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A STRANGE BUT TRUE STORY.

Many decades ago vessel from Boston
arrived at a dock in London. Among the
hands on board was one named Tudor, a
steady, well-looking young man, who acted
as u sailor. Very early one morning a
young, beautiful and decently dressed wo-
man came tripping down to the vessel and
inquired of Tudor for the captain. She was
told he was not risen, but she insisted on
seeing him without delay. Tudor called
him up, and she addressed him with:
"Good morning, captain! 1 have called
to see if you will marry me!'
"Marry you ?"-believing her to be sus-
picious character-"leave my vessel Instant
ly, if you know what is for your good y"
She next went to the mate and received a
similar answer; she then went to where
tacks, and put the same question to him.
"With all my heart" answered Tudor, in
a iocuar manner. ''irhen," said she, "come
along with me-" Tudor left his work and
followed her. BY the time the principal
shops were opened the lady entered Il bar
ber's shop followed by Tudor. She ordered
a knight of the razor to clip his beard and
hair, both of which he stood in need. She
paid the bills and entered a hat store. She
requested the best of beavers in the store,
and told Tudor to select one, and he did so,
the price UeluS palu ny tlle lduy. 1uuol
threw his old tarpaulin aside. They next
visited shoe store and selected a pair of
boots, the lady also paying for them. Tudor
by this time, was puzzled to devise the OBJ
ect the lady had in view. He solicited an
explanation, but she told him to be silent.
She led the way into clothing store.
Here Tudor was told to get the best suit of
clothes in the store. The man Of tar be-
daubed pants and checkered shirt was in
a few minutes metamorphOsed into as fine
a gentleman as walks the streets, the bill,
as before being paid by the lady. Tudor's
amazement was now complete. He again
and again earnestly insisted on an eXplana-
ton; the only answer he received was {:
"Follow me and be not afraid all will be
explained to your satisfaction" He, there
fore, resolved to ask no more questions.
Next she conducted him intoa magistrate's S
office and politely requested the minister of
the law to unite her and her companion
in matrimony. This was rather damper
to Tudor, but he yielded. The ceremony
over, the couple were pronounced man and
wife. Without utteringa a word oreXchang-
ing kiss, Tudor and his wife left the Office,
not however, until she had paid the magis-
trate his fee. The couple walked in silence,
Tudor hardly knowing what he was doing or
what he had done. Turning the corner, he
saw a splendid house, toward which the
wife directed her steps and into which they
entered, passing into room that was
furnished in magnificent style. She told
him 10 sit down and make himself con-
tented while she went into another room.
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Boyd Winchester, of Kentucky, who was
recently appointed Minister Resident and
Consul General to Switzerland, was born in
the Parish of Ascension, Louisiana, on Sep
tember 23rd, 1886. While he was yet quite
young his parents removed to kentucky.
His principal education was received at
Centre College, Danville, in that State. He
graduated from the law department of the
Louisville University, in 1857 He was ad-
mitted to the Bar the same year, and short
ly afterward was elected to the Kentucky
Senate. In 1868 he was district elector on
the Seymour and Blair Presidential ticket
In the following year he was elected Rep
resentative in the Forty-frst Congress from
the Louisville District, and reelected to the
Forty-second, serving from December, 1876,
to March, 1884. In his youth, Mr.. Win
chester spoke French fuently. 1t is reason
able to suppose he is still proficient in that
tongue, and as it is the Court language of
Europe, it will serve him to good advantage
at Birul, where the Gallic element prevails.
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or his business acquaintance. tits, in short,
not the man who is agreeable among wo-
men, but he who is we'll liked by his own
sex, who is the man to choose for husband.
A mother, of course, always speaks we'll Of
her son; it is not what she says of him, but
his behavior to her, that is to be looked to.
A woman may feel certain of this point,
that as a man now treats his mother and
sisters, so he will treat her six months after
marriage.
All this may seem very coldblooded, very
far removed from the tender feeling which
courtship induces. But, after all, a girl has
a choice to make-a choice upon which the
whole happiness of her life will depend !;
and there is always a time, whether she no.
tices it or not, before she parts with the con-
troll of her heart, at which she ought to lis
ten to her judgment. Without better judg-
ment than her own feelings she is very like
ly to make mistake, but if she can assure
herself that her lover is man who is re-
spected and liked by his male friends, and is
a favorite at home, she may be pretty sure
that in listening to his love she is choosing
wisely
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A NEW COTTON PLANT.-Attention is
now attracted in the South to new cotton
plant, which bids fair to prove immensely
valuable. For many years A. A. Subers,
of Macon Ga, has been carefully expert
menting to hybridise the cotton plant that
grows wild in Florida with the common
Okra. The new plant retains the Okra stalk
and the foliage of the cotton. Its flowers
and fruit, however, are Strikingly unlike
either cotton or okra. The plant has an
average height of two feet, and each plant
has only one bloom. This is a magnificent
flower, very much like the great magnolia
in frag rance, and equally as large. Like the
cotton bloom, the flower is white for several
days after it opens, after which it is first
pale pink, and gradually becomes red, when
it drops, disclosing wonderful boil. For
about ten days this boil resembles the cot
ton boil, and then its growth suddenly in
creases, as if by magic, until it reaches the
size of big cocoanut Then its snowy
threads begin to burst from the boil, but
are securely held in place by the okra-!ike
thorns or points that line the boil. One eX-
perienced picker can easily gather 800
bounds day, and fast hands much more.
Were the only saving that of labor in gath
ering the lint, the result of Mr. Subers' ex-
pertinent would entitle him to the ever
lasting gratitude of the Southern farmer.
But this is not all-there are no seeds in
the lint. Each boil produces about two
pounds of very long-stapled cotton, superior
to the Sea Island, and at the bottom of the
boil there are from four to six seeds, resem-
bling persimmon seed. This new cotton,
therefore needs no ginning. Such plant
would revOlutionize the cotton industry of
the South.-F2Oridd Times onion.
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WINES OF THE ANCIENTs.-The celebrat-
ed ancient wines seem rather to have been
syrups or extracts than wines. They were
undoubtedly sweet and little fermented, and
Chaptal, in his elements of Chemistry"
declares it to be impossible to suppose that
they could have any spirit, or possessed,
in consequence, any especially intoxicating
properties. The wines so valued by the
Greeks and Romans contained much sac
charine matter and little alcohol. Aristotle
says the wines of Arcadia were so thick,
either by boiling or adulteration, that they
dried up in the goat skins, and the people
would scrape the dried material off and
dissolve it in water. The thick and fat
wines of Chios, Thasos, Lesbos and Crete
were probably Of this character.
The pitched and pickeled wines are doubt
less the wines the Romans kept to such an
extraordinary age. Horace boasts of drink.
ing some seventy years old, and one kind
is said to have been kept in Rome more
than 100 years. The celebrated Opimian
wines, which took the name of the consul
who lived when they were first made, are
spoken of by Pliny as having been pre-
served until his time, nearly 200 years, and
so excellent were they that money could
not buy them.
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ARE You READY ?-You are looking for
place and work in the world are you
ready for them? If you are, you may be
sure they are waiting for you.
Thousands of men are look for situa-
tions, but it is astonishing how difficult it
is to find the right man when there is a
place to be filled.
A host of men want it, but not one in a
hundred is ready for it. Readiness implies
something more than willingness to roll up
ones sleeves; it means ability to do the
thing required with skill, zeal, and abso-
lutte fidelity. A merchant wants a clerk,
he can fill the place twenty times over with
good, steady going, well-meaning hum
drum men; he will be lucky if he finds in
half a year the boy who will take all
thought of the place off his mind by the
energy, capacity, and general intelligence
he brings in to it. There is an opening in a
newspaper office, and the need is advertis-
ed; there is at once a host Of applicants;
out of them, twenty-five young men can be
selected who will do the work set before
them fairly we'll but the young man who
will really fill the place and expand it, who
will overflow it with vitality, freshness and
life, must be searched for far and wide, as
with lighted candle. These select work.
men who add to general good intentions
the concentration and the mastery which 60
with high power, are the men for whom the
world is looking, and for whom there is al
ways place. They survive financial crises
and outlive hard times because they are
indispensable; if their employers 60 to the
wall they rarely wait long for another op-
portunity The only safe road to success
runs past the door of the man who has made
I'D his mind to do one thing and to do it
with all his might; to focus himself on it
and to pour himself into it. Whatever you
decide to do, qualify yourself for it by mas
terng every detail Of it, fling yourself
heart and soul into it. Are you ready?-
| Christian Union.
IRRIGATION IN EGYPT.-The ancient
wealth of Egypt has ever been in its crop of
corn. AS surely as the seasons come round,
so surely has the Nile risen year by year.
From the earliest time the Valley Of the
Nile has been divided by earthen embank-
ments into succession of great flats, meas
uring occasionally as much as 100, 600 acres.
The rising flood is diverted by a series of
short canals into these flats, where the wa
/ ter stands two or three feet deep until it
has soaked the soil and deposited its rich
alluval mud. BY this time the Nile has
subsidized. The drying mud is rudely plOw-
ed and sown, and four or five months after
the crop is reaped. No rain has fallen on
| it but the soil has been sufficiently saturated
to require no further watering. A rich
crop is produced, but by this system only
one crop in the year, and during the Sum-
mer months, when, from it's latitude and
temperature, one might expect Egypt to be
yielding subtropical fruits, the empty fields
! lie baked and parched.
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HABITS THAT BECOME DIsEAsEs.-Not
a few of the diseases of which so much COM
plant is made are diseases of habit. All of
the vital organs get into habits of acting in
a certain manner at certain times, and 1t IS
no easy matter to break it up.
Coughing is often nothing more than
habit so may splitting be, yawning, laugh
ing, crying, cracking the fingers, scratching
the head, squirting, or rolling the eyes,
lolling the tongue out, biting the nnger
nails, picking the ears or nose, the repetl-
tion OF words, feigning surprise and horror,
and many others. 1t is we'll known among
physicicians that the stomach and liver are
both given to forming bad habits, and very
bad ones, too. These are more difficult to
break up than acute attacks of disease.
Mankind is subject to a great deal OF
silly habits, or at least the little ones which
do no special harm, and are productive OF
no good except as far as pleasing the lndl-
vidual for the time being. These often be-
come second natures, and there are lew per-
sons but have more or less OF them.
rest in his bed, much less go to sleep, unless
his shoes were placed heel to toe in par
ticular corner of the room. He had accus-
toned himselfto doing this for short time,
during which it became habit and finally
became a necessity. This seems like very
silly thing for an intelligent man to be
guilty of, but habits of less consequence than
that will make men miserable.
Just recall those of your acquaintance
whom you know to have little pecnllarl-
ties of their own, and see how easy 1T is to
trace them to some habit which was con-
sidered too trifing to merit even passing
notice. In looking for these in your neigh
bors and acquaintances you may find some
in yourselves which may be Topped off with
out injury to the body.-PHsbnry Dispatch.
THE TALKING PIANO.-Prof. Faber, of
Vienna, gave private exhibition recently
in the Continental Hotel, Philadelphia, of
machine that he calls the "talking piano."
The "piano" produces a remarkably close
imitation of the human voice. 1t is entire
ly different from the phonograph, and will
give Ineligible utterances, more or less dis.
tinct according to the words, to the ideas of
the operator. The machine is made to I'M
itate, as closely as possible, the organs OF
speech and has a bellows for lungs. Levers
and springs take the place of muscles. The
lower jaw is made of India rubber, and the
upper jaw, which is stationery of wood.
The lips and tongue are of India RUBBER.
The larynX contains a narrow and exceed
ingly thin strip of hippopotamus bone,
which is strengthened by India rubber, ana
produces in its vibration the speaking tone.
There are fourteen keys by which the SOUNDS
are controlled, and by striking them prop
erly the "pano" is made to speak words
and sentences.
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A SCRAP OF TARTAR HIsTORY.-The re-
markable swordsmanship of the Tartars is
proverbial. Their favorite weapon is long,
curved cimetar, quite different from that
of the Turks. It is made of the finest steel,
richly alloyed with silver, and sword be-
comes an heirloom in family and descends
to the first born so long as the race exists.
When the last representative of family
dies, his sword, which may have come to
him from hundred generations, is broken
and buried with him. The blades of the
weapons, which are beaten out on an onyx
stone anvil in the ancient Mogul city OF
Taztchintzy, the Holy Place, are very thin,
and the wonderful feats performed with
them are astonishing.
Once when Robo, the cousin of the Great
Mogul, was caught in rebellion, his execu-
ton was ordered. The most skillful swords
man of the empire was provided for the
beheading, and the Great Mogul and his
court assembled to see it. For a second the
keen Tartar blade flashed in the sunlight,
and then descended upon the bare neck OF
Robo, who stood upright to receive the
stroke. The sharp steel passed through the
vertebra, muscles and organs OF the neck,
but so swift was the blow and so keen the
blade that the head did not fall, and
kept its exact position, and not a vital or.
gan was disturbed. In surprise the Great
Mogul exclaimed: "What, Robo, art thou
not beheaded?"
"My lord, I am" The Great Mogul was
so pleased with the deftness of the execu..
toner that he ordered bandage to be tied
on, and Robo speedily recovered. "He af-
terward became loyal subject, and was
made cashier of the empire, because, as the
Great Mogul remarked: "He knows that if
he keeps his balance right his head will not
come off," 1t is one ofthose curious scraps
of history that are often Observation-Disclosures
6urqh Chronicle.
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"you have all the good qualities preserved.
One reason dyspeptics cannot drink coffee
is because it is boiled. The style of coffee
pot is just matter of fancy. have made
as good coffee in an old tomato can as have
ever slipped from the finest French coffee
urn. We should take lessons in fhe matter
from the Turks and Arabians, who grind
their coffee to fine powder.
"When the coffee is ground as fine as pos
sible, put it in little bag of unbleached
muslin, which shou1d d be tied tightly enough
to prevent the escape Of the grounds. If
you use cup of unground coffee you can
make over a quart of very strong, black
coffee. In making coffee many people sac
rifice flavor for strength. Bitterness comes
from boiling. When boiling water is placed
on the bag of ground coffee it should stand
at least three minutes before serving. Re-
member the longer it stands the stronger it
becomes. Be careful not to allow the wa
tered coffee to boil.
"a favorite mixture of Coffee" said Miss
Corson, in answer to a lady in the audience,
"is Mocha and Java, in the proportion OF
two parts of the latter, which is less expeen-
sive, to one of the former.-Philddelph
Np,rs
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A GOOD CUP OF CoFFEE.-"It is one of
the simplest things in the world" said Miss
Corson, in her lecture yesterday afternoon,
"to make good cup of coffee, and this can
easily be accomplished by applying little
on coffee, and not let it boil "she continued,
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ABOUT CHOOSING a HUsBAND.-No SEN
sible man, no man whose affections are
worth retaining, is driven away by being
told by the lady of his choice that she likes
him, that she feels that in time she may
come to love him, but that her heart is not
yet his. If he really loves her he will come
back again, and it is pretty certain that he
will learn before a second asking whether
his affection is returned or not. But girl,
if she cannot always choose, can always re-
fuse; and general y her difficulty is thls-lt
is evident that this man is making love to
me. do not love him, but think might
do so if choose; shall choose or shall l
forbear? 1t is here that the power of choice
comes in, and it is here that the voice OF
prudence must be heard, if it is to be heard
at all.
In such circumstances girl will act wise
ly if she gives considerable weight to the
general opinion that is held of the gentle
man in question by his professional brethren,
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sTONEWALL JACKsON,s DEATH BED.
An AUTHENTIC ACCOUNT OF THE HEROES
DEATH.

DIR. Hunter Mcclure, who attended Stone
wall Jackson during his last hours, has pub
lished full account of the event from which
the following extract is made: About day.
light on Sunday morning Mrs. Jackson in
formed him that his recovery was very
doubtful and that it was better that he
should be prepared for the worst. He was
silent for moment, and then said, 1T will
be infinite gain to be translated to heaven
He advised his wife in the event of his
death to return to her fathers house, and
added: 'You have a kind and good faith
er. but there is no one so kind and good as
your Heavenly Father He still express
ed a hope of his recovery, but requested her,
if he should die, to have him buried at Lex
ington in the Valley of Virginia. His ex-
haustion increased so rapidly that at II
o'clock Mrs. Jackson knelt by his bed and
told him that before the sun went down ne
would be with his Saviour. He replied:
oh, no. You are frightened, my child:
Death is not so near. may yet get We'll.
She fell on the bed weeping bitterly, and
told him that the physicians said there was
no hope. After moments pause he asked
her to call for me. Doctor, Anna informs
me that you have told her that 1 am to
die to-day is it SOP When he was answer
ed he turned his eyes toward the ceiling
and gaZed for a moment or two, as II IN
intense thought then replied: Very good,
very good :; it is all right He then tried
to comfort his almost heart-broken wife,
and told her he had a good deal to say to
her, but he was too weak. Colonel Pendle-
ton came into the room about one o'clock,
and he askd him, who was preaching at
headquarters to-day?' When told that the
uhoIa ornov was nra vi no for him he replied:
Thank God! they are very kind He said:
| It's the Lords day; my wish is fulfilled.
l have always desired to die on Sunday.
His mind now began to fail and wander,
and he frequently talked as if in command
upon the field, giving his orders in his old
way; then the scene shifted, and he was at
the mess table in conversation with men,
bers of his staff; now his wife and child;
now at prayers with his military family.
Occasionally intervals of return of his
mind would appear, and during one OF them
I offered him some brandy and water, but
he declined it. 1T will only delay my de-
parture to do no good; want to preserve
my mind to the last, if possible" About
1.4O he was told that he had two hours to
live and answered feebly but firmly: Very
good; it is all right A few moments be-
fore he cried out in his delirium: Order
A. P. Hill to prepare for actionn Pass the
infantry to the front rapidly n-'Tell Major
Hawkes'-then stopped, leaving the sem
tence unfinished. Presently smile Of in
effable sweetness spread itself over his pale
face, and he said quietly and with an ex-
preston as if of relief: Let us cross over
the river and rest under the shade of the
trees;' and then without pain or the least
struggle, his spirit passed from earth to
the God who gave it,"
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m% Nothing can make a book worth read,
ing in which the delneation of motives and
conduct is false to reality and nature. Let
all such books 90 unread
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TOMORROW.

Tomorrow! "that fatal mistress of the
young and lazy" what hopes of pleasure
mind of the sanguine; what remembrances
of past procrastinations, and broken resolu-
tions, to the self-scrutinizing soul.
Like the rainbow, at the end of which
children expect to find bag of gold; or
like the mirage which, in the thirsty desert,
offers tempting vision of herbage and wa
ter; so to our mental view, eager to evade
the duties of to-day, appears that mystical
tomorrow, sort of millennium, when we
shall carry out our long-talked-of plan of
turning over new leaf, and shall feel no re-
pugnance to perform those unpleasant du-
ties which we are so unwilling to begin to-
day But alas!
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w~ 'The Abyssian alpha abet," writes a
traveller, Consists of POS characters, each
of which is written distinctly and separate
ly. The labor required to write an Abys-
synian book is, therefore, immense, and
sometimes years are consumed in the prep
aration of single volume"
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aag- I have little fear for the self-opinion-
ated young man. The kind, wise world
has rods in keeping that will take the con-
ceit out of him. fear for him who goes
with the crowd and draws his opinions and
sentiments from the common stock. l hate
to hear q young man say, "They all do it,"
On the Threshold.