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- - t TRI-WEEiULY EDITION. WINNSBORO. S. C.. APRIL 19, 1883. ESTABLISHED 1848 - 80MET3RIF, BOMWY!IIIBE. Unianswered yetl the prayer your lips.have plea ded In agony of heart tI:ese.many years? 'Does faith begin to ftll, to hope departing, And think you all in vain those f1l1ig tefrs I Say not the Fither hath not heard your prayer, You shall have y6ur desire, 6x:nOtiIen0owew4erq. Unansweresd yet ? though when you first presented This one petition at the Father'A thrqne, It seemed you could not Wait the time o' askIng, So urgent was your heart to make it known, Though years. have passed since then, do not de spair, The Lord will a'nNfer you ronietfmo,' somewhere. Unaiswered yet I nay, do not Pay ungranted, Perhaps your part Is not yet wholly done. The work began when first your prayer was ut tered, And Ood will nulai wiat he has begun,, I I you will keep I he incuese burning there, lils glory you will see, sometime, somewhere. "Miss Tillie, Miss Tilliel" "Yes." "lHe's an old bachelor, SisaI Kit Says." "Mercy on us, Kizzy Jones. \VIo's an old bachelor?" Miss Tillie Bell, had been Inedi tating deeply as to whether scarlet, orange or green would be best to begin with in working It motto, and evidently not paid due heed to the opening re marks of her hand-maid. . .Kizzy gave hei broom a flourish, and replied to the jnistress'gsfiestion. "The fellet that's to'ok -the cottdge back yonder on the hill. 1 don't reckon -he is overly young. ".Ie's kinder grey, but not very, jest a leetle grain, al' what do you think he's been a-doin' all the mornin'?" 'Goodness mne, Kesiah, how 11should I know?" "Been a-plailtin' marigolds in his front yard all the blessedi morning.' Bought a whole lot bf packages of seed, Susan said, every one marigolds." "Dear me, what a funny man!" said Miss Bell. But as Kizzy hmig up the broom and disappeared the large cardboard motto slid on to the floor on one side of her and the skeins of worsted silk on the other, all in a tangle of viYid color, and Miss Tillie forgot them, forgot the prosent eetirely, and sat with her hlands folded and her soft eyes looking out to tle line of hills across the fields. It was the word "narigoids" that had sent her tholights wandering, so often will one simple word waken a whole train of recollections. There was sadness mingled with these freshly-stirred remembrances, a Hadness that had come to hier through her first and only romance. She wIts young when that happened. Even now she wa,s pretty aud plump and Iiink. Then sie was slender an( pale, and Joe Gifford had seen the wide world in l ir eyes and there had beien promises, and an engagemnt-ring, and a little brown cottage bought, back on the hill, with a funny, straggly, red-bud tree in a corner of a bit of front yard, and Til lie, who had very little money of hier own in those days' invested five cents in a paper of marigol seed to heautify tile yardl. a."For," she said, "marigolds are such * so much satisfaction in them-"' But. just as they hlad conme upl and hue gun to bloom In hunge brilliant masses of golden-yellow and velv~et-soft, red brown, thre Ie weeks before the. wedding day, what waIs it-took aill tile light out * of them-all t he suiggestive beanty and sweetness ont of the brown cottage. What but a hlorrible quarrel with Joe -a quarrel ini which they had both act edl with thle wisdlom and common sense of a couple of belligerent children fight, lng over something as imliortant as a rag (loll, andl( breathling dleadly threats against each other. And Joe had wound, t all pip by re p)airing to the brown. 'c'ottage in a, er rible temper, amd pullig up every iiirl gold by the roots throwing them spite fully across the street, as necar Tillie's home as possible, where they lay, a heaip of bright color, fading and wilt ing in the sun. If a straight slijn little figure, in a grey dress, trying to loo)c ah much lifke a shadow as p)ossible,'had slippied ot/of tile house8 in the faint light of a crescent moon and gathered up one little velvet red marlgoldl from thedenp moist with dle)v, and if that marigold, all deadl and( dry, wvas imn ,one of Miss Tillie's boxes upstaIrs no0w, wvhy no one but Tullie had any suspicioni of It. }And Joe had sold the cottage amid gone away. "And hIe can istay, away (VilO the world lasts, for all of me," Tullie had said, remembering' how hue had called h ier an obstinate little jade, thuough t'6 he Isure she called him an ogre. Tullie was a devout little woman, anud was bent on walking in tile narroWest ieavenward path she could ind) yetlher besetting sin of temper woukl get li her way somnetimes'anld trip her 1 p. ' "And as If," she had said, "there are not huiher duties In life thuan thinkinlg of an obstinate godse of a n\atn Wi1i1a had temper," And yet how many, mnuy t'idira she had shed over that little dead marigold in the box. Por- Tillie was not as unforgiving as she had tried to be. *And now a inan liad taken the brown cottage on the hill-a bachelor, not odverlyO yotfig, who had been planting marigolds all the morning. Well, Joe could not be overly young now. Suppose this nian should be Joe? Kizzy's head was poked inside the door. "Miss Tillle," said she, "lie's a-goin' to be married, the fellow with the mari golds Is." As the head disappeared, Miss Tillie snapped the thread of her reverie, gave her head im inpatl'ent little toss, and picking up her motto and her wool, be gan to work briskly: "Well, well," shle half-sighed, "if -people do their dluty, there is no doubt that things will come out all right some til~." Ti zy caiine fly.ingn red and giggling, with some 'i6 stfill ing solenly behhid her. "1ere he is, Miss Tillie, that's hlim."' she said, clioking a titter, and pointing to a0qijare-Miouldered man in the door vay, whose' thick brown hair was slightly tinged with g-ay. It was Joe Gifford,- Aot; looking so very different from what lie had in the old (lays. "Tillie," said he, without any preface at all, "I've come back and bought the cottage again, and planted the mari golds. "And now, don L you think we had better. fulfil the conti-ct we broke so long ago?" "I thought," flittered Tillie, "Kizzy said "'Twasin't me, 'twas Susan 1fito said it, wheni she fetched the milk tis eve nin'- said her brother Jeff was in the store and heered the men a axin.of him," pointing her elbow at'Joe, "if lie was a goin to git married, and lie si---'You better reckon I am." "And so I am if she$llhave4he," an swered Joe, coming fo,rward. "Kizzy, you run and feed the chic kens, or the cat, or something, my dear." And as she disappeared with an un suppressed giggle, Joe went straight to Tillie, and dropping down beside her char, tangled her wools all up by catch ing her hands as she was picking at a knot. "What impertinetce," said Tilfie. "1)0 you suppose 1 have forgotten what a scamp you were? "Have you reformed?" "I don't know,'' lie answered serious ly. "I have tried." "And what does your motto say? "' 'Charity suffereth long and is kind. "I know that you are kind and sweet5 Tillie. ")earest Tillie, try Ime again. "Ali, Joe," sighed Tillie, "we both have need of heaven's help. "If we go there for strength an( help, we shall learn the lesson to be kind to each other." "And when shall we he married, Tillie?" Joe asked. "Oh, not till the ,marigolds bloom," Tillie answered. "'That Duc,kln." At a table in a Cornhili restaurant, lBoston at dinne11r reenitly, sat a .man from Cambridge, who was a native of New I[amp5hire. Meeting a0n old ac quanitimee thle conversat ion soon tuarned( on family topics andl the pair began to talk about their former neighbors in a most familiar way. "Yes," remarked tile CJambidge gentlenmn, "Siam was ini many' respects dlifferenit.fromi the rest of the bioys. You remembher who he mar tied? Well, when thle old man, hjs fatIher, folund that lie was shilnin' round with hier, lie called him one day in the barn and1( said: 'Sam d'ye, inltend to isparry Iheckie? Sam never said a word, so the ol moan saidl: 'Me boy, ye know all about them. I cnn't tell ye nothiin'. Ye know ho0w the sisteu:s hats turned out and not one0 of' them is now livin' with their hiusbamgls.' .pam in\'as pa mumu as a plantomnme and1( julst aS'sooni as he was '"They lived on a farm, and everything wvent on simiooth for about a year, and it camie to hion butchierin' ihue. Sam got all ready to have the usual party for the occasion, and1( just as he was shIarpeninl' up1 the knives Rleckie camne out nd saidl: 'Sam, I'm goin' home.' Sam pirotested in hilp quiet wa, but It was 110 use, so lhe said hle'd get A man to row her across the pond. It was'about half a mile over. Shle said(: 'iNo ye won't: ye'll row me over yerselfPl Sam told her lhe couldn't and Beckle fired upl anidlsaid: 'Then 1I'11 dIrownl meself.' Sam said he'd go with her if she wanted to do thit, so the boat was got ready, she got In, and they rowedh out till tewater was twenty feet deep. Then Samn stopped amid salid: 'W~ell, heckle, thikl is a good place for yo tp dIrownl yerselfl' Sheo di i't opOin saidl: -'Conie Bechib, I'm hw a hurry tp git back.' Shme never' looked up. Sami pitt down the. oars, cauglht hold of- her and( pitched' lier in. She grabbed for the boat, but -lie wolIul't let her git near It. 'Who) she was almostdone out she said: 'Sahj, let mec in that boatand ye'll not hear Anything more from me out o' the wy'= '""Mo-1 hspumlled -hlep,11,inmtl they went :hme. -She dhmanged her clothes anid entertaIned thld .gitees-s. They're nov necarly eighty anid you 1mever saw a hatppler 0old couple4-did ". ui? I don't think they ever al1bke Qsat duckin' nciexer flcday ~ ~'to. dmW MOvid htudd Metmrioes oOvhen-exio e, but coieOs had beeni taken ,nds. I -etrar o~~awere' flrA't foun ded in Englan in thlih of putting an And to the rVnaenof t i mmr.ain Mexican Pecularitiev. A mong all classes In Mexico there is too much of the kile '"rest and be thank fil" spirit. Nature has been bountiful; the necesaries of life are easily secured; the need of exertion Is mininized;a few beans or a handiful of corn, a little fat, and somie cillies will form the uNvary Ing diet for weeks. But all are Inveter ate galiblers. Althouigh sometimes too lazy or inlprovidelit to provide even comfortable food, they will sit forhouri; over cards or dice, and ll their infatua tionl. pawn anything on which they can raiso money. In selling their chillies, their eggs, poultry or other prodlce, they seldomt have any ixed price; their (eIMd0l ae m1ainly graduated by ti apparent Capacity or genlerosity of the purchaser. coi nracting to supply mi1k, for example, to the railroad construction gangs, after arranging for a a very amplo remuneration, and going on for one, perhaps twoN weeks, they will collain their cows are doing badly, get a few extra-1 cenitt per gallon, and perhaps a week later make a similar stand for a further advance. *'The imerchaitile classes inl tle towns, although they sel dom1 have much capital, are tolerably straightforward, endeavor to meet thei r engagements, aud have a wholesome horror of a protested bill. Every village celebrates, at. least once a year,"its flesta, where dancing, an extra amount of gambling, cock fighting, and sometimes bull-baiting are the entertainments, and where Uhe liberal conIsum)tion of cheap intoxicants brings business into the Court of the Elealdi or Justice of tle Peace. The Mexicans are generally more pusillanimous and superstitious than the Indians. Secret societies, iuider priestly control, exercise a good deal of authority. Both in Old und New Mexico tlt- Penitates coufK their iumbers by thousands, anlid enjoin anong their vo taries fasting and humiliation, from vlich, however, exemption is freely ac corded oil payinent of certain doles. On OCCasionS, Self-ilag0llationl and 'stripes4 inflicted hy brother devotees are proceed ed with until the infatuated victims are covered with blood. For several h1m1 dred yards along a path thickly strewi; with prickly eactus, others go on hands and knees to prostrate themselves before the Cross. Bearing a cross weighing several hundreds pounds, with arm out stretched and 'secired, others toil for miles, usually to soine sacred chIapel or amost inaccessible monttain top. When the poor ent husiast, faint ing under his burden, is about to drop, attendanis place their shoulders under the arms of the cross, and afford temporary support. These senseless performances shatter yearly the health of many weakly devo tees, and kill some. The United States Govermnent recently endeavored to put down these Juggernaut superstitious in New Mexco by introducing a bill pre venting cruelty to men or the lower ini mals, but, jealous of riiterference with their power and profits, tihe priesthood stenuously opposed it, and it was with drawn. The habits and education of the masses n ill obviously have to under go much change before the country can make imaterial progress. Ole tilt. The' lirst istructor Ill inusic of Ole Bull was a Dane mnamed Paulsen, a man thoroughly qualified inl IllIs profession, but given to drink. At one of the week ly quartettes Paulsen imbibed so freely that lie was unable to play. In this tun fortunate dilemma Ole was half-joking ly told to take his place, and the violin was placed in.his hand, with the promise of a stick of candy after the perform alnce. Ole accepted the command in earnest. A qua rtette of Pleyel which he had heard several times was chosen, anmd his memory servedi him faithfully. To (lie astonishmnent of all he played each mtovemnent 'or'rectly. lie not only executed thme d ificulIt passages, but marked the rests. It was a wonderful triumphl for the 8-year old1 boy. lie wvas made at onice an active member of the club. Soon after lhe became thme owner of a little red violin, le slept in (lie same r'oom with his par'ents, and (lie night of its purchase lie could not sleep for thinking of it. After all was quiet in (lie house lie crept out of bed and into the ntext room where the in strumuent had been (deposited. But let him tell his own story: "W~hen I heard father and mother' breathing (deel), I rose softly and lighted a candle, and in my ntight clothes di go onl tilt-toe to open1 the case and( take one little peep. The violin was so red, and( the pretty pearl screws did smile at mne 5o! I p)inchled (lie string au little wvith mty ihigers. It smalled at tme ever more anid more. I took ump (lie bow and looked at It. It said( to mec it wo'uld be pleasant to try it, across the strings. So 1 did( tr'y it., just a very, very little. and It did sing to me'sweetlyl Then i did( ereept farther awvay fromt (lie bed room. At first I did( play13 very soft. . madeo very~ very little noise. But prie sently I (d1( begIn a captriccio which .1 like very nmuch, andt it (10 go ever louder and1( louder; anid I forgot that it was midnight and that everyb)ody wvas asleep. Presently I h~ear somelhinig go crack I and1( the next nimiute I feel miy father's whip across may shoulders. My little redi violin dropped on the floor tad was brokeni. I. weep much for' it but it did( ito goodl. They did have a (Ioctoir to it next (lay, b)ut it miever' recoveredl its htealth."' Ini 1831, wh'len he wias '21 years old, hte went .to Paris to. pursue ~his musIcal stu(lles, hut his miontey soo1n gave out, and lie had no means of replen IsIhing his puruse. Hie wvas unknown ais a mtusician, lie coul not even teach, and he was at last reduced to the very ver'ge of star' vation. The tide tumrnedl at last, how ever, andtt by a series of curious accidents he. was enabled, t.o gain. m hearing before soine rich inid powerfu l cofmnoisseuurs in music. After a successful concert tour through Italy lie dlevotedi himnself to study with an intensity whmich wrecked lisa health. Visitintg ]lologna hue won in .thp most exfhaoi4dhtry way (lie, great celebrity which folloWed htimi ever after ward. It seems that at (lie time of lisa stauy in BiolognLu, Mfulibratt and DeBeriot were both there, and were ad vertised to appea'r. The two had a violdat quarrel, however, ,nd refused to go tupon the "Ole1 Bhull had now been a fortnight in Bologna. lHe occuipki an upper :oon in a poor hitel, a Sort of soldiers' Jarracks, where he had been obliged to :ake temporary refuge, because of the ieglect of a friend to send himi a money mler. Secluded from society, he pKint te day3s in writing on his bicerto; and wien evening came, and the wonderful ones of his violinl 80oun(ded from the )1)01e windows, the people would as emble in the street below to listen. ,ie evening the celebrated Colbran Rossini's first wife, and a native of 11o logna) was passing Casa oldati and eard those strains. She paused. The ;ounlds seelmieil to come from an instri ment she had never hea,ro. before. 'It uist be a violin,' she said, 'but a divline me, which will be a substitute for Do Beriot and Malibran. I toust go, anid Lell Zampieri' "On the nighit of the qVixcert, .Ole Bull, haiving retired very ently on ac ,ount of weariness, had already been inl 1)ed two hours, wheni he was roused by I rap oil the door and the ex6laimation, Cspetto di 31acco! What stairs!' It waw Za-inieri' tle 16st 61imnent musi iai of th'o Italian nobility. lIe iisks D1e Bull to improvise for him, and then Mries, 'Malibnm mity now have her head tehesi' He m1it off to the theatre at miee with the young artist. There is ito time even for chmge of dress, and tie violinist is hurried before a disap ploiited but. most distinguished audience. ]'he grand duke of Tuscany was there, mId DeBeriot with his hand in a sling. It. seemed to Ole Iull that he had been Iransported by magic, and at lirst that ie could not meet the cold, critical ex lction.s of the people before him; for ie knew his appearance was against him, and his weariness had almost n ierved him. Ie chose his own compo 3itioi, anl the very desperation of the inoment, which compelled him to shut his eyes and forget his surroundings, ade him play with an abandon, ai -cstacy of feeling, which charmed and 'apt ivated his audience. As time curtainl "ell, and lie almost swooned from ex iution, the house shook with reiter ited applause. "When, after taking food anl wine, he appeared With renewed strength and -ourage, lie asked three ladies, whose coll, critical manuer had chilled hin on his first entranme, for theies to impro vise upon. The wife of Prince Ponia lowsky gave him one -from 'Norma,' mid the ladies at her side, one each from lie 'Siege of Corinth' and '1oineo and Juliet.' ils improvisation, in which it occurred to him to unite all these me loies, renewed the excitement. The inal ipiece was to be a violin solo. The director was doubtful of Ole Bull's strength, but he stepped forth firmly, saying, 'I will playI oh, you must let mue play and again the samie unrestrained enthusiasm followed. When lie finished there was a rain of flowes, and he was congratulated 'by ZaiAerl,' DeBeriot. nd the piicipaI musicians present, lie was at once engaged for the following concert, and the -assistaice of time socie ty was offered for a concert, of his own. One gentleman asked for sixty tickets, another for one hundred, and Emnile Loup, the owner of a large theat re in Bologna, OTereld -him his house and or Chestra free of expenlse. The wheel of fortine was turning inl his favor; the Norns were now weaving bright threads in the webl of his life. ie played at 1)oth concerts, was accompanied to his hotel by a torchlight processioi, made honorary member of the Philharmonic society, and his carriage d rawn home by the populace. This was Ole 1hull's real [lebuit." A Uo01 .uleC 41.,. Captain John Iartley, late of the Twenty-second Uiited States Infantry, walked into the shooting gallery ati No. iM6tth a venue, N Y. recen t ly. iIe appear ed entirely coiol andl self-pos.sessed, lie. talked with thme two yoiiitg meni whlo had charge of tihe place about pistols luul gus, and they noticed that his lanm uiaige was that of an educated mani. ''People should be1 very carful,"' lhe said, "ambout uisinig irearms11, e'speciallyv whleun they have hiair triggers. ''Yes, that's so,"' repliied the at tend [mts. Then the party had a siuiet drink, tid the stranger retutrned to the gal hery) mid began again to talk about "What. distaince is your' pistol range?"' lie asked. "Oh, about sixty' feet tfromn the coun ter to the target-I wenty pa4'es,"' was ithe reply'. "'I pre'tfer fifteen paIcs for, -pistol prae L,ice,'" said the stran ier, 'OCan 1 lire a shot'' or two at' thit'di tandep?" "Certainly.'' Ilartley got over the rajil and careful# ly imeasured fifte,en paces from the tar' get. Then lie took one of the p)istols, which had been loaded for him with a twenty-tIwo caliibre cartidoge. Iloolding it in his hand lie tuirnedi and said: "A friend of mine was so careless on1ce as to shtoot himself in the foot just is he was about to iraise the Ipistol, 1t. Is really v'ery dlangerous to po)int the p)istol towanl the floor unless one is very carefuil." IIartley was still cool and rollectedi when he saidl: "Is the target all readyv' ''Yes; fire away." "Well, here goes.'' Selberately raisiing his right hiand. lIme star'tledl aittendanmts, whio were awaiting time discharge, saw hmim press the muzzle against' his right temple. Ifn pulled the trigger, a mnuiled sound followed, andl lartley fell to time floor ileadl. After the usual excitenment at tending suchi scees in a public place, tihe body was takeni to thme police stationt and thence to the Morgue. It. the poc0k ots w~as found a card, on which was written "'John lhartley,"' and a pawnm ticket for' a watch, haindlkercief, and gloves. hlis suicide wals mily3 dlue to po)vetyt. No money was formd on him after his death, and in is 118ocket was a, pawn ticket' for nine dollars, borrowed on a silver watch. It is also thought that his despondency was Alugmentedl by family troules. ie was ma uried and was 44 years of age. --Gustave Done has undertaken to model the bronze statue of Alexandre Dumas, which is to stand in thme Place Maleshierbes. It will b~e thme 'great ar tist's firljt attempt pt statuiary and( only s singeaOanY of tnt work wi be east ffank Monck. The famous stage driver is dead. .le lins been on the down grade a long Itime. Recently his foot lost its final hold on the brake and his coach could not be itopped until, battered and broken on a iharp turn, it went over Into that canon, bilaek and deep, which we call. death. in his way Hank Monk was a character. [n the old days, before the leathers under hIs - Coach were so soaked with flcolol, there was no better balanced liead than his. There was an air about him which his closest friends couhl not 1ulerstand. There was something which seemed to say that stage driving was not his intended work; that, if he pleased there were other things, even more (iicult than handling six wild hr 6 hieh he could d6 quite as well. Generally, lie was reserved of speech, sen1tenitious in his ways, but Often, while battling with a high-struing teaii, would pronounce an epigraim vorthy of Ingersoll-or E'imerson. After his little episole with (11reley, distiiguished men passing over the Sierras, where Monk drove, would plan to ride outside with him. MaIny a one has ridden twenty miles, trying in vain to call him mit, and at last has settled back witlj lie belief that he was but a stolid idiot, when half a dozen words from Monk ipoken with his pocilliar drawl showe(i that when he (rove Greeley's coach uver the mountains there was, perhaps, it hig a mian outside as there .was inside lie vehiele. As lie was iot like alNy Ather man, so lie was not like any other stage driver. In his prime he would turn a six-horse conch in the street with the team at a flill run, and wit h every rein apparently loose. But the ecnaeli wouhl always bring up in exactly the spot that the minst careful driver would have tried to bring it. Ji js eye never jioceived him, and his estimation of clistances was alhsolite; the result which must he when leaders, swiigs and wheelers all were playhing thelr rotes, was with himii anl exact science. I is ilriving was such a perfection of art that it did not seem art at all, anid manly anl envious whip, watohling him, has turneId away saying, "lie is the lick iest man that ever climbed on top of a box."1 It was not lick at all, it was simiply aln iittlifive, exact calculation froi causes i effect, and his whole 1lh1ty 6ended when he lixed the cause. The effeet had , to be. lie has oftei dlriven from the sunmit of the Sierras dlOwI into the valley, ten Miles, in forty fIVe minutes. Other drivers have done as well, the only difference, being that with others it was a strain upon eye, and hand, and arm, and foot; with Monk it was a matter of course. He Wast to stage driviig what the German papeili :,ay Edwinl Booth was inl Haml>llt: "It W1as not played, bit .lived." Or course we' -speak' of him as he Was of old, when the railroad was yet beyond the Sierras, and when stagihg over the Sierras was something finler than staging ever wias before, or ever will be again. Of late years Monk has been but a gliost of himself. His physical .t rength has beei so wvasted that no wild horses have been given him; the grades up the Imluitains have not been sprinkled; the locomotive took away the glory of stag ing. anl had whisky sapped the liner sprmings of the ohl driver's life. A year ago. for the llrst time, a coach capsized ituder him, apid while the aceideit seeMiied trival in itself, it was a notive to hitli that. his hand had lost its emll niing,.thp.t his lamps were going ouit, that a dark canon was before him, 1111 there was no mioion to rise. When this winter closed down he went into his little teln of a house and knew that Ie was going lE imre dlown in a few weeks. When frienils tied to have hin !onis#t to he'reniovedl to tihe hospital, where' lie (couE ldihvE' mo re conmforts, lie refuisedl andio wilteEd wVhierE hie was, uiit il Wt(Ed niesEhay last, when lie dirove intoi the homlie stat ion. iIe dicEd simly a dissip-. alt(ed iiol stage Elriver; but if ini thle hlng ago, when life was bright ando hopE)l wais exumltanit, his heart (lid niot receive a woundE which chtangedl his who(le life, anid all its purposes, thani a man's face, andl acts, and1( molods, and mnodels oif thought are no iniEnit inn of whait lie has dlEIEIE alul( stiler'ed. ''Te "knot" and( thme "mile"'are terms oiftein usedl iinterchmangeably, but errEon ously so. T1hie fact. is that a mile is less than eigh ty-seven per cent., of a knuot. Three and one-half miles are equial, within a very smnall fraction to three knots. Th'le knot is 6,082.60 feet ini length. 'Thle statute mile Is 5,280 feet. Theli result (if the differenice is that thme speced in miles per hour is always coni sideratbly larger thani when stated in knots, and if at person forgets this ando states a spled att so mnany knots, whenm it is really so many miles, lhe may be giviug figures verging on the Incredible. When we hear parties say that such a vessel is caplable of umakinig twenty knots per hour, we usually take then statement with a very large graini of salt, for twenty kniots Is 23.01 midles per hour, ai speed which v'ery few vessels have mnade and it douibtedl by somle who have the best oppIortumit,y for making actual mneasumrements whether aniy vessel hits miadle twenity-flye miles ini sixty minuites. It hats been said that seine of tihe Eng lissi torpedo boats have made as high as twenty-four or twenty-five 1knots. Twen ty-fou r knots are over twenty seveni andi a half miles pet hour, andi( twenty-five knots are uipward of tweye eight amid three-quarter miles pet'ih~ dlisttances that are incredible. Lesat An InaCh. The following curioums puzzle Ix said to beat. t he celebraited "'13-15-14," a,ind 15 we'll worth havestgation. 'Take a stmrip of papeir or eardbhoard 13lh,m es long and 5 wide, thius giving a trface of 65 inches. Now cut this strip d(ia gonally, as triue as you can, givig two pileces in thme shape of a triangle.llc meistire exactly 5 inchies from th )arger end of each strip and cut in two iecces. T1ake those slips and putt them iht the shape of ant exact square,, and it will appear to be Just 8 inichies eachi way, or 64 square inicheg, a loss of 1 square inch Qf superficial measurement, :with'n dImimition of surface, The qum'estion itt what livanmn of that. innh.: A Crowning Danger. Much hals beent writtenl and said conl cerning the benefits and dangers that attend the use of the electric light. No tice has beei taken of the annoyance and danger to life froni the placing of the electric light wires on poles and buildings in proximity to other wires, noticeably those of telephonle compat nies, contact with which may result dis astrolily to persons using 'phones on the circuit thus affected. It has becoie an almost unwritten law that to avoid such contengencies as far as po'sible all wires uIse for electric light circuits shall be placed below all other wires on the samle poles, with a view to avoiding possible danger in case of breakage of those conveying the current from the dylamuo.goeator., Although atteitioI has been called in emphalic nmnner T the obstacle which wires in general, whether on poles or buildings, itare to firemen in raising ladders and -inl the performance of thieir llany dillielt til ties in extinguishing fires, hut little lmkelitiol has beel nIilde of Ile extia danger to which they aie liable when workhig lin the vicinity of wires carry Ing the h powr(.Iful lcrrent.s needed for the elect ric light. The rapidly incireau;ing deiatid for the light is so well known that the mlost su1perdleill exaiinationl cannot fail to convince that danger to tle tiv Ihilivs from i his source is conl stantly growilig. Conversationl with Iocal firi ollicials shows that they are keenly alive t he situation and anxious that the possibility of serious results lie speedily reduced to the millinIunIII. Very fortuiate it is that since the introdulictioin of the Ove tric light ii Buffalo serious fires have been few, and in no ease has the prox imlity of tihe wires caused aeideit to the lire-fighiters. As inistaicing the vigor with which these wires make their presence known, it is related that at the ('ommervic l fire whm the new I layes truck was oi Washington Street, the extension ladder was at one time resting across the btundles of wires strung on poles through that thoroughfare. A mentber of the company was leaning oi the craik used to turn the elevating screw. Suddenly lie Jumped as if shot ald began rubbing his hands, which had been behind his back resting on the eiaik. Asked what was the matter, the astonished Iire laddie Ielied ltat the thing was hot. Exainiation so far proved the t ruth of the assertion that no one cared to) bother the crank. In raising the extension ladder there is used a stout clain p-assing over lpulleys at the top and bottom of the main ladder. This 'hinti0, it appeared, was pressing against ai electric light wire, and though the latter was insulated, enough of the powerful current escaped to nake the electricity felt. Though the iron ibouit lie ladders and truck together with tle irion tires, seemingly imiade it comk pleto "ground," there wias till plentv of lightning left. While this incident serves to convey some idea of the im portance of these wires its a flictor in fire fighting, there yet reilninis to be considered tle danlger on the inlside of a building Which is lighted by eltricity, as is the case in Inly buildings occupied for business purposes on Main Street and elsewhere, and in large'illualifae tories wlere the light Is now inl constant Is'. Inall 1 of these IcS at all tiimes during the night the powerful vurren1t. passes int1o the builiing until it reaches the iml moist remote irom its point of ('entralce and then passes oti. Whether the lights are in use, does not affect the (Ilestionl. While the generatol is in mllo tion the cirellit is complete within the building, for if the lamps are not inl the use they are "switchied out " by a sitinple lover overhead, andt the currett, thIouigh it dIoes not paiss thlrouigh thIe eiu-boti aire, maikinug its presenice knownt by the light thus fornied, iti silentlyv circiin juist ats piowertful as if een. Suispeinded to I he ceiliig, ats t hese ilhins utsuailly aire, it is easy tol see thant evein 21.51ight Iirei in store ri faict ory mayi udetach hothI keep t hem out ot harm wa ~ y. A break - age of this sort. and the rouuin nmiy hbe Comle a matiinottth ~uvLede jart, miore es li4cilly if thle place is well hloodled , for water is one iof the 1best coniduictor's. T1hue end(s of ani elect lie light wire on a floor covered withI t wo our three inches of watet- is not0 a state of things in whtich thie fire ladd ies 11hul much colinfort . Yet thet hiremen aire by lio meaniis eemiies of the electric Ilighit,2and ontly ausk thait rea sonaibtle precation htlSle taken for I heir prottect ionl fromi thiis sour ce of danger while. at work. each cuistoinel(r's pir(ises5(, by which such lalce cantl be "uit out"' of thie circuit and the current, kopt out of the building when the lampis are not ini use, is sug gested hy local lremuen as probaibly the most practicable r,afeguard that can be putt i oplerat ion wvihout expeinse or de lay. In factories or tother places where the light Is uised all such "'eut outs'' cani be operaltedl by the firenmen onl their arrival at tile premises, while conistiners using [hue light a shlorter thnte clan operate tile switch with but little mnore trouble than in simply switchig out the lamps, as8 Is now the custom. T1hie subject in creases it lhnportance ats thle use of the light extend(s, iand it will probabhly ie eive local attention erc lon1g. Sat-..natera. The suiperstitin of [lie sinu-eater in WVales is sai to linger oven now ini the seclulded vale ol' (wm--Amnan, int Cir.. irthenishire. T1hae mteaninig of this ast Isinguilar institution of superstition a 1uthiat when a person died the friends Mnlt for thie sin-eater of thte dhistriet, whto, on is arrival, placed aI plate( of salt and breadl Oin [lie breast of the die ceased person; hie thenu uttered an incan tat ioi~ over [lie ibread, after whlichl d:ie 'procelkded to) eat it-tereby eating the shiis of tile dleadt person; thuis (101e, hie lteceivedl ai fe of two-and-sixpenice, whtich, we su11pos, was5 muich more [than1 many a preacher received for a lonIg and11 painful ser'vicp. Having receiyed1 this 'he: vanished as quickly as possible, all [lie friends and relatives of [hue depairte'd aidig his exit with blows and kicks andi other indications of thteir faith in the service lie had rendered. A hundred years since, andh through the ages bbs yond that time, we suppose tis curious superstitln' was evetywhero prevalent. NEWS IN BRTEF --The independence aid rosperity of No% gorod were (lest royed by Tvanu Vasi livitch I. -- 1e 11ice of Wales has acecepted the (1aIrmans1118hip of tihe Longfellow Memorial Committee. ---A resident of Woodbury,- Tenn., but thirty years of age, hasjust married Alr the fourti time. - The pt-trifaction called agate was lmted from the river Achates, lin Sivily, where it was i'll-.t found. -- Rich gold iles have beenll discover ell in Guattimala, Central Amria, cliuAhig mucht excitement. -Tle Paris Academy of Medi;ine ofers a prize of S5,Q00-for th n of a remedy for diphtherila. --Valuable coal (IsCOveries contime to b me t hel 4111 d eaotl'clst of Vancot ver's Ishll, i-it i-sh Columbill. - difft4.iln leagu,es of Germanx il es wvere tiited into one(! by the treaty of I Ieidelherg, sigit'd in 1384. ---in, the grelater part of the East whistImg is loli'*pll with ill-favol. ats, it prae-Liee hull of' evil omen. -The contiet Air the Yorktown lmominent hts beii awarded to the lloilvw0l Gnulite Co., l,or'$;,000. --Tle l-rese (Switzerhind) Govern Illoint ma Ahiou-e L. meeting of the 81a1vitionl Arlity wVithinl the canitonl. --A rosidet 11 lolland, who died i.l 1872. was said to have smoked over I'miur tonls of tolm1'4 inl hisli of eighty yea's. -lloiM nit ihe artist, hts secured, aM ite price of $2400, a beatitiful portrit 1f Enasimis, drawin by Albert )t'er ill -he hiuidred and f'oulrteell thoulsanil siall trout have been recently distribil ted ilm tll. st valis of, Emsterni P1enn1syl vI' ula. -l'orlpoisvs are ofteli kinown to forin a ring aboiit shoal (of 81m1all ish, and by driving thetil inito i Ilmss o)tainl a hearty mlleal. -The hirgeost circular saw inl thel world is at. Blakely, Washington tetrri tory. It cut4 200.000 flet inl I w(vt v f'our houirs. --On hearing of his having wonl 100,. 000 florils in olie of, tihe natiolial lottery drawiings, a poor. starvilg devil wVa',s strucek deatd. -Tie ice hitivest fron t1he Kemulibee river is now estlimated at 1174,00M tons, and there were 200,000 tons left over from last year. -Thtere are now only thirty-six es, tablislilments in Cologne that profess to sell the tie anld only gemline eau. Inl 1829 there were sixty. -A method halts been discovered hy wi111 t4'he- pinle lleedles of the silesia forests canl be cured, felted and woven into serviceable cloth. -The Mobile and141 Ohio riailroad, 490 miiles longr, hais heell inl operaft ion t went103 .w"e years, and not i singlfk passenge' halts ever been killed oll it' TJIhe l.er-uvians buried all thle veaxlth of t their Ill-as with theiml, and So great was ie al oilnit (ilts hetrd that tll spanhia41 look '.3"31,000 froml at sinlgle. tombli. - ,-- T h'l e r v a s o nl w h y t h e t o m bll s o f' t h el IEgyptian11 n1inarchs1 were built. in the' dtesert wis that inl this plaeo they occu pied 1n4) hitd wich0 inight hiave been 11841 filr ag rililt u1 re. -Diulring the t welve 11oiths which enlded on .Illianuary 31st, 1883, ouri im port 4 o ier'chanise amounted in Value to $72,727, 37, an li1,A d 1u exp1ots f r t he 8same4 per1ilcllwr )1'i 783,298j,400. -TheI A'iary,lIis ofiig14' Lr e(wil inS Ca11lini 18ul N everal oen<ils4' ship-. ipid trontog 1hat t1t1 to the hweakd keeper'4' on 1the4 invetr It'ticrs, wihIIsaIy vient 1--T4heI podlnetion of ix okst' ap -in Gernnut'sy,4 ''inludl 1i ne xei''tios day iri w88itache li 4,794,it as agaOinst. 4) 15,l~11x n 18( aitral 21 science, law, iul otito8lo arIal meeaklyre.v setd. ' Mathematics,4.' p 'hilosophy,o indt the unios o thePreiden's1Ariage, solict<x'to be diheinedini of mat J011 rimo' --r.I''rederick A(v. reer whoil iinge j)'iast 1 year hasi won gre ,500tx raes, andvt who wasibe marri.1 ask fonh ao, osssu a11' 1)121( fortt imaglthe. be con bidirable l wl over $5(',00lMr. rcer. hi thelet o dang. teobM'iJohn Daw ito,t sif Warren Hrouse Nwaret.Lhc k oisvm inle,it K I is buiry fmakhIg priepatlinfor' t tat barea ndusoria ex have brisred 25i00,ty foo beoun tide tru, nk.dtI are vu.tigup the a bildn, thc illsspp cove th'te aresI'.) 000 showiwill open 11ugstle, adwiit conim 100(1oti day. 20,0 -(IinC theltown ofibi x Woodbridge, t., abst hid mires Ifrome NwltxIIven ther i'se'aloks wtree aidto of from .'o000lto dor0 consiss ofth noldetstlofis trand lanown InAerle. Ir stianr fei ircimi hcummc t e are,atdsmeo ats "branchs ofprcd woxry foeet beyn txhrmk. t iobyect viofrous.wat ueyhaoniid he iissippkimier therei mnalsw iemen, have ofhiso aret 240,00 csuareill, teacing mchldrf te rservatknes t hie muh cftereain, Tde rnist of fbmryuntou tractea, ofeosawhich ant berigaed Eng4ld thetm oect of. which wastoo Pnuabo airtndlovotknns mto ai tmals. Toe have achmieve algeat su cess, eoospelldlynte'aching childrenoto *'~otsc~show inss t ther uub re tatn Thne Earld ShaftJesbury~ :s tith head $toi the gafzti h3(on i5~epse the ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Y' yert4a2 on hba 1000 It asno pevde fortholtrisa and **4 laboingclas 6,00roins-excusie o