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X )ftl| PUBLISHED EVERY THURBDA' -A»- JBB2JL.LTO N, Gr A. BY JOHN BLATS. Tißiis-41.00 per anium 50 cents for ah months; 25 cents forthree months. Parties away from Bellton are requested to send their names with such amounts of money as they can pare, from 2oc. to $1 TRUSTING. BY C ABB IK V. SHAW. I am thinking of you, darliig, As I watch the dying day, While the twilight dews are falling And the light fades alow away. I shall think of you forever I When the autumn leaves srexed I shall feel you onoe more near me, I shall hear the words yon said. When the winter snows are dropping; "When the buds are born again, And the April skies are weeping, As in pity, for my pain, I aha 1 think of you, and ever. Till the close of life’s bright day, w When the dews of death are falling And the light fades slow away. The Pilot’s Story. We had grown up together, as it were, Mollie and I, our parents being near neighbors, and—which does not always follow—firm friends as well. They were poor, and I suspect that fact had much to do with their friendship, for oppor tunities were always turning up for help ing one another; and I have often noticed that, when near neighbors are well off and have no need for mutual help there is very seldom any friend ship between them ; there is more apt to be jealousy and competition. Our parents being such good friends, it naturally result’d that Mollie and I followed their example. We went to school together, read together, played together ; and, somehow, when Mollie was 18 and I 20, we agreed to travel to gether all our lives, and were very happy in that arrangement; in fact, no other would have seemed right or natural, either to us or our parents. From the earliest days of my boyhood I had a fondness for the water, haunting the palatial steamboats that floated on the great Mississippi river, on whose banks nestled the city in which we dwelt, and, at the period to which I am about to refer, 1 had just secured a position as pilot on a small freight steamer. It was not much of a position, to be sure, nor was there much of a salary at tached to it; but, small as it was, Mollie and I decided that we could make it an swer for two people, neither of them ex travagant or unreasonable; beside which, I had hopes of better times to come, as I had received words of com mendation from my employers, and promises of speedy promotion. So, early one bright morning, having obtained a day’s leave of absence, Mol lie and I were married, and, stepping into a carriage I had hired for the occa sion, we started off, having decided on a day’s excursion to a celebrated cave near by, this being all the wedding trip we could allow ourselves ; not that we cared in the leapt, however; we were too happy to be disturbed by any shortcom ings of sum or purse. w We had scarcely driven beyond our own street, when we were brought to a halt. A messenger, whom I recognized as belonging to our steamboat company, hailed me. “ Here is a note for you from the Superintendent. ” Thus it ran: Am sorry to have to recall your leave for to day, but you must immediately go on board the Mobilia, which is ready to start up the river. The pilot is too ill to attend to duty, and you are appointed to take his place for the present. “ There goes our wedding trip all to smash I ” said I, as Mollie read the or der. *' Why so ? ” she asked. “You see I must go into th# pilot house of the Mobilia.” “ Very well,” she replied. “We will just go up the river instead of to the cave. Drive on, Rob ; let us go down to the wharf in state. ” “ But you can’t go in the pilot-house with me/lit tie goose.” “Os course not; but I can sit on the deck outside,” laughed Mollie, “ and we can cast languishing glances at each other.” And so it came to pass that I took possession of the Mobilia’s pilot-house, my heart glowing with love and pride ; with love, for there, just below me, on the little forward deck, sat my sweet bride ; with pride, because the Mobilia was one of the finest of the beautiful floating palaces of the Mississippi, and to pilot such a one had for years been the height of my ambition. The steamer w’as fitted up with a double cabin, one above the other—the upper one opening upon a small deck, reaching out toward the bow, near the center of which, on a raised platform, was placed the pilot-house. This deck was always occupied by passengers, and tliis morning it was particularly crowd ed, for the boat was heavily laden with people taking advantage of the beauti ful weather to make an excursion up the river. Some rough fellows jostled against Mollie’s chair after a while, and she rose and passed down into the lower cabin, “to get a drink of water,” she whis pered to me as she passed ; but I sus pect it was really to prevent the burst ing of the thunder-cloud she saw gath ering on my brow. I saw that the insolent fellows made no attempt to follow my dear one, so I gave myself up to my own happy thoughts, and, looking out on the far distant, peaceful shores of the great river, over whose placid bosom we were moving so swiftly, there rose from my heart a glad, silent hymn of rejoicing. But suddenly a cry broke forth from the cabin behind me that effectually changed the current of my thoughts : ‘ ‘Fire ! fire! fire!" A horrible cry at all tijnes, but most horrible of all when it rings forth in the midst of gay, unsus picious hundreds floating in fancied se curity in the midst of the waters. The North: Georgian. VOL. 111. An instant’s awe-struck silena# suc ceeded that awful cry, and then three hundred voices, of men, women, and children, united in fearful, heart-rend ing shrieks for help. “jFire ! fire ! fire 1” Aye ! there was no mistake about it, nor false alarm. No one could tell how it hod commenced, but there it was creeping along the roof of the upper cabin, with the deadly flames greedily hipping up every scrap of awning and curtain they could find upon their way, ever and anon darting long tongues of flame down to the floor to clasp the light chairs and tables and settees in their fiery embrace. As well seek with a sieve to scoop up the waters of the great river on which • the Mobilia floated, as to try to subdue the roaring, devouring enemy that had seized upon the ill-fated steamer. The people darted down from the blazing upper cabin to the forward deck below, where as yet the foe had made but little headway, and there our brave Captain—who was that rara avis “the right man in the right place”—suc ceeded in partially quelling the panic. * • Keep quiet ! ” he ordered— ‘ ‘ keep quiet, and stay just where you are, or I will not answer for the lives of any of you ! The steward will provide every one of you with life-preservers; but there is no reason for any person to go overboard; not yet awhile, at any rate, unless suicide is desired. Keep quiet. I say! Pilot, head her straight for the land, half a mile ahead.”' (We were at least twice that distance from the main land on either shore.) “Engineer, put on all steam—crowd her on ! We will run a race with the foul fiend who has boarded the Mobilia. ” There was an instant’s pause, and then, with a groan and a surge, with the timbers creaking and straining, and the windows rattling as though in mortal terror, the Mobilia gathered herself up to run her last race. Each passing moment the flames crept on and on and on, never pausing in their terrible march. Fortunately, they leaped upward rather than downward, so that there was as yet but little danger to the panic-stricken crowd on the lower dock. But the pilot-house was directly in the track of the flames, and already their advance guard was beginning to sur round me, singeing my hair and eye prows. Suddenly there was a murmur among the people below, and the next instant a light form flew up the ladder leading to the little deck by the pilot-house, and, before I could say a word, my precious Mollie had thrown open the door, and, closing it again, stood at my side. “Mollie, Mollie!” I cried. “For heaven’s sake go back, go back! Don’t you see how the flariles arc creeping to ward us here ? Go, go, my dearest, my own true wife ! Don’t unman me by making mo fear for you. Go down where I can feel that you have a chance of safety.” “Bob Thorne ! ” she exclaimed, with her eyes looking bravely straight into mine, “ am I your wife ? ” “Surely, surely, thank God!” I ut tered. ‘ ‘ But go, go! ” “My post is here, just as much as yours is,” she answered, firmly. “ I will stay here, Rob, and if you die, I will die, too. We will make our wedding trip together, my dear husband, even if it be into the next world. Keep to your duty, mil never mind me, Rob. There is hope for us yet, and, if it comes to the worst, why"—and a brave, sweet smile crept round her lips—“we are still together, dear love 1 ” , . 1 saw it was of no use to urge nor any more, and, besides, something swelled in my throat so that I could not utter a word, so I just gripped the wheel hard, and looked right ahead, though every thing looked very dim just then, and my devoted darling stood calmly at my side, watching the flames that were creeping closer and closer upon us, leaping around the pilot-house like hungry de mons impatient for their prey. “Thorne,” shouted the Captain, “ come down. Dower her and yourself over the rail. We’ll catch you. You cannot stay there any longer. We are very near the shore now, and the rest we’ll take our chances for.” It was an awful temptation. I knew that, did I follow the Captain’s advice, both Mollie and I would be safe, for I was a good swimmer, and, should the boat-not reach the shore, I could save her and myself ; but then, if I did this, would I not deliberately expose every one of the 300 souls on board to destruc tion ? True, the boat might keep to her course during the short space remaining to be passed, merely from the rapid im petus of her approach ; but, again, she might not—and then ? 1 looked at my dear wife inquiringly. “ Stick to your post, Bob !” she said. “ No, sir I” I shouted back; “I shall stick to my post; I shall stay here till I run her clear on the shore, or die first.” “My brave Rob—my noble Bob I” murmured Mollie. But alas for my devoted Mollie! alas for me! Not the pilot-house only, but the entire deck around it was now sur -1 rounded by flames. It was too late to ! lower ourselves to the deck below ! The 1 railing was all ablaze. I My arms, released from their guardi | anship over the wheel, clasped Mollie close to my heart; but my eyes and , brain were busv seeking for some mode of escape from death that seemed each i instant more certain. 1 All at once my eyes rested on the i paddle-box. It had not taken fire yet; 1 the flying spray had saved it. I had I only to dash across the flame-swept j deck, and fling open a little door in its i side, which afforded ready access to the I wheels, to lower my precious charge to BELLTON, BANKS COUNTY, GA., DECEMBER 23, 1880. the water beneath in safety. No sooner thought of than done. “Take my hand, Mollie," I said, “ and run with me. We shall be saved, after all. Wrap your shawl across your mouth. Now, now—run ! ” Leaping down on the deck, we sped, band in hand, to the paddle-box. I dashed open the little door, and, push ing Mollie inside, passed in myself, and drew the door close again, shutting out the eager flames whose angry roar pur sued us as we dropped gently down into the shallow’ water and crept out from beneath the wheel. Our appearance was hailed with a shout of delight and relief, for all had given us up us lost, and we must have been but for the heaven-inspired thought of the wheel-house. Now that the danger was over, poor little Mollie fainted ; and no wonder. But she soon came out all right; and, as the people began to find out that the “bravo little girl,” ns they called her, was really a bride of only a few hours, anil that we were on our wedding trip, there was a regular ovation, followed up by nine deafening cheers. The island upon which the Mobilia had been beached was low, sandy and uninhabited, altogether not an in viting place tor 300 people, without a particle of shelter, to pass half a day upon, yet even in this plight there were few grumblers in our midst. There was no room in our hearts for any feeling but that of thankfulness for our preservation from a fearful death, and, after the peril of the last hour or two, it seemed a small matter to wait patiently for the coming of th# relief boats that we knew were sure to arrive before many hours were past. Though some miles from any large city, we knew’ that the burning steamer must have been seen from the farm houses scattered sparsely along the river bank, and that from these notices of th#, disaster would be sent to the nearest town. And so it was. Before nightfall several small steamboats arrived, and, after that, but a few hours elapsed be fore we found ourselves safely at home, and our adventurous wedding trip at an end. But its results were not ended, by any means. The terrible nervous strain I had endured, combined with the se vere burns on my face and hands, threw me prostrate on a bed of sickness. When I was able to report for duty again, two weeks later, I learned that a noble gift from the Mobilia’s grateful passengers—no less a sum than $2,000 —lay in the bank awaiting my order. Not only this, but the steamboat com pany had voted me a gold medal and the appoiutment of pilot of the finest steamer on their line. Years have gone by since my brave wife and I had so nearly journeyed out of the w’orld on our wedding trip. From pilot I have come to bo Captain and part owner of one of those beautiful floating palaces that used so to excite my envy ; but never do I pass without a sickening shudder the little island where the Mobilia won the stakes in the lost rnceß-a race of fire against steam, of life against death. Fish for Food. During the last twenty years chemists and physiologists have been studying the nutritious value of various foods. They have advanced so far as to com pute the relative values of the common articles of diet. These have beep so ar ranged in tables that the bread-winner of the household may see at a glance what food will give the most nourishment to his family. A prominent subject of those studies has been the common food fishes. At the recent meeting of the Ameican Asso ciation of Science, Professor Atwater, a chemist, gave some of the results of these experimental studies. In one hundred pounds of the flesh of fresh cod there are eighty-three pounds of water, and only seventeen pounds of solids. In the same weight of salmon there are sixty-six and one-half pounds of water, and thirty-three and one-half pounds of solids. The meaning of these figures is that a family eating one hun dred pounds of cod would be nourished by only one-sixth of it, while if they feed on th# same weight of salmon, they would find one-third nutritious. Next in nutritive value to salmon come fat halibut, shad, and whitefish. Then follow mackerel, bluesfih, lean halibut, striped bass, flounder, and lake trout The order in which they are placed indi cates their relative value as food. Lean beef is less nutritious than salmon, as it contains seventy-five per cent, of water and twenty-five per cept. of solids. While fish is highly nutritious and healthy, there is a somewhat exag gerated notion that it is particu larly valuable for brain food on ac count of the large amount of phos phorus which it contains. The notion owes some of its popularity to a remark alleged to have been made by the late Professor Agassiz. “When I wish to be very brilliant,” he is reported as saying, “I eat fish for dinner/’ But Professor Atwater says that the notion is not founded upon fact. While fish is excel lent there is no evidence to prove that the flesh of fish is richer in phosphorus than are other meats.— Youth s Compan ion. The Fall Mall Gazette says England can no longer furnish her own butter, because the dairy maid, with her pail, is a thing of the past. Farmers’ wives and daughters now think dairy work a degra dation. Dairy farming in France is a great and profitable industry, the daugh ter of a dairy farmer often receiving a dower of $20,000 on her wedding day. Much of it is the product of her own labor. SOUTHERN NEWS. Good tobacco grows in White county, Ark. At Little Rock the telephone has 170 Subscribers. ‘ Land is selling in Sumter county, Ga., at sls per acre. Land in Louisana can be bought at $2 to $25 per acre. The total bonded debt of the city of New Orleans is $15,929,688. There has been 140 rainy days in Jack sonville, Fla., this year. At Galveston an estimate puts the cotton crop at 5,557,000 bales. The receipts of cotton at Savannah net over half a million bales. At Bay St. Louis, Miss., Conrad Hoff man picked 5,000 oranges from one tree. Morgan City, Louisiana, shipped 180,- 000 oysters to New Orleans in one week. Cleveland county, N. C., will consume 1,000 Tennessee hogs next year. Many citizens of Biloxi, Miss., have not yet gathered their oranges. There are seventy-five inmates in the deaf and dumb asylum at Austin, Tex. Ten thousand children attended school In Hinds county, Miss., during the past year. Receipts of cotton at Wilmington, N. C., during November, 30,430 bales, against 18,471 bales in November, 1879. The debt of Columbus, Ga., is $540,- •800. Only $26,000 of old bonds remains to be exchaged for five per cents. Adams county, Mississippi, contains ’22,906 inhabitants, of which 18,059 are colored. There were 4,255 letters mailed at Birmingham, Ala., in the first seven days .of this month. Tobacco outlook has increased the val ue of timbered land in Buncombe coun ty, North Carolina, fifty j>er cent in three years. Arkansas has 3,635,000 acres of land to give to actual settlers. The State Land -office receipts are SIO,OOO in excess of ex penses. Joseph Sewell, on fifteen acres of Geor gia upland that had been in cultivation fifty years, made eleven bales of cotton averaging over 500 pounds apiece. The bulk of the Louisiana cane crop is uninjured, and it is thought that the crop will be the largest made in nearly twenty years, reaching 225,000 hogs heads. Darien, Ga., timber merchants intend doing a larger business this year than they have done since the war. Official returns of the census from all the counties of Georgia, except three, show a net increase in the last decade of 527,557. Counties in Georgia having the largest population : Fulton, 49,515 ; Chatham, 45,110; Richmond, 34,569; Bibb, 27,140; Burke, 27,127 ; Floyd, 24,418; Houston, 22,412. One of the most valuable features of the Memphis sewerage system is the en tire abolition of privy vaults, death deal ing nuisances in large cities. R. Y. McAden, a Charlotte banker, is erecting a cotton factory in Gaston coun ty, N. C., to have 7,000 spindles. The seventh cotton factory in that county. A yellow brocade silk dress, 127 years old. is shown in the industrial exhibition at Charleston. The silk was spun in South Carolina and woven in England for Mrs. Pinckney, wife of the Chief Jus tice of the Province of South Carolina. About 19,000 cattle have been received in Farquier county, Va., in the last three months. They are brought from Tennessee and southwest Virginia and fattened for the Baltimore and Washing ton markets. At the rate of $24 per month the 30 convicts now on hand will bring a reve nue to Greene county, Ala., of $8,640. It is said that the convicts will be well clothed and kindly treated, but will be required to do good work. The report of the State Auditor of North Carolina shows that the valuation of land has increased in eight years $13,- 550,000, or twenty per cent. The in creased value of town lots is $6,000,000, or fifty per cent. Texas is entitled to the banner which she gave to Georgia four years ago for polling the largest Democratic majority in a presidential election. Tilden had over 80,000 majority in Georgia and about 40,000 in Texas. Hancock has 6%000 in Texas and about 35,000 in Georgia. It is said to appear, from the tax books, that the value of property in eleven counties of Georgia (Columbia, Harris, I Thomas, Walker, Elbert, Randolph, Chatham, Cherokee, Hancock, Houston, and Monroe) in ’74 was $46,673,679, and in 188 ', $36,188,880. Thia is thought to show the correctness of Hon. A. H. Stephens’ statement that the people of Georgia have been growing poorer. How to Make (loffe#. Select with critical discrimination the best of genuine Mooha; or, in default of this, Ola Government Java. Never buy it as roasted and ground in our stores. In these processes and in the keeping some of tire finest of the aroma must necessarily be lost. Boast your own coffee and grind your own coffee your self. Boast it in an iron or other stew pan, which is thoroughly cleaned and scoured after each using. It will serve greatly to retain the aroma to throw in a piece of the sweetest of butter, about the size of a chestnut When this is melted it will throw around each particle of coffee a thin, buttery film, which will do much to prevent the escape of the deli cate coffee bouquet Keep stirring con stantly. Allow to remain until the coffee is a fine, rich brown, bnt not until it browns to any blackness. Grind to small grounds, but do not make the very com mon mistake of grinding to a powder. Place these grounds in an earthen, or at least porcelain-lined, bowl. Cover with boiling water. Set on a warm place on the stove, but not hot enough to make it boil, and allow to infuse forhalf an hour. Now strain. We have now on exquisite coffee flavoring. A very delicate coffee flavoring may be obtained by another process, as fol lows: Boast and grind your coffee as di rected in a previous recipe. Now reduce to grounds, and throw these grounds directly into the cream before it is sot on the fire. Now, by the time the cream is heated up to the boiling point, the whole mass will be pervaded by a very delicate coffee bouquet. Os course the cream must lie carefully straified before you proceed to freeze. It will strike the housewife at first reading as simply incredible that the full aroma of the coffee berry can be extract ed without any application whatever of fire. The experiment will delight as well as surprise all ladies of intelligence and taste who once put this to the test. The cold process was first devised sim ply with a view of preventing, as fin- as possible, the escape of the aroma of the coffee berry, which is as volatile as it is delicate, anil all ordinary processes more or less sacrifice. Take five ounces of best Mocha or Old Government Java, roast and grind to a coarse powder in a way laid down in the previous recipe, pour the grounds into a glass bottle or decanter; pour on a sufficient quantity of cold water to cover the coffee, stop the bottle or decanter close, set in a warm situation for thirty thirty hours; now filter the infusion by passing it through some fine lawn or blotting paper placed on a glass funnel or strum through muslin. This process has been tried with hot water as well as with cold, and, while it contradicts all prevailing impressions to say so, this still remains the fact, that the cold water produces the best result. Let each housekeeper try both the hot and cold water process, and decide for herself which result gratifies her the most. It will be observed that the delicate and highly aromatic infusions obtained by any of the foregoing processes will be fully available for hot breakfast cof fee, for ice-cold coffee, for coffee-ice, or for coffee ice-cream. Philadelphia Times. How to ‘Write Well. We believe that the whole of this method is a mistake; that there is no single system of mecanique for writing, and that a child belonging to the edu cated classes would be taught much better and more easily if, after being once enabled to make and recognize written letters, it were let alone, and praised or chidden, not for its method, but its result. Let the boy hold his pen as he likes, and make his strokes as he likes, and write at the pace he likes— hurry, of course, being discouraged— but insist strenuously and persist ently that his copy shall be legi ble, shall be clean, and shall ap proach the good copy set before him, namely, a well-written letter, not a rubbishy text on a single line, writ ten as nobody but a writing-master ever did or will write to the world’s end. He will make a muddle at first, but he will soon make a passable imitation of his copy, and ultimately develop a char acteristic and strong hand, which may be bod or good, but will not be either meaningless, undecided, or illegible. This hand will alter, of course, very greatly as he grows older. It may alter at 11, because it is at that age that the range of the eye is fixed, and short sight betrays itself; and it will alter at 17, because then the system of tak ing notes at lecture, which ruins most hands, will have cramped and tem porarily spoiled the writing ; but the character will form itself again, and will never be deficient in clearness or decision. The idea that it is to be clear will have stamped itself, and con fidence will not have been destroyed by worrying little rules about attitude and angle and shape which the very irritation of the pupils ought to con vince the teachers are, from some per sonal peculiarity, inapplicable. The lad will write, as he does anything else that he cares to do, os well as he can, and with a certain efficiency and speed. Al most eveiy letter he gets will give him some assistance, and the master’s re monstrances on his illegibility will be attended to like any other caution given in the curriculum. “ Learning to Write," in Popular Science Monthly. Xoftli «, > Puauratn Evert Thvmdat at BELLTON, GEORGIA: RATES OF SUBSOJUPTJOJT. One year (52 uumbera), $1.00; six inoaths 1."6 numbers) SO eeate; three months (13 numbers), 26 cents. Ollie# in th# Smith building, #ast of th# depot. NO. 5L FACTS FOB THE CURIOUS. It is said that no rhymes exist in the English language for the words silver, • orange, month, kiln, bilge and gulf. It has been said thaUman is the only animal that makes use of tools, but the statement has been controverted, oh- • servation having shown that other ani‘ mals do occasionally employ tools. This is especially the case with monkeys, which in confinement > have been ob served to use stones to crack nuts, and sticks ox leather straps to draw ’ toward them objects which lay beyond their reach. / Shakbpeabh uses more different words than any other writer -in the English language. Writers on the statistics of words inform us that he uses about 15,000 different words in his plays and sonnets, while there is no other writer who uses so many as 10,000. Some few writers use as many as 12,000 words, but tlie great majority of writers do not em ploy more than 8,000. Li conversation but from 3,000 to 5,000 different words ore used. Ih the city of Dublin there are 24,000 families, averaging five members, who are each living in a single room. The death-rate of the city is 40 per 1,000, which is equivalent to 60 per 1,000 in the tenement-house districts. These two facts, the enormous number of fami lies living in a single room, and the high death-rate, prove that the horrors and dangers of Irish distress have not been exaggerated. These families of five, shut up each in a single room, depend for support upon wages of from 10 to 17 English shillings a week. Tub eade with which the Esqui maux of St. Lawrence island can see to a great distance, and the marvelous way in which news is transmitted from the most distant pointe, is really wonderful. A native will describe the dress and ap pearance of a man whois approaching at a great distance. A white man, even a sharp-eyed sailor, can just make out that it is a human figure. So if anything occiu’s on the coast, if a piece of wreck comes ashore, the full particulars will be known in a short time 1,000 miles from the place where it occurred. It is a wonderful system of telegraphy—one native rushing off to pass the news to another, and thus speeding intelligence over hundreds of miles in a single day. From the examination of a book com piled 2,000 years B. C. it has been as certained, what has long bebn supposed, that Chaldea was the parent land of astronomy; for it is found, from this compilation and from other bricks, that the Babylonians catalogued the stesS, and distinguished and named the con stellations. They observed the seventh day as one of rest. They invented the sun-dial to mark the movements of the heavenly bodies, the water-clock to measure time, and they speak in this work of the spots on the sun, a fact they could only have known by the aid of telescopes, which it is supposed they possessed, from observations that they have noted down of the rising of Venus and the fact that Layard found a crystal lens in the ruins of Nineveh. These j “ bricks” contain an account of the del ' uge, substantially the same as the nar rative in the Bible. They disclose that houses and lands were then sold, leased and mortgaged, that money was loaned nt interest, and that the market garden ers, to use an American phrase, “worked on shares;” that the farmer, when plow ing with his oxen, beguiled his labor with homely songs, two of which have been found, and connect tliis very re mote civilization with the usages of to-day. A Diver’s Training. Before a man becomes an expert diver he must undergo a course of severe phys- I ical training. The atmospheriepressure on the surface is fifteen pounds tor every i square inch of the body, and on the av ■ erago man is somethiiiglike fifteen tons, I but the outside and inside pressure beirnf i equal, this immense weight is unnoticed. At every thirty-four feet of descent under j water this pressure is increased one at- I mosphere, or the additional pressure of j fifteen pounds to the square inch, and as it is absolutely necessary to have the air pressure in the armor fully equal to that of the water, some idea can be had j of what the diver must withstand, even at the moderate depth of thirty-four feet, although the inhaling of this compressed ' air in a measure relieves th# unpleasant ! sensation. When the distance is in creased to a hundred or a hundred and fifty feet, the sensation becomes almost unendurable—the blood starts from the eyes, ears, mouth, and even from th# pores of th# skin, and on returning to the surface extreme exhaustion is the re sult. Some men are so constituted phys ically that they cannot remain under water at all. The greatest depth that is ever attained is one hundred and fifty feet, and then the most experienced diver can remain at this point but five or I six minutes without serious injury. , Divers go to this depth only to secure ar ticles of great value, remaining long 1 enough to attach a chain or rope. At a hundred feet an old diver can remain about an hour, and at fifty feet from four | to six hours, according to the strength I of the diver. Miss Flora Shabon, daughter of 1 Senator Sharon, is betrothed to Sir Thomas Hesketh, a wealthy English- I man, who, in the course of a tour round I the world in his steam yacht, has been making a stop at San Francisco. That gigantic floating palace, the Li vadia, made, in passing from Cork to Gibraltar, upward of seventeen miles on hour, while there was a total lack of any disagreeable motion, her “pitch” being but one degree. This may lead to a great change in ship-buikling.