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Railway chnrcnes are to be attached to tho trains in South Russia. Owing to the long distance traveled and the con stant work, the officials complain that they have no chance of attending divine service; so carriages fitted up as churches jjvlI run on Sundays and fete days. Dr. Merrjam, the ornithologist of the Department of Agriculture at "Washing ton, Is engaged in collecting reports from all parts of the country in relation, to the English sparrow. He has' received thousands of such reports, but only one of them is favorable to the feathered pest. " - A Norwegian farmer named Christian son, living near Toronto, Dakota, was driving home from town recently, when an eagre, measuring nine feet from tip to tip, settled on his shmlderS and at tempted to carry him off. The farmer managed to get several lines about t;;" bird and captured it alive. Ten per cent, of the students in the University of Zurich, Switzerland, are women. Twenty-nine of them are study ing medicine, fourteen philosophy and two political e onomy. There are now for-eight female students of medicine in London, and in Par's 1 03. Within the last seven years eighteen women have taken a medical desrree in Paris. TWO POOR OLD SOULS. The farmer's hired man who has been getting out of bed every morning at four o'clock to feed the stock will be mad all over when informed that actual experi ments prove that a hor83 can live eleven days and a cow nine without food. As a hog can live for twenty-nine days there is no use in feeding him-but once in two weeks, according to the lightning calcu lator of the Detroit Free Prex. ' ' The United States Treasury authori ties recently notified Henry Berg, the - well-known President of the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty o Animals, that as Jhe result of a settle ment of his accounts .while Secretary of Legation to Russia in 1865, the Govern ment owes him $131. Mr. Berg has Y created somewhat of -a sensation by re-fusing to accept the money. The refusal to accept any money proffered by the Government is regarded little short of extraordinary. " "Pis Cbrfctnias night; the streets are bright, And many windows are alight, And mirth seems monarch everywhere, -For sounds of laughter fill the air. But in a little room which knows No gleam save what the fire shows Sit, gazing at the glowing coals, Two poor old souls. Bound them no happy children press With words and smiles of tender diss; To them no friends bring greetings gay Their-Zriends are dead or far away, Or else forgetful. At tbeir gate, Foot-deep in snow, no singers wait To cheer with quaint and jolly trolls These poor old souls. And yet twoscore of years did he Do much to add to Christinas glee With pictures drawn with cunning art ' -By skilful hand from gentle heart, , And she has told of Christmas time A hundred tales in prose and rhyme. Now recompense no creature doles The e pocr old souls. And many a feast, in days gone by. They're spread, when fortune lingered nigh, And they but little knew of care, And bade their comrades come ani share; And there how joyous was the scene, The'walls all hung with Christmas green! Their healths were drunk in brimming bowls, I - These poor old souls. But, ah! they faltered in ths ra?e. And newer life sprung to each place, And saizpd ti.e wreaths they'd not resigned; And thus, diserowned and left bshind, In time too brief they were forgot. Alas ! it is the common lot. And will be while 'earth onward rolls, For poor old -souls. Left and forgot, until once more Their names are brought the world before, And then, perchance, some one will tell How such a picture pleased him well, Or such a story gladness shed Upon his children as they read; But this will be when death's bell toll3 - For two old souls. 4 Margaret Ey tinge, tn Harper's Weekly. "I ex- went ON OHEISTMAS EVE. The arerage duration of life has been made the subject of fresh investigation by a German statistician, who finds that thlowest average is for the day laborer (tkirty-two years , and the highest amongMhose who engage in manual toil is among the gardeners, sailors 'and fishermen, fifty-eight ye;irs, The pro fessional occupations come even above regular open air occupat:ons, as . the average given show forty-nine years for physicians, fifty-four for jurists, fifty seven for teachers and sixty-seven for clergyman. Ocean travelers do not know the terri ble ordeal the stokers undergo. The steamer I'mbria has seventy-two fur naces, whirh require 30 t-ms of coal per day, at a cost of $20,030 per voyage. One hundred and four men are employed at the .furnaces. One stoker tends to four furnaces, rushing fro:-n one to another, spending three minute3 at each. Then he dashes to the air-pipe, takes a turn at cooling o J, and waits for his call to go through the same operation.' Four hours of scorching and eight .hours of sleep make up the routine of life. All day long the steel-colored clouds had hung heavily over the snow mantled mils; an day long the o.d farmers had nodded the r heads sagely at each other and said: ' "There's more 6now in the air;" or, "We regom' to hev a spell b' weather." ; But it seemed that the old farmers were wrong, after all; for just at f unset the clouds parted away, the sun, all gar landed with golden beams, laughed over the frozen landscape, and the beautiful evening star came to keep his sacred vigil above the Christmas Eve. "An ideal view," said Mr. Mackenzie, stopping on the crest of the hill to ob serve the sweet serenity of the old church, garrisoned w.th lea .ess poplar trees, and the frozen river which reflects the red. sunset in front; the solemn majesty of the White Mountain range beyond. "Upon my word, we sojourners in the semi-tropical valleys of Santa Barbara j Cook county, Illinois, last falelected a blind man to the State Legislature. His nann is James O'Connor. He is a musi cian, and is probably the first blind man in the United Stales elected to a legisla tive trust. He lost his eyesight by the explosion of a fowling piece in 1874,and was previous to that accident, a marine engineer on the Miss ssippi river. Af terward he turned his attention to4msic, and wasble to earn his own living by that. He is thirty-eight years old. Jus tice, they say, is blind, but it remains to be seen whether Jlr. O'Connor is a more exemplary legislator than his fellows. been so rough with Mary Srown after all," thought roll. -For a girl of thirty, she really had wonderful complexion and that war of crimping her red-gold tresses all over herheai was extremely becoming. It made her look full ten years younger thSn her actual age. .. . 'But you "are glad taseeme, Mary?" Something of the old romantic tender ness a sensation that -he had deemed dead and buried long ago had lisen up into ha heart, and quivered in his voice. Ifwasall right. He was as much in love as ever I "Father will be glad to see you, I dare say." demurel v answered Mary. "Please to sit dawn, Mr. Mr." I "No MrJ at all," said Mackenzie, half vexed, half amused, at this very evident coquetry. "Call me Kolf, why don't you?" " The large lashes fell over the blue eyes "Rolf fcounds so very familiar," she murmured. "But I call you Mary, don't I?" "Oh, yes, but you are so much older than I am. ' r ( He bit his lip. So far as he could re member there wa just eighteen months' difference in their ages. "But upon these subjects one couldn't very well contra dict a lady. "Is your father well?' he asked, by way of starling upon a new and entirely ?afe topic, as he watched Mary's nimble fingers how plump and dimple thev were, to-be-sure! arrange the drapery and set the rouud table for the coming meal. "Quite well," answered Mary, pect him in every minute. He over to Berksdale to a funeral this af ter nood, and people have no sort of con science about letting him come home in decent time. I suppose he is a comfort where there is an illness or death." Mackenzie lifted his eyebrows inter rogatively. Bela Brown was a . very worthy man, as he remembered him, but short of speech, and entirely devoid of imaginative qualities. If he was a comfort to bereaved souls, it must have been a ta'ent which he had developed very recently. But he made no comment on the fact. "Fine wintry weather," he remarked. "Quite so," said Mary. "A decided contrast to the climate I have left." "Yes?" questioningly. "May 1 ask where " "The little coquette! What will she pretend to be ignorant of next!" thought Mackenzie. ' . . But he only answered, pleasantly: "Santa Barbara, you know. Under the Coast Bange." "Ohf irantaBarbara!" Her pretty, oval" face brightened. r "I've heard so much about Santa Barbara vf late, from a neighbor of ours !" "Ah'"said Rolf. Mary sat down now, and folded her hand on .her lap, with her svveet face ( turned away from the fire, and her larger uiuc uiatn. cjc3 Ejparfc.i.Dg warn a Dim a tion. f . "I wonder," 6aid she, 'musingly, "if you have ever met a Mr. Mackenzie I there?" "A Mr. Mackenzie!", he repeated, wondering what the meaning of all this was. i . "It isn't a groat-place, like New York or Boston, you know,' reasoned Mary. "People do meet each other there?" "Oh, yes; certain ly." . 4 "And this A;r. -Mackenzie? He was tall and eood-lookiner. with dark eves Presently tho old clergyman, Mary Brown's .father, cams in, and renewed his daughters hospitable entreaties.' Mr. Mackenzie spent Christmas Eve at the parsonage. - On Christmas Day he walked over to Bela JJrown's. where he congratulated the bride a faded, washed-out looking woman now and shook hands with the groom most cordially. ; "I hope you don't lay up notMn?agin me, said Mr. Thoma Briggs, rolling his light eyes solicitously around in their sockets.- .- " 7. "Notih the least. I wish you a merry Christmas!" cried i'ackenzie. "And I dare say Mary will mike you the best wife in tho world!" - - "But I'm sorry you rot so fur outen the road last night," 6aid ;Briggs. "When I said the first house bcyon 1 the toll-gate, I meant on the left-hand side, not the right" "Oh. it does not in the least signify !" said MaCKcnzie, genially, "ihe Kov. Mr. Brown entertained me most cordi ally." And thus basely did he conceal the secret of his kind apprehension. 3. eh, are morally speaking, rank cowards. Perhaps it is unnecessary to add that Mr. .Slacken ie married Miss Mary Brown, after all. "And it's e-it as wel' " said the toll- keepers bride. "I ould never hev brung my elf to go so fur West. , And they do say the climate '11 Agree fust-rate with old Parson Brown's broniical tubes. Mary she's young and flighty, but of course my Cousin Rolf has a right to marry as he please'." And the next Lhnstm.ts Eve was spent by Mr. and Mrs; 1 olt Mackenzie under the shadow of the palms and manyanito tnes of sweet Santa Barbara.- Udei Forrest Grates. THE HERMITAGE. VISIT TO THE OLD HOME 0 GENERAL. JACKSON. "Old Hickory's" Dwelling Place in Life aud Death Near Nashville r Historic Relics Tomb of Husband and Wife, Bennett ami the. Waiter. A writer in the Brooklyn Ea-jk tells neft, On naven t any conception what the word 'Christmas' really means ! I should like to be artist enough to paint this 6Cene. Let me see. 'The first l ouse after you pass the- toll -gate: nainted rpd. with un,c uiujiuiuks: eaDie toward tne road: 0,a k.i ??Jei -fuflP i S! "-::.:.Ye3" th r -Well, yes, it does seem a - , l.ma I had met him -Ul- -'lacKenvie was coming .East " jjen axier xen yea s residence on the fair Pa cific coa t. He had-gone thither tomakte his fortune. He had made it. and now he was on the way to fulfill an old love engagement with Mary Brown. iney nad become aii an.cd ten ago. l nlike the generality of men j)iacKen2ie was ffteaufast and true ta morn all these converin? ve;irR ht had gradually become aware of an ever growing uncohgeniality between himself and Mary .brown. "it would have been better for both of us if 1 had left myself unfettered," he v r u;uu'- J"8 a,a not know( xpres-ion of her face. nd wrieu ana f 8UPPOse sue didn't, h:l6 failed, doinj; tin I dare say Mary wilt make a good wlTeto ; And she's o,h, so slim, and spare, and - UiiUi 1 t a U LU to me ai if I onte or twice, V said Mac- zie, crimi-y determined to let Marv carry the joke as far as she pleased. ""Veil," siid.Aiary, smiling roguishly, ' it seems that 5lr. Macke iJ-ie, of Santa Barbara, is Engaged to our nearest neigh bor a young woman up toward Cidar this ftory about James Go: don Be proprietor of the Kew York llerald. New Year's night three years ago, when Mr. Bennett reached the Union Club well nigh exhausted with the social duties of ths day, he noticed in a dazed soit of way that several, of the club men were presenting Ja;.ol,the veteran waiter, who looks after the coats and canes of the members, with more or less small change as an earnest of their sinetre regard, tor. Bennett s emed to realize that something of the kind was expected of him -and called . acob.v ' Jacob," l.e said, "you arc a cood fellow. J.'ere is something for you," and with much fumbling he broiiL'ht out a $20 bill, which the de lighted Jacob accepted with many bows and scrapes. "top, Jacob," said Mr. hennett, fee ing in anther' pocket and producing another bill. Jacob,; over powe ed, was making off when "Stop Jacob" again brought him to a stand still, and still a -.other bill made its ap pearance. 'Ihe comedy was getting amusing and went on until Jacob had a hat full of money all Mr. Eenuett had. The old man consulted some of the mem bers as to what he should do with it and was advised to tell Mr. Bennett the next day that he must have overpaid him in a, fit of abstraction. So, when the pro prietor of th&Herall arrived at the club4 the f llowing day Jacob sid: "Mr. Bernett, I think you gave me more for my New ear's than you intended." Ben-' nett probab y had no recollection of. giving Jacob anything, but he replied in his grave-1 tone: "low much did I give you, Jacob " "Eight hundred dollars, sir." Such ari answer miffht have: staggered even a man with an income of $1.W0 a day, but Bennett, without a suggest on ot surprise,, paid: " uite right, Jacob; that was.whatl intended to" give you;" A Nashville (TennT) letter to the Ban Francisco VaU says : In the very heart of the city, on a commanding elevated site, stands the old Polk residence, and, in its grounds a jnod est tomb, beneath which repose the ashes of James K. Polk, the President of whom it could truthfully be written: ' The beauty of virtue was illustrated in his life; -The excellence of Christianity exemplified in his death. ... The crowding steps of the business world are fast approaching this locality and it is only a t uestion of time when th6 valuable grounds will be covered by handsome re-idenc. s. A general desire is expressed by the older citizens that the rtmains of Tenne ssee's thre3 Presi dents Jackson, Polk and John. on should be placed on Capitol Hill, acd al though there are at present some diffi culties in the way, yet ths fitness of such i a placement of these sacred ashe3 will some day become imperatively manifest and such an appropriate deposition of lui-m win ue m;mL;. Some twelve miles out of the Iebanon turnpike a narro.w road turns abruptly to the left, in the woods, and following n lor a lew mmutes a double gate is reached the entrance to the Hermitasre grounds. A semi-circul;ir drive through an avenue of cedars leads to the historic old house. Nearly all of these cedars are ucau auu meir oarenmusanu oiacK ened trunks are in keeping with the tone oi moulder and decay whiehpermeat sail the surroundings. The frost has already roucned tne livinor trees, and the around is deeply carpeted with fallen leaves, to planted' where they now stand. The creeping myrtlej with its thousands of arms, is reacning far and wide in this lonely spot, and its sad grave color is in most fitting keep n; with the locality. The-wind sweeps through the trees, the leaves fall thich and fast, the weird dead old cedars wave their bare and withered branches, the horse's feet fall with a dullhud on the covered avenue; but a s-ingle tree, the bolly, with its s arlet bcr ri. s, speaks of aught ;bnt decay. The gray-haired Alfred says: 'God bless you, massa," an iron gate clangs behind us, and the Hermitage is left in its lone liness. . J ' I vhich ! additions are constantly n years ; Biver-only about half a mile from here, i t b, is V a,Kolf! jf one goes through the woods; and V im lev : what is ver funny' her ne just the I ?c;he' 5" same as mine Mary Urown "Eh? ' gasped Mr. Mackenzie. "She isn"t so very pretty," Mary. "She's notyo;ing, you know.and her hair is thin, and she wears a frisette, and somehow it sei-ms to alter the whole her sight ne scwinsr. and she Ben. Franklin's Parents. Benjamin Franklin's father pursued his calling in Boston, and died there 45. He, his wife and relatives were "' buried near the center of the Granarv Burv- ing Ground, on Tremont street, and -i ! over the tomb has been raised by liberal added , f r, - win mi ui jjumuu a i.eai, vjrraaue ooe-. lisk twenty-one feet in height, and bearing among other inscriptions the following, copied from an earl er stone, and com posed by their son 1 enjamin : The Itriegsbibliothek war library of Berlin, is a unique collection of books It contains all known works printed dur n; and; since the Franco-Germaa war of 1870 and 1871, having direct relation to that campaign. The library contains portly volumes compff?d by staff officers, pamphlet descriptions of single battles, war maps, plans of battlefields, diplo matic documents, biographies of Princes, Generals, and other prominent military personages of the period, caricatures and humorous war pictures. Additions are continually made to this kriegsbib liothek, and the ' kaiser" naturally takes much interest .in it. He would, no doubt, like to know very much', also,' what new mat rials for this library of strife the next few years will supply. w- . - - C? i m cnanged myself When a man has j tided oyer his thirtieth year, he can't expect Time to deabgently with him ' And wi.h these rathjjr unlover like ' meditations, Mr. Mackenzie rapped on j the 0;ot of the red house with the 1 om- bardy poplars in front of it and the well sweep behind.. . . . It was all new to him. He had been only in the second year of h s so ournin California, when Mary's father, Bela Brown, had sold out the old Vermont homestead and moved up into the Maine forests. But what were a few score of miles, more or less to a man who has crossed the Sierra Nevada8 and eaten sandwiches on the precipices of Cape Horn? -He ra? ped again. There was no an swer, and he did what he would have 1 i 3ir. Mackenzie sat holding tierht otfto the nrmol his easy, chair, while a sensa tion akin the trickling of ice-cold water down h:s back took possession oT him. He comprehended it ail now. He had found the wrong Mary Brown this Christmas Eve. '1 he Vight Mary Brown was stiil waiting, Gorgon-like, to turn him to stone. "But for all that," chirped on this sweet voiced siren, "3Ir. Thomas Bfiggs hekee, s the toll-gate just below has fallen in love with her. And they are married. Father married them, and he got- his fee in cider, apple auce and pumpkins," she added, with a laugh. "And since the wedding she, has got a letter from this very Mr. X Mackenzie Ralph Mackenzie, of l.ueben, or some such name that he is cominor home this J T 1 . . . . ' . . . . - uuuC x.u3 .lugeies rancn opened the-, v hristmas to marry her. It was an old door and walked in.- engagement, she say5; but he hadn't xiiivv-ii uwgui. wim Dia7in? written very regularly, and she didn'tJ wg auu uiuuib huine. ine mantle was think he intended to keep his word decorated with clusters of holly ; wreaths j And Briggs w-s here on the spot " of laurel leaves glistened overhead, and "Yes-exact y f said Mr. Mackenzie, festoons of the beautiful princess pine i with soniediffieulty curbing his extreme were fa&tentd over the che .p-engravings desire to jump up and fling his hat into and the-"Map of the Lnited States' on the air. . "i riggs was on the spot" wi k v J. ' i ' ,&jt." resumed Mary, "what will the The kettle sang; the cushioned rock- 1 poor man say when he gets home and ing-cha r was drawn up in front of the finds his sweetheart married to some one hearth, and a volume of Jean Increlow's els if" : JOSIAH FRAXKUN AND ABIAH HIS : WIFE LIE HERE INTERRED. : They lived lovingly together in : wedlock fifty five yea s, and without : an estate or any gainful employ : rnent. By constant labor and honest : industry, n aintainei a large faniily : comfortably, and brought up thir : leen children and seven grandthil : dren. respectab'y. p'rom this in-. : stance, reader, be encouraged to dil : igene in thy calaug, and distrust : not Providence. : He was a p.ous and prudent man; . she a discreet and virtuous woman. : THEIR YOUNGEST SON : IN FILIAL. REGARD TO THEIR MEM ORY PLACES THIS STONE. ' : g' Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. "The breeding and rearing of "horses for general purposas of business and fcr army uses in foreign countries, says the New York Time, is one of the most prof itable pursuits of the farmer at the pres ent time, and indeedjermanently. for ' the demand now existing for such horses will always exist and increase. The British Government has recently sent an agent to Canada to purchase a large number of horses for its army. The value of these horses is from $150f6r' cavalry to 185 for artillery and draft animals; the weights required for the former be ing 1,0C0 to 1,150 pounds, and for the latter i.ICO to J, 400 pounds. ' But it is said that very" few horses were found suitable for the purpose, a large propor tion being rejected for unsoundness caused by breeding from unsound mares or-sires, and because of fhe unfitness in form and character due to the Use of the large-boned, (heavy, and coarse breeds now so popular. These are entirely un fit for the saddle and for quick action, hence the search for horses in Canada was almost wholly futile." poems lay open on the round work table. "As pretty an interior as ever I saw in my life," said Mr. Mac's eazie, looking complacently round. ''Geraniums in the window; hollyand laurel lea.es; Jean Ingelow ! 1 begin to have new hopes of Maiy, after all. She has kept pace with the times a little." At this moment there was a little shriek. .The door leading into the back kitchen had opened; a lovely young! woman, in deen-blue merino (Itcss i "lshou d think' answered Macken zie, "that he would say it was the lucki-. est escape he had ever had in hie life "But he was h r lover once !" 'Y yc s ; but that was ten years ago. These long engagements take all the life out of a love a lair. Mackenzie was ready and willing to marry her. but "' "Oh !' cried, Mary, with a little rising inflection, "then, vou did know him well." "Like a book!" cried the visitor, fflee- ful'v. "In fart. I'm Mno.Vr' with loops of paler b'ue ribbon in her I Rolf Mr.kpn7i t AnA T "L,Ja . - - j - . . a. bUUUCaUM. hair, stood in the portal, with a glass pardons, I am sure, buVI fancied vou dish of apple-sauce in her hand. j were Mary Brown, grownyounger instead SS i - . j of older. I misht have known that time iwu -tuacnemie neia out Dota hands. : never went backward." VT . 4. 1 J -l . . . . . . ... . , I jic uiwui iu uaie au.ancea DOiaiv - "un ' crud Marv "AhH T. ' and kissed her, as a man should salut1 his fiancee, but a certain sense of prd-' zie. A 1 ' prieiy. preventea any sucn demonstra tion. ' "Oh!" cr td Marv. "And I- iuc uutu. taiu itiacKen- I "You are not frightenc 1, are you? It's only I." 1 VOnly yous" ' The blue eyes Mary Brown's eyes had deepened and grown larger and more liquid, it seemed were fixed wistfully u.'ou i iace, as u sne did not understand. ; "Didnt you get my letter?" "No. What letter?" "L pon my word," said Mr. Mackenzie "anything like the stupidity of our j postal arrangements, I never knew. I mailed that' letter just one week before I f tarted. So I've taken you by surprise "T yes." murmured delightfully. "Well, well Father Time 'It's lwavs the best thino- tn an " "vasit a dreadlul blow?" sympathet ically murmured Mary. "Did it take you by surprise ".Not a blow, at all! Don't I tell vou ! its a relief? But now, Miss Marv, I suppose I must go right on." I "It's very cold." said Mary, "and this road is frightfully solitary. And thev quite j even talk, of some one's having seen a Dear somewnere on that mountain ledge last week. You vou'd hotter stav wirh ! father until morning. I amssu-ehe would be happy to entertain you." "And you. Miss Mary ? ' pleadingly "Why," she fa:d, with the same arch sparkle under her eyelashes, "I should like to hear all about A r. Mackenzie, of sNnia oaroi ra. Jt gives one such a new Mary, blushing idea of life, you see?" i ii it cry wen. men. National Anthems.. We find the following in the "Xotes and Queries" column of the an Fr m cisco Call: Beferring to a recent inquiry and reply in this column concerning the. American na ional anthem, a corre spondent sends the fol owing, showing that there is some dist notion between the "National Anthem" and what he termsthe "OlScial Anth(m." "The American official anthem is 'The Star Spangled Banner.' This is played at 'colors' and whenever meu-of war are put into commission. The ; tune ot America' is known only" as 'cod Save the Queen' to foreign navies. NHail Co lumbia' is by "Some thought a national lair, but is revlly 'Rule Britannia.' Eng lish bands -will not play 'The Star Span gled Banner' if they can avoid it. On several occa-ions English men-of-war I have been notified by American olficers that unless they played it that the Ameri can band would cease to play 'God Save the Qu?en.' When several vessels of different nationalities are present at sun down each band plays the national air of each country having a vessel present." Would Do Better Next Time. It is related by the gossips that when Mr. X., a wealthy and aggressively aris tocratic denizen of the sacred s1odcs nf Beacon Hill, brousrht hom hi thiA wife he was not wholly plessed with the attitude of ihe grown up daughters of his first marriage toward their newest mother. He summoned the boldest and most aggressive daughter to a private conference, and in, good, set terms re proved her for her coldness to Kia hride 1-The damsel listened with rcsncctf il m- tience due toward the author o. her beinij, and when he had finished his reprimand gave promise or amendment by saying with dtmure impudence' "Excuse me,1 p pa; I will try nd do better the next ti ne you are married." Bwto.i HccorJ. DeiHor maue oy every wnisper oi tne pass ng Dreo.e.; ine nouse is an ancient tw6- story budding; a w'de porch, above and below, 'runs across the entire front; six large -fluted wocden columns, crowned by capitals of carved leaves, give an air oi imposing sonauy, ana pricic one-story wings iome twenty feet square, on either side, with doors nnen in tr frrvm fhp iv-rli , t 0 - - w VUV show that comfort and.conveni.ence rathtr than architectural effect was consulted in the erection. At the broad centre door is met o'd Alfred, the well known colored servant or the tieneral. He was born a slave on tne estate, March TO, lfcO;, and is the only living landmark of the "Jackson tFmcs." Slavery or fre-'dom is all the same to him. He "always beloored lo the Jackfons," and desires to die on the old ground. He shows us through the great hall, into which the centre door opens., This hall is papered with an an cient material, illustrating landscapes and mythological scenes, the colors of which are sti.l bright here and there, I ut tne paper is crumbling surely to decay. In this hall is an arm-chair formerly ownedp by General Washington, but of Chaucellor Livingstone aud Lewis Cass, a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, the old fashioned mahogany sofas and chairs and tne ouce elegant chandeliers with their lamps lor burning lard oil. la a large room to the left, and th only one s-hown to visitors, are collected the many relics of the past. Portraits of the General by Earl and Healy (the Matter one finished but four days before the l'resident's death) and a marble but, together v. ith an equestrian-porti ait. gives a correct idea of the features of the illustrious num. 'any articles of foreign make and exquisite workman ship, in the shape of inlaid table, cabi nets, chairs, vases, urns, clocks, silver ware, ejfcc, evidence the esteem of friends, at home and abroad, while pipes, war clubs and curiously braided Indian handiwork show that the clus-kv red men remembered Andrew Jackson, "in, a little cabinet with glass doors are many relics, prominent amo ig which are a British bayonet, partly imbedded in solid oak. taken from a tree after the battle of New Orleans, and a snuff-box, on the lid pf which is a bullet received by the Ceneral in a duel. The floor is over.'d with a velvet carpet of the old times, which stiil retains its bright colors, elasticity and richness. A Gilbert piano of 1832 glvei but a broken and mournful re sponse to the touch, but the black mar- uiv wuiicia, jHcmgs, ana inoies are as i beautiful to day as ever. A Latin Bible of 1593 and one in Sanscrit, written by monks on vellum, are worthy objec s of interest. Near the Hermitage stand three old log houses, now used as negro quarters but which. formerly were all together and for many years the headquarters and home of the General, before the Hermit age was built. A s,ort walk through the tangled garden, with its fences fall ing to decay, and the corner is reached, where a number of graves are marked bv- email uiouuaienis ano neaostones. On one of these we read: "In memorv - TJ T" Ylr 1 ..... - " i. Xi. . x-an, artist, inendand com panion ot uener..l Andrew Jackson, who died at the Hermitage, thetth Septem ber, J1817." Cn another: "Andrew Jatkson, adopted son oi general Andrew Jackson, who died at the Hermitage, April 17, 1855, tn the 51th year of his age." "Another : "Captain ramuel Jackson, son pi Andrew and Sarfti Jackson, born at me nermvtage, June i, 1837; died September 29, lsti?, of wounds received at tne battle of Chickamaaga." is ear these stands the tomb, pagoda shape, with eight pillars, and three steps leading to the floor, beneath which rest the remains of Andrew Jackson and- his wne tfachel. In the centre of the floor stands a modest monument, son either side of which is a plain slab, on one of ojujpiy lDscrioea-: , The Greatest of Gifeat Walls. Says a correspondent of the Milling World, who has recently been traveling in China: Of course" we . had ,to "go to the great wall of China. The country abounds in great walls, j Her mural de fenses wcremost extensive -walled coun try, walled cities, walled villages, walled palaces and temples wall after wall and wall within wall. But j tho greatest of all is the great wall of China which crests the mountain rJpge and; crosses the gorge from! here some forty miles away. Knuee ing througu ine last aeep gorge and a deep rift in the sol d, rock cut out by ages of rolling wheels and tramping feet, we roach the great, frown - ng, double-bast on?d gate oi stone antr hard-burned brickone archway tum bled in. This was the object of our mission, the great wall; of China, built 213 years before; our era; built of huge slabs of wtell-hewn 6ton'e, lai I in regular courses some twenty feet high and thea' topped out with large, hard-turned biick9, filed in with earth and closely paved on the to, with more daric. tawny brick the ra uparts high andthick and castellated for the use of arms. Bight and left the great wall sprang farrup the mountain .side-now straight, now curved,' to meet the mountain ri Ige, turreted each 3UU feet a irowning mass of masonry. No need tdtell youof this wall; the books will tell you how it was built to .keep the' wailike Tartars out twenty-five feet high by forty thick, .1,2.00 miles long, w.tii room on top for six horses to be driven abreast. JNor need I tell you that 1,400 years it kept tho e hordes at bay, nor that, in the main, the material u cd upon it is .ust as good and firm and strong as when put in place. Twelve hundred miles of this gigantic work built cn the rugge( craggy mountain toos, vau ting .over gorges, spanning wide streams, netting the river arc wavs with huge hard bars of copper, with double tates, with ngiug dcors and bars set.thx-k with iroa armor a wonder in the world be fore which the old-1 ime eiissic seven won ders, all gone now save the great pyra mid, were tors, j The great pyramid has 85,C03,000 cubic feet, the great wall -6,-350, 00,000 c .bic feet. An engineer in Seward's party he:e eo ne vcars ago gave it as his opinion that the cost of this wall, figuring labor ax the same rate, would more than equal that of all the 100,000 miles of railroad ,' in the I nked States. The material it contains would build a wa'l six feet l.lgh and two feet thick right straight nrouud the globe. Yet this was done j in" or.ly twenty years without a trace of debt or bond. It is the greatest individual labor the world has ever knownj the wind . I great, strong wind that i north, , Uurr. What scenes of deflation fc 3ince breaking from thy iPy n 1 'Long danger'slracks thv V'? wound ' uh, O er rock, rou-h hills wi .wastes of gronn !' AVhere famine prowis wi... cries, ' h' Where stronc hnn f:. ae dies? Aik- Irt thou the henald of so.ti9 Art tnou the strayia : -world- that long ago had fallon tr. And for this breach of ai !li fhe wind replies: ' Thou h brin I'll be a lovioj zephyr in th I'm li'ie mankm l rer,:.,. sarin. in wr. T TiUIdestroyalllhua-love, PITH AND loi j'IV 0! 8 How to get a hea l - B jtamp. A. close call The t.ii iec ins Din lor ttii m s,y,(, - career written up. It buy-hography.. When strougmea .,:ike and delicate woman bravely Msf' with a brcom handle. Where, oh where. dictionary. Wutei-jj i hi had not 'Til stay.' said Mackenzie ; A big gopher-snake was killed recently at Daytona, Fla., in whose stomach was found a three-foot ratfe snake still alii i The gopher was over six feet in length! : (Jkneral. Andrew JAcksoN. : Born March 15, 1767. ...P?1 Jn8, 1845. : And on the other, evidently written by the husband's loving hand : ' - ...v....... ' : to R1- rachel Jackson, : . Who died the 22d December, 182?, : : r a?ed bL ; . er face was fair, her person plea- : : ing, her temper amiable, and her : heart kind. She was delighted in re- : : lievmg the wants of her f ellow-crea- v : ures, and cultivated that divine : : pleasure by the most liberal and un- : pretending methods. To. the poor : : she was a benefactor- to the rich an .' example, to the wretched acomfor- ' the-prospe-ous an ornament. " er piety went hand in hand w ith : her benevolen e, and she thau'e1 her " Crtor.f?r being permitted to do : good. A being: so gentle, and yet so : : virtuous, slander might wound, but -i could not dishonor. Even Death, " : when he tora her from the arms of " i her husband, could bat- transport her " : to the boscm of her God. ; : . " Around the sabred spot wave the mag nolia, hickory, oak, hawthorn and wil low. Of th.se latter, there we fVr splendid trees that have grown from twigs cut by the General's hand on' the day he buried his wife, an by hiui Manna. jranna.well known to posscsj valuable medicinal properties, is pioducod by a kind of ash tree found in Eastern coun tries, called the flowering ab, often cul tivated in Europe and sometimes in this country for an ornarnen. It is a 6mall tree, rarely over thirty feet high, but yery showy -on account of its large clusters of greemsfc-wnite flowe: s. Sicily u the chief source of manna. In that country ;the. trees are planted in plantations.and when about eight years old they beinto yield Cuts an inch and a half to two inches long are made in the bark, cutting through to the wood. One cut is made daily, beginning near the bottom of the trunk, with each succeediag cut about an inch above the for:ner one. The thick. syrup like juice exudes from the cuts, and hardens on the bark into white. sponny Cakes, which, when hard-enough, are removed add dried still further be fore they are packed for commerce. It consist- mainly of a form of sugar called raanite.and has mild, laxative properties There are, in dry, Criental countries, sev eral other trees and shru s also, whi h 'yield manna, usually when punctured bv A a A " m . insects : out nine is Known ot these kinds of manna outside of the localities that produce them. Even some' of those plants, low in the order of vegetation known as lichens produce n: anna. These are like the .plants often seen oa old trees and On rocks, which are incorrectly called "mosses." Several of these, which grow very rapidly on the ground, are intrusted with a sort of sugar or manna. v These in tim.1 dry up, wi:cn they are carried by the winds to a great distance. These litheas occasionally occur at the prese.it. time in Western Asia and Northern Af rica, and are eaten by the inhabitants, and also by sheep and other animals. Hints tor Fat People. The American, relieved of the onerous duties of settlement life, has lo ig since ceased to be the lean, cadaverous dys peptic that he j was pictured to be. His Anglo-Saxon blood is beginning to mani fest itselfjin ths storing up of tissue. In other words, he is John Bull's numistak able offspring,' and the old gentleman's paunch is beginning to show on -him. The American of both." sexes , and of all conditions isi certain lv getting fat. t Neither of them likes the new contour. and hence tho popularity of the scores of systems of reducing corpulence. A good weight at maiurity is not iinhealthful. Even a superabundance of tissue is not a serious disadvantage. As acre approaches .after a certain point it will i egin to dis- appear naturally, out it is unsafe as well as painful to j attempt to remove it by medication or any other process b yond what a fair share of c rercise will do. Rapid reduction of weight involves a corresponding depletion of the system, a decided lowering of vitality, b larger predisposition to disease and a pretty sure Invitation to consumption. Let the fat stay; it will do less harm than drugs. Brooklyn Citizen. . ' Who Was Napoleon? Ponisi '-Now. spcakinsr of irrat men, what do yoh think of Napoleon Bo naparte?' j .Miss Pomdexter (from Philadelphia) -"Pshaw 1 he was nobodv. Who wa his g andfather?" Miss Bunkerhill tfrom Boston"! aon t think he could have amounted tn much; he had no middle name." JHiss Gotham (from New York) "How much was he worth f -Hiss Torcine (from Chiracrm r.iA he make Jiis money before tlie fire, or sime?" " Miss Montespan (from SL Louisv- "Did he belong to one of our old French families?" j Mis Hount Vernon ffrom Baltimore) "I never heard of him; but stav wasnt he some sort of relation to the Bait more Bohapartesf" Baltimot Her ald, r . Bricks that wirl fou arc ii0j. France. Cpnve dent f.jr a miJ in his hat wljen lie's half Sif tings. une o.ten iceis, in vieff0f ... waist ui inu periou, aiiJfB.ir out nis arm to surround needle. Jvdje. Thompson "Suppose a m.t call you a liar,, what shrill v ' Jones (hesitatingly) " hit si f Pittzburj JJis tatch. i -An Indiana girl has been tor: a mouth She will soon i egin .- that she has fo Burlington Free-Press A writer in a . Baltimore "How to Make a Pout ce."' wear one and look stylish' is ti conundrum Pica'j vtc. Many a man who thin' he is 4 6et the world ahre nn h to hi" that somebody has turne ( th : hm. New Hi ten A e .cn. The Ohio young lady wlohy twenty-nine olfers of manu the past year must have ke;t ous amount of very poorcomp;- ine rocKers on a cninr iwf:t half so far behind at -auv ot: w.-en a man is powiinir arum dark barefooted. JLtans di-. i-. Boston has six ciitors over Utica Oisercir., Seems a; if:. have been just 43 easy to say has eighty-six editors. Ljm, r I know vou're woi s? than 1 1- v lo him th? lady sai l, 'I only paint my cheeks anJtf You paint th3 whole t jwnir.; A Boston woman, by the w ? Eeriment, recently tied a pidc er chin, and discovered thii: thirty-three mile3 betwejn breaa lunch. L'fe. A scientist says that -i Ojdjxu.-; 100 pounds on the earth. woiW two tons on Jupiter. . .u.n: m;ni imagine that they live 011 Jupit:: time. AVe Jlicen Jincs. ' I met a girl of tLe . An 1 gently t ok her 3' I thought 1 d p p t lie ' - Bat diJn t hae tbosi, ... C I'form' A Texas piper o if a ins' as headed: "Itaisiug Mulci oj the. Thi sounds like cruelty to a:l especial iv if there be a tire in ta. We should think the mulciw;. against it. Sorrisiottn iL Tomkvns -I can't n.)ssib!vs--i , rf 4 1 i what's comincr to our o:l coUwA- wanted ham and poached ( g,rs t: Other day. and couldn't gft'tai. kyns ".h! and wanted r the other day, an I couldn't gt -, Judy. , Mind-reaiing is nowthepro c "Take hold of my left hatia and what I'm thinkin ' of' a A th:t the family to hi coaddn,' siwii: 'vc."said she"r-ist)liiLr iii - lani ' sively, "you arc thi:; k n: aUjjt me to; the opera " fch'hal ;c again. Boston lleroll. . They had been sitting for a 1 in silence. Suddenly ?li" woke f a reverie and said-t 4 -It .s an .f'v ress after a 1, George." ' Va ; Tilled ftftpr drwlnr tho hen I oil from his mouth, "b .t slut J motfotra rpmnr?" tVtf.t11 she gurgled, "but I saw in thiirj paper that you cau buy wedd n; ' installments." Boston Con ' He had been courting her a so long that she began a f-v to Cl 1-4 one nierht she sa d to him : is the author of the phrase 'M. poses?' " ''I'm sure I don t knci swertd John; "why do you asK, I merely wanted to knowwbc "For what reason ." "iiccaajc he didn't know what heas-l ab'ouC Five minutes later the day was set. Boston Co rr. He was a big bodied man ta in the rain. "Hey, there. -my umbjclla. I've found it at I?" he exclaimed, in a louJ acing tone, as he stood in a doe;' one of the prin'pil streets. while nnrlnkfriana nroro hurrvi!; A dozen men turned at onte v- him, and came toward him. holy their 'umbrellas and makiDS h apologies. AVith the air of individual, the large man s:fj silk one from among thenumsft procession moved on. rionetfr I lAMBtTOX'S B0X5E' On every politician's b" A bonnet you may see: And every bonnet, it i aia Is sure to have a be- indeed, some bonnets v . . A very hiTe of beei; w ui And you can here theii At any time, with e The Presidential bee dofi The loudest of the lot; And buzzing is not all fl0P lt3, sting is. ne'er iors IXonrv Ward IWrher 3 Mr. Beecher. savs a e or a id ar'.J a n moutn unurcn, anareiu .tUri nas a salary ot wn increase which was at one ,u,v- r"M he earns some f2.,uuu lectures, ana nas a diu- y. an ahthor., Formerly; Pc jjj, salarr of tS.ODO a year a' w clergyman in tne cnueu jj,. received so large a nis laoors as jur. ucw""--. (00; r Jear he has earned over V"' as only a Tery moder ite iff1 .
The Weekly Record (Beaufort, N.C.)
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Feb. 17, 1887, edition 1
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