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? I I . I L 1 I _ ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BANNER; : BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T. WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1882. NO. 43. VOLUME XXVI. ~ j - ^ Fate. T?vo shall 1)0 born the whole wilo world apart And speak in different tongues, an J have no thought Each of the other s being, and no heed. And these o'er unknown seas to uui;nown lands Shall cross, escaping wreck, defying death; Ami, all unconsciously, shape every act And bend each wandering step to this 0110 endThat one day out of darkness they shall meet And read life's meaning in each other's eyes. And two shall walk some narrow way of life, So nearly tide by siile that should one turn Ever so little space to left or right They needs must stand acknowledged face to face, And yet, with wistful eyes that never meet, "With groping hands that never clasp, and lips Calling iu vain to ears that never hear, They seek each other all their weary days, And die unsatisfied: and this is fato. A Romantic Marriage. She was certainly a lovely girl, such as any man might well bo prond of knowing; at least so seemed to think her companion, Cecil Courtney, for he I gazed and loved?and loving, gazed again. "Cecil," eho murmured, "Cecil.it seems strange, nay, almost impossible, that you thculd love me, poor Grace Gardner, a lonely orphan, without friends.or fortune, and moro than all, your sistet's governess." The manly face beside her flushed with a loving look as he replied: "Strange, my darling, it may be, but not one whit the less true, that I love you with an intensity that shall outlive every evil or ill that a cold and unsympathetic world can possibly pour upon us. For you, my dearest, I can glory in rennquisning every wish ana ambition of my life?Lome, friends and fortnne?and willing commence to labor for the daily bread that yonr love and presence shall tnm into veritable manna." " Ob, Cecil," she exclaimed, "it seems bo terribly selfish to allow you to give up so much for me! Aad who knows, you may some day regret so great a sacrifice? Nay, rather let me go away, and try to find peace away from you; happiness were impossible." "Darlinar Gracie," he exclaimed, in alarm, " for my sake never mention tuck an idea again ! What pleasure do you suppose all the riches of earth could afford mo unless I had you to share them ?" " Then, dear Cecil,I will say no more, only to beseech you to press me no moreto?to?" " To marry me?" lie asuea, laugaingly. " Yes," she replied, blushing, "nntil you have avowed to Colonel and Mrs. Courtney your preference for my humble self. Who can tell what might ollow ? Mrs. Courtney has been klad and considerate to me during the short time I have been here; perhaps they may not despise my dependent position, and consenting to our union all may be bright and joyous." "I will do as you wish, love," he roplied, fondly, "though I have little hope of success, for you do not know her as well as I do. Bat if I fail, darling, will you promise to face poverty at once with me and become my bride ? I have a hundred a year?left me by an aunt?wic my parents cannot touch or interfere with. This will keep us from want until I can meet with emRqtt rlarlincr cVioll ^/iVJlUVUXl ****** % V??MV?W it be so ? You do no? fear poverty with me ?' "Fear!" she exclaimed. "I fear nothing with you." He would have been less than a lover had he not fervently pressed those rosy lips to his own. in true lover fashion? It was the afternoon of the next day, while Grace Gardner was giving a music lesson to her affectionate and pretty little pupil (Cecil Courtney's only sister), | that the school-room door was thrown open in an ominous manner, and Mrs. Courtney?tall and stately, with robes fashionable and flowing? walked into the room. One glance at her haughty and angry countenance told Grace her er:and. She sent little Mabel away to her nuree, and then, turning to the governess, said: " Aud now, Miss Gardner, I have to request that you will find it convenient to leave this house this afternoon.*' " Scarcely this afternoon," replied Grace, quickly. " It is now too late to reach my friends to-day. To-morrow morning I thall have no objection to comply with your request." " Intolerable?your insolence is intolerable !" exokimed the lady, walking angrily up and down the foom. " I tell you you shall go at once ! You do not sleep another night under this roof 1" " May I be allowed to inquire the cause of so sudden and urgent a dismissal?" asked Grace, in the same quiet tone. " Ask!" said Mrs. Courtney, scornfully. 11 Your conscience must tell you 11 t "D U won eiiuugu ; xiexc, juu uavc nut uccu in the house two months, and you have laid your snares so cleverly that you have succeeded in entrapping my only son; and so skillfully and slyly have you played yoar part that 1 had not a suspicion of what was going on until that bewitched youth, fascinated with your doll's face, has dared to ask our consent to his marriage with you?you, who may be the daughter of a costermonger for all we know 1 This comes of taking girls on a lady's recommendation, instead of applying to those who had previously eneagcd them! I shall take care to let Lady Powis know what kind of a protege she has recommended !" Grace's face flushed as she replied, with dignity: 'Truly, madame, you might have stated your cause of complaint in gentler terms. Since you confess yourself ignorant of my parentage, do03 it not oocur to. you that I am as likely to prove the daughter of a duke as of a costermonger, in which cage, I presume, you would consider your eon honored by an alliance with me ?' "The daughter of a duke, indeed! You are nothing but a hardy adventuress; and let me tell you, miss, never presume to see my son again! Should ne dare to continue to address you in 1 defiance of hip lawful guardians, he will be disinherited; and as it is the money and not the man you want, I have no fear as to what course you wiU pursue with regard to kim 1" So saying she swept from the room. Grace then wrote a short note, as fol- j Iowb: " Dear Cecil : Your suspicions were ! correct- I am turned from your mother's house because I have dared to love and be loved by you. "It were better for us to part now, though I can scarcely bring myself to write such dreadful words. Let mo at least see you once more to say farewell, I shall stay until to morrow at Mrs. Jones' cottage in the village. Yours, "Gracie " She then left the same address with Mrs. Courtney's maid, in order that her boxes might be sent to her, and wraprvinrr a /I o ft aIaoL* o vr\n n A Via* on/1 ok uui u vivua ui vuuu uci cuu uuu ning a laco hat, she set out for Mrs. Jones', who was ail old woman to whom she had given money and kir.d words during her short residence in Lindon, not,however,beforeshe had stolen silently and unobserved to a sequestered part of the ground*, and carefully laid her note to Cecil Courtney in a hole beneath a large stone, which hole?to judge by the careful manner in which it was mide and arranged?had already been the receptacle of similar messages. * * * * * * It was a glorious evening toward the close of July when, in a handsome room in a fashionable hotel of the Lake district, Cecil Courtnev sat alone with his beauteous bride. The evening sunset was lighting up lakes, mountains and woods with silent beauty. Grace had been busy writing, but her letter was finished, and as she raised her lovely head she exclaimed: "Oh, Cecil, how perfectly enchanting this sunset is ! My darfing, your love is to me what the setting sun is to nature; it fills me with a bright, rosy hap pincss, which changes my whole being, and makes it as bright as the setting sun makes yon lovely landscape I" " Heaven bless you for saying so, darling wife-! Nothing on earth could add to the beauty of my beloved's face, that is already perfect!" She blushed in silent happiness, and for awhile they watched the glowing scene with a joy too deep for words. Presently he said, playfully : "And whom has my dear wife been writing to ?'' " To Lidy Powis," she replied, 1 promptly, "though I must ask you in this one instance to excuse me from j showing you tho letter. -Lady Powis is ! an old friend of my dear dead mother, and to her I owo more than words can ! express. Sbe is immensely rich and i very influential, and it was entirely my own fault that I took an engagement as governess instead of remaining with her. I have now written to inform her of my marriage, and it is just possible that she may be able and willing to find you some suitable appointment." "You dear, kind, thoughtful wife! I cannot say, but I hope she may for yonr sake; for I fear, love, that unless something turns up, I shall have to forego the pleasure of seeing my dar Jin? attired in sncli costly raiment as this, and this," he replied, touching almost reverentially her rich black silk dress and the beautifal lace she wore aronnd wrists and neck. " That would never grieve me," said i she, lightly. "I shall be as happy in serge as in satin, if dear Cecil only loves me. However, before we make up our minds to poverty, let us wait and see what Lady Powishas to say." The return post brought a letter from Lady Powis, congratulating her dear Gracie upon the happy marriage she had formed; and then went on to invite the young couple to come to her on a visit as soon as their honeymoon was ended; wishing, however, that they would come on the morning of the first of August, as on the evening of that day. she - 3 1 11 iL- 1 A was to give a grauu uan?me mau in the season?in honor of the return of her niece: Lady Gertrude Gordon, from a three months' visit to a cousin in Germany. " There now!" said Gracie, dapping her pretty hands. " But you must order a ball dress, my love," said Cecil; "my pearl must be set in as fine gold as any other at this ball." "Oh, leave that to me, dear," said she. " Only you must promise me not to fall in love with Lady Gertrude." " Is she very pretty, then V " You shall tell me if yon think her so when you see her," said Grace, laughing. The morning of the 1st arrived, and found Cecil and his bride with Lady Powis by noon. Grace was received with a loving welcome by her friend, who said that Lady Gertrude was resting for the evening, until when she would not appear. There was to be a plain dinner before the ball, at which two old friends were to dine en famille. And then, after awhile, with an apology, the lady left the young couple to their own resources until evening. The ladies were to dine in their ball dresses to escape the fatigue and hurry of a second dressing. When Grace appeared attired for the evening Cecil could not but marvel both at her won- 1 dious beauty and the graceful splendor of her apparel. She wore a dress of white satin, trimmed with real Honii? i ?J lull ittuo auu uuuuuco vji wr=i-u?no muu lilies-of tlie-valley; bat more than that, there glittered on her neck and arms diamonds and pearls of great value. "See," she said, approaching him, , " these are Lady Powis' bridal gifts? are they not lovely ?" "Lovely indeed," said Cecil, intoxicated with her beauty; "but not half so beautiful as my darling wife, who is, I feel sure, to be the belle of the ball tonight," and he pressed her fair form warmly to his manly breast. Proudly he gave her his arm and descended to the drawing-room. Who can picture his bewilderment when, in the two friends who were to dine with them, he saw his own father and mother! Mrs. Courtney's heart had beaten with proud triumph when she received the invitation to the ball, and above all to dine en famille with Lady Powis previously, for her social position scarcely entitled her to such an honor. She was aghast with amazement when she saw her son entering the room bearing on his arm the " hardy adventuress." But her humiliation was truiy pitiful when Lady Powis, takiDg the hand of the lovely and smiling bride, led her to them, saying: "Mrs. and Colonel Courtney, allow me to present to you one who, until lately, was my dearly loved niece, Lady Gertrude Gordon, but who is now the wife of your eon, and consequently your daughter-in-law." "Good heavens 1" exclaimed Cecil, " what mystery is this ?" Grace, or rather Lady Gertrude, broke into a merry peal of silvery laughter. "Now," said she, gleefully, "this denouement is simply charming; have I not played my part well ? and has not ' dear auntie kept my secret and carried out my plans excellently ? This is, I am sure, a most romantic marriage, and I believe will be as happy as romantic," said she, turning fondly to her hus1? UtUiUi "But, my darling," said he,with painful embarassment, "I cannot understand this at all. Have pity and expiain." " I think I had better do that," Baid Lady Powis, gracefully. "My niece, like myEelf, is of a romantic disposition. She was the belle of the season, and her i beauty and wealth brought her many admirers; but she refused them all. She told me often that she wished to be ( loved for herself alone, and not for her wealth and title. You," said she, turning to Colonel and Mrs. Courtney, " had but just returned with your son hero from a long residence abroad when we 6aw you at a concert. Gertrude saw you then for the first due," continued she, addressing Cecil, "and on returning home she remarked, 'Auntie, if I ever marry it must be such a man as that.' The next d*y came Mrs. Courtney's letter, asking mo, as an old acquaintance, if I could recommend her a governess. Suddenly Ger! trude declared hev intention of playinr the part and accepting the engagement. 'Vnir onntio ' Raid fihfi. 'T 'will spfi if there is a man in the world who can 1 loveGertrudo Gordon for herself alone.' It was stipulated that she should never bo invited into the drawing-room, to prevent her recognition by any who had seen her in her own character. How fai her plan has succeeded is seen by the fact that she is now Mrs. Cecil Courtney." "Yes," said Gertrude, taming to her mother-in-law. "It happened that Cecil and I met the first day of my residence with you while I was walking out. with Mabel after that we met every evening under the old elm trees. The pleasure of thos6 happy hours made joyous the duties and restraints of my new position, which would otherwise have proved irksome." Then approaching Mrs. Courtney?who was weeping tejrs of shame and mortificai A:? ?:J ?H-. ,1 . | liuii PttlU, DWCUM^ . Xttiuuu, uoai | 1 inadame, the deception I practiced upon 1 yon, and in a mother's anxiety for the welfare of her son I can cheerfully exj cuse your apparent harahness to me. I I have no mother; let mo find ona now." I The haughty lady bowed her head, ' murmuring: " You overpower me with your good| ness; I am not worthy of it." Gertrude kissed her affectionately, 1 and then passing to the colonel, said: " I see 1 need not plead here for a : father's kiss." i "Good heavens! no. I'd no idea : there was such a beauty in my house, | or I should have taken the young gentleman's paitandlet him marry you, ; governess orno governess;" and betook j her in his arms and saluted her heartily. She then approached her husband with a timidity new to her, saying: "And Cecil?can he, too, forgive my deception?" He bent forward, and raised her jewj eled hand to his lips, saying: I " Forgive ! My darling, what have I ! to forgive? Rather, what have I done | to deserve such love, such goodness ? ! With.the devotion of my life will I re| pay your love, my darling, my wife I" The ball was a splendid affair, and the lovely bride far outshone all the beautiful girls prese.t. Great was the surprise that tho belle of the season should have suddenly gone abroad to return with a young and handsome husband. But though gossip was busy for awhile, the affair remained a mystery and was soon forgotten. To a very few indeed was it ever known that tho lovely wife of Cecil Courtney was ever his sister's governes?. Amateur Writers. All editors are always glad to receivo any class of communications for their journals, and they can fully appreciate 1 the following by the " Autocrat of the Breakfast Table": j Sometimes very young persons send me communications, which they want I forwarded to editors, and these young 1 persons do not always seem to have 1 light conceptions of these same editors, ' and of the public and of themselves. ' Here is a letter I wrote to one of these ' young folks, but, on the whole, thought it best not to send: ) Dear Sir?You seem to be some- ' what, but not a great deal, wiser than 1 I was at your age. I don't wish to be 3 understood as saying too much, for I 1 think without committing myself to ( to any opinion on my present state, ( that I was not a Solomon at that stage 1 of development. Yoa long to "1 ap 1 at a single bound into celebrity." | Nothing is so commonplace as to wish ' to be remarkable. Fame usually comes J to those who are thinking about some- ' thing else?very rarely to those who ( say to themselves: "Go to, now, let 1 us be a celebrated individual 1" The J struggle for fame, as such, commonly ' ends in notoriety; that ladder is easy 1 to climb, but it leads to the pillory, < which is crowded with fools who could k not hold their tongues, and rogues who c could not hide their tricks. If you 1 have the consciousness of genius, do something to show it. The world is ^ pretty quick nowadays to catch the 8 flavor of true originality; if you write c anything remarkable the magazines and newspapers will find you out as the \ echoolboyj find out where the ripe 6 apples and pears are. Produce any- b thing really good, and an intelligent ' editor will jump at it. Don't flatter your- f self that any article of yours is rejected 1 because you are unknown to fame, i Nothing pleases an editor more than to e get "anything worth having from a new ' hand. 1 There is always a dearth of really fine s articles for a first-class journal; for of "J a hundred pieces received, ninety are I at or below the sea-level; some have b head enough, but no water; only a two or three are from full reservoirs, s high up that hill which is so hard to e climb. You may have genius. The t contrary'is of course probable, but it is n not demonstrated. If you have, the g world wants you more than you want it. g It has not only a desire, but a passion, b for every spark of genius that showa p itself among us; there is not a bull- r calf in our national pasture that I can bjeat a rhyme but it is ten v to one among his friends, and no c takers, that he the real, genuine, I no mistake, Osiris. " Qu'est ce qu'ila b fait?" What lies he done? That was n Napoleon's test. What have you done ? o Turn up the faces of your picture cards, v my boy ! You need not make mouths t at the public because it has not accept- c ed you at your own fancy valuation, n Tin fh? nrAt.fipRf-, thine vrra can. and v wait your time. For tho verses yon v send me I will not say they are hope- a less; and dare not affirm that they show I promise. I am not an editor, but I s know the standard of some editors, r You mnst not expect to "leap at a single i boundinto the society of those whom I it is not flattery to call ybur betters, a When the Pactol'an has paid you for <3 a copy of verses (L can furnish you r with a list of alliterative signatures, ? beginning with Annie Aureole and end- t ing with Zoe Zenith)?when the rag- t bag has stolen your piece, after care- -s fully scratching your name out?when t the nnt-cracker has thought you worth- I shelling, and strung the kernel of your cleverest poem?then, and not till then, c you may consider the presumption against you, from the fact of your t rhyming tendency, as called in c question, and let our friends ? hear from you, if you think it s worth while. You may possibly think f me too candid, and even accuse me of i incivility, but let me assure you that g I am not half so p'ain spoken as na- 1 ture, nor half so rude as -time. If e you prefer the long jolting of public c opinion to'tho gentle touch of friend- ( ship, try it like a man. Only remem- t ber this, that if a bushel of potatoes is shaken in a market-cart without t springs to it, the small potatoes al- 1 ways get to the bottom. ? Russian Exiles in Siberia. i Much that is erroneous prevails as to 1 the character of prisoners sent to Siberia ] from Russia, as well as in regard to ] j:J.:? 3 A,? i? liieir cuiiuitiuu nuu ucauiucuu iu tuat i land of bondage. Every year the prisoners sentenced to Siberia are collected at Moscow, or some other central point, and thence sent forward to their destination in parties of various sizes. They go to the penal territory in the summer months, or from May to October. The vast crowd that assembled last May at Moscow aggregated about 12,000 persons, and yet it was affirmed by careful statisticians that probably not more than 1,000 of these were sentenced to hard labor. There are several facts to be borne in mind in regard to the criminals who are banished to Siberia, the nature of the crimes for which they are convicted, and the character of their punishment. In Russia there is no capital punishment, except for treason or crimes of that nature. The courts sentence criminal? to the mines in Siberia, to service as laborers at fortresses, to imprisonment at home, to banishment to the colonies in Siberia, or to lighter punishment in reformatory insti.utions. The convicts sent to the mines in Siberia . are the most hardened persons, such as murderers, etc. Tlie life iea uy tnat i class in the mines is raid to be deplora- 1 ble beyond anything in any other i country. Persons who have been con- 1 victed of ordinary penitentary offenses are sent to the penal colonies, and their ] families have the privilege of accom panying them. It is stated tint many vagrants are sent to these colonies. There the colonists, as the prisoners may be called, are under the supervision of the government, and are given land and allowed the proceed.* of their own labor. It is claimed that this system has been attended with excellent results, these colonists becoming prosperous and forming ordeily, thriving settlements, i and doing much to develop the country ] and civilize the Datives. More than onohalf the population of 8iberia is com- i posed of banished Russians or the descendants of exiles. A few facts may be of interest in reference to the crimes committed and the number of convictions secured. Of the persons arrested for or accused of crime, about seventeen per cent, are convicied and sentenced. Of the number of convicted, about two per cent, are sentenced to hard labor in Siberia, about four per cent, to exile in the Siberian colonies, about twelve per cent, to labor in forts, about twenty five per cent, to imprisonment, ana tne remainder to lighter punishments. It should be added that, besides the families of exiles, some go to Siberia as volunteer emigrants. General C. A. Whittier's new residence, Beacon street, Boston, will cost 82,000,000. It will have walls ninetyfive feet high and twenty inches thick, and from fifty to fifty-five rooms ; also the "largest wine cellar in the country." On the fourth floor is a great music room, ceiled and paneled in hard wood. What day in the year do women talk the least ? The ahortest day. LOW LIFE IN NEW ^ORK. fc>crnr? in thr> Allryitand Tcncmcntf) cf the Kluma-Tbe Breeding I'IicchoI Crime. Strictly speaking the name "Cherry Hill" applies only to a small locality; but usage ha<? given to it a wider significance. The main part of the Hill is embraced by the part of Cherry street between lioosevelt street and Pearl street ? a dingy and ill-kept block almost in the shadow of the bridgo anchorage-which maintains during the greater part of the year a melancholy activity. A number of years ago, when the number of transatlantic sailing craft coming into the East river was much greater than it is now and sailors with salt spray clinging to their clothes were everywhere seen rushing ashore, panting for the excitement and new life of the city, this Cherry Fiill district, which includes all that is set clown upon the maps as the Fourth police precinct, presented a somewhat striking contrast to its present aspect Then sailor-boarding houses, with greasy wooden benches at the doors, swarmed with Portuguese and ether foreien sailors, who 6pent their money is freely as circumstances permitted; stevedores, ship-carpenters, caulkers, >towers and others indigenous to the wharves formed the greater part of the population; the;, tenement houses were jrowded by a rough claas diverse in aationalitv and occupation; drunkenaeBs and crime permeated the whole eglon, which the police regarded as one )f the most dangerous localities in the :ity; patrolmen traversed their posts in twos; cries of " murder !' vould frequently be heard, and many parts of the distiict fairly reeked with nfamy. Like the once famous Five Points, this troublesome corner of ower New York has undergone a shaDge. It is no longer looked upon is in any very pronounced degree a sriminal district. Petty crime is born lere. as it must necessarily be in such l crowded district. Drunkenness is as lommoD, however, as of old. On a Saturday night in summer, when every me is out of doors, and there is no eason for closing windows and shuting in the sounds, the brawling Irunkard swells the noises of midnight' >nd half-dressed children run from the :lutch of drunken fathers and mothers. Here is " Mullen's alley," piercing the 'itals of the block bounded by Cherry treet, New Bowery, Oak and Roosevelt treets, like a great rift in a rock; Connor's alley," opposite, a vile, eufocating place, with a triangular court; 'Murphy's alley," bewilderingly snarled d a network of clotheslines and fire scapes; and "Single alley" "and 'Double alley," adjoining each other. ?he two la&t named are, perhaps, as triking in their way as any in New fork. A five story building running >ack more than half the depth of the lock, fronts on both alleys. "Single lley," or East Gotham place, as it is et down on some maps, is open on the ast side; the other is shut in on he west by a high gaunt building, aaking the place dark and ;loomy. These differing characteristics ive the alleys their names. The large milding is divided through the middle, arallel with the alleys, and also at igbt angles, forming eight houses, inch house has a rattling staircase, rith landings, from which the loweiiinged rooms open on either hand. Jach family, however large or small, ias only two rooms in which to live and aove and have its beinsr. On the left >ne may live in comparative comfort pith a wife and iafant. Another on he right, however, who makes eight r nine dollars a week alongshore, nay have a wife?whom he thrashes rhen an empty pocket leaves him in rant of other pleasurable excitement? nd seven children, largo or small; tut he has only two rooms, and must tow them away as best he can when light comea. Little, dingy apertures q each landing, like windows in an talian prison, permit-the passage of ir from one alley to the other. Four lollars and a half a month is the highest ent, and is paid for rooms on the second loor, where the air is better than on he first floor, access to the street easier han from the rooms above. Ten years igo this building is declared to have teld 300 families, or rather^ that number of different rent payers." Every alley or tenement house is in hargeof a "housekeeper," a man who :eeps the place in good order, and phone emolument comes in the shape f ttti4lt o email ar?rlihna 1 11 II CD i cii l/j VTiVU ? uuumit umuivawmm* consideration." He invariably inpires with awe the numerous ragmufins who play baseball on the sidewalk, mpale themselves on nails and railings, jive convincing proof of the theory of leredity by fighting in the gutters, iqueeze themselves through small winlows, and emit profanity with an tin* shocked volubility that is almost bloodmrdling. A frequent visitor to this region says hat he has found much to interest lim here. He has almost come to have i nodding acquaintance with certain jueer old women who become faintly risible in odd doorways; and some of ;he street boys, marking his repeated presence, have commented quietly but profanely on the circumstance. One of ;he most melancholy characteristics of ;his district, and other such districts in lifferent parts of the metropolis, is the orlorn and neglected condition of the )ld. With all the foul air, scanty food md exposure, people are found here who ive too look back over fourscore years mdten; wrinkled, yellow and stooped )ld women, perhaps tottering about vith a stick, holding a dirty infant in ;heir bony arms, or heaping corses )n -wretched youngsters who annoy ihem. Occasionally there is seen some iecent old woman, a somewhat reinootofl "nrronnv" hnk mnst.. with their mths and dirt and rags, seem as if they iad grown up and had some mysterious issociation in character with the irumbling, sooty and unsavory walls ibout them. The old men are seldom ieen in the immediate locality. In ihe morning they become the motive power of hand-carts and disappear in ;he din of the city. Or perhaps .hey are dodging the coal wagons with shovels over their shonl3ers; or selling lead pencils or brooms, or announcing in 6omo busy :horoughfare the superiority of certain irticles of merchandise by means of ;he popular contrivance which shields ;hem as with armor before and behind, ind hides all but their heads end fee from the vulgar gaze. There are many suggestions of low London about Cherry Hill, especially it night, when a muffled sound comes torn the a?levu. an occasional footstep jlatters on a creaking Btair, distant loors bang, greasy streams trickle here ind there into the gutter, and the sound )f clicking glares and drunken mirth rises from the dismal bar-rooms. The wholo district is doubtless destined to be rebuilt before a great many years, rhe success which has attended the peculation in improved tenement houses, it is thought, means death to thefe rookerieB, which year by year become more unfit for human habitation.? Ncio York Tribune. A Wonderful Map. At the nobles' echool in Tokio, Japan is a physical map of that country 300 or 4HO feet long, in the court behind the school building. This map, or model, is made of turf and rock, and is bordered with pebbles which look at a ? AA OA lllf A mnfAti ilLtiU UlbbttUtJu nu jmi uuu nao naicii Every inlet, river and mountain is reproduced in this model with a fidelity to detail which i? simply wonderful. Jjatitude and longitude are indicated by telegraph wires, and tablets show the position of the cities. Ingenious devices are employed in illustrating botanical studies also. Fcr example, the pine is illustrated by a picture showing the cone, leaf and dissected flower, set in a frame which shows the bark and longitudinal and. transverse sections of the wood. Indiana last year raised 6,987,049 pounds of tobacco, valued at 85,958,964. The cultivation is confined to the southern counties. FOR THE FARM AX1) HOME. Fiirui find Garden Note*. Hens seldom pay expenses after they are three years old. Separate all breeding ewos from tho other sheep in the flock now until after lambing. Orchard gras?, though suitable for orchards, "can endure more sun aud drought than blue grass. The first eggs laid by a pullet or hen after molting may be slightly bloodstained, but it need not give any cause for alarm. The special advantage of green manuring, or the plowing in of green crops, is in the large amount of humus which the soil acquires.It is a mistake to allow sows to breed ^1* att ava nf lnnnf ft ttrtfth nl/I oq UUJLUIO tlioj IUO ou icaou ? J they ore riot then sufficiently matured and pigs from such am sometimes to weak to live. Nearly all binds of trees do well on a mixture of superphosphate and wood ashes. Lime is not suitable for strawberries but excellent around apple, peach and peai: treos. Like the blackberry, the raspberry bears the fruit upon the cane of the previous year's growth, which, after fruitage, dies, the next cane coming forward for the next year's crop. Grapevines should be pruned as early as the season will permit. If deferred too late they will allow an escape of sap (bleed), even if trimmed a little while before it begins to ascend. An old orchard can never be made young agiin, but by good care, pruning and culti ?ating, ir can be made to bear a fair crop until a young orchard can bo set out and brought into bearing. By training a pet lamb to come at the call, and afterward putting it with the flock, the owner can call his sheep wherever they hear him, as the pet will come followed by the other sheep. One of the many cures for roup is to wash the head of the fowl with warm water and afterward bathe it with a solution consisting of four grains of sulphate of zinc dissolved in an ounce of water. Fine flowers require thoroughly rotted manure and wood mold mixed, and tomato or other early plants can be grown in boxes, and afterward transplanted with bettor results with suoh a mixture. The geueral effect of lime is to render available the plant food already in the soil, without itself supplying any significant amount. Liming cannot, therefore, be succ ass fully repeated except at considerable intervals. If it is desired to chancre bee3 from one locality to another the hives and boxes should be gotten ready for nse now. Bees should bo changed before they are ready to fly out and become accustomed to the new locality. There is little if any absolute fertilizing valne in coal ashes, but when mixed with clay soil in large quantities they render the soil lighter and more porous, and allow the air and sunshine to penetrate it. For this purpose they are highly esteemed by gardeners. For ordinary work a horse of average size should be fed twelve pounds of oats or other grain food, and fifteen to eighteen pounds of good hay; but, if driven on the road, two or three ponnds of hay, morning and noon, and eight or ten at night, with the same quantity of grain. Potash for grape vines is being tested in France. A variety of the black muscat has been found'defective in color where potash is defective in the soil, and a writer recommends that one vine of this grape be placed in every grapehouse to show by its full or by its deficient color whether or not the border for the roots has a sufficient supply of potash. * Chickens should not be allowed to roost till from four to five months old, and then on broad perches, two to three fanf. r\n 1 xr fmm fho irrnnnrl P.rlii'hifinn birds are better roosted on shelves, covered witli sand and littered with atraw; but then they must be kept very clean, and the straw must be frequently changed. On no account place perches one above the other, so that the droppings fall on birds lodged lower down. Cleanliness is the great key to success, and the roosting-places should be scraped out daily and resanded. The greater the number of fowls the greater must be the care. 11 eel pes. Kentucky Potatoes.?Slice the potato thin as for frying, and allow them to remnin in cold water for half an hour, then put the slices into a pudding dish, with salt, pepper and some milk? about half a pint to an*ordinary pudding dish. Pat in an oven, bake ?n hour. Take out and cut a lump of butter the size of an egg into small bits and scatter over the top. Spice Cake.?Two cups of flour, onehalf cup of butter, one and a half of sugar, half cup of molasses, half a cup of sour milk, half a teaspoonful of saleratus, yolks of four eggs and one whole one, cinnamon, allspice, cloves and nutmeg to taata. Then place a layer of the white cake and a layer of the spice cake alternately, until the batter is used up, and bake slowly. Bun Loaf.?Half pound of butter, two pounds of flour, one pound of brown sugar, one pound of sultana raisins, one-pound of currants, one pint of tr ilk, one ounce of carraway seeds, one lemon, one teaspoonful carbonate of soda, one ounce ol tartaric acid. Rub the flour and butter together and the soda. Warm the m;lk and add to tho other ingredients. The tartaric acid must be added the last thing, and the cakes must be instantly put in the oven. Tapioca Pudding.?Soak one cup of A?- ii llipiUUU ail JLUgiiu iu wuicr , iu tuo rnuiu* ing masb with a spoon every undissolved particle; put in a quart of milk, with a little salt added ; let it boil until the tapioca is soft, then stir in the yolk of five or six eggB, and a cup of sugar ; flavor with lemon ; when cold spread over the top a thin layer of jelly or rsppberry jam, and on this put a meringue cf the whites of three eggs. Let it brown in the oven for two or three minutes. Beef Pie.?Cold roast beef, one onion, one tomato, pepper and salt, one dozen boiled potatoes. Cut the cold beef in thin slices, and put a layer on the bottom of your dish. Shake in a little flour, pepper and salt, cut up and add a tomato (if in season), or onion finely chopped, then add another layer of beef and seasoning till your dish is full; if you have any gravy put it in ; have ready a doz.?n potatoes, boiled and mashed, with butter and salt, spread over t're pie an inch thick; bake twenty-five m'nutes or a little more. Redwood. A California writer says that the redwood which is in demand there for underground use is what is known by the lumbeu \n as black-heart redwood. It shows a dark color when cnt with a knife, the outer portion only being seasoned. This species of redwood is exceedingly heavy?too heavy to float. Ono who has observed schooners loading a'ong the coast assures the writer that a post of this wood which plunges overboard never rises, and a board lingers cn the surface a moment aud then slowly slides down into its depths. This is the sort which i3 sought for in the foundation of buildings, and under brick walls is believed to be imperishable. In this connection it is interesting to mention a fact concerning the second growtn ot reawooct. snoots from old stumps have grown t,o three and four feet in diameter in forty years. This would indicate restorative powers in redwood forests which would insure a future supply of the timber. A new religious sect in Minnesota are ca' ied the Dreamers, and they have a dream interpreter, and thoy are governed in their conduot by their dreams. Cheese and minco pie distributed at night would breakup the 7hole church. HEALTH HINTS. Many invalids resorted to tho hop fields in Central New York, at the season of picking last fall, and expressed : the opinion that they derived great ' benefit from the odor given off by the 1 blossoms. The Christian Union tells of a young 1 lady cured of headaches by moving her ' bed from the wall, against which she \ had been breathing while asleep, and ' thus being deprived of a sufficiency of ! fresh air. For one ease of this kind, there are probably one hundred headnn'ioo rlnn tr1 ulaonincr in rnnms with rm ' means of ventilation. Even in cold , weather there should be some drop or raise of a window, thongh it neconsitates ' sleeping in an overcoat and woolen socks.?Dr. Foote's Health Monthly. Dr. Hall, in the Journal of Health, ( pays : If a man is hungry within an , hour, more or less, after regular mea), he is a dyspeptic beyond question, and it shows that the stomach is not able to work up what he has eaten so as to get nourishment out of it; but to eat again, and thus impose more work when it could do nothing for what had been already eaten, is an absurdity; and yet all dyspeptics who eat whenever they are hungry do this very thing, and thus aggravate and protract their sufferings. A correspondent in the New York ! Sun gives tho following information concerning the relief of epilepsy: If the epileptic sufferer will carry w/th him a piece of common black silk, big 1 enough to cover the face, and whenever 1 he feels the fits coming on will cover 1 his face with it, he will find it a sure 1 cure. This recipe was given to my ' father by an old Frenchman, my mother having been subject to fits for many < years. She never had one afterward. ] When she felt one coming on she would i place the silk over her face. do not i know the virtue of it, but do know from < experience that it does the work. < Forccd to Eat His Writ. ] The Dublin (Ireland) Irish Times < says: At the usual fortnightly petty sessions held last week?the presiding < magistrates being Colonel Stuart and I T. D. Wilson?three young men named 1 Oorbett and a man named Sena were J nlioniynil Tm'fVi VioTjint* mnrrlor/Minlv an. aaulted a process-server named Sheedy. Patrick Sheedy deposed that he resided in Carrick-on Suir, and was process-server. He got a number of writs to serve on the tenants of Mr. Scally. The writs were for rent dne. In the discharge of that duty he proceeded to Ballyneal and served some of the tenants with writs. " While you were serving those writs did anything happen to yon?" "Yes." " What was it ?" " 1' had them all [served but twoone for Mrs. Shea and another. I got as far as Shea's house, and as I entered the farmhouse, Shea, the prisoner, met me. He eaid 'Sheedy, I never thou shtJE would see you at this dirty work.'" "Did anything happen to jou then ?" Yes; I heard voices in the kitchen, and I became frightened, and turning, c ran; bfl.fc before I got twenty yards I was seined by three or four persons, ] and dragged back into the kitchen." " Were the writs taken from you ?" "Yes." " After you were taken to thekitchen, * did anything happen to you?" " Yes; I was knocked down on the ? broad o? my back, and several parties shouted, ' shove the writs down his throat.'" ct " Can you say if the prisoners were the parties who shouted: " Shove them I down his throat?-' " " I was too terrified to know who * did it." 1 " Were the prisoners there at all?' ^ " Yes; they were all in the kitchen." " Yon say that you were knocked , down in the kitchen. When you were . down did anything haopen to you?" " Yea " . " What?" 1 " Assoc n as they shouted, ? 8hove the writs down his throat,' I pleaded for mercy, but it was no use, and one of the party stuck a writ into my mouth and I was held down until" I swallowed it." " They made you swallow the writ?" J " Yep; Shea's writ." " Did any of the prisoners take part f in this?" j "It was not they that shoved the writ down my throat, but they assisted in holding me while it was being pushed down my throat." " Did you swallow more than one writ ?" ; " I was kept down until I swallowed the other." I "Did you get any water to wash g them down?" [Laughter.] " Yes; after I swallowed the first j writ somebody said to give me a drink t of boiling water, and after that I got , some dirty water to drink." , " ' - > " 1 iU. ' " auu uii>t:r yuu gut uuo waioi iudj made you swallow the second writ ?" "Yes, sir." '' Did anything else happen to yon ?" "Yes ; I was cuffed and beaten, and threatened that if I was ever got at such dirty work again I would not get off so easily, and just as I was going out of the kitchen running, a kettle of boiling water was thrown after me, but it did not do me any h:irm." " Had you to promise that you would never again go writ serving ?" "1 had." Water. J Water is so common that few persons think of it as the most important factor in the building up and civilization of the world. The rocks were mud and ? sand made by water and laid down by . it, one kind on top of another. Coal, j made of plants, was covered up by water, . so that the rotten plants were kept ] there and changed to coal. Veins of j lead, copper, gold, silver and crystals, , were cracks in the rocks filled with , water that had these precious things dissolved in it. And water, as ice ] (glaciers), ground up rocus into earm, in which plants can grow, tie sea and streams helping to do the work. Water builds plants, and animals, too. Three-quarters of what they are made of is water. When you pay twenty cents for a peck of potatoes you aro really paying fifteen of the cents for the water that is in the potatoes. A boy who weighs eighty pounds, if perfectly dried up would only weigh twenty pounds. And there can be no potatoes or boy without water. It must dissolve things to make them into new things ; and it carries them where they are wanted to build the new things. It softens food, and then as watery blood carries the food to every part of the body to make new fltsh and bones, that we grow and have strength. It carries the plant's food up into the plant. Water carries man and goods in boats, and, as steam, drives the cars. It makes the wheels fro in the factories. It is a great worker, and wo could not j get along without it. It makes much ] of the beauty in the world. j Curious Transmission oi" Physical Trait J M. Lenglen, a physician of Arras, gives an interesting description of what may be well termed a remarkable perpetuation of physical traits. It appeals j f that a certain M. Gamelon, in tbe last ( century, was ses-digitate, having two f thumbs on each hand aud two great j toes on each foot; tho peculiarity was noticeable in his sen, but in each of ] tho three subsequent generations it has j been strongly marked, some of the chil- j dren at present showing the malforma- ] tion as distinctly as their great-great- ( grandfather. 1 Ail Exploding Flower. , In some seasons nature's greatest blossoming effort astonishes and delights tho traveler in presentation of tbe , talapat tree in bloom, which marvelous ' flower, it is said, appears only at inter- ^ vals of many years, and then bursts from . itn sheaf like a rocket, with a report like a small cannon, sending out im- ^ mense feathery sprays of a pale yellow or white color laden with an oppressive perfume. ? Cr.vlon (Iw.Ua) Letter, ? i What length ought a'lady's crinoline ; to be ? A little above two feet. : SUNDAY READI3U. A Wcll-Ruilt Ckrltlinn. A well-built Christian is harmonious in all his partp. No one trait shames another. He is not a jumble of inconsistencies, to-day liberal to one cause, to-morrow niggardly toward another; to-day fluent in prayer, and to-morrow fluent in polite falsehoods. He does not keep the fourth commandment on Sunday and brtak the eighth on Monday. He does not shirk an honest debt bo make a huge donation. He is not in favor of temperance for other folks and i glass of toddy for himself. He does not exhort or pray at each or tne lew meetings he attends, to make up arrearages for the more which he neglects. Ho does not so consume his spirtual fuel during revival seasons that he is as cold as Nova Zembla during all the rest of the time; nor do his spiritual fervors ever outrun his well-ordered conversation.? Cuyler. Religion* News anil Notes. The population of Toronto, Canada, numbers 86,445- The churches can accommodate 49,860, and the attendanca on a recent Sunday showed 38,796, -or a percentage of worshipers of 44.92. The Philadelphia Baptist association was organized 175 years ago. It has eighty-two churches with a membership of 23,444; 104 Snnday-schools, with 2,016 teachers and 20,431 scholars. In the first decade of the Methodist Episcopal church there was one minister to every 194 members; in the fifth decade the proportion was one to 284; the present proportion is one minister to 147 members, against 142 in the ninth and tenth decade. Of the 12,142 ministers of the Methodist Episcopal churoh, 2,808 are not in pastoral work. Upward of 2.U00 are juperanuatea and supernumeraries, 204 ire connected -with colleges, eightysight are editors, agents, secretaries, ate., and 445 are presiding elders. The total strength of the Methodist EpiscopalOhnrch8outh,in the Jjouisiana :onference is 14,901; in New Orleans, 1,826 members. Value of church proparty in New Orleans, $566,710. Number of Sunday-school scholars and teachers, 1,050; total number in conference, 7,130. The South India Methodist mission jonference, embracing 2,040 members, aised last year 107,836 rupees, or ibout 853,918, which is upward of an average of twenty-six dollars per memDor. The gain in members was nine;een. The work is chiefly among Eu opeans and Eurasians, though increased Mention is tyeing given to the heathen. An emperor of Germany coming by jhance, on a Sunday, into a church, ound there a most misshapen priest, nsomuch as the emperor scorned and :ondemned him. But when he heard lim read these words: " For it is he that nade us, and not we ourselves," the smperor checked his own proud hought, and luade inquiry into tbe iondition and quality of the man; and inding him, on examination, most earn>st and devout, he made him Archbishop of Colon, which place he did exlellently discharge.?Fuller's Rely State. low to Apply Hie Soda Remedy to Burns and Scnldri. It is now many years ago that the author of this paper, while engaged in ome investigations as to the qualities ,nd effects of the alkalies in inflammaions of the skin, etc., was fortunate rnough to discover that a saline lotion, >r satnrated solution of the bicarbona ed soda, in either plain water or camphorled water, if applied speedly, or as oon as possible, to a burned or scalded >art, was most effectual in immediately elieving the acute burning pain, and rhen the burn is only superficial, or lot severe, removing all pain in the lourse of a very short time, having also he great advantage of cleanliness,Jand, f applied at once, of preventing the isual consequences?a painful blisterng of the skin, separation of the ipidermis, and perhaps more or less of inppuration. For this purpose all that is necessary s to cut a piece of lint or old soft rag, >r even thick blocking-paper, of a size lufficient to cover the burned or scalded jarts, and to keep it constantly well vetted with the sodaic lotion so as to jrevent its drying. By this means it isually happens that all pain ceases in rom a quarter to half an hour, or even n much less time. When the main part of a limb, such is the hand and fore-arm or the foot md leg has been burned, it is best, vhen practicable, to plunge the part at mceintoa jag or pail, or other conrenient vessel filled with the soda lo:ion, and keep it there until the pain inbsides; or the limb may be swathed jr encircled with a surgeon's cotton bandage previously soaked in the eatu ated solution and kept constantly wetted nth it, the relief being immediate, prodded the solution be saturated and cold. What is now usually sold as bicarbonate of soda is what I have commonly lsed and recommended, although this s well known to vary much in quality, iccording to where it is manufactured, jut it will bo found to answer the purpose, although probably Howard's is iiost to be depended on, the common ;arbonate being too caustic. It is beieved that a large proportion of medical practitioners are still unaware of the remarkable qualities of this easily-applied remedy, which recommends itself :or obvious reasons.?Popular Science Monthly. Palestine Tottery. The Biblical descriptions of pottery ire singularly applicative to tho present process of manufacture. As in Bible ;imes, so in the nineteenth century, the potter sits at his frume and turns the yheel with his foot; or, as wo read in ;bo Apocalypse: " So doth the potter, litting at his work and turning the *heil with his feet; ho fashioneth the ;lay with his arms." The potter bad a ' otof tho prepared clay near him and a ag of water at his side. Taking a lump in his hand ho placed it on top of ;ho wheel, which revolves horizontally, ind smoothed it into a low cone beiween his hands. As it enlarged and jecamo thinner he gave it whatever shape he pleased with the utmost ease ind expedition. It is evident, from liiKIa tVinf JULLLUrUUa UA[U cooitua iu uuu jyiVAU) >,ui*v | ;he potter's vessel was the synonym )f ntter frugality; and to say as David loe3, that Zion's king would dash his jnemies to pieces like a potter's vessel, vas to threaten with ruin and remediless lefctiuctioD. We who are accustomed ;o the strong stoneware of considerable ?alue can scarcely appreciate some of :hese biblical references, but for Pales,ino they are as appropriate and forcible as ever. Arab jars are so thin and 'rail that they are literally dashed to drivers at the slightest stroke. Water ars aro often broken by merely putting j :hem down upon the floor; and the j servant frequently returns from the j mountain empty-handed, having allhia ars smashed to atoms by some irregu ar behavior of the donkey. A Frontier Humorist. Away on the extreme western froni>'r, in the foot hills along Green river, "ronoral Forsythe, of Sheridan's staff, [ouiid a humorist during a tcur of inspection : He came upon a solitary stationteeper who lived in a hut containing 'our stalls for unimals and a combination parlor, kitchen and sleeping npartnent six by ten feet in size. Over the loor, outside, were in huge letters : 'Hotel de Starvation ; 1,000 miles from Lay ana grain, seventy mues irum i ivooil uud fifteen miles from water." The walls of the room wero deco rated with pictures cut from police pub ications. Over the door, inside, in charcoal letters a foot in length, wero ;he words, "God bless onr Lome," and in another place tho notice "Wanted ?a nice young girl for goueral housetvork. Apply within." The ice cone at tho baso of the Yosemite falls is 200 feet high. There are numerous visitors and there are 59 residents in the valley. i SCIENTIFIC NOTES. The function cf yeast is to change starch into sugar and that into alcohol. Mullor asserts that certain butkrflies will only visit blossoms of primitive tints. There are several thousand volcanoes known, and tho number of active ones may be set down as 323. Cast iron is said to be permeable tc certain gases at high temperatuies, and to hydrogen gas even when cold. It has been estimated that one square foot of soil will evaporate six times as mach moisture as the same amount of leaf surface. Cords stretched in a network near tho ceiling have been satisfactorily tried for destroying echoes in churches and public hails. Verifying' the discovery that water containing infectious matter and org nic poisons is purified by being run through beds of sand, it has been found, at Leipsic, ground under the bottom of badly built sewers is much cleaner than that over their tops.* It is stated thai; in the salt mines of Poland and Hungary the galleries are supported by wooden pillars, which are found to last many years, in consequence of being impregnated with the salt, while pillars of brick and stone crumble away in a short time by the decay of the mortar. Contagion of diphtheria can be ob tained from a dead body, if a recent case is accurately reported. Two persons were engaged to be married ; but before the ceremony took place the man died of diphtheria. The young lady kissed her lover as he lay dead in his coffin. Three days afterward she followed him to the grave, dying of the same disease, although there was not another case of it then nor for nineteen years before in ihe neighborhood. Gnorata Eodiana. There is a very interesting story told of an artist of Cremona?Onorata Eodiana?who, while still a young maiden, acquired such fame as a painter that she was summoned by the Marquis Gabrino Fondolo, called the " Tyrant of Cremona," to decorate some rooms in his palaco. One day as Onorata was mounted on a ladder working at a wall-painting, a young courtier passing through the room began to tease her; but his banter degenerating into rudeness she came down the ladder and tried to run away from him. He pursued her, however, and caught her, when in her fright she drew a dagger from her belt and stabbed him fatally. Seeing what she had done, and fearing the wrath of the Marquis Fondolo, she hastened to put on the disguise of a boy's dress, and find to the mountains. She there fell in with a band of condottieri; rhe life of these men, half-soldier and halfbrigand in its character, so fascinated Onorata that she at once consented to become one of their nnmber, glad of the chance afforded her to make herself acquainted with the grand mountain scenery and the careles3 jollity of life in its wilda. She soon showed eo mnch daring and skill that she was made an officer in the band and held a post of command. When the " Tyrant of Cremona" heard of the affray between the courtier and the maiden, and of her crime and flight, he was furious, and threatened to hunt her to the very death; but so skillfully had she concealed her ind entity as to baffle all his efforts to track her. After a time, as he could find no other suitable artist to complete the paintings which Onorata Rodiana had begun, he declared a full pardon for her if she would return to the palace and finish her works. The news of this pardon was spread throughout the surrounding country, and when Onorata heard of it she gladly laid aside her sword to resume her palette and blushes. She completed her task, but the exciting life she had led among the mountains had taken such a hold upon her fancy that she returned to it and to tho outlawed companions who had learned to respect and love her. Again and again she left them, only to return each time, for her heart and life were divided between her beloved art and her romantic soldieriig. At last, when her native village of Castelleone, near Cremona, was laid siege to, Onorata led her band to its relief and drove awaj the enemy. Bat the rescued her birthplace at the cost of her life; for she was mortally wounded in the conflict, and died soon after within sight of the home of her childhood. I believe that she is the only woman who has ever been successful as both anjartist and a soldier; and I am sorry that I can find no work of hers of which a picture may be given here. Her 8ton is well authenticated in history, and she died about the year H72.? S. Nicholas. The Largest Cave on ?artb. The great cave lately discovered here, saysthe Grayson (Ky.) Advoc te, has oeen visited by a multitude of people fromvarious points of the United States. We think that Leitchfield is destined of become the great "Mecca" of the word, ?for the Masonic fraternity and scienists generally. For the last two weeks no one has been admitted to the cave except upon presenting a written permit from Mr. Rogers, and those who have been fortunate enough to obtain admission have been principally scientists from abroad, who journeyed here to see the great wonder for themselves. It was necessary fliia ctnn on fhfl nftVfl WAR tanidlv I being despoiled of its contents. Indeed, several of the mnmmies and some of the Masonic emblems were carried off j before Mr Rogers?or in fact any of onr citizens?realized tho importance of the discovery, and cf preserving the contents of the cave intact. The subterranean river has been so swollen from the excessive rains of the last month that no explorations have been made in the avenues beyond it. Excavations have been made, however, in the chambers or catacombs where tho mummies and Masonic emblems were found, and in the vicinity of the pyramid, and several tablets with queer hieroglyphics , have been dugup.also some bronze and copper vases and pieces of pottery. A mound was opened and fonnd to contain six well-preserved mummies, reposing j in 'regular order with feet radiating; from tho center. Iu tho discovery of this cave the key i is undoubtedly found tbat will unlock j the mystery of 'he pre-historic race of j America, and also prove their identity j with the ancient Egyptian race, who j undoubtedly crossed over and peopled ' this continent, built temples, and flour j iahed in a high degreo of civilization i until wiped out of existence by the, ruthless hand of the savage. The caves of Kentucky undoubtedly afforded them shelter and protection, and were used as a sort of catacomb for the storage of all that was near and dear to them, including their illustrious dead. Stich at least seems to havo been the ease in j this instance, whether this theory will apply to the other caves of Kentucky or not. Many beautiful formations have been discovered duriug the p.ist week. The stalactites and stalagmites glisten like so many million diamonds. The pillars | and columns of alabaster aro beautiful i beyond description, and its wonders will have to be seen to bo fully appreciated. The Bank of England. ~ * "* * 11 ? - # XV Somo Kica oi me preainess 01 me work done in the Bank of Eogland may be formed from the facts that there are no less than 230,500 accounts open in tLe public fuuds; that the number of bank notes issued during last year were 15.250,000, representing 1 a sum of ?333,000,000, and that there ! was a similar number canceled. The paper from which we glean these figure s adds: " An accurate register of every operation is kept, so that any note paid into 'lie bank during the ia-t five yearo | U.111 U? [IIUUUCCU ? lliUlXX U UilUU'.C, it II11 information as to the channel through which it had found its way back to the ! eank, and this notwithstanding that tho agister represented 77,000,000 of notes | towed away in 14,000 boxes." I Soon! Let it bo soon ! Lifo was not made to long For distant hours i.f dim futurity. Thy presence soothes me like some tu-oS song. Oh, where my heart has rested let it lie; Hope ia the morniug; love the afternoon. Let it ba soon I Let it ba soon I The treasured daylight die?, And changes sadly to the chill of night. But summer reigns forever in thine cyea, And at thy touch grief atealeth out of sight. After sad years of longing love must swoon. Let it be eoon I ?Clement Scott. . HUMOR OF TU ED AT. What pain is most agreeable to o burglar? Window-pane. " The sassjest man I ever met," eay* josn JJUJinga, "is a nenpecK&a nus* band when he is away from home." It is pleasant to remember that no an honr passes in the increasing maroh of time that there is not a half dressed man somewhere on the face of the earth calling for a shirt.?Bmme Sentinel A dollar-store pin young man, A heart full of sin young man, A etand-on-the-corner-y Looking-forlorn-ery, Tobacco-stained-chin young man. ? Wilde Oscar, in Norrislown Herald. "Does our talk disturb you," said one of a company of talkative ladies to an old gentlemen sitting in a railroad station the other afternoon. "No, ma'am," was the naive reply, "I've been married nigh on to forty jears,"? Hartford Times. " Why did you send me that almanac ; Augustus?" aBked Angelina. " Because, darling," answered Augustus, as he vainly strove to twist the few downy sprouts upon his upper lip into a curl, " because, darling, L wished you to se> lect a date for our?the, aw?ceremony. 1' Oh, I see!" she said; then, smiling a bewitching smile, she mar* mured: " Call it the first of April." Augustus will some day succeed in raising a mustache, but he gees to see An* gelinano more.?Smercille Journal. The Steubenville Herald explains how the young man was a little too previous in the following fashion: He ' sat at her feet in quiet peace. He looked into her face and said softlj: "Ah, dear, I could sit here forever." "Could you, love?" answered she. "Yes, sweet." "You arb quite sure you could, darling?'' " I know it, my own." "Very well, then, you sit there, for I Lave an engagement to go out tfith young Mr. Fitzspooner and I won't be back this evening. Turn down the gas and fasten the night-latch when you go away, xa, to, deal*." And she went out. Mexican Hospitality. In her Century paper, illustrating Mexican life with'pen and pencil, Hlrn. Mary Hallock Foote describes a siv days' ride cf 250 miles " From Morelia to Mexico Oity on Horseback." The following is an interesting account ol her reception at an extensive Mexican farm or hacienda: Tepitongo, with its mansion and Castillo, or fortress, for refuge and defense in unsettled times, its corrals, outbuildings and dependencies, great and small, forms in itself a village in the solitude of the pastoral plain which surrounds it. Tue administrador took us the rounds of the outbuildings before supper, which is served very late in the Mexican household. We wew shown the threshing-floor, a stone-paved amphitheater over one hundred feet in diameter, very slightly concave, sinking toward a large circular flat stone in the center. It was surrounded by a circle of low stone buildings, tile-roofed, and supported on stone pillars. At supper we eat down to a medieval board like that of Quierendero, " with vassals and serfs" around us. We were invited to consider the house and everything in it as our own. Our mozos had the freedom of the kitchens and the stables, our host gave up his plaoe at the ?' +Viq fnVilo anrl in pffflfit the iicnu vi vuo fcMv*wf ? entire establishment was placed at oar * disposal, with a courtesy as graceful as it was irresistible. After snpper we talked in the cloistered court?a lovely, secluded pre- cinct, with formal trees planted iiropen spaces left in the pavement. We were very grateful for this our last moon of Mexico. We left it, when we returned to our winter evenings and fire, and lamp light, hanging large and low over the gulf. From the patio we entered the sala? a long, tile-paved room, with a sofa at one end, the place of honor for the lady guest, the members of the family occupying the arm-chairs which are ranged* on either side, at right angles with the sofa. It is considered a discourtesy for a guest to ait down in any of th? chairs, instead of walkiug through the room to the sofa. As there were no ladies at Tepitongo I was obliged to sit alone on the long sofa. The engineers, tho colonel, our host, and another unbidden guest like ourselves, who bad found shelter for the night, occupied the arm-chairs. After awhile I ventured to ask the administrador to take the seat beside ? T4 mow Viottu Vianji on flnnrmitv OU U10? iu maj umv k/wm ? _ d my part, but at all events our host was too well-bred to exhibit any horror at the situation. The little four year-old boy whom we had seen on his pony came shyly into the room and stood by his father's knee. He was a charming little man, dressed in a suit of leather, with a tiny pair of spurs* strapped to his baby shoes ; but in spite of his spurs and his horsemanship he was not unwilling to sit in my lap and be coaxed into friendliness. The lisping Spanish vowels of this little motherless child were ex-' quisite. Bnt there was other "music of the country" in store for us. At the lower end of the room a company of musicians gathered by the light of candles clustered on a table ; a striking group, with violins, a violoncello, guitars, a harp?I cannot recall all the instruments, but the music and the scene it would not be easy to forget. Xew York City's OlHce-HoIders. Tho total number of person's regularly employed by the city government in the several departments, in the common schools and in the courts, was 9,703 in 1881, and the sum paid them in salaries and wages was 810,430,841. Add to this amount the pay of inspectors of election and poll clerks, and there is the grand total of $10,502,3,07. Estimating the population of the city last year at one million and a quarter, about one. person in every 128 of the inhabitants ~of ail ages was in the employment of the city and county. The cost for official salaries was equal to about 88.45 per bead of population. Tho following table classifies those employed according to their salaries or I wages: Below SI,000 4,707 Between $1,000 and $2,000 4,392 Bctwceu $2 000 and $3,000 358 Between $3,000 and $5,000 143 Between $5,000 and $10,000 70 $10,000 and abeve 33 Total 9,703 The number of persons employed in each of the branches of the city governmonf and in flua rtmOT1 tfl. And the amount paid them in salaries, were aa follows: * The Mayoralty 11 $26,300 Common Council 35 62,300 Finance Department 114 180,296 Law 40 95.1J07 Public Works 313 332,414 Public Parks 333 270,413 Charities and Corrections... 809 291,895 ilcilth 100 1 25,805 Police 2,821 3,565,390 Street Cleaning 200 172,442 Eire 881 1,071,405 Taxes awl Assessments 47 96,600 Education 3,411 2,769,163 .In li.-i.ir.- 413 1,171,163 Docks 55 79,600 Excise 40 53,420 Coroners 9 35,500 Miscellaneous 40 51,657 iM-ptctors of Election ? 111,266 To make tho cunning artless, tamo the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, pnt a bridle in the liou'.s mouth and lead him forth as a domestic cur; these are the triumphs of all powerful beauty, jtA