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31 wp <0 roiflian. JESUP GEORGIA. AM KPI SO UK. BY BAITOIf OBEY. And no th** hour comen at )at Wbra all thi* <irara ia over. The dlHiatit, pant, Thu raptur*’ of tha lov#r ! uld not t ll that I would That fair and fragrant fancy, And vrt, ah, m*! wto count* It That time should kill the panay ! Otir leva wan but a anrnmer nownr, A Unrip of rlnga and ; L A frail, awoct bud that bloomod an hour, ft i hen ditvi—liko other roue*. 1 drearro-d I ne'er had aean a fIM So ci si4ly tender, ■ And ad! my life to your dar grace Jian: <\> wr in frauk aurrei-der. I. • AM.' -■ < Wld pahKionati- • rroiiw. um who are h*oi•. wm* Hft -• y. r- i - M-* I! 101 - I . visit t InJon aineo ( find taken up my abode and entered on the practice of my profession hr a so licitor at Southampton In London I hail n very dear friend, my old college chum, George Dickson ; and an lie wan the only person I knew in the great metropolis, of courso I lost no time in looking him np. Three years had passed since our last meeting ; but ten oonld scarcely liavo produced a change more marked than had taken place in the appearance and manner of my friend. Our first greetings and friendly inqui ries over, I longed, yet forbore, to ask the cause of my friend's melancholy. 1 felt sure, in duo time, of being made the confidant of the secret, provided no motive of delicney prompted its eon- Boalment. That evening, in my room at the hotel, George told me his story. He had formed an attachment for u yonng lady, whose graces of mind and person he portrayed with all the fervor of a lovtr’s eloquence. Bhe had returned his affection ; but her father had op posed his suit, having set his heart on the marriage of his daughter to a nephew of his. This nephew was a young surgeon, of profligate character, my friend assured me but that may have been prejudice- who laid long, but unsuccessfully, wooed his cousin, to whom his proffers were us repugnant as to her father they were acceptable. Home months since, Mr. Parsons, the young lady's father, had gone into Hampshire on business, accompanied by bis nephew. At Southampton he had been seized by a sudden illness, i which terminated fatally in three days. On the day prece ding his death he bad executed a will (which had since been proved by the depositions of the attesting witnesses), containing a solemn request that his daughter, to whom he left the whole of his estate, should ac cept the hand of his nephew in mar riage, coupled with a provision that in case the lutter offered, and she refused, within a specified period, to enter into the proposed union, the entire estate devised to the daughter should be for feited to the nephew. To sacrifice her fortune to her heart's choice would not, have cost .1 ulia Par sons a moment's hesitation ; and noth ing could liavo more delighted George Dickson than so fair an opportunity of showing how superior his devotion was to all considerations of personal advan tage. lint her father's dying request, in Julia’s eyes, was sacred. It had surpr'si and and stunnedher.it is true; for, in their many conferences on the subject, he had never gone beyond the most kindly remonstrance, and had never even hinted at anything like ©oersion. Voting Parsons, the nephew, had not the magnanimity to forego his ungener ous advantage. He might have been content with his cousin’s fortune alone, hut his right to that depended on his offer and iter rejection of an alliance which she felt in consequence hound to r ’'’opt. The brief season of grae ■, she Inid been compelled to bog hi;- lIMr '- b ; nl m I S-S) i *" BA Ik ■F ■ Mr ■T . ■ t ' 1 b • V_ ‘ . % -M.'.e/ ’ .-’4 18, i ! * " * up W .. ... Next afternoon found me at the abode | of Mr. Parsons, the surgeon. “Mr. Parse ns. I preen me ?” were the | words with which I accosted the gentle : mn f had seen at the theater. “Yes, sir.’’ “ You may not remember me, Mr. j Parsons, but I believe we have met be fore.” “I beg your pardoD, sir, for not recol lecting the occasion.” “You were in Southampton last win ter, wero yon not ?” “ I was,” he answered, with some em | barrassment. | “ I am the solicitor on whom yon called j to take a dralt a will.” Re turned pale, but made no reply. “ I saw a record of that will at Dr. Commons’ this morning,” I resumed, and ” “ Yon speak of my uncle’s will,” he hastily interrupted. “ And yet,” I continued, “ you said it was yours when you applied to have it written. You represented yourself as desirous of executing such a docu- , merit preparatory to embarking on a I perilous voyage. The paper was drawn 1 in accordance with your instructions, \ leaving the date to be filled in at the j I time of signing. Your looks were gray \ then, and you certainly looked old I enough to have a marriageable daugh- I ter ; but your disguise was not perfect.” j Ami I pointed to the mutilated finger. “ What do you mean 1” he shouted in j a defiant tone. “ Bimply that your uncle’s signature to that will is a forgery!” I answered rising and confronting him. “Ho died |on the 23d of Dooember. Your own telegram to that effect is in existence. It was on the 24th, the day before Christmas, that you called on mo to prepare the document now on record as his will. The inference is plain; you undertook to manufacture, this spurious testament after your uncle’s death, and wishing to clothe your villainy in legal form, you procured from m the re quired draft. You, or someone at your instigation, simulated the signa ture of the deceased. The witnesses, who have since perjured themselves in their depositions, were procured in some manner best known to yourself “Enough, sir,” he ejaculated, placing his hack against the door ; “you have shown yourself in possession of a secret the custody of which may prove dangerous !’ “ 1 am not unprepared for your threat,” 1 replied. “Jn tbo first place, I did not come here unarmed ; in the next, I have prepared a full written statement of tho facts to which f have alluded, with information, besides, of my present visit to yourself. This paper will bo delivered to tho friend to whom it is directed, unless within an hour I reclaim it from the messenger, who lias been instructed for tlint length of time to retain it,.” His face grew livid. His frame quiv ered with mingled fear and rage, and his eye gleamed liko that of a wild beast at bay. “What is your purpose?” he ex claimed in ft voice Uoarse with sup pressed passion. “ To keep your secret while you live,” I answered, “ on one condition.” “Name it.” * “That you writil instantly to Julia Parsons, renouncing all pretentions to her hand, and absolutely withdrawing your proposal of marriage.” Alter a moment’s pause, he hastily penned a brief note, which ho submit ted to my inspection ; it was quite sat isfactory. “He so good as to seal and address it,” 1 said. Ho did so. “ 1 will see that it is delivered,” I remarked, taking it up and bowing my self out. When I met George Dickson that evening, his old college look hud come back. He had great news to tell me. The next thing was to take mo to see Julia; and it is needless to tell what a happy evening we three spent together, and a happy marriage followed not long after. Eld ridge Parsons, I have just learned, emigrated for Australia, on board the London, and went down in that, ill-fated ship. A Miser’s Methodic Mildness. Baltimore is called upon to mourn the death of nil elderly miser who, in his journey through this world,-bad spout, little else than Ins life. There was method in his madness, for surely a miser may be said to be mad. A short time before his death, he informed a friend that lie bad never given away a cent, norspentone when the expenditure eould possibly be avoided. Four years ago he married a third wife, aud though she was young, and he was in Ins dotage he hail entire ascendency over her, compelling her to work in a factory and turn over her wages to Imu. He assumed the whole responsibility of the household, and, under his penurious management, nothing went to waste. Some six years ago lie purchased a cheap pine eoftiin. and etorea it in his tenement, biding patiently the day when he would need it for his final wrap. before liis death, he told his funeral expenses must not aud to he directed 1 . > men. instead ■ auce ■ ujton the employment agon, for ■BMPIPiB * lli- *,■ ■” -?' * Hr HI he same service to a sick ■ v; i • £|gMLr. wi i,-ft pr. petti valued at 83' 1 .- I * ■ HL • xj a sorrowful look coy last Saturday, L. it Iki Corn as an American Staple. From the Rural Southerner. Jn good seasons we raise something over one thousand million bushels of corn in the United States ; and allowing as high an average as twenty bushels per acre, more than fifty million acres are planted to this crop. In the sruth and west very little pains is taken to pre vent the washing of corn ground, wnen the crop is growing, or for several years after, if allowed to rest. This is a great error in farming. At the last working of corn, a fine-tooth harrow should be used to make the soil fine, clean and level, to prevent water run ning between the rows. Instead of permitting the ground to lie naked, or grow up in weeds, it should be seeded at once with clover and gra<-s seed in tho standing corn. The new crop, will not grow to do any harm before the corn is ripe ; while the fall growth will shelter the otherwise nakedness of the recently-tilled land prevent surface washtng, and recuperate the depleted j soil. All know, or at least ought to know, that clover is a renovating plant, and that nearly all corn-ground needs some amendment. By running fifty million acres, more or less, in corn every year, with much washing and little or no restitution, we most certainly fill our country witn sorrv-looking old fields. The intelli gence and good sense of every farmer should condemn the practice, amfytry to change it for the better. A groat deal of southern land is planted, in corn which is too poor to produce more than from seven to ten bushels to the acre. What is to be done with sjwth ground, to double its fruitfulness? We answer let it rest in clover and Herd’s gras, with one or two hundred ponnds of gypsnm to the acre. Plant much let i surface in corn and cotton, and manure that. We have so many fields in the south ; that require additional fertility that, insti ad of doing our best to make corn andcotton atonce, we should do our best to raise the raw materials out of which these great staples are formed. To per form all the work on a field that ought to give a harvest cf thirty or forty bushels of corn per acre, aud gather a littlo crept of less than ten bushels, may bo honest farming, but it is not wise farming. Some ot the essential ele ments used by nature in farming corn are lacking in the soil, in an available form. If these cannot bo supplied by the cultivator, he should try to find something better to do than tilling poor soil in corn. Of all the labor perform ed in the United States, this is the pioorest paid to individuals and the public. Practically, it makes poor laml poorer still ;while poor people are np>t to become about as poor as they [ can be. It is unpdoasant to write abont poverty, or even think about it. But when a curable malady is fastened upon a friend and his family, although the task may be unpleasant, it is better to go to their relief than to shun them. The owners of poor land in the south are not half so poor, nor so sick of firming as they imagine. They simply use their farms in the wrong way. When corn ground is thin and u 'prom ising, (liey plant a double quantity to get tho bushels they want; lookiug toJ corn alone for nut income. Th’., j- -. *<•• take throws away full half of their j labor, and helps kill the old plantation. | Btock it full with calves that will be- j come good cows in two or three years ; I when one hundred calves that cott three | dollars a-head, will become worth thirty j dollars a-head, or three thousand dol- i lars. Don’t bo afraid that well-raised ] young cows will not sell. They will pay fifty percent, interest, and keep them on ’ your improving farm. Such land aud stock will give an easy fortune. Uich Men Ituyimr Winter Homes in I lorida. Lake Monroe, which marks the head waters of general navigation of the St. John, is about six miles long by six wide, and is a beautiful body of water. It lies iii latitude about 28S degrees, abont 1,000 miles south of Syracuse. On the west border of the lake, Hon. Henry S. Sand ford, lute minister to Belgium, has founded a settlement named after himself. He has bought, | I don't remember how many thousand j acres here, and is planting orange groves and selling off homesteads bv j j wholesale. He has brought over a j colony of Swedes and planted it here, l and, singular to say, these exotics from j the extreme north of Europe are flour- I isliiug finely in this tropical clime, j The village ;of Sand ford boasts several ! hundred inhabitants, has two or three i churches—one. the Episcopal, a beau- 1 j tifal edifice, the gift of Mrs. Sandford | | —and indulges in great expectations of the future. Mr. Sandford is selling off little plots, for winter residences, to ; gentlemen of wealth who will put up creditable buildings. Among other j purchasers are Gen. Babcock, of Grant’s staff and Senator Anthony, of Rhode Island. The Railroad War. Freight llowli to Tivo-lhlrtls ot h Cent K*<r Ton t*rr .*lll*. Only 30 cents per 100 lbs. from Chi cago to New York! Six dollars a toa j for 900 miles, or two-thirds of a cent per At this rate, supposing the actual cost to be the lowest ever attained ' in this country, about 4 2 3 mills, the profit is only one mill per ton j er mile, and in order to earn <! per eeut. interest ' on the capital, the road costing 850,000 ‘ per mile, and two-thirds of the earnings coming from freight, a traffic amounting 1 to 2 000,000 tou- over every mile of r ad, or 1,800.000,000 tons one mile, must be secured. No road in the coun try ever has had a traffic anything like 1 as large, nor Ims an> load ever attained I as low a cost of transportation as six ; mills, except in coal. It follows that : the competition between the Baltimore i aud Ohio aim theother roads to Chicago i has now driveu down the rates below a i living price, and llie roads are doing | their low class fre glit business at a | loss, the only qnes ion now is, which : can afford to los ■ mo t?—*S¥. lAiuis ! Democrat. Colonki. Rice s i bowel Bayonet.— The r. ports of t’ o rxpertu onts made by officers of lie a-my with Colonel Rice's trowel bayonets have just teen published in pamptih t form at the na tional armory, Springfield, Mass. It aouears that five hundred trowel bayo | nets were made at Springfield and ! served out to the various companies of ; the third United States infantry, sta ; tioned in the department of the Mis souri. After a given number of exper iments the officers seDt in their reports on the subject, nd it was found that the colonel and two captains were not in favor of the weapon as a substitute for the ordinary bayonet; while the lieutenant colonel and all the other offi cers (nineteen) were in favor of its ad p tion, some of them testifying quite en thusiastically in its favor as a field in- I trenching tool, Subsequently a board | of officers assembled at Springfield to | examine the weapon, and upon their re ! commendation the secretary of war or i dered the manufacture and issue to the I troops of ten thousand trowel bayonets, j The report is accompanied with excel- I lent illustrations of the new arm. the | various species of handles which have ! been recommended for this and other | bayonets, plans of field intrenchments, I with enntrasting pictures of soldiers | “in the open” and “in trench,” and i much other interesting matter. England’s Standing Army. When the army bill was before the house of commons for consideration, Sir Wilford Lawson made an amusing speech, prefacing it with the resolution: “ That in the opinion of this house the assurances of friendship from all for eign powers, mentioned in her majesty’s speech, warrant a reduction in the land forces of the British army.” He didn’t know but that it was out of place to talk politics in the house, but be would ask of the honorable gentleman if all nations were friendly to EDgland, of whom was she afraid ? Not France, surely, for she was so full of her own j affairs that she had no time to think of j her neighbors. It was, in fact, a rich Frenchman who instructed his new valet that his three principal duties would be to wake him up every morn ing at nine, to let him know as to the weather, and to inform him under wliat form of government be was living. Not Russia or Prussia, for England lias married into the royal families of each. ; Nor Spain, since it was only the other day that they were compelled to back the king’s train into a tunnel to save him from the bullets of his subjects. England had no power to fear but the pope and the potato bug. Gladstone would be able to take care of the former —a conservative government was surely competent to prevent an invasion by the latter. If the standing army was to be kept on its legs the country would be obliged some day to use it for the rea son that induced an African chief to go to war—he had a barrel of gunpowder on hand and it would spoil if he didn’t use it. The wit of the facetious Sir Wilfred did not avail. The army esti mates were adopted. They show that for 873,385,000, England will have dur ing the next year an army of 129,000 regulars, exclusive of 00,000 in India, 103,000 militia, 7,928 effective reserves, 22,000 enrolled pensioners, and 161,000 efficient volunteers and some yeomanry —in all, an army of 450,000 men. A Millionaire’s Octaroon Widow. T. J. Milliken, one of the wealthiest .merchants in Sacramento, took for a second wifet a young betardon. She was very pretty, well educated, and her African'blood was barely perceptible. The ma-riage was disfavored by the ohildren of the first wife, who would have no acquaintance with their step mother. A short time ago Milliken died. Having made no will the octa roon wife could only claim tho wife’s usual share of the property. The estate was worth about u million dol lars. The children are contesting her right to anything, basing their suit on the iact of Mrs. Milliken being part negro, the California law declaring that “all marriages between white persons and negroes or mulatoes are illegal and void.” The evidence shows that dur ing the years of Mr. Miliiken’s wedded life with his second wife she was re ceived in good society, although her taint of blood was well known, and that his affection and respect for her 'were sincere. The defence is that the law particularly designates ‘ ‘ negroes pud mulattoes as ineligible for mar riage with white persons, and that the wife in this instance was neither, being only one-eighth negro. A deoision has not been reached. The Rio Grande. A special to the News- from Corpus ; Ohristi says a fetter from the postmas- \ ter at Neuces, who was robbed and had j his house burned by raiding Mexicans, i savs : On the 26th instant, about four j o’clock, p. m., while conversing with a j man named Smith, I discovered three | Mexicans approaching my store. I went i into the sitting room for a rifle. Smith ! rushed in, with a Mexican following j him with a gun pointed prepared to fire. My wife interfered, and prevented. He t lie'll pointed the gun at me. I saved my life by taking his. I then timed at the nearest of the cut-throats in the store, when discovering about fifty outside, did not shoot, knowing the only chance for my life was to se crete myself, which I did in the sub terranean passage, where I found Smith. The robbers sacked my store, packing valuables in wagons. About this time the mail rider from San Antonio ar rived. They took him prisoner, and the mail never reached me. Smith now left his hiding-place and ran. They gave chase and murdered Him. The store was fired and I was forced to leave my concealment, which 1 did imuoticed and remain-d near and witnessed the destruction of my home. Toe Mexicans left, believing me con sumed in the flames. My children were shot at twice while they lay prostrated on the ground from fright. The Mexi cans had several American prisoners, sinppiug some and compelling them to ! go bare footed. A clergyman, at a recent teachers’ meeting in Ohio, said that teachers a-v Joo often selected in the wrong way. “Examiners make an intellectual re | quirement in straight-jacket style, and ; pav no attention whatever to the par ticular natural, innate l adaptedness of the ttacherfor the profession, ad thus men and women arc found at the head ■of ouf schools wh are no more able * develop the humru mind than a M -e.oc I ;s to draw a pi< tnre of the heavenly Jerusalem with charcoal.” Horrible Death from the Bite of a Tarantula. Mrs. Jervis, the wife of a farmer living near Sacrament*, died a few days ago in this city, from the bite of a tarantula. The case is singular, and is another instance of the deadly attri butes of this insect, not uncommon in many portions of California. Some six months ago, Mrs. Jervis, then liv ing on her nusbanj’s farm, had occa sion to strike a light, and going to a closet felt about for a match. While so doing she found something in a piece of writing paper which she thought might be a bunch of matches, and took hold of it. As she did she felt a sharp pain like the prick of a needle or pin, and found something attached to her fore-finger. She screamed with terror, her husband rose, lit a candle, and to his horror found that she was bitten by a tarantula—whose poison is deadly unless the wound be immediately cau terized. He told h's wife that she had only one chance of her life, to have the injured part cut out. She consented, and getting his razor, he cut a piece one iDch square out of her finger. The unfortunate woman stood the operation heroically, but its effects were not such as were desired. She lingered for six months in continual Bgony, her blood literally drying np, till she was re duced to an absolute skeleton. Three months before her death her entire right side became paralyzed; yet, strange to say, the hand had a tendency to crawl, and the fingers incessantly moved like the legs of a spider. Tnis feeling she said she could not control, and it presents one of the strongest phases of this disease, though a usual accompaniment, so averred, of poison ing by insects of the spider kind.— San Francisco Post. Splendid Wheat Crop Prospicts. A gentleman who has traveled exten sively through Tennessee, Kentucky, Wc3t Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio and Southern Illinois, informs the St. Louis Democrat that the winter wheat crop now in the ground in ali that region is in excellent condition. Some farmers suppose the broadcast sowing would prove a failure in such states as Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, where the snow did not lay long on the ground ; but examination of the plant proves the reverse. Not only is the growing wheat in excellent condition in these states, but the area put in is large. Tn the more northerly portion of the winter wheat belt the earth has been very steadily covered with snow, and there can be no doubt j that when a thaw comes it will be sud den. Spring will be skipped and sum mer will begin. The weather will be hot and forcing, and the growth of the wheat plant will be rapid. Another thing seems to be pretty certain, and t at is, that there will be a big corn crop in 1875. Corn is now bringing a price that will insure a large profit to the farmer, and hogs are high also. Thus there are two incentives to pro duce corn largely. If the crop should be so large as to force prices down, it can be fed to hogs, and made to pay a good profit that way. 1 Hospital for Sick Animals. The Medical Press and Circular says: “ The Brown Institution in the Wands worth road is a curious featnre in Lon don at present. Lime dogs, sick horses, and donkeys form the out-door patients of this hospital. It was estab lished by a gentleman who died twenty years ago, leaving over £20,000 for this purpose, bequeathed to the Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor, and fellows of the university of Condon for the purpose of establishing and upholding an insti tution for investigating, studying, and, without charge beyond immediate ex penses, endeavoring to cure maladies distempers, and injuries which any quadrupeds or birds useful to man may be found subject to. During 1873 there were about seven thousand animals, chiefly horses and donkeys, receiving treatment at the Brown Institute. Many of the horses, it was found, were the property of rich proprietors, so that the trustees have lately restricted the benefits of the charity to the poor. Hence last year not more than four thousand animals attended as out patients. Of these 800 were dogs, and among these about twelve caseß of rabies. The endowment of the charity gives only some £9OO a year, which, : after all expenses are paid, leaves notli- I ing for the purchase of diseased or in jured animals or their carcasses for the promotion of science.” Spelling-Matches. The latest mania which has seized upon Young America is that of spelling matches. They have spread as rapidly as the epizootic did. It is an old custom which had fallen into disuse, but has been revived with a r pidity which is truly astonishing. Commencing in New England, only a few weeks ago, they have quickly spread to the west, the lastplace to lie attacked being Nebraska. The object of these matches is a very excellent one, the proceeds and rewards being given to the poor. They are in nocent in character, not liable to lead people into temptation, and are cheap and trauquilizing. They do not excite the passions, keep people out very late at nights, or distract their attention from business. In these respects they are much to be preferred to church lotteries, religious raffles, Jariey wax works, and otter similar modes of spreading the gospel into heathen lands Some of the facts connected with these matches are very peculiar. Although nearly all women are accustomed to have had spells at times, they almost invariably come off victorious in these matches, and put down the tyrant ma without any difficulty. Men of literary pretensions have been floored with “ flaccid,” Cage let,” “ballast,” “ bal ance.” privilege,” “capillary,” “co lossal,” “correlate,” “appall,” aid even little monosy labic words, nnrled at them by the gentler sex. CT'stomkr —I want a mourning snit. Shopiman—Wliat is the bereavement, may I ask? Cast mer—My mother In law. Shopman—Mr. Brown, show he gentleman to the tight affliction depart ment.—Fun, sayings and doings. The Ohio senate has passed a bill fixing the compensation of members of ! the legislature at 8500 per annum. Mobe good maimers at Nice. Aa i English lady, the wife of o, baronet, cheated a Scotch marquis at cards, andj the indignant Scot beat her on the sivitj “ Time softens all things,” except t. J ! young maa who parts his hair in th middle and whistles on the street-cars Nothing can make him any softer than i he is. Br anew invention it is claimed that I glass can be made into building mate i rial, for house fronts, doors, or pave ments, superior to marble in durability | and conomy. There is a theatre in Paris where the i actresses pay for the privilege of appear ing on the stage. When the manager wants to get rid of any member of his company he rai s es her salary. “J. Gray—Pack with my box five dozen quills.” There is nothing re markable about this sentence, only that it is nearly as short as one can be con structed, and ytt contains all the letters of the alphabet. An Oregon paper makes the predic tion that in twenty years the export of prunes from that, state wil! be greater in valne than the export of wheat. Those Pacific coast croakers had better wait and see how many sorts of root rot, sun-scald, and insect enemies at tack their trees during the next few years. For generations past, French has been the diplomatic language of Europe. On the close of the Franc’;-Prussian war, Berlin wrote a diplomatic note in German, of the deepest Russian blue, to St. Petersburg ; the latter replied in good Russian, sixteen quarters black. The exchange of correspondence stopped then and there in those two languages, and French was resumed. At last here is anew fa cy in the prestidigitation line. He borrowed a bonnet from a lady in the audience, and as he was about to return it it caught fire in the gas, and he had to stamp on it with both feet to extinguish the flame. Misery of the lady !It was her best bonnet. Then he fired a pistol, and a bonnet just like it fell from the chan delier m the middle of the theatre. Talking of the tight skirts which are now in fashion, a lady who was born in the last century said the other day : “Yon call those tight skirts! You should have seen Madame Tallien then when she walked in the Tuileries with a dress of an almost transparent text ure, worn over a pair of silk tights ! You have not come to that.” “No,” answered another lady, “and I hope v<e never shall.” Talmage is back in his favorite role again. In his last Christian at Work, he offers a last word of gratuitous advice to theatrical people: “If yon will only stoop down and look through the cracks in the floor of the stage,” he says, “ you will see fire aid smell smoke. Better fly for your life. It is hard work getting to heaven from the American theater. You will have to spring seventy-five feet at the first jump 1” *, The climate of Texas soon makes an elephant of a man. The Daily Tele graph, of Houston, says; “Horses and alligators have but feeble constitu tions compared with many of the stal wart sons of the Lone Star empire. Pistol balls and bowie-knife thrusts are, bv many, considered the harmless re sults of playfulness and good humor, and the kick of a mule or mustang is not sufficiently emphatic to call for seri ous remark or notice.” Two children still and srark on a snowy slope—the girl wraped round in the coat of the boy, and both young faces fixed by frost in the calm repose of death—was the picture presented to the eyes of wearied teachers near Mount Ayr, lowa, the other day. This winter’s cold has taken many a life, but none of the unfortunates were found in so touching an attitude as this. It was not in the heat of the conflict that the boy died; there was no rattling drum to stir his thickening blood, nor comrade’s eyes to mark his heroic fall; nothing to rouse his young enthusiasm. But the little coat folded carefully abont the girlish form, and his own naked breast, told of the quiet courage aud self-sacrifice with which he had met the pitiless blast that blew as cold on him as her. A Bonanza Slice Coming East.—A small slice of our bonanza, in the shape of a million dollars in silver bul lion, will be sent east to be coined at tne Philadelphia mint during the month of April, our San Francisco branch mint not having sufficient capacity to coin this amount (in addition to its other necessary business), as fast as is desir able. T tie bullion sent to Philadelphia is to be coined into five and ten-cent pieces. Our Branch mint will com mence shortly turning out the new coin, the tweaty-cent piece, which will soon be put m* emulation. We may, there fore, look hopefully to a speedy abate ment of the “bit” nuisance, arising out of the difficulty of making proper change where ten-cent purchases are made and twenty-five-cent or five-cent pieces tendered in payment. —San Francisco Chronicle. Wheeler & Wilson’s Sewing Ma chines. We call attention to the Wheeler Sr Wilson advertisement in our columns. This v-eil-known Company has the most advantageous facilities for supply ing the public with Sewing Machines, on as favorable terms as the business will allow. They warrant all their work, and it is a matter of impor : tance to the purchaser to deal with a i Company whose position and perma nence give assurance that their guar anty will be fulfilled. They have agencies and offices throughout the | civilized world, for furnishing needle s, thre and acd other necessary supplies, and have an established reputation for reliability and fair dealing. There is no risk in buying a Mason A Hamlin Cabinet Oigan. These in struments are known to be the best of their cla=s in the world. But if the opinion of a dealer be asked ue wijJ frequently recommend some other, the simple reason that he iirct-r ■ -a - y.s- - ; r Ln-tinments.