ions, whereas past ex. a jperimnents on the subject have been madeo a with withered or amutiltled plants. If the 0 leaves are in a good state, thme common po aL jholes bend (dowan suddloenly and suuccessivoly * fro'm below upward in the lalnt as the ali -sorbed chioloroformized water in the steim -and prImary petioles can be easily ealcu r lated. Within the stem, the velocity is e modified by tho state of the tIssues aind fo II liage, the temperature. etc.t it wais found, -in diffterent cases, at t,he rate of 0.0) me n tres, 2.22mn., 2.40im., 2.70ma per hour. * l'he velocity iicreases from the base to the It top of the stem In the ratli) of I to 1.25 or l .50), ano It is 1 j times to t wice as great ini the petioles as in the steim. Th'le time a jof absorption by the roots was found to it vary from '4 to Oj minutes. o To fix pel)f1 marks so as they will not r' rul) out, take well skimmed milk an(l 1. dtite with an equal bulk of water. ' Wash the pencil marks (whether writina I'- or drawing) wIth the liquid, using a soft flat camel-hair brush, and avoidibg all tu rubbing. Place it up )f a fot. board t< dry. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. What ought not to be done, do not evenl think of doing. If you do not wish to trade with tho devil, keep out of his o1101). An idle reason lessons the weight of the good ones you gave before. All women wish to be esteened-tliey care less about being respected. It is easier to muppress the first desire than to satisfy ill that follow it. A man who don't know anything will tell you the first chance Ie gets. A gilded frame makes a good picture m the eyes of nearly all the world. While learning adorns a man, lot us rememiber that truth ennobles him. It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are. Nothing can constitute good breeding that has not good nature for its founda tion. A man'ts owi good breeding is the best soeurit.y agiilist other ,)eol)le's ill Imlani nors. Blessings on tile head or himl or her who laughs the blues out of a weary heart. Virtuo requires no other reeompense than the tributo of self-approbation and reswet. A man looks at. a woman from lead to foot-a woman looks at a man from foot to head. No reproof or demineiation is so po tent as the silent inflitene of a good exille. We ane actiuinted witti tie justice of God, but know nothing about his juris iidence. Good itentions are the seeds of good acetionH, though they do not always pro (111ce them. J.luen1ct-iol is the proper vileploymt111011t not only of our early years, but of our wholo fives. As the priekliest leaves .are file driest, so the pertest fellows are generally the mllost. blrrell. The smaller thIe Calibre of the m1illd file greater the bore of a perpetually open illolth. Never attempt to Convince a woman or anything by argument-y Imst re molt, to emotion. If you wish that your y & merits mlhmuld bo recognized you musntt recog nize the merits others. Advice is liku snow, the softer it falls te loInger it dwells upon and tle dooper it sinks into the mind. "H1leaven made virtue ; man the ap pwiaraneO ;" and, very naturally, man prefers his own invention. H1e that does a base thing in zeal for his friend burns the golden thread that ties their hearts together. God would have been very illogical aid (eol if, having made Life what it is, Ie ha(d not made Doth. One (if the most important rules of mcionvo Of manies is anl almost absoluto silme with regard to yourself. It iS eILsy enough to mako a man baug1h, but to gain his resPect, at the Kiamelo t.lie, is not Ho 01sY at thing. . Tehe man who oannot take caret of himself is abOilt, as safe among '%ild beatst.- as amlong him follow-boinigs.J The wiailthy misor lives as a >ool 1111n lore ; but ie must give accou i as i iebii man ill the day of judgment. - Almost anybody can snd a boy on anm errand but only the wealt.hy havo leisure to spare to wait for him to get Iaok. 'I'here is no better reward than the approval of our own colloielloo. It is wvorthi moire thani all others togother'. TIo formIl true men01, it is indlispensable thatit this precep01t sho0uk1( he engraven on1 t.heir' heartao- -Foalr nothinig but remorse. T1hioseo m we have LVoed and host are' 110 longer wherel'i thley used( to 1b0, buit, over 1nd( over'ywlhele, wlhere we Thell repultaLtion (If a man is like his shIadlow-gigalutic' whenOl it pre'(code, and pigmly ini its prloporlt.ions5 wheno it follows him. BS.yle is the only flame to 11old our' thloughlts. It is~ like the 82ash of a win dow -a hmeavy sash will obscure the ligt. Dat.hb:ed r'epenltanlc is burning the i'anidle' of life ini tile service 01 the devil, thlen blowinlg the 511u11 iU tihe face of 1 leaven. G4ood temper)Ol, like a sunniy daly, shed(1 a br)lighlt.ness over everythlinlg. it. is the swee(tonler olf toil and1( the soitherl of (is Oneo roasion whyi the wvorld is not re formed 1s, thalt overybody wVould have o)the(rs make1( aI beginmnlIg, anId tinks not of himuself. Womnen whol love are alwvays afraid thley are not lovedl. Women who are nlot loved alwvays flatter thIemlselves thlat they are loved. T1heo winlter frost imust reond the bu1rr' (of the nuit bleforo thle frulit is soon1. So adversit,y templers tIle hnunan hleart to dliseover' its' real worthl. Wickedness oani ho0 001n throeugh thie tiikost fog, lbut virtue has1 to have ani electr'ic lighlt tulrned on it before it will b)e recognizoed by the world. Exclusively (of tile abstract scioelies thle largest and worthiost plortionIs of ourV knowledge c.onssts of aphlorisms, aind thlo greatest antd bost oIf 1men11 i bt an When a mani is dlangerously ill, the law grants dispensation, for it says: "'Youl may blreak one Sabbath on1 his be half, that lhe may b)e preserved, to keel) many1l Sabbaths. A thIorouigh-p acedl antiquariani not onIly re1nmmbe0rs whlat aill other people have thloughIt proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think ~ it pr!oper' tOolemher. An apology in the origlial sense was a pleading off from some charge or im.. putation, by explaining or 4efending p)rinciples or conduct. It therefore amounted to a vindicaition. I never work bletter that when I am inspired by anger ; when I am angry' I canl write, pray and preach well ; for then my whole. temperament isaquck ened, my un~dersianging sharpene, n all mundane VA*ations8 and temntatiOnat