— THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT. Behold the palace reared by daedal}Jack. See the malt stored in many a plethorie sack, In the proud cirque of Ivan's bivouac. Mark whore the rat's felonious fangs invade The golden stores, in John's pavilion laid. Anon with velvet steps and Tarquin strides, Subtle Grimalkin to Bis quarry glides; Grimalkin grim, who slew the flerce rodent, Whose teeth insidious Johan's sackeloth rent. Lo, now the deep-mouthed canine foe's as sault, That vexed the avenger of thestolen malt, Btored in the hallowed precincts of that hall, That rose complete at Jack's creative call. Here stalks the impetuous cow, with crum- pled horn, Whereon the exacerbating | Who bayed the feline slaug slew The rat predaceous, whose keen fan through : The textile fibres that involved the grais That lay in Hans inviolate domain, ound was torn, | hter-beast, that gS Tan Here walks the forlorn damsel, crowned with rue, Lactiferous spoils from vaccine dugs drew Of that corniculate beast horn Tossed to the clouds, scorn, The baying hound, and stir Arched the lithe spine and raised the in dignant f Of puss, that wi Struck wier m Lay reeking malt, thag WE saw. Robed in sooth Too long a prey to Kron Behold the man, whose sling , who 3 whose tortuous fierce vir dict ve whose braggart bark | the aw ZONesCen Full « To the | Drew albu-l Of that imm Distort, t« The beast Ulysses quad The old mo Even as he kissed the Who milked the cow wit That wrath skied Who dared to ve Who let a al effluenc Of that sly rat, ti had yg in flerce i X the ud cantanker The I Inst Whose <h Indian Arrow Poison. How Deadly Weapons are Made from Snakes, Insects and Putrid Meat. Of the three poisons prepared by ti Moqui of Ti-ki-le-] given iuter: in name The this wise : ally t powder or bevond its T poison ‘1 unt it the point, well as § shaft, into the bl 18 si; serpent. If from such an arrow w four davs circumstances, and time if the vietim had been fasting { a day or two, Indian is frequently found even in of The pared from the after being turbed bry withes The insects are then gathered and crushed from three to a condition in whi peace. second variety ich, dis. ‘** Humbie Bee.” wh by struck maddened being the and branches, is nest and at il Lin killed, in a primitive stone mortar, where the macerated, after in thoroughly which the anointed manner similar the preceding, Wounds are not liable to cause danger- ous results, although they become ex- inflamed and very painful, the third mass is AITOWS are i to ceedingly the effects being attributable to presence of formie acid, The variety is prepared by crushing a num- ber of large red ants—a variety found all over the northem elevated areas in a similar manner as the preceding, and in which the arrows are dipped. This poison is not necessarily a fatal one, thougl, instances have been given ! on “Indian aathority.’’ The persent writer has treated wounds caused by this insect in several instances, when great constitutional disturbances resuit- ed in a short time, followed by inflammea- ton in an aggravated form and some- times accompanied by delirium. The Apaches occupying the habitable areas of Arizona, immediately south of the Moqui Pueblos, prepare a poison composed of the venom of the rattle- snake mixed with the decomposed liver of a deer or antelope, The modus operandi could not be ascertained in detail, though it is probable that the method may be similar to that formerly practiced by the Teton Dakota, among whom the writer has witnessed the ceremony. A rattlesnake was searched for at one of the prairie-dog towns, and to prevent its escape and vet not to injure it. An assistant would then pierce a deer’s liver, which had been procured for the purpose, and upon toward the serpent, who would repeat- edly bury its fangs, In this manner the snake refused destroyed. to bite again, The liver was then placed upon a tall, upright pole, where it in a small dish, when the arrows were dipped into the mass and allowed to dry, Poisoned arrows were carried in double quivers and tied together with a black piece of cloth to distinguish them from the harmless ones, Serpent venom was employed by the Siris of Western After a or Senora, small exca- cow's liver was introduced together After for a while with the hope that the liver teasing these creat receive most of the venom dis- charged during their angry struggles it was removed and crushed into a jelly, Apache arrows which have been prop- erly besmeared with poison are readily t1 ui ie arrow head. t latter also presents the same appearan ail compose, 1 Jame ™M even the Blackfeet rocure the ured The pure s 2a Be bark. oC applied snake to bite ean piece of Arrows were directly {o +1 without the admixture of any of hw - Ff Sul slances, Clips. The T'nion Medicale states that the at tempt at acclimatization of the tea plant in the Infertenre Grafts on the camellias have borne well, At Messina, Sicily, the 3-year-old plants are very vigorous and have an abund- ance of leaves, 3 ' aus 18 BOCCessiN. Loire The deepest mine in the world, aceord- ing to Profesor H. Hoefer,, is the Przi bram silver mine, in Bohemia. The lowest depth is 3300 feet below the sur- face, Observations upon Russian railways show that for the period of six months 77 per cent, of the fracture of tires oc- cured when the temperature was below zero, 4 per cent al zero, and only 10 per cent at higher temyerature, Governor Ireland, of Texas, has ad- vised in a message to the Legislature that vaccination be made compulsory in that State, It is proposed in Pazis that a medical service formed for the purpose of ascer- taining what chronic or constitutional diseases affect the teeth, eves or cars of the pupils in the pubie schools, and of devising suitable remedies for thy ail. ments, Hell Gate is tobe lighted by electricity fom a tower 250 feet high at Hallett's Point, and containing lights of 20,000 candle-power, which are to be displayed from sundown to sunrise, when discovered was secured to the | For the Fair Sex. mp——“— CRIMPING PINS AND CURL PAPERS. {| —Bir Arthur Helps, in one of his de- | lightful books, remarks ‘‘that we all our best for those at home,’ j of a truth, we all ought to take more | eyes that see us every day, In Hannah More, and Miss Edge- | worth’s stories, the untidy young lady her family with her curl papers like a bristling forest about her head. As | of curl papers we have crimping pins almost universally adopted by the young | ladies of our generation. *‘‘But.” says one, “who is to me? Who have on S06 { notice or care for what 1 : I look 7’! ‘'See?” ‘‘eare ?'—why, the dearest eyes in all i how “notice #7? the world. | pleasure we can bestow in our homes by special efforts to look beauti- ful. Did ever that most | people are more amiable when they are than at MO and Own notice You other iteve | becoming!y dressed * It Yh Hny { time is ce whi ! the h t=AiilY Case ft LO Ix - cox] when one looks pret- phie May, rirls, in one of her makes her heroine ! whi i the Nn every A great Concer: i mods rate hiould produee a happy a home farm life, -—— Big Lumps of Gold. Nuggets That Were No Pocket- Pleces Found in Sierra County California, The followii ben 8 a 11st & sty raed founda 18th of WX August, piece of gold was taken from the 1860, tz De, Mera toy 230 06 The solid t ’ R. i. Woodwa tl. of A was taken from the rainbow qu 's 1 { 5 cle pth Ot B+. Foon 3 cisco, for 221,638.52, fine sp Ariz mine, Chipg Bin . nl, Ins]. It in f irom d feet, San taken two hundr The specimen was on exhibition in ster shipped It Oo a nngget was found at Francisco. 1. Wis London and worked there. yielded S20 000, In 18 It considerable quartz which is not calen- lated in its weight. In 1851. at French Ravine, a nugget found which weighed 426 ounces and was valued at A nugget Minnesota valued at 25. and was worth 210.000, Was £1000), been found at 000, ed 203 ounces of gold, worth $4703, At Smith's Flat, in 1866, a piece of gold was taken from a elaim which was worth £2716, and weighed 146 ounces. At Smith's Flat, in 1864, a nugget was found weighing 140 ounces and worth $2605. At Little Grizzly Diggings, in 1860, a nugget worth 22000 was found. A nugget weighing 94 ounces and valued at $1770 was found at the Hope claim, four miles below the Mountain House, At French Ravine, in 1860, a nugget was found worth $2767 and weighing 98 ounces. At Smith's Flat, in 1861, a nugget was found which weighed 0 ounces and was valued at £1500, From 1864 to 1862 twelve gold nug- gets, ranging from 30 to 147 ounces, were taken from the Live Yankee claim at Forest City, From 1856 to 1862 a num- ber of gold nuggets, varying from 30 to 100 ounces, were found in the Oregon claim at Forest City, A specimen worth $5000 was taken from the Oriental (Gold Gate) quartz mine, The total of Golden Gate mine is estimated at £200,- 000, The mine has been worked to depth of only 300 feet, | Aids to Digestion. | Beene in a doctor's office :—** How { long will it take you to cure me, doo- | tor?” ** Well, Mr, Blank, I think you { can gel back to your desk at the bank in about a month, but you will have | to remain under treatment for several years.” ‘* But you mistake : IT am not | Mr. Blank, the banker, but Mr. Blank. | the letter-carrier.” “Ob. that | the case. There is nothing the matter You alters { with you but a little biliousness, { will be well in a week. she wept, the poor laundress, on re shirts, | had entrusted her with six | fessed the ie the rixth mind,” savs { turning five when her patron and con- had burned a big hole while ‘* Never her kindly, | ** Christmas comes but once a vear, and | that'll be all right. How much do I owe your" i in Honing. customer "Six shirts at 124 cents I Sav. “ Well, hadn't 1 washed it before 1 (ro along wid each--70 cents.” jut, | bu pose I did ; Vou rned one of ‘em up.” up- { burned y You, trying widow." f amused | to chate a poor, disconsolate \ Nevada man who was carried hal avalanche ie by 4 snow i himselt tin~ h that ave ] during the journey by eal sure to LAT He must h Hin | ting the pre t} : 3 Lilt wy tibet eal 4 siibiected to, 3 tia x VO Li Whose Going Out of Existence. the road itself rem Mr. Colket was a on the rod New ( . De I in Maryland, a link in ths line of travel from ast le AWAre renchtown between Philadelphia and Baltimore roin i road Passengers took steamboat tl rail ania, 1 16 adelphia to New ( . TH.: ih thence to Frenchtown miles, fii at L408 I we believe), steamboat again to Baltimore, The New Railroad has under forty ever saw it, and very few of any age know, in fact, that | existed i Castle and Frenchtown ceased to exist, NO man it ower Very many of our lay readers are un- aware, perhaps, of the origin of “bal. 1ast.” signifring broken stone, ete. , weed under and between the tiesof a railroad for surfaring and steadying the track. This old road revives our boy- hood recollection. In former times, vessels coming to Philadelphia “in ballast,” discharged it near New Castle ; and when the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad was completed, so far as laying the track was concerned, the large piles of ballast near the former place was utilized on the road; and from this circumstance, stone so used has passed into a techhi- eal term in railroad engineering, to signify the material used in railroad construction for the purpose aforesaid, we Brym Mawr (Pa.) Home News. EIavel, — It is said that the finest sleeping cars in the country are those which run into New Orleans, and that fully four-fifths of them are equipped with paper wheels, costing $00 each, or $1080 a car, -» IL is true dat a dog is a mighty grate. ful animal, but he'll move mach quicker for a frown than he will for a smile. Pious Sentiment. A better than great | Star light is better than no light. little knowledge is ignorance, is Mgher than intellect. stron well as strong to think, § heaven's Character A great soul will be or g to live as | 10 you have any faith, give me, for share of it! Your doubts vou may keep to yourself, for I | sake. a have plenty of my own. In of does prosper marvelously, spite all man’s miraculously ; n spite of all, God is stronger than the wisdom rer than va} 13 . i } devil, life stronger than death, stronger than folly, order strong disorder, f{ruitfulness stronger than bn nore, Christ destruction ; and they will the last have put and death is Lill great day, when shall all enemies feet swalls WE tory, and all mankind in one fold, under one Shepherd Jesus Christ, the right King COs I ng ol all, No Tears in Heaven child his eel wer frame ghive © Linre FP Weak sobered a red work, but Ths st for HIOKATO WA He me wis offe too broken. rE 1 Yost v 10 JONKY] were 1 t t his ra wos offered a gs and felt his 1 months, he “1 shall not want it. shame When it I looked the money 1 for first time ir was handed him waived back and said : ask, low shall {hat give me a single lind.» “It know little favor.” be “When I am dead then turn a The craftsman, ono rranted.”’ you rule and again on the current of time, was to be the end. Recently a copy of the weekly reached the Free Press with a proof that the editor had fulfilled his promise. He had turned the rule for the poor wreek, and had given him the line as follows : TEE ET ETT “Died, Sept. 27, 1882, George White," “i Government Profit on Coinage. Some Curious Facts Relating to Unredeemed Obligations of the Government, A considerable source of | rofit to the United States Goverument is the amount of paper money and coin, which is never presented for redemplion. Much of this is destroyed by fire: some of it is buried and hidden in places known to no per sons alive. A large quantity of the coin is melted to make sterling silver ware. Considerable amounts of both paper money and coin are exported, never to return, Not long’ ago a Uni. ted States bond, issued about 1810, wus presented at the subetreasury in New York city, The interest on it had It had come through Baring oustanding principal back from irothers, Europe The last year was nearly two billions It HOw Treasury notes. woild be, of course much of this will i reception, but sorne idea may be formed from the fact that ti impossible to AY B57.065 of it was issued so long ago of in the 1% item of 882 525 of ji issued + nog, st : ¥ ail. the date it IE not recorded, Appears req as “old debt ** that may v Ix There is an 8 jes put as profit, Treasury ie ved ni Q them were near pr receni and w in all presen VY was issued un- ne 6, 1864, yet although have elapsed, press nted for s held as a iil used by transmitting al New York new their from it ilver dol- Try 13.75 costs one ~~ FLIRT IT 100.000 i= its erfeiting. vil itd . je of Was mas and i terfeiter “a whe [180 aliers rated De mockin® bird © CIo AIWHNE « ompli- Ww. t reteelnber dat he IIT OY HH Corn. (al @ man vole a white % an. Ix SWE Hes fe ant confined | ter de graceful shape. De muley cow 18 monstrous ugly, but ful i] 6 i 131% Ih she gives power sometimes De martin insecks, but he harm is f i un’ | makes war wil de A great deal | "complished in d good, i v-bee in his bill of fare, } hy polished mole is bh de most animal { cludes de hon Don’t IMANNEers, young mighty slick, b underminin’ | Kingdom. Ua onestly man, iN hea wm bers Oise ob de —— Hit Crace srd His Honor. Justice Huddlestone, who tried the recent libel case of Belt, the scultpor, in London, began life as a school- master, went to the Bar, entered Par- liament as a conservative, was always “echafed' as a “tult-hunter.” married a lady of title, got a Judgeship, and is éven now declared to be unduly im- pressed with the overwhelming im- portance of aristocratic society, The clubs are fastening upon him a charac teristic aneedote, Going out to dinner recently he learned that an illustrious Duke was to be of the party. As he encountere i the buther in the hall he slipped half a sovereign into his hand, saying : “I have a few spocial words tos say to the Duke; eontrive that | sit next to him.” “Thauk vou,” said the butler, returning his money, “his Grace: bas just given me a sovereign te plies you at the other end of the room.’ The Puke knew his man,
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