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} -r TRI-WEEKLY EDITIONT. NIT1AL D SBORO. .C. MARCH 31 1883 OLD TIMES There's a beautiful song on the,slumbro,us air Tat trills through bte valley of,droaUs; It comes from a ulime where the roses were, And a tuneful Iteart, pud bright brown Itair That waves 1i4 the morning beanms. Soft eyes of azure, an(i eyes of brown, And snow-white foreheadk are there, A glimmering cross and a glitteriig crown, A thorny bed and a couch of dtown, Lost hopes ani leaflets of prayer. A rosy leaf and a diip!ed hand, A ring and a plighted vow; Three golden rings on a broken hnd, A tiny track on the snow while sand, A tear and sintesit brw. , Thore'a-a tiacture of ,grief In the bdattiful song Tiat sobs on the suininer air, Afti loneliness felt an the festiye tht,g SInks down In the soul as it trembles along Froin a el..te where the r?ss S*e. We heard it f1rat at the (lawn of day, And it mingles witIt inatin chlines; But years have distanceq the beAutiful lay, And its melody ftowdth'bo swiftly a*aY, And we call it now " Old Times." Fred Dayton assisted his wife's cousin, Jenny Searles, into the -,carriage that was waiting for her at the station. She had been his wife's bridesmaid, ind he sighed as he looked in her smil ing face. It was three years since that so-ca:led happy event occurred, but though she was a trifle more staid and dignified, she had the same happy smile, neat, trim appearance that he so well remem bered. "You will find Fanny a good deal al tered," he said* taking a seat by her side. Jenny cast a somewhat surprised glance,at the grave face of the speaker. Why, how ? Has she been ill ?" "Well, no I I can't say that she -has been ill," was the hesitating reply; "but she-she's changed. Marriago don't seem to have agreed with her vet y well.' Jenny looked earnestly into the frank, k,indly face (if the speaker. Was it his fault ?-for there muiut be a fault somewhere. The house, as the carriagQ stopped in front of it, looked as if it was all shut up. If Jenny had expected to see her cousin in the hall she was disappointed. Fred looked slightly disconcerted as he glanced around. "Fanny's in her room, Isuppose ;Il hunt her up." "Ah I there you are, Fan." Here a dowdily-dressed woman made her appearance at the other end of the hall, whom Jenny would have failed to recogLize had it not been for the warm embrace and eager greeting. After leading the way to the dark and rather unldty jinL1-Vof, Xanny ' amumation all at once forsook her, and, throwing herself upon the sofa, she burst into tears, much to Jenny's sur prise and consternation. "The sight of you reminds me so of the happy past ?" sighed Fanny, as she wiped away her tears, "And the present is not less happy, I hope ?" suggested Jenny, feeling lor her cousins husband, who looked fool ishly conscious that he was in some way considered to be at fault. "Fanny's only reply was a mournful shake of the head, which, rightly inter preted, meant that she never expected to be s happy again as long as she lived. Putting his hands in his pockets Fred walked to the window, whimfiing softg to himself with an ill dissembled air of unconcern. "It you knew how that noise goes through my head, Fred I" remonstrated Fanny, as she rang for Ann to take away her cousin's things. Fred ceased whistling, 'taking himself ous of the room a$ the same time. Fanny gave her cousin a look, as much ap to say ; "You see what I have to put'bp with ?" Jenny now had opportunity to ob 1 serve her more partiopila.ry, It was nearly dinner tiae, and still] she had on the calico wrapper she had worn at bieak fast ; not much soiled, but still faded and wrinkled. In asking and answering questions the time passed rapidly until it was' nearly time for dinner. "I'had no idea it was so near dinner time," said Jenny, rising to her feet, as she glanced at her watch. "I shall hardly give you time to dress." . "On I I shan't make any change in my (drees ; therc'll be nobody.lrut hms band at (diner, andi you won't mind." \'No, certimuly, I sha'n't mind,". There was more than this on Jenny's lips, but she checked herself. There could scarcely be a greater con trast than those two presented at the dinner-table, both of nearly the same age, and both ondowed ia ith more than usual personal attractions. At the time of her miarkiage, Fanny had been called the prettier ; but it was quite the contrary now, and all the dif ference lay in the dress and expression. It was-imposs ible for Fred not to no tice the difference, and mnako a mental comment on it not very flattering to the' wife of his choice. The contrast was too marked to escape her notice, though it was easy to see that she as oribed the change to their different conditions. "Alh I you won't think it's worth while to fuss so much after you're mar ried, ,Jen,"'she said, with a laugh. "Perhaps Miss Jenny will think her husband worth dressing for." retorted Fred. "If shte does, I hope it will be for a husband who cares enough for her soci et,y to spendi one evening at hiomo out of the'six. Jenny hastened to chaingo the subject, being aided in,lier endeavor by the ad vent of baby. It was a lovely child, and one would suppoboe wouila 'be an additional tie to bind .their hearts to gether, but mntata of that it was a constant bone of contention, Thus matters weut on for some days. Jenny observed with patti that Fred was in the habit of spending most of his evenings out. For a while after she camie lie stayed ini, but mortified as well as-irritated by his wile's slovenly gradually absented himself, until I rarely spent an evening at home. . qis Mr. Daytor out this evening inquired Jenny, as, enteringthe sittin room, she glanceod around. "You need never ask that question returned Fanny; "he's always out." Jenny had long wished for an oppo tunity to ta'k with her cousin. After moment's grave silence she said: "And do you know what the end < tbi will be, Fanny ?" "Ruin, I suppose," was the bitter r< sponse. "But there is no help for I as I see. It is something for wbidh am not responsible.". "But I think you cre, Fanny." ."I'?"replid'Faniiy, opening her ey4 widely; "what can you mean ?" ' Just what I say, my dear coush When you married Frederick Dayto no man was more domestically incline or fonder of his wife and homo than he "He got oyer it brapoly I" nxelaiue Fanny, with a bitter'laugh. 'SHe don act as if he had the slightest atfectio for me, and seems to prefer *any plae to his home." ."Aud!i0not.thi in.a great fbasu, your o'wnti fault ? Nay, Jook not so at gay, dear cousin ; I love you too well t see you recklessly thiron ing away you happiness and his. Did not the altera tion you speak pfPpring from the 9hang Inyou? We cannot love what is unlovely No man can love a wife who takes nu pains to make her person neat and at tractive or a home that is full of bick erings and discomfort. Before you marriage you iiould have been turrille( at the idea of hii catching a glimpse o you in the attire in whion you now al t.ow him to see you all day. Why should you seck to look less pleasing ii his eyes now than then ?" "It is impossible for a married wo man to dress as she did when a girl and no ipan has a rigit to expect it." "Ever.y min has a rigin to expect hb wife to have sufficient respect for hit to present a neat and tidy appearance, You 6id not consider it too much trou. ble to dress when Judge Barry callec on you. And last evening, at the party, when Mr. .1oward picked up your hand. kerchief, you received it with a loot and smile such as I have not seen you bestow upon your husband, even when lie4 took twice the pains to please you I" "You are very severe," said Fanny ier eyes filling with tears. "Faithful are the woundsof a friend, Rly dear Fanny, two ways are open to you. You can either make' home te your husband the dearest place in the wcrld, and yourself one of the most be. loved and happy of wives, or you can ;lienate his afections, driving him to Ltaunts and companionship that will wreck the peace and.hanmesa of both. idveut of visidors. Jenny retursied home the next morn ng, so she had no opportuuity of know ing what effect her otornest appeal had apon the better feelings of her cousin. It was some months before Fanny md Jenny met igain, aiid then it' was at he marriage that transformed the latter uto the loved and loving wife of the iusband of her choice, The happy smile on the face cf Fred, and which was jeflooted back from 1ie 13hiling eyes of his wife, told of the appy change that had been wrought. ".rred spends all his evenings at home iow," said Fanny, givii ier cousin a iignificant look. "Why shoildi't I ." eriethd happy iusband, "when I ha. ldearest wife md the picasantest ho" 'm the worldl' Old Songs, and Now. - Of the old sentimenital songs y'ou can well say that they never die out nor will mny new ones; though there are a great nany lbeautiful ones lately written, ever 'epiace them. There's-r"Annie Igaurle,' ~an you imagitib It to be very,.old?i Weli, t i, and lovely; women sand'Shfver-tonlgued enors still hinger tenderly over the words f Douglas to his sweetheart Annie. I lave heard a song lately that you can pre lict a4 growing popularity for If you de nre. ''lt is, "We Never Speak When We Pass By." Both the words and the air ire pietty, and it will hold with the pub ic. Then, again, there arc the regulation ;entliental songs of the present,.- such as "Only a Pansy Bilossonm," "When the Jlouds [toll By," and dozens other. These ire all termed popular, and deserve to be to. But, to my ide~a; there are moire pretty longs haddl(en away that seldom come to aght, except In some refinedi private circle where some chiarming, modest little lady ula clown at, a .p,ao and igently ,touching he Ivory keys, pours out a warm, flexible roiee In some such so.ng as5 "Auld Robin ary, "Love's Youiig Drecam." "Long, Long Ago," or of the later songs, "Come [lack to Erie," "Jamaic's on the Stormy sea." Ah, I can remember my mother, with her silver hair, sitt.ing at ani old-fash onedi melodcon, that pumped so hsrd I ned to sit on the floer under it at her feet md work the pedals with both hands while she played anad sang that song. Trhe iuamnt, old-style words were better suited to ii song written ages ago thian to one of is recent origin as it is, Speaking of "Long, Long Ago," Trhomias HI. Bayley, an Englishman, wrote that with hunger's pangs gnawlng at his vitals. He had a large family andl was unable to provlde food for their sustenance. lie had, also, just risen from a sick bed, where bralin fever had conflned hhn for weeks. It was a great song under those circiumstances. Foster was a wonder, lie was as' well known through his songs to Amerleans as D)ickenas was through his stories to the E~nghash, but was kniown to very, very, few p)ersonailly. Of his song, "Old Dog Tfray," 125,000 copies were sold In the first eighteen monaiths after its pulication. Ills "Old Folks at ilome" was the best thing he ever wrote, and 400,000 copieS wore 80ok1 by the publishers that, cirst iseied the song, and Foster received $10,000 as his share of this sale. 1 tell you it's al ways the publisher that makes all the money. We grad out the song, may be under a atrong pressure for some necessary of life, never knowing and often not car lag whethe'r it would "catch on" or not. -Early marriages are becoming lesi common in Ireland. -Gen. Joseph E. Johnston has beca 'made sick by wearing colored stockings I. Lobt n the ]prairie. NQ one unacquainted with the diflcu - ties of western travel can realizo how ha it is to keep a straight course acro,s , Kansas prairie. Grass from two feet I two yards high covers mile after mile wit r- an unvaried sea of green waving billowl a There are no trees to guide the eye, fence to restrain the steps; but footpath f Come to notice constantly-traile made b Indian, buffalo or wolf, and every tra 3. but the right one may be fatal to the trav( , ler. f A man way be lost half a mile from ij home; and for a child, of course, th prairie is doubly danrerous. It is not it; 3 common in Western Kansas for small cil dren to wander away from home and nevc be seen again. Mr.Joaeph Olements,a neighbor of min latelv from home on the plains of Kansas related the following adfenturo wtile I Search of a lost child, which occurred jue before he left that State He owned a very large and a very valu 0 able hound, whichhis two boys, Jack an( Oscar, had named Rowdy, and which wal a their constant companion in all their bunt . Ifg expedit'ous.- They had trained hin , to hunt for them, so that by merely lettint r him smell one of the boy's garments hi . would go out and track its owner at an3 distance from the house. About a mile from Mr. Clements' hont was a small board cabin, belonging to ar industrious German and his wife. Mr. Ulcmeuts hld sometimes seen a little ye. low-haired boy playing near the cabin. One morning, just as ttie family were ris. ing from the breakfast-table, the German'a wife came to the house in great distress. A"Mcin Hanka I mei Hanka is gone I Mcin kind iRt lost I hel) me find Hankal Ach ! mein Untt I (child) ist lost I" she cried, over and over. The family gathered around her and learned from her broken words that her little boy had wandered away from the cabin and was lost. He had been gone since daybreak, and she had no idea which way he weAt. 'Her husband was sIck. in bed, she said, and could not help her search for the child, and she had come to the neighbors for aid. Mr. Ulenients and his boys were, of course,eager to help the distracted mother, but as ste had no idea which direction the child had taken, they hardly knew what course to pursue. "Father, I believe Rowdy could find him, if he had something ot the child's to smell I" said Oscar, eagerly. "I don't know. lie has not been used to trackling any one but you and Jack. We can try him, though," said Mr. Clements. "Get ready and come with me, and bring the dog." He told the woman that if she would take them to her~cabin and give them one -Hanka's ock thggdai - iii 10 the rude home where her "man," as she said, lay sick. A wagon, a plow and several farm tools were scattered around. Inside was a scanty supply of household furniture. Near the door lay a saill pair of wooden' sboes, which Hanka bad kicked off. Rowdy walked up and began to smell of the shoes, which encouraged the boys greatly. The mother brought out a small sock, and Oscar, taking it for Rowdy to smell, then pointed olr over the prairie, saying: "Seek him, Rowdy l' Rowdy smelled the little sock, wagged his tail, looked wistfully up in Oscar's face, rad away a few emps, then came back, and squatted down by his mastor's side with a low whine, 0s,if he wanted to understand and could not. Oscar dr9w the little .sock along the ground a few feet. Rowdy followed, smelling and whining, and when Oscar stopped he ran on a little ways, looking back t.o see if Oscar approved. Seeing doubt in their faces, lie went back, re perated the action three or four timee, until it seeined useless to try and make him comprehend what, was wanted, and the poor mother was growing almost frantic. Finally Oscar throw the little sock far from him, and the dog,with a glad bound, rushed after and brou; '5 It, proudly back, with head erect, as if he were sure now he had done what they wished. .But at their looks of disappointment he dropped his ta'i, and slowly started to carry the sock back to the place where lie had picked it uip. -. .. But as he dropped It from his moith, he stopped, snuffed the ground, ran this way and that, a moment, to' catch a warmer scent, then ran along slowly, with his nose on the gYounid, as If deeply interested In somethIng. Thle) a'l followed, tremblin'g with-expectation andi hope, which niight yet be sadly disappointed; for it might be only gabie vwhich Rowdy had scented. hut on ho weZit, scenting every tuft of grass or cluster of prairie tl'wors, stopping an iinstant, now and then, and sniuflling with a long, slow breath, as If to make more sure ti at he was right, while they eagerly followed him. The mother was with them, in her excitement and anxiety continually neking: "W ill ho flint moln Hanka I" Buddenly the dog stopped, and held his nose high In the air, snufling mat a tunli weed. The mother in an Instant sprang f>rward with a cry, and caught a small shred o1 calico from the bush, shouting : "It is Hanka's dress Iit 1 Is moin Hianka's " -' TIhe dog ef'etcd on. For two long hours the company followed him eager, hopeful, anxious. t'ow the odor of the trail seemed strong, and the dog sure; now it was tamnt, and he would retrace his steps and search hither anid thither for the scnt before ho Idund it again. * At last, striking an , ok) .buigalo trail. they saw plainly in the dry dust the track of a child's foot.. "Tis iHanka's sporr (traii)l 'tie Hankat's sporr l Mein kimd! mum kinul" screamed the mother. And again ran, closely fol lowing the nobie, eager dog. Scenting a trail over dry dust was now difficult for the dog, b,ut lie kept on brave. ly, seeming almost as excited as the mother or Oscar, who was wild with de light at what his favorite was accmnplih. ing. . Down and ub the hillocks the track led,. until presently Rowdy stoppedI. is whole manner ceanged. Tlhe'nose was no longer placed on the ground. With up raised head' and outstretched' neec, he went straight on with fixed, excited gu,i.. Mr. Clemente %nd Oscar knew that he left the track because he had .scentea the boy where he lay, but they dared not tell the 1notber, least the child should be fo dead. I. In an instant' longer the dog rue d* luriously forward and they heard his a, ous batk mipgled with the sound ol o. child's Scream, tor once a glad and i h come sound, which the mother eel i. shriekiug wildly: o . "Ach I" ncin Gott ! mcil Gott ! II S Hanka I Mon anka its found I hl V kind, mein kind I" 11. They soon wero.besile her In her most delirious joy. wh,ile the dog seet to shQre the general bx(ltation, runnlu s the boy as he lay in 12is mother's ari e licking his hands and face, then rush up to Oscar and OsemiI as proud as a body at his success. r They carried the we6v little wandc back to the rude cab where the a rather anti Jack Oleht'at so auxiou ,waited for,thew'. While Mr. 'flement u mained in the 'neighboritood, t9 Gern t .family.were -his war'i.est friends. 1 words could not expr.Vs their grate 'appreciation of the servibq he had rcdet a.!Aking Oi-Painting. Oil paintings, 24 by 86 inches, fin( mounted and streteled, 'are sold in N( York at a profit for fitcy dollars a hi dIted. Eight artists have b:en known .produce 125 of these painting in a di 12age hatidme flat Dutcy gilt frames f the paintings sell for $1. These a wholesale rates. The plCtures ietail fro $2 apiece up, and one ol. them has bet gold as higi as $20. They are sold clik ly by peddlers, who carry stocks of the through air the mining towns of the We -Many 4how . an amount of labor and sk in execution wiliph it wou(ld seem impti sible to command fdr tel tim(s the pri that is naked. They are all landscapes, nothing else sells so well. The paintin come in many sizes, but the price do not vary. much,v. They generally represe a river, mountiius in the distance, a bi of eountry with fences and trees eud he and there a farmhouse. The tinth are wc blended, and at a distance produce a plea ing effect. This Is especially true of tI picture intended for the Eastern trad Thirteen years ago, when the industry we begun, loud, flaring colbr8 and broad e fects were in demand, but now such pain ings are only wanted in the West. Thei they want the gayest of colors, and, aboy all, they must have a castle. Cestles ( the most remarkable design are thrown I anywhere. They are created on the ok of a steep mountain or in island in tb wild woods. They must have plenty c turrets and battlements. One of the larE est cf these oil-painting muauufactories in Greenwich street, where there are roon tilled with racks containing hundreds tlisbed paintings. On an upper flo.r repoyt1- i work unileft ry raidly. 1helpr pricetor is an artist who studied four yeai under Ocrome, in Paris. Finding ver little money in high art, he invented process for the rapid production of chea paiLtings. The paintings are mad o heavy muslin which is first wet an stretched tightly on long frames. It then cut into the required size, am strctched by i jnauhine on a square pin frame, where it is mnade fast. Next th muslin is tinted a light blue, and after thi has driud it is ready for the pamter. J coating of oil is first put on it, and the a stencil plate is laid on the muslin. Thi stencil is of thick paper, with all sorts < odd shapes cut in it. A boy stands o one side ol the table and a girl on th other, near theni are several small pots a paint. They daub the paint into the hok in the stencil plate with great rapidity When the stinci is removet the muslin I seen to be bpotted here and there wii paint. Another stencil is then uset whose holes correspond to other parts the muslin, and more stencils follow, an wheni the work is done the muslin Is con pletely covered with a patch-work of vi .rid colcors. Jt is then banded to a youil woman, who blends the background. 81i Uses several brushes in running the 00lo1 into each other, and finally goes over a with a large camel's hair brush: The rm suit is surprisimg. The patchwork bi comes a harmonious combination of blemi ed tints. The muslin then goes to a mna who blends the foregircund in the soin: mianner. .Next it is dried and passes I the finisher, who works from a model huni on her easel. She outlines the trees, fez ces, shrubs andi other accidents of scener with extraordinary rapidity. T1he colo are mixed ready to her hand, and she hi simp)ly to lay them on. A fourth all more skilfuli artist gives the finishi touches of light and shade. It finali goes to the artist, who may be called ti architect. lIe puts in the palaces, castle, houses, and boats. Thme rapidity and ski with which all work is due to long yeai of practice. The paint used is comme house painter's paint. In the paint rooi are racks containing small pots of patt< 8000 different tints. Mr. Levin says 1 is obliged to sell very cheaply in orderl compel)ta with artists who paint at the homes. 11o hias 100 different styles pictures, but seime sell much better tin others, le has tried f1gure-pieces, bi they did not take welt. T'he paint stan the test of time very well, and Is soften< and Improved by age. When handsome: trained these paiings, Mr. Levmn say are sometimes hung In private galleri, among expensive paintings. EtSffar has been denounced by m Jdem chemists as a Pubstance the effctis of whic on idyspoptics are deplorable. A writer: the Mledicin Practicien does not partalh of these fears, lie cites die ease of a dy peptic doctor, who, for twenty years, hit a terror ot sugar, but who now consumi 8lj ounces daily without inconvcnienc JEntering the fid of experiment in th direction he found that a dog ate 80 grali of iugar with 200 of other food, and m: hours alter its stomach showed but litt tco:J: the mucous lining of the stonmac was red and highly congested, and I congestion of the liver was notable. A aniimil; opened after eating 200 grains< feed and no sugar showed 90) to 100 gral; of food undigested. Sugar; then, favo the secretion of the gastric juice. Dr'. Ankriee and Mi. Fays- both agri that cyclones, tornadoes anid trembles a one and the same mechanical phenomentc and that their powerful action isadue I the force in the tipper currente. -E-Governor Hendrioks, of Ind ana. has resumed the pradtica 'of lam und A Noted Danieft Dairy Wounan, hred rs. Nielson, a noted ilairy woman England, took a tour n Sweden and G ,Oy' many, and in these countries' learned a make butter on the Swartz system, a rel skin mlls and when cheee as practic oed by Swedes and Germans. Thou she i solved upon extending her travels. 81 1011 kanw only her native language and 010 smattering of German, but with the slen er hnguistic equipment she had the cot al- age to make a tour in England, Franc aed bwitzerland, and Holland, picking , to knowledge everywhere. She contrived s, get such tan insiglt into the dairy systen ng of these different countries, as to be ab UY- to make butter on tlo Norman systat , Camembert and BrIe cheeles as they a er made in France, Edam as it Is miiade Ick Holland, Cheddar and Cheshire as they a sly made in Englakid. arid Uruyore accordit ro to the most approval Swiss process. Air, an elson has a shop in Copenhagen, whr 1it she sells tier dairy produce. the king bein fl one of her regular customers. Her wor e in the diary begins at 5 in the mornini and is finished at 1 in the afternoon. hr Nel'.son is then off, by train, to the cit3 where she Is always to be found from o'clock until 8, returning to her countr Ry home by the 9 o'clock train, ready to bc ,w gin the same round of v>.,rk the next day It would be interestinl only to practicc to dairy maids to describt Mire. Nellson l methods in (etail. Her dairy which I or also her kitchen, where cookg an re clieese-muaking go on simultaneously Is bu 11 16 feet sqare, and yet three kind of choes n -Derby, Edam, and Camembert-hav, been seen in procoss of concoction togetLhcr m The mistrees devotes her personal super t. vision to the most critical parts of thi 1, work, but is assisted by her pupils, o w- \hom she has generally about a doze D boarding in the house. For it will not ex as cite suprise that her fame has spread fal e and near, and that farmers are only to( w glad to send their daughters to study tin at der such an Instructor. The girls stay foi it various periods froin six weeks to twc le years, usuully about six months, and thosw i who stay but a shoyt time are charged 61- proportionately high fees. All have tc le work as hard as any ordinary dairy maid, 3. wbile at tle farm. 1u8t .of the pupils are the daughters of ntall farmers. One was pointed out to hir. Jenkins, however, whose father owned forty cows. This young lady was about to be narriek, and her parents thluglht themselves fortunate in securing for her, under hire. Neilson the knowledge by which she would be 0 enabled to turn the dairy, that was soon to II be her own, to the best account. It is, fperL,ps, worth muenutiong that ,hlr. Nell son takes no part of the dairy business himself, and had at first but inall fait'.h in the success of his wife's enterprise. So site began by buying her milk of her hus a band at what lie ragarded as a remunera tive selling price, and has continued to dc Niolson is still Daid for every quart at tile market value, just as his neighbors are. As Air. Niels'n's pupils do most of the a work, her outlay for labor mut be very sniall, and she makes, according to hwr own statemient, between two and three times as much for her butter and cheese as I she paj a for her milk. She must, evi 8 dently therefore, he doing a prosperous I bui,!ne. t, r profit- at of course, il the 3 greater, f roin the fact that by keeping her 0 own shop she has to make no allowance I for those of the factor and retailer. I I-oidng tas Re nnon, 8 Years ago, in the early days of the Coin stock excitement, Pat Holland, now post. . inaster and coroner -i a little town in Co Ch1is county, Arizona, was the inost rc spected man in the State. He had the reputation of being a dead shot with it pis tol. Of course, this accomplishment made him feared by everybody, and there was no man in Virginia so) bold as to cross him mn public. Pat. acquired his reputation by shooting oii the stage, and could knock an apple off his son's head with an accuracy and carelessness which combined to im press the pubhle far more tt a the inanner 0in which the paanstaking Willham 'Tell Sperformed the feat with an arrow. Finally iiPat secir ed a young lady who would allow an apple to be eliot off her fluxen roll, and Swhen Pat executed the feat ho would 'throw his keen eye at the girl, and then a poll his orbs up into the gailery, and with. 0 out looking at his mark, send a bullet 0 through the fruit. 'This was put down on C the bills as "Pat Holland's psychological feat of shooting from memory,'' and drew Y crowded houses. One night lie advertised a to shoot apples from twelve young ladies 5e heads in succession, and only take mie( d look at .the crowd, Piper's opera houe g was packed with men at $1 a head, and Y when the curtain rose, twelve linmaculate e ballet (larcers were in line along thiewings, ~each with an apple on her head. Pat stepped to the footlights and bowed aimd1( 'a tremendous applause, lHe had a six-shoot a er in each hand, and the stage tmanager n anniouncedl that he would shoot the last, '4 six apples with his left haud. Casting lit 0 eye along the line, he took a long breath, ai 4 steady post' ion, and then laced the audi ir ence. Lilt,ing his aevolt-er, ho began to fshoot in rapid succession, and the applos n began to fly out of sight, aid the breath tlees silence of the audience. The curious aS part of the pecrformance, however, Jay in d the fact that by the time Pat, eadl fired six y' shots tall the spples had disappeared, yet b he kept right on banging away with lit a5 left hand, amid roars of laughter and do risuon. To cap the climax, two apples got tangled together and remained dangling n from the edge of a scene in plain sight o[ hi the audience. The trick was as once ap Sparent. EIach apple had a fine thread e attached, and at the shot was jerked quick. . ly out, of sight. The supts behind the d scenes, who pulled the strings, got eon .fused at Pat's rapid firing, and half the apples disappeared before the time, Two Iswere snatched off simultaneously, and the strings overlapping in the air brought the Sappies together, where they hung to the o edge of the scene, the -.strmigs being ou it each side. TFhis ended Holland's career ar ea public Eoloist on the pistol, ad the pub. nlic gradually caime to look upon him as an f ordinary mortal. Soon after that he gel a into a street row in Piocho and fired twelve ra shots in a densely popillated portion of thec city without kilihug a ruan. But for at tempting to do too munch at onee he might eC have gone to Congress from this S3tarc e -ye ars ago. a 0 -Concealed in a carload of kindling. wood, billed Chelsea, Mass , customs I.- efmeial at Bangor, Me., found five r. hundred pounds of Canadian butter. So He Haid. .u Th&re was a crack uder the kitchen a dor-- crevice large enough for one to td put a hand under -and early in No. id vem",ber Mrs., Cripso begau saying : 'e- Now, cripso, don't iet this day pass owithotuaihng down a cleat to stop a that crevice. It will lot in more cold thswinter than two tons of coal can r-drive out." ', And Uripso begant replying: ip "Certaiidy, my dear--certainly. Thtat ocrevice shall be stopped this veciy day." is On fifteen different ccasions in N'o. le venmber she reminded him of the fact .that he hadi forgotten the crevice. In re December the number of occasions was jn twohi1y. During the month of January re sIte spoke of it twenty-twvo timies. In ig .February she began rofeiring to the .matter at each meal, and the other day e she nailed him down with the remark :1 g "U, Oipso, I amt goimg down town, and k I'll stop on my waly and ask a carpenter ~, to come up and fix that door." , , "No you won't I You just let it alone. 2 I'll have a carpenter here before night y and that door wvill be lixed." "I say I'll fix it myself--right awvay . -now," and in five ainutes he had saw I and hammer and cleat, and was at the a job. s Mrs. Oripso went oil chuckling ever [I her victory, and upon her return her t husband said: B "Well, the old1 crevice is shut uip." 3 'You fixedl it, elh ?" '"k'ixed it better thtan anty Carpenter Syou could have sent up, and in tont minutos, too. Conmo and see," She took one look at his work and then sat down and whispered: " Cripso, you justmssdibyahr' Sbreadth."mseitlyahrs "Wmat ?' "being born a fool I You have nailed the cleat to the floor inside the door I" Sohehd. Ho had shut the crevice and door, too, and when lie camne to realhzo it he walked slowly out into the back yard and trica to sawv his head off on th eclothe4 line. " oO' Tvo,'" In clime a gentlemant and sat down and says to the nman wvviter, very nice and gentle:t ."Have y.ou come uico Providence River o3stera?" ''OJ yes," says the waiter. "Real nice onen, now?" rays the gentleman. *"0, whIy, certainly," says the waiter. "Well, I wish you would open for me] a dozen, please." "All right, sir," says the waiter, and he was coming awvay. "'We have some powerful fres,h but ter," says the waiter, "Do you have nice fresh milk?" says the gentleman. "WVelI, it's generally so considered," ~ says the waiter, "WVell, howv are your crackers, nice ~ and fresh?" says the gentleman. ''Never had no fault fotud with our I crackers," says the wvmtor. 1 "'Thtn, if you'll take and make me up a nice it,ttle stew, John, I'll be much obliged to you," says thte gentleman. ~ Theon lie lst him go. When 1 saw hint coming, I says to myself, says I: "Hown on earth wvill that man reonembor all I that ore?" Bnt he marched right up to o the p)ipe, and jest opened his mouth, i and says: "Onto's twvo," and that was 1 all. Poi,ei Still Yioilig Weoaith' i Nowv excatvationis have i).-en mle'I at Pompeii,,lbringing Lo lhght some Curious thmngs. A house was recently unhearthied Ont whose walls the pictures were as bright as when first paintedl. Tile walls thomn selves were clean anid fresh. In this house wac found a shrine in the form of a little temple, suhl as every one lias readt acout in Bulwer's L~ast Days of Pomipeim. Beneath tile tempve also were found six statuttes of. bronze of exquisite wdork mnau;himp, four of themn Iomeric deities. The chief figure I is an A pollo wui his lyre, and .dong with it are an Esiculaiuils, a Mercury and 11cr cules-using partly Lantm namness, as most (do. The discovery lends an uitelligent I foreigner residing in Naples to remarka that every now and then' there are ati ala able ocular dlemloustrations of the way in which Ilercuilaneum and PompeIi were over whelmned. T1he notion that they were dIrownted In floods of lava is pretty much overthrown. Instead of that it is held to be settled tha', the destruction was effected in two ways: First, b)y the ejectment frontm the volcano of pumice atone and fine ashes and secondily by drenching rains, which Immediately followed, forming torrents of ~ thick, mud paste, and overwhimmitig titus 1 with rushing of mortar the territory on every side of Vesuvius. 1I, is thought likely that this mludl hardened ars fast as moistened plaster of of Paris, and thus a burled llorcugan,euma to a depth ot 60 and I andl P'ompeii to, a depth of 25 feet. "All Age of Inmvenqihnn."' An Irishman at e, St. Liouis hvery stall was deluded into giving a brief sketch of his life, where lie came from a in Ireland, where his brother was, what I his (laughter Kate was doing, who were his nearest eighibors there and other detaiils of persocnal and tamihly history, mainly interesting to himself. A short time after one of the parfy withdrew and betook himself to a neighboring telephlone. MloNeal. the Irish man, wvas asked it lhe wouldn't like to hear from Frelanid by telephone. Ini a state of delight lie went to an instrument asking, "Who's there?" T1he answer came back: "Tis Is Kate O'Neal, Bally James Duft', Ireland.'' "Meella murh docr,'' exclaimed Mike, dropping the trumpet. "I recognize her voice." Grabbing the trumpet, he yelled ont: "I'm your own father. I'm in St. , Luce, M~issouri, United States of Amer. i Icla." "Uncle Jecrry is well," repliedt ' the voice. "lie went to town to-day. s I got yer last letter. Uncle Jerry is t Igoin' to take Toby Mcelhn's land, Give t tilent and McNeal hung up the trumpet, saying: "Howly Moses, wihat an age of I invenaghun this isi."c NEW8 IN BRIEF, -Flour goes from Minnesota to Europe insured all the way through un der one policy. -Governor Butler says that Massa chusetts takes better care of hersoldiers than any other State, --A handsome monument in honor of Christopher Columbus is to be built by the people of Calvi, Corsica. -Mr. Spurgeon has received $1500 as royalty on the eale in America of 'The T*3asury of David." -The King of Siam buys his house hold furniture by the ton at the rate of over a thousand dollars a ton. -The brightness of fair hair is thrown out by velvet coats of a shado be,ween chocolate and maroon, -Ex-Govornor Warmoth has purcha sed in Maine the machinery for a beet root factory on his Louisiana planta tioll. -tnazing is an expensive luxury inl Hartford, Conn. Thirteen students have boon flued $10 and costs each for it. -Beer has been made in Germany of the fruit of Ptelea trifoliata, the so called hop troo, and it was said to be very good. -A great deal of lawlessness and ras cality is said to pveval in Alexandria and Cairo. This is one of the results of the "late'war." -The builder who helped Lafayette to lay the corner-stone of the Bunker [lill monument, fifty-seven years ago, still works in Boston. -Ex-Goverior Cobb, of Alabama, is 3rodited with granting 202 pardoni diur iug his recent term of ofIloo, or some 1ing over one a week. -The Government hires a vault in a saft deposit company in bt. Louis for 'llo storage of silver dollars, and has tbout four million dollars in it, -A Sian Francisco grocer had a wo nau prosecuted for theft, though he ivas VO years old, and what she stole vis a handful of smutr, worth three -The chrysanthemum is the popular lower of China. Whou they epigrar o other lands their favorite Hower is urried with them and affootionately utltivated. -The Rev, Edward Everett Halo has joen telected as the annual orator be ore the Phi Beta Kappa Society of 3iown University, at its meeting on rune 19) next. --Rpreseutative Herdon, of Alabama Uh P 'w at bo u W i a i s p s i ca n s n o w r pard his recovery as very probable. -A soinjambulist girl got oub of bed t Prescott, Minn. and walked across aif a mile of joo aid snow to the rail oad station, clad in her night clothes ily, and was waiting for a train when waened. -Postmaster General Fawcott, of nglantd, was attendedduring his severe liiess by a lady doctor, who was a re ttivo. The young ladion of the Lon ,n Post OlCo are now to have adoutor f their own sex. -Minneapolis, Minn., is to have a ow hotel to oost $837,000. It iu to O liro-proof, seven stories high and ontain 407 rooms. Stone, brick and v'on will ise the materials. Ciicago 'arties have contracted to build it. -Near Mets a tame bear was walking a the woods anti suddenly came upon n Alsatian hunter, who pointed his un to lire, when the bear stood on his md legs and danced. TLhe hunter liought it was the devil and fled. -TIhe R1ev. George Allen, of WVor ester, Mlass., will on Thursday cole. rate his ninety-first birthday. He ism aid to be the oldest man in Worcester, he oldest clergyman in the State, an<d ho only survivor of the Yale Class of 813. -A gentleman in Lawrence, Mass., sas offered a prize to any young lady in hat city who will decipher a letter vhichi Horace Groeley sent to'him. Tho utter was written in Mr. Grecly's hie - oglyphaics, and the owner is utterly un bblo to read it. -A small lake, which is said to be lie sourco of the Mississippi river, in, toad of Lake Itaska, which has luther o been credited wvith that honor, han >oon named Lake Whiipple,, alter Bish >p Whipplo, of the Episcopal Cbureh, vlhose nilsionary diocese covers all hiat region. -Louis of B3avarla is now having el n the isiand in Lake Chiemse, J1)per B3avarii, a chateau which is t<> eo an exact reproduction, on a redluced cale, of the famous chateau of Louis (!V at Versailles. t3everal of the royal ~rohitoots are now busy at Versailles, .tudying and copying even the smallest lotais of the palace. -George III, it is now said, first wned the phrase "poe and honor" at ho opening of Parliament, Eov. 13, 770, when lie said :".I. indulged in the iope of being able to cont inue to my ubjects the enjoyment '4 peace wi6h senor and security." - The State of Indi ma has a per eanent school fund of $9,175,088 92, vich is equal to $12 84 per capita for ,ah chilt of school ago In the State, 'he fund cannot be reduced in any way, a the counties are only allowed to use he interest thereon, and are held re.. ,ponsible for any losses. -The representatives of France who risitod Yorktown on the occasion of the Jentennial celebration, had a dinner in ?aris, receutly, commemorative of the ycnt. General Boulanger presided ,nd Minister Morton responded to the east in honor of the United States. -rvate advice from London state hat the Prinee of Wales has Instructed well-known firm of musical lInstru sent makers in New Biond street to upply Instruments of the first quality o the eighty performers who lormned lie orchestra of the Alhambra The.wtre, .iondoin, and whose hastrumkents were eatroyedtin the oniflagration of the heatro, charging the cost to the Prince >f Wales.