THE SACRIFICE OF ERTY TREE, THE LIB - BY MARY A. P. STANSDURY, Twas seventeen bh year our fathers sealad The charter of their many a field A time of dar} hope so That tho DIR inddred and seventy-six, the liberties with | Upon their is hral The mer Flang from wind an Their ple bon Up through “Now. by mv faith there's a g Twer © Wool DeLicton and one-hal a pint of wl teaspoonsful one teasp togethe r molasses sufficie nt i to make handle, egg or fav Jake at once Haumnono Take two p part i and nhs $ turning them them rare. Ser Russian sauce Care and Management of Tools, The ment machine shop, tracted from an articls in the Tradesman, will prove of value to those intereste this subject, For much of the boring done ina ma following points on the manage of a which are ex- d in automatic feed, can be used to very great advantage: it has been found much more convenient than a boring lathe, and fully a8 efficient. A machine of this class should net be used for ordinary rough drilling: this may be performed upon a lighter and cheaper machine, For light drilling, a small, press, with hand feed, is suitable, By puiform dismeter throughout, melading the shanks, the necessity of having a set of drills for each drill press is avoided, Every machine shop should be pro vided with a tool room, but this does not necessarily imply that all of the tool should be kept there or returned each time after being used: this, in cases, incurs a great loss of time, in the case of which are seldom but it does not appiy in the case cold chisels, wrenches, room should, of all tools used in the rale should be observed large, valuable tools used, of small drills, tool duplicates However si far as possible, + regular system nuts, solid wren W hie 1 should be observed in the sizes of we 3 ip DOLLS, Sd ft used upon them ver in lar Kind of Shell Fish, idea ot tht hie avs practi ally and turnips, they thes with drink autumn winter, } (ding on water, Bird's Migratory Ine stinct, The migration of birds stinct. But this instinct overcome and suppressed, On the roof of the City Hall in Donanwoerth ( Ba- varia, fn couple of storks have a nest which they have not left for three years, The first time they remained because there was a young bird to weak to fly south. The parent birds were not will ing to leave their little one nd stopped to feed it. They liked the winter and have stopped in their nest ever since ; hav. | rear young every year, all of whom left when the wld season tame and the rest | of toe storks departed for the south, Bat | the old couple remain and do not seem | to have any worse health for being ex. posed to the cold northerly winters on a high house top.—-[Boston Advertiser, Overcoming » is due to in. may be easily NOTES AND COMMENTS, apne are nearly 200,000 miles of rail i United States And yet the within the memory of mid in the ged men whe the « 10,000 miles i8 OX posed open the wounds | sves of the again began ake anchoring Now p iments Prop sed to m 3 n i towards dunes and st tall growth upon them have succeed « irting a permanent veg Such experiments France and Holland and may rescue one of the most interes in L, ¢ i towns of Massachusetts from desola Tue Grand Canon of the Colorado has been penetrated by a regular excursion line is to be started this year or the next. Hitherto it has been supposed that the Colorado in this stupendous chasm was impassable, al though it is true that explorers went down the tortuous river as far as the Catamet Canon in a small boat, Inspired by the success of the trip, a company was organized last year to run a line of boats through the Grand Canon, A trip was begun with a small stenm. yacht, which was launched in the tributary Green River about the middle of August, It was not a suecess, the water proving too shallow in places, and the propeller breaking, In April of this year another attempt was made. In order to provent disaster to the propel ers, heavy iron shields were fastened below them and to the stem, and the The steamers to be used | company will draw only twenty i i | be | the | Airiiy and The {eet of Ww very small Malor » Ly 1a ater, NOCOSE pioneer bont first River pW this thy voyage { REMARKABLE MINES, One Whose Are GOO Feet Under the Ocean, Galleries On the Sargasso dea, the sup Kept 111 v ti tii sirenm Ir giving the much wi r Arca than Humboldt did and than our maps usually It has been wintered some two or three hundred miles northeast of darbadoes: but whether the wel is solely carried from the West Indies and ais ply is K rununel 18 of Nargaeso NOH 0 RIN ¥ portmy. one | the Gulf is perhaps open to doubt, | Louis Star Savings, A Vain Desire, Alas! In a note to the editor of the Critic Col. TT. W. Higginson incidentally says: a Book which should be wholly free from typographical die without accomplishing it. Nor is it meh of a consolation to know that my {old friend, the late Prof. Longfellow, after having the proofs of his ‘Dante’ read by at least threo different persons, finally received the published book with delight at the breakfast table, and at once opened upon a very serious misprint,” The exports of mineral oil during Juoue were of the value of 82,472,761: in June, 180], $4,000,516. i i ! i FOR THE CHILDREN. A FAMOUS BARGAIN, i fede fis 1 nage ii trade, ch one made; Five vou So mim bh that vi ficher than your brother Then he gave him gold flocks, and made him so brother's fortune could not pared with his, When the brother heard of all and how a turnip had made the himself how he conld 7 gitrive to get the game good fortune for himself, How. ever, he determined to mahage mony cleverly than his brother, and go gether a rich present of gold and for the King, and though must have a much larger gift in ret horees . be worth, : The King took the gift very graciously, and sald he knew not what to foturn more valuable and wonderful than the great turnip, so the eoldior was forced to put it into n cart and deag it home with dm, | Brooklyn Uitizen, PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS, Epitome of News Gles Told In a Dream. Watts, the di ’ present mode of il house, i { and soot y ' howe unwels ke wae vith “the they were fumbling 1 shot utiful globules of polished, in und his companions ha Ler. In the morning Watts remembered curious dream, and it obtruded itself on his ming all day. He began wonder what shape moiten lead would assume in failing through the and finally, to sot his mind at he ascended to the top of the or. were reams, f which boys,” and home it tome « i one o oul as i Tal began shine that he to seek shel- stich numbers tedeliffe and dropped slowly and reg- the moat below. Descending, he took from the bottom of the shallow pool several handfuls of the most per Watts’ ploit emanated the idea of the shot facture of the little missiles so ime portant in war and snort.
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