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HEWS GLEANINGS.
Crops are remarkably good all over
Ixmiriana.
Over 200 tone of iron are mined daily
sear Attala, Ala.
The Pineapple crop of South Florida
looks promising.
A i.Aroe quantity of iron ore exists
in Chilton county, Ala.
Large deposits of iron ore have been
'discovered in Warran county, Tennessee.
Richmond, Va., has a population of
70,684, being an increase of 7,000 since
1880.
Mr. Jefferson Davis’ estate of 500
acres at Brannon, Miss., is now mainly
devoted to grapes and oranges.
The Alpine iron manufacturing com
pany has been organized in Taladega
county, Ala., with a capital of 1200,000
Galveston, is now the second cotton
port in the country. The receipts for
this season were 800,000 bales.
A gold vein has been discovered at
Hoee Cove, N. C., about four miles eas
of Highlands. Quarts containing gold
dust in large quantities has also been
discovered about two miles west of
Highlands,:
Rev. G. A. Olazerrook, of Macon,
Oa., has received a check for 810,000
from the Central railroad in settlement
in full for injuries received in an acci
dent some time ago. Altogether Rev.
Glazebrook has received over #14,000
from the road.
The Florida Ship Canal Compsny has
been formed, with a capital stock of
#60,000,000. Ex. Gov. John C. Brown,
of Tennessee, is president of the com
pany, of which Ben Butler, Mahone,
Windom, John P. Jones and George C.
Gorham are members.
Eighty- eight thousand young shad
were placed iu the Neuae river last week.
They were hatched at the State fish
pondi at Charlotte, N. C., from egg
brought from Avocn. Just 100,000 eggs
were aent up by Mr. Worth, so only 12,-
000 failed to hatch.
Among the notable’things in Palatka,
Fla,, la the first Tangerine tree ever
’budded in that State. The bud was
received by Dr. Morangue before the
war, and from thia cornea all the kid
glove orangaH in Florida. The tree can
be teen in hia grove, which in quite cel
ebrated on that aocount.
A Montgomery special says: Ship
ments of cattle from Georgia aud thia
section still continue. The Montgom
ery shippers for the New Orleans mar
kot couldn’t get transportation, the
Georgians being ahead ef them. It is
estimated that 8,000 went through here
recently from Georgia and about 0,000
from this section of Alabama.
At Savannah, Ga., Subscriptions are
on foot now to raise funds for the erec
tion of a splendid military academy on
the lota of Forsyth Park. The amount
of 810,000 is already obtained. The
academy Will be leased by Maj.|Burgess,
Principal of the Savannah Military
Academy. It is thought the work will
be started in a few weeks, and the buil
ding will be completed in time for the
October teesion.
Eleven hundred head of cattle, fill*
iug twenty-one cars, were ahipped from
Albany, Ga., to Texas Saturday after
noon. The animals were yt*y poor gen
erally and suffered interseiy. Several
killed themselves in their frantic efforts
1o escape while being driven on board
♦ne train. Several ol the cam Were
double-decked for the calves hbd smaller
stock i Unless they itapfovc greatly on
the prarie grass in Texas, the venture
will hardly be a profitable one to the
sonslgnees,
Mur. Myra Clarke Gainer, the
plaintiff in a suit just won against the
city of New Orleans for nearly f2,000,-
000, is n eldeylv lady who has long
been a litigant for s large part of New
Orleans’ real estate, nnd is one of the
most persevering women of modem
times. But as she is well advanced in
years now, and as her case must next go
to the United States supreme court, it
is to be feared that the claim will have
to be collected, if.collected at all, by the
next generation of heirs.
Arms and Legs,
There to more pity in s wooden leg
hot more eloquence in an empty sleeve-
I remember that in the second day's
fight before Richmond, > captain by the
name of Coward saw the sergeant shot
down and the colors fall, and no caught
up the flag end waved it high and for
ward with a shoot, and a cannon bull
came whirring along and took off hia
arm, and the colors fell again. He
caught them with his other hand and
kept on nntil he fell himself. I never
saw as brave a man with that sort of a
name tacked onto him. He always
signed his name A. Coward, and when
asked why ho didn't sign Iris full name,
he said his full name was Adam, and
when he used to sign it that way at
sohool the boys called him a blanked
coward, which was worse, and he had to
fight out of it. Gen. Pick Taylor didn't
have muchcipinion of a man's'legs. He
says his own trembled and wanted to
rnn in every battle, and he knew a bravo
ooldier who had to talk to keep 'em
sternly : "Now, just look at you, gone to
shaking again, with the enemy a mile
off. What are you in such a hurry
about? Can't you wait until they b>
gin to 6hoot at you, you cussed cow
ards and he would rap his knee* with
his sword like he was ashamed of ’em,—
Bull Art.
A Tor\'<i politician explained the tat
tered condition of his trowsers to his
father by stating thut he was sitting
tinder an apple tree enjoying himself,
when the fanner's dog came alaug ace
contested his scat.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
| Thomas A. Edison and others, repre
senting a capital of $2,000,000, have
filed papers with the Secretary of 8 late
of i New York incerporating the Electric
Railway Company of the United States.
An English company have purchased
90,000 aqras iron lands in East Tennes
see. They supply a capital of $l,OOO,
000, and will erect furnaces at once,
giving employment to 800 men.
Patti, the opera singer, has been en
gaged to sing next season at a salary of
$5,000 per night. At those figures it
would seem as though she could get
along and support her husband and two
or three poodle dogs.
The new postal notes are to be five
and aeven-eight inches long, and three
and one-eight inches wide. All the
work on them ia to be done in the best
style, and altogether they will consti
tute a very handsome part of our cur
rency.
A great deal ia expected from the
building of the three steel cruisers. It
is proposed to make them the best of
their class afloat—good enough to con
tend on equal terms with anything that
England has built
In the month of March the exports of
Baltimore were in amount $4,913,588;
of Charleston, #2,317,562; of Galveston
$3,128,431; of New Orleans, f11,031,
of Norfolk, $1,662,788, and of Savannah
$3,229,697. Over one-third of the en
tire exports of the country in March
were from southern ports.
John McCullough was born In
Londonderry, Ireland, in 1837 ; Law
rence Barrett, at Fatterson, N. J., in
1838; Mary Anderson in Sacramento,
California, in 1859; Mile. Rhea, in
Brussels, 8. I).; Clara Morris, in Cleve
land, 0., in 1800; James E. Murdock,
in Philadelphia, in 1811; Nat. Good
win in Boston, in 1857, and John A.
Ellsler, in Philadelphia in 1822.
Fish Commissioner Tierce, of Penn
sylvania, thinks that there is a great
deal of money wasted by tne Govern
ment trying to stook with salmon and
bass streams which, by reason of the
clearing away of the forests and the
cultivation of the land, have become ea
tiiely unfit for such fish, their water?
having become warm and muddy. He
rays the rc-stocking of such streams is
“misdirected labor aud expenditure
which is almost a total loss.’’ Itisprob
ahle that Mr. Pierce is right. Bass and
salmon <lo not like muddy water. Carp
do not object to it, and hence carp cul
ture is the most profitable.
Krao, the Missing Link.
Tlie London Timet says: A strange,
hairy little creature is now being exhi
bited at the Royal Aquarium, Westmin
ster, by Mr. Farini, as “the missing
link.” Krao is not in the ordinary ac
ceptation of the word a monster, but a
very bright-looking, intelligent girl of
about seven years of age. She was
caught, according to the account given
by Mr. Farini, in the forest near Laos,
aud brought to England by Mr. Carl
Bock, a Norwegian, who, ainoe the expe
ditroh ffetcriboa by him “Til?
Hunters of Borneo," has been exjuoHug
Siam and the wilder Btatea to the north
east Hearing in various quarters of ,
race of hairy-tailed men. Mbilar in ap.
pearuioe to a family kept at the Court of
Mandalay, he uttered a reward for the
capture o' a specimen. A man was
caught, and with him tliq child now ex
hibited, and a womna ftf similar appear
ance then allowed. hckWelf to bo taken.
When the little Urns (attempted to wander,
tho parents tVCaued her with a plain
tive C£jr, “KrSJe,” and the call lias been
adopted lekt name. The father died
at Laos cholera, and the King refused
to lot the mother go, but Mr. Book sue-
Cfcdcd in getting the child to Bangkok,
1 slid obtained permission from the Kiug
of Siam to bring her to this country,
the eyes of the ehild ore large, dark, and
lustrous, the nose flattened, tho nostrils
scarcely showing, the cheeks fat aud
poneh-like, the lower lip only thicker
than is usual in Europeans; but the
chief peculiarity apparent is the etroug
and abundant hair. On the head, it is
black, tbiek, aud straight, and grows
over the forehead down to the heavy eye
brows, and is continued in whisker-like
looks down the cheeks. The rest of the
face is covered with a fine, dark, downy
hair, and the shoulders and arms have a
covering of hairs from an inch to an inch
and a half long. There is, it is said, a
slight lengthening of the lower vertebrae,
suggestive of a caudal protulierance, anil
there are points in the muscular eonior
mation and otherwise which will provoke
discussion. Krao has already picked up
a few words of FugHsh. She is of a
frank, affectionate disjiositiou. and shows
truly feminine delight in her clothes,
jewelry, and ribbons.
A history almost as sad and romantk
as that of Romeo and Juliet to attached
to Green Mount, the well known ceme
tery at Baltimore, Md. The property
was ones owned Johu Oliver, a
wealthy English merchant, i Hia ouly
child, a beautiful girl of twenty, was
loved byk young man whose on'-i unfit
ness to become lier husband i ■■ m the
fact that a personal fend existed between
hini and the girl’s stem father. They
met elaudestiuely and planned an elojle
nient. The father fmmd it out, and gave
orders to his servant to patrol the grounds
by night and shoot all trespassers. Dis
guised in man’s clothing, the girl at
tempted to escape, and was shot dead at
the gate. Grief stricken, her father
erected a mausoleum npc>n tho spot, and
deeded tho entire property to the city tor
a cemetery.
In Tiunuru.—A station master in In
dia telegraphed two hundred miles to the
central authorities: "Tiger jumping
at .out on platform. Please telegraph in
structions.” Tire fact woe that the sta
t.,. ui master was unable to got to the sig
nal station owing to the presence of a
tiger oil the platform, and in order to
avoid an apprehended collision he tele
graphed to the bead office for insirue
tions to t'e sent to the next signal la'x,
tli.it an oppitpachiug train might bo
stopped in time.
ADYICE TO A BRIDEGROOM.
A Bit M Atrlet that Ibr he Fellewe te
Atruiw.
To become a husband is as serious a
matter to a man as it is for a woman to
become a wife. Marriage is no child’s
play; it brings added care, trial, per
plexity, vexation, and it requires a great
deal of happiness which legitimately
springs out of it to make the balance
in its favor. Very few people live hap
pily iu marriage, and yet this is not be
cause unhappiness is germane to this re
lation, ;but because those who enter it do
not know, first, how to get married, and,
second, how to live married happily.
You have already made your choice—
wisely, I am bound to believe. These
qualities of character which have at
tracted yon to choose as von have, should
make your love grow daily while you live
together.
As to the second point: If you wish
to live in harmonins union with your
wife, start out with that avowed recog
nition of the fact that she is your com
panion and co-partner. Marriage usually
makes the wife neither of these. In
many instances, she sees less of her hus
band than hefore she married him. He
comes, he goes, he reads, thinks, works,
and under the stimulus of business
brings all his powers and faculties to the
surface, and is developed thereby—not
always symmetrically, but vigorously
not always harmoniously, but with in
creasing power. Married men do not
usually shrivel up or put on a look of
premature age. but women frequently
do, and it is plain to me why they do.
Married women ore shut up in houses,
and their chief care is for things that
have no inspiring influences. Their
time is taken up in meeting the physi
cal necessities of their families—cooking,
washing dishes, keeping the house in
order, sewing, receiving company--not
ne of which has in it a tendency even
to culture and elevation. Married wo
men are devoted to the house, and this
means a life of vexation and pettiness.
It gives no sort of stimulus to the
spirit. So the husband, who is out of
doors, active, interested in measures
which affect the public good, coming
into contact with men greater than him
self, who inspire him to better purposes
and nobler ends of labor, develops into
manly beauty and grows in character,
while his wife at home, who has as faith
fully performed her share of the work,
withers and decays prematurely.
Treat your wife exactly as yourself
would like to be treated if you to
live under her circumstances, ffnd you
will not go far wrong.
’ Do not entertain the silly notion that
because she is of 'a different
gender from your own that she is there
fore different in her wants, feelings,
qualities and powers. Do not be the
victim of any social policy. Sfand up
bravely for the right, give' your wife a
chance to live, grow and lie somebody
and become something.
Try to bo thoughtful, considerate and
forbearing. You will have new duties,
and they will bring new trials. Take
good care of your health and hers. Be
simple, both, in your habits ; lie careful
in your expenditures, bo industrious. If
you keep good health and arc frugal,
blessings will come from your united
love, and you will grow happier and bet
ter day by day as the years pass.
Supreme Court Etiquette,
“ I happened to drop iu the United
States Supreme Court the other day,"
says a Washington letter writer, “and
there I met a Philadelphia lawyer. He
had in ins hand a tall hat, a small white
necktie encircled the whitest of collars,
and his general appearance suggested a
funeral. As the gentleman (I dare uot
name him) is somewhat noted for bis
flashy attire, I eonld not exactly under
stand what was the matter, especially as
he had no crape on hia hat. lie noticed
me eyeing him, and asked what was the
matter. I told him he looked more like
a Baptist preacher than a Philadelphia
lawyer. ‘Oil,’ he answered quickly,
‘i‘- ‘.hr 22V2* ? lifttv tlieM
clothes, and at home I never wear any
tnWgbnt gray* or stripes or plaids,
with bright neckties, lmt the last time l
had a case in this court, t was not allowed
to make my argument liecause I wore
a short speckled coat and trousers,
with a blue necktie. Iw as told that I
raa not appropriately dressed to ap
pear before this court, and that I must
wear black clothes, I have another case
here now, so von see I am dreased iu
this outlandish style. But I shall charge
this suit to my client, aud when I get
home I’ll have my wife put these things
away in camphor and mark them “Su
preme Court.” Upon inquiry l found
what I never know liefore, that the
Supreme Court forbids lawyers to wear
within its lmr, anything hut black.
The weather may 1m- as hot as the re
gion toward which all of us sinners are
tending, hut no grateful seersucker or
linen duster or white duck is iiermissi
ble. The nine old duffers in easy
chain- may nod and snooze and have
their ease,' but you must dress in black.
It is probablytgight, for certain forms
nnd oercmoweM are necessary and the
dignity of the vourt must be main
tained."
Why Horse* Are Cross.
“Why? Because tht% tools are not all
dead yet.
"Horses hate to l>e ‘peeked' at. Some
men are afraid of horses, and the animals
know it; they despise ’em, and are cross
only to those who have no business with
them.
"But horses are made cross by the
way they are treated. If they have kind
nsage they become gentle; if rough they
respond in the same way.
"I have become so well versed in
horses that I can read their thoughts,
and when I am in their company I know
very quickly ;ut what they think of
me.”
"You recognise, then, the reasoning
power in horses ?”
"Most decidedly sir. When I select
a horse for my school I pick out those
that exhibit wit. Igo a good deal by
tire formation of the head and the bright
ness of the eye.
“Horses have ambition, and show it in
their make-up. When I put the horses
in the school I begin by finding out the
disposition. Then they go into kinder
garteu and learn tho simplest thing
first.”
Flood*.—The closing weeks of 1882
will be lone remembered in Europe on
account of the destructive hoods in some
of the great rivers. The Rhine, the
Seine, the Moselle, and the Main have
overflowed their banks, causing consider
able loss of life and great destruction of
property. In Germany there is much
dis trees on account of tlic inundations,
and pressing appeals are made for aid.
A Servant.—'The Governor of Michi
gan says that the title of his office is in
appropriate. He does not consider him
self a "Governor,” but a "public set
! VJUIt,”
Jay Gen Id at the Play.
Joe Howard, in the Philadelphia
Timctf on the first performance of the
“Silver King,” writes as follows:
Mr. Gould sat in one of the upper
proscenium boxes. I hadn’t specially
noticed him until in one of the affecting
episodes with which the “Silver King”
abounds, after I bad for the fifteenth or
twentieth time taken off my glasses t
wipe my eyes, I chanced to turn and in
a box saw what seemed a very curious
illustration of the text with winch I be
gan my letter. Ordinarily, in a box Mr.
Gould sits facing the stage, his counte-
nance rather shaded by the curtains.
He is always accompanied by his son
George—a very bright fellow, by the
way. On this occasion Mr. Gould
leaned on his elbow far over the rail, sc
that his head was absolutely bathed in
the light from the big chandelier, and
followed with his restless eye the move
ments upon the stage. Presently taking
from his pocket a handkerchief, he
quickly rubbed his eyes and vigorously
blowed bis nose. His son George, who
had been Bitting near him, rose, resting
his back against the partition, laid one
hand upon his father’s ahonlder, and in
a very few minntes Ids pumps began to
work, as did those of an elderly gentle
man occupying the box with them.
Now, that these three men in the box
should be crying is nothing very start
ling, because I doubt if there was a de
cent fellow in the entire auditorium who
did not find bis alleged heart in his
throat at least half a dozen times during
the progress of the play, and the wo
men were in a continuously melting
mood ; but that Mr. Gould, who is black
guarded by at least half the papers iu
the country, who is supjioKcd to have a
head of flint and a heart of marble,
should join the weeping phalanx, I think
is a little curious, and, to me, it was ex
tremely interesting as indicative of a
phase of the great financier’s inner na
ture. I have lieen told by people who
are near him and who have occasion to
know, that whatever may be Mr. Gould's
scope of conscience in dealing with Bulls
ami Bears and other pecuniary beasts,
who would tear him to pieces if he did
not tear them, in his personal, domestic
and affcctiounl relations he is as tender
and thoughtful and considerate as a man
could well lie.
A Dinner I’arl) .
English papers tell us an amusing story
of a well-known banker of Liege, Bel
gium. A yhort time ago he gave u little
dinner iiayty to w hich ten guests had
beenTriituou, beside himself aud wife,
making twelve in all. They were just
about to set down when in dropped a
friend from the Antipodes and invited
himself to dinner, thus making the fatal
nwnlM-r thirteen. The banker, to pre
vent ill luck, uwlicd down-stairs to his
office, found the cashier just about to
leave for the evening, draggl'd him up
stairs, fitted him w ith a dress coat, and
led him triumphantly into the drawing
room amid the applause of liis relieved
guests, three of whom declared that
they would not sit down to the best din
ner ever served if there were thirteen at
fable. At that moment the bell rang,
and a note was brought for ono of tho
gttesfs whose wife had suddenly fallen
ill, and who consequently was unable to
remain. Thirteen again ! Gloom nnd
despair ; anil the cashier finding himself
the Jonah of tho evening, volunteered
to depart. The banker saw him down
stairs and was expressing his regrets
when—joy !—the family doctor heaved
in sight. Ifim tho host secured, and,
happy in Wing aide to offer the hospitali
ties to his kind-hearted, sorely-trica em
ployee, the throe returned to the draw
ing-room. Dinner was ordered to be
placed upon the table, but, just as all
was ready, the hostess, who was in deli
cate health, and who had lieen unduly
excited by all the untoward event*,
fainted dead away, and had to be put to
bed. Thirteen again ! This time there
was nothing for the cashier but to go
and dine with what appetite he might at
the nearest restaurant
braltt ami Meat la Europe.
Iu a paper on agricultural statistics,
read before the British Association, Mr.
W. Botly gave some interesting fact*
concerning the food supply of Great
Britain and the Continent, as follows:
“At present the food supply produced iu
Europe is equal to about eleven month’s
consumption, but in a few years the de
ficit will be sixty instead of thirty days.
The present production and consump
tion are: G.niu consumption in the
United Kitfgdom, 607,000,000 bushels;
Continent, 4,794,000,000; total 5,401,-
000,000. Production of the United
Kingdom, 332,000,000 bushels; Conti
nent, 4,736,000,000 bushels: total, 5,068,-
000,000. Meat consumption iu the
United Kingdom, 1.740,000 tons; Conti
nent, 6,372.000 toils; total, 8,112,000 tons.
It appears that the bulk of the deficit lie
lougs to Great Britain; but as the Conti
nent is unable to feed its own population,
we must in the future look to some
other hemisphere for the needful supply,
rather than to the supposed surplus of
Russia, Hungary, Holland or Denmark.
Europe paid last year £35,000,000 for
foreign meats, and £85,000,000 for grain,
a 6um equivalent to a tax of £10,000,000
per month. In the United Kingdom,
the importation of meat, including cat
tle, has risen as follows: 1860, 5)1,230
tons, value, £4,390,000; per inhabitant,
7 pounds; 1870, 144,225 tons; value, £7,-
708,000; per iulmbitant, 10 pounds; 1880,
650,300 tons; value, £26,612,000, or 40
pounds tor each inhabitant.”
Moeated for Sort unfa.
Norwegian gills make excellent ser
vants. In their own country they are
thoroughly trained at schools specially
instituted for the purpose, and they only
receive a diploma or authority to work
when they have completed their course.
Many of them come to this country, and
certainly those in search of competent
servants—and who is not ? would do well
to consider the expediency of inquiring
about them. Scotch servuuts, too, have
such a good name in England that many
people send to Glasgow for them and en
gage them without even seeing them.
There is a good deal of similarity in the
characters of the two nations, both are
thrifty, industrious, and generally relig
ious, m addition to which they are ex
tremely cleanly in their habits. -Veto
lor A: Mail.
Taped Railroad Tracks.—Steel
manufacturers are anxiously awaiting the
result of n trial of paper rails to be made
of a prominent Western road. Car
wheels of this material have long been in
ase and are reported to give satisfaction.
The rails are said to be made wholly of
paper pulp subjected to a pressure which
rondel's it solid as metal. It is claimed
that the paper rails are, not affected by
atmospheric changes, that they arc more
durable than steel and that they can be
manufactured at one-third less cost than
those of steel
GIKLS IJ THE KITCHEN.
I! w Iwa Brave Little One* TrM ta Help
Their Mother.
“ Minnie ” writes: “ I am sixteen and
iny sister is fourteen. Onr mother is not
strong, and we want to know just how to
g.j to work to do the washing some time
when she is away. She always washes
and has us do the housework, and that
is why we don’t know exactly how to
wash. But if we did it onee nicely, she
would let us do it again, and then she
wouldn’t get so very tired. ”
Minnie shows the right spirit, and we
gladly give her minute directions how to
proceed, says the New York Tribune.
First gather all the clothes together and,
while the water is heating, sort them
over. Put all the handkerchiefs into a
|>ail of water, and all blood stains into
clear cold water, as soap sets them. Put
the finest white clothes in a pile by
themselves, the commoner clothes into a
pile by themselves and the calicoes,
flannels and stockings likewise. You
can wash the white flannels first, if you
choose, and the water in which they'are
washed will do to soak the stockings in
till yon get ready to wash them. Flannels
should be put into veiy hot soap suds
and washed, then put into scalding hot
water, with a little blneiog iu it, and
when wrung from that they are hung on
the line to dry. The water in which thev
are scalded will do for the first water to
wash the fine cotton clothes in. Wash
the handkerchiefs from the clear water
and put them in soap suds, put in also
the collars, cuffs, shirts and all the
whitest of the clothes. Wash them out
carefully and put them into the boiler to
scald. Wliile they are scalding, wash
out the next boilerful, and so on till all
the clothes have lieeu rubbed out. As
fast ns the clothes are scalded remove
them from the boiler and put in others,
adding clean water and soap as needed,
til) all are scalded. They should not re
main iu the boiler long, or the dirt will
bo set in them and they will be dingy.
Do not use water very much soiled to
wash in, or your clothes will not lie clear.
Keep the different sortings of clothes
separate all the way through, so the
white clothes will not lie mode dingy by
being mixed with those less while. From
the boiling suds put the clothes into
clear warm water and wash out all the
suds, then put them into a clear rinsing
water, ami then through a bin and water.
Have the clothes tbat need starching
separated from the others and make yom
starch, put them through it and hang
them out to dry. Be careful about
making a slop while you are washing.
A careful woman can wash on a carpet
and not soil it in the least. If you have
only tnbs and a waslilioard with a wringer
you can do the work well. Wash all the
house cloths in your last suds and have
them fresh and clean. Be sqre and turn
the Blockings and wash them thoroughly
on both sides, and turn such of the white
clothes as need it to lie made perfectly
clean. It is well to have a small bag,
an old pillow-case will do, to put the
collars and small things in when they
are boiled, so they won’t get scattered
and torn, and so that they will be sure
to lip rinsed through the clearest water.
When you can organize and conduct a
washing campaign in a regular and suc
cessful manner, you have become ac
complished in one very important direc
tion. In hanging out vour clothes put
all the sheets together, the pillow slips,
the Bliirts, night wraps, and so of tlic
rest. When they are dry fold the sheets
uieely as yon take them from the line,
lay the pillow tlips one upon another,
the towels likewise, the starched clothes
all by themselves, and so of the rest.
This will make .sprinkling the clothes for
ironing on easy matter. Take in your
line and put your elothespius carefully
in place. If your stockings are stiff
when they are dry, it is u sign they are
no t washed clean. Stockings and flannels
can be folded so smoothly when taken
from the line as not to need ironing.
A College prank.
Ben Butler relates one of his college
pranks in breaking gp an abolition meet
ing. Wa studentiwreirt into the country
and paid an old farmer fifty cents to let
us catch in his barn all the swallows we
wtinted. We got a dozen, or so, and on
thq night of the meeting a number of us
were pifesent, distributed judiciously
about the room, each boy with a swallow
in his pocket. The church was lighted
by, old-fashioned chandeliers, holding
each five or six whale oil lamps. At a
given signal, when the services were
under way, the swallows were let loose,
and almost iu the twinkling of an eye,
out wont the lights. The birds of course
went for the lights, aud the rush of air
caused by their wings put out the lamps.
We kissed a girl or two, and they of course
shrieked. All was commotion nnd con
fusion for a few moments. Then the
moderator of the meeting demanding
silenee, said that some unaccountable, ac
cident had put out the liglits, lmt that
the audience must sit quiet aud preserve
order, and the lamps would soon be
lighted. The sexton hurried away for a
torch—there was no lucifer matches in
those davs—and presently lie came into
church, holding it iu front of his face
and shielding it with oue hand: the swal
lows of course went for the light, and one
of them struck the candle, knocking it
out of the old man’s hand and into his
face. He tumbled back, gave a yell of
fright, aud gathering himself up, took to
his heels, vowing there were spirits there,
sure. The crowd, now frightened in
earnest, the students leading, got out of
the eliur<.h in n hurry, and that abolition
meeting was at an unexpected and unex
plainable end. v
Leaving Paris,
The cx-Emprcßß F.ugenie has arrived
iu London from Tar is, A correspondent
at Paris telegraphs os follows: "It is
hard to aay whether her departure is a
consequence of a direct intimation from
the French Government, as to stated, or
whether the step to taken at the persua
sion of her friends, oil of whom are
grieved by her imprudent actipn. Her
coming was the result of no deeply laid
scheme. After hearing of the arrest of
Prince Napoleon she telegraphed to M.
Rotiher that she was coming with some
attendants, and she asked to have the
the same rooms as those that had been
occupied by her husband in 1848. This
last was the only point of any political
significance in the whole affair, and but
for it the statement of her friends that
she was called to Paris to consult an ocu
list, would have been credited. During
her stay here she has seen but few load
ing people. A crowd assembled at the
Hotel dn Rhin to witness the departure
of ex-Empress Eugeisie and greeted her
with marks of sympathy. A privatomes
sage had been conveyed to the
nressbv the Grand Duke ColfeTantiriSl
from Gravy to the effect that her presence
iu Paris was not desirable.
SerußONiA —‘‘What is pbilosepv ?’ It
I is something which enables a rich man
1 to say there to no disgrace in beffig poor.
GOVERNMENT TROFIT ON COINAGE.
C*ri** Fan* KriMins !• Care
deened Obligation* ol tlie Uavcraaem.
A considerable source of profit to the
United States Government is the amount
of paper money and coin which is never
presented for redemption. Much of this
is destroyed by fire. Some of it is buried
or hid in places known to no person
alive. A huge quantity of the coin is
melted to make sterling silverware. Con
siderable amounts of Ijoth paper money
and coin are exported, never to return.
Not long ago a United States bond, is
sued about 1819, was presented at the
Sub-Treasury in N. Y. City. The interest
on it had ceased over fifty years. It had
come back from Europe through Baring
Brothers.
The outstanding principal of the pub
lic debt of the United States last year
was nearly two billions of dollars, chiefly
represented by bonds and Treasury
notes.
It would be. of course, impossible to
say how much of this will never be pre
sented for redemption, but some idea
may be formed from the fact that $57,-
665 of it was issued so long ago that the
date is not recorded. It appears in the
report as “old debt” that may safely be
put down as profit.
There is an item of $82,525 of Treas
ury notes issued prior to 1846. Some of
them were issued nearly fifty years ago,
aud will not, in all probability, ever be
presented for redemption. One thousand
one hundred and four dollars of the Mex
ican indemnity of 1846 has never been
claimed. The last of the fractional cur
rency was issued under the act of June
6, 1864, yet, although nearly twenty
years have elapsed, $7,077,247 has not
lieen presented for redemption. Some
of tliis is held as a curiosity. Some of it
is still used by banks and merchants for
transmitting small sums by mail. Sev
eral New York banks Lave considerable
sums of new fractional currency which
they distribute for the accommodation of
their customers.
As to the coin the Government de
rives a considerable profit from it The
silver in one thousand silver dollars
costs, on an average abont $803.75. The
coinage of a silver dollar costs alont lj
cents. The total cost of 1,000 silver
dollars to the Government is therefore
$*16.25.
Since the organization of the Mint, in
1793, 127,190,618 silver dollars have been
coined, on which the Government has
received a profit of over twenty-three
millions of dollars.
In the same period $122,758,510 was
coined into half dollars. At the same
rate of cost for coinage the Government
profited $19,395,769 on these. The total
silver coinage of the Government since
1793 is $347,766,792. Estimating the
profit on the halves, qnarters, and sub
sidiary coins at the same rate as on the
dollars, the total profit received by the
Government on its silver coinage has
been about sixty-four millions of dollars.
In the coinage of the five-cent nickels
the Government reserved to itself the
1 dicral profit of nearly 50 per cent.
This gave to the Government last year
the handsome revenue of over SIOO,OOO
from nickels alone. The wide margin
between the intrinsic value of the tive
eent nickel and its face value led to ex
treme counterfeiting.
Several years ago an assay was made
of some of the counterfeit nickels, and it
was discovered that the counterfeiters
had put iuto their coins more valuable
metal than the Government uses in mak
ing the genuine coins.
Hie Diamond Country.
The soil iu the diamond fields of Africa,
when brought to the summit of the mine,
says Lady Florence Dixie, is carted
uway and strewn on the ground, where
it is left for a fortnight or three weeks to
pulverize in the sun. At the expiration
of this time gangs of Kafirs, Hiiperin
tcndcil by a white overseer, break the
large dry lumps into powder, and this in
turn is carted away to -be placed in the
washing-machine. It is durirg the pits
cess of first breaking that some of the
largest diamonds are discovered, and tho
overseer has to keep a sharp look-ont on
the workers in consequence. In spite of
the terrible penalty incurred by any one
detected in the act of secreting a good
find, thefts nrn very rife, nnd many a
diamond finds its way into Kafir posses
sion iu spite of the sharpest vigilance.
During the process of washing, the grav
elly substance, which is full of garnets
as’well as-the diamonds, sinks to the
bottom of tli£ machine, while the eavth
em substance disappears in another
channel. When it has been thoroughly
washed through two or three linn s this
gravel is collected aud strew n on tables,
where searchers with steel instruments
somew hat resembling very broad knives,
carefully turn it over iu minute search.
Then itls that the precious jewel is dis
covered in al! manner of sizes and shapes,
when it is placed in a small tray, on
which another overseer lie* ]*, his watch
ful eye. I was given several little heaps
of gravel to dissect, aud in half an hour
had succeeded in discovering about twen
ty or thirty diamonds of very fair size
anil some so perfectly shaped that they
had every appearance of having just left
the cutter’s hands.
Early Marriages.
A New York paper says: As 2,651
girls under 20 years of age were married
in this city during 1882, it can hardly be
complained that early marriages have
declined. Nevertheless, from 20 to 25
years is the favorite age for brides, 4,662
women within those limits having en
tered wedlock. As is deemed proper,
the age of men at marriage is shown to
be greater than that of their brides; but
204 youths under 20 having married in
this city during 1882. There were 3,922
from 20 to 25 married, and 3,382 from 25
to 30. The number of men under 30
when married was 7,508, and the number
of women under 30 was 9,434. There
were 1,012 men married who were
more than 40. but only 403 women,
.-honing that the matrimonial chances of
women are exhausted sooner than those
of men. One benighted old Benedick of
1882 to more than 80. The whole nnm
l>er of marriages, 11,085, was too small
for the immense population of Manhat
tan Island.
The Indians at San Carlos, Arfe, re
eently gave a dance in honor of Piute
Bill.’ About 400 Indians participated.
Bill made a speech in which he said that
he and hto people at one time owned the
whole Comstock lode. The Pintos were
then worth millions on millions —more
than Maekay and Fair a dozen times
over ._yet they never put on any airs on
account of their wenith—never so much as
opened their mouths about it to any one.
"Now see ” said Bill, "what taik there
kis'abont Maekay and Fair wherever they
! go' They are everywhere ealled kings—
bonanza kings! Our chief, Winnemne
ica, was at one time the controller of ail
the mineral wealth. He fixed his
thoughts upon higher things than tne
mere dross of the earth.' —3Vt ada ler
rilot'iai Enterprise.
A Inneraa in • Lumber Camp.
One of the accidents so common in the
lumber regions recently visited the camp
at Kettle Creek, Penn. One of the men
was watching.the slide where the logs
came down to see that they kept thw
track when just above him a swiftly
moving log jumped the track, striking
him and crushing him to death instantly.
He was taken up and carried to camp on
a hastily-improvised bier made of pine
branches, and was laid out in one of the
girl’s rooms, and the men talked over
what should be done with him.
“He came from Maine, and hain’t got
no relatives near here, as far I know,”
said the boss, “and I don’t even know
what part of the State he came from.
All we can do is to bury him and adver
tise for his family, to send his wages
away.” -
So it was decided to bury the man in
the woods, with a great pine tree, under
which he had many a time eaten his din
ner, to mark the place. A man was sent
to Germania for a coffin, and clumsy but
tender hands made his last bed ana per
formed the necessary services for the
dead comrade. The next day was set
apart for the funeral, and one of the
men, who had been a Methodist ex
horter, acted as chief in performing the
last sod rites, which were singularly sol
emn and impressive, as everything of a
religious nature is away in the silent
woods, where Nature adds an element of
solemnity unknown in the most gorgeous
cathedral
The sermon was short, and the
speaker, in an impressive way, com
mented on the danger of the life in the
woods and the special need for prepara
tion for sudden death. Speaking of the
deceased, he said:
"He was not ready to die, and I would
wish you to leave off many of his faults.
But there was much in him that was
noble and manly, and these qualities we
will all do well to remember and emu
late. You cannot forget his courage in
risking his life to save a fellow on the
jam last spring, when the mad stream
was burling tne logs arouud him, and
death seemed hidden in the timber
where his crushed commie was strug
gling for life. And yon all remember
his brave action on the landing, only a
month ago, by which another life was
saved. We all have reason to admire
and love him, and, rough as he was, I
believe the future will deal kindlier with
him than with many who profess more
and do less.”
When he spoke of the lives the man
had saved, and painted a picture of his
rude and bravely honest life, and in ten
der words spoke of his future life, the
strong men broke down, and one, whose
life had been saved, sobbed aloud.
There were no dry eyes among them,
and eveiy man was a friend and a
mourner. As they carried him lo his
resting-place under the old pine tree and
each threw a handful of earth into the
grave, tears moistened the earth.
A Stork Experience.
Joaquin Miller relates his experience
in Wall street as follows: I had seen
Western Union stock go d6wn about
eighteen points and so bought one hun
dred. It fell five lower and I took a hun
dred more. Five points lower, I took
another and so on till I was getting
alarmed. I thought of a prominent
stock buyer who was under some obliga
tions to me, or at least a true friend, and
so stepped across from my hotel to see
him. He was kind, quiet, and purrv as
a kitten, almost playful, and soon began
to point out on his maps the lino of his
new Atlnntic cable. He himself opened
the subject of telegraphs. The occasion
was opportune. I handed him a certifi
cate of purchase of Western Union and
asked him what to do, as I was already
on the edge of my margin. He looked
at the pajier with a sweet and innocent'
surprise, us if saying: “Only to think
that any man would touch the worthies*
Western Union!"
“I’m so so ITT yon have bought this
stuff. My telegraph is the other line,”
he Big Led, at length.
“Yes; I know. But I bonglit it be
cause 1 thought it cheap.”
“It’s cheaper now, Mr. Miller."
“.And will lie cheaper.”
“Well, we”—looking at liis son—
“have not a pliare of it, it ought to be a
great deal cheaper.”
“Then I shall sell t wice the amount I hold
and hedge. Thank yen', and good night.”
And the next morning I did 6ell—sell
right and left—for the whole bottom
seemed to lie falling out of Western
UnioD. It kept on tumbling, and by
noon I was even. By one o'clock I was
not only even, but almost rich. I was a
richer man than I had ever been before.
I remained a rich man alient thirty-five
minifies. The tide began b-set against
me. Western Union bounded i.p w iih a
rapidity that fairly made me dizzy and
by the time the hammer fell in the Stock
Board 1 literally had not car fare left.
Haring plenty ef leisure after that, I
wrote down the foregoing conversation,
and have copied i* exactly. I have not
seen my dear triend. the great stock
holder. since. But 1 find that at the
time lie said lie had not a share of West
ern Union, he had about two hundred
thousand shares, and was picking it up
is ia6t as he could knock it down.
Honor ?
The Gentleman In Overalls.
The Boston says: He was
a gentleman who wore overalls and car
ried a tin dipper pail. His clothes were
unready made and hto boots were not
symmetrical. He said the long journey
of five milee each way to and from hie
work was trying. “"Why don't vou live
in the city?” " Because, sorr’—in a
rich Milesian brogue—"it I lived in the
city I should have to live in a tenement
bouse. You don't know the kind of peo
ple who live there. They're e bad lot
all through, generally. Sights go on no
woman or child should see. I want to
save my wife and chihlven from seeing
corruption, so I moved out here. Good
night. sorr !”
And he kit the car at the little cot
tage, whose inmates were sheltered from
"corruption,” and was greeted with a
chorus of "Here's father,” that showed
the gentleman with the dinner pail hod
not lavished care without receiving a
return in love.
Every day the papers tell of some:
man while out deer hunting being mis-i
taken for a deer and shot. The rasemj
blance between a man and a deer is notf
great, and it seems as though atj
hunter could tell the difference, unlesre
he has the ' ‘buck fever;” but as them
cannot distinguish a man from a deer, m
will be well for hunters to carry a bahttM
or a transparency on which shall tT
f tinted the words : "Do not shoot me*
am not a deer.” —Peek s Sun.
It is said of a well-known colored
preacher of Morgan City, La., that
while marrying a couple lately, he asked
the man: “Wilt thou take this womato
to be thy wedded wife, and vote for Btox
Taylor Beattie for Congress?” The rate
readily assented, • -j