“ Since Mother Died.”
The sun shines just as bright to-day
An it e'er did before,
The world is busy, glad and gay,
And jogs on ar of yore;
But yet to un, the girls and bova
Who were her hope and pride,
It moors bereft of half the Jovs
It had thor died,
We wander through the lonely halls,
We linger in hor room
The pictures hang upon the walls,
The roses are in bloom;
And yet their hues seem faint and dim.
As if they tried to hide
And deepening shadows fitful seem
On all since mother died,
so
Go'n' Home To-day,
all is through
given my verdict true;
I stuck so long unto my chair, I thought I
would growin;
And if I do not know myself, they'll got me
there agin ;
But now the court's adjourned fu
I have got my pay
I'm Joose at last,
v Amd
going home to-day,
I've somehow felt uneasy like, since the
day I came down ;
It is an awkward game to play the gentloman
in town ;
And this ‘ere Sunday suit of mine on Sunday
rightly seta ;
Bat when I wear the stuff a week, it somehow
galls and frets,
I'd rather wear my homespun rig of pepper,
salt, and gray
I'll have it off in half a jift when 1 get howe
to-day.
The mornin’ that I cante away we had a little
bout ;
I coolly took my hat and
was out,
For what I said was naught whereat she ought
to take offense,
And she was always quick at words and ready
10 commend? ;
But then she's first one to give up when she
has had her say;
And she will meet me with a kiss when I go
home to-day.
left before the show
I have no doubt my wife looked out, as well
&% ARY One-
As well as any woman could—40 see that things
was done ;
For though Melinda, when I'm there, won't
set her foot outdoors,
8he's very careful, when I'm gone, to tend to
all the chores ;
But nothing prospers half so well when I go
off to stay,
And I will put things nto snape when I get
home = day.
My little boy--I'll give em leave to match
: him, if they can;
Wn to see him strut about, apd try to be
a Nan ;
The gamest, cheeriest little chap you'll aver
want to
And then they hangh,
resembles me
Sg |
becanse I think the child
The little rog he goes for me like robbers
for the
He'll turn my pockets inside out when get
That God shi
flung it down to us!
wife,
nick that sweet bouquet and
My she says that han'some face will
some day make a st
And then I laugh
child resembles her.
She'll meet me half way down the hill,
kiss me any way ;
And light my heart up with
F
I go home to-day.
her smiles when
if there's a heaven upon the earth,
knows it when
He'r Sa
gets ha
If there's
} away from
often, I'Mi 1
Some homesick fellow meets his fol
hugs "em all around.
Bat let wy creed be right or wrong, or be i
it may,
My heaven is inst ahead of mo—I'm going
home to yr
DOLLY'S PARACHUTE.
“P-a-r par—a-c-h-u-t-e. Uncle Har-
Ty, what's that ? a parachute 7”
‘A big word for a little girl's
Dollie. Come, let me see if
twisted it crooked
My six-year-old niece gravely put
forth the desired organ, and [ as gravely
pronounced it sound and straight. y
“But I want to know, Uncle Harry,"
she persisted. :
So I took the young lady on my lap,
and explained, as well as I could, the
mysteries of the parachute; and the
beautiful brown eyes grew bright with
wonder at the new ideas thus presented
to her inquiring mind.
My story finished, Miss Dollie sat
awhile on my knee in deep thought;
and then she got down, and trotted off
with a preoccupied, business-like air.
1 loved a good cigar in those days—I
do now for the matter of that—and sit-
ting smoking on the portico, with the
sweet summer breezes dancing around
ne, snd the woodland songsters filling
the sir with music, I forgot Dollie—
thoush I had promised to keep an eve
on her —until suddenly startled by a
series of screams and outeries proceed
ing from the garden, a sure indication
that the mischievous little monkey had
got into some sort of trouble, as usually
happened on an average twice a day,
at least, 3
I threw away my beloved cigar, and
rushed out to the scene of the turmoil,
my sists Closely Having ; but neither
© must confess, were prepared for
he Sight that Sie ous iow. ui
here was a tall grape-arbor in the
garden, composed of several
tongue,
it bas
longitudinally, and projecting a foot or
more beyond the uprights at either end.
There were fifteen of these slats, a foot
apart, and on the end of one of the up-
permost ones hung Miss Dollie.
manner of a
Jetkite with the blade
partly open and t
he point turned down-
filling tke air with lamentations, her
poor little nose received many a blow
from the frantic plunges of her knees
and feet.
“Keep still, Dollie |”
voice full of laughter.
. And then I clambered rapidly up the
arbor, and plucked the terrified child
from her elevated, impromptu swing,
landing her safely on the ground.
“Dollie,” said her mother, severely,
“haven’t I forbidden—"
“It’s all Uncle Harry's fault, so it is 1”
sobbed Dollie, in doleful accents. “He
sald a person could jump off a high
place, and come down easy, if they had
a parachute, so I thought I'd try, and I
ot his—"
“Mine!” I cried ont
you little goose I”
‘You has, Uncle Harry; you take it
out to keep the sun off when you gé to
draw pictures and to paint.” 1
“Oh,” said I, “I see; you mean jmy
artist's umbrella, little lady! That is
not a parachute at all.” :
“It's not an umbrella!” cried Dollie,
indignantly. “It's big, and strong, and
heavy, and Jo put ib in a pipe, and
stick it in the ground. I got it, and
first I got on the fence and jumped
down, and IT bumped so hard it most
took the breff out of me. Then I’mem-
bered Uncle Harry said the air must
get under it ; and so I climbed up the
arbor and jumped off, and—and I didn’t
go at all. Just look at my hoopskirt,
mamma—it’s all Uncle Harry's fault—
just look!” =
Mamma did look, sb did the much.
abused uncle, and both fell into fresh
convulsions of laughter,
I cried out, my
; “I have none,
VOLUME X1V,
Fditor and
A]
HALL, CI
NTRE CO., PA.
JUNE
30, 1881.
Advance.
Or
NUMBER 25.
It was the fashion in those days for
ones, to wear stiff, rattan hoopskirts,
Dollie had boen very proud of hers—the
first of its kind to her—and now, alas,
having served as a hook to suspend its
owner in mid-air, it presented a woe
begone appearance-—rattans twisted and
broken, and trailing behind ina decided
peak,
Altogether, it was too much for my
gravity, and I lay down on the grass to
laugh at my ease, while my sister car
ried off the much offended Dollie
restore order to her dilapidated eloth-
ng.
to
It was some time before 1 recovered
sulliciently to go to the resene of my
mpromptu parachute, which, mean.
while, was reposing quietly ima black.
berry bush,
The next day was like many of its
predecessors—warm and beautiful--al
most too beautiful, in fact, for we were
getting tired of the hot sun and cloud.
less sky, and felt that we could heartily
join in the ory of the drooping plants
for clouds and rain.
We had had three weeks of oppros-
sively bot, dry weather, but to-day was
considerably cooler ; there was a brisk
breeze, and a few floating, fleecy clouds
pe that a change of weather
was at last approaching.
“Lou,” said I, to my as we
stood on the porch together after break-
fast, “it really looks as if it might rain
some time, and perhaps I bad better
not postpone my sketoh any longer, I'll
go now ; and while I saddle Fleet, and
get my portfolio and Dollie's parachute
ready, do you put me up some lunch,
like the dear, good sister you are. I
shall not be back before night.”
And thus it happened that an hour
later found me riding over the broad
prairie that lay on one side of the beaun-
tiful lake near which my sister dwelt.
There was a little town there, the be-
ginning of one of those Western trans
formation scenes where the wilderness
becomes a city as by the stroke of a
wand.
The lake, as I have said, was a beau-
tiful thing to look upon; its shores
were bold and abrupt, in some places
rocky, and more like a precipice than
the banks of a paaceful sheet of water;
on the side opposite the town, from
which point I desired to make my
sketch, a rank, dense growth of virgin
forest extended to the very verge of the
lake, forming a sharp contrast to the
scantily-wooded prairie that! stretched
fur away behind it, and in fact, on
every side, leaving the lake and the
narrow belt it like
fave some ho
sister A
of forest encircling
an oasis in the desert,
It was a long ride around to the point
I had in view, but finally I arrived there,
and with a gentle sigh of satisfaction, I
tied Fleet to a tree, and settled myself
to the pleasant task of transferring to
paper, as best I might, some faint like-
ness of the beautiful scenery.
I was an artist, not only nature
but by pre on, and I had come from
my far-away home not only to visit my
sister and her husband, but Carry
back with me waterials for an ambitions
lan ing that was to appear
on Academy of Fine
by
10
a“ L330
in
ODDressive
mess, induced by the
at off my work
until now, and self nearing the
end of my visit withont having
one step tow ard the chief object 0
v
1
taken
f
my
2 .
ow, therefore, finding myself at last
on the spot I had selected for my grand
sketch, 1 fell to work in all eagerness,
absorbed ntterly, as was my wont,
Ml KO
thing, save my task.
rgot poor, patient Fleet, waiting
} linner; I forgot my own Inneh ;
forg the hours were creeping
on—until at last I returned to earth
sufficiently to rail at the heavy fog,
which had latterly been settling down
over the lake, obscuring my view.
Next, 1 became alive to the fact that
Fleet, my favorite horse and my pet,
was snorting loudly and pawing the
ground in a way that plainly indi
cated something amiss with him.
“Well, it is time to start for home,”
thought I, as I rose and stretched my
cramped limbs. “The fog is shutting
out the view. Whew! some one is
burning brushwood hereabouts; my
nose sniffs it, my eyes weep at it.”
I turned my face away from the lake,
and, good heavens! fog, brushwood—
neither of these harmless things was it
that had gradually darkened the atmos-
in
in
nose to sting and smart, No wonder
ground, wild with impatience and fear.
The forest was on fire—on fire in the
most alarming sense of the word !
It was not a slow, languishing fire,
ate rate, but a fierce roaring army of
fiery demons, leaping and dancing, and
rushing onward with almost lightning
speed.
I shall never forget the feeling of
horror and despair that overwhelmed
me, as the imminent danger of my
position was thus suddenly revealed to
me. I actually believe the hairs on my
head rose up and stood on end ; certainly
shock of surprise.
But that was over in a moment, and
collecting my scattered senses I took in
the whole sitnation at one rapid glance.
In front of me a bold, precipitous
left, behind me, one unbroken semi-cir-
brush, with aspeed that even my fleet-
e to equal.
it matter,
fourth ?
With a sinking heart I strained my
eyes to discover some loophole of escape,
some break in the advancing wall of fire;
and an ejaculation of thanksgiving burst
from my parched lips, as, far away on
safety.
In one second I was on my horse’
back, and fleeing at a break-neck pace
toward that blessed spot of refuge—an
oasis, verily, in that desert of fire. It
was fully half a mile distant, and though
bued with a full knowledge of all that
depended on his speed, fléw over the
ground as even he had never done be-
fore, I soon saw that the race was a des-
perate one, well-nigh hopeless.
e hungry outcry and roar of the
flames, as they leaped and danced and
waltzed among the dry brush and trees
—7yet ever da~hed forward on their irre-
sistable conrse—maddened my poor
horse with fear, ‘and drowned my voice
as I strove to soothe him. /
On and on he rushed, his eyes almost
starting from their sockets,’ the foam
flying from his mouth, and flecking his
sides with great white patches ; seldom
frightened Fleet, during that awful rag
with the demons of fire!
But it was all in vain!
Before wo could reach that ane Little
rift in the great, red wall, it was closed
up ; and then the unbroken tide of fire
seemed to dash onward with even great
er speed then before
There was only one thing left for me
to do-to gain a few moments’ respite,
in which to make my peace, as best |
might, with my God; and 1 thanked
Him then that His hand had always
been my guide and support, so that |
had not that overpowering horror of
death that otherwise must have
pressed me,
There was one little spot as yet un.
touched by the flames, though they
op
and thither I fled, riding to its utter
most limits ere | dismounted.
Then I looked about me once more, in
a last dying effort of hope, it was so
hard to resign myself to meet so horri-
ble a death. Behind me, to the right,
front, the lake, ealm, beautiful, clear as
a murror, glistening in the sunlight, two
hundred feet below me ; and then look
ing down, close at my feet, I saw that 1
stood ona projecting point of the oliff,
overlooking a tangled mass of under
brush at least one hundred feet below
The fire would be checked on its
rocky shelf—1saw that at a glance ; but,
alas ! there was plenty of fuel to feed it
up to the very utmost edge, and its mad
career would be stopped too late tosave
me ; for there was no spot of refuge to
which I could flee until its fury should
have passed.
Already I felt its scorching breath
on my cheeks as 1 stood waiting, with
my Land resting on my poor, trembling
horse; and suddenly, as he whinnied
piteously, the thought came to me that
he, at least, need not suffer so painful a
death as stared his master in the face.
I always carried a pistol, and now I
drew it out, and nerving my shaking
ing ear, but I lowered it again as for
the first time, I noticed that my clumsy
artists’s umbrella still swung from its
accustomed place from a ring in the sad-
dle. It had so happened that the spot
in which I had been sketching, when
hemmed in by my fiery foe, was=so cool
and shady that the nmbrella was not
needed; so I did not remove it from the
saddle.
When I drew the trigger, Fleet would
fall, it might be, upon it; he might not
live a moment or two, vet even for that
short time I did not choose that the
strong, heavy, steel ribs should have the
chance of adding to his pain,
I detached it from the saddle; and
even as 1 did so the sudden memory of
little Dollie's experiment that morning
aly, how far away it seemed forced
a smile to my dry lips; and then followed
a thought, swift and startling as a
lightning flash.
A parachute, Dollie called it; and
why not use it as such now in my dire
extremity? It was very strong and
stont. 1 had some twine in my
pocket, with which to secure the ends of
the ribs to the handle, so that it could
not turn wrong side out.
Wi resistance it would offer to
my descent, I felt sure that it was quite
possible to land in the middle of the
brushwood—a hundred feet below
with no more serious hurt than bruises
and scratches, or perhaps a broken
limb ; and surely these were light evils
in comparison with being burned to
death,
With eager fingers I knotted the twine
to the steel ribs, and secured the former
to the base of the handle,
The flames were almost upon me by
this time; so, with one long-drawn
breath, I raised my pistol once more,
and, with one quick, nervous jerk, sent
a bullet into the brain of my petted
steed.
th the
fell lifeless at my feet, I seized the um-
brella—Dollie’s parachute—and leaped
cff the rock.
At the outset I fell so rapidly that I
almost lost my breath, but in a second
I could feel that my descent was checked,
and then began a swaying, jerking mo-
tion, that made my head spin.
Doubtless there was not more than
one or two moments’ interval between
amidst the branches of a small tree, but
it seemed as many hours.
When I climbed down to the ground,
scarcely believing yet in my wonderful
My hands and face were scratched and
bleeding, my clothes torn to rags ; but
what cared 17?
The fiery fiends were leaping in dis-
appointed anger, far above me, and now
I could listen to their roar without a
favorite steed.
Keeping along the shore of the lake,
I reached my sister's house just as ser-
ious alarm was beginning to be felt at
my prolonged absence, and a party
about to set forth in search of me.
up the dear little niece I had so nearly
right, after all. ‘Uncle Harry's big um
brella is a parachute,’ and if you had
not told him so he would never have
devoured by the hungry flames.
will make a beautiful glass-case, and put
‘Dollie’s Parachute, ’”
TT Sr Ob.
Another African Hunter,
hunters who ever lived to return from
the wilds of that continent has just
published an account of his travels,
without number ; his trusty rifle neve
| the cowardly natives always run off,
| rescues himself only by the greatest
| address and skill. But this exceptional
{ man, Dr. Holub, was no such fellow.
range. His second shot at a monkey
went into his own hand, grazed his
wagon. A herd of horned horses came
near manning over him.
some antelope he got in a thorn bush
and nearly tore himself to pieces; he
came near shooting his own dog while
| in ambush for hyenas on a moonlight
| night ; thought he hit a gnu plump in
the head as it was drinking Ee night,
{but could never find a trace of the
| beast; wandered off with ‘his gun, got
{ lost and sunbstruck and was'saved by a
| savage ; tumbled into a stream trying
to land a three-pound fish, and a panic
seizing him while on a wateh for lions
he and his servant serambled quickly
into a free, where they roosted till sun-
rise. He was about three years learn-
ing the use of the rifle, and seven years’
practice did not make him a dead shot.
But he evidently learned to tell the
truth, which is more than African hunt-
ing ever did for a sportsman before,—
Droit Free Press, «
Mayor Grace, of New York, was once
employed as a waiter in one of the city
restaurants. He did his work grace-
fully.
FOR THE LADIES,
The Pretilest Nride tu Bagland,
Frances Evelyn Maynard, the voung
heiress who has just been married to Lord
Brooke, eldest son of the Earl of Warw ick
is of the most beautiful women
in England, and as generous as she is
beautiful, The wedding was the grand
that London seen for many
seasons, and was honored by the pres
ence of the Prince and Princess of
Wales, and several other members of
the royal family, Prince Leopold acting
as best man,
ane
eal has
The bride's dress was an
improvement on the usual livery white
satin and orange blossoms, the front
being povered with old point and droop
ig .ringes of orange blossoms, The
vell was also of old point, Her only
jewels consisted of a single row of ex
quisite pearls. The bridemaids were
twelve in number, Their Gainsborough
dresses were of white moire, the India
muslin fichus being fastened on the
bosom with large bunches of Marshal
Niel roses, the bouquets also consisting
of the same flowers. The Gainsbor-
ough hats were made of similar material
to that in the fichus. The favors were
particularly pretty, eousisting of daisies,
orange blossoms and maidenhair. The
bride's traveling dress was of velvet, of
a perfect shade of brown, the bonnet
and eape being of the same tint in bro-
caded ganze. The queen's present was
a cashmere shawl. The Prince and
Princess of Wales gave a gold bracelet
with a clasp of magnificent sapphires
and diamonds. It was purchased at St,
Petersburg, There were several hun
dred presents, including some splendid
jewelry and valaable plate. Lady
Brooke's pet name is Daisy,” and her
husband gave hera wedding present of
a diamond collar with pendant daisies.
Gay Summer Dresses.
Red abounds in summer toilets, and
is shown in all materials, A French
costume, just imported for Newport, is
of cross-barred batiste, in two or three
| shades of red, trimmed with deep plait-
ings and draperies edged with black
Breton lace. Another dress for yacht
ing, or the mountains, or seashore, isn
dark garnet wool as heavy as flannel,
Yet as fine as camel's hair; this is made
with a hunting jacket and overskirt and
has many rows of soutache braid of the
same shade for trimming. Large bows
and sashes of dark red satin ribbon are
used with white of various
fabrics, such as nun's veiling, dotted
muslin and cream-white batiste, Very
pretty toilets of white wool have Span-
ish lace plaitings and draperies of satin
surah in stripes of most brilliant hues,
or else in pale fade colors, Mauve, or
pink, or lemon-colored Surah dresses
have two deep flounces of white open
embroidery around the skirt; above
this is a draped short overskirt and a
shirred round waist. A polka-dotted
surah of dull red shades has pink satin
ribbon bows and facings of pink on the
great ruche that heads the gathered
tiounee which is scalloped on the edges,
The loveliest white nun's veiling dress,
with pale bine embroidered dots on it,
has border stripes of blue, and is edged
with Russian lace. A pale blue satin
surah has large balls of darker blue,
with a shading of golden brow the
edge of each ball; this has loops of
golden brown surah covering the front
breadth, with alternate blue and brown
plaitings at the foot.
costumes
non
Fashion Fancies,
Parasols covered with Japanese crape
are worn with gowns of Japanese crape.
The parasols with knots on the top
and at the end of the handle have been
revived.
Cut silk flowers with bead hearts are
substituted for muslin and
blossoms,
cambric
Little girls’ kilt-plaited gowns have
rows of buttons down every sixth or
| seventh plait.
The red shaded feathers seem to find
favor more rapidly than those of any
other color,
Cheap Japanese hats are again worn
this sumwer, but they are extravagantly
trimmed.
Olive and tea rose is one of the most
exquisite of color combinations for even-
ng woar.,
Arrasene is knitted into pretty hoods
for evening wear. It is as soft and be-
| coming as chenille,
Pink linen undergarments trimmed
with black lace are fresh enormities in
{ Parisian underwear.
White Spanish lace scarfs, or muslin
scarfs with borders of Aurillac lace, are
The lily of the valley effect in chenille
fringe is produced by pressing the
strands at regular intervals.
The most fashionable size in Japanese
| five and a half inches wide.
Batiste printed with bonquets of small
flowers is new and exceedingly pretty
for summer gowns,
Instead of a border some parasols
bave a band of bright plaid or bright
color about half way up the gores.
and sateen for afternoon is laid down as
the rule for summer dressing,
The silk mull used for kerchiefs and
| even more becoming than the plain.
| Ties for traveling dress are about
| four and one-half inches wide, and are
{ made of mixed
granite ribbons,
A wreath of flowers worn around the
crown of a bonnet, and then carried
{ down to the front of the dress, is ex-
| ceedingly pretty,
The mantles bordered with stiff deep
plaitings, like those on the lower edges
of skirts, are uglier than any other out-
| side wrap.
| 1
hole-stitched in brown, with inner bor-
| ders in colors.
| Brides’ mothers now wear white
plumed bonnets when they attend their
| danghters to the altar, and look as gay
{ as the bridemaids,
| replaced by those headed with stone
when worn with the little linen collars
in English shapes,
The Granny bonnet, worn by children
in the summer, is of foulard instead of
velvet or beaver. Its trimming is only
a bow and strings,
Some of the shaded ribbons have'lace-
like borders on their lighter edges,
When made up into bows white lace is
sewed on the dark edge.
The States of the Union which have
more women then men are Alabama,
Oonnecticut, Georgia, Louisiana, Mary-
land, Massachusetts, New Hampshire,
New Jersdy, New York, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South
Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. The
| greatest excess of females is in New
York where it is 71,000, and the ledst in
Louisiana where itis 3,000. The total
excess of women in these fifteen States is
800,000 they are minus 800,000 hus-
bands. Think what the women may
save who, if married, might have been
compelled to support those husbands !
A Liberal Reward Will be Given
To the woman who, upon trying on a
new bonnet, never mentioned that her
hair wasn't hixed
To the writer for the pross who never
said that his contribution was dashed
off,
To the person, age or sex immaterial,
who, when relating an aceident of which
he or she was a witness, did not lay par
ticular stress upon w hat “1 Aid” or 1
said.”
To the young man who doesn’t think
the girls are all dying after him,
To the young woman who wouldn't
choose an to a substantial
meal,
To the same young woman who never
retired to the eupboard, upon reaching
home, for * just a bite."
To the woman over thirty who never
had an offer
I'o the storekeeper who never said,
“As it is yon, I will eall it s0 and so,”
and then charged double price.
To the schoolboy who does not at all
times look upon the schoolmaster as
his mortal foe,
To the young lady graduate who
would not rather have a white satin
dress than high class honors at the
graduation exercises,
To the married man who never con.
sidered the possibilities of a second
Marriage.
To the married woman who does not
sometimes wonder how she ever came
to say ** Yes.”
To dhe clergyman who doesn’t feel
just a little proud o! the tears he calls
up al a funeral,
To the man who never inquired “Is
this hot anough for you? or “Is this
cold enough for you *
To the butcher who weighs his meat
without the bou es,
To the man who ever exchanged nm-
brellas and went off with a worse one
than he left behind.
To the man who never said it rained
just becanse he didn't take his umbrella
with him.
To the small boy whe never whistled
To the small boy who never sighed
to be a hunter, an Indian fighter or a
pirate,
To the doetor who has the hardihood
tatell a wealthy patient that nothing
ails him,
I'o the undertaker who hears of death
with feelings of unmingled grief.
To the boy of eighteen who doesn't
know more than his parents,
To the Sunday school that has not
experienced a spasmodic growth just
before Christmas or the picnic season.
To the housekeeper who hasn't said
there was plenty more in the cupboard
when pressing the last slice of cake on
her company.
To the amateur farmer who never
drew the long bow when dilating upon
his agricultural achievements,
To the widow who does not like to
have her mourning becoming.
I'o the druggist who does not make a
profit of one hundred per cent, on every
thing he sells.
To the drug clerk Ww ho has grown rich
enough to retire,
To the man, woman or child who
isn't tired and sick of the dull weather
of this present year of grace 188]
Boston Transcripi,
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Hair,
Not less than ninety per cont. of the
women and five per cent. of the men in
this country wear more or less false
hair, This enormous consumption of
the artificial and natural product sug
gests the fact, fearful but true, that nine
women oul every ten about the
street, in the church, or on the cars,
charming or ugly to a line, have a
wig or a welt, a bandean or a prepared
net, bangs or waves, arranged at the
hairdressers,
Some people think that blondes never
grow gray-headed. The fact is, one-
third of white shreds may be mingled
ite ¢ream
of
on
The same proportion of blonde -headed
people turn gray as those with any
other colored hair.
The proportion of people who dye
their hair is also surprising. Some
twenty per cent. are said to do this, Of
course, the greater proportion of this
class are often, though not always, a
sign of a life of trouble.
The dresser more than often
amused by requests from the country
for “cold water frizzes." These, of
course, comprise an article which will
is
are easily supplied. Carly hair has
been the fashion for a year or more,
Of the two, human hair is the most
called for. “‘Hair-raising” is a sort of
industry in Europe. The peasant girls,
who are much in the open air, get their
heads cropped once a year, and thas
furnish a portion of the supply. They
are satisfied with a stipend so small
that an American women would scorn
to touch six times its value.
materiul imported France supplies half
the trade and England snd Germany
divide the rest. The raw material finds
its way here in great quantities, and is
made up on this side of the water. The
business is young yet in this country.—
New York Graphic.
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A Sub-Treasury Gold Wagon,
The New York Scientific American
says: The little, dingy-looking “gold
wagon,” which has been used for twelve
years past to carry the money received
fcr duties from the custom house to the
sub-treasury, has been retired from ser-
Sometimes it made as many as a
dozen trips daily, carrying as much as
of 820,000 each, which were placed in
heavy oaken boxes with massive rod-
iron handles.
clamps of iron was locked down over it.
by
duty it was to see that the load of treas-
The little used-up wagon has carried
in ite time probably not less than
£500,000,000, or about 4,500 tons weight
in gold, and the dead weight and strain
inch thick, painted a deep blue color,
“ U. 8.” in front.
TO —
Elephants in a New Role,
i The Detroit Free Press says: An emi-
nent chemist has been making an analy-
sis of elephant’s milk supplied by the
female elephant Hebe, who had a calf
several months since. The globules of
cream are wonderful in size and very
transparent, In flavor and odor it is
superior to goat's milk and fully equal
to cow's. The elephant’s «alf, weighing
223 pounds at its birth, March 10, 1880,
gained 700 pounds in one year on this
milk diet. Pm that it has been de-
monstra ed that elephants are product-
ive in captivity, it would be something
of an addition to American wealth in
live stock to include the elephant, A
good-sized herd would supply an -ordi-
nary eity with milk and doall the heavy
pulling, loading and unloading in busi
ness. ‘Lhe Purisians, too, learned to eat
elephant steaks when they wero obliged,
while the African hunters all declare
that elephant meat is very palatable,
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD,
Poultry Notes,
The number of eggs consumed in this
country is enormous, and has rapidly
increased for a quarter of a century,
As many as 10,000,000 have been shipped
to New York annually from {no
treal alone, and it is computed that more
than thrice that number come east from
Ohio and the interior states, Eggs are
reported also as very scarce and dear
this winter in Great Britain, where some
400,000,000, valued at near $8,000,000,
are aunually imported, mainly from the
Continent. It has been estimated that
the consumption in the United Biates
reaches more than 1,000,000,000 every
yoar,
Farm and Garden Netos,
In reply to an inquiry as to how to
prevent a sow from eating ber young,
a correspondent of the Country Gentle
man recommends giving them “say half
a pound of pork or scraps from the pack-
ing-houses or blood and waste from the
butchers two or three times before and
on the day they farrow. Since I have
adopted this plan I never lose any. Last
spring my man neglected one of the
sows and she ate up twelve pigs.
spring she has ten, and is one of the
qmetest and kindest of all the mothers.”
Posey county, Indiana, claims to have
raised the largest cow in the world, Her
name is Lady Posey, breed mixed Dur-
ham and Big English. Her measure
ments are : Greatest height, five feet
ten inches ; girth, eight feet niue inches ;
length, ten feet six inches, or including
tall, seventeen feet ; her form is good,
and, though not fat, she weighs 3,000
pounds, Her color is red and white,
red predominating. Age, six years,
Her present owner lives in Stark county,
Lilinois.
Dr. Lyon Playfair, perhaps the great
est living English authority on food,
said in the debate in the house of com
mons on vieomargarine, that, as it con.
tained the same fats as those obtained
from the cow—minus the aromatic futs
which curiously enough produced ran-
cidity in bad butter—he thought the
sooner it supplanted bad butter the bet-
ter. He believed that it would do that,
but he did not think that it would sup-
plant good butter,
Sassafras bushes may be eradicated by
plowing deep and harrowing. This
will t ring the roots to the surface
Plant corn or potatoes, and keep the
erop well hoed to kill any sprouts that
{| may appear. Two vears of this treat-
| ment will thoroughly destroy them,
Fertilizing Orchards,
Professor Beal, who has been exneri-
menting with an orchard situated on
rolling land of a black, loamy nature
since 1873, reports these results : Around
some trees small circles were kept culti-
vated ; but these trees do no better than
those which grow in sod. A circle of
grass extending nearly out to the ends
of the overshadowing lines is of little or
10 damage to the tree after it has grown
fifteen or more years and has become
well established,
Trees of this age left in grass without
manure, in our orchards, grow more
slowly, produce less fruit, of a smaller
size and poorer quality than trees which
have been well enltivated ; the fruit is
generally in our experiments of a brighter
color when grown trees left in
grass. When spread broadeast about a
tree, barnyard manure produces a good
effect about two years sooner than when
the manure is placed close to the tree,
Some trees were kept heavy ily mulehed,
to others ashes were applied at the rate
of one wagon-load of leached, or two or
three bushels of unleached per tree, oth-
ers were given a wagon load of barnyard
manure ; these applications were made
four years ago, and perhaps it is too
soon to arrive at conclusions, but as vet
the trees appear about the same, no
difference being visible in favor of
either of the above modes of manuring.
Vhere clear cultivation has been prac-
ticed without fertilizers or mulch, the
fruit seemed to be just as abundant and
of as good quality as in the three last
cases enumerated. Thorough niling of
{ of the land has been one of the best ex-
| periments, and has apparently produced
the best results. I have experimented
in thinning apples while they are small
and find it very profitable.
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The Flower Garden,
Aside from the pleasure derived in
enltivating flowers, there is no doubt
that floriculture is a profitable occupa-
tion. Towns and villages spring into
existence where a decade before was
only an unpeopled waste, and the shop-
keeper, mechanic, or artisan is glad to
buy the surplus the farmer may have
| from his overflowing garden. This I
know to be the fact in scores of instan-
| ces where the business of nurseryman,
market gardener, or florist was, as it
were, forced upon the farmer by his
village neighbors desiring to buy the
{ products of his garden. Here is a case
somewhat in point. The original pro-
prietor of one of the largest seed houses
in New York, a shrewd Scotchman with
‘an eye to the main chance, emigrated
{rom Scotland sometime about the be-
ginning of the present century. He was
| & nailer by trade, and was entirely ignor-
{ ant of anything pertaining to seeds or
| gardening ; but one day coming throngh
the Bowery, then half farm, half city,
| he saw a rosebush in a cottage window,
It was a rose in a wilderness, for prob-
| ably there were not a score more in the
city then. He went in and bought it
for fifty cents, took it home, painted the
pot green, and placing it in the window
of his nail shop, quickly sold it for a
{ dollar, This was easier work and bet.
| ter pay than nail-making. So he start
| ed out daily, buying plants of all kinds,
| always painting the pots green—(a prac.
tice by the way that modern science
would frown at)—dionbling his money
rapidily. From plants the transition to
| dealing in seeds was natural and easy ;
| 80 that in less than twenty years from
| the time this humble Scotch nail-maker
{ had purchased his first rosebush in the
{ Bowery his seed house had become the
| largest on this continent and he was a
| wealthy man.
| Breeding Farm Horses,
We have encouraged the use of the
| large imported horses of the better class,
| becanse we have thought that one of the
| greatest defects in our farm horses was
want of size ; and this, it seemed to us,
could better be sufiplied by an infusion
of the blood of the draft horse than
from any other source. But we are cer-
tain that in many localities quite as large
| an infusion of this blood has been made
as will be profitable; and that, for the
uses of the farmer, better horses can be
yroduced from these grade draft mares
Pe the use of a stout, large, compactly-
built thoroughbred horse, or a highly-
bred, well-formed and good-sized trot-
ting stallion than by a further infusion
of the blood of the draft horse; Re-
turning again to the Percheron blood,
we have no hesitation in affirming our
belief in its excellence, and that it is to
this blood, which at a very early day
was largely introduced “into Canada,
that the horses of that section owe much
of the excellence that distinguished
them fifty yours ago. Very muny of the
very best sires of general purpose or
farm horses that we have ever had in
the United States have been brought
| largely of this blood. From that coun.
try we have had the Pilots, the Cor
beans, the Columbuses, the Bt, lLaw-
rences, the Royal Georges, the Napo-
leons, the Normans and many other ree-
which we believe derived their merit
mainly from the old Percheron blood,
brought over by the French settlers,
rather than from an imaginary scion of
imported Messenger, spirited in some
mysterions manner across the border
as a certain self-styled “horse authority”
in this country has told us over and
over again. And while, as we have said,
wo think in many sections we have had
quite us much of the coarse, draught
horse blood introduced as will prove
{ valuable, yet we are clearly of opinion
{ that we can never get too much of the
genuine Percheron blood in any part of
our country, where the production of
hardy, useful horses is the object in view.
Hecipes,
Rory Jeray Caxe.—One cup sugar,
three eggs and beat them well ; one cup
flour, one even teaspoonful soda, one
even teaspoonful cream tartar,
Sovs Mux Bwsovrr,—One pint of sour
milk, one teaspoonful of soda; add to
your flour a half cup of lard and spoon-
ful of salt; then mix the flour with the
milk. Make stiff enough to roll out as
pie crust; cut them and put them to
bake in a moderately hot oven.
Wasnming From.—One bar of good
potash, two ounces of ammonia, one
ounce of salts of tartar ; put the potash
into four quarts of rain water {use por-
celain kettles if possible) and soak slow-
ly, not boil; when dissolved remove
from the stove ; when cool add the am-
monis and salts and put up in jugs or
bottles corked tightly. Soak the fine
snd coarse articles to be washed sepa-
rately over night,
ing rinse out and use a half cake of soap,
cut fine, one cup of fluid and two pails
of soft water ; put fine pieces into this
cold suds and boil a few moments ; take
out, add a pail of cold water and put in
the coarse clothes to boil ; suds, rinse,
blue and starch as usual, and your
clothes will be beautifully clear and
white without rubbing. Wash eolored
clothes in the water the clothes are taken
into from the boiler,
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A Gigantie Cora Sugar Factory,
The Chigago Sugar Refining com-
pany are building a factory to corvert
25,000 bushels of corn into sugar a day,
or something like 8,000,000 tushels a
year. The buildings cover 320,000
square feet, and are expected to cost
$1,500,000, The sugar-house is 160
feet square, with eleven stories and
basement, or 140 feet high. It is to be
of wood and brick, containing 4,000,000
bricks. It will be supported by ninety
piers of masonry, resting on piles, eac
pier carrying about 400 tons, There
will be required 42,000 forty-foot piles,
or 318 miles of piling.
Adjoining the sugar-house is a build.
ing for corn, sixty by 160 feet, and
three stories high. It contains five
large steam engines, two pumping en-
gines, one flowing engine and several
small steam pumps. The pumps have
a capacity of 10,000,000 gallons per day.
The steam engines will be equal to
2,000 horse power, and the blowing en-
gine blower furnishes a blast for 7,000
horse power boilers.
Next to the cora-house is the filler
house, 120 by 100 feet, and eleven
stories high. This building is a fire-
proof one, built of brick, iron columns,
wronght iron floor beams, with brick
arch floors. Its twenty-four piers cany
S00 tans each, or 12,000 tons. There
are 2,600 foriy-foot piles driven fifty
feet below the surface,
The next building is a corn-house,
sixty feet square and three stories high,
with machinery in it to empty the cars
automatically.
The next is a boiler-house, seventy-
five by 150 feet in size, three stori.s and
basement, with a coal bin suspended
above the boilers to feed them automati-
cally with coal. The boilers have a
capacity of 7,000 horse-power There
are twenty of these known as the Bab-
cock & Wilson section boilers,
The chimney for the house is 240 feet
high, with a twelve-foot inside flue.
Between the boiler house and the
chimney is an economizer, that the
wasto gases of the boilers pass through
on the way to the chimney. By this
means the heat is utilized by pumping
the feed waters of the boiler through
this economiwer.
The works will commence with 12,000
bushels of corn per day, which will soon
increase to 20,000 per day. The corn
can be received by car or vessel, and the
goods likewise shipped.
Tie company will manufacture all
kinds of starch for laundry and culinary
purposes, syrup ard grape sugar,
Peanut Statisties.
The crop of peanuts which supplies
the entire country comes, for the most
part, from Virginia. In a few of the
other Southern States the peanut has
been planted, but the yield in quantity
or quality is scarcely worth counting in
comparison with that of Virginia. Many
vears ago the Spanish seed was sown in
Virginia and it fructified wonderfully,
the nut as it grows now being double
the size of the original seed. It is still
supposed by many that the esculent is
still a foreign importation, but this is
pot so nor has it been for the past three
years,
this city from Virginia for the past three
years, from October 15 to June 1 each
year, here is as follows: 1878.79, 84,600
bags; 1879-80, 99,017 bags; 1880-81, 76,-
{43 bags. The total receipts in 1879
were 104,344 bags, and in 1880 127,402
bags. The average current price, as
given by a large importer, was: Hand-
picked, 4 1-20. to 4 3-4c¢. per pound;
choice, 4c. to 4 1-4¢. per pound; lower
grades, 3c. to 8 1-2¢. per pound.
large quantity of shelled peanuts is sold
ANTRANGE VISITOR,
bd * fepunier with " Rake i Tod
Centra Ths New York,
“This is the third one that has been
found in the park this spring,” ssid a
man at the arsenal, holding outa curions
spiny-looking object for a Sun Ropasiet
to look at. ‘Ne, it's not a toad, though
they call them horned toads, It's a
ard, and the people in the museum eall
it the plhirynosoma.”
The animal was about four inches
long, and unpleasant to look at. Dis
body was flat, the upper surface cov-
ered with short dark spines, and the
ander surface with small plates. The
back of its head was armed with
several reenrving sharp spines, with
shorter spines here snd there. A flylit
on the keeper's hand, and the lizard,
that a moment before was to all appear.
ance dead, raised itself on its short
spiny lege, and turned its enrious head ;
t oo Huds eves Gleamelt and the throat
pufled out eonvulsively | 8 quick spring
and the fiy was gone. Then the fly
catcher relapsed into listlessness,
“I've had this one a week,” continued
the fly-catcher's captor, *and carry
him in my vest pocket; in fact, he's
quite a pet; will est flies from my hand
as you have seen, and is warranted not
to bite, though be could pinch » piece
out of a pail if he felt inclined.
Run? Well, I should say so;” and giv-
ing the lizard a few wild passes through
the air as a sort of eye-opener, he ex-
Jlained, he put it down, and off it ran,
ead in the air, using the feet on one
side together, which gave it the pecu-
liar rolling gait of a Narragansett pony,
but one that sent it aloug so that a man
must ren to keep up. The heat was a
short one, however, for the lizard
stopped suddenly, settling itself so
that it would not have been noticed by |
the casual observer. In fact, the lizard |
was an interesting example of that class |
of animals endowed with what are
called * protective resemblances,” its
general color being exactly like the
desert sun-dried tracts upon which it is
found in Texas, Mexico and Southwest
California. How this stranger got to
Central Park is a mystery, but such as
he are frequently sent North through
the mail as curiosities, and it is
able that some one has disposed of an
objectionable souvenir from a distant
friend by turning it ont to pasture in
ture saved it from certain death next
winter,
“ You wouldn't think such a creature |
would know anything,” continued the |
owner of the lizard, * but & snake has
to wake up earlyin the season to get the
best of it. I call him Samson, because
the first day I had him he pushed under
the leg of a heavy chair that was ti
against the wall and fairly knocked it
over. If a man were as sirong in pro-
portion to his size he conld lift the obe-
lisk. No, that didn't show any cunning,
but I'll show you where cunning came
in. Icanght a big striped snake about
two weeks ago.- I was standing in my
yard when along came a big toad, put-
ting in its best hops, and right behund
it the snake, so intent on the chase that
it came right up tome. Icaught it and
kept it for some time ina box with a
glass top, and one day it struck me that
the spines on the lizard must have been |
intended as a preventer against snakes, |
I thought I would fest it, and I put
Samson into the box. Then 1 disow-
ered that he was as wise as Solomon,
You see, this revised Testament business
purposes. To give an idea of the con-
the following figures are quoted:
Stock of bags on hand June 1:
1880,
BU 88S
35,000
8,000
17,000
188],
130,256
20,000
17,000
20,000
1879.
Virginia 98.374
New York city... .... 24,000
joston N000
Philadelphia, ....... 14,000
Totals. ......... 84.374 119.885
in Virginia, New York, Boston
Philadelphia, June 1, 1881, i.. excess of
the stock at the same time in 1879, was
102,852 bags, and in 1880, 67,371 bags.
The past winter was so cold that the
low the average.
all on hand; nor is there any likelihood,
in the opinion of prominent merchants
year the market will be otherwise than
dull and weak.—New } ork Herald.
emir ————————
Japtain Bogardus’ feat of breaking
500 glass balls mm twenty-tive minutes
and tinteen seconds hus been efe led
range and stepped on a banana peel.
Philadelphia Neus.
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The snake evidently bad not tasted food
et
EET
. Benjamin,
titled, ** Greetings
Clearing, Illinois, sigrature
is that of Mrs. James KE. Polk, of Nash-
second thst of RB.
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since last snmmer—yon know they!
sleep all winter—and quick as a flash |
he darted at the lizard, but, as the 1
boys sav, he got left. The little fellow |
went round the box like a shot, but |
finally the snake cornered him, and |
caught him by the hind claw. Now, a |
frog or toad will squirm around and face
a snake and get demoralized generally
and give it a chance to cateh hold of |
the head ; but my lizard knew a game |
worth two of that. When the snake
tonched him he turned his head directly
away. The snake tried every way he
could to edge up and get the little |
fellow by the head, but it was no use, |
80 he went to work to swallow him tail |
first. He stretched out his jaws and |
planted his long teeth into his legs and |
gradually worked the body into his
mouth with the smaller teeth, When |
he had taken in as much as he could
this way, the long fangs were loosened
and thrown ahead and a fresh hold
taken, each side of the mouth ed
shead in turn. Nothing counid
half of the patient lizard was out of
sight. He was only waiting for his
turn, and it soon came ; the snake's lips
had reached his neck, when operations
ceased. There were four or five spines |
as sharp as needles pointing out every
which way that put an end to the swal- |
I didn’t see the lizard |
langh, but he must have felt like it, for |
he wasn't hurt in the least. It took the
snake half an hour to get rid of him,
but it tried two or three times agsin to
swallow him. At every jump the lizard
turned his back so that the spines faced
the snake, and at last I separated them.
Yes, it was rather cruel; but I looked
at it as a scientific investigation.
“The behavior of a common toad that
I gave the snake afterward might be
construed into something more than
accident. Do you remember the
of a frog that when he saw a snake too
a stick in his mouth and held it cross-
wise, so that the snake could not swal-
low him? Well, that'sa little too much,
I think; but as soon as this toad was
caught he began to inflate himself with
wind, so that by the time the snake, which
had both hind legs down, had reached
his body, he was twice his original size,
and yon wouldn't have believed he
could have been swallowed, but the
snake in half an hour had finished him.
It ate three more good-sized toads that
““ Speaking of lizards, probably the
finest collection in the country is in the
arsenal here. lost of them ara in
They were all collected and named by
Prince Maxmilian, the great naturalist,
of Neid, Germany. He died some
and the trustees of the
museum bought most all his collection
of birds, mammals and reptiles. The
anolis is represented in this collection
is for from showing the true character-
istics of the lizard. When aliveitisa
very beautiful animal, having a large
throat pouch with peculiar markings.
It seems to be without fear. I once
every crevice in my clothes with the
greatest care. When it was set before
a mirror its entire appearance changed;
puffed out, and the black eyes flashed
viciously, and if care was not taken it
pt for
the gm rvacity of that bird, Large saps |
are often staked upon the comba's, In
a hitch the vanq ished lizard is uwsually |
eaten by the victor, an ending lea. |
three is devoted to authors and
Prominent smong are
Wendell Holtaes, Thomas
drich and Harriet Beecher Sto
Ww. subseribes
with the lines: ;
“ Whene'sr s noble deed is wronght,
Whene'er fu spoken & noble thought,
Our hearts in sarprise
To higher rise,
“Her lends its warmth and health
To ail who come before it ; .
If women lost us
she above restore it.”
Mark Twainsays: “ Total abstinence
is 80 excellent a thing that it cannot be
we YN ¢ a nm
on for it I even so far asto
totally abstain total abstinence”
*
four contains autographs of scientific
and professional men; volume five,
volume six is devoted to the
tives of temp and religion, both
Ste and satieal
strumental in adding another chorist: er
to the host singing hosannahs on high.
My ae I vig
their rejoi to invi
friends and relatives about them =
Tu 5
A Dum 0 ’
seated in fromt of x
was playing a familiar waltz, and three
or four couples within were
the musié. . Under the
aud j
infant, a y little
dressed in and
upon a box that had becn covered with
a white cloth trimmed with red about
the borders. The hands of the infant
were nicely folded, and within them
Was a net of artificial flowers
of erimson hue. loosely about
the bead of the deceased one was a coro-
net of white artificial flowers, and a
similar wreath encircled the lifeless
frame, while roses, pinks, and several
kinds of wild flowers were strewn :
misenously about tie remains. he
little departed one was nestled in a bed
of natural and artificial flowers and
wreaths of vines. :
Doing a Favor,
They met on the stairs.
“Hello!”
San old fo
ot Hows a7 . es
“Why, jus' now I found ‘door ¢
your room wide open.” EE
. “That's al! right. I haven't been
EE vesh Tine you'd de thi samc
ell, T 'd
LEAR Bo tt ie tt yu
Thanks. The first fime I find yi
door open He a or a
and the keys on your desk, I' 1
the favor. Please send me up'a bur-
glar and a you go down,
1 ee Pres. :