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rrr TR-WEfKLY EDITION. WIINNSBORO, Sm C., FEBRUARY 21, 18ISSTBIHE 89 RAuD IN HAND. Phasure and pain walk hand in hand, Each is the other s poise. The borders of the silent land Are full of troubled noise. Sin is destructive; he is dead Whose soul is lost to truth: While virtue makes the houry head Bright with eternal youth. There is a courage that partakes Of cowardice: a hiti And honest-hearted fear that makes The man afraid to lie. How much we take! bow little give! Yet every life is meant To help all lives: each nian should 1liv For all men's betterrueat. PEN AND INK. "I said it once, and I say it again!" snapped old Uriah Tempest, irately. "These sea dips will be the death of me yet--the death of me, I tell you, Zoe!" "Yes, Uncle Rare," murmured his iovely niece, in the sweetest of voices. "What do you mean by that, minx?" he demanded, with a frown which would have put the blackest thunder cloud to shame. Zoe's mischievous brown eyes were dancing with mirth under the long, curling lashes, but she looked the pic ture of innocence, standing there on the white beach of Useppa Island, in her dainty blue bathing suit. Her uncle was also in bathing cos tume, made of flaming red flannel instead of the fashionable white. He did not look exactly like a Greek god. He bore a remarkably close resem blance to a boiled lobster. Glancing along the wet sand to the eft, Zoe perceived a well-known figure approaching swiftly. She drew Uncle Rare's arm through hers before the startled old gentleman could protest. In a trice they had met a huge wave midway, and with a gasp he realized that the first dreaded "dip" was over. "So you think tLis bathing is sure to kill me, eh?" growled Uncle Rare, when he could get his breath. "Why, you said it yourself!" Zoe protested, flashing a dazzling smile at Leigh Kingsford and his sister, Nita, who had entered the surf some yards below. Her uncle caught the glance, and just as they met the third wave, man aged to mutter in her ear: "Insufferable puppy! What does he. mean by following us here?" "The island is free to all!" said Zoe, indignantly, flushing to the roots of her bonny brown hair. "He is a fortune-hunter," the terri i old man declared, raising his voice to a pitch that brought the words dis tinctly to Leigh Kingsford's ears. "I shall stay in no longer if I am to witness my own niece's disgraceful flirtati3n with a person like that. Where's Mar tin Smith?" raising his voice an octave higher and wading hastily ashore. The Kingsfords hurriedly left the water as Martin Smith, skipper of the yacht Sea Gem, after receiving the ord ers of Uncle Rare, prepared to lift an cbor for the home trip. There were six bathers besides,1Ir. Tempest and his niece, and the glances they cast in his direction, after being thus disturbed in the midst of their "dips," were the reverse of compli mentary. But the Sea Gem was his property, built for the purpose of carrying bath ers to and from the surf-washed beach of Useppa, the favorite bathing-place in the vicinage of Charlotte Harbor. On the home-stretch Uncle Rare made himself as agreen ble as possible after his own peculiar method. He kept Zoe at his side and read her a lecture on the subject of fortune hun ters and their characteristics, to her intense but smothered resentment, aud the very evident amusement of Leigh Kingsford, who loungedwihner shot.wihn ar --"If I imagined for a moment, b served the old gentleman, irascibly, "that you-Zoe Tempest--would ever wed a rascally fortune hunter, I should make my will at this moment and cut you off with a dollar-that is. if there happens to be pen and ink on board.''" "Which there doesn't," growled Skipper Smith, smoking his pipe at the tiller. "Blue lightning!" ejaculated Uncle Rare, highly enraged. "No pen and ink on board this yacht, did you say? Suppose I wanted to disinherit my niece, how am I to do it, eh? Again I demand how am I to do it?" And he fairly danced backward to the guard, transfixing the imperturb able sJciprer with a glance equal to a w~ele handful of the strongest red cay ~-.-enne pepper. * "Avast!" shouted the skipper, in ,udden alarm, as the boom swung Saround and sent the 01(1 gentleman, head-foremost into the briny deep. - A yell of agonized terror bubbled up from the blue depths; and Leigh Kings ford, poised on the deck-rail for a spring, as the yacht swung broadside to the wind and came to a halt, saw a aumber of writhing arms flung about the portly form of Zoe's uncle. "A squid, a squid!" cried the skip ber. And in a breath Leigh's fair head . anished beneath the water, and arose: close to the scene of danger. It was indeed a giant calamary, or equid-one of the head-footed mnoilusc family. Its two longer arms were wound about Uncle Rare, while the remaining eight waved wildly about, and the huge, filmy eyes glared fierc ly at Leigh. Calamaries do not usually attack hu mnan beings; but this one evidently mistook Uncle Rare for a remarkable - species of fish. Leigh drew a keen knife, and strik ing at the squirming arms, severed three. The squid sent a column of water jut through its funnel, and worked its nlbi-e eansions viorously. uut as it would not relinqush its ho on its victim, swimming was impossi. ble, and Leigh continued to strike un til all the arms were slashed off an( Uncle Rare released, just as th< tender, which had igeen hastily lowered reached the spot. The wounded sea monster brand i'hed the bieeding stumps of its severe( limbs, and ejected a stream of black inky fluid full in the red face of UnclI Rare, as they were helping him, mort lead than alive, into the boat. The dismembered calamary was per mitted to escape after this last feat, anm Leigh climbed into the boat, and witt his own handkerchief wided the reek ing face of Mr. Tempest and forced i few drops of brandy between his purpli lips. "I thought it was his Satanic ma jesty himself?" gasped the tempestuou old gentleman, when lie was safe i the yacht once more, with ni niece bending over him pityingly What did you say it was, Smith?" "A squid," answered the skipper his eyes ttnkling. "Or, as sailors of ten call them, a 'pen-and-ink' fish You know you were rather warm or that very subject just before you fel overboard." "Eh" eh?" queried the bewilderet ldd fellow, staring with all his might "What in the thunder do you mean?' "The pens are inside," was the skip per's lucid explanation. "The ink yot wi1[ find you have already received, i. you just take a look in the glass." 'Shade of Old Nick! Is this a lunati asvlum!" Half-choked with laughter, Zoe fin ally ma'zaged to make the matter clea to her uncle's understanding, an< brought him a hand-mirror. At the first glance he shrunk bac) dumbfounded. "Ink! Is that Ink?" hegasped. "It' enough to last me a lifetime. I sup pose you would call it a judgment or mc, eh, my little niece? And rightly too, by the blue blood of the Tempes family! I'm an old brute, Zoe. I'l never make another will-I won't b: Triton! Where's young Kingsford? owe my life to him, and I'd like t shake him by the hand. Zoe, wasl my face and hair, and then call hin in. By George! he's a fine young fel low! Wait a minute, Zoe. If.you'l solemnly promise never to say 'pei and ink' to me, no matter what hap pens, I'll let you marry Leigh Kings ford." Thi3 was coming down to humbi pie, with a vengeance. Zoe gars, the required promise, an is now the happy little wife of Loigh. As for Uncle Rare, he always doe his writing with an indelible pencil. Irrefutable Evidences. Police Commissioner-Several citi .ens swear that they saw Om2eer O'Tool, coming out of a brewery. O'Toole' Lawyer--But the defense submits tha it could not have been a brewery Police Commissioner-Wbat proof havi vo of this? O'Toole's Lawyer-Tb fact that he was seen to come out. Kate Field's Washington. A Physician's Fee in Sound. -'Doctor, aboudt dis bill; I am rudde short de money. Vill you tage it oud in trade?" "Well, M1r. Einsteiner, per has so. What is your business~ "Vel, I blay me on de trombone and serenadte vou more as dwenty times." Boston Commercial Budletin. .The Bardest Work Is Getting the Job. "It must be pretty hard work pound irg the pavement with that great ramx mer" said the idler. "Sure," said Mi Grogan, "it is not the droppin' av th thing on the shtones thot is the har-r wor-rk at all. It is the liftin' avi up."-ndianapolis Journal. & Different Case. Old Gravely-If you do not care t be my wife perhaps the prospect of be ing a rich young widow might temlJ you. Minnie (eagerly)-Oh, M3 Gravely! If I were only sure I coul trust vou.-Spare Moments. In Secret Session. "Papa," remarked the M. P.'s daugt ter looking at the clock. "WVhat is il Lou" asked papa, who had lingered i: the parlor with the young people. "1 is 9 o'clock; at this time George and usually go into commitee" The: papa retired.-Tit-Bits. But HowAbout Getting Yt Up Again? Sammy Suburb--Whoop! Pop ha Dought a new house on the blue Neighbor Boy-Nice place? Sammy Jus't jolly. The lawn is so ste2ep tha all I'll have to do will be to st-irt th' lawnu mower at the top and ride down ii -Good News Goot1-bye Feminine. Did you ever hear two married wc Len take leave of each other at- th gate on a mild evening? This is hos they do it-"Good-bye!" "Good-bye Come down and see us soon." " will. Good-bye!" "Good-bye! Don' forget to come up." "I won't. B sure and bring Sarah Jane with yol next time." "I will. i'd have brough hr up this time, but she wvasnt ver well. She wanted to come awfully. "Did she now? That was too bad! B sure and bring her next time." " will; and you be sure and bring th baby." "I will. I forgot to tell yo that he's cut another tooth." "Yo don't say so! How many has he now? "Five. 'It makes him awfully cross. "I dare say it does this hot weathel Well good-bye! Don't forget to corn down." "No, I won't. Don't you foi get to come up. Good-bye!" An they separate. AUTOXrATIC machines have been dE vised for use on a moving train whic: mechanically record 'the condition c every foot of the trac. ifon to dayllgnt, but likes to spend I ,n the bosom of his family, or at leas idjacent to it. It should nut be sup >osed that because he roams about a :fght he neglec.s his family. Heroam hn order to fill the family larder. H, lever bothers small game so long a 'here is big game within reach. Who leeling fit he can take an ox in hi nouth and jump fences and ditche like a professional steeplechaser. - Westminster Budget. The Subject of Feeding. The vast majority of people are ab solutely wrong on the subject of feed ing; they think that rich and luxuriou people, feeding on the richest and mos uxurious foods, are the most fortunat and healthy people. I assure you it i: just the reverse. I am the Director c in insurance company, and am oblige, often to form an estimate of the com mercial value of life; if, then, Wo pei sons of the same age and constitutionE build come for calculation as to th monetary value of their future live, and if one be rich and luxurious, an the other be competent and fruga frugal even to abstemiousness,I woul value the life of the frugal person a 20 per cent. at least better than that c the rich and luxurious person. Dives dies in plenty, Lazarus i poverty. Do not die like Lazarus i you can help it, and do not die lik Dives if you have the opportunity; bu lnd the happy condition, easy enoug) to find if you determine to learn hol on least food you can do the most an best work. Never eat until you ar, satiated; never eat in the day on heavy meal, but divide your food int three light meals, equally distribute Ks to time and quantity; eat slowl3 take small mouthfuls; masticate, c hew, your food well; touch your foo, with your fingers as little as possible do not cry out for animal food mor than twice a day at most; have all ani mal food well cooked, and do not foi get fruit as food. In -Queen Elizabeth's time th range, the golden fruit of the Hesper ides, might find its way to the Queen' table; but such fruit was indeed scarce Joints of meat were cut up with th frill of paper round the end of the join to hold by, forks being unknown, an, her loyal subjects, a short-lived rac( knowing little how to make the mos of life in the matter of feeding an, drinking, suffered from diseases whic: were of the most avoidable as well a objectionable character. We, fortu nately, live in a different reign; w have fruit galore, and have clean fork instead of dirty fingers to raise our foo with, two advantage%. equally swee and wholesome, thougiso different i kind.-Sir B. W. Rich,?son, in Lone man's Magazine. A Six-Year-Old Cowboy. The youngest cowboy and herdowne in the world is said to be Logan Mul hall, who lives in Indian Territory, an who has lately passed his sixth birth day. He owns a herd of over a hun dred head of cattle, which are distin guished by his private brand, and th brand is fully registered as his, in a( cordance with the laws of the territor The little cowboy became a herdowne only a few months ago, but he is bright and energetic little chap, an seems to be well acquainted with hi business. He has his own bunch c horess and hires his own help, though h does a good deal of the work on hi ranch himself. Not a day passes bu he rides at least three miles about hi herd. He is reported to be wort $1,200, and "persons who ought t know" estimate that his prolits will nc be less than $500 a year; which woul be fabulous wealth to most 6-year-ol boys. In order to live up to his chai acter of cowboy he has had a litti Winchester rifle and revolver made fc him, with both of which arms he is ver expert. The cowboys and cattle-men in hi neighborhood are as proud of litt] Logan Mulhall as musicians are c Josef Hofmann, and think he "can't t beat." Respect Due to Wives. Do not jest with your wife upon subject in which there is danger< wounding her feelings. Remember sI treasurers every wordI you utter. D not speak of great virtues in anoth< man's wife to remind your own of fault. Do not reproach your wife wit personal defects, for if she has sens biity you indlict a wound dillicult t heal. Do not treat your wives with ix attention in company, it touches h< pride and she will not respect you mor or love you better for it. Do not uj braid your wife in the presence of third p>arty, the sense of your disregtar for her feelings will prevent her froi aclowledging her fault. D)o not er tertain your wife by praising the beaut and accomplishments of other womei if you would have a pleasant hoa and a cheerful wife, pass your evenina under your own roof. Do not be ster and silent in your own house, and r< markable for sociability elsewhere. IL':TTNG screens in the sdoon deal ss one of the devii's ways of trying 1 hide his cloven hoof. To Insure Peace. "I hope thmngs are more peaceft .n the choir than formerly," said t'r pastor. "Yes, sir," replied the o gaist; "Wts perfectly calm now. "I'm glad to hear it. Hlow was peai secured:" "Everyhody except'r myself res'gned."- Wa hi ngton Sta Mr. Yale ought to come along ne3 and tell the men how to keep tobact juice off of their shirt fronts, and'l of their whiskers. PIVATE houses have dumb-waiter ht1 bve deaf ones, MISSION OF THE STAG ft Should Amuse and Instract, Thus Afford Ing Healthful Diversion. Those who most of all decry the drama aie the very ones who love to listen to its tittle-tattle. Those who most admire it are sometimes apt to give it more virtues than it is really entitled to, says the Whitehall Review. But when the stage is viewed in its proper light -neitheras something da zlingly good nor hopelessly wicked-it passes as an instructor and educator. Of course, its primary aim is to amuse. Those who preach about its benefits should never lose sight of this; but in the tempting dish of amusement there lies many a sound maxim and decree of virtue. Schiller deals very largely with this idea -the blending of amuse ment and instruction. He thinks it bet ter for a man who is "oppressed by ap petites, weary of long exertion," to go to the theater than to rush "into dissipations that hasten his fall, and ruin, and disturb social order." A man of public business who has made sacrifices to the state is apt to pay for them with melancholy; the scholor becomes a pedant, and the people pant for relaxation. So, says S'chiller, they find what they want at the play, "the stage combining amusement with instruction, rest with exertion, where no faculty of the mind is overstrained, no pleasure enjoyed at the cost of thq whole." This instruction must often take the Zorm of mental relaxation. We dip into history and annals of bygone days; we relearn what we have forgotten as those living pictures of men and manners pass before us. The fields of fancy lie ahead and history repeats itself; "great criminals of the past live over again in the drama, and thus benefit an indignant posterity. They pass before us as empty shadows of their age, and we heap curses on their memory, while we enjoy on the stage the very horror of their crimes." ItI is here that sight grows into belief. "Sight is always more powerful to man than description, hence the stage acts more prowerfully than morality or law." The story of a play may wram as well as impress. The theater should be a school of pra'etical wisdom, a guide for civil life, and "a key to the mind in all its sinuosities." Stray chapters read at random in a book, stray scenes witnessed in a play may, and often do, leave lasting impressions. The idea received remains and acts silently. It makes us think and we give it a firmer grasp if it has been a stage representation, because we have seen it. We need not go on the housetops and cry out about what we are thinking. The influence of the play should be felt. The theater has - the happy gift of blending intellectaul 3 amusement with its instruction. Steele s also said very much what Schiller has t said. Says Steele: "A good play, acted . before a well-bred audience, must raise , very proper excitement to good be havior and be the most prevailing. method of giving young people a turn of sense and breeding." The Time To Advertise. r' There is nothing on earth so t mysteriously funny as the way in which many business men treat an advertisement. The prime, first, last and all-the-time ohject of an advertisement is to draw custom. So the merchant waits until' the busy season comes, and his store is so full that he can't get his hat off, -and then he rushes to the newspapers' -of his town and goes in for advertising. . When the dull season comes along e and there is no trade, and he wants to i sell his goods so badly that he can't ' pay his rent, he stops advertising. "I can't afford it," or "it is too expensive," he says; that is, some of them do; but occasionally a level-headed merchant D does more of it, and scoops in all the~ trade, while his rivals are making mort t gages to pay the gas bill. -There are times when you couldn't stop people from buying everything in the store if you planted a couple of cainnon behind the door, and then is the advertisement send out on its holy -mission. It makes light work for the ad, for a chalk sign on the door could do all that was needed, and be able to t take a half-holiday six days in the I week; but who wants to favor an 3 advertisement? They are build to do hard work, and should be sent out in the dull days, when a customer has to be knocked down with hard facts, ' kicked insensible with bankrupt -reductions and drugged in with - irresistible slaughter of prices before t he will spend a cent.. 3 That's the aim and end of advertising an'd if you ever open a store don't try to get them to come when they am already blocking up the doors and. windows, but give them your ad, right between the eyes, in the dull season, and you will wax rich and ownI a fast horse, and perhaps be able to smoke a cigar once or twice a year tWrite this down where you'll fall e over it every day.--Printers Ink. SFacts .About the Forest King.' yThe tongue of a lion is so rough that " a close look at it will almost take the e skin off the looker. It is not safe to allow a lion to lick your hand, for if he e licked the skin otY and got a taste of the underlying blood, supposing it to .a be there, he would want the hand and everything adjoining thereto. Noth ing more perfect in modern machinery~ exists than the mechanism by which a lion works his claws. He has five toes on each of his forefeet and four on each of his hind feet. lEach toe has a law. Nothing about a lion is without eason, and the reason he has more toes mnd claws on his fore than on his hind feet is that he has more use for them. *If this were not so the majority would be the other way. The lion is nocturnal hbv ,.hicn a ha~ no nariar obien.' AN ALLIGATOR ON FIRE. it Cont Eis Tormentors Ten Crops or Boxes to See the Sight. An alligator which beats the recoro comes from Early County. Some ne groes were at work in a turpentine farm, near Pamascus, cleaning the trash and straw away from the boxes preparatory to burning off the woods, when they came across an alligator, who had crawled out during the last warm spell to put on his new spring suit, but who was knocked back into a state of dormancy by the recent cold snap. - The old fellow was lying there stiff, b bard, motioniess, and crusty, and the t negroes decided they would make an 3 end of him by burning him up; so they dipped turpentine out of the boxes and f covered him over entirely with that in i tlammable substance, and then heaped pine straw on top of him, and then - poured more turpentine on that. When the fire began to blaze his D alligatorship suddenly awoke from dreams of icebergs and hear foists into what he supposed was the land of perennial summer, where the had I'gators go. Nevertheless, instinct u as s stronger than intellect, and Old Crusty f decided that, even though he were n hell. he would split for a pond. He 3 splitted, and through the pine woods he f went, leaving a long streak of fire. 5 His rapid flight to the pond gave him t the appearance of a georgeous meteor 1 floating away, leaving behind it a tail 7 of flame. I A minute later (the trail of fire was a mile long), the 'gator was rolling over and under the cooling waters of a cv j press pond, but the woods were burn 1 ing up. The festive darkies, who a minute before were waiting and watch r ing in unfeigned glee to see the- 'gator i burn, were now busy fighting fire. After a long while they succeeded in & putting it out, but ten crops of boxes had b:en destroyed.-Atlanta Consti .Lion. Trouble A Dime Made. - Once in a great while one of the a thirty odd bank clerks who are daily delegated to render into the Providence s clearing-house the accounts of their t respective banks makes an error in his I "figgers." Usually the session is over V In twenty minutes, but Tuesday it t required an extra hour for the finding I of a 10-cent mistake in $1,152,100, says i the Providence Journal. As there is a money fine, which gathers double compound comminuted interest, so to e speak, as the minutes are piled up by a the clock, each young gentleman of the I thirty odd is on pins and needles until t the fellow who is to blame is discovered 1 At noon the clearing-house telephone which is that of the Roger Williams bank, began to ring, and from that time until the session was concluded bank after bank called up to know if r its emissary had gone to Canada and - had left everything but a balance a against the bank. Officials and clerks, . who go to dinner in rotation, stood . watches in hand and saw their cars go . by and felt an increasing and aching void at the "belt.', About 12:45 o'clock the $1.152,10QUhad been squared up to a cent and the 10-cent fellow who had shaken the banking com a munity to the pit of its stomach was Ilanden with a crop of fines as thick as s flies at the bunghole of a molasses Ibarrel. e Wild Birds Fly Low. tThe occupants of more than fifty houses in the central part of Rahway, N. Y., were called from their beds a little after midnight by the fluttering of wings and blows against the sides of the bui!dings. The night was dark, d and a dense fog hung over the vicinity. Men donned their heavy overcoats, and, Sgoing into their yards, discovered that Sthey were filled with wild ducks. r"I was surrounded by the birds," said Lamplighter Thomas. "They flew against me with such force that I e ivas nearly knocked down. I struck Sat them with my stick, and succeeded in knocking two to the ground. I think ethere must have been thousands in the tiock. "They were flying as though they acould not see where they were going. ,f They struck the sides of the buildings e and dropped to the ground. , The flock o did not get awvay for half an hour." r New York Herald. a Too Much for Che Lawyer. .Doubtless some of the smart remarks o attributed to witnesses in court by . fconscienceless story tellers could r Inot be supported by affiday e its, but the following conversa .tion actually occurred at Pittsburh last a week:' A ttorney Reardon was defend d ing a client charged with illegal sell a~ ing, when Ruth Woodruff, a former .client of Reardon's, was called to the y stand. "You have been here before, ,. haven't you?" said the attorney. "You e ought to know, Mr. Reardon," she re ' plied. "And you were sent to the a workhouse, weren't you?" "Well, I .gave you enough money to keep me out of it," retorted Ruth. "You were innocent, of course," persisted the at torney, sarcastically. "Well, you said 16 was,'.' replied Ruth. This ended her U ross-examination.-New York Sun. Stars. On a clear night an ordinary human i eye can discover about 1,000 stars in e thie northern hemisphere, most of r- Iwhich send their light from distances " we cannot measure. How large they :emust be! Round these 1,000 stars cir g es 50,000 other stars of various sizes. r.Besides single stars, we know of sys temnsof stars moving round one an t, other. Still, we are but a short way Sinto space as yet! Outside of limits of y vision and imagination there are, no doubt, still larger spaces. AT the Bombay zoological gardens the skin of a sea serpent sixty-fom fain length in on exhibition. UTILITY FROM THE GRATE FR I Device by Which One Can Get Prac' tical Use from It. Here is a scheme for getting prao tical utility out of an open grate. It PATENT TRIVET. ,Ames in different sizes and shapes to at different grate bars. The first cut HOLDING A sAUCEPAN. shows the patent trivet, while the seec ond displays it in place to support ai NEATING A HADMInON. iettle, sauce pan, frying pan or similar utensil. It also makes an ideal suppor for an iron. IT WAS A SNAP SHOT. A Michigan Photographer Does Some thing .Unusual. Richard Rea, a photographer of Me nominee, Mich., recently succeeded in catching a photograph of a bolt of lightning as it strack a telegraph wire, and his picture, was reproduced in the Electrical Review. The picture was taken about 9 o'clock p. m. The bolt struck the neutral wire e TIKG THE wIRE ona low tension three-wire system. Teonly damage was the blowing out of the safety plugs in about one dozen dwellings 'in thie Immediate vicinity of where the bolt struck. The Nobleness of Honest Toil. The people least to be enyied in this world are those who do not know the joy of earning their bread, and are provded for "without the sweet sense of providing." TIhere is, as Carlyle so often assured us, a perennial nobleness in honest toill The bread' for which we have worked Is the only bread that is sweet to us, and by it the soul is fed not less than the body. If we can not altogether agree in the aphorism of a French writer, who is himself an example of amazing Industry, that "the man who works Is always good," we can at least agree that he has be come possessed of the elements of self reverence and self-control, and i.reads a path which makes for goodness, and aids in Is its development. For the idlc youth Is always the vicious youth. To Ihave no work to do, or to take no in terest in our work, is to lay 'ourselves open to the assaut of every vice, the seduction of every sin. Those of us who have -never known the day when we had no work to do, do not know how much we 'are indebted to the law of drudgery for such virtue as we possess. There is a worse -hardship than drudg ery; the hardship of indolence. The youth who is intent on making the best ase of life will recogniza3 that prin Iciple, and will learn to be grateful to that invisible taskmaster who has made his .life consistently laborious, and permitted no bread nor leisure which he has not earned.-The Young Man. __________ _ Healthful Respiration. In health and during exercise the av erage man has about twenty respira tions a minute and forty cubic inches are inhaled at each respiration; in an hour 48,000 cubic inches of air will be inspired; in twenty-four hours 1,152, 000 cubic inches or about the contents of seventy-eight hogsheads. News in Bnef Artificial cotton is made of wooL -Sewing thread is made of asbestos. -Every language is said to have its own name for wheat. -The straw of rye is often of fat ruore value than the grain. -The Swiss lake dwellers made more use of spelt than of wheat. -An expedition to the south pole will soon be sent out from Belgim. -People never think of whistling ix Iceland. It is a violation of the divine law. -A white quail was shot by a sports man near Palatka, kla., a few days go. - The onchidium, a speoois of shek less snail has innumerable eyes on its hack. -Seamen nearing land can tell that fact by the deposits of dew on the w.siel. -Ancient needles were all of brass, and in size approximated our darning needles. -There are citizens of McFall, Mo. who object to the cemetery being use 0s a pasture. -Louis Cyr, the Canadian Sampson lifts 3500 pounds without harness or other apparatus. -Linsey woolsey was first made ai the town of Linsey, in Suffolk, Eng land, about 1530. -Tusks of a mammoth have bee found of a length of nine feet, measured along the curve. -The St. Croix River, in Maine, wSa named from the cros made by tW. rivers at its. mouth. -Siberian women are raised as abjee. slaves, untidy in dress, and are bought with money or cattle. -Brazil nuts are more properly seeds, about sixteen of which are en ilosed in a large shell. -Nearly one fifth of the human rac die from consumption or some- other 'orm of pulmonary disease. -Of over 5,000,000 children in el mentary schools in England only 800,. ()J0 pay-for their schooling. -James Willi., of Mount Steiin& Ky., has been struck by lightning four -1fferent times and still lives. -In Greece there is 56 miles oi railroad in operation, 304 under cons 'truction, and 214 more chartered. -There is a duck ranch in the Blue Mountain of Pennsylvania which sends 1,2,000 birds to the -market yearly. -Disease of the eyes is the curse ok the German people. In Germany there ara at present 37,800 blind per. ons.. -The glowworm has abrush attacked to its tail because it is necessary ta show its light that the, back be ept -lean. -From 1880 to 1890 there wer%. 3.061 Lutheran churches built in this country, This is at therate of six a week. Charles McVeagh of Harpswell, Me. lifts a barrel of flour with his teetL and holds a gaintal of fish at arm's length. -The heart ordinariiy beats about seventy ttimes a minute, and throws about two onces of blood at each con raction. -There were two total eclipses of th,. sun in 1712 and in 1889. This rare phenomenon will not happen agair ntil 2057. -Illinois normal schools contain: Normal, sixteen instractors, 720 sta. dents; Carbondale, sixteen instruotors, 150 students. -R.Ioman swords recovered frert tombs weigh from six to ten pounds while battle axes weigh on an average twenty pounds. -The wife ofC. Beaupre, of St. Bay' mont., Province of Quebec, Canada, gays birth to twins after she was seven ty five years old.. -The first Illinoisrailroad connecte6 Springfield and Meredosia, 1838, and the first locomotive was run over it November 8, 1838. -Automatic macbiues have been de vised for use on a moving train which, mechanically record the condition of every foot of the track, ...Fifty thousand dollars a year Is er pended by the Pr -ssian Government in support of medical libraries conneoted~ with the University of Berlin. -llinois railroads have an aggregat.. mileage of 14,700, costing 830,000 00C; cirry 32,000,000 passengers and 43,000,0(0 tons of freight annually. -- -A municipal laboratory where bac terial examnination may be conductea in cases of sus pected cholera and dipth eria is about to be established in Ltin don. -Raphael lived principally on dried trits, such as figs and raisins, eating them with bread. He- had a theory that a meat diet was not good for a painter. -An inmate of the Poplin (Mo.) jail dug through an eighteen inch wall with a case knmfe and drove off a $830 herd of cattle belonging to a farmer in theq vicinity. --Coal was discovered by Hennepin, near Ottawa, Ill., between 1673. and 168), and believed to be the first dis covered on the costinent of North Americal. -Systematic exercise Is an amazing cure f'or nervousness, languidness, in, somnia, asod indigestion, and inciden tally for awkward figures, dull eyes, and muddy skins. -.-Dante, like- many other. men o; high poetic temper'.ment, was subject to fits of melacholia,.alternately with wild spells of amatory passion. By many of -his contemporaries he was -rgre as insane.