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TRI-WEBKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JUNE 13 1895. Where Light Is Found. e Night, night continually, Will the dawning never come? M1y soul is affright at the dark, dark uight' r( And longs for its dreamed--of home. a I pray, pray unceasingly o: For only r. single ray. To lighten the doom and dispel the gloom " That lies about my way. t! See, see. ob joyfully! 0 A bght gleams afar to save. 1i I hasten near and eagerly peer. And behold a waiting grave. C STAYED THE DOCTOR'S HAND f was very sick. I had laid for days that seemed years upon the rack of In such pain as only strong men, suddenly tl broken upon the wheel, may know. Every bone in my body, every nerve t< every minute gland of corporeal tissues a had been like electric wires and cells I surcharged with ethereal agony. At b last there had come a benumbed feeling d that thrilled like the vibration of harp a strings suddenly stilled. I could hear P the hum of voices like the far-off drone of bees, and the sound seemed soothing Il me into a strange peace. n I was aware that somebody passed a t( light before my eyes, and after repea- n ing the action several times, replaced h the night lamp on the stand without ' the shade. I knew also that somebody stepped to the window and threw it wide open, while a voice, seemingly ti borne beyond the confines of space and ' gathering force as it approached the P boundaries of auricular demonstration until it boomed like the deep bass of w the sea uttered these words: ti "The poor fellow is going fast. Give ti his spirit a chance to free itself." it "Do you believe in that old woman rot?" asked another, and from the re- I gion of enchanted drowsiness where I P seemed to linger, I caught myself list- w ening for the third voice, which I a seemed to know would speak next. c< And I did not listen in vain. for even fE while I - struggled with the unseen e forces that were hurrying me away a w woman's voice, clear and strong and ei sweet as the notes of a bell that was ti forever rnging in my ear, said: it "We believe in God's mercy, and we b< believe that this poor pain-racked body sl is about to throw open the door by f which the spirit goes free; if a closed at -,window hmider its going, we will throw ez everywin - n ospi wide as the sky. ci "And give the rest of the poor devils h in .3the d a chance to catch a mortal c( chill,' responded the second voice. h "You are as consistent as the rest of c< your sex, Mies Brady." While yet the echo of the head doc tor's voice beat the air in circles of re- L ceding sound, I suddenly ceased to hi think, to hear, to feel, to be. And yet le [ was. I knew by some newly de veloped sense that I lay mute and white upon the cot which had supported B my body so long, and that the fragrance fe of.a prayer floated through the awful ho at; Pnesn of the room. It had no form, W nor sound, and yet something within 1i me perceived it, as the languid senses fi perceive the fragrance of newly mown hay upon a serene June morning. t A continuous pageant of the most I seraphic vision unfurled in endless pro-. gression before me. I saw the green iI hills of my childhood's home lift thenm- tb selves like emerald bubbles in a haze of enchanted air. I saw the sapphire of the sea set in a rim of violet dawns R and daffodil noons. I saw the stretch of desert sands like drifts of snow within the compass of a lonely land. In A'nd in the midst of their bewildering ti vision I suddenly saw a gleaming slab m within a windowless room, where some- :b thing long and white and still was ly- w ing. Drops of ice were forming or' i the edges of the slab, and a death co 3 stream was purling across its shining m surface. Something that was not a P voice, and which made itself manifest te -to me through other channels than the H ear, spoke lightly of the grave wherein st Ssoon shall lie. b "We will bury him to-night," it hr seemed to say, "there will be no friends H to interfere, and there are too many he~ dying these few days past to keep st 'stiffs' over half a day." a "But the law grants even a 'stiff' its be rights," responded the womanly voice al I had learned to kncw, "we have no or right to bury him with such indecent, r) haste."s: -"Right or no right, law or no law, tl< he'll have to get out of this to-night," ei replied the first voice-.s The contention had no effect upon the something within my ice-bound th frame which still held its mysterious st ::onnection with sentient life. That ec filament, fine as the gossamer shred by y which the spider binds together the og ether and the rose, seemed an electric h< wire charged with messages from an a unseen world. I could hear the rise ~ and fall of angelic choruses, like the , dip of songful seas, and clear and t sweet and distinct, above them all, I g heard the woman's voice I learned fr from out the cold embrace of death to note. c "He shall not be buried to-night, n aor yet to-morrow, if that flush con- t tinues on his face. te "What flush are you talking about?"w responded the doctor, bringing the light he carried nearer the face that te lay upon the marble slab, where the ice drops were forming, crystal by crys tal, like the beads one threads upon a growing strand. "Why, the flush we have both no ticed since we stood here. I knew by tb the intent gaze you bestowed upon what generally demands but a passing p~ glance, that you discovered it when I 9 did, and I demand that the body be re moved to the ward until we investigate h( the case." a "The flush is only the reflection of your red dress," laughed the doctor. "You are wasting time," said the ;p GT" sallall. a setherm to al, trrv this living man out of Mn orgue. Afterward we may resume ir conversation." "You shall do nothing of the sort,' ,sumed the doctor, placing his hand he spoke upon the outstretched arm the nurse with compelling force. You have made a fool of yourself over iis fellow from the first. Not a hanger a in the ward but what noticed your iterest in his handsome face. You are Dund to me by ties you cannot break, ad rather than see you under the en bantment of this fellow again I simply ill smother the feeble pulse of life that agers in his veins and make a surety E nis death." "You may be a villain, but you ar% ot a coward, Doctor Ware," replied ie woman, whose hand he still held. To refuse to give this man the chance > live would be the most despicable :t of your life, and, so help me God, will denounce you as a murderer efore the first justice I can find if you D not instantly summon assistance ad remove this body from this lace. "Not so fast, my dear. Every mc tent's delay extinguishes more anc Lore the chance for life, and if the at ndants we shall summon find a dead tan on the slab who will believe your sterical story in the face of my state ent that no sign of life existed? Wo en nurses are not in favor just at pre mt with the board; they are too sensa onal, too emotional, too indiscreet. our bravado will eventuate only in >ur own -disgrace." With the bound of a cat the nursE hile he was yet speaking, broke from te doctor's detaihing hold and reached ke door. Quick as thought she opened and flew down the long corridor. Shall the future eternities hold fc. Le another moment fraught with such tin as thrilled my tortured limbs hen the doctor's malignant face bent ove my sealed eyes, and although )nscious of a vast reserve power, I It myself unable to move the light t member or lift, by a single hair's eight, the closed lids. I felt his fing s press the delicate anatomy of my Lroat, and I knew that he was seek g to throttle the little life .eft in my >dy. Every drop of blood became a ear of flame to thrust my quivering -sh; and the effort I made to groan arted what seemed to me to be show s of hot blood from every pore. -The~-s6tind of hurrying feet anu amoring voices stayed tha doctor's nd before its full purpose was ac. )mplished, and raising himself from is sitting posture he greeted the new )mers with a bzsk: "Hurry up, boys! I thought Mish rady bad fallen asleep on the way. if t this fellow up quickly and carry m to the ward. He is good for a long ase of life yet." I never knew how the doctor and iss Brady adjusted their quarrel >th retained their respective positions r s ome time after my recovery to alth apd removal to a western city, bere a stroke of long-delayed good ek reknit the ravelled edge of my iances and placed me above want. Miss Brady finally resigned her posi )n at my suggestion and joined me in y Western home as my beloved wife. the doctor's well larings or ill far gs we neither of us knew aught frorr at day onward and forever. FEARS OF BArn, TELLERS. esponibilities that Make Their Po sitiona Unpleasant. The positions of paying and receivt g teller are perhaps as trying posi >ns as any in the business world. The en occuping these positions are rown constantly In communication ith all kinds and classes of people, id no doubt are often infinitely bored rthe dense ignorance evinced by any and the idle curiosity of others. The bank teller, as a rule, cannot 11 you how he detects counterfeits. I e really doesn't know. If he under ands his business he can recognize td money the moment he gets his nds on it. The first glance does it. I e does not know how or why, but if gets hold of a piece of money, and it rikes him as being bad, he lays it! ide right off. Then the examination I 'gins for the minor faults. There are ways some differences, but these can ily be detected by close inspection. I e teller must rather depend on a Eth sense, which comes with prac- I e, for he has not the time to closely I :amine t.ny currency unless he has a I spicion first that somethingis wrong. I The paying teller's burden is the fear at he will overpay some one. It is a range thing about paying tellers' ac unts that they are never over anly.. anything is wrong they are always I it. This does not speak well for the nesty of people in general, but It Is fact. And the paying teller is also :pected to refund any money he may I -erpay by mistake. Some years ago I e St. Louis National Bank sent down me of the boys to collect $80,000 m one of the St. Louis banks. The ying teller was at the window and unted out the money in his usual dig fled way. One of the boys noticed at a mistake had been made and at mpted to show the teller that such as the case. The latter is a very dig fled man, and he resented the inter ren~ce. Wos paying this money?" heaskeL 1 rhe boys said no more, but took the rtene back to the St. Louis National. hen it was counted it was discovered at the paying teller had only blun-( red to the tune of $20,000. He had I Id out $100,000 instead of $80,000. OfE urse, he got the money back, but he yuld have been a very sick man ift had been obliged to make good such I amount, .___ _ I_ __ __1 Th most general charge against ople is that they are hard to get MODERN MACHINES. some Introduced Since 1880 Har Sold to an Enormous Extent. "Right here in the Patent Office yol nay watch the forward rush of ciV lization and realize how rapid it is, aid Chief Examiner Greely. "Proba )ly it has never occurred to you to con dider how many arts and industrie bat are of importance to-day were ur mown in I88. Their creation has giv n employment to tens of thousand )f people and to billions of dollars o apital. If we were thrown back onl: ;o far as a decade and a half, w ;hould find ourselves deprived of num )erless comforts, and even necessaries is we now regard them, which wer 2ot obtainable at all fifteen years agc "The self-binding harvester is nei ince 1880, commercially speaking. I enders possible the gathering of cei ain cereal crops with a rapidity unai roachable by hand labor. Hundred )f thousands of men would be require :o reap the harvests of the great Norti xest without the aid of this machim [L has made practicable the raising o -rops far larger than could be pre luced and garnered otherwise. Inc] lentally, food has been cheapened. "The typewriter was not put on th narket until 1883. It seems wonderfu liat we could have got along at a] without it. In eleven years from $25, W0,000 to $30,000,000 worth of type xriters have been sold. This machin is opened a new field for woman' ,vork. It has increased the demand fo riters of shorthand very greatly. Th uantity of matter actually written ha >een enormously increased by this in ention. It has rendered letter writin, ;o easy that many people now main ain a large correspondence who woul, rite very few letters by longhand derchants write more than twice a nany letters as they used to, and th< 'olume of the mails has been propor onately augmented. "Who, in 1880, had ever heard of i gripman' or 'motorman?' The cabi Ld electric roads are new since then Phe cost of constructing and equippina hem is mainly for labor, and in thi way employment has been given ti ,reat numbers of men. These nove ;ystems of traction have given work ti -egiments of honest fellows who nov rear uniforms. When horse cars ar uperseded by electricity or the cable he number of passengers carried is a] ays greatly increased and more car tre run, requiring a larger number o mployes. The labor at the powe: iouses is better paid than at the sts >les. "The last fifteen years have witnesse( he creation of the electric light, thi lectric railway and telephone and i arge variety of industries dependin in electricity. The inventions o1 vhich they are based have deprived no >dy of employment On the contrary hey have opened entirely new field: Lnd fresh demands for labor. Withon he aid of our patent system, whiel iolds out to the inventor the prospec if reward, how many of these ideas vhich represent the forward steps o ivilization, would remain without frul f not unthought of ? The two most important of the ver ecent inventions are the type-makin; nachine and the cash register. The atter has already put on the marke ;15,000,000 or $20,000,000 worth " naterial, the cost of which is maini: abor. Let us not forget to mentioi n the list of novel industries the man ifacture of the bicycle, which is new~ ommercially, since 1880." The Provider's Rights. Joy was injected into the hearts o: hose unhappy husbands who are corn elled to submit to the autocratic wills f their wives and eat unchiallenget ny dish placed before them by a de ision rendered by Magistrate Hughee a a case he had before him recently, t wife had secured the arrest of her usband upon the charge of asasull .nd battery. When the *'ase wai irought before the magistrate thi oman was told to tell her story. Shi leclared that her husband had been rinking and they had a quarrel, and ie had str'uck her. "What were you uarreling about?" asked the magis rate. "Well," she replied, "I had friz ;led beef for supper, and he said 114 anted beefstak, and I told him hi rould have to eat what was befori im." "Does your husband work every ay?" asked the Judge. "Yes, sir," shi Lnswered. "Does he furnish the money o provide for his familyt" The wom n again replied in the affirmative 'The case is dismissed," exclaimied thc rudge. "You should have provided m with beefsteak." The womiar tood for a moment astonished at the lecision before turning toward the oor. "Yes, and his money paid for hat warrant, too," she s'pitefully ex laimed as she passed out.-Philadel ia Record. The Braohistochrone Problem. In Newton's time it was often the cus om for illustrious mathematicians, hen they had discovered a solution 'or some new and striking pro~blem, tc ublsh that problem as a challenge tc he world, while withholding their owl *oluu,. A famous instance of this is ound in what is known as the Brach stochrone problem, Nhich was solved y John Bernouilli. The nature of this iroblem may be mentioned. It was ti d the shape of the curve along which .body would slide down from one point A) to another (B) in the shortest time. t might at first be thought that the traight line from A to B, as it is un oubtedly the shortest distance be ween the points, would also be the ath of quickest descent; but this Is not o. There is a curved line down which bead, let us say, would run on a mooth wire from A to B in a shorter ie than the same bead would require j gig flownp the straight wire1 Ber I notr111s probiem was to und out whaf that curve must be. Newton solved it correctly; he showed that the curve was a part of what is termed a cycloid-that is to say, a curve like that which is described by a nail on the rim of a carriage wheel as the wheel runs along the ground. Such was Newton's geometrical insight that he was able to transmit a solution of the problem on the day after he had re ceived it to the President of the Royal Society.-Sir Robert Ball, in Goo! IWords. RAMIE CULTURE. Che Southwest May Embark in the New Industry. The St. Louis Republic, says that p: per, has been active in presenting tc the fariners of the South the advan. tagesof waking a staple crop of the fibei plant known as ramie, because the evi dence all seemed to point to a high rate of profit to Individuals and an un limited opportunity for increasing the general wealth of the section. It has been estimated that aw acre can be made by proper attention to yield a crop worth $800 with an expenditure of $150 in cultivation and preliminary preparation for market. Whether or not that estimate is correct as applied to average farming methods, there is I little doubt that the plant would be more profitable on many soils than any of the crops now grown. Experiments In Texas have proved that the finest quality of fiber can be produced there. In Arkansas, Mississippi and Loulsi ana the conditions are quite as favora ble. Since the publication some weeks. igo In the Republic of an interview with Pro. Waterhouse, who has de voted so much unselfish effort to dis 3 seminating information on this sub ject, he informs us that he has re ecived inquiries from as far West as Arizonia and as far North as Kansas. We are gratified to learn that the peo ple are ')ecoming interested to that extent. Prof. Waterhouse also tells us that the inventor and manufacturers of the latest machine for preparing the fiber have decided to distribute free a large quantity of roots. These roots will be sent to farmers who will agree to cultivate them under the directions issued by the company. While this offer is made for the business purpose of creating a demand for the machine, it is none the less a boon to enterpris ing farmers who are anxious to escape from dependence on one crop. If the State governments of Texas and her neighbors would devote a little atten tion to supplying information on the methods of cultivating-and marketing ramie, the energy and money would be well expended. . . Carlyle's Satin Apotheosis. Prof. Masson of Edinburg has asked me to join him and seventy-nine others In celebrating Carlyle's eightieth birth day, on Dec. 4-with the presentation of a gold medal with Carlyle's own effigy upon it, and a congratulatory ad dress. I should have thought such a measure would be ridiculous to Car lyle; but I suppose Masson must have ascertained his pleasure from some in timate friend of Carlyle's; otherwise he would not have known of my exist ence. for one. However, Spedding and Pollock tell me that, after some hesita tion like my own, they judged best tr consent. Our names are even to be attache6 somehow to a-white silk, or satin, scroll! Surely. Carlyle cannot be aware of that? I hope devoutly that my name comes too late for its satin apotheosis; but, if It do not, I shall apologize to Carlyle for joining such mummery. I' only followed the example of my bet ters.-Fitzgerald to Fanny Kemble C'emple Bar. One Was Willing. A couple of pickpockets had "pinch-1 d" a fine gold watch from a victim, wvho offered a reward of $100 for its recovery, and no questions asked, The. notice fell under the eyes of one of the gentry before the watch had beez. dis ->osed of and he took it to his pal. "I say, Bill." he said; 'herec's a chance. 'or us to get $100 for the ticker." "It's worth $400,," repliied Bill. "Yes, but you see we get this $100 ind no questions asked." "And we lose all the balance?" sug gested the thrifty William. "Perhaps, but we get $100 straight' "And that ain't what we want." Bill's pal rubbed his chin and contem plated his partner seriously. "You're a good deal worse thaen I am, Bill," lie said at last in a tone of sot row. "I guess not," protested Bill. "It's i stand-off between us." "Not much," resp~onded the pal; "' willing to be honest when I get the chance, but you ain't."-Detroit Fr.' Press. American Trees in Europe. Europeans traveling in America are surprised at the great wealth of va riety in trees and shrubs over the list in their own countries--English tra:vel ers especially. It is not that Americar trees will not grow, but that EnglishI nurseries do not keep them. A few English gentlemen are getting then direct from America, and seem thor. oughly astonished that they should cross the ocean in perfect condition. When American nurserymen have tc paktesoften for a four or five packs tre in their own country, it would be strange if the short trip across the Atlantic had any dillicul He Found It. Citizen-How do you find the jail Thackleford? Shackleford (back from a two weeks aentence)-Oh, I didn't have to hunt for It; sheriff took me right there. Vommercial Bulletin. I RUMP9T CALL. fRamu* Horn Sounds a Warning Note te the Unredeemed. A"NO HARM* sinner is about t h e hardest to reach. Bright things are not always good things. The first stel toward the devil i s always very short. The pathway ol the reformer is generally all up hill. When our friends leave us God can tome very close. Anybody can make enemies, but only the Christian can love them. When the devil is nearest to us ho e unells the least of brimstone. i Life can only be bitter to those who I Jo not know that God Is love. No power but that of the Holy Spirit :an produce holiness of heart and life. A man in earnest about his soul will oe in earnest about everything he does. Pigs have been washed, but none nave ever been cured of their love for mud. The dove seller has no 'nore right to e De in the temple than the dealer in I cattle. It is better not to fast than to do it in a way that gives the devil all the benefit The less blood there is in a sermon the more compliments the preacher till get Have an eye single to the glory of God, if you have to give up a right eye to do it In proportion as a preacher fishes foi compliments he loses the ability to fish for men. The religion that would kill a smilt i )n the face of a child does not corae ! rom God. t Every Christian should live so that 1 those who follow him will travel to- 0 ward heaven. Believing the slander. that the wa3 zo heaven is all up hill has sent many % man to the pit There are plenty of promises In the Bible for those in the dark, but nono !or those in doubt As soon as we take a step with Go&. we stop being worthless and begin to imount to something. Men are lost, not so much from doini a the notoriously wrong, as from neglect, I Ing to do the obvIousy-lgi'ft- 0 The harmless-looking Babylonishgal% nent is the coat the devil puts on when re wants to get into the heart. The devil has to work hard in the neighborhood of the man who is prals Ing God seven days in the week. The devil can sleep in church, when che preaching is being done by a man hose religion is all in his head. No religious act should ever be pens 'ormed in a way to make the wori6 hink that serving God is hard work. The devil can set down and rest when e have so much missionary work on and that we cannot take time to pray n secret Realism of the Present Age. Whatever romance and poetry were a olden times associated with pilgrim ges to places reputed sacred are rapid y being destroyed by the prosaic spirit f this very progressive and matter-of 'act age. Thus those who with pious ntentionls now visit the Holy Land am rnsported by rail from Jaffa to Jern alem, where a funicular line conveys :hem to the summit of the Mount of :)lives, while comfortable hotels on the tmercan plan are to be found at Beth ehem and on the site of the Garden of ethsemane. And now a hydraulic ele ator has just been established at Mar ;eilles for the purpose of hoisting pil Tims to the much-visited shrine of otre Dame de la Garde, perched on Ie summit of the highest rock over *ooking the city and bay, and to which ;alors and travelers on starting out mon or returning from sea voyages have from time immemorial been wont o ascend by the thousands of steep~ iteps, usually on their knees.-New ork Tribune. [ ntfing the Earthquake from Afarn & It is a well known fact that horses b ,an hear sounds that are not percepdi- ~ zle to human ears. For days previous t : the great earthquake in the Riviera h horses of that localIty showed every ymptom of fear, which continued with ut change of character, unless it was n the direction of greater frenzy, till he fury of the great convulsion broke !orth. Not until a few seconds, how ver, before the earth began to tremble t lid human beings hear the subterra- Lb an rumblings. One writer from the E ~cene says that in his opinion the horses tl new that the great quake was on the t ay from seventy-two to 100 hours be- 8I pore their masters heard or felt the I rst jar.-St. Louis Republic. a A Painfully Neat Woman. () There is a woman in Eastern Mains B who coudn't go to a picnic when in rited because she couldn't get time. "I have so much work at home," she said, h I can't go anywhere." Yet this same woman afterwards sent a lot of old ags to a junk dealer, where she realized p~price of a cent a pound, perhaps, and ,very piece of them had been newly washed, and ironed smooth, and was neatly folded up. The thing was so runny that the junk man put the rags >n exhibition as the work of a woman ho was short of time. She can now ofely lay claim to the title of "chamn ,ion neat woman of America."-Lew. COST OF GRAND OPERJAG ~ ftgentouA but Vsiacnous Argument of Mme. Melba. kme. Melba has a word to say foi ierself and her profession In an article which she has written for an Eastern nagasine, intended to show that grand pera is expensive because It ought to e, always has been and always will )e. "Why should it not be?" the great dnger asks. Paintings by Daubigny, Boussea Vibert, CazIn, Jean Beraud, Detti, etc., Lre expensive, because they are excel ent, and the possessors of the tech iique required to produce them are 'ew in number and know their own ralue. There are very few composers who are able to produce really great >peras, and they must be well paid. rhen how many vocal artists are there * the known world who are competent *o Interpret the music? Do we appre late the enormous expenditure of time Lnd effort, the long, laborious, uninter upted training which the singers must ,o through with before audiences will isten to them? And then she points out that acciden r the uncertainty of old age may stel. a at any moment to cut short the great Inger's career and stop her income. fe. Melba may be excused for forget- j Ing her great, and, perhaps, only rival, 1 "atti, upon whom neither years nor the ccidents of life make any Impression. 3 sut in the main, the Australian diva's roposition is correct-that the profes tonal life of the singer is short and irecarious. Does it follow that grand opera ough, o be and always will be an expensive uxury for the people? Surely It would eem that a wise Providence ordered therwise. Mme. Melba's comparison f the arts of painting and singing is ot felicitous. It Is true that the works f Daubigny and Cazin and their com eers command a high price. But it is lso true that their paintings and the vorks of others greater than them- t elves are accessible to thegeneral pub te at little or no cost. Most of the mas erpieces of painting are in the art gal arles, which are either free to all or early so. Nor shall we believe that Inging has accomplished Its highest aission until it shall have been placed t the disposal of the common people n the same terms. That consumma [on seems far away at present. We et our grand opera in Chicago cheaper s han they do in New York, or Paris, or 11 ondon, but it Is still a high-priced lux- s ry even here, And so it will remain ntil some system is devised whereby N reat singers are placed at the disposal f the public on the same terms as are Teat paintings. It can be done when hilanthropy or public spirit-or the de- I and of the people or all three combine I r the popularization of the most hu- I 2anizing of all the arts. Speed th ay.-Chicago Times-HeraldL The Deviline. C Some one has Invented an instrumen f torture called the "deviline" whistle. Q t is somewhat larger than the ordin ry police whistle. In the tube is a mall perforated wheel which loosely evolves on a pin axle. When the whistle is blown gently thL ~ 'heelbeginsto turn, and the sound pro ueed isthat of alow moan, such ar iay be heard In a dentist's office. The sound grows in a long and pro e )nged wall of anguish, which dies way into another moan as the wheel S ows down, It would be Impossible to imnagine x iore excruciating and heartrending erles of noises. The frightful sounds t uggest bed-room murder, the abduc- ~ ton of children and the shrieks of de rum. Tender nerves are set on edge, t nd timid people are frightened into 1 old perspiration. The "deriline" Is ~ a terrifying in its effects that it is cer Lin to become popular. ] O rase fbr Orime Mementos. Since the assassination of M. Carn6. i he cutler at Cette who sold the dag- ' er to the murderers has, It is said, een Inundated with orders for weap us of similar pattern and size to that sed on the fatal night at Lyons. The a rders come from France and from broad, somebody ln~Brussels having sked for 800 daggers, During the ionth following the assassination the c uler dispatched over 1,000 of these i rtcles to various places, and ho Is on e le road to realize a small fortune out f the extraordinary craze manifested f y his customers, F'rench and foreign. i: ome of these people intend to exhibit n le blades in their shops or taverns, t hile others are collectors of curiosi les, who want to possess some me iento of a terrible crime. Much Ado About Nothing. Mr. Le Fanu tells an amusing story f a man who was knocked down by~ ie buffer of an engine that was shunt ig some wagons near the station of o ray, in Ireland. It was found that t ie man was the worse for drink, but, 1 spite of his folly, he was only very lightly hurt, being stunned for a few lnutem. Some porters ran to his help,je nd one of them cried. "iBri him toil i station at once." In his an ze'd statej ie man thought they meant the police1 tation, and asked why th ay wanted >take him there. "You know who I j m," he said, "and if I've done any arm to your machine, sure I'm able (' >pay for It." b In the "Sweet Sunny Sonth.E b "Yes, sir, this here's the sunnj ] outh-you're right in the middle of)f ow." t 'Fine weather, eh ?" "Best in the world, sir. Over yan- t< cr's Snow Mountamn, a.:wn thar's Bliz- r Ird Valley, yander's Ice River an' je.4ih leetle to the left is Skatin' Bay. Iir lt< sell you a load o' lightwood an' a pal sktes->aita Constitution. News in Bief. -One sailor in 256 is lost at sc. - England reports fireproof celluloid -A match ismade now from leather ?ulp. -The crocodile's egg is about the dze of the goose. lcebergs in the Atlantic sometimer ast for 200 years. -The river Rhine flows at three ,imes the rate of the Thames. -The polar currents contain less sait than those from the equator. -The latest Vienna cane contains an electric light and storage battery. -bafes rendered burglar proot by .lectricity is one of the latest sugge ions. -Sea water is said to contain all the oluble substances that exist in the ,arth. -Until a hundred years ago treer vere as scarce in Scotland as horses im Venice. -A Spanish paper in the Pyrenees egularly suspends publication in hot veather. -'There are springs of fresh water IL the 1ersian Gulf that furnish sup >lies to vesse!s. -The grentest forest of the world is n 2iberia. .it is 1000 miles long and L700 miles wide. -It is :il that in s'me pirts of Fapan robbers are convictedon a ma ority vote ci the community. -The climaftic limit to the cultivation >f wheat is not so much the cold of vinter as the heat of summer. -In Glasgow, Scotland, all windows bove the ground floor must be hinged o they can be cleaned from the in ide. -Erupp claims to have invented a neacine that will roll iron so tbin hat it takes 180 sheets to make an neh. -V enezuela means "little Venice." ['he early explorers found the natives iving in houses placed on piles in he marshes. - During the last three years the .verage number of deaths from malaris a .taly has been forty five per 100,000 f tue inhabitants. -A curious old Engli sh law forbade treet hawkers to sell plums and apples, -st servants and apprentices shoul teal money to buy them. -The first of the "canals of Mars" ras discovered in 1877 by Professor chiaparelli, astronomer ofthe Boya? )bservatory at Miln, Italy. -The largest woodenware wor'z, in he w1xld arc located in Bay- Ct lich. The present output every tan tours is 1800 tubs and 8500 pails. -Among the Armenians it is esti aated that frem sixty to seventy per ent. of the chiidren die. from the twe iseases, typhoid fever and amalpox. -One of the natural curiosities of stanwood, Wash., is a "blowing" or 'breathing" well, which exhales mmense quantities ot noxious gases. -M. Bay, a Persian, is the inventoz f a new sort of ornamental glass, rhichi closely resembles hoar frost or jass in the feathery forms upon it. - The new English torpedo boat re ently made a nine-hour trip during . thich she averaged the remarkable peed of twenty-eight knots an hour. When a portion of the brain is re aoved it seems to be renewed, but rhether the substance is true brain issue or not apprears to be undeter ined. -The difficulty ot registering the emperature at the bottom of the ocean B due to the fact that at great depths he theremometers are crushed .by the ,ressure.. -The smallest sum ever received in .ancaster county, Pennsylvania, by a . heriff's sale was thirty one cents, ren a merchant was sold out the ther week. -There is talk of disinfecting all the ills in bor.ierset House, London, be ause many of them were drawn up ad executed in chambers of conta ious diseases. -Frenchmen take the neatest boots; eotcimen take the largest, but they anuot compete with Lobengula, ;hose size was twelve inches long and ight inches wide. -A London firm wnich has mann ictured eight of the eleven cables link,. rig the UnitedI States to - England inkes filty five miles of cable eacih renty-four houts. -liee R~ ck, California curiosity, Sa big granite bowider full of cracks d holes, which drip honey. Many warms of bees have lived there, ne nc knows' how long. -Sergeant O'Keefe, who spent five ears in the observatory on Pik3's ~eak, says that the lowest temperature bserved was fifty degrees below zero; ie highebt, sixty-two degrees above. ..-The roar of a water fall is explained a the constant explosion of hundreds f thousands of bubbles. The impact f water against water is beheved to e a comparatively subordinate cause -The particles of sand, stones, shels n the like, brought up in the tallow ith which the sounding lead is ciov red, frequently furnish indications, of ret value as to the. position of the lip. -Professor Gilbert, the geologist, as come to the conclusion -that the uge hole in the ground iknown, as the )iablo Canon, in Arizona,. marke-the lace where a large meteor once struck lie ground. -Cant-, meaning mock humility, >o its name from Bev. Andrew Cant, iinister of kPitsligo, in Aberdeenshire, ho, during the time of the Covenan ers was lamed for his whining and retendinig fervor-.