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AN DEE SON & W ALLIS, Proprietors A Morning Call. JVhen she spied him coming She wore a Verohicf round her head, jjar papered curls to hide. The flounces on her skirts were torn, Her ilippare were untied, Her jacket wonted buttons, and qwas not exactly clean, Aud through her worn-out slcevos quite plain Her elbows could be seen. When she received him Rpon her brow ter fluffy hair tike tangled sunshine lay, Her pretty Mother Hubbard gown Was rich in ribbons gay, Her little shoes were decked with bows, Some meadow flowers clung Near her fair throat, and from her side A small scent-bottle hung. Jlnd it’s a sure thing That never yet for conjuror Did quicker change be tall, Than that young man evoked who came To make a morning call. —Philadelphia JVcws. An Uncommon Proceeding. '■now cold it is growing,” said Miss Wait, the teacher of the common school in the then brisk little manu¬ facturing village of Shattuckville, as she tied on her soft blue hood, button¬ ed her warm flannel cloak, looked at the window-fastenings of the not over commodious or attractive but snug schoolroom, locked her desk, and care¬ fully shut the damper of the air tight wood stove, preparatory to quitting her domain of labor for the night. As she picked up her rubber over¬ shoes and stooped to draw them over her shapely kid boot, she cogitated: “Oh, dear! Tommy Ilowe’s red toes sticking so pathetically through those old gaping shoes fairly haunt me. I wonder if, in all this prosper ous, busy village, there is no way of getting that poor child decently clad, I must think it over and see what I can do about it.” Twenty-four hours later the leading man of the village, and the owner cf the little factory there, who, years be fore, when a poor b«y, had stranded flown from Vermont to this little hamlet, eccentric and brusque, but kind-hearted, keen-eyed, and observ ant of all that was going on within his domain, was walking along the street and met a bright-eved and sprightly lad of 10 speeding ahead with that amusing, unconscious,. con sequential air that a boy curries with his first brand-new pair of boots. “Old Sam” Whittier, as this gentle man was familiarly cailed, not by reason of advanced age by any means, but because of his supremacy as the : mill-owner and employer of all the | help in the hamlet, took in the situa tion at a glance, and called out to the absorbed child, “Hullo, youngster! where d’ye get them fellers?” j “Teacher gave them to me, sir,” and : the lad’s tattered cap came quickly off, I and he stood with it in his hand. “Does she buy boots for all the boys In the school?” lie growled out. “Guess not; but she bought Joe Briggs a speller and Jane Cass an arithmetic, and she gives away stacks of slate-pencils and paper and ink, and such things.” “What made her go and buy them nice boots for you ?” “She said she wanted to, sir; and when 1 said I had no money to pay her for them, she said she'd rather be paid in perfect lessons; and I will try my best to pay for them in that way, fou may he sure, sir.” “Pretty good sort of a teacher, is «be, bub?” “Gh, yes, indeed! I guess she must he the best teacher that ever lived, sir —she tells us about so many things that we never knew before; and she wants us to bo good and honest and not tell lies, and she says we shall be men and women by and by, and she wants us boys to know something so we can own factories our own selves some time. The other teachers we’ve bad only heard our lessons and let us go. but she’3 so different!” ‘‘Well, well, bub. I shall have to think this business over a little. Now run along, and go to scratchin’ over i!i em ‘perfect lesson?.’ I don’t sup pose you’ll find a person in Shattuck vi " e a better judge of perfect lessons, Pr h°'v much they are worth, both to ••■e teacher and to the scholar, than Ohl Sam’ Whittier, So, bub, look after your ways, and I shall look after you.” lhe next morning a little note writ W in a coarse business hand was a,3 patched to the teacher by the hand cf one of the children. It as fol loff ran s: ~ dlss Wait: I have heard of some r . er uncommon proceedings on your j- ar , a8 a teacher scholars, ld toward your ally ul, like to inquire of you person as to Particulars. AVill you do m he favor . to to house run over my U 1 telly after the close of 3 your school “ 8 afternoon. “SAMt-EL AVhittier.” "What can I have doie?” thought fhat li tt i e teacher, in such a peturbed state of mind that she corrected John- Slie CotJittfl '.V Star. ™ my., m V tadTd lultT hand he,!„ gl „ g : g ,hl l e n 7 primary y ■ class was stretched up in a frenzy of excitement. “Let me see; what is it I have done the past week? I switch ed Bobbie Baker pretty smartly, to be sure—and I kept Sam Woodruff after school—and I kept Marion Fisk in from recess for whispering; but I must keep order. Well, dear me, I have tried to do my duty, and I won’t wor ry; and Miss Wait resolutely went back to “seven times nine,’’ and so proceeded in the usual routine. But she ate no dinner that noon, and had a decided headache as she crossed the big bridge over the hill to the mill-owner’s residence. “I shall not back down in anything where my clear duty and self-respect are involved,” thought she. “1 have set up a certain ideal as to what a teacher of these little common schools ought to be, and I will, God and my mind, good courage and health not j ! forsaking me, bring myself as near to it as possible. Moreover, l will not consider, in the premises, whether the scholars are children of the rich or learned, or of the poor or ignorant. For the time being God has placed in my care ragged, dirty little w'retches of a factory village, as well as clean ’ well-dressed, attractive children.” “Good evening, good evening, ma’am,” said “Old Sam” Whittier, in his gruff way, meeting the teacher at i the door. “As 1 said in my note to you, 1 heard to-day of some rather un common proceedings on your part. I saW( ma’am, little Tommy Howe in a new j, a j r 0 f Hoots this morning. Do y0 u know how he came by them?” “I bought them for him, Mr. Whit tier” wondering whether the local magail te suspected the poor child of stealing 6 “Oh, you did! Are you in the habit of furnishing your scholars with such articles? AVas the providing of boots a part of your business contract witli the committee? If it was, I can put you in tho way of buying boots at wholesale in Boston, where I get my supply for my store.” “It will not be necessary, sir,” ro plied the teacher, with dignity. “1 thank you for your kind offer, how ever.” “Why did you furnish boots in this particular case, if I may inquire?” “The lad is very poor. Ilis mother has her hands full with the smaller children. Tommy is learning rapidly; I £e e marks of rare intelligence in him. It would be a pity to have him taken , out of school at this time when he is so much engaged. Should he contin ue coming clad as he was in such weather as this he would be ill soon, I could not take the risk in either case.” “Are you able to let your heart get the better of you in this way ?” “I have my wages only,” replied the young woman, with dignity. “Then you probably will have to retrench not a little in your own ex¬ penses.” “if I do it will harm no one’s purse or pride but my own. In this instance it may be the matter of a pair of gloves or an ostrich tip with me. With him the little act may make a difference that shall be lasting through time and eternity.” ••You have been attending that school over to South Hadley, I hear?” “Yes, sir.” “Have you been through it, or grad¬ uated, as they call it?” “Oh, no; I have attended but two terms, But 1 am fully determined to complete the course.” “Hum—all right. Miss At ait, you seem to be doing some good work among the children over the river there, I am going to think it all over; but look here—if any more of ; let those little rascals need boots, me know. I shall consider it a privilege to provide them, You know I can obtain them at wholesale—ha! ha! and the now greatly relieved teacher s interview with the mill-owner ended. “If she goes on teaching on and off, and then taking a term on and off at Mount Holyoke, she can’t graduate for years.” ruminated Old Sain " b *t ' tripping on tier, as he watched her over the hill; “it’s ridiculous.” And so it came to pass, when Miss Wait was paid her small salary at the end of the term, she found in the e velope containing tho on er on town treasurer a check with a s ip er pinned to it, reading thus: pa p “This may be an uncommon pro ceeding, but I tbdught l o ‘ C have concluded that you ha right along in your studies a 1 Radley until you R rad “ ate : ^ and . 1 that, with your pluck invest 1 ’ you will be able to m i^oks, or in any way you see fit Very truly WgiTTIEK .« sketchi ith i little „ w I leave th.s true out comment. It carr es COVINGTON, GEORGIA WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1885. ,nd b '"”' *»'“» l»« h '‘ P ‘" g »«• Grant’s Type. “Gath” says in an article on General Grant in the Cincinnati Enquirer: In the great men of the past we find none of the type of General Grant, Cromwell and Wellington suggest no resemblance to him either in origin or temperament. Among modest heroes like Admiral De liuyter he might be classified but for the supreme honors. he has attained. It was told of I)e Ruyter that on the morning after a battle of four days a visitor found him sweeping his cabin and feeding "with his chickens; and “when decorated honors and titles by every Prince of Europe he never in the slightest de gree overcame his innate modesty.” Both De Ruyter, who was taken out of a rope-yard, and Grant, out of a tannery, were sincere republicans, graduated by a sense of duty that sup P resse d all restless, vulgar ambition. Grant is tbe earliest fruit of that per f ect ed and simplified republicanism which was seeded and ripened beyond the Ohio river. He is not only Amor ican > but North-western. People w r ho are seeking in him traces of the old Colonial gentry, like Washington, are ignorant of their country and its ex pansion. What Washington hut dim ly conceived the age and locality of Grant have fully realized—a powerful democracy and its home heroes. lie was born on the public land, went t* land-endowed Public Schools, and was the son on both sides of pioneers. The i whole machinery of the Federal Con stitution and the statutes of the gov- , ernmentoftho North-western Terri tory had gone into operation when he came upon the stage. No other Presl dent exce Pf Lincoln bad b <* a exclu- j sively Western grown, and Lincoln was born in Kentucky, though of Pennsylvania descent Grant’s stock is Puritan and Penn sylvanian. He is of English Puritan ‘in stock, which came to this countrv 1680, ten years after the Pilgrim ° Fathers New Theories Abant Eating. Dr. R. M. Hodges, once read a paper before the Boston Society for Medical Improvement, in which he touched on this question upon which doctors disa¬ gree, and said: “It is a common im¬ pression that to take food immediately before going to bed and to sleep is un¬ wise. Such a suggestion is answered . a remindbr that the i nst inct of ani malg prompts them to s i eep as soon as t[)ey have eaten: and in summer an a f ter . ( | lnner nap- esp ecially when that meal is taken at mid-day, is a luxury indulged in by many. If the ordinary hour of the evening meal is six or seven o’clock, and of the first morning meal 7 or 8 o’clock, an interval of | t we!ve hours, or more, elapses nutri- with-j out food, and for persons whose tion is at fault this is altogether too long a period of fasting. That such an interval without food is permitted explains many a restless night, and much of the head and backache, and the ianguid, half-rested condff ion on rising, wine appetite for breaxidsi. This meal • it- ! ■ It is, therfore, desirable, mo - tial.whennuteiment u tolw crowi e^ that the ast thing before go „ b d should be the.taking lessness is often c - ' and a tumbler of milk, middle of the “>«“* ** ^ people to sleep when yp w fail of their purpose oo ’ ing is equally importan P J It supplies strength ior Dam g dressing, hiborious ant w ea j tasks for the underfed, aild | morning ‘picic-me-up ‘ ‘ r ‘ tonic -’” A Trick in the Toffee Trade. I New methods of imposing upon the trade are continually being discovered. things Factitious by the strength addition is 8*® £ ^ jome ‘ ’ low grades are being m xe 8 grades, and imitations of PI names are very common. The las dodge is in the coffee trade. new glossy Every buyer likes to have a bean, but of course as the beans grow old a part of this glossiness disappears, and the purchaser can tell that what is shown him has been gathered a long time. Modern ingenuity cannot thus be put to fault. The coffee beans o an old stock are placed in a revo.ving with a few drops of cotton seed oil, and the cylinder is then set in motion. The small quantity of oil thus introduced restores the coffee to its or iginal appearence, and the manipulator sell his consignment for a cent can could the day more a pound p than he before. The fraud can be detected by putting a number of beans into a In oof-j fee cup and filling it with water. a ' film of oil minutes there will be a l6 "tha Enquirer. ^ surface.— Com. LAND OF THE ESQUIMAUX. Some Traits of the People in the Arctic Regions, A Savaee Race who Can Draw Maps and Have Tremendous Appetites, A\ riting about the Esquimaux in the New l'ork Times Lieut. Schwatka says: “ They are rud e topographical en b ria eers as well as sculptors, and are extremel y good map makers for such unken H>t savages. Nearly every white man ’ ex P lorer or otherwise who has visited their country ami associated witb them speaks of this trait being very eonspicious in them. It seems es P eci aHy well developed in the worn ® a ’ although many of the men, from their 8 reater amount of ipurneyings over acd around a country* are often in a P osi tion to make more accurate drawin S 3 in tb e details or particular P laces> I have had several occasions to use tbem as map makers, and find tbeir rude charts quite accurate, good eno,, gh at least to enable me to recog D * ze tbe P laces 1 was trying to make oub These propensities for drawing and carving have often been utilized by ethnologists to show the origin of this great family or race which caps tbt) North American Continent. Noth in g 80 pleased the little ones of the Innuits as a pencil and a clean piece of P a P er 011 which they could draw, and quite often we would find a group of these s P endin g hours in producing fearful hieroglyphics, until the sheet i ooked bke a pattern sheet from a la d,es ’ ^ asbion magazine, The nautical tduaanacs and books of tables for the P arty were profusely ornamented with tbe3e rude drawings, and the more im P orta nt records only escaped a similar fate by being kept under lock and key not used by “«• lhe ornamental displays In the sew . tbe those which women are are confined to the limited varieties of C(dors to be found on tne seal and reindeer - The fur of tho latter in its P rime is in th ® darkest colored ani ' nials quite a g lossy bIacl; on the back, the llanks and belly bettg white, and between these extremes found. every shade j of gray can be The skin of the former is tanned in two ways, one of which makes it black, the other a dirty white, and their best sewers combine these furs and skins in de signs .often quite intricate, and not without pleasing effect. None of the men or boys knowmuch about sewing, although I doubt if like other savages they consider it degrading, in so many thing 3 do they assist their women with their work. As a war party is wholly unknown among them, and these are the only kinds of parties among most savages unaccompanied b Y women, it is seldom that the In¬ nuits have not their footgear in the very best condition, and somebody al ways with them to keep it so should g et otherwise, One of the duties of the Esquimau women is to chew the hides of th# ook-jook (great seal) that are intended for the soles and footcovering of the , t A .. ‘ ’ ^ ^ be g een feug engag ed Jn almost every tent or snowhouse. By ..re old crones and too . , their t th are wom dcnvn aImo ; t to their gums with ^ ^ ^ often do this labor as a pastime while emp i 0 y e d at some other work which requires about half the attention an d the use of one hand, as cooking, leaving the other hand free to roll the t bolus of sea l leather around in the mouth, that keeps opening and shuttIn _ aU day w ith the regularity of ^ w j nt j m ill pump, and with just such spasmo dic variations, according to the iutensity of the mental wind. it would hardly do for one to jne that an Esquimau could tire his j awg witb sagging them, so constant do some of them keep them going in eating their almost continual es of raw frozen meat anl hot tidbits from the stone kettle hanging over the lamp. As an example of their enorm0 u 3 appetite, an Esquimau boy, gupplied R y Capt. Ferry, of the royal navy( while w intering among them, devoured in one day over 10 pounds o£ so ji d food and drank of tea, coffee, and wa ter over a gallon and a half. A man 0 f the same tribe, (one^ of tl , ose no t far from Norta Hudson Bay, wbe re I wintered,) ate 10 pounds of gol j d material, which included a couple f candleSi and drank of various liq ujdg a gal i on an d a half, and these' peop ] e were only about ! to 4.V feet in j ie jgRt- I might give some instances in my own party, but being a practi ^ convert to the theorj of the neces- j s R y of considerable food in that cli- j ma t e I shall desist. The Esquimaux have often been ac-' cused of eating tainted meat. This is tfU6 to a limited extent. The fat meat3 0 f seal and walrus are stored away in the Summer for future use, and this fut is a true preservative, never allowing the meat to go beyond rancidity, that is to putrefaction, and no more in that state than is caviar, and some kinds of game and cheese. All the lean meats, such as reindeer or musk oxen, are generally disposed of immediately in the warm Summer and only put in caches after freezing weather has come on. The general impression of people is that they drink oil (rendered from fats) of all kinds almost as copiously as we drink water, and yet I have seldom seen them do this, and understand that it is only done to avert starvation, except salmon oil. I doubt if they use as much oil as some civilized nations. In the shape of huge chunks of blub¬ ber from the whale, seal, or walrus, they consume enormous quantities, but to drink it in the pure state, or to even use it as a dressing for any other cooking, is very rare indeed. The Esquimaux in and around tha mouth of Black’s Great Fish River catch quantities of fat salmon, and a great deal of oil is obtained from these fat fish. This oii I have seen them drink and have soused it myself. About the middle of December, 1879, In our midwinter sledge journey from the Arctic Sea to Hudson Bay, our supply of toodnoo (reindeer fat) ran very low, and so did the thermometer, and we noticed the disappearance of our fatty food very conspicuously in the greater effort that was necessary to keep warm. After matters had been running this way two or three days, one of my Innuit sledgemen came to me and showed me a couple of recep tacles, being reindeer bladders, each holding nearly a quart of salmon oil, and poured me out a gill of the stuff from one, which he told me to drink to drh ’° away tbe f d ' My re P u « nance for the odor I soon overcame, knowing the usual after effect, and 1 downed the dose as an old toper would his morning drink, but with a horrible grimace. I might add that the effect of war;r,th - a Peasant glow all over the body, was apparent about as soon as if 1 had taken that amount of alco hoi, although one would imagine that the oil would have to digest according to known laws of assimilation before producing warmth. Several times af terward I repeated the agreeable dose, and always found the same effect of genial warmth. Grant’s Peculiarities In battle or in command ho wore a blue blouse and no sword, a plain slouch hat, dark trousers, and top boots. Even his horse equipments did not indicate his rank. When he went to Europe in 1878 he was com¬ pelled to buy a new uniform, as his old one was worn out. He bought but three while general of the army. At table he ate but little, and tlni't of the plainest, and in the latter years of his life used no wine. As an escort for ladies, the assurance of one of the brightest and most lovely women who lias graced Washington social life, that “General Grant was the most accepta¬ ble of all the escorts she had ever had at dinner,” is warrant enough for the statement that he was a gentleman in social life and at the table. He was ent >rely a moral man, never using for vice and immoral men. He was fond of children and they of him-be caHSe o£ positive evidences of benevo lenco of both head and heart - 1Ie stood fatl g«e readily, and could go without food or sleep for a long time, On horseback ho sat easily and rode with grace—as West Point men usual J >' do - Ite bad a k( *n memory for tb ose who abused him, either by s P et ‘ ch or iu the P re3 ». and never for g ot theln . He hated and liked with manly vi g‘>r. bad one old-time virtue, fast becoming obsolete, devel °P ed in tlie hi « hest — he liked h? 3 fri ™ ds and would stand by them. Ha'Mphi a Press. A Mpxican policeman The police system of the city of Mexico beats anything in America. A Mexican policeman is a strong, fine ] 00 king young man, wearing a military uniform and openly displaying a six s h 0 oter. He does not spend bis time v .- ai king the sidewalk, lost to sight in a erow l of people. Ilis beat is the m j d dle of the street, where he can see and be sccn . Hedges not dodge hides, but makes them dodge him. No nonsense is tolerated, and the po Uce rat!ier en j oy a row . They keep S pi, ; ndid order- Wheeling Register. Near ami Yet so Far. Dainty Dude- “Melinda.liowdidyou like my serenade last night i Melinda —“I didn’t like your posi tion. “My position ? My attitude, you mean." -No, your position. You weren’t for enough away for me not to bear y0 u, and you weren't close enough or me to scald you.”— Call, VOL. XL NO, 51. CHILDREN’S COLUMN. Endorous tells the tale that la Pangseura, in Thrace, a bear attacked the hair of a lion, while it was un¬ guarded, and killed the cubs that were too small and too weak to defend themselves. And when the father and mother came home from hunting somewhere, and saw their children lying dead, they were much aggrieved, and attacked the bear; but she was afraid, and climbed up a tree as fast as she could, and settled herself dow;n, trying to avoid the attack. Now, when they saw that they could not avenge themselves on her, the lioness did not cease to watch the tree, but sat down in ambush at the foot, eye¬ ing the bear that was covered with blood. But the lion, as it were, with¬ out purpose and distraught with grief, after the manner of a man, rushed off to the mountains, and chanced to light upon a wood-cutter, who, in terror, let fall his axe; but the lion fawned upon him, and reaching up saluted him as well as he could, and licked his face with his tongue. And the man took courage. Then the lion encir¬ cled him with his tail, and led him, and did not suffer him to leave his axe behind, but pointed with his foot for it to be taken up. And when the man did not understand he took it up in his mouth and reached it to him. Then he followed while the lion led him to his den. And when the lioness saw him she came up and made signs, looking at the pitiable spectacle, and then up at the bear. Thou the man perceived and understood that the lion had suffered cruel wrong from the bear, and cut down the tree with might and main. And the tree fell, and the lions tore the bear in pieces; but the man the lion led back again, safe and sound, to the place where he lighted on him, and returned him to the very tree he had been cutting.— Popular Science. Dividing with Grandpa. Lulie was as bonny a little lassie as ever wore blue eyes and shiny curls and a white dress, with ruffles and a sash. In the summer she went to see her grandfather. She had been there be¬ fore, but it was a year ago, and she didn't remember anything about it, except that they had a squatty dog, which sat up and said, “Wough!” when he wanted something to eat. And a cat that scratched her when she patted it. And that the bedrooms smelled of dried rose leaves. And that grandfather always had nuts imhis pockets, and a watch that snapped very loud. She was a little afraid of grand¬ father at first, but lie was so kind and pleasant that she was soon sitting on his knee, playing with his long white beard. Then she began to look very hard at his head. She thought it looked very strange indeed. “Oh, poor grandpa! What’s ee mat¬ ter wis ou’s head? Where is all ou’s hair gone?” “Why, Fussy,” lie said, laughing, “I have lived so long that my hair is all worn out.” Lulie felt very much concerned j about it. She stood up on his lap and i peeped over his head to see how far his forehead went back. It went back ed the few white hairs on his temples with a feeling that something ought to be done about it. Her own hair covered her head am ; hung down in long curls. It seemed j to her that she had a great deal more than her share. “I’ll div ou’ some o’ mine, ganpa,” she said, very earnestly, “Will you? I’ll take a curl now, then,” he said, and he took out his pen¬ knife and cut off a little curl which put in his pocket-book, “No, no,” said Lulie; “I’ll 'vide even wis’on!” j Rut mamma said, “Run away and j play now, dear,” and grandpa slipped | some nuts in her pocket and set her : down. But LuIie wen t very soberly up to ber mamraa . s room . IIa i £ an hour afterward she came back with a face a n smiles and dimples, “Here’s’ou’s s’are, him’. ganpa!” she cried, runn ing up to Her short dress wa3 held up in both hands—full of bright hair. Everybody stared in dismay, what woful havoc mamma’s scissors had p i ayed with the sunshiny curls! () n one side they waved as before, but on the other they were unevenly sn i pp ed off to the very crown of her I head. j Mamma looked as if she hardly knew w hether to laugh or cry. But grandpa gathered the darling, hair and ■ all, into Ills arms with such a hug as as she bad never felt before. Lulie’s curls have grown iohg again, but I think they might grow down to her feet before grandpa will ever for get how she cut half of them off to cover his dear old bald head.— Youth' Companion. Hope* Storm overhanging Darkens the plaint Silenoe most dismal Burdens the brain. The wind that passes Over the marsh Sounds in the grasses Sullen and harsh. Down thro’ the darkness Cutting its way, Gleams from the heavens One single ray. There in the tempost, Threatened witli blight, One simple flower Sparkles with light! -~Richard L. Dawson in the Current HUMOROUS. j Hooking and lying are the fisher¬ man’s crying sins. A cyclone is like a waiter. It car¬ ries everything before it. | The bird family must have a jolly time—they have so many larks. The burglar, liko his friend the phi¬ losopher, “takes everything as it comes.” “O where does beauty linger?” de¬ manded a Quaker City poetess. As a usual thing, she lingers in the parlor until her mother has cleaned up the kitchen. Of the seven successful candidates for the Presidency during the past twenty-eight years live are dead, while of the seven unsuccessful aspirants five are alive. i There’s a farmer boy in Ohio, who has the making of a “funny man” in him. He recently wrote an ede to the dead mother of his pet lamb, and called it a “Ewe logy.” A witty paragrapher has relieved his mind by saying that "Miss Liber¬ ty” will not be lonesome way down on Bedloe’s island; she will be out with the “buoys,” you know. In Kentucky a bolt of lightning cut the rope by which a mule was tied without scorching a hair. Lightning takes terrible risks sometimes; but this was the most foolhardy thing the electric fluid ever did. Next time it may not get off so easily. Currency of the Cannibal Islands. Mr. Walter Coote lias described some curious moneys of the New He¬ brides and tho Solomon Islands. On one of the islands he noticed a neatly kept house, which he was told was the money-house. Entering it, lie found a number of mats hanging from tho roof, beneath which a fire was con¬ stantly kept up, under the effect of which they became covered with a black glistening coating and adorned with festoons of soot. It w r as a man’s business to keep the fire always burn¬ ing, and so low as not to scorch the mats. A well-colored mat is worth about as much as a well-grown vigo¬ rous boar, This is the strangest of all kinds of money, for it must never be taken from the money-house, even when the title is transferred from one owner to another. The inhabitants of Santa Cruz Island use for money, rope-ends, about an inch thick, and ornamented with a scarlet feathers, which are worn about the waist. The traveler could not obtain new coins of of this kind, but found them current everywhere. The specimens he bought were already did, and the feathers grown dingy. The money of the Sol¬ omon Islands oonsists of neatly work¬ ed pieces of shell of about the size of our shirt-buttons. They are strung on strings about four yards long, and are distinguished under the names of red and white money. Dog-teeth are ol higher value, and comparable to our gold coins. They are usually worn on a string around the neck. Mr. Coote saw a necklace of this kind that was valued at about one hundred dollars. Marble rings are also worn on the breast for ornaments, and as valuable money. The Man with the Camellia. “L’llomme au Camellie” (Tho Man with the Camellia) is the heading a French paper gave lately to a sketch of one of the many original figures to be seen on the Parisian boulevard. Though invariably clad in the shab¬ biest attire—for excellent reasons—the ’ttdividual in question is never without a magnificent white camellia at his but¬ ton-hole. A year-or two ago he had, it seems, a rare run of luck at the green table, and with eccentric prudence, he determined to ensure, in the season of his prosperity, that, whatever priva¬ tion the turn of fortune’s w heel might Awing with it, he should never want for his favorite flower. He asked his flmruste one day accordingly what sum sbe ' TOub * take to supply him with a ' vhite cat » , ' llia every da y for the rest of b * s amoun f fixed upon a , ver - considerable one, as may be sup P osed was paid on the spot, and now the ruined gamester struts daily along the asph^t, rejoicing in th'e possession of a camellia worth rather more than * the coat it adorns.