The Sea. To day the great sea lisa at rest— No troubled dreams stir his broad bresat— A giant stretohed from east to west. Oh wild, tumultuous, restless ses, What mighty spirit moveth thee? Thou heaving, surging mystery ! The tides are out, the white sands lie Along the beach; serene on high, The moon rides through a cloudless sky. A great peace broods o'er sea and land; It may be peace lies near at hand, A oool wind blows from aut the wast; In the new dawn we lie at rest, No more with bitter tears opprest. A Dream of Autumn, Mallow hares lowly trailing Q'er the wood and meadow, veiling Somber skies, with swallows sailing, Satlor dike, to foreign lands; And the north wind overleaping Summer's brink, and flood like sweeping "Wrecks of roses where the weepiog Willows swing their helpless hands. Flaunted high, like torehes flinging Flakes of flame and ewbors, springing From the vale the trees stand swinging In the moaning atmosphere; While in dead’ning lands the lowing (Hd the oattle, sadder growing, Fills (Ne sense to overflowing With the sorrow of the year, Fields of magged stubhle, tangled With mak weeds, and shocks of jangled Corn, with crests like wet plumes dangled Q'er the harvest 8 battle plain; And the sudden whirr and whistle Of the quail that, like a missile, Whizses over thorn and thistle, And, a missile, drops again. Muted voices hid in thickets Whore the redbind stops to stick its Ruddy beak between the pickets Of the troant’s rastie trap; And a sound of Isughter ringing Where, within the wild vine swinging, Climb Baechante's scoolmates Singing Purple clusters in her ip, Rich as wine the sunset Sashes Round the tilled world, and dashes Up the sloping west and splashes Its red foam against the sky, Till my dream of autumn, paling In the splendor all prevailing, Like a sallow leat goes sailing Down the silence solemnly. ~Jomes WW. Riley. “ When two women will, they will, you may depend ont; And wien they wou an endon’t. they won't, and that's arsiing {rom our respective families at the very beginning of the season, and hunting cut for ourseives a retreat in a remote country farmbovse, where, * far spend the entire summer in sublime indif- ference to ehaperons, toilets and men— chiefly the latter. Qur pian ¢1d not meet the approval of ou: maternal relatives, for certain rea. sous pertaining to our future speedy cs. tahlishment in life which the summer We had, however, the ears of the paters, who were not neariy so anxious to transfer our small claims for mainte- | nance to other than the fatherly should | ers, and so we carried the day, and found | ourselves right speedily established at | the farmhouse of Squire Brown, in a certain particular nook adjacent to a! nameless river, nesr a place which we elected to call Sleepy Hollow. Fora fortnight we did nothing material save sicep, read, drink milk and eat strawberries; then there came what the natives call “a spell of weather,” and | we awakened to a consciousness of the loveliness about us, running wild to ex- | plore the Lills that Jay around us, all | day 'inwrapped in a goiden haze; to] penetrate to the heart of the dim, cool wildwood, where strange flowers were | blossoming, and delicate ferns bowed to the vagrant breezes over fairy carpets of soft, green moss; and to follow in their vagabond ccurse the countless laughing brooks that tumbled down the | hillside or murmured under the willows, where, in the deep pools, the speckled trout lay in wait for the unwary fly, in | blissful ignorance of look and rod. One day, while the rambling spirit was still unappeased, yet had boots and limbs put in their protest, an inspiration came to us most happy in its promise. We would driveto tue fails in the squire’s one-horse chaise. Neither of us had ever drawn rein over the back of living steed; but we were persuaded that driving in the country was a very simple matter, and then Roxy, the! farmer's ancient horse, was a steady | piece of flesh, not likely to bring us to grief, if her owner's statement was to be trusted—viz., that Roxy would dra» the old chaise safely to the falls and back | witl the lines lying over the dash-| board! : Accordingly Roxy was harnessed in, | our basket parked with a comtortable | luncheon, and we, mounting to our | seats, started off. : In the mater of driving there had | been a divisicn of labor in this wise: | Adeie held the reing, while I carried the | whip. For the first mile the road was level and smooth, snd Roxy, persever- | ing inthe steady trot with which she had staried off, permitied usto stisin =n | serenily Liat our unusual situation may | not have warranted; but justas I was beginning to get the better of apy little trimors that had hitherto interfered | with my entire enjoyment of the affair, | Adele suddenly leaned forward, and, taking the whip from my band, dealt Roxy a sounding thwack upon her | quarters, i This was more than the most amiabl beast could be expected to bear with equanimity, and certainly Roxy resented it, for she made a jump which fairly threw me from the seat, and started at a tearing pace down the road. A horse's memory for this kind of an affront seemed not long, however, and when, by dint of shouting, coaxing and sawing on the lines cur Bacephalus was getten down to her ordinary gait, 1 turned to visit upon Adele something like a remonstrance. At a glance, | saw that she was trinmphant in the opinion that Roxy and herself had come to a thorough understanding of relative p-sitions, and therefore only meekly asked : “What was the matter with her, Adele?! ** Why, did you not sge her switch her tail over the reins in the most im- pertinent manner? A horse never does that when it knows it has a master, and I determined to settle that question at once.” Only one more little irregularity dis- turbed my entire confidence in the supe- rior horsemanship of Adele, und as that only came when we were in sight of the fal 8, our journey was the most delight- ful aad novel imaginable. It was at the top of a steep hill that tie white, tumbling waters of the cas cade came to us—a vision of beauty set in emerald banks, sparkling and throw- ing up wreaths of white spray that formed rainbows in the sunlight. The reins had almost slipped from Adele's hands, and the whip, to which I had thus far paid manful attention, trailed ignominiously in the dust of the igh. way as we sat devouring the scene with enthusiastic gaze, when Roxy took it into her venerable head to start in the most unaccountable fashion at a tr mendous pace down the hill. Fruutically I clutched the whip, hold- ing it as rigidly upright as our bouncing career over the stony road would per- mit. 1st by a wave of its lash the speed of the incomprehensible Roxy should be secejerated ; and, expecting nothing else then instant desiruection, I held my breath until, a8 suddenly as she had started, our animal landed us whole and undamaged in front of a high gate which barred our further Then [looked at Adele. Her face was white, and the reins were of a verity over thie dashboard, since only the ex- treme ¢nds of them remained in her tightly-closed hands; but her confidence in herself as a Jehu had evidently re- VOLUME XIIL CENTRE HALL, CENTRE PA. SEPTEMBER 30, 1880. NUMBER 38. have suffered physically in that way, for | she answered my look with the utmost gravity, saying: “If 1 had not held her well up, Daisy I think that might have been danger " ous, Words failed me, and I turned my ats culties besetting our path The gate, we conociuded, was the en- | trance to the grounds of a certain un- | known gentleman who owned all the lands hereabouts, and who had buiit himself & retreat in this wild and beau tiful spot which, of late years, we had been told he seldom visited. and after { dee discussion we decided to tie Roxy | to the gate-post, trusting to Providence to find the somewhat unsiable beast | there upon our return, and to climb the fence with our basket, when, after view. ing the falls, we would select a suitable i place in which luncheon. | We found a nosebag under the seat of { the chaise, which the squire, with due | consideration for the welfare of his { horse, had providently supplied with oats: but the adjustment of this portable { manger was the most trying piece of business, in which we were likely not to be successful, we thought, until. in our maneuvering, Roxy got a snl of the grain, and Jowered her head in au | way highly satisfactory to two medium. | sized young women, intent upon slipping {a strap over her ears. The next. difficulty was the fence, which was very high, and ornamented | at the top witli a row of most malicious | pickets, but at the cost of sundry gar- | ments torn and some bruises we scram- bled over, and straightway found our- selves in a paradise of grass, trees and | lowers, growing in the wild luxuriance { of neglect, to be sure, but a place never- i theless to rest the very soul of weary | humarity, and in which to lose the very | memory of the pushing, turbulent world { in the roar of the bright waters dashing down its stony fall, and dipping its { foamy tide beneath the mirrer-iike cur- | rent of the river below. When we had explored the place to | our heart's content, we sought a lovely {little glade shaded by immense elm trees, quite near the house, which was rather a commonplace affair, consider ing its romantic situation, where we { spread out the contents of our lunch- basket, and with much nonsense and laughter proceeded to enjoy ourselves in | a manner to horrify the fashionable cir- ! ele in which we were supposed to be too {| well-bred ever to do anything in a thor. vughly natural and girlish way There was a rowan tree on the out- skirts of the little park, in which we had established ourselves, the unripe berries of which looked a pale, pretty yellow in the sunshine, and, dragging down Adele's long, waving, black nair, I dressed it fantastically with such ar- rowy leaves and berries as I could pull from the low-hanging limbs. While we were engaged in this pretty | business, there came through the stiil- to rest and eat our “What can that ba?” questioned Adele, astartied look widening her mag- nificent black eyes, and just then I caught a glimpse of an immense black body, out of the mouth of which hung a great red tongue, and the eves of which iooked to my frightened imagination like balls of fire, and shrieking: lun, Adale,” I set off myself as fast as my feet, that seemed palsied with terror, would carry me in the direction of the gate, thinking, with an agonized sense of in- sufficiency, of those horrible pickets atop Adele was close at my heels, until again came ringing down the wind atter me, checking my headlong flight and giving An As. sistance, which induced me at length to halt and look back. had sat into her Lead sup- ported in the arms of a strange man who knelt beside her, and around the twoa gigantic hound careening in wild circles. More ashamed of myself than I had ever been in my life before, I turned to retrace my steps, just in time to sce the stranger lift Adele up in his arms, and move rapidly toward the house, fol- lo wed by the big dog. In vain did I hasten my steps. | mping my course by the direction o! their dis- appearance, I found royseil presently in a pretty morning-room, in which Adele lay upon the couch, with a shriveled od fairy of a woman bending over her where she berries r Upon the when I stuck grass the t ul no sign of either man or dog that I could detect. “Leo is ns gentle as a lamb,” said the little old woman, apologetically. * But he has come near being the death of you with fright, young ladies.” For by this time Adele had opened her eyes and * It is a shame to allow such a mon ster to run at large!” I cried, more ener getically than politely; and then Adele lifted her head and, peering into look, Daisy!” at which evidence of re- turning life the oid attendant nodded her head approvingly, and bustled away us some tea, for which thought I at least was grateful. As soon as the door closed and we twisting up her hair, but so far from testitying to the vexation [ had expected her to feel after such an adventure, she asked, eagerly. “ Did you see him, Daisy? He is quite the handsomest man I ever met.’ “For heaven's sake, Adele, have done with nonsense, and let us fly to Roxy, and the squire's chaise before we get into another ridiculous scrape,” I im- plored. dear. People who keep great dogs to senses should not be suffered to escape paying the penaity of their indiscretion in some way or another,” answered the heartless creature, ‘and I prepared my- self tosulk, when our old fairy again en- tered the apartment, and said: “Mr. Islington presents his compli- they are sufficiently recovered from their them some refreshment in company with his friend and guest, Mr. Stephen- son, with whom, he believes, they have an acquaintance.” “Great heavens!—the very pair of lions we were expected to encounter at Newport, and from the honor of which we ran away!” I gasped in consterna- tion; but Adele only laughed and an- swered : “ Well, since they are such Vandals as to run us down with dogs, it may be as well to surrender gracefully.” And following ber lead we were ush- ered by the old fairy into a charming little dining-room, where we found Fred Stephenson and Mr. Islington waiting ring the embarrassment which speedily wore off, sat down to a partie carree meal that would have convuls:d our entire world with horror had it been permitted to witness the jolity thereof. When both the fun and the feeding were well over, we bade the altendan- fairy adieu, and with a parting look at the falls, made our way leisurely to the great gate that gave entrance to the ent chanted grounds, only to find that our cup of disaster was not yet full. xy had frown impatient of our long absence, and, with the nosebag still around her neck, had calmly turned her back upon us, and was doubtless by this time faron Ler road home, leaving only slip in four-footed animals and a woman's ability to tie a knot. meined unskaken, w she may Well we were certainly in forit. We TANNER AN A LECTURER, oan well manage in one day, and there fore we submitted with aa easy grace to he carried back to the squires by Mr [aiington's bays, with that gentleman as son along tor the sake of giving our host company on the homeward drive, It is perhaps needless tosay that Roxy had arrived in good order, considerably in advance of us, and that the squire was not 80 greatly concerned as to our proba. bie fate as to forget halter which 1 had providentially clung to as to the only available voucher for since the matter will creep out sooner or later, things are likely to fall out quite as completely to the satisfaction of our anxious mammas as if we had gone obediently to Newport, and never made acquaintance with the falls of Sleepy Hollow through the medium ol Roxy and the one-horse chinise ——————————————— The Bird Omen of Death, terror to the physicisn attending her in her last moments, “look al that great bird flying about me.” It was a bat that had flown into her death chamber, t Dr. Monier drove it out This England and Scotland that the appear. ance of a bird in the sick room was sure omen of approaching death to the occupant. Sir Walter Scott, in his book on “*Witeheralt and Demonology,” many remarkable instances of this su. perstition which, like all superstitions, is never at a loss for eye-witnesses and cireumstantial evidence, Faith in the omens of birds is indeed one of the most ancient of Poy ular delusions, It was an article of universal faith among the ancient Greeks, and Sophocles, the most delightfully human of the tragedy wri Athens, speaks of the sure prophecies and toreknowledge to be de. rived from birds, fiom the strident wings of full-grown ones to the youug ‘whose callow wings refuse a lengthened flight.” The episode the ** great which so terrified the dying actress re minds us also of one of the of lives and deaths to be met with in the English history. Thomas, the second son of Lord Lyttleton, is believed by many critics to this day to be the author famous ** Letters Junius,” although Macaulay decidedly to Sir ilip Francis. Cer. tain it is that the description given by Woodfall, the printer's boy, of the tall, thin gentleman, with high shoulders gold-laced coat,and sword, who gave him the MS. of one of the * letters,” accords with the appearance of Lord but not with that of Sir Philip Francis wis ol ones p 2. 2% of bird strangest of the ol i 5 tlie house of lords he fairly electrified his audience by Lis power of invective and sarcasm, and it is a notable coin. cidence that many of Lord Lyttleton’s like women," are found also in Junius But all this, of course, is not conclusive, and we only reeail the strange noble- man who, even Eton, was looked upon with awe for his odd mixture of morose soicism with dissipation, because his death, so at least he as- serted, had been predicted to him by the appearance of a while bird in his bedroom. This was the third night be fore he died, and he deciared that his HL when i: did. party ata brother nobleman's country house, and looking at his watch he said, with the sardonic smile peculiar to him, “Tf [live halt an hcur longer I shall jockey ghost,” earing that would give it the lie to the omen. retired shortly a ter, and sent vant for a spoon that he might take his customary dose of rhubarb. When the man returned he found his master dying | in convulsions on the floor. There | scems [ittle doubt that he hed poisoned himself, and had predicted his death in the full purpose of fulfilling the proph- ecy by suicide. Still, the story of the bird my have been true, and the belief | in such appearances of the feathered tribe, especially of one or sometimes two | white birds, before death, was very pre- | valent even among the upper classes of | society in those days.— Brooklyn Eagle I he He the The Isle of Man, Thereis a patch in the Irish sea called the Isle of Man. On a sunny day the | highlands of Ulster, in Ireland, and of | (Galloway, in Scotland, are visible from its western shore; and from the summit of Snaefell mountain, Eagland is seen fretting in the golden haze across the | Small as this island is, it has a gov- | ernment of its own. and a thrilling and eventinl history. Hawthorne found it | it in his ** English Note- | Books." Scott gathered material for “ Pevril of the Peak ” Irom its romantic | scenery nnd legends, and Wordsworth commemorated a visit to it in a sonnet, | In its greatest length the island mens. ures about thirty-three miles, und in its greatest breadth about thirteen. In eoir- | cumfiereonce it is seventy-five miles, ex- | cluding the sinuosities of the bays; and about 130.000 acres, or 203 square miles. En- | joying the benefits of the Guif stream, | climate is singulariy mild and | 1 tue summer and winter is so siight. As to the healthfalness of the climate, yeu would find proof in the native gleeful: and the men sre as stalwart, masculine and handsome a race as breathe sea air. | Most of the coast is rocky and wild, | hoar with the foam of the turbulent sea | pacions harbors and innumerable creeks; { but in the north the land sinks into a low pasturage, and meets the water on | the glistening pebbles of a smooth bea h | The interior includes nearly every kind | of natural gcenery—heather-clad, bal- | same hills, plains richly enltivated, wide { reaches of prickly gorse as drea’ as | Yorkshire moors, nnd the prettiest of | cascades, The enchantment of northern | land dwells in its subdued light and on | its mist-crowned heights, | Sleepy vilinges are perched on the | cliffs where once the beacon-hres of the wreckers sllured many a goodly ship to i her doom. In the bays where the pi- { rates hid themselves of old, ly the | white sails of pleasure. boats, | The present invaders are not Romans, Picts, nor Scandinavians, but aggreasive | tourists, bearing knapsacks instead of { javelins. These confront you in nearly every part of the island; and the primi- tive character of the natives is fast | changing under the influence of the | town manners which the visitors bring | with them. Many of the supersti. ons { have been laughed away, but there are { nut a few honest fo ks who ydt have a | steadfast faith in mermaids and fairies. - 515 Scripture Practically Appliad. | Many years ago when the mowing on | ihe farm was done with a scythe, Farmer A. with his hired man were | mowing together in the field. The hired man was ahead when he discovered that he wasin close proximity to a large nest of horne!s, fle advanced ns far as he thought was prudent and jumped from his swath and ren away. Farmer A. imagining that the hired man was frightened at nothing, stepped into his swath with thisscriptural quotation: “The wicked flee when no man pur- sueth, but the righteous are bold as a lion,” and mowed ahead. Two or three strokes brought him in contact with the nest, and the hornets swarmed out ata lively rate, Siving him a sharp recep: tion. The farmer ran when it was the hired man's to quote scripture, which he did by ths following: ** The wise man forseeth the evil and turneth aside, | He Tells What tle Knows About Fasting In lecture before a New York i audience Doctor Tanner said that even {the skeptioa! Doctor Hammond ha agreed with the general opinion that { the forty days' fast had been honestly | conducted, There was not much i unanimity, however, about the value of jthe forty days’ fast to science Not jonly the [ast, but the rapid recovery j after it, was eminently successful in up- | setting the prevalent theories of phy He would use the evidence that fast was honestly couducied as a | wenpon against the established views of i medical experts on the subject of hoth | lasting and recovery from the effects of | fasting. He claimed that it establisl ! the truth of one belief Le had held | many years, sanative, healing priveiple, 8 in the ms iand not in the medicine. In functional or organic derangements ol | his own body he had implicitly relied upon this self-healing principle to re. store the equilibrium without the use of drugs. He Lad unbounded faith in the potency of this God-implanted principle, and it was that faith that enabled him food. The faith enabled him to partake of liberal diet at the ecd of his fast in the Moe of the warnings of nearly the entire med Ww his =O | sloians i the it d for Of n xid iat the ERme ION uid Fhe ct was the stomach disastrous resuits that were predicted. He knew what be was when he partook so plentifally of food, and the result was, he said “1 did not die, as you see, | gained My ex- ows thie impotence of arugs the use #3 of mercary and arsenic.” Speaking of the ordinary remedies of drugs, Dr. Tanner sald they reminded the man who tried ol things to get rid of the rats in his barn, The ast remedy was to burn down the barn. When the people learn the use- lessiess of drugs th will he fewer seven-story palaces bulit up on counsel drops and anti-dyspeptic pills. He said he was not alraid to step aside from beaten paths that the followers of Escu lapius have so long trod, and would no’ be bound by the dicta of medicalexperis of either the allopathie, homeopathic, hanls 2 atish meet with speedy death. that the vigorous action of prevented the lpmane SOLS ere it the medi froma food had was not ex. eetrio Cad of al been his favorite hobby. Le actly willing to die tor it. He that if he should live for it, his favorite theory would be mi apt to be appre- ciated. De. Tanner regretted very much that 80 many simpletons attempt to prav Thare tw : TW 3 Here 1s 00 much int ance in the prof g8ion of medicine; ittie effort to teach men hi The successful SCLHOON Uses istinenca thoug ie the saws ol il plhysich ism, He is born not made, Doctor Tanner denied that his was an exceptional case He claimed that Rt wouid be of no use in convincing people that they could go without food safely twelve or fourteen days where it is pre. seribed as medical treatment. He claimed also that it would be of use in showing that such abstinence would rot be injurious to the mental powers, Another thing proved by it is thal the fasting incapa- i It HL Ings, He bie of performing its functions, had done nothing but prove these e thought he had proved enough. th wil h 3 prove that the animal part of us is sub- ected to the higher powers of the mind, De. Tanner quoted Dr. Carpenter's deseription of starvation, and cls d to have disproved its accuracy, because, he sald, he did not show, while fasting or allerward, the oadaverousness, the secretions on the skin, the felid breath, the tottering walk or of the mental powers predicted by Dr. Carpen. wer. He was convinced that the previa. lent idea of medical experts that rest IV Were necessary pPro- long life during fasting were disproved, He thought Ye had demonsirated tha activity 1s necessary during msting, throw off the impure matter that w 11t the decay id 0 Y ta ould” He was also satisfied that his experiment would elimicate from future lasting trials the palsying effect of fear. He where Persons have died from imaginary injuries. He claim. d to have proved beyond ques- tion that people eat too much, and he estimated that most persons can live on a quarter of the food they now consume. Much force is expended in getting rid of superfuous food. That force might be turned into physical or mental labor. Dr. Tanner specially commended ab- gia and rheumatism. He said thatafter be a natarzl call for tood, which may then be taken in a sufficient quantity. He quoted a letter from Dr. C. A. Wood, of Montreal, who had published his ap- proval of the plan of treating disorders digestive functions by fasting, He said that dyspepsia is our national best way to get rid of it the and ** throw physic to the dogs.” Finally Dr. Tannr argued that his two tri tality of thesoul. Although constant eliminating _ inrge quantities of phos. phorus in his talks, discussions and other mental exercises, hie claimed that his brain was not injured by the fasts he had undergone. This, he said, dis- proved the materialistic theory of the roved be- | yond question the power of the mind ver matter. He had been able t o over | come the keenest pangs of hunger by a mere effort of the will. lis will was constantly strengthened to enabie him | to go on with his abstinence. He | claimed to have demonstrated that there | is an intelligent something independent | of matter. He claimed also to have de | monstrated that we depend upon electrie | influences in the atmosphere for much of our strength. This electric power, he asserted, helps change the venous | b'ood into arterial blood. He further | ¢laimed to have proved that there isa | lite-sustaining foree in personal magnet- | ism, or animal magnetism. He trusted | that the doctors would be led by his ex. periments to investigate further the laws of life, so that instead of dealing out drugs they wonld become the teach rs of the nation III — — Population of Africa. People who have forgotten their school statistics may bz surprised to learn that the population of Africa is mueh greater than that of North and South Ame ‘ea. We are apt to think of Africa ns mostly desert and wilderness, with here and there a few tribes of Arabs or villages of negroes. Beyond the borderiand with which civ- lization is familiar, it is natural to think of the inhabitants of Africa as a few and far between, like our Indians. As a matter of fact, Alriea is much more thickly inhabited than Amerien. Authorities which set the population of the latter at 84,542,000, give the former 243 300,000, In the Soudan the popula- tion is rated at 80,000,000, one town on the Niger conts ining 90,000 inhabitants. East Africa is rated at 30.000,000, and equatorial Africa at 40,000.000 rouls. Tt is estimated that the members of the negro ree number 130,000,000, “Many of the tribes," says our authority, ** are above the condition of savages. They have fixed habitations, though merely mud huts, defended by stockades, and they have some laws or customs favor- able to commerce. Among several tribes the native merchant is greatly es- teemed, and property issafe even during the war. The pond is cultivated; the inhabitants wear dyed cotton clothes; gold and iron are ingeniously manufac- tured, and a certain kind of intelligence seems to be very slowly spreading.” Don't pick up a child for a fool. He will ask you some questions: that the condensed wisdom of the world cannot butjthe fool passeth on and is punished.” answer. New Haven Register. The Village Hotel Yeranda, After supper we march into the office toothpicks, and then all march out and fi convention, part none of these gatherings on the veranda of a village hotel you have missed a good thing. The audience in- cludes every phase of human nature, it starts on the weather had too much rain, I'he ngree, The undertaker, who used to farm it, then joins in with the remark that he has seen seasons when we had more rain, and seasons when we didn't have as much, This calls out the shoes maker, who ean remember one year when it didn't rain from the twentieth of March to the first of Qct ber. While he is trying to remember what year it was, the cooper tilts back his elirir and asserts that he can distinctly recalia the first of May to the middle of Novem ber. He can remember it all the more distinotly because his father believed that a second deluge was coming. and spent two months trying to make a water tight Noah's ark of the horse barn, He ean't tell the exact year with. out going a distance of six miles to ex. simine some old documents, but rather than have his word disputed, he would willingly to that trouble. No one doubts, Lim, however, and he sits down { ive room to the man whose three. Og 820 stake, and who wan's 8 cure for the wound. Here fol a discussion on horses, lasting fifteen minutes, and it is ahont to cross the line and take up mules when an old man spits over the heads ol three boys in line and says i] tiflh d one, op-stake i shou d WWS and he should drive a through him, I believe grease the stake and pick off the slivers betore | pulled itout! 1 tell ye can't stand everything. no more'n a man can.” Whatever new discussion might created by this bold assertion is barred the appearance of a villager who made the trip to California in overland anys. No one knows just how much money he brought back. The estimate runs all the way from (wo shillings 10 $20,000, but he is discreetly sient as to the exact amount. There is one thing certain, however. He killed upward of fiity Indians, a dozen grizzly bears, and over a hundred buffalos while he was that settles the question of his being ntitled to command parade on the fourth of July. A move is about to be made to draw him out on wild Western scenes, when somebody suddenly recoilects that old Uncle Jerry iying at the point of death. Every body seems to feel bad for a moment, and then it is remembered how he made his wife go b refooted in winter, lent money at fourteen per oent., #nd whipped a yoke of steers to death, and slowly turns. There is one question, however, on which all are agreed. Uncle Jerry, during lis palmy days, once shouldered a barrel of cider and carried it forty rods. ** Yes, and | seed him do it," sighs the old man behind me. *' Factof it was, it was all on my account, and I beat him pretty bad. I was up to Falier's cider mili arter a barrel of the sweet, 1 fen 0A fio SCs ba by gone, and Lig is the tide t bouncing three-year-old steer. We got to bantering, and we finally agreed tat it Teouid lift his steer I was to have him, and he was to have the cider if he could shoulder it. 1 don’t keer to brag around now in my old age, but 1 think I lifted that steer without eves growin’ red in the face. Uncle Jerry turned as white as a sheet, and I thought he'd faint away, but he stuck to his word, and | took the steer hum. He gota heap o credit al! over the county for liftin' that cider, and never let on that 1 lifved the steer, and that's one thing 1've kinder laid up agin the old man.” Then the next man lies about the number of crows he raw in Kansas, and $0 we go until it issharp ten o'clock and the mosquitoes begin to hunger for evening lunch, Then they bid each other good-night and separate to meet and lie again. —M. Quad EE ———— An Ancient Temperance Pledge. In the blank leaf of an old Irish Bible. which has been transmitted from sire to son through many generations, and now sppears as the property of Robert Bolton, preacher of God's Word at Broughton, Northamptonshire, is in. scribed the following pledge: of my life, I will never pledge any Lealthe, nor drinke in a whole carcuse, in a glass, cup, be wie, or other drinking nstrument, whomsoever it como ~e¢x- cept the necessity doth require it. Not my own most gracions king, nor any of the greatest monarch tyrant upon earthe: nor my dearest friend, nor all the goulde in the wotld, shall enforse me. Not angels from heaven (who l know will not attempt it) shall per. suade: ror Satan with all the oulde subtleties, nor all the power of hell itself sball betray me. By this very sinne (for i Or sinne it is, and not a little one), 1 do plainly find that I have more cffonded and dishonored Maker than by all other sinne that I am subject uatoe, and for this very sinne it and for that cause, and not her respect, my good Father in heaven of his great goodness and infinite mercy in Jesus Christ to assist me in the same; and be 80 favorable untoe for what is past. Signed R. BovLToN. Broughton, April 10th, 1737. Ashes of the Napoleons, The statutes and ashes of the Napo- leons have suffered strange vicissitudes. royalists, then by radicals, only to be re-erected, while his ashes were re stored to France on the demand of another dynasty, to be respected even during the commune, Louis, the ex king of Holland, removed his father’s remains from Grenhole te St, Leu, to which his own ashes were in time ro- The eldest son of was at first laid in St. Denis, but the Bourbons when they returned to France had the body translated, and the ** little Napoleon” now rests in the same vault as his father and grandfather. alone reposes under the dome of the [nvalidess with his great brother; the ashes of the other Bonapartes lie scat. tered here and thers, and are to be Chisejlbiurst, and somewhere in Calab, Se ——— - A Nice Porterhouse Steak. o'clock breakfast with a He sat down at thetable and picking up his knifa and fork, glared in uneasy wonder ant something in the platter be. fore him. It had evidently been fried in butter and was intended for food, Mr. Setemup harpooned it with his fork and litted it up bodily, gazing at it with aver increasing wonder. *' What under the sun,” he exclaimed, at last, *'is this thing?” ** Well,” replied his wile, with just a shadow of a sigh, *it looks like your new soft felt hat, and that is what I thought it was, but you pulled it out of your pocket when you came liome this morning and said it wus a nice por- terhouse steak and you wanted it broiled for breakfast. You needn't give meany of it; I'm not hungry.” And Myr. Set- eup, who was just wild to know what else he said when Le came home, and what time it was, for the life of him didn’t dare to ask. Burlinglon Hawk- eye. Heclpes, Porato CAKES.~Mix with cold, mashed potatoes leit thoroughly make Into cakes as you would sausages, | place in skillet with a tablespoon Lot ham or beef drippings, cover tightly, and, in five minutes, when lower side is browned, turn, remove cover, fry until the other side is a nice brown; serve fhot Make up after dinner ready for frying for breakiast, APPLE Sxow.— Pare, core and bring {and add the well-whipped | three egge, sweeten to taste and beat | thoroughly until a dish of snow is the result, flavor with lemon or vanilla, or add the grated rind of a lemon; serve with sweetened cream. Or make cus- tard of yolks, sugar, and a pint of milk, in large flakes, Prox Len ONIONS, — Select small silver. | skinned onions, remove with a knife all be perfectly Ww hite and clean. into brine that will float an egg, for three days; bring vinegar to boiling point, add a little muce and whole red peppers (or sprinkle wilh cayenne, ad- ding bits of horseradish and cinnamon. bark, with a few cloves), and pour it hot over the onions, well drained from brine. Marc Puppixg.—Qae cup dried ap- ples, cap molasses, one and one-fourth cups flour, fourth cup butter, one egg, {one teaspoon each ol soda and clans. mon, half teaspoon cloves; wash and soak Apples over night, cut fine and mix with water in which they were i sonked, add molasses and spice; mix | egg, butter and flour wgether ; stir soda witli apples and molasses; add and bake immediately; serve bot with sauce made of half cup butter and one cup spgsr, beaten smooth and flavored with nutmeg, lemon or vanilia. Fowls Beneficial in Orchards Last fall the editor of the Foultry Word visited an orchard in which fowis were kept, the owner of which told him that before the fowls were confined in it the trees made little or no growth, and only a corresponding amount of fruit wss obtained. Bat what a change was evident now! The grass was kept down, the weeds killed, aud the trees presented an appearance of thrift, which the most enthusiastic horticuitarist could but admire and envy. The growth of the trees was most vigorous, and the abundant, of large size, and free from worms and other imperfections. The excellence was accounted for by the proprietor, who remarked that the “hens ate all the worms and curcalio in their reach, even to the canker worm.” He found less trouble with their roosting in trees than he expected, and a picket fence six feet high kept them witiin bounds. His orthard was divided ‘nto three sections, and the fowls were changed fiom one to another as the condition of the fowls or the orchard sectisns seemed to require. The Supply of Cattle. The Indianapolis Price Curren! says: It seems to be the opinion of those who have examined this msdter preity thoroughly that a considerable decrease will be found in the stock of the United States and Tertitories, after this year's shipments areover. Wearcof the opin- jon that this may be the case in regard to such as are sutficientiyv well bred for shipment to foreign markets; bul as to inferior stock, we question whether much, if any, dcficiency will be found. ably be un considerable advance in the price of cattle apolhicr year, as well as in sheep and swine, There are two reasons why this may beso; the tirst of which is the greaily increased tide of emigrants to our country this season, who will be consumers instead of pro- ducers for a tweivemonth 10 come; and the second reason is, S50 NUIMErous are the losses sustained in Great Britain and Ireland during the past eighteen months in domestieo animals, that their wants for this year wiil doubtiess be larger than the past have been, An Old Farmer's Wisdom, One who bas tilied the soll tor forty years, and meantime accumulated a competence and given his children a good education, says his experience has taught him these things: 1. One acre of land, well prepared and well culti- vated, produce more than two which received only the same amount of labor had on one, One cow, horse, mule, sheep or hog well fed, is more profitable than two kept on the amount necessary to keep one well. 3. Oae acre of clover | or grass is worth more than two of cot ton where no grass or clover is raised. 4. No farmer who buys oats, corn, wiieat, fodder and hay, as a rule, for ten years, can keep the sherifl away from the ¥ Fhe iarmer a a door in the end. &. who never reads the papers, neers at book farming and improvements, al: | ways has a leaky roof, poor stock, | broken down fences, and complains of bad *‘seasons.” 6. The farmer who is above his business and intrusts it to lanother to manage, soon has no busi- { ness to attend to. 7. The farmer whose habitual beverage is cold water is healthier, wealthier and wiser than he who does not refuse to drink. Haman Hair from China. When some one first made them fash- ionable by discovering that in the cari- ous patterns of India 1ugs there were beaptifal combinations otf color, their importation to this country and England | at onoe exhausted the native suppiv,and { enterprising foreigners stepped in to { stimulate their manufacture, especially {for the foreign trade. Among the | houses in thiscity which imported them | largely is that of Messrs, Archer & Bull | The head of tis house resides in Indin, and superintends ther: a ciory in | which 600 native weavers are employed { upon rugs for the United States. Inei- { dentally this same firm brings to New | York a great many curious products of | Asiatic industry, and recently received | ten oases of Chinese human hair. It is | very dark in color and very coarse, and {is packed in small switches ready to { be made up by American artists in hair. Its coarseness, however, vnfits it for the | fashionable market. It i:sold in bulk | to the retail trade, and made up into switches, frizzes, puffs and other adorn- ments for the negro market, | cases weigh altozether 1,330 pounds, and { represent, no doubt, as many as 1,000 or 1,600 Mongolians. The hair when i | reaches here is worth from fifty cents to | sixty-five cents a pound, but of course leaves the shop of the retail dealer, who, { tant, combs the tangled tresses of the | head in China, and sells it to adorn the { head of the belle from Africa —New York World. A French Mesmerizer, M. Henri de Parville tells, in the Debats, a very curious story of bhypno- tism, or mesmerism. {a dying man, but M. de Parville's ex- periment was not quite £o original. He was living twenty years ago among the Mosquito tribe of ited Indians. One evening, for want of better sport, he hypnotized halt a dozen able-bodied | Mosquitoes by making them fix their eyes on the glass stoppers of carafes. After a few seances the Mosquitoes be- came expert subjects, as M. de Parville found out in n curious way. Ile was passing their huts in the dark, while the iyptomized patients lay asleep. One by one they arose and followed him like shadows. When he walked they walked, when he ran they ran, and they imitated each of his actions. With n little trouble he might have become the medi- human autcmata to peaee or war, TIMELY TOPIUS, More than 13,000 people are given employment in Baltimore in packing fruits, vegetables and oysters in tin cans, More than 15,000,000 bushels of oysters are said to be canned there annually | The number of eases of all sorts of goods | packed there it is estimated will not tall short of 2,000,000, averaging twenty: four cans to each case. There are eighty firms engaged in the various branches of packing business, capital is $7,000,000, A plucky woman, living in Pittsfield, Me., recently seared a quack out of his seven senses. He had promised to | cure her of neuralgia if she would lay a roll of greenbacks on the kitchen table She put the money on the table as he requested. Heo then asked for pen, ink and paper, and when shie went upstairs to feteh them he disappeared with the | money. Ina moment she was behind | him with a revolver at his ear, and sbe kept it there until he had erawled back | into the kitchen, put down the money, | and begged for mercy, i In the office of the treasurer of the United States is a giass ease which con. tains the keys which were used in the Mr. Gilfillan says that in the old times the treasurer, when the vaults were locked ur, carried the keys home with him, sand several times the house of the treasurer, who had keys in custody, has been broken into by thieves to get these open sesamed. Under the present system the vauits are locked by time and combination locks There are ioner and outer d ors to the vaults. The officer who knows the combination to open the outer door does not know the combination of the inner, and vice versa. When the combination is changed the changes are noted by different clerksand handed to Treasurer Gilfillan in a sealed envelope. Syracuse, N. Y., has thirty-eight pro- dacing salt wells, varying in depth from 250 us 430 feet, and in strength of brine from ten to twenty per nent. of salt Over 1,500,000 gallons of fall water are pumped daily, The daily production per kettle from the steam process ranges from 300 to 550 bushels, according to the strength of brine, and costs eight or nine cents a bushel, The solar evapor- ation costs, of course, little lor Iabor. There are about 50,000 vais in use, with the snnual production of sixty bushels per val, i differs greatly. Some which gave early | promise have been known to cease flow- | ing in a few weeks; other have changed | the saline quality of their stream to | something quite different and mostly of | little or no commercial value. On the | other hand, there are springs now pro- | ducing abundantly which have been | Law for Practical Jokers, The law holds practical jorrs crime inally, and sometimes civilly, responsi. ble for the fatal effects of their playful ranks. In Daingerfield against Thompson, a civil action of damages, decided recently by the court of appeals of Virginie, the defendant was the keeper of a réstaurant, and about 11 ¢. M., after Lie had closed for the night, hearing a nolse outside, was on the point of opening the door when he was shot through the right fot with a pistol ball which Lad pene. trated the door from the outside. It appeared that several persons being on the street waiting for the plaintiff to let them in, the defendant said to one them who had a pistol: “Let us give him a salute.” To which the latter, one Harrison, replied, * I'll do it,” and im. mediately fired. ** The willful firing of a pistol in the street of a city, whether maliciously or no!,” said Christian, J., | “is of sel! an unlawful act, and the | consequence of such unlawful sct must | be visited upon those who commit it or instigate it.” As the plaintiff got a | yerd'ot for $8,000, this was better than | a eriminal prosecution. Bal the same | practieal joke would have been erim. | inal, In Fenton's case, where the prisoners, {in sport, threw heavy stones into a | mine, breaking a scaffold, which fell | against and upset a corf, in which a | miner was descending into the mine, | whereby he was killed, they were held | guilty of manslaughter. The prisoners | were sentenced to three months’ impris- 'onment. In the King against Powell a | ind, a8 a frolie, without any intent to harm any one, took the trap stick out of | front part of a cari, in consequence of | which it wasupset, ana the carman, who | was in it, loading it, #as pilch - | ward on the stones and kilied. Held, | manslaughter. The prisoner was fined one shilling nnd discharged. In Ewing. | ton's case the prisoners covered and sur. | rounded a drunken man with straw and | threw a shovel of hot cinders upon him | whereby fie was burned to death. Fat- | erson, J, charged that “if they be. | lieved the prisoners really intended to do {any serious injury to the d A [though not to kill him, it was murder; | but if they believed their intention to | have oniy been to frighten him in sport, | it was mansisughter.” Verdict, man- { slaughter. Iu State against Koane, the | defendant earelessly discharged a gun, | intending only to frighten a supposed trespasser, renlly the servant of the pris. Held, man- siaughter. In the King against Martin the prisoner ordered a guartern ol gin lo drink, and asked a child present if he would have a drop, at the same time putting the glass to the child's mouth, whereupon the child snatched the glass and drank the whole contents, which Vaughan B, said, According to the London Medica | Press, those timid beings who are haunted by apprehensions of being buried alive, and who make testament. may now take courage, for science has supplied an infallible means of deter- mining whether or not the vital spark | has quitted the mortal frame. Electricity enables us to distinguish with absoute certainty between life and death, for two or three hours after the stoppage of the heart the whole of the mu.cles of the body have completely lost their electric excitability. When stimulated by electricity they no longer contract 11, then, when Faradism, as the treat. ment with induced currents of elec tricity for remedial purposes is called, is applied to the muscles of the limbs and trunk, say five or six hours alter sup- posed death, there be no contractile re- sponse, it may be certified with certainty | por trance, nor coms, however deep, oan prevent the manifestation of electric muscular contractility. Here there is no possibility olf mistake, as there certainly was when the old tests were employed. Panctuality. Some one defines punctuality to be “fitteen minutes before the time." At any rate, it is not one minute after the time. 1 must tell you an anecdote of the first Marquis of Abercorn. He invited a number of friends to dinner. hour for dinner was five, and ali invited kn«w it, of course. Well, : hour arrived, and hut one of the guests | had come. Down sat the marquis and | this one guest to table. The marquis | was punctual, it only one of the others | was, By-and-bye another guest dropped in, | and was very much mortified to find | dinner being eaten. And one by one all | the rest emne, and were likewise morti- | fied. But the marquis had taught them all a good lesson, and I venture to say that the next time they were invited none of them got in to the coffer only, but were on hand for soup. General Washington was so very | punciual that, on one occasion, some friends who were expecting him at a certain hour, on finding that he had not | arrived, all conciuded that their watches | must have got wrong; and sure enough they had, for Washington soon came, and was not a minute late. No doubt | his habits of punctuality helped to make | him the great man that he was. I knew a clergyman once throw him- self into the Mississippi river and swim | eighteen miles down stream to keep an appointment for afternoon service I traveled through the Upper Mississippi | region shortly after, and for hundreds of miles from the place where he lived, | out toward the border, I heard of his great feat, The border men respected ister who made the big swim." Nor is any one too young to begin the | cultivation of habits of punctuality. | on time at school, on time in class, on time when sént on an | errand, and so on, is apt to be the pune- tus! business or professioral man, The through life. Sowe persons, on the contrary, go all They get to a wedding as people are coming ofl. They are late at church; don’t meet their notes, go to protest, and are in trouble genereily. Washington's way was the best. The Marquis of Abercorn was in the right. | That Mississippi clergymen did nobly. And these three are good examples for our boys and girls to follow. Never be ahead of it, and you will never repent of | the habit of purctuality.— Golden Days. i O55 A Butterfly Superstition, During the journey of the express | train from Rio de Janeiro to S=o | Paulo, on the eighteenth of last month, | | a large black butterfly entered a first- | ¢'nes car, and hovered about in such a | way as to excite the apprehension of a lady who was on her way to see a sister | | who was gravely ill, for it is a common | | Brazilian superstition that a black but- | terfly forbodes death. A gentleman in i the car sought to quiet the fears of the | lady, and laughed at such presentiments. | He then attempted to drive the unwel- | come visitor out of the car, but the but- | terfly at once began hovering about him | in & most persistent manner. Shortly | after he began to feel ill, and in a briel time was a corpse. The man really died of heart disease, hastened probably by his exertions to catch the butterfly; but it will be difficult, says the Rio News, to make many people believe otherwise than that the poor insect possessed some malign influence which brought death upon him.— Notes and Queries, The farmers of Illinois marketed 1,684 294 hogs in 1870,and will sell about 92,103,000 during 1880. In 1878 there was 8 Joss by disease of 500,000 hogs, valued at £1 500,000 . must be an acquittal, but if it haa ap peared that the prisoner had willingly given a child of this tender age a quart- ern « f gin, out of a sort of brutal fun, and had thereby caused its death, I shonld most decidedly have held that to be mansisughter.” In the King against Conrahy, the prisoner and the deceased had been piling tur? together, and the former in sport, threw a piece of turf at the iatter, hitting and killing him. Heid, no crime In the King ngainst Waters, there was testimony that the prisoner, in the course of rough and drunken joking, pushed a boat with his loot, whereby the deceased fell overboard and was drowned. There was a'so testimony thst the push was gi en by another per- sop, Park, J., said, “if the csse had rested on the evidence of the first witness it would not have aounted to man- slaughter, and there must be an acquil- 5% In State against Hardie the defendant was held guilty of manslaughter for killing a woman in an attempt to frighten her with a pistol which he $40 to be unloaded. The court said: “If it had been in fact unicaded no homicide would have resulted, but tne defendant would have been justly censurabie fora most reckless and imprudent act in frightening a woman by pretending that it was loaded and that he was * Such hensible and without palliation or ex. cuse. Human life is not 10 be sported with is not Joaded or that being joaded it wi ldo no injury. When persons en- be held liable for the consequences of Trapped. “ Madam, I will trouble you to look wesring apparel.” “ Cerininly, sir.” she replied, with In a very short time he said: “ Now, madam, my change is com- » When the lady turned she beheld her companion transformed into a ** Now, sir, or madam. whichever you like,” said the lady, **1 must trouble you Lo look cut of the wisdow, for I MN Certainly, madam,” and the gentle Pp fed. “ Now, sir, you may resume your own To his great surprise, on resuming his the gentleman in female attire panion transformed He langhed loudly and said : ** It appears that we are both anxious Wiat have you I have r.bbed a bank.” “And 1," said the whilom lady, as he his comvanjon's in female apparel have shadowed you for tao days; now,” drawing a revol- Him The Sutro Tunnel. It must be fun to be a miner in the The rats and the bats have it all their own way. The miner who brings his lunch basket Is not at all sure that he will eat its con- tents. If he leave it for a few minutes the rats eat lunch and basket and all. Nor is Lis chance for dinner much bet- ordinary tin kettle. A party o! rats will steal kettle before its owner's eyes and roll it away down into a hole where Then they rip off the lid and devour the contents at their leisure. There are millions of those rats and many of them are larger than kittens, and much more muscular and rapacious The bats bother both the miners and the mules. When one big bat flies against a miner's face, and another bat, equally big, flies in the face of that miner's mule, there is a complication of troubles. The man cannot see which way the muie is goirg to kick, and the mule, who cannot see either but goes it blind, kicks at random, ard is apt to hit the man where the bat bit hima, The bate are as large, as numerous and as powerful as the rats. For a man to pave his dinner stolen by rats, then tobe hitby a bat and kicked by a mule, is a combination of infelicities calculated to make him wish himself at work in al- most any other field of labor, Champagne is made out of tomatoes ginneta Faltes frogs _for exporta- on. Jip grow aud ripen well in Califor n A favorite word with women—The last one. pus fuel thing about mules ~A good ap Every machinist has at least one vies. —New York News. The sale of eattle this year in Texas, it is estimated, will reach 7,00°,000 Tt is believed that the United States will produce 6,000,000 bales of cotton this year. The difference befwom some iris aml rapes ls that you can't make the girle whine by squeezing them. There are si stallions that have a record of 2:25 or better, and of these nineteen were bred in Kentucky. Ti Uses ave ¥ilied vw of Ouiayy there were seventy Union. Now there are over forty thou. sand! it takes considerable produce to rear snimals on » fsrm; but a mule, we have observed, will rear itself —Marathon Indepind-nt, In Germany are pounds, itely sweet tempered. The little 1 Petroleum is Rslbiw Jour of the export commodities ofthe United States, sithough the fire: artificial well Xe su on -One Years anoual im isnow Ahern) million On tbe farm of Albert Perro, at Bark- hamstead, Conn., is a trinity of trees, consisting of a birch, maple and a Lem. lock, all joined together at the butt and apparentiy springing from the To brie handkerehie ‘or owner wane dip the stain in boiling milk. Ifihis not effectual, apply = wesk chloride of lime, being careful to boil the handkerchief afterward. was very industri the discovery was y n that * he was a womss,” which was fol lowed by a summary discharge. It is lesrned from the Salt Lake Herald that Gailileo discovered Limburger cheese floating through space in 1608, and made an entry in his diary st the time that he thought it in a very poor state of } All thst we do depends upon what we are; he then who has left to the world the record of a noble life no outward memorial, has let: an enduring source of inward, and though inward, of out- ward greatness. A man who was suffering from a boil on his face, pettishly exclaimed: I wish | knew tne besl pisce to have & boii!" To which his little girl respond- ed: “Why, papa, the teakettle isthe best place to have a boil.” During the first six months of the resent year 390 ships were registered in ingland as unseaworthy, and were in consequence detainel from prooced wo sea, while 125 others were pre from sailing because overladen. “There's a leak in the soup kettle,” said Mrs. Barker to her husband, as a gentle hint that be ought to have it memded, and the unfeeling brute re. plied: "Let the leak stay there.a"d it wiil be a great saving in enions.” Teacher—** Suppose that you have two sticks of candy and your big brother ives Jo I Timo vos (akany bis you got then nw shaking Bead) You don't know hum; he ain't that kind of a boy." —fielvesion News. It is singular how the ex tions of * youth fall short of realization. Manya brigh!, promising bor, who starts out with the full intention of being a pirate, never rises above the station of elers on a river steamer. — Middl town 7) Ten thousand Engl’sh miners are an- nually injured hy accidents, and 850 of these die. In Prussia the mortality is much hizher, a life being sacrificed for every 70,451 tons of coal raised, while in Engisnd the proportion is oniy one in every 89.419, It is an interesting fact, nol generally known, that all the flags for the navy, war and treasury departments of the United States sre now made seamless, the fabric woven in white bunting, snd the red stripes and biu> field being dyed in pattern. The sorrowful tree, so called because it flourisnes only in the night, is found on the island of Goa, near Bombay. The flowers, which appear soon after sunset, close up or fall off as the sun rises. The tree has afragrant odor, and blossoms at night the year round. A grocer who excited the ire of one of his customers by presenting at bis house a bill for rendered, was waited on soon after by a daughter of the debtor, who said, “I wish you wouldn't come with the bill when papa is at home—it makes him nervous to be dunned.” Up to the hour of going topress $1.- 000,000 had not been subscribed to bring Wagner and his music to this coun!ry. As a Scotch bag piper and two Italian tists ox the hand organ were in owl ast week, we don't sup our mie Wagner as r- a A funeral procession at Oxford, Ind., jound itself without a minister when the grave was reached. After an em- barrassing delay a ragged tramp, who wus passinz by on a railroad track. stopped, announced that he was a clergy- man and, the mourners consenting, pro- ceeded with the services, conducting them to the satisfaction of ail. Two hundred and fifty ditfivent kinds ~ of tacks are manufactured from brass, copper, zine, iron and steel. The mate- rial from which tacks are made is first cut into long strips as wide as the re quired length of she tack. Itisthen put into a machine which cuts into tacks or nails, as the case may be, as quickly and as easily as a boy would munch a stick of candy. The polishers are then brought into requisition. They are then con- veyed to where young women are em- ployed in wdighing, papering, labeling and parceling them, preparatory to box- mg. : A correspondent of the Ouie Farmer says: It seems strange that when the feeding qualitics of the turiips have been 80 long recognized in fureign countries, that they have been so long in extablist- ng themselves here for a similar pur. , and as the the product of an acre I large, and aside from its feeding qualities, their sanitary upon stock go benefic'al, it sgeut 0a if the farmers—not onl , but pg pa ed the pr ; 1g i using it judicionsly as a winter yay thebmopoteny of sais foe :
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