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.