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SCHLEY COUNTY ENTERPRIS i w A. J. HARP, Publisher. IAUY IMPROVEMENTS. FIVE NEW STKEL-ARMOKKO <RIJIN KKH TO Hi: ill'll. I'. r Fifteen .tuition llollnrn to be the Sum for Cons' ruction I'nrpoacN. A Washington dispatch says that the House committee on naval affairs lias nearly completed the bill for the improvement of the navy. Arguments have been made by the secretary of the navy, Admiral Por¬ ter and other prominent naval officers and tho testimony given by all of them will accompany tho report of the committee. The committee estimate that $15,000,000 will be a proper sum for this Congress to appro¬ priate as a beg’-uiiug, of which $7,500,- 000 will be provided for in the bill shortly to be reported, with the understanding be that a like amount shall decided appropriated next year. It was not to adopt the idea of the heaviest ironclad of England, as vessels of that size so Admiral Porter told the committee, draw so much water that there are probably only two harbors on our whole Atlantic coast which they cou'd enter—Portland, Me., aud Port Royal, 8. C. Admiral Porter said that while England it could had more not than one ironclad which, lay off Coney Island get into our harbors, could and utterly destroy vessels Brooklyn, if not New York. To meet such as this it would be l>est to provide for torpedo of boats darkness. which make their attacks under cover The determination not to recommend the construction of vessels of the heaviest class was also influenced by the con¬ sideration that such vessels have no other capacity and than to fight—their movements are slow speed is lost sight of. committee Secretary Whitney, in his remarks to the favored the creation of a plaut at one of the navy yards .sufficient to produce heavy This ordnance, armor plates, steel shafts etc. idea the committee will, in all eral probability, adopt and recommend a lib¬ 000, for appropriation, this say, perhaps, of $250,- will purpose. Five large vessels be recommended to be constructed, one at a government yard, hereafter to be deter¬ mined upon, aud four to be given out by private contract. These five vessels are to be from six to eight thousand tons,to be heavily armored and equipped with the most power¬ ful armament attainable. newsy Gleanings. There are thirty colored students in the Freshman class at Yale. Italy has three locomotive factories and three railway repair shops. Massachusetts sharpshooters are to set up a granite shaft at Gettysburg. So scarce have wild elephants become in India that they are now protected by law. As many as six hundred standard Eng¬ lish works have been translated into Chinese. In Levi county, Florida, strawberries are ripe, and peaches are as big as hickory nuts. The people of this country imported paid last^year more than $',1,000,000 for precious stones. South Carolina produced last valued year 409,- 103 tons of phosphate of lime, at $2,659,169. The little town of Searsport, Maine, boasts of 18] sea captains among its population, or one to every three voters. The Pillsbury flouring mills at Minneapo¬ lis, divided $35,000 surplus profits among 1,100 employes last vear. There has been more snow the past winter in London than for fourteen years, and there is great distress in consequence. Petaluma, Cal., has two Chinese farmers. One has 150 acres uuder cultivation and the other 100 acres. They are very successful grangers. There are 1.50,000,000 tons of coal waste piled up in the anthracite coal regions, which, under a lately discovered process, is now being utilized. The fossil remains of an arch;eoptoryx,the form the oldest known bird, which seems to connecting link between birds and reptiles, for has just been sold to the Berlin museum $5,000. Last year nearly one hundred and fifty mills were erected in the Southern States, Kentucky leading with thirty-one; Tennes¬ see, twenty-four; Virginia, twenty; Texas, eighteen; Georgia, seventeen, and North Carolina, ten. PERSONAL MENTION The second volume of Mr. Blaine’s “Twenty Years in Congress” has just been issued. Edison, the inventor, took his second wife, the daughter of au Ohio millionaire, a few days since. Not less than seven German generals will complete their fiftieth year of active service during 1886. The widow of General Santa Anna is in Mexico, spending her declining years in a rocking chair, smoking cigarettes. Thomas P. Dudley, of Lexington, Ky., the oldest Baptist preacher in America, is ninety-four years of age and blind. Parnell’s friends say that the Irish leader is absolutely penniless, having given away all his cash anil realty to the Irish cause. Whittier, the poet, is color blind. He says that yellow is his favorite color because this is the only one he can distinguish. Miss Lydia Bull, of St. Louis, has been appoiuted Garland. stenographer the to Attorney-General of his deceased She is niece wife. The widow of ex-Governor John Hubbard, of Maine, still lives in Hallowell iu the same house where he died seventeen years ago. She is ninety years old. Captain Boycott, whose experiences originated the term “boycotting,” Halt has estates been appointed agent for the Flixton England. of Lord Waveney, in Suffolk, coadju¬ Sam Small, the Rev. Sam Joues’ tor, is tall and slender with dark hair and a although brown mustache. He wears spectacles, of His not yet thirty-five yearn and attrac¬ age. manner is nervons, earnest tive,and his voice strong and clear. The late Muzzafer Edin, the Emir of domestic Bokhara, had at his death one Asia. of the His largest house¬ hold establishments in consisted of seven sons, nineteen daughters, 280 wives, 290 female slaves, ten female barbers, nine female cooks, washerwomen. twenty- two needle-women, and fifty Powder Explosion. twenty persons injured, three fatally, in a store. A powder explosion occurred in Winches¬ ter. Ky., the other afternoon, in which a numb— of poison.; were injured, some fatal ly. Mary Willis’ eating house aud grocery by store as crowded at the time countr ry people who came in to at- tend tne county court. At uoon some party came into the store to buy pow der, and while the clerk was weighing it out a person present struck a match to light a cigar. A portion of the ignited sulphur flew into the powder, which exploded and tore away almost the whole side of the room. About twenty person were in the room at that moment nearly all of whom were more or less injured •ad three at least fatally. but “All men are born free and equal,’ born the difficulty is that some are equal to half a dozen others, TH1G NEW Interesting Happenings from nil Points. EANTKRN AND MIDDLE HTATKh. A train running between Nuntla ana forward Rochester, N. Y., ran off the track, burned. and the coach tipped over and was Injured. Eighteen persons were more or less seriously Four men and a boy were crossing the Susquehanna when river near Harrisburg, four Penn., their boat capsized and the men were drowned. Mayor Grace, of New York, lectu. -1 in Boston a few nights ago before an immense audience on “Irishmen in America.” David Wilson, an ex -fireman of Pitts¬ burg, lack Penn., discouraged through poverty and and of employment, killed his wife mortally wounded himself. Hundreds of unemployed miners and their families are suffering for the neressa ries of life at Ebervale, Penn. 1 he employers in the Pennsylvania coke regton have finally acceeded to the demands of the strikers. The strike resulted in fatal collisions and numerous arrests, and the Hungarian workmen refused to return to work unless those of their number in jail wpm reieuaeH Workmen have been attempting to recover the bodies of the twenty-six miners entombed alive toke, by Penn., a sudden cave-in time of a mine It has at Nauti- some ago. been I roved almost beyond doubt that the men were not overwhelmed by the cave-in and flood, but found their nay to the higher lingering workings and in the mine, where they met ft horrible death by starvation. The late John B. Gough’s estate is estimated at less than $75,000. Governor Aiibett has sent to the New Jersey legislature a special message concern¬ ing declaring the recent decision of the supreme court the railroad tax of 1884 unconstitu¬ tional. He saiil ttiat the State would not suffer even if the legislature did no? pass a law at this session, and he considered it use¬ less to lengthen tin* session on that account. He suggested a passage of a bill authorizing the governor, comptroller and treasurer to dispose be of so much of the State’s maintenance securities as may necessary for the of the government by reason of any adverse deficiency that may occur on account of the de¬ cision of the supreme court, and declared himself to be firmly opposed to any direct State tax. It is estimated that 2,105,000 tons of ice are stored in the 125 ice houses along the Hudson. Lillie T and Susie „ T Lilly, twin . . sisters, . . aged . six the years, machinery were caught by fathers their mill clothing m of their at Sha- mokin Hill, Penn., and mangled to death. Mrs. Thomas Loughlin, of New York, attempted to throw a can of vitriol at her husband, but iu the struggle the liquid was spattered over her own face, and she was frightfully burned, losing her eyesight. The two had been living apart. SOUTH AND WEST. Clarence J. Sears, of Homer, Ill., over eighty years old, hail a dispute with his wife upon religious matters, aud becoming en¬ raged, killed her with a saw. Prosecutions and convictions of Mor¬ mons for polygamy continue in the Utah courts. A Chinese mandarin interested in a large importing firm at San Fraueisco was refused permission to landed and return, to China. The steamer City of Mexico arrived at Key West, Fla., the other day, in charge of Lieutenant Elliott, from tfie United States steamer Galena. There were thirty filibusters on board the steamer. It was t he intention to laud the fili¬ busters at St. Andrews, but the U nited States consul Mexico at Panama captured interfered, by the and Galena the City and of was taken to Key West. A fire dry at St. Paul, Minn., destroyed a large of $200,000. goods store, causing an estimated loss The schooner Indianola, engaged in the gulf trade, board, Captain has been Bloom given and a crew lost. of six men on up as A convention of coal mine operators and miners, at a meeting in Columbus, Ohio, agreed May upon a scale of wages to go arbitration into effect 1 in five States. A board ot to settle all disputes was also appointed. George National A. Wardner, Exchange city bank, bookkeeper Milwaukee, of the shot and mortally wounded Abbott Law¬ rence, the assistant cashier. Wardner is be¬ lieved to be insane. WASHINGTON. Chairman Bland, of the House commit¬ tee on coinage, weights and measures, has prepared a minority report, signed the by bill him¬ self and two other members, on to provide for the free coinage of silver, which was reported adversely by a majority vote of the committee. The report strongly favors the free coinage of silver. Forty-seven ladies, representing appeared twenty, before three States of the Union, the House judiciary committee on the 20th, and delivered addresses in behalf of woman’s rights. The Senate in executive session has con¬ firmed, among others, the Delaware, following nominee tions: W. J. Black, of to be con¬ sul, Nuremberg; D. J. Fartello, of District of Columbia, to lie consul, Weisseldorff; Jas per Smith, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the District of Columbia, W. H. to be Parker, consul, District of Columbia, to be consul of general, Corea; Stephen A. Walker, York. attor¬ ney, southern district of New The President has sent the following nom- inations to the Senate; Henderson M. Jaco- way to be receiver of public Ferdinand monies at Van- I)ar- daelle, Ark. Postmasters: denveer, atHamilton, Ohio; Jason K.Wright, at Marinette. Wis.; John H. Shaffer, at Kankakee. Ill.; Henry P. Grant, at Helena, Ark. Solicitor General Goode asserts that the charges understood to have been filed against him before the Senate J udiciary com¬ mittee are utterly false. He says he had no connection, directly Virginia or indirectly, with any and election frauds in or elsewhere, indignantly denies that he has ever been guilty of bribery or other corrupt practices. A statement prepared that by of the 222,739,701 United States treasurer shows out standard silver dollars coined up to February 20, 51,627,889 were in circulation on that date. Surgeon-General Hamilton, of the United States marine hospital, keep says that we will probably be able to America from cholera this summer, as we did last. FOREIGN. A meeting of socialists in Hyde Park, and London, was attended by 50,(XX) people 4,(XX) policemen, but there was no dis turban re. Yokohama, Japan, has suffered from a large fire, the Windsor hotel and adjoining buildings succumbing to the flames. United States Consul General his Denny, who Corea, wasstop- piug at Yokohama on way to was obliged to jump from a se -oud story win¬ dow, but received no injuries. The Rev. Hugh Stowell has Brown, died the cele¬ brated Baptist preacher, in Eng¬ land, at the age of sixty-three years, liis greatest success was as a lecturer, and eve’-v Sunday afternoon he collected nu ll n v- ( 2,000 or 3,(XX) artisans, He had lectu re t in this country and Canada. A young commer. i tl traveler on his bifida tour runed h nisfif attic gaining table o Monte Carlo, and committed suicide. Great c r inor ial depression exists at Stoc kholm. ' C leu. and numerous failures are aim- iiuced. The Duolin board of guardians ha- adopted a resolution declaring that only home rule, land reform and the slippage of evictions will satisfy the majority of the Iris i people, ELLAVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1886. THE IHEAT PROSPECT, A NUMMARY OF ITS CONDITION THKOI CillOl T THE WENT. The Outlook Hnlri to be Very Favorable In Most Sections. The following crop summary appears in the last Chicago Farmers' Deview: The returns from the winter fields are almost uniformly good. They present an outlook very nearly as favorable as those sent in ear¬ ly in 1885, when the prospect was exception¬ ally good for a large yield. The snow has en¬ tirely disappeared from the fields, enabling a very dear understanding as to the condi- x r> 0 f the plant, and from nearly every county in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky and Kansas it is re- ported looking strong . and . . healthy. ... The as disappearance only of the snow covering Is t * 1, ‘ serious meuace now threat- emng , the growing gTtun. and with another general fall of snow tho outlook could hardly of be the lietter than is presented A prolonged in the re¬ ports of correspondents. cold weather, with the season severe fields still damage unprotected which would, undoubtedly, cause of the might completely change the tenor reports. The latest reports from California, Oregon and Washington Territory the aro generally more favorable than at same time last year. Out of twenty counties of Kansas eighteen report the crop in good condition, while unfavorable returns are made where from the Ottawa shows and Wyandotte injury from counties, while unprotected. plant With freezing the exception of Howard and Hendricks counties, in Indiana, the The outlook is reported to be very favorable. reports from Ohio are uniformly favor¬ able. In Southern Illinois two counties report a poor outlook, but the remaining From counties make Illinois a the very good showing. uniformly Central from returns Kentucky are and Missouri good. The returns are gen¬ erally of a ,he glowing outlook character, considered and in the former State t is brigh ter l or a good crop than before in mauy years. The Michigan reports do not indicate any larger yield than last year, but the reports ire generally favorable. In Tennessee the reports indicate an average outlook. While it is not data yet the possible to give in all anything the like positive kdth average of Michigan, States, the filing possible exception compared will show a off as with last year. The indicate that the stocks of old exports Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, wheat in Ken¬ tucky, Teenessee, and Illinois are pretty well exhausted, while considerable wheat is still held in farmer’s hands iu Minnesota, Iowa and Michigan. MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC. Jennie Lind ‘is announced to appear in concert next season. United States Senator Hawley is said to play very well on the piano. Henry Irving prefers the Bible and Shakespeare to all other books. Carlotta Patti will presently live. give up singing and go to Florence to John Owens, the famous comedian, who has been so long an invalid, is slowly conva lescing. Minnie Maddern, the actress, has taken to writing for Western magazines, in addi¬ tion to her dramatic duties. Ellen Terry, the English actress, gets $375 a week fifty-two weeks of the year, with a vacation whenever she chooses. Louisa M. ALCOTT.author of “Little Men, Little Women” and the rest of a popular comedy. ser¬ ies of books, is reported at work on a The law and order league, of Cincinnati, has finally triumphed over Sunday theatri¬ cals. A vigorous war on the concert halls has begun. Miss May Tift, the daughter of a New York banker, has made a brilliant success at private soirees in Paris, and has been offered an engagement at her majesty’s theatre in London. J. L. Toole, a prominent English actor, has placed a fine monument and otherwise adorned the long-neglected grave of H. J. Byron, whose plays have made much merri¬ ment for the English speaking world. Miss Elmira Strong, who is traveling with a theatrical troupe in the Eastern States, is a greatrgranddaughter of Caleb Strong, eight times governor of Massachusetts, and a great-great-granddaughter of President John Adams. Schurmann, the impresario of Patti, says: 4 ‘After Naples we are not certain of our des¬ tination. I have proposed Brazil to Patti, and offered her $200,000, also a steamer all to herself. She wants $300,000, but I do not doubt that we shall come to terms.” Charlotte Crabtree, better known on the stage as Lotta, is undoubtedly the wealth¬ iest woman in the world who follows the pro¬ fession of the stage. Most of the money is held in the name of her mother, who has been her manager ever since she They first appeared far as a little girl in California. are not wrong who estimate Lotta s possessions af¬ at a good deal over a million dollars. Year ter year she has earned from $50,000 to $70,000. ____ A Terrible Fire. MANY BUSINESS HOUSES IN WILMING¬ TON, N. C., DESTROYED. The steamer Bladen, plying between Wil¬ mington, N. C., aud Fayetteville, N. C., caught fire the other afternoon about 4 o'clock just before reaching her wharf at the former city, and owing to the inflammable nature of her cargo, consisting of rosin, spirits of turpe ic aud cotton, The pilot was headed immediately enveloped in flames. availa¬ her for the nearest ble wharf, mid the passengers succeeded in escaping, and others some by boats from overboard, adjoining when yes- sets by jumping they were quickly rescued. The deserted steamer landed against tho wharf of tho New York ami Wilmington Steamship communicated company, and the fire and was quickly to the sheds warehouses thereon. All the wharves and sheds being sat¬ urated with rosin and turpentine the spread of the fire was rapid,and despite the efforts of the firemen became a disastrous conflagra¬ tion. There was a gale of wind blowing at the time from the southwest, and soon the blocks on the waterfront o’clock were burning furiously. At about eight the fire was gotten under control, but not until it had destroyed a million dollars’ worth of property. wafted the high wind Owing to private sparks dwellings by caught fire and numerous were burned to the ground. In addition a block of small completely tenements, occupied by colored al¬ though people, nearly was mil. distant swept from away, the main a fire. The general offices of the Atlantic Coastline were also destroyed, with numer¬ ous valuable Methodist papers aud records. The Front street church was included in the list of buildings burue I —is a total loss. An Appalling Alternative. “May I (lance this waltz with you, Miss Esmeralda?” said Kosciusko Mur- phy at a recent ball to Miss Esmeralda Lonjtcoflin, one of the fairest belles of Austin. “Oh, please excuse me, Mr. Murphy. I do not care to waltz.’ “Then allow me to conduct you to a scat and entertain you w iti. my conver- ■ tion.” “Graciousheavens! No, let us waltz,” exclaimed Esmeralda.— Texas Siftings. Beyond. Kinged with bine mountain* Oft, when a little lad, Dreamed I of something g Hidden beyond; Ships and ihining tea, Town* and towers haunted Dreamt made me glad—and Lifts lay beyond! Ringed with blue welkin, Oit now, as when a lad, Dream1 of something glad Hidden beyond; Something I cannot te« Haunts and entices me; Dreams make me glad—and ta What lies beyond ? ~ William Canton in (Jood Words. SCARRED FOR LIFE. Some classes of men, like rival can¬ didates, seem to be born enemies, just as it is with some animals—cats and dogs, for instance. When troops are stationed in a German university city, the officers and students are certain to quarrel. The same cordial relations ex¬ ist between them that might be expect¬ ed to prevail If a few Texas centipedes and tarantulas were placed in a bottle and shaken up well. In the year 1861 the students at the Polytechnic School of Carlsruhe, Baden, Germany, and the army officers stationed at that city were in perpetual session, »> to speak. They were fighting almost every day. There were several students’ societies at the Polytechnic School; the Saxonia, the Franconia and Bavaria, and when the members were not fighting duels among themselves or drinking beer, they were having “personal difficulties,’ as David Crockett used to call such joint discussions, with the officers of the army of the Grand Duke of Baden. During one of these street exhibi¬ tions a corps bursclt of the Saxonia came very near being made acorpse by iin officer, who made use of his sword on the street and on the person of his antagonist. As it was, the student’s coat, a borrowed one, was cut and slashed in several places. Whenever i he students and officers met in the beer saloons, if they were sober enough to converse at all, they rued language towards each other that would not be tolerated in this country outside of the halls of congress. The bad feeling finally culminated in a duel between Lieut. Von Holz and a student named Baiun, a member of the Bavarian society, which unpleas¬ ant affair is the subject of this sketch, the writer being an eye witness. The quarrel started at a masquerade ball. They called each other bad names, and slung diatribes and beer bottles, mak¬ ing good line shots across the table at each other. Next morning Baum sent a challenge to the lieutenant, who re¬ plied that it would afford him pleasure to murder Baum, but it was below the dignity of an army officer, who was also a baron, to fight with a plebeian; he, therefore, was compelled promptly and defiantly to refuse the challenge. Several more street fights occurred, all of which failed to calm the excite¬ ment. When the dueling societies heard that Lieut. Von Holz would not light there was a wild yearning on the part of the students to challenge him and all his friends. A secret caucus was held, ami the students sent a com¬ munication to the colonel of the regi¬ ment, begging him as a special favor to pick out seven of his officers who needed exercise and excitement, and the students would pick seven of their number who were suffering from the same cause, the idea being to have seven duels with sabres. The dueling sabre is not a safe thing to fool with, as it never misses fire, and in the hands of men who are not careful, accidents arc certain to occur. Tho i fliccrs appreciated this fact and refused to go into joint session at all, with -abres, but they offered a com¬ promise. There was in Carlsruhe at that time an army officer who besides enjoying t,.' the high reputation of being ,l a i d u ,_ -K a 1 H „ bia.-kouard u,a K H taru, generally, generally was also remarkable for being nearly seven leet . tali. ... Now, ____ in • a „ sabre duel . . the man with the long arm has all the advantage over the man with the short arm. The former can carve up the latter at his ease, while the other candidate cannot reach far enough with his sabre to make the connection. The army officers were so kind and considerate, and so utterly opposed to anything savoring of unfairness, that they relaxed their dignity to the extent of proposing that their blackleg, Count Leiningen—that was his name— should with his long arm, fight the whole seven scholastic gladiators. This offer was about equivalent to a man with a long range rifle requesting an antagonist with an Indian club to tackle him at a thousand yards. The students met again in secret conclave and sent back a very sarcastic commu¬ nication, suggesting that when Count Leiningen’s friends had sawed him in two the proposition would be taken up from the .. table ,, on which ........ it had been laid. Then some more street fights followed as a matter of course, One afternoon a few days after the proposition for Count Leiningen to offer up tho short-armed students in succession I happened to be strolling down tho principal street of Carls- ruhe when a carriage stopped in front of me and a head was stuck out through the window. I recognized the head as being the porsonal proper¬ ty of the senior of the Bavaria. “Come in here,” he called motionhig with his hand. 1 obeyed without hesitation. The carriage door was closed, and the vehicle rolled on. There was in the carriage, besides the senior of the Bavaria, Ilerr Giesen, another mem¬ ber of that dueling club, and Ilerr Bium, the student who had the row with Lieut. Von Holz. In the butt in of the vehicle were three or four bask¬ et-handled dueling sabres. “We want you as a witness to the duel that is coming off right away. You are the first corps bursch I’ve seen on the street, and as there is no time to lose I’ve just picked you up,” said the senior. “So Baron Lieut. Von Ilolz has changed his mind about fighting with plebeians,” 1 replied, “No, he hasn’t changed his views, bnt Prince William, the brother of the grand duke, changed them for him. Prince William gave our little lieuten¬ ant to understand that if he did not fight he would be kicked out of the army. That’s what brought him to his milk. So he went over as soon as possible. He is waiting for 113 now, with his seconds and an army doctor, in the gasthaus zum adler. It is going to be a very serious matter and 1 want a witness to see that they don’t crowd us or lie about us afterwards. These military men are great strategists.” In a few minutes we drove into the court-yard of the hotel and carried the weapons up stairs. On the large danc¬ ing seal, where the dispute was to be arranged, where three gentlemen, Lieut. Von Holz, his second, and a doctor. The latter was unconcernedly threading a curved needle to sew up wounds. On the table was a basiu of water and a sponge, also an open case of instruments. The Germans are very business-like in all their under¬ takings. Lieut. Von Holz, the cause of this prospective trouble, did not impress me very favorably. He talked through his nose, which he held up in the air, possibly to facilitate his flow of elo¬ quence. It was a very large nose, with large nostrils that looked as if they were looped up at the sides. He was rather short and stout, and looked far from enjoying himself. On the other hand, the lieutenant’s second presented an interesting appearance. He was a fieree-looking, little old mun with shaggy eyebrows, a hooked nose that gave him tne appearance of being a cross between a rat terrier and a bird of prey. He was a venerable surgeon relic of the Napoleonic era. Of our party Baum supplied the good looks. He was a dark-haired, blue-eyed young fellow, and as strong as a lion. Giesen, the senior of the Bavaria, was a big, broad-should¬ ered, red-whiskered giant, whose face was adorned with various and sundry scars that he had acquired at different universities. Giesen approached the Napoleonic veteran and informed him that Baum would be ready in a few moments. There was a brief consul¬ tation in a corner of the large dancing room. “Now, my dear boy,” said Giesen, laying his hand on his principal’s shoulder. “If 1 had known about this before, I would have taken it off your hands; but it is too late now. You have never practiced with a sabre, and unless you do precisely as I tell you, you will be cut all to pieces, for yosr opponent knows how to fence. You must not fence him at all. You are stronger and quicker than he is, and if you climb right on him, and cut away at him as hard as you can, you will throw him off his guard. Don’t give him time to cut back at you. As soon as I give the word, run right up to him, and make use of your natural advantages.” Baum nodded his head. There was a look of determination in his knit brow and set mouth. The opponents took their places in silence opposite each other about fifteen feet apart. The program was that at the word of command they should advance on each other. It was agreed that Giesen should give the word. “Fertig-los,” said Gtesen in a loud voice. The words seemed scarcely uttered before Baum was upon his antagonist, dealing out a succession of terrific blows that could not be parried. Lieut Von Holz began to move backwards, but Baum followed him more furious¬ ly than ever, until the lieutenant had reached the opposite side of the room. “Halt,” called out the Napoleonic veteran, interposing his sabre. The combatants paused and took their for¬ mer places. “I hml supposod this duel was to bo carried on according to the code, but 1 see I am mistaken, Your man should keep his proper distance," said the old veteran. “And I,” retorted Giesen, with a magnificent sneer, "supposed that this room, which is nearly fifty feet square, was big enough for theso gymnastic exercises, but 1 seo I am mistaken. If Lieut. Von Ilolz cannot find room to maneuver, 1 expect he will have to go out in the open air, where there is more scope for his strategic ability. As it is I have no objection to the door being opened, if it will make him feel more comfortable.” The old veteran snapped his eyes at the audacious Giesen, and then whis¬ pered a few words to his principal, probably suggesting that he use his sabre more and his legs less. The lat¬ ter nodded assent and said he was ready. “That was splendid,” whispered Giesen to his man, who was eager for the second round. “Just hit a little quicker, if you can. He will stick this time. The next round will settle it.” Once more the word was given. Once more the student rushed at his adversary. This time the lieutenant did stick. There was a fierce clashing of blades. The lieutenant uttered an exclamation of pain and reeled back¬ wards. His white shirt wn* covered with blood, which gushed from his head in streams. One of the sledge¬ hammer blows of the student had caught him fair and square on the left temple, the wound extending around the outside corner of the left eye, through the cheek across the nose, which was laid open the breadth of a finger, and into the right cheek. The cut was at least an inch wide, and probably much deeper, several large arteries being cut. The doctor, assist¬ ed by the old veteran, had his hands full to stop the flow of blood. “I presume,” said Giesen, leaning over to look at the wounded man, “that there will be no more military exercise today,” and leaving Lieut Von Holz in the hands of his friends we retired from the room. That night there was a “commers,” or general jollification, at the club- room of the Bavaria, at which, there is reason to fear, more wine was drank than was good for the health of those who participated. It was six weeks before Lieut Vou Holz showed his aristocratic face in public places, and if he is still in the land of the living he can be readily identified at long range by the sear across his face, which is convincing proof, if any is needed, that occasion¬ ally main strength and awkwardness, when backed up by pluck, triumph over skill. Dyes from Common Plants. The great variety of colors and dyes obtained from common plants, grow¬ ing so abundantly almost every where, is apparently known to but few per¬ sons except chemists. The well-known huckleberry or bluebe ry, when boiled down, with an addition of a little alum and a solution of copperas, will develop an excellent blue color; the same treatment, with a solution of nut galls, produces a clean dark brown tint, while with alum, verdigris and sal ammoniac various shades of purple and red can be obtained. The fruit of the elder, so frequently used for color¬ ing spirits, will also produce a blue color when treated with alum. The pri¬ vet, boiled in aso’ution of salt, furnish¬ es a serviceable color, and the overripe berries yield a scarlet red. The seeds of the common burning bush, “euony. mous,” when treated with sal ammoni¬ ac, produce a beautiful purple red. The bark of the currant bush, treated with a solution of alum, produces a brown. Yellow is obtainable from the bark of the apple tree, the box, the ash, the buckthorn, the poplar, elm, etc., when boiled in water and treated with alum. A lively green is fur¬ nished by the broom corn. A Duck Hunter’s Odd Craft. A man in South Bend, Ind., goes duck shooting in an odd craft, which he calls an “invisible boat.” He has cut one-third of an entire boat’s length down to the waterline. The remain¬ der is made water-tight, and in the stern a mirror (twenty-eight inches high and forty-eight long) is placed so that the glass reflects the water in front and the decoys. Behind the mir¬ ror the hunter sits and paddles his boat toward the ducks, making his ob¬ servations through a small spot in the mirror, from which the amalgam has been removed. As the boat moves up to the ducks they can see their own reflections in the mirror, and in some instances swim toward the boat. When the hunter is near enough to shoot he drops the mirror forward by loosening a string and gets two effect¬ ive shots—one at the ducks on the water and one as they rise. VOL. 1. NO. 23. Wliat Is Life, What Is life?—i rapid stream Rolling onward to the ocean, Wlmt ii life?—a troubled dream, Full of inoident und motion. What is life?—the arrow’s flight, Tliat mocks the keenest gazer's eye. What is life?—a gleam of light Darting through a stormy sky. Wlmt is life?—a varied tale, Deeply moving, quickly told. Wlmt is li fe?—a vision palo, Vanishing while we behold. What is life?—a smoke, a vapor, Swiftly mingled witli the air. What is life?—a dying taper, The spark that glows to disappear. What is life?—a flower that blows, Nipped by the frost, p.nd quiokly dead. What is life?—the full blown rose, That a scorched at noon and withered. Sucii is life—a breath, a span, A inement quickly gone from tlioe. Wlmt is Death ?—O mortal nmn! Thy entrance on eternity. HUMOROUS. A fresh roll—the actor’s new par.. The ghost of a smile—Smelling the cork. An auctioneer does as he is bid, a postman as he is directed. A friend in need is a friend —who generally strikes you for a quarter. Vesuvius is no pimple, and yet it is very frequently in a state of erup¬ tion. A belle differs somewhat from a cowboy. The more powder she uses the Jess dangerous she grows. “I’m dyeing for love,” remarked young Jinks, as he put a little ad¬ ditional color to his moustache. When a miner has been eaten by a grizzly, the western people speak of him as being admitted to the bar. “How do you tell a fool when you see one?” asks a correspondent. How! By the kind of questions he asks. Girls who wish to have small, pret¬ ty-shaped mouths should repeat at frequent intervals during the day. “Fanny Finch fried floundering fish for Frances Forbes’ father.” Dialogue between mamma and her five-year-old daughter : “Mamma, do you tell lies?” "Of course not, my child.” "Mamma, does papa tell lies?” “Certainly not.” “How is it, then, that you don’t always agree?” A gentleman generous in his con¬ tributions for church purposes, but not regular in his attendance upon public worship, was wittily described by a clergyman as being "not exactly a pillar of the church, but a kind of a flying buttress, supporting it from the outside. The “Moxa” Remedy. Although tattooing is confined to the lower orders of the Japanese, round white spots are to be seen on the skin of almost every native of Japan ic all ranks of life. These spots are known, Dr. Baelz tells us, as “moxi,” and they are produced by burning the flesh in a peculiar way, with the ob¬ ject of curing some disease. The be¬ lief in the efficacy of moxa is univer¬ sal in Japan, and the Portuguese and Spaniards must have adopted the same faith, in its power to alleviate or cure deep-seated pain for they introduced both the treatment and its Japanese, name into Europe. This is said to be the manner in which moxa is prac¬ ticed in Japan. In May the leaves of the Artemisia cainensis are powdered and dried, and the mass is cut into small blocks or pieces. One of these pieces is laid on the body and set on fire so as to burn slowly away. At first the operation naturally produces a sore, more or less deep according to the intensity of the heat. The sore soon heals, but there is left a scar for¬ ever. Those who have been subjected to this “remedy” say that it is by no means so painful as what would be supposed in the absence of actual expe¬ rience. The Healthiest Looking Went First. Two years ago I escorted a lady from the West with two of her chil- dred to see Dr. Hammond, to whom one of the children was submitted un¬ der the belief that she had epilepsy. The doctor examined her closely, burn¬ ed her back along the spine, and gave general directions for her treatment, directing that she be brought back to him again in a year. We were about going away when Dr. Hammond asked if the other child did not need treat¬ ment. She was the picture of health and the mother said as much laugh¬ ingly, never thinking for a moment that the second child was in any way ailing. Dr. Hammond, however, called the child to him, and made some little examination of her, especially about the lungs, and told the mother she ought to be very careful of that child'., health. That was two years ago. The child treated for epilepsy is nos strong and healthy; the other child has been dead a *««.— New York I Tribune.