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SUPPLEMENT -TO THE Laurens Advertiser. Tho Now York Time? alerts that the I Piko County (Pa.) hears nro ?s abondant thia season as they wore forty years ago, . and grow bigger and fatter. A few hears showed themselves in Tennessee last winter, on tho lino of tho Cincinnati Houthern Railway. By a curious coincidence, two person? with bullet wounds in tho head wero re ceived at tho London hospital on tho , same day recently. More remark ible ls tho fact that, though in each case thc bullet was driven into tho brain too deeply for axtractiou, both pntieacs havo been discharged convalescent. There marvelous recoveries from what, a few uara ago, would havo meant certain death, illustrato the offocts of superior surgical skill and tho modern antiseptic method of treating wounds. Thoro is a woman in Camden, Ohio, from whoso body, at different points thero have been taken gold bars or. rather, noodles. Thcie picheshavi varied hi length, from a half inch to four or - (Ive inches, aud arc in thickness n ; |flo larger than a darning needle Thc ooh solution offered is that in cirly years she swallowed a gold coin, or piece of ?.old which, by soino action of the ga tra juices of tho stomach, was dissolved and circulated through tho system, then, by some action of tho blood, precipitated An assoriation of Alabama, Crorgln. Virginia, New York ad Philadelphia capitalists, called the North Birmingham Land Company, has been formed at Bir mingham, Ala., with a capital of *70o. 0.)o. Thc Coalburg coa'. m.ning pro er ty, with a du.ly output of 600 tons, is included in the purchase ruado by thc oomr y from tho Richmond vt Danville exte >n. Its mining capa itv will bc Inc eased and a larg - iron iurnnc- will numerous coke ovens will ho cr?ete 1 a; once. Tho site of the \ lant is on Yilla 'c Creek, not quite two miles noith of Bir mingham. The company owns 12,.'Ot acion of coal and farm land?, and pro po>ea building a suburban town and en gaging in extensive manufacturing. A carpet morchnnt in Yionna has a ru rious collection of ancient wo den am linen cloths, including more than thru hundred sp ci mens. Many of them havi been takoa from tombs "nd aro streichet on folios of cardboard to preserve thoai Some of tho fragments ure only n foo rqunre, but tho larger r>nn.s make up at fntlrc l oman to^a, which in >aid tobi the only ono in tho w rid. There are i great many embroidered dresses and i tloal of knitting a .d crowd w >rk J ouhlo chain stitch teems to have b^ei as familiar to thc Egyptian seam-tr s?es sewing with bono neel!. ?, as it is ti modern women. There arc some vcr quaint and unusual designs in tho oli collo I n m of cloths, but thero are als some very common tliin.s. It is curiou to find that thc comm >n blue check pat tern of our dusters and work house apron was in gene al u e a nong tho Kgyytian more than a thousand yesjsago. Tho BUctrkia > has this to say abott thc uso of cicctricity on crim.nd "Thorc ie now exhibited nt ?.eip/ig n app?t?t :s for putting criminals to deat by electricity. So long as it ls foun necessary to retain capital punishmen ipon our statute hooks it may bo thu the o'ectric method ls thc most mercifti and least repulsive process that could h devised for ran . ing the sentence int effect. Eui if ?ich means atc eve ?dopte 1 iu this country, tho detail^ wll certainly not he carried out in the theat rical m nncr which commends it?elf t thc Leipzig amati ur. In this apparatut heh nd tho ?hair in which tho con detuned man is to lake his scat-and b means of which, as wc need not expia In detail, his body is ?.l;:ccd in circui with a pow? rful coil- the 0 .stands a con vontionnl figure of Justice with ban daged o\es, heddi g tho balance in he ?eft band and tho sword in her ri^h! The criminal having taken his scat, th proper functionary is Bttpposed to r a over the record o? his crimes and th lentcnce of tho law. This ecrctn my coir pleted ho folds up tho do- ument an place? it in the st ale pan, thc arm of th balance descends, closes the circuit, an sills over.'' _ Thc human family living to-day o larth conusts of about 1,150,000,000 ir iividuals; not less, probably mort These are distributed over thc earth's sm face, so t at now there is no consi lei ible part where mon is not found. I Asia, whero bo was first planted, thci sro now approximately about 600,00( densely crowded; on an average 120 1 the square mile. In Europe thero ai 8.0,000,000, avcra-ing 100 to thcsquai mile, not s > crowded, but every whet dtnsc nt all points over populated I Africa theio arc 210,000,000. In Amor ca, North anti South, there aro 110,000 000, relatively thinly . cuttere 1 and ri cent. In tho i hinds, large and smal probably i0,? 0 y:00. Tho . xtremes < the white un 1 black are tts live to thro< the remaining 700,000.000 intermedia! brown and tawny. Of tho rn 0 600,000, OOO are well clothed, that is wear ya ments of some kind to c ver their nnkoi ness; 700,000,000 are semi clothed, co' eringinferior parts of tin haly, 0">o 0110,000 aro practically inked. Of tl race, 800,000,000 live in hOMSOS parti furnished with tho appointments of ci' ilization; 700,000,( 0 ) in huts or cnvi with no furnishing; 060,0JO,000 ha> nothing that can bo called a home, ai barbarous and savage. Tho rango from the topmost round -tho Ang Saxon civiiizat.on, which ls th . hight known-down to naked savagery. Tl portion of the raco lying below thc lit of human condition is at tho very lea three fifth* of the whole, or 000,000,00 ARTHUR'S DEATH. THE i HOM I MM I' V-I'lt I'nilM *, I DIE? OF APOPLEXY. Tho Eminent atnteainnti I?I^V,.S i nto ??.nth-, A fl rent Political Leedor Call? e?I From Thin Eire Hin Death I nrx. peet vd? NKW YORK. NOV. 17.-Ex-President Chester A. Arthur died ut 5 o'clock chis morning ut Iiis residence, No. 123 Lexington avenue. Ho had been nil i ing for some time from i complica .ion ol diseases, principally kidney affection. Ho had spent thu Rummer d a watering place, and it was sui? posed that this had stn ngtbed some A hnt his enfeebled constitution. His death was unexpected, il not heing ?Upposotl outside ol Ids house that he was in any immediate danger, nuns m nair nant. As soon as the UOWHOf Mr. Arthur s death was made public many lings on public and private buildings '.vre olaeedal hall mast. Mr Arthur had lived ut No. 123 Lexington avenue for 20 years or more. A stroke of cerebral apoplexy, sud den, but nol wholly unexpected by tho attending physician, terminated Ins life. The stroke came in his Bloop, between Tuesday night and Wcdnos lay morning, rind h?-did not rally thereafter. 1 lis death was painless, like the slow going out of a humed down candi?, and for hours before tie end caine ho was unconscious of ms surroundings, NurroiiuOeU tty Friend* His son and daughter, his sisters, his former low partner, Sherman NV. Knivals, and his closest friend, Surro gate Hollins, were at his bedside. All oportstothc contrary. Mr. Arthur's lonlth had not improved during Ins stay nt New London, six weeks ago, mu at his return, on October 1st, lin .vas no la tter than when ho left the itv. As time passed no permanent improvement came, and tho physi cians feared somosuch sudden stroke is ttie ono to which ho succumbed. In his enfeebled condition oven n light stroke of apoploxy would have .roved fatal to tho once robust pa ient. With tho beginnmg of tho present week o marked change for tho bettor set m. Tuesday tho ex-President felt bettor und stronger than at anytime duce ho was taken sick, and com ticnted hopefully upon tho fact. Tlie l in t Mg-ie* or Death. lt was after midnight when hts at . ndnnl left him alone in his Ind room and nothing was heard of him luring the early morning hours. He \ ?ts not disturbed until his attendant entered his room at eight o'clock yes terday morning. Ho lound Mr. Ar hur lying on his side breathing Heavily, and could not rouse him. rho family answered lus summons, out failed to elicit any sign of con sciousncss or recognition from the ex-President, in alarm they sum moued Ids physician I>i\ George A. Peters, who has been ii: attendance tpon Mr. Arthur throughout his ill e ss and who responded promptly, md at once saw thal he wnssulTer ing from a stroke of cerebral apo plexy. A small blood vessel in the jroin had burst and paralysis of tho fight side had ensued, ?.'rom the m oin ut !ho discovery was made all nopes was known to be vain, hut >*r? ROO rt? were (Spared to bring tho patient hack to con sciousness. They wore all alike fail ures. Mr. Arthur lay motionless and speechless all day. Ho know what was going on about him, for he squeezed his doctor's hand and nut out Ins tongUO portly when asked to lo so. Lut lie never spoke or give any other sign ol consciousness. Last Hight Ot tl O'clock, t llC enfeebled pulse. ? moro diflicull respirations and other I signs of physical failure, indicated to I tho wvitonful eyes of his physicians! thflt tho end was drawing near. \ .h inge for tho won t came "ti rapid ly and rings nt Unit Mint. At tho Capitol immediate^ upon the receipt ol tho news of ox President , Arthur's death the Hags wera ordered to half mast and arrangements made : for tho display of mourning emblems. Senator Sherman loft tho city yester day and Speaker Carlisle and ibo sergeant at arms also being absent, no action could betaken at once in reference to tho funeral, although ;t was assumed that both IIOUROH would desire to bc represented. Ill?? ?Intern und Children flaltioreO ni ll is llednlde. Dr. Wm, A. Valentino, Dr. Polers Portlier and SoiTOgcto Rollins staved with them during tho night. Mr. Knivals went homo al midnight. Mr. Arthur's strength ebbed out slowly. Illili With it his life. It WHS o'clock when tho end carno. Ho had been entirely senseless for hours and died without a struggle A H net eh er Hie Eire Mr, Arthur was 50 years old. Ho hud been a widower ..?ven years. His wifo died in 1870. siie vas Miss Ellen Horndon before he married her, daughter nf a naval officer, n Virginian, who was lost at sea. Of their two chil dren, tho son, Chester Allen, is twen t v two years old He was graduated from Princeton College ti year ugo, and is now a student in tho Columbia . law school. His practical training ho ' ni i ivod in tho law office of Lennis & Ransom, ?lie firm of which thc Ex President was a member up to tho limo of his election t" tho Vice-Prost? loncv on tho Garfield tickets. Tho laughter, Miss Nollie, ?>f whom Mr. Arthur was very fond, is fourteen years <>hl. Ill* flrotttar and Fi louds Iulormed. Teh-grams conveying ihe Intolli ronce of tho death <>f the Ex-Prosl lent h ive boen sent to his brother, Maj. Wm. Arthur, of tho P. S. rogo ar army, stationed at San Antonio, Texas to Gonerai Browster at Phlhv lelphia, Ex Secretary VV. E. Chanti er, who called upon Mr. Arthur Monday, and other members of the 'abinet of the lute administration. ind also to some personal friends ol ho deceased, it is expected that tho. lu mbers of Ex President Arthur's j >abinet will be asked to acl an pall ?oarors nt the funerAi. Tho remains now lio in n parlor on he second floor of tho unostentatious j .esidonCO, whoso honored owner has mssed away. The fact of tho rapidly wavering [fe of Mr. Arthur wos not made pub ie It was not until some hours of OT his death that knowledge of it vus on the street -heneo but few of ? ? . V ! his friends have yet called at the house. Pr? pa rations for the Funeral. It is not yet finally decided whether i Kev. Dr. Howland, Inte rector ? Of the church of the Heavenly ! Rest, or Kev. Dr. Morgan. ? the present rooter, will officiate nt : the funeral service. Undertaker 1 Davidson was summoned to take charge of tho remains this morning. Tho funeral will take place on Satur : day at 0 a. m. from the church of tho , Heavenly Rest, on 5th avenue, thc \ Kev. Dr. Porker Morgan officiating, i Mr. Arthur was not a member of : any church, but bis wife formerly attended' that church. One of the ; distinctive features o? tito ex-Prosi dents character was Iiis strong loy alty (<> ber memory. Mr. Arthur's remains will be buried in tho Albany Kural Cemetery, in the family plot. Tlif> ?'li> .|<<lmi'i Opinion*. I>r George A. Peters was found at his office today, lie Haid: "Mr. Arthur died ol eurobra! apoplexy. That is it wns tho immediate cause. lt was not unexpected For two or three years Mr. Arthur had Buffered from an enlarged and enfeebled heart, and the varioty ol symptom* I that alarmed his friends were thc natural result. Ho had kidney i troublo .-Bright's discaso, but it. was not the causo of his death. A man , of less powerful constitution would I havo succumbed much sooner. Hi? I great physical strength nulled him through as far .'is this. Mr. Artbut : was not only a physically strong bte ' a mighty good man. and those whe were closest to bim in his trouble learned to value bim most highly. ! How th? Sad \niH Ma? Rr*c?lv?<l lt Washington. WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.--The per sonal regard in which Ex-Presiden Arthur was bold in Washington wai shown by expressions of sincere sor row on all hands this morning at tin nows of his sudden death. The re coipt of the first bulletin was follow ed almost immediately by Hie hal masting of flags on thc wings of tb Capitol, on the White House and Di partaient building, on tho cour ie ilise and district building, and 01 many hotels, school and privat' buildings. Soon after thc receipt o tho press bulletins Colonel Lan ion received from .las. ( '. Reid, Ex-Pret dent Arthur's private secretary, th f< ?Bowing telegram : "Ex Pr? sidont .Arthur died at liv o'clock this morning." k*r??idrnt < l?v?lnmrr? M*w?aa* of Iii ?peet. The President wi s at once inforn ed and addressed tho following t President Arthur's sister. Mrs. M< Elroy. Executive Mansion: WASHINGTON, Nov. 18, 1886 Mrs. John E. McElroy, 12.1 Lox i nf ton Ave., New York city: Accept my heartfelt sympathy i your pei sonni Kt'h'f, and the e; pression of ni y sorrow for til death of one who was m kimi and considerate frient Bcoret'iry Fuillrott*? Order. Secretary of War Endicott tin afternoon issued a general order COI taming tho President's proelamatioi end directing that on the flay of tl funeral at each military post tl troops and cadets will oe pnradi and tho President's proclamation ron to timm, after which all labor.-, of tl day will cease The national {bi will be displayed at half staff. / dawn <,f day thirteen guns will I fired, and afterwards at intervals ? thirty minutes between the risil and setting of tho sun a single KUI and at thc close of day a nation salute of thirty eight guns. Tl officers of tho army will wear era] on their left arm an 1 on their swore and the colors of tho battalion beginners ??f tho several regimon and of tho U. ?S. corps of cadets w be put iu mourning for a period six mouths. Iii?? President'??. .\ititnun<,em*nt. WASHINGTON, NOV. I.S. Thc Cal net meeting to-day was attended l all tho members, and the Preside formally announced thc death of e President Arthur, and expressed I intention lo attend tho funeral if p< Bible. The following imuounccmcnt w issued from the White House: Ex i:? L'TIVK MANSION, > WASHINGTON, D. C.,NOV, IK i860. ? To thc People of thc United Statt lt is my painful duty to minoan tho death of Chester Allen Artie lately thu President of thc Unit St ates, which occurred alter an ness ox long duration at anear hour this morning, nt bis resident in thc city of New York. Mr..' thur was called to tho chair of t Chief Magistracy of tho nation bj tragedy which cast its shadow o*i tho entire government. His nSHtin lion of the gravo duties was mark liv au evident and conscientious) sire to meid them in a patriotic a benevolent spirit ; with dignity a ability ho sustained tho important i tics ot bis station undthe reputati of bis personal worth, conspicur graciousness and patriotic fidel will long bo cherished by his fell countrymen, lu token of respect tho memory of thc deceased, ft is tiered that tho Executive Mans ami the several departmental btu ings ne draped in mourning for n rioil of thirty days: and that <?n day of tho funeral nil public basin in tho Doportmonts bo suspend Tlie Secretaries of War and of Navy will cause ordors to bo issi for appropriate milfiory and na honors tobe rendered on that do Tho people of tho country will s corely mourn tho loss of a f?t i. who flor voa them well in their hi> est trust lind won their affection an exhibition of ihe best traits true Amorican character.11 Mr. Cleveland, the President, tl prepared an officiai announcement I he sad news, and an order for i half masting of lings and draping public buildings for thirty days, a directing that they bo closed on ?lay of ibo funeral. He als.) issi an order to Colonel Watson toe? monee draping tho White House ? mediately. Cleveland ami Sfvnrnt Member* to ti ?nt th? i ni?'-? i? J. WASHINGTON, Nov. li President Cleveland and Hcvt members of tho Cabinet will loi herc to-morrow night for New Y< to attend ex-President Arthur's neral. "?-* ? *-- -- i.ord thurehill makes sixty ii*?d a minute while speaking, or hal many as a w enan w ho is describing new hat to her thurat friend. Gotting Ufted to Earthquake?. The Rev. Dr. Toomer Porter of Charleston, 8 C who is at thc Hoffman House New York with referenco to tlic continuence of severe earthquake shocksinCharleston, sud that tba people had got wholly accustomed to thom, and took thom quite ns a matter of course. Even thc severest-and some of them of late have been very severe-do uot interrupt business more than tiive min utes. People stop wherever they are and wait for the builidngs to quit shnk ?rig. When things have got down to a common level once more, every tiling is resinned where it was left off. The n lief fund sent to Charleston from tho North mid elsewhere is being carefully expended, Dr Porter says; while he is j Committee to ask authority to expend ? part of thc New York contribution upon tho work of restoring tho school budd ings. Tho schools white and colored, are all open now, but a good deal of of money is needed to put thc buildings in good condition. Several will have to bo rebuilt. Schools are held in churches public halls, and wherever shelter can bc obtained ? Appointments by the President Tiie President made th?' following oppointmcnts, last Tuesday. Wm. D burnett of Cincinnati to bc Attorney of the United States for the South ein Distsict of Ohio; Tuo.othv W Jackson of New Y?>rk to he Indian Agent for the State of New York : Amos A brown of New York to be Consul of tho United State nt ( luton, Out., William II Bowman of Rochester N V, U Commissioner to examine n section of the Oregon and California Railroad, in thc place, of Gideon .1 I Tucker, declined; Francis A Hoffman ?tobo Appraiser of Merebaodics ia the : District oi Chicago; Charles W irish of ! Iowa city, Iowa, to be Surveyor (h n ral : of Novada; A. W. Eibemutz of Cali , lornia to he Receiver of Public Moneys j at Independence. Cal. John P Laird of j California to bj Register of ihe Land ' Office at Independence, Cal , Timothy A Byrnes of Atlantic City N .1, to be j Agent for ih Indians of "the lir.tah atid i Ouary Consolidated Agei.cy in Ptah, Buinual A Walton of Kentuckey to be Conbul of the I niter! States at AhUDCton. Ninety-six Sailors Lost at Sea. ? Advices has bjen received at Plymouth that the Chinese Steamship Takaman j burst her boilers while running under j hi^li piessuro in a gale off Nugatn, and that ninety-six persons \\h?> were on board perished, including the officers, who were Englishmen. I Capt Maximilian Schneider, a German barber, and formerly and officer in thc National Guard in this cit., killed him self in New Orleans tho other flay because his attentions was rejected by a lady of that city. Fnqwcnchablo fue is tating ils was throt.gh hundreds of acres of coal in Westmorland county l'a. the thums having started some time ago in the shaft of H C Fi Pk Cok<- Company. Hy reason ?>f the tire some 800 men arc out <>f work, and tl,? Coko|company is ton ing .$2,400 a dav. ^ Nev I Plan of Burial. General .M. C. Melgs, P. S. A., dis u'.issts the burial of tho dea l as follows in Dui <liii<j "I seo that the question of lis? o in of tho de td in towers of mnson iy or bj cementation is bring discussed. It is not new. Asiatic conquerors have built tho living, after capturo of their citPs, into towers of masonry, usin^thoir bo'lirs as blocks and generally thc adobe mortars of the desert plains for ceraent ing them together. One of theo. Ouilt a pyramid or tow r containing thoisands >f heads. Tho cit? of New York i tera in its rotter's Field obout 1,000 bodies Annually. l.nropc rents a gi ave site for a term of years-a short term -and then disinters tho bone? and pac ks them in a catacomb or vault Would not Now York save money and treat its dead with g eater respect if it embedded each body iu a mass of Hudson River cement and <and (lieton Coigntt) ? I lind that one half a cubic yard of Beton ('eignet will completely enclose thc body of a man of ?ix feet stature, weighing 200 pounds. The average human jeing would requiro even less then thirteen cubic, feet. At rul ing prices such a s-. recphngus would cost onP two or three dollars. 'Ibo HP?o find date, o perpetual 7ccoid and memo rial of tho dead, could be inscrihed with I Mer punches or stamps on thc hoad or foot of the block or sarcophagus. Kruiged alongside of each other in contact, and in two rovs - that is, two bl cks deep these would build on any suitable plan a fo .rtecn-foe* wall, massive and strong enough to bo cariied to tho height of lftO feet. Thus would bo crocted, at. the rate of nearly 2,000 cubic yar>ls per year, a great temple of silence, a grand and everlast ing monument to those who pass away. Thc designs for such a monument seem wor hy of thc study of our best archi tects. 1 might bc a pyramid, a cone, a tower, or a long gallery like those of tho Italian city of Rologna, the most bcauti fi 1 cemetary in tho world. Md y years ago thc London Architect publ'shed the proposal of sn architect to erect by slo degrees and in successive courses a ?odd pyramid in which, in cells, tho d?ad of bondon would be en cl.?sid. But this made no provision for memorial inscriptions or visibly rocords. e. fourteen foot wall does this. A mm who has stud ed the various phases of tho matrimonial market has come to the conclusion that every woman bas somo chance to marry; lt may bo one to fifty or it maj ten to ono she will. Representing a woman's i nt n o chance at 100, he has made out the following table to show the chance at certain point? of tinto. Between 15 ?nd 30 yearn.... HW per cent Between 80 and $5 voa rs- ftj per cent Between 26 and 80 years.... 18 per cent Between ito and 35 years.... 18\? per ceut Between 3ft and 40 years.... 8? per cent B -tween 40 and 4ft years.... 2W per cent Between 4ft ?nd BO year?- %?ot I per cent Between ft > ?nd H'S years.... V of t per cent After 00 it ls on . tenth of one per cent., or ?ne chance in 1,000. LADIES' COLUMN. Pur./.Iod by Their Pocket* Tho manner of putting in the pockets of women's dresses now-a-days is very puzzling. It always did baffle a man to find them, but now it baffles tho woman her-elf. It is no unusual thing for a lady to como back to our head ladies and ask them to show them the pockets and how to get nt them. You seo tho pockets are fixed in tho plaits, and do not show at all. You frequently see a lady on enter ing a store clap her hand down where her pocket should be. The observer does not notice anything, but you may de pond on it that abo has found her pocket ifahogoes ahead, and if she turns back sho has not. lloccr tly I noticed ono lady coming back three or four times, and, thinking some blunder must have boca made, I made inquiries. It was only to find her pockot, and each time sho got caught in a store, unable to find the on trance to tho pocket when she wanted to get something out. - Globi;-Democrat. Married Women'? Property. A recent writer objects to the law's undue partiality to married women, be causo thoy can hold property which tho husband ennnot touch, they may engage in business without being required to givo a penny to tho support of family OT themselves, and tho husband is all the time responsible for any contracte or pur chases mado by tho wife. At first view it would seem that married women are an extraordinarily privileged class. But thc simple fact is that tho female needs extraordinary privileges to place hor on n just equality with the stronger and moro a --rossi ve male. Aid the fact is, also, that women do not abuso these privileges. Wo often hear of husbands who will not support their families, and who even take their wives' scanty earnings for thc gratification of their appetites. But wo do not hear of wives who neglect their household duties to go into business, do clinc to contri bute to the support of their families and mako their husbands re sponsible for business debts. Thc facts of every day lifo show that married women need all thc protection which thc law can give thom ; and in the li?ht of theso fa'ts, the critic of women's priv I leges poses ns the discoverer of a particu larly unsubstantial mare's-nest. - Frank j I.telie't. A TJOVOI- Brought to Terms. Quito n sensational photographic story comosfr m M ni rid. A Spanish photo grapher having made all thc necessary arrangements for taking a comely youDg damsel, bad plac d thc dark side in posi tion, and w;is in the act of rawing it out, when, on finally glancin, at h s "si cr," he wa; horrified to see that she was holding thc muzzle of a small rc volver to her forehead. "Stop, for heav en's sakei" cried the artist adding, rather selfishly: "If you ehcot yourself you will ruin my businors.'' In rep y thc young lady only laughed, nnd. handing thc revolver to thc photographer, sai-: "Don't bo alarmed. It isn't load' d, you soc. But I wont you to take mo hobi ng lt to my forhcad, so that I can send the cai to to my lover, who has deserted me, withs lcttcrsaying that if he docs not come back to mc I will really fire ol thc revolver!" Assuring himself of tho fact that tho revolver was not loaded, the artist consented to so far assist hie "sitter" in her proposed stratagem r.s te lake the desired photograph. Thesoqu?' is p rfectly satisfactory. Some tim-' ni terward thc photographic nrt'-d ad t. c pleasure of ngain taking thc same yo.tn? lady, but this time she was with a gen tleman, her companl in being her once fickle lover, who bad returned to Iiis al legit.ncc a short time after thc tra cal photograph lind boen despatched ta him. hmdon Fiyaro. Rushton Votes. Applique galioons trim many hand FOinc cl th and wool drosses. Two sets ->f strings n-o cen again on bonnets, ono wido tho other narrow. Now York dry goods men report Inigo hali s of hair lined t" ess stuffs this sea son. Plain velvet hats and bonnets are con tidered correct weir with i.rossy tailor suits. There is .> return of lavor t. dressed kid gloves, bul undressed kids aro also \t o rn. All feorts of novei bows aro used to form th high bonnet trimmings of this season. Some of thc new capota brims arc cleft, and have one side strapped back with ribbons. Ornaments of jct in colors to blend into thc shad's of the dress ?re the chosen trimming. lu plain black many ladies continua lo favor satin duchesse, lucin e of its en during qualities. Shawl dresses arc sout out by Fren - tailors, bul they are not pretty, nor wi 1 they bc popular. Sometimes the front is bidden by a fall of jot fringe, {.gain by ribbons or a belt fastentd w.th an oli silver buckle; Jhe larger and older it is thc better. Wide stripes, medium, narrow sad hair linc Mr pcs, sppeir in all classes and I grades of dress goods. Chet Its are also worn, as are large hock designs. New tailor ruits are many of them made will habit bas pics, ?hort on v? sides and finished with a vest, simplo cuff* and SJ.''"finely high collar. In plain silk fabric* faillo Francaise lakos thc load nnd sirves in plain colors as a combination with velvet and plush toxtilca in fancy e flee tv It is also used ?? ,y background for friso flguros and Urines ano blocks of plush or velvet. The women connected wttfc th? press ia the Southern States ar? organizing n Boumsnt Woman's Press Association. MURDERING GUNS, j BHAXiIi 8TF.IT.IJ CANNON OF TRW-? MENQOV8 POWER. 6ix-POandcrs Fired Twenty Times n Minute (ind Penetrating F?T? Iron Pinten-Gunn Throwing l.OOO Projectiles a Minute. Harper's Monthly contains anarticloby Admiral Simpson of the American navy, that deals with thc construction of tho ateel guns that aro to ho usea to arm tho new wnr ships that Secretary Whitney is goingto build. Incidentally the modern machine gun, or quick-firing gun, is mentioned as a ".nurdoriug gun," al though thc art icio is chiefly devoted to the method of constructing big breech loaders. A naval officer who talked about these "murdering guns" said ; "Ono ha? only to stop and think n mo ment to appreciate the tremendous ad vance made in tho construction of guns during the present century. Every one it familiar with thc fact that a very largo D' mbor of the privateers that did their ' country such great service in tho last war with England were armed with six-poun ders cannoD that threw a ball of cast iron weighing six pounds. These guns wore mounted in broadside, mueh ai tho nino inch guns on tho big wooden frig ates that form tho grcntor part of our aavy now are mounted, and it required about five men to serve them well. They were fired perhaps once in five minute?. Although the principal weapon of the little wnr ships of seventy-five years ago, the six-pounder is now one of the little gun? to be used a? tho flint-lock mus ket? were used in those days, to re pel attacks from small boats and pick men off of exposed parts of an enemy'? ?hip. This latter service gives them tho name of murdering guns. The six- | pounder of 1812 was usually a brass piece.. | ! and thc charge of powder was so ?mall ? that the balls failed often to penetrate I the thick plank of an enemy's ?hip. It j is a fact, that, until within foi ty year?, J thick timber in the top sides of a ship ] was a sufficient protection even against the connon ba] s of larger degree. But now the quick-firing six-pounder ha? be come an awful weapon of destruction. Its barrel is made of steel. Instead of being fired by touching a flaming match ? to thc priming in the vent of tho gun, as its ancient namesake wa-, it it fired j and loaded as well by tho motion of n lever. In place of tho little looso bag of powder and thc round iron ball that j loaded tho ancient < ne. a meta:Uc car tridge that is made up of powder fulmi nate and n long steel bolt is used. Tito cartridges are placed in a maga7?nc con nected with the gun. and thc motion of j the lever throws out tho empty shell i ofter the discharge, inserts a fresh car tridge, and fires it. Th'- spred attained j at a recent trial of the Nordenf- lt six pounder nt Dnttford, England, was six 1 rounds in fourteen seconds, lt could be ? j easily and accurately fired twenty timos ; in a minute. "lint the ?peed attained, important a? lt i?, ia not the only advantage of thoo six-pounder quick-firing guns. At thc ? Dartford trial mentioned the gun wa? tested to ?how its power. Five iron plates, each an inch thick, were used over an appropriate backing of wood to form a target, yet the steel bolts which this gan threw with such marvelous rapidity passed clear through tho five inches of iron plates, thc gun being fired at a distance of sixty yards from the target. That is the sort of a weapon j that the thia ra mg shells called torpedo boats have got to far. Tho little steamer may fly nt a speed of twenty five miles HU hour, but unites she caa get unobserved within n very short dis tance of thc lng man of-war she feoks to dost roy thc Captains of t he top on the (Basts, which arc erected in alt ship?, -viii get the range, of ber with the light Ding six-pounders, and before she cnn j travel three times her length will drive such a shower of steel bolts clem through i bull, boiler and everything about ber that nota soul nor a fragment will be left above water to tell whence she came ! or mark where she went down. Not even i tho best nf torpedo boats, except ' through the accident of fog or in tho smoke of battle between birder ships can ' hone to reach on cnemv to do lura hurt. "Quick-firing guns that throw projec tiles thc si/e of a ii:!e tallare mado in gt eat variety. The single-barrel Norden? I felt of this calibre weights but fifteen pounds, and ran be tired 180 times a minute. Thc next largor size has three barrels. It weighs sixty pounds ned can throw'400 projectiles a minute. This is just r ow a very popular weapon in the French, Gorman, and Italian armies, both on account of its effectiveness and thc lightnos-S in weight. It is mounted on a light rarriado for field service, tin ?hip bo.ird, however, tiic live barrel gun Isthe smallost 8?7.0 used. Larger one?, having ten barro.s, weighing 22 ? pounds, have be> n devised for usc in forts as well a? on ships, and e\cn twelve-barrel fs'uns lhat weigh 260 pounds arc becoming common. Th" ten-barrel gun throw? 1,000 projectiles a minute, and the oth r ' one 1,200. Their effect ive ranero is a lit tle over 1,000 yunis. One gun like thia , I? Warranted to keep the open ports of nn ? enemy'? ship clear when within ran. e. ' '.j\ curious test was made with one of the ton ! nrr'i gonn not long ago in India. Two companies of wooden soldiers were .et up on the rhlc rango. A company ol fifty men, armed with tho best modern rifles, fired nt o: o of the companies of wooden target? nt a distan o of 1.000 yards, whilo a ton barrel machine gun peppered tho other company during tho ?arno interval of time. It required six men to foed, aim, and fire the machino gun. An ex amination of the targets showed that the machine gun did as much work na fifty trained men. But in time of actual bat tl? the tr? i-ed men. owing to the exert?. ment and fatigue incident to thc contest, could n t fi o with tho accuracy nor speed attained in a practice drill at ? mark, wir!' the rocchi aT, having "otth??? rei ves nor muscles, would spout death wiih un WT ry i HT accuracy and speed. It is no longer 'possible to work- a cannon on an unprotected dock, except when out of range of tho murdering guns ol tho enemy, li is uot possible-to take aa ouomy's ship .by boarding. Snail boats can novcr hop r to ? irry an enemy's ghip by pouring ti o<t of inca ou her deck, nor can torpodo boats approach within torpedo rango except by st alth. Naval warfare ls hoing narrowed down pretty well to contests bctwocn ships at long range with guns of immense power. A knowhdgo of mathematics, chemistry, and mechanics is now as necessary for a modern naval seaman as courage and seamanship were to naval seamen, of sev enty-live years ago.-ATstc York Sun. Healthy and Unhealthy Occupations. Tho first place among healthy occupa tions is held by ministers of religion, thc death rato of this class being 555. Next wo have gardeners and nursery men, who stand at '.ii i; farmers and gra ziors, i>:U ; agricultural laborers, 701; schoolmasters. 718; tho other trades which foliow closely ou these being gro cers, coal mi rehauts, paper manufactur ers, laco and hoisory manufacturera, wheelwrights, ship builders and ship wrights and coal m n -rs. Thc figures of mortality of all these trades ?3 under ??">. C u thc other side.that, of unhealthy occupation?, thc first place is held by thctradoi which aro concerned iu the manufacture and distribution of iutoxi cat ug drink, which, as is well known, entail many temptations to uso it to ex ec's. Thc list of unhealthy occupations is headed by ti o class of inn and hotel sir ants, whoso figuro mounts up to 2,"205, being nearly double that of tho medical profession. 'Ibo highest place r.e.\t to them ap) held by the general laborers nud coster ^ mon gers hawkers and street Rollers, tho fo:mer class w'.th 3.020, and the latter i with I.STD. It is probable that I otb aro largely m ide up ol br ken mea. tho w recks of other callings. Innkeepers, public? is, spi it. wine and beer v.calcrs follow with a figure of 1,521 and brew ers with 1,3i '. lu support of the belief that thrs h'gh rates o mortality aro chicly dur t tal ih ?li ? c\ ess, Dr. Oglo has compare 1 with then thc mortality assigned to diseases of thc liver, tho orean through which suc.i exec-- chiofly declares itself, :.nd has ob'ainod results which are entirely in ha mcuy witlvthoeo of the Irado returns Next to the trades cone neil with alcohol, thc highest rates arc furnished by occupation, which ?n nive the breathing of dust-other ti,an ' eal dust -nndo-peciady of o sharp an 1 gritty character, ov largely com posed of min ral matter; next, those in which there i> expo uro to lead poison ing, as with plumbers, palate B and file makers. Thc earthenware manufactur ers, who are mu h exposed to mineral dust, havo a figure of 1,742; filcmakcrs, who work upon a haden c ushion, reach 1,007, and plumbers and painters, who arc also exposed to lead, reach 1,202. Chamber?'? Journal._ Accidents to Sleep-Walkers. It seems strange on thc first bb he matter, that so very few accidents ?.cfal! slocp-walkers, Tho Proportion of instances in which any injury is sus tained by thc subjects of this remarka ble state of semi sleep i? very small. r> explanation of the immunity is doubtless to bo foil ld in thc factthat it is a -latco? semi-sleep in which thes'eep walker makes his excursion, Ho is sleep ing only so far as j art of Iii-, cerebrum is concerned, Tho vest of his brain is awake, and therefore it is really not s -Hange feat to walk carefully and es cape in cry. d;dng all thc necessary acts of avoidance while carrying out some dream purpose, us* as a walking pur pose is fulfilled. This hypothesis obvi ously requires a very full explanation of such an accidont as thot by which a sleep walker recently ramo to her death - namely, fulling oui of an open window It is not lik-ly ?o h., hoe;: ; art of the dream to get oui of a window. There must have been some error in the carry it g ont of th procoss; such, for exam ple, as turning to tb? right instead of thc loft, on Ic-vmg a n om. and thus w'king through a low window instead of tl,rough a doorway. . s a rule tho senses are xnllicicn ly on Ih' alert to en able thc sleep walker to take all precau tions for safety, and when he comes faco lo face with a di., cully i vo ving more than automatic or subcons ons self '.on trol, he wakes. Wo should like to know more of tho case whit h has ust ended fata ly from soni" ompct nt medical ob server who has studied the development of this inte eeting disorder in this par icuiar instance. Surely a practitioner w::8 consulted. No case of sleep-walk ing should ever bc left without medical scrutiny and counsel. In sleep-w alking there it the making of madness, and la its inception this disorderly sleeplessness ought to be stayed. - London La >rft. British Farm l aborers. According to a return issued by th? Agricultural Dopartmoni of tho ?inglisr Privy Coined, there aro 706,712 raab laborers, farm servants and coUr.gcrs ii England, 40,80(1 in M ale, ai.d .< ,Sl)l lr ?cotlond. Of these, if?',.'1(1 in Kn-land 730 in Wales and 549 in S ot a ld hnvt allotments or field garleas, detached from cottages, of more than one quartet and under oi c acre The holders O similar allotments extonding to froth ont to four acres number 4,237 in Krtgland 823 in Wales, ?nd 2.V> in Scotland. Tin garden allotments exectding ono oightl of an aero number 230,31? in England 27,152 in Wales, aud 10,000 in Scotland Theso figures do not include tho allot monts granted by tho railway compa??a to their servants.