June.
Fair month of ro*a*! fFho woolrt *ing hor praise
On* *T*. ohonld eom* dtrorl from hsnqnann*
On bonoy from HfnMlm, thai h* bring
nt flror to the strain hi* Up mr.
As if, around tbas* aiqnlsilo. rra day*.
Of richest Juno, for him who fain would alng
Hor lovollnoaa, did not auoh awoolnooa cling
Ao Hvlila or Hy molt no a.* roe could rata*
For ail tbotr atorlod law 1
And jot in Tain,
Pool, your aoroo ; aitol hor a* you wIU,
One i-orfoot rooo hor pralaoa shall dlatll
More than all aong, though Nai-pho load tho at ram
For boar, Ihon; atno# for any tribul* At,
Hor own rare lip* alonr ran utter It.
—Caroline A. JVa**, in Srrthnsr.
Cornell Hunt Song
Ralanood wr* all In our atx-oaml aholl.
Toil, of Ihobraltt, for an hour, farewell
Oora la no hark tho atorm to brave,
She htdoa no buffet el reaming wave;
Bui when our take la a mirror irua
Of Ita hula to green and U* akiea an Una,
Or when Sbe breete thai mirror break*
And outward to**ca il ulcer flake*.
Oh, then, to the heat of her aaben wing,.
Uk* a bird oVr Ihe air-clear deep ah* a|irlng.
Oars pulled and feathered and dipped In lime
Make measure aweet aa a po* V rhyme,
Makr murlc aweet ■ our aweel twit* •-turn*.
In open aky, on lake anil laml.
lJva apirlu of health for brain, heart, hand.
And Ihe waring oar hath a wand-Ilka opell
To run them hither whara'ar they dwell;
Jiow for a apurt your aiuew* brace,
Juat think of the laurel that crown* the raoe,
for when our brow, with the bay era twined
Oi\ fat** are plenty and fair maida kind,
pull hard with one ttiuerle, one heart, one will.
For pure accord 1* perfect aklll.
Oar* pulled and feathered and dipped In time
Make tneaaure aweel an a peep* rhyme.
Make uiu*K- aweet a* our aweel belt*' chime. *
JV*wi> O'CvuHtr, is /I Asm. I Viaiwh
An Adventure With Smugglers.
TO LP BT A rxmtp STATES OfSTOMS OFFI
-
'lho Ail venture I am about to relate
occurred oight voars ago,in the northwest
part of Mains, near the Canadian Bor
der. Our government places a stiff
tariff, or "duty," ou many articles of irn-
Evrt, such as "silks, liquor*, cigar*, etc.
nman nature is* perverse, and, I am
norry to say, there are men who try to
evade the payment, in other words,
"smuggle."
There had been, for a number of
years, more or loss smuggling in that
section of the State, of whisky, clothing,
guns, pistols. These were constantly
brought across the "line" and sold;
though, for the most part, in small
quantities.
A good many persons—mostly tran
sient and disreputable fellows—wore in
some way interested in it. The subject
was one that nobody said much about,
however; Tor to come out openly against
the traffic would have made secret ene
mies of a class that most persons would
rather keep the right aide of.
The writer was then seventeen years
old. Though not much acquainted with
any of the "smugglers," I yflt knew the
countary thereabouts as well, perhaps
l>etter, than almost any other person;
for I hail trapped and "prospected" for
lumber in the woods along the border
for two or three rears.
That autumn 1 had two acres of pota
toes to dig. It was the first season we
had raisevt the "Early Rose" potatoes.
They yielded wonderfully. On those
two acres there wete raised six hundred
bushels. I was nearly a fortnight har
vesting the crop.
There came along, one morning, as I
was digging, a stranger. He was a rather
singular-looking man, dark-complexion
ed, with a black, stubby beard, and had
on, I think, a glazed cap. I had seen
him coming across the fields, thirty or
forty rods away, and he struck me as
being an odd fish, even at a distance.
So I kept industriously at work, and
waited for him to make his erraud
known.
He began by remarking that it was
fine weather for trapping. Then he
spoke of nnnting caribou up on "the
Line;" asked about mow there, and
wanted to know if 1 had ever seen any
other game up that way.
I felt that the fellow was sounding me
for some purpose of his own, and gave
brief answers, keeping hard at work.
This, however, did not hinder me from
seeing that he was observing me closely;
and I began to get angry at such cool
scrutiny from a stranger.
"Look here ?" said I, at length.a good
deal out of patience; "what are you
driving at, anyhow ? If you've any busi
ness with me,you might as well state it"
"All right," said the stranger, "I see
vou're a square man. Wouldn't vou
like to make a little money easier than
by digging potatoes ?"
"Very likely," I said.
"80 I thought"
He then went went on to say that he
was moving into the States, and had a
quantitv of baggage np at Lake Megun
tic (in Canada), which he wanted to get
down, and ended by offering me one
hundred dollars to make five trips with
him through the woods across the bor
der.
"Yonmight as well say that yon are
smageling, " I observed.
"Oh, I don't call it bv that name at
aIL"
"Call it what you've a mind to," said
|, laughing.
"But can't I get you to help me?
You were recommended to me," he said.
" No, sir!"
" Bat why not ?"
"That's "ray business," I told him,
but added that when I oooldn't get a
living in a more honorable way than
that, I would go stunewhere else and
try.
Somewhat to my surprise, the man
began to laugh heartily. He the a drew
out a paper and asked me to read it.
" You hail better not show me any of
your papers," I said, resuming my work.
"I'm no friend of yon smuggling fel
lows. You might as well pnt it up and
be going."
"Oh. I'll look oat for myself," said
he. " You just read that."
I took it, and saw it was an official
commission to Oliver C. Stnart as a
United States customs officer and detec
tive.
" Is this your name ?" I asked.
"It is," said Mr. Stuart; and from a
certain change in his voice and air, I
saw that he had previously been assum
ing a part.
"Well," I said, "you've fooled me.
I suppose that's part of your trade.
But I guess you haven't got much infor
mation. "
" Oh, I've learned what I wanted,
and that is your honest opinion of smug
gling. "
" Any man's welcome to that," I re
torted.
"What do you say to going on the other
tack, then ?" questioned Htuart. He then
told me that ne had been sent to discov
er aud "arrest a gang of smugglers
who were operating along that frontier,
and offered me twenty-five dollars a wees
to go with him. What he wanted was to
avail himself of my knowledge of the
country.
I wished particularly to earn a hun
dred dollars that fall, but I refused his
offer. I knew that to aid a detective
would get me into trouble. I should be
"spotted," and, likely enough, waylaid
some night.
But Staurt came again the next day.
He had an oily, flattering tongue, and he
said if I would do my best to help him
work up this "job," as he called it, he
would get me into the detective service,
where a keen young fellow like myself
(such were his words) oould soon make
a fortune.
A great many boys of seventeen
would be caught by such an offer. I
was caught, and took a week's pay in
advance to consummate the arrange
ment. .
The next week we set off, disguised as
two mink trappers, and spent nearly a
fortnight wandering about the bounda
ry, picking up such information as the
settlers on each side were indiscreet
enough to give us.
There was but one road aoroes tha
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor mul "Proprietor.
VOLUME XL
" lino," through tho wilderness from
Canada to Maine; hut there were a
number of •• luutr paths," and old tot
roads.
Ouo of these, calhsl '' Durkee's tote
trail," wo watched ixmstautly for five
days, ou hint dropped by ntt old French
settler. Certain signs tuid tracks indi
cated th*t there had Ixvm rtvont pass*itg
nud repaasiug; but thus far wo had not
seen any perwon upon it,
Earlv tiio ninth rooming, wo sot off to
follow tho trail up to Moguutio. Wo
had not gone a hundred rods, and woro
still ou tho Maiuo sido of tho lint, when
wo heard voice* ahead, and hatl just
tinio to slip into tho firs l>osido tho path,
whou two tuou nunc in sight with )tnck
on their back*."
Wo took a good look at their faces as
they passed, but Stuart did not attempt
to arrest them. They wore both young
men, and had bulky packs.
It was evident theT had not Come very
far that morning, for it was scarcely
sunrise when thoy {laaaed us. Thoro
was a frosty dew on tho grass and
bush os.
As soon as they were out of hearing,
we came from onr place of concealment
and followed back ou their trail, to
trace them, if jNwoible, to their camp,
which Stuart thought would prove a
sort of half-way house for storing ivu
tratwud goods.
But for the frosty dew, we should not
have found it. Some two miles further
up, and just over the line, there was a
thick second growth of scrub fir aud
spruce. Ten or a dozen years previously
the lumbermtu had cut on the old
growth. The tracks iu the frost at this
poiut turned from the trail aud led into
this dense green thicket.
We followed cautiously iu, and, after
beating about awhile, stumbled ou au
old lumber-camp, where the loggera
had formerly spent the winter. So
completely hidden was it by the second
growth of deuse firs, that one might
have passed and re passe. 1 within three
nvis of it, without discovering it.
" Here's their deu !" Stuart whisfvere.l
We jieefHsl alxvnt it; then approached
c' wer, and looked iu at a ohmk betwixt
tlie logs. No person was in the camp.
Ws n- 'mttoned the door and went in.
A nu- 1 r of old gram-boxes, each made
to ho i , hutnlred bushels, lay bottom
up Ou the floor. Under the-e was a
rich sight—Havana cigars, and liquors,
box on box, flask on flask ; French
brandies, and old Bourbon whnky!
Stuart ran his eye over it, and said
there was at least a thousand dollar*'
worth.
"A good haul!" he chuckled.
"But it's over the line," I said. "We
can't touch em over here."
"See H I dou't," laughed Stuart.
"In sueli a case as this, I'll take the
risk. I've seen "em carrying the stuff
across. And in this out-of-the-way hole,
it is not so easy proving just where the
line is."
He ha.l hardly uttered the words when
we heard voices in the firs outside aud
close by.
"They've come back for something,"
Stuart muttered.
There wasn't even a chance to get
out. The detective hastily tipped up
one of the big grain-boxes, and we both
slipped under it. The edge was hardly
down on the floor when the door was
pushed open.
"Strange Bige didn't button it," were
the first words we heard, in a harsh,
coarse voice, as the owner ot it stepped
into the camp. He was followed by an
other and another, till a gang of at least
ten men had come in and thrown down
their guns and packs.
Some of them sat down on the very
box we were under. There was a knot
hole in the box above as, large enough
to have stnek a fist through.
To say that we felt uncomfortable—
there in the very Jen of that lawless
gang, expecting nothing but that we
should be discovered next mirnte—
but faintly expressed our emotions, my
own, at least.
True, we might make a stout fight
with our carbine and revolver; bnt we
should certainly be overpowered and put
out of the war. The safety of every
man in the gang wonld demand that we
should be disposed of effectually; and,
from their talk, they seemed the men to
do any desperate deed. Half their con
versation was oaths.
The smugglers seemed tired. We
soon understood that they had been
traveling all night. They sat and lay
round for ten or fifteen minutes. One
of them—whom the rest called "Cap'n"
then said:
"Pack away the staff, boys, and then
get up breakfast."
They all rose up and unbound their
packs.
"Shall we stow it in this box?" asked
one, tipping up the box we were under
at least a foot.
Our hearts leaped,and we gripped our
weapons.
"No: pat it in this one," said an
other.
The man let the box fall back.
It seemed as if they must hear our
breathing, for we panted, in spite of
ourselves. We dared not even whisper
to each other.
When they had finished packing the
goods, some of them commenced getting
breakfast, while the others sat talking
together. The conversation was partly
in French, partly in English, .inter
spersed with a profusion of oaths.
A great deal of interesting matter
came to our ears—names of men engaged
with them, ail along, from Montreal to
Portland, and many facts and methods
of their illicit traffic. We were, of
course, interested in this ; though we
felt that every bit of information thus
given would be an additional reason for
killing us, should we be discovered.
Boiled potatoes, fried pork, butter,
cheese and bread, were soon ready.
Three or four of the rascals sat down
round our Iwx. It seemed as if they
must see us through that great staring
knot-hole. We could see their faces
plain enough as tbey swore and ate
alternately.
After eating, they smoked what seem
ed to be excellent cigars. Blankets were
then thrown down, and soon, but for
the heavy breathing and snoring, all
would have been quiet.
Two of them had spread their blankets
on the box above us, so that they cover
ed the knot-hole, and were lying on
them. Thiß made the air inside the box
very close after a time.
The reader can imagine our situation,
if not onr feelings, as the honrs dragged
by. We scarcely dared to move a limb.
I suffered terribly from constant cramp
and a desire to sneeze; on account of
the bad air, probably.
Well, the day passed, and I hope
never to pass such another. It was, in
truth, a day to try one's soul !
Towards night, the " cap'n " awoke,
and roused the rest of the gang. They
then partook of another meal of pork,
potatoes, bread and butter and whisky.
We had not learned the captain's
name. But there was an "Eph,"a
"Seth," a "Mike,' a "Jed" and a
"Lige " in the gang. From their talk
while eating, we gathered that a "Bige"
and a "Johnny" were expected to "oome
up" that evening ; and we guessed that
these were the two we had seen and
tracked in the morning.
After eating, the men took their guns
and set off on their return trip up to
• "thelake." We waited ten or fifteen
minutes, then raised the box and got
I out from under it. Neither Stuart nor
I myself could stand erect for awhile.
THE CENTRE REPORTER
Wo hol|<d ourselves to snoh bunl a*
the* had loft, for we wore both raven
ouaiy hungry. Hut we tuade haute,
that we might got aw.iy In-fore " Hige"
and " Johunv " should roturu.
Stuart eiud wo must got hold of thoso
two at all hazards, It wits alron Iv ufter
suusot. Rat hor tnan n-W a souffle with
thetu thoro in tho shanty, Stuart con
cluded to attempt their arrest outside.
We took two biauketa, ami went down
atuuit half a mile on their trail, where
we lay dowu amongst some firs, near the
old road ou which we hail ootue tip iu
tho tu ruing.
Shortlv after dark wo hoard them pass,
going up to their store camp.
Wo s[ieut tiio night thoro, ami very
early iu the moruuig jxisU-d ourselves 111
stime cedars, close to the trail. In about
half an hour we heard thorn coming.
Wneu thoy had approached to within
tou yards, wo stepped out suddenly, and
covered them, poiut blank, with our re
volver and oarbiue. They stopped aud
stotkl uiotiohleas.
•Stuart told them, iu a few words who
we were and what was wanted. It turn
ed out that they were only "hired men."
They made uo show of resistance. Hav
ing haudcufled them, we took them,
with their packs, to the settlement.
They both offered to turn State's evi
dence—to save themselves.
The next day we got the deputy-sher
iff and five men, whom the sheriff sum
moned, to go liack with us to the store
camp to seize the contraband g-wls,
and, if jvissible, to arrest the whole
gang.
But over lislf the cigars aud liquors
had teeu taken away. By some menus
—spies, perha(*i—the gang had learned
their danger, and taken what they Could
of their giHHls. However, we seized
what was left; and the evidence given
by the two meu arrested would have led
to the capture at the whole gang had
they not left for other part*.
In March following, however, Stuart
arr.-ted Eph McLaughlin au.l Lige
Jndkius in the Grand Trunk Depot at
Portland, lieiug alile to identify theni
from the view he had of their face*
through the kuot-hole in that old graiu
l>ox.
They stared wheu he jestingly told
them how he came to know them.
"If we'd a' known you's there," ex
.•laitned Eph, with an oath, au.l grind
ing his teeth, " you'd never got this
chance on us!"
Hi* Presence of Mlud
" Presence of miud," said the gentle
iuan, who had hitherto remained silent.
" ptewoM of mind in a it thing, ud
has sav\l hundred* of lire*. I, myself,
who speak to yon, can tell one ease
wherein I played an hnmbl • part. It
was during a Are m Toledo, Ohio ; the
throe lower stories of a live-story build
ing were wrapped in flames, thus put
ting off the escape of the hapless tenants
of the two upper stories, which were oc
cupied as residence-tenements. The
lurid, lambent flames licked up the
window-sashes and sign-boards, and
crawled cruelly up the whole front of
the building, which, it was only too
evident, was doomed to destruction.
Thousands of people gathered around,
bnt what couhl they do ? The flames—
'the devouring element,' I think wan
what the local papers alluded to them
as next day—were raging so fiercely
that a near approach to the building
was impossible, while no ladders long
enough to reach the windows were to be
found, and there was no means of com
municating with the adjoining build
ings, there being a vacant lot on each
side. 1 tell you, boys, it was a horrible
sight, such as I do not want to see
iigain ui a lifetime. We thought—we
had hof**! that all the inmates of the
building hail escaped, bnt, right in the
midst of the frightful tumult and ex
eitement, a woman, a young ami beau
tiful woman, appeared at the fifth-story
window. ' Save me! save me!' she
shrieked, like an aerophone. Bnt how
were we to! I tell you, gentlemen, it
is upon each an occaaion as this that
the latent force in a man's character,
that his presence of mind—if he has
any, of course—must be shown. Quick
■is lightning, it flashed across my mind
that I hail seen a coil of long and slender
rope lying ou the sidewalk ; I rushed to
the spot and found it, and I shouted to
the woman, • Keep cool ; I'll save you !*
There were two other men there, big,
powerful fellows, and says they, 'What
do you want us to do to help ?' ' Catch
hold of this end of the rope,' says I,
throwing it to them, ' and freeze on to
it like n collector to a custom house.'
They did so, and, hastily coiling the
rope, I stepped as far back as I could
to get room to throw it up to her.
Never sliall I forget the sight; the
great building in flames, the immense
crowd standing around in awe-struck
silence, and above, at the window, fully
sixty feet from the stone sidewalk, that
!>eantiful woman, blanched with terror.
' Keep cool!' I yelled, and poising my
self for ope mighty effort, I hurled the
coil of rope npward. Up it went, like a
lissom serpent, inn-oiling as it shot
through the smoke tinged of a lurid
red with the fire's reflection ; she stoop
ped forward, amid the thundering
cheers of the crowd now wrought up to
fever-heat, and caught the rope—and
wepnlled her down !"
They made a unanimous dash for
him, bnt he had bounded through the
saloou-dncr and got nearly half a block's
start, and the fleetest and maddest
runner among them knew that pursuit
would be in vain.— Chicaf/'t Tribune.
Bird Lore.
In the Lech Vslley there is a belief
that the ravens never drink dnring
June, because in that month they fed
the prophet Elijah. In North Germany,
Hwabia and Tvrol, a superstition pre
vails, that if tfie eggs are taken from a
raven's uest, boiled, and replaced, the
old raven will bring a root or stone to
the nest, which he fetches from the sea.
This " raven stone " is very valuable, for
it confers great fortune on its owner, and
has likewise the power of rendering him
invisible when worn on the arm. The
stone is found in the nests of magpies as
well as ravens, and as it makes the nest
itself invisible, it must he sought with
the aid of a mirror. In Pomerania and
Rugeu the method is somewhat differ
ent. Thp parent birds must have at
tained the age of 100 years, and the
would-be possessor of the precionH
"stone " roust climb up and kill one of
the vonng ravens, who must tie a cook
bird, and not over six weeks old. Then
the aggressor descends, taking careful
note of the tree. The old raven immedi
ately returns with the stone, which he
puts in his sou's lieak, and, thereupon,
rioth tree and nest become invisible.
The man, however, feels for the tree,
and on reaching the nest he carries off
the stone in triumph, itugen folks de
clare that this feat can only be accom
plished by the help of satnn, and that
the man's soul is the price paid for snch
assistance. The Bwabian peasantry
maintain that young ravenH are nour
ished solely by the dew from heaven
during the first nine days of their exist
ence. As they are naked, and of a light
color, the old birds do not believe they
are their progeny, and consequently
neglect to feed them; bnt they occasion
ally cast a glance at the nest, and when
the young ones begin to show a little
blaok down on their breasts by the tenth
day, the parents bring them the first
carrion.— All tho Year Round.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., l'A., THURSDAY, JULY 11, 1878.
I'FltFI IFRY.
llom I'rilomra arr Made •( Flown* la la-
Irrrailua Oaaralla*.
A correspondent who visited M.
Herman, a great maker of perfumes at
Vance, Francs, give* u an insight into
the methods pursued for extracting |er
ftime from flowers, as follows : At the
pr>seiit moment, IU Veuee, roses are the
order of the day, and on the deliciously
clean and cool tile thawing of the factory
the rose-blossoms were piled up thicklt
iu huge, glowing heaps. Iu a back
rxNiiu was a long table, covered with a
snow-white table cloth, and around this
were seated some thirty womeu and
vouug girls, waiting impatiently to lie
served with roaea, which tliev were to
pluck. There was only a sample quant
| ity, so Mr. Herman luformod me, for
I the rains had interfered somewhat with
the Vence crop, and these came from
the ncighlioring ullage of I.a Tourette,
from a new man.
Three very pretty girls, who wro
imrauuiontly emplovej in the factory,
at a signal from the proprietor, took
great wicker baskets, anil heaping thrw
with rosea, emptied them upon tho table
cloth in front of the plnckera. It was s
very charming picture—the village girls
and* old women and little tots not 7 years
old, in picturesque costume and very
wonderful straw hats, all seated around
the totard heaped up with the glowing
i bhissoma, wonderfully relieved by the
white* cloth. The good-looXtng girls
did not wear any hats—trust them for
that -and immediately, lrom natural
thirst for decoration, cimse the loveliest
rises aud stuck them liehiud their cars.
! Then plucking liegtui iu earnest. Bei
mg the unhappy flowers firmly in the
left hand and grasping the stalk close to
the ovary, they, with an angry twist,
separated the blushing cordis* and
threw them into a big Ivasket ensconced
between their knees. M. Herman told
me that the growu girls could work very
fast, but that by a tacit convention,
when the ami nut of roses to be plucked
was limited, they restrain**! themselves
to give the very old and the very
young a chance to earn a trifle. A cent
a pound was the tariff, aud when there
was uo stiut of flowers, the girls can
always earn half a franc, or ten cents,
but ou this iNvasiou the utmost that any
, earned was four cents; but then, old
women of seventy and little thing* of
seven earned either a cent or two cents.
When the rose# were weighed, iod *
tall TeocuD, standing lxwide the pro
urieto* Willi hi# hand# full of oop|crs,
had paid everybody hi# suua, the flow
er# were r#pt"keJ iu banket# by Uie
three handmaiden# of the establishment
and taken below. Here were vat* half
tilted with warm oil in some instance#,
ami in others with warm grease, made
by mixing lard and beef suet, imwt care
fully prepared ami cleaned in the Winter
mouths. To every three cui*>#, or
vat*, was a man armed with a wooden
paddle, and a* the girl# poured the ruse
blossom* into tho oil and grease, they
atirreo about until the whole wa# oue
hideous wretched paste of a dirty browu
color. The men who manipulated the
grease had a warm time of it, for it
offered considerable resistance to the
paddle, and the perspiration fairly
poured down their brown as they worked
their spatuie#. Twenty-four hour# the
leaves remain soaking, and then tliey
are |>acked into cvar*e huen bag# and
put under a j>ewerftil pre*#, which
aqoeesea the perfumed oil into a atone
gutter, from which it pour# by a pipe
into a straining vat. To warm the oil
and grease, precaution# liave to te
t.ikeu. They are not placed in coaiiip
meat ion with the tire, but are lodged m
huge copper iHUler# half-tilled with wa
ter, tlxed in a range, whiab occupies one
entire end of tho apartment. When
warmed to blood heat, the oil and grease
are poured iuto their respective curve#,
and the operation with the paddle ta
repeated with fresh roses. Twenty-five
times are roses poured into the vats lie
fore the oleaginous matter# are #u<H
ciently sat 11 raUsi to be sent to the great
perfumer# and chemist# a* matierm'
premiere*. For orange flower# from
ten to twenty-five infusions are neces
sary, according totha quality demanded.
The violet demands at least thirty, but
for the matierf* prrmiere of the jessa
mine and the tuberose there i# an im
mense diversity of range. The best
qualities, howeyer, demand sixty infu
sions, but when a perfumer want# the
best that can possibly be male, there is
no limit, and the operat : on of infusion is
repeated as long a# blossoms can be pro
cured. I asked the proprietor if the oil
would atill abaorb the perfume, and he
ssid yes, for jessamine and tuberuaea.
The strong odor# of the orange-flower and
the rose rentier fewer infusion# neces
sary, and, indoed, for some low grades
of order# there are not so many infu
sions even a# ten. Then, again, the
warming of the oil draws out the per
fnon much faster; but the delicate
character of the jessamine and tubercwe
is oppoaed to sncii a course, and for
ttiem there is a different procedure.
Numerous shallows trays are n*ed,
which are provided with a wire grating
over which a coarse cotton cloth
is stretched, which has been previously
steeped iu cold oil. The flower# are
then delicately placed upon the cloth
and removed day by day, and sometimes,
if the blossom# come in fast enough,
twioe a day. I m gis tto think that
ttie lieautiful utar-like blossoms of the
jottaaraitie are not plnnged iuto the dark
ened, greasy mass, that looks exactly
like lioiling sugar, for it was destructive
of all romance to see the fate of the
rosea. But the manner in which the
jessamine is cultivated is not what one
would call picturesque. Instead of trail
ing over some protecting tree, as in
India, or upon a Hummer-house or long
wall, as with us, it is out down like a
vine, and is restricted to a nnmber of
shoot# which send out sprays thickly
covered with flowers. Tina murderous
process makes the plant so verywensi
tive, that it has to be covered witu earth
from October to the end of March.
A Hint to Photographers.
Wo find thin in a Now York paper: Ax
I)r. Thomas Buzzard says, discomfort,
amounting in many persons to actual
distress, js experienced in sitting for a
photographic picture. He thosdescntie*
liis own experience: The eye is fixed
upon a certain spot, and, while staring
at this, vision booomes indistinct, sur
rounding objects especially, being lost
in a thickening mist. A feeling of gid
diness and even of faintnesH is apt to
follow, if the sitting is at all protracted.
The suffering which he, in common with
thousands beside, underwent, suggested
to bim the need of some remedy, and he
soon hit upon a simple contrivance
which obviitod every feeling of uneasi
ness. He drew a circlealsmt four inches
in diameter upon a pieeeof pajier.and con
verted the circle into n sort of clock-face
by sketching in the I toman figures in their
usual sequence. Then the paper was
nailed to a |K>st nbont eight feet' from
the position of the sitter. When the
operation of taking the picture began ho
first placed his eyes upon the XII, then
upon I, and so on, shifting the gaze lei
surely from figure to figure, "all around
the clock." There WHS no feeling of
strain, weariness or giddiness. The pic
ture taken was free also of all appear
anoe of constraint. There was no star
ing expression, and the eyes were clear
and well defined. The hint is well worth
the attention of photographers.
TIMELY TOI'ICN.
Farmers' wives are iu great tieeil of
domestic help lu Colorado.
Since the year lfifltl (ireat Hrituiii has
tonight from the United States $1,360,
014,7(18 more than she has sold.
Aooordiug to the director of the mint,
the animal production of gold 111 the
United States is $46,100,000, and of sil
ver |88,60,000.
Miss Annie It. Irish, a Nebraska girl,
is assistant private secretary to Hecretary
Sebum, and reads and answers all liMi
(teriuaii, French aud Spanish cor res
pondeuce.
The Japanese, after haviug furnished
our gardens with some of our best trea
sures, are now stocking their own
grounds with some of the |sipular
American flowers.
Queen Victoria s new saloon railway
car is one of the most Iwautiful of its
kind ever built, as may well lie imag
ined from the fact that its construction
aud fitting* cost over sß<>,(ioo.
Can a man swim in oil? This ques
tion was practically solved the other day
by a workman employe.! in an oil manu
factory of Nice, who fell into a tank of
olive oil nine feet deep. He was an ex
pert swimmer, but he went to the but
torn like a plummet, and was only saved
from drowning by the timely aid of a
comrade. Oil is too lurht to swim in; it
is not sufficiently buoyant, aud does not
offer the resistance necessary to keep s
tnan afloat.
The value of fifteen of the principal
American articles of export for the year
1877 was s* follows: Cotton, $171,i18,-
5<I8; petroleum, $81,783,438; bacon aud
ham, $43,612,821; wheat, $47,136,662;
Indian com. $41,621,246, tobacco, $32,*
020,214; lard, $26,662,606; gold au.l sil
ver, eotu and bullion, $42,366,035; wheat
flour, $21.6(0.347; lumber, $16,041,747;
cheese, $12,700,627; wool and wis.len
gnhU, $>,H34 843; tallow. f7,*f13,616;
l.eef, $7,603,475.
Pronft of former exploration are fouud
in various |>*rto of the Black Hill*
regiou, and it is prolutble that gold was
discovered there alx>ut tlnrtv yearn ago
bv several separate jwirtie* of miventur
ers, all of whom were killed by ludiaos.
The bones of men and l>easts, mingled
with rusty mining tools, were in one
place discovered within a rude fortifica
tion of rocka. In another place a rotted
aluice box, made of a hewn tree, allowed
that mining operation* bad been earned
on.
A camel ranch is owned by 1), Mather
of Ha-trop, Texas. He claims that
•aimcls an- no mrr trouble to taise than
horses or cattle. The colts r three or
toor day* are rather tender i .d require
close attention, but after that they take
their chances with the herd. They are
extremely docile, and as the females
give birtii to a colt every year they are
profitable, the animal* nelhng when
reared at from s2Ulto s6<io. Mr. Malhar
nays a well broken camel will tmvel more
than one bundn-d mile* a ilay.
The immrontj of the product of the
oil wells of Pennsylvania almost ug
ger* belief. Wbto the (wl i* iUIlllit
the dsilv shipment* from the oil region*
average nearly 9(1,000 barrel*, we tiatur
allv a*k, what Inv.rmii of thi* • oormoaa
quantity of oleagin U matter? Tire
greater proportion of t tlnd* a fi re.gu
market Ho multifarious are the uwa
U> which petroleum i* l>eing put, that a
little familiarity with the subject will
oeaae U> cause wonder at what be
come* of the million* of barrel* that
are annually drawn from the bowel* if
the earth.
A curiou* phenomenon haa, *ay *
Preach scientific journal. l>een observed
at Vernon, in Franca. Fire or aix year*
ago lightning atruck a garden planted
with gooaebcrry bu*hea and cherrv trees,
making a deep hole, the on floe of which
was not abov® a yard in diameter. Hub
scqtiently, everything died ronnil about.
The death ourcle enlarged year by year,
until it i* now atiout eight yards in di
ameter, Hi® haa juat reaches! a eherry
tree planUd twelve year* ago. which liaa
died like the rent. The gooseberry
btinhc* which were replanted on the spot
died in two year*. TIJC cause of the
rvil was evidently the lightning, but it
is difficult to explain why ita morbid ac
tion continue*,and sterility gain*ground.
The lightning |K>**ibiy generated in the
a<>il chemical oompouud* injunou* to
vegetation, or burned the hnmu*.
Blackburn, England, contain* the
lnrgo*t cotton mill* in the country. The
" Thm*tle Neat " i* owned by Mr. Turn
er, M. P. The " Phvsic," coloaaal
oonccrn, i so called (mm its founder
Having been a physician. Other mill*
am the "Cat Hole," the "Butter Tub/'
the "Smut," the "Twelve Apoatlev,"
the "Glory," and the "Hallelujah."
The "Twelve Apostles" refer* to a
weaving sh< d, of which the original pro
moters, eighteen rear* ego, were total
alMitainar*. The owner of the " Lather
Box " vw once a barber, who shaved at
one halfpenny each, but now own*
seven large mill*, chiefly spinning mill*,
and i* the fortuuate ixissinsor of the ex
tensive estates that formerly belonged to
Lord De Tablev, in the valley of the
Ribbte. The " Hand Hole is the next
mill to the " Lather Box," and owes its
origin to the excavation of a* much red
sand a* realized the money to build the
mill.
Little Banny and Hl* Bead Mother.
I've just been down in the parlor to
sec mamma. She's in s long box. with
flowers on her? 1 wish she'd come and
bathe mv head —it aches so. Nobody
ever makes it feel good bnt mamma.
She knew how it hurt me, and she usixl
to read to me ont of a little book how
my head would get well and not ache
any more some day. I wish it was
"some ilny" now. Nobody likes me
bnt mamma. That's cause Ive got a
sick head. Mamma used to take me in
her arms and cry. When I asked her
what's the matter she would say, " I'm
only tired, darling." I guess Aunt
Agnes made her tired, for when she
came and stayed all day mamma would
take me np in the evening on her lap
and cry awful hard. I aint had any
dinner to-day. Mamma always gave me
mv dinner and a little pudding vith
"D," for " Danny," on the top. I like
to sit iu my little chair by the Are and
eat 'em. I wish mamma wouldn't stay
in the long box. I guess Aunt Agnes
put her'there, 'cause she put all the
flower trimmings on and shows her to
everybody. There aint any tire in the
grate, but I guess I'll sit by it and make
believe there is. I'll get my little dish
and spoon and play I've got a pudding
with D for Danny on it. But anyway I
want mamma so bail. — Neu> Or lean* \
Picayune.
The smallest natural magnets gener
ally possess the greatest proportion of
attractive power. Sir Isaac Newton
wore in his ring a magnet which weighed
nearly three grains ; yet it was able to
take up 746 grains, or nearly 360 times
its own weight; whereas magnets weigh
ing above two pounds seldom lift more
than five or six timss thoir own weight.
Frozen In Summer Weather.
The Mrridou (Mias.j M rrrury of
a recent date, tells thi* atfaugr Story:
Mr. Jaine* Knot, a young man of the
eastern part of tin* comity, ha* Item
ntrangely Mlllietol for about a year.
Hot or cold ho wan alway* affected a*
fre-eiiig to death. ilia case haa been
examined by aevoral skillful physician*,
ami we uud<*r*Uuid haa puzxled thrill all.
He wan continually using all the device*
to warm himself that a man might who
had been dulled by exposure to extreme
ould, Hittiug near rouMiug tlroa envel
oped iu blanket* ami the house closely
abut up, atnl tin* though the weather
wan ut hummer heat, it i* aaol that
he would ait by the lire and bold hie
head to It and almoat roant It IU the ef
fort to get warm. It ih a fact that he
put cloth* ou hie head to protect the
scalp from actual buruiug while doing
thua, aud the clotha have t>eeu aet ou
tire by the heat he subjected them to iu
eudeavoriug to warm hi* head. Home
time ago he made a wait to Livingston
IU the ho|ie of being benefited by the
artohiaii water, wheu Dr. Webb, of that
towu, aw hi* cane. Lately, he had de
termined to return to Ltving*tou aud
try again the water*, aud again oou
.lilted Dr. Webb, going to hie office for
that purpose. He seemed aa oue suffer -
ing from extreme cold, aud naked Dr.
Webb if he had any tire in hi* offioe.
He told him he had not, aud that it waa
U*i hot to have tire aud be comfortable.
He aaid he could uot ataud it, aud ran
out'of the office into the afreet for the
benefit of the sunshine to warm htm
aeif. Tlie next day Dr. Webb had him
in hi* office to make a more critical ex
amination of hi* cane, aud had a rotuiiug
tire. He carefully leatrd with a
thermometer the degree of animal heat
he carried, aud found it near normal.
With all of tin* trouble he lo*t little
flesh aud kept a g<d appetite for food,
aud praaorvad rather a healthful look.
Ou I nday he ntarted home again in a
wagon with a Mr. Meadow* driving it.
lie had uot goue far out of Liviugston
liefore he wantid to return coin plaining
that he waa freezing to death, aud
wauled to get aomewhere to warm.
Meadow* unnoted ou continuing the
journey ou home, aud drove forward.
Kuox jumped out of the wagon aud ran
of! into the wood* Meadow* punned
him, aud compelled him to return aud
get into the wagon again, aud drove ou.
He got a* far aa Mr*. i'cteet's —Ore *n
Oraut * old place—with him. Mr*. Pe
teet had obaervvd Meadow* driving
•lowly along the road, aud knowing he
had goue to fetch the aick man home,
went out to the gate to make inquiry.
When Meadow* drove up and stopped,
to her inquiry he said he believed Jim
Kuox wa dying. He lay utretobed help
Ice* on the' bottom of the wagon, aud
after it had atoppad only gaspej a few
timea aud died, apparently freeting to
death, last Fnday, with the thermome
ter at near 90 degree*.
bold larr.
Child lace i not gold lace. It doea
not dcaerve thi* title, for the gold ia ap
plied a* a surface to wiver. It U uot
even silver lace, for the silver I* applied
to a foundation of silk. The silken
thread* for making thi* material are
wound round with gold wire, so thickly
as to conceal the atlk; and the making of
thi* gold wire i* one of the moat singu
lar mechanical operation* imaginable,
hi the first place, the refiner prepares a
solid rod of silver about an mch in
thickness; he beats this rod, applies
upon the surface a aheet of gold bad,
burnishes this down, applies another
coatiug, burnishes this down, and so
ou, until the gold i* about one hundredth
part the thickness of the silver. Then
the rod is subjected to s train of pro
o-a*c* which brings it down to the state
of flue wire ; it i* jiaaaed through holes
in a steel plate, lews* mug stej> by step iu
disnieter. The gold never deserts the
silver, but adhere* closely to it, and
shares all its mutations ; it i* one-hun
dredth part the thicknoMa of the silver
st the beginning, and it maintains the
same ratio to tlia end. Aa to the thin
mas to which the gold-ooatad rod of
silver can be brought, the limit dejiend*
on the delicacy of human skill; but the
most remarkable example ever known
wa* brought forward bv Dr. Woliaston.
Tin* was an eiarople Of solid gold wire
without any silver. He procured a
small rod of silver, bored a hole through
it from end to end, and inserted iu this
hole the smallest gold wire he could
procure ; he subjected the silver to the
usual wire-drawing process, until he had
brought it to the finest attainable state
—being, in fact, a silver wire aa fine aa
a hair, with a gold wire in its center.
To isolate the gold wire, he subjected it
to warm nitrous scid, by which the sil
ver waa dissolved, leaving a gold wire
one-thirty-thousandth of an inch in
thickness —perhaps the thinnest ronnd
wire that the band of man haa yet pro
duced. But the wire, though beyond
all comparison finer than any employed
in manufactories, does not approach in
thinness the film of gold on the surface
of silver and gold lace. It has been cal
culated that the gold on the very finest
silver wire for gold lace is not more than
ooe*third of one millionth of an inch in
thickness —that is, uot above
the thickness of ordinary gold leaf.
An Unexpected Friend.
An unexpected friend to tuan haa been
discovered in a kind of animalcule eu-
Semiered by sewage, which prevents the
eoonqxising matter from liecoming a
dangerous nuisance. Mr. Angell, the
public analyst for Hampshire, England,
having examined the sewage-polluted
fluid in Southampton water, lias dis
covered that where the suspended mat
ter* are thickest there is going on a
silent destruction of the foul matters,
through the agency of millions of the
rainnte creatures, by some held to be of
animal, but bv Mr." Angell believed to
lie of vegetable origin. On examining
the muddy fluid through a microscope,
it was found to contain myriad* of little
brown organisms, surrounded with a
gelatinous substance. Each specimen
was fonnd to lie active in ita movement*
and of peculiar shape. Wing furnished
with a belt of cilia round the center of
the body, and with a long transparent
and very flexible tail. After death,
these tinv at >ms give off an odor similar
to that of seaweed, and cliange to a green
color. During life they evolve bubbles
of oxygen gas. which serve to purify the
water from the effect* of decomposing
matter.
Two Hundred Thousand Bng*.
The Han Francisco Bulletin says.
Prof. Davidson, President of the Acade
my of Hciences, recently called the at
tention of a u um Wr of citizens to the large
collection of specimens in entomology
made by Henry Edward* during a period
of t wenty-flve years. This collection is
said to be one of the largest ever made
in the United States, and by far the
most complete ever made on the Pacific
coast. About 60,000 species have been
collected, representing more than 200,-
000 specimens. These represent not
l only all the orders on this coast, lmt
nearly or quite all in the United States,
with a largo representation of orders
from all parte of the world. The collec
tion is really one of the most oomplete
known in this country or any other.
The collection is valued at 812,000, or
rather that is aliout the sum expended
in freights, cabinets, and the purchase
of rare specimens. The labor of twenty
flve years is not estimated.
TERMS: #2.00 a Year, in Advance.
KJK*. UIKIIKD oil IHH smill.ll.
l ara Mrraul.
To cups ludiau, caw cap vbaat,
Oiw cup suur milk, cms cop awsst,
One good sgg thai you will bast
Hair A cup tuulassws, tou,
Half s cup auger eld tiiwslo i
With ouai spoon ot initio! new.
Kelt end sodesecti e spoon;
Mix up quiakly end heks U suou,
Thau you U heve ooru brued cumpMs.
Ileal of ell ooru broad jou meet.
It will tasks your boy's eysa ablne.
If be l like that buy of mine,
It you have e do ten boy*.
To Increase your household joys,
Double then this rule 1 should,
And you'll here two com calces good.
When you va nothing nine tor tee,
This lbs very thing will be
AU the men that 1 have seen
Key It is, of ell cakes, queeu;
cloud enough for any king
That a husband home can bring;
Warming up the human stove.
Cheering up the hearts you love.
And only Tyndell can explain
The links hetseeu eorn bread and twain.
(let a husband what he likee.
And aevs a hundred household strikes.
-Z*d*o M. MirUtrd.
Farm .Netea.
Tbuso of our remders who have kept
their orchards in grass tor year* should
trv thorough cultivation not? vnarand
wfist the effect will be. It will show
more on next year's crop than till*, and
we think uoi'e will regret the experi
ment.—A"* n/ncky Fartn Journal.
Fruit in cellar* is likely to suffer from
heat rather than cold. Iu the slow
operation of ripeuing, heat and carbonic
acid are thrown off. Whenever the
teinjierature approaches fortv degrees,
the outer air, if cooler, should be let in
to reduce it- In the hooae-cellar, the
accumulation of carbonic acid would be
inj unous to the health of the family,
aud it is highly important that this be
removed by ventilation. In fruit-oellars
apart from the house, this is not ueces
sarv, as the presence of this gas, ej in
jurious to snimal life, tends to preserve
the fruit, as it excludes the atmospheric
air.
Improved seed, like improved stock,
must be grown with special oare or it
will rapidly go back to lU original state.
In experimenting with new kind*, every
care should be given to keep up the
vigor of the plant and maintain the char
acter of the product.
Make yonr farm ao valuable by con
stant improvement, skilful culture, good
fruit, ornamental ahrnbbery and pleas
ant surrounding* that no money will
tempt TOO to leave iL We think it
should "be the settled purpose of every
voung man to put down hi* stakes for
life, to make a permane nt borne which
he will never wish to part with till he i*
ailed to the better land.
The successful farmer is he who pro
vides oonvecieoees for the care of hia
protiertv and the performance of his
work ; he count* time aa an important
item in the yearly calculation, and care
of all his various effects as s factor ui
the annnal return. When be puts the
horse in the stable thare is a place for
the harness where it will be safe Irom
woather or any other damage ; hia
wagons and tool* are provided with oov
ennga to preserve liu-m : about hia
premise* will be fonud a little shop or
room where he keeps *sw, hammers,
rises, auger* and the various tools that
•re needed to mend and put in order
the different machines he uses. These
simple articles prevent day* and week*
of delay, lieaides adding to the lengtn of
time implements will last. It pays to
have conveniences, and also to get what
von do buy of good quality.— lsaneoMtcr
fformrr.
Facta far rrm.
lodine i* obtained from ses weed.
The squash is a native of America.
In general '20,000 ponnda is a car load.
An old eow for milk, a young hen for
Wool contains eighteen per cent, oi
nitrogen.
A bonliel of ashes contains five pounds
of potash.
Beve~ pounds of bay will produce one
qtur: ui milk.
Parsnips contain twice sa much real
food aa turnips.
Of planter of pari* forty-x per cent,
ia aulphuric acid.
Leave* hare 170 opening* or mouth*
in a square inch.
Twenty-flve pound* of mila will make
one pound of meat.
Milk yield* more oream in deep pan*
than in shallow one*.
The tassel of corn ia the male flower,
the ailk the female.
Lire weight cattle, to dead weight, ia
twenty-one to twelve.
A cubic foot of manure weigh* from
fifty to aixty pound*.
The horn* of cattle are made up of
elongated flbree of hair.
The earth ia one degree warmer for
every flftr-flve feet of descent
Plant* have three kind* of flower*,
male, female and hermaphrodite.
The chemica composition of hoof*,
hair, wool and feather* i* *ubtautially
the same.
It require* but seventy days to grow
a crop of Hungarian. It can follow a
crop of cloTer the same season, the right
time to sow it being after the clover ia
harvested. About three pecks of seed
to an acre is required.
The IfsiiarAiMcth Ploughman ha*
taken pain* to collect the toatimony of a
large nnmber of fanner* on the ques
tion, how many solid feet of hay well
pieaaed in the mow will make a ton.
Taking hay as it is fonnd in roost barn*
in the spring, all agree essentially that
a ton will measure not far from .>OO
feet Many adopt the rule of buying
good, well-pressed timothy of reckoning
eight feet cube as a ton, or 512 feet
English authorities reckon potatoes to
be superior to Hwede turnips to 200 to
sixty-four, to beet-root as 200 to 106 and
to cabbages as 200 to seventy-three: 200
parts of raw potatoes and 175 of boiled
are equal to 100 ports of hsy. An acre
of good potatoes yields 600 lbs °
gluten, albumen and casein, prodneing
muscle; 3,880 tb" of starch, gum, sugar
and fat, with 23.050 lb*, of water; 100
lbs contain twelve of starch, gum and
sugar, two and s half of gluten, albu
menVid casein, and one-fourth pound of
oiL
(|NPMtlo> nnd Anwr*.
MITKS IS A POULTRY HOUSE.
Please tell me what will destroy mites
in a poultry house and on the fowl*.
We have tried sulphur, ashes, China
berries, and walnut leaves, without any
benefit whatever.—Former's Wife.
MiUedgeviUe t Oa. .....
Ton could not have ippliod sulphur
thoroughly, else all mites or lice of
whatever kind would have been killed.
Tnru ont the fowls *ome 000 l or damp
day. and then close all cracks in the
house exoept the door. Then take a
kettle of live coal* and place on the
ground in the oenter, but if there is a
wood floor, lay a flat stone in, on which
set the kettte. Throw n half pound or
pound of sulphur upon die coals, and
*hut the door and leave the house closed
for a few hour*, and we will venture to
say no more lioe or mltae will be found
NUMBER 28.
in it for a few week* thereafter. If the
bouse is not tight enough to admit of
thorough fumigation in the manner de
scribed, then clean as well as yon can,
and then whitewash with freak lime,
mixing in a liberal quantity of sulphur;
after which throw sulphur into all the
cracks, and apply kerosene oil to the
rooete. The house should be wall aired
t>efore the fowl* are admitted, and well
ventilated at night. We have never
known the "•ulplinr cure" to fail if
properly applied.
■ow TO HAMS A ooon oanr.
Which ia the best way to raise a calf;
by taking it sway from the oow soon
alter it ia born, or letting it run with
the oow all the time? Would it do well
if only allowed to auck night and morn
ing-W. L. C.. Ohio.
If you want to see how large and flue
a call you can raise, lei it run with its
mother for three or four weeks; after
which they may be separated during the
day, and put together at night. When
a month old teach it to drink; after
which yon can add oatmeal, middlings,
and a little corn meal to its food, or put
them in skim milk from other oow* or
that of its own mother. Hbuw calves
•ecm at fair* are generally those that
have had extra feed from their birth.
Of course, the oow must be looked after
even while the calf is running with her,
and if she gives more milk than the calf
oan take, it must be drawn ones or twice
a day as usual.
C atlars • ( Jr.
Celery plant* must be kept gruwiog.
They never reoover fully if they onoe
receive a serious cheek. Avoid tearing
or drying off the root*. Bet them oat
in Miy or Jane, when in three or four
leaves, in a email bed of very rieh soil,
about four inches auart, and keep well
watered, without fail. Shelter carefully
rom drying wind and hot snn when set
out, if cloody, humid weather esnnot be
availed of. The final trenches should
lx prepared as aoonaaearly pea oronioo
grouna is clear in July. Let the soil in
the trenches be very rieh, and from a
surfaoe well exposed 'to air. Enrich it
farther with thoroughly well-aired and
deeayed manure. Raw manure is con
sidered to be a chief cause of the flabbi
neaa and pipiness ao much in ountrast
with the cTispnesa and almost debquse
cent texture of well-grown sterna. Lift
the plant* from the temporary beds with
the ball of soil attached to the toft of
roots, and water promptly to prevent
any check in growth. If shading is
necessary don't oontinne it too long,
nor eat off the essential light too com
pletely.
The dwarfer aorta of celery are now
most liked. They are easily grown, and
have the moat " nnttinesa " of flavor.
The blanching of the stems is effected
by excluding light from them, while at
the same time the heart of the plant and
all the leaves must remain fully open.
As the sterna begin to spread, they are
tied together just ao much as to keep
them nearly erect, and to prevent their
hrtmkiiig if earth la used to etiolate the
sterna, but* ajwrapping of paper, bark,
or even a bottomless fruit-can maybe
n*ed for this purpose. Charcoal brans
or cos! antic* answer well, as they ex
clude slugs and other insects. And
celery keeps well lifted and set close
together on a slightly damp cellar floor,
and filled between np to the leaves
(most of which may be removed) with
perfectly dry. clean, fresh coal ashes
This is a safe and very convenient mode
and celery that has not been sufficiently
blanched in the garden will be found
Iteautifully white, tender and sweet after
being stored this way for two or three
months.
Because.
GrxoEß Caisrs. —Two cupful* of mo
lasses, one of lard, oue tablespoon of
ringer, one dessert-spoon of aod#dis
solved in s very little hot wster and
enough flour to make a smooth dough;
roll them.
BT&AVBURT SHORT CAM. —Make A
good dough the same a* far sods biscuit;
roll it thin, the eixe of roar jelly cake
io(; bake it, and when done open tbe
cakes, and batter both the ltimde and
outside lavers; have your atrawberriea
niooly picked and sugared before you
prepare toe dotigli, in order to have
plentr of jmoe; spread yonr bernea in
both the npper and lower layer, patting
one layer on top of the other; set it
itgam in the oven for a few minutes, not
long enough to oook the bemea.
Soar.—DiMolee three pounds aal-eoda
in two gallons of warn water, alack in a
firkin three pounds of good quick-lime,
add to it the soda eolation, stir the
whole thoroughly with s stick, and add
two gallons of boiling water ; stir again
and let it settle, pour off the clean liouor
in a clean iron boiler placed on the fire,
and stir into it six pounds of clarified
grease and one pound of powdered
borax; let it boil slowly until it gets
ropy (about ten minatea' boiling), and
poor it into a tub or a tight box. Hiia
makes a good, hard soap tor family use.
After drying a month or so in a dry
room ami cut into bars it is fit for use.
On en average (says an authority.)
horses require shoeing oooe a month.
The length of time a shoe will wear,
depends mnch on the kind of service a
horse is doing, and on the kind of road
he is dailv traveling. A team horse
in heavy draught does not wear out as
runny shoes aa one used in a heck. Quick
motion grinds shoes down more rapidly
than alow use. Some pavement is
hauler on shoes than ordinary road,
while the friction of a gravelly road
wwra them a war rapidly. Wooden
pavement is but" a little saving to the
wear and tear of shoes; for the grit and
j dual which become impacted in the in
terstices of the wooden block, grind
sway shoes like the friction of aa emery
wheel. The hind ahoea wear out first,
and there is more strain and friation on
them than on the forward shoes. It is
impossible and improper for a norse to
wwr shoes more than six weeks; for the
growth of the foot shortens the ahoea,
ss well as changes the shape otherwise.
The neglect will cause the shoe to en
croach upon the aoft texture* of the
foot, and produce lameness.
A fair of Trawling Bird*.
A moot interesting ornithological in
cident ia recorded in the London Times.
Laot .year a water wagtail built her neat on
the frame-work nnderneath a third-class
carriage on the London and Southwest
ern Railway, running between Ooeham
and Havant four times daily—about
forty miles in all—and the male bird
was*regularly observed by the station
master waiting with manifest interest
aud anxiety the return of his family
from their periodical tours. This year
what is believed to be the same bird has
returned, and built her ueet in precisely
the same position, under a third-class
carriage, and with her family of four
little ones, takes the same daily return
journeys from Cos ham to Havant. The
same interest and anxiety have been
evinced by the male bird. During the
absence of his family, he promenades
the turn-table, or rests impatiently on
the wires of the telegraph, but no soon
er are the carriages shunted into the
usual siding than he enters the nest.
Birds, it is known,do anertain a remark
able attachment for particular places,
and this fact may in some degree help
to explain the water wagtail's singular
fondness for third-class oarnagaa.
I tew* *f Interest
Hani* at seal* keep
"The warn eeaeoo Pbppe*.
Dallas ara generally high-toned.
Dwpsraia game—A z*eg at bay.
A prickly pair—A awpl* at needle*.
A rods lead pencil was used aa early
aa 066.
Whfur Doonaeoea—Trying to eat your
own hair. *
rw will sail twenty thousand
males this jeer.
What most resembles tha half of the
moon f—The other half.
Japan cultivate* 8,000,000 acres, one
fourth of her fertile area.
In lore, aa in letters, engagements el
ways begin* with a-vowel.
What does a person nanelly sea on lbs
faoe of A Bill J— His DOSS.
Rehire are twenty-five pa* cent, aonreer
in France than ia Bug land.
J Virginia'claima the flneet wheat proa
peot ever seen in the State.
A young Oil Citizen call* his girl Re
venge because she is sweet.
How may a man always became
four handed f By doubling hi* date.
The American furniture trade ia very
large as oompared with otuer oouutnea.
There are about a dozen Turkish
bazars in the Paris exposition grounds.
The woman who makes a good pod
ding in sileoea better than she who
makes a tart reply.
A dog is the first to great John Chins'
man when he lands in San Francisco.
He bites the new comer.
Whether old age is to be respected
depends much whether it applies to man
and women or to poultry.
The height of politeness is pausing
round upon the oppwite side of a lady,
while walking with bar, in order not to
step upon her shadow.
When the royal baby of Brazil cries,
his tjtune remarks, purs Caetihan,
-Now, yon Lois Marir Philippe de AW
<-enters Ossiao Miguel Gabriel Gaozaga
youjust keep quiet"
Beany," said his maiden aunt, "yon
should set the barley ia your soap, or
von will never get a man." Benny,
bwtfring up, naively inquired: "Is that
what you eat it for, aunty V
People snore because they lie with
their needs thrown back, ana there is
consequently a dropping of the lower
jaw. To break the habit sleep with the
mouth closed and the chin low.
"This ia meat and drink." said the
sailor, who sat on the gunwale sipping
his grog —following hi* remark by tum
bling back into the water. " Ay, and
there's washing and lodging," said his
messmate.
The needless orange of Bruil is said
to be the best in the world; bat it cannot
be tested without a trip to Dam Pedro's
aa it cannot be shipped an ac
count of its thinness of akin, and it is
not grown elsewhere.
•• It was simply an informal affair,"
wrote the editor, of a little strawberry
party at a neighbor's house. "It was
simply an infernal affair," read the oom
poaitor, end that editor will never get
say more invitation* from that quarter.
The Piate tribe of Indians in Neva
da was excited over the election of a
chief. One Indian thus expressed his
objections to one of the candidates far
the position: ** All same too sehmart far
be Lajin; beep too much fool for be
white man."
When little Thomas stoops to toy with
berries, jam and jeUy-eaka, no art can
soothe the chastened boy—no nostrums
esse his stomach-ache. And if the grip
ing pains defy the medioiMs prescribed
ID foil, his parents will do well to try
the l'upH, )q*d castor oiL
Oxen use a peculiar licking motion
with the tongue when gathering herb
age. because their upper lip ia not of a
nature In seize or grasp like that at a
horse. They therefore use the tongue to
gather in the greet, winch M afterwards
divided by biting.
Don't tell a man yon sweat. It ia
vulgar. Inform him that yon are being
deprived of the saline and oleaginous
flu ids of veur material substance through
the excretories of yomr psUneid cuticle,
with a sensible eoodentetaoQ of moisture
upon the superficial exterior.
A tree called the butter-nut tree is
found on the banks of the Niger in Afri
ca. From it excellent butter is obtained.
! The fruit somewhat resembles the Span
ish olive. The kernel of the fruit ia
tmilcd. and the batter thus obtained is
mid to be whiter, firmer, and at a richer
flavor than is that from a cow, bmidea
which it will keep a year without salt.
Dr. Shaw relates that "in the Levant,
mirrors form s part of female drees; for
that the Moorish women, in Barbery,
are so food of their omaamata, and par
ticularly of thsir looking-glasses, which
tbev hang upon thsir breasts, that they
will not lay them aside, fit® when,
after the drodgery of the dav, they ate
obliged to go two or three miles with a
pitcher or a goat's skin to fetch water.
"Minerva" sends as a poem in which
tbe fallowing lines occur: "I am tad
sod "ph and wear*, My life is ebbing
awav." Instead of sending the poem to
us, ihe should have sent for a physician.
Her liver needs repairing. All of our
lives are ebbing away, bat there is not a
particle of use of getting aad and tick
and wearv about it—especially at this
season of the veer, when there is such a
nuinerousneaa* of atrawberriea, and pio
mc and ice cream, and excursions,
and other refreshments. —Xorrutovm
HrraltL
Josh Billings—whom knowledge of
natural hiatorv name by instinct—after
mentioning that the hornet's disposition
is •• a warm cross between red pepper
in the pod and fusil oil." given his eaaay
a moral bias by informing the public
that this " inflammable" insect is not
long lived, simply far the reason that
anv creature, bug or human, who is
mad all the time aad stings every chance
he can get, and plants meUn -holv in
his track, " generally dies young.' It
pays, he thinks, to be more pensive and
much lees "peremptory."
"I'm glad to aav that our child is a
generous little body. Tbe other day
ber grandfather gave her a cent to boy
herself some candy. Aa she was going
oat, she discovered a little bee ear-boy
on the front steps. She stopped, and
looked first at him then at her cent; then
looked down on the ground apparently
lost in thought. Finally, with the sweet
est smile on her beautiful face, she
stepped up to the forlorn child, and,
laving her hand on his shoulder, said in
a gentle tone: 'Here, little boy, take
this cent, rvnd go and buy yourself a suit
of clothes and some dinner." lnd
ependent.
Tbs sunbeams danoe ton* oa U# otover,
And Uss the red Up* of tha rasa,
Bat a man dance* wildly all O'er,
When a hammer drop# on his toes.
Uackrneark Republican.
The peach blushes red in the sunlight.
Which brightens the bloom on the rose;
Bot tie not the sunbeam imparteth
Such bloom to the toper's red nose.
—Mthdm Recorder.
The cherries in cluster* hang drooping.
While gooseberries ripen amain;
But both will account for your stooping
With that torturing abdominal pain.
St-raUc Rturujue.
The clouds are heavy and damp and gray,
The mist and dnasle all pleasure* mar;
And man seised with a fever ehistened "Hay.'
Badlv plars on his nasU catarrh.
—Scrristown Heroin.
The bears in Kamschatka have re
course to> singular stratagem in order
to catch the bareina, which are much
too swift of foot for them. These ani
mals keep together in Large herds; they
frequent mostly the low grounds, and
love to browse at th| feet of rooks and
precipioes. The bear hunts them by
scent till he comes in sight, when
he advances warily, keeping above them,
and oonoealing himself among the rocks,
as he makes hi* approaches, till he gets
immediately over them, and near enough
for bis purpose. He then begins to push
down with his paws pieces of rook
among the herd below. This ma
neuver is not followed by any attempt
to pursue, until he finds he has maimed
one of the flock, upon which • chase
immediately ensues, mat proves success
ful cur otherwise, according to the hurt
i the barein baa reoeivad.