LAW in its.

BY HORSLEY BROS. & FIGUERS. TENN., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1873.

heavy stone flung upon a hard rock. It The Field of Journalism.

'GLEANING 3 AND GOSSIP.

'Of all the odd deaths in the worldthin report from India is certainly theoddest : A native, while catching D.liin a tank, put the head of one in hnmouth and bit it, aa the fish was rathertroublesome in the matter of wnggaug.Suddenly one of the sharp points in the-bac- k

fin stuck in his hand ; he openedhis mouth to call for help, and the fishgiving a quick plunge, jumped down histhroat, and there finally stuck. It wasonly taken out, and by small pieces,after he had been carried to the hos-

pital, ne was so exhausted that hedied as soon as it was removed.

A writer in the Nautical Gazettesoberly affirms that Noah's ark "is nowin a good state of preservation, butlying under an eternal mantle of snow,hundreds of feet deep, at an altitude or17,500 feet above the level of tho sea.Ever since the flood dried up, tho cli-

mate of Armenia has been colder, andthe top of Araratsnow always covers

rendering it impossible for any oiNoah's descendents to go np ami unathe ark."

Down in Pennsylvania they have aghosts' convention overv night. It ismade up of the mangled upooks oT

those who hare been killed on the rail-

roads, and thov break forth all torn andbleeding, and' pen ghastly resolutionsof censure on the railroads, and con-

duct themselves in a business-lik- e man-

ner generally till the cock crows, whenthey peaceably disperse.

Mrs. Partington now says : "Jorlshouldn't be so glutinous. Inane," n

with an anxious expression she remarkedthe strong, conclusive effort that younggent was making to bolt the last quarter

M. HUGHES,XI. ATTORNEY AT LAW,

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adjoining counties.Office, Whitthorne Block. febM-t- l

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Columbia, Tmumsn,special attention given 10 rue collection of i

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DRUGGISTS.A full supply of Medicines, Paints, Oils, Glass,

Wir.es and Liquors, ToLaeoo and Cigars, etc., oon-etau-

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The latest plan for obviating sea-sickness is the following : Construct alarge well in the ship ; around the cen-tre of gravity is the best position for itThis well should have no bottom. Thewater in it will appear to have a risingand falling motion, but will in fact lie atrest, while the walls of the well willslide up and down. In this well float asmall ship, and you are secure againstseasickness. The proposer of the plancalls it " taking a small harbor to sea."

Ceresine is a new substitute of bees-wax, obtained by chemical processes froma waxy mineral known as ozokerite. Itis sold in thin, white cakes, and is purewhite, scentless, harder than wax, andpartially translucent. It cannot be soft-ened in warm water, and is not liable tothe action of acids or caustic alkalies. Itislvolatile at high temperature, and canbe distilled unchanged. For many pur-poses it will doubtless prove of greatvalue, and it is hoped that our dealerswill soon have it for sale, in this country.

It is said that but t.v. establish-ments in Great Britain m t'. - nharcoaliron.

VOL. XIX. NO. 8.

. What is Work?Were this question put to nine out of

ten intelligent individuals, they wouldbe unable to define the word, except bysome of its synonyms, toil, labor, tra-vail, etc. But it is snsoeptible of a clearand distinct definition, which may, wehope, clear up the ideas of some of ourreaders concerning a subject upon whichmany are mystified. Work is not, ne-cessarily, the doing of something useful,for there is, we are sorry to say, a vastdeal of useless work performed, and, intho strict sense of the term, play rtaybe work. The only definition of" work,in a mechanical sense, which will bearthorough scrutiny, is, that it is the over-coming of resistance or pressure,through distance. When thit is dis-tinctly comprehended, it will be seenthat all work is accomplished by natu-ral forces. The will of man, guided byintelligence, may direct natnral forces,causing them to act in channels and di-

rections through which desired resultsare accomplished. But the first work ofall is performed by these forces, guidedonly by the intelligence which existedbefore mankind. Thus, the growth of atree, tke elaboration of vegetable andanimal fiber, the production of the min-ute kernel of grain, the organization ofthe skins of animals, from which leatheris manufactured, m Bhort, the prepara-tion of all crude materials is the workof unaided nature. Strictly analvzed,it will be seen that the formation of thetrunk of a tree, or the growth of a fiberof wool, is simply the removal of mate-rial particles against the natural resist-ance of cohesion, adhesion, gravitation,affinity, eto., until they arrive at pointsrhere these resistances or forces are bal-anc-

by other resistances or forces, andthe particles henceforth remain fixed rel-atively to each other.

The will of man, guided by intelligence, directs the forces of nature ex-

isting in his own muscular system ; iuthe muscular systems of animals, guidedby their less intelligent wills ; the forcesstored up in coal and other combustiblesubstances; forces stored up bv the evaporation of water from the sea, the vaporof which, wafted by winds to themountain tops and there condensed, is pre-cipitated by gravity to the earth, downthe inclined surfaee of which it is pro-pelled by the same force, its mass-motio- n

being capable of employment forthe overcoming of such resistances tomotion as are met in the transformationof the wood, the wool, the cotton, intoforms of beanty or convenience, to beapplied to man's shelter, sustenance, oramusement. The muscular system ofmen or animals, is only one of the chan-nels through which the forces of nature-flow- ,

and because this channel is undercontrol of the human will, the will, suc-ceeding to desire, directs these forces tothe overcoming of the resistances en-

countered in the erection of buildinps,the shaping of hard materials, and, inshort, the transformation of crude ma-

terials into forms which gratify humandesire. In all cases where work is done,resistances are overcome. The progressof the human race tends to the increaseof the proportion of work performed bythe natural forces, exclusive of muscu-lar force. It is the aim of modern im-

provement to expand, as far as possible,muscular energy in directing other nat-ural energies, and, as a small amount offorce may, by ingenuity, be made to givedirection to a large amount of otherforce, the now r of human productionhas, during the last century, immenselyincreased. The limit of human prodno-tio- p

will be that point where the wholeof the muscular energy of mankind, di-

rected by human will, obedient to hu-

man desire, shall be expended in the di-

rection of the brute forces of nature.American Artisan.

Tht London Daily Telegraph, in along article upon cheap iwstage, arguesthat the anual deficit in our postal reve-nue is attributable to the fait Hint weare essentially a telegraphing, ratherthan a writing, people ; and states that,if the proportion of telegrams to lettersbe closely scanned, it will be found that,in spite of the cheapness of postage andthe dearness of electricity, more wiremessages and fewer letters are relative-ly sent in the United States than in anyother great civilized nation. It com-mends the abolition of the frankingprivilege, and encourages Mr. Cresweljin his determination to make the post-offic- e

both and remu-nerative ; but thinks that, owing to thenational high-pressu- re nature, and ourenormous extent of territory, the post-offic- e

has little chance of competing suc-cessfully with the telegraph, especiallyin view of the fact that the telegraphcorporations have an almost unlimitedpower in the lobbies of congress. Thoonly relief it sees is a persistent on-slaught upon private telegraph, and ar-

rives at the conclusion that the onlymeans that will provide relief, anilmake our postal service what it shouldbe, is for the state to work the wires noless than the post. The article is tem-perate and thoughtful, and offers muchfood for reflection.

Maxims for Anglers.One of the wittiest, merriest and most

entertaining of writers on the subject ofangling was a "brother" called Penn,not mnch known to fame, bnt undispu-ted authority among the glens where heruled "king o'fishers and whale o'guidmen." He says :

First Find out if there is any fish inthe river to which you are going ; if so,get some one who knows the water toshow you where the fish lie ; and whenhe shows them to you, don't you showyoursolf to them.

Second Don't imagine, if the fl.shdoes not dart away, that he has notseen you ; on tho contrary, he is verylikely devoting his whole attention toyou, and preparing to start the momentdanger is imminent.

Third If you are fishing with a fly,and you pass it neatly three times overhim, and he refuses it, you need notwait any longer; he has seen your lineof invitation, and does not intend tocome.

Fourth If you are above a fish whenyou hook him, get below him as Boon asyon can ; for if you pull him one instantagainst the stream and he is a heavyfish, he will break his hold.

Fifth N ever throw a long line whena short one will answer.

Sixth Never mind whnt is said about"playing your fish till he is tired;"put him in your basket as soon as youcan.

Seventh Remember that everythingdepends upon the way you begin youracquaintance. If you can prevail on afish to go down the stream a little waywith you, yon will afterwards have nodifficulty in pursuading him to let yonhave the pleasure of seeing him to din-ner.

To these excellent maxims I beg leaveto add one of Mr. Htoddart's, especiallyintended for bachelors, young and old :

" Never fall in love with a woman bythe water side ; there are situations inwhich every woman looks an angel."

In conclusion, I hope all trne broth-er j of the angle may never lack, in itsseason, that dish of trout which goodold Izaak says " is too good for any butanglers, or very honest men."

The Italians are said to exhibitspecimens of dead human bodies, pre-served according to the Brunetti method,which are as hard as stone, retainingthe natural shape perfectly, and beingequal to the best wax mot' els.

A merchant who has a class inasked, "What is solitude?"

and was visibly disturbed when a mis-erable boy answered : "The stole thatdon't advertise."

COLUMBIA,

Contrasted Pictures.Two Women In a. Railroad Car.

There is no better place in the worldto study human character than a rail'car ; people put off their manners sooften with their best clothes, or coverthem up with dust cloaks. Here yousee just what men and women will dowhen they are strangers to each otherand meet on the common footing oftickets that cost the same for the factory-h-

and, the senator, the servant, andthe millionaire. It is not always eitherpleasant or wholesome to study humannature ; one needs to have a sound heartand a sweet temper not to be altogethercast down by such researches; aboveall, one has to remember that whichthey are themselves, jmd out of theirown conscious weaknesses excuse theirneighbors. Still I do think, after muchobservation, that the woman who offershalf her seat to anosher woman with ababy, for a long night's ride, and doesit with a smile, is a creature calculatedto redeem one's faith in their kind. Icould not do it unless the baby was re-markably handsome and very good ! Jfelt cross myself that hot October nightgoing from New York to Boston on thelate train. The cars crowded, the nightfoggy sultry, the dust rising inclouds, for the past summer had been along drought, and all the country lookedexhausted about us. I was not the onlycross woman either ; there were a dozenat least in that car; women whose grimyfaces, bleared eyes, crumpled linendust cloaks, rough hair and scolding, orfretting tones betrayed their disposi-tion when nature was " unadorned. Iwas alone, so I did not scold audibly,but I felt a certain savage satisfactionin seeing and hearing so much companion misery. The men generallywent to sleep, if they did not go intothe smoking-ca- r, and afforded extraordi-nary spectacles to the beholder. Ifthere is one position above another inwhich a man is not picturesque or beau-tiful, it is with his hea I thrown back,his ugly traveling cap set on askew, hiswhiskers gray with dust, his foreheadpeppered with cinders, his mouth wideopen, and his msnly nose uttering hor-rid snores. Romance and sentimentexpire at the sight ; you would laughout if you were not exasperated, andthere arises in the mind of an

person like myself a wild de-sire to throw something at them, or tohave a pea-shoote- r, and take aim attheir open countenances. I don't knowwhat I might have been led to do ofthis frantic sort if my mind had notbeen tranquilized at an early point ofthe journey by the aspect cf a refresh-ing woman who sat acress the aisle fromme. Some women are refreshing tolook at ; they may not by young, norbeautiiui, nor fashionable, but they areas pleasant as a green tree to the sight ;

something fresh, or clean, or gracefulabout their dress, some cordiality andcheer in their faces, a sort of unwordlylook like a luxuriant blossom ; sim-plicity, unconsciousness, peace, goodwill. mere was another woman mfront of my neighbor, dressed in atraveling costume, de regie, of em-broidered linen and finest palmetto hatadorned with a whole hay-coc- k ofgrasses, kid gloves and elaborate satch-el ; even her shawl was Indian, andodors indescribable perfumed her at-

mosphere, cologne and eandal-woo- d,

and amber ; her face was very beauti-ful, with delicate regular features, fairskin, and large gray blue eyes withlong lashes brown as her hair ; but whata wretched face it was, alive with in-

tense self -- consciousness and egotism,miserable with disgust and discontent,every cinder caused a look or ejacula-tion of peevish complaint, every fresharrival she glared at as if the car wereher private parlor and they came unin-vited, she did not sit in one positionfive minute, and her pale, wearymother and attentive husband tried invain to make her comfortable ; theymight have tried all her life just asfruitlessly ; that woman would find dustin heaven, and scold at the angel'swings for being in her way. But myneighbor was a different metal. Shewas not young or handsome, she was notfashionable or fine; her round com-fortable facebloomed with some hardyrose-tin- ts yet, though she must havebeen near fifty, her bright, dark eyeswere as sweet, soft and pleasant as theywere perceptive ; her steel-gra- y haircurled in brisk little ringlets about herwide full forehead, and her cheerful,sensible mouth disclosed that rareAmerican beauty, a set of fautless teeth,when she smiled. She bad on an hon,est straw bonnet a little out of date--

but so fit and decent that yon did notremark its behind-han- d syle ; it wasgray and tied down with cherrygreen ribbons. I should think thatwoman repelled dust someway, for herbonnet was fresh as a lettuce after fourhours of dusty railway. She had onno crumpled linen cloak or sack, herdress and cape were the same soft graywoolen material that could not crease,and fell about her in easy folds, with-out any trimming but a little bit of silkbordering round the cap ; a good capa-cious brown basket and a shepherd'sElaid shawl were her only adjuncts, and

mysterious process she kept herface clean and her eyes free from cindersall the way ; that woman had"faculty." I liked to looked at her,but a man intervened, a slim and primtheological student, with a handbag anda great bundle of books. However, hegot out at New Haven and went to hisown place, and my friend, whom Ifound out afterward to be Mrs. HannahTucker of Portland, Maine, gave hima parting smile of relief, and expandedherself as every railway traveler doeswho is so fortunate as to occupy at lasta whole seat. She took a couple of

scolloped cookies from herbasket, a red apple and a bottle of milk,and made her supper composedly as ifby her own fire-sid- e ; the few crumbsfell into her spread handkerchief, nodrop of the milk was spilled, and thosecrumbs were shaken out of the windowwith the air of a table-clot- h, the bottlepacked away for next time, the littlechina cup wiped.on a clean napkin andput in its paDer-ba-g, the apple-cor- e

gingerly taken "by its stem and droppedoverboard with dreadful precision ; thensho laid her head on the plaid shawland shut up her eyes resolutely. I wasglad of it, for I am always afraid ofsuch neat women. Rose Terry Cooke.

In a lecture delivered at the Britishroyal institution, Mr. J. H. Parkerbrought forward facts to show that theopinion commonly entertained, that theancient Romans were ignorant of the lawin hydraulics which causes water to riseto its level, is a popular delusk n. Hesaid that at every half mile of the aque-ducts, on their course from the foot ofthe hills to Rome, each aqueduct formsan angle, to break the force of the wa-ter ; and at that angle a great reservoiris made, with a piscina or filtering-plac- e

at one end. Each piscina consists of fourvaulted chambers, two above and twobelow. The water enters into the top ofthe first upper chamber ; it then fallsthrough a hole in the vault into the firstlower chamber ; then passes throughsmall holes in the intermdiate wallinto the second lower chamber; thenrises again through a hole in the vaultinto the second upper chamber ; andthen follows its course at the same levelat which it originally entered, deposi-ting its mud in the lower chamber as itpasses. Thus each piscina is constructedupon the principle of water finding itslevel.

A missionary is wanted for northernMexico who can ride on horseback allday iu the sun, sleep on the ground, andlive on sour milk, cheese and redpepper.

Advice to Dry Goods Men.With Portrait of a Few Specimens.Shopping would be divested of half

its horrors if dry goods clerks would bekind. Is it too much to asK? Theynave all the advantage oi situation.Thfy are familiar with the Iocalitv.They know exactly where the blacksilks are to be found, what is the lurking-plac- e of the sheetings, what corneris haunted by the hosiery. The quality,the price, the style of goods, they haveit all at their hngers ends. They arebarricaded by the counters and sup-ported by ranks of acquaintances. You,constitutionally timid, full of misgivingconcerning your own skill and taste,with but a vague idea of hat you oughtto want, enter a palace of splendor andconfusion, to encounter single-hande- d,

these veterans of the yardstick. If theyare civil, friendly, reassuring, it is asmuch as you can do to keep your witswell in hand, and choose from the dis-tracting variety the one little supplythat you demand. If they are insolent,curt, indifferent, what remains but a re-treat ?

There are different species of objec-tionable clerks. One is valuable, fa-miliar, and altogether abominable. Younever willingly approach him, but, ac-costing him unawares, you feel as if youwere instinctively and constantly hold-ing him by a tight rein to keep him fromopen impertinence, and not always suc-cessfully. To the severest simplicityof address he will sometimes respondrudely. In novels, ladies are majestic,impressive, They repressmanifestations of ill -- breeding in othersby the overpowering grandeur of theirown ladyhood. But in real life real la-dies are quite as likely to be modest,shrinking, easily subdued by brutality,and capable of offering to aggression noresistance but flight. Such swiftly suc-cumb to the bold and blatant clerk ;

succumb by flying, not buying. Thereis the teasing clerk, who leaves you noquiet for reflection and no space forcomparison, but imagines the way tosecure your custom is to urge vou without intermission. There is the indifferent clerk, who says he has not the goodsyou want before you know yourselfwhat you do want ; who throws the par-cel down on the counter as if it were totake or to leave, but manifests not theslightest interest in ascertaining yourwish or accommodating or assisting you.There is the snapping-turtl- e clerk, whobrings you to the point, yoursomewhat incoherent question, and an-swers you with a quick, impatient di-rectness that quite humiliates you. Him,though some condemn unmeasuredly,I can tolerate.

Honest human petulance, born of fatigue, is the least pardonable of mercan-tile ill manners. I can consider thatthe man has been the target for all sortsof questions, wise and foolish, throughlong hours. If I had been in his placeI doubt not that by this time I shouldgreet an angel with a growl. But remember this, O long-sufferi- drygoods man ! you have made your bed.and you must lie in it. You are tiedby the tape measure of your own free-will. It is your business to answerquestions. You are paid to displaygoods. Doubtless there may often bebefore the connter stupidity, selfish-ness, unreasonableness, lack of princi-ple ; but these do not justify or excusethe display of such traits behind thecounter. Still less do they excuse theiroutlay upon the modest, the moderate,the utright. When clerks have beentessedjby women who do not examinegoods with frank intent, but simply toidle away a superflous hour, to gratifya morbid and frivolous taste, to bearoff surreptitiously some imported ideafor domestic manufacture, it is not ab-solutely unnatural or impossible thatthey should be betrayed into irritation ;

but it is unbusiness-lik- e and unwise.They will never thus repress the idle,or the curious, but they will often of-fend the unoffending. Let them re-member that the shopping as well asthe selling world is a much tried andlong-sufferin- g world. Does the woman,under pretence of buying a gown, mere-ly take note of its style that she maymake her own flounces after the samepattern ? Be not too harsh upon her,outraged dry goods clerk, who will haveno percentage from your sales to her.Doubtless she would be only too gladto buy your robes outright, but her hus-band cannot or will not furnish themeans, and she is forced to use her ownfingers. Do not begrudge her the smallhelp of your lay figure. It would be,indeed, far better that she should behonest and frank, and express her in-

tention, not to attempt to carry it outby deceit. I am glad to avow tha.t Inever asked permission to examine goodswithout receiving a courteous andprompt assent. But the poor thing isnot unused b t brutality, and has unhap-pily learned too much indirection.You, dry goois clerks, are young andstrong, and a man. Do you, by kind-ness and helpfulness, further her aims,and so win her over to confidence, easeand outrightness, not repel, frighten,and. wound her by your demeanor.Gail Hamilton.

Against Dakwinism. The expense toscience in the admission of Darwin'shypotheses is the negation of history,and the entire reconstruction of geolo-gy. History says : " Bring one fact tosustain your theory." Darwin replies ;

" All history is but a second on the dialof time." " One fact," demands geolo-gy, "from our great hortus siccusBring from the grave-yard- s of the pasta single bone or periwinkle in a transi-tion state." "Your records are butshreds ; the whole coal formation is butone leaf caught in the mud from thebillions swept away on the Autumngale. The Devonian and Silurian rockswith their many well-mark- groups,are but a little ooze dried up on theshores of one or two of the myriadoceans which have passed, leaving notrace. The geological record is so im-perfect, it cannot for a moment invalidate the great law of nature I have dis-covered. My thoory admits no pastepochs. It explodes the old humbug ofsuccessive creations. It admits but the

resent order of things, the impercepti-l- eE outgrowth of all the past. Therewas but one creation, nor was this anorder of things. It was not a whale, aherring, or a lingula ; it was a cell, agerminating-poin- t. This was the crea-tion, and there was but one ; ard thiswas the only genesis. That cell,launched by the great Primal Cause, re-ceived one injunction : ' Be fruitfuland multiply.' Then it was, ' the morn-ing stars sang together ; ' and the bur-den of their song was, 'struggle forlife; root, little cell, or die.' "

An Anatomical Hint. Dr. HermannMeyer of Zurich asserts that a shoe-maker ought not only to produce a shoethat does not pinch, but a shoe so con-structed that it will give to a foot dis-torted by the pinching it has borne al-

ready a fair chance of a return to itsright shape, and full possession of itspower as a means of carrying the bodyonward. He says, that in measuring afoot for a shoe or boot, the first thingo be considered is the place of the

great toe. Upon this toe, in waiting,the weight of the whole body turns atevery step ; in a natural foot, therefore,in a straight line with the heel. Acentral straight line drawn from tk'point of the great toe to the middle oiits root, if continued, would pass veryexactly to the middle of the heeL But,by the missfitting boot usually worn,the point of the toe is pressed inwards,the root outwards. No last, or modelof a foot already injured by wearing

boots or shoes should ever bemade of the exact size of such a foot.

A MIDSUMMER IDYL.BY D. W. BBOWKELL.

Within the shade by willows made.In softest summer weather,

We sat beside the rippling tideMy love and I together.

Through clouds of white, with softened light,The harvest moonbeams shimmered ;

And on the stream a silvery beamWith diamond luster glimmered.

The summer breeze, from fragrant trees,Delicious odors brought us ;

While sounds from o'er the farther shoreIn blended sweetness sought us. '

And so we, too, as in us grewThe sense of peace so gentle

Attuned our song to Nature's throng,Beneath the evening's mantle.

We talked not mnch, bat the soft touchOf bands, and eyes oft meeting.

Told more by far than words declare.As heart to heart gave greeting.

Then, midnight come, we loitered home,Like broiher now and sister,

" To cheat surprise and prying eyes "Till at the gate I kissed ber.

Srrihnrr's.

THE ISLE OF FINES.How the Native TJodce Iiuccta-Cocoa-n- uti

and Trepsmg Fishing Mot Soli,tc.Chamber's Journal.

The members of the scientific explor-ing commission which was sent out tothe southern seas and elsewhere by theimperial government of France someyears ago, and among whose number M.Garnier holds a place of special dis-tinction, were the first European visitorsto the isles which form a little southernarchipelago beyond the large island ofNew Calidonia. The latter, Frenchterritory, promises to hold an importantplace in the future history of colonies,m consequence 01 its present use as aEenal settlement. Its small neighbors

many points of interest, both asregards their physiognomy, their naturalproducts, and their inhubitants. Bu- -alabio, one of the most beautiful, is entirely forsaken by the natives, who haveneen utterly routed by mosquitoes.When the commission informed theirblack guides that their services wouldbe required for an exploration of thofertile Bualabio and its vast cocoa-nu- tforests, they were very .discontented ;and the exploring party ceased to blamethem, when, within six yards of theshore, their pirogue was enveloped in aswarm of sanguinary little creatures,which never gave them an instant'speace during their stay. The party wasaccompanied by seveial gold-washer- s.

who were charged with investigatingthe sands of the rivers ; and, as theyhad necessity to stand still while usingtheir seives. the flies had ample oppor-tunity to torture them, and nearly drovethem mad, though a Kanak stood be-side each washer, waving a thickly-leave- d

branch, in the vain hope of scat-tering the enemy. The unhappy nakednatives jumped about incessantly, andnever failed to fling themselves head-foremost into every pond or stream theycame to. In spite of this dreadfulplague, two Frenchmen have establishedthemseves in the simplest and mostprimitive fashion at Bualabio, wherethey are making cocoa-nu- t oil.

M. Garnier tells us that the annualproduct of oae cocoa-nu- t tree, all ex-penses deducted, is half a crown. Onthe island there are at least twelvethousand in full bearin"-- , and the pro-duct might be doubled by an improve-ment in the method of making the oil.One other source of commerce exists inBualabio. It is the huge mollnse whichthe Chinese call frepang, and whichab. unds on the reefs. The fishing forthis curious creature is in the hands ofa few individuals, but it might be ex-tended into a lucrative trade. The tre-pan- g

varies in length between a few in-ches and a yard, and is like a fat, uglyworm, two or three inches thick, withhardly any interior arrangements. Itscapture is an easy mutter at Bualabio,iu fine weather, and the best quality issold at Nonmco, on the mainland, for

80 per ton. But in Chira the price ismore than double, for in the China seasthe frepang fishing is a matter of skill,patience and courage. In the monthsof October and November, the Malaysequip thousands of junks for the gather-ing of this hideous zoophyte on thetreacherous coasts, where they have todive or to drag at great depths in orderto get at their prey. At Bualabio thefishermen walk about at low wateramong the reefs, and has rrerely togather up the frepang with his handsand put them into his basket. Oneman can easily collect i worth in aday. even quoting the article at its priceat Noumea.

Tle solitude and stillness of the is-

land of Bualabio are very impressive,and contrast painfully with its richnessand beauty, which there are none toadmire but two Frenchmen and innu-merable flies. A mountainous islandcalled Ouen, at a distance of two daysper pirogue, offers utterly differentfeatures, and is thickly inhnbited. Ithas little beauty ; it is not fertile; yetit is perhaps one of the most curiousplaces on the face of the earth, and itmay one day, in the far future, be thescene of a great industry, and the sourceof gigantic wealth ; for the inferior ofthe island, whose boundaries are greatbare peaked precipices, is almost ex-clusively composed of iron ores - ofsperoidal form, and all sizes which aremassed together, now in even plains ex-

tending over many thousand squaremiles, again in great heaps which havegiven way under the action of the rains,and spread out, leaving a gigantic coneof iron standing alone.

Such is the Mamie, on the northeastof the island. Few plants can subsiston this metallic soil ; and, after the snnhas been shining for several hours, it isimpossible to rest on the ground, whileeven the thickest soles do not avail toprotect the feet from the blisteringheat. The streams are few, and theirscanty waters so hot that the explorers,having halted to bathe, and looking for-ward to that refreshment with eager-ness, found themselves, to their infinitedisappointment, plunging, as they be-lieved, into hot springs. But it is onlythat the bed of the river boils the water,unprotected by vegetation from theburning rays of the sun. In thisstrange place the aborigines are to beseen to greater advantage than else-where, and may be more justly esti-mated. In consequence of the povertyof the soil, the Ouen islanders are ob-liged to resort to the mainland for theirplantations. The immense madreporioshoals of the south give them fish,shell-fis- h, and turtle ; the sand isletssupply them with the eggs of sea-bir-

and of the turtle, and it was by accom-panying them in their expeditions tothese'tprovision-store- s that M. Garnierlearned to appreciate the intelligence,the adroitness, and the skill of thoseisland folk. When they are seen stroll-ing about the streets of their wretchedtowns, entirely naked, the only expres-sion in their faces that of cold indiffer-ence, they inspire disdain ; but whenone follows them on board their piro-gues, in which many a European wouldnot dare to set his foot, and sees theirgallant strife with the sea, which Tagesand foams over the boat and its crew,one is lost in admiration of their intre-pidity, their n, and theirpromptitude.

At Ouen the immense bivalves called"benitiers" are found in great abun--4

dance, but it is dimcult to procure aperfect specimen, because the largervalve is always deeply imbedded in thecorals, with which, in the long run, itbecomes incorporated. The inhabitantsof this huge shell usually keeps theupper valve open, feeding on everythingthat the waters bear to him ; but occa-sionally, either at the approach of dan-ger, or that he may seize his prey, heclashes t lie two valves so violently oneagainst the other that the noise may beheard from afar, and is like that of a

Different Styles of Dancing.EU Perkins in the Graphic

The fashion.- - of ,dand n g is not at allcosmopolite, not even national. InSaratoga the different styles make amedley.

If you see a two-hundr- pound manand woman perspiring around with theirpompous bodies tossed lightly andspringily in air, arms swaying, keepinggood time, and making grand Persiansalaams for a bow in the Lancers, youcan set them down as belonging to theold clubschool.

I you see two heated yonng people(ripping fast away ahead of the music,taking short steps, and jerking througha square dance as if the house was onfire and the set must be completed be-

fore any one could take to the s,

you can set them down as fromthe plantation districts of the south orthe rural districts of Pennsylvania andthe west. It ia the steamboat quick-step.

If yon see a black-eye- d youth withlong hair, and a young lady with liquidblack eyes, and she has her two handson th i young man's shoulders at falllength, and she stands directly in frontof him, and they both go hoppingaround like Siamese twins with wiresprings under them, on can wager theyare from Louisville, Memphis or LittleRock. They have the square-toe- d

wrestling step. -

If you see a young fellow grasp ayoung lady firmly around the waist,seize her wrist, stick her hand out likethe bowsprit of a sound yacht, andboth hump up their backs like a pairof mad cats on a door-yar- d fence, andthen go sliding slam bang against peo-ple, over people, through people, upand down the room, sidewise, backwardand up and down like a saw-mi- ll gate,you can bet on them having learnedtheir dancing from the Morristown, Riv-erda- le

and Yonkers' sociables. It is thesuburban New York saw-mi- ll jump-u- p.

If you see a couple gliding gently andslowly and lazily through the Lancers,just half as fast as the time, but keeping step with the music, quietly saun-tering through the "grand chain," toolanguid to whirl partners, talking sweetly all the time, as if they were strollingin a grave-yar- d, you can rest assured thatthey are from New York, and from themost fashionable section between Madi-son square and the park. This is thegrave-yar- d saunter step.

If you see a fellow clasp a girl melt--ingly in his arms, squeeze her handwarmly, hold her swelling bosom to his,and they both go floating down theroom locked in each other's embrace,looking like one person, his feet onlynow and then protruding from a profusion of illusion and lace and so on, rely upon it you can set the two down asbelonging to the intense liosteu school.It is the melting Harvard jacket-rac- e

embrace.Massachusetts, take our hat !

Maids and Mistresses.It should be plain enough that exam

ples are as much to servants as to chil-dren; since in manners and social training servants as children. The peasant- -

girl reared in an Irish cabin or Germancottage can hardly be expected to be amodel of politeness or of personal neatness, it is finite possible, nowever, toteach her bv example alone. If themistress be courteous to every memberof her familv. and they m tnrn to her,the maid soon feels the atmostphere ofgood-breedin- g, and unconsionsly be-

comes amiable and respectful. But lether mistress speek sharply to her hus-band, or scold the children in public,or let the master constantly find fault inthe presence of the servant, and shewill shortly discover that courtesy isnot one of the cscentials of the estab-lishment, and will, most likely addblack looks and uncivil words to thegeneral disharmony. Servants beingimitative, there is more reason that theconduct of the employers be worthy oiimitation. If the mistress of a housebe careful of her dress, her speech, herdaily habits, her handmaid will, in allprobability, grow more careful of herown. Bnt the woman who comes tohi r breakfast-tabl- e with disheveled hairand rumpled gown, has no right to findfault with the maid for attending thedoor-bel- l in a dirty calico and slovenlyshoes. Like mistress like maid, as wellas like master like man. Unless a goodexample be set, there is no cause tocomplain of servants for following a badone. As a rule, they are i eady to learn,though they may be dull and slow ofcomprehension. They would rather im-

prove their condition than degrade it.They would rather be ladies than ser-vants. Their ignorance makes themmistake the false for the true, tho badfor the good. H every mistress wouldtake pains to set a fair example to hermaids, and aid them, now and then, bytimely and delicat hints, she wouldsoon have servants who would be, infact, the help they are in name Scrib.ner's.

The Art of Hanging.As long as a capital punishment is

the law of the land and hanging themode of accomplishing it, there is satis-faction in the thought that men are tobe found who, regarding it as a scien-tific process, or an art, if yon will, areready with advice to make it perfect.An English clergyman, Rev. S. Haughton, who is also a fellow of the royalsociety, has been publishing a work onthe "Principles of Animal Mechanics,"in which he does not disdain to devotea portion of the space to the subject.He says that the method in use is un-worthy of the present state of science,and tha long drop, which causes in-

stantaneous death by the fracture of thevertebrae, is recommended, the lengthof the drop to be obtained by the fol-

lowing rule : Divide 2240 by the weightof the "patient" in pounds, and thequotient will be the required length infeet. This rule is simply obtained bysupposing, as was found to be actuallythe case in one instance, that 2240 foot-pounds of shock is sufficient to causefracture in any case, no allowances boing made for differences of age, weightor sex ; thus by this rule, the lighterthe criminal or " patient," the longermust be his drop, and the longer thetime of his agony in the air. Besidesan immense number of measurements,of dissections and experiments on thebodies of animals in order to obtaindata for his calculations, Dr. Haugh-to- n

has made experiments on the livingsubject, sometimes of a somewhatamusing character.

The sharpest man in the world, sofor as heard from, " hangs out " at La-

fayette, Ind. He subsists by drivingspikes in the timbers of a bridge andcollecting the wisps of hay that arecaught by them from passing loads.

Old Scotch ladie : " Take a snuffsir ? " Gentleman (with large Dasalpromontory, indignantly) : ' Do I looklike a snuffer?" Old lady : "Well, Icanna jist say you do, though I maunsay ye hae grand accommodation. "

Old Probs " admits that he "slipsup" once in a while, but is free to main-tain that 69 out of every 100 of his pre-dictions have been verrified, and sayshe ia going to do better.

George Francis Train says hedosen't wanttoreturn to America till hisdead body is brought back for burial.Well, good-by- e, old fellow ; write usonce in a while.

We expected it. Ann Eliza is goingto mount the lecture-platfor- after shegets her divorce, and tell what sheknows about Mormomam. j

is not pleasant to contemplate the re-sult of putting one's foot by accidentinto the toothed apertures which liehidden so harmlessly among the corals.

Animal life, except birds and insects,is very rare in these islands. A fewgoats, which the natives call nanis, likeour own nanny goats, roam wild aboutthe hills, descendants of the flock ofthe massacred Capt. Berard ; but thecattle which belonged to the unfortu-nate speculator who founded a sugarfactory on the island iu 1859, and wasmurdered with all his colonists, weresummarily destroyed. Isle Ouen isvery interesting from a geological pointof view, and is rich in jade-ston- e of thefinest quality, and in the ouwarivitevariety of garnets, which are of a beau-tiful green, translucent and brilliant,and, though generally small, equal incolor and limpidity to the finest greenemeralds.

Kounea, on the Island of Pines,which was regarded as an importantportion of the archipelago in past days,chiefly because Cook having exploredit, other navigators visited it, but whichhas latterly fallen out of notice, becausethe anchorage is bad, and the soil muchinferior to that of the mainland, hasseveral features of interest. Like Onenisland, it once formed a part of thesouthern portion of the great island ofNew Caledonia, and, also like Ouenisland, it consists of a precipitous coast,a narrow strip of lowland, capable ofculture, and wide sterile iron plains.But its name, which Cook conferredupon it, is derived from an unexception-able feature, a large quantity of pines,which grow here and there, and give ita strange aspect, especially when ob-served from the sea, the vertical pointsterminating a kind of vertical crown,and the plain in which they are rooted,hidden. Cook's companions took themfor basaltic columns. The Island ofPines, though only thirty miles south-east of New Caledonia, differs from thatisland in climate, in fauna and in flora.

Theiemperatnre is lower and moreeven f Xhe air is very pure and dry ; therains4re tolerably frequent but they donot last long ; storms are almost un-known. There are no marshes, no mos-quitoes, pests which render all thebeauty and abundance of the placesthey infest of no account; in short,there is not in the world a more health-ful and pleasant climate. Many streamstraverse the island, bordered by shadywoods, peopled with wood-pigeon- s, turtle--

doves, paroquets, thrushes and otherbirds. The natives, having to fearneither cold nor flies, live in the sim-plest and slightest of houses. Never-theless, they are far advanced in civili-zation, under the influence of the mis-sion, which occupies all the productiveparts of the island, so that there arevery few colonists. Their chief indus-try is the cultivation of vegetables ofseveral European species, for instance,the cabbage, which grows all the yearround. In this respect the Island ofPines is the providence of Noumea,where, in the dry seasons, the erardensare bare, and vegetables attain an enor-mous price, until the pirogues from thePines come in with their preciousfreight. At Gadji, one of the principalvillages to the north of the island, anaged native told M. Garnier a storywhich enabled him to confirm the beliefprevalent in France that the unfortu-nate La Perouse had visited this coast.

The First Consul.Mr, Parton, in an article on Presi-

dent Jefferson's chief measures, in theSeptember Atlantic, gives a very inter-esting account of the diplomacy and in-

fluences by which Louisiana was securedto the United States, incidentally givesa glimpse of Napoleon's way of con-ducting affairs.

"There never was," he wrote to Mr.Madison, September 1, 1802, "a gov-ernment in which less conld be done bynegotiation than here. There is nopeople, no legislature, no counsellors.One man is everything. He seldomasks advice, and never hears it unasked.His ministers are mere clerks ; and hislegislature and counsellors are paradeofficers. Though the sense of every re-flecting man about him is against thiswild expedition, no one dares to tellhim so."

The whole twenty-eigh- t volumes ofthe correspondence of Napoleon, re-

cently given to the world, might becited in proof of Mr. Livingston's re-

marks, but the man never appears tohave lived in quite such a tumult ofbusiness and passion as during thatyear and a half of "peace." In turn-ing over the other volumes, the readerhears from first to last, the steady rollof the drum, the rattle of musketry,the thunder of cannonade, the short,sharp word of command ; and he markseverywhere an assumption that fightingis the chief end of man, to which allother pursuits are immeasurably inferior.But in these two vc lumes of the yearX., vulgarly styled 1802, there is sucha rush of projects and topics demandingnotice of the head of the nation, that wecannot discover a gap large enough toadmit a modest and polite old gentle-man, hard of hearing, with a requestthat the first consul would please be sogood as to relinquish his Louisianascheme, and cede all those uncountedand unknown square miles to a countrywhich, according to Talleyrand, was ofno more account in general politics thanGenoa. Suppose it was on the 4th ofMay that Mr. Livingstone desired ahearing. That day, in the lingo of therevolution, which Bonaparte still em-ployed, was called Floreal 14, An X.It was a busy day, indeed, with thefirst consul ; for he was disposing theminds of men to view his next step to-

ward an imperial throne, without anun-- m

snageable excess of consternation.How sweetly this great histrionic geniusdiscoursed to the council of state thatmorning! "In all lands, force yieldsto civic qualities. Bayonets fall beforethe priest who speaks in the name ofheaven, and before the man whose learn-ing inspires respect. I have said to mili-tary men who had scruples, that a milita-ry government could never prevail inFrance until the nation had becomebrutalized by fifty years of ignorance.Soldiers are only the children of thecitizens. The army, it is the nation."Turn over a few leaves, and you catchhim scolding Bertheir for not pushingthe conscription vigorously enough.

Recruiting,, he adds, " is the first andmost important concern of the nation."Meanwhile we see him thanking thesenate for a new proof of their confi-dence, iu having made him first consulfor ten years longer. " You judge thatI owe a new sacrifice to the people. Ishall make it if the will of the peoplecommands that which yonr suffrageauthorizes.

This new lease of absolute powerbrought with it a world of urgent busi-ness, in the intervals of which therewas nothing too high for him to medi-tate and no detail too trifling for him torule. It was a case of one mind tryingto govern a country, instead of all themind in it, which alone is competent tothe task. If a general fights a duel, itis the first consul who exiles him tothat dread Siberia of the French of thatage, "thirty leagues from Paris." Asoldier kills" himself for love ; it is thefirst consul who issueB an order of theday on the subject : "A soldier shouldknow how to bear up under the griefand melancholy of the passions ; thereis as much true courage in enduringanguish of mind with constancy as instanding firm under the steady fire of abattery. " A young lady is attentive tothe poor during an epidemic ; and it, isstill the first consul who sends hertwenty thousand francs, and a note tell-ing her what a good girl she is.

Feom Charles Francis Adams' address at Harvarduouege.j

When I compare the state of thenewspaper press as it is now with whatit was at the commencement of the fed'eral government, it seems to me that ofall the changes that have taken place inour social system, this is the moststriking. Then a semi-weekl-y, or possibly a daily, journal, in the largesttowns, was conducted for the most partby a laboring printer, who confinedhimself to the task of filling his sheetwith news casually picked up, and relied for the treatment of topics of momentary interest upon such voluntarycontributions as could be secured frompromising young men, amply paid byseeing their productions in print. Nowand then a heavier pen would endeavorto enlighten the community on agrave and important subject. But thecircle of readers would be at best verylimited, unless in a few cases whererepublication might be thought an ob-

ject in the few large towns. It was inthat way that Hamilton and Madisonand Jay labored and succeeded, notwithout serious difficulty in dissemina-ting the views which effected the adop-tion of the constitution. But althougha few able writers might gain admissionto several presses which could unitedlyoperate upon opinion in some cases, itby no means followed that access wouldbe given even to the strongest penwhich should venture to reason, how-ever forcibly, against any earnest popu-lar excitement. The loss of some sub-scribers might ensue, and that losswould be enough to cripple the paper.The party lines, too, were closely drawn,so that no person disposed to expressan independent sentiment of a contro-versial nature could rely upon a hearing. The cry oi " top my paper s

was too frequent and too formidablenot to inspire great caution in touchingangry questions. The effect was apractical exclusion of independentthought, and the multiplication ofpresses which studied rather to followin the wake of public opinion than tolead it.

e have outgrown all this. And thenew condition, though not unattendedwith evils of its own, must be admittedto be far in advance of the old one.Many presses now spread their circula-tion so far and wide that they no longerhave reason to dread the consequencesof maintaining a free, unbiased course.Party organs, purely as such, ratherlose than gain a foothold with consid-erable numbers. And in the treatmentof questions of great interest there israpidly growing up a demand upon themost competent sources, of whateverthey may be pleased to furnish, withoutcalling the sentiment in question. Themere name of a writer of establishedweight is sufficient to secure him freeadmittance somewhere or other to thepublic view. Nay, the thing has gonefarther than this in .Europe, and evenin some places in America. Personsbelieved to be the best qualified totreat some particular subject, for themoment exciting an interest, are eager-ly sought for, and liberal compensationoffered for their work, if desired. Theeffect of this must naturally be to pre-sent additional inducements to the cul-tivation of the particular gifts which secure similar results. One consequencehas actually been, in the chief countries of Hinrope, a mode of treating thehigher questions of morals and politics,law and government, by the publicpress, very much in advance of thepractice of ancient times. And just somust it be with us presently, if notnow. The effect ought to be to raiseup a class of persons fitted to meet theparticular want. How much that wantwas felt during the critical portion ofthe late war may well be measured bythe painful monuments of error whichremain as a warning on the records ofthe legislative department of the gov-ernment. The rudiments of an educa-tion of such a class should be taught atthis university. They will stand in noneed of place to benefit the public, andyet they will be fitted for it if called onany suitable emergency. In any event,they would be likely to guide publicopinion without regard to personalconsiderations. Such men make thebest of advisers. I may be permittedto cite an example that occurs to me asa fine illustration of my meaning. Iwould respectfully point to the learnedtreatment by the venerable personlately the president of the university atNew Haven, our foremost rival in goodworks, of the chief disputed questionsgrowing out of the last treaty withGreat Britain. 1 ree as he is from allpossible ambition for place, he has yetbeen doing a service to us and theworld in general, for which the nationshould count him one of its benefac-tors.

England's True Nobility.The real lords and princes of the

English people are the newspaper edi-tors and some half dozen writers whoform and guide public opinion. Theyare not, indeed, recognized as such, butthey soon will be. No baron in thekingdom, not even Lord Robartes, one ofthe latestand richest of the banker peers,wields such influences as Mr. Carlylefrom his small house in Chelsea. Thelate Mr. Mill, too, was, as a matter offact, the most potent of Englishmen.George Eliot, the novelist, is very in-

fluential, so is Mr. Ward, the editor ofthe Saturday Review. The Times israther out of date, and has long ceasedto produce any effect on public opinion.The observation applies to the Daily.Mews, and in a lesser degree to theStandard. The Morning Post, thoughhonestly conducted, is a class paper,the organ of polite society ; but theconductors of the Spectator are impor-tant people, and perhaps the lea.ierwriters on the Pall Mall Gazette takethe first rank among the teachers andleaders of thoughtful men. No pettylordlings comes up to the heel of these,the real nobility of the time. Then ina secondary place, but still puissant,stand Mr. Tennyson, Mr. Vernon Har-cou- rt

and a few poets and phample-teer- s.

They have quite superceded thenobility in the national esteem, and iftwo opposite statements of a fact wereput forward, the one signed by LordDemanley and the other by any knownman of letters, his lordship's accountof the transaction would not be credited for a moment. London letter.

There is a club in Rochester, N. Y.,called the "Dismal Six." The presid-ing officeris called the "Doleful Grand;"his deputy is known as the v Vice Dole-ful." Wretched wails and despairingmoans are heard about the dinner table,and the toasts are the saddest the members can devise. Their motto is, " Wene'er will smile again."

The American criminal is " some"on ghastly slang, but we haven't seenanything quite so cynical aa this, fromthe confession of a murderer recentlvtried in Paris : "We don't try to killin order to steal ; we attempt merelyto stun him. O if after that he cools,all the worse for him."

The Minneapolis Tribune becomesserious: "Oakes Ames' will reveales$5,745,254. And he died of disappoint-ment and chagrin. Happier is honestyin a hickory shirt and an oilcloth capthan dissimulation in a ping hat and ashirt that buttons behind. "

The attorney-gener- al has decidedthat no spirituous liquors can be intro-duced into the Indian country withoutan order from the war department, soIndians who get drunk in future? willdo so under the direct auspices of theUnited States government.

of a mince-pi- e "vou shouldn t le soglutinous, dear. You must be verycareful, or you will get something nyour elementary canal or sarcophagusone of these days that will kill you.Isaac.

In 1784 abont fourteen bales of cot-

ton were shipped from America to Eng-

land, of which eight bales were seizedas improperly entered, on tho groundthat so mnch cotton as this could nothave been produced in the UnitedStates, and this was more than one hun-

dred and fifty years after tho first im-

portation of cotton grown in the samecountry. In 1711 the first sample ofGeorgia cotton was taken to England.

The market in London for diamondcontinues in a very depressed Mate,owing to the abundance nt tho supply,and, with the exception of stones ofvery largo sizes, and brilliants andsmall rose diamonds of the very lliieHt

quality, the fall in value has been gene-

ral, and in some descriptions, such arose-cu- t diamond of mediocre to mid-dling quality, equal to from 30 to 4

per cent.A correspondent says that th" mon-

arch of AsliBntee secures a high degreeof military eflieiency among his generalby warning them that if they fail tocarry out his orders their liendn will bocut off. As this promiso is religioiiMlykept, it is an incentive to grent celerityand vigor among the AHhantee bri-dier- s.

It is said that glycerine mixed witlthewaterin st am engine loiler pre-vents the dejKwition of limo-AitU- s i.ndconsequently protects the lniler from in-

crustation. About one pound of glyce-

rine to every 300 or 400 pound of coalburnt is sufficient for this pnrjH)sc.

There are alwut sixty manufacturersof goat morocco iu the United Stab's,alKmt half of tho number being in Phil-adelphia. The capacity of their facto-

ries is sufficient to make about I'.MH) do-

zen a day, and the average amount of thomorocco business for 1872 was nuarly

10,000,000.Professor R. C. Kedsioof tho Mich-

igan agricultural college has analyzedthe air of a green-hous- e which hod Iwenclosed for twelve hours, and found itbetter than pure country air. This seemsto bo a strong argument in favor ofplants in sleeping rooms.

A hint for the season The juice ofwatermelons makes a Hue white vinegar;carefully strain it, put it into jugs withsmall glass bottles in their months, andset them in the sun ; thus, in time, itwill ripen through bittemeBH into aclear, fine-flavore- strong, white viix.-ga- r.

Tho seunte chamber in theenpitol atWashington is herenfter to le suppliedwith fresh air by means of an airduct,10 feet in diameter, through tthich aconstant current is kept up by an

fan. The current will be keptcool by sprays of ice water.

A conductor on tha Chicago andAlton railroad ordered a fellow to re-

move his arm from around his girl'swaist, the other day, " because," saidhe, " I haven't a woman for each manon the train to hug, and tho law forbidsunjust discriminations."

The Codorns ore ts said to be nn ex-

cellent thing to nvort a threatening"chill" in a blatt furnace. Several carloads of the ore thrown intothe furnneewill purge it completely, causing "thoslag and ore to run freely.

Tho horticultural botanist Koch, af-

ter long and patient investigation, is in-

clined to think that the cultivated appleis a hybrid between several species ofapple that do not now exist; its nativeland is as yet undetermined.

Don Piatt describes tho Britishhouse of Peers as "a body of men ex-

ceedingly quiet and unpretending inmanner, not remarkably striking incountenance, and so badly dresned t lintit seemed an affectation."

A New York lawyer tried to clearhis gambler client, recently, by showingthat he used marked cards, ami thero-for- o

tho offense was not within thestatute against "games of chance," lo-in- g,

instead, a " dead sure thing." Thedlge didn't work.

The population of the United Statesis now increasing at tho rate of ono mil-

lion annually. Tho greater portion ofthis increase is in tho west, where itamounts to six hundred thoiisnnd an-

nually.A mother's love is a holy thing,

and is beautifully illustrated in the eoof the French woman who murderedher husband that sho might Income, awidow and thus procure tho diMt hargoof her son from tno army.

This is the height of the preservingseason. We saw through the windowof a Wooster street house, HiUurduy, ashirt-sleeve-d man trying to pull off apair of boots, and heard him say quiteplainly: "Jam the jam stuff to jell."

Mayor Medill of Chirago declinesa seat in the Graphic balloon liecnune,though it will probably start on time,it is liablo to land in eternity, and hewants to land in Queenstowu.

" What shall I give my loy to makehim honored and reHjxetel ?" writes anaffectionate father. Education andmoral prei epts were once required toaccomplish this purjKiso, but a diamondpin now covers the ground.

A Frenchman has discovered, byexperiments upon himself, that coffee,taken upon an empty stomach, rendersthe mind abnormally clear, and thetemper unnaturally bad.

To see how eagerly a human beingwill catch at a straw, it is not necessaryto witness a drowning. The phenomenonis now manifest chiefly within saloons,where one end of the ctraw is immersedin a tumbler.

Deacon Davis of Springfield, Illi-nois, has been brought before his churchfor habitual profanity in making use ofthe expression " by gum."

Intuition is that attitnto of soul inwhich it sees the various relationshipsof tho universe presented to it spontane-ously as an immediate objective reality.Morell.

A poet asks : " Where are thodead, the vanquished dead, who trodtho earth that now we tread ? On general principles, wo should answer thatthey are buried.

An experiment recently mode inLondon proves that salmon-ov- a will re-

main in healthy condition after havingbeen kept 112 days in ice.

Professor Agassiz desires to throwopen to women all the educational insti-

tutions and facilities under this control.F. into it will slip thru a crack, whil

truth will git stuck iu u door-wa- y

Josh Jiillinqs.

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