The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 07, 1885, Image 1

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Ar. "',f IN A'I 4. N'A." N SBO.011(. HOW ATAWGE VROSSED TaE RIVER. The fog lay low on the river-bank, The river so deopand wide So wierd and wide, we have never seen A glitupse of the other side. We held her hands in our loving grasp Till hex fair feet touched the shore; She could not atay-we could not go, And the shadows lay dark bqfore. But theFerryman softly dipped the oars, IAnd her hands o'er her heart she laid; The boat tossed out on the heaving tide, But sbe smiled; and was not afraid, We stood to gaze on the sballop's wake, And we held our breath to hr, For above the river's nurmuuring surgej There was music- fahlt, but clear. But the fog was dawp on the river-bank, And the waves beat on the shore, Bo we turned away with our breaking hearts, For Alice was ours no morul I& LIT1'LE. SH40P OtRL.A "She's an old darling," said Grace Craxall, "and I mean to help her all I can. I've got a beautiful recipe for chocolate eclairs, and on Friday even king I.am going there to make up all I can, so that the school children will buy them on Saturday. I know how to make cinnamon apple tarts, too, and lemon and cocoanut balls." "Grace, I do believe you have taken leave of your senses," said Medora fay. "One would think it was dis grace enough for Aunt Deborah to open a horrid huckster shop, without our mixing ourselves up in the affair." "But Aunt Debby must live, you know," said Grace, who was perched kitten fashion on the window-sill, feed Ing the canary with bits of sparkling white sugar. "And Consin Nixon couldn't keep her any longer. I sup pose you wouldn't be willing to have her come and live with you?" "Ii" cried Modora. "Do you sup pose I want to proclaim to the whole town that I have such a dilapidated old relation as that?" "I would take her quick enough," said Grace, "if I didn't board with Mrs. Howitt, and share the little up stairs back room with tfe two children. Just wait until I marry some rich man," she added, with a saucy uplift ing of her auburn brows, "and then see if I don't furnish up a estately apartment for Aunt Debby." "Don't talk nonsense," said Medora, acidly.. "It's very likely, isn't it, th'at a facinw girl like you is goingUnmary; a ieh man?" Grace Craxall laughed merrily. All through life she and her cousin, Medora May..had agreed to differ on most point. Grace. seeing no other career before her, had, on the death of her last fiurviving parent, cheerlully entered a factory, while Medora, taking her stand on the platform of a false gentil ity, had done fine sewing and silk em broldery on the sly to support herself, putting on all the airs of a young lady of fashion the while. And now A unt Deborah May, to the infinite disgust of ier aristocratically-inclined m ece, had actually opened a little low-windowed ~hop inl a shady street just out of' the lain thoroughfare. ~"But what am I to do?" Aunt De be ah had sa'd. "What can you do?" said Grace. "I don't know. Your uncle always *used to say I was a master hand at making bread." "Tlien make it," brighltly interrupted "Eh?" said Aunt D)ebby. "There's a nice little store to let on Bayptreet," wvent on Grace, "for ten deillars a month." , "But I haven't got ten dollars a month," feebly interrupted Aunt De borah. 11'l lend it to you," said Grace, "oult of the wages 1 h~ave saved. And there's a pr-etty bed room at thle back of the shop, and a clean, dry basement under it, where you can bake your bead." "Do you mean to open a bakery?" said bewildered Aunt Debby. "Not exactly that," explaIned G race, "But 4f the ladles around hero could get real home-made bread, such as you itake, do you suppose they would put up with thle sour stuff they get at the bakers' shops? And you could easily g~t up a reputation on your raisin caikes pnd fied crullers, and New England pumpkin pies. Now, couldn't you?" Tile old lady brightened up a little. "Iused to be pretty good at cook ing,)? said sh10. "And if' you think I could support myself so--". "Iapi sure of it!" cried cheerful Grace. "Apd I'll go there with you ~his very day to look at the place, and Iill engage it for three months Oil 1t 'al, And I can paint you a signi to p14 over your door: Ihome-made Bread 'by'yrs. Deborah May!" And I'll hlelm you 80om3 curtains and arrange tihe ielves in the low winldowv. I almost s'~jh I was going to be you~r 81101 girl," shie adde I merrily. "But I can help f~,ou in tile evening, you know." :: Grace Oraxall's prophecies proved EUd~rrect, Aunt Debby's dehlous home made bread, whlmiter than powdered blilues, sweet as ambrosia, soon acqtuiredl a reputation, and the old lady could scarcely bake It 'fast enough. People came ,half a dozen blocks to buy the (yellow pumpkin piesand delicious app'e tarts; children broughlt ther hoarded (pennies to invest in chocolate sweet esvanma o amrels, and creamn cakey, with pufRy shells and delicious centers of sweetness. The little money drawer grew fat with coins, and Aunt Debby's dim eyes grew bright and hopeful again. Aud one day Mr. Herbert Valance, walking by-with Medora May, stopped and looked in. - "Isn't that your cousin Grace," said lie "bel ind the counter?" Medora turned crimson with vexa tion. "My colisin Grace," she said. "No, indeed" Mr. Valance looked up at the algu over the door. "The name is May," he remarked indifferently. "Yes," said Medora, angry at her self blushing so deeply, "but we are no relation." Mr. Valince thought over the ~mat ter; he afterward met Miss May at a party given by a friend, where pretty Grace Craxall was also present; lie had taken rather a fancy to the bright blue eyes and delicate blonde beauty of the former. Valance Hall, on the hill just out of the city, was solitary enough now that his sister had all married aid gone away, and perhaps a man might find a less attractive and graceful wife than Medora May. But he could not be mistaken, he thought, in Grace Craxall's identity. And so the next evening, about the same time, he sauntered into the shop. Grace was behind the daintily clean little counter taking some newly baked maple caramels off the pan. She looked up with a smile. "Good evening, Mr. Valance," said she. "So," he thoug"t. "1 wasn't mis taken after all. And the little blue-eyed seraph is mortal enough to tell a lie in spite of her angelic appearance!" But lie looked serenely at Grace. "I didn't know you were in trade,' said lie. "Didn't you? Well," retorted Grace, "I am my Aunt Deborah's shop girl at present. I always come here in the even'ings to help her, because," she ad ded, with a sweet shade of seriousness coming over her face, "aunt was old and poor, and she didn't quite know how to maintain herself in independ ence; and unfortunately, my wages at the factory are not enough for us both. So I advised her to open this business, and she ' ~'pg well; and tii lreed and p~ines y(? d a saucy twinkle under -her eyelashes, "if you know of any customers, will you please reccoumend our firm?" "To be sure I shall," he answered, in the same spirit, "And I am very glaul, Miss Craxall, to see that you are not ashamed of being .a working girl." "Of course I am not," said Grace. "Why should I be?'" "But your cousin Modora is." Grace gave a little shrug of het shoulders. "Very likely," said she. "Medora and I differ In many things." Mr. Valance bought a pound of cara mels anid went away. "Shie is a beauty," he said to himself. "And she is a sensible beauty into the bargain." Hie must have been very, well pleasedi with his p~urchase, for he came agaii the next evening, just in time to walk hoine with G race Craxall. And they talked over Aunt Deborah's affairs, and concluded as flour was low just then, it would be a favorable opportu. nity for the old lady to lay in her wintez stock.. Only a fewv weeks had elapsed ivhen Medora May was electritled to learn that her cousin Grace was engaged. "To some master baker or journey man confectioner, I suppose," she said contemptuously. "No," said Grace, with eyes roguishly sparkling; "to Mr. Herbert Valance." "I-don't believe-it," said Medora, growing-red, theni pale. "But it's really so," said Grace, "And we are to be married in three months. And Aunt Debby is to come to tihe hail and live with me as soon as she can dispose of her business to advant. ago. And, dear Medora 1 hope you will often come and visit me there." A srquare Hioje. The first and only auger ever manu factured that will bore a square hole is now in the shops of the Clpvelarid Machine Company. This auger bores a two-inch square hole, thie size used In ordinary frame buildings and barns,1 but they can be made on the same prin ciple to bore square holes of any size. Its application is ordinary and works on the same prinmciple as round hole an gors. its end, instead of having a screw or bit, has a cam motion which oscil lates a cutter mounted on a steel rock ing knife, which cuts on both sides. In order to preveiit the splintering -of the wood thme ends of the cutter are provided with small semi-circular shaped saws which help in cutting out perfectly square corners. It is estibna ted that this new process will savd thme labor of three men who work with chisels, as one nmau can conveniently cut a two-inch mortice in the same length of time lhe can bore a round hole. The invention is the work of a Wooster man, who has given the suba Jent years of ratiept thouht.! the'a6w bour*. It is by no nieans eVeriy delicate per ons who should make Canada his win or resort; Vit it is well knowh that our vinters have cared chronio eases for vhibb Colorado and:Plorldk wore al'one upposed't b6 benefldial. 'Every win er numbers resort .to Muhtreal, Que: iec, Halifax and:.iitlpeg for o ther reason .tliai thit 'or'. which they >nce went to tropicaY cilaaes. I know f patients who were xegularly sent to 3ermuda and thi Webt indleslatid oth irs, to sadh winter climates as Nice, vithout more than temporary beneft, vho werciipletel cured by the out loor life of our Mdontreal and- Quebsc vinters., Two -years ago we had an 1xceritionally severe -Winter in Uani oba. 1ts severity and peculiarities vere precisely the same inDakota and .ihmiesot a.- I was en toute,from Bran [on to Whinipeg,a distanceof 180 miles )y rail'and was caught in a snow block. de whihb lasted eight days atid kept is in a sittlation not likely again to oc mr.. The storm was so severe that re lief trains could not leave Winnipeg, mud a couple of us. who had the long. mow-shoes used on the praries tramped ,o and from farm-houses a couple of niles distant for provisions for the pas, lengers. -Thie snow-plows Niere of no ise, and in a desperate attempt to cut t way through the drifts, the engine umped the track and came to grief. rhe train was pulled back from the lebris by an engine In the rear, and the iext morning we found ourselves sepa 7ated from the wreck by deep drift, Ionie of them fteen feet high. Night itter night passed; the coal and wood ran short; two of the cars were aban loed by Ihe passengers, and, to econo mize fuel, we were crowded into the Iwo remaining cars The sleeping ac :ommodation Improvised was very %musing. Fancy roosting two in a sin gle seat, with your knees doubled up to your chin; or lying like sardines, four in a double seat; or propped on tpp of ;he back of the seaLq, which were burned up and brought together so as to lorm a sort of double deck. Shovelers iad been working day and night, but Ahere were too few of thiom. and at last 'he passengers went to work, and from ) a. m. to 5 p.m. pitched the snow with might and mlain,and sueceeded in clear i)g the track. In order to pass the ob itacle of the wrecked engine, we raised 1ld ralls, got ties and laid a new side rack Im the hard aniwyandouroq wre ,afely shoved forward. ,Iso eTrs rrom Winnipeg had succeeded,with the mow plow, In reaching imiand we were ioon on our way. The effect of this )xposure upon the health of many of the passengers was remarkably good. Dne clergyman who had come out from K'ngland for some affection of the throat, was determined to do his share :f the shoveling. Ile had very thin mnoccasins on his feet, and during the lay, as there was a warm wind, they 6yere wet through. Ile never expected to see England again,but that one day's bvork cured him effectually. Other per ions suffering from throat and lung af rections have not since been troubled. Dne would suppose the conditions were lust those to provoke Illness, but the very reverse was the case. To the mistress of a home, if she has a true devotion to housekeeping, the kitchen -has quite as profound. an in lerest as the parlor, and to some a much :leeper one. Over two-thirds of the women in the world spend about four liths of their life-time ini the kitchen, und there is no greater mistake than stinting the kitchen furniture for some ther part of the house. The kitchjen ihould be light and large--but not too large, It should be cheery in tone, and sonvenient in the relative arrangements of Its sink, pantry and dresser, work bable and cooking apparatus. The work-table shoul not be mounted upon casters, because these little rollers make It unsteady, and some kinds of kitchen work demand a steady table. It should, however, be made to move tvithmout too great an effort of muscle. For the woman who does her own cooking, a white marble oilcothm cover will prove pseful; but wvherp there is strength to keep Iti clearb, a biqre table is preferable !or many reasons. hde tub, if placed permarnently, olbenear a window, bqth1 for light and air, and the sink should have shgni lar consideration given it, if possibile. It is seldom easy tq give both $he Iain - dress and dish-washer ia perfect light, and whien it Is not, permit th~e laundry to have preference. The floor should be of hiard wood, and not carpeted. Where a woman does her own housework, she may feel the need of a carpet, with bits of oilcloth upon it here and there whore it is most exposed; but If a hard, bare floor is at tainable, it is the cleanest and most wholesome for the kitchen. If' it have two or three coats of oIl brushed over It at thme beginning, It will take a darker tone and prevent drops of oil from heed less cooking- spoona trom becoming dis agreeably conspicuous. And besides, an oiled hard wood or white pine floor is as easily washed as an oilcloth, 'is much more durable, and is not so cold. If the hard floor is beyond reach, then an oilcloth is the next best article for its surface. In choosing this cloth do not huy a chan qaity, beause it I 0t, an eoromic lhthingto ] naterial, with small an4 lgures upon,it, and'of 4 ieither too dark Aiqr 'yet )e the pretiest and, the If possible, get the oileooth4 s e narrowest part oftthO e .il tlo pieces that are out, p. tig It to the outlip0 qf't iafe also a fe* extrase vill befound useful'lat o A tourist in Paragua a 1 Looked out of my cati n ,hat we were tied up at wharf that I ever saw, ai U t large, barn-like building, Utd ilream that we were atSU bil going on deckgftund that was he custom house for ' and %at when we went ashore W-were in bhe city.of -he republica inc O*it A very nice little city we fou U A6o be. Not that it is pretty or pret tJ1us,, or worth visiting-but it Is an eiterpri lng, go-ahead place. Most qf the houi 4e are small and old, and' are built without any regard to be6ng on the Atreets. ' You cannot imagiho a more Irregular assemblage of honps,,but.the synmetry with which the )pblic build. ings are built offsets this. N0he Prel. lent's house, government huse, ge nal, barracks and custom, honse stand on wide boulevards and,witi thieexcep Lion of the latter, are as well built as the similar buildings in any American city of the same rank. The word "as uncion" you know, is not Spanish for "ascension,"as we used to believe when school-boys, but for assumption, and in Lhe case of the Paraguayan city is well bestowed, for it is not often in South America that there can be found a city that is more assuming politfdally, soci ally and generally. Appropriations are voted by Congress and that body also flxes the salaries of the offillips. The President receives $6,000, the Vice President, $3,000; the Minbitry, $1,500; Congressmen, $500, and the Judges or the Supreme court, $i50. The popula tion is about 300,000, and what is also strange about it is that there are only about 30,000 men, and 270,000 women. Of course, tlf ,males are the farmers, producers ,.<f' laborers. .They work slavishl.: -'nd are very poor. While the men sit at home atd drink and smoke, they indefatigAblyi til and sup Minnebota's coney Aslaud. A correspondent Informs us that Lake Minnetonka is rapidly becoming the "Coney Island of Minnesota," so popular is it in the summer season. In winter, too. the lake has its sports that of flshjng through the ice, though it Is rather a business than a recreation, as will be seen by the following notes by a St. Paul reporter. "The fiaherman imakes a good deal of monloy, all the way fronm 63 to $10 a day, and moreover his business is of so much interest to him that he would continue to follow it even if the profits wvere much less. The scribe fell in with one who had been at Minnetonka for twenty years. In succesion.- He wvould be completely at a loss without his winter occupation. Hie told the reporter that a few years ago a Minne apolis fish dealer was accustomed to visit the lake daily and drive Into Min. neapolis with all hie could -buy of the different fisherman, Hie bought and disposed, of fifty tons in the course of one wlnter'. Pickerel are caught In the greatest abundance. some bass are also speared, and occasionally croppies. They find a ready market. There is another method of catching 'fih In wvinter not quite so comfortable to the fishlerman, but which yields a good re turn. Forty or fifty holes are cut in the ice, ahd at each 'of -these holes is placed a forked stick. One prong holds the fish line and to the other is attached a small red flag. One man can gener ally attend to aifty of these holes. The moment lhe sees one or the flags go dlown he rushes to the spot- and' gener ally has the pleasure of pulling out *4 pickerel, it sinetim~es. makes things lively for him and more flags go don than he eag atten~d to. BuLt $1le hlhal*. itants mAbout the shore of the lake liook; on all tihis wvith disfavor.' They' want to preserve the game of the water tto attract summner visitors. ils Teo at the Wpine tone, Miss Mary Tee, daughter of Gen. Lee, was among the guests at the White H-ouse at a reception there. In her conversation with the President she said that was her first visit to the White house since Mr. Linchanah~ occu pied it. The President replied that he supposed she would be a frequent vis itor ini the near future. To that her response was, "But you see, Mr. Pres. idlent, that I have begun those ^yisits' b~efore the next administration has corn knenced." She was initroduced to G*en. Sheridan, who spoke in the kindest and~ most familhar terms of! "Custis," her brother. .She was also introduced to Bearetary Chandler, but had little to say to him. G*en. Blutler, was present, but she was not introduced to him;, though if she had been she would have found him the ulost gallant man of the Lot. :She was treated with nmagked con~ siderationi by all to whom she was in troduced. is QW. c'onerning his t ys - .'I6 Story, Of his jourhe. 4 ohemia IWotGcouise- iput% fable, y one o*~no ety early r efpr his death e ~ ~ ~ ~ 9 Wr aINln edason to dodot ) pe ,Urban, who VP hiS refug at liples repeated the 6' - tofi Pe Gregory's -death er euiory.. The langiage per called a-Letter wich is a declaration t'b elifof dheienoe tohis impugned. aWtio held to decide the ~ am.. was ai own erso ,, 6194) good-will go, to the pope. But God has needed me to the contra-. iy,'aidttught mo to obey God mor'e tban ma" Atract by. Wiclif "On .FrivolonCitations," however contains a Plssag which -can. hardly be inter preted otherwise than as a- personal refrefeb. "Thus saith one who has been cited before this Court who is lame and feeble, that a royal prohibi tion preventS him from going, because the King of kings obliges and strongly wills him not t& go." It should be re. -membored, then, in honor of Richard 'II, that he refused to give up his great dubject to the ender mercies of the aeris,. Already, as this passage implies, Wiclif felt that he had fallen into the hand of a Higher Power. In truth he had been a paralytic for two years before his death. On. Innocent's Day (December 28), 1384 -not, as his adversaries joyfully asserted, on the festival of St. Thomas a Becket (De cember 29), "against whom he had grievously offended by hindering men from going on pilgrimage to Can terbury"-he was smitten by a new stroke, while hearing mass in his chirch at Lutterworth. - Three days afterward he died, His remains were left in peace, till, in cons'equence of the anathema pronounced by the Council of Constance thirteen years previously, about the year 1427 zealous hands tore his bones from thliir resting-place, re duced them to ashes, and cast these in. to the river. Full r's eloquent com parlson of the spread of Wiclif's doc trine to the dispqrsion of his ashes is well xnown; and it is true that while at home the spirit f conservatism foster. ed at once by. otery and by policy, prevailed over his influence, his teach ing wasM. spreJj.t1o foreign lands, whence-it was to return to England -above all through the medium of that academical life in which his activity had found its earliest sphere. About Barno. The breeder of fie cattle who has a fine barn to keep them in should make a careful study of that barn. No barn ever built was entirely perfect, and you may depend upon it that yours is not. You will probably be astonished, when you come to study the matter over, at the number of improvements your barn Is susceptible of. The best way to find the faults is to go into the stable when the thermometer is ranging about zero, and note how thie cows look. If they are standmng straight with their hair lying down, and look comfortable and contented, you may have to look very closely to find any fault with their slur roundings; but if they are tread ing~ about in their stalls, their coats stare, or they are the least humped up with the cold, you can make up your mind that you atre losing milk and flesh at a foglish.rate, and you had better go to work to put up temporary screens to keep the wind off until you have times to make more permanent Improvements. Then; about turning the cows out to water when the weather is bitter cold; that, too, is a foolish' and a wasteful practice. Devise some plan to got water to the cows in the stable.' If you have some dry stock and young things, and there are too many head to carry water to them all, then turn ont the young sters and dry cows; andi carry water to the uilkers. When yo gato the house, sit dcoi Std study "p some way to rem 0ely the eyil of having to turn the cattle o4t. Again, at night4 go out andi see if all the cows are lying down comforta bly, You may find that one cow is badly adapted to the stall she is in,'and by turning matters around a little, two aniins1imay be made comfortable where they were both In distress before. There are many things of- this kind that can only be discovered by constant attend anice at the barn, and remedied by long study and many suggestions, This, -bowever, is the season for study with the farmer andi the stock-grower, and all his plannings should be done during these long *inter evenings. Read usp, study up, observe and think. That is the best work in winter. Libraries. There are j ust ten libraries in Amer 10a whidh contain over 100,000 books. and Philadelph'Ia furnished two of them. The Washington Library has 350,000 volumies, the Boston' Public Library 829,86 , Hlarvard College, 277,700, As tor Library 208,299, Yale College 161, 000, Mercantile (New York), 160,000, LheMercantlle (of Philadelphia), 195, 660, tb9 Congressional Library 125,000, the .Bositon Athenseum 108,000, and the Library -Comnany or Philaelpia otw Oorao'n(Aos toI Miout, t wins hl.tlie' Sui~nner of 1881 that the.Malidi 'first called the faithful to arms. RtaoUti Pasha, GoVrnor of Khaitoum' ordered. him to come to him, and as he iefused sent; a ifttaj1on to enforce his, commends. These the PIrophet Out to pisO . and two other argites besides. Then he seized E1 Obeid, he capital of ICordofati, while his Lieutenhnt, Osmia Digna, n4mented the troubles on the shores of the Red Sea, and A:abt Pasha did Jiskbest to help. . Finally the Mahdi's ' power threatened. Jigypt, and the English had to take aot404v measurs' to quell the ie 190 aeiGdn knowii in Gordon iwsi, hadlruled ie -, Soill from *874. t.1870, and was said to have a project of establishing himself ther6 as an independent ruler. - This might not have been absolutely distasteful to the En'glish, as the Soudan took a gieat deal of manufactured goods from them. At any rate they resolved to abandon it themselves as entailing too much ex pense to the . Egyptian treasury, and Gordon was entrusted with the task of withdrawing the Egyptifn garrisons, and of restoring the deposed Sultans, a sum of X40,000 being allowed him for expenses, with ?60,000 more in pros pect. Gordon, on his arrival at Khar toum, the capital of the Soudan de stroyed all the records of unpaid taxes, the whips and rods which bad main tained Egyptian supremacy, but this humane act ho offset with a proclama tion restoring domestic slavery. But the chief thing was to conciliate the Mahdi, and to him he offered the Emi rate of Kordofan. The bribe was re fused by the wily prophet, who sent his armies to beleaguer the city. Gordon's means of escape were. abundant. He had several steamers by which he ob tained supplies in -addition to the already large quantities stored in Khar toum; lie could also use them from the time of the rise of the Nile, about the first of June till its subsistence about the fifteenth of September, to withdraw his soldiers southward to Gondoroko, and Uganda, then westward down the Congo Into the territory of the Inter national Society. In spite of these fac ilities Gen. Gordon persisted in re maining in Khartoum, although he had failed in his mission there, and the in ference drawn has been that he prob ably thought it possible to establish himself as an independent sovereign. The city of Khartoum, which would be the capital of this possible prin - pality as it is of the Soudan, is the chief trade emporium of the whole! country, and is built on . a barren, stoneless and wide plain, on the west bank of the lue Nile, and about a mile above its junction with the White Nile. A line of earthworks forms the fortifications on the outside of the town propei, with the additional pro tection of a ditch 15 to 20 feet deep on the left bank of the Blue Nile, and another, somewhat lower, immediately at the back of the town as a protection against the overflow of the White Nile. Small plantations of date p'alms and plantaikns, and vegetable gardens, which pay no taxes, are scattered In the vicinity; but, with the exception of the river banks, the country is bare and treeless. Tihe hot season, from A pril till the middle of November, is severe, averaging 900 in the shade. T1he rainy season lasts from the middle of July to the middle of September, but is irregu lar, there beiing sometimes no rain at all. The cold weather begins about the middle of December and lasts till the middle of February, the thiermome ter going down as low as 460 in June, July, October and November typhoid fevers and dysentery are very preva lent. The resident, population is esti mated at. about 50,000, of which two thirds are slaves. There is also a float. ing population of about 2,000, consist img of Europeans, Syrians, C'opts, Turks, Albanians anel a few .Jows. T1he Mohammedan religion is the general creed, and in politics they side wvith the strongest, being intensely corrupt. Except the manufacture of miats, cot ton cloths, a rope made from palm learves, 'and some, tiligree silver work,I there Is no manufacture worth speaking of. The ho~uses are ,nostly of sundried brick, and to- prev~nt them crumbling away during the rains, they are every year plastered over with dung before the rainy season commences, a process which no doubt occasions a great deal of Illness. The town being very low, there is no drainage, and in the rainy season the place is full of water and it is almost impiosslble to move about. As there is no stone throughout the whole district, the streets are full of dust dur ing the Summer and mud during the rains. Nearly all the Government em phoyes, and native traders are secret yartisans of the Mahdi, in the hope that he, will re establish the slave trade, and this may be the key to Gordon P'ashia's restoration of slavery when he took possession of Khartoum. The calm or agitation ot our temper does not depend so much on thle import ant events of life as on an agreeable or disagreea~ble adjustment of little things which happen every day. What you are doing for love y'ou can do no longer for mere gain. The higher motive drives out the lower. They truly mourn that mourn with, out a witness. We rarely confess tit we deserve what we sufier. Trees that nevar ?raw~.nia.-tz... NEWS IN BUEF. -Buffalo, despite her proxwtv to Nlagara, in threatened by a water - ine. -Birmingham, .igland, -has the greatest button tr e of any city in -the world. -Over '5000 N rthern school teach. erS have visited the New Orleans expo aition . - ' -1n 1884, 218 Itew, York men mar-. r10d, under 20 yepra of age and 2,919 Women. A ilent ,igyptian idol sold at! ., auction in New York recently for Seven dollara. -Thuilnest winos-are made from the grapes tbat are grown at the higliest el. evation....... d.iosf ian brides aiu- c'upeled toflivo their eyebrows shaved off previ6us to marriage. -Congressman Rosecrans' son Is a Catholic priest and his two daughters are nuns. --Electoral messengers to Washing ton received $8468.50 and traveled 33, 874 miles. --A tramp is said to be the impor ter of the small-pox now raging in .Thomson, Ga -A necklace composed of 71 orna-. mented pearls brought ?3200 at a recent sale in London. -Fifty-eight per cent.- of the power exerted in driving the propeller of a steamship is lost. in Southern California the pomegran ate flourishes as it does In Italy or in the Holy Land. -A cremation society has been formed in Buffalo with a capital of ten thousand dollars. -There was an interval of nearly 4 years between the last two marriages In Haverhill, N. H1. -A garden seed war is hovering over Athens, Ga., and In consequence prices have been reduced. -There are seventy-eight women studying medicine at Paris, thirteen of whom are Parisians. -There are 6,239.958 persons In the United States above the age of 10 who cannot read and write. -Eggs, in some parts of Montana, are reported to command ten cents each or a dollar by the dozen. -Australia boasts of a cave larger than the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. It is called the Genolan. -Four hundred omnibuses pass a given point in London every day, . ac. cording to a recent computation. -In Thibet one woman may have two three, or even four husbands, but never more than the last number. -For sixty-six years a boatman at Newport, R. I has been in the employ ot the United States Government. -*"The juveniles have ben thought. of in Montreal, and tobqggau slfded& fox their enjoyment have been prepared. -The Prince of Wales has expended $1,000,000 on his Sandringham proper ty, exclusive of the purchase money. -Six brothers who reside in Wal palk township, N. J., aggregate 37 feet in height and 1300 pounds in weight. -A young man of New Haven,. Conn., has a collection of 7,000 birds' eggs, embracing nearly 2,000 varieties. --According to a Montreal paper more fires orcurred on Friday in that city during 1884 than on any other day. -For publishing a translation of one of Zola's novels a Dresden publisher has been sent to prison for one month. -Complaints of the dearness of the New York "cheap" cabs are trequent ly written to the newspapers of that city. -A young lady acts as sexton of a Lawrenceville, Ga., church,and is said to be the only one of, that sex In the State. --Russia will not build the projected net work of railways throughout Siberia just at present, owing to a lack of funds. -What is claimed to bo the only bent wood factory in the United States has been established at Charleston, South Carolina. -Senator-elect Leland Stanford was a student in Cazenovia Seminary with Joseph IR. Hawley and Henry WV. Sk cum In 1884. -Signor Rotoli, one of the most pop. ular- musicians in Rome, will presently come to this country to 1111 a professc: ship in Boston. -Several var-ieties of birds have ap hear-ed along the sea coast of (Calfornia, which were niever known before to leave the monntains.. -The eidier duck (lees not take her young into the ocean, as is generally suipposedl,but remains with them among the islands along the coast. --Orville D). Baker,thoenew Attorney Gemneral of Maine, a Bowvdoin graduate of '68, was an extraordinary good first baseman when at college. -James C. Jamison, the new Adju tant General, of Missouri, was a "For ty-niner" in California, and a follower of Walker in Nicaragua, -T wenty Parisian d ueliats are organ izing a club under the name of La Flamberge, whose members must all have fought at least one duel. -The editors, bookkeepers, type..set ters, collectors and agents of the Free rnwn, the colored organ published in N' ow York, areo all colored men.. --An Iinqiana husband has been seal dod eighty-one times with hot tea by his wimfe, and has now comne to the conclu clusion that he is entitled to a divorce. --An English lady, Mi-a. Hayward, has been engaged as professor of elocu tion in the Cincinnjatti Law School,and the innovation has beeni received with, favor. '-Cheshire, Mass,,bas two large bald eagles, which have thoilr nest high up. on the side of a rocky cliff. 'The hun' te and citizens generally, with a sense ,oriesnd patriotism, leave them un -Christopher Bleckett D~enison has. come prominently forward in London ' society as a man who has spent $1 250, 000 in works of art, and who isready to,A draw his check aniy day for any Bpxbons, that Clrki~Jocan oSer.