A Lyric,
Ths cnltured flower* in garden* bloom
And matter wide thsir rich perfume
For the msrry earele** no til;
The rose. the lily, mignonette,
Oeraninm*. the pnrplr violet.
And ih* ruddy mangold.
Rut many a 1 ttle wayside flower
Ha* had a *wwot ]Hir*na*ive power
To cheer the penaive mind
The asphodel. the golden rod,
The daisy blooming on the <vl,
And nodding in the wind.
Reside the path of life are xtrown
Some flower* that we have never known
Or heedtjd a* we panned;
They ahed then fragrat oe, fold their leaves
A* though aoiue inward apint grieves.
Such aweetneaa cannot last.
Nongs Unsung.
Tis net the harp's wild string aloue,
Wbo-e music charms the lavished breast .
Ths thought of a remembered tone.
The sinking of a turd that's flown.
Oft fill v.* with a deep unrest
Which music's most consummate art
Oan never waken in the heart.
Within the master's teeming train
What chord has swel'rd. what anthem striveu,
Struggled for utterance in vain.
Cried cut for life, but died again
Unknown but to its native heaven ,
And left the mourning sons of earth
To find above it* perfect birth I
Within each separate human soul
Live melodies that sweeter are
Than those which solemn or;au roll.
Or silver-tongued singers troll.
Or morning star cries out to star ;
Rut. chilled by the dark world's eclipse.
They Jle before they reach the hps.
CLOVER.
Bessie Moore was out iu her father's
pasture, hack of the l*aru, picking black
berries. when she was startled-by the
blast of a horn. A look of an Aty came
over her sweet face as she ran quickly
an 1 climbed the feuee to see if Mr. Thy
aon. the " meat-man, ' who blew his
horn twice a week to atinotiuce his com
ing. was to stop. She watched the
horses climbing the hill; snd when she
saw her mother come to the back door
and swing s towel she threw herself ou
the ground and sobbed as though her
hwrt would break. She knew full well
that it was not to buy meat that her
mother had signaled for Mr. Thy son to
•top, few, although she was but ten
▼ears ohi, she was aware of the fact that
there was no money with which to buy
it. Oh, no! She realised that the event
•he had been dreading ao long was to
happen now—-that her pet calf. Clover,
her only playmate, so white and so food
of her, was to be sold. Week after week
she hail heard her pareuts discuss the
subject of selling Clover, but week after
week they had Lean! the butcher's horn
blow and' hal let the wagon go by. But
affairs hail been coming to a crisis lately.
Her father, who had l>eeu sick all sum
mer. was still too feeble to work, and the
small stock of money he had savt\l was
rapidlv going. She knew that he could
not afford to feed the calf through the
winter, and she knew that Mr. Thy sou
wanted her and had offered a large price
for her. Mr. Thy son was a man who
wanted to possess all the rarest speci
mens of cattle, and he hail been very
anxious to buy this calf, which was said
to be the handsomest creature in color
and shape, ever seeu in Loudoun county.
He was "a selfish man, withal, and was
very ready to take advantage of Mr.
Moore's misfortunes to get her. He was
known throughout the county as a man
who always got the l>est of a bargain,
who thought more of making money
than of anything else, ami who never
worried himself about his neighl>ors'
troubles or felt it his duty to share or
relieve them. He hail one child, boy
•bout fourteen years old, named Tom,
and he was determined if possible, to
teach him to he as shrewd in business
matters as himself; but so far Tom had
not shown much progress in that direc
tion. He often went with his father as
he rode through the country with his
meat, and was advised by him to "watch
sharp," for he would soon be old enough
to take the business himself. And Tom
did " watch sharp."and his large brown
eyes grew moist with tears to see his
father take Bessie's calf away, for he
knew how Bessie loved Clover, and that
it was only necessity that made Mr.
Moore sell her. Meantime Bessie hail
cllni tied the pasture fence and crept
quietly behind the barn, where, through
a big crack, she saw and heard all that
passed. Then, as the wagon turned to
go out of the yard, she went back, and,
running across the pasture with all her
might, climbed the fence on the other
aide, ran along the road to the corner
which she knew the wagon must pass,
and waited for it As she saw it coming
she waved her hand for it to stop, and
in a trembling voice tried:
" Oh, please stop a minute. I want
to ask you something."
Mr. Thyson drew up his horses,
wondering what child it was in such
apparent distress, for he didn't recognize
Bessie at first, as, in her haste to reach
the turn in the road before the wagon
came along, she had fallen down in the
dust, and then, wiping her tears with
her stained hands, bail smeared her face
so as to be hardly recognizable. Her
long, flaxen hair was blowing in every
direction, and her hat was lying on the
other side of the pasture fence, where it
had fallen when she climlied over.
"Oh, please, pirate, Mr. Thyson,"
she screamed, "von won't kill my calf,
will you ?"
" Father," said Tom, " that's Bessie
Moore. Why, Bessie, what's the mat
ter ?"
" Oh, I am so afraid your father will
kill my Clover. Tou don't know how I
love her, and I can't help crying;" and
here the poor child broke down, and
sobbed bitterly. Then, as she saw Mr.
Thyson draw up the reins to start, she
continued :
"Perhaps if papa gets -veil he can buy
her back, yon kno.v. Bo you won't kill
her, will you ?"
"No, no, child: I won't kill her.
She's too pretty to kill. I will take g<<od
care of her, and yon can come and see
her whenever you want to."
" Then I guess I can stand it better.
I came out here so that papa could not
see me cry, for that would make him
worse. I knew I should cry when I said
' good-by ' to Clover." Ami snre enough,
when the horses started her tears started
again too, and there she stood in the
dusty road, weeping and watching the
wagon until it disappeared behind the
next hill.
'• Queer," said Mr. Thy-on, a* they
drove along, "that she ahould feel ao.
Well, I can't help it If I hadn't bought
her somebody else would. Well, it's
the way of the world. It don't do to
give way to yonr feelings for little things
like this, yon know, Tom. If yon do
you will never get ahead. They couldn't
afford to keep her and had to sell her,
and that's all there is about it."
But if it was " all there was about it"
it made him very uncomfortable. In
spite of all his reasoning he couldn't
help thinking how easily he could spare
feed enough from the loads of hay anil
stacks of grain with which his barns
would soon be overflowing to keep the
calf for a time. How happy that would
make Bessie, and how it would lighten
her parents' hearts! He couldn't get
the sick countenance of Mr. Moore out
of bis mind, or the tired, worn face of
his wife, or, more than all, little Bessie
standing alone in the dusty turnpike,
watching him as he took away the only
pet and playmate she had.
It annoyed him, and it was something
new for him to be annoyed in this way.
He was glad when he found himself ap
proaching another farm-house, and if
he blew a louder blast than usual on
his horn, nobody but himself knew that
it was to give vent, if possible, to emo
tions that were getting too strong for
him to manage.
Tom was very qniet all the way home.
He seemed to' be thinking very deeply
about something, but when, occasional
ly he did speak, it was sure to be some
"FRED. KURTZ, Editor and "Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
innocent remark about Rossis or her
father, which only gave hi* father's
conscience a freali prick ami served to
irritate him still more. So by the time
they grit home he was, as his wife said,
" dreadful grouty."
As thev were sitting at supper that
evening, Tom burst out suddenly;
" Father, would you sell that calf ?"
" Yes, and Ih> glad to get ml of her,
if I oau get uiv price."
'• Well, I'd like to buy her if I've got
monev enough in my bank."
•• Vou ! What do you want of her?"
"Oh! something. Will you sell her
to me?"
"Yes, 1 suppose so. Yes, you mav
have her for ten dollars, juat what d
oanl."
" And do exactly as I please with her,
father ?"
His father hesitated. He suspected I
what Tom was going to do, and he saw
a difficulty in it for him. However, he
replied, at last:
" Yes, Tom, you may buv her and do (
exactly as you please witii her, upon
one condition; and that is, if by buying
her you get yourself into a hard sera|*e
vou will work yourself out of it without
kelp."
Mr. Thyaon thought, by binding Tom
to that promise that he "should have a
good chance to teacli him a valuable
lesson in shrewdness and foresight about
makmg a bargain.
Tom readily promised, for he couldn't
imagine what scrape he oould possibly
get into by buying Clover. So the bar
gaiu was soon concluded and the mouey
~,j.
Meantime, Bessie had dri-si her tears
and gone home, trying very hard to be
cheerful; but as soou as she had oaten
her tapper she crept up to her little
led ana sobbed herself to sleep. The
uext tnaruiug she felt braver, ami
thought she would trv very hard to for
get Clover. Her father usually lay ou
a lounge bv the sitting-room window
through the day, and for several morn
ings Clover had been in the habit of
coining there and putting her head in
to be caressed. So Bessie made a point
of getting a basket of fresh clover-blos
soms, with which her father would feed
the calf while Bessie and her mother
were at breakfast. But the morning
after Clover left Bessie sat down to tin
table with a heavy heart, for she missed
Clover then more than ever. She had
hardly taken a mouthful, though, la-fore
her father called out—
" Bessie, just bring me a basket of
clovers, won't you ? Clover wants her
breakfast."
Bessie sprang from her chair with a
bound, exclaiming, " Why, papa, you've
forgotten ! Clover's gone !"
But no 1 there was her sweet, white
face peering in at the window, and
there holding her by a cord stood Tom
Thyson, his faoe covered with smiles.
" Why, Tom !" screamed Bessie "did
she run away ?"
" No, I bought her of father, aud
now I'm going to give her back to you.
She's yours again, now. Good-bv ;"
and before Bessie could express tier
thanks Tom was gone.
Now. although the return of the calf
broaght great joy to Bessie, it brought
equal concern to her parents, for the
question arose how Clover could le fed.
Mr. Thvson hail foreseen that difficulty
from the first, but Tom, iu his eager
ness t > get the calf back to Bessie, had
not tuOQgbl of it. Mr. Thyson said
nothing, though. He thought he would
see how Tom would manage.
Toward night Bessie's father called
her to liim and told her that although
Tom w:i* very kind and thoughtful to
bring Clover back, she couldn't stay,
for he had not feed enough to keep her
through the winter, and no money to
buy any. So the next morning Bessie
started to carry her back to Tom. It
was two miles away, but it was a lovely
morning, and Bessie enjoyed the walk
verv much. Tom saw her before she
reached the house and ran to meet her .
'• I know you've brought her back,"
said he, laughing heartily, " liecatise
you haven't any feed for her. I forgot
she would have to eat, but don't yon
worry, Bess. You shall have this calf
* for yours, if von have to wait till she is
a cow," and then they both laughed to
think she wouldn't be much of a calf by
that time. " But, you see," he added,
"I'm in a scrape, whether I give her to :
yon or keep her myself, for I haven't
any feed for her either, anil it never will
do to ask father for any. But I'll man
age it somehow l>efore to-morrow. I'll
go to bed soon after supper and think it
out." So Bessie left the calf, and Tom
took part of what money he hail and
went to his father to buy some feed for
her. He was determined not to ask him
to give him any, and his father was
E leased to see tliat Tom was sticking to
is promise not to ask his help.
The next morning he said to his
father:
" Father, have you anything yon could
hire me to do this winter ? lam going
to carrv the calf back again this morn
ing. lam not going to give this job up,
now that I've started. So lam going to
earn money enongh to feed her this win
ter myself."
" Ah ! So you are going to work the
calf's board, are you ? Well, if you
want to take Jim's place here you can
earn her board and something beside.
You could do his work before and after
school if you were smart and got up
earlv."
" Well, I'll take it and try. I'd like
to buy feed enongh now to keep her thin
week, and after Urn I can earn it and
carry it over."
His father smiled at Tom'a bnsiness
like way, and thought to himself, " Well,
I am teaching Tom a good lesson, that's
a fact. Hell get sick enongh of his bar
gain before spring, but it will do him
good."
Tom filled his hand-cart with the feed,
and tying the rope aronnd Clover's neck,
started again to carry her back. I don't
know what the people along the road
thonght to see the calf going luck and
forth BO often. Bat Tom didn't care.
He kept straight on and carried the calf
to Bessie's door.
" Here she is, Bess, and here's enongh
to feed her one week, anyway, and I'll
see that she has enough all winter, un
less I get sick, and I don't feel very siok
now. Don't catch me backing out of
this scrape. No, sir-ee 1"
All winter, Tom was up betimes in the
moraine, fed and watered the cittle,
groomed the horses, and did whatever
was required. He carried Clover's feed
over every week or two, and never once
complained. His father watched him
coriomly, and every week congratulated
himself on the good lesson he was teach
ing him.
At last spring came. The tender
grass began to sprout, and Clover could
keep herself, from the pastures and
meadows. The farmers were all plow
ing and harrowing, and getting the
ground ready for planting. Everybody
was busy, and in a hurry, as usual. Mr.
Moore was improving, but was still
very weak. His affairs looked very
discouraging to him, and his depressed
state of mind did much to retard his
recovery. He had bought the farm
where he was living only the spring be
fore, after the planting season was
over, expecting to earn enough by his
trade, that of a carpenter, through the
following seasons to enable him to buy
seed and to thoroughly plant the wbdle
place in the spring. lustead of that,
he was taken sick soon after he bought
it, and had been obliged to sell his stock
to get money to live upon. And now,
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
right in the busy season, whou every
hour seemed worth u day nt any other
time, he win atok, with no tuoOe* hi
buy seed or the uetvwiuiry (arming im
piemen ta, or to litre the needed help.
With htM tinnd overwhelmed with dis
couragement, he eat, one evening, itt
the diK>r way (if his hou*o, and looked
hopelessly ou hia atill unemployed land.
At the same time Mr. Thyaon was rid
ing akiwly along, having made IUI uu
usually good trip with hta meat, and
wa reviewing in hi* mind with great
satisfaction the prosperous coudiUou O(
lua affair*. As he (>aa*rsl he saw Mr.
Moore sitting there, ami uolical that
ha looked very pale ami worries). A
feeling of sympathy took *troug hold of
him, and he was tempted to atop and
have a talk with him, hut those fields,
waiting to l*o plowed and sown, spoke
Ito him so plainly and reproachfully
that he concluded lie would better U>w
' ami go aU>ug.
•• I'm sorry for Moore," he said to
j himself ; " that's a fact. I'd bo glad to
give him a lift, bit I've got my own
family to look out for. If I had always
giveu way to my feelings I wonder
where I should be now. Oh, no! no;
it will never do. No !"
But as he drew up to his own house,
the sight of his broad aor-s so carefully
planted, and the neat, thrifty appearance
of all the surroundiiiga, did not give
him the feeling of satisfaction he was
enjoying before he met Mr. Moore. As
he went into the kitchen where his wife
was getting stip|>er, he said, glancing
out of the window at Torn, who was
having a grand frolic with his dogs :
"It does me good to see Tom play
ing. He has hail a ban! winter of it.
But I'm glad 1 let h<iu go through it
It has taught hitu a lesson he will never
forget, I guess."
"Ytw, 1 think very likely," gently
auswertvl his wife ; "but 1 have thought
many turn's, father, that Tom was
teaching a more imjsirtaut lesmiu than
the one he was learning. But come,
supper's rvadv." She thru stepped to
the door ami callsl Tom, ami the sub
j cot was not continued. A■ Tom came
in breathless from play, his father re
marked :
" That's better fun than working
Clover's board and carrying it over to
her, isn't it ?"
" Yes, sir. But I'm afraid if Mr.
Mi>ore doesn't hurrv up and plant
Clover will oe marching I jack here in
spite of me, next fall. I wish I w* a
rich man. I'll bet I'd make things look
different over there in no time."
Mr. Thyson made no reply, but fin
ished his supper, ami weut. out into the
vard, where he stood leaning on the
fence, apparently in deep thought. As
Bill, his head man on the farm, came
along, he stopped him, and they had a
quiet talk together.
Meantime Mr. Moore had gone into
his house, utterly nuable to throw off
the gloomy thoughts which filled his
mind.* He saw no way out of his diffi
cnlties. The faith ami ho|e which had
kept hun up till uow sceiued gone. He
went to bed early, bnt did not sleep for
hoqra. Toward morning, however, he
foil into a deep sleep. His wife quietly
darkened the room and left him. The
sun was several hours high when ho
drew aside the enrtams to look out.
What a sight met his eyes! Men were
plowing, harrowiug and shouting to
their horses. Fart of the gronml was
already prepared for plauting.aml there,
iu the barn doorway, sat Tom and Bes
sie, cutting potatoes and chattering like
blackbirds.
" What docs it mean, mother! What
doe* it mean ?" said lie, as he opened
the kitchen door.
" It means, father, that the dawn has
come. 'Twas very dark, yon know
last night Those are Mr. Thyson>
men !"
" Thyson'* men ! Thyaou's men !
Wiiv '■ I don't understand."
"Well, nor I, and the men say that
tbey don't know what has come over
him either. But he told Bill to take
men and horses, and come over bare and
plant whatever you wanted, and he'd
provide the seed: and they are working
like beavers, I tell you."
The next afternoon, when the horn
was blown, Mr. Moore was waiting at
hia gate. As the wagon came along,
Mr. Thyson saw him, and didn't feel at
all like' just liowiug and passing on.
No! he felt like stopping, shaking hands
and getting out to see how hia men were
doing.
• "God bless yon, sir,"said Mr. Moore.
"You have given me the best medicine
I've hail. I believe it'a going to save
ray life. I don't know how to tliauk
yon, but I know I feel like a new man."
"So do I, friend Moore. So do I.
But don't thank me. It's all Tom'a do
ing. I thought I was teaching him a
great lesson, but, bleits yon ! he was
teaching me a greater one, all the time.
Well, the Lord has great surprises in
store for us, sometimes, haseu't He?"
And, with a fervent shake of the hand,
Mr. Thyson got back into his wagon
and drove home.
From that time, Mr. Moore's health
steadily improved, and from that time
also, Mr. Thyson was another man. It
was the beginuing, but not the end, of
his kind deeds.
A few years later, when Tom aud
Bessie commenced housekeeping on
their own acoonnt, and Clover lowed
oontentedly in her new home, Tom re
marked. with a merry laugh :
"You see, father, I was longer-head
ed than yon thought. 'Twas all in the
family after all."
The I toy llsd lllm.
On a Btreet car yesterday the actions
of one of the •> isseugers attracted the
closest attention of a boy abont twelve
years of age. The raau first blew one
side of his note, and then the other.
Then he took a handkerchief from one
pocket and wiped the right hand side of
Lis nose, and deliberately pnt that awav
and united ont another and wiped the
left Land side. The action pleased the
boy immensely, anil he watched everv
movement of the man, who next took
from his right hand |>ocket a stick of
gum, pnt it in the right hand side of his
mouth, and then served the left side the
same way. He chewed on the right, then
on the left, and the boy's eyes hnng ont
like pillows in a broken window. The
man soon got rid of the gum and took
two chews of tobacco from two separate
boxes, and noticing how closely the l>oy
was watching him he said:
" Boy, do yon know tne ?"
" No, sir," replied the Iniy, " bnt I'll
'l>et you my velocipede agin a cent that
you can't drink out of two jugs at
once!"
The man hauled the half of an orange
out of one pocket, and the other half
ont of another pocket, and tendered them
to the lx>y as a token of admiration.—
Detroit Free Ptett.
Kailroad "Savings Hanks."
Bail road savings banks are the very
latest financial ventnre, Hays the Omaha
(Neb. ) lire.. The Denver k Rio Grande
and the A.,T. & 8. F. railroads have
started ont to act as savings banks for
their employees. They issue " interest
pav checks" in the form of drafts or
orders on the treasurer or paymaster for
SSO and $25, to bear interest at four per
cent, per annnin if not presented for
four months, and at five per cent, per
annum if not presented for eight
months, but to bo oaahed without inter
est if presented at an earlier date.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., EA„ THURSDAY, MAY !, JB7K.
RAPID TRANSIT IN NfcW YOKE.
•! iktMrkcaMlw Tn.rll
-n.l ■> PkixMlr *!•
Rapid transit IU N*w York liM become
a certainty, OM of the two line* which
wre started lat Wllllrt liemg partially
roiuxlelod. Appirlon' Journal low iui
article devoted u. a description f the
Mtriotis acheuie* jiropuaetl t> nolve the
vexation* problem of bo* the people
living * the upper part of the city eotiUl
got down to their buaine** places in
quicker time then by the home ears
Home of these scheme* for relief were
more ingenious then practicable: Amijug
the plana proposed *t venous time* for
the expeditious conveyance of jwescn
gers, thet of the Arcade railway wee the
moot ambition*, Uie most attractive ami
the least feasible. A new street we* to
be constructed thirty feet below the pre
went level of Broadway, forming new
front* to *ll the basement* of the build
ings. The sewers and ga*-pipe were to
lie Biltlk lie low tlie level of tile new iu*d
wav, and an artificial roadway wan to be
constructs! 011 the level of the old alreet
—the niip|H>rt* being hollow iron pillar*,
whtoh were)alao to serve a* drain*. There
were to l>e clean, dry, and Bpwoiou* foot
path* at eaeli side of the aroade, and the
middle wa* to tie tilled by four railway
traek*, two for jiawseiigern and two for
freight. The upjier aidewalk wa* to lie
partly formed of glass bull * eye*, which
would admit an abundance of light tllto
the lower Htreet, where umbrella* would
be uukuowu or suj>erfluou* 111 tlie raunwt
weather, and where the climate would
alaray* lie equable olid salubrious. la it
iieca-saarv to state the advantages claim
ed for tin* fascinating plan by it* auda
cious projectora ? It would add a new
atorr to the entire length of Broadway:
double the walking capacity of the *treet;
quadruple the carry tug capacity; and
enable the trams yf the limlnou Hiver
railway to deliver |>a**eugers and freight
a* far down town a* the (lattery- Further
more, the rental of seventeen hundred
store* would be increased at lea*t two
thousand dollar* each, the aggregate of
which amount alone would pay ten per
cent, interest on a capital (lire# time* it*
great a* the calculated coat of the work,
which van twenty million dollar*, liut
the Arcade Railway, like many other
Kchetue* of equal brilliancy, never secur
ed a tinner foundation than the s|ieeifl
eutioua of it* ingenious inventor.
IJhe Pneumatic railway gave more
sulistantial jiroof of it* practicability,
however, and a tunnel three hundred
feet long wa* excavated under Broad
way, southward from Warren street,
where the proposed oar and the great
blower could be seen in operation. The
tunnel was eight feet in diameter, aud
built of solid masonry, j.art* being lined
with iron plate*; aud the atmoMphcre
wa* dry an.! pure.
It was constructed without any dis
turbance of the surface of the street, by
means of a strong cylindrical shield,
open at both cuds, which wa* profiled
by hydraulic rams, the luoaenetl sand
aud stone falling through the rear of
the shield, and the tunnel Is-iug imme
diately afterward arched with maaonrv.
The car fitted the tunnel—had seat* for
eighteen juuiaenger*, and wa* illumi
nated and comfortably upholstered. It
was propelled like a saillioat before the
wind, by a strong blast of air forced
agaiu*t tin' rear by au immense steam
blowing-mac lu lie. Nothing more smooth
in the way of locomotion than the pneu
matic pl*u could be liuogiuod. You de
scended from the ever busy and noisy
Broadway into a cvsil and quiet recep
tion-room some thirty fret tielow the
level of the thoroughfare, and the car -
which had the shape of a horseshoe—
wa* rea.lv for you with sliding door* at
the ends, seat* at each side, aud a lamp
overhead. Being seated, you heard a
noise like the appr>>aoh of a squall at
sea, the doors were closed, and with a
slight tremor the car moved out of the
station aud was shot through tlie length
of the tuunel, where it wa* stopped aud
drawn back again. There were to be an
up-tunnel and a down-tunnel, and it
wan claimed that ten car* a minute could
be dispatched. It* inventor having
sjient s.ime sixty or reventy thousand
dollars, however, the Pneumatic railway
wa* practically abandoned, though it
wa* kept open for acme time a* a public
exhibition ; and the tunnel is t*>w used
us a shooting gallery.
A qnite nniqno plan was proposed bv
Mr. Alfred S|*er, uf New Jersey, which
consisted of A perpetually-moving ele
vated traui or belt of platform moving
tip oue aide of the street and down Ute
other. This WHS commonly known AS
the " traveling sidewalk," wliich was a
good descriptive name for it. The track
was to be supported by fancy iron pil
lars, fourteen feet high, ranged along
the enrbstone, and the platform was to
project about four feet over the side
walk and the same distance over the
roadwav. The structure was to be
reachctl by commodious and ornamental
stairways at the corner* at all intersect
ing streets, where there would lie gates
in the pretty iron railing surrounding
it
Let ns suppose that the traveling
sidewalk is an accomplished thing— not
merely the unexecuted design that it is
—and that we wish to avail ourselves of
its advantages in going from the City
Hall to Union Hqnarc. Having ascended
the stairs at Chainliers street corner, we
stand upon a little platform and, looking
up Broadway, see an endless flooring,
raised on massive pillnrs, moving down
the west side of the thorougfare anil up
the east side. It resembles a viaduct,
and is traveling at tlio nuvaring speisl
of ten miles an hour. Nearlg as many
{lenple are upon it as npon the sidewalk
s>lnw—some are walking south ward and
others northward, and presuming that
their pace is four miles an hour, lliey
make, with the added speed of the plat
form, fourteen miles an hour; some are
Moati-d on lienelu's and others in cabins,
like ordinary railway ears, erected on
the platform. The constant flow of the
promenaders lends the surface of the
structure an animateil appearance; it is
surrounded by a stationary iron railing,
with gas-lamps, upheld by branches
from the pillars, and, while the passcu>
gers can shelter in the cabins during
inclement weather, they can enjoy the
fresh air and the briskness of the street
below in flue weather. The greatest ml
vantage of the plan is that, as there are
no intervals, there is no waiting, and,
having signaled one of the conductors,
we are almost immediately admitted to
the platform train by one of the trans
fer ears, the train never ceasing to mere
mellifluonsly or to slacken its speed.
These transfer-ears seat eight persons,
and have four wheels with independent
axles so arranged that they can be
stopped at any of the stations without
detention to the main structure; before
onr admittance to which, our fares are
collected. The cabins, or drawing
rooms, contain toilet apartments, with
female attendants for ladies, ami smok
ing and reading rooms are provided for
gentlemen.
What a dream of Mr. Alfml Hpoer's
this was, and what a liencfactor he
might have been, had it ever taken n
tangible shape ! There were to be no
noise and no obstruction whatever in the
street. The motive power was to pro
ceed from stationary engines placed be
low ground one mile apart and acting
upon shafting through iron pillars. In
stead of au endless chain, friction-rollers
were to be used, and each of the engines
was to have one-third more power than
neoeasary, whioh was to be utilized by
the other* when one liecallie disubled.
The very novelty of the protect evoked
the derision of the uutcchnicul public,but
at leat one competent engineer avowrnl
In* belief in it* practicability; and,
though Mi. Hjieer may lie di*a|>poiutod
lu the discouragement lie met with, he
ha* the nitrut *atn! - ••iou that belong*
to all real luveutom, of nurtunug a
IMIKI, well-meant, and picture*.pie de-
Vice, the failure of which take* from the
pmtit* but not from the honor of hi*
effort*.
The Cat.
The cat was the animal selected in
tlie middle age* of sujierMtltlnu ami
witchcraft, to represent the familiar
companion in which was cmtiodied the
t*\tl pirit supposed to attend all those
who practiced the black art 111 former
time*. Long before this time, however, i
a* no me pimple are probably aware, the
cat wa* one of the moat highly favored
am mala living; |>ettod, pampered, care
fully protected, and actually worshiped
by the theu moat civilised people m the
world, the ancieut Egyptians. How
this reverence came to lie paid to the
cat 111 particular by thia extraordinary
jHs.ple it la quite imjioAHlblc to deter
mine, but by some it is Mijq.os.xl to
have originated from the benefits con
ferred on mankind by it* destruction of
vermin and rejitilea; at any rate, if the
Egyptian cat* were as useful a* they are
represented to have been, the care of
tlieui is easily accounted for. Though
it taenia somewhat difficult to understand
how the ajKirtaiueu of the Nile trained
their cat*, not inßy to hunt game, but
to retrieve it frWTs the water, the huut
lug scene* depicted on the walls at
'Dielies, and oil a stone now 111 the Bnt
ish Museum, afford pr*if of the Egypt
ian cat's services in this resjieet.
It is generally supjioaed that uotliing
will induce a cat to cuter water ; tint
tin* is dearly a fallacy, like many other
popular notions aliout the animal world.
The tiger is an excellent swimmer, a*
many have found to their coat; and o
the cat, another mcialier of the tiger
family, can swim equally well if it ha*
any evasion to ex.-rt it* powers, either
m quest of prey or to effect it* escape
from eotue enemy. As cat* arc exceed
ingly fond of flsh, they will drag them
alive out of their native element when
ever they get a chance. They have
even lieeu kuowu to helji themselves
out of aquaria that have lieen left un
covered, and ou moonlight night* they
may IK* MVU watching for the unwary
.KVUIMMit* of a tinh-JMiud, during the
Bjiawuiug season esjKviully. Again, a
cat will lake to the water in the jiursuit of
a rat, a fact that wa* proved by a friend
of our* a few years ago.
Diana or Pa*lit, a* that god dews was
called 111 Egypt, wa* the tutelary deity
of cat*. Various reason* are amugiiod
for this curious selection of the cat a*
the animal worthy of being dedicated to
the moon. We find that according to
Plutarch, the cat wa* not 01 v sacred to
the moou, but au emblem ol t; and that
a figure of a cat wa* fixd ou a sistrum
to denote the m<*m, just as a figure of a
frog ou a ring denoted a man 111 embryo.
A* In-fore Ktated, the Egyptians treat
ed these animals with uuiiHtial care and
attention during their lifetime; hence it
is not surjinsiug to find that the death
of a cat waa regarded a* a family misfor
tune, in consequence of which the house
hold went iut.. mourning. The willful
destruction of a cat in Egyj>t is looked
npon as a very serious offence even now;
but in the good old days (for cat*) at
Itubastis the offence, even supposing it
to have been accidental, WM putushid
with prompt severity.
y\ in J (xicomotlon on land.
It is curious to uoto that while to the
railroads is owing the abandonment of
the wind carriage (formerly s.x-n by
traveler* in China, Spain and Holland I,
to the same agency it now seems likely
that it* rejuvenation will lie due. Wind
vehicle* are already in use on the long
streUdie* of track* which extend over
the Western prairies, and the s;iccd at
tained is said to rival that of the fast
express tram. One which ha* lieen in
use on tlie Kansas Pacific railroad for
the jiast three years wa* devised by Mr.
C. J. Bascom. The vehicle is said to av
erage a speed of thirty mile* per hour,
and, with a strong brecte, to travel at
the rate of forty miles in the same
period. Tins last iqieed was reached
with the wind right alieam. A distance
of eighty-four miles ha* lieen jiaxasxl
over in four hours, the car sailing part
of this time close hauled and over disad-
curved track.
The vehicle lias four wheels, each
thirty inches in diameter; is six feet in
icngth, and weighs 600 pound*. Tlie
sail has two liooms, respectively fourteen
and fifteen feet in length, and an area of
aliout eighty-one square feet. The mast
is eleven feet high, tajiering frem four
inches square at the heel to two inches
at the track.
It will lie obvious that many of the
laws ajiplving to the iceboat apply
equally well to the smling car. A little
consideration will show that when the
latter is sailing at forty miles per hour
it is traveling faster than the wind that
inqiels it, and this is constantly the cws
in icelmat sailing. On the other hand,
icclmat* alwavs sail best close hauled;
in fact, the sheet is almost constantly
kept flat aft. The sailing car. as stated
above, goes fastest with the wind direct-
Ily on the beam or side. Of course the
I difference is dne to the greater resist
ance offered by the larger and more ele
vated surfaces of the car body and its
occupants, and to the friction of the
axle journals, which probably, under
ordinary condition, is sufficient to pre
vent the sailing car ever attaining the
iceboat's sjieeil.— Srirnfi/lc Amertcan.
Japanese Eire* anil Firemen.
A writer on Japan *av: Yeddofnnw
known a* Tokio) i* a city of Ares. Nino
houses out of ten i* bnilt almost entirely
of WISH!, and in the bnaines* nnd poorer
portion* of the city the dwellings nre
packed close together. Of *ll people on
earth the Japanese are earele** of fire.
Even in the open |K>rt* of Japan no
American or European houae owner can
itianro hi* property nnleaa he *tipulate*
in the jailiey that the Area shall not be
made or attended by Japanese servants.
Everything help* ft Are in Yeddo,e*pe
oially the Are department. Tin* la*t
nftmed honorable twsly con*i*t* of forty
eight companion of nl*>nt 1,4(10 men in
all. The Are extinguishing apparatn*
consists of tuba, bucket* and pumping
mnchine*, carried on the shoulders of
two men. Theae machine* are aimply
Ixixe* holding alxint aix gallon* of wnter,
and Ailed constantly with water carriid
in bucket* from well*. Two men work
the pump, which ha* no air chnmlier. It
throw* an intermittent palpitation of
water, about twelve feet high, and of a
bore equal to the hole in a apool. I could
not *ay how many home-power *uoh a
machine i*. but if I meaaurod by the
amount of water one could aquirt from
hi* mouth, 1 alionld declare it equal to
Ave man-power.
Tho fironHMi of YwUo wonr thick mnt*,
helmet and glove* of quilted hempen
cloth. On arriving at a Are they *ou*o
them*olvc with buckets of water, or
jump into a tnbful and emerge dripping.
They are now ready for a tight. Tho*e
who do not bring or throw water carry a
hook of steel to tear down the neigh bor
ing hon*e*. Nearly all Jnpanese Area
are put out by taking away their fuel,
rather than by throwing enough water
I directly on the Aames
A leopard Hunt.
A traveler in South Africa describe*
the following adventure : With a slack
rein ! rode! the dog* were clustered
amuud me, for the heat of the afternoon
and want of water hail commenced to
tell upon them, when up sprang the
largest leopard that I had ever aeon,
and at an easy canter, grunting at every
stride it took, made for a few scattered
treea.
The appearance of the game was so
sudden, that it was some moments liefore
I left the saddle, and when 1 got ready
to shoot, the dogs were between me and
the object of tuv aim. At length 1 got
a clear shot, and fired ; the bullet rico
chets! under the leopard's feet, but in
doing ao hit some part of it* body.
However, giviug no more evidence of
its mishap than a shorter and more
savage growl, as well as an acceleration
of *|>eed, it pursued its i ourse as hereto
fore. lsv this time the dogs were crowd
ing it, but none dare lay hold, for such
an act of temerity would have insured
instant death.
Boon the trees were reached ; but in
stead of tlie leopard Jakiug shelter 111
them, it turned reund ou the dog*, and
the pack scattered like chaff before the
wind. I approached, and got off my
horse, having taken my double gun in
place of the lately - discharged smgle
liarrelled rifie. To my snrjrie none of
the hushmeu would go closer. The
dog*, owing to my presenoe, liecame
more and more txihl aud clamorous ; one
cur that 1 had picked tiji at liartebeeot
f<mteiu, near Klcrksdorp, particularly
distinguished himself ; but hi* jirowee*
cust him dear, for the now thoroughly
enraged cat made a daah forward, and
with a Hweeji of Ler paw gave Marguire
such wouuilß that lie could acarerlv
crawl from the scene of accident. If
this continued longer, I clearly *aw that
not one of my cur* would be left, so I
advanced to get a clear shot, and *0 ter
minate the matter. This wa* difficult,
a* tlie dog* always kept between me and
the gatne, tint I continued to approach
clomr and closer. However, the jiantlier
hud singled me for his next victim ;
with a couple of liouuds it cleared tlie
veljiiug hounds, and in a moment would
have beeu on uie, but that a anaji shot
stojijted it in it* charge ; as, maimed and
lnoajiacitated for further injury, it bit
aud clawed tile dual, I gave it a second
barrel at a abort range, and thu ended
the fraca*.
With the exception of tlie buffalo, this
is the most dangerous ammal that can
bo encountered ; it* activity i surpris
ing, and it* vitality unequalled. More
over, it exceeds all other animals by it*
audacity at night iu approaching an en
campment, win u .log* are it* favorite
prey. Home# also are among it* prin
cipal victim*, e*f eciallv colt*, and many
are the inhabitant* of Aoshong who have
jnstly to complain of the serious damage
they have suffered at it* bauds.
Rock* and ooppies are the favorite
resort of the leopard ; never before or
since have I found it on the open velt.
The animal inst killed wa* a* large a*
a two-year-old lion cub, high
on it* legs, and very light iu the body—
more* rosetubluig my old friend, tlie
hunting-leopard, or cheetah, of India,
than any of the specie* 1 have previously
met in Africa. It* body was twantifully
marked, each primrose having a clearly
defined vcllow center.
A Cirrus Driver's Ride to Death.
John Strickland, aged forty-six years,
while driving a six-bora.' display wagon,
lielouging to P. T. Barntim, wa* thrown
to the gnmn.l aud killed. The hones
took fright at an elevated railroad train
at fortV-second street and Ninth uvenue.
They .lashed at a furious Jiace arr<i*s
the crowde.l thoroughfare of Eighth
avenue to the imminent peril of a
number of jiedestrian*. who had barely
time to get out of tlie way to escape
being ran over. The driver kept hi*
seat and guided hi* horses with great
jireaenre of mind. Away they careered
past Seventh avenue, on toward Sixth
avenue, while crowd* of excited people
lined the aidewalk*. exjiccting to witness
a terrible crash at every moment. The
spectators, warned by the approach of
the horse* in advance, were enabled to
keep clear of their headlong flight. At
the creasing of Sixth avenue the peril
seemed to increase, a* a number of
vonug girls and children were out for
"an airing. But still the flying steels
kejit their course without any mishaps,
the crowd* and the danger increasing at
evcrv step. At Breadwav the *ti ret
car track* lifted and jolted tlie wagon,
no that it seemed for an instant, impos
sible for the driver to keep hts seat.
Across Fifth and Madison avenue* the
horse* madly dashed, and post Fourth
avenue and Lexington. At tlie latter
place tlie Belt line of horse cars were to
le avoided, and the horses were guided
so a* to steer clear of tlie danger. Close
to Lexington avenue, on Forty-second
street, where the cars form a sort of
barricade in tlie middle of the street, a
terrible collision wo* avoided ; but, at
tlie same time, one of the hind wheels
was caught in the frog of a rail. The
strain wa* so sudden and the flight of
tlie horww so rapid that the axle tree,
three inches square, suapjied like a rot
ten twig, and the wheel wa* sent spin
ning down the street. Still the driver
kept his seat, and people begun to
breathe more freely a* the check which
tlie horses received for this moment
sremo.l to have given the driver a slight
control over them. But they made a
sudden (.lunge forward, giving the
wagon n sheer, and the driver wa*
thrown over the dashboard, alighting
on his head in the street, still holding
the reins. The spectacle was then s
sickening one ; the poor fellow s brains
strewing the thoroughfare, and the
whole upper part of his heal being
nearlv cut off. He wa* removed to the
thirty.fifth street station house, and
his family, who reside st 525 West
thirty-ninth street, advised of tlie sad
occurrence.
Tlie horses collided with a telegraph
pole a short distance onward, aud they
were brought to a snddeu standstill.—
,Vrte lort ffrrald.
In Russia.
The brilliantl v oolored *igntoard* give
the street* of a Russian city a particularly
v A))|H*anuicc. At every cvni6r
you come upon a Uy7.autine -looking
ahrinc of the Virgin, with a number of
ItiiHAian* in front of it, bareheaded,
crowing themselves. Yon meet the
Virgin in various other unexpected
places—in railway stations,in postofllces,
with a little oil lamp Aickering at her feet
even in the drowsy lock-ups, where
tipsy mujiks can lie heard yelling all day
and night. The behavior of the people
in the streets is quiet and civil. If a
Russian knocks against you, he liegs
your pardon with a sincere show of con
trition; if ho sin's your none turning
white in cold weather, he picks up a
handful of snow and rubs it with a
brotherly ofHeionsncss till the circula
tion is restored. All along the populous
striMit* peddlers saunter, selling dried
mushrooms, ootton handkerchiefs, reli
gion* prints, white bread and fritters;
but few of them sliont. Pigeons infest
the roadways with impunity, for they
are held sacred. Even if a Russian were
starving, it would not occur to him
to knock one of the birds on the
: head and cook it Dancing beam are
also to be Heen iu great numbers, and,
1 though uot sacred, are great favorities,
and always draw crowds, who langh at
their antics like children, for Bosnians
are very easily amuaod.
TERMB: #'2.00 a Year, in Advanoe.
FARM. WARDEN AND MOIHEHOLD.
T lliniii Varmvr.
lUppy 1 o 'Uiit the farmer Ufa,
1U varuai* round of sliulotuw toll 1
Au honest path with loving wife,
And offspring uaUva to the soil.
Thnoo happy, suiwly ! —in his hrsast
Plain wlsduni and the trust in God ;
Ills |.th mors straight from east to wast
Thau puhUotan star Ud.
Ills gain • no loat to other men;
Ills stalaart blows indict no woand ;
Sot busy with his tongue or pnu.
He question* truthful sky and ground.
Partner with seasons and the sun,
Nature* 00-worker , all his skill
Obedience, av'u as waters ran.
Wind* blow, herb, beast their law fnlftU. j
A vigorous youthhood, clean and bold .
A manly manhood, chearfnl ago '
Ills oowoly ctuldraii proudly hold
Their parentage best heritage.
Unhealthy work, false mirth, chicane.
Guilt needless woe and useless strife—
O 01 tie* ram insane, insane
How happy 1# the fanner • life.
Peelirr Paragraphs.
Feed poultry ou good sound grain.
Offal or damaged grain ia unwholesome,
and if fed freely will produce disease.
Pounded oy*ter or clam shell* are
good for layiug hen*. They act a* gravel
in anaistiug digestion, and furnish li*ne
for the tiasuee from which the shell* <-f
ogga are mode. Break them up small
enough for the fowls to gwnPow easily.
They will eat a good deal of Una k id of
food.
A neat, simple and effective method of
keeping high Overs at home is mentioned
bv Th* /Sultry World. Merely acisaor
airsv about half of the feathery |*rt of
•wcli wing-feather, excepting an inch at
the end, without cutting Uie qnill or
shaft of the feather at alt. Thia shows
but little when the wings are closed,
and ao does not disfigure the fowl, but
it let* Uie air through sufficiently to
prevent flying.
One of the Iwat ways to destroy hen
lice i* by a proper urn- of the whitewash
brash aiid fumigant*. When the pool
try-house is kept in decent order there
will tie litUe trouble, but otherwise the
fowls will not prosper. A very good
plan is to wrsji the rooat poles wiUi
pieces of old carpet, old bags, or horse
blanket*. Tack these on neat and smooth
and saturate them once a fortnight with j
diluted carliolic acid, or coal 01L This
will clean the perches and add much to
Uie comfort and productiveness of the
hens.
Save eggs from the best hens for set
ting. Many poultry-keepers do not
know which are the best layers, but this
may be be discovered by s litUe atten
tion. Old hen* lay larger eggs than
pullet*, and the chicks hatched from
two-vear old hens, when mated with a
vigorous one-vear old cock, will be
larger, more thrifty, and fledge I letter
than chicks from pullet*' eggs. In se
lecting eggs to hatch, take those that
are of a fair average si*e ; reject the
small or ill-shajied ones, or the vera
large ones. There is no way to deter
mine the sex of the chick by an exami
nation of the sine, shape, or other ex
ternal appearance of the egg.
It i*a little (*ld tliat in this oonntra,
where every facility exists, so few ducks
and geese are raised. These are pro
ver 1 nail r Uie most hardy and long lived
of all our poultry. fn place* where
cholera, cronp, etc., sweep off the fowls
and turkevs, geeee and ducks, which
arc not subject to theae diseases, should
lie tried. In densely populated Ureal
Britain and even in Belgium where one
would suppose there was little room,
more geese are raised to the square
mile than in the United States. In the
interior duck and geese can be raised
a* profitable a* other kinds of poultry,
and where disease* prevail, more pro
fitably.
As the season has arrived when young
chickens make their appearance, the
following rales from the Southern
Poultry Journal will prove to be of es
sential importance iu producing satis
factory results;
Make your nest* for setting hens on
the ground if possible, if not, put fresh
earth in the nest boxes, and in very
warm weather sprinkle the eggs occa
sionally wiUi a little tepid water, or iu
the morning let Uie hen ran in the wet
grass. Sprinkle sulphur thoroughly
amoug Uie litter when making Uie ne*t.
Give the lien a good chance to wallow
iu dust or aahes; this will keep her free
from vermin. Keeping her place dark
ened until she has fairly " settled down
to business." As the chicks hatch and
get Uioroughly dry take them away and
keep in a warm place until all are out.
The chick* need no food for the first
forty-eight hours. When all are hatched
: give tlie hen an hour to roll in dust or
ashes in the sun, to prepare for her
change of duties; then put her in a
roomy coop and give hei the chicks,
Earlv in the season, while the ground is
cold, the coop should have a board bot
tom. Give them bread crumb*, broken
wheat or screenings (no corn) scraps
from the table, and plenty of clean,
pure water. Give plenty of green food.
Don't try to raise too many, for a place
that will accommodate one hundred
chicks will bo mnch too small for them
when grown. Close quarters cause,
vermin and disease. These instructions,
with the aid of common sense, will in
sure you success.
nmlrtl Itlal*-
Tr.A* ron THK SICK ROOM.—Dried
leaves of sage, one-half ounce ; boiling
water, one quart; steep for Uiree
quarters of an hour and then strain for
use ; sugar can be added to suit the ,
taste. Peppermint, spearmint, balm,
hosrhound, aud other herb tea* are
made iu the same manner.
Ct'RK roK Citnoinc RHKI'MATISM.—
(>r. Bonnott, of Graulbet, France, rec
ommends and prescribes for chronic
rheumatism the use of the essential oil
of turpentine by friction. He used it
himself with perfect sueeeaa. having al
most instantaneously got rid of rheu
matic pains in both knees and in the
left shoulder.
RRUIKF FOR CMorr. —Croup can lie
cured in one minute, and the remedy is
simplv alum and sngsr. The way to ac
eotnplish the deed is to take a knife or
grater, and shave off in small particles
j about a teaspooufnl of alum ; then mix
it with twice it* quantity of sugar, to
make it palatable, and administer it as
quickly as jvossible. Almost instantan
eous relief will follow.
AHTHMX. —The following proscription
wa* given a correspondent l>y Hon. E.
B. French of the treasury department:
lodide of jwitassium, two drams ; tinct
ure of lolndia, half au ounce ; syrup of
senega, two ounces ; camphorated tinct
ure of opium, half an ounce ; water snf
fieieut t< 1 make four ounces. A teaspoon
ftil every half hour until relieved. The
above cured the above-named gentle
raau, and liaa beeu used successfully in
the correspondent's own family. #
FOR BOAI.O-HF.AII. Alice M. writes
to the Houttrhold : " Here is a enre for
scald-head that I have seen used many
years, but it has to be applied more
than onoe : Take equal part* of go>o
pine tar and new mutton tallow ; melt
just enough to mix well, then add a few
drops of sweet oil to make it soft (if
sweet oil is not handy, hen's oil or pig
1 foot oil will do); do not shave the head,
1 but just open the hair and apply to the
NUMBER 19.
' akin ; if there ia a scab, apply to that
! and it will aoou heal and <* m off."
Herlaea. ,
Cold Hnaw.—For a quart of fine-cut
cabbage, take <>n cup of sweet cream,
aoewf cup of aagar; aalt and pepper
to taste; pouud the cabbage well before
adding the cream and vinegar, with a
pol ato- pounder.
Caunnaaa.—'Two cupa of sugar, two
"ggi butter aixe of an egg, one ooffee
cup of sweet milk, one and one-half
teaaf—mfula of aoda and two heaping
teaapooufnla (4 cream of tartar, nutmeg
or other apioe; do not mix too stiff.
Biscuit Pcdumo. —For light biscuit,
take lour tableapooufula of flour, i-ar of
sugar, one of butter, one quart of boil
ing water and one teaspoon of lemon.
Beat the fiour to a paste with oold water,
afterwards add the butter and sugar, the
auart of boiling water, stirring brisk! v
J the time; now split the biaeuit and
add. Keep warm until ready to eat
A Warm Boer.—Break np a ah a ef
veal; let it soak in cold water about two
hours; then put it to boil in foar quarts
of water, with an onion, a little mace,
pepper and aalt; lei it simmer about
five hours, Btrain it through a sieve
and act awav to cool until the next day.
Then take off all the fat. wiping it with
a cloth; put it to boil. When quite hot,
if not well waaoned, add whatever may :
I*- required ; mix two spoonfuls of
ground noe with water; stir it until it j
boil*, then add a pint of good sweet
milk, and give it one boil.—A 'ansa*
Farmer.
Botrnts Bain Baana.—Put one quart
of small beans on the back of the range
to simmer, not to boil, until they are
tender; about five hours; then take tbeui
out of the pot and pour off the water;
have a brown earthen pot, in the bottom
of which place a very small onion, then
the ueana, one tablespoon! til mo Isaac*,
<me teaspoonful salt, and a few pinches
of black pepper, one-quarter pound aalt
pork on the top; fill the pot with three
pints of oold water; put in an oven and
bake slowly, aay about eight hours; the
beans should be about the color of a new
saddle when done.
lllsta.
A little corn starch in milk will im- ,
prove chocolate.
Turpentine is the best t) wet stove
polish with before using.
One cup of beefs gall in sixteen '
quarts of water, will keep rei clothes
from fading.
If too will pour a little vinejjar in the
water yon wash blue clothes in, it will
keep tuem bright.
Tax.—Tea is beet made in ail earthen
ware tea pot, which should be kept dry, j
for if allowed to remain damp after uae
it becomes musty. The water should
always boil when the tea is a bled. Tea
ia not wholesome taken on an empty
stomach.
Cklkhy.—Celery can be kept for a !
week or longer by'first rolling it up in
brown psper, then pin it np in a towel
and keep it in a dark place, and keep as
cool as possible. Before preparing it
for the table place it in a pan of oold
water, and let it remain for an hoar. It I
will make it crisp and cold.
Keepiko Cohj**d-Bzzt.—Cut up the
meat in suitable pieces, pack in a cask
or vessel, then make a brine aa follows:
To one gallon of water add one and a
half pound* of salt and one onnoe of
saltpetre; bring the brine to a boil, and
then, while boiling hot, pour on the
meat; it will keep as much as it will
cover. The meat must be kept entirely
under the brine. In the spring again
boil, skim and pour it on the meat while
hot. Borne aid one pound of sugar and
one ounce of saleratus to 100 pounds of
coroed-beef.
Exercising in Old Age.
At eighty, says a writer in Harper'
Magazine, a gentleman in New York
city commenced trying to walk np the
stairs of the Evening J\>*t building,
and there are eleven flights of them,
of which there are nine from the street
to his office. Any of the elevator men
will tell von that," when the elevator is
at all foil, ofl he will go cheerily np all
the nine flights, seemingly none the
worst for it Within a year be baa told
the writer that he still continued dumb
bell and club work before breakfast
daily, and simply because it pays ; and
he is certainly still a wiry, active man,
eveu though it ia sixty- two rears since
he wrote " Thanatopais." Palmeraton,
fox-hunting when past eighty ; Vrader
bilt, no youngster, without groom or
companion, urging his blooded trotters
over Harlem Lane at a slashing pace ;
Gladstone, at sixty-eight, felling
Ha warden trees by the hour, and for the
Ix-neflt the exercise brings—are but a
few instances of what old men can do
when they try. None of these are more
surprising than, in an intellectnal field,
the learning of German by Caleb Cash
ing after he had passed seventy,or Thiers'
activity at nearly eighty, or, in all ways,
than Moses' doing the forty years' best
work in his life after he * had passed
eighty, and yet with eve not dim nor
natural force abated. If some men. by
oiling their joints daily—for, as Mar
laren sayw, " they are oiled every time
they are" put in motion, and when they
are* put in motion only"—can keep
those joints from grating and creaking
• and moving stiffly, even into a ripe old
age, why may not others as well ? And
which oi these tilings which man can,
it he will, do so readily, cannot wo
man do as well ? It needs no money,
very little time, little or no present
strength. One thing only it does need,
and that is jieraeverance. One-third of
the time often given to the piano will
more than suffice. One less study a day
of those which are to-day overtaxing so
many school-girls, and instead judici
ous. vigorous, out-door exercise aimed
directly at the weak muscles, and taken
as regularly as one's breakfast, and is
there any doubt which will pay the bet
ter, and make the girl the happier, the
fitter for all her duties, aud the more at
tractive as well ? We trust that the day
is not far off when no boy or girl will be
sent to a school where care ia not taken
to develop vigorous healthy bodies, and
when that vigor and health will be the
rule and not the exception among men
and women alike, and in every walk in
life.
An Arqualic Velocipede.
We were shown this morning, says a
r>eent issue of the Buffalo (N. Y.,)
Ctunmrrria/, a remarkable invention
exiled the floating velocipede, which
was invented by Mr. William Ascough
of this city. It consists of two pontoons
made of galvanized iron, upon which the
framework is fastened. The boat is
nineteen feet long by three feet eight
inches beam, and the two pontoons have
twenty-six water-tight compartments.
It has a seating capacity of four per
sons, and over the npper part is a
graceful awning. The motive power is
supplied by four levers, two for each
seat, and the osoupants working these
levers cause the paddles to revolve, if
required, at the rate of sixty revolution
per minute. The speed of the boat is
about six miles an hour. The steering
apparatus is managed by the feet of
those navigating the boat. The paddle
wheels are three feet two inches in di
ameter, and are in the center, under the
seats. We are informed that there is
no splashing, but that the " floating
velocipede" rides like a duok. It draws
j five inches of water.
I ton* af Interval.
It la * wise mm that works both raya.
" Winding op buaineas " Starting
tha (dock.
Food for repentance— Minea-pie eaten
iftts at night.
Knife-grinders got their work in dor
ing doll tunes.
No one bat ft coward strike* in the
dark, and then he only atrikee a light.
If I were in the enn and you were oat
af it, what would the ran become f Sin.
A man in Kern county, Cel.. baa a ten
acre lot of mignooette, on which hi* beea
feed.
When a fisherman ahould be thank*
: fal—When hia linea are eeat in pleaaant
j plaoea.
A* the twig ia bent the ararage email
boy ia inalioed, when it oomea to pan
ili moot.
" The older the tree the thicker the
bark," bat the older the dog the thinner
the berk.
Wheu a priae-flgbter'a mill ia stopped
only four handa are thrown oat of em
ployment
In New York city alone the capital
employed in the ice buaineea exceeds
$6,000,000.
—The iaagh of the farmer—Hoe!
Hoe t Hoe I— Harkaneack Republican
Also, Hay! Hay ? Hay I
Natural lata claim that aome of tha
tree# of the tropica give nnboopded evi
dance of being over 6,000 years old.
What ia the difference between a
butcher and a gay yoang lady* The
former killa to dreaa, while toe latter
dresses to kill.
Edward Wheeler, who died in Nashua,
N. EL. worth gl 1,000, ordered the
expenditure of the whole of hia fortona
on hia funeral and tomb.
General Mite, the dwarf, ia said to
linve earned $30,000 for hia mother in
the last two years. This ia a flne illus
tration of the value of a " widow'* mite."
Pit tba sorrow* of e poor old rasa
Whose trembling limbs would fiy tha poor
house door;
Who filled for ntasty Utouasud: retell plan ;
Assets, ooe hundred end twenty, fifty-four.
A Japanese laborer receives 1,000
"oneb" e day, and be can get a satisfac
tory meal for forty " cadi." By the time
he has saved 100,000 "cash " be owns
$lO.
A hand-car, with a mast and sail at
tached, ia in operation on the Kansas
Pacific railroad, and with a favorable
wind the vehicle makes forty miles an
hour.
It ia estimated that it will coat the
navy department $900,000 to send tha
goods of American exhibitors to the
Pans Exposition and bring them home
again.
The Cgu has offered a prize for the
beat hymn celebrating the recent Rus
sian auooeaaea, and adapted for the army.
The competition is restricted to Russian
composer*.
A sweet seedling orange-tree in Her
nando county, Florida, bore two genuine
lemons with its crop of oranges this
season. It had not Wen grafted with
Lemon.
Woman attains maturity of growth at
Rio Janeiro, Brazil,WU an avenge age of
twelve years, and it ta no nnusual thing
to see s* youna man of twenty-one with a
mother of thirty-two.
More than 700 persons have entered
the oompetitive examination for the
thirty-two additional clerkships which
Congress recently authorized in the
surgeon -general's office.
In a paper on nervous affections ef
the heart a recent English writer
charges the free use of tea and tobacco,
as well as certain other execs sea, with
being very frequent causes.
It ia saddening to watch the dying
dav, to see the flickering light fall pulae
leas behind the western hill. It ia
harder still to watch for rater to boil,
over a doubtful Are, whan ia a hurry for
breakfast.
Lord Kinaale is the only peer who
can remain in the presence of the British
Sovereign with his bead oovered on oo
caaioos of state. The privilege was
conferred by King John in the thir
teenth century.
What a blessing the phonograph will
be to editors 1 The bores era slip right
into the phonograph room, and plead
with the instruments, and the editor oan
grind it all oat afterwards—if be wants
Ux.—Botton Transcript.
The phonograph may bottle up the
voice and paw it down to future age*,
bat the snule that taut* ap tbe face of
a man aa be aeeks aolitode and gazes
upon his name in print for tbe first time
will always have to be guessed at,
"It was my wife's wedding ring, but
cruel circumatsncesforoea me to part
with it for 81.50." The pitying aerrant
girl produce# the money, gather* in *
tirwa circlet and the iwamp more* on to
repeat the game at the next bonne.
Write on roar door* the saving via* end Old.
"Be bold :be bold! end erwrnrhere be bold;
Be not too bold!" Vet better the esoeae
Then the defect. better the more then torn;
Better like Hector to the field to die
Than Ukr the perfumed Peru tarn and ty.
—LcmqfeOo*.
Russia haa recently purchased 200,000
ounoea of quinine in the United States,
and that eaaential tonic hae in conae
quenoe experienced a sharp ad ranee in
price. Shaking rritb the ague promisee
to he an expensive amusement this year.
A philosopher says: "We learn to
climb by keeping our eyes not on the
hilla behind us, hut on the mountains
before us." Another way is to take a
oouple of rods the start, and try to beat
an enthusiastic ball-dog orer a nine-foot
fence.
A Lawrence (Maes.) lawyer recently
drew np a will for an elderly and quite
portlr gentleman, which containe the
following clause: " And further, I gire
and bequeath to my wife all my house
hold effects and all my wearing apparel
for her sole use."
A German inventor will exhibit
at the Paris Exposition a patent
scrubbing brush, which can be turned
into a store with eed-hot coals and
everything complete. Originally, he
intended to have aided a bed, but life
was too short.
" Use great prudenoe and rircumspec
tion in choosing thy wife," said Lord
Burleigh to his son; " for from thence
will spring all thy fatnre good or evil;
and it is au action of life like nnto a
stratagem of war, wherein a man can
err but once."
Iu 1816 Joseph Nicephore invented
photography. He snoeeeded in semiring
a picture printed by light in the camera.
A view of Kew Church, taken by him in
1827, was the first photograph from
nature taken in England. It is in the
British Museum.
It makes a stuttering man awfnl mad
to be drawn into a discussion about "the
remonetixation of the dollar of our
fathers," and the " necessity of the inter
convertible In-metallic currency.' He
may be just bursting with ideas, but the
flow of language in the title of the bill is
what throws him.
Eighteen thousand men are now en
gaged in the express business. Eiprees
companies cover 60.000 miles of railroad,
and it is estimated that their messengers
daily travel 800,000 miles. Three
thousand five hundred horses are em
ployed, and over 8,000 offices are re
quired to transact their business, and an
amount of oanital is invested not less
than $80,000,000.
William Norton, who assassinated
Jacob Killion in Empire City, Kansas, a
few days ago, "comes of a family that
kills." He has one brother serving a
life sentence in a Missouri prison, s
second was hanged in Texas, and a third
is awaiting trial in lowa, all for mnrder.
Killion was the third man he had killed,
and that crime was committed because
Killion had cheated hi n at cards five
yean before.
Russia has a wonderful Swedish gun
for use in its fleet. It is worked after
the manner of pianoforte playing, moves
to and fro in a section of a circle and
sweeps all the ground that it covers in
a most marvelous manner. It is some
thing like sweeping a lawn with water
from the jet of a garden hose moved
right and left by the operator, and can
be carried np into the maintop for firing
on the enemy's deck and inside fortifica
tions. In close quarters it would sweep
the enemy's decks of combatants.