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WIND AND DAFFODIL, A wind came up one summer day— A nonth wind, wift and bold, Fair with a hint of sapphire skies And jasmine’s starry gold— And lay at the feet of a daffodil white, And filled her with bliss untold. ‘Oh. daffodil spill me your fragrant breath; n And she gave it, m sigh on sigh; “Oh, stoop from your stately purity, And kiss me where I lie!" But, “Nay, dear wind ! I’m a nun ! ” ho said; “That wish 1 must deny.” “Then you love me not,“cried the eager wind; She trembled where sho stood; “I know a clime where the crimson rose Will meet me in wanner mood." “Then go, then go !*’ said the daffodil, And tightened her snow-white snood. At eve he sweet south wind had fled, And the daffodil stood alone; He lay at the heart of a musk-rose red, Whence the west wind scarce had flown, And the one pure tear the daffodil shed To the moonlight only was known. —Boston Transcript. THE liniUKOUS PAPERS. WIOT WK UNI) IN Tlll'tl TO KV|II,E OVtK THIN WEEK, A TTHCOMAN TRICK. Not even the Shah’s life is altogether ■* happy one. A short time ago that monarch sent some musio-lxixcx ami mirrors to the Khan of Bokhara. The Khan in return scut the (Shall half a ■h'zen particularly pretty girt", not one f whom was more than sixteen years old. On the way they wore captured by -v'me Turcoman*. The Shah first tried to recapture them, and then offered as a r: asom for tln rn a number of deeora ti ns, including the great Sun and Lion order. These the Turcomans scorned, saving they preferred odalisques to jewels very time, Finally the Shah offered I.OOD francs apiece for the girls, which the Turcomans accepted. But after the money was paid and the .odalisques brought to the palace the Persian mon arch fairly howled with fury at discover ing that the perfidious robliers had kept the “sweet sixteehs” and sent him in their stead some of the veterans of their hart ms who were more remarkable toi age than beauty. CLAIMED AX OFFSET. The Pouekkeeps" l'ar/le Bays a "hired nan” who has been employed on a farm in that county bn- several months en tered suit against his employer the other day for the balance of wages amounting, as lie claimed, to thirty-two dollars. The suit came to trial, and it looked at first as if the plaintiff had a clear case. He gave dates and figures in a straight forward way, and seemed a very honest man. When the farmer took the stand he said: "I claim an offset for that thirty-two dollars. No mall need sue me for what 1 honestly owe.” “What is your offset ?” asked the law yer. “He is an unbeliever.” “Xu what ?" “Why, in the Bible.” “What has that to do with your owing him thirty-two dollars ?” “It has a heap to do with it. I had six hands in my employ, and we were lushing things when 1 hired this man. lie hadn't been with us two days when they stopped the reaper in the middle of the forenoon to dispute about Daniel in the lion’s deu, and in three days we had n regular knock-down over the whale swallowing Jonah. The man who ran the mower got arguing about Samson, and drove over a stump and damaged the machine to the tune of eighteen dol lars, and the very next day my boy broke bis leg while climbing a fence to hear and see the row which was started over the children of Israel going through the lied Sea, It wasn’t a week before my win .-.aid sly didn't lielicve Elijah was l and by r if I didn’t find iiHra*lHr< wijjPtt’eak on Noah and ■h_-i (In >l. That's inv offset, sir; and if In- was worth imyihii p, I’d sue him fors thousand dtliars beside.” The court re:, rved decision. CONTEMPT TO KILL. Old Uncle Isaac, the well known col orod ragpicker, has just made his appear a nee after having been confined to hii house for several days. “ Where have you been?” asked tha ('rili< this morning. “I haven’t seen you for a long time.” “ Oh, Use jess been genperation after dat argyment I had wid the Washington boys. ” “ What argument?” “ Why, dat ’ligions argument we had las' week, when de biggest Washington boy called me a liar, and sed dat I was ole and ignorant. Den I jess gnb him one, and dat sneakin’ Jim Washington bit me ’cross de back wid a fence railin’.” “ And yrm’ve been to bed ?” “Yes, snr; jes got out dis morniu’, and de 'facts ob dat argvmint haint worn off vet. But I'so goin’ now to Jedgo Hnel' for to git a warrant for all ob dem boys. ” “What will yon charge them with— getting the best of an argument?” “ No, sab, dat I shan’t ; I shall charge dem wid insult; with contempt ter kill.’ Washington Critic. IN A ST.EEFINO CAB. A traveler relating his experience in a deeping ear says he awoke to find his bald head atrainst the window, and his feet out in the aisle in the liickle-plated enspidore, and the car was colder than a refrigerator while he had only a single blanket no thicker than a sheet of paper. Ib -ays: “I was stiff all over, and I got up ami staggered to the end of the car, and what do you think I found ? “Why, I found the porter rolled up on the back seat, in six blankets, fast asleep, the fire gone out, and both doors open, and he was snoring for all that was out, while the car was going at forty miles an hour across the prairie. Well, I was mad. I took all the blankets away from him, and covered the coon with a piece of oil cloth off the floor, and took a fifty pound piece of ice out of the £hc &mmttenrille (Dinette. VOL. X rank and laid it on his ones) and wrapped his arms * round it, and shut the doors and Went to bed. Pretty soon I heard the colored man begin to talk in nis sleep. He sai l, 'gwnv f'um dnr wid lem cold feet. 1 dun tole you never put item frigeM tor oars of yours uo where near me. Take dem right away or dere’s goin to lie a divorce, on do ground of cruelty to animals.' Then thccoon woke up and Raid if he hail a ‘roarer* ho would knife the man that put that ice on him, ami pretty soon l heard him build ing n fire. Now, what I claim is that George Pullman should hove made a thermometer in every car, and men enough to keep the temperature about right, and not use n colored man for a thermometer."—/Veit’s Sun, A CITY’S CLERKS. \ Furry ol Young IMrn Ihnt Nerd Look- Ins After. Speaking of the Coupon robbery in New York city, a prominent city official said to a lit raid reporter, that his only surprise was that tire Finance Depart ment did not “ take a tumble” to tho defaulting clerk, as the saying Is, long Indore his death. The reporter asked if the city official knew of his own knowledge that Carroll was addicted to gambling and fast com pany, and he replied:—“ No, I only knew him m a casual way, but I knew that he could not have lived as he did on $l,lOO a year, and that if the way he lived is explained by tho fact that his father supplied him with money tho old man must have had to pay a mighty big sum yearly. But to my mind there is more ample field for investigation than can tie found in tho books of the dead clerk and that i3 in the various departments of the city government. I'll guarantee that there is not one clerk in one hundred in ihe departments who has received his appointment exclusively becauso of his peculiar fitness fur his duties. Political backing is the force which flings him into a position, as it wore, and there lie stays so long as his political backing is good and on the right side of the fence. What is the consequence of this kind of appointment to office ? Why, that the city government business is lining run by a set of men who were never asked for recommendations from their previous employers and who, in hardly one ease out of five, would have been able to obtain such recommendations if they wanted them. The city officials don't act like business men when they want clerks in their own offices. When a clerk on SI,OOO a year salnrjeis known to own a fast horse and to dress like a nabob and live in the lust of style in one of tho swell sections of the city his am- ployer naturally says to himself, ‘ Hello, somebody must be paying for this,’ and he not only watches that young man’s books, but finds out the kind of com pany he keeps, and in a short time he finds it profitable to discharge that young man. The city officials do not act in this way. “A large proportion of the clerks anil employees in the city departments in places of more or less trust, aro fre quenters of gambling-saloons and other places of ill-repute, and they are to be fonnd everywhere where ‘sports’ congre gate, and the fast and loose methods are considered the proper thing.” The reporter here suggested that this was a sweeping general charge. “It seem so to yon,” said tho official, “but yon can get the facts for yourself. Go any night you please to the fast re sorts in N. Y. city, make a round of them, and if you don’t find city employees ‘putting up the wine’ and having a good time generally in most of these places, lam much mistaken. Go to Saratoga >i the summer time anil Long Branch, and who are the men yon trip up on every once in a while in the club-houses and on the road ? Why, city officials and city employees on a vacation. It’s all very well for the young men to tell you that the ‘old man’ is putting up tho money for him, when you find him open ing wine at Moon’s every night, and making a big swing for two or three weeks at a time in the Grand or United States Hotels, or at the West End. The fathers of our city employees are not rich men as a rule, anil the thing don’t wash. I don't mean to say, mind you, that these men live on money taken dis honestly from the city, for that, perhaps, could not be proved; but I do mean that their salaries are not big enough to pay for the way they live, and that the fact that they frequent gambling-saloons, are to be seen at the roulette table fre quently, and wherever the ‘game of chance' holds out. a tempting hand, is a significant one. Prohibition in Michigan. In the Michigan Senate tho prohibi tion amendment to the Constitution, | which hail been put on its passage, was ! l'-st by a vote of 20 to 11, not a | two-tliirds, bnt nearly a strict party 1 vote. The matter was theu reconsiil ereil. The proposition providing for j local option was laid on the table for future consideration. This action has settled as certain the impossibility to ’ carry the prohibition amendment at this Legislature. Raltv. — An island in Vermillion Bay, ->:i the coast of Louisiana, has a solid : luas-i of salt at a depth of twenty feet, so hard that it requires to lie mined with vi.ami'i and ground in steam mills. About 200 tons a day are taken out. SUMMERVILLE, GEORGIA, V EI)N ESI) A A EVENING, JULY 2A 1883. THE LAST KISS. now a Eiif.ni iiman sqi andi k* a FOUTIMC. Tired of I.lfo ll tStnrtn lo ('oitintii Ntiirhlf mid G(ittin u U llr lantead. Emile Peekerel was born at Saint Michel near Monthorz. His parents sent him to Paris to study law, but before ho had passed his last examination he lost suddenly both father and mother. When a young man thus comes into possession of $100,(WO he does not see tho necessity of living at at. Michel. On the other hand he imagines that his SIOO,OOO will last forever, and pitches tho law luniks into the fire. | Peekerel began to lead a gay life. I Such a life could not bust long. M. I Peekerel soon found himself at the end l of his resources. Ho was courageous ' enough to try and reduce his expenses. | He sold his plneton; he sold his horses, and at last sold his furniture and went into lodgings. There oue fine evening he began to think. “It Is a pity,” lie reflected, “ that na ture lias been decidedly unkind in not giving mo either uncle or aunt from whom I might entertain expectations, i Whero can one get money ? I cannot gain any myself. 1 might, perhaps, earn $lO a week as an attorney's elerk. What is the use of that? I have known the pleasures of this world. I had better go and see if there arc any pleasures on the other side of Jordan. Poison gives one a pain in the stomach, the pistol spoils one’s looks. 1 have one resource left. 1 have never learned to swim, and there is the river.” Peekerel smiled like) an anther who lias discovered anew incident. “ Now, then,” he added, “ I must make my preparations. A good Chris tian takes the last sacrament—a good Parisian must take his hist kiss.” But he was somehow or other suddenly fastidious. He went on the bridge SI. Peres and wait a I til] there should ooini the nymph he, had pictured in his mind should lie the recipient of his last kiss. She was to bo somebody lie did not know. She mnst be young, pretty and ol a style that pleased. A score of girls had passed him. Some liod brown lu r some dark chestnut, some light chestnut. None of these would suit, for he had set his heart on a blonde. Suddenly he started; there came tin angel of his dreams. His death knell had struck. At No. 110 Hue du Hue was a pretty little hotel, in which lived a rich Ameri can. He had come to Paris with his only daughter, Helen. A little garden with great trees, a lawn on which the sparrows hopped about, a conservatory that was a little winter gnrden. Such was the home of the fair Helen. Miss Helen, aged sweet 18, accompa nied by her governess, Miss Pealxidy, was out for a walk this fine day. Miss Peabody had allowed herself to bo born in Salem without a murmur. By her side walked Miss Helen, with her pretty little nose in tho air, like a lark going to take wing. Peekerel felt all the blood rush to his heart, and his temples beat furiously. Miss Helen came slowly on in maiden meditation, fancy free. Peekerel walked straight up to her, seized her in his arms •ind pressed his lips to hers. Then, with a spring over the parapet, ho plunged into the stream. Helen gave a cry of terror; Miss Pea body fell back against a lamp-post; the crowd rnshed up. “Save trim ! save him I” was the cry. A boat shot out from the quay. “There he is I” “He is dead!” “No, he has fainted I” “I tell you he is dead 1” Such were tho confused cries that were heard by Helen as Miss Pea body led her away homeward. When she got home, she fell into a fever. Her father was informed of t&e occurrence and was bine with wrath. Miss Helen asked if the ruffian was alive or dead. The father said he was alive. “Then, papa,” said she, “I want to kill him or marry him.” “My own dear child,” murmured the stem papa. He at once set out to fine Peekerel. “What do you mean, sir,” he began, “by insulting my daughter ?” “I wanted to die.” The Yankee produced a Bible, “Un cle Tom’s Cabin” and “ Innocents Abroad." He made Peekerel swear on the Bible that he would be faithful to bis wife. He swore on “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” never to neglect his home for his club. He swore on Mark Twain to avoid all the pomps and vanities of the world. Peekerel swore freely. He immedi ately married the fair Helen. So says Aurelin Scholl.— Freund's Daily. Texas Cattle.— Since the large capi talists came into the business of cattle raising in Texas, great bodies of land iiave been bought up for ranges, and soon desirable free pastures will lie a thing of the past. Having the money to fence as well as buy the land, most of the large ranges are being enclosed with wire. More than $100,000,000 would Vie required to purchase the cattle now roaming over the State. Half of this value, according to the best testimony, is the increase of cattle within two years. A RUSSIAN M ill LIST. UADi: lM VI NHI.ITI, IIY Till: HKUTAIi. ITY OK TIIIC I'OI.ICK. Tim Story ol Vtru Siinnullfch, nnl llot ( upiiiro by Ilio Anlliorillon. Vera Sassnlitch, who is once more re ported as having been captured by tho Russian authorities, Ims been as exten sively and inconsistently “biographed” as her French sister, Louise Michel. She was born in 1850, according to tho (apparently) most trustworthy authori ties, and in 1807 was shut, up in a Lithu anian prison for the offense of being a sehoolinato of tho sister of Nctohaleff, the political conspirator. Her imprison ment lasted two years, and sho had scarcely been liberated when sho was re arrested on an administrative order oi exile and hurried away from her mother’s house so rapidly that, she would have perished of cold but for tho compassion of a gendarme, who covered her with his eloak. For some years sho was passed on from town to town as a “suspect,” until, having spent the best years of her life in prison, and a victim to the in solence and brutality of tho police, she had learned to pity those who were similarly afflicted and to desire to avenge (hem. In 1878 she learned of the brutal ill-treatment of a prisoner, BogolubolT, by General Trepoff, “Prefect of the Town,” at St. Petersburg. The General had entered tho fortress and was exasperated on beholding Bogo ltiboff and a companion walking together and conversing, ns, not being convicts, but merely licensed men detained on suspicion, they had a right to do. To a harsh question as to why this was allowed one of tho two volunteered an explana tion. “I do not address you—to your dungeons I” shouted the General, furi ously. The two prisoners walked on quietly, when Trepoff, crying, “Hats off !” aimed a blow at Bogolnbofl', The prisoner’s hat fell off, lait BogolubolT picked it up and put it on, whereon the General ordered him to be flogged. A romantic version made it seem that Vera .Sassnlitch had been acquainted with Bogoluboff—had even been his mistress —but there was lio truth in the story. Stic read with indignation of the outrage and waited some time to see if the Gov ernment would pay anv attention to it. When no action was taken sho resolved to do vengeance herself, and on tlio sth of February, 1878, went to the General’s { reception-room with a petition, and when ho stretched out his hand to receive it shot him through the body. Sho made no effort to escape and said that she had fired upon the General premed itatodly, without caring whether she killed him or merely wounded him, since in the latter ease her end would lie obtained in ealling attention to his bru tality. She was brought to trial in April, 1878, and defended by M. Alexan droff. The jury selected was composed of six members of the civil service, twe merchants a id a nobleman, a school-in spector, a student and an artist, and it acquitted her promptly amid the ap plause of the audience, despite the evi dence, her avowal and the speeches of the judge and tho prosecutor. The ac quittal provoked a general outburst of applause from the press throughout Rus sia. On the lid of July, 1878, Vera Sassu litch appeared at Geneva, where she was received in triumph by Itockfort and bis friends. Sho gave out that she had been ream sted but permitted to escape. It was reported for some time that tlio Vera of Geneva was mi impos tor, and that the Russian Charlotte Corday was really in Siberia, but finally all doubts as to her identity ceased. In December, 187!), she published a statement to the effect that her attempt oil the General’s life had been made in pursuance of orders from the Revolu tionary Committee and that she had been designated by lot as the avenger. 11l February, 1880, her arrest was said to have been effected at St. Petersburg, but tho report proved false, and she was repeatedly heard of thereafter at Geneva and Paris pushing on the Nihilist prop aganda and active as one of the editors of the Naradnala Volia, a well-known Nihilist review. ■ ramps Taking the Road. Reports from New England States say that tramps from New York and Boston are swarming the country towns, and a number of outrages have been re ported. Three children who were alone in the house of their father, Leopold Wolf, of Morestown. Conn., on Sunday evening gave food to two beggars. The men demanded money, and ransacked the house. The eldest child, a boy 16 years old, got a pistol and drove the I robbers out of doors. An hour later tin house was on fire, and was burned to the ground. Before the fire broke out young George, who hail driven the tramps from the house, had put the other children to bed. They were, res cued, and George saved S7OO in money that his father had laid by in the house. A number of men are on Hie track of the tramps, and exect to capture them. These and other transgressions of tho | law, flagrant and open, gives rise to | many complaints, but political influence ; serves to spare the offenders. This in fluence is so great that a fanner who re cently murdered a slave and burned his j laxly to escape detection, walks the streets a free man to-day, though at times very grave threats are marie against him. A DESPERATE EXPLOIT. An AifnniM lo Wplko tlio (.'onfederate Gun* oil Inliiihl No, 10, One night about the first of April, says M, Quad, in his War Sketches, a band of fifty Federate left the fleet un der cover of darkness, bent upon sue.h a desperate undertaking ns is seldom planned outside the realms of Action. Every gun upon Island No. 10, which Commodore Foote could disable before his fleet was called upon to push down, increased his chances of success, anp this little band of men started out with tlio intention of landing on t-lie island and spiking as many guns as possible before being discovered. The Confederates had a picket boat out to discover and check any such at tempt, but on this night the darkness was intense, the rain was falling steadily, and when tho lightning came it was so vivid that men were blinded for the mo ment. Tho Federal launches from the fleet passed within 100 feet of the picket boat without discovery, and made a suc cessful landing upon tho island. The first guns were planted about 850 tort from tho head of the island, and the ground between was covered with small bushes, rank grass and weeds, and con siderably broken. Between the landing spot and the guns were two or throe low spots full of water, and an attack from this direction did not seem probable. The Confederate sentinels were strung along the ditch in front of tho battery, cowering in the storm mid hearing noth ing but the war of tho elements. Had the party of Federals halted and sen! three or four men forward, tlio smaller number could have passed tho sentinels and perhaps had plenty of time to spike every gun. But the bolder plan of marching the whole command straight up to the ditch and into it was adopted, and a Hash cf lightning betrayed them to a sentinel. Ilia musket had scarcely sounded the alarm, before it was taken up all around the battery. Then in the midst of a furious storm, the tliundei making the island tremble and the light ning striking trees along the river ill most every moment, the Federals dashed into the battery itself. Muskets were cracking and men shouting, and it was a situation to try tho nerve of the bravest man living. Every fifth man in tho command was provided with a supply of rat-tail files, to be driven into the vents of the guns anil broken off. The Federals had come lor a certain purpose—tho Confederates could not determine at once wliat that purpose was, and wore naturally sur prised ami confused by the sudden attack. One writer says that seven puns were spiked ; another says five ; a third says that only one large pivot gun was disabled. Confederates on duty in the battery at the time agree that four guns were so thoroughly spiked that they were rendered useless for three or four days, or until the broken files could bo drilled out. After the first moment of surprise the Confederates rallied and began an attack which forced the little band out of the battery, leaving three or four dead and as many prisoners. Throe or fourotliers were wounded in making their way to the boats, and two who become separated from tho command and did not reach the boats were made prisoners next day. ft was an exploit full of nerve and daring, but the results were without real value to Foote, A Telegraph Joke. A well-to-do young man recently roar rieil and started West on his bridal tour. The, happy young couple were break fasting at a station eating-house. Dur ing the repnst two smart. Aleck i eamo into the dining-room and seated them selves opposite the contracting parties. They were telegraph operators. By delicate poising of their knife and fork they were able to make sounds in close imitation of telegraphy. In the, mystic language of the ke,\ oue said unto tho olher: “Ain’t she a daisy, though?” The party thus addressed replied by clicking off: “Wouldn’t I like to hug arid kiss her, the little fat angel ?” “Wonder who that old bloat is that she has married ?” “Somo gorgeous grange, I reckon !” replied the other. The groom stood it until forbearance ceased to be a virtue, when he also balanced his knife, and click, click, it went, in rapid succession. It was intelli gible to the cute twain that hail recently made fun of its author. When inter : preted it read: “Dear Sirs: lam superintendent of tho telegraph line upon which you work. You will please send your time to head quarters and resign your respective posi tions at once. Yours, Superintendent of Telegraph. ” — Lowell Courier. T:r would he difficult to compress more ~f the technical language of the diamond ! into the same space than occurs in the | following, from the telegraphic report lot the Bostou-Cleveland game on Tues ! day : “In the second Sutton got his | base on balF, v .<-nt to second on Glass i cock's fumble of Wise’sbotone, and took : third on York’s wild throw-in of Morrill’s I j]y to left, only to die at the plate or a beautiful double-play off Burdock’) i grounder to Muldoon to Phillips to 1 Hriody. I '—Lowell Courier. NO 27. i in- niiuinier tarailiiii. “I haf my own obinion on dot vnea tine poezness got, yet,” says the barber. “I dink it peon brotty much hmnbuoks npowd neeting a vacation from vork. Vorlt tonil kill a man half so qwiok as doing noding too much. Vot dcr pig gest hart of us vaut is a loedlo vacation from our bleasuros and habits, alrotty. Der man vich dinks lie rand lif if bo tonil got a triuk of visky effery hafo hour ho peddor silvern- himselluf off. Chust der same der camplor; redder lie dock a va cation avay from his cards. Der pest resd for der averiteh glerehyman vould peeu to sdop making long faces lit him self mid looking around choqst us if dcr vorlt vos all a pig funeral, yet. Dor vrl lers vich amuse demsellufs mif such leedle flyers py A’all sdreet. vot dem caml slecb dree nights a Vrek, uud der clien dlemen vich dink only ill' preaking vim men's hearts und pilhird hluying und on horse races podding —if dem should dako dwo veeks’ vacation from all dem dings, dot vould peon der pcsd dings owid.” “Are you going to go into the country this summerV” tho reporter nskcil the monkey barber. “Veil,” lie replied, “if der posg vill vent avey a gupple days a veek in del summer, yet, und gif der shop a resd mit his ohaw, dot’s vacation enough for me und der gusdimers. Der resd uf my hol idays I'fo got to put in mit a blmnmer up down. I’m shbarking a blummer for all he is vorth, so I can marry hisdaugh dor und retire. Tfe grushed der girl so she scuts me sick boedry ow id from a don eent Alpum Winder's Friend. Sho has efon vent so far as to make me slilih hers four sizes doo stimuli. Nmv, i'fo got to got some (hie vork into iler olt man.”— New York Sun. llow to Make White Bread. For the spongo take a pan of butter milk or sour milk which has just turned thick. I’nt it on the stove and scald. When tho curd is well separated from the whey strain or skim it out. Let the wlicy cool until it will not scald, then stir in tho flour, beating thoroughly. It should bo about as thick as batter foi griddle cakes. Sweet milk, or even water, may bo used as wotting for the sponge, if good sour milk or buttermilk cannot be had. But fresh buttermilk is, perhaps, the best of all. When the spongo is about milkwarm, beat in a tea onpful of yeast. One teaenpful of the yeast is enough for three ordinary white loaves, one loaf of brown bread and a tin of rolls. The sponge should bo modo at night. Lot it stand until morning. Un less the weather is very oold, it is not neocssary to put it near tho fire. In the morning, wlieu tho spongo is light, take out enough for your loaf of brown bread. Mix the remainder with flour, taking care not to put in too much, as that will make the bread dry and hard. Knead half an hour. The whiteness and deli cacy of the bread will lie much increased by thorough kneading. Put the dough away to rise again. Whoa it is light, if you wish to make rolls, save enough of the dough for that purpose. Make the remainder into loaves. Set them away to riso. When light, bake. It Puzzled Them. Lucy Hooper, writing to the Phila delphia Telegraph about Booth’s visit to Germany, says: “Some comical incidents arose during his tour out of the presence of liis daughter’s colored maid Betty, whose black skin filled tho average German mind with wonder and amazement. Sometimes they sot her down us a Zulu, and were surprised to learn that sho was a harmless American. Mr. Booth’s cour ier was several times asked, on arriving at a now hotel, as to what the strange creature was to bo fed upon. One day when she was out walking with Miss Booth, a kindly-looking German, who had been staring at the pair for some time, evidently came to tho conclusion that Betty was somo kind of a large, tame monkey, for ho darted into a fruit erer's shop and came out with a quan tity of fine plums, which he pressed into her hands. On another occasion Betty was going through tho corridor of a ho tel, when she mot an elderly gentleman, who stopped her with an authoritative gesture. He then carefully applied the tip of one finger to her cheek and gave the skin a vigorous rub, afterward look ing at his fingers and shaking his head in bewilderment on finding that tho color did not come off.” An 01(1 Gun. The St. James's Gazette says : A dis covery which has just been made at Aleppo is 'ikely to canse considerable surprise in military circles, for, accord ing to the Turkish official gazette of that place, a party of engineers, while making excavations beneath the citadel of the town, have come upon a large wrought iron breech-loading cannon which must have been buried for at least 250 years. That the weapon should be a breech-loader is iu itself sufficiently astonishing; but the most extraordinary part of the affair is that tlie breech mechanism is almost exactly similar to that which has for so many years been fitted by Krupp and Essen to the artil lery of the German army. Tlie gun bears the name of its maker, Halebli Mnstapha Osia, and is in fairly good preservation. A Prank of “John Phoenix.” Tho Secretary of the Navy lately sen! a noto to naval officers asking them for suggestions as to a elningo of uniform. This puts somo old-timers in mind of n similar request made by Jeff Davis, when Secretary of War miller Franklin Pierce, Lieut. Derby, alias John Phoenix, tho first great American joker, was so fortunate as to get one. In reply he sent a projxwition for having a two inch iron ring appended by a stout piece of leather to tho seat of each enlisted man’s trousers. Long and formal spec ifications demonstrated tho utility of this ring, the use of which would incontesta bly place our army at tlio head of tho military bodies of tho world. Each officer, instead of a sword, was to early a long white asli pole, with a hook at one end. By hooking this pole into the stern-ring of a private ho could bo lield in line of battle, or caught when ho I l ied to run away. Men in tho artillery service eonlil, by moans of the ring, bo used for draught pnrposos, and in tho cavalry could bo locked to other rings in the saddle and kept from falling off. Lieut. Derby was a good draughtsman, and lie illustrated liis proposition. Offi cers were pictured catohing infantry stragglers and forcing them into tho ranks, dragoous as padlocked to their saddles and artillerymen with onmion prolongs hitched to their rings and draw ing huge pieces up steep heights. This extraordinary proposition caused considerable fun among the War Depart ment clerks. It finally reached Jeff Davis, who was too ‘ ‘ Scotchy ” to be amused at it, and he regarded it as an in sult. At his instance charges and speci fications wore drawn up and a out-and dried court martial was ordered. Then Marcy, (Secretory of State, heard of the matter and advised Davis to lot it drop as ho would lie laughed at. Davis saw the wisdom of the advice and Derby did not have to suffer for his joke. His “proposition and specifications for a change of uniform” are yet among the archives of the War Department. About Titles. Rev. I’enstook who insists upon being addressed by his title, and who never accords tho same honor to any of the Judges, Colonels or Professors in the Lirno Kiln-Club, suddenly bobbed up and offered tho following resolution: ' ‘Resolved, Dat judging a dog-fight or a jumping-match does not license a cull’d man to assume (le title of Judge wi'd a big J; and Resolved, Dat while white wasliin’ an’ stove-blackin’ am purfeshuns to be looked up to an' respected, do puss’ns fullerin’ sieli purfeshuns am not necessa rily Professors wid a big P: and Resolved, Dat bossin’ a job of diggin’ a cellar or fillin’ an' ice house doan’ en title de bosser to call hisself Colonel.” Penstock was hardly down before the thirteen Professors, seventeen Judges and twenty-eight Colonels in the club wore on their feet and demanding to Vie heard. They felt tho insult and were prepared to resent it, and Penstock was seen to grow pale at the rate of a mile a minute. Brother Gardner finally se cured silence after continuous rapping, and then said: “Will do Rev. Penstock please explain how he cum by liis title ?” “Yes, sail. Ize a preacher, sah.” “ Was you regularly ordained ?” “Yes sail.” “Whoordained you?” “Two of de deacons of de Fust Baptist Church of Richmond.” There was a general yell over his re ply, and the worthy member lost his temper anil rushed from the room. “My friends,” kiudly observed the President, “envy ullus overreaches her self. H it seems to please a fellow mortal to call him Professor or Judge or Major or Gineral, keep it up. It costs nuflin, an’ keeps him good-natured. It sounds much better to read in de papers dat Prof. Ginalong Jones am at present ongaged in cartin’ out ashes fur Col. I lay ball Smith, dan to menshun dat ole nigger Jones has struck a job of de gin ger beer peddler. Let dignity go wid your titles, howeber. Professors am outer placo in a white man’s chicken coop, an’ de Judge who lets his wife go b'arfut will appear powerful small in de eyes of his nay burs. Wo will now strike a closin’ attitooil an’ disjourn de meet in’.’’—Detroit Free I'rcss. The Education of Girls. A little paper called Girl TAfe , in Now York, contains in its initial number an interesting letter from Miss Louisa M. Alcott, in which, after expressing ap proval of the objects of the paper, she Bays: “I can hope that with the new and freer ideas now coming up some of 1 he good old ways may also be restored. The respect shown to the aged, modest women, simple dress, home-keeping daughters learning from good mothers the domestic arts, so much better than the too early frivolity and freedom so many girls enjoy now. The little daugh ter sent me by my dying sister has given me a renewed interest in the education of girls, and a fresh anxiety concerning the sort of society she is to outer by and by. Health comes first and an early knowledge of truth, obedience, and self control. Then such necessary lessons as all must loam, and later such accom plishments as taste and talont lead her lo desire. A profession or taste to fall back upon in time of need, that she may not bo dependent or too proud to work for her bread. 'Experience is the best teacher, and with good health, good principles, and a gfiod education any girl can make her own way and be the braver and better for the exertion and discipline. No lato hours, unwholesome ! pleasures, and dress, no mixing of school | and flirtation, but simple amusements, | daily duties, and a purpose in life to keen them girls at heart even while preparing for the work and happiness of womou.” Ter now law in Arkansaw fixes 640 rods as the legal distance between a church and a saloon. Some men make this lap in marvelously quick time.— 1 Peoria Transcript.