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An Independent Paper Devoted to ffhe Interests of* the People. ?n. ? ? ? ORANGEBURG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1874. VOLUME III. NUMBER 20. TWILIGHT DREAM8. They como In (ho quiet twilight hour, When tho tveary day i* done, Au? tho quick light leaps from tho glowiog heapB Of wood, ou tho warm hcarth-stouo. When Uio household pound a have died away, And tho rooma arc sllont alt, Bavo tho clock'B brief tick, aud tho sudden click t Of tho embers as they fall. They come, those dreams of tho twilight hour, To me, with their noiseless tread, A tearful baud, by tho guiding hand Of a grave-eyed spirit lod. Thoro is no volco within tho hall, No footstep on tue floor, The children's laughter is hushed, thoro is No hand at tho parlor door. Llko flogers tapping eagerly AgaiuBt the Hhattorod frame, Whoro tho trailing roso its long branch throws, Beat tho great drops of rail.. But my heart heeds cot tho rustling leaves Nor tho ratu fall's fitful beat. Now tho wind's low sigh, as it hurries by On its paluclers path and fleet. For now in tho dusk, they gathor round. The visions of the paBt, Arising slow, in tho dim red glow, By. the burning pine brands caRt. My brow is calmed as with tho touch Of an angel'd passing wing ; Thoy brcatho no word, yet my soul is stirred By the messages they bring. Homo in their grasp impalpable, Bear Kdon-culturcd flowers, That sprang in gloom, from tho tear-balhcd tomb Of hope's long-buried hours. Home from tho fount of memory, Listing, aud pure, aud deep, Bring waters clear, though many a year. Hath saddened their first fresh sweep; And somn in their hands of shadow bear, rroni the shrlun of prayerful thought, A fragrance blest, to tho stricken breast, With balm and healiug fraught. Tbn night wears on, tho hearth burns low, Tho dreams have passed away ; Hul heart and brow aro strcugtbeucd now For the toll of coming day. TONY HARDSORABBLE'S WIFE. Tony Hardscrabble was carpenter, blacksmith, mender of tubs and barrels, and Jack-of-all-tradca for the rural neighborhood in which he lived. His little shop in which he made horse shoes, shod tho farmers' horHCH, sharp ened plowshares, mudo tables, doors, . desks, cupboards, bureaus, and occa sionally coflius ; ill which ho pounded away at. wonderful pork and vinegar barrels, and tightened up dilapidated old tubs and casks ?this litt In shop was situated at a point in the woods whero an old road crosee.i a new one, and was in itself a queer, patehed-up, now and old building-. Tony owned no corner lots, but no one intruded upon him. His little house, tho gay, hewn lo -s divided by seams of whito plastering, seemed cosy and comfortable ; and whilo tho shop opened on tho road the . house stood back among the trees. North, south, oast aud west were neigh bors within a quarter or half mile range, and tlio neighborhood was thickly Bet tied. But no ono snw the advantages of corner lots near Tony's shop, not even tho speculators and wiso men of the village three miles distant, nnd Tony was sole resident at tho Corners, where he had a garden patch that did not flourish aud a family that increased rap idly. Tony had a fair skin where it bIio ved above his elbows and below the collar band of bin shirt (collar ho dis dained to wear\ but his face had a dark, grimy look. Ho was strong without being stout, and was fond of displaying Iiis stro gth nnd prowess. Hit face was that of a daring, resolute man, aud his neighbors never took much comfort in looking at it. Tony was a handy man and, as tho country peoplo said, was not afraid of work. Ho novor received much ready money, but ho g.t his pay in shape of corn or flour or pork, or money in good time. The peoplo who patronized him did not neighbor with him, howevor. Thoy know little about the family, but thoy inferred that Mrs. Hardserabblo had a hard timo of it. She was a good-naturod, round-faood woman, who was always busy indoors, and who seemed to take great comfort with her children, all of which was a mercy, the good old women of tho neighborhood thought, as aho had little comfort, in her husband. Tony's wife in those days did not make much of an impression. Peoplo caught only glimpses of her, but thoy know she was a comoly woman. While other women of her ago in tho neigh borhood were sallow and brokon down, Mrs. Hardscrabble was fresh, plump and strong. Tho faco was attractive, but had little character; aud Tony's wifo was classed among tho simple-minded drudges, and was frequently referrod to ns a woman who thought tho world and all of her children, but who had not an atom of spirit. And Tony was good to her. That was all people could say about Tony's wife. Tony had never been scon at church. He hail certain loose ways and indepen dent notions that tho peoplo did not like. Ho considered that thero was no harm in taking a mess of ronsting ears from any man's corn-Hold whenever ho wanted them. Ho thought tho carrying oft* of fine watermelons from some old farmer's carefully-guarded truck-patch was good sport. * Ho would take a lino walnut rail from a fence wbenevor ho needed seasoned walnut for frame-work in his shop. He shot game in season and out of season, on Sundays as well as work-days. Ho had been acoused of shooting fat young hogs and wringing the necks of other poople's ohiokons, but only accused. Ho would take his boys and go on nutting expeditions on Sundays, and always had an abundant supply of wild grapes, berries, nuts, plums, eto. Ho was the freebooter as well as the Jaok-of-nll trades of tho neighboidiood, ami was considered a suspicious character. 80,when it was announced thnt'Hquiro Trim's house bad been broken into and over a thousand dollars in money taken, nnd that the smoko-honsf had been brokon open tho samo night, and that the hams and shoulders taken had been found buried in tho woods near Tony's house, no one was surprised. Tony was arrested, had a preliminary examina tion, was bound over to court, conld not pro euro bail, and was sent to tho county j ail. His trial oame off in dne time, he was oonvioted, and sent to the peniten tiary for five years. People were agreed that he got what he deserved, bat they were sorry for his wife. She was loft with six ohildren, and it was too bad. Many of the good women of the neigh borhood could not find it in their hearts to help her, as she persisted in asserting her husband's innocence. Sbo olung to tho man with what these practical wo-, men considered a nonsensical, romantic affeotion, and they had no patience with her. Others honored her for her faith in her hnsband and for her affeotion, al though they doubted not for a moment that Tony Hnrdsorabble was guilty as charged. The wife and her boys and girls kept olose to their home, grieving as for a husband and father dead. After a few weoks, Mrs. Hardsorabblo was seen abroad,'.then at the county seat, and then, wondor of wonders! this woman, who had never been a mile from her home since her marriage, went to tho state capital. Few of the men would underiake suoh a journey. Tony's wife received tho compliment of being a plnoky woman. In duo time a notice appeared in the county paper that an application would bo made for the par don of Tony Hardserabble. This the pooplo deliberately and emphatically frowned upon, and comparatively few signed tho potition, although it was presented to every man in tho neighbor hood by Mrs. H. herself. Everybody wa8 now talking about Tony's wife. Sbo wsb constantly going. There were hints that she or nor lawyer had found now points of evidence Dur ing tho year she went to the governor twelvo times with her plea for pardon, and was met with refusal every time. And yet she persisted. Sho went out washing, wont out in butohering time, workod ovon in tho Holds for money, and spout it in going to and from tho state capital. Feoplo roasoncd with her and tried to convince hor that there was no hopo ; that all this effort was worse than useless. Sbo rarely made auy reply ex cept to protest that hor husband was in nocent and she would never rest until she had proved that bo was not guilty <??? nd until sho 'had secured* his release.. Tho oht ladies pronounced hor* crazy, but their grandmotherly old oyes woro tender as they said it, and tboy thought it was a shame that snob a man as Tony Hardserabble should havo snob a fine woman for a wife. And whilo they praised the wife thoy abused the hus band. Mrs. Hard scrabble had been to the governor's oQice eighteen times, carry ing each time some new atom of evi dence, Homo new suggestion from her lawyer, some fresh concession from tho judge or proseontiug-attorney, an addi tional name from the jury before whom tho case was tried. Sho haunted the governor's office and tho oflices of the prison authorities. Sho always had a personal interview, and aroused sympa thy even while her facts were considered unimportant. She went tho nineteenth time with a sealed letter from the pros eouting-attorney. Sho was received with tho old smile at the governor's of fice,, but waited patiently for her inter view with tho governor himself, who bad almost declined to see her. Her letter produced astonishing results. The prosecutor withdrew tho charge. The real thief bad been arrested, and had submitted statements in regard to the theft that showed that Tony Hard serabble had not been concerned. The affidavits and other documents wore in olosed with the formal recommendation for pardon by the judge, and prosecutor. They joined heartily in tho praise of Mrs. Hardserabble, ?ml hoped tho nrov ernor, in view of tho persfstent efforts of the woman, and in view of tho extra ordinary circumstances of tho case, would waive all formalities, grant an immediate pnrdon, and allow tho woman to take her hnsband home with her. Tho proof of tho man's innocence was so plain, tho statements were so clear, that the governor hesitated not to join in tho plan to surpriso tho woman who had bo worked for her husband's re loase. Sho was asked to wait a moment in tho audience-room, and, sad and al most disheartened, sho waited whilo glad news flew in the other room. When the governor came to her ho held in his hand a parchment, and unbent to say : '* Mrs. Hardserabble, tho documents presented to-day establish your hus band's innocence. I thought you might like to carry tho pardon to him yourself. Hera it is, and I only hopo ho is worthy of his wifo." Tho good woman's face trembled like her own baby's when about to cry. She dropped on her knees, caught tho gov ernor's hand and oovored it with kisses, as sho had ofton in her lonoliness kissed her baby. Then camo an outpouring of thanks. '.' Your husband is innocent. I do my simple duty. No thanks are duo to me." " But I must thank some one." Thon, clutching the pardon, sho flow tc tho penitentiary. In less than an hour she was dragging her dazed and awestrioken husband through tho capitol corridors to the governor's ofliue, to pro sont him to bhat oflicor. Tony was overwhelmed by conflict, ing and tremendous emotion''. He was free. His wifo had done it. Ho knew that. Sho had held the pardon under his oyes, nnd he had taken her in his arms and had given her tho first genu ine, full-moaning kiss of his lifo. Ho had always liked her and had always been kind to hor, na ho understood I kindness. But ho had novor known her. She pulled him along as though he were a boy. She, who had never been a mile from home, knew the governor. This, to Tony, with his prison experience before him, was a tremendous faot. What would happen ? The governor took him by the hand : " Now. my man, I am glad this is as it is. And'I am glad that you have such a wife. Try the world again, and let me bear from you." That night Tony Hardsorabble's children clambered about him and awoke in him a hundred new sensa tions. He bad never seen snob a pretty baby, such sweet little girls, such well formed healthy boys. And they were all his. He would try the world again, and be laughed as he thought bow ho would astonish the people. The shop was open the next morning and Tony was at work. How his veins swelled over the motion of a free man ! The story had been told and retold, and Tony was the her? > of the hour. Every body bad something to say about his wife. Sho was clearly (judging from the evidence offered, which Tony accep ted without question) tho best woman in the neighborhood, and Tony was very proud of her. For a few weeks affairs moved in tho old way at Tony's. Thea one Sab bath, there was a departure. Tony and his wife and children went to church, this was their first appearance, and Tony was complimented. He declared they needn't make any fuss over him. He didn't eare for ohuroh, but bis wife did. Sho had romained at homo a good many years to please him, and now he was attending ohuroh to please ber. He was a hard ease himself, but he wanted his children to bo liko thsir mother, and he guessed they woufd anyhow. But he was going to help her now. And then Tony would drop his voice : " Just think of it! She made nine teen trips to get me out of that scrape, and spent ninety-five dollars, all of whioh money sho raked together her self. By jinks, I get to thinking about it sometimes when I am at work, and I pound n horse-shoo all to flinders before I know what I am doing.. She's a won dorful woman, sir, and?nnd she's my wife. She ean run the boat to suit her self now, sir." Tony meant what he said. His wife's individuality was the controling one at the Corners. In time there was carpet on the floors,.and then, wonder of won-, dors to Tony !? a common but pretty Eattorn of paper on the walls. Tony ocimo Jaok-of-all-trades to his wife. "Couldn't he make pioture-frames, brackets, and other ornamental and use ful articles for tho house ?" Of coureo he could, and ho took great delight in it. Ho couldn't sit down nnd tell his wife, in words, how much ho was surprised at her better self, nor how grateful ho felt, nor how much he loved her, but he could work it out, and all his spare time has devoted to doing things that ho imagined she wanted done. He was simple and awkward in springing his surprises on her, or in discovering what she desired, but the very simplicity of his action made his nets tho moro pleas ant and touching to his wife. Tony became proud of his house. Ho would shoe a horse with the old skill aud carefulness ns to dot ils, and wonld talk as much while doing it, but now nil the talk was about his own homo; and when the work was done he would maneuver to h .vo his customer go in aud look r und, as he expressed it; would take him in to show him a now flour-barrel ho hod made, or a new rat-trap, when all the time he meant to show him the paper on tho walls, the carpet on the floors, aud tho goneral features of his oozy little homo. He was always inviting people to dinner now, too. Ho made a childish parade of his wife and her accomplishments. This beeame a habit with him, and, unconsciously, people encouraged him in it. Tony was no longer a froebooter, and made no moro raids on Sunday. He "hooked" .o more roasting ears or watermelons. He carried off no more rails, and was never aconeed of shooting other people's ohickens or hogs. As the improvements at tho house as sumed definite shape, imp ovements were inaugurated at the shop. The rambling old building was straightened up nnd brightened up. tho fences wore mado new, tho garden flourished in propor season, and an air of com for* pervaded Tony's corners. Tony went to church regularly and always took tho whole family ; and at ohuroh ho mado much of little things. He devoted moro attention to keeping his children quiet than to tho sermon. Tho children always had their pennies to put in tho contribution box, and tho day the baby accomplished tho feat of dropping a bright five-cent coin in the box without grabbing for tho other coins already in was an hour of triumph for Tony. There was something pathetic about these little oddities that appealed to all the tondemess tin re was in peo ple's hearts. In time, Tony wonld have been indig nant had any one asserted that he was not a member of the church. He wasn't dear in his mind as to when ho "joined," bnt new customs had crept into his home, new thoughts into his mind, and new sentiments into his heart. People said there was a great change of heart, aud, as Tony was proud of the evidences of such a change, the people were probably right. The movement with Tony was steadily pro gressive. He groped blindly nt first, but in time the resolution of tho man and his versatility of talont showed in good works. Ho was now spoken of ns Mr. Hard scrabble, and be neighbored with all the Eeoplo. Ho didn't get above his work, ut bo took his work up to-a higher plana. Mothers nevor objeotecf now to their sons lounging about Tony's shop. Tho boys liked to bo with Tony, und oven ? tho men wore rather glad when oiroumstances made it necessary to go to too shop. The great change in Tony's life wan at first attrihnted to the reformatory in fluence of prison discipline. Bat, in good time, people saw with clearer oyos. Ho commenced living a better life, not so much as a matter of conviction as to Eles^ehis wife. Under this influence is convictions were reached and the man^was aroused. He liked the better lifo and clang to it. The people now un derstand that the instrument used to worJa' the great change in Tony Hard serabble was his wife, and they speak tondexly of her, remembering what she was and what she is. The Jews as Merchants and Money Lenders. Li one instance only have the Jews contented to obange their habits of life, and in that we discover Anew the marks of their perpetual suffering. From ac tive ?od successfnl husbandmen and til lorn of tho soil they have been trans formed into merchants and money-lend ers.- They seem to have wholly lost that love lor nature and that agricultu ral skill that made Palestine a land of plenty. In Babylon and Persia, under a comparatively gentle rule, they were rather farmers than traders. Even late in. the Roman period, and probably un til near tho sixth century, they were chiefly an agricultural people. Tho Talmud abounds in allusions to the cul tivation of fields and gardens, of oil, witto, and wheat, fruit and flowers. Its nice and varied rules of conduct relate chiefly to the peoplo of rural districts rather than of cities. When the great schools of Babylon and Pambeditha were flourishing, and the vivid intellect of the Israelites was expanding into a literature of commentators and profes sors, the race was marked by an intense love for the Oriental lands they 'culti vated. Bat when the universal perse cution |ell upon them, when they were huted from Babylonia and Persia, and began that remarkable series of wander ings from city to oity, and from realm to realm, that has lasted for more than a thousand years, the. manners of the race changed. They became a na tion of traders. Industry, thrift, Lam ing, and rate aonteness they never lost, but tney were never again to become tillors of the soil. They were forced to snatch opportunities of gain from the midst of their wanderings. They became tho most acute and untiring of traders. Their wares and their profits were such as could be easily handled and secured. They supplied the barbar ons princes of Germany with the most costly drugs and spices of the east. They dealt in jewels that they could easilv cone aal or swallow, and in Orien tal oioths that wore of priceless value. They were tho most active slave-trad ers of tho middle ages, and tho ohuroh vainly heaped its maledictions on the Jew who should dare to purchase Chris tian slaves. Their capital in money probably grow from age to age. They were the common money-lenders of the early period. . The Jews seem to have concentrated the wealth of the middle ages among themselves; they lent their money at an enormous interest, and np onjnmple security; they accumulated im mense fortunes, which they were obliged to hide from tlieir persecutors in an as pect of extromo poverty. But . their homo was nover again to be amid tho soft landscapes of Babylonia and Per sia ; and crowded togethor in a misera ble Ghetto, living apart acoursed and forsakon in the walled, fortified, and se onro cities of westorn Europe, they counted their secret gains, and some times displayed in thuir obscure dwell ings n suspicions and Oriental splendor. Their daughters were clad in the rich silks of Persia, and shone with tho gold and gems of tho east. Down South. Southern towns thero are in existence that are untouched by the hand of to day as though they wore buried deeper' than Pompeii of old. Thoy arc buried to all modern interests and purposes. Not a breath of air breathed by live, active men and women ever readies them ; not a ripple of tho great wave called progress ever touches their shores ; they have few books, and any thing they seo in the newspapers be yond the market, the crops and their sido in politios has no meaning for them Yot thoy have gentlomen and gentlowomon in their midst, full of a quaint, old-fashioned dignity, and sur rounded by an aroma of good breeding not unlike in quality to the odor of dried rose leaves ; they have a fow young men and girls growing up in their mother's footsteps, young people lacking the full measure of what sooi ety to-day reckon as thoroughbred, as sured beau or belle; but ofton thoir youths aro honoBt and simple hearted even at twenty-five, and the girls, why, they grow np, and bud and blossom in to a modest, sweet beauty, bavo their day of triumph and conquest, and set tie down to be the wife of some country squire, and mother of children, whom they will train to grow up exactly as they were trained. ?The Saturday Review yearns for a novel, the hero of whioh will be left in the sequel to make his living by his wits or his muscles, instead of being inevi tably well set up in tho roal estate busi ness. ?A hen at Carlisle, Pa., has laid nine eggs with shells that are pe-feotlv black, tho hen boing of tho Dark Brahma variety. Evidently a civil rights fowl. An Armenian Bride. Oliver Harper writes from Constanti nople of an Armenian bride as follows : " She was covered with a most curious veil made of long slips of gold tinsel, which reached to her feet. Through this yon could not see, except the bot tom of her dress. The Armenian wo men are generally very pretty, but per fect fools in manners and expression; so much so that when one man wishes to offend another be says " Pretty Ar menian !" which reahy means a fool. Tho women dress like Europeans in general. The women, after I had twice made the oirouit of the veil, lifted it in front and separated the long strings of tinsel, till I could see that the bride was dressed in white silk, brocaded with silver and pearls, and that around her waists was a wide belt containing a for tune in precious stones. Her cheeks were painted a deep crimson, laid on in a he urt shape, and another heart was ar tistically put on the chin, while the rest of the face was as white .as the lumin ous cosmetic could bring it. Tho eye brows met, and also stretched to the hair on osoh side her templos, and were as blank as they could be painted. The inside of her fingers' ends and finger-nails were stained a deep crim son. Her hair, which was long and thick though coarse, was braided full of little jingling coins. The outlines of her form were, as usual, totally hidden by the olnmsy-made clothes. I admired her to her heart's content, and even went so far as to take np a fold of hor dress to Bee if the pearls sown on so lavishly were real ones, to the evident pleasure of all present; for what would bo tho height of ill-breeding among us is considered a delicate flatte ry among theso women. I forgot to look at her feet, and was about to go and sit down, when she struck out first one and then the oi her, that I must see that they were shod with velvet slip pers, embroidered with pearls, and then showed me her ear-rings, which were largo solitaii o diamonds. She had on no brooch nor necklace, and one of the women interpreted for me, and told me the bridegroom was to give them after the ceremony,":, _ Home-Sickness. Thero are conditions in which home* sickness assumes tho form of the disease known as " nostalgia. Many opportu nities for observation have enabled pathologists and other scientific men to trace the causes and effects of this dis ease ; but its seat has been nought for in vain. Some fatal terminations have been credited to the disorder, but we incline to the opinion that it never killed any one directly, only through diseases superinduced by the depres sion of spirits which is occasioned. The French medical academy thought the subjeot worthy of a prize essay, which, when produced, threw much useful light upon it. The French, Swiss and Italians are among the na tions most subject to the affection, and that will account for the comparatively small emigration of those people. The Germans are less liable to home-sick ness ; while the English are free from it in the superlative degree?hence the cosmopolitan character of these people, and their presonce and conquests in ev 3ery uarter of the habitalbe globe. The isease was very marked among the French troops during the lato war, not only impairing their efficiency as sol diers, but actually killing them out right by the pining for home and famil iar scenes. Tho Italian army is hardly less distinguished by the malady than the French. The phrenologist would out this Gordian knot with the greatest easo by referring tho whole trouble to tho organ of inhabitiveness. Na tions may as reasonably be expeoted to differ in this respect as speoies. If you ohango yonr domicile, your dog goes along with yen, his 41 adhesiveness" ranking his "inhabitiveness ;" but your oat will stay behind?caring greatly more for the habitat than for you. Ap plying a varying propensity of this kind tovarions nations?in the same manner as we are forced to accredit them with facul ties which make them variously martial, aesthetic, intellectual, humane or Buper stitiouH?and the problem is solved at once : tho Frenchman has simply lar ger inhabitiveness and tho Briton less? and there's an end on't. A Child's Plaything over One Thou sand Years Old. Of ovon greater interest are the house hold artioles, implements of trade, food, otc, which, liko tho spoils of Pompoii, restoro for us tho domestic life of the people. Here, for instance, are stools, oane-boltomod ohairs and work-boxes, 4,000 years old, yet no moro dilapidated than if they came out of a garret of the last century ; nets, knives, needles and toilet ornaments; glass bottles and drinking cups, as dear as if just blown; earthenware, glazed in blue and yellow patterns, tho vory coun terpart of old Majolica; seeds, eggs and broad ; Btraw baskets and a child's ball for playing ; paint boxes with col ors and brushes, and boards for games of draughts?in short, a collection al most as variod and complete as the ashes of Vesuvius preserved for us of the Grreco Roman life of the year 79 of our era. But these Egyptian relics date from 1,000 to 8,000 years before onr eia began.?Bayard Taylor, in N. Y. Tri bune. _ ?Borne one says if wo wonld show ourselves really good to our daughters ?'wo must be generous to them in a truer Bense than that of hanging trink ets on their necks." No wo da could be moro aensible. Nine girls out of ten would rather havo n camel's hair shawl than a necklace. Parents should remomber this, PACTS AND_ PAtf?IBS. ?Why is tho letter Y like a "young lady ? Because it makes-pa pay. ?A Delaware obituary : "His bat wasn't always cooked over the left ear, but he didn't owe a butcher intown,^ ?A costly monument has been placed ' by the widow of James Fiak,7Jr;,:oV& has remains at BratUehoro. Yermon^j, ?A mother advised, her, .daughter to oil her hair, and fainted flat away>heh that damsel replied,.,'.' Ohj no, ma ; it spoils the gentlemen's vests." *"f > ?A young lady wants to know whether a girl may be sure a man loves, her un utterably when ho sit3 in her presence for ah Hour without speaking.': a&inh i? ?" What kind of sausages is them,?.' queried an old lady of the young man of literature and peanuts, ns ho passed through Uie train, selling bananas. ?There is one good thing about those white gauze vei.s?a woman who powders looks as respectable behind one of them as a woman who doesn't. ?A teacher asked an advanood eohool Sirl why beer in French was feminine, he replied that it was probably owing to the fact that the boys liked it so well. ?In Switzerland there is a law which compels every newly-married couple to plant six trees immediately after 1 the ceremony, and two on tho birth of every child. Birch? ?Dried tongue, is the'answer which a minister, just going out to exchange; gave some one who asked him what he had in his cat pet-bag?whioh'contained seven sermons. bus ,'?tK?.ftt*V. ?Elder sister?" Mamma, do come hero and Ree to Alfred. He's got the' urn off the mantel, and spilled some of grandmamma on the rug. and is mixing the rest of her up with ink." .' ?A curiosity is shortly, to be placed in the ordnance museum at Washington, consisting of a federal and confederate ballet impacted in tho air, which was picked up before Peteistiu^m'1864. ~ ?A western editor 'thinks that. the habit of carrying tobacco in the piatp^ pocket is a bad one. " To meet ? man on a lonely'road and see him reach -for his tobacco box suggests unpleasant possi bilities, tw/m no ?The time has come when tho wear-; er of the at arched linen coat rises' from his chair and goes forth, unconscious of the fact that the lower portion of his garment retains the position which it acquired while he was seated.. ^r. ?A little boy of five years, dressed in his first sack coat, stood leaning against his mother's knee. " Mamma," said he, after a pause, " I wish you had' put tails to this coat; I have wanted a tail coat these good many years." There was silence for a space. ?"My dear boy," said a fond aunt to a very fast-living nephew, "don't you know that in leading tlrs irregular lifa you are shortening your days ? ' " It is quite possible that I may be shorten ing my days, but then look how I lengthen my nights," was the cool reply. ?A Yale student has written a twelve vorso poem entitled : " We kissed each other by the sea." " Well, what of it ?" asks a western journalist; " the seaside is no better for such practice than any other locality. In faofc, we have put in some sweet work of that kind on the. towpath of a canal in our time, but did not siy anything about it in print." ?No French or English woman of cultivation nowadays wears her garters below her knees. The principal vein of the leg sinks there beneath the mus cles ; and varicose veins, cold feet, and even palpitation of the heart may be brought on by a tight garter in tho wrong pla e. When it is fastened above the knee all this pain and de formity may be avoided. ?A Dreuden paper says that seven teen experimei ts have been made dur ing the previous year, with invariable success, in the hospitals of that city, to infuse lan.'o's blood into the human subject. In the first case tried the pa tient had long suffered from pulmonary ?diseases, and tho immediate effect of tho operation was to raise the pulse and impart a sense of greater strength. ?A correspondent wants to know if it is true that tho human body has seven million pores. The Brooklyn Argus, after poring over the question, says : " Tho last time we counted them there were seven million and nino; but we have always had an idea that those nine wero nothing', but extras, spontane or sly generate 1 for the purpose of misleading us." ?A new lino of steamers is just ready to commence its trips between New York and "Venezuela. The vessels are all American-built, and American-manned. They will stop at St. Thomas, Laguayra, Porto Cabello, Ouracoa, and Maracaibo. Such a communication has long been needed, the trade of that rich section of the world having been nearly monopo lized by England.. Except a monthly steamer to Brazil, no other American i steamers sail to South America upon either coast. ?From Mr. Oodman's book on Utah: "I was astonished to hear polygamy advocated by ladies of education and refinement; among them a sohool teaoher who strongly favored it, per haps because she was no longer young. j At a hotel where I was staying, I met a young married lady of one of the first families of Salt Lake. Two of her inti mate friends were with hor. One day, when they were out of the room, she asked mo, 1 What do yon think of A??' ?She is a charming girl,' I replied. 'In deed she is,* exclaimed Mrr. B---. 'I do Wish B? (her husband) would mar ry her; I should so like to have her with mo all the time I'"