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W. F, SfMITH, Publisher, VOLUME VIII. NEWB GLEANINGS. In 1880 Houth Carolina raised 516,590 bales of cotton. Last year South Carolina raised 62,948,537 pounds of rice. Last year North Carolina made only nineteen barrels of beer. There are fifty-six cotton seed oi mills in the United States. Georgia has only one. Another squad of Cherokee Indians are soon to leave London, Tennessee, for the Indian Nation. M.-my now claim that iron can be made cheaper at Birmingham, Alabama, ' !wn anywhere in the United States. ()f Florida towns the census of Lake City is 1,379; Lavi 11a, 1,618; Jackson vilie, 7,648; Pensacola, 5,845; Tallahas nee, 2,494 ; Fernand in a, 2,562, and Pa. latka, 1,616. Nine incorporated companies ard j n „ dividuah are engaged in phosphate aiming j n the navigable streams of South Carolina. Hie great temperance petition pre sented to the Georgia Legislature the other day was 600 feet long and con tained 30,000 signatures. It was greet ed with applause. 1 he Steamship Seminole, among other In iiiht from Savannah to Boston, a few ‘liiys since, carried 30,000 watermelons. One of the officers of the Southern Express Company says that the pay roll of the Company for Georgia alone is SSO. 000 per month. The Augusta Sewerage and Water Supply party carried their ticket at the recent election, and city bonds will be issued to raise the money ami begin the work. Ihe Buckingham (Va.) gold mines ;,r<> panning out such marvelous amounts of the auriferous metal, that •iI the news gets abroad thev will have ii rush of gold hunters hither equal to Cmt of California in 1848. A moccasin residing in Henry county, Alabama, bit Mr. Roberts’ son on the loot, in Holland’s mill-pond, six or eight feet under water, recently. He had no whisky or any other antidote, an(l lie experienced but little injury Iroiu the reptile’s fangs. Query : Is the Hie of a snake under water poisonous Further figures of the Alabama con sus show that Eufaula lias 3,836 people: Fnion Springs, 1,862; Greenville, 2,471; Tallassee, 1,182; Opelika, 3,215; Auburn’ M6l; Giranl, 2,224; Mobile, 29,132; Montgomery, 16,713, and Tuscaloosa! 2,017. Mi. R. M. Sandys, a Louisiana sugar maker, is putting up permanent works •it Stei ling, 111., 13(1x40 feet ground di mensions, walls twenty five feet high, Imilt of stone, at a total estimated cost of $40,000; capacity, 300 tons of cane l n r da y- Mr. W. C. Clement is also putting up a large mill at the same place. Teeumseh Furnace, of Tecumseb, Ala bama, entered on its seventh year of blast on the 19th of June, on one hearth, without blowing out. The furnace is making twenty tons of iron per day on >lO bushels of charceal. The furnace is sixty by twelve, and usjesbrown hem atite ore. Senator Jones, of Florida, recently Mot ived a letter informing him of the death of Lis only sister, Mrs. Margaret of Galveston, Texas. This is the thir\ death tha; has occurred in theSen vtor s family within a few months. He lost his wife last fall, since then a grown s>n his died in Washington, and now be get- news of his sister’s death. Luring a trial for assault in Arkansas, a club, a rock, a rail, an an ax handle, a knife and a shot-gun were exhibited ** l be instruments with which the deed was done. It was also shown that the assault °d man defended himself with a re volver, a scythe, a pitchfork, a chisel, a band-saw, a Hail and a cross dog. Then the jury decided that they’d have given bve dollars apiece to have seen the fight. A curious decision was recently made ?n a trial justice’s court in Abbeville. 8. The cause under consideration was T -lie right of a wife to enter into a con tact to labor against the will of her husband. The husband bad brought for the setting aside of the contract, ' ut *he justice decided that the woman had the right to make all the contracts he chose, whether of a property or a 1* nature. The husband was then * uteuced to pay a fine of $25 and costs 0r go to jii thirty days. fitted t* lidwtriai lateral. Use Difftmoaei TriUi.the Establiskmt of Justice, and the PrfSfnati§a of a Peeple'i ttiTerameat. A. LIXTLM CMWTOM. A widow—she had only ana, A pony and decrepit son; Bat day and night, Though fretful oft, and weak and A loving child, he waa her *ll— widow’a mite. The widow’* mite—ay, so sustained She bet tied onward, nor oomplained, Though friends were fewer; And, while she toiled for dally fare, A little crutch upon the stair Was musio to her. I saw her then—and now I see That, though resigned and cheerful, she Has sorrowed much. She has— He gave it tenderly Much faith; and carefully laid by A little crutch. A NOVEL DEFENSE. Wecarln* Hl* Safely l*jr llearly Laughter. [Good Woods. ] On the fifth day of our march from lentywe, I was, as usual, considerably in iront of my men, who, with their loads, were not able to walk as fast as myself. The sky threatened a storm, which made me hasten to reach Ptimlio. On ap proaching the village nobody was to be seen, the natives being either out in the fields, or in their houses ottt of the rain. The s took ado presented a rather unin viting appearance, being ornamented with a lew hundred human skulls in all directions, from the freshly stuck-up head to the bleached cranium, and nil apparently snapping their jaws at the thought of a now companion as the wind wheeled them backward and forward. However, the rain was falling fast, and there was no use of being squeamish. So into the village I marched unnoticed, and finding out a hut with a broad, overhanging cave, I took refuge out of sight, waiting till my men came forward, m order that I might appear with appro priate pomp. I bad been thus ensconced nearly ten minutes, when suddenly the stillness of the village was broken by a loud, peculiar shout. This was almost Immediately taken up from every quar ter of the village, until every stone seemed to yell out the strange cry. Drums added to the uproar, while wo men screamed, and the men wero seen to hurry toward the gates, shouting and brandishing their spears. I was very much astonished at this; but, supposing it was simply the fashionable mode of receiving a caravan, I remained still, ex pecting my men every minute. How ever, the uproar continued without abatement, nnd my men did not appear. Thinking there must bo something wrong, I emerged from my cover. To my surprise I found the gates closed, and the stockades and crows’ nests maimed by an excited multitude brandishing their spears at some ap parent enemy outside. It instantly flashed upon me that I was a prisoner and cut oil from my men. My presence m the village w r as evidently unknown. For, on my appearance among them, every voice was silent, and the once ex cited multitude seemed paralyzed with fear. I was supposed to be a ghost. Seeing this, I recovered my presence of mind, and striking an attitude like Ham let’s ghost, I moved forward with slow, deliberate steps, and severe expression of face. At eaoh step the warriors re coiled. Struck with awe, they looked at me with staring eyes and open mouths, in breathless silence. This was too rnuoh for mo, and unable to keep up the character, I burst out with an irre pressible roar of laughter. The effeot of that laugh was tremendous. The amazed savages recoiled still further, leaving the gate free. With a bound I reached it, and before they could reoover their senses it was open, and I was out side, to the unbounded joy of my men, who were trembling for my safety. How Voltaire L'nreu the Decay of His Stomach. In the “Memoirs of Count Segur” there is the following anecdote: “My mother, the Countess de Segur, being asked by Voltaire respecting her health, told him that the most painful feeling she had arose from the decay in her stomach and the difficulty of finding any kind of aliment that it could bear. Vol taire, by way of consolation, assured her that he was once for nearly a year in the same state, and believed to be in curable, but that nevertheless a very simple remedy had restored him. It consisted in taking no other nourishment than yolks of eggs beated up with the flour of potatoes and water. ” Though this circumstance concerned so extraor dinary a person as Voltaire, it is aston ishing how little it is known and how rarely the remedy has been practiced. Its efficacy, however, in cases of debility, can not be questioned, aud the follow ing is the mode of preparing this valu able article of food as recommended by Sir John Sinclair: Beat up an egg in a bowl and then mid six tablespoonfuls of cold water, mixing the whole well to gether; then add two tablespoonfuls of farina of potatoes; let it be mixed thor oughly with the liquid in the bowl. Then porn- in as much boiling water as will convert the whole into a jelly, and mix it well. It may be taken alone or with the addition of a little milk in case of stomachic debility or consumptive disorders. The dish is light and easily digested, extremely wholesome and nourishing. Bread or biscuit may be taken with it as the stomach gets stronger. Snuff takers very seldom have head colds, because the membranes become thiokened. Widows over 50 cannot marry again in Portugal, In this country widows never get over 50, INDIAN SPRINGS, GEORGIA. The Girl Opposite. The editor of the Philadelphia Times has been flirting with “the girl opposite” and gives his readers the benefit of his experience in a lengthy article: “It is a wise and merciful dispensation of nature that there nearly always is a girl opposite. Possibly a dweller in the proverbial vast wilderness might hit upon an exception to this far-reaching rule; but the chances are just as he was thinking how dismal it was that he had come at last to a region where no girl opposite was to be found he would see the ‘savage woman’ out of Locksley Hall peGping at him from among the bushes on the other side of the stream—and then the usual flirtation with the look ing-glass would begin. . For the flirta tion always does begin with a looking £lass, and so, after all, the self-alleged inventor of heliograpliy is only a base copyist. Millions is but a thin shallow sort of a word to express the number of men who have at one time or another in thehr livos been subject to the will of the girl opposite, and who have regulated their personal affairs—their comings and goings—not by the requirements of their professions, but by the eccentric stand ard of her disappearance and visibility. Why, did governments impose upon men one-tenths part of the burdens and in conveniences which they willingly beur for the girl opposite, the world would bo more or less swimming in the sea of rev olutionary blood pretty much all the time! These assertions are not made rashly nor carelessly. Have you ever stopped to calculate how much time you have fooled away in making love to the girl opposite; that is to say, to all the girls opposite to whom you have made love in your life long ? And have you over stopped to think how few things there are in this world that you would sacrifice so much time to for so small a result? We say “fooling” away time advisedly, If flirting with the girl op posite ever led to the inevitable marry ing that in the long run every fellow must attend to, then it would be a reas onable thing to do. But it never does, never. You marry some other girl, and he girl marries some other fellow, and the whole performance is just a sheer waste of time. And yet, after all, worse ways than this is have been invented. Even if you do marry and go to live in Dau, and the girl marries and goes to live in Beersheba and you never lay eyes on each other again or hear a word about each other to the very end of your sev eral days, yet, somehow, you have al ways a little soft spot in your heart as you remember her standing there framed in the window, like the pretty picture that she was—‘reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye,’ and simply irresistible, and you cannot help believing that down Beersheba-way there is somebody who leinembers all about it, and feels a good deal the same way you do. Truly, the girl opposite is a good deal of bother; but the time for legislating her out of office has not yet come. No indeed. ” A Strange Story. It iB easy to attribute illusions and so called ‘•spiritual visions” to walking dreams and double consciousness when confined to a single individual, but how will you explain them when two persons, hundreds of miles apart, are conscious of each other’s presence? My mother, an unimaginative woman, who had never discovered her nerves, when in her eigh tieth year was prostrated with an alarm ing attack of pneumonia. On Sunday morning she was unconscious of her sur roundings, and apparently very near death, and a telegram to that effect was sent without her knowledge to her son, who was living in Western New York— her home being in Massachusetts. This son had been ill but was convalescing, and when the dispatch reached him he was on the piazza taking a sun-bath, clad in his bed room ulster of a peculiar make and close-fitting skull cap of seal-skin. In his agitation over the distressing news he walked to the front gate, and leaning upon it for support, suddenly and dis tinctly beheld the figure of his mother standing before him. impressed by the occurrence, he determined to vis it her bedside, hastily made prepara tions for the journey, and by traveling express all the way reached her house on Monday afternoon, when he told the story of the apparition. Meanwhile my mother had rallied somewhat and her mind was clear most of the time, but it was thought best not to apprise her of my brother’s arrival. After a time, when she was thought to be sleeping, he stepped to her door to look at her. She immediately spoke to him in her ordinary manner, without be traying the least surprise at his being there, and said: “Well, John, you look better in that coat. I never saw such a strange suit as that you had on when you were leaning over the gate on Sun day morning. ” My poor brother, a man nearly sixty years of age, and not in the least superstitious, was yet so overcome by this double mystery that he nearly fainted. In this case no collusion was possible. My mother had never visited the city where my brother lived and had never seen the suit of clothes mentioned. She oould not have overheard his voice in the house, as her hearing was im paired. Can the event be explained on scientific ground.-—JV K Tribune. “Ah, drab,” sighed Miss Fifczroy, a*, she yawned wearily, “there isn't any thing to occupy one’s mind ncm. Fve j made toilet cushions and tidies, a*nd em broidered slippers and painted majolica jars until I’m weary of life. I believe I’ll go down into the kitchen and w\ atch Jane make bread. I suppose I ough, tto know how many pints of yeast it tak es to a loaf.” And she penetrated the iness part of the house, only to find ouO that bread was “raised’’ from the baker’s cart, —Hew Haven Megieter, ) Too Near and Too Homely. The New York Times has a pleasant satire about the life of street car drivers who work seventeen hours a day and then complain that they have only seven left iu which to eat, sleep and play with their babies. The trouble with the street car driver is, it says, that he does not live in a distant State and is not picturesque and romantic like a sailor. If he were, ho would get sympathy enough. They ought to be driving cars in South Carolina. Continues the Times: “We could then disclaim eloquently concerning the separation of families caused by the hellish system which for bids the father to see his children except when fchey are asleep. We could de nounce the barbarism whiclf’ compels men to work for seventeen hours daily, exposed to rain and snow, and frozen by the bitter cold of mid-winter nights. We should find it easy to induce religious bodies to pass resolutions condemning the wickedness of the Charleston car companies, which forbid their slaves to attend any religious services on Sun day or any other day. It would bo in vain for the Charlestonians to reply that their car drivers are not slaves, and that they are free to leave the service of the companies and starve to death at any moment. We should reply that such was the freedom of choice given to the slaves of Virginia, who could at any time run away and hide themselves in the Dismal Swamp, where they could either starve or permit themselves to be shot by slave-hunters. No shallow sophistries as to the right of car companies to buy labor at the lowest market rates could impose upon us. We would form our “Anti-car Company” societies, and eloquent professional orators would go about the country stirring up the people to a proper state of indignation against the oppressors of the Charleston car drivers. But how can we feel any indig nation concerning the treatment of a class of men who live among us and suffer under our very eyes? Clearly the thing is impossible, and the sooner our car drivers recognize their great mistake in not being South Carolinians or Louis ianians the better. ” There is lots of philosophy as well as wit in this view which the Times takes of the situation. Men are prone to look at the evils which are at a distance through a telescope. But when they inspect those under their feet they turn the instrument the other end to, making the objects near them appear small and Insignificant indeed. Providing for Daughters. The way of happiness and comfort for single middle-aged women would be much easier if a different method was pursued by parents toward their daugh ters while they are still young. Noth ing, of course, can recompense a woman for the loss in her life of the love of hus band and children, but there is no rea son why, added to this bitterness, she should always have the humiliation of dependence. Half the terrors ot a sin gle life of a woman lie in the fact that she will never have a home of her own, but must remain a dependent on father and brothers ; the one too many m the household ; the beneficiary on sufferance in the family, though she work twice as much as the aotual members. A father naturally sets his boy on his own feet at coming of age, but as naturally keeps his daughter dependent on himself. It is a pleasure, perhaps, to him to give her gowns and pin money at 30 as when she was 3. He does not reflect that she has the longing, equally natural to every man and woman, to take her own place in the world, to be a rooted plant, not a parasite. The difficulty is easily solved. If the father is wealthy, let him settle absolutely upon his daughter, when she is of marrying age, the amount he would have given her as a dower, in stead of doling out the interest as con stant- gifts ; if he is a poor man, let him give her some trade or occupation by which she can earn her own money. This course would obviate the mercena ry necessity of marriage which rises night and day before the penniless, de pendent woman. —The Housekeeper, Origin of the Word Roorback. Nathan Guilford, once a well-known citizen of Cincinnati, was an active Whig politician, and editor of an energetic Whig paper. On April 1, of a certain year, he published a circumstantial ac count of experiments by a German chemist named Roorback. Roorback had been examining the chemical con stituents of eggs of different birds, sup posing it might be possible at last to compound a hatchable egg. According to the story, after putting many of his manufactured eggs to the animal heat of different patient mothers, he at last happily succeeded in hatching one egg ! ana produced a living bird. The story then goes on to describe very minutely the strange creature, anatomically, physiologically and every other way, imitating the scientific style used in similar cases. The story read very well, and was copied into many other papers, and, after going the rounds of the press in ail parts of the United States, it was at last (after three or four months) dis covered to have been first published on the Ist of April. The Cincinnati Enquirer (Democrat ic) immediately fixed upon Mi. Guilford the name of Roorback, which was there after held to mean a political liar, although the story had nothing to do with politics. Being well stuck to, the name at last became pretty well fixed, and Mr. G. was for many years well known in the political field as Old Roorback. Dropped hairpins bring more women to their knees than all the sermons in i the worjd. Expensive Drugs. There are two mad men in Milwaukee. One is a bald-headad man and the other is a druggist. The bald man told a doc tor that his hair was falling out, and asked him if he didn’t know of some thing that would stop it. The doctor said he would fix him, so he wrote a pre scription, which was as follows: Chloride of sodium - - 1 07- Aqua pura - - - - - 8 oz. Shake well and rub on the scalp every morn ing. The bald man went to a druggist and had the prescription put up, paying a dollar and seventeen cents for it. He asked the druggist if it wasn’t a little high, but felt ashamed when the drug gist asked him if he knew how much aqua pura cost a gallon. Ho said ho didn’t, but supposed it come high. The druggist told him aqua pura was one of the most penetrating drugs in the store, and as for chloride of sodium, there was nothing like it, and the war in Peru had sent it up kiting. Ho said if the trouble in Chili kept on there was no knowing how high it would be. The bald man used the medicine, and felt as though it was doing him good. His wife noticed little new hairs coming out, and lie felt good, so when the stuff was gone he took the bottle to the store and had it filled again. The chap who filled it thi3 time was another chap, and when the bald-headed man threw down a dollar the drugger said, “O, never mind. We won’t charge you anything for that.” The bald man asked how that was, when the drugger said, “Why, it is only salt and water anyway. The salt is only two cents a pound, and the water is pretty cheap this year. ” The bald man gave one gasp, and said, “Well, by the great bald-headed Elijah, I paid a dollar for filling that bottle before, and I w r ant my money back. It is a bald-headed swin dle. 1 thought that Peruvian story didn’t look plausible.” The druggist gave the man a box of cigars to keep still about it, but he w’on’t speak to the other drugger who charged him a dollar. — Peck's Sun. A Peculiar Affliction. Mr. Edwin Cowles, the editor of the Cleveland Leader, has a peculiar afflic tion. From boyhood he has been troubled with deafness somewhat of the nature of color blindness. He has never heard the sound of the birds, and until he grew to manhood he had always thought the music of birds was a poetic fiction. “You may fill the room with canary birds,” says Mr. Cowles, “and they may all sing at once and I never would hear a note, but I would hear the fluttcrings of their wings. I never heard the hiss ing sound of the human voice, conse quently, not knowing the existence of that sound, I grew up to manhood with out ever making it in speech. A por tion of the consonants I never hear, yet I can hear all the vowels. About a quar ter of the sounds in the human voice I never hear, and I have to watch the motion of the lips and be governed by the sense of the remarks in order to un derstand what is said to me. 1 have walked by the side of a policeman going home at night, and seen him blow bis whistle, and I never would bear it, al though it could be heard by others half a mile away. I never heard the upper notes of a piano, violin, or other musical instrument, although I would hear all the lower notes.” Mr. Cowles has con sulted some of the most eminent sur geons, physicians, and aurists in the coun try, and they are unanimous in declaring his peculiar affliction to be without a precedent. Why He Changed His Hind. The following is an actual occurrence: A “broth of a boy” died on the Hill, and Mr. Moriarty dressed himself in his best and went to view the “corroupse.” He had anew shiny black beaver hat last St. Patriok’s Day. Entering the abode of sorrow, he held the glossy tile care fully before him, crossed the floor and deposited it with great care upon a chair at the head of the coffin. Then wring ing bio bands wwwnfwlly, bo turned tv the weeping mother saying: “Shure, Mrs. Malony, ids a great loss ye hev been tiL I’m full of dhe sorrow fur yez, but dhe Lord’s will be dune.” Then turning to the corpse, Mr. Mori arty delivered himself thus: “Ooh, purty bjpe. Tommy. Why did yez die. And amt he purty in his new shirrt ond shute ov clothes. An’ won’t we miss him fronj dhe corner fwhere he used to shtand waitin’ fur dhe giiruls. Luke at him, layin’ there so swate, purty. Shure, oie niver saw a purtier corrupse. But the Lord’s will he dune an’ I must go.” Turning away he found that a huge woman was sitting rooking and weeping in the chair where he had deposited his {jrecious ping hat. Speaking in a sweet, ow voice, he inquired: “ Have yez seen me hat?” No one re plied. A little louder, “Have any iv yez seen me new hat ?” No reply. With still greater voioe: “Fhere is me new high hat?” The big woman reaohed around under her ana pulled out a con certina-looking concern made of black beaver, and tearfully remarked: “Is dhis yer hat, Mr. Moriarty?” He reared himself up. He jammed his fist into the wrecked beaver in a vain attempt to straighten it out; he gazed upon the corpse and shouted: “Yis, dhat’s me hat, and d—d be dhe day I iver kem in till see sich an ugly corrupse as this wan. It's dhe uggliest iver I saw, an’ a good riddance.” Then he walked out.—-Jer sey City Journal. When a boy walks with a girl as though he were afraid someone would see him, the girl is his sister. If he ! walks so oloee to her as to nearly crowd : her against the fence, she is the sister of * someone else, SUBSCRIPTION-ll.il. NUMBER 50. SCRAPS OF SCIENCE. Herr Tbomholt thinks ho can trace connection between the frequency* of displays of aurora and the phases of the* moon. Dr. Ricoux maintains that while Spaniards, Italians and French can be acclimatized in Algeria, people from the North of Europe cannot. This result, if well established, may have a very im portant bearing upon the colonization of Africa in the near future. Mb. Wigner, in the Analyst states that American corned-beef is twice as valuable, as an article of diet, ns fresh boneless beef, and that the cooked ox tongues contain less salt and more nutri tive matter than the dried tongues usual ly sold in European markets. M. Grehaut proved in recent experi ments that the quantity of carbonic acid exhaled by any one individual of an animal species varies but little. Irrita tions and inflammations of the respiratory mucous membrane decrease the exhala tion of carbonic acid, which then tends to accumulate in the blood. Mr. W. H. Freece, the English elec trician, has determined with much ac curacy the area protected by a properly adjusted lightning-rod. His conclusion is that the protection extends to a conic space whose height is the length of the rod, the base being a circle having its. radius equal to the height of the rod—• an opinion which has been held by scien-j title men for a long time. Considerabue changes in the water level of several lakes in California and Oregon are reported. It is stated that Goose Lake, thirty miles long, was nearly dry in 1853 and 1854, but con tained ten feet of water in 1870, and its depth has since been increasing. Clear Lake is also ten feet deeper than in 1854, while Tulie Lake, in the same region, is now ten or fifteen feet higher than then. Though the invention of the barometer is due to the mathematician Torricelli, yet in England Sir Christopher Wren was the first to suggest that the varying weight of the atmosphere was the true cause of the variation in the height of the mercury. This was a theory op posed to that of the disciples of Des cartes, who ascribed the variation to the inllnence of the moon. * NearDy every year there falls in some part of" the world a greater or leap quantity of fine yellow powder, which' fall is popularly believed to be a shower of sulphur. Investigation, however, shows the powder to be the fine pollen l of a species of pine tree. The pollen grains float easily in the air, and are often carried by gales a thousand miles. When they fall on snow the effect is often startling. For preserving tho natural colors of dried flowers and plants, this process has been recommended by German scientists: Dissolve one part of salicylic acid in 600 parts of alcohol, heat the solution to boiling in a shallow dish, and draw the plant through it slowly; shake off any excess of liquid, dry between blotting paper, and press in the usual maimer. Natural colors are said to bo thus preserved in greater perfection than by other processes. It is believed that porosity is a prop erty of all bodies. An experiment per formed some years ago, to ascertain whether water could be compressed, re sulted in proving that gold is porous—' the water inclosed in a hollow sphere of gold and forced by the violent pressure applied passed through the sphere and ap peared on the outside. The pores through which the liquid was driven could not have been more than the two-millionth of an inch in diameter. A certain Count Hugo von Engen berg, of Fratzberg'iu the Tyrol, is making use of microphones—sunk in the ground on a declivity of a hill, and connected separately with a single telephone and small battery—to discover a source of watar for his castle. He iutends to con duct the experiment by night, when dis turbing sounds aud vibrations of the ground are less frequent than by day. If a sfroam. of wot<> flow. .. .*1 utic ap paratus it will pass the sound to the telephone, and thus reveal the spring. Perils of the Single Man. The old-fashioned notion that men look with a totally different eye on wo man when they want a wife from what they look on women generally can not be sustained. Albeit there are men ever in quest of a connubial partner without searching for her. They are very apt to be surprised into matrimony, or, at least, into matrimonial intents—provided, how ever, that the matter be not taken out of their hands by the woman herself. No man is so likely to become engaged as he who is persuaded that he will never be. He is so prepared on one side for circumstances of a certain kind that he is wholly nngarded on the other side for circumstances of an opposite kind. At the very moment that he is confident of everlasting celibacy, that he is rejoicing over his freedom, a sudden shift in the sentimental environment, a word, a tear, a caress, decides his doom.-— New York Mail. The obscure poison which produces hydrophobia has been known to lie la tent in the human system for years be fore developing its fatal results. M. Pasteur declares the supposition to be well supported that the virus does de velop in certain organs, and not, as in other aimilar maladies, in the blood; and that when—after a period variable ac cording to circumstances —the organized poison passes into the blood, severe symptoms come on rapidly, and the vic tim soon dies. An explanation substan tially the same as this had long been advanced as a mere theory, but now M. Pasteur advances it as an ascertained physiological fact.