PARI, HARDER AND HOUSEHOLD HMMktN Illau. An oven bolder should be made of beery oloth, two thicknesses, end fully Half ■ yard square; en old grain seek mekee them. This will sere yon many e born end keep yon from using your dish-towel or apron. When sweeping, dip your broom oo oeeionally in water, not is best, end keep tho dnst from flying over every thing. Coarse salt sprinkled over the floor occasionally is said to keep the moths out of the carpet. It is a good idea to keep a supply of ironing holders made up; take old oloihs, fold as many thiokneeees and cover witti a new pieoe of heavy oloth, tacking in the oenter; then you can have a clean holder when neoessary without having to stop and moke one. When your dish-towels begin to wear out, fold them together, the best out side, as small or large as you like, and run together around and across through the oenter with coarse thread, then when you require a new dishcloth you will not take "any old rag." Lime pulverised, sifted through coarse muslin, and stirred up tolerably thick in white of eggs, makes a strong cement for glass ana ohina. Plaster of Paris is still better, particularly for mending broken images of the same material. It should be stirred up by the spoonful, as it is wanted. To make lemon sirup take a pound of Havana sugar, boil it in water down to a quart, drop in the white of an egg to clarify it, add one-quarter of an ounce of tartaric or citric acid. If yon do not find it sour enough after it has stood two or three days, add more of the acid. A few drops of oil of lemon improvee it Keep your stove blscking, brush and plate handy, and after dinner each day brush off your stove, and you will find it much nicer than washing it off; be sides, with an occasional brushing your stove will always look nicely, and if your stove is not kept looking clean the whole kitohen looks untidy. Valse mf Paaltrr aaS Rasa. The Town and Country remarks: Almost fabulous are the estimates given in various quarters, of the intrin sic value of American poultry to the people of this oountry. At the same time, a large majority of those who read and consider themselves well post ed as to details of the natural wealth of this land either oonceive this item of poultry to be a very insignificant mat ter, at the best, or else they know noth ing of it at all. Yet our fanners, the suburban resi dents of cities, and thousands of men and women all over the United States, are at the present time engaged, in greater or less degree, in the cultivation of and traffic in good fowls, and in the sale of dead poultry and eggs. Millions of dollars are invested in this business—in one way or another. And estimates are made by oompetent au thority in recent years, based upon computation, that the total nnml value of poultry in this country and the eggs produced by our yearly aggregate of domestic fowls, reaches an approximate value to that of either cotton, grain or "laughtered beef. As an isolated sample of the large consumption of eggs in one city, we fnote from the Boston Herald : "The i raffle in eggs carried on by Boston commission bouses, and the immense quantity annually consumed in this ntate, assumes a magnitude which, at the first glance, may seem improbable if not impossible. Tne approximate re- | oeipts of eggs in this market for the year i 1878, have been as follows: 107,627 cases, containing 49 doacn each, 43,000 oases, containing 100 dozen each, and 17,783 barrels, containing 70 dosen each. ' Those figures, give as a result, 168,410 packages, containing 6,513,663 dosen eggs, or 78,187.836 single eggs. It is | estimated that fully 95 per oent, of all receipts are consumed in Massachusetts, sad that about 80 per oent. are oonsum ed in and near Boston. In nearly all small towns and villages enough eggs are raised to supply the local demand, i The number of eggs consumed in th is | State, when computed, is found to be at an average of 52 eggs per year to every j inhabitant, or one egg per week. When : the immense quantity of eggs used for ; cooking purposes is considered, the j figures appear quite reasonable. Only a small proportion of the receipts in \ this market are • limed' or pickled for future sale—say 2* per cent. All these ! K come to Boston from various see in about the following proportions: Eastern eggs (mostly from Maine by boat and rail, at all seasons of the year,) 24 per cent, of total reoeipts; northern eggs 1 (from northern New York and Canada), 87 per oent.; P. E. I. eggs (from Prince j Edward Island, between months of i April and November), 17 per oent.; Western eggs, 19 per cent; and South ern eggs (from Virginia during a few weeks in the spring) 8 per cent. Of the Northern eggs, the greater part oomes from Canada, and this trade is constant ly iiifT' suing." Found at Last As a Mississippi river steamboat cam to a river landing, a tall, ungainly rakish looking fellow leaning against the woodpile attracted the attention of the passengers, one of whom, a talkative and oouspicuoae person, remarked to his friends that be was going to have soma fun out of that fellow. So he stepped ashore when the boat landed, and with a great show of fierceness ap proached the fellow. Drawing a savage looking bowie knife he said : "So. old fellow, I've found you at last You're the man that stole a dog of mine and I've sworn to get square with you. I've been looking for you for a year." The gawky laxily opened his eyes in wondering amusement at first as though he didn't understand it. Then catching sight of the laughing passengers look ing on from the deck he took hi the situ ation. By the time "Bmarty" ha I finished telling him how lung he had been looking for bim, be had t*k-n out of his pocket a fist like a sledge ham mer on the end of the arm of a windmill. He swung it onoe and knocked the man who had been looking for him plump into the river. Then resuming bis place against the woodpile he raised his eyes to the deck and irith a very lasy drawl icq nired j Is there anvbody else on this boet looking for mef" Gallows Keails iMenM*. We take the following from the reminisoenoee of a New York reporter, who baa been present at thirty execu tions: •• I wonder if It hurts to be banged ?" said he who sat at the feet of thia Gam aliel of the nooee. Probably not, after the first twitch of the oord is felt, and, although I can not claim any personal knowledge of that part of the business, my belief can scarcely be said to be purely conjectural. I once talked with a man who had been banged by a party of blytbe but hasty gentleman in California. They mistook him for a horsethief, an error for which they amply apologised in the heartiest manner when their attention was called to the fact that he was the wrong person, which, fortunately for him, was iust in time to save his life. He said that his sensations were first a consciousness of a terrific crash, as if all created things, himself among the rest, had simulta neously exploded. That was probably when the mnle was led out from under him. Then he seemed to be floating in a sea of red light, heaved and tossed npon glowing billows that swirled rnnnd and round, as if in a whirlpool, to the sound of a harmonious roaring. And after that he knew nothing until he found himself lying upon the grass, breathing with great difficulty and pain, bleeding from a little gash in his neck where thoy had cat the noose, and tiring to under stand the profuse apologies of the spokesman of his entertainers." " It must be a horrible thing for a man to know that he is going to die a shame ful death for a crime of which he is in nocent." " Theoretically, he ongl t to lie sus tained by the oonscionsnei s of his in | noocncc. Practically, the horror of the situation depends upon tho man him self—independent of guilt or innocence. The bravest man I ever saw die was one who avowed frankly the perpetration of the mnrder for which be was hanged. As to how really innocent mcu aooept the situation, 1 have not mnch ex perience npon whieh to base an opinion, as oat of all the thirty that I have seen hanged there was bnt one that I deemed guiltless—the unhappy victim of a judicial mnrder. That was a poor I wretch named Lee, if I remember I aright, who was hanged at Wsnkegan, 111., in 1866, as the snpposed murderer I of an old woman by the name of Ruth i Briden. I studied well the evidence in • bis case, examined him, and did what no | body else seemed to have thought it j worth while to dc—sought ont who else I than he in the oommnmty had stronger ! reasons than he could possibly have had jto wiah old Rath Briden dead. I satis fied myself that there was one man there—a rich and influential man—who would have profited largely through family connection by her death, and that man, I fonnd, had been especially and remarkably active in pressing the prosecution and conviction of Lee. There was nothing abont the condemned man's personnel or record to onoonrage suspicion of him other than tbst he was s shiftless, poverty-stricken, friendless vagabond, who sometimes got drunk ; bnt he was the easiest man in the com munity to hang, somebody ought to be banged, and so they strung him np. The depnty sheriff, to whom I expressed my conviction of the poor fellow s inno cenoe, laughed at me. He wm s big, good-hearted, rough man, who had been horrified by the atrocity of the butcher v of Mrs. Briden, and was easily swept along with the tide of popular feeling against the prisoner, which had been art/ally set in motion by interested parties. But. six months afterward, I met him in Chicago, and he said to me: ' What yon said abont that banging of oundisturba my mind a great deal, and I have spent both time and money in in vestigating that case for my own satis faction. And I tell yon now, lam con vinced that we hanged an innooent man that day.' The tears stood in his eyes, and hi* voice trembled as he spoke. Unfortunate Lee; his last prayer was for his wife and little child, far away in the East; his last words calling npon God to judge his innooenoe. Bnt be died courageously." Acute Rheumatism. This is sometimes called r cnmatic fever. Its medical term is poly arthri tit. It is mainly a disease of the temperate regions, and prevails mostly from Oc tober to May. Persons specially liable to it are those whose calling exposes tbem to frequent changes of tempera ture, those who are insufficiently pro tected against sadden chills, and those who reside in damp localities, and es pecially those who sleep in damp rooms. One attack greatly disposes a person to a second. The foremost exciting cense is a snd | den cooling of the body when hosted end I cxhsasted by exertion—this, in the view I of meny medical authorities, developing ! lactic acid in the blood. The fever is j proportionate to the nnmber of joints ! attacked, and the intenaty of the inflam mation. It is accompanied with a soar sweat. Hardly any other diaeaee pre sents sa many complications. The younger the patient, the greater the liability of the heart's being affected, i The liability after twenty-five is the j exception. As s rule, it rnns it oonrse in from three to six weeks Oonvaleeoenoe is slow. Even after recovery, there is for s considerable time a tendency to re newed inflammation. It seldom termi nates in death. To avoid the disease, guard against all sudden and violent changes of tem pera! nre ; wear woolen next to the akin; in ease the akin is especially snaoepti ble, harden it by cold bathing, exercise in the open air, etc.; if exposed to wst or chill when heated, keep np the circu lation by active exercise till sa oppor tunity offers for change of clothing. A lemest of Herrsr. A prominent fancy goods dealer of this city, whose neatness of attire is the movy of lbs less fortunate, stepped into his store Bnndey to replenish the far nace. He laid aside his glossy silk hat and put on an old straw. Having ar ranged matters satisfactorily, he saun tered np Congress street jnst sa church goers ware coming down. Mroimg s lady of his aoquaintanoa, he gracefully lifted bis bat, when, to his horror, be found that he had on the straw one afor'said. He took the beok streets and reached borne as soon as possible. - Portland (Me.) Argue FEEDING ON FELINES. RauMM Ii Now York Ural Mr* sal* I* t* Mmi. The New York Mercury aaserta that eome of the residents of that city are ao caetomed to baying sausages and other food partly made up of the flesh of young kittens. The Mercury nays men go abont at night hunting oats, which they put into bags as soon as caught. Its article continues ; When a sufficient number of victims has been obtained, the cat-hunter takes his homeward way and empties his bag of his evening's spoils. The largest and fattest having been selected, they are nuiokly killed, either being knocked in the head or having their throats out, while those too lean are reserved to fat ton for future nne. The slaughtered cat is then skinne J, the skin being of some value, especially the white and black ones, and the meat prepared for chopping. Mixed with a little bnll meat, or sometimes alone, it is then chop]>ed and made into the desired bolognas, and is ready for sale. Most of these cat-hunters manufacture the sausages and sell them themselves, thus combining the occupations of manufac turer and tradesman on the smallest scale, while others sell the meat to small butchers. The manner in which this business in cats was discovered and in vestigated is of interest. Certain offi cials, a fow months ago, in a tour through ' the eastern part of the city in search of • alleged abuses, were surprised to find ! evident l of this traffic in more ways , than one. A reporter of the Mercury | discovered three or four men who made i a business of getting, keeping, and ; breeding cats. Two of these men manu factum! and sold bologna sausages in quantities. A woman told the reporter, ' not knowing his errand, that a short time ago she had purchased one of these | sausages, but its appearanoe and taste ! was so peculiar that she was afraid to i eat it, and threw it away. It is most | difficult to obtain accurate information, as these men are most reticent regard ing themselves. Many of them do not speak any English, and are evidently ; afraid their business will bo discovered. The eats, when caught, are sorted out, I and those nwerred for fattening are kept either in large boxes or in small vards adjoining their captors' houses. The advantage of the boxes is, that they can be more easily concealed and kept in smaller compass, sometimes in a small cellar or room ; but they are not pre served in such good condition in this way as when allowed more freedom, so it is not resorted to except in cases of necessity. The boxes have slats nailed in front of them, and the occupants are fed at stated intervals with some fatten ing compound. When a yard is used, the tops of the surrounding walls are smeared with a snhstanoe known to these cat-dealrrs which the animals de test and will not cross. A collection of cats tlius imprisoned presented a most amusing spectacle when seen by the re porter. Abont a hundred cats, of all size* and ages, were sleeping, eating, I quarreling am! caterwauling in various attitudes. All grade* of cat society were represented, from the handsome Angora and Maltese, to the proeeie, homely backvard Tom, that make* night hideous witn his yells, and murders sleep, (treat care has to be used, it is I said, to prevent the old Tom cats from eating their young. The " nncle*, cousins, and aunts could indeed be " reckoned np by dozens," and seemed to constitute anything but a happy family. The Uaslaterrd Sister*. This pair inhabited a single room, from the facts, it roust have been donble-t>edded; and it may bare been of some dimension*; lint when all is said it was a single room. Here oar two spinsters fell oat—on some point of con troversial divinity belike; bat fell oat so bitterly that there was never a word spoken between them, black or white, from that day forward. Ton have thought they would separate; bnt no; whether from lack of means or the Scot tish fear of mand*l, they continued to keep house together where they were. A chalk line drawn upon the floor sepa rated their two domains; it bisected tbe doorway and tbe fireplace, so that each could go oat and in and do her cooking without violating the territory of the other. Ho, for years, they 00-existed in hateful silence; their meal*, their abla tions, their friendly visitors, exposed to an unfriendly scrutiny; and at night, in the dark watches, each could bear the breathing of hei enemy. Never did four walls look down upon an uglier spectacle than these sisters rivaling in ansiaterliness. Here is a canvas for Hawthorne to have lurood into a cabi net picture—lie had a Puritanic vein, which would have fitted him to treat this Pnritanio horror; be could have shown them to as in their sicknesses and at their hideous twin devotions, thumbing a pair of great Bibles or pray ing alond for each other's penitence with marrowy emphasis; now each, with kilted petticoat, at her own ooroer of tbe fire on some tempestuous evening - now sitting each at her window, looking out upon the summer landscape sloping far below them toward the firth, and the field paths where they bad wandered band fu hand; or, as age and infirmity grew upon them and prolonged their toilets, and their hands began to trem ble and their beads to nod involuntarily, growing only the more steeled in enmi ty with yaaro; until one fine day, at a word, a wok, a visit, or tbe approach of death, their hearts would malt and the chalk boundary be overstepped forever. —Acts AnnaU of Edinburgh. "That Old Ben Jerkins." Little Nellie was looking at " Wool fa Wild Animals" when Mr. Jorkina called, and appealed to that gentleman to ex plain one of the jpiotorea. "That it a wild boar," said he, and tbe little lady looked at it thoughtfully and rep'ied : "It dont look lika yon, does it Mr. Jorkina f " " I hope not," responded the guest. •• Whyf ••Because," said the artless infant, " Mamma said when your card was sent ap, 'Then is that old bora Jorkina ■gain." And it was a fall minute before mam ma's frown lips thawed mifflHeotlylo inform the nans it was Nellie's bad time. Facts About the Indlaaa. The tenth annual report of the board of Indian commissioners to the Presi dent of the United States oontains a comparative statement showing the con dition of the Indians in 1868 and in 1878. Some of the more important items are as follows: MM. 1878. Number of Indian■ in the United HUP*. except Alaska 180,864 Number of Indians who wear ottixen'a dress 137,488 Number of houses occu pied by Indians 8,640 23,000 Number of houses built lAlt JMT 146 Number of Indian sohoola.. 148 806 Number of Indian pupils . 8.010 12,232 Amount expended for edu cation $384,128 Number of Indians who can read 41,809 Number of Indians who learned to read last year (five civilised tribes ex cepted) 1,632 Number of church build ings oo reservations. 219 Number of church mem bers, about 30,000 Number of acres of land cul tivated by Indians 79,071 873,018 Number of bushels of wheat raised 169,806 770,615 Number of bushels of oorn raised 520,079 694,001 Number of bushels of oats and barley raised 81,181 380,132 Number of bushels of vege tables raised. 380,690 694,001 Number of tons of hay made. 18,016 188,011 Number of horses arrd mules owned 78,018 226,011 Number of oattle owned 47,704 291,278 Number of swine owned. 81,284 200,962 Number of sheep owned . 7,983 694,674 Prom this statement it appear* that more then one-half of the Indians have discarded the blanket and donned a civilized garb; that abont one half have moved ont of their lodges and wigwams into houses, the nnmber of which hss increased nearly three-fold in ten years; that the nnmber of pnpila in Indian schools has more than doubled; that nearly one-sixth of the Indian popula tion can road; that the numbers of sere* of land cultivated by the Indians is about five times as great as ten years ago; that the production of wheat has increased nearly five-fold, of corn seven fold, of oats and barley nearlv four-fold, and of hay nearly nine-fold, and that the Indians own about three times as many horses and males, six times as many oattle, seven times as many swine, and about seventy-five times as many sheep as they did ten years ago. Tbey now own more than two head of sheep for every Indisn man, woman and child in the United Htates. She Hewed on his Rattens. Everybody who knows old Blammer knows a pretty tight-fisted men. Sev eral days ago be aaid to bis wife: " Maria, I want you to look over that broadcloth vest of mine and pnt new buttons on it, 'cans* I'm going to scan! party to-night, and it 'll pay me to look a little spruoer than common." " But, Ely," answered Mrs. 8., " I haven't any buttons to match that vest; and"— " Blame it!" broke in Blnmmer, " tho idea of s woman keeping boose en long ss you have, an' pretendin' to be out of buttons. Br George t I blieve you'll auk mc for money to bny 'em with next." And then old Blummer shook his head threateningly and de parted down town, It aving Mr*. B. looking after him with a peculiar ex pression in her eyes. That evening Blnmmer hurried through his supper and began arraying himself for the card party. Presently he called for the broadcloth vest, and Mrs. 8., with marvelous promptitude, banded it to him. He took it, hastily unfolded it, and then, as his eye took in its complete appearance, he stood as one transfixed. It was a six button vest, and there were six buttons on it, and the dazed optic of Blummer ob served that the first, or top one, was a tiny pearl shirt-button, and tost tbe next one was a brass army overooat but ton, with U. B. gleaming upon it. and that number three was an oxydized sil ver affair, and that number four was s horn button, evidently from the back of one of the Puritan fathers' costs, and then came s suspender button, and there, as the dazzled eyas of old Blnm mer reached the bottom button—a poker chip (found in Blumroer'a pocket) with two Lolas punched through it—he #ave a snort that made the chandelier ppple. There ia, after all, a fine sense of humor abont Blnmmer, and lis laughed till be cried. And there won't be any button money grudged in that household hereafter. I tiliiing a KaU Iwrge sewer rata get into hontes, an especially into pnblio buildings in which suites of apartments are let to families and others. In suoh rooms, and in oel lara, walla and pantries, these ferocious vermin are more destructive than a wild beast of prey—and mors dangerous when cornered. One person, who had suffered much and long from their ravages, and whose ooeasiona] capture of one of their number bad failed to make any impreaaion on the general horde, resolved to try a new plan. It hi known that nothing so frightens s rat ss to bear tbe shrieks of one of its own kind in captivity. Having caught a vicious and lively specimen, the experi menter determined on the cruel expedi ent of starving him to death, and to make hUsqueeling •• tell "on the other*. Caught in a box or wire trap, the rat was there kept, unharmed, except for deprivation of food and water—and be lived just two days ami two nights. During that time, what with the pangs of hanger and thirst, and the added oc casional incentive to vocal exeroiaee in the shape of proddinga and stirring* np with a long pole, the caged rat gave forth at sundry and divert tunes such piercing shrieks of rage and despair as only a rat oan otter. Probably it wouldn't have been entirely safe, at that time, to have given him a chance to smell of your finger, or to get at your thumb; bnt one good result was certain ly accomplished by that otherwise too cruel experiment—not a rat hM been in that room or in thorn walls from that day to this, a period, ws believe, of about half a year. A similar remit is mid to have been attained by catching a rat, dipping it Into a pot of red paint, and letting It run; and alao by shearing and ringalng a rat, and than letting him CURRENT NOTES. The bona business is a big thing in western Texas. Oattle die and buffalo ere killed, and their bones are gathered from the plains. A Han An lonian ■hipped 8,388 tons at one time, receiv ing therefor #7.60 per ton. The French armies no longer beneath the imperial eagle. That noble bird has been deposed from his lofty perch on the standards of Napoleon, and the soldiers of the republic are to be led to victory by a laursl wreath encircling a dart of gold. The monument to Victor Emanuel which Italy desire* to raise, will ooet, it is estimated, not lees than #2,000,000. It is to consist of a colossal equestrian statue mounted on a triumphal arch, and the competition is to be thrown open to all the world. Only thirty or forty mile* distant from the City of Mexioo sre two of the beet wheat-producing valleys in the world, and yet wheat oosta at wholesale there from #1.60 to #2.40 a bnahel, and flour retaila for #1.76 per twenty-five pounds. The Mexican tariff on foreign wheat is abont #1.16 a bnahel, and on flonr #8 a barrel. A barrel of flour, coating in New York #6, shipped to the Oily of I Mexioo, is worth #29 by the time it ar rives, on aooount of dnty, freight and other charges. A correspondent of the Neilgherry EzcelMor tells of a tiger cub which is in the habit of smoking np all his mas ter's cigar stumps. He secures these luxurious bits as tbey are thrown away, 1 and after his master has retired to bed "gets s light" from the kitchen, and enjoys a quiet smoke every night. I " Mehemet Ali," he says, "need to have I a tame animal of this irascible species to which he regularly handed over his , hookah after enjoying his own after- I dinner sedative. The animal waited ! patiently for hia turn, and then puffed away." During the last year the American | Bible aociety has circulated about one milljon copies of the Bible, tbe British ■ and Foreign Bible society of Bootlaad i 86,000, ana other societies more titan ! one million. Tbe total circulation since ! tbe formation of these Bible societies I has been 82,000,000 by tbe British and ' Foreign, 86,000,000 by the American, 5,000,000 by the National Bible Society j of Scotland, and by German societiw , 8,600,000, while the circulation of other societies has raised the tots] to abont j 160,000,000 copies of the scriptures eir ; ciliated in various tongues by Bible ; societies during the last seventy-five year*. Not only i* the story of William Tell attacked as a myth, bnt the monuments which have perpetuated it are in equal danger. The government of the Hwina canton of Cri, in which Aitorf and other places associated with the name of Tell are situated, propones to perpetrate an act of vandalism which ought, says the London Timet' correspondent, to be prevented. Tbey hsve resolved to pnll down William Tells chapel, on lake Lucerne; and, not content with tbe de i molition of this interesting and romantic, ; if not precisely historic building, tbey have refused permission to the Lucera ese artistic aociety to detsoh the rpaint ing* on the walls in order that they may be paced in the museum of Lucerue. The Vienna papers tell of the narrow escape of an agd IIel)row of that city 1 from being liuried alive. He had been bedridden for a long time, and being taken with violent convulsions, became stiff and cold, and was taken for dead. He was laid out, and two faithful be lievers were set to wstch and pray over i him until the close of the Baobath. • Toward dawn of Hat unlay, while the | watchers were occupied with their de votions, Perjez Fischer returned to consciousness, and perceiving tbe mean ing of his surroundings arone with rage, horror, and mad imprecations, while bis terror-stricken attendants took to pre cipitate flight. One of them was so frightened that be fell sick and died, but Pejres Fischer recovered from the i shock to enjoy better health than he bad before his supposed death. The committee for encouraging the use of hor*efieah as an article of food, | have issued a return showing that tbe number of home*, assea and mules ' slaughtered in Paris for consumption in ! 1878 was 11,819, or 700 more than in the Srevioua year. The continued increase in ie use of borne flesh is, they say, a proof that the prejudice against it ia being gradually overcome. A prize of 1,200f. was awarded by M. Decroix to the founder of the first shop for tbe sale of ; horseflesh in London, opened in May ' last That venture, during the four I months it was carried on, did not, how | ever, meet with all the desired success, the eb ef reason for which was (the 00m- j mittee say) that the director was finite ignorant of the English language. Tbe committee now offer a medal of honor to any English butcher who shall take op the Made and continue it for three months at least Wanted Aa Indarser. A Vail*jo (Gal.) butcher was over in tbe mountain wilds of Contra Oosta the other day, bnying meat on the hoof. He found an old Missourian with a thousand cattle on a bill, living in all the simplicity of primitive life as it ia generally discovered a thousand miles from tLe outposts of civilization. In appearanoe he looked something like the picture one sees of Robinson Crusoe in the books, after the latter bad worn out all his good clothes. But tbe oattle were fat, and the Vallejoan bought what be wanted. When it came to set tling for them, he handed tbe Ooutra Goats Crusoe some greenbacks as part of tbe payment. The man did not seem to know what to make of such a kind of circulating medium, and it was found necessary to explain to him that they ware government notes for the sum in dieated. " Waall," said be, aftor muoh hesitation, "e# yerll agree to indorse them ar, intake 'em." But tbe Vallejo mas. not being is the baflhees of in dorsing Uncle Ham's papSr, refused, and he hid to pay him in gold. Absence destroys trifling intimacies, but it invigorates strong ones. THE ZULV WAR. MmmlmmA'm TtmM* wilt lb* IJtlrf Trias la iMlk Affirm. The scene of the Brit tub military miMQTer hen shifted from Afghanistan to Booth Afriat It is in the inter lo cality that the troops are now the moat active, and the recent British reverses give renewed interest to the old story of misunderstanding with the natives of that part of England's extensive empire. Near the TugeU river, 30,000 Zulus an nihilated a British column consisting of KHsrt of the Twenty-fourth regiment, a sttery at artillery and 600 natives; 102 wagons, 1,000 oxen, two oannon, 400 shot and shell, 1,000 rifles, 260.000 ronnds of ammunition, 60,000 ponnos of provisions and the colors were aaptnred by the enemy. About 6,000 Zulus were killed and wounded, while 600 officers and men were lost on the British side. Bubsequent attacks were repulsed, how ever, and the threatened destruction of the English forces and colony averted, although the governor, Sir I tartlet Frere, sent to England fer re-enforoemente, which were at once ordered to Africa to the number of 7,000. England has had almost constant trou ble with the natives ever sinoe th** section became a British colony. The first Caff re war broke out in 1811. The Prophet Mokanna headed an incursion in 1819. The seoond Oaffre war was in 1828-81. Tbethirdin 1884, attended by diplomatic difficulties between the colo nial secretary and the governor. " The War of the Axe " came in 1846, and an other of more than two years' duration in 1860. In 1867 came the destruction of all their cattle and grain by the Caffres at the instigation of another "prophet," and a desperate and fotile attempt to reoover their territory, end ing in death by famine. The Oalekas rebelled in 1866, and nearly twenty years of comparative peaoe followed. An ex tensive war, with qnsrrel* ad libitum among the English officials, came in 1877, and then succeeded tin; trouble with the Zulus, which had long been I brewing, brought by animosities be tween the natives and the English snd Dutch settlers. The English proposed conditions of peace which would have destroyed King Cetywsyo's royal prestige, so' war fol ! lowed. He has 300,000 subjects, 10,000 miles of territory, 140,000 men of arms, of athletic snd stalwart build snd capa ble of great endurance ; 22,600 under thirty years of age, 10,000 between thirty and forty, 3,400 between forty and fifty snd 4,600 between fifty and sixty, all well armed. Everything in the way of tactics and war snppliea is very simple. To ford s swift torrent they form in s i dense column and push each other across, many, of course, being drowned. They do not marry under forty, and the married men are distinguished by a monkish ahaven crown. The British force at the beginning of , this war oonsisted of about 15,000 men. ; 5,000 being regulars, and the naval brigade is 300 strong, from the ships Active and Tenedoa.— JVVtr York Ifait. The (eustry. It is in the country that the soul ex pands and grows great The town de velops, cultivates and amplifies all the senses, but its tendency is to contract that incomprehensible impulse of being we call souL Out where the rugged i hills point heavenward with ten tbou fMind sturdy evergreen figures; where stand the woods in royal majesty; where the brooks dance along sad clasp hands with the rivers, and rivers sweep on with unimpeded flow to the bosom of the sea; where rocks rise like brawny giants, their nakedness covered with mosses, and drink in the snnshine and the rain proudly, disdaining to show how the elements caress them slowlv into dost; where the birds sing thaTr most jubilant sot, v, snd the wild I flowers wear their brightest hnea; where the bees hum in laxy content from honey-enp to honev-cnp; where nature rules supreme, ami man becomes j a pigmy—there the true sou), uubashed and undismayed, aspires to oompaes all the profound mysteries of creation, snd reads eloquent lessens in ererrtl ng. j Where villages dot the hillsides and neetle in the valleys; where the throb bing clangor of the chnreh-beli is the loudest sound heard; where the flelda teem with homely promise of the com - ing harvest, and the voices of men are drowned in the prattle of nature—there are magnificent souls hidden beneath the humblest exteriors. The band that grasps the plow and scatters the seed may be brown and hard, bnt there is a whole heart in its grasp; the face that has been snowed upon, and rained upon, snd blown upon, is neither marred nor scarred, bnt brave and gentle; it shows in every lineament bow ennobling ia close communion with nature. The eye that seea the first tiny bad of the trees, the first blade of pale green grass, the first frail blossom of tbs woods, watches ths covert approaches of spring with a glow and luster that ws do not often sea in the dissipated town. The Walking Epidemic. The New York Observer does not take kindly to the pedestrian fever. It says: The epidemic ia now fearfully preva lent ia this country. Its victims are not of one sex or age only, but men women and children are alike sained with it, and when so (hawed they go •pinning around ia a ring, boar after hour, and day after day. One woman, over in Brooklyn, had it so badly that she walked every quarter of an bow. Physicians attend to the patients con stantly, watching their pulse, breath and heels, administering pills, drops snd planter*, as may be required. Thou sands of spectators look upon protracted sufferings with intense de H|hL I The newspapers describe the ghastly appearance of the walkers, their exhaustion, receivesy and sinking again. Bets are made upon Ibe length of time they can stand It. and the distance they can go before they drop, and the out side public eagerly look for the result. It Is the silliest , and least uesfnl, and most crud of all the sporting amuse ments of the day. No good purpose la served by it. Athletic esmefae is not encouraged by it, and ths health of no one is promoted. Bet it meat have its day, Hka alt other epidemics, and then something alee will take its place to gratify the Athenian spirit of curiosity that vasll % Qfy Mil ton
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