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0 (Lhafhnm Record. Ip . IV A.'J?li3S ADVIiUTIHING. H. A. LONDON, Jr., EMTolt ANI l llul RIETOK. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One square, ono iiim-iiuhi, Oiioswiara, two liiM-rtlmiR.-Jne square, urc m- ni It, li.oo l.M Onc y, oik jnr. nroiy in"!!:' Ouecupy, throe imuMt. - VOL. IV. PirrSBOllO', CHATHAM CO., X. C, AI GI ST 2i, 1882. NO. 50. Kit l.irx'T a.iv, iii.Miii.iii.i liberal u.ois will "n Iks' f Ikv1r Ikv'W'vV AW k Mio 'Hie Filclweis. Tlio Matlcrlioi n, o'n' n lit hihI cloud Uplifts itn head and shoulder proad ; It w(.uh a kiugly ili.nl1 in. And at its rrmino niiint!e'a hem, Jnat as llio sun arose, on-.' morn, A litllo A Ipino Honor was horn ; Tho light-winged wind that bent, to Uina Its leaflets railed it Kdolweies. A litllo while it saw tlio high, lllito domo of nir wo rail llio sky j It heard the torrent madly sweep All whito with fear from steep to steep , It fi'lt tlio liuiiiiilaiii winds that blow From heaven at-ioaa oloriial snow, And ouco upon ltd lonely hid An cagln'ij shadow fi ll and llrcl. lint to II. o mountain caiiin that day An English youth from far away, And climbing down its rugged Hid'1, The liltlo blossom ho espied, And gathered it la-cause it waved I'pon tho perilous heights he braved. And hoio it li'i k with him, whore Minn I The gn at oiks of his native land. Between liiH lirowning'a h aven or h uik Itn potalu lay forgotten long, Wlido all tho fields with snow wore white. Or all tho lanes villi rimes bright, Till now across tho summer sea Ho Bends the IMclwcisH lo mo. And for his gako this moriiiug-timr, I weave itn atorv into rhyme. UNCLE NAHUM'S WEDDING. Uncle Nullum Nixon was reading tho paper in bis back parlor. Nobody would thick, to luck at tho simple sur roundings of the u pretentions apart ment, that Mr. Nahnm Nixon was one of tho wealthiest men in tho town. Tho carpet, it was truo was Axmioster, but it bad soeu twenty good years of ser vico, and was worn down to the very warp; tho faded red curtains were t f moreen instead of satin damask; tlio old clock on the niautel was no Puiisiuu affair of alabaster and gilt, but a sub stantia! Connecticut time-piece, that struck with ajwhirr. like a 'partridge springing out of her nest; tho chsirs of old-fashioned tuahogony and haircloth stood bolt upright against the wall; th portraits of Qen. Washington on hotse backundlhe surrender of Cornwallis ornamented the gray papered walls in frames of eombre gilt, and tho ono ele gance of the npartmout nai a casket of preposterous wax flowers under u cracked glass shade. But Uncle Nixon had reo'crnbered that furniture eversiuco he was a child, and he wouldn't have exchanged it for the fittings of a Parisian boudoir, or the choicest specimens of tho modern East lakepattera. lie was a rich man-that was quite enough for him. "If yon please, Mr. Nixon," said tho trim little maid servuut, ".Mr. Marmu duk Bourne wants to eeo you, if you ploasii sir, if you aro quite at leisure." "Mr. .Mariuaduko Bourne, eh?" The old gentleman took off his spectacles and kid them npou the folded news paper. "Ask hini in, Tolly." And Mr. .Marmadnke cawo in a tall, frosb -colored young fellow, with spark ling gray eyes, brown hair, all in a mat of curls, and a straight Greek noso that seemed as if it might have been I tor rosed from some aueiuut Muttio of Apollo. Well, oir?" said Mr. Nixon. "Well, sir?' counter interrogated Mr. Bourne, "did you get my letter?" 'I got your letter." said Uncle Na hum. "Ho you want to marry my niece Faith ?" "Yes, sir," valiantly acknowledged Mr.Mttrniuduke Bourne. "Ah," nodded Uncle Nuhum. "But perhaps you don't understand all the facts of the ease." "The facts, sir?" "I want my niece lo marry Colonel Ashland's sou," slowly enunciated Un cle Nahnm. "But, sir, she don't love him." "Pshaw," enailed Uncle Nahnm. "And if she don't marry him f-he'll be a beggar I'll giveber no money of mine. Now you understand mutters. Marry her or not, as you phase." He took np the newspaper once mom a t uoit intimation that the interview was at an end. "Sir" began Mr. Bonrne. "That'll do," raid Mr. Nixon, "I only wish to" "That'll do," thundered Mr. Nixon; and to Marmadnke Bourne went away. Little Faith Nixon came down stairs presently a bine-eyed blossom of a girl, with yellow hair growing low on her forehead, and a very little month, exactly the shape to suggest the idea of kissing. Uncle Nahnm looked keenly np at her as she fluttered about the room, straightening a table cover there or patting down a curtain fold here. "Yes," said he, with a ourions twitch of the muscles around his eyes, "he has been here." ."I I didn't ask any question, Uncle Nahnm." "No, but your eyes did," chuckled the old man. "He wants to marry yon, the improvident young donkey." Faith came to her nnele'a chair and laid her hand lightly on his shoulder. "That isn't the worst of it, Uncle Nahnm I want to marry him." "Humph," snarled Mr. Nixon, in high contempt. "And what do yon ex pect to live on, I ohonld like to know." "Wo can both work," said Faith bra vi ly. "You're more likely to starve," said Mr. Nixon, "Mind don't count on help from me. If you will get married you do it at your own risk." "Then yon consent, Uncle Nahnm." "No 1" roared tho old bachelor "Nothing of tho sort." "But, Uncle Nahnm, I should bo wretched without Duke," softly pleaded Faith. 'Fiddles! rings," said tho old man. "And I'm sure ho couMu't live with out me;'' "Trash," grunted Mr. Nixon. "Aud if you please, Uncle," aided Faith, "perhaps I'd better go to my friend Violet Smith's to lmiko up my wedding things, since you disapprove so dieidedly of my plans. She lives iu New Yoik, you know, und it will bo convenient for shopping, and'' "Ami for all the other tomfooleries in general" rudely interrupted the old gentlopicii. "Yei, go to your Violot Hmith's, but don't expect to come back hero." "No, Uucle," said Faith, meekly. "But, you'll let me.thank you for all yonr kindness, and" "No, 1 won't ," said Undo Nahuni, so shortly that poor Faith fled upstairs, in dismay and h:d a quiet little cry, notwithstanding she was so very, very happy. For Undo Nahnm, bi usque and o rubbed though he wus, was all the father she had ever known. But hho packed her trunk and went to Violet Smith's in New York, which was all tho pleasanter, in that Marmadnke Bjurne had ulco betaken himself to this modern Oothum and gone to work studying law as if homtuat tc take Cjke aid Black stone by storm, u iss Violet Smith, who was a sentimental young lady, sympathized intensely, and tho young couple were as unreasonably happy us many auother couple has been before and will agaiu. But one day Duke Bourne camo in with a face full ot ti lings. "Faith," said he, "have you heard tho news V" "What news?" asked Faith. "Yonr uncle will get tho start of us, after all." "What do you mean, Duke ?" "Why, he's going to be married." "Uncle Nahnm ? ' cried Faith incred ulously. "Yes, Uncle Nuhum. That accounts for his being fo willing to get rid of us, eh, little ono?" "Aud who is the bride, questioned Fuith. "Why, that's the mooted point yet. Nobody uceniH io know. Some say one, and some say auother; but the general impression seems to be that it is tho rich widow who owns the brown stono block on tho corner." . "I'm 6ure I hope he'll bo happy," suiil Fuith, with tremulous lips and eyes suffuse. I with tears. "But but I think he might have sid something to us about it.'1 "People aro not generally in a hurry to proclaim the fact that they aro about to mako fools of themselves," Enid Duko Bourne bitterly. "Why, cried fuith, laughing through her tears, "that ii precisely what he said about vis." But the next day a letter frcm Uncle Nullum himself settle. I tho matter. He wrote: "There is to bo a wedding at my house on the 17th, and I want you aud Duke to be there without fail." "A wedding! At his house I" cried Faith. '! supposod weddings were celebrated at the bride's residence." "So they are, doar,"said Miss Smith; "but your uncle was always so eccen tric." "What shall we do?" asked Faith. "Why, go, of courso," said Marma dnke Bourne; to show that we bear no malice at being disinherited, if for no other reason." The 17 th of March arrived, a cold blustering night, and the old red brick house was all in a glimmer of lights as the young betrothed pair drew np to the door. Uncle Nahum met them on the threshold, in his old -fashioned swallow tailed coat, with a huge white camelia in his button hole, and a pair of sur prisingly white gloves. "Have you ..brought your white frock ?'' was his first question to his niece. "No Uncle, I" 'That won't do," said Unole "Nahnm. "No one must cone to my wedding without a marriage garment. It's lucky I provided one for you. Come upstairs, quick, and put it on, for the parson is waiting and the company are here." "Bnt, Uncle, the bride?" "Yon shall eeo her by-and-by," said Uncle Nahum, despotically. "Come np stairs now and change vonr dress." "But, Uncle, a white silk," cried Faith, looking in dismay at the glisten ing lre"S laid out for her nse. "What then? Isn't white silk the thing for a wedding ? Put it on qniok, and I'll send some ono up lo bring you down in Ave minutes." And no, wih a doubting heart, Fuith Nixou robed herself iu tho white dress, with its trimmings of vapory blonde and loug trail. "Wucro's yonr veil V mid Uncle Na hum, when ho came bimuclf, u few min utoi lafer, to tho door. "Uncle, I can't wear u veil," pleuded Faith. "Bat you must," said Uncle Nuhum. "Nobody comes to my wedding with out a veil." And he pluecd the wreath lightly on her head. "But, Uncle Nuhum, they will take me for the bride." "Lot 'era," said tho old gentleman. "Take my arm. Now como down stairs und I'll show yui the bridu. Hero she is," Lifting hor bewildered eye-i, Fuith Nixon beheld her own figuro reflected in a full length mirror at tho stairway. "Here's the bride," chuckled Uncle Nuhiim. "aud here's the groom," touch ing Bourne's shoulder. "Aud here's the parson, ail ready aud waiting Now revereud sir," to the clergyman, "marry 'em as fast as ever yon can." And be fore either of tho astonished young people could remonstrate, they were made man and wife. "Duke,'' cried the bride, us soon as the ceremony wus over, "did you know of this ? ' "No, I didn't," said Mr. Bourne, with his arm very tight around his little wife's waist, "but I must say I approve very highly of the whole proceeding." Uncle Nahum stood by, rubbing his hands, with his whole face wreathed in cne prodigious smile. "So you supposed it was I who was to be married, eh ?" said he. "Not a bit of it not a bit of it. I'm too old a bird to bo canght with such chart as that. No, no, little Faith. Did you think I was going to turn my wee bir- dio out of her nest, after all the years she has been cherished there? No, no, I only wanted to assnre myself that your fancy was a real fancy, and that this yonng rascal hore," smiting Bourne on tho shoulder onco more, "loved you f -r yourself alone and not for the money he thought the old man was going to leave you. And you're to live hero, both of yon, and we'll be happy ever after. Strike up your burps and fiddles. Lot's have a dance let's ull be merry to gether." Uncle Nahnm Nixon himself led off the bridal quadrille, dancing in the good old style of fifty years ago. "I don't have a wedding every day," snid Undo Nahum, breathlessly, as he cut ono last pigeon wing, "and I menu to make the most of it." Tlie Yoiiiib Widow A census-taker, going tho rounds, stopped at an elegant brick dwelling house the exact locality is no business of ours. He wus received by u stiff, well dressed lady, who could be well recog nized as a widow of somo years stand ing. On learning the mission of her visitor the lady invited him to take a seat in the hall. Having arranged him self into a working position, he inquired for tho number of persons in the family of the lady. "Eight," replied she "including my. self." "Very well your age, madam.'' "My age, sir!" replied the lady with a piercing look. "I conceive it's none of your business what my ago might bo. You're inquisitive, sir." "Tho law compels me, madam, to tako tho ago of every person in the ward; it is my duty to make the inqiury." "Well, if th law compels yon to ask, I presumo it compels mo to answer. I am between thirty and forty." "I presume that means thirty-five." "Nj, sir; it means no such thing I am only thirty-three years of age." "Very well, madam," (putting down the figures,) "just as you say. Now for tho ages of the children, commencing with the youngest, if you please." "JoRophine, my youngest, is ten years of age." "Josephine pretty name ten." "Minerva was twelve last week." "Minerva captivating twelve." Cleopatra Elvira has jnst turned fifteen." "How (esthetic! Go on, madam." "Angeline is eighteen, sir; just eigh teen." Angeline favorite name eighteen." "My oldest and only married daugh ter, Ann Sophia, is a little over twenty five." "Twenty-five, did yon say? ' "Yes, sir. Is there anything remark able in her being that age?" "Well, no, I can't say that there is; but is it notemarkable that you should be her mother when you were only eight years of age? ' Abont that time the census-taker was seen running out of the house why, we do not know. Bnt suffice it to say it was the last time he ever pressed a lady to give her exact age. The lace flchu.'io popular this sum mer, will be' reduced to foil ruche by fall. FASHION MHi Embroidery is tho com in trim- miug, Ficelle lace will hold its own next season. All Worth's new luilets are mudo with t lurnures. Watered Irish poplins: are uehii viug a greut Kuoeets. Ventilated coriiet.i uro tho beslifor vaini weather. White dresses are worn everywhere in town mid country. Quantities of Moresque laeo are worn on dressy toilets. Old tapestry hhudes of color are must in favor for summi r toilets. High pleated collars, resembling col larettes, will be much wort. Woolen dresses; to be tusteful, should be made us plain it i possible. Floods und c:is. u lesof Oriental Jueo are worn on every dressy toilet. Chemises are m;do with a V-frmil, to ho worn with V-frnut dress hodi a ficelle net will cover the collars and cutis of many dressy costumes in the full. Turkey red pa'axoN, trimmed with Orieutal luce, are iu great vogue at the seaside. Huge cabbage roses are worn upon tho bonnet, ut thu top of the i u-usol, and as corsage .'lowers. Immense hats of drawn or shirred crape, mull und veiling are worn at European seaside resorts. White bit. us - wuists are worn uuder loug, looso jackets for seaside aud mountain fatigue costumes. Pule blue or pale pink muslin dreses dispute the majority with sprigged und und polka-dotted patterns. Soutache embroidery is now in most general use, and will doubtless con tinue to bo during the coming winter. " Broderio do Palermo " is very pop ular for lingerio trimming. All trous seaux huvo many articles bordered with with the work. Sniall checked silks are made up iu mauy fancy stylos aud always in combi nation with other fabrics, plain mer veillenx being the usual cho'co. Light ecru canvas boots and shoes, foxed with yellow leather, are worn for mountain climbing, aud also do duty for lawn tennis and croquet wear. White pique waistcoats, with collars rolling over the velvet or cloth collar of tailor-made jackets, are mueh worn by young girls on the other side. In the way of fruit garniture elder berries, in niiperb coloring, or pale green grapes, surrounded with silver powdered leaven, meet with the greatest favor. Lnrgo collarettes und shoulder capes of lace and embroidery are much worn. A new fancy is to decorate them pro fusely ull around with hoops of satin ribbon. The most popular dresses for morn ing and afternoon ut mountain resorts uro of cash mere iu any of tho udmired new shadca of color, with cellars, cull's, uud u sash row of velvet to match. It is an open question whether she was an lestheto or n pretty (Jiiukeress. At all ovents, her dress was it model of great siruplici y. Soft wool, in a qniet grav shade, with plain full skirt and shirred waist uud (Quaker kerchief of embroidered white mull crossed over the bosom. Golden rings of natuially curly hair peeped from under a gray poke bonnet which matched the dress. She wore gray lac mitts and curried a bag of gray silk, und the tiny shoes which " peeped in und out b?ueath her petticoat" were gray also. A novel und stylish costume has the short walking-skirt of black gros grain silk, with Louis XIV. tunic of tho same, trimmed with richly-worked ap plique bands of cnt jet. Over this a French casaque of black and white striped silk, tilting the figure very per fectly, and fastened down the front loops of silk braid aud jet-beaded frogs. Tho parasol of black is adorned with jet and lined with white silk, black silk Jersey gloves drawn on over the close coat sleeves of the casaqne and a bonnet of black lace, wrought with jet beads and trimmed with a semi- wreath of white roses, complete the costume. From His Wire's Head. A few days since a party of gentle men were together. Ono man, a joker, stepped up to a membor of the party, and, holding a long bair before his eyes, said, "See here, old fellow, this looks sus picious. Where did this long hair come from?" "Why, that's from my wife's head!" "Are you sure of it?" "Sore of it? Of course I am. You don't suppose you would find any other woman's hair about me, do you?" "No, probably not; but I am sorry you are so sure it is your wife's hair, for I picked it off the coat of this gentle man," pointing to a friend near by. The "l)iiii-Fnsl" Dialed. lint, yon and I have heard und connetl and laughed over the provincialism of the 'Georgia Crucker.'undthe 'Western Hoosier,' and I have for you some of the expressions of the 'Down-east Yan kee.' I huve recently been visiting the mountains of Muino and New Hamp shire, and while enjoying the bights myself, collected soniu of the sounds for you ; they are iu this book," und sho banded mo u suiull memorandum. "Yon can ( that off with you" lug, mind you, uud not lulu us the Suit In rn er would say, nor lack, a lathe Western man. "Why, how you talk I" I mm ponded, as my eyes fell on that quotation in the little book. "Yes," laughingly she rejoined, "that is ono expression of surprise, and utmi f Aiow is uuotlier, with llf re! jure, and tin till! for mild exelamationii tf wonder." And then wo drew our chairs near together like two school children, one ktowing the lesson uuil teaching' it to tho other. "Where were you when you wrote this book V" "Please ftudy its orthography and speak by it," sho interrupted. "1 writ what you huve before you in Oxford county, Me. I .nr. people there on h holiday from ull over the country, a timrstir Iwyi crowd. How the men did siroi Itog-nn, watches, boots and knives on that day. It was an enjoyable occa sion. Two men ,, but neither was much hurt. Two boys dim a tall' (lir) tree, that, made me kiwltr xcicrw.v; I was shert't they would full und get scrunch d. An Jajiau encampment wus once jml where we et ditiner." "That is very good, Clary August t," remarked her husband. "Go on uud tell ubout Miss Hill's husband's hass." "Wall, I wish you could have seen that tmimil-he was such a ptuity comer (pretty creature). I couldn't help ; ijrtihhin Mr. Hill, for the animil was not a shured of anything, not even the krs. Eo was a horse of great mitt (val.ie). He was full of npi w.but Miss Hill's Yohihj-uh have rid'im often. He was us sound us a bi rril und a line romUr. Churles, b? ijuu really ijun-ttr to try to buy him V she asked of her husband. "A I could nit rd of two I now huve th") ' house I sot foot into would be Hill's. "What did you find to eat 60 far North ?" I queried. "Chickens, aijs, butter, his (berries) and ciikn (biscuit). Tho lust Sunday we irn.i in Oxford wo had bitnl fowl for din ner and it irnr w iistrmis nico. I think the water of th in fuUs wells be the best I ever lritk' U Th in people in mighty clever, but awful curit. Now there is Bill Huskill us has been AwiV l omjiiini with l.izii Jam: Wiggins nigh on to twelve years aud they hain't married vil. There is Miss Stelliugs, a iriildi r immtot with a k'kjI.i ' money, but tin; S'li she sot .V miidi si'D- hi her husband (loved him so much) that she won't let no man keep company with her. Although the sun wus murt'cr hot tk-i rw'y anybody had umbrih (umbrellas). 1 had a lace fringed parosol with me, but when I riz it I two or three siirrin ut me so hard I took it down. The dressing of f ome of the men wus not stylish. Some of theco.v (eon's) fit fjiiiimin (uncouth). A fe v men always sot hrli l (crooked) as e'they had tho rumulii." "Please pause here for a definition," I asked. "What is this und where did you cuteh it?" "Let rue look ; oh, yes ; thu' is skimi fliliiiu.1. That word was heard in u church trial. The parsou was arraigned, charged with having attended dunces. Deacon Pedger having been appointed to put the charges in writing, read them ut the church meeting. He Muled therein that the pastor had been guilty of an offense of immense magnitude and preponderosity, and that his punishment should be skimiyiliiius. It is said that upon the pronouncement of the lust word, the parson skipped through an open window, ran oft us if for his life, und has never been heard of Miice. There are other words worth observing us hither for leather, b!tirt for blew, kutlfi for kettle, ill for dived, fer for far, hern for hers, pnum for yours, saser for saucer, hmln't orter for should not. A cat you and a bird iijs ; this kcnir gives more milk i the other, in stead of than the other." Uoston Post. Mrs. Mary Thaley died in a Philadel phia hospital of poison, taken with suicidal intent, on Wednesday. When the dose was first taken Dr. Lindeiman was called in. He prescribed and then demanded $2 from the woman's hus band. The man did not have it, and the doctor tore up his perecription and left. Before another physician could be summoned Mrs. Thaley was dying. The superintendent of the Laehine canal, Canada, discourages bathing in that estuary by confiscating the cos tumes of the bathers. The other day a man was obliged to walk home wrapped np in a flour barrel. i;;YfiiwN n;KV.si'iNorv. I'lie Call I'aiinil Mn li lieil Over the ( ullin nl Kiittimoif h f 'iMilriiiporiiri'. Tho ancient pall, found in the recent discovery of royal mummies in Egypt, was composed of numerous pieces of leather tunned by tho bark of tho mini or ucuciu, and sewn together by red cord, and is supposed to have covered the mortuary cabin of tho suered boat or horse, to which it formed a kind of huld-acchiuo. It is excei dingly brittle, and the colols aro still well preserved, the centre nine fee', long by six feet wide, and divided into two equal sec tions, ono of which is covered by pink aud yellow rosettes on a blue ground, t!ie otlier dispIaviiiR six flying vuitnns living with extended wiugsaud holding feutl.i r sceptres in their claws; they are separated from one another by horizon tal lines of hieroglyphics, the name mid titles of Masuliuruta, high priest of Anion IU, the deity of Thebes, und u row of pink rosettes on a yellow ground. ()u cither side is a fl ip divided from the central section by lour hands of eolots blue, red, ye'low und green und further divided by a bolder of spear head pattern. Below this comes u row of panels eoutaii.iug u row of eul lema tienl devices, predominant uoiorgst which is the scaral ains, flying with ex tended wings thrusting forward the solar disk emblems of the sun-god but having with this emblem thu repre sentation of u gnz-.'l!e, supposed to be the favorite of the Queen, twice repent ed, u siugulur representation of two united ducks and ornaments like the Greek untelixil und the cartouche or royal name of Piuotem II. seven times repeated. Below this is a border of pink uud blue chequers at the bottom, with a broud kilt of pink or perhaps originally scarlet. This maguiticent work of leather measures '!'.! feet 5 inches in length and l'J feet ti inches wide, containing a space of 2' II square ft ot of leuther. It is the most remarkable ob ject next to the histuiical muuimie.4 of the whole collection, und exhibits the greatest techuicul skill in the prepara tion aud artistic excellence in execution and design. Its age is somewhere ubout the time of Solomon. Specimens of this leather canopy, which have been brought to England, show that the co!ors with which it wus painted or dyed still retain ed their original Instre. From some unknown circumstances they have, like the flowers, never paled by tho effects of time. Fifty Years in Chicago. ' I came to Chicago fifty years ago today," said Mr. Philo Carpenter yester day, "und no one ever dreamed then tliut it would ever be the Chicago of to day. It iu almost as dillicult for the generation ef to day to realizj that the eity which they see urouud them, with its immense lus:uoss blocks, its score of railway connections, busy, rushing life, ami population of over (1(10,000, was only fifty years ago the little trad ing village of two hundred inhabitants to which Mr. C'.irpeutercameiu u canoe around the head of the luke. Ilight iu the most iliickly popnluUd portion cf the West Division, between Uulsted, Keuzie, Madison aiuj Ann str.ets, .Mr. Carpenter paid ten shillings un acre for ItiO acres of government land. That block of land is to-day worth S:I0,(I(0, 0011 ut u most moderate estimate Abont the suiuu time Mr. Carpenter bought a pieco of bind near bis other purchase, which he never expected to be of any value for city property, "bnt thought it would make u deirub!e farm outside the city.'' If Mr. Carpenter still owned the modest little farm through which Ann, May and Ada streets run, be would be the wealthiest f irmer iu the world. In those days Chicago had to depend eu the corn fields of Ohio for its Indian bread, while now its elevators ftc.l the world. It lias generally been charged that the continental observance ol the Sibbuth in Chicago was looiU'lit hither by our German citizens from the fatherland, hut, according to Mr. Car penter, a lilierul Sunday grew up with the city. He Hays that there was no Siibb.it h out here fifty years ago. The Fiench uud Indian", wli.i constituted tho majority of the population ut that time, made it a high day in trading ami frolic. But the youth of infant Chi cago were not to be permitted to grow up in ignorance of a more worthy em ployment of the Sabbath. In connction with a captain of the troops then sta tioned here and the captain's family, a Sunday school was started at which twelve or fourteen children wero pres ent. This was tho nucleus of the present Presbyterian Sunday school system iu Chicago. The signs of progress were evident then. Olli ;ers of the army threw up their commissions to settle here; traders came to drive bargains with the Indians und stopped to estab lish stores; tourists came to look en, and stayed to be absorbed in tho whirl of enterprise which in half a century has transformed a trading post to the third manufacturing city in America. The signs of progress are as evident and alert to-day as they were fifty years ego. Chicago Herald. In Summer. The Hi Mh worn green nroiind me When hist I met my lovu ; The birds they Hew above mo, And sanj; in every grove. The sliiea were blue na sapphire. The floii'ls wero lleeev while, 'I'ln' ki i ill in-1- u ii nut hhiniii Willi radiant, hoawnly light. How lmppy was our meeting I'pon that summer day ! VS'e hade fait well with saillieHs, Afar apart t. stray; And now the breczm iniirniiir Willi voiees of the past, Win'' airles of Infill and shadm,, In iiieiimry's vision east. Inspire a dreamy I'liiiii', Ami a seiisti of weary piun, Kor that siliiilii'T day so Heeling, Will in vi r emu" again. VAKIF.IIF.S. A Tiniusste limn 70 jmis old has a breach of promise Miit on hand. A Kentucky man has for clock weights two pint bottles tilled with whisky. Isu'i this country about ready to lynch the manufacturers of toy pistols? Last yeur T-xs imported corn, but this yeir will huve flo.OtlO.OOO bushels to sell. Upwards of bi.iioo dogs have been disposed oJ at the pound iu Bultiiuore in the past three years. Athens, Ala., has u population of S ,000 and a vuluation of i?S,0lil,(J0ll; that is, 1,0(0 to every inhabitant. Carlyle suiil that tiiflts wero tho hinges of destiny, but ho never llfed any of them on his front gate. Two thousand ICentiickiuus huve been converted to Christianity in the last three months uud fatill the boom continues. A blacksmith ut Nantucket buys thu livers of all sharks caught there, aud makes them into cod liver oil. One liver yields three f ullouH of oil. A gill who sets out to look graceful in a hummock has us much work on hand us the man who tiies to bo languid with a saw-log following him down hill. The oldest mule in the world is own i d in Covington, Ga. Tho owner has papers to prove that ho is over 80. The kick is on the papers not with tho mule. Mrs. Elizaboth Cady Stanton and her daughter, Miss Harriet Stanton, and ulso Mr. Theodore Stanton, are living in Fiance, where they are ull doing literary work. A gold watch which was stolen from a Phihute,Iphiau two years ago by four masked men in Kentucky has jus beeu returned to him by express by tho widow of Jesse James. Philadelphia church charity is esti mated to have permanently saddled 2,000 paupers on llit city. Charity will make paupeis faster than business failures or poor crops. A Coney Island horse jockey who died the other day confessed to having participated in thirteen "put up" races where it was arranged beforehand which hoi so was to v in. "Sweet sixteen" .is nil bosh when re ferring to a girl. At th V. uj;o she is the crossest aud most imprudent of any per iod of her life, being too old to spunk uud not old enough to box her mother. Albany, Ga , bus almost succeeded, after a three weeks' war, in extermiinit ing her Euglish sparrows. Give 'em tils! Five years beuee they will be u greater evil thuu u visit from tho locusts. In summer tho daughters of tho Prince of Wales wear wash prints (cali coes) for morniug und whito mn-liu for evening toilet. American girls would mt think of dressing in that way. They bar that they might be mistaken for common princesses. A Sensible llnv. Faith ami obedience are both sensi ble things. No traits are more lovely and becoming in chil lliutul, and par eiits may preserve these even iu their older children, if they will reason with them, und reason "gen'ly." An intelligent boy nut on the slops of his father' dwelling, deeply nborbed with highly-wrought d pernicious bunk, julenla'ed to puis .i. and dcpravn the mind. His fat hor, uppr inching, saw at a glance the character of the book, said, "What have yon there, George?" The little fellow, looking np with a confused air, though his yonng mind ha.l already been titinted with tales of romance aud fiction, promptly gave the name of the work. His father gently remoustratod, point ing out tho danger of roiding such bookr; sr.d having somo conlideucu in the effects of early culture upon tho mind of his child, left him with tho book closed by his side. In a few moment a tho father dis covered a light in an adjoining room and on inquiring the cause, was in formed that it was George burning the pernieions book. "My son, what have you done?" "Burned that book, papa." "How came you to do that?" "Because I believed you knew better than I." ft 1 V S'v. r H it ; t' ' i -t- '