North Carolina Newspapers

i ; v , 1 " '?-.r..'" r- ' me 1TC.I. THATCT. br RtAnl9 bftfore her mirror, Mrt In rfrlith lnoorenc iwl irrMe, rr-mrlnif with ingeolon touch To hfflKfatrn rnaroM of form tna bea. fih l.nifhrs with annnrlaK hnd Her ifllcen tromra, lon and bright, ' For ihe tmaAi intends To look her Terr best to-night. She qulcklf pUIti the gtamlng trnda, - iiiIh the roee-Bue tint her cheeh, , f Bheoyei "JlMorelT )oe me, n T woixW whr he 4oe not wpnkV'z - Then the britlda ir-jitftl j plcel," t She euril In beiitlii'(! we The tiny locks" that o'er her trow " Id nglijent proladon itrer. A leefy tmd the nw eeleete, Pinpoeintt it u if by chance Amid thecurU, then bird-like, (dl . Moidk mid mtf nlti ejanoe. - The pretty dln'.l. nit amilea rered Her aatWaetton at the aixht. A d the. k alirha and merman low, " I hope that lie will apeak to-night." - Brleht eema. are clMned tm neck and bfvwt T ttlkAn me he f erf ejiwfxrn It ldt and bow rrqnettlahly. Berrje to embelliah and adorn. And then no, no. I'll nr Ter tell The little aecreta beauty knowa Te tclre the lafft enchanting toucn, Vrom which ahe bl aso:i)a like the roae. Knonith thatTery moment lair e And fairer xtfll inde'd ehexeemtvi - -i A eight the fairies raltthtlnwok " ' To haunt our brightest, fondest dmtni Tlien all equipped, e'en to the foot t ,'That gleams on sitln-from the floor, She VUndu and leisurely surreys The charming figure o'er and o'er, t Sn wonder thatshe smiles ard nods Back to the face she knowa is fair j No wonder aha herbed uplifts . , With such proud audacioua sir. Another look "eh, yea," she aaya, " He will, I'm sure, propo e t -night;" Then gathering up tier dainty robes, Bbe goes tielow, and the was right J MY NIGHT LODGER. Kvory porson said I was a qneer little, gffl. i can't remember when they diil nut say that. But from all that I can learn, I was not a queer baby. I cried like any other child, and was quite as troublesome, so the queerness must have licon'oouired. I carvnot discover wherein my qiieer ncss lies; Then I ask my friends, they sav, " Why well, 'you are different from other folks." A very clear and satisfac tory definition 1 This having the word "queer" tvt ilached to my name used to annoy me; rtny dolls were the only specimens of hu manity 'to whom I confessed tliia. T 1hum I confided all my secrets and my manifold trials. They were attentive lis teners perer interrupted . me., There was llqsa, -the very large one, ' she was my prime favorite, and oh, there were so many of: them I cannot describe them. When I was eleven years old our folks itni'd loVmake ine think I was too old to -play witholLs. I felt as though life wonhj hv.no pleasure for me were rny. V il Is' tnkerf from me. No j?rjft-kffowing how I Jovel tlicm.'-' jtflSed to go tc my r)om nd,ilocking the door to keep my f'ftin-loi'jng bmthers and sisters -from in tnidi.ng, .I would play by the K6ur with my miniature family. Another favorite resort of mine was the garret. It was full gf boxes, barrels and chests, optaia- by relfttives of whom " J had scajpcely heard. There were letters rom parents to chiklrerjj from brothers to sisters", and hne-lctters. The latter interested me the most, although I thought they were,. iratlj(ir"silly I suppose I could not ap preciate the. Jieight and depth, and length, and breadth,, of the tender pas-. Filling my pockets with apples, T would . take possessipn of the garret and some comfortable old chair, minus -an. arm. or rocker, and there I- would sit. for Jiours, reading. I had a passion for ghost stories, and stories of robbers and pirates, although they used tp frighten me terribly. When ! inf the midst ot a most frightful story, down wotld tumble a bundle of something from" tjie rafters, making considerable noLse, aid leading' me to imagine the .ghosts and taie robbers Lad stepped from the bookto the garret An eld apple-tree stood byone of the windows; ft bad the greatest faculty for unearthly creaking and groaning,, emd the lightning-rod kept up a maliefous racket .. I declare it is a wonder I didn't lose my sgpses, reading so tauoh trash and honring so manv fearful aounrls -' But this has nothing to do withminfl l.lr,ni. I T , ' ' 't-j a uxjiicvo i tua uecoming gar rulons. , In the first place, I must tejl yotv papa was a rich farmer, and our resirfibora were few and far between. " When I was in nr twelfth vrr mm and mamma made up their, ' minds to take a pleasure . trip to the far West This was something unusual; they sel dom left home. Well, they went; and my two sisters, two brothers and myself had a gay time "keeping house." One day, all except myself and our. servant girl were invited to go to a din ner party. I confess I dreaded to have them go. - " Kate, we will bring yon any amount of candy," said one. " Now, pet, :you know you and Sarah can stay here just as well as not," said another. " Don't be a baby, Kitty," said a third. Finally, I resignedly bade them " get ut of mj sight'' out of mv sip:li Sarah and I were good friends; she told me stories and sang sones till I be gan to think it was quite a fine thing to be left at home. Tired of staying in the house, I saun tered down the front walk, and amused myself byndulging in a forbidden pleas ure swmging oB the gate. Liook ing down tlie road, I spied a man coming along. I flew to the house, and, satisfied that he was coming in, I ran to Sarah. Seizing her dress with both hands, I exclaimed " Oh, Sarah rthercis dnatdftil-look-ing man coming" into the house !" Sarah picked up the poker and walked" to the door,-while I, imitating her ex ample, snatched a stick of wood. Sud denly Sarah: cried "Yon little goose 1 It is Bill Mo Carty !" Sure enough, it was Sarah's beau. Her mothewras very sick, and McCarty was sent to bring Sarah home immedi ately. " i. . i Here ' was a dilemma. Sarah didn't want to leave me, and unless she started home then, she might not see her mother alive. It was nearly time for the rest of the folks to come home, so I managed to raise courage enough to say that I was willing to remain alone. In a few minntea Sarah was off. and I was left in possession of our rriit hnmte which never seemed so large to me be fore. I tried to read, but it was imnoRsi. blej'all the murder stories Inad ever heard came to my mini I remembered Wat none or our doors could be locked. . Papa, who had a few strange ideas, de clared that locks were a nuisance, I felt that I was doomed. I went out to the yard, and, to my dis ' i may, discovered that the sky was over- 1 cast and a storm near at hand. I could see the rain coming; faster and faster it came; it was soon at the house. now it did nun I On feaoja side riftrar yard way 'a brook, pretty antV -pasiceable in pleasant weather, but a very little rain trans formed them both into" raging torrents. As J Btood at the window I saw first one bridge, ancHhen the other, swept oft I knew now that I must stay alone all night; it would be impossible for my brothers and sisters to get horne. 'Troviekra; 'or'as SaraJeaHed-them ' " trampers,' often stopped at our f house met UWit as there was no fubiiivhouse near. To my norfor, I now saw one of them coming across the field. Should I hide ? No, that was not to be thought Of. Without stopping to knock, the great Tougli man-wajked jn. rtB; - ;. " Can I stay hert alt nnrht? " I dared not refuse him, so as firmly as Icordd, answered, -J - "les." fl seeedpjrpri6d at aeefajg no one bnt myfelf, aftd questioned me'motm. I told him my brother was up-afaiw writing; that we two .were alone. "This was the first thing that entered my head to tell him. Such a villianous counte nance as that man had 1 His hair was ;cut close;o Mi' Tiead, leaving his huge ears in bold relief. Wicked-lopking eyes, and a brutal month, completed his general expression of ferocity. . . - Bed-time came, and I directed the man to a room up-stairs in the servants' de partment; not the "up-stairs "where I had said my brother was. Now that there was real danger, I was calm and reasonable. I fastened the door that led np-stairs with my embroidery scis sors, which happened to be in my pocket, so as to guard against surprise, and hur riedly collecting our silverware, carried it to mamma's room and hid it in the bed. No one. would have supposed the bed had been disturbed. I was elated at my ingenuity. I then hunted ub what few iavela th girls possessed, and placing them, with what money I could find, in a box, I tied them in my pocket. After doina this. I stole down-stairs, and removed mv scis sors from the door. These scissors were counted among my most valuable treas ures. I had had them many years, and was not disposed to lose them now. I expected the man would only wait till he thought I and my fictitious brother 'were asleep, and would hen search the house for valuables, and finish by killing me. Only one plan for escape that I originated seemed feasible. I de termined to wait till I heard my lodger in theoom below, and then wrap my self in papa's shawl, and jump out of the window. I was not kept in suspense long; the peculiar squeak of the sitting room door alarmed me that it was time to act Quietly I raised the window. and just as the steps approached the stairs, I jumped to the ground. Fortu nately there was a bed of lilies directly beneath the window,' and they softened my fall. That there was danger of breaking my neck I had not thought I was determined to escape" from this dreadful man. . - . It-, was- dark ' as Etrvnt. ' the rain frzu-ttgmvHar tomt& Dot- notnmgTn comparison witu tne noriror within. the house. i Half a mile back of our house lived a friend rof papa's Mr. Vincent I re solved to go there. I ran" along, stumbl ing against fences .and falling into ditches, thinking I never knew such a long half mile. Finally -1 reached the house, and managed to tell my story. Several young men happened, to have been .delayed there by the storm, and, headed by Henry erUnont, a young man of soma twenty-two "jy ears, they pre pared to capture my visitor. .. ' j, ' - I ;-wag too excited f? remain-at Mr. Vincent's. I declared I would go back home. They all tried to persuade me not to do this except Henrc Vincent who said "such a little heroine should do as she-s pleased." With a .hand clasped in Henry's, we started. When we came within sight of our house, we saw a light flitting from room to room, and a few words of boisterous song floated to -ns on the breeze. Si lently my friends surrotindect the h.onse, guarding every avenue of eseape. Henry And I (I would not let him leave me for a moment) entered tne notice, weiound the vagabond searching 11 ipa's desk. He had found several hnjdrvd dollars that I nad not seen, when preparing for flfgh't He started to run when lib saw us, but finding men and revolvers on all sides, he waa obliged to surrender. He. was safely bound, and then ques tioned, it appears fie was a noted tnief who had Ion or baffled the notice. He said when he learned the house was oc cupied otoly by two individuals, he was much elated. He did not intend to pro ceed to acts of. violence, -unless my brother and I troubled him too much. When he found the house deserted, he concluded I had not told Thim the truth mat I was alone. Not finding me,- h supposed I had hid, and he would not hunt for me. . Lifting me into lis ; lap, Henry Vin cent called me the "bravest little woman he evev knew." . All the others, praised and flattered me, till I began to think men were greater talkers than women. All that night we stayed there, Md be fore morning I was raving like a lunatic. Three long weeks I remained unoon scions. When X becam ; sensible, anx ious faces-were bending over me. Papa, mamma, and all the folks were at my Ijedside. "What is the matter?" I asked. In a moment that dreadful day came to my re membrance, rune 1 Know! said i, with a shudder.-;, ' , It was .a lona long time before I re gained my streneth. Everv person petted and praised me. I was the heroine of the neighborhood. Henry . Vincent, never became tired of descanting "upon my bravery, and devoted himself to me in a manner, that would have been very aggravating to his young lady acquain tance, had I been a few years older. My "lodger was sent to prison to meditate for some years. Kino Alfonso's eldest sister, the Princess Asturias, is described as a wo man of 'Character and will, and captble of strong and unselfish attachments. The adversity in which she was schooled did not subjugate her Castillian pride. Her me nas been one ot perpetual d s appointment For some years she was. the heir to her mother's crown;, but she easily forgave Don Alphonso for having supplanted "her. The wild life ana headstrong temper of Queen Isabella rendered her unhappy as a girl. She married the -Count .tie Girgenti, with whom she fe'l in love, and afterward discovered that he was a victim to epi lepsy. The Pope would have released her from the marriage; bnt she resolved to devote her )oung existence to the Count, ho, out of pity for her, after she had borne the chain for three years, delivered her from it by committing , suicide. She is now traveling with her two duehteia. SOUTHERN NEWS, j; Al Wolvbs are destroying the swine aboui Houston, Ala. . ; , Ex-Pkrhidbkt Davis aros seventy-two years old Thursday. , Mamr new fronaoes. "and rolling mills are going up in Alabama. " , . bottom ofjOie lake opposite Vicks burg is coming tb the top, v " ' ... Tin eattle drive from' Texas' -this year win realize about 53,000,000, . A Bejjb weighing 200 poundei was killed 'this jweek near Vioksburg.. 5 n,.. , , BsLLraoo iegs .an : being. .shipptd: Sortli from Roelfoot Lake. c .Lz . Thk newspapers of Tennessee hare an aggregate circulation of tf6Q. - 1 4-" jU Ttsbrmcn are;aQ kopefulirjj Oeargis, thef only drawback being m the.wfieat,;,; . 'These is one field of broom-corn, in Hill County, Texas, oontiaining 600 acres. Tns sugar-cane beetle is a new pest of the Louisiana plantations about New Iberia. . The work on the new Sibley cotto mills in Augusta, Ga., is progressing rapidly. ....w The Bath Paper Mills were sold at Aiken, S, C, at public outcry June 8, or $66, 500. Competing ice factories in Augusta, Ga., have reduced th& price to half a cent a pound, - r , .. v rt A pexce is to be placed afoutd'the Jackson Statue at Nashvilleto protect1 i from vandalism. ' - - 1 -'. The negroes in Louisiana have stopperf talking about the exodus business; some thing better to do. . , , They have formed an anti-dueling as- sociatioh at Camden, S. C. , with , Judge -Kershaw as President. During the last two weeks there have been bnt two deaths in Natchez, Miss., a city of 9,000 inhabitants. .. Thirteen teachers' institutes for the special "benefit of colored teachers will be aeld in Tennessee this year. The total receipts from all sources of the late centennial exposition at Nash' ville are said to be $28,335. 80. Anderson OouNir," S. C, has twente three Democratic clubs thoroughly organ ized with a membership of 3,500. , Silk-raisino in the South is receiving attention, and bids fair to be a leading (eature in commercial statistics. ! Bats are swarming in New Orleans Parish Prison, and Mr. Pedalahore 'of fers to exterminate them for $500. The .pastor of a church at Austin, f ex. , has announced a sermon on the subject, A Tight Squeeze, or the Bound Dance." ltkaBjof Traat ATafcht1 mends that place as a, good crossing for any through railroad that may be pro jected. " In Jackson, Miss., within the last few months, "a large cotton-seed mill, an ice factory and. steam saw-mill have been erected. ' A niece of the late Hon! John 0. Cal houn,- Mrs. L. T. De Graffenned, aged sevepty-five years, died at Decatur,. Ga,, lastweek. . ' y Texas has a fund in ready cash of $200,- 000 raised from the sale of public lands, with which it proposes to build a State University' at Austin. ' The last report of the" State Adjutant General of Texas shows no less than 6,000 fugitives from justice, of whom 1,000 are charged with murder. A company has. been organized in New Orleans trfestabjish a jute factory, and a considerable quanfity'of jute seed will be plantedan Louisiana tins year. The float of cypress5 this spring from the swamps between the Mississippi and Atchafalaya Bivers exceeds that of any - . - rm 1 , ': previous year, rnousanas 01 larxjrers are working at it . Several citizens of Marietta GtC, have united in sending to New York fb twentv-five white servant girls. . The un- raliability of negro servants has rendered ids step necessary The Continental Guards, of New Or leans, will participate in the anniversary sf the battle of Bunker Hill. Their uni form is brilliant with buff and gold, after the old Continental style. The people of Memphfa are oonrgelled- to go outside tlie taxmg msmcr uniirn ti indnlcre in Snndav amusements. To jet shaved or take a, horn, 'tliey get on me of the steamers and indulge. Boys under twenty years oM hrfem- phis, who want to play cards or billiards, rr drink intoxicating liquors, must carry written permits" from their parents or they will be refused by saloon-keepers. THE State of Virginia hires out five hundred and twenty-five of her convicts to work on her railroads and other public improvements, for whom she -receives twenty -five cents net each per day. - - Whtlb three Clerks were engaged in distilling vanilla extract for a soda foun tain in a drag store in Charleston, 8. C, the retort holding the extract exploded, Seriously injuring all three of the clerks. Gen. Johnson Haqood, the nominee of the Democratic party of South Carolina for Governor, has been Controller General a, Rtr nnce 1876. He is a success ful planter, a fine executive officer, and his ambition is limited to a service ui term as Governor of his State. Thtktt small boys in Dallas, Texas, were arrested for holding negro minstrel ihows in an unoccupied building without tlie knowledge or consent of the owners. The Mayor fined them from fifty cents to $1.25 each, and then, because ho iad remembered he had once been a boy himself, he paid the fines and sent the offenders home. Ths Department of Agriculture of South Carolina is preparing to send trust worthy men into each county in the State to make up Statistical reports from personal inspection of farms. Tlie Com missioner is of the opinion that accurate statistics of this kind can not be obtained by tax gatherers, as taxpayers invari ably curtail in their returns the amount oC, land planted and ihw number--! eattle-' j owned; "- -f u-1 K'' 1 i.a 9s Jim 1 f.it.e e'. riV ; Irf tStimter, Oonty, 'Si-.-C aegro naine! lafisoHf Bainptod: -beat 4dsi4ttnC earxitd sbb tratif witneathel: Tbedd, ..: tie ttol,!lpeatvnijiii "until Els arm wearied arittt aawitoh, aqd. tbi tied hiai up to-a staka ia hisird and stmck him in -the Ueignrxrrhoo'r. o four-, nrxndred lashes 'h boy expiring" under th lash.' itseerns thai lElHsoia had been .married twice,- this, boy being the- -h0d .Of hi first wire,,Vnd-iiatm Irving:' On this oerwrjn'; wrath "Of , the father ' was evoked by, tIxry "having gone tp see his mother in viojatioaof his father's orders. Ellison has been arrested' and is now in tail eharmit WffV, ml,' ' t J and distortthi isTti Irylxp iouscustoni. Tifairpose"! Saiathatrfc' tenths of the feet were rendered mis shapen by.jth boots and shoeeiwoB the, statementfMd enr t&A&mk'&xtk A would beflfenYthefruIh: Trfe ofitld shoe or boot is the most signal instance of a mischievous instrument designed for the torture of feet In tius shoe the great, toe. u w ,uiui5i iwmnu uuc uuier- toes, .. -givmg n reyn curve; irom What la natural tn the terminal part of the inner side of tlie foot, while all the other ---toes are com-. pressed together towara the great toe, thO WhOlA -nrnrlllpincr a vnHcrnJita fnM, . . - f-T" r -&y-Ho j waai oiiogeiner -.apart rroai leu? uutiuoi. oucn a loot nas lost its ex panse" tflyeadj such, a oothj lofftbi ebLsUc ireattfciBoe; : such ; a foot las lost the strength of its arch to a very oonsid- 1 ,r , ' , ' . O - I .."viv l. .i nao tviv m Ills IlUUBeilUlu. lar and :mal pressure n xrttiiHaBd was ever exerted in behalf of noble x,e3cc, auuu u mot, oy uie Hregu points of its surface, has become hard at those points, and is easily affected with corns and bunions. - Lastly, such a foot becomes badly nourished, and the pres sure exerted upon it- interferes with its circulation and nutrition. - It ceases to be an instrument 'Upon which, the, body, can sustain Itself 'with grace and wiffi easiness of rnovetnenteveu' in early life. au mature uie ana inula age it. De clines aoot which is absolutely uusafe and which causes much of that irregular,' hobbling tread which often renders so peculiar the gait . persons, "who have passed their "meridian. It sometimes hannena- for a time: that these mistakes in regard to the boot and shoe are increased by the plan of raising the heel, and 'letting it jreat on a raised impediment of a pointed shape. Any thing more barbarous can scarcehvbe conceived. By this means thjV'-dy,. which should naturally be bal-Tn a most beautiful arch, is pl"J vig'an in cline plane, and is only-Xill fed from falling forward by the r . tl)e mus cles which counterbalj S -i? mechani cal error. .But all S5t the expense of lost muscular, eff Jolorig , the whole line of the mvoulsl"ItT8ck; frtiin'tlieieels actually to the back of the head a loss of force which is absolutely useless, and. ? j-1 .W uv, several jsasasi exjis ausuiftr and pamiai. in addition to these evils arising from the pointed heeled boot, there are yet two more. In the first place, the elastic spring of the arch being broken by the heel, the vibration produced by its contract- with the earth at every step causes a concus sion which extends along the whole of the spinal colivnij and is sometimes very acutely felt. In the second place, the expanse of the foot being limited, the, seizure-of the earth by the foot is incom plete both ki stding and in walkiner. so that it becomes a new, art to learn how to stand erect or to walk with safety. ttarpcr 8 weekly. , Uulearnable Things, - , , We all have our limitations in tlie mat ter of grammar, I suppose. I have never seen a book which had no grammatical defects in it. This leads me to believe, that all people have infirmity and are afflicted with an inborn inabjhty to feel or mind certain - sortof grammatical partacularjtiesJi. There ejpeceywho were not born to spell ; these can never be taught to spell correctly. The envi able ones among them are those who do not take the trouble to care whether they spell well or not though m truth these latter are absurdly scarce; I have been a correet speller, always ; but it is a low accomplishment, and not a thing to be vain of. Why should one take pride in spelling a word rightly when he knows he is spelling it wrongly? Though is the right way to spell " though, out it is not the right way to spell it Do I make myself understood ? Some people were not Dora to punct uate ; these cannot learn the art. They can learn only a rude fashion of it ; they cannot attain to its niceties, for these must be felt; they cannot be reasoned out Cast-iron rules will riot answer here, any way ;, what is one man's com ma is another man's colon. -One man can't nuncauaWanxlthef AanTinmscript any more, thaiuon person ean make the? gesture ior buuuiui jiauu a njyrM. ; ' What" is known as "dialect" writing looks simple and easy, but it is not It is exceedingly difficult; it has rarely been done well A man not born to write'dialect cannot learn how' to write it correctlv. It is a gift Mr. Harte can write a delightful story; he can repro duce California scenery so that you see it before vou. and hear the sounds and smell the frasrranees anj feel ttia in flu. ences that grr-wicn ana oeiong nr ti ; he can deeenbe the miner and the gam bler perfectly as to gait , and look and earb : but no human- being, living or dead, ever had experience of the dialect which he puts into his people s mouths. Mr rTartft R onennahtv is not Ques tioned : but if it ever shall be, the caviler will- have to keep his hands off that dialect, 'for that is original Atlantic Monthly. A UuiTersallst la a Methodist Palpit. William Bridges, a strong Universalist and well-to-do attaen ot (ireencastle, Ind., snbscrioed $100 toward . the erec tion of a Methodist Church in his city, on oanditk&ftfcrfb the well known Umversalist'muiister and Republican pouticiati, DfraUowed to preach a course of three sermons on Universal Lsm, after its dedication. " The church authorities closed the contract' quickly and rolled th 'CT' War their tongues as a aweet morsel, snatolieis it were, from-the 4mwc1 of wie who, ho. knowing good, would do eviL In due time the' church was finished, and 3JU. Curry-was on- band.- A dispatch ssyK " His first sermon produced a sensation, and after his .second, the Trustee 4ae gan taking steps to cancel the eon- j tract, the congregation censuring ths , board for enouoraging' ihe promulga- tion of heterodox principles. But' Brother ur$ to m and:ridgesiD : not. rescind imtif the sifbject" rWliy he i doek not believe' in hell is thoroughly exhausted!" "Boifr" in the Cindn- ' nati Gazette. 1 - Jlichard B. ObnrkAvfcofari&W pupiler of Sa Yarlci&theL-day pi AaWmca anee the exoosnre of that rina iem years j?o died 'ki France.' He xm attended AiV by Us son Towns- v-" juaraeiues,. ap nad, ipng sutr. fered, from. Bright; diease, and rebmit ted to several painftil'snjcal-xrjewtion8, whlth afforded Mat no TrmjiBtr tlie - t A--w? 'i from nome,and ooUld"neVer see If ngaur;He- waairiff manure ha Itei: front em JmkmAihismt years o Ku?ew?eiT on . Jum. He was sprentr years old 1 ears oi$ wnesune died, A' exposure it wf we Btm'sibtm- Bweeney;f tmwnaea io gnus ine enure rtv Sreceive tt Imnislaaent of tiwii inn in (uUiHon W Ttia 'axm,- ' rn'.1 sagacityj aided by the shrewd advice 61 his fnenda, enabled him to "turn' the tables on them, however. For s0m4 Bme oeiore tne nnai crash he had fore bodings Ifliat the rmg frauds 'would be discovered and he converted all of his property, exceptirjg; his mansion on Park avenue, which he deeded to bis wife. iuiu uiuwu ouues oonos ana other &e- tmrities, and deposited them in Eurorte. where they were looked after by "his bob Towisehd.. Many stories have been cir eulated concerning Connolly's greed, but fKaoa faloa ma-tr'alT lin'tvnA.J . 1 . l - . , . . bousm iu one way or another to over- l reach him; but be was a man of sat sasracitv and slirewd common sense. He was not' giyen to vulgar showjor extravaganoei arid kis social He1 was"' above reproach. The influence of hi estimable arid high- and charitable projects. Connolly's steal ings from the treasury were . estimated from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000. Hie friends eliaim that tlie stories were greatly exaggerated and that he only had-i moderate sum at the- time-of -Jus death. His exile became almost unendurable of late years, and he made several over ture! for settlement, offering $100, 000, and being willing to give $500,000, but $1,000,000 was demanded, and he Said that he could not raise that amount. He kaaves three children. The Dignity of Housekeeping. Where is .there any station higher than the ordering of the house? While - the husband has to vex himself with out ward matters, while he has wealth tq gather and secure, while perhaps he takes part in the administration of the State, and everywhere depends on cir cumstances; ruling nothing, i may say, while he eonceiyes that he is ruling much; compelled to be but politic where he would willingly be reasonable, to dis semble where he would be open, to be false where he wouhLJie upright; while thus, for the sake of an object which he never reaches, he must every moment sarifice the first of objects, harmony will himself a reasonable housewife is faiftily; has the comfort and activity of evry person in ft to provide for, and make possible. What, is the highest happiness oi mortals, if not to execute what we consider right and good, to be really masters ot the means conducive to our aims? And where should or can our nearest aims be but in the interior of our homes? All those indispensable and still-to-be-renewed supplies, where do we expect, do we require to find them, if not in the nlace where we rise and where we go to sleep; where vkictehen and cellar,' and every species of accommodation tor ouiselves and ours is to be always ready.' What unvarying activity is needed to conduot this constantly 'recurring series iv unbroken living order! How few are th men to whom it is given to return 'regr. larly'like a star, to command their da as they command their night; to fori, for themselves their household instru" ments, to sow and to reap, to gain and to expend. . and to travel around , then- circle with perpetual success and peace and love i It is when a woman has at tained this 'inward mastery, that she truly makes the husband whom she loves a master; her attention will require all unrta of knowleds-e: her activity w-ill turn them all to profit - Thus is she de pendent upon no one; and she procures tier husband genuine independence, that which is interior and domestic; whatever he Dossesses. he beholds secured; what he earns, well employed; and thus he ean direct his mind to lofty objects and. if fo$une favors, he may act in the State tne- same cnaracter wnicn bo weii De comes his wife at home.- Goethe's Wil- helm Meister. A Baboon's Dinner. One day a pteaeher, Bishop Celenso, was walking alone the Donga Biver, in Kou'li Af rica, when he saw a number of bab oons sunning- themselves in a little hollow of the ground. The baboons lay "pott their backs and . their eyes were half Closed, jus' like lazy Uncle George's eyei are Then he is taking a snooze on the lounge, awo or inree oi wie young baboons were at some distance from the old one1, playing and romping, for bab Cv4'cldren dearly lovo to romp. By ain "jTone of the young ones, turning up a stone, lit upon a particularly fine and fat sctomwnwMcli- witha. scared glance round at his elders, hi. seized and popped into - his mouth, having first pincheifbff the stfhg. " He at once pro ceeded to twrn the stone over again with great pains," as though in further unsuc cessful seaTareh 4or som pious. He had nptx?scaped notice, however, for down the gully in a sluggish roll eame a great baboon, who seized the -yoang one by the scruff of his rieck, shaking him vig orously until the plump morsel dropped from bis peach. Having gobbled this up the elder haboeaat once regained; hte lounge, and all went on as before in. the e-leepv hollow. PUm4tlpkia tkrnn.-..-. Type-Setting Machines. " An English newspaper, the Liverpool Daily Ann, has for a year past used four tye?-setting and seven type-distributing machines, at a saving of about $2,000 per annum, as compared with the same atyount oif. work by -hand. The com poMtora working the machine earn better waes than their fellows at the case, while the saving to the establishment is : over thirty ner cent. The machines are ! used for every kind of composition ex cept tabulated and displayed work, the matter being set, spaced and justified with greater-accuracy than by hand labor. Each machine cost $750, and the average speed u 6,000 ems per hour. - A party of tramps broke into aeon fectioner's residence in Dubuque, Iowa, a few night mt kindled a fire in the range, cooked what there was to eat, had a hearty supper, and departed, before daybreak, without disturbing any mem ber of the family and without stealing anything except a pair of shoes. The last few years ot kv UiiMn years 1SM njfewch,:ttmsifled by we knowlecUre that fin wa a. , fnmH w r -w 1, Kw Hat and u OM hCM. f Probablr the meanesf trick tiat was r rjiaved era .a, white man was nlaved last week in thisatv. and the fact that then; to no' VijriutnoB committee here to 1 LO only WasoU ine' -petpetkttem th- trick ana alive, ibqajmamnaa ka4 just purchased a new stiff bat and he went I luiu asuuuiinui iiiui aozeu ineuua 10 fit, the hat on his They ialf took been arid passed tlie- r arttand 10 all could see it Qna of.the) eanert.jaen: that ever held nrmnfjy jifliy Wfwt to the iWr-innrlAr AndriAil Atriiri rIipa nf Tm- 1 . . 1 1 . - 3 r- bwger cbteSB Tny were looting at theireevooea eeiung tfawngh the beer glasses thto wk-kadpetv mtyu BuiL,iwu huc-vuemsw 1 1 ill m I i , iwi leu Jeathr of Aha hat, and the, manmt iim "an hralked put , Tka,r,who74ed 061 hub ansa, ta pwb yuor uervous pexipie wiHJ A tieing mck-'and wlaofaels as thcgh xlme-elnadfxd 'di aase waamin to lake trWsessiou of him UfaWmJUx4ajM H-.f-rnf hrsliate i Jus.1 Claoe of business, took off his hat. amd T laid it on the table and proceeded to an swer sorae letters. rHo -thought he de tected a smell.- and whA his partner asked him if he didn't feel sick he said he beUeved he did. The man ' turned pale and said- he guessed he would go home. 1 He met a man- on the stdewaix who said the air was full bf miasma; and in the street car. a man who sat- next to him moved sway to one end of the car; and asked him if he had just come from Cbioaga The man with the bat said he had not.r when ' the Btranger said they were having a great deal of small-pox there, and he guessed he would get out and walk, and he pulled the bell and jumped off The cold prespiration broke out on the forehead of the man with the new hat, and he took it off to wipe his forehead when the whole piece of cheese seemed to roll out and breathe, and tho man got the full benefit of it, and he came near fainting away. , He got home, and his wile met nun and asked him what was the matter. He said he be lieved mortification had set in, and she took one whiff as he took off his hat, and said she should think it had. Where did you get into it?" said she. " Get into it?" said the man, " I have not got into anything, but some deadly disease has got hold of nle, and I shall not live." She told him if any disease that smell ed like that bad got hold of him and was going to be enrptue, she feu as though he would be a burthen to himself if he lived very long. She got his clothes off, soaked his feet in mustard water, and he slept. The- -man slept and dreamed that a small-pox nag was .hung in front of his house and that he was riding in a wagon to the pest house. The wife sent for a doctor, aud when the man of pills arrived she told him all about tha case. The doctor picked up the patient's new hat tried it on and got a suuX He said the hat was picked before it was ripe. The doctor and the wife held a post mortem exam ination of the hat and found a shoe of Limburger. "Few and short were ths prayers they said." They woke the pa tient, and to prepare his mind for tha revelation that was about to be made, tne docM ";&ea JEta. a his worldly affidrf were in a satisfactory condition. Hs gasped and saidhey' were. The doctor asked him if he had made his win. tie said he had not, but that he wanted a lawyer. sent tor at once, ine aocior asked him il he teit as thought ne was prepared to shuffle off. The man said he had always tried to lead a different life, and hail tried to be done by the same as he would do it to himself, but he might have made a misdeal some way, and he would like to have a minister sent tor Jc take an account of stock. Then the doctor brought to the bedside tlijs hat, opened up the sweat-leather and showed the dying man what it was that smelled so, and told him he was' as well as any man in the city. The patient pinched himself to see if he was alive and jumped out of bed and called for his re volver, and the doctor couldn't keep up with him on the way down town. The last we saw of the odoriferous citizen he was trying to bribe the bar-tender to tell him which one of those pelicans it was that put that slice of cheese in his hat lining. The Attractive Newspaper. That is not the hesi family paper which is devoted entirely to politics or religion, business or temperance, agricul ture o. science. The family journal, should contain much to attract and in terest the young. Such a paper and july such a paper, will make newspaper readers al the young. The family paper should be so managed as to attract tlm-se of smaU literary attainment The paper most read by those who read little e'se, may be so managed as to do ihuch good. Fun spice and gossip ,re bait wiih which the shrewd journalist fishes for new readers. Having made, his journal attractive to the largest possible, number, of readers withiu his parish, the editor should next seek to make hia paper the means of drawing people, par ticularly the young to a higher uphere of thought, and to open to them new fields Manv editors who are true friend' of morality education, culture, and all that .is good nearly destroy the useful ness of their papers by making those papers interesting only to those who' are already moral and educated Others publish most amusing papers which are without any influence or good The golden mean is between these two ex tremes. The model paper will furnish food for solid thought, and matter for the gravest and mature,-but it will not neelect the trifles, . , A Chinese Ian. According, to a lady missionary now living in China, the inn accommodations are not of "the highest order. An earth floor, not even smooth. Walls festooned with cobwebs of great age, and the dust erf-many months. Avery dirty, square table, a high-backed chair, and two very narrow benches. A raised platform, built of bricks and mortar, with cavities for fire to be kindled in cold weather. Fires, when needed, are kept up day and night, and the platform for bed by night and "sitting-room" by day; bed cloth ing furnished by lodgers. Attendance, hot water brought in by landlord for tea and toilet purposes. Charge for six--seven hundred copper cash, equivalent to ' seventy cents. The lady remarks, "If we had not been entertained in the style of the fii-st-elass hotels of the United States, neither did we have a foil? in the same style." . A WOMAy applied for a situation re cently at Belfast, with her clothes drip ping like a water-spout On being ques tioned as to her condition, she said ahe 1 understood the lady of the house wanted a wet nurse, and ahe had come ready for service. ' WB4T the world is in need of is fewer mm of an nquisitive tern of mind men who .are contented with looking at a buzz-saw without a desire to feel of it with their fingers. Colonel Gartner; Takes a Appetiser There lives mthe vicinity of Wooater. down in the wilds otWsyne .County, an ancient veteran of the Mexican war who m known aw Colonel Gatdaar. .. The Colonel has in hia declining veara an plied himself jmj steadily V tha task of on the national debt, and tne tax orktheamounYot tangle-loot, eonsumra by im -in' 'year niaterially augments the interrjalr-airstaipta of htod tnca v-une. warm. aay. jas aum-nw, m stocks ardent hr2g giren'out the old ueman mounted his trUrae ttt Nhw- L -X, , a .'.A . 1 ?. X ; .V same. The uroorietor of the Dill foundry Tasiabuent at the time of his amf and the aauataDMrta a creen btunlty kct. hose knawladge of th druhusinesa ordered tfoybung man fo inMsWlitm f'otrt a' rfuart ot wlukyi youth laolrf ; 1 ttiwwtJatM jjcv ana ttonMmtaal MM Vimitfi4 i andvt.ll, tii7Colont4 a Tetura-Bf ttsdrmffefc about 'ta4Kt later, he took locakatiua.arjaT ol li-i, qwds, -and,iqiure4 ,9thi, deputy, the name of the person onying ad. much sul- ,.l. .xi.1 - AT rtlflr,T JT . bMtf - 4fcel sjuiuiv ivavaa a v wu vav a vaaw Only one in was 'Colonel1 Gtdneri-who-- eaauxi ixTAru xutnkA'tvhiokV cexnliAd .tha What jar did you 'get ti'lrom?' shrieked the exMI maker of pills.''"' .' That ftrr," said the hpprentiee, peine-! ing to the nearly empt)W 0C attU. ''Great guns! you've jristmed, him." howled the drug store man, and, seizing his hat, shot down the street toward the Gardner 'mansion like a special dwpatoh. On UDnmachino- -the lioaiie. he- saw. the Colonel sitting pa the veranda fanning hunsell vigorously, and rueruuy survey ing the charred remnants of a news paper which were scattered about, while the sweat whictv poured off him formed in little pools about him. "Hello." "(rasped the' warrior, "what kind of whisky Was that you sold me to dav, Johnson? I never see such stuff. I brought itihome and took a oouple Of drinks and sat down here to read the paper, and in about five minutes I began to bile, and the next thing, I'm darned if my breath didn't set the paper afire; 'TK have to move my custom if you don't give me a better brand. A man would have to copper line himself to stand that stufl. Mr. Johnson took what was left of the sulphurio acid and informed the soldier that he would send him down a better quality of liquor in return, and betook himself to his store, marveling at the strength of practiced digestive organs. Cleveland Leader. An Enterprising Woman. Some days ago a curious case, illustra tive of the length to which a deep yearn ing for emancipation from the conjugal yoke will carry ladies of resolute and enterprising temper, was tried at Lille. The wife of a Belgian officer had insti tuted proceedings before the High Court of Toumai some months previously, with the objectofobtaining a divorce from her husband. Failing to bring her case to oontfhiavm ..aa-jafl . rteflirftfl, ffnd .hign'y im'hlul Kx Vha "Inn.1. AiJnm " "-1.Q irritated by the "law's delays, she happened one day to nqtice a newspaper fencing master, resident at Lille, war enthusiastically praised for his extraor dinary dexterity with the small swud. Forthwith she traveled to Lille, , sought out M. Lioredan and ottered nun a hand some sum of money to make her hus band's acquaintance, pick a quarrel with him in such sort as to provoke a chal lenge, thus securing the choice of weap ons, and then, by the exercise of superior skill, deliberately slay him. Loredan struck a bargan with her, received 800 francs on account, and actually started for Tournai to execute his homicidal mission. On the road to the station, howevehe dropped into a cabaret which he Wfta in the habit of frequent ing, and finding several of his intimate acquaintances assembled, "stood treat" to such purpose that, his tongue being unloosened by "potations -bottie-deep, he confided his enterprise to all present His arrest, as well as that of his fair client followed these revelations, as a matter of course, and both parties to this sanguinary bargain were tried for con spiracy to take hie. The lady was sen tenced to' a month's imprisonment and 100 francs fine, but Loredan was ac quitted. London Telegraph. . To Core Fits of Sneezing. ' A correspondent ot ilm JSritith iMi ciZ Journal aay5; " During the went rapid changes of temperature I cangh' a severe cold ia my head, aecompanied.by almost incessant sneezing. Myunfor tu na te nose gave me no rest " The slightest impact of cold air, or passing rrbin the outside air Into a warm loom' equally brought on a fit of sneezing. In vaia-1 snuffed' camphor aud jHiUatilla; ,the light catarrh still triumphed over me. At leneth I resolved to see What the maintenance of a uniform temperature would do toward diminishing the irri tability of my Schneiderisn membrane, and accordingly I plugged mv nostrils with cotton wool.' The effect Was In stantaneous-,.! sneezed no more. ' Again a'd again I tested the. effieaey of this simple remedy, (iway with tha aama result;. However near X was tq a sneeze, the introduction of the pledgets stopped it at once, a or wis there any lncon venience front- their ' presence, making them sufficiently firm not to tickle and yet leaving them sufficiently loose to easily breathe through." This is reallv worth knowing, for incessant sneezing is among the greatest of smaller Mia, and H seems only a rational conclusion to hope . that this si m Die ulan mav fiirnish the most efficient remedy against one of the most distressing symptoms of hay lever. lavestigatlDg Earthquakes. The work of the Swiss Earthquake Commission will be watched with a.uch interest just now on account of .the great number, of earthquakes, some very destructive, that have disturbed differ ent parts of the earth within the last few months. The Commission have dis tricted Switzerland for the purposes of observation, and each district has chief observer assiened to it. whose bust- ness it to to make the inhabitants -serve as hto assistants by distributing among uiem a pauipniet aesenbing the phe- uumeus oi eartnqusxes and tne nest means of observing them, and blank forms containing a series of questions, carefully prepared and intended to form a skeleton history of every earthquake that is observed. Instruments for meas uring the force, direction, duration and bo on. of all earthquake shocks, sre to be placed in the hands of skilled ob Tvera at certain stations. TKAljr agents on the Chicago and Northwestern Bail road are requested by anew set ef -regulations to keep clean, talk decently, talk ia a krw tone, not work their ears more than onoe fn thirty miles, and never throw books in i pas senger's lap. rissnre I' XSi speculator may shape his course -by theme m cotton. The cotton will Iterf the shape. 1SJ : - x - a-- S PaTRioK on the aebra: ;"Phat kind of. baste to that the mule, wid his ribs on the outside of his ahkln mtearlyr - ' Pgn.TOnr-piv' dargymen "tati that the bomraandment aerainst swearing waa e- a gotttm up beiowcroqnet was invented. ajeira aiiBHiia tommu m uj.cmiiurw ijfr l husbanda name, lor frequently that is alt he hasver givaa hei worth mentioning. Iau are mtuwatchxa worn 4ahe m va eiuse, turn xx, x, tm tef.-iBS uuio. J' "'Dtttt stares me In the face," said the when, tha isustiqm-house- offleere j ii" smpggliijjg adoaan-paira ok, - PkUMorpii, xliSrwing out ue. watch to an unpnnctnal cIerfc.-'JMrr Johnson, it ehadyiielf4W;ri I .e?ludrar , tk ooonva of aoldwn tt the Balaa tion Array approached a Phitaxielphia hroker Veoantlv d.askeir'r''linrw tor it-twitwr. 7tuf my fttet&lm tM am abort in U bMbf replied the hwkei-.Mi vsaij VKRMoirr oouple put off applying tor a divorce ej Wrnh rfoourt, soj that . they oould nroflt b their tin weddiftam' " 'Arid yet tl.taiCui UheVpSfEjOw tountry are needlessly extravagant and LAB wiaa luionnea wai ,-ei y itinar, called to see him m hto anaenoe.. " Sdy," he dpm mm MyJBW an accurate descnotion -he sudden lv brightened up and added!'' 0Vdot vaB rioiady- dptyas rayiia, .--. ut. Stxaioht where ahe strayed, with strllfj baaUpde, Sad sighed aoaaKH wit sees aald T K7 "Key, atalallasn-aneylaiao'W . It . She had no heexl, bat hid het-nee4r-htaud ' laood the mud at meed made mad, Nur anawar SMW she bow but " No." - .r.'.T ir.l-WU.-jmm A' baboajn, (Satane, aoouutry in&( x mew, ap,uua;jr fin1xii4t,,vpiani' titls a egg." Jjandlady " Well,, i lucky oner In a few weeks XoiuTst eeaTjihixJ ,'it, ,m a ouica m una sir, you are a lucky c II A DAMsali from over the raverwas look ing over some books In a 'Qulncy book store, endeavoring to make a auWtion, when the clerk astedL "HoW would you like the Autoorat qbf flthe tteakfeanT, Table?" 'ratepiied: 'HA? we'ttHgoV two of 'em now, one of 'em tjust as good as new only been washed twice k"T '" JojrM propounded the following' the ' other evening, after aippmg-of hig afeged tea; "Why is thto drink' like milk?" Of course nobody oould frueai, and after he had divulged by saying it was a lack teal fluid, nobody dared to smile. . They f . - - AX. . . . i.. I. . A. knew that tha, mdhxdtseyesrweWjUposj them. .j.f. A BTJ0CE8SI0N of direful shrieks isheard gould . have had Jhait a ervwa lor that - fowl, and 'ere you ggt fair twopence,'' And still he-wasWT MUrSflede rt T on tlie first floor. Fond mother,.' What ,,r is the matter with' EiUy I" , Colored? ser vant "Please, mam;(hetoaryin 'about de jftwlfrrW 'Wi tm'i.uayo ftn7 ;,,. more. He has hacTf our tttucertuis!. ready.".v "Deis to to berry one ha to - ( s whoojitf jhootv , JHa'aaJI pwotfm's Tbm Deteoilre Press haa; lntef--i viewed a Boston ice cart driver, who f says that '' the size of the lump left at at the kitchen door depends considers- bly on the good or bad looks of the cook," This argument ought to convince a , f man's wife of the deaubjh ot kaeping a good-looking cook, but it won't A cAPirai, anecdote is told of a little. fellow, who in turning over the leaves of " a scrap, hook eame across the well-known . picture of some chickens just Out of their shells. My companion .examined the picture carefully, and then with a grave, sagacious look at me, slowly remarked, "They came out 'eos they was afraid of being boUed. -. . - A pbudi-tt lover sings: ' The thrush la the thicket Is sinjlni, - ., The lark la abroad on the lea, And oxer the girrn gaM svlnglnf " A SBAidefi Is waiting tor me). . She will rait till ahe'a weafV, I'm th!nklD - Though eager I am or the try at; She will welt UU the brl-sUn an blinking And sigh toe tlXl11)f,Wala'd , For ber latber la watcatul ed vsrr, A Terr Ul-tempered eld eha"'. And I'm not tat sort ot eanarr To be kkke4 lor the km -A a glrL Thk foUowing from lotneya Progress is equal to anything in the erem ,de la chreniquei ot the Frerich: "What to lnippiness? " asked jnaof a woman. " To Be the beat loved -of some one," . ahe answeredrompily. ' ''"To assure it I must add also to love that one best. Oh, I was talking c tM possible, ' said he. The conversation closed. t'aa Human Wsakaesiu - , MaehinerT not 'onlv simplifies worn but it contribute internet, to indiwty. and relieves the monotony of the , time ahopv ThtoiJs.freqnently exetrijSH fied in our manofacturlng sterblish menta, the latest kastance bsine ia the carpet work in Thompson vjllo. pr. Hamilton is an overseer there. This of fice obliges him to induct new hand in to tne use of the machinery. MT Hum-', ilton was showing a new man how to run a machine for crowding thread iuyn spools, and cautioning him not te pot his finger tnder the instrument "Be very tsrefol," observed Hi""lten in illrutration, "not to put yatjr. finger towa there like that or-rQreat Horn spoon!" Mr. Hamilton WMxntempH , ing the bleeding stump "of his fTngei with feelings of the Tfveliesf astiWasli- -ment ; - - .- While Mr- Hamilton was gone after a, doctor one of those amateur Solomon common to all shops, kindlv volunteered to explain to the benighted mfnds abqnt him how aa overseer satfered through ignorance. ; - , , "I should a' thought .Hamilton would a' kndwn better than to putbisfinpei under there as he did," said Sol. "He might a known it wc u'd have got clip te 1 off. If he'd just put bis finger down like so fish- Whoop! Ouch L 0, Jim my noddy!" , An4 a very much amazed and icarea Solomon was spinning .round like a top, and spraying an electrified audience with genuine gore. lMory Mm. Robert Banw' Prose- T .ronfirallV anown uamuiux "rJZZZZrA In bulk his poetn-. ft LXnweseetheformeremthre Unre, Tohimesi that we pert"., tluat IT?". manv and so vtauraui- Cttera The more of Burns' letters that come to light Ae feebler will become the nriOTdice-now eornmon against hw mJuiU is true that his tetter. envoawt end aflacted, and echoes ttontonguage of the tune, when he writes with half ainoeHty and m what he, calls his "very best manner. But when be is himself, burning words and mauly eloquence rate to hia hps. Lon don Time aw linen may bsj embroidered more ; . easily by rubbing it over with fine white soap; it prevents the thread from cracking.