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! JOB PBINTENG - e . L. YJ & E. T BLUM, U ntnl wtta a8 : iny Publishers and Proprietors. NUTMM, DteeATOM. VERY LOWEST PRICES. TERMS : CASH IN ADVANCE Qtttiti to QcUHxm, JUtrMfnre, jtgrindtmt. JJirktU ni Qauril Jfafmnitieq. One Copy one year, . ., . " " tlx months, . " three " .$1.50 . .75 . .50 VOL. XXVIII. SALEM, N. C, SEPTEMBER 9. 1880. N0..3G. he Jessie's fts esse tie "atotalssas-i Why ? or Thoughts Suggested j , by the Rising Sun. i BY JOSKPH IJJE JAMES. . ' ' The "glorious orb of day," j ' In a chariot of fire, Is hastening on his way. ; See the silvery moon retire 1 And hide her smiling face. As the noiseless wheels roll by, Thro' the azure-tinted space Past the gems that deck the sky, "Till each twinkling star draws back Awed by his rapid pace , ' In submission each to wait Their turn the heavens to grace. The clouds are just as beautiful. And as gorgeous In their dress, "When the mighty monarch leaves his couch; As when he sinks to rest. Throeriental colorings I've Been hiiri slowly creep Down in the valley lowly And over mountains steep.: j I've seen him Just arising As from out some ocean cave; Acd by his g-olden splendor Change to flame each crested wave. While the cool sea breeaea gifted Sweet zephyrs o'er the strain I've gased In rapt devotion On the scene supremely grand Then why do men so seldom ; Sing of a rising sun ? Why wait for inspiration Till his rays are almost gone ? It Is trus that " joy s are brightest .,As irona us tney wing meir uijuu Or, are we more prone to darkness Than we are to ihings of light? Or, can It be symbolic an regards our brother man, When to rise he's slowly struggling. , And doing all he can; Is it then we most applaud him, , When his course has Just begun ? . Or, do we wait 'till eventide, 'Till his life-work here is done? Oh ! if, we but knew the heartaches Of many around us now, Who only ask a kindly word Or a hand to cool the brow ; s ' Methinks we would horde bur love 'Till their sun is almost down, But would brighten clouds whene'er we could, And win stars to adorn our crown. ' The Mysterious Organist. A Legend of the Shine. 1 "Kind hearts are more than coronets. And simple laith than Norman blood." Years ago,.at a grand old cathedral overlooking the Rhine, there appeared a mysterious organist. The great com poser who had played the organ so longhad suddenly died, and everybody from the king to the peasant, was won dering who could be found to fill his place, when, one bright Sabbath morn, as the sexton entered the church, he saw a stranger sitting at the crape shrouded organ. He was a tall, grace ful man ,with a pale but strikingly hand some face, with great black.melancholy eyes, and hair like the raven's wing 4br gloss and color sweeping in dark waves over his shoulders. He did not seem to notice the sexton, but went on playing, and such music as he drew from the instrument no words of mine can describe. The astonished listener declared that the organ seemed to have grown human that it wailed and sighed, and clamored, as if through its pipes. When the music at length eeased, the sexton hastened to the stranger, and said : "Pray who are you, sir?" "Do not ask my name," he replied. "I have heard that you are in want of an organist, and have come here on trial." "You'll be sure to get the place," ex- mysterious organist Btill kept his post, hut his head waa bowed upon the in strument, and he could not see the lone devotee. At length she rose from the aisle, and moving to the organ loft, paused beside.the musician. "Bertram J" she murmured. Quick as thought the organist raised his head. There, with the light of a lamp suspended to the arch above, fall ing full upon her, stood the princess who had graced the royal pew that day. The court dress of velvet with its soft ermine trimmings, the tiara,the necklace, the bracelets,' had been ex changed for a grey serge robe and a long thick veil, which was now pushed back from the fair girlish face. "Oh, Elizabeth, Elizabeth!" ejacu lated the organist, and he sank at her feet, and gazed wistfully into her trou bled eyes. ! ! . "Why are you . here, : Bertram?" asked the princess. , j j "I came to bid you farewell ; and as I dared not venture into the palace, I gained access to the cathedral by brib ing the bellringer, and having taken the seat of the dead organist,-let my music breathe out the adieu I could not trust my lips to utter." j A low moan was the only answer, and he continued : "You are to be married on the morrow?" 1 "Yes," sobbed the girl. "Oh,; Bert ram, what a trial it will be to stand at yonder alter, and take upon me the vows which will doom me to a living death !" "Think of me," rejoined the organ ist ; "your royal father has requested me to play at the wedding, and I have promised to be here. If I were; your equal, I could be the bridegroom in stead of the organist; but a poor musi cian must give you up." "It is like rending soul and body asunder, to part with you," said the girl. "To-night I may tell you this tell you how fondly I love you, but in a few hours it will be a sin. Go, go, and God bless you !" j She waved him from her, as if she would banish him while she had power ta do so ; and he, how was it with him ? He rose to leave her. then came back, held her to his heart in one long em brace, and with a half-smothered fare well, left her. i The next morning dawned in cloud less splendor, and at an early hoar the Humor in Prose and Poetry. A writ of attachment A love letter. Some one asked a lad how it was he was so short of his age. He replied; " Father keeps me so busy I hain't tlms to grow." "Sirrah," said a justice to one brought before him, "you are an arrant knave." Said the prisoner: "Just ss your Worship spoke the clock struck two." I am aotry to say," said a sheriff to a handsome young widow, "that I have an attachment for you." " I am happy to say, sir, that it isn't mutual" She gilded down Um naiy dsaee. All ayes upon her glancing ; And everybody vowed, who eaw, Tvu floating more tbaa dancing. The bluest eye, the rostost cheek, A lip like morning weather. When on the flowe and erase you hare - The sun sod dew tasetber. "The circus la ifcmlng," remarked Mrs. Goodington, laying down the pa per, "with no end of trained horses and caramels, hypothenuses and other bedizens of the forest and J ungle. How well I remember the first time Daniel took me to the circus! . As we entered the enclosure! said to him. How terri bly the wild .animalcules growl, don't they ? I was eenamost frightened to death till Daniel told me it was only the vendoosof peanuts and prize pack ages plying their rogation."' The Power of Kisses. The Mungoos and the Cobra. When Charles II. was making hie A short time anterior to the recent triumphant progress through England mutiny in India, I commanded a little certain country ladies who were pre- ; detachment of native Infantry at Con sented to him, Instead of kissing the : dapllly In the Northern Clears. From royal hand, in their simplicity held up ' having once been a town of eousldere thelr pretty lips to be kissed by the j ble Importance, it had dwindled to a King a blunder, no one would more 1 very Inferior rank ; and the hill-fort, willingly excuse than the lover of j at one period of considerable strength. pretty Nell ' Uwynn. Oeorgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, gave Steel, the butcher, a kiss for his vote nearly a century since, and another, equally beautiful woman, Jane, Duchess of Gordon, recruited her raiment in S? raised, the mountain was accessible at similar manner. A kiss from nisi only onepomt,wherea winding track mother made Benjamin West an i tist. " Kiss me, mother, before I j now In complete dilapidation formed sleer' How simple a boon, yet how a steep ladder, up which I bare often sootlflhg to the suppliant Is that soft j toiled at early dawn, eager to watch gentle kiss. The little head slnkecec4'ta iWBfwa tentedly on the pillow, for all is peace i nacle a sight that amply repaid me and happlneta within. The bright for the fatigue of half an hour's ctlmb eyes close and the rosy Hps are rev ell- log. There, crumbling piecemeal fee ing in the bright and sunny dreams of i Death the foot f time, lay mouldering now presents nothing but a meagre skeleton of it past celebrity. Tower ing high above the little esplanade on which the humble range of barracks which sheltered the' detachment was ment to eat some unknown plant. capable of rendering null the viperiae venom; but on this nothing of the sort occurred! The mungoos left not the conflict for a breathing's pace ; and at the end of about ten minutes the cobra dl cap 11 Lay dead, torn and mangled piecemeal by the little ani mal, which frisked and danced about with a purring sound la a freniy of en joyment. As I held out my hand, actually be lieving In the enthusiasm of the mo ment, that It would approach to receive my caresses, the mungoos, giving a bright, quick look at me, stamped Its tiny hind-feet briskly on the relics of the serpent, a If In scorn of Its victim, and disappeared among the brush wood. I had forgotten the poor monkey. I faund.lt stretched rsit.sflXsad stsrir, among the datum flowers. The mun goos had come too late." tree. His weight Is twenty-eight stone, greater than Chang's, for his bones are more massive. His age Is thirty -five. Chs-min, the dwarf gives his age as forty-two, sing a Chinese elegy, de scribes himself with much fluency and variety, and a his height is only twenty-fire inches, appears to be what he Is described, the smallest man la the world. It Is common for exhibited dwarfs to be over three feet high. Mr Geo Cry Hudson, the dwarf whom readers of Sir Walter 8.4l wUl btwt re member, measured three fori nine la ches when he had attained hie full stature. The Valley of Roses. The name of Kezanlik, first became thoroughly familiar to American read ers during the Russo Turkish war. It is a small town in a valley but a short dis tance from the bottom of the Shlpka Pass on the Roumelian side of the Balkans. In this valley the culture of roses has for centuries been followed by hundreds of farmers, and the distillation of the famous altar is the chief and perhaps the only industry. The essence, which is used so profusely in the harems of Constantinople and in nearly all the sensuous refinements of the roust, re quires the eousuuiptlon of millions upon millions of roses annually. This year the crop Is said to surpass in abun dance and beauty any known hereto fore for a very long period of years; up to the very summit of the hills nothing is to be seen but roses of all colors. innocence. Yes, kiss mother, for that good-night kiss wlli linger In the mem ory when the giver lies mouldering In the grave. The memory of a gentle mother's kiss has cheered many a lonely wanderer's pilgrimage and has been the beacon light to illuminate his desolate heart ; life has many a stormy billow to crow, many a rugged path to climb, and we know not what is In store for the little one so sweetly slum bering, with no marring care to disturb Its peaceful dreams. The parched and fevered lips will become dewy again as recolection bears to the sufferer's couch a mother's love, a mother's kiss. Then kiss your little ones ere tbey sleep; there is a magic power In that hlw . which will endure to the end of life. Queer Claimants of the English Throne. Medical men who devote special at tention to mental diseases will have a good field for observation and argument in the case of Mr. Thomas Buckton. This person is the husband of a clai mant to the English Crown, and be has been endeavoring to secure the right which he supposes to appertain to him and his consort by promenading cathedral was thrown open, and the asout the precincts of Scotland yard. . , , . . . . , , ... together with some children who, in The air is said to be-loaded with the if w . .. . . slaimed the sexton, "Why,you sur pass him that's dead and gone, sir." "No, no ; you overrate me," resumed the sti anger, with a sad smile , and then, as if disinclined to conversation, he turned from old Hans and began to play again: And now the music " changed from a sorrowful strain to a grand old psean, and the mysterious organist "Looting upward full of grace, Prayed till from a happy place God's glory smote him on the face," and his countenance seemed not un like that of St. Michael, as portrayed by Guido. ' " Lost in the harmonies which swelled around him, he sat with his "far-see ing " gaze fixed on the .distant sky, a glimpse of which he caught through an open window, when there was a stir about the church door, and a royal party came sweeping in. Among them might be seen a young girlyes like the violet hue, and lips like wild cher ries. This was the Princess Elizabeth, and all eyes turned to her as she seated herself in the velvet-cushioned pew ap propriated to tbt court. No sooner had the music reached her ears than she started as if a ghost had crossed her path. The bloom faded from her cheek, her lips quivered, and her whole frame grew tremuloufc At last her eyes met those of the organist, in a lone, vearnine look, and then the melody lost its joyous notes, and once more jailed, and sighed.and clamored. "By my faith,? whispered the king to his daughter! "this organist has a master hand. Hark yej he shall play at your wedding !" The pale lips of the princess parted, but she could not speak she was dumb with grief. Like one in a painful dream, she saw the pale man at the organ.and heard the melody which filled the vast edifice. Aye, full well she knew who he was.and why the instrument seemed breathing out the agony of a tortured heart. . . . - ; When the service was over, and the royal party had left the cathedral, he stole away as mysterious as he had come. He was not seen again by the sexton till" the vesper hour, and then he appeared in the organ loft, and com menced his task. While he played a veiled figure glided in, and knelt near a side shrine. There she knelt till the worshipers dispersed, when the sexton touched her on the shoulder and said : . "Madam, everybody has gone but you and me, and I wish, to close the door." "I am not ready to go yet was the reply ; "leave me leave me!" . - The sexton drew back into a shady niche, and watched and listened. The sexton began to prepare for the bril liant wedding. Flame-colored flowers waved by the way-side flame-colored leaves came rushing down from the trees, and lay in light heaps upon the ground; and the ripe v wheat waved like a golden sea, and berries dropped in red and purple clusters over the rocks along the Rhine. j At length the palace gates: were opened, and the royal party appeared, escorting the Princes Elizabeth to the cathedral, where the marriage was to be solemnized. It was a brave pa- f geant ; far brighter than the untwined foliage and blossoms were the turts o plumes which floated .from stately heads.and the festal robes that streamed down over the housings of the superb steeds. But the princess, mounted on a snow white palfrey, and clad in snow-white velvet, looked pale and sad ; and when, on n earing the church, she heard a gush of organ music, which.though jubilant In soundstruck on her ear like a funeral knell, she trembled, and would have fallen to the earth had not a page supported her. A few moments afterward she entered the cathedral. ' There, with his re tinue, stood the bridegroom, whom she had never before seen. But her glance roved from him to the organ loft 'where she had expected to see the mysterious nrmntat. He wtfs srone. and she was obliged to return the graceful bow o the king, to Whom she had been be trothed from motives of policy. Me chanically she knelt at his side on the altarstone: mechanically listened io the service and made the responds. Then her husband drew her to him in a convulsive embrace, and whispered : "Elizabeth, my queen, my wife, look heavy perfume of this immense mass of bloom for more than twenty miles around. Englishmen and Russians are the principal purchasers of the odorous harvest, and during the month of May they have been thronging the valley of Kezanlik, making their pur chases. The tax on the annual product of the roses of Kezanlik helps out the finances of Oriental Roumella in ex cellent fashion; it amounts to more than 2,000,000 franca. Near Kezanlik there were several sanguinary engage ments during the late war, and nearly all the Bulgarian population fled thence before the army of Suleiman Pasha when he came up after the "Russian ad vance had been withdrawn. Glimpses of Norway. regarded as princes and prlnceses of the blood royal. Mrs. Buckton, the mi distant heiress of the House of Han- over, is under the Impression that her j mother was named Anule Rex, and I that the Queen Is a younger daughter j trusiwn UP'-" L TremDiing in every iimu, sue Why did those dark eyes thrill her so? Why did that mile bring a glow on her cheek ! Ah I though the king wore the purple and many a jeweled order glittered on his breast, he seemed the same humble person who had been employed to teach organ music, and had taught her the lore of love "Elizabeth "murmured the monarch, "Bertram Hoflftnan, the mysterious or ganist, and King Oscar are onei ! For give my stratagem. I wished te marry The bed rooms were so odd; very clean, not bare and comfortless ac cording to our English ideas; not a vestige of carpet to be seen; pretty white curtains, but no blinds : a mod erate-sized pudding basin to wash in ; and no upper sheets or blankets to the beds, but a sort of eider-down quilt sewn into a clean white sheet which arrangement is supposed in these parts to serve every purpose. After break fast on this strange Sunday morning (which breakfast consisted of raw smoked beef in slices, raw red herrings and Dutch cheese, with rye bread,eggs, tea and coffee), Mr. G. read prayers In our sitting room, and we then pro ceeded on a voyage of discovery. While walking through the streets of Bergen a leading feature of the houses struck me namely, the pretty white lace cur tains, which are universal In the many windows of the wooden dwellings, looking as fresh and spotless as though only put up. Every window, almost, contains a flowering plant, and there is a quaint, prim ! simplicity in the whole effect which Is very charming to English eyes. We had almost an English dinner on this first Sunday in Norway. Good soup brought in plates, boiled salmon, roast veal served ready cut up, and some ; particularly llgnt flaky pastry. The table linen was of good quality, and there was nothing of the same individual, who has beeu on the throne Ave years, a third sister, who had a superior claim, having been put away by some means. The woman. In short, is one of that larre class of . i lunatics who labor under the delusion , that they are Royal personagee a de- I luslon so prevalent that It deserves si- , most to be ranked as a distinct species by itself. The interest of the cane does not, however, centre in the f-t that the woman Is Insane, but in the , extraordinary coincidence that her : husband is also afflicted with the same ; form of monomania. The evidence' from Bow street, when the pair were 1 brought before a magistrate, showed that the husband, though probably less insane than the wife, was equally ' convinced of the truth of the absurd story devised by her disordered brain. This Is probably almost a unique case In the history of mental alien ation, for although the society of mad persons is tnougni to nsve a consider able effect in inducing madnens in others, it Is, as far as we know, a new thing for the delusion so communicated an anolent building of Moorish arvbi tecture, still suggesting, by Its exteo ave ruins and palatial structure recol lections of the Mohametan prowess which, so far back as 1741, hadwmted tie provlnw of Condapilly from the hands of the Hldoos. A long but sleepless night in sultry march had fevered my blood, as one morning, ere yet a single individual was stirring about our quarters, I s relied towards the mountain gorge, and had sUmbled almost to the top of the steep activity, before the faint flush of dawn had roused the sentinel, whose call awoke the solitary pair of musician of our party, a drummer and flfer, to sound the reveille. Iu ten minutes more I stood panting on the summit of the rock, gazing thirstily on the scene beneath me, where Asiatic beauty winded slowly before me like a glori oui river, whose changeable water, the j eye tired not of drinking. I bad no ' fear of thief er Thug, for a late excur 1 sien In the district behind me had as ' sured me of my safety ; but nererthe , less I started violently when, from the branches of a stately peepul tree that grew close by, a dark figure, that seemed of human proportions, leaped with a Jibber! ng cry upon the ground. I had no great reason to be alarmed, foi I saw not a man, but a monkey one of those long-legged, brown mon keys with white-streaked faces, that abound amongst these heights, and which, probably a little less startled than myself, receded as I advanced, ilhherinr Its dissatisfaction at my ln- A t the foot of the peepul tree. Victor Hugo and roan. His Coach- throwing up It rich white petals, that shed around a sweet but sickening odor, grew a magnificent plant of the datura ; and as I stooped to pluck it, a rustle in the underwood beyond, fol lowed by an acute sharp scream, which I ascribed to my mend tnemonaey, arrested my hand. I had Judged cor rectly, but I had underrated the number of my early companions. Wlthaspring that brought It almost to my feet, mak ing nie in my turn retreat, the mon key lay moaning, and, as I thought. violently convulsed among tne grass; nor did I at the moment perceive, what lndeed;i discovered with a degree of horror, that around IU body was twisted a gorgeously spotted snake the cobra de capello ! I wish I could describe the maddened contortions of the monkey, as, writhing beneath the straining colls of the reptile, it rolled n the grass In vain efforts to rid Itself f Its deadly assailant. The piteous gaze of It eyes, as they wistfully looked uu Into my face, was eloquent with a summons for help which. I was by no On the ocraslon of the centenary of Voltaire, Victor Hugo was driven to the Gaite Theatre by a eoarhman who obstinately refused to take the post's money. " No, Monsieur Victor Hugo, I will not take your money! The honor of driving you Is enough for Victor Hugo Insisted, and forced the onachman to accept 3X. Then, whipping his horse he drove up to the JtappH office and gave up the 2of. to the subscription for the political prisoners of New Calendonla. The following dsy. In the list there figured the following : " CSfrte Mar, 0eAr, prlx tTun etmrm pttytm par If. Victor nwfr. 2f." Time passed, but when ever Wtor Hugo came out of the hotrl In . the Avenue d'Eylan to go to the Senate, the worthy Charles More was always there with his cah. He ac cepted, let us hope, hU fare, but he re fused his poMTooire which It Is custo mary to give French coachmen. The pourboirt for him was the honor of driving the port. Victor Hujro, at last not knowing how to recompe-e the man Invited him to dinner. M. Clare tie, who related the anecdote recently in one of his " Chronlquea," In L JVms, tells us that the eoachruan took his seat with perfect ease at the dinner table, and behaved as If he had len always In the habit of dining there. He listened, took his share In' the con versation and said his say modestly. In Introducing him to his guesu, Vic tor Hugo said : " I hav the honor to present to you Monsieur Charles More, who drove me to the Gaite Theeure on the day of th Voltaire Owtsnary aad refused to take anything front me." At dessert the coachman thanked Victor Hugo and made a little speech, which Is thus reported by M. Clarrtle. In faith, messieurs, I shall carry away w 1th me a souvenir of this evening, which will never be effaced, but I know per fectly well that my i4ace Is not here. I am but an honest man, who lives poorly, but working as bl he can. I have a good wife and a pretty little daughter; I adore them both.' When I go borne to dinner, the good woman prepares the soap, and the Utile one offers her soft cheeks that It docs me good to kiss, I think of her as I am driving about and when I have noth ing to do, sitting there on my box, I, too, make verses." The lu too," spoilt It My However, he was helped out by the guests and his host, and ended by drawing a roll of paper from his pocket and reciting some verses to Victor Hugo. Honest Charles More U still driving his cab about Paris ; the The Purchase of Louisiana. asanas how jcrrcKao svceaanaDiv sscra- ixo rst TxaarroaT. "ThS ptat'sHoHsror 7Brsoas d mlslsttmUon was hi peaceful triumph In adding to the United Stales Louisi ana, the mouths of the MisaUsinpt, and an Immense rrsrinsi of couatry west of the Mississippi. The President was alarmed in lrto learn from ITarope that Hpein had ceded Louisiana to France ; and suoa came tidings that Napoleon was about to take pnsswsslua of It with a great fleet, three thousand troops, and three the use nl workmea, under Lieu tenant- General Victor. While Mr. Jefferson was striving by negotiation to prevent this, the brake out afresh between France and England, which obliged Bonaparte to keep all his troops si home, aad dle- preed him to listen to Mr. Jefferwo's overtures. In Jsnusry. lXS. the Presideot sent letter by express to his neighber. I films under the early motiarchy . They eeesu all (bur to have Wen xs cutsd by the suae hand. as4 are full of a delicacy and grace wry en usual; bat the straining after what au rres then haebeea an archaic sty Wis very apparent: The "erclrsl 8for 'repre sents PWmtbik, a priest of O-rU aad Athoe. standing Immediately Isrfore aad. so to speak, under the chin of a beautiful row, whd wears the moon be tween her delicately curved hm,aa4 seems to protect and guide her wor shiper. At cither side are seated fig- ares of Osiris and Athor. c them Is the figure of the hippTotsasue god dess, sometimes railed Tnonwrta, i atnmtr ths Nile, a hVeVuna form. but tzqahJlety scul;urwi, and. like all the fear. In a hard, green stone, per haps sUoriia. One can not bil sxixnlf lb si i aalili, Qialrgsssi plkity ; but when we. coojjr uro with the great diswUe figure t'hara. sm tvx years 4drr. we psevaiv si the sueanlag of sucn n f dead and living art. ' ' Scientific Economy. The latest dlsoorsry ef ftrnswe Is near Kidney. New South Wales. The annual prodidioa of salt la this couatry Is estimated at AVn( bushels. Recent rxperiments by PUxsoIt ap pear to establish the fact thai the ten acity of Iran Increase magnetUa- Inclined to resist. Whether the to be of the same nature as that of the . Bnikke bitten It or not, 1 could not person or persons from whom it is KUtt-t for u seemed to me as If It were communicated. To explain the system j Ulfirt.iy playing with the animal that upon a principle analogous io iuu oi Infectiousness In bodily maladies, or by what may be ailed association of Ideas, will, of course, appear the simplest way of disposing of it. But as mad ness is hereditary, the fact of the two being first cousins may throw some light on the curious phenomenon. It would be interesting to discover If there was a taint of the sort In any previous generation of the family. Fowls in Orchards. Last fall we visited an orchard in which fowls were kept, the owner of which told us that before the fowls were confined In It the trees made lit- fatal game which the cat plays wim the mouse! But I shouted, and threw a stone, and theu seixlng a withered branch which lay on the ground, I ad vanced to the charge. The monkey, which at another time would have fled at my approach, now remained per fectly motionless, as If It awaited a cer tain sucir. But the serpent, aroused to the cognliance of an assailant by a smart blow on the head, instantly In flating Its horrid crest Into that hood- ... a Sa . . like form which rentiers u so pi Ingly hideous, gave vent to a loud hiss that seemed brimful of passion. Again struck it; nor was It with out a cold thrill through my veins thst I saw It disengage Itself from the mon key : hut far from attempting to make a. a J souvenir of his dinner with Victor Hugo, doubtless, remains uneSkced, but Charles More's head has not been turned by his momentary frequenta tlon of the Society of the Mu-em. Jae Two Giants and a Dwarf. Three of the must remarkable men of the century are now on exhibition In London at the Royal Alquarium the giant Chang, a tea merchant of Pekln ; Brustad, a tall Norwegian .and Che-man, described as the Chinese dwarf,thesmallest dwarf In the world. Chang Is the largest la exlstencetands eight feet two inches, and Is nlgaiy educated, speaking five different lan guages. Including English, which he speaks very well, but with the well known sing-song of the Chinaman. He laeigbt feet high without his boots ; he measures sixtr In bee round Ue Janies Monroe, In wbW-h he said: 4 1 shall itHunrmv nominate you to the (Senate for an extraordinary mission to France. Fray work night and dsy to arrange your affairs for a temporary absence, perhaps for a long oca." In right weeks from that time, Mr. Men roe was traveling fast from Havre to Paris, authorised to give Boos ports two millions of dollars for the city of New Orleans alone, and to pay the twe millions on the spot If the bargain was concluded. When he anived.be found Napoleon not only willing to seil New Orleans, but the whole province; and not oaly willing but eager ; for he was In extreme want of money to carry out his scheme of Invading England. "Do not," he said to his minister. Just before Mr. Monroe reached Paris, "Jo not even wait for Mr. Monroe; have an Interview this very day with Mr. Livingston (the American sulnis ter). But I require a great deal of money. I want fifteen cnlUVms of francs, and for leas than that sum I will not treat." His Mlnlstorccofdlog to the method of good bargainers, asked a hundred million. exDectlne. of course, to be beaten down. Poor Mr. Livingston was aghast at the mere thought of such a price. -It U la vain to ask It," said he; tt Is so greatly beyond our means." Fortunately, Mr. Monroe, fresh from America, knowing the wishes of the people and the President, arrived a few days after, and most gladly ac cepted Napoleon's final offer to sell the province for sixty million of franca, or fifteen millions of dollars. -This scKsssdon of. territory," said Nspoleon, 'strengthens forever, the nower of the United States ; and I have Just given to England a marl tlmi 1 rival that will sooner or later humble her pride," It was indeed one of the most fortu at events that oould possiby have oc curred J for, without the pLiasInn of the mouth of the Mississippi, the Ualted States could never have been a puwer of the first magnitude. . So thought Franklyn twenty years be fore, when he exclaimed to diplomat UU In Parts: Hell the mouth of the Mississippi? Yen might as well ask me to seil my front door! The Bast of Pharaoh. tie or no growth, and only a corres- very peculiar about the repast save a ponding amount of fruit was obtained. ( M i conjectured It would do, I rbrm, welgbs twenty-six stone, has a It turned itself hall erect towaru gpmn 0f right feet with bis ouiatretcnea t . Ksra. aw.1- ... . nnhlA diHreirard for salt sDoons. butter But what a chanee was evident now knives and similar little etceteras. By The grass was kept down, the weeds ttita tim Hahmii nTttaentad nu its an- I Villorl and the trees nresented an ap- you, but I would not drag to tihe altar otheT agpectthe un shining brightly pearance of thrift which the most cn- an unwilling onuc. x """ and the paved streets so dry that one in the secret." i amid hardly believe that it had poured Willie tears oi joy raineu irom u . t. a mnrnln. Kverv.sten of the blue eyes, the new-made queen re turned her husband's fond klss.and for . once two hearts were made happy by a royal marriage. Mr. Herbert Spencer ,the well-known scientific and philosophic writer, in tends next year to make a tour around the world by way of the United States and Japan. He will devote two years to it, taking sociological observations at the more important points on the route. One or two scientic! friends and one of -his secretaries win accom pany him on the tour, which will be the immediate preliminary I to the completion of his philosophical system as originally planned. "Another American girl who sought distinction in a titled husband has come to grief in the dissolution of the marriage between Miss Moulton, of New York, and Count Von Hatxfeldt, of Germany, who gives up his wife in order to enjoy political honors. "Miss Moulton's mother waaaMissMetx,and her grandmother was once a favorite actress..: . walk was interesting, and oar guide seemed only too pleased to tell us all that he oould put into word, while the varlu8 dresses of the country people amused us hot a little. The head dresses differ according to the different districts to which the women belong, and they are very curious ; close fitting black cloth caps, with a brightroolored Lining showing in - front, for one dis trict; for anotherlarge starched white cambric affairs sticking out on each side of the head like open fans, the oddest things imaginable, but not un becoming to the fair rosy faces they adorn. Yonng girls simply tie up their hair with a red woollen scarf, or wear ....a ss S il. 1 S It a little nanuaercniei uea nnuer we ehln, and this shows that they are un married, so that here the state of single blessedness Is always to be known. Some of the costumes were very picturesque ; red stockings, a short black serge pet ticoat, plaited very evenly at the waist, a red bodice, and bright green or blue sleeves, with either; of the aforesaid caps. The people have generally beau tiful complexions, and lair yellow hair.: .. f . J . thuslastic horticultural 1st could but ad mire and envy. The growth of the trees was most vigorous, and the foliage remarkably luxuriant; the fruit was abundant, of large site and free from worms and other Imperfections. The excellence was accounted for by the proprietor, who remarked that the "hens ate all the worms and curcullo within their reach, evsn to the canker worm." He found less trouDie wun their roosting in trees than he expected. and that a picket fence six feet nign kept them within bounds. His or chard was divided Into three sections, and the fowls were changed from one to another, as the condition of the fowls or the orchard section seemed to require. ? . b a s 111 .. and, with a fluttering noooie ue iu m a hop of a bird whose wings nave oeen broken-It leaped, with foraeu tongue protruded, right Into my very path i There was no time for thought. My stick was neither strong nor long. I could see the venomous eyes burn like fire, and the colors of Its swelling neck grow more deeply, as It prepared to spring again ; and I was fairly on the point of making my rewrm plunging, at ail haxxards, down the rock behind me, when a shrill, ehlr mnlne rrv. somewhat like that of a gulneaplg. was heard, and suddenly an elegant little creature, wnico a moment I was well nigh ready to splr- itnalixe Into a good genius, sprung The nroeess of taking wlnklng'pho- toeTanhs is described as follows: One negative Is taken with the sitter's eyes oten : another without change of posi tion, with the eyes shut. The two negatives are printed on opposite sum of the raDcr. "registering" axactly. Held before a flickering lamp or other variable source) of light the combined photographs show rapid alterations or closed and open eyas, the sOct being that of rapid winking. arms, and signs his name without an effort upon a sign-post ten feet six In cheshlgh. Chang is thirty-three years of age, and It b about fifteen years since he was In Kn gland. After five years residence In the Ce lestial Km pi re, he returned to Kurope for the Paris exhibition, and has sine visited Vienna (where the emperor gave him a ring he proudly exhibits, marked with the Imperial eagle and the Initials of Francis Joseph), Berlin and Hamburg. Since his last resideoe in this country Chang has grown six Inches. He has a benevolent Mongo lian face, a courtl r manner, and a richly embroidered dresa, worked tor him by his sister, who leglike the rest upon the serpent with abound of light- of family, of only ordinary stature, some ferocity, which reminded me of I ytx to Chang, and next by no long the swoop of a kite upon a wscr-rai. I interval, stands Bruetaa aooui emu Tt wss a munjroos! And now, In- feet nine inches high, Tery muecuiar. deed, a combat took place which fixed very broad hack, having as great a me to the spot with mute aomirauo-, girtn oi . - ---- - -7 but not for long. Once or twice n 1 span in proporuow "J - aeemed to me that the mungoos was I tow fbfbed,but speaks BBgilsn .alriy bitten, hut It might not have been so, well. Brnstaa nao aoso-a nnji-u for the velocity of their inoresaents, be greatly delights In exhibiting. He as, dinging tof ether, the snake aad Its preamtlttohlmseUwitof theprofiU, foe rolled jover and over amongst tha H U supposed, gala sd by tteingthown. lonr rraas, prevented minute observe- It Is four and a half ounces La wsjfghs. sjwI a most roes aasirr through tt, It is saserted that, whsn bitten by a I To grasp his mighty hand In gresCng I that period the snake, the keumon retires for a mo-1 1 like shaking hands with oak j statuettes af an Many ei am pies both of the revival and decay of Egyptian art may be seen In the Boolak Museum. Among thesa are two Interesting basts, both found at Karnae. The larger represents a qseen's bead, the crosm and part of the throat beJ ng brok en a wsy , leaving only the face perfect. It Is a singularly lue- UkaCace. The nose ta. to say the least, rtfromme; the mouth wears a pleasant smile. The white, alal aster, of which it le made, adds to the effect of the bust, and produces an extraordinary lmprisslon of sweetness, grace and Ir regular beauty, combined with a cer tain Idea of power, and at the same time. It must be confessed of Insinceri ty. This was the great Queen Thya, the wife of Amenhotep IIL, the king whose sis toes) are the great cohass ef the plain of Thebes. She was probably a foreigner and lowly horn, but Amcn hotep loved her, and sign all ted his love by aasnriatlng her with himself on the throne and her name w 1th his conn V leas lnserlptione. The adjoining bust, though It Is of black granite aad terri bly m ulUlated, bears a singular blance to thai of the queen. It eents Mereapteh. the "Pharaoh of the Exodus. The likeness te Thyla may perhaps be accounted for if we remem ber thai ITimtees IL, the father ef MsrenpUh, was descended through his mother, from the eid royal line, and Is said In some Inscriptions to ha re been king from his birth. It Is Inter esting thus to trace a family Ilk is In people who were as long before the Christian era as wt are sAer li. Later than Mrrenptah there Is Little er no sculpture ef the same exsellertos Oil we some to the ttmeef the twenty-sixth 4 mast v. as ws have remarked ; bet of 0 s The total value of railroad pnperly In Ohio, as reported by'eouaty ofa rers, b TB,a3SyMo, and total taxes levied therein f1.06ri.79.lt. Oil of terpentine Is said to' be de prived of u penetrating odor by recti fying It "vrr per cent- of Iks weight of nnalacked lime added te It la the ahape c milk of lima. ' ; Elf bty-two and one-third miles an hour t the rale of speed attaining an -the Loodi and Northwestern Bail road, by an engine having a drivisg wheel nine feet In diameter. To cleanse) bottles dissolve aoeeunce of chloride of lime in- one quart of water, and fill the bottles with the liquid ; set them aside for several day s and rlns them well with water. The water of chloride of 11 me ran be used, several times. For bottles which are n4 very dirty use one part of muriatic add diluted with three parts of water. Sawdust put Into boulea and some water added will clean well, especial j such bottles as have contained tJL , Tiaaandier gives, among other ex periments In pneumatics, one In which some burning paper is introduced into a coral or quart bottle, full air. After It has burnt a few seconds, a hard-boOed egg. with the shell off Is placed In the mouth. The egg Is pressed Inward by the atmosphere (the jftombustlon bar ing caused partial vacuum). It gets more and more etocgaisdV and at length wholly enter the bottle, with a alight detonation. Mr. Phillip Gilbert Hamerton, the distinguished art erlUe, says, that "modern wood engraving, tmltatlng the quail ties of many dlSerenl kinds of art, had never beee carried so Car la Europe as It Is now la Amerioa. A more versatile process rt would be dif ficult to Imagine. The only etjertiea that strikes us Is the painful sense ef the toll Involved when we knew aw the work U done; bet this toll t&ay be pleasurable to the engravers thexnaelvee When they have reached such a high degree of skill. To test enamelled iron ware for lead Ebermayer takes ordinary vinegar, which he dilutes with four times Its weight of water, and to which he adds ft per cent, of table salt. The eolation Is poured Into the vessel and left Io U for twelve hours at ordinary tempera ture. After this time the liquid Is ex amined for lead by means ef sulphide of ammonium, if the liquid acquires a black or dark brown color the enamel U dangerous; If the color Is only light yellow or light btwwn the vessels may be used. The London Jommal a, jpUtd Sdeme draws attention to the state ment thai has recently been made to the effect that la Thnringia, ta Usr maay, ever IflOO tone ef dried beet root leaves are ana nail y reessd off as nine tobaooa. : Beat root, chicory eabt age are largely need for a stmllae purpose In MacdeJbwrg and la the Pal atinate. The Vevey cfgars, which are In such favor La South German y, contain no tobacco at all, bet are en tirely coco posed ot cabbage and beet leaves, deprived of their natural euveH aad taste by special form of mill vaOou. and subsequently steeped ta tobscra water for a lengthened period. Experience, says the iZeatrietam has shown thai the life of a submarine tele graph cable Is from ten to twslveysara. If a cable breaks La deep water after tt la ten years of age It cannot be ILted for repairs, as It win break of Its vreirbt, and cafele companies are palled to put aside a large reserve fund In order that they may be prepared te replace their cables every ten years. The action ef the sea water eats the Iron wire completely away, and tt crumbles Into dost, while the core of the cable may be perfect. The breakages of cables are very costly, and . U is a very dlflacnlt mailer to repair them In comparison with, land llaee, A ship has to be chartered at an ex- pause of ,t3O0 n day for two or three weeks In fixing the locality aad la avoiding 4 bed weather, as cabise can only" be repaired ta the re? mast sea ' one. One break atone la the Direct Company cable' cost flOOjOBO te re pair, and the last chance left to the company was te make an sgreemset with the Aagio-Anaericaa, as thai they should te protected and hare the nee of that company's Has when their 1 was stopped. The peetto Instinct tarns whatever It 1 inie goto. zoriiws
The Western Sentinel (Winston-Salem, N.C.)
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Sept. 9, 1880, edition 1
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