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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS JD. COLLEY & CO., VOL. I. The World. This world is a sad, sad place, I know— And what soul living can doubt it?— But it will not lessen the want and woe To be always singing about it. Then aw; with the songs that are full of irs— Away with the dirges that sadden; Let us make the most of our fleeting years By singing the lays that gladden. A few sweet portions of bliss I’ve quaffed, And many a cup of sorrow; -But, in thinking over the flavored draught, The oldtime joy I borrow; And by brooding over the bitter drink, Pain fills again the measure; Ind so I have learned that it’s best to think Of the things that give us pleasure. The world at its saddest is not all sad— There are days of sunny weather; And the people in it are not all bad, But saints and sinners together. I think those wonderful hours in June Are better by far to remember Than those when the world gets out of tune, In the cold, bleak winds of November. Because we meet in the walks of life Many a selfish creature, It does not prove that this world of strife Has no redeeming feature. There is bloom and beauty upon the earth— There are buds and blossoming flowers— There are souls of truth and hearts of worth— There are glowing, golden hours. In thinking over a joy we’ve known, We easily make it double; Which is better by far than to mope and moan O’er sorrow, and grief, and trouble. Eter, though the world is a sad, sad place, (And who that is living can doubt it?) It will not lessen the want and woe To be always sighing about it. —Kiln Wheeler, in Boston Transcript. , NANNIE’S CHOICE. ' High time, declared the gossips of Grayville, that Nannie Williams made a tuoice of a husband and gave to the other girls, who doubtless would make better wives if they had not as much beauty, some chance. Utterly absurd that the men followed, one after another, like sheep in a drove, where ever her caprices led. They were like a hive of bees contending for one ilower and blind to all the gardenful besides. But Nannie only smiled when some whisper of this reached her and let the gossips talk. Full well she knew her power, this simple^ little country girl, who pos¬ sessed no dower save her beauty— right loyally she used it. Besides, it was not quite as the gossips declared. There was no such butter in all the country as that which came from Nan¬ nie Williams’ farm, and Nannie’s lingers, white and tapered as they were molded it; no cream was so thick and yellow, and Nannie had sole charge of the dairy; no house was more neat and tidy and a nameless air of femi¬ nine grace about it, and Nannie, since her mother’s death, reigned sole mis tres. No wonder the young men felt the race well run with such a prize at its goal. True, she had a saucy word ever ready; but one readily forgave its harmlessness for tlie sake of the sweet, brilliant smile which lent her pretty face its rarest charm and seemed to mutely plead her pardon. However, when it was least ex peeted, Nannie made her choice, and it fell upon Sydney Richards. There was nothing to be said against him. He was a good-looking young fellow, with a farm of his own. He and Nannie would make a hand¬ some couple and doubtless would suc¬ ceed well in the world; but for ail that it was a surprise to many of tliem, and one or two of the more discerning ones said that she had flirted shamelessly with Dick Armstrong, and that quiet as lie had ever been he had grown more so since the betrothal was an¬ nounced. Nannie did not hear this, however, nor had she seen Dick since her en¬ gagement, until one evening, some three weeks after, she had wandered down to the little gate opening on to the road, and stood leaning listlessly against it, when a quick, firm tread broke the-silence, and a flush of crim¬ son rose to her face, then receded, as a tall, stalwart figure came around a sharp turning in the road. He gave a quick start, too, as lie perceived her, and would have passed on, merely raising the straw hat from the close-cropped blonde head, but that her voice, a little tremulous, detained him. “ Dick !” she said. He halted then, but made no move¬ ment to approach her, until she held out toward him a small white hand. “Dick,” she repeated, “of all my friends, you are the only one who has not congratulated me.” “ Indeed 1” lio answered, with a strange, hard smile. “ I hope it is not too late.” And touching the little fingers for an instant only he turned away again as if ho considered all his duty done. Hot tears rose to Nannie’s eyes, though from whence they sprung none could have divined. “ You are cruel, Dick,” she said. "No,” he answered, "I am kind; but THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD. believe me, Nannie, I trust you may be happy. Good-night!” She. spoke no further word to detain him, but stood and watched him walk away. Her eyes still followed the direction lie had taken long after his figure was lost to her sight. “He never loved me!” she mur mured to herself. “ He would al ways have been exacting and jealous, and he never asked me to be his wifi. What right has he to complain ?” But the girl knew that she silenced only her conscience, and no voice of his, when she thus spoke. lie had ut¬ tered no reproach. Dared she to her own soul say lie could have found no cause for doing so ? Sydney Richards found something amiss with his pretty betrothed that night. She shrank from his some¬ what too demonstrative caress and turned upon him almost angrily when he asked her to name the day for their wedding—in fact, to let the bans be read at once. “ You see, it’ll soon he harvest-time, Nannie, my lass,” he pleaded, by way of argument, “ and there’s no denying that the farm needs a woman’s hand and a woman’s care. It’s all ready for its mistress and why shouldn’t its mistress be ready for it?” “Simply because she isn’t your maid of all work, Sydney Richards, to be hired when the season is most con¬ venient and the demand for her most pressing!” was the girl’s hot reply. But her lover bore it good-naturedly, and just as lie was leaving she peni¬ tently let her arms steal softly about his neck, while she raised herself on tiptoe to whisper in his ear that he must forgive her. But—well, the cream had soured and the butter would not come to-day, and so her temper had not home the test. Pardon thus sought might readily enough be won for harshest sin, but Sydney Richards imposed his penalty for all that; and so it happened that the next Sabbath morning witnessed the reading of his and Nannie Wil¬ liams’ bans. ____________ _ ____ Poof little Nannie! She and her pride were waging a hard fight just then. It had been a lucky moment Sydney Richards had chosen to ask her to become his wife. That very day she and Dick had had their first and only falling out. It had been such a foolish matter, and she ' had known^ herself quite wrong, but she had determined Dick should yield, find instead he had quietly walked away, saying; “Nannie,when you acknowledge I | am right, send for me. It is only ! your pride that now refuses to ac¬ knowledge me so; and it is with your heart, not your pride, I wish to deal. Besides, I have something more I wish to say to you then.” Something more! Ah, how well she knew what this something more |'' a ' 1 ' As needed £o be P u£ tato words! As if she had not known all bi?r b£e tbat £bck ’ earnes t an d tender antl true as he was strong, loved her, and one day would make 3ler bi3 wife, be little like(1 and illy brooked ber C0 T lle ttish ways ? Indeed, on this account had been their falling out, but she had deter¬ mined tliis time not to yield; and so, when, a few hours after Dick had left her, it chanced that Sydney Richards came to woo her, liis tender love ! phrases sounded ver3r pleasantl y in her | car ’ and consclous sbe gaye 04 a11 bim its b er import, promise, 1 scarce but j glad pain from to inflict which on her Dick heart some of the was suffer¬ ing. “I’m going to try the new colt, father, this morning,” she said, when it wanted but two weeks of her wed¬ ding day. “ Better not,” said the farmer. “ I doubt if lie’s ever had a woman on his back.” “ lie would not be the first horse I had broken to that privilege,” was her laughing retort. Tlie farmer said no more. He had implicit faith in Nannie’s horseman¬ ship ; but when, a little later, she came down the stairs dressed in her habit-, she started to find Dick Arm¬ strong holding the colt by tlie rein. “I had business with your father, Nannie,” he said, quietly, “and the man brought the colt round while we were talking together ; so I stayed to tell you you must not ride him. He has a dangerous eye.” The girl smiled proudly. “ Many thanks for your interest in my life, Mr. Armstrong ; lr 1 since you have acquitted yourself of any respon¬ sibility in tlie matter, 1 feel doubly tempted to try the experiment.” She stepped down beside the horse to pat him with one little gauntleted hand, a courtesy lie acknowledged by impatiently pawing the ground with his fore feet. Dick Armstrong's cheek paled. In- LINCOLOTON. GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1882. voluntarily he laid his hand on the girl’s arm. “You must not, Nannie, It is ab solute madness.” “And if it is,” she retorted, hotly, “to forbid it is Sidney Richards’ pro- 1 vince, not yours.” She could have used no better argu ment to silence him. He had paled before, but now cheek and lips alike were colorless, save for one drop of blood upon the latter where his teeth had met. One instant the small foot tested in his palm, in answer to her imperious gesture for assistance, the next girl and horse had vanished from his sight —the colt, with bit fairly between his teeth and running like mad—running as only a vicious horse can run, de termined to rid himself of the human being he bears. Dick Armstrong forgot his anger, just though it was, forgot all save the great, sickening dread at his heart— the dread which was so soon to prove so fatally well-founded, as, hastening down the road, a riderless horse first came dashing past him, and then, a mile further on, he met a party of la¬ borers carrying in their midst a ghastly load. At first, poor fellow! he thought it that most terrible of all burdens—a dead body; but as he bent over the face, so deathly white but for the crim¬ son stain upon the forehead, a faint murmur of agony escaped her lips.' . Gently these rough men bore her home. Almost as soon Dick was there with the physician he had summoned; but the latter, who hw 1 left him a full hour without tL sick room, could minister but little comfort on his re turn to where he waited. The girl might live, he said, though only her wonderful health and youth would ac¬ complish that; but she would be a cripple always. Nannie Williams a cripple! one could realize it as the news spread; hut as the slow weeks passed and life as slowly asserted itself the doubt be came certainty. Ah, well, the-gessips declared-agater it was sad enough; hut better it had happened then than later, when Sydney Richards would have been bur¬ dened with a crippled wife his life long. But Sydney himself ’ what did he ’ J ? The accident was five weeks and the time fixed for her wedding had long gone by when Nannie sent for him. The lovely face was white as the pillows on which it rested, and the 8 00ked 1111861 ^ ^ t hevmethis “Thefann The farm has has had had to to wait wait for for ,t its mhtUrl , a er . a ’ y ^ y ’ she I saul, l* the had You lou said said it it needed needed a a worn womans n- hand, h L ‘ ,r USe P gI 683 ” T:” " ute ’ ana thin. ... „ T It . . t to isn necessary give ' 0X1 y °!! r rel6ase froni an >’ Pledge, per haps; for of course you understand I couldn’t burden you tins wfiy. But I thought you d feel better, maybe, if you let me tell you so myself.” The man iooked down embarrassed, lie had meant to say something like this himself, for lie wished a helpmeet, a craw ac , in ns wi e, but, somehow, the words sounded entiy from Aanmes Ups, and made mm reel small and mean. let they were just enough; and when with a few murmured regrets, he left her, the bond between them was forever severed. Alone henceforth alone and less! she whispered to herself, the great tears rolled silently down her cheeks. But she was glad, too, that it was not Sydney Richards’ wife that spoke. That evening Dick came in. “You can forgive me everything now, Dick,” she said. “ How good you have been to mean this time! Sydney was here this morning, Dick, and—and all is over between us.” “You mean he gave you up because —because. Tlie coward!” “ IIusll > dear ! ” sbe interrupted. “It was I who released him. Why, Dick, any man would be mad to take such a burden as I am on his hands.” “Then I am mad. Oh, Nannie, give yourself to me and I will be happier with my cross than any king that wears a crown.” “Ybu are a king, Dick,” she an swered. “ Oh, my love! would that I had proved worthy of you before R | was too late; but now—now it can j | never be! ” And, plead as ho might, he could not change her purpose. j “I love you-yes,” she said, “too X? y ■»- — 1 u "" For weeks ho pleaded, but Nannie was firm, until one day he brought her a young surgeon from the city—a man who hail gained wonderful repute, and who told her that by submitting to a dangerous operation she might again walk. “Is it death or recovery?” she asked, He answered : “ Yes “ Then let me be your wife, Dick!” she whispered in her lover’s ear. “ I shall have that to give me strength to recover, or I shall sleep better with your name on the slab above toy bead.’* But, the operation over, Nannie woke to life, not death, and, strong and beautiful as in the old days, wears only a tiny scar upon her brow to mark how near she missed her life’s happiness. --- Tfie FtVsf. Anesthesia uas discovered in 1344. Phe first steel plate was made in 1830. The first tacifer match was made in 1829. The first iron steamship was built in 1830. The first balloon ascent was made in 1793. The entire Hebrew bible was printed in 1488. Ships were first “copper-bottomed’’ in 1783. Coaches were first used in England in 1569. The first horse railroad was built in 1826-27. Gold was first discovered in Califor¬ nia in 1848. The first steamboat plied the Hud¬ son in 1807. The first watches were made at Nu. remburg in 1477. Kerosene was first used for lighting purposes in 1826. Omnibuses were first introduced in New York in 1830. ' Thepfirst use of a locomotive in this country was in 1829. The first copper cent was coined in New Haven in 1687. The first telescope was probably usedTirUiigland nrT6087 The first saw-maker’s anvil was brought to America in 1819. The first almanac was printed by George Yon Furbach in 1460. The first printing press in the United | States was introduced in 1620. ' mu The • first l chimneys i were introduced . , . mo ome rom Padua m 1368. The first steam engine on this con tinent was brought from England in 1753. m . . A remarkable Indian idol was re eently taken from Horse creek, in Cedar ^ co Mo. the home of the last j mo und-buiiders. This Indian or Aztec idol > as 11 is believed to be, is four feet long and weighs sixty-four pounds. In general outline or figure it resembles a huge lizard or chameleon. It is carved out of slate or lead-colored stone or eomposition of mot i erate hardness, is ag smooth as glass and shows that it is the work of a person of fine imagina j ; tion , intelligence and skill, whether he liyed j 000 years ago or is iivingto-dav ' 0n a close r examination the idol i 5 | j found to be TOade up of part of a dozcn erea tures—amphibia, carnivora, in , sectS( reptiles and fowls. The top of < tj ie head has the semblance of a flat . bone pla te, and is shaped like that of an eagle , Avith a long, sharp beak. Near the middle j 0 f the beak is a horn, like that of a rhinoceros, and of light vellow color, | The under part of the head is shaped like that of a turtle or frog, and is of U ght yellow. The eye is like that of an eagle. It has two legs in front and two behind. The legs are shaped ox aptl y like those of an elephant, have j f our yellow toes on each foot, and the feet have the spongy appearance pecu liar to those of an elephant. Between each pair of legs on the abdomen is the representation of the plate of bone that on a turtle. On the neck are two shields, or wing-covers, like those tlie back of a common beetle. Be hind the le S s > aad about the middle ot the tail, extend a row of diamond shape - vell °w s l'°ts. The idol is in a per. f ect state of preservation, and at a dis stance of a few steps looks as if it wirealhu_ “The press,” says Chambers’ Journal “is every year becoming a greater ; power in the land; it is already "one of ! the greatest‘resources of civilization.,’ and we might as soon try to get along without steam, or railways, or the post office, as without our newspapers. If wo are to have newspapers we must have editors to direct them, and the editors n U ' St marcb "'ith or in advance of the £lmes . ^liere is therefore ’ good reason ‘ ,, hapo that things are in store irsrs’* are gone, and that on the newspaper press the best talent, the maturest judgment and the most cultivated taste will yet find congenial aud appropriate work.” A BOL T SPIDERS. Their Prey, Their Court.,Sips, and Their Ene The Bev. Henry C. McCook, of Phila delphia, who is an interested observer of spiders, says, as reported in the Philadelphia Press: The destruction of insects by spiders is enormous. I have counted 250 in sects, small and great, hanging in one orb-web. In one net in Fairmount park I counted thirty-eight rnosqui toes; in another, hung under a bridge at Asbury Park, and out of reach, there must have been two or three times as many. Green-head flies by the legion have been seen in the webs that fairly enlace the boat houses at Atlantic City and Cape May. The very small spiders j prey upon microscopic insects j gna t s> and devour myriads. A glance at the fields, bushes and trees on a dewy morning in September will reveal an innumerable multitude of webs spread over the landscape, all occupied by spiders of various ages, sizes and fami lies, and all busy destroying the insect P esls of man, There are several species of spiders, divided into two classes, the sedentary and the wandering spiders. To the first class belong the orb-weavers, who made a circular web ; the line-weavers, whose web is labyrinthian; the tube weavers, who hang their nests on walls or rocks or branches of trees, and the tunnel-weavers, who live in tunnels cut into the earth and having automatic doors ingeniouslv contrived. In the wanderers are included the cetegrades, whose motions are quick and vivacious ; the laterigrades, who have a queer sideways motion, and saltigrades, who jump and dance and vault. The dolomede spider is a swim mer, and lives on or under water. She builds her nest of a detached branch of a tree or bush, which she makes into a tent. The argiopa f asciapa, or banded spider, is a silver yellow and black color. Spiders are not sociable creatures. They are generally, on the contrary, of solitary habits and are mostly cat ii Bals, eating each other with gr at gusto. They mate in the spring and autumn, and the mating is' often a ver 7 and dangerous time. They reverse the order of nature in one ,05 P ect ’ for 1!ic males are infinitely in ferior in every respect to the females, an( ^ the latter are well aware of the fact . Their courtships are scenes of violence and not of love and peace, The lady looks with sublime contempt upon the gentleman and keeps him at a distance. He can only approach her by stratagem, and sometimes she nips °® oaeof lli9 h6r an -ger and ^tslum adrift acripple I have seen P oor fellows who have lost four out of tlleir c, S ht le gs an d still they were at trac ted to tlie °PP° site sex like motliS , to a candle - A spider vviI1 never eat hor own young, but the males win destroy them when thpy can - The mother either goes away or dies soon after the hatch tag of her eggs, which number about one hundred to each nest, ami the little ones are thrown upon the world almost ns soon as they see light. There are several varieties, however, who carry | their eggs in a silk pouch until they i are hatched. The tube-weavers some- 1 times care for theicyoung until they are able, to get about, and I had a brood of about sixty in my yard until the recent rains destroyed them. Spiders have numerous enemies. and much of their clever nest-building is designed for protection against these inroads. Toads and birds destroy them by tlie thousand, and a little parasite i j called ^ its the idmeumon-a in the small fly eggs cocoons of ! the spider, and when the larva appears j ' £ £ e eds vn the spider’s eggs a "d later on the young spiders. Orb weavers and line-weavers desert their l 'ggs when laid and meet their off s P rin g, where they live so long, as 8tran 8 ers - Another bitter enemy of the spider is the mud-daubing wasp, who has a process that might be vain, able to humanity, if it could be dis covered, of keeping a supply of fresh meat. When they capture a spider that is not needed for present use they sting it in such ;> manner that she lives but has no power to move until such time as the captor is ready to de vpt,r h er * Tt is rather a singular tiling . tl,a t the wasp in its babyhood feeds on meat, but in its maturity eats nothing but the nectar of flowers. 1 ? « ’-e'mtadd, i rt e agid i mnety-one • f jeais, . ualked nine miles to renew his f ul /‘-' n ption(o a New London paper. It ls ilie -eneml impressionamongpubhsli ers that there are a number of sub scribers who are waiting until they are ninety-one years old to come and pay for their paper —Danbury Xcws. Sait mackerel is a new shade foi men's clothing. It is probably in¬ tended for wet weather wear, as salt mackerel is always ahead of a gain overcoat far keeping a man dry. SC/ETTIP/C SCRAPS. I Dr. AndrieS and M. Faye both agree that cyeJoi nes, tornadoes and tjvmbea are one ana the “““* Inechan '« a | phenomenon, and that their powerful action is due to the force in upper cur ren ^ s * ^ or las£ vear £ ^ ' ne world3 ? production • o£ lead 13 estimated by Herr Landsberg ;lt 440,000 tons. China and Japan are not mchlded as producers of this metal, a lth°u gh the probability is t a eir ou P u 0 ea 13 very arg. ever. y„ar The waste of the wUd cocoons I g atbere d in the woods of China, Japan 1 und Australia is made into a felt one ! na!£ the_size of hair felt, and is used f° r the manufacture of hats and for tarnishing purposes. It has the pe ! culiar bright color of silk, and it is sometimes used wP hair, wool, cotton lnd o£ber substances, There is a substance called cotton j velvet made in China. It is very soft an<1 durable. Generally it is dyed of a d arlr blue color, in a solution of one part of indigo to thirteen parts of water, having a small admixture of wine and lime. After the velvet has been allowed to soak in this solution ! for about haIf an hour i£ is wrun S out and dried in the sun - Th: ’ process is re P eated eleven times, and anally the texture 13 dampened carefully with a ; s P ra T acidulated water, The sound emitted b J • a P iece of titt ' vhile bein g 1)61,4 and-known as the “ cr v of tin, ’ is said be due to the - CT Vstalline structure of the metal, and - ts aot characteristic of tin only, hut m ay he emitted by zinc, and pro’i ably b 7 other metals which are crystalline in texture. Rolling in the case I rjf tin and zinc » a™ 1 probably in other cases, destroys the property It has been suggested that the sound -emitted by metals might be made use of, with the aid of the microphone, in determining the strength of the metal in question; and that by such means important results might be obtained with this instrument when applied to ,be testing of beams, girders and the tffie. i A Polar Bear Hunt. In Our Continent Mr. Jefferson Brown describes an encounter with a ; polar bear during the voyage of the Alliance. On August 7 we arrived at Bjoren’s Bay (Dane’s Island) and came to j anchor under a small island (Moff.) A bright lookout had been kept for polar bears, but no traces had been seen j until the morning of the 9th, when one was reported leisurely walking along the shore of Dane’s Island, about two miles from the ship. A boat was called away, and in a few minutes a party of six, with breech-loading rifles, started in pursuit. Landing a quarter j of the a mile rocky, in his broken rear, ground a race began for over first i a shot. The bear had unsuspectingly j continued his promenade, stopping now and then to examine a cleft in the rock, probably searching for a free lunch, until his pursuers were within a hundred yards, when the engagement | opened by a single shot, which struck | j him in the ribs, and appeared to cause a suspicion that something was wrong, ^ Turning, he made for his enemy, when the others of the party who had arrived on the uillside above opened ; fire with a volley that drew ’..is atteii tion in their direction. Finding his ! retreat up the mountain cut off he ! tried to escape by taking to the water, but the fire was too hot for him, and soon facing his foes roaring and snarl tag he threw his dead'with body half out of water, and fell a bullet through his heart. He was toweil alongside and hoisted on board. He weighed 590 pounds, and measured seven feet in length. The skinning process was undertaken by the ice pilots, Both old hunters, and soon complished. The flesh resembles coarse ; j beef in color, and althoftgh it had a slight flavor pf crain oil, was not ;x#un- i palatable as we had been led to sup-: j pose; but as this bear, according to the pilots, was only three years old, and probably had not lived upon car rion, the meat mav lave been different in quality from that of older animals ! j A layer of fat two inches thick lined I the skin, which was reserved by the pilots for t heir own benefit. As it ap peared a good opportunity toget some j genuine bear’s grease, the proprietors of it were consulted upon the subject. They informed us that it would be fatal to a crop of liair if applied, and that it was always *" soldfeod liver oil ’ A woman has to exercise a good deal o{ self . denial to take a husband ' ^ mphments s 1 showered ,* 1 ” sln . " , upon e 8 , e her , assweet by all - her male acquaintances. These cease after marriage. The men are either afraid to continue their flattery or have no longer a desire to continue it, and her husband-well, man and wife are one, and a fellow would be a ninny to be forever praising himself, PUBLISHERS. NO. 4. HOXEILTOVS WATTERS. Mexico had no banks until last Feb raar y. when a concession was given to a party of French capitalists, with a ^ |20,000,000. A second bank has recent l y been established at Sonora Boston parties. The government demandg a credit of one-half their capital from both institutions, T here is a gardener employed on eacbo f the three divisions of the Penn gyiyania railroad between Philadel phia and pjttsburg. The duties of each are to ]ay out the fl ower .beds at tht atations on b j 3 division and to trim the fl owerg . xhe grass-cutting and the watering of the flowers are h ft to *m ployeg of tbe road . The jirettest fl ower .bed is said to-dm at Tusear >ra, between Harrisburg and Altoona. management of the „ -I --3 tablishing rewards to be offered far ue best flower-beds. Sailors in the Baltic sea are is a cheerful state of mind, cent maneuvers of the; squadron, a newly invente charged with a large amour mite, escaped, and couM u covered. It is not an attr* to fool with under any cire as the slightest concussion it toexpiodw,aEd stapmasfe reluctant to elv - the - cideats Ii Newfoundland i^ c as a min -'■■•.-v inconsidi majority of read | to’ learn that stands sixth amc • ng countries of the globe, and ,owe is by no means therTmljr there Magnetic Iron ore las bfla fe.. fo”..d, while lead ”re is with in -'■-’liable quantities. Coal has klso been found in extensive qh! - 1 and the whole ^and maybe rd# ' rega 2S»6He3§-metalliferoiiS 3*4 What to do wan Otd Pe&ers, The papers which gather b ern household are a tribulatJo) in the way when not -tain to be miss^g if to wrap a parcel or you wish to r|P.j/ to an article a week old. It is a gocc rule never to allow a newspaper destroyed till it is a week? <dd, bat tc draw for use on old stock. Let the pile gather till some convenient thus next week, when you want to lie down on the lounge, and go over them, slip¬ ping the receipts, the interesting de¬ scriptions of foreign places, of trade and adventures, which are so large a part of the best journals. Having picked the brains of your paper, send them neatly piled to the big box in the cellar, where they can be for nd for light¬ ing the fire, polishing the windows, nibbing- stoves or for the rag-vender, Save all your rags and clippings, not more for your own thrift than for the good of the world, for manufacturers find it difficult to get as much paper stock . aeeded J 01d as 13 ’ newspapers ean be ground again with a little fresk 3tock for ch * aper S rades of P«ntmg P a P 6r / niam.a and s traw can be iut-rt pift tig aad wrapping P a Per again, but there is never enough 1 of for the nice book P aper whicb 1 wiU weaT weU with handlin 8 and takc . impressions from the engraver’s block, 1 am amusei1 t0 866 the anxious air with which the publisher, who some times visits our house, regards every scrap of letter P a P er and o£ ra S 3 which comes in his way. “Don’t waste it,” he protests, “we never can get fine paper cheap enough. Save a11 - vour ra ^-” So I save them for lave of llt6rature an d mce books.— . Bazar r * - -»'<>•»<> i~m. <* ^onm^ Ar . b'V even more ’ tbbA- £ f qaa bci ^ tion f . writi^ a' . ** necessary tlie commonest*thint in uriwit irt it is neve/ in the world for people who have wielded a pen professionally to imagine that they would make first-class correspondents for influential journals. It is ridicu Ious for a young man or woman who has »ever indited anything more weighty than an ordinary letter or note of invitation or acceptance to think lbat book reviewing or editorial writ ‘ n " ca,lbe plcked up ,n a da y- Tb c f in ruth these 13 respects that evea is not ludlfferent the result writing of a week’s study; and that excellent wnt ‘ng, in an important sphere of journal istic labor, is the slow-coming conse quence 0 f year8 0 f trial and develop meuL lt is 1)ard to impress upon those w ho tremble on the verge of journal ism that the ladder they would climb is a steep one with many rungs. They wi p not be persuaded, but rash liead long into the pitiless vortex where thousands have gone before.— Typo. jraphic Messenger.