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HOME JOURNAL • REENFSBORO, GEORGIA. NEWS GLEANINGS. Mississippi yet owns'B,loo,o9® acres oofublic land. The total acbool.'population of Arkan. aaa during last year was 272,053.3 The Florida ship canal charter [has toeen'signcd by tha Governor. More than zOO rafts of timber were'on tbe'market at Darien, Ga., last week.*, An been discovered; in^Brunswick county, North Carolina. A million’ feet of black walnut tim ber is to be shipped from Gaudaloupe county, Texas, to England. 1 During last year forty-three railroad and eight canal companies filed articles of incorporation jn Florida. In the year 1882 the Hot Springs rail road carried 35,000,‘paHsengerM. The business of catching aligators pro vides occupation for quite a number of persons in Florida. Oen. Wade; Hampton says his grand! father rtiscd the first cotton crop ever harvested in the South. A Hawk was killed in Georgia last week that measured forty inches.from tip to tip, Five thousand dollars have been sub scribed for a street railroad in Clarks ville, Go. The cabbago shipments this winter from Wythe eounty, Va., will yield the county 30,000. The coal fields of A’shair.a cov r 10, 860 square miles, and the coal is all bit uminous, but differs widely in quality. J. M. Coleman, ex-l’ostmaster at Crystal Springs, Miss., has purchased 10,000 coccoons, and intends trying silk culture in that place. Alabama lias 1,919 miles of railroad and Hie railroads furnish eleven per cent, of all the taxable property in the State. It is said that fifty years ago shad were so plentiful in the Savannah river that fishermen exchanged them for corn at the rate of ene ear of com for one ahad. The peanut crop of Tennessee last year is estimated at 350,000 or 400,000 bushels. Virginia raised 1,500,000 bush els, and North Carolina 150,000 bushels. The price ranges from $1.20 to $1.76 per bushel. Irish laliorers on the Texas and Pa cific road, from the Pecos river to E Pacos, have lieen supplanted by Chinese, who are working for fifty conts a day less than was paid the Irish, The real estate business in Montgom cry, Ala., is on a boom. It is estimated tliat the transactions of the last five months exceed those of the past five years. The Arkansas Lcgislatnre has passed m bill which prohibits for two years the aelling of liquor within two miles of any church or school on a petition of a ma jority *of the adult inhabitants.! s"**"* There is a creek several miles from Waynesboro, Ga., which is so highly Impregnated with lime that it will take the hair off a horse’s legs in passing through it. Mrs. Eli Brown, of Macon, Ga., while whipping one of her children, accident ally struck her husband’s finger. The finger inflamed and Mr. Brown recently died from the wound. It is estimated that in the two Caro lina*, Georgia and Louisiana, a total population of about 200,000 people, white and colored, are dependent on the cultivation of rice. “Work on the Savannah river is pro gressing. The jetties will he built and the strean improved as far as possible with the limited appropriation, which is considered as altogether too small. At Flat Rock, N. C., Mrs. Alexander Hollingsworth became exasperated at her husband, who was a confirmed drun kard, and assaulted him with an axe, nearly severing his head from his body and killing him instantly. The parties were white. The' Pascagoula, Miss., Ice Company are making preparations to can oysters, tomatoes, figs, okra, etc., thus offering a home market for fruit and vegetables The original South Carolina ordinance f secession is preserved in the office of the Secretary of State, at Columbia. It is written on trchment, is entitled an Ordinance to dissolve the union be tween the State of South Carolina and other States, united with her under the compart entitled the Constitution of the United States of America,” and is very brief, containing besides the title, date, etc., brrt t little more than 100 words Macon Telegraph: Out at the Wilkin son place, on top of Bassett s Hill, is a negro woman who has what is termed in tire neighborhood, a “snake baby.” The woman says she found it in the woods seven years ago and has provided for it ever since. It bears a marked resem blance to a snake in features and instead of walking will crawl on the ground af ter the manner of snakes. It is a great curiosity, and is attracting considerable attention. Some of the ‘patients of tH Insane Asylum at St.iuuu n, Va., drank some medicine which had been prepared las Saturday, and five of them dtopped deal within ten minutes alter taking the medicine. One man was expected to die and three others are suffering, but will recover. It is a mystery liow the poison got into uie medicine, c-u in vestigation ia to be instituted. TOPICS OF THE DAT. Iv b estimated that them are in the United States 415 street railways, which employ 35,000 men. To light-boose at Sydney, New South Wales, has an electric light of over 12,000,000 candle power. The Washington Pott estimates tha: $200,000 is squandered by Congressional touring shout the country on gauzy pretenses of official duty. Ax African spider, which spins silk like thread, has been discovered, and French silk manufacturers talk of at tempting to introduce it in France. Manx Twain says there is somethin;; very fascinating about science; it gives yon such wholesale returns of conjecture for such trifling investments of fact. Thr French scheme for flooding the North African Desert is finally taking definite shape and a company is raising the necessary funds to carry the project into effect. Ths New York Legislature lias passed a bill donating to ex-Governor Horatio Seymour the chair in the old executive chamber used by that statesman when ho was Chief Magistrate of the State. Tn* street railway managers of New York City will test this spring the prac ticability of the cable system. But it is not still an experiment. It has btn successfully tested in Chicago and San Francisco. Tnn United States leads the world in its number ef cattle, having 38.000,- 000, to Russia’s 27,000,000, and India's 30,000,000. Hut Russia lias 20,000,000 horses, and the United States comes sec ond with 10,500,000. Archbishop Lynch, of Toronto, says that Ireland’s impoverishment is due largely to alterations in the track of the Gulf stream. He undertakes to demon strate that during the last fifty years tbo climate there lias changed very much. It is a noteworthy fact that the depos its in the savings banks in Ireland, which showed a decrease in each of the four yearn previous to 1882, gaiued that year" within a thousand pounds of the largest increment ever known for a single year. T' ' ' • • • Thr United States Senate now stands: Republicans, 37; Democrats, 36 ; Re adjuster*, 2 ; vacancy, 1. The vacancy is made by the expiration of the term of Hsn. E. H. Roilius, of New Hampshire, and his successor will not bo elected until next Jane. Dorino 1882 tho murders committed in the Uuited States averaged two a day, while the executions only avoragod two a week. Tlnfre were in the year 212 murders and fifty-three executions iu the South, New York had 131 murders and only fomr executions, GrrMany is burying its telegraph wires, and has already completed au elaborate system of subterranean cables from Konigabarg to Strasburg and from Linden to Breslau, oonneoting 250 Ger man towns. Ths sysVsm cost $10,000,- 000, and is working admirably. Tn Rev. John Jasper decline? to srgae aay more on the scientific gronuds thet the ana moves rouud the oartli. He seys that anybody who disbelieves a plain end unequivocal assertion of the inspired Scriptures is an infidel, on wham he will not waste words. A New York Judge declares that he will deable the penalty to be inflicted ■pen e boy brought before him who ahall prove to be e cigarette smoker. “Cigar smekißg is bad enough,” he ears, “but oigarette smoking is destroying the brains and health of the young. Some thing must be done to check it.* Tm old bailding at Seventh and Mur settle down, in some instances an iiu-li and more. He oonoludos by citing the fact that all men agree that women look better in bathing suits than in stays. A oocplr of hideous savages, man ami woman, have been dragged from a cave among the mountains of New Mexico, where they were fonud two months ago by a Capt. Lovett, and placed on ex hihition in Denver. They were entirely naked when discovered, frightful to look upon, aud utterly devoid of intelligence, put possessed of amazing strength. They seem to be able to communicate with each cither by inarticulate sonnds and gestures ss beasts do, and though now tractable, they are manifestly idiots. They are supposed to be Pueblo Indiana. Aooomdw* to statistics of the Franco- German war, published by tho German Government in August, 1870, 780,728 German soldier* crossed the French frontier, followed during the wsr by 322,762 others. The soldiers remaining in Germany were 400,000. At the dose of the armistice the German army counted 996,918 men. The army be sieging Pari* numbered 180,000 meu, while the Paris garrison numbered 230,- men. The French lost 833,341 prisoners, 107 flags, 7,441 cannons, sad 855,000 firearms The loss of the German army was 129,000 men. of whom 40,862 were killed and 88.838 wounded; 17,572 were killed on the field, and 10,710 died in oonaequenoe of their wounds. A Lomsnmi family contributed some elothing for the flood sufferers. It was afterward remembered that in the pock et of a child’s garment was a silk hand kerchief w its little owner's name woven upon it. About* the same time o::o of the young Ivuiie* of the family missed a diamond ring, which, it was supposed. had been stolen from the house. A few days later an advertise ment wa noticed giving the name of the little owner of the silk handkerchief, and saying that something of interest could be learned by calling at a desig nated street and number. The call was made, ae : the handkerchief found with the diamond nng wrapt**! up in it. Turn family who had been at so much pains to return the loot articles to their own an bad lost everything by the flood. Jtn> Oß AU,ISON, O t Philadelphia has held that under the law of Pennsylvania a sale of goods by sample does not amount to a warranty that the article sold and to be delivered shall correspond in quality with the sample. He says the risk is that of the purchaaer, who moat “beware of the seller” in all such purchases. Bat he adds that where “a sample is made ths standard of quality, an implication of warranty arises, as where the buyer order* goods of ths same quality as the sample or the seller undertakes to deliver them of the same quality." Inasmuch as all the grain sold in bnlk and nearly all tbs merchandise of the country is sold by sample and can be traded in with expedition in no other way, it might be well to hold the sellers to a stricter responsibility than is implied in Judge Allison’s decision. The tonnage of the trading steamers of England is nearly three times aa great ** that of the United States, France, Germany, Russia and Italy combined, and her colonial shipping is greater than the whole mercantile marino of France, Germany and Italy. That the contiuuanee of such extraordinary pre ket streets, in Philadelphia, where Jef ferson is said to have written tho Decla ration of Independence, ‘is being demol ished to make room for a more modern structure. The workmen engaged in tearing it down have found a number of gun-flints and other relics of revolution ary days. A noted physiologist has just con cluded a series of special observations which he says proves conclusively that wearing corsets makes women tlrick- and dumpy. The weaker the muscles of the back, the back and body ponderanoe may be insured, the London Spectator says that the British navy should be strengthened to the point o'. being aide to successfully combat witlr any combination of foreign navies that could be brought against it. The Inflex ible is proudly pointed to as the most powerful vessel afloat, but the Thun Jerer aud tho Dread naught have their equals in other navies. The Spectaloi argues that thirteen gunboats of tie Alpha Beta class could bo built witli tie money that would ho Decennary to pro duce another Inflexible, and that three of those terrible little craft would equal her in destructive power. They would present hut a small target, and if mink the loss would uot be great Their ef ficiency lies iu tho ease with which they are handled, and a skillful nso of the torpedo aud ram. In tho opinion of tbo Spectator, the British navy should be speedily strengthened, and it should be done by the addition of vessels of this class. A Baby Carriage Hall. A baby carriage in the hall. Tho happiest piece of furniture that any house cun laiaat, always making an honorable exception in favor of tho cradle. That lni' y carriage menus-a home. Without it, only a place to stav in. It means a “dear little dimpled darl ing”—that makes suushinoall tho time—> when it hasn’t got the colio. It means a happy mother, whoso life is filled with all tender care, all sweet responsibilities, all wonderful hojie for the future. It means a father who holds his head Dp among men with the gi-audent dig nity that any man may know. To mother it is “Baby.” To father it is “My boy." That hnliy carriage in the hall means all the wealth of rosy hours as mother sings lullaby songs—perhaps, “ Uuih mr denr, lie still and slumber. Holy angels gua and thy bed." When all the tim j she istheangel that God appointed to guard it, as none of all high heaven’s host eould do. It means a word of plans aud projects which all center iu that one little life. It means a father that studies his bank balance with wonderful diligence, for “My son must have a good education, and a good start in life,” you know. And he goes home and catches the laughing toddler up, and reddens the dimples with his whiskers, and then put ting sturdy little twelve-mouth’s old on his feet, sets liim at his a, b, o of walk ing, addressing him with comical dig nity, “Well, Governor, where shall we go now?” And although ho only calls liim “Gov ernor,” the mother's heart says—ami ths father wouldn't deny it were she to put it in words—that more likely it will be President, in that dim, beautiful and certainly very grand future. Her choice, though, would be that he should lie a good man and a happy one. Between them With they parcel out for his manhood's years all that makes life worth the living. That baby carriage In ths hall means a good deal, does it not? 'lt means everything to the father and mother. • It means more than can be told. If yon have such apiece of furniture in use you know all about it If you haven’t it's a waste of raw ma terial to bother with you.— Wheeling Leader. American Olive Oil. Wo notice in the Mining and Scien tific. Press a formula for making olive oil on a small scale, as produced in Cali fornia, conparing this with a description the J'harmaccutische ltandelsblatt of the manufacture of olive oil iu south ern France. In California they grind the olives before pressure. This appears to be an error: they should be crashed between two stones turning against each other vertically. We can quite under stand that crashing ieiul3 to quite differ ent results from grinding. Iu eider-pro ducing comities in England apples are prepared for eider iu the same manner as the French prepare their olives, by grind ing them under revolving stones. Cider thus prepared will keep for years, and improves with age, some say, on account of an esseuti:d oil pressed from fhe ap- i pie pips. Iu America cidei is made from crashed or chopped apples, and possesses neither the flavor or the keep ing properties of that produced in Devon shire or Herefordshire. England There is another poiut which may be important c.n the“llli-me.” The oil, when lilt-red, is stored in stone vessels. Ou the pacific they use tin cases. The length of a degree of longitude is tt the equator 69.16 statute miles ; at latitude 20 degrees, 65.015 miles; at latitude 30 degrees, 59.911; at 40 de grees, 00.000 nuioa, wild 50 unices, 44.342 miles. Z.VKS COLORADO PARK, 1873. Wofs that you're restin' ? s novel? A nove —welt darn my ki*! You a man grown and bearded, and bisten such atuff ez that in— Stuff about sala and their sweethearts! no wonder you're thin aa a knife. Look at me:—clar two hundred—and never read one In my life! That’s my opinion o’novels. Andeztoiheir lyin’ round here. They belonged to the Jedge’a daughter—the Jedge who c-tme up last year On account of bis lungs and tbo mountain*, and the balsam o' pine and Sr: And his daughter—well, she read novels, and that*a what’s the matter with her. Yet she waa sweet on the Jedge, end stuck by him day and night. Alone in the cabin up yer—till she grew like a Sheet aU white: She was onl a slip of a thing, ez light and ez up ana sway Ez rifle smoke blown through the woods but she wasn't my kind—no way! Speak in' o’ gals—d’ye mind that house ez you rise the bill, A mile and a half from White’s, and jist above MaUingby'a mill? You do? Well, now, mar's a gal! What, you saw her? O, com ■ now, tbar quit: She wji only bedeVlin you boys, for to me she don’t cotton one bit Ilutwhatwasl talkin'of? o: the Jedge and his daughler—she read Novels the whole day long, and I reckon “ho read them abed; And sometimes she read them out loud to ibu Jedge on the porch where he sat. And 'twuahow “ Lord Augustus” said tbit, ill? i how ‘"l.j'dy blanche” she said tUt But tho sickest of all that 1 boerd, w. s a yum ibat they rend 'tiout a chop. “Lcath r-stocKing by o lino, and :i hunter chock l ull o' the gre.inest o' sap; And they asl.e t me to hear: but I says: “ "its Mabel, not any for me: When I likes Lkin sling my own lies, and :bct chap and 1 shouldn't agree.” Wit sorneh' jAfl other sir- always was sa iu’ 1 UroiigltfWdr to mind Of folks about-whom she had read, or suth’n’ belike of thet kind: And tlittr warn t’no end o’the names lie I ht gave me th-t summer up here, ‘‘Robin Hood.” Leather-stocking,” "it .'i Roy ’ —O, I toll you, the critter wns queer. Anti jet ef she b.'ln’t beui spiled, s: w.j harmless enough Iti her way; fjhe could Jabber In rr-ueh : her <’itd, slid they sttid thet she knew how to pi i , And she worked me that shot pouch up t a: which tho mail dnosti t l:v e : kin u And slippers—you s o’em downyer— e,t v: ,:i!d cr.iale an Injiu’g pa, pooso. Yet along o' them novels, you see, sh w.ts wnstin' mid mopin' nwa . And till n she got shy Wi ll her tongue, :i:i ! at last had noth n r to ray: And whenever I happcnc t 'around. It r f.o o ;t was hid by a book. And it wam’t until she left that ah” g .vo me or much ez a look. And tills was tho way it was: II was nigh l when I kem tip h r • To say to 'em all good-by, for I reckoned to go for deer At sun-up the day they left, :o 1 shook ’i m all bv the hand, CeptM bel, and -he wat sick, oz they save me to un In-stand. Hu: list oz i passed the brut ■ tho next mom lug ut dawn, some on -. Like it little waver o' rnlst, got u > on tho hill w.tlt tho sun; Mias Mabel it whs. alone—sil wrapped up in a mantle of luce— And ho stood lucre straight in the roa‘, with u touch o' the sun In her luce. And she looked at me right in tho eye—l'd soon siilhln’ like it i cfore Whcn I hunted it wounded duo to the edge o’ Hi-* t lour lake shoo*. And I had my knee on Its neck, and Jist was raisin* my knife Wi en it gave me a look llko that—well, It got oir wita it t life. •’We ire going today,” she said, ‘-and I thought I would s.iygood-1 y To you in your own house, l uke—thet * w< o !s and the bright blue sky. You've always been kind to its, Luke, and pupa h/.* found you still As good ns the air he breathes, an 1 wholcsu.no ns bauret-Troe Hill. “And we’ll always think of you, Luke, ns tho thing we could not take away— The balsam that dwells in the woods, the rain bow that lives Iu tho -prav. And you’ll sometimes ih nk of me, Luke, as you know you one * used io say. As rilie-sinoko blown through the woods, a moment, but never to stay.” And then we hands. Sho turned, but & suiidmi^Phttciid amt fell, And I caug!R her -h u p by the waist, and held her it ininit—well— It was onlva mlnir, you know, that ez cold imd ez while Bhn 1 ly Ez a SiinwMake here on my breast, nn l then —well. she melted away— And was gone * • • And thar ate her ho ks; but I -ay not unv for me. Good • nough ii ay bo for some, but them and 1 mightn't agree. They sidled a decent gb I ez might have made some chap a wife. And look st me!—clar two hundred—and never read one iu my life! A CHANGE IN FORTUNE. Mr. Timothy Bloom, salesman in Mr. Crabb’s big retail dry-goods store, was stealthily eating his lunch in a dusty corner amongst some empty packing boxes. It was not a very good* lunch, and warm as the day was. he had but one glass of ice water to drink w.th it Avery mild, pleasant-iooking young fellow was Timothy Bloom, w.th eves liko a pretty girl’s, and fair hair parted down the middle; but ho was rather doleful at this moment, for Crnbbo.sen ior, had just been abusing him for per mitting a lady, who was not to be suit ed by mortal salesman, to get off with out buying anything, and had likewise informed him that he had been live .ro unds late that morning and would in consequence “be deducted an eighth" on Saturday evening. That was not pleasant, and Mr Crabbe's manner was i.ot pleasant, and the dusty corner, and thu stale sand wich were not pleasant. And who can wonder that poor Timothy Bloom, look ing up at a r* w of decorated 1 o -cit boxes above h's head, an 1 taking h's Idea from the winged in atit pictured upon them, remarked, under his breath “l wish / was a cherub." At this moment, even as tin* wish fluttered up to tho corset boxes. :• liulc toy, about three feet high, bearing on his bosom a badge with the enormous number 1189, came around the 00 uvr, nd lixed his pathetic eyes on Mr. Bloom's glass of water. “1 say, Mr. Bloom,’’ he whi-q cr.'d. pathetically, “won’t you give me just a mouthful of that water? Mr. Crab e says us cashes ain’t to have no drinks, and I'm chokin'.” Mr. Bloom smiled pitifully at tho child, a forlorn widow's bread winner, and said mildly, as he held out the glass: “Here, Johnny, taka half. I’d 1 t you have it all if we were not limited to one glass ourselves.” ••Guess water is get-tin’ dear.” said Johnny, eagerly swallowing the share allowed of the cooling draught, but scrupulously careful not to exceed ihe permission •‘Thank ’ee. You’re a brick. Mr. Bumps hit me a lick when 1 asked him. Here, bare tho paper? A customer left it on tho desk. Save it for mo to take homo to mar when 1 go home to-night. She likes to read the murders and*them things—” ‘•Cash T 189!” shrieked a female voice. “Cash! Cash!” “It’s Miss Pringle. I must go.” whispered Johnny, and sped away in terror. There were ten cash boys in the store, and they had been numbered high to sound well. Mr. Bloom peeped around the boxes at the c ock, saw he had ten minutes more to himself, and opened the paper. The first thing his eyes lighted uoon was an advertisement of a fine country seat for sa’e, and he read it through— the description of tho stables, bains, bath-tubs, conservatory, veranda, lawn and kitchen garden; the well, the oeta- f on parlors and tho lupola; the tiled alls and f res cord veilings, as though he intended to buy it for himself thatar.er noon. Then he cast his eye upon an account of hoar Mr. Mullen had bea en Mrs. Mullen, and been arrested for so doing: and then be found himself read ng a paragraph to the effect that the lie rs of Timothy B!onm, of Lancaster, Kngland, if living, might hear of something to their advanir.ge by applying to done - Johnson, street. “My name,’ thought Mr. Bloom, at first. Then, with a start, he. remem bered that he had heard ms grandfather was Darned Timothy. Certainly, he came from Lancaster, England." ills father, David Bloom, had been an cuiv son. He was an only son himself. Weil, then, he was Timothy Bloom's heir, if it should prove that the Timothy Bioom inquired for was ready his fa'ti er's father. “But, oh, psha!’’ said Mr. Bloom. “ This sort of thing couldn’t happen to me. It’s some other Timothy, not p or old grand ather.” And he <pied the addre-s of Jones oz Johnson into his pocket-book, and went back to his counter quite calmly, though he wrote <o Jones & Johnson that night. However, wonder? will never eeaso When Tim Bloom, the meekest of ail young salesmen, went home ih, t fratur day evening with a “deducted’ salary and a scolding, he found Mr. .'oheson himself in his boardiiig-hou-e parlor, and an examination of the family Bible in his possession, and of a certai bun dle oi' yellow letters Ilia’ Mr. Bloom had more than onvtj decided to hum, but had, fortunately, spared, settled !he matter. Half a million of money had come to him in the regular course of a ture, and he was richer not only than Mr. Crabbe, but than any of his most fashionable customers. It was a wonderful surprise to little Tin? Bloom, and lie scarcely grasped the idea at first. Even after lie told his chief confidant, his landlady's ret ty grand daughter, Mebitable White, a pretty, pink-cke ked, capable damsel, called Hetty, for short—he only wont so far as to think of a pair of patent leather boot3 and a diamond cravat pin. lie!tv awakened him to a full realiza tion of his changed condition hvsivinw, rather -er ouslv, and look ng nwavlrom him: “Of course, grandma's won’t s :'t you any longer, Mr. Bloom, and ymi l: never lmve to go back to Crabbe *:■ o.’s again.” “Bv George! I never thought o' it; so 1 aha’ n’t.” said’Tim Bloom “No more counter jumping forme and if Mrs White will let mo hire tiio hack parlor. I’ll take that. Cos away? Not i." “Not yet; it’s too soon,” sai i lie! to herself; “but he’ll go who ; ho I; Tile understands.” “Let mo eonzratulate you, my de tr Mr. Bloom,” said Mr. Cr.ibbe. bowing, ns ho parted from tho dep irl ng -ieric as he did to the carriage customers at tho very siore-door. "I have alwa s felt a superiority m you over the oilier young men. I said to my daughter, Belinda, the other day: If it c-c n t for giving offense lo others I should ask Mr. Timothy liioom to our litile even ings. .‘•ometliing or the I’iiiice in dis guise about him; but, an employer lias nis duties. They sometimes make ■: s heart ache; but ha iniqT Inro ;n them.’ ” Mr. Bloom -ememberod the placard over tho water-cooler: “Cashc- 11 a al lowed drinks;” “a cash who drinks deducted one-half,’’ and thought that if Mr. Crabbe really had a heart this must bo time. Tim Bloom was a rich man but ha had no rich friends as yet. The clerks at Crabbe A Co.’s had been alw.ivs quarreling amongst themselves, and ho had not known oue iu private. The l>oarders were not “sociable;” 110 treated them to ioo cream sere -a! times, and took Hetty White to a con cert or two. He improved his m nd in libraries and museums, and set up a book-case of his own, into which ho pit a miscel laneous assortment of volumes; but when one day ho rece vAI a perfumed envelope, inviting him to a lawn ten nis party at Mr. Crabbe.’s country seat, he telt that the dissipations of the wealthy had just begun for hint. Be accepted, of course, and wen! atthed in perfect style, and looking very well, indeed. Ho returned bewildered. Miss Crabbe was very handsome. She play and and sang and danced, aud was "stvlLli. ’ She had set her cap or him. and Mr. Crabbe—yes, actually Mr. (Tabbo-had plainly aliowea nun to see Ih: t ho would give his eon<c’iit to the mulch. “Two months ago he called me a ‘stupid idiot.’ Two months ago he snubbed me. whenever he -poke to me.” thought Tim Bloom •• Yes, this is the old story; everybody every body. even old Mrs. Wh te nattering and eringing to my money. I wonder whether Hetty is the sum -? And iu the seclusion of h's own apartment, poor, young Tim Bloom actually t ied: though Mr. Crabbe called that even'og and took him to a charming s :.g par' . where the guests were pr'.ne p and y >n the dry-goods line, and in e ery fli roction"one’s ears caught :h.- roT.urk. "sold a billot goods to a man.’ : nil where evory one scorned to dr nk any thing los- costly than champagne. “You rascal,” sa : d the excellent father, on the wav home. “I sec you are afraid to speak, but 1 know you couldn't keep your eyes off my Bel tula last Wednesday.” “Could I hope for your eonsent. if aho —” “My dear boy—ha! hul ha! Why, ask her and see!” cried Mr. Crabbe. “it has always been the wish of mv heart, even when vou wo.ro a poor cleik. an<l she (don t say i toiu you; always ad mired you—always!” At nine o'clock, one night. Mrs. White's door bell rang, anil a messenger boy handed in a letter—a big lett r, with a big eal, and “immediate” on it. What could it be? Something about tli; property of course. Mrs. White car ried it herself to -Mr. Bloom's room, and as she handed it in saw him seated be side a table, on which stood wine and a tray of de icacies. Mr. Crabbe was at supper with her boarder. "Excuse me,” sai l Timothy. • Oh! certainly,” said Mr. Crabbe. Timothy opened the. letter, read it, uttered a deep sigh, ar.d passed it to Mr. Crabbe. Mr. Crabbe read it and turned purplo. “Do I understand it?” said Timothy, hiding his face. “Your lawyer says the property : s no longer yours—that your grandfather was not the r'ght Timothy Bloom, and that the real heir will demand a res!ora tion of all that vou h ,\e spent al ready.” • Yes, 1 was right,” said Mr. Hoorn. “But, Mr. tra be. after all. 1 shall do very well. 1 can go back to your si ore, and Miss Belinda has quite asu ilcient little fortune of her own. We can stUl be happy.” Mr. Crabbe leaped to h's feet. • Sir! sir!" he sad. “th sis a great piece of impertinence, sir. You haven't spoken to 1 elinda.” “But you assured me—” began Tim othy. “1 didn't!” shri’ked Mr. Crabbe. “At least, I was mistaken. 1 came I ere with ihe internum ot telling you upon xny wo and and honor, that she can’t en- dure you: and as lor the store..* <>u were a most incompetent salesman. There is no s'tuation open. Sorry for you, but—Good-night. Good-eight." “Good-Bight.” sad Timothy. The ', ss the door c osed, he to k up his letter and tarried it to ol I Mrs. White, who. with Hetty as a-sistant, was -ceding raisins for next days s pud ding, silting one on either s'de o! the drop-light in she dining-room. .“i shall have to goe up the lack parlor." said poor Timothy. “An !as for my hal hall bedroom, id n’t know bow to pay for thu'.. .or Mr. Crabbe won't take me back." ‘Time owing ol<L- wretch!" sriJ Mr-. II hite., “ ' o matter, Mr. Bloom. I’ll trust you. Intentions be rt: r ght, I never wi'il be hard on my boarders, ad vou tan keep the par ov untit : s hired, because ids more comfort abo” “And try to keep up your spirits.” said Hetty; “for, after all, money isn’t everything.” “It seemed too sudden to last,” said Mrs. \\ bite. “I never trust these law yers.” ' So the good souls *om orted him, -and a ler a while, when he asked Hetty Jo take a little w.t ; k with him. she - ou sented. 'I here was a little park on the op posite side of the street, and though the gates were locked they wall ei around its railings. Their talk was long mid earnest, and at last Timothy -aid: “Well. Hetty, poor as i am, will you promise to marry me some day?" . nd she had answered, “Yes. Tim.” very simply -and so it was settled; and for a v oung man, recently reduced ;r.uu a;; uciice to poverty, Mr. "Bloom certain ly looked \ cry happy as they went botnet together. But it w.ri only when Mrs. \\ hite had given her !o ing conso t to his rimming licit. when the. had enough for broad and buttes’, that he made confession: ”1 ran’t keep tto mi df an v longer, grandma. I wr-.te 1 hat letter tm self, fm as rich as J ever was, and I’ve tested tnv friends. Old Crabb has proven ’'also, and you have proven ’rue. 1 felt sure about Hetty all tho while; aud 'then we are married you must live with us, and there shall be no more hard work and boarder- for you u this world, you dear old soul.” After" which the reader is to rn.lcr stand a wedding aud a happy life .or all. —Mury Kr,k Hal fits, in ,\. i'. L<_d Catching Smelts In Bake Champlain. Winter fishing is now being enjoyed by those wiio are fond of the s;,ort. The lake at Burlington has just closed in, and tho smelt-; shot's have moved their little huts on runners out to the accustomed grounds. Modern improve ments have made this sport one of the most luxurious imaginable. Instead of kneeling in the cold wind beside a con stantly freezing hole in the ion, the fish erman now sits at case in his neat litile movable house, warmed by a stove, and keeps watch of two or three Lues !e‘ down through holes in the floor and corresponding holes in the ice. lie smokes an 1 re eels, 1 r talks with a companion, and is as comfortable as a millionaire before his grate of glowing sea-coal. Besides being a lazy tmiii e ment smelt fishing is a pretty profitable employment, as the fish are exceeding ly t othsome, and bring ago and pri e in the local markets. An attentive and persistent fiskerman will make about as much out os iiis day’s sport as a laborer who comes home sore and still at night with his hard-earned pittance. The genius who sits < n his bench and mamjju'ates tho little lines is usually a jolly, hospi able sort of a fellow, and is | erfectly willing that the bine 11 fed skate"? should seek refuge oceasiona'ly in his cosy little house, and even permits him to handle % oneof the lines for a while. If he should chance to bring a young lady companion with him. the ancient fisherman becomes a model of gallantry, lie lays his black pipe under the stove, resigns his warm scat to the fair one, amt places all hif piscatorial resources at her command. It is pleasant to note the immense satis faction with which he resigns to her the line upon which he has just detente 1 a timid nibble, and when, fallowing his directions, sho hooks the unhappy li.-h and draws it up through the ice with a little scream of mingled terr. r and de light. his eyes shine with approbation and pie sure, and he tools as proud as did the Canadian woo Ism.in who ini tiated the Princess Louise into tho mys teries of salmon-lishlng. But when lie removes the struggling \ ietim and coolly bites out its eyes with his teeth for a fresh bait, the situation becomes em barrassing in tho extreme, and the cosy hut no longer possesses any attraction for tho young skaters. They beat a Ere ipitate retreat, leaving the hospita ls proprietor in such a state of aston ishment and perplexity that 110 sticks the fish’s eye into his pipe and puts a slice of plug tobacco on the hobk. There is such bewilderment in the memory of a pretty face! - Hurling ton (1 ’t.) Cor. Troy ( N . 1.) Times. Seir-I stcem. A reasonable amount of self-stoem is necessary to secure a man's success in life; and there are few characters into which it does not enter to a great extent. We laugh at our neighbors, their foibles and absurdities excite our amusement, because we consider ourselves superior to like weaknesses. Their troubles cause ns distress; but is not eveu divine com passion a form of self-love, or rather, self-pity? Do we not grieve for others in proportion as we are able to put our selves in their place, and picture what we should feel under ths same circum stances? The reciprocal regard for one another's interests, the mutual esteem, the exchange of kind offices, which con stitute friendship, find their chief source too, in self-love. If we have been in clined to esteem any one ever so highly, let it be but whispered in our ear that that same person does not think mnch of ns, and we immediately find out that he is not nearly so charming as we had imagined, and that his good opinion is not, after all, worth having. On the other hand, among our acquaintances there may be an individual whom we con sider but weak-minded and ignorant, and think, in fact, quite beneath our notice. Wait a little; it comes to our knowledge that this same creature whom we have been despising, has an immense admiration for us. All our ideas change directly, and we discover all his bidden merits; he has at least powers of dis crimination, and is some judge of ehar racter. We like our neighbors much more for the virtues they Ibid in us than for any we discover in them, whether we. choose to acknowledge it or not. But it ia perhaps in the passion of love that the very alcohol of egotism is to be found; lovers never weary of each others so ciety so long as they can keep up the in tensity of mutual admiration; their tete a-tetes are always interesting, for they perpetually talk about themselves, and should their love be crossed, both would probably rather that the loved one should be miserable than indifferent. They are completely ruled by the self that rules Sue wv&ui. A Direful Disease. One of the South Lawrence census enumerators, says the Eagle, stopped at a house the other day where, from the front door-knob, hung a fold of crape, showing that the grins messenger had called and summoned a soul to the far beyond. Had he not been r. Govern ment employe ho might have shirked his duty in this instance, but with du re spect for the relatives of the depai-ad dead one, he stepped lightly to the r ar door, rapped and was admitted, ife found there, seated in a chair, w ith i bead bowed down in grief, an aged man. After stating his business he asked the necessary questions, which were readily Answered. Finally he inquired who was dead. “My wife, sir,” sorrowfully replied the aged man. “ What did she die of ?” was the next question. “Of improvements, sir,” was the re ply. “Of what?” again asked the enumer ator, who thought the man did not fully understand Iris question “Of improvements, sir, of improve ments,” again was the reply, more em phatic than before. “ How could that be?” asked the enu merator, his curiosity now thoroughly aroused. s “Well,” said the man, slowly and thoughtfully, “the doctor came Monday night aud said she was improving, ho came Tuesday morning and said she was improving. Tuesday night ho cam.: and told me she was improving, he came Wednesday morning and she was dead. Yes,” continued tho old man, “she died of improvements.” The enumerator did not press his ques tion further. Meat Bread. M. Seheurer-Kestncr has discovered the remarkable fact tkatthe farme T tion of bread cutises the complete di-v - .ion of meat. llj found that b.-, f-tiak cut into small pieces, and mix ed with fl .nr and yeast, disappeared entirely during the process of pauifleation, its nutritive principles becoming incur] -rated with the bread. The meat would idso aiqtoor capable of preservation for an indefinite period ii? its now state, for loaves of meat {.read made in 1873 were submitted to the French Academy of Science, when not a trace of worms or mouldiin ;• - was observable. At the beginning of his ex periments, M. Sehetuvr-Kcxti” ’r n* and raw meat, three parts of which, finely tuisteed, he mixed with five piuTs of flour and tho seme quantity of yeast. Sufficient water was added to make the dough, which in due time began to ferment. After two or three hours the meat disappeared, and the bread .was baked in the ordinary manner. Thus prepared, the meat bread had a disagreeable taste, which was avoids! by cooking the meat for an hour witksufficieut water to afterwards moisten the flour. The meat must be carfuUy deprived of fat, and only have sufficient salt to bring out tho flavor, as salt by absorbing moisture from the air would tend to spoil the bread. A part of the beef may be replaced with advantage by salt lard, which is found to improve the flavor. The proportion of meat to flour should not exceed one-half, so as to insure complete digestion. Bread made with a suitable proportion of veal is said to furnish excellent soup for the sick aud wounded.— English Meehan i c. And Drink, Too. Bo great are the ravages of the pkyl loxeria in France, that unless some means can be soon devised for arresting the progress of H4O evil, wine-making there, which has long been one of the ehief industries, must necessarily come to an end. Whether this country will be able to supply the deficiency in the wine supply thus created, remains yet to be proved. If any attempt to do so. •hall be made we shall not only have to pay even more attention than heretofore to the improvement of our varieties of grapes, but we shall also have to gvcatly •ulargo the area of our vineyards. In ordinary times the vintage of France •mounted to between 1,600,000,000 aud 2,000,000,000 gallons, worth about $350,- 000,000. Since the first appearance of the phyl loxera in France, in 1865. it lias spread through fourteen departments, entirely ruining the vineyards, and despite the •tudy and experiments of the best scien tists, and liberal rewards offered by the government, no remedy has yet l>cen discovered. Already the supply of wine from Madeira, which used annually to export an average of 460,000 gallons, has been cat off by the destruction of the vines by the vine mildew—Oidium Tuck sri—while the same cause has been squally fatal to the vines iu the Canary Islands, which every year used to send abroad 6,000,000 of Canary wine, very much like Madeira. Iu Spain too, the region which supplies sherry, nnd in Portugal, that which supplies port, aro, it is reported, both suffering from the phylloxera and vino diseases, so that e wine famine seems immiueut in the near latino.— Rural New Yorker. Don’t Tell Yonr Age. A woman isn’t obliged to tell her age in Prussia, according to a recent de cision of the Appeal Court at Metz. A lady there, when courted by a man, ac cepted him, allowing him to think shw was six years younger than Bbe really was. When the wedding came off, she would have to produce the official certifi cate of her birth, so she altered it to make it agree with her previous asser tion to her lover. In some process of red tape the forgery was detected by e clerk, and the bride woe arrested for falsifying a public document, tried, oon victed, and sentenced to three months' imprisonment. She appealed ; and the Superior Court reversed the sen tence, the Judge declaring that de fendant did not intend to commit an ille gal act, but was probably actuated merely by female vanity. A woman’s age has thus been officially declared te bs her own property. Speech and Si*e. The. Power of Speech. —A man vho= cannot use his eye* should use hi* tongue. Man’s darkened soul can call for * light when it cannot strike a light. The spiritually blind man can utter a. loud and exeeedingly-bitter cry that shall pierce heaven and enter into th ear and heart of God. Sue. —Bigness is not greatness; and yet smallness is in itself no blessing, though it may be the occasion of a man’s winning one. Happily for little tnen the giants have seldom any great wit. It is not pleasant ii see every one about you a bigger pet -on than yourself. Yet this is a sight mary do see who are not dwarfs in statue . Delicious Pineapple Custard.— On the day before you wish to use the cus tard; peel and pick to pieces with two forks a nice pineapple. Put plenty' of sugar over it and set it away. Next day make a custard, and when cool mix with the pineapple, which will have become soft and luscious, and thoroughly sweeter cri.