Labor Song.
Hurrah for the song of the stalwart and strong,
That toil o'er land and o'er sea ;
Who sing as they ride on labor's rough tide.
So happy, contented, and free !
They're kings of the earth, and heroes of
worth.
Who breast the huge billows of toil.
And sturdily band stout heart and strong hand
To conquer the sea and the soil!
Each brown, horny hand, beapeaks deed* that
are grand,
The battles they fight are sublime '
Their works shall yet rise, from the earth to
the skies.
And span the wholo region of Time 1
Then hurrah for the might, the manhood and
right.
That makes the whole universe ring !
Let scepters bow down, onr heroes to crown.
For heart, hand and brain make the king !
—H. T. Anile*, in f>w IVsss.
lining After the l ows.
"Jennie! Jenuie! Jennie!
Where in the world can Jennie be ?
She crossed the meadow an hour ago—
What ails the girl that she linger* so V
The sun goes down in the crimson west.
The tired day prepare* for rest.
And tl>e laggard momenta slowly pans.
But hrtug no new* of the truant las*.
•'What ails the girl ?" The sober cow*.
Stopping along the lane to browse.
May look in vain from side to side,
And wait for the voice of their pretty guide.
Vor far behind, by the pasture gate,
Jennie and Jamie forget 'tis late
forget the cows, and the milking hour.
And every thing else save loTe's sweet powet.
The lengthening shadows, unheeded fall.
The whip-poor-will with his plaintive call.
The gatheriug dews, and the darkening sky
All warn in vain as the minutes fly.
Twice and thrice does mother go
To the fami-honee door ere she hears the low
Of the cows as they trample up the lane.
And the ring of the cow bell* clear and plain.
But presently come the laggard fee*
Of Jennie and Jamie. Oh ! shyly tweet
Are the girl's bine oyee as she stands before
The mother who meets her at the door!
"Where did you go, my child ." •T V— oh.
Only after the cows, yon know."
Then whispered Jamie: "Whatever yon do,
Doul tell he' that—l went after yen !"
—Harper's Weekly.
The Point of Honor.
Shortly alter Waterloo had been
fought, an English regiment which hail
taken a distinguished part in that great
victoryl, statioued in a Mediterranean
garrison, gained an unenviable notoriety
there by a sudden mania for dueling
that broke out amongst the officers, #nd
which threatened to become so chronic
in its character as seriously to interfere
with the discipline of the corps. (Quar
rels were literally "made to order" at
mess-time for the most trifling affairs,
and scarcely a day passed without a hos
tile meeting taking place, which the
colonel—a weak-minded man —expressed
himself powerless to prevent. Indeed,
be hail already been sent to " Coventry"
by his subordinates, which, as our read
ers doubt lews know, is a kind of social
excommunication that, when acted upon
in an English regiment, generally ends
in the retirement from the corps of the
individual on whom it falls. It was so
in this instance, for the colonel saw that
the vendetta-like conduct of his officers
towards him was gradually divesting
him of all authority in the eyes of his
men; and as he had none but his social
inferiors to whom he eould turn for
counsel and advice, he was compelled to
retmqni&h his command and return to
England. On arrival in that country he
lost no time in proceeding to the Horse'
Guards, w here he sought ami gained an
interview with the Duke of Wellington,
to v'jom he gave a graphic account of
the state of affairs which existed in the
r*jgimtnt he had just left.
"the Iron Duke listened attentively to
Use narration, and knitted his brow in
anger as the colonel related the story of j
the dueling; and, when the latter had
finished speaking, he exclaimed, in an
unmistakably stern and uncompromising
tone:
"It is your fault, sir! You should
have brought some of the ringleadeere
to a court-martial, and cashiered them
011 the spot. You have sadly neglected
year duty, and that is a tiling which I
■ever pardon."
The oolonel left the Horse Gnards in
a very crestfallen state, anil he was
scarcely surprised when he saw in the
next Oazctt !c the announcement that
" His Majesty had no further need of
his services."
In the meantime the duke had obtain
ed a special audience of the Prince Re
gent, to whom he explained the con
dition of affairs in connection with the
regiment in qnestion. The result of the
interview was that Colonel A a well
known martinet, then on half-pay, was
sent for, and the circumstances explained
to him; the prhioe offering him the com
mand of the regimeut on condition that
he would undertake to cure the dueling
propen*,tie of its officers. Colonel A
-—■ Vas delighted at the orespect of ac
tive service,and he willingly accepted the
b-sk assigned to him, it being understood
that he was to be granted a royal indem
nity for anything serious which might
happen to any body else in his endeavors
to pat a stop to the dueling. He was a
man of high reputation, and bad previ
ously held other difficult commands, be
ing known throughout the army as a
good soldier but s stern disciplinarian.
Such was the old soldier's feelings at
the speciai honor oonferred on bim that,
on leaving St. James's palace, he actu
ally forgot to return the salute of the
sentinels posted at the gates,to the great
astonishment of the latter, who knew his
punctilious habits.
On his arrival at the garrison he lost
no time in making himself acquainted
with his brother-officers. He had already
laid ont his plan of action in his own
mind, and was fully determined to allow
nothing to swerve him a hair's breath
from the path of duty. At the mess
table he behaved with studied politeness
and amiability of manner; and his sub
ordinates indicated that they were great
ly pleased with their new commander.
He chatted pleasantly with all, from the
senior major down to the youngest en
sign, and when the cloth was removed
reeled them with the latest gossip and
doings of London society. Before they
separated for the night, however, he
took the opportunity of informing them,
in a very quiet manner, that he had
heard of the frequent duels which had
already taken place in the corps, and
that it seemed a matter of regret to him
that they could not manage to live in
peace and amity.
"However," he said, "if it be yoni
wish, gentlemen, to fight ont your quar
rels in this way, I shall interpose no ob
stacle to your doing so. But this can
only be by your pledging your word of
honor now, to the effect that in future
no duel Bhall take place without my per
mission having been first obtained. As I
am yonr oolonel, it is necessary that my
authority should be acknowledged in all
that relates to the honor of the regi
ment."
The officers looked at each other and
then at the colonel, and a somewhat em
barrassing silence ensued; but it was
broken by Colonel A , who said;
"Don't be afraid that I shall refuse
your request; on the contrary, I shall
only be too pleased to grant my permis
sion if, on examining the facts of the
case' I find sufficient reason to think
that the applicant's amour propre has
been wounded, and that a hostile meet
ing is indispensable."
At these reassuring words the yonDg
fire-eaters were satisfied, and at once
gave the promise demanded; and Col.
A then retired to his chamber,
where, overcome with the fatigne of a
rough voyage, he soon found himself
snugly ensconced in the arms of Mor
pheus.
On the following morning he was
rather rudely awakened from a refresh
ing slumber by a loud rapping at his
chamber-door; and, on cliallenging his
early visitors, he was informed that it
was' Captain Lord Vellum and Ensign
Warb jttle who wished to speak to him
on a matter of the gravest importance.
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor,
VOLUME XI.
"Yon might have chosen a more con
venient hour for your v.sit, gentlemen,"
s*nl the colonel, who was naturally loath
to rise from his bed st five o'clock on the
first morning after his voyage.
"It is an 'affair of honor,' colonel,"
was the significant reply, "ami cannot
be delayed. We beg you will admit us
iuatantlv.
The colouel rose and opened the door
to the <arly comers. They were two
handsome young men, who had on the
previous evening already attracted Col
onel A 'a attention by the extreme
frieudhuess which they exhibit.*! for
each other. They respectfully saluted
their comuiaitdiUgofficer as they entered
the rvvus, and the latter broke au awk
ward all em*, by demanding of them the
object of their visit.
Ensign Warbotlle again raised his
hand in salute as he replied:
" We liave come to ask your pormis
aion to fight, colouel."
" ludee.l!" exclaimed Colouel A .
" I thought you were great frieuds."
"Yes, ixiluuel, we have been most in
timate friends from our youth upward,"
said Lord Vellum, " and we respect
each other very sincerely; but we have
had a dispute, and our wounded houor
must le satisfied."
"Then I presume that something very
serious must have occurred, geutlemeu,
to make the ouly remedy for it a recourse
to the pistol ?"
"It is indeeil a very serious matter,
colonel," replied Knsigu Warbottle;
"and it is thisi After you had left the
table last night we chatted over what
you told us about the doings iu London
lately; and in the enthusiasm of the mo
ment, 1 remarked that I should like to
lie there, riding at the head of a troop of
Life Guards, and escorting the Prince
Regent, with my silver helmet glittering
in the sun, and my drawn sword in my
hand. Whereupon Lord Yellnm said,
with a sneer, that I was a feather-bed
soldier, and that a leathern bonnet
would be quite good enough for such as
I. I took no uotiee of this remark, bat
I was annoyed and excited; and when he
further asserted that the officers of the
Life Guards wore brass helmets, human
nature could stand it no longer, anil I
gave him the lie. He retaliated by
strikiug me on the face; an insult. Col
onel A , which justifies me, I think,
in demanding a hostile meeting."
The last words were said in a manner
which admitted of only one meaning,
and the two yonng offi<vrs exchanged
glances of mutual hatred aud defiance.
"It is indeed grave, geutlemen,"
sententiously remarked the colonel; "the
hemlets worn by officers of His Majesty's
Life Guards are neither silver nor brass,
but white metal lacquered with silver
gilt; but this information will not, I
presume, alter the position of affairs.
Do you still wish to fight the question
out?"
"Certainly, sir!" exclaimed the two
officers.
"Very well," replied the colonel,
gravelv; " far be it form me to interpose
any obstacle to your meeting, gentle
men; bnt this dnel mast be a serious
one, as befits so important a question as
the Life Guards' helmets, and not an
affair resulting in a mere scratch, as I
am given to understand is generally the
case in these mesa quarrels. Remember
that you are British officers and not
Spanish bravoes, and that the honor of
a British officer can only be vindicated
by the death of liis opponent. Go,
gentlemen, and fight your duel; and I
will meet the survivor on his return."
The two yc ling men Rain ted the colonel
and retired. A few seconds afterwards
they and their seoonds were seen harry
ing off to the place of meeting—a spot
which is known in the garrison to this
day as " Dnel Avenne."
• ♦ m ♦
Three hours later, Colonel A went
down iuto the parade gronud to inspect
the regiment, and he was surprised to
see both Lord Tellnm and Eusign War
bottle amongst the officers who ap
proached him to give the morning salute.
The latter had his arm in a sling; and to
the stern inquiry of Colonel A as to
whether the dnel hat! yet taken place,
he replied, with a forced smile lighting
up his face: " Yes, oolonel; his lordship
has given me a nasty scratch in the
arm."
"A scratch in the arm 1" exclaimed
the oolonel, contemptuously. " And do
yon call that fighting, gentlemen—do
yon call that fighting f And for so im
portant a question as the helmets of His
Majesty's Life Guards 1 Bah! it is
nothing! This matter mast bo fought
over again, under pain of instant dismis
sal from the service if my order be dis
obeyed !"
"But " began Lord Vellnm, at
tempting to express his satisfaction at
the reparation his wounded honor had
received.
'•But me no btits, gentlemen," ex
claimed the colonel, angrily. "I have
the Prince's instruction on this point,
and it is for yon to vindicate your own
honor in a proper manner, or retire dis
graced from His Majesty's service."
This alternative was one not to be
thought of; and it need scarcely be said
that the young fire-eaters chose rather
to fight again than be cashiered. The
dnel was fonght again, and this time
Lord Vellnm was shot through the
body—a wound which laid him on a
sick bed for two months.
During this long period many quar
sels had taken place at the mess-table,
rome of which had been settled by the
colonel acting as "arbitrator;" and oth
ers stood over for his permission to
fight —a permission which he refused to
grant until the result of Lord Vellum's
illness should become known. In the
meantime Colonel A had communi
cated with the Dnke of Wellington,
from whom he received explicit instruc
tions to carry the matter to the bitter
end, as the only means of patting a stop
to a matter which was fast becoming a
world-wide scandal.
Lord Vellum was carefully attended
to daring his illness by bis "friend and
enftmy," Ensign Warbottle, to whose
efforts Lord Vellum not only owed his
life, bat was enabled at the end of two
months to take a short walk every morn
ing. HiH recovery then proceeded rap
idly, and he soon became enabled to
walk without any support whatever.
The two friends were walking together
one morning, when they suddenly found
themselves face to face with Colonel
A .
"Ah, gentlemen, good-morning !" ex
claimed the latter. "I am delighted to
see his lordship out again, especially as
it will now enable you to finish your
affaire d'hunneur in a more satisfactory
manner."
The young officers, scarcely believing
their own ears, were for a time struck
dumb with astonishment, and they
gazed at each other and at the colonel
with looks of bewilderment aud despair.
"Yon see, gentlemen," said the
colonel, gravely, " that this question of
the Life Guards' helmets is of such im
portance that I deemed it advisable,
since his lordship's illness, to write to
the Duke of Wellington on the subject;
and I have here his grace's orders that
the dnel should be renewed again and
again nntil the life of one of the com
batants has been forfeited." As he
spoke, Colonel A drew from his
breast-pocket of his coatee a large letter,
bearing on its envelope the words " On
His Majesty's Service " in largo black
letters, aaa in one corner the notice in
red ink, " Very Urgent"
"But,"said the young ensign, "hiß
THE CENTRE REPORTER
lorvlahip has not recovered yet; tie
aides- -"
"When one can walk," interrupted
the colonel, " one can also fire oil' a
pistol; and it is not conducive to the in
terest* and dignity of the service that so
important a question as the equipment
of his majesty's tasty-guard should any
longer la left nudecidea."
The two young officers, who hint
cemented their friendship anew during
the period of illness, here t*n>k each
other's bauds aud gased long ami sileut
ly into each other's face. Colonel A
turned away to hide his emotion; for be
ing really possessed of a kindly diapoai
tiou, he began t.i regret the stern ami
tiubeudiug part he had l>eou called upon
to perform. Brushing the signs of his
weakness away from his eyes, he turned
on.** more towards the yonng officers
and said;
"Gentlemen, I have orders from Kug
land to suj>ersede you iu the regiment
to which we all have the honor to be
long; ami I am only to wave the execu
tion of these orders on condition that the
duel is renewed, as already stated.
Your honor is absolutely in your own
hands. I leave you to decide, gentle
men, what that course shall be, and bid
you for the present adieu."
So saving, the colonel left the two
frieuds to decide upon their own fate.
They ultimately decided to cousult with
their brother officers on the subject, and
to be guided by the general opinion.
This opinion turned out to be iu favor of
auotlier fight; ami they once more pro
ceeded to the place of meeting, each
mentally resolving not to injure the
other, but each exchanging | Kir traits and
letters for their friends. The fatal wea
pons were discharged, and Ensign War
bottle fell to the earth with a shot buried
in his heait.
The grief of Lord Vellum knew no
Inlands, for he bsul been let! to believe
that the ludls had been withdrawn from
the pistols. He threw himself ou the
inanimate body of hi-* friend, and could
with great difficulty be removed there
from. At length he aas conducted to
the house of a married officer; and from
there he indicted a letter to Colonel A—,
tendering his resignation, and reproach
ing the latter with the denth of his
frieud.
The same afternoon, Colonel A
assembled the other officers, and address
ing himself especially to those whose
applications to fight were iu BUSJICUMOU,
declared himself ready to grant oue
more permission on the same conditions
as tlie other, namely, that " for honor's
sake" the combatants should fight to
the death, lu the pause which ensued,
one officer after another sainted the col
onel respectfully, and then retired as
silently as they came, leaving him alone
in the mesa room, and master of the
situation.
It was a rude lesson which these offi
cers hail received, but it fully accom
plished its purpose; and from that day
to this dueling has been almost unknown
in the British arm v.
Pure Milk by the "French Method."
In the "Home and Society" depart
ment of Si'rihnrr's .Vuffaunt for July,
Joel Benton describes a new experiment
of a dairyman as follows:
These" glass bottles, which arc sent
from " Sweet-clover Farm," in Sharon,
Conn., ami from nowhere else in the
world, are made of beautiful clear gias.->,
and, though of daintier proportions, re
semble somewfiat in shape the larger
chamnagne bottles. They are supplied
with a wired rubber cork, similar to that
which is used for sar*H{arillfl aiul lieer
bottles, and on the side of the flange of
the wire, which is to be raised before
the cork can be opeued, a paper label is
pasted overlapping the wire on the glass
neck, whereon is printed the day and
date on which the bottle was filled. On
the base of the bottle is a general label
giving the advertisement of the farm on
which the method originated, and a
little piece of information of which we
shall presently speak. When twenty of
these bottles are filled they are put into
a box just large enough to hold them,
separated from each other by a rack par
tition.
It is easy to see that milk pnt up in
this way says to the purchaser at once,
and unmistakably: "I am ' the genuine
article.'" For, it wonld be utterly im
practicable to try to tamper with it. The
label, which cannot be broken without
detection, gives to the buyer the correct
history of the contents of every bottle;
and when he draws the cork, he knows
that the grass his milk was secreted
from was cropped the day before on the
slopes of lovelv pastures in Litchfield
county, Conn. 'There is no fear of chalk,
of chemicals, or of water. It is the same
fluid you find in the pail as it comes
from the country barn.
A sentence printed <>n the liottlos tells
ns that the bottling of "Milk from one
Cow" is a specialty; and to yonng chil
dren and invalids this news becomes a
pleasant proclamation. For ordinary
use the combination of the milk of twen
ty to a hundred cows suflicce, if the
dairy be well kept;but, under special
circumstances it is desirable, and 111 the
case of delicate infants may save life, to
have the milk which is used drawn reg
ularly from one cow. When the bottles
discriminate in this wnv an extra label
isnsed to designate "Cow 25," or " Cow
34," and so on.
Sea Sickness.
Of the many annoyances to which the
traveling public is subject at this par
ticular season sea-sickness is,perhaps,the
most distressing. A perfect cure for
this malady would rob ocean travel of
half its terrors. No drug, however,
has been discovered which acts as a
specific. The cause of the sickness ia
largely, if not wholly, dan to the invol
untary and unexpected motions to which
the passengers are subjected on board
ship. These cause undue pressure npon
the stomach and liver, anil derange the
action of those organs. To prevent this,
attention has recently been called to an
old plan, which is said to be very suc
cessful. It consists in regulating the
act of breathing according to the pitch
ing or rolling of the vessel, drawing in
breath as she rises, and breathing ont as
she falls into the trough of the waves.
After a little experience the practice, it
is said, becomes involuntary. When
sea-sickness has fairly set in, the only
thing to be done is to get rid of the ex
tra bile thrown into the circulation, and
to allay the irritation of the stomach.
A Tulare and No Bread.
Late letters from Constantinople to
the English jonrnals say: The Palace is
in the greatest straits for money, and
; cannot even puy its bakers' bills. Hadyk
telegraphed to the Vali of Smvrua, beg
ging for 300,000 piasters for the house
hold expenses of the Hultan. The Vali
answered that he had not as many pnras.
The grocers to whom the palace is in
debt refuse to furnish provisions for
even small amounts. The money raised
by loan is instantly swallowed by debts.
Things are now as bad as ever. Besides
this the Saltan, it is said, has fits of
madness, in which he amuses himself
by smashing everything in the apart
ments of some of his women whom he
suspects of having had a band in the
conspiracy. He ordered Murad and
family to be sent into exile. With diffi
culty Sadyk persuaded him to revoke
the decision, and then the Snltau turned
on him in fury, and ordered him ont of
his presence.' Ho refuses to speak to or
to see Osman Ghazi, and sees plotters
and enemies on every side.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1878.
FARM. MA RIIE* A*U UOl HKIIOLD.
NaaMrr ('Mr •!
The principal diet of hogs in summe
should be grass, rich slop, fruits and
vegetables, aud some corn; those, with
the worms and insects obtained on
range, are amply sufficient to sustain a
steady growth "until the cool autumn
weather sets in, when a diet of sound
corn with some slop should be con
tinued until they are fat enough for kill
ing or for market. This process of taking
hogs through the summer applies eoual
ly to hogs that have been wintered, or
to spring pigs, except the pigs should
!>e fed strouger on nccouut of their
more rapid growth.
Summer is the time to make pork;
making it iu winter is much like run
ning a noat against a wind and tide; it
requires too much food to keep up the
supply of annual heat. It hogs have
plenty of grass iu summer, ami about
half tlie gnuu they will eat, tlioy will
fatten rapidly, and about three imuuds
of fstrk can be made iu cold weather
With a hog in a close pen. The grass is
cooling and loosening, and counteracts
the feverish properties of the grain.
Another important consideration 111
favor of such a diet is oust, which is
merely nominal as ixmquircd with grain
alone. Free access to pure water and
good shade is esseutial to comfort and
Consequent growth aud thrift of the pig.
The hog delights in a cool, dump locali
ty, and is very sensitive to heat and
told, and suffers extremely from expos
ure to either. Any unusual exercise
will l>e fatal to a hog that is fat, ou a
hot day, if it has not free acre** to water.
Hogs are not apt to root when there
is plenty ol grass on the ground, but
rings in their noses have many great ad
vantages and by all means should be
used. Tliey should be allowed to have
all the grass they will eat as early in
the spring as jmsaible, and clover and
timothy is good for them in wiuter.
Hogs tliat have run to grass and slop all
summer can be shut up in a pen and
fed to advantage six weeks or two
months, but no longer.
A pig should uever Is* allowed to stop
growing; in fact, the rule holds good
during its entire life. A JHSW. mangy
pig is of no value; close coutinemeut iu
tilth aud dirt will check the growth,
however generous the feed; but if
starved at the same time, it will be a
mercy to both pigs aud owner to send
them to the manure pile.
Milk is a very exiling drink, and al
most indispensable in raisiug young
pigs. But very little corn and no ourn
meal should lie fed to voting pigs liefore
they are four mouths old. The effects
of corn and raw corn meal ou the voting
pigs are these: These pigs will first be
costive, then they will scour. They will
rub against everything they come in
contact with, and rub their hair off.
Their skin will have a red and dry ap
pearance. A dry, black scurf will begin
to form on them, and the more of the
corn meal that they eat the poorer they
will get. The best thiug that can lie
done for a pig in this condition is to
give him a thorough washing in warm
rain water or sonf milk. Sour milk is
best. Coarse flour or middlings from
rye or wheat, when male into a thin
drinkable slop with milk, is the liest
feed for young pigs except bread and
milk. Bread is good for young pigs be
cause it has been leavened. Foixl has
to fermeut before it will digest, aud if
fed to young pigs lefore fermented, it
will overtask his stomach aud spoil him.
Lettuce is good for young pigs. It will
stop the scour* on lum. The middlings
should Is- put with the milk at night,
after the feeding has l*en done, and
allowed to lie in the milk throu h the
night, never allowing the swill tub to
get quite empty, always leaving a little
in the bottom for yeast. The swill
should never be allowed to get stale.
Ilogs aud pigs treated as here deserilied
will grow to satisfaction and prove pro
fitable.—(V., in Ohio Fitmur.
K SELVES.
POTATO PlE.—Boil or wash common
or sweet potatoes and atr&iu through a
fiuc sieve; to each pint add one and half
pints of milk, a little melted butter,
two eggs, salt, nutmeg to the taste;
bake in one crust, like custard pie.
BRRRKUMILK MITFINH. One quart
buttermilk, two eggs, butter the size of
an egg, two flat N]K>onfuls soda mixed in
a little water; or on* spoonful saleratna,
two toasfioonfuls salt, flour to make- a
thick batter. Bake in rings in a quick
oven.
To BOTTLE REU CrnßAvrs. Pick
them unbroken from the stalks into dry
wide-monthed txittlo*, adding, as you
fill, some finely-sifted loaf sugar, so that
it may fall ou each layer of currants;
fill the txittles, rosin m it*- corks, and
keep them in a rack, with the neck
downwards.
GVHTAHO IN Crps.—Beat three eggs
with three tablespooufuls of sugar and
a little nutmeg and salt, add a quart of
milk (new is heat); pour into your cups
and set them into a dish that you can
fill with boilmg water, and put them in
to the oven to bake, lu tfiis way they
are mneh nicer thau wht-n cooked out of
the water.
GREEN PEA SOUP. —Four pounds of
beef, cut iu small pieces, one-half peck
of green jies*, one gallon of water.
Boil the empty pods of the peaa in the
water one hour before putting in the
beef. Strain them out, add the beef ami
boil slowlv an hour ami a half longer.
Half an hour before serving add the
shelled peas, and twenty minutes later
half a eup of rice Hour, with salt and
pepper. A little chopped parsley is an
improvement. After adding tub rice
flour stir frequently, to prevent scorch
ing. Strain into a hot tureen.
KAKORS ltitrnAnn PIE.— For one large
pie, or three deep ones. Take the
stalks; cut of! the leaves, and rinse iu
cold water (do not strip off the skin, as
it contaius much of the flavor), cut in
half inch lengths, and mhl from one to
three teacups of sugar, according to the
acidity of the rhubarb; stir in n large
bowl, an that the materials may be well
mixed; mid one lemou cut up very flue,
peeled, and all the juice well squeezed
in, one nutmeg grated, one tablespoon
fill of essence of lemon, one good pinch
of salt, one tnblespoonful of sifted flour,
two tnhlespoonfuls of butter; make a
nice crust, and imkc from half to three
quarters of an hour; make a slit in the
top of your pie, and bake in a deep pan,
so that its chief excellence shall not
waste by boiling over.
Farm andUnrSrn Nairn.
Decomposing turf is one of the best
fertilizers for grape vinea; when it ean lie
obtained, no other will be required.
The plowing, or non-plowing of or
chards must he determined by experi
menting. No arbitrary rule can be laid
down for all cases.
Farm well, garden well and breed
well your live stock, and von will find
your business successful, profitable,
and, therefore, very pleasant
The first book printed in England on
horticulture is said to contain the advice
that persons who wish their roses to lie
" flue and extra sweet," should " grow
them in the old onion bed."
In order to obtain good plants, especi
ally those for the vegetable garden, it is
absolutely essential to raise them from
seed, for those offered for Bale in the
markets are grown for sale, and are
neither healthy nor robust.
The farmer who neglects to supply his
family with a variety of fruits, in their
seaaou, is wanting in needful prudence,
as by such a precaution many a doctor's
bill might be saved, and til® general
health of the family materially increased.
The object of transplanting is to check
the growth of the foliage and promote
that of the root, and this is liest done
while the plants are young, ao that,
when they are finally planted out, there
will lie Htifiicient nait to supjiort a vig
orous upper growtli.
Iu the use of tame manure it is well
to heur in mind that the more finely it
is pulverised the more quickly it acta.
The effect of finely ground lione may
not lie noticeable for more than two or
three years, hut a quick return for the
capital invested is made.
A Western gardener says he has saved
every oue of his encumber, melon nd
cabbage plants, during the past five
years, and also repelled the jiotato
beetle, by sprinkling with water im
pregnated with gas tar, repeating the
application if washed off by ram.
Mr. O. H. Bliss, of Georgia, Yt, as
serts in 77e Country (ft ntUnmn thut
horses " become, after a little, almost
paasionately fond " of skimmed milk; he
ha* known a few eases in which it ha*
been thus utilized "with great econo
my," and " a pail of it three times a day
will keep a work horse iu tietter
condition than the average ration of
four quarts of oats."
lloHtMrfceld Ittnls.
PATUUMU a WIMTKW ASHKII WALL. —
First scrape off any of the lime which
way lie loose or inclined to fall; then
with a whitewash brush give the wall a
coat of glnc water —atmut one-half pouud
of glue to three gallons of water—tins
the pa|ier-hangers call sizing. After
this dries put on the i>a|>er; the glue
stick* to the lime, and the pajier sticks
to the glue.
IMPBOVKO BTOVE POLISH. —The house
wife who fiuds it uecessary to keep a
stove up in the sittiug-room during the
summer—and if there 1* no grate or
fire-place there should be a stove kept
up for 000 l nights ami moruiugs and
damp day*—will find that a tablespoou
ful of inolasse* added to the blacking
will cause it to adhere better ana retain
the polish longer.—/>oiowu(.
How TO A COT GLASS Itorri.K.— Matu
rate a pnxie of common twine in spirit*
of turpentine, aud irnas it once or twice
around the Ixittle where you wish to cut
it; theu light the twiue, and hold the
Ivurt of the bottle where you wish to
toep iu your hand. Turn "the bottle so
the fire will burn on all parts of the
twine at once, and when it cools, if it
does Dot drop off, give it a gentle tap.
To CLEAR DECAKTEWS.—To clean de
(4h.ters, roll up in small pieces some
soft brown or blotting paper; wet them,
and soap them well. Put them into the
decanter* about one-quarter full of warm
water; shake them well for a few min
ute*. then rinse with clear cold water;
wipe the uut*ul* with a nice dry cloth,
put the decanter* to drain, and when
dry they will be almost as bright a* new
one*.
To CtJUB DCST Fiioii CARPETS. 1
have found ilampeiied bran l wet just
enough to hold together) to tie the
cleanest and mtist satisfactory thiug to
put on carpet* before sweeping. It
rolls most all the dust right up in the
dirt, scarcely any an* ng to settle on
furniture. It leave# the carpet bright
and clean, and is, in my estimation, far
better than salt, tea leaves, or, dirtiest
of all, water sprinkled over the carjiet
Thr t are •( Kfrwf !.*•.
Few illuminating substances produce
a light a* steady and brilliant a* kero
sene oil, but owing to inattention to cer
tain requisite point* its full brilliancy
is rarelv attained. The wick, oil and all
the appurtenances of the lamp must be
kept scrupulously chuu, the burner pol
ished, the chimney not uulj clean hut
bright and clear/the wick cut square
SENMI with sharp scissor*. Those l%m|>*
which are made with immovable cupola*
require e*pteial care iu cleaning and
trimming. The ujqier part of a lamp
frequently gets oily after standing for a
time. This may, in a measure, lie pre
vented tiv cutting a hole in a piece of
felt ao a*' to fit exactly around the socket
into which the burner is screwed. Trim
the felt so that it will lie abont one-half
inch iu width and place the ring on the
aicket. Housekeepers disregarding tlie
HIHIVC have ss a result a flame dull, yel
low. smoky and half-lighted apartments
at tlio same cost as those well lighted.
I'eruiiun Temples of the Sun,
Of the earlv history of the Peruvians
we have but little knowledge, owing to
that barbarian policy exercised by the
followers of Cortez and Pizarro, in de
stroying everything belonging to the
tribes which they oooquered. Like the
Mexicans, the Peruvians hail advanced
in art, science aud learning, under the
administration of successive wise rulem,
and their Stats archives contained writ
ten histories of their country, from the
dawu of civilization among them, till
the period of the conquest. But the
snjierstitions Spaniards committed these
works to the flames, because of their
heathen origin, and we are obliged to
depend almost exclusivolv <>n the trnth
of tradition, for the knowledge we pos
sess of the history of this people during
the Inca dynasty. The most magnifi
cent of all" the Peruvian temples, was
that of the sun of Cuzco. The mode of
worship in this temple was similar to
that of Heliopoliß in Egpvt, where this
great luminary was adored. His golden
image occupied a largo portion of one
side of the interior of the temple, nml
liefore this the worshipjiers prostrated
themselves with rich offerings in their
hands, which were received by the at
tendant priests. Two or three virgius,
selected from the first families in the
kingdom, were in constant attendance,
WIIOHC duty it was to make oblations of
wine to the burning deity, and chant
hymns of praise to the great Fattier of
Light. )Like other aborigines of this
coutinent, the Peruviana were nomadic
tribes, aud gamed a subsistence by
hunting aud fishing. Superstitious in
the extreme, their objects of worship
woro OH numerous as those of the Egypt
ians.
Spanish Train Robhrn,
Tbo express which leaves Barcelona
at 10:'26 P. M. for the French frontier
byway of (Jerona and 1' ignores, waa
stopped the other night a short distance
north of the Han Andrea station, not
far from Barcelona, and all the passen
gers were stripped of what they hod
about them. The brigands who achieved
this exploit surprised one of the
signnl men, and linving gagged him,
tamed on the danger signal. The
engine driver stopped the tram, and
while the passengers were looking out of
the windows to see what was the cause
iof the stoppage, somo fifty men, all
armed with daggers and revolvers, clus
tered p on the carriage steps and forced
their way into the compartments.
Money, watches, jewelry, and all other
objects of any value liad to lie de
livered up; and in one or two instances,
where passengers were inoliued to be
recalcitrant, the robbers placed the
muzzles of their revolvers in unpleasant
proximity with the persons of the vic
tims. After the carriages hat! been care
fully examined they sacked the contents
of the lnggsge van and then disappeared.
The train put back to Barcelona, and
arrived there at about ono in the morn
ing.
( O-OPKKATIVK STORKS.
KUr and I'rocrrH •! ihrar I n.Olai la
Hasina*.
A txindon correspondent of the New
York IVibun* has an interesting letter
I ou the system of furnishing supplies by
the (Vimperative stores, and he gives S
history of the rise and progress made tiy
these stores, as follows: The happy
ulna of 00-operatiou for mutual defence
and protection occurred to some clever
persons engage.l in the civil service, and
a small club was formed. Indeed, it is
sai.l that its lieginiiiug was both humble
and accidental. It ongiuated thus:
Only a dozen years ago some clerks 111
the General Post-office combined and
bought a chest of tea, aud they found
the t-aviug so great that they pursued
their joint stock operations iu the pur
clitute of other articles of thuly necessity.
Thgir fellows in the office, finding the
advantage, desired to join the company.
It grew. They took a little room, and
fitUxl it up with shelves and rustic
counter*; a competent and trustworthy
man was placed m charge, and articles
of daily household consumption were
t.ought at wholesale price* and sold to
the members of the company at the
small advance which would cover the
, expuiise* mi the shop. The advantages
of the system became more and more
patent; the numtier of those desiring to
cuter the association rapidly increased,
as the knowledge of its advantages
widened. Then some of the original
mem tier* seceded from the " (ioUeraJ
l*oat.office Supply " and started a com
pany on a larger scale, establishing
themselves 111 tlio liaymarket, under the
name of the "Civil Supply Association."
Thus the extempore shop grew into a
warehouse; the one mau who conducted
the business was multiplied by scores,
and then bv huudreds of shopmen,
porters, warehousemen, sujierinteudeuta
of dejiartmeute, buyers, and managers;
there were a board of directors, a secre
tary, and chairman. One gnat ware
house expanded into several, within
whose spacious limits there were stored
goals of every imaginable sort, clothing,
groceries, stationery, books, furniture,
toliacco, pipes, toys, jewelry, iu short,
almost everything fi in a button to s
helmet, that any man. wouiau, child,
family, might umxl, and all to be pur
chased at from fifteen to twenty-five,
sometime# even fifty, per cent, lower
than thev could be got from the trades
men. The rush for memtx-nmip, of
course, became prodigious. Barristers,
solicitor*, medical men, aU rgymen,
minister*, actors, people of all profea
siona, as well as those connected with
the civil service in all its branches,
sought admission, which could be gained
by the payment of five shillings (gl.'Jfi)
s v.-nr for membership—in token of
which yoq received a card having your
: name iuu.l number upon it.
This card has to be shown to every
shopman from whom you make a pur
chase, and to the caahicr, with whom
TOU settle your account on the spot—
for all purchases are for cash. This
(wrvl must tie renewed every year bv the
payment of the name num. The business
cxpauded to such great proportions that
it was found necessary to set a limit to
the number of members, and admission
into the old or first "Civil Service
Stores," as they were called, is now im
jmsailiie. The* business has become so
gnwi, hns l>een ao admirably, aud hon
' estly administered, that notwithstand
ing that tue margin of profit upon the
wholesale prices for defraying current
expenses, isao small, I believes hand
some dividend accrue* to the members.
A ticket of membership in this old or
ganization in the Haymark.t cannot be
got for love or money, and they are con
sidered of such importance that thev arc
frequently bequeathed in the wills of
member*. The success of this first en
terprise and the restriction of its inera
borsbip, of course, caused the starting
of others, and there are now three
immense organizations, with several
branches in different part* of Lsmdon.
; The largest, ami now the Iwwt one of all,
'is the "Armv and Navy Cooperative
Society," in Victoria street, Westmins
ter. this association was < rgautzod six
years ago, and has a place ail of it* own
at the head of cooperative associations.
. The meratiera consist of two classes,
| shareholder* and ticketliolder*. the lat
| tar including life members and anuual
' subscriber*. The shares are of the
I value of $3 each, and holders of one or
more share are entitled to participate in
the profits, to deal at the stores and with
the tradesmen connected with the soci
ety without anv further payment what
ever, and to have their purchases from
the store delivered free of charge within
a certain radius. Life members' tickets
(one guinea) confer all the privileges of
shareholders, except participation in
the profit* and management of the
society. They will not bo transferable.
Annual subscriber* who pay SI S5 the
first year, and sixty cent* each subse
quent year, enjoy all the privileges
I jviKsoKHed by shareholders, except
participation in the profit* and manage
i tnent of the society, and to the special
1 advantages a* to carriage of parrels.
! The director. Major MeCroa, who first
induced a few officer* to join him in this
1 enterprise, tieginning with a capital of
1 $300,000 in 8.1 shares, is, in his way, as
! much astounded at the vast pro|xirtions
attained in this brief time a the origin
ator of the first *<x-ity, with hi* chest of
tea, is astonished to find that the associ
ation of small amounts should have grown
into such strength, and that he should
have developed a tmthtliat had escaped
the acute perception of governments,
and the skill of the economist and phil
anthropist.
• I am told tliat the balance, sheet of
tliia compauy is like triumphant march.
Last year the directora w?re able to
tioaat of sales at the rate ol $500,000 a
month, lint that rate has now twen much
exceeded. During the last half yar the
sales alone amounted to $3,248,365, aud
the miscellaneous revenne received from
annual tickets and other aonroes to
$5,940, so that the total was $1,'257.305,
which shows an increase of $743,045
over the corresponding period of last
year, which, the directors aay, is the
largest amount of business which has
ever tieen compassed by a " 00-opora
tivo." Its cash in hand and with its
bankers is $157,340; it* Victoria street
premises, which are large and hand
some, represent $466,635, and its other
tenements $150,000; it* stock is worth
$690,870; it holds on deposit order sud
011 interest $"276,130; it hns s balance to
profit aud loss account of $"230,395,
and a net profit of $39,270. I notice in
the report for the last half year, a special
paragraph that out of tlio profit, the
directors recommend the paymcut of a
dividend nt the rate of five per cent per
annum, free of income tax, and that the
remainder lie carried forward toward the
accumulation of a reserve fnn t to be in
vested in the society's business. Lam
told tli at what they want are low prices.
They do not care for dividends. To
give Home idea of the magnitude of the
business, I may mention, that excluding
orders executed through agents such as
for beer, coals, mineral waters, etc., aud
excluding also parcels taken away by
the pnrehnsers themselves, they sent
ont from the " Stores" during six
months, by their own carriers and by
railway vans, 246,118 packing cases and
packages, weighing in the aggregate
- 8,000 tons.
An unsuccessful lover was asked by
what means he lost his divinity. "Alas!"
cried he, "I flattered her until she got
too proud to speak to me,"
TERMH: 02.00 a Year, in Advance.
(seasip About Knakps.
Poisonous tuiake* way lie rnadilv dis
tinguished from the harmless kinds by
their broadly flattened heads ui<l pro
jecting jaws, which impart to them a
triangular The majority of tl
non-poisonous reptiles liiffl heads With
a norrow cliptioal contour, winch indi
cate at the first glance their character.
The bites of the former are not near a*
fatal aa they are generally supposed to
be, au<l quickly-adtninisterad <luaee of
ammonia injected into the fleah wound
by meaua of a syringe, or gnat quanti
ties of wbiskv ami other alooholic drtnka
taken instantly after the accident prove
geucrallr sure* preventatives against fa
tal nwoilte. These remedies, though
efficacious against the bite of the moc
casin, rattlesnake and copperhead, of
North America, sr.- unavailing in some
tropical countries like India, where the
violent action of the poison M intensified
by great h*t, thua cauaing annually the
death of a great number of people. It
uinat be borne in unnd. however, that
the natives of theae oonntriea are in a
more or leas node state, and that their
bodies are thus exposed in full to the
attack of any snake which they may
chance to encounter. It is instructive
to notice that no tropical travelers, who
frequently visit districts infested with
susaes have fallen victims to them, al
though they have made in many in
stances the collection of jioisonoua spe
cies a specialty of their avocation. It is
erroneous to nuppuH that snakes will
attack man without provocation, and
that they are capable'if making a spring
of several feet or even yards. The ar
rangement of their iiitereoateal mus
clea does ■ not admit of an extended for
ward movement of their body beyond
that of rapidly uncoiling themselves to
their foil length, as anybody may satis
fy himself by irritating any of oar harm
less species when encountered in bol
ows of trees, under bark or similar hid
ng places where a retreat is not feasi
ble. Cnder these particular circum
atauces they evince a ready disposition
to attack tile intruder who ventures to
disturb their re pons. There is in Boath
Florida s very large sueciea of the rat
tlesnake known to naturalists as the
crutnlu* wltiinanUu*, which has suffi
cient capacity to fetal upon animals up
to the sme of the wild rabbit. It would
naturally lie supposed tbat this snake,
in order to capture such a wild creature,
woul 1 possess compensating qualities by
being nupable of making a quick spring
of at least several feet. This doc* not,
however, seem to lie the case, as exper
ienced by an accidental encounter with
one of these formitlable reptiles, which
we found some years ago during an ex
pedition to Florida, quietly coiled up in
a cluster of dense palmetto underbruah,
not far fmm the settlement, near the
site of old Fori Cspron. We dispensed
on this occasion, contrary to advice,
with the gun, which would nave offered
temptations to forego the experiment of
s close encounter, and advanced armed
with only a short, stout stick within a
few paces of our intended prey to ob
serve its behavior* The reptile proved
wid awake to the danger of ber situa
tion bv raising slightly her head above
the htigeooil of her body, which covered
a pine- nearly two feet in diameter.
Another forward step decided the criti
cal turning-point of the ad venture, which
ended, not in a quick uncoiling of her
six-foot-long body, but a ouietand igno
minious gliding sway without any sign
of offering resistance. A timely and
well-aimed blow then arrested her fur
ther progress by breaking the backbone,
after which she was dragged helplessly
to the open, uesr the brwch, where a .cut
of an tx severed her Levi, which, well
preserved in alcohol, still testifies by its
great size the corresponding volume of
her frame.
A Shetland Bainty.
Tlie luxuries of Shetland, wnte* a
traveler in the Shetland Isles, are what
most people would never dream of. One
morning—l had been in Lerwick about
teu davs—our landlady brought up for
breakfast a well-grilled bind. "She
thought we might hke acorie by Uie way
of a change.'' In my ignorance, I knew
not then the meaning of a soorie. Upon
asking mv friend opposite, be replied,
with much clearness:
"What ia a acorie?—why—just a
acorie."
I concluded that if was some kind of
1 game peculiar to Shetland —and 1 hail al
roadv discovered that daiuties were rare,
and that nothing must be too rashly de
spised. It was very good; tender and
delicate; aud in the end I learned that
it was nothing but a young sea-gull; a
gull of the first year; when its feather*
are yet gray, and it ha* not long used its
wings. Most people would dislike tlie
idea of eating a sea-gull; perhaps I
should have done so in any other place
thau Hhetland; I can only say that I re
turned to the change another day, and
without re lu tan ce. It is a very eatable
bird, without suspicion of fishtnesa, un
less cooked when a Utile too old. The
Shetland*-!* will not, as a rule, eat these
acorie*. Tbey go further anil fare worse
—much worse. While despising scories,
which are easily obtained, tbey will take
a go at deal of trouble to secure a young
cormorant They cook and eat these
cormorants, which are coarse, impossi
ble food to any one but a Shetlander.
They also make them into soup, which
they thiuk delicious; strong, unctuous
liquid that from its appearance, must
poHsess some of the mure wholesome,
though not agreeable qualities of cod
liver oil.
Cuttlefish Casting its Ink.
Mr. Frank Bnckland, the well-known
English naturalist, describes in Laml
ami WaXrr bis good fortune in seeing,
under favorable conditiona, a cuttlefiah
easting it* ink. Three or four specimens
of cuttles live in the Westminster Aqua
rium. One of then in passing the win
dow of his tank evidently mistook the
naturalist for s foe. "So," writes Mr.
Bnckland, " as tie swam along he eject
ed from his ink-bag a jet of what looked
like a clond of the most intensely black
smoke that ever came forth from a fac
tory chimney. Instantly the water lost
all transparency. Mr. Cuttlefish then
went into the middle of the water he
hail so artfully made opaque. When
there be ejected nioro ink, and in less
tiirn half a minute the water around
him tieeame blacker than the blackest
thunder cloud ever beheld. The ink
gradually dispersed itself through the
water, forming clouds of the most deli
cate shadings, fading off from the very
black place under which the tieaat was
concealed. Not even Turner, the groat
artist, ever imagined such a cloud. This
ink is used in the arte, sepia beiug the
very substance taken from the cuttlefiah
and dried. Without doubt this power
of shooting ink is a most wonderfn
means of protection to preserve the ani
mal from being eaten by its enemies,
aud it may not lie impossible that Uie
idea of gods and goddesses appearing
from the clouds and disappearing into
clouds, so often described by Virgil,
might have taken it origin from the
power of the cutUefish to surround itself
with a cloud of ink. May we not also
compare Uiis cuttlefish to a voluminous
author, who conceals his identity in
clouds of ink.
" Doctor, doctor," panted a messenger;
" come down the Btreet, quick ; there's
a man dropped in a flit." "In an
apoplectic?" questioned the doetor.
"No, sir; he's in a duster," answered
the messenger.
NUMBER 30.
The Inhabitant* ef Mars 4 Beama,
TroHahly the moat convenient asenmp
tion we can make ia that there may be
creatures in a g*Jra respeot Ukeour
selves on those moons of Mwa, bnt that,
owing to the extffJiw nrity df
mosptiere. their vital energy to so far
reduced that they are not more active
than we are. despite the feeble actum of
gravity in tnc world. The air must be
exceedingly rare, moat cwrUinW even
f the quantity ia proportional to the
volume* of these moons. On *bisi as
sumption the quantity of "it is liw tnlß
the quantity of terrestrial aajme to loss
than iOO times 400 times 400—that is,
it amounts only to 1-64,000,000 paft of
terrestrial air. ... .
Being rpvaa.l over a anrfaoe whrnh is
but 1-160,0 M of tba earth's, R follows
that the quantity of air abovs saob
square mile of surface ia 1-400 part only
of the ouantity over each square mile
of the earth's rorface. This would be
little enough in all cvjusemnoej but this
is not all. For the actum ef gravity
being, according to oar aasamptn n, only
1-600 of terreetria! gravity, it follows
that the atmospheric pressure, and
therefore density, is further reduced in
this degree, giving Anally a density of
equal only to 1-240,000 of the density of
our own air.
Sow, at a height of seven miles,where
the atmospheric pressure is reduced to
one-forth that at the aea level, men of
ordinary constitutions would perish in a
few minutes, if not instantly. In Oox
well's saoent to nearly that height,
(ihushqr fainted, and On well only just
had strength left to drew the valve string
with bis teeth, (his hands being already
powerless). Yet at the height of seven
miles the density of the air is 60,000
times greater than that which, according
to our very reaaonabie assumption,
prevails at the surface pf the Martian
moons.
We can very well believe, then, that
in whatever way the inhabitants of tbeae
moons may be adapted, corporeally and
constitutionally, for existence in their
small homes, the rarity of the air there
must tend to reduce tueir vital energy.
Bo that we rna? well imagine that,
instead of being able to leap to a height
of half a mile or over a distance of two
or three miles, they are not more active
than we are on earth with 600 times
greater weight, bat far more effective
respiration. We might, perhaps, go
even further than this, and assume that,
in older to give the inhabitants of these
moons locomotive powers proportioned
in the same way to their own dimensions
as ours are, they must be snpposed very
much smaller than we are.
We might imagine them in an atmos
phere so exceedingly attenuated that
creature* which could have vitality
enough to move freely about most be no
larger than flies or ants, and must have
also some such provision as insects have
for more effective inspiration. In this
way we might find in the Martian moons
a miniature of our own earth, not only
in the proportions erf these worlds them
selves, but also in those of the creator**
living ujKn them. But it would not be
very interesting to consider mere minia
tures of oar earth, suoh as the moons of
Mars would thus come to be regarded.
Indeed, in that case, little more could
be said than that all the relations pre
sented by this earth were or might be
represented in Ibe Martian moons, bat
on a greatly reduced scale. — Prof. Proc
tor, in llclgrax'ia.
An Elephant's Reiesge.
Elephant* have ao much sympathy
with depraved human nature aa to think
with Byron, "Sweet i revenge." An
anecdote of an elephant a rvvenge,
translated from the French, aa fol
low*: Upon one of the plantation* waa
an Engliah overseer named Bennett, an
exceedingly crew* and disagreeable man,
who waa employed be the maater be
canae of his great capability in directing
affairs. Upon the plantation waa an
elephant named Dourga, that Bennett
greatly disliked, and upon whom he
often played mean trick*. Hi* employ
er, after reproving him several times for
his unkindneas to the snimsl, warned
him that if he carried his tricka too far,
Dourga would pay him back with inter
eat, Finally the time came when Dour
ga'a patience waa tried beyond endur
anoe. He waa in the habit of receiving
every morning from hi* driver a hnge
corn-cake covered with molanaaa, of
which he waa very fond. One morning,
aa this cake waa being earned to him on
s bamboo hurdle, Bennett, who waa
IMtssing with a pot full of red pimento,
threw it upon the cake, and then stopped
to watch and mimic the grimaces made by
the elephant when he swallowed it. The
result was easy to eee. The poor ani
mal, his mouth on fire, paaead the lay
in s marsh trying to calm the thirst that
wan devouring him, and to appeaee the
inflammation produced by the fiery dose
lie had swallowed. When evening came,
the bonr when Bennett brought the
coolies from work, the elephant pounced
upon him, picked him up with his
trunk and pitched him headlong in a
large reservoir or pood of water, which
waa thirty or forty feet deep. Bennett,
who knew how to swim, quickly swam
to the edge. Dourga allowed him to
| climb up the bank, when he picked him
up again as if he had been a wisp of
Htraw, and threw bim back in the water.
This was repeated a* mauy times ae Ben
net* attempted to escape, until he waa
compelled to remain in the water, keep
ing nis head up as well aa he could. The
affair would have ended with sure drown
ing for Rennet* if one of the coolies had
not come to his rescue and forced Dour
ga away.
The elephant never forgot the injury
done him, and rarely allowed an oppor
tunity to escape to still further revenge
himself upon the overseer. Sometimes ne
would throw a paw fall of sand alap in
Bennett's face; again it would be a spout
of water thrown over him; at another
time he would be pitched into a cactus
bush,from which he would get out eearoe
ly alive, so horribly scratched would he
tie. It was impossible to correct Dour
ga and make him behave. The upshot
of the whole affair waa that Bennett waa
obliged to leave the plantation, which
was not large enough for him and Dour
ga together, and his employer valued the
elephaut more than he dia his overseer.
A Crow's Attachment.
Last spring Mr. W. Cambray.of Cana
da, caught a young crow before it eould
fly, and brought it home, where it soon
tiecame tame. It struck up a warm
friendship with a young hound belong
ing to Mr. Cambray. The crow was al
ways around with the hound, shared his
meals, and slept in his box at night on
the bottom, not seeking a perch unless
they were disturbed during the night,
when he would come out and fly up into
oue of the trees near by, and remain
there till morning. When given food,
it invariably took a portion to the honnd.
It did not give it to him at onoe, bat
would fly around above his head with a
piece of meat or crust of broad in his
bill,and keep tearing him with it, and then
would Anally let him have his share.
Bat instinct began to be too powerful,
and he concluded that he must go to
other quarters in the winter, and it was
amusing to see how he tried to ooax
the hound away with him. He would
fly away a little pieoe, and then alight
and caw to the dog; then he wonld fly
back, and seemed in great distress be
cause he could not induce his four-footed
friend to go to warmer quarters for the
winter; finding he would not leave, he
I at length flewjjff.
ItMM *f Uknrt.
A 0womb) suggestion-" Pass tbft
oU in r*tod with ptofll in
Amol county, Tem.
When i> • litorny work lik* noke
When it toon in volumsa.
An Hftqbed eour.l. (M • ">!•
separated—A pfthr of shears.
Ifevur givu way to despair, for dee
pftir will never give wmy to yon.
ftixly wolves have been killed in Wa
seca county, Minn., tbif seaaoa.
An old woman of Durham, EnglaiHl, in
17 first made table mnetard and for
jreera would not reveal the peooeea.
Tha mysteries of the fotare—The
r)rrt faalilo—He dreaa and bonnets.
Baahi-Basonk meana light-beaded,
and the name waa given them for raek
leea riding.
There are five surviving journalists of
the BUte of Kew York who were actively
in aerriee fitly or more yearn ftga
1 Rode young men of the present day,
let nature teach yon politeness. Bee
how load young treea are of making
1 boughs.
Bleep may or ma/ not be a great
reatorer. It depends g*** l d®* l ° n
whether the big toe ia tnaeaatble to the
bite ? the horse-fly.
Birda are entitled to justice. When a
man ia indulging in a frol*, to eav be ia
"out on a tanrni a libel on that bird.
He is really out on a swallow.
What Oongreaa wants to investigate
1 ia the fact wbyaa intruding oow will in
varublv tnunn on the loose soil of a
, two-foot flower garden in preference to
the graaa-oovered huxlred square feet of
j the mat of the yard.
"Can that horse rtsn faatf asked a
boy of a milkman, the other morning.
! •• So, aonnv," replied the purveyor of
aqueous lacteal fluid, "be cent run
very fast, bat ha can aland the faatest of
any horse yon ever aaw.' .
The following excruciating conundrum
) k, calculated to throw a pall of glow over
the most hilarious gathering:—What to
the difiarenoe between a "sell and a
riddle t Beeauae one ia the hoax (oaks)
and the other a conundrum (aearn under
em.)
j m m firnt introduced into Europe
in 1880 by the Dutch East India
Company, and tnen only aa • cariosity,
allowing the nature of the herb so nm
veraallv ned by the Chinese in the pre
pssutkio of their so-much loved bevai
ag. .
An eagle in the Alp* Mountains, a
abort time ago, earned away a ewe lamb
to it* neat. The lamb waa not killed by
the monarch of bird*, and lived in ap
parent harmony with the yoang eag
let* fof fonr dsyu, when it waa teacned
by the sbepbsri who owned it.
A man waa scared to death in Berry
vflle. Ma He waa pawing a graveyard
at midnight, when two men apmng ftyan
hohowt a monument *aJ shouted at hint.
He ran 'home and went to bed, bat waa
ao nerrooa that be could not sleep, and
before morning be died in ©ODVUIM IM*.
Last *ear a Miaaoori editor offered his
paper one year lor the largest watermel
on. The offer has not been repeated
thi* aaaeoc. Instead of doubling up
bis subscription liat by the grand
the melon* did nothing bat
doable np the editor.
Cherry ram Pafaee thrown into the
yard by a Bangor woman waa
tnrkeys that apparently died from the
effect*. Alter bemg plucked theyj awe
thrown intee beep on the graaa. On the
next morning they were found walking
around the yard in naAreaa.
•• Are you trying to raise a mustache,
mr son f" kindly inquired a heavily
wbiakered father, the other morning,
observing the young man acraping his
face " in the place where the hair ought
to grow." " fee, air." replied the boy,
i " ainoe jou failed, it'a about all I can
raise.''
An elite in Michigan thus bida fare
well to his readers, his paper having ex
pired: "Good-bv! ToO the bell gent
ly ! This is our Vast kick. Handle ns
with care! Lower as gently to rest f
We die a natural death. The wolf la at
our dm*! Bury us under a rote buah.
Lssten to the mocking bird.''
A Permian dealer in eurioaities has
bean eaodetnned to two months' impris
onment by the Liverpool bench of magis
t rates for an aaaault upon hia wife Ma
tilda. This follower of the prophet tied
the hands of Matilda behind her, and
tnen, having tied her feet, struck her
twelve heavy blows on the soles with a
piece of horn.
When the voice is lost, as is some
times the case from the effect# of a cold,
a simple pleeaant remedy is furnished
by beating up the white of one egg.
adding the jcifc* of cue lemon, and
sweetening with white sugar to the
taste. Take a tablespoonful from time
to time. It has been known to effectu
ally cure the ail men L
"Go* any eow oeuaf" "Tea, atop
this wav." "Those see too small.
Haven't ron any largerf "No, sir;
the large "ones are all sold." Customer
started off, ani got aa tar aa the door,
when the clerk called after htm. " Look
here, stranger, take one of these small
bells for voor cow, and yon won t have
half the trouble in finding her; for when
you bear her bell you will always know
she can't be far off." The customer
bought the belL
Jfany of the old naturalists entertained
the notion that gease wera produced
from trees. It waa supposed that on
the of a river in the Orcadea, a
tree grew that produced live geeee like
fruit. In an old volume printed at
Baale, 1560, entitled "Munstori Oownog
rmphta," is a curious engraving repre-
the barnacle goose dropping
from bursting pods on the tree into the
stream beneath, and swimming away.
A similar cut is to be found fh "Aldro
vandus" and at the eedof "Oerranla
Herbal." The early navigator* and
travelers related the moet extraordinary
stories of this character.
" Miss Green is a regular Woe,
Miss Soariat took* pale a* a Uly.
Miss TuM ne'er shrink* from ww.
And Miss Wiseman thinks *ll the men silly;
Miss Wright she is oonetaoUy wrung,
Mi— TiokeU, slas'. is not funny,
Miss Singer ne'er warbled s song.
And in iroth poor Miss Cash has no money.
Miss Knight i* now changed into Day.
And Miss I lay will soon marry * knight.
Miss Prudsnce has lost run away,
And Mis* Steadv assisted her flight.
Bat success to the' fair, ooe and afi,
No mise-apptobeosion be making—
Though wrong the dear sex to mies-call,
There's no harm let us hopa,in miss-taking.
The late ex-King of Hanover bad ths
grievous affliction of blindness. But he
bad a gr*st consolation in the person of
his eldest daughter, Prinoees Frsderica.
This lady was his constant companion,
leading him, and sketching for him with
her kind voioe all interacting persons
and things sumrauding them. The
kinp wonld enter a musentn or other
publift place like a man with good eyes,
and, when on his daughter's arm, never
failed to return the salutes addressed to
him from whatever direction they might
come. It was evident that there was
some system of telegraphy known to the
two, and from long habit the king had
become so expert that lie rarely made a
mistake. At a soiree he was led up to
the host or hostess, bowed at the right
moment, and went through the cere
mony with all the ease of a man who
could see.
Wreat Pyramid of Egypt.
An English architect, Mr. Tito, has
been "figuring up" the cost of the
J rest pyramid near Gizet. Its original
intensions at the base were 764 square
feet, and it has a perpendicular height
of 480 feet, covering four acres, one
rood, twenty-two perches of ground. It
consumed 79.028,000 cubic feet of atone;
and Mr. Tito adds that it could not now
be built for less than£3o,ooo,ooo, sterling.
The joints of the large casing blocks of
granite were so fine as to be scarcely per
ceptible, not thicker than paper; and
the mortar was so adhesive that the
stones in some esses broke through
their substance rather than give way at
their jointing. The cost, therefore, of
thia structure, reduced to federal cur
rency, was $146,200,000, a sum large
enough to build and put in running
order six good, substantial railroads be
tween New York and the Atlantic and
Ban Francisco on the Pacific.