Mortality. How do the row* die ? I>o their leive* fall together, Thrown down and scattered by the kt Of angry weather? No the Md thunder-et* oke O or* weep* their U~. w |y bower; The "form that tramples on the oak Relent* abov (1 flower. No vloleu' > makes them Brieve, No wr jkth hath done them WTOUB. When with *ad secrecy they leave e branoh to which thy cluug. Th' ,t vj*ij them, one by one. To the Itpht broete and hower. Tothe soft ih>w. cool ahade. bright sun. Time and the honr From My Arm-l hair. to tkk cmuiaas or cxmuuiniK, presented to me. oh nty sevenK-second birthday. Fol-marv 37.1879. tills oh sir, ms.to from the wotxl of the village Wack*tmih's chestnut tree Am 1 * king, that 1 should call my owu This splendid ebon throne ? Or by what reason, or what right divine. Can 1 proclaim it onus? Only, perhaps, by rigt.t divine of song tt may to dm belong. Only because the spreaduig chestnut Ires Of old w * sung by me. Well I retue-jiber U in all its priuie, Wbc n in the summer time, The affla eut foliage - f its branches made A eawni of cool shade. Thenr by the blacksmith's forge, t-esi !e the street. Its blossoms white and sweet & .tired the bees, until it i-eeuwxl alive, And murmured like a hive. And when the w nds of antumn, with a -hoot, Tossed us great arms about. The shiauig chestnuts, bursting from the sheet h. Dropped to the ground beneath At d row seme fragments of its branches bare, Shaped as a -lately chair, Hate l-y my hear'.latone fund a home at last, hud Whisper of the past. The Danish king eon.J not. i:i all his pude. Repel the ocean tide, lfut, seated iu this ehair, 1 can in thyme Rod! hack the Ude of time. see again, as one m vision -ess. The blossom* and the Ixx s. And hear Ihe children * voices shout aud call. And the blown chestnuts fall. I see the smithy with its tires aglow, I hear the bellows blow; And the ahrdl hammer* on the anvil lest The iron white with heat! And thus, dear children, hare ye made for me This day e jubilee. And to my mors than threasevre years and ten Brought heck my youth again. Tht heart hath its own memory, like the mind. And iu it are enshrmw! The precious keepsake-, into which are wrought The giver - loving thought. Only your lore and your remembrance could Give life to this.dead weed, And make these branches, 'eaflt-se now so long. Blossom again in song. —Henry H". IA stg/Viknc. UNDER A CLOUD. " Did yon ever see a sadder face ? " It was the remark of a ladv to her friend, as Mrs. Loring passed her win dow. Mr?, Loring had ridden ont for the first time for months ; net now of hex own choice, but in obedience to the solicitation of a friend, and the positive command of her physician. She was in deep sorrow, refusing nil comfort. Heavy clouds were m her sky—biack clouds, through which not a ray of roin shins penetrated. " Faver, "answered tie friend, while a shade caught from Mrs. Loring's countenance tht'.ed across her own face. "Who can she be?" " Didn't _v>n recognize her?" '* So. Tin Vonntenanc© wa., to me, that of a stranger." '• I can hardly wonder that it should be so," said the friend, "for she is sadly changed. That was poor Mrs. Loring, •who lost Ler two children last winter from scarlet fever." " Mrs. Loring ! " The lady might well look surprised. " Sorrow has in deed done a fearful work there. But is it r ijht thus to sit under a clond ? right ♦hns to oppose no strong barrier to the wattvs of :.fiiction that go sweeping over the soni, marring ail its beauty ? " " It is not right," was the answer. "The heart that sits in darkness, brood ing over its loss, sorrows with a selfish sorrow. The clonds that shut out the sun are exnalaiions from its own stag nant surf see. It makes the all-pervad ing gloom by which it is surrounded. I pity Mrs. L ring, unhappy sufferer that she is; but my pity for her is al ways mingled with a desire to speak sharp rebuking words, in the hope to agitato the slumberous atmosphere in which she is enveloped like a shroud." " J wonder," remarked the other, "that her husband permits her to brr,od so long in idle grief over the in evitable." "Husbands," was replied, "have often the least Ralntary influence over their wives when Itowed with affliction. Some men have no patience with die plays of eicessive grief in women, and are, therefore, more 'gnoraot than chil dren in rejrar-i to its treatment Such a man is Mr. Loring. All that he does or say, therefore, only deepens the encompassing shadow. A wise, un selfish man, with a mind torealine some thing of his wife's true state, and a haart to sympathize her, will always iead her from beneath the clouds of sorrow upward to the cLeerful heights npon which the sunshine rests. If she shows unwillingness to be led; if she courts the shadows and hide in the gloom of her own dark repinings, he does not become impatient. He loves her with too unselfish a love for this. And so he bring-! light to ber on his own counte nance. the sunshine of even affected cheerfulness that penetrates the mnrkv atmosphere in which she sits, and warms her heart with its genial radiance. Thus he wooes her with snnny gleams from the clear sky that yet bends over her, and that will make all again bright and beautiful on the earth of her spirit, if she will but lift herself above the clouds. It is the misfortune of Mrs. Loring that she is not blessed with such m a husband." The imbject of this conversation had on that morning yielded to the solicita tions of one of her nearest friends, and wiih great reluctance consented to go ont with her in her carriage. "I shall be mnch better at home," she objected to the urgent appeal of her friend. "This quiet snits me. The stillness of my own chamber accords best with my feelings. The glare and bustle of the busy streets will only dis turb me deeper. I know it is kindness in you; but it is a mistaken kindness." To reason with her would have been uselef -, and so reason was not attempted. "I have come prepared to hear no objections," was the firm answer, "The doctor says that you are injuring your health, and must go out. So get your self ready." "Health—life even ! What are they -to me? I have nothing to live for!" was the gloomy responses. "Oome quickly the time when I shall lay mo down and sleep in peace." "A woman, and nothing to live for? One of God's intelligent creatoreß, and nothing to live for!" There was so much rebuke in the tone with which this was offered that Mrs. Lorin;; was partly aroused thereby. "C' -ie i Let us see whether there be no 1 ; something to live for. Come ! yon must go with me this morning." So decisive was the lady's manner—so impelling the action of the will—that Mrs. Loring found herself unable to re sist: a id so with reluctance that was not ooncen >ed, she made her preparations to go out. In dne time she was ready, ;ind, d.ecrnding with her friend, took a seat ir her carriage and was driven away. Hons s, tries, public buildings, swept like a moving panorama before her eyes, FRED. KURTZ, Editor Mini 1 >ropriotor. VOLUME XII. ami though familiar objects glssued themselves therein, they failed to awaken the slightest tut, rest. The sky was clear, and the bright sunshine lav everywhere; but her heart still sat under a cloud, ami folded around itself gloom for a tuautUv ller friend talked to her, ! calling her attention every little while to some new palace home, or to some glimixte of rural beauty which the eye caught far iu the distance. Hut all was vain; the mourner's slender form still shrunk back among the cushions, ami her face wore its sadd, st asjxvt. Suddenly the carriage drew up before a neat liking house of moderate size, with a plat of ground in front, wherein were a vervlaut square ami tx>rders of well-tended flowers. F.re Mrs. Wring had time to ask a question the coach man was at the door. " Why do you stop here f" she in quired. *• I wish to make a brief call. Come! yon must go iu with me." Mrs, Loring slnxvk her head in a posi tive way, ami said " no " still more poai tivelv. " You will meet no light votary of fashion here, my friend," said the lady, " but one who has suffered like yonr self. " Come 1" Hut Mrs. Loriug shrunk farther back in the carriage, "It is now only three mouths since she followed to their mortal resting place two precious little ones, the last of her tU*ck, that, scarcely a year ago, numbered four. I want you to moet her. Sisters in sorrow, you cannot but feel drawn toward each other by cords of sympathy." Mrs, Loriug shook her head inipera tively. " No—no ! Ido not wish to see her. 1 have grief enough of my own without shanug in that of others. Why did you bring me here ?" There was something like anger in the voice of Mrs. Loriug. "Six mouths, nearly, have passed since God took yonr children to Him self, ami time, that softens grief, has brought to yon at least some healiug leaves. The friend I wish to visit—a friend in humble life—is sorrowing with as deep a sorrow, that is yet but three months old. Have you no word to speak to her ? Can you not, at least, mingle a tear with her tears I It may do you Kith good. But Ido not wish to urge a selfish reason. Bear np with womanly fortitude under your own sorrow, and seek to heal the sorrow of a sister, over whose heart are passing the waters of affliction. Come, my friend !" Mrs. Lcnng, so strongly urged, step ped out upon the pavement. She did so with a reluctance that was almost un conquerable. Oh, how earnestly she wihed herself back in the shadowy solitude of her ow: home. "Is Mrs. Adrian at home?" was in quired of the tidy girl who came to the door. The answer being in the affirma tive, the la-lies entered and were show u into a small but neat sitting-room, on the walls of which were jxirtraits, in crayon, of four as lovely children as ever the eyes looked upon. The sight of these sweet yonng faces stirred the waters of sorrow iu the heart of Mrs. Loring, and she hardly rt -trained her tears. While yet her pnl-ea throbbed with a quicker beat, the door opened and a woman entered, on whose rather pale face was a smile of pleasant wel come. "My friend, Mrs. Loring," such was the introduction, "of whom I have spoken to you several times." The smile did not fade from thooonn- ' ten&nee of Mrs. Adrian, bat its expresj sion changed as ah* took the hand of Mrs. Loring and said: " I thank yon for yonr kindnessjin calling." Mrs. Loring scarcely returned the warm pressure with which her hand was taken. Her lips novel slightly- # bat no word fonnd utterance. Not the feeblest effort at a responsive 6mile was visible. "We have have both been called to pass through the fire," said Mrs. Adri an, in more snbdited tones, though the smile still played aronnd her lips. "Happily, Oqe walked with us when the flames were fiercest, or we must have been consumed." It was now that her voice reached the | heart of Mrs. Loring. The eyes of the selfish woman dropped to the floor, and her thought was turning in upon lton-lf. In the smile that hovered about the lips of Mrs. Adrian she had seen only indtf ference, not a sweet resignation. The words jnst spoken, but more particular ly the voice that gave them utterance, nnvailed to her the sorrow of a kindred sufferer, wbo would not let the voice of wailing disturb another's ear, nor the shadow of her grief fall upon a spirit al ready under a cloud. The drooping eyes of Mrs. Loring were raised, with a hialf wondering expression, to the face of Mrs. Adrian. Htill hovered the smile about those pale hps ; but its meaning was no longer a myst ry ; the smile was a loving efiort to send light and warmth to the heart of a grieving sister. From the face of Mrs. Adrian the eye of Mrs. Loring wandered to the portraits of children on the wall. "All gone I" The words fell from Mrs. Loring's lips almost involnntarilv. She spoke from a new impulse—pity for a sister in sorrow. "All," was answered. "They were precious to me—very precious—but God took them." A slight liuskinasH vailed her voice. " Beautiful children !" Mrs. Loring still gazed on the portraits. " And all taken in a year. Oh how did yon keep your heart from breaking ?" " He who laid noon me so heavy a burden gave me strenglh to bear it," was the low reply. "I have found no strength in a like affliction," said Mrs. Lnring sadly. "No strength ! Have you sought sustaining power?" Mrs. Adrian spoke with a winning earnestness. "I have prayed for comfort, but none came," said Mrs. Loring, sadly. " Praying is well ; but it avnils not, unless there be also doing. "Doing?" " Yes, the faithful doing of onr dnty. Sorrow has no antidote like this." Mrs. Loriag gazed intently upon the face of ber monitor. "When the last heavy stroke fell npon my heart," continued Mrs. Adrian. shattering it, an it eemed, to pieces, I lay for a little while stunned, weak and almost helpless, lint as soon as thought began to rnn clear, I said to myself: *IH there nothing for my hands to do, that yon lie here idle? Is yours the only suffering spirit in the world ?' Then I thought cf my husband's sorrow, which he bore so silently and manfully, striving to look away from his own grief that he might bring comfort to me. l ls it not in my power to lessen for him the gloom of our desolate house hold ?' I asked of myself. I felt that it was ; and when next he returned home at the day's decline I met Jiim, not with a face of gloom as before, but with as cheerful a countenance as it was in my rjwer to assume-. I had my reward ; saw that I had lightened his burden ; and from that moment half the pressure of mine was removed. Since then I have never suffered my heart to brood idly over its grief; but in daily duties sought the strength that never is given to those whofold their hands in fruitless inactivity. The removal of m v children lightened all home dnties, and took away objects of lovejthat I felt must lie in a measure restored. I had the mother's heart still. And so I sought out a THE CENTRE REPORTER. motherless littlo one. aud gathered her mto the fold >f mv love. Alt, madtuti 1 thm is the Wet balsam for the bereaved and bleeding affections that 1 eatt tell of. To mo tt has brought comfort and re oouctlod me to losses, the bare anticipa tion of which uuee made me Ixvude my self with fear. Sometimes, as 1 eit with the tender babe 1 now call my own reel ing on my bottom, a thought of heaven gm*s pleasantly through my mind, and 1 piotuto to myself the mother of thta adopted child as the loving guardian of my owu babes, now risen into the spiritual kingdom of our Father. 1 can not tell you what a thrill of delight such thoughts at times awaken 1" Mrs. luring bowtxl her head ttfx'u her bottom and sat iu silence for some mo ments. Thru she said " You have read me a lesson from which 1 hope to profit. No wonder my heart lias ached on with undiminished pain. I have l>eeu British in my grief. 'There is uothiug now to live for,' I have repeated to myself over and < ver again, until I believed the words." " Nothing to live for!'" Mrs. A>lrian siK>ke iu a surprised voice. "In the image* and likeness of (K .l w were all made; ami if we would have the 1* *t ' beauty restored, we must imitate (h*l in our lives. He* loves every one with a divine tenderness, and is e\e*r seeking to bless us. If we would tx- like Him, we must love each other and seek each Other's good. He has given us the ability to impart blessings, ami made true happiness to depend oil the ex, r cise of this ability; ami if we fold our hands and sit in idle repiuiugs, happi ness is not possible. How fully have I , proved this!" "And, Gel helping me, I will prove the opposite," said Mrs. Loring, peak- x iug from the warmth of a new impulse. "Long enough have I Wen sitting under a cloud." "While the bright sun shorn* far alx>ve iu the clear heavens," added the friend, with a smile of emvuragonn ut. " May we see this babe you have called your own ?" said Mrs. Loriug. The little one was brought, and, as she lay tenderly olaiqxxl to the bosom of her new mother, giving even more of blessedness than she received, Mrs. Loring, after her lips had touched, with a lingering pressure, the pure forehead, said: " Yonr action has been wiser ami bet ter tuau mine, and yon have bad your reward. Wiule the waters of love hare grown stagnant in my heart, semliug up murky exhalations to darken my skv, yours have been kept :.w,x*t and pure to mirror the bembng heavens. 1 tliauk yon for the lesson." She wore a different face on return'ug home than when -he wi-ut f*>rth so re luctant :y. There was a rut in the over shadowing clouds, and a few rays of suu shine came warmly down. Evt u the in ception of good purjxtses hud moved the long-pulseless waters, and the small ripples on the surface were catching the light. A few weeks of unselfish deTotion to the life duties awaiting her hand on all sides wrought a wonderful change in Mrs. Loring. In seeking to be useful to othi r-, her 1 cart was comf* rted ; and when into that h< irt, ever y, arinng with a mother's undying love, a balx left helpless and friendless :u the world was taken, the work of consolation was com pleted. She sat umlero cloud no longer. Aliove her arched the lx*autiful sky, bright through the cheerful day ; and when the night of grief for the loss * f her precious one returned, as it would return at intervals, a thousand stare made beautiful the azure firmament. Nccne* on the Lctccs at New Orleans. Edward King writes as follows in the Boston Jouma': If one were to judge simply by the appearance of the lev -s along the Mississippi river, h- he enters New Orleans from Mol ile, lie would think the town enjoyed a fall fide of prosperity. Dozens of long, dark-bod ied steamers from England, from Nor way, from Russia, and scores of ships from each of those countries are loading with cotton. The tall white steamers from the upjvr waters of the Missis sippi and from the d< zen great streams tributary to it stand raugea in rows like impatient steeds, foaming at their fiery nostrils with anxiety to depart. An army of whites ami blacks scurries from steamboat to cotton-press or broker's office, from ship to shore, fam dancing boat to crowded wharf. The " roust abouts" sing and shout in their peculiar and almost incomprehensible dialect, as they dexterously handle the " cotton hooks." The lines of mules pass sober ly, with the hot sun glistening on their backs, which have long since become impervious to any sensations except those produced by severest beatings. Drnymen urge their mules to gallop through sloughs of mud. and the wan derer on the levees is quite sure to come away well spattered and covered with little tufts of cotton. John Bull's rosy face and shapely form is seen here, in sharp contrast with the saturnine fea tures of the planter fr>m up river. Everybody is talking cotton, shouting cotton, breathing cotlou. for the dainty white fillers float in the air. Morgan's Louisiana and Texas railroad, h lino as yet incomplete, bnt running to lioats which ply on the gulf, has hundreds of cars scattered on the levees. Hero are types which von never see save on the Mississippi river, tiie active, devil-may care, lsliorioiiH boatmen, who have rough struggles all their lives, and some of whom die violent deaths, but wbo are thoroughly in love with their amphibious existence, and could not be persuaded to change it for anything else. Men from far Arkansas'' head waters, from the muddy bluffs of Mis souri, from the fat lands of "Egypt," from the water-iuvaded plantations of Mississippi and Tennessee, are huddled together, discussing the latest jiolitienl excitement, or the price of the staple in which they all trade. They are all of one mind as to general politics, but local matters allow of hundreds of points of difference, none of which do they fail to improve. S-.i: - timesdiscus sions become violent, but tins is rarely the ea*o in New Orleans, between gen tlemen. I doubt if there is nuother point on the globe which can furnish so interesting, animated and peculiar a spectacle as may lie seen here on a Saturday afternoon, when packet after packet moves away majestically and ascends the enormous stream, leaving behind her a vast trail of smoke, and when the wharves are thronged with agents, passengers ami laborers. furious Ku—duti < u turns. It is a curious thing that among the Russians the father and mother of an infant not only cannot stand as sponsors to it, but they are not allowed to he present at its baptism. Tho godfather and godmother, by answering for the child, become related to it and to each other, and a lady and gentleman who have stood as sponsors to the same child are not allowed to marry each other. In christening, the priest takes tho child, which is quite naked, and, hold it by the head, so that his thumb and finger stop the orifices of the ears, he dips it thrice into the water; he enfs off a small portion of the nair, which he twists up with a little wax from the tapers, and throws it into the font; then, anointing tho baby's breast, hands and feet with the holy oil, and making the sign of the cross with the same on the forehead, he concludes by a prayer and benediction. CENTRE HALE, CENTRE CO., PA„ THURSDAY, Al'ltlb 10, IH7!>. TIMI 1.1 TOI'ICS. A curious display of folly and stub- Wrmieas ou tlui part of tt Hus-lau uobte niati is reported. This man owns 40,- htHI acre- of arable land, wluch he will not cultivate uor lease to anybody else; and In* will not permit the extirpation front his acrixt of tin* Silx*rtati tnartii >t or of the lxx*lles, which spread over the country, destroying a large |xirtiou of th* crops every year, and for whose ex tiipatiou many thousand* of people are el-ewlu ii ernployetl by the authorities. Hloiuleau, the French aeronaut, sent his pupil, CVmtier, up iu a balhsm near Naples, and on its deareut iu the sub urtis the population immediatelv out it ill pieces and ran away with them. Itloildeuu wrote to l.'Jta'ia, n Naples ixqx-r, that the balhsm comprised rt.AtH) feet of silk and thread, and had cost twenty-eight workmen thirty-four days . f labor, lie hod traveled with a balhsm for thirty-five years, and often among Arab* and other barbarians, tint had never experienced a similar act of bar barism. The uieit moat noticeable iti the outrage were subsequently urresUxi. Wurtenilx*rg, 111 Germany, is often a - isi tt—l by terrible hailstorms. In some parts of the conn try whole districts are exempted from the laud tax* on account of the damage caused byjtlie hall. And these hailstorms are op jiareutly bcciiuiing more destructive. As regards liability to being visited, it aj jx*ar* that pine wissls enjoy ixmipara live immunity, while beach wi*lb and bare hillsitles are particularly uufortuu ate. The parishes most frequently >|e \u-tat<<d he ou the outskirts of wisshxl lulls, but it dsx*s uot appear that clear ance of a wotxl has any deleterious influ ence. The valleys of the Neckar ami sonic other rivers are the least troubled by this annoyance. " Serkvs Tea," as it is called, is uow turning tlie head* of I'hiiadelphia ladies. Ohve Harper descritxs it in a late let ter. It is a decoction of various Orient al herts, lifts a slightly reaicou* and aromatic taste, aud is said to c-mfer on the ones who drink it faithfully almost the bl.Hiui and beauty of eternal youth. Miss Harper saw it often and drank it in Turkey, and really belitve* it will prolong the fr<hnes* of a woiuau's complexion to an advantage. It seem* to act on the skin, and to promote a general health ami vigor. Only one firm st Us it iu Philadelphia, and their room- are througed from morning till night, by ladies seeking to renew their vouth. The storv sounds fi*hv. Hotel Tobag** i* an island in the South seas which has Kx*n visited by u party of Uuitcd States naval otficers. They were surveying a rock east of the South cajx* of Formosa, ami called at this is land. They found a curious race of Malay stock. The**e altorigine* did uot knt>w what money was good for. Nor had they ever used tolacc*> or mm. They gave the o!fi.x*rs goats and nigs for tin p* ts and brass buttons, and hung ronu.l the vessel all day in their cam* * waiting for a chance to dire for omc thing w inch might K- thrown ovi-rlxar.E They wore clouts only, tc turo and yams, and had axes, spear* and knives made of common ir>u. Their cati. ee were ma<lc without nails, ami were orna mented with geometrical lino. They wore the beards of goat* and small shells as ornaments. Such is the accouut of these strange pcoph* given by l>r. S< ig fried in a letter read ut the last meet iug of the Philadelphia academy of natural sciences. Popular Science, Soaking timber in lime-water has been recommended for pr. t rviug it 'mm dry rot uud the effects of the weather. Amber is found in the mines, rivers and sea-coasts of Prussia. It is used in varnish and fir mouthpiect aof pipes. A machine for cutting stone of all kinds rapidly, and capable of striking ix thousand blows per minute, has bceu patented. A series of experiments has established the fact that chloroform neutralizes the action of strychnine upon the human system. A German chemist says frozen cab, bages or plants lose none of their uutri tive qualities, because the frost trans forms the starch in the vegetable into sugar. To tell a diamond from an artificial gem look through the stone at the point of a needle or a small hole in a card,and if there nro two i>oints or two holes the stone is not a diamond. The black sulphate of silver which forms on plated and silver wares, may be removed at once by wiping the snr face with a rag wet with aqua ammonia, and without the trouble of rnbbing. Iu Rreslan a successful attempt has been made to erect a paper chimney al>ont fifty feet high. By a chemical preparation the paper was rendered im pervious to the action of fire or water. Prof. Nichols, of Boston, found eight grains of arsenic to each square font of a green dress submitted to his examina tion. Here is the fact of poisons freely used. Is there no remedy ? A French engineer has contrived an apparatus in which, by a system of mir rors, the rays of the sun are so ntilized ns tt) generate steam for motive power, thns doing away with the necessity of fuel. The estimated cost of the proposed inter-oceanic canal across the American isthmus, Nicaragua route, is 863,000. 000 ; but it is considered wise to regard the actual cost, including the interest on dormant capital, at double that sum, A Big l'lg Story. After the following testimony, suppli ed by a Western paper, as to the fasting capacity of a hog, thwe is no excuse for that animal ever making a hog of itself. Homo forty years ago Henry and Brad bury Cilley fed a large lot of hogs at Uolerain, on the Great Miami. About New Year's they removed their hogs from the field next the river in which they had been fattened, and drove them to market. On counting them out one was missing, which, after diligent but fruitless search, was given up as lost or dead. About the middle of April after ward they sent a hired man to chop a largi • sycamore tree, hollow some twenty feet or more in the bntt end, and which hail been lying down all winter, to enable them to get it off the ground preparatory to plowing in the spring. On chopping into the tree near the extremity of the hollow the nxo struck what appeared to be hog hair and fiesh. A large chip was then chopped and split ont on each side anil a live hog was taken ont, which proved to be the one missed two aud a half montliß before. When taken out the hog was so emaciated he could not stand, but after being carefully cared for a few days, was got to the barnyard, and afterward resuscitated, fattened again the following wiuter, and drivou to market and sold. The Messrs. (Jilley's theory of the case was tlint ilnring the sudden change iu the weather, u few days before removing tlieir hogs from the field, several of tlieni had crowded into the hollow tree for shelter, and the first one to enter had been so closely crowded in that he was unable to get back. FAI(M, GARDEN AMI IIOISMIOI.iI. AA lint iltr Atx Aartrultar* Trm Art. The following hints are taken from an <*—ay on "The New Agriculture" by Dr. J. F. Nicholas, a distinguished agri cultural writer: "Apples carelessly grown will bring poor prices ; but those well grown ami well curt*.l for and properly packed will bring best prices even ill these tunes. The best corn will make the Ix-st meal. Home farmers make their cider froru rotten or other wise worthies-apples aud put the cider into musty casks. Huch cider, how ever, ia of little value compared to that made from good apples ami put in clean, sweet casks. Pork fed from slops and kept iu dirt ami filth is uot near as valuable a- that fed on good meal and always well littered. Qood final is al ways worth paying for. A pan of butter has been spoiled by the farmer going lutei the milk room with his U>ots covered with manure ; butter aud milk absorb odor- rapidly. It is always best to aim at excellence in everything. Fodder-Corn is gixsi feed if properly grown, but it is not good when sown broadcast and thick. It is an foolish hi say that either milk or beer eaii be pro duced from food which chemistry says lacks the elements of which they are composesi, as to say that dung will pro duce plants if the miueials are lacking. Fifteen cows, allowed to stand out one honr on a odd day, shrunk in milk nine quarts ; ice-cold Avater given to a cow will shrink the milk ; rows allowed to stand in water on a hot day will also shrink their milk. Cows never should be allowed to stand in a draft. A gtxxl, careful man, placed in charge of a badly managed htr.l of cattle, has increased the fl qr of milk to au extent sufllcietit to pay his wages. Putting salt on the hay mow ia a useless practice ; in this cttsc it ha no curative iirojx*rtie. In the old agriculture the idea was preva lent that dung was dung from whatever source produced ; that from meadow hay being supjx>ed equal to that from the beet hay or the lx*st of inoul or grain. The new agri culture forbids farmers letting their wi-t lands lie waste, but tells them if they have finished their haying by the mid dle of July to go to work next any to re claim other lands. The new agriculture teaches us the different amount of nu trition iu the different kinds of corn. Under the old system twenty to fortv bushels were considered a pood yield, but the new one teaches us that seventy or e*ghtr will only be oonaidcre I a fair yield ; it also teaches us tiiat the nu tritive value of the cob is superior to that of wheat or rye straw, and rqual to that -f i at straw, lx*sidtvi containing a much larger amount of p tosh than any of the straw*. Maatcru o*m ground with the cob i equal in ftx-ling value to the Southern corn without the cob ; but to obtain the !x*t result* from any gram it should Ixi ground very fine. The amount of (Kitaah taken from the soil by the corn robs is euoimoua Sweet corn makes the beat folder to feed green to cows," Minrvlna OnhitrS-. A ton of dry, uuleacittsl oahc* jver acre will furnish ne.irlv the *a;ac ingre uieut- avlvls* 1 by the .S- .w>(%tir J-'arturr for the fertilization of orcliarda, which is two htiudred t.i two hundred and fitly pounds of line dust and three hnudrtxl to four hundred pounds of snlphatf of |x>ta*h fx r acre. This gives aom* seven ty or eighty |xuinds of |x>tneh, fifty t > sixty ponnds of lime .from Ihclsu c-i and ten to twenty pouuds of nitrogen, and sotue niagmsia in the |>ct.-sh and f rtilizs-r, all of which are called fir to to nourish orchard* o:i insufficient soil, as the thsl. of mo*t fruits contain much potash a.* well as lime, in comlnnation with the frilltr acids, atnl the -.x-1* phosphoric aci.l. Whether the ingredi ents reqtnri 1 arc applied in the formula given or in tlie uuleactml ashes *ug gi*st*-l. it i ri.-onimeod-J to sow broad cast and lightly harrow in, leaving it U> the rain to more thoroughly incorjxirate with the earth. Huch treatment has proved successful in orchard* showing signs .if dtcay both in this country and iu Enroi>e. Cloal io*!ics ami salt arc employed with great benefit on some soils, specially in orchards bearing sour fruits. Or chards. the soil of wnirh, from eh xe pas turing or other cause*, is nearly desti tute of Anoiri*. will gradually deteriorate aud finally die unleas restored to that state of fertility which is necessary for the thrifty growth of the tree and its existence in a healthy ami vigorous state. Huch orchards arc greatly bene flU-1 with n top dressing of leaftnoid, roth n chip manure, mtica from a cr ek, brtiken 1-ines, animal hair of all kinds, and similar materia) generally at hand ou farms, which can be applit-1 without otiier expense thau the time and la!x>r expended. When mautir* are naed they should be well dodimposed; fresh warm manures excite young trees into a very rapid growth, Wt the wo<"xl is waterv and feeble. A dry soil, of tint moderate richness, is the one that produces and sustains hardy trees; their w tsl is firm, the buds plump uud close together aud the pnris well proportioned.— Home and Farm. ••■rrrM wlib sirnwlifrrlm- It is becoming more uud more n neces sity IU the successful rnltnre of the strawberry to raise only the best varie ties and put them in market iu the best possible condition. We often hear the cry that strawberries do not pay, and I fully believe it; for under the common mismanagement—letting the plants rnu at will—weeds are allowed to occupy space in the bed, and little or no care is exercised in regard to manure. 1 pre fer, rather than the mattes!-row or the hill system, to cultivate iu the single row, making the row* two and one-half feet apart and the plants about eight or ten inches m the row. This will give plenty of room for the hoe and culti vator, whieh 1 use freely through the summer, keeping the soil well stirred and allowing no weeds to grow atvmt the plants. In manuring, care should be taken or yon may seed your bed with weeds. I prefer to use bonednat, or some reliable commercial fertilizer of which I know the ingredients and the manufacturer. Clean rye or wheat straw, well rotted, is good to put under the row before planting, and a free ap plication of liquid manure from the Imrn \ard gives good results; I have a barrel fixed upon wheels for distributing it. When the plants are sending ont run ners, I wait until a few yonug plants have begun to take root; then with a pair of sheep-shears I stand astride the row and with one hand gather np the runners and clip them with the Hhcnrs iu the other. This I repeat two or three times during the season. When market ing I use the slat crate made for sixty boxes, but 1 take out fifteen, thus leav ing forty-five; removing one partition and pnttiug a couple of strips at each end, dividing the crate into three tiers instead of four. The upper strip at ouo end shonld be so placed as to allow the easy removal of the lower partition. By this plau the fruit gets plenty of air, and I can round tip my boxes well with ber ries and there is no danger of their get ting mashed, if carefully handled; and when exposed for sale they present a much finer appearance and command a much better price than is received for hundreds of quarts marketed in trays or closely packet! in large crates,— Jamrit Hunter, Jr.. Fair/ax county, 1 a., in flew York Tribune. slant ot n I'ratprron* Partner- When you sue a barn larger than his ' houses, ll allows that he will have large proflU and small affections. Wliru you see hi in driving his work ioiUkl of his uork driving •'>'. 11 shows that ho will never tx driven from resolutions, ami that ho will certainly work hi way to prosperity. When you always see in hia woo.! house a sufficiency for three mouths or more, it ahowa that ho will ho more than a ninety days' wonder in farming .qn-rittions, ami that ho la uol sleeping in his hoiiao aftor a tlruukoii frolic. When hid sled la housed in summer ami his farming implomouta covered both winter and summer, it plainly ahowa that ho will havi- a good house over hia hou 1 in tho summer of hia oarly life ami the wiuti-r of old age. Whou hia cattle aro ahiolded ami fed in winter, it evinces that ho la acting according to acrlpturo, which sava that "a merciful man ia mer oifnl to hia beast." Whou ho la sect subscribing f°r a paper ami paying iu mlvanco t it shows that he will uovor get hia walking papera to the laud of |>ov crty. Minttatota Sartttar. Kootlua l t stilus*- A writer iu FieA's Monthly says "The root-up of ahpa 1 have found a very eaay matter ;n a double pot. I take an eight inch pot, cork up the iMittom hole, ami put it luto euoiigh clran an ml to raiao the top of a four lUch pot to the height of the oight-iuch |tot whou placed thcro< u. 1 thou place tho four-inch jtot iu the coiitor without corking, till around it with aauil, place iu a warm, sunny position, ami All with water by (muring into the amail pot. Hltpa placed iu the sand Lear the outer l>t will root rapidly if kept warm atid plenty of water ia kept iu the pot. Iu aummer 1 place the (tola ou a fence in the hottest place 1 can find, and in win ter in a south window of a warm room. AM aoon aa rooted, the ahpa rnuat he transferred to good soil. I hare Dover found any trouble in rooting anything ,u 11 < way." War Antedate*. A few volunteer officers, Confederate ami Federal, m>w retired to private lift, were lately giving {versous! recollections of the war. It is a pity, by the way, that so few of thesedetail* are preserved for our children. They would give fleeh and blood to the bare skeleton of history. "The terrible struggle had IU hn morous tide," Maul Captain " Ttiere were the miatakea of the newly-fledged < ffloers, the majors, cap tain- ami lieutenants, who but a few weeka before were grocers or lawyers. The atory of the hrigadu-r general who, when ap]waled to for order* in the tlit thickest of the battle of Hull Hun, pulled out 11 little book with, ' Let's M-e what Hardee *ays about it,' may m t hare been W # but I know a colo nel who, when called upon to drill his regiment, wrote- the words of oommand ou hi* shirt-cull." "The men themselves made jokes in ' battle or in prison," aaid an ex Confed erate. "The American love of fun ia indomitable. 1 renicmlvcr a Kentuckian, Hume, who was a prisoner with me in l l, whose pranks kept the whole of us from despair. •• We were in a village iu Ohio wait ing transportation to Fort Delaware. Tliey put ua m the jvens of the county f.or ground, and a company from Mich igan, principally made up of farm boys, guarded n* Home of them used to stare iu at * the iieba," evidently oncer tan whether we were quite human. One dny our Kentuckian lwckoned to the meet anxious of his guards, a green countrv lad. "'Couldn't you get me a nice fat baby ?' hi wliisp red, confidentially. ' I haven't had a broil since 1 left home.' "• To aat f A taby 1' " ; Come, don't stare so; he neighbor ly. (let me n good fat one.' " ' Are yon -are the Hebs cannibals ?' "'Oh, jverhsps the majority of the men prefer baby, but I shouldn't object to a plnmp young man myself,' with a ferocious stare at 1 im. " The lad looked at him with staring eyes, and aoon after left guard. The D' xt day Hume, who hal forgotten his stupid joke, called to a little girl of five going by, and was talking to her through the bars, when a bullet whizzed past his head. '' ' Down with the man-eaters !' shout ed the Michigander, who hail tired the shot. His officers, astonished at his e rndnct, ttild scarcely drag him off." Among other rrminiaceneea was that of a Confederate who hail seen Theodore Winthrop—the young American author and an officer in the Seventh regiment, of New York eity fall at Ureal Bethel. "He lea pi*! upon an unprotected height," said the < fficer, "and so daring ww the act, anil so gallant the tignre. that when he re< led and fell a cry burst from our ranks."— Youth* Companion. A New Order. The other day. after a strapping young man had aold a load of corn and |Hitat<H'a on the market, and had taken Ins team to a hotel barn to "feed," it Iwv-amr known to the men around the barn tha* he was very desirona of join ing some secret society In town. When questioned he admitted that such was the case, and the boys at one* offered to initiate lnra into a new order, called "The Cavaliers of Coveo." He was told that it was twice as -een-t as Free Mason ry, much nicer than Odd Fellowship, and the oost was only two dollars. In case he hail the toothache he could draw five dollars per week from the relief fund, and lie was entitled to receive ten dollars for every headache, and twenty - flve dollars for a sore throat. The young man thought he hail struck a big ihing, and? after eating a hearty dinner, he was taken into a storeroom above the barn to be initiated. The boys pured cold water down his back, pnt flour on his hair, swore him to kill his mother, if commanded, and rushed him around for an hour without a single complaint from his lips. When they had finished he inquired : "Now I'm oue of the Cavaliers of Cov<>o, am I ?" "Yon nre," thev answered. "Nothing moretoloaru, is there?" "Nothing." "Well, then, I'm going to lick the whole crowd f continued the candidate, and he went at it, and before he got through lie had his two dollars initiation fee back, and three more to boot, and had knocked everybody down two or three limes apiece. He didn't seem greatly disturl>ed in mind as he drove ont of the barn. On the contrary, bia hat was slanted over, he had a fresh five cent cigar in his teeth, and he mildly said to one of the barn loys : "Hay, boy, if yon hear of any Cavaliers asking for a C>>veo aliont my size, tell 'em I'll le in on the full of the moon to take the royal skyfngle degrees."—De troit Free Ftm*. Advertising. While the advertiser eats and sleeps, printers, steam engines and printing presses are at work for him, trains and steamers are bearing bis words all over the land, and thousands of men are read ing with more or less interest the messages he sends them through the columns of his local paper. No preacher ever spoke to so large an audience, or so eloquently as yon may do with the news paper-man's aaaialanoe. — Frtart Poind <jatctU. 4 A German theorist thinks cooking de stroys the nutritive properties of food. TKKMH: &1.00 a Y<'ar, in Advance. In International Fxpollluu at New lurk la I**!!. We publish an interesting and import aut communication in advocacy of hold ing the m-it American international ex position in tbia city tu lhH't That there will be such a festival held in Amerim within ten yeara admits of no doubt, for, in spite of much mismanagement, of inevitable dissatisfaction on the part of maiiv exhihltora, aud pooltiV# hae incurred hy some, it is certain the Cen tennial exivoeitlon of I*7o has reunited in great benefit to American industry and commerce. That the next ocoaaton of the kind ahould he carefully and scien tifically prearrangtxl in such manner aa to secure the greatest possible ad van tag CM, both material and moral, is a aelf-endent proposition. The two im portant decisions which iwqur* to te made without loss of time ar.-ylaoe and the date. In res|nct to the former subject a filial decision is easy. While Cinein nsti, Chicago, HU Louis and other im bitiona cities would offer a hearty wel i come to the next international festival, there is no City that oau dispute either the pre-eminent claims or the exception al facilities of the metropolis of Ameri ca. Tnat question may be regarded aa settled. In respect to the date, it innst be remembered that this is s matter upon which the wishes, the c mvenieuoe and the interests of other nations mast tie consulted. The number of such na tions, however, is small, aud the prob abilities of their action can be estimated without much difficulty. Germany and England have not held expositions for several years, and, aa our correspond ent potuU out, both are discussing the advisability of aueh an exposition for lkH5. There ahould never he an inter val of less than two years betweeu such festivals, so thst it will be safe to con cede to London and Berlin a pre-emp tion to the years 1885 and 18*7. Although little has yet been said on the subject, it may be set down as an aliao lute certainty that France will in l**y celebrate the centenary of her great revolution with an exposition surpass ing in magnificence every prenons fes tival of the kind. It is equally certain that America as s whole will celebrate in a similar manner in 1892 the fourth centenary of the discovery of America. We must, therefore, appoint our next exposition in view of the above facts. The date shoulJ, if possible, oommem ora.e an important national anciversa ry; it should be as nearly as possible intermediate between 1876 and 1892; it ahould not conflict with dates to which other nations have s superior claim; it should be neither so far off as to para lyze present interest, nor so near as to afford insufficient time for due prepara tion. All of these condi'ions are ful filled by the year 18K1, the cente nary of onr acknowledged independence and of the evacuation of the city at New York bv the British troops.— Seta York Herald. How Rn*la Treat* Striker*. A Paris correspondent of the New York .Star Kays : A.* the Bus* an journals are forbidden to publish intelli gence of the cruel repression of a rec-nt strike in Ht. Petersburg, the news has been communicated to us by travelers who have just arrived from the Russian capital, and who apeak of what had ue enrred under their own observation. A strike took place at the new Russian cot ton mill, in the principal manufacturing district of the capital. A large number <4 strikes have occurred there of late years, and the police have sometimes sided with the weavers. On this occa sion the work people struck for shorter hours of lalier, thirteen and a half hours s diy being not unnaturally regarded aa excessive. In the morning the weavers and spinners assembled in s crowd out side the mill, and the district police master hearing of the disturlvonce. sent some mounted police to reason with them. The gendarmes, however, pro duced no effect, and the strikers set off in s body from the new canal to lay their case before the czarewitch. Intelligence of this was at once sent to the nearest barracks, and as the crowd pasr-iil the place they were surrounded by a number of Cossscka, who drove them into a square in front of the t sir racks, using their salvors and whips freely among them. Many of the strikers were cut abont dreadfully, Af.'er the crowd was locked up in the barracks a police com mission was instituted to try them, the verdict being as fo'lows ; AH the men above the age of nineteen seventy in numtveri are to lie exiled to the provmcc of Archangel. after receiving sixty lashes apiece ; all under that age are to be sent back to the village whence they came, and are to be kept there the remainder of their lives. All the women employed in the mill, and men who did not active ly join in the demonstration,are to le discharged and fined three roubles a head all rontid. In a won!, the entire working staff cif the new cotton mill, about eight hundred hand*, ia clon*! away *t the stroke of a jven and a frc-h set of people, to work from live ia the morning till eight at night, is to be en gaged to take their plaees. Pish a* Itraln Food. Since during the acts of sensation and intellection phosphorus is consumed in the brain anil nervous system, there ar.ses n necessity to restore the portions so consumed, or as the popular expres sion is, to use brain food. Now, as everyone knows, it is the property of phosphorus to shine in the dark ; and as fish in a certain stage of putrefactive d>-eay often emit light, or become phos pbotWMaai, it has been thought that this is due to the abundance of phospho rus their fieh contains, and hence they are eminently suitable for the nourish ment of the nervosa system, and are nu invaluable brum food. Under that vie* many persons resort to a diet of fish, and jH'rsnade themselves that they do rive advantage from it in au increased ▼ividtieas of thought, a signal improve ment in the reasoning powers. Bnt the fiesh of tlsli contains no excess of pirns* phorns, nor does its shining depend on that element. Decaying willow wood shines even more brilliantly than decay ing fish ; it mav sometimes be discerned afar off at night. That shining in the two cases is dne to the same cause—the ox idation of carbon, not of phtspliorus, iu organic substances containing, perhaps, not a perceptible trace of the latter cle ment. Yet surely no one found himself rising to s poetical fervor by tasting de caying willow wood, though it ought, on*these principles, to lie a better brain food than a much larger quantity of />r. J. H'. Drafter, in Ilarfttr'* Magazine, A Whale in a Sonp-l'late. The members of the New \ ork Acade my of Eoiences met recently to hear Prof. W. P. Trowbridge lecture on "Animal Mechanics." A reference wus made to a microeoopic fish which the lecturer once discovered swimming about iu a drop of water. Its method of propulsion was by the motion of the tail, in the manner peculiar to the whale, and, so far as the observer could dis cern, the little fish was very like an in finitesimal whale. The lecturer bad calculated that at the rate it was swim ming it could have crossed Long Island sound iu twenty years, and its full-sized prototype would have made the same voyage in an hour. In one hour it might have reached the further coaat of a Bonp-plate. NUMBER 15. Perils of Agriculture la Tyrol. The persistence with which humanit, attaches itself to fertile laud without rf gsrd to danger ia illustrated elsrwher than hero Th<i peasants on Urn aiop i>l Vesuvius push their cultivation an< plant their home* in the very track at i possible lava stream, and, ail the work over, facility for obtaining a livelibooi blinds the cultivator to all riaka. Grub man aavs: "In the Wtld-Mcbousu North Tyrol, not a few of the house are built on such steep slopes that i heavy chain has to be laid round tin houses and fastened to some firm object a large tree or bowlder of rock, bigbei up. In one village off the Faster Thai, and in two others off the Oberinn Tual many of the villagers come to ehnrel. with rratnpooaa on their fet, the tern hie Bleep Lopes on which their huta ar built- somewhat Idle a swallow's neat on a wall—requiring thia prtcaulM narj measure. In Moos—a village not very far from the llrenner, having a popula tion of eight hundred mhabiUnta- mot* than three hundred men and women have betu k.lled otuce 17fib by fails from the mcredihlv steep slopes upon which the paaiuragea of tins village ere situat ed. Mo steep are they, in fact, only goate, and even they not everywhere, can be trusted to grsse cm them, and ' the hay for the larger cattle has to be sut aud gathered by the band of man." 1 have myself seen, in walking am-'tig the hills, little stores of grass piled against the upper side of protecting trees, where it had b<u brought in armfuls when cut by the spike-shod mower. The havroskers gather their lttle crops bere and I hare on the steep grass; •etches, almost at the limit of vegetation, pack it in nets or in sheets and bring it on their nhonlders down the steep and dangerous paths. My earlier idea of an "alp" was that of a level plateau at the top of the lower mountains. Alps whieh are even nearly level are very rare, especially among the higher elevation*. Generally they arc so steep, so broken, and so inac cessible that one wonders how cattle are got to them, and how they can be trusted to grsze over them. These alps are bounded by no fenoea, and it must be an auiioua task for those who have the herds m charge to get them aafely together at mi iking-time. Each animal wears its bell—not the hollow-sounding dull eow-bell with which we are familiar, but musical in tone, and beard for a much greater distance. The alpine but and the Mennenn, or dairy maid, who spends the whole trammer in nearly solitary attention to her arduontt duties, are not altogether wrhat one's imagina tion might depict. She ia not the dairy maid of poetry, nor is ber tempo rary home filled with the more ethereal pastoral associations. Yet these people, too, have a romantic and imaginative side to their lives, and are happy and wholesome and content. The agriculture of North Tyrol, out side of the valley of the Inn, is mostly confined to very small operations. A few cattle, a few ahcr-p, s little poultry, s few small fields sua s mountain pas ture constitute the ftock in trade on which the industrious and frugal pair bring up their lamtly in comfort and de cency, accumulate portions for tbei r daughters, and lay aside a provision for their own old age." Labor-saving hardly exists. Every thing is accomplished by unmitigated and unremitted toil. In youth and in early life the people are stalwart, active and hearty ; but old sge conies very early, and at forty the rigor of manhood and womanhood is passed— the activity and Tiger, but not the en durance; up to really old age even slight little women curry euormous loads in the l**ket* at their backs up and down steep and rough hillsidce and mountain paths, where an unaccus tomed tourist must puff aud toil to move his own unencumbered person.— Georg' Waring, Jr., fn Uarper't. True bsceesa. " tbe men wbo speak With the loudest tongues do least." It was a favorite remark of an old sew captain whom Canseur knew, that be learned in youth never to talk about anvthing that he had determined npon. "Men waste their energy in talk," he would ray, " and have none left for their enterprises. Eut if they are wise enongh to keep still, and devote them selves to doing, they will find that their actions speak lor themselves and that talk is unnewessarv." Good advice this. bat many find it bard to follow. Man • a social animal, and there is a certain pleasure in dn-casaing one's plana with a (riend and enjoying their frnit* in anticipation. Some go through the world in a oidd-blooded, calcniating way, aoeking ailvantage at every turn, and donbtleaa finding it, but are tbey, after all. the best patterns to model after f Is not a little tinman weakness of this sort rather amiable, on the wh lo ? It certainly i trae that he who keep* hi* month ahnt and hi*ear* open, lay* deep plana, and watehea hi* oppor tunity as a oat watebe* to take the fatal spring, stands a better chaue< of what the world calls success than the more confiding kind. Bat what ia success? Is it simple to lay np store of this world's giKxfs ? The many so view it, but those who have looked deeper feel that be is most trnly successful who has borne hie share of life's bnrdens and troubles, who has opened his heart to ' his fellow-men, whose thoughts liave not been of self alone, and the work ings of whose nxind have not been wholly concealed. Of course prudence is to lie observed, and care must be taken in the choice of confidants. And moreover • • sttll keep something to yonrsel* Yon scarcely tell to ony " But don't seal up the windows of yonr I soul too tightly. It needs an occasional airing.—c'awsetsr is Boston Tran script, SjHrlflr Against Hydrophobia. Dr. Orzyvala, of Knvoe Oww, Po dolia, Russia, for whose trustworthiness Prjf. Unbler, of Paris, vouches, de clares that, after a series of crucial trials, wliich he describes at length, he has fonud that, after having had oppor tunities of treating at least 100 oases of roeii bitten by rabid dogs, with the Xanthium Spinosum, he has never, in any one of these cases, failed to ward oflf hydrophobia. He gives some start ling example*. Daring the Crimean war, a family of twelve persons had been bitten by a hydrophobic wolf. Six of then entered his wards in the hospi tal at Olschanka, government of Podo lia, district of Bait*. They were treated with infusion of the leaves ol exthanthinm, and all recovered. The six others, who were treated by the actual cautery and the daily use of gon esta tiuctoria and other drugs, died with hydrophobia in the eour?e of twelve to sixty days. He recounts many other facts not less striking. For an adult, the dose is sixty oeutigrammes of the dry powder, repeated three times a day. Children under twelve take half that quautity. The dose for animals is much larger. A herd of thirty oxen had been bitten by a mad wolf, eight had succumbed with symptoms of hy drophobia. The commissary of police came to Dr. Qrzvvala tar his " antira bic powder." He gave three ounces of the powder, with bran, daily to each of the remaining animals; none of them snfferod from the disease. These are examples of which Dr. Grzyvala says he has a hundred others. — British- American Journal. ITEMS OP INTEREST. A biting wind—A gnaw caster. Tbe plow ia said to be the oldeet land mark. A soft hand, air, smooths away wrath. The man who waa in " high feather " baa got down. They aay that fat ia not conducive to long life—in a pig. A good motto ft* a young man juat starting a mustache —Down IU Iront. Tbe avorage yield of wheat per acre in Belgium is nearly twenty-eight j bushels. Balloonist John Wise writes thst the north pole can never be reached save in ( an air ahip. Tbe leaves of tbe coffee-plant will make nearly as good coffee as will the berries. The flavor ia more delicate. I What is tbe diffewrace between s ibry I individual and a atiee of bacon? One is a rash man, and the other ia a raaber. The difference between Turner's famous picture and cutting your chiu I ia, one is a slave ahip and the other a shave slip. There ia only one thing thst ia more wearing or dlatreasing to man than hav ing to wait for a train; am! that ia when the train hasn't waited for him. " The Mkrax are not contagious," said an old frontiersman. " What do yon mean I" asked a bystander. " I mean that they are hart! to catch," waa the reply. Tbe test of success is influence—the power of shaping events by informing, guiding, animating and controlling other minds. lusignt is essential to all this; but the condition of tbe fonnda tion is the force of individual being, physics! ss well as moral. I Reports from Minnesota, W> oouin, wa. Nebraska, Kansas, Illinois, Michi gan, Indians, Ohio, Kentocky and Mis souri show thst the yield of winter whest lor the year will, it is thought, lie sbcut 30,000,001 bushels, against '27,001,000 bnsbsls last year. In 1095, in the town*bip of E*stham, Mass., a regulation waa made that every unmarried man should kill six black birds and three crowa s yenr as long aa be remained single. If he nrgl-cttd TINS order, be wa* not allowed to do BO till be had shed his foil number of birds. A person who was recently called into aourt for tbe purpose of proving the ooireetcesci of s surgeon's bill, was ask ed whether " the doctor did not make several visits after the patient was out of danger?" "No," replied the wit ness; "I considered the patient m danger ss long as the doctor con tinned his risHtr."* ow ro * raiso. Ousts a.U< your psrfuwnst rot**, wtada of May, I Poll bar wtdeupsp tad give iter sand;) Wrapped to soar leader mrmt ■■ ear Of sway late mum tany . MMfcarted land. Where the shunbenog winter caa never s wake Where the mow ck>od never loom op and HF—IT. Where there ain't enough winter to freat s cake. Give m* a MkS to that fair land —ktsMlt. Snoodles wears a suspiciously large diamond pin, sad the cthtv day La waa pained and disgusted to have a friend stop him oo the street and remark: " Hello, Snood lea, ia thst really von ? I thought at first juu were a paper hanger." " Why, how so?" asked the unsuspicious Buood lee. *' 'Can M> you've got so much paste oo your shirt!" chuckled the hearths* friend ss be walked cm. t*wt night one of oar sweetest young men gathered all his musical talents and repaired to the par. ment in front of the house in which his Dalein*** was sleeping. Be sang several selections. Thou he threw all his soul into that ten der strain, " For the pain that's in my bosom is hard to bear," and s window in the upper story wsa gently lifted and this bonquet was wafted to bun: •'Young man. trv s mustard plaster for that pain." He fainted on the spot .Vaiewi AsAtsm, In tbw spring s milium senbeanu steal fro ont the tulwa sky. In the spring w bear tbe boning of tbe fes tive April fly; In the spnrg the villege damsel decks herself with violets blue. In ths >prtag the landlord ksstsns to collect the rent that's dm: In the spring the sparrow * chirping floats sor.se the meadow land. In the spoug the lovesick roc pic at tbe front gate lake their standi In the spring tbe young man * ulster on the porch is hung to dry, la the spring the larr bailer* cr the hilltop ■top* to sigh; In the spring the geutie cock-each dances Yonnd the ki'.cben floor. La the spring the hUle cmidrun jump -..pea your cellar door; In the spring the gay moeqnilo from Now Jer sey seem* to float. In tbe spring ths link crch n goes out sailing in a boat— And never come* b*e. —Arte J'erk Ergnrrs. Detroit Free Frew* t niTeney. The man who has no sent.ment in big heart vrilf now saw off the handle of his ■now shove! far s baseball club. It takes seven months to teach a per son to strop a raxor, and than we expect barbers to shave us and u A talk 1 There are 185 tribes of Indians yet left in ths Unt'ei States and he who imagines that the Indian agent is played out Las taken s shot a the wrong mar ble. One reason why the South is not a favorite roaming ground for tramp* is WotTW it ia the best section of coun try on earth for dogs with eighteen teeth in the fiont row. Did you ever see two men, whdn they stop on the street to talk, cross over and baek at tbe end of every sentence ? And yet they do this on the stage in order to appear " natural." There was never but one-shirtmaker in this eouutry wbo understood how a button-hole should be placed in a collar, and he died before ho eould teach any of the others. The war song of the Zulus runs: Tms ! Yom ' Turn! Yum! Yum! Yum! Yum! YUD ! Y" am ! Yum! Yam! Yarn! — ~ ■ When they want to vary die monotony they sing it backward. Authors' Ages, Charlo Read* is 64 years old; Jacob Abbot, 75; Edmund About. 50; William T. Adams (Oliver Optic"!, 56; A. E. Al oolt, 79; T. B. Aldnch, 42; Berthold Auerbach, 69; George Bancroft. 78; Robert Browning, G6; Carlyle, 83; S, L. Clemens (Mark Twain), 43; G. W. Curtis, 64; Darwin. 69; Disraeli. 73; Hepworth Dixon. 67; Emerson, 75: J. A. Fronde, 60: W. E. Gladstone, 69; Bret Harte, 39; J. G. Holland, 69; Dr. Holmes, 69; Julia Ward Howe. 59; Ttionias Hugh, s, 55; T. H. Huxley.*s3; George Eliot, 58: Longfellow, 71; Ben son J. l-iossing, 65; Donah! G. Mitchell, 66; Max Mnller, 55; James Part >u, 56; Mayue RE id, 60; RUBIJ, 55; Rusk'u, 59: John G. Saxe, 62; Jits. Stowe. 66; Tennyson, 69; Anthony Trollore, 63; Wh'ttier. 71: Wilkie Collin*. 53; Bv>"- bnrne, 41; William Rlsck. 37; M. F, Tnpper, 68; W. D. Howells, 41. Rome Sentinel Brevities. —The dollar is mightier than the sword. —"Now HI try to braeo up," as tbe man said when he bought a pair of sns pendere. —"That takes the cake," as the *'om pohtor said wlion ho removed the piece of fat poetry from the hook. —The "Faille Bridal Toilet" is illus trated and described in a fashion jouri a!. To purchase such an outfit is enough to make the average father fail. —After you have related a rich joke to a friend, and you expect to hear him burst out into uproarious laughter, noth ing is more calculated to convince* you of the correctness of tbe Darwinian theory than to have hiin etire and blandly inquire: "What's the point?" Eighteen hundred girls undgr twenty ' years of age were married in New York city last year.
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