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DITOTJD TO rOLITICN, JORAL1ITY, 1l1UCATION AND TO TOEl GENKR4L INTEREST OF THE COUTiEY. ly D. F. IRADLEY & 00,._.. PICKENS SCT -S. C, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1883. VOL. XII. NO. 20 11 deeline of Raleigh's trade dung sat twelve months 4 said. to be z gtsed by freight disorimiotions. l"' iird's-eye maple, i4Ieh"sells for $160 t 000 feet in .nglawn, is uced for {' wRod in Westeen North Carolina. , T2to sheep 90,*n of Texas are losing .;heaviy. Ooh W. H. Martin, from a 4oo of fine merino sheep numbering { 3 2,500, lost 1,200. Abol500) negroes have left North Carolina through fear of small-pax, and have gone to work on the turpentine farms of Georgia. There is talk of an elevated railway at New Orleans, to run along the river front at a heighth of i.teen feet above the surface of the ground. In jrexas the State accommodations for the insane are utteriy inadequate. There are more than 1,000 subjects fit for an asylum, who are dependent on private care. Information from various sections of North Carolina is to the effect that the cot tn crop of that State will be over 50,000 bales less than last year, and that great quantities of cotton left in Ilds unpiclred hab been badly damaged by snow. A "Spinster Club" was organized at Athens, Ga., for the purpose of demon ?tratingithe social independence of young women, and no men were suffered to at tend. Then a bachelors' club was or ganized in self-defense, and at last ac counts they were holding joint sessions. In consequence of the recent mileage system of may adopted by the Richmond and Danville railroad, all the freight car Vonductors save four have thrown up their jobs. One conductor who tried the new arrangement was not able to make more than $19 in the, last two weeks with all the running he could do. Salt Lake City has projected five Mor mon missionaries into Chattanooga, who will diitribute themselves through the adjacent region. These young men were originally residents of the Southern states, having emigrated about five yeArs ago. It is said that sixty-five missionaries are already at work in the South. A statement just prepared by the Commissioner of"Agriculture shows that there are twenty-seven cotton mills in South Carolina now in operation or near ing completion. These mills have an aggregate capital of $4,547,000, run 4, 120 looms, and 180,721 spindles. They give employment- to 4,262 hands, and pay out $728,9. 0 in wages annually. It is estimated that the cotton crop or 1882 yielded 8,250,000 tons of seed. The oil men now pay $12 a ton for seed de livered at a railroad station or river landmng, which would make the seed crop worth $89,000,000. Deducting fifty per cent, of the ieed for planting pur poses, the remnainder would bring $19, .500,000 in the market. Only ten per cent. of the entire seed crop is brought to market and an immense quantity of seed is wasted, but what is utilized for commercial purposes is worth from $8, 000,000 to $10,000,000. As long ago:as 1884 an oil mill was started at Natchez Miss., by two Georgians and a Kentuck ian, Mr. Anderson Miller. They lost money in it and abandoned the business. In 1847 another unsuccessful venture was madle at New Orleans, hut in 1855' several mills were successfulliy operated in that city, which were closed on ac ecount cf the war. Since the war closed the business has assumed larger propor tions, and it is probable that in a few years every poundl of thie cotton seed will be utilized for oil and oil cake, at a large profit. Bruder UJni Schwester. A tonching sceno was witncssed onU th steamboat dock this morning on the ar rival of the City of Hartford. A mant, short in stature, and about fort years old, had been waiting on the doe for a ~ength of time to meet his emigrant sis ter, who was to arrive by the boat. (When nearly all of the p)assenlgers had disappeared from the vessel he approach ad the patrolman on dluty there and told 'bi ho guessed his sister did not come the steamer. A short investigation, however, discovered a little, old German rwoman carting her baggage from the -,vessei's deck to the wvharf. Nouicing theresemblanco between the man and * woman the patrolman hinted to hiam that *the German woman must be his sister. Striding up in front of her he said in his lown language :"Biat dui meine Seh wes. ter?" to which she in turni asked him "We heissen sic ?" To this uajstionm ho Ive his name in response.'1lho look of fjyon the little woman's face was won drl. Spreading open her arms sheo Itook a step towards him saying: "i ~bist mein bruder," and followed up the exolamation with a kiss on each of his cheekd Then standi(ing off a short (is ttance she took a survey of him, noted his ~good clothing and general good app)ear ance, and then sank down on her bundles and, holding his hands in her rugged palms, mingled her tears with exclamna. Itions of joy. Brother and sister had not met for 80 years.-N. Y. Sun. Not a Sulker. Thiefirstdassh ablack bass makesant ' ter feeling the steel, is toward his lair mi other hidinqg plaoe; failing in this his next move isto tear himself loose la~ constant motion and main strength, o'i by breaking water and violently shakin'. his head-to endeavor to dislodge the hook in this manner. He will always, if possible, take refuge under a rock of snag at the bottom, or go to-the weeds, and will surely snooeed uhould the ang ler lack skill, or his tackle be insuffleient to prevent it ; and once wedged beneath a rock, Iig. or other obstruction, or set tied among weeds, he will rub out the hook or part the line without miuch trul and this bysome anglers is or rnouaycalled "solking," But that the blac bas ever sulks in the maffner aswbed to the salmion, bvy settlinjg ul ontY i the bottom, I y ~iively gy States Senator from West Virginia, will be one of the youngest men in the Son ate, being only thirty-fivo. His early life was spent on a farm, and he won hisi education in a fierce struggle with diffi. -ulties and obstacles that would havc >roved too much for most men to over c>me. AT a recent fire in the Cambridge, Mass., car shops, one of the engineers wanted help in raising a ladder, and see ng a man, standing on the sidewalk near by, he called to him, " Hero, you, give 11s at lift." The min responded with alac ity, and a moment later when the on gineor took a better look at him, ho dis covered that his assistant was President l:liott, of Harvard University. A WOMAN riding on a Pennsylvania railroad on a free pass was badly injured by a collision, and the company resisted her claim for danages on the ground that by one of the conditions on the ticket the user assumed all risks. The jury gave her a verdicc for $2,000, and, the caso being appealed, th8 Supreme Court affirmed the decision in favor of the plaintiff. AT the Drury Lano pantomime in Lon don, one of the actors, made up as a poodle dog, runs entirely around on the edge of tho dress circle, and the other night went to the royal box, stood up, begged and had his ''paw" shaken by the Prince and Princess of Wales. This 1 set the house wild, far beyond anytItin that was either cleverly or powcrfully performed on the stage. Tm: entire supply of white pine grow ing in the United States and ready for the ax does not to-day gre'tly, if at all, exceed 80,000,000,000 feet., and this enti imate includes the small and inferior tree-, which, a few years ago, would not hav" been considered worth counting. '1e annual production of this lumber is not far from 10,0i0,000,000 feet, end the cldmand is constaatly and rapidly in creasing. A FnENcR scientist, explaining why fish eaten in Holland are superior to those eaten in Frauce, says that the Dutch fishermen kill their fist as soon as taken from the water by making a slight longitudinal ineiton under the tail with. a very sharp instrument. The French fishermen, on the contrary,, allow their fish to dio slowly, and this slow death softens the ti.=suse and ron ders them more liable to undergo change. A FIRE baljoon has been nade in which the lower parwt is constrneted of asbesto:a cloth, whilo the upper part is covered with a. fire-proof solution. A spirit lamp i, used to sapply the hot air for. inflating it, and, being fire-proof, there is no risk, as wit i orlinary hot air balloons. The system is said to be sp;ecially valuabl for war balloons, as a supply of spih i' can h) easily carried where it would he dillit.nIt to take the appliances for preparing gag. TnosE who are tinder the impression that the standard of comsfort in Fr"ane is high w,ill e sullrprir d to learn that 3,000,000, in round nunihmers, out of the 9,000,000 of d wellings it eonh tins have Only four1 opinitgs Iand less-an openi ig bing anl ouit:dd dloor or a window. There are 250,0t)0t. dwellings in that countr-y t hat are r-ogatcared a having 'only onie optein1g, and nearly 2,000,000 that have only t wo-a: doer andi a win dow. The munua of hxouses that have six openinigs a l abo)~ve are 3l,00, 030, 01r very little mor~e than a third of the whole inmber. TI'ii improvedt hives which have taken the plameo of the old enobiirous) ones, that were so awkwar-d in lunailing, and failod to yield an equal tupply]: of honey, when compared to the: c reodaeled onts, makeJ( thme car-e of hee-keeping muclh easier- and plhoasanIter. The smell sect ions of honey make thle article muchI ivra sahih!o than formerly, thbough they re<piire car-efuol hanidilig. A] toget her, with (due care and p)roperI man4Iagemenit oft this bietti ful andl initere;ting branch of dlomlestio indutstry, tho apiary should lhe found upon a1 dozen ftarm-s where it is now found only upon oneo. Fr is said the total Ccl ip)so of the i-un on theo 6th of May next will last six min utes, and ino longer onto will pr hiably occur within th neoitxt 100i m. -rs. It will ho parthy visible in many pl ces but few wvill see it in its entirety, as its path lies almfott entirely through the ocean. touching land n;owhere but at a little is land in the Southt Pacille called ('aoohno Island, which is4 out of thej tr-ack of any e stablished cotmml(eres or travel. TIho French (lovern,twnnt has determined to send an expedhit ionit to that island and it is probable a grand internationail gat her ing of atronomers will meet there to take pairt in t-hist scietittic quiest. A PANIC in roses is roer ted fromen N cw York, with a corsv'spondhing down f.aI ll i *the prices of of.ha'-( flors. Last autumitn Roman htyaeinth hulbt. coi.,t S0 a hun dIred, and nowv the fr-agr-ant spikes of whtitebloom, which they have nuirAed into yielding, soil for only $1 a hundred. Lilies-of-the-valloy and other- stdrd blooms aro sold at almiost as great a sac rifico. The growers aro hoping that some chanco wvill bring a rally ini pries5, *but it is feared that the trade will not be propoou again before Eastertido. The explanation is that the soarity of flow $fs $$6beoua* ia dg WO40?. Ait the prices up to the highest figuresI iver attained, and this in time resulted n an overproduction since, which is A low having its effect. on Ing Zie grafted Teeth. zig milil Transplanting sound teeth from the the aws of healthy persons who could spare pa p .hem to those who needed them has been avl )racticed by advanced dentists for some Spec ime. The modus operandi was as fol- mar ows: The individual with the super. othc luous sound tooth and he with the do- tion Mayed molar were mated together and geo he freshly drawn good tooth iniuedi- eigl tely placed in the cavity made by ex. a I .racting the other. But it often hap. feet )ered to be necessary to remove a sound The .ooth from a patient at a time when no at e p01011 of whom the dentist had any -lenf c1nowledge needed just such a one. It thrc vould therefore be lost, for only "living" ters :eeth could be made to grow in a strange are tuouth, and they died very soon after ann bcin, torn from their parent gums. ' eno, .feeth are "living" so long as the muem- ret arane covering the roots has any vi- fine ality. It has been a problem of great toce nterest to dentists throughout Amci'iea tior o devise some means by which the and ound extracted teeth could be kept flai dive indetinitely, until it should be Zie iceded, and to a San Francisco dentist she elongs the honor of solving the prob- are em. )r. W. J. Younger, of this city, an ays the Cll, has been conductin a jel cries of experiments, which have' r- thi ulted in the discovery of a means of wei )reserving the life of the extracted stat ooth. It is nothing more or less than she 'grafting'' it, as soon as it is drawn,upon ma he engorged comb of a healthy rooster, ref< tnd leaving it there properly secured faol lntil it is wanted. Then it is cut away, pet he cock being placed under the influ- per meeC of chloroform, washed, and evecry- hoti hing removed down to the nenbrane, an(, (nd plaed in the freshly made cavity bor here it, is needed. A representative of 1m1 he all was permitted yesterday to ex. ',s mi1ne the motth of a gentleman in sho which there was a tooth that had been the planted there a week or so before, and the which was apparently as firm as those pal w heh had always been there. It. had by bleen kept tlive on a cock's comb for mil en days, and had been taken from the wit mouth of a young lady, whose looks iol were benefited by the removal. or opi 4411, Pie in New York. SW A la:rre pie imanufncturer in New tot York say:" his tirm's present rate of con- th su"mIptiolt oftt'(ourt alone is G.185 pounds dl.aily, representig at a rough estimate up ,25,000 pies. '1'ho daily receipts are ref abou111 .1,:5>1t. The firmn emnploys 1" 0 lint persons, and the weekly wages bill th amo:uis to ,,. ;0. tht "'To whom (o volt tsell?" was asked. tht "To bakeries, test aurants, hotels, and shP latterly to a larg number of private m4 faunilies. We keep sixty-si' horses Fr conltanti' gointg, and our constiilucy 1)1 (cver New York City, ;rookllynt, .er- as sev City, W\illiam>:bur;"t, State 'Island, thi Moelnt Verinon and11 tergei Point. inf " ' 'you not ice anly periodIical change stAl im the public taste for pies?"' ter " Yes. A t t Its season we are rittn on ap largely for mine pies, p:umpkin and ap- th( ple. The Sat iurda p rece ing ( his mtas t(m we used ten tons If linee. a id made it tilt all ourselves. Into this mintee we tht polured the contents of fifty ensks of col wine and One hundre I )arels of br,tm- be dy. You look surprised, but this ls a col fact. fac "In addition to this we are no01 Conl- she sumit;" daily six hogshead.s o the best New Orleans sugar, six tWereeS of tire- p1 dried lard, :i:J3 pound(1 to the tierce. En We (1O not use any ste:au-dlr:''d lard at th( all. asi it lowes its sweetness15. T'hien we co)nsuett forty batrrels of gr'eetn appes pr teti batrrels of eg and foroh-at if a day. ..~ tufu 1.tt':nI i SIn the fruit seas'JI on or dal (on sumtitftton averaa'es onte htutndred barrels ,f of lit.e'kle' rtries andl torty e rates of b vkherIes''t S.Yo seett5 th at'pile of eases 0.n tict're. \\'ell, thter COntaini teni htsotud usei, : taring t welve nltou ':ans in t in ense. TheIse ate for utse itt AprIl, May at atld dJilne. I " loes t hie pumltpkin pie hold its owtie as formerly ' m "No. Tlhis goodi oldi ':institu:ti, ' as sh I tmay tetrm it. seemis to b:e go0inag ot of ra fashi 'i. Pumtipkini pi i now1 'atent most ly hby (chlerly folk". A mon1 - I to fe 'ttain ' ittlae -~ J'o n,-wdtt 2111. al ___ w Therotghttdly Marr'iel.'I Mr. and Mrs. Ha:rvey Cutrtis, color'ed tI residenit <(of S'ipio, N. Y.,. have ocea- s siona2l miSisunertandttingsl' which resutlt i in comphdete, uitter andi. tnal sepatationi. Itt a t ow weeks t hey be '-iil t o \'e'tlAli or eachm other, am1t u4t(tieutkinig mu11tual enneesstions, mai:ke uip, am Il, itn order i to observe thle propIIrielt.eS, caIitll uon Calt the P'eatce, to mtarryv tem again. Itt a brief s eason, misunders4 tm!aldim'g aain ari ses, comp~11lete, uttter' atid tinat saa h r'marit iiage ('(li i nit at last, a's usuial. a lKveryv t itme l'saur tl' I racy per'fortms the '4v I ('lrtis s.tat. t. lot' hiomie 'us happy and14 a5 j,oyous as' when'l this ex~:pOeince w st 'i irt.'I til'; repetho e s not 'i.e dampnt 1 th hapnesofte vely re inwd 1pa .. nor1 (doe. ('xper'ince pre V4'n: the' q14uarrlmgIls and1 comprommes'4c t h lowm oftent this 111tforn'lmnLo'4 has4 be)en r-IC Ie: I'it have jut,g'one( pa:st; and , divoirce excep(1jt suich a: t hey ha:1 nu12e1" C'Jnp1le1 tt, has 1been 'sI tfquetfly atiud (i thorotu-2lhly mied,i'i1 as" Mu'. 2(11( Mrs. 1(h Ciurt!is have been, by Mr. Triacy. -Dc/r,oit pi P'os/. hr --A Gecorgia paper says that New Yolk liandied e.0,0O bales of real I o2tou !ast year, but sold :L,700,000it bales on ''futures.," and1 wotnders thatth New Yorkers sho:'ld call this "doin th buisiness.'JIhe beorgia man shoulj knowv that all of' it wva' not, strictly ihpeaking, doing "butsin''ss."' Sonme of d,wa diu' amnbs fit for *laughter. .wu A Dissertatiov. on Shoes. Geneva correspondent of the Lon Times writes: At the recent meet- t >f the hyIeuic congress here Col. n lcr, who in addition to his strictly 2 ary :-ank is also chief surgeon of Federal army, read an interesting y r on shoemaking, or, rather, on the ( effects of badly-made shoes, with 1 iat reference to hygiene and the t ching powers of soldiers. Among r interesting facts Col. Ziegler men- t ed that the Swiss examining sur is at-e compelled to reject every year t hundred recruits-the strergth of attalion-for malformation of the resulting from badly-fitting shoes. foot is in reality a bow so elastic that very step it contracts and expands, ;thens and shortens, and a line drawn ugh the center of the great toe in cets the heel. But shoemakers, who generally utterly ignorant of the tomy of the foot, do not give room agh for the lateral axtension of the it too. They crib, cabin, and con it until it is forced against the other Hence arises frequent inilamma s of the great toe, corns, ulceratiois, sometimes veritable articular in imation. Another evil which Col. ler ascribes in great measure to bad eing, is flat-footedness, whereby the h is converted into a straight line, I prolongsd walking and marching dered impossible. Another cause of I defect is the habit of carrying heavy ghts at an early age; but in most in ices, llerr Ziegler contends, perfect es would restore the foot to its nor I condition. The first obstacle to a >rm in the shape of shoes lies in the that it would involve a great ex so in the shape of new lasts, an ex so that shoemakers are naturally i to incur. Fashion has also its lasts, shoemakers consider themselves and to conform to the prevailing e. A. test of a perect pair of shoes that when placed together, they uld touch only at the toes and heels; soles shoul follow the sinuosities of feet., and to give room for their ex sion should exceed them in length lifteen to twenty milimeters. As for itary foot-gear, the Colonel said, bout answering the question whether liers should wear shoes, "laceups," ''bluchers,'' that is a matter of nion. Although the principle of the nrmal" shoe has been accepted in itzerland, it, is so far without result, Swiss soldiers shoe themselves at ir own expense. ['he queston i-t, however, being takeni by the Confederation, and a new ulation on the subject is about to be roduced. The only armies in which normal shoe has been adopted are )se of Germany and Italy. In 1876 Government of linden ornanized a >e exhibition, in which tfi Italian >del carried off the honors. The ench army is shod on the old vicious nciple. the Russian shoe is about bad as it can be. The ordering of s important article of military clo)t h should bo assigned to the medical ff. '[ho shoeing of children is a mat of great import ance,nnd shoemakers' )rentices should be instructed in the ory of their calling. As further means rard a reform,t ie Colonel recoinends t in all establishments controlled by State the normal shoe be made npulsory, that militarv -hoemnakers properly instructed, and that in ev.'ry tntrv there should be a ni del shoe tory for the making of "physiologic >es." \fter Col. Ziegler had read the pa , )r. lI-th, of Loti(lon, pr"-,dc"eel an glish-made shoe which aniiwered to s conditions laid down b the Swiss -geon, and lhe conitendted that for the wailing defects in foot-gear- the in ference omf the medical facult.y wvas it as much to blamoe as the ignorance the shoemaking fraternity. [Dr. .Jager, the great German nut hority clothinig and hygiene, cailledl at ten ni to the materials of whlichi shoes are tile. The leat her in ardi nry use, he asiders, has quite as miany sinis to swer as thle shoes into which it is con rted. Instead of tannewd and( black. ad leather, he would have wool, fe, d above all deerskiti. Of all these he mved specimens, "'which appearedl tional."' After a dliscuission on the cause of tlat ~t, D)r. Vallin. of P'aris, ad mitted that trance slioes for t he most part ares omninaly bad, andl thle feet of theoir uarers almost invairiabty dleformned. bie slioes worn by Paiia tns are, how er, not qulite so contrary to nature as rse worn b)y Pairisiennen, whome aim ems to be to make thmeir- feet re-semnble shiape the hoofs of horses. Iiniuming up, D r. Ziegler expressed -tre.t that fashion was allowed t wve so great atn itinitence on the shoe Ig Of human 'kind(, andl thait, in this, w' in>metie itm other mat ters, huii band, ionid live under their- wives' sli p pers Thew toldeest place oc earth is not as i hitm to beuen beolieved by meteorol iwIts, Yakutsk, int Siberia, butt Ve rkoy e,in thet samne region, lying in sixty ven en1 one-hlif degrees north lati ,on the' River- Yana. It.s lowest ennt wit Ir templ)rartture is forty-eight dl six- tenth de'grees below zero Con r~ade(. This is the cold pole of the et h in Asia, the c'orrespjoninig polo0 Amtoerica being to the northw rard of Parry Talanids, and the lineo joining ise two) latces doeiis not piass through - noth polo itself, wichl is thtus m I probabil ity', outside the line of great I. cold. Ont thle other hand, the great I heat int thle t roies is not at the pmtor, but some distane north and nth.---New Yor-k Sun. -'1 perfume note paper, get a few tires of blotting paper and sprinkle the ets with the perfumnii de-sired ; then t them under a weight until they conic dry. When dIry put note paper, velopes, etc., between the sheets, and tee them under a weight for a few nt-a ; whien removed thiiy will be found rfunmed. TIhie blotting sheets may ho ili-zed again, and can be0 made to retain air perf umc for a long time by keeping amn free from exposure to air. ----CIMoago --riendship is the only thing in the trld concerning the usefulness of which a aamia saa sarQd...0rw FACTS AND FIGURES. -It is estimated that Virginia will Ils year make 2,000,000 bushels of pea: tits, Tonnessee 500,000 busheis, and orth Carolina 125,000 bushels. --It is asserted that, in tho three enrs ended 180 there weru no fewer tIa 252 theaters destroyed by tire, or )rtly so, resulting in 4,370 deaths and bout 3,400 injuries.-N. Y. Sun. --The Paris Jioirsa estimates the otal stock of Lold in the world in uso ,8 COil or as banking reserves in one lape or other at about. ?:80,000,001), >f which England has ?126,000,001, rance ?13ti,000,000, Germatny ?80,- 1 )00,000, and the United States ?92, )0,000. --Silver veins have been found in the alo l'into Mountains of 'Texas. 'The ie has been assayed at 171 ounce to ho tosn. Negotiations are now being tarried on with two mining companie4 1 -one of Now Mexico and tho other of (triiona-to open up these nines.--'hi ago 'lits. -Statistics from trust worthy sources in e been furnished the Kansas State forticultural Society, showing the per 'nt. of the apple crop in' seven of the Vestern States, as follows: Kansas, 6 per ceni.; Miehigan, 10 Illilois, ::3; nduciaua, 20; Iowat, 30; Ohio, :ii; Mis ouri, 75. "\ir. .1o111 Field has pt*eplred an os imate from the at counts 01 the con innies of the q:antity of *as. lusel in 'ondon last a. It. was. iInl toundcl I tubers, 20,2:30,000,000 cub,ie feet. Ilis is e iual to at bulk of one mile sqIulare iv 720 feet hi;:h. Consumersp aid - 1-I, i5.5,0() for this imensl'e su+,ply.--Chi tJ', '7ri',tne. - The lumber cut in t i e Sicrra-t will his senl1 :n reach 4ti,t.1 ',00,0 feet, andl >i this probably -t0,0(,U feet. sold for tiout" l2 at 1housandlc, footing up1 ab1out $500,0N0), ::nd the rea suill aI c!-ar 1i1m I er for about :15, mlalking o cr ;, 10( norpt---over .:70o,i.0 e'irnlings for the nine miil; that run, somue of them only iart. of tlt' tinue. -W esson, TIiis5., was 1not. long sin"eO it i:ine :or-t. It now i i:h . a eotton-iill, the insurance c'n whlich, w;tI eucontentl , is .1)0,10). It gives work to 1,OIH) pcoplc, uses ulp -1,:00 bales of cotton it year, has a ret of hiais at work all tac", and ano'Iher atll niirht, and is lIghtiel by ele: tricity. It. mnakcs doe-sk nit, ca;si mer"es, jeanls, coltonades, knittinlg-c"ot ton, a"ewinr-th end, towe's, etc. WYes sol has ta poulation of 2 ,0. --'I he 11umb,e " butsiness of Pug1et Sound, W. ''., is inmcn'c, aint the dis tribution is very widtce. Iln one day, r0 centl, -esstls wero seen loading for Boston, ntili Francisco, \'alparal.o, the Sandwich Iwlinds, Vallejo. \lexillo. Japan, - China, France, England and Australia. The ex:ort inl 1881 was about I75,000,00) feet, valued at $I, 700,000. Some of the lo;;s are immen se. Many mleasure live tvet in diameter. From one tree lately cllt there wer sawvn t w: logs of ihirt .-t wo and t wenty six and two of t hir t v feet, il all I 18 feet in length. The top of the tree m11ils ured sixty-one inches across.--) 1,oit Post. Evening on tile Farm. There is no more real entjoyment in this world than the wintor eve n'1: el tertainments and instruction on the farm with pareuts siulrrotndedl by noble sons and datlughters seeking knowledge and moral power. ''he larger the 'almi ly the greater the variety and spirit which can be thrown into such evening entertainments. And near neighhors can fr-u Iently Le broight ilto the circle. Th'Iis e.miRuseent attl en1 forinenlt can be mingled withii itellectuatl im1 prsovemenCt. 15ult fun ainti firivol -y shldt not be inidulged in to thie detrI imet of the maitin o'bje:-t- -preparalstion for- the grecat tduties andI( bttl tes of life. And while it is aidr'isable 1(totae a course of readings froin the. mslt inSstru-iveP antd scient.i lCIe books, tcare. mtu:;I e t akesi that thecy are lio?t too1) protactedl, nor of Suchl ai chasrater asI ito be un interestiung to tany nitember of! the famnily.- The paren('tt shot)l tatke a leadlinig part in these exercises sand. make instrut,ion tamuising andii c,heer1fl, so thait hiomei to hie chlibiren, as wvell as8 p)arensts, will toe thet mlost pleasant place ton earth. (ilI dr sen ra'sdt by~ sitch surrTounid igs thiir piar-ents to mfosirn over thlir I conl dutct , but will glow up hiloorable andit useful membhers of thi,econmmunity. Andi this costs nothing, n(ir dectrat?s in the lteast fr-om the hiosme comf/os-t andi 1bit, a1 house whllich is dar-k anti glJoomy, one hi-ad tf the family dlozing away tse e4eingi or absent, nit onei knowtas wheitri', andi thle tther heoad uin easy, peish ande unsciab) le, theso li-y-c problty bevyond thle r-each of puattrnial im -IonceO, andit the girls as a niecessit.y w illI 04ecept lie companflly of yousng men(' not- sit ab le compan411ionis for t hem'. 'There is a fearfull respoi nsiility rvies?tin onl parenlts sur irotutde w ithi budd14ing sons1 andl dhaug'hter. It isi enoughJ to awaiKen all of the energies antI virtuens o thle wisesSt me4 i'nl Thebtestitd nob)lest wosrk anIy manll andl womantt can dlo on ear-th is 'reair:ngi a inmily of chiildrien so thIat t hey wvIlilliono t heir parent, (tin scieni tiuly obiserve the laws of ( d, andit bless thle woldlt withi faithful ser-v iices. And it is airoundi the family altair that tIs enni he easiest andit most (el1et ivlr d onec. An onh 5 the f armi thr 111CIS no0 tim so1 coinvenientst ais the wVit-r eveninisgs. Asnd tlhis opens11 a field witdo enIouIgh to satisfy thle amblit ion, or0 inl dlge the, desire for happiness of any p aroent or chiild. Matke thlIe hiomei happ y Ma:kte it a school of instruction. Make youIr childre Ic5iompanuions, and exert all yourIl time andt eniergies to ho ahlb to lead them in all branches of infor-ma Lion. It is a notble work, thle bost sman or womnan can be engaged in, asnd if faithfully per1f ormeid youtr evensing skies will be cloudless, and yossr sunset clear andt loious. - Iowa Stale Reiere. -iiido by chiihiresn is becomlig freqnent, a fact that is r-emarkable no 10e11 thatn distrssinig, Trhe latest was the ten-.year-old Nebraska lad, whoe mind seems to have been injutred by the reading of blood-and-thundler niovela. Too little care is given to the literature the nhildren ame readina..--Ohintwo rI. -- 'hb w0 wotioef woman said when she got.i ? -' s thlrteen-years' courtship. --A member of th4 8hb1DBo4eigfds4 'Well, children, you spell well and yd 1t:, -eadswell, but you hatn't sot still." --Lots of people pay Ave pr obL nore for goods In Canada tor the sake f smuling them over the border. Det Press. --"The best conductor of electricity at >resent known is silver." The best onductor into $*society" at present :nown is gold. It used to be brains. Vorristown Hlerald. -There is a disgusting amount of rime in the newspapers, but the man sho has a pimple on his nose can't )lame the looking-glass for showing it. -Cincinnati Gazette. -A New York genius has discovered way of making leather out of banana kins. They will thus be able to kick he man who left them on the flag-stones o endanger human life. -No man living walks in a straight. inc. The squarest-footed walker walks > o the right or left a distance of thirty lx feet [n a mile. In case there is a aloon on the way he may diverge -as nuch as 150 feet.-Detroit Post. -"Oh, yes," said the euginer,"I had t chance to become a hero by sticking o my post when the collision came, ut when I reflected that my name would be spelled five hundred different ways in the newspapers I changed my mund and jumped ." -The prosperous hardware clerk is known by his stove-pipe hat.--Bloom ington Eye. And the carpenter by his olaw-hammer coat.-Gold Leaf. And the lawyer by his whole suit.--Bruce. But the lover you must discover by his sighs.-Elevated Raitway Journal. -"What are you looking around' for so much?" asked an Austin mother of her fifteen-year-old son, with whom she. .was walking; "I am looking around on. Your account." "On my account?". "Yes. I want to pick you out a good looking daughter-in-law."-Texas Sift ings. -When a man is excited he is very apt to talk without thinking. An Aus tin landlord called on his tenant the tenth time for his tent. "I haven't got any money," was the response. "Well, if you haven't got money enough to pay your rent you ought to build yourself a house." -Two rival belles at an evening party were seated in the conservatory with their respective cavaliers, enjoying their supper. The gas was turned down somewhat, as it should be in a conserva tory at an evening party. "My dear Julia," said one of the fascinating crea tures, "how beautiful your complexion is--in this dim light!" "Oh, thank you," responded her rival, "and how lovely you look-in the dark!" -Let her whistle What if a girl whistle? 'Twon't make your heart bristle Or scratch lik.+ a thistle. A whistling lassio Need not. be sassy, Or viigar, or brassy. No psaln or opistle Has thrown thu first missile At women who whi-tie. It's quite as becoming As sinrinc or humning, Or playinug or strumming. o meni, ''n this topio; Not misogynistic Nor grumpy nor mystie. _________ -N. Y. SS.L The Expedlitlon for the Relief of ieouteniant GIreeley's Party. A tele!ra phic dispatch has been for wardied biy Genera! TI erry to the Secre tary of WVar giving the names of the persons selectedl from tihe Department of l>akota to take part in the expodi tiont which is to be sent out for the re lief of Lietetnant Gireeley and his party at Lady Franklin Bay in the Aretic regions. Th'le detail consists of a commissioned otliccr and four enlisted muen, who have beent chosen as espe cially well qualified for the duties wvhich will be required of them. The selco tion was nar-rowved down to the regi Imenits which hadi servedl longest ill the diepartmenlt, as it was thought, that men who had seeni service in the Northwest would be better able to withstand the hiardships of~ an Arctic winter; hut even withi this rest rict;on there has been no lack of app)licat ions, and ever since the call for voluniteers wvas issued a mont h ago, the l ist h1as been length ened until it. included the names of more than one htdred persons First Lieutenanit Ernest A. G;artinigton, Sov enth ('avalry, who has bcen selected to commandi the~ exp)edition. wvas bor-n in N-outhi Carolina anid graduated from tile Military Academy in 187ti. The others of the detail are Serge.ant Johin Kenny. Tro I, Seventh Cavalry: Corpioral Frank Elwell, Company E. Thi rdln eatry c.t F. Moritzt, Comlpany A, Sv enenhInfantry, and 1lrivat' J. J. Murphly, Company F, Eleventh Infant ry. 'Three of these have hadi expern ence as sailors, and all have been chosen wit h specdial re:orence to thei r phyvsi al qual:ticat ions Lieuten alit Gartington s less thani thirty years old, ai>ove the avera re hghit, with a strong, well built, sol'eroly phlysiquie, ami strictly temperate in his habits. lie is vety intel i,ent, andi possesses more than ordinary qpuickness and en ergy. lie is conisidleredl by all who know him esp)ecially adiaptetd for such a commnan-i. In addtition to Lieutenant G arrington and the above-designated foutr, others have been selected, and with two men from the signal corps and a medical o!licer will comprise tihe party. It is proposedi thlat the expedition shall leave St. .Johns. N. F., abouit June 15 next, so as to take advantage of all favor able cond;ttons of tho ice, and if possi bie reach l)iscovery Harbor. Should this not lbe possi ble tile vessel would land the party andl( store at Life-Boat Cove and return souithwatrd. The1i party would thin establish itself for tihe winter and enldeavo)r to openf comunication with Lieutenant Girceley by sledges antd as sist him in his ret rent from Lady Frank lin Bay. It wouild not be exp)eted thaf. thc st ation at iAfe-Buoat Cove w'uld be kept op longer than August, 1884, when a vessel would bring the entire party away. Shoutld the vessel senmt in 1843 reacih Lieutenanut Greeley, mind his party be furinishedt withI the neessary sup plies, it illI be desirable that the -eta tiion at L.ady I- ranklin Bay be main tained at least one year longer in order to reailize the( full purposes ior which It was originally eAtabbishied. - -St. -Paul (Minn.) .SpciLal to Chicago 'iribune. -The expression "white as snow" is not strictly accurate, for there is such a thing as red snowv. Aristotle, in his writ ings, meintionied thle phenomenon, hut coulinot explain it. M. Sossure, 6 French scientist, observedsred snow on the Alps, and upon examtiuning It with a microscope discovered that the snow owed its retd hue to a miniute plant, ProtococcuLs Niralts, wich consists of a sir 7u cell. lRed snow has been observed in c u; e ntcy on the Wa-ratch Mop lamins, ten th maiand feet atbovo the It looks like snlow that has beent kldWN dbiuee. TOPICS OF THE DAY. THE last alleged discovery is that there are horned men in Africa. Tuz loe-gorge at Niagara recently was fifty feet in height and two miles long. POPULAn feeling in France is reporteci to be an alarmed demand for leaders of ability. A GONTEsT of fat people for a prize to the weightiest, is the latest Now York sensation. AN Iowa town of 1,800 inhabitants is endeavoring to maintain twelve church organizations. HENuRY BEBoH is about to visit several Western cities as the guest of societhi for the prevention of cruelty ;to animals. CHARLES H, liaLL, of Exeter, N. If., the President of the Webster Society, wants to raise $100,000 to found a Web ater free library in Boston. * ITALIANS are the most zealous theater goers of Europe. The French and Ger mans come next in the list, while the people of Great Britain are the sixth. Tint Empress of Austria is so hostih. to female doctors that no graduate is allowed to practice in that country. She prefers a male quack to a female physi. Sian. IT is said that Mrs. Da Ponte, of New Drleans, has gone to Washington for the purpose of selling to the United States the original parchment draft of the Con federate States' Constitution for $30,000. Miss JENNIE E. DAvIs, who has been chosen to the head of the female depart ment of Liberia College, Liberia, was graduated at the Girls high School, Bos ton, ten years ago, and has since been teaching in Missouri. PRINCE CHARnEs, of Prussia, who has just died at the age of eighty-threo, owes his untimely death to the exces sive use of tobacco. For the past sixty years he has smoked a couple dozen of strong Havana cigars daily. This Emperor of Germany's gift of $125,000 to his inundated people is worthy of his rank, and it may bo hoped will make an impression on Queen Vic toria, whose benefactions are usually quite unworthy of her purse And posi tion. A PLAN is suggested for mechanically removing scars left by small-pox and ul cerations. It is by daily rubbing the part with fine sand. A small sponge tilled with soap lather and dipped in marble dust, offers a convenient way of doing this. Tau New York Ierald thinks that theaters should be compelled to.securely inclose every burner or row of lights in glassed frames as well as in wiro netting; then there could not be breakage of the glass or inflammable material come in contact with the gas flame. ACCORDING to the Ch1icaag& Idcer Ocean, the appointment of women as school superintendents in:Illiuoisi has been notably successful. They bing a painstaking care and thoroughness to their work not always shown by their their masculine colleagues. Tun invalid wife of Wendell Phillips keeps her husband confined to the old house, their new home, on Common street, Boston, and his withdrawal from the lecture field and public occasions is not due to any failing of his own powers or lessening of his interests. A nor of eight years (lied in Eng land, poisoned by the action of a 5t >. stance used in dyeing stockings. e it John Humphireys testified that sevoral striking proofs had como under Ihis ino. tie of the danger of weaving many of the dyed steekings offered for sale. DF., EhrLns, of the Cainadiani Associa tion, has made analyses of the milk of cows fed with different kinds of food. HeI finds there is a gruater amount of fatty matter in thte milk of cows fed on dlistillery refuse, but he saw nto evidouce that the milk was imnpaiica by such feed ing. ___ _ Mius. MARI Arirrany, who died ro cently at Morristown, N. J1., aged 105, left behind her uinexpected1 wealtht. Nearly every article of clothing belong ing to her was found to contain rolls ofl hank bills. andl a nair of shoox in hex burean were filled with coin. Nearly $8,000 was found. IT is commonly thought that thte fre,'s. ing of water eliminates its impu)trities. Under some circumstances this is so, but anybody can see for himself that the grosser impurities are often captured or enclosed in tire ice, and so also are im perecptiblo impurities of water whtiebt may be coiuntedjgn tis its really unhealthy properties. IT appears from the thirty-fourth annual report of the Astor Library that during the year the sum of $18,200.35 has been expended. The fund for main - tenance was 481,500, and the endow ment fund $1,b45,816.48; 5,725 volunmes have been added during the year. There were 51;858 readers, The income was S23828.54 the eEpeises$18,161.2. . CONGEiSMAN X, who will BUC.