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HITS OF INFORMATION. Tons were first paid by vessels poss *nK the slado on tne river Elbe, 110!). In England, toll-barn originated in 1207, a penny being asked for every wagon tliut passed through a certain manor, and the first regular toll was collected a few years later for mending the road in Loudon, between St. Odes’ and Temple Bar. The invention of mnsio is uncertain. Lucretius ascribes it to the whistling of the winds in hollow reeds. Frnnekinus to the various sounds produced by the hammers of 'l’ubal Cain ; Camelon Pon tiipie, and others to the singing of birds. And Zarlino to the sound of wa ter. It is, however, agreed that music was first reduced to rules by Jubul, 1800 B. C. Thk average duration of vitality in seeds of some of our cultivated plants is as follows : Artichoke, five years; broad been, six ; beet root, five; cabbage, five, carrot, four; cucumber, five ; lettuce, five ; maize, two; melon, five; onion, two ; parsnip, two ; peas, four or five ; radish, fivo; spinach, five ; tomato,- five ; turnip, fivo: egg plant, seven ; endive, nine ; parsley, throe ; strawberry, three. The mark which persons who are un able to write are compelled to make in stead of their signatures is constantly referred to as an instance of the igno rance of ancient times. It is not, how ever, invariably, a proof of such igno rance. Anciently the mark was not con lined to illiterate persons. Among the Saxons the mark of the cress was re quired to be attached to the signatures of those who could write, and to stand in the place of the signatures of those who could not write, as an attestation of the good faith of the person signing. In those days if a man could write, or even road, it was a proof that he was in holy orders. The ancient use of the cross was therefore universal, and was the symbol of an oath, from its sacred associations, ns well ns the mark generally adopted. Negro slavery was introduced into the present territory of the United States during the reign of Queen Elizabeth, by merchants of Liverpool, England. On Jan. 31, 1865, the final vote was taken in Congress submitting to the States for their approval and ratification the fol. lowing amendment to the constitution : “ Article XIII. Neither slavery nor in voluntary- servitude, except as a punish ment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any 6’ace subject to their jurisdiction.” On ec. 18, 1865, the Secretary of State issued his proclamation declaring that this amendment had been approved by the Legislatures of Illinois, Rhode Isl and, Michigan, New York, West Vir ginia, Maine, Kansas, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Missouri, Nevada, Indiana, Louisiana, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Vermont, Tennessee, Arkan sas, Connecticut, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina, and Georgia— in all, 27 out of 36 States, and was consequently adopted. Growth of British Cities. The opinion, quite generally enter tained, that London is one of the few large British cities which grow rapidly, is very erroneous as the figures plainly show. It is nearly eight years since the last census, and the Registrar General consequently supplies various estimates, annually, of the population of the prin cipal towns, founded on the ratio of in crease between 1861 and 1871, in order to form a basis for calculation of yearly rates. From this it appears that Lon don now contains 3,620,868, an increase since 1871 of 366,608; Liverpool, 538,- 338, an increase of 44,933; Manchester, 361,819, an increase of 10,640; Leeds, 311,860, an increase of 52,648; Sheffield, 297,138, an increase of 57,192; Bristol, 209.947, an increase cif 27,395; Bradford, 191,046, an increase of 45,210; Hull, 146,- 347, an increase of 24,455; Salford, 177,- 849, an increase of 53,048; Newcastle, 146.948, an increase of 18,505; Ports mouth, 131,821, an increase of 18,262; Leicester, 125,621, an increase of 30,402; Sunderland, 114,575, an increase of 26,- 333; Oldham, 111,318, an increase of 28,- 689. London is equal to eighteen of tho largest cities; Liverpool and Glasgow aro very near one another in population, the latter having 39,818 more people than the former. The density of population varies greatly in the leading towns. For example, it is 11.4 in Norwich; Newcastle, 27.4; Sunderland, 41.4; London, 48.0; Manchester, 84.3; and Liverpool, 103.3 per acre. Many of the small uncommer cial towns of Great Britain are station ary, others slowly decline.—iV. Y. Times. Wanted All the Facts Printed. There was a little shooting scrape at a little town in the interior of Texas, and it was not long before a reporter was on the spot interviewing one of the princi pals. “So you are going to write it up,” said the survivor. “Yes, I want all the facts.” “I don’t care a cent what you say about the shooting, but I have one little favor to ask.” The reporter said he would grant it cheerfully if he could. “Well,” said the shootist, “I want you to put down that my grandfather was one of Lafitte’s pirates, and the worst cut-throat of the gang. ” The reporter stared a little, but the shootist went on to say ; “Please put in that one of my uncles was hung by the Vigilance Committeo in San Francisco, and two more of them aro making shoes in the Illinois peniten tiary; that another one of them is prac ticing law in New York, and my only sister ran away from home with the clown of a circus ; that as far as you can learn there is not a member of the family that has not done sometliing disgrace ful.” “ Why, what do you want all that in the paper for ?” “Because I am sick of reading in the papers that every fellow w-ho has a little shooting scrape belongs to one of tho most respectable families in the country. Just put it down, for once, that one of the parties to the unfortunate affair be longs to a highly disreputable family. If you don’t put it that way you will wish you had.” The Chinese ladies wear in their bosoms little dwarf fir trees, which, by a carefully-adjusted system of starvation, have been reduced to the size of button hole flowers. These remain fresh and evergreen in their dwarf state for a num ber of years, just as fir trees in mount ains are evergreen, and thus are excellent svmbols of perpetuity of love, to ex press which they are used by the ladies of the highest rank in the Celestial em pire. Hints. Discontent is the want of self-reliance. He who can conceal his joy is greater than he who can conceal his griefs. A man’s virtues should be measured, not by liis occasional exertions, but by the doings of his ordinary life. Smoking is to be prohibited among West Point cadets. Hazing will go on as nsuaL maiiLTON Journal. LAMAR & DENNIS. Publishers. VOL. VIII—NO. 48. HOD K\OWS ItKST. BT EMMA CLABK WIUTHRT. In many trouble* that perplex. Ami make uh weary ot this life. If wo would Hay, “ 1 will not vex My houl no more with worldly Btrif<\" Hut, looking upward—“ Clod known beak;** Unto 111 m oar© leave all the rent Instead ws strive with hands so fral To part the clouds upon our way. Ah! life giveH uh no warrior mail Invulneraltle to sorrow'* Hway ; And when its darts pierce through our breast, Teach uh to feel that God known bent. When in the throoH of fiercest pain, And our weak spirit* seek release, And cry aloud to Him in vain, To succor or to still In i>caeo, Though granting not our wild request, Teach us to feel that God knows bent. When like a serpent from its lair, With coils that kill ail they embrace, Hin springs upon us unaware. And poisons what was pure and chaste, Though falling ’neatli temptation's lest, Tuucli uh to fuel tliut God knows bent. TIIE ORDEAL OF LOVE. Adolphe and Celeste were lovers—tlio course of true love never did run smooth, and it was interrupted in theirs by cruel parents, who had different views for their children. Adolphe, in despair, takes poison, hut the invention of stomach pumps prevented his desperate purpose, and he recovers. Celeste had the poison in her hand, and was in the act of raising it to her lips when her mother discovers her. The story thus proceeds: Whatever the exaggerations of our lovers, they loved fervently, disinterest edly, and with all their hearts. Not one in ton thousand loves is so Btrong, or promises to bo so lasting. Adolphe did not die—antidotes were given in time—lie recovered. The ill ness of Celeste was more dangerous. She suffered, poor child, a delirious fever, and it was several weeks before her life and reason were restored. No parents could stand all this; ordi nary caprices it is very well to resist, but when young people take to poison and delirious fevers— il faut c edcr. Besides, such events derange one’s comforts. Ono is always glad to come to terms when one begins to be annoyed with one’s self. The old people then made it up, and the young people married. As the bridegroom and Colcsto were convinced that the solo object of lifo was each other’s company, they hastened at once to the sweet solitudes of the coun try. They had a charming villa and beautiful garden; they were both accom plished, clever, amiable, young, and in love. How was it possible they should bo susceptible to ennuif They could never bear to loose sight of each other. “Ah, Adolphe traitor where hast thou been?” “Merely shooting in the woods, my angel.” “What, and without me? Fie! Promise tills shall not happen again.” “Ah, dearest, too gladly I promise.” Another time: “What, Celeste! three hours have I been seeking for you! Where have you hid yourself ? “Don’t look so angry, my Adolphe: I was only directing tho gardener to build a little arbor for you to read in. I meant it as a surprise.” “My own Celeste ! three hours—it is an eternity without you! Promise not to leave me again, without telling me whero to find you.” “My own dearest Adolphe! how I love you—may my company be over as dear to you.” This mo.lo of life is very charming with many for a few days. Adolphe and Celeste loved each other so entirely that it lasted several months. What at first was passion had grown habit, and each blamed the other for want of affection, if he or she ever indulged in the novelty of different pursuits. As they had nothing to do but to look at those faces they had thought ho hand some, so it was now and then difficult not to yawn; and of late there had been little speeches like tho following: “Adolphe, my love, you never talk to me—put down that odious book you aro always reading.” “Celeste, my angel, you don’t hear mo. lam telling you about my travels, and you gape in my face. ” “My dear Adolpho, I am so exceed ingly sleepy.” One morning, as Adolphe woke and turned in his bed, liis eyes rested on his wife, who was still asleep—“ Bless me,” thought he, “I never saw this before — let me look again—yes, certainly she has —a wart on her chin!” Adolphe rose anil dressed himself — Adolphe was grave and meditative. They met at breakfast —the bride and bride groom. Celeste was in high spirits; Adolpho was sombre and dejected. “Let us ride to-day,” said Celeste. “My dear, I have a headache.” “Poor child! well, then let us read the new poem.” “My dear, you talk so loud.” “I!” and Celeste gazing reproachfully on Adolphe, perceived for the first time something in his eye that surprised her. She looked again—“ Good heavens!” she said to herself, “Adolphe squints!” It is impossible to say what an effect this fatal discovery had on Adolphe. He thought of it incessantly. He had nothing else to complain of—-but then warts on the chin are certainly not becoming. Celeste’s beauty had improved greatly since her marriage. Everybody else saw the improvement. Adolphe saw nothing but the wart upon her chin. Her com plexion was more brilliant, her form more perfect, her walk more majestic; but what is all this, when one has a wart on the chin? The wart seemed to grow bigger and bigger every day—to Adolphe s eve it threatened speedily to absorb the whole face! Nay, he expected in due time to see his beautiful Celeste all wart! He smothered his pain as well as he could, because he was naturally well bred and delicate; and no woman likes to be told of the few little blemishes she is blind to herself. He smothered his pain, but he began to think it would be just as well to have separate rooms. Meanwhile, strange to say, Adolphe s squint grew daily more decided and pro -1 pounced.,, He certainly did not squint before we were married,” thought Ce leste; “it is very unpleasant—it makes one so fidgety to bo stared at by a person who sees two ways and Adolphe has un fortunately a hat lit of staring. I think I might venture to hint, delicately and kindly, that tlio habit cau't yet be in curable.” As wives are always first in the emula tion of fault-finding, Celeste resolved to hazard the hint on the first favorable opi a t unity. “Well, my Celeste, I have brought my dog to see you,” said Adolphe, ono morning. “He! down, down! Pray turn him out; see the mark of his paws. I can’t bear dogs, Adolphe.” “Poor tiling!” said Adolphe, caressing liis insulted favorite. “ Was that to mo, or the dog?” asked Celeste. “Oh! to him, to be sure.” “I beg your pardon, my dear, but I thought you looked at me. Indeed, Adolphe, if truth may be said, you have lately contracted a bad habit—you are getting quite a east in your eye.” “Madame!” said Adolphe, prodigiously offended, and hurrying to the glass. “Don’t be angry, my love; I would not have mentioned it if it did not get worse every day; it is yet time to be cured, I am sure; just put a wafer on the top of your nose, and you will soon see straight." “A wafer on tlio top of my noso! Much better put ono at the top of your chin, Celeste.” “ My ohin ?” cried Celeste, running in turn to the glass. “ What do you moan, sir ?” “Only that yon have a very largo wart there, which it would bo more agreeable to conceal.” “Sir?” “ Madame!” “A wart on my chin, monster !” “ A cast in my eye, fool 1” “Yes! How could I ever love a man who squinted !” “Or Ia woman with a wart on her chin 1” “Sir, I shall not condescend to notice your insults. No wonder—you cau't see! I pity your infirmity.” “ Madam, I despise your insinuations; but since you deny tlio evidence of youi own glass, suffer me to send for a physi cian, and if he can cure your deformity, so much the better for you. ” “Yes, send for a physician; he will say whether you squint or not. Poor Adolphe! lam not angry; no, I jvity so melancholy a defect.” The doctor could not very well see whether Adolphe squinted, for ho had his hat over his eyes; besides, ho pru cntly thought it best to attend to one (I alady at a time. “As for the wart, sir,” said he, “it is not difficult to cure. ” “ But if my wife don’t confess that she lias it, slio will never consent to ho cured. I would not mind if she would but own to it. Oh, the vanity of women !” “ It must have been after seme absence that this little defect was pcrcoivod by you—” “After absence—we liavo not boon a day separated since we married.” Celeste burst into tears. Adolphe, in a rage, seized his hat, mounted lus liorso and went himself to the doctor. Tlio doctor was a philosopher as well as a physician. Ho took his pony and ambled back with Adolphe. On his way lie extracted from Adolphe his whole his tory, for men in a passion are easily made garrulous. “The perfidious women!” said Adolphe. “Would you believe it? —we braved everything for each other— never wero two persons so much in love —nay, wo attempted suicide rather than endure a longer separation. 1 renounced the most brilliant marriage for her sake —too happy that she was mine without a dowry—and now she declares I squint. And, oh, she has such a wart on her chin !” “ O-ho,” thought tlio doctor, sinking into a revery—l have said he was a phil osopher—but it did not ’require much philosophy to know that persons who would have died for each other only a few months ago wore not alienated only by a wart or a east in the eye. They arrived at Adolphe's villa—they entered (lie saloon. Celeste no longer wept; she laid put on liermost becoming sap, and had the air of an insulted but uncomplaining wife. “Confess to the wart, Celesta, and I'll forgive all,” said Adolphe. “ Nay, why so obstinate as to the caste of the eye; I shall not admire you less (though others may), if you will not lie so vain as to disown it. ” “Enough, madam; doctor, regard that lady, is not the wart monstrous?—can it he cured?” “ Nay/’ cried Celeste, sobbing, “look rather at my poor husband’s squint. His eyes were so fine before we married.” The doctor put on his spectacles; he regarded the first one and then the other. “ Sir,” said he deliberately, “ this lady has certainly a pimple on tho left of her chin considerably smaller than a pin’s head. And, madam, the pupil of your husband’s right eye is like that of nine persons in ten, the hundredth part of an inch nearer tho nose than the pupil of the left. This is the case, as it appears to me, seeing you both for tho first time. But Ido not wonder that you, sir, think tho pimple so enormous; andyou, madam, the eye so distorted, sinco you see each other every day 1” The pair were struck by a secret con viction; when an express arrived breath less to summon Adolphe to liis father, who was taken ill. At the end of three months Adolphe returned. Celeste’s wart had entirely disappeared, and Ce leste found her husband’s eye as beauti fnl as ever. Taught by experience, they learned then, that warts rapidly grow on chins, and squints rapidly settle upon eyes, that are too const::..;! y seen. And that it is easy for two persons to die joyfully to gether when lovers, but prodigiously dif ficult without economizing the presence, to live comfortably together when mar ried. “ When I goes a-shopping,” said an old lady, “ I allers asks for what I wants, and if they have it, and it is suitable, and I feel inclined to buy it, and it is cheap, and can’t be got for less, I most allers take it, without clappering all day ibout it, as some people do.” “DUM SPIRO, SPERO.” HAMILTON, GA., NOVEMBER 25. 1880. A Mixed Telephone. The telephone, the wonderful offspring of Edison’s great mind, is an instrument which is now looked upon as indispensa ble to the world’s good, but it, like a great many other tilings, will sometimes get out of humor and act in a very crooked manner. Mr. Charles Augustus Fitzmnnt is an enterprising but bashful young cotton clerk, whose place of business is on Car oudelot street, and he is most warmly at tached to a fair maiden who lives in an uptown residence with a telephone in it. Oft tlio telephone has been used as a medium through which lie has breathed words of heart-pounding love in the ears of the one he so fondly worshipped, and never did he know it I<> fail in the per formance of its duty until yesterday. When it caused him to moan -yea, to tremble like an aspen leaf and smite ono knee against the other. At the time mentioned Charles had not seen his affinity for over forty-eight hours, and ho determined to inform her of whom lie was fondly dreaming that he would he up to the house that night mid sit out on tiie front porch with her and sigh at the moon. Booking the telephone while no ono was in the office, he said: “Put me on with Mr. 11.'s residence.” “ All right, go ahead." “Is Miss Minnie at homo ?” “ Yes.” “ Tell her to step to the 'phono, pleaso. ” “Is that you, Charlie?” inquired a cooing voice skimming along the wire. “ Yes, dearest, it’s your own Charles.” “Oh, Charlie, what made you stay away so long ? You must oomo up to night because—” “ The baby was born an hour ago.” “ Wli-at baby ?” “ Your own baby.” “ My baby !” shrieked the young wo man; “ why, I’m—l’m surprised that you—you would say such a thing. I—l didn’t expect it ” “ Neither did I; I just heard it a mo ment ago. ” “ You don’t beliove this—this fearful report? Say—say you don’t. You know I haven’t got a baby. I never did liavo a baby in my life,” howled tlio young woman, in a frenzy. “ Ha ! Ha ! old fellowyon feel so proud and happy that you liavo to indulge in a joke, do you. Allow me to congratulate you. It’s a boy, and weighs twelvo pounds. Good-by.” ‘ Miss Buntor—l say, Miss Hunter.” “Oh ! Charlie, what is tlio matter?” “Matter enough. I want to know tlio man’s name who told you that scandalous falsehood. I’ll have liis gore before sun rise. I’ll follow him over sixteen differ ent States to kill him. I’ll crush him. I’ll mutilate him. Tell mo, was it that squint-eyed Bangs who brought that hellish lie to your ear* 9 ” “What Jie, Charlie? What do you moan ?” “ I want to know who told you that— that I had a baby born to mo an hour ago that weighed twelve pounds. Who is the villain ?” A piercing shriek was tlieonlyreply that came over the wire, and then Charles realized for the first time that there was some d"eodful mistake, that the tele phone had become mixed, and he fainted. —New Orleans Times. About Peanuts. The modus operundi by which the nuts are separated, cleaned and classed is somewhat as follows : The third story of the building contains thousands of bush els of peas in hags, and there the con tinual roar of the machinery is deafen ing. Each machine lias a duty to per form. First, there is a large cylinder in which nil the nuts are placed, in order that the dust and dirt maybe shaken off thorn. They pass from the cylinder into the brushes, where every nut. re ceives fifteen feet of a brushing before it becomes free. Then they pass through a sluiceway to the floor below, where they are dropped on an endless licit, about two and one-half feet in width, and dashing along at the rate of four miles an hour. On each side of the bolt stand eight colored girls, and, as the nuts fall from the sluice on to the belt the girls, with a quick motion of the hand, pick out all the poor-looking nuts, and by tlio time the belt reaches the end two-thirds of the nuts are picked off, allowing only the finest to pass the crucible, 'lboso that do pass drop through another sluice and empty into bags on tlio floor below. When the bag is filled it is taken away by Land, sewed up and branded as “ cocks,” with the figure of a rooster prominent on its sides. The peas caught up by the girls are then thrown to one side, placed in the bags, and carried into another room where they are again picked over, the best singled out, bagged and branded as “ships.” These are as fine a nut as the first for eating, lint in shape and color do not compare with the “cocks.” Having gone over them twice, we now come to a third grade, which are called and branded as “eagles.” These are picked out of the callings of tlio “ cocks ” and " ships,” hut now and then you will find a respectable-looking nut among them, though the eyes of the colored damsels are as keen as a hawk, and a bad nut is rarely allowed to pass their hands. Tlio cullings that are left from the “eagles” are bagged, sent through the elevator to the top story, and what little meat is in thorn is shaken out by a patent shelter, which is not on ly novel, hut as perfect a piers) of machinery as was ever invented. These nuts being shelled by this new process, the meat drops into bags below free from dust or dirt of any kind, and are then shipped in 200-pound sacks to the North, where they are bought up by the confectioner* for the purpose of mak ing taffy or peanut candy. It may Ire here stated that a peculiar kind of oil is extracted from the meat of the nut, and in this specialty a large trade is done among the wholesale druggists. There is nothing wasted, for even the shells are made useful. They are packed in sacks and sold to stable-keepers for horse-bedding, and a very healthy Ired they make. The gross earnings of the Suez ship canal for the i>reseut year will he 88,- 066,650, while the disbursements, in cluding 85 per share, have been only $5,785,605, leaving for distribution among the shareholders $2,280,085 as the profit* of the year. A FIFTY-EUIIIT DAYS’ FAST. A l-'rcm-li Prisoner Who llcltt l*r. Tanner The l*h<-niiienn ol Mnrvu llon. [From tlio London Standard.] Ann Moore, the famous fastingwomnn of Tutlmry, protended to have lived for eight years entirely without, food. A watch committee was appointed, which detected the fraud in a very in genious manner. The bed and bedding, with the woman in it, were placed on a delicate weighing machine, which re sulted in the inevitable exposure. At the expiration of the nint h day of this strict watching, being warned that she was sinking, she acknowledged her im posture, and admitted—which is mi im portant foot that, so long as the watch upon her was but imperfect, her daugh ter had contrived, when washing her face, to food her every morning by using towels made very wet with gravy, milk, and other nourishing fluids, mid bad also when kissing her contrived to con vey small portions of solid food from mouth to mouth. Guillaume Granot, a prisoner at Toulouse, resorted to starva tion to avoid punishment. For the first seven days the symptoms were not very remarkable. After that period lie was compelled to drink water to relieve liis raging thirst, and, after lingering on in terrible agony, lie died in convulsions on the fifty-eighth dav. The case is re ported liy Van Swieten. There is no doubt as to its truth, and it shows that up to tlio present, at any rate, Dr. Tan ner has at tlio most only done what others have done before lrim. Vitorbi, a Corsican, condemned to death for the assassination of Frodioni, resolved to starve himself to death. He died on tlio twenty-first day. He, too, occasionally moistened liis mouth with water. The medical details of his case, which are very horrible, will bo found iti Paris’ “Medical Jurisprudence.” Of actual starvation, the most remarkable exam ple is, perhaps, that reported by Dr. Bloano, of Ayr. “ A mail, some 65 years of ago, a spare habit of body, and uncommonly vigorous for his time of life, was accidentally incarcerated in a coal mine for twenty-three days, during the first few of which lie had ac cess to water strongly impregnated witli iron. He then became unable to move, and hud unfortunately fallen some dis tance from the water. In this instance, Dr. Bloano thinks that an inquire atmos phere, by lowering the vital powers, might tend to slightly prolong life under circumstances of privation. The un liappy man died on the third day after liis removal.” In 1866, Capt. Casey, of the James Lowdon, passed twenty-eight days in an open boat without food or water. He contrived, however, to drink as much rain as ho could collect, mid it is possible, of course, that he may have chewed fragments of his clothes. Thus, then, so far us ascertained eases go, lifo has actually, on one occasion, been sustained for fifty-eight days with out food, hut not without water. Referring to tlio cases which occurred during tlio Irish famine of 1817, Dr. Donovan says : “ They described the pain of hunger as at first very acute, hut said that after twenty-four hours had passed without food tlio pain sub sided and was succeeded by a feeling of weakness and sinking, experienced prin cipally in the epigastric region, accom panied with insatiable thirst, a strong desire for cold water, and a distressing feeling of coldness over the entire sur face of the body. In a short time the face and limbs became horribly ema ciated. tlio eyes acquired a most pe culiar stare ; the skin exhaled peculiar and offensive faster, and was covered with a brownish, filthy-looking coating, almost as indelible as varnish. This he was at first inclined to regard as inerust eil tilt h, but further experience con vineed him that it was a secretion poured out from the exlialuuts on tlm surface of the body. The sufferer tottered in walking like a drunken man; his voice became weak, like that of a person in cholera ; he whined like a child, and hurst into tears on the slightest occasion. In re spect to the mental faculties, their pros The Modern Young Lady nl Two Peri od* of ller Life. Behold her at 11. Her limbs unfettered by tlio long skirts of conventionality, she runs, she romps, she slides on tlio ice-ponds, slio rolls hoop, she climbs fences, she leaps, she kieks, she runs race Hand is as fleet of foot uh the boys. Her appetite is good, her cheeks rosy, and her move ment* unconsciously graceful. Behold her again at 20. No more does she run or jump or roll hoop, run races or slide on the ice. It is not “proper” now nor ladylike, and she couldn’t if she would, for she is fettered by long skirts, tight shoos and tighter stays. Her movement has no longer tlio freedom and unconscious grace of childhood, for now when she walks abroad she walks to be looked at, which now in her estimation is tho main object of walking. She is already in delicate health, and has a doctor who prescribes expensive advice and prescriptions for her, and ascribes her complaint to any thing and everything hut the real cause. That is simply the fettering of the body with fashionable clothes. Physically she is a prisoner. At 11 she was free. The doctor advises travel, but lie doesn’t advise her to take off’ anil keep off her fashionable fetters. She wouldn’t do so if he did, and ho wouldn’t advise her if he knew it would bring relief, for she would no longer believe in a disitor who would make her dress like a guy, and being dressed like a “ guy ” is dressing differ ent from the style prescribed by a Paris modiste. Diana never could hunt in a trailing skirt; narrow, tight, high heeled gaiters, and a pinched, corseted waist; but Diana with a belted tunic and unfettered limbs would be bounced off Broadway by the nearest policeman. Dressing for health and freedom of body and limb is one thing, and dressing for fashion quite another. A man couldn’t endure the pinching and incumbrances peculiar to feminine attire for an hour, and a pretty spectacle he’d make rush ing about in such during business hours. Yet tiie “ weaker sex ” wear double the incumbrances of the so-called stronger. To “dress” at all after the style uses up half a woman’s time and two-thirds of her strength.— New York Graphic. J. L. DENNIS, Editor. SI.OO a Year. TDK MYSTERY OF FIRES. (in in It uni ton I In* HilfMnnMt. Many a hunched fires yearly remain unexplained, oven after the most pains taking and exhaustive investigation. “ Among all the wonderful phenomena which chemistry presents to us,” writes Professor Weissman, "there are fow more remarkable than those of s|mtiui eous combustion of bodies, animate and inanimate, which emit, flames, and are sonietimo entirely consumed by internal flit'.” Among the substances subject to spontaneous combustion pulverized char coal is one of the most remarkable. “ A load of charcoal was delivered in all out house of a clergyman in Loipzic, and Rhowed no signs of faking fire until the door by accident was left open, when tlio wind blew sprinklings of snow on tho charcoal. The rapid absorption of oxygen from the melting snow caused the char coal to ignite, and as the day was windy the whole range of buildings wiih burned to nslios," In this connection a fruitful and unsuspected source of fire suggests it self to those of our American house keepers who hum wood as fuel and who store the ashes in lsixes and barrels. The accidental disturbing of such ashes, even after years, will cause them to ignite, provided the air is damp or fuggy. The phosphuret of potash from decayed wood renders wood ashes highly inflammable, mid mysterious cellar tires ill the rural districts are, no doubt, hi some eases caused by this extraordinary form of spontaneous combustion. Professor Weissman himself had the unfortunate experience of being burned out of house and home on a wild winter night some three years since, and lie has since diligently collected facts about spontaneous combustion. It appears that he hud been having liis house pointed, and ono night the painters, as their manner is, left their working pants, their pots and their brushes on tlio as phaltum floor of tho collar. They had previously with a bunch of rags removed from their hands with spirits of turpen tino the point with which they were soiled. The ball of rags took tire, tho pants and paint pots followed suit, and the house wiih burned to the ground. In tho carriage factory of Messrs. Eaton A Gilbert, Troy, New York, a drop of linseed oil fell into an open paper of lampblack, set it on tire and came within an aeo of burning tho whole groat fac tory. In several instances oilcloth in largo rolls lias taken file in damp, muggy weather. All instance of this also occurs in American fire experience. A planter in Virginia sent hiK servant to Fredericks burg for a roll of oilcloth. It was a warm day and the wagon was open. During tlio journey home it began to rain, and the roll of oilcloth took fire oil tho road. Another instance of the kind is supplied by Philadelphia during the war. An or der from tho War Department in Wash ington for knapsacks for a regiment was filled in the City of Brotherly Love. The sacks were all finished and collected, and counted over anil loft in a pile in the paint shop about toil o’clock on Saturday night, so as to he sent to Washington by cars early on Monday morning. On en tering tho paint shop before daylight on Monday morning no knapsacks were to lie found. In their place was nothing but. a heap of smoldering ashes ! Newly pressed hay frequently ignites, uh do also oatmeal and oornineal in bar rels. During tiie famine in Ireland in 18)7-48 a vessel was dispatched from New York with a cargo of oommeal for tlio relief of the sufferers, fn discharg ing the bags from tho vessel tho last three wore found to lie on lire. Dig Elniu 111 New England. 11l Deerfield, Mass., the Williams elm measures in circumference at one fisit from the ground, 26 feet; at four bait, 1!) feet; at seven feet, 20} foot. Another elm measures, at tlio same elevations, 27, 18} and 1!) feet. Another measures 22}, 15} anil 13}. This last-named tree him a spread of JIM) feet. The Williams elm measures ill its spread at least 150 feet. At Weathersflehl, Ct., there is an elm which measures, at three feet and three inches from the ground, 21 feet 6 inch es. The girth of this tree where tho roots enter the ground is 55 feet 6 inch es. Its main limbs are groat trees in themselves, TJius. the circumference of the south branch ih 16 feet 8 inches ; of the east branch, 11 feet 6 inches ; north west, 10 feet 3; of the west, 8 feet 7. From north to south the diameter of the spread is 150 feet; from east to west, 152 feet, and the circumference of tho spread is 42!) foot. —liar third Times. Didn’t See the Number, Little Allie was a precocious youth, aged six. Ifo was in liis sister’s room ono day while she was “fixing” her hair, and annoyed her by passing his fingers through tho, long tresses, which he ap peared to he attentively examining, lie finally exclaimed, in a disappointed voice, “Sister Lill, I don’t see the numbers.” “Why, Allie, what do you mean?” said the puzzled maiden. “Didn’t papn read in the bible this morning that ‘the hairs of the head wore all numbered?’" said this literal-minded youth. The best soil for sweet potatoes is a sandy loam. If sand largely predomi nates they will flourish if well manured. New ground or virgin soil is especially favorable for this crop. Jt is the com mon practice to sow buckwheat on new land for the first crop and then to plant sweet, potatoes for the second. An abundant crop is the general result. In a heavy loam the vines grow luxuriantly, but the tubers are generally small, rooty anil of inferior quality. In clayey sod sweet potatoes will not thrive. The scales of the red fish, famous in New Orleans markets, are carefully pre served and sold at about 88 per bushel, being in great demand by tho fabricat ors of ornaments for wreaths and arti ficial flowers for ladies’ bonnots, and for various other purposes of tasliionable use and ornament. From a fish of six or eight pounds the scales aro as large as a quarter of a dollar. They are so hard and flrmlv planted tliut the scaling process has to be performed with an ax or hatchet. The Prince of Wales lias presented President Grcvy with u gun and four set ter dogs. JOTTINGS ANI) CLIPPINGS. Htuay dogs in Philadelphia are gath erod in and killed with carltonio oxide. Mariuaor is often said to lie tho end of a man’s troubles; yes, but—wliioh end? If you have a lot of money and aro afraid of licing roblied, go and pay your outlawed debts with it. The French make cognac for export from pototoes, and much ran dr. colofftu: conies from tlio same sourco. Clam juice, oxtraotad by stowing tho clams, is nourishing anil acceptable to weak stomachs and good for sick folk. An Illinois man found his runaway wife working, In male attire, in a Peoria tailor shop, where her sox was unsus pected. In the Cornell University library of forty thousand volumes there is not a single work of fiction—except tlio his tories. A piiyhttoan residing in Yokohama, Japan, writes that tho Japanese limit leprosy by avoiding marriage wlioro there is any trace of the fatal disease. The duty on pn|>or To pay your sub scriptions promptly anil under tlio con sciousness that you get more for tlio money than can bo had in any other way. An oyster ih able to take food within twenty-four hours of its coming into life. It is able to reproduce its kind when ono year old, anil is marketable at the age of three years. A Dknvbk man whose horse was stolen offered the following discriminating re wards: “ Fifty dollars for the thief, SIOO for tiie horse and thief, and 8200 for tho dead body of the thief.” A noiiTHAiT of Queen Victoria, worked in silk ujxiii volvot by a young French woman, Milo. Julie Girami, is on exhibi tion in Paris, and will be presented to tiie Queen os a mark of that artist’s admiration. Thk. natives of the South Pacific Is lands are very fond of a small sea-worm alunit the size of vermicelli, which they can obtain only at certain seasons. Even European residents are said to consider the “pabola” a rare relish. A (linn at Wellesley College said to n Harvard graduate whom she was taking through the building, and who said that President Eliot of Harvard does not think much of ladies as professors: “ Well, President Eliot has got a parcel of old women as professors and Wellesley ha* a lot of young women as professors.” The other day ono hundred and fifty complaints of nuisances wore filed at the office of tlio Board of Health. I’eoplo outside might think Milwaukee was a particularly unclean place, lmt they should understand that our people aro very patieular and get oil their ear alsmt the’ least thing. Wo presume half tho complaints wero cuusod by strangers in the city throwing chews of tobaceo oil tha sidewalk.— Peck’s Sun. Two young moil passed before a house. At the fifth story, at an open window, a woman with a child in her arms lient dangerously and recklessly forward to look at tho gentleman who was calmly smoking a pipe and leuning from his window, two stories below. The young man saw the insanity of the nurse. “What mail imprudence,” said ono of them between liis teeth. “Yes," replied the other, “to run the risk of dropping lijMin the pavement, and crushing to atoms, such a lovely pipe as that?” A rei’OßT from Hungary told of a criminal hung and subsequently restoroil to life by the application of uu electro galvanic current in a special way; death occurring a second time from congestion of the brain next morning. A similar experiment was made upon the Is sly of a man hung at Bridgeport, Conn. The respiration was restored hut the heart’s action could not be. Such experiment* may yet lead to tlio raising of a legal question, as to whether a limn hung and restored to life must be hung again till dead entire.!//. In that ease the jioor victim would have the full Hynqiuthy of the public. New and Stale Bread. The nature of the difference between new and stale bread is far from licing known. It is only lately that the cele brated French chemist, Boussingaidt, instituted an inquiry into it, from which it results that the difference is not tho consequence of desiccation, but solely of the cooling of the bread. If we take fresh bread into tho cellar or in any place where it eaunotdry, the inner part of tho loaf, it is true, is found to be crumby, but the crust has become soft and is no longer brittle, [f stale bread is taken lau-k into the oven again it as sumes all the qualities of fresh baked bread, although in the hot oven it must undoubtedly have lost part of its mois ture. M. Boussingaidt has made a fresh loaf of bread the subject of minute in vestigation, and the results are anything Irut uninteresting. New bread, in its smallest parts, is so soft, clammy, flexible and glutinous, (in consequence of tho starch during the process of fermenting and baking being changed into mueiliqjin oiis dextrine) that by mastication it is with greater difficulty separated and reduced to smaller pieces, and in its smallest parts is less under tho influence of the saliva and digestive juices. It consequently forms itself into hard balls by careless and hasty mastication and deglutition, becomes coated over by saliva and slime, and in this state enters the stomach. Tho gastric juice being unable to jionetrato such hard masses, and being scarcely able even to act upon the surface of them, they frequently re main in tho stomach unchanged, and, like foreign lushes, irritate and incom mode it, indnoing every speoies of suffer ing—oppression of the stomach, pain in the chest, disturbed circulation of the blood, congestions arid pains in the head, irritation (If the brain, and inflammation, apopleptio attacks, cramp aud delirium. The Miller The Bloom of Age. A woman never grows old. Years may pass over her head, but, if lienevolonoo and virtue dwell in her heart, she is as cheerful as when the spring of life first opened to her view. When we look up on a good woman wo never think of her age ; she looks as charming as when the rose of youth first bloomed on her cheek. That rose has not faded yet; it will never fade. In her neighborhood sho is the friend and l>enefactor. Who does not love and respect the woman who has passed her days in acts of kind ness ana mercy—who has been the friend of man and God—whose whole life has been a scene of kindness and love and a devotion to truth ? We re peat, such a woman cannot grow old. She will always be fresh and buoyant in spirits, and active in humble deeds of mercy nnd benevolence. If the young ady desires to retain the bloom and leauty of youth, let her not yield to the swav of fashion and folly ; let her love truth and virtue; and to the close of life she will retain those feelings which now make life appear a garden of sweets—* ever fresh and ever new. JosErH Taylor, the father of Bayard Taylor, is 85 years old, and resides Kenneth Square, Pa,