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It-- ! if T 'rfniiU Jttrt - v MrVMs J. H. IIALLYBURT05, Editor and Proprietor. MORGANTON, N. C, SATURlAfe.toOBEll 30.1880." VOL. V.-NO. 37. j j " '- . . . ; w k i! ( r : I I : ; -- -! ! : -s Mail OT F BLADE 11 1 II JL-aVllLfl - 1 1 ewe. t DB. U MOILLB. Nat when the polBon cjewa dlatin, Which bring ranch woe to men, 8hU we our brimming glum nil, And drink end All again. Bm e ahH quaff the water pare, Which parlea in the wave, Whoae draught to awcet doth health aamre, 'So far remove the grave. , Water-, true gift of heaven thou art; Wrttioni thy aml!e tb bleaa, Earth were a desert and man'a heart , Could ne'er find happineea. STARVING TO WIN A WIFE. It was a July afternoon. Three men sat on the verandaof the village hotel. Their feet were' on the balcony railing, their chairs were tilted back and they were fanning themselves. These men were Judge Barron, County Judge, Parson Miller and Col. Gherkins, a retired militia officer, on no pay. Not one of them would see his 50th birth day, for they had passed, it. " Speaking of fasting," said the Judge, breaking a long silence. " Hasn't been mentioned," snarled the Colonel, .interrupting. The JudfVJropped his chair squarely down on its lour legs, and looked sav ' ngely at the Colonel. The Colonel re turned the look and snapped his fingers contemptuously. " Don't le boys ! " urged the minister witli a smile. Ho smiled- because he knew tho fiery but harmless ways of tho gentlemen. " Wellj we are too old for this sort of tiling, V said the Judge, leaning back again. "But, speaking of fasting I will have it that way reminds me of my attempt at suicide" ' It was in the papers,," said Gherkins, stopping his fanning long enough to "glance sideways at the other. " It was," admitted the Judge, "but it doesn't signify now, over twenty-five years afterward." " Humph ! " grunted the Colonel. "I was in love, doctor," and the Judge turned his face toward the min ister. " That is what he thought," observed he Colonel, with a cackle, half cough and half laugh, " With a girl," continued Barron. "Woll added!" cried Gherkins. " Though t He "tendency of young men is, we know, to fall . in love with old women. "And not, as you well know, Colonel, for young women to fall in love with old men. ' -"Your'e its oldiElifc$-B&npd the Colonel. i'AIW'W Ti-- " Not by fifteen years, -'exclaimed the Judge. "But you take rnyjreniark as personal." ' f?jf f " That's tho wav vou meant to have it taken, I know," growled the unamiable old man. "So you ought," said tho Judge. ' " But never mind that 1 I fell in love. That means to le miserable. At 22 one has love as one has the measles, se verely, all over, as a matter of business. 'f When I was a boy," suddenly began the Colonel. " Why, that is ancient history," cried Barron. The Colonel said, something m an nudertono, and lighted a cigar. " I had always been in love with Miss Lou Dexter," continuod tho Judge. - " I began to suffer when I was in ronnd- nlionts. was a sort of duplex, back action, extra-elastic passion. 1 suppose I made a fool of myself. Didn't I, Colonel?" "Decidedly !" declared that person. "I felt as sure of Xou as I did of my self," the Judge Continued. "Butwhen I came back from college ! thought everything -had changed for the worse, There wr no longer that familiarity and confidence Unit had existed between us, Half the time when I went to see her she was either busy or out for the even ing, or engaged with a musty old fellow who had money, but whose name I won't mention." " Musty, Jndgo ?" howlod the Colonel, BprinjriuK 'to his feet. " Musty ? Hnvo care I" ; " Poetical license, I suppose, sug gested the minister. " Now. if he had said moldy " " Just as libelous, just as infamous an nntruth," shouted tho Colonel, stamping up and down the veranda. "Oh, well, consider the remark with drawn," laughed the Judge. " The man was there, . all the same, and kept me from confidential chats with the girl I loved." " And he knew it 1" chuckled Gher kins. " She knew it I" said the Judge, gravely. " I didn't mind any of these things so much as the story that she was going to marry the Did fox, and that her wedding clothes were being made. That struck me like the ball from a Whitworth gun. Lou, I said, the first time I met her after hearing this story, ' is it true that you're getting ready to marry this man? naming him. ' "She had a way (of half turning her face and looking up at you with a sauei ness in her black eyes that would drive a man .crazy, She looked at me that way. "'Don't you wish- you know?' she asked, and walked away, looking back ward just once, in her coquettish way, over her shoulder. ." Ten minutes -afterward I saw her walking with my Venerable rival." "Venerable alongside of veal," said Gherkins, savagely. The Judge laughed. " Yon are posted," Colonel," he said. " You forget that I mentioned no name for the gentleman." ; "You might as well," said the other. " Oh, the doctor can wait or guess," wastheTeply. Then "Miss Dexter's indifference crazed mew I wanted to tell her that, as a man, Iloved her. She knew that in my childhood I had idol ized her. But what chance had I ? What good would it dOj if she were going to marry the infirm fellow wheezing asth matically by her side? I went home as sored that life had no value to me. The more I thought of it the less I cared for it. The leas I cared for it the greater my anxiety to be rid' of it. To be rid of it meant to take it. Suicide is horribly vulgar, ordinarily. It is only the Frenchman who makes it sublime. He 'TbprAl llATA t T milfll IlTAtint H Ar. claimed the parson, holding up his hands in borior "Such talk is not orthodox." " Tin not telling an orthodox story, doctor. What I think now and thought then are two different affairs. Enough to say I resolved on killing myself. As in my disappointment I felt no hunger, starvation seemed a very refined method of self -extermination," "Economical to the last !" exclaimed the Colonel, returning to the attack. You'll never carry the practice of your life to such an extreme," said Bar ron ; " I have the satisfaction of know ing that. However, Colonel, your bitter ness is natural. I forgive yon. Dr. Miller cannot fail to see that I'm treat ing you like a Christian that is, as if you were one. Well, I began the fcieg'o myself. The supplies were cut off. I retired to my room and refused to eat. That meant a great deal Tfhen it is con sidered that for four years I had Jived at college boarding-house. It meant: more when one remembers that it was done for love.l Men talk'of killing them selves for the objects of their affections, ' bnt they seldom, if ever, try the starva-' tion plan. It takes true grit for that sort of thing. Perhaps this story of mine hasn't the sentimental fervor that animated me then. It seems now to have been an example of rather funny obstinacy. The first day was lived through without much discomfort ; the second found me hungry ; the third, I was half crazy for food, and the smell from the kitchen infuriated me. I be gan to wonder if I wasn't making a fool of myself." " Yes I You were the only one who had doubts about it 1" said the Colonel, quite cheerfully, all things considered. " Meanwhile," continued tho Judge,, every relative got wind of the matter and came; to hold an ante-mortem quest. The doctor was summoned, and at last the newspaper of the town came out with a highly-seasoned story, in which Miss Dexter was, by innuendoes, referred to as the canse of the trouble. Of this, however, I knew nothing. I was too busy in scheming to counter act the plots of my friends to force food into my stomach to care what was being said outside of the bouse. The night of the third day was a horrible one. It was made np of a succession of dreams . of banquets at which I could not eat enough to satisfy my hunger. "The next morning I was out of my head until noon." "Out of your stomach ! Brains' "had nothing to do with it," said the Colonel. Out of my head," repeated the Judge. :" It seemed as. though ' I was about tq collapse and die. . Everything was whirling around and around, when the door was opened and a' face come into view. It hadiafamiliar look, but at first I conld not tell whose it was. looked and looked and looked, and then dropped away in a fainting fit. It lasted for a minute. When I came to the first thins that met mv aze was this same face. The eyes had the same electrical gleam as of old; : the. lips were-jn-.t as seductive in their expression, and the voice made the sweetest of music She took my thin face in her littlrj hands and looked sadly into my eyes. " Fred! Fred!" she whispered.:. "Dear old.boy, tell me what this means!" I shook n)y head wearily. , " "I'vo been away.", she said., "ami theite's a horrible story' about us in tho naper about me. I mean that I, am the cause of this. , Have you seen it ? " "No, Lou." : " Are you going to kill yourself, Fred?''; bringing that dear face of hen; closer to mine; " I shall continue to try." " Why ? What is the matter ?" "You are the matter, Leu, if you must know," I said, getting desperate, with her hps so close to mine, and the questions coming thick and fast. "You are the matter." "Me?" "You." I could see that she wanted to make me tell, and I lelieve that the" only thing that kept her from asking was that 8 bo believed she knew what I had to tell, resolved to settle my doubt, and, if was going to die, to have her know just the reason for my suicide. it T tl X , , , ' jjou, jl Derail, putung an arm around her waist to steady myself. . . -r -r 1 -II , , " juou, i am Killing myseu oecause vou don't love me." "How do you know that, Fred Bar ron? You make me ask the question." Her face came down upon my shoulder, and, she began to sob. "Because,, Lou, because, because" I paused simply lecause I didn't know, but had only guessed at it, and in my weak condition it seemed as if I had been wofully mistaken. "Well, then, I knew it because you always put Gherkins be tween us ; and how could I tell you over his shoulder that I wanted you to be my wife." "Did you want to tell me that, Fred?" "Yes I" "And that animated old petrifaction kept you away?" ( "Animated Old Petrifaction, eh ? Did she call me that, Judge Barron ?" shrieked the Colonel, slapping his hat on his head and ariving it down with a blow of his fist, as he sprang from his chair. "If she did, sir, I demand satisfaction, the satisfaction -of a gentleman) ta I Animated Old Petrifaction I' And this by a woman I would have honored by ! uiuiiviuif I ll in wuumcn. feOOTOUCUl - 1 Yon shall give me revenge 1' Barron laughed. So did the minister. " You shall have what you want, Colonel," said the Judge. "When, where, how? That talk suits me." - . " By coming around to dinner with me this afternoon. You know Mrs. Barron has changed her mind about you since mat aayr , .'(Ji'J f t V 'I'llbeblankedif I willroarea the Colonel, slamming the chairs aside as he tramped away. . Li-.ii. " At 4 o'clock sharp," said the Judge, leaning over the railing, and speaking to the angry man on the walk below. The Colonel shook his fist in reply. . "He is very wrathful'" observed the minister. ' " But he will come all the same," said the Judge. '. "I suppose that young lady gave you favorable reply,: meekly observed Drf. Miller, who wanted, to hear the conclu sion of the story. favorable ? Of course ! See that lady over the street there ?" Mrs. Barron ? Oh, yes !" Well, she was Lou Dexter before I married her. Her 'yes' stopped my suicide." ' Indeed!" " IndeedV And what is more, in view of my profession, Pve never had" starve since." ' - TA1. AS TOV OO. What Mr. N. J. Shepherd :says in. the following article is just as good ad vice for the printer or any other busi ness man as for the farmer: 'I think one of the wjrst -evils the.' farmer has to contend with is going into debt. Many and many of them are always in debt for their machinery from year to year, and to their black smith and their merchant from tone year's end tc another. Men of this class always have to sell their wheat at soon as they can thrash it and haul it to market, their corn as soon as it is ripe enough to gather, ahd their stock as soon as the animals .are salable. They havo no . choice. - They cannot wait for a . belter market "because, if they, keep the merchant waiting too lohg, they know there will be . -no chance of Rettinir credit another year, and it takes all they haye got this year to square upbld accounts. As a rule, such farmers are obliged to sell at low j prices and pay tho highest price for j what they use, and therefore lose on both sides. Most farmers will find it far easier, and a great deal more prof- ! itable, to pay as they go. " There is no question, but that theycan'gel goods cheaper for cash. Any merchant will tell y6u he can afford to sen- goods'fo-' less monoy if ..'he: .-iry time instead of waiting six mondi. Pre cisely the sama-'ia'eiiiewith all" with whom the farrner deals, and it will pay .anyone to livrf.clbse"' for ''one year-, in order ver afterward tovbe free from1 the galling pressure $f debt.; ;PpitK out everything ;that 'you .can piosslbty s Uve without " Do not jbnj? a new plow, or a .new harrow, op' any other ' ej. implement simply becauyou can; b it on credit. Wal- an Wait patiently, until, you can pay .'as you go, and 'you will be surprised, how much you will- save in a year tat I Tionstly ieljeve any farmer will buy more when he ,is buying oh credit than the will-- ifhe piys cash every time. It is those who are in debty headjbver heels, that feel the hard times. o severely.. We farm ers who are out of debt now, are the most independent class of men in the' country?' Keep "onf of debt " . HOME REllABK.AJlLftrA'EES. .. Boston is said to own. the two first horse-chestnut trees brought to- this country. They are reputed to be 103 years bid. A ring does not always denote a jrear, (or the blue gum treo of AustraUa shed its bark twice tf year.' A tree recently licwn, "that was- known to he only 18 years old, showed -thirty-six distinct rings of growth. Old oaks and yews in England are not uncommon. Several oaks felled in iUierwood forest, about a quarter .oi cntury ago, exposed, on being sawn up, the date 1212 and the mark or cipher c! King John ; and it has been calculated that these trees must have been several centuries old at the thie the marks weie made. . ... Berks, Pav, claims the largest chest nut' tree in the country. It measures thirty-eight feet four inches in.circunir fcrence ; the lowest Hnjbs are fifteeD feet from the ground, and measure four teen feet in circumference at the base. The top of the tree is reached withor.t T.anger by steps that are fastened be tween the limbs. It is estimated th?l that this tree contains about seventeen cords of wood. It still yields about three bushels of chestnuts annually,- . . The oldest yew tree-in England, which is situated in Cowhurst churchyard, was mentioned by Aubry in the reign of Charles L, as then measuring ten yards in circumference at a height of five feet from the ground. It is said, on the au thority of De Candolle, to be i;450 years old. Its present growth is about thirty-three feet In 1820 this old tree was hollowed out, and a cannon ball was found in the center. In 1825 a severe storm deprived it of its upright branches. A door has been made to the inside of the tree, where seats are to be had for twelve persons comfortably. A VAI in Philadelphia gathers slops and swttkand garbage and distills it into whisky. ' CAUGHT IN A WOLF TRAP. A Fremthman't ilorrikle Tat. Some yean ago a trap was placed near a desertf! fnnfwAV triA fMn&T wamino precautions being taken. rm. i I hfl aattia taw a vnnniT man left his home a little before sunset, and, for the purpose of shortening the distance he had to go, took his way across the forest, and came exactly on the track where the trap was set. The night was nearly dark, and he failed to observe that several little pieces of tring were swinging to and fro in the breeze from the branches of the thicket near him. Suddenly he felt a terrible shock, accompanied by most intense pain, the bones of his leg being ap parently crushed to splinters. . Ho was caught in the wolf-trap. The first few moments of pain and, suf fering over he must have comprehended the danger of his position, and had, it is presumed, endeavored to open the ser rated iron jaws which held him fast. But the trap' refused to give up its prey. At each, m?vement of his iron teeth buried themselves deeper in his flesh. His agony must havo been of exquisite description. , He probably shouted, and would havo continued to shout, however hopelessly, for help, had it not been for the fear of attracting the wolves that might be lurk ing in the neighborhood. ' - - He had under his coat a small hatchet ; 'and with this he trusted to 'defend him self. As the night lengthened, the moon I rose and shed her pale light over the forest. He may nbw.be picUbjed; immovably with eyes' and -ears 'onthe" Qui vif f his oody in ffie most excruciating torment, listening and waiting. ' All at once, far, very far off, he hears indistinct sounds. Approaching with rapidity, these sounds become cries and yells. They ,,J ... -iJ are thgtj& 4i.Wolve on mons, which in a few minutes would be upon him, carried" direct toe spot by the trails act for the desttuctjpa-of is destroyers. ,? 'K..':e A fo minutes more and he Vas shr- rounded by a cordoti of yellow flamo from the eyes of the brutes, the animals. themselves, which he conld scarcely dis-! k tinguish, sending forth their terriblo yells full in his face.' - On the .following morning, when the unfortunate forester who Set the trap came to examine it, netonna it ac -Be- ti ntrtu ArfBA with blond, flii. 0f "a human leg upright between tne iron teeth, and all around, scattered ,,bout tne tvai and the a quantity 0f human remains. Shreds of a coat and other articles of ci0thing were discovered near the spot. With the assistance of some dogs, which were put on the scent,, three . wolves, their heads cur open with a jiatchet,.were louna aying in an adjacent thicket. ... . . -; When'ithe venerable cure .'of the vil lage'aiier , previously- eAdeavorin'g in. every possible way" by Christian - exhor tation t$-prepare, his aged mother to hear the sad tale, informed her that theg& re mains bf humanity were all that was left of her. boy, she laughed. J'' Alas ! it was the laugh of madness ; reason had fled. rCrTUBE Of WOOD EXQBAYIlfQ. .- Every engraver laments that all the brilliant effects of his proof are not re produced'in 'the print. Every printer regrets that the perfect . graduation of tint he secures in one cut cannot be se cured in all cuts. There is a general be lief that there are capabilities in the art of wood-cutting which have not been fairly developed. It is not probable that the needed improvements will be mado .through' finer engraving, for it is even now too 'iotmnon to engrave too 'fine for printing.- Printing machines are abund antly atrong and accurate. Overlay cut ters and pressmen were never more skill ful, but they are not in advance of the increasing requisitions made upon them. The further development of engraving made upon wood is waiting for improve ments in paper, in ink, and inking ap paratus, in electrotype and other minor mechanisms. It- waits Quite as much for the co-operation of artiste and en gravers in the study of the mechanical difficulties of printing, and of the best methods of evading or conquering them for artists and engravers whose ob jective point is not a -pleasing sketch- or a showy proof, but a JLaultless print, and who will neglect nothing that aids this purpose. The waiting will not be long. -There is eajnesthess enough among the men whb ntiibute to he rnakjng of wood-cut printe to warrantfthe hope that the next "ten"yars will- witness many great improvemerite in ' wood-cut-pnnt- in TfL. "De Virme, irr'S&.-ibner'a nn TIWi'pvf.i.i. Cakteb speaks of, several children who were sent into garden to work during one-half of- the school hours, and. who outetrippetlhose who studied during all the hours.' He savs also that some mn dtf stupidity artificiallv produced by neglect of tal ents with which they aria endowed. Afl Bnr-ivroifnl men are said to have one qualitv in common ; they are thorough ly in earnest and do not allow them selves to be beaten. Htephsx C Spkhcb. a young farmer of Kinjrston, N. met Mrs. M. .- Waller in the roai . After "bowing .to her, ha said she must kisa him. ; The lady indignantly hurried -on, whereupon Spence followed, and, despite her strug gles, kissed her. She made complaint and Spence was arrested. He was tried, and ateneed Jo thirdajain fha county jail for kissing another mans wife. SOUTHERN NEWS. 7 bxas nas six oil wells. ! rolling-mill at Birmingham Ala.,, nployg 358 hands, Fiptt cents is the price of a marriage . license in Tennessee. . ' " .-.,jl Presbyterian minister of West Scot 1 LoTjisuiiA jnoss U becoming ar hn-rx )ui,d- Young Macaulay was born In the pcrtant article of pommerea. j yew 1800, educated at Trinity, Cam Thbbe are three "coloreof mert on the : d?B wtere he wxpifred reputation Criminal Court grand jury at Memphis. ? cholat and debater, and twice Von .Thb public scKSoIsTrCoTumbus, Ga., i the C&ancellor'.' nfedaV' first, by his are. attended ,by-6ia-wbiteid 2Tcol-' Pm "Pohipeii," second, "Evening." ored clwldren. ... ,-, . v J.Ha'waji' elected Fellow of Trlnity and T"mi colporteurs oi Aroerfcaa Bible ,.deted to Titeratm Hcoming Sooety .distributed,, 10253, Bibles in,' ntiibrltof to 'Rtityhei Quarterly Tf during the ht four mqntha.. J agnk 'In 1828 he made his ap 'yjtfbwusjktf, e()ppijcJt Imthefh6ir3WmliM thfif unless they are reduced the city's learned, thhstottie, Md ' brilliani; that inUrests will be materially affected. ' I it captivated the whole reading world, :' Tjait fines collected in the Mayor's of- and placed tim in the first ranks of es fioe in Yicksbnrg were' sufficient to pay ' sayistis. In 182ffhe was called to the bar the:salaries of the Mayor, Marshal, City but 'never '-practiced' the profession. Clej-k and the police force. ' ." ' f About this time he was eTecWd to Par- 4riANTi has forty chmfches, and Ihey , there 'are becoming more strict in en- f orting their rules' hi regard to "worldly , amusements. HABtimije (Ala. J' Democrat: Many , farniers'are advocating the repeal-of the f crop hen law. It works, they say, agnins& me aiieoesBiui management ot kbsr. capital faT"V:,fff Simpfff1 gold miae, near Charlotte, -N. C, is $1,000, 000, non-assessable, and haj been ptrtbh tb market The mine is owned by a company of Boston capitalist.' Thb clergymen of Greenville, S. C, andr a number of prominent citizens hate published a petition o the officers of the County Agricultural Society re monstrating against the custom of allow ing gambling on the fair grounds. . , v. Thb laborers on the streeta af.Vick' barg struck for an increase of their wages from $1 to $1.23 per 4ay, and iieir demand was complied with. The l,he;street repairs, ' Corsicana, Texas, is improving. The irtesian well is 800 feet deep. The foundation for the $10,000 court-house is laid, and "bids received and accepted for two fine 'brick city schooMibuaes. Be sides thk, the 'new compress is working admirably and giving entire satisfaction to its owners, shippers and railroads. Judgb William Ltodt, a planter near Macon, Ga. , was raoused at night by a noise in his gin-house, and on going to it was fired-upon by .parties who were f,eaUi)j,his cotton, the result being, thatl hone was fractured below liis Juiee. Produce is stolen because it can readily be sold or exchanged, without inquiry, for. goods at roadside store, which are mainly receptacles of stolen goods. The traffic generally is in the night, and it is believed a partiaTremedy will be afforded by a general or" local statute prohibiting trade in farm produce between sunrise and sunset , Sueh statutes,, applicable ' to certain comities, already exist in Georgia, TITK PVL8B. -I Many erroneous impressions- prevail : about the pulse trg indicative of health or disease, a common notion befng that its beatings are much more regular and uni form than they in reality are. Frequency varies with age. In the new-born infant tho beatings are from 130 to 140 to the minnto ; m the second year, from 100 to 115; from the seVenth to the fourteenth year, from 70 to 90 ; from the fourteenth to the twenty-first year, from 75 to 85 ; from the twenty-first to the sixtieth year, from 60 to 70. After that period the pulse is generally thought to de cline, but medical authorities differ radi cally on this point, having expressW the most -contradictory opinions. -Young persons are often found whose pulses are below 60, and there have been many in stances of pulses habitually reaching 100, or. not exceeding 40, without ap parent disease. Sex, especially in adults; influences the pulse, whieh in women is much more rapid than in men of the same age. Muscular exertion,, even position, materially affects the pulse. : Its average frequency in healthy men oi 27 is, when standing, 81 ; when sitting, 71! when lvins. 66 per- minute;, in women of the same age, in the same positions, 91, 84 and 79. In sleep the pulse is in general a little slower than during wakefulness. In certain disease,, such as acute dropsy of the brain, for example, there may. be 150 or even 200 beats ; in other kinds of disease, such as apoplexy and some organic, affections of the heart, there may be no more than 20 or 30 to the minute. Thus one of the commonest diagnostic signs is liable to deceive the most experienced practi tioners.'. Ossin AfcPBicH, of the signal corps, was married in New York last March to Miss Julia E. Hooper," a beautiful girl, -whose parents objected' to the match. fTho young conple removed to Cincin- tiati, where theyhved for a while, ap parently contented. Alda'ch then took ..hi wif o to her home, and soon thereafter nt her' a letter, stating that he had oen prderod on an Arctic cxpexuuon and would not return for several years. She made mquiry at Washington and found that he had been stationed at Mo bile, Ala., and that he tad another' wife and several children. This disclosure prostrated her, and, after a painful in terview with him at Mobile, where she made an oath that she had not been' min-iil tii him in order to secure Ms re tention in the service, she returned' to fiui.Hnr.ati ' She died there, as her physician reports, of a broken' heart. " . ' '. Th a fashionable 'bend- of to-day M not so beautiful for. women .as thubefel bver the cradle, and the bend at the al tar of prayer. BIOGRAPHY. This noted historian was the of Zachery Macaulay, a West India mef- chanl and wonderful philanthropist. Hii grandfather was Sir John Macaulay, liament, for which he repaid his eonstit- manner So luminous, powerful and at- tractive that his adversaries were charmed, and convinced if they were not convicted. - r - In 1836 he went to India and spent some time in the preparation of a new penal codo, but was not very successful. On his return he was re-elected to Par liament As a statesman he was the implicit friend of freedom, both civil and religious. He eloquently sustained the Roman Catholio bill for ther relief of Cathohos, and in consequence was un seated, but live years thereafter was re-elected without effort on his part In 1848 he published the first two volumes of his world-renowned "History of En gland" the- finest history, too, ever written by ancient or modern writer. It was received with an enthusiastic popu larity which has been attained by very few of the great novelists. When he published in 1850 his two last volumes they created such excite ment in Paternoster row as had never been seen before. Shortly after he was elected a member of tho French Academy of Moral and Political Science, and was raised to the peerage in England under the title ot Baron Moeaulay. He died in 1859j at-Holly Lodge, near Lon don. He was a man of superlative tal ent, thorough scholarship, and his ac cumulated knowledge was prodigious. His knowledge of modern Europia and especially Engliflh history from the time Henry V(Ut u awnrpMsed. -j Ki-4 style is pure, luminous and exquisitely modulated, or musical, while his powers of description were such that his -" His tory England " might be compared to the cartoons of Raphael in tho Sistino Chapel of. Rome. . ' -.1 Allison. said, '.'After a review of the chief characteristics of Lord Jeoffrey, Mcintosh and Smith, we find Macaulay 's turn of mind and style peculiar, and ex hibit a combination rarely, if ever, ex hibited in ancient or : modern literature. Unlike Jeoffrey, he is deeply learned in lore ancient and modern. His mind is richly stored with-the poetry and his tory, both of classical and continental literature. Unlike.McIntoali, ho. is emi nently dramatic and pictorial. He al ternately speaks pot-try to the soul and paints pictures, to the .eyes." Unlike Smith, he has omitted subjects of party contention - and . party interests, and grapples with great questions and im mortal nam us, which will forever attract the interest and demand the attention of snoh . men- as - Milton, Bacon and Mochiavelli. The grand. characteristio -of his style is the shortness of his sen tences. He often conveys several ideas in one line." --- . JVO CLIMATM at ail. ' 8onth America, it might almost be said, has no climate at all. ' Here, in the f southern continent, the same wind from the South pole blows' throughput tho year," fresh and keen all along the coast ; so fresh and keen that on the sea, or close to it, the vertical sun of the trop ics loses all its 'power, even, at noon, t ahd the long equatorial night has a chill which renders it unsafe as well as un comfortable to sleep in the open air, and unwise ard almost impossible to dis pense "Vrith" heavy blankets. , Op,, the western coast of South -America the vapors that would be wafted up to it from the Pacific are met by the peren nial breezes which, as I said, come up 'from the pole, and they are driven np- ward till they reaclr-the Andes, where, condensed by the cold of thai lofty re 'gionj they fall in copious rain, drench ing and fertilizing the entire water-shed, passing over the western slope and leav ing it nntonched, arid, barren and deso late. For the six winter months m the year that in the West Indies is the rainy season is here the season of clouds and fogs.- We hava-lhe constant threat of rain, with hardly ever a drop of it and the sun that breaks out in pale glimpses toward noon 'is seen but not felt This is especially the case witii,. Peru, the coast of which, projecting westward m all its length from Ariea tcJ Payta, is more immediately exposed o the' polar wind and more unmercifully seareheoj and blighted by its blast Tliat itS-cli- mate, as a tropical one, may be all the "better for it it i very possible ; and, in deef,i,trieT no fault to be found with 'bnme'score of human health, but it T ia ' aodtaf' afcd . dpome4to, perpetual drorrgitr Dew and'mbisture are wanting J; inth Mad, consequently no vegeiaoon, or only that which is fostered by the antv rills creeping through the sand and stone of their narrow glens, and Is only breaking down, torrent fashion, L when the thaw of the perpetual snoVot the Cordilleras sets in in good earnest in the summer months. UAVntTB nsrwfs. On the occasion of the fire which de stroyed part of the Crystal Palace in the winter of 1866-7 part of- the menagerie had been sacrificed to the flames. The chimpanzee, however, was believed to have escaped from his cage, and was presently seen on the" roof endeavoring to save himself by clutching in wild de spair one of the iron- beams which the fixe ha4 spared. The. struggles of tho animal were watched with an intense cu riosity mingled with horror and sympa thy for the supposed fate which awaited the unfortunate monkey. What was the surprise oi . the spectator of an immi nent tragedy to find, thai, he animal which, in the guiso of a rrilied ape, had -ttftir fmrSi r-vfd itself into a piece of canvas tlpid so tattered that to the eyet of the imagination, and when shaken by the wind, it presented the , exact counterpnst o4 a t-uggling 1 animal ! Such an example is of CBecial iuterest, because it proves to us that not one person alone, but a large number of spectators, m,ay be decgid by an ob ject imperfectly seen ana aided in the illus'on by a vivid imagination into fancying all the details of a specta cle of which the chief actor is entirely a myth. A cingular case has been given, on strict medical authority, of a lady who, walking from Penryhn to Falmouth her mind being, occupied with the subject of drinking-fountains was oer tain sne saw on the road a newly-erected fountain, bearing the inscription, " If any man thirst, let him come to me and drink. As a matter of course, she men tioned her interest in seeing such -an erection to tho daughters of tho gentle man who was supposed to have placed the fountain in its position. They as sured her that no such fountain was in existence, but, convinced of the reality of her senses, on the ground that " see ing is Del! ;ng," she repaired to the spot where she had seen tho fountain, only to find, however, a few scattered stones in place of tho expected erection. Chamber' Journal. a PKryrerra dice a it. A printer sat in his office choir ; his boots were patched and his coat thread bare, while his face looked weary and worn with earn. Whila sadly thinking of business debt, old Morpheus, slowly J 1 1 " . 1 . ' 1 T 1 . 1 -XT ruunu mm crept, ana uaiore no anew it he soundly slept ; and, sleeping, ho dreamed that he was dead, from trouble and toil his spirit had fled, and that not even a cow-bell tolled lor the peaceful rest of his cowhide solo. As he wan- dered among the shades, the smoke and i l ...... rr i 1 1 t. I scorch in lower Hades, he Bnomy on- served an iron door that creakingly swung on hinges ajar, but the entrance was crossed by a red-hot bar, and Satan himself stood peeping out and watching for travelers thereabout, and thus to the passing printer spoke, and with growling voice the echoes woke : " Come in, my dear, it shall cost you nothing, and never fear ; this is the place where I cook-the ones who -never pay their subscription sums, for, though in hfe they may escape, they will nnd when dead it is too late ; I will show yon the place where I melt them thin, with red-hot chains and scrops of tin, and also where I comb their heads with broken glass and melted lead, and if of refreshments they only think there's boiling water for them to drink ; there's tho red-hot grindstone to grind down is nose, and red-hot rings to wear on his toos : and i they montion they don't like fire I'll sew np - their mouths-with red-hot wire ; and then, dear sir, yon should-see them squirm while I roll th.n over and cook to a turn." With these last words the printer awoke, and thought it all a practical joke ; but still at times so real did it seem that ho can not bolieve it was all a dream : and often he thinks with a chuckle and grin of the fate of those, who save their tin and never pay the printer. Loitinville Pott re OBLIQJB UIB HOSTESS. ' Yes," said a popular lecturer, as the writer took a seat beside him in a smok ing-car- :" yes, a peripatetic lecturer has some strange exiiericnces. In a little town in Ohio, last winter, I was met at tho depot by. the Mayor, and taken to his house, the best one in the place, by tho way. . . Here I was met by a score or so of the worthy citizens of the place ; we'had an excellent dinner, and I was expected to entertain the company. Now, I like to go to a hotel, take a com fortable smoke, a light tea, and go to the platform without being bothered by anybody. But a servant of the public can net do as he likes. The lady of tho house where I stopped was indisposed aud did not put in an appearance not then. She was tooill to goto the lecture. Whether you know it or not, I put a good deal of vital energy into my platform ef forts, and I was thoroughly tired out when I got into the carriage with the Mayor to go home. I laid off my hat ahd overcoat, lounged listlessly into the parlor, thinking I could at least rest now that there were no visitors. The lady of the house wrs lying on the sofa, -propped up by pillows. I was intro duced, and wjiat do you think ? That female requested me, as she had been unable to attend the lecture, to. read it to her actually to go over the whole thing again. And I did it I hate to disappoint a lady. For nearly two hours I droned out that lecture. It was hor rible. I have hated the thing ever sinojfr But fconldn't, you know, disoblige my hostess." Adrian (Mich.) Time. A xxoBO barber, at St Louis, studied law at night for several years, and was -finally- admitted to the bar. He now works in the' shop onBaturdays and Sun days, and practices wit tonsideraMe snc- I cess in the courts r "ther day CUKREX1 ITEMS. Tub Empress of Austria is said to ba a skillful fencer. Thb Cape May lotel-keepers are charging guests with puppies $10 per week extra. - PocKrT-HAXDTOtBCHrw dresaea are ommon in England. They are garments to weep over. Arc. old thermometer is never very popular. Nobody wants fo see a ther mometer over 70. Tux follow who picked np the hot penny originated tho remark, All that , glitters is not cold." Euajs Boat, the colored carriage- -driveoflWIIsajt Prfk; atiD i Uyaa a na&nvue, agea to yeim - .,.,, j Tirasidevf Edwin Arnold's "Light of Axiabaa Jjaea t twentyfold greater iu,-. America URULA England. - Lrnxn bov : " Ma. when yon go to - heaven shall yon let this houaalT ' When I go to heaven I shall not think' about sneh things as that Boy : " But when "everybody is dead what wlUTej come of all the world T Aia : wb world will 1ms destroyed." Boy: "And all the houses, too?" Ma: "lea," Boy : " 0 1 what an awful waste I" T TnnEE little girls had great fun-ta a ncighlior's house at South Bend, Ind., during the absence of tho family.' They first broke all tho window panes. Then they poured several gallons of milk on tho parlor carpet Finally, they empt ied six dozen cans of raspberries and hucklelMrries into a tub, and dyed all tho fine dresses they could find in the juice. Herbkrt Spencer defines lifo to be " the definite combination of heterogen eous changes, both simultaneous and successive, in correspondence with ex ternal coexistence and sequences;" G.H. Lev.cs as " a series of definite and suc cessive changes, both of structure and composition, which take place within an individual without destrovins its iden tity." The railroad monopolies don't have it all their own way, after all. A lady in Chicago sued tho Central Pacific for $75 damage for allowing a locomotiyo to scald all tho hair off a valuable dog ex pressed her from San Francisco. She obtained judgment .and collected the money before the company found out that it was a Japanese dog and never had any hair. Tins London Economist says hun dreds of thousands ot slieep, if not mill- ions, navu ureu ii lMrs '- I -1-1 .. i i t? . tne Russian, Turkish, Englirk and T Affrhariifttiui wars, as well as Uiosa or Turkey, Syria, Persia, and the Tndan country, have caused tens of millions of sheep to bo killed. Iu fact, wool-growing in Turkey, Russia, Persia, and India has liecn-almost given up on account of the wars and the low prices current for tho past five years. While trout-fishing in Holden, Mass., C. G. Parker saw a woodchuck and a fox . running toward the burrow ef the for- m, . 1 1 .1 1 mi-r mo lox rcacneu me cnu-anoi tunlin(?i weed the woodchuck. latu,r turnftd to ron awaT whon Uia ; foI 8oizt.(1 hin by Ul0 throoti nnd B lifo. j jath struggle ensued, the fox being I constantly on the aggressive, and in j about five minutes he had tho woodchuck hors de combat. He then took the car cass by tlie nape of the neck and trotted j off into the woods, j Austin (Tex.) Jtcvirw WHHo" htXh? j ing in Bear creek, Lembert Briott, a I stone-cutter, was bitten by a water-moc-.casin. After leing thus wounded lie made a dive for tho shore, striking the snake from him, but had scarcely reached the bank when he discovered that tlie snake was pursuing him. He made gxxl his escape, but upon . reaching his camp he discovered that ho was bitten on the finger, and, taking a coal of fire, burnt the flesh of liis finger to the bone, thus destroying the poison of the bite. WEF.DH. Tnere is one pecniiaruy aDout weeas which is very remarkable, vis., that they ' only appear on'ground which, either by cultivation or for some other purpose, lias been disturbed by man. They are nevr found truly wild, in woods or bills, or uncultivated waste far away from human dwellings. They never grow on virgin soil, where human beings have never been. No weeds exist in those parts of the earth that are uninhabited, or where man is only a passing visitant The Arctic and Antarctic regions ara destitute- of them ; and above certain limits on mountain ranges they have no representatives. There were no traces of them in New Zealand and Australia and America, when these countries were discovered, thongh they now abound in them. We never see the familiar weeds of oua gardehs and fields anywhere else except in association with our cultivated plants. Tho dandelion illumines our wayirides with its miniature suns, and, far and wide as its downy seeds may float in the air, they alight and germinate only around tho dwellings of man. Tha ehickweed and the groundsel have no home exoopt in the garden beds; the thistle Mongs to the corn-nelda, tne sheepls sorrel to the potato plot, and tha dock to the meadow.-. MacmUlen. A HaBTroBD gentleman has nearly completed a carriage for use on ordi nary, roods, to be propelled solely by compressed air. The shafts, of course, have been omitted, but otherwise ma carriage will resemble, in the mat those commonly used. The machinery, in very compact form, is under the rear of the axle, and the air will be taken into it from a reservoir in sufficient quantity to furnish motive power for a run m many miles.
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