Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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*■ * / • . *• • r ^ HEKALD. lifc.i J/L -w - >- - -»-> • vOl.iit ^ r * Vii2r.-a ^f r ' ■•' “IF FUU THE LIBERTY OF THE' WOULD WE CAN J)0 ANYTHING” ** ; -V ; ‘ •DAj.HilNGTO^-'ftOU^li CAllOhitfA-i WK])Xi:s])AV^ JAM AHY is, THE DISCOVERY OF LANGUAGE IS SWEET.' UXl’LQITSOF A CHOW. America by CUiristophcr Columbds was a great event in the world’s . . history. -Equally, great in its line was tlic discovery of- AYER’S SareaC parilla, Tlio Superior Medicine, for thc.curc of Scrofula and all forms of blood diabases. . It curM~otlicrs.and will euro you. • "About llio year. 1&J7 I was -covered from bead .to loot witlf white scabs. The dottors wlio ., I hare put it attended mo pro to the severest test, aRet other proptic- nguqccd it scrofula, hut were unttUlo to * tary medicines ’mid physiejuus :had diruiiythingtP help mo. I grew worse, failed, ami it did iW work well.I Jty The. skiitpruckcd at the iaints, sis that l’could lianlly wait I can positively assert that^Aj-er’a Sarsaparilla is the best remedy to'-bo Iwd for blodtl dlsor> Hers, Sarsai CAN STILL LOVE. iXP^ESSIO^' BY THE TONGUE Mcessarv TO HAPPINESS. IS VERY CLEVER INDEED, BUT HE MET AN UNTIMELY DEATH. .• daughter bod Buffered, sluco infancy, X amid lianlly walk. At last yotneonp i you. Oh, bow 1 from scrotulou.-f sores and* eniptlortsH'rcOommiin’ded mo.to take Ayer’s Sarsa-. * ' WluU a pest it is to be pulled about up' Life Would He litixhty !>c*nhito WHIiout Sweet Word* — Much MAro Hcuittiful Could Wo Make This l’^xi.«*trikCO if V/e Took More Hain^ in Tulking. How would you enjoy life with sweet words loft out? My littlest one .runs to pie and with both arms abont my neck pulls arc down to kiss me, and Whispers' as if it were a new secreff "Rapa, I love how I just do love, love you!" Ayer's Sarsaparilla effected a complete cum. Wo cpnnot ftiloquatefy express our gratitndo for w'mt this wonderful snediclnc has done for our child."—Geo. 51. rondieton, 1CI Doradoi Ark. •"When I enrao out of the army,I was tTredded with scrofula. Two bottles of Ayer'i* RarsapariU# cured mo, so that I have had no return of tho disease."— !■■■»••■>*■» X J. Hopkins, Nortonvllie, Ksas, For the' Curb of partita. - T did ko,_ and ot’the end ot .three months X was a» clean, as any man, T shaM always feel grateful to the discoverer of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla,’’— E. 8. Davis, Laurel, Del. " My daughter 1ms been aftiicted for several years with scrofula. Having — ■ — boon recommended Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, we tried It, and tho result Is a complete curei" — V. Mattingly, St. Mary’s, ICy, AYER’S Sarsaparilla Prtpartd by Dr. J, C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggists. Has cured others, will cure you BOOKS. when one is busy! How it.dislocates I one’s collar and one’s thoughts!* But '' what would you take for such prattle?- .. ^pwwould you like it checked, and in*. , 1 stead of such spontaneity be compelled to Imagine you are loved? Dear me, old ■) man, but why so fussy? Do you not j know you aro loved? Do not actions speak louder than words? Does not your wife cook your meals, oml does hot your girl put your room in order? Must you also be mussed over and gabbled to In order to be satisfied? Then comes my oldest boy, a grand fellow, stout and wholesome and brainy, and before 1 am aware his arm is about my neck, and he pulls my head over on his shoulder with a kiss and a “Papa, ; you are awful dear to me.” Pshaw, what is there in words? A few sounds—noth ing else! 1 am not so certain about that, : 1 only know that I would not take a mint | of money for that small bouquet ot my boy’s words. Ho, not for the world would il Imre to guess at his affection and get hungry for n solid certainty. There is not I enough Stationary Novelties. SCHOOL SUPPLIES A SPEC IlLR All Soliool Books Hava been reduced iu price since lust season Toys, Wagons &c, Full line small Musical Instrument!-, PIANOS, ORGANS Ac. DARLINGTON BOOK STORE. E. C. ROTHOLZ. Later teals is Iasi Heels. Persian Mulls lu very neat design. tll«.-k Sheer Stripe and Plaid Lawns. Elysec stripes, black ground and handsome figures. Linen chumbrays. Immense line of Parasols with pretty handles. Ladies’ summer undervests. 10 cents and upward. Bilks milts in all lengths. CORSETS! AVc have six grades of the II, & S. corsets; best value for the mony. The largest assortment of cream and black laces in all widths. *\Ve Imre open up some very do- ira’do Point De Jones, Point Do Gui pure and Point Ds Irlamtc In white and ecru. Uur MILLINERY Id dtlll conducted by Miss Maggik Jones, who has proven to the ladies that gp“ she can and tries to please. .J&1 your call is requested. E. C ROTHOLZ, 14AtL ORDERS promptly attended to, John C. White, Darlington, South Carolina. Stoyes, Tinware, Pumps, Piping, House Furnishing Goods, Bolts, Tobacco Flues, &c. (jail ail tail flip Stoft, li i m Ptese M ^npklflf tyt i|i ^tod M ill be Ordered, for Yoih „ such eloquence, as l hava looked about tho world, And yet It should not flow too easily. Tough,V iov« is quits auollier thing from open heartedness. lit j my opinion w« should bring up our i yotlhg folk to easily and frankly ©Kpi-ess j their feelings, only not to express any more than they feel. The art and trick of speech is to be more eloquent than true, and so to turn love into a lie, “••ntewhero I have lately read a good story of a couple that from some spleen vowed not u! t<? Well other. Well, if they had not really loved they could have got on without talk, but In this case they could not. So by happy inspiration they used the household cat tts il go between. "Go,” said Betsy, "and tell John that dinner is ready.” "Go,” answered John, “and tell Betsy 1 am on imud.” "Here, puss,” says John, “tell Betsy this pudding is remarkably good, tthd 1 will take another plate of It If she pleases;" “Go toll John,” answers Betsy, "that I am glad ho likes this peach shortcake, and lie shall have three pieces if ho will." Bo for years thoy kept their vows, but told their love and got on famously. It Is a general fact that friendship grows stronger by a short separation and cor respondence by pen. A man or woman will say sweet or true things in a letter ! that they would not say first by mouth. I <lo not quite Understand this, but 1 I know it i.< true. Friends treasure let- j tern, mid friendship never is quite itself until a few letters have passed. I on- ( courage young folk to write letters to | learn the art of talking well. Quo would ; suppose it would bo tho other way—that ; good talkers should write well. How canto it about that tho tongue I and adjacent organs got control of lan guage? Possibly Dido can explain this. | Bho leaps and bounds about me in over whelming joy. Her nose is in my face ; and her paws on my chest. At last, ut terly unablo to express all her emotion, she throws back her head and explodes in a bark. It is nothing but an explo sion, but it is a great relief to her. That is tho beginning of speech in all creatures—only a noise made by tho rush of emotion through the mouth. By and by this noise- is modified to ex press different emotions. The dog can ex press a dozen passions and resentments, and yet most of these are told by the tail and the body in general. The next step is, or was, to modify these sounds into musical roles. Tho bird does not enunciate lirst, but sings. The lower races sing well and talk badly. Tho highest art is to sing well and talk equally well. So language slowly gets stolen by a certain set of organs that at first had little to do with it. The legs and hands come less into play to tell emotions; tho tail, which has done so much animal talking, is aborted. 1 think it is aborted mainly because its functions are mostly passed over to tho tongue, I have not hoard whether tho tailed tribe of Africans wag tlioeo appendages iu friendly greeting like dogs of not. 1 would not. own a tailless cat of haYo a horse's tail even clipped of its hail'. It Is to abbreviate spceehs it is to lop off the organ of ex pression, You will seo that my theory about tho development of language accounts for many abnormal forms of speech. Pro fanity is h tnero explosion of sound, closely allied to the dog's bark and tho cat’s squall. It Is not so wicked a* it is beastly. It is the natural language of a vulgar fellow who 1ms no art of high language. Half tho world talks by ex-j | plosion and expletives. The more beast* j ly r. man's habits tho more profane he j becomes by necessity. It is bin natural j language. What n stretch it is from ; such a man to Coleridge or Emerson or Lowell! I heard of a man the other day. “Ah, he is a great scientist, to be sure, but he is also such a splendid talker,” The art of saying fine tilings finely you cannot afford to lie without. "Live with wolves and you will learn to howl,” says the Spanish proverb. We ought to be able to add, "Live with men and you will leant to talk well.” But that is not so. There are too few really good talkers— really wise and witty tongues.—E. P. Powell in St. Louis Glohc-Demoerat. Anil 111- Went Away Smlly. "Mojr do you noithd tile 'g' in tho word -g.-m'mander?' " inquired the man I efit Atieriloti*.* by a Man Who Saw 8«mo * * Strange Things Even Though IXo Had a Gnu—-The Orpw Disliked Certain (viuds - of Anjtnills—116* Was m Croat Hunter. “When this region was nearly all woods, sixty years ago,” said up did resident of Bell Meadow, *‘I picked a young crow out x>f the mud ih Tamarack swamp, where he htuj tumbled out of tho nest before ho was old enough to fly. .1 named him Abe and tamed him, and 'he devejoped into, tho brightest bird I ever saw. Like nil tamo crows, Abe was mischievous and inquisitive. There wash knothole intUe floorbf our cistern, and tho crow couldn't find out what was under it, although he tried very hard. "Several times a day Abo flew down to the creels, hunted up a pebble and carried it in his bill to tho floor of the cistern, where lie dropped it through the knothole. The> instant ho let tho pebble drop he Would putliis eat 1 close to the hole and .listen. Ho could hear the peb ble strike tho water, and the noise out of his sight excited his curiosity so much that he dropped a half bushel of pebbles into the cistern before he gave up, “Aboaccompanied me on all tny hunt ing trips iu the fall and winter, and lie saw me kill five or six wolves, half u dozen wildcats and several deer, The woods went full of deer, and there were so many wolves that we couldn't keep any sheep. Abo took a great liking to deer and rabbits, but lie hated -wolves and wildcats, seeming to understand that they were destructive and danger ous. One afternoon ,1 he summer that ho was a year old, Abe flew Into our little clearing and cawed and fluttered about us if ho wanted my to leave my work, "I knew the crow had seen something that displeased him, and so 1 picked up two rifles and told him to go ahead, j ust to see what ho would do. He went squall ing through tho air toward Bell Meadow brook, and when ho alighted on a be kept yelling and looking down in tho ravine. 1 looked, too, little expecting to seo what 1 did, A pair of wolves were tearing at a doe they had pounced on and pulled down. 1 killed them both before they got three leaps from the doe, and whtu Abo taw that they couldn’t tnove ho cawed and croaked as though he was glad, "Tho next winter there wero three feet and a half of snow on the level, and wo had to wear suowshoes to get around. While 1 was splitting wood near the house one cold morning tho crow camo sailing and squalling to the settlement from tho direction of Lake Henry. Ho was excited abont something, and he perched on tho log and went to flapping his wings and dancing up and down, 1 I thought I ootii,I not livi* if yon were cone, * Jim life lias tuiiglit nioHenier Ihinas; Die iiinl wiiose mute i.s lieutl livi-u on - Aye, lives uu 1 mm ; |Vrlnii» I,is s.in-; Inis more of sinlm-.ss- - A Rote or two of pnin; .Tis sweeter intisie u it I,, he moiu ritui oudenee " .1 lian was tl?i-i-iiretes-. joyful strain. I Stood heside your anive nmi v,q,i . , ;ie - An.! tlomalit love was furew r ,le:al lo me; My life in, 1 curly lost love's uioi ions Miniiulil Anil never more my heart eoiilil happy he. 4hit time Inis la null t me many teiuler truths That life can never wholly he unhlest. I cannot live ail lonely in this world of woo Because 1 loved you. dear, the heal. The tender love that hears so much for me . I gladly lake, nor feel My love for j on, dear one, has weaker grown. My heart less stanch and leal. I lore you lirst. and jou were always dearest. \ et, like the bird whose mate Is gone, I still can llml a tender Joy in loving, Nur wish to dwell forever here alone. -Agnes L. Pratt. 1 The Sense of Smell in Dogs. . Doga are able tu track their masters j^irough crowded streets, whererceogni tion by sight is quite impossible, and can find a hidden biscuit even when its faint smell la still further disguised hj ean de cologne, in some experiments Mr. Romanes lately made with a dog he found that it could easily track him when he was far out of sight, though no fewer than eleven people had followed him. stepping exactly in his footprints, in order to confuse the scent. The dog seemed lo track him chiefly by tho smell of his boots, fur when with out them or With new hoots on it failed but followed, though slowly and hesitat ingly, when his master was without either boots or stockings. Dogs and cats certainly get mure information by means of tliki sense than a man ean. They often get greatly excited over certain smells and remember them for very long pe riods.—Chambers’ Journal. Tiie Number “Three" in llm IIIMe. When tin- world was created we find it and its surroun lings composed of three elements—air. wa’ -r and land —ihe wholo lighted by the sun, moon and stars. Adam had throe sons mentioned by iinnn-,and so did Noah the patriarch. Daniel was thrown into a dan with three lions for the crime of praying three times. Shadraeh. Mi-shacli and Abcd- nego were rescued from the fiery fur nace. Job had three special friends. 1 There were three patriarohs—Abraham, j Isaac and Jacob, Bamuel was called i three timesj Elijah prostrated himself three times on the dead body of the child: Ramson deceived Delilah three times be fore she discovered the secret of his great power, and the Ten Command ments were delivered on the- third day. Jonah was three days and nights in the whale's belly, "Bimon, lovest thou me?'’ was repeated three times, fanl makes mention of I ho Three Graces— Fait!), Hope and Charity. Tho famous •iillegoritiil dreams of the baker and but ler were-lo come to pass in three days. Then we have the Holy Trinity—Father, Son and Holy Ghost; the (acred letters on the cross were throe in number, they being I. II. S.; so also tho famous Ro man motto was composed ..f three words —viz., In hocsigno.—Bt. Louis Republic. Glover, at Afternoon Tons. Gloves, the i-Hc.vaing finish of a well dressed woman's costtnuo in public, have been of late years greatly misused in American society. Une sees them worn at tea tables by the woman cl-cted to represent the hostess iu pouring tea,an-1 even at dinner tables, where the wear its have been known to sit through many courses witii their right hands billed, the hand of tho right glove tucked under the wrist, tho e: tire left glove kept on. From time immemo rial tho habitual dinner goers of good society have removed both gloves imme diately after taking their places at the table, and have resumed them upon re turning to the drawing room, or after using tho linger bowls, and before aris iug from tho feast. Any departure from accepted custon, that has only eccentricity or a desire for innovation to recommend it should be avoided;'lienee there seems no cause for taking up tho curious fashion just men tiwied, probably set in a heedless mo ment by some leader of vogue or by an unfortunate woman of rank whose hand wasmude unpresentable by a disfiguring injury.—Ladies’ Home Journal. A Talc of Two Darns. There was a man named Hibbs who bought a farm, built a large, stately dwelling at tho end of a long, shady avenuo of maples and settled down to enjoy tho comfort and independence of a fanner's life. Ho built a cozy little barn of logs and shingled it with clap boards. There was another man of tho name j of Hubbs who bought a farm in tho j same neighborhood, huilt a cozy little ! Jenny l.iml’N Frankness* Jenny Lind's judgment of books though undirected by anything like lit erary training, always showed independ enee and penetration. She was a de voted lover of Carlyle’s writings, am the last book sho read before her death was Mr. N. rton's volume of tho corn* spoudcuce between Carlylo and Emer sou. No doubt her admiration for tin great denouncer of Mums was largely due to tho intense sincerity of her own character, which mado it knuo.-sible fot her to tuleruto even these slight devia tions from strict trnthfulTOss which an Tin) Wiiuiliicriiei'. Ilnuic. The woodpecker's home is very like ; the kingfisher's, but it is dug iu rotten ! wood Instead of being bored iu a bank | p)f earth. From tho great ivory billed j species down to tho liillo downy fellow of our orchards, tho woodpeckers build ' tr , cu . Alieir nest, or rather excavate them, on ! ,tlie same general plan. The hole at first j goes straight into the wood, then turns j •downward, widening us it descends, tin-, til it gives room for tho home. If you will go* into any bit of nnshorn wood land during early spring and will keep your eyes ripen, you will seo a bright red Lead thrust out of a round window lu •koine decaying trunk or bough, and the ■ Woodpecker will sing out, "Refer!'peer!’ which always seems to mean that hi" or her liome is a most comfortable and en joyable place.—Maurice Thompson in Golden Rule. dwelling of logs, shingled it witii clap- ‘ taken seriously, but are looked | boards and settled down lo the hard, : upon as tho accepted formula of society ! grinding monotony of a farmer's life. um ’ i0 K‘ a| l to sec yon would hardly | This man Hubbs built a large, stately i !mvu her greeting to a visitor whos. ' barn at tho end of a long, shady avenue ! of maples. At the end of ten years A* Good as tto Gave. A reproof which was just and not dis- t ourteous was once addressed to a young , , , , ' rector who had been roared under the understood h.m wul enough to kuo - -; highest of church doctrines, and who that ho had seen something that ke | hchl that clergymen of all other donomi- Hibbs’ big bouse hud broken him up, and Hubbs' big barn bad enabled him to buy Hibbs’stately dwelling for about half price ami move it over on his own farm. Hubbs has a big dwelling and a big barn ami represents his county in the state legislature. Hibbs has a little log cabin um! a litilo lug stable and is try ing to sell out to Hubbs. Ho wants to quit farming and travel with a peddling wagon.—Toronto Mail, didn't like tho looks of up in the woods toward tho lake, so 1 and uty brother and cousin put on our snowshoes, shoul dered five loaded rill s and startc 1 into the woods, Abo leading tho way and yelling. "Ho led us to tho lake, where we saw | a sight that 1 shall never forget. In a I space where the wind had blown the ! snow from the ieo a flock of seven deer 1 hud been cornered by a pack of five wolves. The deer couldn't get out on account of the deep snow, and the wolves ; had killed three of them when we got j there. While wo wero blazing away at tim brutes tho crow (lew overhead and shouted his approval. Wo killed tho whole pack, and Abo felt so good that ho rolled over on the crust several times. “Une day in the spring tho crow saw a fisher catch a rabbit and carry il to a hole in a basswood tree, thirty feet from the ground. My brother and 1 wero chopping near by, and Abo squalled around till he attracted our atten tion, when lie- Hew up to tho hole where tho tisher was concealed. We (.•hopped Hie basswood down, and the Usher skipped out and ran up a hemlock tree to where the leaves were so thick we couldn’t see it. Abo flew up, alighted above the Usher and began to squall, and fquinting through tiie foliage below him 1 could sto enough of the Usher to fire at. 1 banged away, and down came Mr. Fisher with a bullet iu bis head. Abo fairly laughed when the fisher tumbled, "One morning I found six pullets on tho floor of the hen shanty. A mink had killed them, and that night 1 set two steel traps and put one of the pullets be tween. In tho morning a mink had its fore feet iu one of the traps and one of its hind feet in the other. Aba tagged me in, mid when he saw the mink strug gling to get out ho ran up in front of it and began to yell in its face. 1 let tho crow torment it, and while my back was turned tiie mink caught Abo by the neck and bit him so hard that lie died in a few minutes.”—Cor. Now York Tribune. Miistoilnns ami Mule Footed Hogs. Belem o knows of the mastodon only as "nn extinct forth 1 proboscidian pachy derm, closely allied to the elephant of modern fauna," Who knows, however, but that Uic.-o "supposed-to-bc-extinct” creatures may Iw ns plentiful in the •‘land of tin- midnight Bun” ns mule foot ed hogs seem to be in Arkansas, Mis souri ami the Indian Territory? Three weeks ago i would have been much more j surpris* d had i met a real live mule foot ed Log than I would have been to have met a whole herd of the aforesaid "fossil \ proboscidian pachyderms.” Bince that ! time everything has changed. The hur- dreds of ‘letters sent in by kindly dis posed friends r.re convincing proof that male footed hogs are more plentiful in the i onth than office seekers in Washing ton.—St. Louis Republic. uaiions tiro wU'-ont authority and not entitled to bo 'called minist r .f the Gospel. One evening at a social gather-1 iug lie was introducted to a Baptist 1 clergyman. He greeted tluPllder man with much manner and ostentation. j “Sir,” he said, “I am glad to shake i hands with you us a gentleman, though ci.-ed railroad officials in this city, but I’tiroRKcious Feminine CrncUy, “Let, mo off at Thirteenth street, con ductor," said a woman as she paid her fare -on a Broadway car at Cortluudt street. * The car was packed, t he place j ust two miles away find ,tho Woman a New Yorker. From no to 100 people would get on and off, half a hundred stops were to be made and something like a half to three-quarters of an hour would be con sumed before reaching Thirteenth street. Yet this woman, who boro evidences of more than ordinary intelligence in her face and from her easy self assur ance every indication of being able to lake care of herself, expected tiio con ductor to remember her request and to put her off at the right street. The Broadway conductors are the hardest worked, most abused and crili- | call wtis inconveuient ev ill timed. But on the other hand, her downrightness o' speech had nothing :n common witi that of Mrs. (.'undourt it carried no dis courtesy with it.- R. J. McNeill in Cen lury. Mt-.cit Iteiatlonstiiii, Thero i s a lauiilyfiu tho southern par' of the county whose complicated rela tiouship beats anything upon record Tho family name is Run!;. A few year- ago tlio Rank family consisted of fathei and two grown sous. In tho same neigh borhood there lived a widow and liei two comely daughters. Tiie oldest one of tho Hunk boys married one of tin widow's daughters. Tho young ni?uV father married tho other daughter. Tin otln r one of tho boys married tin mother. Tin- question wait now both ers the father is whether he is Ids moth er-in-lav.''.s father-in-law or his ihuigh ter-in-hiw's son-in-law, and, if both which tho most.—Mascoutah (Ills.) Cur Chicago Tribune. Amateur GompoBcrs. The amateur compose! s of Fn gland tn elude the names of the late prince eon sort, the late Duke of Albany, the Dula of Devon Mar.; I cannot admit that you are' a clergy man.” There was a moment's pause, this is the sort of thing they aro called upon to endure every hour in the day. m.d then the other said, with a quiet ! It is usually at the hands of women, and significance that made tho words ho left unsaid emphatic, "Sir, 1 am glad to shake hands with yon—us a clergyman." —Ban Francisco Argonaut, A Dimer} Sign. A Bowery sign which lias added to the gayety of the travelers on the Third avenue elevated for some weeks lias re cenlly disappeared. Men forgot hasi ness and polish's for a brief moment while contemplating it, and careworn women eased their burdens long enough to smile as they were whirled p ist it. it was large and lurid, tolliiigin big letters i hat within the first convention of "Lady i’ie Eaters" was in re -ion, three gayly dressed females, nearly life size, witii abbreviated skirts and French gaiti rs and each holding a huge triangle of pie illustrating tlio type of members. Fur tiler than this their idt y was nol established.—New York Times. is unnecessary, foolish and cruelly considerate.—New York Herald. Why the CMtil Cried. A Brooklyn physician says that he was recently attending a family wuere the little man of I ho house was in a some what refractory humor, and thinking to quiet him lie said, "How would you like it now if to punish yon I should take your little sister away from you?" Tiie boy sulked and did not reply, but as tiie doctor arose to take his leave the child burst into a woeful blubbering He was asked what was tho matter. "Doctor’s gi/in away without takin sister," he an swered.—New York Recorder. MotU'i’ti Mulrhitoiiy. Jones (calling on Smith in tlio even ing)-1 thought 1 would find you at home. You don’t go out much at night now? Smith—No. I've given up all my clubs and societies. I should be glad to have you eonie up and spend an evening with j me occasionally. Jones- -But your wife might think me in the w:i^'. Smith—Oh, she's never homo at night till late. Tonight she's at a ince.ing of the Ladies’ Society for Supplying Thim ble., to tho Destitute Poor. Tomorrow | night she goes to the Queen's Daugh ters, next night to Ihe soeiabla of the Royal Women, and so on every night. Come up and see a fellow. It's awfully lonely to bo married, I can tell you.— New York Press. Two IJnm'Nt Mi’ll. A Paris furniture dealer recently bought from an architect an old writing table, and in overhauling it he found a packet containing 1,000 francs. Me at oueo informed the former owner of his find, and he was rewarded by an honest declaration on the part of the architect that the latter knew nothing whatever about tho money and would not accept it.—Paris Li tter. Suffocate)] by Sweet Odorii. The Sybarites slept on beds staffed with rose leaves; the tyrant Dionysius had his couch tilled with them; Versus would travel with a garland on his head and around his neck, mid over ids litter bo had a thin net, with rose leaves inter twined. Antiochus luxuriated upon a bed of blooms even in winter days and nights, and v hen Cleopatra entertained Antony she hand roses covering the floor to the "depth, it is said, of an ell. Wo are told that Heliogabalus eup- plied to many at one of ids banquets that several of his guests were suffocated in tho endeavor to extricate themselves from the abundance—victims of a sur feit of sweet odors.—Philadelphia Times Ammonia In Co at. Some 13,000,000 tons of coal aro burned in London yearly. About 4,000,000 are utilized by the gas mauufaeturiug com et Edinburgh, the shire, Lady Baker, Lady Arthur iiiii Lady White and the lion. Mrs. Malone - all having created melodies of more o- less lasting quality. Tho Earl of Dim raven has organized two oreii —ou- at Oxford and the other at C; £ kb., of forty members each. La-ly Mai Dalrymple is a member of a very so ccssful orchestra composed of ladies. New York Press. How Von MoUko Lnohcd. Who is tliis senior for whom the throng makes way reven nlially—ho with lean, wrinkled face, set mouth, yet witii some thing i f a half smile on it, ever with downcast abstracted eye and stooping shoulder, with hands clasped hcliind his back and with listless gait—this flesh- It s.-, tough looking man with the bnshj eyebrows and tlio long, lean throat? He is worth looking at, for lie is th< greatest strategist of the age and ha- been tlio ruiing soul of the vieturiou- campaign. Moltke. for it is lie, lias been with the emperor and is probably on his way home to imisiiMis? Brad-ion's latest novel, for whoa he is not ilevi ing strat egy he is reading seusationai novels, and his abstraction, as like ns not, is caused by speculation as to which of the two aspirants to her hand the heroine is ul timately to marry.—Archibald Forbes in Scribner’s. __ Sleight of Hand I’olMmliig. A very curious item in toxicological lore I chanced to light upon may b, called the feat of poisoning by sleight oi hand. You were jealous of a lady ami you wished to kill her. Well, you asked her to lunch, and you caused a very nu peach to be served at dessert. You cm the fruit with a golden knife, one side of the blade of which was endued with a deadly poison. You presented tin poisoned half of the peach to the lady who ate it with much relish and then dropped down dead. The wholesome half you ato yourself, and laughed in your sleeve, and went on slicing more peaches for the ladies oi whom you were jealous—till you wen found out and brokenon the wheel. Aye there’s tho rub! What high old times we might have, to be sure, but for thu: NO. 20. THE RIGHT TO THE ROAD. Like ins the cLanging yours have fled Into t iie realm ol" the j*iient deml Sim t' .~e\ t iiieeii seventy-live, and Juno Mitile bridal dance to tlie river's tune. Ami then, as now, on the world's broad faco 1 he loveliest um n clad, leaf crowned space '\ as ihe old \Ye>t road lo ihe ferrying place. Hero Jonathan 1'aicons, a man of peace. On a cart heaped high with tho earth’s in crease, ih rough woodland sweet with tho flowering thorn, Came riding up from his fields of corn. General Washington's coach of state, Lotind lor Cambridge, had reached the lane; In il the general, grave, sedate, Sat planning the course of a great campaign, tor a terrible struggle posscs-e l the hind. Anti the late < f a nation was in his hand! Hiding before came horsemen twain; h the truth he told they were young and vain; I' l'gth, in the narrow road, ihe farmer, perched on his fragrant load. “Irfizy hones, haste! You are all too slow; How can wo pass, we should like to know? General Washington rides this way! lurn out, turn out for the coach!'’ cried they. Hut Parsons doubted the courier’s word, ihe soldier hero?—’twas quite absurd! Ho was still iu congress tho lust he heard! Ho turned —looked buck through tho vista green; No sign of tho uncrowned king was seen. These wero playful youths, it was very plainl He would meet theirsport with uealmdisdain! And his right to the road to the end maintain, A droll procession in truth they made That summer day in the green arched glade! A frowsy eolt was the first in view. Vanguard of the rustic’s retinue! A white mure next, then oxen four (“i ive cattle team,” tho name it bore); Then the peasant prince, who a crown would scorn, High on his throne of fresh cut corn; r J he baflled horsemen behind him came, And last of all rode the one whoso namo Was yet to conquer the pride of kings, Whoso inith and courage the world yet eingsl Still unmindful of rank so near, Parsons tho order refused to hear, When, nearing the ferry where all must watt— “Make way, n ako way for the coach of stutci” Again they cried in a stern command; He plodded on till, whip in hand, lie calmly got down at tho river’s brink To let tho mare and the oxen drink! Ho turned—and then, for the first time saw The strong right arm of the colonies’ law! A freeman true, he had dared to stand, And the right to the king's highway demand Ju tho face of the greatest in all the land! Ho speechless stood, and his brown fnc*> paled. While the scouts to their chief the affair de tailed. “lie w as right!” was Washington’s wiao reply; 'Tie’s as good a right to the road as 1!” —Ernest X. I3agg iu Youth’s Companion. Tlio Dewey System, Tho Dewey system of cataloguing a library was devised by Mr. Molvil Dew ey, at present director of the state li brary. In it all books are classified into a certain number of principal subjects, which, in alphabetical order, receive numbers; for instance, astronomy may bo 1. Then tho subjects aro divided, and each division receives a decimal; for example, history may be 1: thus tlio history of astronomy is numbered 1.1. The divisions aro further subdi vided, and each subdivision receives a number expressing hundredths. Books on the history of astronomy in America might he 1.12. After these come, when necer.sary, further subdivisions sun, and men, in practice, coma (he shelf marks, which show where theUiook is to be found. Tlio system, theoretically, is perfect; practically it is cumbrous, and, except to the cataloguer, unsatisfactory. Adapt ed in various ways, it is used in many libraries, however.—New York Sun. Money Spent in War. It costs *1,000 to kill a man. From the Crimean war down tu that of 1870-1 the civilized nations of Europe and America spent in destroying one another $31,000,000,000. The wars of the last 100 years have cost *110,000,000,000, without counting the sorrow, tho loss of men and other results.—Cincinnati En quirer. _ A Financial Crisis. “My mother-in-law nevi r understands a juke,” says a correspondent. “I finish a good story, and sho always looks up and asks,' ‘Well, what did tho oilier man say?’ As she can't appreciate wit, I was surprised to receive a letter from her a few weeks after my little boy bad swallowed a farthing, in which the last words were, 'lias Ernest got over his financial difficulties yet?'"—Exchange, panics; 9.000,000 are burned in house-! plaguev contingency of being found out Uol ~ * * ' Always Willing t» l.nrin. Merchant (to persistent peddler)—Oh don’t bother me this morning. 1 wish you’d kindly leave me alone. • .. . . Morris Abrams (producing wad)— i '. l ’. Why, short inly, my front, how much alumo,,,a 18 and vot fndm-sht vill you gif?—Kate Field’s Washington. d and industrial tire grates. Each j —G. A. Bala iu London Sunday Times ton contains sufficient ammonia to pro- i duce, if treated with sulphuric acid, i mdsiiiK Canary Birds, twentv-two to twenty-eight pounds of i 1" Germany tho poorer classes are sulphate of ammonia. Tho total loss of i nearly till engaged in raising canaries, tiiis fertilizing agent is therefore, say, tie Kept Co and Medicine. In a Bcotch village, where a young j doctor had lately started practice, a ; workman hud tho misfortune to get his „ . . j linger bruised badly iu one of tho mills, who hud climbed throe flights of stairs i a doctor was sent for, and on properly Suniutra lluffiilocH In Water. The buffaloes in Bumatra, according to an English traveler, in fear of the tiger take refuge at night in the rivers, where they rest in peace mid comfort, with only their horns and noses sticking above the water. to set- Hi*' nuBWevde-querits editor. "Hurd/' answered the editor, "us in gcf.'” , “There goes every cent 1 won on New Ytii'k!" rejoined Use caller, turning away witii a heavy sigh. Ami n induient later tiie melancholy plica plac’d of his Weary feet, was heard o-,I •!)•■ stairway, growing fainter and fainter us he Went down and out lo face a cold and ttufrlchdly World injuim- CUiCttgo Tiibuu*, dressing the finger tho man nearly fainted. He was asked if he would take a little spirits to revive him. “Mon,” ho exclaimed with fooling, “that wud just be tlio very life o’ me!” The doctor gave him a good glass, which ho greed ily swallowed, mid on recovering his breath Ids first Words were, “Well, doc tor, 1 kin unco' little uboot yer skill; but, Handling a book with apparent re spect or disrespect is of couse too fail- turtle a standard to he accepted literal ly, since physical awkwardness or nerv As the price of sulphate of £9 10s. tho ton, the mone tary loss is £94,90.') every year. If we were less wasteful we should not be so much obliged to ransack Chili and Peru for artificial uianures.—National Re- view. Tlu* Kng Doll. The rag doll, dearer to tho heart of childhood than any other sort of doll, is quite the fashionable doll par excellence at tho present moment. Unlike the ono cur grand mothers made for their little ones, the one cherished by the little folks of today is of flesh colored silk jer sey cloth or of cotton balbriggan of the me color. Its body is filled witii cot ousnesa may be responsible for harm ! ton, and its hair is in many rings of yol- rnthcr than a lack of mental grace. * low single zephyr stitched on in loops. ' The face is painted, and when it is nec- mon, ye^p grand At the table of Uambaceres a sturgeon of 187 pounds wo* served, brought on by four footmen, preceded by two flutists, four violinists mid a Swiss guardsman, cssary to clean it lids faco can bo ro- paiuted after tlio rest lias been washed, as it can bu without injury,—Detroit Feed ., 4 Several hundred thousand are shipped every year to all parts of the world. Thero is no industry like it in existence. The birds uro strong and hardy and re quire very little at tent ion; consequently among the peasantry every family lias is aviary, which is a constant source of income, independent of the proceeds of their daily toil. Tho buyers for the New York houses make periodical trips through tho country; the birds arc bought and are soon on their way to Anicnca, where they quickly become accustomed to their gilded cages.—Pittsburg Record. An Important Appeal. Advertisements, especially of tho per gonal kind, will frequently reward tho searcher for unexpected ntiticlimnxcs. The- following appeared in a New York paper not long ago: “Willie 1 , return to your distracted wife and frantic chii dren! Do you want to hear of your old mother's suicide? You will if you do not let us know whore you aro at once. Any way, send back y- ' ' lathers colored BiecrsehhUm! ’—N«w Vvrit liiLame, Tlu- Work of l!i« Interior Depart)! Tho duties which devolve on the sec retary tf the- interior were performed prior to tho establishment of that post by the beads of tiie- other departments. The patent office was attached to tho state department, the laud office to tho treasury department, and the pensions and tho Indians had been looked after by tho war department.—New York Bun. Tlio Limit of 1’opulRtlun. Philosophers and st.it-sticians have compared figures and fin : tlv.t i 'ic limit of tlio earth's capacity i 000 human beings; also that (i-i* number will be reached before tk" c'e-c of tho Twenty-first century.— Bt. Louis Re public. Their I.iiisei'ltig Fragrance. Miss Kajoiies, after an evening spent in tho parlor, had returned to tlio family ep.ting room on her way up stairs. “Good night, papa,” she said, kissing tl«> paternal Jones. “Good night, dear,” lie answered, “and pleasant dr—phew! What vile ci gars young Ferguson smokes these days!"—Chicago Tribune. Hard tn Find. Walter Sutterlee, tho artist, says one of the greatest difficulties he meets is tho lack of models in thisconntry whoso hair is so black that it has blue or pur ple lights in it. He adds that what ho wants is common in Europe, hut al most unattainable here.—Philadelphia Ledger. He Knew. Judge—Come, you'd better plead guil ty. Yen'll get off easier. Prisoner—Ah, I twig yer lay. want to get home to dinner!—L< Tit-Bits. Charlotte, N. C., boasts of a double faced pofato. One side is claimed to bo a perfect representation of u bear, and the other, it is said, is a fair mold of a calf. St. Charles, Mo., during its existence has been under tho dominion of three flags—namely, Spain, Franco and the United States. »cr London A Bath joker in 1742 kidnaped all the turnspit dogs in tho city on Saturday night to deprive Hit. citizens ef theijfi bj*t Ogy.^ _ .'vl