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-A.n Independent Paper Devoted to t lie tH oi the People. VOLUME III. ORANGEB?RG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THUfpMY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1374. NUMBER 31. IN AH HOUR. ANTICIVATION. "I'll take tho orchard i'ath," she said, '?' Speaking lowly, smiling slowly; Tho hrook was dried within Its bod, Tho hot sun flung a flame of rod l/ow in tho West, as forth sho spod. Across tho driod brook-conrso sho went, i_Singing iQwiy, smiling slowly: Bho scarcely saw tho nun that spent ltn fiery force in swift descent? .She hover saw i'uc wheat was bent. l^hograssee "parched, tho blosaonas dried; Singing lowly, smiling slowly: Hqr.eyes amid tho drought ospled A Bummer ploasanco far aud wide, With roses and sweet violets pled. II. .Hi O .v DlSArrorNTMENT. But homoward coming all tho way, *xj > Sighing lowly, pacing slowly. She knew tho bent wheat withering lay, She saw tho blossoms dry decay. . . Sho missod the httlo brooklot's ptay. A breeze had sprung from out the South, Bat, slRhlng lowly, pacing slowly, She only-felt tho burning drought; Her oyos were hot, and parched her mouth Yet swoot tho wind blow from tho South I And whon tho wind bronght wclcomo rain, Still Birthing lowly, pacing slowly, Sho never saw* tno littitig grain, ' Bat only?a lone orchard laue, Where she had -waited all in vain I PEARLS AND BLACKBERRIES. \t No," said Dr. Darliag, Blowly/," no; I eau'fc believe the evidenoo of my own senses." And as he enunciated tho words with impressive distiootnoss ho looked solemnly at Harry Clifford. He might have found a worse-looking individual to fix his rogards upon than thin young M. D., who had taken his first season in bones, muoles and human anatomy, with tho therapeutics belong ing thereto, in tho little offioo across the hall, aud was just preparing to hang up a Bhingle ef his pwn; for Harry Clifford was tall and shapely, with red brown hair and a huge auburn mus tache, and merry eyes that laughed like springs of water in the sunshine. Dr. Darling took off his spectacles, folded them, and deliberately placed them in their case, still without taking his eyes from his neophyto. Harry Clifford smiled ; but ho looked a little embarrassed, nothwithstauding. " She would havo you in a minuto, if ?rou wero to propose," pursued Dr. Dar ing, dropping threat red-hot splashes of sealing-wax over n shoot of blotting paper, and stamping thorn with his monogram seal in on aimless sort of way. "Yos; but I toll yon, sir, I -lou't want to propose," said Harry, staring at the intertwined D. J. D.'s OH if thoy wore the most iutorestiug things in tho rid.- - "You don't want n pretty girl for a wife?" . " Not that pretty girl in particular, dootor." Nor fifty thousand dollars?" added the dootor, pronouncing the throe mo mentous words in a manner that made them sound very weighty indeed. " I wonld not objeot to the fifty thou sand dollars in itsolf, sir; but, as a mere appendage to Miss Bradbury?" " I beliove.tho bovis crazy," ejacu lated Dr. Darling. " Well, well, as the Scotch proverb has it, 1 a wilfu' man maun hae his way,' and I shall inter fere n? farther. By tho way, Harry?" " Yes, sir ?" " You are going to tho oity this after noon?" "That is my present intention, sir." " Stop at Depiorre's, will you, and leave Mrs. Darling's pearl brooch to be mended. I ought to have dono it a wdek ago, but a man can't think of everything." V Certainly, dootor ;" and Harry Clif ford, deposited the pearl brooch?an old-fashioned ornament of massive gold, set with tiny seed-pearls?in his waiBt ooat pocket. " Bather a careless wav to carry jewelry, young man," si i 1 Dr. Darling, elevating his uyebrowB. The morning sun was casting bright, flickering threads of gold across the kitchen floor; tho morning-glories and Madeira vines, trained across the case ment, stirred softly in tho mild July air : aud Ursula Percy, Miss Darling's orphan niece, was busy " doing up blackberries." Fresh as a rose, with hn/.oi oyos, soft ened to intense blackness at times by the shadow of their long lashes, and smiling scarlet lips, sho stood thore? her calico dress conoealed by the house wifely apron of white dimity that was tied round her waist, and her black curls tuoked remorselessly bade of hor ears?looking demurely into the bub bling depths of tho preserving kettle, like a beautiful paroly on ono of the witches in:" Macbeth ;" while on tho whitely-sconrod pino-tnblo boyond a glittering tin vessel was upheaped with the beautiful jet-black fruit, each sep arate berry flashing like tho oyo of an oriental hollo. " Ursula I" Tho pretty young girl started, very nearly dropping her skimmor into tho preserving kettle. "How you startled mo, narry." Harry advanced into tho kitchou, with an admiring look at tho bright1 face flushed with a little blush und a good doal of stovo heat. " You aro always at work, Ursula." "I havo got to work, Harry, to ourn my own living," Ursula Poroy answered, with a slight uplifting of her oxquisito black brows. "I am not un heiress like Miss Bradbury." "Confound TUiss Bradbury !" exclaim ed our hero. " I hoar notluug but Miss Bradbury the wholo timo." "She is u very swoot young lady, Harry," said Ursula, in mildly reprov ing accents. "I dare eay; but?what a lot of blackberries you havo hero, to bo sure, Urania.-". "Forty quarts," said Ureula, demure ly. " Aunt Darliug always enjoys them so much in winter. Harry put a honey-swoet globnle cf fruit into his mouth. " Blackberries are beautiful fruit, Urania," "Very;" and Miss Percy skimmed diligently away at the bubbling caul dron. ?? Especially when you ars doing thorn up," added the young M, D., with rather a olumsy effort at compliment. Ursula did not answor. Harry walked up to the range aud took both her hands in his. f Harry, don't; the berries will burn." " Let 'em burn, then; who oareB ?" " But what do you want ?" she asked, struggling impotently to escape, and langhing in spite ef the grave look sho fain would have assumed. "To see your eyes, Ursula." "She lifted tho eoft hazel orbs to his face, then withdrew them with sudden shyness. "Do you know what answer I road from those eyes, dearest ?" he whisper ed, after a moment or two of silence, broken only by tho hissing and simmer ing of the boiling blackberries. "No." " I read yes 1' "O, Harry, I dare not. Uncle and aunt aro so determined you shall marry Miss Bradbury." " Aud I am so determined not to mar ry her. Is a man to be given away as if he were a house and lot, or a bundle of old olothes, I should like to know ? Ursula?" " Harry, they are burning ; I am sure of it. I can smell them. O, do let go of my hands!" Harry Olifford deftly seized up tho big iron spoon, and stirred the boiling depths vigorously. " It's all your imagination, Ursula." "No, it's not; and if they aro the least bit scorched they will bo spoiled for Aunt Darling." "But, Ursula?" The creaking sound of an opening door beyond suddenly dissolved tho toto-a-tete. Ursula almost pushed Har ry Clifford out of tho kitchen. "You'll bo on tho piazza to-night when thoy havo gono to tho ooncert ?" he persisted, asking through tho oruek in the dooi. "Yos, yos, anything ? everything; only go 1" * , And Harry went, beginning to realize that love-making and presorviog do not assimilate. " Your pearl broooh, my dear ? O, I remember, now, I gave- it, to Harry more tntm a wcokligo to havo mended. I dare sav it is dono by this time?" aud Dr. Darling turned expectantly to our hero. ?? I?I'm very sorry," began Harry ; "but the broooh disappeared in the most unaccountable manner from my vest pocket. I know I put it there?" " Ye?," dryly interrupted the elder gentleman, "I remember seeing you < put it there, and you assured me at the time that you never lost anything. So the broooh is gono, oh ?" " Yes, sir, it is gone. But Mrs. Darl ing may rest assured," Harry added, with a glanco towards that lady, " that I will replaco it at the earliest oppor tunity." " O, it is of no oonsoquenco at all I" said Mrs. Darling, with a countenance that said plainly, it is of the very great est oonsequenoo, "perhaps we shall find it somo where in the house." But tho days slipped by, one by ono, and the doom of tho pearl broooh romained involved in the deepest mystery. Harry Clifford bought another and presented it to Mrs. Darling with a little compli mentary speech.: Mrs. Darling laughed and pinned it into the folds of the thread laco barb sho woro at her throat. " But it is so strange what can havo become of the other V* said Mrs. Darl ing. It was in the month of Septomber that tho old dootor and Mrs. Darliug made up their minds to invite Miss Bradbnry to tea. i " We will havo a pound oako and pre served blookborries," said Mrs. Darling, who always looked at tho material side of things. "And if Harry don't como to terms now, he novor will," added her husband, who didn't. " Get out the best china, and tho chased Bilvor tea service, Ursula," said Mrs. Darling. " And wear your pink French calico, child ; it's tho most bocoming dross yon have," said her nnolo, with a loving glanco at the bright littlo brunette. And Ursula Peroy obeyed both thoir mandates. "Miss Bradbnry camo?a handsomo, showy lady, with a smooth "society" manner that made Ursula feel herself very countrified aud common indeod. " Delicious preserves these !" said MiHS Bradbury. . ?Th-yaro of Ursula's making." said Mrs. Darling. Aud Harry Clifford passed his plato for a second supply, i "I romombor tho day thoy woro browed, or baked, or whatover it is yon call it," said ho, with an aroh glanco at Ursula. Suddonly old Mr. Darling grow pur ple in tho face, and bogan to cough vio lently. Every one started up. " Hn's swallowed the spoon!" oried Miss Bradhnrv. " O ! O! he got the apoplexy I" soroamed Mrs. Darling, hystorioally. " Undo 1 dearest undo !" piped np poor littlo Ursula, vaguely catching at a glass of water, But Dr. Darling roooverod without any more disastrous symptoms. r It isn't tho spoon, and I don't como of an apoplectic family," said ho. " But, upon my word, this is about tho biggest blackberry I over came peril ously near swallowing 1" And ho hold out his wife's pearl brooch boiled up in the blackberries. There was a momentary silence around tho table; and then it was bro ken by Mrs. Darling?one of those blessed old ladies 'who never see an inoh beyond their nose a. " My gooine&s gracious I" said Mrs. Darling; " how could it ever have oome into tho preserved blackberries? .1? 000 * "But I do I" said Dr. Darling; look ing provokingly knowing. " Yes, I see a good many things now that I didn't nco before." And Harry, glanoing'aoross the table at Ursula, was scmowhat consoled to perceive that her oheek was a shade more scarlet, if that were possible, than his own. He followed the doctor into his office whsa the evening meal was concluded. Ursula did not know how she ever would have lived through it were it not for Mi n. BarTusk's delightful obtuseness, and Sophy Bradbury's surface view of the matter. "Doctor," he began valiantly; but the old gentleman interrupted him. " There's no need of any explanation, my boy," said he. " I know now why you didn't want, to marry Miss Brad bury. And I don't say that I blame you much ; only I came near ohoking to death with Ursnla's blackberry jam." And Dr. Darling laughed again until, had his Bp on so been present, sho would havo thought a second attack of apo plexy among tho inevitables. "Little Ursula 1" ho added, "who would havo thought it ? Well, you shall havo my blessing." The pearls wore all discolored, and the gold of the old-fashioned brooch tarnished with the alchemy of cooking ; but Ursula keeps that old ornament yet, more tenderly treasured than all tho modern knick-knacks with which her young husband loads her toilet-table. And every year, when she preserves her blackberries, Dr. Darling comes to tea and makes ponderous witticisms, pro tending to search in the crystal preserve dish for a " boiled brooch !" But then jolly old gentlemen will havo their j kes. Superannuated Dawdlers. A Saratoga correspondent writes: "The old beaux at Saratoga are very numerous at present. They oomo hero and dangle parasols and fans in return for invitations to parties and Germans during the winter. This is easier thau calling now and tb?. vhHi '-.'*<? in b- j a terrible boro with tho old beaux, who like their cigar and newspaper and homo comforts of nn evening, and are not to be coaxed out unless there is a swell affair with a wine supper to repay them. So here they are dangling fans and doing penance, and next winter they will be invited again, because they were 'so attentive at Saratoga.' The old beaux are growing a bit heavy in figure, and show a few orow's feet, but on the whole get themselves up well, and, as they are acknowledged ' society men,' the young ladies ore satisfied to have them at their heels. " The old girls who are hawked about from one watering-place to another are also well represented this season. These 'young' ladies aro export in casting die-a-way glances, hanging their hands j fin-fashion, and in all the gushing tricks of maiden-hood. They are striving to mako tho most of themselves with a deadly effort, and aro really very stylish in their fine toilets, with eeoalloped foreheads, hair parted on one side, and bonnets pinned on captivatingly. This old stock have been waiting in tho market for rich husbands, and could now be bought cheap." German Musical Invasion of France. Sutherland Edwards, in his recent book on "Tho Germans in Franco," tells the following pleasant anecdote of the armed propagation of the Wagner idea : "The morning after my arrival in Rouen, I was awakened by the sound of such music as under ordinary circum stances would never have been heard in France. A aoleotion from 'Lohengrin' was being played by the band of an East Prussian regimont just in front of tho hotel. Hero, then, was conquest symbolized in music. Nothing but a successful invasion could have Drought Richard Wagner to the native city of Boildiou; beneath whose statue tho nn familial sounds were, at that moment, being produced. Tho sarcasm, however, mot with very little notice from the in habitants. Street-boys, whose onriority and love of novelty are stronger every where than their patriotism, hold tho mneio-sheots for their enemies; but the adult passer-by paid no more attention to tho doubtful strains than did tho or chestra dog that had dragged the big drum after him, from somewhere near Konigsbnrg, to tho capitol of Nor mandy, and who now, like a dog that] had neon tho world, lay down on tho pave ment, and calmly slept without once disturbing tho general effuat of tho music by tho nn ox poo tod rinforzando of n snore. It was freezing hard, and tho brasfl instruments, pinched by the cold, woro terribly hoarse. What, how over, was the frost to East Prussians?? ono of whom, when a shivoring French man complained that tho thermomotor marked ton degrees bolow freezing point, is Baid to havo replied : 'Ten de grees? Why, in EaBt Prussia, at ton degrees, it thaws.'" ?In Paris, natural flowers are mnoh worn at one side of tho waist, and are arranged in this wise : A small bou qnot i? placed in a tiny glass holder containing a few drops of water, which is then conoealed in the folds of tho i sash. ijpTO BOYS. Tlielr UavtjnfjsinH, KtipcrstitlOUN and !\Vlcltc ()|ic rt. Thero are jEeoui! of suspected intel ligence who hold to tho heathenish opinion that. i? boy, considered apart from bia family relations, and regarded, simply aa a nooiul phenomenon, io the most curions?s!i^gi:?Htli oi tho oiviliza tion of whicbVvvG bonst. And they aro queer onongh to commonco nrguing in favor of that opinion by a sofercnoo to tho superstitions of tho young idea. Thoy wanlrajo know, for- instance, whence a bb;> derives tho nettled con viction that in on tho hands brealsa tho forco of i^xo Bchoolmastor'a blowa ; that an eye-winker placed in tho center of the palmw-fmro lb split the poda gosuo'a rattan; that tho incautious handling of Ttbada leads to .warts, and that a white*beau planted in tho dark of the moon under a brick, near some house waterspout, removes them. Far be it from tm to attempt an explanation of these strange ideas, but it is certain that they havo boon ontortained through generation after generation of boys, and no doubt any urchin that ever sported a "knuckle djrt)Bter," a "pottery" or a "orystal," that evor "mumbled the peg," or played "leap-frog," can ac count for tl|am to tho entire satisfaction of any impartial inquirer. What rca?y is puzzling to tho adult mind is whehco the boys originally ob tained their barbarous mothods of " counting dus" for " catcher," " fox," or any of those pleasant juvenile games requiring fleetneaa of foot and a secre tive disposition. For instance : a lot of boys w$l got togethor to play at somo of their games. Ho will go through a ffceat rigamafole of words, applying ofl word to each as he desig nates him My a tap on tho breast, and tho last one) no honored is " it," as they call tho " oitcher," as thus? " Onorr, Orov, Iokory, Ann, F?li?ui, FolliHnn, Nicbolaa, Johu, Kvy, Qnavy. Bnglwh Navy, SUnkUuw, Btankulum, Buck!" . Now, thero are theso who would like to know what sense thero is in nil that, and what titio mystery connected with theso portentous words. And also in this, auothirit modo of counting out: '* Occa, bocca, . , Bona, crocka, t ^.J^" k V Occa, bocca, trnoo! " Or in this,' which is considerably less elegant, though possibly moro Bignifl cant thantfco two preceding : '?j:ik, pink, }Iow you do stink! " The. fni^ baBosof tho. Queen0city^ it muat bo confessed, uso tho. same sav age methods in making their election, of "Who's it?"etc. Tho girls havo also a good many incomprehensible chants and songs of their own. Tho starting point is, of course, "ring around the rosy spot," for it is an uttor impossibility for girls?that is, small ana real girls?to play anything very long that does not require a clapping of hands and their circling about with some outlandish chant. Their favorite song is : 41 Groin gravol. Groan gravol. How groon tlio grasa grows; And all tho croation la ashamed to bo aeon. Doar Annie, doar Annie, Your truo lovo la doad ; TTo Hont you a lottor, Bo turn back your hoad." Whereupon the dear Annio in ques tion reverses her top-knot to tho balance of the eirclo and continncs to go round in that position until tho droadfal tid ings of tho decease of tho true love of I " Dear Lizzio," " Doar Louie," ota, is convoyed to thorn respectively, and thoy, in turn, roverso themselvoa in honor Of tho departed. When tho whole list of names in tho eirclo is ex hausted, and the bereaved objects of so much pure affection are in mourning together, tho game is ploye i over again. If there chance to bo any youthful r?prosontotivo8 of tho male sex about with whom tho young ladies aro on good terms, tho chant is sometimes varied thus, tho circling performance hover ooasing for nn instant: "Little Minnie Tun, A Bitting in tho sr.n, A wooping and crying for a young man ; Biao, Minnio; riao, Minnie, Wipo away your tcara; Look to tho Eaat and look to tho Weit, And look to tho ono that you lovo tho boat." And Minnio immediately casts a lan guishing look upon some young shaver among the boys ; who, in response, as quickly assnmea n molanoholy air, breathes hard a couple of timos, and attempts a simultaneous display of all his jowolry. Bnt this is getting off tho main sub ject?boys. Tho lives of most of tho great heroes, philosophers and atatosmen that havo figured iu tho world's history have been written, tho self-made men of tho country havo beon run through a Hon press soveral thousand times, and tho future of promising {rouths throughout tho laud has been loroscoped somewhat oxtoiiBively. But who shall write up tho youth of our distinguished soldiers and stnteamon, and moueyod men ? Thero aro many gontlomcn of oolobrity in this vicinity whoso juvinilo oxporknoes would pan out haudsomeiy, but wo are afraid none of thom would bo so frank and outspo ken on tho subject as Ool. Richard Hol land, now of Harrodsburg, Kentucky, but a Oincinnatian " born and raised." The colonel admits having been tho wiokentst boy in Oinoinnati. Ho was u Look street boy, and fond of tho cans). Ho was also food of ginger cake, and on ono occasion abstracted the grocery pass-book from beneath tho paternal roof,: and obtained twelvo sections of that substantial and spicy creature com fort for the boncfit of his "crowd," who ato it in a neighboring board-yard, and gave threo times three for the au thor of the feast. Au attempt to aHor the figures in tho book foiled, however, and tho youthful; finoupicr received a lnrgo doso of strap oil, as a curative for his,smartness. Tho ooloucl was like wiso foud'of n gun.'and as his father ono,! which tho old gohtleman prized very highly, Richard and his brother ?ook it out on the hill) to shoot*s chippies" on an average three timos'a week, Richard taking the! weapon apart and ramming tho stock up tho back of his coat, while his brother carried the barrel in ono of I his '.trousers' legs, so as to got it out | of tho house, unseen. They managed tho ramrod by tying a string to it and making a whip of it until thoy got out of "sight. Thoy had "lots of *fuu" with the gun until the brother tried to shoot tho ramrod out one day, when jt kicked him over, and knocked both hammers to a fall cock. ? Richard didn't see his brothor for over five minutos, and (then had-to carry him home. There was no more shooting of "chippies." The most important transaction of that period of the colonel's existence was the olandestino carrying away' and pawning of tho old gentleman's watoh ?a vonerablo time-piece- which had been lying unseen in a bureau-drawer for over five years. Richard very reason ably thought tho watoh was completely! forgotten by that time, and that he had made a very jndicions disposition of it. But the very next Sunday, as ill-luck wonld have it, tho old gentleman, on dressing himself to go to a dinner-par ty, said to his good wifo, " Well, I guess I'll wear my watoh to-day," and fruitless search being made for the chronometer, Richard fled tho spot and played " hookey" both from school and home for tho next six weeks. It has boon mentioned that tho colo nel was fond of tho canal. So ho was, and a jolly lot of tronble it used to get him into, too. Ho was going home from " school" one day with his shoes in his hand, whon it suddenly occurred to him to make a boat of one of the pedal coverings, and straight into the look it went. Then tho other boys commenced to "waft" it to the other ond. of tho lock by throwing stones, etc., at it, and the result was that the ship went hopolessly down. Richard trembled at the thought of going home with one shoo. It would be known that he played i truant, and a; good stout stick would await him. Various expe dients were thought of and suggested as a means of getting him ont of the sorape, but thoy were all failures. Tho last one was to induce a shoemaker in *~lio neighborhood to mako a,.m?Je for | tho shoe inside of an hour, and for' the handsome remuneration of two cents, but Riohard was astonished to learn from the artist that it could not be done in that brief space of time, and partic ularly for that sum of money. The on ly thing remaining was to hook a shoe belonging 'to ' a mill-hand, which was about live times as large as tho other. Th^ disparity in size was discovered the very first thing on his entering the house; tho mill-hand came, making a terrible fuss about tho larceny of hiB shoo. Riohard was in disgraoe again, and had to flee once more to the moun tains. And "steh," as Sairy Qamp would say, " Bich is boys."?Cincinnati Commercial. Fast Horses. Tho following table, showing tho timo made by tho celebrated flyers of tho country, is interesting : Goldsmith Maid.2:14? Lulu.2:10? American Ulrl.2:17? Dexter.-.2:17? Lady Thoru.2:1H? Lucy.2:18? Judge l'ullerton....2:l'J Flora Temple.2:19? George Palmer.2:10? Hod Cloud.....-2:20 Henry.?.2:2)? Cauiors.2:*0? Mountain Boy.2:20? Gazollo.2:21 Jay Gould.2:21? George Wilkea.2:22 H?. James.2:22 Sleepy Georgo.2:22 Lady Maud.3:22? llollno.2:22? ltoaaliud.2:22 V Huntress.2:22? Jennie.2:22? Flora Helle.'J:92? Kilbttrn Jiiu.2:23 Joo Drown.2:23 Wm. II. Allen.2:23? Hotspur.-2:23? Honeation.2:23? Jim Irving.2:23? Hilly liar.2:23? Mohawk, jr.-...2:24 Major Allen.2:24? Beppo.2:241{ Myron l'erry.-2:24? Toronto Chief..2:24? Pilot Templo.2:24? Chicago.2:24? Draco 1'rlnco.2:21? Lady Blanchard...2:24^ Sleepy John.?...2:21? Clara Q......2:2. Susie.2:25 Com. Vanderbllt....2.-2J Byron.'..2:25 Joe.2:25}.,' Crown Prince.... ?.2:25? Faunio Allen.2:25? O. K. Leow.2:25? Ethan Allen.2:25? Nonesuch.2:25? Tbomaa Jefferson..2:2o? J. J. Bradley.2:25? Col. Iluascll.2:2J?4' Derby .2:25J,' Harry Barley.2:253^' lien Guminlnga....2:20 Snrpriao.9:36 Matt Smith.9:20 8ca Foam .9:20 Bay Whalebone... .2:20? Grand Duchess.2:30? Lydia Thompson..2:2fl\j' joharioy Green.2:20? Ben Flagler.2:20? Morriaisey.2:20? Queeu of tho WestM2:20? Honest Dutchman.9:20? II. W. Genot.2:20? lloyal John.2:20 ? Grace Bctran.230? Lucille.2:201, 1'ocahoutas.2:20? ISeal Sklu.2:20? More Facts About Chinch Bugs. An extensivo stock denlor informs tho St. LoniB Rural World that in his re cent travels ho has seen much of tho ravages of the chinch bug, and that the following is tho host way to destroy them : Whon they first nppoar, as they usually do, on tho side of tho corn flold, and boforo they havo entered it, out fivo or six rows of tho corn and dear tho ground ; thon plow a strip of land oight or ton feot wido, leaving a deop dead furrow, and tho trap is oompleto. Whon the bugs approach tho field, thoy will pass in under the corn placed across tho dead furrow, and preferring the shade and moist ore, remain there until tho stalks become pcrfeotly dry, whon thoy oau bo put through a process of cremation that will prove offeotnal in destroying them. Should they first ap pear in tho middle of a field of corn (as it not uufrequontly happens thoy do), thoy can be surrounded on the forogo? ing plan and dostroyed in the same way. ?It takes praotico to make perfect. Mr. Long, of Tuscnmbia, Alabama, had to pratico eight yeaia beforo ho could throw n bibio across the house and knock a voting Long down. FACTS AND FANCIES. ?Thoao lines axu oy a reaiiatio Sagi ni\\7 (Michigan) poot : "Wori'ut tho rod Injun hero "took their dc Uglife, l'iiih't, fit and bled. Now moiit of tho Inhabitant:! i'i whitci?, With wiry red." ; ?A^aobooiboy defines flea, "Flea, iloW, ilcu?Trhcii jOii pf.i 'jOu.'x hjVTJ^ ? 6niy> - _ ?England and Scotland aro-said, to. contain six hundred thousand habitrial druukardn, including both Boxen. ?"Havn'ti I a light to bo sanoy if I pleaso?" ashed a young lady of an obi n \ bachelor. " Yes, if you, please,'; bu? not if you displease," was the answer. ?It is true that thero is nothing lisAjcr advertising, but a public officer, with nothing but his salary of $2,000'a year " to live on, should be careful not to give his wife more than $6,000 worth of dia monds at a time. ?An Iowa i-iper reports tho follow ing as the form of marriage in a town' - in that state: " Join your right hands.: j ,., Do you want ono.another? (Thov both answer, "Yes.""^ "WeU, then, havo one another. You're man ana ' fit wife." ?A Vermont man has the following posted in his field : "If any mans or womans cows or oxen gets into these here oats, his or her tail will bo out off,) [ as the case may be. I am a Christian man and pay me taxes ; but blaut a man ;: who lets his critters run loose, says I." ?A lady who had been teaching .her little four-year-old the elements of arithmetic was astounded at hin running in and propounding tho following prob lem : " Mamma, if you had three but terflies and each butterfly had a bug in its ear, how many butterflies would you have?" . ,].xlH[ ?Remember that appearances aro often deceiving. Many a pale, thin young lady will eat more corned beef than a carpenter. Because yon find her playing the piano in. tho parlor it is. no sign that her mother is not at tho corner grocery running in debt for a peck of potatoes. [a. ?Tho New York Midi denounces as a double-distilled fool, a young .French man who, seeing tho dead body ?f a very beautiful woman displayed at the Morgue, went and killed himself, first writing a lottcr, stating that ho had committed tho act in order to havo his cadaver put on the next slab to hors. ?A woll known brother of tho pros a remarks, in a recent issue: ' "It is not ' our fault that we " are red-headed) u and ^l^thfliM^iiit'r" < those overgrown ruraFrooBters. in a b*li-^~ room readies down for our head, and ' suggests that some one has lost a r??o bud out of his button hole, thero will be trouble." ?A Walker street (Atlanta, Go.) man has a goat for sale. While ho Wus .i at'dinner recently, the goat chewed up' his new 'panama hat, a box of cigars, and his wife's now bonnet, .and several' fruit cans that were out airing, pre-, paratory for duty. The goat is an ex pensive luxury, and will bo sold oh cap on long credit. ?To despond is to be ungrateful be- ,., forehand. Be not looking for ovil. Often thou drain eat the gall of fear while evil is passing by thy dwelling. Verily evils may be courted, may be wooed, and may be won by distrust; for , tho soil is ready for tho seed, and sus Eidon hath coldly put aside the helping and.?2'ttppcr. ?A writer in Les Mondes says that he is enabled to materially reduoe the number of insects which prey upon the flowers and fruits of his garden, by covering the inside of an old tnb with liquid tar and at twilight putting a lighted lantern within, leaving the whole out overnight. The bugs, at tracted by the light, are caught and held fast by the tar. ?Grave city pastor to his fond wife? "My dear, Mrs. Wilson must bo ex periencing a change of heart. She looked so serious during my last ser mon." Fond wife?" Sho, you goose, why couldn't you see that her new Sun day hat has one artificial flower less than Mrs. Brown's, who sits in the next pew?" Tho pastor collapses and takes refuge in an arm chair. ?At his lato fanoy-dress ball tbr> sumptuous Wales "was dressed in a light maroon velvet doublet and clock of satin, embroidered in gold, trunk hose, large buff boots and a black felt hat, with a white feather. He wore al so a wig of fair hair, which prevented his easy recognition, and had his Star or the Garter on his breast, and the badgo hanging from a bluo ribbon round bis nook." ?A commission appointed by tho Frenoh minister of public works, hav ing reported favorably upon the great scheme for connecting England and France by a sub-marine tunnol, Frenoh coal owners to tho north of Franoe aro beginning to discuss the probablo effect of the work upon their trade, and are afraid that the tunnel would greatly in crease tho deliveries of English coal up on tho northern Frenoh markets. ?A hater of tobacco asked an old ne gro woman, tho fumes of whose pipo wore annoying to him, if she thought she was a Christian. " Yes, brudder, I speot I is." "Do you believe in the Bible?" "Yes, brudder." " Do yon know that there is a passage in the Scriptures that declares that nothing unclean shall inherit tho kingdom of Heaven?" "Yes, Tvo heard of it." "Well, Chloe. you smoke, and you cannot enter tho kingdom of Heaven, because thero is nothing so unclean as tho breath of a smoker. What do you say to that ?" " Why, I spcots f leavo my breff behind when I go dar."