A A SA Seed. Bow thy seed, oh husbandman! What though others reap? Tt will burst the shell and rise, Bip the dew snd kiss the skies Sow thy seed and sleep, In thy labors thou shalt live Dust alone is dead - Ever falls the shine and rain, Ever springs the golden grain; All the worlds are fod, C—O. Work and Wait, A husbandman who many vears Had plowed his fields and sown in tears, Grew weary with his doubts and fears, “1 toil in vain! These rocks and sands Will yield nohatvest to my hands; he best seads rot in barren lands, “My drooping vine i§ withering; No promised grapes its blossoms bring; No binds among its hranches sing “My flock is dying on the plain; The heavens are brass The earth is iron they yield no rain; 1 toil in vain While yet he spake a breath had stirred His drooping vine, like wing of bird, And from its leaves a voice he heard “The germs and fraits of He must be Forever hid in mystery, Yet none can toil in vain for me “A mightier han, more skil Must ha And make the fields with harvest a) n ng the cluster of the vine ¥ Man oan but work God can ereate; But they who work, and wateh and wait, Have their rewand, the } “ Look up to he The ok An ds and § answer to thy doubts and fear™ He looked With tra Was rushing to a distant i fames afar, star and And every thirsty flock plain Was risi ¢ meet the rain he fields with grain NABBY'S HUSBAND. | A knock at the squire’s door. An eager * come in" from the "squire, to whom any outside diversion is an in- estimable boon, he having just reached that uncomfortable stage of masculine convalescence when life becomes a bur den not only to the so-called * patient” himself but also to those unlucky femi nine relatives whose duty it is to cff ciate as his * ministering angels.” Mary, the servant, came in. Please, Mr. Hoslev, there's a woman downstairs who says she must see vou. She's been here to see you before since you were sick, and now she won't take no foran a ” “Show her right up, Mary,” said the ‘squire, alertly, brightening up visibly | like the war horse who scents the battle afar off. Not all the cozy comforts of his surroundings, the *“ Sleepy-Hollow- ness” of his chair, the pleasant pictures on the wall, the wood fire which now, that the wintry twilight was settling down over the bit of gray sky, left vis- ible by the curtains heavy folds, danced and flashed all over the room in rosy shadows, conld not reconcile the squire to his enforced seclusion. Secretly he pined for his dingy old den of an office, and fed at the doctor's restrictions, which as vet forbade all thoughts of business. But now the moral police force, represented by his wife and daughter, being luckily off duty, there was nothing to prevent this probable client. “Show her up, May,” and the "squire cheerfally straightened himself and assumed as much of legal dignity as dressing-gown and slippers permit- ted. Mary disappeared. Presently the door opened again. “Why, Nabby,” said the ‘squire, “is it yon? How do you do?” “Yes, "squire it's me,” said Nabby, dropping down with a heavy sigh into the chair, “and I don't do very well.” Nabby was a short, squarely-built woman of fifty, with considerable gray in the coarse, black hair drawn stifily and uncompromisingly back under a bonnet about fifty years out of date. She had sharp, black eyes, and a reso- lute, go-ahead manner. Evidently a hard-working woman ; yet in looking at her yon could not help the conviction that something more than hard work had plowed the deep wrinkles which ran across her forehead, and threatened to lift her eyebrows up to her hair. Nabby had lived with the ’'squire’s mother fifleen years—from the time when Mrs. Hosley took her in, a ten-year- old orphan, who was, as the good old lady sometimes expressed it, ‘‘more plague than profit,” until she grew into | the steady and reliable hand-maiden who | finally, with every one's good wishes, married young Josiah Gould, and set up in the world for herself. Old Ms Hosley had long since gone to her reward, but her family still kept up a friendly interest in Nabby and her for- tunes, the "squire in particular being for her * guide, philosopher and friend” in all the emergencies of life. “Why, what's the matter now, Nab- by ?" said the ’squive, good-naturedly. “ Are you sick 7 “Yes, I am,” said Nabby, éemphati- cally, with a snap of her black eyes. “I'm sick to death of Josiah. I can't stan’ it any longer, and T've come to talk with you about gettin’ a divorce. You see he's been a growin’ worse and worse now for a good while. I've kept it to myself pretty much because I was ashamed on't, and then kep’ hopin* he'd do better. I've talked an’ talked to him and said and done everything a woman could, but it seemed as if the more I | talked the worse he grew.” The ‘squire looked st Nabby’s rather | sharp, hard face, and perhaps was hardly | so surprised as Nabby expected that | Josiah had not been reformed by the “talking to” Le had undoubtedly re- | ceived, § “He grew more and more shiftless | and good for nothing,” vontinned Nabby, “till finally he didn’t do much but’ sit around the kitchen fire, half boozy. If there's anybody 1 hate,” burst out Nabby, “it’s a man forever settin’ round the house under foot. Aud there I was a-takin’ in washin' and a-slaving. early and late to be kinder decent and fore- handed, and him no better than a dead man on my hands, so far as helping any was concerned. And so I told him, time and again. He worked just about enough to keep himself in drink. He knew he couldn't get any of my money ! for that. But I stood it all till about a | fortuight ago. I'd been working hard all day helping Miss Barber clean house, and it seemed as if every bone in my body ached, I was so tired. I came along home, thinking how good my cup of tea would taste. The first thing I see when I opened.the kitchen door was old Hank Slater séttin’ there in m rockin’ chair. He and Josiah weve both drunk as—hogs,” said Nabby, slander- ing an innocent animal in her haste for a simile. “They'd tracked the mud all over my clean floors. The cookin’ stove was crammed full of wood, roaring like all possessed. I wonder they hadn't burn- ed the house up before I got there. And they'd got my best teapot out to heat some water, and the water'd all biled away an dthe bottom came out, But'the worst was to see my husband a consort- in’ with such a scum of the earth as that miserable, low-lived Hank Slater. I tell you, "squire, L was mad. I just hung that kitchen door wide open, and sez 1: “Get out out of this houee, Josiah Gould, and don’t ever let me see your face inside qn’t again.” oo 3 i Seg. Moses: ‘ Where in 1~ fe i an nswen % , meek as shall I go to, Nabby ¥ FRED VOLUME XIV. Iiditor and Proprietor. CENTRE PA. THU *) RSDAY, APRIL 2i INERMS: 82.00 a , 1881, in Advance. RB TAHARI MRA NUMBER 15, “Sez I, ‘I don't care where you go to, so long's vou don't come near me I've always been a respectable woman, and I don't want none of Hank Slater's friends round my house." “Well queried the ‘squire, as Nab | by's narmative came to a pause. “Well.” said Nabby, in a rather sub dued one, ** he went off. And he hasn come back. And I want a divorce.” “Xow, Nabby,” remonstrated the old | ‘squire, “von don't want a divorce. 1 | know you better than that. You are not | the woman to give Josiah up and let him go to the bad without a struggle. Yo feel a little vexed with him now, and 1 { don't blame vou. It's hard-—very hand | But von know vou took him ‘for better, { for worse." Deo vou think, vourself, it's { quite ght to “break your <acontract ib t proves the worst for von | becanse you are the strong one aud | the weak one of the two? That doesn | strike me as good Bible doctrine, Nabby. { ‘We that are strong ought to bear the | infirmities the weak,” and not to please ourselves, you know.” “ Well, I dunno,” said Nabby, twist. : ing the comer of her shawl, d | “1 hadn™ thought on't in that | must It's v 5 3 i n WORN 1 { he t of 1d ubiously, 3 s0 aggravatin’ husband. Besi dunno's he'd come back if I wanted to.” Say. “Hasn't he been back at all?” “WN hy, Yes, he Came back once for a pair of pantaloons. But I didn't take no notice of him." “ Now, Nabby, you may depend upon it, it wasn't the pantaloons he was after. He wanted to see if you wouldn't relent. If he comes again be pleasant to him, and il will stay. Give him another Nabby. Josiah isn't the worst fellow in the world, by any means. He has redeeming traits, after all. 1 i he will do better if yon will ay him. You know h bears enconragement, Nabby.” “Well, "squire, I'll think Anvhow, IT to talk so—sorter 0 & ! Your mother's own son; just the same Would you be able some of my cheese, "squire ¥ “Try me and see, Nabby,” said ‘squire, smilingly, not impervious Nabby's compliments, Nabby lel exit just as Mrs, Hosley rushed 1 of wifely indignation that the 'squire had been allowed to see a *f client.” Nabby's home was over at the “Co ners,” three miles from the village. walked rapidly along in the fast th ening darkness, with the steady, str gait becor the self-reliant won that she was. Yet even her unimag inst the depressing influence of the chilly, raw November evening. The wind whistled through the bare tree brancl which creaked and groaned mournfully, and waved wildly in the dim light overhead. The wind seemed to cherish a special spite against Nabby. It blew her 1 net off and her hair into her eves, st gled madly with her her shawl, te her breath away and firmly resisted every step. Finally it began to send spiteful dashes of cold rain drops in her face—rain that seemed to freeze as it fell. “ Josiah used to come an umbrella when I was caugh the rain,” thought Nabby. always real kind and good all. I duno’s he ever gave word in his life, even when drinking.” Here the driving sleety rain, and piere- ing wind pounced down upon Nabby with renewed fierceness, 1 madly in fiendish glee. “An awful night to be Nabby,” something seemed to say. “1 don’t care,” said Nabby to herself beginning to feel cross again, and gen- erally ill-used as grew wetter and colder. “‘ It serves right. He's lie mn it.” t streaming out from other Josiah is m bl ALY i You m oOLIeeged Ol. comiortin t 1 go0Q heart. Qo 3 Ing LINE ¥ AR 188, 1 for 107 after me with . : ® “He was m § he's been vié ous to e after Ti ii a Cross mstling her 1 1 : ROMEIess, ’ sho At the * Corners,” cheerfully into the homes made Nabby's : house par- ticularly gloomy and uninviting. Nabby fumbled under the mat for the door- key, fumbled with stiff fingers for the hey-hole, and finally succeeded in un- locking the door, and felt her way through the little entry. There is always something “uncanny” about going alone at night into a dark and shut-up house. Every person of the best regulated minds experience a vague suspicion of something behind them, a sense of possible ghostly hands about to clutch them in the darkness. Nabby was a woman like Mrs. Edmund Sparkler, with ‘““no nonsense about her ;” but nevertheless a cheerful tale she had read only yesterday about a burglar and a lone woman, kept coming into her head, and she carefully avoided the blackness of the corners and the pantry door as she groped around the kitchen for a candle. Of course the fire had gone out. “Two heads are better than one, if one is a sheep's head.” Nabby might have been heard muttering out in the woodliouse, as she stooped painfully down, picking up chips; by which orac- ular utterance I suspect she was think- ing what a good supply of kindlings Josiah always kept on hand for her, and how much more comfortable it was in the old times, coming home to a house bright with light and warmth, and Jo- siah's welcome, For Josiah cherished the most pro- found admiration for Nabby-—an admi- ration not unmingled with awe. He thought her a most wonderful woman. She was just as beautiful to him now as in the old courting-day., before the | brightress and quickness of the black | eyes had degenerated into sharpness; | before the smiling mouth had acquired its hard, firmly-set expression; before | there were any wrinkles in the smooth | forehead. People thought Nabby had | done well in marrying Josiah Gould—a | pleasant, good-natured young fellow | that every one liked, a young mechanie, | not very rich yet, it is true; but with a good trade and such a wife as Nabby, there seemed to be nothing to prevent his figuring as “one of our firsy citi zens.” Anybody can be somebody in this country if he is only determined. But that was the difficulty with Josiah. He never wad determined about anything. He fell into the habit of drinking be- will to avoid it. Then Nabby's sharp words and his own miserable sense of meanness and self-contempt, of utter discouragement and despair, drove him lower and lower into the slough of despond without effort or hope. - By a beautiful dispensation of Prov- idence, whenever a poor, shiftless, good- for-nothing man is sent out into our world, some active, go-ahead little woman is invariably fastened to him to tow him along through and keep his head above water. It is for the best, of corse, What would become of the poor fellow without her? At the same time, she sometimes finds it a little was ambitious and proud- d. ay spirited, willing to work hard to save, to do her part—anxious to get on in the bors, in her husband she had no support, only a drag and a burden, and finally a dis- grace, had been a disappointment em- bittering her whole nature. To have a t i husband that no one respected, even the bovs around town ealli Gould,” was dreadful to Nabby., Per haps it was hardly strange that she grew hard and bitter Meantime Nabby had succeeded in starting the fire, and, having changed wer dress, sat down to dry her feet until i b i But nddy light and warmth with whi kite en now glowed could not sen the dreariness of the night. The n “tapped with ghostly finger tip upon the window.pane,” and the wind howled and watled nd the house like the spirits i { the be LO taken back and warmth. Such a wind stirs in even the happic st heart a Vague san 1 i PACTS AND COMMENTS, ——— Of the total population of the United States 1880 a fraction ninety 1 Atlantio cent, in basin and a a4 than two half per cent, the Pacifie Phin statement will startle some imagine that the star of empire 1s ng westward with break.-neck i i over great to 3 iit On tea-Rettle ole even 3 i the ¥ 1 Bix edd 185d the L§ from 1g fit Ning 10 various parts ol Germany, tralia and Switzerland, while thes numb Ain Statistics show that since haa been an inerease of risk RIX Ww Los { wh Of } Hore human life spondi than though CO 10ey in the Ol he explanation to lie in the clearing of forests rail thie S06 Of loss, Of that goes to make up the . of life, Dead rows creep forth from their graves on 3, and stalk up and down @ heart. wondering It was so y 3 al { weds, and BION AUSIACLOrINeSS sor houses, echoing chambers of th ld not help was to-night, lonely sitting there with no one to speak ; er to the moaning wind, the . the AR, the loud ticking A recent decision of the Unit interest t t supreme court 1s of great it de Ci ne Joss h ; “ un Crmines oft CON, military officers, they hol i office as tle the will of the Presi ate, who etl remove without a verdict which has been supposed to be sary preliminary to the and navy officers in time of peace. : . to, list 23d : ¥ Creaging « ¢ is f i ) lex of the eloek. : The wind wailed and wailed, Nabby thought and thought. The fact havi 8 her mind” to the "squire had relieved her long pent-up indignation, and now she felt more sad than ADETY { p before her seemed to rise a picture of her life youthful dreams and hop 8, the changes and dis ap} urned and of a “ freed dismissal of ar 30 n The question what degre 0 of he NeCOssSary to de stroy tneian 1 flesh is of importance. A German eo pert says that if the pieces put nto ¢ nl are larg carta the wintments, the love e, frehins and realized how was for one of his weak e tempiation will . " his place, impossible it nature to resist, unaided mid retains the it , th been sironge i Ss ‘rare 18s n ost a y an A rare ha : i ficiently cooked to destroy thie par ites. Smoking 4 and pickling the meat, hin of iy 1 afraid ve been a little too sh ry h,” thought she, “I've sor r granted I was a saint Slit scolded him ill. A nice saint nd high-strung as .. AsSeris, are « ag A. Keene Ricl tneky recen , who died in Ken. more than 81,000, 000 to improve the breed « of race-hor He made two | FGA 3 3 Swit along y BPS pre dow n-h ud S sae) 3 Goal ck and begin over again, gs would gO better.” » was a faint noise Y ch. and around till again—no one visible, could not rid 1 th with the Am 3 mixed i wWever, , like Nabby ; was Yet Nabby yeaa if f the ims Aa y ersell of the umpression near her, i ¥ hil wavilt result, i loo A d $ 3 p 3%. 3 iI 8 dea faried 10 meet JP % * 5 8 sent from his beautifnl blue grass wn, Ky, ticipations, though many winn ! it SOME One Was that o id another's individuality 10t present, hangin’ ¥ i near Greorgeld 5 + sense we have o near us, the “There's here, I know,” said she to herself, Nabby wa who always things half way. Accor ngly she walked to the outside door, and Op it quick'y, peered out into the darkness, There stood Josiah, wet, sheepish, ROITY. Once he started to go in, but his moral courage failing, he lingered in dubious tion on the doorstep, “Why don't yon 18 round on 5 One ' met 3 $ agen 0 gr Broome DEITY § y1ts great excitement in the in f the and Broo of with the { a come ne, s¢Gme i nse being Zs © towns i being unprecedented in the a three day s' trial three were acquitted and four abby. know an : replied Josi meekness becoming a gal. “ Want yo Of course I do,” said Nabby, heartily. “ Come right along in I'm going to have good griddle cakes for suppe d you must tend them while I set table.” Griddle cakes were weaknesses, and Nabb Josiah came in. n i ? Kirkwood thinks the of the Indians a pee 3 It problen i i body will dis when the young hard and vexatious broken his wild pony to thi pd Wome acquaintance and will gather about him and taunt | doing squaws work; offering him ax of their own female apparel as sui for present 1 angercdd and plow, mounts up agricultural Decretary £ of Josiah's new id one iY If he ever gets into heaven probably his sensations will not be one whit more delightful than they § from forlornness of his wretched wanderings he came into the COZY brirrhtness of the kitchen, and felt that h. was home once more, How Agel wl the tea smelled, The fire roared and snapped, the tea kettle boiled and bobbed 1ts lid up and down, 1 from the gride the savory odor of the cakes ascended like homely incense. Josialy’ face, shining with mingled heat i ne he turned the grid cakes, was something worth seeing. Nabby stepped briskly around getting supper ready. It seemed so pleasant to see the table for two again, to have some one to praise and appreciate her cook- ing. The November wind might howl its worst now, Its hold on Nabby was In place of all the bitter sadness that had hung heavily round her heart was a warm feeling of happiness, of comfort and hope. All the explanation they had was this: Josiah drew from under his shabby coat an exceedingly awkward and knob- by bundle. “I've bought somethin’ Nabhy,’ he said. The “somethin’” undone proved to be a very Jhandsome brittania teapot. The teapot must have known that it was a peace-offering, with snch preter natural brightness did it shine and glisten. Something in Nabby's “eves shione and glistened, too, although she had winked hard, and scorned the weak- ness of a pocket-handkercliief, “Thank yon, Josiah,” she said; “it's a regular beauty, and I shall set lots by it.” : Which, so long as they understood each other, was perhaps as well as if Josiah had made a long-worded speech of repentance and reformation, and Nabby another of forgiveness. I wish I could say that Nabby never seolded Josiah again. But I can’t. However, she “ drew it mild,” and there was a general understanding between them that this was only a sort of exer- cise made necessary by habit—a barking by no means involving biting. And Josiah was 80 accustomed to it that he would have missed it, and not felt 5 nn 4 n 5 ; " 4 11 i OF IS ar Me DOW, as his ocenpation, ashamed, Hs pony life, i y i + 1 an fl ie RS #88 W ashi rrespondencs the » stale department at recently issued wd with European countries f past twelve years, on the subject of emi- gration to this country of the pauper and criminal classes of various Eastern nationalities, From this it ¢ { Switzerland has given caus he complaint, four-fifths respondence having been authorities of that country, the charge d'aflairs at Berne, 1d, in this correspondence states that the ratio of the of objectionable emigration — the pauper and criminal was to the total emigration in 1879 and 1880, in each nationality, as follows: One to 30,5638 : German, one to 23,848 ; Italians, one to 18,08¢ ; Swed ish, one to 12,5046 and to +43 2-3. d i ©1 1 the oo ‘ Appears hat for most of { the od had with the Mr. Fish, Switzer gone, o pe CARS classes for you, Swins one A Buffalo grand jury found an in- dictment against one Henry Weil, who keeps an oleomargarine mill in that city. Here is the indictment, which is a curiosity: It is alleged that he “did cre- ate and maintain a certain and common public nuisance by keeping and acen- mulating the fat, bones, flesh, tissues, entrails and substances of divers dead animals, and divers chemical acids to the jurors unknown, beef, tallow, offal, carrion, and other foul, noxious, filthy and putrid matter and substances, both solid and liquid, which the said Weil has cooked, steamed, soaked, mixed, puddled, fermented, stirred, brewed, | converted and rendered together and { separately, by which he has wrongfully and unlawfully caused and permitted to raise, evolve, emanate, disseminate and spread divers noxious, noisome, offen sive, deleterious, nnwholesome and nn- natural without being wound and set going for the day by Nabby. One day, later in the winter, Nabby was washing for Mrs. Hosley, “Bo you've taken Josiah back again, after all,” said Mrs. Hosley. “Well, yes, I have,” said Nabby, giving the last twist to a sheet she was wringing out. ‘Josiah mayn't ba very much to brag of; but then, you see, he's my own and all I've got. We're | gotting to be old folks, Josiah and me, and we may as well put up with each here.” healthy gases, vapors, exhalations, ef- flnvia, miasmas, smells, stenches, which contaminate, poison and infect the air, to the health, comfort and happiness of many thousands of the good citizens of the city and to the common and pnb. | lie nuisance of said citizens.” The farmers in Louisiana are giving attention to the cultivation of the jute i plant. So great is its consumption in {the manufacture of mattings, coarse ported last year into the United States seven millions worth of that product, It is an annual plant; the seed is sown | in April and is ready to harvest when it | beging to blossom in the summer { months, The fibers are soft and silky, and prepared for the loom in like man- ner as flax, to which it; assimilates in appearance and the uses to which it is | converted in textile industries. In Ori “How has he been doing since he came back 7” “First rate. He's walked as straight as a slring ever since, He's a good provider, now he's quit drinking, and a master hand for fixing up things around the house and making it comfortable. { 1 tell you what it is, Mrs. Hosley, we've | got to make 'lowance for folks in this world. We can't have 'em always just | | to our mind, We got to take them | yui0r, | just as they are and make the best | gttended with great success, and as thy i on't.” | Sonthern States are well adapted as o. I'm glad to see you so much hap- | jute-growing regions, the crop, which | pier and better contented, Nabby.” “Well, I used to fret and complain | 4 ready sale, will be remunerative to the ‘a good deal because things hadv’t| planter. It can without much trouble | turned out as I expected em to; but | expense bo raised in sufficient quan. | one in this world, after all. We mayn't | their way into the pockets of Southern | git just what we want, but we git some- | farmers. thin.” | lieve Nabby was about right. | 8t. Petersburg is one of the measures | adopted by the new elective council of If there is any difficulty about decid- | twenty-five to invest the reigning czar ing where to hold the State fair, we | with all possible safeguards from exter- { would suggest that a rocking-chair or a | nal foes. The Cossacks seem to he the sofa would be a good Place Wiseling | o0rDS d’elite on whom the emperor Journal. chiefly depends for protection. This i } guard of honor co Opn rates with the po to the eity until each person is subjected i strict nve stigation, that the citizens of Bi, Petersburg are literally besieged by their countrymen, the cordon the condition of aflairs 1s not much better: the inhabitants are sub jected {0 the most rigid surveilance by the police, make iy hour search the house, and arres tion the inmates, Their names and oe cupations are taken down by the author ities and they are not permitted to change their domicile without first taining permission to that effect, The streets an patrolle od nig h i day 10 those and keep and ward over the « mMperor, who, notwithstanding all the : fo BO domicillary visits, t at discre al ar t : ab { i aI enforce observances i wateh TL) surroundings, 1 that i AEsINA some form may reach it ms an indefinable dread as in i AS imperial father. ————— AA $l Humaors of the Proof-Room, A New York proof adder, whose ox- I perience dates back nearly twe nty five | contributed an series of articles on his business to the 1% After presenting & vivid pen picture of the many trials to which the proofreader is subjected, both and newspaper oflices, the writer ladierous mis. | vears, has interesting | dar Gem » Good in book gives a few instances of prin We quote ! In of a famous trial in i cookin, a lady was te Hing about the deo- fondant having fir § Lal the course ir r on her to relate Lis woes, which, 1 he laid | » and she cove red him I'he reporters caught | wrote ** napkin, ' and it in the reports of several ng The HI Poss] g" the portly and dig with a struck the wl i 88 BR @ defendant have er, bu lid not, tleman, describing a visit to a building, where he ha ienlty in finding the way out, ound the Eg i him ; Cis 4 pre of wl A nt ie $5 i wostern i i ale, where he ! but con” 3 } BWaled i the con i at d th a arrestee the innumerable dogs of iter longed for the “WN HiGSRacCTe, ned for dog he VeuLy ' 3 holow's dog mu- likened something very flat and stale to procession by darvlight, ical candidates, but thon it 4 moralist mposito pursiod guns | be better than the candidates, gentleman from New York" ap. peared in proof once as * Cunningham 1% ik and, may be pre writer to think that | have vielded something i 1 he some satlors engaged ., but the types AONLENGG Was ‘ Beeing some sailors en. : HY po ¥4 foi 1 i BUCIMAD Was Onee plat i situation for student,” but a conscl the | theo. wke of an anthor 1 argument is, based on evidences ' when printed the the existence of in plimentary : 4 it for the 3 tiie ALE] A ' y a Wwe . gn in nature ; t £8 »" 107 A, Disodd On the rodeness of design ol not Mn whi girls bing a fort, was © it was written that guns were barbette,” but thought it wonl be ‘all the guns were in Baireuth.” stronomer once saw “thirty-six y course of a single hour on their way throngh the . Tr § 8G en npositor leh comp { OSI : i . » roan tHe Mmeleors ox A in Wie cor- f i x Ld VIR an account transformed i rough hie heading college feast w “The Dartmout Dinner” to the ‘ Foulmouth Dinner,” which was not true, although there were many speakers. Speaking of the strain upon a laborer's it was written, ©“ When he lifts pipes or carries bricks in his hod,” it the compositor put the “bricks in hat,” where, alas! too many of them are car rie d. A reporter, writing of an accident, | put the cart before the horse, by assert. i ing that the #4 backed overboard, | dragging the cart after him, Of course, | if the proofreader had been thus | “mixed” there would have been trouble. | A traveler in Africa told of an alli- gator which swallowed thirty-six * mis. sionaries.,” The printer must have been jilted, for, according to him, the reptile | made his meal of ** nurse-maids.” A weekly newspaper lamented the prevailing tendency of English girls of | the period to defy the restraints of former vears The com- | positor made it read * connubial re. straints,” and perhaps he was not far wrong. Another inquirer wanted to know if | the “police cannot do something to prevent careless and dangerous blasting | in the neighborhood of Third avenue ?” | and this is the way the typo put it: “Can- | not the police do something to prevent | camels and deer from bleating in the | neighborhood of Third avenue?” “ His blood boiled as he beheld yonth | and beauty in the power of a determined | villain,” was what the author of a story wrote, ** His blood boiled as he beheld | guilt and brandy in the form of a deter. mined villain,” was the way the com- positor fixed it. Mr. McGinnis determined to exercise his marital right of “snoring in his chair,” but the composite r thonght he would be better ‘‘snoozing in his straw,” and possibly Lie was right. Some time ago it was asserted that “a Canadian had devised a scheme for warming his beloved lvnd,"” but the artist at the “ease” said that he had devised a scheme for “wearing his blond hair" A Virginia paper said, during a politi- | cal campaign, that the farmers would forget their “pantry and nursery” in the excitement of politics. What the editor wrote was that they would forget their ** poverty and misery.” “The Duke of Brunswick is sick, and all the courtiers of Europe are in a flut- | ter,” came up in type, “The Duke of | Brunswick 1s sick, and all the court | geese of Europe are on a platter,” which is a good place to put geese, if they are nicely roasted. The list is not by sny means ex- hausted, and is being added to daily and { nightly all over the country, but the | Gen has limits, and this article must close with one or two specimens of the | kind of copy of which printers and | proofreaders are expected to make in- | telligible advertisements: “A companent mother wishing a child unbottle or board best reverence.” “A yong Heolly woman of 18 As wet | nurse with the priviage of own wages | no Objecting.” | And this notice from the Hartford Courant will do for * finis:" “ BIRTHS. — TroMsury. — In Sun- bury, November 12, a daughter to Jane and Sarah Trumbull.” 114 0 1 of a from Lie {to ns i a wseles, y1Lr 144 3 1 ¥ 18 5 i { Hs conreniionai | i i | in AN. Sheep manure is richer than that of cows, Practically it is estimated at | THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, Cannda Thistles, | An effective method of eradicating { Canada thistles is as follows: As soon as they appear in the spring strike them toff with a sharp hoe below the lower i leaf or even with the solid earth. Re. { peat every time a sprout starts, and your efforts will be crowned with sue {cess the first season. Cutivating about { them increases their growth as it does | other plants They cannot, however, live without a top, It is a waste of time | attempting to dig up the roots. Mow { ing closely when in full bloom will check ! them seriously , but the only sure method {is that first mentioned above. Thistles { are such a nuisance that farmers can af- | ford to spend some time in their effec. | tive eradication, A few may appear the {second year after this treatment; if so { repeat the cutting of the stalks, and if | thoroughly done sure death is the re | sult, {meri Ch in eaior, Transplanting and Cutting Back, of the roots are stroyed. Those that remain when set out in a new place are in no condition to feed the plant as it was fed previous injured—a part de- back to restore the equilibrium. Let us instances the case of a newly-fransplanted i If many buds are permitted | to push and grow, the growth of each at the end of the season will be found to be of a fool ls , Hamature kind. If, on the other hand, but one bud be per mitted to grow, a strong, healthy cane | Thus we see in the : former case the sap is distributed among | many buds and shoots, while in the lat- | ter it is supplied to one. The tree or | plant of any kind may live in either | While, however, euntting back | renders the chances of life greater and insures more vigor, we have still to con- | sider whether a few str Mig shots are not desirable than many feeble ones, New Yarker, mor 5 R HE Good Veood for Fawle, | All varieties of poultry Can be kept well and economically upon screenings composed of all manner of seeds. They can be also ke pt npon table refuse, sour milk and decaying meat scraps and | musty grin. This may be an induce. ment for keeping poultry, but the ques- | L100 Arises whether it is the best Way to keep poultry where an excellent quality of eges and flesh is desired. Beef may w fod on distillers slops, but the quality 1% very much inferior to corn-fad beef Onions, cabbage, clover and filthy water affect the taste and quality of the butter and milk of the cows to which they are ed. Pork made from corn is very mueh superior to the swill-fed article. When | a fine quality of eggs and chickens is | ry should be vigorous and | desired ponlt order that their digestive or 1 i 445% healthy, in taken to see that the poultry-house is properly ventilated and not kept too warm, as a vitiated atmosphere has very much to do with the profit and health i of the #1 Poultry, to be ke EL prof. : itably, Hay be watered, housed and fed | abundantly, with frequent changes in diet. The poultry-keeper who attends to these details may reasonably expect f realize considerable pront. profit may, however, be realized when | kept farm, if ordinary care is taken to see that they get suflicient food and shel ty of the product § orn and wheat produce ock i8t Some o simply as the scavengers of the “| ter: but the gnali inferior, CO 5% he 1 1 the principal foc wheat and decay ng wl emploved., Buck vegetables are the poorest foods, not onis for i quality but color of flesh and egos reespondence ties $3 Cotntry (re pan, Breaking Colts, There may be something good and useful thus far unwritten as to how to break a colt well. 1 may be allowed to try. When only week old put on the foal and let remain the head part of a halter. Soon after attach about one and stand hitched quietly without pull- | ing backward, But, if not before, as | to halter ; then | commence to fake up all its feet and liness to prevent thrush and slipping, and also to get it well used to having | its feet handled preparatory to being | shod. If of very large size and showing | considerable * high stuff,” it may be | well to commence breaking to harness | at one and a half years old. First, in | stable, put on all the harness and spend | considerable time in adjusting each | part and buckling and unbuckling every- | thing. Tie traces into breech rings, use no blinders on bridle and only loose cheek-rein. Let the colt stand several hours at a time with the harness on. After some days of this usage, a small string of bells may well be attached tothe girth, Take the colt out of doors | with harness on, and first in lot, after ward in street, teach it to handily be driven by the reins and to tum out on meeting teams and turn around cor- ners, Go different routes daily. Then teach it to back, first by taking hold of the bridle, afterward by long reins. Always on return home teach your colt to stand still while being unharnessed. | Three weeks’ daily lessons of this kind and your colt will be fit to hitch to a Not less than | two persons should be in active attend. i large ring of the bridle bit with the | right, yourself meanwhile leading the | colt forward by the opposite bit ring. | Should the colt show signs of much | fright the shaft may be romoved from the holder and gently let down on the ground ; then try again, and so i it cares nothing for the sulky | Thus | i i on, ! the ultimatum of good and easy break. ing may be accomplished, and so mod. | erately and gradually done thatthe colt will never know when he is being broken, —Aational Live Stock Jowrnal, Farm and Garden Notes, Never overload a team nor discourage it by a too heavy pull at first starting ; nor start from a bad place, if possible to avoid it. A change in seed is often very bene- ficial, It is said that a pullet's first eggs are not so good as those laid later, Fowls seldom tire of milk. They may eat too much grain or meat for health, but milk in any form is both palatable and healthy. One of the most deleterious systems of gardening, says the London Chronicle, is to spade about a foot deep, while the subsoil remains untouched. Decayed grain of any kind is highly injurious to stock. It hasa Friialysing effect upon the animal fed with it, often- times causing death. A single horse or a pair will draw far more and easier after getling up to their work thanwhen first starting. Never draw the chieck-rein tight in heavy pull- ing or in driving a fast gait. nearly double the value of that of cattle, A New York farmer says that potato ries, heavy enongh not to be blown off and will pack and smother the plants as straw or hay will sometimes do, In spring they are so well rotted as not to need removal, { “W. 8" asks if cutting potatoes to one or two eves in a hill would be too small to produce good resulta. The best crop of potatoes we ever saw was from potatoes cut to one eve and planted one piece in a hill. There is a great waste of seed potatoes every year in our coun- try through ignorance.— New York Her ald, A compost heap should be a perman. ent institution in every garden, and it will be found surprising how much fer { tilizing matter can be accumulated dur. {ing a year. Buch a structure need not {present an unsightly or objectionable appearance ; it may be built behind some hedge, or in a fence corner, and { protected from sight by a few ever The most successful fruit growers, turned in. The prevalent idea that shallow plow- roneous one, Unlike corn, the roots of uire There is said to be no eure for the earbuncular erveipelas, when the swell- ings on the flanks and legs have ap- peared. In fact, cure may be said to be impossible at any stage, but prevention easy, To prevent danger, give each one ounce of linseed oil daily for three is Hecipes, Jey Cusranp.—To one eupiul of any sort of jelly add one egg and beat cream or fuilk, After mixing thorough- Iv bake in a good crust, Braipen Saver. — Beat a cup of sugar and a heaping tablespoonfal of butter to a cream, make into a pyramid on a small plate and grate nutmeg over it, berry puddings. Smurre Lewox Pie—Five eges, two cups of sugar, one-half cup of butter, one cup of warm water, one cracker pounded fine, rind and juice of one lemon; bake with an upper and under crust. This should make two pies. Crooorate. — There are several meth. ods of making breakfast chocolate, A very old French recipe has been care. fully tested and found perfect by the and pour upon it enough boiling milk have the milk beiling in a saucepan until it boils to a bubble, then gently stir in the paste, stirring until thor The white of eggs foamed on top is an improvement. Household Hints. Make: Spors Warenrnooy. — A of gum copal varnish applied to the soles of boots and shoes, and re- peated as it dries until the pores are filled and the surface shines like pol- ished mahogany, will make the soles | waterproof, and make them last three TT 3 wit Sramxep Maus —A small quantity of diluted vitriol will take stains out’of Wet the spots with the acid, ew minutes rub briskly with a soft linen cloth until they disappear. To Creax Suveawaxs Frosted sil- verware or frosted ornamentation on! plain silver should be cleaned with a soft brush and strong lve, accompanied by freqent rinsings in soft water. After the frosted parts are dry, tho polished parts may be rubbed carefully with powder, To Curax Brass.—Brass is cleaned { + an old tooth-brush will | polishing with dry pumice and cloths, This will clean lamp cets, also pedals of pianos, and gas | burners. “ TA 5. i Trees and Moisture, | A report sent us by an undoubted an- every quarter century in consequence of | the wanton destruction of woodlands, | must most seriously affect the climate of ment of health as well as the fertility of That the picture is not over- | drawn we can easily prove from the de- | cline of horticultural products. From States in which but a com- paratively few years since peaches were it, upon until garden products with to the *“ Report Scuthern Indiana, other H to the far more hardy apples and other | fruits. Tight frosts in May and June | are no longer a rarity ; the wheat mar- | EE RS SHAM BUTTER. | Some Poluis of Intevest About Oleomars : garine, | The New York cor ndent of the Detroit Free Press wntes: We have been picking up some more : about oleomargarine. The logis sent a committee down from Albany to | investigate the sham butter business, | and it was through the tteo that wo got the points. I don't know that any one ever had a consuming desire to eat oleomargarine, but if there ever was such a person he is rather scarce just now, i seems {hough that and thousands of people have been eat. ing it, and are still doing so, no doubt under the impression thst they were | and are feasting on real butter, sell it as such all over the country. buy it for what it is, but always sell it for what it is not. They are obliged to call it real butter in order | | to sell it at all, for if they called it oleo- | margarine their customers wonld not HEI { The air, while yet 1 breathe it, vweet for m For loving looks, though raghivih fender And words of praise, slas! can Banght svail To Lift the shadows from s life that's past, news, And kindly HUMOR OF THE DAY, touch it. The reason why they buyit is | because it is cheap. Tey can make a much better profit on it than they could | body is the wiser. The law requiring | the manufsciurers to brand the boxes * is no protec. | stuff | is taken out of the boxes and tubs by the retailers, or else the brand is re. moved, and the woman who orders a pound or two of butler has no ressen to | — ¥ 5 * Dear st any prico—Sweethearts. ar A tie vote is generally the result | otty question. woo A man who was watchman refers to it as his Xo star ever rosé and set withont with a hen. frand instead. In most cases the taste is all right, and detection of the frand | in that way is nearly impossible. The committee examined a large nam- | ber of dealers in dairy products, and | they all testified the same way—that | oleomargarine is nasty, abominable stuff, | which the law should shunt right down | on ak closely as possible. One objection | to it is that in preparing the fat and | grease used in its mannfacture the tem- | perature is not allowed to rise above 120 degrees, while it takes a tempera | ture of 212 degrees to kill animalenle. | If there happens to be an insect life in | the fat and grease {or lard, for it seems that is used, too, and this, by the way, suggests trichinm), it passes into the sham butter and remains there. Another | objection is that all the surroundings in the manufacture are disgustingly dirty. | A dealer who had visited four factories | told the committee that all were abom- | inably filthy, The floors were covered | with filth an inch deep, and the work- men were nearly naked and hasdled evervthing with dirty hands. The | committee itself visited some factories, | snd found plenty of dirt snd a shock- ingly offensive odor in each. One of the regular produce dealers, Frank Moulton, gave the oleomargarine men a first-class raking. He said they had | almost ruined the dairy interests of the country. Those interests suffered a loss | of about $50,000,000 a year by the oleo- margarine fraud. Europe would takean | enormous amonnt of American butter if it | deception, —Phitadelphia Cloonide. “You don't know how it pains me to ish you,” said the teacher. “I ness there's the most pain at my end of the stick” lied the boy, feelingly, “*T any rate I'd be willing to swap.’ “Yes, sir,” said Gallagher, “it was funny en to make a donkey I laughed till I cried,” and then he smile go round the room, he grew red iy the & , and went away mad.—Boson ost, I'he favorite girls in Washington have but she takes only $5,000,000 worth | from the United States, on account of oleomargarine. We exported last vear 25,000,000 pounds of the latter and only | dairy interests eat ice-cream with a coal shovel, ic to be an expensive summer or unmarried government clerks. Some one who has had a sad experi the of a horse says he wonld » is declining, as people are afraid of get- ting oleomarganine instead of butter at | the stores. Some manufacturers who were examined objected to their trade | being interfered with by law. They would not consent either to give the oleomargarine a special color, such as | green or blue, so that buvers could | know what it was, or to the hanging up | of signs inscribed, * Adulterated Batter for Sale,” in the stores where it is sold. Of course no one who makes money out | of it, either as manufacturer or dealer, will admit that oleomargurine is not a good thing. They all maintain that it | 1s particularly good—a great deal better | some will stand right up and tell you it is a blessing in disguise, : SCIENTIFIC NOTES. Vines are said to extract yearly from | Fhropist replied. ab once th good for Courant, It is said that two French: philoso. proves that or that nat which, — New Haven gos dr ven mala love of marked ‘Tom and Jerry” Gen. majolica; *“ Yes; we ‘ But haven't you some marked Clifford Alvord or Bertie and Georgie ?” A_ debating society has tackled the quantity that the cereals take up. A curious fact has been noted by fessor Von Tieghem. The cells in the | roots of an apple tree holic fermentation when the soil was very damp. very sickly appearance. Mr. G. Phelps Be grand total of gol historic ages to be $17,500,000,000, and | that of silver £14,000,000,000, making to be worth §31,000,000,000, Eschnit has confirmed, by a new sia. hard that 38 ?—Boston Post. A stock broker ing to his office different to a man when he has bottle of champagne i him." different to the a “Yes, sin,” lied the = ix looks Puck. : . % No wonder a man hates to have his life in the various professi —the general impression that medical | men are shorter lived than any other class, fifty-three Protestant clergymen, forty- magistrates, thirty-four Catholic priests, | but only twenty-six doctors reach the age of fifty. jon. Theeflort results in look cross-eved, and when he . around. And ment in Caleutta obtained last Novem- ber a sample supply of the londspeak- | pany, and the experimental trials of their instruments have given so much satis. > . & The Origin of Restaurants, The use of restaurants has become 20 eral all over the world, that it will ¢ Low they be interesting to many to, first originated, and to ‘what they owe their now familiar name. It appears ‘that the first of these establishments rejoicing ket was in many places entirely killed | an order fora large number of their by frost: in others from twenty to | telephones. The government of India forty per cent. was lost. In many | Will not sanction the establishment of States in which, at the commencement | telephonic exchanges by private per | in 1765, by & of the present century, spring used to | Sons. ihe tasted in DY 8 man of ‘Bou happen in February it is now delayed | Although Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys has, | This date however, : until the end of April, and the growing | during a period of between forty and | 4 "40 with the choice of the Rohing ; of wheat has become altogether proble- i fifty Years, dredged, as a explorer, all ! which the ho of en . nois (July, 1879) on the harvest, pros-!a considerable part of those «n the | : pect, climate, ete., says the erops bad | coasts of North America, Greenland, suffered greatly from the want of rains | Norway, France, Spain, Portugal, Mo- we must go back to the | century, at the end of which one of the ‘soups, or liquid ailments, most used by the people was a bouillon known as the It was made up of | anything of value except to a naturalist, ' « jivine restorer.” we Minneapolis Tribune. = A Trapper's Death, Chris. Haltman, a trapper, who lived alone in his cabin a few miles from Moscow Mills, in Wasco county, Oregon, recently sustained a rupture while chas- forest for several hours, and sneceeded in reaching the cabin. Three weeks later his nearest neighbor having called, found Haltman in a dying condition, He faintly told of the accident, said “I'm nearly gone” and not long after- ward gave up the ghost. All the avail- able surface of floor and wall within his reach was written over in charcoal. The writing proved to be his will. He had considerable gold, which he wished to be sent to relatives in the Fast. He never got up from the floor, and during the three weeks was unable to reach anything but a box of sugar and a bag of coffec, though he had plenty of pro- visions in the cupboards of the eabin. C—O 05 A solemn old scientist printed the fact that by bathing the feet in tepid water a man oould increase his circula- tion, and now all the editors are having tanks fitted to.their office stoves, ‘nor any human bone, although many | thonsand human beings must have per- | ished in those seas. The gems, ‘dead : bones,” ete., that was thought to form | | the floor of the oceun appear to exist | only in the imagination of thepoets. | | The artificial means by which drowsi- | | ness may be induced have been investi- | The ordinary drowsiness of fatigue sup- | posed to be caused by the introduction | | into the blood of lastic acid, a compound | | proceeding from the distingeration of the bodily tissues of nerves and muscle. To ascertain whether this view was cor- rect, Preyer administered large quanti- ties of the acid to animals, and found that it would induce a drowsiness and slumber apparently identical with formal sleep, and from which they awaken seemingly much refreshed. Not only lactate soda, but sour milk and whey, produced this artificial sleep. vo — The London Cuckoo says the Czar of Russia is a lineal descendant of Princess Sophia, mother of George the First, and therefore, under the act cf settlement with the reservation as te r ligion, is entitled, better heirs failing, to succeed the remains of fowls and viands ! down in an alembie, with émshed bar- Ih ra ow af Tu of compare As it was onl . tively well-to-do persons who could afford such a luxury, a génius was required to bring the **divine restorer” within the reach of all the multitude. a Gailliard, who pro an excellent substitute” for the 1 eal nectar by cooking a fat fowl in a little aromat- jzed water, and selling the boullion as At that time the privil k victualers, and that of dinners was sessed hy corporation or new sellers of the “
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