The Winston Leader from Winston-Salem, North Carolina • Page 1

On Year, $1.50. NORTH-WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA WE LABOR FOR ITS' INTERESTS. Six Months, $1.00. NUMBER 48. YOLUME WINSTON, FORSYTH COUNTY, N.

CVTUESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1883. THK WALM'T TKEE. Tbe Wltoa Carnival. thev wanted carried in; and it was only Fifty Yrt Ato. was lifted lightly to the ground, and led up some steps; oyer carpets soft and on with raw lacqner so as to give the objects greater solidity and to prevent Sun Fine.

bam Pine, the brutal assailant of Miss 13 PimUSHKlj KVF. 'i UE5DA BW JAMES A. ROBINSON, Owner and Editor Subscription Terms in adranes: One copy, one year(post-e -i 50 tne copy, six monus 1 00 ue copy, three months 50 i cross mark on your pap-r indicates that your txcription has expired, or is aud you arc re- vectliuly soiicucd renew Oj' trniit. item-, of local news txre solicited. '1 he editor will noc be held resporv ible for views entertained and expressed by COr-csprMuVll'.

Advertising knuutt upon application. W. T. VOGLER, Practical Watchmaker and Jeweler, Main Street, Opposite Merchants' Hotel, WINSTON, N. Keep constantly on hand (Hoclcs, Watches, Jewfclry und Silver-plated ware of kinds.

SPECTACLES A SPECIALTY. Repairing of every description done promptly, an4 til work warranted. Jaaia-iy DON'T CEASE TO TURN JT OVER IN YOUR MINI THAT I AM SAVING A FRONT CORNER ROOM For you at the EXCHANGE HOTEL GREENVILLE. S. C.

HE HOTEL Is In the heart of the City, on line street railway. Kooms cool, calm and clean. Bells, gas, telephone and a whistle, You can expand your lungs on the whittle lor a nickle. Olve your check to "Hen," you will be treatttd ritfht. W.

II. WHITE. Prop'r S. K. CHAMBERLAIN, Practical Architect.

Elevations and specifications, with working DRAWINGS IN FULL DETAIL. Being thoroughly acquainted with the practical con union of buildings. 1 can GUARANTEE SATISFACTION. would solicit the patronage of those desiring to ruilU a Convenient and beautiful house. TERMS REASONABLE Xud the best of reference given.

DOT 2-tJ DR. V. 0. THOMPSON, Wholesale and Retail DBTJG-G-IST, y. Jlmt bow in store a well selected stock of Drugs, Medicines, Medicines, Perfumery, Fancy Goods, Mineral Cigars, Smoking and Chewing Tobacco, Paints, Oils.

Dye Stuffs, White JUcad, Machine anl Tanners' Oil, EasM anl America! Perfihw, Toilet Articles, Tooth Mies, Sponges, 4t, to which he invites the town and country Merchants. Physicians will find in his store nil tho popular propriety articles of the day, uch as ELIXIRS, SYRUPS, WINES, SUGAR COATED PILLS, GRANULES SOLID AND FLUID EX TRACTS, PLASTERS AND OINTMENTS. 8nrgUal Instruments ordered at manufacturers' prices. OS -g r5 0 -si 2 rt 5 cc cc. A A half century ago a large part of the people of the united states livei in houses unpainted, un plastered and ut terly devoid of adornment.

A well-fed fire in the yawning chasm of a huge chimney gave partial warmth to a single room, and it was a common remark that the inmates were roasting one side while freezing the other. In contrast, a majority of the people of the older States now live in houses that are clap-board ed, 'painted, blinded, and comfortably warmed. Then the household furniture consisted of a few plain chairs, a plain table, a bedstead made by the village carpenter. Bedsteads there were none. To-day few are the homes, in city or country, that do not contain a carpet of some sort, while the average laborer, by a week's work, may earn enough to enable him to repose at night upon a spring bed.

Fifty years ago the kitchen "dressers" were set forth with a shining row of pew ter plates. The farmer ate with a buck handled knife and an iron or a pewter spoon, but the advancing civilization has sent the plates to the melting pot. while the knives and forks have given place to nickel or silver-plated cutlery. In those days the utensils for cooking were a dinner pot, a tea kettle, skillet, Dutch oven and frying pan to-day there is no end or kitchen furniture. The people of 1830 sat in the evenings the glowing light of a pitch knot fire.

or read their weekly newspapers by the nicxenng light or a "tauow din. in the city and village, their apartments are bright with flame of the gas jet or the softer radiance or kerosene. Then. if the fire went out upon the hearth, it was rexindied by a coal from a neigh boring hearth, or. by flint, steel and tinder.

Those who iudulged in pipes and cigars could light them only by some hearthstone to-day we light fire and pipes by the dormant fireworks in the match-safe at a cost of one-hund redth of a cent. In those days we guessed the hour of noon, or ascertained it by the creenine or tne sunlight up to the "noon mark" drawn upon the floor only the well-to-do could afford a clock. To-dav who doesnot carry a watch? and as for clocks, you may purchase them at wnoiesoie, by the cart-load, at sixty-two cents apiece. i lfty years ago, how many dwellings were adorned with pictures How many are there now that do not display a print, engraving or lithograph How many pianos or organs were there then iteed organs were not invented until 1840, and now they are in every village. oome wno may read this article will remember that in 1830 the Bible, the almanac and the few text books used In schools were almost the only volumes of the household.

The dictionary was volume tour inches square and an inch and a half in thickness. In some of the country villages a few public spirited men bad gathered libraries con taming from three to five hundred volumes; in contrast, the public libraries of the present, containing more than ten thousand volumes, have an aggro gate of 10,650,000 volumes, not includ ing ounday-Bchools and the private libraries of the country. It is estimat ed that altogether the number of vol umes accessible to the public Is not less than 20,000.000. Of Webster's and Worcester's dictionaries, it may be said that enough have been published to upply one to every one hundred inhabi tants of the United States. Dude's Hat.

The members of the New York Oil Exchange are a rather swell set of young men, but the lead in the matter of clothes is taken by a youth known as "the dude," whose name is with held for the ske of his relatives. This dude strolled into the Exchange during a dull hour recently, and Solomon in all his glory was never ar rayed like one oi nini. to begin near the bottom, his feet (the dude's not Solomon's) were enceased iu the glossiest of patent leathers: his trousers fi-vii 1 i L-i t1iXb Tia inf fn lio l.imr.iAaf ubtu linu xi ptiiuv via uiv iauipvou his coat had never a crease from tail to top: his linen was starched until it shone, and his collar was perfection itself and raised his chin tjo thatj he could only gaze at the floor, at the hazard of cutting his throat. But his tout ensemble, so to speak I was completed and: set off by the darnng-est silk hat imaginable, with the broadest and most curbing of brims and a beautifully bulgent top. Altogether he was radiantly, dazzlingly beautiful.

The dude stopped near the middle of the door, struck an attitude much af fected by garden statuary, and gazed serenely and pityingly upon his com mon place fellow-brokers. But, horror of horrors! A rude man came behind him and jerked the silken tile from his head, and tbe next moment it was thrown to the floor, had received a vicious kick, and a dozen brokers were running after it. They surrounded it. scuffled for it, and away it sailed again towards the ceiling with the entire membership of the Exchange, save only the owner, in wild pursuit. Round and round the floor gambled the merry brokers with the hat before them.

Now it was suffering in their midst, then it shot over the floor in desperate effort to escape, only to be again overtaken, trampled, kicked, and trodden until it presented an appearance as if it had been lain down on by a cow and then spent a summer under a dust-heap, and the gay brokers were tired out and perspiring. The dude during this terrible period stood aghast, and with horror depicted in eveiy feature, turned in frozen despair as the gambols of his wicked associates led them to the four cardinal points of the room's compass. Bat when a grinning messenger boy brought him the battered corpse of his i precious dices, he forced a smile which was only a desolate mockery of happi ness, and remarKed: "Aw dawn't care, anyway. It was an old nawu" Then the rude man who had torn the tile from the unhappy adolescent's head approached and handed him the silken hat uninjured, and the dude learned that he had been the victim of a wicked joke. An old hat had been substituted on the floor, while the joker held Ibe victim's tile behind his back.

And it came to pass that the of unholy laughter was so great as to jar the ticker into tbe tape-basket, and the dude will wear a derby hat to-day and forever after while on the floor of tbe Exchange. Prol. Fritch has found that the elee trie organs of the torpedo are developed from the outer gill muscles of the fifth Kill arch. Tbeae, which in rays and sharks form tl powerful lower jaw muscles, are absent the torpe do, the tkctric apparatus taking their place. 3 of in broken fragments that she found out the reason of this sudden return.

It was not told to her, but she gathered it bit by bit from their remarks. "Unly to tninK now, that that man was nothing but an impostor after all!" cried Mrs. Langmore, sinking into a chair; "and living in such place as Cray- land Towers, too. No wonder, indeed, we were taken in by him; and then to find out that he is actually ruined I "And what is more to you, I'm. ru ined, too," growled Mr.

Langmore, plunging his hands frantically into his trousers' pockets. "Why ma'am are you aware what you have spent enter taming him?" 5 "Don't put it on me," cried the wife; "I never invited him, and that you know." "No; and you never wanted to marry him to one of your daughters either, I suppose." sneered the husband. We wouldn't have had him," cried the srirls indignantly. "The idea!" "Sour grapes," snarled Mr. Langmore, maliciously.

"Fancy the. bailiffs in possession of Crayland Towers," sighed Mrs. Langmore. "And I really did think one of you would have "It's a horrid place," said Rose, "gloomy and full of ghosts; but I must say Mr. Raby has behaved very badly." "Has he lost Effie, the color coming and going in her face Ms he very poor now?" They all looked up at her In surprise.

She never, as a rule, ventured to speak till she was spoken to. .1, "Xes, Miss Impudence," was the reply. "He hasn't a brass farthing left, and the worst of it is, they say he has defrauded his creditors." "I am so sorry so sorry said Effie, gently. "Poor Mr. Rabyl" and she crept away, her eyes filled with tears.

Three weeks later Effie was sitting upon the green, shady banks of the pool thinking of Mr. Raby. Presently another face mingled with her own upon the surface of the water. She uttered a glad cry, and in another moment she was clasped by two strong arms. "Effie! my little Effie! have you forgotten what boon you told me you would ask the fairies if you might have your choice?" Mr.

Raby asked, tenderly looking down into her changing face. "Yea I I remember," she whispered gently. "Would you ask ft still, Effie?" "Yes, still ever always." "Even though your lover were poor, Effie, very poor?" And her lips framed "Yes." He stooped to hear it, and her soft breath upon his cheek "answered him. "Effie, my child, my darling, you have your wish. The fairies have answered you.

I love you, little Effie. Will you come to me? Will you be my little wife, and love and comfort me always Across her face there spread a halo which he never forgot, and without a word of promise she nestled like a tired child into the arms he had opened to receive her. He went with her back to the house and saw Mr. Langmore, who heard him scornfully, and with laughter said --It was one beggar asking for another, but if the girl had a mind to marry he'd no objection it would save him something. When would he like to take her?" There was a lurking light of mischief in Mr.

Raby's eyes, but he answered demurely. "He must strive to prepare a litle little home, first of course; about Christmas he hoped to-be able to claim her." Effie's engagement was now the constant joke; commented upon with many a taunt and jest, as they struck it like a shuttlecock from one to the other; but Effie had a glad warm joy that filled her pure young heart, and no unkindness would harm her. The arrows of malice glanced aside. The roses bloomed in her cheeks, and a new born radiance fiilled her eyes. i i It was Christmas morn when they were married in the little church to which Effie had stolen away alone, Sunday after Sunday, whenever opportunity offered.

No one went with her to the wedding. Her lover waited by the garden-gate to lead her over the slippery ground, and she walked with happy blushes by his side. She had bid good.bye to all, but none had prayed God to bless her. She had done her best to make her shabby clothes look better, but King Cophetua's bride could have been more poorly clad. The ceremony over they went to ttffe hotel and had a simple repast.

Then he took her hands in his, looked into her eyes and asked: 'Effie, do you know what faith is?" "It is to believe in what you do not, understand, is it not, dear?" she quietly answered. i "Yes, darling. And if I asked you to do something which you could not understand, and regarded as a strange and unheard of request, would you have faith enough in me to follow out my wishes without a word of question? Could you trust rae entirely and blindly Effie?" dear," she said, a sweet confiding smile upon her lips. 'Then come here, my wife." She drew yet nearer to him, and he took from his pocket a' folded handkerchief, with which he bandaged her eyes. He saw that her lips still smiled, and he stooped to kiss them.

He led her by the hand, and she felt that she was half lifted into a carriage. She heard the noise of horses' hoofs upon the stone' yard of the hotel, and then they were away upon the road. One stop only on the way, and the rampling of horses, then the opening of a "ponderous gate; another stop. She I The witches held high carnival on the nitfht of October 31. and being ia merry mood their kind office will be invoked by younar people throguhout Christ tlom to divine the name of future hus bands and wives, and otier matters ab out which young hearts are wont to won der and surmise.

It is All Hallowe'en The eve of All Saints and about it clut ter a host of superstitions and legends tnat nave been treasured for centuries and handed down intact from one gene ration to another, xne worx-a- day citizen who mayhap has forgotten that the 31st of October is any but an ordinary occasion will doubtless have the fact recalled to mind should he ven ture out on that evening. He will meet troops of boys and young men in grotes que costumes parading the streets to the noise of tin kettle bands he will see mischievous bovs ringtug door-bells and making their escape uefore the summons can be answered in a way more hasty than dignified, and he will probably meet young ladies run ning madly down the street, each with a mouthful of water aud a handful of salt. Lach of these latter are endeavoring to win from the witches the name of hei lover. Whatever name she hears spoken or shouted as she mikes a hurried circuit of the block, that is the name of the man who is destined to be her husband. At least that is tbe superstition.

and whether the fair creatures believe it or not. they are very fond of trying it. They will also burn nuts, each one of which is first named. If the nut cracks and jumps its namesake is fickle; if it burns, he is constant ad true: and if the nut named after herself bnrned at the same time, she will marry him. Names written upon Utile slips of paper are rolled into bails of meal and these balls are thrown into a basin of water, where of necessity they quickly dissolve, allow ing the papers to rise to the top and float.

The nrs one to appear is of course the name of the one most worthy of affection. These are a few of the tests which will be made. Apples and nuts wil be eaten in unlimited quantities and weird dreams will be the result more of the eating than of the Sheep For Australia, Mr. Winter, the great Australian sheep farmer, has arrived in New York. and talks freely about the objects of his visit.

"I am," said' he, "here for the purpose of purchasing sheep to ship to Australia for my ranch. 1 was here last spring end made some purchases, and shipped a number of sheep from San Francisco. Since then I have leen in Eo gland and Scotland examining stock, and I have just returned." "The foot and mouth disease is over running the island, and 1 was afraid to buy anything for fear of introducing the plague among my stock. The foot and mouth disease is a new one that is it is only about fifteen years since it was hrst heard of. In Scotland I ex amined some stock, and learned there that hares, rabbits and dogs spread the disease, snail remain the oity a few days only, and am then going to Montana, I may buy there, but will surely buy in California unless the sheep there has the plague.

But my buying depends on whether or not the colonies will admit stock from this country. I notice that New Zealand has shut her door dh the importation of sheep and cattle, and possibly the other colonies have followed her. I buy Spanish merinos, the "Infantas," which have been kept pure nowhere outside of the United States. When I get them to Australia they will be crossed with our entire stock, the Australian merinos, I sell my fleece for thirty cents undressed, and sometimes have received forty-five for it." Mr. Winter, when asked how large his farm was, said: "I have about 35,000 acres, of which 7,000 are in the Lucerne grass, or alfalfa, as it is called in California.

The Lucerne is capable of supporting fifty sheep for a season on one acre. My farm has stocked on it about 45.000 sheep, 1,000 head of cattle, and 500 horses. There is one man in Australia, Mr. Sam Machey, of New tjouth Wales, who sheared 000 sheep last yeaj, and tnis year he expects to have 2,500,000. His an da run 700 miles, in one direction and comprises 5,000,000 acres, and have been nearly all reclaimed Irom the desert." Lacquer Ware.

A short description of the manner iu which lacquering is done may be of interest to our readers, and here we will describe it as briefly as possible. The operation depends, of course, on the peculiar properties of the lacquer and the effects to be produced. The raw lacquer, chiefly the Seshineurushi. is used for priming, with an aditiou of burnt clay dust, or fine stone powder, so as to produoe a coating of the utmost hardness. The prepared lacquer, after having been strained, is slightly transparent when applied in tliin layers, and possesses a color similar to that of shellac; this transparency is occasionally increased by a small addition of which, by mere hardening; produces a sufficient glossiness of the surface, whereas the pure lacquer has to be polished.

For coloring, tbe laoquer is mixed with cinnaba or piment, red oxide of iron or Prusian blue, etc. The black lacquer is prepared in the following manner. It is effected without any addition of solid particles, such as lampblack or similar substauo-es, but merely by Btirring the crude lacquer for a day or two in the open air, whereupen it assumes a very dark-brown color. Towards the end ot the operation a small quantity of water, which las ben kept standing for a few days, mingled with with iron filings or a gall-nut infusion darkened by the addition of iron, is added, and the whole stirred again until part of the water has evaporated; then the laoquer acquires proper consistence and color. The addition of this water is said to cause the highest brilliancy and blackness of laoqner.

Sometimes the colored lacquer is used when the final coating is required to be of a transparent nature. Either the unmixed, strained laoquer, or that peculiar kind of laoquer which has been thinned by an addition of oil, is used, Tbe mixing of lacquer with hardening or coloring powders is generally effected by the lacquerer himself on a wooden board with wooden spatula just before using it. Finally, the thick mixture ia forcibly strained through a piece of paper called yaahinogami. Should the lacqner become too stiff for use, some bits of camphor axe crushed and thoroughly mixed with the lacquer by spatula, and then it becomes more liquid. Before beginning to lacquer, the artist often lines the exterior ot the objects, especially the joints and corers, with linen gauze orgoshinogaml pasted i Droi drop.

From the Id tree top fall and roll away, The walnut Roun round. Throueh th leaf-strewn ground. Gather them, gaj her them while you may Coverlets red am yellow and brown. Beds of the silk iraas, soft as down. Shells for their owns, still as still can lie, Walnuts uni er the walnut tree.

List to the birds They call you in song! "Children, we th ink they are sleeping too longi Waken them, her them! We can see Walnuts ider the walnut tree "Pull off their coverlets, lad and lass 1 Out of their beds, in the silky grass, Wake them and take them; so say we, Walnuts under the walnut tree! "Up in the garret let them be dried. So many mummies till Christmas-tide; Then, by the hotpe-fire, feast with glee, Singing the praise of the walnnt tree!" Drop, drop, From the eld tree top The walnuts! fall and roll away, 'lionnfl, 'round, Through the leaf-strewn ground. Gather them, gather them while you may EFFIE'S FAITH. There was cc nsiderable stir when Mr. Raby, a reputet millionaire, paid a visit to the family.

lie was a young, handsome, dignihea man, very pleasing in his manners. Mr. Langmore had three daughters named Edith, I Rose and Alice, each "beautiful In their way, and each anx ious to secure Mr. Baby for a husband. With them resided Effie Fairlie, a niece of Mr.

Langmqre's, ami the Cinderella of the family. I She performed the drudgery and was constantly kept un der restraint. I Effie was a sweet, earnest, gentle girL JIot blue eyes," like dewy forget-me-nots, shone brightly scarce shaded by "the dark curled which gave a tender wonder to her race a sweet sunburnt force, with a mournful expression of resignation about the small well-formed mouth a tiny i iquant nose, and a glory of gold-brown hair; waving hair, all lights and shad ss, which clustered down her back, gathered together by a velvet band of black. I This child-woman strangely attracted Mr. Raby.

Shfc never sought his pres ence, yet never phunned it. There was a natural easel and grace about her which astonished him. She wanderea every evening to a little ravine known aa.Silver Grove, in which was a wide, silent pool. Suddenly Mr. Raby discovered that the grove was also charming locality to him.

lie fre quently met Efl there, and he became deeply in love ith her almost before he was aware of it Effie," he said toJxerone evening, as they stood beside the pool, "Effie, if the fairies wer to offer you a grand home, and horses and carriages, and servants, and pretty dresses and jewels, would you be pleased." No Mr. RaOy, I have never felt the need of any of these things. I should should not ask riches of the fairies if I could choose." I "What would you ask, Effie "I should ask for love," she answered "I have so longed for it, ever since I was thelwee-st child, and no one has ever cared for me." There were tears in the soft voice, a tremble of the ruby lips, but the stead fast eyes looked patient there was no anger, no resentment in them. But suppose this love wa3 offered you, isme, Dy ope wno was very, very poor, and you had to work for that per son day and night till you were weary, and your foot was scant, and your clothes few, an I all your thanks were his gratitude--all your payment his affection. Wkit then, little Effie? Would you be pappy, child "So she answered, with a nervous clasping of her work-worn, small, tanned bands.

"If only I could help him, if only he cared for me, 1 should mind nothing 1" and then, with a fun-gleam crossing her eyes, "Oh, Mr. Raby, are you a fairy in disguise? If so you; will knqw how much I want to satisfy me, and if not you must think me a very foolish girl and I have de tained you when you ought to be with he Misses Langmore. Why, EffielT' looking at her keenly "Why?" she echoed, "you know whv, Mr. Rabjf." He broke into a quiet laugh. home child, run home," he said.

"ITou are a wise little tiling, no doubt, but it won't save you from a scolding if you are out too late," He watched ler receding form with a gratified expression upon his handsome face. There was nbthing to be seen of her when he returned to the home. Like Cinderella she had gone back among the pots and pans to work but he did not forget her for all that. He was, how ever, studiously attentive to the other young ladies, and each one vied in do ing him honor. Mr.

jRaby was the owner of West Crayland Towers, one of the finest pla ces in the country, He took Mr. and Mrs. Langmore and their three daughters with jum to show them the place. leaving the rittle Cinder- ella behind. She felt verji sad when the coach and four was out of sight.

They were to be gone a fortnight She would not miss But she would miss, any of the family very much, the kind, grave eyes that used to look at her with such gentle and admiring fondness. One day Mr, with his wife came back in haste, all and daughters unexpectedly, in a fly. with two post horses, just a week after they had set out in their splendor, the admired of all beholders. upon the paternal face temper visibly depicted on the mother's; and gloom and discontent in different stages on thoie of Rose, Edith, and They took no notice of Effie beyond handin her all the things which 1U breaking. The primary coatings are put on with a mixture of raw lacquer and burnt clay powder, and aiterwards stone powder.

when Hardened they are rubbed with grindstone to smooth and polish the sut face. The next two or three layers are done with inferior hinds of the black or colored laoquer, according to the color to. be produced. The lacquer is applied in the first place with a wooden spatula and afterwards with a very stiff nat Drusn, so as to smootnen and spread the laoquer equally. The surface is then ground with water and charcoal of which latter two kinds are used, the one coarse and hard, and the other light and soft.

As a peculiarity, it may be stated that the freshly lacquered objects are placed in large wooden boxes, the inside of which has been sprinkled or washed with water, so that tne process of hardening takes place in a dark and damp atmosphere; according to the statements of professionals, tiis precaution is absolutely to produoe the speedy hardening and fine appearance of the lacquer. The final coating is done with the best laoquer of the kind required in tue particular care, and after having been carefully ground it is polished with deer-horn powder. Tne black laoquer. when finished, is repeatedly rubbed with a ball slightly in the Sethime laoquer, and each time carefully polished with powder made of deer-horn. The gold-sprinkled lacquer, called Nahiji (literally pear-surface), is produced by sifting a certain amount of gold leaf cat into small pieces on to a fresh coating oi 0nmie lacquer.

Wben hardened. the surface is smoothed and then coated with a choice quatity of lacquer, caHed the JVaahiU urushi, which is prepared by carefully straining and mixing it with a small quantity of gomboge. The lacquer when apDlied in thick layers. is opaque, and only becomes transpar ent in turn layers; so that, by grinding the final coating with charcoal: the gold sparkles underneath can be made more or less visible, aoeordmsr to the will of the artist. Finally, after being carefully polished the object receives a very thin coating of tha same' lacquar to produce the glossiness.

For common ware, tinloil is used instead of goldleaf, but owing to the yellow color of the Jsashiji urvushi, the tinfoil has a gold-like appearance. xne metnod ot lacquering always re mains the same, but tue number of coatings can be reduced. The priming may be done with cheaper materials, or the lacquer may be of inferior quality, The final process of decorating the objects is one which admits an almost in Unite variety of devices, and consists either of paintings or of incrustations of mother-of-pearl, metals, or else of a peculiar preparation of the surface. Education ia JUsxloo. in the matter ot education many improvements have been made in Mexico within the last few years.

At tendance upon the public schools is compulsory, and the "no royal" road to learning is entirely, free. Facilities are also given to young men who show an aptitude for higher education in the collegio-civil or state college of Monte rey, wheie they are graduated in the various professions. This institution was founded long ago, during Gen. Vidauri's wise and prosperous administration. He did so much for Mexico in the way of accomplishing needed reforms, that if anybody is to be worshipped as the patron saint, it should be him instead of the mythical Gauda-loupe.

The civil college is domiciled in a fine edifice fronting the Cinco de Mayo Plaza. Degrees are there con erred in law, medicine, pharmacy, civil engineering, and commercial studies. In common with other Mexican states, Nuevo Leon has the privi lege of sending scholars to-the celebrated national agricultural and mining college in the city of Mexico. Young men desirous of a higher university education go to France, Spain or Germany for it. Those iu search of medical education, find it in Philadel phia or Paris.

If in" a hurry for a diploma, they go to tbe former city, where one may be obtained in two years. But the Mexican authorities, uke those ot, Canada, have no conh- dence in Philadelphia parchments, and subject the possessor of one to a most rigid examination before he is licensed to practice his art. On the other hand, diploma obtained in 1 ranee carries the owner through without let or hin drance. Smoking In ntextoo. While waiting for coffee, and afterward duriug pauses iu the conversation, the gentlemen of the family and not infre queotiy tne laUies also settle gracefully back in their chairs and t-nj a cigarette or two.

1 learner a less in at my very hrst dinner in MexlcD. It was at a hotel table, and a stranger Mexican seated-beside me, who happened to finish his dinner first, innocen'ly lighted his cigar tor the usual table smoke, which in the depth of my ignorance, regarded as a personal insult, and indignantly left the table. riince that day I have become "learned in the ways of the Egyptians," and cannot only tolerate tbe national custom with equanimity, but (be not horrified, oh, fastidious fiienda) take a Uit-ner cigarette myself. When one is in Rome it is well to do ag Romans do. These tiny Mexican cigaretes, rolled up in corn-husks or tissue paper, are not- at all like the strong-smelling things we have in the United States.

Tnese are not much larger than ttrxws, the husk is sweet to tbe taste, and tbey have a delicate fragrance which is very pleasant. In Mexico everybody smokes at all limes and in all places at tbe theater, in the ba room, everywhere. In making formal calls or more extended visits, politeness demands an imoiediate and frequent exchange of cigarettes and light" with many courteous words, a "after you. Be nor (referring to the mate. precisely as bur ancestors 'were wont to proffer aud accept the civilitiee of Uie su'jff-x.

Every Mexictn lady's pocket is suppled with match-box and cigarette-holder of more or elegance, and the dainty fingers of many a fair joung seorita are discolored Like polished broufe. at the froji much cgiieiie rcLint'. What we call miracles and wonders of art are not so to him created them; for they were created by the natural movements of his own, great souL Statues, paintings, churches, poems, are but shadows of himself. Over one hundred and thirty million cans of tomatoes have been consumed in this country within the last three years, it is figured out deep, into which her tiny feet snnk; and then again he spoke to her: "Effie, my own darling, do you love me?" She lifted her rosy lips to him for answer. "Rich or poor, in sickness or in health, you will ever be the same to me." She threw her arms around his neck and clung to him.

44 1 shall love you always always." "Come, then, fairies, wave your little wands of love and introduce our little Cinderella to her kingdem." He turned her three times around, kissing her at each turn The bandage fell from her eyes, and Effie saw before her such a room as she had never imagined to exist even in Fairyland. Every luxury, every beautiful thing that he had been able to, find, which money could buy, he hall gathered together here for her. He opened a magnificient inlaid ward robe, and before her there were the most beantiful costumes awaiting her. She had never once spoken "Effie, all you see is your own; are you glad darling?" "And are you not poor after all?" she asked; the wonder increasing in her eyes. "No, my Effie; I am very rich." "And you don't want me to comfort you," she said, thetears starting to her eyey.

"Then, dear, wny why did you marry me?" v- "Because I love you, Effie; because you are so good and gentle and patient and forgiving; because you are the very best little woman I have ever met; and because last, nofleast no one else in the world have I' ever wanted for my wife." "Lionel," she whispered with a hap py smile, "you and the fairies have been very good to poor little Cinderella." Uuteb Corporations. Everything was managed in Amster dam by corporations. The idea of the sa credo ess of corporate rights and privi leged was firmly planted in the Dutch mind. These numerous bodies were vir tually self-elected. An oligarchy ruled in each department.

The character of their government is seen in the way the East India Company managed their possessions In the Eastern Archipelago. To secure the monopoly of the spice trade they caused all tbe clove trees to be extirpated, except in Amboyna, the seat of their power, bribing the surroumng princes to enter into league with them to destroy their subjects' property. At one time they gained the exclusive command of the pepper trade. Pepper was immediately raised to 8i a pound, 100 per cent, higher than the Portuguese prices. It is supposed that they made a profit of 800 per cent, on this article alone.

English settlers did not scruple to declare that in 1622 the Dutch authorities at Amboyna, in their terror lest foreign intrigue should oust them out of the nest they were rob bing, practiced tortures worthy of Philip IL and Alva. To prevent any criticism from the jealousy of tbe other Dutch ports, the East India Company distributed their stock among the principal towns of the united provinces, in each of which was a handsomely paid board of directois. Dossessins a snare the patronage pro portioned to thek stock tbey held. Amsterdam kept the supreme direction, for out of these subordinate chambers a board of 17 directors was chosen, who met tor six years at Amsterdam and two at Middle burg. Thus all the leading capitalists in Holland were directly concerned in the company's affairs.

Instead of enrichinii their own country and the Asiatic world by opeoing up a great Oriental trade, the Dutch East India Company Utought ouly. of getting tbe highest possible prices by the exclusion 6f all competition. Their immense warehouse at Amsterdam, their imposing name, and the mystery erer attached to the ist, led to an exaggerated idea of their importance. Tbey worked a trade that could easily have employed several millions with a capital of 542,000. in their most prosperous days, from 1614 to 1780, the number of tfceir ships arriving from India in the course of tbe year did not average mora than 14.

This style of doing trade explains the excessively heavy dues that the Amsterdam authorities im-pos3d on every article of traffic. It is asserted that many things paid duty three or four times over. Bread was taxed when the corn came from the mill, and again when the loaves came from the oven. There were 1 taxes on butter, fish and fruit, while tbe duties levied on nieaf, salt, beer, wine and spirits was as high as 100 per cent. Rents paid a tax of 25 per in fact, there was scarcely anything that escaped taxation except that which depleted the country of i's capital the speculations of its merchants in the public tunds of other nations.

For, owing to the accumulations of capital and the way tax ations ate up profits, tbe Amsteidim merchants put the greater part of their surplus capital into foreurn stocks. In fact, the difficulty of finding an advantageous return for money in Holland was so great that its capitalists preferred to lend vast sums ot money to individuals in foreign countries, both regularly as loans at interest and in the shape of goJds advanced at long credit. Freezing laving- feople. A German savant named Grusel-bach, Piofesser of Chemical Science in the University of Upsala, has been devoting a considerable time to perfecting an apparatus to freeze living people, and keep them in a torpid condition for a year or two. In any case, he announces that he will undertake by his process to freeze up any lady or gentlemen willing to submit to the experiment, and benumb them, deprive them to all appearances of vitality, pledging his word to bring them round again at the expiration of a couple of years, with no prejudicial effects to mind or body.

As no adventurous person has come forward to supply the savant with the desired opportunity, he has submitted his invention to the Swedish Government, with a request that a criminal condemned to death shall be provided to enable him to monstrate the efficiency of his discovery. Mr. Emerson wrote to a friend in 1829; "I suppose that prosperity is always dangerous, especially for the very young. In college, 1 used to echo an ejaculation of my wise aunt: 'Oh, blessed, blessed when I saw young men of fine capabilities whose only and fatal disadvantage was wealth." Helen Stocuin, of North Salem, New York, and a burglar aud horse thief, who was recently sentenced by Judire Sanford, at the criminal term of the Court, to fourteen years' imprisonment in the Connecticut fetate Prison, has made his escape from the jail. 'bheriff Crosby discovers! the fact when he made his morning tour of the corridors at 7 o'clock.

Pine had sawed out two iron bars, each 1 inches in diameter, through which he made his exit to the jail-room, thence through the hallway upstairs to the workshop, where he removed a lock to the door. entered the workshop, climbed to a water-tank, sawed a hole through the roof, and descended either by the lightning-rod or conductor to the ground. As sooffas his escape was made known Sher iff Crosby wired btate Attorney Fessen- den at Stamford to come immediately to this city, where a council was held as to the best means of re-capturinc him. "The plan was to keep the matter se cret until after the publication of the evening papers, on the theory that if Pine did not escape till towards daylight ne would be secreted some place near the jail and perhaps be discovered before night. "Every effort on the part of private detectives, however, failed to discover him, and at 5 o'clock in the evening the general alarm was given from lip to lip, and telegraph operators were busy sending the State attorney's and sheriff's messages to all the adjacent principal cities aud to every town in the State.

The message read: 'The sheriff of Fairfield county of fers $1,000 reward for the capture of Sam It has beeu noticed by his attend ants that he had been exceedingly reticent since his capture, though after his sentence he remarked to a deputy sheriff 'that he was glad he had received the sentence. No tools or other evidences of as sistance were found in the cell which he had occupied, nor over the pathway to his freedom. It is unfortunate for Sheriff Crosby that this infamous criiu-nal should escape his custody immedi ately on the eve of his re-election, tho' no- blame can be attached to him in any way for Sam's escape. "The night guard was sleeping quiet ly in an open cell at the end of the corridor by which the fleeing prisoner passed and whom he probably bade a silent adieu. Every effort is being made to recapture him, but with little probability of success.

The woods are being scoured, scouting parties have gone to the negro settlement, and. stimulated by a stiff reward, nothing will be left undone to bring the scoundrel to jus tice. "For years Sam Pine has been a ter ror and scarcely a crime short of mur der but he has committed. Had he been captured while the excitement ov er tne brutal assault on Miss Stocum as at its height he would have been stretched to a tree by the infuriated mob Irish Oyster. I rteeuily paid a visit to the celebrated oyster beds at bneem, writes a correspondent from Ken mare, Ireland.

Kenmare oysters, or rather Bland's have quite a reputation, and bring the highest figures in the oyster market, Mr. Bland is the proprietor of the beds, and owns a la(ge property ia the neighborhood. Commencing with this season he has formed a limited company for the more profitable working of this valuable fish ery. The oyster beds are twenty acres in extent, produce some .300,000 aanu-ally, which are selling now at 10 shillings ($2.50) per 100. During th? past few years they have been sold at 12 shillings, 14 shillings, and up to as higb as 16 shillings per 100, wholasale.

They are shipped in boxes, generally containing about 1,100, to KUlarney (thirty-five miles), and from there by rail and boat to Cok, Dublin, London, Liverpool, etc. As- may be judged, oysters are at present beyond the reach of men ot even moderate incomes. They have been rising in price every season, until they have reached a point when it is found a cheaper hospi tality to take a friend into a club or first class restaurant and give bim a good din ner Uisn to ask him to have an oyster lunch. 1 was rowed over the be-is, which at the time of my visit were covered with ten to twelve feet of water, shown how the seed was laid down, and the gradual growth and development from the "spat" to the matured oyster. The.

"seed" is brought from the French coast, prices varying from three sbi.hngs to 2 per 1,000, according to size and age. Tbe coast of lirittany is the great source ot supply for the English and Irish fisheries. This seed is placed in trays. 6 by feet and 4 Inches in height, made of fine galvanized woven wire, and divi ded each into six compartments. Tho frame is Of thick slate; over It is placed tight-fitting frame, called an "ambu lance;" the frames are well tarred over with boiling pitch, and in this condition are placed in the beds.

The second sea son tnee are picked over, the large ones taken out are placed in ponds or "parks' which are sections 50 by 20 feet under wa'er, formed by strong wire. Here they are left for another year, when they are removed to the regular bed, as required, it takes four years two years iu these nurseries and two years in tbe regular beds before the oyster is matured and fit for market. With the old native spat the Inah oyster grew to a larger size than is produced by the foreign seed, although the superior flavor and excellence of the latter is admitted. A large staff is kept employed at the Sneetn beds, and the oysters are takeu up from the middle ot September to the end of April. The drive from Kenmare to Bneem is one of the most delightful among the many charming drives in this part of the south Ireland.

r- Tha Mew Clock. A new clock is In the window of a store in, Philadelphia. It exhibit on the dial the uew arrangement ot hours of standard railroad time which goes into effect on many of the railroads in a- short time. The cumbrous look which was to have been anticipated from seeing numbers from 1 to 24 con secutively is remedied by omitting every alternate number; the numbers reading thus, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, etc. The other hours are marked ou the disk by a heavy black dot.

The arrangement for marking minutes is the same as usual. A moment suffices to familiarize a person with the new reading of tune by the clock-face; thus, last evening when seen it was 17.27 o'clock, or as we would now say it, 5.27 P. M. There seems to be no obstacle to the new plan finding immediate public favor, and to its speedily supplanting the old double count of hours during a day. LOOK iilEIEK I If you want Law Blanks.

If you want Ball Tickets. If you want Programmes, If you want Letter Heads, If you want Bottle Labels, If you want Auction Bills. If you want Calling Cards. I you want Address Cards, If you want Check Books, If you want Shipping Tags, If you want Business Cards, If you want Caution Notices, If you want Wedding Cards, If you want Invitation Cards, If you want Business Circulars. If you want Job Printing of any description, done in a most satisfactory manner, you caa satisfy your wants by calling at or addressing Ifee office, Winston.

N. C..