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THE JACKSON NEWS. f m W. I. HARP, Publisher. VOLUME I. NEVPS GLEANINGS, Dalton, Ga., has the only ax handle factory in the South. ; A $60,000 statue of Join: C. Calhoun, will Lbon be erected at ChailestoD, S. C. Athens is the only city of its size in Georgia that does not have a free school system,- The oyster beds on Indian liver, Fla., aie raid te be inexhaustible, and a can ning establishment is in prospect. The wages of street car employes on the New Orleans city iad way have been reduced from S3B to $35 per month. A suit over an old sow was settled at Lul ip-'i Texas last; week in favor of the defend ju The costs were $547.80. William Smith, of North Carolina has sold his tobacco crop in Lynchburg, Va., for. $50,000. Three hundred dollars worth of snufl was sold by a Cuthbei i, Ga., house the other day. Atlanta and Chicago parties have or ganized a fertilizer company, the manu factory to be situated at Nashville. A shark was caught near Tampa, Fla., he other dry, weighi-ig 700 pounds. It had, when caught, seven rows of teeth. Col. Pratt, of the Palatka. Florida, Heiald, says that alligator oil beats lard all hollow, and that alligator steaks beat the frogs of Paris. Ther ? are over half a trillion acres of land iivFulton county, Ga, the county in which Atlanta is situated, valued at only eight cents an acre. Atlanta Constitution: Fifty persons left Rome for Utah on Wednesday morning. They were mostly snuff dip pirgwcmtn who had become Mormon Columbia, Ala., has made'more im provements in the paet twenty-four months than she has made in twenty four years before. A fire in Mobile last week destroyed the entomological collection of F. Fishes It was the result of fourteen years’ labor and contained 8,000 specimens. Mr. Richard Outlaw, residing near Hartselle, Ala., is ninety-nine years eld, and expects to make big five hales o cotton thL year. A young Frenchman, of Hamilton Ga., spends his spare time catching but terflies, which he sell3 to parti' s in New York, Philadelphia and Boston at five cents a piece. Lnychburg Advance: The gold boom is starting all over Virginia. Gold bear ing quartz is being developed in several counties, said to be as rich as any found in the Rooky Mountains. There is a young student at the Uni versity of Georgia who eats the hind legs of every rat he can find. He also diets on those large size tad-poles, stewed like oysters. He says that both make delicious dishes. The latest form of cruelty is that adopted by a negro of Whitesville, Ga. His mule was levied upon by hiscreditr.-s whereupon he ceased to feed it. The animal died promptly, and the negro i happy. Caldwell, Texas, Register: A widow lady living on Dry creek lost a calf dur ing the last storm. After search it was found back of H. N. Smith’s plantation lodged in the fork of a tree, supposed to have blown there. A man, Jake Brooks by name, living near Aigus, Crenshaw county, Vila, some months ago made two hand wagons, putting his household goods in one and his three children in the other, and took a trip to Florida and returned lately, he pulling the chattels and his wife the children. The bones of a woman and baby have just been fonnd in an old shaft near Villa Rica, Ga. They ar supposed to be those of a young lady who, seventeen years ago, having committed a social indiscretion, disappeared and was never afterwards heard from. Mr. A. W. Martin of Milledgeville, Ga., was seventy two years of age on the 12th ult., and never had a lawsuit, was never a witness in court and never served on a jury but twice, never learned b> pltty at cards, and has not taken a drink of liquor in fifty years. Rome Courier: The guano trade has been almost entirely abandonded by our merchants. They find it does not in the sequel 504 profitable to themselves nor tothl ftrrrnbrs. There is not one-half much sold this season as was the last Farmers are learning to depend more on their own resources for fertilizers than u pon bought stuffs. A theatbiCjLl man at Chicago thought it would be smart to make a friend who slept with him believe that the smart man had smallpox. So he got up in the night, and with afage paint he painted bis face with smallpox pustules, and went to sleep. The innocent man woke up in the morning and looked at his friend, and finding him broke out, he went out quietly and notified the health officers, and they came with an ambu lance to take him to the pest-house. The smart fellow had to do some of the best acting he ever did in his life to keep ont °f the pest-house. He is not exactly clear whether it pays to be so almighty smart or not. TOPICS OF TRE DAT. Zululand is suffering the ravages of a famine. Prince Bismarck is having decidedly poor health. Wkalthy Mormons have an average of twelve wivos each. Jesse James was killed sure enough this time, and there is no doubt about it The auction sale of Wolfe’s collection of paintings in New York the past week netted $131,865. Sowing of spring wheat will occur about three; woeks earlier than usual ia Minnesota and Dakota this year. iPfwEN Malonex anrt James Weeflen, Pittsburg pugilists, will fight June 13, in West Virginia, for a purse of SI,OOO. <•> The liquor tax bill, in Ohio, gave the Democrats a boom pretty much all over the State in ttie late municipal elections. The statement that the Chinaman could be kicked out seems to be a mis take. The Chinaman is a heftier fellow in this country than we suspected. It is surmised that Frank James will attempt to avenge his brother Jesse’s murder. The Ford brothers, who killed Josse, express no fear of personal injury, A Kentuckian, eighty-nine years old, took out a marriago licence at Cincinnati a few days ago. He was hale and hearty, but his eyesight was somewhat impaired by age. The fleecing of Charles Francis Adams out of $19,350 by bunko sharks, and his forgetting the swindle, has be trayed the fact that his memory is sadly impaired. Evidently another anti-Chinese immi gration bill, less objectionable perhaps in its features than the one vetoed, will be adopted during the present session of Congress. Says the Toledo Telegram: Crow Dog, who murdered Spotted Tail, has been sentenced to be hanged May 11. This is a case in which the Tail went be fore the Dog. The Coroner’s jury in the case of Cornelius J. Vanderbilt, brother of Wm. H. Vanderbilt, returned a verdict of death from suicide, committed under temporary mental depression. Bennett’s Polar expedition will not cost him less than $200,000, besides tho most excruciating torture to his men re sulting in the death of several of their number, and science has gained nothing. Invitations are out for the coronation of the Czar in August. If they are ac companied with passes and the where withal for extra expenses—well, we don’t know what we might do under the cir cumstances. Longfellow's will makes no publio be quests, the bulk of the property being given to his children. Richard H. Dana, jun., the executor named in the will, being dead, the poet’s son, Ernest, will be made administrator. Discouraging reports of the maple sugar crop come from New Hampshire. Bad weather has caused a poor run of sr.p and poor sugar. Choice syrup from Canterbury retails in Concord at $1.25 a gallon and Hillsboro sugar at thirty cents a pound. Frank Hatton, First Assistant Post master General, writes the Postmaster at Cincinnati that postal clerks and Other employes may accept municipal offices, unless such offices interfere with the official discharge of their duties in the postoffice. It should be generally • known that Sarah Bernhardt now has a bona Mr husband, “a Greek gentleman, tolerably rich, and good looking.” If Sarah can master her blood-spitting proclivity she will keep right on playiDg just as if nothing unusual had happened. A woman living in a suburb of Lead ville a few days ago, gave birth to a monstrosity with a head resembling a lizard and hands like fins. It gives out an articulate sound. The father had to be held to prevent his killing the child. It bids fair to live. The fact of the matter is, “Betty and the baby” are going to be rich. All the prominent newspaper offices in the coun try are collecting a fuad for the Ser geant’s family, and among them is the Philadelphia Press, whose fund alone now amounts to $2,200. If Mason should happen to get out he may proceed to en joy life in the most approved style. The site on which St. Xavier’s Church was located, on Sycamore street, Cin cinnati, seems to be a fated one. When the old structure was being torn down, some years ago, to give place to the new, a wall fell, crushing a dozen work men to death under it. The new structure, which burned a few days ago, with furniture and fixtures, was valued at $200.000. Mr. George W. Greene writes to the Providence Journal! “I am asked whether it is trie that I am writing the life of my late friend Longfellow. I Devoted to tlie Interest ol -Tuckson and I3ixtts Countv. JACKSON, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL. 19, 1882, reply that some six years ago he and I agreed to be each other's biographers, and from that time to this have kept the m taut ion in view. The materials are aoundant, particularly the family letters, all of which have been pnt at my dis posal.” The resignation of State Senator Bar rett, of Tennessee, has created much talk, as his resignation will very consid erably change the complexion of the Sen ate in the event a proposition to settle the State debt is submitted. The bill to settle the debt at 100-3 was passed by the Senate at tho regular session by a bare majority, Barrett being one out of the thirteen who voted for it. Ex-Governor Stanford, of Cali fornia, says that ultimately tho entire output of California groin for Europe nnd the Atlantic coast will go over the Southern Pacific Railroad. Ships which will teke the grain from New Orleans to Europe will he fitted to carry back emi grants to New Orleans at a very low rate. He says that the popular table wines of California are better than the ordinary poor stuff of France, Germany and Italy. A lady writes from Boston relating a little episode that happened when Oscar Wilde drove out to Cambridge to call on Longfellow. Oscar asked him if he was not a great admirer of Browning. Long fellow replied tbat he liked the very few poems he could understand, but the mass of Browning’s pieces were incom prejiensible to him. Oscar slapped the poet familiarly on the shoulder and re marked ; “They are as clear to me as a running brook. I comprehend them all fully.” The London World says that there is still a strain of Puritanism in America, and that the sons of the people who ordained the Blue laws of Connecticut— who made swearing a finable offense, kissing one’s wife on Sunday a misde meanor, less insipid sorts of osculation a crime—still regard weekly beans ns a burnt offering, and assoicate the domestic virtues with an annual feast of roast turkey and pumpkin pies. We do not like to dispute so eminent an authority as the World. Ford, wlro shot James, and who lived with him at St. Joseph since last Novem ber, sayß of James’ daily habits: “During the day he would stay around the house and in the evening he would go down town to the news depot and get the papers. He said there were men hero who ought to know him, but they never did. He took the Chicago Tri bune, Cincinnati Commercial, aud Kansas City Timas regularly, and always know what was ‘going on all over tlie world. About a week ago he read a piece in one of the papers that Jesse James’career was over, and Charlie said lie was awful mad about it.” Bf.eciieu is in Chinese immi gration to America. He says they are, by nature, calculated to do a low class of work at which other races revolt. To give the reader an idea of how low down in the social scale the Rev. Mr. Beecher places the Chinaman, as well as other races of the human family, we quote the following from liis sermon on the sub ject: “What the Americans discard the Germans will eat, what the Germans reject the Jew will consume, and what the Jews throw away the Chinaman will subsist on.” This is, to say the least, rather a severe classification. However, the question now is, What does the Chinaman eat ? The story circulates that Rev. Henry Ward Beecher contemplates retiring from the pastorate of Plymouth Church, and permanently from the ministry, on tho completion of his seventieth birthday, which will be June 24, next year. This is not because lie is in full physical and mental vigor—his admirers cay his pres ent sermons are among the best he has ever preached—but because, as is re ported, he is unwilling to run any risk of intellectual decline in tho pulpit, of which he seems to havo a dread. His father, Bev. Lyman Beecher, lived to be more than eighty-seven, but had not preached regularly for a number of years previous to his death. During August of last year, at the time the Cincinnati Commercial was managing the “ Cook One Cent Fund " to aid Capt. Cook in paying a fine assessed him for slapping a man who “ wished Garfield would die,” that paper received the following, which, at this time, seems of peculiar interest: “Kansas City, Mo., Angast 13, 1881. “To th VA I tor of the Commercial: “ Although <letit(l and deanised. and feared bvagood many, and only f 2O 000 of areward offered for us, dead or otherwise, and for all of the above we honor aud respect onr President, and stand ready not only to slap, but to shoot, if it need toe, for him. Sorry it is not dollars instead of cents that is roiling in to the honor able and patriotic old Captain Cook. Frank and Jess r. James. “ Missouri’s Awful Outlaws. “Please copy it all for Missouri’s Governor's sake. I have not seen his name in your paper yet. “Frank." After a short visit two ladies are about to pay their compliments to fho Countess Santa-Grue and take their de parture. “ Pray,” she says graciously, “remain a little longer.” “Indeed,” answered one of the ladies in her most winning way, “were I to stay another five minutes I should never lie able to go <whispering to the other lady), for T should be fast asJeep.” _ “BY THE SEA, SEPT. *!, 1881.” BT MRS. FRAHcas HODGSON BURKETT. Watchman! what of the night? The iky is dark, my friend. And we iu heavy grief await the end. A light Is burning in a silent room, But we—we have no light In all the gloom. Watchman ! what of the night? Friend, strong men watch the light With the strange mist of tears before their sight, And women at each hearthstone sob and pray That the great darkness end at last In day. Watchman! how goes the night? Wearily, friends, for hiui, Yet his heart quail* not, though light burn* dim. As bravely as he fought the field of life, lie bears hiimelf in this, the final Btrife. Watchman 1 whnt of the night ? Friends, we are left no word To tell of all the bitter sorrow stirred In our sad souls. We stand and rail at fate Who leaves hands empty and hoarts desolate. “ Ara pure, great souls so many in the land That wo should lose tho chosen of the band ?” We cry! But he who suffers iies, Mooting sharp-weaponed pain with steadfast eyea And makes no plaint while on the threshold death Half draws his keou sword from its glittering sheath And looking inward pauses—lingering long, Faltering—himself tho weak liefore the strong. Watchman ! how goes the night? Iu tears, my friend, and praise Of his high truth ami generous, trusting ways; Of his warm love ami buoyant hope and faith Which passed life’s fires free from all blight or scathe. Btrange! we forget the laurel wreath wo gave, And only love him, standing near his grave. Watchman 1 what of tho night? Friend, when It is past, We wonder what our grief can bring at last, To lay upon his broad, true, tender breast, What flower whoso sweetnesH shall outlast the rest And this we set from all tho bloom apart; 44 Ho woke new love and faith in every heart.” Watchman! what of the night? Would Qod that it were gone And we might see once more the rising dawn! The darkness deeper grows—the light burns low, There sweeps o’er land and sea a ory of woe I Watchman! What now! What now i Hush, friend—wo may not say Only that—all tho pain lias passed away. —Cincinnati Commercial. OLD STEP TO A NEW TUNE. “One, two, three, four, five, six! One, two, three, four, five, six ! More evenly, monsieur, if you please. You must not rise so much on the four. Again ! Four, five, six ! One, two, three, four, five, six !” with a monotr onous regularity that seemod to tell of a round of more or less stupid pupils succeeding one another unendingly. But Mademoiselle Gervaux, f isliion ablo dancing mistress of Silver stroot, Golden Square, aud evory one admitted who had ever taken a lesson of her one of the prettiest girls to be met with in town or country, had quick, laughing eyes, which at present told of more in terest than her busino“-likn tonn cmv<> lnnt oi. blie was of dark complexion, with rather vivid color, and below tho middle height, and was more richly dressed than, knowing her station, one would have expected. Her present pupil had observed this ; aud, bent as he was on attaining tho ob ject for which ho had sought Silver street, and on attaining it as quickly ns possible, he hail yet given more atten tion than he otherwise would to his teacher’s personal appearance. It was only 11 o'clock in the morning, and, however dazzling such persons may appear at their weekly assemblies and evening classes, he had not expected to find such a paragon of neatness and taste at that hour in the morning. Cir cling round tho room by oneself, with one’s hands hanging in an ostentatiously easy position, and one’s figure reflected in a number of full-length mirrors, is not a way in which a young man, oven of little vanity, would care to present himself before a pretty girl; and tho Vicomte Alphonse Carmignol, of the French navy, was quite as vain—having indeed such reason as a good-looking face and a slight figure can give a man to be so—as most young men. He was a Frenchman who had been for some time serving abroad, and with distinction. He had just arrived in London, and, rich, high-born and in a small way famous, he found himself warmly welcomed. Invitations to all tho best houses flowed in ; and Monsieur le Vicomte found it necessary to get the assistance of friends well acquainted with London society before ho could de termine which of his cards he should use, and which he should tacitly or ex pressly lay aside. But of his many invitations one had been accepted beforehand, and, in fact, was the cause of his visit to England. He was engaged to be married, and had come over to be engaged to his fiancee —literally to be introduced to nor, for they had never met. Their families had, in French fashion, made up the match, and tho two persons whom English people would have considered most in terested had never come together at all. This was Monday. On Wednesday week there was to be ft state dinner ftt the French Embassy, followed by a ball, for the purpose of introducing Monsieur Alphonse to tho daughter of the Marquis de la Penthiere, French Ambassador at St. .Tamos’. A little of English preju dice had been allowed to creep in, in deference to which the Vicomte had re j ceived a private invitation to tea on the same afternoon, unti) which timo, owing I to her absence on a visit in Shropshire, j the young lady would be invisible. In j one more week from that date they were to be married—a queer arrangement to tho English minds, hut to the two famil ies, and indeed to the two persons who in English eyes would have been consid ered victims to it, the most natural state of things in the world. Oddly enough, the Vicomte conld not dance the newest waltz which was then the rage in London. New descriptions of that dance succeeded one another so quickly that in these days it is easy for a sailor, French by birth and fashiona ble by station though he be, to return from the service of his conntry and find himself still “at sea” on the well-waxed boards of a ball-room. Such a state of tilings could not tie permitted to con tinue, more especially as Mademoiselle de la Penthiere would certainly expect her fiancee to dsnee, and to dance well. Bo the Vicomte had called in Silver street one morning at an early hour, had sent up his card, and had been duly received by Mademoiselle Gervaux, and had taken bis first lesson at once, oho was not at all like the dancing-mistress whom, from tho description given by tlie friends wlio had recommended him to apply to her, ho had expected to see. But she evidently know how to dance, and she was very handsome and lady like ; and tho young man found anew kind of pleasure in returning to take his second lesson. “Mademoiselle,” said he, as ha stopped to rest and sat down on a stiff backed chair, “shall I be perfect by Wednesday ?” In his French way, so entirely desti tute of shyness, ho had told her all about the important ovent which was to oomo off on that Wednesday, had ex plained how anxious he was to see his future wife, and how graceful charmante She was—she must bo “that angel of a demoiselle. ” But all this had taken place at the first lesson, and for some reason Monsieur lo Vicomte on this occasion had said much loss of the forthcoming event. “Assuredly, monsieur, mademoiselle shall have no reason to complain. But you are no doubt consumed with anxiety to see her ?” “Ah, am I not?” replied tho Vi eomte, with a French ejaculation. “Bnt mademoiselle herself is entirely charm ing !” nnd tho young man looked very sincere os he said this, though ho added no word of emphasis; while mademoi selle, who should havo been hardened by long practice against tho warmest flat tery, seemed unaccountably embar rassed, and resumed tho business of the hour with wonderful alacrity. If they were not already in love, they were rapidly approaching that stage; and on this day, as the young French man stood in the dingy street waiting for his cab, tho gloomy faded neighbor hood struck him with a full sense of in congruity, it seemed to accord so ill with the grace and elegance that still im pressed his mind. How much more at homo, ho thought, she would look in Eaton Square or in tho spacious rooms at the Embassy ! And unoonsciontdy ho breathed a hope that Mademoiselle do la Pentluere might be like her. Three more lessons—tho oaloalation camo nat urally to him—three more lessons, sho had said, would make him perfect. Wherever ho went during the next tlireo days, to park, diuner or ball, tho Vicomte could not avoid comparing all the ladieß whom ho mot with his danc ing mistress; and, when the last ocoasion actually came on which, he was to see her, his eoys were open to the fact that ho was in love—he, a Frenchman, a man of tho world, 30 years old, and ready to range himself, was positively iu love I ’lliJoiUio pass. The pupil had taken his final turn with his teacher, and she had pronounced that only prac tice was needed to give him tlie smooth ness of tho perfect waltzor. “ I must bid you adieu, then ?” said he softly, taking her hand instead of making tho low bow that, as a teacher of deportment, she could have exacted. “Yes, monsieur ; I am certain that you will not forget tho step.” “Forget it, Adrienne ! All, could I ever forgot it ?” And the Vicomte caught her in his arms and kissed her. The result was quite contrary to his expectations. First, sho boxed his ears soundly, or rather one of them, and then hurst into tears, which, whether caused bvrage or confusion, wore certainly sin cere and more effective. Tho Vicomte flung himself on his knees and ser, himself fervently to pac ify her and put tilings on a proper foot ing. But mademoisello was mortally offended. Never had ho known such an offense regarded so severely. Hho was inconsolable ; and sho was silent save for sobs. At last she suddenly made for the door, and Monsieur le Vieomto, his future bride, tho event of the coming Wednesday, and tho wrath of tho fami lies forgotten, in an ecstasy of repent ance implored her to marry him, to bo his wife. “Monsieur,” replied sho with dignity, stopping 'liort, “you forget that you are to marry another I” “But, Adrienne, my darling, listen ! I love only you I” “And what of your mother and tho Marquis <lo la Penthiere ?" “ J am thinking only of voul ’ cried ho iu a tone of despair, as tho indigna tion of these persons occurred to him. “Nay, Monsieur, I will not suffer this madness. You havo insulted me, but I will not exact such a punishment. Hoar mo. On one condition I will forgive you.” " Whatever it bo, I will win your par don.” “I take you at your word. You will, before you marry—nay, at your first meeting with Mile, dc la Penthiere— tell her of your recent misconduct. You have wronged her as much as myself.” “ I have promised, Mile. Adrienne,” he cried, with a groan. “ But what of you?” “Of mo?” said shn proudly, bowing low. “I pardon you. Adieu, Monsieur!" And, before the young man could again interpose, she disappeared, tho door closed behind her, and he was left alone in the unfurnished salon. “ Well, I am a fool !” he soliloquized, as he picked his way through Golden Square and Beak street. “I’d have married her, though what madarno my mother would have said I don’t know, and, as to Mademoiselle de la Penthiere, how I shall tell her I don’t know. But I’ve promised, and the Oarmignols keep their word," he added with a groan, as he remembered how a few minutes ear lier he bad offered to break his most solemn engagement. Even at the French Embassy, that stately building which, flanking the Albert Gate, induces country cousins to ask what it is, a great ball is heralded by some slight but perceptible prepara tions ; but those were little apparent us the Vicomte was ushered up the spacious staircase to the smallest drawing-room. Here tho Marquis de la Penthiere re ceived him very cordially; for they were old friends, as far as men of different ages can Vie, and the Marquis had im bibed sufficient English prejudices not to have handed over hi i daughter to flic most unexceptionable parti bad not ho felt sure that flic man himself was one likely to make her happy, He was an indulgent sathor, and she had lleen allowed much more liberty than French girls generally enjoy be fore marriago. Possibly, therefore, she was not quite so resigned to her fate as those around her supposed; but she gave no sign of disooutent, and perhaps was waiting to see her future husband before blio decided to oppose her father’s wishes. More probably she looked on the union as a matter of course. Mademoisello de la Penthiere bowed low iu answer to tho Vicomto’s reveren tial salutation ; but, with the modesty of a young French girl, she shaded her face from his eyes with her large orient al fan, so that in tho gathering dusk he could not at onco determine what she was like, save that she was elegant, graceful and very beautifully dressed. After a few phrases of oordial court esy, the Marquis glided from the room —a proceeding not at all in accordance with striot French etiquette—and tho two were loft together. Then tho Vicomte knew that his time was come. It might he that ho would not seo her alone again until their mar riago ; and ho had promised "her” that she should bo told of his recent strango forgetfulness. Ho drew a deep sigli— this was worse than a outting-out ex pedition !-—then he braced himself up, and, after requesting permission to toll her something that was a little disa greeable, but which ho would make as short ai possible, he received a gracious acquiescence, and, plunging in median rex, ho told her all in as shamefaoed a way ns a Frenchman could. “But Monsieur le Vicomte, do you— love—this—woman?” said the aristocrat ic beauty, iu cold tones, from behind her fan, when he had told his story and mado some sort of au apology. “ Mademoisello, I do lovo her ; but, when 1 have known your cliarming vir tues for a short time, pouf, they will drive away her memory ! What chance shall I, who am so susceptible, have in your presence ? ” . But it was evident from the Vicomto’s tone that he had no very sanguine ex pectations vhftt such would be tho case. “Well, monsieur, before I answer your compliment, I too have a confess ion to make. I also havo a great friend in London; sho is my foster-sister, and is u dancing-mistress, living in Silver street, near Golden Square. No, do not interrupt me ; I will hear any reproaches you have to utter afterward. My father is indulgent, and I often visit her at tended only by my maid. A week ago I returned unexpectedly from a..gpun,trJ'i there my foster-sister was called away to fulfill a business engagement. I stayed a fow minuted in her room practising some now music, when a gentleman’s card was brought up to mo by tho serv ant, who thought her mistress was still at homo. Innooently curious, I looked at it and recognized the name as one very familiar to me. In a spirit of nlis chief I saw tho gentleman, made ap pointments With him, ami, with madem oiselle’s concurrence and in her name, gave him several lessons.” "Mon Dim!” cried tho Vieomto, snatching away the fan which sho kept before lior face. “ Adrienne, my dar ling, am I not happy ?” “ And I?” said she. “Yon havo not forgotten the step ?” Very lucky it was that Monsieur lo Marquis did not enter for several mo ments, or the lurking distrust which ho, as a diplomatist, felt might have been considerably strengthened. A week later tho marriago of tho Vi comte and Mademoiselle do la Penthiere formed tho most fashionable item in the Morning Pont. And as people conned the description of tile dresses and the presents, they expressed their pity for tho two victims of French marriago cus toms. But not oven yet has anything been known to have happened to them out of the common—not even yet; for these things happened in the most brilliant days of Louis Napoleon. __________ rood for the Sic*. The following advice us to adminis tering food to the sick deserves the at t< lition of nurses nml of all who are called ujion to look after nervous pa tients: It is a great mistake to have largo quantities of fruit, biscuits, etc., lying about a sick-room. Avery few grapes, an orange peeled and divided, and two or three milk or water biscuits are quite enough to havo displayed at one time. The same may be said of food. I have often been pained, when visit ing some of my sick pensioners, to see their friends, with well-meant but mis taken kindness, bring large basinfuls of horrible compounds, which they dignify with the name of gruel, or sago, or tap ioca, as the case may tie. The mere night of the food seemed to set them against it. Whereof:, if a little care had been bestowed upon its prep aration, and n smull cupful provided in stead of tho largo quantity I name, they probably would nave partaken of it with pleasure. Another error, committed with the best of intentions, is to keep asking tho patients what they would like, if they could take tliis thing or the other. Tho sickened, wearied expression I have often seen flitoverthe faces Of people who are recovering from a lingering illness, when tlicir officious relatives come teas ing them as to their requirements ! During the lingering illness of a dear relative, I verily believe wo made her often eat, just by providing dainty mor sels of food, displaying them temptingly arranged, and taking thorn to lier bod side quite unexpectedly. If she bail been asked could sho eat anything, I feel confident the answer would have inevitably been: “No; thanks. I don’t feel at all inclined to eat,” Avery simple and expeditious wav of cooking a little bit of chicken or fish is to butter a paper thickly, place the food i to be cooked within the paper, and place it on tho gridiron over a clear fire. A very short time suffices to cook it thor oughly, and 1 have often found that to bo eaten tvhen all other inodes of invalid ' cookery have been tried in vain. TERM.*: sl.*9 pr iun. NUMBER 32. ODD SCRAPS. V Grained wood should be washed with cold tea. Sour milk removes iron rust from white goods. Try pure benzine to remove stains from hair-cloth furniture. The free use of lemon juice and sugar will always relieve a cough. Cream of tartar rubbed upon soiled white kid gloves clean them well. Out hot bread or oake with a hot knife, and it will not be olammy. Moths will eat the all-wool reps, but not the mixed silk and ootton upholster- 1 ing. Camphor placed in drawers or trunks will prevent mice from doing them any injury. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosoue lamp should be washed off with soda water. Sinolf, cream is cream that has stood on the milk twelve hours. It is best for teu and coffee. In boilino eggs put them in boiling water. It will prevent the yoke from ooloring black. In making a crust of any kind, do not melt tho lard in flour. Melting will in jure tho crust. CliltAM that is to be whipped should not be butter cream, lest in whipping it change to butter. A fine comb loosens the dead skin of tho soalp just as friction rubs off the scarf skin of the body. A few dried or preserved cherries, with stones out, are the very best thing possible to garnish sweet dishes. Double cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and cream for butter frequently stands forty-eight hours. In Potobi tho most violent headaches, so vory common there, are cured by putting tho feet in hot water. A solution of common salt given im mediately is said to be a successful remedy for strychiuia poisoning. Balt extracts the juices of meat in oooking. Steaks ought therefore not to be salted until they have been broiled. In roiling dumplings of anj kind, put them in the water one at a time. If they ure put in together they will mix with each other. The only sure and efficient way to warm oold feet is to dip them in cold water and then rub them dry briskly with a coarse towel. To beat the white of eggs quickly put iu a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs tUu. uiuvfbibthfix HiALfrotii Hnlt ' vv ”“ There is a greenness in onions and fotatoos that renders them hard to digest. ’or health’s sake put them in warm water for an hour before cooking. When washing oil-cloths, put a little milk in tho last water they are washed with. This will keep them bright and clean longer than clear water. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other wood-work. It may be washed with warm soap suds, quiokly wiped dry and then rubbed with an oily cloth. To make silk which has beeu wrinkled appear exactly like now, sponge it on the surface with a weak solution of gum arubic or whito glue, and iron on the wrong side. A taste made of whiting and benzine will clean marble, and one mode of whit ing and chloride of soda spread and left to dry (in the sun if possible) on the marble will remove spots. Eaos coated with butter in which two or throe per cont. of salicylic acid has been dissolved and then packed in dry sawdust without touching one another will keep fresh for a year. Homctliing About Gems. The raby is more valuable than the diamond, if it is large, without flaw, and of the truo pigeon’s blood color. Tho largest known ruby belongs to the King of Burmab, being the size of a pigeon’s egg. A fine stone of four carats’ weight is worth about two thous and dollars; but above this rate they arc very rare, and could command fancy prices. The ruby has been most suc cessfully imitated in paste, and garnets backed by a ruby foil are often met with. The monster ruby of Charies the Bold, set iu tho middle of a golden rose for a pendant, which was captured by the Burnese after his rout at Granson, turned out to ho false. The Sapphire is not so valuable when of great size as tho ruby, but a fine stone brings a great price. The largest sapphire is the “ wooden spoon Seller,” so called from the occupation of the finder in Bengal. Its weight is 132 1-16 carats, and it was sold to a French jeweler for $34,000. Lady Burdett Coutts, of London, has one of the finest sapphires. It was for merly one of the crown jewels of France. The emerald is so rarely perfect that “an emerald without a flaw” has passed into a proverb, and fine specimens are worth from one hundred to two hundred dollars a carat. In the middle ages its value was enormous, Cellini putting it at four times the diamond. The largest emerald known is the Devonshire, which was purchased by the Duke of Devon shire for Don Pedro. It is not cut, and is two inches in diameter, weighing eight ounces, eighteen pennvweights. The turquoise is found in Pelsia, and the Hhnh is supposed to have in his posses sion all tho finest gems, as he allows only those of inferior quality to leave tho conntry. In consequence, large ; turquoise of good quality and fine color | are extremely rare and bring great i prices. The opal is esteemed unlucky, but the absurd superstition cannot be . traced further hack tbau Scott’s novel of “Anne of Gcirstein,” in which the Baroness Hermoine of Arnheim wears one. The Empress Josephine’s opal, oalled the “ Burning of Troy/' from the innumerable red flames blazing on its surface, was considered to be the finest stone of modern times, but its present owner is unknown. In the Museum of Vienna is an opal of a ‘raordinary size for which two hundred thousand dollars lias been refused. The largest pearl on record is now inßussia. It was brought ; from India in 1620, and sold to Philip i IV of Spain. Adversity has the effect of elioiting talents which, in prosperous circtun -1 stances, would have laiu dormant,