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lotr/W KEPENTABfCE. Lore came knocking, gently knocking At the )>ort4ilaof my heart, And lc*eeciit><i me their unlocking, For a m-i ret he’d ItupuM* But I laugtie I toicorn nisgn'etlng Ami regrcited not the Heeling Of hi •* ha tiled steps retreating _. On their way. Then again n nicaiago brought he, Kuo. king g iiitlv as Indore, And with courtly tones beaought me— Yet I opened not the door. Mildly chiding my denying. And my cool reserve doerylng, He, with low and mystic sighing, Turned away. Boon the little tyrant ahyljr— Without warning as before— Pulled ine lateh-string, and then slyly Pushed aside t he looeene l door. Though my heart was near relenting, And I felt '(would bring repenting, Yet I would not, l*y consents a ML Love to-d ly. Could I ratch him and securely Tic his little wicked wings, 1 would kneel to hhu demurely, Tho’ I know they say he sings- That is he, 1 know his knocking, 1 will hasten the unlocking. Ah, the little trlfler, mocking Flics awav! thistim;, hy i o. wilbon. The ntln wan falling, falling, And the night was dark and drear. 1 heard the night birds culling, “Whither, whither can we steer ?” " Tell ns w here w e’ll find protection ?” “ Where find shelter from the storm ? w Came the answer in bird diction : 14 God will keep from every harm.” At dusk, on the cold, wet pavement, I heard the patter of little feet ; And a litt'e form beside the easement, ftevealed a fnee so pale uiuj sweet That I hasted the bolted door to open, And, kindly taking the outstretched arm, Drew gently in, as the words were spoken : “ 1 knew He would keep from every harm. And rut upon the wild, wild ocean Of human life I am now afloat, Tossed to and fro by every motion Of wind or wave, in my quivering boat, And I shrink with fear lest an angry wave Should ingulf my bark in its wild alarm ; But I hear ’mid storm, “ His hand can save, And He will keep from every harm.” HOW HE GOT OJT OF IT ; on, Engaged to Threa Girls in One Night. “ If you will take my advice,” said Mr Wilding, making a last noble but futile effort to balance the ivory paper knife on the tip of his first finger, “ you won’t go to the Brownrigs’ ball.” “ And why not,” asked his companion irritably. “Well, I really wouldn’t, you know,’ said Mr. Wilding, giving up his struggle with the impossible, and laving the re fractory paper knife upon the table, “for a variety of reasons. Girls play the very mischief with you, and you know what trouble it gave me to get you out of your last scrape. There are four Brownrig girls, aren't there ? And they are all pretty ?” “I don’t see what that's got to do with it,” said Snooks, sulkily. “ There’s safe ty in a multitude. I can’t marry ’em all, can I?” “ Happily, no ! Though, if the laws of your land did not forbid it, I am in clined to think you might try to accom plish even that. Still, he advised, Snooks, and he conspicuous by your ab sence at the Brownrigs’ ‘small and early.’ Papa Brownrig, when incensed, is not nice, and you know you are decidedly intimate with Miss Kate,” “No, I am not,” said Snooks with de cision, “ not a bit of it. Though I allow she is a handsome girl, and has lovely eyes. Hasn’t she, now ?” “ I don't know. Asa rule I never look into a woman’s eyes. I consider it a rudeness as well ns a beastly,” said Wilding earnestly, telling his lie without ablush. “Never mind her eyes. If,” warningly, “you must go to this ball, at least try to forget that she has any eyes at all. If you don’t, you will propose to lier, to a moral.” One would think that I was a raw school-boy,” said young Snooks wrath fully. “Do you think I can’t look at a woman without committing myself? Do I look like a fool ?” Whatever Mr. Wilding thought at that moment, he kept it to himself. Before he spoke next, he and his conscience hgd Rgreed to dissemble. “Mvdear fellow, do not let us even hint at such a thing,” ho said amiably. “I only meant you were slightly—very slightly—susceptible, and that Miss Kate has a certain amount of pleasing power, and that—l positively would give up this ball if I—” “Are you going?” broke in Snooks im patiently. “Well, yes, I dare say I shall look in about 12.” “Then I shall look in with you,” said Snooks defiantly. “Fact is, the fellow wants to spoon her himself, and don’t see the force of being cut out,” said he to himself complacently as he ran down the steps of Wilding’s stairs. Beyond all question the Brownrigs’ ball was a decided success. The rooms were tilled to overflowing, the staircases were choked, the heat was inferable. Sir Thomas and Lady Higgins had actually put in an appearance after nil, and the supper, if uneatable, was, I as sure you, very expensive. No pains or money had been spared : everything was what the mistress of the house called “rug regal;” and all the Miss Brownrigs looked ns charming as any one could desire. There were four of them. There was Katie, the second daughter—Snook’s friend, and the possessor of the lovely eves. And they were lovely; large, “and dark, and true, and tender,” like the North, according to the Laureate; “black as sloes,” said her fond if slightly op pressive mother, and of the languid, melting order. Then there was Hetty, the eldest girl, who, if her eyes were not (lark as midnight, had at least the dearest little nose in the world. A pure Greek feature, perfect in every respect, ignorant of colds in the head, that made one long to tell her (only she would have blushed, I they were all nicely brought up) about i Duilu, and her Phidian appendage. Then came Georgia “ George the Third,” as she was playfully termed in the bosom of her family who, if she had neither nose nor eyes like her sisters, had certainly a prettier mouth than cither. A sweet little kissable rosebud of a mouth that pouted and laughed al ternately, and did considerable execu tion. ' And finally, there was Lilly. A tall, pale girl, with blue eyes, a finely cut chin, an 1 a great deal of determination all round. Katie’s eyes were larger, darker, and (when she looked at Snooks and thought of bis thousands) more melting than ever that night. Her dress, if slightly bizarre, vas immensely becoming. Snooks, for the flr.A half hour, kept himself bravely r.i ■[ from her fascinations, declined to mti - her reproachful glances and lan guishing sriliades, and for reward was wretched. Finally, being driven into a corner during a fatal set ot Lancers, he met her eyes and was conquered. She would dance the next with him ? Yes 1 •’ldly . And the next? Yes (more Hamilton Journal. LAMAR & DENNIS, Publishers. VOL. VIII.-NO. 44. she is disengaged for it? Yes (this time quite warmly). An hour later the deed was done. Borne capital champagne, a dark avenue (1 lielieve there were some Chinese lan terns there originally, but a kind wind had blown them out), and a soft little baud slipped into his, did the work ; and Miss Katie had promised hushfully, hut with unmistakable willingness, to he the future Mrs. Snooks. Whether it was Snooks or the property pertaining to Snooks she most affected, deponent say eth not. When, however, her betrothed found what he had done, and remembered his former words, and till the awfulness of parental wrath, liis heart failed him. lie went, as lie usually did when in sorry case, in search of Wilding ; and having discovered him, took iiim into a side room, and shutting the door, confronted him w ith a rather pale face. “ So the eves were too many for you ?” said Mr. Wiiding calmly, after a deliber ate examination of the disturbed face be fore him. “ I told you how it would be.” “That’s the sort of thing any fellow might say,” returned Snooks pathetic ally. “ I didn't think you would have been so aggravating. And just when you tee I’m down on my luck, too. Yes; I've been and gone and done it.” ‘“Mother will be pleased,’ ” quoted his friend and law adviser with a shrug. “So, by the bye,-will he your father. They both regard nothing so highly ns birth. T suppose Miss Brownrig can lay claim to some decent breeding ? ’ “The old chap is a cornel landler, you know that, at least, he used to be,” said Snooks, with a heavy groan. “O, indeed! And a very charming business, too, I have no doubt. Leads up to quite a train of ideas. Corn, wheat, staff of life, quaint old mill, and rustic bridge in the distance, miller sit ting on it. I wonder,” dreamily, “if Brownrig ever wore a white hat ? And if so, why? Don’t nil speak at once. Well, well, she is a very pretty girl. Such eyes, you know! I really congrat ulate you, my dear fellow.” “Wilding,” desperately, “can’t you do something? I—l don’t know how it hap pened. It was the champagne, I sup pose, and of course she is pretty: hut I don’t want to marry any one, and I know the Governor won’t hear of it.” “He will have to hear of it now, won't he ?” asked Wilding unfeelingly. “He would go out of his mind if such a tiling was even hinted to him,” de clared Snooks wildly. “Try to help me out of it. Wilding, can’t you?” “I don’t see what there is to do, ex cept marry her. I cnly hope Lady Snooks and Miss Corneliandler will get on. And you should think of her beau ty, you know; doubtless it will console you when Sir Peter cuts you off with the customary shilling.” “I suppose I had better cut my throat and put an end to it,” said Snooks dis mally ; and then, overcome, no doubt, by the melancholy of this suggestion, he breaks down and gives way to tears. “ I say. don’t do that, you know,” ex claimed Wilding indignantly. “Weep ing all over the place won’t improve mat ters, and will make you look a worse fool than nature intended, when you go out of the room. If you have put your •fixit in it, at least try to bear misfortune like a man. Look here,” angrily, “if you are going to keep up this hideous booliooing I’ll leave the room, and you too, to your fate. It’s downright in decent. They will hear you in the next house if you don’t moderate your grief.” As the nearest house was a quarter of a mile off, this was severe. “I shouldn’t care if they heard me in the next town,” said Mr. Snooks, who was quite too far gone for shame. “There is just one chance for you, and only one,” said wilding, slowly. “I have an idea and you must either follow it or—go to the altar. ” “I’ll follow anything, eagerly. What is it ?” “You have proposed to Miss Katie,” solemnly. “Now go and propose to the other three!” As Wilding gave vent to his idea he turned abruptly on his heel and left the room. “I’ll do it,” said Snooks valiantly, dry ing his eyes and giving his breast a tragic tup, “whatever comes of it.” Going into the hall he saw Hetty stand ing near an entrance; a little way beyond her was Kate, conversing with a tall and lanky youth. Not daring to glance in the direction of the latter, who plain ly expected him to come straight to her on the wings of love, he turned and asked Hetty to dance. They danced, and then (it was custom with the hall goers in that mild suburban neighborhood) ho drew her out under the gleaming stars and up the dark avenue that a few /ninutes since was the scene of her sister’s happiness. There he proposed in due form, arid was again accepted. Hetty’s conduct, indeed, was perhaps a degree more pro nounced than Katie's, because she laid her head upon his shoulder, and he felt by all the laws of sentiment hound to kiss her. Her nose looked lovely in the pale moonlight; so I dare say he did not find the fulfilling of this law difficult. After that he had some more, a good deal more, champagne; and then he pro posed to Miss Georgia, who also con sented to lie his. There now remained but one other step to he taken. He crossed the room and asked the youngest Miss Brownrig to dance. He was get ting rather mixed by this time, and was on the very point of asking her to marry him instead, so customary had the mr-s --tion grown to him now. Miss Lily, however, declined to dance, on the plea that she was tired, and could exert her self no more that night. With question able taste he pressed the matter, and begged her to give him just one. At this she told him frankly she did not ad mire his style of dancing, which, of course, ended tie conservation. So he asked her to come for a stroll instead, and having arrived at the momentous spot, delivered himself of the ornate speech that had already done duty threa , times that night. 1 forgot what it was, lint I know it wound up with the declara tion that he adored her and wanted to marrv her. „ • ‘lt’s extremely good of you, I m sure, said the young* st Miss Browning, calm : 1.. it sc T feor it r,...5t “Don’t you, by love!’’ said Snook, hastily. “ Well, that’s awfully ki No, no!" pulling himself up with a start; “I don’t mean that, you know ; I mean it s awfully horrid, you kuow. In fact," warming to his work through sheer gra titude, “you have made me miserable for ever : you’ve broken my heart." “ Dear me, how shocking !" said Miss Lilly, frivolously. “ Let us hope Time will mend it. I'm not very sure you did not speak the truth at first. I really be lieve it is kind, my refusing you. And now, Mr. Snooks, if I were you, I should go in and say good-night to mamma, be cause you have been having a good deal of papa’s champagne, and it is trying to the constitution.” Snooks took the hint, lindo farewell to Mrs. Brownrig, who, to his healed im agination, appeared to regard him al ready with a moist and motherly eye, and, taking Wilding's aim, drew him out of the house. “ Well ?” said the latter interroga tively “I don’t kuow whether it is well or ill,” returned he gloomily. “But I fol lowed your advice and proposed to ’em all.” “ And they accepted you ?” “Most of ’em. But Lilly, the young est, she—" “I always said she was a sensible girl,” put in Mr. Wilding, sotto voce. “Did you?” with much surprise. “Well, she refused me ; sort of said she wouldn’t have me at any price. Bo you see you were wrong !” “ I always knew she was one of tho most intelligent girls I ever met," Mr. Wilding repeated, in a tone so difficult that his companion for once had suffi cient sense to refrain for demanding an explanation. The next morning, as Katie Brownrig turned the angle of the hall that led to her father’s sanctum (whither a sense of filial duty beckoned her) she almost ran into the arms of her three sisters, all con verging toward the same spot from dif ferent directions. Simultaneously they entered Mr. Brownrig’s study. (He called it a library; but that word is too often profaned for me to profane it, so I shall draw the line at study). But to re turn. Miss Lilly, being the youngest, was of course the first to raise her voice. “I had a proposal last night, pa.pa, and I have come to tell you about it,” said she, iu a tone replete with triumph. It was so sweet to the mind of youth tooutdo its elders. But “on this occasion ouly” the elders refused to lie outdone. They each and all betrayed a smile of in ward satisfaction, and then they gave w ay to speech. “No!” they said in a breath. They; dkhnotimeun to doubt or be impolite they only meant surprise. “The curate,” said Hetty in a com posed but plainly contemptuous whisper. It was a stage whisper. “Old Major Sterne,” said Miss Georgie promptly. “Perhaps Henry Simms,” suggested Katie, with some sympathy. Then turn ing to her father she said, with a con scious blush, “It is very strange, papa, but I too had a proposal last night.” “And so had I!” exclaimed Georgie and Hetty in a breath. “Eh?” said papa, pushing up his spec tacles. He was fat and pudgy, with sandy hair and flabby nose. He was a powerful man, too, and one unpleasant to come to open quarrel with. Proposals in the Brownrig family were few and far between- in fact, curiosities and so much luck us tlie, girls described falling into one day overpowered him. “One at a time; my breath is not what it used to lie," ho said addressing Katie. (If he had said breadth, it would have been equally true, as bis mother— if she was to be believed- always dc dared lie was a lean baby). “May I ask the name of your lover ? ’ “Mr. Snooks,” said she with downcast eyes and a timid smile. Blie took up the corner of a cherry-colored bow that adorned her gown, and fell to admiring it, through which she fondly thought was bashfulnuess. “Impossible!” exclaimed Georgie an grily. “What a disgraceful untruth!” cried Hetty rudely. “Mr. Snooks proposed to me, iast night, and I accepted him.” “What is it you say? Oh, I am going out of my mind; my senses arc de serting me.” said Georgie, putting her hands to her head with a dramatic gesture. “Or is it a dream that ho asked me to marry him, and that I too said ‘yes’?” “I seldom visit the clouds,” said Lilly, with a short but bitter laugh. “And I certainly know lie made me a a noble offer of bis hand and heart; both which treasures I declined.” “ Where?” demanded tlie other three, as though with one mouth. “ In the laurel avenue !” At this they all groaned aloud. “ Perfidious monbter!” said Hetty from her heart. “ Arn I to understand,” began Mr. Brownrig, with suppressed but evident fury, “that this—this- unmitigated scoundrel asked you all to marry him last night ?” “if we speak the truth, yes,” replied the girls dismally. “lie was drunk,” said papa, savagely. “ 1 can’t believe it,” said Katie, who was dissolved in tears in fact, 4 like Niobe, all tears’—by this time. “Noth ing could he nicer than the way he did it. His language was so jierfect, and so thoroughly from the—heart.” “ He addressed me in a most honor able, upright, and Christian fashion,” said Hetty. “I am sure he meant every word he said.” Site was thinking uneasily of that kiss in the moonlight. Could anyone have seen her ? Was old Major Sterne any where about at the moment ? “I certainly considered his manner strange, not a bit like what one reads,” said Georgie, honestly, “but I thought of the titl* and the property, and 1 said yes direct]* “I thought him the very greatest muff I ever spoke to,” broke in Miss Lilly with decision. I refused him without a moment's hesitation, and told him to go home. I’m sure it was well I did. I daresay if ho had stayed here much longer he would have proposed to mam ma next, and afterward to the upper housemaid. I agree with you, pap>a, the “ DUM SPIRO, SPERO." HAMILTON, GA-, OCTOBER '2B, 1880. Katie, in a low and trembling tone. Her lingers are not playing with the cherry colored bow now, but her eyelids have borrowed largely of its tint. “Don't be a goose, Katie,” said the youngest Miss Brownrig, kindly, but scornfully; “you don't sup)K>so any of us would marry him now, after the wav he has behaved? Do lmto some littlo pride.” "Perhaps he is mad,” said Hetty, vaguely. Just at this moment, ns a slave to her wounded vanity, she, would have been glad to believe him so. “No, my dear,” declared Lily, calmly; “he has no hraius worth turning.” “He said something to papa about calling to-day at 4 o’clock,.’’ said Katie, very faintly. “Then I shall sit here Nil 4,” returned Mr. Brownrig in an awful tone. “I shall sot here until 5; and then 1 shall get up, and go out and find that young man, and give him such a horse whip ping as 1 w arrant you ho never got tie lore in all his life. ” “Don’t he too hard on him, papa,” entreated Katie, weakly. “I shan’t my dear, but my whip will,” said papa, grimly. Bo he waited until 6; he waited until half-past five; ami then he took up a cer tain heavy gold knobbed whip that liw stretched on tho table as though in read iness, and sallied forth in search of Snooks' rooms. And he found them, and Snooks, too- - in bed, suffering from a severe catarrh, caught, 1 presume, in the laurel avenue. And no man knows what he did to Snooks. But at least lie gave him mi increased desire for his bed, because for a fortnight afterward he never stired out of it. When Mr. Wilding heard of all this, 1 regret to say he gave way to noisy mirth in the privacy of liih chambers; and was actually caught by his washerwoman, who peeped through the keyhole, per forming a wild dance in the middle of the floor. . . Lowell in London. Janies Russell Lowell’s speech at the Savage Club supper has been much ap plauded by the Londoners. “It was ad mirable in itself,” says the London World, “perfectly delivered, in a soft, low-toned and yet penetrating voice.” Mr. Lowell is described as a wonderfully young-looking American, whom it is dif ficult to believe is sixty-one years old. Mr. Lowell, in his pleasant little speech, said, among other things: “I confess that if Alexander, who once offered a re ward for anew pleasure, were to come again upon earth 1 should be one of the competitors for that prize, and I should offer for his consideration a festival at which there were no speeches. Gentle men in your profession have in one sense a great advantage over the rest of us your speeches are prepared for you by the cleverest men of your time, or by the greatest genius of all time You can he witty and wise at less expense than we poor creatures wlioare obliged to call up on our own resources. I admit that there is a good deal in the spur of the moment, hut that depends very much upon the animal into whose flank you dig it; lmt there is also a great deal in that self possessed extemporaneousuess which a man carries in his pocket on a sheet of paper. It reminds one of the compli ment which tho Irishman paid to the national weapon: ‘God bless this sliil lehili; it’s a weapon which never misses fire.’” * A (jlwml Character from His Last Place. In Galveston, as elsewhere in Texas, when a prisoner has no money to employ counsel, tin- .fudge iqqioiiits a young law yer to defend the doomed man, very much as the pauper patients in u hospital are turned over to the young doctor to learn the profession on. Not long since quite young lawyer was appointed to defend a man for burglary. The young lawyer, after consulting with his unfortunate client, said ; “ May it please vour Honor, I want this case continued until I can procure the attendance of material witesses.” “What do you expect to prove?” asked the court. “ I expect to prove that my unfortu nate client is a quiet, sober and indus trious man.” “By whom do you expect to prove that ?” “By the off.i .era of the. penitentiary, where he has spent the last five years.” Presence of Mind. There is nothing like presence of mind after all. During a tremendous rdiower, a gentleman entered a fashionable New York club, hearing a splendid ivotfy handlcd silk umbrella, which he placed on the rack. Instantly another gentle man. who was mourning the abstraction of just such an article, jumped up. “ VVill you allow me to look at that? ” he said, sternly. “Certainly,” re marked the umbrella carrier. “I was just taking it to the police headquarters. It was left in my house last night by a burglar w hom we frightened oil'. I hope it will prove a first-rate clew.” And, though the exasperated owner could plainly see where his name had been scratched off the handle, he sat down and clmnged the subject.— JV/w York Hour. Tub Marquis of Bute was, years ago, struck with the picture of a heaver village, serving as a frontispiece to a book of travels in Canada, with the re semblance of the sit*: to a spot on his Kothesay estate, and he conceived the idea of acclimatizing the animal. He sent to Canada for beavers, and, after inclosing the shore of the lake in the woods, he let them loose upon it. The creatures soon made themselves at home, and began to build as busily as if they had remained in their native forests. The young Luke of Portland was so charmed with the sight of the Marquis of Bute’s leaver colony that he determined to establish one on each side of his estates in England and Scotland. Ho has sent to Canada for the brutes, uadis preparing the ground. Ill* ham* Husky Stoodakd was, In early life, a moulder, then a reporter on a newspaper, and now oil*: of our best known and most admired poets. Asn now a physician says that long Monition. Memnou was one of the heroes of the Trojan war. He was slain by Achilles. A colossal statue was erected iu tho neighborhood of Thebes. This famous statue, the vocal Monition, as it is called, 1h the northernmost of two colossal sit ting figures in the approach to a temple now in ruins, in the quarter of Western Thebes called Meiunouiu by the (irooks. The height of each of these statues is forty-seven feet, and they stand oil pedestals twelve feet high. On the lower part of the vocal Memnou are seventy - two inscriptions from private and official circles testifying that they have heard its voice at sunrise. The sound is said to have resembled the twanging of a harp-string or the striking of brass, and it occurred at sunrise or soon after. In the top of the statue is a stone which, oil being struck, emits a metallic souud that still might be made use of to deceive a visitor; and from its jmsition, and tho fact that there is a squared place cut in the block behind, as if to admit a person, who might thus be concealed from the most careful observer in the plain below, it is supposed to have been so used. That it was a deception there can he lmt littlo doubt; the fact of the Emperor Hadrian hearing it thrice, looks very suspicious; a natural phenomenon would not have been so complimentary to the Emperor, when ii sounded only once to ordinary mortals. Others, however, claim that it was impossible so clumsy an im posture should have passed without de tection for centuries, while the statue was constantly exposed to the inspection of intelligent Romans, who, as foreigners and conquerors in Egypt, would not hesitate to detect and expose the tricks of the native priesthood. It is said that similar sounds have been produced from stones from the influence of the sun's rays; and -several of the scientific men attached to Bonaparte’s army ill Egypt have stated frequently that they heard such a sound, always shortly after sun rise, apparently issuing from one of tho roof-stones of the temple of Karnok. Mr. Lowe states that in ft neighboring temple he heard rejieatedly a sound like that of a harp-string hum some stones above him. This occurred at noon, and ini supftoses that at this time the stones became exposed to the sun, and the sud den expansion from the warmth produced the sound. Six Thousand Years Old. The Asliinolean Museum, at Oxford, contains one of the oldest monuments of civilization in the world, if, indeed, it is not the very oldest. Thisis the lintel stone of atomh which formed the last resting place of an officer who lived in tho time of King Sent, of the second dynasty, whose date is placed by M. Marietta more than six thousand years ago. The stone is covered with that delicate and finished sculpture which distinguished the early periods of Egyptian history, and was immeasurably superior to tho stiff and conventional art of the latter ages of Egypt which we are accustomed to see. in our European museums. But it is also covered with something more precious still than sculpture, with hiero glyphics which shows that even at that remote period Egyptian writing was a complete anil finished art, with long ages of previous devel opment lying behind it. The hiero glyphic characters are already used, not only pictorially and ideographic,ally, hut also to express syllables and alpha betic hitters, the name of the King, for instance, being spoiled alphabetically. In the hands of the Egyptian scribes, however, Egyptian writing never inndo any further progress. With the fall of what is called the Old Empire (about B. G. TWO) the freshness and expansive force of the people passed away, Egyp tian life and thought became fossilized, and through the long series of centuries that followed Egypt resembled one of its own mummies, faithfully preserving tho form and features of the past age, and of a life which had ceased to heat in its veins. Until the introduction of Chris tianity the only change undergone by Egyptian writers was the invention of a running hand, which in its earlier and simpler form is called hieratic, and in its later form domotie. A Remarkable Affliction. A most remarkable case of disease which has baffled the skill of some of the most prominent physicians in Western Pennsylvania, is reported from Glenfield, a little village a few miles below Pitts burg, on the line of the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. The un fortunate being is a young Judy twenty three years of age, who has abstained from the use of solid food for a period of three years. Mix years ago she noticed a swelling about the base of her nose, which was lanced, an it subsequently healed, hut swellings of like nature soon appeared about the abdomen. Two phy sicians were called, who disagreed as to the cause of the ailment, one holding that it was caused by the gas of the ab domen, and tho other stating it was caused by water. She gradually grew worse, aiid about three years ago she began to lose the power *if speech and sight, and for two years the sufferer has not spoken audibly, and lias been totally blind anil without mind. With the loss of these faculties she also lost tho use of. her limbs, and neither her hair nor her finger-nails have grown a particle. She is only conscious of her sufferings. All that has been given her, and that sin-has been able to take in the way of food for three years, is a tithe of bird broth and diluted whisky. Of late she lias bad two violent spasms weekly. Six weeks ago her spine commenced to curve inwardly, until now there is a space of four a and half inches between her buck and tli<- lied upon which she lies. She is a mere skeleton in body, but full in the face. The unfortunate woman is the daughter of Mr. Duff, a well-to-do fanner. Wiiitk furs or ermine may be cleaned as follows : Lay the furs on a table and rub them well with bran mode moist with warm water ; rub until quite dry and afterward with dry bran. The wet bran should be put on with flannel and the dry with a piece of book muslin. The light furs, in addition to the above, should be well rubbed with magnesia or a piece of liook muslin after the bran process. Lry flour may be used instead J. L. DENNIS, Editor. #I.OO it Year. Drinks for the Kick. The sick, especially those afflicted with fever, often Butter from intense thirst. The quenching of this without injuring the patient is a matter which requires knowledge and good judgment. Dr. H. H. Kane says that plain water, when taken beyond n certain amount, is very apt to disorder the stomhcli and bowels, especially in levers, w here niueh fluid and hut little solid food is taken. Enough water to quench the thirst would certainly he enough, in most eases, to disorder digestion, or rather further disorder it, mid so ini|M>rtant is the little that romnins of this function (list we cannot afford to abuse it. Bmnll pieces of iee held in the mouth and allowed to dissolve sometimes an swer the puqsme, lmt not in the msjor ity of eases. Up to a certain point, the action of water taken internally, in fevers, is ex cellent. Aside from allaying irritation by quenching thirst, it flushes the kid neys, carrying off much of the effete material produced by the high tenqiera turo. It has been found that the addition of certain substances to water greatly in creases its powers to quench thirst. This is especially the ease with acids. One drachm of hydrochloric acid lidded to a quart of water will give it sufficient acidity to accomplish the desired pur |m>kc, while at the same time it adds to its pleasantness, and sometimes relieves nausea. The use of acids in fevers is highly commended by some authors, and this is, 1 think, the best way in which to ad minister them. Tlie same amount of sulphurous acid maybe added to a quart of water when the liowels are liaise or there is a tendency that way. Iu these cssch acidulated liarley-water is pleasant and nourishing. The same may be snid of toaat-wator. in constipation, oatmeal water may lie used in the same manner. A few tamarinds added to a glass of water will often assuage thirst and open tho bow els gently. Theory anil oxjierience both show that drinks mnde slightly bitter and somewhat acid slake thirst moat effect ually. A weak infusion of enseurilln or orange peel, acidulated slightly with hydro, chloric acid, was with Graves, of Dublin, a favorite thirst-ullaying drink for fever putients. Raspberry vinegar is a useful drink. Bucking iee is very grateful. Bweet fruits, although at first agree able and refreshing, must lie taken with care and moderation, for they often give riso hi a disagreeable taste, and are apt to produce flatulence and diarrhea. Two- Hundred Tlmnsnnd Kqiinre Feel of Ambuscaded Combustion. It is a “fact not. generally known," or at all events not very commonly borne in mind, that there is in London a “fiery mine” of so very excitable a disposition that no artificial light of any description has ever vet been allowed to he brought even its uoighliorhood. Its pro duct, however, is not cool, hut rum. The mm-siiod, as it is called, of the West In dia Dock, covers n space of two hundred thousand square feet, with vaults of cor responding size, nil crammed with huge casks of spirit, from every pore of which and tlie most caqduljy closed have jsires in plenty- the fiery viqior is for ever streaming out into the ail’, only beg ging for the smallest chance of convert ing the whole area of the docks, with their iwo hundred and fifty odd ships, and two or three hundred thousand bins or so of cargo, and their more or less in calculable stores of timficr and tea, silk and sugar, cigars and ccrculs, coals and cotton, wine, wool, whisky, whale-fins, and what not, into the most magnificent howl of snap-dragon ever imagined in in fant nightmare. Into these fiery regions not even a hull's eye lantern is or ever has liecn allowed to penetrate. Even the wharf along the side where the great puncheons arc landed is forbidden to the approach of vessels, every cask being transferred from ship to shore in the company's own lighters. Each cask in that vast range of dim dark vaults is marked and mini Wed, and on the right reading of these marks and numliers de pends the efficient execution of every one of the numerous ojmi rations to which every individual cask has been subjected before its contents can go forth for the mixing of the world’s grog. How any one but an experienced .Japanese juggler ever manages to perforin bis feat in the very brightest weather hv the simple aid of a little plate of polished tin artfully turned and twisted to catch tlie solitary ray of highly diluted daylight which here and there filters down from the floor alsive, is a mystery by no means amongst tin- least wonderful of the many of which the visitor to this commercial paradise catches here and there a tantal izing glimpse. Name of Miss Corou’s Teachings. Potatoes, at any time of the year, can be made mealy if boiled in salt and water and drained and then covered with a thick towel and left in hack of the range five minutes, To retain the color of any vegetable plunge it into cold water after boiling. Cooks make the mistake of boiling things too much. After reaching the boiling point meats should simmer. The toughest meats can he made tender by so doing. It is always best to under-season rather than to over-season food. When anything is accidentally marie too salt it can he counteracted by adding a tables] >oolifiil of vinegar and a table spoonful of sugar. Meats of any kind should not lie washed, but, wiped with a towel to pre serve the juices and quality. To wash towels with colored loaders let them soak in a pailful of cold water containing one teafcpoonful of KUgar of lead ; let them remain ten minntes be fore washing; to make the colors look clear and bright, use pulverized borax in wash water, very little soap and no soda. To wash red table linen, use tepid water, with a little powdered borax, which serves to set the color ; wash the linen separutelv and quioklv, using very little soap; rinse in tepid water, con taining a little boiled starchy hang to JOTTING* AND CLIITINGS. It is estimated that Michigan Ims 110,- B4I) farms, and produces IH.bffo.nOU bushels of wheat per annum. Tup. personal property of California i valued at ollH,:iUi,4.jl, nod the real es tato at $446,27:1,885. Gaunuß Ti'ckkh, all inmate of II New York penitentiary, lms just inherited $12,- tint). Hisnenteueo will expire in 1885. In 1874 the nhfce crop of Florida was represented by 2,5011 half barrel eases. In 187!) it amount <1 to 200,000. A MvHHAriu’SHKTN bov about as high ns the counter reeenlh eiiute into a k store and iiskisl tor “n book for ten cents with a murder in it. Dm you ever see a bsld-heudcd man who didn't have such a “beautiful lien* of hair ” till “ that fever,” or something or other, took it off? A HKi-yvr law suit In London incidentally brought out the opinion of experts con cerning the value of land in the city , Ilia* one aero was worth .(M,! 1)1,420. Eimtou Thohn, of Xu/ 1 * unit i/ii' i k*. has retired from the office of Assistant Librarian of the House of Lords, nt the age of seventy-seven, on a pension oi #d,- 750 s year. Till: Khedive lms sent his hinvni te Smyrna, his wives having sleoui n ten den’ev to clone nt Naples. He got tire' nt roll-cull of finding two or three of the pretty ones gone. Ralph Wu.no Emkiihon contemplate a visit to England next year. He is ex tremely desirous of meeting t urlvle, Cardinal Newman and Mr. Herbert Spencer. Worn we reflect that every woman lin? children of surprising genius, it is a mat ter of serious inquiry where all the or dinary men come from who cross out path in every-day life. A Gkoiiuia young man asked his sweet heart, whether she had ever read “Romeo and Juliet." Bho replied that she had read Romeo, but she did not think she had ever read Juliet. SqrAliK umbrellas liavo been intro dimed in Paris; but someone says they are just as bad as the old kind 1 >ecauso they are never round when wanted.— Philadelphia /hi I tel in. A Nkw York paper says that a lady teacher in a Philadelphia Sunday-school tins horse-whipped the Superintendent, Fisher, with an umbrella, for “showing her an uninvited partiality.” Lon. Moonn, a Greenville man, now has a convenience in the shape of a gross cutter. The people say lam. Moore pur chased the lawn mower, na lie could get along moro conveniently with it. A i,Auditors calculator of the Lonilou Statistical Society has computed that the population of that city three centuries from this will, following the rnte of in crease of the past fifty yours, be over 186,000,000. Establishing a newspaper is like [s Hir ing water into a lenkv cask if you have got grit enough and Water enough to keep the vessel full, possibly the staves may swell up and become water tight. - Va il C. liai/nail. Tim Croton aqueduct is taxed to its utmost power tor supplying tlie wants of the people of the metropolis. New York daily consumes upwards of !)1,000,000 of gallons of water, while tho capacity of the aqueduct is put at 1)5,000,000 of gallons. “I don’t like Newport,” says the Har atoga swell, “because everything down there tastes as if it hail been caught with a hook. And then if a man stops at a hotel, you know, in Newport, lie is taken fur a tramp! Now u man doosn t want to be taken for a trump, does he?” An exchange says that a young girl wonts the paper to notify tho young men that she is a worker, and to illustrate, she says, that she picked twenty-five geese in one day. We didii t know that geese were ripn yet. However, that is not very heavy picking. When we were in the army wo could go out with a sabre and pick geese enough for a mess in ttvo minutes. — Peck's Nun. Tun Holyoke (Mass.) Gazette says: It is stated upon excellent authority that in this neighlarrhood them is a lady who has built u house out of a fund made by selling rum to her own husband. He is a drinking man, and so his wife struck the bargain with him that il he would drink lie must agree to buy all bis liquor of her. Hlie thus pocketed the profit, instead of the regular rutusoUcrs. Mr. Fred. Wilhelm, \>U opening a twenty-three jsmnd watermelon oil Sun day last, discovered within it unothfl melon weighing, by actual weight, seven and three quarters pounds. The rind of flie interior' melon was of an orange color, and the flesh was of u brighter red than that of the enclosing one. Any of his friends anxious to see this freak of nature can do so by calling at liis risim, where it will lie on exhibition for a few days. —Columbus ( Oa .) Enquirer. Not ho Easily Fooled. Chambers’ Journal recalls an anec dote which is related of a certain Edin burgh professor of nuturiil history who was engaged in delivering a course of lectures on geology, Imt which hod a re sult different from what was anticipated. One day a chosen hand of his students acquired possession of a brickbat, which they painted a variety of specious lines, and placed among liie other fossils and rocks on which their master was to dis course. The professor illustrated his lecture by reference to the specimens before him on the table, saying, for ex ample, us he went on, “This is a piece of volcanic trap-rock," or “This is a piece of granite.” At length he came to the mysterious stranger with the gaudy livery, and, after taking it up in his hands and examining it attentively for a few moments, lie proceeded ; “ And, gentlemen, this is, L am sorry to say, a piece of foolishness.” A similar story is told of on American professor, whose s|>cciaHy was entomol ogy. Home of his students, wishing to test his knowledge, prepared a bug with great care, making it up of the wings, legs, etc., of the different insects. Car -1 rying it to the professor, they said: “ Professor, here is a strange Specimen that we have found. Cun yon classify it? ” The professor studied it a few moments and then said quietly : " Gen tlemen, this is a hum bug." Sunshine. Tlie world wants more sunshine in its disposition, in its business, in its chari ties, in its theology. For 10,000 of the aches and pains and irritations of men and women we recommend sunshine. It soothes better than morphine. It stimulates better than ohanqiagiie. It is tlie liest plaster for a wound. The Good Harnavitan poured out into the fallen traveler’s gash more of this than of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on the Crimean battlefields. Take it out into all the alleys, on board all the ships, by all the sick-beds. Not a vial full, not a cupful, hut a soul lull. It is good tor spleen, for liver complaint, for