A ANBAR Hn : Lett Behind, . Wilt thou forget me in that other sphere this. Dlins, clear, No longer hold the old embraces dear Ww hen BOM her Kiss ? hiss Nome alight, for hore Chou wilt come back to seek me where I bide, But if 1 follow, patient of thy slights And if 1 stand there, waiting by thy side ® Ts vas Toe 5 Surely thy heart with some old t And turn thy face toward m Laonis (ha wil even from har, 5 1) Forni Hos s y # LI Mou WR, wh SIRT ENTS aril i #34 tae The Well, Dark and cool the water lios In the old time-honored well; Deep, down deep the bucket flies, And how often, who can tell ? For the schoolboy, hot with play For the laborer Ui For the traveler on Doth the tirek And how often, Or, who first the § ( Drew up from the bounteou Or, who sank the andiont salt They are dust At the Ii In the wild woods, wh Called the | They are da Who the strong Whi OW APPOATS, Where now curls the villag TONOArs, arm forest } re the ol With our children's But the waters neler shal In tha old thune-honared well 0.3 Ts 3 a RIL Ding { oN. LOuS { OUR COLONEL'S STORY. OR A SLIP 'TWIXT THE OUP AND THE LIP, “You all knew Sandy McPherson,” said our colonel. “ Intimate ly ig “ Perfectly!" " well as my own brother, sir!” us replied, though, if the truth be told, there was not a man at the mess-table ho had ever heard of McPherson be- re. You see, it was the commanding iicer who spoke, and it was always isky saving him nay when he expected AS most of “They used to call him, you recol- fect, ‘The Great Unwashed,” a vulgar but appropriate juet, neverthless,” “ Great, on ae- confinued : 3 count of preciousiy ugly ) reason of nd 3) his /0 0 1 brown the functions ) * i « 8, TAOS 14 indir Surin Windsor, spring Fide hie 2 3 Ci ae GQhirZees ana aig 1 } s} and washermen of the 3 hi the “ On his colle estate in moun- tains and amo s undraped and sernbbed coolies, this disregard for the comforts avd conveniences of life went for nothing— perhaps it was even in keeping with the surroundings; but when he came down to this city, walked in its public gardens and esplanade, or showed with its swells at the band, his appearance was something too outra- geous, and bis brother K. C. B.'s, mean- ing Kri e Coflee Berry, and not, of the Order of rereabouts, what- heir plantations, into the shade by GRINS, : nd young widow there was scarce one but § y of admitting him into ence as a morning visitor, much un- i} 30D « nti} US OL LA the Bath, « ys 4% ever else thev are Laer get-u L ae spinsterss r, thongh many of these vere on the sharp look- f matrimony, r, McPherson— hey knew, willing. lisadvantages of person and at- ithstanding 1&6 was a right » gentleman. He g, thrifty, sim- wing a mere ad- interest, friends or {-helped only, saved little by little ; bad atch, acre after t down its timber, planted it, and now he had squatted down free from incumbrances on Ailsa Craig, as he called his property, as preiiy a 1d fruitful a small coffee estate as could be found one of the neturesque districts of this lovely ym 1 Ad cieared il, iy ad ** Now you young gentlemen who arein he habit of lawn- afternoon talking, walking, ith all feminines, plain d, of this place, and who think that yon have only to ask and be received—which I beg and entreat yon will not put to the test, cutting up the mess and so on—ean't perhaps realize to yourseives the diffienities the worthy I am speaking of had met with in even this overstocked matrimonial empo- rium. The Anglefralls, the Hunters, the Hookers, lots of girls whom I will not name, had snubbed or turned up their pretty noses at him when he came a-wooing, and so, nolens volens, he re- usined a bachelor, anathematizing his ill-lnck and venting his disappointments upon the backs of shirking and recu- sant Tamil coolies, the recognized natu- ral enemies of coffee and the scape- goats of its enltivators, ~ “Then as a last resource he sought from iis brethren of the berry around counsel as to the most advisable method of geiting the =o needed helpmate, and the first man he consulted was Herr Thaler, a successful and rich German whose estate bordered on Ailsa Craig. : _ Bo, s0! said that personage. ‘Zere is noting more easy. Zave off zat ragpet beard, burn in ze fire zose old clodes not fit for 'Oundsditch or any Juden Strasse, buy von big tob, mein frend, get zome Eurcpe muster coats and zen return fo ze {rauleins and vidder frans vid ze monish bag in ze ‘ands. If zey vill not "ave zou, zey vill take ze rupee; trost ’em for zat, roy zon.’ { “ But the recommendation was unpalat- able, and to a greatextent impracticable so another fidus Achates was appealed to, one Jack le Geste, a man much ad- dicted to chaff and practical joking. “ ‘In this land of pearls apd precions stones, no go, dear boy,’ said Mr, le G. ‘From Dondra Head to Point Cala- mere—north, south, cast, west—the elLising, spOONINg, th . Lae have found out long ago. Give up fields, and draw the home covers, Don't you happen to kriow a bonnie lassie in yourown “ Caledonia stern and wild,” or a pretty colleen in the oisle of shillelahs aud shamrocks, who would be glad to share curry and rice with yon? Go and try those parts; if not, have a haphazard shy at where I hail from, the Channel looking ones too—are as plentiful there as cocoanuts are here, and maybe one of your favor. Failing those islets T know of no other dodge than indenting upon one of those co-operative associations, which furnish everything, even to a better half. But mind, old man, they keep a roster for foreign service in their offices; first lady on the list, plain or pretty, first for duty; you pays your money, but you don't take your choice.’ * But these suggestions also were con- sidered infeasible and put aside. ently, however, a thought struck Me- Pherson. “ ‘Le Geste,” said he, ‘when TI was a boy there lived in the neighborhood of my father's manse a widowed lady with two or three then wee, very wee daugh- ters. From what I can recollect of them their means were cramped, not to say scanty, but they were of good blood and form. One of the children, the eldest if my memory serves me, was called Effie—Efie Needum—and prom- ised to be bonny, for I can faintly recall her blue eyes, flaxen hair, rosy com- plexion and jimp little figure. If she is alive she must be close on thirty ; for VOLUME X1YV. Icditor and HALL, RE ©CO., PA. J AUGUST 'ERMS: 82.00 a 4, 188], in Advance. NUMBER 30. stripling and nardii 5 little: estate, as my Kind emplover style property. Mrs, Need: : \ better, indead, than wonder if she and the bairns and of the leal or Ki “Write directly and nq? And Sandy di ) old nasian at his INRGING \ Dearing up agaist the res an h intelligence Armed with which are well And oat ike a Christian and no “ So letter was writ to Le (roste's inspection, 8 ing, and in dae course was in W eated no smal t and was , especially by cerned -—still a com iy if even what passe bedy— and who, while, consented to go out suitor, tha Sn Sg Lell, St 3 * Moe ms, i vh spelt a over the dams after a 3 : and wed her snp ‘3 QOar, Sad, Erp 11, mother me; MAY 100, Jonnie; and for me or i call him Alexander not bad-lookin Xs ] very, very nice-look he has sent us.’ “ And Miss Jennie quite agreed with her elder sister that Mr. McPherson was a beauty, SUP post “¢ Well, my bairns,’ ‘I can't gainsay you trait 1 as J call son of the so seemly and indeed, lang 8Y him, and likel as he got older; “Then, Miss Need agree 1q g0 Ol ] i honorable 1S Winsome snd ming minister, h wel 10 ne sine evers um handed, ready told you he was withal for passage and “ And pending the that elapsed, and wh Qaeen of Berendib the Cape for her de a radical cha habits of He cast into with his coar garees clivities had never extended ! ggv mountain pony, and a tattered and torn pig-skin. He told his old flames and chums that he was going Is for the Benedict, and bashfully tened to the ‘ riles ' and jeers and the chaff and laughter o “As time for th Queen Serendib drew nig were the fidgets of our hero; a days before it was possible for that slow and sure craft to reach her port he there wa itha bi i ular in and entreating s of men for the yen being sighted. | rough-seasoned was on the very tenterl vy and expec- tation, as ; | behaving el ¥ { “Then at lo ast it that the the offing, w 3 rounding point, was at a } the harbor, and in the Master Attend- aunt's boat, cnshioned, flagged and be- decked for the auspicious | Sandy McPherson, Esquire, Craig, planter, rowed alongside like he governor,’ the native observed. “ Scrambling up the side he took a hasty glance at the many passengers assembled on the poop, and, instinct lively guessing that Miss Effie was not among them, he dived below and con- fronted the stewardess, # ¢ Miss Needum on board, and well? asked he. Yes, sir,’ replied the matron, ‘and a very nice, good, kind, pleasant young lady she is, and I've taken the greatest care of her” She felt that the gent was Miss N.'s husband to be, and that there was money in his purse for a gratuity, notwithstanding that, accord- ing to the terms of the passage money, stewards’ and stewardess’ fees were in- eluded-—a fiction, gentlemen, a pleasant fiction, whieh you will find out when you go down to the sea in ships. “‘Take this card to her,’ said the pale and trembling gentleman. ‘Tl wait her coming up in that far corner of this saloon.’ “ (Glanecing at the pasteboard the woman disappeared, and presently there ascended, step by step, from the regions below, first a néat straw hat, trimmed with bright ribbons, beneath that hat a face somewhat worn with { years and cares, but still fresh and { comely enough; then a slight, compact | figure, draped in plain, well-fitting | garments, shawled snd ready for the { shore. Miss Effie, in propria persona, stood before her hand-seeker, blushing { * celestial rosy red.’ “ Heo advanced from his coign of van- | tage to greet er, but as he grew nigher, ‘instead of the warm, affectionate wel- { come he looked for, there was a fixed | stare, a shudder, a hasty retreat and a loud seream which resounded from stem | to stern of the big ship and brought i every one from decks and cabins into { the saloon. ¢¢ Miss Needum-—Eflie, my girl, what { on earth is the matter ?’ hurriedly stam- | mered out the astounded Sandy. | ““‘Bhiver my timbers, what ails the { lassie? put in the captain. * Look out | for squalls, if you've annoyed her!" And | all the bystanders echoed the words in | more or less threatening terms. She was evidently a favorite on board, ¢¢ Oh, take him away,’ cried the lady, piteously; ‘take him away from me, some one! I don't know him! I've { been misled, deceived! I can’t marry him-—indeed, indeed I can’t. He is not Mr. McPherson who wrote to me, to whom I came out to be mar—. He is so ugly. Oh, such a dreadful fright! I'll return him his money. I'll work my way back to my poor mother. T'll the ha %: Lis § was vessel was in $} the nchor in ogeasion, of Ailsa , ‘same if spectators sure I'd rather die first!’ “¢« Miss Needum, I don’t indeed un- derstand this,’ said the taken-aback and completely-flabbergasted one. ‘What does it all mean? Are we notengaged ? Have you not come out of your own free will to accept the home and the love 1 offer you? Did I not send you my likeness? ‘“¢No, no! ““Surely I did. It was takenby Col- no flattery ‘ere 3 ee in ' + §3 wilt that * HONG es wold aid 110 TEAL pvself pat it inside the letter ur mother,’ osom a little locket displayed the head A younger, much handsomer outward respect a more le man than the now her. It was the counterfeit pre t of Mr. Jack le Geste, and 1 u to imagine what MePherson he saw it there helocket, yon wt way i in ne good for-notl ng fellow, in every one scared lat when “How could it get ix Why, in the That e Cleste, when Sandy's letter came into thought to! \ y $0 had surreptitionsiy rea si 11h 3 possession, sedi Dim, { vid 18 h visite, substitniing his d Effie had worn it ever sine disappointed bridegroom plead and tried every argument to in we girl to let & » was obstinate and determined wonld esteem and respect him F nore To { the bag, Miss Eftie hu t £ ing ane of INE GUe OF mMAatiers progress, perately in love with upposed Alexander wmge had spooned : . gt 1@ (edions at Of 3 VOVARY. that it her Was approx ing. done it “So, quite ch f Of was certainly § estate. « Arrived there he cut from one of coffee bushes the thickest and knottiest of sticks and proceade d with it in search Geste ; but, fortunately for the he had made tracks and was gone, 1@ reverted to his old custosus his not Is and t necessary f old Virgil's in whi ] I 1050 Miss Needum sailed for England ne on board almost at the last 3: others, in fear ate Gael with a hag Be this as it may, r the fugitive WaS no lose my story, when ti St. Helena for water and i he and Eflie on shore wd 1 and wife.” other Cieste, 18 VOssal Cae i at OV sions went S—————————— A City in the Air, lower part of the metropolis, York paper, there is steadily a4 process of reconstruction great stretch of the im- ng A City 1 IO TE YY 4} 1.1 18 AIF UDOon Re old one, far overtop the viewed they ld that, When the gone on { YW ill be ill practically Ux the lings which AVErage lated ob onting- i By the aid of ling space of or 341 ten igh. 1 elevator the builk doabled. Rooms the are rented for better prices formerly be had for similar ’ We need no city is to find sx solved tl y & nverting 1 its, and doubling or trebling its area of floor space. But now question, When the population and business of a 1 area are thus doubled or trebled traffic to be carried in ¥ 11 - AN DArdiY now Is on fourth. ie § : comes another on accommo Wig - press through them from mor ight? All the principal business are already overcrowded. Block- re of daily occurrence. No one kes a street-car on any of the | { Broadway in the busy hours of the day can tell at what time he will reach his destination. Below Canal street there are delays at almost every block fi the crowd of vehicles. How can the capacity of these str enlarged to meet any increased demand upon tl This problem, too, will no don solved. We must open new ines below the surface for the transportation of We come when every important thoroughfare will be tun Railroads for freight traffe will run through these tunnels to the depots and wharves, and goods will be shipped upon cars from the cellars of the stores and warehouses, instead of being loaded at the street doors. The streets will then be free for the lighter traffic and the sidewalks unincunmbered by crates, boxes and bales. The New York of future will hold its head high in the air and plant its feet deep in the ground. The city of the present day is in a transition state. Who can prophecy of its greatness and beauty a century to come ? Tis Now, Now the chowder's in the pot, and the days are getting hot, and we all be- gin to swelter with a swelt, swelt, swelt, While the erimson lemonade through a straw enchants the maid, who displays a bunch of flowers at her belt, belt, belt. Now we wave the pictured fan, drink the cooling black and tan, and we watch the periwinkle by the surf, surf, surf. And the tourist happy feels, ns he reads his Puck on Wheels, while he rolls around with laughter on the turf, turf, tarl. Now our fancies, guaint and qneer, lightly turn to ginger beer, and the picnic’s everlasting custard pie, pie, pie. And we with pretty Nell, ‘neath a gingham umberell, gaily boom eranged and shipwrecked by her sigh, sigh, sigh, Now the eat begins to scoot from the well-directed boot, and the poodle wears a kettle on his tail, tail, tail. Now the Vassar maidens mount every soda-water fount, and they drink ver- milion rapture till they're pale, pale, pale, Now the ice man with a smile slings his haughty summer style, and the { plumber bows in solitude his head, | head, head. Now the steamer whistle blows, and the bee deserts the rose long enough to sting the small boy on the head, head, head. ’ Now the cuffs and collars melt, now the monte man is felt, and the circus in | the country does appear, "pear, "pear, { No news is this, by Jo, they are facts all people know, for they're written 1 the joker every year, year, year.— TUCK, date the processions of carts and l- Ines west « om cots be Aver } Heavy wil freight. believe the time Fd neieq. 3 upon true ne the sit Mr. Postell, of Georgia, in forty years | collected 40,000 specimens of shells, | Man's he has presented to the Young } Men's library at Atlanta. FORK THE LADIES, The Hest Husbands st husbands 1 where the m self-der aver mel oat wiier Vig WORLD, i 1 1} SILL daw, "'Leiris hority, Conse { s chivalrous care hich these L: Wi 1g hit to show to el sisters naturally extended it If to all women, gentlemen th F Own Be hey grew up trae gentlemen, generous, un exacting, of heart. strength of courteous of 5) In them manhood, except » prond honesty of manho bel vingl) to be sted round Td eal men are twisted, Wu which \ 3 strengtn prefers resisted finger as and mean women ready do it, but , and UMaYEe walmnen but utterly one's to The Do you know the latest Well, it is for a you photograph tak ) sent Freak in Fashion, fu i Latest sion? 5 “wa & at SYS 3 is, groat 1estior ] ho. 3 do with di1% } Bave bee Il KIS dressed in , & few days ago went Ww i to y panel strated mal cures ' & 1 nearly concoal and then I willi have my hands A taken a good One. § al 3 1 SOA he ids 8 was After her arm upon an he id her hand ag background whil It made a beautif for sale in a Nassua pietures of h I Begative was made, she rested upright support, and inst a black walnut was photographed 3! s, which? Cur it BOW Rong BROLIOSS ter im Stylish evening Ts A-ROWnDs made of rahi, sho with gold ' glage-su 1, Are among si mmer novelties Lavender gloves are their j fay Crape dresses trimmed with pear beaded lace and ied with trail wreaths of flows ' 3 ful dresses worn slow] lace Ibn y side of tO wear wil INAS orite o« fi white, 1 i Sets of duchess werions mat. ters nowadays, for nelunde a ker chief, a Stuart co eufls, and, possibly, . New fichus are very elaborately made, with box plaited ruches and a fall of rich lace around the edges and shaped and tied in the directoire style. lance sets he Duchess are much this season, entire set including tablier, vest, jabot, handkerchief and art collar with deep eufls to match. Small parasols and very large fans @ most { 5 th expensive of them are covered wit hh peacock feathers, richly mounted handles, Pretty evening dresses for voung girls made of white summer cashmere, down the back and cut with extremely White satin costumes are popular even with quite young ladies, and some of the most elaborate of these toilets are embroidered with seed pearls or have the tabliers exquisitely hand painted and edged with duchess lace. There appears to be a very strong te ndency to return to the WOAr ing of crinoline, as dresses continne to grow more bonflant-—the tournures of imported dresses showing a constantly increasing fullness in the skirts, Montespan point, a new imitation lace, is light and cheap, but not so pretty as the real Breton, which is now sold at absurdly low prices, considering that it is realle hand run. The very fine imitation Breton kerchiefs come in very thickly wrought patterns and are very cheap. A pretty fashion of wearing a rounded, sleeveless jacket, a la Zonave, has been revived, ‘These jackets are made of a and material differing from the dress, and the handsomest of them are made of Etruscan or Smyrna brocade, densely covered with cashmere beads; others Are cov ered wit h beads of or jet, and for wearing over pale-col- ored evening dresses are jackets of heavy silk net, woven in diamond pat terns and covered with pearl and erys- tal beads. There is also the “Sabran” jacket, a scintillation of beads, a shia- ing cuirass, that is worn over any skirt, and that is especially pretty over light muslin dresses or those made entirely of Inco plaitings, : ———— Black Sheep Turned White, A letter in the Colorado Springs (a zette says: “As most of our readers proba. col i steel ten cents a pound less than the corre- to seenre the separation of the inferior gressed, we placed the black sheep in a pen by themselves. There were thus on last Tuesday night sixty-three black entered and killed a ewe and two lambs, and we were greatly surprised to find in maining sixty-two sheep had twmed perfectly white from terror. Happily this increase in the value of the wool more than balanced the loss of the sheep that were killed.” The author of this story is a church member in good standing and would scorn to exaggerate anything. The old battleground of Tippecanoe belongs to the State of Indiana, and is inclosed with a fence, HE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD, Plow Barly, irk will t it is Y for peri fall sowing sid harvesting is drought dried und later in the ng under the weeds ripen their use of the enltivator plowed land when ! (Can me to Agricu 1 AREY IL My shoving Horses, of 1s allowing es to remain « long. Itis of horses having con heels wien worked regularly ow thi HI POrianes he most Is i eels ii fH prolifie causes rses holy uh i LOO dom we hear trac d avery day persons are aware of emoving & horse's done at eka, It allow the been placed, to remain before them, shoas ow, it remove them When pared as when newly shod, If practice now we should and fewer least is too sLO6s removing when horse's longer than they dor Was 4 common practice to Wel ww helore they worn out, ; | ’ removed the horses ieol were own the sami tlie interfering ame Thinning Frat, ar we tell s ing 1 insects spute the right at. all, and against them; “i preciate he The evil rly apparent As a gen grape vine having its some of the free might The HY Aa banefited by have from rapes tay Chicken Cholera, disease common known as 1 cholera is one of a contagious r, although it will undoubtedly woptaneously in a single fowl of may spread farther if removed at once to a The disease of the liver, SUr- ied indiges which the recise con. no is intestinal 0108000 88 an accep y ri to the germs of ire floating and unde {hie Sh, if We may expect however, them ant at all times, even in the fowls ¢. The conspic I hen SOAS of th disease are a and cheeks or a black liguid discharge, When a fowl is thus eked it should be separated from the drops of acid ut into a pint of water for 1s, and the sick fowl should h ps of the acid given ins poonful of water. No food sho en for ons indications 118 vellowness of the wattles wd green and yellow dung arhinlie Carini » i 1 i 15¢ 1 © giv soho day 4 and only the arbolated wate Plant Medium-Sized Potatoes, The following figures show the result at the experimental farm of Cornell university, Ithaca, N. Y.: The Early Rose variety was planted May 10; the loam, nnmanured and mod Each plot consists of a single row fifty feet in length. The rows were four feet apart, and the seed was dropped eighteen inches apart in the row. Below is the yi Id in pounds: Yidd. Yield 2 5 4 131 11 125 pa 118 . 04 , Cultivated in ridges, SY Potatoes less than an average-sized hen's egg are classed as small. It ap pears that medium-sized potatoes, cut to two eves, and two pieces to the hill, give the best results; that deep planting and flat culture did the best. These experiments, if they do nothing more, point out to our readers the advantage of such trials, and we hope there will grow among farmers a disposition to make annually similar tests in the cul ture of any and every farm crop. Much Cheap Pertitizers, Nearly every farmer goes to the near est village to trade, visit a mechanic or { obtain his letters and papers, at least | once a week. He often takes a load to market, but he rarely brings one home. He can, with very little trouble, haul a | 1 ad of material that may be obtained for nothing, and which will be of great benefit to his land. Most village peo- ple make no use of the eshes produced in their stoves or of the bones taken from the meat they consume, Scarcely any brewer has any use for the hops 1hat have been boiled in his vats, and the blacksmith hardly ever saves the | clippings he takes from the feet of horses. All these materials make ex- cellent manure. A barrel of shavings ent from the hoofs of horses more ammonia than is contained { Jond of stable manure. Applied to | land, without preparation, they might give no immediate results, but they | would become decomposed in time and crops of all kinds would derive benefit { from them. | that they would produce immediate ro. sults, By covering them with fresh | horse manure they will decompose very | rapidly. They may also be leached in | 8 { It stimulates the growth of tomatoes, rose and emits no offensive odors. A vast amount of fertilizing materials is wasted in towns thet farmers could obtain the of with little k Herald benefit New } very Heclpes, Baxen Yoraroes, Haw pared and sliced very thin, put into a pudding dish and eovered with milk, | sprinkled with pepper and salt and a tablespoonful of flour previously mixed | with a little milk, baked until | browned, from thirty to fifty minutes | Those fond add a few slices, | Axel Cake Beat the whites of eleven eggs stiff, then add one anda half oupfuls powdered sugar, and one teaspoonful vanilla, Bift four times ond cupfal flour, and teaspoonful | sream-tartar sifted four times; add the | four and eream-tartar, and beat lightly mt thoroughly, Bake in dish with the minutes, potatoes i y. 1 HICeN of onions ean i one « f | an earthen center stem in forty Braginiax Tes Da. —Take ad about half an inch thick, cut off all crust, steep bread | little milk; when soaked through cover each piece with beaten egg yolk and fry with butter a light brown; then arrange the slices on a hot plate and ny on each piece a tolerably thick covering of pow dered sugar and cinnamon well min gle d. Oc slices of bir 3 tiie 18 Caxe on Boxs.~--One pound of flour, of butter, three-fourths pound of brown sugar, one pound car rants, four ounces candie d pres 1, three one ounce CgEs well beaten, one fourth ounce car bonate of soda, one-half pint of milk, warmed. Rub the buster in the flour, then stir in the sugar, sprinkle the car bonate of sugar over the mixture and mmediately add the milk and eggs, previously mixed together (the milk must have been warmed and the eggs well beaten), then add the currants and candied lemon, ent thin, Beat all to- gether with a strong spoon for ten min. utes. Have ready tins well buttered, | half fill them and put 1 into a brisk oven, hem direct Asranacrs Sovr,—Take half a han. dred of asparagus, boil it in a saucepan with three pints of stock free from fat When done the pound it in a mortar and pass it through Melt and 8 half { butter in a saucepan on the fire, and mix it with two tablespoonfals of flour, add a little sugar, pepper and , the asparagus palp and all the ' in whieh ti ASPATRZUS Was Let the whole boil up, adding as much more stock will make the soup of the right consistency. Then n little spinach greening, and a small pat of fresh butter, or stir wmlf a gill of cres Serve over small dice of bread fried in butter, I remove AEDATAZUN, A Hleve, about one Ounces oO the an in i“ Chinese Pirates, The towns tame highwayman, contain a due amount of bat the bold hectoring he trucunlent sea.robber, must be sought elsewhere, All along the Blue and Yellow rivers are found retail buccaneers, who hawk at a trifling quarry and flatten on slender profits These poor rogues do not aspire to a ship of their OWL, the y come pad Hing out of muddy crecks in the smallest of sampans, ill-armed, ill-clad, but ple fully smeared with fish oil. If man confronted they fly; iH grappled 1 the crews of the fourth-class junk which they select as prizes, they slip like s0 many eels through the bands that grasp them, and their swimming makes amends for their lax o Seldom do any very sinister results fol- low one of these attacks. If the fresh. water pirates prove victorious they are mild conquerors, and only too eager to be on shore again with their booty of rice and corn, stray garments, odd frag- ments of chain, bits of copper and brass hastily ripped from the poop and cabins, and perhaps the glorious trophy of a few rattling strings of cash. The dol- lars and silver bars are generally too well hidden to be detected by such hurried searchers; food rather than fortune is the object of rare cases of remarkable t«mptation, no life is attempted and no torture resorted to. With these am. phibious petty-larceny rognes the mag- istrates deal mildly, according to the traditions of Chinese justice. Three hundred strokes of the bamboo may be endured by the human frame. Four sleepless weeks in the “‘cangune,” or bamboo pillory, may fail to madden a stolid, unimaginative ocoolie. A few minor tortures need only to be added to these two first-named inflictions, and the culprit is thought to have been most tenderly dealt with. DPilferers in a fair or the streets of a town are con sidered as still more venial offenders. A vigorous bastinado and a week of the pillory is the Jaw's award in such trivial cases. Potty assaults are as leniently disposed of, but fire-raising is a sin of deeper dye; and the malicious piercing of a neighbor's dike, to lot in a devas tating flood, is punished with extreme rigor. Murder and treasonable prac- tices, wholesale piracy and armed brigandage all ery alond for death, more or less slow and painful, and par ricide evokes the sternest chastisement of the Chinese, as it once did of the Roman law, AU the Year Round, x clioats, sntl- nl ” all 'Y 8, AUTRE, ————— Deaths by Lightning, Reports of death by lightning during the recent heavy storms are rapidly coming in, and it will be interesting to onr readers to know that after all there is not much in the old saying, when a man is very unlikely to have any par ticular thing happen to him, that his chances of meeting it are about as good as his chance of being struck by hight. ning. According to the last published census of the United States (that of 1870), lightning alone disposed of more of our fellow-citizens in that year than came to their death through yellow fever, gout, scurvy, hydrophobia—of which there is now so much dread chorea, cancer of the mouth, ealeulus, Addison's disease, carbuncle, lead pois- oning, or suicide by cutting the throat or drowning ; nearly as many as were killed by explosions, and about one- fourth as many as died of the so called American disease, dyspepsia. The sta jistics are as follows : Deaths by light. ning, 202; by yellow fever, 177; by bia, (3; by chorea, 76; by cancer of the mouth, 1656; by caleulus, 109; by Addison's disease, 12; by cardbuncle, 168 ; by lend poisoning, 31; by dys. pepsin, 841; by explosions, 200; by suicide by cutting the throat, 133, and by suicide by drowning 119. Large. however, as is the number of deaths by 722 comes The “light- ning-rod man,” who does most of his business in rural sections, and who is the standing butt of country journals, may be a nuisance, yet he evidently is | the number of lives and the amount of | property destroyed every year by the | New York World, ascents than for several summers past. life of Queen Victoria. SCLENTIFIC NOTES, Buufl js generally to keep il moist, preserved in lead Hydroge 1 gas is the Lights sl ponder able matler know 0. Oxalie acid is found in the common sorrel and rhubarb plants, Gun cotton is made by dipping the fiber into strong nitrie acid, The bricks of Nineveh and Babylon were only sun-dried, not baked, as is the modern practice, Ne WICroseope shows the hair to be teeth extremely irregular and ragged, Black and white pepper both grow on same shrub. The white is the berry grinding of its outside ih Lie husk, Flectrie lighting is in snecessful ope. ration on more than sixty steamers of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, It is believed to add much to the safety of that kind of trafliec and traveling. : A new material has lately been com pounded of leather cuttings soaked in hot water to remove the oil. The cut. tings are then dried, ground to powder, prosse d into molds and used for buttons, boot hee is, ele, t is said that Dr. Gehring, of Land shut, in Bavaria, by means of an enam- eling liguid, renders any species of stone or Larder than granite I'he process, it is farther reported, ad mits of being applied to metal, which is completely protected from rust, Smootl cement sirong y and pliable parel an be made from the palmetto of Florida and the Bouthern Bates It ean be washed, rubbed and handled like a cloth, and tue writing will not be effaced. As much as sixty per cent. of the palmetto can be utilized in the pro Cess, Major Majendie maintains that gun- powder can be exploded with a wooden tool, and cites the following instances: At Bassinghyll gunpowder factory, on October 12, 1878, two men were remov- ing indurated powder from a mill bed by striking it with a wooden mallet, and it exploded and killed them. At Gate- beck, on June 2, 1877, a precisely simi- lar accident, attended with the loss of At the Lindal Moor mine a charge of gunpowder Was ex ploded while a man was forcing it into a hole in iron-stone with a wooden mal- et. A formidable explosion, which oe curred at the Roval Gunpowder mills, Wetteren, Belgium, on May 28, 1880, 1s tbuted in the official report to a man dragging a wooden vessel] full of powder a powder-begrimed floor, by nt Hi < Hig other one ] { yr YY y 3 10, ocurred. atir The many unlikely methods by which the seeds of plants are diffused over land and sea until they at length find a congenial spot for development, form an interesting and curious study. It is well known that bees carry pollen from flower to flower, and thus act not only as sowers of seed but also as fertilizers of the female plar 14. A curious stance of this kind has been given by a scientific man, who states ‘that sttached to the skin of a panther recently shot in India he found numerous seeds, each of which had two perfect hooks, appear ing as if designed to attach themselves to foreign bodies. As the panther moved abont it collected the seeds on the skin and carried them wherever it went, but when it rubbed against the shrubs the seeds were brushed fi and thus dis- ofl, st 3 . tributed. ¥ Dr. Richardson has in a late lecture described the principles which should guide architects and others in designing and constructing hospitals for the re ception and treatment of persons suffer- mg from smallpox and other infections diseases. He states on well considered grounds: 1. That each hospital should not be larger than is sufficient to ae- commodate twenty-four persons at one time. 2. That every hospital should be constructed on the separate system for the patients. That the material of construction should be iron, in order that the hospital mayat any time be ab- solutely purified by fire throughout with the least possible cost. 4 To secure direct ventilation and lighting from the roof, the hospitals proper should occupy the top stories of bumid- ings. All the air which passes out of wards should have an escapeonly through a vent so heated as to destroy all deleterious substances. 6. Each patient should be carried into the hos- pital by a valved elevator passing through a shaft so as to draw up air during its ascent, and to be capable of flushing the hospital with air, as occa sion may require, Begus Counterfeit Money, Among the swindles that have been very successful way be mentioned the bogus counterfeit money manufacturing The principal vietims of the swindlers are country people, to whom communications are sent by bogus firms in this eity offering to make them rich in a very short time. The swindler gen- erally begins by stating that he has on hand, ready for circulation, a large sum in one, two and five-dollar bills, which he claims are the best counterfeits ever put upon the market, and which he de- fies even treasuty experts to detect. He claims that they are of the same size of the genuine, are printed on first-class paper, are correctly numbered and are so exceedingly well executed in every respect that they cannot possibly be detected, even by the aid of a powerful microscope. He then offers to sell any amount of the bills for one-fifth the par value of the genuine, This often takes the eye of country people, who, in their anxiety to get suddenly rich, pay a visit to the office of the bogus firm in this city. The latter generally consists of three persons, one of whom meets the victim in the hall and offers to go into the office and let the firm know of his presence. The victim is left for a few minutes alone when another person comes out and inguires how much the gentleman wishes, ana tells him that it would never do to let him go into the office, as they occupy it in common with a man who is very suspicions, but he will bring him out any amount he wishes unobserved. This is satisfac- tory, and the scoundrel goes into the office and gets a package of paper abont the size that greenbacks would make of the amount ordered. The package is secnrely done up and sealed with the firm's name, and this is quickly ex- changed for genuine bills, the victim 3 Ws el wae 3 sDOPs. to open the package until he reaches home for fear of detection. As a rule the purchaser obeys the instructions to the letter, and is thunderstruek when he proceeds to display his wealth to his It is ot very little the * bogus firm ” is inaccessible except to fresh victims. The *‘sawdust game" is also used in this bogus counterfeiting scheme.—New York Herald. ———— Queen Victoria has conferred the Albert medal of the first class on Dr. town who was suffering from diphtheria, life afforded relief to the suffering A DANC NG PROCESSION, Mirange Perpetuntion of Si, Vitus’ Dance in Germany, A Berlin letter describes a curions spectacle as follows: Not far from these places of rendezvous for all nations of the civilized world a spectacle has been attraeting the euriosity of thousands whirl leads ns back to the depths of the middle ages, although it is repeated year by year. I am speaking of the village of Eehternach and its far-famed dancing procession. From 15,000 to 20,000 pilgrims—1I could not oblain more accurate informs- tion about the numbers—assemble on some meadows within the Prussian ter ritory, but close to the confines of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, The in- habitants of different villages—men and women apart—ecollect behind i clergymen, snd a band of music is placed in the front. As the clock strikes five on Tuesday morning in Whitsun- tide, a priest walks up the steps of a rude wooden pulpit and thence ad- dresses the multitude, then already swollen to an ineredible extent by sight- seers, who come by special trains and every imaginable vehicle to be present at the performances, { {The community which happens to be nearest the road stands forth, preceded by their priest, who, however, does not dance, Two men or two women ho away first two steps in advance, an then one backward, the band playing a most monotonous tune. * Abraham had seven sons, seven sons; seven sons had Abraham,” are the words to this terrible melody, which each successive set, as they join the procession, take up with increasing vigor. Hour after hour passes away before the last people have started on their miles of way to the foot of the Church of Bt. Willerod, whence the go up fifty steps. Nothing can ex the numbers of those who, in spite of an occasional dranght of water offered by charitable bystanders, sink down on the grass or on the dusty road not to rise for hours. The question is naturally asked: What does all this mean? The answer is: It is intended to perpetuste the remembrance of a frightful epidemic of Bt. Vitus’ Dance, which carried off hundreds of victims in the neighbor hood referred to some time during the fifteenth century; to offer up prayers and vows to the patron saint; to recog- nize a miraculous cessation of the epi- demic, and it is a fulfillment of vows then that, in gratitude, there should be vearly dances performed—two hops for- ward and one backward, as closely resem- bling the visitation from which heaven had delivered them as rhythm and good taste would allow. Daring the French occupation in 1793 the procession was forbidden, but the easy-going Dufch government of Luxembourg have allowed it to be re- vived. To judge from what could be seen this year of the drunkenness and debauchery in the namberless publie houses frequented by the pilgrims after their long fasting and exertion, Iam inclined to think it would have been better to have continued the prohibition. — How Japanese Fans are Made. As in meny otber branches of is carried out in the fanmaking trade. The bamboo ribs are made in Osaka and Kioto by private individuals in their own houses, and combinations of the various notches cut in the lower part are left to one of the finishing workmen, who forms the various pat- terns of the handle according to plans prepared by the designer. In like man- gravers the patterns which his expen. and when the different been cut, it still rests with him to say what colors are to be used for the two sides of each fan. In fact, this official holds, if not the best paid, at any rate the most important, position on the staff in ordinary. When the printed sheets which are to form the two sides of the fan have been handed over to the workman, together with the sets of bamboo slips which are to form the ribs, his first business is to fold the composed so that they will retain the crease, and this is done by putting them between two pieces of paper well saturated with oil and properly creased. The four are then folded together and placed under a heavy weight. When sufficient time has elapsed the sheets are taken out and the molds used again, the released sheets being packed up for at least twenty-four hours in their folds. 1he mext process is to take in order on a wire, and *‘set” them in their places on one of the sheets, after it has been spread out om a block and woodwork adhesive powers, and that ing the remaining sheet of paper. The fan has to be folded npand opened three or four times before the folds take the proper shape; and by the time the fan is put up to dry it has received far more handling than any foreign paper could stand; indeed, foreign paper has been tried, and had to be given up as unsuitable for the work; but with great care the Osaka fan- makers have been able to make some fans with printed pictures which have been sent over from America, though they were invariably obliged to use one face of Japanese paper. The qualities of native paper now used are not nearly so good as those of which the old fans were made, snd, in consequence, the style of manufacture has had to be changed. Instead of first pasting the two faces of the fan together and then running in pointed ribs, the ribs are square, and are pasted in their places in the manner described above. The outside lacquered pieces and the fancy work are all done in Osaka and Kioto, and some of the designs in lacquer on bone are really artistic; but the de- mand for the highly ornamented deserip- tion of fans is not sufficient to encour- age tho production of large quantities of first-class work. When the insides are dry the riveting of the pieces to- gether, including the outer covering, 1s rapidly done, and a dash of varnish quickly finishes the fan. — Public Opinion. ee —————— “ What kind of a house do you want *" asked the architect, “Oh,” replied the citizen, wearily, “I don’t want a house at all. I just want you to build me one hundred and thirty closets in a tier, and put a roof over the top tier. I want to put up a house that will contain enough closets to satisfy my wife.” But the architect, who was a man of broad put a thousand closets in a tier and the house big enough for a cat to turn The number of postoffices in the Uni- ted States has increased 1,486 in the past year. ) A ; ul i 5 And soarlet, and copper, and nltramarine, You're the gayest grashofiper that ever I've Where sre you going to? Whers lave you been 7 | DIA the hot sun from a dewdrop create you? | 1s there a brillianter being to mate yon ¥ Is natare pledged with her last son fo fute you? | Does sll the joy in the world wait you ? | on, king of creation! Small bridegroom of i Jane! | Oh, white spark thrown off from the white best of noon ! | Musician who findeat the whale world in tune i Dry drinker, good fellow, pray great me a boon, | Tell me, If { in (ho fields were to live, now, { To leap over leaves and ‘mong lilies $0 dive, | now, | To revel, and take sore gay girl to wive, now | Aud give up sli thought how to stedy and : slrive, pow, ' Tut lie in the grass, on the brink of the river, Singing —would such a fine life last forever? Would summer ne'er go? Would I ne'er have to shiver In the winter's cold blasts for my lack of endeavor? : What? You say that the summer is not Ye sgoing— That you do not fesl winter's breath yet s-blowing: That roses can ouly be sipped while they'e That, [i harvest ‘tis better be reaping than ~ Roger Riordan, in “eribner, HUMOR OF THE DAY, A marriage at sea is an ocean tied, The carpenter likes it; so does the editor—good adze, “Sleeping out loud” is the latest child definition for snoring. : The young man who gave vp drink. ing to propitiate his wisely eon- cluded that a miss is as good ass smile. There is going to be another comet — hold on, don’t dodge yet; it's the comet of 1744, and it is only expected around once every 122,653 years. — : ; “Brotus was an honorable man" He never mixed hair oil with Mare Antony's salid, por did he borrow ('wsar’s wife for picnic company.— New York News, worthy of note, is that one plate isn't enough for two young souls and the price remains the same.— Wheeling Sun- day Leader. A Victoria (Vancouver Island) Chisa- | man having thrashed a white man who {had neglected to pay his “washee- | washee” bill, the Colonist indignantly exclaims: “Things have come to a pretty pass in this free country when a Chinaman can dun a white man with impunity.” dwell- An exchange prints a long explaining * How to perfume a jug It's too expensive. Tied ickest way to perfume s is hii a herd of codfish or roast a few onions. They go right —and linger around the spot for a con- siderable length of period. — Norristown Herald. The great excitement among the scheol children of New Haven must now is vaccination. “Bee here, my man,” said tho attending physician, “ you were r . did you come again for to-day?" “Oh,” and he shufled bis toe around on the floor, “I wanted to hear the soreech.”— New Haven Register. Nothing can reach out further cough at church. It may come the remotest corner in the rear, but echo tickles the throat of those in and then creeps ‘down the aisle and touches the ushers, and floats from the choir to the minister, and never releases its hold until it has wrung a sym explosion from every vietim. | you've noticed it.— Meriden Recorder. An engineer examined not long since | in an arbitration case was asked : “How long have you been in your profes- | sion?” * Twelve years." you thoroughly acquainted with your work, twelve years?” “The man iron badsteads.” ODDITIES. Sse Thimbles were an invention of the Dutch. The order of Knight Templars was instituted in about 1117-1118, You will never “find” time for any- thing. If you want time you must make it. : In perceiving the tints of searlet, our eyes are affected by undulations recur ring 482,000,000 times a second. French graves are sometimes decor ated with wreaths of black and white borsehair—selected for its durability. At a prize exhibition for India mus. lins, a piece ten yards long and ome yard wide weighed less than four ounces. Among the Athenians the perforation of the ears was a mark of mobility: with the Hebrews and Romans it indicated servitude, One species of ants in New Mexico | construct their nests of some stones of | one material chosen from the varions | components of the sand. | Dogs in a state of natare never bark, | they whine or growl. The explosive noise is only found among those which | have been domesticated. The poison of & rattlesnake is as fatal to the snake itself as to anything else. One having accidentally struck its fang into its own side died in a few hours. Bone-black possesses the singular property of completely absorbing the color of almost any vegetable or animal solution, and of rendering quite ecclor- less the water charged with it. The original of * Mary had a little lamb” was written Mr. Jobn Roulstone, of Boston, proprietor of a popular riding school, sixty ey ro, ** Mary," the owner of the b, is now Mrs, Tyler, of Somerville, Mass. The lamb, if now living, is supposed to be pretty tough mutton. The race of gypsies appeared in Ger- many in 1517, having quitted Egypt when attacked by the Turks. An act was made against their iticerancy in Eogland in 1530, and in the reign of Charles I. thirteen ns were were executed for associating with gyp- gies, contrary to the law. The phrase ** dead ss a herring ” may be traced to the fact that the herring is an extremely delicate fish, and when- ever it is taken out of the water, even though it Seems to have no hurt, it gives a squeal aud immedi fel} expites and oh it be thrown i ely back into the water it never recovers. How Raisins are Made in Culiforaia, In Mr. Blower's vineyard, Yolo coun- ty, the grapes are allowed to remain on the vine until of a golden color and translucent. They are then picked and put on wooden trays two by three feet 1n size, placed between the rows, slop- ing to the sun. When half dried they are turned by putting a tray on top, and by inverting them both are transferred to the new tray. When the new grapes lose their ashy appearance, and after removing the green ones, the rest are put into large sweat-boxes, Jiaeing sheets of paper between every twenty- five pounds of raisins. They are left there for two weeks, when the stems are tough and the rais ms soft. The packing follows, in which iron or steel ki used, the raisins be. inspected aud
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