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E ET W K E iKLY EDI TI ON. W1NNBOR S. C., PECEM-t.R 1q,ESABISED184 NDAY TIfEME:l nIFeends, Who and of Musicy t Taste in tho in the thirttet'd he fifth day of e captives by eaveas were nP eipahti vary, stand anaL-WhiCh onad nn-: dinez2ar the Rives le hai most a! ions of are on somne - Paul ekiel had to ha; to as h 1z. r -or? th, are at t the ithout 0. ow t'nat -Angelo ndigment" heard the - nder. E here, pow persuadedl the brighter Sinding m tr that Tuarner .diand Titian i"ed savin:r ey portrayed yet but their ten thou!aad Iour departed his world were are still regating 'e of heaven :h-it Why all this talk irs onthe glass and or:,torios and or d.over again speaks If heaven bad no t number of those on a taken up by the urely the Christian at Smemory. Then there EOuts in heaven who an.t "Antloch" and d "0 d Hundred." The al orch.'stra ne d only a, ad all heaven wl~l be elujah, :a.ever cet out of music, and Lowel Mtason and tdstarr un a hundred old hoias, Bat what with the imoh mentions, and the vari aluded to, and the importa n- harmonies, a Christian -ing, will have an abuind eent. You must rem?moer bter instruments or musio eYou ask mue, "Do they and real trumpets and real nor know. Some wiseaeres arwe no suc.h th:ngs in ow, but I should not S "pd who made all the - hills, and ad thb es~ of the earth, and universe-I snould 6e' could, if He had a. -- un prmnta 0omat, *as carr!ed for the last tiue into the music ball; th o h. heard his oratorio of the "CrQation.' .is'ory sas that as the orehdstra eame td..th9t fzmo's, passags; "Lt je1S be light!" the *hole I audience rose and cheered, and Haydn waved his hand toward heaven and said, "It comes frd-n there!" Orerwheime1 With his own mdskE, he vas carried out in his ehair, and as he carne to the door he soread his han I toward the orchestra as in benedietion. aarda was right when be waved his hand toward heaven and said, It comes front there?' 3asis was borfl It heiten An it will ever have it. highe throno in heaven. an.l I want oa..tornuder stand that our departed friends who were passionately fond of musid here are now at. the headquarters of harmony. I think that the Araud old chureh tunes that died when your grandrathers diei have gone with them to hea ven. Wnen those tunes d:ed, they did not stay on earth, an.i they could not have been banished to perdition. and so I think they must be in the corridors of alabaster an1 L'baaon cedar. Again, % rrmark that those of our de parted Chtistian friends Wlao in this world had very strong milit:ry spirit are no% in atmies celestial and oit in bloodless b-ttle. There are hundrels of peop'e born solliers. They cannot help it. They belong to re;. ments in ti:-s of peace. They. cannot hear a drum or f.e without trying to keep step to zhe masic. Th -y are Christ lians, and when they fight they fight on the right side. Now, when these onr Christian friends who had natural and powcrfal military spirit ente ed heaven they entered the celestial arniy. The door of heaven searcely opens but you hear a military demonstrat ion. David cried out, "The charlots of God are 20,O3!" Elisha saw the mountains filled with celestial cav alry. St. John sail,. "The armies which are a heaven followed Him on white horses. 'ow. wuen tho<e who has the niilitary spirit earth sanctifled entered glory, I suppose ey right away enits;ed on soroe heavenly paign; they volunteered right away. re must needs be ia heaven soldiers with idierly spirit. There are grand parade ,when theKing reriewsthetroops. There be an armed escort sent ont t . r ing up earth to o were 'mora . There must b3 crusades Soeing fitted out for some part of God's ominidn-battles. bloodless, groanless. tnless-angels of evil to be fought down :l fought out, other rebellious worlds to conquered. worlds to be put to the torch, rids to be saved, worldsto be demolished, rids to be sunk, worlds to be ho:sted. Be es that, in our own world there.ate bat . for tho right and against tie wrong ere we must have the heavenly military. t is what keeps us Christian reformers so rant. So few good men against so many m -n; so for churches against so many hops; so many pure printing Dresses st so many pollute i printing presses, yet we are buoyant and courageous, e. while we know tha: the ar-nies of -n the world are larger in numbers he army of truth, there are celestial co a the air fighting on our sidO. I have mn^h faith in the army on the zround ave in the army in the air. O- God, ur eyes that we may see them-the -spirits that went up from earth to military spirits before the throne and Caleb and Gideon and David and and the hundreds of Christian war o on earth fought with fleshly arm, having gone up on high, are com the hills'of deaven ready to figh e incisibl's. ext world? They found their joy ht in mathemtios. There was .ry to them in Euclid than in yohn They were passiona'ely fond of tics as Plato, who wrote over his et no one enter here who is not ac with geometry." Wat are thoy w? They are busy with figures yet. n all the universe like heaven for tia"nbersinilite. distances Infinite, ions infinite. If they want them, eties and algebras an i geo met's and metries for all eternity. What dells e to oo sur%oyad! Wh-t maguitudes sure! WAat diameters, what circum .s whlt triangles, what quatern+ons, epievaick1s, what p]rallelogr'.m, what sections! t are our departI Christian friends a explorers doing now? Exploring with lighntning locomotion, with roscopie and1telesnoce at the same atinent at a glane. a world in a anetary syste:m in a day. Chris Franti:n, no more In disabled -hning toward the North Pole; Long, no more tryinr to free annetts from the lce; Christian ne, no more amid Arri.ian malarias, to make revelation of a dark eon but all of them in the twinkling of an ing in that which was once unap onb-el.' --Mont- Pdnogled without alpenstokr, the coral depths ohne ocean ex pored without i divine bell, the mountains unbarred and opened without Sir Humphrey Davy's safety lamp. What are our .ieparted friends who found their chief joy in study doing now? Study 'g yet, but, incten-1 of a few thousand vol es an a few shelves, all the volumes of the niverse op:an before the:n-geologic, orni thoogic, conch alogie. botanic, astronomic, pnilosophie. No more need of Leyden jars or voltaie piles or electric batteries. standing as they do face to face with the facts of the universe. What are the historians -doing now? Studing history yet, but not the history of a few centuries of our planet only, but the istory or the eternities--whole millen niUms, before X.enophen or Herodotus or Sioses or Adam was born. History of one world, history of all woride. What are our eparte I astronomers doing? Studying astronomy yet, but not through the dull eis of earthly observatory, but with one troke of wnI goin.g right out to Jupi er and Mars an-t Mercury and Saturn rand Orion ant the Pleiades. overtakingt and paesing the swiftest cornet in their fiight. Herschel died a Christian. Have ou any doubt about what H.rschei is doing? [saac Newton died a Christian. Have you any doubt ab>ut what Inne ton is doing? Ioseph Henry died a Christi:::3. Have you any doubt about what Joseph Henry is do 1u? They were in discussion, a I these as tronomers of earth, about what the aurora orealis was, and none of them could guess. They know now: they have bean out there to se:e for themselves. What are our departed Christian chemists doing? Following out their own science, fol Iowing ontt an i following out brever. Since. they died t hey have sotred 10,009 questions which puzzled the earthly laboratory. They stand on the -other side of the thia wall of electriciy-the thin wall that s&sns to di ride the physical from the spiritual world: the thin wall of elertricity, so thin the wall that ever and anon It seems to be almost broken through--broken through from one side by 'telephonme ant telegraphic ap-I paratus, broken throngh from the other side by strange innluences which nen in their ignorance call spirit ualhstic manifestations. All that matter leaad up. They laughing at us as oldier brothers will laugh at inexperienced broth ers, as they see us with eontractedbrows ex perimenting and experimenting, only wish ing thev could show us the way to open all the mysteries. Agassiz standing amid his stud'ent explorers down in Brazil, coming across some great nove!ty :.a the rocks. tak lng off his hat and saying: "Gentlemen, let us pray. We must have divine iiluminatlon. We want wisdom from the Creator to study ihese rocks. He made them. Let us pray." i.gassiz going right on with his studies for ever and forever. But what are the men of the law, who in this world found their chief joy in the leg~al profession-what are they doing now? Study ing law in a universe where everything is cntrole i by law from the flight of hum ming birds to flight of world-!aw not dry and hard and drudging, but riAhteouis and magnifent law, before which man and cherub and, seraph and archangel and God Himself bow; the chain of law long enough to wind aroundthe immensities and Infinityj and eternity. Chain of law. What a place! to study law, where all the links of the chain dho in this 'ord had their joy i the heal ing irt doing now? Busy at their old basi nesa- No sickness in heaven, but plenty of ictess on earth; plenty of wounds. in the different parts of rod' domiion to be healel ant to be .medica:ed; Those glorlfled souls oom:ng down not in lazy doctor's g1_, btt tith lighttiig locomotion. You cannot understand why that patient got welt dfter all the skillful doctors hall said he must die. Prrhapt Ahercrombie, who, after mny years cioctoring the bodies and the souls o? pyople In Seotlani, went up to God ii. 1SM. ? Perhaps Abererombic todclied lit-n; I should not wondet if my old friend, Dr. John B:own; thd died in Ed nbrgh-.4orn Brown, the author of ":i' and His Friends," John Brown, who was as humble a Cnristian as he was a skillful phy sieian and world renowned author-I 4hould not wonder if he had been back again and again to see some of his old patients. Those who had their joy in healing the siccness and the woes of earth, gone up to heaven, are come forth again for benignant medi cament, Bat what are our friends who found their chief joy in conversation and in soci,lity do ing nocv? In brighter convorsation.there and in grander socia!ity. What' a pla-e to visit in when your noxt door neighbors aro kings aninqueens. you yourselves kingly and queen ly! If they want to know more paiticularly about the first paradise, they have only to go over and ask Adam. If they want to know how the sun and the moon halted, t'hey have only to go over and ask Joshua.; If they want to know how the storm pelted Soaom, they have only to go over and ask Lot. If they want to know -.'7e aboutthe arrogance of Haman, they have only to go over and ask 31ordecai. If they want to know how the Red Sea:boiled when it was cloven.they hnve only to go over and ask Moses. If they want to know the particulars about the Bethlehem advent, they have only to go over and ask the serenading angels who stood that Christ: mas night in the balconies of crystal. If they want to know more of the particulars of the crucifixion, they have only to go over and ask those who were personal spectators while the mountains crouched and the h avens-ot black in the face at the spec ta -.e If they want to know more about the sufferin.gs of the Scotch Covenanters, they have only to go over ant ask Andrew Hel ville. If they want to know more about the old time revivals, they have only to go over to ask Whitefeld, and Wesley,and .Livings ton, andPletcher, and. ettleton, and Finney. But what are our departed Christian friends who in all departments of usefulness ,vere busy finding their chief joy in doing good-what are they doing now? Going right on with the work. JoLu Howard vis iting dungeons; the dead women of northern and southern battledeldsstill abroad looking for the wounded: George Peabody still watching the poor: Thomas Clarkson stili looking after the enslaved-all of those who did good on earth busier since death-than before; thetombstonenot theterminus,butthe starting post. What are our departed Chris tian friends who found their chief joy in studying God doing now: studying God yet. No,need of revelation now for -un blanched, they'are face to face. kow they can handle thu omn!potent thunderbolts just as a child handles the sword of a fath er come back from victorious battle. They have no sin; no fear, consequently. S'udying Christ, not through .a revelation anve the revelation of the scars-that deep lettering -which brings It all _up. quick enough.._ Studying the Christ of the Beth lehemLe ravansa y;-tha Christ-of,-the-awul an:-n n and foot a-iawa meatnrist of the shattere.l mausoleum; Christ the sac rifice, the Star, the Son the Man, the God, the God-S-tn, the Man-4ol. But hark! The bell of the cathedral rings-the cathedral bell of heaven. What is the matter now? There is gong to be a great meeting in the temple: worshipers all coming through the aisles. Make room for the Conqueror, Christ standing in the temple. A'l heaven gather ing around Him. Those who lovedthe beau tiful come to look at the Ross of Sharon. Those who loved music aome to listen to dis voice. Those who were mathematicians come to count the years of His reign. Those who were explorers come to discover the height and the depth and the length and breadth of His love. Those who had the military spirit on earth sanctified. and the military spirit in ht 'aveD, come to look at the Cap tain of their salvation. The astronomers comco to look at the Morning Star. The men of the law come to look at Him who is the judge of quick and dead. Thbe men who healed the siok came-to look at:Him who was wounded for 'bir transgressions. All diffrent' and different forever in m,ny respects, yet all alike In admiration for Chisi. in worship for Christ, and all alike in jomning in the doxology,."Unto Him who washed us fro-n our sins in.His own blood, and made us kings and priests unto God; to HI,n bie glory in the church tlroughut all ages, world without sin." Amen.* To show you that our departed friends are more alive than they ever were, to make you homesick, for heaven, to give you an enlarge I view of the glories to bo revealed, I have preached this sermon. TO FIX UNIFORM WHEAT PRICES. Iussia Said to Favor an International Con. ference to That End. A conference of Na''.ons on the subject of the world's wheat martet is. understood to be desired by at least one of the great foreign wheatgrowing empires. It is stat ed in official circles at Washington that Russia Is particularly friendly to such an idea and is believed to be making over tures not only to the United States but to England, the Argentine Republic and Aus tralia, which are the principal wheat-grow ing Nations of the world. The idea suggested, as outlined, is that these Nations. should they see at to unite in an agreement upon the subject, could fix a oice for wheat to be maintained uniformly through various seasons or overproduction and unsatisfactory crops caused by drought or continual r ain, andl thus make the princi pal grain staple. upon which milliou:s of eon samers depend for food. almo.st as unchange able in value as gold itself has become. This would enable the prodn.eer, in the event of an unusually large crop. to store his wheat and obtain thereon a loan that would tide him over until the wheat was in demand in the world's market, when he would receive a full and fair prico for it. SKUNKS STOP A BALL GAME, When They Indo a Rus for the Cenier the Players Decamped. During a football game at Osgood, In!., where the Hartesville and Mioorskill College teams were playing, the first half being fin ished, some'ooys and dogs Iast outside3 the line, in the edge of a wood, were having sport with some ekunks in a hollow log. Finally the skunks were induced to come out of their hiding place, some half dozen s'rong, and they made a "rush" for the fiteld, breaking the lines just being formetd for the second half. Long-haired skunks an'Ilonger atrod football plawfrs were mixed up for half a minute. When they were separated the boys rushe~d wildly and furiously, snifilg and yelping oiT the field. Severa! hundred visit ors were present, and a iarge number lost all interest in tne game, and m-my of them ha<t perfume reminder3 iven them by the kindly visitors. Novel Swindling Dev-ice. Swindlers hare been operating extensively in Northern Indiana counties, and the use of h United Stat es mails wal'ecause complaint to be made to the F'ederail authorities. The eat.s of heads of famnilies amre followed by the receip': of notices, couched In legal terms, that sums ranging from $10 to $100 are due on insurance policies held on the :ife of the deceased, which must be settled before the policy will be paid. The headquarters of the swindlers are believed to be in Chicngo. In a number of causes the swindie las been tEE tzAmn's LAW STUDs. The Czarina is studying the'hws of Russia. "How can I be expe0ted to assist in the governmerit of my peo ple," she is said to have declared; "when I know nothing about their laws'"-San Francisco Chronie.,e. TO EEEP VIoLETS F3EsE. ' To keep violets fresh when wearing them on the person, wrap tha stems first in cotton dipped in salted water and then In tinfoil. When they are not d?oing service the stema sha:uld be put in salted water, the tops sp'nkled aifd the whole covered closelM',with coniectioner's paper, and put in a cool place. In this v ay the blossrs-may be preserved for several days. -OVELTr IN FUn, COATS. *A novelty in fur. cob.-is made of glossy Persian lamb iined'ti'i-wlite satin, fitted closely at the back and loose in front, where the edge-is cut I in squares, which lap over an erimine vest._ The bottom is slashed 'in the same manner, but not very deep, and the sleeves are of black velvet shirred in at the armhole, finely tuekedtelow, and quite plain below the elbow with fur cuffs. The collar is -wide 'and square, and soft ends .-of cre'M-4ace fall over the white vest. FPIST .'OmS'S CLs- IN ta xC The first -woman's club start$d in France seems to have done so e v ry sensible lines. The Presideate has studied institutions of the kind "her ever they exist, and has now fitted up and fuinished a house in Paris.at her .own expense. The regulationg are somewhat strict, and the club hiasbeen opened with permission from thelPre fecture ci Poiice. The-subscriptfonis only about $12, annually, and tB wo me.n it gathez s together are i ?y widows. and spins ters,nost o6 om rn rtheir own living, bt- i ew dine togetherlat prettily dec ated tables, write letters and chat, and amuse themselves with games the salous, but playing for money is triot ly forbidden. Ta REvIvL OF PErFotE.j For the moment a good deal df seri ots attention is being given to the use of perfnmes, and the lady who has re introduced the custom of nsing sweet odors set the ball a-rolling by casually announcing at a dinner party that once a week she regularly had her house perfumed. A tall, bronzed, mystericus prcduct of the East, whose pockets are filled with brown beans and strange, fragrant shavings and bottles no bigger than your thumb, has thus sprung into an interesting ephemeral fame; for he now goes about perfuming houses. He charges a good deal for his job; but, really, when he leaves one's home, a vale of roses or a dell of heliotrope could not greet one's senses more deliciously than the atmosphere of the rtooms he has perfumed.-Demorest's Magazine. At the beginning of the season it is well to look with suspicion upon the fashion which seems most in favor, for there always hovers round it the danger that a little lator it may be come common. This is just 'what has happened this year to the fascinating ruche. Early in September it appeared as one of the fall novelties. It came in the effective changeable tafietas, with a narrow velvet edge, and could be bought by the yard. Women soon saw that the ruche cond be used in many ways, and that invariably its fldfy fullness was be co-nimg.. Then and there the downfall of the ruche began. Now it is seen more often on the streets -than any one of fashion's frills. Every second bat one meets is trimmed with a ruche, and though many of the hats are French creations ad costly, the popularity of the ruche detracts much Irom their distinction. Hats made on Third avenue are now ornamented with a ruebe. As for the taffeta r'uche used as a boa, one sees it everywhere. So the women who are fond of exclusive things a e regretfally putting aside the ruche. -New York Journal. Everything is lavishly trimmed this season, even the muff. The plain, old-fashioned fur muff has gone out of faahion. The new muffs are as large Ias those carr.ed by our grandmothers, but in no other way do they resemble the muffs of-long ago. The muff of to-day, to be strictly fashionable, must be much trimmed. It matters little whether it is trimmed with another fur, bows of ribbon or velvet, lace frills or a clus ter of flowers. The fashionable re quirement is not how it is trimme l, but merely the fact that it shall be trimmed and trimmed conspicuously. A new muff which illustrates per fectly the fashion of the hour is long and round in shape. . It is made of Persian lamb, but has a large sable coiled around it. .The hea'd of the sable is anianged to rest on thd front of the muff. At each -deof the muff there is a full ruche of 2eep emerald wgeeig l- vElTet, .w 'e isff -.l - -, -. 96S11 t with graceful bows and ende. The muff is lined with the same shade of green in satin. Another novel new muff is made of chinchilla and looks like a fluffy ball. At each side it is finished with a raffie of the fur-lined with yellow satin, while caught in the centre of the mull is a large cluster of silk -petalled yel lev roses. 'A muff, which is conspicuous encugh to suit the most daring lady of fashion in the land, is a very large, long muff made of sealskin. Around it are coiled five ermine falls. ~ The end of each one hangs four inches below the muff. Five little ermine heads are fastened in a row along the front of the muff, and they all have jewels for their eyes. Then there is a sable muf, with a large butterfly bow in lace. In the centre of the bow a cluster of violets is caught and the muff is lined with violet satin, which peeps out at each end in a ruche. A FAXOUs Stories of cel the New York long after th a remembran teresting as a They are qui frailty of bun John," says a people intere a childhood s iisa Emily S phia.. She was a woman. Ihav of her, and not her beauty coul uncle as a you study his pro brought with with whom h It was at a b first introd She was -one ti"*h"G- . Wne the yon:, or, eiger, which were made in the effus ive manner of his country. 'Bring your friend to call, John,' she said, graciously tapping my uncle on the shoulder with a fan. 'He says I -am beautiful, but even you, who have known me so long, do not appreciate my chief beauty. Come to-morrow morning at 11 andsee if r am not right.' The :cnng men were on hand prompt. ly. The servant ushered them into a reception room, where the young beauty sat. The ieaning of her somewhat enigmatical remark was made plain. The young lady did not rise to receive her guests, and as they approached they saiv two small bare feet resting upon the deep aapphire blue velvet cushion, which brottgo out more fully their delicate bea.uty. The skin was like exquisite white satin, and the nails lii' -polished sea sells. They were very beautiful, my uncle said, absolutely without blem isb. Only a woman inordinately vain could have given such an unconven tional exhibition, but at least there was exeuse for the vanity-." The popularity of aark red seems te be assured. The correct walking boot is to haew a broad sole this winter. The violet reigns supreme as the favored flower of fashion. Lace and chiffon are used extensivel3 on the handsomest fur garments. Sailor hats, trimmed with plaid taffeta ribbon, are very popular fo3 fall wear. English decorators are replacing ornamental friezes with immense pho tographs. Black cloth costumes having the side breadths and vest braided are fre quently seen. Velvt belts-broad ceintures are made up into folds containing several shades of one color. Children wear the bolero as well as their mammias, and the empire coata are very becoming to th.m. "Schen-schin" is the newest shade of pink, It is the color of Japanese roses when they first begin to bloom. The newest opera cape has a Marie Antoinette hood lined with ermine and finished -with a ruc-he of lace around the edge.e The deep crushed empire belt ol satin or velvet looks well on slender figures, but imparts a short-waisted effect to stout people. Some of the sequin trimmings are quite foor inches in width, and inter ected with braid tracing in free-hand drawing sor ts of scrolls. Fur and greibe birdIs form t.ho latest Parisian combination, and the gar ments made in this style are particu larly attractive for evening wear. For evening gowns ne L is being used in great profusion, but it is not treated in its most extravagant fashion with trimmings of steel or jewels of jet. Beautifulblue and gr een plaids, not small checks, but great big plaids, with here and there a yellow, a white or a red line, will be an autumn nov Loosely draped sashes.are charming with muslin gowns on very slight figures or youthful wearers, and are now almost a necesity fo o in the early morning. Sometimes many of the leaves may be seen in action at once, and then again only a few seem to be inspired with motioa which shows tbit their action does not depend upon the wind. -Phiadelphia Times. MI IE S LESSON. Minnie had como down stairs dressed ready for the par-y, ouiy meet with her mamma's disapprov She had told her little danghter. wear what she wished, but not to on her "best." "But, mamma," said Minnie, I ing grave, bt determine-. " have to-.wear this dress becans only other one th't is o n tight for anything; it hI that I-can hardly breathe." "'m sorry, daughter t er said, with an eqaali mined face, "but yon surel such a delicate muslin as have on is not eatable to: lawn party. It witi tear. lace." fy bctshave t1 sticking into my t walkiarouad last n I had to put on my Vry grave look was a sad fact t eard of the dress t or the fearful n buttoned kid boo ment. Cond it be little daughter wa desire to appear clothes at the par quite the truth? for a full minute b tat her child neede -"Minnie," she sa girl knew that when in that tone, and full name, there wa for argument, "you dress, and that sash "Well," shesa long sigh, and lo sorrows of life an heart, "I suppose my things; butlI time to go now." "Yes," said her very sad. "You. ma things. Pat on you wore this mnorning, oot.". "Mamma!" gaspe you mean to let me g "There is nothing i my daughter. I supp not like to go in lothes, and you say ye dress is too tight, and your kid boots hurt you ourse, you will have to I had beard of this be have altered the dress boots put in order ; but ave never said any before." Then was Minnie I can wear thm trning away. comfortable, bnt't5e "No daughter, I cannot to 'stand it.' You know I do yen to dress so that yon ca breathe,' nor wear shoes i you can 'hardly walk around. nothing for you but to re Poor little Minnie 1 It was leson. She went to no law that afternoon; she sat on the pizza in her dark calico dre. tick boots and sobbed. S grown so used to making little tings into great one.', when her convenience to do so, actuall (did not realiza teling what was ant -a .e other little people 713 sUsuml~ 307. His hat is battered, his shoes are torn, Lnd his outgrown clothes are sadly worn; But cheerily comes his whistling song ; 'ow near, now far, as he trudges along rhree times a day in his work or play; Lnd the very merriest roundelay couldn't to me one-half so well the story of his temper tell. asI dine each day, Ihear the oheery whistle far and near, &nd watch the eager, happy face, [ nclonded by a sinful trace, uill from his heart, brimful of Joy, We catch a ray-God bless that boy! -Elizabeth A. D46irs3 A O.MZ|S LONG MEMO3. In Central park, New York City, is. e dromed:ary so vi t- - - old. man kissed his newly found friend good-bye, apologized for breaking the rules and went away.-Chicago Eecord. sI am ru s. Early travelers in China and Tar tary speak of a "plant of flesh and blood, with the shape and appearance of a lamb; having feet, tail and head distinctly formed, and its skin covered with soft down." The iamb is said to grow upon a stalk three feet in height. and to.turn about and bend to the herbage that serves for its food, and when the grass falls it dries, up and -withers away. There is some foundation for his queer-tory in the existence of a sin gularly-shaguzt plant recently discov ered which has a'uertof woolly cov ering ; and in order to 'highten the general effect, the natives trim ?~ plant and adjust the long, lighb, silkyT hairs that cover it, in such a style as to give it the appearance of a fool animal. It is natural to suppose that this plant would wither when the grass begins to fall; for even if it did not abst upon the grass as reported, the same drought that served to kill the grass would naturally destroy the It may not be so generally known that there now grows in Asia a tree, the bark-o f which is made into sheets abot a yard Equare, and these are used for all ordinary purposes of paper, being very tough and durable. The soft and durable Chinese rice pa per is not the produet of any part of the rice plant, but is the pith of a tree which, by the aid of a lathe and a sharp insLrument, is cut into very thin and - delicate rolls. The lighting materials furnished by trees is another thing worth noting; among which may be mentio.ned the Japanese wan-tree,which bears bunches of fruit, growing like grapes, and ontaining a species of wax used in making candles. Another tree is found in the Pacific islands, known as the candle-nut, which yields a large quantity of oil, the kernelh being strung together on a stick and lighted as a candle. We also mention the candle-tree, the fruit of which is three or four fet in length, and about an inch in diameter, an-d of a yellowish color, "hauging from the tree so as to pre sent the appearance of wax cand'es, and in such abnndance as to give the idea of a chandier's shop. A slender er.ect shrub grows in India to which the name of the tele graph plant haes been given because of a resemblance to railway telegraph siinals in the motion of it9s tri-foliate leaves; the two s. le one. - f alling alternately for,a eeting for a period and si motion. They ar j.