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MABK AKTHOKY?S ORATION
r J?' ,1 ?... O^"-^^^^
Friends, Ronaa|n^*ecaniryaien I lend me your
Jw%rtfurp I come
To bnry Caesar, because the times are hard
And his folks- can't afford "to hire an under
? y . taker. -;
The eva that men do lives after them,
Ia the shape of progeny, who reap"
The benefit of the life rusuraDce.
~ SaTet ?tfb?%iibthedeceased.
Brutus hath told yoMtiat Caesar was ambi
What does- Brutos know about it?
It ikTOne_ot brt r&nerair Would that it
C:;?were~' .. ,- ..' -.. :
-Here underleave of yon upcome to
Mak?^-s^b^posar'? funeral.
'-He^ua my.t?epd, fiwthful.and just.io- me ;
Be loaned me five dollars once ?when I was in
^ -vT" arnoch,- L -% ,r - *
And signed my petition for-a post office.
;AnCBretusr??ysi^wasambi?ous> \
Brutus should wipe off his chin. .
CpiS*-bath brought many captives home to
y?ko broke rock on the streets, until their
|^i*Twttui8oms :-'
IKd-ihe general coffers fill. ?
?^f^^^^?^^^o^?Xt? cried, Caesar hath
f| y wept, *~ . . . .
Because it didn't cost anything
Ai3 madeh?m;30?id with the masses.
- . [Cheers.
^teb^pn^ou^^be maderof sterner stuff.
. Yet Brntns-saysWwas ambitions. -
Br^taMg^g^gd I^m-?n>ve it..
You all did see thatj^lSellupercal
2 thrice presented him a-k?Bgly crown,
Which he did thrice, refuse* because it did not ?
|Wasthisambitioe-?r-.Yc^ was'
ambitious?^-* -Kthse^i
Krn??Yirnot only tbe^^setl?ar in the coun
But a he is a horse tStjjjafibe deepest dye.
fe.? ?i-: cf- ;.-s% 'Sis** erf ApplaoBecg.
"^S^?re-tears^^^ them now,
- ?'.y' ~.' ' pyangfitert" '
to^?l^wJth^Mst?r? ?| I
?Temrnrter-t^arst^Ime ever' --Caesar put it
I^was on * sif muM's;?vemng rn-his tent, -
With the thermometer registering 90 degrees
- itt theTm^f ?
SBnt it was an tr?s ter ^o be pro nd of,
f ^And cost lna*$3.atAlarcaHis- S warizmeyer's
f^Cfgwmttt Broada?d Fer ry stree ts, sign of th e
l" I v red t??# '.s&ys&JZt ?:;? |
O?dSwartz.wajjtrf$40forifc.^ - A
Bot JejJly^e3i?^\^tv$^ because it was
; * ^gar?5_' .
?W??b this the sonofa^un of a Brutus j
',?*^^??b?lnd^?'m steel asvay,
rO*?^?j*^??>>t.tfe iloocTof Casar fol
V Mwwtt?W! *-,Hfthimagain.''etc.)
. Brotas has a mon^^Iy in'all that business^. .
e?a^e ^j??eserts^e wwld be pgj
Itt the^nitefJmfy, and don't you forget it. j
x^#^wiindCi*?etiriends, I do not wish ho
stir yon np-<....
fo .eefca sudden flood of mutiny,
JAnA^Ht^Iooks. like rain,
The pall-bearers will place the cofSa ia the
V? vi'^bearse^. : , ?;
^.4^re> jpll proceed-to_ bury Caesar,
Jiotto praise him. *<-;.? :.
'f -Sj^ CrissvelTs Kew Shakespeare.
^yy^z m^mmmmmmmmmmmmmmM '
-THE DISCOVERY OF THE
^?TBQBBAN MUMMIES.
? Hall of the M asea m
:ptjan i^qnities at Boolak,
fs?&bj si?e^ shoulder to shoai
ie*:a"iole?n compaDj of kings,
Tpri?oeaV ; qoeea*, and priests of rojal
%fe(^, ^e^??e^ 'and were made imper*
jij?ble'4e?3 by the embalmer^ art be?
tween three and four thousand years
ja^o. ; :jEhe story of their recent resur?
rection has been told-not always with
?ax?etneas-^by-Ure foreign correspond?
ente of almost every newspaper publish
ott ??h?t side of,the Atlantic. Based
J?pc? information derived from aathen
-4c sonroes, it will bear to be told again.
?^-^Ehe?^Poyal personages are of differ
yf?t dynasties and'wldeiy separated peri
.eds. Between the earliest and the latest
V-that ia io say, between Kasekenen and
.Masahirti, ~4l>e one a monarch reigning
^JJUpp?r r?gypt contemporaneously
ine; last Hyksos ruler of Lower
Egypt, the other a son of Pin ote m II.
: --tbWe intervenes a space of time
wffi^">?Say"ne'' rcragbly estimated at
mmnp eentni iea-aad-a half. This space
ofl^e^^^^qakalept to that which
aeoeat?o^jof George Iii.) covers the
'iSTtB, and XXtst dynasties. Buring
these ton? dynasties rock-cnt tom bs be
?uodl the,'t?iD3 of tile Ramesseuro, ?beir
ostensible calling being that of guides
and donkey-masters, their private pro
.flft&?^taat'^f ?omb-breakers and mum
irVift*iflQers. ? Mohammed, tbe brother
^Co^b?S?^t?te^'ftlU' was eldest of
?e fair,'-* tpare, ?nlle?, silent fellow,
avaricious as Harpagon and extortionate
M 8by?oei: Fearing lest bis brother's
?ms^auey should fail-fearing, above
4t%r &a&% ehe? reward which professor
Me*tK?r> hn? thought it well to offer
?Oild fall into other hands-he stole
awiy mr?t?y to Keneb, the chief town
-ti t^^rovi^ec, and : made his deposi
-?ii ?be?* ^aoud Pasha. Daoud
Paaba immediately telegraphed to Cairo,
.and jfciti (fettAeitrfrar few hours Perr
j Emil Brugsch, whom Professor Mas
I pero had empowered to act for him in
? his absence, started for Thebes. This
? was on Saturday, July 2, 1881. On
j Wednesday, the 6th, Herr Emil
Bragsch, accompinied by Ahmed .Ef?
fendi Kemal, also of the museum ser*
Tice, was met at Dayr-el-Baharee by
Mohammed Abd-er-RasouJ, and con?
ducted to the now famous; biding place.
The discovery oF the, Cyprus treasure
by General Di Cesnola, romantic as it
was, bears no comparison in - point of
dramatic interest with the revelation
which awaited the Boolak officials at
Dayr-el-Babaree. Slowly and with
difficulty the one burrowed onwarc^froni
chamber to chamber, entering gradually
into possession of successive hoards of
bronze and silver and gold. The others,
threading their way among desecrated
tombs and under the shadow of stupen?
dous precipices, followed their trem?
bling guide to a spot unpara^tedkeven
in the desert for gaunt solemmtyri??re,
behind a huge fragment of fallen ~- rock
-perhaps dislodged for " that' purpose
from the clifts overhead-they were
shown the entrance?'tb a-pit ?o iugeni
0U8ly hidden ?hat, to: use their own
words, *one might haye passed it twen?
ty times without-observing-lt.--' - -
Into this pit. they. were lowered by
means of a rope. The shaft, which
was two metres square by eleven and ; a
half metres in depth, ended in a*narrow
subterraneous passage trending west?
ward. This passage, after, pursuing a
straight direction for a distance of rath?
er more than seven metres, ?urned off
abruptly to the right, and stretched
away northward into endless-night.
Now stooping where the roof was low,
now stumbling where the floor was ; un?
even, now descending ,a flight.of rough
ly-bewn stairs, ancrait a every' step
penetrating deeper ands-?urther into the
heart of the mountain, the intruders
groped their way^ea^h J?Jilh hjs flicker?
ing, candle in .iis hand^- -Pieces:of bro?
ken mummy cases -and-fragments- of
Unen bandages strewed^ the , floor.
Against the walls were pited boxes fill?
ed with porcelain statuettes, libation
jars of bronze and teriu cotta^and can
opic vases of precious Lycopolian ala?
baster- In the corner to the left, where
the long passage branched northward,
flung carelessly down in a tumbled heap,
perhaps by the hand, of the last officia?
ting priest, lay the funeral canopy of
Queen Isi-em-Kheb. -
Then came severalii?u[ge"|Ba?co^hiigi |
of-painted woo??, ami- farther -?on -?still, j
some standing^u^r?ght,^somi?laid at]
length, a crowd of mummy' leases fash?
ioned in-human Rito? witb3otded hands
and solemn faeess?d ever-wakeful eyes,
each emblazoned with; the. name'.and
titles of its occupant.' Here lay. Queen !
Hathor jHonttauvwife.ofrPinotem I. ;
y ondei* stood Seti4:'.;3hen came* Amen?
hotep I. and ThothniesJJ. ; and farther
still, Ahmes t., and' Se^enen-Ka,. and
Thothmes UL, and- Qaeen Ahmes
Nofretari, and Barneses,- surnamed the
Great. ; (- - T j
The men of to^ayrtoUght face to :
with the greatesl".^g^qt,Xbaraonic
Egypt, stood bewildered, ^and ^asked
each oAer if they ;we|e dreaming^ They :
bad come hither expecting at most to
find the mummies of a few petty princes '
of comparatively recent Her-Hor line. ;
They -found then^?^^ou?ro?tei,hy j
the -mortal rewaru s So?^oero?^ wh?^M j
this moment had survived only as names .
far echoed Jiown 3he comdors of Time. '
A few yards farther still, and they;
stood on tbe^^^^jagf a sepulchral
chain benJBB IRothe roof 'w.th
sarcophagi of enormous size. Brilliant
with gilding and color, and as highly
varnish?d a?if buj^sterdaj tumef?ut
from |fae. Workshop? cf the Memnoniuiu,
toe d?corations ofvAca? - conda shows d
tb em to belong to the period of the
Piootems and- PtaiikhisrHera, was
found* Queen Notem-Haut?.-wi^ofiHer
Hor, the first Priest-King of the Ame
nide dynasty.. , Here lay-King Pinotem
I , King PinotenVII., Queen Makara, i
Queen Isi-em-Kheb, Prince and High
Priest Masa h ir ti, Princess Nas-Khonsu,
and others of the same lineage. Every?
thing, in short, went to* prove that .this
chamber was. the /family- v?ulfc of the
descendants of Her- Hor, who, for some
reason of expediency, would seem to
have given-, sepulchraL-hospitalky to
their predecessors of foregone time.
To eoume/ate alt the treasures fcupd
in. this chain ber would be to writ e asup
plement to the catalogue of the Boolak
Museum. Enough that each member
of the Amenide family was buried with
the ordinary mortuary outfit, consisting
of vases, libation jars, .funereal stator
'ettes, ?tc. Richer in'these other world
good s than-any: of: the rest was Queen
Isi-em-Kheb, daughter of Prince Masa
hirti and wife to her unkle, King Men- ;
kbeperra. Besides statuettes, libation j
jars, and the like, she was provided
with a sumptuous funereal repast, con?
sisting, of .-gazelle ' haunches, trussed I
geese, calves' heads, dried grapes, J
dates, dom-palm nuts, and the like, the
meats being mummified and bandaged,
and the whole packed in a large rush
hamper, sealed with her fa usd an d's iin
T>roken seal. Nor was her sepulchral
toilet forgotten: With her were fonnd
her ointment bottles,, a set of alabaster
cups, some goblets of exquisite variega- j
ted glass, and a marvellous collection
of huge full-dress wigs, curled and
.frizzed, and enclosed c^ch in a separate
basket. As the food was entombed
with her for her refreshment, so were
these things deposited in the grave, for
her use and adornment.at that supreme
hour of bodily resurrection when the
justified, dead, clothed; fed, perfumed,
and anointed, should gp forth from the
sepulchre into everlasting day.-Har?
per's Magazine for July.
When the Duchess of Edinburgh was i
in Paris the other day, shopping on her j
own acccount, one evening quite late
she arrived at tfa? ostaolishment of a
celebrated couturier**. Everybody was
gone and the bonne- sent the Duchess
away saying her mistress had retired
for the night. Next morning the bonne
reported that a 'Mme. d'EdiuhbrgV had
called late, and that she had refused to
admit her. _ 'Do yon know wh^ it is
you have treated thnsT asked her
mistress, 'That-wse-the daughter of a
Czar of Russia, anchaba is the wife of a
son of the Queen Of JEnglanaV ' Tiens !*
replied the bonne, greatly exercised at
ber lost opportunity ; 'and I let her go
without having a foo^feotrat ter !'
BILL ABF.
- Too Mach Trashy Literature.
We were picking the cockle burrs
ont of the wool this evening and as the
children were sitting aronnd I noticed
that their hilarity sorter weakened as
they porsoed this new and nonotonous
business. By and by little Jessie began
to nod and I picked np the little thing
and laid b*er on the bed. Before long
Carl's fingers seemed to get tender and
ever and anon he wonld exelaim 'Oh !
shucks/ as a mean old burr wonld stick
in bis sore fin?ej?.: One of the girls
wanted to know if the wool factories
didn't have machinery to take ont the
burrs. *Yes, my dear/ said I 'but
when they buy a lot of wool all baled
up thej don't know how many burrs and
bow much dirt is in it, and so they
wont give you but 18 cents a pound for
it just aa it come-off the sheep, but if it
has been was hedland picked they will
give you 32 cents-so we must pick it.
If I had known what I know now I
wouident haye troubled you, for it don't
pay to wash and pick it.' This little
lot of wool weighed, before washing 80
pounds and now it weighs only 45. A
sli'eQp,.carries nearly as much dirt and
o?ct^Tis fleece as he does wool. But
this iff only a little job compared with
what your grandmother used to do.
Night after night she had to pick the
seed from the cotton, for there were no
cotton gins when she was a child.
'Good o ess gracious,' said 'one of the
girls, /ain't 1 glad I. wake n't a child
then.' . -.' .". :.
'Oh, it was all right, my children,'
said I, for you see the girls didn't have
any novels and literary trash to read
then, und so they never%onsidered it a
hardship to set around the fireafter sup?
per and pick cotton and tell" stories of
their own, but now the girls bavent time
for such things, for these novels have
got to be read if it takeS^all night to do
it. A young lady is~not considered ed?
ucated for society UDless she can show
a familiarity with every lovesick ro?
mance and every wild, extravagant, un?
natural story that comes ont. They
must be ready to criticise and, talk rap?
sodies a^d * expatiate over? the plot
and the hero or herohse, even if they
have to sleep till aftetf break fas t to make
up for the time lost the night before in
perusing such tomfooleries. I overheard
one girl ask another, girl the other day
if she had read-^Mr. Burner's last lie,
and"she,said, .,Ob,.y'ea&o^cdarse, and
I'm reading a^pJendidrtissue of false?
hood now by a German,"arad^pxib?shed
by George Munroe. "'?tHS *^he ' secorict
wife and'rohJl: it^/iL"per/ectty 1 lovely.*
Jesso. And here she goes, and there
she" goes, one after-another story - or li?7,
or whatever you call em, is devoured
day after day and night after, night by
the modern female novel gormandizer
without any regard to consequences,
whether morai or immoral, whether:
coarse or refined, until tue mind .be^
comes diseased and morbid, and craves
that port ot food and no other, like a
child eating green apples arid chalk,
and slate pencils, and* chewing gum,
and pickle, and pie, until they don't
want biscuits and butter any more.
Tlrere's tp^o-inUch litereture-ww-a-^??vsi
;M^it'fif?o* s^Wgo?ff trSf?s3^l| tt??s ;
M?r?p{ trashy is? to, cbe^p.J^I - wislt .it i
was 80-???? ihal poor folk s couldn't boy !
if. ^Spme novels are instructive} and j
historical, or give yon ^ ?if?aljciif ]
Jiferas it is or likely j?beV l^^most ,o?;
V?II? are writien.?o make sensation ind |
?li?itethe- passions, fi&tjfl^ey:^?|)fitf|a j
girl -for tb?jit?iegj? "^^^d h>me
seems mighty co ru mon, and she lounges
?round wondering and waiting for some
birthing to ^ftrppen[ that a?nVgo?ng to
happen, and if it did happen wouident
make ber any happier.. I'll tell yon
what is a Mt,-the girls who look- away
off yonder for happiness are like the
boy who tried to find the end of a rain?
bow every .time.he. saw one so as to get
a bag of-mooey. The surest place I
know of Ts right at home in the family
circle and while doing a reasonable, por?
tion* of domestic work. I wouldn't work
all the time by no means unless I was
obliged, to, but I would mix up some
frolic and music and read some .stand
ard-^books and magazines .and news?
papers/but I* would make home the big
thing, and stand ap to it, and talk for
it, and. talk for it, and talk for it, for
the poet never wrote a truer thing than
when he said, 'There's no place like
home.',; r
When a young man's mind goes to
roaming, and foraging aronnd and he
dreams of Texas or Californa or the
silver mines in Mexico, he is in a bad
condition, aod reminds me of these of?
fice-seekers who are always a waiting
and a longing and a scheming to get j
au office,, if they would undertake some
regular business and work as bard to
make it pay as they do to get office,
they would soon be comfortable and a
heap happier. ' The young men nowa?
days are too restless and too ambitious.
They want to get rich or famous all of
a sudden. They don't want to knuckle
down to hard work or humble work.
They have too great a horror of being
poor. If it wascot for fear of the law
some of 'em would steal rather than be
poor,'and some of'em do it anyhow. Says
I, 'Cobe, your are a mighty poor man ;
now, I want to know if you are happy ?'
'Squire,' says he, 'Fm a leetle too
dogon poor to be happy-just a leetle
-but I ain't to say onbappy or misera?
ble.. My old 'oman" has got six mighty
fine little childern, efl do say it, and
I'd like to fix 'em up sorter decent like,
so they could go to meetin, and about
and abort, you know, but I've had to
rent land ever since the war b.?pke up,
and I've had to run io cotton, and its
been nip and tuck all the time, and a
little more nip than tuck, and last year
the droiith busted inc clean opent and
I couldn' get any more credit, and if
we didn't like to perish to death, in the
name of thc Lord, this last winter, I
wish I-may bc hung on Ila:Dian's gal
lus-we did those.' .
'How much money would it take to
make you happy, Cobe ?'
'Well, squire, I dou'tknow; I railly
dou'tr, but I reckon as how a hundred
dollars wouiid be .as much as we could'
manage, fW we don't need much of any?
thing now. . /.The, sum m ar bas come,
and we've got a good chunk of a cow
anda tolableyarding, and there is
plenty of berries about, and the children
won' need any shoes till frost, and tey
crop is porty good, and we've fleyer
suffered for bread as yet, though we've
quit eatin* meat since Christmas, for it
didn't agree with us, leastways we made
out it didn't, for we couldn't git any.
Bat squire I was a thinking what I'd
do with as much as a hundred dollars,
and I don't know hardly, but the old
'oman-would know I reckon, for I never 1
seed one that dident, bat then I'd like
to get Will a par of shoes, and Molly
a calico and a town doll, for Molly
never had a town doll. But the old
'oman she's got sense and she'd know
what to do with it. I'd be sorter feerd
to risk it all by myself.'
Jesso. And Co be smiled, and Cobe
is happier than Vanderbilt, and Cobe's
wife thinks he is jost the best mau in
the world, and s'-.'c wouldeot swap bim
off for nobody, though they do say he
is the ugliest man in the country. I
never saw"a mor? honest aupr?tendiog
love in a family than in Cobe's. Six
children, and the oldest only ten years
of age, and they love one another and
help one another all they can, and Mrs.
Cobe is always cheerful and says she
aint'afreered but what they will get
along, for they always have got along.
The other day Mrs. Arp ransacked her
big old trunk that's always full of some?
thing, don't matter how much she takes
but of it, and 'etuJfed a sack-bag full of
one thing and an other and sent it over
to Cobe's house for thc children, and so
yesterday Mrs. Cobe she sent .down a
bucket of nice butter, and Mrs. Arp
said she felt like it would be highway
robbery-to take it but then she was af?
raid it "would rhurt the poor woman's
feelings.to send it back and so she kept
it, though she said she knew them chil?
dren had nothing to eat but bread and
skim milk. Poverty is a hard thing
unless a man is used to it, but there are
worse thiDgs with the rich sometimes,
? wouldn't^ive-a-^entr for a big pile of
moneynf r:Ea^tc\^e^lfe "usual? per?
quisites with it^ such as pride and van?
ity, and poor health and a sickly wife
and bad children and a big run of com?
pany all the time. I reckon the good
Lord has made all things about right,
and the poor man can bc as happy as
the rich one if he wants to. j
Gold Mining in South Caro?
lina.
A correspondent of the . Lancaster
Le<?ge? writing from the Haile.Gold
MinennHhatrOou?ty, gives the" follow?
ing accouwt o?tbe- process of getting
the precious; metal : ; .
?When the ote o?_ the rocks. contain
in g the gold {ifii ^brought from j the
mrn?^4? *is ''thnrowndown near tba
crusher. This crusher reminded me
of an elephant's head with- tte ..part
whereit^was "Cttt^from the body op,N
and oue of its jaws moving. Large
pieces of the hardest rock are drop*
de?^int? capacious jaws of the
crusher, and are soon* mashed quite
small and ^fopped out 'npon the
ground-, f- The;ore is then frown info
hoppers, "^^n?af ''it'-.- passes under
the stamps. These stamps are long j
iron cylinders weighing several tons,
they are raised by cranks attached to
?hjaftingVan?lar?^oing " ap and. do wn
a?,the Mme like a pestle io a mortar*.
The rock'is thus beaten to a dust, and
'^ix^m^^y^?:'^i??% over the
j^'^iiS^^^afa^l'f?H, ..washes
this dost through.a fine wire. gauze.
^l^nTti^y^afer:;-rBBfs >finmediately
overahr,ee.,wide O?tar??^"plates," which
! ar^^yeted^with quicksilver... This
\_ serve^to-gatHe^- ?he; ^cidr-^ica - beisgj
heavier than ' other1 substances tn
the water, is, of coarse at the bottom
of the stream. . The, quicksilver., when
full of gold dust, |s scraped . from the
metalic pjates an? being placed in a
retort, and subjected to beUlf ''ls' dis?
engaged!* and' the gold is left moire or
fess pure. I was told that the rock,
as it came from the mine, was found to
contain from five dollars to sixty
.dollars worth of gold in a ton. A
careful assay is made of the ore be?
fore it is passed over, the metalic plates
mentioned above, and again after it
has collected as mud in the pools be?
yond ; and It was found that two or
three dollars of gold remained in the
.mud, or tailing, as it- is - called. So,
extensive and costly machinery has
been, put up through which this tail?
ing is passed, and, so perfect is it for
gathering the gold, that only thirty
or forty cents, and sometimes only a
trace of gold is left in a ton of tail?
ing. They work day and night stop?
ping at 12 o'clock Saturday night and
starting again'st ll . o'clock Sunday
night, and from forty to fifty tons of
rock are puf*through in a day. Thus,
it is seen that about two hundred dol?
lars worth. of gold is gathered out
every day. .1 am inclined to think
some money is being. made, and I
hope for our county's sake, as well as
that of the corporation owning it, that
the* mine will be a success. We went j
down the main shaft, which is 135, I
feet deep, and found that they bad
tunneled to a considerable distance
in several directions. They have a
tramway and little cars down there to
carry the rocks from the blast to the
shaft.
Bibulous Theology.
Speaking of Calvinists brings up a
story told rae by Mr. Handy, of Philar
delphia, yesterday, about a meeting be?
tween Senator Vance, of North Caro?
lina, and Governor Hoyt, of Pennsyl?
vania, at ?orktown, one of whom had
been iu the Rebel army aod the other
io the ?nioD army. There was a
saloon convenient, into which they
went, and, having had a drink or two,
Vance said to Hoyt :
'What church do you belong to V
.Presbyterian:'
*I don t believe it,' said Vance.
. : 'Sound me,' said Hoyt.
VVVhat is the chief end of man ?' said
Vance.
'To glorify God,' replied Hoyt.
'Right.' .
. Then said Hoyt to Vance: 'How
many questions are there in thc Cate?
chism V
.One hundred and thirty-eight.*
'Right,? said Hoyt.
'What is sin V said Vance.
Hoyt rattled out the entire definition
of the Westminster divine, and Vanoe
cried:
^ 'Right again. Now, let's take a
drink/
The Charleston Museum.
A correspondent of Darlington News,
who bas lately been to Charleston, has
written a letter to that paper from
which we take the following :
Few people who visit Cheleston re?
member that there is in the city a Mu?
seum which thc late Prof. Agassiz pro?
nounced the third if not the second
best in the United States. If this mu?
seum were in a Northern city thousands
would fiock to behold its curiosities, and
it would long since have attained a
national notoriety, but in Charleston it
is neglected and comparatively un?
known. . The citizens even are indiffer?
ent in regard to it and. never take the
trouble to advertise its merits. Yet it
will well repay an inspection of the
curiosities to be found there. Stuffed
specimens of all known animals, birds
and reptiles from every quarter of the
globe are seen here looking as natural
as when in life. Besides the stuffed
specimens, there are also skeleton spec?
imens for the study of the anatomist.
Among that of the latter was tbe whale
caught in the harbor a year or more
since. This was being put together at
tbe time of my visit, and though not
fully completed was near enough to give
a very lively idea of the size of the
monster. Standing inrfront of bis tre?
mendous jawbooes that could open wide
enough for a man to stand erect between
them, seeing the man who was fastening
on the vertebrae sitting comfortably be?
tween the ribs,-my mind involuntarily
ran. back to the story of Jonah. I re?
membered the boyish dread with which
I used to listen to the terrible tale of
Jonah's flight, the awful storm, the
solemn casting of lots and the fearful
retribution that overtook him. Though
? knew bis punishment was. just, my
youthful sympathies were excited when?
ever I pictured to myself the poor old
fellow in close quarters 'cabined, crab?
bed, confined.' I wondered what he
did for light, how be rested himself
when tired of one position, &c. Had I
known more of the whale ruy wonder
would have been less, for a sight of t.he
creature as he really is, will dispel all
such illusions into thin ahv,. Why, Mr.
Editor, if Jonah was an ordinary sized
man, and his captor as large as the
specimen I.saw io tbe Museum, there
is no reason to suppose that Jonah was
no? comfortably situated in his strange
quarters. He merely made a short
voyage in a whaling schooner .and
could either "sT?T~wit? his back pressed
against the.ribs of his^essel pr lay. full
length along her sides.^jle. .had; light
enough to satisfy ra good J^sWnd oil to
lubricate the running gear. T?^Jiert,
Mr. Editor,. Jonah had . room en'ongh'
Inat??er^
ladies to be more tighly pressedf by
whalebone and other kinds of bones and
they "never complained. "\ ' ? ..'
^uiirer Problem.
"A squirrel is irjPS^'ee and ? man
on the ground: with a*gun is trying to
shoot it ; but the squirrel persists ip
keeping on the opposite 'side 7 of/the
tr?e^m-fhe roan. The man .walks
clear around the'tree to the pace of
starting, the squirrel going about' in
the same direction and keeping the tree
all'the time between "itself and'(Beman.
Now the '-problem is, tiHas the man
been around the squirrel'?' He has
b'eeii around the tree with the ! squirrel
-on it, bat bas he been around the
sjjuirre??L^ _ J - : - -
The Express invited answers to this
problem, and received twenty-seven of
which fifteen say, yes, and twelve say,
no he does not. A few ' have sent us
their reasons, and two send- figures de?
monstrating the problem. The follow?
ing answers are printed :
1. Of course the man goes around
-the squirrel. He goes.around the tre?
and everything on it.
2; Should the squirrel have the start,
I am of the opinion that the man goes
around it
3. Not by a darn sight does the hun?
ter walk around the squirrel.
4. The man goes around the squir?
rel. It is just like a wheel within a
wheel.
5. The man don't go around the
squirrel. I have tried it and bad I got
around the squirrel I would have shot
it.
. 6. If there was no tree there and the
squirrel was running around io a cir?
cle cn the ground and the man was
gojBg in a larger circle I should say the
man went around the squirrel. But
when yon put a tree there it is different,
The man does not go around the squir?
rel on the tree.
. 7. The man doesn't go around the
squirrel any more than thc squirrel goes
around the man.
8. Of course the man doesn't go
around the squirrel. If I am standing
on the nigh side of a horse and start to
walk round him, and the horse keeps
turning as I go, I am on the nigh side
of him all thc time, am I not ? And I
dont' go around him if I am on the nigh
side all the time, do I ? The case is
precisely similar to this of the squirrel
on a tree.-Buffalo Express.
The Pharisee and SadcUcee.
j To church the two together went,
Both, doubtless, on devotion bent.
The parson preached with fluent ease.
On Pharisees and Sadducees.
And as they homeward slowly'walked,
The lovers on the sermon talked,
And he-he deeply loved thc maid
lu soft and tender accents said :
"Darling, do you think that we
Are Pharisee and Sadducee ?"
She flashed on him her bright black eves
In one swift look of vexed surprise ;
And thus he hastened to aver,
Ile was her constant worshipper:
'."But, darling, I insist," s&id.be,
"That you are very fair-I-scc ;
I know you don't care much for me,
And that makes ms so sad-you-see.
-Springfield Republican.
'mm ? ? ? mi
The Anderson Intelligencer wants to
be enlightened on this question :
Two men, A and B, who arc no kin,
each get married, and in course of time
their wives each bare a daughter. The
wives then die, and after the lapse of'
Beveral years A marries B's daughter,
and B marries A's daughter, and after
a titse each of the wives bare ^ son.
Wbat kin are the boys ?
The Ej?yptian Trouble.
Sixty-seven Europeans are said to
have been killed in a riot at Alexan?
dria, Egypt, on Sunday, thc 11th in?
stant. It broke out in three different
I parts of the city, and the fighting, ex?
cept the attacks on' the consuls, was for
the purpose of pillage. Mr, Cookson;
the English Consul, was struck io the
head and had an arm broken. The
Italian Consul! was wounded-by a stone.
The wife of the Austrian Consol-Gene?
ral was attacked and insulted.
The Times 3 correspondent at Cairo
lays the responsibility for the riots upon
j Arabi Bey. Dervisch Pasha had sum
! mooed him to resign and there seemed
to be no alternative but submission or
defiance ; but since the riots broke out
Dervisch Pasha bas bad to appeal to
Arabi Bey as commanding the only
available force to restore order.
Arabi Bey and Mahmoud Pasha
Sami had sup?rate interviews with
Dervisch Pasha on Sunday. Thc re?
sult is not known, but it is generally
believed that they refused to submit to
Dervisch Pasha's views. At a meeting
of the military leaders in Cairo it was
decided to petition the Khedive to abdi?
cate. It was declared that if he did not
he would be assassinated. It is rumor- ^
i cd that the cavalry and artillery' will
not join any conspiracy against the
Khedive. -
ALEXANDRIA, Jone 14.-The bodies
of the Eogioeer of the English iron?
clad Superb aitfd ot the two seamen of
the Helyon who were killed in the riot
on Sunday have been buried at sea, as
it was deemed imprudent to risk the
danger that might have arisen from a
funeral on shore.
LONDON, June 14-A dispatch to
the Daily Neics from "Cairo says : 4The
work of exciting the population is com?
plete. Papers have* been distributed
among the populace summoning them
to be ready at? any moment.'
LONDON, June 14.-The correspond?
ent of the Daily Neics at Alexandria
states that not: only women and children
are leaving the country, but men with
large material, interests in Egypt are
begging passage and leaving their prop?
erty bebiod. Many capitalists are ar?
ranging to lea ve Egypt permanently
not in a panic, but after calmly calcu?
lating the cost of such a step.
: The correspondent of the Times sX
Cairo states that Sir Edward Malet, the j
English Con sal General, desires British
residents to-quifEgypj; without an offi?
cial request, which might produce a
panic. Be bas started for Alexandria:
The TVme* correspondent at Alexan?
dria telegraphs that the soldiers ^re.
openty asking "for^? ftsition of 4M
Khedive and declar^g that they will,
if necessary,, oppose Turkey herself.
-A; maiF steamer took three hundred
deck passengers; who paid .first-class
fare,: and three other1- steamers took a
thousand passengers. . Boatmen asked
fifty fra o cs 'to carry 'persons ;on board
the steamers; The usual faro, is only
oir? franci
Queen-Victoria's bather in
1 - Aineiica;/
' Prince Edward, afterwards duke of
Kent, and tho father of Queen VictoV
ria, passed through Burlington, Yt.,
in February, 1793. He I came from
Qu?bec, where he bad had command of
a regiment. "His trip through the
country was accomplished in carryalls
and sleighs ; a'courier bad been sent
on to Burlington to prepare for his
accomodation. There, were then only
seven houses in the whole village, and
bot one, that of Wi ne as iToomib, Wi ge.
enough to receive so numerous a party.
The Prince, arrived in the afternoon
with 13 carryalls and sleighs, and
left the thirl day before noon. He
had with him two aids and two body-4
guards, a lady and a cook. At this
place, Burlington, he dismissed the
teamster who bad brought him from
Canada and engaged five farmers to
take him on tc Boston. It was said by
these men that he was a jolly compa??
?n, enjoyiog the pork and beans, nut
cakes and cheese. Amongst the . early
settlers of the mown was Col. Stephen
Keyes, a gentleman of the old school
who wore a coocked hat and kept a
hotel on Water street. He proposed to
pay his respects to Prioce Edward, and
with several young men of the village
made a call in the evening. Col. Keyes
introduced himself to the Prince and
then stated that he had brought with
him"some young gentlemen of legal and
mercantile pursuits who wished to pay
their respects to him. They were sev?
erally presented and the Prince respect?
fully bowed to each. This was appar?
ently the commencement of a pleasant
evening's entertainment. But what
was their dismay when the Prince and
his aids very informally and abrupt?
ly retired to their own apartments !
The Colonel could not brook this, and
in unmeasured terms vented his indig?
nation and declared the Prince 'no gen?
tleman.'
Cow Peas.
The cow pea. is our 'Southern Clo?
ver'-a great protective to the soil-a
most valuable fertilizer, and excellent
forage. Knov?ing all this we strongly
?ndorse the following advice of Bro.
Wiggins, in the N. 0. Commercial
Bulletin. '
If you wish to clean your land from
noxious weeds plant cow peas.
If you wish to kill Burmuda grass or
.nut grass,' (Coco,) if you wish to fer?
tilize your soil at little expense. If
you wish to prepare your land for the
reception of email fruit and grapes, if
you desire to grow a profitable crop for
market, plant, cow peas.
In any even do not fail , to plant' an
abundance of cow peas fertilizing for
bay, for home ase, and market. "It will
pay.-Abbeville Medium.
mimi ? ? ? ? ^?
A Beer Story.
Here is a beer, story, the latest. It
ts said that a certain Wilmingtouian, of
German birth, and three of his compa?
triots, the latter being * sea captains,
made a regular sitting of it last week
and succeeded, in eight hours, in hav?
ing emptied eight boxes of beor. Each
box held two dozen bottles and eaeh
bottle a pi ot of beer. This, at the
rate of a pint to the bottle, made 24
gallons of beer-6 gallons to each man
in eight hours. This is told us as a
fact.- Wilmington Review,
uocoanuE ?neus as opice.
'What do yon do with your cocoanut
shells V asked a Record reporter of a
prominent candy manufacturer 'Sell
them to be made into pepper,' said be,
and the aroused cariosity of the reporter
was not quieted by his statement that
the shells were really ground and used
by spice men to adulterate pepper and
other of their wares. Further investi*
gatton showed that a factory where the
shells are ground up is in Camden, and
is a one-story brick building, the capac?
ity of the mill being about two tons of
ground shells per day. The shells are
brought to the factory in bags and de?
posited in the roasting department.
Here they are carefully scraped and put
io great revolving ovens which are con?
stantly kept tarn io g over beds of blar?
ing coal. Some of the shells are roasted
to a light brown, while others come out
crisp and black. After being carefully
sorted, the dark shells are put in hop*
pers in the grinding department and re?
duceoTto a fine powder like pepper. The
brown sheH&.'?re not ground so fine, and
come from/ifae mill looking exactly like
ground coffee. This Camden factory is
said to have been in operation for about
a mooth. The shells cost very little,
and the mill io g is done at an expense of
about two or two-and-a-half cents per
pound.
A representative of a leading spice
house, io speaking of this novel prepa?
ration, said that while his bouse bad VAC
used it, he supposed it was a- harmless
ad ul teration for spices. -\ y * We have our
own method of adulteration,1 said he,
and sell to the trade probably more
adulterated goods than pure. We can't
help it. There is no pretense on our
part that the lower grades of spices, are
pnre. We simply seil the retailer what
he wants. We sell them spices at
almost .any figure. Pepper, for in?
stance, as low as eight and nine cents,
but it is about as much something else
as it is pepper. It would min the-trade
to prohibit adulteration, and, besides,
there are not enough spices grown Jp
supply the United States alone if noth?
ing but pure spices were sold. We are
constantly making experiments to dis?
cover the cheapest harmless foreign
matter with which we can mix our
goods in order to supply the demand for
the lower grades/
The powder made from ground cocoa?
nut shells bas a fine, color, and on ac?
count of its weight and appearance is
considered by spier.dealers to be choice
adulterating material. . ".
Lb!the^Pborjln^m.jr^
-j-fir. T.'.p] Aadrews, an. .old .Char
lotte boy, KW. ?as "beeiv out in^Jiew
Mexico for some time past, |-?Jgd, io to
see us last; night' and
?njun.*- "He had read .
Observer a' tejegra^jjic"acc^
the red men are fleeing^frotiTl?Telxico to
New Mexico orr account of "tue reward
of; $300 which is offered hy the. Mexi?
can government for each T?di?V scalp;
and ils ?cco?n t bf the * state of ?ffa? r s
"m that country is quit? interesting.
That territory is 'Very thinly settled,
the popor?tiotr being made/'ap^mostly
of miners, and they have all abandoned
their mines and ar? making the collec?
tion of Indian scalps 3 special nosiness,
finding it more profitable to dispos? of
?'doMQ'Of!..wiD'8eal|>s'p?r day; at^SO?
eacb?;tLt?/to toil with the pick. . At
first*^they' "onfi??d themselves ' to the
rifle as a means for procuring scalps,
but this proving too slow to suit their
tastes they resorted to a little strategy.
The Indians are very fond of canned
fra?tr?tfaVbeing aware of this, the^ni
imman miner?~g?"te--a.canning factory
and have a great nambeToTclrBlnut op
with poison in the fruit. TakmX
I supply of these they visit some settle
"ment and trade off the cans to the un?
suspecting red skins, and on the next
day they go back to the Settlement
and collect* the scalps.
- Such inhumanity as this seems in?
credible, but Mr. Andrews knows it
to be a fact from personal observation.
It is no wonder the poor Indians are
fleeing from their old camping grounds
and bunting more congenial climes.
It may be right to clean out. the Indians
in open warfare, but the government
ought to catch these poison venders and
hang them.-Charlotte Observer, May
26. ,
A Romance not Lovely.
In the death at Deadwood, D. T.',
the other day, of the Rev. George C.
Pennell,, an Episcopal clergyman, a
romance in real life, supassipg some
of the most extraordinary incidents of
fiction, is recalled*: Wjien a young
man Mr. Pennell married in New
?ork his cousin, Mary H. Schroep
pel. IA child was born and the mo?
ther was told the child was dead.
Upon her ^recovery she returned to
her native place, where she continued
to pass under ber maiden name.
When she died it : was found that she
bad bequeathed her property, to the
Syracuse * Home Association. The
child, however, did not die, but was
taken away by its gradfather. Pr'. Pee- j
nell, a physician, and when it was nine
weeks old it was. intrusted by him to
Raphael Renz, of No. 63^Lorimer steet,
Br?klyn, to be raised. The child was
kept In ignorance of his parentage, but
on coming of age he discovered facts
which led him to believe that the Rev.
Mr. Pennell was his Tafber. He fol?
lowed up these clews, and finally suc?
ceeded in obtaining a recognition of his
parentage by Mr. Pennell. The father,
however, would never receive bis son,
but, humiliated by the exposure of hts
heartlessness and treachery to both wife
and son, removed to Deadwood, where
he remained in comparative obscurity
until he died.-Baltimore Bay. "
The Scheming Elephants.
P. T. Barnum gives this anecdote in
a lecture : Last winter two of my ele?
phants "began shaking with chills one
morning. The keepers ran down to the
village and got six gallons of whiskey.
Hastily.returoing three gallons were
given to each elephant. Fortunately it
cured them. They liked the artificial
warmth it superinduced. Next morn?
ing when the keeper came to them be
found both elephants shaking .with
might and main. 'No yon don't be
shouted 'you arc well enough to?
day,' and they stopped shaking.
IMOws aaa uossip.
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Queen Victoria is sixty toree yea? <
age and bas reigned forty-fire year*.
The Florence Times advocates a ne
county to be called 'Florence' an
composed of portions of Darlington an
Marion.
Tbe Prussian Government has seleci
ed Aiken as one of the stations for tn
observation of tbe Transit of Yenni
wbicb takes place on December 8tb
1882. . ;
The Atlanta Constihdion says ther
are employed on one "fenn at Griffin
Ga., tbree hundred men picking peacb
es, and they will be so employed noti
tbe middle of Joly.
Jefferson Davis is expected to pass ;
part of July at a North Carolina tva
mer resort, and tbe fact is being adver
tised to induce hi? 'old Confederate com*
rades, to patron i ie the hotel at wblc?
be will stay. . .
'How is it, ray dear, that you bi??
never kindled a flame in tbe bosom o
any man Y said an old lady to bei
niece. ?To which tho "yonnjg lady re
plied. *The reason, dear aunt, at
yon well know, that I am not a good
match.' *r .
- Bunions may be remor?^ by usiog
pulverized saltpetre and sweet oil.
Five cent** worth of saltpetre pot tn tc
a bottle with sufficient sweet oil to dis*
solve it. Shake op weil and sse nigh!
and morning. It is a well-tried reme*
dy. ., . r
Jefferson Davis bas just celebrated
bis 74th birthday: An able? pare, hon?
orable, and slandered gentleman, wt
hope be may live tb be one hundred,
if be so desires, and then have thc
privilege of saying whether bc shall
keep on or no? - s w - >
Plans 'are*now being completed for
the erection of a cotton seed oil mill in
Cbestet? whicft -wiH consume about
three thousand tons: of cotton seed a
year, ; and require tbe investment of
about $50,000. . Messrs. P Zell> ot
Baltimore, arc the leading spirits in the
? enterprise^ and will furnish the larger
I part of the capital. -
Prayer for the newspaperraniilea-g*
agine presa of thewhofe^?>na*ry- we?
offered at several reKgkra* ineet?s?rJit
New York city recently. Tb?ntal Wee?
der whether they offered %af petit?** fer
del ra quent subscri berat ^beswaretwi
fellows that need the? moat. ife?z
A Cincinnati \ woman* swinging i?-i
hammock tn tue privacy^ of -her back
yardal towed ber feet to b??; dmr*.
A^ryvn^Tieigbbor oo-^e^o^agt o?<di*?
cov?r-fy'looking tbro?ghvi ci?w i?q tat
fence, cried ont fcboo. tbe* i*}?.^ Ht
was prosecuted . 4br rtjie: n?mlt a-od tt
cost . bim, a nice little two dollar nifl>
He won't want & 7&0<X\ ^ mn
kj^Ct.'.-.: tv?. 3 ?J .:!...<? jjthp?e?
?oe^of ow estcen-^ ipr?feaanrt say?
that bis sVr?fe is not at ail testbed. He
says she do^jot ev^t?iok^K^m^
of things yiot^S?j^?ff^s^h &y be
brought booie a^veak tro?r^ njotto -for
bis dining roonr, ibat bad worked:on it,
'Nature abhor? a: vscuem/ supposing
she knew where ?O bab g S ^ Isit-'aha
d4dn*t? for he fonnd. it nangj^werliie
own picture ? in * the: parlor; -that-. very
afternoon, q ~yess* ?I
Guiteau ba* selected theHzr.
Watkins Hicks, a Washington clergy*
man, as bis spiritual adviser, and im?
poses upon him thewpffn sibtlity of pre?
paring bim for death. >Mr: . Hiera is
considerable of a politician, formerly
residing kf Qbatg-^Mi>3.$.7*&i -after?
wards io Fjorida,; and -wM^-cba?rtK?
of tbe delegation^rom tba* Stat* ia tba
Chicago Convention. Th isis a case wbere
crank meets crank. Similin-nm?ibvs
curantur* ^ ? .< ,s ?'. tn
> As to th? number of roen-idie hythe
strtn it is diffi colt to arrive at an - ex?
act statement Too best estimate - wo
have itt that cTTblrS??j^ ^?S*S
Western Iron Asscwia?oorj^?^-^S?11!
ber of men employed in the\mli%aff?etf
ed is^iven as follows : Pittsburgl D*K
trict, 20,000 ; West VirginiWra^a^
Ohio, 10,266 ; Indiana^ 1.140 ; Illinois,
2,468 ; Missouri, 855 ; K^ucky, .2.
107 ; Michigan., 925 ;: ^e^Va^?O-;
Wisconsin, 50j) .^Shafcngo o Valley?
Peon., BM^i?ul^^f^J^.
The papers-state thai* President Ar?
thur and Conklin^aott ow? o?Vithiog
excursion- a few? ?wt?jr*ngo> When
the Chief Executive of the Nation break?
tbe-S?bbftthsv ta ?hat: ^nan-ner .etd ft la
telegraphed over-the whole country aa
the proper thing for a President to do? it
does not speak: well for bia morals. If
a hungry tramp ?ir a poor- negro were'
caagh t ?sbiog ?o Sunday-tbe constable
would be after bim, bot Arthur is abott'
the law .and be and Conkling camp out?
side of the morai code.
A New York paper says tb at the He* -
brew Immigration Society is beginning;
to fia d out that very Ktt?e ia ?to be dont ~
with the refugees from Russia, ?nd that
many of them would be Arr better off hi*
the land of their bird* than tn the
United States: - itrbas been found that
they are not inclined to work, and tba*
a large number of young men who have'
been given employment, In and around
the city, are running back to the rooms"
of the society relating hardships and
grievances ; one of whick fr .tba?; their,'
hands have, been blisteredt?by maooa? "
labor, to which they bad;-not bee? ac*
cu? to m ed. \ IF&J&Z v..;,-. .
An ingenious tramps Jhinking
wring tears an? money assistance front
the stoutest hearts with a new science,
gave H an experimental trial" in the
North End. He bas decided not to pa?
tent the invention. He U?? a North?
End lady of his unfortunate condition^*
and asked if bc might eat some of tbe
grass I'D the yard. The lady, not lefts'
amused than surprised, said : 'Cfrttttr
I ly,' He went out, and getting down, en
j all fours commenced on tbe great after
the neglected and never popfllardGwbioo1
of Nebucbanezzar, and apparently not
eojoyiog the diet any moja than that
ancient sinner of olden time. Present*
ly the tramp's anxious eye caught sight
of the servant gM^bteScwag to bim
from the -back jatg. He thought af.
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