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.A.n. Independent *J?&jfr&r Devoted ,]fcb the IntereBts. of ttie People VOLUME IH- , , ? . .ORANGEBUKG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1874. NUMBER ??.. TROUiVPIBHINti. ' 'Tifl twenty yc&r*. Vo you remember - ^ If TOftn^boy and Rirl, wostpLVtha H?tt^\Jt% Au'il we?l iv-Hahing ono September? The lako so clcar.lt was as if. i ,Upboruo ou lovo'a delicious leaven, " i Wo floated la a pure mid-heaven, With clouds of IllieB for a bordor. The fragrant summer seemed to acho m>.?.iJn blossoms for dear passion's sake,*' ?<-- * Exceaslvo with its sweet disorder. ' . - Tn you, too, won lhat foud dlstrcea ? or HiiBh ivuit rear and happiness, Carcstea by caress unhanded, I j frill fingers'mated on the reel, <f i ,. I thought tho. very trout could feel His doublo epoll was caught and landed. Alaa,lUiat love which<wo remeinbqr, . i Bluah-rlpo as all thQsb wanton weeds, Uould bo a blossom br Bonteiubex, ?? s Porn guiltless of th?;promi8ed seeds? - _W<eit dying tbings.'wboso only duty Is clothbg lifo in forms of beauty I For though I held ytfu in my arms, Aa full of honey in your charms As when tho trefoil holds tho clover, Yonr^ngors. tytorpd lb a.thimbto,? -'a \ j in playing trortt wero'found so nimble " You hooked the fleh and cast the lover. But often, since wo slipped tho books Tojilay for lifo with baited hooks S XIn pools less pure, do I;remember ? ? 1 Tho fragile blossom of September, . Born guiltcsa of tho nromiso seeds? . miabiv^ dyiug thing, whoso only duty Was clothing iifo in forms or beauty, fjWfth Ueaven'Sbovo ?nd heaven below.lt. ^Though llfo.ha* grown to other needs, ~ .trfcoat Ucs rotting iu tho Weeds, ': wo can noitbtr raieo nor row it. \\ ?Harper''* Magazine, \\ |PANIA.R3 I.?CABIilSTS. I was indebted to my Sparnjsh teacher, onoo a Spunish nobleman, for my first olear knowledge of the Oarliat straggle. The old S-diquo lnw, whioh prevented any woman from ascending the Spanish throne, having been abrogated by Fer dinand, the last king, who left the crown to his daughter Isabella, nnder tho regency of her mother, Maria Chris tina, whose partisans were calkd.Chris tinos, Don, Carlos, tho king's ? brother, and tho direct male heir, resisted tho change. Tho constitntional government es tablished by the Chnstinos, bringing all under ono general law, does away with the ancient fucros, or priviligei of tho_ provinces. -Tms^aB^esp'coiany resented by thov Biscay provinces, .whose inhabitants had been left to enjoy great freedom among, and most probably on account of their mountains. ? They therefore presented the singular spectacle of a free people, ready at any time to take up arms for absolute kings, because this absolutism had never both ered them. The career of my informant was a good illustration of the recent history of Spain. He had begun life as an Andalusian noble, and naturally espoused the cause of Don Carlos. Becoming one of "the king's" staff officers, his position was excellent for obsorving everything, and his account of a Carlist camp at that " -time wan exceedingly interesting. ? The old men and women with tho ? smaller boys and girls,1 remained at kpme'lo work tho i arms, and procure provisions for them all. Tho larger boys convoyod supplies to the camp, whioh contained all tho able-bodied men. Tho young women wore there also to cook and keep things tidy until a light came, when .they uIbo brought in tho | wouuded from tho battle field, and tended thorn until they rooovercd, or until they<passed away. ? The usual loose license of a camp had no exis enco there. Every young wom an was just as snfo from harm or in sult among her relatives and fri nds in camp as bIio would have bei n in her own home. Ono day as my informant, with tho rest of tho staff, was riding with " the king" along a narrow road among tho mountains, they, me^ an old ^vornan, bowed down with nge and grief, walk ing in front of a rough baud barrow, borne by four young women, on'whioh lay a tine-looking young man who ;. Bgtiraed badly wouuded. The clatter of the horses' hoofs roused the aged mourner, who raised her head as the horaemea reined aside to make room in tho narrow road. "Tho king," raising his hat, said : " Mother, is this your son ?" The old womuu tumed toward him her tine, though wrinkled face, and, -'Seeing who it-was,-saluted him and answered : "Yes, your majesty." He seems badly wounded." ."Yes; ho is dying, and ho is the second son that I have thus lost, my only consolation being that I have ono more fetill left for tho Bcrvioe of your majesty." Bending down her head again, she moved on as before witb hor sad train, while all the horsemen remained uncov ered till they passed. Of course, with suoh devotion as this, Don Carlos had them and theirs always at his command. When ho choBe to raise hia standard, ho ntver backed for hardy soldiers. Their mountains of ferod a Beehre base for operations, in ? Huring them a safe retreat, while their extended seaboard put them in commu nication with nil the world, and gave thorn an amount of supplies limited only by tlieir power to pnrchaso. My informant, whilo in command of a body of troops, was obliged, in order to avoid capture, to cross tho Portuguese frontier. He and his men wore disarmed and imprisoned. For two years ho tried in vain to free his men. Then, feeling ho had done his whole duty toward them, ho seoured his own escape and went to England. Thence ho gained tho continent, and finally settled in Toris. m?cucrrtbLOs. Tho national weapon of tho Span iards is the knife, and cortainly they know how to uso it. Talking ono day with a young man wno scomod likoly to know, I asked him what there was pe culiar in.the management of. tho knife. ? \tra*Wd hlV -With vft Wttile, "I could kill yon, and yon couldn't kill me.*' j *? Well,*' said I,' "please point out the difference between us. What would you do"first. * 5 VM Wby^X'd g&t^g^?rd wink, and stab y?u wkile,you winkect" '' How would you make mtf wink ?" " Why, so,"-said he, throwing up his loft hand near my eyes. . " Weil, I oould do tho samo." "Tryit,[' s?idihe. { \ {I tried, and f^tm'd it impossible to make him-wink, though I passed my hand up. and down several timeBtto as almost to touch his eyelashes. Hin bright, black eyes looked out at mo unflinchingly all tho while. It was clear that his eyes were, educated, and that mine were not. I then naked if there was any possibil ity' of an unarmed, man's, defending himself againt ono armed with a knife. n Oti, yes," said he, " I'll show you," and in an instant whipping off his coat, -he held the end pi ojae t leoye firmly in his left hand, vwfappjng tho rest of his coat' rapidly around ? his -forearm, and, bringing the end of the other sleeve also into his hand, where it was firmly held, binding together the whole moss whioh :formed a snffloient defense against the thrust of any ordinary knife.5 ' ? I then recollected that ono of the marks of the men of -Pnerta del Sol, at Madrid?whioh answers to our Bowery ?was a slashed cloak, evidently not so honorable in its origin as a " slashed doublet/' of the olden time. Tho use of tho knife appears to be so ingrained into Spanish history and hab its- that ono mode of expressing the idea of jboing " lord of a manor was teher' horoa y on chillo"?to hold gallows and the kciie.'' in.?spainbh ,rnix>b National pride is very general, but that of the Spaniards seems to tower ab ve the average. The sea whioh nearly surroTmdB'Spaini *and Hhe rug god mountain chains that cut r IT inter course to a great degree between the provinces, have givon them almost in sular prejudices, and afford anothei illustration of the truth tha those -who mix least with others have the highest ideas of their own importance. . A Spanish gentleman once, in conver sation, claimed, what had beet, so often olaimed for other languages, that it oould express more in small compass than any other.. I asked him to quote the most striking illustration he could recollect. " Why," said he, when a man is pro pared to meet any oonsequenoe, and, stretching out his arm, says, 'Ojala,' no other language can express that idea bo. condensedl?^-*"*-? - I told him he was mistaken, for wo could Bay "Ba;it;?o," and thns express tho samo idea in the same number of syllables. The Duke of Wellington nsod to say, "To boast of Spain's strength is tha national weakness." A Oastilian preacher went so far, on one occasion, as to remark to his con gregation that when our Siviour was tempted by Satan,; who showed him all the kingdoms of the earth, it was a very fortunate eiroumstanco that the Pyre noes hid Spain from his view, or we do not know what might have happened. Ono of their common proverbs says ; " Quien dice Eapana dice todo"?"He who says Spain says everything." Another says: " German in the lan guage of hogs; English, of horses; French, of the ladies; Italian, of the angels ; bnt Spanish is tho lungnago of God," . Another one goes still ? further, and. says : " Si Dios no fneso Dioa seri rey do las Esponas, y el do Franoia su co cinero 1"?" If God wore not God he would be King of Spain, and therFrench king his cook ! " Farther than thin it is diflinit for human piide to go. "No More Docks?No More Injun." Over nt Wasboe Oity, tho other day, some meu stopping at the principnl ho tel, whilo viewing the surroundings of the place,' saw - a- large?-flock of ducks settle down on the farthcr.'sido of Wasbod L ike. A Wasboe Indian also saw tho duoks, and told tho men ho would go after them if they would get him a gun. In tho hotel they found nn old United. States musket. This they loaded nearly to the muzzle, nnd giving it to the Indian, started him to tho luko. AI tor ho bad gone the wags who loaded tho gun for him went to the upper story of the house, nnd with opora-glasBCs watched tho progress of tho noble red man. Ho at lavt reached the spot where the duoks had been soon to settle down among the tules. Presently ih? y saw the smoke dart from tho Indian's gun, saw him fall backward to tha ground, and heard a tremendous roar from over tho lako?a Bound as though the gun h ul burst into a thousand pieces. Fear ing that tho gun had indeed hurt and killed tho poor fellow, the jokers began to feel vory guilty. They hastened from the house and at ruck mound the lako. When they bad -got about half way around they met tho Indian coming toward them, Tbore was a long gash across his right cheek bone and his face was covered with blood, but he had as many ducks as he could hold in both bands. " Well, Jim," said thoy, " how did you mako it?" "Yes," said Jim, " ono more shoot urn?no moro duoks, no moro ihjun V?Virginia City (Nev.) Enterprise. _ ?A New York paper says that it is a mistake to suppose that champagne ia mndo of old boots* Ono by one tho roses fade. The Cost of Sunday Opera in New York. A first-class quartette, with an organ ist, coats from $0,000 to 810,000. It costs something to have a fashions-1; ble ohoir. Au ordinary quartette costs $2,500.. A good tenor singer, soprano or con tralto commands readily $1,000. Some sopranos ore paid $8,000. Warren, of Sk. Thomas' Church, stands at the head of ohoir'leaders. He has $10,600 a year salary and a house. Grace Church pays its musical con ductors $6,000 a year. Out of this sum he hires all the help he needs, and pays himself. One female singer has $3,000 for morning and afternoon service, and $1,000 extra for singing in the evening iu another church. Trinity Church, though very econom ical, pays $10,000 a year for'its muBio. It has a boy ohoir of thirty numbers. These are paid a salary, and receive a complete musical education. Many of our fashionable congrega tions are dispensing with choirs alto gether, and are emailing in the aid of a preceptor. But this style of music has its drawbacks. The First Presbyterian Ohuroh has never had an orgon or instrument of music. Tho spirit of Robert Lennox still abides. It was considered a great innovation when a quartette choir was introduced. St. Bartholomew is just now the rage among fashionable ohuroh-goers. It is the newest and most elegant Episcopal Ohuroh in New York. Its singing is a specialty. Men crowd the aisle to hoar tho music. When the sermon comes on they leave in droves. The elegant little church on Fifth av enue known as Ohirst Ohuroh has been famous for its music. Bun down by Mr. Ewer's ritualism, a New York broker proposed to tone this up by brilliant singing. The broker paid in one year $20,000 for tho mo sie ef this ohuroh. Plymouth Ohuroh has congregational singing, led by a f nil ohoir. Inside the ohair is a paid quartette. The trustees set apart $7,500 for music. To this is added $500 more, bringing it up to $8,000. Fifteen hundred of this is paid to Mr. Zun del as organist. Tho balance the leader uses at his discretion. Many churches tiro of the present modo of conducting the services of song in the houoo of the Lord. In some oases singers hardly get the bnrnt cork off their faces in season for tho morn ing worship.. Italians and Jewesses, who sing at the theater until midnight on Saturday, at a heavy salary, appear in the church to praise the Lord. The. Washington Correspondent. A correspondent of the Cleveland Leader, speaking Jof Washington corre spondents, savs: "It is no ordinary man that oan eat oh the'bulk of rumor and actual occurrence, oull from it what is freshest and strongest and truest, and in short, clear sentences, every word alive with meaning, dispatch tho news to his far-away paper. This he does not ono day.(or night rather, for the dis patches ar ? sent late at night), but every night of the congressional season. Not muob chance for sentiment or phi losophizing in the crisp, telling "spo oial Washington dispatches'' that have tho place of honor in our leading daily papers. No room for lies or false state ments, since of what earthly use would it bo to say to-day what you would have to take back to-morrow? These para graphs that we read so eagerly yet so carelessly, rather represent the hardest working, most pains-taking class of men in Washington. They embody the keen, cool critioisrns upon overy-day politics, coming from intelligent, acute, inde pendent reasoning. These men are obliged io be 'smart,' to use the Yankee term, since they watch politicians and their politics, to catch tho unwary or applaud tho honqst; they are obliged to be keen-witted and intelligent, since they must be able to rejeot the seeming truth, to recognize the positive; ana ofttimes in their dispatches they fortoll or foreshadow to-day the actual occur rences of tho next week or month. So in ono senso they are our political edu cators ? as well as our political critics. There are some knaves, and I know of several fools among them, but I am bound to own that noithor fools nor knaves thrive as well in 1 newspaper row' as they do in other localities in Washington." In tne Surt at Long Branch. The gossipy Long Branch correspon dent of the New York World writes : From the Ooenn House como six or eight tender minxes with bundles, look ing cautiously, behind them. They pick their way down tho steps, accompanied by their guardian of safo nnd proper ago, and are watched ftom the bank by their mother aud aunt in evening dre'B. There, are at this time no more than fif teen people, all told, on the whole stretch of sand from Sandy Hook to West End. The minxes disappear in the disreputable shanties that aro meant for the dressing eases, and pres ently thoy emerge in woolen blouses and "pants," holding each other's hands and emitting little sorenms as tho soft, white sand touches their tender feet, and looking around to see that no* body is photographing thorn. Ono can see theii' frugilo bodies shiver, even from the top of tho bank, when thoy step with bated breath aud anxious looks into the white spumo that is roll ing and fohny'ng up tho beach. Two or three steps aud thoy are anklo dcop in the ocean. At that an amorous wave, swollen with desire, makes at them. They seo it coming j tho clasp of their hands tightens; they take a deep breath, the defiance, of their sex is in their eyes, but tho weakness of their sex is in their vertebra?, and they bend their knees and bow their heads, and the ravishing element breaks over them with a wet embraco, hugs them a mo1' mont in foaming paroxysm, and then . $oea broken and bellowing to fling it self m reckless delight upon the sands where their feet have trod. The Life of an Indigo Planter. |"Por some six' months in the year the indigo planter in India is in the saddle from six o'clock in the morning until noon, superintending the plowing, the sowing, the weeding and the reaping. About the end of Jane? says the Lon don News, " Mahaye" begins, and lasts until the beginning of September. "Mahayo" is the manufacture of the indigo, the mashing and heating , of it in great vats, tho running off of the water into other vats, and the treatment of the stuff through various stages un til it emerges from the *,* presses" veri table indigo, worth ever bo many rupees a pound, ??Mahaye" occurs in the very hottest part of the Indian year ; but tho indigo planter must disregard the heat if he is to keep up his character and earn' commission. He spends hoars every day in a little shed perched high over his vats, whence he can superin tend the labors of the coolies, and see , for himself that the mashing is thorough, and the running off takes place in the nick of time. He must gen erally pervade the presshouse, and it will not do for him to be dainty over a stain or blue on his hands or face. He must superintend the storing, for the mild Hindoo is not proverbial, for hon esty, and feels sorely tempted when the chance offers to carry off a piece' of in digo which will hardly make a knot in his cummerbund, and yet for which he can realize a rupee. When " Mahaye" is over,' the oold weather is thinking of setting in, and then, giving a start to his cultivation, the indigo planter feels himself a free man for a season.' His holiday time has come, and he is the man who knows how to enjoy a holiday time. Galileo as an Inventor. Of all bis varied gifts, Galileo has produced the most important influence upon modern progress by his mechani cal . dexterity and his inventive force. His busy and dextrous touch -moulded the rarest instruments and the most complicated machines. His house at Padua was a worship, where a ceaseless rcc>? invrtntion luiil of n-eel):>nie ^ 1 . improvements went on, where laborious days and nights were given to tho ad vance of those practical arts that most affect the physical welfare of man. He was the prince of mechanics, almost the parent of modern invention*. There is scarcely a branch of mechanical labor that has not felt the influence of his practical skill, nor a modern inventor that has not owed something to his cre ative power. Of the vast not-work of machinery that sustains the fabrio of modem civilization there is no part that has not its trace of the labors of Gali leo. He inventod, improved, or embel lished the barometer aud thermometer, tho pendulum and the magnet, hydrau lic and military machines, the compass, the telescope, and the microscope. A throng of less renowned instruments and engines, prepared by his delioate touch and unprecedented skill, flowed from his worship. His treatises on me chanics, fortification, r.nd tho laws of motion excited the emulation of Eu rope ; and it was by his rare occom Elishments as a practical mechanic that e was enabled to create that wonder fid instrument whoso revelations have founded a new science, and penetrated the starry heavens.?Harper's Maga zine _ The Ideal Foot. A writer who professes to bo au fait npon tho subject of human beauty de clares that a pair of protty feet finish ing a woman's framo are tho rarest thing in the world to meet. As a rale, owing to ill-formed shoos and unskillful ohi ropodists, the female- foot lacks, in some particular, that perfect harmony of proportion whioh is essential to beauty. The size of tho foot does not enter into the question. It does not matter wheth er it be large or small, but it must be in just proportion with tho other parts of tho body. A large woman should have a large foot and a large hand, oth erwise she is not well made. In fine, the ideal foot comprises n high instep ; a round, plump form; toes slightly aep arated?the first being larger and round er than the others; toe-nails bright, polished, and of a rosy tint; and an ivory skin, with tho veins showing through. _ Our Demand upon Spain not Yet ?Answered. No reply has yet boen received to the peremptory demand made, some tima ago, upon Spain for indemnity to. tho families of American citizens who formed part of the officers nnd orow of tho Virginius, and who were executed by Spanish volunteers in Cuba, It is understood that the Spanish authorities are waiting to consult Admiral Polo de Barnabo, who was Spanish minister to the United States at tue timo the pro- j toool with regard to tho Virginius affair was arranged. A member of tho cabi net stales that it WHS the purpose of tho administration to press this matter upon Spain and obtain an early Bottle ment. It is held that, under tho proto o il agreed by the Spanish minster, there can bo uo question as to tho right of our government to enforce this olaim. ?Chicago will hereafter not allow tho presence of framo buildings within her limits. Correct. Tho Bullion Yield. Few persons have any adequate idea o! the yield of precious metals in the United States, xne rig ores for the last quarter of a century aro startling and almost incredible.. From 1818 to 1874 the enormons shin of $1,078/407,641 was mined on the Pacific coast. To this amount California contributes over one billion and ninety-four millions and Nevada a little moro than ono hundred und nineteen millions. The remainder is divided between Montana, Idaho, Oolorada, and Utah. The two last ter ritories have yielded but about fifty millions between them, but it, is well known that their soil is wonderfully rioh in silver ores of a superior charac ter. When these territories become fully developed it is expected that their enormous yield of bullion will recall the golden days of California. In Utah Sartioularly a grain culture has been eveloped heretofore to the exclusion of mining . interests, but this will prove itself no loss in the long run, since it has served to prepare food for a large population; Judging by the amount of precious metals already extracted from the hills of the fur. west, it may'be confidently expected that the'vied..of the next quarter of a century will, with proper energy, nearly or quite equal tho last. New improvements in ma chinery, the investment of large quan tities of capital, and the knowledge that the slopes of the Rooky moun tains aro so many rich deposits of gold and silver give promise of nn abundant return to the capitalist and laborer. This is a happy answer, too, to the gloomy auguries of those who look upon our financial future with distrust. The abundant promise of .agriculture and mineral wealth will tido us over our difficulties. A billion and a half of gold and silver is no small return from barren hills, though it took a quarter of a century to gather it. Decidedly Personal. . Mr. Buskin, in a recent number of Fore Olaveriga, says ' " It is quite possible for the simplest workman or laborer for whom '11 write to ^understand what the feelings of a gentloman are, and share them if he will; but the crisis aud horror of this present time are that. its der-iro of money and the fulness of luxury dis honestly attainable by com men persons are gradually making churls of all men; and the nobler passions are not merely disbelieved, but even the conception of them seems ludicrons to the ordinary oh m i mind; bo that, to lako only go" poor an instance ot them as my own Ii e?because I have passed it in alma giving, not in fortune hunting; because I have labored always for the honor of others, not my own, and have chosen rather to make men look to Turner and Lnini than to form or exhibit tho skill of my own hand: because I have low ered my rent, and assured th<> comfor table lives of my poor tenants, instead, of taking from them all I oould force for the roofs they needed ; because I love a wood walk better than a London street, and would rather watch a sea gull fly than shoot it, and rather hear a thrush sing than eat it; finally, becauBe I never disobeyed my mother, because I have honored all women with solemn worship, nnd have been kind even to the unthankful and the evil; therefore the hacks of English art and literature wag their heads at . me, and the poor wretch who pawns tho dirty linen of his soul daily for a bottle of our wine and a cigar talks of the ' effeminate senti mentality of Buskin.'" A Disrespectful Man. The thing occurred in Edingburgb, whon Jeffrey, Brougham,-Sydney and tho rest of that brilliant constellation of mob of genius %vero shedding so great a lustre upon " Auld Reekie" and tho world. There was, at the time a literary pretender and bore in Edin burgh, whose everlasting subject of the disouBsion was " The North Pole," and whose delight it was to inflict his theme upon every patient listener. He mot Jeffrey in tho street one day, and after the usual salutation, at once introduced' his favorite subjeot. "D--n the North Polo ?" vooiforated Jeffrey, and extricatiag himself from tho bore's grasp, pursued the oven tenor of his way. The former, wincing nnder Jeffrey's abrupt treatment, also went on his way, when, encountering tho good natured Sydnoy, ho related to the latter (with much chagrin and di-gust) what Joffroy had said. "Ahl" says Sydney, "I wouldn't mind it. Wo all know Joffroy. You'll hardly believe it, but, in a conversation I had with Jeffrey, tho other day, ho, actually spoke disre spectfully of tho equator 1" A Substitute for Ice. It is probable that mauy good Iiouh? wives do not know that butter may bo kept firm and nico-lookiug by merely inverting over it a flower-pot covered with damp oloths. In tho samo way a water-pitcher enveloped in wot oloths will keep its contents cool and grateful to tho parched throat this hot weather. On a largo scalo the same plan may bo used in tho flolds?as wo have before said, but it will bear saying again. The contents of a barrel enveloped in clot ha whioh are kept constantly wet, will be so pleasant as almost to mdnco tho la borer in tho held to drink moro than is good for him. Tho reason why water kept this way is cool iB, that the evaporation of tho outsido'dampness carries off tho heat from tho inside?just as perspiration carries off tho heat from th? human 'frame,' and renders a live man* oapable of withstanding a heat whioh will cook a beefsteak. FAOTS AND FANCIES. ?An exchange, mentions ornnge-pcol as a power behind the thrown. ??*TliW SU&fleMta grasshoppers ean cradle twenty-four acres of wheat in an hour. _ i Unii -' - f?q '?A Boston man Bays: ."It is .very easy to remember the podrf! I dan r'emenber oases twenty years ngo." -> ?A xnarbleoompsny.atfiBrandon, Vt, is making one hundred thousand.head stones for dead soldiers. ^Prairie grassTiaB become the next thing to intellectual ? food. - ? 2t being exported from Hiinois toLiverpool, to be made'into paper. ' ?A1 new* York company wilf insnro poodle dogs) but. won't; ptakeu'a'qcent's risk on bal> u s. . They; knovyT which re ceives the most care. ?A chap who spent $1,400 to graduate from Harvard as postmaster:in-'Iowa at S24per year, where^wouldf.h?;have been but for his Latin and Greek. ?A breach of promise of' marriage, in which the damages wore laid at $20, 000, haa been compromised with a pres ent of five dollars and a new chignon. It was in Kentucky. ^ ?"O, Lord," prayed a "minister, " keep mo humble and poor1". * " O, Lord, if Thou wilt keep Jnim humble," said the deacon who next prayed; " we will keep him poor/' ?A Louisiana man puts a two-ounco can of nitro-glycerine inside of;a. chick en, tosses tho chicken to an alligator, and that alligator does not trouble the bayou any more. ? ??Mrs. Woodhull wants to go before the i Plymouth church investigating committee. She predicts that she could " raise the roof " of that,interest ing building. ' ? ?Those Texas5 are bad "men to be trifled with. Ono of them wanted a foundry at Gal vest on to cast him a glass bottle, and when they laughed at him he peppered three meu with buckshot. \v\m ?When a Miohigan woman was tak en from' tho'cowcatoher of a lo(K>mqtive, upon which she ha - 'been caught and carried half a mile, she said withfeel ing, " I was just scooped up like, .gosh almighty, wasn't I ?" ?The example of Mr* -Tames Lick is r l>oginning to bear fruit? It is said that . Mr. Henry Shaw proposes to deed to St. Louis; his extensive botanical' gar dens, which have long been: the.pride m_ of that city..;.? ?? *ii? ir ?U ?' *?'' ?It is eaid tha? the mosquitoes ore unusually largo this season.' The only satisfaction that people'who are'oblig ed to remain, in tho city can .get. .from this is the hope that the old .ball mos quitoes will loaf around tho back-yards at night and eat np tho tom-cats. ?In the new university ntj Newbury port all' the students acquiring. any special tonguo aro to bo domiciled as boarders with a family, speaking that as their native language.; and, ail foreign professors are to be natives of tho conn tries to which their, particular 'langua ges belong. , il? ?ill ?A walking stick with tar on the end got a brace of suspicious-looking men into difficulty in Sc. Louis, aud caused their being .conveyed as. prisoners to the police-station. The police, Beamed to have an idea that the tar on the' end of the stick was there for financial, pur poses, and was meant to facilitate tho hauling in of a portion of the loose ohango generally to found on the' shelf behindTlfe^nllte'rTirBeer halls when the barkeeper's back was turned. -Said that Detrtit Judjje to Henry Melius, the other day: "This affair will wrench a $10 bill from you' unless yon want to go up for r iucty days. Be careful how yon sling your fists around after' this. John O.' He e n a u 4 gained something of a reputation . by blowing his nuscte up, but publio opinion has changed. If you want to be famous you must discover a comet or bang around a reservoir and look1 out for breaks." ?An admirable improvement in the present orude system of communicating by telegraph has been inaugurated by the government of ^Switzerland. It is proposed to l?low^parties at different stations to' hold interviews, to be paid for in proportion to the time used, and not by tho number of words. This will supply an opportunity for 'detailed ex planation in business: matters which is not afforded under the arbitrary .system that is in vogue is most countries. ?Tire Boston papers are getting to be unintelligible. Here, for instance, is tho Transcript that overhears, this im aginary conversation : " Dearest, be^ lieve me, I do love you yriAhr my; whole nervous organism. You share with no other being the emotions which pre vado my undivided gray matter,'and if I were conscious of a ganglion, ,that throbbed but for theo, be sure I would not sleep till I had prooured its heurot omy." It is all owing to the recent at tack of Dr. Brown-Sequard. ?The Subject of hydrophobia is under going thorough investigation. A meet ing of the medical faculty was -recently .convened at the college' of physicians and snrgeons in this city, and tho vari- ? oua complex quod ions in connection with this mysterious disease were frank ly dismissed. "What is hydrophohia? ?an tho disease bo produced by the bite of a non-rabid dog? Can it bo causod by tho imagination ulpno ? What aro tho bost methods of prevention and of treatment?" Theso npd kindred topics were brought before tho meeting by various physicians. . As yet the dis ease is not inily "understood oy Vfi?flioal men, but facts are studied carefully, and knowledge in regard to it is increas ing.