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sttt TH3?T mm _?i?a. OVtlMTOaO ? ' i < ^>^^t ^e^ote* *? the Ihterest? or *e People. fi?i i til b<5 ? I tto.? rjo'j VOLUME III Ar% ? ?^pOBA?gpURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JULY 30^ 1874, NUMBER 25. Boforo tho ancient throne, of night; i.l>?ilr.^aM>efeittlr??lirto Unou tUo outer height. Whc-ro falntlnff fragrauce rolls along ; ill fi'v Alilnl tltat wstbloB in his dream; ; Bomo ?hi IU of .broken Bong.. _ j Orcst round drooping for tho ?ow Axouiui ub in tho perfect gloor A.m!,,m we wait, far off and IqW ICht) distant breaker - - A'i! tmonirall deliclc. "(Jlvo mo this hour's iuystcrlotm swoou ; Enchanted Bonn, euchauto4 buHb, Anil Juuu without a moon 1 KATIE^N&.'Txi^ MYTH.1 The sensation for sorno time sinoo in London hog beon tho " Katie King" al luded'to as'"'the spirit test that convinced Mr.. Wallaoc,..<t\\o.nftturali.8t,.,.Hov> spirit I came to rov.'sii the glimpses of r, twi ^sf^iy^fi%f$3i'Hfla^^i<a9.4 2 K ' ";"ii^;tu? persons in England pos c Wediuuiistic powers y? r^mirg iJHtto'j*aY8'ol ngf, Mit? Woi"-| enuo Cook. Mr. Grookes vouo'itH eni EhR^.i'.u'iiy or Jyr jreBpeotiibil?y and er mgenuoroneas. Her pOAvo;.,s""h'avo been submitted to tho1 severest teats at Mr. Grookes' own liouao, npcl. under conditions which he" has'hlmtielf 'dit> tated, and ho does not seem to have a < 1 ''doubt that' they'ore genuine.? While in the trance state about three years ago, n luminous form began t > appear noar her person. This bos in the oourso of -. tiniodeveloped into u full-grown woman, nnd not merely the form of a woman, but a flesh and blood ono, which appears suddenly, walks, talks;,' permits itself, to bo touched and embraced, and melts away into nothingriesafbofbro tUo'^eyeB of the company. This "spirit" snys that her name is Annie7 Owen, that she died a hundred years ago in Wales, and ? IJthat' nor nioknomo^s "Katie, King." " 'She is' described as very beautiful in . , faco and figure, wearing, long .hair.of light auburn, which, hongs in ringlets down her back and each side of her head, reaohing nearly to hor waiBt. On the occasion of her later appearances she was dresBcd in pure white, with low-neck and short Bleeves. She wore s^lon'g wliite veil, bat this was dnwn - over 'her fiice but seldom. After tho testimony of Mr. Wallace nnd Mr. Oro?ke's, tho noxt witness must be Mrs. Ross-Church, tho novelist. On tho evoning of tho 9th of May, Katie King led me, at my own request, into the room with her beyond the our tain, which was not so dark., but that JL could distinguish Burrounding objects, nnd thou made mo kneel down, by Mis9 Gook's prostrate form and feel her , her handa and face and head of curls, .wliilo site (the spirit) held my shoulder, with one arjn around toy ? neck. I have not tho slightest doubt that upon that .. occasion' there- were present with mo two liviug, breathing intelligences, por . ^icctly djstinot from each othor, so far nfc least as their bodies were oo'ncerned. If my senses deceived me, if I was lei by imagination or mesmeric inflwenoe into believing that I touched and felt two bodies instea^ofroiio^^if SMJvatie King" who grasped and embraced and Bpoke to me, ifk pr?jecJ|ion-?f fought only?a wiiFpowerTTin Tnstflnce',bf tin known force?then it will bo no longer possible to know ." who's who in 187-t," ana wo should hesitnto to turn up the gas incautiously, lest half cir friends should bo but projections of thought ^ffmflmeit away be*nealhits glftfe; * ~ -? Whatever Katie King was on the J evening of tho 9th of May sh&was hot-] Miss Cook. To that fact I am ready to tako my ni??t'solemn oath. Kntio was very busy that evening. 1o' each of hor friends assembled to Bay gco/Ub? she gavo a bouquet of flowers tied ?p . with ribbon, n, piece of ..her, drees ?und ?oil, and a lock of hot hair, and a note,' which she wrote with her pencil before '. ~uo; Mine wan an follows : " From An nie Owen do M rgnu (alias Katie King) tojbofcj?rie_nd,^Florence Mnrryntt Robs Chnreh, with love. Psnsez a moi, > ? May Iii, 187-4.'' I innst not furgot to relafe wha.t-appen.rccl:tp anc ono of..the<| roost convincing pn.ofs of Katie's more thnh'nntnrnl power, nahioly, that when sho had out, boforo our eyes, twelve or fifteen pieces of cloth from the/front of hor irtiito tunic ns souvenirs ?for her If frienjfc, there was not a hole to be seen in it,'examine it which way yon would. . It was,1 tho same with her veil, and I have seen her do tho some thing several time* * Jflleopatra ^To-Day. A correspondent who has been t-o tho British miiKenm writes : " Full of strange speculations and sober thoughts I paused tat list' boforo ? thw oase con taining tho radmra'y of Egypt's royal flirt,;Cleopatra. Tho soft light of tho English twilight was falling through 1 ??tho jfljngy winAws^sJKr ohrtsing long shadows around tho cases and into the darteoorners. Tho- sight-Beers had ex . h'tuBied thomsolvos and withdrawn, and tho apartment was ;dosorted and silent -as the tombs, and I was nil Alone with my reveries and tho dead. Before mo was tho abort, dumpy figure of tho queen, the flash of whoso eye and tho witohery of whose smile had intoxicated tho mighty Cionar and unuorved tho brawny arm ?f Marc Antoiiy. Sho was wrapped a.thousandtimosin linen bands and'seemed bundled up to keep the cold alr.ionfc. On tho outer covering, \? .-Jwa-j a portrait of tho woman us she ap 1 eared in life. The colors were nearly ? { as bright iis whon put there. The ohoeku wore full mid rosy, tho hnir dark ns tho raven'* wing, nnd-there wns a ? - look Of ineffitblrt f;IAon in tho face, i)ipfihihg with an expression that bo spoke if khowlodgo of her h^auty and power ns a woman Tattler* than flint of a queen. There were .tho charms before me that had seduced a ecore of lovers, and the lips that it -was a delir ium to kiBs. I stood there; and thought and thought until thinking bccumo a r1rnra?Brft?d^tB?,rel??W'0^ warned mo from tho spot. But a strango fascination hold too thoro to hold communion with thin awful thing." The Place of Woman. One, of thVprinoipjd ?fea4ur?ja of the middle flgos" is the ' reoognition of the fact thn't: Christianity assigned to woman ? now place In the social order of the I world very different from what it had; boon before. The deep respect accorded i by that epoch tq woman;could not bat exorcise a most powerful and beneficial influence on humanity ; for when man,, confident in Iiis physical foroe, reignn alone, we can never expect to see real human culture develop itself. There ?now arose iv new kind 'of worship of the Beautiful, and of female beantyin par> tioular, and that in a higher ntfet mor'o refitted sense/tlmn had ;been' the m>.o with', Jhjb |??i}i|h|ig|^a] TOMtf "Greekn, the Itonians, rvaa the Arabians, had bestowed praise on woman, an roe? e8aety to $tyjirt harries?, but thoy "treated 4ier only as anliiferior, and oven as a slave. The Christian world set be fore itself I a new ideal. What men now -itrives f6r'is,'that the lady whose affec tions he endeavors to win should t'eoog hize his personal worth ; that she should prefer him to other Buitors ;' that she should love him because she honors and esteems him. Such a demand is based upon the supposition that man conaid^ ers woman bh his equal; nay, 'that * he looks up to her as a superior being ; the endeavor ho.makes to deserve the favor of iici hedoves,-and to become worthy of her, reads on his own conduct. Love, raises him above all that is common and vulgar; it .becomes with, -him the main Bpriug of every, noble action ; ho can henceforth neither do. or say anything of whieh ho would feol ashamed before' her. " ^Tho Te^oTrlo'Tin1iorWr especially seized the full significance of this lofty conception of woman and of her place in life ; with them love was nothing bet the f poutaneous homage of strength to beauty; they introduced now sooial usages and a more elevated sys&i{i of et hics among the inhabitants of South ern Europe, and at the same tiinoj com municated to them- that reverential're spect which raises woman, though nat urally weak, above the common level of j humanity. Thackeray on - Female Society. It is better for you to pass an even ing ouco or twico a week in a lady's drawing-room, even though thp conver sation is slowf aud you know the girl's If?hgby heart, than in u club, a tavern, or _the pit of a theatre. All amusements of-youth, to which vir|udns womorfaro not admitted, rely on it, are deleterious in their nature. All men who avoid female society hava dull perceptions and aro -stupid, or have - gross toatoB," and revolt against what is pure. Your club swaggerers, who are sucking the butts of billiard ones all night, call iemalo society insipid. Poetry is unin spiring to a yokel ; beauty has no1 charms for a blind iuau ; music does not ' please" a poor beast Vho docs not know! one tune irom another ; but as a pure epicure is hardly, eyor tired of .water, sanoey, and brown bread and -butter, | protost'I can sit for a wholb night talk ing with a well regulated, kindly .wo man aboutlier. girl Fanny j?r i her. boy. Frank, aud like tho evening's entertain ment. Quo of the great benefits a man may derive from d woman's' society, is that he ifl bonnd.to bo.rofliiootful to her,, tfhe habit is of great good Wydur mor al men, depend upon it. Our cduca-. tion makes of us the most eminently selfish men in the world. We flghi for" oBftWvtOCT ?8 ^rBhAr ?Md&q?. wer yawn for ourselves, we light our pipes, and wo say we won't go' out, wo : prefer, ourselves and our caso ; aud tho great est good that comes to man from wo man's sooiety is that ho has to think of somebody to whom ho is bound to be constantly attentivo and respeotfu,. An Important Invention. A correspondent of tho Yickaburg Herald gives an account of a now in vention now in prnotical operation in Mountain Cotfon Mills, near BrSTton Station, on tho Memphis and Charles ton railroad,.which, if it proves tobe I all that is. represented, mhst hayo a more important'effece upon the produo j tion ana manufacture of oottorrthan ovon Whitney's cotton gin has had, It does away with tho ordinary proQeas of ginning, converting the cotton just as it is takon from the Hold into thread of superior quality. It oosta pnlv $250, and it attaohod to tho ordinary' card k'fltand. It is said that Bpecim'erB <>f thread made by this machine have been sent to nearly all the northern 'manu facturers, und have been pronounced stronger and more lustrous than that spun by the ordinary mothod. It is claimed that a thread spun by this mentis will sustain fully ouo-thiramore weight than a thread of equal size made of ootton that has passed through the processes of compression and compli cated machinery * of ' common cotton millp. Tho groat importance of tho in vention, however, consists in tho foot that by if a cheapness and .simplicity it may be introduced ivto common use, the natural result of whiah will bo to transfer the whole work of cotton spin* niug from monufaotorieB to tho ootton fields, thus effecting a great saving in tho cost of paoking and transportation, aud in other expenses. ?A year ago a young man would bo real good to his mother on tho' promise of a sh*rt which buttoned' behind, .but now snob a promise wouldn't" swervo him an inoh. ,*|liuV%ot^if,3: tfyntt iT%yiio requires all right-hiinded persons to have what ha terms '^homogeneous faces/' overy fens I turo and trait and curve in harmony with all tho rent, and nil leading up to the same*moaning". '? In sincere faces, all the ehuii^ijjg features do hu; but it is difficult to .Bqq why, when wo take tho peimanent features, these must bo good faces ; it ig essential to. beauty, ho doubt: but if the face bo an evil one, itslohar-1 actor will ?ordly be mended by.^having ao opposing trait, no.redeeming feature left. The greater Napoleon bad a lu> m?gen eons face, and certainly all the I MudpT^basj lia^e.-i Btjt.'$oV$flso Tito's" must have boon, and if any. .one has. a good l>iq turo of Mophistopelep, I fanoy it jwi.ll bo' the same tnrougnout, t 'Indeed oho would think that these people must be wholly good or wholly bad, only that (hero art; none such in:thc world, k The peopled wt) call single-hearted are likely to have homogeneous faces, sb are thai sizfiph?. tfud vigowu3. If their oiroum nfrnoea Kiifc them, they, vill bewail con-' tent; 3bul you soatetwu-is find them at1 warPCwith all < their Surroundings, and then they are altogether unhappy?no part of their natura is at rest. These, too, uro tho people who ban be* killed bv. grief. The ordinary photographs of Keble, the prints of Pope Pius VIL, R.mpsrau, and Watts give US unhomo geneous'. faces. . If, then, - incongruous faces are not the handsomest, nor the most lovable, nor tho opposite thing, they are generally the. most difficult to understand and tho most in need of be ing understood.! Probably their owners (don't, ^understand thoinselvae.r When bue sees ono set. of features contradict ing thj? qther, the whole face tells us of an inward conflict, a complexity of char acter that must bo always troublesome tp the man himself and of ten, very in convenient to his friends. Aud tot only nro thcBO'the most iu noed of being .un derstood,"bnt as it is over the struggle J that pleases us, they nro also the most interesting to Btudy. Generally the in congruity consists, I think, in the mouth an-t chin failing to support the upper parf of the face ; and then tho meaning of it is most frequently that the man's nature is better than his acquirements, not being duly supported by his ener gy. Now.it is wonderful how far more common good foreheads and eyes are amongst us than good mouths and chins. This is evident from tho fact that we meet co many moro grand-look- I ing men now they have readopted their bear tin than we used to do; for there can bo no doubt l that when a man has a good mouth i and firm ohin, he loses greatly in looks by concealing these in his beard. And this is a very gratify ing fact?not that of the beards, but I that about, good upper faces being so much the most common. For our next rule is, " Observe tho forehead to dis cover what a man is by natnro, or .what ho may become according to his nature; j and tho motionless < closed mouth when you would know, what he actually is, or bus beoomo by habit" Tho upper faco, .1 the head, brow, and i eyes express tho I intelligence and nature of the man; the lower part, the month and chin, give ub the* measure- o' his resolntion and ] strength,--his practical or acquired abil ity, and the temper which he himself, or his circumstances, may have formed in him. ' The movable features which chiefly (not wh?llv) give"us the passing changes of' thought and fooling, are ihe m'outh'and nostrils or tin 01 o part, the Jeyes, eyelids and. brpwt on tho other. In polished society the expression of . tho eyebrows and tho mouth ia voluntary except in moments of'self-forgetfnlness o? r?tit} Wd'theuth'?! lips tak? the form ] of the "ffdverhing '6t habitual dispOBi -. Pf?. V, t-U ..-trft-f. adQ I h Patfcl's; Debut. '? ? u Antonio Burili, a half-brother of Ade li.na and Carlotta Patti, has confided many family affairs to a correspondent of tho Chicago 1.W, and Mad, who writes that BariU said ; ." Adeline Patti began with me, as did a'so Carlotta. I taught her on the piano. When Jenny Lind was hero Adel inn proved hersel f such a wonderful imitator of tho great singer that sho was placed in other hnnds for vocal culture. I was on a trip south soon after. When I camo near | New Orleans I stopped off one night at a small town in Alabama. By tho merest accident I turned in at the Court house to bear a concert. I took a seat] well back towards tho door and awaited I the Biugers. Before they came I heard j e'otao bno on the stago any, ' Why, papo, Micro's'Antonio.' It was Ad et inn? s voice. I Then I Know I had come to listen to my own sister. When sho' appeared anil gave ono or two little ballads I was amazed. Suoh a voico I had never hoard and never dreamed of hearing. I Suoh exeontion, too 1 Well, I wan in ecstasy. The girl's debut, although mado in a backwoods town and attended by not more than a hundred people, was grand enough.for a queen." The Poor Arab Women. A writer on the " Womon of the Arabs" says : ?? GirU in Syria may be married at tho ago of ten and grand mothers at twenty-one. The Moham medans object to a girl being taught to write-, lest .she should take'to write clandestine lettors. Tho Druzes of I Lebanon nro most despotic towards thoir ?wivos ; but among, the Nusairiyeh wo men are worst treated, being excluded from all religions communion asunolenu boaatf. This misernblo rnee.of ,-Nnsuir iyeh believe in transmigration of souls, aud hold that tho spirit of a wicked] man is punished by his lining born again a dog or a woman, .whereas an obedient woman may bo ,ro^nt;doil by being ro goneruted a msn." And the poor degrad ed pitiable laBses comfort themselves in their.' servitude with the dim hope of; becoming men after the bhort life.; Ar? on pr,t no olnf-.B is, much, care mani fested for woman's lifo. Until recently, iri Syria, women Were poisoned, thrown down walls', beaten to death breast into tho Hea; and the government made no inn uisiUon into the matter. Oii* the whole it is better to be a camel in Ara-* bia than a woman : the quadruped w' more kindly treated." r* A Test^Caae. In l6?9 the Louisfaha' national baak shipped by the Southern Express -com-" Eany sfc NeW Orleans $13,528 to the. ank of! Keritnbky and: $3'000 to the Plante^', national bank. /The money was delivered by the, Soothera Express' company afe'Hwtnfcolfc to complete the transportation, and the last named com pany was bringing it to Lonisville on the cars oPtheLouisville and Nashvillerail road,w)ien, at Budd'o creek,in Tennessee, a trostfe; gave way while the train was passing over it. This precipitated the express'and other cars'm the bed of the creek,the cars caught fire: from the en gine, and all express matter, including the money mentioned above, was burned. In tUo receipt taker by the Louisiana national bank jfpr Jthe two Louisville banks Jthere were various printed oondi ? tions, among which was a condition that the express oompany was not to be lia- , ble for loss occasioned by the damages of raijroad transportation or-by fire. Various interesting questions arose in the cose, but the most important one decided was that if the express agent was nbt himself guilty of negligence in i caring., for the money, if the express company wad not itself guilty of negli gence in Delecting the Louisville and Nashville railroad aB the vehiole with which to complete the transportation, then t ho express company was not liable to the banks, although the falling of the trestle and the consequent fire may have been the result of negligence on the part of the Louisville and Naahvillo railroad company. For the banks it was contended that the Adams .Express- company having undertaken to complete the transporta tion to Louisville, it would have been responsible for ' any negligence of its own:employos whereby the money was lost, and was necessarily responsible for the 'negligence of the Lonisville and JNashville railroad company, whose cars it employed to do what it was bound to do, vi-,: to complete the transpottation to Louisville; that tho loss occasioned as stated was not to be deemed a loss by the dangers of railroad transportation within the meaning of tho receipt, un less it appeared tbat the .loss could not have been avoided by proper diligence on the part of tho railroad employes. But Junge Ballard has ruled otherwise. The case, we learn, will probably go to the Supreme Court of the United States.?ZfOuisvillo Commercial, Chess Eovival. 1 A chess congress in session in Chicago and a. Canadian chess tournament in rrogreaB in Montreal indicate n speoial revival of interest in this royal game, though not perhaps a return of, the cheBS fever in epidemic form. The languid ohess columns of bur weeklies will for a season cease to be solemn, and cau tions kings, sedate bishops, vaulting knights, and majestic queens will waltz around the boards as in ante bellum days. Should chess bo encouraged or discouraged as an amusement or pas time ? Whether it is advantageous or disadvantageous to indulge habitually in this game depends upon tho modo of life or kind of occupation of the 'per* son indulging. To* accountants; teach ers, writers, students, whose life is sed entary and whose toil is mental, chess affords neither rest nor recreation. It but increases the demands upon the mental vitality, continues the intellect ual tension, prolongs the day's strain. To play a game of ohoss scfantiftcally is as severe a tax upon tho mental powors as to calculate an eclipse of tho sun. It is utterly foolish to deny that for euch classes ten pins, billiards, ou ohre, and cribbago are not a hun dredfold better. ' But for phyicians, Boldicre, active business men, who are OA their feet much of the day, who need physical rather than mental rest when evening comes, ohess is not too exhausting mentally, it absorbing in interest, and exceptionally improving. It dovelopes caution, t caches delibera tion aud foresight, demonstrates the wisdom of broad plans and comprehen sive combinations, strengthens the ca pacity to concentrate the thoughts, and to fix and koep fixed for long periods the attention. Ohess improves the memory, disciplines the mind , just ns mathematics does, curbs the imagina tion which is too vivid, and tends to calm the temperament which is top nervous, makes the mind rdorn analyti cal, and fascinates and enchains the mas ter of its intricacies as no other game ?can. ' To some, therefore, it is a royal pastime, to others a detriment. ?Constantinople has adopted P.omo decisive steps to promote the morality of the city. All public or secret gam bling in cafes or-other places in any part of the capital is forbidden. Hnsin Pasha, minister of polioe, lias just ia I Bned an order nndeY whioh all theaters, 1 j cafes chant ant r., cafes, and places of a like nature in Pora and Other parts of Constantinople must in future be closed at mtdiiight. Any establishment keop iug open after 4that hour will be com pulsorily closed by the police, and itB proprietor subjected to a heavy fine. ?A Mississippi pilot saw tho comet thq other night, and immediately* cried,, "I've got 'em ; snakes I've had' boforo^ but now the stars havo got tails on 'em; I'm'? dead man." Bursting Brains--A Singular Sick; tj mess in Mexico. ? i*. j ' A most..singular and un accountable disease, commonly known as the burst ing sickness," has broken out in this vicinity, and'already has spread to many of the neighboring Tillages and cities.1 The people are in consternation by'rea son-of the many deaths 'which have oc curred. The doctors?wretched medi cal men at tho best?are at a loss how to deal with the trouble, and the priests have their hands full.' Tlalenango, Bolanos, Cartagnn, and oven Sauced a Hoc are suffering more or less, and t hero is no telling where or when the disvivsn is to stopi I am not. an expert in descr'bing sickness, but tho trouble seems to me to bo an usual 'discharge of nerve force into the brftin? ''The;symp torus are sudden nausea, followed al most immediately by a severe and sharp pain along the spine, proceeding from its lower extremity to the bend; and de scribed as feeling as though a bjunt i knife were scraping upward.. There is then?whoa the pain resqhes the back of the head?a sharp and poignant dis tress there whioh makes the patient do lirious, althongh it never produces un ooiisoioushess.or loss of-the right uses of the senses. ..The eyes are.bloodshot and wild, with'pupils greatly contract ed. The sensitiveness to light is in tense, so that even in paroxysms of ex cruciating agony the patient will rise ? and seek a dork place. 'This state lasts commonly not more than, from thirty to forty minutes, during,.which the pa tient feels as though his head was splitting ; and when'this condition has lasted for - about half an hour the cranium actually bursts open at the sut ures, as is sometimes the ease with ' in fants whoso heads split thus after death from water on the brain; The sound produced 1 y this, rending asunder of the bones of the skull can plainly.be heard fnll ten feet from the patient. . It is said that in some instances the. dis ruption is'extremely sudden, and ac companied with a noise still -louder. This occurs, too, at a moment when the sufferer is in full consciousness, and it is most terrible to witness. ' The dis ease broke out at tho silver-mining re gion at Bolanos about two weeks ago, and its cause is unknown. About threo hundred persons?generally adults? have already died of it and it ie yet spreading. The siokness is, so far as I know, as nniqne as it.is- singular.? Tlalenango letter to N. Y, Graphic. Browsinff in Libraries as a Means of . Culture."'"'''"' So it is that Mr. Emeison tells us again to "read in the' line of our goDius." If, alasJ every bov and every girl knew what the lines of their genius were. There is the exaot; difliciilty. Many of us have pot found, out what the line of our genius is, > Indeed, most of us do not; Indced/wehavei very de cided genius, it would .have ::o taken possession of us, r that we ?cqnldfiiqt.get away from'ft ; it Would'nave forced our1 lines of reading before''this time. For those, then, who,|baye?:n^t;ifoqnd;.oiit! what tho linos of thoir genius is, tho an swer ft to Tje: given.*11 'Fo? ffnbh 'people,; it is.n very great advantflgo to be turned 1 loose in a largo lib^ar^t-a^jLf^^ Ipjjgj i ume, Jin'd'eed. bot**for 'a, 'time long , enongh' to -? dewnaiftie' what 'is1 best * for them,-, what they, take to most thorough ly and .heartily. Here. it may be said by'the way, ib ono of the advantages whioh the Small: colleges have ovir the large , ones. . Your large college,-with ! its large library, hos d set and special librarian1; who invariably aridiriTulIib'y,' , by the law.?of ? \lis . being, considers the tool of moro impjn tonco . tlmn the work it is to do, and shuts up the b?oV? from1 those who ? would otherwise - handle them. , In such browsingi bore id browsing there'an'intelligeht boy, j;irl, . roan, or woman finds out what is''.oo'd for him, or what ho .is good for. Fail ing this, whioh is, of course, oi.r ut the question for'moat readers, tho best* Mis wo know is, for the student to make ono bold plunge into the thicket,?with the host intention, nnd from the ?best fight he can'get, and then follow bravely and steadily tho path whioh opens. At the end of the week, for. instance, look Steadily baCk upon the varied interests of the week, and- choose whioh, on the whole, has.been that which moved, at tracted, or compelled yon most. Rules for Keeping Cool, j A cotempo-aryhaa instructed its read ers how to keep cool in tho heated term Wo proposo to, try our hand : Nover go in tho shn; it heats the blood. Clothes prevent tho escape of heat from tho body; wear none, or only a loose shirt and drawers. Work heats the system ; do nothing. Sit in n draft. Reading, talking and thinking gener ate heat; do neither. 1 '.at he overy hour of the day, and take a Bhower bath between. Wear a oap with ico in it. Sit with your feet in a tub. of ice water. Call your wife and daughters when y?n want anything ; it is a gcod opora Horn. Drink ioed ton, lemonado, plain soda, and such ; have a cool stream running ip all the while. By'observing these simplo directions ono eon get along withont going away, unless the effect sends him off.? Oinoin natl Gazette. ?Wo find the following item in an Illinois pnper : " Mr.??, who has been in retirement for a few weeks after marrying.and burying ..three s'sters, came up smilingly to tho altar'again ve^erday, having begun on a now fam 1 ily." FACTS AND FANCIES. ?A. Chicago man is to 'start a con densed, egg factory. ?Pe?rl river, Mississippi," f uriiiBlied the lumber for the St. Louis bridge. t. ?It is nothing -for ?i Georgia, woma/i ?o tun fifty snakes per, week. -Mrs. Lizzie Lloyd PhoBijilrj''' i\{e Russian diamond scandal person,'fs known as tho "Grande Ducher.no" in Paris. . -r-It is considered a pretty well-settled fact that death has no terrors for the man who marries a woman after a thir ty years' courtship. . . . ' ?A Toledo woman muzzled her hus band to keep* him1, froaP kissing the chambermaid. Is it really necessary this time of t^e year? / . "?MnijO. Lmd-Goldsohmidi and'Mr. Sims Beeves are" each? said :to'have a child Whose prom in o of fut uro renown as a singer is yerygreat. . ?Not one lady in ten bathes at New port because it isn't genteel, ?tid,: fur thermore, because they look liko " hor rid frights" in bathing costume. , ?V Only children and fools Bj"t on the beuch under an umbrella,'* says tho ex asperated Miss Olemade from Jaer ?eleva ted seat overlooking Swampscott beach. ?Donn Piatt Bays the proper thing to do when your Jiorao in running away is " to hold fast to your seat and cay your prayers; anyhow, .hold fast to your BOflt. * ?A man in Stark county,1 Ind./pays his boy ten'cents a qura t for potato bugs, and the boy says tb,at if nex$ year is as good as this he can buy the Old man out. - < >srlw ?More than a hundred people are drinking warm blood.at the Boston, ab attoir for.various diseases, and there is talk Of building a hotel to aceommodato the patients.-1, <rnon nioil'ir-T.Jl ?Catgut is prepared from the. intes tines' of' the , sheep or goat,'1'andI tue mannfaoture is chiefly confined to Italy No;rnanafactnro, of: catgut is known in this countryf, ?Another' oloi" pioneer gone.' He lived at Troy, and he *? goned " ? with 80,000 which did not belong .to him, and took along the hired girl to com fort his o?i age. ?A little boy' was asked about tho story of Joseph, and if he knew what wrong his brethren done in disposing of himj whon ho replied, "I suppose'they sold him too cheap." /i*r-fiYes, George Washington \ was purty great and high," said a .Missouri_ steamboat captain, " but then, stranger, be 'never owned a steamboat, which could hitch past the White Queen." ?An old veteran was relating his ex ploits to a crowd of boyp, 'and men tioned having been in five engagemonts. "Thatla nothing," broke in a little fel low, "my sister Agn( s has been engaged eleven-trmes." ' ; ?*? 'i?-The Vienna. City< architect! has ob 000 florins for tho conetruotion others.^ tn*lHioti*yrtr-i xnT ^.r?A greenhorn sat^ aibnj? thnp_v? (entive; "nin^nrTrt^a4a*WB!*-W chair.- At length he said it >VI -winder what fellow .took the trouble to lind all thorn ?r' b?leR and' put' strdws around em?" * ? . ' -.-rx-. : ?A peddler oal 1 ing on an old lady to dispose of some goods inquired of. her if she copld tell nim of any "toad 6n which no peddler had traveled. ? Yes," replied^ shey. t JI krio *. of, tone, -auct, pott's the iqa.d to..hcayiBnJ'i .? . _ -Wroit KSrSi? ?TnS.lofV moment froin th'eTB^eoner'%oftntlal;''and ponder over tho fact that tho footprints of; & Chicago lady .on thd prairie near Michigan City got a: crowtVof then out to huntfor ft etrayelephant.Ut?iuavbu ?At a<recent reunion of] tho al worn of West Point it was voted unanimously that all living gradaates 'of the acad emy, both from the south and north, be invited to join the anniversary din ner next year, on the 18th of Juno. ?Ono of tho oddities of hot weather advertising is thatof a gentleman who nnnouncca through the. .evening..paper " his readiness to supply pulpits for any denomination or do any other min isterial work, during tho heated term." ?Miss thackeray,, daughUr of tho lato novelist, writes that a great num ber of letters and signatures purport ing to have bepn written by her father are in circulation. The greater part of those are forgorics, and of remarka ,bly good execntloni ?Tho various government bureaus are generally adopting a machine which prints all letters instead of writing thorn, and which can print, it is claimed, faster than a person can write. A clerk in the postofBco dopjirtmeat has written fifty-six words por minute with this ma chine; ?About thirty applications for bank charters.under the new law havo been filod with the comptroller of the cur rency since congress ' adjourned. They come mainly, from Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas, and Iowa, with a few from the southern states. ' Tho amount applied for is in the neighborhood of three millions of dollars. This leaves one million therefore roportod " not called for." ? It is curious to note the origin'of the sayings in common use. The ex pression "too.thiu" comes from the following hitting Roreasm iu " Henry Vlir.," act 5, actine "Y^u,4wore good at sudden commendations, Bishop of Winchester. But kiiow, I com? not to hear buoIi flattery now, and in my presence ; they are too thin and bare to hido offenses."