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A A ----*-.--- - RI9VERKLY DITION. -WINNSBORO. '$'(a.. MARCH 20, 1888. ETBIHD14 THOUGRT. 'I hought Is deeper than all speech, Feeling Is deeper tian all thought, Souls to souls can never teaci What onto themselves was tadght. We are spirits clad in veils; Man by mn was never seen; All our deep communing falls To remove the shadowy screen; Heart to heart was never knewu; blind to mind did never meet, We are cotuina left alone Of a temple once conlplete. Like the stars that gem the sky, Far apart ttiough'seenling near, In our light we saattered lie; All is titus but star-light here. Wiat is s9oal company hut a babbling summer streani? Witat our wise philosoplhy, But the glaneig of a <iream ? Only when the sull of love Melts the Peat'ered stars of thought, Only when we live above What the din-e) ed world bas taught; Only when our soulq are fed By the fount which gave thent b!rth, And by inspiration led Which they never drew from carti. We, like partedl drops of rain, Swelling till they meet and run, Shall be all absorbed again, Melted, flowing Into one. THE UNCLE'S WI!L. My diamonds, Mary," said Mrs. Dol mont; "and my six-button gloves. Au< I'm almost certain that the point o that Cashmore shawl is trailing on th( carpet.'' Mrs. Delmont stood iu front of 1h( full-length mirror, whose golden stand ards wore veiled in draperies of em broidered lace-a little withered sharp nosed woman, with a complexion al composed of paint and powder, hai artfully touched up by the paten "Golden Dye," and tooth so obtraw.vel. false that no one would over dream ol calling them a deception. But her violeiAt velvet dress had aos eight dollars a yard; her bracelets wer of dead gold studded with diamonds and she sparkled all over with preoious stones, like a joweeler's show-case. The boudoir was hung with pale-blui satin, the carpet was of the softes Aubusson, the chairs and tables of en. ameled white, garlanded about by tin: golden vines, and a Skye terrier la: coiled up on a blue Angora rug in fron of the fire, with a silver collar around his worthless little ~neck. "Yes, ma'am," samt Mary, with i cough. "The shawl is quite right now, ma'am But if you please, ma'am, Mrs. Mastor is waiting to see 3 Uu." "Mrs. Masteral" cried the widow, il a vexed tone, But before she could say more, ti) door opened, and a pale-faced woman dressed in garments so shabby as to b( barely respectable. cane iu. "I won't keep you a minute, cousir Caroline," said she apologetically. "The horses are waiting," said Mrs Delmont ungraciously, "and it alway does make them vicious to stand to long in this frosty air." "I have been facing it," said Mrs. Masters bitterly; " and my cloak is no so warin as the embroided blankets o your pampered horses, Carolhne." "Well," said Mrs. IDdlmont impa tiently, "now you are here, you may ai well sit dow. What is it that you wvan now?" "I am sorry to be always begging cousin Caroline," said MJrs. Masters "but things have gene wrong of late Some of my best boarders have change< their quarters for a more fashionalal lcation-others have gone away with out paying me-and I have been ohge to onll in an expensive doctor for Den nie-" "Just what you might have expecte< when you adopted that child," sait Mrs. Dolmont. "Why couldn't you lo him go to the asylum, as other chi1 dren do?" "He was our cousin's child," sai< Mrs. Masters sadly. "What difference does that make?1 s aid Mrs. Deilmont, with a shrug of th Cashmere draped shoulders. "And," added Mrs. Masters, withou debating the point, "1 hoped perhap you would let me have a little money just until the next months board-bill come due." "I can't then,' said Mrs. Dolmon pettishly. "It's money, money, money with yo1 the whole time. I[ do belieye you thin1 I've a bank, or a gold-mine, or semi such inexhaustible supply. And I ma as well stop it now as any time. So: beg, Clara, thatyou won't trouble your self to come here anty more on your beg ging expeditions. Mary-the ear riage," So Mrs. Delmiont swept downstairs flashing and sparkling as she went, ant the meek little boarding-house keepe took herself off, shedding a few furtivi tears behind her shabby crape veil. "Carolina niever had much' heart,' mused she. "'And what she had seem to be turning the stone." Mrs. Masters was one of the unluok; kind, When she was a young girl of cigh teen, she had left boarding-school t< come hoatie and nurse old tincle Josepi through his fatal illness, while Caroline her cousin, "didn't see that she coulh do any good," and serenely remaine< atO ape May. .Anld When tha. nA man Ad, and hi will, leaving nll he had to Oaroline's deceased father, was opened, Clara made ihe best of things. V "I did suppose he would leave me a h little," said she, choking down a sob. k "But then people ought not to be sel fish. The will was made ten years ago, before unole Tom died. t - "If uncle Joseph had thought to ti make a new one, I do believe he would 11 have remembered me, And of course Caroline will div.de, seeing that we are equally related to g uncle Joseph, and I was with him when I he died. b But Caroline did nothing of the sort. t "What's mine is mine," said she; 9 "and I ceitaialy shall not give away a h volitary contof it." a S the cousins went their differen t u ways. o Mrs. Dolmont married a hand so Le Southern lawyer who had left her a b widow at forty. 0 Clara wedded a penniless clergyman C who had died as poor as he lived, and she kept soul and body together by means of a third-rate boarding-house, further incurring Caroline's displeasure D by adopting a poor little lame orphan who had no other prospects than the 0 6 poor-houso. "I've been unlucky all my life," e sighed Mrs. Masters, as she hurried h home through the biting winter blast, "and luck don't seem likely to change V now. "I must just let Thompson, the second-hand man, hav the big walnut to secretaire that uncle , bseph gave me, P and the rosowood bookstand I took for g Miss Mowbray's board. They're the d only articles I'va got left of any value." 11 Thompson, the second band man, sat a in his storo with a faded oil portrait hanging above him, and a pair of blue u velvet window. curtains draped at the left, three bird-cages on the tablu, and Y a cooking-.ctove at his rear, while he was engaged in counting out the pieces e of i set of antique china. "Humble soryant, ma'am," saiJ c Thompson, who had always recognized t - Mrs. Masters as a lady through all her adversities. "Thompson," said Mrs. Masters B sadly, t "I've made up my mind to part with my waluut secretaire and rosewood 13 bookstand." *-All right, ma'am," said Thompson, t eyeing the spout of the cream-pitcher Q hard, to make sure that it was not 1 cracked. "You may send up for them to-night.' "Very well, ma'am," said Thomp. L son. Mrs. Masters shed a few tears as the big secrotaire and the little bookstand. the last relies of her genJtilitV. wAVA taken away in Tnompson's wagon. V "Goodness knows what I am to do P next," said sbe. "But therel We're all L in Heaven's hands." u Tho upson the furniture man made h1 his appearance the next day, with a 1l curious bewilderment in his face." I "Well, I am beat!" said Thompson. 0 "Wodlers inver -will coaso, as my - poor old mother used to say."b "What do you mean?" said Mrs. E Maasrs in surp)rise. b"Is's that there secretary o' your'n," said Thompson. "It was kind o' bruised I and scratchy, so I just took it all to pieces to oil and polish it up. And clear II at the heck, I found two or three old f Ipapers that must have slid down out of a the back of the drawar and got wedged n abovo the wooden eats that support. C ed th~e lowerx drnwcm.." a a "aper-s?" said Mrs. Maeters, "Dear I me', Thompson, what sort of papers?" e "There's an old note of hand, asb must be outlawed long ago," said Thompson "And a catalogue of Rail. -way Bonds, and a will. 'A what!" gasped the widow, e "A last will and testament. Dated vi six weeks before your uncle Joseph ' died. And-don't tarn pale, Mrs. Mas- a ters," said Thompson; "it leaves you all the property he had in the world,. c b It states-" . But here poor Mrs. Master fainted away. "Well-the rest can be easily Imag- i ined, TJhe 'will was put into court, and tri- e umiph antly proved. Mrs. Delmnont found herself dispos sessed and Clara Masters became the ~ heiress'. "But, dear me, I wouldn't harm a thair of Caroline's head," Bald good Mrs. Masters.t "Ain't there enough for both of ua? And really, I am more glad on Dennie's i account than my own." For Mrs Masters was theosame sweet natured woman through storm and sun shine alike. "Onght to ha' been a duchess," said Thompson the second-hand man. "And I always said so, "e~And to the (lay of my death, I shall beproud to think it was my chisel and ti sorewdriver as pried out her inheri tance." i -The three le ading -winners on the > En'glish- turf last year were Mr. Craw- n I furd, Mr. Lefevre and the DJuke of: c) IWestminster, with respectively $129,- b 0010, 878,800 and $89,000 gross gains iq - stakes. Thel Duke of Bamilton won at Prince Boltykoff $13,500, Mr. Jicene fE $7600 and Mr, 1,orillard $5000, ei What? When Deacon Stowers cane down to isit his son Ben, who lives In Chicago, he ad a great antipathy to games of any ind as played among young men. lie 'as a pillar in a church that considered irds as an especial invention of the devil lure men into his p) wer. Ile had seen iom played, but he didn't know one from to other. Biiflards he had heard of, but a had never seen a billiard table, and he idA't want to. H1e considered billiards as armful to the aristocratic part of the otmuDty, who could afford to play the aute, as cards were to tho common classes. oth were bad-bad I and he and his rothers in the church had often groaned )gether over the tendency of the rising Dneration to amusements of this kind. Uis son was a well to do merchant and is home was a pleasant one, far finer than aything plain old Deacon 8towers was sed to seeing, and he asked Ben to show im over the house. They t;ane to one room which Ben 'led to get the old gentleman past. But a was bound to see everything, and he pened the door and looked in, In- the 3nter of the room stood a nearly square ible of peculiar appearance, covered with reen oloth, and with a raised edge all round it. "What is that ?" aiked the old gentle kan. "That's a table the boys play a gin' 3," answered Ben. "otne on and I'll inw you the stable, now." But the old gentleman's curiosity was Kcited. Ile looked the table over, and it ad such an hones, equare appearance, iat he couldn't see much chance for any iing bad in its use. At least, that ie the 'ay it struck him. "1How do they use it' he asked. Ben saw that his father had becoiie in trested, so he exp ed the game and roduced the balls and cues for the old antleman's inspection. "It mutt be quite a vice game," said the eacon. "1'hey-they don't gamble with do they ?" "The boys never play for anything but inu-ement," answered Ben, evasively. "That's right," said the deacon, taking p one of the cues and giving a ball a tap. "That would have been a good shot if ou had been playing the game," said leL. "It would have counted you two." "Is that so?" The deacon was quiLe lated at his success. 1 don't believe in ames, much, tho' I allers liked to play hieckers. but I b'lieve I'd like this. Let'a y a game an' see how it goes." "All right," said Ben, chuckling to him )If for he knew well what a prejudice his 6ther had to billiards. So they played. The deaomn had in hir ie elements of a good billiard player. Le made sunme very good shots, and came ear beating Ben. lie enjoyed the first ame so much, tht he wanted to play nother, and,,oip,g out but one. or two ehind on that, :erballenged Ben to p:ay third, and won. "I like the game," he declared, emphat ally. "It amounts to authin'. What's ie name of it, Ben ?" "Billiards," answered Ben, with a sly inkle in his eye. "WhAt I" The deacon looked at Ben as if thunder ;ruct.. "You don't mean to say I've been layin' billiards do you I" "Yc," answered BeI; "aid .you played ,ell for a beginner. If you keep on racticing, y3u'll make a ti-top player." "Good Lord I" groaned the deacon, irning pale. "I wonder what they'd say p to Greenville if they know I I wouidn't ave it git out that I'd been a playin' bil. ards, for a farm. Don't you say nothin', en. E t it should leak out, i'd be turned at o'the church. "I don't see as any harm has been done," ild Ben. "You see now, don't -ou, that illiards can be playedi with the best of motives ?" "Yes, but that excuse wouldn't go down ith 'em, of they should find it out,'t said io deacon. "You won't say nothin,' on ?" Ben promised to keep mum. Nobody Greenville knowi how the deacon fell 'om grace on his visit to the city. When ver his brothers in the church inveigh gainst the sin of billiard playing, he says othing, andi feels gmity of deceit in not )nfessing the trut,h. But to himself he imits that ho diid rea'lly enij'y the ge,~~ know the good dceon wvoukt like to ave the church mh&ke It obligatory on its embers to learn the game of bilhard-1, bi.t e wouldn't dare to say so. Vuia:arities of tipeech. The above termi properly includes nos uly words and phrases of obvious coarse est, biut a large class of expressions in 'hich a fine word is employed in place of simple one, or a word that does not prop. rly convey the meaning is used. The use f many-syilabled words in place of short nes has been a 'notorious vice of news. aper writers, whose example has been irgely followed in cont ersation. With ut running to the oiposite extreme, the liplest languiage sufmecent to convey one's leaning is the best to use. Many will ud it profitable to keep handy for refer. nc the following list of common errors. inch might be added to It. Accord, for give, "the information was ecorded him." Aggravate, for irritate; aggravate is to riake worse. Allude, to, for refer to or mention. As, for th-at; *'not as I know," for "not nat I know." Avocation for vocation; a man's voca on is his business; avocations are things mat occupy him Incidentally. lIlly, for ill. Inaugurate, for begin. Kids, for kid gloves. Learn, for teach. Liable, for likely or apt. Loan, for lend. Reside, for live. (Commnence, for begin. PAnts, for pantaloons, or bettor still, owsers. .t'attake, for eat. Plenty, as an adjective, when plentiful meant. Balance, for rest or remainder. Character, for reputat.ion; one may ay have a good reputation but a bad iaracter, and the two words should never Sconfounded. Dangerous, for danger; a sick man is mnetmes moat absurdly sai4 to be dan tons, when it only means that the poor hlow is in danger himsels....i very differ. it thing. Three Phatef oi Life. A reporter blipped the other day be tween the lines of trilks which obstruct the current of traMe atV the junction of Broadway and State street, Albany, New York. Ahead of hiM was two gentlemen. One said to the other: "I don't see bow theO follows (meaning the carmen) exist. Their wagons stand hero day In and day out, and they never seemt to be doing anything but fooling with each other.'' The reporter approached one of the ear men. This particular common carrier had a round rosy face. He looked valuable. "How is business ?" asked the reporter? "Pretty god. Will you have a cart ." "No. not to day. But how do you folks ever get enough to feed your horaos a nd yourself ?" 'We have a way," and after coniider able q'iestioning. the carman gave tho con dit'ou of the trade abont am follows : "You see there is not niore'n a dozen carts here now. Well. all told, there is 40 of us and we are kept busy, so that there Is not mure then halt of us here at the tame time. 8ome days is better than others; but it is a poor un which don't bring in 12 shillin'. Some weeks we have enough to do for customers to keep us busy all the time; and on those times we don't have to stand here a'tall. Youv'e noticed, ain't ydu, that no matter how few there is here, that m*ost of 'em are near the cross walk ? Well, that's considered the best stand. You see, a stranrer comi in' along strikes the first one he comes to." "How much do you realize in a day on an average I" "Oh, from $1 to '6,or $7. Have a catt, lady ?" said the cartin-n to a pros pective customer, who answering in the affirmative lef L the rep)rter without a story. "What are the prostects for the coming season " asked a reporter of a canal boat captain whom he met in the street. "t Is a little too early yet to speculate. I have no. reason but to believe that we will have a good season next summer-" "Do you think that the retroving of tolls on freight will make inch, if any difference ?" "No; when the tolls were high we made more money than when the authorities lowered them. Just so sure as our expen ses are lighter. the freight rates are cut. The railroads shave their rates down, and the shippers have to tave their cominis sions, so that deducting the price for so curing the boat load, and taksng the ex ceedingly low rate of freigbt, leaves but little mari:n. No: with tolls off, the shippers and forwarders will think we ought to carry everything cheaper." "Why don't you try some other busi ness ?" "Because I love my boat. During the winter I feel as uneasy as a fish out c-f wa ter. and from the opening, of the canals until the close, L. umr happ y -as a clam. Last fall I sold my horses. and now I am in search of a good team." "Is there much fascination about the life of a canaler I" "Well, yes. At first, when the propo sition to be a canaler was made to me, I spurned it. 1 got hard up and thought I would make a little money. Before I got over the route from Buffalo to New York once, the cld dread of the life had lelt me. ani I was so fascinated with it that I thoupht I could never tire. Since that time I have never once regretted going on a canal boat. I. worked hard, and alter awhile bought a boat of my own, and to day the old craft is is dear to me as one of my. family." "Conductor. can't you act me a seat I' aid an iraicible passeneer of the female persuasion on a car. There was not a va cancy. "Some people are hog.s." TJ.his was the comment of the pnssengr on tier feet. "So they are," the conduanter re'joined 80110 voce, "and no one more than youir self " The reporter was led to inquire by catch. ing the strange remark. "Yes," said s,he conductor, "I see a good deal of the selfishness of this world. Home peop>le ilil act in, and( because they pay their fare think that I can find a seat far them. Women are the worst, and many a blowing up I get because I cannot def "n 'impossibilty. I d k.b raLcet men either, because some of thorm are even worse than the women. if one of the latter enters with a basket she will set the basket on her lap so that it will take up twice ats much room as she Is entitled to, and it Is at the cost of considorahle abuse that I can prevail upon her to put her bas ket on the floor. Then again If a woman comes in with a child, she will place the youngster along side of her, and no miatter if the car is full, that child must have a seat to the exclusion of older patrons. Sometimes the child is removed to the pa - eats lap if an old man is seen standing, but never if it happens to be a woman. When one women is asked to make room for ainother, she madly moves along, or throws the child on her lap, and takes up as mutch room as possible. Some of the male riders occupy seats, and never see a woman whlen she enters. They look right past nier, and sometimes when within about a block of where they want to get off, see the lady, gt-t up and offer her their seats. I have noticed that some women when they board a car think that some one ought to get up ar dgive them a seat, if no one stirs the5new arrival glances around with an Impudent look. Then again I have seen a workman with his dilnner pail bosted a car and get a seat. He gave It up soon after to a fashionable dressed woman, who claims it as 8 matter of right, never even thanking nim. But most alvways a lady upon ao. cepting a seat will either say 'thank you' Dr incline her head fo r wmfrd. Ariifloiat rying of Jro,s. A paper on the artiflemal drying of crops was read before the Bociety of Arts go cently, in which Mr. Gibbs stated lie had luring the last two or three seasons, on the lands of noblemen, large landowners and farmers In half the ocunties ot Eng and, saved thousands of toes of produ:e ~hat must otherwise have been wasted. Iir'. Gibbs described the various processes wihich had been used for drying crop.. His own plan, as adopted in his harvest tavers, was that of passing heated air by neans of fans through the gr'ass to be Irled. lie felt assured that it farmers tad used even the simpler resources which mere in their power, in the direotion oL marvest saving, some millions would bave een ained by t:he country. - ' A New Antlaeptle. New York and Boston are greatly ex. cited over the discovery of a now antigoo tic solution which, it is claimed, is des tined to revolutionize all existing meth,xs for the transportation of perishable goods by rail and sea. It seems that several years ago one Professor R. F. Huniston, in a remote western village, was anpealed to as a practical chemi t to embalm a hu man body for lonz transportation. The need came upon him unexpectedly, and his facihti-s were meagre, but his attempt was wondeifully successful. Reflection convinced him that the process which thus so remarkably preserved a human corpse coula be nade to serve living humanity by the protracted, economical, and health ful preservation of 1esh food. The study and experiments which led u pestv- results have covered three eiars, and- have gene along under the cog nizance and encouragement of prominent Etstern gentlemen, among whom are J. Willard ifice, of Boston, brother of Ex. Uovernor Rice of Massachusets, and head of the well-known paper house of Rice, Kendall & Co.; and El ward Burnett. also of ljoston, son of Dr. Joseph Barnett, a relative of our Aitister to England. Mr. Loweil, and owner of the coelbrated Deer foot farm near Boston. All the while confident assertion and general publicity have been made to wait upon actual ac complh,hinent, and I am but now able to give to the Iublic, for the first time, through the Dily News, an outline of what these discoveries have really done, as well as of a crucial test begun the other day under my own eye by Samuel W. Johnson, professor of a.gricultural chemiis try in Yale college. Professor Iumiston, some time since, lalimed that his antiseptic preparations would preserve meats, fish, fowl, oysteis, milk, cream, etc., in perfect and even in proved condition, lor from three weeks to three months, and disinterested gentlemen in Boston, Baltimore, and other cities were asked to witness experiments and assume charge and control of articles of fo ld treated by the new process. Mr. Burnett, of Boston, at his farm, beeame the custo dian of the foods there operated upon, which were sausages, milk, cream, etc., merchantable products of the farm, and which have given it great fame. Mr. Bur. nett has signed a statement afflcming the absolute perfection of the antiseptic's work. lie says that he never before could ship sausages during hot weather or the summer months, without a large percent age vi loss, ano never sent seaside custo mers creamn and milk before, bit that last sinummr he freely shipped sausages, cream, .llk, etc., treated by the Humiston pr) cess, without loss, and that he now em plo.3 the antiteptic n all his products, ships freely wLI.hait refrigeration or otier agencies, and not only eac.ipes ill loss, but saves heavy expense and gives his custo iners a degree of satlefaction never expressed before. Tiv antiseptic, a pungent', sodalsh!cok ing powder, had been dibsolved in., water the previous evening by Profs. Johnson and Hunmiston-perhaps a common wash tub full, in atone jars of various sizes-at wh:el time Prof. Hiumiston drank six ounces of the mixture as an evidence of us harmlessness. 'The meats And fowl, punctured in their thicker parts, were jimply immersed in the liquid; and re. mained therein from two to twenty hours. A small q'antity of it was poured into and mingled with the cream. The oyst ers, after pout-ing off their liquor. were iminersed in a somewhat different solution of the antiseptic adapted to this specially ailicult ta%k. One piece of steak was simply wrapned in a towel wet with the general soh... ' %%ad laill in the inverted lid of a jar. -e whole process was so SImple that A.11d of a dozen years could perform It witls the briefest verbal instruc tion. At suitable times the immersed ar ticles were removedi froin the solution and simply hung up on hooks and nails inl the open air of the laboratory, where they are to reian at least three weeks. Trhr.re is to be no access to the labora tory duiring thie ihne, except by Prot'essor Johnson or in his presence. 'The tempera ture therein is to he kept as uniform as practicab)le, at between 70 deg. and 80 dleg. F4ahrenneit, observation and record of which is to be made by the Drofessor twice daily. P'rof. litmiston has gone his way andt will not prob3ably~ see i,h in boratory or its contents again till the tent shall be completed-at all events he Is not to touch the articles again till then. At the end of three weeXs the five s.entleinuen will again meet in the laboratory. Prof. Johnson in their presence will take down and Inspect the articles and cerdlfy to their exact condlition, after which, if they arc in the condition expected, they will he cooked by a New 11aven caterer and servod at a dinner to the scientific gentle men and their co-observers. If the anti septic fails the professor le charge of the articles will dispose of them very sum marily. Theo Dangera attendi(i,ig Arsni'e. It is neoassary to raise a warning cry agaimst a most mischsievous statemont which has recently been eirctulated and has already done harm, to the effect that "arsemic in small doses is good for the complexion." It is not diflloult to in.agina the risks women will incur to preserve or improve their "good looks." No more ingenious device for recom mending a drug can be hit upon than that which the authors of this baneftul proscription of "arsenic for the com plexion' have adopted. H3uflico it to recall the fact that for many years past eliemists and sa nitarians have been laboring to discover means of eliminat ing the araenical salta froim the coloring matter of wall papers, and certain dyes once largely used for cert.ain articles of clothing. It is most u'ufortunate that this hopelessly antagomatie recoin mendlationu of arsenic to improve the comnplexioni should hatvc found its way into print. Those who employ the drug as advised-and there are many either using it or are contemplating the rash aot,-will do so at their peril. 80 far as they are able, however, it will be the duty of medical men to wa~rn the public against this pernicious pradtico, which is only too likely to be carried on scretly. It is not without reason that we speak thus pointedly, and urge prac titioners to bo on1 the gui svv in maon alous or obscure eases. --The B3ritish Museum lately acquired thirty.nine Babylonarn objects of saiver The Shal,aiese. The greater number of children play. ing in the street were boys. Girls. are early accustomed to remain inside the ] huts and em loy themselves in house. hol work, sides this, they develop I very young, being often married at ten or twelve years old, and old women at I twenty or thirty. Grandmothers of twenty-five or thirty are very frequent. A further significant fact is the perma nont disproportion of male aud female births among the Simghalese, The av erage is ten boys to eight nine-tenthe girls. The fact is connected, to some extent at least. with the curious insti tutiou polyandry. In spite of the of- I forts made by the English Government I to suppress this custom, it maintains its ground, especially in the more remote j districts of the island. Itis jot unusual 4 to find two or three brothers with one wife in common, and ladies may be , found &the happy possessors of ton or twelve husbands. ThesO complicated family arrangements form the theme of many extraordinary storios; but it is very difilcult to distinguish fict from fablo on the subject. The Smghalese have a passion for I music and dancing, and practico both ( arts according to a standard of taste very different from our own. Their I principle instruments are the drum and I the tomtom, vigorously belabored with wooden drumsticks; besides these, they have reed pipo%, and a very primitive c stringed it strument of one string. My evening calm was often broken in upon by the din of those ear-splitting instru monts, and if I followed the sound to its source was I sure t0 find, in front of a tire under a palm tree, a group of ton or a dozen naked, brown fellows, gaily t paintod with whito yellow or red stripes and indulging in th most extraordinary e antics. A eirole of spectators stood t round and followed the grotesquo per forianco with devout atteution. i New York iUlia and Dinners. It was onco laid down by a high priestess in the aits of sceicty that no good-natured $ woman could give a really good ball in any ureat city, and there is a coasiderable amount of truth in this. A gcod-natured t wonan cannot turn a deaf car to the d claims of old friends. Conequontly, se r asks persons who contributo nothing to the beauty of her rooms or to the social at trac(iveness of t he entertaininent. Again, sho is at the mercy of thnse-their namen is legion-who ask for invitations for friends and are ever on the lookout to make capital for themselves In the 1uture at other peoples' expense, whereas it, is I perfecly useless to attempt to impose ol Mrs. Highty T.gitvIn this faltmon. Im- I portuno her and ne will be "positively rude." "As it," she will say, "I am go- i mg to have those dreadful 13imglers. Why . those girls nust be 85 if a day, and, heav- j ens, what dreoes they had on at the Tub- t bingtoa's on Friday I' The f-ict iq that to have a pretty ball or an agreeable Palon, or dinner pArt.v, the weeding nrocess is a horrid necesstty, and society In New York needs that it shnuld be applied far more unsparingly than hitherto. No one c,an give agreeable dinners, who, as a rule, asks his guests on the clearing-off prim ciple, or because they are old friends. To 1 give interesting pat ttes peoplai must be 9 asked for their social merits and advan tages, and all other claims must be aubor dinatod to these. Ltdy Holland's extra- I ordinary 'success as a dinner giver was s largely due to the circumstance that she was not "In society," In the ordinary ac- a ceptaceo of the term, and had no dinners to pay back to bores with whom she had dined ; indeed, tihe Holland House society was almost exclusively composed ot men. As a rule, it Is a great mistake to have a mntxed dinner party of young and oht ~ guests. Euch bores the other. It is dreadful to think in reference to dinner given here what a tremendously costly and elaborate niachimnery is set in motion to t produce, in point of p)leasure and satis- f faction, sucth small results; and( tis iS due to vulgar < 'utationi andh stuidity ini not discriminating as to who will like to meet who. Tie newv noy. 11e was a brand-now office boy, yonor, pretty.faced, with golden ringlets and blue eyes. Just such a boy as one would im agine would be0 taken out of his little trundle-bed in the midle of the night and tranrg orted b)eyond the stars. TIhe first day lie glanced over the library In the 0(d1- 1 tornal room, became acquauinted with ( everybody, knew all tile printers, and went home In the evenig as happy and cheery< as a sunbeam. Th'Ie next dlay he appeared, ( leaned out of the back window, expctor.. ated on a bald-headed printer's pate, 'tied ' the cat up by the tail in the hallway, had g four fights with another boy, borrojed $2 e from an occupant of the building, saying y his mother was dlead, collected his two days' pay from the cashier, hit tihe janitor with a broomstick, rpawaed a coat belong ing to a nmember of the editorial staff,.. wrenched tl.e knobs off the doors, upset the ice-cooler, pied three galleys of type ; and mashed his fingers in the small press. OIn the third day, a note was received say. log;t "Mi Mother do0 not want 1 to work in such a dull place. She says I Would I make a Good prcacher. so Do I. mlifinger a is Better ; no fiahinu'. Yours Till Deth t do Yank us. strange Glories. A wrIter from Virgunma'Otty, Nevada ays, one afternoon recently the heavens ~ became obscured by a peculiar vapor, ~ whIch seemed neither fog nor smoke nor I yet clouds. Though the sun could be I pmainly seen, it presented precIsely the same appearance as when viewed through e smoked glass. To the southward this Va. 3 per appeared of an orange hue while to e the west it was blue. Some of our people looking in that directisn, called out: ''Old Mont Davidson has got the blues 1" andI really everything in that direction had the blues. About tour o'clock tIe whole mass of vapor mioved east aiid settled down over the valley ab,wo the Carson river. There re it presented a white appearance, hiding all |ii the valley land and low hills, but allowing ~ the peaks of the Vomo range of mountains s' to bo soon. While this was going on there ta was visible on thue eastern lorizOa a broad band of deep blue with above a corres ponding band of a den roBe'red-, NEWS IN BRPF -The first copper cent was coined in .iew Haven in 1687. -The first printing press in the Uni ed States was worked in 1620. -Ulass windows were first introduced nto Englaud in the eighth century. -The first attempt to manufacture >ins was made soon aftjr the war of .815. -The first comnlete sewing machine vas patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in .846. ---An exhibition of the works of the ate Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz') Is to >e held at Liverpool. -Mr. Blaine intends to sail southward n the yacht Blaine, with her Boston )wner, in the spring. Professir Virchow, of Berlin, owns tearly 6,000 human skulls of all ages tid nationalities. -Tho Marquis of Lorne has beeh re lected commodore of the Royal Nova 1cotia Yacht Squadron, -The consumption of thread of the cat grades in the United States Is 21, )00,OUO spools per annum. -A bottlo of 50 gallons capacity, the argest ever blown in this country, was ately made at Millville, N. J. -The police of Berlin will no longer crmit public performances of tainers ,f lions and other wild animals. -John Cabot received the magnifioent un of .10 from Henry VII. by way of oward for discovering America. -The strength of 120 pounds is re uired to tear asunder an iron wiro one. wenty-fifth of an inch in diameter. -England paid about $17,000,000 for onviucing Arabi Boy that he ought not o rebel against his own government. -The total co.t of the new Capitol in Albany up to January 1, 1888, is sta ed by the Capitol Commissions at $14, - 93,663. -The Prince of Wiales has at Sand ingliam 100 short-horn cows and 29 hort-horn bulls, which are kept in two listinct herds. -The debt of the UnitedStates prior D the war was about $90,000,000. Tao obt of the Australian colonies is a' eady flvefold that. -The famous chestnut tree on Mt. Eltna measures 210 feet at its base. Its ge is at leasr 800 years. ' Italy has nany renowned trees of this spcoes. -The next exhibition of works by ?russian and foreigu artists will take >lace in May aud June, at the Polytech no Sphool at Charlotteburg, near Ber in. -A mau'^i30 years of age is re >ortod, by a British paper, to have made 56 miles in 24 hours on a tricycle. A ,ounger rival did 186 miles in the same inie. -The whole number of letters mailed a this country during the year 1880 fas 1,058.252,876, or an average of 21 a each man, woman and child in the ountry. -Sarah Bornhardt-Damala has closely rimmed off the big frizzes of hair that med to overshadow her brow, to the reat improvement, it is said, of her ppearance. -A cargo of pig i'on, sunk in Long sland Sound, oir Saybrook, twenty oven years ago, now being recovered Py (livers, comes out from under the and in good condition, -The hazing for which flvO Sophio nores of Bowdoin College have been usponded consisted in cutting off vIo. sntly one-half of the slow-appearing iustache of a relnctant Freshman. -From the deposit discovered In 872 on the Appomiattox River at Ber aiuda, Va., there are now taken 1,000 ons annually or about a third of the inc ochres usedL in the United States. -Artiicial eggs are now mnanufcot tred ini Germany. A wvoman who bought dozen of a pieddler found them filled vithi wvater, the yolk having been ex raok,d an.d the hole covered with paste. --The schools of Portland, Mo., me aontly hold a "Longfeliow hour," en vhich occasion interesting exercises 'tore held in all the schools, and a hand ome sum was realized for the memorial und. -Hlannibal HIamlin has given to Col >y University a copy of the (Cristopher Jolumbus oil portrait In the Naval kluseum at Madrid, supposed to be the mnly authentic likeness of the great dis over or, -The HIon. Alexander H., H. 8tuart as been requested by the Historical ~ociety of Virginia to prepare a history f the events of 180 "which lcd to the estoration of the State to her place in lie Union,. -Albert Victor, son or the Prince of WVales, is to be educated at Christ )hurelh, Oxford. Like his uncle, Prince leopold, he will wear cap anid gown inly on occasions where they are re tuired by law. -Custer County, Montana, is the argest county in the Umited States. Its rea is 86,000 square miles, It is larger han the States of Vermont, Newr lampshire, Massachusetts, Delaware nd Rhode Island, all combined. -The real estate subject to city tax a Philadelphia Is 6562,087,555; furni uire, $5,608,280 ; horses, $2,804,965 ; attle, $189,250; pleasure carriages, 658,205. The increese over 1882 Is 17,708,026. -The Japanese Department of Agri ulture is planting oystei' beds near ~okohama, The Japanese Oysters are. onaldered among the finest in the world, nd hopes are entertained of exporting hem largely in a preserved state, -Workmen are already engaged on ie removal of the central tower of eterborough Oathedral, and as very ceontly several new cracks of an alarm g character have been discovered, the iirk has lbeen underta~ken nono to o,Thousands of peopA4 are reported > iave visited the cathedral from all " arts of Europe since the new' of the proposed denrolition" wanatieA ptab'