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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."