JOB PRINTING n: m:s n inirEn mm L. V. & E. T. BLUM, Publishers and Proprietor. .- AT twa VERY LOWEST PRICES TEKaiS:-tCVSH IX ADVANCE. One CVjrT ob Tar, ........ " ill months, ...... wltl Mirtj . . . . .75 Af traeSZa wca m;bi M tare " VOL. XXXIII. SALEM, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1885. 20. 10. MOBODY REALLY CARES.. If you've anything to grieve you, And fill your heart with fears, If Poverty bides near you, And your days are dimmed by tears, If yon find -with soul despairing No answer to your prayers, Don't ray Byword about itjfor Nobody really cares. wifev." If health arid strength forsake you, And pain and sickness bring A gloom that clouds the sunshine And shadows everything, If you feel that lot so weary But seldom mortal bears, Don't say a word about it, for Nobody really cares. This world is fond of pleasure, And, take it at its best, 'tis ia-.Uy bored'unless you I Meet it with smile and jest; It yawns o'er Want's complainings, At sorro coldly stares, j fco never tell your troubles, Nobody really cares. Margaret ylinge, in Harper's Weekly. WITHOUT HER CONSENT. night when looker-on of a an unfinished Nedley. as she quest place. It was a chilly November the train got to Hampden. Hampden was one of those new, un finished piaces which require the bright est of sunlight, the greenest frames of quivering leaves to make them at all presentable. And in the gray, uncom promising medium of the November dusk Hampden looked dreary enough, with the dark chimney of the new silk mill rising out of the hemlock woods, the staring Queen Anne depot, the church, which bore a strong family re semblance to a child's wooden toy, and the stone quarry to the left, which re minded the thoughtful gigantic fortification in state. "Humph!" said Mrs. looked around her. "A Her niece Phebe was there to meet her with a box wagon and a white-nosed old horse. "Folks can't always .choose where they're to live," said Phebe, who was always in a state of antagonism to Mrs. Nedley, "and Hampden is good enough for me." "How is Philip?" asked Mrs. Nedley. -" Philip is- well," said Phebe, "as she . helped the depot. boy to hoist Aunt Ned ley's trunk into-the wagon. . Philip Barrow was Mrs. Ncdley's fa vorite nephew. She had paid his bills at school, superintended his fortunes and finally purchased a shwc for him in the new silk mills. " He's all I've got," said Mrs. Nedley, '' except Phebe, -and Phebe and I never did hitch horses together. And I want him to succeed in the world." -V -But -within a few days new claimant had arisen to Aunt Nedley's protection and tender consideration. . fo be sure, she is no relation 111 US It BUIIC.'.'CICI 11 BUC J"4! Phebe chuckled grimly, "That's all very well," said she, "but you forget that an old lady and a young man don't look at & girl with the same eves." " Hold your tongue, Phebe," said the mill superintendent. " Where's the use of always croakine?" And then Mrs. "Phil began to laugh, and Phebe, who after her crabbed fashion, was fond of her pretty young sister-in-law, laughed also; and, after all the dainty little supper was eaten and enjoyed, even though Aunt Nedley's face was steadfastly turned toward Con cord. ' Her own fireside had never seemed so solitary and dreary as it did upon that November night. The maids, gossiping in the kitchen, were called upon to rekindle the dead fire. Tho tea, . smoky and half cold, was served, and Mrs. Nedley was just re solving to -go to bed when Betsey brought a letter. ' . "Pcstman, mum; he left it a week ago," said she. '"It had fallen down back of the letter box "Ah," said Mrs. Nedley, fitting onhei spectacles and scrutinizing the seal and directions, "from Silvia Gray! Now shall have some one to love in Philip's place. But she had not read three lines before she flung the letter indignantly on the Sulking fire. "Married I" she exclaimed. "That child ! Is everybody crazy to get married, I wonder? And she ' hopes I'll excuse her, but her husband thinks folly and nonsense! What is her husband to me 5 Betsy, my chamber candle !" "Bless ine; ma'am 1" said Betsy. 'What has happened?" . . "Evervthing !" said Mrs. Nedlev. "Don't let me be called before eight o'clock to-morrow morning. I almost wish that I could go to sleep and sleep forever." And Mrs. Nedley, in the silence and solitude of her own room, fell to think ing to what charitable institution she could leave her monev. i ' With the Psalmist of old she could earnestly have cried, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity." "I loved Philip," she said, "and I had set my heart on Silvia and such a match it would have been !" I She was sitting at her luncheon the next day, with the cockatoo on one side of her and the poodle on the other? when Betsy opened the qoor. 4-Pleas3, ma'am," said Betsy, -''com pany." "Betsy," said Mrs. Nedley, severely, "I told you I was not afrhonie to anybodv ; to-day. i "Please ma'am," giggled Betsy, "he j would come in." j- "Who would come in?" said Mrs, i Nedley. "It s me, Aunt Nedley," said Philip Barrow, "and my wife. Dont be vexed." The tall young mill superintendent with hia pretty. wife hanging on his arm. "Won't you AMERICA'S RICHEST WOMAN nCBS. OXSSS AVS HIS mvnit Sews And notes for women. ! How She lima AccnmaUlH Aboat i Forty in illien Dollar Her Econ omy and Wonderful KnrewAneoa. Mrs. Edward II. Green is one of the most extraordinary women in America. Wall street has long been filled with stories of her wealth, her penuriousness, her shrewdness, and her wonderful " financial operations." That she is the wealthiest woman in the United States Chestnut and mushroom are the new fashionable colors. In the English civil service there are 3,260 women clerks. Siity-four won-jn engravers earn their livelihood in England. Jerseys will be in greater demand than ever this coming spring. There are fifty new shades of brown, almost as many of green. There are 7,162 women missionaries and preachers in England. Ten thousand hve hundred women A QUEER GAMBLING SCENE. visit to a cxxxrsx oiima sotm nrcAxrox. is wunout question, iter f ?,uuu,uui ti i bind English books and 2.303 assist ia nrst-ciess securities and government j printing them. bonds that were in the vaults of John J. i b ' ,. . , ... Cisco & Son are a part of her riches. J""1 "J fiE Her wealth is believed to be about $35,- .T "ltht 7tTJ Bm11 ia 000,000 or $40,000,000. To all intents i VAT PM or cr8UL. and purposes she owns a controlling in-' Gold jewelry set with small stones is terest in the Louisville and Nashville rail-; fashionable. These stones are usually road, of which her husband was long a tncrusted in a rough surface, director, and for a short time the preai- j There are 34? female blacksmiths in dent. Most of this immense wealth she j England, all of whom actually swing has created by her own financial ability, heavy hammers and do men's work. ana by a habit inherited from her father ; A silver cream-colored necklace, for of strict economy and accumulation. visiting toilet, has different animals' lhe shrewdest brokers on the street i heads in raised filigree on its coin drop. n.T . f w ii y' A number of New Haven women have kaose of Wall street is cxtcn- j Kli th .f ha5r to m0 fot VChl tV nuicKness in discerning he of nfc. Their husband'. vuauges lor maaing "turns as in , ... :ai r.r.ii - v . have none to sell. BTumiug piLimis huu amuusnes imouuu to intuition. Many a mvstenous but lo me," said Mrs. Xedly. "But her ! lips "for mv mother's sake?" mother was mv dearest friend, and T ' kiss me, Aunt Nedley?" said Mrs. Phil, putting up her rosebud s sal dley get think I will adopt her 'for mv sake.' " And it was scarcely an hour from the time in which she learned that Sylvia Gray was on orphan that she wrote a kind" letter to the girl asking her to come to the East tor a visit. n you iiKs it, my tlear, there need "I wrote " you all about it," ue no occasion ior your going back," she ; pm. "Don't you know? - I my letter V said Mr. IT. mm CmtlV nf TurWHnwn to miuition. jvianv a mvstenous out; . "- - ; Tow.rfni mftmf ir. !, i Fla.. has proved that women have a soul w oria nas been traced to her. Manv of . kU 4"U1UU'- " the stories about her are. of course, ro-' moneJ J runuing a large sawmill. mances. but enough is true to warrant i The English clockmakers produce the the statement that she is a positive force 1 most accurate timekeepers, the French in tne street. She is credited with even ; tne nncst uccorative ciocks, ana nn greater abilitv than her husband, who is i American manufacturers the best clocks a level-headed and acute financier, and for a moderate price. who had created a fortune for Thanable brown acates. called tiirer himself before he married Mrs. Green. . eve. are much used for ladies' umbrella Her maiden name was Harriet II. Hob-! hnd For rentlemen. buck horn inson. Her father, whom she is said to mounted with silver, or silver chased resemble, was a rich old whaler of New with hawthorn blossoms, is preferred Bedford, Mass. He made $9,000,000 ; A new jabot of d'Angletrre in whaling vessels, and left this amount , Bnd is a combination of pale crepe shirred, to his daughter many years ago. Fol-! the Uce totmiQ Vandtked PoinU and lowing shortly after his death was an embeMishcd !t k nle pink satin bows nt'.,o aCv t'000'000- , ".tvf : htre and there. It is wider and squarcr this $13,000,000 she has accumulated her , .v.. lh. tt ftf ... Te - j j It is said that a lady in New York hai a dress of spun glass, trimmrd with cut crystal beads, the glass being in the palest amber tone, in exact coloring of the hair of the fair wearer, wno is very "Didn't you Philip's wife. - "Letter?' Mrs. Nedley was more convinced than ever now that she was asleep and dream ing. said Mrs. am Silvia wrote. neare uotn aione. .Let us be fw T m.f Ph n uhn h r-oma nii companions to onc another." I to Denver to look at the new mill ma- bhe had waited and waited and no" chinery, and he would be married im- '""wui wmie sne mediately. He said ne was sure you waited a plan had developed itself in her i would forgive him. AVill you forgive ! him, Aunt Nedley?" ; "Yes, my dear; I will," said Mrs. Nedlev. her face brisrhtening up like the She -' full moon peeping-through mist wreaths ; "but why ditin t they tell me you were Silvia Gray?" " Philip wanted to surprise you," said Silvia, hanging her head. "Well, he has surprised me," said Aunt Nedley. She went back to Hampden with the mill superintendent and ' his wife, and slept in the pretty pink and white bed room which Silvia had prepared for her with so much pains; and she praised 'Silvia's chicken salad and prune pies, and she even condescended - to approve of Phebe's half -completed silk counter- present immense possessions. This bhe has done bv patient accumulation and by successful oerations in the street. On several occasions she has "cornered" Reading to her profit and the discom- hannened t h .Rhort" nf1 th tk. . 7K exceedingly beauUful. She dealt freely in LouisTille and Nash- : An elegant headgear for a matron is ville when her husband was prominent , of point de Venice lace caught into a in thn mnnnorpmpnt rosette at left side by a cluster of sunset Mr. Green had made a fortune of about rosebuds, and a plain but deep band of $750,000 in Manilla, in the East Indies, the rich lace forms the cap, which is before he met his wife. Many amusing : wired into a diamond-pointed shape, and romantic stories are related of their ANhitc satin foulard, brocaded with courtship, and it is said that though her go'd-colorcd buds and leaves, is not a wealth was twelve times larger than his bad substitute for white satin wrought the had a clausclnserted in the marriage , with gold, especially when made up contract providing not only that her for- with panels and fan plaiting of gold tune should be kept entirely distinct and colored satin and a rutRo of gold satin separate from his. but also that ho around the entire skirt, should, out of his means, defraj all the At a nctnt Me of flns in MadrlJ c. living and personal expenst-s of both. ; of iTory panted by Watteau, which for He is a man remarkable for his height merly belonged to the Princess Adelaide and figure. He is a man of great intelli- of gavov. fetched $750. A fan painted gence, affable in his manner, and nat-; b Boucher sold for $950; and another. position than his wife, though it is said ! he has been more or less influenced by . her character. He has been a member of the Union club since 1SG0. It is un- i derstood that with an income of a million ; aoiiars a year their joint personal ex penses do not exceed $5,000. While in this city they reside at the Glenham ho tel, but Mrs. Green spends most of her mind. "If she is her mother's daughter she can't help being pretty," said Mrs.'Ncd- ley. 'jJmi is a handsome lad. shall marry Phil !" And this explains Mrs. Ncdley's " pres- j ence atHaradcn. j f "I suppose" you are still keeping' house for Philip?"'- said she toi Phebe, ! as they drove along in the chill twi light. . i "No," said Phebe, skillfully guiding the old horse down a steep place in the ' road. ) x - "He boards, eh?"' said Mrs. Nedley. "No, he don't board," answeied Phebe. "His wife keeps house for him. i ' . "What?" said Mrs. Nedley. "He is .married," announced Phebe, very much in the tone in which she might have said: "It's a cold evening," or "thc.train is late." . "Philip married!" repeated the old lady -H married! Stop, Phebe-; don't drive a step further! Turnaround at once. Take me back to the station. I'll return to Concord." "Ain't you going to see Philip?." asked Tliebe. "Not if he's married," answered Mrs. Nedley, in a choked voice. "He's got a proper, nice wife," pieaueu rneoe. " lou'll like her." ".No, I shan't," answered Mrs: Ned ley. "Philip married. Phebe, if you don't turn around, I'll get ' out and walk."' Mrs. Ncdley's will was like "adamant, and Phebe Barrow wasforced to succumb to it. T And so it happened that Phebe and the white nosed pony arrived, solitary and alone, at the little cottage of the mill superintendent half an hour later. Phil came Out into the porch, carrying a lamp in his hand. Mrs. Phil ran after him, with a pink apron tied around her trim waist and her brown fringe of hair blowing back from her forehead. - "Where's my aunt?" "taid Phil, as Phebe jumped out. " Didn't she come?" " She Came," saidjhebe, curtly; "but she's gone back again." "Gone back again?" i'Yes. She didn't like it because you've married ; so she's gone back bv !the 8;06 train." "Oh, Phil!" cried Mrs. Barrow, who "was a round, cherry cheeked little woman, with soft, hazel eyes and, a mouth like a rosebud. ' "What shall we do? Why didn't you consult her before ydu mar- ried mef" Phil Barrow broke into a great laugh. J My ucar, ' said he, "it wasn't her consent I wanted; it was yours." "Oh! But Phil, she has done so. much for you." ' 'She's a good soul, but she's eccentric," said the mill superintendent. : "Go in, Phebe, and get your tea." - Tin sure I can't eat a mouthful," said Mrs. Phil, despairingly. "And the biscuits I mixed myself; and the fried chicken, and the White mountain cake oh, Phil! oh, Phil!" "Don't fret, deaf," said Phil, "my Aunt Nedley has missed a very good sup per; that I can tell her." - " But I've flighted youi future," said Mrs. Barrow,' tragically seizing the j-ugur tongs. . " '"' 'We'll go to Concord to-morrow and -tfcc Udj," soothed, Fbjj, .f ghe pane; .tor me was all couieur de rose tor hei now. jP. Marion Craieford. Making Leather From Catfish Sklu. "When- I was -shooting on the St. Francis river in Arkansas, some years ago, I discovered that catfish skin made good leather," said Jacob Trungenwalt, the fishing tackle maker on Third street, yesterday, "and I have manufactured it i ever since. I heard a story when I was i there about a big catfish which had j broken all the nets in the neighborhood, : and I laid for him with my gun beside 4 pool which he frequented. I stayed there all day add was leaving at moonrise, when 1 threw the remnants ol some canned salmon on which I had lunched into the river. Suddenly I saw a huge black shining object roll half out of the water. 3Iy heart leaped into my mouth. I pulled myself together and held my gun in readiness. . There was another splash, then bang went my gun, and floating in the pool I saw the big catfish. He was dead, the bullet having gone through his bead. He weighed 160 pounds. Well, sir, I had him skinned in no time, intending to stuff the skin, but the fellow I gave the 10b to made botch of it, and brought me the skin beautifully tanned instead. A happy thought struck mc that I might profit by the accident, and I started and have since successfully carried out a catfish skin tannery. We make use of it for every thing.' from shoe laces to slippers, cabas, pocket books and iancy poctcet case cov ers." The leather is light gray in color, very soft, and Mrs Trungenwalt says, "tougher than the hide of a badger." Philadelphia Times. A Fortune in Celery. Fifteen years ago Lendert De Brazen, a Hollander, was a poor gardener near Kalamazoo, Mich., trying to make a living off of some marshy land he had purchased. After other things had failed, he experimented with celery and is now a rich man. What was a dozen years ago a swamp is to-day a vast celery field, beside which a hundred acre lot is but a garden. The shipping season begins in July, increases until the holidays, then gradually decreases until the crop is dis posed of in the spring. Fifty tons daily are now being sent out, and the crop of 1884 will reach 5,000 tens. Twenty thousand stalks are raised upon an acre of ground. It is said that 2,000 persons in that locality are engaged in this in dustry. Phila'delphia Ledger. affable painted by I.cbrun for the Dutchess of Medina-Cell, brought $450. Brown velvet is much favored by the London dressmakers as a trimming for the yellow illusion evening gowns now . so fashionable. It makes a hem more be i coming, even to brunettes, and removes 1 the slight suspicion of gaudincss which I always clings about a yellow dress. time at Bellows Falls. They also have ". A new, useiul sua unique style oi apartments in London, England. ' jewelry has come into fashionable wear Many are the 6tories of this eccentric i called English crape lady's economy. She is strictly honest, but demands the half cent every time. The ambition of her life, it is said, is to make her son, a cripple, fifteen years o!d, the richest man in America. She has stone on account of its having the light and wavy appear ance of crape. It is now the most popu lar, being largely worn by people in mourning, in place of jet, as it is both elegant and inexpensive. Onion sociables are the latest fashion able novelty ia Wyoming Territory. Six ladies take an onion with them into a room, and one of them takes a bite out of it. Then a young gentleman is ad mitted, and if, after kissing all he fails to tell which of them bit the onion ill the girls are obliged to kiss him. The 'dors for spring bonnets axe six shades of brown, from deep to light Havana, thrre shades of ecru, several shades of bluish drabs, decided straw been known to carry a lot of securities i worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to her bankers, the Ciscos, in her valise, riding down town in a stage. Xete York World. - Names of Indians. The American Indians, says Health an d Home, do not usually bestow namee upon their children until they are old enough i . ' 1 if r , ... io snow some peculiarity oi uisposmon, or character, and the name is intended a. .1 ; i. . i . , rri io uewnuc iuai- peculiarly. ioe5 names , . . . TplIow. P.,dinaL cherrr. are liable to be dropped and others sub- . J ' j - of absinthe stunted at any time, on the development , imit4tion of the , ' , r i toxicatine beverage when mixed with Ul KCIIIll iriuiii IV 1L If I M I 1 I K I ir III IT. A lie I . name of an Indian always has, therefore, to his people, a significant meaning, while to the whites it may be very ab surd. The Council Fire, a paper pub ished in Washington, as the organ of the Quaker policy of justice and fair dealing toward the Indians, has many Indian names on its list of subscribers and con tributors, from which we make the fol lowing selections : Rev. John Jumper. Vermillion. Rev. C. Journey Cake. Calico. Wealth has its cares as well as poverty. We'll try tbQ wealth car tyr a change. Thos. Wildcat. White Turkey. Blue Jacket. Chief Ped Cloud. Chief Red Dog. Fire Lightning. White Hawk. Slow Bear. Man Above. Cloud Shield. Running Eagle. No Dress. Kill Hard. White Tail Barking Dog. Crazy. Bear. His Horse is Blue. Mad Boll. No Water. Rising Sun. Lone Wolf. Brave. Hunts the Enemy. Little Moon. , Chases tho Crow. Whirlwind Man. Stand Round. Medicine Bull White Antelope. Big Brain. Bear that Sleeps. Running Horse. Iron Bear. High Horse. Big Wolf. Pacer Boy. Brave Hawk. Poor Elk. Revenger. Bad ound. Little Soldier. Charging Hawk. Stands His Ground. Laughing Blood. One Feather. Poison Oak. Red Plume. Waking Elk. Good Shield. 8 tar Bird. ' Six Feathers. Plenty Bears. High Wolf Spotted Crow. water. The light pinks, blues, and staple shades of spring are inclnded in all assortments. Miss Maud St. Fiere, who is known as the "Southern Coal Queen," is the happy possessor of 300,000 acres of mining lands situated in Tennessee, Alabama and Kentucky. She overlooks 22,000 acres of mineral wealth from her mountain home in Tennessee, superintends het workmen in a great degree, and still she is not strong-minded in the general acceptation of the term. She merely demonstrates woman's right to make money if the can. In Sweden young girls place under three separate cups a ring, a com and a piece of black ribbon. If the ring is first accidentally exposed she will be married within a year; if the money, the will get a rich husband ; if the ribbon, she will dis an old maid. It is a favorite amuse ment among the young girls in Itussia to conceal their finger-rings in small heaps of corn on the floor. A ben is brought in, which at once begins to peck at tne tiny heaps of grain. The owner of the first ring exposed to view will, accord ing to popular belief, be married before her companions in the experiment. Fat People In Public Life. Judge David Davis, is here with his young bride, says a recent Washington ferenccin their ages, but the old judge has grown thinner since his marriage, though his eye is brighter than ever. Perhaps the fattest couple in our politi cal history was General Enox and his wife, who used to be central figures of court society in Washington's day. Enox was Washington's secretary of war, and it is said that both he and his wife pulled the scales at full three hun dred pounds. General Knox began life as a bookseller in Boston, and he met his wife in his bookstore, where she came to purchase, -Her name was Miss Fletcher, and she was the daughter of the non. Thomas Fletcher, the secretary of ths Province. The Fletchers op posed the match, but it finally came off and Henry Knox soon became more noted than his father-in-law. He died at last from his carelessness in eating. A chicken bone, choked him and he swal lowed it. Mortification of the stomach resulted, w( he died, at fifty-six, Don't Use Big Wards. - In promulgating vour esaterie cogita tions, or articulating your superficial sentimentalities and amicable, philo sophical or psychological observations, beware of platitudinous ponderosity. Let your conversational communications possess a clarified conciseness, a com pacted comprehensiveness, coalescent consistency, and a concatenated cogency. Eschew all conglomerations of flatulent garrulity, jejune babblement and asinine affections. Let your extemporaneous descantings and unpremeditated expatia tions have intelligibility and vemcious vivacity, without rhodomontade or thrasonical bombast. Sedulously avoid all polysyllabic profundity, pompous pro lixity, psittaceous vacuity, ventriloquial verbosity, and vaniloqoent vapidity. Shun double entendres, prurient jocosity. and pestiferous profanity, obscurant or apparent. In other words, talk plainly, briefly, naturally, sensibly, truthfully, nurelv. Keep from ,slang:n don't put on airs: say what too. mean; mean wl yon 6ay. And don't use big word! Journal of Education. Bllf m sv right BtlwN Twt CVrkta im m rmrxrlmtm Hwl A writer in an English publication de scribing a visit paid by him and a com- anion to a gaming house in China, says: 'receded by Whang, whoso long black tail aaa dark dress gave him the appear ance oi a huge tadpole, we set out one evening after sunset to visit one of the most fashionable of the thousand and one gaming houses with which Canton is inleited. Alter about fifteen minutes' smart walking, we arrived at a low nar row door la a dark narrow street, into wbo?4 ve stooped and s-jueezed our selves, and keeping close to our conduc tor a tail, entered a small room lit by three lanterns as large as regimeutai double drums, and of the same shape. and seven or eight oblate srbrroid, which were dangled about In the bands of the gamesters' attendants, and by some of the sporting gentlemen them selves, so anxious were they about the game. "Tng tow ke! cried our con ductor, which being interpreted, means. "Clear the way . Uul we checked a s rudeness, and "declared we only came as visitors, and did not intend to bet. In the center of the room was a round table, ornamented at the edzes with a richly carved ivory rim; In the center of this table was a Urge porcelain bowl, of a delicate white color, veined, and clouded with pale tints of purple; round this bowl were assembled some fifteen or twenty Chineee gentlemen, evidently in a Ute of intense expectation and impa tience. At opposite sides of the bowl stood Chiaese attendants, who acted as backers cf the respective combatant, each being armed with a straw. The plsy was now ordered to begin. Two other attendants immediately made their way through the crowd, each with a little ca'rved ivory case bavin a gold top of open work like an aromatic cent box. Out of the cases were pro duced two Urge crickets. These fight ing insects are regularly trained for the contest by a variety of curious processes. They are of a dusky color, with strong legs and thighs, thick bodies, and broad bull heads and have mouths that bite like the front claw of a little rb. The combatants were pUled at the same time on the inside surface of the bowl, and, sliding down quickly, came agalnt each other, head foremost, with a dry. crisp, cracking sound. But they imme diately drew back, and began to manoeuvre in the air with their front Irgs. At sight of this great applau was elicited from the company. The gamesters, however, soon became too Impatient to bear thU dipUy of science, and the backers were ordered to BSke them 'go to work." Thc gentry .accordingly advanced their straws, and stirred, and turned, and pok-sd the crickets, till the poor creatures became so es asperated at what they evidently thought to be tbetr-ng provocation given by each other, that tbey reared themselves on their hind legs and danced, and bit, and wrestled with their front legs, and pulled and scratched, and tore, and rolled over and over, and jumped up and down, and slid about, and bled and foamed at the mouth, until pieces of skin snd joints of legs were strewn quivering over the bottom of the bowL These C'hineso gentlemen wire all ex cited to the highest degree; Tbey also cape ted, snd slid, and jumped up and down, and pulled and scratched, and squeaked and screamed, and frothed at the mouth, while their eyes were all like glittering beads. Tbey betted for nj cakes cakes in which small black tie are baked by way of currants; but the thing hazarded U only nominal, gambling for monev being contrary io law. i oce nice cakes, however, are privately un derstood to represent money. I confess I was at !at so atrura as io become excited myself as the fight went on. and mado several bets of ten cakes. with the understanding that my cakes meant dosUrs. My friend. Captain Bowling, in order to prevent me being done," hedged all my bets. I felt cer tain as to which of the crickets would win, for one of them had by this time no atom of wing left, and scarcely half a leg to stand upon, while the other had one rsgged wing quite entire at the shoulder, snd three good stumps of thighs. My bets bad by this time amounted to one hundred dollars. Captain Uowliog having carefully "hedged" to the same amouut with different sporting gentle men in the room. No sooner, however, had I made my bet of the hut ten cakes. than the cricket which was reaucea io a mere trunk, and which, of course, I had betted against, bit the head of his adver sary completely off 1 There lay the van quished cricketand there Uy the head, with the mouth opening and thuttiog. I have not tho slightest idea now u ws done. It all seemed fair enough, and, I may add, with shame in my participation in it, barbarous enough osd as our cock-fightUg. But bow did it happen that my cricket lostl Surely some black leg longtall must have done the deed with an invisible pair of nippers. llowbeit, I -paid the hundred dolUrs. Captain Bowling then went laughing round the room to couecv nis w,u:b would just have got the money back again; when suddenly a servant rushed in as pale as ashes, and cried out that three mandarins and a troop of soldiers were about to surround the bouse. Down came the large lanterns from the ceiling out went those in the band smash went the porcelain basin and amid the scrambling rush of the crowd and the crashing of china under foot I was pursued about in the dark, Drst one way, then another, till eventually 1 fought my way out into the street, by some other door than the ne by which I hsd entered, and fell over the prostrate body of Captain Bowling, who was lyiog with his head ia a broken lantern, but not hurt, with the exception of a few pretty severe bruises. RCIEXTIFIC A-ND INDtSTBtJU A new metal has been discovered by Professor Websky ss one of the compon ents of native vaaadst of lead. Us pro poses calling it "iduaium. Sir Henry Bcatemer has aaaounol that, by the use of a very pure charcoal pig iron and its treatment by a special method, a BeMemcr steel U produced which on analysis U found equal ia pur ity to the highest brands of steel made from blistered bars. The largest stationary engine la the world U at the famous rlac miaes at Friedensville, Pcnn. It is known aa the "President, and there It no pumping engine la the world that can be- com pared with the monster. The number of gallons of water raised every minute U 17,500. The driving wheels are thirty five feet ia diameter and weigh forty tons each. The sweep rod U futty feet long, the cylinder 110 inches la diame ter, and the piston rod eighteen iachrs in diameter, with a tea-foot stroke. In Norway and Svecdea accumuU tlons of mo, often more than a foot rlaMVfn V V s fcJ-vw.-'- w u : ii yji wh-ch formed by the Ua!y Aslaal aaa Earth TllrsUens. Very probably not only lah bvt aal- aad some buds bear as asoca 07 the vlbtVioa cf the earth as by tie oual tratcllsg la the aievxrheral aaJ depend as roocn epoa their uac&dU.e perception of the slixhtest tremor of the earth as apoa rvcof-aitios by the ear la the maaaer lamauar 10 Mmlft " na rabbits foe ia:aac, are oat fredisg la the trraM, it U onsa po.b;e to rrt quite close to them by walkUg la thu wy, extremely slaw, sad cartf11y flacisg the foot by de;rrers ground. Ibt earth is then s&ettly preated, and, and not stepped po at a!!, so that there U &o . By dais g this I have often moved p wiihia rsa shot of rabbi is wiuoct the Uat aid from cover. Oac now ad the a t bate alked acros a rld straight at them. Fot&e thiag, bowce. drpeads oa the dire Uoa of the wlad, fee thea the qOo of see at comes la. To sotae dt-gr? It U the same with barca. It Is rerw&ly the ca with birds, as wool pifeoce. a xk of them, w ill rrmsia f tdisg !v f the oibT side of the bed re, Ir-t If you m'.mmo the earth. wUl ri teitaaOr. &o arrve lo ! will rooks, thocrh tbey will not fy fsr are not armel. I srtnJ res cey s-ure thrtatcWet ty their atusv be turned ia j U to the faal trrmof of the ftwi. vis suUtance PhcaaU d? too, aal ssake e?. thick and half make paper and mill board as bard as wood, blocks of hydraulic press may even the lathe and rolUhed. This U said to poes the good qualities of rooaieg thnxirh the uaderwood loaf b- wood without the defects, men as r fore any one U la 2tt, The t seaU tog and splitting, so that ills suitable . Ue are Uadra.s aad it Is iitUll t for making doors and windows. Ilat ' rrt near them, for th rv. Thoch has. it is said, been UiJdowa ia ?edea ttb mowiar rnnnat cesxeal u i?- for working un the-w depoits of a tith- rtOKbiag rrwa frost them a Uc-oa srto waste substance into a useful m- crals the m f rem Ma. IS binds cbaare teriaL their poutiaes no mailer bow Tt..v.t.m,vtB. a t:u,. .hWh u h walks. Let Urn be aa ruaaiag as U begun in a modest way n.t many jeaw ". " J .Vv vTi baif.es b'm aUe I -far ia Urn. That It i alrid of the dlrtctioa the srjer hoc ovy TOUK HOW. Oa mmmrne 6y a fan fs Wf Wa aaaC c& th .-". Aht wuU; Wl U&m-4 ks T k U 4.SMMT I. TW ti4 at l Ami damn a tit tn ffti IV f-us aa kunmial m a -Vf U-r. a tml j rw " At:bec a IaH ck m ti r, T mm a 47WSarw AadUt7, Wa A, , lVxi&&U ftc- So 3m.m -I cm. kt Mail al SMJfcTy At a tut torn. AM t rS sna. o! iam TV try ko 4 Sw rrv. TV Ul Vbm Uit r atC At Vmrmi U )w , Tkt Ua 4 Awau'ysa Take rwwnvf. mi; fw( ob. Ami rik a "root U . Ia V-Vt i ti4 4 artl fcJ Alvays V tA ywr rww." nilOROr-TUC DtT. ago, developed into aa important branch 01 industry, it employs no icerin4 S9.000 people, and the ware Cads a proa s market, not only at home but ia , W a? V. f ts!l y foreign countriel The demaad lfob,"- f"1'4 V, Ibe raw material has riven quite aa J . 10 Vt V':U. sttrface Is aa4 Ull thv detect the tremor coming direct to ia'dtbem. wbcatbey rt. lUia ai i dry westhr cbaare the sawepib4ty of About 2O3,f0 hunJredeibt of willow ,y" "T,? . withes are annually imported. The ,o-) J IZltZZZ pie of the vUUre of HHaburg. who re- , . Uble man for tbe raw material has rien quit impetus to willow culture ia (lermsay. and trees better adapted to the needs of the manufacturer have been lolrodiee4 deemed 800 acres of swamp lands a fe years since, aai devoted them to w.J'.ow f lanting, this year realited about 1,7V rore the sate of the withes to the Fetoa and Wurteoburg manufacturers. WISE 1T0RML History U the preserver of good dee" and the average of bad. Cusjom may lead a man into many er rors; but it justifies none. One should believe ia marriage as io the immortality of the suL When the state U mol corrupt, thea the Us are most multiplied Sr.milJ any o rtouti the esuacci such tremors be baa oaly to le ow tbe g ouad with bis ear near tbe sirfae; bit. beirg uo-ed to tbe eiriitt. be .will at trl sly k tb bravW soua4s asof awajonot acart bo, la 1 recent eiprrimeasa with tao dtLcsie A saoraisgeU ,,CJt apIT TVs pvamaa s VL e Is fwtV.t. Tbe Cref of tbe family dja1 vf'ra e&ake gwwl btrad. Jp. ILrembms lb poor l U rwoja, but it Is tawrh V,rt u pie tVtaa tbieg. Inye. CtxCrsA ea.rir- i;S "la this at etrl P ?-f aciw TVy were ta'kit -orr aa sgd sall lloaaUe who baa oa aw-vtral awos r-,ns tit bn tii bo--bch bcpS always dalel by bis mery. Tbe yS eour- bo before rar- rU tboerlt thy cw.i4 Lie oa va ar m liUg oa cca bvai aad biay. AWxl fii Jrmt.mL fVkrmaa: "I! are y a rns.lt ta pUyterer Oja gna4rr : "No, Kt It amssw the i.'.l swbu VoUrts: "TVtti ys w.a bi tba rwdea ta ar.taay s&e." rra- 1 rr.der: "Very :!. ar; bt doywa I vial to ii:r-r A yog lady bae vvrr tt jtg 'Ktl.l mm lL Wish Li tuirt'i took a st by tbe wjadow n c&aly nbra.li on of tb earth, th movrmeaU commuoieaied to It by tbe U Irs cr by tbe "pu'-l" cl lb sua e4 mooo. It ba Uea fousd almott lapoM;bte as jet lo i tarry out the obu so rrtaUy are th J movements obacured by the c'ras aad , iaespbeable vibrations of tbe aoUJ earth. t There U aotbicg bareaaocabte la tbe ; iuf povitioa t bat, if aa iailrumeal caa j la coettructed to show the, the ears of t .i f. . M.f n.t aK-d , aslmV.s aad birds Uviae erraaUas eipect you to do a Utile more. lffa a4 stt-hoU be abU to True poliUc U the Ust loach of a lertM tremors of the ufac- nobis character. "It ia tbe gold on the VIAf spire, the sunlight en the coco-field. I American Tablea, To wlh to do without our fellows and I . . r t. . i 1.1:.1... i.al A Tot eat day met a Peaaaat aJ He- Deekicd to -t . mr.i. r,t t.U.illt V , .. . , . . . InformtBg blm that be bad xjje, accoroK . A.v . " sTt u i Inform Us Coodoct. is compoed of two rrtathat which is , w Va UtMnilf t;U4 ef JU- re pa.ua dream; that which U to come, a j.jjj ptaat, "and I wi.l do aU ija- I that I r to htrregthea year rood nes An old proverb says: "An utklad .jauons." word falU easily from the tongue, but a M tbe Tot Arpbd tb coach and sis boms cannot bring it j Peasant's Cottage tbe tnaa came oct aad back. CI ubVd Ua oi. Vben a mUfortane bappens to a "Is this tbe way you Plrtertbra my friend look forward and endeavor to ! rood Keaolutioatr eseUimed Kryaard it,. ..ma iV,in h from hannefilav 1 im a voir of r-ttbot. to yourself. "Tbe les y.'o re of my CbKkeas tbe rood laieenoas, rrwr- w & . a a your watch aaa a Women are the poetry of the world. ( . . ... . wi . " Hti ii m -i ev an- g, wt J - I asked ber DC.l't. "t sa as.:.; fee llrt j sow to coe o.V, saa," aba rvs:tl. I 'Yes" sail be. srktgf iWtbvh choir, "tbey all bare jwl veirva. bt togrtbrr; lbr?y's barayv at&eg tbrm.'" "Oh enta-med t"r. "y ar wToegthtw. Tbe tel of imitz eaAe brtwreatbem. Vtm Tnmr,ji. An r.tj'.lih sc.araiie ce'.iaa aa anl c'. rtt:-el : "What I-a.s Are ia4e Of. As tb aihor fi t sbrta ; itiaca pM. ) UkU4 .z' f- frt.;tnk. a4 arveral eeier lurrs n la rviJeel be UeklM a a-Jbt v;u wbkh b lacks isftaai.a. - Tb rraaoa farm isala ajr a caa be Kxwts'.rl f ia lbs fact tbal a m rant ryt a soar8l's rrH a tbe trb wir fear aow ia ta. Tbe ed ra.1 fence oirrr so adartr.a ts a I man to ragsi on fares, bat tb started ! mn bw-tM deal g-.ve a sva ay abow at a:L tU yourself. The fortunate man Is he wno. tors """1 1 . t poor, works gradually up to wealth and ; fi .l8tea,lla. " consideralionrand Uvtng got them, dies ' " U.l before be finds they were not worth so r ifetr H much trouble. j f.'4 ,U,!M in tbe same scnae as the stars are the poetry of heaven. Clear, ligbt-giviog, harmonious they sre termuUl plant u that rule the deatinies of mankind. An Unparalleled Care la Sarrtry. A St. Louis GW-DrmeTt correspond ent, io a letter from Washington refers to a contemplated pentioa to be given to tbe mother of the late Captain Cbaries I. Jobnaou, of Iowa, aod give the fol lowing history of a remarkable case: It U claimed that there U no parallel in the medical records of this country or Europe to this case. Johnson enl.ted at Leon as a private in Company A. , aad the Violet are Sweet tbz rsnaor aso tax MoKty. A Parrot aad a Moakry ae day began a ti puta as to wbkh of them had tbe ! better riht to be called IIaadota. ! "I bare Limpid black EjesT. ei- I claimed tbe Monkey. J "And I bare Tlumare Lke tbe Rain bow r" replied the I aTOU "1 am the better Cumber T "And lean Fly r Tbe Dispute waied so Lot that it was Kinally s greed to leave tbe Question to a tsage liviisg nrar by. "Ladies and Ceai:em4a.be remaxked. when tbe cam bad Uea stated, "the Lo- to look open. Seventeenth Iowa Volunteers. In tbe summer of 1SC3, while leading bis com pany in a charge at Big Black Hirer ia the rear of Vickburg, be was struck by a mianle ball which passe-4 boriroo tally through the lower pan of bis body from side to side, going between tbe iateatine and the spinal cord, teariog the former and injuring a vertebrae of lhe co'umn. Tbe cord was sJTccted to the extent f raralytlng the lower limbs. The hos pital surgeon said it was a hopeleaa case. lUal but when joa want eocoethUg Solid take cabbage bead. Moral: If yoa pek a Wife fy br dimples dont Be all the fact that she cant make Bread. M wy k-rt la a rUr ti3. hi Wt ay rms tv (owaA, hb Wt tav ryt. Uj mi fvut Ami M) mrm mtwm U fcS " Su UJ mvwxzf bv VU, hUi t i (at eA t r ku4 tmt -- rrirwv , hJM kol a iVt' ar ika-nb. A pie la 1TT0 u mad of ta bab els of fr. tweaty joala of bwtur, fourgera. two tufkejs to raU:a, four wi'4 decks, two woodcocks a! pea. four fiaHnJgs to ae'.a toeruea, w earseys mrrrn uciwr aad ait rreoaa. A r-e caa m be bad from one a,cc of dfWd apf 'e aad a Ltlia pieco f sorry dovgh. hor b k tbe start h -f Ira pro t of at. Le-tk-1 (Virf-- Cart tbt cllmat : Aa EgUbaaa. rrtSKbmaa aad Aaaerkaa t Jtfctia isr tbe eaeriu of tbeir rwrptire coa-Inr-K Tbe Ararrjca. af.r bi-a!tg l all tbe etbrrs bad to adtasx la fac cf their coustrymra. re.arkrl: "Wall, yrs I gMeas tbey dtd aoea Ul a!arUc. bt;l there was a yovtg fellow la our -tf-lare aad bo got a t-We f asrUe a&4 pa'.ed it l.kt rok, aad Ua&e sne U it d4nt foat." Af C-. The Tip of lhe Tearec la civUiied U.'e we tad evyrytbisg ready labeled aad eaterled for comparalivtly se-4oca require to ro 1 lb contests f a er4rio8 tc4iie (la very mall aAfiUlkai doubtfully :ra tb the u-irsiaxT asp rar i A Hare who was Ruaaiar for Life to Escape an Enemy bsppeaed to re near an Elephant. ti. ( Ka- e!1J th rreat Beast, ''but ,,v. . - . ". .I. .. I. i nM to fri.LJ. U BJ.U rerrfo. ; . - " - lrtIv. . ti. rem. . i - . .. Thereupon be seized ber with bis Trunk aa she paatsd aad ewssg ber lato tbe branches of tb treo overhead. "Alasr cned the Ham a moment after, "rod bavt reacoed me from tbe j - i . : ' . . . , IIU mother bearing of bis coo- Wolf to gl.e me ever io came and dressed the terrible wound by drawing a silk handkerchief half at a time entirely through Johnsoo'e body. The nest dav the helpless Iowan fell into the hands of the Confederate, was put It. to a cattle car and lotted away to At lanta. ditiou, hurried A French astronomer claims to have discovered a mountain seventy miles ; hjgU io tbe jplinel Venus. For Jim Jams. Dr. Selitzer says: Beef tea, made red hot with red pepper, U the very best trestment for delirium tremens A pa tient to whom I once admiaistered such a dose, made so strong that I would not have dared to taste it myself, afterward told me that it was the most refreshing and cooling drink ho had ever taken. A London surgeon of the police told mc that he had treated one hundred aad fifty cases of delirium tremens with this lemedy alone, and had not lost one. The use of chloral in these cases is crimiaal, and many a death certificate of "delirium tremens" ought to be "heart failure from chloral poUoning. Of the whole population of the g'oto it is climated Out fcO.OOO.dieeyery day. trot throurh tbe lines and still living. When Sherman long after captured the Georgian city Captain Johnson was still elite, aad the devoted mother was nursing him. They were sent to St. Louis, where the wound was seen and examined by tbe surgeons there, some of whom are still living and will remember it. For sixteen years this helpless msn lived and suffered. Tbe only posifloa which gave him any relief from torture was lyiog face dowaward. He required mora constant care than a child, aad this was given him by his mother. Eat ing tomatoes berries, or any fruit with fine seeds would open the wounds afresh. Congress recogaued tho pecu liar claims of Captain' Johnaoa during tho Utter part of the war by tha extraor dinary course of commiasioaing him a captain la the regular army. He was then put upon the retired list, and was thus provided for. Since Us deaih the aged mother who took care of him baa been without means here I have no show against my found him i but Enemy 7 Moral: Never throw a man down.itai.rs to prevent his falling down a hatchway. lKira Frtt Ptrnm. Tsklsg Tarrnb Oath. In the council chamber of aa old Ger man town, famous for rare aad quaint memorials of the very long ago, U pre served with wondrous care a very singu lar bit of gold smithery. It is nke Burrered crvstaL aa enameled relic box with a rock crystal upon the top, aod upon this the burghers of Lu&eburg placed a thumb when required to take aa oath. fUrjfft &3tr. Mtty XUIlea Tears Be sea. rrofeaaoT Richard Troetor says the naoa U the most laUreaUer of all tbe beavealy bod. It has been rrtieularly j tervkeab'.e ia tbe proof It aSords f tho law f gravitation. It prove, two. what lhe world has been la remote ares oi the rat aad what it will be in remote age to !ecme. Its most significant aer- vtce to man has been as a meaauremeet of time. Tbe oaly treeptibie effect which tho earth baa upon tho snooa'e court is that of attraction, by which If s route ia spaca U slightly deviated. From tbe mooa's preatal coodstioa we tnaf inform oraelve of tbe course 1 e-1 planetary life. There U every reason to B'jppoM max or pvrea - at no time hers; thai she poaaeed aa atmosphere, water, animal aad vegetable life. That has now pasted away. Hey surface is a sterile, rocky ma. Tb atmosphere has gone or nearly so, and tho seas art dried up. Tbie m pro eM ia rolar on with our earth, and a s'.mUar result will evvntaalJy ea. but by reanoa of the greater bulk of our planet, effects produced la Ua tsinScna of years ia the mooa will recipe sixty millions with ua. .Yew JV In. The trU aad but thing whka U re quired f ftilua is the Iom cf truth. aavaxe state, from Uk, ge.cfXA.y aad biologically sprakisg. tan ct'.y yat emerged, botlies aad labels do ol esist. FriaiUve man, therefore, la bis wret simplicity, baa oaly two mod pea before him foe decdlsg wbetber the lb. eg be Cads are or are not strict ly ed.bW. Tba first Ibis g ba dor U lo saiff at tbrm, aad smU Ulsg. a Mr. Herbert hpeacrr ba wt i'put it, aa a tidpaxory UaJe, gtnrraily gltrs bias aoeo tdra cf what U tbitg la Ukly to prove. Tbe se-cosd tbicg be doe U to p"p It lato bis mot Vh, aad pro ceed pract Mail y to etamiae its fsrvarr cbarrcteritLica. ftrktly rpealUg, wlih tho tip ef tbe tetgue ce c'i rtaily taatc at a!L If you put a email drep 4 booey ref U f bitur siaaoad w ibai part of the month, yoa wUl tad. so doubi to JOjr great swrpri, ibai it pro doer no effect f any sort; yoa caly Ut it wbea It begins slowly to dlffic iuif, aad rtcL tbe tro tuszxg re rioa. U lb scidd f tbe diataar. Lit if voa rut a Lttle cayeaae r tsatrd vm tbe same part, you 14 Cad that it t4ts yoo lramdial2y tbe eiperime-at shoOd b trWd sariag!y wbl It voa pst it lower dowa la tb aaolh joa willswal low it a-'sxMt wiihoct esuUHcg tb pua rvacy el tb sumuUxt. TV rraac-a U lhatb Up f tbe tosge is acp? only w iih nerve which r reaUy arr f taxh. a4 ev of U.t, pre per; tbry beloer to a totally i.-rreal asuaia hraach a i tbey go to a d.fferrat nates la tb braia. tvett wfj lh ry silar I bread wLkb rspjl? of saIl foe motrd aad iTfr. That Is why tb smU sad U'- I the pva mt subatance are so mch ak a everybody st b rcticd ; a rood taiffat a msstard pot produexxg alme tbe asm imlaUrg 2eU as aa ;i tioM mouttfiil i'rl'i.