♦•When FInU Comes," " Whan Flnit eontea, the book we oloee, And somewhat sadly Ftrior yo* With backward (top from i>tage to ta* • Of that accomplished pilgrimage The thorn lion thiols or than the roes ) There i* eo much that no one known, So much unreached that none suppose . What flaw* I what fault a ! on every page When Finia cornea. "Will—they nrnat paae ! The awift tide flow* Though not for all the laurel growa, this In- alandered age, The worker, mainly, wina hta wage , And Time will aweep both frtenda and foee When Fuiia eomea!" —Attaint /toheow. Under ihe Violets. Ilerhanila are cold; her face t* white; No more to r jmlaea ootne aut go Her evea are ahut to life act light— Fold the while vnttuiva, now on mow. And Uy hrr.where the violet* Wow. But not beneath a grttea •tone. To plead for teara with alien eyee; alender oroea of tad alone Shall aat that here a maiden llee In jaeaoe beneath I e jeaiwtlil aklee. And gray old tree* of Uugeel limb Shall wheal their otrvUng ahadotra round. To make the ecotvhlng aunltght dim. That itrtuk* the gteenneea troni the ground. And drop their dead lea tea on her mound. When oVr their bong he th, aquirrela run, Atxl through their leatea the robiua oall. And, rtpenlng 'u the autumn autt. The acorat and the oheetnute fall. IVutX not lha! Abe will hee.! Uiem all. To her the morning choir ahall amg Its matins from the branohee high. And every utnKtrel-eoioe ,J apnng That trttle beneath the April sky Shall greet he; with lie earliest cry. Vi hen, turning round their dial-track, tlast are r.i the lengthening ,ha.tow s pa. Her little mourner*, clad In black. The crickets eliding !hrru*h the graaa. Shall JUl* for her an eveutng mass At last the rootlets .if the trees Shall And the prison where *he Ilea. And hear the burled dost they aeiae In learee and blossoms to the aktes. So may the aoul that warmed it rise! If any, born of kindlier blood, Should ask. What maiden lies below T Say only this: A tender bud, Thst tried io blossom in ihe snow. Lies withered where Ihe > icicle Wow. —(Hirer Wrmitii ll.lnN. * JUST SO." I hatt\l Aunt Margery's parrot. Its screaming, croakmg voice, its gurgling asides crooned as it sat on its perch, stirred up something IU me evil and vindictive. Perhaps I had no natural inclination to pets. Often when I had been over-wearied at the old farm-house, the sight of mother's hens scratch scratelling for a living had irritated me with a sense of overwork. But they at least came honestly by their living. I respected them; but this pampered, over fed thing made my flesh crawl as it clung ogling to its perch, or dropped lazily down to pick np a bit of cracker, nibbling thereat with an uncanny chat ter. Xo; I did not like pets. Aunt Margerv did. This ugly foreign favorite had absorbed all lier affections, I thought to myself bitterly, as I watched it that morning* She caressed the crea ture; she spoke to it endearingly; but for her own kith and kin she had noth ing but everlasting fau t-fiuding and ceaseless exactions. A few tears dropped down upon my hands as I sat there. The parrot, blink ing down upon me, drew up one skinny claw, scratched its emerald head, and screamed, "Just so t"—a pet phrase which served it to express the most sub tie meanings apparently, and with which it seemed to j-er at my emotion. This was the third morning I hail waited for Dick—poor Dick, light hearted, high-spirited Dick ! —who had taken up his cap and left after his last word-battie with Aunt Margery. This blow had taken the sunshine too utterly out of my life, and there, as I sat at the window, *1 mentally shook my fist at this gibbering thing, so sheltered and favored while he was .idrift—where ? What would become of Dick ? oh, what would become of Dick? The lad had always had some business in the city that "sat lightly upon him, coming and going at his leisure; but now for three whole davs his face hail not lightened the gloomy honse. The longing to know of bis welfare, the yearning to see him, had grown intense and intol erable. And now, rendered irritable and distraught by my anxiety, I hail quarrelled with Aunt Margery myself —I to whom her invalid state had hith erto excused so much, who had been her patient nnrse so long, and her ac knowledged peace-maker between her self and the outspoken, impolite Dick. I had fallen from mv high estate; I was an outcast from favor—not worth so much in Aunt Margery's eye* as this leering old parrot. Well, I need sacrifice myself no longer. I was free to go away. Oh, how useless, how mean an l degrading, seemed all that I hail submitted to and suffered! It could benefit Dick no more, and, in his absence, dropped its splen did apparel of self-sacrifice.and revealed itself a beggerly and sordid tameneas of spirit. Outside of this narrow groove where I had grubbed and vegetated there was a thrilling, splendid reality of existence. A sort of winged feeling took possession of me as I contemplated the possibilities of the future. The parrot put up his elfin claw, blinked at me from the cor ner of his eye, and cried, "Just so!" as he flopped back into his open cage. From the window where that cage hung I could see the glowing gardens and pleasant lawns stretching below, and in the wistfnl hazy distance the city seem ed to shadow through—the bright busy city, where every one wai astir and at work. Dick was there too somewhere. Dick did "business" easily and irre sponsibly as a bird. Why should not I do business? I began to take account of stock—to make a mental estimate of my- . self. It is surprising, in this commer- i cia! valuation of one's self, how percent ages shrink. A little hazy knowledge of history, a little nebulous acquaintance with general literature, a light touch upon the piano—all these things look painfully threadbare on examination, like stage properties seen by daylight, I could not settle upon any specialty iu which I was pre-eminent. I must leave my future to fate, and I did so with the deligbful insouciance of youth. So the early dawn found rae at the garden gate, face to face with the kindl ing morning, the g irden quiet and odors. I felt a sort ot sinking at the heart not quite in accordance with my enterprise. But the bustle about the depot, and all the fights and sounds of travel, speedily dispelled ray grief, and once in the cars, my spirits rose to the occasion. Oh, I would do something, be something yet! and I nibbled a bit of cake, byway of breakfast, care-free and happy and confident. The city was quite inspiring as I en tered it—iso delighfully active and bust ling that it took my breath. People were coming and going purposeful and btisiuessfnl; everybody seemed to have his eye on some goal ahead to be reached in a given time. J only walked leisurely along, enjoying the scene, and wonder ing to myself if I should know Dick should I meet him in the whirlpool, or would he know me. All these faces were strangers faces. Of all these people not one had any in terest for me. The gay scene dimmed for a moment, and for a moment I felt the chill of isolation, as the crowd swept by I wondered was Dick as lonely, as wistful, as I. The question was answer ed by a sudden heart-thrill, for there, lusty and ruddy, stood Dick before me. I fear I clasped his hand with un necessary fervor as I said, "Oh, Dick, where did you oome from?" "Where did you come from ?" re sponded Dick, sharply , "I— Well, Richard, I can t stand Aunt Margery any longer—l can't! no, *nd I've left, Richard," FRED. KURTZ, K.litor mid Proprietor. VOLUME X!. " Left I" echoed Dick, thrusting In a hat laok frotu hi* forehead, ati.l pltiug tug his Iwo hands .loop down ut his trousers podketa Then was uone of that cheery jingle of small change 111 them with which Dick *ns wont to plav ;ully salute mr ours. This silence was ominous. "AA here to go to?" added Dick, after a long, portentous |>ausa>. '* Going to look for business." " Ah ! " Dick, li.iw you talk ! Put your hat ou straight, aud walk along. Every body's I,viking at us." "My dear," says Dick, facetiously, and laughing now and showing his white teeth, "that remark of mine to which vou take exception was prompted by the Jaet that I'm out of a job myself. Sup nose I was iu quarrelsome mood after leaving the old lady's, for when l-awver kludge set upon me about neglecting the correspondence, copying, ami the like slavish business, 1 turned upou the old brute, and we had a blow-up. I'm out ou the world, dear, with a capital of twenty-five cents to begin ou." For two homeless waifs that sum was not extensive. I took my purse out of my pocket, never a heavy oue at any time; but now—O fate ! O evil, careless fate !—a hole revealed itself in the ailken tissue, through which hail shpjied noise lessly a nursling of a gold piece which 1 had cherished there, wrapped in a bit of paper, for a whole twelvemonth. 1 looked in my friend's face blankly. I was no princess, it seemed, coming to his rescue with gulden gifts, but an added weight about his neck. " Dick," I faltered, meekly, " I'm in tending to work for a living. "Of course," was the answer. "Might I inquire what at ?" " Vou know I can do 'most any thing Dick.' "Jennv, child," said m v companion, looking down upon me beniguantly, and stopping abort in hi 9 walk (Dick always awed me when he assumed tins elder-brother aspect)—" Jenny, child, it's a hard-driven sort of a world voo've put your tiny self into—a place where it's a very hard matter to get a footing, and where, if vour foot alipa, you're sure to be carried out into deep water. " Dick's darkened a- he looked at the? -of people. " Whatever's a fel low t • do?" Winding up his discourse thus abruptly, my friend pulled his hat down over his eyes, and glowered from under it like a highwayman. I Listened to tins talk of Dick's, hu miliated and ill at ease. Was I, then, a mere aimless waif—a mere bit of drift wood afloat in this human torrent? Even Aunt Margery's chafing and chiding were better than this nothingness. I began to feel very weary. A remem brance of my quiet room and of the soming apple bough that hung over the window came to me vision-like. " Dick," said I, abruptly, " I'm going back." "All right, little one," patting me patromziuglv on the shoulder: " the very best thing you can do." " Not to stay, Dick," said I, vexed at the alacrity with which he accepted the proposition. " Xo; I've an idea in my head." " Look so," responded Dick, sen ten tiouslv. " Dick, listen to me"—authoritatively. "I shall sleep at Xurse Catterby's be night, and if yon meet me there, I'll have something to help you." "My darling!" cried Dick: but I re pelled this later exhibition of affection. "Put me in the cars, my friend; I'm hungry, you know, but there s no time to lose." In my feminine fertility of resource I felt myself infinitely superior to this helpless, good hearted lump of a Dick, and I nodded my head to him gayly at parting, without thought of failure. In my room at Aunt Margery's there hung a grand old-fashioned time-keeper with a gold coin attached to its heavy chain, and a big seal wherein glowed a ruby. Secretly I regard-1 this as ray own, for it hail once been ray mother's, an heir-loom of the family, tLe source of endless disputes, as I had heard, be tween the grasping elder sister and the younger. My mother was of a high spirit, and finally, in a fit of utter weari ness and vexation, flung the watch, with all its glittering appendages, at her sister's feet. Aunt Margery had never returned it—that was not her way—'rat it had never been wound up since that day, and lung after my mother's death it hung silent and shining in the room de voted to my use—perhaps a supersti tious offering to the vexed spirit of the departed. I had determined to go back without being seen, if possible, and get this watch, appropriating it, as I felt sure my mother would approve, to aid myself and my friend in oar sore need. The ride seemed a long one; the road wound about in a manner I had never observe 1 before, with a persistent dodg ing at the end, that gave me ample time for revolving ways and means for carry ing out my scheme, til! finally the moon shone out on the last evolution; and leaving the cars I trudged on afoot nntil the Bentinel poplars guarding Aunt Margery's gate with their long black shadows came in view. It was with a beating heart, notwith standing my bravery, that I took the key of the side door from my pocket, and entered the familiar domicile at night-fall like a shadow. It was easy enough to obtain access to the inner part of the house from here, for most of the doors were carelessly latched, and I was not likely to meet any servant at this time in the evening. I remembered a certain wide window-sill in the hail, groping toward which I sat down to rest myself, with a curiously scared and hunted feeling, which had not entered into my calculations when I planned this audacious expedition. Then, removing my shoes, I slipped softly through the long, deserted pass ageway to my own room. The door opened with a treacherous creak that seemed bent to betray me. It appeared an age before I was fairly within. This was my own pretty, pleaannt lit tle room, the shelter where I had so often betaken myself from Aunt Mar gery's rasping voice and incessant fault finding where I had dreamed day dreams and revelled in nightly visions. This cherished and familiar little nook hail chilled to me in one day's absence. It had given possession to a horde of shadows that, mocking and gesticulating, flitted to and fro in the uncertain light. Perhaps the breeze blown branches of the elm outside played me this trick; but it confused me strangely, and rendered my search for the watch a long one, till it seemed as if some tricksome elf had filched it to dis tress me. At length, however, my bands tonched and grasped the treasure ; the heavy chain glided with snaky cool ness through my fingers, and I thrilled from head to foot with a new and strange sensation. For at that very moment I heard the door shut with a snap. This noise in itself was not startling ; no one was likely to hear it save myself ; but it announced that I was trapped, a prison er, snared in my own net; for the door closed with a spring, and I had left the key on the outside. I put my two hands to my head and | thought desperately for a moment. There was no possible egress now except i through Aunt Margery's room, with which mine was connected by a narrow passage. How could I hope to pass through without waking her ? For just ODe instant I felt like despair. How was Ito help Dick now ? It must be done, however. I gathered up my courage; I THE CENTRE REPORTER. reoieuilirrril the indtguities I hs.l bortie, I the needs of my frteuJ, the at'solule I rightfulness of what I was doing, ami, strong tu resolution, glided across the hall- silently, slowly, lent the ghost of a ' footfall should rouse the vigilant sleep era within. There was something dread ; fui tu this, after all. Tina strange ad veut amoug familiar things that look on t Ihe (Utruiler with aunster eves ts uol a liesirable experience. .True, 1 was on a mission of uierev; but tlus fact failed to support me as 1 stiaxl poised ou uiv aunt's iloor sill. A weak-uiiuded doubt fulness creeping in for a moment paral vzed tuv activity. Tina bauble hail beeu ' lu Aunt Margery's {vvssessi >u for years Was it mine? was it hers? The "sacred i rights of property " I had Instrd talked of so of leu: were my mother's sacred, or my auut'a? Ah 1 what would become of all the property tu the world tf right ftilly divider!? Would theu Pick go out starving aud hoitsleas from Aunt Margery's surplus of luxury ? Dauger ous apeculatious, but brief. 1 swept them all aside like cobwebs. Never should I desert Dick in his time of need. Stepping on tiptoe in my unaliisl feet, 1 essayed to convoy my beating heart as ! far u possible front the high old i fashioned baliMkl. It almost seemed Aunt Margery might hear it in her sleep. The low night lamp sent a thin thread of light across the door; it rested lon the heavy drapery fostooued to the ceiling, which gave this conch an awful dignity iu mv old childish days. Aud there, just opposite it, 1 stood trausdicsl. There lay Aunt Margery, with eyes wide open, looking out at me. I returned the gaze steadily, froaenly. I know not how long we might have regarded each other thus, but the parrot, iu his cover ed cage within, croaked uneasily. Aunt Margery turned sleepily ou her pillow. ! " Yon are late, Jeouy," she said quer ulously. "What kept you so, child? Hand me the camphor yonder, my head aches drea ifullv." I handed the camphor silently, and of habit proceeded to bathe her hands and forehead as usual, and then came the usual innumerable orders. A little warm water from the bath room, and a little mixture from the medicine chest. Her pillows needed adjusting, her lamp needed trimming, and thus was 1 chained to her side a prisoner, with that doubtful time-piece in my pocket, and my braiu dixzv with schemes for escape. Oh, what would Dick think of me, re creant that I was in his time of trial?— poor Dick, watehiug vainly all this time at Kate Catterby's cabin, or wandering on the road, mayhap, all the long night fall, meditating ou the faithlessness of woman; then in the morning, discour aged anu hopeless, he would drift away somewhere out of my reach. I hardly dared think of this contingency. To let go my hold ou Dick was to give no my hold on life. Utterly exhausted with the long watching, I fell asleep at last, the heavy sleep of youth and weariness. I was aroused from this dreamless slumber by a sudden loud crash, a rap ping and tearing at tile window. Aunt Margery started up aghast. " Robbers!" she exclaimed, clutching my arm. But there never could have been so bungling a robber as this. I stood up and faced the intruder with wide-staring eyes. "All right!" said a load, cheery voice. "The confounded sash!'' And there stood Dick. " Why. bless mv heart, auntie, I beg your pardon. But, Jenny girl, I've been walking the rood till 1 couldn't stand it anv longer. Thought yoa'd beeu robbeJ, or waylaid, or some thing—" Propped up on her elbow among the pillows. Aunt Margery looked out ma jestically and interrupted this tira le. " Richard," said she, " are you a fool ?" " Couldn't exactly state to-night, anu tie. Haven't time to analyze. I only came to look after Jenny. She's all right, itaeems, o I'll bid yon good night." " Dick," said the invalid, sbakiug her long forefinger at him authoritatively, "'yon'll stay just where you are. I cant do without Jcuny, I find—she can't do without you, it appears." "Of course not," said Dick, delilier ataly taking a chair. " I always was an appendage of Jenny's, you kuow, and shall be for the rest of my natural life, I'm afraid." " Just so!" screamed the parrot, one bright s-innv morning, as I stepped down stairs in a floating bridal veil, and with my mother's watch in ray gir lie, Aunt Margery's wedding gift. Dick was waiting for me below, with beaming face and arms outstretched. Japanese Brides. As might he imagined from the ehar acter of the government, woman plays no part in the history of Japan, though, allowing for Oriental usages, she is treated on |the whole, with tolerable le-niencv. She occupies a better position in the family, from not entailing any charge of her marriage, as a bride re ceives no dewrv, but, on the contrary, is presented by her tins hand with a handsome donation, which is invariably appropriated by her fnther. In Japan, therefore, it is considered more fortu nate to have daughters than sons, as the former ultimately prove n venr profitable investment. On the birth of a son, the event is commemorated by planting a a tree, which, if the little stranger lives, is carefully tended to the day of his marriage, when it is cut down, and fur nishes material for a chest, designed expressly to hold the wardrobe of the newly-wedded ootrple. The marriage, as in China an 1 Tartarv, is an affair be tween" the parents and the wishes of the young people themselves are never consulted. The bride is nsrtally in her fifteenth yearbut maturity being early developed, wedlock mvy be con tracted nt a still younger age, and the mother is often a ehild herself. Mar riage iH a religious ceremony, ami is celebrated with great pomp and mar.y forms, in a public temple, in presence of the priests and idols, and the friends and kindred of boh parties. The priest blackens the pearly teeth of the bride, using for this purpose the *ame indeli ble lacquer applied to coal-acuttles and other similar japan - ware ; and this serves, from that time to her death, to notify, like the wedding ring of Europe, that she has entered th < marriage state. A Moving Event. Speaking of qneer things in the his tory of house-renting, remarks a Chica go correspondent, certainly the queerest which has ever come to my notice oc curred to a friend of mine, the merit of it* strangeness being its literal truth. A little more than a year ago ho rented a house to a party who was a stranger, but who, paying his first month's rent in advance, and having every appearance of being a respectable man, was counted by the agent as a good tenant. The first of the second month, when my friend went to collect his rent, imagine his surprise at not finding any house upon the lot Some time during the month the house had been moved away, and to this day he has been nnablo to find a sign or trace of it. I have often heard of tenants leaving a house without pay ing their rent, bat this is the first case I ever knew or heard of where the ton ant not only got away.with his rent, bnt with the house also. They do these jthings differently in Chicago, yon know. CENTIIE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JUNE 27, 1878. Sulphur. Sulphur is one of the tuost widely dis trtbuted of the tioti metallic elements. It is found unoomhinod in many volcan ic districts, tint by far the greater part u*w uaixl is obtained from Sicily whore the dejxtsit* are very extensive, Iu the form of a sulphide it is fouud iu combi nation with iron, copper, tine, lead, and ( other metals. Sulphates, or oomfiound* of sulphuric acid, are even tuoro widely ditTuse.l tu nature. It ts present in the vegetable and annual kingdoms, al though tu very much smaller quantities than those element* ou which organic compounds are based. It is found tu various combinations in the waters of hot springs. Sulphur has been known from a verv remote antiquity ; and Indeed it must have tieeu one of the first elementary substances discovered, as it is so widely distributed iu the native state, and its peculiar color aud other properties still more remarkable ivuil.l not fail t. ut ' tract attention to it. Sulphur is readily fmsl from most impurities bv fusion ami distillation, but it usually contains aeleaium and arsenic, the lattswiu the form of a sul phide. By the addition of dtlutod hydrochloric acid to some metallic sul phides, it may le precipitated as a uearlv white |x>wder. Sulphur is reprowntrj in chemical reaction* by the jmlxil H., and its atomic weight i* 32, exactly twice that of oxygen. At ordinary tem|er attires it is a brittle, tasteless and in odorous solid, insoluble in water, and of it yellow color which is very character istic of it. The specific gravity of native sulphur is 2.07, and that of cry stals formal artiticially only 1.9&, Tbc effera turothe aulpliur baa ao little finality that a veaael containing it can be iuvert ed without ita running out. At a higher temjierature it reliquefle* and if poured in this condition into water liecome* plastic and tenacious, but after a few hours it looses these properties, liecome* brittle and is converted into common sulphur. At 824° F. it boil* and forma a dense yellow vapor of the specific gravity fi,t>l7. Wheu boated m the air sulphur takes fire and burns with a bine fiainc, the product formed being sul phurous acid. With the single exception of oxygen, sulphur has the most powerful aftiiiity for other radical* of all knowu elements, and with some of them it can !>e made to combine in several pro]H>rtions. With oxygen it form* no less than seven all of them acids. One of these, sulphuric acid (the impure acid is known as "oil of vitriol is of the highest value in the industrial arts as well as in the laboratory, as it can lie manufactured very chaply and has very powerful acid properties. Sulphurous acid with one third less oxygen than sulphuric acid, is also a very iui|H>rtant compound. About Bog*. tew persona are aware of the value, variety and weight of dig*. varying a* they do from 180 joaad* to leaa than one pouud, an 1 valued at from SSOO t > U* than nothing. A description of differeut kind* ui dog* may be interest- The Siberian blood-hound weigh* about lfiU j>ouuda, measures forty inches in girt, and is worth nearly SSOO. The St. Bernard dog, which ia a buff or light lead colqr, i* very large ami valuable. The Newfoundland dog, when pare, is entirely black, aud it* puj are worth from $lO to S2O. The shepherd dog, or Scotch cooly, ia wonderful for its patience, fidelity aud braverv. It ia worth Irom SSO to SIOO. The English mastiff, a good watch dog, is worth froui sls to $25. Of ternera, the blaek-and-tsn is most ndnaired. It varies in weight from one pound to twenty five pound*, and in creases in valne as it decrease* in weight. Terriers are often crossed with the Ital ian greY-bound.produeinga very delicate but extremaly useleus dog. The Scotch terrier is the" hardiest of dog*, i* very courageous, and ia worth from $lO to sllO. Scotch deer-hounds are tlie rarest and most valuable of hunting dogs. They ore owned principally by the nobility of Eugland, and are worth SIOO each. The lieagle is the smallest of the hound kind, has superior scent and en durance, and, in abort, is the best sort of rabbit hunter. English greyhound*, the fleetest of dogs, are worth from $25 to SIOO each. The Italian greyhound is merely n parlor dog. The pure breed is rare and valuable, a flue one being worth $l5O. There ■* a great variety of |h.inters, setter* and spaniel*. The Prinoe- Charles variety i the most valua ble of spaniela. He ia supposed to have originated in Japan, where a similar breed exists. He has n large, fall eye, black-and-tAn color, and never weigh* over ten pounds They have been sold at auction in England at $2,000 each. The coach dog is from Denmark, and is not of much valne. Edison iann. Ediaon is one of those men who have no right to be modest. Boston Globe. Blison hasi i von ted but never mind; thi* i getting monotonous. Boston Transcript. I propose directly to make figs from thistles. You hear me?— Mr. Edison. —Buffalo Ex-prest. The phonograph ha* been nicknamed "The Deacon," because it can snore so naturally.—Cincinnati Breakfast Ta ble, At a party given reoently by Presi dent MacMabeu's daughter, a phono graph was the chief attraction. Boston Globe. While Mr. Ediaon ia in the inventing mood, why doesn't he invent a carpet that will " get np and dust?"— Courie r It seems a little singular that an anti profanity, telescopic, self-adjusting stove-pipe was invented within three weeks after Edison filled the caveat for his voice-pickling machine. Breakjaef Table. Edison is said to be inventing a ma chine to save time in eating, something ot this kind seeming to Ho in great de mand nmong Americans. Chicago Journal. Somebody has written to Ediaon ask ing him to get up an honest giu meter, but he refuses point blank to harard his reputation. He says the line must be drawn somewhere. — tHncinnati Satur day Night. A fac-similie of a letter written by Thomas A, Edison is given in the Graphic, and it shows that with all his genius, Mr. Edison accomplishes better handwriting than any other man in the country.— Buffalo Expre**. If Elison wants to strike a respon sive chord in the public heart, he should invent a bnshel peach basket that will hold fonr pecks, and a quart strawberry box that will not swindle the purchaser ont of half a pint.— Norristuum Herald. Mrauge Sreue on at anal Itoat. Almost evrrylxaly on tins side of the water has heard of the English canal boats, iu which whole faiuthoa are Ixirti and ltva. We read au account of a I juvenile parly held on board of one ol them—a good-aiz< I boal, lent by it" jolly captain for too oeoaatou which tuav prove iiitetcstiug to others. 'flic beucvolt tit people interested iu the scheme determined to give a genuine children's party, the guests to l* chosen exclusively from the children belonging to the eatial bout*. Such an event was unprecedentixt, and muile no smull stir among young ami old. The children born and bred upon the canala are as shy of strangers as rabbit* aud hares. Bo when a stranger went from Uiat to lx>at. inviting the little ones to the party, there was well nigh a panic spread amongst them, and they could not, iu any instance, l>e prevailed U|ru to give a decided promise to at tend. But the news was spread; good thing* were brought; there was a large parcel of toys for distribution hid away in the " bottom " of the Ixwt; and sun dry fair hands set to work to prepare a feast for the invited ones. The guest* arrived in due time. Each one hml l>een reipieateil to bring a " mug," out of which to driuk tea; and the array upon the table when all were assembled was quite picturesque. About foiir-and-twentv ware assembled at tea; the cloth was laid upon a table planted against one aide of the boat to keep it aUwdy. Aa each entered, tliare was a little shout of welcome. After the caudle* were lighted a scene was recorded which would have delight ed the eye of a Dutch painter of the old school —one who revelled in strong lights, deep shailows and characteristic face*. Many of the little one* had care worn looks, and were thin and pale, as though touched with p n and hunger; vet there were a few of such strange beauty, whose faces were chiselled with such "delicate t ndernes* that, despite their rough garb, they would have at tracted admiration in any assembly. Here were children of ten and twelve, who hail never known the sweet allure ment* aud tender sympathies of toys, but who knew how to stet r a Imat on a cold night, wheu there was no star in the heavens to shed a glimmer on the water; and who were in the constant habit of riding for hoar* at a stretch ou the hack of a one old horse, whose fate lial linked his power* by a rope to the prow of the t*>*t. For one bnef space in .1 life long ii-cital of toil, the children w. re assembled for a treat and for play; an i that they enjoy d it thoroughly their merrv shouts of laughter soon fully proved. Tea over, gift* were distributed—tin trumpets, whistles, boxes of toys, Noah's arks, kaleidoaoopea, A H C block* aud dolls -and he joy of the poor children oouldomy find expression in loud shout* aud a general romp. After an evening of uupreredcuteii happiness • ie luveniie* separated, their heart - gladiii-r than they had ever been before through the g ner osity of unknown friends. Surely this wn- a charity indeed, one well worth imitating. The Iso-Headed Fagle, The origin of the device of the eagle ou national and royal banner* mar lx traced to very early timea. It *a the en*ign of the ancient king* of Persia and Babylon. The Romana adopted in any other figure* on their camp standard* ; !>nt Marina, It. C. 102, made the eagle alone the en*igu of the legion*, and confined the other figure* to the cohort*. From the Roman* the French under the empire adopted the eagle. The emperors of tlie \Vextern Roman empire used a black eagle, those >f the East a golden one. The sign of the golden eagle, met with in tavern*, i* in uUuhkhi to the emperora of the East. Since the time of the Roman* almost etery State that ha* aaanmed the deaignation o' an empire, ha* taken the eagle for ita eu*ign—Austria, Prus sia, Russia, Poland, and France, *ll took tlie eagle. The two-headed eagle signifies a double empire. The emper or* of Anntria, who claim to be oonide.r oil the nuoceaaor* of the Caesar* of Rome, uso the donhle-hea led eagle, which l* the eagle of the Eaatern emperor* with that of the Wivteru. typifying the " Holy Roman empire," of which the emperor* of Germany (now merged in the houae of An*tna) oousid erol themaelve* a* the representatives. Charlemagne wa* the fir*t to ne it, for adieu he became manter of tlie whole of the German Empire, he added th second head to the eagle, A. D. 802, to denote that the empire* of Rome aud Germany were united in him. A* it ia among bird* the king, and being the emblem of n noble nature from it* strength of wing and eye, and courage, and also of oonnciona ntreugth ami in nate power, tlie eagle ha* been univer sal ly preferred a* the continental em blem of sovereignty. Of the different eagle* of heraldry the black eagle i* c>n*iderelonging to Oen. Custer anil given it to him, sud he (General Hampton) had used it during the last two year* of the conflict. Senator Chris tiancy was asked if bo thought Mr*. Custer would like to have the glass. The senator said "Yea," and at once wrote to Mrs. Custer about the matter. She sent a letter to General Hampton, saying that she would doubly appreciate the relie because it had been the prop erty of two brave men, and she added that her husband had been an admirer of General Hampton. The latter sent word that rr soon as he could get the glass brought down from bis mountain home he would forward it, Rnd the his toric glass is now on its way to Monroe, Michigan, the home of Mrs. Custer, where she has a large collection of wsr sonvonirs arranged in a cabinet. Sftc York Herald, fnngrcssional Pastime, A Washington correspondent writes: One day while the House was under conviction and some of the members telling their experience, I saw Mr. Shelley, of Alabama, spread ont a hand kerchief upon his desk, take up the blotting stand aud, in pepper-box fash ion, sprinkle the handkerchief fnil, thou qnietly fold it up aud lay it down in front of Mr. Houok, of Wiaeonsin. The gentleman didn't notice the handker chief until Mr. Shelley nudged him and pointed to it; then, as if his friend had given him a hint to blow his nose, he took article and bio wed, and he was sanded in fine style, while the members who saw the joke laughed in school boy fashion and nearly drowned the voice of the gentleman who was speak ing. THE "UNIVERSAL I'KOVIIIER." Oat ml Ultaa'a laaltisitsas A Ptars U t.rrr Ptrrrlblna Vlar b bad, grssa a { Tstsbstsas la a Wit*. A Loudon letter to the San Francisco Chronicle savs; Have you hear>i of the wonderful Wlnteley of Westlmurne (irove, the " Universal Provider," as he calls him self. His is a large block of shops, which loss than twenty vearsago started as a single small establishment in the millinery slid draper) line, and has now lieeti fatuous for at least a dozen twelve mouths. It ts a place outside which, in the season, the carriages extend for a quarter of a mile or more, and stand as many deep as the width of a not especi ally capacious street anj the vigilance of "the Metropolitan Police will permit; and where in the uii Idle of the summer, when the Btoek of light materials is dur ! tug a few days sold off at oust price or less, and in "the middle of the winter, when the heavy things are also for a few days disposed of at an " awful sacrifice," you have to get up iu the small hours and rush off there directly the doors open if you wish to be attended to. Haid a gentleman the other day to one of the urlisne shop-walkers who was at tending liuu to the door, after au after noon spent in the several outfitting de partments devoted to his sex, " 1 really believe you could do everything but i bury me." " AVe would bury vou with the greatest pleasure," returned the po lite official; "that ia—aliem—l beg pardon; I mean if you abould be so un fortunate as to stand in need of that melancholy office, we have set up an undertaking branch of business." A lady onee saving in the shop that she thought she could buy everything there but a leg of mutton and eoals, the man who was serving her immediately point ed to a notice setting forth that a de partment for butchers' meat had just been added, and that in another orders for coals could be received. A gentle man musically inclined once wrote to Mr. Whiteley to ask him to send him some banjos to lo>k at. In return " William Whiteley A Co." presented "their respectful compliments." and begged to inform that gentleman that they did not keep banjos. On which Una correspondent wrath fully wrote back to ask how William Whitelev A Co. could presume to call themselves Universal Provider* if they did not keep banjos. Verr soon, indeed, after this snnh, the U. fV* again presented their respectful compliment* aud requested that Mr. Ho aiid Ho would be kind enough to call and inspect Jtheir collection of banjoa and other musical instruments. A young man about to proceed to India paid the famous establishment a visit for his outfit, and was set up with everything he could possibly require just a* fast a* he asked for lL As he was writing his check for the whole amount in the great William Whiteley * private office he laughingly said, "Well, positively, Mr. Whiteley, I believe you have provided me with all I want save only one tiling." "Aud that ? "Is a wife." "Is that all?" said the smiling head of the firm. " Would yon care to dine with me at 7:30 at my house kviairrnw ? I should be very glad, in deed to see yon." "I am sure it will afford me great pleasure to dine with vou," politely made answer the aston ished young man, and accordingly pre sented* him oard. Tins i* the safest method possible. If cork* are tiaed, they may alip from around tlie breast down beneath the body, throw ing tlie head below the surface, and putting the wearer in danger of dnwn mg. Some country boy* get two bladder* and then tie them together with a short cord, and u*e these ** support*. They are tlie most dangerous thing* possible for a boy to have. The lxard is perfectly safe, and one may learn to swim in a very short time by using one. It should be over four feet long, over a foot wide, and two inches thick, made of soft white pine or cedar. To use it, a boy wade* into the water np to hi* shonldeni, then, taking hold of tlie end of the Ixuuvl, he pushes it before him—towards the bank, any my side ut M little table iliMOMinj M mutton-chop. Alter he bad carefully picked the whole of the available mate riml off the bone, he held up the roui uiuit with Ins fork, and oliserved to me witli the charming familiarity of his fatherland, "I take it that thia u the oulv thing that your country raiae* which rav country can't lick." Without wholly indoraiug' the negative portion of Una striking apophthegm, I ain fully prepared to aoquieaec in its positive statement, An American cannot pro dune a mutton chop. But if the great continent ia weak in meat it mak* up for |U deficiency by ita riehueaa in vege tables. Nowhere in the world—and my gastronomical experlenoea hare l>eeu mauv and varied hare I found aaeh exoellent fruita, pulsea, tubera, or salad green* aa in the Northwestern HUb-a and Canada. Our ordinary English garden-stuff—peaa, beana, cabliage, cau liflower, asparagus, sea-kale, lettuce, and celery —-grown far more abundantly ami lusciously there than in Europe. Tne |eaa and asparagus especially, are bevond all praise tender, melting, suc culent and gigantic withal. Tomatoes load the table at every meal; either sliced, cold and dressed like a salad, or stewed aa only New • laud and Cana dian cooks can atew them. Then, in addition to thec familiar old frienda, better here than in their Eastern homes, a number of new luxur ies await the inquiring palate. Indian corn forma in ltaelf a memorable epoch in the epicure's life. It is picked " green, that ia to aay, young and ten der —for the color ia a jiale yellow—ana after being boiled or roasted, is eaten with s copious supply of that delicious butter that goea without the saying in America. Delicate minded people cat off the grains from the "cob" with s knife, which wastes half the contents and B'J Kiils all the flavor; but ordinary bodies hold the "cob" boldly in one hand (fanner folks going even to the length of two), gnsw off the succulent grain ss s dog gnaws a bone. Not a graceful performance, certainly, hut v rv effectual; and aa to the gustatory result, I think green corn may family l>e elevated on to the same lofty pedestal of vegetable excellence with asparagus and top artichokes. The egg-fruit, too, yields another new sensation —a deep, purple-skinned, melon-shaped ob ject sliced thick, and nicely fried in bread-crumbs. Hweet potatoes, yams and similar Southern products, brought up bv rail from the Carolina*, swell the list * In short, while the Americans hsve all our vegetables in greater per fection than ever can be attained at home, thev hare a great many other de licious species to which we are total strangers. Moreover, by cunningly combining and ringing the change* on all their vegetables, the cooks produce several excellent mixture# such as sue ootaati, a melange of Indian corn and txtans. admirably adapted for the finale of a breakfast Furthermore, twing prone to follow the customs of France in all good things, they always observe the laudable practice of serving vegeta blee on s separate fplate, so that each convive mav 1* seen surrounded with a semi-circle of little dishes, containing great BP Itsug ;**a, stringlees harioot te a snake. While I called for lights and sticks the reptile retreated into the hollow of an adjacent tree against which is a fernery, and hiss ed so loudlr that mv servants and I were deoeivM into thinking the noise to be that of a cat. After prodding into the recesses of the rookery with sticks for several minutes, the loud hiaaing leing coutiuued the while, the snake sudiienlv crme oat liefore my servant, and atooil erect upon the stone-work withexpanded hoof the faamuatiug young men in an uptown dry-gooda store (aaya the Hau Praumaoo Agf) ia in trouble, Itia the custom in the eatebliahment from which he haa Juat leen dismissed, to diacherge a man who faila to aell U> one of three aimouaaive customer*. " Swap ping" ia the expressive technical term by which tbia failure ia known in the dry-goo la buaineea. The rule ia not universal, but it ia by no mean* excep tional in dry-good stores. However nnjuat it may be, it haa a wonderfully aliniulaling effect on the elegant young neu ameuable to it, and when they can not aell gooda, it ia a aale inference that the customer ia either auperoaturally obdurate, impecunious, or miaerly. The young man referred to had " flrat call" laat Friday morning; that ia the firat euatomer who entered the at/ire waa by the rule of rotation hie excioaive victim. Next morning thia privilege woohl fall to fbe lot of home other clerk, aud ao on to the end of the list. The first eua tomer "awapped" him and then went ont without investing a cent The aeepnd waa in an equally unpropitious state of mind, and retired without effecting a purchase. On the decision of the third hung hia fate. Hia ample cheek blanched aa ahe darkened the doorway, for a more unlikely purehaeer could with difficulty have been found. An old striped shawl waa thrown aareleaaly over ner shoul ders, and partially concealed a roll of calico, which the pal Dilatory heart of the clerk metibctivefv felt that she came to have matched. Now if there ia anything in the dry-goods business more harrow, ing than another, it ia to match gooda. The exact shade and texture haa to be found, and laat but not leaat, the price must correspond. A feeling of sickening despair permeated the hearing breast of the unfortunate clerk as he asked, " Well, ma'am ?" She laid down five yards and a half of calioo of an ecrentrie pattern, and inti mated that the success of a great dress making enterprise hinged on her fortune in finding soother yard and a half of the same material. The eye* of an expectant clerk* were upon the doomed man. He felt that the crisis of hut peril had oome. With an appearance of oalmneaa that belied the turmoil of hia feelings, ha dived under the counter and handed out endleaa rolls of calico, varying from the radiant straw berry and moaa- rose- marked, to the soberest gray. But he came not within thirteen supplem-utary color* of the required pattern. He borrowed in UJ*> cavernous depths of lower shelves, and ran marked upper ones frucn the top round of a giddy step-ladder, but be found it not. An hour and a half had gone bv, and his stock was nearly ex hausted. The proprietor of the store and the bookkeeper and porter had oome to witness bis death struggle. Six tunas had the wearied lady started lor the door, and six times he called her hack and resumed his frenxied search. The last calico was unrolled, and he was about to drop his hat and gracefully step down and out, when a happy thought struck him. • Excuse me madam," said he; " there's one piece I overlooked. Lft me see that good*;' and he took her bundle and diving under the counter, hacked off a yard and a half with the energy promptness of re-kindled hope. •• Here 'tie madam; exactly what you required," said he confidently, spread ing out the purloined goods. Hhe looked at it attentively for five minutes. "It doea look like the pat tern," said ahe, " but still I think it's not what I want. It's a good deal oars ir than mine. If I can't get anything nearer to the nattern I'll come back and take it Good morning." She did come back in an bour, but not to Imy the good*. He tried to dodge behind the counter, but with the keen signtedneas of womanly revenge, ahe spotted him, and be was ignominiously hauled out and arraigned before his em ployer. The worst of it was thst the latter, in view that the unprofitable en ergy shown in his attempt to effect a ! *ale, bad concluded not to discharge him! With the evidence of his guilt un mistakable, however, it would be fatal to the discipline of the house to keen him, and be was promptly dismissed. Until the old Isdy succeeds in getting s warrant for his arrest his name is chsri tsbly suppressed. To Cleanse Engravings. M. E. L. writes: "1 have a very valuable engraving quite ancient, in fact, an heirloom; but it ia a good deal soiled. Cao you tell me how it may be cleansed without injury?" We give di rections which have been used suooees fnllv bv an artist, s correspondent of Thr Chetnitt and I>rugffiat. When the engravings are rimply soiled, they should, one at a time, be floated for twenty-four hours, face downward, on water that has been passad through a carbon -tilter. The engraving ia then lifted out of the water by a large, per fectly clean sheet of window-glass being passed underneath; after being drained, it ia transferred to a sheet of white blot ting paper, never being toadied by the hand. When thus the first dampness baa been removed, it is transferred to fresh blotting-psper, dried either in s prees or under a heavy book, and finally ironed to gloss, a clean paper being placed between the paper and the print. In case mildew stains discolor the engraving, it should be immersed in a solution made in the proportions of half a pound of chloride of lime to a pint of water. Let it stand, with fre Slant stirring, for tweuty-fodr hours, and en strain through muslin, and finally add a quart of water. Mil Jew and other stains will be found to disappear very quickly, and the sheets must then be psaaed separately through clear water, or the chloride of lime; if left ha the paper, will oause it to rot. Old prints, and, indeed, every description of printed matter, may be suooeashtlly treated in the same manner. If the bleaching process makes the engraving too white, the final rinse water may be tinted with clear ooffee and have a very little isinglass or dissolved glue mixed with it.—New For* Tribvne. The Value ef Meney. Ask of each ringing dollar in this world its history how it cams into life. Some of them will tell 70a they represent the tears of • widow, the bar* to red honor of a man, the jobbery of a ring; and the thousands of other stories which yon would be told, I need not re late. Renjamin Franklin said the road to wealth is as plain as the road to mar ket. Yes, it is the gooi old-fashioned road of honest toil We sometimes say that the day of miracles is passed. There is one "miracle still existing—the miraculous result of hard labor that id accomplished by the dripping sweat of the brow. The yalne of money is not what it bnys, bnt what it oosts. Bome men's money costs them too mnoh; oth ers too little. A man who makes his money at the expense of his health and his honor, pays too mnoh; he who gets his money by lnoky hits, pays too little. If he pays to much he cheats himself. If he pays too little, be cheats mankind. The golden mean between these two extremes was well expressed in the prayer of Agar, who aaid, " Give me neither poverty nor riches." If a man wonld bring Arcadia, Ist him abolish i poverty and wealth. mm r tatorMl* A man of part*—Tha Bom* Wmtern paper- h™ aaUbliafa ad a gMßhnppar d^iartment Thara ara orar 800 religion bte societies and twaoty-aeveo boafttaia in New York ofty. Louisville baa a aaoret The Elephant They keep all of their documents in a trunk. A aeveo-footar in Kentucky aaya if he were given the choice of maana of death be would die by inches. Tlie reaaon the war waa ao bard upon the Turka waa that every fatal rensiy made an even*# of four wi low*. To the American boy there ia an aw ful, a majrelic difference in weight ba i ween the butt-cod of a flahing pola and a hoe handle. One-half of the beea in San Monica, Oal. were loat laat year, aaya an exohanga Hope it waa the tail half, remarka the Chicago Tims*. A young lady waa undecided whether to ifHsout tiit* •# of Jinwi of James gave ber a* aealakin aaeque, and ahe immediately gave the aaok to John. A Mr. Poet, of Ohio, aged one hun dred year* ia mlaaing from hemic. Hia friend# ahoold kink for him in the dead letter office, where he ia probably held for Poet age. A German writer aaya a young girl ia a fishing rod : The eyas are the hook, the smile the bait, the lover the g'id geoo, ami marriage the butter in which he is fried. A Burlington man has invented an improvement on Edison's phonograph. The machine is so natural that during spring weather it talks through its noae and cad't say eh dor ed. —Hau/keye. Mr. Sawyer, of Htarka, Me., haa a set of mat buttons which be haa worn upon all o# hia ooate for about fifty rears. Tbev are large white pearl, are I valued at 85 each, and were brought from Italy upon an old mrtout many years ago. The effect of eating the poieonons fly mushroom ia that everything seems im mensdv large. A straw lying cm the road, for instance, beoomas ao formida ble an obstruction that a person under the influence of this mushroom would take a running jump in order to clear it A Baltimore m*" has discovered a way to cheaper property. He crawls through the aaylignt in hia night-ehirt, end danraa over the roofs in the light of the moon. The terrified tenants of the adjoining premises think it ia a -pint, 1 and hunt up leas ghostly quarters. The night-shirt oum invests in the property, the ghost disappears, etc. If a eat doth meet a oat upon a gar den wall, and if a oat doth greet a eat, O need they both to squall? Every Tommy has his Tabby waiting on the wall, aud yet be wateomea ber approach always with a yawL And if a kitten wishes to oooit upon the garden wall, why don't he ait and sweetly smile, and not stand up and bawl; lift his precious back up high, and show his teeth and moan, as if 'twere eolic more than love that made that fellow groan. A BWAKM OP BEE*. B r-*—B prayerful Bhambto. B mild ; B wise m s IV,loo, 8 meek ss s child B ! odious, B thoughtful, Blovtag, B kind : B sure too make matter ash— wait to misd, 8 cautious, B prudent, B trustful B true, B temperste to argument pluaren aud wine, B careful of conduct of money, ef time, B cheerful b grateful, B hopeful B bin, B peaceful bceevotoat vffltog to toaru ; B courageous B grotto. B liberal. B Ju, B aeptnng. B tunable, because tboo art da*; B penitent, dmimapaet sound to the faith. B Uive. devoted. B faithful nil death. B honest B holy, transparent and pore B dependent B virtuous, and you'll B secure. A subterranean river, known aa Silver Springe, is one of the greatest curiosi ties in Florida. It bubbles up in a beam nearly ont hundred feet deep and about an acae in extant, discharg i.g a stream sixty to one hundred feet wide and extending six or eight miles to the Oeklahawa river. It forma a natural inland l-ort, to which threw steamers run regularly from St John's. The , water ia ao clear that it seems even more transparent than air, and not only the fish that frequent it but every object on the bottom, can be seen with re- The great Mmtarof rose culture in Freooa aitualed m the vicinity of Lyon*. The quantity sent oot yearly from this point TUIM front 100.000 to 1,000,000 of punts. Nearly all the roam are budded on root* of wild brier laesniliags) with perhaps 20,000 on their own roots and an equal number on standardn Some idea of the extent of the rose culture in France may be ob tained from the fact that in the thirteen commune* which ronttml Bn*-Comto Robert more than 2,500,000 roaee are annually ooltiratal, the nomber of growers being about a hundred. The camber of varieties grown it stated from 700 to 800. although it ia only a limited number of the moat robust, and the grestset fa eon tea which are moat exten aieely col ties ted. Garibaldi, the Italian patriot, was educated a mariner. Oo being exiled, in 1824, he went to Marseille*, where he made voyages to various ports, event dai ly reaching Rio de Janeiro, Bnuul. In 1848. he returned to Italy and was ban hed from Sardinia in 1850. He arrived in New York that summer, and earned a living br making candles tn a manufac tory on 'State® Island, till an opportun ity^'occurred at resuming the occupation of a mariner. He made some Toyagea in the Pacific, and in about three Tears returned to New York in command of a Peruvian bark. Having loat his mother, to whom be had oonfided the care of his three children, he accepted an invitation to return to Nice, where he lived in re tirement and farmed a corps for the Saadiniaa government, called the "The Hunters of the Alps." A Polish Kebinsen Crusse. Fifty years ago a schooner, out on a fishing expedition, and driven from ber course bv an adverse gale, made for St. Paul's, an island in the South Indian lioean. The captain, a Frenchman, from Bourltoa, effected a landing, and was • surprised to find there a Pole, a brother of the illustrious Kosciusko, in quiet possession of the island, which he had occupied since the yesr 1819. How he came there, whether placed in exile, forced or volnntary. ia unknown. The Frenchman, a busv, energetic man of the world, turned his discovery to some account, and seeing the capabilities of the island, he made for Port Louis, Mauritius, freighted his schooner with tools, seed*, stores and poultry, and re turned to Bt. Paul's, determined to es tablish there s permanent fishing station. He found the Pole still the sole occupier of the island Setting vigor ously to work with two colored and s white man, whom he had brought with him, they commenced the process of civilisation by digging up the ground and sowing their seeds. They built also two small wooden houses and a shed for their stores, constructed a landing place, and made every preparation within their Ew, for establishing a quiet, snug ing harbor. Seeing things thus in progress the Frenchman, loading his craft with flab, returned to Port Louis ito sell hia cargo. In 1830 the Pole left , the island,on receiving from the French man g2,O(X) byway of compensation. The World's Largest Strawberry Farm. A correspondent says; " I paid a visit to the large strawberry farm of John R. Young, Jr., between Norfolk and Cape Henry, abont two miles from Norfolk, Va. Mr. Young if, probably, the larg est strawberry glower in the world. His farm this y me. all under cultivation, ex coeds 250 acres. One hundred acres of these have been set ont in new plants, which sre in a very flourishing condi tion. Last season Mr. Young pioked from 185 acres over 875,000 quarts of berries, employing for that purpose 1,700 men. The averap-e yield lsst year on this farm was 2,000 quarts to the sore. The crop this season, it is ex pected, will exeeed this by several hun dred quarts to the acre. Aoeording to the opinion of the most experienced cultivators here, 1,400 quarts per acre is a fair yield. Taking thia and the crop of last year as a basis for an esti mate, we And that Norfolk oouaty has 2,084 acres devoted to the strawberry ! culturs.