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asked to re at a ar r<
starte out wit a ripe eterm *
doing everyl inginmypowe
but men woo a< n.ore au tont *j
and consequently . i
had polled r against me,
stepped , aside. ., r They P , even went „ , so lar .. as |„ to
* onethimr'
court-martial .• i me. \r, Now it there io is anything
in military life that takes a man's appetite ,
it is to be court-martialed. It is pretty bad
in civil life to be tried before a justice of.
the peace, but that isn’t anything to com
pare with a court-martial, and especially has done j
when he knows full well that he
nothing to merit such handling.”
“Why wereyou court-martialed, Colonel?”
asked one of the company
“For the simple discharge o( tny duty.
Just about the time it behooved the Confed
cracy to make eyery edge cut that could,
I was sent into a continuity to press guns,
and to draft and arm every available man.
Well duty’in I went to work and discharged the
accordance with my construction of j J
the order At one place we seized a large !
number of double barrel shot guns, in
examining them we lound that many were
damaged so greatly that only one barrel
could be used. I told my men not to throw
them aside, but to keep them, and they
would come in handy, In this community
there were a great many saw milts and
family leuds, and consequently ihere were'
a great many one legged men. One day i
issued an order that all the one legged men
to be found within a radius of twenty five
miles should be brought into camp The
order was strictly obeyed, and within two
weeks we had seyenty-five cripples Form¬
ing them in a line one day, 1 ordered the
disabled shot guns to be brought out. When
J took up a gun whose right barrel was
useless 1 would give it to a mau who had
lost the use ol his right leg, and so on until
the seventy-five men were armed. This
was strictly appropriate for we had no
other use for the crippled guns and the
country certainly had no other use for the
crippled men. I took great pride iu this
crippled company. I wanted it to make a
name; I wanted each man to foe! proud of
himself. They elected as captain a tall
fellow who bad lost his left leg while ’■afting
fogs. We presented him, attended by
disabled ceremony, with a broken sword
and double barrel pistol, wiih one hammer
It would have tickeled you to death to have
seen them on dress parade and their quick
time would have made Napoleon pull off
his hat and grin. Well, pretty soon, I had
occasion to use them. The enemy came
upon me unexpectedly, and in the hurry
incident upon snch occasions, I placed the
one legged company it. the warmest part of
the field. The battle lusted several hours,
and was a draw fight. My one fogged
company suffered greatly. The captain’s
peg was shattered by a ball, and during the
fight he sent an orderly into the woods to ,
make him another fog. Other members of|
the company were similarly served, and,'
sir, the amount of splinters on the battle
grouud was simply astonishing. The enemy |
had fired low, and three out of six wooden
lege were disabled. Before complete repairs j .
could be made, my general came along, and
not being able to understand why so much
kindling wood should be sca'tered over a
haitle field, asked the reason. And 1
explained, expecting him to compliment
me on my ingenuity, but the u.iuppreciative
fellow had me court-martialed. 1 left the
service, and during the remaining time of
the war, I aided the cause by capturing
mules from the Union men and burning
cotton tbat might have fallen in possession
ol thee oemy.—Arkansaw Traveler.
Not a Stupid Youth. i
A San Francisco millionaire, hoping to
,. hts promts,ng . . son tu "ays of, , ,
encourage
hnft, promised to give him two per cent, a
month interest upon any money t at e
might save 011,0 us situ uv a < 10
and deposit tu the paternal treasury. J he
young man was getting *20 a week „ ,. . tor _ pock- _ ,
et money and prom.sed to show fits ap r re-1
ctauou of hts fathers affectionate offer, lie
began to make desposits wit ,out el ay. am
kept the practice up with remarkable iegu
lunty. Ihe old gentleman no ce presen y
that the deposits exceeded the o e ot the
boy s allowance, but accoun g ot ns y
supposing that he had aavad some money
parent rejoiced in the saving disposition
that.his son was displaying. This continued
until the boy’s deposits assumed such
dimension as to demand an explanation. It
then turned out that most of the money that
he bad been depositing had been borrowed.
Inasmuch as he was drawing iuterest ou
his deposits at the rate of two per cent, a
month, and was payiug only ten per cent, a
year for them, he had lound that business
decidedly attractive and profitable.
George Sand.
The man’s costume in which George
Sand delighted was described in part by
herself, as “a long grey overcoat, a woolen
fie, and—and—a pair of boots.” The boots
she doted upon. ”1 longed to sleep with
them,” she wrote. She “trotted from one
end of PartB to the other” in them. A ci
garetteolten, a cigar sometime, completed
the costume. When she published "In
diana,” her first important story written
without colaboration, she was about29, and
Henri Heine says, "Beautiful as the
Venus of Milo. Her features were regular
her forehead low, shaded by rich bauds o*
chestnut hair." She had her com de
plume in this way: She wrote articles with
Jules Sandeau, and they published a novel,
"Rose et Blanche,” under me uame of Jules
Sands. When ‘ Indiana’ was printed Jules
declined to take aDy of the credit for a wotk
in which he had no hand, and 9y his advice
the called htrself George Sand. Before she
bad signed herself Arore Dude van t, her
real name being Aurora Duplau. Sbe
born in Parris, July, 180*. A few minutes
before her birth-her mother was dam-fog
dressed in a rose colored gown; her lather
was playing the fiddle for his guests,
Madame Duptan left the room, and soon the
birth of the child was announced. “She
shall be called Aurora, after my mother,”
said Maurice, the father. "Aurora is born
jzrate, for lPr 1 J- 1 ' 1 M e f
eov_i , ns les
grass an owers s ou er
ing place. J"" 1 * ei attftr .' eaiiSi - 1H
.
des(rl ,lr ^ e ' ran (Ui < ve ' vor " ‘ '
efi )n the simple . Berncbon style, sit
tln> . , indolently . , , , in the , old , i hall , of ,.,i the cba- I
She pi without -,i . cigarette . ’■
teallr was never a
Sbe liked nothing better than to be forgotten
jn her drawing r00m , listening to what was !
said but „ ot speaking much herself.
s00 n as her gnests departed for the night
Rhe sbat the door and feU to poking,
linking and writing for several hours,
sometimes until draybreak. She says in a
letter to Madame d’Agoult, “I pass long
hours tete a tete with dame Fancy; I never
(0 bed before 7 o’clock in the morning."
Progress.
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Eating With the knife,
——
At Heidelburg, writes a eorre-ipondent of
,he Eondou News, an English friend once
diner! at the table d’hote, and being seated
opposite to a young man who wore tVie
badge of the "corps across his breast, he
could not help noticing the extraordinary'
manner in which this young man took his
meal At first he , admired him for ,, the skill- ....
-
lul manner in which he managed his knife.
which incessantly passed from his plate to
his month, heavily laden, as it was, with
green peas. But when the student, having
finished his mi at, took up his gravy with
the knife, the Englishman began to feel his
lood boil within him. Pudding with apple
sauce followed, arid the student operated
with his desert-knife just as he had done
with the larger knife. But the Englishman
could control himself no longer.
In a hoarse whisper he addressed his vis
avis, saying: "You will cut your mouth
open if you don’t leave off eating gravy
with your knife.” The student looked up
and answered : "What is that to you ? lean
cut my moulh cqieu to ray ears’ (or all you
have aright to interfeie.” "Ob, nonsense,”
said the Englishman, coolly; “you can not
expect a decent person to let you butcher
yourself at dinner !” “Oh, but I can though
and you shall see ! Dumtner Junge! With
that the student rose and left the room
Umntner Junge! (stupid fellow !) signifies
as much as a challenge. When the student’s
seconds came to arrange details wuh the
Englishman, he was terribly surprised at the
serious consequences of what he had deetu
ed a most natural remark. He offered to
apologize, and did all in his power to have
the matter arranged, but he did not succeed
and on his way to the trysting place he said
to his seconds'. "It is a dreadful shame
,lial 1 * h, > uld have to kil1 th,a y° un « man
be™ 118 * be does not know the proper use of
Ids knife and fork. Still it would be just as
unfair to let him kill mo.
rl Englishman intended firing . the
‘« in
a ' r be bild ,be GCCtmd abot i ‘ ,ut chance
WftBav ® r8e 10 *‘e hud the right to
first—^the aim was deadly, the voung
teuton fell without a groan. New ' lor ‘ f
i'fows.
Coral Pishing.
“ lf! largest vessels employed in thv. cm a!
fishery on the Italian coast are about H
tons, and work employ night a dozen and day, hands. the 1 hey |
have to men
relieving each other every six hours. They
from March to October, and their food
consists chiefly of macaroni and biscuit,
Each boat takes irom J00 to BOO pounds,
according to its size. The coral is usually
found attached '.o rocks, never in mud, nor
muddy waters. The coral rock is formed
of different species of madrepores. Some¬
times it is also found attached to rocks and
other marine objects. It spreads out its
branches in ail directions, attaining the
of ftbout a (oot and a lhicknes8 of
^ ^
'j' be ;, nc>d eof fishing cord is very primitive
and might be improved with advantage. A
consisting of bars of , wood .
Irame, two or iron 1
fiUeen ^ ; n x ^ placed acr0
^ ig w( ^ hted iu the midd , 6 wltba
^ Thi(i fra0le Uhun(twhh tftllg fos
^ he an<( neta one of which i(J aUacbe d
^ ^ q( , ^ ^ ex(remi(iea of tbe cro8S
^ This is then letdown by means
of& th;< . k rope into tbe coralbed aud drag -
* baL . kwards and forwards till the coral
^ , in it . Tbe ro ,„ is
attached to a windlass, and the frame is
l ‘ m s brought heavily to the surface.
Precious coral varies in color from a
red to a pale pink. It is also sometimes
marbled black and white; and there is even
black ami white coral. Red coral was once
the moist esteemed; now a delicate pink is
the most valued. The finest pink coral is
worth from $ 100 to #000 per ounce, whilst
! ordinary red coral may be had for $10 per
ounce.—Boston 1 rauscript.
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Thiu Skinned
Women who do no manual work geueral
ly have due, thin skins, and their mental
aptitudes are developed and maintained in
a direct ratio of the perfection and
delicacy of the skin. The perfection o
- touch becomes in a manner a second sight
weich enanles the mind to feel and see fine
,
; details which escape the generality of men
and constitutes a quality ot the first order
1 moral tact, that touch of the soul as it
been called, which is characteristic ot
organization with a delicate and irnpres-
1 siooable skin, whosjsensoium, like a tenser,
cord, is always ready to vibrate at the
.-omact ol the slightest impression. Inverse
i ly compare the thick skin of the man of toil
accustomed to handle coarse tools and lift
: heavy burdens, and see if, alter an examiu
f atfon of his intellectual and moral sensi
j ' eudeavor bihues, if you are understood when you
to evoke in him some sparks of
j those delicacies of sentiment (hat so clearly
characterize the mental condition of iudi
viduals with a fine skin. On this
has long ago been pronounce 1 judgment,
] and we all know that we mu t speak io
every one iti the language he can cotnpre
- head, and that to endeavor to awaken in
the mind of a man of a coarse skin the
, delicacies of a refined sentiment is to speak
, to a deaf mau of the deliciousness of
harmony aud to a man afflicted with
blindness of the beauties of colors.
Authors of repute in all ages make men
tion of this mysterious individual, who it is
SB ; d| j s yeb wandering about under some
d ; 8 p U i 8e or other, having no resting place,
.. Novelists .. and , diamatists . . . have , perpetua . ed
hts fame. Among the former, the thrilling ....
a" d ™°arkabte , ,, volume , of , fiction . concern
>»« hlm ls b -V Eugene Sue. Many accounts
Wnter3 are * ,Ten of m * Rter,0 “ S m en w *°
have appeared and dtsappeared after , the
®*noer of the Wandering Jew. It is to be
presumed that they were impostors who as
sumed hw character, and placed themselves
off as the Jew for some personal advantage,
A 80 called veritable Wandering Jew
wa3 about the laUer P art of
the s,xteenth century. He suddenly
appeared at Venice, making a great sen
satiou there. He went by the name of
Gauldi, and on account of his great wealth,
l earned and polished manners, was admit
ted int0 the best society, though no one
knows who he was or whence be came. He
wa8 versed in ail the arts and sciences, and
conversed with such fluency and elegance
as astonish all who heard him. fie never
wrote or received any letters, never desired
credit or made use of bills of exchange, paid
f or everything in ready money, and lived in
splendor. He had a small collection of
very line pictures, which he readily showed
to any one desiring to see them.
One day a Venetian nobleman, who was
an extraordinary good judge of pictures
having heard of Signor (lauldi’s collection
called and asked permission to see it. Not
only was the permission given, but Gauldi
accompanied him through.the gallery. The
nobleman’s attention wa.s'suddenly arresteu
by a very fine portrait. "This picture was
drawn for you, sir,,’ he said.
The Jew bowed low, but returned no an¬
swer, The Venetian continued.—
"You look like a man of fifty, and yet 1
know this picture to be by the hand of Tit an
who has been dead a hundred and thirty
years. How can this be?"
Gauldi replied, “it is not easy to know
all things that are possible, but there is
certainly notaing wonderful in my resemb
ling a picture pamted by Titian,"jan evasive
reply that in our day would probably have
beeu collstrued t0 mean lb;lt he greatly re
Hein | de d some ancestor painted by the great
ma8ter _ Uut the nob i eman immediately
C0IK .| uded tbat he was in tbe preseu ce of
the Wandering Jew. and awe struck, re
treated from his prenence. He spoke of the
matter to some friends, who determined to
see the singular picture themselves, but on
going to Gauldt’s palace the uext morniug
they found it deserted. The Wandering
Jew had set forth on his travels again. One
hour after the nobleman had noticed the
likeness Gauldi had leltat. Venice.
The attair made a great sensation through
0(i( b ; uro[)e and was noticed in all the news
j )a p ers 0 f t be time. A mysterious man,
endowed wbb an eternal life on e.aith, not
. subject to age and decay as the. rest of his
race, with un endless source ot wealth, is no
doubt, a legitimate object of surprise and
j ear The Jew's wanderings,even in America
have besu traced by believers in his exist
ence ^ and tb ; a j s quoted as another proof of
the prop ecy that the Wandering" Jew will
not baV(J a resting place .till the day of judg
ment shallcometo pass. But the spread of
education in America, the broad common
sense of tier people, the vanishing of super¬
stition, owing to the advance of these ele¬
ments, has almost laid the ghost of the
Waudering Jew in these our days, and rele¬
gated him to a place iu weird fiction, hon
onably occupied by the Flying Dutchman
and the drama of Frahkenstein.—Sunday
News,
The Eucalyptus
] 3 be ing recognized as the best purifier ol
malarial districts. A debate took place
recently iu the Italian parliament, in which
this subject was brought up. For some
years past systematic agricultural
; have been carried on at the Abbey of the
Tra Fontaine, in the Roman Campagna.
and the results have been most satisfactory
At first the monks were obliged to live with
"> the city walls during the had season;
but since the ground has come under
vation, and, above ad, since the
globulus has been planted ou a large
in the neighborhood, the Abbey has been in
| habitednUthe rom which its inmates year round; still sometimes and the su
fer are ot a mild character and rarely
whereas at the outset something like
! fo llr, h of tbe little community snccua
evei 7 y 0ftr * debate proved that
; health of the 280 convicts employed on
! works was satisfactory, th6 average
deaths from malaria not exceeding
The government has lately made a
large grant of land in perpetuity to
1 Trappist, who have already planted ou
no fewer than 100,000 eucalyptus
which are all doing well.
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\ Terrier Saves a Baby.
——
A woman left her baby, 18 months
on the floor of the front room playing
its toys and a little terrier dog that is
constant companion. The mother
away just three minutes, but when she
back and opened the door her infant's
arms, and shoulders were hanging
the stoue sill of au open window, and
it. wiih his feet on the chair stood
; little dog, holding on to the child s dress
dear file. Her child unconscious ot
danger, was crowing at some object in
yard; while the dog holding on to the dress,
looked a mute appeal for haste and help
In au instant she was by her baby s side
and the danger was passed. When the dog
had been released of bis burden he
around the mother and child with c
that was almost frantic.
It is said that why so many married la
dies keep pet dogs is because their hus
bauds ate absent so much from home,
, They don’t have the canines for protection,
It’s because home do sn’t seem natural
with no growling about, and the dogs growl
during the time the husband ought to he
; attending to that duty.—Philadelphia
1 Chronicle.
-
possible for them to do so, occupying the
time with stale stories and feeble attempts
at humor, or posing away in weary plati
tudes, or enforcing the law in matters where
there likely *, be grave ditlerences ot
: is to
opinion, . . , berating . this .. man „„ o. „ ,L. that t without
' ’
mercy, or pra.s.ng •nord.natey ,• somebody
who deserves little commendatton, constant
j * ca ' hn * atIP,ltlon ‘°
, have done, or intend to do, or might have
j done if they had not been interfered with
until the pat.euce of every one present ts
exhausted. This is bad taste. T here are
persons who are always asking til timed or
impertinent or rrrevalent questions, mquir
j ing into the particulars of your business, and
j how this thing is likely to turn out, and
, how you happened to be entrapped in this
j or that speculation, and wnat is your
opinion ol your ueighbor s solvency, and
! how you account for Squire Bs conduct
j and is daughter, it so that arid Mr. C. what is paying do attention for
i your you pay
your wife’s bonnets, and so on, until you
are tempted to ask "whether he does not
regard himself as an interrogation point?
This is bad taste. To talk of our domestic
affairs in society, or expose family differ¬
ences, should be characterized in even
narsher terms. Excellent and well meaning
people are sometimes so deficient in taste
as to make them disagreeable even to their
best friends. They never seem to know
when they violate the fitness of things, and
are oblivious of the common proprieties of
life. If they say the right thing, they say
it to the wrong person and at the wrong
time; and their sympathy only aggravates
oiir Woes. In the excess of their love they
tell us many things which we would prefer
not to know. There is something aggravat
ing iu the very tones of their voice, in their
gestures and manners, and mode of walking,
and the way in which they sit, and the way
in which they draw their breath when they
are talking, and the way in which they eat
and drink. We reproach ourselves for not
liking them any belter, because there is
nothing absolutely bad in their character,
and.intentionally offtdiBive in their demeanor
and yet we could not love them if e tried.
■m
The World’s Way.
A prophet is not without honor save in
his own country, is a strange truth of
almsot daily fulfilment. Few men can
recognize in those nearest to them anything
of special greatness. And the real great
have often to appeal to strangers and a
distant time for a lull recognition of their
worth, The secret of it is, that the majority
of people take their opinions second hand.
Men who set themselves up as intelligent
critics, and ought to be abfo to recognize
true worth whereever it is, are as dependeut
upon a set of ideas that has grown up in
criticism as any one else is dependent upon
some other man’s thought for his judgment
of things. In Michael Angelo’s days there
was a multitude of these second hand
opinioned critics who could see no good iu
any contemperaneous work, but went into
ecstacies over any unearthed work of
autiquity. Angelo chiseled a tine statue of
a sleeping beauty, broke one arm off, and
then buried it where he knew it would soon
be discovered. It was discovered; the
critics went into ecstacies over it. It was
pronounced superior to any modern work,
When Angelo had enjoyed sufficiently the
exhibition of their ignorant prejudice, he
produced the arm, and proved that the
statue was of his own handiwork.
mortification of the critics was a splendid
lesson. And a lesson, dear reader, that you
need to learn in many things. Find the
t real heroisms of life in your own home, the
! noblest traits of character among your own
triends, The beauty and worth that lie
near is the best. Rocks may lie close to
(he blossoming violet, but the violet is just
as beautiful, just as fragrant as any that
grows in the great garded in the palace
over the mountains. Don’t wait till all the
tongues go clacking about something before
you can learn to love anything. Find your
own objects of love aud admiration; be your
own discoverer of the continents of worth.
Honor the prophet, though he be of your
own country and your own kin.—Williams
port Grit.
A Queer sort of a Joke.
The cash office of thetreasuerer’s depart
ment, in the treasury building, often con
tains many huudreds of thousands of dollars
aud great care is taken against the possible
depredations of thieves. The room is very
high studded and contains a gallery which
can be reached by the gene-al public from
the floor above. The interest clerk is an
auburn haired individual of the most nerv
0 us temperament, and notwithstanding
f acb that he has been in his position
years he has never lost sight of the
Jous responsibility of handling the
urns of money which daily pass into his
possession. His nervousuess has
; chronic, and he is made the butt of many
practical joke. The greatest of these
played some time ago by one of his
intimate and peisonal friends who
permission from Treasurer Giltillan to
his little scheme. The gentleman armed
himself with about twenty-five feet of
aud attached to one end of it a
composed of a steel prod pointed as fine
a needle, and a solid piece of rubber as
i ballast. He statioued himself in the gallery
Jirectly over theinterestelerk’sdesk,
there were heaps of money all nicely
ap ; n packages. Then be slowly let down
b j s string until it was directly over a
package, and releasing his hold on the
j twine, tbe steel prod impaled a bundle
notes, which he drew to the gabery, and
having secured them rushed to the treasur
er’s office with his prize, which proved to.be
*8,000 in legal tender. Meanwhile the
interest clerk saw his money going skyward
! and gave the gener »1 alarm but not in time,
however, to detect the culprit. The clerk
was nearly crazed when he received a note
signed "James Gilfiilan,” ‘asking him to
come to tbe treasurer’s office. He went as
last as his legs could carry him, and imag
foe his joy when the treasurer handed him
* the missing *0,000, advising him to be more
; n tbe me (hod mentioned, and so double
precautions have been taken, and under
tbe existing state of affairs such an event is
no t likely J to happen again.—Exchange,
A Russian Jack Sheppard.
The celebrated ''Robb r of the South,” j
Mamai has long been the terror of South-j
ern Russia His career of crime commenc- j
ed twenty years ago, but tl.e pr.ncipal lau
.
re’s have been gained since he tied from
Tomsk and turned up afresh in the scene of
his former triumphs two years ago. Organ¬
izing a band of robbers, an I arming them
with Berdan rifles and revolvers, he roamed
about the country, murdering in his course
as many as sixty five nersons. Caught at
last, through the treac .ery of a mistress, he
was conveyed to Nicolaeff and locked up
in prison, there pending judicial examina¬
tion. Although famous as a prison breaker
the authorities appear to have put nospecial
watch over him, and in consequence he
nearly escaped by digging a subterranean
passage one hundred feet long from bis celi
to the outer wall. Prisons excavation are so
common in Russia that the only merit
about Mamai's was the length of it; but it
was an uncommon feature iu his case ihat
he should have beeD discovered at last
through the treachery of a follow prisoner,
since honor prevails among thieves in Rus
sia as elsewhere, and the traitor would him¬
self have had a chance of escape with the
rest as soon as the passage was finished.
Rebuffed in this attempt, Mamai waited
awhile, and then one afternoon when a po
liceman came to his cell, he threw him
down and gagged him, and donned his unis
form. The following day, having exchang¬
ed the uniform for a peasant’s dress, he
went into the market, and choosing the best
cart without its driver, drove away to Kher
son. Here he was recognized outside a
public house by a police officer, who touch¬
ed him on the shoulder and said:
“What, Mamai, here? ’
you
"Certainty,” replied the fugitive, knocking
him flat ou his back; and before the officer
could recover his senses Mamai was out of
sight.
Alter this he organized another band,
perpetrated a host of villanies too numerous
to mention, culminating a short time ago in
a tight in a farmhouse, during which Mu~
mat got captured. At present he is in the
Nicoleafl jail awaiting trial, but he says he
will not stay there long, and the “G-oloa”
significantly .remarks that the ‘'Nicolaeff
people believe him. ’
A Painter’s Fine Strategy.
Mr. Healy, of New York, had, some time
since, as a subject for a portrait, a young
lady, who came to his studio so bedizened
with paint and powder, that every charac
teristie line was obliterated. Mr. Healy
was, of course, in a dilemma. He could
not order the girl to go and wash her lace.
He would lose his commission, and he was
too polite a gentleman. He could not lay
the same paint on canvass that there was
on her face; it would not be satisfactory to
the family. \\ hen the sketch was limned,
he rose from his seat, sat down beside his j
subject, and kindly asked usual her Surprised if the was j
deling as she well_ replied as that she ot ut
course, was.
Miss Jones, you walked from your hotel,
did you not?” "Yes.'’ “And you came
hurriedly up stairs, without stopping to
rest?’ Why, yes, of course. "Ah, yes,
Miss Jones; but, you see, though you may
not be feverish, you have exerted yourself
8 » severely that there is so much color in
7 <>nr face that I fear it would mislead me.
Now, to-morrow,if you will beso good please
j hatbe your cheeks in cool water, the last
| “‘ing; come in a close carnage, and stop
j aad rest yourself upon the sofa you will find
: °° each landing. In that way 1 am sure
™ « lla!! ha * e no more trouble. E.s
s P eech had the dealred etf ” ct ' 1 f iamt
flush on he' face when she came, the next
day, was perfectly natural, aiad did not at
all retard the picture.
One of the Old Laws
I In the oldest days a mau was required to of
j give a bond and deposit it with the clerk
| the court before he could take the hands of
j » woman in cleaning in marriage. the old Captain rubbish in John the
F rw ', n , up
courthouse this week discovered a whole
lot of these old bonds tbat had been filed
away . Among them was the bond of Samuel
Polk, father of James K, Polk, who gave
b ond in the sum of five hundred pounds to
marry Miss Jane Kuox. The bond was
dated December 24th, 1794, and Robeert
Knox, the father of the bride, affixed bis
j na me to the bond as surety. This was
cleaver in the old gentleman. Not many
prospective fathers-in-law would do this
sort of a thing nowadays. This giving
a marriage bond was a queer old law, and
its object, one ot the old citizens who gave
oa e himself, tells us, was to insure that the
man was able to support himself and to.pre
; vent lbe possibility of their being
0 n the public bounty. As a result, in those
days county commissioners were
j troubled with supporting paupers.—Char
| otte Observer.
j --^----
The Atmosphere in Mexico.
-
The strangest feature of Monterey to
Notheru eyes is the clearness of the air,
such as that which made me, as I stood on
the Mount of Olives, think the Dead Sea
within an hour s walk, though 1 found it a
day s ride. Amoug the aerial phenomena
here I class the foot hills standing out so
prominently that you think you can see
round their corners and into the interspaces
between them aud the secondary ranges.
I he most distant peaks, too, ssem pressing
forward to peep over the shoulders cl those
i nearer. Everywhere the lights and snades
contrast no less than those of electric ilfo
minators. On the .whole, the atmospheric
brilliancy surpasses whatever is known in
the North as muen as our Northern sky
surpasses the London fogs, where men are
forever doubtful whether their celestial iu-
1 minary is the sun or the moon,
famous Ret blent Hospital, a home lor the
,
insane, is full of interest. About three
hundred patients can be accommodated in
the hospital. Onehalf is the annual aver
age of the recoveries. The present ph.ysi
cian believes much in a good, substantial,!
and variable diet. Once a week there is a
lish dinner; another day the fare is com
po ed of a strong meat soup and plum
P^ding; s ‘ x <"»«* ‘or the males and five
for the females of roast or boiled meat, with
vegetables and beer, constitute the principal j
'heal, for the rest of the week. Indoor and;
outdoor amusements are well supplied, !
tennis 1’here is a bagatelle A ball la and de, and two lawn j
courts. concert room is
situated on the female side. I was i
surprised at not being shown any workshop,
and thought how much better it was to be
occujued at some needlework, as the female
patients generally were, thau to be idle,
like nearly ail their male fellow sufferers I
Of all the recent methods of treatment
which have been tried, the most successful
seems to have been the French system of a
prolonged bath of eighty'-live degrees con¬
tinuously during eight or nine hours for
days together. Things do not always run
smoothly in the asvlum. Patients get
suddenly violent and have to be put in (he
refractory rooms. These are variously
padded, some wirh a sort of camtulicon,
against which I should not like, under any
circumstance, to strike my head ; some with
mattresses, and one, on the female side,
with a mellow, inviting India rubber. What
a nice adjunct to a nursery would such a
room be! These rooms are frequently
occupied by refractory ones. The female
side of Bethlem is brighter arid better ap¬
pointed than the male wards. Things look
more cheerful on that side, and patients
less gloomy. With rare exceptions these
were all employed at something or other.
Some were sewing, some'were cutting out
materials, some were writing letters or
reading, others were engaged in conversa¬
gving to the rooms the comfortable
appearance of home. Most of them were
ladies. If the least skilled physiognomist
of men led blindfolded into the men’s wards
would at onee have recognized the sort ot
society he had been taken into, the keenesi
observer, under the same conditions, might
have been considerably puzzled in the
female quarters. Sad sight! two or tbri e
very young and extremely preity girls were
there, but they looked unconcerned, the
hajppier, no doubt, as what we called their
misfortune—their loss of reason—was the
more utter. One of them, however, as we
passed ceased to read ; she lilted up her
eyes ; she roused hersell; she looked wiluly
frightened at something. Perhaps it was
one of those moments when her reason, not
quite destroyed, woke up, and set off her
doom. Has any one ever fathomed the
horrible distress of a human being becom¬
ing suddenly aware of being shut up am d
lunatics, and being thus confined by night
as well as by day ?—Exchange.
BRIGHT THOUGHTS,
Truth is the highest thing tbat man may
’ et h
-phe uob i es t miucl the best contentment !
bas —Edmund Spenser,
They are never alone that are aecompan
ied with noble thoughts.—Sir Philip Sid
Small cheer and great, welcome make a
merry least.—Shakspeare.
Cleanliness of body was ever esteemed to
proceed from a due reverence to God. Ba¬
con.
Moderation is the silken string running
through the pearl chain of ail virtues.
—Bishop Hall.
Humility is a virtue all preach, none
practice, and yet everbody is content to
hear.—John Shelden.
■Tis expectation makes a blessing dear;
Heaven were not Heaven, if we knew wliat it
were.
—Buckling.
Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth
doing well,—Chesterfield.
Dost thou love life, then do not squander
time for that is the stuff life is made of —
j Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an
j aged bosom.—William Pitt.
Hearsta of oak are our ships,
Hearts of oak are our men.
—David Garrick.
The world is a comedy to those that
think> a tragedy to thoa6 who feel.-Horace
\y a jp 0 ] e
A life spent worthily should be measure
Fy a noble line—by deeds, not years.
Sheridan.
Nothing is more simple than greatness;
; ndeedi to oe simple is to be great.—Emer
son.
e gratitui If t o mo -t ■ - nen i is but a secret
I de3 ' re ol rs00lviu greater ^
=
” oucau
only the actions of the Just
Smell sweet uud blosamo in tke^us^. ^ ^
Nothing can constitute good breeding ,
that has not good nature for its foundation.
— Bulwer.
A foe to God was never friend to ftian.—
Youm' ”
l They truly mourn that mourn without a
witness.—Byron.
j ^ single ' bad habit will mar an otherwise
^ a . t 1 | es ckarac , e . ag an ; uk d ,op soileth
‘
e ^ ^ n . b ; tc . p —B illou
‘
: He who lives to no purpose lives to a oa
purpose. Nevins.
; —- — ———
jj ov Improved ImpfomenlsPay tb® Farmer
-
,
It any proof were needed to .. '
value of intelligent labor in farm wor ,
returns ol the last esnsus >.on.a,n a
dant and overwhelming evi ence upon ^
point. In South Carolina t e va ue o —
ricultural implements arm lan ^
per
?11, and the annual product per arm ,
*142. The value ot agriLu.turut
ments per farm hand, with the stug»e
1 * * fiSS in S<
in m y j
and 8ta,e foas value of the annual ,.''" i" ™ 8
than any other atat
exc, “Ption ot Florida v
tb(>,le and Georg' 3 1
,be lar states where the farm band' erapi '
Sest per capita money value in
1,18 aim,Ji *l product was proportion'. l
rate creaae d In in New value and at a <!* '? ' '■
' - °I implements Jersey, where the s'
va ue per farmhand
*••*«■* naai wa
a " product was foOl
] n Oahtorma, where fo e average
‘“Piements farm v au
per hand was $i 0 6
annua! P rodn <* w - 18 $752. f n a!lthes;
ret " ns same in cbafa
ere the . ,
j investments in improved
savil 'g 1 mplementswere la
P roduoi the greatest, the ann
s were largest,
more forcible illustration could
f'' ea °‘ lbe value ol improved (
lm p'ements. Ihose farmers ar: ,
P® st ‘>o lollow the lest succe-d J
w methods and
P has 0 .} 7 been Ae best wonderful appliances. improvement In this state ti]
a dud
the past two years in the use oflabor sad
machinery. the practical The wisdom large crops of1882skoi depart]
of our new
in husbandry.—Charleston Courier.
Trained powers of observation:
professor—“You Florence with have seen the cathedra!
your own eyes. I have i
been so fortunate. What struck
most noteworthy in it?” yoa
English girl Pupil— “a vs
pretty "—Fliegende Blatter
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