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bill fcl cL V'.J.*- JUfiVOIlUUil Ii > ? Yd il '? j'i' . /: ytii 4Ai I [I u JIM,,!;1 B^0<iooqT5T?i!%ffl j^'ti ^'dependent it Paper Devoted to .tUo .J^toir.e^.:,^ tf**?r l?etopXe. i ROTTTTT D ARO UNA TWfrT*^ fi&i? - ., , ; . ctct. t v? Iii 7/ ;Vf . QRA^EBWIUj^SQimi CAROLINA,. TH^??v:D^MBMft ' J ,NU^KR,,45;:, -\ .31 >/ r-JE-fr^eu. f?- ? ?? ^OUT OF THE WINDOW. mil of tho window sho loanod, and laughed, > A girl's langb. idlo anrtfoollsbtfiud Bwoot,?, - i Foolish,aud idlo, lt *opfl*d Uail call, . * Up ho W?A?altJo tolai?dngVc& \Jr '? \VhobancaTlRbTth6 laii?b aa it fluttered aud foil, Aud eye to oyo for a moment tbcro Ihey held each other aa If. a s^cU.. All in a moment passing there,? And into her idle, empty 2ay,. All in that raomont aomtfhlnq now. '". : ft\ , Suddenly Boomed tO(flAd lUPway.' ^ W ? And through aud through tbo clamoroua hours ? That niado his clamorous busy day, A girl's laugh, idlo aud foolish and awoot, Into every bargain found its way. And through and through tUo crowd of tfeo' Etroets, At every window in panibg byT lie looked a moment, and Boomed to sco A pair of oyea 1 llco^th^nwm^ realty. ^ c j ? ? r ? - BEYOND A DOUBT. H* nt tfifl?flEWo Mavnn. Paul Wayne was a bachelor of forty five. Not ouo of tbo way waxvl, nomadic sort, but wbo oconpiod a splendid house ^ and took excellent oaro'of >a'n orphan' who called bim Unolo Paul. Ho wa*' blessed with; the best bfeart in. tho world, nnd possessed* so many of tho requisites of a good 1 insbmid and {father that it was a matter of great surprise among his friends; that bo < remained Bingle. Those who knew bim best rightly traced his single blessedness to his ono faultjaa most wonderful obduracy! nnd unwilT ingness to give np an impression once fully entertained*??This^oliBraoteristio injured him in his business affairs too, bat those with whom he had (business differences attributed it to what'; for a better term, they called eccentricity. Paul Wayne had his love passages in his earlier manhood, but they came to nothing bvit disappointment,' because^of this obdurate and unalterable determin ation to abide by his first impressions, whether these agreed with subsequent facts or not; indeed, whether it suited the other party in the love affair or not. Your ig girls do not generally like a .lover who is not tho least bit pliable. While their natures demand strong, manly love, for something that shields, there is intermiugled with it all a touch of the conquering spirit to be recog nized. Paul Wayne's lordly way of wooing, a-way-which-to his lady friends seemed to say, wait nntil I am ready and I have only to name the day, brought him at least one ridiculous jilt, bnt to it all he only said, as he put the girl out of his memory, "She will regret it, beyond a doubt." Mary Dale did regret it: for ehe married ? man who broke Ber heart "by" brntal treatment and deserted her while she lay helplessly sick with a girl-baby in her bosom. That girl-baby was given to Paul Wayne with the last breath of the dying mother, and it was baby Mary Dale -who, at seventeen, called him Uncle Paul. "Mary, Philip Hastings is a bad man. I know it beyond a doubt. I am not deceived." " How do you know it, Undo Paul ?" "Well, bow do wo know anything? Why, there are many ways and reasons for knowing and thinking so ; one is? well, it don't matter. ,1 know it bovond a doubt." He know it, and that was enough for him. Aud Mary know him well enough to end such an argument at once. It was just at tho proper momont, too, for Philip Hnstiucs, the "bad man," was announced. While wo leavo tho lovors together enjoying a brief morning call, wo will go out with Paul Wayne, and liown town. " Bad man, beyond a doubt. Bad flompony. Ho is always with that man Quigley; what in tho world brought that man, that wretch Quigley, back, when we all thought him dead and bur ied those year* ?, s He ought to have died long ago." And tlnc\e Paulthrast his cane against tho pavement with a ? nervoua, irnnetuons motion, and looked up to se^^Qnfgley. > They passed, Paul Wayne looking straight'abend down the street, the oth er casting quick glances at the stern face of tho baoholor, hoping for a look of recognition, then stopping to look after the retreatiug figure, as if to be certain that it was the man. A fow yards separated them, and then Paul could not fe^ist^tho onriosity to look back, nnd thfcir eyes met. It was awk ward, but. only for an instant, the baoh olor turning quipkly nnd proceeding on his wny. j?j { "If I could only talk to him a mo mout. B'if.tho poor get but fow words and theao not kindly one ; I Will lot him alouoj"* and thd man Qaigloy threaded his way fcmong the throng of mon bearing sfcraugp facos. He bnd boon gono for years, and a rifew genera tion had sprung jjtp. ". Fow fgavo him a look betokening recog^iitiofc. Now and then a innu with v.-bitoned hair and bowed form- wrnild half n^op, gaze at him im instant with a curious, inquisi tive look, as-if trying to recall some thing of tho'piist/then pass ou. .-Far ther away from tho bnsllo of Jno bnsi noss streets tho stranger paused'in bis ' wnlk, aud said again, aloud, to himself, "If I could only talk to liim a mo mont," The half piteous tono fell upon tho earn of two light-hearted girls who worn panning, ftiid a shade of melan choly paused over the fneo of thq younger as both turned to look at tho speaker, and wo ree.oprnizuonriUnole Paul's.Mary. Not n nit|)crblv handeorue girl With ori ental oye's nnd tho soft, roubiioub lang uor of tho famed cast, bnt a good hnal Ihy, pretty girl, somothing to love fondly, something tangible to stand tho woar and'tear of life, something worthy of man's ntriving eflortn. That even ing there' wrb nn ioy party at Unolo Paul's. Marv bnd boon amusing him in tho earlier bonrs with " old-fashioned songs," oA - Paul called them, and tho wo were in the midst of these ploasures wh?a Philip Hastinga^was- announc^wb" Unole Paul could not escape. He had nowhere to go but to bod, and it was too early for .that. ?? y^nng liegst noe? not bo told hov/ really disogrdeaole the^ position *wh6n" ?wTouhg feentloniah is present who loves her, while an elder j member of the family. i&j immovably I.anchored in the room, and who in turn .heartily ^dislikes, or. thinks.ho does, the young man as a-"- bad m?nV'^ Sne was afraid of an explosion as she nervously undertook the task of directing the con versation. Sho endeavored to steer oloar of tho quicksands, but in . trying to draw Uncle Paul into .the conversa tion she precipitated-just what she was so anxious to avoid. ItliioWPadL had Bat quite still for awhile, in a half-drowsy, brown .study,,-.; but ho awakened suddenly when' Mary' said, "Susie and I met snoh n ntrnng?8 looking, unhappy old man to-day." "A what-^-that old'inan?beyond a doubt a bod man." *? ' " " Why, Unole Paul, have, von waked at last ?'*. asked Mary; ? '"Bam glad something eon fix your attention." Paul.;did "not look an'though'ho enred. to listen,as Mary went on. ."So old and feeble, and yet about ' him 'a'?'some thing telling of better, happier days; in his face curves worn deep by' patient sorrow. .Just ns wo passed thim ho was Baying : * If I could only talk to him a moment,' as -if-dome 'Old 'friend had refused him sympathy. Who oonld it have been, I.- wonder? I pitied JJ1UI." Unole Paul fidgeted,.but said nothing, though he felt the thrust so uninten tionally given, whilo Philip Hastings seemed happy and yet .uneasy, at the turn things had taken, so di fforont from what lio desired. The two talked of tho Rtrango old man, while Unole Paul 'grow uneasy at every word/until finally he rose upon hia feet and began pacing tho floor in an agitated way that he could not oonoeal, | Mary vt&LVied hsr unole for a few moments, ,i^Hj? *^edt and wondering what there was in the talk about a strange old man to agitato her dear old unole. Philip said, to her : " Miss "Wayne, the old man of whom we havo been talking is one entirely worthy of your sweet sympathy, and, in a word, is my best friend."^.??^ ?Unole Paul halted suddenly, utterly dumbfounded at the declaration. He raised both hands, as if the effrontery of the avowal had filled him with sur prise and indignation too deep for ex pros?iC?c " Tell me, Philip Hastings, that at least you do not know this -old man's history." A thousand frightful questions sug gested themselves to the mind of Mary. She leaned forward to oatoh Philip's de nial, a denial whioh she hoped he would make, and she shared Paul Wayne's horror when Philip said : " Every lino and passage of it, sir." " Why, sir, he's the wickest man alive, and if you?well, if he is your friend, if there is any oommunity of thought with him, why?well, I'm right, beyond a doubt. But there oannot be. He has given you his version, and when I tell yon all, you will cast him off." "He has told mo all, and I have found that ho has told me tho truth, tho whole truth and nothing but tho truth. When men assume a oharnoter it is not a bad one. Tho old man Qnig ley has made a clean breast of it all. He arrested me iir^Sy downward career, and I oannot, would not cast him off." There was something in thin speeob, so earnest, so manly, that Mary was proud of her lover for having uttered it, and even the lines in Unole Paul's face floftoned, nndhe was almost ready to acknowledge that ho might bo wrong, when Philip resumed his story : " I pp?int test winter in Now Orleans, as you knev. 'Ore might iI. visited a framing table and was induced to play. I lost honvily, and, beooming^eej>Moto-,v I was about to risk * nVy pursp. . jaiuj Pits', contents upon a singlo throw, ,wnen a Borvant stumbled ' against me and wo fell. As I stooped to aid him hei wills' porod : ' I did it purposely. Play no more. Moot mo outside the door.'" I withdrew from tho game and met him, and ho said : ' Your antagonist there,' pointing infude,' ' was oheating you; I naw it all. Don't go back. I was ruin ed there; I used to play with thou sands, now I sweep tho floors.' ? Why do you stay there ?* I asked. ' T must cat and drink, and who wjll take mo. with a oharaotor from there as my last place?'" Mary felt relieved on*1 her Uuolo Pauk, s?id, "The servant was Quigloy; but hoj doubtless did not toll yon that all these thousands he stole from hia dna]erted wife, or gained on forger! pfcper," "No, sir, not then. But, if "took -him as my servant and then ho told mo thnt - I could not trnst him, antPwhy. He told mo what you havo just Stated. I did trnst him nod I havo novor had oc casion to doubt him * or regret my oliolce.", Unolo Panl paced tho floor for a nio ?'mont; muttering,* '^It will nome out bo yond a doubt; I had bettor toll it all," thou/wont over to Mary and oanglit her to hin heart as if ho would shield her with his lifo, and looking nt Philip Baid: ?"You boliovo in this man's rfformation -?this man (Quigloy. Ono more teat ond that will pottle it. beyond a doubt. Would von marry hia daughter ?'' "H I-wore not engaged and"?ho stopped. Surprise was flushing Mary's face when Uroio i*nni answered the questioning fnoo before him. "There rIio is?yr-n, my ward, my more than ohild, isQuigley's daughter, given mo by Iub deserted'wife, and Mary's dying mother. Prove your sincority in this man." Philip took tho,poor amnzod girl in his arras and\savod hor from falling. Unolo Panl hopped about the room as - one possessed, dashing a tear from his eye and exolainiing: "It's all right now, beyond a doubt." Qiiigley, by tbo aid of a gift left him , byia dying rotative, was enabled to re pay those ho had wronged in purse, and with a lovely daughter to caress and comfort his old ago- bin was a happy end.' We should never distrust the ability of any man fo? reformation, and no one's repentance ?hould bo despised. -W?"* In the " TigdrV'ljalr. A correspondent of tholiondon Times, writing of the privat? gambling-houso at Baden, says: "The shrine contains two rooms, opening into eaoh other, one consecrated usually to trcnte et quar an to, ibut in which faroujgj^gther games of hazard are also played,.and the other [-devoted to roulette. J*They- are very [ quietly though comfortably fundnbod', and the only thing th?tj?trjy^p? one as at all unuBual about thom ~ exoopt, of course, the tables?is that tho varioim pier-glasses are emplpyBflJ^f all odd places in the world, for posting the pla cards containing regulations with regard to the different games and other official notices. This novel useApf )a mirror certainly looks like b?sinwe, and pre pares one for the discovery that no ladies, whether 'from Paris*.-or else where, are admitted, aa they are to the hotel roulette-tables which I havo in a former letter discussed. Their presenoe -might lead to trifling and^gyolities in compatible with the serious qbjeots of the meeting. In tho sarne earnest spirit there is no flourishing fmbSlffepas at the hotel, of ioed champagne. Any such public house parade is<~carefully es chewed, nob merely asv^howy- ana vul gar, * but as a reflection-On the game 1 itsolf, as tending to Imply that the gen uine gambler and gentleman has to be tempted into losing his-.money by any other excitement or pleasure than that of the loss itself. But ?s, of course, being human and reasonable, ho must drink, suoh simple and "serious liquors as brandy and soda, beer, and light wines are provided without ...stint. I have no doubt that anybodyi^wbo liked to ask for it could havo ?liampagno, or, for the matter of that, Johannisberg or Tokay. But there is very little drink ing?wonderfully little, considering how many Englishmen are in the room. Tho! courteous waiters, gliding swiftly und noiselessly from chair to chair, are gen erally carrying only seltzer water or a cigar. There is not, however, much money?at least what an ordinary plain; man of. business would consider monov ?lying upon tho tables. Tho small strong box in the centre, over whioh the noble host himself presides, may indeed contain, for aught I know, untold rail lions. But lying visibly about in con fused heaps among tho-players, or near the banker in carefully arranged rows, arc endless bono counters, some plain white, others tastefully inlaid with rings of various colors, from red to the most delicate mauve. Their intrinsio value is not groat?not more, porhapB, than that of a bank note?and they look charmingly innocent and pretty play things fo? children. Still a good deal of miBohief may bo done with them." Novel Expedient of Besieged Men. A private letter from, en officer at Fort Sill, Indian territory, giveB the following account of an ingenious expo diont adopted to aid somo ?oldrem in a strait: " Corporal John Smith, of the Fourteenth infantry, with four men, was omployed on somo detail some twen ty-five miles from thisr.post.d While thus engaged ho was surprised by a body of somo hundred or mato mounted Indians, he thinks either Kiowns or Comanohes, from this reservation. As their purpose was unmistakably hostile, ho and his men lost no time in taking to tho only available shelter, an old buffalo fWallow, where, in a very uncomfortable, constrained position, they managed to proteuc their bodies and keep, their ene mies at a distanco for the day ami night. The next morning, however, their snf ferings for wAut of food and water be came rather serious, and something had "to be'dono. Corporal Smith was equal to tho occasion ; taking a piece of his owit-white shirt, the only_ substitute for paper to be had, ho wrote a note des cribing their situation, secured it wlih euro to tho neck of a Hmall, shaggy, mongrol dog whioh had followed them from-the fort; then batterihj^up a can teen, ho fastened it to the animal's tail and let him go. Tho dog,.to-quote tho corporal's own expression, * just hump ed himself.' Tho Indian^1 tak|ng it to bo la more aot of bravado, I: 'prosurae, mnde to attempt to stop him, and with ia two hours from tho timo ho started tho dog ronohed tho post. Succor was immediately sent and tho bravo corpo ral and hiB comrades brought in, tho Indians making off at tho first sight of the tesouo party, at the distance of sev eral miles." Emigration Statistics. The statistics of emigration do not show that tho nalivos, of Great Britain feel any f ran tie, 6btb of adoration for her. During tho past sixty yoars oho has snen a population of oxrtotly 7,871, 897 depart to other lands. In 1873 alono the numbor of oraigrants was 310, (H2. Tho groater part, of these people oamo to this oonutry, white the rent ?fcriod fortuno ohiefly in Australasia. It is curious how oomplotoly Frenoh son iimont is iuo roverso of English on tho subject of emigration. Only nbouc 130,000 Frenoh people -fi&vo nottlod in Algeria, and Franco ban rmd'po.Wiisidn of that country for forty y^ars. Fronoh population is, howover, constantly de creasing. During five yonrs,' and for reasons indopehitent of emigration and tho cession of Alsaco, it has declined by half4 a million. THERE'S koNEY IN BLOOD, PcdCarces <r* the Old, Imported Thor . ?. ouRlibrccla., inrtlAunpoUs Jours?.], > \..-,\\.;^ The Igte rebellion furnished the yeryt strongest evidence 61 the suporibrfty^or tho " blooded! hbirBe" over, the cold-' blooded animid, for it in nn undisputed fact that thqr horses,'that carried tho southern cayalrymeu were inuoh hotter campaigners than thbso taken from the north w> 'Sleet them. Tho cavalry horses ef1 fjp ? utaioh' army were gener ally large-flfemod; heavy-bodied, coarao^ limbed, olrjmsy.scrubs; whilo those of tho south;jvvere , modium-Bizio, light, olean-msuie,. aotivo, enduring, woll-brod, and maiyof thorn thoroughbred. And, although the" former Were much better fed and eated for than thehV ^pp^ne^?,' they could r<ot travel an many milcrs in n day, as-m?rty days in succession nor with as much ease . to themselves' and i rider.\ I .=#>. ? i tu ' ?'? j n In the north, anp west, many. consider the fact tnWftliorse wascaptured, dur ing the'xtaJicT his isire and' dam ?ame from thei ?ofttb, fahfl3Meintl'evidenoo':that the animal as well bred, and in our mar ket to-day a homo known to1 have been bred in Kentucky or Tennessee, even, without a well-substantiated pedigree, will sell for fifty per cent, more .than one bred 9k'Indiana, though in biro, gait, age ntto". general'-appcarance thero may not bfi?Cll 'particle' of diflerCnoe be tween the two. And this 'is easily Ac counted for from the fact'that it is gen erally known that breeders in thoAQiXth havo been [our heaviest- imporvOTs of thoroughbreds from Europe, are devo ted patron:? of the turf, end would not waste their time and money in the pro duction of : n inferior animal. Some of (hose who sneer at pedigrees, and boast .of their ability to discover with the eyh all the -virtues or defects that the hesso can possess, are disposed to question tho pnnty of the blood of the oarly importations, and argue that as there was no American turf register previous to 1829, there is no guarantee for the fidelity of a pedigree that traces back to an animal brought to this coun try from Europe before that year. But, unfortunately for this theory, Mr. Bruce, the compiler of the American Stud Book, has obtained as abundance of well substantiated doonnv ntary evi dence tc prove the authenticity of the pedigrees claimed for. all, or nearly all, the horses .imported before and since the war iov American independence. Moreover, tho very first importations were of jb^ery best, and nearest tho fohnta.in'Settu-."' early as 1747, 3*on koy, by the Lonsdale bay Arab, al though twenty-one years old, orosred the Atlantic and got some good stock, and he was followed the next year by Jolly Boger, by Boundhead, out of a mare by Orott's Partner. In England he was oalled Roger of the Yale, and his descendants there are highly prized. Ho died in Greenville county1, Va.,'in 1772, and in this country was consid ered second only to the great Fear naught, by Regulns out of Sil vert ail, who was imported into Virginia by Col. John Baylor in 1764, and died in '76, twenty-ono jrears old. In 1750 Lord Baltimore presented Mr. Ogle, .governor of Maryland, with Spark, and about the same time tho governor imported Queen Mab, by Mnsgrover's. gray Arab. ??Dur ing this year Col. Taaker, of Maryland, imported Selima, a daughter* of the Godolphin Arabian, and the dam of Partner, Ariel, Stella, Ebony, Babra hnni, Little Jupiter, Black Selima, Camilla and Selim. She was one of the very best mares ever brought to the country, and her.blood is sought after till this dev. Then oame MisB Oolville, known in tho." English Stud .Book" as Wilkes' old Hautboy mare, Jenny Cam eron, Routh's Orab, Morton's Traveler by Partner,- dam by Bloody Buttock's Arabian, and many others whose names appear in the pedigrees of our; modern race horse. The love of racing was soon im planted in the colonies of Maryland and Virginia, from whom it spread to North and South Carolina, and, immediately after their first settlement, Tennessee and Kentucky imported some very cele brated home:-, and turf sport became the most popular amusement. New York joined in at a later period, al though there was a small race course at Newmarket and one at Jamaica before the revolntibn. From 1800 to 1845 the gro it stables of the north and south were carried on under a most honorable ri valry ; but about this time the turf in' the north whs abandoned by its princi pal supporters, and racing was carried on as a business, regardless of that honorable spirit whioh had 'previously distinguished it, by professional train ers and jockeys. In fact it may bi said that from 1845 to 185G racing was en tirely confined to the southern, states, where it continued to deservo and ro ceive the patronage of all olasses of so ciety np to the breaking out of tho re bellion. The result of this difference in the tastes aud pursuits of the poople north and south is that tho north, or at least the northwest, have an abundance of low-bred horses, that cannot be sold for enough to pay their raising, while Kentucky and Tcnnesseo?especially Kentucky?attract buyers for their Rtook, not only from ovory state in the Union, but from Europe and tho Caua dn?. It is no uncommon ooonrence for a Kentucky yearling to sell for as much money, as would buy ten of our best matured common horses. Iu Favotte I county, Kentucky, during one week in t)otober last, two hundred hoad of yearling and weanling colts were Bold for an a- gregato sura of 870,000, being an :,a^erage of 8350 a hpad. Dr. L. Herr, near Lexington, Ky? during tho past threo years has sold Jess thai ono hundred colts, the get of Mnmbrino rl-1 . h ban ?:?R - ' u Fatohan, Jfqr,, S|?5,0OO.; |... L; It. ^D'or seUB ?nnuhlty^^ wfrfc of. two. and a throo-y ear-old G blddust at' an, ,ayera*e z,pr\oo ,of ^Ov-.pe*, hoad. A. ?T. Alexander, of . Wood*,, ford eonrityy1 lEy., tfellb annually^ aV public auction abont forty head of .fhoWghbred yearlings at prices raegingJ 'from $300 t? B00t 'arid yearling colts of trotting stock at.an average price of ?100 per head. f. But wo cannot even attempt to enu merate nil tho salen niado annually by such extensive breeders of ?no horae3 as James Miller, of Bourbon county.; 'T.'E. Moord, D/Swifee^?f Wobdford; !J. W. >Himt; (Reynolds, of Frankfort'-; tho Bnfords, ; Biaokburns, Harpers, ! Cblemans, X. Theene Richards, Rich ard West, Ton Brbcck, Matt OIay,? and< hand redo of other b, .who Boll on private terms, and] often 'realize-, as much for a single' animal' as many of our farmers make omthenr'stock during a life-time. This state of affairs is not ohargcablo to climate, for in this thero is but little difference betweon'"' In?iaha1 and' &en-' tuoky, and our" lands produce rfche'lfiiMSt' bluegrnss,.as well an an abundanco of all other food, required For ". grqwjng stock. It is not'owing"to 'p^erty^xor [?bur farmers have, raised?.finB^oropyfor j which thoy have received high .prices,. [ at least for.'the pa^ f^ j it is because thoy, have- stood;.in .their (own, light' rn- jgnoVmg1- theJ'oloinis 'ox " blood.'*?beoauso ?ihey?rfgnbrantly >?r'? < willfully refuse to recognize tho ad van-, tages of breeding ndrsey'for all pur poses from sources purified in'! the alembic of the race-course. <'>-ui.s I We are pleased to see that a few in > telligent breeders in this state are waking up to-this interest, and ?intro ducing some high-bred ntallidna and. mares; but a general revolution is needed,fand our citizens who purchase horses for use can do much to' bring s it about. Let them subserve their own interests by purchasing from Kentucky when in want of - a roadster or carriage horse, and these mongrel breeders. may be induced to change their tactics in Self-defense. . , ,.-1?i? ? ? ?? French and German LdBS.es in the Late Warvi hJ ?i M. Ohorn:, medical inspector general of tho Frenah army,: reports the losses sustained by tho French in the war with Germany to have been as ; follo.wa : Killed, disappeared, or died of wounds and diseases, 138,811; wounded by the enemy's fire, 148,000; men disabled by marching, -11,-40,1-$11,014 ynis&ing uro treated aa dead. -Thcso'ligurea 'ino'tedo 2,281 officers killed or who. died of wounds and disease and 06 missing; with 17,240 prisoners who died in Ger- - many, 1,701 in Switzerland and .121 in Belgium. While 17,240 deaths, then, occurred in captivity only 1,220 soldiers were killed at Gravelotto, the bloodiest battle of the war. The German losses were ; Killed or died of wounds and - disease, 40,741; missing and treated as dead, 4,090; wounded. 127,867. To those have to be added 1,795 killed, 6,690 wounded, and 1,539 missing in skirmishes, patrols, and slight engage ments. The Germans had 44,000death's, the French 138.871 ; the German*! 127, 000 wounded, the French 143,000, ,,The Frenoh had 11,421 men disabled by plaiea de marchr.?that iB, through de fective Books, boots, and gaiters, while the Germans suffered but little from this cause. M. Chenn shows -that in the Crimea and Italy, as well as in the last' war, disease was more fatal than the. sword, this being partly attributable .to commissariat, outfit, and hospital short comings. , y.I .?..?:> Playing it on an Ohl Man. The Cincinnati Saturday Night has the; small pox joke in a new , form : " Yesterday morning^ idee young' man got into ? caV on the Dayton Short-line railroad, and saw to his delight tire only vacant seat in tho cor.oh was by the side of a yout'g lady acquaintance. Hfif 1 reached for the seat with joyous strides, and her eyes ' answered .his. delighted looks; but just before ho got there, an elderly party from tho other end. of the car waltzed up the aisle and dropped into tho coveted seat. . The young man appronohotVmore' slewTfV and accosted tho young lady. * How is <yohr broth er V \ ho asked ; * is ho able to get out? ' ? Oh yes,' she, said. 'Will ho be ^vory badly marked ? '.lie.oontinuedoiand ithe,' old gentleman grim snddely interested.,' ?Oh no,' said the fair deceiver; 4 with (the> exception of a few email pits on his [ forehead, you would not know ho had ever had it.' * Woro not you afraid of taking it?' tho young .man went on, while the old gentleman bioko- 'but in' oold perspiration. '''Not ot all,'sho're-^ plied; 'I had been ? yaocinated,: you! know.' The aeatwaa vacated .instantly* tv?o young hearts beat as half a dozen, and the prattle of 4 nice talk .V sire wed. that pirt of tho bar; wliilo agtaydiaired old man scowled1 upon them from the hard, aoooiuinodatfon of tho1 wood-box r~-> ? ? '>' "?' ??the ri ?? Give the Child a.Light. If a child wouts a light to go to sleep by give it ono. Tho sort, of Spartan firmness whioh walks off and takes away tho oandlo and'shuts alb the-doors between tho housohold oheor and warmth and the plonsant stir of..evening mirth, and leaves n little son or daugh ter to hide his, hoiid under tho bed olothcs nnd {Jrot. to alnep n? best-it oan, - in not at all" ndmirablo. Not that the mother means to bn cruel, when sho trios this or .that, burdening process, and treats human natnro-as if it were.day to be moulded' into any shop > sho may please. Very likely,she has no idea whatovor of tho-injury k nnd suffering she causes, or'perhaps'her heart nehrs ; but sho, perseveres, thinking sho is do j ing right, FAOW )ANDlil6*AN03ES;?)i?)ov;.. . ?A.*(0ap?'M?y/7tSe otatt^AyP&nli1 huodred. rmapping. mackerel,.weigiiing { you'want- to know whethef1 y?*njflf grandmother iwas i crose,- eyed, or wh'ero: i ?your great unpls stood in his r-ritbmotio class, juflt run for office and you'll know it all} Jd.ll' ? < ' , . -?<:! fo : Paris there are; six ihrnndred:: and) seventy-one women who serve as models L tor painters and sculptors. ? The age of tho largest number is from eixteon to twenty.years.- it ?, ; nn.. ?rn*.f A; Jiome without children is like heaven without angels,'* saya a Ken tucky paper/ -We1 fust want' him'to get ' out of. bod' four tunes a night for'c month to keep the. baby's legs covered up.-' I ?*''! ?" " ' ' ,T ?Aa (Indiana philanthropist went to . Arizona to argue with f.ho Indians and . tp' try to, touch their better feelings/ and ho enmo homo barefooted on top ' of his head and ouerfjd tho government $1,000 to help.carryjon- the. war. >., * . ?A Galvest?n man who died, the other day loft '** the sunibf flv'6 thousand: ' dollarsjaa a fnnd to defend* persons who, ? kill southern- railroad baggago smash ers." I We.wo?'t^ay'that''the nian u'in .heaven,- bute' wo believe i ho Ilk> near 1 enpugb.fo,henr{t^ i [, .< ifl L?n|j-ou 8e0f" said a bar-keeper, whoso rhairlxvent off to the left with a massive ourvo like'the baluHter'of'?ihotei! stair-'? e' s o','and whose diamond ri-u'wa^1wortb,' a monarch's ransom, 'Mnere^'barkeep ers and again there's bar-keepers.1 Some 1 of thorn'ain't fit excopti to jerkbeer' aiul throw dead.beats ?u?of,doors,,but take some of' the artists and they'd* make Isaac- Newton get behind a tree-box. ? There's NeFF. -York Tommy-?ho never hands a glass, but just gives it' a spin on'the marble. I' tell you" it i**r-wbrth travelin jr.a mile to see him sling a i turn- - bier. ' IIq used to smash $40 worth of glass-a week. He was bid pie^ he was, | , -^Mary1 Mapes' Dodge writes thefcb pretty nurseryfjrhymds : :: ? ''.'. ? Two littlo girls aro bott,er than I>no, . t ,'. . .Two little boys can d?'riblo tho ion, * .'. " ? TwdUt?e:birdB caorj*ifld?.fm nur) i fl Two little arms can love mother beat, .Two littlo poniea must go to a span, -5 /Two' Ijttlo pookotahaamyJittlamAiv ? Two littlo eyes to open, and close, 1 T wq little oara and one littlo nose, * A A ; .Two little elbows, dimpled and sweoi, Two little shoes on two little feet,* -"' ? Two littlo lips and one litt to chin, ., ? Two little cllookB witbr a rose Bet lid,'; ? '? Two littlo tjlionlilon', ch.ub'oy and atrong,. . Two1 littlo legs ruunihe all day lppg,* . , p. f?ssa little iirayerAidoefe \xtf'dK*Ui?t: say* ? .Twice does slio knool by my eide each day-^ Two littlo folded hands soft and brown, Two little oyelidB east meekly down? And two little angels guard lilm in bed, One at tho foot and one at the ho id. ?In the memoir of Stanislas de Gi rardin, who owned the dominion of . Ermenohviile, there is an account of ? visit to that place of the first Napoleon; At the tomb of Rousseau he said, as recounted in. tho memoirs, "It would have been better for ' the' repose of France if ithis man had never : existed." ??Why^'smdDeGirard?). "He.pro pared tile revolution," said Napoleon. ? V It seems to me," said the proprietor', 11 that it is not for,you; to fcpmplaiu of the revolution." ** Well," said Nape-* leoh,the future will know if itwduld^ not havo been better for France that neither Rousseau nor myself had ever existed." ? Hb'was then 'first consul. ?Some conception of what has been aoriieved by thd iron discipline; of! thftt German army may bo had irom this, de- - script ion of the (lei man military bow : '?Imagine an'oak plohk,''siX feet' hi height, with anhinge in tho middle, drawijitself up to' a perpendicular,' and. .withe, quick movement snap' the bingo so that the upper part suddenly springs I forward and back again, and you will have some idea of the gracefulness of the executed movement, and of the shock one has at first, when he fen v.; that the performer has been seized with a sudden cramp that is about to get tho better of him at the very moment ho is, > ? being introduced) and you wish to play thd:agreeable." n- -i.lt is rather curious*, says^a New "York .letter, that the4 best hiniaAI qilajrVV ors seemed to.be .of. Celtic, origin? Freneji or Irish; : Amenbari-players ac count for this by asserting that it is be canse' they were all originally billiard markers, and were therefore early and continually trained to the game. I It is certainly.true,,,that thin was. Use. bcBun- ; ping .of Pheinn.'Cdvnriagh, Daly.'Slcs nin and Tita'Plyn,'and the.gfeli't FreiiWh1 ? players now in this country are said to have had a similar origin, -.Tho foreign ers retort on Dion and'O'ttier American players, with the npsortion that it'd?not 'prncHbe ,or,.,traming i they,,.wantf , hut . pluck hud method. "They criticise the American habit of -^nursing" th'evgatrte'.r< .instead of making brilliant strike;! and ; daving* dushes into the heart of the .enp my's country/ ':< * - ?The NaVajos a areT'remark'abte peb*>'???' p)oj odd their hist?ry and advan'oemeht v m certain brnnobes of skilled workman--. sh$p' havo excited' the ouHosity of trie ethnologist and the historian. For ovor 200 years they have been known Jay, means of the ear ions blanket :i known by their name; and therein the beat avU thority for stating that they! bad .sheep amoug them at that remoto period. Goy.-Arny ntate.B that'he has been tol.l by somo aged men of tho nation that ot a very remote period sheep )Yfire,j? brought into thoir country from tne northwesfc in the direotion of HehHifg'A - straits. In 1849< wheuvG?n. A. W, Dontt iphan wont through the Navnjoe country in his expedition *b Old Mexico, ho prooured a number of iho blankets and other specimens of ? manufactitriygjplfi.??;. wh.ieh he sent to' Washington', whore 4hoy7attractcd a good deal of atU'ntiotv and woAj cousidered a great curiosity.