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..ft sJ. -v.l ' ^ Indepenaent .Paper DeVoted to the Interests ot the Peo ^rivr^ tW > ?'>-??s!'1 -8" ?tf?kGEgmtG, south Carolina, , ^m^g^^&B^^^J'Z;; Km <* Thor jro blossoms in the garden sweet and fair; There's a sense of wondrous fragrance In the air : aaaaterikeeteasawdow-graes in ewajdue^eMesasaeinaeieai Tbo ilcklo breere obeying ; And tno daisies lift their whlto heads everywhere.. ? Uff, Fly hither and flSflkhlthor In their mirth. And tho bees about Uio b'iitterenp? or roimd/ I 'r\ /v With a busy, humming, droning sound, And they gather all tbo sweetness Of tho summer-day's completeness. V A * \ \ Whore tho fleldk with do ver-bloh-aomri most abound; Thero are fleecy clouds above me soaring high. , . Light and lazily, across tbo aznre sky,: { .1 I. .1 There are shadows Bhlftlng lightly as tho sunbeams follow brightly: And tho day lu peacofiU beauty passoth by. , . And a sltv'ry srfnna of BomhtngTOBiQay \^ From within the grand old formats come to me ; Tis tho tiuy brooklet gliding Bcncattitnc} tVeds,' hatf-hidmg,' ' ' y\ \'j Tho wiitie it ripples forth its song bf glee. And when fls^s ?onio tho distant bvoning-boU ' From tbo shadowy skies are pooping. And gontlo eilonce comes at Jar.t with us to dwell. ALMOST A GHOST ^ STORY. ** Did you over see a ghost ?" was the " Well, I came deuced near -it, I can toll you, V said young-Howard. "How near ?" cried the company, diaAving") their ;chaira to tho fire..: " It was in-that 'deaolatej God-forsa ken part of New Jersey," said Howard, near Barnegat Shoals. ' i What with the nature of the soil thero, its barren ness* ttgduteriHty, the jagged j-repelling * grimness of the rooks, rnd the wild, desolate infinity of the', waters} there?s something about Barnegat that breeds an affinity with ghosts and spectres, There h;ui boon a wreok of a coasting sohooner in the vicinity, and although tho news didn't make much bf a sensa tion iii tho 'newspapers, it brought db Bpair and desolation to one heart at least?that of the youngmate's mother. Ho was an old school-mate and warm friond of my own, nod I volunteered to go down and see if the .body could be found and.brought home. * s ri < I " When Ireaohed there the whole as peot of (the place struck me as forbid dingly wild and lonely ; and when, to ward ; the r olosox of a .stormy s. day, poor old jack's body-was washed aBhore, w?tark and-stiflyanddistorted almost be yond recognition, I wasn't able to lend ' the fellows dowp there p, .helping hand. I was seized with,a ^nervous chill, and went ihrdoo'rotQ the brandy flask. Plop ped up with an artificial courage, I went out again and found them hauling their helpless burden toward a fisherman's hUt clogo by. They; had flung it in an old tarpaulin' blanketvand I couldn't help protesting inwardly against che rude way^n wmcn ttiey ,;bnmp'ed it along through the breakers and over the rooks. I .1 'j J2 " I thought of that tender, womanly heart at homo in tho east, and the gen tle reverence that - hedged about even her overy thought and feeling about Jack,, and I determined there and then that'he should be taken home to her in some shape'tbat wouldn't appall or hor "They laughed at mc wUorfl spoke of a coffin, but nevertheless I resolved upon getting one, if stioh a thing could be had for love or money. Not that a coffin-is absolutely requisite in nil oases. It wouldn't have, mattered a pin to either Jaok or 'myself if, tied up in the old tarpaulin, with a weight heavy as destiny itself, we^were forced ;to the bottom of .the" sea. But to .a woman, nn old Cijuroh-ridden, ? conventional woman, a victim to cirenmstanco nnd custom, a coffin was the only thing that could render the affair respectable, or indeed bearable. , " X passed u sleepless night, and went off before daylight in searoh of an old man that bore a queer reputation about' there for appropriating any thing that came inshore, and rendering it useful or ornamental with a rude knack he had in tho ca'penjter jltncf.} The boys, told' me thero was a little bf everything in his old rookery, and they hadn't the loast doubt I o?ifld find oyan a coffin there, or somothihg that could be mod eled into one. 1?ewiselt waa ** good league .to . his dwell ing, and I reached thero with a forebod ing that my' journey wan for nothing ; but upon broaohjUig the sub]oof to him, he sfatcd'his reanrness at once to com ^ly^withmv demands. ,i .V'Bht'.wlmt will you do for material?' .-? "Ho. .erriiletik grimly, and opening a ? door that led up to a sort of loft, he beckoned mo to follow him. In that loft thero was wood readily adapted? to build a ship, a house, a theatre?any thing and ov^ry tiling that might bo de sired. Not common ^woo?^ftmarfcf'you,i but wreokors' material?panels of Frenoh walnut, exquisitely .carved in (bass-re-, liof, bits of preoioUsN ebony, of sandal-' wood, of box, and some of that, deli-ato white pine that exhales a delicious' per fume. The boys had said that he was very OleVer in the oarpenter lih?. I was inspired with a sort of trust in* his ca paoity,; and his willingner.;? to undertake tho. job was only equaled by his dpterp mtuation to be paid woll for doing it. " ? Don't you fret, young man,' said '. the old Bkoleton., > Til ;flx it for, yon, in a shapo that '11 suit. I'll have it as' scrumptious ae a nut?that is,, ef you're able to boar tho heft of tho expense. It's oostly, yer know, to hev things pi iotis ' and ,nico down tin? way: wo onn't 'fillers affiordit; then tho'Bea bein' han dy,, iff; a temptation .to nave timo and money ; but ef tho expense ain't eountotl m ^m'J^^QWf P"Jld.tho expense, pard,' I taflrSf. WfTOeff fafitiibo |hing,tu? aiqelfc for me, and I'll see you through ; but it rmW be I dono at ohod; the body is almost beyond saving now, and I want the ooffln by to-mcrrow-night. It muot be ready to bo shipped before daybreak, the next morning. "" Aii fiflftv faia'ffie^ia^oiWJ'' ?i' d^t^ind losin' a littlo sloop to^.bo oouu^^^iii to nim^^uo^g^greenbaol^ to mako. his sharp old noao oome down? and ob op over his chin with auuuotuoun emaok of appreciation. ? \ *\' IUI h^v it tho^' eorr\mptioufl/ saip ? 'the wretch, with gieeay enthusiasm, 'Mint you'll olap your hands over it.* It'll bo that peart and pious that yon. needn't be ashamed of it in a church 1*. \f\?I n^ded?aj^nra?W, and started, on tho homo atretoh with the comforta ble feeling of a man who has done nil be could to ameliorate on irremediable suffering. All that day there .was a' threatening aspect of the winds' hud the waves that boded more misohief on that malevolent shore. Massive heavyeTouds. hung.black as .ink over the sharp jagged rooks, and a fierce nnder-tone in the ele ments told* of a conspiracy for a tem neattipnsidebauab.r > -1 " My poor old Jack had been washed | and shaven,, hia la^t toilet lenderedsWith all tho oare that his old friend and school-follow could bestow, upon a mel ancholy labor of love'; a few hot tears' burst from my burning eyes. and.fell upon that atraugo and unfamiliar faoo ; and finding it bocomo kks and less re cognizable as I gazed upon it, I covere 1. it reVerently with1 my handkerchief, and sat silent and alone with it and tho darkness, waiting for the old man with the .coffin. fn "<A)s the, qay waned and twilight gathered, a wad broke forth from the rocks, and waves; a few belated galls flopped their wings heavily over tho water that began to lash.furiously tho low. sandy shore. Presently a few;ar^ps fell, the precursors of one of those furi ,ousr storms ?that riot ?on that -desert -O&uw**?^ IllvVr Oil XtOi*I W ;. " An agony of impationco seized mo. I got upon my feet, and paced to and fro the loose boards o'f the hat. M WasHl; (then,-v condemned to stay here, powerless to save my poor Jack from being the puppet of yonder malig nant fiends of the shore and the sea ? I knew if the coffin were delayed until the storm inoreased in fury, the rpad to the old wrecker's homo would bo impass able, Hooded, and without a clow. I *J Was it, then, destined thSt he shoal d be thrown into tho greedy maw of tho sea, after all, and his place in the dear little church-yard at homo know him. no more ? There were prayers oven then offered up for him in .that dear little village "in [ the valley, ;n?t only by the thin and withered lipa pf his mothor, but pweot and roseate osos were trem bling in his behalf that late had clung to his own in rapturo, and gentle young fingers would gather flowors for his grave and niurmur benisons there fofr many a year. Oh, %as it, then, impos sible to give this joy to my poor old Jack ? '?I started up with a malediction upon the storm and its surroundings, and with an-impulse of desperation wrapped myself in an old tarpaulin and ventured forth.' ?\ -AT jnr,T* "I suppose my nerv?s wore.pretty well unstrung, for the dea I face of my lost comrade followed mo with a grotesque, ana" horrible ?persistenoV. ? I1 strug gled against the feeling, bat it seemed to me the murky air was full of shape-' less fiends and bodiless spirits of d.ovil-" ish propino^^b^ '' " Stumbling along, the rain beating moroilessiy down, making the i^ooky.path, perilously smooth, I made my way slow-, ly in the direction of tho old wrecker's abode. ." Feeling the path step by step ia 'this wilderness and storm, it must have taken me many hours to accomplish a mile, for.I had scarcely gono half-way when I found uy my watch it' was nearly midnight. The same lnrid gleam of lightning that showed me Uie face of my watch gave -mo also a fleet glimpse of. something lying in the road before me, almost at my feet. " I looked, and started back in hor ror ; a peoulinr sensation ?ame to my scalp; I felt . my hair, so to speak, rising on ond ; for there, iu a defile of the road, half wedged in the shelter of a rock, was a ooffln. The peculiar shape of it was only dimly discernible, and either exaggerated by this dimness dr else the coffin waa bf gigantio 'stee. How did it got there ? Did the. fields about moioontriye this shape to djpeoivo "my half-delirious sense's?^*"! Tookod: again, and slowly I saw the ponderous lid rise, a skeleton hand oomo forth; then an arm. At last half tho form emerged -from .this torrible resting place, and, wrapped about with a wind ing-shoot, seemed struggling to leave the ooffln altogether. \\ \'*I seized my pistol with a trembling hand. I cocked it. / 74 Don't shoot, young man !' oriod tho speotro. 1 Yo'll spilo tho polish, ef yer do; j This oasBed rain has | e'en-a'-' most done for it already. It was pious and peart a spell back, but it's protty well spiled n?w, I'm afeord.' "It was my old wreokor, oarponter, and ooffln-maker. He explained to mo that he'd started, on. time with tho . oof fln, and kept up till the storm had oomo npmx.him.rand, was forced to rest.awhile rindor the ? overhanging rook. He thought, very properly, nat no better shelter could bo found than tho coffin itself ; and ho was right. Wti might both have oropt inside, and thero would Btill lij?vo been' room for more. . " ' Why on earth did you make it so big ?' I Haid. ' I 'don't, want my nor J?.0Jv-5-A'Ho around looao in this way.' '"WelXhere's the odds?' said the accommodating artisan, i 'You didn't seom to spare the expenso; so I thought ? i i'd'leaVe11 plenty of elbowlroCm. We can find suthin or other for ballast, I reckon.down below.' .....:' ' -fpoor J&k'lies to this day In the Bingnlar oofliu thus provided for him, and over him the .axbntne. blooms, ana tender,violets, and all the dainty flow ers dear to *a young" girl's ; f an\jy-6il 1 an old worn mrB love.'? ii '.. > ,'>tvl <- '",n ":Tabij>1 Cu^tomA:-' i l( tVhilo eortain f01 ruB of tablo ctiquotto may fjoom altogether conventional, .'even fantastic, the , forms . usually . observed a.ro founded on good sense and adapted to general convenience.' Tablo etiquette i?, not,, as., is,often , alleged, ?,merely; a matter of .fashion, although some things thaij were in vogue a, generation or tiro 'fagb are nolbnger dfeemed polite. The rea son is that manners and tablo furniture have undergone so many changes ; havo i really so much improved, as to require a mutual readjustment. For |example, everybody was accustomed twenty or oarry food to the*, mouth, because the fork of the" day was not i dopted to the purpose. 7Binde the introduction of the rour-tined silver fork it has so bntirely aupplantod the knife that the usage of the latter, in that way, is not ' only superfluous, but is regarded as a - vul garism. , J ' Another oxample is . the discontin uance of the custom of turning tea or coiled from the cup into tho saucer. Although small plates were frequently .employed to set the cup in.'they were not at all in general use; and. even when they iwere used, the tea or ooffee was likely to be spilled upon tho cloth. ' The habit, likewise, of pntting one's knife into'the butter arose from the fact that the butter-knife proper had' not been thought of. Snob customs as these, onco necessitated by circum stances, are now obviously, inappro priate. by good taste and delicacy of feeling, and the failure to adopt them] argues a laok of fine perception or social insight. One of these is eating or drinking audi bly. 11 No sensitive person can hear any one talcing his soup, coffee, or other liquid without positive annoyance. Yet those who would bo very unwilling to consider themselves ill-bred are con stantly guilty of such breach of. polite ness. I The defect is that they are not so sensitive as those with whom they come in oontaot. They would not be disturb ed by the offense; they never imagine, thorofore, that any one else can be. It. Is for them that rules of etiquette are particularly designed. Were their in stinct correct, they would not need the rule, which, from the absence of in stinct, appears to them irrational, pure ly arbitrary. To rest one's elbdwton the table is more than a transgression of courtesy; it is an absolute inconvenience to one's neighbors. All awkwardnesses of posi tion, such as sitting too far back from or leaning over the table, are reckoned rudeness, because they put others ill at ease through fear of such accidents as are liable to happen from any unoouth nesq. Biting bread or cake, inBte'ad of out* ting or breaking it into monthfuls, is Unpleasant, since it offends our sense of form or fitness. These and kindred matters are trifles; but social life is bo largely composed of trifles that to disrecard them wholly is ? serious affront. We'can hardly realize to what extent bur satisfaction or dis satisfaction is made up of things in themselves ihsignifioant until their ob servance or i non-observance is. brought directly t? us.? <SoH6?er's Monthly. Darwin's Devotion to Truth. .Darwin shake no difficulty ; and, sat urated aH the subjeot is with hie own thought, lib' must have known, better than his critics;'the weakness as well as the strength of hia theory. This, of bourse, would be of little avail were his object ft temporary dialectio vic tory, instoad of the ostablishmont of a truth which ho means to bo everlasting. But ho takes no pains to disguise the weakness he has disoernocl; n'ay, ho takes every pains to bring it into the Btrongeat light. ; His vast resources on nble-him to oopo with objections started by himself and others,so as to leave the final impression upon the reader's mind that if they be not completely answered thoy Certainly, are not fatal. Their neg ative force, being thus destroyed, yon are free to bo influenced by tho vast pos?ivo mass of evidence he 'is able to bring before yon. This largeness of knowledge and . readiness of resource render Mr. Dar win. the most terrible .of antagonists, Accomplished naturalists, have.leveled, heavy and sustained criti cism ogauist him?not always with a vinw of fairly weighing Iiis theory, but with the "express intention of exposing its weak pointa only. This does not ir ritate him.. He treats overy objection with a soberness and thoroughness which even Bishop Butler might bo proud'to imitate, surrounding eaoh fact with its proper relations, and usually giving it a significance whioh, as long as it was kept isolated, failed to appear. This is done without a traoo of ill temper. He moves over a subjeot with the passionless strength of a glacier * and tho grinding of the rooks is not always without a counterpart in tho logical pulverization of the objooior. But, though, in haudling this mighty theme, all passion has been stilled, thoro is an emotion of the intellect incident to the ; discernment of new truth, whioh often colors and warms tho pages of Mr. Darwiu. Hia snoooss has been groat; and this implies not duly the solidity of his work; but the propurodneio. of the publio mind for snoh a revelation.? Popular Soiene? Monthly. thirty since. to use tho knife to -~?:-?r-r-:-r--., ? \A% Rnat?*s XMeWron* Con sequence. ;. ... . Although tho, commandment against lying fa found almost at tho dose of the decalogue, I iuoliuo to place it, in tho education of children, at the head of the list, for lying f?dns tobe with most children the first'intentional offence. It is eometimefc ;iMe>ited, but oftener taught by imitation. Children hear their nursery maidftell downright false hoods to shield the. selves from blamo for; various triflingj^aalts or, oniisoions of duty; and thoy are, indeed, fortu nate in thoir parents if they do not also . find i them. gnilty jof prflviurication and intent to decoive..', In a . hund^od differ-' er.t ways mother^ .deceive their little children; not thinking for a moment that they uro torching .them a.lesBo'h.in! falsehood whichjnay boar fruit to their latest hour, and V:ducatiug the children to doubt tho ono in whom, of nil per sons,, they should,, put inyplioit. confi dence, ;-1 ?, ,'t 40 f ';' "' " " j Biding in the cars a fow weeks since ! heard a mother r;??y to nn uproarious child: 44 Jamie, bo still I If yott don't atop screaming I'll throw you out of tho oar window, oortainVauro I . Hush, now, or you'll see what W do !" The ohild, a Ip?y obout twoyears old, looked his astonishment at the threat, but his ories wero not muoh lessened. Then the mother* took him up in her arms as though aho would throw him out, when he screamed in frantio terror and clung to her neok ' with' such ap-; palling fear that she was forced to hash him with kisse?, caresses and ? candy. After a while he. fell asleep, worn opt with his tumultuous passion. Poor lit tle ohild I A little girl of four or five, who. had watched the whole scone silently, bat with the deepest interest, and1 who, whon her mother motioned to throw her little brotheY from tho window,, ihad caught her armin terror, now said : " Mamma, "f?ild you have thrown Jamie oatV'-TiW- -it 44 No, indeed ohild," replied the mother; 441 only wished to : frighten him." 44 Frighten him,!' forsooth 1 She suc ceeded in it far better than she expected, and at the sanio time taught her little girl a lesson in falsehood, and also in oontompt for -her mother, for the ex pression of that child's month boibken-i ed the feelings of her heart. How I longed to cKont to her, in Othello's words: * * ? 1-; " Yon told a lip; an odions, damned lie; Upon my sodl a lio ; a wickod lie!" Of oourse she would have thonght me an escaped lunatic, so I forbore, bnt I could not help my lips wreathing in scorn at the woman's perfidy, and I did wish to tell her that if she disciplined her children in that style she was sorely sowing 41 the whirlwind to reap dest ruc tion." Tiying in a besetting vice of weak characters, and therefore the love of truth and the hatred of falsehood noed to bo most assiduously Cultivated in children at the youngest period of, oon soiousness of evil. Truth-tolling and truth-loving are the fundamental basis of whatever is excellent and desirable in character, and if a man or a woman lacks this essential element,, all their other virtues suffer and nre' of little value. If a person is truthful we can forgive many little faults, because this salt of character may possibly redeem other failings; - besides, a person who loves truth will never rest satisfied un til he has improved his moral strength and raised it nearer to the standard of rectitude. Taot, management and pol icy are all essential elements in social and domestio life, but they are not in consistent with perfect truthfulness. Daily we oome into oontaot with pe - sons who require to bo properly man aged to bring out the* agreeable traits of their character and repress those whioh are annoying and. disagreeable, but it does not necessitate falsehood to accom plish this. Many persons have n fac ulty of telling you disagreeable truths in a pleasant manner; or administering antidotes to vice of which the recipients are barely conscious; of hinting at facth which will not bear a frank disclosure. And all candid persons must admit they are not always justi fied in telling the wholo truth. I Indeed, were wo to do so, wo should doubtless be called insane. For there are very many things that should not be spoken, yet we ore never guiltless, if we utter falsehood:), and it in our duty, to strive by example and precept not to lead ten der feet astray from the paths of truth. The ohild who imbibes with his first nutriment a reverenoe and love for it will become a man of honor. Holy writ assures us that ib were better for us to havo a millstone about our necks and bo drowned in the sea than to of fend one of those little ones. And when a mother utters a deliberate falsehood to her children it seems to me that she has committed an unpardonable sin and will surely suffor for it. The lack of truth brings dishonesty, and dishonesty is tho crying sin of oar nation. Oh, mothers, be warned in season and take counsel wjth your own wisdom,and make a,,Compact with yourselves that from this timo forth you will never deoeivo a ohild. Tho battle of Christianity is to be fought in the family rather than in the church. See to it that you are not deserters from tho ranks ! ?By this timo the school-girls havo told each otherwhere they spent their vacation, aud, taking up the bnrdou of lifo again, have resumed last sea-on's quarrols. m ?44 Is tu? pandidate for sheriff hero?" a?ked a stranger ob he looked into an Illinois bar-room. 44Yes; why?" ans wered eighteen men .as they rose up. ? ' ?r-t- u;|,j?;;> \\\ itnfiti? u;1'^ ati;;:-i i) j. I) i .jF^rpfi^aUe FoJUrtieness^ l )K, \ ;;Tho BcatouT^ayelh^r'in cormuBn^ing! on the prevalence of rudoness, tells the following incident that happened sohio years ago;: ; kidil.t lo^fifcj ortT | Thoro was a,very jplainly,,pressed elderly laay who was a freauent baS-i tome? at1 tnje ' then leading dry' gbtjAsj store: tin. B on ton. f: No (one* in tho stor a knew oven her namo.' All tho olerks but one avoided her and 'gave their' at-} tention; to those who werb better dressed and more pretentious. Tho OEception was a yonng man who hud n conscien tious regard for)attty ,and,'8yefeW' He jdovor lof% another customer, to' wait on the lady, but when at liberty hp wait oil on her with as much attention as though she had been a princess.. Thh? con tinuaci a t iyear. or' two) uutji; the. jvpung man became of age. Ono morning the! lady approached the young man, - when the following conversation took place s Lady?" Young mon. do you wish to go into business for yourself ?" , Tea; tttomy * he responded * I'''but I hnvo neither money, credit nor friends, nor will any one trust me. 1 wWeli;.,fobntintied the Iadyi'''?"^ go and gelect a good situaticm,' ask what tho rent is, and report to mo," handing the young man her address. Tho young man wCnt;'found a capital location, a good .storey but tho landlord required Beourity, whioh ? he ? could npt giye.i Mlndlul of1 the lady's reque?t' he?forth-; with wont to bor and reportedi1';;. ! odt He' went; 'and! the landlord' or' agent was surprised, but tho bargain ; was closed. The next day tho lady called to ascertain the result. '? 'The young man; told her, but addod, " What am I to do for goods?, _No one. will trust me.". )(h "You inay go and. see Mr. ??andj Mr. ^L?t<aa& ?Mri1^-^,,an,d' tell1-them' to call on me." viir. ??-r;tU tic *.1 ; He did, and his store was soon stocked with' the beet goods' in tho market. There are many in this city who remem ber tho circumstances aud tho man. Ho died m. ny years sinco and left a fortune of tt-.v ? hundred1 thousand'dollars. '80; much lor politeness, go much for civil ity, and ro much for treating one's/eld ers with1 the /deference duo to ago in whatever garb they 'sire olothed.,J W 11 . v .. . :?: ?.. ??w- \ ? Fossil Mammals of Colorado,; 1 Some remarkable' and gigantic ani mals related to the rhinoceros ;ahd' the; EobaailOnB have been recently discov ered by. Prof. Oope.in jtlm"Bad. Lands of Colorado! . There arb seven 'species, six, of which aro refofled to the.nevr'gehus Symborodon, and one to MiobasileuS, also new. While related to the' rhino ceros, ' theSe. creatures were higher on the I logs, and had comparatively abort necks ; it is also npt unlikely that they possessed a short proboscis./ What ren dered their physiognomy most 'striking was tho presence of horns, in pairs; on the front of the head. The cores are preserved in the speoimens of all the species, and-' are very various in their forms. In Miobasileus they stand over the eye; in Symborodon over the side of the face or the snout. The smallest species is S. ucor, whose horn cores are a foot long, round,,and curving outward on oaah side of the' snout. It was about the size of the Indian rhinoceros. ? The largest species. ;was equal to the ele phant. Its horns were flattened in one plane, and its cheek-bones were enor mously I expanded', so as' 1 o form a hinge projection on each ride of tho face, and give tho muzzle a wedge shape. The eyes were'compelled to look obliquely upward. , The S. altirostris was nearly as large,; Ite, horns were round and straight, and tho muzzle exceedingly short and high; no that the eye was very far forward! 8. trigonoceras had three cornered horns, whioh .rolled' ontwa'r'd, and but'little Upward. It 'Was little smaller than the preceding, tt. polo ceras had mere knobs in tho position of horn s. The mU zzlo was loh ger.' ""?'" 1 These Animals arb i at or ea ti ng ns con firming the conclusions reached by tue discoverer of Ebbaailens, as to the rela tionships'of 'his remarkable form and its affines. The whole structure shows that the peculiarities of .Eobaflilous, by whioh it differs from tho other probos cidians, are to bo found in the rhino ceros and these, its. oxtiuct allies, and not among tho cloven-fdoted typea. Old Letters. Lord Oookburn writes in ids memoirs; MI have all my.life had a bad habit of preserving letter's and keeping them all arranged and docketed, but seeing tho future use that, is often made of papers, especially by friendly biographers, who rarely' hesitate to sacrifice confidence and delicacy, to tho '< promotion of sale and excitement, I have long; resolved to send them up tho bhimney in the form of smoke, and yesterday the Sen tence was exeb?ted. I have kept Rich ardson's and Jeffrey's and some corres pondence I had during important passa ges of our Scotch progress y but the rest, amounting to several thousand, oan now, thank God, enable no. venality to publish1 sacred soorets, or to stain fair ! reputations by plausible mistakes. Yet Lola friends cannot be parted with with out a pang. Tho sight of oven the out sider of letters of fift y years recalls a part of the interest with whioh eaoh was received in its day, and then anni hilation makes one start as if one had suddenly reached the age of final obliv ion. Nevertheless, as packet after packet smothered tho fire with its nsluv, and gradually disappeared in dim >va por, 1 reflected that my correspondents were safe, and I was pleased." ?A gentleman who landed from an Erie, expreas train attracted universal attention by tho magnificence of his diamond breastpin. He was supposed to be a hackman from Niagara Falls, fh\\AbiUvihA) ,*l?vjtjj .T i?t'?I? 9-&fwt tp ?'Great works are performed.no* by ?Jnjun probabilities : ".Mobbo sdow nextweek'; mebbeliddp o^mlTO6 uuuLThkfi'&tlS ^Wa^^oollefee^W learning tohewim,? -Fourteen oft'them >T'^A!lSrirAfegft!'Wle,waai thVow^^n% couvnlsionh, and , hor henlth seriously impaired., because her, bean wanted ip dano? with her without weiring 'gloveff. '-?^Tdtb^mppir1; th^e pUfe?'n? mT^*h$b cheerful and gay,.not gloomy! and'task anoholy. A ProPan>dtV.^^n?amli0X is real riches; one to* Mar And4 aoVrow; rbal'p^erty.'J ^'tnMT^H tutum ?'? ?Asaha rolled up 'her sle-oveal and looked hard at.a, big/baskot.of tomato.es crae^ remarked : n,,Therey get" *&*??&& up,- bang hp, g?'.up, 'step' hp and blimb !api b?b.^ereigoeo;fp}? oakjppV' ^?inlii? ?"When yoaseeaxnan TOpa^i-ikler^'!' says Mrs. Marrowfat, V as never to take a?glass^fwaferwita it for ito?eotB^.dpn't^tt?l hiin^lio'a on his, way, tp, ^drunkarjra jgr^v^"^ _ ' -r-A man who, goes to Kansas to settle on1 a homestead musb'expebt to dWibli&t sleep on:the^floor,^3fight:^gn&ts .?id-^S* fiveyearTb'efPie^eS' begin^'lpenjoy lifojKv r>u iTmlw at ^oiuj?u oil?aolol ?A baokwp^td^mam (de^tpribingyrt* Bteamboat, said : "It has, a sawmill bn1!bhe-'BiaeVJ fe^gnst'limlll -*"on 'the other and a blnoksmith shop in-'the raid ? ^here' are^?oivV7sixty;;dhMs>{ W dents supported by their government iu Connecticut and Massachusetts. ;r**' came two. years ago, and,thirty t a year Bhice,' and thiity'inbre o ved a year flinoe,' and thirty' m?re**a"*** ex pected ? in ,abput Iaf.fprtiught.toiSp^far their deportment- has been excel lent and their progress'ql^e?aHLaW8* uj ?iAt a reoehl^babV^hfaw in ^vIbco^ sin.twf(nty?aev!ep ,-ftpmea7Jitarte&?haai0 tearing each others hair and hoops. Nineitenths' 6i: the women ' shouldn't be Eermitted to have babier. They 'can't oar,rivalry., If .all women weroi ban ished from the .'world,' we% would vneyer havb laby ?troubleat'otn*1 b^byishbWai>{l* , l ?A party of twelve crack-brains left Chicago recently to, join t in : the estab lishment of a " community,'' similar to the Gn'eida obmmuhity'inJNew yalcour's iflland;>in -*iaake.; Cham plain, tho foundation of tho flocietybeing ?! ab solute social freedom," and its only^rov traing law "compleW;vuhiver?l free Iovri'' ?A pouting ? bride, on her . first sea voyage, writes liqine,:. " The motion of the screw steamer is" like ? riding a gigantic camel.that, has the heart-dis ease, and you /do not miss ? a: single throb. I Imow of nothing to'compare with it for boredom;:unless it bo your honeymoon when you have niarried. for money." \ .Vr ?We are now told how we can'reach tho. gold regions in tho 'Blank thills. Somewhere, in the neighborhood^ pt; gap hundred dollars will carry bno throngk But we would advise the honest1 -miner (o take two hundred dollars along. Ho will need the,other to get back .on,,, to buy a hod to commence work wil and likewise a,wig, ??' ??? > [ ,-' IK f-rln "?Paris the dealers in refreshments have had a congress tp ngtee on tho important reform of reducing from six to five the number of pieces-'Of- sugar served with a pup .of j ooffee. Formerly they served 'six pieces with each cup ;' th? Customer put1 three;! plebes^fri*- his coffee, two in his pocket, and left onn on his saucer out of,, jfespeot tp public opinion. Now that only five are served, he puts three in. the coffee; still leaves one out pf sense of publio decency, end only puts one in his pooket. ?In tho government of Pieskau, '.'in Russia, a letter was circulated which re ported that tho government intended (o send 5,000 of the prettiest girls of tho country to Africa to be married to iie groes. There was a panic; and the girls nvjde haste to ?farry any one who would have them, and there.was any number of marriages. 1 One'brandy dealer made a small fortune out of it, .for at Ruc?ian weddings they must have brandy. Now the authorities have discovered that this merchant started - thd I story; and f thoy are not yet done with him. .'.^ ..;.{to-j ?Aooording to Roohard, a Veterinary surgeon, a simple method of preventing flies from annoying bor sc.? consists in painting the inside of the ears, or an*" Other part especially troubled, with a few drops of empyroumatio oil .of juni per. It is .--aid that tho odor ot this substance is unendurable to flies, acd ' that they will keep at a distance from the port sp anointed. If this treatmeut should accomplish the alleged result, it may, peThops,"be equally applicable in repelling mosquitoes from the face and hands of tourists and sportsmen when passing through the woods, or meadows. . 'Opportunity to Try an Organ before Purchasing. . Many a person is half persuaded that a Cabinet Organ would bo & capital thing for his family ; worth much more than ita cost. Yet they are not sure that it would be permanently valued, but fear that after a few months' use the family would tire of it, and bo it. would prove a poor investment. . The Mason A; Hamlin Organ Co. now offer their famous Cabinet Organs on terras whioh will satisfv all such. They will root an organ with privilege of pnrohaso. ;The party hiring may try it as long as he pleases, paying only the rent for it while so doing. If ho concludes to pur chase within a year, all the, reut he nas paid is ?llowe I and deducted from the price of the organ.