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VOLUME III. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1874 NUMBER 28. .??r?ssi ANTITHESIS. Dsath gives ?8 tuoro Uian life.?Stray Poem. Aye, more: it gives repose, ? Hwootcr than any lire can o'or impart; Vast depth or peace, where every burdened. At tefigfh*wlll loso Its 'woof. I know my, prison-bars; I build no iopliug towers on shifting nimbi; I reach uot upward with decaying bauds To grasp the lofty stars. i f V' i i. Tho lowly grave is dear. And ban no terrors ; it is freo from pain; its much .Is downy; and no secrot buuo Wrings tho regretful h?r. And lifo?-Ha wild nproar. Ita fruitless hopes, lta withered, b?ghtod dayn, Its hours of anguish, turn tho fainting gazo Toward tho ??volcelei's Bhorc." OLD DIGGLYBONES. BY OIiAHA O. DOIiTjIVJEB. You would think from his namo that ho was old and wrinklod, bout and brown, with a dreadfully cunning, wricked face; but ho isn't at all. His oheoks aro round and soft and downy, and "pink liko poaohos; and he has snob a bright, Innocent look that ho walks into' ybur heart at once without knock in f* . "Wo call him Digglybonos because ho in uo fond of the piuy in which a dread ful wicked old man steals all tho lady's children and turns them into pies; tho poor lady, heartbroken for her loss, goes to the baker's to console herself with a pie. She oalls for gooseberry but no Booner has she received it than sho ox claims : "Mercy me! This is my daughter Amelia!" Thon old Digglybonos ories out ''Pie, pie, pie," and chaseb hsr homo. If he oatehes her he gets Amelia baok, and tho poor mother has to go pie buying again. You would novor think that our littlo roundoheoked boy would bo able to run fast enough to make a successful Digglybones, his logs are so fut and so short, but he can entch the mother and get Amelia brick four tinoos out of five. Ho has, a big sister nnmod Rose; he calls lier Wosio with Iub littlo unman ageable tonguo, and thinks sho is tho most wondorfully wise, perfectly beau tiful, dearest and best sinter in tho wide world. m Wosio is eighteen and still goes to school, where nor anxions teuohers haven't half mich a high opinion of her ns Digglybon'.'S bus ; though they can't h?up liking hor after knowing* her a little. There is a tall young follow with blaok eyes and a great mustache who comes to see her sometimes, and I real ly believe that he quite agrees with Digglybonos in his high opinion Of Wo sie; at least tho little boy put bis naugh ty eye up to tho keyhole of the parlor door one day and saw tho black mus taohe as near wosio's moutli as his own sweet lips ever got. Ono line summer morning while Dig glybones was building an Indian fort with his blooks on tho tliuniug-room. table, thore came a terrific peal at tho door-bell. " Lund !" cried grandmother, nearly lenping out of her soat. V What do peo ple want to ring that bell in that style for ? It's sot me all in a flutter. Hun to the door, pet." Grandmother doesn't call him Diggly bonos ; sho thinks it is a dreadful name. When, after no small amount of tug ging, ho succeeded in oponiug the door, ho found tho postman thore, not looking so very pleasant as he might, becauso ho had been kept waiting so long. " Here, bub," ho said, " here's a lotter for you ; aud don't let tho grass grow under your foot auother time." Digglybones was so astonished about tho grass that ho let tho letter fall out of his baud, and did not shut his mouth or piek the lotter up until the postmuu had disai>peared, and might have stood there longer if his mother had not called out to him to shut the door quick, before tho house was full ol flies. Wheu ho took the lotter into grand mother tho good old lady read tho di rections out loud : "Miss Rose Stillingfleot. City." "Land!" she said, "I guess that'fi from Mr. Alford. I wouldn't wonder if Rosio would give the best two bits sho ' over saw to get this lotter. Well, put it on tho table in her own room, dear." Digglybones trudged ofl up stairs with it, thinking all tho time, as hard ns ho could think with his busy lit tlo brain; ho had never breathed a word of his putting his eye up to the koyholo, for he hud a strong suspicion that "everybody, from grandmother down, would strongly disapprove of such a performance on his part; but ho Jiadn'i forgotten it all, and ho "guessed" that Mr. Alford, the owner of tho blaok mii8taohe, was the most dangorous rival lie had; and he thought to himself that Wosio would givo two bits to got tho lettor. After a while Digglybones knocked down his Indian fort aud wont out of doors to play ; he knocked at Jimmy Leo's bnok door and asked Mrs. Lee, in his sweet voico, "Could peaso Jimmy come out doors aud play fioldior?" But Mrs. Lee s?u'd Jimmy had gono in town with his auntie, and wouldn't bo baok until lunch-time; so Digglybones played soldier by himsolf for a littlo while. But ho found it exceedingly dull tobe oaptain, lieutenant, company and every thing, aud began to wiith he had some caudy, or somebody to play with, he didn't care which. "Graudma," ho said, straying into tho house, "1 wish you would divo mo live cents." "What for, pet?" said grandmother, who bad been reduced to tho verge of bankruptcy by Digglybones already. "T want some tandy." "It isn'tgpbd for you," replied grand mother. "Somo of these days somo ?j will say, 'Why hasn't that nice littlo boy any tooth?' and somobody ?will havo to answer^ 'Beoav.so his naugh ty grandma gave htra so muoh candy.'" Then I can buy teeth like yours/' answered Digglybones ; "I want some tandy anyway. But grandmother shook her head, and that day sho was proof against teasing, although Digglybones teased his beat. tjt He fonnd his mother equally untraot able, and then his busy little brain be gan to think; and ho th ught, among wilier things, that Wosio had Bomo "five contseB," and. if lie gave her that lettor she 'would give him some of them. Qrandma had said that she would give two bits to get that tetter, and he was sure there was a good many "live cCntccs1' in two bits; and visions of an unlimited amount of candy passed bo fore him. He knew tho school where Wosio went, and was sure ho could find it; he had. watched her go down street bo many times. So, without saying a word to anybody, ho put tho letter in his little jacket pooket and started off. The letter stuck up so high that it scraped his soft skin, so he doubled it up and crowdod it down. Ho walked along very compla cently, with his ragged straw hat on one side, totally unconscious that his faoe was dirty und his hair in his eyes; in fact, he felt perfootly satisfied with him self. By and by it ooourrod to him that ho Avas pretty hungry, and it was queer that he did not find tho high school. " My daoious 1" he thought to himself, I wonder if Wosie doesn't get awful tired going to school." He thought a littlo rest would do him no harm, so ho found a nice, shady doorstep, and sat down. When ho put Mr. Alford's letter into his pocket he had felt something hard in it, and now, being reduced to great ne cessity, he muoh wondered if that some thing hard wasn't something to eat. "Perhaps," thought Digglybones to himself, " it is five cents.. I dess it is ; and I des? Wosie would just as liove dive it to me as not." He could not imagine a tenderer mark of affection on Mr. Alford's part than his inolosing fivo cent a to Wosie. He opened tho letter as carefully as his clumsy little fingers could do it, and ont slipped?not something to eat, and not fivo cents, but a round, firm curl clipped from Mr. Alford's black, curly head. "O dear!" said Digglybonos, dis gusted. He tried to slip it baok again, but his small fingers were."all thumbs," and it slipped down to the sidewalk besidohim; he thought, however, that he had got it in again all safe, and bo stuffed tho let ter back into his pooket, feeling rather dubious about what Wosie would say when she found that ho had opened it. Not being in the habit of borrowing trouble, however, Digglybonos dis missed the subject from his mind and started olF again on his journey, The f rther he walked tho more foroi bly it oconrrod to him that it was queer th t ho did not find the High School; aud tho more certain ho was that ho felt decidedly hungry. Those" two circumstances together caused Digglybones* spirits to descend to zero, aud putting hi? finget s in his I mouth and rubbing his eyes with his dirty fist ho began to cry. For somo time ho walked along, cry ing harder and harder every minute, and nobody noticod him; but at last a brown oyed gentleman, who, perhaps, had a half-dozen littlo brown eyed chil dren at home, stopped Digglybones aud said: "What's Uio matter, littlo man?" Digglybones took his fist away from hia eye to sco who it was that had spok en to him; and being won at onoe by tho kindly light of tho brown oyos ho took his linger out of his mouth and an swered : " Plouso, sir, I want to find tho high school ; and I hain't had no lunch, and I'm huugry I" Tho last words camo out with a bellow that would havo made grandmother's | heart aeho for her pe^if sho could have hoard it. . "Hungry !" said tho gentleman, who could not suppress a grin at tho nature of Digglybonos'complaint. "Well, well, my boy, wo'U so n euro that. Now tell me whioh high school you wish to lind, tho boys' or the girls' ?" This was a poser for Digglybones, who iustautly clapped his linger into his mouth again to consider tho sub ject ; and he came out bravoly. "I want to find Wosio," ho said. " Ah. ha !" said tho gentleman. "Is Rosio your sistor?" ? Digglybones nodded. "Take my hand," said his now friend, "ovd wo will find something to eat first, and Rosio aftorward," They walked along together vory con fidentially indeed; for tho indiscreet Digglybones told tho Rentl:mau all about Wo8it>'s letter, and what grand mother had suid, aud what his naughty eye saw at the parlor keyhole, and the ourl of blaok hair that had dropped out of tho lettor; all of whioh made the gentleman laugh so uproariously that Digglybones was profoundly astonished. He filled his littlo companion's pockets with oakos, oindy and unls, howovor, so that tho littlo boy oould not feel hurt at his laughter, and took him to the very steps of the high sohool. " Where is your letter, my littlo man ?" ho said. "Let mo ceo the ourl." Digglybonos took out, tho lottor and shook it, but no curl fell ont; then tho gentlemen took tho lottor and shook ; and all in vain. " Why, my boy," ho said, " what will Rosio s?y toyou? You've lost the curl of hair." Digglybones lookod a littlo puzzled and worried for a moment, but his face soon cleared, and he replied, very calmly: "Oh! Wosie can dot another; his head is all covered with 'em." "Whereupon tho gentleman took out his handkerchief and wiped his eyes, and shook very hard; Digglybones looking on wondoringly. Just then a young girl oame down the stops, and the young gentleman said : " Can you toll me if MiBB Hose Sti 11 ingfleet attends school here ?' "Yes, sir, she does," said the young girl. " Will you take this little boy ao that he can find her?" " Certainly," she answered. "Good-by, thon, my boy," said the brown-eyed gentleman, patting Diggly bones' head, and thon, walking away. Perhaps ho told his brown-eyed chil dren that night about the funny, dirty faced little boy whom he met, out hunt ing for " Wosie." The young girl lod the way up-stairs and, opening tho door, ushered poor, shocking-looking little Digglybones into a'room full of neat, protty young ladies. " This little boy wants to see Miss Stillingfleet," said, the young girl to the teacher. Rose stood up, her face scarlet and her eyes snapping, half in anger, half in fun; tho did not know whether to laugh or to cry. Tho dirt on Digglybones' fooo was now so mixed with ornmbs of cake and bits of candy that it was hard to tell what the color of his round cheeks might be; his tangled hair straggled down from under hia ragged straw hat, and he held Mr. Alford >s poor ill-used letter extended in his dirty hand. "Here, Wosie," he said, in his clear, sweet voice, with a smile which would have done honor to a seraph* "here's Mr. Alford's letter. There was a curl of his hair in it, but I lost that; but he's got lots more on his head. Don't he mad, Wosie." He added the last entreaty in conse quence of a look on Wosie'a fnoe which he had never seen there before. The young indies giggled; how could they help it? Even the teacher smiled. Tho tears roso np so thick in Wosie's eyes that she could hardly speak to ask the teacher if she might take tho. inno cent little offender home, The letter she put in her pookot. She did not scold, but she refused to take hold of his hand and made him walk faster than his pooi little legs could con veniently go. When they reached home DigglyboneB realized Unit tho wuy of tho transgressor is hard, and from that day to this he eyes Wosie's letters with fear and scorn, aud nothing will persuade him to touch them. The Grasshopper Army. To the thousands of our readers who have for the past fow years, and especi ally few months, heard and read of the grasshopper, tho mighty spoiler of the husbnndmnn's labors, but who have never seen or heard described tho ap pearance and nature of the pestiferous insect, it may bo that a picture of the oreature ana its doings would not be uninteresting. When tho grasshoppers originally appeared in the northwestern states to any damaging degree, a num ber of years sinco, thoy first attracted attention by their numbers, appearing as thoy did bofore the astonished far mer in countless millions, not as the innocent and harmless creatures which had hopped before his sickle in tho grass ever sinco ho was a boy, but as a dangerous, ravenons and devouring army of innumorablo pigmy enemies. They oame in swarms, darkening tho heavens as far as tho eye could roach, and alighting upon tho green field like a black shroud, and only leaving it when nothing verdant remained out of thoir myriad stomachs. Thoy were not near as largo as wero the domestic grass hoppers, neither green in color, but a brownish-colored insect, of half tho size. Thoy hopped with all tho power of tho old green specimens, but when it camo to using their wings tho "old inhabit ant" grasshoppers were nowhere. Tho invaders (early named the " raidors") wore very oaglea in mi nature, aud would on a still day soar from a ruined corn field directly toward the sun and away from human vision. People not experi enced in the devastating propensities of these pests oan scarcely believe that so small un insect, and ono hitherto looked upon so lightly ns a powerless inhabit ant of the farm, can do the harm whifth has been ascribed to them. But they oan do mighty tliii gs on nccpnut of thoir numbers. It can hardly bo credited that they come in sun-darkening olouds and cover the meadows, fields and roads to tho depth of from ono to fivo inches of wriggling and hungry life, but thoy do. It can hardly bo bolioved that they light upon the fences, and gnaw away at tlie boards aud posts with suoh as siduity that they leave them looking I haggled and scarred, but thoy do. It can hardly bo understood that, thoy will stop a team by driving liko n boil Btorm in the horses' faces, that they cmibIi by I hundreds under tho feet whioh step among thorn, and .evon stop railroad trains, witli thoir greaso whon run over on up-grades, but it is tru ?. Any farm er in the infested region who is experi enced in their ravages will affirm thoso apparently extreme statements to be on ly tame facts in the presence of the ac tual "raiders"?the Egyptian plague of Minnesota and the terror of tho bus baudmnn of tho wholo northwest.? Chicago Journal. ?A MoitMON at Salt Lake proposes to make a human body appear and then disappear bofore tho audience Ho ful filled Iiis programme by appearing, getting the money of his nudieuce, and ' ?disappearing. IjtatQ Puxchasing Agent to the .Grangers. ?Wo ex traut tho following from accra Munioation published in tho Prairio Irarmcr from the Illinois state pur c*aa*ing agent: iiNovor sinee tho granges havo been organized did the members of the ordor o?cupy,??joh a responsible position as tfiey do at present. Sorting out with the theory that so far as the purchasing ok-farm supples was concerned, that the long lines of middlemen. could bo dispensed with, aud that a moro direct trj&do, and consequently a less expen sive system could be adopted, we formed organizations all over tho state with a rapidity that surpassed our most san guine anticipations. Wo promised man ufacturers that thoso of them who would dismiss their' agents who were overrunning the country in the fine car riages and with fast horses, forcing sales in tho most expensive manner (all of r which came out of tho farmer's pocket )' that wo would supply the de feat by contracting our trade and giving it ip them in preference to all the oth ers^ With a promptness that was flat tering to tho feasibility of its proposi tion, many of the manufacturers, from all parts of the country, offered to meet us upon that platform, giving ub the u'uuvl discounts allowed to the trado, thereby talking the business out of the hands of middlemen and depending upon the integrity of the order to fulfill their promises. It needs no philoso phical argument to convince any oho that the manufacturers acting in this way incurred the united displeasure of thoso belonging to "rings," together with that of the whole army of agents on both tides. . This inaugurated a tierco contest. No sooner was this move -discovered than the "rings" and their agents low ered the prices of their goods to tnose offered by our manufacturers, at the same timo boasting that they would break-down the system by decoying the trade sway from those who dealt with us. To moro effectually accomplish this, many of them sold goods during the past season - at even lower prices than had yet been offered to us. Some of theboldeat of them havo declared that they will sell at even-less than cost for a time, depending upon making up for it in future trade, when they drive tiflfrom our position. There are hundreds of thousands of dollars band ed agaiunt us this year to accomplish this end. As a general thing they have the h^griest capitalists on their side, and, as it is a matter of life or death to them, they will light ub desperately. They know full well that we do not hold out a compromising hand to them, and they feel, too, that they have gone so far that they cannot give up while there is a ray of hope, and consequent ly it must be fought out on this line. Some of them attempt to decoy us away from our standard by assuring ub that thoy oan manufacture goods cheap er now than formerly, and the price noed not bo as high. We know this is not bo to any great extent, as material aud labor and interest on monoy are about as high as evor. If, too, they were in earnest why do tho "rings" fight us and our principles bo bitterly? Strange, indeed, that their conversa tion did not take placo nntil they saw us in a situation to throw off the gall ing yoke and maintain our independ ence. Strange, too, that in localities where tho pressure is not so great, that their conversation is not as complete as it is here. So far then as the Patrons in Illinois ore concerned, they havo accomplished all tUey started ont for, and now tho ground they fought for is theirs. The question now comes to every one, will yon retain it, or will you forfeit it? This is a question fuller of meaning than moro commou interrogatories. Ilonce tho assertion made by mo in tho first sentence of this articlo. If you say yon mean to occupy tho position you now do, it is done only upon tho fact that you fulfill to tho very letter your promise to g vo your support to those who came out from the old Kystom of ageuoies aud declared themselves with us. Before this ohauge we had no responsibility. Wo were mcro tools in the manufacturer's hands to gather in tho wealth of tho country to the tills of " rings." It is not sufficient to nay now that it is no mutter where you purchase, since moohiuery, c to., is ns low outside ni in side the ordor. If in many instances this is tho case, pies? toll me to whom is the reduction due ? Then let every true Patron stand by the stars and stripes of tho grango, and see that tho banner that led us to victoiy is not for gotten. Rushing Into Danger. Tho insane haste with which people ofton Jfdali to their death is utterly la mentable. Persons, to save tho delay of a few minutes, heedlessly rush in front of a swift-moving train, or worse than foolishly jump upon a moving car, running tho risk ol an accident, sooner than wait tho short timo necessary to insure them perfect safety. If only themselves woro tho sufferers, tho fate that oft.n overtakes them would bo woll merited ; but unfortunately they are the least hurt by tho catastrophe. Several fatal accidents have recently occurred at the eaet?all of them resulting from oriminal hoedlossnesp. A young lady, wishing to bIiow her friends how nimble sho was, attempted to cross tho track ahead of a corning locomotive. She \ did oross, but her dress was caught in tho passing wheels, and sho was drawn back under tho crushing weight of the train. Auoth. r instand; was that of a man. His wife, looking from her chain borjwindow, saw him step from tho I train whioh dally brought him from tho oity. She ran down stairs to moot' him at tho door, but he was not there. She thought he hod hidden and called to him, but there was no answer. She saw a crowd of men coming' up the streot; they stopped at her gate, opene.1 it, and oame np tho puth ocaring his deal body* Ho did alight , in safety from the train. There was another train coming from tho opposite direc tion ; he.would not wait .the minute it would take to puss, but sprang in front of it, tho wheel of tho engine caught his boot he 1, wheeled him. around, and. threw him upon the track. Hardly a day passes but some accident occurs from attempting to cross tho streets in front ef an approaching vchiolo, and all to save a minuto ot time, certainly, not so vpry valuable to ono who. holds his lifo at so smull a price. About Salt Lake. A correspondent of the Baltimore American, writing from Salt Lake Oity, say a: "The oity of Salt Lake is at the foot of the range of tho Wahrmtch Moun tains, and oxtonds somewhat on the up land p.ain. A long valley lies beyond, affording fine cultivation for those, am bitious to extend their farms aud gar dens beyond tho pity suburbs. The mountains rise liko the sides of a basin,, containing in many places deep rifts of snow upon whibh the sun's rays have no visible effect. The most attractive fea ture about tho city is their method*of irrigation. A mountain stream is turned from its natural course, to form clear, beautiful brooks, flowing over pebbly beds, on either side of the streets, ?which are themselves one hundred and thirty-three feet wide. Tho old houses aro adobo, but many fine buildings are noticeablo, and judging from the freshness of their appear&nce, the city must have greatly changed in the post few years. It is now laid out in wards, twenty in number, of eight blocks each. Every ward has a bishop presiding over it, subject to tbo chief of the council of bishops. This arrangement accounts for the entire absence of beggars. The Tabernacle stands on one of the' princi pal streets; adjoining it tbe foundation of tho now temple,.which, if over com pleted, will be very elegant. On the same street are the Lion House'aud Bee Hive?homeliko, comfortable buildings ?and tho prominent houses of the pres ident. Still further on is the family sohool-house. A solid stone wall en closes ull these buildings, leaving the stranger to wonder^wha.t such, a life can be, for n .t a .sign of animation reveals its workings to tho outer world. On. the opposite side of the street Brig ham Young is building a spaoiaus residence valued at one hundred thousand dollars. Houses of other wives ore scattered about in tho neighborhood, and the neat little cottoge of Ann Eliza stands va cant. They toll nsthore are eighteen la dies who answer to the name of Mrs. Young in Salt Lake, and others in the towns throughout tho Territory. Mrs. Amelia Young is an adept in the very important art of nursing and is also an educated lady, and this is a key to all that is mysterious ubout Mormon women. As a oluss they aro not educa ted, and thoy certainly do not belong to tbe ordor of fine ladies. They come from a laboring class of people, where labor means hard and continuous toil, with no time or thought to devote to tho "refinements of life. Somo wore" peasant girls from Kuropeau countries to whom higher way oh out at service was the inducement ofTered. They do uot look liko happy women, and the natural inference is that they aro not; but they zealously defend their mode of lifo because they consider it a part of thoir religion, and thero is no bigotry so difficult to overcome as that founded upon religious couviotions." Courage and Self-control. Of students who begin a term with high nims, bow many year after year foil to fulfill them, not from want of opportunity, but from want of resolu tion ! The poet Cowper was oaoo con sulted by Iiis friend, Mr. Unwia, about somo man's oharucter. "All I know," ho wroto, " about him is, that I saw him onco clap his two hands npon n rail, meaning to leap over it; but he did not think tho nttompt a snfo one, and so took them off again." This story typifies tho career of not a few who proriised Koniething bettor. Let mo couusel you to keop your hand upon tho rail, even if you fail to clear it at tho first leap, or, at all eventH, only to removo it in order to try a humbler hoight. You nro often exhorted to aim high that you may securo a lower mark? Who ainioth at tho aky, Shoott higher much than ho that moaua a troo." But I am not ?uro that it is not wincr to seleot for tho immediato mnrk, how over ambitions your ultimate hopo3 mny be, something fairly within your power, and portiunciously to strive until you hit it. ?Tho attempt to substitute moral suasion for corporeal punishment in the government ot pupils in the public Hchool-i of Ciicago has been entirely successful. Tho report of tho school board dwells upon this fact with par donable coinplaconoy. Lnst year thore wero fewer suspensions, iu proportion to the attendance than ever before. Nino schools, having an averngo at tend ance of 0,500, report no suspensions and no corporeal ptiuishmont. Six sohools, with on attendance of 4,000, report one suspension each. ?Mr. Spirgeon, iu his Sword and Trowel, acknowledges tho receipt of a letter informing him that the gout was scut as a judgment from God upon him for opposing tho Church of^Euglnnd. ? ? -??- - -r PACTS AND FANCIES. ?A doctor's motto is supposed to be: Patients and long suffering. 1' ?It is success that colors all in life; success makes fools admired,1 makes viHains honest.?Tliomson. f ?The sponge business in Syria yields about $125,000 a year, not an hundredth1 part as much as is yielded by the spehg-, in er business in AmnrioB. ?At Decatur. HI., tho streets are< drained by sinking wells forty feet, at whioh depth thero are quicksands which do the work very effectually. ?Miss Thackeray soys, the sum oL the evil done by a' respectable and easyfk? going lifo may be greater in the end, ptrhapg, than that of many a disastrous career. \ ?When a Chicago woman feels par ticularly spiteful toward mankind, she - sleeps with her feet out of the window,. so as to prevent people from seeing the. comet. ' ? ,ji ?A Kansas school ma'am' wouldn't* dismiss ashool to let the scholars- sen n circus procession go by, and the boardj of trustees have secured a teacher who isn't sorstuok up. ?" ?1 ? '?'?.J?? ?A Wisconsin man has just been par- > cloned, after seven.years* servico in tho penitentiary, it having been ascertained tliat ho did not commit the murder, of: whioh he was accused. bao.t ?Flour will extinguish tho flames of burning coal oil, according to some body in Wisconsin. As soon ns it'"be1* comes generally understood that coal oil is dangerous, this discovery may prove of great service. "' '. * ?Detroit Free Press: 4: A young lady: in Milwaukee fainted away when her lover called and found her ?are-footed,', but a Chicago girl would havo kicked his hat off as she cried ' good morn in*'". ?The daughter of Kicking Bird is, described as a *'lively, piquant littlo thing, with airolv soulfal eyes,". The elk teeth with which her clonk in or-, namented are valued at two hundred and fifty mules ?Engaging candor : Papa? " And. pray, sir, what do you intend to settle on my daughter? and how do you* mean to live ?" Intended?" I interid, sir, to settle myself on your daughter,*; and live on you 1" ;, -lp. . ..? .,,va ?"I believe my fate will bft that of,k Abel's,"' said a'wife to her husband;, brie day. '?Why. so ?" inquired her husband. "Because Abel wai killed by a club, and your club will kill me if you con tinue to go t? it every night." ?Some singers at a concert were somewhat startled the other evening by finding that the selection, "When weatied watchers sink to sleep," had been printed on their programmes, i " Whonmarried wretches,', eto. . ?,f ?Within the past five years 27,785 miles of railroad nave been constructed in this conntry at ?-10,000 per mile; tho cost of these works has been $1,111, 400,000. The population of tho country inoroases at the rate of 2.50 per cent, annually. Tho earnings of onr rail reads increases in about sixfold greater ratio. 'us ?Cheerfnlness is an excellent wear ing quality. It has been called tho bright weather of the heart. It gives harmony to the^soul, and is a perpetual scng without words. It is tantamount. to repo.se. It enables nature to recruit its strength; whereas worry and discon tent debilitate it, involving constant' wear and tear. ?Daubnry Bailey writes from I<ou7> don: Thoy ask mo if there are such drinks as brandy smashes, claret pun ches, gin-slings, and the like, and when I tell them I am not quite sure, but think I have heard those things men tioned by worldly people in the states, they say, "Ah, how wonderful!" I hope I havo not deceived these people. ?Stanley writes, " No drunkard can live in Africa. The very fever discov ers his weak point, attacks him and kills him. I knew nothing muoh of this terrible recurring malady previous to my African experiences, but I had good causo beforo 1 endod my mission to know that a drunkard is least able to withstand a tropical and malarious oli mnte." ?Pestered with "contributions in vorso," from a persistent rhymstor, till his pationco gavo out, an American ed itor wrote to his correspondent thus : "If you don't stop Bonding mo your sloppy poetry, I'll print a pieco of it some day, with your name appended in full, and send a copy to your sweet heart's father." The pootical fountain was spontaneously dried up! ?A cholera conference is to meet in Vienna in the course of tho autumn to discuss the best methods of preventing the propagation of the disoaao. Pro foasor Pottenkofer, who has carefully watched the progress of cholera in Munich sinco its outbreak nearly a year ago, will bo present, and will no doubt have valuable information to contribute. Tho number of deaths, whioh last win ter amounted to 55 a day in Munich (as a maximum), had sunk last month to two per diem. ?A Montreal paper says : " Tho la dies of this city will be gratified to learn that the woman's rights movement is advanoiug with giant strides. A Pnpineau road briokmaker employs women in his manufactory. Several women could bo soon yesterday in his yard piling bricks. The happy, oon? tented expression visible on their sun burnt features showed plainly that thoy enjoyed thoir work. Their hanai moved nimbly, and thoy can throw eight bricks in the timo n man takes to throw four."