Orangeburg times.(Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-03-11. · An In'dep'en^ieiit Paper 13»evoted.-to...
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An In'dep'en^ieiit Paper 13»evoted.- to iTiteveBt» ol tlie People, '.IV. . ORANGEBÜRG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1875. "*'"'" "" " " 1 11 " " 11 T' ¦¦¦¦¦¦ _,_;_ NUMBER 5. Tho Wandering, pbw once said to mo, J il I vtweod tnröSl«u lu'e city* in the cool-of tho year; - A raan iu tho gardun»lrto»«Tr!iit from a tree. I asked, How long hau too city been hero ?¦' Antf^tn^e'rSdrjnOj arid Äo plucked hwhy, J ; ^j!"* V^X8 It*«* ,,fh4relt»ahd»tblfoY, i Anxqb&eul rällefeuiX:farwvf r and-aye.'" Tfrlie.l'JnrJrid'ytani rolled by, and then <J|wtfWKWtlie»Belf-Ba:nj6roaUagain; - . J No trace of a clty.thoro J found; . A shepherd eat blowing his pipo alone, His Hock wore qnletiy nibbling around, agjftod. "How lour; im« this city been roiio?" Arul U'oanawcrcd me, aud ho'piped away, .» rho neV;«!!?» bloom and. the old decay, This lo myi/asturo-gTOuna fop aye."-- .' * Fivo hundred years rolled by, and then I traveled tho eelf-sauio road again. AiufcLcamo to Eos, and. tho wavee did rpar, » . .r Wm& a üshorman threwhlvnet ont eWar, -1 1 And,.when heavy, ladon, i\o dragged It ashore. -.JjMkctt,- 't'How long has the sea boon hero And ho langhod "and he eaid, and be laughed away; !* As long or yon billowB have tor cod th«!r apray, They've fished and they've flsned In this self-same bay." . Five hundred yoara rolled by, and then 11raveled tlio Bfclf-a>mo toad again; ©4« a/oreBt.iVfstjand free,. i ., t; i . . o&Mia1 etopA id tho thicket near; I { lalifltnjiafpAtdna tree. J / i- \i i'e.Uovf long havoiho woods peon herb?". ipWred', "Thesoiwooda aro'a covert, for aye; My ancestors dwelt here alway, And tlio trees havcCbeen elücö creation's day." give hundred yeara rollpd by, and then <« Otfitraveled-tho self-same road agalö.'' '." . And I found,there a city.'and far and near; Hosonndod the hum of toll and glee.' And I asked, " Haw long has the city been here, Ami whero is tho pipe,.and tho wood, and .the OB «ca 1" ~~ And they anawercd:roo, as they mado their way, "l 'rbbiga always have stood as they aland - to-day, And so tbey wilt rtand for cvor and aye." I'd wait five hundred years, and then I'll travel tho aelfraamp road again. Tii^iikBErsiisrWHK clouds. burst upon tho wostern world a mag¬ nificent stranger from- föröigu parts, v§0$ all liia traveling gloriv.h .on. % * Jt was tho «oat comet, of ,1850,^011 tho grand touridti'th'o buivorBö. It Boomed strange that, potty human life oonld go on as usual, with its oat* irjHttaudL armHür^H^viUug, Utr.sJ&okj-rJg --Trtfrl^ToaBuring, whilo that V flaming milH*tt.,r,,,^öu bin biUiohdöagued öir* ouit, was preaobiug tlio wondors of in ilnito immensity and powor, and the nothingness»' oV earth. V -TUÖ- comet- no longer ruus bis.kiudling race, liko .Vioh- Alpino's honohman, with his fiery cross, announcing war and disaster. Uorald of battle, falo'and foar. ' H©4s'V>h:'4itr< own 'business,' not ours.' Under tho tail of this^ particular ^-*Kiuol^doubt'io«h mauy a talo of lovo was told.in tho light of his swift splondors Wmauv a tender look exohauged. The astronomor coolly swept tho starry field BBfith his glass, unawed by tho irrogulnr night-guard patrollinc; tho heavens, and tho robber and murdoror diadainud the awful witness. Ho loft uh aa ho found iui.joined to our mortal idols, Aviso in our own conceit, weak, and worldly, and wicked, but no castaways of the ¦.¦ universe after aU. We romombcr that comet summer, not so much for its great astronumioal c vent as for two singular incidents that more nearly touched our humnu sym¬ pathies, which will grovol in poor earthly affairs, oven within Bight of the most august celestial phenomena. Ono' pleasant Saturday oftornoon daring the oomet's appearance, an loro- nant,.afcor a proBiiorous voyago, do- Bconded upon a farm in tbo neighbor¬ hood of n large market town in ono of tho westera stato3. He was Boon sur¬ rounded V/y a, ourious grouj) of tho farmer's family and laborers, all asking eager quefitions about the voyago and the management of the balloon. That secured by an anchor and a ropo in tho hand of tho loroiiaut, its car being a foot or two abovo tho ground, whb swaying lazily backward and forward iu the ovoniug air. It was a good deal out of wind, and was a sleepy and inno- cout monster in tho eyes of the farmer, ' who, with tho owner's permission, led it up to his house, whero, as ho said, v 'ho could hitch it to bis fence. But be¬ fore ho had thus scoimd it, the three children, aged respectively, ten, eight, aid three, bogged him to lift them " into that big basket," that tbey might ."t.it on those pretty red cushions." While the attention of the icronaut was diverted by more curioas ques¬ tioners from a neighboring farm, this ^rish father lifted Iiis darlings one by ooo into tho cm. Chubby little Johnny ( proved the ''ounce too much " for the serial camel, and brought him to tho ground ; and then, unluckily, not the buby, but the eldest hopoof tho family, was lifted out. Tho roliof was too great for tho monster. ' Tho volatile orehturo's apirit ioso at once, ho jerked his halter oat of his father's hand, and, with a wild bound, mounted into tho air ! , Vain was tbo roronaut's anchor. It oau;g|tv.t for a moment iu a fence, but it toro away, nnd was oil', dangling uselessly! a^ör tho runaway balloon, whioh.ßö swiftly and steadily roBo that in a few minutes thoso two littlo white laces,- peering over the edge of tho car, grew indistinct, and thoso pitoous erios of "Papal" "Mamma!" grow faint f<: and faintor, up in tho air. When distance and twilight mists had swalloWed up" voices and faces, and ; nothing could be seen but the dark, ;t cruel fihape, sailing triumphantly away, with its precious booty, like an jorial privateer,- tho poor father sank oown nolploes and speechless; but tho mother, frantic with grief, still f-tretched her yearning arms towards the inexorable >; Heavens, and called wildly into the nnansweriug void. '% .Tho aeronaut Btrovo to console tho wretched parents with assurances tbat % the-balloon would descend within thirty milos of the town, and that all might bo well with tho cliilren, provided that it did not come down in tlio wator or in 'deep Woods. t Ju tho event of its de- bccndiug iu u favorablo spot, iho thought that 'the'older child might nte|) out Joaving the youwrar-iil £ho il^allop-^* Their Wight' agai3*bisc arid continue itaivbyrige; i IM Ah; no,";roplied the>mother/ f* Jen- cio would hover stir from tho oar I with-- out Johnny in her arms." Tho brdloon pnsticd dirJv^ljl over the market town, and tho. children soeing many people^ in, thö ßtree^.strotckoO) but their faandd and called loudly for help.' But .the. villagers.,though, they. B4w tkb bright'}i(tle h>adb,Tlrtard! £o! calls. Amazed at the strange apparition: they might hare thought tho trau'dated little creatures omail nugol navigators, on some voyage of discovery, some lit* tlo chembio venture of their own, na, heading toward the'rosy bloiullinida and purple islands of aunset splendor, they sailed deeper and deeper into.the, .west, and faded-away/ '1 1 sTT^A&l H ,. ; Some company they had, poor little Sky-waifs i Something comforted them and aljDtyenV.ffiör.Cwala tori^i-^some- thing whispered that below the night and clouds way homo; that above was God; fhat wherever.they might drift or- claBh; Irving or'dteM; they wo'üld VtilJ be in His domain .and under .Hin care. that! -thöugn,'-'börna!:away' among the Stars, they could not be loot, for His love would follow them. When tho sunlight all went away, and the-great comet came blazing out, little Johnny was apprehensive that the comet might oome too pear -,their airy craft, ana set it on fire with a whisk of ita dreadful*tail. But when his sister as¬ sured him .that the fiery dragon was "as much as twenty.miles a«ay," and that uod wouldn't let him hurt them, ho was tranqoilized, but soon afterward said, r"T wiahfjtio^ronld /come~aiitt\e nearer, bo I could wanin myself, I'm so cold!" , (, j Then Jennie took off her apron, and wrapped it about the child, saying ten¬ derly, .'This ia all sister has; to make you w£rmj^ you closo in 1)or nrins, and Wo wi 1J ay onr prayers aud you;ehUlLgö'tosloöpyj ,: > .'. 4- Why, .hewleantl tiay my prayers be- lore J have my support" asked-littlb Johnny. ,..-'<'> r'] -"! k'i&<¦ . " Stator hasn't any .supper far yoii oj for herself, but wo must pray all ,.tho immensity anil tho. millions .of ;iinpity¬ ing stars, l\fted,i tuoir littlo olaHped "hands,' aud sobbed out their sorrowiul, " Our fathor," and that quaint little supplementary prayer : Now I lay mo down to sloop, I pray tho Lord my eoul to koop; If I, li (in id dio bofore I \tako, I pray tho Lord my soul to tako. .« Thero I God heard that, caBy ; for wo are closo to Him up hero," eaid in¬ nocent little Johnny. Doubtless Divine Dovo stooped to the little ones and folded them in per¬ fect peace.foi'Boon tho younger, seated on tho bottom of tho oar, with his hoad leaning against his sister's knee, slept as soundly as thongh ho woro lying in his own little bed at home, while the oldor watched through tho long, long hours, and the car floatod gently on in the still night air, till it begun to sway and rook on tho fresh morning wind. Who can divine that simple littlo child's thoughts, speculations, and wild imaginings, while watching through thoso hours ? Slio may have feared coming in collision with" a meteor.for many wero abroad that night, scouts and heralds of tho great comet.or, perhaps being cast away on some deso¬ late star-island, or more dreary still, floating aud floating on, night and day, tdl they should both dio of cold and hunger. Poor babes in the clouds I At length, a happy ehance, or Provi¬ dence.wo will say Providence.guided tho littlo girl's wandering hand to a cord connected with tho valvo ; some¬ thing told her to pull it. At once tho balloon began to sink, slowly and gent¬ ly, as though some celestial pilot guided it through tho wild currents of air, not letting it drop into lake, or river, lofty wood, or impenetrable swamp, where this strange, nnchild-like experience might have been closed by a death of unspeakable horror ; but causing it to descend as softly as a bird alights, on a spot where human c«r« and pity await¬ ed it. The sun had not jet risen, but the morning twilight had oome, when the little girl, looking over tho edge of the car, saw the derr old earth ooming nearer."rising towards them," she said. But when tho car stopped, to her great disappointment it was not on tho ground, but caught fast in the topmost! branches of a tree. Yet sho saw they wero near a house whence holp might soon come,so she awakened her lirothor and told him tho good news, and to¬ gether they watched and watched and waited for deliverance, hugging cam othor for joy and warmth, for they were cold. Farmer Barton, who lived in a lonoly houso, on tao edge of his.own private prairie, was a famous Blooper in gen- oral, but on thi*) part ciliar morning ho awoke beforo tho dawn, and though he turned and turned again, ho could Bleep no more, So, at last, he said to bis good wife, whom ho had kindly awak¬ ened to inform ber of his nnacconntable wakefulness, " It's no use, I'll just get up and dress, and have a look at tbo comet." The next that worthy woman heard from her wakefnl spouse was a ha\ty summons to the outer door. It seema that no sooner did ho atop foith from his houso than his ojos fell on astrango potontous shape, hanging on a largo pear tree, about twenty yarda distant, lie could see no likeness in it to any¬ thing earthly, und ho half fancied that it might ba the comtt, who, having put oiit Iiis light, bad. come down thoro to Sorch. In his fright and perplexity ho irJ what every wiso man .would do in a like extremity: ho called upon his valiant wife. Reinforced' by her, ho drew near tho tree 'cautiously reoon« noitering. Surely apear' tsob never boro such fruit. Suddenly thoro doscendod from the thing a plaintive, trembling little voioe: "Ploasa.tokn us down; ;We aro very cold." Then ä second 'little voico said : "And hungry, too. Please take us down." * *. "Why, who arc you ? And where are you?/' . The first little-voice said: " It's us, and wo runncd away with a balloon. Please take ns down." ] Dlinly comprehending th,e situation, tho farmer, gotting hold of a dangling rope, succeeded in getting down the balloon. i He first lifted but'little Johnny, who ran rapidly a few yards toward the house, then j tinned round, and stood for n few moments, ouriously surveying the balloon. Tho faithful little sister was so chilled and exhausted that riho had to be carried into the house, where, trembling, she told the wonderful story. Before sunrise a mounted messenger -was uispatched to the. Harwood home, with glad 'tidings of great joy. He reached it in tho afternoon, and a few hours later the ohildred arrived, in state, with bannors and musio, and cov¬ ered hay-wagon and four. Joy-bell8'werd'mng in tho neighbor¬ ing town, and in tho. farmer's brown houso, tho happiest family on tho con¬ tinent thanked God that night. It would seem that this comet had como occult maddening influence on tho .balloons, for during its appoaranco thoro occurred in another western Btato an involuntary ascension, similar to the ono I have related, but more tragical in its-teaminatioh." An roronaut, while, if I remember rightlyi. repairing tho network of his balloon, was Boatd'I on a slight wooden qro'ss-picco suspended under it; theV'car having been removed- a few feot above tho ground;,by, merqly a . rdjip in the hand of an assistant. From a too caro- Iciis grasp this ropo CBoopod, and in an instant the gigantic bubble shot up- ward, carrying tho loronaut on his frail support; a rider nioio holplnss than, Mnzoppa bound to his "Okraino steed, a voyagor moro holplcss than a ship- wrecked Bailor afloat on a spar in mid- ocean. Tho balloon roso rnpidly, but un¬ steadily, swaying and pitching in tho evening wind. As long as it remained in sight tho form of tho mronaut could bo distinguished, swinging beneath it. Aud as ho was kuo . n to bo a man of uncommon nervo and prosenco of mind, it was hoped that even from his dizzy porch he might manage to operato on tho valve, or at least to puncture a small hole in tho balloon, nud thus ef¬ fect a descont. But such efforts, if be mado any, woro vain, as for many days and nights there was anxious inquiry aud pationt search ovor a wide oxtent of country with no result. Wo gave him up. Only wifely lovo hoped on, and looked aud waitod", At last, in a wild spot, tho wrook of tho balloon was found, and that Was all. Still, wifely lovo hoped on, until, a mouth or two later, some children nut¬ ting in a wood, many miles away from whero the balloon was found, discov¬ ered, half buried in tho ground, a strange dark mass that looked liko a heap of old clothes, but there was a something, shapeless and fearful, hold¬ ing it together. It was thought the roronaut parted company with his balloon by loosening his hold on the cords above him. in desperate efforts to open the valvo ; but ho may, after whirling in swift vortices, or plunging and mounting, through "cloudy abysses of air, have become un¬ nerved by the awful silence of tho up¬ per night, by tho oomet's fearful com¬ panionship, by whelming immensity and infinity, and Wearily let go his hold, to drop earthward. Private rieft Culture. Mr. Both Green, tho well-known pis¬ ciculturist, states that ho has invented a now method for transporting and hatching nearly all kinds of fish eggs, by which spawn can bo carried for 130 days journey and can be hatched in any room in tho house. One million oggs, it is also said, can bo hatched by using a pail of water daily. It is believed that fish culturo by private partios can be rendered a lucrativo source of in¬ come, provided it is followed with tho same care as is exercised in tho raising of poultry or any other live stook. Hundreds of farmers have streams and ponds on -their lauds now of no value save porhaps as watering places for cat¬ tle in pasture, and yiolding a few worth¬ less perch and cattish, porhaps an occa¬ sions 1 trout or piokerol. If Air. Green has solved tho most difficult part of tho problem, n anoly, tho successful trans¬ portation of the eggs, tho mode of stocking the waters aud the rearing of tho fish, are not diffloult subjects of which to acquire an adequate knowl¬ edge. One speoies of fish in particular. whi'.h is little known, would probably prove especially remunerative, The land-looked salmon is a distinct speoies of the fish, though so closely resemb¬ ling the ooean salmon as to suggest the idoa that, at some remote period, a quantity of the latter fi*h, being by a convulsion of nature barred from re¬ turning to tho sea, had propagated in their land locked quarters and eventu¬ ally developed into a separate variety.. Tho habits of the land-locked and ooean salmon aro cioseiy similar. Aut; notes or Sir Walter 5 colt. ["Bom 6, Old Liters/ in Btfribnor's for 'Marek on by a hitherto unpub¬ lished llffiHpi of HLr Waltor Scott, by tbo celebrate > artist Ollbort Stuart- Newton. Iu thia-lnataiirn'snt of ,l Old Letters" wo Und tlio folio-..in;, .t«ecdotoa: of tho author of-'AVa- vorloy :"J .. At ^1tSf*past six Ivo-went to diiio with tho Fergusaohs. Tho doctor was quito ill vith a cold. Sir Adam Fergus-. son,-Sir Walter Scott's intimate ft**^M cohfiden&il friend, dined thero; our¬ selves, WtJa.'Jj.t and one of her daugh¬ ters. " Wo had a very charming dinner, for Sur Adatr^ltas tho most marvelous pow¬ er» of do ic riptioh. He made us laugh heartily, i.ud told us, too, a'great many interesting anecdotes about Sir Walter Scott. E ia ä very remarkable person himself. Vie w the original of Dugald Dalgetty. f Thin is all I find in the old- letterB about the dinnor, but I muBt toll what I can recollect of tho account H Mrs. X. ;.\;vä mo in later years, SirH Adam, sin: <;nd, was a tall, gray-haired man, witlvHx broad .Scotch accent. He described how one early morning,!livH Sir Walto£.dcott*a library, when ho and I Sir Walter vied to make tho firo of peat burn, and, .ftor many efforts, succeeded I in some de'; reo. At this moment ono of .the dog -, dripping from a plungo in tho lake, h<: ntohed and' whined at. thb window. }U\ last Sir Walter let the H "puir cre. 'n.in", in, who, coming up before the £ Sile ilro, shook his shaggy hide, send ig a j>brfeot shower-bath over the tiiv and over a great table of looao mam ...ipls. Sir Waller, eyeing tho scano w.»h hin usual seronity, saitL.I slowly: "()¦ ! ;!.ar, you've done a great deal of mi: Yi/' It raminds us of the talo t t.) of Newton. On tills B same oe< tho dinner, Sir Adam B Fergusson «iki of traveling with Sir Walter on f continent and going to boo tho troop on donkeys, and ho per¬ formed bo:! donkeys and' ridor« with/ his fingers cm the tabio until his audi¬ ence was in rm agony of laughter. "FergusBot passed-the evening with 'ue, and wo Lvd Homo music. I asked him, as ho vis so fuud of libteuing, if ho didn't bii' f'u Uiür himself. toll you loto ot H/r iya!ii?r. Scott;'. Gttid K \, 4 that will aboWor your question. <!' io night, when ing at AbbnSnforu, Atini"^ vtv;:dt had boon singing U) tho au<-^^^^HHB -tub crroiuii."^hic\v*nifc^Mamiea^KSi saying in a strong Sootch accent: I "Noo, Fergneson, gio us a howl.'" "'Duringono of my visits there,' I continued Dr. Fergusson, ' among other B guests was Hogg, "Ettriok Shopherd." BI heard a horriblo noiso in an adjoin ling room, and, after listening some I moments to it, becamo alarmed, and I said to my host: " What is that roise ?" B " Oh " said-he, " it's Hogg.just Hogg I composing his verses. Ho always sings H thorn as he writes thorn." "Though he likod somorudo strains, I I Scott could well attune his ear to softer I music, nnd was very fond of Mooro I song X. sings, that ends : B " 'Short as tho Persian's prayor, his prayer at c!oB6 of day, H Should bo each vo.v of love's ropoallug. M Quick let him woreh'p boauty'a procions ray, lU'on whlto bo kuoola that ray is Hooting.' " Ho UBed to soy, 'Come X., let mo I Bhavo that Persian's prayor;' and ho I would listen with great delight to the Bsinging of it. H "They recalled nu amusing story of B Ian old Bervnnt who had lived with Scott I for nearly n lifotime, aud booamo very Imuoh spoiled. Sir Wnltor at lost, out lof pationoo with his eins of omission, Hsaid: " 1 Donald, I think wo must part.' " ' Part I why ? Wiioro's your honor I ¦ going?' " Of course peaco was mado, and I HDonald remained. "They told sadly of the dear old I man returning from Italy (where ho I wont for his health), with Iiis memory I impaired. Mrs. Arkwright, who hnd Hsot his 'Pirate'sFarewell to Minna ' to Bmunio, sang it to him. ' Those are vory H pretty verses, said Sir Walter. 'Who I wrote them?' "Charles Scott, Sir Walter's second I I son, is a very el over, agreeable man. I I BBee a good deal of him at tho Loclf- H harts', hero and elsewhere. Sir Walter I B was most proud of his eldest son Wal B tor, who is rather a dull fellow, but B large and fine-looking. His father Bused to say that it was enough if a boy Hknew how to ride and speak tho truth; I B thoso wero the most important things. " Charles Scott msde mo laugh about I Btho visitors at Sir Walter's house and BMolroso Abbey. Seo tho Abbey by Hmoonlight they must, because of tho I Blince: " ' If thou woulel'Bt view fair Molroeo aright, do visit it by tbo palo moonlight." "' And many a limo,' said Cbarlos HScott, 'when tho moon was not con- Bveniont, I took a lantern to produce tho Boflbot." A Lock of lliur. Almost every ono hns at loust one Block of hair cut from tho head of ono Biiow dwelling iu that ßilont loud whence Hcome no messages, no lottere, no tokens Bof any kind to tell o« iovo or of remem- Bbrance. Every ono knows that strange Bemotion, half joy, half woe, with which B the tiny relic of so much that was ouco dear can thrill 11 e soul. Only now and B then do we dare to take it from its hid- H ing place, hold it in the palm, press it B to the ohebk, and use it as a talisman to B recall all that we mußt perforce forget H in the work-a-doj world for the Bake of B strength to do ite battlo. H Wo do not know whoso hair that B which yon trensuro may bo ; whether B tho llossy curl from a baby's head, the H dark lock from tho brow that once B mado your breast its pillow, a parent's B t$ray tresisi, or ft young lover's suuuy curl. Nor does it; matter, for all lcve in its essence, in that pari of it that outlives death, is alik'o and equally pure, but woknow thafc there is nothing like it to you anywhere. There are no .werde for the thoughts it brings. Thoy niook language. As you touch it, and -gaze-at it, you havo nothing^to. say. You feel the thorns of your dead rose, that iB'oll, and the wounds thoy make bleed., ____ Snail Culture in France. Frogs Jiu-Jrses, and snails.the first, are an pad but toothsome dainty, which epicures, in this eöiuitry'as well 6a «isc- whero, dearly prize; but horses, and especioly snails.these are articles of diet which the enlightened Ameriean re¬ public has yet to be educated to relish. Hippophagy, we havo repeatedly ex¬ plained, is as common in Paris, or noarly ho, as the eating of beef ; and the worn-out steed finds his way to the abattoir as readily as the miikless cow or stall-fed ox. Hence,, as a mere bonne bouohe he has palled on the Gallic taste, educated by swollen geese livers or decayed salmon roes; a now the basis of the industry which the production has developed is snails. There is nothing peculiar about the mollouso. It is tho every-day slimy little object of which one finds thou sands in gardons, vineyards, and the woods. ' Switzerland and tho provinces of Burgundy and Provence are tho places of its cultivation. Throngs of women and children scour tho country, collecting the snails in immense num¬ bers, and depositing them in little tracts of laud, inclosed with Bimply a trail of sawdust. This lost tho snail dospises; ho cannot orosB it, and avoids its vicinity ns a matter of proforenoe. Thorefore, for his confinement it is as good as a stone wall. Aftor incarcera¬ tion for two or three days, ho is per¬ mitted to starve, and then the plot is laid out in patches. of turf intersected by paths of sand. Abovo boards are hung to servo aa ehelter for thb snails, which instinctjrvoly gather in largo groups. Tho food provided consists in aromatic plants, such as mint, or let¬ tuce aiirr^c7?w>ment3 ' of vegetabloaj This is fed to them threo LiszcB ft day in enormous'quantities- At eight days, the snails beoomo qfaNT] olioffo, mid beaidfla havo attained, a very succulent flavor. Thou oomos another period oi' starvation for several days, aftor whioh transmission to market fol¬ lows. Gourmands, it in said, prefer tho snail when taken wild, so long as the capture is modo at a particular period. After tho eggs are laid in May, tho molluscs conceal themsolves under stones to avoid the. autumn frosts. There thoy bcocome perfectly freo from excretions, and, drawing themselves into their whells, close up for the win¬ ter. It is whon they are collect cd in this stale that their flavor ia said to bo best. In Paris, when tho sun goes down and honest pcoplo get to bod, queer things take place. Whon tho gas is lighted, and tho plaoes of amusements open in full blast, curious sights aro to bo seen. A correspondent, who has evidently been doing his duty conscien¬ tiously, skirmishing around the dark cornors of tho city, has found some re¬ markable dancing-halls, where Terpsi¬ chore evidently delegates somo of her distant relations to preside over the festivities. " wne of the most extraor¬ dinary of these balls," ho writes, "is that hold in a blind alloy, and opposite the shed whero tho guillotine is housed; the habitues are mostly tho grave-diggers belonging to Pero St. Regnoul, Pere La Ohaise cemetery, the tombstone men, and the undertakers' assistants. The proprietor of the place is a Spaniard, and his ability consists in imitating the weeping of mourners, and the orations delivered at civil inter¬ ments. There is a ball that charges no admission fee, but all who partioipato in a *con(re dansc' have to pay two sous each ; tho proprietor, on the con¬ clusion of tho dance, encircles tho dancers with a cord, and who pay tho fee to bo liberated, and whioh also serves as a noose to drag out reoaloi*. trants. Polkas, waltzes and mazurkas aro gratis, and short. The 'Monsters' also have their balls in the Ruo des Flandres; it is hero where infant prod¬ igies and all human phenomena meet; daneing is as goneral as quarreling, and jealousy of each other's /-^perfection is tho badge of all the tribe. The '.Skeleton Man' indulges in a can-can ; a man with a 'oupalo head' waltzes with a woman bearded like tho pard; iu a quadrillo a dwarf has for vis-a-vis tho woman with 'fish soaleB' instead of skin; a kind of iMilly-Christine united mula- t reuses drowns or drown care in a polka, tho 'Oaoutohouo Man,' has tho power of developing a dromedary hump, as he enjoys a mazurka with a Newfoundland dog. A Cyolop, with his diamond eye, note as master of the ceremonies." GRAPHS AN» BlTjJOÜBNESS. . (irapcs aro recommended as a onre for bilious¬ ness. Tins fruit, by its agreeable acid¬ ity, so acts on the svstem as to relieve it of its bile, and thus removes tho cause of the symptoms enumerated, and that in "eure." The immediate cause of all the discomfort is a "confined" con ;ition of the system ; the seeds of the grapes sot as an irritant aa they paes along the alimentary canal and oause it to "water," just as the eye "waters" if a hard substance touches it. This watering dissolves the nioro soli.1 matters containol in the intestines, "washes" them out and tho man is well. Tho covering of the grapes should bü chewed but not swallowed. Parisiau Balls. SAYINGS AND ÖÖINÖS. ."ÖooD many children I" echoed a Missouri torracr as a. traveler counted up fourteen;";?*I justwish, yosi'd como up to tho graveyard with rno !" " My looturo," said a California or¬ ator. " will he hriof." A turnip hit' him on the "divido" at that instant, and ho announced: "Tho meeting stands adjourned: " ConHEr£s hayo been the destruction of art. Thera are no good models now-a-- daya, says the sculptors. "When Powers made his Greek Slave ho worked it out of sixteen different models, and then he had to go back to tho antique- for his bust. CAttiiYiiE, Ruskin, Tennyaou, Brown¬ ing and some other distinguished Eng¬ lishmen are reported to have aiga?d a memorial protesting against tU* horri¬ ble cruelties too often perpetrated un¬ der the pretext of scientific vivisection,: Don't tell us any more about the good women of old. An observer who^s wrote hundreds of years ago said: " Woman is a necessary evil, a natural temptation, a desirable calamity, a do¬ mestic peril, a deadly fascination and a paintod ill." "IöEEvory little of you,'* said an old gentleman at a Louisville ball to a young iady whom ho had not mot in a longtime before. "I know it," was tho artless reply, '.' but mother wouldn't allow me to wear a very low-neck dress to-night, the weather is so cold." A good joke is told of a residonfc of Providence, R. I., who, failing to get his UBual supply of water, concluded tho pipo was frozen, and spent nearly a day in endeavors to thaw it out. Hia feelings may bo better imagined than described when ho found that the water had been shut off for non-payment of water rent, Seventehn years ago a LoiuByiilo woman was told by a clairvoyant that sho was destined to marry an auburn- haired young man with blue eyes and a heavy moustache ; that ho would soon be rich, and that they should have two childron.a boy and a giri. Sho did marry the auburn-haired man. They have five childron now, tho auburn hair bus disappeared from tho husband's BHfW^S^^I^- Setting fifteen dollars a "Iii! Samuel, has you moved yit?" inquired one colored man of another whom he mot at tho market yesterday. " No, l'se Btill in do old place," was the answer. " But I war' told dat you war* gwine to got out ob do neighbor¬ hood," continued the first. "Wall, I did make up my mind to, but you. see de family noxt door, and do family on do corner, and de family 'cross de street, have left dero wood piles out doors, and I doesn't desire to change" A bchooij teacher in Umatilla country, California, had a pretty girl of sixteen aa a pupil. She entangled hia heart, and then cruelly j ilted him. Thereupon he aought rovengo. Catching her in a alight infraction of the rules, he swung hia birch branch aloft, and commanded hbr to Btand up and bo whipped. She ran out of the door and like a deer across the fields toward homo; but her fleetness was of short duration, and tho angry schoolmaster's hand soon grasped her arm. Her courago had gone with her wind, and sho offered then and there to kiss and mako up if ho wouldn't whip her. He declined to compromise, led nor back to the school-house, and flogged hor until blood came through tho back of her dros'j. Her hour of exultation come when sh3 saw him fined $50 for assault. A farmer called at tho house of a lawyer to consult him professionally. " la t'Squeer at home?" he inquired of the lawyer's wife. Ho waa answered negatively. After a moment'a hesita¬ tion a thought relieved him. " Mebby yourself oan gi' me information as well aa t' Squeer, as ye're hia wife." The kind lady promised to do so if she found it in her power, and the other proceeded as follows: "Spoaze ye were an old white mare, an' I should borry yo to gwang to mill with grist on yer baok, an we should get no fardor than Stair Hill, whon all at once yo should baek up, and roar up, and pitch up, and kneel down backward, and break yer darned oid neck, who'd pay for ye ? Not I.darn me if I would I The lady smilingly told him, as she closed the door, that as he had himself settled tho case, advice would bo super- fluos. Greece is about the size of Vermont. Palestine is one-fourth tho size of New York. Hindoostan is more than a hun¬ dred times as large as Palestine. The Grent Desert of Africa has nearly the §resent dimensions of the United t at es. The Bed Sea would reaoh from Washington to Colorado, and it is threo times as wide as Lake Ontario. Tho English Channel is nearly as large as Lake Superior. The Mediterranean if placed across North America, would make sea navigation from San Diogo to Baltimore. The Caspian Sea would stretch from New York to lh\ Augus¬ tine, and as wide aa from New. York to Rochester. Great Britain is two thirds the size of Japan, one-twelfth the si;-.o of Kindest an, one-twentieth of China, and one-twentieth of the United States, the Gulf of Mexico iB about ten times the size of Lake Superior, and about as large as the sea of Kamtohatka, Bay of Bengal, China Sea, Okhotsh, or Japan Sea ; Lake Ontario would go in either of them more than fifty, times, The following named bodies Of water are nearly equal in size: Germon Ocean, Black Sea, Yellow Sea; Hudson Bay is rathor larger; tho Baltio, Adri¬ atic Persian Gulf and J-Egoan Sea half as large and somewhat larger than Lake Superior,
Transcript of Orangeburg times.(Orangeburg, S.C.) 1875-03-11. · An In'dep'en^ieiit Paper 13»evoted.-to...
An In'dep'en^ieiit Paper 13»evoted.- to iTiteveBt» ol tlie People,'.IV. . ORANGEBÜRG, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1875."*'"'" "" " " 1 11 " " 11 T' ¦¦¦¦¦¦_,_;_ NUMBER 5.
Tho Wandering, pbw once said to mo, J ilI vtweod tnröSl«u lu'e city* in the cool-of thoyear; -
A raan iu tho gardun»lrto»«Tr!iit from a tree.I asked, How long hau too city been hero ?¦'
Antf^tn^e'rSdrjnOj arid Äo plucked hwhy, J ;^j!"* V^X8 It*«* ,,fh4relt»ahd»tblfoY, iAnxqb&eul rällefeuiX:farwvf r and-aye.'"Tfrlie.l'JnrJrid'ytani rolled by, and then<J|wtfWKWtlie»Belf-Ba:nj6roaUagain; - . J
No trace of a clty.thoro J found;. A shepherd eat blowing his pipo alone,His Hock wore qnletiy nibbling around,agjftod. "How lour; im« this city been roiio?"Arul U'oanawcrcd me, aud ho'piped away,.» rho neV;«!!?» bloom and. the old decay,This lo myi/asturo-gTOuna fop aye."-- .' *
Fivo hundred years rolled by, and thenI traveled tho eelf-sauio road again.
AiufcLcamo to Eos, and. tho wavee did rpar, » . .rWm& a üshorman threwhlvnet ont eWar, -1 1And,.when heavy, ladon, i\o dragged It ashore.-.JjMkctt,- 't'How long has the sea boon heroAnd ho langhod "and he eaid, and be laughed away;!* As long or yon billowB have tor cod th«!r apray,They've fished and they've flsned In this self-samebay." .
Five hundred yoara rolled by, and then11raveled tlio Bfclf-a>mo toad again;
©4« a/oreBt.iVfstjand free,. i ., t; i ..o&Mia1 etopA id tho thicket near; I {lalifltnjiafpAtdna tree. J / i- \ii'e.Uovf long havoiho woods peon herb?".ipWred', "Thesoiwooda aro'a covert, for
aye;My ancestors dwelt here alway,And tlio trees havcCbeen elücö creation's day."give hundred yeara rollpd by, and then <«Otfitraveled-tho self-same road agalö.'' '." .
And I found,there a city.'and far and near;Hosonndod the hum of toll and glee.'And I asked, " Haw long has the city been here,Ami whero is tho pipe,.and tho wood, and .theOB «ca 1" ~~
And they anawercd:roo, as they mado their way,"l 'rbbiga always have stood as they aland - to-day,And so tbey wilt rtand for cvor and aye."I'd wait five hundred years, and thenI'll travel tho aelfraamp road again.
Tii^iikBErsiisrWHK clouds.
burst upon tho wostern world a mag¬nificent stranger from- föröigu parts,v§0$ all liia traveling gloriv.h .on.% * Jtwas tho «oat comet, of ,1850,^011 thogrand touridti'th'o buivorBö.
It Boomed strange that, potty humanlife oonld go on as usual, with its oat*irjHttaudL armHür^H^viUug, Utr.sJ&okj-rJg--Trtfrl^ToaBuring, whilo that V flamingmilH*tt.,r,,,^öu bin biUiohdöagued öir*ouit, was preaobiug tlio wondors of inilnito immensity and powor, and thenothingness»'oV earth.V -TUÖ- comet- nolonger ruus bis.kiudling race, liko .Vioh-Alpino's honohman, with his fierycross,announcing war and disaster.
Uorald of battle, falo'and foar.' H©4s'V>h:'4itr< own 'business,' not ours.'Under tho tail of this^ particular^-*Kiuol^doubt'io«h mauy a talo of lovo wastold.in tho light of his swift splondorsWmauv a tender look exohauged. Theastronomor coolly swept tho starry fieldBBfith his glass, unawed by tho irrogulnrnight-guard patrollinc; tho heavens, andtho robber and murdoror diadainud theawful witness. Ho loft uh aa ho foundiui.joined to our mortal idols, Aviso inour own conceit, weak, and worldly,and wicked, but no castaways of the
¦.¦ universe after aU.We romombcr that comet summer,not so much for its great astronumioal
c vent as for two singular incidents thatmore nearly touched our humnu sym¬pathies, which will grovol in poorearthly affairs, oven within Bight of themost august celestial phenomena.Ono' pleasant Saturday oftornoondaring the oomet's appearance, an loro-nant,.afcor a proBiiorous voyago, do-Bconded upon a farm in tbo neighbor¬hood of n large market town in ono oftho westera stato3. He was Boon sur¬rounded V/y a, ourious grouj) of thofarmer's family and laborers, all askingeager quefitions about the voyago andthe management of the balloon. Thatsecured by an anchor and a ropo in thohand of tho loroiiaut, its car being afoot or two abovo tho ground, whbswaying lazily backward and forwardiu the ovoniug air. It was a good dealout of wind, and was a sleepy and inno-cout monster in tho eyes of the farmer,
' who, with tho owner's permission, ledit up to his house, whero, as ho said,v 'ho could hitch it to bis fence. But be¬fore ho had thus scoimd it, the threechildren, aged respectively, ten, eight,aid three, bogged him to lift them" into that big basket," that tbey might."t.it on those pretty red cushions."While the attention of the icronautwas diverted by more curioas ques¬tioners from a neighboring farm, this^rish father lifted Iiis darlings one byooo into tho cm. Chubby little Johnny( proved the ''ounce too much " for theserial camel, and brought him to thoground ; and then, unluckily, not thebuby, but the eldest hopoof tho family,was lifted out. Tho roliof was toogreat for tho monster.
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Tho volatileorehturo's apirit ioso at once, ho jerkedhis halter oat of his father's hand, and,with a wild bound, mounted into thoair ! , Vain was tbo roronaut's anchor.It oau;g|tv.t for a moment iu a fence, butit toro away, nnd was oil', danglinguselessly! a^ör tho runaway balloon,whioh.ßö swiftly and steadily roBo thatin a few minutes thoso two littlo whitelaces,- peering over the edge of tho car,grew indistinct, and thoso pitoous eriosof "Papal" "Mamma!" grow faintf<: and faintor, up in tho air.When distance and twilight mists hadswalloWed up" voices and faces, and
; nothing could be seen but the dark,;t cruel fihape, sailing triumphantly away,with its precious booty, like an jorialprivateer,- tho poor father sank oownnolploes and speechless; but tho mother,frantic with grief, still f-tretched heryearning arms towards the inexorable>; Heavens, and called wildly into thennansweriug void.'% .Tho aeronaut Btrovo to console thowretched parents with assurances tbat% the-balloon would descend within thirtymilos of the town, and that all mightbo well with tho cliilren, provided thatit did not come down in tlio wator or in
'deep Woods.tJu tho event of its de-
bccndiug iu u favorablo spot, iho
thought that 'the'older childmight nte|)outJoaving the youwrar-iil £ho il^allop-^*Their Wight'agai3*bisc arid continueitaivbyrige;
i IM Ah; no,";roplied the>mother/ f* Jen-cio would hover stir from tho oar I with--out Johnny in her arms."Tho brdloon pnsticd dirJv^ljl over the
market town, and tho. children soeingmany people^ in, thö ßtree^.strotckoO)but their faandd and called loudly forhelp.' But .the. villagers.,though, they.B4w tkb bright'}i(tle h>adb,Tlrtard! £o!calls.Amazed at the strange apparition:they might hare thought tho trau'datedlittle creatures omail nugol navigators,
on some voyage of discovery, some lit*tlo chembio venture of their own, na,heading toward the'rosy bloiullinida andpurple islands of aunset splendor, theysailed deeper and deeper into.the, .west,and faded-away/ '1 1 sTT^A&l H ,.
; Some company they had, poor littleSky-waifs i Something comforted themand aljDtyenV.ffiör.Cwala tori^i-^some-thing whispered that below the nightand clouds way homo; that above wasGod; fhat wherever.they might drift or-claBh; Irving or'dteM; they wo'üld VtilJbe in His domain .and under .Hin care.that!-thöugn,'-'börna!:away' among theStars, they could not be loot, for Hislove would follow them.When tho sunlight all went away, andthe-great comet came blazing out, little
Johnny was apprehensive that thecometmight oome too pear -,their airy craft,ana set it on fire with a whisk of itadreadful*tail. But when his sister as¬sured him .that the fiery dragonwas "asmuch as twenty.miles a«ay," and thatuod wouldn't let him hurt them, howas tranqoilized, but soon afterwardsaid,r"T wiahfjtio^ronld /come~aiitt\enearer, bo I could wanin myself, I'm socold!"
, (,j Then Jennie took off her apron, andwrapped it about the child, saying ten¬derly, .'This ia all sister has; to makeyou w£rmj^ youcloso in 1)or nrins, and Wo wi 1J ay onrprayers aud you;ehUlLgö'tosloöpyj ,: > .'.
4-Why, .hewleantl tiay my prayers be-lore J have my support" asked-littlbJohnny. ,..-'<'> r'] -"! k'i&<¦ .
" Stator hasn't any.supper far yoii ojfor herself, but wo must pray all ,.tho
immensity anil tho. millions .of ;iinpity¬ing stars, l\fted,i tuoir littlo olaHped"hands,' aud sobbed out their sorrowiul," Our fathor," and that quaint littlesupplementary prayer :
Now I lay mo down to sloop,I pray tho Lord my eoul to koop;If I, li (in id dio bofore I \tako,I pray tho Lord my soul to tako..« Thero I God heard that, caBy ; for
wo are closo to Him up hero," eaid in¬nocent little Johnny.
Doubtless Divine Dovo stooped tothe little ones and folded them in per¬fect peace.foi'Boon tho younger, seatedon tho bottom of tho oar, with his hoadleaning against his sister's knee, sleptas soundly as thongh ho woro lying inhis own little bed at home, while theoldor watched through tho long, longhours, and the car floatod gently on inthe still night air, till it begun to swayand rook on tho fresh morning wind.Who can divine that simple littlochild's thoughts, speculations, and wildimaginings, while watching throughthoso hours ? Slio may have fearedcoming in collision with" a meteor.formany wero abroad that night, scoutsand heralds of tho great comet.or,perhaps being cast away on some deso¬late star-island, or more dreary still,floating aud floating on, night and day,tdl they should both dio of cold andhunger. Poor babes in the clouds IAt length, a happy ehance, or Provi¬dence.wo will say Providence.guidedtho littlo girl's wandering hand to acord connected with tho valvo ; some¬thing told her to pull it. At once thoballoon began to sink, slowly and gent¬ly, as though some celestial pilot guidedit through tho wild currents of air, notletting it drop into lake, or river, loftywood, or impenetrable swamp, wherethis strange, nnchild-like experiencemight have been closed by a death of
unspeakable horror ; but causing it todescend as softly as a bird alights, on aspot where human c«r« and pity await¬ed it.The sun had not jet risen, but the
morning twilight had oome, when thelittle girl, looking over tho edge of thecar, saw the derr old earth oomingnearer."rising towards them," shesaid. But when tho car stopped, to hergreat disappointment it was not on thoground, but caught fast in the topmost!branches of a tree. Yet sho saw theywero near a house whence holp mightsoon come,so she awakened her lirothorand told him tho good news, and to¬gether they watched and watched andwaited for deliverance, hugging camothor for joy and warmth, for they werecold.Farmer Barton, who lived in a lonolyhouso, on tao edge of his.own privateprairie, was a famous Blooper in gen-oral, but on thi*) part ciliar morning ho
awoke beforo tho dawn, and though heturned and turned again, ho could Bleepno more, So, at last, he said to bisgood wife, whom ho had kindly awak¬ened to inform ber of his nnacconntablewakefulness, " It's no use, I'll just getup and dress, and have a look at tbocomet."The next that worthy woman heard
from her wakefnl spouse was a ha\tysummons to the outer door. It seemathat no sooner did ho atop foith fromhis houso than his ojos fell on astrangopotontous shape, hanging on a largopear tree, about twenty yarda distant,lie could see no likeness in it to any¬thing earthly, und ho half fancied thatit might ba the comtt, who, having put
oiit Iiis light, bad. come down thoro to
Sorch. In his fright and perplexity hoirJ what every wiso man .would do in alike extremity: ho called upon hisvaliant wife. Reinforced' by her, hodrew near tho tree 'cautiously reoon«noitering. Surelyapear' tsob never borosuch fruit.Suddenly thoro doscendod from the
thing a plaintive, trembling little voioe:"Ploasa.tokn us down; ;We aro verycold."Then ä second 'little voico said :
"And hungry, too. Please take usdown."
* *. "Why, who arc you ? And where areyou?/' .
The first little-voice said: " It's us,and wo runncd away with a balloon.Please take ns down."] Dlinly comprehending th,e situation,tho farmer, gotting hold of a danglingrope, succeeded in getting down theballoon.
i He first lifted but'little Johnny, whoran rapidly a few yards toward thehouse, then j tinned round, and stoodfor n few moments, ouriously surveyingthe balloon. Tho faithful little sisterwas so chilled and exhausted that rihohad to be carried into the house, where,trembling, she told the wonderfulstory.Before sunrise a mountedmessenger
-was uispatched to the. Harwood home,with glad 'tidings of great joy. Hereached it in tho afternoon, and a fewhours later the ohildred arrived, instate, with bannors and musio, and cov¬ered hay-wagon and four.Joy-bell8'werd'mng in tho neighbor¬
ing town, and in tho. farmer's brownhouso, tho happiest family on tho con¬tinent thanked God that night.
It would seem that this comet hadcomo occult maddening influence ontho .balloons, for during its appoarancothoro occurred in another western Btatoan involuntary ascension, similar to theono I have related, but more tragical inits-teaminatioh."An roronaut, while, if I remember
rightlyi.repairing tho network of hisballoon, was Boatd'I on a slight woodenqro'ss-picco suspended under it; theV'carhaving been removed- a few feot abovetho ground;,by, merqly a
. rdjip in thehand of an assistant. From a too caro-Iciis grasp this ropo CBoopod, and in aninstant the gigantic bubble shot up-ward, carrying tho loronaut on his frailsupport; a rider nioio holplnss than,Mnzoppa bound to his "Okraino steed, a
voyagor moro holplcss than a ship-wrecked Bailor afloat on a spar in mid-ocean.Tho balloon roso rnpidly, but un¬
steadily, swaying and pitching in thoevening wind. As long as it remainedin sight tho form of tho mronaut couldbo distinguished, swinging beneath it.Aud as ho was kuo . n to bo a man ofuncommon nervo and prosenco of mind,it was hoped that even from his dizzyporch he might manage to operato ontho valve, or at least to puncture asmall hole in tho balloon, nud thus ef¬fect a descont.But such efforts, if be mado any, woro
vain, as for many days and nights therewas anxious inquiry aud pationt searchovor a wide oxtent of country with noresult. Wo gave him up. Only wifelylovo hoped on, and looked aud waitod",At last, in a wild spot, tho wrook of thoballoon was found, and that Was all.Still, wifely lovo hoped on, until, amouth or two later, some children nut¬ting in a wood, many miles away fromwhero the balloon was found, discov¬ered, half buried in tho ground, a
strange dark mass that looked liko a
heap of old clothes, but there was a
something, shapeless and fearful, hold¬ing it together.
It was thought the roronaut partedcompany with his balloon by looseninghis hold on the cords above him. indesperate efforts to open the valvo ; butho may, after whirling in swift vortices,or plunging and mounting, through"cloudy abysses of air, have become un¬nerved by the awful silence of tho up¬per night, by tho oomet's fearful com¬
panionship, by whelming immensityand infinity, and Wearily let go his hold,to drop earthward.
Private rieft Culture.Mr. Both Green, tho well-known pis¬
ciculturist, states that ho has inventeda now method for transporting andhatching nearly all kinds of fish eggs,by which spawn can bo carried for 130days journey and can be hatched in anyroom in tho house. One million oggs,it is also said, can bo hatched by usinga pail of water daily. It is believedthat fish culturo by private partios canbe rendered a lucrativo source of in¬come, provided it is followed with thosame care as is exercised in tho raisingof poultry or any other live stook.Hundreds of farmers have streams andponds on -their lauds now of no valuesave porhaps as watering places for cat¬tle in pasture, and yiolding a few worth¬less perch and cattish, porhaps an occa¬sions 1 trout or piokerol. If Air. Greenhas solved tho most difficult part of thoproblem, n anoly, tho successful trans¬portation of the eggs, tho mode ofstocking the waters aud the rearing oftho fish, are not diffloult subjects ofwhich to acquire an adequate knowl¬edge. One speoies of fish in particular.whi'.h is little known, would probablyprove especially remunerative, Theland-looked salmon is a distinct speoiesof the fish, though so closely resemb¬ling the ooean salmon as to suggest theidoa that, at some remote period, aquantity of the latter fi*h, being by aconvulsion of nature barred from re¬turning to tho sea, had propagated intheir land locked quarters and eventu¬ally developed into a separate variety..Tho habits of the land-locked and ooeansalmon aro cioseiy similar.
Aut; notes or Sir Walter 5 colt.["Bom 6, Old Liters/ in Btfribnor's for
'Marek on by a hitherto unpub¬lished llffiHpi of HLr Waltor Scott, by tbocelebrate > artist Ollbort Stuart- Newton. Iuthia-lnataiirn'snt of ,l Old Letters" wo Und tliofolio-..in;, .t«ecdotoa: of tho author of-'AVa-vorloy :"J
.. At ^1tSf*past six Ivo-went to diiiowith tho Fergusaohs. Tho doctor wasquito ill vith a cold. SirAdam Fergus-.son,-Sir Walter Scott's intimate ft**^Mcohfiden&il friend, dined thero; our¬selves, WtJa.'Jj.t and one of her daugh¬ters." Wo had a very charming dinner, for
Sur Adatr^ltas tho most marvelous pow¬er» of do ic riptioh. He made us laughheartily, i.ud told us, too, a'great manyinteresting anecdotes about Sir WalterScott. E ia ä very remarkable personhimself. Vie w the original of DugaldDalgetty. f Thin is all I find in the old-letterB about the dinnor, but I muBt tollwhat I can recollect of tho accountHMrs. X. ;.\;vä mo in later years, SirHAdam, sin: <;nd, was a tall, gray-hairedman, witlvHx broad .Scotch accent. Hedescribed how one early morning,!livHSir Walto£.dcott*a library, when ho and ISir Walter vied to make tho firo of peatburn, and, .ftor many efforts, succeededI in some de'; reo. At this moment onoof .the dog -, dripping from a plungo intho lake, h<: ntohed and' whined at. thbwindow. }U\ last Sir Walter let theH"puir cre. 'n.in", in, who, coming upbefore the £ Sile ilro, shook his shaggyhide, send ig a j>brfeot shower-bathover the tiiv and over a great table oflooao mam ...ipls. Sir Waller, eyeingtho scano w.»h hin usual seronity, saitL.Islowly: "()¦ ! ;!.ar, you've done a greatdeal of mi: Yi/' It raminds us ofthe talo t t.) of Newton. On tills Bsame oe< tho dinner, Sir Adam BFergusson «iki of traveling with SirWalter on f continent and going toboo tho troop on donkeys, and ho per¬formed bo:! donkeys and' ridor« with/his fingers cm the tabio until his audi¬ence was in rm agony of laughter."FergusBot passed-the evening with'ue, and wo Lvd Homo music. I askedhim, as ho vis so fuud of libteuing, ifho didn't bii' f'u Uiür himself.toll you loto ot H/r iya!ii?r.Scott;'. Gttid K \, 4 that will aboWor yourquestion. <!' io night, whening at AbbnSnforu, Atini"^ vtv;:dt hadboon singing U) tho au<-^^^^HHB-tub crroiuii."^hic\v*nifc^Mamiea^KSisaying in a strong Sootch accent:I "Noo, Fergneson, gio us a howl.'"
"'Duringono of my visits there,'I continued Dr. Fergusson, ' amongotherB guests was Hogg, "Ettriok Shopherd."BI heard a horriblo noiso in an adjoinling room, and, after listening someI moments to it, becamo alarmed, andI said to my host: " What is that roise ?"B " Oh " said-he, " it's Hogg.just HoggI composing his verses. Ho always singsH thorn as he writes thorn.""Though he likod somorudo strains, II Scott could well attune his ear to softerI music, nnd was very fond of MooroIsong X. sings, that ends :
B " 'Short as tho Persian's prayor, his prayer atc!oB6 of day,HShould bo each vo.v of love's ropoallug.M Quick let him woreh'p boauty'a procions ray,lU'on whlto bo kuoola that ray is Hooting.'" Ho UBed to soy, 'Come X., let mo IBhavo that Persian's prayor;' and hoI would listen with great delight to theBsinging of it.
H "They recalled nu amusing story of BIan old Bervnnt who had lived with ScottI for nearly n lifotime, aud booamo veryImuoh spoiled. Sir Wnltor at lost, outlof pationoo with his eins of omission,Hsaid:" 1 Donald, I think wo must part.'" ' Part I why ? Wiioro's your honor I¦going?'" Of course peaco was mado, and IHDonald remained."They told sadly of the dear old I
man returning from Italy (where hoI wont for his health), with Iiis memoryI impaired. Mrs. Arkwright, who hndHsot his 'Pirate'sFarewell to Minna ' toBmunio, sang it to him. ' Those are voryH pretty verses, said Sir Walter. 'WhoIwrote them?'"Charles Scott, Sir Walter's second II son, is a very el over, agreeable man. I IBBee a good deal of him at tho Loclf-H harts', hero and elsewhere. Sir Walter IB was most proud of his eldest son WalB tor, who is rather a dull fellow, butB large and fine-looking. His fatherBused to say that it was enough if a boyHknew how to ride and speak tho truth; IB thoso wero the most important things." Charles Scott msde mo laugh about IBtho visitors at Sir Walter's house andBMolroso Abbey. Seo tho Abbey byHmoonlight they must, because of tho IBlince:" ' If thou woulel'Bt view fair Molroeo aright,do visit it by tbo palo moonlight.""' And many a limo,' said CbarlosHScott, 'when tho moon was not con-Bveniont, I took a lantern to produce thoBoflbot."
A Lock of lliur.Almost every ono hns at loust oneBlock of hair cut from tho head of onoBiiow dwelling iu that ßilont loud whenceHcome no messages, no lottere, no tokensBof any kind to tell o« iovo or of remem-Bbrance. Every ono knows that strangeBemotion, half joy, half woe, with whichB the tiny relic of so much that was ouco
dear can thrill 11 e soul. Only now andB then do we dare to take it from its hid-H ing place, hold it in the palm, press itB to the ohebk, and use it as a talisman toB recall all that we mußt perforce forgetH in the work-a-doj world for the Bake ofB strength to do ite battlo.H Wo do not know whoso hair thatB which yon trensuro may bo ; whetherB tho llossy curl from a baby's head, theH dark lock from tho brow that onceB mado your breast its pillow, a parent'sB t$ray tresisi, or ft young lover's suuuy
curl. Nor does it; matter, for all lcvein its essence, in that pari of it thatoutlives death, is alik'o and equallypure, but woknow thafc there is nothinglike it to you anywhere. There are no.werde for the thoughts it brings. Thoyniook language. As you touch it, and-gaze-at it, you havo nothing^to. say.You feel the thorns of your dead rose,that iB'oll, and the wounds thoy makebleed.,
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Snail Culture in France.FrogsJiu-Jrses, and snails.the first,
are an pad but toothsome dainty, whichepicures, in this eöiuitry'as well 6a «isc-whero, dearly prize; but horses, andespecioly snails.these are articles ofdiet which the enlightenedAmeriean re¬public has yet to be educated to relish.Hippophagy, we havo repeatedly ex¬plained, is as common in Paris, ornoarly ho, as the eating of beef ; andthe worn-out steed finds his way to theabattoir as readily as the miikless cowor stall-fed ox. Hence,, as a merebonne bouohe he has palled on theGallic taste, educated by swollen geeselivers or decayed salmon roes; a now
the basis of the industry which theproduction has developed is snails.There is nothing peculiar about themollouso. It is tho every-day slimylittle object of which one finds thousands in gardons, vineyards, and thewoods. '
Switzerland and tho provincesof Burgundy and Provence are thoplaces of its cultivation. Throngs ofwomen and children scour tho country,collecting the snails in immense num¬bers, and depositing them in littletracts of laud, inclosed with Bimply atrail of sawdust. This lost tho snaildospises; ho cannot orosB it, and avoidsits vicinity ns a matter of proforenoe.Thorefore, for his confinement it is asgood as a stone wall. Aftor incarcera¬tion for two or three days, ho is per¬mitted to starve, and then the plot islaid out in patches. of turf intersectedby paths of sand. Abovo boards arehung to servo aa ehelter for thb snails,which instinctjrvoly gather in largogroups. Tho food provided consists inaromatic plants, such as mint, or let¬tuce aiirr^c7?w>ment3 ' of vegetabloajThis is fed to them threo LiszcB ft dayin enormous'quantities- Ateight days, the snails beoomo qfaNT]olioffo, mid beaidfla havo attained, a verysucculent flavor. Thou oomos anotherperiod oi' starvation for several days,aftor whioh transmission to market fol¬lows.Gourmands, it in said, prefer tho
snail when taken wild, so long as thecapture is modo at a particular period.After tho eggs are laid in May, thomolluscs conceal themsolves understones to avoid the. autumn frosts.There thoy bcocome perfectly freo fromexcretions, and, drawing themselvesinto their whells, close up for the win¬ter. It is whon they are collect cd inthis stale that their flavor ia said to bobest.
In Paris, when tho sun goes downand honest pcoplo get to bod, queerthings take place. Whon tho gas islighted, and tho plaoes of amusementsopen in full blast, curious sights aro tobo seen. A correspondent, who hasevidently been doing his duty conscien¬tiously, skirmishing around the darkcornors of tho city, has found some re¬markable dancing-halls, where Terpsi¬chore evidently delegates somo of herdistant relations to preside over thefestivities. " wne of the most extraor¬dinary of these balls," ho writes, "isthat hold in a blind alloy, and oppositethe shed whero tho guillotine ishoused; the habitues are mostly thograve-diggers belonging to Pero St.Regnoul, Pere La Ohaise cemetery, thetombstone men, and the undertakers'assistants. The proprietor of the placeis a Spaniard, and his ability consistsin imitating the weeping of mourners,and the orations delivered at civil inter¬ments. There is a ball that charges noadmission fee, but all who partioipatoin a *con(re dansc' have to pay twosous each ; tho proprietor, on the con¬clusion of tho dance, encircles thodancers with a cord, and who pay thofee to bo liberated, and whioh alsoserves as a noose to drag out reoaloi*.trants. Polkas, waltzes and mazurkasaro gratis, and short. The 'Monsters'also have their balls in the Ruo desFlandres; it is hero where infant prod¬igies and all human phenomena meet;daneing is as goneral as quarreling, andjealousy of each other's /-^perfectionis tho badge of all the tribe. The'.Skeleton Man' indulges in a can-can ;a man with a 'oupalo head' waltzes witha woman bearded like tho pard; iu aquadrillo a dwarf has for vis-a-vis thowoman with 'fish soaleB' instead of skin;a kind of iMilly-Christine united mula-t reuses drowns or drown care in a polka,tho 'Oaoutohouo Man,' has tho power ofdeveloping a dromedary hump, as heenjoys a mazurka with a Newfoundlanddog. A Cyolop, with his diamond eye,note as master of the ceremonies."GRAPHS AN» BlTjJOÜBNESS. . (irapcs
aro recommended as a onre for bilious¬ness. Tins fruit, by its agreeable acid¬ity, so acts on the svstem as to relieveit of its bile, and thus removes thocause of the symptoms enumerated, andthat in "eure." The immediate causeof all the discomfort is a "confined"con ;ition of the system ; the seeds ofthe grapes sot as an irritant aa theypaes along the alimentary canal andoause it to "water," just as the eye"waters" if a hard substance touches it.This watering dissolves the nioro soli.1matters containol in the intestines,"washes" them out and tho man iswell. Tho covering of the grapesshould bü chewed but not swallowed.
Parisiau Balls.
SAYINGS AND ÖÖINÖS.."ÖooD many children I" echoed aMissouri torracr as a. traveler countedup fourteen;";?*I justwish, yosi'd comoup to tho graveyard with rno !"" My looturo," said a California or¬
ator. " will he hriof." A turnip hit'him on the "divido" at that instant,and ho announced: "Tho meetingstands adjourned: "
ConHEr£s hayo been the destruction ofart. Thera are no good models now-a--daya, says the sculptors. "When Powersmade his Greek Slave ho worked it outof sixteen different models, and then hehad to go back to tho antique- for hisbust.
CAttiiYiiE, Ruskin, Tennyaou, Brown¬ing and some other distinguished Eng¬lishmen are reported to have aiga?d amemorial protesting against tU* horri¬ble cruelties too often perpetrated un¬der the pretext of scientific vivisection,:Don't tell us any more about the
good women of old. An observer who^swrote hundreds of years ago said:" Woman is a necessary evil, a naturaltemptation, a desirable calamity, a do¬mestic peril, a deadly fascination and apaintod ill.""IöEEvory little of you,'* said an
old gentleman at a Louisville ball to a
young iady whom ho had not mot in alongtime before. "I know it," wastho artless reply, '.' but mother wouldn'tallow me to wear a very low-neck dressto-night, the weather is so cold."A good joke is told of a residonfc of
Providence, R. I., who, failing to gethis UBual supply of water, concludedtho pipo was frozen, and spent nearlya day in endeavors to thaw it out. Hiafeelings may bo better imagined thandescribed when ho found that the waterhad been shut off for non-payment ofwater rent,Seventehn years ago a LoiuByiilo
woman was told by a clairvoyant thatsho was destined to marry an auburn-haired young man with blue eyes and aheavy moustache ; that ho would soonbe rich, and that they should have twochildron.a boy and a giri. Sho didmarry the auburn-haired man. Theyhave five childron now, tho auburn hairbus disappeared from tho husband'sBHfW^S^^I^- Setting fifteen dollars a
"Iii! Samuel, has you moved yit?"inquired one colored man of anotherwhom he mot at tho market yesterday." No, l'se Btill in do old place," wasthe answer. " But I war' told dat youwar* gwine to got out ob do neighbor¬hood," continued the first. "Wall, Idid make up my mind to, but you. seede family noxt door, and do family ondo corner, and de family 'cross de street,have left dero wood piles out doors,and I doesn't desire to change"A bchooij teacher in Umatilla country,
California, had a pretty girl of sixteenaa a pupil. She entangled hia heart,and then cruelly j ilted him. Thereuponhe aought rovengo. Catching her in a
alight infraction of the rules, he swunghia birch branch aloft, and commandedhbr to Btand up and bo whipped. Sheran out of the door and like a deeracross the fields toward homo; but herfleetness was of short duration, and thoangry schoolmaster's hand soon graspedher arm. Her courago had gone withher wind, and sho offered then andthere to kiss and mako up if ho wouldn'twhip her. He declined to compromise,led nor back to the school-house, andflogged hor until blood came throughtho back of her dros'j. Her hour ofexultation come when sh3 saw him fined$50 for assault.A farmer called at tho house of a
lawyer to consult him professionally." la t'Squeer at home?" he inquiredof the lawyer's wife. Ho waa answerednegatively. After a moment'a hesita¬tion a thought relieved him. " Mebbyyourself oan gi' me information as wellaa t' Squeer, as ye're hia wife." Thekind lady promised to do so if shefound it in her power, and the otherproceeded as follows: "Spoaze yewere an old white mare, an' I shouldborry yo to gwang to mill with grist onyer baok, an we should get no fardorthan Stair Hill, whon all at once yoshould baek up, and roar up, and pitchup, and kneel down backward, andbreak yer darned oid neck, who'd payfor ye ? Not I.darn me if I would IThe lady smilingly told him, as sheclosed the door, that as he had himselfsettled tho case, advice would bo super-fluos.Greece is about the size of Vermont.
Palestine is one-fourth tho size of NewYork. Hindoostan is more than a hun¬dred times as large as Palestine. TheGrent Desert of Africa has nearly the
§resent dimensions of the Unitedt at es. The Bed Sea would reaoh from
Washington to Colorado, and it is threotimes as wide as Lake Ontario. ThoEnglish Channel is nearly as large asLake Superior. The Mediterranean ifplaced across North America, wouldmake sea navigation from San Diogo toBaltimore. The Caspian Sea wouldstretch from New York to lh\ Augus¬tine, and as wide aa from New. York toRochester. Great Britain is two thirdsthe size of Japan, one-twelfth the si;-.oof Kindest an, one-twentieth of China,and one-twentieth of the United States,the Gulf of Mexico iB about ten timesthe size of Lake Superior, and aboutas large as the sea of Kamtohatka, Bayof Bengal, China Sea, Okhotsh, or
Japan Sea ; Lake Ontario would go ineither of them more than fifty, times,The following named bodies Of waterare nearly equal in size: GermonOcean, Black Sea, Yellow Sea; HudsonBay is rathor larger; tho Baltio, Adri¬atic Persian Gulf and J-Egoan Sea halfas large and somewhat larger thanLake Superior,
