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J. W. VERONEE, VOLUME I. 4 irmre ptobt. Om chilly day I was left al home alone ; and, after 1 w Bred reading *' Robineoc Crusoe," I naught a spider and brought him into the house to play with. Funny playmate, wasn’t it? Wall, I took a wash-basin and fastened up a stick like-a vassal s mast, and than poured in just water enough to tarn the mast my spider, whish 1 narrw- and ptfk him on the inaHtb m he wan Surly oast • testyfously commenced running r' «tad£*x*a*hhe maiaia+d He'd scam per frsm the mart -ty Ute water, stack out a foot, gaHMraLMtehe it, run around the stick and try tkfrothcr side, and then run back to iho top again. Pretty soon it became a eeAsty matter to Mr. Rob uiaon, and he nt down'to think over it A* in a moment he acted as if ha wanted to shout for a boat, and v&'afsaethnwaa going to be hungry, I ppi treacle on the otibiu A fly ceuta, but Crusoe wasn't hungry for flies just then He wm home tyTTT*^Tlu‘ ***> -*»nter al the woodshed. ile weal slowly down the potete tkHAath ikfl ,to«tobi.! it all romid, shaking, his feet like puny when ahe wwte her ettekinga in thagmsa, and suddenly a thoqgKt appeared to strike hi tn. Up he .went like a rocket to the top, pud eommonoed playing .Cftrpua. He heldtone foot ta the air, then another, and turned around two or three timn. He got awaited, and nearly stood on his head before I found out what be knew, and that. tyTUgdlftyM; tty draught of air made by t£j> fire "would 'cany a line ashore oa which he could escape from his desert island. He pushed out a web that irehi Itating in hit air until it aaugMttytty ttyle. Th*n ho hauled on the rope until it waa tfofit, etruck it HW’etamg •°*W* «d ashore. 1 Hwglttdta'had. earned Igu liberty, 00 ItgMh him book in .the .woedabed.— /forth ><< w t ( r! pw»»tii ■ 1 I——r1 ——r rrt~ t Jkimvr pbibtibo nn. The mgrrdianta %>f pnntiqg ink are burnt hnaAteif into and *OO - aoap) with Marions coloring matters. The beet qmdity of linseed oil is used in superior inks, and tine is purified by digesting it in partially dilu ted sulphuric acid for some hours, at a temperature of about 212 degrees, al lowing the impurities to subside, and than washing away the acid with repeat ed additions of hot water. The water, niter this treatment, is pole and turbid, and if the freeing from the acid is com plete there is scarcely any odor. By rest the oil clarifies, and has then a pale lemon-color. It now dries much more rapidly than before. The purified oil is now partially reunified by heat. For this purpose it is introduced into large cast-iron pots and boiled until in flammable vapors are freely evolved. These are ignited, and allowed to burn for a few minutes, after which they are extinguished by placing a tight cover over the boiler. Ebullition of the oil is ronthriixpnotal, on cooling, • firm skin forms on its surface, known by placing a drop on alate, or other smooth, cold surface. Red printing ink, according to The Engineer, may lie made in this way : Boil linseed oil until smoke is given off. Bet the ml then on fire and allow it to burn until it can be drawn out into strings half an inch long. Add one pound of resin for each quart of oil, and ne-half pound of dry, brown soap cut into slices. The soap must be put in cautiously, as the water in the soap causes a violent commotion. Lastlr, the oil is ground with a sufficient pig ment on a stone by means of a muller. Vermillion, red lead, carmine, Indian red, Venetian red and the lakes are all suitable for printing inks. DBTKCmG WATBK IB MILK. A German chemist furnishes a nimple procedure for testing the amount of wa ter m milk, which can be applied by any one. All that is required is a small quantity of plaster of Paris, say one oufloe. This is mixed with the milk to a stiff paste and then allowed to stand. With milk of 1.080 specific gravity, and a temperature 60 deg. Fahr., it will harden in ten hours ; if 25 per cent, of water iiyMtoent, in two hours ; if 60 per oeaflpin one uti sW bsure; aod , with 75 per cent, in thirty minutes. Hkimmed milk which has been standing for bOßra, and is of 1.033 specific gravity, sets in four hours ; with 50 per cent of water, in one hour ; and with 78 per e«t, in thirty minutes. Heat should not be applied, for then the use of the thermomater would be re quired. The test is certainly simple, and not coati j. (fuhnnbw .Mi'i'twcr. rrwrt* nucaa orras ima. 1 am anu<. Sena, «n«se— ■ One* mj kMr waa w Hin> Dart m Um ajiaitnaa MUm Oa Um ••ease* Mta* taaofc Dm* mMmSssW fSanosr or Ba yetai pnW wuxti aSaaa; Dm* mMM faaeaaul tnswa or an Abrastotaa aMM. faa «r*M. terea «rt*« KAa Wa «oMm> M t»M. 1-ra aav sm <*• twtOa W*~ At, bow k®4 wtS BsS eat last » Mr soal M taU ot a.n>bttn<. lad I «mfl» a rtrklyaanlla, BbtaaJbaUtaUka tbagtaav or *M aeon aaa as IMa MUa. MURCirS SBRBNADRRB. In a certain rural town down East, where the narrator formerly resided, there wm at on* time a clique of rough Wtmg<fellh*s who made it their boni ness to serenade ail newly-wedded couples. "Serenading” was what they were ptetyed to call it; but U was far from being either a muaioal or a compliment ary perionnaaee. tn faM, it was a -ter rible bug-bear for all prospective brid<« ard bndegrooma. Ou the evening of the marriage, thw serenade party, num bering fifteen or twenty merubere, was sure to make its unwelcome appearance in the yard, liberally provided with fish horns, old tin pans, guns, and almost every other possible instrument of dm and racket. Three rude fellow* came disguised in masks and old clothes ; and the first boat of thau approach was usually a discharge of guns, a racket of stones on the roof, blended with a horrible blare of horns and of Indian war whoops, T? the dewtyma* husband not wish that adrk'«rf: UMisio oantmtael all flight, he mtMtxßiaaf open ins doors, and invite in three tiwweteoaoe gu<wt.« . ■ Once in the home, they wtauoisboe ilonriselves very nnidh at Itotio-. : i; poctfld to be " tressed ’’ to-t-g-'7 aoiue snm of mosey with which to go away and provide a supper for them selves. This was not the worst For tho boors usually demanded that the bride should be brought into the room, and often in sisted—disguised and masked as thev were—on saluting her with a kiss. If admittance was refused them, they kept up their terrific din, hour after hour, and aometiines they had broken into hop-e* Often they got on the roof to continue their deafening fanfarade ; indeed, there was no end of their pranks; and if not treated with so much lilier ality as they thought due them, they would come again night after night. Occasionally they met with a rough reception in the shape of hot water, jets of kerosene oil from squirt-gn»>, and shots had even been fired at them. That they were an aixnutaable nuis ance and rmtroge on al! righto and de cency, was admitted by every one ; yet it was difficult to proceed against them legally, and the party was powerful enough to make itself feared as well as hatol. Otherwise it would have been promptly broken up by an indig nant community. I have triad to learn the origin of snrh serenading, and I think the custom camo to ns from among the French Canadian* of the Lower provinces. For these people have a trick which they call " charivari," where a party, fantas tically dressed and equipped, with cracked fiddles, horn* and kettle-drums, sometimes go to " wake " a wedding when there is some circumstance about it which offends public taste ; as, for ex ample, when the bride is many years older than the bridegroom, or if, on the other hand, an old gray-beard were to take a very young wife. Bnch were the serenaders, and such was the state of affair*, at the time ot the marriage of a young mao named Willis March, a friend and neighbor si the writer. Willi*, or Wilts, as we called him, was a quick-witted young man and pos eease.l a good deal of good aense and sturdy independence. I have often heard bun *ay, whenever we would hear of a serenade, that he would never let that company into hi* house, nor give wanted h<m to live on their farm and take care of them. It was no very de sirable offer. There was a heavy mort gage on the farm. and there were two iwi'pieas, bed-ridden of th* family. Willi*, too, hail been planning to go West as soon aa La became of ag* ; and be was just the man to w«ta hi* way in ths West and do well. But he Devoted t*tSrliiteieeU> of ColomWa County and the. State of Georgia. HARLEM. GEORGIA. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2t , 1881. ■i<htopteMfar Ute B, and settled down wd so*> he was, to heptean,-sad "aaa ifitea MiahbcMi au fetaß Mtaterned te |j' plana—Amanda aty Mi vwy dear tteo. H wMaaid, vpecrfdw-wwildbe. Il had long been an understood thing that, when Wilts went Waet, Mandv Becheldar weald go with him as Mrs March. There waa a wadding that fall, on Thanksgiving day morning—Wilte and Mandy. They moved home—that is to say r to Wilts' home, that afternoon. That day, at the store al the earners, a fellow named Oolhsou, supposed to be connected with the " serenade gang,” hinted to Wilts that he hoped he (Wilts) was "laying in a stock of good things" for tho " celebration’' that night. "What do you tnaan by ‘celebra tion ?’ " Wilts asked him. "Oh, you’ll find out soon enough," said Galliacn, laughing, and with a wink to the others. "Yon mean ths • atMOfide-gangF " said Wilts. "Like enough,” replied Gallisou. " Shouldn’t wonder a mite.” " You expect ms to open my house anil furnish supper for th* ' roughs' of the town ? Then let ma tell you, once for all, that I shall do nothing of the sort ■ and if you care to take my advice yaa wil] keep away and mind year own t>nslnres sad leave me to mind mine. I have no mougy to spend in eatertaiumenta of any kind." "Perhaps yon moan to shoot us." sneered Gallison. " We've seen guns before ” "No matter what I intend to do,” said Wilts. “ I warn you to keep This warning on Wilts’ part only stun ; diMAthsas unpnnripled fellows to do their worst They turned out in full I‘oetnme, and at exactly 10 o’clock that evening they opened the fracas with a discharge of guns, tooting of horns and dramming, accompanied by a shower of brick-bata on thu roof. We heard 11 all over the neighborhood, and wondered, not without some misgiv ings, what Wilta would do. He did nothing. He had securely fastened up the doors and window* be low, and he remained quietly within. Blow and whoop they did, bnt Wilts gave no sign that he heard them. Alxiut midnight, however, old Mr. Murch, Willis’ father, nearly craned by the noise, opened a window, and very civilly asked the party to go away and let him get a little sleep. They an swered this request with such a deafen ing noise that the old gentleman was glad to draw in his head and shut the window. They did not quite dare to break into the bouse with axes ; they knew Wilts' courage too well. Daylight dispersed them. But they promised londly, ere departing, to come back next night. During the day, Wilts celled on two of hi* neighbors, young men like him self, and aaked them to com* over to his place that afternoon, and stay over night m the bouse. "Our ‘friend* ’ of last night'* hulla baloo have promised to come back,” said he, "and you may see some fun if thing* work right ” Just at dusk, two young fellow* whose name* need not be given—sc cepted the invitation, and went to the house. The kitchen there w»s a large low room, and the outside door opened into ft from off the pioaza. Wilts had just put two very strong staples and hasps oti this door for fastening it on the outside. It was a very strong oak doer. On the outside, too, he had put up two strong plank ahnttera an the kitchen window*. Tb* Other door*, leading ons into ths wood-house and the other into the sit ting-room, were ready for fastening on th* outside from the kitchen with bar* and hasps. In short, Wilts had mads of the kitchen a eag* strong enough for a prison cell. During the evening, be set out on ths tttehau table a large basketful of good sating apples sad a jug of new cider, with glass**. A candle was left burning here , and in the large Canadian stove a good Are of hard-wood loga was abut up, burning alowly. To his two young friends, who had been takes into the stratagem, Willis showed so auger-hole bored in the ceding, directly over ti>* •tore. The ev*nuig peered pl sweetly. It was I efcedv and pretty data. Iha sarauadty ‘ (fflibcred about the house very rHut promptly ai 10 o’slook, the nolte of ths night before was repeated. Quty, tarns, drums, atanaa an the roof, a4d Wary Wows a«tanat the aids M the home. At l«Dgth sotM Ot them who wata U 9 tag the lower windows diaooverei thh< the kitoheii door undar th* piMfifi wte< •ok tea I anal TW threw it aperlak seeing the apple* and aider, all walked is and began to help themaelvea. Per haps they fancied that these refresh ments had been net out on purpose to propitiate them. Jt waa a rather chilly evening out. The warm stove waa vary comfortable. They abut the door and sat down. Meantime, Wilts and his two friends had looking through ths auger hole ; and one of them now slipped down the back stairs into the wood house, and, grsng round on the p-— — quietly haapad the kitchen door on the sutaide. They ware not long drinking up the aider Then they began ahoutuig for Wflta and Mandy. "Don't think you'll get off with a meoH <>f applea and cider I You haven't «asu thu last of us ao easyt Ten dollar* for drinks, Wilts I We must have aonie thing more out of you I” " Hell,”acid Wilts, through thoauger hole, "gou thall have tofnelhinotnoref’ and with that he blew a whole paper of cayenne pepper through a piece of lead pipe down upon that hot stove I In an instant the whole kitehen was full of the fiery, pungent dust! There not# up an enraged shout, fol lowed by a rush for the door. The in trudare found the door bard and fast. It is quite useless to try fully to depict what followed. The invaders screeched, pouuded and sneezed. Homo liegged usd screamed ; some threw themselves flit on the floor with their teoes down, to get air. They could neither see nor breathe inAhat fiery atmosphere. At Liat, one of tho serenaders, by dint of; teaming: wiili the butt of s gun, fairly stove off one of the plank abutter* from the front window, and the whole party tumbled out, nearly blinded, find sneezing as if their heads would burst. They were so badly punished that they burned off at once, and wo heard that several of them were nek a week. The story flew through the town, and ui« serenade™ were joked and jeered at by the people. They had to confess themselve* beaten. " Huh-gtuh-oo," was the joke which they heard on all sides. That wns the liurt cAartvorf they ever attempted. Ymith't Cbmpanton. 1 MBS. PAKTIBOTOB. “O, what trod* a poor widow has to go through,” sighed Mr*. Partington, rooking herself in a melancholy way, aud holding untested the morsel of ms*' caboy between her thumb and finger ; " terrible trials, and O, what a hardship to be executioner to an intcetia* estate, where enviable people are trying every way to overcome the widow's might; where it’s probe it, prolie it, probe it all the time, and the more you probe it the worse it seems. The poor woman sever gets justice, for if she gets all shs don’t get half enough. I have had one trial of it, and if ever I marry again, if it should so please Providence to order it. I’ll make my intended husband fabri cate his will before he order* his wed ding cake—l3l take time by the foretop, as Solomon says." Bhe here revived a little, and the subtle powder passed to its destination and reported itself ‘ ‘ home” in an emphatic sneeze. PBAKB OP TUB HIBALATAA. Hermann von Hchlagintmeit Hakaunl jwki, the great Himalayan explorer, gives a table of seventy-three peaks of the Himalayan system that are more Ilian 20,000 feet high, seventeen of which nss above 25,000 feet. Dhwalagiri, which the old geograplnse gave m th* highest mountain on the earth, stand* ths fifth in the list. Th* five highest are; Guanaanker, or Mount Everest, in Nepaul, 29,002 feet; Dapsang, in Western Thibet, 28,278 feet ; Kintchm junga, in Nepaul, 28,166 feet; the His butt Peak, in Nepaul, 27,799 feet; Dhwaligin, in Nepaul, 26.680 feet. Th* snow-lias vanes from 15,800 feet to 18,- 665 feet, and phanerogamous plants ax* seen up to 19,237 feet on ths western sid* of the Gounkhonsuni. Man lives s* high aa 14,800 feet, has a classier M 15,- 117 feet, and looks for gold at 16,830 feet. "I'M afraid that bed is not long enough for you," said a landlord to a •even-fool guest " Never mind," he replied, "11l add two more feet to it ■when L get io." snriazu »r a Mk-I/rr. A lito-tune might be apmt i* investi gating the myiterte* hidden in a bee hive, and still half the accrete would ba undiscovered. The formation of the cell haa fang been a celebrated problem for the matlifunateoian, while tho ohangwa which th« honey undergoes offer at least an equal interest to the chemist. Every one knqfiii what honey frreb from comb is like;' It is a dear yellow sirup, without a trace of solid sugar in it Upon straining, however, it gradually areumos a crystalline appearance—it can dies, as the saying is, and ultimately be comes a solid lump of sugar. Il has not been suspected that tyte ditage wasdflk to a photographic aotkm ; that the moth ■gent which altars the molecular arrange ment of the iodine of silver on the excit ed 00110, hon p| ate, and (tetarmines the formation of camphor and iodine crys tal* in a bottle, cause* the sirup-honey to assume a erystalluM form. Thte, however, is the case. M. Scheibler has uicloaed honey in stoppered flasks, some of whidi he has kepi in perfect darkness, while others have been exposed to the light. The invariable results have bean that the sunned portion rapidly crystal Used, while that kept in the dark has remained perfectly liquid. We now aee why bees work in perfect darkness, and why they are so careful to obscura the glass windows whtah are sometimes placed in their hives. The existence of their young depends on the liquidity of aaooharine food presented to them; and if light were allowed access to ths sirup it would gradually acquire a more or !"•« solid oonaistanoy ; it would seal up the oelte, and in all probability prove fatal to the inmates of the hive. VtHiilNIA 4HB4D M TOBACCO. Virginia still retains the lead as a to l>acco manufacturing Htate, the lata cen sus showing that for the fiscal year ended June <3O, 1380, Virginia manufactured 82,208,664 ]>ound* of tolmcco, the tar on which waa 86,168,886. New Jersey cotnee next with 16,664,688 pounds and 82,648,760 tax. and Neyjork following with 13,630,844 pounds and 82,184,086 tax. The manufacturers of tobacco in Virginia aro more than thorn of the great Htatee of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania put together : more than those of Kentucky, Missouri, Arkansas and Texas put together ; more than those of Indiana, Ulinoia, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, Kansas and Nebraska put together, and more than thorn of Maryland and North Carolina put together—all tobacco Htatee, TTTK IJLOOr uvur. A temperance lecturer in Great Brit ain, formerly a cab driver, related the following incident: “ A short time ago I was coming from Aldridge, where I had been to buy a horse for my cab. I saw a woman ly ing dead drunk on tbs cellar flap of one of the neighboring public honsCe ; so I went into the bar and said to the land lord : “ * One of your sign-board* baa tum bled down.' “ The gouty old publican came out side, exclaiming, 1 Where Y " ‘There,' said I, pointing to a heap of rags on the flap, ‘ Why don't yon take it inside and put it into your win dow, like other respectable tradesmen do with their goods, and label it, '* Our own manufacture, made to order,” in stead of leaving it here as if yon were ashamed to own itF " HOW TO TUI? TUB XBKOtT. Your memory is bad, perhaps, but there are two ways of curing the worst memory. One of them is to read a sub ject when interested ; the other is to not only road but think. Whan yon have read a paragraph or a page stop, does the book, and try to remember the ideas on the page, and not only call them vaguely to mind but put them in word* and speak them out Faithfully follovc ing these two rules, and you have the golden keys of knowledge. Beside in attentive reading there are other things injurious to the memory. One is the habit of skimming over newspapers, item* of news, smart remarks, items of information, political reflections, fash ion notes, so that all is a confused jum ble, never to be thought of again, thus diligently cultivating a habit of careless reading hard to break. Another is the reeding of trashy novels. Terr have an expeditions way of pay- I ing off the employee of the Hudson Hives i railroad. The paymaster goes over the i road, paying out >150,000 in greenbacks and gold. The tram runs at its highest . speed, and the pay of the flagmen be tween stations is put m envelopes, and, | attached to sticks, is thrown at the vnri- I ous flagmen as their shanties are fTBBHM-fiieyoer flaaam IB ABVAaCB. NUMBER 10. MrtT Mtr»»llt. Many interesting stories about Bnus mall, the famous beau, are told in sn article in AU the Year Round ; "We are told taut this eminent arbiter re quired two different artiste to make his giovss, one being appointed to provide thumbs, the other the fingers and hand, on the ground that a parttoular 'out' was neesasary tor each. The valet carrying down the load of crushed handkerahitas, which the beau bad not succeeded mb •queering with his chin down into the proper folds, and which were carelessly described as ’our failures,' is an old, wall-worn legend, but trustworthy. "When he waa consulted aa to what iuoome waa neosaaary to drees suitably on, he replied 'he believed that with strict economy it might be done oa £BOO a year.' It is said that ho always went b<MM attar the opera, to change ilia cra vat for tho annoeoiling parties. Luke Count d'Oroay, the later dandy, ho ear ned about with him an enormous aheta, containing every appliance for tho tofloC, ths dishes, bottles, sta., being at silver. The use of these costly articlaa he justi fied on tho ground ' that it was impoeoi bls to spit ta earthenware.’ Another of his pleasant, insolent speeches waa to a friend inviting his oritieiam er admira tion of his naw coat ‘My dear ,do you call that thing a ooat?’ "At Wader’s Club, inatitatod about 1807, where gaming prevailed to an ex travagant degree, he reigned. Ho waa ixrtionlarly noted for his snuff-boxes—a mania of tho time—costly jeweled and enameled and be-miniatured boxes being displayed and given ae presents. At thia place he (Mr. Hikes says) waa the supreme dictator, the perpetual Preei dent, laying down the law in dress, m manners, and in those magnificent snuff Ifoxoa for which there was a rage; ba fomented tho exceasea, ridiculed the scruples, patroniaed the novices, and ex ereiaed paramount dominion over all Ha had great success at Macao, winning in two or three yean a largo sum, which want no. one knew how, I remember him coming in one night attar tho opera to Wabar*e, and finding the Macao table full, on* place at which was occupied by Tom Hhsridan, who waa not in the habit of playing, but, having dined freely, had t dropped into tho dub, and waa trytag to cateii the smiles of fortune by risking a few pounds which ho could ill afford to loee. Bnimaaall proposed to himto give up his place and go aharea in his deal;. and, aiding to tho £lO in oountan which Tom had before him £2ootor ham self, took tho cards. He dealt with hi* usual success, and tn tees than tea min utes won £1,500. He than stopped, made a fair division, and, giving £7BO to Sheridan, said to him : 4 There, Tom, gn homo and give your wife and brats • •uooer. and aever play aaaia.' ” AOBBS OB COCBBVBX. Os Lord Chief Justice (Jockburn it *» said that on one occasion, white stall without the bar, he had to examine a witness named Phinn, and asked, "Well, str, bow do they spell your name, vith •1 For 1 Ph?" "Borne spell it OM way and soma another, I believe," re plied tho man. "Yea; bnt I presume there is a right way and a wrong way, eh?" "Oh, certainly," assented the witneaa. " Very good," rejoined Oock burn, now certain of hi* prey, " bow do you spell it yonreelf ? ” “ Oh, l— l I—don't spell it I I always make my mark ! ” Ho waa once counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr, B. woe for the defendant. (Jockburn called a witness and proceed ed to examine him. ‘’ I understand. he said, " that you called on the plaint iff, Mr. Jonea. Is that ao?" "Yea," replied the man. " What did he say ? " demanded Oockburn. Mr. B. promptly rose and objected. The conversation could not bo admitted as evidence. But Cockhnrn persisted, and Mr. B. there upon appealed to the Judgea, who after a time retired to consider the point. They were absent for nearly half an hour, and when they returned they an nouaoed that Mr. Cockburn might put hie questaon. " Well, what did he say ?' aaked the counsel. " Please, air, ha wMm't at home I ” replied the witness, without moving a muscle. Off Sabbath evening, her aunt told Mary tho story of tho Oood Bamaritan. and Mary waa greatly interested tn it Not tong after she found a picture of it, which aha racogniaed at ones from the story. "Oh, auntie," she cried, "there sb a picture of the Good Lavis, than!” A M ASBACgwirTTB boy about aa high as the counter earn* into a bootoatore and asked *cr " A book for 10 cents with a murdoi in it."