Buhl lUs Hone t School.
The!babr hw |tnw to school ah m* '
What will the mother do,
With never * ml] to button or pin
~ Or tie a little shoe ?
K22U c * n "J* kw T herself bnsv all la- ,
With the little hindering lluna " away?
~inot her baeket to All with lunch,**
Another " good-bye " to **v.
And the mother stands at the doortto aee
Her l*bv march awav ;
And turn* with a nigh that is half relief,
And half a something akin to grief.
Bh 4! hink * * possible future morn.
when the children, one hy one.
Will go from their home out into the mr.d
I n battle with l,fe alone.
And not even the baby be left to oh* r
' "<olate home of that future rear.
She pick* no garment* here and then ,
Thrown down tti osreles* haete.
And Inee to think how it would seem
re . "'I '"* ww " dleplaoed.
„ " iP .. etill a. Una,
How oonld ahe bear the loneliness'. 1
indirection.
,1!u author of the fol.osing veraes rwvntlT
tenmnsted an *v.niful and stomiv carver bv
commuting suicide IU K*n tYanciwo. Hon.
in turn poet, soldier ami journalist].
Fair arc the flower* add the chUdran. but their
subtle suggestion i fairer ;
Hare i* ibv rose biuret of dawn, bnt the secret
Uiat clasps it i rarer ;
Sweet the exultaucv of *ong, but the traiu
that precede * it is sweeter ;
And Dever wa* i>ovm yet wTit. but the meaning
iHitnu-tim! the meter
Never a daisy that grow*. but a mystery guideth
the gTv*mg ;
Newr a river that flows, but a majesty scepter*
the flowing ,
Never a shahp i .,*re ibat soared, but a stronger
than he did enfold him .
Nor ev r a prophet forteUa, but a mightier seer
bath for told him.
Back i f the canvas that throbs the painter n
hinted and hidiU u .
Into tie statue that brvaUn * the eoul of the
sculpti r is bidden ;
Todar the j, y tbat is felt he the lnfluite issue*
nf feeling ;
frowning the glory revealed is the glory that
•WUI Uie r*vealiu|t.
Hrwat are the symbol* of ben g. bnt that wh ; eh
is stmtailed i- g ,r;
Vast tav create aid beheld, but vaster the
inward crt at or ;
Brckof the sound brood* the silence, hark ~f
the gift stands the giving,
Back of the baud I'tat reevivia thrill the eensi
tive ueriv* of receiving.
* nothing to stunt, the deed i* out
done by the doing ,
The heart of the wooer is warm, but warmer
the heart of t he wov tug ;
And up from the p.ts where these shiver, and
up from the height* where those shine.
Twin race* and shadows swim starward. and
the es*ri.ce of life is divine.
-Jb tanl JJMI/, .* A:Umtie .VcnhVy.
THE FARM HAND
Bhe Wli '" on tire front stoop, mending
Fanner Thoreley's stockings, when
Baxter, the new larui hand, came and
sat down on the ruoe seat by the door,
and hung his palm-leaf hai upon his
knee, and took hie pipe from his mouth.
" Do you mind the pipe?" he asked.
Folly too&ed up in surprise; none of
the farm hands had ever consulted her
cm the subject before ; even Mr. Thorn
ley himself smoked and smoked without
a dream >. f asking her permission ; that
is, whenever Miss Hannah was not near
to reproach him with turning their sub
stance into smoke.
"Mind the pipe!" returned Polly.
*'No ; I like it better thau Mr. Thorn
ley'a."
" There's a difference in tobacco."
Polly, not being posted in tbe merits of
the staple, dropped tlie subject, and the
frogs filled the interval with melodious
pipings.
" What are yon thinking abont ?"
asked Baxter, as she delayed her needle
and meditated.
" I—l was thinking that Mr. Thorn
ley's hand would make two of yours.
Yon weren't cut out for hard labor, Mr.
Baxter."
"But the harl labor was cut ont for
me, eh? Its a mighty fine night, Miss
Polly. Wouldn't you like to walk
down by the briok and find some vio
lets ?"
"Yes; but Miss Hannah may want
" Miss Hannah has put on her specta
cle® and gone to borrow Neighbor Hook
er's newspaper, and Thorn ley is steal
ing a smoke in the orchard. It's as
good as a play to see him tnck his pipe
into his pocket, a: the risk of setting
himself on fire, whenever he hears a
footstep." And then the two yonng peo
{>le strolled off to the brook, and
istened to a whip poor-will making pen
sive music in the edge of the woods, and
watched the evening tar pnh the flimy
clouds aside and step forth.
Young Baiter bad been on the Thorn
ley farm a month or so. He happened
one day to knock at the door aud ask for
a night's lodging : he had a small bag
slung across his shoulder, and a sun
burned countenance, which quickened
Miss Hannah's pulses. *' A tramp !"
said she. "Good arracions, Polly, shot
the door quick 1 No, no, we don't take
lodgers. We'll be murdered in our
beds—and the spoons my grandfather
left me ! Didn't I tell yon to shut the
door, Polly? No, we don't take folks
in; yon'll find V<uomodation further
down the road, at H<ker's or—" Bat
just then Mr. Tbornley came np, cau
tiously knocked the mud off his boots,
and said :
"A tramp, Poily?"
" I've been tramping some distance,"
said the stranger, with a frank smile,
" and I'd like to put up for the night
somewhere. However, if your family's
uncomfortable at the idea, maybe you'd
let me sleep in the haymow ?"
"The impudence I" cried Miss Han
nah, from within. " That would be
might? handy for him to make off with
Ligbtfoot and the colt, wouldn't it,
now? Where'svonr wits, Hiram? Why
don't you say ' No,' up and down ?"
"As to that," drawled Thornley, " a
fellow must sleep somewhere ; and then
I s'pose you wouldn't mind working it
ont in the morning, eh ?" —with an eye
to the main chance. "I've got some
plowing I'd like done right off."
" I'll drive yonr plow for a night's
lodging, and thanks," returned Baxter ;
"or mend your fences, or repair your
clocks. I'm not above earning an honest
pennv."
"Lor', if he's willing to lend a hand,"
capitulated Miss Hannah, " I'd give
him an attic chamber and welcome. He
ain't near so rough-looking as I
tbonght," she confided to Polly, later.
" He's got an honest face and handy
fingers, if he is forty tramps."
Baxter showed himelf so ready on
the morrow. Farmer Thornley suggest
ed he should spend another day in his
employ, and then the work in hand ran
over into the following day, and as no
body <!Ould finish it so well as Baxter,
he naturally staid on and on, till, at the
end of the week, Thornley admitted,
' Marbe you're as good a hand as I'dget
if I waited till Christmas ; perhaps you'd
like steady work for the summer, with
board and" wages ?"
"Yon wouldn't be likely to do bet
ter," pnt in Hannah, " with no recom
mendution you see—though I don't say
you need one."
" Thauk you. And what do you say?"
he asked, turning to Polly.
i< j•> Why, I—" faltered Polly.
" Polly hasn't nothing to say about
it," objected Hannah. "Me and Hiram
runs this concern."
" Then she's the first woman that
hasn't nothing to say. Speak up, Polly,"
commanded Farmer Thornley. "Don't
never leave a sentence to loose ends."
" I was going to say that four makes
a oozv family."
"Two's company, and three's a
crowd, eh, Polly ?" 'said Thornley, with
a laueb. And Baxter staid.
" ' What makes the lamb love Mary
so ?' " he qooted, as they wended home
ward, Polly's littleiewe lamb, frisking
before them, having joined them in the
pastures.
" Why, you know," explained Polly,
" her mother disowned her, and she was
left shivering and hungry out in the
F.RKI). KURTZ, Editor and Hropriotor.
VOLUME XL
cold. Ami I brought her tit ami warmed
her Mow the kitchen tire, ami fed her
with warm milk, till she grew ami
throve."
" Aud Thornley gave her to you t"
" No ; but he said, ' Scents as though
she belonged to Tolly.' But Miss Han
nah didn't like it. ' Then l s'poae the
dishes belong to Tolly, 'cause she
washes 'em, and the rooms, 'cause she
sweeps "em, ami the beds she makes f'
she said. ' Isn't Tollv paid her lawful
wages for doing whatever her hands
find to do, lv it to cosset '.amlvs or cook
the vituals ?'"
" Have von always lived here, Miss
Pollv?" asYed Baxter.
" 1 have always liveii in this house,
but not always as a servant, Mr. Baxter.
This was the old (vtrsouage ;my uucle
liveii here, with little or no salary. He
didn't care for that; he came here to do
good, tii show the people the road to
heaven—there wua no church then, for
miles arouud—and he had money of his
own. My mother aud 1 came with him,
and after she died we tw liveii on here
together, ami he taught me all 1 kuow
—it isn't much. But when I was fif
teen, he came home one day from the
city, where he had gone on business,
and told me that some wicked people
hail ruined him, that his good work was
ended ; and he threw his head hack,
sitting in his arm-chair, and gasp d
ouce or twice, and I was all aloue—qnito,
quite alone. After that people came
and Itxiked at the place, and the Thoru
leya among them ; and 1 was a little
mopuig beggar, not knowing which way
to turn, and the Thornley a offered to
keep me for maid-of-all work for food
and clothing. There was nothing else
for me to do, and the neighbors all said
it was a providence; but since then I
have struck for higher wages, and now
I have day-dreams ; when I get enough
money 1 mean to go away to school,
even if I'm as old as the hills, and then
maybe I can do something nicer than to
churn and cook for mv dailv bread."
" And you have saved something ?'
"A hundred dollars already."
Baxter smiled. " And wheu do yon
expect to have enough to set out and
seek your fortune?"
"Do vou think it will take very
long?" she asked, anxiously. "Shall I
be too old V
"I should think not," he returned,
still smiling to himself.
This was not the first walk Baxter
and Polly had taken together, neither
was this the last confidence rejxised in
each other.
" Yon two do seem to have an ever
lasting lot of talk together," commented
Hannah, "and Polly ain't no talker
neither; and what's queer, yon always
come to a full stop when a laxly catches
up to yon." She had just overtaken
them on the highway, as it happened,
though usually Miss Hannah's inter
ruptions were not owing to chance.
No sooner did she see them strolling off
together after work was over than she
slipped ont the sink-room door with un
dignified haste, took a short-cnt through
the woods, and joined them as if she
ware returning from a neighbor's.
" Yon'd onghter not to take to tramp
ing ronnd tbe country so much with
Baxter," she advised Polly on one occa
sion; " folks will begin to talk about
yon."
"Talk about me? What can they
say ?" asked Pollv.
"They'll say Baxter's making a fool
of you—and they won't be far wrong."
" Why aoonld he wish to make a fool
of me "' persisted Polly, the tears gather
ing in her eyes. " Why should he take
the trouble?"
"It ain't no tronble—it's amusing.
Yon're an easy victim, I reckon."
After that Polly made au excuse when
Baxter wished leave to go with her on
an errand, or begged her to step outside
on fine twilights aud listen to the whip
poor-wills; she had always a stint to
finish, the bread to mix, the milk to set,
or some homely duty to detain her. An
older woman than Polly would have seen
that Miss Hannah herself had set her
heart upon Baxter, followed him about
like his shadow, courted him with sweet
meats, and flattered him within an inch
of his life. " Baxter's that 'cute abont
a place, its a pity he wasn't bora twins,"
she ve 1 to declare.
"Though he be a trump," Thornley
would a^d.
But it was love's labor lost. Her flat
teries fell npon unheeding ears, as she
was not slow to discover. By painful
degrees her keen eyea took in the sitna
■on, and her emotions changed, as the
ease became hopeless, from love to
hatred; she seemed to echo the poet's
assertion:
"To love von wsnpieuuuit enough.
Bat. oh ! ti delicious to bate von !"
Neither was Polly's existence made
more agreeable just at this time. Han
nah's amusement was to thwart Baxter
in his love-making, to send him a wild
goose chase of a mile or two iu the wroDg
direction, to put stumbling-blocks in the
way. Bnt she did not stop here; she
suggested to Thornley's slow mind the
possibility of an elopement, of duty
neglected " along of spooning npon
Polly."
" Do we know anything about Bax
ter 1 Did he have a recommendation ?"
she darkly insinuated. " Didn't I cau
tion you against taking him in ? If yon
lose anything throngh him and Polly,
don't lay it to my door, that's all ?"
" Him and Polly !" gasped Thornley.
" Baxter 1"
Hannah bad hit the mark at last.
Blessings brighten as they take their
flight Polly might have lived at Tliorn :
ley farm for a century, and Thornley
never have found out thnt she was dearer
to him than Hannah, till some oye else
shonld threaten to claim her. After that
Baxter could do nothing to please him;
he lay in wait and watched the lovers as
a cat watches a mouse, and worried them
as cruelly.
One evening Miss Hannah entered
the room where Polly was sitting in the
twilight.
"Plotting mischief, I reckon," she
said. " Are you fond of darkness, Pol
ly, 'canse your deeds are evil ? Htrike
a light, girl. I'd a roll of crisp bank
bills in iny hand an hour ago—Square
Emery paid his butter bill this after
noon; I put 'em in rny gown pocket
when Hiram called me to turn the grin'-
stone—and they're gone ! Now you
needn't tell me they're gone witliont
hands."
"There's been no pickpocket here,
Miss Hannah."
"Ain't there? When yon take folks
in ont of the highway, without no re
cCmmendation, how do you know what
their habits is? To be sure, I didn't
suspect no one of having stole 'em out
of my pocket; there's a hole in it; I'd
forgot about; and naturally them bills
must have dropped out between here
and the barn; but Hiram and me has
hunted the place nfer aud ngaiu, and it
stands to reason they couldn't have trav
eled further withont hands."
"Mercy !" cried Polly. " How mnch
was there?"
"A whole hundred dollars, miss; and
if it ain't forthcoming, somebody'll
smart for it."
" You don't think that I took your
money, Miss Hannah ?"
"Well, maybe not; but it's goue—
and there's Baxter."
" Baxter !"
"Yes, indeed. What do yon or I
know about the fellow ?"
"I know he wouldn't do it"
" He'll hare to prove it, I'll have
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
him up before the court, ax sure aa you
live."
Tolly could hardly keep her auger
(nun tlamiug into audacious words ; the
bare suspicion waa a blow to her ; alio
behevcii IU Baxter thoroughly ; though
an angel hail ace lined him, vet would
nlie have upheld him. But flow often
has the iutii<eeut suffered ! how often
han injustice triumphed over justice!
To be ana peeled merely wit* an irrepara
ble injury, she thought. Baxter might
lone hi* good name, hi* work ; might be
aeut to prison everything might go
against him, and he had nobody but her
for defense. As it happened, he had
gone down to the village to get the tnail
ami do some chores, aud while Hannah
inveighed and Tolly defended, a small
boy knocked at the door to briug the
tdeaaiug news that " Mr. Baxter, the
ellow as works for old Thornley, give me
a quarter to run up atnl let you know
he wouldn't lie home to-uight, and may
1H not tomorrow neither, as he'd been
called away suddmg like along of a
letter."
" There !" ejaculateil Hannah, " I
hope you're convinced. Hn's absconded.
I'll have the law after him sure as his
name's Baxter, which 1 dare say it
aiu't."
"Were your bills new greenbacks ?
and did you take tlie numbers t" asked
Tullv.
"ilnsp and freah as new cabbage
leaves; and as for the number*, they
were fives and tens just as it hap
pened."
" We must have auother good search
belore vou accuse any one."
' Oulv them that hides can find.
And Folly spared no pains ; every
minute that she could secure from her
duties was sj>eut IU the search ; but
when the second night ami day passed
without bringing Baxter, or any ti<iiugs
from him, her heart sank beneath the
weight of Miss Hannah's words ; not
that she doubted him for an instant, but
the suspicion might keep huu away, and
she might never see his face again.
There was now but one thing to do, and
she did it. She begged leave of Miss
Hannah to go to the town and mail a
letter.
" Lor", Htram'U mail it for you," said
Hannali, intent upon mastering its con
tents first. But Polly was firm in the
matter ; the letter was too precious to
trust to another. It ran:
"MK. BAXTRK— If you are staying
away from your work and losing wages
because you are suspected of finding
Miss Hannah's money, which she lost
the day you left, please return at once,
as money has been found, and yonr g*>d
name is restored, though never suspect
ed by your friend,
" PjtrniNK Powuiw."
Bnt her object in town was not merely
to mail this document ; she went direct
from the postoffice to the bank where
her little hoard was growing, and drew
out a hundred dollars in crisp green
backs, fives and tens, trusting that tbry
made no larger parcel thau Miss Han
nah's ; then she retrace*! her steps
homeward, am) quietly drop|wxl the
precious roll on the floor of Miss Han
nah's closet, where It might easily have
been overlooked after falling from tbe
rent in her pocket ; she wisely con
jectured that the next day being Friday,
Miss Hannah would bring it to light
with her broom.
" What's all this about Miss Han
nah's money a.ud my good name ?" asked
Baxter, when he returned on Saturday
and fonnd opportunity to speak to Polly
privately. Polly related the facts, leav
ing ont her owu Rhare in the results.
*' And where was the money fonnd ?"
"Miss Hannah fonnd it on sweeping
day on the floor of her closet," demurely.
"And who put it there, Polly J"
" Who? Why, she says ,t must have
dropped there wheu she huug up her
gown."
"Poor deluded Miss Hauuah ! How
long since yon learned to prevaricate so
prettily, Polly f"
"I? Prevaricate! What do you
mean, Mr. Baxter ?"
"I mean that yon drew the money
from your bank store yesterday to save
'my good name,' Polly. Don't deny it.
The cashier told nie—lie hsd some curi
osity about it. If you can do so much
for my good name, bow much would
you do for the owner ? There is a rid
dle for vou." Polly bnng her head and
blushed. " And so you've abandoned
the idea of an education, Polly?"
" I dpn't know. I'm so sorrv yon
found it ont; yon will think that i—" i
" I shall think that you love me well
enough to be my wife, Polly, dear."
And Polly failed to put in an objection.
"Didn't I tell yon how it would be,
Hiram?" said Hannah, at dinner, the
following week. " Here's Baxter and
Polly, they stepped down to town this
morning on an errand together, and
came driving back like the great mo
gul, whoever he was, on their wedding
tour, to say good-bye. I blowed the
dinner horn for yon like the last tramp,
thinkin' that'd fetsh you, if any thing,
bnt I reckon you're getting deef."
" Well, I never I" rried Hiram,aghast.
"Bnt it ain't no nse crying over spilt
milk."
As Baxter and his bride drove
along, " the flowery by-roads through,"
towards the railwav station, " I've
a pretty storv to telS von, my love,"
he said, "which I nope yon will
be glad to hear—a trne story. There
was once a yonng man who, being rich
and strong, and tired of fashionable life
and conventionalities, undertook a walk
ing tour through the mountains and
valleys of New Hampshire for a summer's
vacation or recreation, camping out at
night in the green woods, buying his
bread at farm-honses by the way, or
broiling his wild game by a brush-wood
tiro, as fortune favored him, wearing his
old cloth's, and getting bronzed and
weather-*i.lined on the route. One night
he asked for lodgings at a certain farm
house door, as it threatened rain, and he
had a mind to try the luxury of a lied in
doors. A yonng girl opened the door for
him, spread the table, made the l>ed, and
—stole his heart; and the next week, when
the farni'-r offered him a sen son's farm
work, lieing short of hands, he promptly
accepted tiie situation, having a fauey
for adventurous living and the young
girl aforesaid,"
" Mr. Baxter," said Polly, " what do
yon mean ?"
" It's a trueilory, Polly,"
"Do you mean that you—oh, John !
that you are not—that yon are the young
man, that the farmer is Mr. Thornley,
and an ignoraut girl like me your wife ?
Oh, John, how could you be so foolish ?
How could you deceive me so ?"
"It was all 'for love and the world
well lost,'" said Baxter, proudly.
"There's that hundred dollars," said
Miss Hannah, the next year, when she
lay ill. " I put it direct into the bank.
Give it to Polly, if—if anything happens
to me, though she doesn't need it, good
ness knows—a-traposing off to Europe,
Yon needn't tell her, bpt I confess I was
a little oonfused when I found them
greenbacks on my closet floor, seeing
that I hadn't lost a red cent myself.—
Harper'* Bazar.
One of the balloons at the Woolwich
arsenal, England, recently broke its
fastenings after it had been inflated with
24,000 feet of gas, and soared away like
a gigantic bird, being last seen, a mere
speck in the sky, at a height of four or
five miles.
CENTRE' HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1878.
FAIIX, HAKDES AMI HOINKHOLII
lIMIrS llulb*.
Under this name are comprised the
snowdrop, hyacinth, crocus, tulips, nar
cissus, iris, aueuioue, jonquil, etc. They
are all very e&silv cultivated, and a few
words .if practical advice may be accept
able. 1 like a sandy soil for these bulbs,
and if the soil in naturally stiff or clayey,
an addition of two or three inches of
sharp sand, well uuied in by repeated
spading, will put it in good eouditiou ;
the t>cd should also be very rich, aud a
good coat of fine manure should be
thoroughly worked iu ln-fore planting.
Having raked off the bed smoothly,
the bulbs are planted iu groups or clus
ters, to suit the taste of the gardener.
The crocuses and snowdrops can be
planted about three inches apart ; the
tulips, narcissus and jonquils five or sis
inches apart ; the hyacinths about ten
inches. The bulbs should be placed
about two inches under the surface of
the bed. It is a good plan to consider
the color the flowers will have, when
planting the bulbs, aud group together
colors that harmotiiae. Thus, purple
and yellow crocuses go well together,
aud white will bear mixing in consider
able quantities with all the other colors.
There is room f >r exerciaiug a good deal
of taste in the arrangement of colors in
garden beds.
After planting, the bulbs will need no
further catc uutil spring, except that, if
it is desired to have them bloom very
early, it will be desirable to cover the
lcd over in November with a foot of dry
leaves, or other litter, to jireveut fnjet
from entering deeply, and this covering
will need to be removed about March
'JO, as the bulbs " come up ill the oohi,"
as the old song has it. The early flow
ering of these tmlbs make* them univer
sal favorites for small b-d in the lawn
or area of the city and suburban dwell
ing. They make the beds gay with
flowers at a season when all else is yet
but giving us tbe future promise of
flowers. They need little room, little
care, little expense, and repay the little
trouble expended upon them moat grate
fully. Who would be without a bed of
them!
The IK>l those bullm occupy can l>e
used in Ma J or June* for planting gcra
mums, verbena*, or any other (tedding
plants, for the bulbs nan lw> taken up a*
noon an th-y ifr< done flowering and laid
awav to dry, to lie planted again in au
tumn. They are an cheaply furnished,
however, by the seedsmen, that few peo
ple will fare to take thin trouble with
them. It in worth mentioning that the
eroeun, tulip and snowdrop may be left
several yearn, without liftiug the bulbn,
in the name bed, and I have neen cro
cuses thrive iu the nod of a lawn, flow
ering among the gram for yearn in suc
cession. Toe flowers growu than, how
ever, are rather inferior.—/'toriif, in
dHwrican (VNnifor.
A Chapter •• lla>
The |wun caused by the nting of a
plaut or insect in the rennlt of a certain
amount of acid poinuu injected into the
blood. The first thing to be done m to
press the tulie of a small key flruilr ou
the wouml, moving tho key from si<{e to
side to facilitate the expulsion of the
nting and its accompanying poinon.
The nting, if left in the wound, should
be carefully extracted, otherwise it will
greatly increase the local irritation.
The poison of stings being acid, common
Bcuae points to the alkalies as the proper
means of care. Among the most easily
pmoored remedies may IK- mentioned
soft soap, liquor of ammonia, spirits of
hartshorn, smelling salts, washing soda,
quick-lime made tuto a paste with water,
lime-water, the juice of an onion, to
bacco juice, chewed tobacco, bruised
dock leaves, tomato juice, wood ashes,
tobacco ash and carbonate of soda. If
the sting be severe, rest and coolness
shonld be added to the other remedies,
more especially in the case of nervous
subjects. Nothing is so apt to make the
poison active as beat, ai d nothing favors
its activity less than cold. Let the body
be kept cool and at rest, and the activity
of the poison will lie reduced to a mini
mum. Any active exertion whereby the
circulation is quickened will increase
both pain and swelling. If the swelling
be severe the part may be robbed with
sweet oil, or a drop or two of landauam.
Stings in the eye, ear, mouth or throat,
sometimes leaJ to serious consequences;
in such cases medical advice shonld
always be sought as soon as possible.
Males far the OrrhnrH sad llardea.
In many portions of the country there
lias been such an execrsof rain that ar
tiflcial watering has not suggested it
self. The summer of last year, as well
as the one jnat past, having been un
usually moist, there is the greater
probability that the coming one will be
dry. There are few localities that do
not have their years of drouth, and
when the facilities are at hand there
nhonld always be provision for irriga
tion. It may be that watering will be
really needed but once in three or five
years ; it is this uncertainty that makes
it all the more necessary to IKS prepared
for drouth when it does come. Every
experienced fruit-grower has known
seasons when an abundance of water
would have given him a yield of straw
berries, Jhe profits on which would have
paid for a much larger outlay than is
ordinarily required to provide means to
irrigate the whole garden ; nnd ao with
other crops. In our uncertain climate
the control of water in both directions
is necessary to the best success. Ability
to remove excess by drainage, and to
snpply the deficiency by irrigation,
give the enterprising cultivator a great
advantage over the one who •• takes
things as they come." This ia a most
favorable time for all wr> requiring
the removal of earth ; and such improve
ments as road-making, gradiug, etc., are
not only more sure of luting made, but
they will he Itetter done now than iu the
busy, bnt often cold and cheerless days
of spring.
How to Keneit Velvets.
Velvet, if wet. Incomes hard, knotty,
and shiny, and to nll.appcarunoos spoil
ed, but can be fully restored, looking as
well as when first taken from the store,
'if it is made quite damp, wet thoroughly
—only not enongh to drip—on the
wrong side, and then with the assistance
of another held over a very hot iron,
but not allowed to touch the iron at all.
One should hold the hot iron face upper
most, while another holds the damped
velvet close to the iron. In a few min
utes the " pile" rises, and the velvet lie
comes like new; the heat of the iron
sends the water through the tissues of
the velvet, forcing the steam out at the
tipper sfce, thus separating the small
flossy fibres that, having been dampened
or wet on the surface, flatten down and
adhere together in hard hunches. If
one should attempt to iron the velvet
where it has been wet, it would only
flatten these fibres still morn and make
the surface harder; for this reason it is
important that the velvet should not
touch the hot iron.
After the velvet assumes its proper
appearance it is well to spread it over
a skirt board, or table, and brush gent
ly with a soft brush. Be snre that it is
thoroughly free from dampness before
putting it away in its proper place.
When velvet is crushed by packing or
use, hold the parts defaced over a basin
of hot water—the lining, or wrong side,
next the water—and the "pile" will
soon rise np and look like new.— Afr&.
H. W. Beecher.
Demoulntii In the Hindoo Religion.
Demon ism. in foot, bu always boon
from the earliest tune* an essential in
gredient iu the Hindoo religious sy*-
triii. It probably began in the *tippo*cd
jteopliug of tt> air by spiritual beings,
tlir personifications or ooiupuuious of
storm ami tempest. It ia err lain tliat in
thr present day thr worahip of thr ilia
jority of thr people of India ia a wor
ahip of frar. It roiiainta in oonatant
effort* to appease tlir malevolence of
rvil spirit*. Not that thr oouiwon peo
ple doubt thr eiiatrnce of good beings,
presided over bv our Hopreme firing,
iiilt that thrv believe tinier beings to be
too absolutely good to need propitia
tion. Just a* iu ancient hiatoriea of thr
Slav races, we are told that they believ
ed iu a white and black god, but paid
adoration to the last alone, having, a*
they supposed, nothing to apprehend
from thr beneficence of thr first or a lute
divinity. Thr truth is that rvila of all
kinds, difilcultitirs, dangers and dis
asters, families, diseases, pestileucra and
death, are thought by an ordinary Hin
doo to proceed from devils, anil from
devils alone. And these malignant
beings air hehl to possess varying de
grees of rank, power and malevolence.
Home aim at destroying the entire world
the sovereignty of the gods
themselves. Home delight in killing
men, women and children, out of a mere
thirst for human blood. Home take
pleasure in tormenting, or revel in the
infliction of sickuee*. injury and misfor
tune. All make it their business to aiar
the progress of good works and nsefnl
undertakings. 1^ verily believe that the
religion of the mass of the Hindoos is
simply demouolatry. Men and women
j of all claases, except perhaps those edu
cated by themselves, are perpetually
penetrated with the idea that, from the
cradle to the grave, they are being pur
sued and jwrsecut.-d, not only by de
structive demons, but by simply mis
chievous imps aud spiteful goblins. Thia,
in my opinion, is the true explanation of
the universal worship of Gauesa, lord of
the demon hosts. And the remarkable
thing is, that the power wielded by cer
tain arch-demons over men, and even
gists, is supposed to have Ihm-u acquit cd
by the practice of religious austerities.
It is said of the demon Havana that after
undergoing severe austerities in a forest
for 10,000 years, standing in the mnlst
of five fires with his feet in the air, he
obtained from the god ilrahma |*>wer*
greater than those i- >mkw.l by the gods
themselves. Another noteworthy point
is that the majority of petty fiends am
believed to have beeti originally human
leings. If any man is killed by a tiger
: or the bite of a snake, or dios a snddeti,
violent death of any kind away from his
relatives, and out of reach of proiwr
funeral ceremonies, be forthwith be
comes an unqniet, mischievous spirit,
roaming about in a restless manner with
malevolent proclivities. Aud a curious
notion prevails in some part* of India
that the better the man the more mis
chievous will his ghost be, unions steps
are taken to allay its irritability by the
due performance of fnneral rite*. Again,
when a man remarkable for evil i>a*sions
dies, the man himself may become x-
Unrt, but his evil nature never dies, fur
every one of ion bad jmssiuus, foul habits
and even criminal act* becomes, as it
were, |>er*onifled and demounted. Then
arc pride-demon*, thief-demons, deceit
demons, lying-demons, etc., m an infi
nite array. Furthermore, all the disea
ses that fiesh is heir to are personified
aud converted luto veritable devils.
There are small-pox-dcmous, cholera
demon* and demons of various forms of
typhn* and jungle fev-r. Kven hail
storms, dronth and blight do duty in the
devil army. Msny villages in India
possess professional charmers or con
jurer*. whose business eounists in charm
ing awav (by the repetition of particular
Vedio Mantrosj, particular demons, such
a* thr hail-atorui-demon.drongbt-deniou,
blight-demon, from the growing crops.
—Obafrmporsry Un-lsv.
Word* of Wisdom.
Hatred is blind as well as love.
Man is more than constitutions.
The greatest pleasure of life is love
Light cares speak, great ones are
dumb.
Hate no one -hate their vice* not
themselves.
Approve thy friend privately, com
mend him publicly.
Great souls invite calamity, as lofty
mountains the thunder clouds.
Men's evil manners live in brass ;
Uieir virtues we write in water.
Take the tone of the company you are
in, ami never pretend to give it.
% To be a great man it is necessary to
turn to account all opportunities.
Truth often displease* a lively soul,
but it always persuades a just mind.
Men seldom improve when they hove
no other models than themselves to
copy after.
A man can do without his own appro
bation in much society, but must make
great exertions to gain it when he lives
alone.
It is common for men to err ; but it is
only H fool that perseveres in his error ;
a wise man, therefore,alters his opiuion ;
a fool never.
Everything may be mimicked by hy
pocrisy, but humility and love united.
The more rare, the more radiant when
they meet.
The great mistako in raauy of the
plans for reorgsnizing society consists
in supposing that system*can supply the
want of sense.
Wonldst with thyself be aoquainbsl,
then see what others are doing. But
wonldst thou understand others, look
into thine own heart.
A friendship that makes the least noise
iH very often the most useful ; for
which reason one should prefers prudeut
friend to a zealous one.
A Former "Corn King" In Penury.
The Gibnou (Dl.) Courier prints the
following : One of the itaddest and most
complete financial wrecks of the day is
that of the great Hullivant estate. The
aoMgnee's sale of the personal property
took place last Thursday and Friday,
the lands having been surrendered to the
mortgages. Everything was disposed
of, and to-day M. L. Sullivant, the gnat
corn king of the world, is without lauds
and without a roof to shelter his family
that he can call his own. Under the en
forced sale and foreclosure, we learu,
the estate failed to realize enough to pay
the indebtedness of 8100,000. The
melting away of this once kingly estate
is a remarkubio example of " how riches
take to themselves wings." Mr. Snlli
vant's farming operations were ou the
most colossal scale in the country, and
his failure only emphasizes the lesson
taught by Vepeatoil smaller failures on
the part of others, that largo farms do
not pay in his country. It is not likely
that farming on the Hcale carried on by
Mr. Hullivant will ever again be at
tempted in this Htate, and his magnifi
cent domain of 40,000 acres will doubt
less be cut up into numerous small
farms. And while we sympathize with
Mr. Hullivant in his failure, we cannot
bnt regard this as the best disposition
to be made of these flue lauds. They
will fnrnish homes for several hundred
happy families.
FOR THE FA llt HEX.
Vaafctaa Nataa.
The moat stylish walking bout* have
brocaded cloth uppera.
Lace of many different kinds is often
usod on a drees thi* year.
* Ulster caps, stiff and plain but styliah,
are worn with Ulster coats.
The hair is generally worn high with
the present style of liouuet.
The short skirt, jacket and waistcoat
still retain their popularity.
Home of the round hat* are of the
most stupendous proportions.
Hlightly-ronuded trains are sujiersed
iug those of the square shape.
Hulphur-colored (lain abo rough hat*
are worn by English Ix-auties.
Square trains are considered a trifle
more elegant thau the fan train.
A pink satin drees ornamented with
morovu velvet loaves is elegant.
Fancy gilt buttons are used altogether
on the plant suits of this season.
With garnet, turquoise-blue ia more
generally used than any other color.
Garnet bead braids, cords and orua
, Uionta are used on hat* and dresses.
The Madeline is a favorite shaj>e for
a round hat. It is becoming to moat
faces.
Plushes of every variety are found
among the drees, cloak and hat trim
miugs.
The oordurov velvet of a few years
since ha* ogaui oouie forward in mil
linery.
White, j>ear! gray and cream felt bon
nets are the most or easy headgear of
the season.
Too Knm>Ma*l Psr-*ra
I have recently heard of two very
extravagant purchases that were made
by American ladies in Pari* tins season.
One article wo* the costliest braid or
" switch " of hair that ever was mode in
Paris. It waa composed of hair a yard
and a quarter in length, snow white,
and exceedingly soft and glossy. Its
price was Another was a /an that
was recently gotten up by one of the
leading fan-makers of Paris for tbe wife
of a New York millionaire. The leaf
wo* painted by Edward de Beaumont, a
Parisian artist of high repute, aud oust
sNkt. The mounting was in ivory,
richly carved from special designs, mid
with the owner's monogram in diamonds
act on a medallion-shaped space on one
of the outer sticks. The ends of the
rivet that held the sticks together were
also of diamond*. The price of the en
tire fan when completed amounted to
f 1,40*1. The subject of M. de Beau
mont's painting w as the Iteach at Dieppe
during the !at century, an animated
and WaUeau-hke seen a, crowded with
figures and too delicate and fine a work
of art to be carried as a fan, one would
think. Hut the Ilaroue** de Hothschild
possesses a fan painted by Louis Ijeuoir,
whereof the painting alone cost pi, 000.
l.ury Hiprtprr.
About Authors.
The time aud effort spent on varions
literary productions have differed with
different authors.
Johnson said he calculated, when
writing for a magaxme, that if he wrote
but one page a day he wonld at the end
of ten year* have written ten folio
volume*. "W! n msn writes," aays
he, " from hi* owu mind he writes rapid
lv. The greatest part of the writer'*
time is spent iu reading. A roan mnst
turn over half a library to write one
book."
Presett said he composed many a
chapter of •' Ferdinand and Isabella "
while galloring over the hillls, or wan
dering among the cbestnnt shades of
his favorite walk in sutnmn.
Thirty and forty page* at print were
an ordinary nmrning's work for Walter
Hcott. He once said to a friend :
"When I get the paper before me it
commonly runs off pretty easily." With
so much facility did he write that he had
a novel, a poem, and review* for quar
terlies on hand at the same time.
One of the largest and Is st of Byron's
poeiu* was written in ten sitting*, and
in two days another was completed.
In fourteen years Baxter wrote and
published sixty volumes.
Pope says: "To take more pains
sad employ more time cannot fail to
produce more complete pieces."
The first six hook* of the .Eneid were
written in aeven years ; the last six in
four years. This was left un
finished, and at his death Virgil wished
it destroyed ; but Augustus placet! it in
the bands of Varius and Plautns, who
eorrected it and gave it t<> the world.
I>avid Livingstone says: "Those
who have never earned a book through
the press can form no idea of the amount
of toil it involves. The process has in
creased my respect for anthors and
authoresses a thousand-fold. I think I
would rather cross the African continent
again than undertake to write another
book."
(enntnption of Paper,
The greatest quantity of paper is used
in the United States, and the smallest
quantity in Scandinavia. Italv's con
sumption is small, bnt that of Russia is
very much less, as might have been ex
pected from the condition of her people,
form of government aud state of manu
facture*. The quantities used per head
of population in the principal countries
are given in the exhibition catalogue as
fellows : United States, 30.8 !T>*.; Ger
many, 13.2 lbs.; England, 11 lb*.;
France, 7.92 Tbs.; Anstria-Hnngarv. 5.5
tbs.; Russia, 1.98 Tbs.; Italy, 3.08 lbs.;
Scandinavia, 1.1 lbs.; Belgium, 11.22
lbs.; Switzerland. 13.86 Tbs. The quan
tity used bv the Spaniards is not given,
but as Italy's consumption is so small
the influences at work in each oonntry
probably reduce the consumption in the
former conntrv to an imnotioeable quan
tity. China I'S not mentioned, bnt it is
stated that 600,000,000 people use
Chinese paper, 866,000,000 use En
mpeau paper and 130.000,000 Arabian,
24,000,000 write on leaves, etc.. ami
280,000.000 are happy without any paper
or writing material.
Language* of Finger- Kings.
In ease of a gentleman wishing to
marry—literally "in the market" with
his heart—he wears a plain or chased
gold ring upon the first linger of the
left or heart hand. When success at
tends hia suit, and he is actually en
gaged, the ring passes on to the third
finger. If, however; the gentleman de
sires to toll the fair cues that he not
only is not " in the market," but that he
does not design to marry at all, he wears
the signet ii)>on his little finger, and all
the ladies mav understand that he is out
of their reach. With the fair sex " the
laws of the ring" are : A plain or
chased gold ring on the little finger of
the right hand implies not "euguged,"
or, in plain words, "ready for propos
als, sealed or otherwise." When en
gaged the ring posses to the third finger
of the right hand. When married the
third finger of the left hand receives it
If the fair one proposes to defy all siege
to her heart, she places the rings on her
first and fourth finger, one on each—
like two charms, to keep away the
tempter. It is somewhat singular that
this latter disposition of rings is very
rare.
TERMS: ©ti.OO a Year, in Advance.
Art emus VtiN ti. the Fit (en tribute r.
As remiuinoenooa of Artemm Ward
I have been revived by a writer in .Vr-rfft
ner, the Prompt Hook ia reminded o.
one, as related to him by John If
Hmith, the well known manager of the
" Uucie Tom " combination.
Mr. Hmith waa acting aa advance
agent for Artemna Ward daring the
time he waa lecturing on the " Mor
uioiia " ami exhibiting hia panorama of
Halt I sake City. While on their travels
thev came arroaa Mr. A. Minor Gria
wold, the " Fat Contributor," who alao
1 bad a panorama and comic lecture, and
waa adverttaed to appe-ar in the same
town.
The two old frienda and celebrated
comic writem enjoyed each other's com
pany, aud each one expatiated npon hia
*uac<-Ha and the attrectivcneaa of the
ahow he waa running.
Ward inquired of Griawold if hia lec
ture was fanny and hia ill us Da ti una
go.si, aud reoeivmg aaaurance to that
effect he next aaked tlriawold what hia
nightly exueuaea were and what he
could afford to exhibit for.
" Well, fifty dollars is a gosl paying
honse for me," replied the F. C.
••Then," said A. Ward, " if I saw fit
to pay yon fifty dollara you'd be willing
to give your entire show and let me sup
ply tbe|amiienoe..
*• Certainly I would," aaid GriawokL
" Done," said Ward. "I'll pay yon
fifty dollars and yon moat deliver your
lecture entire—no cutting. I'll hold
the manuscript, and your miniona must
unwiud all your painting* and give the
show joat aa if yon were before a regu
lar audience."
" I'll do it," said Griawold, laughing;
and the bargsiu was made.
Upon the night of the jierformance
Ward called Hmith and the attaches of
his combination together, told them of
hi* agreement, and gave them direction*
how to act daring the performance,
closing with the admonition that he
would discharge any man on the spot
who dared to even make the least at
tempt at a smile during Griawold's lec
ture.
At night Griawold waa promptly at hia
reading desk and 'saw before him an
audience of some twelve persons scat
tered around uj>u the front seats, and
as be oommeuoed the introduction of hia
lecture his auditors all, save one, drew
ucwspa|*ra from their jwwkrts and
quietly began reading, tbe only excep
tion being Ward, who held the manu
script of the lecture to be delivered in
hia band, and sat strictly following it
word for word.
Grtswold talked on, and the reverber
ation of bis own voice in the empty ball
and an occasional yawn by Ward was
the only notification he iiad of there
being an andience present At everv
joke that fell from Griswold's lips a sod
or s snore would greet the j>er]>etrator.
After half an hour's steady work the
lecturer found bis task getting very
monotonous, and offered to let Ward off
for twenty-five dollars if he wonld allow
htm to shut up shop ; but the unimpres
sionable Artemus w< >uld not aeeede, and
demanded the entire performance.
Another thirty minutes was passed in
the same war, varied a little by confi
dential and muttered remarks among
the auditors about stale jokes and in
fernal dsnbs of pictures, until Griawold
gave np the ghost and begged off, pre
ferring to pocket all the losses rather
than submit to Uie torture of lecturing
to such an audience.
The lecturer and their friends retired,
and at the nearest restaurant enjoyed
many joke* over the night's frolic.—
FS-rty Saturday.
Sitting Bull.
A Canada paper, the Ottawa Pitisen,
giv* an interesting account of the prea
••lit poit:on of Hitting Ball and hia fol
lower*. A British officer, Major Walab,
la at present in charge of a poet in the
immediate vicinity of Sitting Ball'a en
campment, near Wood mountain, and. >a
on the nii*t friendly terms with the
" big Indian " chief. The major appear*
to hare a decided influence over the red
men, anil they all look up to him a a
great and noble chief of the White
Mother. lie haa a contingent of twenty
picked men, aa brave and a* tine aa
stecL Tne Sioux camp at thia point
number* about Are hundred lodge*, re
presenting nearly one thousand son!*,
and is divided up at present into small
hunting partie*. The old braves are
moat peaceably inclined, and there would
be no fear of a breach of the friendly
relations existing were it not for a num
ber of hot-headed young bucks who make
depredatory incursions across the border
and sometimes go so far, when a favor
able opportnnitT presents itself, to steal
horses in Canadian territory, and escape
to the United States. The old bsve*
deprecate this, and in every way endea
vor to prevent it In fact, they invari
ably make good the value of the horses
stolen. To show bow strongly they feel
on this point, Inspector Allen savs that
the day before he left a party of Hioux
were out hunting when t hey oame across a
young buck with a number of horsea in
his possession, evident] v making his way
to the United States, "flie father-in-law
of the voting man was in the party, and
wauteJ to know where he got the horses.
He replied that he got them as a present
from a white trader. The father-in-law
quietly hinted that he handled the truth
carelessly, whereupon the yonng buck
grew impertinent. The father-in-law
oousidered this snffleieut justification :
for him to dispatch the yonng man to
the bsppy hunting gronnd, and with
out further parley dashed his brains ont
with a war club. •
A Race with the Flames.
n* Yankton Prt * tellsof a lively race
tlio general and L. A. Carney had with
the recant prairie fire. Traveling rtpon
an nnhnrned atrip, they came cloee to
the lino of the fire, which extended
milea northwest and southwest, and was
edging slowly northeastward. When
they were within twenty rode of thia
line the wind anddenly increased and
shifted some twenty degrees towanl the
east and from the weat, sweeping the
flames directly upon them. What was
five minutes before a harm leas fire, to be
omaaed with ordinary care, waa now a
continuous flame, often ten or fifteen
feet high, and sometimes twenty feet
acroaa. Tt roared like half a dozen paa
senger trains at full speed. They spraug
from the wagon and fired the graaa, bnt
it made very alow progress, and had not
burned ten feet souare when a whirl
wind came down the line with a high
gale. Their only chance waa flight, and
they sprang into the wagon and whipped
up their Texan horses for a race north
ward to some higher atony ground. The
ponies understood that game And went
readily. It was all doue in leas time
than the telling. The very cause of
danger waa at last the means of safety.
The whirlwind, which waa twenty
wide, passed by. It hail changed all the
adjacent currents of wind. This hail
deadened the wind ahead and prevented
the fire from spreading, and now that it
hail passed it gave a chance to cross in
its rear upon the ground where the grass
waa thin, and within ten minutes of the
first apprehension of danger they were
among the smoking cinders on burned
gronnd. The whirlwind went over toe
bluff and down the river bottom, filling
it with fire iu plaoea above the level of
the bluffs, and sending up a column of
black smoke which must have been over
half a mile in length.
NUMBER 41).
TIMELY TOPIC*.
Ex-Oov. John P. Hoyt, oI Anaona,
•ays that the foara that the Mormon* are
taking possession of that Territory are
rather premature.
Germany tnrna oat annnally flaw hun
dred and fifty doctor* thoroughly edu
cated, about one hundred of whom im
migrate to foreign parts.
A farmer of Reno county. Ken., com
ing acroaa a rattlesnake, tiod hi* reina
in a bunch and killed it therewith.
Bulieequeutly he untied the knot with
hi* teeth, and the poiaon thn* got into
hui system and drove him mad.
The riding of byeiclea, the modern
development of the old velocipede, trans
planted from England twelve month*
ago, Lao taken a firm root in the citiee
and towns of New England, and threat
ens in o abort time to spread it* in
fluence all over the country.
Mr*. Dion* Haines was mads insane
in Moont Gilead, Ohio, by a false re
port that she was an heiress to §IOO,OOO,
the sadden elation and disappointment
tin balancing her reasoo. Has tried to
commit suicide and wsa sent to an
asylum. Lately §7JO.QOO wsa really be-
SMWtbed to her,bat she will not believe
A drunkard in Bacramento, warned by
a touch of delirium tremens that be had
carried his drinking altogether too fir,
resolved to reform or die. He declared
his purpose to aeveral friends, locked
himself in his room, seated himself in an
easy-chai7, and pnt a loaded pistol on s
table within reach. The craving for al
cohol grew stronger and stronger, and
at last, unable to resist his thirst, he
shot himself through the heart.
Twiee already had the marriage of s
Soong doctor and a rich bells of Moont
terling, 111., been postponed, when the
cards were issued for a grand wedding
purtv. The feast was set, the guests
were met, but no bridegroom was there.
The young lady went out to seek him,
am! found him at his room dead-drunk.
Going to the railroad station she took
the first train that passed, gave the
conductor a ring to pay her fare, left the
cars at Macomb, and was only found
next day by her father and the eober
and repentant lover. He was anxious
to marry her at once, but she refuted
ever to speak to him again.
On the Cooper lane, about a mile or
so north of Stockton, OaL, there lives
an industrious Italian on an even acre
of ground lying in triangular shape be
tween the road and the railroad at the
crossing point He has a wife and five
children, whom he supports in oom
fort from the product of his garden.
The little farm is planted with trees,
vines and vegetables, and is thoroughly
well tilled. Occasionally he plants an
early crop on the railroad right of way
adjoining, which remains undisturbed
until the plow of the fire protectors
comes along. But this instance is a
good illustration of " a little farm well
tilled."
The Times That Try Ink StmL
When be pope the question.
When be goes home t night, finds e
a house full of company, and hia wife
blissfully ignorant of tbe fact that dinner
is not ready.
Wben be dives down into tbe bottom
of his trunk, jerks out what be snp
poeee is a clean pair of socks, but finds
only an old table-napkin, with four white
neckties, pnt away for next summer.
Wben be buys a new pair of shoes and
'.laoovers two big nails sticking up in tbe
bee! a.
When be takes hi* girl oat and dis
, ooven that be has left his pocketbook
at home in his old trousers.
When he harries around the corner
and lands sonar* is the arms of a man
who holds his L O. U.
When he writes to his best girl and
has to wait two weeks for s reply.
When hssh is plaoed before him five
Mooesaave mornings st his boarding
house.
When, after waiting in s barber shop
for an honr, and hearing the welcome
word "next," he sees a little fellow
shoot up from behind a paper and alide
into the chair like a streak of greased
electricity.
When his wife wants to talk and be
doesn't.
When he pokes hit bead through his
last clean shirt and finds no bntton on
behind.
When in his dreams he is standing
npon the verge of a precipice, end bis
wife suddenly reminds him that he isn't,
bnt that he is jerking her " banged
hair all to pieces.—jYrrr I'ori Erpmt.
A Singular Case.
Tbe Brookfield (N. Y.) Courier re
ports the following: " Miss Caroline
llaboock, s sister of Mrs. Jordan, whose
sickness we have hitherto reported, died
last Wednesday. Her case was an ex
tremely singular one. Her limbs had
been partially paralysed for a number
of Tears, rendering it difficult for her to
walk. Some time in last August she
began to experience a loathing of food;
and soon her stomach became so badly
affected that it could retain food for only
a short time. This condition continued
for about two weeks, when it became
impossible for her to take anything ex
cept cold water, and that was always
emitted from her stomach as soon ns it
Itecamc warmed. There were a few times
during her illness that she evinced a
desire for food, but wben it was given
her, her sense of taste revolted, and she
Would be unable to take it. During tbe
last eight weeks and four days of her
life she tasted nothing but water, ex
cept on two occasions, once a little
water-gruel and once a few blackber
ries, ami these remained on her stomach
only a few minutes. How she survived
this length of time without nourishment
is certainly marvelous. The best med
ical skill and kindest sympathies of her
friends were powerless to change her
oondition, and her friends ooold bat
look on while she literally starved to
death. She suffered but little pain un
til the last week or tsro, when she suf
fered severely."
Winter Clothing for Children.
Every one must remark that a favorite '
article of winter clothing for children is
a comforter swathed around the ueck. ;
This is a great error; the feet and wrists I
are the proper members to keep warm;
the face and throat wfll harden to an
healthy indifference to cold; but that
muffler, exchanged for an extra pair of
thick socks and knitted gloves, would
preserve a boy or girl really warm and
well. Bronchitis and sore throat have
declined fifty per centum since the
absurd use of high oollars and twice
round neckerchiefs went out of fashion ;
and if the poor would take better care
of their children's feet half the infantile
mortality would disappear. It only
costs a trifle to pnt a piece of thick felt
or cork into thd bottom of a boot or
shoe, but the difference is often consid
erable between that and a doctor's bill,
with perhaps the undertaker's beside.—
Green Mountain Freeman.
Th# Boon fill* Hollo.
Wo Moth milo.Boon tII la belle
With MOST iMkir sad ayes,
For tM ■ mUi o renin* air
vff Fewsfltorthhi* moan* and rigka.
Ema b*r walking down ths tann—
" Where do H ago?" bs Mid.
Kh Edith oot hi* plaintive too*
And trie* to Id* hood, i
" 1 HIM far Moray," tboo ho Both.
" Nor will 1 happy ho
TO) yon hora Frith in ny complaint
And My yon 11 Mary m,"
" Ik* oaanot proaim yon," oho qooth.
A twinkio la bar oyo,
•' Km 11 laaiah I do, ymH my,;
I'arhap*. ti* all a Ouy."
•• |iy Uoorga, I do da CUra|trnth
Whoa I'M in lorn I my—
Your Lot ah*U happy bo. oooa wed
HYoa'U never iiath the day 1"
" It may bo l{hwvo;ilaa too raafe—
If Phoabo hm 'twere oad
A maid ahonld ao Loaim cfcauee
Whaw ohaooo to wod aha'a had."
Thai did tbo girl with self-eommane'
While to bor pretty fern
There Bom bfarh, which ha did Mark
Oara bar a royal draco.
Haid ehe: I do bo Lewi will
Coooant to he your bride—
If Violet yon take a Mm,
Wilt bo now Mtiafled 7"
fCwjmt rttkL
Item* of Interest,
A polite flab—A gent-eel.
A lean lover may still be a man of
great sigh*.
Beady made—The young lady waiting
for an offer.
It is the tin business which is moat
liable to a pan ic.
Oive seat money and it will, of oourss,
put a is its purr*.
When is a man thinner than a shingle
Whan he i* a shaving.
Out of all character—The poor fellow
who has lost his reputation.
Tomato** contain no oancer-produong
snbetsnoe, aay* Prof. Arnold.
There is a olaas whom beggar* can't
I put op with ; they are hotel keepers.
1 Light from the north is more injurious
I to the eyes than light from the south.
A printer fa the New fork World at'
flee he* worked at his trade fifty-seven
aara. $
Deer are found in almost all part* of
the globe except Australia and south of
Africa.
If you turn an American " State "hp
aide down yon will find the Btair of the
French republic.
A r"" Potion lis* written a
book on music. It will be called " Put
ton Aim, probably.
A couple were married on the can in
Missouri, lately. What a long " train "
the bride must have had f
Albert Smith once wrote hi* initial*
in a hotel register. A wag wrote jnat
underneath: " Two-thirds of the troth."
Oct in yew plants, your apple* pick,
Er* both at* knocked to under*.
To dsyhgbt bring year stora-door quick,
pat co yowr double winder*.
The popular idea that mushrooms
grow only in the night not correct;
their growth i* nearly equal day and
night
Gold ia entirely unaffected by atmos
pheric actios or influence*. Silver be
comes dull, but gold retain* it* native
luster.
"What i* good for a oold F" asks a
subscriber. Winter ia about the beet
thing we know of: a good winter full of
snow-drift*.
Talk about the angry sea and the mad
waves and all that Humph! you'd be
angry, too, were you crossed a* often
a* the oean is.
It may add to the interest which ia be
ing revived in " Down cm the Old Su
wanee Hirer" to know that it has ali
gatora eleven feet long.
A Nevada politviaa was elected on
the merits of a single speech. All be
•aid was, " Fellow-countrymen, follow
me to yonder refreshment saloon."
" A splendid croquet ground in the
rear," said the real estate agent And,
when he had bought the house and
moved in be found that the frog* kept
croaking all night.
A Nevada paper tell* of a young lady
in that region that is ao delicate and
•thecal a creature that ou losing a hair
! pin from her head the other day, she
1 caught A bad oold that hong cm for a
week.
The first steamboat need dry pine
wood for fuel, and the flame rose to a
considerable distance above the smoke
pipe: when the Ares were disturbed,
mingled smoke and sparks rose high in
the air.
Onetime a lion met a elephant and
the elephant aed : "You better go and
git Tour hair cut." But the lion it aed :
" Bah ! I shant resent a fellers in suits
wich baa got his nose tweea his own
teefha."
A striking peculiarity of the cater
, pillars of Patagonia is their eannilialism.
They prsv universal ly upon their own
kind. TipnUtim is frequently dried
up in that region, and hence thiaeanci
baMsm.
A correspondent sends us some verses
and asks "if ten cents a line would be
too much." No, ten cents a line would
not be too much for a clothes line or a
aLwmboat line. Jtortmn Commercial
Bulletin.
It is said that there ia one word which
is never pronounced right even by the
best scholars, and that is the word
wrong. It ia only fair to obeerve, how
ever, that there ia another word which is
never pronounced wrong, and that ia the
word right
A French paper report* a murder trial
in which a witness testified that he
heard two pistol shots on the staircase
and sent his wife to see what was the
matter. "Yon did not go up-etairs
yourself 7" "No, air; I was afraid of
the revolver."
California, like many other parts of
the country, is suffering from an excess
of railways. The San Francisco A Ita says
that so man v railways have been built in
California, and they have advanced so
far beyond the demands of business or
the probability of any large profit, that
the future construction must be slow.
Out of 2,000 miles, st least 1,000 do not
pay six per cent on the cost Long
stretches have been built with the
expectation that they would be unprotit
able, one motive being to increase the
trade of other roads already built
A young lady, named May Forrer, oj
Edinburg, Ind., has had a strange ex
perience with her voice. She had lost
the faculty of speaking above a whisper
uutii ODO day last summer, when she
was playing croquet, with a piece of ice
in her mouth. The ice slipped down
her throat, and the sudden effort to re
cover it restored her speech. She went
on talking then until a few nights ago,
when she dreamed that she had lost her
voice, and, aura enough, when she woke
up in (he morning she had lost it The
doctors call it aphorica, and say she will
be all right when her nervous system is
built up.
Proof that the top of a wagon wheel,
when running along on the ground,
moves faster than the bottom, is given,
according to the Scientific America H, by
instantaneous photographs of a wagon
iin rapid motion. It is obvious, says the
writer, that an instantaneous photo
graph of a wheel, revolving upon its
axle in the air, will show all parts of the
wheel with eqnal distinctness. Tint if
the wheel has a progressive motion,
and any one portion has a greater mo
tion than its corresponding part, above
or below, there must be a liability to
blurring in that part of the picture.
These pictures are taken with so brief
an exposure that the horse, though
moving at a 2:24 gait, is sharply oat
lined. The wheels of the driver's sulky,
however, have a different tale to telL
The lower third of each wheel is sharp
and distinct as if absolutely at rest. Not
so with the top, that part of the wheel
showing a peroepti jle movement dur
ing the two thousandth part of a second
of the exposure of the plate. The np
per ends of the spokes and the rim are
binned.