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A SffADOJT IN THE VALLEY.
There's a shadow in the valley
.Where the lilies lie asleep,
Where the laughing waters mnrrour,
And the sweet flags droop and weep,
There’s a shadow in the valley
And a sigh floats in the air.
Like the breath of angels resting
O’er the fair scene mirrored there.
Such a shadow iu the valley
Brings a burden to ray heart;
Cannot you. too, understand It?
Ha eyounfaver fet.it smart?
1 have wctehed tbe lilies !y ng,
I h ve seen the sweet flags, weep,
And have wished that I, when d iug,
Might be Lid wit ; them to sleep.
l bave heard tbe breezes murmur
Low soft things within this vale,
I i-ave seen the b'acltbirds hover.
O’er tbe li ies fair and pale,
1 have seen a ray of sunlight
Linger ’mong the reeds at piav;
But the silont i. reaping shadow * »
Chased the memory sprite away.
Like tbe human heart, o’ersha Towed
By a sorrow swift and deep,
Lie llie sweet flags and the lilies
In the shadowy vale asleep.
T ere’s a melaucholy sweetness
Iu tl.e perfume-laden air. \ 4
And tbe tall reeds seem to whisper,
“You’ll find sorrow everywh re.”
‘Tie owns ever so bmny acres of land, Cabni.
the San Benito mine and more horses, cat- - ~
tie and sheep than you kin count. . But The diversified crowds of people that
here comes one of his ranchmen, and I will sur » e through the streets of Cabul agree in
turn you over to him.’* ‘ j a way. At night when the narrow bazars
The driver explained the circumstances are , aglow with the reflected light of oil in
of his “freight” to the ranchman, who re-{jj^ e . m ? ta - W1C ^ lamps, cotton
quested the old man to accompany him to bating m earthenware saucers, or the wood
“the liouse, ’.’ and the latter patiently com-j fifes-of the cooks, the Ferghanee lias no
plied with the request, leading by the hand ! objection to sit side by side with, the Bok-
a bright little boy. [ harian on the low, open verandah of tiie
They soon reached “the house,” a low \ co °k s shop: and on the same platf«rm,
and straggling Collection of buildings, and Wlt h the sect lmur flesh-pot in the centre,
were ushered into the presence of its own-; containing little lumps of meat skewered
er, a rail and line-looking man, with bis: ll P on a st iek, representatives of twenty dif-
face.covered by a heavy'heard''and his eyes ferent Mohammedan nitionaiiiies are con-
shaded by a wide slouched hat, who was U n } t0 sittogether upon terms of equality,
seated in a raw-hide chair reading a news- an< ^ a_terward to exchange the hookah and
paper and smoking a long pipe. lie list- j national love song, and the romance of
ened in silence and with apparent indiflier- ; chivalry and theft. Our native agents
ence to the story the ranchman told him. I have lived in ( abul, representing the
“What is your name he asked, ad-' ernmeDt of India m a fitful fashion, have
dressing the old man. j hinted at crimes being frequently committ-
• ‘John Byrd, sir.” : <;t * * n bazars; and as the Cabul woman
“Where are you from ?" ! * 9 celebrated in Eastern song for her ey;
“From Indiana ” j her height, her olive skin, her long black
“Ah ! Any family with you?” j hair an(1 her gallantry, though never' for
“My daughter, Mrs. Worsham, and her • * ier * ove w aching, it is easy to see how
child.” such a hotbed of unthinking passion as Ca-
“ Widow, I suppose.’' i bul is, might become a hotbed also for as-
“Her husband is dead, sir,” patiently re- sassination and counter assassination. I he
plied Byrd, although he resented the tone babuls have no known police, and it is be-
of tiiese inquiries. ! “eve l that the inhabitants would object
| •‘First husband or second 9 '’ i to the introduction of conscientious individ-
I “Mr. Worsham’was her second husband. I llais of that class ’ because they would inter
file had been married to a • drunken, I feru with aaclcnt prerogatives. Troops
j worthless vagabond whom I was compelled are employed as revenue collectors at thf-
j t 0 ( | r i ve a wav.” j I erent times of the year, and, as they col-
! “Quite right. Mr. Bvrd—exactly right. ; ,ected revenue for themselves as well as for
! What became of the Vagabond f” * i the State > the Cabuli cherishes a hatred
■ “I don’t know.” I toward all revenue collectors unless heliap-
! “Died, 1 suppose, ft is of no consc- pens to be one liimscll.
4 , , . . , , , ! quence what became of him. Then a di- j Like other Oriental towns, Cabul is filthy.
The front door of a neat house, of mod-, ^ Qrce fohowe(J r j Sanitation is not even a dream with the iu-
erate pretensions, just outside of an In- nygg; s - r . i insisted- upon a divorce habitants. There are four principal roads,
diana town, was hastily opened as mglit : ainsl daughter’s wish, and she mar-1 which are from thirty to forty feet broad,
was coming on and a man was thrust no- VVorslmm, a well-to-do man. But and these are considered the handsomest
lent y into the street, or rather the road Iw , Hu( . k fa3lened ’ upon us a „j ncver let streets. One is the Great Bazar or Ghar-
rhe man who n as ejected w a? votrng, j£ r Worsham died insolvent, and one (-utta, composed of one-story mud houses,
and might have been handsome had it not | ri , vci . se after anot i ler sw( , pt away my little which have -verandahs, siightly elevated
heett for the dissipated appearan o. of his j propeft y an< j j was f or e (; d to come out here : atmve open gutters, opening full upon the
features and the untidiness of Ins dress. t0 befrfn life atgain. It is a hard task, sir, streets. These verandahs become shops
Al the moment he. was evidently intojii-; olJ nm ^ j in fee dayt i me , and are stored with sped-
cat *®, , . . , . . , <o , , I “I should say so. You ought to have i mens of all the fiu-s, silks, and wool and
I he man who ejected him was an elder- reinain€(i amon , r your friends. What boy! hair cloths that Central Asia produces. In
ly gentleman, whose face was red with \ jg that = • J ! the evenings three or four cronies sit on a
honest dKhgnaUoii, winch also siniwed it-j oy Iv grandson,” faintly replied Byrd, mat in almost every shop, set a lamp in
self in Ins voice and his iang ia t who was weary of this style of question- their midst, fold their feet, put on their
Albert Tf-akely was a lawyer of ability I. • skullcaps, and smoke and tell stories till
and promise when he married John h.ytd s : ‘„ Son of the vagal)01 . d> or of Worsham?'’ J midnight. Another great bazar, leading
daughter Mary, although lie had alreai y | .qy bert is tlie aon of uly dang hter’s first! from the Western Gate to the Bala Hissar,
m. husband. I is monopolized-by cooks and butchers.
Reunited.
On the 7th inst. a party of hunters left
New Albany, Indiana, for the ceiebrated
Pigeon Roost, in Scott county, where it is
said, acres of timbers are covered nightly
with wild pigeons. For the past seventy-
five years this noted locality has been a
roosting place for pigeous, and millions of
these birds congregate there nightly durin«
the seasons of their visits to this section of
the country. They fly away in the mornings
to their feeding places iu the woods and
fields of Indiana and Kentucky, distant
from the roost in many instances from one
hundred to three hundred miles, returning
again at night, the arrivals often continuing
up to midnight. The timber on the thous
ands of acres covered by this roost is broken
down badly, large limbs being snapped off
like reeds by the accumulated weight of
the birds upon them. Throughout the en
tire night there is heard the cracking and
crashing of limbs, the hum and flurry and
drmmming of wings, and the explosion of
firearms and the confusion and bcdiamic
thrashing sounds caused by people beating
the birds from the trees with long poles.
Thousands of pigeons are killed nightly,
but all this slaughter seems to make no di-.
minution in the vast flocks that congregate
at this roost This Scott county pigeon
roost is historic ground. It was in this
neighborhood that the most barbarous
slaughter that darkened the pioneer days of
Southern Indiana occmired.' In Septem
ber, 1812, a party of thirty Potowattomie
Indians made an invasion into thi3 section
of the State. In the Pigeon Roost neigh
borhood was a settlement with a total pop
ulation of thirty souls. The Indians attacked
this settlement killing autl scalping twenty-
four of the thirty settlers, most of them
women and children, and then burning the
bodies of their victims in the cabins, which,
they tired. • Mrs. Beadle and her two chil
dren, and three members of a family named
Collins, were all that escaped. Mrs. Bea
dle carried the news to the settlers in Clark
county, and next day a large company of
the militia started in pursuit of the savages,
coining up with them just as they reached
the north hank of the Muscatitic River in
their canoes. The river was at high flood
and the pursuers, having no boats, were
compelled to give up the pursuit. This
was the last incursion of the Indians made
into Southwestern Indiana. In the local
history of the State this savage slaughter
lias ever since been designated as the Pigeon
Roost Massacre.
neymoou trip; and in the few’unoccupied
minutes that intervened, when Fred and
his bride stood talking, there came a mes
senger from Mr. Catherton’s banking office
w’itii a sealed letter fromjiim, which, when
he read it, made him pale and whiten to the
lips. For one moment; then, like the hon
est man he was, he rose to the pitiful emer
gency.
“Every shilling Iva and I had in the
World is gone. Jasper, your wife is-noth
ing but a pauper, dependent on her hus
band’s bounty instead of the heiress*.you
Expected.”
- The crash of doom could have sounded
ho more appallingly startling; the girl he
had married for money—this 'lame, white-
raced, wild-eyed girl who started to her
feet in an agony of bewilderment, and an
guish shcoked—a—a pauper!
l\a clasped her little fragile hands in a
;>fteous entreaty.
“• ’> uncle Charton! Fred, oh Fred! If
only i could have saved you! Oh, why
(Ldn't they send the word just a little
«ooner, so that I could have saved you,
ftred!”
. And Fred met the bitter agony of shame
and pain in her sweet eyes, heard the only
wail she made ; her pity for him, not for
herself; saw the great, patient devotion on
li r sweet, pale face, and then, as if his
guardian spirit had touched the fast-scaled
fountain of his heart, there welled up
tlirough head and heart, sonl aud sense,
hew exquisite, rapturous effection for this
Ijltle girl who w’as all his own; such love
ds never had thrilled him before, that sud
denly glorified and goldened all his life as
lie look her in his arms, sobing and tremb-
Ictg, as he never had taken her before, kis-
ing her face with love’s eager kisses.
“My precious little wife, thank God you
re my wite, and that I can help you bear
your harden. Iva, Iva, dearest! ”
That was how Fred married for money,
ami from that blessed day he never once
regretted the loss that revealed to him a
wealth’of love and happiness that has not
w.luod as the years go on.
KnM>it& lu Kansu*.
Never say anything if you wouldn’t have
your words repeated. But, beg pardon,
perhaps you never did say much of any
thing.
Never tell all you know to a stranger, even
if he regale you never so copiously with his
affairs. Think you he would be more care
ful of j’our reputation than he is of his own?
Never say, when retiring, I will get up
earl}’ to-morrow: for doesn’t the Good Book
say all liars shall have their part, etc?
Never jam j’our finger in the door; for to
swear is neither brave, polite nor wise.
Never call a man a liar: for the eye is a
tender organ, and the sense of vision a pre
cious one.
Never ask a lady to play upon the piano,
unless you intend to be polite enough to
listen to her playing. After having talked
incessantly during her performance—
Never add hypocrisy to boorishness, by
seeming to lie pleased with what you thought
more contemptible than your contemptible
prattle. Owu up that you only asked her
to play out of politeness, and failed to listen
out of impoliteness.
Never read your literary productions to
another unless he press you to read them.
Remember the golden rule.
Never refuse the fruit when, it is first
passed you, liopiug that all will show their
politeness by taking the smaller, inferior
appies and pears, leaving the best for your
self the next time round. Not only is this
mean, but you may overestimate the polite
ss of your company.
Never look over the shoulder of a man
who is writing. Have mind upon your
health; he may forget himself.
Never put the mucilage brash in your
ink-stand. True, the temptat r ‘ j is great;
but remember that cleanliness is next to
godliness.
Never attempt to write au original article
unless j’Olir scissors are sharp. Everybody
likes au incisive writer.
Never talk of yourself iu a country where
fortv-odd millions of people arc bent on
talking of themselves.
coolies, who have flung scarlet cloaks over
their native poverty: hearers'with huge
structures, supposed to be a bride’s presents,
sometimes in chairs, sometimes on flat
trays: and instruments of music, banner-
poles, sedan-chairs, heraldic shields, tablets
coolies, trays follow in a confused and
broken line as if they had no natural be
ginning or end. Overhead there is a musi
cal whirr, incessant but not unpleasing; a
tiny tyre is inserted in a pigeon’s tail, some
to guard it from birds of pre} r , and the wind
makes the music in its flight.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
CoveDt Garden Market.
tamity l“J>kcd for all the necessaries of iilc. ( . j g j t ~ a Bargain?” ’ ' - -[ may be seen. Observe this one. A man
I . “ n ° you expect me to trade off my | over six feet itiglt; his head conical Shapetl,
looked upon, pure
itli a fortune
her own un-
A man ! disputed right; aud her guardian had just
tilled himself back in his chair, and looked
Ask her and bring me word.”
“I will ask'he",” replied the old man;
Mr. Catherton interrupted him with a
set him up for life, make him inde-
for ail time. Only he loved Bessie
ill.
Jasper was a fine fellow ; fiue-look-
manly, with bold, handsome grey
legs; tiie feet treading on grass sandals, j e y es ^at liked to look and smile at a pretty
which are held on by the toes. This is a ; girl, and with a caressing mode of speech
‘hut I know what her answer will he.” i Cabuli beggar, and a most arrant villain he j"' a y of manner that was not easy to
John Byrd soon returned and informed is, for, manger his rags, he conceals a knife ! an< i Mr C atherton had frankly, de-
generai Chance that Mrs. Worsham had re- like the rest of his amiable countrymen, hbcratly told thisi young man that there
, . . , . , fused lo accept his offer, declaring that she ! and will use it with.tiie rage of a wolf if he i " tj 8 waiting for him iva borne and the
he old man went hack into the house , wou!d rallier die than 1)e mrtcd a fronl hcr is tempted. The cooks arc glad enough to j golden Handfuls site could bring him
and closed and locked the door, while the : b - . „ . . toss a kabob or two to gentlemen of life Oi course Fred enjoyed the compliment,
young one stumbled up the road, Ins hat: ?.y_. wp „ „ that gentleman. ! class. The other two roads have no partie-! hut that argument was not so powerful in
over his eyes, and hut faculties apparently » a „ j hayo t0 t0 * Y ou ular characteristics, excepting that they are i ita effects as Mr. Catheron had intended,
dazed. may-o." ‘ ‘ a great deal broader than by far the larger | “But, sir, you have not taken Miss Lo
He tlius wandered on, uever looking up, : y „ j ji i *i i , .. ' ’ ’ ’
, . . ,, „ , ... * ‘-J John B3 T rd sadly left the house, aud its
nor glancing to the right-or the left, stupid . J . ’
..ft . i , > . owner signed to the ranchman to remain,
and purposeless, until he reached the bank ; ... • • , , ., T . ,
of a stream “Mr. - \\ hipps, said he, “I wish you
, * , , -i t j j would follow that old man. Take him
ignoring the bridge, he would have , .. r , , , . ..... , ,
,7 1 , v ,, . Wi , . and his family, down to Hillers ranch,
walked into the water if he had not been . . , . J iU
. , n , . • , . , ...... which is vacant, and settle them there.
seized and forcibly restrained bv a man e ’ . , . . ,
who had noticed ids strange movements. i . the ‘" wlth Pf 0 ™ 10118 ’ aml
“What, Wakelv, isthis>u? Wl.at are i f* l ° make f thenl co ™-
you doing ? Whk’e are you going ? j | rt f’ e l, aml lct me kLOW lf mone - r 18
“I don’t know.” was the sleep}’ rcplv. ; nc f. (c ’ . ... Vt ., e ..
“Whe e am I?" * ; bo John Byrd and Lis little family,
“You would now be to t h? water if I had gfpajly to their surprise, were settled and
not stopped you. r ' Y’ou have been drink
ing, Wakely. Come, let me take you
h °At''this word Wakelv suddenly attaint- \ *j mt » n0 ‘^ dhteeton.iuSght be taken by
ened himself up. raisrd his hat and pushed he f c , uhar cGsposrUon of their strange
the hair from his eyes. .henefactor who would no allow Mrs.
“Home!” he eiclaimed. “I have no I^° t r3kan l 1 i °. c " me nl ' ar ( llls house - 8a > ln e
, ; that he “didn t want to see any women
home - 1 . folks”
In response to the wondering.; questions; .. * , , . , , .
f the other, he related, more httidlv than ! «« endured her father, but was
We rode up ti e deeply-furrowed, sleep
hid side to the level land of the divide.
Here, calling our dogs from the wagon, we
spread out, and each of us, accompanied by
his own dogs, rode forward in a line forty
rods apart. The dogs trotted slowly along,
heads up and tails down, while the horse
men watched for rabbits. A yell from the
ei-Confederate in gray, and instantly the
hounds sprang forward, and with eager
eyes gazed in the direction of the cry.
There they saw a jack rabbit jumping nim
bly along in front of the horse of the yelling
ni|in. At once a dozeu powerful hounds
were in full pursuit. The rabbit at once
saw that these dogs meant business, and
st6pping his capers began to run. He had
probably been chased many times Ly curs,
aiifi apparently had no doubt of his ability
to^ run away from any dog; but he was
never set your-foot in my house after this.” l
Wakely murmured something aliout 1
wanting to see his wife.
“She don’t want to sec you. Go off, 1
say! No bodv here cares what becomes of
made more than comfortable.
There was nothing to trouble them but
the uncertainty of their tenure and a fear
The Ai»en
The creatures which are in some respects
the most interesting to us, because they are
most like ourselves in form, are the apes.
Moreover, . ot only are the> r so like us in
form, but they are so widely marked off
from all other creatures except ourselves,
that it seems impossible the}* can have any
real affinity to one more than to another
group of mammals below man. Apes and
man, then, together Urm one order, which,,
as ranking first, was named by LinncEus,
Primatvs. With tne apes are commonly
associated certain animals called Lemurs,
which inhabit the vicinit} r of the Indian
Ocean, especially Madagascar. They have
not, however, any real affinity to apes, and
if tiie}’ are to be placed in the same order
at all. they must be well distinguished from
- ., ., . , , , . . its other members. It has, therefore, been
considerably astonished to find that tins i [ >roposed to diviclo tl, e order Primates into
rtaV; of grim, silent dogs with outstretched. tv 0 sub-otjters, (*s the hoofed order is di-
of the other, he rciated.lmore lucidly than . , ,
air] 1, fraa'.l I'"' 1 ; l ,;l " i-a''!aa.a t .,iaaaa „ai. taaha.
* -n his tace at the Hiller ranch.
“Come to town, with me, and straighten i u , ,. , .
, ,, . - ! Frovidence, however, was disposed to
and It. Will all be nght m the morn- ^ ^ ^ determin ^ 0D .
ght, Mr. Henderson,! 4® lle , was rel.imuig one-day from a dis-
i?. .. .... . - taitt stock-farm Ins horse sb.ed and threw
“It will never be
replied tYakely. • l TTiis'is tiie end of it. I .. TI .„ , , .
have beehT2rf#eh oiit. and 1 deserve it. , h “ I«Uer ranch, dn™ him
I will never'set foot m John Bard’s hole f, } r so, ; lc by the stirrup He was
Tu a. . - . s. T ,^-ti carried into Mr. Bvrd’s house, where it was
again. J hat-t^not all L will nevd> 1, mk ^ that his ' ^ and ’ face were
another drop pfJwuor as as 1 uve, so cut and bmised that u Would be nec .
helpmelte^gi - ' | essaty to remove his hair and beard.
Don e . 'i J ■ j When this operation had been performed
unit, but you will -havo-fo >ease. olL you , r x*- » . . * r Al
4 ’ -- J . ! Mrs. W orgham came into the room for the
' purpose of helping to dress his wounds,
■ and fairly shrieked as she saw him.
} “Albert Wakely !” she exclaimed. “Is
it really you?”
“Yes, Mary, it is 1,” quietly replied
great
portion of Cabul. Off these four principal
roads numerous dark and filthy lanes, twist-.j seen me or
ing for a quarter of a mile at a time, and j Cat)
not more than three feet broad, shoot' at ! curious smfle.
frequent intervals. The flat-roofed houses. “N-Dt being versed in women and their
in them arc made of mud, thickly mixed ways, or the sacredness of their confidences
with straw, and the apartments are 11 don’t know whether or not I betray a
dark, square holes, much worse than the j trust when I tell you Iva has seen you,
much decried shanties of the Galway peas- ! and—well I red. will you corue up to dinner
ants. Men, women and children sleep to- j to-night and be introduced? ’
gether, and never change their garments ! So that was how that evening Fred Jas-
till tiles* drop off. Frequently cattle and P er came t° be sitting atone side of Mr.
fowl are to be found crowded into these j Catherton’s mahogany, looking very admir-
apartments, together with the human in- ‘ in S ] y at the daisy-faced girl, who, if he so
mates. Such places are dangeron§ to ail i willed it, was for him. Iva had dressed
strangers. Not even an unusual pariah dog herself with exquisite taste and care that
could stray into them, for he would be i evening, and a fairer vision man would not _
worried bv a hundred jealous, big-boned, ! wish to see opposite him at table for all the i good rabbit. Mounting; we re-formed our
hungry curs. In the last British attack on j ‘lays of his life, and the temptation sud- • ]i ne an( j rode forward. A yell frem the
Cabul, Afghans who preferred *‘dying like j h ; enty strengthened and took a most seduc i right. A big jack was madly running there,
poisoned rats in a hole,” retreated to their 1 five "form, when the elaborate dinner was ; Ail took after him, and as we ran, four
tortuous streets and lanes, aud many a good ] over, and I red insisted on accompanying > other rabbits got up in quick succession,
life was lost in hunting them out. Iva to the dining-room instead of tarrying j and our dogs divided into parties of two
. mm 1 ovor the wine with Mr. Catherton. that | an (j three. My pair of blue hounds were
gentleman ga-e a smile of assent that was j running together, and a hundred yards
like a triumph, and Iva flushed to her love-1 ahead of them a big jack rabbit was bound-
j ly white forhead at Fred’s eagerness. i ing along. Putting spurs to a powerful
Within the last week or two there has] She was so. sweet, so loveable only, some- j p a t Clavbourne horse, and with a yell of
passed away another relic of tbe London of , how a sudden thrill of icy revulsion of; encouragement to my hounds, away we
the days of Elizabeth, the residence on the J feeling curdled all through Fred’s veins as ! swept, over hills, over the levels, down
western side of Aldergate, commonly ] she arose from her chair, and Fred saw : s t ee p hillsides, jumping ravines, always at
he was lame—oh! so lame—and that be-: a f u q - - - * - “
were gaining on him. He redoubled
lir^Ffforts. No use; the pack of yellow,
blue and white hounds drew nearer and
nearer to him. His astonishment now gave
place to the most intense terror, and he
frantically endeavored to escape his fate.
Behind the coursing dogs came a line of
horsemen, all the riders yeliing like demons
—each encouraging his own dogs. “Hie
on'* Yie! yie ! yre! Catch ’im. Ponto 1
Catch ’im!” To this excitement the cattle
men added bull-like bellowings. The fast
est dog in the pack was on the rabbit. He
made his offer for him. The jack turned
like lightning. The empty jaws of the dog
came together with a snap that sounded
like the spring of a steel trap. In turning
after the rabbit this dog was struck by an
other, and both rolled over and over on the
grass. They got up bewildered to find the
rabbit some fifty yards away, and another
dog ready to make a pass at him. It is
made, and again the jack is missed: he
turned aside, to fall into the jaws of a pup.
The shrill cry of the rabbit and the sound
of his crunched bones is heard, and all is
over. Some one dismounted, and took the
jack away from the dogs, and tied it to his
saddle. We rested our horses and breathed
our dogs. All agreed that the jack had
done well. He was praised as a mighty
Miakespeare’s Home.
known as “Shakespeare's house.” The locai j she was lame—oil! so lame—and that lie- ; a full gallop, and faster and fas er ran the
tradition goes that William Shakespeare ; side the chair had been all the while wait? j rabbit. Resolved, as he was a good one.
lived in it when he was proprietor of the j Ing the little velvet and satin-cushioned ^ j 0 give him a chance for his life, I refused
theatre in Golden lane, toward the close of i crutch on which she depended. ! ride ahead of the dogs and so turn him
the fifteenth century. In Shakespeare’s ; But Iva did not see the sudden look of • 0 g f or them. If the hounds caught him
time the house bore the sign of the “Half ; blank disappointment and almost horror j they should do it fairly. The pace got too
,iuieuoui uouk; uuu wc lww wi tut Moon.” to which sundry inscriptions and j that swept across Freds face, and she i hot for the jack and the dogs gradually
know.” ' ' ’ 'purpose of heloino-to dress his wounds hieroglyphics in the old wood-work ref erred, j went on beside him, her little crutch mak- gained on him. They drew near to him,
■‘Never! I will not touch auother dr0 P ! an a fairly shrieked as she saw him ’ A writer in the City Press in 1866 de- ing a soft thud on the thick carpet that j an fl separating, the dog made an offer for
if I die for it. I mean .to leave here and j ^ A j be ‘ t \y ft kelv ! ” she exclaimed. “Is scribes the house as well able to “vie with j made him feel strangly ashamed, and pit- } the flying animal. The rabbit dodged to
lead a new life under a new uame^ ^ j-eallv you‘ J ” " an y °ther house m the city for its elaborate ; ful, that made him think of Bessie Camp- ! the left and fairly ran into the mouth of the
“If you realty mean that, Wakely, I can j ..y e g MuW it is 1” quietly replied carvings iu wood and primitive panelling, j bell and her fine grace of motion, Bessie, I itc}A . ^hc, overbalanced by the sudden
put you in the way to make4t nmn oryoqr-! Q energ ^Chance. “If you are going to do i we ^ worthy of those curious m such mat- j who he knew loved him, but, who had no ■ weight in her mouth, turned a somersault
self. I am going to (Ydoradtr * Go with j f or mc p] ca8e ( i 0 without a fuss ” ters - ? ’ As a proof of its age he mentions ( hundred thousand. and came dow’n with a thud and agrunt on
me and I will pay your wav and help you ! ^XarvVorsham took care of him* and that during some recent repairs there was | The battle began that night, and raged j lier back, but held the struggling rabbit
to make your own-siait iu life. i he encouraged her attendance When he found under the wood-work a coin of the : many a day, when one hour Fred would ifast ln her long jaws. I tied this animal j
“If you will da that,. Mr. Henderson, > ^ 8tr 5 i} £? r he ke tQ her ^ 1Qre free]v date of 1596. It is recorded in “Ben John- | swear to himself that nothing ever should f to my saddle, and seeing a ravine, I called
you will earn my lifelong gratitude ”, * j ..yf arv t p ltl V0T J rea n y object to a divorce 1 son ' s Lift v’ tlmt ou une occasion the “rare ] come between him and the girl he loved, j my dogs and we went to the water- They
When John Byrd re-entered ! and to your second marriage?” ! old poet, feeling an inward craving for j and the next, that he was a fool, that he ] rus hed in, and sitting down in the cool
he found his daughter Mary sobbing ifj u y Albert 1 never loved any man “ sac ^’' went to the “Hall Moon,” in- Al- j could not love such a sweet, gentle girl as fluid up to their shoulders, they bit into the
her heart would break. & 1 hnt i f-uhr-r of mv r hild in mxitp'nf j dersgate street, but finding it closed, took j Iva Lome—that he would not deliberately ‘
“What have you done, father ?" ^.’at fault and I obied to’evervthimr that: h5mself off to the “Sun,” in Long Acre, | quarrel with all his chances, and that Bes-
ask«i • - tca^d^n^iire^Ott ° But* you V ought m not 'to ' vl >ere he immediately snt down and wrote sie Campbell would lie just a.s happy v?i<h
‘•Wha tliave yott don® r • -iWame fail., r. He meant to act for tiie !following ep.gram:
“I have Mrrrcn a way that. woitnless ,, „ | ««nce tbe Half Moon is so unkind
vagabond,’ lie; roughly replied, ‘ mid have . ..j ^ , )lame hin) ,, waa for the T.i make me go abont,
T e Sun my money now shall have,
The Moon Bhall go without ’
Halt a century or more later, the aristo
video into tbe “odd-toed” and “even-toed”
sub-orders,) one of these to include man
and apes, and to be called, from the resem
blance to the human form pervading it,
“Anthropoidea; ” the other sub-order to
be termed “Lemuroidea.” The first
“sub-order” is divisible into three “fami
lies.” One of these (Huminidce) contains
man, (forming the genus Homo,) the sec
ond (Sh/iiadcej contains all the apes o£
the Old World only, while a third (Cebidce)
contains all those of America. Among the
Simiadce are the ourang, the chimpanzee,
the gorilla, and the long-armed apes, (or
Gibbous,) winch are the most manlike of
all the apes; and there can be no question
that there is very much less difference in
structure between these four kind of apes
and man than there is between them and
the lowest of the apes—that is. the marmo
sets.
j i r- “ ” / j- * “I don’t blame him. ty was for the
ordered him .never* -to cnq ken my cJdokj ^ Jt mju]c
again.•*' •»«**' 1 • ‘
of me, and I am. as
. i» Am I,*., * I ought to be, deeply grateful to him.
“You might LaYtrfguvejr hnu anchor ^ . , . ’ * J
, Tt 6 - . u > .j -t r „ : a ti.n Mary, th t is a fine boy>of ours,
chance. He is mv-’+msmaod, andiic is the . ,, J
. f b • ! \\ ltiiiti a mouth there was a wedding Qn
1 i V-n : v- , .j m' o1 i the San Benito estate whieh was made such
“He has hair ctunnec enough.-- lit -ehail . ■ f ..a , ,
i«i „t. n an occasion of rejoicing'as to be long re-
not be your husbapd. much .longer. He , ^ m ^ , ° 4 -
. .. . a i .r » .. membered in that region. The contracting
shall torture you -no more. I « »1 get a wcre Walter Chance, as he was still
i ivoice or you. , , ., deterniined to be known, and Marv, widow
“I want no uivoree, soobed Mary. i.. - , , w ■ ’
‘■you don’t know what you want. You ; of A,inuii V ’
need a diverce and you shall have it. I4 . WralhetGnM „.
have taken this matter into my own hands, j
Worsham is remty and anxious to marry j The colors, of tiie sky at diffeient
you.” ^ ^ : times are wonderful guidance. Not
(only does a char sunset presage fair
drink, swallowing great mouthfuls of it;
then lying down with only their heads out,
half of their lolling tongues dangling in the
water, they coiled off, I, reclining* on the
soft grass by the bank of the pool, watched
their jaws gradually close and their tongues
slowly draw back in their mouths. When
their jaws were closed, and they were
breathing naturally through their noses, I
mounted and we started back for the wagon.
Another rabbit got up, and this one grace
fully ran away from my hounds. They
followed him sharply for a couple of miles,
years have passed since Albert
wca’.ber,- but there are oilier tints
WaktUy was-stMiunanly fjmed from !- wIlich speaU wit h clearness and accur-
house of ins fathi r-m-law. . , . , ,, . . ..
At themoipjiqiai•canonias#«uhern (Jo 1 .- aev. A bright yellow evening indi-
orado, where iketorkfircd torrent has possed , c.ites wind; a pale yellow, wet; a lieu-
through the cleft- in the mountains and i tral grey constitutes a favorable one in
becomes a placid .stream ras it debouches on ' tpe m iming—an unfavorable one in
a Ijroa.! and fertile vat ley; a single “prairie |, lin , Acinq. The clouds are full of
schooner’’ lia? stopped, and its driyer a 1 iQ thera , eJvei . If ,hev are
rude, red-shu-ted fellow,, is seen in conver- , „ , . > ,,
sat ion wllh an old tnftn, who is eyidently i K'dlefined, .and feathery, the
expostulating with Inin*in train. j wea ther will be lineif the .edges are
•■It’s no use, - ’ stud the driver at Infat; j hard, sharp and definite, it will be foul.
“I've gone as fur as yojir money xyill jnsti- Gener.illy speaking, any deep, unusua 1
fy, and furdcr, and here 1 mean to dud. 'bites *betoken wind and rain; while
If you mean to stop anywhere this is as 1 m . re ( uieti and raode rate tints bespeak
goo,l a place as you will find r! fair weather. Simple as these maxims
want either work or help general Uhance (
is likely to give it to you,” are, the British Board of Trade has
“Does he own this valley?” asked the , thought fit to publish them for the use
old man. I of seafaring men.
some other lover. These reasonings and
! arguments were the actual onset of the bat-
j tie; and the result was that Fred Jasper
' and sweet lame Iva Lome became engaged
j to be married.
i They were happy enough days that fol-
cratic and literary wits of the “Meiry Mon- lowed to Iva, who uever once dreamed that
arch’s” court were accustomed, we are told, it was for her money and her money alone
to assemble at the “Half Moon” tavern; ; that her lover would marry her, and when
opposite to Lauderdale House, which, as is ' he saw aud realized how tenderly she loved ^ y ,
well know r n, stood on the east side of the . him, it made him very gentle and tender j but I would not turn him with my horse,
street. “Shakespeare’s house,” however, j towards her, and the time went on fairly j and be fairly outran them. The last-1 saw
with its heavy projecting gables and quaint | well, bringing the wedding day with the ! Q f this rabbit he was going over the crest
oriels and bow windows, is now’ a thing of sweet October weather. ^ j of a bare ridge about a mile off, and from
the past, and a large pile of modern build-! “I prefer to have a quiet weeding, Fred, . the pace at which he was traveling I jud-
] and I am almost sure you would—on ac-]g e d he had just awakened to the knowledge
j count of—of my lameness. Fred! I am so that dogs in the plural number were around.
; afraid you will be ashamed of mc when I:
California Yieeyarai*. ! am youf wife.” ] A Jndffe Answered.
~ j Iva said that to him one soft, cool Sep-: . , ^ -
The vineyards of California cover 60,000 ternber night as they sat in the vivid mo<m-! William Watson, a youth, stood at the j row’s. Cows and camels lie about the side-
acres, with 45,000 of grape vines, valued light, her fair face very sweet to see up- bar of the General Sessions, New York, | ways, and the camels are loaded with sacks
at $130,000,000. Three years ago the Bal- ] turned to his in such shy eagerness. . j convicted of theft, | °f coal. A huge red umbrella appears, and
timore >Sun called attention to the oppor-1 A thousand times between that lovely j “Where have I seen you before?” Judge! a mandarin followsiE ‘ )( jrne in his chair,
mgs is about to be erected on its site.
Ia Fokin.
We wont down one of the broad streets
that run for miles without a bend. The
vista is closed by a city gate, and broken
by here and there an elaborate arch that
spans the roadway, a pylow erected to
commemorate either wealth or virture; but
the green and gold have rubbed off, and the
structure is out of line, like a gravestone
where the earth has sunk ; the houses, built
of brick, are of one story, yet, as the fronts
of the chemists’ tea and tobacco shops are
a mass of gilded and painted wood, some
times thirty feet high, they make a dazzling
show 7 when new; but paint and gilding
wear away rapidly in this climate, and
when the gold tarnishes it is not renewed,
so that there are sombre lines of faded finery
broken at iutervails by a brilliant flash of
color, like the glare of a public house in a
street that has lost gentility. The middle
of the roadway is the highest; there are
lo wer roads on either side, and off these the
sidewalk and the shop. At intervals the
middle is occupied by rows of booths cover
ed with wooden boards or with curtains of
rags, where travelling merchants display
their goods as in an English fair, or else
cook and sell hot viands that always attract
the country folk who have come in to
market. At other points there are oblong
groups of eager list eners, each group gather
ed around a story-teller, who tells his tale
with wonderful dramatic action; and, as
wise as the editors of Western magazines,
when he has worked up the audience to the
highest suspense, sends round the hat be
fore be begins the next chapter. I saw
him once vehemently shake his cash-box in
the face of a mean fellow who was sneak
ing away without paying. A few yards
off, a juggler has an equally eager crowd,
while he swallows porcelain cups and need
les without end. A little further, and there
is the veritable box of Punch and Judy, al
though, tiie distinguished persons on that
mimic stage are but very distant and poor
relations to their namesakes here. On the
sidewalks the chiropodist operates on way
worn feet, and the barber is busy shaving
customers and settling their tails. An an
cient senbe with horn spectacles well on
his nose is writing a letter for some love
sick swain, and a knot of 10 or 12 idlers
gather round to hear it. Other crowds have
collected about ballad-singers and street-
musicians ; and we are told that it it was
the kite season, old gentlemen of grave
aspect would be ftymg. paper dragons one
hundred feet long. A ceaseless throng, on
foot and horseback, is in motion through
all these stationary bodies. Soldiers ride
by with guns slouched across their shoulders
and others armed with only bows and ar-
tunities then offered to buy vineyards for a September night -and the frosty October; Gildersleeve asked, thoughtfully. ‘Worn*
song. In every direction people were up- j wedding-day, Fred t-old himself he would face i3 certainly familiar to me. ”
and with ragged lictors clearing the way.
We pass a Pekin cab-stand, both the carts
and the mules rather faded. A golden
streak of fire rushes out of the smithy, and
urchins stay and watch it as they do at
home. A blind man threads his way by
beating a doleful tune upon a tamborine.
Old men and young men cany sticks to
which birds are attached by a slight thread
under the wing, and a good bird may cost
rooting vineyards as unprofitable. Grapes 1 be so good, so kind to this delicate little j “I don’t know, your honor,” Watson re-
were $10 a ton, which did not pay. A ' girl who was giving him everything in the ! plied.
hundred foot-hills farms could be bought world with herself, and she slightly prized, I “Where have you seen me before?” his
for the cost of fencing,- twenty-five acres so slightly esteemed. ! honor persisted.
of bearing vineyard going for nothing.-) Scores and scores of times he told himself | “Where were you last employed? lam
Though cheap, grape vines have now’ some he did not regret what he had done, not confident that I have seen your face before, ”
value. And orchards, then of little ac- ] even when he recalled the cold, contemp- : Judge Gildersleeve continued, with the air
count, have greatly appreciated by the m- ‘ tuous looks Bessie Campbell lost no oppor- ! of having cornered the prisoner at-last. ~ _
troduction of fruit-curing. Grape syrup is tunity of bestowing upon him. j “In the Crystal Palace saloon, your: as much as £2. There is a sound, not of
now being made, and its great superiority 1 ! And then the wedding day came, and the honor,” Watson answered and the specta- revelry, but of mournful stringed mstru-
over other table syrups will win favor, j wedding-liour, and Mr. Catherton gave the tors laughed. { ments, and banners gleam in the distance
Small vineyards can now make a better bridal pair a gorgeous banquet, and the) Judge filters, eeve did not pursue his in-j unsteadily advancing through the press; it
market than $15 per ton for grapes at the carriage stood at the door to carry them to quiries any further. He sentenced Wafeon ! is a wedding procession, we are told, and
wine press. i the boat that was to take them on their ho- ’ te Mtoto prison for three year*. [ for an hour the procession flows slowly by;
It was a favorite practice of mine, when
living in London, Eng., to rise early, aud
make my way to the C’ovent Garden Mar
ket, the fruit, floral and vegetable emporium
of the great metropolis; having not only a
liking for._the busy scenes taking place
there, but aiso an internal arrangement
which has always throughly appreciated a
good “blowout’’ of fruit, and the fact of
getting it fresh added very much to the
treat. I anr afraid it would require .a far
more powerful pen than mine to give any
adequate description of a Covent Garden
market, w’hicli arc held thrice weekly,
viz., on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur
days. Just imagine a large building stand
ing in an immense open space with a wide
road all round it. On this road are the
huge vims of the market gardeners
and growers, who bring in their vegetables
and other produce from the suburbs of Lon
don during the night, and the vehicles of
the railway companies which arc deliver-
ing the produce coming from a distance.
Inside the building, which is fitted up with
shops and stalls, the finer and more delicate
of the fruits, and vegetables, and the flow
ers are sold; the delicacies being spread out
in such a tempting manner as to make the
mouth of the most callous person water.
English hot - house grapes and peaches,
sweet water grapes from France and Spain,
the muscat from Alexandria, pine apples,
cocoa nuts, iu fact every kind of fruit
one can mention can be bought there at all
seasons of the year by any one with the
needful. How a Canadian would be sur
prised at the prices given for tomatoes and
peaches—luxuries there—aud which can
he bought so cheaply here. The dealers
there, as everywhere else, are good masters
of the art of displaying their wares to the
best advantage. The piles and baskets of
fruit—especially strawberries, raspberries,
plums, and things of that kind—are, I am
sorry to say, a delusion and a snare some
times, those on the top looking splendid
and very appetizing, but becoming inferior
the farther they are out of sight. All around
buying and selling is going on, and ? here
is that indescriabie murmur about whicli is
inseparable from large gatherings of that
kind. It is quite amusing.to stop and
listen to the little knots of people engaged
in bartering. Some are very laconic in their
enqniries, while others go in for “soft
sawder” to bring tbe prices down, and it is
great fun to watch the tricks that are
adopted with this end; then tbe good-liu-
mered chaffing that goes on—all adds to the
liveness of the, scene. The bustle extends
far beyond the market, for the streets lead
ing to it are crowded with horses and carts
of every variety belonging to the retail
dealers—which are standing waiting for
their loads, and the market porters are a
free-and-easy sort of gentry, showing a
great disregard for all conventionalities.
They go about with huge baskets or sacks
upon their heads, and if one does not get
out of tkeir w’ay, it is simply a case of col
lision, as they rarely think of deviating
from their course. The market resounds
with their gruff “By your leave,” which,
however, is not so much a cry of warning
as one might suppose, but is given almost
facetiously after the unfortunate looker-on
has been hustled about. I would back them
against any other class for making a road
through the crowd quickly. Then, again,
what a trade the coffee-stalls and itinerant
vendors of cake are doing. Many of the
habitues of the market are making their
early meal by partaking a cup ot the “wet
and coid” (as they call the coffee), which
costs one penny, and thick bread and but
ter or cake at one half-penny a slice. Why
a hungry soul can have a banquet tor about
three pence. Much more might be said of
a Covent Garden market morning, and of
the scenes enacted there, and any one visit
ing London should certainly go there. It
does not interfere with the ordinary busi
ness, as one must be there between 3 and 6
a. m., to see it properly, and an hour can
be passed away very pleasently and profit
ably. The fresh morning air, too, gives an
appetite for breakfast, which must be felt
to be appreciated.
The Postase ot the World.
Dr. Fischer, an oberpostrath of the im
perial German Post-office (corresponding to
the rank of assistant secretary with us), has
just published an interesting pamphlet,
showing the comparative postal and tele
graphic statistics. But in some cases the
information yet available does not enable
him to bring down his work later than
1873. The letter post of the whole world
for that year amounted m round numbers
to 3,300,000,000 letters, or about 9,250,000
daily ; and the numbers have been increas
ing daily at an- astonishing rate. Thus in
Japan the number of post-offices in 1872
was 1150, and in 1876 it has risen to 3649.
The number of separate articles which pass
ed through the Japanese post iu 1878 was
47,000,000, of which 25,000,000 were let
ters, 10,000,000 postal cards. 9,300,000
newspapers. Post cards were first brought
into use only in 1865, and now they are
employed in almost every country in the
world. The parcels post has, however, not
yet got beyond the first stage of its deve’op-
ment. The number of telegraphic dis-
patohes sent in 1877 amounted for the
whole globe to nearly 130,000,000, or an
average of 353,000 daily. More than one-
third of the total number of telegraphic
dispatches arc private, dealing with purely
personal concerns. It is unnecessary to say
that the newspapers press absorbs a large
proportion of the telegrams of ’the* world,
while the world of finance and commerce
also oppropriates a giant’s shaie.
Slippers.
A very effective pair of slippers for a
gentleman can be made of the new stamped
velvet or velveteen now so much in use for
ornamenting furniture. A dark greenish
blue shade is desirable, the pattern being
worked around in chain stitch with pale
blue knitting silk. The design should be
small. It also would be artistic to work in
crewels two or three daisies, arranged in a
slanting position across the toe; a ribbon
in red could be worked in crewels around
the stalks, and twisted into a medallion, in
which a monogram should be worked in
gold-colored silk. The medallion should
be arranged in a slanting position, so as to
match the daisies.
A married man at Georgetown,
while going into the cellar to split
kindling wood, fell and broke his neck.
He doesn’t deserve a particle of sympa
thy. lf his wife was too sick to per
form her own work, why didn’t he
take his meals at the hotel and leave the
fires, for her to build when she got
well ?
—Circus riders get from $75 to $300
per week.
—The badger is almost extinct In
Wisconsin.
—The Prince of Wales is a member
of six Paris clubs.
—A Wilmington steam fire engine
uses petroleum for fuel.
—In Fiance naval officers play chess;
doctors and cures play whist.
—A number of Swiss colonists have
just purchased 75,000 ares in Nebraska.
—There are 9,000 papers in North
and South America. The number in
the whole w orld is 23,000.
—A statue of Cervantes has been
erected in his birthplace, Alcala de
Henares.
There arel4S narrow gauge railroads
In the United Slates, with a length ef
4,178 miles.
—The Pittsburg Arms Company is
manufacturing one hundred and thir
ty-five revolvers a day.
—A Vermonter at a seance kicked a
spirit in the nose and the medium could
not go out for a week,
—The Amorican $20 gold piece has
succeeded the English sovereign as the
gold standard of the w’orld.
—The Government has ordered the
San Francisco Mint to coin $5,000,000
in eagles and half eagles.
—Wales was united to England in
the year 1254. First House of Commons
in 1258,
—The Romans destroyed 580,000
Jews and banished the rest from Judea
iu the year 135.
—The Scotch historians claim a line
of 115 kings, who reigned for a period
of 2,000 years.
—In Alabama 96,000 white and 53,000
colored children iiave been enrolled in
the public schools.
—In the whole United States there
are 4,400 banks, with $505,327,832 capi
ta! and $1,242,773,903 deposits.
—A seven-foot fence has been built
around the Carlisle (Pa) barracks to
keep in the frisky young Indians.
—The town of Bridgewater, Vt., w’as
named advisedly, for it has seventy-five
bridges within its borders.
—There is a single farm in Kansas
which is reported to have a river front
age of over thirty miles.
—There are on American account at
the Cleveland, England, furnace or
ders to the amount of 50,000 tons.
—In 1S73 the people of this world
exchanged 3,300,000,000 letters, and in
1866 they sent 130,000.000 telegrams.
—Great Brit: in’s debt is now £773,-
078,840 an increase of £5,400,000 in two
years: It comes of too much Colonial
war.
During the past year six million
acres of public lands have been taken
up by settlers uuder the homestead
law.
—New car and carpenter shops are
being erected at Johnstown, Pa., in
connection with the Cambria Iron
Works.
—A bronze statue of the late Bishop
Whittingham, to occupy a space near
Mount Calvary Church, is proposed in
Baltimore.
—A Californian has seven acres ot
tube-roses, which pay better than 100
acres of wheat. Druggists buy them
for r>erfumery.
—There is only one horse railroad in
New Hampshire. It is in Manchester,
is a little over t\v o miles long, and earn
ed last year $850.
—A Lehigh county. Pa. hen now
clucks to six chicke.cs and twenty
quail3—the latter birds of her own dis
covery and adoption.
—The bullion yield of Colorado up to
1879 amou nted to nearly 80 tons of pure
gold, 770 tons of pure silver, 2,110 ton s
ot copper, and 16,150 tons of lead.
— Ceylon with its population of 2,-
500,000 covers 24,000 square miles ot
of area. Its revenue is 1,500,000, and it
has a trade of 11,000,000 to 12,000,000.
—The people of Burlington, N. J.,
continue in all seasons to keep cut flow
ers on the tomb of the late Rt, Rev.
Bishop Doane, of the Episcopal Church.
—Horace Greeley’s daughters have
an offer of $40,009 for the tract of land
in Virginia, once supposed to be worth
less, for which the great journalist paid
$10,000.
—The Lehigh car manufacturing
oompany at Stemton, Pa., has closed a
contract for eleven hundred cars,
which will keep the -works going at
their full capacity for a long while.
—The total amount ot iron rolled in
Allegheny county, Pa., last year, in
cluding nails, was 282,333 tons, against
268,486tons in 1877, 247,943 in 1876,
239,069 in 1675 and 274,625 in 1874.
—The commerce of the United States
with Japan is increasing. During the
past year the imports from this country
to Japan amounted to $3,500,000 and
the exports from Japan to the United
States to $7,5( 0,000.
—The total coinage of gold and silver
coins executed at "the United States
mints during the month of August was
2,997,823 pieces, value $6,396,262.50
The total coinage of standard silver
dollars to date is 40,237,050.
—Five young ladies of Padstow,
Cornwall, Miss Norah O’Shaughnessy
and the Misses Prideaux Brune, have
been awarded silver medals and vellum
certificates by tbe National Lifeboat
Association for saving a sailor’s life.
—The president of the California
State Vinicultnral Society has reported
60,000 afcres covered with vineyards,
numbering 45,000,000 vines and repre- .
senting, with-the land, a capital of 30,-
000,000.
—The cultivation of the sugar beet
in Maine is considered a success, though
farmers are not yet thoroughly up on
the best methods of culture. Commer
cial fertilizers are found to be the best.
An increased outlay is predicted for
next year,
-—There is a man in North Carolina
who, some years ago, married the .wi
dow of his own son, and 3he was also
his own niece. She has had children .
by both husbands, and there is no end
of the complica:ions in relationship
likely to ensue.
—The young sons of the Prince of
Wales takean equal share of the duties
on board the Bacchante with the other
officers. A cricket team has been form
ed on board to play any English eleven
encountered at the ports touched at
by the vessel.
—A part of the roof of the young
ladies’ seminary at Bethlehem, Pa., re
quiring repairs, the workmen upon rer- •
moving a board recently, found a ham
mer of a very antique pattern, which
had evidently been lost when the build
ing was erected, 133 years ago. .
—A firm in Germany is trying to sub
stitute paper for wood’ in the manufac
ture of lead-pencils. The paper is*
steeped in an adhesive liquid, and roll
ed round the core of lead to the requir
ed thickness. After the paper is dry it
is colored, and it resembles, when fin
ished, an ordinary* tedar pencil.
