Friendship and Flattery.
L
Whan Friendship flrtit nana down to earth.
With heart of generous mold.
And soul of trutn and heavenly wvrth,
'Twaa in the age of gold.
She taught the love that eame from tied
For all humanity j
Sweet Pity in her footsteps trod, .
With Faith and t'harity,
tl.
lint Flatteiv, an the world grew old.
Stole Friendship's honest faoe ,
When Truth'* atern accent* grew le*a bold.
tnd Falsehood taught grim see.
Th indignant martyr did not wreak
Her vengeance upon men,
Nor soar on refluent wing to eeeh
Her home in heaven again.
The White Cur.
[Ths White o*r in lvtw the Great. Baty
nahka, ifeir, and >k>u.t*r. .Vrwvtyn,
are tit lent ho Uii**i*n people arv fond of giving
to the Crar tu thou popular *ong*.l
Dt>t thou *OO on tho rampart'* height
That wreath of mist, In tho light
Of the midnight moon? Oh, hit!
It i not a wreath of mint ;
It i* tho Csar, tho White t'ur,
lutyu*hk* ' (k>udar'
B ha* hoard, among tho dead,
Tbo artillery roll o'orhoad ;
Tho dram*, and tho tramp of foot
Of hi* aoldiery in tha ktrset :
110 1* awake ! the Wait* i *ar,
Haty n*!>ka ' Gosndsr!
He ha* hoard in tho grave the one*
Of hi* people : " Aaako ' ariee !"
no ha* rent the gold brocade
Whereof hi* ahrvmd *• made
He u risen the White t'aar.
Hatyuahka ' Ooaudar i
From the Volga and the IVui.
Ho ha* led hi* anniea on,
OTST river and mora**,
Over desert and moat.Uin pa** ;
The Ciar. the Orthodox Caar,
Batyuahka! Oosudar 1
Ho look* from tbo mountain chain
Toward tho *ea* that cleave m twain
The coutiueats ; hi* hand
Point* aouthwanl o'or the land
Of Roomeiee! O Caar.
Batyuahka ! Gosudar !
And tho word- break frotu his lit*
'• I am the builder of ships.
And my ship* 'hall *aii those seas
To tho Pillar* of Hotvuie*'
1 say it; the White Caar,
liaty uahka ' Gosudar !
"Tho lVwphoru* shall he free .
• It ha!l mkt room for mo ;
And the gate* of us water-*tret*
BJ unbemsl before my Soot*,
1 *y it; the White Crar.
Batyuahka' Gosudar !
"And tho Christian shall no more
Be crushed a* heretofore.
Beneath thine iron rule,
0 Saltan of ltambonl'
1 *vroar it! I, the Csar.
Batyuahka ' Goendar!"
lirnr It". m tfu .Irion,'.<• VvnAly.
His Landlady's Daughter.
"Yes, Mr. M Govern, she is coming
borne to-morrow."
"No? Kealiy—ah I I mean—ex
actly—yea !"
"Ah, Mr. M'Govern, if TOU could
know how I've toiled and slaved and
pinched that that girl could have an edi
catton ! I never had no learning my
self."
" Precisely—just so."
" And I made up my mind that Annie
should be a lady, and she is, sir, she
is—"
"Certainly—no doubt Really the
fact is—Would you mind?—l am very
busy."
Now the fact was that Mr. M'Govern
was determined not to take the slightest
interest in the w..rid :u his landlady's
daughter. Aud at tliis moment he was,
also, engag.d up i a piece of work that
not only absorbed all li.s energies, but
apparently presented difficulties that he
wa not likelv to overcome.
The case lay jn*c here. Mr. M 'Gov
ern, salesman ami commercial traveler
for a large dry-goods house, had recent
ly male the acquaintance in an adjacent
town, not as large, but fancying itaeif
quite as important, as New York, of a
young lady who had suddeuly inspired
him with the exaggerated sentiment we
commonly call love. At least he thought
so. And now the problem lay, how to
awaken a corresponding emotion in the
heart of the fair Wing to whom he felt
anxious aud <ie-irous to offer the devo
tion of a lifetime. If he had been rich,
he might have overwhelmed her with
boquete such as can only be produced
by a metropolitan florist. But he was
not rich. On the other hand, if, as he
expressed it to himself, he " had been
one of those newspaper .-chaps, who are
always saying things and writing things,
you know, and walk into a girl's heart
when they haven't even a respectable
pair of boots, or a shilling to get their
nair cut," even then he might have
done something. But, as it was, what
could he do ?
Finally an idea ooeurred to him. Bril
liant in epigram he was not, and cer
tainly could never hope to be ; bnt some
body had surely once said that "genius
is only indomitable perseverance," and
there was the hare and the tortoise, and
the little busy bee, and there was no
knowing but that if he gave a month to
it he might yet manage to get up some
thing she would like to "read—he could
certainly write as good a business letter
as any fellow in the office. But then it
ought to be in rhyme. Aud here an
other difficultv presented itself. Her
name was Arabella? Yet Petrarch had
certainly been in the same scrape ; there
isn't a word in the language that ends
likfe Laura. *
So he set valiantly to work, and on the
morning when Mrs. Gibson invaded his
sanctum to announce her daughter's ex
pected return, he had got just thin far :
"Midst rose* fair, oh! lovely Arabella-"
Stop ! there was cellar. But how to
work it in ? And here Mr. M'Govern
was met by a difficulty that has oppressed
many a great poet.
His landlady had broken the chain of
inspiration ; besides, it was nine o'clock;
he couldn't do better than go to the
office, for there was a fresh consignmeat
of goods that he was expected to dis
pose of. In the evening he would go
out and call upon Arabella ; which he
did, and at midnight he returned to his
grimy apartment on Mrs. Gibson's third
floor, more in love than ever.
But on the following evening, when
he came home from the office, be remem
bered Mrs. Gibson's announcement, and
at the tea table he looked for the young
lady in question. Not that he cared
what she looked like, but then—
" Hum! not a pretty girl, by any
means 1" but aomehow he looked again.
There she sat, a soft little body in a
grey merino dress, with a pair of very
pretty hands placidly folded in her lap.
What was the impression she gave him ?
Ha ! he didn't know. Now he had it:
she seemed so very, very—funny word,
wasn't it? well, there was no harm in
thinking it—clean, that was it. Perhaps
it was the awful grime of Mrs. Gibson's
front basement did it. Contrast is every
thing, you know. But ah ! she wasn't
like the divine, the beautiful—
"Mr. M'Govern, will you have
another cup of tea ?"
My ! what a sweet voice!
Now what was it made the old board
ing-house day by day so much less in
tolerable than it used to be ? Perhaps
it was the dust; Somehow the universal
dnst hod ceased to assert itself as for
merly, and became conspicuous by its
absence. Every thing in Mr. M'Govern's
room by some magic got into its right
place. Inanimate things may be totally
depraved, but somehow his showed an
evidence of reform tLat argued the ex
istence of saving grace Bomewhere.
Where on earth were the holes in his
stockings ? He missed them. Certainly
a bole in one' stocking is more honored
in the breach than in the observance;
but what a peculiar experience for a
eierk, in a bonrding-houss '
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
One day Mr. M'Govern happened to
remember what his laudlady had said to
him about Iter daughter's " cdteaUon."
tl\or woman 1 he oidu't wonder aome
big words bothered her; every now and
then he ettrs aero** one that puuded
him.) It might Ih that Annie would bo
niee to talk to. Hut he must get a safe
subject. How would politioa do*—here
he waa tolerably strong himself.
It is s humiliating confeaaiou to make
regarding oue's hero, bnt no sooner had
Clarence M'Govern begun to talk j*>b.
tica witli Annie than he sjeedily made
up his mind that ilia administration ot
our Republican government was the one
thing on earth that he kuew nothing
about. How humiliating it was' The
same thiug over agwiu. "If you ain't a
rich man or a newspaper chap, what .wti
von do with a girl ? They get their
heads packed full of things at school
that a fellow wbo'a got his liviug to earn
can't know anything about, aud if yon
haven't got any money— This world's
a beastly hole!" concluded Clarence
M'Govern; and IU that atuteineiit he em
bodied the sentiuieuta'of many a wiser
man.
Rut iu this ess* it was too M. Now
with Arabella, rich, besatilul and well
born, it was different; but to le extin
guished by Mrs. Gibson's daughter! he,
Clarence M'Govern— abominable! Was
he not a rising man, and were there not
indications of good birth in liis every
feature and in his very name? Tola 1
sure, he hated to attempt tracing his
lineage; it would bolt up against a
tailor's shop in the Bowerv in such an
aggravating manner. But clearly names
spruug from something. Why should
his auceetora have been named M'Govern
if they had never had anything to gov
ern?—impossible ! But such a plebeian
name as Gibson —bah !
But there was something very delight
ful in Annie's society when he kept out
of deep waters ; and when one day ahe
asked him, very sweetly : " Who is Ara
bella?" Mr. M'Govern felt that his cup
of happuieea was full. With Arabella
for a sweetheart and Anuie for a con
fidante, what man could want more ?
The flood-gates of hit soul were opened.
He certainly lacked the eloquence of that
much-to-be-en vied newspaper chap ; but
Anuie was sympathetic, and she got a
notion of his longings, hi* doubts, his
aspirations, quite as correct as if they
hail been mure elegantly expressed.
Ttien came the story of the sonnet that
wouldn't allow itself to be written, and
the stupid, uncontrollable, contumacious
behavior of that awful pollysvllable
Arabella.
" Don't put it iu at the end of a line,"
suggested Annie. " Get over it at once,
and have it out of the way."
"Capital!" said Mr. M "Govern.
"Could you. Misa Annie, give me an
idea, a suggestion, a line or two per
haps ?"
" What style will yon have it in ?"
" Weil, something a little like Tenny
son, with a dash of Shelley, just a trifle
of Swinburne possibly." He had evi
dentlv been reading tip.
" liow would this do?" suggested the
accommodating Anuie, with a twinkle in
her eve that somehow made Mr. M'Gov
ern blush to the roots of his hair :
•• ArsU-lU. gaie upon me
With thy soft and gentle etas.
the wrong that thoa haat done me :
All my troubled apirit Ilea
Fainting with its deep emotion.
I'nlM-leoa aa a tropic ocean.
And I seem as one who lieth
Low uoon his couch and dieth. "
" Beautiful 1 Go on."
Now the result of all this was that
within the next three weeks Miss Ara
bella received no less than nineteen love
poems, all signed " Claren *e M Govern "
in that gentleman's best style, with a
flourish underneath at least four inches
long.
But somehow this partnership iu
poetry did not seem to agree with An
nie, and before long she announced her
intention of visiting a friend in the
country. She "needed a change," ahe
said.
Curiously now, the holes in Mr.
M "Govern * stocking began to re-appear;
the dust resumed its normal sway, and
the only line of poetry the young man
could remember was
"Thou wiltoome no mors, gentle Annie."
which he whistled so lugubriously that
one morning, out of pure sympathy,
Mrs. Gibaou put her hea l inside his
door aud whispered, consul i ugly ;
" Lor' bless yon, yes, she will, Mr.
M'Govern; she's only gone for a
month."
Then Clarence began to wonder where
his thoughts had been straying ; and as
poetical effusions were no longer a pos
sibility, he resolved to see Arabella at
once, and put his fate to the touch, and
win or lose it all.
It was a night of wind and raiu ami
sleet as Mr. M'Govern left the station
and approached the Lockwood mansion.
Miss Arabella would see him in a few
momenta, and in the meantime would he
wait in the library ? Fancying himself
in solitude, he selected the easiest cluur,
and was just oomposiug his address to
the fair object of his affections, when a
small voice appealed to him pathetically:
" Pleathe, thir, thitli ith too thick, it
won't twitht."
"What is it, my child?" inquired
Clarence,affectionately, seating the small
petitioner on his kne.
•'l'th makiu'Lamp-ligbterth. Thithter
Bella gave me all thitli white paper. I
wanted new, but she tliaid it wath good
enough for me; there wath nothing on
it but some tbilly vertheth that big fool
—she tbaid bith name, but I forget—bail
written to her. Don't pinch me tho;
I'll theream."
Oh agonies of unrequited affection!
There, curling gracefully around a lamp
lighter, destined perhaps to light one of
his rival's cigars, were the tender lines:
" Arabella gaze upon me
With thy soft and gentle eye."
The rest were gone, unless they might
be discovered on the vicious morsel of
paper that "wouldn't twitht."
In leea than two minutes Mr. M'Gov
ern was in the street. Oh, the dismal,
dreary, sleeting iniquity of that night!
Where was the station ? It had disap
peared. Down in torrents rsme the rain,
freezing as it fell; slippery and more
slippery grew the pavement; only s cat
or some animal with claws could have
maintained a systematic perpendicular.
Suddenly down went Mr. M'Govern.
Perhaps it was a blessing, for the sud
den application of oold ice to the hack
of his head restored his consciousness of
where he was, and he turned toward the
railway station, having in his excitement
wandered half a mile in the opposite
direction.
Had that partial bath suddenly oooled
his paasion ? Clarence could not have
told, but somehow be did not feel as
miserable as he had expected, only very
wet, and the ride home seemed interm
inably long.
Two or three days passed by, and even
yet Mr. M'Govern was in a remarkably
serene frame of mind for a disappointed
lover. A week passed away, when sud
denly he began to feel a serious distress
in his left ankle. This struck him at
onoe as peculiar, as, according to all
precedent, the anguish should have pro
ceeded direct from his heart.
But pretty soon the invisible tweezers
of a moat malignant imp began to wrench
him in the knee; before long the grip
was upon his arm; thence it struok to
bis hip; and utterly in the power of the
enemy, Mr. M'Govern awoke one morn
! ing and found himself, not like the
| Philistines dead, bat unable to move a
i limb, and helpless before the eye* of
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
Kitty, the wwitree*, who, Ute ut the
morning. poked her hed into the room
wud inquired if he were ever to^et
up
' Oct up ?" no! Not for weeks upon
weeks <1 il Mr. M'Govaru run* from his
lawl. They blutvrtsl luin, they poulticed
him, UIPV dosed him, they drugged him:
tint all to no affect. The fever wool.!
have its way iti spite of the whole inedt
nhariuaoopuii*. Kind of 11, they placed
him iu the eliarge of a monstrous male
nui se, whom Clmvnfis in hi* impotent
furr, mentally denominated a "great
hulking brute," hut without whiwe***is
tauoe the nnfortuuate victim of Ins at
tentions oouht not eveu turu iu last.
Bow lis grew to hate the horrible ore*
ture who shawl over him .lav and night!
Eveu Mr*, Gibson s craaking lioota ami
high-pitched voice became a blessing
when, in the interval" of her domestic
labors, the looked iu upou the sufferer.
But Auuie—if he could haw h*d Anuiel
Finallr, iu his scmi-dehrium he began
to call aloud for her; ami Mrs. (liliaou,
whether out of the motherliiies* of her
own heart, or laa-ause she hail her own
ideas about Auuie and this thriving
young dry-good" salesman much
oannot la- expected of landladies with
marriageable daughters promised liirn
that Annie should la- sent for.
At last ahe came; ami whether the
-trength of the enemy was spent, or
whether he did not dare apply his
freezing, burning implements of torture
iu Annie's gentle presence, the demon
of rheumatism wa exorcised and peace
began to reign.
Mr. M'Govern began to fancy that he
hail lapsed into paradise, such was the
glory of convaleaconee. And Annie was
everywhere. Onoe more the dust dis
appeared, atul Clarence himself wit
nessed the magical gestures through
which it suffered auuiliilatiou; he also
saw the very process by which all hole*
depart from a stocking, save the one by
which the foot enters it, Annie's fair
fingers, that only wrote poetry under
compulsion, aaemed to luxuriate iu the
composition of broths and aonjm and
jellies.
And then, while the freah air of the
spring-time stole in through the fiower*
that Auuie hail placed in the window,
and Mr. M'Govern lolled Upon tbe sofa
in all the enjoyment of valetudinarian
luxury, a great strife arose in his mind.
He was thinking—of Auuie f No; of
Mrs. Gilisou. Gould he; could he*—
the blood of the M'Ooverps !
Hut when Auuie came ouce more, and
her little hands were busv arouud his
refructorv pillows, he found he could;
and he did.
" Auuie, Annie, 1 love you."
"And Arabella?"
It was a cruel blow, aud the spirit of
the invalid was roused. Excitement
began to gleam in the great hollow eves,
anu he had just tune to ejaculate, " Con
found her!" when Annie's hand wa*
over his mouth, and Annie's soft voice
reiterat.il the doctor's injunction to
"keep very quiet." Then, iu a tueck
voice, " Say yes; won't you, Annie?"
"I haven't !>een asked anything."
" Then pat your arm under my head,
and let me go to sleep. If you don t, 111
go into a rage, and make myself sick. '
Annie did as she was bid.
Somo two hours afterward, when Mr.
M"Govern omdesernded to awake, his
first distinct articulation was, "And'
Anuie, a-abont—your—your mother ?"
Annie withdrew her arm, and began to
look severe. " N.< a word about
mother. Tliere isn t such a cook iu the
universe."
"No; that is true." And sundry
visions of the days when he hail an ap|*-
tite began to rise before Mr. M'Govern's
eves. " Annie you are right. She shall
live with us."
And Annie, who hail rememlwred what
she had suffered from Arabella, replac
ed her arm, and, like a true woman,
answered, "Of courae." Harper't
Weekly.
Chained Amid the Flame*.
A recent fire in a Terrr Haute |lud.)
cattle yard resulted in the burning to
death of a large number of cattle. A
local paper says : The Are had not been
burning many minutes until the men
were at work taking the chains rapidly
off the cattle in both the old and the
new buildings and driving them out by
hun ire-ls into yards south of the shed*.
Bnt after getting into the dry old loft
the fire swept over the hay like a flood,
licking up the dry lioords with a fierce
roar. Very soon it was so hot that the
stock men had to get outside to save
their lives, and abandoned to their fab'
nearly '2OO of the poor beasts, chained
fast to the solid lieams, stauding closely
together in long rows. For a short time
they bellowed in the agony of the horri
ble'pain, then inhaled the stifling gas
and sank down writhing and dying.
About a doxeu jumped out of the west
side. Of these three were seen to swim
serosa the river ; a fourth tried to do it,
but was so weak that it stuck fast in the
mud on the bank A fifth rushed lawk
into the fire and perished. Among the
herd in the yard* were many which
were oonspisnous for their rod and blis
tered backs, and some were walking
about with the skin pooled off in
scorched Utters. One great steer rushed
out of the south eud of the building
long after it was completely enveloped iu
flames, bounded through the crowd and
staggered awav, his eves burned out of
their socket*, liis now* burned away, and
his whole body steaming like a hot ket
tle as he got into the cnol air. Another,
in the extreme southeast corner was un
fastened by the fire and was dragged
out by the tail, but oould not rise, and
was knocked in the head. The whole
unmlier of oattle lost was in the neighbor
hood of 185 or 190. They were worth
forty to sixty-five dollars apiece.
Nome Busy Workers ('ndergreund.
It is not generally known to what extent
we are indebted to worms for the
productiveness of our gardens and
fields. It has lieen found, by a series of
experiments carried out by a German
naturalist, that the tunnels made by
worms into the earth are frequently of
much service to plants whose roots
occupy the channels that have thus lieen
mailt-. The mold of oar gardens, and
fields, too, is improved to an almost
inconceivable extent by the borrowings
of this humble insect. Each worm in
less than a week pAeses through its
body its owu weight in mold, and the soil
thus produced is fine and light, and ex
tremely helpfnl to the growth of plants.
When it is remembered that there are
in every acre some .14,000 worms, aud
that in addition to forming every day
about thirty-seven pounds of fine mold,
they open up the subsoil and render it
fertile, we shall gain some slight con
ception of our indebtedness to these
apparently insignificant and generally
unthought-of little workers.
Llfe-Saving Service.
The general superintendent ot the
United States life-saving service has sub
mitted his annual report of the opera
tious of that service for the last fiscal
year. The leport shows that there have
been during the year 134 disasters to
vessels within the limits of the opera
tions of the service. On hoard these
vessels there were jnst 1,600 persous.
Estimated value of the vessels, $1,986,-
744 ; and of the cargoes, $1,306,588.
Number of lives saved, 61,461 ; lost,
thirtv-nine. Amount of property saved,
f1,7i8,647 ; amount lost, $1,579,065.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA.. THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1878.
AN KtiYFTIAN HAIRIAiIE.
('■rl*ws l ucowa Ihm grsall I" IS** KSs-
Site's KtaaSsia.
The following interesting account of
an Egyptian marriage is taken from l>r.
Kluuauiger's book of "I'pper Egypt:
Wheu then young mm wishes to have
a wife, tlie father and mother twit out iu
quest of a brule for him. Hoth young
jieople hate also to aoqille.*e m tlie
arrangement, they cannot In* fonW, ami
the marriage is not valid until on the
" um.ivering ami unveiling " the jiair
feel a mutual jileaaure. l'lie search for
the bride is generally uuueeeasary, as
tu two-thirds of the casi-s it lia* beeu
previously imttled that the young felh>w
is ti marry his female cousin, ami if he
has none, more distant relations are aj>-
plied to, aud last strangers.
Ou the evening of tlie wedding dav is
held the marriage banquet, ou which
great sums are often exjiemled by the
more wealthy. Everybody iu the |>la.!e
is invited t• tlie house of the bride s
parent's. Whole hecatombs (tins is
often literally correct) of sheep are
slaughtered and devoureil with a rapid
ity that has ISHVUI proverbial with the
most voracious ajqictite. Duly the very
jK.iiest iv>utlue tliems*lves to mvitiug
none but the member, of their intimate
family eirule. Iu the course of tlie day
the bride and bridegroom frequently
take a bath, to which they often proceed
iu grand procession. The chief festivi
ty d.w not take plaiv, however, until
nightfall. I'uder the red glow of crack
ling j>itoh torches, anud the uumehslious
noise of cojqier hand <lrums, the joyful
toot of a double reed pipe aud the hynius
chanted by the schoolmasters ami otli
er jiilburs of the faith, followed by half
the inhabitant* of the town, the bride
groom walks from night prayer iu tiie
uuwque to his own dwelling. H!r<- the
procession halt*. Tlie singer* form a
ring and sing around the hero of tlie
wedding, for whom tfie marriage torches
form an illumination. A transjiareiil
vernal down is sjinngiug on his full,
smooth cheeks; his stature giv hope
he will glow for some years stilt Hi*
voice, as it i* heard now ami then, sounds
childishly delicate Or struggles jaiii
fully with the voice of nicunoud. The
immature form of youth is clotlml in a
coat of scarlet ek ill for the first tttne,
Uie manly turban rtses on his head, aud
by his side hangs the marriage sword.
Solemnly, senoualy ami slowly he
iiasscM onward IU the Ulldst of a lew of
Ins comtuuiious. The jirocveaion halt*
lieiore tins or that h<<u*<-, and the chief
pciwouages or musicians are regaleil
with the sweetened coffee and aherlwt,
uiuskct shots itiiiiud in the tiiln*a* of
night, till at last his fathers house is
reached. UlUier the bride ha* already
ixime in another direction from the house
of her jiarent*. from the crown of ber
head to the aoul of her foot enveloped in
a cashmere shawl, which, like the red
e >at of the bridegroom, ia generally for
this day oulv. She is ombrm-vd and al
most carries! by two wive* and followed
bv a crowd of women and girls uttering
cries of joy. The house of feasting is
lighted up otitaide with guy lamjis and
lanterns, and lie re the people amuse
ttKVnselres with the dancing girl*, sing
er* and buffoons, or, if more seriously
disjswed. listen to tlie mysterious word's
of the Koran or tire themselves out in
xikra, while the bridegroom mount* to
the chambers of the women and lift* the
veil of her who ha* been chosen for him,
and wbeiu lie ha* never yet M-CB, unless
tormented by impatience, he has already,
m the oocaan >n ol the proc'aaiu from the
moa<]ne gone through this momentous
proceeding in the house of the bride.
Tliere she stands liefore him the little,
tender, lovely maiden, her eyes deeply
blackened with kohl, her hands colored
rod, her face dotted over wiUi beauty
jvta; her tender limbs can scarcely
support all her heavy ornament* of gold
and silver—lier armlet*, bracelet*,
anklet*, crowns, hair chains ami other
trinket*. The doll bride blualiea in
childish mtsleatv, ami, instead of her
husband, not seldom sialics— her play-
Umig*. He, however, intimate* to her,
in the name of God, the all-merciful,
that he ha* become her husband. If
the bridegroom has had reason* to be
satisfied with his bride, tlie women who
have been in attendance on the j>air
utter cries of pleasure, and the joy
JSUIMCS through tlie whole house ami ex
tend* to Uie people collected below.
hiring by Steam.
A theory which has frequently been
before the public of Iste years, and
which relates to an inq>ortant question
of domestic economy, lias apparently
been solved at Lockport, X. Y., and in
favor of the theory. The matter refers
to the heating of buildings by wholesale,
instead of singly, a* i* now the custom.
According to a Ijockport paper a large
school building, the largest hall in the
town, with other rooms in the satne
building, and forty large dwellings, are
all hr ated by steam made in a single
boiler five feet by sixteen in size, and
Isolde this two steam engines, one of
them more than half a mile from the
boiler house, are run by steam from the
same boiler, Alxmt three milesof Htroet
mains have lieen laid, extending through
fifteen *tre t* and supplied with steam st
u pressure of thirty pounds to the inch.
The total space warmed by this single
boilw is more than one million of cubic
feet. The originator of this system
claims to have proved that a district of
I four square miles can lie economically
wanned from one central point. The
company lay the pipes in the street* and
collect from tlieir customers the expense
of laying the service pipes from the
curbstone. Tlie style and expense of
the radiators in the houses are deter
mined by the taste or means of the
householders. The steam supplied by
this company may be put to the follow
ing practical use's; "The warming of
dwelling houses ; the cooking of fool ;
the washing and drying of clothes; the
running of steam engines and tlie extin
guishment of fires." Both pure dry
steam tor heating purposes, and hot
water from condensed steam for lattudry
purposes, are delivered in every dwell
ing. Tlie apparatus iu each dwelling is
under ready and perfect control. The
condensed steam furnishes to each house
an abundant supply of pure and soft
| water.
The cost of heating building* in this
manner i* not given, Imt it is probably
mnch lea* than the ordinary expense.
The fuel, being used iu large quantities,
can be bought at wholesale prices, and
being used at one central point thero
must be a waving in transportation,while
the saving in manual lalsr in the care
of fires must be very large.
The llatsvlan Way.
The Malay policemen of Batnvin, in the
island of Java, are armed with a singular
weapon—pitchfork. It is not, strictly
speakiug, a wespon at all, either of of
fense or defena.. It is the policeman's
aid. When at night he meets a drunken
sailor, noisy and obstinate, the police
man puts the fork around "Jacks
neck, and makes him walk along. Thai
Jack may move along willingly, the
Eoints of the fork are curved inward. If
e tries to escape, or move* his head
violently, lie tears his neck. He may
advance slowly, but move he muat, and
I in the way he propelling policeman di
reots.
Simple Remedies.
In country Ueigiiborbuoiia it la often
mx-eaaary to send miles for a ihiebir,
while even in the city the family phy
sician is not always to lie had on the
instant. Therefore it l. well to be
familiar with the many niluplc remedies
always at hand IU • > 'V household— the
jiroiupt use of which may frequently
save |aill, and sometimes life itself. ()f
Thee hot water probably ileaervea the
first rank, since the facility with which
it is to be had is not (infrequently a
matter of life or death. In convulsions
from teething, or in Violent attaekn of
croup, the physician wheu he comes
will probably at ouce order the hot
bath. The water for thin should In* just
hot enough to h<!ar the baud in for a
few ruiuutcs, and the jiatient should be
immersed tor ouly a moment or two,
takru out, wrajiped iu a blanket, aud
the operation repented as often as nec
essary. For a sprain, however aevere,
water as hot as can jHiaaiblv be endured
is among the lieat of ajijAicariofi*, aud
should Iw resorted to ut ouce. Hot lye
and wuter is even liettcr than water
alone, aud a Jilarter ol lve and red mild
is iu great favor with old-fashioned
nurses after the hot lve ami water has
been Used. Halt is another efficient
remedy in many eaaea. Halt water,
lined as a lotion, is excellent in cases of
jKiiaoniug from JHIISOU oak or ivy, and
tor the bite, of wtxal or seed tick*. F>r
this it should lie strong, while weak
salt water is good for weak or inflamed
eyes. We know of au old French ladv
who at sixty was able to read aud sew
without the aid of glasses, and who at
tributcd the |>re*ervation of her eye
sight to the regular application of
French brandy and salt, night and
morning, jn.t 1.-fore going to Iml and
immediately on rising. The jiropor
tions were a gill of bramlv to a teasjHsiu
fnl of salt—the ajijdtoafion t-> In* made
with the tq of the finger on the Inl of
the closed eye, along the lashes, keep
tug the eye closed until the brandy
dried. In households where lxsilly in
ilrfu'.ty or disease calls for hot rocks or
hot lndtles, a bag of hot salt will In*
found useful in their st< aJ. The salt
should In* heated ill the oven, aud pour
*l iut- the tug, which is 'hen sewed
up. If retains its beat longer than
either water or stone, does not acoreb,
and of course cannot break and wet the
Imhling. In addltlou, the (act that in*-
sidr. the beat which It afford*. the salt
is itself of value aa au outward upplica
turn in ease, of neuralgia or rheumatism.
A roasted otnon wrajiped iu brown
jiajn-r or in a nuwnjMper, and laid over
the ear a* hot as can In- borne, will r--
lieve the m<*t inteiisc earache when
arising from cold; ami ue have known
it successful where the jnuti calm* from
a ruing iuaide the head, ami other
remrxlies had faibxl. Hlnx-s of raw
union bn*l *m a plate iu the chamber of
a patient ill with infection* disease, act*
as a disinfectant and at- h"*e seen it
stated that when the dlacw- was small
tliev turned black ami -.erayed in
the ixmrM! of two or three noura, thus
jimving lioa tuuch atmospheric poison
they alssirb. An exchange is re*t*>*i
ble for tlie statement that sliced raw
onions placed nmler the arm-pita, will
relirva aveope ; act a* au autid<te fii
JMUS-IU which baa teen taken internally,
while no one ncxi* to be told of their
virtue* s* an ant-scorbutic. Wet s sia
will instantly relieve the pain caused by
the sting of a hornet or lee— the t xjla
nation Ix-iug that the sting j>oi<in is sn
acid and the mxlv an alkali. Of course
hartshorn is, for the same reason, even
better in such cases ; but tlie aula is
often at haml when the hartshorn u not.
And wheu the ating ia received out of
door*, away from Uie house, fresh earth
will l>e found to mitigate the jam until
oilier aj'plicationa can In* used. Mus
tard an i warm water sll rrv-l together
is an excellent emetic, and wheu ipeoac
; or tartar emetic i* not at hand it alwml.l
given at once. Warm aoajwnds will
serve the same purpoae iu an emergency
—when nothing elm* is to t>e had —and
a life may often depend upon the
prompt action of an emetic. M<wt
coiintrv housewives are familiar with
the virtue* of l.ne*et, horehouud, wild
cherrv ark ami the like. Many a
country lenty dntifnlly drinks sarsa
panlla"tea every spnng for the sak. of
her complexion. I'he suctw** of many
a patent medicine is due to the healing
|impcrtie* of these old-faaliioneil n.ta
iunl herbs, au.l where such are needed
it ia surelv better to use them in their
|>urity at liome than combined with we
know not what nostrum* wheu liought
from the druggist*.
A Renaare From Far Alaska,
A voung man who was in Alaska some
lour*rears ago fell in love with the only
voung lady on the island, s girl of fifteen,
who was )riwessed of extraordinary
beanty, and whose hsir fell lielow her
knees'. But hs wa* unable to com
municate the "old, old story to her,
for she did not understand a word of
1-lngbsli, nor did he s|c*k Russian. In
his dilemma the arrival of the priest on
j his ouce-in-two-year* visit wss a god
send and to him he made known his
love. The priest, knowing the voung
man to l>e possessed of s high character
and a fair fortune, thought it wns a lucky
chance for the young lady to escape
from s life of such isolation, and he
williuglv persuaded the girl s mother
(her father was dead) to consent to the
match, but the young lady herself was
not to b panm*l*il. Hh* argtiM that
she hail never spoken to the young man
who expressed such a desire to be her
husband, and only seen him twice, nUl *
he had been on the island only forty
eight davs; but her objections were
overruled, and the marriage took place.
After living in Alwki for month*.
Hie voung man brought his bride to his
home in Cleveland, 0. Mhe was astou
i islicd at the fashions she saw, and de
clared that nothing would induce her to
wear her hair otherwise than flowing
a* she hail always worn it. But before
twenty-four hours bail passed her
, mother-in-law hsd persuaded her to try
the effect of braids around her broad
and ahapely head; and now she dresses
as much in the fashions s* anv lady in
! Cleveland. Last vesr he# husband wit
! to Alaska again *>•! brought home tlie
vounger sister, who is eleven years of
ace and promises to be a* beautiful a*
tMelder The mother, l>ereft of both
her children, still clings to her home on
I one of the islsads of Alssks.
Ills Chief Anxletj.
Wednesdav evening a boy about eight
years old, who had become bewildered
down town and whose ear hail tieen
nipped by the frost, was taken to the
central station to get thawed ont and
cheered up. The men in charge talked
to him in n fatherly way, pnt liniment
on his ear, and the boy seemed to be
foil of grit. After a time, however, the
big tears were observed rolling down
hi* cheeks, and the captain said :
"Why, bnb, I wouldn't feel bail. It
isn't much of a frost-bite.
" But it shows, don't it? tremblingly
asked tha lad. ....... ~ ~
" Why, yes, a little bit; bnt I wouldn t
care for that."
" Maybe you w-wonldn't!" gasped the
hoy, "but you h-hain't engaged to -to
lie married us I am, and that make* a
b-big difference!"
They couldn't argue against that, and
the boy wept bitterly. Anfroff Free
Pre**.
The KU Peasantry.
0u million tit wit inhabit Hwitaerland.
About three million.of |*.>pie, also, out)
IVIW to I lirr>e jieople. Kiu'li family ta en
titled tolrt-f pasture for oue cow ou the
paxtalt lot*, 1 put the dow* and the peo
ple into tin. aim-iatiou Ixwmuae theouws
are till! wealth of the people, Olid the
word Alps muiiuk high {Mature. A cow
i worth here aud now, a litiudred dol
lar., gives thirty pnuni* of milk daily,
which produce, two huudrod weight of
cheese tu a season. These oowa are
driven up the inounUuiis as the season
udinmx B, ami down when it in time for
them to descend, ami so they get all
there ut to lie eaten a. it grows. Three
person, are aaaigned to every forty cows;
they milk them ami make the cheese for
the whole nnmlter of owners, ami wheu
the product in sold, the profit* are div
ided among them according to the uum
ber of cow. of each. The term rhalrt
is properly applied only to the bulging,
of those cow-keepers, hut it is siao
given to Hwisa dwellings generally. The
small buildings scattered over the ibid*
ar- for hay, cheese, ami shelter. The
cow. are petted ami carefully attended
to. I'erhajM none of them became so
intelligent as to read their names on a
card |.ited at the stalls they are to eu
ter, an it w:i. jestingly affirmed of my
friend Mr. Starr's cows, at Litchfield,
Echo Farm. But each canton lia* his
Kan: dr I'aoAcs, s melody that the
peasant sing, on the hills and respond
from the vales, which is merely a eow
owll; in German a Kuhreihen; "rows of
cows " in Kuglish, limaM they come in
a row in answer to the call. As the
making of butter and cheese is the great
business of the people, the raising of
grss. for winter feed is a matter of prime
importance, and to it they l**nd all their
energies ami ingenuity. The smallest
and most obscure sj.it where grans can
lie made to grow is carefully tilled, ami
the produce trausjsirtixl on the back or
bead of the peasant, man or woman.
Where we would think it unsafe to go,
tliev work without fear, and are aatisfled
with the jiitUnce of hay they carry to
the Itarn.
T1 if Bwiss wiflnen work in the fields,
hut tiie men are not idle. They an iu
gunions as well :ut industrious, making
the work, for watches by hand, carving
wood into the uiost fantastic aa well aa
useful shapea, turning out tova for for
eign children, and doing anytluug to earn
a little mouey. Tlo- time was when
Swiss men hired themselves freely to
the kings of other countries ** soldiers,
but they have ceased to seek money by
such pursuits. They are wide-awake to
the education of their children, and we
meet the girls and buys going from
school with their satchels filled with
book*. Many of the young men go to
foreign cities seeking their fortunes; ami
the fluancial, scientific and learned
world, has often beard of their banker*,
ami merchants, anil scholars. The teach
ers of Hwiteerlnml have their oonven
lion., and arc quite as vuthuaiaslir in
tinjimvuig the miales of education as
teacher* in the United States.
Th?y take paiua to make tlieir dwel
ling* comfortable, and some of them are
models of ueatneas a* well as conven
ience. But tliere is the same difference
among lliem in tins matter as in all other
c. uintrn*. Tle thrifty people keep
thing, in good order ; repairing, enlarg
ing, embellishing, ami making sncli im
pr ivemetite as tlieir taste and means per
mit. The nuro!er of uew houses going
up i. surprising. <bie would think
something had oceurrd to give a new
start to business ben*, when it is de
jiresMxl elsewhere. Hut tlie lew thrifty
i ami more sin ft lees of the jieople have the
house, the burn, and the cattle shod all
under one rts.f. How i. it jsiasible for
the fmnil v to hsve health in sucb circum
| stanow * The women, etpoaed to the
weuther ami loanv hardshi]>., have com
pie lions aluiaat tiie color of leallier, ami
very f< "v'of Ue is<aaut women, whom
. we see in the tiehls or the street*, are in
any aeu.a good-looking, bnt, taken as a
' nation, the poor people show plainly
i that they are hard-worked and 111-favor
sj, .Vcic York Oh •error.
A One-lagged Hall road.
The " one-legged" railway in the
Bradford (Pa.) oil region is attracting a
good deal of attention. The construe
tion of tlie road is simple, rapid and
easy. On the hard ground logs six feet
long, and from a foot and s half to two
feet in diameter are placed at right an
gle* to the line, and from twelve to
fifteen feet apart, the distance varying.
In these logs vertical sawed jxwts, four
teen by fifteen and one-half inches, arc
dovetailed and wedged. These vertical*
vary in height, and bv tlieir length the
grade of the road is regulated. On the
top of these vertical* the horizontal
pieces to which the rails are spiked are
laid, with their ends squarely against
one another. These sleeper* are ten
inches by fifteen and one-half in thick
ness. By s proper arrangement of ver
tical and 'horizontal pieces of timber, the
timbers on which tiie rails laid are
kept firmly in position, and two wooden
rails, three feet and a half below the
top of the iron rail, and twenty two
inches ajiart, are spiked to the vertical
post*. Across streams and swampy
ground idle* arc driven. On this one
rail a seddle-ahaped car is mounted and
sup|K>rtod by two wheels, double flanges.
The gondol's car now mounted on the
portion of the road completed is twenty
two feet long, nine feet wide, and weighs
over 7,000 pounds. The ear is s double
decker, there being room for freight in
the body of the car and on each side of
the saddle. Twantvtwo inches below
a plane tangent to tlie upper wheels, at
the lowest point of their eircumference,
four smsller wheels are placed in s hori
zontal positiou, and in the same plane,
their circumferences leing twenty-two
inches apart. These run against the
wooden guide-rail#, and keep the ear in
position. The wheels are attached to
standards connected with the iron frame
work of the car.
Twenty Impolite Thlnjr*.
I. Loud and boisterous laughing.
1 Reading wheu other* are talking.
3. Talking when other* are reading.
4. Cutting finger nail* in company.
5. Joking others in company.
6. Gazing rudely at strangers,
7. Leaving a Granger without a neat.
8. Making your*elf hero of yonr own
atorv.
9. Beading aloud in company without
being aaked.
10. Spitting aKiut thehouae, amoking,
or chewing.
11. Leaving chnreh before worship is
closed.
12. Whiaperiug or laughing in the
house of God.
13. A want of respect and reverence
for senior*.
14. Correcting older persona than
yourself, especially parents.
15. Receiving a present without an
expression of gratitude.
16. Not listening to wb it one i* say
ing in company.
17. Commencing to eat aa soon as you
get to the table.
18. Answering questions that have
been put to other*.
19. Commencing talking before other*
have finished speaking.
20. Laughing at the mistakes of
other*.
"Surely yon must !>e tired, aunty.
I can't think how it is you are able to
work so long." " Lawks bless you,
my dear, when 1 on*t sita down to it
like I'm just too laay to leave off.' '
TERMB: Stf.OO a Yoar, in Advance.
An Extraordinary Escape.
In Uie winter of lH73a vert uusea
worthy im-rehaut sailing-veeael (a Hia
meae), the Tye Wat, eet out from tiie
north of China to Huun, with a cargo of
I own-cake, etc. The weather became
' excessively stormy, and at laat the old
vessel actually went to pieces many
1 miles from land in the Gulf of Pe-che-le.
The crew consisted of eight Malays,
who worked the ship; the captain, an
Englishman; and in mhiition was one
Chinese woman. They had no bout* on
board, no time to make a raft or means
of doing so; and, as tbeveaael was rapid
ly sinking, the wretched people looked
around in despair, when a hope of
escape struck one of theui aa hia eye
lighted on a large wooden water tank
which was on deqg. This tank was
strongly made, about six feet long, five
feet across and five feet high, with a
large hole at the top into which a man
. could aqucete, and a tight-fitting cover.
There wo* not a moment to loa; a hole
was bored in the bottom to let ont the
water it contained, then quickly plugged,
and all ten squeezed themselves ID hur
riedly, put oil the lid. and awaited their
late. In a quarter of an hour after they
wtue tint, packed the .hip sunk under
them. Tliev first whirled round, and
then floated off freely, and felt them
selves rolling and tossing about fright
fully an a stormy sen. The weather was
intensely oold—so much that the uncles
had hung from the rigging of the aunl > n
slup the day before; and being ao tigi.l
ly packed, ju-rhajM it was fortunate the
weather was ao oold. In their hae to
save life, they had brought only pi t f
a ham which the captain had auatched
tip, and a bottle of brandy; and thoa
these poor crest urea were biased about
from day to day, hungry and thiraty,
jostled like potables shaken in a barrel;
now and then, when they dared, letting
in a little air by raining the lid. The
< situation strongly reminds one of Gul
liver iu his box when the eagle carried
him out to sea from the land of the
Brobdiguags.
On the fifth day the Malays said they
must kill and eat the English captain:
but the t'hiuese woman (to the credit ol
her sex i vehemently opposed them, and
succeeded in saving him fur that day.
Ou the sixth day the Malay, said they
must cat her; but the captain in turn
.aTed her for that day. It ia difficult to
imagine a more horrible situation than
that of this poor Englishman, surround
ed by eight starving men, determined to
■at him—which they certainly would
have done had not an English vessel
rescued them on the aaveuth day. It
happened thus The captain of that
vessel sighted a large box tossing on the
wstern, aui at first never thought of
1 minding it, ouly supp*ating it part of
some wreck, a* the weather was ao bad;
but aa he looked, to hia utter surprise a
head popped up through a bole in the
centre and then vaniahnJ. to be followed
by another figure, making frantic ges
ticulations. With much difficulty this
strange IMIS *aa GOT alongside, hauled
np, and its poor inmate* dragged out to
light, barely alive, and emaciated fear
' fully, finding the man-bole easier to jawa
out of than to get into; which was re
' versing the fable of the weaael who got
into the barn. The captain of the reacn
' ing veaselfvKs a kind Englishman, and
did all in Ins power to restore hia guest*.
They were still in the Gulf of IV-ehe le,
' and did not reach the port of Hwatow
sooner than six days, where a doctor was
■ called iu to visit the** liberated "Jacks
r in-alxx." He sanl they were a singular
proof <>f how much human lieings can
endure. All lived and recovered per
' fectiy. Certainly they were all young
people. The Malaya went home. The
r English cajitaiu went to Siugajiore, and
" ahowid himself really grateful to the
! p<air Chinese woman who hail saved him
from the jaws of the Malaya— Chmmbtn'
' Journal,
i
CMMtft Hair Shmk
One of tbe moat popular, if no< the
most |x rpiilw, of ladies' wr*|>* is tbe
rirncln' hair ahswl. Thane shawls are
made of the wool of the Thibet gost.
which ia a native of tbe mountains and
valley*of Tartnry. From the mountain
goat* oome the ooaraer wool, while the
fleece* of all the animal* are sent to
CaeLmere, where they are cleaned, spun
and dyed. After the yarn hasbeea care
fully sorted it 1* given to the weavers,
who are faruialied with the design* to be
followed, and these design* hare Iwen
changed but very little during the lapse
of ago*. The labor ujxiu a single alimwl
ia very great, a* nometimi* a shop fnll
of (ipmitiTM ia busy upon it for an en
tire year, and although the District of
Cashmere nan produce 80,000 shawl* in
a vear, the yield from its loom* fall* far
abort of that number. Then- seem* to
be no eicluaive market for their sale,
and the oonseqneuoe ia tiial merchant*
iu Calcutta or Bombay tind them con
atautly accumulating on tlieir hands,
anil it often happen* that an American
commission house will rewire an invoice
of these shawls, which tliey endeavor to
dispose of to dry goods dealer*. L*rge
consignment* are sent to Lonibm, where
they are annually sold at auction, anil
where agents from all parts of the world
oome tobuy. As tha purchases are all
based u|K>u private opinions, the esti
mates made vary widely, and the agent*
often ruin the houses for which they act.
Iu spit* of the panic, there lias been a
steady increase in the demand for cash
mere sli* wis. They are being sold, bow
ever, for less than their <*> st, *ud tins is
due to the fact that there has been a
gradual accumulation of them. Leading
Arm* are selling camels' hair shawls to
day at a price which, if the cost of traus
jwirtaUon and importation were removed,
would hardlv, if traced Iwmk ao far.
allow a margin of (15 for what mav have
been the work of several people for
month*. Shawls that many years ago
would have coat the importer $l6O are
now being sold for SSO over the counter.
Consequently, where one shswl s day
wss considered a good show, half a doaen
s day, during the busy season, are what
Arm's dealing in them now attempt to
sell st retail In consequence of tbe
pre*cut|nnproAtable nature of the busi
ness, the Cashmere manufacturers have
almost ceased making shawl* America
st present ranks as the country import
ing the largest number of shawls, and
Boston has the credit of disposing of
more, proportionately, than any city in
the world.— Exchm*t/e.
"Wise Before the Event."
A poor woman, says the Sheffield
(Eng.! Telegraph, lay very ill in her
smntily-fnrniahed home in Sheffield.
The doctor was sent for and came.
He at onoe saw that hers was a very
Save case, and that ahe hail, aa he
ought, little change of recovery
even if she oonld get the nourishment
her illness required. A* he was about
to leave, the question was put:
" When should we send for you again,
doctor?" , , ,
"Well," was the reply, as he looked
at the poor woman, and then at the
wretched surrounding*, " I don't think
yon need send for me again. She can
not possibly get better ; and to save
you further trouble I'll just write you
out a certificate for her burial."
And he did. After the doctor de
garted, the woman got better rapidly,
he has now completely recovered, and
1 goes about carrying her burial cer
i tificate with her.
NUMBER 12.
KA KM. UAKIiF.K AND HOUHEHOLB.
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solve ml drink two teaapeonfula of fine
ly powered elurcutl is oee-lialf ■ tum
blerful of water; it will relieve is fifteen
miu iite.; take Scull it* powder nn buor
afterward.
Hcaorci/OcaSoaa Era*. —The common
blue violeta, wbicli grow wild in many
plane.; Uke the top and root and waeij
dean, and dry; make a lea, and dnuk
several times a day; waab the eyea with
it eaob time.
FOB Brass. —Charcoal baa beeo die
covered to lie a cure for Imrna. By lay
ing a pieoe of cold charcoal upon the born
the pain subsides immediately. By leav
ing the cbarooal on one bour the wound
i. healed, an baa been demon.irmted on
several occasions.
A H *j Waaa. —Hage tea ia oo of the
very beat preparations for washing and
dressing the hair. The hair abould I*
carefully bruahad and braided in two
finn braids, and the root* rubbed witb
a aponge dipped in lukewarm aaga tea.
The braids can then be waabed and dned
with a towel. Tlxia preserves the color
of the hair, and keepa the aeaip clean.
Comdm Cctb. —Accidental out* from
knives, cutting took, acytbea, etc., are
more likely to occur on the face and
limb* than ou the body. All tbal ia re
quisite in general to bring tbe parte
together aa accurately an possible, and
to bind them up- tbia i* nasally done by
adhesive plaster, when the cut ceases to
bleed. Nothing ia ao good for tbia pur
|hmc aa paper previously waabed over on
one side witb thick gum water, and then
dried; when ami it is only to be wetted
with the tongue. When the cut bleeds
but little it i* well to euuk the part in
warm water for a few miuntea, or keep a
wet cloth on it, Tbia retnovea inflamma
tion and pain, and alao a tendency to
lam ting, which a cut givee aome persona.
If the Heeding be too copious, dab the
;>art with a rag wetted with crooaute.
< rmrkrl Itmrnl la Hma.
The following qucation and answer is
from the New Y -rk Sun t lam the eon
of a blacksmith, and sometimes in shoe
ing horses I find one with a cracked
hoof, and more or leva lame in conse
quence. Can von tell me what causes
these cracked b.v<fa,eod the beet method
of management in order to • are the de
fect ?
The cause, of cracks in the hoof walla
are varioua ; sometimes they oome from
internal fever*, founder, or neglect in
baring tbe shoe* properly adjusted.
The hair which natural!* oovers tbe
coronet, if cot away, pernuU the dirt
and water to get in la-tween the flash
and hoof, eauectally if there happeua to
be a alight abraenm of Ihe parte, and,
through neglect, tlic crack enlarges un
til it become, a senons defect sou mala
dy. When a mack i* discovered on the
ivironet, it should be coated with pine
tar, and a small piece of rope wound
about tbe top of the hoof. If the crack
has progreetif i downward for an inch or
more before it is observed, it abould be
carefully cleaned out; if the foot ia in
flamed apply a poultice, and if the edges
of tbe crack can be bronght together a
.lender nail may be driven through the
edge, and riveted. Large crack, are
sometimes filled with gatta-perrha or
some similar substance that will hold
the edge, immovable until the hoof
grow* down, and a new and aound one
formed. For what ia called quarter
crack, a bar-nboe is mdiapeneable.aooth
ing applications should be Constantly
applied, and the crack kept free from
dirt or anything which will prevent the
rapid growth of a new hoof from above.
When the new one shows itself, keep it
well coveted with a bandage, over which
pour a little melted shoemakers' wax, or
s mixture of boos wax, roain end tallow.
■ir* mm Caul*.
There ere aevend kind* of liee which
infest farm stock. Some confine them
selves wholly to the horwe end aaa, other*
, i to the at end cow, while enother isi par
► ticularly troublesome to calve*. All the
kind* may be mlslt treated by ra'jbiw
strong wood a*l tee into the heir, or with
i sulphur ointment. No peremtee can
i withstand the fnmee at sulphur, end it ,
. is verr oasv to rob down e quantity of
, flower* of 'sulphur in whale oU, or even
common lard. Bnt killing the lice on i
the animal* ia hot a temporary relief,
nnlee* all tlie building*, and yard*
\ where the oattle sleep are alao thorough
l It olftaMxi. Scatter wood fiwlT .
, '■ aitout tlie stable* in dry weather, and
I use sulphur in the aame way. a* a few
I dime'* worth will cover quite a large j
•nrfaoe. Stock cannot thnve when tor
f mented with lioe, or other parasite* ; bnt
, eleanlinaaa i* a great eradkiator at #uoh
f enemiee.
• Grappling far a La*t Cable
\ The " Great Eaatern " wa fitted out
. i with apparatn*. which may be liken el
!to an enormous fishing-hook and line, ,
| and w* aent to the mot where the
, ; treaanre bad l>eeo lost. The hue was of
hemp interwoTrn with wire. Twice the
, cable waa seited and brought almost to
, the surface. Twice it alipped from the
1 disappointed fishermen, oat the third
I time it waa secured. It was then nnited
I wiUi the cable on board, which wa*
. 1 •• paid out" until the peat steamer
j again reached Newfoundland, and a
second telegraph-wire united the two
i continent*.
Tlie scene on board a* the black itne
I appeared abo re water wa* a retting
, tieyood description. It was ftret taken j
i to the testing-room, and a signal intend
. I <hl for Valcntia waa aent over it, to prove
whether or not it wm perfect through
. I ont ita whole length. If H had proved
to be imperfect, all the labor spent upon
it would have been loat. The electric- t
; \ans waited breathleaaly for an answer. ,
r i The clerk in the signal-hoaae at Valeo
, itiawaa drowsy when their memage
, j tMune. and disbelieved his ears. Many
disinterested people, and even some of
r the promoters of the cable, did not
, think it possible to recover a wire that
t ' hut! sunk in thousands of fathoms of
, water. But the clerk in the little
station connected with the shore-end of
. the cable of 1865 suddenly found lum-
| self in communication with a vessel situ
ntd in the middle of the Atlantic. The
delay aggravated the anxious watchers
i on the Rhip, and a second signal waa
/ 1 aeut. How astonished that simple
„ j minded Irish telegraph-operator was !
Five] minutes passed, and then the
auswer came. The chief electrician
gave a loud cheer, which waa repeated
bv every man on board, from the cap
tain down to hie servant.— William
d H. Itideing in SL Nicholas.
A Cheap Smoke House
Dig a narrow pit from twelve to
eighteen inches deep, throwing the
earth all out on one aide. From near
the bottom of this pit dig trench sufficient
length to hold one or two joint* of stove
pipe, at such an angle as will bring
the end away from the pit to the sur
face of the ground. Over the end of this
pipe set a oommon flour barrel or large
cask, as may be needed, ami, having
removed both heads, bank up around it
with a little earth so that no smoke can
escape at the bottom. Hang the hams,
Mjt., n it, using some round sticks te ran
through the strings. Putting s oover on
the stacks will leave space enough for
draught to let the smoke pats freely.
Build a smoke fire of corn cobs damp
hard wood or saw dust, in the pit, and
you will have s cheap, tale and efficient
smoke house, with very little trouble.
Items of Intonate.
Army Utorolora-Mafh*"**' 1 **"
T> Hoir to find a girl out—Call when ab
isn't in
The Japanese amy department to
t shout to erect • large manufactory ot
i rite. • fm*
A silk worm oooanmee, within thirty
j days, (10,000 times ito own weight ot
! mulberry loaves.
"Papa," aaid e Httle girl, "gir* ■
1 ride an yotu knee, won't you ? He took
the little gallop at onoe.
i Why does mooter alwnyu have ha
feathers smooth ? Because be always
> earriee his ooaab with him.
-What ia the dtekrenee between a hiU
and a tell? One ia hard to gat up and
the other ia hard to get down.
tisathsof items attnmnlos
Wsoao make atveiy ttoe,
leavitm all ear bain Intent as.
ii Qoatrsung lite hungry otona.
What ia the different* between a
hungry nod a glutton ? One longs
to eat, the other eats too loog^
" I can't undertake, wife, to gratify all
roar whims; it would be aa much ae my
life ia worth." " Oh, air, that's nothing.
Teas evar thaa . from vhfldbeed a hear
I W.'v asm our fastest boas, dooay-
Tee tie wa eat. the better s soar—
We mat hav. tmakebmt cites to-day
•• It ia feared that the extreme cold
Ton know the rest Hame
old waii about peach Ttetroii
Prm /Vm.
A man died In Austin, Nev., from the
effects of swallowing a small particle of
egg shell, which lodged in an intestine
and lacerated it
ttoy. Owml U Dec,
W. shall iievw havs lock
'To ( e rid of the national pester sad dtet.
| TUI ee put oar omu tea
And ooffse. snd th.
rNoo-arfrtngwit Jspaimm pwstemaa-you lot.
With all his treachery and mean
! tricks, there's one thing the Indian
ought to have a little credit for. He
never steads an umbrella.—Otorinnu ii
Itfaiijast Table.
Every man who makea any preteu
; atooa to sight must have seen u snow
squall some time in his life, but show
u* the individual who ever heard one
squall. —Oil flfy Derrick,
urn axn death.
Oa pareal knew a naked, oew-r tedd
Ww]hq| tbuQ iftt it, •"till# iD trotux! lb##
J tie tefuua, waking m ttotoagla* "MP-
Thoe tteo ettMl ante hte all around ttee
weap-
A pot of lard exploded at Kingston
the other dav. and a lean woman imme
diately got ImL Hb. got it all over,
(rum Ukl to foot, aiul m •• if
had just taken a trip to Grease.—V©r
risfown Herald.
The publisher of a weekly newspaper,
in Illinois, print* in each number s
chapter of the Bible, and upon being
ridiculed for it by its contemporaries re
mark. editorially: "We publish noth
ug but what ia neara to our readers."
A young lady in Newtownfoounty, Ou,
ia puaseoaed by a strange monomania.
She fancies herself a baby, and has not
spoken a word in three years, although
her power* of eoovertetteo uaed to be
of an order higher than the average.
■■Dili.
The bod that soon oa higtert wu*
Beads oa the groaad ter levty aest ,
Ate ate that tote must amwtty teg.
abwi la the teste *tea all thmgs rest
In Un sad nighttarak wa sea
What honor hath hamtety.
Am/w ff the Indian defendant* in a
land suit lately brought in San Francis
00, were Ellen Green, Mary Black, Jack
White, Lucy Bed, Flora Pink, Simon
Tight. Bartholomew Laooe, One Cheats.
Two Cheats, Square Pill, Bound Pill,
Sour Pill. Soft Pill, Hard Pill, Tough
Pill and Slow Pill
Influenza affords a familiar example
of an epidemic disease, a whole com
munity Wag often attacked in the
(*,xilfe of a few hours. From this it may
lie inferred that the occurrence of tins
disease ia connected with eomeparticular
condition of the atmoepbei*. but what
that condition ia, is out yet known to
A diatingnisbed politician, while
nonreraiiig with a ladnhc other evening,
t*ram*> pjned by bar attention to a
heantif nl dog that waa nating it* bead
odaflduglj u> bar lan and impatiently
t.y~t " Ho ia it that a lady of your /
intelligenceoao be to food of a dog?"
•' Bmanae be necer talka polittoa, " wan
the prompt reply.
Recent rscaratkKM at Big Boone
manly. Ky., bare brought to light an
immeuae number ut animal remain*.
thn are immaoae teeth, taak,
iawi with teeth in them, riba, spina!
rolnmna—in fart there are bonea for
nearly everr part of the aaaatodon, be
aidw many thai are not like any ever
lwior* found in that place.
Inquiry into the wicked way* of Phi la
delphia'a mock-auction men reveal**!
that thav himl two or three women to
Attend the sales, carefully inspect arto
eles that were to be eutd, start the bid
ding at the article's coat price, and run
it no among themselves until an out
d putia a bid. I wa. then
promptly knocked down—to the out
aider. *
A poat-ofltae clerk in Rnssia wne
found to be constantly in trouble with
the stamp*. The account* would come
wrong. Sometime* there wa* not enough
monrv in return for atamp* sold, and on
other" occasions there waa too much.
This made dishonesty on hi* part lew
likelv, but it was incomprehensible liow
lie could make the aoeauct* so eu
taejded. At kaagth it waa discovered he
waa color Mind, and oonld not distin
guiah red from green atamp*.
The sea mouse ia one of the prettie-t
creature* that livea under water. It
sparkles lik* • diamond and is radiant
with all the eotors of the rainbow, al
though it livea in mud at the bottom of
the ocean. It should not be called *
mouse, for it is larger than a big rat It
is covered with scales that move up and
down as it breathe*, ami glitter like gold
shining through a fleecy down, from
which fine, silky bristle* wave, that
constantly change from one brilliant tint
to another. *
Aa WUh*m drrw hi* Ba*y near.
Re whispered to his bride:
"Though queer it sound* T lore, my dear.
To he* by Swy'* **d* " —Rxrhamy.
When years hare paaeed *ad Sue hi* head
Ha* clutched, u wires oft do,
Poor Will will wish that ho had wed
Some other *ort of Sioux.
tkuUm OW*
Dom Pedro, while returning to Brazil
in the autumn, wrote <m the steamer *
letter to an American friend, which let
ter contained thie passage: "In few
Java I will see my native land, which
God has so wonderfully endowed, and I
hope that that which I have learned dar
ing my absence from her will enable me
to be useful to her. One thing I can
truly tmr is, that I return with earner:
longings, and with a passion stronger
than ever for program."
Professor Rudolph in a lengthy paper
on the sun says ? A molteu or white
hot mas*, 855,000 miles in diameter,
equaling in bulk 1,260,000 worlds like
our own, having a surrounding ocean of
gas en lire 80,000 miles, vulcanic forces
that hurl into tlie solar atmosphere lnm
inoua matter to the height of 160,000
miles ; drawing to itself all the worlds
belonging to our family of planets, and
holding them alt in their proper place* ;
attracting with such superior forces the
millions of solid and stray masses that
are wandering in the fathomlesss abyss
that they rash helplessly toward hiui
and fall into hia fiery embrace.
We always thought that some people
talked all over in animated conversation,
the French, for instance, but we were
not prepared to learn that everybody
did. * The telephone reveals this strain •
fact. It seems that this instrument will
eonvey audible speech if the sounding
instrument is applied to any part of the
body of the speaker instead of his lips,
be sounds, however, are not quite so
i distinct. This discovery will donbiK**
lead to the multiplication of the Bound
ing instruments, so that they may not
ionly ha applied to the lips but to vari
ous other pacta at, the body, and there
by tender speech still more audible at
; the further end of the line.— i>r. E. B.
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