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THE LINCOLNTON NEWS J. D. C OLLEY & CO., YOL. I. The Flowers anil the Soul. All through the lonely, dreary winter days, Some fragrant plants ceased not to grow and bloom, Enlivened by a lien rth-firo’s steady blaze, Where ruddy coals defied the gelid gloom, Which outdoors did abound. Quite lustily they throve, and seemed to steal, For increase, each pale sunbeam that down shone; Well were they cared for, and were made to feel The impress of that subtle charm which home So gently girds around. Until the joyous springtime came^pace, Anear its mystic echoes seemed to ring, And nature showed a bright and kindly face, So that the birds no longer feared to sing Upon the budding boughs. Then there arrived a very busy day; The close-grouped plants were parted, lifted forth And carried to a garden, far away, All greenly beautiful, which toward the north No prospect wide allows. Ah; much we missed the tender, leafy screen, The pretty blossoms ’gainst the window pane! Regretting then at first, we did not deem That only then departed had their reign, In very sooth, begun. And here we see a likeness to the soul, Which dwells at best within a pleasant room, While bound to earth, yet ever lies its goal In Beulah’s shining meads beyond the tomb, Where glows the Eternal Sun. —Boston Bulletin. Running Away From a Rival. “’Tis a burning shame,” mused Alf Singleton, discontentedly, “ that amid bo many fair and charming women one cannot be sure of finding a true, disinterested heart. The poor ones are generally given to fortune hunting, while even the heiresses seem none too 'high or proud to angle for a few extra thousands. If I could believe in the genuine would be—but, goodness pshaw!” of any ho of broke them, off, it Roomily, “no doubt she is just as heartless as the rest, if one chose to test the matter.” And the misanthropic young bache¬ lor hit off the end of a fresh cigar half savagely, as, glancing in through the open window, he saw Esmeralda Rue ‘ smiling sweetly up into the face of an ’'-elderly gentleman whom lie knew to be the possessor of a handsome for¬ tune. “ Just like the rest of her sex,” he continued, moodily. «She would sell her youth and beauty only too w illin gly for that old curmudgeon’s half million. And yet,” with a tender, reflective look softening liis features, “it is only two evenings since that her face changed color and her eyes grew moist at my reading of ‘Locksley Ilall.’ A man might have staked his life just then upon her being capable of sacri¬ ficing everything for love’s sweet sake. And here she is, smiling like an angel upon old Moneybags! Bah! I feel like turning my hack forever upon them all.” But he didn’t. After one or two more hesitating turns up and down the piazza he threw his cigar away, and, entering the ballroom, walked straight up to Esmeralda and asked her for a waltz. The young lady seemed much inter¬ ested in her conversation with “ Old Moneybags,” as Alf had disrespect¬ fully dubbed tiie wealthy Judge In¬ gram. Still, at Alf Singleton’s ap proach, a flush of unmistakable pleas¬ ure rose to her fair cheek, and, ex¬ cusing herself to her companion, she was soon gliding through the mazes of a perfect waltz to music tiiat might have stirred the-pulses of an anchor ite. Alf was an exquisite dancer, and, as he passed the judge with ids arm en circling Esmeralda’s graceful form and his handsome head bent low in conver¬ sation with liis lovely partner, lie was quite sure lie detected an expression of jealous envy upon the eider gentle¬ man’s face. “Aha!” he thought, with a thrill of ungenerous triumph; “ he is probably thinking just now that money can’t buy everything. IVell, after all, youth and good looks are better , than riches, and if Miss Esme lias made up her mind to choose the latter, I will, at least, make her realize to the fullest extent the happiness that her choice will cost her.” And he was as good as liis word, Never before had he been so brilliant, so interesting, so attractive. Esme seemed so pleased and happy, too, in his society, and so charmingly appre¬ ciative of his efforts to win her regard, that he felt almost inclined to think he had misjudged her. For one brief, blissful interval life began to look all -eouleur-de-roso to poor doubt-tortured Alf until in an evil moment ho intro¬ duced the subject of the lady's wealthy admirer. “ He is the most charming old gentle¬ man in tho world,” declared Esmer¬ alda, with tho prettiest blush imagin¬ able. “ Indeed, Miss Esme, the judge is THE AUGUSTA, ELBERTON AND CHICAGO RAILROAD. fortunate in having such a lovely champion,” said Alf, a half-sneer hut partially concealed in his light laugh. “ I wonder if it is to his own cliarms, or those of his half-million, tliat lie owes the happiness of your—love ?” lie had not meant to say that last word, but since he had spoken it he breathlessly watched for its effect. If she had no ambition as he had ascribed to her, this was surely a splen¬ did opportunity to disclaim it. “ Mr. Singleton,” she exclaimed , im¬ petuously, a flash of real anger in her blue gray eyes, “such a question does no honor either to your head or lieart. Judge Ingram is a noble man, and 1 should think of him just the same if he had not a dollar in the world.” Alt’s heart sank, and, as the waltz was ended, he led her to a seat, and soon found himself once more pacing the moonlit piazza in hitter restless¬ ness of spirit. He did not believe that Esme loved the judge, despite tlie evi¬ dent feeling which she had displayed. No fair young girl like that could love a man old enough to be her father. He still believed that she meant to wed him for liis wealth, but that her pride impelled her to make the world think otherwise. Well, lie loved her, he reflected, with a sad, half-mocking smile; yes, he loved her, this fair, sweet girl who had seemed so very near his highest ideal of womanhood. But he would never lay liis heart at her dainty feet to be cast aside for another man’s gold. Yet he could not stay to be tortured by the sight of a rival’s happiness. No; before Esmeralda opened her lovely eyes upon a now day of triumph he would be far away from that mis¬ erable watering-place! * * * * * The sun was setting upon a taeau tiful mountain landscape in the far West. Alf Singleton was combining business with pleasure, and, while business led him to the pretty Western town whose modest houses were scat¬ tered picturesquely about on the level plain at the foot of the mountains, he was tempted by its beauties to remain and explore the many points of in¬ terest in the But it was not until, in turning' the leaves of the hotel register, his eyes fell upon the name of Judge Ingram that he bethought him of the fact that Esme’s home was in the West_per¬ haps in that very town, for aug-lit lie knew. lie remembered that slie had sometimes spoken of her Western home, though slie had never named the particular spot thus favored. That Judge Ingram should cross his path again in this faraway locality, aroused all the old-time love and jeif ,asy wliich he had thought buried long ago. “Judge Ingram is here, I see,” he said, speaking with affected careless ness to the clerk, “I had a slight acquaintance with him in the East, Quite wealthy, is lie not?” “Yes, sir,’’replied the clerk, politely, “ but he is not here at present, He is visiting his wife’s relatives just now, 1 believe, and you could probably him there. It is but a stone’s throw from the hotel.” “His wife’s relatives!” echoed Alf “ And they are—” “ ColoneT Rue’s family—old and honored residents of this city. 'Why, sir, didn’t you know—” “No,” said Alf, briefly ; “ the judge was not married when I knew him.” turned’on And thanking his informant he liis heel and left the Hotel as the clerk supposed reality’to to seek the judge, Vt in hide the agitation wliich this sudden confirms- ' ,. °" .. , Z;T:T.r . , i° " a3 ian " 01 ^elxo-rving ... back 1 the 1 big • 1 lump tha would stxek m his throat at the bare thought of Esme Rue being another man’s wife. To hmk that he had fled from the mere 0 no ini ot t r’l nMi™) tnU 1 “ Pl ° r ^. - ant nS ' id-ice only to 1 cont'r “ ! r a t !.’," f r \ ‘ 0l> f rn tn ' n • n,S T . g a _ ? MHside wlmse 1 lh lintl J 7 t " ti b ld ! _ 2 . 6 « i: r ,,, v , 7 u , atl ,» 7T luckless fate ?! T that .e should P suddenly ° £ 1, “ - come almost , . , face to . face , with the two who were uppermost in his thoughts. liiej v\ ere seated upon the llat sur face of a large projecting rock, as if resting after a long ramble over the mountain. Esme was busying herself with pressing some freshly-gathered wild flowers between the leaves of a book she held, while the judge alter¬ nately watched her at her fascinating task, and looked away over the grand and picturesque landscape with an ex¬ pression of serene and perfect happi¬ ness on liis noble old countenance ex¬ asperating to behold. LINCOLNTON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1882. Alf had just time to grind his teeth r ; together savagely ere Esme glanced j tip from her flowers, and for a full ■ half minute they looked straight into each other’s eyes. He noted the warm color slowing rising in the clear, fair cheek of the woman he had loved and lost, until a deep, rich crimson dyed the lovely face from forehead to chin. Then he raised his hat, with a slight smile of triumph, and turning abrupt¬ ly on liis heel vanished from Esme’s sight before the judge had even with¬ drawn his contented, admiring gaze from the magnificent panorama spread out before them. Esmeralda did not mention her mo mentary vision of her old lover, but the carnation roses glowed in her cheek long afterward, and dreams which she thought dead and almost buried out of sight came to light again with startling vividness, and she knew that she had never ceased to love Alf Singleton, and never should until her dying day. What did that strange expression in his eyes mean when he looked at her just now ? There was the same look which she had once thought was love in those delightful days when they wandered together by the summer sea; and the same lialf-mockinglight which had so often marred the manly beauty of his countenance, only both were now intensified. Yet if he had loved her then, why had he gone off so sud¬ denly without a word of explanation or farewell? But while Esme was thus puzzling her brain over a problem which had often troubled her, the judge was hap¬ pily unconscious that anything had oc¬ curred to .disturb his fair companion’s tranquillity. Therefore, when he almost ran over my hero that same evening in turning a street corner, he was e.stlv glad to see him, and almost over¬ whelmed poor Alf with the heartiness of bis What torture is there imposed upon man by the requirements of civility comparable to that which forces him to congratulate a successful rival upon the winning of that which was the object of his own dearest hopes ? This was the ordeal poor Alf had te-go through, and his manner was very cold and constrained as he did so. “Yes, my boy,” said the judge beaming like sunshine upon his wretched listener, “I am a happy man. .My wife is one of the loveliest of women, and belongs to one of the finest old families in this place—the Rues. But I believe you know them.” “Iliad the honor*of Miss Esme’s acquaintance last summer at Cape May,” ura'lly. said Alf, trying to speak nat “All, yes, young dog,” said the judge, shaking liis curly old head a* Alf with his brightest smile, “Ionce j thou S ht there was a very promising love affllir S oin S 011 in that Oerter, but 1 was an old fool just then—in ^ve myself, and fancying that every¬ body else wfis. But come round to the 1 ( '°l on(d ’ s and we’ll talk over old times, Singleton. Esme will be delighted to racet }’ ou a S ain > Fm sure ” And the judge moved off, scattering smiles of sunshine as he went. “ He hit the mark that time,” thought Alf, as he walked back to his hotel, moodily resolving to leave the town by that evening’s train. “ There is no fool like an old fool. He fondly believes that Esme Rue married him for love, while I know that it was only forhis If he had seen the va3rshe blushed t(M,;ly at the mere ^ of h « old lover lie would hardly have invited me around to talk over cW times with his wife ’ An old f ° o1 ’ indeed, I pity him, with all his wealth, But I’m not quite villain enough to ^is invitation. No, HI pack my valise once more , and see if I can And [ whereI shilll not be tormented ^ he gi of that old simpleton - s Alf kept his word, and two hours later, valise in hand, was walking finnly toward the depot whence the coaling train would soon bear him from Esmeralda’s too fascinating * neighborhood. It was not strictly necessary that he should pass her home on his way to the ~ th.Ul.rubtej-.lolW vjiril and vino wreathed „ , portico; .: , to enter that ,, , white , cotti ^ c clil9p { for one llloni ent the han( of the heartleS8 wo . man he hail loved; to gaze down into the depths of those blue gray eyes until he brought tho conscious blush to her cheek, that blush which told him that lie alone reigned king of her heart, wife though she was. Some men would have done so; but Alf contented himself with walking past very slowly, gazing at the open windows so intensely that, in the growing dusk, lie almost brushed against some one leaning over the low white gate before he knew where he was. One swift glance and then they clasped hands over the gate as by a common irresistible impulse. Esme was blushing deeply—he could see that even in the dusk—but as for poor Alf, he was very white and liis breath came quickly, “Esme!" he exclaimed. Then, re¬ membering, he added: “ I beg your pardon, Mrs. Ingram. Let me con¬ gratulate you.” “Mrs. Ingram!” echoed Esmeralda. “ What do mean, Mr. Singleton ?” “ I mean to congratulate you upon your brilliant marriage,” said Alf, somewhat bitterly. “I met your hus¬ band, the judge, an hour or two since, and he invited me to call and see you. However—” “ My husband—the judge ?” repeated Esme, looking as if she thought hiir, bereft of liis senses. “What do you mean, Sir. Singleton?” “ A re you not J udge Ingram’s wife ?” he asked, hoarsely. “ Indeed I am not,” she answered, a mischievous look beginning to dawn in her eyes. “ Then, who the deuce is his wife? He told me he had married into Colonel Rue’s family, and asked me to ca T saying ‘Esme would be pleased tc see me - And I saw; you together to da Y A ow, what does it all mean : “ ^ means, said Esmerelda, laugli ing novv% “that Judge Ingram married my father’s youngest sister, and, being here now, is stopping at our house. And I assure you, Mr. Singleton, he is the most charming uncle in this world.” Alf looked bewildered, crestfallen and happy all at once. “Tell me one thing, Esme,” he pleaded. “Was he your uncle when you told me you loved him that night as we were waltzing at Cape May ?” “No,” slie said, smiling; “but I knew he soon would be, and I had a perfect right to love him even then.” “ Oh, Esme, why did you not give me an explanation then?” “ Because you did not ask for one.’ “No (very much ashamed of liim se E). “A young fool is worse than an old one after all. But, Esme, I and I believed yoaJsffle !? 0 ' n o marry the judge for his money, and I could not stay to see it. Y ou don’t know how miserable I have been.” “ Was that why you left us without j a ' vord > you foolish boy ?” “ Indeed it was !” Alf dropped liis valise to the ground, for Esme’s crimson face was hidden on j fcI >e rounded arms, crossed over tiie j lo w, square gate-post, and he was very j unxious to lift it from its hiding-place ! an( f see the love-light shining in those bewitching blue-grav eyes. And thus we leave them to talk over the old, old story in the deepening t wilight of the that far-off Western town. The Largest Telescope. The largest telescope in use is the great reflector of the Earl of Rosse, at Parsontown, Ireland. The instrument weighs twelve tons. The speculum is six feet in diameter, and lias a foc.a? length of about fifty-five feet, The larg¬ est and most effective refractor tele scope in the world now in actual use is the one in the Naval observatory in Washington, constructed by Alvin Clark it Sons, Cambridge, .Mass This is the instrument which has been rendered famous by the dis covery of the two moons of Mars, An instrument of one-inch greater aper tnre has just been mounted in the Im perial observatory at Vienna, the one at Washington having an aperture oi twenty-six inches and that at Viennr twenty-seven. Two still greater re fraetor telescopes have been ordered, one for tiie imperial observatory a< Pultowa. Russia, with a glass of tiiirtv inches diameter and focal length ot forty-five feet, and another, of equal or greater dimensions, to be mounted in the Lick observatory on Mount Ham ilton, near San Francisco. Galileo is j regarded as the inventor of the tele scope, although before he exhibited his instrument at Padua, Italy, in 1609, Hans Lipperslnm. of Holland, had im vented the convex object glass, and Galileo is said to have got his idea from The Cost of the Fences. It lias been estimated by Unuistreet’s that there are six million miles of fence in tho United States, the cost of which lias been more than # 2 000 000 , , , 000, or about $625 a mile. Formerly tho fences of farms were built of wood, and the annual repairs put a heavy tax upon tho farmers. The last census shows that the cost of such repairs in 1877 was $78,629,000. Most farm fences are now built of wire, and sixty thousand miles of such fence were built in 1881, at a cost of # 10 , 000 , 000 . or about half the cost per mile oi tho old wooden fences. ifOR i t i vn nr.iAfnovs. Giving. The man who gives, in order that lie may be considered liberal, erects for himself a pedestal, not of honor, bill of contempt, upon which lie stands ir self-glory and in popular derision. The man who gives, in order that he may benefit liis kind, weaves for himself an invisible crown, whose glory will be unfading through eternity; perhaps recognized only when this perishable being shall assume the glory of immor tality.— Presbyterian Observer. Prayers. Every prayer is a wish, but wishes are not prayers. In the heart of every prayer is a sense of need, but a sense of need is not prayer. Prayer is asking for a felt need; not asking the Uni verse, but God. No one can intelli gently ask who does not believe that he can and may be heard. No one can perseveringly ask who thinks that ask ing will brmg nothing. Persons who believe that the whole influence of prayer is simply the effect of their own thoughts upon themselves, never pray. They cannot pray.. The mouth may utter right words ; the heart is not in m r-T for those who sav them no not reallv wish for the things thev mention. But the difficulty with most' pravers is that there is no grasp ” of the idea of God there is _ no asking. , . “Ask , , and . ye shall , „ receive. —Christian Advocate. Religions News and Notes. The Southern Methodist church papers are reporting conversions in great numbers. \ The Protestant Episcopal bishop of Wisconsin has issued a pastoral letter calling upon the various parishes and missions to hold harvest homes, as grateful recognitions of the abundant harvest. India has twenty-six thousand schools, over eight v colleges and nearly three millions of pupils. A large part of this work is purely secular, but it is nearly all due, directly or indirectly to the labors of missionaries. The third general council of Pres Artm aa>r..c l>urcbes- throu ghout the world will be held in Belfast in 1884. The committee appointed at the last council in Philadelphia have fixed June 24 as’ the most convenient date. The German Lutheran churches of Southern Michigan and Northern Ohio have established a series of annual missionary festivals, the first of which has been held in Adrian, Mich, under the auspices of St. John’s church. The Dakota Jndians have become so well civilized that one of the lady missionaries laboring among them writes; “ Mv stock of prettv ribbons is running low, and if you know of any one who wishes * dreadfully ’ to help me tell them I should like some pretty children’s dresses, aprons, bibs, bon¬ nets, cut and basted, ready for sewing. Indeed garments of any kind or any size, men’s shirts or women’s garments will be gladly received, so that they are prepared for my women to 'sew them.’ Hats in Churches. Jewish congregations worship with their heads covered; so do the Quakers, although St. Paul’s injunctions on the matter are clearly condemnatory of the practice. Tiie Puritans of the com men wealth would seem to have kept th«r hats on whether preaching being preached to, since Pepys’ notes hearing a single clergyman exclaiming against men wearing their hats in the church, and a year afterward (lbh-) writes: “ To the French church j ln the Savoy, and there they have the ; common prayer-book, read in French, | and which I never saw before, the min ister do preach with his hat off, I sup posein further conformity with our church.” William HI. rather scandal ized his church-going subjects bv fol ! lowing Dutch custom, and keeping his , head covered in church, and when it did please him to doff liis ponderous hut during the service, he invariably donned it as the preacher mounted the pulpit stairs. When Bossuet, at the age of fourteen, treated the gay sinners of the Hotel de Rembouillet to a mid night sermon. Voltaire sat it out with his hat on. hut uncovering when the boy preacher had finished, bowed low before him, saying; “Sir. 1 never heard a man preach at once so early and so ate.”— All the Year Pound. A boy paid liis first visit to one of tiie public schools the other day as a scholar, and as he came home at night his mother inquired: “Well, Henry how do you like going to school?” j “ Bully!” lie replied, in an excited j voice. “I saw four boys licked, one girl got her ear pulled, and a big scholar burned his elbow on the stove I don’t want to miss a day.” When a bank becomes unsteady a depositor is likely to lose his balance. c LIPPIXOS FOR THE CVRIOVS. A German has invented a gunpow der that water won’t hurt, To every 400-pound hale of cotton there are 1,200 pounds of seed. Young salmon increase in weight from three to seven pounds in four weeks’ time. The length of the submarine cables ' n the whole world is estimated to be 64,000 miles and their value to be $202,000,000. The length of all the wires in the world would reach forty eight times around the earth. According to the report of the com missioner of agriculture of 1870, the larva; of a large fly whieh frequents Mono lake, in California, are dried and pulverized and mixed with acorn meal and baked for bread, or with water and boiled for soup. I A fisherman caught recently in his net at Queen’s Ferry, a few mile 3 be low Chester, England, the largest.sal moir grereHTr ght in t hir Tte rt—ft -w aS' found to turn the scale at fortv pounds, was four feet in length, and a healthy, dem and well-developed fish. ; The use of face masks of mica, for . , , , , . 6IP ° S “ f ^ These 13 masks ^ ‘“J* aUow *“ the to servi eyes <f to bl be « turned many ' direction and admit of the weari os f Iasscg . Iceland was visited by a remarkable sand storm last spring, whieh lasted for two weeks, and during which the temperature was intense!' cold. The air was filled with dry;' fine sand to such an extent that it was impossible to see more than a short distance, and the sun was rarely visible, Glass-spinning and glass-flower man ufacture is a very extensive branch oi the Austrian glass industry. It is now 30 developed that a petroleum flame giv es some 1,540 yards of glass thread eTer - v minute ’ that are "' oven only ^ or & lass elotlls > etc., but also for wa tek chains, brushes, etc. When the army of Suvarov retreated from Elm in 1799 the march of the men loosened the snow of the Alps so that avalanches tescended upon them and 300 mule drivers and their ani¬ mals were buried under one of these immense snow slides. Only 17,000 o£ the 20,000 who left Elm made the march in safety. The balloon Reliance made a singu lar fli S ht from the Alexandra palace, London, recently. It rose gradually to a height of 1,500 feet, drifting in a northerly direction, then, when ballast j had ^ thrown out ’ rose EoOO f<*« more - At that a current carried i; loward London, and through a thick mist descended at tho end of a: ■ hour "P on the ver v P lace from which . d bad risen * SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. According to G. Forbes th^velocity of blue light is greater than that of red, the difference being between one and two per cent, of the whole ve¬ locity. Dr. Andries and M. Faye both agree that cyclones, tornadoes and trombes are one and the same mechanical phe nomenon and that their powerful ae tion is due to the force in upper cur rents. " In Europe eIectric raihvays ar(i growilI y, 5pidly in pubUc estimation, not only on the continent but in Great Britain. Already 100 miles of electric transit are in operation, and there is every probability of the total mileage being considerably increased before the end of the present year. , , r , 6 T , 18 , * " er , tae iirat , rl lc a oa 1> " 1 f. 1 n ie,n ° > 0 Eg.'P ^ ‘ ’ - , or purposes of They _ war were eer ,D ^7 F 94 taken °m by the ™ French ^ army ^ for * tbe 10m ^ ’ ™ 83 , thP T ' 1 7 ■- " ua - , “ tbo Fren ; h fl98t at "f"-' 1 1<?se ' a oons ' “J' ! ' ,u “ ’ un ' : “ 8 a ^uty of only ^0 cubic me ters ’ 1 '7, wer f ’ U; f of Sllk ’ llad "ereinitiated . ( u ith hydrogen made by causing steam to act on iron fihngs. The coal required in London for lighting purposes and moth e power Sir Henry Bessemer would have burned at the mines from which it is pro¬ cured. The coal’s energy might then be transmitted to the metropolis over a copper wire in the form of electricity, at a vast saving of expense. He esti mates that 84,000-horse power, re quiring an annual consumption of over a million tons of coal, might in this way be conveyed to London over a single copper wire one inch in diam¬ eter. An important advantage of the plan, in addition to" the saving in cost, is that tho combustion of so large an amount of coal at a .distance instead of in the city limits would considerably reduce the quantity of smoke in the London atmosphere. PUBLISHERS. NO. 5. Living Curiosities. Seven hundred and twenty pounds is the show weight of Hannah Batters by, the biggest woman in the business. On the scales she would probably go a little above 500. It is an easy thing to make fat women look 200 or 300 pounds heavier than they are. Mr*. Battersby, it will be remembered, car¬ ried her husband, the living skeleton, out of the old Broadway museum at the time of the fire and saved hisJMul $he has a beautiful daughter, living with her father in sylvania. The next largest woman is Jessie Waldron, a sixteen-year-old mountain of flesh, who was £orn and reared in Greenpoint, Long Island. She is six feet six inches high, and weighs about 450 pounds. On the bills she is put down as weighing 600 pounds. Emilie Hill is the lightest of the fat women, weighing only about 250 pounds. She is only four feet high, and it is her immense eircum ference that makes her a great euri Tisily! women STWeasy ts'i up. Showmen find wogqen all «\e0 the country that will $41 stiff.. ing 200 or 300 po muds t on the gorgeous public with their in Living skeletons disease, and While, doubtless, ei dyspepsia have skeletons* the is, for the most skeleton of cons! has notbeeff @ti than afl the otl gether. Calvin li* & was a violinist, twenty years j living skeleton . hibited. Isaac and i life in Mai and became V has three big, strappic Martin P. Averv. whe ter, in this city, ex-Fresident Ha was afterward® brovetted. brigad ery. At the last charge s IT shell killed his librae urn tore his tliigh. The •*; healed mid was wb&t se living skeleton. Skeletons arelgeaer ally ravenous eaters, but CoIoaetAvery lived on ice cream and milk,; - 4 . skele¬ ton is made to look thinner by dress¬ ing him in bladfc the ssmgjg a fat woman is made to lcfe*f 'Latter by covering her frame with light Wbriglit material. The trunk is kepi- veil r covered, but the arms and legs, w iich are the thinnest quirts, are L’ely exposed. Another trick is to place the skeleton alongside the fat woman, in which position he looks much more at¬ tenuated than he really is. Dwarfs are simply natural curiosi¬ ties winch must be put in contrast with larger people, but six inches or more can be added to giants without difficulty. High boots with high heels high hats, and long coats really con¬ tribute three inches or so to the actual height and a foot in looks. Giants nearly always wear uniforms to make them appear imposing, and tfcfg&xg&e their arms slowly to give them a mas¬ sive air. Captain Bates, however, al¬ ways insisted on appearing in a dress suit. Chinese giants show to the best advantage. The long go wns crivn them the appearance oi being] and heavier than they really are. contrast presented 1 V; a woman ’"In , male and female aftire will ser\ e as an illnst.Kot.ton of this -principle. If dressc- she looks much larger, that die does in trousers. It is amaz i,» u v note how giants increase in - W c Aid after being placed on exliibi ; - com Then hfe of comparative ease .mu he freedom from care has the effect of addu* twenty-five pounds a year to their wei * ht - A to se T 'tft* ^ -!«• mUSt be at Icast too re maay 'f en uversix f «* ^ mc^-^who thi^l C0lae the show to contrast with. There are seven giants, in^ eluding a pair of twins, in a family in i exas, three of whom are on exhibi turn. Bunnell lias engaged Marina, the beautiful giantess, who is leading the ballet in tho Amazon’s march in London, and she will come over next year. and she Her height is over eight feetj is young as well as luindsome. Mrs. Bates is the only woman who is taller.— New York Times. Texas papers tell of a young man named Harrison, who was attacked by three cowboys and three Indians in the nation, and, after a bloody battle, won the field. The Indians were killed and all the cowboys wounded. President Barrios, of Gautemaia, Central A merica, receives a salary of $1,000 a moittli. He has been in oflfleo twelve years, and is worth $ 8 , 000 000 , . The debt of liis'coMSitry is "$9,000, aiu .1 growing.