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By R . s. HOWARD. VOLUME V. Fail Me Not. I pail ir.e not thou ! are higher, brighter, more divine I V^ n aught man can invent to light bis I • I | c la?s thy love, and qualities I ' \ rl! t and mind, above all men. I pray— I Fail me not thou !” Sweet is thy speech, strictly search thy heart, and mine, as I well) ge jure it is no transient charm that holds I -.v fancy, but a love rooted in death jo brave life’s storms. Such unity ot souls >'o ill can reach. [ Fail me not thou ! •Vc known the agony of being crushed Beneath a fallen idol. Thou hast raised jfenp to bo] e for sweeter life again, With draughts ot bliss so deep I stard an!ii2*d- Fail me not thou ! Oh, fail me not! \|v every hope of earthly happiness ()n t ] lK , js cast. Thou sun unto my day, -a- warms my lile to bloom with better deed# I may worthy be ol such a ray As gilds my lot. Fail me not thou ! tollue 1 cling like ivy round the oak; All other ties I willingly do break )Ca t my fate with thine, whate'er betide, forever all thine own lor love’s sweet sake Trusting thy vow. Boston Traf'scrivt. A PAIR OF SLIPPERS. She made a pretty picture sitting there in the sunset glory that was streaming' in through the stained-glass window, tilling the hall with its warm, rosy light. Little Edna Welden, with her Slight, graceful form, small, queenly head, crowned with its smooth braids of chestnut hair, a soft fringe falling over the low, broad, white forehead, a dreamy look in the big, gray eyes, her dainty chin upheld in ore rosy, palm, si there thinking how happy she was -how happy she had been 3inee invited to the great house, that had been the lioiueol the Stanleys from time imme morial. to help Mrs. Stanley and Hugh, her only son, from feeling lonely. Handsome Hugh! tall, broad-shoul dered y.ung giant that he was, a very prince among men!—he it was who planned the walks and drives —taught shy Edna to ride the brown pony. So kind lie was!—winning all hearts win his sonny, genial ways.. Edna did no try to analyze her feelings in regard t Hugh; she only knew that she wa ffled with a strange happiness, such a she had never felt before; never think ing how it would end, because eaci hour was so full. The pretty dimple.- came and went around the sweet mouth whose K-ar.i t lips were the only hint of color in the otherv. ise colorless face f think one reason Miss Varens dis iked Edna was just because of those same dimples. At any ra,e, coming iWn the hali with slow, stately step >l.t‘felt she would give a great deal if, hy some witchery, they could be trans ferred to her own glowing cheeks. Sir. had noticed, with growing uneasiness, Hugh’s evident liking for little Edna, thought it time to interfere: not s h e even dreamed of Hugh’s 1 - ‘ing in love with this little country pd; and I think if you had hinted at bare of Hugh Stanley c arrying her, her look ot scorn would have struck you as something very fine; T Claudia Varens blood was su preme; and hadn’t she and Hugh the 5,1:11 e blue blood? Her proud mother ays asserted that the Varens and the 1 buiioys ought to be united through l. Ufe | Wo ’ the last of each race; though 1 ' Stanley had never uttered so much a \ 01 ' e wor d on thi3 subject, but said 1 ; “ l i; - v Hugh would make his own \ 10i0e ; . ut Miss Varens had no idea waiting much longer. It was time 1 action. They were both nearing the °f thirty, and —well, by the time -uidia had reached Edna’s side, she i‘ a ' |' ome lo the conclusion that it was ‘ ll "Uty to give her a hint of how mat tfrs stood. Slip gave the Quiet figure a quick tap °“ the shoulder. 4 It brought Edna to her feet with a , I’ u t she sat down again when she i w " I* o was near, and a faint color se lf in Iter cheeks. ur ~ ’‘ x ‘deve you were asleep, Miss ! 0 and d 1 en ’” S:vid Claudia. 1 Hi, no—not asleep, Miss Varens; but beaming wide awake.” o b ; we been looking for you. Mrs. uccu iuoKing lor you. ivirs. P - v thought—that is I—in short I - | au dia was getting con .u * n search of someone to do some ft) 01 ’k f° r me. You are quite skill wj at that Sort of thing, I believe, and I ‘ * J°u fo work a pair of slippers for Ihi , rhp y ar e intended as a present for dist- I continued Miss Yarens, more hV n ,\ V ’ I wish very much to t l‘ J t ‘ lem done in time. Here,” put , f 1 banknote into Edna's hand, “you ri„', e . tter see about getting the mate b;; away—and perhaps I had fhr ' T P a y y°u for you trouble and be ' with it.” ev e le -f ven Edna no time to refuse, ski’Vi e * la( * w i and as she was ... “ Ui at embroidery she could do the easily. w. cannot take pay for doing a favor, * iss \ arcns, but I will do the work and ha y e it done in time.” as you wi E. I am in the Paying for services rendered Stan 1 V ie sr -P° r oiliouß tone of Mrs. V S Sie, but she made no sign. “ Hugh is the forest news. tMngrto^he' 16 th ir own satisfaction. I Sliould nT t U and kl ! } his mother if Hugh no neol^ ak r e & misalliance ; but she has need to fear for him now!” she said Z a meaning tone. ‘‘Dear Hugh, i ma P keb- ail l W ° rthy ’ and 1 thinkl can tnake him happy.” olutchina d } Da! h ’° n hanJ seemed c Sa g hei ’ heart; the Httle hands Claudia’ t aCh ° ther ° n her la P - d eyeS SaW a gra y ißh Pallor oitv 7 1 ° Val faf>e; but Bhe had no Pity—not she. If she had a mind to betrhe a r f ° f n herself ’ why she must bear her own folly-and she kept on in tl at musical voice: , Jv n . and you had not heard of it? In- W i ! l u ange! but then Perhaps ey thought best not to mention it.” excuse me, Miss Varens; I think I the g °i i0 - P 1? vl Hnge this evening for the materials for the slippers.” Edna’s voice was quite steady now; she should never know - this proud, heartless woman how this hurt her. “Please tell Mrs. Stanley I am going for a walk;” and Edna hastily left her seat in the window leaving Miss Claudia quite elated at her success. “Cool, upon my word! I did not know the minx was so proud! Well, I think she has got a lesson she won’t for get. lam glad it is settled about the slippers. Hugh shall have them, of course. H e will think I male them tmenare such fools!) and he will be flattered and propose. I only hope the nmny (meaning Edna) won’t tell Mrs. Stanley what I have said.” They were very pretty indeed, the slippers Hugh Stanley he and in his hand one morning, a week afterward; yes, lovely, he thought—a dark gray ground, on which lay a tiny bunch of great, vel vety pansies, looking so natural! as if they,,had fallen there from a careless hand ; but Hugh’s face wore a perplexed look as he glanced from the slippers to a card he held in his other hand which bore the words: “Wear these for the worker’s sake.” At length a light broke over his face, and he gave vent to a low whistle, and exclaimed, as lie pressed his lips to the silken pansies, “I have it! I knew there was some mis chief afloat. We will see, Miss Claudia!” Whenthe family met in the luxurious breakfast room, Hugh tnanked Claudia for her kind remembrance of him, add ing: “I shall be happy to wear them for the worker’s sake.” Turning to exchange the compliments of the season with Edna, he surprised a swift blush receding from her blow. Her eyes fell beneath his penetrating glance, while Claudia, murmuring something about being very happy, blushed and smiled very prettily as she thanked him for the bracelets he had given her, thinking the while that her plans were working nicely. Not a throb of compassion did she feel for the white face opposite. Edna had changed in the past week; her eyes had dark circles under them —the sweet, scarlet mouth a pitiful droop at the corners. She was very proud and had told herself in that bit ter hour he should never-know she had cared for him, never; so she had forced herself to be gay, to laugh when she felt like weeping. But she could not hide the pale face -and heavy eyes— though to Mrs. Stanley’s kindly ques tions she s.miled quickly and said she was well, only “her head ached a lit tle,” but oh! her heart ached a great deal. She had given Hugh no chance for a word with her had lie wished, but had avoided him persistently. Claudia was always at his side with her ever-ready gayety, of which he was secretly tired. “ Oli, Hugh, you will please turn this music tor me!” or if he planned a walk or drive she always found her place by his side, while Edna was beside his mother. Perhaps he knew the cause of Edna's sudden coldness; at any rate he resolved to bear it no longer. As they were leaving the breakfast room, Mrs. Stanley said: “ Edna, do you feel able to attend the party to-night? if not, I will stay at home with you?” “ Not for the world, my dear Mrs. Stanley; I am perfectly well. I will go.” Yes, she would go, if she had to dance on hot plowshares. And so that night, after Hugh had searched the rooms vainly for her, he at last turned into the conservatory; at the lower end, in the shadow of a great oleander, where a fountain splashed in liquid music and the air was sweet with the fragrance of many flowers, he found her, his pale Edna. Her robe was of snowy, soft muslin, a cluster of crysanthemums in her belt of ribbon that bound her slen der waist, another in her hair. Hugh stood beside her ere she had time to rise. She would have left him instantly, but he caught her hand and made her sit down by his side. His first words dried the tears in her eyes and made her cheeks burn with indignation. “Edna, little Edna, why will you persist in making us both so UDhappy? My shy little girl, you know I love you, and I want you for my own, my wife.” She tried to wrench her hands away, but he held her tight, so she only looked at him with her great eyes full of a righteous anger. “How dare you, Hugh Stanley, say such words to me?” she said. “ I wish Miss Varens were here that she might hear you! Oh, I know your false heart, sir—you, the betrothed husband of an other—” JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 14, 1880. Edna, stop! you know not what you say. Who has been telling you this wicked lie? Miss Varens is nothing to me, less than nothing, for since her wretched untruth about the slippers—” Edna gave a start—“ she is beneath my contempt. You believe me, my dar ling? Look up here with your truth ful eyes and say you love me. My poor girl, how you have suffered!” as the sweet face was upturned to his gaze for a moment, then hid, blushing and happy, on his shoulder. “ But how—l don’t understand—how did you know about—about the slip pers? faltered Edna, who could hardly believe his happiness was real. “I saw you working them. I had been away all day, and, returning late at night, and seeing a light in the music room, peeped in and saw you; also what your work was. Mother over heard the whole conversation between yourself and Miss Varens when she asked you to work the slippers, but would only give me a hint of it and bade me wait. I did wait as long as I could bear to see you so—” “But, Hugh,” interrupted Edna, “I tried to hide it; and indeed, sir, I have not said I love you yet.” “Then tell me so this minute, you little witch! Ah, my own, as if you could hide anything from me!” and he kissed the sweet lips again and again; then said: ‘ ‘ Let me take you to my mother.” “Oh, Hugh, I cannot! I—” “ She knows, my darling; and is very glad.” And Claudia? I think you would have pitied her had you seen her half an hour later creep out -from behind the fountain where she had seen and heard the whole, and realized that she had lost all—everything—though she told her mother, with tears of vexation in her black eyes, “if it hadn’t been for those hateful slippers I might hav< been Mrs. Hugh Staaaley!” and she believes it to this day. Scenes in Damascus, Like all Eastern cities, the interior is disappointing. The streets are dusty and narrow, and the effect of the shabby houses and dilapidated walls is rather that of a collection of villages huddled together than of a large and important city. Our first call was made at an ex cellent hotel kept by a Greek. Its court yards, with fountains playing and with orange trees shadowing the whole place, looked so enticing, its myrtles and jessa mines and marble floors so cool, and its bedrooms so clean and comfortable,that we felt sorry it had not been arranged that we should stay there, instead of pitching our tents in one of the far famed gardens of Damascus. From the hotel we made a progress through the picturesque bazaars. Here there are cov ered-in buildings, swarming with peo ple in every variety of Oriental cos tumes. Turks, Syrians, Maronites and Druses of the town jostle each other. Now a Bedouin of the desert rides by on a beautiful Arab mare, with his long pointed lance at rest, followed by other Bedouins on foot and in rags, unsuccess lul robbers, possibly. Friday is the Mohammedan Sabbath, and th y make it market day as well, so the Bedouins of the desert who come from long dis tances may combine their temporal and spiritual duties comfortably and do their marketing and go to the mosque on the same day. The streets were even more crowded than last night, with varied and wonderful costumes, and so closely packed that it was diflicult to make one’s way through them. In the corner stood a Bedouin Anazeli, of the tribes from near Palmyra, bargaining for a cane to make a spear, his goafs hair loak, with its broad black and white stripes, hanging from his stalwart shoulders, Another of the tribe hard by seemed to be doing his best to seat his horse, while others again rode by with an abstracted air, the graceful mares they bestrode often -followed by whinnying foals. Groups of Jewish, Turkish or Christian women made their purchases with quite as much earnest ness and gesticulations as housewives nearer home, while their lords and masters lounged near, probnbly keeping an eye on the domestic expenditures, but apparently only intent on buying sweetmeats from some of the many venders. There were no Franks except ourselves.— Mrs. Brassey , in Fraser's Magazine. Life in Madagascar. Everywhere in Madagascar life is broken up into sections and fenced about with forms which have lost their meaning. Thus there isjthe hereditary noblesse, the Andrians. They are buried in tombs different from those of the commonality. Some of them may carry a scarlet umbrella. The highest grades may marry out of their own rank, though the inferior grades may not. For ethers the point of honor is that they may not mend a fence. None of them have any more prescriptive right than German nobles or Magyars to occupy state offices. The present prime minister, for instance, is not an An drian, though his family has been wealthy and powerful for several generations. Andrians are often poor enough to be day laborers. One set of these monopolizes the craft of making tinware. The sovereign is the single sun and center of Malagasy society. When bricklayers’ work has to be done in the queen’s palaces, “all ranks of peo ple, from the highest to the lowest, take a pride in doing with their hands some of the actual labor under - the eye of their queen, who sits on a raised seat looking on.” The sovereign is an auto- FOR THE PEOPLE. crat. The lives and property ol all her subjects are at her absolute disposal. It is death even to block the way to her cattle. But she is as much a slave to the ceremonial which environs her as her subjects are slaves to her caprices. She may not move except with an enormous retinue to escort her. On her progresses 20,00© to 30,000 attend her. To walk is almost forbidden. From the great New Year’s festival which she celebrates by majestically bathing in a silver bath, only screened from view of her court by the silken mar ties her at tendants hold, to the moment when her royal corpse is yet more majestically interred, she is a figure in an often-re hearsed pageant. The punctiliously regulated life of the sovereign is only an extreme illustration of the minute ob servances which encompass Malagasy life in all ranks. The best part of a Mala gasy’s year is robbed from him by a division of days into lucky and un lucky. Out of the twenty-eight days of a month twelve only are luckyj Some months are altogether unlucky. Children born in one month, or on certain days of others, were, until the missionaries interfered, put to death. “The new-born infant’s head was placed head downward in a shallow wooden dish filled with lukewarm water.” In one Malagasy tribe a child born on a day of ill-omen is buried alive in an ant-hill. The Hovas love their children, yet all infants bora in an unlucky month had formerly to be laid down at the entrance of the village cattle-fold, that the oxen might be driven over them. The present prime minister survived this ordeal of hoofs and horns. —Saturday Review. Talking Twenty-six Hours. The longest speech on record is be lieved to have been made by a member of the legislature of British Columbia, named De Cosmos. It was in the inter est of settlers, who were to be de frauded of their .lands. De Cosmos was in the hopeless minority. The job had been held back ti 1 tlje eve of the close of the session. Unless legislation was taken before noonj]of a certain day, the act of confiscation would fail. The day before the expiration of the limitation, De Cosmos got the floor about ten o’clock a. m., and began a speech against the bill. Its friends cared little, for they supposed that by one or two p. m., he would be through, and the bill could oe put on its passage. One o’clock came and went, and De Cosmos was still speaking—hadn’t more than entered upon his subject. Two o’clock—he was saying “in the second plrme.” Three o’clock—he pro duced a fearful bundle of evidence, and insisted on reading it. The majority began to have a suspicion of the truth—he was going to speak till next noon and kill the bill. For a while they made merry over it, hut as it came on to dusk they began to get alarmed. They tried interrup tions, but soon abandoned them because each one afforded him an opportunity to digress and gain time. They tried to shout him down, but that gave him a resting spell, and finally settled down to watch the combat between the strength of will and weakness of body. They gave him no mercy. No adjournment for dinner; no chance to do more than wet his lips with water; no wandering from the subject; no sitting down. Twilight darkened, the gas was lit; members slipped out to supper in relays and re turned to sleep in squads, but De Cos mos went on. The speaker to whom he was addressing himself was alternately dozing, snoring, and trying to look awake. Day dawned and a majority of the members slipped out to breakfast, and the speaker still held on. It can’t be said it was a very logical, eloquent, or sustained speech. There were digres sions in it; repetitions also. But the speaker kept on, and at last noon came to a baffled majority, livid with rage and impotence, and a single man who was triumphant, though his voice had sunk to a whisper, his eyes were sunken, and bleared and bloodshot, and his legs tot tered under him, and his baked lips were cracked and smeared witli blood. De Cosmos had spoken twenty-six hours and saved the settlers their land. Drlnking Ice Water. There is no more doubt that drinking ice water arrests digestion than there is that a refrigerator would arrest per spiration. It drives from the stomach its natural heat, suspends the flow of gastric juice, and shocks and weakens the delicate organs with which it comes in contact. An able writer on human diseases says: Habitual ice water drinkers are usually very flabby about the region of the stomach. They com plain that their food lies heavy on that patientorgan. They taste their dinners for hours after it is bolted. They culti vate the use of stimulants to aid diges tion. If they are intelligent they read upon food and what the physiologist has to say about it—how long it takes cabbage aDd pork and beef and pota toes, and other meats and esculents to go through the process of assimilation. They roar at new bread, hot cakes, fried meat, imagining these to have been the cause of their maladies. But the ice water goes down all the same, and finally friends are called in to take a farewell look at one whom a mysteri ous Providence has called to a clime where, as far as is known, ice water is not used. The number of immortal be ings who go hence, to return no more, on account of an injudicious use of ice water, can hardly be estimated.—Balti more Sun. TIMELY TOPICS. TW* Lowell (Mass.) Sun says that the current of French-Canadian emigration into the United States seems to have suddenly changed its destination from the factory centers of the East to the farming lands of the West. Railroad authorities at Chicago estimate that ten thousand Canadian emigrants will dur ing the summer seek new homes in the West and Northwest. The Canadian railroads report the emigration move ment to western points as already heavier than at any time last year. In order to perform an amount of mechanical work equal to lifting 140 pounds 10,000 feet high, Professor Gra ham calculates that a man must eat five pounds of potatoes, one and a third pounds flour, two and a third pounds bread, one and a quarter pounds oat meal, one and a third pounds rice, three and a half pounds lean beef, half apound of beef fat, or one and a fifth pounds Cheshire cheese. He says that the peas ants of all countries have been right, in spite of many scientific assertions that they were wrong, in their instinctive habit of adding fat rather than nitro genous food to their diet when under going hard work. No more interesting experiments have ever been attempted in the new world, says an English paper, than that of the “ wheat colonies ” of La Plata, in South America. These have been especially established in the province of Santa Fe, around the provincial capital of the same name, and have recently been of ficially visited by the president of the republic, who, it is said, was amazed at the progress that has been made. In point of abundance and quality the corn thus grown is reported as equal to that produced in any market of America or Europe; and the prospect thus opened up is practically illimitable. South America threatens to become a formid able rival to North America, and to share some of England’s coin with her. A Cincinnati dentist has performed the curious medical feat of grafting a colored man’s healthy tooth in a cavity in a white man’s mouth. It is well known, says a local paper, that the teeth of colored men are sounder, as a rule, than those of white men, and cases like the above have occurred, though they are not frequent, for reasons that are easily understood. The dentist drew the tooth of a white patient, and immediately went down to a restaurant under his office, and found a colored man, with whom he bargained for one of his teeth at $lO. The colored man went upstairs, took his seat, had his tooth drawn, and received $lO. The tooth was then placed iu the patient’s mouth, where it is expected to take hold. Another marvelous cave has recently been discovered near Hopkinsville, Ky., which is deserving of special mention as a great geological curiosity, inas much as it contains a beautiful fossil lorest of gigantic lepidodendrons in con nection with numerous species of tree ferns, club mosses, cquisetums and other crvptogamic plants, ali in an ex cellent frtate of preservation and in their natural positions. The gigantic lepi dodendrons tower in some instances forty feet in height, and vary at the base from twelve feet in diameter to lesser proportions. They form beautiful col umns similar to the columns of Fingal’s cave at Staffa, only spherical in form. Many beautiful translucent and trans parent stalactites and stalaffmites also abound in the cave, as does also many other beautiful formations. The main avenue has an average width of about sixty feet, and in height is about forty feet. There are numerous dangerous pits and yawning chasms along the route, and great danger exists also in falling rocks, which render cave ex ploration a dangerous occupation. A Colorado Spider Story. A short distance from Buena Vista says the Leadville (Col.) Chronicle , is a cave inhabited by spiders which differ from other spiders in their enormous size, and are quite useful to the needy people of that region. The cave was discovered last December by a party of sight-seers, and the spiders and their work were witnessed. On entering the cave one is first struck by the funny looking webs. They are worked like webs of other spiders, but every fiber is ten times as large as the ones woven by ordinary spiders. On passing further into the care the spiders are encoun tered. They are about the size of small birds and make a strange sound while weaving their web. Their webs are so tough and the fibers so large that it is almost an impossibility to break down a web. Some four weeks ago while looking at the cave a miner got to examining the webs. Their strands were about the size of a No. 12 thread, and he thought that they could be used for thread. Having a needle in his possession he broke off one of the strands and found that it fitted the needle. Sewing on a loose button to test the efficacy he found it as strong as silk thread, and that it answered his every purpose. Since then the people have Hocked in and carried away hosts of the webs, but the spiders do not appear to object in the least. There is some talk among capitalists of starting a thread factory there and using the webs for thread. FOB THE FAIK SEX. Fashion notes. Plush makes prettier bows for the hair than velvet. Ball fassels and rosettes of ribbon are placed on the top of sunshades. Brocades in several shades of gold color are the richest dress goods. Acacia blossoms in lilac color are among the new bonnet garnitures. Not more than two curls are worn when the hair is dressed for the even ing. Habit skirts of bright India silk or of white muslin are worn with surtout suits. Turban hats should not be worn back on the head, unless the hair on the brow be very thick. Bonnet strings are tied in a bow be hind and below the left ear, quite ob scuring the side face of the wearer from any one sitting behind her. Collarettes and lace scarfs should never be tied. Fastening them with ornamental pins preserves their fresh*- ness and secures a gracelul arrange ment. Lace sleeves will be worn this sum mer With evening dress. The square opening at the throat is tilled in with lace so arranged as to be perfectly trans parent. Ribbons grow more and more gor geous, and no color seems too brilliant t--: be used, either by itself or in combi nation with others, as a trimming for a bonnet. Mantles have the sleeve cut in the shoulder piece this year rather than dt; wn from the back, and the effect is to obviate the ugly flatness of many of the old shapes. The elastic materials sold for Jerseys comes in all light colors, and even in white. Broad gold bands are placed about the throat and wrists of some new garments of this description. The costumes called directoire make up for absence of drapery on the skirt by collars and lapels, and pocket-flaps big enough to suggest the idea that they have absorbed all the stuff in the drapery. Elastic polonaises reaching nearly to the hem of the short skirt, are woven in one piece, and finished with deep points around the lower edge. These garments button in the back, and have a drapery of the same stuff. Women Speculators in Wall Street. The New York correspondent of the Washington Republic says: People are dabbling in Wall street' who are scarcely capable of taking care of half a dollar’s change in a horse-car. A mania for getting rich in a hurry, and without work, pervades the whole community, including the women. Said a leading broker to me yesterday: “If I wanted to do so I could add twenty five per cent, to my business by taking orders from ladies. Why, I have calls from someone or other of my wife’s ac quaintances or mine asking me to invest for them in all sorts of things. I in variably refuse, but others I know do not.” He explained to me that he un derstood the sex well enough to be aware of the fact that if they should lose their money—which they will do sooner or later, he thiuks, owing to their dense ignorance of financial mat ters and keen desire for big returns — they would lay all the blame on him and make life a burden to him and his family. I asked the stereotyped question, “ How long will it last ?” “Until there is a smash-up and the poor ‘ lambs ’ have been shorn,” he re plied. “This can’t go on very long. There will be a crash in the 4 fancy ’ mining stocks first, and some of the more solid ones will probably ‘ take a tumble ’ after them. Then the miscel laneous share market will be shaken up somewhat, but there it will stop.” “Then we won’t have a general panic ?” “No; we are too firmly settled to be easily shaken as a whole. It will be only a cutting away of an excrescence on a generally healthy body.” How a Town Got a (Jueer Name. What’s in a name? A good deal, we are told, and how came Tombstone, Arizona, to have such a name ? It was not borrowed or stolen from any other place on the globe, nor ever suggested by novel or gazetteer. The story goes, and it is true, that two young men, brothers, when about to start from Tuc son on a prospecting tour into the Dragoon mountains, Sonora, or some where else, were advised to give up the undertaking, fer if they persisted, they would find neither mine nor fortunes, but their “ tombstones ” instead. The boys bravely bade good-bye to their friends though emphatically warned that they would never come back alive. The prospectors went off, and following “ that blind trail,” already referred to, came to this plain and made their camp. On looking about they saw a ledge of ore cropping out several feet, all marked and rich with the precious metals. “ We have found our tombstones,” they exclaimed, and no other name would do to designate the camp. The town has adopted the name, which, if not poetical or classical,is certainly original. A valua ble tombstone, too, it must be confessed, for these Schieffelin brothers last week sold their half interest in the mine and will for $1,000,000 to parties in Boston and Philadelphia. Now that so many mines are located in this Tombstone district, this first discovery is known at present as “The Tough Nut.”— San Francisco Bulletin. PRICE—S 1.50 PER ANNUM NUMBER 49. Spring Flowers. Up through the wrinkled and naked eaith, Tenderly sweet, tenderly iair, Crocuses blossom, snowdrops peep, Shyly, modestly, everywhere; Pale and purple violets creep, Filling with too much sweet the air; Blue-bells nod, and daffodils stare; Under the moss the hyacinths sleep, And dream not ol' sorrow or care, Waiting, waiting tor summer’s birth. Deep in each deli and mossy vale Lifts up the orchis her curious crown, Lovingly peeps the primrose pale At the cowslips, golden, orange, and brown; The hedges are whitening for May, Where the iragrant, vagrant dog-rose blushes, And winter had passed away, When the bindweed peer through the bushes ! All nature is smiling to-day, As the blush of the springtime flushes. ITEMS OF INTEREST. The Whoopinkoffs are an old Russian family. Don’t poke fun at that girl with her hair banged. ’Sh! Don’t let it go any further! She has freckled brows! It is strongly suspected that it was Ananias who invented the circus pos ter. — Philadelphia Chrohikle-Herald. An ordinary sized man, supposing his surface to be fourteen square feet, sustains the enormous pressure of 30,- 340 pounds. “How does painting agree with my daughter?” asked an anxious parent. ‘lt makes her too red in the face,” re plied the teacher. Within the past few years wild ferrets have become numerous in the vicinity of Quiltman, Ga., much to the surprise of local naturalists. People who lock children in rooms where there is fire, and then go away to spend the day, should be careful to take a coffin home with them. A Hawesville (Ky.) colored boy is a candidate for fame, with six fingers on one hand, seven on the other, seven toes on each foot and double-jointed bones all through his anatomy. The Irish do not understand the art of hay-making. They let the grass lie too long in the field and too long in the cocks. One-fifth of its nutritive element is lost by imperfect manipulation. The 1,500,000 acres mown in a year yield about two tons each. An old lady wearing a pair of green goggles stepped on the Sacramento train at South Vallejo and knocked at the car door, and actually waited till it was opened on the inside by a passenger. For consummate politeness this has no parallel. The American sea-going steam ma rine comprised, on the first of January, 1880, 519 vessels, measuring 601,289 tons gross, and 368,598 tons net. There were under the British flag at the same time, 3,542 sea-going steamers, measuring 3,933,966 tons gross, and 3,555,575 tons net. A young woman who is teaching the Indians at Hampton, Va., was recently drilling a company of girls on the hymn, “ Yield not to Temptation,” and trying to explain to them the meaning of the words. Some time after the class was dismissed a pupil came to her and said, “Me victory!” meaning that she had gained a victory. Being asked to ex plain, she said: “ Indian girl, she big temptation to me; I no yield—l fight her.” Interesting Historical Facts. Boston was incorporated as a city in 1822. The military academy at West Point, on the Hudson, was instituted in 1802. In the summer of 1770 Daniel Boone was the only white man in Kentucky. Q,ueen Victoria was married to Prince Albert, of Saxe Coburg, on the tenth of February, in the year 1840. Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, died in 1825 at New Haven. He was born at Westboro’, Mass., sixty years previous. William Shakespeare died on his fifty second birthday, in April, 1616. Cer vantes died at the age of sixty-nine, in the same year and day. In 1492 Cuba bore the name of Juana, in honor of Prince John, son of Ferdi nand and Isabella. Cubta, is the original Indian name of the island. The cucumber is known to have been cultivated for a period of over three thousand years, and was a common vegetable in Egypt at earliest historic dates. At a wedding in Switzerland three hundred people lost their lives through drinking. At a feast in St. Petersburg, in 1779, five hundred died from the same cause. The first balloon ascension in the United States was by M. Blanchard, from the prison yard, Philadelphia. President Washington was present. It was on January 9, 1793. The oldest illustration of a tobacco pipe in Great Britain is in a carving on a chimney in the keep of Cawdon castle, where, among other devices, are a cat playing a fiddle and a fox smoking a tobacco pipe. Date, 1510. Several of the most famous of Ra phael’s paintings were produced in the year 1500. He died twenty years after at the age of thirty-seven. Raphael was never married, though very popular personally. His father was an artist of respectable ability.