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it If f r ft . S I TERMS F 8WMCBIPT10K. One Year gix Months... . KX 1 00 Special Reqn( 1. J writing on businesi be sure to give the Postoffice at which jou get your mail matter. .-. .. 2. In remitting money, always give both name and Postoffice. ' ,. 3. Send matter for the mair department on a sepan U piece of piper froai any thing for publication. 4. Write cammuuications only on o'ne 'de of the sheet. COINCIDENCE. EXPERIENCE OF TWO Of THE OO.DIB. I really felt worried, I own. About my affair with Elise, So when Fred and I were alone I told him tho facts, which were these: Td carted her round more or less To theaters and seashore and such, , But never had reason to guess That she ever cared for me much, 'Till on day it happened she spoko Of my being sweet on Kate Drew. Said I, just by way of a joke : You know I care only for you." I said it in jest, recollect. She took it in earnest; at onoo Confessed what I didn't suspect. She loved me 1 Well I, like a dunce. Had not the quick wit to pretend I thought she was joking- and turn The talk. Did not wish to offend, , By eeeminjr her true lovo to spurn. . I nnoear overjoyed A nd klsaed Now- fool that I ra, I've been -very adly annoyed . . - - dt navmg to keep up ths sham. She's pleas nt, but being har slave And buying: her diamonds and such, And (Toin- to see her to rave Of love well, it'8 rather too much. I'd like to get out of the scrape. But feel that the blame's on my part; I wish to effect my escape. But don't want to wound the girl's heart, 'Now Kit d," said J, " tell me the means By which lean end the affair Without any tear-shedding eeenes, . Or filling her soul with despair." Paid he: " 'Tia amazing, but true; A similar story I chant. I'm just in the same ttx aa you. And want to escape, but I can't The girl is a frightful expense, But loves with the ardor of youth. I really can't give the offense Of telling her, -frankly, the truth. The racket we'll have to maintain. Till timo shows a way to get out. It goes very much 'gain3t the grain. But still we deserve it, no doubt. Together we'll chum, if you please. Who is your incumbrance?" " Her name," I answered, " is Kenyon Elise." "By Jingo," said Fred, "mine's the samel" Boston F6U THE LITTLE FOXES. A' Lay Sermon, "Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that Fpoil the vinas; for our iVines have tender grapes." Solomon's Sting, 2:15. Deakly Beloved: It is the little things in this life that make up our hap piness or misery. If we had to deal only with the great things we could get along. If there were, only lions in the way,"" life would lie pleasanter than it is. If we were only expected to be heroes, we covild accomplish our Warfare" and work oat our mission with less trouble tlian now encompasses us. But alas. it is not against li-ms .and great dangers that t 1m; voice oi inspiration arns us. It is only the "little, foxes" we are to take. And the man- wh ilespiseili 'the day of small things is oven as he who lifteih up liis head in the air and vaunteth him-elf, even while lie sitteih his foot upon the -humble banana peel. FaHeth he over a mn by treading upon a dry goods bos, or doth he stumble over a two story house? Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that . spoil the vine,' Bre; hrenvlt is easier to kill a lion t han to catch a fox. t is ea-ier to build , nnjn than it i-s to make a watch. I ji-ey.t is the warrior who taketh a city, ' byl,-he is batter than the mighty, that is slow to anger, and better is "he that rul- elh his spirit'' than he that taketh a city. Why see, how much of human misery is basd upon the merest trifles. The man who. makes hinlse'f supremely wretc hed because he wants something liis neighbor has, and can't get it; the man who swears when be loses his col lar button; the man who breaks the furniture because he can't find his hat on the rack .when he left it out in the back yard; the man who wants to die when he wakes at night to hear.it rain- . ing in perfect torrents and remembers that he left all the kindling wood out doors on the cistern box; the man who is unhappy because his boots are tight; 4he young man, or old man either, who tries to make a forty-dollar salary 'sup port a iifty-dollar coat, and is miserable because there is a misfit somewhere; the man whdKs cross and savage all through house-cleaning week; the man who is always sick and miserable after the pic- nic; the man who is cross because it is hot, and gruff because it's cold, and ir ritable because it's wet what are these men but the tormented victims of "the little foxes that spoil the vines." These men have, no heavy burdens, no grave trials. They are miserable because they make themselves so, and they remain .miserable because they are too lazy tc .sefe a fox trap. If the old world had no heavier sorrows" than these, we would be so happy down here some of us wouldn't care to go to Heaven. Lay this paper dowu right here,, dearly be loved, and count up all your own trial and sorrows and tribulations; strike out all the little, petty e very-day annoy ances you are ashamed to call tribula tions, audi see how little you have to makelifelmhappy. Honestly, no.r. whal trouble have you? You need not tell me; iust give -yourself an honest answer. If we allowed tae great wrongs of life to move us as deeply as do the petty trials; if we endured our light afflictions more patiently,; and more valiantly com batted the great evils, how soon would we reform this old world. If one-half the indignation that is poured out upon . the insensate collar buttons that roll away under the shadowy' concealment ot impassive lounges and bureaus were as faithless politicians who betray their trusts and barter their principles for. place and profit, there would be no mourning over an iv lack of honest men If society broke the in public places. If society furniture and foamed at the mouth and tore things when it can find neither its bank account or the Cashier as it does when it simply cannot find its hat, no man could steal trust funds and build a new house therewith. If the man who tries to reverse t he appearance or a number nine foot, to make it fit a num ber six boot, would only try as hard to make hi3 sinful nature compass ine vir tues of a saint, the world would be fra grahtr with patience, and his home and neighbors. would rise up and call him blessed. We fret and chafe under the little trials, and are too complacent with the great evils. And the man who can ignore the petty vexations and save all his strength of mind and body for the great things, he is the man who leads us all It is true, dearly beloved, these petty ahnovances make constant demands upon your strength and patience and grace. I know, there are a thousand loxes to one lion, and that it is hard work to watch them all the time, but etemal vigilance is the price of a good, character, and " Evil la-caused by want of thought A yrpU at by want of kftMtt" Wife ESTABLISHED 1848. It would be easier to be a martyr, and go down to the1 block or to the stake, and have one's head cut off or be burned to a crisp at once and be done with it, than it is to enduro eight or ten years of rheumatism. So much the more honor to the patient victims of rheuma tism than to the martyrs. I know it is easier to President of the United States, and be a good President, too, than it is to go to sleep with the earache, or with three small mosquitoes in the room, that have made mp their minds to a horrible repast of human blood. I know out of the breadth and depth of my own experience I know whereof I affirm I know it is an easier matter to edit a newspaper, than it is to put the babr to ticularly slespy just then. 1 knowth little trials are the hardQstJ th6 little temptations are the strongest The man who would scorn to steal a horse will swear a little sometimes. The man who could not be hired to forge a note will sometimes help to circulate a campaign lie; the man who will not commit murder. will occasionally scold his wife; and the man who would scorn a lie under any other circumstances can't be trusted in a horse trade. It is easy for any honest man to refuse a bribe; it is hard for the same man to tell the truth about the size, and number of the trout he caught It is comparatively easy to obey the big commandments; it's the finer meshes of .the little net that will out ingle so many of us. Dearly beloved, don't try to be he-, roes, then., Don t aim to "lie wingless saints. Don't aspire to the distinction of martyrdom. Try to be good, every day, honest, Christian men and wom en, and see if you have not your hands full Don't waste vour time lion hunt ing; the lions never hurt anybody, but " Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines; for our vines have tender grapes." -Burling ton Hawkeye. Something About the Rising Blossom of the. Pi nod. No ftoWerfor a long time has become i pODular and so personal as the eiiri- fiower. It has (climbed into our favor and taken possession of our homes, our garden and our dress, and is every where the sentinel of artand fashibn and of right, for it is riot billy a decora tive and useful flower, but bears a e-ood religious character, being as a Christian flower dedicated to St. Bartholomew. St. Louis (Kins:) and St. Antradis, aud. as a pagan eniblenu the sacred flower of the ancient Peruvians, who were wor shipers of the sun. Its resemblance to the god of day and its supposed homage to the rising sun made it their emblem of faith, and on this accouat it was -irreatly used in their religious ceremonies, and the virgins who officiated in the temple of the sun were crowned with sunflowers made of hand, and aril,. fastene 3 their robes with them.' In Persia and other lands of the East the sundower is the emblem of constan cy in love, and there are many poetical allusions in Eastern literature to the flower that always turns its face toward the sun. The tirst mention we have of it in En gland is from Gerard, in 1596, when he tells us that in his garden he had one that has grown to the height of 11 feet, Which produces flowers measuring 16 inches over. In Spain and Mexico thev grow to the height of 20 feet, some of the flowers measuring four feet in diam eter, and a single flower producing 2,362 seeds. Botanical authorities fiay that there are nearly fifty species. Among those which are best known are the tall sun flower of Peru and Mexico, the peren nial, a native of Virginia, and the dwarf sunflower, brought as late as 1878 from' Eo-voL ' The seeds, when peeled, taste like sweet almond. They make an excellent bread of them in Portugal, and during the late war, in the Southern States, they were substituted for coffee in many a frontier cabin. They are good fo5d for poultry, and the oil pressed from them is frequently used in place of olive oil for salads; it can also be burned in the lamp and is splendid for soap making. The stems and flowers when burned produce a good potash, and many a hopsewife in Texas has superintended the burning of sunflowers to obtain the potash forj her week's baking with as much care as she did rhe baking itself. In Texas the sunflower pulled at sun down with a Wish is sure to bring the wish true before the next sunset (so the Indian says), and no true Texan will have a garden without at least one of these "mimic suns" in it. To dream of them signifies that you will have your pride wofunded; and a noro, if he h&s this dream, will never rest until he has pulled a j sunflower to counteract the omen. And in some parts of the South a negro will not let you bring into the house a sunflower that has been pulled before it is perfect or oue that is in any way broken. Harper's Weekly. A Dead Earnest Woman. When Mrs. Gutzkow found herself on the road to Redwood City, California, her buggv upset, her horse rim away, and hernusband disabled by a lame leg and a broken arm, she was in a sore quandary what to do. After a while a man came driving by, and she begged him to take her husband and herself to town. ! He refused, saying he was in a hurry. .Thereupon Mrs. Gutzkow snatched up her husband's overcoat, pulled out a revolver, seized the man' s horse by the bit, leveled the shooting iron at him, and threatened to put him Out of thenecessity of ever keeping an other engagment if he did not comply with her request. He saw dead earnest ness in her. eye, weakened, and took husband and wife to Redwood City; and now Mrs. Gutzkow1 s reputation as a heroine is firmly established on the Pacific coast. Her husband is a son of the popular! poet and writer who re cently met his death in Germany by suffocation during a chloral" hydrate sleep. -Michael Pavitt Is a tall, rosy? cheeked man, witfc a 6hort, black mus tache and close-trimmed side whisk rg. His right sleeve hangs empty at jdi lide. '." to lmn www wvy v PUBLISHED AT RUTH ERFORDTON, N. C ?EVERY. FRIDAY MORNING The Cabbage Worm We suppose that none Of our readers have been or will be troubled with cab bage worm this season. How ban they be, When nearly every week a " cure remedy' has been published! . But joking aside, we have published some very simple remedies, or alleged.reme die, that we hope: will be tried. Cay enne pepper, for instance. This pest has received a great deal of attention, but it seems to Daffle all attempts to de stroy .it or prevent its ravages. Not that there are no remedies, but those generally recommended are either dam gerous, expensive or difficult of appli cation. Some time since we published a recommendation of Pyretnrum The r-l" -'-rr'j 5 "jisw lui. i Ifch flour, at the rate of one ounce of the powder to five ounces of fhe flour, and thinly dust it over the infested plants. It is also some times used in solution, one ounce of the powder to ten gallons of water. It is said that both of these will destroy not only the cabbage tvorm but almost any other insect that may be upon the plant. But Pyrethrum is high priced, and that would prevent its universal adoption. Prof. Thomas,- however, mentions another remedy which is within the reach of any one, and which is said to be effectual. It consists Of eqUal parts of saltpeter and salt, dissolved in hot water, and diluted With ,cold water. Sprinkle this upqin the plants during the hottest part f the day while the sun is shining upon them. The propor tions of the salt, : saltpeter and water are as abbve described with reference to the two first, and diluted with ten or twelve quarts of water., A rule of proportions cannot hoWever, be inflexi ble, for some saltpeter is a great deal stronger than other samples. Prof. Thomaa says he tried it on some horse radish leaves on which there were about a dozen worms. j;He used a tablespoon ful of salt and saltpeter each, dissolved ink cup of hot water and afterward diluted with two quarts ' of eold watcf. He sprinkled the leaves at half-past nine o'clock in the forenoon, when the sun was shining I; brightly. Two days later but two of the worms remained alive. Its effedsl Upon, the leaves was hot seriously detrimental, although there were a few quite large spots that were killed by the solution. In the month of September following he sprinkled another cluster of horse-radish leaves that were badly infested, us ing a solution of one-fourth of the same kind of saltpeter and salt, and diluting it with a quart of water. This was put onto the plants at half-past eleven o'clock, when the sun Was shihing brightly,- but it had. nt) effect upon the Worms, frohl which it Would appear that to be certainly effective it must be strong encugh to injure more or less any plant that is not hardier thah the1 wmrft$ alrilferimenna small, scale. ij Hot water, wljuch is so strongly rec ommended, Prof. Thomas does not ap prove of as a remedy, alleging that it cannot be used at a sufficiently nigh temperature to kill the worms without injury to the plant: One" 'gardener is quoted as reconiiniendmg London pur ple. He says he uses it constantly, and that it neither has any bad efl'ect upon his own family who eat the cab bage, or "upon others who buy his cate bages in the market. Paris breeh or London burpte Will nb doubt kill the wornls-, but notwithstanding that Prof. Thomas deems it safe to give the gar dener's experience, we do not recom mend it, and, indeed, would counsel against its use. Western Rural. Growth of Colts. In order to winter a colt well, and have him come;out a fine, showy, sturdy animal in the spring, particular atten, tion must be paid to his growth during the first summer and ftutumn. If the mare's milk is at all deficient to keep the colt in good flesh and thriving stead ily, it is best to have recourse at once to cow's milk, kimmed milk answers very well for this purpose especially if a little flax-seed jelly; oil br cotton-seed meal, is mixed; with it. A heaped table-spoonful, nigrht and mornincr, is enough to begin with, when the . colt is a month old. This can be gradually in creased to a pint per day, by the time It is six months o'd, or double this if the colt be of the large farm or Cart Horse breed. Oats, also, may be given as soon as hey can be eaten. Begin with a half pint, night and morning, and go on in creasing, according to the age attd size of the animal, Jto four quarts per day. These, together with the meal above should be supplemented with a couple Of quarts of wheat bran night and morn ing. The latter is excellent to prevent worms, and helps to keep the bowels in good condition. Colts should not be permitted to stand on a plank, cement, paved or any hard floor the first year, as these are liable to injuriously affect the feet and legs. Un less the yard where colts run in the win ter has a sandy, or fine, dry, gravelly sqil, it should be well littered, so as to keep their feet dry. Mud, or soft, wet tish ground, is.apt to make tender hoofs, no matter how well bred the colt may be. One reason why the horses in one district grow tip superior to those in an other in noof, bone, muscle and action, is because it jhas a dry limestone or siliceous soil.; j When the mare is at work, do not let the colt run with her; and if she. comes back from her work heated, allow her to get cool before suckling the 'colt, as her over-heated milk is liable to give the foal diarrhoea. , George Allen, a machinist in the employ of theji South & North Alabama Railroad, at ' Birmingham, Ala., died recently fromthe effects of chloroform. The deceased ,had been suffering great ly from toothache for some time. An ineffectual attempt was made to- extract the tooth. The dentist was opposed to the administration of chloroform, and refused to take the responsibility. Two prominent physicians were called in, and the chloroform was administered by them. Eyery precaution was taken, but in vain. ; The great -seal of Great Britain and Ireland is affixed to yellow wax for En- gliah documents, red fop Scotcft, ana greto lor IrUh. IT- a- 1 Family ffewspaper; Devoted to Htae Iiterests The Towers of Saieace. Of all the resting-places jfor the- de parted none seem so strange- Ceme teries, crematories and catacdmbs , have been used more or less by. al nations ; bnt the Towers of Silence are found qnly among that ancient people,' the Parees. I visited them in the early: morning, in company with an intelligent and in tensely orthodox Parsee. We pissed along the busy streets of Bombay t the more quiet western limits, ' Wiere ell built and richly-furnished (bungalows nestle among groves of palms and flow ery shrubs. "Soon Malabar 'Hill' was reached, which is a high ridgrnrihing north and south between, the '.city land me sea. Here the auto nt tli6 cty - bve their homes, and, strange to say, iabout midway of this range of hillastand the towers. We slowly climbed the.rlong flight of rough stone steps ftt'he ' sum mit of the hill, and found .tffee a .very high stone wall inolosing ef-eral tcres of land. Passing through'a srtaTl arfihed gateway we were within theHflclofiure, and saw to our right a prayer temple, and a little removed from that a firo temple, in which a priest always stands watching and feeding the Jsacred;fire, which never goes out. Ascending i few steps to a platform beside Tthe wall, t obtained a magnificent view'of the;, city and whole island. Turning, from' this we took a broad path runnirfdue ve3t, and as we moved on the fielcrwas svery barren and desolate. The scant jfrrass was all withered by the sunandj dark reddisn rocks were ev rere fseeh protruding above the soil few balm trees, many of them stunte like dwarf sentinels, mani ibod about branches broken by the wewht oj'the vultures. Soon the towe appeared, five in number, two of thertfc,o'n ttie right of the path and three on theleft. They vary greatly in circumference. Tvo of them are quite tmall, having been j'built in the past w hen the Parsee wre; In number. These are now" closed ing filled with human bonei Ihe wer ones are much larger. 3 These towers are simply cfreulartone walls, about thirty feet high J: and white washed on the outside: An inclined plane leads, from the ground iip to a small iron door on the eastside, gbout fifteen feet from the basei Through this door the professional bearers c the dead carry the corpse, and jj is sen no more. According to a model of the towers shown by the superintendejit of the place, there is a stone floor inside the tower, level with the door sand ii this stone floor are spaces cut, about a foot deep, and arranged in three1 ircltvS, to receive the bodies. The outer Circle i9 for men, the next for women, and-the third for children. In the centers an enormous pit or well into whicA the bones are Hast after they become?; dry. Atift ever enters this ptap bui a- bearers of the aj nf.te nhest. Strangers are not allowed wKhija the gates during a funeral procession and' women relatives never come- insid the walls With their, dead. Just before the bearers begin to ascend the inclined blane which leads to, the f rpwniniron door they halt, and the iriends ap proaching the bier, take the -lst $ook, for they can go no farther. Also s(t this point a dog is brought, and caused to look on the face of the dead, the7 de cline to Say why this is done, anjji the superstitious reverence of etren cultured ParseCs for the dog is v$ry strange. They all keep dogs there i not a,Par see house on earth without ft dog. -When the dead is carried inside1 Jthe bearers are frequently forced to hurry out 'a es cape harm from the hungry vuf.rires, which immediately begin to 'strip. dff the flesh. The Parseessay tha1inone iour, unless the birds are gorged,here ; s not a shred of flesh on the bones:. ? There are strange tale whiskered through the city of Objectionably rela tives being carried too sqon to .'these awful towers,that cries bave'been ljeard, and once a form was seen-battlin with the hungry birds. If a marydiesljn the forenoon his body is taken 'away a four p. lh. ; if he dies during the nighf he is removed at ten a. m. There had; been no dead brought the daybefor, al though there are about eight huftlred bodies taken to the towers yearly. Con sequently, the birds were very hutigry. A large number of them vere perched on the rim of a large tower'vand, ap-s we appeared, began to turn their htjleous heads and flap their duskywingi with delight, and whet their beaks ojnr the stones, evidently expecting a miman body for breakfast. We were requested to stofewherjf'with- in about thirty yards of "the ower. No strangers are allowed to gpunearejr. ' I caused all conversation to ceas and listened, that I might know if it tivas a place Of Slleuee. I found jt wa.' No sound from the busy city' reached us ; no voice, or roll of passing wheels; only the faint, solemn murmur -of the distant sea and the boding flap of ; the vulture's wing. While standing there listening, I saw a huge vulture perched ?n a ibalm tree smoothing its plumage, and to large feathers- Came , sloWlysdownfco the ground. ' Disregarding the fules if the place, I dashed forwards and- secured them as mementoes of my visit One of them will find a home jin m. study and the other will be on the tabtj of a certain editor, to be used 'for riting solemn obituaries. We were informed that a funeral .was approaching, and must withdraw. So I went, outside and passed along the wall to-the souhwest angle, where I could get- a viewbf the upper part of the tower, where th- body was to be left. After a few moments I saw the vultures begin togrow restless, looking into the tower. Suddeny they plunged out of sight, and I knesv their least nact begun. Bombay Indiig) Cor. Chicago Times. s, ;,. New York capitalists are negotia ting for the purchase of the ospect House at Niagara Fallsnd Si I the properties connected therewith, ifor the purpose of "beautifying the grounds of this valuable estate" and "adding jma- terially to the comfort ah pleasure of Visitors. " Bless the N. Xi C. ' s fj?r their phdanthronv! and in their improve ments may they keep aneye on $ae rav- ! Ait.na BO.otir.n W'-hftvW the F u without fear 0f thesa tiniqtee mon- j Bterg will be new au(j deUffhtfu-J-tf, Y. Independent. P. --it and Grseral lewi The History of a Coat-Tall. Without being an Oscar Wilde gone mad, I am often moved with a sense of pity at our destiny as men by observing I those oi my ieiiow-creatures who are m the habit of attiring themselves In those garments called black swallow-tailed coats. It is a sign of the times the move-; ment is especially significant, inasmuch J as it relates to the lower extremities that Oscar Wilde has commenced an innovation in our masculine attire by, adopting knee-breeches and silk stock-; ings. But for my own part I should i wish to commence the reform with Miss Kate Field's permission by chang-! ing the black t with swallow-tails, j But before going into the question l' will content myself with a short history; of the dress-coat, and hope that this, will also serve as a sort of record of its obituary. I Have you ever asked yourself the question : Why is it that every important occasion of your life is marked by yovii wearing a dre3s-coatP j " j If you go to a wedding you must wear a dre3s-coat. If you go to a funeral you must wear a dres3-coat. Are you a minister, you must constantly wear a dress-coat on your back. ; Are you a footman, the dress-coat is indispensable. Searching for the origin of this cus tom i3 a pursuit which amuses a man when it does not sadden him, and I will now submit the result of my inquiries to the public; The dress-coat which has the preten sion to be the garment par excellence had its origin in the seventeenth cen tury. As you see, it is two centuries old, so that in my opinion we have acquired the right to consign it to oblivion. Metaphorically; speaking, from this coat is descended that gar ment which we call the French coat. There is only one point of difference between the French coat of a past age and the dress-Coat of fhoderd times, and that is, that while the former had a standing Collar the latter has one which i3 turned down. I do not know who improved the old "machine,' but during the' reigil of toui3 XIV. it had already become prominent at the court of that monarch. The young swells who formed the cream of society abandoned the use of the square-cut coat, which was always richly embroid ered, and replaced it with a sort of dress-coat with a standing collar and having tight sleeves embroidered in gold. , The skirts were very plain on the outside, but very nicely trimmed on the under side; and in order that the sight of this precious trimming should not be entirely lost, it becarde the' fashion td turn up the skirts with gold buttons and to fasten them back by passing the buttons through button-holes made for - j L ry . mm, puijnw. j. t j During many Ions years this stvle was maintained in the arifly for military j uniforms. 1 he materials of Whicn this attire was made varied according to the taste and, wealth of the wearer. They were of cloth, of gutiflf qr of velvet,' and almost invariably of brilliant colors ; Little by little people began to under- Stand that "this mode of turning back the skirts to the outside was not at all practical, and, beside, wai highly anti aesthetic. A tailor of genius conceived the idea . that they should be made smaller, arid it was then that the French coat began to assume the ridiculous shape of our present dress-coats, vfr'itH the only difference that the skirts were ornamented with silk or silver or gold. In France and in England large sums pf money were spent in following tfj lash ion, and in Spain it was the siV but Germany and Italy were less iLtUned toward these extravagancies. I At the time of theflrst French revolu tion the realm of fashion Ceased to exists and the Custom of embroidering gentle men's Coats Canle td ah end: Those were not the days when a man Could display his wealth or live irt a style pf ostentation, and with the disappearance of embroideries there disappeared also the bright colors jn which gentlemen used to dress, and more somber colors took thteir place. . . Under the directory the "Incroyablea" endeavored to set the fashion by wearing the skirts of their : coats very long and flowing. In the "Fille de- Alme. Angot" the spectator -is able to see how they were made, with the addition of a black collar f atal to those who were adherents of monarchical rule. On the rise of the government of Na poleon j howeyeri the coat underwent various transformations both in shape and in colors; and probably in order to display a deeper feeling of tranquillity on the part of the public, the colors worn were more lively in appearance.: Clear blue predominated as we can still see, even in our own day, by ex amining the wardrobes of our ances tors, and it extended from the lappels to the gold button. Little by little the shape of the coat went out, of fashion ; hen following the caprice of the day, jt finally became unknown to the fash ionable world. I The period in which the tail ooat was held in least esteem was during the first twenty-five years of the present cen tnrv. That was the epoch when women wore coach-wheel hats an article of female wearing apparel which has again made its appearance in our own day -and men sported enormous collars, probably for the purpose of protecting their heads against catching the colds which were likely to arise from legs being covered with nothing but auk Stockings. lam unable to think of that epoch without wanting to laugh at it, and without a desire to thank God that : He preserved me from coming into ! the world at that period of universal colds. The ridicule of seventy-five years al ready consoles me for the; ridiculous fig ures which we cut in our coats of ,fun eral black and the sections of stove pipe with which we cover our heads! Th drags-coat and hat of our times, will be a subject of great merriment in the next century, in which I hope I shall have the satisfaction of living. Boston stai-T ?!' ! Hanlan's winnings in England foot up $8000. . proticfti result oi musci. his trips to This is he TERMS Per Aoum Hunting ana llonnds. i Hunting is, par excellence, the sport of England, and for systematized hunt ing with hounds England is par excel lence the country of the sport. In no other is it carried on with such zeal, and at so great cost; and none is there wnere so many people approve oi or take part in it. Proof of this will be found in the fact that throughout the kingdom there are no less than 350 packs of hounds, averaging between thirty and forty coupled each, to wit: 15 of stag:hounds, 171 of fox-hounds. 13b oi harriers, iy of beagles, with a few packs of other hounds. Grey hounds are also kept in; large numbers all over the country;! while certain breeds of terricro are trained as aids rond adjuncts' Of the port. Of the packs, England, of course, possesses the maioritv. though Ireland, up to the Land League agitation, had its full auota proportioned to population. Scotland and Wales, from their mount ainous nature, are in j a manner pre cluded from this specialty of sport, the former having in all only eight packs of fox-hounds, with one of harriem and one of beagles. ! Some packs are the property of and ' maintained by private individuals; rich ! magnates to whom money is of slight consequence when weighed against the grandeur of owning and keeping up t ; pack of hounds. These are few, how 'ever, most being "subscription packs," supported by regular subscribers who are members of the Hunt, with - occa sional voluntary contributions from out siders. But there is often a deficiency ; of cash, with much strain in meeting the expenses of the year; so much that now and then a pack falls to pieces, the htint is given up, and the hounds, with horses and other belongings, are sold off under the hammer.; After a time ; fresh spirit of hunting zeal may spring j up. in the abandoned district, from new . men of wealth coming to reside in it, i when an effort will be made to resusci tate the hunt, which is generally suc ! cessful. Every year some packs are broken up, and others either re-estab-: lished or for the first time got together. The cost of keeping a pack of hounds i varies much, and is dependent on sev eral circumstances, as the number ana Character of the official staff of manage ment, the frequency 'with Which the pack is hunted, and, to) some extent, its size. Each pack has; a Maste'r, pre sumptively a gentleman in the social sense of the word; and the office is sup posed to be honorary-fat least there is no fixed salary attached to it. But as the Masters have sole control and ex penditure Of the fund, it ia pretty well understood that they recoup themselves not only for outlajs of money, but for time and trouble, too. j Most of them certaifilv do so. thougn not all; some j heinc losers br if,, for fflmry'i sake-. . In usi.aiujv uu bj. vii . an cases, nowever, mere is all cases, however, there is an under standing that the Master shall not be at any expense for his mount; this being provided for him, and of the best. But the Usual method is: Before undertak ing to hunt sL pack of hounds, the Mas ter that is to be demands a certain .fixed sum subscribed and put into his hknds, sufficient to cover, all expenses, which he also binds himself j to meet. With this money he can deal) as it seems best to him; expend it all and hunt the pack -wfell; or be stingy and; save some of it for himself, turning oUt the hounds in an unhandsome manner. There are even Masters of this kind, though not many. ' i Aflef a track has been established, kennels built, hduhdsr and horses of the hunt purchased, the chief Outlay is in the pay of the subordinate officials and the keep of the horses, as also that of the hounds themselves.) In addition to the Master, every pack! has a Huntsman and Whip; in the majority of cases two of the latter, and in noted hunts, as the Pytehley, Berkley, Quorn and Belvoir, three or even more. Attached to such packs there is also a j" Kennel Hunts mail," whose ' duty consists in looking after the hounds at home; and if fox hounds there will be ft numerous tribe of " earth-stoppers," needing to be re munerated for the quaintly curious part they are called j upon to play. All these men receive a handsome wage, the Huntsman and Whips well earning it. For not only is their work hard, put they must be the best of riders, able to keep well up to the hounds, and so risking; their necks every day they are out. As most packs hunt from three to five days a week,- some even six, it will be seen that the calling' of either Huntsman orj Whip is no sine cure. The amount required for the maintenance of an ordinary pack may be roughly estimated at 1,500 a year; but there are large establishments where this is far exceeded, and many small ones conducted economically at much less expense -say ono-half for the aver1 - age. Of course these figures have noth ing to do with the cost of establishing the pack which calls for a considerable outlay on the iiems j above adduced. When the hunting days are frequent, Master, Huntsman and Whips require several horses each; so making the ex pense all the greater. Cor. N. Y. 'Irib une. ' A street urchin was captured the other day, in this city, with a basket half full of old cigar stumps, which he had picked out of the gutters. To a Police Court Justice he said that he sold them for ten cents a pound to a maker of cigarettes, and that good many boys and girls were engaged in this in dustry. Yet even this explanation, and a knowledge of how bad some cigars are, will not fullv account for the vile rodor of the average cigarette smoked on the platforms of street tars. -V.' Y. Sun. - ' The Duke of Westminster, nwna Shotover. the winner of the who Der- by, is shortly to be married to the sister of Mr. Cavendish, who married the Duke's daughter some - four and a half years ago. By the Dake's new mar-iriao-e hewillthu3 be j brother-in-law to hi3own daughter and son-in-law and uncle to his little grandson. The Duke is 56 years old, and Miss Cavendish (daughter of LordChesham) is a young lady. Confederate $1,000 bills have lately been selling in Atlanta, Qa-. for $2, and 100 bills for 2i cent, DYEBriSIWS Btfi One ipeb, one imaertion... . fl f One tacb, eaeh ubseqaent insertion... 60 Qntrterly, Semiannual or Tearlr cam tracts will be ma le on liberal terma. Obituaries and Tribntea nf i-bm charged for at ad ver Using rates, " No communications will be published nn less accompanied br the full name and ad dress of the writer. These are not requested for publication, bnt as a guarantee oi good faith. All communications for the paper, and business letters, should be addressed to THE BANNER. RutherfordtoH, N. C SCIEXCE AND INDUSTRY. -The light which falls upon the earth from the satellites of Mars is about equivalent to what a man's hand on which the fun shone- at Washington would reflect to Boston. There has been a fair average catch of seals on Neah Bay and Quu leute,' Washington Territory, this sea son, but, jowing to the advance in cost of catching, and decline in value in for eign markets, the season's business on the whole has been unprofitable. Chicago Times. ; A .valuable fiber called pita or bromelic grows wild in Honduras. It is 3aid to be the strongest liber kndwn, and can be u'ed, half and half , with silk or wool. Machinery has been made to prepare it for manufacturing purposes, and it i3 said to be worth, when ready' for market, $1,000 a ton. , Prof. Carlo Pavesi, an Italian, has produced a disinfectant which the med ical papers of the Old World heartily commend. It is composed of chloride of lime, camphor and glycerine. The mixture can be used in all cases where phenic acid is now employed, and is less disagreeable, le33 irritating and less toxic than that acid, Diving for black pearls employs a large number of men and boats off the coast of Lower California. Traders sup ply the vessels and diving apparatus upon the stipulation thai the pearls that are found are to be sold to. them at specified rates. These jewels are of much beauty and highly prized. A year's production is worth on an aver age from f 500,000 to $ 1,000,000.. Straw has long been used for the manufacture of paper, and it is now made into lumber of any desired length and width. It holds nails as well as wood, and is susceptible of a higher fin ish and polish. Like papier-mache, it i3 waterproof, and .can, therefore, be used for external as well a3 internal pur poses. Samples resemble hardwood, nearly as dark as oak, but; more dense in texture, and with a specific gravity one-fifth more than that of black walnut. It is cheaper than wood, and will in tho future largely take its place in building. Chicago Journal. The following is a cheap and simple non-conducting covering for steam pipes : Four parts of coal ashes, sifted through a riddle of four meshes to the inch, one part calcined plaster, one part flour, one part fine fire clay. Mix-the ashes and fire clay together to the thick ness of thin mortar, in a mortar trough j mix the calcined plaster and flour to gether dry, and add to it the ashes and clay as you want to use it; put it on the pipes in two coat, according to thesiza of the pipes. For a six-inch pipe, put the first coat about 11-4 inch thick; the secuud uuaL ohoulvl bu about 11-2 inch thick. Afterward, finish with hard fin ish, same as applied to plastering in a room. It takes the above about two hours and a half to set on a hot pipe. Gcrmantown Telegraph. An engine giving off a total of sixty horse power was found by the .indicator diagrams to be using twenty-five-horse power to get rid of the exhaust steam from the cylinders, and had been work ing in this condition for years, the loss of so much power never having been even suspected till the indicator dia grams revealed it. Many engines are running in this country, close beside streams of water, and exhausting the steam into the air, when by the addition of a condensing apparatus, a large in crease ot power could be obtained, or a saving of fuel effected. In an engine taking steam at sixty pounds pressure, and cutting off at half a stroke, the gain of power by condensing would be about 32 1-2 per cent., of which 2 1-2 per cent, would be required to drive the air pumps. A Fight at a Funeral. A sensational scene"' occurred to-day at the funeral of Hermance Lenoir, a young French girl who committed sui cide Saturday night because her lover refused to marry her. A youn Bra zilian named Ferrecara Maries had been paying attention to the girl for some time. She loved him passionately, and once before, when her parents refused consent to her marriage with Maries, be attempted to destroy herself. This led them to an agreement to marriage, but on Saturday last. Maries told the nrl hb couldn't keep his promise and wed her Tie result was that she took strvchnine the sfcffie night and died in great agony. Sh6 was only sixteen years old, was very pretty, and of irre proachable character. 3!p-day. at the funeral in the Odd Fellows1 Cemetery, the friends of the family were amazed, when the grave wa reached, to . see Maries step out of a carriage and ap proach tho coffin and mourners as though to take part in the funeral. This presence of the man .who caused his daughter's death so incensed the father of the dead girl that he ordered the in truder to leave. The young man re fused, and made a move to draw his pistol, when the father pulled a revolver and began firing. The first shot whizzed -dangerously near Maries' head, when the coward turned tail and ran for his life. Lenoir fired five shots, but th9 fugitive made such good time that he got away unhurt. There was great ex citement among the mourners, bnt the majority excuse the father's action on account of the extreme cowardice and meanness of the young man. The latter is said to be a boot-black who ha been masquerading as a capitalist. San Francisco Dispatch. A foreign writer says the public is not VnVmrlv itrnorant of Bible history. "I doubt if a fair per centage of the people to be met with in the course of annours wa!k would g$ as near the order of the names of the books in the Old Testa ment as the little school-girl in Somer set. This west country blossom of the School Board system was requested to name the earlier writings of the Sacred text, which she did thus, tnd very flu ently: 'Devonshire, Exeter. Liticus, Numbers. Astronomy, Jupiter, Jumbo, Ruth.'" - An ill-fitting shoe wastbe primary oause of the death, by blood-poisotiin. of a four-year-old child at Weitftttf Vf n, i .. i i i I : i - 5 , "4 - 1 ii y i .-1 -A n i i i it- J f! ;1 i j -ft I '1 I ) i sr.
The Rutherford Banner (Rutherfordton, N.C.)
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