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:?> j.-'r ^ -w ic :>i ^ j -. nsgy i tI *a 3r-wg a but* 1 min'3-r+ oiii-- '. ?;?-?..! ?: hu4A.ii Indlepeii nU? lfli< Independorit ?civoted to III. OllANGEBURG, CAROLINA, Ti i * :iqu?Bjrraerfi osCil ?i ort 0fU%o at r/iJtsust 10 ittsftoqmi S ?ff* odw eeoifj ?Ifnl sxawod oJ httajg'^Ij ?aoo odi twoioq Innntoy icft hasmmoo .33KIT Q'auasosAJio ii{?J rid Himuto?lamia*hfT.i)jnOgM .i&iu rt^ni aguq aaifcufcr cull 3K'JS39rUS0 aajrra BiU ^"Xiiuh v>!iotro') rosin d5~&] softfcf _-l? .* ^AZEL BLOSSOMS. - ? ?IBo BUmuior warmth has left tho sky. 01 Tho summer nouns liavo died away; And,rwlthpfod, in tho footpaUiD ho 81'hgfaUefl^veyhuA BMP yjf'l With ruby pud wlU? lopaa ea o gross ift brbwnitlff on tho No pale, belated flours recall Tho astral fringed of tho rills, And drearily tho doad vines t'.Ul, Frost-blackened from tho roadaldo wall. YcL-ihroturb tho nray,ami somber wood, Against tho dustL?f ?r and pine, - > ?. a IAst of their floral sisterhood, Tho hazel's yellow blossoms shine, Tho tawny gold of Afrlc'4 ttilne. \ I \. Small beauty hath my nnsung flower Vor Hprlug to own or fctimnior Jialli-^ ? ?^ft But, In UicsenEOu's eaddcufc hour,. TO skies that weep and winds that wall j Its glad sitrprlsals never falb ,0 daye grown cold I O life grown old 1' No roio of June rriay bloom again; But,llko tho hazel's twisted gold,. Through early frost and latter rntn in ^?JnuV^inmi" ?f 8.unllu?r",,ra0 rcu!?4ft?^, ,??J?Sn<j A ni as within tho baud's bough A gift of mystiorvirttto dwells, That points to golden orosbelow, ' And in dry desert places'tells, Whero now unseen tho cool, sweet wells? So, in (ho wise diviner1* band, Be mtsic the hass!'s Kraioxui part To feel, bouoatti a thirsty land, / . ? Tho living waters thrill and start,1 The beating of tho rivulet's heart! Bntncolh m? tho gift to light' With latest bloom the dark, cold days; To oall somo bidden spring to sight That, in these dry and dusty ways, Shall sing its pleasantest'song of praise. O Lovo I tbo hazel-wand may fall, But thou canst lend tho surer spell, That, passing over Baca's vale, Uepcats tho old-time miracle. ? And makes tbo desert land a well. JACQUES. On (he houthorn bank of the Sagnenay whore the precipitous cliffs give place . tb rolling, rooty hills, lies the little lumbering village of Ohiooutimi. Here liesv Jaoques?happy, frowsy little Jac ques. He does not know but that it is the nicest thing in the world to live so near the north pole that on the short summer nights the beautiful aurora can spread her cold curtain of shifting silver over him; so near that in winter old North Pole himself oan drop in in a neighborly way and bury the houso in snow-drifts. , Gould anything be more charming, except living hand in hand with Jack Frost in his ice cave at tho top of the world ? Jaoques and I have a tender pity for any one who - does not live in Ohiooutimi, though Jaoques be gins to .have misgivings that perhaps Quebec,'where the wonderful steamers come from, may possess some points of superiority. j*?*M5*V~ Jacques lives in a small aquare nvuse; perched on tho rocky riyor bank.. Why the high winds that churn the Sagnenay to a mass of whito froth do not blow it away nobody knows, lint, like a huge* | bird's nest, thoro it olipgs to tho top of the rock. It is built of rough.,two-inch planks piled oho on top of another, and capped by a steep board roof. Altogether it looks as if a giant had played at mak ing a cob-house, and thon dapped a wooden tent on it. Though it only boasts of one story and one room, this fully satisfies Jacques, for ho is a social little fellow, and enjoys sleeping all in one bed in the corner of the kitchen. Then, too,-the room is magnificent in his eyes, for its unblinded, wide-awake windows are shaded with paper curtains, gay with bluo castles ana red cavaliers. But1 his mother is ambitious, and droams of lifting the house up bodily and tucking a lower story under it, as is the universal custom in Ohiooutimi when one grows well-to-do in tho world. This gives nil tho houses a jaunty, en torprisimg Air, as if thoy had just 'got upon their lugs and warn about to start> off around the town for a dish of friend ly gossip. Jacques' father earns fivo dollars a month by hooking in the logs that float away from tho great saw-mill, a quarter of a mile above. It is a mere pittance. Any one but a Frenchman would starve upon.it, ovon in Ohiooutimi. But there the-French live "on nothing a week, and thatr uncertain very." Fish and onioBS form tho ohinf of their diet, with now and then, by way of luxury, a soup mado of a bit of gristle and a potato or two. Tho children' grow round and rosy, but. tho grown pepplo have a lean and hungay look. Of course, thoy have bread Tor a standby ; and every other morning J. soo little Jacques go jumping, rollicking, singing by, with an immense loaf carefully poised on his towBly pate, or tightly squeezod againBt his dirty blouse. If you should say to him, as I did : ** You love that bread, don't you ?" ho would reply, 'Jaia brown eyes all aglow : " Mais, que ce pain est bon! Yous n'avez jamals vu rien comrae ca anx Etats Unis I On no l'a nulle part ex cepte a Ohicontimi. N'ost ce pas que los petits garoons .choz von a menrent do faim sans ce pain ?" which is his way of saying : V Isn't this broad good, thongh! Yon won't fine such anywhere in the world except in Ohiooutimi. Don't tho little boys in the United Statos starve without this broad?" If ho wero a Yonkeo boy, wo should say this came a little too near bragging. But tho inno cent ignoranoe ana anxiety of his last question quito take away your breath. And when he brings you a thick chunk of this remarkable bread, in his little, grimy fingers, yoi\ woridor if it is really made of mnsty sawdust, that it has such a qu?ei*. oaken color and such a dry, un palatable'taste. One afternoon Jacques' fathor went away to stay all night. His last words to Jacques wero: "Be sure not to go nenr tho mill." For the mill was a very dangerous though very attractive plaoo to little folks. For awhilo Jacques amused himself playing on tho logs that wore floating in tho water beside tho house. Lying in the river, loading with lumber, \?ere< throe ships^-one, from' Norway, one from Prevoace, and one from South .Amorica. Jacquoa played lira log was" back Bhip by turns, and visited each country with hie. cargo of ou tho oppoaito aide of the, covo lit up its long rows'of windows, throwing broad linos of tremulous light across tho black water.' To Jaaqnos it Ipoked like an enchanted palace, and it attract ed his idle, disobedient feet with irro Giotiblo force. ?'; /. Perhaps he did not mean to go in. Aa he explained aftorward, he cnly though he would/Sap if Qaillaume were thoro, because ho had something very particular" to toll him. Guillaiimo'a father was one of the night-workers in the mill; so Guillaume was often there in the evening. He had repeatedly said to Jacques :' " Metis quo <yest magnifi quo ! Vicn.8 done afln queje to la fasse voir." Whiok is Fronau for "How splendid it-ds I Do oome and let mo oho,v you round." This invitation was a continual spur to Jacques' curiosity. Once he had peep,'in the mill with hia Intim? jn ttio rlnre.f .rao ? Knk fcrt ?rn in .every evening, like Guillaume, was the dream of hiSlife. rg Now, as he drew near the forbidden spot, the delicious smell of the fresh pine, , the unceasing motion of tho uoiay machinery, tho bit* of Weed of ' all shapes, calling for jack-knives to out them,.tolled: him on, and he entered, remembering no longer his father'* com mand?. - For awhilo ho watched the sharp saws as >they ont shinqles and laths and\- clapboards. He sat on the Curling, % sweet-scented shavings, and built forts of the bits of wood thrown aside as useless. Notwithstanding; his disobedience, he had never been so happy in his life.^^t^?jk? af S j Thou Guillaume found him, and in sisted on taking him to tho other; mill to see tho nuge round logs sawed into planks. The dim light, th? roar of the machinery, and the novelty of every thing made one place as fascinating as another to. Jacques. So he willingly followed Guillaume. They entered a long, low building, full of saws banded in groups of four or five; '? These groups were placed all along at regular inter vals, and were all sawing logs: into gl auks with fearful, steady swiftness, fiiillaume was no used to it that he had up thought of fear, and Jaoqnes was too ignorant to have a tremor. They stood and watched the men roll new logs on to the tramways,1 with long crowbars, and push the - planks already made into deep black holes in the floor, whore a raouwuy oi the stream . took them and carried them to the lower mill, to be sawed into shingles and clapboards.. It required great coro to walk about; for the floor was full of these pitfalls. All of a sudden Jacques disappeared. In the dim light, thinking u mass of planks.-jammed into one of these holes was the real1 floor, ho stepped on it. His weight started it. Ab ovo the thud of the machinery, Guillaume heard a faint scream, and turned just in time to see Jacques' head disappearing in the pitchy blackness. Guillaume knew all about the mill, and quick as thought he sprang down a flight of stairs at the side, jnBt in sea son to catch book a Fro nob man'a hand as he was going to turn a torrent of water ou tho raceway. - It took but an instant to explain. The next second tho Frenchman had waded into the dark water in search of Jacques. At last he found him crushed among the heavy planks, and bronght him out in his arms. . The rough workmen wrapped tho dripping,.insensible boy tenderly in their coats and bore him carefully homo. The doctor came and examined him. He said there were no bones broken and that in a few days he would be as supple and active as ever. But days passed on, and he woke from his insen sibility only enough to have a fearful dread of water, to jabber a senseless gibberish, and to fail to recognise his dearest frionds. Littlo by little his mother and father wore forced to admit that their only child was a hopeless idiot. Two years dragged slowly by, when one day Jacques looked up all of a sud den and said, in hia old natural voice, though very> slowly, as . ih*bs* could hardly remember the word: * * Thinkest thou?that.my/father?will beat me ?" Tears came into the mother's eyes to hear sensible words1 from her boy s lips onoe more. " Beat thee J. Why ?" she* asked, in a tone as Oalm' and quiet as she could make it in hor sudden joy, for she did not dare show her surprise, rd/feS* of frightening away Jacques' returning wits. With groat difficulty Jacques got out the .one word " mill," and a violent shudder shook him. His mother assured him by word and tone and caress that he had nothing to fear. The whole two years wore a total blank to him. He took up the thread of his life just where he dropped it when he fell. But as his mind grow strong and as his power of speeoli oamo back he gradually learned what had happened, and now yon will not And a more obedient boy in all Ohicoutimi, ?An American writes from London: "I never, in the whole course of my life, met suoh a collection of idiots and numbskulls as I did at the so callod fashionable clubs. I asked Lord-at dinner, ono night, if ho had evor been to America.' * Yeth, ah, yeth,' said he. 'And did yon like the country and the peopled'.I inquired. 'Yeth, ah, yeth.* 'The two countries,' said I, 1 have much in common?we speak the same .lan guage aud many of our habits and dia toms aro identical.' 'Yeth, ah, yetb,' lisped 'mi lord' to the' end of tho con^ vcrsotion. And now I hear the words * yeth,. ah, yetb,' continually, in imagi nation, and I am almost crazy." REOREATIOH FOR THE MOTHERS. -: Ainnieuierit? anil Holidays for the Mid* die? Aged. ? Now that tlio Qrcs aro beginning to bum on library olid parlor -hearths in the evenings, and the Ourtains to1 be uiun? close, and the most devout lover of nature gives up the stroll in shady | lanes, or the row : on thei moondft river, and comes in-doorn for the winter, it is worth ; while to consider what is to bo dono Sn-doora. ' "Tho work: is ready for everybody who chooses to do it; but th? relaxation, tho rest, tho sttnulant, whioh is to fit ua for the work?what is that to bo ? For fashion able classes this hiiittor of amusomont is ruled in almost an inflexible grooves aa drudgery for the poor; for men or young peoplo, too, it adjusts itself naturally. The father of a family has his clubs, his sharo in the political or church meeting, or at least, his quiet newspaper, cigar ana slippers, at homo?precisely the drowsy reaction he needs after tho, friction of the busy day, Tho boys and girls h?ve their concerts, their lectures, the thou sand dovices of Booiables," tho "acci dentals,'* etc., by which thoV contrive to flock together, to chirp like young birds in May, and, perhaps, to mate liko' them. - But the wives and the mothers, the great aggregate of women, no longer young?what is . to be their tonic? They-certainly need a tonic. The American mother of a family1 is the real-maid of all work in it, and the more faithful and intelligent she is the more she usually tries to deserve the same. She may work with her hands or not (in the large majority'of oases she does work with her hands), but it is she who in any case oversees and g'ves life to a dozen different interests. er}husband's business, tho, boys' edu cation, the girls' standing'in society, the baby's teething, the sowing and housework for them all, are all fpro cesses whioh she urges on and whioh rasp and fret daily and hourly on her brain?a very dull unskilled-, brain, too often, but almost always qnite willing to wear itself out for those she loves. Whether it wonld be nobler or more polite in her to shirk this work?hus band, babes and homo?and develop her latent talents as physician, artist or saleswoman, is not the question with us just now., A few women have done this.; In the cities, too,' money can re move much of the responsibility from the mistress of a household; but the aggregate of wives and mothors in this country aro domestic -s-draon .whe-asiu. nothing bettor of fate than that what ever strength they have of body and mind -shall be drained for their hus bands and children. Now thin spirit of martyrdom, is a very good thing?when it is necessary. For our p?rt, we can see no necessity for it here. We are told that the women's wards in the in sane asylums in New England are filled with middle-aged wives, mothers driven there by overwork and anxiety * through the rest of the country the particular type of the woman of forty is neither fat nor fair, but a sallow, anxious-eyed creature, with teeth and hair furnished by the. shops, and a liver and nerves whioh long ogo^took her' work, temper, and, we had almost said, religion out of her control. This rapid decay of our women may be owing partly to olimatio influences, but it is much more due to the wear and tear of their motherhood, and axiety to push i their children for ward, added to the incessant petty rasping of inefficient, dqnestio Bervieo. ?"; A man's work man bo heavier, but it is single, it wears on him on one side only; he hat his hours sacred to busi ness, to give to his brief, his sermon, liie shop; there is no drain on the .rest of his faculties or time. His wife has no hour sacred to. this or to that; he brings his trouble to her and it is her duty to comprehend and aid him, while her brain is devising how TO keep her boy Tom away from tho companions wlio brought him home drunk last night; how to give Jonnie another year of mnsio lessons; how to contrive a cloak for the baby out of her old merino ; tho burning meat in the kitchen all the while "sotting her nerves in a quiver." Sho has not a p?wer of mind, a skill of body whioh her daily lifo does not draw upon. Her husband comes and goes 'o his office ; the out-door air, tho stir, tho ohango of ideas, the passing! word for 4his mau or that, unconsciously refresh and lift him from the cankering oaro of the work. She has.th? parlor, the din ing-roofn?-the kitchen,;to shut hor into it, day ftfter day, yonr?fier year. Wo men, without a single actual grief in tho world, grow morbid and ill-terd pored, simply from living in-doors, and resort to prayer to conquer their oroBS neu?, when they only need a walk of a couple of miles, or some wholesome amusement. It is a natural craving for this. neoessity-ramusoment?whioh drivos them'to the tea-parties and sew ing-oiroles whioh men ridicule as absurd and tedious. There is no reason why our women, who are notably rational and shrewd in the eondnot of the working part of life, should out themselves off time irration ally from the necessary relaxation, or make it either costly or tedious. Let every mother of a family resolve not to [put off her holidays until old age, bnt to take them all along the .way, and to bring a good sharo of them into this winter. Let her give no ball, no musi cal evonings, no hot, perspiring ton-par ties, but manage to have her table ul ways prettily served and comfortably provided, anu her ?woloomo ready for any friend who may corao to it; let her sot npart an oveuing, if possible, when her rooms shall be open to any pleasant friend who will visit her; the refresh ment to bo of tho simplest kind ; and, above all, if the table ohanoe not to be well served, or the friends are not n.[;n U fc h?r take (he mishap J as. a easy ajtpd humor. J.t is, not kornaifif, wo \icloorn??nBaat>?Ubai o cxoiftoq xust bjjw j it^vaj WoWSi%Jfi&E r^rinbariditiBbiani's 'fqf. !frpaanoaaik.be*l j .(^"J gtnirff ^si-?g?t*B> I b?Aj onuQiit'of fcho'Cuioago^rni^r-1 < lyMPflilw plains) [ftlyiflj or Mudgo,of Kansas,1 lias j iere "moss-agates'1 -comb fronV1 i just Howio'gefc aKQiom rb.wn l?.-plidcono , _ v-. Wx'in t7ti iuatsd in b3\>? a' "sedimentary sitfci formed'of nlulorir.l varying jO flint quartz tot lOhaloodony. Oxide bt'magancse, more or.iesa orys talizoc'i.m minute ' moss-liko Bprigo, ex tends tturhugh. tho whole Btrata, whioh is often ?ffght feet, thick. ; The. " agates " nro mainly fo.ihd" in the uppor six inohos^and some of them ore remarka bly beautiful, r,Tho wholo massii? ,very interesting to tho mineralogist, .ns the so-called - ? "mbaa-agato ": tho whole I p.robes'3 of its Tho.lower Aportion indi imperfect- solution of the I JoJdde^ of manganese, bnt few inokes, yrhero tho best I i are found, evinoe the deposit j state of'^onemlcal develop-J f IfUKe -a)' mantanftte." ? deposit ition had" changed to noarly with fine, sprig-like crys-' and in Bho thro for; oates silica the u' s; in ft ment. forms tfio cap-rook, of .all :the, hills in the vicinity of Sheridan* dri:the Kansas Paoiflo rail way? 'and 'aTsb About Pdrfc Wallace. In one instance' Professor MndgCi found bones aud portions of the tusk o:" h inastodon, Whioh in progress of foi oome tala of black oxide of manganese/ thus presenting the strange phenomenon., of ivory, actually converted *. into *' nioss ng'ote." Some of'the specimens cannot d in 'appearanoo : from, the real i v m . Professor. J&ucbro {jthinks j that The ogenoioa which jsroauco this it have J BeenJ?imilar to tub notion, of'tho "lioM springs" of Iceland and Yellowstone Park, the only known natural agency that will make' silica oat of organic substances. The f act is a curious one at any rate; and while it may overstock the "moss-agate"market, it furnishes the [scientist a revelation of rare inter est and valne. Professor Marsh, of Yale, ia already giving it critical exam ination, and specimens have been fur nished to other prominent gentlemen in his line of business. Dutch Beauties. A writer in the Jewish Messenger, speaking of Leonwardon, a town in Holland, says : " The women of Leou warden deserve a paragraph to them selves. There is a primitive air about them whioh is refreshing after the Btarohed-np and rnado-up-to-ordor beau ties that are elsewhere visible. They are generally tall, with high forehead, aquiline nose, lips closely set, and well developed chin. The skin is white, tho cheeks delicately tinted (with oolors from nature's atelier), the eyes are large and piercing. - The young girls, have lost mnoh of the Frisian bearing, for their heads are crazed, doubtless,.by the furbelows and fixings of the foreign dressmaker and milliner, As among the Quakers, the younger generation are losing their reverence for the dis tinctive dress which should be- every fair Frisian's pride to wear. The mat rons, however, adhere to tho fashions of their ancestors. They have- almost ft masculine face, bnt the sternness ia i relieved by tho beauty of tho eyes and the fair skin. In southern Holland a distinctive oostume is . worn ^ by many, but it is not so quaint as in northern Holland, in which Friesland is situated. Take a woman's head-dress, for instanoe. Abroad band of gold, of horse-shoe shapo, spans the forehead, aiding to keep the hair back. The sides of the band are adorned with large oval gold rosettes. Above the band is reared a laoe cap, or veil, often of the beat lace, with edges or complete wings, drooping to the neck. The ears glitter with rings of gold and gems. These orna ment n, whioh are either of gold or silver even among the poorer olasses, are re garded with great reverence, and trea sured as sacred heirlooms, pass from mother to daughter for many genera tions. Tho bands give a soldierly aspect to the women, who' afe generally full-facod, not sunken-cheeked, and walk with a firm tread. Their stout, largo shoes aro in pleasing contrast to the baby shoes which are considered the style among our holies of the lan guid and languishing typo." ?It's of no use to try to get tho cap ital aWay from Washington if Washing ton is the kind of a town " Olivia" Bays it is. Hear" her : "It is "the great throbbing heart of a republic whoso right hand grasps tho beard of tho stormy Atlantic, while tho left is held out for tho Paoiflo to kiss." ?In Br?ssels they have taken one praotdcal step in, rogard to cremation, whioh seems to indicate an opinion that it ia likely to bo adopted instead of burial. They propose to have an offloial modioo-legai examination of every oorpso before it is burned. .^W?aUoW O??s?lvea(t??'?Uy of a- rich man that ho Ms (got ^atamiifci?nbr 4h6 /hneatataxoby /rdcoutlyy.tlnt, enc^'fehewa* '*VegtffSf?y^i?4Pt _ hltatena aoD t^hrratHaxa ?*t& nor tify a man, mit "'In titi Hinjldjjili oat ftf wrr ,iray>flhtf?Ti' t*~'" ^ ii rent 4 elana JmvbpWjbflr *,rioua dr nisy f and whig but udoh names na"f rod," "tanglefoot," "rot-gut," " more man nuzzle a foranhierri atfan isn?TeTfea??, WWnm&^*^ xn* ~i*!bainbd?zlod *;!' T^jisoadfi?anHji, do not steal (in fact we are getting ] a little sonsitivOnbont^^slngoiiko wbrd). [ pn^4,!r^!^0TO ;'V-b^L??rMgr? ''do' not swindle and .steal,, one ooi unit ing " burgled/A and/thai -itfo\ font- pads /? went through" a belated travelerV^a 'fair' dOBlerl'is^iBpOksn: of) as 'a " square mam'' a mostwenderfnl i\tamjjtirfffm a substantial dinner . is' spoken '.of jn'ri'nj J?4qShiW,:?0?a,ri- ^el*eW7!n>?!atio1i?f given,, atot: to.take a drink; Jbutio^'hqist in some poison ;" anything antiquated or exhausted isTV played but j" ad 'In significant exeneo is, said, to bo " too' thin," br we are told that it " will not wash:" we buy stooks on1*"margin,"., or. aellithem ?' short.'?' or. ik\bull" the market; or " take a flyer," or "scoop in a long lino of stocka.';'- :tfa do! not j bet; our , i4o | not' lH'H- |VUg '??UV VA UIVWUU., ? ?? U U stake, a.Bum of money,, bntj'fb pileafter a convivial.'partv wo _ morning' 1 find ourselves ?"-? precious .seedy;'? our. railroad: jtrnlns '" telca oopo," or a " PnMman" breaks a wir?1** a party of rowdies '* olsaa anfiSa d '^p^oui^a'fit^ orm^^o^ofo wit or circumveut;-'another1 i " ouchro" him:; wo " tako tho ahfq? out of a rival, and " fix his flint" for him'; a carpenter " runs up" n chcap 4ibh^ejiri a-week ; an investigating committee iu congress ^?whitewashes'*' the: character 'nu^tradn\ihd sooial interoaurse^we per mit ourselves to use Words and phrases which are of no authority, of ten vulgar and always needless. | It may be objected to the purist that the spoken language is of no conse quence so long as wo write correctly and with elegance. But alas 1 that evil com munications corrupt good manners is no more true than that slangy conversation leads to slip-shod, slangy writing; and it' often happens that somo detestable word of no authority, and having no right in the language, slips from con versation into print and usurps a place for' itself. Here, again, the modern newspaper has mnoh to answer for in the deterioration of language. Slang usurps the plaoWof w it, and a cant phrase is often made the poor substitute for the witty repartee. It is untrue to say that slang is only nsed by the low and illit erate. On the other hand, its use per vades all tho strata of society, from the olercyman to tho otreot-be/rgar, each, of course, using, a slang of different order, but both too often indulging in the use of 'words >vIi ich ?u ui???ufiry explains. And just hero is something to. be said. We.heor every day, in all sooial circles, a multitude of words and phrases that have, so to speak1', no real existence, and which must, sorely puasle a foreigner, as he turns in vain from one dictionary to another. He has no authority but usage ?and usage is perpetually ohanging? as to what ia lawful English and what is not; what he can use in polite eiroles, and what he must shun, and to this lack of authority half his troubles in.learning to speak English are due. And the Eng lishman himself, it has been well said, has never! ddne learning his. own' lan guage He is overwhelmed by tho mul titude of now words, and he has no un disputed authority to guide him in the use of old ones. "They manage these things better*in Franoe.' Tho diction ary of the French academy?supplanted now, .perhaps, by Littre's?has been held to bo a model of elegance and propriety in speaking and writing the French lan guage. Every pretender to.literary em inence models his language upon tho academy's dictionary, and the languago, too, has beoomb tho language of diplo macy over all Europe and iu Russin. A Russian gentleman's children learn to speak French as an indlspenbabie part of their education, and the acquisition of such a knowledge as will enable them to carry on an ordinary conversation is regarded as a matter of course. A trav eler, if he can speak French, will be tolerably at home at St. Petersburg, Constantinople or Berlin in the upper ranks of society. Tho French tongue has gained that high position, not so much by its own inherent merit as by reason of its having a standard and a court of l?at appeal. As a langnage it is net.so full or so'diguifled as German or English, but it is good coin?so Co speak ?it is fixed in its value and passes everywhere. Accent except ed, a for eigner may speak as good Frenoh an a native, for the simplo reason-that he and tho Frenchmen have a common and undisputed authority to which they can refor. _ ?Now is the time when the fly crawls about, chilled and dispirited, and one is irresistibly impollod to pity him and drop a paper-weight on his back? eteia*?til *}orf ?Vf be come hot He'd go U8S*bf fHB'ITUUj with a hop and _le Ihoupndds of fotiaars boys "*SH?nd?he bfmntrK-ffo^ff a fiahiny and never even1 think o7^woiffin5fi8as^lom. thought for every; in&tirluJtluttaat his v-ft all, Unwosa fentt-^Cflc^^rJs^ j < ? A/correeppndont wants toin^ow how to break .a cow thai is afraid of ia wo man. Wo'havetffc' thought sufficiently oh tho-siibject t? givaan-answer, but in Qewv Jersey, whon ? oow^'afcaid. of a woman, she quiets the auirnar liy simply hiding' her "back ? hair f^igde^ the -j milk pailf \o i ctMi'jAuiM ; ? .^For first-class forethought commend m ratbag pair of Danbury. doves'who, wlieni-"-theystarted on'-theirJ wedding trip, .took along'with them a- small-sized two-year-old infant, hired for, ^ho, pur pose of deceiving \ho . vulgar public upon tho matter of their ?owly-found bliss. y-VI vi-./.-.j Tun twin or double hull 'steamship Oastalea, built to' overcome ?' tho oflecta of the tough sea,'of'|he::-ErigbflhXchan neV and intended, totply between [Dover au^GalaiB, lias'.mado n trial trip from Bamsgalcto Paria ?h?'proved to bo a mo3t comfortable boat., neither' roll ing nor 'pitching..'';''" a~. ,*Tf^ ?A now territory, composed of Col orado,', south''of the Divide; and pftrt of northern New Mexico, is talked of as not''.improbable. Northern'..Colorado will then absorb Wyoming, and bcoomo IMstat^..... Jt isithojrghl? V of southern Colorado t favor such a movement. ?All the Christian Boots' together comprise a membership' of - about; 380, 000,000, wliile heathen worshipers count over l.000,000,000. The Buddhists alone have 840,000,000. The Roman Catholic church embraces 195.000,000 followers, while all the Protestant denominations combined number only 08,139,000.' ?A man in Parkersburg, Va., baa started a paper whioh he culls the' Jim plecuto, in imitation of a similar-piece of folly in Texas. But he can not es ?cape. The same law which impels a man to start a paper called the Jimple eute will, to oner or later, .drive him to blowing into the muzzle of his gun to see if it is loaded. ?"Mother," said, littlq Ned, one morning, after having fallen out of bed, "I think I know why I fell out of bod last night ; it was because I slept too near where I got in." Musing a little while, as if in doubt whether ho had given the right explanation, ho added, " No, that- wasn*t the reasoD: it was l>o oause I slept too near where I f ell out." ?The Bu?alo Express despairingly asks: " Shall we have female hotel clerks to rule over ns ?" Why not ? A woman who is born to command would bo infinitely less dangerous to the hap ginesa of man, jerking ink behind a otel counter, than in tho role pf the " angel of the hearthstone," with a grid iron in one hand and a rolling-pin in the other. ?Twenty-three brigands, who in the summer had committed a robbery at a watering place on the French frontier, wero recently brought to the soene of their exploits to be shot there by Spau iah troops. The troops wero at fifteen vards distance. Ten men fell at the first fire. . Eight fell at the second fire and the other five ran away, the bullets having out the cords that bound them. One was last seen pursued by four sol diers, who continued firing. How many lives has a oat ? ?A Brooklyn bride's ba?k bahr fell down and fell off during tho ceremony in church the other evening. There was an instant's pause, but nobody waa brave enough to stoop down and pick up the mass of blondo stuff and hair pins. The bride left tho churoh loan ing heavily on her husband's arm. Her faco was very red, a sprout of hair (pos sibly eleven hairs in.all) stuck out at the back ,of her head, tied with a bit of shoe-string. And now her pa is1 mean enough to refuse to pay the poor hair dresser's bill. ?Tho Bessemer steamer system has been applied, by a Mr. Henry Giffard, to a hanging railroad-car, whioh has been tested with success on the line of the Northern railway, in France. Seated In this oar, whioh hangs on elaatio springs, the traveler experiences the sensation of reposing in a hammock, free, from the vibrations and bumpinga of the ordinary oar. At times the oar undulates as does a boat on a calm sea. Th,e movement ia described as a very gentle ono, and the traveler is enabled to read without fatigue and write with ease. The prindple of this ear, applied to ambulanoes. doubtless would be a groat boon to the wounded who may be convoyed in thorn.