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i ? " ' , --!*i^'^-:-^ '"' - \ --''-W^'im \v C Bcne't < ? '" '^1 i ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANKER. J & ' "" ' ' ' " .. %3&fl3 _____ .\f Jm ? ? - " ' ' ; c v- tm BY HUGH WILSON AND H. T.WARDLAW. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1880. *f?\ NO. 14. VOLUME XXVI. w' " . >.?.. >? ' -C^M . . " 5 ? ? 1 /-.. nnn? ?*m nnnaunnTn I At the Gloaming. In the Dark. ? Midnight brooded weird and lone; Nothing broke the wintry gloom ' Save the drowsy monotone j* Ot the clock, as, one by one, From its steady hands the minutes loll into c my silent room. Close toside the larger bed ^ Stood the cradle in its place; 'Mid its blankets, soltly spread, p Lay the baby's golden head, c And his light breat'j, coming, going, gently ? lanned against my lace. [ Something in the darkness stirred, E Warmly nestling at my side ? Like a little sleepy bird, "Mamma?" very low the word; g Hash and darkness made the narrow space ^ between us seem so wide. t 1 Then I murmured, as he lay, v " Mamma's close beside you, dear; t Soon the night will go away, S JBy-and-bye it will be day; P In the morning when my baby wakons, mam- I ma will be here." ? Wandering Angers toward me crept; ? " Mamma, let me hold your hand;" ? Clasping it he hushed and slept; ^ Clasping his I could have wept, Humbled by that perfect trust which needed a not to understand. t Years have passed mo by since then; jj LoDg the little bed has stood t Empty, silent; yet, again, Thrilling doeper than my pain, 1' Comes the tender voice to banish every bitter, J doubting mood. jj Through the voiceless hush of death, F Through life's midnight dark and dim, Turning onto Christ, who saith f To each asking soul, " Have faith," f Heavenward I reach my lon<ring, human f hands to Him. C e Does no take them T Ay, he does! s All the chasm deep and wido s Spanning by his love that flows t Freely fof all human woes, ^ : 1 shall wake in heaven's bright morning with ^ my baby by my side. 8 ?Caroline Leslie, in the Christian Union. ? > . b s THE EEACB PATROLMAS'3 STORY. { The thundering surf at Atlantic City ^ was swarming with bathers?old and ' m-oro ond nov mpn nnH wnmpti If J VMiiftl ^4 M ? V WiiU 6?,; , M f and little children?romping in among e the joyous headers, for the sunlight was reflected from the sands in a steady c blaze, and the day won Id have been * blistering hot but for the rushing of the c glad sea wind. ? I had had my bath, and was strolling b idly along the beach, enjoying the v pleasant scene, when I suddenly espied an old acquaintance. It was Jasper, chief of the beach v patrolmen, who had told many an in- h teresting story of his life-saving adven- d i ures on the preceding summer. a He waR now standing at the edge of p the waves, half-naked, broad-hatled, p and with his immense canvas-covered h lift-preserver hanging over his shoulder ready at an instant's warning to answer ti the first cr> for help by dashing to the tl reseue. He greeted me pleasantly at my a approach. si "Any more romantic stories of h r rescue from drowning, Jasper?" I in- ii quired. v " It's more than a year since I saw you," he replied, "and of course I've tl plucked many a half-drowned bather from the waves during that time. Here, 7,5r t Tfn mnrp r\f that I vnn'll hp priori for nothing in case of business." tl The las; remark was addreased to the ei chief and most trusted partner of Lis perilous pursuit, a great Newfoundland ai dog, which at that moment, in answer h to nis call, came bounding out of the g! . eea, whither some urchins had dis- h patched him in pursuit of a chip, and tl after shaking the drops from his glossy ci {black coat, crouched submissively at his I master's feet. vi " But haven't you had any particular g adventure that I could make a story of ?" g !I continued. " Something embodying h excitement and romance, you know ?" ci "Yes; and it happened only a fort- 2< night ago, right out there on that very c< rope near which we are standing, and which you now see so thronged with shouting men and laughing women," he v replied, after a little reflection. "The s incident itself was a terrible 01 e- the o most exciting in all my experience?and n it had an interesting sequel, which only o came to my knowledge a day or two ' a?o." e " I at once pressed him for the story. 1 Inasmuch as the crowd of bathers he tl was watchinff did not seem to be com posed of any over-adventurous individ- V uals, he seated himself on a fragment of shipwreck near at hand, motioned me n to a seat at his side, and took up his ^ narrative very much as follows: p " It was just after I had taken up my tl , u station on the beach here, about a fort- 1< night ago. that I noticed a lady and gen- b tleman. accompanied by a pretty little c girl of four or five, proceeding from d yonder pavil'on to that long line of fashionable bathing-houses to the left. E "They passed quite near to me, and I c noticed them more particularly than I a would otherwise have done, for the day was cloudy, though warm, and there o were comparatively few persons to be n seen. "The extreme beauty of the lady, o however, coupled with the scowling, b sinister face of the man esw-orting her, c would have more or less engaged my d attention and curiosity under any cir- tl cumstances. She was, morever, anxious and careworn, as though in fear of him, w while he seemed to fee half bullying, si half entreating her to go into the water h in his company. This 3he by no means s< * v seemed inclined to do, drawing back every moment or so, with the little girl's c hand in hers, and then proceeding re- b luctantly forward again. 1< " I could distinguish the sound, but v not the purport of their words, the wiua being a little off shore. But they a were richly dressed, and this fact, com- p bined with the strangeness of their man- h ners. set me to puzzling over what h might be the relations existing between s them. t ' However, as the lady seemed to h give over her hesitation upon reaching s the ticket-office, and a moment later disappeared with her companton in a among the sheds, leaving the little gir. a outjon the sands, witn a toy bucket and b spade /or her amusement,! only laughed, a saying to himyself: 'Pshaw! it's only a ease of a timid, pretty woman being c tied for life to a tyrannical brute of a a husband. who has insisted upon her tak- e ing a ducking against her will.' And ^ then I thought little more of them. c "Visitors began to throng along the c beach a little more livelyjust about that t time. I did not again see the couple re- c /erred to till they were about to enter r the water, at this very rope here, which w.'.s th< n occupied by no. other bathers, f "Toe man wa3 in one of the high- i priced, striped suits, made out of one s L r iece, v. hich set off his burly, muscular i figure well, but did not improve the ex- 1 jiression of his frowning, black-mus- t tachtd face. The lady was modestly i attired in a dark blue, trimmed with i reil, wiuhjone ol the great bonnet-lik j hats tied over her ears, so as to almo3t c 3k concc-al her handsome face, and her a prttly liiile white feet fairiy glistened against the dark-brown of the drenched t sand?. ' i , " Even then she drew back from his touch. Mid seemed inclined to run away. < But l?e : uddenly seized her in his arms, s i? n in v-.iist-deep with her benind a re- j ?< -T--1 iuv. wave, in spite of her little I leauripg protests, and the next instant I . great header came combing and topdine in, burying them out of sight just lats they managed to seize a rope, and when ttiey reappeared he was laughing toistorously, while she resignedly kept ler place, though still shrinking from ontact with him. " ' So,' says I to myself, ' it wasn't the vater she was afraid of so much as of he man.' "Just then the little girl came skipting down to the water's edge, crying >ut in high glee at recognizing her uother in the surf, and tossing her >ucket and spade about as she retreated rom some creaming ripple3, which, levertheless, overtopped her tiny :aiters before she could get beyond their each. " The lady waved her hand, a little adly, I thought, toward the child, and pas then dragged out considerably furher along the rope by her companion, "he latter being a capital swimmer then eft her in peace, and began to swim iretty far out. Indeed, he was making uch hold wide circuits beyond the outrmost cork attachment to the rope, that .laying my hand on Zip's collar, was bout to shout out a warning to him onceming the dangerous undertow, ehen I saw him beginning to swim wiftly in shore again, as though he had ust recognized some one on the sands. "Just at this momenta gentleman iassed me on his way into the water, nd I felt instinctively that it was he, be recognition or appearance of whom lad caused the bold swimmer to so sud [rnly change his mind and take the back rack for the shore. "He was a tall, handsome, abstractedookingman, of middle age.and agentleaan every inch of him, by his walk and tearing, in spite of the miserable, illitting old bathing costume they had (aimed off on him. " He seemed to be unaware of the iresence of any other bather on this articular rope, for the lady was pretty aroat, with her back turned toward tim, and it was a question whether he ouid have made out her features in any vont, ust then, they were so overliadowcd by the overhanging coaicuttle bat, which every now and then he white-caps toppled over, making ler look like a mermaid ic the waves. lifflo r?5i?l fli aiinrli whn ttroa AiiO llbUils bU V/u^ ""V nwu till playing near at hand, attracted his aomentary attention as he was abont ntering the water, and I thought I saw lira give a painful start and mutter omething to himself upon observing her, ,s though she might have suegested ome troubled recollection or resemilance of the past. "That was all, though. Then he <rent into the sea, making his way teadily out along the rope toward the idy, with that firm-footed ease of an xperienced bather. "A vague anticipation?something I annot exactly define?caused me to ;eep my eyes riveted upon the group omposed of the two on the rope and he swimmer beyond, who was slowly ut surely making liis way to within rading distance of the beach. " I hardly think that the last comer -the absent-minded gentleman ?was rell aware of the lady's proximity until e was within a few feet of her. Sudenly, however, he made the discovery, nd I saw him start back, as though to lace a greater distance between tuem, erhaps out of a gentlemanly regard for er fense of modesty. " He must have uttered an exclamaion as he did so, for simultaneously lie lady turned toward him, her head nd bosom rising gracefully over a mooth incoming swell, while just then er hat blew oft, leaving her handsome ice and pretty blonde head exposed to lew. " A wild cry of recognition burst from tie lips of both at one breath. "4 Henry!' she screamed. " ' Louisa!' he cried. "And then the rolling water bore lem together, and they were locked in ich other's arms. " At thisinstint another cry, hoarse ad terrible?that of the swimmer, who ad regained the rope, and was strugling toward the pair, with fury and atred in his dark face?rang out above le tumult of the waters. Oaths and urses were mingled with his shouts Iri r?nrr?o cunnrrin cr ?Inn or n nnn a full rave's crest, and as the three came toether with a sort of shock, I saw him rasp the woman's shoulder with one and, and with the other strike her new ampanion a blow that sent him stagering back, thoueh he managed to reover the rope in time to keep his feet. " 'Oh, let me go. He is my husband -my dear husband!' screamed the roman, struggling vainly with the wimmer, who was dragging her furiusly out into the deep water, while the lan vho had been struck was courageusly endeavoring to reach her again. '"Never! curse you!' roared out her aptor. * You shall be mine, or death's! '11 drown you before his cy?s, sooner tian let you return to him.' " ' Help! help!' screamed the woman; he will drown me!' "And then they all came together gain by tbe action of the waters, the roman shrieking, the men striking deserately = t each other over her head and urough the spray, and, as they had all )st hold of the rope, 1 knew that it was ut a question ot tim6 for them to be aught in the influence of the latal unertow. " ' Follow me with the catamaran, Inoch!' I shouted to my assistant,who banced, most fortunately, to be near t hand. % Anatuen, wiin my Dig j ue-prescrvcr ver my shoulder, and old Zip here at ly heels, I dashed into the sea ' In spite of my experience in running ut. watching for chances with the ack tow, and the like, the three strug lers were considerably beyond their eptli, and the woman almost gone, by :ie time I reached them. "'Let go of the woman!11 shouted, rith an oath, to the swimmer, who was till endeavoring desperately to drag er from the othei's grasp and out to 2a. "His only r>'ply being a torrent of urses, 1 struck him with all my force etween the eyes, which caused him to >se his grasp and drift a little to windrard. " Then, seem? the other man was unble to swim, I tossed him the lifereserver, with a few words as to the est method of using it, and then took old of the lady, whom, with Zip's asistance, I easily managed to keep afloat, be intelligent do? seizing her short iathing skirt upon one side, while I upported her elbow on tbe other. "The skeleton life-raft, or catamaran, 3 we sometimes call it, came up soon ifterward, and I presently had them >otb on board, with Enoch at the oars md headed in shore. " I have never known whether the itherman drowned himself intentionilly, or, exhausted by the previous ifforts, he found himself unable to cope vith the undertow that must have :aught him in its embrace soon after I :ompel)ed him to loosen his hold upon he lady's arm. At any rate, he was :ertainly drowned, and his body was lever recovered. "The last I saw of his ugly head was ar to windward, when his dark face vas turned glaringly toward us for a tingle instant, only to sink into a deep vater-trough, and to be seen ao more. Weil, that is pretty much the end of my idventure, sir. The lady and gentlenan reached the shore, but little the ivorse for their ducking, and shortly ifterward left the hotel together, acjompanied by the little girl. Hello! vasn't that some one crying outP" " But stop! What about the sequel ;he explanation?" I cried, as he was Boving away. Just then, however, an unmistakable ;ry of fright came from somewhere imong the bathers in the surf, and mj larrator, the beach patrolman, with his faithful dog at his heels,'sprang awaj jo the rescue. It proved to be a false alarm, however, from some over-timorous lady, and he was presently once more at my side, dripping and smiling. "Oh, I forgot about the sequel," Paid he, shaking himself in imitation of Zip, who was, moreover, enjoying a roll upon the dry sand. "And that, as it has since become known to certain inquiring folk3 about the hotel here, though not to you newspaper people, constituted about all the romance there was in the adventure, after all. " The reunited couple were from some Connecticut city, where, after a married life of three years, they had been divorced two summers before, by reason of incompatability of temper,which constitutes sufficient grounds for severance of the marriage tie in that State, I understand. It seems, however, that they had all along truiy ioved each other, J Kniwl l\o nni 1 rr frrnt linr ZU1U iuiliuu Jiavu iJVCU nappiij ivfavv ivi, but for their temperamental differences having been secretly and constantly fanned into flames of bitterness by a false friend ol the husband. This man ?the same as was drowned, as you will readily conceivc?was also enamored of the wire, whom he hoped to marry after the divorce, which was ultimately secirc-d through his villainous machinations. " In tlii?, though, he was destined to deserved disappointment. She went with her little girl to a wealthy relative's house in Philadelphia, where she steadfastly refused to listen to hi3 suit. But, not possessing a great deal of force of character, she feared him quite as much as she loathed him; and, unfortunately, the fellow received the countenance and urgent support of the relatives with whom her necessities compelled her to make a home. "She was goaded and almost forced to accompany him everywhere, and, though openly expressing her dislike, to listen to his persistent advances, and his alternate threats and appeals. Such was the state of affairs upon ttie day that witnessed the episode of the surf I have narrated. " Her encounter with her divorced husband in the breakers was purely accidental on both sides?a happy chance. Their loDg-hidden but unsmothered iovc burst out afresh at the first sight of each other, and, naturally enough, they rustled into each other's arms. " No sympathy has been expressed for the drowned villain, and it is said that the divorced couplc, so romantically thrown together by fate, have lost no time in marrying over again, in another State." The Tcabody or Washington. A New York paper says of William W. Corcoran, the Washington banker and philanthropist: The name of William Wilson Corcoran, like that of Geowe Pcabody, whose inumate personal lrieuu nc wtia, wm w down to posterity as that of one of tne greatest benefactors to his race to which the American republic has given birth. His father, Thomas Corcoran, emigrated from Ireland, and came to this country in 1783. He settled at Georgetown while Washington was a couuti'y gentleman at Mount Vernon, before he was called to the presidency. ITis son William was born at Georgetown, December 27, 1798, and, after receiving the meager education which was available in those early times, was placed in a humble position in a dry goods store. He soon attracted the attention of General John Mason, the president of the Georgetown bank, who gave him a position as clerk in the bank. He proved an apt student in the science of finance, and, after serving three years in Mason's bank, was translerred to the branch bank of the United States, which was opposite the Treasury building. Here he gained the con Science of the president so thoroughly, that, upon the suspension of the Georgetown bank, he was delegated to dispose of the real estate which the United States bank, as a creditor, was obliged to take. He served with great efficiency in the United States bank until the final dissolution of that institution. Simultaneously with the endowment of the Art Gallery at Washington Mr. Corcoran erected and endowed the "Louise Home," by an expenditure of $400,000. The home is named after his deceased wife and daughter, and is for tlie use oi " laaies wno nave sewi oetie days." In this beautiful retreat from the storms of ill-fortune forty ladies find a delig'ttful home. Among them are widows of naval officer?, of eminent clergymen, and of lawyers, with daughters of prominent merchants of a former generation, and of planter?, orphaned and made homeless by the late civil war. The home is in Massachusetts avenue, between Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets. Since 1865, when lie returned from Europe, Mr. Corcoran^ life lias been devoted to giving of his wealth to the needy, llis donations to the University of Virginia amount to 880,000, and he has also given largely to the College of William and Mary, the Virginia military institute, Washington and Lee university, and the Virginia theological I seminary of the Episcopal church. It is estimated that in the last te n vears he | has given at least ?3,000,000 for the benefit of his f ,'llow-men. Mr. Corcoran has no> been actively engaged in any business since his retirementfrom the banking house of Corcoran & Riggs, in 1854. "He has lived to acquired fortune, enjoy it, distribute it, and make his peace with all ranks and parties of men. lie is a man of gt-nial disposition, and has always been a welcome addition to any society. At his hospitable table in Washington presiaems ana men: camnets have been entertained, and visitors to the city have evinced quite as much eagerness to penetrate to his house as to enjoy the hospitality of the executive mansion. In appearance he is large and straight, corpulent, but not grossly so. He has a beautifully clear skin, fine liquid eyes, and luxuriant whits hair, which covers every part of his head. He dresses like a gentleman in polite life, carries a gold-headed cane, and always wears gloves in the street. lie has the reputation of being the neatpst old man in Washington. A Watermelon Joke. Mr. Thomas Bray, manager ot the Crescent Tube works, at Pittsburg, Pa., left the factory at the usual hour one night recently, but in passing the office was halted by the treasurer, who handed him a watermelon. Mr. Bray at first demurred, on account of the distance home, but at length took the fruit, and placed it before the children immediately on reaching home. It was decided to cut the mekuTand Mrs. Bray handled the knife. The blade suddenly struck a box. which was taken from the center of the melon, and on being opened was found to contain a gold | watch ana chain. The watch was in, I anrihnH nu fnlinw-?: "ToThoman Bray manager, from the employees of the Crescent Tube wrrks, as a testimonial of respect." Mr Bray, astonished and surprised, was conducted to the parlor, where Mrs. B. exhibited a handsome, silver waterset, presented to her by the same parties. ' The French elections which have just taken place show a steady aud rapid gain In popularity for the republic, and ' the weakening of the numerous monarchical and other factions which go to make up tlie opposition party or con1 servatives. The elections were for the officers of the many departments or dis Iricts into which France is divided, i The departmental councils participate with the municipal delegates in the elec> tions of senators. r The ancient refined Greeks gave much i attention to improving the breeds of r horses, sheep, swine and poultry. The Romans took great pride in agriculture. THE OFICM HABIT. an jo; A Possible Antidote?P?per by a Profes- Cla or or Physiology of the University of Isoulsvllle. PI The paper of Professor Palmer, on a ar a possible antidote to th? opium habit, *'{ which is published herewith from the 5n Mcdical News, is interesting, and the discovery therein contained, if it proves to be a discovery, is all important. lei It is not my purpose to enter into a lengthy dissertation upon this " social wi evil;'1 yet such a dissertation would be by no means inappropriate, seeing how fr*1 great is the evil of the opium-habit, and to how poor and insufficient the literature Pr bearing on its treatment and cure. No 8fcc people so well know the uniform evil tei effects of opium-eating as the medical fr fraternity. DeQuincy and others have founded the pernicious notion among do the laity that there is a something far *01 more exhilarating, far more divine in SP flio ir>t/>Yir?5ilinn nrnduced bv ooium. than in the commoner intoxication of alcohol. i Few people, comparatively speaking, need look beyond personal experience - to knew that the poet has not been niggard of his coloring when singing the 0 pr.;ises of the rosy juice. The majority 30 of mankind has too vividly imprinte.t J01 in memory the clouded intellect, hpad- . ache and nausea following bibulation, C1,( to bow unqualified assent to the poet's P1' ecstatic verses recounting the virtues !te of the " generous wine." On the contrary, happily, so far as we Americans j,e are concerned, wtiat the vast majority i ?: of us know of the opium habit is gained WJ from hearsay, and is, as is well known P? by the doctor, unreal in the extreme. It ou has been my lot, like that of most prac- 8U titioners.to come in contact with opium- se! eaters, and I will positively affirm that 8CI I have j;et to see one who even approx- ?a imated in his nature the "happy-go 'J11 lucky" character of the drunkard. Opium-eating is a curse without any qualifying dispensation ? a black cloud in asunles3 life. It cannot be said that its constant use improves the vital ta powers of the enfeebled. No debates as S1! to its food properties have ever been held. It is simply a powerful drug, thi useful in time of great physical distress, stf and pernicious beyond the power of pen ac: to portray when once it fastens itself th upon the mortal frame as a daily neces- th sity. , in* To be able to cure the opium habit at| has been the laudable ambition of many of a worthy doctor and the vaunted clnim ca of man v a blatant quack. I believe that sk so far as the literature of medicine goes sti to-day we Lave no remedy with any ab claims whatsoever as a curative of this ed, habit. Those doctors who have sue- th< ceeded in reforming any of its victims do have, I believe I am safe in saying, done th< so by aiding the weak resolves of their a patients with their own strong will and bo influence. If any medical man has yet bu discovered a cure lor opium-eating, I am set sure the medical world is not aware of he: it. inj I Recent experience has led me, in view P? of the facts just stated, to hope that I cai have di3covereSfc*a cure. What it is, and how I came to use it, may be d? briefly told as follows: In looking over the different remedies which various drug-houses have kindly donated to the be University dispensary, I read upon the back of a bottle of fluid est. of coca, j1!6 that this drug -"produces a gently- jus excitent effect; is asserted to support the stfength for a considerable time be without food; in large doses, produces a on. general excitation of the circulatory and nervous system, imparting in- * creased vigor to the muscles as well as fljr the intellect, witli an indescribable P,ll( feeling of satisfaction amounting altoaether sometimes to a species ef de- s.ld liriuiu, not followed by feelings of lan- tl0] guor or depression," etc. At this time - mi I was treating in private practice an ? obstinate case of cardiac irregularity j13 due to a somewhat dissolute life, and not amenable io either belladonna, digitalis or tonics. I started the pa- 88,15 tient on coca. From dropping one beat in every four, his heart went with increased doses of the drug, to one in seven, ore in twenty-one, one in thirty- t ? eight, and finally a cure. The titl absolute relief and cheer that a a ( good, big dose . of.cgca imparted Wi to this patient we're" wonderful T to observe. I had hardly begun with Vii the case before a similar but worse Bu case of cardiac exhaustion, with irregu- tio lar action, was offered at the University cer chest clinic for treatment. To be brief, to he got coca, and got well. In both his cases hypochondriasis was a marked the symptom, and was speedily cured. gai In March last I was sent lor in great the haste by the proprietor of a neighbor- sib ing saloon, and on my arrival was told req that a " chap " had jnst gone to his room int in a fearful fix. " He looks," said the be publican, " as il he had been on a terri- th( ble spree, and needs a doctor mighty an< bad." I was shown to the gentleman's sev room, and was struck at once by his to peculiar appearance. He told me tio frankly that he was an opium-eater; mc that he had not taken a drink for foi' months; but that this morning, feeling in$ an hnHlv from mnrnliirifl. he lind erono il)S to the saloon and taken a brandy cock- be tail, which, however, did not stick. He of protested that he was dying, and alto- ( gether was in a sorry plight. I subse- tin quently learned his dose was three On grains of morphine several times a day. Im I tried various remedies for a day or to liwo, and by moral suasion got him to No reduce the dose very materially, but all much to his discomfort. About the "b third day of my attention I bethought be myselt of the coca and ordered it tor inj him. Imagine my surprise upon meet- qu ing him the next day with tine spirits die and a record of only one-fourth oi.'a ha grain of morphine taken since my last br< call. This was the end of the case. He M: took the coca lor some days and cn- qu tirely broke off from opium. Hi3 state- ha ment was that whenever he felt de- ha pressed or bad he took a good, big dose me of the medicine, and in a few moments to( was all right. qu My second case was so striking in its results, and 1*3 'so recent that I hardly feel justified in reporting it. It is as follows: Upon the 18th of the present month a gentleman sent for me. I "v found him in bed, lookinsr like a con- m! sumptlve. He at once told me that he Pei was an opium-eater, and that he had reached a point where thirty grains of morphine daily were necessary to sup* , ply the cravings of his perverted nature. , _ He said that he was now trying to break off, and wanted me to help him. I told him of what the coca had done, and with a few cheerful words prescribed it for him. The next day I found him still faking morphine, al- rr, though in small doses, as he had not ^ been able to find tue coca, upon me following day he had but one dose of vr' morphine in eighteen hours (one-fourth grain) and plenty of coca. He was hope- zLJ ful and cheerful. The next day I failed Ji, to see him, and on calling the day fol- T* lowing the servant met me at the door ?' with ihe statement that he was well, 5., and had gone down-street. This much Jz 1 can say for the last case, that when I last saw him he looked like another P/* man, so light and cheerful was his f*ice, and so free from the evidences of opium. These are very brief and slender claims upon which to base a claim of discovery; {e and, while I might supplement them by J. several cases of ordinary hypochondriasis relieved by the agent in question, H I do not deem it worth while, as my I ,1 only desire is to direct professional at- 9J tention to the administration of coca in ? the treatment of the opium habit. Erythroxyion coca is a native of the eastern elope of the Andes. It is cultivated in tropical valleys of Bolivia and Peru. The greatest care is given to its d( culture by the natives. An idea of its fe importance as an agricultural product fe may be gained from the fact that the ci duties upon coca in Peru amount yearly fe to $100,000. The Peruvians are pre? o] eminently a despondent and unhappy oi race, and coca is their balm. To them sq it is a relic of departed days of glory, it d under its benign influence they en7 in dream and delirium the halcyon ys of Monco Capac. Professor Steele, of the American larmaceutical association, from whose tides on coca I glean these facts, says: Coca is both salutary and nutritious, fact, the best gift the Creator could ve bestowed upon the unfortunate dians. They always carry a bag of ives suspended from their necks, upon rich they draw three times a day >th as much pleasure and delight as a nnoisseur in tobacco smoke from a tgrant Havana. It imparts brilliancy the eye and a more animated exession of the features, agility to the ip and a general appearance of conit." Indeed one can. scarcely read ofessor Steele's article without wish; to test the virtues of this great antite for the blues. The ordinary dose : adults of the fluid extract is a tableoonful. 1 Remarkable Surgical Operation. for about a year a little girl, ten yearj age, has been a patient in the county spital, Chicago, suffering'from a burn extensive that the orainary treatmt by skin grafting hopelessly failed effect a cure. It was therefore deled to Lrv the experiment of trans anting a large section of skin partially taclied from a healthy object, the girl's 'elve-year-old brother consenting to flayed for his sister's sake. firs, eand Fcuger conducted the operation, aich is described as follows by a rerter of the Chicago Tributie: A curis box had been constructed unde the pervision of Dr. Murphy. It rembled nothing more than a pair of issors opened out, except that one rt was about four inches higher than e other. On one face of the cross the tie girl was laid face downward. On e other the boy laj on his side so that 3 leg crossed his sister, the part of the igh from which the skin was to be ken being just over the burn on the 1. The children were kept unconious during the entire operation by e use of ether, and two assistants conmtly directed the vapor of carbolic id on the wounds of both the boy and e girl. The surgeons then cut from e boy's thigh a leaf pf skin four jhes wide, five inches long, leaving it ached by the under side. The wound the girl was then cleared of its deying matter. The flap of the boy's in was then laid on the wound and tched to the outer edge of tho skin out ihe wound, without cutting the ge, which rendered it still _a part as e boy's fleshy covering. This was ne to secure the vitality of the boy for 3 skin which is expected to grow to be part of his exhausted sister. The y's wound was ugly in appearance, t the skin had been separated, or disced, so neatly that it will be easy to al over by the usual process of grafts'. The children, as they lay m this sition, were so bandaged that the inot possibly tear the nap of skin or >ve from their position. Thus their al existence was begun, which will t for about three weeks. By that ic the success of the operation may known. During that length of time s boy's vital forces will be in a asure transferred to the assistance of sister, and, at the end of that time is hoped that the transplanting will complete and the skin nrmly grown the burned portion. The ilap is not te large enough, and, before the skin inally severed from the boy, a still ther portion will be dissected and ap2d to the remainder of the wound, e little girl's pulse dropped conerabiy toward the close of the operaa, but sho was revived by the appliion to the nostrils of a cloth dipped brandy. The operation was a success far as it went, and, if nature takes !d in the manner cxpected, the brave i can congratulate himself on having 'ed his sister's life. Amusing Old Wills. i foreign reviewer of a new book ened " Curiosities of the Search-Room: Collection of Serious and Whimsical ills," writes a3 follows: Che chapters on Eccentric Wills, on adictive Wills and on Directions for rial contain some carious illustrans of human frailty and folly. A tain Dr. Elierby bequeathed his heart one friend, his lungs to another and brains to a third, declaring that if :y do not execute his wishes'with re"d to them he will come and torment sm "if it should be by any means posle." Another testator, an American, luires that his skin may be converted 0 two drum-heads, upon which are to inscribed Pope's Universal Prayer and 1 Declaration of Independence; jther Americ in, a New Yorker, leaves renty-one pairs of trousers, to be sold the highest bidder without examinan, no purchaser being allowed to buy ire than one pair. In each pair was ind a bundle of bank-notes represent 5 a thousand dollars. A Frenchman ititutes an annual race with pigs, to ridden by boys or men, with a prize $400 to the winner. 'imfpsmip instructions with regard to 2 testator's body are frequent in wills. ie man bequeathed bis body to the iperiai gas company to be consumed ashes in one of their retorts; and a iw York spinistcr desired to employ her money in building a church, ut stipulated that her remains should mixed up in the mortar used lor fix? the first stone." Some of the boosts in what the compiler calls "Vin:tivc Wills" have in them a touch of mor. Thus the Fifth Kurl ot Pemike writes: "J bequeath to Thomas ly, whose nose I did break at a maserade, five shillings. My intention d been to give him more, but all who ve seen his 'History of the Parlia!nt' will consider that even this sum ) large;" and a certain Dr. Dunlop beeaths to his brother-in-law, Clirispher, his best pipe, out of gratitude it he married "my sister Mageie, 10m no man of taste would have sen," and to his eldest sister, Joan, his e-acre field, "to console her for being irried to a man she is obliged to henck." Two Yery Tall Skeletons. rhe following was copied verbatim >m a note made in his pocket almanac the late Judge Atlee: On the 24th ot ly, 17(J8, being at Hanover (York unty, PennJ in company witn umei istice McKean, Judge Bryan, Mr. Bird d others, on our way to Franklin, and king a view of the town, in company th Mr. McAlister and several other i jpectable inhabitants, we went to Mr. ;ese's tan-yard, where we were shown jlace near the currying house from lience (in digging to sink a tan vat) me years ago were taken two skeletons human bodies. They lay cl >se beside I ch other, and measured eleven feet ree inches in length; the bones were tire, but on being taken up and ex' -1.1 ...i.v.Ul/vrl isea tome air uiey pieociiuijr tiumun-u id fell to pieces. Mr. McAlister and irae others mentioned that they and any others had seen them, and Mr. cAlister, who is a tall man, about six 2t four inches high, mentioned that e principal bone of the leg of one of em, being placed by the side of his K, reached from his ankle a considerae way up his tll.'gh, pointing a small stance below the hip bone.?Harris:rg (Pcnn.) Telegraph. Meager county, Montana has a won>rful cave. An arched passage thirty et wide, many feet high, and seventy et long conducts the visitor to a spaous apartment six feet in width and ICO et in length. From this room passages Dgnonall sides into other chambers, ig of which is estimated to be ICO feet luare, with r dome-shaped ceiling risLg to a height of eighty feet. TIMELY TOPICS. Nnpoleon the First said that agricul ture was the body and soul of the em pire, and in the height of his glory he gave the subject attention and en couragement, and established in Franci a department of agriculture. From thi start given to this great art, the nursin; mother of all the arts, France has be come the richest and one of the mos powerful and prosperous among thepeo pie of the earth; thirty-nine out of ever; forty of her population, according U statisticians, do not spend their income but lay something by. The Marquis Tseng, the Chines plenipotentiary, when he arrived a Berlin the other day, went through som< odd courtesies with Li-Fong-Pao, th Chinese ambassador to Germany. Oi arriving at the hotel the two gentlemei began their formal Asiatic salutions They folded their hands,' fell on thei knees, and threw themselves on th< ground with outstretched arms. Thi members of the two embassies salutei each other in the same manner, an< then they all exchanged their visitini cards, which are strips of red paper i foot long and half a foot broad. While tunneling under rivers is goinj on apace in various parts of the world a greater enterprise is contemplated beneath the English channel. On botl the English and Frpnch shores shafU have been sunk for the purpose of testing the character of the soil and rock The French shaft has temporarily suspended operations, from some difficulties not insurmountable; the English shaft, sunk ninety feet between Folke, stone and Dover, has been inspected and found satisfactory thus far by M. Leor Say and the French engineers; and no^ some very deep headings will be driven, These experiments will be watched with interest by timorous and seasicfe travelers, whose desire to cross the channel is thwarted by fear of shipwreck or qualms. The cost of the sub' marine tunnel will be prodigious, particularly if the drilling should prove difficult, but the railway travel through it will perhaps pay the interest thereon, The English ana French railways which would profit by the enterprise furnish the funds for the experiments. One of the extraordinary and unac countable panics whicn every now and then break out in different parts of India appears to be now prevailing in Madras city. A rumor has got abroad, and is firmly believed in by the lower classes of the natives, that the government is about to sacrifice a number of human beings in order to insure the safety of the new harbor works, and has ordered the police to seize victims in the streets. So thoroughly is the idea implanted that people are afraid to venture out after nightfall. There was a similar scare in Calcutta some seven or eight years ago, whan the Hooehly bridge was beme constructed. The natives then got hold of the idea that Mother Ganges, indignant at being bridged, had at lait consented to suDmit to the insult on the condition that each pier of the structure was founded on a layer of children's heads. Substitutes for Sea-Bathing. People who have no opportunity tc enjoy sea-bathing will be glad to know that a substitute nearly if not quite as strengthening is found in an ammonia batb. A gill of liquid ammonia in a paii of water makes an invigorating solution, whose delightful effects can only he compared to a plunge in the surf. Tc weak persons this is recommended as an incomparable luxury and tonic. It cleanses the skin and stimulates it wonderfully, and leaves the flesh as firm and wiofkln Mnri> Minn thin, the UUUi 00 UiiM W1V? W , ammonia purifies the body from all odor of perspiration. Those in whom the secretion is unpleasant wil find relief by using a spoonful of tho mixture in a basin ol water and washing the armpits with it every morning. Many people find great comfort and benefit from salt-water baths arranged in this way: A coffee-cup of line distilled salt is mixed with a gallon ol water, and with a hair glove or Russian bath-cloth the body is thoroughly bathed with the mixture, rubbing until the body is aglow. Then follows an exhilaration akin to surf-bathing. The druggists sell boxes of salt specially prepared, and weighing three pounds, for fifty-five cents. For a delicate child such a bath is recommended as speciall j beneficial. Many people find an occasional bran bath greatly improves the condition o] ihe skin. The French women find it leaves their dark, clear skin as soft as a baby's. A peck of common bran, to be had at any of the fjed-storc3, is stirred into a tub of warm water. The rubbing of the scaly particles of the bran cleanses the skin, while the gluten in it soften? and strengthens the tissues. The friction ol the loose bran call3 the blood to tlie surmce, anu ni'i vuua auu m wuiv people find special benefit from it foi their minds as well as their bodies. Physicians say the habitual use of soa; upon the /ace leaves t .c skin brown and recommpnd a little oatmeal in th( water or the ammonia suggested above Ladies who have moist or oily skins should use quite hot water lor then baths, and a little fine bay rum rubbec over the face, or a little of auy of th< fino toilet waters. A tablespoonful ir the washbowl of water prevents tha shiny appearance of the skin which i; so annoying. Those famous beauties on whos< charms the world's eye rested and neve: grew weary, Diana, of Poitiers, anc Ninon dc l'Enclos, attributed the pres ervation ol their charms and health t< the continued use of the rainwate bath?a recipe for loveliness within th reach of the ugliest and poorest o womankind. American Olive Oil. Wf notice in the Mining and Sci.nlifi Press a lormula for making olive oil 01 a small scale, as produced in California comparing this with a description in th Pharmu-tutiKtic lianaasoLcui 01 iu manufacture of olive oil in Southeri France. In California they grind thi olives before pressure. This appears t< be an error; tliey should be crushed be tween two stones turning against eacl other vertically. We can quite under stand that cushing leads to quite differ ent results from grinding. In cider producing counties in England apple are prepared for cider in the same man ner as the French prepare their olives by grinding them ut.der favolvin stones. Cider thus prepared will kee for years, and improves with ag ', som say, on account of an essential oi pressed from the apple pips. In Amei ica cider is made from crushed o chopped apples, and possesses neither th flavor or the keeping properties of the produced in Devonshire or Hereford shire, England. TVre is another poir which may be important on th "Rhone." The oil, when filtered, i stored in stone vessels. On the Pacifi they use tin cases. A young man ot Woodford count? 111., has died of the effects of taking to" aorprnji shock of electricity while; a tending ft circus. He was strong an wanted to show the other boys preser how much he could stand; therefore tl; fall force of the battery was turned o and in a few days the quiet village cen ctery received an occupant. A man recently from Leadville, Col says there are not less than 600 v, ell edi catedmnd refined young men in tin city who are literally begging bread froi door to door. The country is begiDnir to understand the condition of thinj there. THE CENSUS 0V THJS llll?S. t - The Census of Nearly all the Chief Cities of ithc United States?Companion* , with 18TO. - t The following returns, except those (b marked with an asterisk, are the re- P e ported official figures of the census in 11 Z most of the chief cities of the countr y: 1 MAINE. 1 1880 1870 t ' Portland ' 33,835 31,413 ' f Lewiston 19,076 13,600 r 5 Bangor 16,856 18,829 I1 , Biddelord 11,165 10,284 1 Auburn - 9,571 6,189 ? Augusta 8,682 7,808 ? Rockland - 7,473 7,074 ? X Saco... 6,377 5,755 a c Bellaat 5,303 5,278 t e Gardiner - 4,485 4,497 a 6 Hdllowell - 3,160 3,007 i 1 NEW HAMPSHIRE. 1 I Manchester - 32,473 23,536 ^ ' Concord 13,841 12,241 * ' Nashua 13,453 10,495 1 I Dover 11,693 9,294 C \ Portsmouth 9,732 9,211 S j Keene 6,786 5,971 t T VERMONT. 1 7 Ck I Rutland 12,223 9,834 JJ MASSACHUSETTS. Boaton* 363,938 278,849 j r Lowell 69,340 40,928 n Worcester 58,040 41,105 R I Cambridge 52,860 39,634 J Fall River 48,626 26,766 ? Lawrence 39,068 28,921 j J Lynn 38,376 28,233 ? ' Springfield 33,536 26,703 d Salem 27,327 24,117 P Now Bedford 27,268 21,329 g SomerviUe 24,964 13,635 C t Holyoke 21,961 10,733 s , Chelaea 21,780 18,647 p [ Taunton 21,145 18,629 , Gloucester 19,288 15,389 ? r Haverhill. ? 18,478 13,092 ? Newton 16,994 12.825 ? | Newbnryport 13,470 12,595 | Fitchburg 12,279 11,270 8 J "RHODE ISIJLXD. ? . Providenoe.... 104,768 68,94 o . Pawtncket - 19,538 6,619 fc , Woonsocket.... 16,010 11,527 11 , Newport - 15,405 12,521 fl [ Warwick - 12,135 10,453 ? CONNECTICUT. y i New Haven........... 62,861 60,810 t: I Hartford 42.569 37,180 t Bridgeport ............ 29,153 18,969 ^ Waterbury 23,019 13,106 ji Norwioh - 21,145 16,653 ' Meriden 18,130 10 495 ^ 1 New Britain...... ?... 13,978 9,480 v, , Norwalk 13,960 12,119 u l Middletown 11,704 11,126 e I Derby 11,655 8,020 0 l Danbnry 11,619 8,753 I Stamford 11,418 9,710 8 New London ?... 11,136 9,170 I Windham 8,265 5,410 p Stoninghnm 7,353 , 6,310 u Greenwich ?. 7,956 7,640 n NEW YORK. V" New York - 1,209,561 912,292 c Brooklym 554,465 396,099 t] 1 Buffalo 154,766 117,714 D Albany 90,713 69,422 ? [' Rochester 87,057 62,386 t I Troy 56,594 46,465 " ' Syracuse -52,210 43,051 ~ Utica 38,923 23,800 8 ! Elmira 21,498 15,865 ! Oswego 21,102 20,910 I Cohoea 20,122 15,357 f< Pougbkeepqje 20,089 20,080 s Newburg 18,076 17,014 a NEW JETgSEY. g Newark 136,983 105,059 a Jersey City. 116,673 82,540 C Paterson.... ... 50,950 33,579 j Camden...' 41,717 26,015 f, 1 Hoboken 30,507 24,766 ? ; Trenton 29,938 22 874 a I Klizabeth 28,243 20,832 t , New Brunswick 19,186 15,058 ! PENNSYLVANIA. > Philadelphia 847,542 674,022 r Pitlsburg 153 883 86,076 0 : Allegheny 78,472 53,180 " I n 7Afi a.s n?w> OdlAUIASU . J, q, Heading 43,230 33,930 ?. I Harrisburg 30,412 33,104 Erie 28,565 19,646 v , Allen town 18,162 13,884 n ! Norristown* 13,200 10,753 * DELAWARE. f< I WUtnington* 43,000 30,841 ? MARYLAND r! Baltimore* 340,000 267,354 ? DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. S) . Washington* 160,000 109,199 p VIRGINIA. k Richmond 63,243 51,038 b Petersburg* 21,600 .... si Lynchburg* 16,000 .... WEST VIRGINIA. C! Whooling 31,671 19,008 a SOUTH CAROLINA. f< Charleston 49,027 48,956 tl ; Columbia 9,772 9,298 8i GEORGIA. 1 Atlauta 37,825 21,780 n l Savnnnah 30,747 28,235 f< c Macon 12,695 10.810 g Columbus 10,132 7,401 ]j ' ALABAMA. Mobile 29,166 32,034 b | Selma 7,595 6,494 j] LOUISIANA. h ? XT 91K 9*0 IQIilftlo . n?W ?4V/,V^V ^ ' SLroveport 8,038 4,607 f, TEXAS# r< ! Galveston* ' 22,350 13,818 ; San Antonio 20,594 12,256 s! Hou9ton* 16,750 9,382 ' TENNESSEE. e Nashville 43,337 25 865 il J Memirhh? 36,000 40,226 f( ' Knoxville 13,928 8,682 ^ ' Chattanooga 13,580 6,093 g [ KENTUCKY. j Louisville 126,566 100,756 g . OHIO. e l Cincinnati 255,804 216,230 ? t Cleveland..- 155,946 92,820 l< 3 Toledo 53,635 31,584 a Columbus... 51,644 31,274 a Dayton 38,751 30,743 ^ Sandusky 15,821 13,000 1 MICHIGAN. a - Detroit 116,027 79,577 j Giand K-ipids 32,037 16,507 { Bay City* 17,500 7,064 r q Jackson 16,121 11,447 ? INDIANA. t r St. Paul 41,619 20,030 1 e Winona 10,136 7.182 \ ^ Stillwater 9,061 4,507 ' I- NEBRASKA. it Omaha 30,605 16,0S3 \ KANSAS, i c Leavenworth 16,651 17.873 t Topeka 15,528 5 790 ] Alchison 15,381 7,054 ' j. MISSOURI. 1 0 St. Louis.. '... 333.577 310,864 ' Kansas City 56,964 32,260 ( d St. Joseph* 35,600 19,565 1 It COLORADO. LG Donvor 35,719 4,759 J ? UTAH. f Salt Lake City* 21,000 12 864 l CALIFORNIA. J San Francisco *233,066 149,473 , ,? Oakland 35,010 10,500 Sacramento 23,000 16,233 1 11 San Jose 12,635 9,089 31 Los Angeles 11,050 5,728 Stockton 10,066 10,000 JS " < 'Unofficial, ealimatod. i 'AKJS) QAIU/An Oiiv uvvwiwvuvi Experiment* In JUqnld M?nnHng> Mr. T. Baines, a well-known horticulami writer of England, favors the lardener'a Chroniclc with a valuable reort of experiments in the use of liquid aanure, of which we make room for he most noteworthy paragraphs: Some years ago I tried the effect of aanure water made from the urine of he various domestio animals?horses attle and ijigs?each kept separate and ree of soaking from solid foecal matter. applied it to plants varied in their haracter and ranging over most of the liferent subjects usually cultivated on arms and in gardens, out doors as well s under glass. As a matter of coursc he extent of the dilution was varied, ccording to the natural ability of each :ind of plant to take strong food. ?hings like rhubarb, celery, raspberries, lack currants, chrysanthemums, mange nirzeland cabbage, as will be easily inderstoor. grew vigorously with doses >f a strength that would have destroyed lower-growing things. I continued he experiment for several years o see what would be the ffects on the plants, particularly such ubjects as the black currants and raspterries, and in no cases did I find any 11 effects where the liquid was given in aoderation and never in a stronger fate than the plants could bear. In all ases the urine was considerably tronger.and consequently required more ilution when the animals were fed on ry food than when they had aocess to lenty of green stuff, as when out at rass, or with as many roots as they on Id consume. The relative strength tood thus?that from the horse first, ies second and .'cows third. But the strength alqne was far from iving the true Tineas to their comparaive manurial value, either for things o; n annual nature, euch as ordinary arden vegetables, or fruits, or pot lants, whether the latter are soft-wood, r quick growing, or hard-wooded and f slow growth. With all, especially hose of an enduring character, the cow rino told an unmistakable tale, not lone in the production of wood and oliage unequaled in vigor, but plants to rhica it was given exhibited a disposiion to produce flowers in quantities hat I have never seen result from the ise of any other liquid fertilizer. Another mportant matter in connection with he use of this urine is, that plants to rhich it is applied regularly for a numerof years continue to make growth xcentionallv strong, without any indl ation of exhaustion such as invariably allows the use of manures that weonly timulative in their effects..Thii verdict find is confirmed by several extensive lant-growcrs whom I have advised to seitjbut like everything of a similar ature, being strong it must be used nth caution?even for such sulyectsas hrysanthemums it should be diluted to be extent of something like six or seven arts of water to one of urine, lor weaker rowing plants still further reduced, nd, as with all liquid manures, only iven when the plants are making rowth. In the Poultry Tt d. Dr. ?. S. Heath, in a paper read beDre the Farmers' club, New York city, aid: The reason why eight or ten fowls bout the hou'e of the mechanic, the nrdener or the laborer are more profitable is because of better feeding and less rowding, better sanitary conditions of ard and roost. Extent of grassy range or fowls is more important than"proided food, for here they obtain not only ir food but also insect food, which is he essential nitrogenous element neeesary /or ege production. Equally important to extensive grass ange are clean and airy roosting-houses relieds. The houses should have doors n the ground, to be left open in the ummer, and at least two siae-slat venilators should be provided. Ranting rater is a most desirable_and easy Indianapolis 75,077 43,244 g Fort Wayne 26,048 17,/18 c ILLINOIS. Chicago 502,298 296,977 S C I'eoriu 31,780 22,849 9 l Qtiincy 27,428 24.052 t ,, Springfield 19,638 17.364 e liloomington 17,625 14,590 r e llockford 13,088 11,049 1j j Aurora 12,059 11,162 1 p Rock Is'aiid 11,614 7,800 q 3 Galesburg 11,451 10,158 IOWA. s [j Dubuque* 22,500 18,434 c >. Davenport 21 671 20,038 c .. BurlinKton* 19 000 14,930 ? Kookuk 12 176 12 776 g Cedar linpids 10,176 5,010 WISCONSIN. I, Milwaukeo: 115,702 71,410 , (r Kacine 16,035 9,880 p Oabkosh 15.753 12,666 e Janesville... 9,035 8,789 r il MINNESOTA. c Minnennoli9 48,323 13,036 | J leans of water supply, witn mis rater supply, without care or labor the 3od supply may be equally convenient nd labor-saving. Drive four stnkes lto the ground so as to leave them two iot above the surface and six inches part, and upon these nail two boards 3 as to make a table large enough to ermit the fowls a footing around a nail eg in the center, covered by a wide oard and weighted by a large flat tone. This beg a ay be filled with corn or racked corn, and having three or four uger hole3 near the bottom it is self;eding. What runs out is lodged upon tie table; it is kept clean and dry and ecure from rate and other vermin his is a cheap, simple and labor-saving lanner of keeping fowls, and it will be )und a most profitable plan. This rass range may be a small pa ture or a irge ccw-yard. Fowls should never be allowed in arns, stables or carriage-houses. Their ouses should be fumigated by burning alf a pound of sulphur every spring nd fall, while the fo^ls are shutout :r the day, and be well aired before oosting time. Not more than twenty or thirty fowls liould be allowed to roost in one house; ut, two or more of these houses may be rected in the pasture or range, provided t is large enough. In this case the eeaiag place may be the same, only a arrei may be used instead of a keg to ave trouble. The largest liberty and the most enerous feeding, with an observance of leanliness, willsecure the best yield of ggs and the laigest number of Healthy awls. This is the way to secure the rgest profits of the poultry yard. Iloniehold Hint*. A spoonful of stewed tomatoes in the ravy of either roasted or fried meats ii n advantage. To keep lemons fresh place hem in a jar filled with water, to be enewed every day or two. Housekeepers may be glad to know hat a tablespoonful of ammonia in one allon of warm water will restore the olor of carpets. To remove grease from wall paper, lay everal folds of blotting paper on the pot and hold a hot iron near it until lie grease is absorbed. Put one or two red peppers, or a few nieces of charcoal, into a pot where lam, cabbage, etc., are boiling, and the louse will not be filled with the offenive odcr. Those who object to tea-leaves for weeping the carpets can use freshlyut grass instead. It answers the same impose for preventing dust, and gives he carpet a lresh, bright look. The Mother Bales the World. It is hard lor a young mother, who ins not yet overcome the wayward tenlencicsofher own youthful nature, to ealize the influence she ex< rta over hoi iwn little ones. She is constantly eurounded by critical imitators, who copy ler morals and manners. As the Bother is, so are her sons and daughters, f a family of children is blesse1 with >v? wrtfKur tit fin iip] j? ?U ill tClll^Clil. llllllll^ l | If UV AhS %?w md refined in her manners, and des lot consider it necessary to be or( poman in a drawing-room and an onircly different person in ev.ry-daj ife, but who is a true mother and always a tender, charming woman, you will invariably see her habits of speech md perfect manners repealed in hei . hildren. Great, rough men and noisj joys will always tone down their voice: md step lightly, and try to be mon uannerly when she stops to give then i kind word or a pleasant smile; for s :rue mother will never fail to say or e.c ill the pleasant things that she can thai will in any way help or lift up and cheei .hose whose lives are shaded with can md toil. The mother;ol to-day rulehe world of to-morrow. The city of New York's consumption >f postage stamps amounts to aboul 5100.000 a week. V Soft fleecy clouds athwart the evening sky, Seem like a veil across a loved one's lace, Hiding its beanty I rom the paosor by, Yet loading to the oovering sweeter grace. The shadows deepen, and tho night comee down, . Folding in its embrace the weary earth. Across the river in the distant town, ?' The lights flash np, like stars ot later birth; While alowly in the West thejcreacent sinlu To rise in glory on another scentf ? " 01 more transcendent loveliness, methink s, Than aught that earth can offer?more serene; And dreaming of a world than this more lair, My spirit longs to cleave the ambrient aljj - .is ?Lilla JV. Cuthman. "" ''k ITEMS OF INTEREST. _ _ * > Dip a new broom in hot water to make it durable. " The Marathon Independent calls tent# lighthouses. Mr. William H. Vanderbilt is fifty * - . nine years of age. * * A case oi suspended animation- * + Swinging in a hammock. " Blind Tom"^now wears the name of, - " Professor W. F. Raymond." u Strange to say when the mo3quito i3 on the wing he is always at hum.?Ssih ' 8piccr. Over 33,000 buffalo hides have been shipped from Custer City, Montana, this season. A Texas dog wa3 born without a tail, and he will sit right down beside an eld kettle. Africa has 70,000 Protestant converts, : * . '.* % the result of the efforts of thirty-three * missionary societies. The soft blue-stone rock which underlies a wide part of the prairie region of Texas is 600 feet thick in many places. Will Wade went to Des Moines, Ia.? to purchase a wedding suit, was tak& with diphtheria, and was taken home a' corpse. A young man of society out making a call may wenr two watches ana . yet not know when it is time to go home. A summons in a breach of promise suit against the bridegroom was sent in amonethe bridal presents at an Iowa ** wedding. Property-owners in Bfook avenue have the privilege of grading arid regu-j lating said avenue between '141st ana 146th streets at their own expense. t The census of Utah reveals the fact that the Gentilo popuhtion has in.* creased 220 percent., while the Mormon % increase has only been forty-five pejf cent. 1; Go out, young man, she's not here!' _*' ''.. \ said a preacher in the midst of his sav mon, to a youth whom he saw standing hesitatingly at the portaL?Rochester Express. A cattle-herder named King, living near the Cheyenne river, Dakota, recently lassoed a four-year-old buffalo, and is now endeavoring to domesticate the animal. . j* . s There are many unpleasant thing* in |L!- ? 4knf a aaIIoi* ?nH ? ntiL LUIS vmc VI tcaio, uui a VUUU4 ~ _ tonbole large enough to stick soarhead through will cause you aCotrc jSTGtrtarv - - - ** trouble as the rest of them.. t More lighthouses can be seen from Black Point, Conn., than from any other summer resort on the New England coast. On a clear evening you can count fifteen lights. In former years Austria used to instf ? * port a considerate quantity of sugar , and export little. Bounties having stimulated home production, there are V .3 now no imports of sugar but large ex- - ' * ports. * IN THE RESTAURANT. " Two moro dishes ol crcam," 'J ' , . To the waiter he cried, ; . . ; . ; His eyes staring wildly, '** .. ^ . His m'nth open wide; " I love her most madly, . r' .* ' To marriage I'm bent, T And I'll satisfy her ap p< t ite . ' '. If it takes my last ceLt." ' ' ______ = Japanese and Chinese. ' '* Comparing the Japanese and Chinese students now enrolled in American . schools and colleges, several marked contiasts and likenesses are made evi* dent. The most prominent- difference i? flwlomol nhorflofflriaHpfl ia Ill IC3JJCUU IV VAUlUUi M? the greater readiness with which the * former adopt the dress and manners of the TTc3tem world. The Japanese dmses a la European, and in excellent- * taste; the Chinaman still braids mi'. queue, and weare his loose trousers aod jRSfc blouse. The "{Japanese is more easiiy denationalized; the Chinaman is con- a. SS9 stantly impressed with the duty of loving and serving the land that gave him birth, and is giving him education. The . latter leanrs the English language with rafl greater ease, and uses it with greater facility; the former, after a residence of even five or six years, experiences, fu the case of not a few individuals, difficulty in conducting an ordinary conversation. Both manifest much deference to authority, and are models of decorum and politeness. The Japanese belongs relatively to a higher caste; the major- . ''{x ity of the Chinese students are from t --i'&j the middle class of the empire. In , mental characteristics the contrasts are less marked than iuphy3:cal. The ex- l Via cellencies and tue defects of the two types of mind are similar. In each the. memorv is develoned to a degree not' commonly attained by an American*schoolboy; and the Chinrsc draw * forms and Ggures which they have once seen with marvelous accuracy. The ? superior development of the memory seems to weaken the growth of the logical faculties; and a difficulty in conducting-'processes of thought, of ordinary intricacy, is one of the first defects which# teache* notices in their mental constitution. Intellectually, both arc clear-sighted rather than far-sighted; and are distinguished for exactness in thought and statement. Considered as ^ a whole, the Chinese make more rapid progress in linguistic, and the Japanese in mathematical studies. The former are by temperament the more passive, the latter the more impulsive. Both are bard students, and, though seldom ranking first, maintain a creditable stand in their classes. In respect to moral character, also, as well as intelAarrrna nf similaritV i3 icviuai) u ui^u uwgiw v* ? _ ^ obvious. Neither, as a body, is addicted to the use of liquors ?r tobacco, and both are free from tha vices to which American college youth are somewhat subject.?Scrti/ner. Blowing Hot nnd Cold. At a meeting of the Rjjal Society of Edinburg the ottc-r day, a letter was ie id from Professor Pihzzi Smyth, who says that the observations made at the Clinton Hill observatory t>rkr to 187?> established three laws of occurrence: First, that every eleven years a great i hoot airiifk this earth., this k *TftTt VI uvi?b having occurred three tira^s in su?ce*' sion, namely, in 18-16, 1857 and 1868; ' secondly, that each of these dates was i the mark of the beginning of a period of i remarkable solar nctiv.ty; and thirdly, ' that close to tbe heat wave came two ' cold whvcs. Speaking in 1872, he had. > he said, in accordance with these laws, t predicted that the next cold wa e would * be experienced about the end of 1878, and that the year lb80 would be warm, i So remarkable was this prediction that he wished he had then died, for then the stattment would have been remembered, and abler men than himself i would have rushed into the fiejd. and a ; r.cw science would have been bom in a day. K*r' V 'J* ' A