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v ?. r im An Independent Paper I>e-v?tecL to tHe Interests of tke JPeople. ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1874. NUMBER 30. * Ii V haurikt m*kwen xxxbali? Midway botWocn f base towering hills < ' Ono lonoly human dwelling; On eitbor band tho meadow land Make fair the mountain spaoasvi With golden roaoh of-buttercups V . ' And Kilver drift of daisies. "-^5v : ' BohVnd/tiio massive forest win;' ' Before, tho river running ; , . And close about the'zUtle cot ? TIio signs of human cunning : ? ^ Tho nijrnrs so homely and ao awcet i That draw ub to each other, And mako tho dally lifo of man ^n?llar to his brother. Wo know tho hand at early morn . ,| > . That cottage hearth-flro kindling:, Wo walobed tho dropping "of this corn; >:Wp wait Its purplo spindling I- ?? ? Aipart have wo in all the toila Of those our mountain neighbors; A portion in tho precious.'gain ..Ueaveu winnows frpm their labors., . Wo taste their trials, Bharo their feasts, . And, with a passing-wonder, - Wo linger oven whllo wo go, Their choice, their lot to ponder. Amid tho grandouv and tho gloom . Oa every hand abiding, A flower of human bloasomiug This lit tlo homo Is biding. - What tender wind of Frovldenco Tho small seed hither drifted, Where yet, theee shadows vast may fall ???On tillage spires uplifted 7 ^ i.osS awful seem those hills august,' ' Lobs lone tho valleys glooming, *? Since in this wildorness the roso . Of human lifo is blooming 1 DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE. MX ANNIE ROBERTSON NOXON. " If there is any thin g in the world distasteful to me, it is nsudden railroad journey," says Jasper Longworthy, con fidential olerk in the house of Lorn on Bros;, butlers, Bradbury street, to his wife/who very oarefnlly packed his portmanteau with a chat go of linen, one extra pair ?f grey tweed trousers, a fonoy chocked waistcoat, a box of fine paper 'dollars, n neck-tie mado of a piece of Mrs. Longworthy's wedding dress, made, the night before stealthily, and designed by the good lady an a sort J of talisman or amulet by wh'cnher hus band might, or ought to be preserved through untold, undreampt-of dangers. That Mr. Longworthy failed to evince sudden emotions at sight .of the ever to be-remembered puce-colored silk, with its white diamond lu uro, was simply an evidence of the utter heartlessness of men, for if, in not to bo presumed -that ?tiny man could forget tho dress in which ittiltetfln^^ tinned until six tiers andn small llask of brandy and peppermint had been squeezed in and the lid screwed down, whereon a maiden in a scarlet riding habit with yellow buttons pranced gaily over an Orange meadow oh a. purple horse, ? and Mrs. Longworthy came for ward to procure Jasper's assistance about strapping the portmanteau, her hands trembled so. " Shan't I put ub a nioe'lunoh, dear? a half of cold chioken, two or three slioos of ham, some tongue, pickles,-and a quarter tf whortleberry pie?" "Mercy, woman," says Mr. Longwor thy with'fine disdain of this wifely so lioitude, " na,aL there.were nothing eat able botween this and Tibhry t Lunoh, certainly not. What a figure I should cut, like that troublesome man of Dick ons', always going I about with a huge I white-brown paroel in a chronic state of falling to pieces. Now if I were going I for pleasure, my dear Harriet?but it is a nasty piepe of business.my lovo, and I shall have plenty, to .think of besides whortleberry pie." "jl I _ vJI Ij Snatching a mouthfnl of cake, a Rulp of coffee, and a hasty kiss, Mr. Jasper Longworthy and his portmanteau went down tho front steps two at a bound, and Mrs. Longworthy was left in a very desolate house, with odds and ends to pick up, soiled linen to count and pnt up for tho wash, the day before's mut ton to hash and?oh yes?Jasper's cast off pockets to go through. This is a business, at wliioh every woman goes with expectanoy at half cook?a kind of sickening dread that she will find that which the pitying gods should snatch from her by a sudden alarm of fire, or tho tumbling of a neighbor's child into tho cistern?any thing to take hor wind off tho inter dicted and forbidden regions of thoj waistcoat and coat, where men insist only duns and disagreeable moms are kept, telcgramH, lifo insurance polioies and price records. 5';f '7$ $ ft '1 jtj " Poor Jasper ; lie docs bate to be sent off in this way, without hardly a moment's warning, and tho cars make him so sick. . I remember tho fuimmer wo were married, whon wo went down to "Woodstock to visit .Aunt Golimy Ann?" Ivl I Tho investigation had been briskly going onward, and with a deadly palor in her oheeks, and her heart beating like a trip-hannuer, Mrs. Longworthy turned over and over, beforo ilaring to unfold it, a delicate looking letter, ruled in wfttov-lines and smelling of hedyoe mia. "They never scent price-lists nor polioios, I'm sure," syringing the abjoot semblance of tho deceitful JoBpor ncdor her left arm by the skirts, and sitting down on a conplo of tomato cans. Slowly tho reading bogan, every lot tor soomod reeling away in a mod sort of jig, until tho little woman's eyes burnt in their sookets as if thov had been .tested peanuts. If dear Jasper could hivvo scon hor thon : | " My Own Darmno : In Bpitoof everything, my (loaront, I think I Khali bo ablo t> quit town oarlv Monday, and will moot yon at *Uo littlo fetation on tho Ei and U. road, Paxlon, whom I will wait for you, if you aro not tliero jSnYt? SSnffi^"' , , "HUfllE." "Oh, the deeply-dyed villain I" said little Mrs. Jasper1, feeling at first that t\\% proj^thing wotihlbetcJfauiJk dead iy cm. th? 8ittmK-rdrSyr5or?with this away cm tho ?ittmg-row^rb?T/Tvith this evidence pt perfidy locked in her thand. Vision? of having died in this state, with ber oruol. ana hoartless husbrfud ohafing her olay-oold hands, repenting of his misdeeds, alas 1 too late, and wet ting tho v^iito Anted frock they would, of course, iay Ete^ put with his tears, passed through her mind with Other agreeable reflections, such as that-ho would lose tho confidence- of his follow men, and become prematurely bald. But what was tho use of fainting, or' dying',? She wais all alone in that dread ful'house.; the house maid: had gone, homo with tho toothache, and the cook had gone to the green-grocer's for the tomatoes to. can, and it she came back and found bar, mistress insensible, she would perhaps donoe her'with nasty cold water, or take the color out of her new morning gown with ammonia. . Flinging the hateful letter from her. ?s'if it smolled of brimstone instead of hedyosmia, Mrs. Long worthy, who was a practical little body, albeit a .trifle romantic, got up from her uucomforta ble position,and .wished that Jaspor Longworthy were there So that sho might soiatoh his eyes out. But he should see she was" not to' be trampled jfAa. "Was she not a Wimbledon? And wore they not. characterized by aminol courage and noted for spirit? "Ishall go baok to mother's this very night, and never look on his deceitful face again. Brother Tom shall- make him repent of the way he has used me. Susie indeed ! The artful minx?colls hint her own darling I Well, she eon have him now, I'm sure.'- And at this dreadful signing over, mentally, of all right to Mr. Jasper Long worthy, five feet soven in his Btockingo, thinking of his general appearance as if called on to moke out A passport, Mrs. Jasper staggered to her big Cane-Beat rocking chair, fell into it, and burst into a vio lent fit of weeping, sobbing as if her heart would break. *' Halloo I halloo*!" soys a big bass voioe in the sitting-room, and sure enough there was brother Tom, In his usual creaky boots, coming in unex pectedly to make Hattie the usual quar terly visit, just to see how things were. "What's the row, old girl, and where's Jasper?not dead, I hope." '?Oh, uO?'? j mention ; him, brother Tom; I wish I were dead, I do. I can't bear to stay here, Tom. Ton must take mo back home immediately; wo must never, look on his faco again." A ^?'rakeyctin^ on his face. again. If he has been abusing my sister to this extent I'll break every bone in Mr. Jasper Long worthy's unmanly carcass j that's what I'll do," said Tom, bluntly, and mearf ing every word of it, too. 41 No; let him go, Tom. He'll get his deserts"?this in a dramatic tone, very touching. "Ho never beat me, yon know, and I wouldn't kill him if 1 were you." Tom growled like a mastiff and began opening cupboards recklessly and poking down spider webs as if Mr. Longworthy was concealed in a pickle closet. Between sobs and tears Tom's abused sister threw her things into a trunk, as Tom had decided to take her home first and go on an animated hunt for Long worthy afterwards, whom he should pro 036(3 to annihilate on sight. He had already pitched Longworthy's tale-tell ing coat and waist coat into tho back yard, when that unsuspected gentleman, having left by the train, arrived on the Rceno in a high state of excitement and perspiration. " Good gracious ! What's tho mat ter, Mtb. Longfellow ? Howdy, Tom?" " You're a nice one, now nrent you," said Tom, promptly knocking Long worthy down, portmanteau and all; " now then, sir, explain yourself ; what does this mean ?" " I'll be hanged if I know," said Mr. Longworthy, pioking himself up, with very mnoh the expression of a man who has suddenly broken in on lunatics. He ought, in the absence of an argument, have knocked brother Tom down, but the faet of it was that Tom was a deuced big fellow, with muBoles like whip-cord, and it wouldn't do. " Only to think of that cravat , too, Mr. Longworthy; Oh, what a deluded woman I have beon ; what would yon care for my wedding dress so long as yon hadyonrown over till death Snsie. I know all about it; look at. that let lev ; I have read every word of it. Can yon face me after this ? " Hero Mr. Longworthy had the bad taste to laugh, long ar.d loud, an evi dence that the humor of the placo was catching, .sinoe no man in his sober Hennen, who had junt reoeived a black eye from his wife s brother, would havo laughed like. this. '* This is too good, by George ! Oomo bore, Tom, I'll toll you what this is; it's no uso to explain to Harriet, she wouldn't bolievd mo. This letter was sent to young Bigolow, our olerk, who absconded with two thousand dollars , three days ago. Tho firm intercepted it, of rather,,with the sanotion of the law, used this as a moans of detecting tlie chap, who had made arrangements to folopo with old Barker's danghter, it is supposed.- I was sent on with an oflloer to Poxton to help bring him baok. But, confound it, I got left, as usual." - ?iAnd you don't love any other wcmkri,:Jaspor?" This very penitently. " Not that I know of," Raid Jaspor, adoring if his eyo would swell "I don't think I'll over marry, old hoy," fiaid Tom, rather sheepishly ; ho ?iuv Jflspef 4fev wways 'Been such friends. "If you find a woman who isn't oorious in the least, marry her, Tom, but always burn your lottere, or any body else's which you happen to get into your possession." By this time ?the cook had let the tomatoes spoil, the dinner was lato,, and poor Long worthy ouractl young Bigolow irom the bottom of his soul, and taking a half holiday wont out of town with brother Tom. : ? ._j , BLACK BILLS WONDERS. !; ?? .. ?. A VcrltnMo lirtcn?IMccovcrlpo of Gold, liemd, and Indications of Silver. 'The following is part of the official report of Gen. G. A. O us tar to the aflf Bistant adjutant general of tho depart ment of Dakota : , ,, On the evening of the 22nd wo halted and encamped oast of aud within four miles of the base of Inyan Kara. De siring to use on d that peak the following day, it being highest in the\ western range of the Black Hills, I did not xnovo camp the next day, but" taking a small party with me, proceeded to the high est point of* this prominent landmark, whose height is given as 6,600 feet. The day was not favorable for obtain ing distant views, bat I deoided on the following morning to move due east and attempt the passage of the hills. We experienced considerable delay from fallen timber which lay in our pathway. With this exception, and a very little digging, rendered necessary descending into a valley, the pioneers prepared the way for the train and we reached camp by 2 o'clock, having marched eleven miles. We hero found grass, water and wood of the best qual ity and in great abundance. { On the following day we resumed our marchp u ?tho valley, which I had ex plored several miles the preceding even ing, and whioh led us by an copy ascent almost southeast. ' After marching near ly twelve miles we encamped ut an ear ly hour in the same valley. This val ley, in one respect, presented the moBt wonderful as well ns beautiful aspect. Its equal I have never seen ; and such, too was the testimony of all who be held it. In no public or private park have I ever seen such a profuse display of flowers of tho -most.exquisite colors and perfume. So luxuriant in growth were they that men plucked them with out dismounting from the saddle. Some belonged to new or unclassified spe cie b. It was a strange sight to glance back at the advancing columns of cav alry, and behold the men with beauti ful boquets in their hands, while the with wreaths of" flowers fit to crown a queen of May.' Deeming it a most fit ting appellation, I named this Floral valley. Gen. Forsytb, at one of our halt ing places, chosen at random, pluck ed seventeen beautiful flowers belonging to different speoies, an 1 within a space of twenty feet square. The same ovening, while seated at the menu table, one of the officers called attention to the car pet of flowers strewn under our feet, and it was suggested that it bo deter mined how many different flowers could be plucked without, leaving our seat at the dinner table. Baven beautiful vari eties were thus gathered. Prof. Don aldson, the botanist of the expedition, estimated the number of flowers in bloom in Floral valley at fiftyt while an equal number of varieties had bloomed or were yet to bloom. The number of trees, shrubs, and grasses were twenty five, making the total flora of the valley embrace 125 pieces. Through this beautiful valley mean ders a stream of crystal water so cold as to render ioe undesirable even at noon day. The temperature of two of the many springs found flowing into it was taken, and ascertained to bo 43 and 4A} degrees respectively. As there are scientific parties accom panying the expedition, who are exam ining into the mineral resources of this region, the result of whoso researches will accompany my detailed report, I omit all present referenoe to that por tion of onr explorations until tho return of the expedition, except to state what will appear in any event in the pnblio prints?that gold has been found at sev eral places, and it is the belief of those who are giving their attention to this subject that it will be found in paying quantities. I havo upon my table forty or fifty Bmall particles of pure gold, in sizo averaging that of a small pin head, and most of it obtained to-day from ono panful of earth. As we have never remained longer at one camp than one day, it will be readily understood that there is no opportunity to make a satisfactory examination in regard to deposits i of valuable minerals. Veins of lead and strong indications of tho existence of silver have been found. Until farther examination is mado re garding tho riohness of the gold no opinion should be formed. Veins of what tho geologists term gold-bearing quartz orop out on almost every hill Bide. All existing geological and geo graphical maps of this region havo been formed incorrect. This will not soem surprising when it is remembered that both have been compiled by guess-work and without entering the country at tempted to be represented. ?The editor of the Burlington (la.) Hawkeyo has discovered a woman who will get up at nix o'clock, kindle the fire, get breakfast, rout out the family, "ash i ho dishes and six child ion, se>v a button on tho neck of her husband's shirt and hunt his hat, go to a mission Sunday-sohool aud teach a olass, attend church, rush homo and have dinner over and the things oleared away in time for afternoon Hund.ay**cuool, \ read tho Sunday-school papers to the children, go to church at night, and talk on her way homo about Sunday as a "day of rest." -;-rr?-i?n ?? . . AMERICAN INCIVILITY. What De. .T, <3. JEollatui Has to Say on tine Subject. There 3b, most undoubtedly, some thing in; the political equality estab lished by, American! institutions which interferes with the, development of ojy ility among those who ocbuW what are denominated the lower' walks of life. It is hard to see why. this should be so. One would naturally suppose that polit-. ioal equality would breed reciprocal re spect among all classes and individuals,' no less |han self-respect. Certainly there could hardly be a better basis Of good maqners than self-respect and re spect fori others;; yet, with everything in our institutions to develop these, to gether with a respect for women which is entertained in no other country- with which we aro acquainted, .it is not to be deniea that among the workers of the nation politeness is little known and less practiced. A man who steps into Washington market, with a good coat on, looknjg for. his dinner, will receive the utmost politeness of which tho stall keeper is capable, and" this will consist in calling him " boss"?a boorish con cession to civility for the sake of trade. The oourfcobus greeting, tho f> Sir," and the "Madam," the civil answer, the thousand indescribable deferences and attentions) equally without servility or arrogance] which roveal good manners, are wanting. * It all comes, wo suppose, of the fear of those who find themselves engaged in humblcemployments, that they shall virtually concede that somebody some where is ratter than themselves. It is singular that they should voluntarily take a corpse that proves the fact ? that they ore so unwilling to admit to them selves and! others. The man who un dertakes to prove that ho is as good as a gentleman, by behaving like a boor, volunteers,a decision against himself ; while ho4who treats all men politely builds fon&dmself a position ' which se cures thejrespeot of all whose oonduct, is not condemned by his own. The, AmerioaMU^a kinder man than the Frenchman, and better natured than tho Englishman, but tho humble American is less polite than either. One of the' charms of Paris to the traveling Ameri can grow; out of tho fact that it is one of the fljSgfolacea he visits, and that then, for the fira?TVml&4n -Jys life, he comes into contact with a class of*hunl blo people- "ho have thoroughly good manners. He is not called " boas, or "hoss/^Keis himself put upon his way officials,' shop-keepers, waiters at cafe and hotel, cab-drivers, etc. The " bien 1 Monsieur," and " bien ! Mad ame," which responds to one's requests in Paris, is certainly very sweet and sat isfactory after : "All right, boss; you can bet on't." Wheie the ouro for our national trou ble is coming from, it is hard to tell. Thero was a time, fifty years ago, when there was a degree of reverence in Amer ican children, and at least a show of good manners. Qreat respect to those of superior age and oulture was then inculcated, anl at least formal courtesy exacted, Tnose of country breeding who are old enough remember the strings of school children at the road side, who arrayed themselves for the formal exhibitions of courtesy to the passenger. Certainly all this training is done with, and such a sight as this we presume has not been witnessed in America within twenty-five years. Even the men and women?fathers, mothers, and teachers of fifty years ago, ! had receded from the courteous habits of previous generations. In the old, colonial and even later days, great re speot was paid to dignities. The clergy man was reverenced b cause he was a clergyman, and occupied the su preme position of teacher of tho people. Ho was reverenoed not only because of his holy calling," but beoause he was a scholar. All this has gone by. The clergyman, if he is a good fellow, is very much liked and potted, but the old reverence for him, and universal courtesy toward him, are unknown. Are the people any better for all this change? We think not, .and we do not doubt that tho change itself has much to do with the habits of incivility of whioh wo complain. Men must nave somo prinoiplo of reverence in them, as a basis of good manners, and this princi ple of rovorenoe in the modern Ameri can child. has very little development. He comes forward oarly, and the first thing he does in multitudes of instances is to lose his respeot for his parents. Indeed, courtesy toward parents is in no way exacted. Poor men and woman try to give their children hotter chances than they had themselves, and the children grow up with contempt for those whoso sacrifices have raised them to a higher plane of culture. They call the teaoher "Old Snooks," or "Old Bumble," or whutever his name may happen to be. It is not unjust to de clare that thero is in America to-day no attempt distinctly and definitely mode, to cultivate a spirit of reverence in ohildron. Wo acknowledge that we have no faith in any attempt to reform tho manners of the adult population of the country. Our efforts to make sober men out of drunkards, and total-abstinence men out of moderate drinkers, aro failures. Our temperance armies are to be made entirely out of children. Wo oan raise more Christians by juvenile Christian oulture, than by adult conversion, a thousand to ono. So it will be in this matter of national politeness. Tho parents and teachers of the country oan give us a polite people, niid this by the cultivation of the principle of rever ence not only,, but by instruction in all tho form of polite address. With a number of things greatly needod to dar in home culture- and school study, this matter of training in good manners is not the least. Indeed we are inclined to think it is of paramount importance. It should beoomo a matter of text boohs St once. A thorough gentleman or lady, who has brains enough to compre hend principles, while proficient in practice?, could hardly do abettor ser vice to the country than by preparing a book for parents and teachers, as at onoe a guide to thorn and to those who are under them. Children must be train od to politeness, or they will never be polite. They must drink politeness in with their mother's milk; it must bo exacted in the family and neighborhood relations, and boys and girls must grow, up gentlemen and ladies in their de Eortment, or our nation can never o a thoroughly polite one?polite , in soul as well as in ceremony, and kind in manner as well as kind in heart. The Sonorous Sand of Kunai. . W. H. Frink, or Honolulu, has sent some strange sand, taken from a bank on the island of Kanai, to the Academy cf Sciences of San Francisco. In his letter ho thus describes its peculiarity: " The bank, whioh is composed of this sand, commences at a perpendicular bluff *at the southwest of tho island, and extends one and a half miles almost dne south, parallel with the beach, which is about 100 yards distant from the base of the sand bank. This sand drift is about sixty feet high, and at the extreme south end the angle preserved is as steep as the nature of the sand will permit. The bank is constant ly extending to tho south. It is said by the natives that at the bluff and along the middle of the bank the sand is not sonorous. But. at the extreme south end and for a half-mile north, if you slap two handfuls together there is a sound produced like the low hooting of an owl?more or less sharp according as the'motion is quick or slow, j Sit down upon the sand and give one hand a quick circular motion, and the sound is like the heavy bass of a melodeon. Kneel upon the steep incline, extend tho two hands and clasp as much sand as possible, slide rapidly down, carry ing all the sand you can, and the sound accumulates as; you descend until it is like distant thunder. In this experi ment the sound was sufficient to frighten our horses, fastened a short distance Trdgjjtoo base of the drift. But the greaf*sV*80tffld-.we j>roduoed was by av>ng one native lie upon" flm bsllv and carrying as muoh sand as possible wim them. With this experiment the sound was terrific, and could have been heard many hundred yards distant. With all the experiments that were made, it seemed the sound was in proportion to the amount of sand put in motion with a proportionate velocity. Another con sideration seems requisite?that is, its perfect dryneFS. The dry. sand would sound on the surface where six inohes beneath it was wet; but if any of the wet sand became mingled with the dry, its property of sounding oeased at once. The sand appears to the eye like ordi nary beach sand, but ordinary beach sand will not produce the sounds. It has been said that it lost its sonorous properties when taken away from the bank. But I can discover no diminish ing of its sonorous qualities, even with the bottle uncorked, and we have had rain frequently and an atmosphere more than ordinorrily moist for this time of year. Perhaps if exposed to a very damp atmosphere it might absorb mois ture enough to prevent its sounding." The Steamer Elephant. Mr. Thomas Hartshorn is still able to thow a little light on tho annals of the steamer " Elephant," Captam Jim Homer remembers the " Elephant." and bears witness to her speed. He re members that she had a tin elephant on her jacks taff, and one painted on each whoel-honse. All questions as to the existence of such a boat are thug put at rest Mr. Hartshorn says, by way of further recording the exploits of the Elephant: " She was oomin' up from Orleans on one of her trips, and struck a wood-yard just below Shirt-toil Bend. The wood-yard was about a mile long, and the current set strong agin the shore that the yard was on. The Elephant pulled up at the lower end of the yard and wooded. She started agin tho cur rent, and durn me if she didn't wood three times at that yard. Sho was tho broadest boat across the stern, I reckon, that you ever sow. She had two rud ders, one at eaoh side, and when she was moving she mode a sort of (motion or eddy behind her so strong that if a man fell overboard ho would follow the boat all day. When a men tumbled off they used to look at the books to see if his passago was poid. If it was paid they pulled him aboard, and if it wasn't they let him slide." "The Elephant," continued Mr. Hartshorn, " made one trip to St. Lonis just after she was built. Sho was in sight of the town about two days bo fore she got there. All the steamboat people were out lookin' at her chimneys and pilot-house, and trying to tell what boat she was. Finally one of the pilots on a Cinoinnati packet, who'd passed her two or three times on her way round, sez, ' I'll bet, by gad, sho's the Ele phant.' And sure enough she was." ?The death rote in London, England, is only holf as groat in proportion to population as it is in Now York. This indicates that there is something wrong in the habits of our people and In their sanitary management. Poverty and crime,! the great accessories of death must be far greater among tho orowded millions of the British than tho Ameri can metropolis. F?QTS AND FANCIES.* ?Nine thousand bushels of- peanuts from Africa arrived in Boston the other day. ??How Patrick proposes to get],?ver I his single blessedness?By proposing to Bridge it. ?In Eoone, Iowa, the young ladies of the period meander through the streets. playfully kicking over dry goods boxes and punching one another's nats off with their parasols. ?Gent (calling at the house of a lady .. friend)-?" Is your mistress in ? " Mary ?" She is, snr." Gent-r-" Is she en gaged ? " Mary?" Faith, she's more ncr that; she's married." , ".' (<J ?The reason, an urchin gave lately, for being so late at school was, that the' boy in the next house was going to havo -a dressing down by his daddy, and ho waited to hear him " howl." ?It was "darling Gweorge" when a bridal party loft Omaha] it was " dear -George" at Chicago ; at Detroit it was "George." and when thoyi.reached Niagara Falls it was "Say, you." . ?" I don't want to make any sacrifices uselessly," said her husband, as he rolled up his Bleeves and stood over the wash-tub, while his wife executed a pas eeul around him with a potato - masher. ?People talk about the Christian spirit of forgiveness to be met with in America, but let a young man sit down on a new plug hat at a Sanday-Bohool excursion and it-mars the harmony of the whole assembly. ?It may not be generally known; " says a Chicago paper that the enormous i arches which support the Chicago and. St. Louis bridge were Copied from a " cost taken from the instep of a promi nent St. Louis belle. ?A little girl remarked to her manir 4 ma, "I am not afraid of the dark. "No, of course you are not," replied her mamma. "I was: a little afraid onoe when I went into the pantry to get - a tart." . " What were you- afraid of? " asked the mamma. "I wan afraid I ? could not find the tarts." | ...,?,j ., ?A Hartford man was j drowned, and ? friends brought home the dead body to his afflicted wife. As they came to the' front door with the corpse the new-' made widow appeared ' and sadly re marked : "I guess .you had- better take him around to the back door, so he won't drip on the parlor carpets ! " company, with a capiUlTodt't^^wO^ in 20,000 shares ot $50 each. The com pany is formed, it is mentioned, ''for purchasing and slaughtering in Canada or elsewheto cattle or other stock, and exporting meat to Great Britain or else* a where." ?" Missus Snowdrop," said a gentle man of color tho other afternoon during a shower, to a lady of bis acquaint ance, " as do wedder is somewhat am- . phibious, will you do mo de. honor to , step under my umbreller on form a' ?uorumf" "Thank yon, Mr. Billups, will. In dia wedder an umbreller is rather cosmopolitan." ?Mr. Alfred Organ, of Sumpter, Wisconsin, has an acre of teasles that are now in the burr, and are looking re markably fine. Teasles ar e extensively used in woolen factories for raising the ! nap on oloth, and owing to the small production of them in this country, tho market is seldom, if ever, overstocked, particularly in the west. ?The latest novelty in earrings is I probably the singular pair which were sported by a dashing Parisian belle at a recent wedding. From each ear hung a small gold gridiron, on which was laid a heart formed of garnets, tho idea to be conveyed, says a gushing corres pondent, being that of a bleeding heart upon the fiery coals of love I ?A young husband took his wife to a soda fountain last evening, and, look ing solemnly at the mau who asked them "what syrup?" said he would take "crusade. Imagine his horror when she said sho would try some too. . He laughed foobly, but the cold sweat stood in great drops on his clammy brow; but, fortunately, the soda man never lost his presence of mind, ami, while the husband threw in an extra dose of "crusade," his wife made a very wry face over ginger. Sho will nevor try " cruBade" again. ?A tricolor flag on the summit of Metz cathedral, which has been a con stant eyesore to the Germans, was re cently removed," a reward of $75 having been offered for the feat, which was attended with considerable danger, as, after tho top of the gothio tower was reached, two balls had to be scaled to reach the flagstaff. A man named Demange, a house-painter at Metz, latoly made the attempt and brought down tho obnoxious emblem of French rule, substituting therefor a German flag of black, white, and rod. Previ ously, seven Germans had tried to ac complish the task, but two lost their lives and the other five failed. ?The Founder's medal of tho Royal Geographical sooiety was granted to Dr. Sohweinfurth, and the Victoria medal to Major Warbnrton, who has lately crossed the interior of Western Austra lia from the M'Dowell ranges to the coast north of Nicol Bay, passing over eight or nine hundred miles of territory nevor before trodden by the foot of a white man. Tho country traversed proves to be eminently barren and un interesting in an agricultural point of view. For three months tho expedition had nothing to live upon but dried oamol's flesh and such roots and bulbs as thoy.could gather. ?