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i i R. H. COWAN, Editor and Proprietor. We Proudly call ours a Govenunent by the People. Cleveland. TERMS: 82.00 Per Year. VOL. II. WADESBORO, N. C, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1886. NO. 24. 'I'flMllH: jne Year H ix Months Three Jlculhs iii Ailvunce. 2.00 - l.OO - - - 50 ADVERTISING RATES. r.'ne sqium.'. flift in;rtion 'Each n;lst4-unt insertion '.ocal "'Jvrtisements, per line . 1.00 50 - 10 tJgbjxi ial rates given on applieatio for x-nc-r urce. Advertisers are requetted to bring In thoir advert ii-emeiit? on Monday evening of each tveek, to insure insertion in next issue. PROFESSIONAL CARDS. .John D. Pemberton. ATTORNEY AT LAW, WADESBORO, N. C. ST" Vt V i -e in th Stata anl Feiera f urts JAMES L LOCKHART. Attorney and Counsellor at Law, WADESBORO. N. C. XW I'raotice ot all the Courte of the States K. LITTLE. W. L. PAKSON LITTLE & PARSONS, A 'I TOHNEYfci AT LAW, WADE8B0R0, N. C. I olle-rioiiK Pro minly Attended to. 1 1 . 11. Ue l'ew ;i E N T 1 S T, AVADESBiJKO. N. ( . - i)ftc- ovrr O. W. Huutlry'e toie. All Work Warranted. Mnv 14. tf. im. U. U. FRONTIS, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON flfTors hit- I VofvKsional Services to the citizens of W.'ik..i.rn and sujT'tindiig country. Of fic f'j'jx s!t Ltunk. irt A 13 Iluutloy, M. P. J. T. J. Battle, M. D lrs Huntley A Dattle, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS W;iufpVor, C )fflc- n xt to Bank Mav T tf I. II. HORTON. J E W E LEU, WADESBORO, N. (V Ih'ah'arin Watches. C'lo ks, Jewelry, Musical Itistnmi'iits. Bmvh and Muzzle Loading Shot (ir.ns, rj.-tP, &c. Anson lnstitTTte9 WADESBORO, N. C. D. A. MCGREGOR, PRINCIPAL J. J. Bl HXETT. A. B. i -I. W: Kii.tio. A. B. Assistants. Mis 31. L. McCorki.e, ) i The Tpring Term begins Monday,. Jan n;iry 11 th. 1SS(J. j TriTKix In Eittrary Department, $2, ami i i xt month. Instrumental Music, 4 per month. Vocal Music. -4 w month. 'se of piano for practice 50 cents per month. In-an!. 10 jer month. Vintingent fee, 1 per year. F r Catalogue apply to the Principal. Aloi veii Mih School, 3iovex, :v. C". JAMES W. KILGO, A, B., Principal. r7 Tlie Fall Session begins on the 3d of August lt5, and runs through five months. TUITION, PER MONTH. Primary, Intermediate, Ad van ceil $2.00 2.50 3.00 ; Board from $3 TO $10 per montL For further particulars address the Prin- W L WE, MI NL FACTURER AND DEALER IN s, Tin-ware, Sheet-Iron AVD HOLLOW WARE. WADESBORO, N. C. HOTELS. When you ?0 to Charlotte be ?nre 'all on to I S TtT T T 1VT TVF ( KT Q ' l A A ill ill U D , FOR Fine Mountain Whiskies rs THE Old Charlotte Hotel " CHARLOTTE, N. C. YAIiRROCGII HOUSE, KAI-iEIGi!. N. r: mm Drr-TTftfrn irn mm, t, ! CALL AND SEE US. 1 The King of the Stallions BY HENRY NEWPORT. "Boss! boss? Curry, curry! Yarra man gone!" The stockman leaped out of bed at this Cry of his black herd -keeper, and belt iDghis trousers as he ran, made with all hasti for the corral where the horses hao been confined at dusk on the previouf evening. I climbed into my clothes as rapidlX as possible, and joined him in time tc hear the black saying: ' 'Suppose you give it bullock, I look out yarra man belong you." "Hang it all; I suppose I'll have to. Ii this more of Peter's work?" "Sure, bos. See, and see, and see." The black stooped down and pointed to a peculiar series of marks in the tore ground about the stockade. They were the prints of a horse's hoof small, bul clearly cut in each instance as though the horse had deliberately pressed his foot into the ground in such a way as tc leave a perfect impression. All abou these perfect marks were torn ground and an occasional half foot print, show ing that the place. had been overrun s short time before by a drove of horses. "What is it?" I asked. "Peter, king of the stallions on the Macquaric river, and the finest horse in all South Australia, has been here in the night and coaxed my mares away. They have broken through the stockade, as you see, and the other horses have fol lowed, so that we haven't a hoof on this place this morning. It is that rascally Cud jo's business to look after the horses but he has let them escape, and now has the sublime gall to tell me that if I give him a bullock he will find them for me.'i "Which, of course, you will not do?" "But I just will I have no choice. K is either give Cudjo his bullock, or lose my entire string of horses. He knows the haunts of Peter and his drove and can lead us direct to the place where the beasts are at this moment; and what is more, after the horses are found, he can separate mine from the wild herd. Alone, I could neither find the horses, nor cap. ture them after they were found. This is the third time that I have suffered in his way, and I propose that it shall be the last. ' You and I and Cudjo shall take our rifles and stalk the drove until Peter is killed, if it takes a week, and when the stallion is shot Cudjo shall haje two bullocks instead of one." Cudjo's saturnine face broke into a series of grins at this welcome news. He shook his black fist in the direction of a clump of gum trees on the horizon and yelled: "Peter, you rascal! Cudjo make him budgery?" meaning that Petei was doomed. Next to the kangaroos, the droves ol wild horses that infest plains in New South Wales, are the settlers' greatest enemies. Originally domesticated, they have broken away from, the stations at various times, and partly through natura ncrease, partly through accessions tc i their ranks from the settlers' herds, thai i aj-e rapidly growing into a pest of appal- ling proportions, enticing away the stock- Uiuu a mares, ui caning uowu ms block.- ades and trampling the growing grain. "Co. boss," whispered the black, hold ing up a warning finger after we had been on a steady trot behind him for tw hours and more: "better you make down your head, or yarraman gerrand" (the horses will be frightened). "Where are they, you black rascal P' "See, boss." . We had instinctively lowered our heads, and followed the black's example, hall crawling to the top of a gentle elevation J grown up in acacias and gum trees, and ; now at his words looked over the brow of i the hill. On the rich couch grass which overspread the plain below 500 horsee were eenS- Some were lying down, ij- cr0ppinff the irrass within reach of their lips ; others were curveting among the occasional clumps of grass-trees, and j others were drinking at a stream which meandered like a silver ribbon through the green plain. Off to the' right was a proup of .comparatively jaded animal greedily devouring their breakfast, and paying but slight heed to the magnificent milk-white brute which pranced about them. A glance told us that these wer the' horses we were in search of. Al: ' . . i J a1 thougn hnenorses tney lacsiea iae ir- lees, spirited air which characterized the wild drove, and novice as I was in horse BB PATIENT WITH THE LIVIWO fvnect friend. tVn thou and I art gone Beyond eir! V weary labor, Whrn rnnall uh); 1h our need 6t grace From comrade or from neighbor, Passed all the strife, the toil, the caro, And done with all the sighing What tender truth shall we have gained, Alas! by simply dying? Then lips too chary cf their praise Will tell cur merits over,. And eyes too swift enr faults t6 tee Khali no d?foct d raver; Then hands that would not lift a stone Where stones were thick to cumber Our steep bill path, will scatter floweri Above our pillowed slumber. fewest friend, perchance both thou and 1, ' fere love Is past forgiving, Should take the earnest lesson home Be patient with the living! To-day repressed rebuke may save Our blinding tears to-morrow; Then patience, e'en when keenest edge. May whet a nameless sorrow. Tis easy to be centle when ' Death's silence shames our clamor, And easy to discern the best Through memory's mystic glamor; But wise it were for thee and me, Ere love is past forgiving. To take the tender lesson home Be patient with the living I Good Chetr. matters, even I could readily distinguish every member of the domesticated (roup. ' . "That is Peter circling about them j whispered my friend. "See how square ly he puts his foot to the ground, whether walking or leaping. The fac that he never fails to make a perfect ini pression of his hoofs in the earth has made him known to every stockman in this valley. He has iured away more ani- mals than any drove of horses in the ' bush, I believe, and fears nothing but man. On our last trip I saw birw km e rival with a single downward blow of his fore-feet. He reared, on his haunches just ts the other made a spring toward him, Ind brought his little, solid hoofs down en the other's head above the eyes. The bono broke Uke . paper, and the jjreat orute went down Ifk a bDodt under Ah, good bdy, Cndjd r The ptallion suddenly ceased his rear ing and prancing, stareH fixedly toward a rass tree, which I had not noticed be fore, growing in the center of the plain between him and the great body of wild horses, and then, throwing out his streaming tail and arching his neck, he :actered proudly up the valley, past the suspicions tree, taking care to give it a wide berth, and joined his orSpnnions. The group of runaways started to follow, when sud "ny the gras-? '; broke into animated ife. It threw oil it" efowiii 'of pendant rass and ran like a deer in front of the i uant herd, where it tossed a white masa tpon the ground. The stockman's horses topped as by one impulse, and crowded ibout the mass of salt which the astute 2ud jo had brought for this very purpose, illowing him to tether them where they tood. Meanwhile the wild herd, with heir reat white king at their head, was hunderinff up the valley toward leavy coppice which guarded the uppe intrance. "If nothing frightens them," said my tompanion, "they wjll only put that mish between ourselves and them, and .hen we can steal up on them and let our -ifleo talk." j But something did frighten them. It iras Cudjo. He suddenly left the tethered lorces and ran in the direction of the fly ng herd, yelling at the top of his ungs and firing his rifle repeatedly, 1 though the distance was so great hat there was no possibility )f the bullets hitting the animals imed at. The reports of the inin, how- j wer, were plainly audible to the now j "rantic drove, and it dashed up the plain ; t redoubled speed. The front rank cemed to faulter when the coppice was cached, as though unwilling to enter it; nit the rear guard pressed on, and whether they would or no the leaders x-ere fore e I into the jungle. Before half he horses had passed through, however, wild commotion was observed among he ethers. They separated and ran ilong the edge of the bush in two con verging lines like the waters parting be rore a rock, and finally disappeared in he open country at each end of the cop- j oice. ! 'Vrn KIqiIt linnnfl !" mnrpil Oia ntrvrlr- uan, shaking his fist at the far-away fig ire of the black, who was coolly trotting 'oward us, dragging his smoking gun by ts leathern shoulder strap, "what was ;he use of frightening those horses? W ?an never shoot them now; they will run for the next twelve hours." -"Peter not run no more," came the as tounding answer. "Cudjo make him oudgery. Boss give Cudjo two bul locks." He held up two black fingers and pointed to the tethered horses and then to-the coppice, as a reminder of the bar gain made earlier in the day that when the horse3 were recaptured and Petei was killed, Cudjo was to be rewarded with two beeves.- A couple of horses were struggling out of the coppice. One of them was milk .vhite. A second glance showed that it was Peter. His head drooped; his tail iragged on the ground, and he staggered Uke a drunken man. . The other was in in equally sorry condition, and presently the whole plain in the region of the jun gle was covered with prostrate and stag gering horses. The coppice was a growth of nettle 01 ringing trees, so well known to the Aus tralian settler as a prolific cause of death imong the horses which touch it. The doomed Peter staggered for a few minutes and then fell heavily, where he lay pant5ng, only presently to start up plunging and rearing furiously. He fell again, arose, and dashed like a Malay running a-muck across the plain, crash ing into the heavy gum trees, plunging his head against their trunks, as though frartic and seeking death by suicide. ' We ran to the scene of the tragedy, and with our rifles put as many of the victims out of their misery as was possi ble, but for two hours the plain wai dotted with mad horses plunging in th throes of death. . Then it was all ovei and the last victim gave his last gasp and the carcasses of more than ninety horses lay under the hot sun. Peter's latelj beautiful form was swollen into a shape less mass; his white coat was torn b3 the branches through which he had dashed, and his forelock was dabbled i blood from his forehead. It was a good day for the stockmen in the Macquarie valley; but although co vinccd of its utilitarian value, I nera again want to witness a slaughter ) horses. Detroit Free Preaa. ' Peat is used as fuel by one of the Rus sian railways at half the cost of wood or .coal. The peat is found chiefly nea M scow and is cut by steam machinery which can penetrate to a depth of twenty feet frjm the surface of the bog. . . THE ROADRUNNER. A SINGULAR LITTLE BIRDFOU&D IN THE SOUTHWEST; ft is Hardly Ever Still, and Ran in stead of Flying when Pursued How it Entraps the Rattlesnake. A very singular and yet a very little tnown bird is the roadrunner chaparral wk, or, as it is known in Mexico and me Spanish sections of the United States, the paisano. It belongs to the cuckoo family, but has none of the bad habits by which the European cuckoo is best known. Ii is s f1- " h BMM an familiar" object in tha southwestern por tions of the United States and in Mexico. Sometimes it wanders up into Middle California, but not often, seeming to pre fer the more deserted, hotter and s&ndiet parts of Southern California, and from j luere suclcmn? 1W MDlta " eMl ll. A A 1lAa A "'JB iexas- It is not by any means a bnlliantlj colored bird, although some of its huei are very beautiful. The prevailing coloi of the roadrunner is olive green, which is marked with brown and white. The top "A hs head is black b,lue, and is furnished with an erectile crest. The eyes axe sur ronndcd by a line of bare skin. It is rot a large bird, being seldom twenty-four inches long, with a tail tak ing more than half of that length. The tail, indeed, is the mo6t striking feature the bird, being not only so very long, but seemingly endowed with the gift ol perpetual motion, since it is never still, j rml DOIs UP ana "own, ana siaewise, ! fo' 5nto evciT possible angle, and al- most incessantly. But while its tail is most striking, its legs are most remarkable, being not only long and stout, but wonderfully muscu lar. How muscular nobody would be able to imagine who had not put them to the test. A traveler in Mexico tells of going out with his rancherohost to hunt hares with a brace of very fine hounds. Going ovel a long stretch of sandy plain, relieved only by pillars and clusters of cactus, the Mexican called the attention of his guest to an alert, comical-looking bird, some distance from them. With the remark that the gentleman 5hould see some rare coursing, the Mexi can slipped the leashes of the straining hounds, which sprang off as if used tc the sport, and darted after the bird. Foi a moment it seemed to the stranger a very poor use to put the dogs to, but he was not long in changing his mind. Instead of taking wing, the bird tilted its long tail straight up into the air in a saucily defiant way, and started off on a run in a direct line ahead. It seemed an incredible thing that the slender dogs, with their 6pace devouring bounds, should not at once overtake the little bird , but so it was. The legs of the paisano moved with marvelous rapidity, and en abled it to keep the hounds at their dis tance for a very long time, being finally overtaken only after one of the gamest -ere8 ever witnessed by the visiting sportsman. The roadrunner, however, serves a bet ter purpose in life than being run d6wn by hounds. Cassin mentions a most singu lar circumstance among the peculiaritie? j of the bird. It seems to have a mortal hatred of rattlesnakes, and no sooner sees one of those reptiles than it sets about in what, to the snake, might well seem s most diabolical way of compassing it! ! death. Finding the snake asleep, it af , once seeks out the spiniest of small cacti, i the prickly pear, and, with infinite pain$ I and quietness, carries the leaves, which j it breaks off, and puts them in a circlf ! around the slumbering snake. When ii has made a sufficient wall about the ob- j ject of all this care, it rouses its victim j with a sudden-peck of its sharp beak, and then quickly retires 'to let th snake work out $ts own destruction, a thing it eventually does in a way thai ught to gratify the roadrunner if it hav any sense of humor. Any one watching ai it would say it was expressing the live liet emotion with its constantly ana grotesquely moving tail. The first impulse and act of the as saulted snake is to coil for adart;iti next to move away. It quickly realize, that it is hemmed in, in a circle, ant finally makes a rash attempt to glidi over the obstructions. The myriad o tiny needles prick it and drive it back The angry snake, with small wisdom attempts to retaliate by fastening it fangs into the offending cactus. Th spines fill its mouth. Angrier still, it again and again as j saults the prickly wall, until, quite be j side itself with rage, it seems to lose it wits completely,' and, writhing anc i twisting horribly, buries its envenomex ; fangs into its own body, dying final!; j from its self-inflicted wounds. After th- j catastrophe, the roadrunner indulges in i j few gratified flirts of its long tail anc , goes off, perchance to find its reward ii i being run down by hounds set on bj j men. Scientific American. j Milling is another interest that is im proving in the South. During last year nearly 150 mills have been erected in the Southern States, not including grist mills. A Southern manufacturing ex change thus summarizes th6 year's work : Arkansas and Mississippi have erected one mill each; Alabama, 2; South Carolina, 2; West Virginia, 7; Maryland, 0 ; North Carolina, 10; Georgia, 17; Texas, 18; Virginia, 20; Tennessee, 24; Kentucky, 81, i A Herat's ltelllfleic. A hone which had been in possession of the Peters family, in BushkilL Penn., for twenty years, and which was famous for the almost human intelligence he fre quently displayed, died reeently. Dur ing the last few years of the horse's life he had been permitted to run at liberty ( but was f reqently hitched up to haul the dead bodies of cattle or horses that died on the farm to a place near the Delaware river, where the carcasses were buried. The old horse always stood near and watched the burials with great interest and attention. Some time ago this hone fell tick. One day he was missed from an enclosure where he was being cared for. A search was made for him, and he was finally found lying dead otr the spot where he had hauled the dead bodies of so many of his kind. As the place was out of the way of the old horse's usual haunts, and he had never been known to go there ex cept when driven there with some dead animal, no one who knew the horse be lieves that he did not seek the spot feel ing that he was about to die, and save the trouble of hauling his dead body there to be buried. Among the instances told of his intel ligence are the following; Late one night members of the family that owned him were awakened by a great noise on a piazza of the house. There was the loud neighing of the horse and a heavy stamping on the piazza floor. One of the inmates of the house went to the door. There was the old horse stamping and kicking and neighing with all his power. The discovery was made that an outhouse near the dwellling was on fire. The old horse had given the alarm, and a disastrous fire was prevented. One spring there was a flood in a stream on the place. A blind horse be longing to a neighbor got out of its pas ture, and wandering down to the swollen stream in some way got into the water. It swam about in a circle, and was un able to reach either shore. No one could render any aid to the poor animal, and there seemed no escape for it from drowning. The old Peters horse came along while the blind ' horse was strug gling in the water, and, after a moment's survey of the siruat'on. plunged in. He swara) out to the blind horse, and headed it off as it turned to make its usual circle, thus keeping its head pointed straight for shore as it swam. By beading the blind horse first on one side and then on the other, he guided it safely to Bhore. JV'ew York Sun. A Cool Colonel. 'The coolest man I ever knew was old Victor de St. Hilaire, the colonel of an infantry regiment that saw much service in Algeria," said Colonel Henri Dubois, one of a party of French officers who, having halted to take a look at Siam on their way home from the Tonquin war, had eome to dine with us on board of a British gun-boat which had somehow fr.und its way up the Mei-Nam river. "I've known men," hs continued, 'who managed to put on a great show of coolness in times of danger, though they were really Very much excited ; but there wai no putting-on with St. Hilaire it came as natural to him as eating his dinner. All his hair-breadth escapes and he had had so many that he could harelly count them himself) had left him as cool as before, and it really seeaaed as if dangers passed him by because he would not condescend to notice that they were there at all. Once his men muti nied, and two of them clapped their bayonets to his breast as if to run him through; but the colonel only smiled, and said, as quietly as ever, 'Be careful, my lads ; you might hurt me.1 "Now it happened that in Colonel St. Ililaire's regiment there was a peppery young sub-lieutenant who was as hot as the colonel was cool. With him it was always (as you English say)ja word and a blow, and the blow first.' He had fought so many duels that the soldiers used to call him 'Sudden Death,' and to say that the best way to end the war would be for him to challenge the enemy's whole army, man by man. Well, one clay this lieu tenant had committed some fault, for which the colonel gave him such a scold ing that the young fellow's hot blood couldn't bear it any longer. Quick as lightning he whipped out a pistol and fired right at St. Hilaire's face, so close that the muzzle almost touched him. But the pistol missed fire, and the colonel said, quite coolly: 'Forty -eight hours" arrest for not keeping your arms in proper order.'" "And was that all that the lieutenant got?" asked a dozen voices at onc, in un disguised amazement. "That was all; and I can tell you that he thought it was quite enough Ha! general,good-evening. I was just telling these gentlemen how you once, put me under arrest for not having my pistols in working order." David Ker, in Harper. Soma For For For For For For For For For Ao. Things You Will Not be Sorr hearing before indulging, thinking before speaking, holding an angry tongue, stopping the ear to a tattler, being kind to the distressed, being patient to all. asking pardon for wrong, speaking evil of no man. being courteous to alL Ftogretiix s - Dr. Susanna Rubinstein has receive at Leipsic the highest diploma in phUoso phy it is in the power of the univeraitj to bestow.. LADIES' C0LUMM. A Pretty Ifow-D'ye-Do. A well-known and wealthy mannfso- hirer, Dubot, of Paris, has had a young clerk in his employ for two yearn, with whose services and behavior he has been greatly pleased. In fact, so much had the young man endear himself to his employer that he was taken into the fam ily circle, and permitted to enjoy the ao fety of his daughter, a blooming miss of seventeen summers. Some time last month M. Dubot sent for his trusted clerk, and said to him confidentially: "You are a handsome, clever, and in dustrious young man. My Minnie is but seventeen yean old, and you please her much.-: She has a dower loft her by her deceased mother of 100,000 francs $20, 000).' If jou have a mind to marry her we will "arrange the wedding before Lent." The young clerk, known to his em ployer as Ernest Lamotte, turned pale at this kind proposition, and was silent. Upon recovering himself he inquired: "Have I satisfied you in the performance of my duties, during the two years I have remained with you?" "More than satisfied me," replied the manufacturer, enthusiastically. t "Well, whatever the consequences may be," he began, hesitatingly, "I must now entrust you with my fcccret My name is not Ernest, but Ernestine. I have passd through a commercial course of instruction, fitting me for any position in which a man would receive 240 francs per month (?50). In female apparel I could earn but fort francs. This ex plains all." M. Dubot. of course, was duly aston ished. Taking his worthy clerk by the hand, he reassuringly replied: "I hope to be able to console Minnie in her dis appointment. Her husband, Usee, you cannot be; but what would you think of the proposition of becoming her step mother It was now the turn of Ernestine to show astonishment. Requesting a day for consideration, the friends undr new relationships parted. Fashionable Exaggeration. A Paris letter to the New York Worhl says: I have; been a good deal amused lately at the wild statement respecting Worth's prices that have appeared in the American papers. No wonder that the king of the dressmakers declared that he had never heard of such a thing as a dres5 costing $2,000. Worth's dresses are not I cheap, certainly, and his establishment is", not exactly the place that one would select" wherein to order a cambric sum mer suit, an ordinary traveling dress, or an inexpensive cashmere costume for every-day wear. But for rich and elegant toilets his prices are really lower than are those of less accomplished rivals. The most superb of court dresses in velvet and satin, or in velvet and brocade may be had for from $300- to $400, that is, if neither fine hand-embroidery nor real lace enters into its composition. When these ele ments are present, the price of a dress may be indefinitely augmented. The point d'Alencon flounces on the wedding dress of the present queen of Spain, for uisiance, cost $200 per yard, but for that little detail the Duchess de Sesto, who ordered the dress, and not Worth, who superintended the satin and the orange blossoms and the making, was assuredly responsible. Very elegant evening dresses in faille and satin, and walking costumes in velvet, can be had in his establishment it prices ranging' from $240 to $280, and simpler toilets from $150 to $180. And ill his dresses are of such superb quality, ao matter what the material may be. One letail that women alone can appreciate ill the skirt, even those of cashmere and ;loth dresses, are mounted upon silk of sxcellent quality, and not upon the thin, perishable taffeta which is used by other Iressmakers. I am tolel that' this differ ?nce in the quality of the skirt founda tions costs the house over $6,000 annuity. Fashion Notes. Amter has come to the front. Copper and red gold galloons are fash ionable. Velveteen is in better taste when made jp plain. It is difficult to name a material which not fashionable. When over6kirt are looped at all the irapery Is drawn very high around th lips and m ide somewhat bouffant. Old-time unbleached stockings are in iemand, but they are . bought for wear inder colored silk or wool hosiery. The coiffure for evening must not only ye high but pyramidal, with flowera and i pompon or aigrette on the apex of the puffs. The Oxford traveling mantle is made f checked cheviot. It has an adjustable ;ape stitched to simulate three or five ;apc. .The new silk gloves are now em rojdered and trimmed, but do not meet jvithi the favor that was prophesied for j hem. Mitts made of silk, to wear .with kid rloves, without fingers and handsomely embroidered in colors on the backs, are mown. Passementerie is carried to such a de rree that it will puzzle the brains of the uventor to conjure up anything new in ;his line. In addit on to being the o'dest living ex-Senator of the United States, Joseph Cilley, of Nottingham, N. H., has be" come by the recent death of General David Hunter, the oldest ex-officer of the regular army, his commission dating from March 12, 1812. Imitating Foreign Cheese. If things keep on as they are," said a leading cheese merchant to a New York Mail ami Frprnm reporter, "there will j not be any necessity for importing any j foreign cheese. American ingenuity is rap;dily solving the cheese problem. We already produce a domestic Swiss cheese which I consider fully equal to the im ported article, elthough the latter brings five cents more in price. The importa tion of Limburger cheese is now very small. Still the importation of foreign cheese into this county last year amounted to over $050,000. The principal foreign are the Stilton, i heddar, Cheshire and Gloucester cheese from England ; Grutrre from Switzerland; Roquefort, Camembert, Pout VEvcque, Fromage de Brie and Neufehattelj front France, Edam cheese from Holland; Parmesa, fromagio Romans and Caccio Cavallo Nspoli, from Italy. Stilton cheese is in the shape of a cylinder, ten inches in height and eight inches in diameter. It is worth forty-five cents per rOind wholesale. Cheddar is eimil ir to factory cheese in appearance, and is worth thirty two cents. Both Cheddar and Gloucestf r are flat cheeses, and are worth twenty-eight cents. The genuine Gruyere cheese comes from Sw itzerland, although an inferior article is made in France. The Swiss Gruyere i j cheese measure three feet across. Four cheeses, weighing about 150 pounds, are pnckcelin a tub for exportation. Swiss Gruyere is wotlh twenty-five cents per p und. Ro.piefort cheese is mnde from the milk of gcats, ripened in limestone caves. Ene.li checfc weighs five pounds and is worth. thirty-five cents per pound. An old -Freuch gentleman, residing en Staten Island, owns a large herd of goats anel makes a very fair article of Roquefort cheese. He supplies quite a number of dealers and is worth quite a little fortune made in the busiaess. Camembert cheese is imported in .boxes cf five dozen pieces and wholesales at &.oQ er dozen. Pout l'Eveque is worth f3 per dozen and fromage de Brie f 1.50 per piece. Neufchatel, a species of pot cheese, is worth ten cents per portion. Limburger made here is worth twelve ceiits per pound and Muuster cheese twenty cents. The bright red Edam cheese from Holland, as round as a can non ball and almost -as hard, is worth f 10 a case of a dozen loaves. Parmesan cheese, almost exclusively used in th preparation of macaroni." comes from Italy in tubs containing five loaves, and is worth twenty-eight cents per pound. i The favorite cheese of the Italians' is the ' caceio cavallo or horse-head cheese, ; which is f-hippcel to this country from Naples, and retails at thirty cents. It is only a quc.-tion of a very little time when all these varie-tica of foreign cheese can' be successfully reproduced here in our own dairies. How a French Paasant Lives, When a peasant does live in a cottage on his land it is of the rudest description, j generally possessing but two rooms, often only one. It is supplemented by a rude ' piazza before the door, shaded in summct i time by the luxuriant leaves of the pumpj ; kin. Here the family cook, dine and j generally sleep during the hot months. ; Inside the adornment is nil. No muslin curtain to the window, no colored print i upon the walls, no bright crockery, nc J scoured pewter or brass, no clock. A j mud floor, a wooden bench, brown and ! polished with use, a deal table nevei ! crqbbcd, but brown with dirt and stains, i eernc blackened earthenware cooking j pots (a marmite and casserole) upon n j shelf, and a bedstead, perhaps two, here ' the wife's sole glory. The sheets" are : fairly clean, the best coverlet a gay patch ! work: the mattresses are well stuffed with elried maize leaves, and the bed is . carefully made' every day. Sometime I there hangs above it the effigy of thf ' Virgin and Child, but not often nowa ! days, for in the hard struggle for existence i religion itself seems to have been pushed aside; the peasant proprietor has little time for church and prayer,. and, though his superstition may remain, his faith bas declined. A gay carnation may hang from a broken pot on a wall, but, once stuck in it, it is there because it growf like a weed. The peasant most frequently inhabit? the little village or town that hangs on the mountain-side, or is perched upon s crag apparently inaccessible. Eza anc Roccabruna, on the Corniche, are well known to all tourists and lovers of th picturesque, and their-duplicates, frorr Castellar to Fontana, are scattered fai in'and among the folds of the mountain and over the frontier of Col de Tend? into Italy, as in Briga, Tcnda, etc. Everywhere the same story of the small peasant proprietor massed in ancient ten ements so closely that, seen from above, it looks sa though a skillfully throwi sheet or two could cover all the roofs at once. Here the interior condition ii weirse than in his hut: less space, more crowding, and less air, and here he defiet ecry sanitary law. Five souls frequently inhabit one room, five families one house which originally was owned by om alone, whose descendants have thus par celeditout among themselves, with the inevitable and deplorable result. Roomi originally intended for sleeping room have perforce become kitchens; and, a; a chimney has thus to be provided, the impoverished and parsimonious hein adopt the expedient of knocking out t stone in the wall and inserting a . short earthenware pipe, through which the smoke quietly ascends, obscuring th window directly above. The rights o. -"ancient light" are not protected by anj law in this country. ". . FUN. r The autocrat of the breakfast table Tlie buckwheat cake. A prize fighter is always willing to take his p-.y by the pound. Bottan Budgtt. Talk about women being - flighty! Look at bank cashiers. Burlington Fret Pre. Something highly prized yet always given away A brido. Hot SpHii-g V(wi. Men are most likely to rave about a woman's hair when it is found in the but ter. lreU CUittn. In Japan, when a girl wants a husband, she set? her flower-pot on' the window sill. When it falls on the head of an eligible young man, she is sure to make a mash. 3t.on Trantxrript, From triflea onr pleaaures In life often spring. The smalkst thing happiness renders. And many a man feels as proud as a kin; In a pair of embroidered suspenders. Boston Courier. When a fish's eyes are prominent the fHi i.j knowu'to bo fresh. Think of this, ynung man' when you go about staring everybody out of- countenance. Surely you would not wish to 1,; placed on a level with n dead mackerel ?--Hotton TiMff. An album containing the photographs of 20,000.000 tar is bt ing prepared by a French astronomer. We believe that is: nlout the number a man sees when he sits down in nn in vert rd position) on tho icy sidewalk, but how tho astronomer" roanageel to get instantaneous photo graphs of them wheu in such an awk ward position is diflicult to understand. . Xorri-town llral1. Dr. Hammond says we shall all be bald in a thousand years.- If he is right the man who lives a thousand years hence will be ahead of the man of to-day in one thing. His wife won't be able to pull his hair. Moreover, be won't need to go hunting ov r the house ia the morn ing bov. ling for the oroh which his little boy his jut dropped out of the window into the allev w-av. B.-fw Courier The Last Ditch. During the war the "Inst man" ane 'last elitch" were cor mon phrases, and ... ftrange as it may seem, rays an exchange' they were located at the end of the war. On Fourth of July morning. 1866, fifteei months after Lee's surrender, the secre tary of war, who had planned a fishing excursion to the falls of the-Potomac, received a telegram from the provos! marshal at Richmond, Va., stating thai a squad of Confederate soldiers were a his office ready to deliver up their armt and be amne ti -d. Know ing that joking of that description would subject the perpetrator to court-martial, he made t bee line to the White House to consul Pf-ident Johnson, which resulted in I tf 1 .--gram-to th-' provos-t marshal:- "Win are they and where did they come.froml The imstver wan direct to the point "Se rgtant Tewksb.ny and guard fron Dismal Swamp. Did not know tho wa was over." After a good roar of laughte . the provejst ma: -lnl. was ordered to r ceive their capitulation. - TewkKl'ury, a Virginian, ordered . couple of Georgians to come forward give, up their shooting-irons and sticl their (i'-ts to t!i "d;cyment," resolvinj himself a" the last man and old Disma S.vamp the last ditch. Tewksbury's de script ion of how he ascertained the wa was over was amusing. He and his com ' pauions-had been posted on the edge ey th? swamp to watch movements of Yank from Norfolk, with orders to remain un til relieved. He never was relieved, anl had subsisted on game and fish for thre years. He mr t an old negro who toll him lint the war had been over about I year, which tickled him better than if hi. , had been kieked by a mule, as he fac tiouslv expressed it. English Luxury. Speaking of" English luxury, Adam Badeau say in tlr New 'York Sun: "In u great house tlrr y er forty indoor ser vants is a common niirt:l r. nd often , there are as many more in the stablos, and still 8s many other in th? gardens, or the glass. a the conservatories ...are called. One' nobleman that I knew was neater of the hounds and kept seventy horses, and for every two horses a man. At an entertainment in the country a sort of pageant or play I heard some say that a hundred of the servants came into the great hall and stood , bs-. hind the guests; the remainder' were on duty elsewhere. Several times, in large establishments, I asked permission to-., visit the offices : and t he kitchens and 6till rooms and seuileries, the larders and laundries, the gun rooms and plate rooms . and brushing rooms, the housekeeper's rooms, the pantries and the servants' ' hall made a lahyrinth of labor difficult to explore. In making the rounds I' was taken to the nurseries and the school rooms, for tutors and governesses are only a higher sort of servant in England. They live and eat apart from the gentry, and often get less wages than valets and ladies' maids. I taw, too, the,bedroom3 and v the linen rooms and the,-room where the maids were making up clothes, . all rising when their mistress entered. I visited the stables and the carpenter shop, even the butchery and the brewery for many of the large proprieton kill their own meat and brew their own beer. Each servant is allowed beer money, as well as wages, or else supplied with so many glasses, or sometimes literally horns of beer." One firm in Germany has made and sold, during the last five years, 3,000,000 thermometere.