To a ldttle ttirt.
Little girl, with dainty feet
Blithely firing down the street,
The toughest heart yon would begaile
With your jirettr face end winning smile.
•
Little girl, yon are very fair .
With rosy cheeky and flowing hair .
Your eyes are bright, your heart i* young,
And words are music from your tongue.
Little girl, I love yon well;
• How ranch ray veree can never tell,
Bnt if the troth must be confessed.
I love your growu-up sister best.
-iivuhnrr.
The Hold of Hope.
Bright shines the sun, hut brighter after rain
The clouds that darken make the sky more
clear:
Bo rest is sweeter when it follows pain.
And the sad parting makes our friends mors
dear.
"Tt well it should be thus , our Father knows
The things that work together for our good.
We draw a sweetm ss from our bitter woes
We would uot have ad sunshine if ae could.
The day s with all their beauty and their light
Ooaae from the dark and into dark return.
Pay • peak* of earth, hut beavvu shines through
the night.
Where the blue e thousand star-tires
burn.
8c rims the law, the law of recompense.
That buida our life on earth aud heaven in
one:
Faith eannot live when all is sight and •< use.
But faith can lire aud sing hen these aie
gooe.
Ws grieve and murmur, for we can but see
The single thread that flies in silence by.
When if we only saw the things to be,
Our hps would breathe a song aud not a s^h.
Wait then, my soul, and edge the darkening
cloud
With the hright gold that hope oan always
lend:
And If to-day thou art with sorrow bowed,
Wait till to-morrow and thy grief shal. end '
And wheg we reach the summit of our days,
Beyoud the reach of shadows and of uight.
Then shall our every look and voice le praise
To Him who shines, our STerlastiog light.
leaden Ckoxiay Magavim*.
THE HOSTLER'S STORY.
BT I. T. TKOWBRIIXIK.
What amused us most at the Lake
house last summer was the performance
of a bear in the beck yard.
He was fastened to a pole by a chain,
which gave him a range of a dozen or
fifteen feet. It was not very safe for
visitors to come within that circle, uulea
they were prepared for rough handling.
He had away of suddenly catching
yon to his boaom. and picking your
pockets of peanuts and candy—if you
carried any about you—in a manner
which took your breath away. He stood
up to his work ou his hind legs in a
quite human fashion, and naed paw and
tongue with amazing skill and vivacity.
He was friendly, and didn't mean any
harm, bnt he was a rude playfellow.
I shall never forget the ludicrous ad
venture of a dandified New Yorker who
came out into the yard to feed bruin on
seed-cakes, and did not feed him fast
■cough.
He had approached a trifle too near,
when all at once the I-ear whipped an
arm about him, took him to his embrace,
and " went through ' his pockets in a
burry. The terrified face of the strug
gling and screaming fop, and the good
natured, bnsmess-like expression of the
fumbling and munching beast, offered
the funniest sort of contrast.
The one-eyed hostler, who was the
bear's special guardian, lounged leisure
ly to the spot.
* "Keep still, and he won't hurt ye,"
he said, turning his quid. " That's
one of his tricka. Throw out what you've
got, and hell leave ye."
The dandy made haste to help bruin
to the last" of the seed-cakee, and es
caped without injury, bnt in a ridicu
lous plight—his hat sma-hed, his neck
tie and linen rumpled, and his watch
dangling ; bnt his flight was the moet
laughable part of all.
The one-eyed hostler made a motion
to the beast, who immediately climbed
the pole, and looked at us from the
eroespieee at the top.
"A bear," said the one-eyed hostler,
turning hia quid again, "is the best
hearted, knowin est critter that goes on
all-fours. I'm speakin' of our native
black bear, von understand. Tb£ brown
bear aint half so respectable, and the
gnzxly is oue of the ugliest brutes in
creation. Come down here. Pomp."
Pomp slipped down the pole and ad
vanced toward the one-eyed hostler,
walking on his hind legs and rattling
his chain.
"Playful as a kitten !" said the one
eyed hostler, fondly. "I'll show ye."
* He took a wooden bar from a clothes
horse near by, and made a lunge with it
at Pomp's breast.
No pugilist or fencing-master could
have parried a blow more neatly.
Then the one-eyed hostler began to
thrust and strike with the bar as if in
downright ekruest.
"Rather savage play," I remarked.
And a friend by my side, who never
misses a chance to make a pun, added :
"Yes, a decided act of bar-bear-itv."
" Oh, he likee it f" said the one-eyea
hostler. *' Ye can't hit him."
And indeed it was so. No matter how
or where the blow was aimed, a move
ment of Pomp's paw, qnick as a flash of
lightning, knocked it aside, and ho
stood good-humoredly waiting for more.
"Once in awhile,'' aaid the one-eyed
hostler, resting from the exercise and
leaning on the bar, while Pomp retired
to his pole, " there's a bear of this spe
cies that's vicious aDd blood-thirsty.
Generally, you let them alone and
they'll let you alone. They won't
run" from you maybe, but they won't
go out of "their way to pick a qnar
rel. They don't swagger round with a
chip on their shoulder lookin' for some
fool to knock it off."
" Will they eat von ?" some one in
quired ; for there WHS ring of spectators
around the performers by this time.
"As likely as not, if they are sharp
set, and you lay yourself out to be eaten,
but it aint their habit to go for human
fleßh. Roots, nuts, berries, bugs and
any small game they can pick up. satis
fies their humble appetite as a general
thing.
The one-eyed hostler leaned against
the pole, stroked Pomp's far affection
ately, and continued somewhat in this
style:
" Bears are partie'larly fond of fat,
iuicy pigs; and once give 'em a taste of
human flesh—why, I shouldn't want my
children to be playin' in the woods with
in a good many miles of their den !
" Which reminds me of Old Two
Claws, as they used to call him, a bear
that plagued the folks over in Ridge
town, where I was brought up—wall, as
much as forty year ago.
" He got nis name from the peculiar
shape of his foot, and he got that from
trifling with a gun-trap. You know
what that is—a loaded gun set in such a
way that a bear or any game that's cari
ous about it must come np to it the way
it p'inta; a bait is bung before the muz
zle, and a string runs from that to the
jigger.
"He was a cunning fellow, aDd he
put out an investigatin' paw at the
piece of pork before ttying his jaws on
it; so instead of gettin' a bullet in the
head, he merely had a bit of his paw
shot off. There were but two claws left
on that foot, as his bloody tracks show
ed.
"He got off; but this experience
seemed to have soured bis disposition.
He owed a spite to the settlement.
"One night a great row was heard in
my ancle's pigpen. He and the boys
rushed ont with pitchforks, a gun and a
lantern. They knew what the trouble
was, or aooo found ont.
"A huge black bear had broken down
FRED. KURTZ, Kditor and Vropriotor.
VOLUME XII.
the aide of thi* pen; ho had seized * fat
i porker, and was actually lugging him
off in hi* arm* ! The pig was kicking
siui squealing, luit the bow had him
fast. Ho did not oem at all iuolinod to
give up his prey, oven when attacked.
Ho looked sulloii ami uglv; but a few
;ah* from a pitchfork, aud a shot ui the
shoulder, convinced him that he was
making a mistake,
*• He dropped the pig and got away
before my uuele could brad up for
another shot The next morning they
examined Ins tracks. It was Old Two
i Claws.
"But what sp'ilt him for traiug a
quiet ueighbor was something that hap
pened about a year after that,
j " There was a roTing family of Indians
t encamped uear the settlement; hunting,
ffstnng and making moccasins and bask
ets, which they traded with the whites,
" Oue afternoon the Red Sky of-the-
Morniug, wife of the Water-Snake
with-the-Long-Tail, came over to the
' settlement with some of their truck for
i sale. She had a papooae ou her back
strapped on a board; another squaw
traveled with her, carry lug an empty
jtS
--" Almost within eight of tiorman's
grocery, Red-Sky took off h< r papoose
and hung it on a tree. The fellows
around the store had made fun of it
when she was there once before, so she
t preferred to leave it in the woods rather
than oxjxwe it to the coarse jokes of the
boys. The little thing was need to such
treatment. Whether carried or hung
np, papooeey never cried.
"The squaw* traded off this truck,
and bought, with other luxuries of
civilization, a gallon ot wkiskv. They
drank out of the jug, and then looked at
more goods. Then they drank again,
and from being shy and silent, as at
first, they giggled and chatted like a
couple of silly white girls. They spent
a gooi deal more tune and money at
Gorman's than they would if it hadn't
been for the whisky, but finally they
started to go back through the woods.
" They went chattering mid giggling
to the tree where the papoose had been
left. There was no papoose there !
" This discovery sobered them. They
thought at first the fellows around the
store ha<l played them a trick by taking
it away; bnt by-and-by the Red-Sky-of
the-Morning set np a shriek.
" She had found the board not far off,
but no papiH>se strapped to it, only
something that told the story of what
hail happened.
" There were bear tracks around the
spot. One of the prints showed only
two claws.
"The Red-Sky-of-the-Morning went
back to the camp with the news ; the
other sqnaw followed with the jng.
"When the Water Snake-with the
Long Tail heard that his papoose had
been eaten by a bear, he felt, I supjose,
very much a* any white father would have
felt under the circumstances. He vowed
vengeance against Old Two Claws, but
oonsoled himself with a drink of the
fire-water l*fore starting on the bant.
"The braves with him followed his
example. It wasn't in Indian nature to
start until they La! emptied the jng, so
it happened that Old Two Claws got off
again. Tipsy braves can't follow a trail
worth scent
" Not very long after that a woman in
a neighboring settlement heard her
children scream one day in the wools
near the house. She rushed out, and
actually saw a bear lagging off her
youngest.
"She was a sickly, feeble sort of wo
man , but such a sight was enough to
give her the strength and courage of a
man. She ran and canght np an axe.
Luckily she bad a big dog. The two
went at the bear.
" The old fellow had no notion of los
ing his dinner just for a woman and a
mongrel cur. But she Btrnck him a
tremendous blow on the back: at the
same time the pup got him by the leg.
He dropped the young one L> defend
himself. She caught it up and ran,
leaving the two beasts ta have it out
together.
"The bear made short work with the
cur ; but instead of following the woman
and child, he skulked off into the woods.
" The settlers got together for a grand
hunt; but Old Two Claws for the
tracks showed that he WAS the scoundrel
—escaped into the mountains, and lived
to make more trouble another dav.
"The child? Oh, the child was
scarcely hurt. It had got squeezed and
scratched a little in the final tussle; that
wa* all.
" As to the bear, he wa* next heard of
in our settlement."
The boatler hesitated, winked his one
eye with an odd expression, pat a fresh
quid into his cheek, and finally resnmed:
" A brother-in-law of my uncle, a man
of the name of Rush, was one day chop
ping in the woods about half a mile from
his house, when his wife went oat to
carry him his luncheon.
" She left two children at home, a boy
about five years old, and a baby just big
enough to toddle around.
" The boy had often been told that if
be stmyed into the woods with his
brother a bear might carry them off,
and she charged him again that forenoon
not to go away from the house; but he
was an enterprising little fellow, and
when the BUD shone so ph-Asant aud the
woods looked so inviting, he wasn't one
to be afraid of boars.
" The woman stopped to see her hus
band fell a big beech be wa* cutting,
and then went back to the house; bnt
just before Bhe got there, she saw the
oldest boy coming out of the woods on
the other side. He was alone. He was
white as a sheet, and so frightened at
first that he oouldn't speak.
"'Johnny,' says Bhe, catching hold
of him, ' what is the matter ?'
" * A bear I' he gasped ont at last.
" ' Where is your little brother ?' was
her next question.
"* I don't know,' said he, too much
frightened to know anything just then.
" ' Where did you leave him ?' says
she.
"Then he seemed to have gotten his
wits together a little. ' A bear took
him!' said he.
" You can guess what sort of an agony
the mother was in.
"' Oh, Johnny, tell me true 1 Think !
Where wan it ?'
"'ln the woods,' he said. 'Bear
come along.—l run.'
"She caught him up and hurried
with him into the woods. She begged
him show her where he was with his
little brother when thebear came along.
He pointed out two or three places. In
one of them the earth was soft. There
were fresh tracks crossing it—bear
tracks. There wss no doubt nbont it.
" It was aterrible situation for a poor
woman. Whether to follow the bear
and try to recover her child, or go at
once for her husband, or alarm the
neighbors; what to do with Johnny
meanwhile —all tbat would have been
hard enough for her to decide even if
she had had her wits abont her.
" She hardly knew what she did, but
just followed her instinct, and ran with
Johnny in her arms, or dragging him
after her, to where her husband was
chopping.
" Well," continued the one-eyed hos
tler ; " I needn't try to describe what
followed. They went back to the house,
and Bush took his rifle and started on
the track of the bear, vowing thut he
would not come back without either the
child or the bear's hide.
" The news went like wildfire through
the settlement In an hoar half-a
THE CENTRE REPORTER.
doaeu men with their dogs were on the
track with Hush. It was so much trou
ble for him to follow the trail that they
soon overtook him with the help of the
doge.
"Hut in spite of them the bear got
into the mountains. Two of the dogs
came up with him, ami oue, the only
one 'hat could follow a scent, had his
t>aok broken by a stroke of his paw,
Afte r that it was almost impossible to
track him, and oue after another the
huuters gave up and returned home.
" At last Hush was left alone; but
nothing could induce him to turu tack.
He shot some small game in the moun
tains, which lie cooked for his supper,
slept uu the ground, ami started on the
trait again tu the morning.
" Aloug in the foreuoon he came iu
sight of the bear as he was crossing a
stream. He had a good ihot at him as
he was climbing the bank on the other
side
"The bear kept ou, but it was easier
tracking him after that by his blood.
"That evening a huuter, haggard, his
clothes all in tatters, fonud his way to a
backwoodiuau'ahnt over iu White'* valley.
It was Hush. He told his story iu a few
words as he rested on a stool. He bad
found no traces of his child, but lie hod
killed the bear. It was Old Two Claws.
He had left him ou the hills, and came
to the settlement for help.
" The huut hail taken him a round
about course, and he wo* then not
more than seven mile* from home. The
next day, gun iu hand, with the Iraar
skin strapped to his back—the carcass
had been giveu to hi* friend the back
wixxlsmau—he started to return by an
easier way through the woods.
" It was u sad revenge he hail had,
but there was a grim sort of satisfaction
iu lugging home the hide of the terrible
Old Two Claws.
" As he came in sight of his log house,
out rau hi* wife to meet him, with—what
do you suppose? —little Johnny drag
giog at her skirt*, and the lost child in
her arms.
" Then, for the first time, the man
dropped, bnt he didn't get down any
further than hia kneee. He clung to hi*
wife and baby, and thanked God for the
miracle.
" But it wasn't much of a miracle,
after all.
•"Little Johnny had Iraen playing
around the door, and lost sight of the
baby, and maybe forgotten all about
him whea he strayed into the wood* and
saw the Iraar. Then he remembered all
that he had heard of the danger of being
carried off and eaten, and of coarse he
had a terrible fright. When xsked alnuit
his little brother he didn't know any
thing him. and I suppose really
imagine! that the bear had got him.
"But the baby hod crawled into a
snug place under the side of the rain
trough, and there he was fast asleep all
the while. Then he wok a up two or
three hoars after, and the mother heard
him cry; her husband wa* far away on
the hunt
"True—this story I've told you?"
added the one-eyed hustler, a* some one
questioned him. " Every word of it!"
" Bnt your name is Rash, isn't it ?" I
said.
The one eye twinkled humorously.
"My name is Rush. My uncle's
brother-in-law was my oan father."
"Aud vou?" exclaimed a bystander.
"I," said the one-eyed hostler, "am
the very man who wmru't eaten by the
Lear when I was a baby !" Youth'*
Companion.
How Yassar Lost a Pupil.
A letter from Poughkeepsie, N. Y., to
the World, says: At the beginning of the
term one year ago a young lady from
New York entered the freshman class of
1878 at Yassar college. She was tjien
sixteen, of alight figure, brown-haired,
pretty, and a young person of buoyant
spirits, who speedily became something
of a character among her fallow-student*.
It is said, however, that the faculty
found her intractable and subjected her
to a course of mild discipline which she
did not like. She bad entered the col
lege under peculiar circumstances. Her
father hud endowed a scholarship
there at a oost of SB,OOO, and she was
the first to receive it* benefit*. Finally,
much of what wa* considered infelicitous
in the girl's ways wa* overlooked by the
faculty, ami under the new order of
things matters moTed along more
smoothly.
Just before the last holiday week she
was agaiu, however, in open relrallion
against the authorities. She expressed
a determination to accompany a fellow
student to the latter'* home in the We*t
to spend the holidays. The head of the
college protested with emphasis; but
when the time arrived the young rebel
went on her proposed trip and returned
in dne time and resumed her studies.
In the meantime she wa* corresponding
wuh and meeting in Poughkeepsie every
Saturday, when the young ladies are
permitted to leave the college to do
their shopping, the yonng son of her
father's partner in New York.
Thus matters Rtood np to a recent
Friday, when the young woman was
missing. Inqniry discovered that, with
the assistance of two of her chums, she
had quietly packed her wardrobe and
stolen away. The young man had a
carriage in waiting for her. and on her
arrival thev went to the residence of Dr.
Elmendorf, of the Second Reformed
church, in Poughkeepsie, and were mar
ried. Then they were driven to the
Nelson house, where they remained
until Saturday afternoon, going then to
New York. Dr. Elmendorf, it is said;
was induced to perform the ceremony
only by the presence of a gentleman of
high standing in this city, who accom
panied the couple to the house and
vouched fortheircliaracterand the regu
larity of the proceeding. The father of
the bride ami groom are in business to
gether,the former Iraing a wealthy manu
facturer of a proprietary " bitters."
The two girls who assisted his dangh
ter in making her escape from the col
lege have been expelled and sent home.
Trade in Children
Ernest Morris, the young American
naturalist traveling in 15rn7.i1, tells
about a practice prevailing along the ;
upper Amazon, as follows : At one of
the houses wo met a trader who had
come from the river Japura. He had
on board a boy and girl of the Miranha
trilie for sale. Hennr liatalhia Imught
the boy, a bright-looking little fellow,
for fifty milrava, or 82f>. The little
girl cried pitifully when separated from
her brother. The trade in children is
spoken of by Bates, who was at Teffe
twenty-five years ago ; it is prohibited
by the government, but openly carried
on. The Miranhas are the most power
ful tribe on the Japura ; they arc a
warlike nation, who for a knife or gal
lon of rum, sell captured children.
Numerous raids are made by them upon
their weaker neighbors ; and men and
women are killed and the children sold
into slavery. At Teffe there is not a
house in which you will not find
children of all ages, as you also will at
Manaos. On my return on the steamer
Jin Branoo the captain was taking to
Para a boy that he had bought for jJ3S.
"The reason for this," Baid Beuor
Batalhia, "is very simple—we must
have servants and they make good ones ;
besides, they are not Brazilians—they
are Indians of New Granada." This
trade in children is carried on more ex
tensively every year, and is a disgrace
to the government.
CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO., PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1871*.
.Grant Hats,
There are perhaps a dozen specira of
bats respectively drsigurd to act their
part in different parts of the world, but
they are all winged quadrupeds, var
ous m sire, corresponding to the du
tics they have to perforin ami to throb
mates ui which they are located. Of
whatcier species, the bat Is maiUUllfcr-
OUA It suckles it* young, of which it
has one or two at a birth, and it* month
l* provided with teeth. It ha* four
legs, but two of them resemble krui,
and it has a tail extended from the ver
tebra*. Each arm consists of two long
bones with an ellaiw joint. At tli outer
extremity of the arm, a* with a human
haud, there ore four fingers aud a
thumb. The fingers are long thin bone*
attached lengthwise to a membranous
wing, which they expand like the slen
der whalebones of an umbrella a most
beautiful ami effective arrangement.
The thumb projects, ami is an interest
ug member. It resembles a claw or
hook, lly means of it* two Inaiked
thumbs the creature can suspend itsi If
from branches of tree* or other projec
tions, ami i enabled to draw itself for
ward ou the ground. The legs are
short, with knee-joint*, ami the claws of
the bras help the thumbs iu the matter
of suspension. Arms, legs, ami tail are
all united with the membrane of the
wings, ami materially aid in propulsion
through the air. Everything in the
general structure of the animal Is sul>
Miliary to the function of firing. The
wrings, however, are inferior to the w ing*
of birds, such as those of the swallow.
Hut they perfectly fulfil! their purpose.
Consisting of a membrane which wraps
the laxly like a cloak, these bat wings
are powerful in darttug swiftly in s
series of jerks and zigzag* in pursuit of
moth* ami other lusect*. Bemle re
iving on it* eyesight, the bat possesses
tlie advantage of an extremely delicate
susceptibility in it* thin membranous
wing* which reveals the presence of any
insect it happen* to touch in it* flight.
Had the wing* been of feather* like
those of birds, this important quality of
detecting lniracts by the slightest touch
would have been lost.
Numerous fanciful notions arc enter-
Lained regarding bats. They are Hani to
be able to see in the dark, and that tin y
are bloody and vengeful in their nature.
A* concern* seeing in the dark, that is
quite erroneous. Their power of avoid
ing obstacle* when flying in darkened
place* is not due to their eyes, but to
that ktrail sensibility in their wings that
ha* beeu ju-t sliu iol to. The thiii
leathery wing* of bat* are their a: teui-w,
or feelers. Parting about in all direc
tious in utter darkness, they ar< never
bv any chance impeded or injured by
obstacle* that happen to lie in their wav.
Experiments have beeu made by stretch
iuc string* actoas darkened place* in
which a uumtrar of them are eonflced,
ami no string is ever disturbed in their
flight. The exquisitely-radiated system
of nerves in a bat's wing offers one of
the flm -d studies in animal physiology,
or. we might say, in natural theology.
Shall a creature so ingeuionsly formed
be spokeu of with sentiments of hostility
or derision ? On the contrary, it should
excite our warmest admiration. Artists
from time immemorial have Iraen in the
habit of depicting malevolent demons
with wiug# on the pattern of those of the
bat—a piece of conventionality wholly at
variance with what is learned from a
contemplation of the actual fact* in Da
tun-. The bat is no more fiendish than
the swallow or any other bird which ha*
Iraen upjiomted to rid the atmosphere of
superfluous and destructive insect*.
The Trade In Bird*.
A busy but quiet industry iu this city
ib that of the bird fanciers. A dealer in
canary birds say* that last year he im
ported 100,000 birds, which were readi
ly disposed of at fair prices. They are
generally brought from the Harts aonn
tain region of Germany. From the
large dealers a fine male canary with a
good voice can be bought for $3. Choice
specimens with extraordinary vocal
power* bring, sometimes, $lO. Female
birds for breeding purposes sell for sl,
Unscrupulous dealers,particularly stnrat
vendors, palm off on the nnwary the fe
males for good songsters, and only after
patient waiting do the owners, who
have been sold as well a* the birds, find
it out An amateur alight-of-haud per
former gives this as his method for ren
dering a canary tame enough for trick
playing: " Take a young bird and put
oil of bcrgamot on bis bill. It will
make him 'as drunk a* a lord'; then
roll him in your hands nntil he is famil
iar with your touch, and put him in his
cage to come to himself. He can he
handled afterward at any time without
being at all frightened. Then the first
thing is to teach him to climb np your
fingers a* a ladder, and to hop on your
thnmb. Soon he can be taught to do
anything."
Next to the canary the mocking bird
is most in demand. Those whose vocal
powers are well-developed are sold for
$25 and upward. The birds come from
Virginia and other Southern States, and
also from Mexico. The bullfinch is
highly regarded when well-trained. It
can l>e tanglit to whistle tunes. There
is oue in Chatham street which whistles
"Pretty Polly PerkinA" ItH price is
$25. One which can whistle ton times
is valued nt s4(l. The goldfinch,chaflluoh,
nightingale, lark and the linnets aud
thrushes nre also prized as songsters.
Of other birds not songsters, thirty dif
ferent speeies, kept as pets for their
beauty or acquirements, may be found
in market. Of these the parrot is most
in demand. A well-trained bird of
either the gray African variety, or the
green American, is worth SSO, or even
SIOO. The most brilliantly oolored
birds are the Australian paroquets and
strawberry finches.—A 'cw York Tribune.
An Indian Funeral.
" Ned," a Digger Indian, wan found
dead alongside the railroad track, near
Anbnrn, (Jul., having apparently fallen
from the platform of a ear and fraetnred
his skull. His friends being notified, I
they placed the remains npon a horse
and conveyed them to Clipper (lap,
where they were dnly cremated in the
manner customary with the red men of ;
that section. The funeral pile, which |
is built of wood to the height of about
four feet, is kept burning alxuit five
hours, during which time relatives and
friends place upon it snch articles ne
they desire to contribute to aid the de
ceased when he shall have arrived at the
happy hunting grounds; ODO gives a
blanket, another a bow and arrow,
another a saddle, etc. When the flesh
lias all been consumed and only the
bones remain, these are raked togethf r
and a tire kept homing alxuit them
until they also bcoomo ashes. When
the fire finally dies ont the ashes are all
collected and'taken to the burial-ground
and interred, a little sngar loaf shaped
mound being erected over them. The
female relatives of the deceased, as evi
dence of mourning, smear their faces
and heads with tar—the extent of the
application indicating the closeness of
their relationship—and this is left nntil
it naturally wears off. There was a
large attendance at " Ned's" fnnera),
every train arriving at tho Gap bringing
a number of bucks and squaws. As
| they were allowed to ride free, the train
men usually press the bucks into ser
vice when it is necessary to wood up,
but on such an occasion as this they
Bturdilv refuse, replying: "No work;
funeral to-day."
FOR THE 101 Mi FOLKS
A t urluus >*rt.
A little more than half way across the
dreary Tartar steppes, that extend uu
broken for eight hundred miles, from
the Russian frontier loan of Ornk to the
great inland lske marked on Asiatic
maps as the res of Aral, the endless
level is broken by u deep rooky gully
several hundred sards ju length, on the*
brink of which stands n long low build
ing of sun-dried clay, surrounded by a
thick wall of the same material.
The whole affair has such a primitive
look that it might easily pass for a huge
cattle-pen, but for the tw guua which
peer watchfully over it* irregular
sides, and the glittering bayonet of s
white-trocked Cossack, who i* standing
sentry on an sngle of the wall. This
littl" nest is " Port Karabutak," one of
Russia's Central Asian outposts- a spot
so remote aud desolate that one might
well suppose it* garrison to have been
sent hither as a punishment for some
uuheard-of crime. <
At this delectable place do I halt
about four o'clock i>ne glorious June
moruitig. I hammer lustily at the door
of a little wud-plaatcred log htit, which
ha* nothing but the black and white
*tri|H-n on it* door-p-wts to show that it
is a iKHit-house.
My Tartar servant, meanwhile, assist
ed my efforts bv yelling at the top of
his voice, " <M ■' " (horses).
At length, just as we are beginning to
loan patience altogether for in the
Asiatic deserts every miuuto of the cool
morning hour* is worth its weight iu
gold a long yawn from within, follow
ed by a drowsy *• * i-tcha*" (directly),
aunouuera* that the master of the bouse
is tragiuuiug to bestir himself.
Just at this moment, my attention is
attracts! to a "swinging cradle" of
genuine Eastern fashion, suspended
from the projecting caves, in which lie
a brace of sturdv little children, brown
a* hazel-nuts, and round av plums.
Both are fast asleep, in tlusve extra
ordiuarv [tositious which none but chil
dren can contrive to assume. lam still
admiring the pioiureequrnees of the
group, when 1 snddenlv jrarceive that I
have overlooked one ot its most inqxirt
ant feature*.
Hnugly curled up between the two
sleeping children, in the warmest place
of all, lies a round yellowish mas*,
topped with a pair of pointed ear*.
At first sight, it* size and color might
make one Uke it for a large cat; but a
oat it certainly is not. Nor, a* 1 look
again, does it seem like a dog.
The outstretched fore paws ou which
it rests, indeed, are sufficiently canine,
and when I iragin to careos it, it re
s]h>dilm by licking my hand iu genuine
dog fash!<•; bnt that narrow head, that
sharp muzzle, that slanting greenish
yellow eye, surely never belonged to
an v dog since the world began.
It is this peculiarity of the eyes
which, recalling my winter experiences
in European Russia, at length let* me
into the secret. The btxlfellow of the
p. at master's children is a vouug wolf.
Just a* I have made tins discovery*
the door of the kutopena, and out come,
a big frowzy, shock-headed fellow, with
s huge red beard, who laughs loudly at
my look of amazement.
" Aha, burin ." (master > "you haven't
Aran msny children like (hat. I fancy 1"
" Where on earth did yon pick it up ?"
a*k 1, looking wooderingly at the two
children, who are awake at last, and Ira
gaining to pull their fonr-footed play
mate in the most unceremonious fash
ion.
" Well, vou see, last winter, a wolf
oam<> prowling round here, and I had to
give h:m a taste of my hatchet. Ko,
when I'd settled him, I bethought mysel,
that the she wolf nnght'nt Ira far off, ami
I followed the trail throngh the snow
till it bronghi me to the hole, and there
was the old lady, sure eDongh, and an
other lap of the axe quieted her, too.
" Bnt wheu I saw Ihta poor little brat
whimpering over the biy, I felt sorry
for it, somehow, *nd I concluded not to
kill it bnt to take it home for the chil
dren to pl*y with, and now it get* a
share of their bread and milk in the
morning and of their blanket at night,
just like one of themselves."
" But you surt-lv don't mean to keep
it ?"
" No, I'm afraid that won't do," said
the giant, with a regretful shrug of his
huge shoulders. " When it get* bigger,
and begins to find it* teeth, then " a
significant flourish of the gr-at brown
hand completes the unfinished phrase.
When I return from Samarciaud, three
months later. I find the sentence already
executed.— David A'rr.
Ktep a* Xtep.
No matter whether the steps l>e "one
hundred and eighty," or less, or more,
Mm safe rule for a boy to attain emin
ence in the world is always the same.
Said a father to his young son, who was
complaining that he lie 1 nothing to be
gin with, and shrinking from the " low"
position of errand-lioy in a store:
"Were you with me last summor,
wheu we visited Baltimore and went up
to the top tf Washington's monnment ?"
" Yes, father; yon recollect we all
went ud, and little Fred was so tired ho
could hardly gain the top."
" Do you recollect how we ascended ?
Were we lifted from the# street by an
elevator ?"
" No, father. Don't yon remember
that a man let us in by the door, and
we went np by the winding atep* ? We
had no light only that of a smoky lan
tern, and it was a long time before we
reoohed the top."
"And we got up at last," said liis
father, "after patiently stopping oue
hundred and eighty time*, one after the
other; and were we not repaid at the
top with the magnificent view which we
enjoyed ?"
"It was perfectly grand 1" said
Thomas.
" Now, Thomas, an yon ascended that
monument, so you must rise in busi
ness. You are now standing on the
lower steps—yon are on the steps—and
there is nothing to hinder vou, if your
health is good, from standing on tbo
top" _____
CaflTre Dances.
The usual signs of festivity in s Caffre
kraal is the slaughter of several sheep,
which, when the members of the tribe and
their friends are collected together, are
otxiked in their large iron |x>t, and eaten
with great relish and appetite. The
women sit apart from the men and elder
boys, ami cook separately, and all await,
sileut and dignified, the commencement
of the first course, when for a couple of
hours it is a continuous eating and
cooking. Having consumed a few
ponnds each, a party of men advance on
a small slightly raised circle of the
gronnd. Holding the assegai in the
right hand, blanket or sheepskin carossc
thrown over tho left, they commence
going ronnd in a circle, chanting and
marking time, the emphasis on the right
foot. They str.iin all the muscles of tho
body in so doing, and contort the fea
tures of the face as they shake their
assegais. At times oue will leap into
the center of the circle, shooting and
going through warlike motions; then,
retiring to his former place, the whole
j*rty resnmes the monotonous circular
motion. When they are tired, a fresh
lot takes their places, and so on. The
women have their dance apart, and the
girla also, apart from the married
women, at the same time.
Curious Method of I atrhlng (Juail.
The following pasaage, from a work
called " Hport and Work ou Hie N'epaul
Frontier," dnnorilraa the manner of cap
turing quails in the Host Indies: Trav
eling one day along one of the glades I
have meutloued as dividing the strips
of jungle, 1 was surprised to are a man
before me in s field of long stubble,
with a cloth spread over his hriui ami
two sticks projecting in front at an ob
tuse angle to his Ixsiy, forming horn
like projections, on which the ends of
his cloth, twisted spirally, were tied.
1 thought from his curious antics and
movements that lie must IK- mail, but 1
stain discovered that thrie was method
lit his madness. He was catching quail.
The quail are often very numerous in
the stubble fields, ami the natives adopt
very ingenious devices for their cap
tare. This was oue 1 was now witness
lug. overtng themselves with their
cloth as 1 have deaenbed, the projecting
ends of the two sticks representing the
horns, they simulate all the movements
of a row or bull. They pretend to paw
up the earth, to** their make tralieve
horns, turu round and pretend to scratch
themselves, and, in fact, identify them
selves with the animal they are repre
senting; and it is irresistibly oi mical to
watch a solitary jrarformer go through
this al frtn-o comedy. I have lailghtxl
often at some winning old herdsman or
shekarry. Wheu they see yon watching
them they will redoublethrir effort*, and
trv to represent au old bull gotug through
ail his pranks and practices, and throw
you into convulsions of laughter.
Round two siiUcs of the field they have
put flue nets, tuil at the apex
they have a large cage with a decoy
quail inside, or ]rarha|>s a pair. The
quail !*'% running bird, disinclined for
night except at night ; iu the daytime
they prefer running to using their
wings. The idiotic looking old cow, a*
we will call the hunter, ha* all his wit*
about hini. He proceeds very slowly
and warily; his kren eye detect* the
conveys ot quail, which way they sre
going, his ruse generally succevsls won
derfully. He Is no more like a oow than
that respectable animal is like a cticum
tier; but he paws, and tosses, aud move*
about, pretends to est, to nibble here,
and switch his tail there, and so on
maneuvers as to keep the running quail
away from the unprotected edge* of the
field. When they get to the verge pro
tected by the net. they iragin to take
alarm; they are probably not very cer
tain about the peculiar-looking "old
Cow " behind them, and running along
the net, they see the decoy quails evi
dently feeding in gre*t security and
freedom. The Y-ahajrad mouth of the
large basket cage looks invitingly open.
The puzzling net* are barring the way,
and the "old cow " la gradually cloamg
up I rah i ml. A* the hnnter move* along,
I should hare told too, he rub* two
piece* of dry hard sticks gently up and
down his thigh with one hand, prounc
mg • peculiar crepitation, a crackling
sound, not sufficient to atartle the bird*
into flight, but alarming them enough
to make them get ont of the way of the
"old cow." One bolder than th*other*,
possibly the most timid of the covey,
irritaLxi by the qneer crackling sound,
now i utor* the basket, the others fol
lowing like a flock of nheep, and once in,
the puzzling shie of the entrance pre
vent* their exit. Not mfreouentlv the
hnnter bags twenty or even thirty (irace
of qnail in one field by this ridiculous
looking but ingenion* method.
A Sulride'• letter
The dead ixxly of an unfortnnat*
man. Hood Alston by uarfle, wa* found
on the 3d of March under a tree at Ray
8L Irani*. Miss. It wa* diraovered
that he had destroyed himself by mor
phine, and that be left trahind him a
pitiful and deeply interesting letter.
He wa* evidentlv a man of culture, and
the letter *aul he had once Iraen a jour
nalist. On the 2*l of July, 1863, he wa*
*trnck on the head by a piece of *holl at
the battle of Gettysburg. He recovered
to all appearances and wa* thought to
Ira quite well. In his letter, however,
Alston declare* that he haa since Iraen
c macron* that he lis* always Iraen
hoTering on thedangerons edge of in
aauity. lie has felt on particular and
frequent oochmou* au almost irresistible
impulse to kill people, and always pre*
ferentially those who were most dear to
him. To avoid thi* he ha* fled often
from the presence of a wife and chil
dren, living in California, whom he
tenderly loved; but has never had the
moral strength to confess his fears and
cause himself to be placed under re-
Htramt. At last the accumulated
agonies of his apprehension, and the
horror of his secret wa* too much for
him and he slew himself. The case is
aingular and anggestive. How far Al
ston'* mad new* was, a* represented by
himself to himaelf, real and how far
feigned we ah all probably never know.
Perhapa, aa some writers would have tin
think of Hamlet, he wa* sometime* sane
and sometimes otherwise. Rut were
hia frer* leat he should take the life of
others incident to his lucid intervals, or
Jid they only present themselves when
hia mind wa* off its balance and ao con
atitnto the charactenatic and proof of
his insanity ? The question i* a puz
zling one, and, like the problem of
Hamlet'* lunacy aud the inquiry whether
it is genuine or simulated, may invito
endless discussion while leaving the
issue forever in the seqnel to be
"■mothered by surmise."—AW YorA
Evening Font.
A New Astronomical Wonder.
At tho last total eclipse of the snn,
many astronomer* burned themselves
chiefly with observing the corona which
had excited so mnch interest and specn
latiou at prerions eclipses. This is the
n ime given to the bright light seen out
side of the moon's disk when the body
of the sun is completely hidden by it.
Opinions wore divided as to its cause;
some observers thinking it proceeded
from the sun's atmosphere, or from lu
minous gases which shot far above its
surface; while others imagined it sepa
rated Irom the sun altogether, and due
to other causes in the depths of space.
From the observations made, and
from photographs taken, it is now be
lieved to be sin ply the reflected light of
the sun. This reflection is snpposed to
lie due to immense numtiers of meteor
ites, or poeaibly, systems of meteorites,
like the rings of Saturn, revolving at>ont
the sun. The existence of such meteor
ites has long been suspected, and ob
servations now seem hi justify a belief
in their existence. Their constant fall
ing into the sun is thought to lie one of
the methods by which its heat ii main
tained without losa.
Itellef Froth a Corn.
Hoak the foot in warm water for a
qnarter of an hour every night; after
each soaking, rub on the corn patiently,
with the finger, a half dozen drops of
sweet oil; wear around the toe during
the day two thicknesses of bnckskin,
with a hole in it to receive the corn,
and continue this treatment until the
corn falls out. If yon wear moderately
loose shoes, it will be months, and even
years, before the corn returns, when the
same treatment will be efficient in a few
days. Paring coins is always danger
ous, beside making them take deeper
root, as does a weed cut off near the
ground; bat the plan advised is safe,
painless, and costs nothing bnt a little
attention. —'Exchange.
TERMS: $2.00 a Yoar, in Advance.
TIMELY TOPIC'S.
The sacred right of petition baa been
vindicated to the extent of 10,167 peti
tions introduced in the House of ltep
reaentatives during the Forty-fifth
United Klate* CuugrcM. They relste to
ail sorts of subject*, and come from
private individuals, aliens, corporation*,
literary, scientific, and lalsu-reform
societies, tioards of trade, htste and
Territorial legislature*; in fact, from
almiwt every branch of trade and in
dustrv. Under the rule of the !i"U*e
|ralltloli* are uot presented in open sea
•1011, tint are placed on file, and ** a
general thing are never heard of.
Hixty-fiine libel suits for one libel!
Ambiguity has Ixrati the death of one
pi n>r paper in Marseilles, France. The
A'oui-rUnit, of Marseilles, stated some
months ago I out the tax receiver of Hi.
Etleuue had einlw-xzled SIO,OOO. The
proprietor must have hat more than
one "bad quarter of an hour " when he
discovered, as he very quickly did, that
there are sixty-nme Bt. Elleuues, towns
or communes in France. Every one of
the tax receivers of these place* brought
au action sgsiust the paper, which has
Iraen ordered to pay s*2o damage* to
each Collector, Iraaidcs S4O flue.
A "first exhibition circular" of the
Melbourne International exhibition of
1880 ha* Iraen received. It contains
long list* of oommiasinner* and oomuiil
tocw and the " system of general classi
fication," apparently basod to a con
siderable extent o- on that of Philadel
phia. The president is the Hon. Wm.
John Clarke, member of the legislative
council at Melbourne. Applications for
space should be sent in not later than
Juue 30, 187'J The reception of ex
hibit* will commence June 1, 1880, and
none will be admitted after August 31.
The exhibition will remain open for oix
calendar moulha, commencing October
1, 1880, and closing March 31, 1881.
Full particulars can Ira obtained from
Joint-* E Demson, Na 123 Collins
street, Wcwt Melbourne, who will act a*
general agent for American exhibitor*.
A subject of more than ordinary in
terest is now nuder consideration by a
committee of the Medipo-Legal society,
and it is deemed probable that the re
sult of the research and report of the
oommitUra will be the paiiaage of a law
providing for the verification of every
case of snpi*>sed death occurring in
New York city. The wisdom and ne
cessity of such a law, the Herald xe
marks, can hardly be questioned by any
one who has given the subject any care
ful thought; and ao thoroughly ta it
acknowledged by Europeans that in
every principal country of Europe legal
cognizance is taken of the possibility of
syncope being mistaken for death. And
in nearly all, if not all of the principal
citie* ou the continent therw is an officer
of the law whose duty it is to deeide in
every case of apparent death whether it
is or is not real. In England and Amer
ica, however, no protection is afford
ed bv the statutes against the possibility
of a live person being buried.
An original character, well known in
the Latin quarter, ha* just diad in Fans
at an advanced age. IVre Royer, as he
was calhvd, fancied he wa* an unappre
ciated genius, and amused himaelf in
inventing new systems which were to
renovate society. He set up a new re
ligion, one article of which —and the
one that | roeured the most adherents—
wa* to make everv other day a day of
rest. He habitual* d himself to eating
only on alternate days, and used to
argne that by sleeping twenty-four con
secutive hour* *nd then working for a
like period, the name sum of labor
would le produced with a saving of food
and the time lost at mealA During the
late war Pere Royer invented a uumtrar
of mean* for annihilating the Prussian*,
and never pardoned the war depart
ra nt for the indifference it manifested
toward hi* Greek fire, which be called
the " prusoovnre." He was the anthor
of some song*, which were sung in their
time by the ntudents, and of a poem
nailed " Ira droit de boire," which, un
fortunately for bin, he never found a
publisher to bring out Like many
other philanthropist*, he died in a
state of utter destitution.
W hoppers.
11 wa* at a miner's cabin in Tennessee;
a dozen or ao of rough, uncouth, un
kempt looking fellow* *at over a stove
in an atmosphere redolent with cold cof
fee and tobacco.
"Talkin' about your storiea," said a
grizzly, gray old fellow, removing his
pipe from Iratween two shaggy masses
of tawny hair, while his companions
gave each other significant glances—
" talkin' about your stories, why, y've
all hearn on Bill Hess, him a* wa*
killed in '7B, a moonahining. Well,
Rill an' me wua old cronie*. A year
afore the war Bill, he swalled of a
peach pit. It trubbled of him a kinder,
bnt no one thonght much on't; but
Bill's appetite it got stronger and
stronger, till at last he'd eat and de
vour of every think as what he could
lay of his hands on. An'the mystery
about the affair wna, that the more
Bill he would oat, the thinner did he
become.
" It wns six years arter that—ye*, it
wna saving years—when one day Bill
he wu* took with a pripin" an' a groan
in'. Hnake*! how he kicked and yelled;
saving men couldn't hold of him. No
doctor wus in the part* where we WUA
Well, he had cnuwulsion*. an' he had
'em right smart, too, I toll ycr, and the
fnrst think we knowd, np came a small
cherry tree "
" 1 thought a* 'ow he swalled of a
peach pit ?" some one asked.
" Well, so he did,aud he disgorged of
a peach tree altout three feet high —did
I say cherry ?—well, that was a slip of
the tongue—with bloomin' peaches on
it. Aud arter that Bill's health cum
back to him, ami he wusu't afflicted no
more."
" I've got a story to best that," ex
claimed a young, spriglitlv-lookiug
miner, with a merry eye and a clear
complexion. "Me an Bob Jones we
wus a traveliu' in 'SB, just about the
time that ere accident happened to Bill
Ile*s,and Bob he got a cinder in bis eye,
whicli kinder annoyed him. It got wuss
and wuss, till the poor feller hadn't no
peace or comfort. One day, says Bob
to mc, says he: * Pete, sometbink is
the matter with that ereeye.somethiukis
the matter. It feels like as what it wus
gettin' bigger and leavm' of my Head."
"I looked at it.and sure enough there
wus a raisen-like sort of tliixik on it.
Still it trubbled of Bob. Day by day,
that raiaeu-hkesort of think growed and
growed, nutil it wouldn't let the eyelid
slint. Mind ve, all this time Bob could
see just as well as ever, if anythink, bet
ter than nor before. The raisen like
sort of think growed and growed for
two years, when it had growed three
inches out of Bob's eye. It was just
like a bush, with tiny branches and little
bits of leaves. Well, to make a long
story short, one night Bob turned over
on bis face in his sleep, and in the
mornin' he found a little maple tree
lyin" alongside of him, and the pain in
his eye and the bush was gone. That,
there," pointing to a sapling just out of
the door, "is the tree which growed of
the cinder what Bob Jones caught in his
eye."
NUMBER 14.
I
The I'reMTTttlen of FeretU.
In an article with the above title in the
Aor(A American Review, Felix L. Os
wald, after reviewing the disastrous ef
fort* which have followed the wholesale
deMru'-tiou of foieate io various e<>nn
triiw of the world, r •rnurka t!.t ab<<e
the year IKH6 th f<-re*t area of the
Western Lrruispbere La* decreaal at
the avi rage yriy rate* <4 I.tMW.btMJ
arroa. or about 11,400 (Wjuarr miles ; in
the (.'tilled Hlate-s alone ib'a rate baa
advanced from 1 (100 njuare tnilea in
1836 to 7,000 in 1855. and 8,400 io 1876,
Between 1780 and 1838 the total aggre
gate of foreata fejle I iu Honth and CVc
tral \m<-rica (especially in Bouthtealern
Mexico), and in'the Eastern, Southern
and Southwestern States of oar republic,
may l>e estimated at from 46,000,000 to
80000,000 ecrea. In other w./ria, we
have been waaliug the moisture supply
of the American soil at the avtrage ratio
of seven per cent, tor eeec juarter of a
century during the last one hundred
and twenty five yeara, and are now feat
approaching the limit beyond which any
further decrease will affect the climatic
phenomena of the entire continent.
If we consider how the agricultural
products of the eastern continents be
come frorf year to year more inadequate
to the wants of their atili-growmg popu
lation, we may foraee the time when the
ho|e of the workl will depend upon the
productiveness of the American aoil; j
but that productiveness depends on the
fertilising influence of the American
fresta. If they are gone we shall ave
on earth no newer world to hope <jr—
no future Oolumbos can alleviate the !
struggle for existence. To stay such a
catastrophe the author suggests that in
every township, where the disappear
r.urr ot arboreal vegetation begins to af
fect the perennial springs and wattr
e'uraea or the fertility of the fields, a
space of fifty acres should be appropn
ated for a " township grove." an oaa a
to be consecrated forever to shade tree*, !
b rds' neat*, picnics and playing chil
dren. In ail new settlements, where a
remnant of the primeval foreata has snr
vired, let the woods on the upper ndgt a
or on the summits of isolated bills be
s(>ared by mutual agreement of the pro
prietora. In the treeless regions of the
great West not only the amateur aoeie
ties, but every grange and farmers'
union of every county, should devote
inemselves to the work of tree culture ;
andVverv landed proprietor should see
to it that the boundaries of his estales
be set with shade trees, and that the j
wooden fences be supplanted by ouick
set Ledges. Let fruit trees tie planted
wherever there is a piece of ground
neither otherwise occupied nor absolute
ly bairen ; and be sure that their lnfln
ence on the atmosphere in summer and
their fertilising leaves in fall will more
than indemnify the adjoining fields ft r
the modicum of sunlight they may in
tercept. ADy State where these pre
cautions should be generally adopted
would soon be so unmistakably distin
guished by the unfailing humidity and
freshness of its fields and the abundance
of its crops, that the sheer necessity ot
competition would induce backward
neigh borVto experiment, and be
fore long the maxim would not only ba
generally recognised, but generally set
d upon, that husbandry and tree enl
tare are inseparable. Scientific Amer
ican.
Women Druggists in Holland.
In 1865 young lady of Zsandijk,
MIM A. \l. Tobbe, wrote to the medical
commission of Northern Holland. asking
to be admitted as a student of pharmacy;
she desired to fit herself to carry on the
druggist business of her father, who had
iast died, and which was about to be
entrusted to a graduate with a diploma.
The commission answered her that her
request was ao exceptional that tbA did
not think they had a right to decide it,
and adriaed her to write personally to
the miniater of the interior, M. Thor
becke. On the 25th of June, 1865, he
refused her request on the ground that
as article seventeen of the instructions
for druggists used only the pronoun He.
The law of 1866 npon the exereiae of the
art of healing waa, however, more gal
lant than its predecessor and admitted
women as well as men to the examina
tion as either stndents of pharmacy,
druggist a' assistants or druggists. Hard
ly eleven years have passed since this
last medical law liegan to operate, and
already a hundred women have been re
ceived as atadenta of pharmacy, and
when they have acquired the necessary
knowledge and satisfied the legal re
qmrementa will pass through the ex
aminations necessary to qnalify them for
the right to open a drug store.
The examination required for becom
ing a student of pharmacy is itaelf quite
a serious one. It comprehends the
Dutch language, arithmetic, Latin, the
reading and application of written re
ceipts and some of the prescriptions of
the Pharmacopra hrrrbamdtca, a theo
retical knowledge of medicine, a knowl
edge of simples by their exterior charac
ters, the origins of medicines, their
scientific names with their synonyms
and the preparation of receipts. * The
fact ia not very flattering to the stronger
sex that, on the average, the number of
masculine candidates refused is doable
that of women candidates. These future
druggist*, many of whom are the daugh
ter* of drnggists or country doctors, do
ant find the.r places only iu their fathers'
offices but are in demand among the
druggists of the large cities, in Amster
dam especially, and now in the phar
macies of hospitals, and commend them
selves by their habits of order, neatness
and exactness, which are rarely met
with in equal degree among their male
competitors.—AVg York Graphic.
Alligator-steak*.
The following letter is from the corre
spondence coinmn of the New Tork
Evening Pi Hit: " A short paragraph
about Achille Murat in the /Timing
Pot reminds me of some stories about
lnm that I have often heard on the gulf
coast of Florida. Only the older fami
lies ri membered him, as he died in 1847.
Ilia wife is buried with him at Talia
haaae.
" With a Frenchman's instinct for new
and rare foods, Murat himself cooked
and ate from nearly the entire fauna of
Florida. He used to cook adigaicr
steak in away so delicious that no alli
gator in all Florida would recognise it
M a morsel of one of his brothers.
Another of his experiments was in cook
ing the turkey-buzzard. the scavenger
of Southern cities. These birds are
among the best of flyers, soaring around
at a great height for hours at a time,
w"h no appearance of moving their
wings, which have a spread of about six
feet. But they are foul and disgusting
birds, always eating oarnon food if tbty
can get it; and I have seen great tkck
of them so gorged wikh such food that
they could not raise themselves from
the ground, and so were at the mercy of
any one who chose to walk among them
and knock them over. They are seldom
killed, and in most Southern towns and
villages are protected by law. Perhaps
their occupation is of value in that warm
olimate in disposing of dead oattle, alli
gators ana flsb. Murat worked faith
fully over his buzzard roasts and buz
zard fricasee until be oould stand it no
longer. When asked how he liked it,
he said: ♦ Oh! I can eat any kind bird;
lam not affrate to eat anyzing. I have
no prejudioe; but ee buzzard is no
gojae.'"
ITEMS OF INTEREST
A bora hm Oolu.
" Branch-bouses I Tbe florists.
There Uf fifty substitute* far coffee,
tod 129 for te*.
The lighthouses of ths world si* esti
mttod tt 2,814.
One-third of Ohioago's population it
German, or of German origin.
A otM it gained through
perjury tod sometimes per jory.
The tutu who wm lot! io slumbet
probably found hit wty oat on t nigbV
mare.
Many of the provincial cities of Oh at
hare populationa of from 600,0 hi to
1,000,000 etob.
W suppose no one woold osrsto do
without t tongue. But, tfter til, t it
only t matter of taste.
A TACT is arraososr.
If the moon wars Ilk. sotns man,
Krery night ibs' 4 b# swbiusa.
For instaaO of <(ar taring lias
Hha would be lull ah (be taws.
New Mexico has 1,W,I0 hs.i ..f
sheep, valued at 1.600.000; t>lc*d
060,000 bead, valued at fiLOOO.ODO. Wy
uniing territory 228,000, valued at s4B©,-
000.
" Mother is all the time telling me not
to bolt my food," watd the small boy,
| •• and now she has gone and bolted up
the enpboard that has got all the oom
; pany victuals."
On the Atlantie ocean, daring the
prevalence of a heavy atorm the ex
treme altitude of waves above the inter
veiling depressions or holloas was found
to be forty three feet.
The differenoa between the th-rniom
eter on a July day and a meadow lark u
that the latter rises three hundred feet,
while the former goes up nearly a bun
dm! degrees, above nothing. — W. Y.
AW.
Nothing is more injurious to the
floors of s building than covering them
with pointed floor cloth, which entirely
prevents the access of atmospheric air,
whence the dampness of the boards
never evaporate*.
A confidence operator was caught in
the art of cheating a man at cards, and
boldlv insisted that by so doing he was
only obeying the scriptural injunction'
When asked bow be made that out, he
said: " He was a stranger, and I took
him in."
Two iovsrs at the gats.
Th*v linger, ling sr. linger.
He bind* U* nng of f ale—
The nog of love and fat*—
With a bis. sua her finger.
i ,t n A<
S||s
One kivsr at ihe grata.
She bog sr., ling era linger*,
" HsigtaoT this ring of fats,'
It be ssya, "I'vs seen of Ist*
I'poo six starts' fiss(s." '
Lfuircu t Oumisr-JtmmaL
Select your object in life, and then
make it your great and eonstant aim to
attain it. This ia the only true principle
of (access m say depsrtmrnt of labor—
the great principle acted on by men
who attain anything like emicenoe.
Tbey select their object fcr the most
part' in early life, and then pursue it
with unshaken resolution and firmness.
Foolish Every-day Qaeations— Aakin
the orange peddler* " Are Lhej sweet?'
Inquiring of your friend Hea th as to
what the weather is going to be in the
future Ume, certain or indefinite. De
standing " What's the news t" with the
expectation of getting any answer other
than " O-o-h, nothing." Hailing Tom,
Dick and Harrv with " How d'ye do T"
" How are ve? J as though you cared a
rush how tfcey did or bow they were,—
Boston Transcript.
The American Agriculturist, in an in
teresting article on the Texas cattle
drive, says: "The cattle go to the river
for water at noon, with the exception of
a few, which remain behind to take care
of the calves. One cow may often be
seen watching twelve or fifteen calves,
while their mothers have gone with the
remainder of the herd to drink. Aftei
the return of the herd the ' watchers *
take their turn. This interesting fact is
vouched fot by several old ranchmen."
David Crockett ouoe viaited a me
nagerie at Washington, and, pausing a
moment before a particularly hideous
monk#*, exclaimed: " What a rearm
blance to the 800. Mr. L 1" The words
were scarcely spoken, when be W. Ned,
and, to his great astonishment, saw
standing at his aide the very man whom
he had complimented. "1 beg yonr
pardon," aaid the gallant colonel; "I
would Lot hare made the remark had I
known yon were near me, and I am
r<wdy to make the moat hnmble apology
for my nnpardcnable rodeo ess; but"—
looking first at the insulted member of
Congrcws. whose face was anything bnt
lovely, and then at the animal compared
to him—" hang it, if I oan tell whether
I ought to apologiae to yon or to the
monkey!"
Wanted te Porch*se
The bells had jnst struck three
o'clock in the morning when there came
a faint knock at the humble door of the
hnmble cabin of the hnmble Widow
L ybold on Woodbridge street. The
widow turned in her sleep and mattered:
" 'T\s some child of woe and sorrow
Come thu early here to borrow
Tee or ooffee for ber break feet-"
The next knock wasn't so faint. It
made the door shake and the dishes rat
tle, and the widow sat np in bed and
cried oat:
" Tiseoaw loafer who is poaaditif
Ah ' I bear tue voice rvsouoding;
And I'U chase him from my door."
The third knock was a kick, and the
hnmble Widow Day hold opened ber door
with that prompt, decided act.cn which
alone saved the battle of Waterloo.
Before ber stood a tall, distinguished
stranger, and he aaid:
" Lady fair, eicnes this knocking,
Pray o erieak this ooadact shocking—
Kicking on your door.
I* r. or name Xirandy Taylor,
Widow of e gallant sailor
Dead upon Lake Erie • ahore t"
The widow gracefully inclined ber
head and delnged the stranger with a
pail of water, and he was running awsy
when he fell into the arms of a police
man. He was permitted to sit by s hot
stove for the next five hoars. Yet when
court opened the only dry spot about
him was his throat.
•• Did von have the least idea that
Mirandy Taylor lived there ?" inquired
h ; s honor.
"Well, I don't remember whether I
had the least idea or not. I thought I'd
inquire and see. I'm s great hand to
; itquire."
"Yon.are, eh? Well, when yon
ccme in sight of the honse of oorreotion
the driver of the Maria will answer all
inquiries. I shall book you for thirty
days."
•'Jnige, does it seem possible that a
man as wet as I am is to be incarcerated
iu a bastile for simply inquiring for
Mirsndv Taylor ? I'm amazed and as
toondea."
"Thirty dsys is the sentence, wet or
dry. If you go up there wet they can
pack yon closer."
"And may I inquire, your lienor, if
this is the nineteenth oentury f"
" Y'ou may, air; and yon may get your
sentence doubled if 1 hear any more
talk."
■' I'm too wet to run any risks," said
the prisoner to himself, and he went in
to hug the stove and wait for the oar
riage to back up.— Detroit Free Frees
Words of Wisdom.
Lame excuses seldom carry the cratch
es of plausibility.
Wisdom prepares tor the wrist, bu
folly leaves the worst for the day when
it comes.
Fortune turns faster than a mill-wheel.
They at the top to-day may be at the
bottom to-morrow.— Beecher.
Do you know that a wise and good
man doee nothing for appearance ; bnt
everything for the sale of having acted
well"?
The moment we feel angry in con
troversy we hsve already ceased striving
for troth, and begin striving for our
selves.
The latter part of a wise man's life is
taken np incuringjthe follies, prejudices
and false opinionspie had contrasted in
the former.