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An In'dep'en^ieiit Paper 13?evoted.- to iTiteveBt? ol tlie People, '.IV. . ORANGEB?RG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1875. "*'"'" "" ' " " 1 11 " ' " 11 ' T' ' ' 1 1 ?????? _,_;_ NUMBER 5. Tho Wandering, pbw once said to mo, . J il I vtweod tnr?Sl?u lu'e city* in the cool-of - tho year; - A raan iu tho gardun?lrto??Tr!iit from a tree. I asked, How long hau too city been hero ??' Antf^tn^e'rSdrjnOj arid ?o plucked hwhy, J ; i ' ^j!"* V^X8 It*?* ,,fh4relt?ahd?tblfoY, i j Anxqb&eul r?llefeuiX:farwvf r and-aye.'" Tfrlie.l'JnrJrid'ytani rolled by, and then <J|wtfWKWtlie?Belf-Ba:nj6roaUagain; ? ? - ? J No trace of a clty.thoro J found; ? ? A shepherd eat blowing his pipo alone, His Hock wore qnletiy nibbling around, agjftod. "How lour; im? this city been roiio?" Arul U'oanawcrcd me, aud ho'piped away, ?? rho neV;?!!?? bloom and. the old decay, This lo myi/asturo-gTOuna fop aye."-- .' * Fivo hundred years rolled by, and then I traveled tho eelf-sauio road again. AiufcLcamo to Eos, and. tho wavee did rpar, ? . .r Wm& a ?shorman threwhlvnet ont eWar, -1 1 ? And,.when heavy, ladon, i\o dragged It ashore. -?JjMkctt,- 't'How long has the sea boon hero And ho langhod "and he eaid, and be laughed away; !* As long or yon billowB have tor cod th?!r apray, They've fished and they've flsned In this self-same bay." ? Five hundred yoara rolled by, and then , , 11raveled tlio Bfclf-a>mo toad again; ?4? a/oreBt.iVfstjand free,. ? i ?, t; ? i . ? o&Mia1 etopA id tho thicket near; I { ? lalifltnjiafpAtdna tree. J / i- \i i'e.Uovf long havoiho woods peon herb?". ipWred', "Thesoiwooda aro'a covert, for aye; My ancestors dwelt here alway, And tlio trees havcCbeen el?c? creation's day." . give hundred yeara rollpd by, and then <? Otfitraveled-tho self-same road agal?.'' '?" ? And I found, there a city.'and far and near; Hosonndod the hum of toll and glee.' And I asked, " Haw long has the city been here, Ami whero is tho pipe,.and tho wood, and .the OB ?ca 1" ~~ And they anawercd:roo, as they mado their way, "l 'rbbiga always have stood as they aland - to-day, ? And so tbey wilt rtand for cvor and aye." I'd wait five hundred years, and then I'll travel tho aelfraamp road again. Tii^iikBErsiisrWHK clouds. burst upon tho wostern world a mag nificent stranger from- f?r?igu parts, v?0$ all liia traveling gloriv.h .on. % * Jt was tho ?oat comet, of ,1850,^011 tho grand touridti'th'o buivorB?. It Boomed strange that, potty human life oonld go on as usual, with its oat* irjHttaudL armH?r^H^viUug, Utr.sJ&okj-rJg I --Trtfrl^ToaBuring, whilo that V flaming milH*tt.,r,,,^?u bin biUiohd?agued ?ir* ouit, was preaobiug tlio wondors of in ? ilnito immensity and powor, and the nothingness?' oV earth. V -TU?- comet- no longer ruus bis.kiudling race, liko .Vioh Alpino's honohman, with his fiery cross, announcing war and disaster. ? Uorald of battle, falo'and foar. ( ' H?4s'V>h:'4itr< own 'business,' not ours.' Under tho tail of this^ particular ^-*Kiuol^doubt'io?h mauy a talo of lovo was told?in tho light of his swift splondors Wmauv a tender look exohauged. The astronomor coolly swept tho starry field BBfith his glass, unawed by tho irrogulnr night-guard patrollinc; tho heavens, and tho robber and murdoror diadainud the awful witness. Ho loft uh aa ho found iui?joined to our mortal idols, Aviso in our own conceit, weak, and worldly, and wicked, but no castaways of the ??? universe after aU. We romombcr that comet summer, not so much for its great astronumioal c vent as for two singular incidents that more nearly touched our humnu sym pathies, which will grovol in poor earthly affairs, oven within Bight of the most august celestial phenomena. Ono' pleasant Saturday oftornoon daring the oomet's appearance, an loro nant,.afcor a proBiiorous voyago, do Bconded upon a farm in tbo neighbor hood of n large market town in ono of tho westera stato3. He was Boon sur rounded V/y a, ourious grouj) of tho farmer's family and laborers, all asking eager quefitions about the voyago and the management of the balloon. That secured by an anchor and a ropo in tho hand of tho loroiiaut, its car being a foot or two abovo tho ground, whb swaying lazily backward and forward iu the ovoniug air. It was a good deal out of wind, and was a sleepy and inno cout monster in tho eyes of the farmer, ' who, with tho owner's permission, led it up to his house, whero, as ho said, v 'ho could hitch it to bis fence. But be fore ho had thus scoimd it, the three children, aged respectively, ten, eight, aid three, bogged him to lift them " into that big basket," that tbey might ."t.it on those pretty red cushions." While the attention of the icronaut was diverted by more curioas ques tioners from a neighboring farm, this ^rish father lifted Iiis darlings one by ooo into tho cm. Chubby little Johnny ( proved the ''ounce too much " for the serial camel, and brought him to tho . ground ; and then, unluckily, not the buby, but the eldest hopoof tho family, . was lifted out. Tho roliof was too I great for tho monster. ' Tho volatile orehturo's apirit ioso at once, ho jerked his halter oat of his father's hand, and, with a wild bound, mounted into tho air ! , Vain was tbo roronaut's anchor. It oau;g|tv.t for a moment iu a fence, but it toro away, nnd was oil', dangling uselessly! a^?r tho runaway balloon, whioh.?? swiftly and steadily roBo that in a few minutes thoso two littlo white laces,- peering over the edge of tho car, grew indistinct, and thoso pitoous erios of "Papal" "Mamma!" grow faint f<: and faintor, up in tho air. When distance and twilight mists had swalloWed up" voices and faces, and ; nothing could be seen but the dark, I ;t cruel fihape, sailing triumphantly away, j with its precious booty, like an jorial privateer,- tho poor father sank oown nolploes and speechless; but tho mother, frantic with grief, still f-tretched her yearning arms towards the inexorable >; Heavens, and called wildly into the nnansweriug void. '% .Tho aeronaut Btrovo to console tho wretched parents with assurances tbat % the-balloon would descend within thirty milos of the town, and that all might bo well with tho cliilren, provided that it did not come down in tlio wator or in 'deep Woods. t Ju tho event of its de bccndiug iu u favorablo spot, iho thought that 'the'older child might nte|) out Joaving the youwrar-iil ?ho il^allop-^* Their Wight' agai3*bisc arid continue itaivbyrige; i IM Ah; no,";roplied the>mother/ f* Jen cio would hover stir from tho oar I with out Johnny in her arms." Tho brdloon pnsticd dirJv^ljl over the market town, and tho. children soeing many people^ in, th? ?tree^.strotckoO) but their faandd and called loudly for help.' But .the. villagers.,though, they. B4w tkb bright'}i(tle h>adb,Tlrtard! ?o! calls. Amazed at the strange apparition: they might hare thought tho trau'dated little creatures omail nugol navigators, on some voyage of discovery, some lit* tlo chembio venture of their own, na, heading toward the'rosy bloiullinida and purple islands of aunset splendor, they sailed deeper and deeper into.the, .west, and faded-away/ '1 1 sTT^A&l H ,. ; Some company they had, poor little Sky-waifs i Something comforted them and aljDtyenV.ffi?r.Cwala tori^i-^some thing whispered that below the night and clouds way homo; that above was God; fhat wherever.they might drift or claBh; Irving or'dteM; they wo'?ld VtilJ be in His domain .and under .Hin care? that! -th?ugn,'-'b?rna!:away' among the Stars, they could not be loot, for His love would follow them. When tho sunlight all went away, and the-great comet came blazing out, little Johnny was apprehensive that the comet might oome too pear -,their airy craft, ana set it on fire with a whisk of ita dreadful*tail. But when his sister as sured him .that the fiery dragon was "as much as twenty.miles a?ay," and that uod wouldn't let him hurt them, ho was tranqoilized, but soon afterward said, r"T wiahfjtio^ronld /come~aiitt\e nearer, bo I could wanin myself, I'm so cold!" , (, j Then Jennie took off her apron, and wrapped it about the child, saying ten derly, ?'This ia all sister has; to make you w?rmj^ you closo in 1)or nrins, and Wo wi 1J ay onr prayers aud you;ehUlLg?'toslo?pyj ,: > .'? 4- Why, .hewleantl tiay my prayers be lore J have my support" asked-littlb Johnny. ,?.-'<'> r'] -"! k'i&<? ? " Stator hasn't any .supper far yoii oj for herself, but wo must pray all ,.tho immensity anil tho. millions .of ;iinpity ing stars, l\fted,i tuoir littlo olaHped "hands,' aud sobbed out their sorrowiul, " Our fathor," and that quaint little supplementary prayer : . Now I lay mo down to sloop, I pray tho Lord my eoul to koop; If I, li (in id dio bofore I \tako, I pray tho Lord my soul to tako. ?? Thero I God heard that, caBy ; for wo are closo to Him up hero," eaid in nocent little Johnny. Doubtless Divine Dovo stooped to the little ones and folded them in per fect peace?foi'Boon tho younger, seated on tho bottom of tho oar, with his hoad leaning against his sister's knee, slept as soundly as thongh ho woro lying in his own little bed at home, while the oldor watched through tho long, long hours, and the car floatod gently on in the still night air, till it begun to sway and rook on tho fresh morning wind. Who can divine that simple littlo child's thoughts, speculations, and wild imaginings, while watching through thoso hours ? Slio may have feared coming in collision with" a meteor?for many wero abroad that night, scouts and heralds of tho great comet?or, perhaps being cast away on some deso late star-island, or more dreary still, floating aud floating on, night and day, tdl they should both dio of cold and hunger. Poor babes in the clouds I At length, a happy ehance, or Provi dence?wo will say Providence?guided tho littlo girl's wandering hand to a cord connected with tho valvo ; some thing told her to pull it. At once tho balloon began to sink, slowly and gent ly, as though some celestial pilot guided it through tho wild currents of air, not letting it drop into lake, or river, lofty wood, or impenetrable swamp, where this strange, nnchild-like experience might have been closed by a death of unspeakable horror ; but causing it to descend as softly as a bird alights, on a spot where human c?r? and pity await ed it. The sun had not jet risen, but the morning twilight had oome, when the little girl, looking over tho edge of the car, saw the derr old earth ooming nearer?"rising towards them," she said. But when tho car stopped, to her great disappointment it was not on tho ground, but caught fast in the topmost! branches of a tree. Yet sho saw they wero near a house whence holp might soon come,so she awakened her lirothor and told him tho good news, and to gether they watched and watched and waited for deliverance, hugging cam othor for joy and warmth, for they were cold. Farmer Barton, who lived in a lonoly houso, on tao edge of his.own private prairie, was a famous Blooper in gen oral, but on thi*) part ciliar morning ho awoke beforo tho dawn, and though he turned and turned again, ho could Bleep no more, So, at last, he said to bis good wife, whom ho had kindly awak ened to inform ber of his nnacconntable wakefulness, " It's no use, I'll just get up and dress, and have a look at tbo comet." The next that worthy woman heard from her wakefnl spouse was a ha\ty summons to the outer door. It seema that no sooner did ho atop foith from his houso than his ojos fell on astrango potontous shape, hanging on a largo pear tree, about twenty yarda distant, lie could see no likeness in it to any thing earthly, und ho half fancied that it might ba the comtt, who, having put oiit Iiis light, bad. come down thoro to Sorch. In his fright and perplexity ho irJ what every wiso man .would do in a like extremity: ho called upon his valiant wife. Reinforced' by her, ho drew near tho tree 'cautiously reoon? noitering. ? Surely apear' tsob never boro such fruit. Suddenly thoro doscendod , from the thing a plaintive, trembling little voioe: "Ploasa.tokn us down; ;We aro very cold." Then ? second 'little voico said : "And hungry, too. Please take us down." * *. "Why, who arc you ? And where are you?/' . The first little-voice said: " It's us, and wo runncd away with a balloon. Please take ns down." ] Dlinly comprehending th,e situation, tho farmer, gotting hold of a dangling rope, succeeded in getting down the balloon. i He first lifted but'little Johnny, who ran rapidly a few yards toward the house, then j tinned round, and stood for n few moments, ouriously surveying the balloon. Tho faithful little sister was so ? chilled and exhausted that riho had to be carried into the house, where, trembling, she told the wonderful story. Before sunrise a mounted messenger -was uispatched to the. Harwood home, with glad 'tidings of great joy. He reached it in tho afternoon, and a few hours later the ohildred arrived, in state, with bannors and musio, and cov ered hay-wagon and four. Joy-bell8'werd'mng in tho neighbor ing town, and in tho. farmer's brown houso, tho happiest family on tho con tinent thanked God that night. It would seem that this comet had como occult maddening influence on tho .balloons, for during its appoaranco thoro occurred in another western Btato an involuntary ascension, similar to the ono I have related, but more tragical in its-teaminatioh." An roronaut, while, if I remember rightlyi. repairing tho network of his balloon, was Boatd'I on a slight wooden qro'ss-picco suspended under it; theV'car having been removed- a few feot above tho ground;,by, merqly a . rdjip in the hand of an assistant. From a too caro Iciis grasp this ropo CBoopod, and in an instant the gigantic bubble shot up ward, carrying tho loronaut on his frail support; a rider nioio holplnss than, Mnzoppa bound to his "Okraino steed, a voyagor moro holplcss than a ship wrecked Bailor afloat on a spar in mid ocean. Tho balloon roso rnpidly, but un steadily, swaying and pitching in tho evening wind. As long as it remained in sight tho form of tho mronaut could bo distinguished, swinging beneath it. Aud as ho was kuo ? n to bo a man of uncommon nervo and prosenco of mind, it was hoped that even from his dizzy porch he might manage to operato on tho valve, or at least to puncture a small hole in tho balloon, nud thus ef fect a descont. But such efforts, if be mado any, woro vain, as for many days and nights there was anxious inquiry aud pationt search ovor a wide oxtent of country with no result. Wo gave him up. Only wifely lovo hoped on, and looked aud waitod", At last, in a wild spot, tho wrook of tho balloon was found, and that Was all. Still, wifely lovo hoped on, until, a mouth or two later, some children nut ting in a wood, many miles away from whero the balloon was found, discov ered, half buried in tho ground, a strange dark mass that looked liko a heap of old clothes, but there was a something, shapeless and fearful, hold ing it together. It was thought the roronaut parted company with his balloon by loosening his hold on the cords above him. in desperate efforts to open the valvo ; but ho may, after whirling in swift vortices, or plunging and mounting, through "cloudy abysses of air, have become un nerved by the awful silence of tho up per night, by tho oomet's fearful com panionship, by whelming immensity and infinity, and Wearily let go his hold, to drop earthward. Private rieft Culture. Mr. Both Green, tho well-known pis ciculturist, states that ho has invented a now method for transporting and hatching nearly all kinds of fish eggs, by which spawn can bo carried for 130 days journey and can be hatched in any room in tho house. One million oggs, it is also said, can bo hatched by using a pail of water daily. It is believed that fish culturo by private partios can be rendered a lucrativo source of in come, provided it is followed with tho same care as is exercised in tho raising of poultry or any other live stook. Hundreds of farmers have streams and ponds on -their lauds now of no value save porhaps as watering places for cat tle in pasture, and yiolding a few worth less perch and cattish, porhaps an occa sions 1 trout or piokerol. If Air. Green has solved tho most difficult part of tho problem, n anoly, tho successful trans portation of the eggs, tho mode of stocking the waters aud the rearing of tho fish, are not diffloult subjects of which to acquire an adequate knowl edge. One speoies of fish in particular. I whi'.h is little known, would probably prove especially remunerative, The land-looked salmon is a distinct speoies of the fish, though so closely resemb ling the ooean salmon as to suggest the idoa that, at some remote period, a quantity of the latter fi*h, being by a convulsion of nature barred from re turning to tho sea, had propagated in their land locked quarters and eventu ally developed into a separate variety.. Tho habits of the land-locked and ooean I salmon aro cioseiy similar. Aut; notes or Sir Walter 5 colt. ["Bom 6, Old Liters/ in Btfribnor's for 'Marek . on by a hitherto unpub lished llffiHpi of HLr Waltor Scott, by tbo celebrate > artist Ollbort Stuart- Newton. Iu thia-lnataiirn'snt of ,l Old Letters" wo Und tlio folio-..in;, .t?ecdotoa: of tho author of-'AVa vorloy :"J ?? At ^1tSf*past six Ivo-went to diiio with tho Fergusaohs. Tho doctor was quito ill vith a cold. Sir Adam Fergus-? son,-Sir Walter Scott's intimate ft**^M cohfiden&il friend, dined thero; our selves, WtJa.'Jj.t and one of her daugh ters. " Wo had a very charming dinner, for Sur Adatr^ltas tho most marvelous pow er? of do ic riptioh. He made us laugh heartily, i.ud told us, too, a'great many interesting anecdotes about Sir Walter Scott. E ia ? very remarkable person himself. Vie w the original of Dugald Dalgetty. f Thin is all I find in the old letterB about the dinnor, but I muBt toll what I can recollect of tho account H Mrs. X. ;.\;v? mo in later years, SirH Adam, sin: <;nd, was a tall, gray-haired man, witlvHx broad .Scotch accent. He described how one early morning,!livH Sir Walto?.dcott*a library, when ho and I Sir Walter . vied to make tho firo of peat burn, and, .ftor many efforts, succeeded I in some de'; reo. At this moment ono of .the dog -, dripping from a plungo in tho lake, h<: ntohed and' whined at. thb window. }U\ last Sir Walter let the H "puir cre. 'n.in", in, who, coming up before the ? Sile ilro, shook his shaggy hide, send ig a j>brfeot shower-bath over the tiiv and over a great table of looao mam ???ipls. Sir Waller, eyeing tho scano w.?h hin usual seronity, saitL.I slowly: "()? ! ;!.ar, you've done a great deal of mi: . Yi/' It raminds us of the talo t . t.) of Newton. On tills B same oe< tho dinner, Sir Adam B Fergusson ?iki of traveling with Sir Walter on f ? continent and going to boo tho troop - on donkeys, and ho per formed bo:! donkeys and' ridor? with/ his fingers cm the tabio until his audi ence was in rm agony of laughter. "FergusBot passed-the evening with 'ue, and wo Lvd Homo music. I asked him, as ho vis so fuud of libteuing, if ho didn't bii' f'u Ui?r himself. toll you loto ot H/r iya!ii?r. Scott;'. Gttid K \, 4 that will aboWor your question. <!' io night, when ing at AbbnSnforu, Atini"^ vtv;:dt had boon singing U) tho au<-^^^^HHB -tub crroiuii."^hic\v*nifc^Mamiea^KSi saying in a strong Sootch accent: I "Noo, Fergneson, gio us a howl.'" "'Duringono of my visits there,' I continued Dr. Fergusson, ' among other B guests was Hogg, "Ettriok Shopherd." BI heard a horriblo noiso in an adjoin ling room, and, after listening some I moments to it, becamo alarmed, and I said to my host: " What is that roise ?" B " Oh " said-he, " it's Hogg?just Hogg I composing his verses. Ho always sings H thorn as he writes thorn." "Though he likod somorudo strains, I I Scott could well attune his ear to softer I music, nnd was very fond of Mooro I song X. sings, that ends : B " 'Short as tho Persian's prayor, his prayer at c!oB6 of day, H Should bo each vo.v of love's ropoallug. M Quick let him woreh'p boauty'a procions ray, lU'on whlto bo kuoola that ray is Hooting.' " Ho UBed to soy, 'Come X., let mo I Bhavo that Persian's prayor;' and ho I would listen with great delight to the Bsinging of it. H "They recalled nu amusing story of B Ian old Bervnnt who had lived with Scott I for nearly n lifotime, aud booamo very Imuoh spoiled. Sir Wnltor at lost, out lof pationoo with his eins of omission, Hsaid: " 1 Donald, I think wo must part.' " ' Part I why ? Wiioro's your honor I ? going?' " Of course peaco was mado, and I HDonald remained. "They told sadly of the dear old I man returning from Italy (where ho I wont for his health), with Iiis memory I I impaired. Mrs. Arkwright, who hnd Hsot his 'Pirate'sFarewell to Minna ' to Bmunio, sang it to him. ' Those are vory H pretty verses, said Sir Walter. 'Who I wrote them?' "Charles Scott, Sir Walter's second I I son, is a very el over, agreeable man. I I BBee a good deal of him at tho Loclf H harts', hero and elsewhere. Sir Walter I B was most proud of his eldest son Wal B tor, who is rather a dull fellow, but B large and fine-looking. His father Bused to say that it was enough if a boy Hknew how to ride and speak tho truth; I B thoso wero the most important things. " Charles Scott msde mo laugh about I Btho visitors at Sir Walter's house and BMolroso Abbey. Seo tho Abbey by Hmoonlight they must, because of tho I Blince: " ' If thou woulel'Bt view fair Molroeo aright, do visit it by tbo palo moonlight." "' And many a limo,' said Cbarlos HScott, 'when tho moon was not con Bveniont, I took a lantern to produce tho Boflbot." A Lock of lliur. Almost every ono hns at loust one Block of hair cut from tho head of ono Biiow dwelling iu that ?ilont loud whence Hcome no messages, no lottere, no tokens Bof any kind to tell o? iovo or of remem Bbrance. Every ono knows that strange Bemotion, half joy, half woe, with which B the tiny relic of so much that was ouco dear can thrill 11 e soul. Only now and B then do we dare to take it from its hid H ing place, hold it in the palm, press it B to the ohebk, and use it as a talisman to B recall all that we mu?t perforce forget H in the work-a-doj world for the Bake of B strength to do ite battlo. H Wo do not know whoso hair that B which yon trensuro may bo ; whether B tho llossy curl from a baby's head, the H dark lock from tho brow that once B mado your breast its pillow, a parent's B t$ray tresisi, or ft young lover's suuuy curl. Nor does it; matter, for all lcve in its essence, in that pari of it that outlives death, is alik'o and equally pure, but woknow thafc there is nothing like it to you anywhere. There are no .werde for the thoughts it brings. Thoy niook language. As you touch it, and -gaze-at it, you havo nothing^to. say. You feel the thorns of your dead rose, that iB'oll, and the wounds thoy make bleed., ____ Snail Culture in France. Frogs Jiu-Jrses, and snails?the first, are an pad but toothsome dainty, which epicures, in this e?iuitry'as well 6a ?isc whero, dearly prize; but horses, and especioly snails?these are articles of diet which the enlightened Ameriean re public has yet to be educated to relish. Hippophagy, we havo repeatedly ex plained, is as common in Paris, or noarly ho, as the eating of beef ; and the worn-out steed finds his way to the abattoir as readily as the miikless cow or stall-fed ox. Hence,, as a mere bonne bouohe he has palled on the Gallic taste, educated by swollen geese livers or decayed salmon roes; a now the basis of the industry which the production has developed is snails. There is nothing peculiar about the mollouso. It is tho every-day slimy little object of which one finds thou sands in gardons, vineyards, and the woods. ' Switzerland and tho provinces of Burgundy and Provence are tho places of its cultivation. Throngs of women and children scour tho country, collecting the snails in immense num bers, and depositing them in little tracts of laud, inclosed with Bimply a trail of sawdust. This lost tho snail dospises; ho cannot orosB it, and avoids its vicinity ns a matter of proforenoe. Thorefore, for his confinement it is as good as a stone wall. Aftor incarcera tion for two or three days, ho is per mitted to starve, and then the plot is laid out in patches. of turf intersected by paths of sand. Abovo boards are hung to servo aa ehelter for thb snails, which instinctjrvoly gather in largo groups. Tho food provided consists in aromatic plants, such as mint, or let tuce aiirr^c7?w>ment3 ' of vegetabloaj This is fed to them threo LiszcB ft day ? in enormous'quantities- At - eight days, the snails beoomo qfaNT] olioffo, mid beaidfla havo attained, a very succulent flavor. Thou oomos another period oi' starvation for several days, aftor whioh transmission to market fol lows. Gourmands, it in said, prefer tho snail when taken wild, so long as the capture is modo at a particular period. After tho eggs are laid in May, tho molluscs conceal themsolves under stones to avoid the. autumn frosts. There thoy bcocome perfectly freo from excretions, and, drawing themselves into their whells, close up for the win ter. It is whon they are collect cd in this stale that their flavor ia said to bo best. In Paris, when tho sun goes down and honest pcoplo get to bod, queer things take place. Whon tho gas is lighted, and tho plaoes of amusements open in full blast, curious sights aro to bo seen. A correspondent, who has evidently been doing his duty conscien tiously, skirmishing around the dark cornors of tho city, has found some re markable dancing-halls, where Terpsi chore evidently delegates somo of her distant relations to preside over the festivities. " wne of the most extraor dinary of these balls," ho writes, "is that hold in a blind alloy, and opposite the shed whero tho guillotine is housed; the habitues are mostly tho grave-diggers belonging to Pero St. Regnoul, Pere La Ohaise cemetery, the tombstone men, and the undertakers' assistants. The proprietor of the place is a Spaniard, and his ability consists in imitating the weeping of mourners, and the orations delivered at civil inter ments. There is a ball that charges no admission fee, but all who partioipato in a *con(re dansc' have to pay two sous each ; tho proprietor, on the con clusion of tho dance, encircles tho dancers with a cord, and who pay tho fee to bo liberated, and whioh also serves as a noose to drag out reoaloi*. trants. Polkas, waltzes and mazurkas aro gratis, and short. The 'Monsters' also have their balls in the Ruo des Flandres; it is hero where infant prod igies and all human phenomena meet; daneing is as goneral as quarreling, and jealousy of each other's /-^perfection is tho badge of all the tribe. The '.Skeleton Man' indulges in a can-can ; I a man with a 'oupalo head' waltzes with a woman bearded like tho pard; iu a quadrillo a dwarf has for vis-a-vis tho woman with 'fish soaleB' instead of skin; a kind of iMilly-Christine united mula t reuses drowns or drown care in a polka, tho 'Oaoutohouo Man,' has tho power of developing a dromedary hump, as he enjoys a mazurka with a Newfoundland dog. A Cyolop, with his diamond eye, note as master of the ceremonies." GRAPHS AN? BlTjJO?BNESS. ? (irapcs aro recommended as a onre for bilious ness. Tins fruit, by its agreeable acid ity, so acts on the svstem as to relieve it of its bile, and thus removes tho cause of the symptoms enumerated, and that in "eure." The immediate cause of all the discomfort is a "confined" con ;ition of the system ; the seeds of the grapes sot as an irritant aa they paes along the alimentary canal and oause it to "water," just as the eye "waters" if a hard substance touches it. This watering dissolves the nioro soli.1 matters containol in the intestines, "washes" them out and tho man is well. Tho covering of the grapes should b? chewed but not swallowed. Parisiau Balls. SAYINGS AND ??IN?S. ?"?ooD many children I" echoed a Missouri torracr as a. traveler counted up fourteen;";?*I justwish, yosi'd como up to tho graveyard with rno !" " My looturo," said a California or ator. " will he hriof." A turnip hit' him on the "divido" at that instant, and ho announced: "Tho meeting stands adjourned: " ConHEr?s hayo been the destruction of art. ? Thera are no good models now-a daya, says the sculptors. "When Powers made his Greek Slave ho worked it out of sixteen different models, and then he had to go back to tho antique- for his bust. CAttiiYiiE, Ruskin, Tennyaou, Brown ing and some other distinguished Eng lishmen are reported to have aiga?d a memorial protesting against tU* horri ble cruelties too often perpetrated un der the pretext of scientific vivisection,: Don't tell us any more about the good women of old. An observer who^s wrote hundreds of years ago said: " Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a do mestic peril, a deadly fascination and a paintod ill." "I?EEvory little of you,'* said an old gentleman at a Louisville ball to a young iady whom ho had not mot in a longtime before. "I know it," was tho artless reply, '.' but mother wouldn't allow me to wear a very low-neck dress to-night, the weather is so cold." A good joke is told of a residonfc of ~ Providence, R. I., who, failing to get his UBual supply of water, concluded tho pipo was frozen, and spent nearly a day in endeavors to thaw it out. Hia feelings may bo better imagined than described when ho found that the water had been shut off for non-payment of water rent, Seventehn years ago a LoiuByiilo woman was told by a clairvoyant that sho was destined to marry an auburn haired young man with blue eyes and a heavy moustache ; that ho would soon be rich, and that they should have two childron?a boy and a giri. Sho did marry the auburn-haired man. They have five childron now, tho auburn hair bus disappeared from tho husband's BHfW^S^^I^- Setting fifteen dollars a "Iii! Samuel, has you moved yit?" inquired one colored man of another whom he mot at tho market yesterday. " No, l'se Btill in do old place," was the answer. " But I war' told dat you war* gwine to got out ob do neighbor hood," continued the first. "Wall, I did make up my mind to, but you. see de family noxt door, and do family on do corner, and de family 'cross de street, have left dero wood piles out doors, and I doesn't desire to change" A bchooij teacher in Umatilla country, California, had a pretty girl of sixteen aa a pupil. She entangled hia heart, and then cruelly j ilted him. Thereupon he aought rovengo. Catching her in a alight infraction of the rules, he swung hia birch branch aloft, and commanded hbr to Btand up and bo whipped. She ran out of the door and like a deer . across the fields toward homo; but her fleetness was of short duration, and tho angry schoolmaster's hand soon grasped her arm. Her courago had gone with her wind, and sho offered then and there to kiss and mako up if ho wouldn't whip her. He declined to compromise, led nor back to the school-house, and flogged hor until blood came through tho back of her dros'j. Her hour of exultation come when sh3 saw him fined $50 for assault. A farmer called at tho house of a lawyer to consult him professionally. " la t'Squeer at home?" he inquired of the lawyer's wife. Ho waa answered negatively. After a moment'a hesita tion a thought relieved him. " Mebby yourself oan gi' me information as well aa t' Squeer, as ye're hia wife." The kind lady promised to do so if she found it in her power, and the other proceeded as follows: "Spoaze ye were an old white mare, an' I should borry yo to gwang to mill with grist on yer baok, an we should get no fardor than Stair Hill, whon all at once yo should baek up, and roar up, and pitch up, and kneel down backward, and break yer darned oid neck, who'd pay for ye ? Not I?darn me if I would I The lady smilingly told him, as she closed the door, that as he had himself settled tho case, advice would bo super fluos. Greece is about the size of Vermont. Palestine is one-fourth tho size of New York. Hindoostan is more than a hun dred times as large as Palestine. The Grent Desert of Africa has nearly the ?resent dimensions of the United t at es. The Bed Sea would reaoh from Washington to Colorado, and it is threo times as wide as Lake Ontario. Tho English Channel is nearly as large as Lake Superior. The Mediterranean if placed across North America, would make sea navigation from San Diogo to Baltimore. The Caspian Sea would stretch from New York to lh\ Augus tine, and as wide aa from New. York to Rochester. Great Britain is two thirds the size of Japan, one-twelfth the si;-.o of Kindest an, one-twentieth of China, and one-twentieth of the United States, the Gulf of Mexico iB about ten times the size of Lake Superior, and about as large as the sea of Kamtohatka, Bay of Bengal, China Sea, Okhotsh, or Japan Sea ; Lake Ontario would go in either of them more than fifty, times, The following named bodies Of water are nearly equal in size: Germon Ocean, Black Sea, Yellow Sea; Hudson Bay is rathor larger; tho Baltio, Adri atic Persian Gulf and J-Egoan Sea half as large and somewhat larger than Lake Superior,