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ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNll I *" A *T'" "* * ... jr- .- f - " " ------ " " - " J # BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1877. NO. 13. VOLUME XXY. - ' ---- I ?????? Bnttje Bunny. (malvkrn hill, 1862). ["After the men were ordered to lie down, white rabbity which had been hopping hitli and thither over the field swept by grape ai musketry, took refuge among tne nkirmishei in the breast of a corporal. "?Report of t Bailie of Zlalra-n Hill.] Bunny, lying in the grass. Saw the shining columns pass, Saw the starry banner fly, Saw the chargers fret and fume, Saw the flapping hat and plume ; Saw tWern with his moist and shy, Most unspecuUtive eye, Thinking only, in the dew, That it was a fine reviewTill a flash, not all of steel, Where the rolling caisson's wheel Brought a rumble and a roar nulling uowu mat veivoi liuur, lad like blows of autumn flail Sharply thrashed the iron hail. Bunny, thrilled by unknown fears, Raised his soft and pointed ears, "Mumbled his prehensile lip, "Quivered his pulsating hip, As the sharp vindictivo yell Hose above the screaming shell: Thought tho world and all its men, All the charging squadrons moant, All were rabbit hunters then, All to capture him intent. Bunnv was not much to blamo : "Wiser folk have thought the same Wiser folk, who think they spy Every 111 begins with " I." Wildly panting, hero and there Bunny sought the freer air, "Till he hopped below the hil And saw, lying close and still, Aleu with muskets in their hands. (Never Bunny understands That hypocrisy of sleep, In the vigils grin, tlicy keep, As recumbent on that spot They elude the level shot). One?a grave and quiet man, Thinking of his wife and child Far beyond the Rapidan, Where the Androscoggin smiled? Felt the little rabbit creep, Nestling by his nrm and side. Wakened from strategic sleep, To that soft appeal replied, Drew him to his blackened breast, AndBut you have guessed the rest. Softly o'er that chosen pair Omnipresent love and care * Prcw a mightier hand and arm, Shielding them from every harm ; Right and left the bullets waved, Saves the savior for the saved. Who believes that equal grace God extends in every place, Little difference he scans 'Twixt a rabbit's God and man's. Bket Harte. IN BLACK RUSSIA. "Why, it is Mnsgrave!" ce c7n Artlnir! I thought you, mon ami, to 1 in Spuin still. What good wind, wli wind of fortune, hns blown you to i here, in Russia ?" Such were the words which reach < my ears, as a gloved grasp was sudden laid upon my arm, while I was traversii ihe railway platform at Mflisk. I turm to find myself confronted by the smilii face of Demetrius Yassili, a Rmsiti whom I had known for some three < fonr years at St. Petersburgh, Paris, ar wherever diplomatists and birdBof pa sage congregate. He, this wellAiiske <?d, glib-tongued Yassili, beloJging 1 ' both categories, since, when I^rst.kne . liim, in the czar's capital, lie^ras a pr< fessor in the university, -while in Par lie was an underling of the Rnssi:i embassy, and at Madrid a gentleman : large. 1 confess that I did not much lit Demetrius Vussili, though I was moi than half ashamed of my prejudice, ft the man -was friendly, almost too ostentj tiously so; was polite, genial, and ono < those amiable persons who are alwaj taking our good opinion by storm, as were, by the graceful rendering of soni little service or other. " By-lhe-bye!" abrubtlv put in m old acquaintance, linking his arm i mine, " I have to congratulate you, ha\ I not ? It is true that you are about t marry the beautiful Mile. Mari< daughter of Count Constantino Orlol the young lady who at Madrid, when was there, broke all hearts ?" It was true that I was betrothed t Marie Orloff; indeed, I was on my wn then to her father's mansion, at which had been arranged tbat I should be guest until the wedding should tafc S'ace, according to both the English an usso-Greek forms, at St. Petersburg Our engagement had come about in thi wise. I, Arthur Musgrave, as an attach of the English legation at Madrid, hn been thrown much into the society ( the daughter of the Russian envoy, hn learned to love her, and had been luck enough to teach her to love me. M chief difficulty was with the count, wL was at first very much annoyed and dii pleased. Fortunately for me, lioweve I was heir to au entailed property, smal indeed, but the rent-roll of which seen ed. respectable in continental eyef while I was able to convince Count O KAV/IAV onooufrp lia/1 11 riV* lUii LUJ MUAUV1 ?iiwuv*j Ut?v% off Scottish cattle, and ridden in ward< raids, at a time wheu his own forefathe were probably unbaptized Tartars, f it is a curious fact that the titled fan * lie i of Russia are Georgian, Tartar, Gc man, Swedish, anything but Russian. All now was happily settled, and, a? have said, I was on my way to my futu father-in-law's country chatean, a sui mer residence in the lake district Ostaschkoj, near Tver on the Upp Volga. The count's estates lay chief in that neighborhood, and he had late been appointed, by one of those abru transitions from one service to anotht wliich aro common under the czar's rul governor of the province. " But what chance, M. Yassili, brin you here ?" I asked, when we had shak hands. "I heard of you last as Rome." " Hrre to-day, there to-morrow," a swered Yassili, airily. " I have been Asia lately, shall beat Wilna to-morro nrvl in St. Petersburgh next week, serve a master who has dealings in i away places." 'Ton mean the emperor ?" I inquire and the Russian nodded with a look good-humored mystery. At this mome np came a porter to tell me, cringing] that my excellency must, he feared, content to wftit six hours or more foi train. There had been a movement troops toward Poland, disordering t company's arrangements, and taking i the rolling stock. "The emperor's orders, noble g< podin," be added, with a deprecatory shrug, as he saw my vexed face. Then Demetrius chimed in. His train ? a too, had been delayed by the concentra ^ tion of troops on the Polish frontier rR) He, too, had some hours to spend a he , Minsk. He had ordered dinner at th< ] Black Eagle, hard by. The landlori knew liim well, and would serve up f tolerable repast. Would I be charitabh and share what would otherwise be i solitary meal? Yassili gave me a good dinner, and w< i lingered long over our cigars and coffee, | chatting of other scenes and old times, Then, at length, word was brought thai | the train for Wilna was in sight. " Now I think of it," said my host, ir I his careless way, " on your road to th( count's chateau you will pass Staritza? yes !" he added, glancing at the oper map that lay beside me on the table "of course you will, and change horseE mere, i wisn, u 11 oe noi too mucn w. ask, that you would kindly give a mesi sage from me to the village priest, oi | papas, there?Pope John Petrovich." "I will, with pleasure," I replied, j " but remember, my Russian is uot verj fluent, and I presume the priest talks no French." Yassili laughingly assured me that the ! words were very few and simple, and suggested that I should pencil them, from his dictation, on a slip of papei which he pu hed toward me. These were the words of the message : " Youi j son " ("our clergy marry, you know, like the laity," interjected Demetrius] | " has been ill, but take comfort. He it | doing well now, and, if he acts promptly, i with the blessing of the Panagia, will ! succeed. He sends his love, faith and j duty." "I saw the pope's son," explained Demetrius, " the other day at Odessa, i Young Cvril is a corn denier and hay J merchant, a pushing, speculative fellow, J but as honest as the day. He was rei covering from a fever, but hoped to fill j his purse by buying up all the ah ! there is the railway whistle, so we must j be quick ! You'll do my errand, then, dear Arthur, will you not, and gladden the heart of the good old man ?" It was not until long after Yassili and I had parted that it occurred to me to wonder why he should have charged me with such a message. It would have ! been simpler, surely, and more speeay, as a means of communicating with Pope John, to have relied on the post " Pope John, English lord ?" said the ! inn-keeper at btantza, faltenngiy, as 1 | asked for a guide to show me the way to i the personage, while the slow postillions I were unharreasing, in the tardy fashion "in which work is done in Russia, the j tired horses from the carriage. "Certainly," said I, observing his I embarrassment "Is the priest ill, or j what is there surprising in a traveler's i inquiries for him ?" The landlord bowed obsequiously. " You'll find the papas in good health, ! noble gospodin," he said, in sugared ac I cents. " Yonder is the parsonage, with I the white gable." ' Then I want no guide to conduct me ! there," said I, laughing, and at once walked across to the card en crate. A j neat, snug little dwelling was the par. j Bonage, with its white walls, its tiny : garden full of humble potherbs anil 18 hardy flowers, and the sacred pigeons , 1 i cooing softly as they sunned themselves j(.j upon its red-eaved roof. An ill-looking L i fellow opened the dcor in answer to my /j1 summons, scanned me narrowly, and, as \r 1 I thought, with suspicion, and after " j some colloquy conducted me to what I L, : guessed, and by.the few books and the J j many pictured saints on the wall, to be ' ; the priest's study. Ten minutes elapsed, s"; and then in came the master of the , *' house, Pope John. "Forgive n.3, noble sir, if I have " kept you waiting," said the priest, with as low a bow ae he could have executed 1S in the presence of his bishop. "You 1. bring me news, I am told, of my dear 1 sou ?" ;e I cannot say that the reverend gentle e I man impressed me very favorably. Pope )r | John was a corpulent old man, with a i. snowy beard that would have done credit jf to a hermit; long white locks falling :g from beneath his black velvet skull-cap, jt, a snuffy and frayed cassock, and darkie blue spectacles, from behind which a ; pair of keen though half-shut eyes snry J veyed me with a watchfulness that had u in it something feline. Twice over did e I repeat the substance of Yassili's re() marks concerning the young corn-dealer ? i at Odessa, and twice, at the old man's i request, did I mention every circumj ! stance of my interview with Demetrius, i " his kind and nohlft rmtron." as li? a ! called liim; then I placed the written v slip of paper, on which I had penciled ft j the message, in the priest's hands, and a I declining his offer of refreshments, took ;e j my leave of him. As 1 left the parsonage d j I thought I heard some whispered talk, u ; and then a low, sneering laugh, ig " I am much mistaken," said I to myi0 self, as I stepped into my carriage, ami j gave ray postillion the signal to start, jf "if Pope John, ' the good old man,' as ,1 Vassili calledhira,be not as consummate y and greasy a humbug as any in Musy covy." Then my thoughts reverted to l0 rosy dreams of Marie and the future, s. and I sank into a reverie, from ^hich I r | only awakened to perceive that my driver \ was proceeding in a leisurely manner that was most unusual, for if Russians <. work slowly they drive fast. rI j "Come, come, my lad !" said I good .Q humoredly; " surely three good nage }n ; and a light kibitka ought not to go at a rs i snail's pace like this !" or As I spoke I heard the gallop of disii_ tant horses, mingling with the clank ol !r.! steel. We were on a sandy road, traversing one of those huge ope forests, i r the sombre gloom of which, alternating ! .'ll. II.. ?1 - V. n o f0 | Willi nit* ^laic ui uic ouuu} uao uv n_ cnsioned the name of "Black Russia' of to be assigned to these central provinces er of the. ancient Muscovy. Very soon w( ]y , were overtaken by the hard riders in oui ]y rear, their swords clashing against flanl pt find stirrup, their horses in a foam?ii )r j all, some twenty-five mounted men e* Most of these, by their long lances anc ' barbarian equipment, I knew to be Cos gB sacks, but others wore the uniform o en gendarmes, and three at least wen jn officers. ! " Pull up ! halt, I say !" shouted h< n- who seemed to command ; and in ai in instant my driver obeyed, w, " Secure the foreigner!" was the nex 11 order ; and with amazing quickness ! 'ar : was grasped by two of the dismounts troopers. id, i ^Resist and I fire !" growled a Cos of ; sack corporal, pressing the muzzle of hii nt pistol to my left temple, while hii ly, soldiers dexterously cliained my wristi ho frwmfliAi* TIw.m n(T flio nf.ntw r ft of surprise, I found my tongue. Ther< of wtiM, f sai.l, evidently some mistake he i some eonfnaion of persons. My pass up port, ii tiiey would kindly look for it ii | the breast-pocket of my ulster, wouli >s- ! prove me to be Arthur Musgrave, of tin j British diplomatic service, j unior attach of H. B. M. 's Legation at Madrid. , " Prisoner, you tnfle with justice ! - said the commandant sternly, in French . and, indeed, when the morocco ca6e wa t drawn out and opened, it proved to b 3 i empty. My passport and papers wer I ' gone, inexplicably to me. As I starei II blankly there was a roar of laughter 31 mingled with comments on my effroi] i j tery. I '' Remove the pretended Englishman! } j ordered the colonel, and I was thurs ( | back into the carriage, a soldier on eacl ' | side of me, and conducted to the tow: [! of Torjok, where I was lodged in jail. I do not like, even yet, to recall wha t I underwent during the miserable thre 5 weeks that I spent in the prison of Tor . jok. It was not that the cell was narrow L the bed squalid, and the fare hard am . bad. I was young and strong, an< [ could rough it. But it was madden > ing to be eternally examined and cross . examined by civil magistrates am . military functionaries, none of whon would listen to the plain truth, an< all of whom tried, by threat, promise r | persuasion, to wring out of me a con 51 fessiuu which, as they said, would en able me to claim the czar's mercy and ; j lighter punishment for my crime. I wa I browbeaten, bullied, argued with coaxed, but never accused of anything . j When I inquired the nature of my of ' | fense I wa3 jeered at. When I adjurei , my captors to write to the British em bassy, my | rayer was treated as an im ( pudent jest- And when I mentionei ( Count Orloff, the governor of th i nrovince. as mv future father-in-law. ' L really thought the judge of instruction would have flown at my throat, so angr was he. " Only bread and water for the con tumacious!" I heard him roar to th< jailer as he went out. I thought, be tween them, that they 'would have drivei me mad, and should have welcomec Siberia as a release. I I grew Bullen at last, and refused treturn any answer to the int-errogatorie 1 with which they plied me. I began al most to doubt my own identity. I could not be myself, Arthur Musgrave who was the tenant of this Russiau den j and daily questioned as to mv complicit; in something extremely subversive o Church and State. Let them knout me 1 hang me, banish me if they would, ! felt as though I were the only sane mai among a pack of madmen. "TT il ??' " nerts is tuc wiciuu, juiu i-Atcucuv/j, ! said a voice one day as my cell door wa thrown open, with a clatter of sword and spurs on the stone floor that indi cated the arrival of some distiuguishei personage; " there the desperado i8, lor< governor!" I looked lip. There in front of th< group stood, in a rich uniform, tli< breast of which sparkled with orders the "excellency" in question. Thi recognition was mutual. "Count Orloff!" " What! Musgrave Arthur, my dear boy, what terrible erro is this ?" And to the scandal of the judge, th< jailer and the rest of them, the governo of the province hurried across the grim; floor to clasp my hands, and to order in a voice that brooked no denial o delay, that my chains should instantl; be taken off. " My poor fellow, how you must havi suffered," said the count, feelingly,as In 1 saw how pale and haggard I had grown ' And then came explanations, the crean of which was that there had been i [ socialist conspiracy, a widespread one ! luckily detected in time, a prime move I in which had been my acquaintance ! Yassili, who had evidently made a cat's 1 paw of me in inducing me to carry hi ' message to the priest, while at the sam ! time he purloined my English pass J.port and papers, probably for the sak 1 of escaping, in case of the worst, unde J my name. " But Pope John, and his son," sai< I, bewildered. " Tlie real Pope John, a sad ol< rogue," answered the count, smiling "had been arrested the day before yoi ! reached Staritza, and you found hi I house in possession of the police. Th j white-bearded person to whom you gav the message, disguised in the priest' j clothes, was Major Bulow, of the Im i perial gendarmerie; and the messag j itself wa.; an artful concoction, couche< in a sort of verbal cipher, the key t< | which a traitor gave us, and which, bu ! ff-ir onr rmlifnrv r>r#?/\.infr.innR wnnlil hn.v< | led to a raising of the Polish regimen | at Tver, and a raising of the peasantry j in fifty parishes. As it is, all is 6afe, an< I a telegram has just informed me tha j Vassili himself has been captured 01 j the frontier. If ever a man deeervet [ Siberia?but you go free, Arthur. Comi ! with me, and Marie and I will teach yoi i to forget this misery." I have been married and happy hot I this many a year, but I do not thinl | that the ill-omened face of Demetriui . Vassili will ever be seen again on thii j side of the Oural. Bread Riots During the War. Tho women's riot at Chicago durinj ; the recent strike reminds the Nashvilli | (Tenn.) American of the women's brea< | riots in the South during the war. I 'says: The first broke out in Mobile with i ! clamor for bread, the women holdini j the streets for a day. Next day th , women of Atlanta and Augusta took u] | tlxe cry, and the day after, or within i ; very short time, those of Richmond ;! who wero addressed by President Davis ! Governor Letcher &Dd Mayor Mayo. Th i fair rioters held the streets and clamorei ; | for bread. Rations wero ordered, bu they declined them and robbed a fe^ I jewelry stores, and a few dry good i ' stores suffered slishtlv. The damage ?; however, was trifling. They were die persed with difficulty, on account of th gallantry which precluded tl e idea c ' using artillery on women. It wn 51 strikingly similar to the present strik r in the suddenness and simultaneity c c' the different manifestations, though i 1 was rather amusing than alarming, an nobody was hurt. A City Without Boundaries. f Memphis, Tenn., is in trouble abori 2 her boundaries, or, rather, she is i trouble because it is feared she has n 3 boundaries. In 1875 the legislature o l the State passed a general law authori2 , ing communities of thirty-five thousan t inhabitants and over t) organize into [ corporation city and repealed the vari 1 ous acts creating a charter for the cit i of Memphis. One section of the acts rf - pealed fixed the boundaries of the citj s and there has been no action on the pai s; of the general council since the reper 3 in relation to boundaries. Consequenl r j iy it is claimed that mo cny nas n ? boundaries ami that it cannot sustai , any action before the recorder beeaufi -1 tlin offenRc must be alleged, and, if rt i j quired, be proved, to have been con 1; niitted within the boundary lines of th 3: city. e ! A CHAPTER ON SMOKE. " : The Immense Revenue from the Tobnrro . Interest for the Pnat Flncnl Year. g | Below will be found a statement of e I the revenue received from each departe j ment of the tobacco interest for the j I fiscal year which ended June 30, 1877. It is the largest receipt on record, I says the Tobacco Leaf, since the inau' guration of our internal revenue system, ??! reaching an aggregate of $41,106,546.92, t! against $39,795,339.91 in 1876, an inh | crease of $1,311,207.01. In the number a ! of cigars made the past year there has been a falling off as compared -with the returns for the fiscal year 1876 of 28,e 796,241, the production in 1877 being .. 1,800,011,155, and in 1876 1,828,807,396. - The production of cigarettes largely in| creased during the last fiscal year, a I comparison for two years showing 149,. 064,257 for 1877, and 77,420,586 for [. 1876, an increase in 1877 of 72,643,671. j Manufactured tobacco shows a gain in a 1877 over 1876 of 5,655,713 pounds, the j aggregate production being respectively 112,719,228 pounds in 1877, and 107,1 063,516 pounds in 1876. Snuff in 1877 orViihifa o rrnin nf 1 QR9l nmin/lfl fllA [j returns being 3,424,048J pounds, against 8 3,317,086 pounds in 1876. Stamps for tobacco and snuff intendedior export sold ' at ten cents each, represent in value $8,1 009.60 in 1877, and 36,691.30 in 1876, an 1 increase in 1877 of ?1.315.30. The _ number of dealers in leaf tobacco in 1877 _ appears to be less than in 1876, the 3 revenue derived from special taxes on e leaf tobacco dealers amounting in 1877 I to $95,089.15, and in 1876 to 8109,650.45, g the tax on each dealer being $'25. Retail y dealers in leaf tobacco, whose tuecial tax is $500, and fifty cents for each 81 _ of sales in excess of 1,000, paid $3,312.51 3 in 1876, and only 82,333.34 in 1877, a . difference of 8979.17 in favor of 1877. j As the revenue derived from this source j is chiefly in the way of penalties for violation of law, the inference may,be _ flrown flint, fpwpr irrp.<niln.rities in the g sale of leaf tobacco at retail occurred in . 1877 than in 1876. From cigar nianut facturers there was received in special taxes at 810 each, 8155,289.88 in 1877, ; and 8153,075.26 in 1876. Manufacl hirers of tobacco paid in special taxes, f at 810 each, 81,409.58 less in 1877 than in 1876, the respective contributions bej; ing 88,759.81 in 1877, nnd 810,169.39 in j 1876. Dealers in manufactured tobacco, whose special tax is 85 per annum, paid " 821,063.45 less the past year than in the B preceding one. There seems to have g been fewer tobacco peddlers in 1877 _ than in 1876. as the revenue from that 3 source shows ft decrease of $2,594.57. } The following table shows the quantity of tobacco and snuff and the number of B cigars and cigarettes returned for taxae tion in 1877 : Found*. . Tobacco . 112,719,228 B Snuff 3,424,048}? Cigars 1,800,011,155 j Cigarettes 149,064,257 r ? How Postal Cards are Made. b The paper upon which postal cards r ar? printed comes in sheets about twentyY two inches by twenty-eight inches in f size, and is packed in boxes containing r about 2,000 sheets, and weighing 530 Y pounds each. After the boxes are unpacked the first thing in order is the B printing. This is done by two Hoe cyle inder presses, each of which prints fifty , cards at a single impression. The printa ed sheets are then placed iu racks nnd n allowed to dry for two days, in order to !f prevent any blotting or defacenmnt. Now r they are ready for the cutters, of -which ,t they are three, at present. By tlie first, i- which is a rotary cutter, the sheets are s divided crosswise in ten strips, contaiu0 ing four postal cards each. The sheets k pass in through this machine as rapidly e as one can follow another. The strips r are then collected in packages of one hundred each, the edges are made exact1 ly even, and the packages are then * xi - a -1-1 -~ - e xt. - xi piaceu on uie iroii uujics ui uuo cuiiers, 1 which sever them in the opposite direc tion. Of these cutters there are two, u both known as the Cranston " nnderb cut." Ten packages of one hundred e sheets each, after leaving the rotary e cutter, are placed in the "under-cut," s a lever is pulled which sets the ma. chinery in motion, and \ip comes a heavy e knife with a diagonal motion, and there 1 are four hundred postal cards complete j in a twinkling. A bit of br.iss is rct moved, allowing the uncut packages to 3 be moved up a proper distance under the t lcnife, and the process is repeated. The jr cards are then taken in bunches conve1 nient to be handled, and the edges are t carefully brushed to remove all dust and i "feather." They then pass into the 1 hands of eighteen girls, by whom they a are counted out into packages containing i twenty-five cards cach. Twenty packages are placed in pasteboard boxes, t which again are packed in wooden boxes, j containing from 1,000 to 25,000 cards 3 apiece. 3 The presses are now printing abont 1,000,000 cards a day. The contract requires that 1,000,000 cards shall be made in^ day if the demand is so great. ? It is not expected that many visitors e will enter the rooms in which the cards 1 are made, but precautions arc taken to t prevent the loss or abstraction of cards. Every sheet printed is registered by the a press, and the company is compelled to 5 give an account of every one. If a few b cards were lost it would cause considerao ble trouble, although the the loss might a be trifling. Any cards that are spoiled , in the cutting, or defaced in any way, are i, retained and destroyed by the governe ment inspector. t Amusing Incident at a Bridal Party. v One evening recently a member of the s Elk Association, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was i, married to a young lady residing on i- Humboldt street. In the height of the e festivities the joker of the association by if some means got possession of the bride's s ! tiny Batin siipper. This he circled about e j his head as the guests, attracted by the if bride's timid scream, began to gather f 1 oVinnf. ln'm "TTnw lnrIir>H nnrl d j gentlemen," said he, " am I offered for | this jewel?" The guests, fully appre1 ciat.'ng the joke, freely made bids. Upon ! a bid of $70 being made the amatuer it auctioneer feigned to be displeased, and a | exclaimed: "Why, the little buiioli of o riDDons on it; is worm more man uiur. f The bid having been raised to 8125, bv an admirer of the young bride, the memd bers of the association themselves begnn a to compete for the possession of the slipi I per, and with a call of $150 gained the y | prize. The fortunate gentlemen intend )- | to cover it with a glass case and place it ' in a prominent position in their clnb t j rooms. During this bidding the blushil | inp: bride and discontented groom stood j utterly dumfounded on the outskirts of o ' the ctowd of laughing guests. The on l) j cnrrenco is snid to have aroused the o j groom's mathematical ardor, and lie is reported to be studiously engaged in t- endeavoring to solve the problem: "If e tho little slipper is worth ?150, how much is the little girl herself worth ?" WONDERFUL WATCHES. Curious Pieces of Mechanism?Relics of the Olden Time. A watch about the size of an egg, said to be made by a Russian peasant, is now exhibited in St. Petersburg. Within it is represented the tomb of Christ, with s stone at the entrance and the sentinels on duty. While a spectator is admiring this curious piece of mechanism the stone is suddenly removed, the sentinels drop, the angels appear, the women enter the sepulchre and "the same ch?J is heard which is performed in the Greek church at eve. A watch somewhat larger, still small enough for a capacioue pocket, was shown at the meeting of the society of antiquaries a few years since: ! it had an alarm, and showed whether the | hour was morning or afternoon in allego] rical figures representing morning, noon, 1 otroninf* onrl nirrVif tttIii'oTi ^ " f"? themselves to view at proper times. Other figures told tl o day of the weei and month, the name of the months, the phases of the moon, etc.; but the figures of this machine were not dolls, but were engraved on revolving discs. A watch at present in the Swiss museum is small enough to be inserted in the top of a pencil case. Yet its tiny dial not only indicates hours, minutes and seconds, but also days of the month. H is a relic of the times when watches were asserted in snuff-boxes, shirt studs, ear-rings, breast-pins, and even fingerrings. George III. carried one of these little time-keepers, which was set in o ring like a jewel; it contained one hundred and twenty different parts, and just .about as many grains, so tnat the parta averaged one grain each, the balance wheel and pinion weighing the seventeenth part of a grain. The king wae so well pleased with the wonder that he rewarded the skillful donor with five hundred gnineas. Mary Queen of Scots had a watch made in the shape of a death's head. The forehead of the skull bears the symbols of death, the scythe and the hOur-glass placed between a palace and a cottage, to show the impartiality of the grim destroyer; at the back of the skull is Time destroying all things, and at the top of the head are scenes of the garden i ii rm. l-.1 oi ?juen ana tuo crucinxiun. jliuj wutcu is opened by reversing the skull, placing the upper part of it in the hollow of the hand and lifting the jaw by a hinge; thie part being enriched by engraved representations of the Holy Family, angels, and shepherds -with their flocks. The works of the watch form the brains ol the skull, and are within a silver envelope, which acts as a musical-toned bell, while the dial-plate serves as the palate. Fair and Fertile Bulgaria. Bulgaria must seem an Eden to such Bussians as are accustomed to a cold climate and sterile lands. At Shumla, for instance, Mr. Zamorski, the station-master, has reclaimed with hie own hands an acre of ground which the London Timeft correspondent declares is an examnle of what the whole land might, could and should be. It is laid out in a flower and kitchen garden?the former glorious in its blaze of summer beauty, the latter crammed with every fruit and herb which is good for man. The station-master's family is unable to consume the half of what this acre produces, so the rest is given away to people who are too lazy to produce food for themselves. There is absolutely no market. Newly-laid eggs are fiveior n penny, chickens twopence a piece, and a fat goose sixpence at Shumla. As one walked, says the correspondent, among apricot trees loaded with fast ripening fruit, and saw grapes, plums, apples, almonds and cherries in such profusion, one could not help getting indignant at the thought that almost the whole of the boundless wealth of this magnificent country is -wasted from sheer idleness and stupidity. The Pravady valley, properly drained, would produce food for millions, while now it scarcely provides for hundreds. The wooded heights are alive with every sort of game, from quails to eagles, from boars and deer to hares. Every man is at liberty to take his gun and knock down what Jie can, but, as a rule, the rich are too lazy and the poor too timid to enjoy their privileges. A iew men go into the woods for hares and on the lakes for fish, but it may be generally said* that the Turks make no use of their vats and teeming game-preserves. An instance of the slovenly and uncertain government of this land mny be found in the fact that there is a gun-tax of a hundred piastres a year, but nobody knows anybody who ever paid it. " But what would you do if an official were to come and demand nrrears?" the correspondent said to an Englishman, who had used a gun for a dozen years. "Why, I. should first threaten to kick the fellow if he weren't off, and then give him a backsheesh of ten piastres to get rid of him peaceably." Pearls of Thought. To deliberate on useful things is a prudent delay. He who speodily gives to the needy gives twice. j A suspicious man would search a pincushion for treason, and see daggers in o needle case. Whatever be your outward lot in life, your condition is truly pitiable if you are guilty of neglecting moments. Sileuce never shows itself to so great an advantage as when it is made the reply to calumny and defamation. One should be careful not to carry anj of the follies of youth into old age; for i old age has follies enough of its own. Brains and muscles should share j equally all laborious occupations. But | the braiu should direct the muscle and ! utilize and economize its nowers. A looking-glass is kinder to us than I the -wine glass, because it reveals out defects to ourselves only, while the latter reveals them to our friends. Perseverance is ore of the primitive impulses of the hurian heart?one of the indivisible primary faculties or sentiments which gives direction to the character of man. 9 I Manners are tfce root, laws only tjic trunk and branches. Manners are the archetypes of laws. Manners are laws j in their infancy; laws are manners ful] grown?or, manners are children, which, ; when they spring up, become laws. Friendship, love and piety ought tc be handled with a sort of mysterious secrecy; they ought to be spoken oi only in tne rare moments 01 peneut uuu, fidence, to be mutually understood ir : silence. Many things are too delicate | to be thought, many more to be spoken. Per' iipB the summary of good breedi ing 111 y bo reduced to this rule : "Be' I have unto all men us you would the-y | would bi'havo unto you." This wiil I most certainly oblifjo uh to treat all man ! kind with the most civility and respect, i there being nothing that we desire mor< ! than to bo treated so by them. CURIOSITIES OF FOOD. i Home Things of Intercut to Epicares of HIgl nnd Low Decree. [ Man possesses a power of accommo dating himself to a varied diet. All birds insects and animals, with but few excep tions, are used as food by the differen races on the globe, although such as ar< esteemed a delicacy by some are refusec i aa unfit and disgusting by others. Th< main deductions from the diversity o: diet, aside from the curiosities of tast< : .thus presented, are that the same life sustaining elements abound in all thes< manifold varieties of food. Cannibalism, though now conftnec principally to the Polynesian Islands was practiced by the ancient inhabitant) of Britain, and even by other Europeai . countries, many years ago. The eating of horse flesh originated in Tiffrtary, wai [ introduced into Norway into 1810, anc its iu>e now prevails in fifteen Europeai C! i-M Ann Virtni rlrtn TTmamaa AnAiAnf "P/vmAr?i kJLULCtt UCD1UCO X'iaUWt AUVIOUU i.W/UiUUf J liked the flesh of the wild ass, the foj , and the bear, and now we find Arabs eat ing camels; the Australians kangaroos the East Indians, zebras, wolves, jackal/ ' and leopards; while the inhabitants o , Abyssinia and Sumatra feast on elephan1 ; and hippopotamus meat. Frogs are now eaten the world over ; snails are used as food in many parts o: | Europe; sharks are relished by the Golc coast natives and New Zealanders , crocodiles are esteemed a luxury by th< , natives of Africa and Australia; slugi are in common use in China; walrus anc seal grace the dining-halls of the Esqui maux, and whales adorn the fit'h marketi , of Japan. , Of the animals of smaller size the dof , seems to be favorite eating in China, , New Zealand, South Sea islands, Aus^ , tralia and parts of Africa. Pliny telli , us tliat even Roman gourmands regardec puppies as a great delicacy. During th( | late siege in Paris dog flesh sold as higl ; as sixty cents per pound. Of all nation* , tlie Chinese seem the least fastidious anc have no prejudices not easily overcome, J if they can only command a plentiful Bup ply of dogs, cats, rats, mice, monkies, | suakes, rotten eggs or putrid fish, Monkies are held in high esteem as fooc by the natives of Ceylon, Trinidad, Bor ! neo, Spanish Guiana, and on the Ama, zon; hedgehog is a princely dish in Bar( bary and is also eaten in Spain; the , Hudson bay skunk is eaten by the Indians there, and squirrels by the Ameri, can Indians. ( African natives eat ante stewed ic i palm oil, while the large white ants are [ roasted in pots and eaten by handfuls at , we eat sugar plums. As to locusts (sucl] unwelcome guests in America), they loot upon them as a blessing, equal to oui estimate of bread and butter; tliej smoke and salt them, boil or stew, grinc them down as corn, and their use is verj fattening. The Bedouins of Mesopotamia and other Eastern people dry anc string locusts together to eat on theii journeyings with unleavened bread; thej are also enjoyed by the Persians, Egyp 1 A 1^1 T> 1 ? .1 -.l-.*? Liu Lib, .axuuiium, xmmiuiuu, wuuuuim iuj ' them a strong vegetable taste flavorec 1 by the plants upon -which they feed. \ Caterpillars were eaten by the ancienfc , at their feasts; and the same happy ens torn is perpetrated by the natives o: South Africa. Spiders, beetles anc grasshoppers are included in the bills o: fare of African Bnshmen and the inhabi | tants of New Caledonia, to which th< former add, by way of side, dishes, root) and bulbs, the lame of ants, lizards anc locnats. In India, Zanzibar, Java, Chin; and South Australia the use of ataakes ! lizards and bats, as articles of food, if quite common. A strange custom exists in many partf of the world of eating earth, proba bly having its origin in certain lo ' calities where the earth so used for fooc ! was found to consist in part of the re ' mains of minute animals and organisms 1 Certain tribes live principally during the rainy seasons upon a fat, unctuoui clay; and the same is eaten by Japanes< belles, after being made into thin cakes 1 to give them slenderness of form. A y\ C r\ n 1 ^ lrti/xtvtn no r? /I nnl ii mini ui cai in nuwrni uo uicau-iucai ii largely tised in northern Europe, and ! 1 similar substance called mountain-mea has, in times of famine, stayed hunger ir northern Germany. Much of the claj | so commonly used in -warm countries and also by certain classes in the South 1 is mere diet, has no alimentary value | and its use leads to certain disease anc sure death. ! Civilization, agricultural and com merce elevates the customs and appetitei ' of the nations of the earth, by broaden | ing their fields for supply, and giving chance for comparison of the world'p diet ary systems. What was once con sumed as a necessity is no longer palata ble to the peoplo whose opportunities 1 are broadened and whoso tastes are re fined.? Woumocket Patriot. A Blind Horse Racing with a Train. When the four o'clock train on th< Cayuga Lake road whistled at McKin ney's yesterday afternoon, says a recen number of the Ithaca (N. Y.) Journal the noise frightened a horse standing ii the yard connected with Wortman & Bates's slaughter house, and the anima dashed away with the skeleton wagon t< which it was attached. In wheeling around to get out of the yard the wagoi was overturned, and with it in this posi tion the horse, which is blind, mad< direct for the railroad track, and witl great speed continued to run toworc town, dragging t.he wngon along the roat bed. Just as the horse got upon tin track the train appeared in view at tin curve a short distauce north of the slaugh ter house, aud for a few minutes it look ed as though everything was up with tin poor benst. But on it ran, crossing cat tie guards nnd culverts with as rnucl | precision as though it were possessed o ; sight and the dangerous road a familial ' one. The engineer succeeded in revers I ing the locomotive before overtaking tin horse, although running down grade and at Quick's i laughter house the runa way was stopped and led down from tin track. What the Microscope Reveale. Lewenboeck tells us of an insect seer with the microscope, of which twenty sevou millions would only equal a mite Insects of various kinds may be seei I in the cavities of a grain of. sand. 1 i Mold is a forest of beautiful trees,witl fi.? V-ipnn/?lip? IpiivfH ami fruit. ' i Butterflies arc fully feathered. [ | Hairs are hollow tubes. c ! Tho surface of our boilies is coverec " with settles like a fish; a single grain o 1 snnd would cover oue hundred and fiftj 1 of these scales,and yet a scale covers fiv< hundred pores. Through these narrov openings the perspiration forces itsel like water through a sieve. Each drop of stagnant water contain: I a world of living creatures, swimmiuj with as much liber y as whales in tin , sea. 5 Each loaf has a colony of sects graz ing on it, liko cows in a meadow. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD i Recipca. Tomato Soup.?Boil two and one-lia] ' pounds of lamb in four quarts of watei ? boil the lamb to shreds and the wate down to two quarts; strain it. Peel an ; cut up fine two quarts of fresh tomatoes mix them with the liquor; stir ther hard, and boil them half an hour; sea son with parsley, pepper and salt; strai: them again; stir in one tablespoonful c butter before pouring in the tureen The broth in which chickens were boilei is often preferred to the lamb. jYpple Oostard Pie.?Three cupful stewed apples, nearly a cupful sugai six eggs, one quart of milk. Sweete: the apples well and let cool, mix th eggs with' the apples, season with nui meg, stirring in the milk slowly. On crust. Mabbled Cake.?One cupful buttei two cupfuls sugar, three cupfuls floui 1 r-t L Ml. c | iour eggs, one cupini sweet mo*, uut . half teaspoonful soda, one teaspoonfu cream tartar sifted in the flonr; whei j the cake is mixed take out a tencupful c f the batter and stir into this a larg t spoonful of chocolate, wet with a littl milk; fill your pan about an inch thici . with yellow batter, and drop upon thi [ in two or three places a spoonful of th I dark mixture, forming fancy ringB; pro . ceed with the light until all is used up. 3 Watermelon Oake.?Take two cup ) fuls of sugar, one of butter, one of milk I the whites of eight eggs, two cupfnls o flour, one of corn-starch and two tea i spoonfuls of baking powder. Take one third of the batter and mix half a cupfu f of currants with it; take another thiri , and add to it a little cochineal and; lump of alnm tho size of a pea dissolve* i in a little water. Flavor and arrange ii I your pan as marble cake. 5 Preserved Peaches.?Pare th 1 peaches, cut them in half, and remov J the stones; allow one pound of granulat I ed sugar to oue pound of peaches; crac] one-quarter of these "stones, extract tin " kernels, and remove the dark skin; thei > boil them in just water enough to cove them; boil until soft; let them steep ii I a covered bowl until needed; place th " peaches and sugar alternately in layer in a porcelain kettle, let it warm u] ' slowly, then strain the kernels and ad< ' the water; (the kernels may also b added if desired); let them boil slowl; until the peaches are clear and tender it takes about half an hour; then skin 1 them out carefully and lay them upoi ' large, flat dishes; boil the syrnp until it ii 1 clearand thick, about fifteemninutes; skin 1 thoroughly as fast as the skim rises; fil [ jars two-thirds full of the cold preserve< peaches; pour on the boiling syrup when cold, place brundied tissue papo: 1 on top, and cover the jar well witl r stout paper. I The Cnbbnge Worm. r W. I>. A., Tioga county, Pa., writes r "Not having seen anything this seasoi . with regard to a very troublesome pes r which is among us, I send you a speci I men for information. It is called hen , the cabbage worm, and is produced i the miller or moth, which I send also . The moth appears about the time tli< f cabbage begins to head, and the cab 1 bage is soon covered with the worms f attacking especially tne inner leaves . and soon ruining it if not attended to 3 There are numerous remedies for killiuj 3 the worms, such as black pepper, ho I soap suds, saltpetre, and others, but a i this worm is hidden more or less unde , the leaves these are not wholly effectual 3 Tne only sure remedy we have is han< picking. Is there no way of keepinj i the moth away from the cabbage ?" . Reply.?The cabbage worm, whicl - we suppose is here referred to, for n< I specimen was received with the letter - is the larva of the white butterfly . known as Pieris rapa. It has one o I two round black spots upon the wing 3 and appears in May and in July o 3 August, there being two broods in on< , year. We notice them .flying about ou l cabbage's at the present time. There i 3 no certain remedy for these pests bu i catching them, unci -where a consideraDi 1 quantity of cabbages are grown, it wil i pay to keep a child in the garden on th r watch for them. This is best done b] , meansof asmallnet of gartze or mosquit , bar fastened to a wire hoop, which i , fixed to a light polo for a handle. TVitl I this an active boy or girl can captur the butterflies e a fast as they come on t< - the cabbages. When the worms appea 3 they may be treated to a dose of dr - slaked lime, which we have found to b j very effective in getting rid of them, a - also all soft bodied worms and slugs * The worms should be carefully looke< - for. A quantity of fresh burned lim s may be kept in a damp cellar until i - falls to a fine dry powder, when it sliouL 1 be kept in a dry place in a close box o | jar for use. This is dusted over thi i worms as they may be discovered, whei 31 they are too numerous for hand picking . ! Staking Tomato Planti. II Stake your tomato plants now, befor i | they fall over and go sprawling alonj i j the ground. Drive a stout stake four o c five inches high, close to each plant 1 with two or three cross pieces a foot lonj > nailed on it. Nip out every latera J branch that starts from the main stalk i above the leaves, aad tie the plants t< - the stake ns it grows, with coarse twine ^ For early fruit select three or four of the i most forward plants, and pinch off no I only all laterals but the main stalk, i 1 j few inches above the first cluster o 3' blossoms. You thus divert all the vigo: 31 of the plants into one cluster of fruit - and can ripen tomatoes two or threi -; weeks ahead of the othor plants. Wi * ! have had twenty-four fine "Trophies,' 1 making a clnster a3 largo as one coulc i i cover with a hat, ripened, tho most o f | ,hem, in July, by this process. Uude r j favorable conditions of soil and culture * on the single-stalk system, tomato plant ' I wiil grow five or six feet high, and ripe] > j as many clusters of fruit?cleaner,bette in flavor, larger and earlier. 1 ? Spieer's Proverbs Tor the People. You cannot catch fish with a cor-nel I I Drinking whisky straight will no -1 mako your head level. You will often have to get round II man in order to get square with him. When you are asked to sign off, yo l l may be sure there is a sign maent. j The report of a failed company is uc I necessarilv a corp-oration. | Rifle teams were not made to drai I ] gnu cfirrinpes. f J You need not call the watch becaus r the clock "strikes;" if yon wait loni 3 enough the "striko" movement wii t ran down. f You must not expect peas b.ecause th enemy's city has been shelled. i; It may be reason, but it will not pu ; i any rhyme into a decision to reverse it ? There is one cord that contains knot I ? J.' . _ 1 4.1... i 4.1. I tuat no man ran mint', imu tn?i< m tu - : c ?ril of wood, ? Host on Comnitro.ia 1 Bulletin. i. Items of Interest. Spotted Tail thinks he is about sixty. He fights like it. * ^ The stoppage* of mail trains had no '? effect on female trains. ? There are forty lawyers and only three printers in Aubnrn (N. Y.) prison. J A young .French soldier was persuaded i_ lately by his lady love to cut off three of a his fingers that she might keep him at ,f home. u Germany raises about 94,000,000 j bushels of wheat each year, while the product of France is upward of 275,000,000. The Roman law fixes majority at ^ twenty-five; in Russia it is twenty-four; in England and most other countries it is twenty-one. e When a dog barks at night in Japan the owner is arrested and sentenced to , work a year for the neighbors that were disturbed, and the dog is killed. Owing to the failure of the bridegroom i j to provide a wedding riug for a recent nuptial ceremony in England, they had * to use the handle of a door key to perfj feet the ceremony. e It's the use of tobacco in large quan^ titi&s that is injurious. Take, for. ing stance, Mr. James Tucker, of Greyson e county, Ky., who had a whole hogsh | head of it fall on him and kill him the otner day. Mrs. Hayes, of Allen county, Ky., recently gave birth to four children, two l boys and two girls, which weighed twenty-four pounds in the aggregate, f and were all at last accounts as well ae j could be expected. 3 A man recently had a needle taken a from his body, where it had been for j seventeen years. " Did you ever feel a any inconvenience from it?" asked a neighbor. " Only a stitch in my aide, e now and then," was the answer. Q In Norway eagles destroy oxen by the r following contrivance: They dive into It the sea, and then roll themselves in the 9 sand, and afterward, by flapping their j wings and shaking their feathers into tho r eyes of an ox, they blind the animal and a overcome it. e The ancients teach us that the Romans a Im/J nn fiflpfl finitiio and Cffisar were p simply so called, titles begnn in the i court of Constantine. The emperor of e Germany first took the title of majesty. y Kings, till the fifteenth and sixteenth ; centuries, were called highnesses. 1 A weight of 36,000 pounds attached to * a bar of iron one inch square and 1,000 s inches- in length will draw it out one 1 inch ; 45,000 pounds will stretch it twcr 1 inches; 54,000 pounds, four inches; 1 63,000 pounds, eight inches, and 72,000 ; pounds, sixteen inches, when it will r finally break. 1 While a sergeant of a United Slates company was exhibiting a Gatling gun at the foot of Jackson Btreet, Chicago, : recently, some one inserted a cartridge i and turned the crank. An explosion t followed and a man was sho^through . the heart. The crowd was so great that 3 the person responsible for the deed was j not discovered. The victim was one of . the special policemen lately on duty. 9 A Chicago young woman alarmed tha house by fctanding on a chair, with her , skirts drawn tight around her feet, and , screaming: "Mother! Mother!! Here's!!! . a great!!!! big!!!!! awful!!!l!l nasty!!!!!!! ? mouse!!!!!!!!" She was rescued, and in t half an hour had pounded her little sister 9 black and blue, eaten a large pan of r cold beans, and gotten all really to look . sweet when Charley came to take her 1 out driving. ? One of B. G. Dun & Co.'s mercantileagency men had got as far in his vacation 1 as a comfortable snooze at one of the 3 mountain-houses, when he was rudely ? aroused by the clang of a bell in the ? hands of a muscular African. Jumping r to the floor, "drunk with sleep," ho 8 shouted: " What's the matter ?" "Day r is breaking, sah," said the wielder of the 0 sleep-disturber. "The deuce he is?" r growled the half-aroused man, with the 8 instincts of his profession still strong ^ upon him. "What are his assets and ? liabilities?"?Boston Commercial Bui1 letin. e = r Eld Gloves. 0 The manufacture of iaa gloves is an 8 old French industry. Grenoble is the 1 principal seat of the trade, oyer a third 6 of its inhabitants being engaged in it, J and it was from this city that the manur facttire was introduced, some three hunY dred years ago, by wandering craftsmen, 6 into other Europea? cities, especially 8 those of Germany. Paris not long ago ; grew to be the rival of Grenoble in the 1 trade, mainly t&rougn tne exertions o*. 6 Jonvin, who brought the manufacture | into prominent notice, and laid the foun* dation of that world-wide fame which the r Parisian kid gloves have ever since en0 joyed. a The French kid glove manufacture gives employment to over 70,000 hands, including those who attend to preparaQ tion of the leather. The yearly produc, tion amounts to something like 24,000,r 000 pairs, representing a value of 80,000, 000 francs. 1 Kid gloves are made of the skins of 1 goats, kids, sheep and lambs, which are supplied by all European countries, SaxJ ony, however, furnishing the best Great care is exercised in tauning in order to j obtain leather of the required degree of t softness and pliability. The dyeing of l ! the leather is carried on in special estabf lishments, for the convenience of glove r makers who do not, like larger firms, attend to their own dyeing. The soft j gloss of kid gloves is not, as some have 9 i been led to suppose, duo to any peculiar " | treatment, but depends upon the quality i ! nf the leather and the care expended in { its tanning. r At Sistova. g Sistova, says Edward King, of the a Boston Journal, was iuhabitcd by a r largo number of wealthy Turks, who bave doubtless left much treasure buried in the neighborhood. All the visitors j have brought back great quantities of plunder in the shape of elegantly printed and bound Turkish books, caps, it pipes, slippers, a good red wine, which is not especially stimulating, an 1 which, a despite the famous protest of the Khoran, seems to have been the product of some u Turkish vineyards. It appears that it was agreed by the Bulgarians that every it one who wished distinctly to espouse the Russian cause should, place a chalk ,y mark representing a cross upon his j house, and should wear the word e I " Christian " upon his arm, or shoulder, % in short, declare his preference for the !1 Christian faith in some marked manner. The whole town therefore now presents e a curious appearance; it seems, at first ; sight, as if every house in town had a ' t cross upon it. It is announced on very . j good authority that the Turks, who are I w.f limlrinrr in rrmirll shrPwdnOSS.marked .1 1 nwf <? . _ 0 i their houses with the sacred symbol, and 1 i tin's escaped t,ho pillage which they I feared. This is Highly prebable.