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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. FEBRUARY 27. 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 THE QUAKER ORAVEYA R". Four straight brick walls, severely platl, A quiet city square surround; A level space of nameless graves, The Quakers' burial ground. In gown of gray, or coat of drab, They trod the connuon ways of life, With passions hold In sternest leash, And hearts that knew not strife. 'To yon grimn meeting hoise they fared, With thoughta as sober as their speecih, To voiceless prayer, to sougless praise, To hear their elders preach. .ITitrough quiet lengths of days that came, With scarco a change to this repose; - Of all life's loveliness they took The thorn without the roue. But in the porch and o'er the graves, Glad rings the sout hward robin's glee, And sparrows 11lu the autumn air With tuerry mut-iny. Walle on the graves of drab and gray The red andl gold of autumn lie, And wilful Nature decks the sod In gentlest mockery. A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. Miss Pidgeon engaged I" said Mr. Duckett. "Well, really now." Mr. Duckett sat at his little round 'table, in the cool shadow of the vines, breakfastiug on buttored toast, and coffee fragrant as Arabian gales. He had this theory about the gravita ting power of the world ; but he liked fully as well to hear about the latest quarrel between Mrs. Squire Allen and her sister, the parson's wife, "A meddlesome old baboon 1" said pretty Alice Dexter, when she caught Mr. Duckett looking in at the window one day, to sen whether the tall young man by the chimucy-picocs was Henry Lake or Walter Fitzwilliam. "A most intelligent person I" said Mr. Mountmorrin, when Mr. Duckett confi dentially informed him that he had overheard, behind the stable door, an active flirtation between Betsey, the maid, and ArtemUs, the hired man. "I dou,t believe in all this kissing and hugging," said Mr. Duckett. "And I thought perhaps you would like to know." t3o that the public opinion of Stan dale was pretty equally divided on the subject of old Mr. Duckett. He h, 13een up nearly all night, with a telescope, looking for a now comet, and consequently was breakfasting rather later then usual; with Mrs. Hopkins, his land-lady, waiting on him, in her best cap and apron, "Yes," said Mrs. Hopkins, as she brought in a fresh fried egg on a piece of toast, "it's really true this time-to Mr. Paysley, "And they do say that Dolly Dutton is ferocious enough to kill her, for every one knows that Paysley has been play ing fast and loose with Dolly these three years, and has only thrown her over now because Miss Pidgeon's old uncle has left her three thousand dol lars, and a set of silver spoons." "Hum 1" said Mr. Duckett, between his sips of coffee. "Very extraordinary." "Though for my part," aid Mrs. Hopkins, "I never could see what there wVas about Alphonse Paysley to take the fancy of the girls. "But I should not wonder if Dolly Dutton sued him for breach of promise yet,'' Mr. Ducket t was very much interes ted in all this. He had seen Miss Pidgeon once-a tall, pale, lean female in spectacles, of some four-and-thirty sauloess summers; and he knew that Alphonso Paysley was the clerk in the village stoic, a sort of "gay Lothario" on a small scale. And pretty Dolly Dutton often came in to help Mrs. .Uopkins with her churn ing, preserv'ing, and household saturn alias of that nature--a rosy, pink checked young damsel with a dimple on her chin, a mischievous gloam under her pearly lashes, and a mortal fear of the lodger's telescope, whichi, in her own mind, she could not altogether dis sociate from a camera. "Miss Pidgeo'n engaged I" repeated Mr. Dackett, as lie pushed his plate to one aide. "Then there's hope for the oldest and ugliest of us all-eli, Mrs. Hopkins? "Even me ?" '"La, sir," said the hiand~lady, '"there ain't any reason you shouldn't have your pick and choose of the linest ladies of the land l'' "Do you know of any pretty girl that would take pity on atn ugly old 'achlor like me ?" "Plenty of them, sir I" said Mrs. Hopkins, "Then," said Mr. Duckott, suddenly changing the subject, "pack my -bag. Mrs. Hopkins, if you please. "I am going up into the woods to follow the course of the geological strata that underlie this locality." "Dear me, sir I" said Mrs. Hlopkins, "I shali be gone two days," said the philosopher. "Very well, sir." And when the sage was gone, she sat down to her household mending with a sigh. "I really do miss that dear old gentle man when he's gone," she said, "It's rather hard to be left without even a cat to talk to." It was two days before Mr. Duckett home he bounced Into the sitting-room in a manner which Mrs. Hopkins after- t wards remarked "nearly frightened her < out of a year's growth." i "Mrs. -Hopkins," he cried, "where is the constable's.house ?" "The constable, sir," repeated Mrs. Hopkins. "It's on the corner of the old Mill Road-the redbriok cottage with the I creepers all over it. "But, begging your pardon, sir, what 3 can you possibly want with the consta. ble ?" "Woman," bissed Mr. Duckett, be tween his set'teeth, "there has been a 8 terrible tragedy I "It must be investigated I" "Sir ?" said Mrs. Hopkins, more be wildered than over. E "Is it possuIn tnat you haven't 3 hoard ?" he said. "Heard what ?" 1 "Of the murder I" "Bless aud save us, sir I" she said, jumping up. "What are you talking about ?" He lookod intently at her. "Woman," sail he," have you seen Miss Pidgeon lately ?" "Well, now that you mention it, I have not," said idrs. Hopkins, wonder ing greatly. "But I'm told she's gone to Lowell, a visitin'." He uttered a groan. "Look at this I" he said-"a piece of 0 erumplcd paper which I found beside a brook, a few miles from here. "Evidently a portion of the guilty t correspondence. "You will perceive that it is not the caligraphy of a cultured person." And Mrs. Hopkins read, on a torn and stained piece of note-paper, the following words "-- poor phebe pidgeon ispoysoned. "Dollie Dutton done did it with Ratt i poysonl, don't Tel anny one, she is ber- e ried out under the wilow Trea." t All the rest was torn away, but Mrs. 1 Hopkins had already read more than t enough. t "It ain't possible V" said she turning a very pale. "That letter would be evidence in any t court of law," said Mr. Duckett. t "I am going for the constable at once I" i * * * * * < Dolly Dutton, sitting singing at her I work, by the window of the Dutton t farmhouse, was nearly frightened to ' death by the clasp of the constable's I hand, all of a sudden, on her shoulder. 3 "You are my prisoner," said the con- t stable. "But don't be skeart 1" "What for ?" cried Dolly, trembling all over. "For murder I" "Is the man crazy ?" said Dolly. f Whose murder ?" "Miss Pidgeon's,' said the constable; "and the quieter and quicker you come along with me, the better it will be for you." "But I never dreamed of such a thing 3" cried Dolly. "That's all talk," said the constable, "That's what t cy all say." "I am innocent," pleaded Dolly, hys tericnlly. "That's for the judge and jury to de cide," lhe said. There was a great crowd that after noon around "thme old wileow Trea," a well known gnarled veteran, on the edge of a merry little rivulet. All the spades and picks in the neigh borhood weroe in requisition. "Dolly, the implied murderess, was as Mrs. Ifopkis' house, under a strong guard, until they could take her to the neighiboring eidl, and Alphonso Pay sley, at ai j.uckett's suggestion, had been ar ,ted as an accomplice. "WVl y, don't they tell me on what evi dence they hiave dared to arrest me ?" said poor Dolly. "Them weren't my orders," answered the constable, who, in truth and in fact, was as much in the dark as Dolly her self. But the spades and the picks, after much diligent labor, produced no com mensurate effect. "i'm blessed if I b'.iovo ther's any thing there I" said the biggest of the excavators ; and at tihe same moment, there was a murmur through the little crowd, and a woman pressed her way through, and Miss Phebe Pidgeon her self stood in the front rank. "What on earth are you all doing ?" said she. "Simons told me that I was murdered. "If it really is the ease, I don't know it myself yet." The diggers dropped their imple monts ; the undlertaker's wvagon began to back dowvn the road as quietly as possible ; the crowd stood open-mouthed. "Then," said Mr. Duekett, "how do you account for this letter ?'' Just then a tiny little hand plucked at his sleeve. "It's my letter," said Squire Allen's little hired boy. "I wrote it to Billy Bliss. "It's about my pet pigo:>n--my Phebe's dove, "D~olly Dutton kept it at her house for me, and it got poisoned with some of the stuff she got for rats." "Then," gasped Mr. Duckett, "why dlidn't we find it then ?" "Oause I took it up yesterday." said he boy, whimpering, "and buried it in iur own back-yard, so I could look at ta grave." There is nothing so quickly turne(I as he tide of public feeling. "It's all Daddy Duckott's own piu I" houted an irreverent young man. "I hope he's satisfied with the way ko's baked it ?" So Dolly Dutton was released, with aany apologies ; Alphonso Paysley was Lotified that lie need no longer consider kimself under arrest ; Miss Pidgeon ent hon e, to find her house in posses ion of half-a-dozen artists of illustrated oapors ; and Mr. Duckett disappeared. Not mysteriously, howovor. He paid his bill at Mr. Hopkins', ,athered together his scientific implo aents, and left town. And the inhabitants of Standale have ever seen,him since. Every One Can r'aft. Our first successful grafting was one at the age of nino years. "At omo" we had an old orchard that somed to be past its period of useful ess. and what apples it did bear wore f inferior sorts. It was a question rhother to cut down the trees, or try nd rejuvenate them by the application f an abuindance of manure, weU stirred ato the soil, and by grafting tho old imbs with new and superior varieties f fruit. It was concluded to see what irture there was in manure and cions, nd this gave us an opportunity to watch hie process of grafting. Before the job ras finished )Ye had learned the art of utting a cion, making a cleft, applying lie wax, etc. Later in the season it ras a source of much gratification to ee the young graft we had put in, ,rowing along with those set )y a mas er-hand. This reminiscence of youth i given as a proof that grafting is not monopoly of gifted minds, or an art hat can only be acquired by the few. Vith the ordinary amount of "gumption" D begin with, followed by careful caching for only a short time, almost Jay one can graft successfully. Grafting i simply planting a cutting of one vari y in i e 'nod of another, instead of in he soil. It is ersential that the grow ag !ayer of the cion and stock come in losc contact, anid be ho hela Un141 LUUy :row together. Now is the time to get he cifus. Thcy may be bought at aost nurecries, and great care should >o taken to got only the best varieties. f cut at home, be equally careful to get hem of the right kind, cutting only wigs of last season's growth. Each ort should be cut separately and tied a bundles, labelled, and afterwards put a boxes with damp sawdust or moss, nd kept in a cool place until used. A luo saw, two good knives, one strong .id heavy, the other smaller, with a :eon edge; a hard-wood wedge, six nches long and half an inch thick, and , small mallet are the implements used n grafting. The wax may be easily aado by melting together, beeswax 6 iz., rosin and tallow 4 oz. each. ever a noderate fire, stirring gradually until dll is melted. Rolls of waxed cloth may >e formed from 01(1 cotton stuff made hin by wear, and torn into strips twvo nehes wide. Wind the strips upon a tick and dip them into the melted wax; vhen the cloth is thoroughly penetrated >y the wax, remove, let drip, and put wiay from dust ready for use. Grafting hould be done as soon as the buds be ~in to swell. Having determined upon he place 'for the graft, saw olf the >ranch, smooth the cut surface and nake a cleft with the knife and mallet. Jut the cion from the t wig, leaving two >r three buds upon the piece, and harpen the lower end into a wedge. 3pon the cleft with the knife and place ho cion in carefully so that the lower >nd comes at the top of the cleft. The unor bark, or growing layer, of the ~icn and~ the stock should touch as nuch as possible. If the grafted branch a small, a single cion is enough, other vise, put in one on each side. Unroll mnoughi waxed cloth to cover tue wvound >f both stock and cions, and proe it on sarefuilly and clossoly. The quick ap lication of this protection is only a niatter of practice, 1t is well for be ginners to start worthless limbs before loing regular grafting in thre orchard. [f possible find some one in the neigh orhood familiar with the process and earn the art from him. The general rinciples may be obtained from printed lirections, but the success of the wvork will depeud upon the knack, and that a only acquired in tihe orchard. ildina Sit~es an Pa#ris. Some of the Parisian journals have been Jiscussing the prices of building rites in anr larger capitals of E~urope and America. )no of them complained that the price was larger in Paurrma than elsewhere, but )thers have shown that the fsact is precise ty the other way. The pessimist sheet is ~old, for example that in 1880 the price per superficial metre in London, is- a huarter corresponding to that of the Paris B~ourse, was 4500f., and in another quar oer, somewhat like that of the Rue de Baes >r the Rue Dauphine, it was 8200?. At VIenna, on the new boulevards which ibut on the Prater, tire present selling value of the metre runs from 2500 to 2700 and 2000f. At Berlin building sites are three timnea dearer than in Paris, waile at New York, San Francisco and Chicago the prices are 8300 to 400 if. per metre. It is to be noted that all these cities have a smaller population than Paris, so that Parisians have nothing to complain of in thin mnate Uairuornta Mi'lonaires In New York. Tie immigration of Californian mill ionaires to New York is aniotable featuro in the social ie of this country durzig the past few years. Mr. Keen, led offil; tnen came Mr. D. 0. Mills, an( now Messrs. Stanford and Orocker have fol lowed suit, and Nob Hill is deserted. This is not to be wondoed at. Sun Francisco is a wonderlii city, and for its size has made a power of noise in the world, but, like it similarly created auriferous sister, Melbourne, it is scarce ly the place to spend ai incomo of $2,500,000 a year. Tio Australian magnates, with very raro exceptions, Utill go "home." There is Sir Samuel Wilson, renting Lord Beaconsfield's Hughhonden, and ocoupyiug in town the splendid corner house ii Grosvenor Square, built by the late Earl of Craw ford. Millionaires (still nioro Mrs. and Misses Milionaire) want son one to vie with. Imbued with a spirit of eni lation, they sigh for fresh fields to con quer. As for Mrs. Mackay, she does not scom to be content with anything out of sight of the Are do Triomphe, while the hospitalities of "Jones of Nevada" find liboral expression in the capital. Already new places in Fifth avenuo are presaged. The palaitial splendors of a Vanderbilt are alleged to give sleepless nights to a Mills, white Mr. Stanford, accustomed to the amplo elbow room of Nob Hill, coimllains that the cast-off mansion he Occupies for Cie winter of the arbiter of New York Con tral-a most comfortable abode--which we suspect the former occupant and his wife oftentimes, amid their now-found spendor, look back upon with regret, is "quite too awfully" cramped ant narrow, and so, perhaps, a Stanford house (built, we fondly hope, by an architect who will know how to make it an ornament to the town, which sadly Ineed 1 such ornament) may arise beforo long. The two cities which are in the future likely to gain most by the development of the West arc New York and Washington. These bid fair to become the great win tering contres of the wealthiest in the country. Washington cannot offer the theatrical advantages of New York, but is unsurpassed in this country in the huaman materials for an agreei ble din ner party. The elements there are so varied-diplomats, statesmen, eminent lawyers, soldiers, sailors, civil service men, "Iu Now lork," Charles Astor Bristed--than whom none knew better what good nompany is-used to say, "they run aiter a lion because a lion is more or less of a rarity; wo don't run after them at Washington because we are so used to them," and lie made his winter home there, Now Yorker though lie was, because the society was so uni quo ani iteresmUg. ., Wooien Contumov. The most fashionable cloths for wool en costumes are not shaggy, but smooth finished, and very handsome; in short, a lady's broadcloth. They arc made in coat suits, with real or simulat'ed vest; and also in closely trimmed skirts and bi"sques, some double-breasted, soee with and somo without vests. Soni are frogged, or enriched with braiding in military style; but the finest forma prefer the plain, perfectly fitting coat, or basque, untrimmed save by the rich facing of satin which is occasionally visible; the stitching and the buttons, which latter are often as ornamental as jewels. One of the great reasons for the superiority of the plain costume is that it is more capable of individualiza tion than the machine trinmed ones While machinery has brought the art of. decoration in certain ways to great apparent perfechion, it turns hun streds out all alike, andl tuion no matter how handsome they may be, they aeon become common and iose their value. We see this constatly repeated in ole gant fabrics, whoae only fault is that the ornamentation is capable of being infinitely repeated. The embroidered cashmeres, and the later braided suits of cloth arc cases in point. Doubtless the price at which they are introduced, and held, while still comparatively new, are very high; but the reduction of half, which has taken place in some instances, cannot be altogether (tie to the pre mium put upon novelty; but must 'owe its extent largely to the multiplication of models of the same design. There is something, too,, in-the bold ness and striking character of the new braided designs which accounts for their occupation of a lower grado than that for which they were originally designed--a pronounced 'character, which is distinctive when there is only one of it; but is consilered to show lack of refinement when it is often repeated. We owe something to the new cloths, hiowever, for their fine dark shades in color; and, whether piain org.decorated, they are most useful and valuable, from the serviceable and hygienic points of viewv; and it is to be hoped will be pre served to us with but little modification, so far as fabric is concerned. A pure wool dress is worth a dozen sik in cold weather, so far as practical and sanitary value is concerned. Tae Lawv of 'ubiitc Haleu. In a sale by auction thero are three parties, viz: The owner of the property to be sold, the auctioneer, and a portion of the pullic. The articles must be sold without reserve, and unless thc vendor reserves one bid lie cannot bidl himself or have the auctioiieer or aiiy one else bid for him. There are eases on record wvhorea bid was not reserved, and the vendor had a bidder who bought it in, and afterwards suit was brought against the vendor by the highest ind. der for the article and it was decided that lie, the plaintiff, was the highest outside bidder entitled to the article agamnst the vendor. So, also, if any article is struick off to a persion, and it is afterwards ascertainedl that the vendor or auctioneoer practicedl fraud, by bid ing himself, or hand puffers, it was held both by the courts of England, and so repeatodly decided by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, that the purchas er could not be held, but time purchaser, as soon as he discovers the fraud prac ticed on him, must return or tender the nsinie ttin th vnnaor. Bold Train Iobbeis. The attempt to rob the Central Pa oifio train at Montello, Nevada, on th 22d of January, was one of the boldes ventueis over made and was not a fail tire because the plans of the robberi imiscarried. On the contrary, thorn ar rangomwouts for carrying out their bolt scheme wero completed. The grea mistake which they made was in tack ling a train which carried one of th bravest men im the world. With a les bravo and determined man to deal witl the attempt would have proyed sucess ful, for the attack was vigorous ia< persistent and continued almost withou intermission for three hours, until th buflied villains withdrew from the scene leaving the ieroio .Rss wounded, bu victorious. To him alone is du ti credit of having saved the express ca and the entire train. A reporter called on Mr. Ross at it residence in Ogden and was given the full details of the attack and defense He has been in the employ of Wells Fargo & Co. over sixteen years am this is the third unsuccessful attemp which has been made to rob the treasurn under his charge. Eleven years ago while holding his shot-gun on the troas ure coach of the Montana Line, lie w: hold up by a band of road agents, bu killed several and got away from ti< rest of the crowd. This last attemp has seldom been equaled any where fo the bravery and persistenoe of the rob bers and the stubibornness of the do fwse. Mr. Ross stated thatthe point selec. ted by the robbers for their operationm was one the loneliest places on the int of the desert, the centro of a sectioi sixty miles in lengtai, where there is ut night tolograpn station. The San Fran. cisco and Ogden express traina pas a 1.35 o'clock A. M. at Tecoma, ten milo east of Montello. "We left Toano West of Montello, on time, our traim bo mg in charge of Conductor Cassin. I checked the way-bills received at thai biation, laid down and went to sloep. The next tling which I was aware oJ was a rap on the car door, as if an agon1 had called, and, supposing the train was at Tocoma, I got up and lookoe out, when a man pointed a gun at m< and said : " 'Hop out, we are going througl you.' ",I jumped back and pulled the doo to and hooked it. They then went ovei to the opposite sidO and said : "Open up the doors and UmIfjp ont We are going to rob the train.' ".1 replied : 'Just Wait till I get n boots on.' "Nover mind your boots. Hop righl out hero and we will got through witl OIl oun ivua J UL ULal geb youU IUULb OLI. "Again the mcn outside said : "Opos: up, or we will burn you out and nmrdei you.' "I then got inl positiou and sho through the sido of the car. Nothint was dono for a few minutes until oue ol the robbers asked. "Ain't you going to open upi the dooi and como out ?" "I told thcm I was not Coming ut, Another demand was made for me Lt 'hop out.' I made no reply to that, They then situioned one man at cac corner of the car botween me and thi< baggage car, and live shots were firot multaneously from differont quarters and ranging towards thu contre of thi< car. These were the shots that atruel me-ono on a finger, one on the hip anti one just below the breast, near th< watchpocket. They then got up oi the end of the ear to to uincouple the train, whereupon I fired two shots throuh the end of the ear. At thiu time they heard No. 2, the wnest-bourn express train, coming. They backet our train up and wenut on theoside track and sent twvo men down the road te meet No. 2. When it came up I heari Conductor Clement ask Cassin. 'Whia are you doing here ? I want to speak t<n you.' The robbers aimed their gun: at Clement's head and toldl him to 1)u1 out, and lie did." Thie nearest telegraph station wai thirty miles. Theli robbers then coim pelled the breakmon to uncouple thi express, move it forward and forced tie eingincoer to run ahead and back cdow] to wreck the express car, wvhich wa; attompted~ three times wihout success the holes in tihe doors being guarde< by the stubborn messenger. $overn attempts to burn the car were unsuo. cessful. owing to the scarcity of wood and; after renewed attempts to kill hi through the doers, they mounted thii horses and rode away. hoot aiud Shoe iih,,Iiness. Darimg the first 10 months of 188' this country exported 836,890 pairs o: boots and shoes, valuedl at $424,835, a agaimat 250,778 pairs, valued at $322, 997, f or a like period of 1881. We als< exported of sole and upper leather, $5, 704,351, against $5,157,876 for 10 month of 1881, although in "morocco and other'' fine leathera our exports shovn some falling off, having been only $427, 190 for 10 months of 1882, and $535, 405 for the corresponding time in 1881 The imports of rawv rubber and gutti perchma to the 1st of November last wor< 19,887,125 pounds. valued at $13,061, 887, against 14,753,979 pounds, valuet at $8,215,970, foa a like period in 1881 In our imports in hides and skins, th principal articlo which our tanners 1loot at, the imports for 10 months of 188! .wore valuod at $22,210,920, against $24, 213,409 for a like period in 1881. ExhaI~tntin at Aniwe. p. The international exhibition at Ant werp. which is to be hold this year promises to be a very considerabl aflhir. Holland has awakened from thl lethargy with which the projct was a first regarded, and great preparation are being already made for the receptio1 of the many thousands of expected visi tors. A thoursand Duteh firms havi already enteredltheir names aseoxhibitorn and demand 8000 square yards of space Belgium surpasses this figure. Goe many is sending a large number c exhibits, including those of the hour of Krupp. England is said to be fair1, reprnsnnted. Hay r f Palermo. Anything more beitiful it is impossible to inavine than the entrance to the lovely Bay of Palerno, guarded on the one side by the massive Mtonte Pollegrino, and on the other lyy Alonte Navarino ; while the city, bathed m nerpetual sunshine, and ilaved by the caln waters of the blediter ranean, lies at the mouth of the rich and fertile plain, the Cone% d'Oro (Sholl of Gold); so named, we conclude, from the golden fruit which bulks so largely in the exports of Palermo, whose plain is simply a thicket of many square miles of orange and leion gardens, stretching up to an en. circling amplhitheatre of hills, some of which tower to the height of IS,000 .feet altogether completing a picture from which I any artist might well have drawn as a sub ject for "The Plains of Heaven." For le valhds Palerno is rapidly becoming a fuvorlte Winter resort, the tenperaturo between night and day being subject to less variation there than in alnmost any other known place. The city itself is beautif'illy clean. The hotels are comfort ableand well managed, if a little expen. sive-from twelve to twenty franca per dlay The many changes of race and na tion that have dominated in Sicily, have ttainped its people with strange and strik Ing variety. landsone Moorish facca living Murillos meeting you at every corne,, specially handsome in the case of young boys and children-abounding side by side with the softer iNorman type of blue eyes and blonde hair; while now and then the straight nose an eyebrow of the Geek tell of the strong hold each race has maintained. We should, however, be dis. posed to think the Eastern element the most indelible. We were struck by the i numbers of well-dressed young men loung ing about in street and cafe with a lauen o tably idle, listless air; but an ingenious youth threw light upon the subject by re minding us that Palermo is the seat of a university I The Oriental love of show is strongly niarkeu by the number of dec gant equipages that grace the fashionable drive between the town and La Favorita, a royal Bourbon palace at the base of Monte Pellegrino, and bmilt in the ratl-cr unclas sical form of a Chinese Pagoda. Unlike the solid ideas of the Proverbial Scot, who no sooner gets his head aoove water than he makes for land, the first ambition of a Palernilan, on feeling himself begin to float, is to spovt a carriage; his second to own a box at the theatre; his third, to have a dinner other than herbs-that is, salad and miaccaroi; and his fourth, to own a private and particular burying ground. A Shower of SiLivor Spark-. A tall, broat-shouldered, gray-bearded man from Montana, while viewing the sights about Chicago, strolled into one evening and took a soat near the stage. During the performanco lio becamo deeply interested in one of the group who wore disporting on the stage. The dark eyes of the siren couml)letely cap tured the heart of the rugged minor and Ie lost no timo in gaining an introduc tion to the fair enslaver. le made an engagemont to meet her at the rehearsal next day. The miiior was punctual in keeping hia appointment and waited pa'iontly until tuo artist had finished her rehearsal. lie then brusqnely in vited her to take a walk and she, noth ing loth, consented. This promonado was probably the most prolitaulo one in which the actress ever-engaged, for her companion led her into a dry goods store and without much coromong began purchasing such articles as lio seemed to think sho needed. Fino hosiery and underwvear, a richly-trimmed cloak and a handsome collar were among the pur eliases wvhich the man from Moiitana made for the object of his afetion. On the following day another wvalk along the leading street was taken by the pair, andi~ as the snow was fallinig the gener ous man took his eomp~anioin to a store and bought~ her aL gossamor cloak and a pair of ru bbers before they lef t the place. Hie then reqiiested the woman to aecom Ipany him to the depot. Arriving thore the miner bestowed a fond look on her and said, with a amile: "You think I'm a funny follow, now, don't you? Well, now, I'll toll you what i'll (do. I've taken a fancy to you. If you'll marry me and go to Montana I'll give you a $300 seuakin sacque. Of course you needn't go if you don't waiit to. it will make nio difference in my feelings for you if you don't"' The1 f avorito of Iho 'footlight turned her head, hurriedly reviewed the situation and replied: ".[ dlon't think 1 will accept your offer," "All right; good-by," excelaimoo the miner, as lie hurribd into the train, and thjis they parted. On arrnving at tho Theatre that even ing the actress wvas informed that a p~ackage was there hor her. It was Sfound to contain a "love ol a hat," -which she hand adimired when out walk iug with the miner, and a handsome - morocco pocket-book weoll filled with gold piceos aiid bank notes. Mihtons from~ Nothing. "Well, look at the Mills fanialy in No4w York" said Gath. " Here is D. 0. Mills, aworth, i expect, $80,000,000, and a very p~rudent, anid carotul man In every thing lie (lees, Hie kept a little grocery somewhere uip the lludson river, lie lad a cousin, Joe Mills, who was opening oysters in Fiultoni Market, andl if you watch Joe to this dlay you will see ham dIraw his coat-cuff across his n'>so, a habit lie acquired when ho was in the market with his oyster-knife in that hand. "Tlhen look at Commodore Garrison. Hie was a D~atch boy, brought tip in the hbghlands ol the Hudson River. Hie be-~ camne a kind of a common workman on vessels and finally on stqamiers, and so worked has way along to be the purser and captain. Then Califormia was annexed and bloomed into gold and Garrison be Scamne the rival of Vanderbilt."' "Well, what was Jun Keen~e or the first heard of him I" "He was a milkcman In one of the early ,towns of California, driving his milk wagon .into,,thie place and serving his customers -with milk. Keene, however, doe8 nut i does not hold the position ho did here -a 5 low years ago. it as said he has. had great i' losses and has even had to mortgage his Newporf. residene. " NEWS IN B3RI.P, --The Colored Methodist Episiopal Church has more than IC0,000 nimubers. - Greensboro, N. C., grave-robbers ask $10 for every cnrpso in totorably goo(t condition. -It takes $15 to buy on hundred pounds of flour in the Baker mining district of Alontana. -Mrs. Langtry spent much time in Chicago at roller-skating, a pastime of which she is very fond. -Among the perfunics greatly used in Londou society are white rose, fran gipauni anti ihlang ihiang. --Now York and Brooklyn have 35 - 000 people who earn their liviug bo woon susidown and sa1uriso. -Last year Great Britain mado nearly 2,700.000 tons of puddlet iron, and im ported 90,000 tons besides. -Nine new cotton factories, v 'h an fggregated capital of $1,725,500, have just been chartered in South Carolina. While butter is only 10 cents a pound in Marshfileld, Mo., the dealers ask 75 ocnts a pound for it- at Butte, Montana. -The mother of President Garfield spends several hours every day reading the published works of her illustrious son. -The Rev. Dr. A, f. Baird, of Syra c110, N. Y., is to succeed the Rev. Dr. Hitchcock in the American church ii Paris. --Messrs. Moody and Sankey intend holding a series of meetings in. London next fall, Ibeginning at about the 1st of October. -In Genoa a mounted tablet has been placed ou the huse in which, a cen tury ago, oa Uetob. 27, 1782, Paganitui was born. --Mr. Gladstono's popular axo is not regarded in all quarters as the yory best iastrument of exercise for him to use in his old ago. -The Rev. W. H. Milburn is still telling before country lyccums his in torestig story oi "What a Blind Man Saw in EUgland. ' -Mr. James Lussell Lowell is to have the honor of unveiling the bust of Fielding, whilih is to be erected in the novelist's native country. -There were twenty-four stormy Sundays last year. The average during the past fifteen years has been 16, stormy Sundays a year. -The Britishers who recently bought 27,000 acres of Florida land of the Diss ton Company have taken 32,000 acres more, paying $1.50 an acre. -Yokohama merchants have sont to York 20,'00 090-milk in" cans interested in silk culture. -The bell used at Wollesley College, Massachusetts, is from an ancient Bid dhist temple, in Japan, and was pro sentod by Mr. J. 4. Graves, of Boston. -The institutions in Now York sub ject to tile bank department of the Stato represent nearly $700,000,000 in their resources, and probably over 2, 000,000 depositors. -Durhng the year just closed in Eng land there were reported 28 mining ex plosions, 15 of which were fatal, thu number of deaths reaching 241, exactly the average for the past 32 years. -The crops of Texas for last seson are cstimated at 1,400,000 baies (of cot ton and 150,000,000 bushels of, corn. Texas now stands first on the list of Southern States in the production of cotton and corn. -Of all the men-of-war in Europe Italy has the most heavily iron-plated and possessed with the most formidable guns. The "Dilio" and the '"Dando Jo" have armor twenty-twvo inches ttuAk, and they each carry 100-ton guns. -Gov. Ordway, of D~akota, says in his Message to the Legislature that the population of the Territory has douledc( in two years; and now reaches 300o,000, and that the amount of taxable proper ty is $50,000,000. -The City of Montreal has made a claim for taxes on a church on the ground that a fair was lately held in the building for prollt, whereas, to be exempt from taxation, buildings must be used exclusively for divine purposes. -Teachers in the public schools of France arc very seldom paid more than 4a week, and( a the expense for sal aries is now a lhttle over s1,000',000 the Mimister of Public Instructionis re fuses to add to this amount and so in oreaso taxation. TIhe Secretary of War has been di rooted to spend $15,000 in erecting a monument as the birth-place of General Gouverneur K. Warren at Cold Spring, near West Point, N. Y., provided the ground, a rectangular place on the Pai rot estate, shall be given to the Governi mont for thaut purpose. Czar Alexander III makes a hobby of police and military uniforms. He has changed the costume of the St. Feters burg pollee three times since his acces sion, and careful :y er auines the minutest details of all now styles sometimes tak ing hours to decide uponi the pattern of of a buttou. -The annual report of the Nowv York Custom House shows that the tonnago rceipts for 1782 woere $1,846,045, divi ded among 0327 sailing vessels and 951 steam vessels. Of the foriner, 2461 were British. 1904 American, 611 Nor wegian, 889 German and 261 Italian. Of the latter, 048 wore British, 102 American, 47 German and 7 Italian. --Oficial returns still show that wolyes exist in large numbers in France. Last ye ir the number that were' killed by persons who received the State awards amounted to 1225. The amount annually voted for these awards and for other expenses attendant on the Stato campaign against the beasts is $80,000. The theatres of Europe are now 1457 in number, and Italy heads the list of nations in point of the largest share. She has 848, as against 887 in France, 104 in Germany, 160) ini Spain, 150 in Great Britamn, 182 In Austria and Huu.. gary, 44 in Russia, 84 in Belgium, 22 in kloiand, 20 in Switmeriand' 18 in Swo eon, and Norway, 16 in .Portugat. 10 in Denmark, 4 In Turkey and A in Greeco