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t7 , '' j0'A "'rlr ..S . , n "" } :" i Z ' 7t w .- , {' 1w. >x .w V"h'it . rS'+.7 DEDVOTED TO I'OLITICS, MORIALITY, EDUCATION AND TO TIIE G~ENEIL INTEREST OF' THE COUNTRtY. By D. F. BRADLEY & CO, 1I1CKENS, S. C., TIHIURSDAY, MARCH 8,1883. V OL. XII. NO.24 NFWS GLEANINGSS Orange trees are being shipped to South Florida. A perfect gold fever is raging in Polk county, North Carolina. There is a negro boy in Nash county, A N. C., that is seven feet high. Freight trains are prohibited from running on Sunday in Alabama. West Virginia contains 52,000 persons over ten years of age who cannot read. here were 1,350 arrivals at the Cedar Keys hotels during the month of Janu ary. About $5,000,000 is the amount now invested in the manufacture of pig iron in Alabama. A bill making it a criminal offenFo to deal in futures has pasied the Alabama State Senate. Sixteen very large whales drifted ashore on thc sea beach near Cananeral. Florida, recently. A negro in Newberry county, South Carolina, has forty-two children and 824 grandchildren. A man living in Polk county, Tenn. i had six acres in tobacco last year, and it made him $75 per acre. A remarkable rich vein of ore has been struck in the Gold Valley mine, in Row an county, North Carolina. Frederick county, Va., has fine cloth manufactories, turning out over 300,000 yards of cloth per annum. Only four miles of iron has got to be laid to complete the railroad from Pen sacola to the Apalachicola river. Over 52,000,000 cans of tomatoes were packed last year. Nearly half of it was done in Maryland and Virginia. , The horse trade of Texas is rapidly growing in importance, and assuming proportions only surpassed by its cattle trade. The grand jury of Mobile has been in session two weeks, during which time it h1p examined 250 witnesses and found 143 indictments. There are 40,000 square miles of al most unbroken forests in North Caroli na, comprising pine, chestnut, oak, ma ple, beech and hickory timber, Land at Gaffney City, Spartanburg county, S. C., which was worth about $2 an acre ten or fifteen years ago, now find- ready sale at from $20 to $50. The North Carolina Legislature is fa vorbly disposed towaid a bill which makes null and void all contracts for cotton futures. The measure has passed first reading. In Anderson county, Tenn., there is a well which emits a perpetual stream of illumi natine- gas, and it is said that crude petroleum may be found in the same locality. Perh.'ps the rarest curiosities ever brought to .Taceonville, Fla., are two monkey-faced owls, recently Capt ured in one of the cavernis in Fort Marion, at St. Augustine. It is very probable that the city of Atlanta will get a special appro3priationl of $75,000 to buy land and( begin the erection of permanent UJnitedl States Sbarracks in that city. A rich vein of gold quartz, over seven feet thich, ha4 been struck in the Mor row gold mine, Virginia. It yields now $90 a day. The new machinery, now being add(edl, will greatly increase theI yield. The Alabama Legislature recent:v re fusedl to grant a charter for the Rome 4 (Oa.) and D)ecatur railroad, saying it was against the p)olicy of the State to grant charters to roads leading out of the State. The a labama Legis.lature has passed * . an appropriation bill in favor of the Mo bile Medical College. An appropriation of $900,000 in favor cf the Uiiiversity and Agricultural College of that State has also been passed. Maj. A. D. Hitt, who, in ante-bellum -days, was one of the larget~ cotton buy era in Columbia, S. C., and p)os.sessedl a fortune-estimated at $200,000, (lied in the'alms-house of that city on Saturday last, agced seventy-eight years. lie was: never married. When Gov. Stephens, of Georgia, was a lad the ladies of the Presbyterian 4 church, appreciating the great capabili .ties aiid fine promise, aided in having him educated for a minister ; but he, be coming a lawyer, made the money at his profession and refunded it. The salaries of the city oficials, in cluding the Police force of Pensacola were paid in cash last Saturday, for the first time in many years, and the city dministrat ion will hereafter be run on a cash basis. Thle enlaries of city officials have been reduced about one-half. Of the 730 murders recorde<d for the country last year, 212 were commnittedl in the Southern States and 131 were com mittedl in the State of New York alone. This is rather severe on Northern sta tisticiansI who would locate all thme mnur, ders in the South. It appears moreover that, of the executions for murder, half of them took place in the South. The City Council of D)alton, Ga., has unanimously refused to grant license to sell intoxicating liquors in that city. It is not to be sold in dIrug stores under the name of bitters nor from any other pace, nor in any quantity. Great re joicing among the people. Out of a vot ing population of 400, 885 signed the petition asking the Council not to grant licenses. New Orleanis formerly took 2,000,000O b)ush.els f Pittsburgh coal rnnually, New she receives less than half th amount, the remainder coming from tb coal fields near Birmingham, Alabam Still the Pittsburgh miners stand or for their four cents, and one large oper ator has made up his mind to go to tb mountain, and has already taken u 5,000 acres in Alabama. The United States Government In purchased the Gumman property, ad joining the site of the former custom house, at Pensacola. The land purchai ed by the Government has a front c seventy feet on Government street, an they paid for it $18,000. This is th first move in a tangible shape to rende ivailable the appropriation of $250,00 made by the last Congress to replace th -ustom heuse that was destroyed by fir i December, 1880. One of the most noted housekeepers i ralbotton, Ga., has not bought a poun )f store lard in forty-five years. She al io has never failed to plant her Irish pc tato crop during the dark nights of Fel ruary in forty-five years, and this year i the first year in forty-ive that she hr railed to put hog hair on her potatoei he maintains that nothing helps Iris potatoes like a small bunch of hog h'ai put on top of each seed potato placed i the ground. Women and the Headache. The headache only becomes a wenpoi >f feminine despotism when it is employe< ay the mistress of the household agains those who daily bow to her domesti scepter. There is no sight in the worb ;o actually painful to every right-minde< man as the spectaolo of a woman, t whom ho has any sort of attachment, ii pain. It would be too much to say tha Lt is because the professional cultivato of headaches knows this that she sue cumbs so entirely to the attack. On th contrary, it is rather because she realize this fact so iimperetly that the headaebt is really welcomed by the fair invalid The feminine imagination suggests sonl slight or detects with perverse ingenuit, some ground of grievance, and the natun development, and expression3 of this sen ti ment are the headache. The ailnenl when it is thus generated, is not. at ic"r affection. It is actually experience; it i the resort to which natures that lIe energy are inevitably prone. It is species of protest against a purely in: aginary wrong and an unwise and nmo: distressing way of resenting an injur that, as a matter of fact., has never bee inflicted or meant. Of the headaches which are only e" pressive of momentary disappointlmeni of annoyance that some meditated plet sure has been abandoned, or that soim source of expenditure has been retrenl tei it is needless to speak. For all varietit of the malady which periodically at tache Mrs. Wenham there is one remedy thl is tolerably certain to prove eflectua They are the consequences not so mue of physical debility as of moral weaknesm Nothing is more certain provocative c feminine headacho than the hIaitu: brooding over triles till thev seem to at smie the importance of practical gravit) In proportion as the interests of life aI 'mniltiplied in number and the health energies arc <lnickened, the tendency t headaehos will disappear. Above 1a things, a disingenous reserve is the fertil parent of these indispositions. Womue h tnpride themselves on prescrv1in silence in their troubles of mind or both absolutely woo the headache which i destructive of tihe peace of household: It is given to extremely few persons t conceal from the inspection of those wh are constantly about thenm the emotion which they experience, and unless the can be concealed with artistic completi ness it may ho said without parado that they are aggressively transp)aren There is really no altrnative. The wori of it is that the headache of the v'ariet nlow sp)oken of, after having b)een or casionally exp)erienced for a certaui length (of time, becomes more or less< an abiding condition, and there are not few ladies who may 1he said to pass thei lives in the p)redlicamenlt of hecadach<l Perpetual pain in the region of the ey< brows-pami whieh candIor and courap and occupation would almost always a leviate- --recurring day after (lay, suiperbl duces a kind of moral and menti languor, and from languor to obstructivi ness is but a step. The state (If ind i which ladies abstain from pronouncing definite opinion, or expressing a decid< preference whein alternative suggestio. are offered, may be one0 of discomfort thiemaelves, but is one of positive tortu: with all whom they have to dleal. PrI pensity to headaches in women is alnmo as bad as a propensity to drink wi men; and is to he0 struggled against resolutely, if peace and happniess ai contentment are io be for thcloming. London WVorld. What Patnuey Is Dolig. Mrs. HloolahIan, whose1 rathier colti' sonl, Patsey, went out WVest a f months ago to seek his fortune, r eivedl great news from him yeste'rdaL " Did Patsev write to you ?" wei (ilired. "' N'o, he jahers, lhe las0 iv wrnitten a line in1ce lhe lift, buit one the Conner b'ys wvho went to I inver fortnight ago promised to hunt up P': soy4 and1( let 111e know what liII is41 biji I got a hitter to-day, and C~onner tells ni that Paztsey lias a great situaIt iIon supjer'intenident of ai free-lunch r(untIIl which extends pretty much over ti whole city.'' " That must beu a pret nice thing," we suIggesIt ed. "' Well, should say so. Pat sey is a nice Il>y, atI I knew he'd dlo well if lie bad a ebanice retulrned the confhidinug (old w 1iaan1, hi innocent, miothierly old tface brlightenh at the thoughts of her wayward boIy success, andl shiowinig no0 trace( of1 su picioni that "'the Conner bv'y was~ I mug to be funny biy perpetrating ai j. on a loving and unsuspectinug woman. " IN choosing a wife," says the Ph; no logical Journal, " be governed her chin." The worst of it ia that, afi having chosen a wife, one is apt kenn on bimg gov,.ne in te --n f TOPICS OF THE DAY. rec a Tss latest Washington real estate wen olaimant is one who asserts a title to the of l arsenal grounds. ness 0 A REGULAn branch. of the "crook" o P profession in New York now, is the steal- doo ing of valuable pot dogs, Mal THE land olaims in Huron District, Dakota, during the last quarter of 1882, Chi - amounted to 745,893 acres. des dea A Youa lady of Bamberg, Germany, th l has been punished by a flue and costs he e for the offense of playing the piano at gag r night by an open window. tee d (ee MERRITr H. DEMNT, a Chicago man, He e claims to have invented a machine One e with which a person can beat fifteen av- oit. erage compositors in setting type, mo Tn customs ofilcers at New York seized a Bible a few days ago, because its set in a space neatly cut in one of the we thick backs was a diamond ring valued 1,1 at $150. The package was addressed to an s a lady in San Francisco. 156 . , att Tu Asiatic Society is about to erect em h a monument on the site of the Black ha r 11010 of Calcutta, the dungeon in which con r146 British prisoners were confined on YOr' the night of June 20, 1756, and from rea which only twenty-three were taken out in < alive the next morning. lac] TuE feeling on the lower Mississippi in consequence of the flood is one of 7 dread and expectancy. The terrible dis- wh: asters of last year are still fresh in mind des 1 and their repetition is feared. At various opi points the population is abandoning the ont low lands. t -___ion__ r JAY GOULD expresses the opinion that t.i ~ there are no good grounds to fear a com- (<is mercial and financial panic in this coun- St n a try. He thinks a large percentage of the br new railways being built are useless, and his e the building of parellel competing lines lg simply to soil is ruinous. ifo1 py - ly LAST spring two women were clected wc school directors in Philadelphia. Their s services have been so satisfactory that . k eight or ten more prominent ladies have a been put forward by their friends as can didates for similar positions soon to be cal vacant. They will, it is expected, stand a good chance of success. W. W. STORY has expressed his will- lat ingness to make a bronze statue of Dan- as e- iol Webster, to be erected on Boston COi e Common, his reward to be either $15,000 1V or $10,000, according to size. About fr 8a $5,000 have been subscribed, and it is an likely that Mr. Story will be commission- c ed to undertake the work. mi ThE Rev. W. C. Winslow has loaned wil f to the Boston Society the ancient door- cl l knocker, once in use on the door of his lia famous ancestor, Governor Winslow of Pe; the Plymouth Colony. The venerable y relic is of solid yellow brass, and is al)- Tr ? propriately mounted upon a piece of I English oak that might have accompan- r ' ied the knocker over in the Mayflower. AN APPLE In perfect preservation, al- be s though ninety-six yea:s old, is in posses- "., .sion of a gentlemaau in Ulster County, o) New York. As it rounded up from thewh 0 blossom of the p)arent stem in the early b summier of 1787, a bottle was drawn t over it and attached to the branch, am rat ,c after the aplple had ripened the stem o .was severed and the b)Ottle sealed tightly.,i t pr< Y VANnnuInIIT has sold1 the block onP which the Madison Square Garden eel stands to Edward S. Stokes and Wil- bil a hiam Mackey, the bonanza king, for tra r $950,000. It is intended by the pur- t 'chasers to erect a handsome and costly theater and to cover the rest of the be block with a series of splendid coimpart Smont houses. bai AN eccentric New Hampshire man re ~quested that after death he should be Sburied standing in his coffin and a pipe Splaced in his mouth; also, that he should m o be heculed to the grave in a hay-rack. ( 'e Hie died the other day, and his unsymn- ir opathiing relatives planted him in a lif st hiorizontal p)ositionl, and were glad to get n him under in aysae _A VAsv amont of cheap fish in an ually wa-sted-in Enigl and because the g people ignorantly suppose it is not fit to w eat and won't buy it. One of the useful fa h features of the coming International tU "'Fisheries Exhibition at Londlon will be0 n -daily dlemonstrations by the School of j:Cookery that these so-called inferior ta r. sorts of fish are savory_and nutritious. n aA MAs5iAcnu.sierrs man is curing him-- dI ti self of d yspe psi., by a ten-days fast. At w the end of fiye days lie saidI ho felt full ni of energy, had no sense of hunger, and expeoted to taste nothing until his time g wa uip. T1hr is no manner of doubt fa vthat fasting will cure dyspepsia, or any w other dlisease, if the sufferer will only vi ref rain fromn eating long onongh.t RwrNDIJINI practices by hirooklyn un- ag d'rtakers have been exposed1 by the el Commissioners of King's Ca3unty, Now f( York. The law reqires expenses of (1 'burying soldiers and sailors who die in W destitution to be paid by the Commia- I sioners. The beard repoit that many ci .e. bills p)resenIted to it hy Brooklyn under- tI ytakers have already been paid by friends g rof the deceased.t ii no RUORo now denies any~ intention on the d part of Hon. David Davis to marry. A di nt Bloomington, Ill., dispatch says rge P. Davis, who, with his wife, t to Washington with the intention 'roceeding to North Carolina to wit his father's wedding, has returned is home. Tho Vice President's half her, Mr. Lyman Betts, emphatically ion all reports concerning Mr. Davis' rimonial intention. PHYSIOIAN rented his stable in cage to some men who had said they ired to roast over again some coffee t had been damaged by wetting; but soon discovered that they were en ed in treating worthless coffee with ionous chemicals, so that it could be eptively sold for the very best Java. informed the Board of Health, and of the largest grocery firms in the has been exposed as the real pro ter of the fraud. iOARLATINA surpasses diphtheria in ravages in Russia. In 1882 there -o 1,323 deaths from the former, and 16 from the latter in St. Petersburg, during five years there have been .027 fatal cases out of 463.018 nersons icked by these two diseases in the pire. The Golos remarks that no war ever been eo d'sastrous, and that, sidering the large proportion of mug people among the victims, it is Ily the future of the country that is luestion. The great difficulty is the r of competent physicians. 'HE question of the adoption of the ipping-post for wife-beaters and other picablo criminals is one upon which nion is much divided, and also regarding which many men's opin s frequently change. To-day a man Aks a whipping-post law would be a grace upon the statute books of a to ; to-morrow a miserable crime is ught to his attention, and a ppeals to wrath, and he thinks the lash too it a punishment for the culprit. Cal -nia is the State that has most recent refused to add a whipping-post amend ut to its Constitution. 1 MAN named Peter Wendling, living Bismarck, Penn., was recently exam d by the Philadelphia County Medi Society and prononneed a wonderful dical curiosity. He has neither hair e teeth, does not possess the sense of ell, and has no pores in his skin. The ter fact is the cause ef much wonder, it has been hold that no person ild live without a porous skin. endling experiences great discomfort m his incapacity for perspiration, I his body grows so hot that his thing has to be kept wet in order to tigate his discomfort. He has al ye been in good health, and has a ,e and eight children. None of the ildren partake of their father's pecu rities, except that none of them have rfeet teeth. i'nu Executive Conimittee of the unk lines and managers of Western ds have signed the following agree nt: "We hereby pledge ourselves t we will not allow any variations to made from the established eastbound es, by an officer, agent, or employe of roads controlled by us ; and that on the request of the Commissioner, en evidlence satisfactory to him has mn presented, that the established es have been cut by a connecting road its connections, even though reduc a may be made in its or their owni portion 3f rate, we will withdraw all rating arrangements and will not ac >t from such connecting roads through ls or through cars, but will cause a nsfer and rebilling of property at full iff rates from the junction point ; 1 we further agrece, that any agent der our control who may be showvn to quoting less than, or instrumental in dting established rates, either by re te or otherwiuse, shall be dscharged." RussIan ('ourage, I should rather incline to) think that are ecuraige is more geinei-al among issians thani aimotng aniy other 1)0ople wadlays. I miean tIe uunreasoniing, -sponib~le readliness of a do(g to risk (1 and1 liberity upon01 provocation. Not nre volunteers irush ouit, when a des i-ate e-nterprlise is miooitedl, thay fr-om r owni ranks ; moe than all is a atheimatical absurdity. lIut the En ishman stakes his life in another, a -and(er- spirut, lie feels and reckons itli the peril.- le-fore meeting it, so r as I have seetn examples, lie is quiet, otughtfiul, contemphlatin1g the worst and aking his ar.ranmgement s. A lRussian orns all that, does not even think oif it. fler assuritng himself, rat,her roughly, int t lie needfiul disnositions have been ade, lie becomes ~tIhe lighte(-st-earted the compa)iny toi which hile hastens.i >lnot say affects to become, for- it. may ell he t hat (dadtly danger strs him to irthI as. it siirs aucAther man equally 'av(i to self -comunmuin-. f can umot for 't an istac iilonl Ha(liSOVo) 11il the o"ning of the great, attaiik. An iin iitriy regimtenit stoodi at, ease in t It rain11, aling the oirder to descendm itoi that, riley blintd withI smoke, echoin g with 11ud of guns and angry crackle of muns str-y. The C'oloniel and a staff Captain >prioachmed and asked u1s to aiCept marge of letters for- hir wives, fo be rwardedc( iln casC (If acciident. Then (iy stood chatting of I A)ndont and Paris ich thme war-mth of men whose hearts erc there, though thme biattle raged oser, andl at ball now andc then nmusi Lly spunl above our heads. 'They asked .0 precise stor-y of a scandal half-for >tten now, and their shrewd comments ld they were attending closely, when 1aidle came galloping through the 1st. Three uminutes afterward the omedl regiment tiled away down to ard the valley of denah.. A llndoo Juggler. The automaton I shall now deseribo is a hugo carbuncle, in form and appear anco just like an ordinary date, such as any one would handle and attelpt to eat without suspecting deception. It was Dwncd and exhibited by a Hindoo von trilxuigt, who was also a juggler, and he culled his carbuncle " the speaking late." Whenever ho spoko to it, the answer came promptly and appropriately, as it seemed, from the very heart of the :lato, which lay on a tablo several feet from the exhibitor. It was not always, however, an obe dient servant, for sometimes, when the master gave an order, the date argued the point, making objections, offering excuses, and finally yielding, as it were, under protest. It would complain that it was ''sleepy," or " tired of doing the same thing over and over," or " the people were not pay ing attention." But all this only enhanced the interest of the occasion; and when, at last, the rebellious little thing conelud ed to do as it was bidden, the audience was in ecstacies. A tree was mado to grow, in our pres ence, putting forth its long, pointed leaves, then the dainty bloomlls and finally a chump of luscious fruit. But of this we are not invited to partake, for it dis appeared suddenly, and only the single little golden brown date we had seen at the first remained. This was, of course, only a specinen of the Slight-of-hanld " tricks " that Ilindoo jugglers kinow so well how to perform, while the apparent speaking of i1e date was the result of ventriloquism-the juggler being ab le to make his voice sound as if it had coie from where the date lay, and so induced the audience to think that the voice came out of the fruit-like carbuncle itself. But iater this the stoni jumped, walked, ran, and finally, with head and wings s luldenly at tached, flew across the stage, and alighted between the conjurer's join ed hands. This was accomplished by means of machinery adroitly hidden be tween the earlhtunclo and the gol(deni tripod upon which it lay. Curious and startling as were the movcnints, they were wonders of meclanlism, and of. course had nothing to do with the super natural powers, such as the ventriloquist pretended to uossess.-Prom an Indian Letter. Educational Gifts. Do not Americans appreciate educa tion ? Here is a list of their benface tions : $1,300 000 by Mr. Simmons, of Boston, for the industrial education of women ; $1,000,000 by Daniel Drew, to endow a theelegical seminary, to which Abel Menand adds $100,000 more " for the education of women for the min istry ;" $200 000 by Erastus Corning, for a female coilege ; $400,000 by Robert Barnes,.of Indmana, for the edlucation of orphans in the State ; $100,000 by Or ange Judd, the agricultural-hook pulb lisher, for scientific department in Wes loyan University ; $60,000 by Cyrus M'eCormiek, the reaper, for the tie( - logical seminary at Chicago ; $100,000 by Daniel Appleton the book publisher, for the Chancellorship and library in New York University ; $100,000 by Nathaniel Thayer, of Boston, to Harvard University ; $100,000 by Chauncey Rose, of Terre Haute, Indl., for a fenale col lege ; $100,000 by Henry Sage, of brooklyn, N. Y., for a female-college building at Cornell Univesity ; $.;00,000 by Mr. Shaw, of St. Louis, 'or park and botnmie garden - $200,000 by Mr. Plar dee, of Pensyivania, for scienttifie de pairtlient. at Lafayette College, at Easton, Pa.; $75,000 by 'Iiram Sibley, of Roeh ester, N. Y., for a library building at Rochester University ; $50,000 by the Rev. Jesse T. Peck to the new university ait Syracuse, N. YV., which has1 been ill creased by othler citiz/enls to ai million and a half ; $160,000 by Saunuel Willis ton for educational p)urp)oses in East hamipton. Mss. Corn and Ho0gs. F'rom carefuIlly-conduhIcted exp eri.. mient s by dIi lerent, persons,5 it li has bei tisoertaiiined tha lt one( I ushel of corni willI maike a little over ten and1( one half po)umis of por,k, grioss. 'Ta:kinog thiis re sult as a basis, (lie following deduct ions atre mado(1, which all our1 tarmlier's would do well to lay nly for Ia coniveienlt refor enc(e-thazt: Wh len corn solls for 12 cents per bushel. por'k costs lI cents1( per h' pound. \\ h10n corln costs i een1t s 1per bushel, por'k costs 2 (eent s per pound11(, Wh len corn1 costs 25 cents jper buishlel, pork costs :scenits per pound. Whena orn ('osts ::,cents per' b ushel, p)ork costs -1 (enlt s por' I (1und(. Whe 1 corn co11 (st 501 cenits per hiushiel, pork costs :, ients per' pouid . 'The following' statements11 show what the farmner real izes 'in 1his corn wh'len sol in the form1i of pork: When por'k sells for (icets per' pound0, it binigs 25' (ents per) bulshel in Corn'l. Wihen~ pork sel ls for' ('ilnts 1pcr pound1(, it binlgs :12 cent s per buishiel ill coin. Whlen pork sells for 5 ents per .pound, it brings 45 cenlts5 per bushoel ill corn. im-; 71 r'icanl Furme)/r. A Vonidoo "('harm." A gentleman boulght to) our ofico the oitheri daiy 'i "charm'i," so cal led, t ha t wa's dIrawnl ouit oif the well oif a 'olor1Edt waor have beenl piliaced therei b'y one1 of his of. fended codlred neighblors5, wIho clims 1 to ho a conjurer. The " charm"c' oinsistedl of a poitioni of a black hug, a benit p)in, a snud1!1)1 pri(cle of co(tton11, thr ieadh-hke root oIf some11 kind habout1 two iinches lonug, and a inc o01(f hair fronm 1' negro's head1, all of which wa'is wrapp ed up) ii 8111n1iall ico of diitty cot toni clth 1, tha 1 had11( been sat turalte'in IIomo)( kindi of grea1.i or oil. It is qulito commonl)l to) fiind thitsoeconIjurers amniag '. co li "' peop , who clacimli to) k{ind l another111) i to olu lt firogs, ui'ards, aakes, and1( the1 like in coilrtini port ions of a per'son'si body. Th'1:s is done1(, tL'oy claim, b y placinig theiir I"' charms"i5ii undr the steps or ths'ir v'icti:a's hioisos, or by; placinig them ini tneir wells or springs, or their clothing. 'The greoat unas of the colored peoplo are credulous enough to believethe conjurers possess51 all the p~ower' they climii, andl ar'e generally care fai not to jIrovoko or offonid thnemu.-.. A - Eugenie's GLft. Whatever opinion may be entertained f Bonapartism and the late Emperor, ho bitterest opponents of the dynasty md of Napoleon III. must render hom go to the generous high-niindedness hat (tistingulishes his august widow. It vill be fresh in the memory of our read 's that the city of Marseilles, which >verflowed with liberality to Napo con Ili. when he was in the zenith >f his glory, sought to recover its gift vith Interest as soon as blind fortune urned her back upon his dynasty. The nunicipality of the great commercial mnlporium so famous for the modesty of ts citizens presented to the late Emperor 1 certain plot of ground, then valued at 1,300,000 francs. Napoleon spent 1,000, )00 francs more in building a palace and laying out grounds, so that the present value of the Pharo property even assuming that the price of land has not increased during the past do cade-must be put down at nearly 3,000,000 francs. The chivalrous muni cipality brought an action against the Empress, after her husband's death, for the recovery of the property; but the Phocian burghers were nonsuited in the courts of their own quondam imperialis tic and now radiially republican city. They then carried the case on appeal to the higher tribunal at Aix, but were again defeated there. The Empress has thus triumphed, but, as though to give a lesson to certain Princes of another repudiated dynasty, she now, having established her right by the laws of the country which is still hers,though she is in exile, abandons her claim in favor of the city which has used her so ill, and gives up voluntarily what she refused to yield to threats. It is be lieved that the exiled Empress is by no means so rich as are the Orleans Princes, who accepted the restitution of their contiseated property before even the war indemnity to Germany was paid. Her generosity is all the more to her credit, and Englishmen will read with interest the simple and dignified words in which she signifies to an old political friend the determination to which she has come: FAaNnohouoli iIILL, Iants, Dec. 15, 155. MY itit M. ioulUnt: I have juist received the letter in wilich you inforn n that, the Air Court of Alieal has confiriue t the juclg. ment given byv the Marseilles courJ't in the action brought against mle by the 'rown Council of the latter town. in ateeidlin! my rights before the law courts I was specially annimatod by respect for the "renlh nagis tracy, for to have believei that ly cause was lost 'beforehan<d wouldt have been tantamount to alIt a<inission that passion or personal in. terest could influf,nce t,he course of justice in our country. Now, however, that these rights have been recognti.e<l i do not wish to retai the grouinld which the city of Marseilles once gtave of its own free will to the Eimperor, and tihe possetsson of which it now disputes. Therefore you are to take the nlecoessar'y stops for the presentatii to the towi iII my name of the pik ancl chateaul of the l'haro, the latter of wilich the Etuperor built at his own ex)pnse. In acting thus I think that I am I wllaving Its those who are now no inore would have wished, anti I trust that, you, who were their devoted friend, will approve of my lecision. I can not eniicluade this letter withfnt asking you to thank on liy behalf the flistingulislied lawyor who, iltioigi separate froi us by his p)olitioni opiniots, has, oonsuiltinlg onny e<qnity an<l law, diefended mny intcresta with the itillost t itlent. I ri aiI, etc., -London Neles. Month Breathing as a IMsease Pro ducer. Dr. Carl Seller recently addressed the Philadelphia Pharimieuiticitl Associa tion) at the ('o1la'g( of l'htrlmat'y, on the subject of "Mloutii BIreathinig." He atitl that many ills that are subscribed to other causes are in reality due to the ef fects of this habit. Nat ire intended the (nose to be used for inlialng and exhal uig the atmosphere, and fitted it up for that purpose. T ihe mcous membrane contains whiat are tormedt serous glands, which give moisture to the air as it is in hitled, while it is war med and pulrifiedl by its passage through the nose. Whien taken directly through the mouth into the lungs, the air is apt, by reason of its hack of moisture, im purity or improper temnperaturie, or all tlireo, to act as aii irritant, esptoiinlly inl the larynx and in the air cells of the lungs. O wing tol tilt im petrfect oIxygena tion of air inllhld tdirettly b)y the mouth hiabitua:lly, there is often. set upi in the sytemi a condtitionl that gives the symp tomns of dy~sp)epsiat, 'onsumtiIption, etc. The lecturer described the development of nasal catarirh and thle diseased formna titons that enisue from it, and after speak ing of the ecessaive pin that attetndedi attemupts to treat theitm withl the kn ife or' nitriceiacid, stated a timle prtocess for bulrnling thelsei fornmatjint with tin in1 eanidescent plaintinum wire, a lan which het decltared to be plainless to thle patient, as the int ense heat of- the( cau tterizinig Rgent destroys the nerves b)ef(lo thley have time to comimuicaelte with tihe brain, Kissing in Paris. at party of young ieople in Paris sillbje'lt o f ikissinig, andit th pit' stiotin was p)ropoundedlI'( whot of the yoiing men(1 pr'eseint could boa-st (If having g:~ven or becintg al e to givo his gil" the1 most kisss, Var1iousi were the rel'')ies this quesI!t ilon cliled out. Finally a young mantl andit the gi to whorm he was be trotihed be(t 200 francs thalt they could kiss 10,000h( timles ini ten hours, p)rovided't they would bet allwe'd to take an oc ?lastinal glass "' between."l' Two persons wecre appolilinta commxjjittee to count the 1jnmber oif kisses, aiid .h~e work began. D)urinig thie first hourli they ciunited 2,000 kisses. D)uring the second hour the kisses were not nebarly as numerous, for After tile third hour, duiritng which they mnaiged to score but 1,750, further Iopilrat ions wore broug h,t to a sudden statndstill. The( lips of the yon man were stleie with a cramlp, and lit wits carr'ied oil' in a faitingll contitioii. The r'l,a iewdys later, was stricken with '>ram If(everl. Whein the peopjle whlo hatd won the bet tdemanded their money, tile parenxts o~f the girl refused to pay hter share of it. Thule matter was then takt'n to> the courtas; there it was decided that the bet must be paitd. 'A rrrranunon deteetive observes that shere .are few fat men amnong'the cerimuinal classes. The leani and hlungry Cassiius is the baa man. "Our most desperate criminals," tile detective remarks to a reporter, 'are mostly small-sizedl men .'with light 'uonnionma" AND ; 4 -One lawyer iDs Mote. 0 ias put through 189 divorce osewilthin" year. The fare to Des Moines 1s bout seven dollars.--Moago Wyn -The New York Cbmmercial Adtier. iser suddenly remarks that: "The man who bangs his hair hasn't enough sense blow out his brains, even if he pos eased any." -Highly sugar-coated: A New York ivoroe lawyer's advertisement reads: 'Hymeneal Incompatibilities as a spe ,lalty, carefully adjusted. 'Tis slavery o detain the hand after the heart hath led." -A Pennsylvania paper tells of a 'amily which has been poisoned by eat ng pie containing arsenic. It seems Ike a work of supererogation to put ar renic into pie. A pie that can not kill a !amily without the help of arsenic is a very weak pie indeed.--Burlington EIawkei,e. -An African traveler gives e. thrilling iccount of a "vegetable vampre'-a tree which envelops a person with its branches and strangles him to death. T'he nearest approach we have In this ,ountry to a veg.tible vampire is the "dead beat," who also u"es upon oth srs.-Norristown Herald. - " My mother's awful fickle," eaild little Edith to Mrs. Smith, who was making a call. "When she saw you Doming up the street, she said: 'There's that horrid Mis' Smith; I hope she Isn't coming here;' and a minute after she told you she was real glad to see you. Mother says I'm fickle, but I guess I don't ohange my mind as quick as that." N. Y. Graphic. -It took me four years to save my first thousand dollars. It was saved from a soldier's pay in the army, and the boys often said: "Charlie, you might as well spend your money, for you may never get home to use it." It required courage to resist the influence to spend all, but the schooling of those four years was worth more than the thousand dollars, for I learned to save money.-Charles W. Black. -An old man would not believe he could hear his wife talk a distance of five miles by telephone. His better half was in a country store several miles away, where there was a telephone, and the skeptic was also in a place where there was a similar instrument, and, on being told how to operate it, he walked boldl up and shouted, "hello, Jane!" At that instant lightning struck the telephone-wire and knocked the man down, and as he scrambled to his feet he excitedly cried, "That's Jan( ;-:Qry time."-Modern Argo. -".James, dear, Reginald desires a new sled. I think you had better get him one." " What's a sled good for to himP You've brought him up to stay in the house and look pretty. He wouldn't know what to do with one." "Oh, I don't mean one of those great big out-door sleds. I mean a little house sled that he can plhv with in the front hall, dear, just to get him accus tomed to the idea, you know." Lots of little Reginalds are being cultivated in doors, and they will either go to early graves or grow up to be flats.-Boston Globe. -If we must talk about the weather, why not vary the formula, "It is a pleasant day." Every one is tired of admitting that it is. Why not be scien tIfically accurate when one meets a friend P The following is submitted as a specimen dialogue:. Jones--"Ah, Mr. Smith, I see we have cloudy weather with light rains." Smith (with a cheer ful smude)-"Yes, and variable winds shifting to colder northeamsterly, station ary or higher pressure." Jones "Quite so; but it is gratifying to know that the rivers will remain nearly sta tionary andl that the temperaturc has fallen thirty' degrees in the lRio Grande Valley. Good-morning, sir. "-Boston Advertiser. USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVP. -Plunge a well-polishled knitting needle in)to a vessel of milk andl with dlrawv it immediately in a vertical p)osi tion. If the milk be pure, a few dIrops of it will remaiin aittachecd to the needle; if, howveer, only aL small quantity of water lhas been addedc( nlone will adhere. -he~ consumption of par.nips9 is largely inc.reaLingv in townis. At one time t hey wvere' only salable in the spring aft er they had been frozen awl thalwed. They are now in demnand all winter. Some raisers dig thlemr in Ihe~ fall, allow themii toi freeze, andi~ keep) them in that condiition till they are sent to market. -Far a wvhiite fruit-eake use one cup of butt.or and two cups5 of white sugar, and( beat I hem together thorougidy; then add onie cup of milk, t wo and a half cups of ilour, the whites of seven eggs, and twvo teaspoonfuls of baking powder; heat all well before add(ling the fr it. Take inae poun(t each of raisins, figs, dlates, and( blanedt almonds, andi a quarter of aL po0und of ciitron; euit all very line, sprinkle with, flour, aind mix the other ingredients. hake slowly. C'hi'ago M n-s. --Orange Shortleake: One quart of flour, two spoon anls of butter, a tea spooniful anud a half of baking powder, a little saIl and swe'et milk to i. Sift the h aking powd r wi th the flour and rub the b4tter thriouugh it. Mix as soft tis possible. RtollI into twvo thin sheets an'd bake mi a quick oven. The o -anges should h be! p)eel, cuit inito small pieces, fr-eed from seeds andl st.trared at least anm hour~ beforie wan ted. W\hen flhe pastry is dlone, piut the -rangeo between the layeris and) serve wvith swveetened cream. -IThe editor of an Eastern agricult ural ourmnal say.a: "In the course of a ride of live miiles, in a good farming county iv. Massachusetts lately, wve saw three nmowing mnaehines standing out in the sniow, just whmero their careless owners hiad left them when they got thriough using them last, summer. If we wore miakinug 0or selling mowing mac-hines we shiouldi be tickledi to death~ when we sawv the farmers rusting out their tools more: in one winter thani they coul wvari t hem out in three soiminers.' -Rtegardling the valute of birds to the farmer, Prof. SteaLrns, in a paper read beforeo the (Connect cota tate Board of Agriculture, states thmaa young robin In the nest re ire .' La aly supply of food morie than e iuilenmt to its owni weight. Tihue swallows are'4 the natur-al enemies of t he m-ridge's andi similar small insects that prey ''n grainm. It is esti matedi that the nestlinogs of a single pair of swallows w 11 in three weeks consuime half a milli n insects. Blue birds prote(ct fruit trees from insects. The king-bird is strictly insectivorous and a greait protector. The wrens can be indiucedl to remain near houses if suitable boxes are providedl, and, they war without ceasinir upon caterpillars. .Ti capacity of our country for the production of live stock is so vat that ; too much attention cannot be bestowe d