Commonplace, * A commonplace lite,” we say, and we sigh; Bat why should we sigh as we say ? The commonplace sun in the commonplace sky Makes up the common lacs day; The moon and the stars are commonplao things, And the flower that blooms and the bind | that sings; | Bat dark were the world and sad our lot If the flowers failed and the sun shone not And God, who studies each separate soul, tifal whole. | Lightning and Kisses, The storm is conung on apace; The trees begin to shiver; Big drops of min drum on the pane, And set me all a-quiver; The clouds are black as ink, oh-oh! How vividly it lightened! And this premonivory hash Joe, I am sadly frightened, “ No wonder, darling, you're atmid In such a storm as this is; But never fear the lightning, dear, I'll blind your eves with kisses.” 1 It's driving down upon us now; The very house is rooking; Wind-currents roar, rain-torrents pour Oh, how my knees are knocking; The thunders erash and roll as though The sky had split asunder; Joe, 1 shall surely faint away, I am so afmid of thunder, “ Darling, you well might faint away In such a storm as this is; But never lear the thunder, dear, I'll silence bring with kisses." “It's such & catching season, Joe, I'm in a constant pando; There's that about a thander-cloud Which seerus almost satanio, What did yoa say, Joe '—that you wish "Twould come on every day so? Yon oruel tellow-—lot me go How do you dare say so? “ Of such a cruel wish, my dear, The explavation this s: The grass and grain need frequent rain, And [need frequent kisses.” A BITTER GAIN. A remarkableaffinity existed between the occupants of two separate windows in one of a dingy row of brick houses one exceptionally hot summer not many years ago; it was the more remarkable that these two people were very unlike each other, being of opposite sexes, the one a grizzled, grufl, grumpy bachelor on the wro.g side of fifty, the other a round, rosy, rollicking maiden of “sweet and twenty.” The man was evidently a foreigner, the woman an unmistakable | American, and these two heads, framed | by the embrasures of the separate win- dows, formed a strong contra-t. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon, and both of them were looking for the | tman- she from her attic window; e from his second floor front. They had been coking for the postman every day for x fortnight, and hope deferred had paled the cheek and subdued the merriment of the maiden, while it deepened the already rubicuna color and | sharpened the already testy tempera- ment of the man. Presently appeared in sight the brisk dapper little fellow, in the gray uniform, with his bag strapped over his shoulder, stepping along from house to house, dealing joy and sorrow, surprise, fear, ecstacy, all | the emoions incident to poor hapless hum nity as he went. But he dealt nothing to the two anxious watchersin the dingy brick row. Their heads sim- ultaneously turned to watch him as he disappeared around a neighboring cor: per. The man grunted out a bitter ejac- ulation, and slammed down the win- -dow: the girl sighed, and with diffi- culty repressed a sob as she closea the blind. The next day at four o'clock thesame pantomime was enacted. The same anxiety, hope, fear, disappointment, e painted on the two laces. The girl brushed the tesrs (rom her eyes, | and put wearily back her hair. As'the | man with his usual expletive of disgust | and disappointment, tugged at the blind, a puff of wind blew the light ribbon from the hair of the girl straight into his eyes, and from thence to the floor of his room. He saw it at once. | It lay upon the faded carpet almost un- der his feet. His first impulse was to | tramp upon it as he marched to and fro | grow ling at the hard luek that had shu him up in this hot hole during the dog, days. His next impulse was to kick the bauble aside; but it was not of a kickable nature, and clung close to his feet. He stooped at last and took it from the floor and found it suspiciously | dam “She's been sniffling again,” he said. *“ As usual, she gets no letter and cries; 1 get no letter, and I swear. I wonder which is the most consoling. And why | in thunder don’t she get her letter ? She ean't have any rascally lawyers to deal | with, that lie, and cajole, and cheat and | stesl. She can't be wailing for a wit- | ness to come from the other side of the world to testify in a case that ought to | have been setiled before Le went to sea. | 1 believe it was a conspiracy on the | part of these inferna. lawyers to daw- die along with the case, and not dis. cover the existence of this Martin Mal- log till he had shipped again, and was weil out of their call. And now it seems that the fate of the suit depends | upon the testimony of this fellow before | the mast. At least five thousand pounds | of my money at this present wnoment is | at stake in the life of a miserable sailor | far out at sea.” Here his soliloquy was | interrupted by a light tap at the door. | “Come,” he growled, without turning | his head. i He thought it was his landlady, Mrs. | Matson, for whom he had no particular | affection, or her rough-featured domes- tic, that he feit certain was shortening | his life by her miserable cookery. But | a gentle voice said, * Did you want any- | thing, sir?” And turning he beheld his | landlady’s daughter. And how in the! world shie could bear that relation to the * fat, swarthy, coarse and commercial female who kept the house, this lodger could not imagine. Her eyes were so soft and brown, so pleading and inno- cent, frank and confiding as alittle child's, whereas her motLer's were narrow and sharp, distrasttul and cun Pp. nig, he young girl flushed under this scrutinizing gaze, and said again ** You didn’t want anything, then, Mr. Mc- | Graw? Mother said you pounded on the | floor.” “ Pounded!” said Mr. McGraw; * of couse I poanded. If I don’t get a letter soon I'll make smithereens of some of this Liorsehair furniture about me. If your mother has any regard for her gquint-eyed ancestor over there, she'd better take him down and out of the way. He's been following me about with that damaged leer of his for the last fortnight. It'sa mercy I haven't stabbed him through the canvas. And, say,” he added, for the girl was fast vanishing out of his sight, and she was . wondrous pleasant article to look upon in this gloomy old barrack—" say,” gsid Mr. McGraw. He was still twirl- ing the bit of blue ribbon in his fingers and now held it out to the young girl. “It fell in the window to-day as we were both looking for that confounded postman. 1 hope we'll Lave better luck to morrow, Maggie.” “1 thought sure we would to-day, sir,” said Maggie, blushing and sighing. * I had a good sign this niorning.” “YWhat w.s that, Maggie?” said Mr. McGraw, st:Jl holding his end of the blue ribbon. * Why, see, sir,” she said, and pointed to the skirt of her dress. “I put it on wrong side out this morning, and never changed it, for Martin used to say it was sign of good luck.” “And who is Martin?” said Mr. McGraw. * Itso happens that I am in- terested in that name.” “Tue one I'm looking for a letter from, sir. The vessel was due a month ago;” and here her voice broke, and the brown eyes filled with tears, “ A sailor with the name of Martin?” 1aid Mr. MeGraw, with increased in- terest. * What's his last name, Mag- e +» Malloy, sir—Martin Malloy.” VOLUME XIII “(God bless my soul!” said MeGraw ; wthis is a remarkable coincidence! Why, Maggie. this is the very man 1'm A heavy sum of friend of than a depends upon this 1 suppose he is mare money yours, “ We're promised to be married, sir, r this voyage He had a chance of rising to second mate; and ob, I'm sorry we waited!” “So am I.” said Mr. MeGraw, “lt he'd stopped long enough to be married we might have got hold of him for a witness, and that would have been the making of many a thousand pounds for me: but never mind, Maggie; lol's de. pend upon the augury of tne ps tticoat You seo our fates are linked together, and as only one of us wears a petticoat, the one garment must serve for us both; and I'll tell you what, Maggie" —for she g again, and he hated er gO I'l tell vou what, when Martin comes back, and wins for me money, a good round sum of it shal! go for a wedding outfit for you.” “1f he only comes back!" said Mag- gio, and went out of the door, leaving the ribbon still in the hand ot Mr. Me- Graw—a meditative, alto. gether changed expression his face. “A most remarkable coincidence!” he repeated to himself. ** This accounts for the interest I've taken in that girl from the start. A queer freak of destiny has thrown us together, and here we are both hanging upon the fate of this I don't suppose he's worthy of her. No doubt he’s a rough, common, abusive brute; but he's young"—bher Mr. MeGraw gave vent to a grunt that was meant for a sigh—"‘and, 1 suppose, after his low mshion, good looking." Here Mr. McGraw kicked over the » BO ¥ i LO se this softened, upon the blue ribbon in his vest pocket, drew a cha'r to the window, filied his nipe, and looking out upon a triangular bit reverie. The next morning Maggie was at her old post at the attic window. Mr. McGraw was also rattiing at his blinds; but he looked fully as often up at Mag gie as he did down the street forthe postman, snd was quite jocular and smiling for a man of his nervous tem- perament. “ Any more signs, Maggie?” he said, almost dislocating his neck to geta good look at her pretty face. Maggie shook her head, and smiled mournfully. “1 dream>d of white horses, sir, and mother says it’s a bad sign.” “ Your mother is always a {—" Here the postman stopped at the door, and will ever know whether Mr, McGraw meant to cal his landlady a onversation was stopped by the coming the long-looked-lor letters. There as one for Maggie, and one for Mr McGraw. Maggie had run down to the taken both letters, and fled up Her hand was trembling MeGraw's hand. “I'm afraid to open mine,’ ' she sad; Mr At the first sentence, however, Mr. McGraw started, and put his spec- he had read the missive hall All * My God!" said Mr. HeGraw, “she’s got the news already. And rushing out his rather gouty legs could carry him, he saw the poor girl stretched lifeless upon the floor, the fatal letter crumpled in her hand. Then he pounded in right good earnest; and being a man of The } she Maggie wearily opened her eyes, she saw Mr. McGraw “ I'm a bitter reminder of her loss, ’ The doctor and Maggie's mother looked at him inquir- But Mr. McGraw did not Maggie opened her eyes again. After her first long, sobbing breath, her first * Let him He has lost his money, " Here the words froze “ Wh-re is he?” she said. me, and [ have lost~— Qo e put her arms around his neck and Mr. McGraw had lived a lonely bachelor’s life; hiskith and kin were far away. was 4 new experience to him— new and strangely sweet For years His eyes w.re wet and blurred; a queer choking sensation arose in iis throat; his voice was husky ss he blurted out some con- ing words. ‘ He can never come back to speak for you,” said poor Maggie. ‘You have lost all your money. 1'm very sorry for you, Mr. McGraw.” Shie meant she was sorry for herself, but the poor child craved companion- ship in her grief. Heaven knows she got it from Mr. McGraw. From this time out he be- came devoted to the duty of assuaging the grief of the bereaved girl. He filled his pockets with bonbons, and ribbons, and the various gewgaws he thought would soften the affliction of a girl of twenty, and failing with those, sought her eyes went wistfully wandering out Then he would say, gently, “ Come, Maggie,” and she would obey utiful fashion, lifting her face to his, full of some sort of affection —he didn’t stop to consider what it was; but Maggie knew that she owed this luxury of melancholy entirely to Mr. McGraw. He had coaxed her mother into giving over Maggie's ordinary drudgery to other hands, so that she could have the comfort of nursing her little persuasion, and met his entreaties half way. ears parried the thrusts and having for y a a caterimgs of anxious mothers in beh so as it furthered his own happiness, and rendered him more and more com- fortable ns time went by. Now that the hot summer was gone, blow, the old brick lodgings were not so gloomy. The obliquely yisioned ancestor had been taken from the wall; the horsehair furniture covered with a gay chintz; the rusty grate was rubbed nto a rubicund i omy and therein he coals blazed generously. Therewas no stint in the maternal blessings shiow- ered upon this lodger, and Mr. McGraw for the Grst time, appreciated his deal- ings with a commercial woman, who was willing to spend money when there was considerable to be made by it. This excellent woman even endeavored to put an air of smartness into Maggie's wardrobe, and garnished her cloak with a crimson trimming. Maggie wore the cloak, but her face was sadly out of keeping with the brave garment. She had grown so much more subdued, and so much 1n hosaerer manner and ap- pearance, that Mr. McGraw felt more and more at ease in her society, and of thie two he began to appear the bright- est, and wore an air of briskness and Hditor : vigor that went far to make up tor his mature vears His lawyers declared that never, in the whole course of thelr EXP rience sen BR An pos . had they pos sessed with admirable ophy As the months went by, it began Lo be generally ceded by all concerned that Mr. McGraw was *' paying saillen to Ma and she was treated that rare consideration that Les nek demanded. ¢ only creature that seemed utterly ignorant of the situation was poor Mag. gie herself, who had never lor a moment forgotten her dead sailor, or ceased re viving his memory to Mr. McGraw, who scemed the only one that fully sympathize with her and consoi hey such &¥ 0 tion’ with good by i sR, could i Mr. MoGraw had endeavored to infuse into his manner something of the bear- ing of a lover, but Maggie invariably received these advances with the gentile gratitude that had become a part of her nature, and Me. MoGraw instinotively shrank from anything that might shock her delicacy, or estrange her Irom him Que morning, as ti y stood upon the ong pier and jo vked out to sea, he said to the gird * Shal you be SOITY, my dear, 10 see me one ol these days sailing away from you inn ship like that one over yonder, never perhaps to look upon your sweet ince again?" She said no word, clung closer to arm, and two big tears roiled out of her eyes. He took courage then to put his arm about her—not but that it often been there before, but that was in & fatherly sort of way. “Would you be afraid, Maggie, to cross the sea with me?" he said. “ Afraid!” she replied; *'1 never be afraid of the sea.” There was an unpleasant inflection in these words that was closely connected with the dead sailor, and Mr. McGraw essaved still another inquiry. ** Don't you love me e, Maggie?" said “1 love you better than yhody now," she said. He longed to ask her if her love was anything of the nature of the ardent yassion she had once held for the sailor Malloy, but of course he refrained. and indeed he was well content with his present happiness, Mr. MoGraw felt certain of the future. There seemed no obstacle to his happiness, and that very day he resolved to get his affairs in shape so that he could leave the country at a moment's notice. He stooped and kissed Maggie good-bya, and started off blithely to see his lawyers, “Don't be long,” she called from the window. * 1 shall wait here till you come back.” Gud bless the child!” said poor Mr. McGraw. There certainly now is nothing to hinder our happiness.” [he lawyers were out, and the office was in care of the boy. On a low chair by the door a man sat, with his head resting upon his knees. His whole ap pearance was of that slipshod wature that it seemed as if he might fall to pieces at any moment. His frame, of herculean dimensions, was the more | pitiable that the flesh had shrunken from the bones, and the features ol his face were harsh and forbidding in their prominence. His clothes were faded and patched, his hat was pulled over Lis eyes, and altogether he was a most for- lorn and pitiable ohjeet in this office of a prosperous solicitor, i clinging to his arm " iis had cou id a iLL Le \ } fay In the heyday of happiness, how could Mr. McGraw pass this wretched fellow creature by without a word? “ Good morning, my poor fellow,” said. ** You seem to be in a sorry pligh Can 1 do anything for you?" “You can tell me, "said the man, in a hoarse and hollow voice, “if it's true that these people here will be giad to see me. [I'm told there's a reward ollered for any news of me, and I'd like a litte money to prink up before I go to see wy sweetheart. She'll be thinking it's my ghost il 1 go to her like this” “Some wretched criminal,” thought Mr. McGraw, vho has risked every- thing to see this woman he loves. See here, my good fellow,” he said, lower. ing his voice, ** if this money will be of any use to you, take it, and go; but I'd | keep clear of the law if | were you.” * Why, thank you, sir," said the man, putting back the bills, * but I'm no beg. gar. I'll wait and hear what these land sharks have to say.” At that moment the senior lawyer en- tered, and turned upon the fellow a ais- trustful glance. “What do vou want liere? he said, sharply. ’ he t + for news of a shipwrecked Martin Malloy.” * I offered ten pounds,” said the law. yer, turning to Mr. McGraw. “The deuce you did!" sai or called said Mr. and was gazing at the man with strained eyes. ‘*This Malloy is dead,” hie added, still keeping bis eyes upen the man. ** but as near as he likes to be." Then he went on to tell the story of the wreck, the exposure ‘in the open boat, the agony and starvation, the death and insanity of most of the crew. It was the lips of the miserable mariner. Mr. McGraw's face grew old and wrinkled as he listened. The lawyer at length uttered an ejaculation of joy. ‘1 con- gratulate you, Mr. McGraw,” he said, as safe as if you held it in your hands.” But Mr. McGraw had fallen back against the wall. They loosened his necktie, and threw water in his face. A big part of his money was at stake, you see, and he's hidden his feelings so | long under a mask of resignation that now he is overcome. (Geta cabatonce,” hit added, to the boy. But Mr. McGraw revived, and by the able to go home alone. [le, however, the cab rolled along, his eyes were still | fixed Rpon his dilapidated companion. ** Nobody would know you, I sup- pose?” he said to the sailor. ““ Not a soul, sir,” sald Marlin “Not even the—a—the person you | spoke of as your sweatheart?” “She least of any,” said Martin. “I think she'd run away from me on | sight,” “You think so?” “I'm sure of it. I bet you a dollar | she would.” “Yet it wouldn't pain you?” “Why, no— why should it? Women | folks are made that way. But I'll soon { prink up if I get a chance.” He began to prink up already, put his | hat back, and brushed his rumpled hair { trom his forehead, looked from the win- | dow of the cab with the air of a man to whom life was unspeakably rare and (sweet, He was emaciated, shrunken, sallow, fierce-eyed and forlorn; he was | poer and patched; but Mr. McGraw | would willingly have taken his place in | the race for happiness; he knew that all | was lost, Here was Martin Malloy; that was the end of everything. The thought came a little too late that seeing her long-lost lover might kill the girl or drive her mad. He began to ex- pinin to Martin, as gradually as he cou’d, that the house to which they were journeying was the one that con- tained his sweetheart. Mr. McGraw chose the most careful phraseology he could muster, but the sailor seemed ali at once to get on fire. He flung his hat upon the seat beside him; he stretched from the window his long shrunken Neck. “You'd better get out and come in after I've broken it to her. It may kill her; it may drive het mad. The shock was a terribie one to me,” said Mr. McGraw. “That be hanged!” said Martin. HALL, ‘You're an old man, you kaow, and thought your money--hut my Maggie !" here he stopped, an! the flame of delight burned in his cheeks He grew suddenly young and strong under the gage of poor My Motiraw Maggie sat there by the window, as she had promised, Oh, the bitterness of i the other! One moment Mr. MoGraw saw lier as he had left her— pale, eaim, subdued, patient; the next, a crimson Gl and eves, than before; suddenly it disap- peared, and Mr. MoGraw thought it had fallen away somewhere in a faint; but presently it shone on the breast ol the sailor, so radiant and beautiful that it dazzled poor Mr. MeGraw “Why, you did know me," said Mar. tin, tears bursting out of his burning eyes * In spite of everything, she did know me! | owe you a dollar, Mr, McGraw I" * And, * Master Shallow, a thousand pound,’ quoted Mr. Meo. Graw, with a bitter grin, What more can be said? LOOK piRoe a awsuit bad paler The wedding Het on, after the been decided in favor of Mr. MeGraw. Maggie's wedding trip WAS Cross the sea, but not in a stesmer, It was in a trig little vessel, which Mr, a wedding present, at the express request of the bride, ** Martin wouldn't give up the sea,” @ sald. Ad you wouldn't give up Martin," sa. ar. MeGraw, Why, no, sir, not for the world,” said the foolish girl, So poor Mr, McGraw Harper's Weekly, €¢ ikied % + ns 3 Li took passage RiONDC. A Word About Diamonds The diamond has many histories has a chemical and a commercial, a mineralogical and a mystieal history. hilstory, comprising the varied adven- tures of! individual stones; there a history of diamond cutting and counter | feiting, of diamond discoveries and dia- | mond robberies, and there promises soen to be a history of dinmond manu- | facture. The earliest known home of the gera was in India From India it | made its way westward to the Greeks, | wlio, among its many remarkable quali. ties, singled out its pre eminent hard. | ness as that by which it was thencefor- ward to be distinguished when known, and detected when doubtful. They named it adamas, the indomitable, and invented fables in illustration of this character, which passed current and un- questioned for many hundreds of years Such was the obduracy of the genline diamond, they maintained, that the at. tempt to break it between hammer and anvil resulted, not in the fracture o! the but the rending the metal; snd numerous gems of the purest waler were immolated, generation aller gen- eration the tlind tradition his perilous ordeal by iron. is stone, of wo of t There was, in feed, it was added, one method by which this otherwise invincible resistance sould be overcome, Immersion for a sertain time in warm goat's hiood ren- dered the crystal amenable to the blows of the hammer, although even then, like the Calydonian h the of The bes, it contrived £0 nvoive sturdy ad in its own desir tion. Now truth is that the diamond, although the hardest of known sub. stances, is also one of the most brittle, it natural cleavage along which it splits with the utmost facility. When the Koh-i-noor was be ing recut in 1852, the jeweler to whose care it was intrusted during the opera- tion submitted it to the inspection of his most valued customers, who heedlessly let it slip through his fingers. | The jeweler, seeing it fai, all but ost his senses with terror, and called forth a similar access of retrospective dismay in his distinguished visitor by expliain- ing that it the jewel hat touched the ground at a certain angle it would most intallibly have separated into frag- ments, The extreme difficulty of polishing | the diamond caused it, in early times, to | ero at giege Its Versary { qs i} § the : ‘ Sines POSS S508 1 ¥ i one Ol in both as a poison and as aun antidote to | poison is of high antiquity, and as re- | gards the healing brane is even yet not | wholly extinct. Benvenuto Cellini re- Intes that he owed his life to the avaricd of an apothecary in substituting pow- i i he had been bribed to mix with his against various other perils, and the | conviction of its mystical virtues con- | It wis said to confer valor, to madness, to give success in lawsuits, dispels nocturnal panic; and Sir John Diamond superstitions, in our days, seem to have taken refuge in the East. The Shah of Persia is said to possess one | the great diamond of the Rajah of Mat. tan, in Borneo, weighing 367 carats, and is credited with the virtue, not of talis- | man alone. but of a panacea as wi i, The natives of the island believe that water in which it has been immersed cures every disorder; and the vast price offered for it by the Governor of Ba- tava, of $150,000, two ships of war tully equipped, together with sundry arms | and munitions, was refused, not because of the intrinsic value of the jewel, but | because the fortunes of the dynasty | It appears to be commonly lost sight value entirely independent of their de corative purvose. A peculiar modifi eation of diamond, known as ** carbon- ado,” which is as unsightly as cast iron, {2 sold for use in rock-boring machines, at an average price of four and a halt to five dollars the carat, Fifteen years ago an unlimited supply of this substance wes offered to a London merchant at the ridiculously low price of three pence n carat; the Amsterdam cut- ters, however, reported unfevorably as to its employment in their trade, and the proposal was declined. It was never renewed ; for shortly afterward the ser- viceableness of the stone (which is as hard as diamond itselt), both for rock - —~ CO., PA. THURSDAY, JULY 22, ! ! FARY, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD, | RELIGIOUS NEWS AND NOTES. Secours in Calves. | The gifts of the Presbyterian church and foreign, last amounted $11,000, Gentleman writes It has been my your provinee for several years to take charge of the calves, and 1 have had very good | There are now sixty Protestant nek, and find that when they first be churches in Spain, wliose congregn- | gin to eat sour milk they are generally | tions aggregate 20,000, and are rapidly apt to scour, and if the looseness is not | growing. - hacked redo . SW. _ che ke d, it reduces them Now, as an The Northern Methodist church has ounce of prevantive Ia better than a seventeen churches in New Orleans ound of care, 1 use about a great sp . ha of ‘prepared chalk i i hele eink with 3,500 members and church property . i . : ‘| yalued at $131,000, I stir it into the milk, and they never mind it. One dose is sufficient as a The Methodist church is making general rule Another good thing for | steady progress in Denmark, Ten years the calves 1s occasionally to throw a | 8go there were but two churches of that shiovelfu! of fresh earth upon the floor of faith, now there are five, the stable where they can see it They | The American Baptist missionary will lick it up, and seem to enjoy it very | union will begin mission work in Li- much. When they are old enough to | beria this year, with the object of estab. be turned out, they generally help them- | ishing ultimately a mission in the selves toa few licks of earth every day. | nterior, It seems to be a natural instinet, and | The Presbyterian church of England something that they crave | has 268 churches organized into 10 pres. used to give rennet, or a solution of | byteries. Its ministers number 49, rennet just as it is prepared for cheese | and ils communicants 54,859, It has 350 making, when a calf scoured; a couple | Sunday-shools, with 587,148 scholars. of spoonfuls in six quaris of milk; but I The Primitive Methodist missionary like theprepared chalk much better. It | oo joty of England has 78 mission sta. RA BEGIN d at any drugstore at | gions in the United Kingdom, and in small cost; and it is a very handy thing | Canada, 90 in Australia, and 3 in Africa, | to use,and has always proved efficacious, | with 318 missionaries and colonial not only in preventing, but also in eur- | \inisters : ing the Comp iaint, 1 think the earth | Large aocessions from the Mormon 18 quite 8 necessary item, and as | have population have been made to the Pres. n :ver seen anything written or printed | ot rian church at Salt Lake City, Utak about it, I lave ventured to suggest | 1 Sun Peto county fifty or sixty have that those who are raising calves should | heey received into the Presbyterian supply the little creatures with fresh | bo 0h there : earth, and see how much they relish it. NY gE [ take it from the garden, and itis better to be moist than dry. i When [ began to feed i can ba The Presbyterian general assembly, lately held at Madison, adopted resolu- tions against the reading of secular papers on Sunday, and against the in- vestment of money in enterprises carried out on Sunday. The last religious census in France | shows that there are 35,387,703 Roman Catholics, 467.581 Calvinists, 80,117 Lutherans, and 33,119 of other FProtes. «nt denominations, The Jews number about 50,000, and 90,000 are attached to no church. The late general synod of the Reformed meal to the welerring it to anything else. | take wif a pint, pour boiling wateron it in a pail, stir it well, put in a teaspoonful of salt, and then fill the pail (whicu holds yquarts) with sour milk, and stir it wel. 1 feed this twice a day, and give them good bright hay for dinner. They thrive well, and seem well satisfied with their rations. Management of Grass Lands. RATS, | Mrs, Benedict's Homarkable and Valuakle Discovery. It has always been easy for house | wives, who are troubled with rats to | poison them, but tho problem has been | to induce them to die upon the field of | honor, so to speak, to wit, the kitchen floor. They have usually preferred to { retire vo their inaccessible retreats in the | walls ns soon as they have fel the symp- {toms of arsenic poisoning, and the low | state of sanitary science prevailing in | their communities is such that poisoned | rats are never properly buried or incin. | erated by their associates. The problem | has been how Lo kill the rats without | bringing unpleasant odors into the | house, { Ms. Benediot has solved the difficulty | and is entitled to the honor we give io | an inventor and benefactor. She was | engaged, it appears, in the domestic | manufacture of plaster casts of various kinds, Complaint having been made of the fragility of those wares, Mrs, Bene. dict began a course of experiments with the hope of giving greater durability to her casts, @ of her devices was to mix wheaten flour with her pulverized plaster of Paris, so thatthe g.uten of the flour might make the paste less brittle. One evening she had vistors, who reng her doorbell just as she was sifting the mixed plaster and flour for the third time by way of mixing them intimately, as the chemists say. She had already set a dish of water at hand, intending to | make a east at once, and when the door. | bell rang she hastily removed her pron | and went to welcome her guests, leaving | ber materials upon the! kitchen table. The guests stayed unti. late bedtime, and when they bade her adieu Mrs. Ben- edict went to bed without returning to the kitchen, What happened in the night was this, A rat, sniffing the odor of flour, made up the legs of the table tothe top, where he was speedily joined by other foragers ~his brethren. The dish of flour and plaster was easily reached, and the rats ate freely and hastily of it, as it is their custom to do. It was mther a dry sup- per, and water being at hand, each rat i | i chuch reports an increase of 10 churches | in the year, making now 510; a loss of | two ministers, now 544; a loss of 1,06] | families, giving a total of 43,950; a de. | John B. Moore, Esq., of Concord Mass, gives his experience with grass lands, which is very suggestive. He does not top dress the land, but plows it pp every five or six years. The land which he lays down to grass is gener ally where he has raised a crop of eab bages or canliflowers, frequently both. He generally plants a couple of acres with ocauliflowers, and his rule is to | keep twenty-five scores in grass. On this, with ten acres of swale hay, he keeps four horses and thirty head of cattle, and sells annually fifty tons of hay ina year. On his farm he always has refuse from his vegetable garden and also corn-stalks, which he feeas to his cattle. He cuts two crops of hay in a vear. The first crop he sells; the sec. ond, with his swale lay, garden refuse and cornstalks, he feeds to his stock. His horses he feeds with his best hay, and never lets his cattle feed upon his mowings. The grass that grows after | led States 8 i the second mowing he jets remain upon | 83.261 schools, 586,335 teachers, and | the ground. The land which he has in | 6,623,134 scholars, making a total of | grass is moist, and he could not turn his | 7,508,452. In Canada there are 5,400 | eattle upon it without their poaching. | Schools, 41,712 teachers, and 340,170 | This he considers of the reasons | scholars, These figures include of | why he raises such heavy crops of hay. | course only Protestant evangelical de- | A neighbor of his, who always fed his | nominations. There are in the world | cows on the aftermath, and who has | 1,460,881 teachers, pnd 12,340,316 schol- | equally as good land as his, and who i ars. manured as heavily, failed to get any- At the late meeting of the Congrega- | Ming like so good crops as Mr. Moore | tional general association of New Jersey | did. When asked why it was, Mr. | the reportof the churches made a favor- Moore replied that he attnbuted it to | able showing. The association has re- | the fact thst he never fed his aftermath. ceived two churches during the past Since that, bis neighor ceased turning | year~the Congregational church, of | his cows upon his mowing. and now | Plainfield, N. J., and the Third church, | he cuts as heavy crops of hay as does | of Jersey City. It has dropped one~the | Mr. Moore. First church of Plainfield. It now { numbers thirty-two churches, Two | other churches have just been organized | { will probably soon apoly for recog- | The tots] membership of the | 3 aggregate of 50.208. The number of baptized members not in full com. munion, 20,648, Number of infant bap- | | tisms not given. i During the four and a half months’ | labor of Messrs. Moody and Sankey in | St. Louis, Mr. Moody averaged from | ten to twelve sermons every woek. The meetings were a success; what de- gree eternity alone will reveal, It has | been estimated that the number of pro- | fessed conversions reached 2,400, The | additions to the various churches from November 1, 1879, to May 1, 1880, were | about 700 i Mr. E. Payson Porter, of Philadel | phia, has ooilected with great labor | | statistics of Sunday-schools of the Uni- | He finds that there are | i i one Hecipes, Ixiss Poraroes.—Old potatoes should be pared and soaked several hours in | and cold water: then pul over to ook in nition, | water. For baking. wash, trim | associntion is 4.910; its total benevo- | and souk as above. New potatoes | lent ofterings for the year, $14,120. The | should be prepared just before cooking, | limits of the association extend south to | and put over in boiling water, Baltimore, where the last meeting was i SCALLOPED TOMATOES. —Cut and peel | held. The church in Washington is the | your tomatoes; first a layer of bread | largest, numbering 631 members, and the | crumbs, then a layer of tomatoes, then | church in Chester, N. J., is by iar the ! pepper, salt, a little sugar and butter, | oldest. i then the bread crumbs; over the last | layer of crumbs spread besten egg, and | bake three-quarters of an hour. Rasen Mivrox Morrins,.—One quart of milk, alittle salt, two spoonfu.s of | An insect i yeast, two eggs, piece of butter size of | of an ounce 18 capable of “raising” a | un egg, meited in milk, which must be | man weighing 220 pounds from a bench warmed: make in the morning and | in the public park, and then have lotsof raise until night, or vice versa; eggs to | lifting material left. Just stop and he put in jast before cooking; flour, | think of it. The stinger of the bee is | bake in rings, in a spider over a slow | nol near as large as the finest needle, | fire; split and butter before sending to | but such is the force behind it that it | table. | can be driven through heavy cloth pants, CHICKEN Mixce.—The quantity o |Dacked by merino drawers and into the | flesh. If aman could wield a crowbar seasoning added to taste. In hashes and | 10 comparison, he could drive it through dishes of the kind it is impossible to | S¢VeR rawmills and a distillery at one The seasoning | POW. Nature could not give the bee | teeth and claws without spoiling its | beauty, and in compensation she gave | this stinger as a weapon of attack and detense. If the bee had no weapon, ants, beetles and bugs could cuff him arouud as they pleased; but, as it is, he is the boss of the walk, and won't take a word from any of them. The bumble-bee is not naturally of a for about twenty minutes, then put in | quarrelsome disposition, but he cart | sit down over half an hour without feel ing that some one was doing him a great wrong. If left to himself, he will crawl up your coat sleeve, look around a a ! . | and go about his business; but if wel- . In the principal dairy districts in | comed with a blow between the eyes, he France many of the dairymen milk their | js going to be revenged if he breaks a cows thrice daily. A French paver, | jog. He invar ably closes his eye when hie stings, and you have only to look a bee square in the face to see when he is fooling around, and when he means fourteen per cent, per annum. The hayfield is a favoriteresort of the bumble-bee, but you can find him al most everywhere else if you try hard. Having no pair of long hind legs he cannot build his nest in a marsh, like a frog; and having no beak in which to carry straw he cannot nest in a tree like a bird. He therefore takes to the grass, and under the roots of an old stump, or among a pile of old rails, he rears his genule young, and gives them printed in- structions as to the difference between stinging six-inch stove pipes and runa- way boys. The knowledge of old bees is powerful. They know where the schoolhouse is. They know when the school is out. They can sail miles away from home, get in their work on a farmer's son weeding out corn, and re- turn home without missing a tence cor- ner, or need of an afternoon nap. As a rule they are early risers. Barefooted boys driving up their cows at daylight will find the bumble bee out of bed, and "ready to begin the arduous labors of the cold The Bumble-Hee. | Did you ever stop to consider the im- | mente power possessed by a Lumble-bee? | weighing no more than a tenth | - i { i i ! salt; putaltogether into a stewpan, and If you have not eream, use a to the consistency ot cream with butter Lieated : serve with curls of fried bacon A Hint for the Dairy, 170 quarts of milk. With two milkings Morocover, analysis showed that the milk in the first case was richer in butter globules than that in the second case, in the pro- portion of 4.1 to 3.5. a — ————————————————————— Indigo Factory, Have you ever thought what indigo is, and where it comes from? Near the city of Allahabad, in India, our mis- sionaries may see the little indigo plan growing, and the factory where our ins digo is prepared for use. The follow- ing account of the preparation of the indigo from the plant was given by the proprietor to one who traveled in that country: It is the young shoots of the humble plant you see before you which provide ius with the precious material for dyeing, and not the flowers, as is commonly drilling and gem-engraving, was dis. it became an object of energeuc coms petition. ** Carbonado ” resembles in a hlackish-brown hue anda crystalline exture. It is composed of tne same material as dinmond, and is in fact sup- posed to he diamond which hns gome- how got spoiled in the making. found in masses of from one to two pounds weight, and oniy in the neigh- borhood of Bahia, for the lumps of “oarbon” occasionally met with in South Africa are deficient in hardness, and thus seem to have been arrested at a still earlier stage of their progress to- ward mineral perfection. *' Bort," which is another deficient member of the diamond family, but is nevertheless 180 highly prized in the arts, consists in an aggregation of tiny crystals, mixed, like the black diamonds of Borneo, with a certain proportion of amorphous car- bon. We see in it a failure or a freak of nature; and just as the ring of ns- teroids in the solar system is supposed to represent a single majestic planet, so the forces thus scattered in separate centers of crystallization would presum- ably, under normal “onditions, have united to form one radiant 1ewel. supposed. The gathering of these | shoots is a very delicate operation. | When they have arrived at a proper de- gre of maturity, they must be speedily removed, and each cutting must be exe. cuted with rapidity and during the night, for the sun would wither the branches, and deprive them of their properties, We therefore require a great many hands; all the villagers on my estate are placed inrequisition. The workmen are all dispersed in the fields at midnight; and in the morning the produce of the harvest is deposited in these stone troughs, which have been previously filled with water. Then is the time for the sun to perform its part. Under the influence of its rays the sub- stances undergo a species of fermenta- tion; the water becomes colored with variegated tinges, and rapidly turns blue. After aspaceot about forty-eight hours, the liquid is drawn off from the smallest troughs. It now emits a slightly ammoniacal smell, and the color is almost black. It is allowed to evapo- rate again, und is then placed in metal vats, heated by steam, in which, when the evaporation has ceased, a deposit of pure indigo is formed. It only remains to dry this deposit, pack it, and send it to the market at Calcutta. day. Along about sundown he quits work, counts noses to see it the family are all in, and then stows himself away for a night of calm snd peaceful re- pose. A Year's Work at the Mints, The following is a statement of the coinage executed during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1880, Pieces. Value. 1,075,768 $21,515,360 00 1.883.632 18,836,320 00 3,168,172 15,790,860 00 3,080 9,090 00 1,250 3,075 00 3,080 3,080 00 Total gold... 6,124,862 $66,157,736 00 Standard dollars. .27,983,760 $37,938,760 00 Halt-dollars , ..... 6,660 3,276 00 Quarter dollars. .. 15,8560 3,837 60 Dimes. . 15,730 1,675 00 Total silver. .27,971,400 $27,942,437 60 Five oonts....... 24,0560 Three cents 32,760 One conts........ 26,774,160 Total minor. . 26,831,850 $269,971 00 Total coinnge. ....60,928,112 §84,270,144 50 The above is the largest coinage in any one year in the historyof the mint. Double eagles. ... Halt-engles....... Three dollars... Quarter eagles... Dollars .... . turned from the savory dish of flour and plaster to slake his thirst with water. Everybody who has had to do with plas- ter of Paris will guess at once what hap- ened The water drank first wetted the plaster in the rats’ stomachs, and then, in technical phirase, *“ set ™ it; that is to say, the plaster thus made into a paste instantly grew hard in each rat's stomach, making a cast of all its convo- lutions. The event proved that with such a cast in existence it is impossible for a rat to retreat even across the kitch- en. The next morning thirteen of them lay dead in & circle arpund the water dish. Mrs. Benedict, like a wise woman, kept her secret and made profit of it. She undertook, for a consideration, to clear the premises of her neighbors of the ts, and succeeded. It was not long Peiore the town was as free of this sort of vermin as if the pied piper of Hameiin had traveled that way. Then Mrs. Ben- edict advertised for agents to work up he business throughout the country, selling each the secret for a fair price.— New York Evewing Post. Reporting by Telephone. The London T¥mes gives an account of a method of reporting late debates in the house of (ommons by telep.aone lately adopted in the office of that jour. nal. A type-setting machine has for some time been used in the office, to which, it is stated, a fair workman can attain an average speed of one hundred lines an hour, even when composing from manuscript which he has to read for himself; and this speed can be doubled, or nearly so, when the oper- ator is assisted by a reader, snd thus composes from dictation. The mode in which the telephone has been brought into use in connection with this ma- chine is thus described : The conductors of this journal, having obtained permis. gion from the metropolitan board of works to lay down the necessary wires jn the subway of the embankment, formed a new connection between the house of commons and the office, and placed one of Edison's loud-speak- ing telephoves st either end. The immediate result of this arrangement has been to bring the compositor at the machine into direct communication with the parliamentary reporter at the house and to enable the debates to be reported and printed from balf to three: quarters of an hour later than had pre. viously been possible. The notes made by the reporter can be read direct.y into the telephone-receiver in a room adjoin- ing the gallery either by the reporter himself when relieved or by another person employed for the purpose, and the compositor at the machine in the of- fice sits with his ears in juxtaposition with the other terminal of the instru. ment. The plan which bas been found the most efficacious for the purpose of shutting out distracting sounds ofother kinds is to place the disc of the telephone above and behind the compositor and then to arrange two tubes, each with two trumpet-shaped extremities, in such a manner that these extremities are applied at one end to the two sides of the telephone disc and at the other end to the two ears of the compos- itor. The compositor is also furnished with a speaking instrument, with a key for ringing a bell, and a bell which is rung from the house—a simple code of bell signals, consisting of one, two or three strokes, sufficing for the ordinary requirements of each message. he compositor anncunces by the 11 that he is ready, receives a sentence, strikes the bell to indicate that he understands it, sets up the type with his machine, strikes the bell again for the reader to continue his dictation, and so on until the work is carried as far as tine will aliow. If there is any doubt or diffi- culty abont the words, » bell signal wid cause them to be repeated, or explana- tions can be sought and received by direct vocal communication. In this power, indeed, resides one of the chiet advantages of the method, and one which ought to lead to greater accur- acy than has ever previously been at tainable, The names of people, places, ete., can be spelled out jetter by etter if there is any doubt about them. C—O A Wonderful Mesmeriser. Strange stories come from India of the feats performed by a native mos- meriser named Buni, whose magnetic power would appear to be fourd quite irresistible by the lower animals, upon which he exciusively exerts it. He ives scances, to which the public are nvited to bring all manner ol ferocious and untamable wild beasts, and holds them with his glittering eye. Ina few seconds they subside into a condition of cataieptic stiffness, from which they can only be revived by certain passes which he solemnly executes with his right hand. A snake in a state of violent irritation was brought to Buni by a menagerie proprietor, nelosed ina wooden cage. When deposited on the platform it was writhing and hissing fiercely. Buni bent over the cage and fixed his eyes upon its occupant, gently waving his hand over the scrpent's rest less head. In less than a minute the snake stretched itself out, stiffened, and lay apparently dead. Buni took it up and thrust several needles into its body, but it gave no sign of life. A few passes then restored it to its former angry a tivity. Subsequently a savage dog, held in a leash by its owner, was brought in, and, at Bun.'s command, let loose upon him. AS 1L Was rusinz to- ward him, bristling will fury, Jc raisea his hand, and in a secona tie herce brute dropped upon its ne.ly as thougn it was stricken bv lightning. It seemed absolutely paralyzea oy some unknown agency, and was unable to move a muscle until released rox the mag- netiser's spell by a majestic wave oi ais . NUMBER 28. ITEXS OF INTEREST A hunter in Georgia killed four a iy. oor a. . that don ¢ It is an indictable oflense to bet on an election in Alnbama. a= in A | killed u lot of chickens in Bowling Grem, Ky, " Sir Garnet Wolseley rode 340 in roe dayeia South Afeen. jay: purse but rich in-de a terran, nt Fly time~When Liear het - rion, Ala, can play ever em dg p het e Charles Reade, it seems, made $45,000 out of * Drink.” Just what many a man has Jost. £ The blind man should be the most contented man in the world, because he can have have he sees. ~ The of the : man who is not which covers a piece rough water Sol more Ji rc v 3 sickle for an gs os The first birth of a Japanese child in ow York, ad proba 1s the Used ARs FIRST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER. Some Account of the Boston News-Lets ter, Printed Une Hundred Years Age. It is 4 fact wortty of record that in Boston was made the fist attempt to set np a newspaper in North America, and that this attempt dates back pest 200 years—to the 85th of A ; The title of this sncient sheet was Fub- lick (xcourvences, both Foreign and Do- mestick, Only one number of this paper is known to have been printed, this hore the date of September 25, 1680, but whether it was sus for lack of patronage, or hecauwe the ve authorities spoke of it as a pamphlet ublished contrary to law, snd contain- ing * reflections of a very high nature,” is not known. It was printed by Ben. jamin Harris for Richard Pierce, and, so far as known, the only copy in ex- istence is deposited in the state paper office in London. It was printed on the first three sides of s folded sheet— two columns to a page, and each about seven by eleven inches in size, and was to have appeared once a month, It is stil a mors siguificant and im. portant fast that the first new that was published in North pa was published in Boston. It was called The Boston News Leiter, and the initia number bore 1 he date of Monday, April 24, 1704. It was a half sheet of . in size about twelve by eight pr made up intwo pages folio, with two columns on each page. The title is in Roman letters of the size which print ers call French and under it are the words * printed a» authority,” in old English. The imprint is: ** Boston; printed by B. Green; sold by Nichols Boone, at his shop near the old meet house.” The proprietor was evidently John Campbell, postmaster, as indi- cated by the following advertisement, which was the only one the paper con- tained - “This News-Leller is to be continued weekly: and all persons who have any houses, lands, tenaments, farms, shi vessels, goods, wares or werchand ete, to be sold or let; or servants runa- way, or goods stolen or lost; may have the same § at a reasonable rate, from twelve pence to five shillings, and not to exceed: Who may agree with John Campbel, of Bos- ton. All persons in town or country may have the News Leller weekly, yearly, upon reasonable terms, with John Campbel, postmaster, for the e Campbell was a Scotchman, and be- sides attending to his duties as postinns- ter and editor and publisher of the News-Letler, did some iness as book- seller. Judging from copies of his pa- per, bis literary sceomplishments were of u limited charateter, for what little original matter there is, is poorly con- structed, without regard to pun or grammatical construction, and con- sisted mainly of iis own business adver- tisements. The paper was chiefly made up of extracts from on papers, which were necessarily several months old, consequently its support was feeble, and its circulation limited. The paper was issued weekly, and the num- ber contains three printed the fourth being left blank, evidently for the want of news to fill ue This piece of enterprise was apparently not sppreci- ated, as but two pages appeared in the next number, and alo in the issues for | many years thereatter. Up to November 3, 1707, the News-Letter was printed by Bartholomew Green, and from that date to October 2, 1711, it was “ Printed by John Allen in Pudding-lane (now Dev- onshire street), and sold at the postcflice in Cornhill (than a part of Washington street). Atthat time the postoffice and Allen's printing office were destroyed by fire, and the paper was printed by B. Green, for John Campbell, postmas- ter, till the end of the year 1733. Campbell made frequent importunat e calls upon the public to support his en- terprise, “50 as to enable the under taker to earry it on effectually.” In |jove at January, 1719, Campbell proposed pub- | but the other ninety-six verses may be lishing his paper on a whole sheet, | “ because with half a sheet a week it is impossible to carry on ali the publick news of Europe; " but his expectations were far from realized, judging from his statement that *‘the Undertaker hiad not suitable encouragement, even to print half a Sheet Weekly, seeing that hie cannot vend 300 at an Impres- sion tho’ some ignorantiy concludes he Sells upwards of a Thousand; far less | is he able to print a sheel every Week, without an Addition of 4,6 oi 8 Shillings a Year, as everyone thinks fit to give payable Quarterly, which will only help to pay tor Press and Paper, iving his labor for nothing." in the fatter part of the same year another postmaster was appointed, who began the publication of a rival newspaper. This disturbed Campbell greatly, and when, in 1721, James Franklin estab- lished a third newspaper, the New England Courant, his ire was aroused, and he expressed his feelings in the News-Letter more forcibly than elo- quently, as follows: “On Monday last, the 7th Currant, News in this Cour- States, created 3 sensation, In three cen Ve Ee 1300. Venetd artists jn Oe 5 ] came to Jo and ms in ured them in 1673; and afterward the French tegan to expel them Lady Mary Wortley we iatro- duced inoculation ifito England, from tried upon crimina’s, until its sue- ily tested. The discouraged collector sented that littiemstter. * ell, axe his friend, * you are around “Yes,” says the fellow, with ac count in bis hand, “but I want to get square.” ‘yp 8 Tea was first known in | . brought from India by re heing 1610. In Eagiand it was rit introduced antil 1666, when it was fron Holland and sold for sixty shi Chiness dwart, now iy french ish don, sings oniy three verses of a nasive song shout his sweetheart , When a dog eats grass it is said to b2 of rain. It certain'y is an owes hing when the brute gets a lon: ge ¢ lable. when the funtly ve company suppet, ves his shoulders and howls and kicks with his hind legs and screams horribly in a foreign language, and is lifted out of the rcom by his tail by the hired It the sign a he Bired girl : came forth a Third town, entitled the New rant, by Homo non unius Negotii ; or Jack of all Trades, and it would seem, Good at none, giving some very, very frothy fulsome Account of himself, bvt lest the continuance of thatstyle should offend his readers; wherein with sub- mission (I speak for the publisher of this intelligence, whose endeavors have always been to give no offense, not meddling with things outside his own Province.) The said Jack promises in retense of Friendship'to the other News Publishers to amend iikeAle in Summer, Reflecting too, too much that my per- formances are now and then , very Dull, misrepresenting my candid en- have a proverb. * An ass’ ears are deavors {wocording yo the Tajeat of my | jung in order to catch oaths.” Capacity and Education; no yy Sphere) In giving & true and [AAV ery encouraging accounts Are Pubs fenuine account of all Matters of Fact, Indian in ed ar sth Foreign and Domestick, and well training sshool, whiers wm Attested, for these Seventeen Years and cational half past,” ete. The quarrel between these two papers added to the prosperity of both for a while. and for two months Campbell issued a whole sheet every week, but atthe expiration of that time the News. Letter was reduced to its original di- mensions. No copies of the early num- bers of Franklin's papers are in exist- ence, but it is safe to assume that his replies were (qually as caustic and bitter. The files of the News-Letler iown to 1792, when Bartholomew Green became Jropricion, are very im- erfect, but the most complete are ound in the library of the Massachu- setts Historical society in this ty, and these are all bound in two volumes, embracing not half of the numbers for the years previous to 1790. The News- Leifer was printed upon the coarse p ‘per in use at that day, and as the type was of the ancient order, with “g's,” its print is rather difficult to de- cipher, but well repays one tor the effort As previously stated, most of {be matter is copied from the London papers, but occasionally there is refer- ence to local events, which are remark= able alike for their quaintuness of compo- sition and the singular character of the events recorded. The News-Letter was published without interruption for a period of seventy-two years, and was the only paper printed in Boston during the siege. ol wi saints.” The Mexican insists & mule cannot be made to stand withon® such g, snd hoes, Kiowas. Perces, Wichitas, Seminoles and sev- know why you are eral others. “ William, do you like a donkey? **Liké a donkey?" echoed William, opening Lis eyes wide “no, 1 dont.” Do you give cup?” “ I get he sat down to Supper, why I am likea donke All the authentic writings of Shakes- peare that remsin are three signatures to his will, preserved in mons, London, and one signature on each of two law documen British museum and the other in the library of the city of Lov“on. Jome, wnjoying breezes on the rear p mofn very i car, when he fell into conversation w vers agresnbie young man. with his p address, 1 manners and and expressed himself to that Hebe boheme sete “ nia 5 1 s answered with Sletity by the 1 man. Was yo! broad smile i | fe QuIRLED PoTATOES.—Bol. potatoes; when hot pres s lignuy through a COl- ander into a dish or platier; sprinkle over a little salt and set in an oven a moment to dry, not brown, before send- ing to the table. Thisis an attractive dish and is very nice.
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