(•reen lir I ndpr the Snow.
Tbe work of the sun it slow,
Bnt a* sure M Hmrn we know ;
So we'll not forget.
When the skies ere wet,
There'* green pre** under the ar lo w.
When the winds of wiuf r blow,
Wailing like voice* of WOPi
There ere AprP K | IOWPrK ,
And green grans ntlder thp roow .
We'll an-", that if, m m
In this jj^- g „ npwn fl ow .
C'e'vs orilv to wait.
In the fere of Fate,
For the green grass under the snow.
Sunflowers.
They blossom brightly, straight and tall.
Age mat the mossy garden wall,
Hon oath the poplar trees;
The snnbeama kiss eeoh golden faee.
Their green haves waTe with airy greoe
In fresh Septeiutw r's hreeae.
On one fair disk of gold am! brown
A purple butterfly light* down;
A sister blossom yi< Ids
Her honey store, eoutent to be
A late provider for the bee.
Flown brew froiu clover flelds.
Kach dawning day. when climbs the sun.
And steadfast till his course is run.
These royal blossoms raise
Their grand, wide opened, golden eves
To watch his journey through the skies,
t'udannted by his blaze.
The butterfly may sleep or soar,
The tws ma* steal their honey store.
But still the flowers gate on,
With burning looks of chaugoh * love.
Toward the day-god, high above,
Until the day is gw,e.
Fair maid beside th * garden wall.
Thy lithe form <\v straight and tall.
The sunflower' , grfcJu .
The golden tr 0 f tumo hair,
Like sunfloa, c do ,ea VP f U
Bright ha a pound Uiy face.
And thro* ahadow-s looking down.
We find thine eyes o' -. Nest brown
I-tke siuitl.'se.- tw.ui <u\ ;
W< * ,-ateh Usee standiug I*J the hlootn,
Tl .e Clod-given suuflow- r of oar home.
Yet aieek as eventar,** star 1
Ah. watching thus, high thoughts arise,
l>erp thoughts, th at All our time-worn eyes
With fearful. Lopefui tears.
Ood give thee s* lushsue on thy way '
God crown thy happy summer day
With ptjnx f* tl autumn years !
In doe time < omicg. on thy breast
Love's pnrpl i butterfly may rest.
And uestk close to thee;
And ere thy stunmer-time is o'er.
Thy tweotn* may yield honey store
For life's hiown wor'jng bee.
But evermore, thouy h love should come
And fold his pinion * in thine home.
Lift thy calm gai above :
Mark thou the ear flower's constant eye,
And follow throw ,h life's changing sky
The sun of fai' ii and love.
—Uitrptr's Bazar.
What Became ol the Pocket
book. -
" H jTeyon any toy trumpets?" asked
old Farmer Campbell of the talkative
tin-'peddler whose red cart with its
ho asekeeper-tempting array of brooms,
ujops, scrubbing-brushes, pails, tubs,
etc., stood one sunny spring morning
under the bndding maples before the
farm-house gate.
" Lots on 'em, sir ; red ones, blue
ones, green, yellow and white ones—all
on "etu shiny ones. Which will you
have? 'Aint they hansam now?" "and
he jingled the attractive baubles before
the smiling old gentleman \
"IH pick out these two," he said,
taking one in ea<*h hand and putting his
hands behind him. • " Don't say any
thing about them yet to Catherine.
Perhaps when she settles up for her
rags there'll be enough coming to pay
for them. There, she's coming oat
with another lot."
" We've tn-en making rugs," explain
ed Catherine, a plump, good-looking
young wont in of thirty, running hriaklv
clown the walk with a huge handle in
in her arms, '-that's how we happen to
have so ma ay colored rags to-dav."
"Here's another little wad," pried
Mother Gampbeli, very much out of
breath, hurrvmg along a ft er
daughter. "I don't want any leavings
for moths to aongregate m.-
"I decker ejaculated hrr husband
in dismay. 44 1 d jdare! that is my
sheep's gray vee' fc I shan't have a rag
left to pi it on, and shall be driven to
wearing my go-to-meetin' suit every
day."
Cat jerine had been diving her shining
bro* n head and pi amp shoulders into
tbe out, bringing to light sundry pans,
Cape, measures and skimmers, while the
artful peddler had beguiled her mother
into purchasing a pair of sparkling glass
Etchers. Ks the accounts were being
danced the old gentleman laughingly
held np the blue and the green trumpets
to be enumerated, while from a branch
of the tree above their heads the tame
crow, Jetty, laughed, "Ha, ha, ha," to
call their attention to the red trumpet
which he bad stolen from the cart.
"Father, you don't want that trumpet
more'a the crow doce! Come down with
that, you black roguel" scolded Miss
Catherine.
"I promised the twins when I was up
to Dolly Jotue' to have a tootmaker on
hand for each of them when they came
down in May," said the old man decided
ly, "and grandpa musn't break his word
to the little fellows."
"Those boys are too old for trumpets,"
put in Mrs. CampbelL "They'll drive
me distracted with their noise."
"1 hope they'll never be too old to
enjoy toys and fun," said the old gen
tleman. roguishly blowing a blast upon
each of the trumpets at the same time.
" I guess I will have one for myself, too,
and as for the twins, they won't be seven
till June."
" They'll be eight," said his wife.
"I've got it down on a paper in my
pocket-boik," replied the old gentle
man, feeling first in one pocket and then
in another, " and I'll pay money for the
trumpets, Jetty's and "all Catherine,
fetcu my pocket-book from the mantle
shelf in the bedroom chamber," he called
after his daughter, who was hurrying to
ward the home.
"It isn't there," she replied, as she
retnrned presently with a bag of dried
apples, "and I didn't stop to look it np,
because there will be enough com
ing from these to pay for the trumpets."
"I want to make father some ginger
snaps after Consin Bath's recipe, and I
can't find the paper on which it is writ
ten down," remarked Mrs. Campbell
next morning, as, busy abont the Satur
day's baking, she bustled around looking
over boxes, baskets and drawers.
"It is in my pocket-book," paid her
husband, glancing up from his news
paper, " I saw it lying on the hanging
table the last time you made snaps,
and I reckoned it might get mislaid and
so yon have an excuse for not making
me* any for a long spelL So I took pos
session of it," and he began again to
feel first in one pocket and then in an
other. "I declare," he ejaculated,
presently, " I haven't seen that pocket
book, as* I remember, since I looked for
it. when the peddler was here yesterday.
"Make ginger-drops with enrrants in
them to-day, mother," suggested Cath
erine, " I can't take my hands out of
the pound cake to look np that pocket
book now."
" Have you wound the clock, father?"
asked Mrs. Campbell, next morning, as
she was tying her bonnet-Btringa in a
sqaare bow under her double-chin, pre
paratory to starting for church.
" No*" said he, " but I was calculat
ing to just before I started, so as to be
Mire and take the money for the mis
sionarv-box out of my pocket-book when
I took the clock-key. Catherine, bring
P ..itED. KURTZ, Kditor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XI.
me my pookeUbook from the mautle
ahclf m live tsklrnou fhitabfr*"
" It isn't here," replied his daughter,
who was rattling about iu her bust black
silk drees. " Did you fltid it yesterday *
If yon did, I didn't hear anything about
it, and it slipped rav miud. A
" Vfatia, quna," laughed Jetty, from
th tall lilac-bush iu frout of tlie bod
room wludow, and, glauding out, they
saw that he had the green truinjx-t iu
his mouth.
" He stole that from the mantle iu
your room, and wliy shouldn't he have
stolen the pocket-book as well ? lie picks
i up every small, bright colored object
tliat attracts his attentiou. I, for one,
don't believe iu liarUmnga thief m the
house," and Miss Catherine turned the
i cat outdoors, abut the dam pew of the
| stove aud declared every tiling to lie
ready for starting.
" 1 never thought it a good plan to
I carry that clock key iu your pooket
j InKvk," said Catherine, as they jogged
along to church.
" I like to have tliiugs where I know
they are safe," said her father.
" Well, you missed your tlgure for
once," sjKike up his wife".
" By no means," replied the line old
gentleman, good-naturedly, " the key
. with the rest of the missing articles is in
the pocketbook, and that is mislaid by
no fault of mine, as you will be willing
1 to admit when it turns up."
| Bnt it didn't turu up, even after din
ner when they searched until suudowu.
Then, uot wishing to have the old eight
day clock ruu down, Catherine had the
horse harnessed into the chaise, and
drove over to the east part of the town
• to the Russell homestead, where there
was an old family dock exactly like
theirs, and borrowed the key. In talk
ing the matter over with Mrs, Russell.
Catharine remembered that a tramp had
called and had eaten a Kiwi of bread and
, milk by the kitchen fire the very morn
ing before the pocket-book was missed.
I That brought np the prolific subject of
: tramps and thieves, and Mr. Russell
mentioned that a widow named Waite,
• with two children, a son and a daughter,
from down the river somewhere, had
bought and moved on to the Basoomb
place ; that when he heard of it he
couldn't help remembering that last
year when he was down to the shire
town on a jury a widow woman named
Waito was sent to jail for three months
for stealing, and that Mrs. Russell re
marked that she didn't luteud to say
anything about it to any body, but that
she had made np her mind that she
shouldn't call on her new neighbors.
The nest day, when Catherine was up
to her elbows in si-Is, a gentlemanly
appearing youth who said his family
had just purchased the Rascomb place,
came to the door, having heard tliat Mr.
Campbell was Prudential School Com
mittee, to see if he could secure a situa
tion as teacher for his sister. Catherine
listened no further, but answered him
curtly without referring him to her
father, and shut the door in his face.
Sbe mentioned the incident to Mrs.
Russell after dinner when she drove
over to return the clock key. She add
ed, thoughtfully, that he looked to her
like the fellow to whom she gave the
bread and milk the day before the
pocket-book was missed.
Mrs. Russell asked how much money
there was in it, and, being told, said
she had heard that they paid one-third
down for their place, although only one
fourth had been required.
When Catherine returned home she
fonnd that her half-brother. James, had
driven over from his adjoining farm to
see abont a note which his father held
against some one in the next town,
which he thonght ought to be renewed.
"It won't outlaw for a year," said
Farmer Campbell.
"Let me see," said his son. and then,
of course, Catherine let ont the storv.
"Was it your old sheepskin wallet,
father ?"
"Oh, no, it was the pretty ml mo
rocco one with twenty different com
partments that the twins gave me last
Christmas.
"Ton had it in yonr band the last time
I was in here, and showed me the re
ceipted bill for three aets of Cyclo
pedias—Catherine's set, James* set and
my set Let me sec; that was Thursday.
There was a tramp eating bread aud
milk in the kitchen, a rough-looking
fellow. I thonght it injudicions to let
him enter the house, ami spoke to wife
about it when I got home. Don't you
remember it ? After he went away
mother said father looked lfke a tramp
in that old sheep's gray snit."
"There, those clothes are in that
nig," pnt in Catherine triumphantly,
pointing to an immense braided mat
upon which she was at work. "Father
left them off to have them mended one
day. the tin peddler came along, and
while father was out talking with him,
mother and I stripped what was good
for carpets ont of them and bundled up
the rest for rags in a hurry, I tell you."
"I am glad of it," said her half
brother, laughing heartily, "but I must
not be lingering here. Father, can I
take your side-hiil plow for a few days?"
"I presume it is in that missing pocket
.book," observed Catherine facetiously,
and the tarneed crow laughed, "qnha,
quha, qnha," an he alighted outside the
window with Mrs. Campbell's scarlet
crochet knitting-bag in his bill, which
he immediately carried across the yard
and threw into the welL
The four persons looked at each other
and nodded knowingly. "We will send
for Ed Hotton immediately to come and
clean out the well," said mother.
"That would be impracticable while
the water is so deep," said James, "bnt
at high noon you can reflect the bottom
of the well in a looking-glass, and see
what is there."
The experiment was tried, and there
could be seen on the clear, gravelly bot
tom of the well sundry cup, mugs,
nails, small tools and pieces of crockery,
a green frog, and a big, speckled trout,
but no pocket-book. The knitting-bag
caught on the backet, and was saved, to
Mrs. Campbell's great relief.
Hardly a day passed bnt that some
thing was wanted, which, when inquired
for, was found to have been safely stow
ed away in that capacions lost pooket
book.
Mrs. Campbell settled down in the
belief that James, who was the father's
son by a prior marriage, and no favorite
of hers, had thougth it no harm to appro
priate his father's property to his own
uses.
Miss Catherine had no doubt that the
tramp picked it up soon after her father
had thoughtlessly laid it down, and she
was sure' that the beggar and young
Waite were one and the same person.
Mr. Campbell thought that Jetty was
the rogue, and spent a great deal of time
watching the singular pranks and evolu
tions of the interesting bird.
When the twins came for their prom
ised visit Aunt Catherine made a party,
inviting all the boys and girls in the
neighborhood, and offering a prize of a
gold dollar strung on a blue ribbou to
the one who should find the pock et-1 took.
The premises were thoroughly explored,
the garden plot was raked over, every
maple, apple and cherry tree was climb
ed, and searched for knot holes, but al
though a great many squirrels, birds,
rats and mice nests were brought to light,
the pocket-book, to grandpa's great dis
appointment, did not appear.
Every Sunday night during the sum
mer Catherine drove over to Esq. Bus
sell's to borrow the clock key, and some
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
titue during the week when alio had time,
alio eat riml it home.
When, in the fall, the weather grew
chilly, bachelor Ed Hu*acll U*ik to driv
ing over to Farmer C*mpt>ell' to wind
the tall clook, and the family all agreed
in cwlling Uitu au uncommonly accommo
dating young man.
A* this w ss kept up steadily all winter,
people would have set the young folks
dow u as Invent had not every one known
about the missing clock key.
It had come to l>e generally under
stood that young Waite wan the thief,
and not A call was made UJMU the comers
for a whole year in that highly proper
Christian neighborhood.
One balmy moruiug the following
spring Miss Catherine, chancing to
glance up from the rug winch she was
braiding and sowing fora present to
Mrs. Hussell, saw a pretty young girl iu
a plain black alpaca suit coming through
the gate.
" There's that YViute girl," ejaculated
Catharine to her mother, " t wonder
what she means by calling here ? I pre
sume it's about the school again, but
we don't want our neiguborbood chil
dren tinder such mfluenco. I alian't ask
her iu."
Catharine did uot have the oujHirtuu
ity, for her father, with Jetty "perched
on his shoulder, waikt J slowly down the
gravel walk, shook the girl's hand iu his
habitual gentle, cordial way; stood and
talked with her a minute or two, aud
then, in an excite*! manner waited upon
her to the house.
" Hallo 1" here's my pocket-hook I"
cried he jubilantly, a be threw the door
wide open. This young ladv brought it.
Walk right in, my dear, and tell us all
about it. My wife add daughter will be
glad to know you. bit dowu iu this
rocking-chair; yon must lie tmvl after
your long walk."
Miss Catherine prided herself upon
her sharpness She thought now, as
she set her head a little more primly on
one aide, " Ah, that self-assured young
Waite tuid that miserable tramp were
identical, as 1 have always supposed.
We ought to have had him arrested at
the time, as Mrs. Russell suggested."
"This is where 1 found it," wul the
girl, tsmidly, pulling a little btradie of
old sheep's gray tlanuel out of her
pocket.
"Hallo! The haek aud lining of my
old gray vest," said the old gentleman,
skipping around like a boy. "It looks
like an old friend. There, mother 1 who
was the rogue J It wasn't me, and it
wasn't Jetty, nor the poor hungry, for
lorn tramp.
" I found it in this inside pocket,"
went on the girl, " and thia little roll
was twisted up and tucked in ou top of
a sack of nut* that was given mo to sort
and cut in the rag-sLop where I have
been at work because I couldn't get a
situation to teach. I haven't opened it,
because it wasn't necessary when I saw
your name in gold letters ou the out
side. "
"Everything is all right," said the
old man, "The note runs out jus* as I
said, next week. The twins will be
seven, and it does take two cups of mo
lasses for the snaps. I guess yon will
begin to think I know something, after
aIL The monev cornea just when I need
it, and is just the same as a gift. Sit
down, sit down, my dear, you are not
rested, I am sure."
Catherine told Mrs. Russell, after
ward, that she felt as cheap as rags, but
she came forward and took off the girl a
things aud kept her to supper, and be
fore that meal was over they were all so
charmed with her that Miss Catherine
carried her home in the chaise aud drove
around by the residence of the newly
elected prudi-utial committee, and se
cured the school for the corning term.
The neit day Miss Catherine took
Mrs. Russell over to call, aud they car
ried the young ladv, WIK*-- name after
all was not Waite, but Wyat, a gift of a
twenty-dollar gold pieoe from Mr.
C&mpbelL
At the wedding of Miss Catherine aud
bachelor Ed Russell, waica camo off at
midsummer, the Wyat brother ud si
ter were among the bridesmaids and
groomsmen. Everybody, old aud
young, even to the jolly tin-peddler,
were bidden to the wedding. Graadua
told the story of the lord pocket-iooK,
and said that it had turned out well, for
he had given Catherine over as an old
maid, and she would have leen hail she
not been obliged to keep the old ck k
from running down. The twins h 1
new trumpets bought by grandpa f< -
the occasion, and Jetty in his best suit
of black stood in the lilac bush in front
of au open window, au i all tlirongh the
ceremony laughed, "qnaha. quaha.
qnaha."— Chicago Standard.
French Prisons
There are twenty-one central prisons
in France for prisoners with sentences
of five years and over. The cellular
system is adopted in prisons for the de
tention of prisoners not sent up for
more than a year and a day, but in the
central prisons as many as 100 men
sleep in one ward, certain of their num
ber being lesponsiblc for the preserva
tion of order. The dormitories are
lighted, and there are openings from
the galleries through which the guards
may inspect them. By day the men
work in atrlicrt, fifty or a hundred in
each. Shoes, chairs, woven fabrics,
buttons, umbrella-ferules, Chinese lun
terns, etc., are manufactured, and such
light work as glossing paper, sewing
oopy-boQks aud making hair ornaments
is done. The wark is let to contractors
by tai iff fixed by the local Chamber of
Commerce, to prevent an nndne com
petition with free labor. Half of the
profits of the prisoner's work goes to
the Htate; he is allowed to spend a quar
ter in procuring special articles of diet,
etc., and the remaining qnarter is paid
to him on leaving, so that a discharged
convict often finds himself with from $1(10
to £IOO cash capital. A large propor
tion of the prisoners use this in setting
themselves up in trade or in procuring
passages to other lands. These re
wards of industrial labor, together with
the industrial training itself, constitute
together the main and tolerably effec
tual counterbalance to the otherwise
grave evils of association. The eleme.nt
of hope is always prominent in Freuch
prisons, and it is the sheet-anchor of
their administration. A visitor to La
Hante, at Pare . observed in tlie first cell
he inspected n table on which lay a pipe
of tobacco, a half bottle of wine and a
novel.
An Exposition Shawl.
At the Paris Exposition is a very
beautiful Cashmere shawl, exhibited by
Tissier, Bourely & Co., which has a
story. It lie came kuown, ub n>*n, that
the members of the jury had decided to
award the great medal of honor to the
above-mentioned shawl. A French lady,
the Conntess d'Orx, of a very old and
wealthy family, heard of this, and at
once called on Messrs. Tissier, Bonrely
& Co.. and wished to buy the shawl.
She also insisted upon their entering
into an agreement with her never to
make, or have made, another shawl of
the same pattern. They at first objected,
but, npon her paying a large price for
the shawl, together with a sum sufficient
ly large to cover the entire oost of all
their exhibits in the Exposition, they
signed the agreement; and at the close
of the Exposition the countess will have
a shawl the like of which no other lady
possesses or is likely to.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1878.
TUE MONK El' AtWAHMN.
Trwalc Mreaslaa Vsaeasel* Stlslas t'aiap
A Haas MrS %• Harder# III* Hai*r
aud Is Haraed al Ikr wiahr.
t)ue of the moat famous of the weird,
short storied of Edgar Allen Foe is "The
Murder of Lha Rue Morgue," In that
most shortly yet entertaining narrative
a mousev is the author of an assassina
tion. I'hc annum crimiual has uow
found a rival iu real tit*.
Earl y m 1877 the lending luine owners
st the* Curatnl gold fields, iu Eastern
Venezuela, fitted out an expedition to
prospect for some reputed eiimubar de
jK'Mts ou the Brazilian border of tiuay
ana. The uutnunuid of the }arty was
conferred on an ail venturer named Seller,
an old resident of Yeuexuels, a skilled
miner, a naturalist by predilection, and
very well known to European and North
Aiderieau scientist* through the valuable
collections he had made for various
museums of natural history.
The expedition was a failure, the cin
nabar existing only iu the brain of the
mendacious In ban who had reported it.
In plnoe of specimens of the precious
quicksilver ore, Boiler only brought bank
a cargo of jirepared skins, stuffed birds,
. curious animals, skeletons, ami an enor
mous rod :q>c of the ar<t(/uato, or howl-
I ing speeiea. These monkeys, iu their
natural state, are little lees ferocious
than their great African brethren, the
gorillas, and are almost as untamable.
The native Venezuelans call them
"Wood Devils," and stand iu holy hor
ror of them. Seller's sj eoimeu, which
was as big as a tcu-year-old boy, and as
deep-voiced as a fog horn, was uo ex
ception to the rule, and in a short tune
it became the turret of all CWatsl.
Chained to a ring-bolt in the wall uf hi*
master's house, which st<xvl st the in
tersection of the only two streets of the
little village, the red "aju- would squat all
day long on the [>enk of the tiled naif,
mouthing at the jwasersdiy, burling
whatever missiles he eonld lav hands ou
at them, and gnashing his great teeth
like a fiend. At night ho charmed the
somber hours by ho a ling incessantly.
llor*> s and mules would stampede st
sight of him. Onilifreu tied from him in
terror. Every miner was careful to pass
Seder's house on the other side of the
strtv t, and with a wary eye on the sen
try ou the roof. Even the buzzards
deserted to Call so, tne opposition mining
oeuter, for the ape h I developed a gtcat
fondness for capturing them whenever
he could, then proceeding to pluck them
and tear them to piece alive. In fine
he became such, a public abomination tlia
the authorities were applied to. Ac
cordingly the alcalde watted on Seder
and laid the case before him. He might
as well have g|x>keu to the ape himself.
Though the rainy season was at hand
and his roof was almost denuded of tile*
which the arguahi had torn off to throw
at people; though the brute ate ** much
as ten men, while his master, who had
taught h tu to eat meat till lie would
hatch nothing else, had to starve him
self to fed hint; though he hitaeelf was
a walking m.w of sears receive! at the
paws of Ins ungrateful pet, still Seller
clung to the wtgthlens hide of "El l>e
mouio Colorado," or the red datum, as
jieople bud come to call the spa, with an
unfaltering devotion. Ho swore that
Mango, as he had christened him,
should remain ss long as the house held
together, which, e'iisklernig tlie rapidity
with which it was being convert* 1 into
projectiles, was certainly not an eternal
prospect. When the alcalde inatsted
Seller drew his attention to a fine exam
ple of Smith and Wesson's revolver
manufacture, ami the argument ended
abruptly. Hoopla now took the law
into their own hands, but with equally
poor success. The rati demon wcmeTi
to bear a charmed life. He dodgou sil
ver imllota with the greaUtt MIK', and
one genius who melted down two ounces
of gold into s sing to make sure of htm,
had the satisfaction of seeing Seder pick
the precious un tal out of his wall atal
purchase rum for himself and raw meat
for Mango with it, just at a juncture
ton when his credit Bad collapsed aud
given rise to a hope that the upe would
starve to death afte; all. A# for poison,
the brute revelled' in it Paris green
seemed a sweet morsel under his tongue.
.Strychnine only improved his digestion.
He devoured arsenic like sugar, and
swallowed enough mercury to salivate
s regiment without starting as much a*
a tear. At last his enemies gave rip in
despair.
At the l>eginning of the present year.
Seiler was struck down by a fever, con
tracted from rejxsatod divnrhings during
the raiuy season, which drenching* were
solely due to Mnngo'a having unroofed
the house to such an extent tlmt (here
was not a ilry cornet iu it Unpopular
as the sick man's defense of his abomin
able pet had made him. his neighlxirs
were still miners with the warm hearts
and open hands that never refuse sym
pathy or aid to distress, and they doctor
ed and nnreed the invalid faithfully into
convalescence. Mungo, however! they
positively refused to succor, and after
devouring nit the garbage within the
limit of his chain, the red ape was re
dnced to an open air diet, and grew more
meager aud vicious every day.
Ou the night of the sth of February
last some teamsters from the Orinoco,
who had arrived too late to find shelter,
camped in a corral behind Seder's house.
The night was a dark and rainy one.
For a wonder, Mnngo was making no
noise. Toward midnight a commotion
in the house attracted the notice of one
of the wagoners, but, as it soon subsided,
he paid no particular attention to it.
With daylight, however, ho discovered
that Mango's chain was broken, aud
that the monkey was missing, and knock
ed at the house door, intending to inform
Boiler of it Receiving no answer to his
repeated suramona. the mau became
alarmed and forced the door. As he
pushed it open a startling and unearthly
iiowi greeted his ears. In the middle of
the room, surrounded by the wreck of
what little furniture the place had con
tained, was the corpse of Boiler. Bqnat
tiug ou the breast of the liodv, hia hair
glued in patches with clotted gore,'and
his long arms aud hideous head besmear
ed with blood, was the rod ape. His
lips wero glned to a gaping wound in
his master's throat, and be was sucking
MM blood from the jugular vein, stop
ping occasionally to utter a low howl of
satisfaction, aud lieat the ground with
[ the fragment of hia brokcu chain.
Tt was not until he waa fnirlv riddled
! with pistol bullets and rifle halls that
Mnngo abandoned the body of his vic
tim. The corpse except, for the wound
in the throat, was nnmutilated. The ape,
driven frantic by hunger, must have de
soended on his master through a break in
the roof while lie slept, and fastened hia
teeth in hia wincipip*. Weak as he was
from his late illness Heiler eonld prob
ably offer but a slight resistance, which
was insufficient to shake the powerful
brute from his deadly hold. $
In spite of his wounds the monkey
murderer was yet alivo. A rope was
made fast to his legs, and he was drag
ged into the middle of the plaza, where
ho was fastened to a stako and burned.
Yonr true lover of nature is the potato
bug. Yon will find him everywhere—on
the mountain top, by the sad sen waves j
and in the quiet country nook. Nature
in any form is good enough for him; bnt i
when it oomes in the shape of murphies
he sits him down and sings, " This is the j
place I long have sought."
A Itauk lteiutnlseenre.
Secretary Sherman, tu making his
arrangements to roll out the heavy sil
ver dollars over the country through
the mails, will appreciate the little story
told by Nathan Kargent (Oliver 01*1-
school) aliont Nicholas Riddle and the
Havaimah braueh bank. One of the as
sault* against the United Htates Bank
was the calculated " happy thought" to
prove its insolvency by breaking one of
ita branches, of which there were ten
or twelve situated in different cities.
Savannah was far distant from Pliila
deljilila iu those days, and the business
of the bank was ixjiuparativeiy small,
consisting chiefly of drafts upon cotton
sales, re(|utriug very little specie, of
which there was but a small amount
kept in its vaults, compared to its hills
iu circulation. It would !te an easy mat
ter, therefore, so calculated the oppos
ing parties, to secure quietly a large
amount of the bills, present them fur
redemption, before the tiauk had notice,
make a ruu ou it, iu other words, and
Lave the bills protested .and its doors
shut; thus proving the insolvency of tlie
branch, it would react on the parent
oonoeru.
So the scheme was set going. But
Mr. Nicholas Hi.ldle sat in his renin ting
house reading the weekly returns of the
branch bunks. For several weeks he
observed the reports from one branch
after another. "We return you less
than our average of Savannah braucli
iiote*." Just what it meant was not ap
parent, but it meant something evidently,
so the ready Fremdeut, keeping his own
counsel, quietly shipped #200,0<10 of
specie to the Havsimsh branch, with a
letter of caution and advice to the pres
ident. Meanwhile, the New York ope
rator, having secured something like
$170,000 of the bills of the Savannah
branch bank, started for that place, se
cure in his scheme. Arrived there lie
asked s private interview of the presi
dent, and informed him that he *M a
New York broker, and had a quantity
of bills for redemption, probably a much
larger amount than was usually pre
sented st any one time. To hi* surprise
the president did not appear st all dis
concerted, but politely replied that he
would be happy to give him draft* ou
New York or New Orleans for the amount.
These, however, were declined, and the
specie demanded. The president re
minded him that lie could get the specie
for the drafts iu New York and so save
transportation aud insurance. But the
broker insisted on the |>eei*, and so it
was counted ont, keg after keg. When
shout a hundred thousand dollars had
lieen counted aud still the kegs kept
rolling ont, the broker saw that he was
outwitted, and kindly offered to change
his mind and take instead. Rut
the president told him he was really
very much obliged to him for relieving
him of the sperie, and couldn't thiuk of
taking it back. So the gentleman had
the satisfaction of shipping the specie
back to New York and paying both
freight and insurance on it.—PhiUuUt*
phia Ijf'igrr.
The Snapping Turtle,
The tatrruft of the aborigine*, or the
snapping turtle of more reflued dialects,
is the deadliest foe of the trout, tor he
takes the mature fish, uot the r.iefe fla
gerling* which satisfy the pickerel.
The (aurup is a horrible creature, one
of the antediluvians —cruelty ia it* eye,
strength in it* muscles, iraparviousueas
iu its shell, and neither mercy nor gen
tleness in its heart or bowels. With
equal independence it lives on land or
in water, with equal courage it defends
dm-lf from man or beast. One of forty,
fifty, or ven sixty pounds, to which
weight they often attain, is no mean an
tegouist ; wh< u captured and drawn into
the Ismtsor cornered, it turns, and, ris
ing ou it* black and wrinkled legs, not
crawling prone like an ordinary turtle,
but with head extended, little yellow
eye* glittering, aud sharp beak ready
for the contest, it advances defiant of all
created things. Then it is no pleasant
object nor agreeable companion wiiiuu
the narrow limit* of an ordinary boat,
and the captor at such a moment wishes
he liad done something else, and been a
good way ofl instead of being just in
that particular spot at that moment of
time. I rememlwr one I captured, of
quite sixty pounds weight —dragging
him ashore l>y the tail, and then chop
ping hi*head half off with an ax—which
cleared the kitchen quicker than the
"ole folks, young folks," when we un
dertook to put him ia the wash-boiler of
boiling water, with a view to turtle
autip ; ami another which moved it* legs
twenty-four hour* after it was not only
decapitated, bid disemboweled. These
fellows are dangerous to deal with; and
must be appro iched with care ; their
bite is terrible, their jsws never relax
ing till the piece seized upon comes out;
and they are poswwsed of a quickness of
motion which no one would expect from
their heavy, awkward shape. They lay
their eggs iu the sand during the w-arm
days of early June, depositing about
thirty or forty, ami scratching out a
hole about half the depth of their bo
die* for the purpose. The eggs are
round, nearly an inch in diameter, and
of a delicate orange color, the shell
being exceedingly thin, like transparent
paper, ami thev are left to hatch them
selves under the heat of the summer's
sun. Snapping turtles destroy and de
vour some of onr finest trout, rising
slowly from the bottom, and looking
more like some black, rough-barked log,
till they are uear enough to dart out
their long neck and big head. The
trout sometimes escapes, but carries on
him thereafter the clear imprint of the
two horny jaw*.
Frooodlle Tears.
A paper published in Tallahassee,
Fla., ha thia story in a recent number:
I)r. Philbrick, among many other
living curiosities, poawwHoa nn alligator
about half grown, ami an infant whieh
ia old enough to crawl and go about the
yard unattended. A strange attachment
exiated lietween the alligator and the
infant, the former being ao docile that
the frienda frequently apend hour* dur
ing the dny in playing with each other.
The alligator would amble olumaily o
hia tank, take a aportiye dive, and,
returning, he would embrace the little
one, ao to apeak, and give unmiataka ile
evidence of delight in receiving tender
carouses in return. 80 secure aeemed
the friendship between tlieni that Mr.
Phil brick never thought of hnrm, and
left the playmates to themselves to paw
the time as auilod their inclination.
The friendly relations did not last long,
however, for Mr. Philbriok wa
startled, aliont ten o'clock on Wednes
day last, bv agonising screams oommg
from the back yard, and rushing ont he
found to hia liorror that the alligator
had bitten the little fellow's arm almost
entirely off, the fraction of limb dang
ling by a slander bit of cuticle. The
poor, suffering little thing moaned and
wept bitterly, and tlio alligator, seeing
the distress lie had created, crawled up
to his victim and shed oopions tears of
sympathy, his expressionless counte
nance givinghim the appearance of a sub
dued and sentimental ass. Mr. Phil
brick severed the lacerated member,
dressed the stub carefully, and the ani
mal iH now able to waddleabout on three
legs. Wo have aften heard of "croco
dile tears," but until Mr. Phil brick's
statement our faith in their existence
eon Id have been easily shaken.
Til EI.I TO PI CM*
For the first time a sermon has leou
delivered iu Westminster Abbey by a
colored divine, tlie native Bishop of
It ajipears from tlie official report*
that there are uow iu New York city
places where malt and spirituous
liquors are sold at retail.
Miss Man* W. Htoers of Qoabon, To,
a den' mute* but good looking and an
heiress, recently eloped with John W.
Miohaol, another deaf mute. They fell
in love at an institution for the deaf and
dumb.
Tlie ecu tor of gravity was so nicely
calculated at tlie raising of Cleopasra's
Needle that, vhufl U>ey gut its iron
jacket <>u and it was raised by the truu
uioua, it balanced exactly, aud oue taau
could swing tlie great maaa of two hun
dred tons.
The Russiau Got as says significantly
that " Russia must collect her strength
for a new stiuggle with Austria chiefly
in Europe, and with Turkey and Eng
land iu Asia. The Berlin Congress has
brought to Russia, instead of peace, the
immediate prospect of a new war which
will Uo more serious than that which has
just concluded."
The heat was recently so intense in
Arixona that a thermometer failed to
register it on the aaudy trail, it being
lib in tlie shade. A mail carrier, see
ing that his horse became restive aud
was apparently in much pain, on exami
nation found the floah around the up-
IWT part of the hoof thoroughly roasted.
In a few minutes the beast dropped ex
hausted and died.
Australia is the servant-girl's para
disc. A lady in Melbourne, who had ad
vertised for domestic aid, received a call
from a pretty maid, with unexception
able references, a pleasing manner, and
a willing disposition. The lady was
charmed and engaged her on the spot.
M But I hsve always had s whole day's
b-ave of sbseuos every fortnight," the
young girl remarked, pausing on the
threshold, " and an evening a week lie
sides." •• Yon shall not be deprived of
them," was the encouraging reply.
"And this is a very lonely place, ma'am,"
the girl rejoiuded, " and I could not
come home by myself. Would the mas
ter mind coming for me?" The lady
hesitated a moment, but as a good girl
is not to be picked up every day, she
consented; and when her hnsbau 1 re
turned ahe informed him that h* would
have to refuse all invitations for tso
nights in oue week and one in the other
in order to go after the new help.
An English lady, who was exceedingly
careful of her complexion, recently con
verted her dressing room into a restau
rant. Hhe was in the hal.it of wrapping
up her fare in a raw veal cutlet every
night before going to l**d, leaving
ojxmings in the mask for mouth,
nostrils and eyes. One morning, instead
of rolling up the cutlet in a piece of
paper, and stewing it away in her dress
ing bureau for future disposal, she threw
it on the coals which lay ready for light
ing in the fire-place, and then forgot all
about it. I-iVl* iu the afternoon, while
she was drewing for diuner, for which
several invitation* had gone out, she
told her maid to light the tire in the
dressing room, ss it was chilly. Pres
ently the room, the floor, the whole
house vw prevailed with the odors of s
third-class restaurant; aud before the
frying cutlet was discovered the master
of the establishment arrived, followed
by guest upon guest.
IfoW the Ketocuds* Fight.
Prince Maximilian of Wied- Neuwied
when traveling in Brazil, witnessed a
singular battle fought by two tribes of
the Botoendoa. The cause of the quar
rel was, that Captain June, with his
people, bad lawn hunting on the aouth
bauk of the River 8k Matthew, on the
grounds of Jeparack, and killed
some swine. This waa considered by
the latter a* a great insult, only to be
atoned for bv war.
First, the warriors of both parties
uttered short, rough tones of defiance
to each other, walking sullenly round
one another like angry dogs, aud at the
same tune making ready their poles.
Oapt. Jeparack then came forward,
walkvsl alxmt between the meu, looked
gloomily and directly t efore him with
wide-staring eye*, and snog, with a
tremulous voice, a long song, which de
scribed the affront that he hail received.
In this manner the adverse parties be
came more and more inflamed. fiHnd
detily two of them advanced, and tmahed
cue another with the arm on the breast,
so that they staggered back, and thou
began to ply their pole*. One first
struck with all his might at the other,
regardlem where the blow fell. His an
tagonist Ixire the first attack seriously
and calmly, without changing counten
ance; he then took his tnrn, and thns
they belabored each other with severe
blows, the marks of which long remained
visible on their naked bodies. As there
were ou the poles many sharp stump*
of branches which had been cut off, the
effect of the blow wa* not always con
fined to bruises, but the blood flowed
from the head* of many of the com
batants. When two of them had thus
thrashed each other handsomely, two
more oamy forward, aud several pairs
wero often seen engaged at onoe; lint
they never laid hands on one another.
When these eombst* hail continued for
semis time, they again walked about
with a aerions look, uttering tone* of
defiance, till heroic enthusiasm again
seized them, aud set their poles in mo
tion.
Meanwhile the women fought most
valiantly; amid continual weeping and
howliug they seised each other by the
hair, struck with their fists, scratched
with their nails, tore the plugs of wood
(which the Botocudos wear) out of each
other's ears and lips, and scattered them
on the field of battle as trophies. If
one threw her adversary down, a third,
who stood behind, seized her by the
limbs and threw her down likewise, and
then theypnlled each other about, ou the
ground. 'Die men did not degrade them
selves so far as to strike the women of
the opposite party, but only pushed
them with the ends of their poles, or
kicked them on the side, so that they
rolled over and over. The lamentations
ami bowlings of the womeu, and chil
dren likewise, resounded from the
ncight>oring lints, and heightened the
effect of this most singular scene.
In this manner the comlmt continued
for aliont an hour, when all appeared
weary. Some of the Bavages shown!
their courage and perseverance by walk
ing abont the others, uttering their
tones of deflation. Capt. Jep&rack, as
the principal person of the offended
party, held ont to the last; all seemed
fatigued and exhausted, when he, not
yet disposed to make peaoe, continued
to sing his tremulous l ong, and encour
aged the people to renew the combat,
till Prince Maximilian went np to him
and told him that he was a valiant war
rior, but that it was now time to make
peaoe; upon which he at length suddenly
quitted the field and wet A over to the
Quartet. Oapt. June had not shown so
mncb energy; being au old man, he hail
taken no part in the combat, bnt con
stantly remained in the background.
TERMS: S'J.OO a Y.mr, in Advanoo.
1 he Hire Beat* of Burma*.
A recent traveler in India, writing of
the river traffic iu India, doecrilies
the curious boats used iu carrying
noe, as follows: Tlie rice boats, built
ou a uniform plan, vary much iu siae,
aud their capacity is estimated by the
number of "baskets" of rice they are
built to carry. One hundred baskets
are equivalent to a ton's burthen, aud
there are busts which carry a thousand
baskets.
When first Been at ■ distanc* io fall
•ail, aa from the deck of a river steamer,
oue of the** boat® resembles Home enor
mous white bird, so email dor* the great
hull ap? ear iu comparison with the vs*t
spread of canvas which It carries; and a
flcrt of tradiug l<oata, each w one may
overtake on the Irrawadi any day duriog
the southwest monaoou, ia oae of the
moat picturesque sight* tn Burmah.
Coming alongside them one after anotli-'
er, we may study closely the structure
and proportion# of the veneris. Per*
hap the first we overtake ia a monster
rice boat Heavily laden, with it* prow
rises hardly a foot altove the water, the
whole fire part of the boat being loaded
with ita cargo of rice, which riaea in a
mound in the center. Along either aide
of the bust between the mound of rioe
and the gunwale, runs a narrow bamboo
planking; up and down which the crew
i | was and repass, and the after part of
the route 1 ia occupied by a miniature
dwelling bouae, with al.>ping roof, of
timber, and bamboo and thatcL, not laaa
substantially built than the ordinary
oottage on shore. Here a whole family
will hve for weeks or months, much ss
the gypej basket-maker iu England
lives in his cart during the summer
months. This cabin, if it can be so
called, is usually in two parta,having it*
thatched ruof in* two separate compart
ments, the alter compartment on a high
er level than the tote, precisely as shown
in the willow pattern. Finally, perched
above the higher of the roofs is a small
lookout turret with its own tiny roof,
something like the "howdab" of an el
ephant, from which the steersman has a
commanding view ahead and astern. An
alternative seat is also provided for the
steersman iu the extreme stern of the
boat, behind the cabin, where a chair is
fixed against the high-carved stern
piece. This chair is often of the plain
est fashion; but the Burmese, who have
much real taste in decoration, are fond
of ornamenting the cabins and sterns of
their woats, which are often rich in carv
ing, painting and gilding. Thus noth
ing is commoner than to see s half nak
ed steersman, crouching withoat tarban
or jacket, and laxily smoking bis ciga
rette, on s richly-carved throne, sup
ported ou each side by a huge lion or
tiger, or peacock with spreading tail,
in rough but bold and effective wood
carving. Behind him the curved stern
lowers over hia head, it* summit crown
ed, perhaps, with s gilded bird with
outstretched wings, like the eagle which
serves for lectern in an English church.
The outer walls of the oabm vary a* to
the material from rough bamboo matting
to elaborately carved and painted panels
of woo*, while the interior is little more
than a reproduction of the oottage on
, shore. As we pass in the steamer, wo
men and children are seated on the
plank floor amidst a medley of cooking
jiot* and other vessels, the mats on
which they sleep tx-ing rolled up few the
day; the crew are idly smoking, or
seated in s ring round the common rice
dish, into which they dip their fingers;
small heads are put out of the narrow
window to look st tis, and a dog stands
on the gunwale and barks at the unearth
ly apparition The tall bamboo mast
bend* and creaks under a gigantic sail
stretched on a yard-arm sixty feet in
length, and surmounted by s smaller
top-sail, and as the steady lireese bears
the vessel st s speed little less than that
. of the steamer, we have every opportu
: nity. ss we slowly pass, of noting it* pe
culiarities.
The Bead Old Tines.
The history of domestic architecture
in our own eonutrv, says a recent
English newspaper, illustrates in a very
striking manner the rise of civilisation
and the extinction of barbarism. We
have not to travel back more than a few
hundred years to find domestic comfort
a thing entirely unknown, and the abode
of princes entirely destitute of conve
niences which are now considered neces
sary in the house of every peasant. Our
Saxon forefathers lived in the rudest
poaaibl- style. The homes c-ven of kings
and lords consisted simply of one large
apartment or " hall," in which all the
details of domestic life were earned on
by themselves and their immediate at
tendants. Privacy waa a thing entirely
unknown. After the pursuits of the day
—the chaneor the fight—they assembled
round one common board, taking place
according to their rank in the household;
and in the self-same apartment all mem
bers of the household afterward disposed
themselves for sleep. It was only occa
sionally that one end of the common hall
waa separated from the rest by a screen,
affording a rude retiring chamber for
the lord and lady of the house, with
privileged attendant*. Almost the only
• ont offices attached to the hall were the
shed or pens for the cattle and the swine.
The ilnga, more cherished, were allowed
a place in the corner of the hall itself;
and another corner arms frequently occu
pied by the store of proviicona. Some
times, however, the latter would be
1 placed in receptacles or cellars dug under
the hall. Its flooring was of earth, it*
walls of wood and clay, and its roof of
thatch. For the admission of light,
openings were left in the sales, and
closed by wickerwork when night came
on; for warmth, a log fire wa* lighted
in the center of the apartment, and the
smoke escapeJ by holes in the roof.
A Hhawer ®f Fish.
Abont two o'clock r. says a recent
issue of the Chioo (CfcL) Hr-ord, a
youug man, who works on the Bbepard
ditch, stepped out of Mr. Yokum's store,
and was pelted with an immense lot of
small fish aay from one to three inches
in length, and consisting of a great va
riety—sun, pcrcli, flying-fish, and many
others that do not belong to the scale
family. The young man called those in
the store to come and see the wonder,
when more than a dozen men went ont
ami sow them dropping th ek and fast
Thev covered the roof of the store and
extended for a circumference of two or
three acres, and perhaps more. I
thought at first that a flock of traveling
pslicaus were unloading their ponehes
for the purpose of attaining a higher
stratum of atmosphere, that wonld take
them more rapidly to their destination.
Hut I gazed for a long time in the clear
blue sky in every direction, withont
being rewarded with the sight of a sin
gle pelican. Then I weakened on the
pelicau theory, and I am led to believe
if it were the work of pelicans they must
have been so high that they were out of
sight. The fishes were very wet when
they first fell, but soon dried after strik
ing the ground. I understood that Wil
liam Phillips, laboring under the im
pression that all good things come from
above, devoured one of the finest ones
of the lot, and said it tasted so good that
he sadly regretted not having harvested
more of them. Buch fine epionrean
frenzies are very rare in the community.
Eli Brauum has preserved quite a lot o*
them.
It takes weather like we hail last sum
mer to aonvinoe a man that every human
being has 7,000,000 pores.
NUMBER 39.
PA KM, 4iAHIIE> llOt HEMOLH.
Tki Sml forltUsor.
II.w to make a to, mala for a fertiliser
! for any particular crop or soil, which
•hall produce satisfactory results, and
j at the same time be moat economical of
material—wasting nothing, and using
only so much aa the special case requires
—is • most difficult question for any one
to snawer, unless be be the beet of
agricultural chemists, and is thoroughly
familiar from long experience with the
land under treatment Yet, just such
information aa this is what farmers in
various sections are continuously writing
to us for. The first part of the problem
is comparatively easy—i. to make a
fertiliser which shall produce great re
sults—but what to leave out is a difficult
point to settle. Indeed we may say,
that this is a point which never can be j
settled exactly, so great a difference is
tin re between adjacent farms and fields,
and parte of the same field even, or fur- I
ther still in the composition at the same {
•pot of ground at different periods. But
wonderful progress haa b.-en made in
the solution of this problem which J
involves so much of success or failure in
agriculture—within the past few years,
and for the tin art part lias been recorded
in the A merman AjrriculturiM, Here ]
is s letter from " J. W. L.,"of Lancaster j
county, Pa.:
" Will you please give me what you
consider the best formula for making a :
phosphate for wheat, also tobacco and
corn, to be used on limestone soil.
Farmers in this county have generally
been making their own, ami are using
more every vesr with good effect. It is
made according to the following formula,
via, for one ton take
CUO It*. 10 lbs. Bait.
•JOO •' Oil of Vitriol 900 " Piaster.
ISO " Halphstr of suds 7 bomb. Hand or Ashe*."
1 10 " Nitrate of Kud*.
In this case the same fertiliser is used
for three crops of quite different require
ments, yet apparently with like "good
effects " on each. Tobacco is a great
potash feeder, containing about twenty
seven pounds ia 100 of ash; while corn
contains thirty pounds, and wheat >
thirty-four pounds; yet this fertiliser
contains only what potash ia in the
seven bushels id ashes—nut over twenty
pounds. But the Lancaster county aver
age tobacco crop of I.SOO pounds per ;
acre requires eighty pounds; and as
only 40() pounds ot the fertiliser are
applied per acre, it onlr gets four
pounds, and not always that, sines the
ashes are oomudered of so little import- >
ance as to sometimes be replaced by
san<L Tee, the sand ia even named first.
The same is true of wheat and corn as
respects potash, though to s less extent
If this fertiliser produces satisfactory j
harvests year after year for each of these
crops, it is quite evident that the soil
where it gives such results, does not
need potash, for the present year at
least Yet almost any farm in New Eng
land, or elsewhere, on which the same
sandy-loam soil prevails, would show a
very different result, as potash thereon
is one of the essentials. And we are in- ,
clined to donbt whether the same show- .
ing would be made for many years in
Ltncaster county. As to the composi
tion of the fertiliser, we see nothing
essential except the bone and the oil of j
vitriol (sulphuric acid), biaoe the min
eral portion of bone is composed a most
entirely of lime compounds, when H mid
the acid are put together, chemical ac
tion takes place, which forms s large
amount ot sulphate of lime (plaster).
Why, then, add mere plaster? The
piaster thus formed in the fertiliser
would have a similar effect to the sul
phate of soda, and could well take its
place; and there is so little of the nitrate
of soda as to be of no moment whatever,
though 100 pounda would doubtless
have s materially Iw-neflcia! effect. Even
the acid (oil of vitriol) could well be dis
pensed with, provided the feme be re
duced by composting with stable
mauore for three to six mouths. Huch
a compost, kept besting by oooaaional
wetting (best with liquid manure), and
protected from loss at the ammonia by a
light covering of eatth, will fit the bone
for use as well as by using the costly
acid.
Thus it will be seen that there is great
waste in such home-made fertilisers,
even though they produce good results.
We have pointed out one or two points
of error; bnt we have not considered the
nitrogen or phosphoric acid, either as a
whole or in relation to the various crops;
nor touched upon the amount of the fer
tiliser required in each case: the first
will have further considers'ion; the sec
ond must be determined by individual
experience from year to year on the
farm.— American Agriculturist
CslllvaOsa r Apple*.
The following valuable suggestions
are from an essay by Prof. Beat, of the
Michigan Agricultural College:
The young tree must be treated very
ranch as you wonld treat a hill of corn.
Hoed crops will answer in a young or
chard. Sowed crops will do much harm
to young trees. It is s good plan to
keep going t reee mulched. 11 prevents the
rapid evaporation of moisture from the
•oil, keeps the surface mellow, prevents
the soil from freezing and thawing in
winter, and becoming overheated in
summer. Whether to cultivate or not cau
be told by the looks of the trees. If the
color of the leaves is good and the growth
all right, and the trees bear well of fine
fruit, they are doing well enough even
in grass.' To judge of the condition of
an apple tree is much like judging the
condition ot sheep in a pasture.
Ts Drlrralar lb* Wrtabl sf IJve Cattle.
Measure in inches the girth around
the breast, just behind the shoulder,
and the length of the back from the tail
to the forepart of the shoulder blade.
Multiply the length by the girth (in
inches) divide by 144. If the girth is
Iras than three feet, multiply the quo
tient by eleven; if between three and
five feet, mnltiply by seven; if between
five and seven feet, multiply by twenty
three; if between seven and nine feet,
multiplv by thirty-one. If the animal
i. Iran deduct one-twentieth of the re
sult. Another rule is, take the girth
and length in feet and mnltiply the pro
duct by 336, and the result will be the
answer in pounda— Dnncr*' Journal.
Alleged far# for SmaP-Pox.
I herewith append a receipt which haa
been used, to my knowledge, in hundreds
of cases. It will prevent or cure small
pox, though the pittings are filling.
When Jenner discovered cow-pox in
England, the world of science hurled au
avalanche of fame upon his head; but
when the most scientific school of medi
cine in the world (that of Paris) pub
lished this receipt as a panacea for small
pox it passed unheeded. It is SB unfail
ing as fate, and conqners in every
instance. It ia harmless when taken by
a well person. It will also cure scarlet
fever. Here is the receipt, as I have
used it to cure my ohildren of scarlet
fever, and cured small-pox when learned
physiciaus said the patient must die:
Sulphate of xino, one grain; digitalis
(fox -glove), one grain; sugar, half atea
spoenfnl. Mix with two tablespoonfn)
of water. After thoroughly mixed, add
four ounces of water, 'fake a table
spoonful every hour. For children,
smaller doses, according to age. Either
disease will disappear in twelve hours.
If you value advice and experience, use
this for these terrible diseases.— Cor,
.Stockton (Cal.) Herald.
Items r Interest.
The fomniMn of • plagu*-* tarn
quilo'a log.
It is Mid Ufere are newly 11,000
Shaken in the land.
Interviewing a man who 4a not willing
to talk ia a questionable trausation
The rotnaiim of pigmy ekqihanta threa
foot high, with tusk* a foot long, hava
lieeu discovered.
Why does tlie new moon remind 000
of a giddy girlf- Beeanao ahe ia to
young to snow much reflection.
Oymmwtic* are being cultivated ex
tensively in Italy. The atndy and prao
tioe of gymnastic* are to be made com
pnlaory in all the State aebool*.
The bet worn by Napoleon Bonaparte
at the battle of AustorUte haa just bean
•old in Pari*. Documents proving ta
genuineness aoeompanted it
The Austrian*, in their fighting with
the manrgtmta in their new province*,
dog up Home names that would have
paralysed the army before Plevna.
An old lady, remarkable for her con
fused ideas of the meaning of words,
u escribe* a elear anromer evening time :
"It waa a beautiful bright night, and
the moon made every thing aa light as a
cork."
Lightning struck the Bosnia leather
poeketbook of Mr*. Olienery, of Salem,
Ma**., which she waa carrying in her
hand, and §O9 in greenbacks waa burned
to a crisp, silver ooin blackened on one
side, and a railroad ticket scorched.
English steel pens are made almost
entirely by women. In 1830- 2 the first
groaa of "three alii" steel pens was sold
wholesale at £7 4s. the gross. In I
they had fallen to Bc, and in 1832 to 6*
the gross. A better article ia now sold
at 64 per gross. - •
The growth of the nails on the left
hand retinites eighty two days more than
those of the right, ia ** rapid ta
children than in adults, and goes on
faster in summer than in winter. It re
quirea 132 d*ys for the renewal of the
nails io cold weather, and bnt 11C when
the weather ia warm.
More than 2,000 years ago Socrates,
the illustrious philosopher of Athens,
<fid of the colivatioo of the soil: "Ag
riculture ia an employment of the most
worthy the application of man, the
moat ancient and tha moat suitable to
his nature. If it is the ootmnon nurse
of pereons every age and condition of
life; it is the eonroe of health, strength,
plenty and riches, and of a thousand
sober delights and honest pleasures.
It ia tha mistress and aebool of sobriety,
temperance, justice, religion, and, m
short, of all virtues, civil and military.
The good wife should resemble three
things, which three things she should
not be lika. First, she should be like a
snail, always in bar own bouae; but she
should not be like • snail, to carry every
thing on ber own hack. Second, she
should resemble an echo, to aptak when
■pokes to; bet sbe should not be like an
echo, always to have the last word.
Third, she should resemble a town dock,
ia keeping a good time and regularity;
but she should not be like a town dock,
to speak so loud that all the town may
hear. —tfirwsstoew Prem.
Alfonso XII. of Spain has decided on
raising an immense basiiios over the re
main* of Queen Mercedes. A sum of
1,000,000 reals will annually be deducted
from the civil list for it* construction till
the building ia complete. The Doc de
M'lutjvaster and the Prim**** of the
Astarias have promised to furnish yearly
200,000 reals m aid of the work. Lastly,
Queen ["M l * has consented to join in
the project by handing over for the pur
pose the diamonds and jewels deposited
in the cathedral of Atocha, which fe '.oog
to ber, and represent the sum of 15,-
000,000 reals.
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A Nalaaa Keeper's Lurk.
Among mining shares which suddenly
went up in the markets of the far West
ern country a few weeks ago waa Wild
Oat. Among the poor men in Virginia
city several months earlier, who owed a
certain saloon keeper bills lor whisky
which they oould not pay, was one whose
total world It possessions amounted to a
few shares of Wild Osi. in which nobody
then dealt at all; it was quoted, however,
st tweutv-eifftit orota. The poor debtor,
after many pressing request* for money,
at lost offered to part with his shares,
which were accepted and the debt waa
cancelled. The saloon keeper gave them
to his wife, telling her to keep them to
light the fire with. A few months pass
ed and Wild Oat waa worth two dollars
a share, but the wife oould not toll
where she put her hnshand'a gift. *Bhe
searched her trunk, her closets, and her
bureau drawers in vain. Meanwhile the
' stock advanced to five dollars then to six
dollrrs. It was nesting seven dollars
when the husband one day saw his little
boy on the flaw, scissors in hand, cut
ting pictures out of the long sought cer
tificate*. The next day he sold the shares
st a gain over the whisky bill of more
than §4,000.
Hew Sea Birds slaxe Their Thirt
To those making long voyages the
question doubtless has often presented
itself, How do the bird* which are teen
at sea, far away from laud, obtain drink
to slake their thiret? This is the expla
nation which ia given in regard to the
matter by an old sailor. He says that
dnring some of his voyages, when be
has been at a very great distance from
any place which would supply fresh
water, he has frequently seen large
numbers of birds hovering beneath a
storm-cloud, chattering, as he says,
" like docks on a hot day at a pond,
and driukingin the drops of nun as
they fell" These birds, he tells us,
will sometimes smell a coming rain
3uall when more than a hundred miles
and will then make their way to
wards it with a swiftness that is mar
vellous. There seems to be a great deal
of uncertainty aa to the length of time
that sea birds can live without partaking
of freak water; but it is supposed that
their habit of enduring thirst is in
creased by necessity, and tint they are
often enabled to exist without it for
many days, and sometimes even weeks
A Hew Lite Pestreyer.
A new warlike appliance is about to
be introduced into the British service,
and will probably be known as the
*• hand torpedo." Like the grenades of
half a century ago, they are intended to
be thrown by the hand into the enemy's
boats, or over parapets and stockades,
but instead of being a shell exploded by
a fuse, as the grenades were, they will
consist entirely of gun cotton, pulped
or compressed into a cake or ball of
three or four pounds weight A long
cord is attached to each charge, the other
end of which is connected bye kind of
pistol held by the operator. The tor
pedo is pitched into the required posi
tion, when a touch on the trigger deton
ates the gnn cotton, and an explosion
follows, such as experiment has shown
to be sufficient to shatter in atoms a five
ton block of granite. One such charge,
skillfully applied, would annihilate a
boat's crew, and, in the bands of daring
men, might work great destruction by
being thrown into large ships.