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sy r. S. HOWARD. VOLUME V. Hold Fast to Faith. I , lir :iey of life, outstretching before us, ■hi v the emblem of laith be fixed to our H brea-W . ■ 10-dny hang pleasantly o’er H u 5 I jj s _r bring with the morrow the biLterest % test. : ~,„th though to-day be a garden of roses, may lie through hedges of brier, I * whatever we plan fate often disposes, I ipup in disaster our fondest desire. R . T |j no w we may dwell iu the sunshine of I gladness, I Al i the hearthstone oi home be lighted with joy; h ■ hann oi atlVction, unbroken by sadness; ■ ‘ An ,i the cup ot our pleasure untouched by I y.• these may all flee like a mist of themom ■ ing, H I tnl the warmest of friends grow cruel and 1 ; |.j T ersity's ptdi may enshroud the bright ■ dawning, ■ And our happiness end, like a tale that is I fold. I i om life, that to-day is blooming with I pleasure, I fo morrow, perhaps, it may blossom with I tram; I p t r one whom we guard as earth’s richest | treasure, I May garnered by death in his harvest ot I year?. I (jar heart may be strong in its life-giving I Junction, I And suffuse our young brow with the mantle I ol health; I Battle destroyer thinks not of a soul’s denied j unction I |jke a thief in the night hecomethby stealth* I Be this then our motto, lile’s journey pur. suing, Hold lust on to laith if we would to our I God; la believing alone is the way ol subduing Ttio pain that is sufl'eied whilst under the rod. I And when at the end, the dark valley des cending. We shall not he lost in the depths ol de spair; And the light ol our laith, with radiance blending, Shall illume the brighter the crown we shall wear. Howard JV. Fuller. THWARTED. “ALiher!” A look at tender expostulation; the swill moving of aged lips to a smile. Two laces almost touched as a pair of strong arms relieved feeble ones of a heavy package of books. “ Weil, dear,” said the mellow old voice ot Mrs. Maples, addressing tier son, Lynn ; “ I thought you had enough to carry.” Lynn Maples’ arms might have been said to be full, for he carried a dry goods bundle, a valise, a weil-paekej shawl-strap and an umbrella; but he took quick-possession of the books, and then, after an instant’s evident regret that he had no arm to offer Ilia mother, stepped from the store door, and turned to had a horse-car. A fair lace, that had been turned steadily toward the two since they emerged from the store, leaned forward now into tire sunshine, as Annie Lor aine, among the velvet cushions of her phaeton, followed with her brown, at ‘•‘ntive eyes the movements of mother mid son. ‘Amusing, watching the crowd some' times,” remarked an elegant young man at her side, reconciling himself with "iiat grace lie could to Miss Loraine’s inattention. Yes,” she answered, almost inaudi bly. The next momont, with a sharp cry, su ’ * ia( l sprung from the violet cushions ' ' was foremost in the gathering crowd. Bewildered, and for once shaken out 2. fi ' s boasted repose of manner, Percy udley followed her. An aged woman,her beautifully silvery u ' disheveled, her black dress covered "tli dust, had just been ifted from the ? r oun |by a burly policeman, and was ■Mantly claimed by a young man. 'Till someone call a carriage?” Ull -d Lynn Maples, his mother lying senseless across his breast. mine! pray, take mine!”the Monished Dudley heard Miss Loraine saying. ut before he could get his breath, l ',' Nas shouldered one side by Lynn, ' v 10 had accepted Miss Loraine’s offer . IQ uta thought, and was only anx to get his mother to a place of safety. her in the deep seat, and sup foitod her with one arm, while Miss moraine put the lines into his other hand. r l urn down this side street—quick— crowd,” she said; “ and leave ~l p Pbaeton at the St. James hotel lor ‘ bss Loraine.” The burly policeman had finished P aeing his packages and bundles about bet, and mechanically Lynn Maples obeyed the mandate given him by the livery voioe and sweet brown eyes. Hie pretty ponies bore him quickly iro . m the scene, and through several r iUitt streets to his home. by this time Mrs. Maples had regained | lj nsciousness, and could descend from ie v ehicle with his assistance, though shaken. In stepping from the sidewalk to take ‘horse-car, she had been interrupted by ! Ie Posing of a carriage, and stepped lU 'b beneath the horses of another, hynn Maples was a blue-eyed, tender parted fellow, with nothing remarka ' about him but his purity of char- THE FOREST NEWS. ? nd Oomc.tlc testes, contrasting S y tJt. , ’ leh, ‘ bitSOfthes ' o “”* -Though six-and-twenty, his mother had hitherto been the sole lady of his ove, and she was a little surprised to near him exclaim suddenly, out of a reverie, the next day: “ Wasn’t she beautiful?” “ Who, Lynn?” “ f he Y°ung lady who offered me her carriage.” “ You forget, dear,” placidly, over her knitting, “I did not see her.” “ I wonder who she is?” And Lynn continued to wonder. He had left the phaeton at the St. James hotel, and thd proprietor had assured hl “ U , iat a } ] would be right. Appar ently me episode had closed. On vhe contrary, Annie Loraine, a re markably independent young lady for one ot but twenty years of age, had taken pains to inform herself that Mrs. Maples was not seriously injured. She asked a hundred questions of her informant—who chanced to know the Maples—and learned that they moderate circumstances; perfectly re spectable; that they lived in a flat in Hotel Dighton; that Lynn was a dry goods clerk, and supported his mother and a young sister. Percy Dudley stood by chafing. It seems to me you are very much interested in that fellow, Annie!” lie exclaimed, at last. ‘‘ I am, I think,” she answered, care lessly. Dudley looked at her from under a frowning brow. He, Percy Dudley, the irresistible, the best match of the season, had paid this girl the most unmistakable attentions for four months without the slightest sign of having made but the most ordinary impression upon her. Yet he continued his suit, since there was not another girl worth one hundred thousand dollars in his set, nor any where that he knew of, to be had. His jealous eyes observed that in driving with Miss Loraine, they never passed the store where Lynn was em ployed without turning her glance toward the entrance; and once, when he chanced to be filling a lady’s car riage with bundles, she bowed to him, with a faint flush upon her lily face. From that moment Dudley hated Lynn. Though he did not for a moment entertain the thought that Miss Loraine gave him more than a passing approval, and he could see that the young man had something noble and attractive in his air, he was jealous even of her mere respect for him. It was mere accident that the two met again and again during the winter, at church, at a fair, in a picture gallery, where Miss Loraine offered Lynn the sweetest courtesy, but it infuriated Dudley. . “Curse the fellow! I’ll make him cut his own throat before long!” he mut tered. He caught Lynn out, and obtained t introduction. It was in a concert rour “Good many ladies present. By the way, there is Miss Annie Loraine in front. Do you know her, Mr. Maples?” “I have the pleasure—slightly,” re plied Lynn, a flush coming into his frank, blonde face. “ Pretty, eh?” “Very beautiful, I think. Do you know where she resides, Mr. Dudley?” “ What, don’t know? Oh, up town somewhere!” answered the other, catch ing at a sudden thought. “So you don’t know mu h about her circum stances?” “No. Do you?” “ Something,” carelessly. “ She’s an orphan. Lives with an aunt. By the way, my dear sir, she seems to know you better than you do her.” “She did me a favor last fall, on the occasion of an accident.” “Ah! Well, it seems that on that oc casion you took the young lady’s fancy. In short, she fell in love with you.” “ With me?” stammered Lynn, blush ing furiously. “lam not worthy the honor.” “ There is no accounting for women’s fancy,” burst forth Dudley, savagely. Lynn was too bewildered to notice the sneer. “ You are a Mend of hers?” lie asked. “Oh, yes—an old, and intimate one. She’s an odd girl—given to unaccounta ble fancies, you know. Oh, yes, I know her well! And my advice to you is to strike while the iron is hot, and offer yourself to Miss Loraine —that is, if so inclined yourself.” “I—l admire her very much!” stam mered Lynn, trembling with agitation. “Yes, certainly; I understand. Well, she’s going South next week; but she’ll be at the Parker Fraternity to-morrow evening. You’d better see her there, and make a sure thing of it. I’ll give you my word she’ll accept you.” “Thankyou! thank you!” murmured Lynn, the lights swimming before his eyes, and the music fading on his ears. He cared no longer for the latter. He got away out of the hall, and spent a restless night, full of excitement and the most exalted emotion. For the first time he knew that he loved the lily faced, brown-eyed girl. The next night found him at the musi cal enttrtainment of the Parker Fra ternity. He was foolish, perhaps, but not more so than a score of other young fellows in love. But an ore honest, fervent fellow never trembled at the touch of a woman’s hand. “ You are as fond of music as I am, Mr. Maples,” she said, with a sweet cordiality of manner which made her ir resistible to all men who looked at her. “ May I escort you home, Miss. Lor raine? I—l have something to say to you.” She gave assent. Her brown eyes JEFFERSON, GA., FRIDAY, MAY 21, 1880. widened slightly with surprise, but she chose to accept, and, for once, Percy Dudley gracefully yielded his claims. She came down into the moonlight, her rich evening dress over her arm, her face cool and sweet. Lynn had a mis giving that he was mad, but he could not help it. Before they had walked six blocks and crossed the park he had offered himself to Miss Loraine. She did not speak—her face was quite white. He felt the little hand on his arm. tremble. But her voice was sil very clear when she spoke at last: “Mr. Maples, you have known me but a comparatively short space of time. What has caused you to address me like this?” My fervent love would not have given me courage to do so, Miss Lor aine; but an old friend of yours— one who claimed to know you well- assured me that you were not quite indiffer ent—” His voice failed him. “ Who was this friend, Mr. Maples?” “Mr. Dudley.” He saw her eyes flash. She stopped at the foot of a flight of marble steps. lam at home now. Will you come here to-morrow and get your answer, Mr. Maples?” Her face, gentle and downcast, did not tell him enough to bid him hope, but he could not forbear doing that in the sight of her loveliness. He glanced up at the wide portals, bronze lions and arched casements, thinking, after he had bowed and left her, that Annie Lor aine’s aunt must be rich. Another night of palpitating hope and fear, yet he came with a manly face to Annie Loraine to le°rn her answer. He was a little surprised to find Dud ley in the room into which he was us ered. He sat lolling in an p asy-chair, smiling, complaisant, yet with a flushed face and covert sparkle in his eye. Miss Loraine rose from the sofa, and advanced cordially to her visitor, offer ing her jeweled hand. “You have come promptly for your answer. Mr. Maples,” she said, “ and I will be prompt with you. I accept your offer of marriage, and give you, in the very acceptance, my most sincere affec tion. Yesterday was the first of April, and I think it is Mr. Dudley who will tell us who is the April fool.” With a cry of rage, andalurious oath, lie sprang to his feet; but Miss Loraine turned her back on him, and walked with Lynn into an adjoining parlor, and he made his exit from the house with out her adieux. In scheming to make Lynn Maples offend the heiress by an offer of mar riage, he had shot beyond his mark, and, losing nil hope of Annie Loraine and her fortune, bitterly repented his trick of the first of April. Swifter Than the Telegraph. Mr. Joseph Cooper, who is now work ing a towboat line outside of the tow boat association, and who has in conse quence no rights and privileges with regard to the telegraph line of the association, has hit upon a novel method of getting his dispatches transmitted from his towboat to his office in this city. Last year, when Captain Black was outside this association, that enter prising shipowner bought several dozen Belgium carrier-pigeons, and was train ing them for use, when he decided to enter the association. Having no further use for the birds, he did not know what to do with them, until Mr. Cooper came round, made inquiries and bought them. Mr. Cooper constructed a cote back of his office and therein put the pigeons. In a day or two these latter became do mesticated in their new quarters. For some time past they have been regularly employed in bringing messages from th towboats at the pass, and Mr. Cooper is delighted with his arrangement. The carrier-pigeon in this service is swifter than the telegraph. For example: When a Cooper towboat takes charge of a vessel, say at a distance off shore, a pigeon is turned loose. The fleet bird circles around a moment, and strikes a bee line for home. The distance straight is about 100 miles, which the pigeon traverses in about one hour and a quar ter. Should an association boat meet a vessel so far from land a dispatch can not be sent until thereafter, i. e., not until the vessel is towed to the telegraph station at Port Eads. Asa consequence the carrier-pigeon line brings a message to this city fully three hours ahead of the telegraph line, and Mr. Cooper re joices over this success.— New Orleans Times. Bearing Each Other’s Burdens. Life teems with unnecessary pain. For every living soul there is work to do, effort to make, sorrow to alleviate. No in the short time allotted to us here should pass without some attempt, however feeble, to lessen the load of suffering pressing so unequally on the lives of those around us. All can do some little, and if each soul that has suffered would take a share in removing or lessening the burden of another, life would be other than it is. An old writer beautifully says: “All can give a smile.” How few value a smile as they should, yet who does not know the brightness which some faces bring whenever they appear? The smile of kindly recognition, the acknowledgment of existing suffering, the free masonry of endurance, all are conveyed by a glance, and none can tell how often the effort to be cheerful has helped a weaker sufferer to endure.— Social, Notes. The first friction matches were six inches long and five cents apiece. Con siderable prejudice was raised against their use by their occasional explosion. FOR THE PEOPLE. Hook’s Famous Hoax. Theodore Hook was the prince of practical jokers, and for years kept Ihe people of England laughing at his cun ning and his wit. The masterpiece in this line was what is known as “The Berners Street Hoax,” perpetrated in the cjty oi London, in 1809. The hoax was oonceived in malice, having been an out growth of a grudge entertained against, its victim, Mrs. Tottenham, a wealthy lady living at No. 54 Berners street. Hook’s accomplices were a certain “ Mr. H —who had been also concerned in many of Hook’s previous jokes, and a celebrated actress oi the time. Together they sent out 4,000 letters to persons in every station in life, purporting to be orders, appointments or invitations from Mrs. Tottenham. They all named the same day, and an hour was appointed for each, appropriate to his calling. Thus, at five in the morning, the streets resounded with the peculiar cries of an army of chimney-sweeps, who, with their masters, thundered upon the knocker of No. 54. Before they had gone, the ponderous coal wagons from the wharves were driven up to the house, each with a load of coal to de liver at the same house, blocking the street, and causing a great noise of wheels and clamor of blackened drivers. Later a large number of cooks appeared, every one carrying a huge wedding cake for the festivities that were never to take place. Then followed tailors with suits of cloths; upholsterers with sam ples; undertakers with coffins ready made; barbers with wigs to fit; millin ers with arms filled with bandboxes, and dentists nerved to draw teeth. By this time the family at No. 54 were nearly beside themselves with distress at their situation and fear from the rage of the disappointed tradesmen. But more was to come. Great furni ture vans rolled up to the house with contents to fill a hundred 2iouses, organs and pianofortes came, each with a num ber of men to carry them in; linen dra pers brought large rolls of goods, and jowelers produced their rarest gems at the command of the wealthy and fash ionable lady of Berners street. At noon forty fishmongers appeared, all bring ing “cod and lobsters;” and butchers followed, every man with a leg of mutton. At a fashionable hour the carriages of many persons who moved in the best circles began to arrive, and while they were still there several “coaches and four,” gayly decorated for a bridal jour ney, wheeled into the street. Noblemen princes and persons in high station came to pay their respects. Lawyers, sum moned to consult on important matters, clergymen, to administer to the dying; artists, eager for the patronage of the great, came in numbers together. Sur geons, too, came in hot haste, and, find ing that their carriages could not pass for the crowd, and seeing the multitude apparently drtwn by some accident in the house, they descended and forced their way on foot through the throng. And Anally, when the crowd was at its greatest, fittingly to crown the joke, the lord mayor himself, in his robe of state and seated in his official chariot, was driven to the door. London was excited for many days over this affair. Hook avoided trouble by leaving the country for a while. The tradesmen were eager to recover dam ages for their losses, and others to ob tain revenge for their annoyances. Words of Wisdom. A year of pleasuie passes like a float ing breeze, but a moment of misfortune seems an age of pain. Many men claim to be firm in their principles, when really they are only obstinate in their prejudices. If a man have love in his heart, he may talk in broken language, but it will be eloquence to those who listen. It is well worth remembering that the whole world will breathe a little freer if you will only resolve to be an honest and upright man. He who indulges his sense in any ex cesses, renders himself obnoxious to his own reason; and to gratify the brute in him, displeases the man, and sets his two natures at variance. > To commit the execution of a purpose to one who disapproves of the plan of it, is to employ but one-third of the man; his heart and his head are against you, you have commanded only his hands. Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are en lightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed and the faith ful encouraged. Brown Paper Against the Cold. The old woman’s remedy for a cold in the chest, a sore throat or a bruise, which consisted in an application of brown paper steeped in beer or vinegar owed its efficiency to the heat-retaining properties of the paper. A wet pad of this material, as far as the surface next the skin was concerned, acted almost as well as a layer of wet linen rag protected with a thick covering of flannel; in short, stout paper of the commonest sort is an effective non-conductor, and may be advantageously employed as a covering for beds or to eke out scanty clothing. A piece of thick paper in serted between the lining and the cloth of a waistcoat, or in the back of a thin coat will render it warm as well as light. The suggestion is a small one, but it is simple to carry into effect, and will be found effective. TIMELY TOPICS. Italian emigration to the United States has increased so rapidly as to at tract the attention of the Italian govern ment, and it is said that measures will be taken to prevent the exodus of the people, which now amounts to a drain of 135,000 a year. Italy is not over populated and it ought to be so happy and prosperous that emigration Would have no temptation for its inhabitants. But its recent political advancement lias not been gained without cost; and the national debt is large and the annual taxation heavy. Italy is a poor country compared to the United States, and yet its debt is $1.977,117,345, and its yearly expenditure per capita, $10,12, while oursisonly $6.13. The refuse of oats, it is found, may be advantageously utilized as material for paper manufacture, the object being effected by first immersing the oat husks in water in a tank, so as to float off all foreign seeds, etc., which would ma terially deteriorate the quality of the paper. The oat husks are then allowed to settle, and thn surface scum and floating seeds are drawn off by an over flow pipe at the top of the tank, or other wise removed; after which the water is completely drained from the husks by a waste-water pipe at the bottom of the tank and beneath a perforated false bot tom, or filled with a strainer which re tains the oat husks. The latter may be left to steep in the water for from five to ten hours after or during the removal of the scum, as the steeping, by soften ing them and helping to loosen the silica from the fiber, facilitates the subsequent boiling process. The fees which physicians may charge in Prussia for their services is regulated by law, and according to the most recent ordinance, the charge lor the first visit to a sick person is fixed at two marks (twenty-five cents stand ing for a mark), and one mark for each subsequent visit; where, however, several persons belonging to the same family and dwelling in the same house have to be treated at the same time, then, for the second and each succeeding per son, only the half of these lees respec tively is to be charged—the same rule is to apply to boarding schools and similar institutions, also to prisons. When there is a consultation of several physicians about the treatment of a sick person, including then' personal visits, each physician is to receive for the first consultation five marks, and three marks for each subsequent similar con sultation. On the occasion of the first .visit to the physician’s residence for his medical advice, one mark and a half. For the administration ot chloroform, etc., when necessary for the treatment of the patient, three marks. About four years ago a novel plan for instructing the children of the poor in the art of housekeeping was put into operation at the Wilson industrial school for girls in New York. The little girls were taught in an attractive manner, and with the aid of toy im plements, to wash, sweep, dust, sot the table, make beds, and a variety of other things, in a neat and thorough way. The system was known by the name of the “ Kitchen Garden.” It has gradu ally extended, until there are now ten or a dozen classes in New York, and others have been formed in Hoboken, Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago. Plans have also been made for establishing kitchen gardens in many other cities. A short time ago a meeting was held at a private resi dence in New York for the purpose of organizing a “ Kitchen Garden Associ ation,” so that the principles upon which this system are founded may be improved as much as possible, and that there may be uniformity of action among those interested in it. Chil dren seem to be deeply interested in this novel method of learning house work, and last winter a class was formed in Boston from the children of prosper ous families. The observations of statisticians have been of late directed to the serious but steady decrease in the population of France, as evinced by the gradual les sening of the birth rate. In 1878 the number of births was 927,211, a lower average than that of the last four years. In 1861 the average was 2.69 per cent., in 1862 it was 2.65, in 1863 it rose again to 2.69, but between 1864 and 1868 it sank t 02.63. From 1874t0 1878 it further declined to 2.56, and in the latter year it was only 2 53. There are two causes for this decrease, viz., the fewer number of marriages, and, what is far more im portant, a great decline in the number of children resulting from these mar riages. In the period between 1864 and 1868 the average of marriages was 0.79 per cent., which declined in the corres ponding years of the next decade to 0.78 and is now only at the rate of 0.75. The proportion of children to each marriage is dwindling more and more, with the exception of Brittany and some of the departments in the center and south, where the agricultural population is under the system of co-operative farm ing. In the class composed of petty tradesmen or the well-to-do peasants there is seldom more than one child per marriage, and M. Baudrillart has stated that in one of the rural communes in Picardy he ascertained the number of children among the best of the peasants to be thirty-seven for thirty-five fami lies. The illegitimate births in 1878 numbered 67,912, being 1,000 over and above that of the preceding year. A Leader of the Gauchos. The north Atlantic coast is not the only region whose inhabitants are de moralized by the northeast wind. Gov ernor Rosas, of Buenos Ayres, who was successful in subduing the Indians of the pampas, never treated with them when the wind blew from the north east. He found from experience that during such periods the savages were morose and indisposed to submit to reason or force. When, however, the wind came from the southwest they be came reasonable, and then the governor found little difficulty in making honor able arrangements with them. This Rosas was a remarkable man. He was a splendid horseman, and even the gauclios, the modern representatives of the centaurs, admitted that he ex celled them in riding and throwing the lisso. Once, at a public celebration in the city of Buenos Ayres, he gave an exhibition of his skill. Stationing a gaucho, with a lasso, at a corner of the public square, Rosas rode at full speed down the street. As he entered the square the gaucho threw his lasso and caught Rosas’ horse by the foreleg. The animal fell headlong and broke its neck. But Rosas leaped from the saddle, alighted on his feet, and walked off, raising his hat in acknowledgment of the cheers of the people. The leader of the aristocratic party was Lavalle. Rosas shut him up in Buenos Ayres and then besieged the city. The war was a shocking one, no. quarter being given on either side. La valle’s supplies giving out, he deter mined to come to terms with Rosas. One day he rode out to the gauchos’ camp, under a flag of truce, and asked to see General Rosas. As he was absent, La valle accepted an invitation to enter the general’s tent, remarking that he had had but little rest for a long time, and would, if there was no objection, sleep until Rosas’ return. Stretching him self on the ground, he fell asleep in a few minutes. When Rosas entered the camp he was informed that Lavelle was in his tent. “ To what good fortune am I indebted for this news?” asked Rosas. *‘ He came under a flag of truce,” re plied the offie.r, “and asked permission to repose until your return.” “ Do not allow him to be disturbed,” said Rosas. “Any one who can sleep in the tent of his most deadly enemy must be a brave man. Let his fate be what it may, he shall have a peaceful sleep to prepare for it.” When Lavalle awoke he and Rosas had a conference. It resulted in the ter mination of the civil war, and both sides welcomed peace. Two Terrible Duels. The London Telegraph prints the fol lowing: A horrible story of a duel be tween two inhabitants of Morocco is reported from Oran. The two principals, both occupying a good position, were enamored of the same beauty, and agreed to fight for her possession. The com batants met at a short distance from Mequinez, each being armed with a car bine, a revolver and a hunting-knife, and mounted on horseback. The duel ists rushed at one another at full speed, which resulted in one of the horses being killed, and the fight was continued on foot. After the two men had received several bullets in different parts of their bodies, they closed, and commenced a violent and horrible struggle with their knives. One of the men thrust his knife into the other’s throat, and received a cut from his enemy which opened the whole of his chest. Too weak to their arms, the dying men took to biting one an other, and expired, the one with his teeth closing on the other’s cheek, who gave Up his last breath in endeavoring to rip open his adversary’s body. The object of the encounter was thus gained, as each prevented the other from ob taining the hand of the girl, who must in future endeavor only to captivate one admiier at a time if she wishes to secure a husband. After all, this is child’s play com pared with a desperate encounter de cribed by the Impartial , of Madrid, as taking place at Valparaiso, A quarrel between two rival professors of music led to a challenge, the instrument se lected being neither pen nor sword, but the piano. The conditions of the “ en counter ” were that neither party should eat or drink until honor had been de clared duly satisfied, and that no waltzes or other lively airs should be indulged in. Seconds were appointed* and the duel proceeded without intermission for forty-eight hours, at the end of which time one of the musicians, after playing a “Miserere” for the one hundred and fiftieth time, fell forward, and sank ex hausted on the floor. He was taken up a corpse. His adversary had been lit erally transformed into an “enranged musician,” and was in that state re moved to the hospital. The seconds themselves gave signs of being seriously “ touched,” and each of the pianos was found to be in a hopelessly crazy condi tion. Such, at least, is the result of the medical examination. A small boy, whose deportment at school had always ranked 100 per centum, came home one night with his standing reduced to ninety-eight. “ What have you been doing, my son?” asked the mother. “Been doing,”re plied the young hopeful; “been doing just as I have all along, only the teacher caught me this time.” —American Punch. Astronomy was first studied by the Moors, and was introduced by them into Europe in 1201. The rapid progress of modern astronomy dates from the time of Copernicus. It was known to the Chinese about 1100 B. C. PRICE-51.60 PER ANNUM. NUMBER 50. Kiss Me Before Ton do. Your way lies over the hillside, Out in*tho rain and sleet, Ont in tne world’s wild turmoil, Where the bustle and business meet; But mine by the noiseless fireside, Where the lanciiul embers glow With a changeful lite-like motion— Kiss me before you go. My quiet way will be haunted With visions none others can see, Glancei More precious than diamonds, §miles full of meaning to me; The sound of a welcome footstep, A whisper thrillingly low; Ah, thought will clasp memory closely Kiss me belore yon go. For this world is full of mischances, And one of those may lall; . That we two ne’er again in the firelight, Make one shadow upon the wall. Ob, then, once more in the parting— Alas ! that it must be so— Leave me a fond benediction; Kiss me before you go. ITEMS OF INTEREST. Archery is becoming fashionable in the South. Bound East—The books published in Boston. — New York News. The Chicago Journal says that a hop ping branch of industry in Illinois is frog culture. The successful growing of the coffee plant in Florida is now established be yond question. Senator Bruce, of Mississippi, intends it is said, to become a lecturer when his congressional term expires. The mayor of Leavenworth said he liked to see boys enjoy themselves, and then turned about and arrested a lad who gave him a volley from a bean shooter. Trout, the'most beautiful of fish, are deceived by the flies that are most arti ficially made; but there is no reason why a girl should fall in love with a mere mustache. De Lesseps estimates that the Brook lyn bridge will last for six centuries. We shall watch that bridge with some curiosity to see ju3t how near he hits.— Boston Transcript. They are actually building a railway uptothesumml of Mount Vesuvius. It must be pleasant to ride on a road that has to build lava sheds along every section.— Hawkey e. It is said that 4,300,300 head of cattle now roam the Texan ranches. New York follows, in point of numbers, with a bovine population of 2,100,400. Cali fornia leads in sheep, with 6,670,600. In his article on the “Orchestra of To-day,” in Scribner , Mr. Sidney Lanier laments the neglect of the flute, and hopes to see the time “when the twenty violins of an orchestra will be balanced by twenty flutes.” The library of an lowa clergyman, at Waterloo, contains the largest collection of works on hymnology in America, if not in the world. Three thousand vol umes of hymnals and illustrated works make up this unique collection. “ Will you please pass the milk, Miss Brown ?” asked a young man of a fid gety old maid at the supper table. “Doyou take me for a waiter, sir?” she answered. “ Well,” he added, “as no one has taken you thus far, and you’ve waited so very long, I should think that you were on e."—Lowell Sun. The first coal fields worked in America were the bituminous fields of Rich mond, Va., discovered in 1750. The first use of anthracite coal was in 1768-9, first used to burn in common grates in 1808. The first successful use of an thracite coal for smelting iron was in 1839, at the Pioneer Furnace at Potts ville, Pa. Weary of submission to her despotic will, he resolved to see her for the last time and break with her forever. “Be have yourself like a man,” said his sym pathizing friend to him as they parted at the door of her boudoir. They met an hour later. “How is it?” said the friend. “ Did you behave like a man?” “ Very like a man,” said the unhappy slave; “ I made an ass of myself. ” Safety of Nihilists in the Great Cities of Germany. It is by no means necessary, writes a correspondent of the Cologne Gazette. that a Nihilist should bury himself in the interior of the country to evade de tection, for he can reside with much greater safety to himself in St. Peters burg or Moscow than in any obscure village of some remote province. In the new capital, for instance, many thousands of persons of both sexes are resident who possess no permit or pass, as prescribed by law, and get on per fectly well without any justificatory document whatsoever. There are peo ple in this town who have lived here for dozens of years without permits, although everybody is required upon changing his or her lodgings to produce an official passport at the district police office, and to have it stamped by the competent authority, and although houseowners, dvomiks (porters) and police officers expose themselves to heavy penalties if any one for whom they can be held responsible be found not to possess a pass. Do you wish to know how this is managed ? It is sim ple enough. Ail you have to do is to make the acquaintance of the police officer in whose beat your domicile is situated, to ask him to lunch, and slip a banknote of from ten to twenty-five rubles under his napkin. That piece of paper will serve you in every respe* as efficienctly as an imperial pj*'’