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uw to am buavtievl. Large feet should never be cased in kid, least of all in white kid slippers, for kid reveals so dearly the form and movements of the feet, and stretohws so easily, that few feet have adjunct; in them. Those who are vary stout should wear nothing but black ; those who are very thin should put a little padding in their gowns, and neither should be in the least decollette.—Courier-Journal. A warn desired her husband to buy horn new spring bonnet. “Why, isy dear," said he, “ how can I do it when I liave no money ?” And she simply ex claimed, “ Owo. dear 1” -4 HPIVEIi NTOKT. One chilly day I was loft at home alone; and, after I was tired reading “ Robinson Orrmoe," I caught a spider and brought him into tho house to play with. Funny playmate, wasn’t it ? Well, I took a wash-basin and fastened up a stick like a vessel’s most, and then poured in just water enough to turn the mast into an island for my spider, which 1 named Crusoe, and pnt him on tho mast. As soon as he was fairly cast away he anxiously commenced running round to find the mainland. He’d scam per down the mast to the water, stick out a foot, get it wet, shake it, run around the stick and try tho other side, and then ruu buck to the top again. Pretty soon it became a serious matter to Mi'. Kob iusou, and ha sat down to think over it. As in a moment ho acted os if he wanted to shout for a boat, and was afraid ho was going to be hungry, I put treacle ou the stick. A fly came, but Crusoe wasn’t hungry for flits just then. Ho was home sick for his web in the comer of the woodshed. He went slowly down tho pole to tlio water, and touched it all round, shaking his feet like pussy when she wots her stockings in tho grass, and suddenly a thought appeared to strike him. Up he went like a rocket to the top, and commenced playing circus. He held one foot in the air, then another, and turned around two or three times. He got excited, and nearly stood ou his head before I found out what he knew, mid that was this, that the draught of air made by the five would carry a line nshore on which he could escape from his desert island. He pushed out a web that went floating in tho air until it caught ou the table. Then lie hauled ou tile rope until it was tight, struck it several times to see if it was strong enough to hold him, and walked ashore. I thought he had earned his liberty, so I put him back in the woodshed.— Hearth. AIiOVT PRIXTIXO IXKS, The ingredients of ordinary printing ink are burnt linseed oil, resin and oc casionally soap, with various coloring matters. The best quality of linseed oil is used in superior inks, and this is purified by digesting it in partially dilu ted sulphuric acid for some hours, at a temperature of about 212 degrees, al lowing the impurities to subside, and then washing away the acid with repeat ed additions cf hot water. The water, after this treatment, is pale and turbid, and if the freeing from the acid is com plete there is scarcely nny odor. By rest the oil clarifies, and has then a pale lemon-color. It now dries rnuoh more rapidly than before. The purilied oil is now partially resinified by heat. For this purpose it is introduced into large cast-iron pots and boiled until in flammable vapors are freely evolved. These ore ignited, and allowed to burn for a few minutes, after which they are extinguished by placing a tight cover over tho boiler. Ebullition of the oil is continued until, on cooling, a firm skin forms on its surface, known by placing a drop on slate, or ofber smooth, cold surface. Red printing ink, according to The Engineer, may be made in this way : Boil linseed oil until smoke is given off. Set the oil then on tire and allow it to bum* until it can be drawn out into strings half an inch long. Add one pound of i esin for each quart of oil, and ne-halr pound of dry, brown soap cut into slices. The soup must be put in cautiously, as the water in the soap causes a violent commotion. Lastly, the oil is ground with a sufficient pig ment on a stone by means of a duller. Vermillion, red lend, carmine, Indian red, Venetian red and the lakes are all suitable for printing inks. DBTKCTIKO WATER IX MILK. A German chemist furnishes a simple procedure for testing the amount of wa ter in milk, whioh can Ire applied by any one. .All that is required is a small qnantity of plaster of Paris, say one ounce. This is mixed with the milk to a stiff paste and then allowed to stand. With milk of 1.030 specific gravity, and a temperature 00 deg. Fair., it will harden in ten hours ; if 25 per cent, of water is present, in two hours ; ft 50 per cent., in ono and a half hours ; and with 75 per cent., in thirty minutes. Skimmed milk which has been standing for twenty-four hours, and is oE 1.033 specific gravity, sets in four hours; with 60 pers>ent. bf water, in one horn-; and with 75 .per cent., in thirty minutes. Heat should not bo applied, for then tho use of the thermometer would be re quired. The test is certainly simple, and not costly. " I’m afraid that bed is not long enough for you,” said a landlord to a seven-foot guest, “Never mind,” he replied, “I’ll add two more feet to it when I get in.”-- O.s Sabbath evening, her aunt told Mary the story of the Good Samaritan, and Mary was greatly interested in it. Not long after she found a picture of it, which she.recognized at once from the story, “"Ob, auntie,” she cried, “there is ft picture of the Good Jtovift- WWwM" W!LLW. SINGLETON, Editor & Proprietor. VOL. VI. rent** tbahmm. AWT *l* LTTI/B. 1 tm dyeing, Egypt, dyeing— Once my heir was ravt n-bl.ick D*vk na tho shadows falling On tho mwHet’M fading track Durk as the dusty glamour Of the palm-grovoH’ twilight shads; Dark as tho fragrant trusses Of an Abyssinian maid. I am dyeing, Egypt, dyeing— Ebbs the golden fluid fust; I’ve only got one bottle left— Ab, how long will that one last 7 My soul is ftffl of oubthf£ As4lsmile a sickly smile; But mybalr la like the glory Of tho noon sun oil tho Nile. Ml KCWS SEHE XAMJSIIS. In a certain rural town down East, where tile narrator formerly iesidel, 'there was at one time a clique of rougli young fellows who made it their busi ness to serenade "all newly-bedded couples. “Serenading’.’ was wliat they wete pleased to call it; but it was far from being either a musical or a complimeut ary performance. In fact, it was a ter rible bug-boar for all prospective brides aril bridegrooms. Ou the evening of the marriage, this serenade party, num bering fifteen or twenty members, was sure to make its unwelcome appearance in the yard, liberally provided with fish horns, old tin pans, guns, and almost every other possible instrument of din and racket. These rude fellows came disguised in -masks >nd old' clothes ; and the Tniit of their approach was “usually a discharge of guns, a racket of stones on the roof, blended with a horrible blare of boms and imitations of Indian war whoops. If the newly-made husband did not wish that sort of music continued all night, he must arise, open Ills doors, and invito in these unwelcome guests. Once in the house, they would mako themselves very much at home, and ex pected to be “ treated ” to a good sup per, or else to be furnished with a hand some sxim of money with which to go away and provide a supper for them selves. Tins was not tb 0 worst. For the boors usually demanded that the bride should be brought into the room, and often in sisted—disguised and masked as they were—on saluting her with a kiss. If admittance was refused them, they kept up tlieir terrific din, hour after hour, and sometimes they had broken into lipuse.s. Often they got on the roof to continue their deafening fonfarode ; indeed, there was no end of their pranks; and if not treated with so much liber ality as they thought due them, they would come again night after night. Occasionally they met with a rough reception in the shape of hot water, jets of kerosene oil from squirt-guns, and shots had even been fired at them. That they were an abominable uuis anco and outrage on all rights and de cency, was admitted by every one ; yet it was difficult to proceed against them legally, and the party was powerful enough to make itself feared as well *s hated. Otherwise it would have been promptly broken up by an indig nant community. I have tried to learn tire origin of such serenading, and I think the custom came to us from among the French Canadians of the Lower provinces. For these people have a trick whioh thoy call “ charivari," where a party, fantas tically dressed and equipped, with cracked fiddles, horns and kettle-drums, sometimes go to “wake” a wedding whenthoro is sbino circumstance about it “which offends publioitaate ; as, forex ample, when the bride is many years older than the bridegroom, or if, on the other, hand, an old gray-beard were to take a very young wife. Such were the serenade! s, and such wo* the state of affairs, at the time of tho marriage of a young man namod Willis March, a friend and neighbor of the writer. Willis, or Wilts, as we called him, was a quick-witted young man and pos sessed a good deal of good sense and sturdy independence. I have often heard him say, whenever wo would hear of a serenade, that he would never lot that company into his house, nor give them a cent to caroms on. When Wilts came to bo 21, his parent? wanted him to live on their farm and take care of them- It was no very de sirable offer. Tl;ero was a heavy mort-’ gage on the farm, and there were two helpless, bed-ridden members of the family. Willis, been planning to go West as soon ns he became of age; ttijd ho -was just tho’man to make Ids way in the West and do well. But Re conscientiously gave lip his plans for the sake of the old people, and settled down at home, like the good son he wu?, to pay off the debts tm the place, and see his folks through,” as the neighbors ex pressed it. The?e was another, too, concerned in this sacrifice of Wil s’ plans—Amanda j Bucheldar, a schoolmate and very dear friend of Wilts’—am i who, it was said, I was as like him as tw o people could be. It had long been au Understood thing , j that, when Wilts treat Waste Wfoudy i BUENA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GA„ SATURDAY MARCH 5, 1881. Boclieldar weald g# with him m Mrs. Murcli. There was a wedding that fall, on Thanksgiving day morning—Wilts and Mandy. Thoy moved home—that is to say, to Wilts’ homo, that afternoon. That day, at the store at the corners, a follow named Gallison, supposed to be oonnectod with the “serenade gang," hinted to Wilts that .he hoped he (Wilts) was “ laying in a stock of good things” for the “celebration” that night. “What do you mean by ‘celebra tion ?’ ” Wilts asked him. “Oh, you’ll find out soon enough," said Gallison, laughing, snd with a wink to the others. “You mean the ‘serenade-gang?’” said Wilts. “Like enough,” replied Gallison. “ Shouldn’t wonder a mite." “ You expect mo to open my house and furnish supper for the ‘roughs’ of tho town? Then let mo toil you, once for all, that I shall do nothing of tho sort; and if you care to take my advice you will keep away and mind your own business and leave me to mind mine. I have no money to spend in entertainments of any kind.” “Perhaps you mean to shoot us.” sneered Gallison. “We’ve seen guns before.” “No matter what I intend to do,” said Wilts. “ I warn you to keep away.” This warning on Wilts’ part only stim ulated these unprincipled fellows to do their worst. They turned out in full costume, and at exactly 10 o’clock that evening they opened the fracas with a discharge of guns, tooting of lioms and drumming, accompanied by a shower of brick-bats on the roof. We heard it all over the neighborhood, and wondered, not without some misgiv ings, what Wilts would do. He did nothing. He had securely fastened up the doors and windows be low, and he remained quietly within. Blow and whoop they did, but Wilts gave no sign that he heard them. About midnight, however, old Mr. March, Willis’ father, nearly erkaod by the noise, opened a window, and very civilly asked tho party to go away and let him get a little sleep. They an swered this request with such a deafen ing noise that the old gentleman was glad to draw in his head and shut the window. They did not quite dare to break into the house with axes ; they knew Wilts’ coinage too well. Daylight dispersed them. But they promised loudly, ere departing, to come back next night. Dining the day, Wilts called on two of his neighbors, young men like him self, and asked them to come over to his place that afternoon, and stay over night in the house. “Our ‘friends’ of last night’s hulla baloo have promised to come back,” said he, “ and you may see some fun if things work right. ” Just at dusk, two young fellows — whose names need not be given—ac cepted the invitation, and went to the house. the kitchen there was a large low room, and the outside door opened into it from off the piazza. Wilts had just put two very strong staples and hasps on this door for fastening it on the outside. It was a very strong oak door. On the outside, too, he had pnt up two strong plank shutters on the kitchen windows. Tho other doors, leading one into tho wood-house and the other into the sit ting-room, were ready for fastening on the outside from the kitchen with bars and hasps. In short, Wilts had made of the kitchen a cage strong enough for a prison- cell. During tho evening, he set out on the kitchen table a large basketful of good eating apples and a jug of new cider, with glasses. A candle was left burning 1 Ivere ; and in the largo Canadian stovo a good lire of hard-wood logs was shut up, burning sloyidy. To his two young friends, who had been taken into tho stratagem, Willis showed an auger-hole bored in tb# ceiling, directly over the stove. The evening passed pleasantly. It wag cloudy and pretty dark. Tho serenaders gathered about the house very gate tty. But promptly at 10 o’clock, fli# noise of tho night before was repeated. Gun#, hqrns, drqms, stones on the roof, and heavy blows against the Me of the hduse. At length some of them who wore try ing the lower windows discovered that the kitchen door under the piazza was nqt fastened. They threw it open and, seeing the apples and cider, all walked in and began to help themselves. Per haps they fancied that these refresh ments had been set out on purpose to propitiate Alnup- . #*.*s 3 & It Was # rather chilly evenififeout. The Warm stovo vrtw%ary comfortable. They shut ilio door and sat down. Meant Lite, '"Wilts and ‘his two friehds had riroen looking through th 9 auger* hole; and one of them now slipped down the back stairs int the wood- Louse, and, going round on the piazza, qniotly hasped th# kitchen door on the ftttlito Devoted to the Interests of Marion County and Adjoining Sections They were not long drinking up tho cider. Then they begun shouting for Wilts and Mandy. “Don’t think you’ll get off with a mess of apple# and eider 1 You haven’t seen the last of us so easy I Ten dollars for drinks, Wilts ! Wo must have some thing more out of you “ Well," said Wilts, through the auger bole, "you shall have tomelhingmorc!" and with that ho blew a whole paper of cayenne ‘hrougli a piece of lead pipe down uipoi that hot stovo! In an instant the whole kitchen was full of the fiery, pungent dust 1 There came up an enraged shout, fol lowed by a rush for the door. The in truders found the door hard and fast. It is quite useless to tryfully to depict what followed. Tho invaders screeched, pounded and sneezed. Some begged and screamed ; some threw themselves flat on the floor with their £** down, to get air. They could neither see nor breathe in that fiery atmosphere. At last, one of the serenaders, by dint of pounding with the butt of a gun, fairly stove off one of the plank shutters from the front window, and the whole party tumbled out, nearly blinded, and sneezing as if their heads would burst. They wei'e so badly punished that they hurried off at once, and we heard that several of them were sick a week. The story flew through the town, and tno serenaders were joked and jeered at by the people. They had to confess thimselvea beaten. “ Huh-gish-oo," wall the joke whioh they heard on all sides, That was the last charivari they ever attempted Youth’s Companion. MBS. PARTINGTOX. “ O, what trials a poor widow has to go through,” sighed Mrs. Partington, rocking herself in a melancholy way, and holding untasted the morsel of mne caboy between her thumb and finger ; “terrible trials, and O, what a hardship to bo executioner to an intestine estate, where enviable peot o are trying every way to overcome She widow’s might; where it’s probe it, probe it, probe it all the time, and th 1 more you probe it - ■fcilO WOrSO ite TllC JK rOit WOtXXixXA never gets justice, fir if she gets all she don’t get half enough. I have had one trial of it, and if ;\:..-r I marry again, if it should so ple<i*d| Providence to order it, I’ll make my intended husband fabri cate his will before he orders liis wed ding cake—l’ll take time by the foretop, as Solomon says.” She here revived a little, and the subtle powder passed to its destination and reported itself “home” in au emphatic sneeze. PEAKS OE TUI! HIMALAYAS. Hermann von Schlagintmeit Sakaunl aiski, the great Himalayan explorer, gives a table of seventy-tlu'co peaks of the Himalayan system that are more than 20,000 feet high, seventeen of which rise above 25,000 feet. Dhwalagiri, which the old geographies gave as the highest mountain on the earth, stands the fifth in the list. Tho five highest are: Guarisanker, or Mount Everest, in Nepaul, 29,032 feet; Dapsaug, in Western Tliibet, 25,278 feet; Kiutehin junga, in Nepaul, 28,156 feet; the Sis butt Peak, in Nepaul, 27,799 feet; Dliwaligiri, iu Nepaul, 20,680 feet. Tho snow-line varies from 15,800 feet to 18,- 665 feet, and phanerogamous plants are seen up to 19,237 feet on the western side of the Gaurikhorsuni. Man lives as high as 14,800 feet, has a cloister at 15,- 117 feet, and looks for gold at 16,330 feet. MYSTERIES OE A BEE-fll IE. A life-time might be spent in investi gating the mysteries hidden in a bee hive, and still half the secrets would be tuidisoovered. Tho formation of the cell lias long beet) a celebrated problem for the mathematician, while the changes whioh the honey undergoes offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Every one knows what honey fresh from comb is like. It is a clear yellow simp, without a traee of solid sugar in it. Upon straining, however, it gradually assumes a crystalline appearance—-it can dies, as the saying is, and ultimately be comes a solid lump of sugar. It has not been suspected that this change was due to a photographic action; that the same agent which idlers the molecular arrange ment of the iodine of silver on the excit ed collodion plate, and determines the formation of camphor and iodine crys tals in a bottle, causes the sirup-honey to assume a crystalline form. This, however, is the case. M. Soheibler has inclosed honey in stoppered flasks, some of which he has kept in perfect darkness, while other's have been exposed to the light. Tho invariable results have been that tho sunned portion rapidly crystal lized, while that kept in the dark has remained perfectly liquid. We now see i wh* bees work in perfect darkness, and Cvh|| they are so careful to obsoure the glass windows which aro sometimes placed in their hives. The existence of their young depends on the liquidity of saccharine food presented to them; and if light wero allowed access to tho sirup it would gradually acquire a more or less solid consistency; it would seal up the cells, and in >ll probability {novo feW to to,* ia.'nftteftivf the FKCVXIAHT IXDEPBXVEXCE. There are 2,000,000 persons in Franoe who five quietly nnd moderately upou tlieir incomes from investments in real estate or other property. In England there are probably half as many, who live in a simple and unostentatious man ner under the samo circumstances. Tho English Government funds, known as “consols " in tno tcclinical terms of the money market, pay S per cent, per an num ; tho French “ rentes ” pay about the samo rate of interest. The average income from those sources to each owner of these funds is not more than S3OO per annum, and on this amount thousands of persons live simple and contented lives, enjoying in a modest and unas suming manner the fruits of their care fulness and economy. A French “ rentior,” or an English owner of “tho funds,” or a person who may be possessed of real estate, occu pied or rented, enjoys a certain socia l distinction oh account of Iris “ independ ence,” to which term there attaches a distinct idea of certainty of income with the assuranco of a competonoy and freedom from the cares and incon veniences of poverty or embarrassment. 8o long as these persons live with in their incomes, they are privi leged persons in an easy and well-de fined position; persons of moderate fortune who can afford to look upon their front door as secure from the pos sible presence of the typical “wolf,” which is the dread of all those who live by uncertain employments. But, with out the strictest plainness and economy of living, all these people would become “of all men the most miserable.” Their propertj', saved by years of in dustry and economy, would soon disap pear and leave them, in their old age, in poverty and wretchedness. Few of them, knowing their security and re alizing their comfort, are tempted to risk their income in the hope of increas ing the rate of interest by riskful invest ments or speculations. How fortunate it must be for Ameri cans if they would hut take a lesson from such examples as these ! What misfortunes, what losses, what disap pointments and mlsene.sVouJd he ‘ avoided by a mor.Ycontonted disposition, more devotion to’ simplicity of life and economy of living ?—Rural New Yorker. TIltdlXIA. AHEAD OX TOBACCO. Virginia still retains the load as a to bacco manufacturing State, the late cen sus showing that for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1880, Virginia manufactured 32,208,664 pouuds of tobacco, the tax on which was $5,153,386. New Jersey comes next with 16,554,688 pounds and $2,648,750 tax, and New York following with 13,530,814 pounds and $2,164,935 tax. The manufacturers of tobacco in Virginia are more than those of the great States of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania put together : more than thoso of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas put together; more than those of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Kansas and Nebraska put together, and more than those of Maryland and North Carolina put together—all tobacco States. TIIE SALOOX HIOX. A temperance lecturer in Great Brit ain, formerly a cab driver, related'the following incident: “ A short time ago I was coming from Aldridge, where I had been to buy a horse for my cab. I saw a woman ly ing dead drunk on the cellar flap of one of the neighboring public houses; so I went into the bar and said to the land lord : “‘One of your sign-boards has tum bled down.’ “The gouty old publican came out side, exclaiming, ‘Where?’ “ ‘ There,’ said I, pointing to a heap of rags on the flap. ‘ Why don’t you take it inside and put it into your win dow, like other respectable tradesmen do with their goods, and label it, “ Our own manufacture, made to order,” in stead of leaving it here as if you were ashamed to own it?’ ” now TO TRAIX THE MEMORY. Your memory is bad, perhaps, but there are two ways of curing the worst memory. One of them is to read a sub ject when interested; the other is to not only read but think. When you have read a paragraph or a page stop, close tho book, and try to remember the ideas on the page, and not only call them vaguely to mind but put them in words and speak them oat. Faiilifu-'y folloi/- ing thoso two rules, and you have the golden keys of knowledge. Beside in attentive reading there are other tilings injurious to tho memory. One is the habit of skimming over newspapers, items of news, smart remarks, items of information, politioal reflections, fash ion notes, so that all is a confused jum ble, nev#r to be thought of again, thus diligently cultivating a habit of careless reading hard to break. Another is the reading of trashy novels. “Do xotf see that stick, sir?” said a very stupid acquaintance to Sidney Smith. “This stick lias been all round the world, sir’” “Indeed 1” said the re morseless Sidney, “Aad yet it is nofch it)g but ft StteJb” A if UNT OF SUBSCRIPTION, $1.25. REA V DXa.ll MELL. Many interesting stories about Brum mell, the famous beau, ore told in an article in All the Year Round : “We are told ihat this eminent arbiter re quired two different artists to make liis gloves, one being appointed to provide thumbs, the oher the Ungers and hand, on the ground that a particular ‘out’ was neoessary for each. The valet carrying down the load of crushed handkerchiefs, which the beau bad not succeeded in squeezing with hia cliin down into the proper folds, and which were carelessly described as ‘our failures,’ is an old, well-worn legend, but trustworthy. “When he was consulted as to what income was necessary to dress suitably on, he replied ‘he believed that with strict economy it might be done on £BOO a year.’ It is said that he always went , home after the opera, to change his era vat for the succeeding parties. Like ' Count d’Orsay, the later dandy, he car- i ried about with him an enormous chest, j containing every appliance for the toilet, the dishes, bottles, etc., being of silver. The use of these costly articles he justi fied on the ground ‘ that it wan impossi ble to spit in earthenware.’ Another of his pleasant, insolent speeches was to a friend inviting his criticism or admira tion of his new coat. ‘My dear , do you call that thing a coat ?’ “At Watier’s Club, instituted about 1807, where gaming prevailed to an ex travagant degree, he reigned. He was particularly noted for hia snuff-boxes—a mania of the time—costly jeweled and enameled and be-miniatured boxes being displayed and given as presents. At i this place he (Mr. Rikes says) was the supremo dictator, the perpetual Presi dent, laying down the law in dress, in manners, and in those magnificent snuff boxes for which there was a rage ; he fomented the excesses, ridiculed the scruples, patronized the novices, and ex ercised paramount dominion over all. He had great success at Macao, winning in two or three years a large sum, which went no one knew how. I remember him coming in one night after the opera to WatierV, and finding the Macao table full, one pi ace .at which was occupied by Tom Sheridan, who was not in the habit of playing, but, having dined freely, had dropped into the club, and was trying to catch the smiles of fortune by risking a few pounds which ho could ill afford to lose. Brummell proposed to him to give up his place and go shares in his deal; and, adding to the £lO in counters which Tom had before him £2OO for him self, took the cards. He dealt with his usual success, and in less than ten min utes won £1,500. He then stopped, made a fair division, and, giving £750 to Sheridan, said to him : * There, Tom, go home and give your wife and brats a suDuer. and never play auain.’ ” JOKES ON COCEBURN. Of Lord Chief Justice Cockburn it is said that on one occasion, while still without the bar, he had to examine a witness named Phinn, and asked, “Well, sir, how do they Bpell your name, with an For a Ph ? ” “ Some spell it one way and some another, I believe,” re plied the man. “ Yes ; but I presume there is a right way and a wrong way, eh ? ” “ Oh, certainly,” assented the . witness. “ Very good,” rejoined Cock burn, now certain of his prey, “how do you spell it yourself ?” “Oh, I I- I—don’t spell it! I always make mV mark !’’ He was once counsel for the plaintiff; Mr. B. was for the defendant. Cockburn called a witness and proceed ed to examine him. “I understand,’ he said, “ that you called on the plaint iff, Mr. Jones. Is that so?” “Yes,” replied the man. “ What did he say ? ” demanded Cockburn. Mr. B. promptly rose and objected. The conversation could not be admitted as evidence. But. Oockibum persisted, and Mr. B. there upon appealed to the Judges, who after a time retired to consider tho point. They were absent for nearly half an honr, and when they returned they an nounced that Mr. Cockburn might put his question. “Well, what did he say ?’ asked the counsel. “ Please, sir, he wasn’t at home ! ” replied the witness, without moving a muscle. They have an expeditious way of pay ing off the employes of the Hudson River railroad. The paymaster goes over the road, paying out $150,000 in greenbacks and gold. The train runs at its highest speed, and the pay of the flagmen be tween stations is put in envelopes, and, attached to sticks, is thrown at the vari ous flagmen as their shanties are passed. THE BANK OF ENGLAND. The Bank of England was incorporat ed in 1649. It ooverß five acres of ground, and employs 900 clerks. There are no windows on the street. Light is admitted through open courts ; no mob could take the bank, therefore, without cannon to batter the immense wall. The clook in the center of the bank has fifty dials attached to it. Large cisterns axo sunk in the court, and engines in per fect order are always in readiness in case of fire. “ What is the difference between a honeymoon and a honeycomb ?” Givu it np? “ One is a biff tell and tho other la a let (4 litfte " GOOD ADVICE. It is generally thought there is noth ing easi< r than to give gc>od advice. It is so abundant and so cheap, it is said, because it cost* nothing. Now this may bo applicable to much of tho trite coun sel aud most of the well-worn maxims that live upon the lips but do not oome from the heart; it may be truo concern ing such exhortations ns we have been in the habit of hearing from one genera tion and passing on to the next, without much reference to their applicability ; but it is uot true of anything which hon estly bears the name of good advice. That is not plentiful nor easy to give. A FAMOUS PIGEON-BOOST. In the southwestern part of Scott county, Inii, is the famous “Pigeon- Boost,” a doubly-historio spot—first, on account of the butchery of the settlers there, in the pioneer days, by the Indi ans ; and, second, on account of its be ing for eighty years the roosting place of millions of wild pigeons. The mas sacre of the settlers occurred in Sep tember, 1812. One night a band of rov ing Pottawatomies attacked the Pigeon ltoost settlement, killing twenty-four persons, mostly women and children and burning all tho houses, A part of the family of John Collins and a Mrs. Beudio aud her two young children were all of tho settlers that escaped. The pigeon roost covers hundreds of acres. The birds commence coming to it early in the evening, and great droves continue to arrive until late in the night. During the roosting season thousands ore killed nightly, the forest often being the scene of the wildest confusion. The hunters bring down their birds with shotguns and poles—those roosting on the lower limbs being knocked off with long poles. A constant whirr of the wings of the birds and cracking and fall of limbs from the accumulated weight of pigeons upon them is heard and seen, and the scene often is so ex citing as to beggar description. QUEER CONUNDRUMS. One day some of us got to talking about that witty old eynio, Dean Swift” when one of the company took advant age of the opening and gave this jeu do mol of his: “Why,” asked the Dean, “is it right, by the lex ialionia, to pick an artist’s pocket ?” It was given up, of course, and the answer was, “Be cause he has pictures.” A silenee fell about the table round until, one by one, we saw it. Then one thoughtful man observed : “It was impossible to give the answer, because the Dean had con trived to reserve the answer to himself. I could not, for instance, say it is right for me to pick an artist’s pocket because he has picked yours.” Here is another conundrum, founded upon a pun, which only the propounder can solve : An old man aud a young man were standing by a meadow. “ Why,” asked the yoiing man, “is this clover older than you?” “It is not," replied the other. “It is, though,” returned the young man, “be cause it is pasturage.” Thereupon an abstracted-looking person, who had not followed the line of remark, and had not understood the illustration, startled us with this irrelevant inquiry : “ Why cannot a pantoinimiat tickle nine Esqui maux ? Give it up ? Why, it’s because he can gesticulate.” FUTURE OF THE BALLOON. Prof. King says : “ The balloon Is condemned by many, and justly so, because there are those who claim for it impossibilities. It can only he used and valued for what it is worth to science. It will never be used as a carrier in tho strict sense, because that is impractica ble ; but for scientific research it is the only means we have of studying tho higher regions and learning about the j upper currents—about tho formation of ! rain and snow and the action of storms. It is the only thing by which we can reach a point in the heavens clear of the I earth ; and for these purposes it is in valuable. The day will never come when they will be made to navigate the air against the currents. That can only | be done by flying machines, having mo mentum, which a balloon is without. You can not throw a tuft cf cotton against the wind, for the reason that it ' has no resistance. The balloon’s mis sion is scientific in several ways. You know in case of war it has been voiy useful in escaping from besieged cities, like Paris, for instance, and for military operations is the only way you have of looking into the enemy’s fortifications with impunity. It is also valuable for looking down into deep water. I had an offer made to me once to float over Lake Erie and search for a steamer that had sunk in a storm. From a balloon you can look down to the bottom of very deep ; water, because you are away far enough to overcome tho reflection of the sky. j “I have not the least doubt that the air 1 will be navigated by a flying machine, but it will have to fly better than a bird flies, the same as a ship, and than a fish; that is, the ship will carry a thousand passengers and a heavy cargo, aud go through water very swiftly, while a fish has all it can do to take care of itself. The flying machine will be propelled by some great force —it may be nitro glycerine, it may be gun powder, and it may be something else that will give it momentum but, whatever it is, it will be light and compact, so that a handful of it, so to speak, will last a whole day, A base-ball travels when hit by a bat, and, if there should be a fly on its sur face, it would carry its passenger. You know how nicely a piece of card-board i can bo shied through the air. The fly j {ng-machine will operate on something i like tho same principle, but balloons will never be used for the purpose, being, as I said before, without momentum." In Chicago the women dress so giuok like men that they are allowed to hang on the straps o l street without I tmsog&itioa, NO. 2t).