Beside the Sea.
A little blossom by the sea,
All tempest-torn looked up to me,
And shook its bright head smilingly:
«| will love, I will live
And be glad in the world,
Tho’ the sweetest part be gone.”
The stone was cold, the sea waves beat
In endless surge about its feet,
But still I heard the winds repeat:
“| will love, I will live
And be glad in the world,
Tho' the sweetest part be gone.”
Beside the sea, the barren sea,
Tho’ beats my heart rebelliously,
I breathe, oh, lite, a song to thee:
«1 will love, I will live
And be glad in the world,
Tho' the sweetest part be gone.”’
- Kva L. Emery.
The English Language.
A pretty deer is dear to me,
A hare with downy hair;
llove a hart with all my heart,
But barely bear a bear,
"Tis plain that no one takes a plane
To have a pair of pairs;
A make, though, often takes a rake
To tear away the tares,
All rays raise thyme, time mazes all;
And, through the whole, hole wears,
A writ, in writing * right," may write
It “wright,” and still be wrong—
For write” and “ rite ™ are neither ** right,’
And don't to write belong.
Beer often brings a bier to man,
Coughing a coffin brivgs,
And too much sale will make us ail,
As wall as other things.
The person lies who says he lies
When he is bot reclining;
And, when consumptive folks deelive,
They all decline declining.
A guail don't guail before a storm
A bough will bow before it;
We cannot reia the min at alle
No earthly powers reign o'er it,
The dyer dyes awhile, then dies;
To dye he's always trying,
Until apon his dying-bed
He thinks no more of dyeing.
A son of Mars mars many a san;
All deys must have their days,
And every knight should pray each night
To Him who weighs his ways.
"Tis meet that man should mete out meat
To teed mistortune’s son;
The fair should fare on love alone,
Else one cannot be won.
A lass, alas ! is something false;
Of fanlts a maid is made;
Her waist is bat a barren waste—
Though stayed, she is not staxd.
The springs spring forth in spring, and shoots
Shoot forward one and all;
Though sammer kills the flowers, it leaves
The leaves to fall in fall.
I would a story here commence,
But you might find it stale;
So let's suppose that we have reached
The tail end of our tale.
A Wonderful Game of Ball
Those persons who had the honor of
my acgusintance ten years ago, will re
that I was quite an adept in the
national e of baseball. 1 pitehed
for the Stromboli club—a fair under
hand pitch—for several games; but
about that time the fashion of curving
and underhand throwing came in
fashion.
I never believed .it possible for any
human being to send a regular body—
such as « baseball—from bis hand in
such a fashion as to make it turn it to
the rightor left. When the boys began
to tell their wonderful stories about it,
1 said Joftily that it was contrary to the
law of mechanics, and, with a view of si-
lencing these presumptuous youngsters,
I wrote to the Scientific American, and
submitted the question to that authori-
tative journal. It answered, in effect,
that it was a ridiculous absurdity for
any person to make such a claim.
This, however, did not silence my
friends. They said they had seen it
done. Cummings, the professional,
could do it with ease, though that was
Sbot the extent of his capacity on the
eld.
Then I was told that Mann, of the
Princeton college nine, had acquired
tho art; but I only laughed, until one
day I witressed a game between the
College nine and the New Haven pro-
fessionals. I placed ely behind the
board-fence back of the catcher, and
watched.
That settled it. Mann did it continu-
ally. I saw the ball, as it left his hand,
e such a decided turn to one side
that it actually went around the end of
the bat, and the player, who was con-
fident of making a home run, didn’t
come within six inches of the cube,
Even the veteran Gould, once of the
famous old Red Stockings, after in.
structing his men how the thing was
done, stepped up to the plate. and
ban; away eight times during the
game, without coming anywhere near
the ball.
I immediately reversed my opinions,
as did the Scientific American, and also
Professor Swift, ol Rochester, who went
out on the ball-field snd saw the ball
itched squarely around the end of a
I think it was a good time for usall to
patch up our theories.
I asked Mann how he did the trick,
and he said that he curved the ball acei-
dentally one day, while practicing in
the gymnasium, and showed me how he
heid the ball.
But I could never acquire the knack,
and resigned my position as pitcher for
the Strombolis, and was succeeded b
an ambitions young gentleman, who
nearly snapped his head off every time
he pitched the ball.
Shortly after, 1 became sensible of an
increasing tendency to corpulency on my
part, doubtless inherited from my fa-
ther, who weighed an eighth of a ton.
My weight steadily increased, until 1
now Lip the scales at 220, and am still
rising.
1 was always fond of witnessing the
game, and used to go out to the Athletic
grounds, to see that club clean out the
Sadan thicfied Stockings, of Cine.
in y tockings, of Cincin-
nati, who in turn would ophad letely
used up by the Atlantics, in theirshabby
uniforms, while fortune varied as con-
cerned the other clubs.
Last Fourth of July, a social party
was gotien together, and arrangements
made for spending the glorious anniver-
over in New Jersey.
A delightful grove was selected, and,
among the amusements, it was settled
that a game of baseball wasto be played
in the afternoon, and I was selected as
a member of one of the contesting nines.
1 shivered when told it, and protested.
The fact was, that among the numerous
spectators was to be a young lady for
whom I entertain a very high respect,
and who, I was beginning to hope, was
not altogether impartial toward me. 1
declined at once.
“ It can’t be thought of,” I said, em-
phatically. “I haven't played ball for
ten years. I'm too fat to run. Ican’t
catch a ball, and couldn't hit one, un-
less they will allow me to use a ten-inch
“That's the fix we're all in,” said my
friend. “There's really only one fair
player—Macpherson ; and we will han-
dicap him, so the difference won't be
noticed. it you can’t run, some one
may run for you, and you will do as
batting as any of them. No use
of talking, therefore. I've got youdown
for the right-field, where you won't
have much to do, but can put on all the
style You wish.”
ortunately, I suffered myself to be
persuaded.
The Fourth of July turned out to be
a splendid day—cool, breezy, and of
just the right temperature, and we were
a jolly party that took the cars, early in
the morning, and went over into Jersey
to spend the day.
I, haven't space tu describe a fourth
part of the history of those hours dissi-
pated in the country.
There were about twenty-five gentle-
men, and the same number of ladies—
each of the latter having an escort.
It was the ex tion of us all that
our party—including the family of the
old farmer who owned the ve—would
be the only witnesses of this memorable
contest; but one of his urchins em-
ployed himself for two days previous to
the e in
by the time
were several hundred
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under the shadows of the trees to watch
our performances.
The little rascal also pointed me out
as a former professional, who had re.
fused tremenduous offers from all the
clubs in the country, s» that great ex.
peotations were formed concerning me,
1 grieve to say, however, that
heard several disrespectful remarks con-
corning my ponderosity, as 1 moved
about among my friends, picked up the
edness of a professional.
1 was not without misgivings, flor
to count u
ingly slender thre: d. :
n throwi .g the ball, before the game,
every one, with a single exception, and
that, I think, I held by accident.
though I didn’t let any one see it.
My great relief, however, was, in ob-
serving that ali the others were about
as deep m the muflin business as I was; |
and there's nothing like company when
you're scared or miserable. .
I tried a little with the bat, and did |
better, forgetting that in this case the |
balls were pitched precisely as 1 wished
them, while in the game it would be |
exactly the opposite; that is, if the |
pitcher knew anything about his busi- |
ness.
as our players were put out in one-two-
three order, it was not until the close
of the third inning that 1 stepped up to |
the home-plate, and took up the ash in |
my old-time style.
A good many remarks from the crowd |
were audible: * Knock the stuffing out |
of it!"
guise!”
stouter!™ “Try ‘ Anti-Fat!™ and simi-
lar expressions reached my ears.
“He's Dickey Pearce, grown |
5
such annoyances, for they are often ut- |
tered tor the very purpose of influenc- |
ing the game. But I was angered, and |
seeing the ball coming fairly over the |
home-plate, I banged away at it with |
all my might. |
I came within about fourteen inches
of it, the momentum of my own blow
carrying me completely around on my
feet, causing my hat to fall off and my-
self almost to stagger over on my hel
with std den dizziness.
A general laugh follow this failure,
and my cheeks burned with chagrin, for
I was sure that the hasty glance which
I cast down toward the grove, showed
my particular friend of the gentle sex
smiling at the figure I cut.
Before I could get in * form," as they
say, the second ball-was pitched. The
umpire yelled, * Strike!” just as the
cube struck me in front and nearly took
ny breath away.
‘here was another laugh, and the
pitcher called out, ** Beg paahrdon!™
uttered just as you will hear it about a
hundred times when a couple of college
clubs are playing for the championship.
I told him it was all right, but if it
was repeated it would be his last per-
formance, and I scowled terribly, and
griped my bat in a suggestive way.
I drove away at the third ball, and
caught it fairly on the end of my bat.
There was a sharp crack, like a pistol.
shot, and a roar of applause went up
from the crowd, as I started like a bul-
falo for first base.
I didn't see the ball, but when our
captain shouted, * Come home! Come
home!” I made a desperate effort to
complete the circuit of the bases.
At the first, my hat went off. But
whatof it? No professional would mind
such a thing. Before I reached second,
one of my shoes shot up in the air be-
hind me and dropped down on my head,
and I heard laughter mingling with ap-
piause.
By the time I reached second, 1 began
to feel tired, and wanted tosit down and
rest, but about all our nine were chasing
after me, clapping their hands, dancing
and screeching like lunatics.
“Run it out! A home-run! The best
hit you ever made! This'll win the
game! Run hard; all the ladies are
watching you!”
I couldn't think of stopping with such
incitements in my ears, though I was al-
most out of breath, and a sudden kink
in my left ankle caused me to limp and
nearly fall.
I went panting by second with bulg-
ing eyes, and my other shoe went up like
a rocket over my head.
Forging by third with the whole pack
at my heels, while all the other nine
were shouting to the center-fieider to
thirow it in, I strack for home,
“Get out of the road!” called the
crowd. “That chap can’t stop! He'll
have to go around three or four times
before he can put on the brakes! Let
the band play!” ete.
Well, I reached home-plate a second
ahead of the ball, which, being thrown
in from a long distance, struck me and
helped me forward somewhat.
Seeing how close the contest was, the
captain shouted to me to slide in, and 1
do so. I thought if I could slide a few
inches it would serve to rest me. I
succeeded, buat it played havoc with
my trousers. though the damage was
not irreparable.
When it was seen that I had made a
home-run, the applause was terrific and
long-continued.
Recovering my wind as best I could, 1
carelessly sauntered off toward the trees,
as though I had done a very small thing
in the world.
I heard the young scamp of a boy
shouting out that I was an old profes-
sional, and he had told them I would do
great things during the game, adding
that I wouid show more astonishing
performances before it was through.
He was quite correct.
Up to this time I had had nothing to
do in the field, the balls being knocked
nearer the other players. Every time
one was struck by our opponents I made
a dash for it, but held up when I saw it
was going out of my jurisdiction. This
tended to show that i was on the look-
out for all the chances.
In the sixth inning a *‘ a daisy-cutter’
came skipping toward me. I dodged
about, daneed here and there, and pre-
vented it going by, and being ordered to
send it in, made a desperate throw to
home, to head off a player running in
from third.
I put too much steam on, for the ball
went some twenty feet over the cateher’s
head, who, nevertheless, jumped in the
air and threw up his hands as if he ex-
pected to reach it.
The best thing about the business was
that the ball struck the little boy who
had been yelling my praises, and he was
80 occupied in weeping for the rest of
the game that he let me alone.
My wild throw gave me a fearful
wrench in the side, and I struck out
every time after that; but as that was
what the majority did, I didn’t feel as
lonely as I anticipated.
I should have stated that having had
a week’s notice of the game, the most of
us prepared a sort of burle:que uni-
orl, with a view ot helping along the
un.
My cap fitted very much, but the
frontispiece extended nearly a foot di-
rectly outward. The trousers were
orgeously illuminated with stars,
ut were very tight, and were continu-
ally cothing unfastened at the knee and
working up my legs. The stockings
were a brilliant crimson, and the shoes
of the ordinary kind. The shirts Lad
an immense letter “ 8" worked in front,
to distinguish our membersifrom the
others.
In all such games the blunders are in-
numerable,
_ One of our nine insisted, after reach-
ing second base, that he had the right to
run back to home-plate, instead of going
forward, as the distance was the same.
Another, finding the ball at first ahead
of him, hastily withdrew to home,
where he contended that he had a right
to stay until he saw a favorable open-
f
| said, savagely, “and it was a good deal
[ better than this new-tangled fashion."
{ In the ninth inning the situation as-
| sumed an interesting phase,
Our opponents—the Invineible—were
[at the bat, we having playsd out our
i nine innings,
We had made thirty-five runs, and
If we could biank
them (and each club had been white.
washed several times) we would win.
It they should get in two runs, the game
be tied, and another inning
If they should get
The * excitement was intense,” as the
upon the field in their anxiety to see
Our captain admonished us all to
keep cool and to watch every chance.
“Don't get rattled I" was the caution
Ve all promised we wouldn't allow
ourselves to be rattled, though there
ized or (Higuratively) losing our heads.
The first ball struck went straight w
and threw it furiously to first, to head
off the striker, : ;
The baseman, startled to see it coming
toward it and shrugged his shoulders.
ell at his feet, he
time, if he had not stumbled and torn
half his uniform off. This so bewildered
man found the ball.
One man out, and no runs!
The seccnd batter drove
a “sk
This looked bad, but we were much
cheered and revived by the Sapiain beg-
ging us again pot to get ** ratt ed.” We
drew in a deep breath, and resolved to
die before becoming *‘ rattled.”
The pitcher took his position, and
made ready to deliver the ball to the
batsman.
At this juncture the runner, who was
on second base, stepped off a pace ortwo
to watch his chance.
The instant he did so the baseman
near him took the ball from under his
arm, and, tapping him on the shoulder,
shrieked for ** judgment!”
The umpire could do nothing but give
the runner out.
This little trick, you know, is some-
times played by professionals, and is
nothing but a deception as to where the
ball is. :
The opponent supposed it was in the
pitcher's hands, and did not suspect the
risk he ran in stepping off his base,
Two men out, no runs in and we were
ahewd!
The next three batsmen made their
bases by knocking skipping, difficult
balls. With all the bases filled, this
made the situation Sxiremely interest-
ing, and we became more determined
than ever that we would not be * rat.
tiled.”
I had not yet had a fair ball, but the
next striker raised one well up in the
air, and my instinct told me on the in-
stant that it was * my ball,” and no one
else's,
I began dancing about and moving
forward and backward as though the
ground had become suddenly red-hot,
while at the same time my head was
thrown so far back, to allow me to gaze
skyward, that the long fore piece of my
hat pointed straight toward the zenith.
*“Right-field! Take it, right-field!
was shouted by every member of our
nine, while our opponents began to hoot
and how! so us to * rattle” me; but I
had seen that thing before, and my poise
was too sublime for me to be disturbed
by such trifles.
“Just see him take that in old-
fashioned style!" some one called from
the crowd-probably the urchin who
had been heralding my skill from the
beginning.
Keep back! keep back!” I shouted.
“this is my ball! Don’t get in the way!"
They did let me alone. Audience
and players held their breath to witness
the play.
As I learned afterward, all the ladies
raised their hands and held them close
together, so as to be ready to applaud
the instant it was seen I held it.
Even our magnanimous opponents,
who were trying to rattle me, took off
their hats and held them in hand, ready
to fling them into the air.
There are times when you feel as
morally certain of a coming event as
you do after it has taken place.
I was just as sure of holding that ball
as I was of receiving the thunderous ap-
plause which follows such brilliant ex-
ploits.
I spread my feet apart, held my open
palms in position, and kept my eye on
the black cube which was whizzing
downward through the pulsing air like
a meteor toward me.
** Keep back! this is mine! I'll hold
it
»
. -
The ball shot straight throngh my
hands, and striking me squarely on the
nose, bounced off somewhere into space.
I described a back somersault, and in
going over saw more stars than Her-
schel ever discovered.
The hoots, laughter, disrespectful re-
marks and yells were simply terrific. 1
hastily scrambled to my feet and be-
gan glaring around for the ball, While
thus engaged, the three men on bases
ran in, and the latter made a home-run.
Consequently our side was beaten, and
my nose was decidedly out of shape.
Since then, I have not been a very
ardent admirer of baseball, and I trust
that after this no one will ask me to tell
him, [rivaiel » why it is my nose is not
plumb.-—~Golden Days.
Marketing In Old Rome.
_ The sir or madam who in these burn-
ing summer days entertains a party of
friends at lunch or dinner, and the ex-
quisiteness of the feast vies with the
cost of the service, naturally supposes
that from this modern vantage-ground
they can give points to Heliogabalus or
Apicius. But these older gourmets
made light of sums at which our mod-
erns would turn pale. Professor Her-
bermann, in a late number of the ** Half-
Hour Series,” gives a most entertaining
and instructive account of * Business
Life in Ancient Rome.”
Nov aly Nero, Verus and Heliogaba-
lus la ished from $240,000 to $400,000
upon single banquet, but the actor
Esop i paid more than $4,000 for
sing! dainty dish to set before a king,
of 81 zing birds; and Apicius, the prince
of ¢ od livers, alter spending $4,000,000
une the pleasures of the table took
poison because he saw nothing but a
beggarly $400,000 left. Citruswood
tables cost $40,000 to $50,000 apiece;
and the elder Pliny says that the philo-
gophical stoic Seneca had five hundred
of them at, various prices. A statue by
Praxiteles was worth $20,000 or $30,000.
The little book is full of curious in-
formation. Who knew that pork and
not beef was the favorite meat of the
Romans, while lamb, mutton and veal
were not in favor? (Game, poultry
and fish were very acceptable, but the
old Romans, like the modern Italians,
ate meat sparingly. The professor gives
us a price list: Beef, per pound, four
cents; Jamb and fresh pork, six cents;
ham, ten cents; river fish, two cents;
sea fish, six cents; a pair of quails,
thirty cents; eggs, six cents a dozen;
milk, four cents a quart; salt, sixteen
cents a peck; ten to torty apples or
pears, two cents; four pounds large
grapes, two cents; green beans and
shelled peas, two cents a pint; oil, six
to twenty cents, and honey, four to
twenty cents a pint.
There are now 43,000 postoMces in
“That's the way we used to dol” he
ctive operation in the United States.
FOR THE FAIR SEX
ro ————
Hueadineg Broad,
Here is a little incident which not
only has the merit of being true, but the
additional one of containing a lesson
much needed by girls
A lady in one of our large cities was
nterested in finding employment for the
numbers of needy idle women during
the years of great depression in trade
One day a young woman came to her
who had tried in turn to fill a place as
shop-girl, seamstress, chambermaid,
cook, hairdresser and patent medicine
vender, and had been Jhchnrend from
all as incompetent,
“You have never learned any trade
or handicraft P" asked the lady.
“ Well, no, nothing particular. | was
handy in a general way."
oughly well?”
Fhe Woman
lighted,
“1 could knead bread. 1 always did
that better than any one else on the
farm.”
The lady's brother, an eminent phy-
sician, who happened to be present,
suddenly took part in the conversation.
“Let me look at your fingers,” he
said.
They were long,
nervous foree.
“1 will give you
hospital
reflected, then her face
strong, of great
work." He
in which
had
the
a process of
body. Skillful manipulators were dil.
ficuit to find. After a few lessons our
country girl earned her thirty dollars
per week.
With every year the number of young
men and women pressing into the
market to find employment increases.
here is absolutely no chance for the
loosely trained workmen whose brain
way." Learn to do one thing, and to do
it thoroughly, and you wiil never be in
Com
lack of honest work. Youlh's
panion.
Gingham and Other Wash Traveling
Prrosses,
Itis the custom this summer to wear
gingham dresses for traveling, For
fortable dresses used since bufl and gray
worn. They are so easily cleansed after
the journey by washing that they are
not a source of anxiety on the way;
they are of dark colors that are not con-
spicuous; and it greater warmth is
needed, it is supplied by the traveling
superseded the linen duster. Among
ence is for stone
tinges, in checks of two shades of blue
without any white, or else brokea bars
of biue on a white ground, or irregular
stripes of two or three blue shades, with
echaps some thredd lines of red or buff,
are trimmed with bias bands of solid
bine gingham sewed on the plaited or
gathered flounces, and as a borderng
for the apron, basque, collar, cuffs and
belt. The white Mumburg work used
to brighten blue gingham dresses that
dressy for these plain traveling suits.
When made in the best manner, and of
Scotch gingham, such dresses cost at
the furnishing house from #12 to $17.
with as few seams as possible. The
neck is usually finished with a turned-
over vollar in Byron shape, or else ex-
tending lower on the bust in the
notched airectoire shape. Among ex-
pensive ginghams are stripes of two
shades of peacock biue,or else of green;
there are also olive green checks or
irregular plaids tnat make up most
effectively. The black and white broken
oars sre also in favor; for elder,y Indies
these are trimmed with plaitings of the
same, while young ladies add some pip-
ings of Torkev red calico, and they also
put a narrow red plaiting around the
toot of the skirt.
For other wash dresses, whether of
gingham or lawn, embroidery is the
trimming preferred this season to lace,
The Hamburg work in open patterrs,
or else quite close, with dots, diamonds,
almonds or stars, is best liked for
gingham dresses; there is also a woven
trimming called Swiss embroidery,
sive, costing only eight or ten cents a
For thin dotted muslins real embroidery
different from that just described, and
farjmore custly.
are found suitable for the soft sheer
fined to them.
guedoe, point a'esprit and Breton laces |
are most liked; Valenciennes isgseldom
employed, at least it is not bought from
choice, though Iadies who have nice
qualities of this lace continue to use it.
For white dresses, and indeed for most
of the colored wash goods, very little
starch is employed by the lnundress, and
there is no effort to give them gloss
from the iron. The fancy at present is
for the soft finish of Oriental stuffs,
such as India mull or mummy-cloth,
or the Turkey red calicoes. Gathered
ruffles are now selaown fluted ; they are
made too scant for fluting, and are more
stylish when ironed smooth and plain.
Plaited flounces are pressed perfectly
flat half their depth, while below this
the plaitings are pulled upward and
apart by the laundress’ hand to give
them the appearance ot great full-
ness. When a single border flounce
trims the foot of a dress skirt,
it is now the ecaprice to have the head-
ipg almost as wide as the jJower part of
the flounce, and if this wide heading
fails to stand erect, and droops over at
intervals, it is all the more stylish.
The heading is for this reason often
faced with gay red or blue cambric.
The linen lawns are prettier this sum-
mer than usual, and are more highly
appreciated for their coolness and cheap-
ness. The polka-dotted patterns—black,
blue, brown or red, on white—make up
most stylishly, and are sold in nice
qualities of pure linen from twenty-five
to thirty-five cents a yard. Fifteen
yards are required to make a short dress
with round waist, apron front, and
straight full back sim
ply trimmed with
a border flounce. Dark red or blue
satin ribbon in a long-looped bow atthe
throat, with a belt of the same tied on
the left side, with short hanging ends, is
all the ornament needed. The neck
may have a handkerchief fichu which is
ointed behind, or else a Byron collar,
retty evening dresses are made of the
cream-white seaside zephyr, which
imitates India stuffs with crape-like
finish, and costs from eighteen to
twenty-one cents a yard, It requires to
be made in full bouffant fashion, with
much festooned drapery, and is trimmed
with Languedoc lace and many loops of
pale pink or blue ribbon.— Harper's
Bazar.
Ancient Female Lawyers,
Not every lady and gentleman who
has this season applauded Miss Terry's
Portia is aware that about the date when
the ** Merchant of Venice” may be sup-
posed to have exhibited his gaberdine
upon the Rialto there actually existed
great temale lawyers in the neighboring
city of Bologna. Professor Calderini,
who held the chair of jurispsudence in
that university in 1360, and Professor
Novella, who occupied it in 1366, were
not only celebrated for their legal lore,
but, if we may trust their portraits,
were exceedingly beautiful women, with
uoble Greek profiles, dressed in a style
which Miss Terry might have copied
without disadvantage. If women here-
after should again obtain entrance into
the legal profession, it is not at all im-
probable that we may sce something
more of the keenoeis of feminine wits
engaged In disentangling the knots of
the law. Two ladies in Ireland, acoord-
ing to the T¥mes' Dublin correspondent,
have just been conducting their own
most Intricate cnses in a manner which
excited the surprise of the Master of the
Rolls, who even observed that he was
astonished that the ladies had been
able to put their case on paper so intel
ligently and clearly without legal ad-
vice.” If other ladies should follow
the example of the Misses Fogarty, what
a falling-off must ensue in the solicitors’
bills! They lost their case, it is true,
but seemingly could not have won it
| under any guidance; and at all events
{they have escaped that greal aggrava-
| tion of the misery of defeat in a court
of law—the lawyers' costs. Fall Mali
| Gazette
i
Trying te Drive a Hen,
{
Did you ever undertake todrive a hen
anywhere? If not, then never say
| “Where there's a will there's a way. !
{or ** All things are possible to him who
| perseveres,” because you don't know
anything about it.
| Driving a hen properly, and decors
{ously, snd successfully requires more
| skill than capturing a herd of buffalo.
| strong-minded hen,
{woman she would have wanted the
{ ballot long ago, and her husband would
have had hy ha quiet when she ** got
set" on anything. Bat being oniy a
| hen, all she can do is to eackle, aad be
contrary, and thwart you at every turn
If you want her to go in somewhere
she'll be sure to want to ga out, and
vice versa. You want to drive
| gets into your garden, to the total de.
{ struction of your pet bulbs, and roots,
{and seeds, and everything else. One
| smart, active hen will do more harm in
one hour than a cow would in half a
{ day.
| A hen is born with an instinct to get
{ at the root of the matter, and she fol
| lows out her nature,
When your hen gets out of confine-
i ment she makes straight for your
| choicest flower bed, and she stays there
{for an hour before you discover her.
| By that time she has dug out everything
| that you cared anything about, and has
| buried herself up all but her head, an
| there she lies in the sun with happiness
{and triumph in her speaking counten.
ance,
| How mad you are! You feel as if you
could sever her joints and make her
into a pot-pie with a will--no matter i
she is one of the trio that cost $10.
You go for her with energy, and
| scream out *‘ shoo!" at her, and flourish
| your aprop, and make wild gestures in
| her direction, and call your husband
{and the children and the hired girl to
| help drive her into her quarters.
Now, it is never any use to call a man
to help drive an hen. We are willing to
| admit that the lords of creation ean do
| quantities of things that the weaker sex
canpot, but there is one thing a man
| can never do—and that is drive a hen.
| He'll break tie rake-handle, and get
| hung in the clothes-line, and lose his
{ hat, and fall down over the croquet
| wickets, and burst off two or three of
| his suspender buttons, and the hen will
{fly upon the top of the barn or take
| refuge in the tallest tree on the premises,
and there she will stay and
| And all the men in creation cannot
| drive her down, for she knows that she
{ has got things her own way.
Your hen that you are going to drive
| generally cackles all the time you are
{ trying to drive ner. It gives her cour-
| age, perhaps, to defy you.
music of a martial band when the troops
| are marching into battle, It is as in.
| spiring as the strains of * Yankee
| Doodle" to the hen'sear. You Lry gen-
| tlenecss first.
| “Shoo, bddy! shoo, biddy! shoo,
there!” and she plunges off in the di-
rection contrary to the one you wish
her to goin; and then you draw off your
| forces and execute a Hank movement,
and *“‘pen™ her up, but presto! just as
| you think you have got hier, she squats
and gives a scoot right under your
| skirts, and away she goes free as air.
| Then you get some corn and try to bribe
her. Ob, no, she doesn't want any corn,
| thank you. She is above bribery, She
| doesn't take any stock in your “chicky!
¢.icky! chicky!™ delivered in your
| most “cajoling of voices. Still she
eackles. All the roosters cackie, too,
| evidently tickled with her spunk. A
few hens who are not curious join in.
| All the neighbors will be looking out to
soe ‘what on earth = are making
them hens screech so for.”
Your husband gets a pole and makes
He'll fix her eackle
| house or he'll know the reason!
And by the time he has chased her all
| and knocked a piece of skin off his hand
ttle Charley, he does
find eut the reason. It is because she is
not of a mind to go into that hen- house.
And he says that hens are a nuisance,
and that he'll kill the whole of "em, and
hie wishes there had never been one in-
vented,
By this time you are tired of his help,
and you request him to go away and
you'll drive that hen.
Then you begin, and the hen begins,
too. She flies over the fence, and up on
a neighbor's woodshed and down into
somebody's pig-pen, and then the pig
takes after her with a vim, and she flies
out with a screech, and runs under the
barn, and there she stays till night, and
then if you will leave open your hen-
house door she will find her way thither,
as meek and innocent looking as you
lease —for ** chickens and curses come
ome to roost." — Kate Thorne.
A Shower of Coin,
Bankers and brokers were hurrying
away from Wall street at half-past
three o'ciock in haste to get to their
homes, to the seashore or the country;
clerks, office boys and messengers were
running to snd fro, and Wall and Broad
streets and Exchange place were filled
with a moving throng, finishing up the
work of the day. Just at this time two
men came from the basement of No. 40
Broad street. One was Mr. C. H. Dex-
ter, the painter and carpenter, and the
other one of his assistants. As soon as
they reached the sidewalk the two men
plunged their hands in their pockets,
pulled them out filled with small coin
and began scattering the money broad-
east, literally throwing it away. Almost
as quickly as it is written a crowd of
messenger boys and young clerks sur.
rounded them. Fighting their way
through the throng the two men moved
slowly toward Exchange place, where
they separated, one going up the narrow
court toward New street and Broadway
ard the other up Broad street in the
direction of Wall street. At every step
their hands were dipped into capacious
pockets, raised in the air a moment, and
then came a little shower of pennies,
nickels, dimes and quarters, Thecrowd
increased prodigiously. It was com-
posed mostly of boys, and they struggled
and fought good naturedly, tumbling
over and trampling upon each other in
their eager scramble for the money. At
the corner of Broad and Wall streets the
crowd and the excitement culminated.
Here Mr. Dexter stood a few moments,
a mob of about a thousand bustling,
shouting youngsters about him, while
he scattered balf-dollars, dollars and a
few shining golden quarter-eagles in a
little rain about him. Like the Scrip-
tural rain, it fell upon the Just and the
unjust alike, for some of the big boys
wickedly robbed the little fellows of
coveted pieces. The 1ain was only a
shower after all. In fifteen minutes it
was over, and Mr. Dexter stepped into
his carriage and was whirled away. —
New York Herald.
An EXperimontal plantation of olive
trees in Georgia is said to have yielded
an excellent quality of olive oil,
(TIMELY TOPICS,
There are now 42,677 postofices in the
United States, an increase of 1,988 in the
wast year, The number of offices pay-
ot more than $1,000 each, and there.
tore called presidential postoffices, is
1.764. New York heads the list, with
189, 1llinois comes next, with 163; then
Pennsylvania, with 132, and Ohlo, with
118.
The national association for the pro-
tection of the insane, which was organ.
ized at the charities conference in
Cleveland recently, has for its object
the introduction of more humane and
intelligent methods of dealing with in.
sanity, Great things in this direction
have been done in the past generation,
but much sti: remains to be done,
Especial care has been taken by the
association to make iv understood that
the movement does not arise from hos.
tility to any asylum or officials.
A druggist's assistant was charged
before the ‘correctional chamber in
Paris, a few days ago, with causing the
death of a man by misreading a pre-
scription. The doctor, whose writin
was very clear, ordered eight drops of
{ lnudanum, which the assistant care
| lessly read as eight grammes, or about
a quarter of an ounce, The overdose
naturally killed the patient, and the
court sentenced the prisoner to three
months’ imprisonment. His advocate
jurged as an extenuating circumstance
| that, if the mistake had cost the de-
| censed his life, it had at least provided
| him with a painless death!
The honors accorded to the American
exhibitors at the fishery exhibition at
| Berlin were quite numerous, They
| were as follows: Address of thanks
| and a gold medal; one honorary prise;
{a gold medal, with special honorary
| diploma; nine gold medals, exclusive
{of the special ones before mentioned ;
| fourteen silver medals; twelve bronze
medals, and seventeen honorable men-
| tions—in all sixty-nine awards to the
| United States Large as is the number
| of prizes for America, they might have
| been very much augmented, for the
| overwhelming superiority of the Ameri.
| can exhibition over those of all other
| countries was conceded from the ver
{ first day. But the American exhibit
| was for the most part a collective one,
| made by the United States fish commis.
| sion, and for this reason comparatively
| few American individuals, so to speak,
| received awards.
Mr. Stoddard, second mate of the
| brigantine Fortunate, which arrived re-
| cently at Halifax, N. 8., from the West
| Indies, reports that one night, while
| passing along the coast of Florida, a
singular phenomenon appeared just after
dark. Two columns of fire were seen,
| seemingly about a mile away. They
| were about fifty yards apart and rose to
! a height of nearly 500 feet, when they
arched toward each other, but d
meet. They burned with a steady, dull
| red color, and did not emit any sparks,
{but at the arching portions emitted
{ tremulous rays or pencilings of light
| similar to an aurora borealis. They ap-
| peared in sight all night, and gradually
{ faded away as daylight came. The
| weather was beautifolly clear, and not
a cloud was visible during the entire
night. On the following day there was
a heavy thunder-storm, accompanied by
a gale of wind, but no rain.
A Washington dispatch says that
General Walker has pisoced the task of
| attempting to procure full census sta-
tistics of Indians pot taxed to Major
Powell and his assistants, who are
working under the Smithsonian insti-
tution. Colonel Garrick Mallery, of
the army, is now engaged in preparing a
heads calculated to set out all material
condition of each tribe.
American Indians, and is well fitted to
prepare schedules which shall cover all
the more prominent features of Indian
life, and bring out many points in the
line of his researches which will be
both pew and interesting. This is an
important matter in many respects.
Hitherto all estimates for the purchase
of Indian supplies have been
upon the supposed number of Indians in
each tribe, but there is ground for the
belief that the numaber has been vastly
overstated in respect of many tribes,and
that Jarge sums have been wasted in
conscquence,
An ltewm-Gatherer,
Some supposed friends of a newspaper
have peculiar ideas as to what kind o-
items a paper really requires. Not long
since a gentleman came into the Galves-
ton News sanctum and said: ** Look
here! You miss a heap of live items.
I'm on the streeis all day; I'll come up
every once in a while and post you.”
“ All right; fetch on your item; but,
remuember, we want news.”
Next day he camc up, beaming all
over. “I've got a live item for you.
You know that bow-legged gorilla of a
brotner-in-law of mine, who was in
business here with me?”
“1 believe I remember such a per-
son,” said the editor, wearily.
“Well, I've just got news from Neb-
raska, where he is living, that he is
going to run for the legislature. Now,
just give him a blast. Lift him out of
iis boots. Don’t spare him on my ac-
count.”
Next day he came up again. *‘ My
little item was crowded out. I brought
ou some news,” and he hands in an
item about his cat, as follows:
“A Remarkable Animal.—The family
cat of our worthy and distinguished
fellow-townsman Smith, who keeps the
boss grocery store of Ward No. 13, yes-
terday became the mother of five singu-
larly-marked kittens. This is not the
first time this unheard-of event has
taken place. We understand Mr. Smith
is being favorably spoken of as a can
didate for alderman.” : 4
The editor groans in his spirit as he
lights a cigar with the effort. Itis not
long before he hears that Smith is going
around saying that he has made the
paper what it is, but it is not indepen
dent enough for a place like Galveston.
Many readers will say this sketch is
overdrawn, but thousands of editors all
over the country will lift up their right
hands to testify that they are personally
acquainted with the guilty party.
ee ——————
Prehistoric Tombs,
Professor Prosdocismi, of the Este
(France) musenm, who wiscovered a pre-
historic cemetery on the slope of the
bills overlooking that town, has un-
earthed in the same vicinity eighty-two
tombs, forty-four of them violated, ap-
parently during the Roman period, the
rest untouched, with all their pottery
and bronzes, The urns are of the three
periods, some colored black, with linear
ornamentation; others adorned with
circles and wavy lines; others with al-
ternate Lands of red and black. The
bronze ornaments are also very interest.
ing, and a bronze chest bears three de-
signs, comprising in all seventeen war.
riors and a priest, several animals
(horses, oxen, stags, birds and a dog,
several plants and a kind of Chariot
with a man seated in it. The professor
considers these the finest prehistoric re-
mains in Italy.
It almost unnerves a man to watch a
woman undergoing the operation of pin-
ning on her bonnet, and a fellow heaves
a sigh of relief when the four inches of
pin disappears in a mass of togacry
and hair and the female comes out of
the perilous operation uninjured and
smiling.
It is estimated that Oregon will fur-
tor export the coming season.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD,
Prowmie Kitchen Hules Pootived,
Veal outlets dipped in egg and bread-cramb,
Fry till you see & brownish red come,
Hoast pork, sans apple-savce, past doubt,
1s Hamlet with the prince leit out.
Your mutton chops with paper cover,
And make them amber-hrown all over,
Broil lightly your besisteak—to fry it
Argues contempt for Christian diet,
The cook deserves a hearty cuffing,
Who serves roast fowls with isteloss stuffing,
Egg sauce few make it right, alas!
1s good with blue fish, or with bass,
Shad, stufled and baked, is most delicious;
"I'would bave electrified Apioius.
Roasted in paste, a haunch of mutton
Might make ascetics play the glutton,
Varm sna Garden Notes.
An exchange says if hens get into the
habit of eating their own eggs the surest
remedy is to cut off their heads.
Cellars thoroughi treated with
whitewash made yellow with copperas
will not he considered desirable habita-
tions for rats and mice,
A half gill of soft soap and water, one
part of soap to twelve of water, poured
at the roots of cabbage plants, is recom-
mended as sure death to white grubs,
Potatoes are frequently spotied by
being exposed to the sun too long after
digging. They should only be opened to
light and air long enough to dry them,
and then stored away in as dark ap
as possible.
The soil for a fodder crop should
either be naturally rich or made so by
manuring, or it will not pay to prepare
it for any of these quick growin grins
which have but little time in which to
make their growth, and must get to a
good sige in order to be Pr
An old gardener says, in the Detroit
Tribune, with regard to cultivating
onions, that if care is taken to draw
away the earth gradually from the bulb
until they are quite uncovered and only
the fibrous roots are in the earth, you
will never have scullions, but very large,
sound onions.
Potash dissolved in water, or lye from
wood ashes, is a wash for the
trunks and large limbs of fruit trees.
Whitewash should not be used, as it
closes the pores of the bark, which
shouid be kept open in order to insure a
healthy tree, Potash or lye answers
every purpose which whitewash would,
with none of its ohjections.
The ox-eye duisy is a very fashionable
| flower in the city, but a vile pest to the
| farmer, It is propagated by the seed,
| and may be destroyed by mowing be-
| fore the seed is formed. Two or three
| seasons may be required to subdue it,
{but it is = standing reproach to an
farmer to have his fields overrun wi
| this weed
| The advantages of spreading manure
| from the wagon as it is drawn out area
| saving of labor, and a more even distri-
| bution of the double salts (ammonia,
| potash, Jhospliates, ete.) in the soil by
{ rain. If the manure is he on the
| field, snd gets a heavy rain belore
| spreading, the ground under the heaps
| receives an undue share of the best part
| of the manure, which not unfrequently
| renders these spots barren for a season
or two,
| The farmer who always takes particu.
| lar pains to put up his produce in neat
| attractive packages, aud never mixes
| the second with the first quality, will
{ have to spend but litt'e time to find
| good men ready to buy all his produets,
{and pay him a fair price; but he who
| mixes three qualities together, and
tries to sell them as first quality, will
always be troubled to find buyers, and
Formerly it was considered best to
let grass stand until the seed was full
rown, before cutting, but of late years
cutting are: First, better hay,
which is more readily eaten by cattle
second, less injury to the grass roots
third, a better chance for a second
crop.
Benefits trom lloelng.
One of the great est benefits from sow
ing our garden seeds in drills is the op-
portunity it affords us of boeing fre-
quently and thoroughly between the
rows. Too many persons who usé the
ioe suppose Lhat the chief benefit derived
from it is to kill the weeds. That, cer-
tainly, is an important work, and which
is greatly neglected. Weeds are not
only in the way of cultivating the crops
which we want, but they rob them of
much of the nutriment which they
need. Hoeing, then, is an essential ser-
vice in respect to destroying the weeds.
There are other advantages, however,
which are quite commonly overlooked.
Let us see.
The loosening of the soil in the opers-
tion of hosing is beneficial to the plants;
as ouch as the destruction of the weeds
or more so.
Moisture abounds in the atmosphere
during the hottest months, and it is
absorbid and retained mo t abundantly
by a soil which is in the most friable
sate. Professor Schiluber found tha
1,000 graias of stiff clay absorbed in
twenty-four hours only thirty-six grains
of moisture from the air; whiie garden
mold absorbed forty-five grains; and
five magnesia seventy-six grains.
Then, again, pulverizing the soil en-
ables it better to retain the moisture
absorbed.
The soil, in order to be healthy and
active, must breathe. A light, porous
soil admits the air snd thus it is fed
and greatly invigorated by the atmos-
phere.
The sun's rays heat a hard soil much
uicker than a loose one, and the hotter
the sun is, so much greater will be the
evaporation from it So that the hard
soil is deprived of its moisture much
sooner than one of a loose texture.
The roots of plants can find their way
through a moist, loose soil, in search ot
food, much better than (hey can through
a hard, dry soil.
A soil that is kept loose near the sur-
face by the action of the hoe will receive
and hold the vain water taat falls, while
a hard soil will allow most of it to run
off into the valleys and streams as it
falls.
Recipes
IxpiaN Suer PuppiNg.—One-half
ound suet, chopped fine, one cup mo-
asses, one pint milk, one egg, meal to
make a very thin batter, one teaspoon
ground cloves, one teaspoon ground cin-
namon, one teaspoon salt, a little nut.
meg, a fewr currants or chopped raisins,
Boil or steam three hours. Sauce.
Quick Caxe.—Beat one cupful of
powdered sugar and one tablespoonful
of butter to a cream, and one well
beaten egg, two-thirds of a cupful of
sweet milk, with half a teaspoon of
soda, one and halt cupfuls of flour, with
one teaspoonful of cream tartar. Flavor
with lemon. Bake in a brick-shaped
loaf.
VEAL Hasn.—Take a teacup of boil-
ing water in a saucepan, stir in an
even teaspoon flour wet in a tablespoon
cold water, and let it boil five minutes ;
add one-half teaspoon black pepper, as
much salt, and two tablespoons butter,
and let it keep hot, but not boil. Chop
the veal fine, and mix with it half as
much stale bread crumbs. Put it it in
a pan and pour the gravy on it, then let
it simmer ten minutes. Serve this on
buttered toast.
Ror Jerry CAxE.—Sift two tea-
spoonfuls of cream of tartar with two
cups of flour (measured after sifting.)
Dissolve one teaspoon of soda in three
tablespoons of hot water. Beat six
eggs, whites and yolks separately. Add
two cups of sugar to the yolks, put in
half the flour, then the soda, the bal
x poss |
ance of the flour and the whites of the
oges, Bake in a thin, even sheet ina
Inrge dripping-pan; eb done turn on
to a molding beard, spread with jelly
and roll up without delay. ap 8
hspkia about the roll tc keep it in
shape,
Woolen hose should be soaked all
night and washed in hot suds with
beel’s gall, a tablespoonful to half a pail
of water. Iron on the wrong side.
if troubled with wakefulnes s on re-
tiring to bed, eat or four small
onions; they will act as a gentle and
sonthing navootie, Are 8iso ex-
pellet to eat when one is much exposed
to cold,
When water has once been made to
boil, the fire may he yay much less.
ened, as but little heat
keep it at a boiling point, There is no
advantage whatever in ing water
boil furiously; the heat will escupe in
steam, without raising the heat of the
waler,
Silk Worm Culture in Pennsylvania
About 60,000 silk worms are at work
ou the farm of Frank Graff, in Birmin
ham, Delaware county, Ps., right
lively, too, some of them being almost
done, and straw-colored cocoons are
piling up thick and fast. The worms
are being supervised by Miss Martha
Hamilton, living at Mr, Grafs, and she
fiatters herself that for the first attempt
she is doing remarkably well. She
boaght the eggs. and BB, they had
hatched, at which time they are ss fine
as a hair and have to be lifted about
with a camel's hair brash, immediately
Pe to feed them on mul
eaves, Theirgrowth is very id,
in six weeks’ time they are of fill size,
being nearly three inches long. They
are perfectly ravenous in their appetite,
and it is no small job to find e
food for them, and the country for mi
around was scoured in search of
mulberry trees, which, as is well
known, are pot numerous in that
vicinity, When the whole mass
wou id their feast on the
them
sounded
like rain falling on the roof. :
feeding, the worm is of a light green
EA ee a ees al reas
ong the body are
holes. The insects, as would be imag-
ned from their eating powers, have
strong serrated jaws, which soon eat
through s leaf. Some of the worms
have escaped from their mistress and
gotten up on the roof of the barn and
are there spinning away at their cocoons.
The silk while in the worm isa
which is exuddd in two strands.
unite and form one thread of silk. The
worm in starting its cocoon first makes
an outer covering of floss silk, wishin
which they spin the silk, bending the
Lead and body up and down the cross-
ing to every side, entirely surrounding
the body, as a tection against the
wind and cold. Thus in making a cover.
ing for itself this insect makes the cover-
ing for thousands of pgayly-attired
women of all ages and in every clime.
The cocoon made, the worm passes into
a chrysalis state and comes forth a moth
fly to iny eggs and then die Thus does the
race continue. The silk-grower, how-
ever, if he want; the eggs, allows the
worm to go through ali these siages;
but if he wants the silk he * chokes”
the worm while in the chrysalis state,
for if it is allowed to cat its way out the
thread of the silk is broken and value-
less. The chrysalis is ** choked ™ or in
other words killed, by heating it overa
fire or throwing it into boiling water.
The labor attending this silk industry
is not a light one, and whether there is
any money in it remains to be seen.
Mrs. Froge, at Kennett square, Chester
county, is aiso raising silk worms, but
only lias about 3,000 of them. —Fhiladel-
{slands Around New York.
Governor's Island reaches sudden
prominelse as the present residence of
yeneral Hancock, writes the New York
correspondent of the Troy 7imes, and
hence calls for a brief paragraph. It
was once a part of this city, and an act
is still in existence dividing it into
streets. ** Nutten's Island,” as it was
then called, would have been highly
popular as a piace of residence, but the
government soon required it for harbor
defense. It is connected with New
York by a ferryboat, which never was
so crowded as it has been since the close
of the Cincinnati convention.
Blackwell's Island is the largest
island in the vicinity of the city, and
contains 200 acres. It is Jong and nar-
row, with a deep channe] on either side,
and is the most striking feature in the
East river. It was for more than a
century in the possession ot the family
Whose name it bears, Sud was used for
farming . e y eventu-
ally declined, and the place was sold in
1893 by one of the last representatives
for the then enormous sum of £30,000
The purchaser (James Bell) was »
specu who was unable to meet his
payments, and the RB y was sold
under foreclosure. This occurred in
1828, and the city determuned to pur-
chase it. This being known led to a
gpirited competition, and the property
was run up to $52,000. It was bough
by the corporation as a place for penal
and charitable institutions. Blackwell's
[sland would, if put into the market to-
day, bring $16,900,600 for residences. it
is the healthiest and prettiest place ever
devoted to its present Jurpoca: and the
convicts and ave the best air
in the world—infinitely better than the
packed population of the city. Tweed
in fact was much healthier as a Black-
well island convict than when coo
up in Ludlow street jail, where, indeed,
he soon died. Two years have elapsed
since he was laid in his grave in Green-
wood, and how rapidly he has fallen out
of notice! The last appearance of his
name, indeed, was in the record of a life
insurance company, which paid a policy
of $10.000 on his life. Probably that
was the only really honest money the
family had received through him since
he abandoned brush making and gave
himself up to that career of knavery
which made him a convict, whose only
release was in death. !
i —— IAA SA
Taking the *Pizen”’ out of Bees.
Some Sears ago I was visiting a
family in Sussex county N. J., where a
large number of hives of bees were kept
in a yard near the farmhouse. The bees
wers unusually cross and belligerent—
they would **biz out wi’ angry fyke?
at any one who approached their yard.
On speaking to the old gentleman on
the subject, he said they were feeding
on the buckwheat, and were full of
“ pizen,” and that he would cure them
by the time I came again. On the next
day I found the bees quite pacific and
niet, freely letting me come close to
their hives. On asking for an explana-
tion of their amiablenecs, Mr S. pointed
to an efligy hanging near the bee-yard.
He had put this up in the night. In the
morning the swaying of the efligy ex-
cited the warlike little fellows, and they
literally covered their enemy all the
forenoon, until all had stung him to
their content, and had exhausted all
their poison without harm to themselves
or others. Verily, knowledge is power.
—F. 8, in the Country Genlleman.
C—O ——
An encounter between George Elder
and Leander Abott, Kansas City gamb-
lers, was very much like a preatranged
duel. They had a quarrel in a saloon
and drew pistols, but were separated.
Then they agreed to meet ata certain
street corner in an hour, ** for business.
Both went to the place, and the
began on sight. Abbott was killed an
Elder wounded.
.
A great many ladies who save every-
thing else waste their rose leaves. Dried
they make the most delightful filling
for scfa pillows, pin cushons, ete, re-
taining their fragrance a great length of
me,
*
Give thanks to him who held thee
iu all thy psth below,
Who made thee iaithial untojdenth,
And crowns thee now!
Argo,
John L.
lionaire, who
‘Paggart, got into the bucket, while t
other stood on its top and held on b;
the cable—the ** usua ." Arriving
es off to The Jorel nd “Togeart
0 n
got aially out of
when the bell of the other compartment
gave the signal to hoist. The engineet
mistook the signs! and Loisted in the
compartment in which the men had just
was inthe act
good fortune one of his lodged in
a wedge-shaped interstice in the side of
the shaft, and huhe bs one arm;
suspended in mid-air. with 200 feet
spacs beneath him. No one ‘can have
e faintest cone= of the uautter-
able horror of such a position. Eavel.
oped in impen suas
nded by one arm aver an , that
nvited him tocertaln death if frail
support should give way, alive 10
the kn that ae
he, i
prom horrible that its contem-
Jintion makes une shudder. Luckily
Neve his Somindes comprehended
e situation of affairs, y acting
promptly prevented a tragic ending
pe lS tior ie
rom tion, ese’
more serious ae ea
of his physical system and .
faculties. — peras (Cal.) a
The four
world are
Ceylon. The data and
show that Brazil
extraordi
United States, and, thanks to
price has risen. Althouth the
razil, especially tor culture,
he wi gd ih >
taining la *
this rencers it Toubttal ether the
above can be much exceeded. The
crop in Java and Sumatra was estimated
at 94,000 tons for export; the consump
tion of the inhabitants, although
population is double that of Brasil, is
not half of that of the latter ¢
The production in Ceylon,
er than that of 1878, shows a
g off with