Heaven's Harvest-Home. In the happy harvest fields, oh, what gladsome singing! Men and maids and ohlldreu joining in the strain, For in merry triumph they are homeward bringing. Poppy-wreathed and loaded high, the last harvest wain. 10ver now the sowing and the reaping, Earth has given her fruits into our keep • irgt Over now the labor and the doubting. We are bringing home the harvest, shoo t lng, Harvest-home! harvest-home ! In a silent upper room a sad household kneel ing, Weeping, praying, bnt, alas! unoomforted, Though a sense of rapture through the room is stealing Ae the waiting angels guard well the dying bed.' Waiting till aomo mighty word Is spoken; Waiting, with some marvelous sweet token. Till, amid the praying and the weeping, break* the harvest song of Death's great reaping-- The spirit's harvest-home. Weeping mortals only beard Jnst a gentle sigh ing. Just a latter, as of wings, stir the still warm air; Only heard a whisper, "Pray, few she is dy ing" Only heard the broken words of that parting prayer. But the angels heard a mighty singing, Heard it through the endless spaces ring ing, Heard above earth's* tumult and her weep- Heaven rejoicing, for one spirit keeping, Through all her golden streets, a harvest home. A PERFECT TREASURE. THE arOBT OF A PIiCCKT WOMAN. One day Frank came home with n ook of triumph. "I have a perfect treasure for you," he said, "in the way of a nurse. Ger ald Temple is going to take his family to Europe, and when he heard what you wanted, offered to let na have their nnrse, whom they will not want." I heard a low aigh. Virginia, Frank's only sister, had been sitting in a corner of the drawing-room, bbe rose now and slipped out "How could yon, Frank?" I said, following her with sad eyes. "I have never heard your sister speak of the Temples since she has lived with as; the very mention of their names brings back the memory of Qerald'a brother, and all that sad tragedy." " I am sorry," said Frank, " but I did not know that she was in the room. Poor Virginia I" "Yes, poor Virginia 1" I said to myself Bnt once the blithest, loveliest little creature I ever knew. It is something of a story, but 'tis "an o'er true tale," and I will tell it in the shortest way I mm. Virginia and Frank were orphans, and old Mrs. Chichester, their grandmother, had adopted Virginia almost from her infancy. The old lsdy had very ambi tions hopes of making a splendid match for her beantifnl grandchild. Bnt Vir ginia thought otherwise; and when she was jast seventeen, st the time of my wedding, she and Langley Temple were insane enough to fall desperately in love with ee3h other. Langley was Frank's most intimate friend, and the pair met ormtinuslly at our house until Grandma Chiebester found it out. After a while Langley was ordered to his ship (be was in the nary); bnt Frank waged bat tle with grandma until be obtained a reluctant consent that the lovers might correspond. Grandm* took pains not to let Frank know how Virginia was tormented and tyrannised dver, until the poor child consented to go ont into society again; and there she met and made ready eon quest of the very man whom grandma had intended for her beauty—Horace Kent. Virginia refused him; bnt grand ma said, scornfully, " that made no dif ference. She would come to her senses soon." and to my niter amazement the trousseau went on, and by-and-by we were bidden to the wedding—a quiet, elegant affair, where Virginia walked and talked as if she were frozen. Frank and I confessed to each other that night that the basineaa passed our comprehen sion, for we had no idea then of foul play. Kent and Virginia were to sail for Europe within a fortnight of their mar riage, and went to Washington and Bal timore to pass that time. Left alone one evening in Baltimore, with a severe headache, Virginia remembered to have sera some aromatic vinegar in her hus band's dreeaing-caso. Kent wae peculi ar in his careful way of locking up his belongings, and she took her own nnneh of keys to open the box. when, rather to her surprise she found the key left in the box. Some liatlees, vague im pulse which she oould never afterward account for, prompted her to Uft the upper 1 , tray, alth'.n W i, she bad found the vinegar already. Underneath, to her surprise, she found papers, and was about returning the tray to its place without further examination, when her •7® wra oeught by the words, "My own Virginia, in a dear, a too well known hand-writing. When Kent came baok that night be found his beautiful young wife senseless upon her bed, with two letters crum pled between bra ooid fingers. One, the last letter that Langley had actually written her, and the other, the base for eery, in which he asked to be released from his engagement Kent was not et all bad. He loved her madly, and yon may be sure that his sore punishment began when, after the physicians had brought her out of that death like swoon, the first words that came to Vir ginia's lips, iu that strange, passtonles tone—which is far worse than anger— were, " Remember! I trill never forgive you—never I" They came beak to New lork for a single day ; bnt Virginia sew no one but her gnoudmother. The old lady, upon her death-bed, raved of that inter ▼lew, and vainly implored Virginia's fo vaness for urging Kent on to bis treachery. The newly-wedded pair nailed in the ill-fated ehip which took ilre off the ooaat of Nova 800 tie, and whose name atill carries terror to many a heart. Virginia waa one of that hand ful of annrivora ; her unhappy lmaband fought for her place in the boat, and, remainiog behind himself, perished with the ship. The agony of terror, the long night which she spent at the mercy of tlio wuves, prove l too much strain a)>on poor Virginia's already over burdened frame, and Frauk and I were summoned by telegraph to her at Halifax, where she lay for days, iiuoonncious, with a brain fever. And then, to add to her misery, when recovering, she wan thrown into a nearly fatal relapse by soeing, accidentally, that the Tecnmsoh hud gone down, in the attack on Mobile harbor, with every son lon lioerd. The Tecnmsch waa Lsuglcy's ship. Virginia came to livo with us abotit two years before the commencement of my story. Bhe seemed to feel a sort of sorrowful remorse about her hus band, which was not grief, and yet it cast a shadow over her life. "Ho was treacherous and false," she said to me one dav, ' and he broke my heart—bnt what right have I to judge him ? Harris, I told him I would never forgive, and he died, thinking himself unforgiven." Of Langley, as I told you, she never spoke. Well, tbe " perfect treasure " mode her appearance, bhe was a rather young wo man, with a pleasant, low voice, and very good manners for one of her sta tion. I was charmed. Certainly, thia girl seemed determined to please me; she did her work in a faultlessly nest way; she arnnsed and played with the twins; and liaby had more quiet nights than 1 have known her to have for weeks. So, after a month's trial, I be gan to sing Alice' praises, and allowed her fnll control of her own department, with a good many privileges. Virginia alone did not seem to like her. Vir ginia had a curious way of looking st new faces—a searching, penetrating glance, that I always thought hail a sort of mesmerism in it, all the stranger be cause her eyes were so gentle and so.t Alice never met the look fairly, as I re membered afterward. It was in the spring of '66. The clos ing ooenee of the war were crowding thick and fast upon each other. Vir ginia kept Iter room a good deal. The warm April weather seemed to enervate her, and she ahrank nway from the joy and enthusiasm we all exhibited. Poor child I It was liard for her to beer of the soldiers and sailor* who would lie coming borne now, and feel that, for her sore heart, peace would bring no balm. One night Frank had taken a box at the Italian opera in New York. We lived in Brooklyn, and, ae Kellogg was to sing, I begged Virginia to go with us. But sho steadily declined. Hho would stay at home and keep house, she said. Now, two of my servants were going to a fireman's ball the same night, leaving only Alice and tbe cook st home; so I must say I felt rather more easy about the children when I found that Virginia would not go. Going from New York to Brooklyn by night, however, is a long journey, and it woe close npon one o'clock when we drove np to our door. In the meantime, Virginia, after our departure, had sat for sometime writing letters in her own room. Tbe twins were having a noisy romp in tbe nurse ry; and when she looked in to say good night, Fred fastened himself upon her neck, and begged to come and stay with auntie; she yielded, and then Fred be gan building card-houses on tbe sofa until he got tired, when be curled him self in s corner, and in two seconds was fast asleep. Being very mueh interested in her book, Virginia let the little fellow sleep on, thinking that by-and-by she would take him np to her own room sod put him to bed there, as she frequently did. At last she fell asleep herself. Bhe never knew how long she slept, but she bad a painful nightmare aentis tion, M if somebody was trying to (•mother her; and after struggling with the feeling for sometime, abe slowly and with great effort opened her eyea. Why! what had happened to the room? Tbegaa mnat hare gone out—it waa totally dark, save a flickering gleam from the dying (Ire on the hearth; and what a sickening, deadly smell there was. With a light ning rapidity, which is more like instinct than tbonght, it suddenly flashed npon her what the strange scent was—chloro form 1 Then, as she caught her fright ened breath, and sank back into her chair, a low son ml of eoieen from the dining room reached her ear. The door between the two rooms was ajar, and she saw a thread of light from it; the voice she first heard was a man's, " Ton didn't give the yonng 'oman too mnch, did yerf" it asked, rather anx iously. " I wish I had," returned Alice' low and stealthy voice. " I hate her 1 She suspects me." " Ha! ha !" gurgled the man. "She must ha' been purty uncivil to yer : yer usually gets on the right side of 'em ; is that pitcher silver or plate ?" " Plate. The silver is up stairs." Virginia shook as she beard the ven om of that low voioe. "Hbewas Mr. langl<7' lady -love till her old grandma stopped it." " And whst was Mr. Langley to yer, m 7 girl V said the man. "Hush I yonH wake the child, and I <loQ*t want to do htm harm. Mr. L*ogh>j" The woman's voioe softened. "He never said a doaen words to me in his life ; but, look you. Vincent, I worshiped him." "That's right Tell me all, as I'm yer husbsnd that is to be," said the other, with a coarse Isngh. " Mrs, Kent has splendid jewols, too. the lock to look at them. Too can take ae many of those as you like, dome." As soon as the sound of their footsteps died sway, Virginia snatched the deadly handkerchief off her head, end staggered to her feet, tbongh dissily. Bhe wsa a wry spirited girl, and determined that the pair should not eeoape. Hot what could she do ? It wae vain to think of getting the oook to alarm their neigh bor* at the comer for the next lot wae vacant, mid she must cross the hall and go past the stairs to find her. There would be no use hi throwing np the window end scresmmg ; the boose was on Clinton avenue, far oat, Hid the policeman did not ootna past very often. Virginia wrung her Hands, when a sleepy murmur of " AnnUer startled her. In s second her resolve WM taken, and she was on her knees by Fred, kissing him mid saying " Fred, my darling, auntie in going to do something funny. You remenibornow papa jumped you down from the baloony on Ohiint mus day to run after the monkey ? I'm going to jump you down now. Don't apeak a word. Aot like a man. There T Fred wan jut four yearn old, but a great boy of his age, and he always obeyed Virginia implicity; so he rubbed his eyes wide open and was carried to the window. The tmloony, outside, was not far from the ground. An Virginia looked out. carefully, she saw. under the oorner gaslight, a tall figure with a gleam of brass buttons. " Fred," she whispered rapidly, run fast to that policeman, and tell him be must come right here to auntie, then go to Mr. Motley's, at the oorner, and ring the bell with all your might—it is low, and you can reach it and tell George and Harry Motley that Aunt Virginia nays there is a thief in the house. Don't be afraid, Fred; be a man like papa?" Over; softly, gently, over the low rail ing, and then, with a good shake of bis small person, Fred's little legs trotted swiftly off toward that polioeman. Directly, under the balcony, a voice said, softly: " What's wanted ma'am ? Can yon open the front door for me ?" " I cannot," ahe panted ; " there are burglars in the house, snd I should be heard. Couldn't yon get up here some how? Han the little boy gone to the neighbors?" There was no answer to her question, but the poliocman easily followed her suggestion, and olimbed up over the baloony. "Wait!" whispered Virginia, laying her cold hand on the policeman's arm, as he made a motion to go forward. "They are np-tairn. In my room, looking for my jewels. If yon will stand just tie hind that door, 1 will creep up the back stairs, and reoonuoiter; if the woman comes down to answer the bell, scire her. There in only one man ; if I want help I will call, and then you must rush up the front stairs." "Are you not afraid?" asked the policeman, with some surprise ; but Virgiuia wan gone before he had finish ed his remark. When ahe reached the stairs, ahe found that the man had evidently gone into the eilver cloaet, which stood on the other aide of the liack ataira, and that now ahe waa between the two—for ahe conM hear Alice walking about in her room. Quick aa a flaah the little flgnre glided np the ataira, slipping off her boota on the loweat atep. There waa no light in the hall, except thai afforded by the bnrglar'a lantern, for the gaa waa turned down low, and the lantern aet inaidc the cloeet door. The door opened outward, and the key waa in it; a aprtng, a end den bang, and then the click of the key in Virginia'a uervoua fingera, aa ahe turned it in the lock. A tremendoua curae came from the captured thief, aa ahe leaned breathlessly againattbe door. The name moment the gaslight behind her waa euddenly turned on, and Alice confronted Virginia. "Ton here, madam? Well, you and I are quite, anyhow. Open that door, or I'll aend a bullet through your heed. You didn't think of my having the re volver, did you ?" " No," aaid Virginia, looking in the girl'a furious eye with her peculiarity calm amilo. " Help ! Police I" " You may split your pretty throat calling," aaid Alice, aeixing her savage ly by the arm. "No one will come; the cook ia drugged, and you're at our merer. Oive roe the key I" " 111 trouble you for that nistol ?" aaid a stern voice behind Virginia, aa a quick strong arm jerked the weapon away from Alice. Alice, with a shriek, fell on the floor, for ahe realized all at once. Rut Vir ginia, gasping, "Ah, my Ood !" gazed aa if turn oil to atone, for it waa Langley Temple that ahe aaw. " Virginia I don't be terrified," he aaid, "it ia my very self, no ghost. Take my hand, tove; see, it ia flesh and blood, like yonr own." He had her in his arms. The door-bell waa ringing fnrionsly, bat he would have let the neighbors pull the wire till it broke, l>efore be would have left her in that dumb, shocked state. As he touched her, ahe trembled violently; then the light came back to her eyea, and with a sob of joy. Virginia flnug herself on the breast of him whom ahe had mourned sa dead. The Motley* ha#l time to think that Virginia was murdered before the pair opened the door. Very mnch surprised were they to see, instead of the police man they expected to find, a very tall, handsome man, a stranger, in navy uniform. Fred, now that bia part of the fun was over, began to roar, and Vir ginia took him up in her arms, while the four gentlemen (assisted by the real Himon-pnre policeman, a brawny son of Erin) opened the closet and secured the priaoner. Wifbin the next fifteen minutes the other servants bad returned (for the burglary took place before eleven o'clock), and Alice, having recov ered from her swoon, waa carried to the station-bonae. I don't know how Lang ley and Vir ginia were occupied till my return, bnt when Frank thrust his lstch key into the door, Virginia flew out of the library and tried, with a few inooberent sen tences, to prepare me for seeing some thing. The oonseqnenoe waa that, when I pushed the door open in a very bewil dered frame of mind, and saw Langh-v smiling at me, I waa terrified almoet out of my senses, and came near fainting. To the brat of my recollection, the household sat in> nearly all night,though finally, after I bad beard the whole story, been speechless over Virginia's bravery, and hugged Fred, now fast asleep in the arm-chair, Frank dragged me off to bed. I don't know that Langiey and Vir- Zpinia sat there till morning; but certain , the first person* I saw upon ootning wn to breakfast were themselves, on the identical sofa where I had left them. lAMley's story la too long a one to be told here; suffice it to say, being on deck when the Teonmaeb sunk, he had beta able to strike oat from the sinking ship, and, under cover from the smoke and war of battle, to swim ashore. There, however, be was taken prisoner, and kept in eloee confinement for months, finally making his escape. Coming direct to Frank to gain intelli gence before presenting himself to hfa family, he stopped to light a cigar under the gaslight, where Virginia had mistaken him for a policeman. He had known her instantly; and probably only her fright and agitation prevented her from recognizing his voice, which, as he mischievously told her, he did uot dis: guise in the least. Alice and her aooomplioe were identi fied by the police as old offenders. The womau had carried on a systematic pilfering at the Temple'a, and was an sooompushed hypocrite. To my intense gratification, the pair were sentenced to the fall term in Sing Bing. Langley and Virginia were married very qaietly soon sffer. Frank gsve sway the lovely little bride, whose fsir girlish bloom had oome back to her, aud who, nnder the inflnenoe of love, seemed s different woman from the paie, ssd creature who had moved so quietly abont my bonne. They idolize each other, and I think have quite forgiven Graudma Chiches ter and poor Horace Kent. Fred has always been a gr<-at pet with his annt for his bravery on the night of the attempt ed burglary. Between Fred's boasting aud my sly teasing, poor Frank will never be 1 allowed to forget his instrumentality in | introdnoing me to such " a perfect I treasure."—Hot fan Sunday 7\rrw*. A fiood llorse. The following extract is from an illus trated paper on the Ball's Hea-1 cattle and horse market of New York, in Snrilmrx : " I can't explain what a real j good horse is," said one of the best natnred dealers in the street. " They are as different as men. In bnying a horse, you mast look first to bis head and eyes for signs of intelligence, temper, courage i and honesty. Unless a horse has brains you can't teach him anything, any more than you can s half-witted child. Hee that tall bay, there, a fine-looking ani mal, fifteen hands high. Yon can't teach that horse anything. Why ? Well, I'll show you a difference in heatls ; bat have a care of his heels. Look st the bruta's bead—that round ing nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place >elow the eyes. You can't trust him. Kick ? Well, I guess no 1 Fnt him in a ten-ucre lot, where he's got plenty of awing, and hell kick | the horns off the moon." The world's treatment of man and beast has the tendency to enlarge and intensifvlbad qualities, if they predom inate. This gorsJ-nstored phrenologist could not refrain from slapping in the faoe the horse whose character had been so cruelly delineated, while he had nothing but the gentlest caresses for a | tall, docile, sleek-limbed sorrel, that pricked her ears forward and looked in telligent enough to understand all that was txung said. " That's an awfnl good mare," he add ed.' "She's as true as the sun. You can see breadth aud fullness between the ears aud eyes. Yon couldn't hire that mare to act mean and hurt anybody, j The eye should be full, and hazel is*a good color. I like a small thin ear, and want a horse to throw hia ears well for ward. Look oat for the brute that wants to listen to all the conversation going on , behind him. The horse that tarns back I his ears till they almost meet st the points, take my word for it, is sure to do something wrong. See that straight, elegant face. A horse with a dishing face is cowardly, snd a cowardly brute is usually vicious. Then I like a square muzzle with large nostrils, to let iu plenty of air to the 1 nogs. For the an dermide of the heed, a good horse should be well cut under the jowl, with jaw bones broad, and wide apart nnder the j throttle. " 8 much for the heed," be oontin ned. " The next thing to consider in die bnild of the animal. Never tiny a nng-leggad, stilty borne. Let turn have short, straight back sad a atraighter rump, and you've got a gentleman's borne. The withers sbonld be high and the shoulders well net beck and broad ; but don't get tbem too deep in the obest. The fore-leg should be abort. Oive me a pretty straight with the hock low down, short pastern joints, and a round, mulish foot. There are all kinds of horses; bnt the animal that has these points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good natured and ser | viewable. As to ooior, tas'e differs. Hays, browns and cbeatnnts are the best Roans are very fashionable at present. A great many grays and sor rels are bonght here for shipment to Mexico and Cobs. They do well in a ; hot climate, and nader a tropical ann, for the same reason that yon find ligbt oolored clothing most serviceable in ! summer. That circus-horse behind yon is what many people call a calico-horse; , now, I call him a gen nine piebald. It'a a freak of nature, and may happen any j where." Hew Is Detect Scarlet Fever. It la important to detect the disease when it Drat shows itself, for the reason thst it msy ran rapidly to a fatal inane, and because early precautions need to be taken against its spread, inasmuch as the patient may oommnoicate it from the very first. Scarlatina is characterised by very nu merous red points on the akin about the sine of a pin-bead—though large in some places, but seldom as large as a lentil. These spots are closely aggregated, leaving the adjacent skin wholly free. About as much of the surface is free aa hi covered by the spots Where the akin is free, it has a natural pale color. There are generally fewer spots cm the face than on the rest of the body. It is the reverse with measles, for which it is moat apt to be mistaken. Around the mouth sad on the chin there are no spots; hence these lave a very peculiar pale look, (n striking contrast with the aoarlet spots. Moreover, the spots ant not aa roach elevated aa they are in measles: indeed, they may be entirely flat They are also less indented. Their nearly circular shape, their being crowded together, with free spaces brtween the aggregates, their tolerably uniform durtanoe from each other, and their nearly equal site, help to distin guish tbem from ether eruptions ; hot the paleness of the month alone is often sufficient to decide the matter at once. Besides these indications, almost always the back of tbejaonth and of the tongna are inflamed, sad the glands of he neek me swollen. * V .. IS FAUM, (MUDKK AND HOL'MKHOI.D Wfcmt Kind* i# fMlitvalu* BOOM people think that P uything ttut will grow out-of-doors will grow w the bouse. This in a mistake; aome plants can only ho grown with great care, and noma plant* cannot b© grown at all in room* I will name here what I oonaider ihe beat and easiest kinda for botwa cnl tnre, with the condition* of their growth briefly abated; Heliotrope* .—A* geranium*. Geranium*. —All kinda are good. Easily propagated from cuttinga. Fnll ami and plenty of heat Hydranyea, Propagated by seperat iug the root. Like a ahady place and plenty of water. Petunia. —Baaily grown from seeds or ratting* in any anuny window, rich aoil and frequent bnt not too profnae water ing. Primro*' Grown, with aome diffi culty, from need. Not too hot a place. Plenty of water on the root*, bnt not on the leave*. (Meander.—An oid-faahioned plant, j but very desirable. There are red and white varietiea. Plenty of *nuhiDe, heat and water. Abutilon red and white—started easi . ly from cutting*, requires warmth and i sunshine and that the foliage should be frequently washed. Valla Lily.— Grown from tuber*. | Plenty of heat, *un and water, and rich earth. Plants should be set in the shade and allowed to rest for aiz weeks after blooming. Pink.— Among the most desirable. The oew varieties of Carnations almost constant bloomers. Propagated by cut j tings, layers or seeds—preferably the | 'irst. Not too much heat. Frequent ! showering. V iynorv ttr. From seed. How at any time, and in six weeks or two months, under favorable conditions, there will be flowers. Candytuft may be grown in the same way. Give plenty of air, j moist heat, and trrquent showering*. There is nothing prettier for winter bouquets. Ro*c.— Among the most desirable of all window plants, but will not thrive ezoept in a moist atmosphere of medium temperature and plenty of air. Keep the* foliage clean by daily showering. Do not let the earth get sodden in the note by too frequent watering*. Out liack the bushes after blooming, and let them have two or three weeks' rest in a cellar or other shady place. When the buds are swelling, a little guano added to the water that is given is a benefit,— H'm. Af. F. Round. Vtaaare tar UrrkirSa. Wootl aehes are doubtless excellent for orchards, but instead of being put around the trees, they should be spread over the land. But where are the ashes to oome from in this region ? We have ; little.or no wood. and. of course, little or no ashes. In our limited experience wo have learned one thing about or chards as well as frait trees of every kind that we have cultivated, and we bc j iicve the principle can be applied pretty • much to everything that grow* upon i the earth, which is, " that the applica tion of manure benefits them all." Oround occupied by fruit trees should . be manured as liberally as arC other 1 portions of the land nsed for the raising of wheat or corn. It is the neglect to do so, in connection with the general negligence with which the orchard* are : treated in many sections, that makes : them unprofitable and to be worn out ' permanently. And as to the kind of manure with which orchards ought to te treated : While any kind, almost without exception, will prove an advan tage, there is none in the world to be compared with barn-yard manure. A liberal application oi this only every third year, while careful pruning, scrap ing and washing the trunks of the trees, , will make a prodigious change in an orchard. This top dressing can be ap > plied at any time when the ground is | not fmsen, and, if not bestowed in too heavy lumps so as to injure the (or chard) grass, will yield a couple of torn of good bay. We have known three full crops of hay to be cut from one orchard. —Oerrnantoirn Telegraph. I'tfrrlM llrawUM*. In some localities the hardiest vines never need covering. But there are •cessions!!▼ severe winters when even the most hardy are benefited by pro tection. Intense cold often blunts vital j ity when it does not destroy. At such | limes a vine which has been covered will open its leaves in spring before one which baa lieeo fully exposed baa fairly ' swelled its buds. Many are deterred from covering their vines because they : take a laborious way for doing it They ! need not usually place earth upon them. It la often quite sufficient to prostrate them, holding them in place by sticks j of *tvc-wood, or with bricks, or with ; flat atones. An additional thin or par i tial covering with ccirn-stalk* will be | useful in protecting from sharp win da I and in holding the snow. Earth, If heavy or compact, tend* to rot the buds j if they have not ripened well, or if left on a few days too long in spring. Win tar covering has another advantage. It render* late antnmn pruning safe— an operation too often postponed till too late when left till spring. Country Gentleman. Twte ntWrte- Dr. Frankenberger writes as follows in an Illinois paper : I desire to call attention to a disease commonly calks! twig blight. When thia disease over takes a fruit tree, the leaves first begin to blight, afterward the twigs and limbs liegin to wither, and finally the whole tree slowly dies Whatever may be the true oanse of this disease, it ia some times ascribed to a borer. My experi ence, however, refers more to the remedy than the oanse. I know by ex perience that there ie a simple remedy that wilt not fail to restore every wee afflicted with this disease, if applied in time. It oonaiats simply in boring with a small auger or hit into the tree, filling the cavity with sulphur, and plugging it in. The sap will carry the sulphur to every part of the ties, and, when, the borer smells brimstone, be will "git up ami git." The emme of thadisease being removed, the tree will soon.begin to put forth fresh and lender leaves, the withered foliage wUL slowly drop oS, and ths tree In Aims will be re ,a . a |j _ -S a .. -*a iwrw Us it* natural frotta/ Item* ef Interest. A mis-fit—A young girl in bystet'es. The route to the coal bin ia a bod road i" travel. . A generous spread -Raising h borrow- r"' ed umbrella. * Prize-fighter* show each other mark, ed attention. Hpioed kangaroo tongue is the latest • in canned goods. Home canary birds never sing—stuffed ones, for instance. The blacksmith secure* prosperity by being always on the strike. Drive yonr cattle on the ice if you JI ! want cowslips in the winter. Private Dslzell ia said to write rcgu j larly for forty-two waste basket*. A mode) Texan gave his son-in-law a wedding present of 80,000 head of cattle, j When is a ship like a scarf-pin? 1 When it's on the breast of a heavy i swell. " You'll find no change in me,' sneered the wash vest to the in-vesti gating laundrhss. The bloodhound ia now employed by Hpanish fishermen to catch sharks on | the Cuban coast. Many a boy who handles a billiard cue ; with consummate skill, can't get the | bang of a snow shovel. An independent familv newspaper has been started at DeadwcAxL It is called i the Up Gulch Snorter. . The light of lightning, and its reflec- j tions, will penetrate through a distance ! of from 150 to 200 miles. Speaking of grain-corners, why shouldn't there, naturally enough, be corner* in every "square 1 ' deal." Last year bankrupt liabilities in Eng land were £85,886,850 ($129,434,250) I assets, £5.089,151 (r29.9i5.770). " Never bfdieve a lazy man," says the observant Small, of the Atlanta Von*ti j tution, "for he lie# half the time." A sign of the tiroes. In Atlanta, Oa., a clothier advertises to supply patches j of all kinds for children's lothing. A clock is be'ng exhibited st Paris which fires a shot every hour. Home body ssys that it* great 'practical utility ia " to kill time." A young lady who has s young roan " keeping company" with Let, who ia employed in a telegraph office, culls him the " electric spark." Words fail to express the feelings of s man who is hastening np stair* and when he gets to the top thmka there is still another step. Extract from a romance: "With one hand he held her beantifnl golden head above the chilling waves, and with the r other called londly lor assistance." 1 1 The boy who will ride aronnd all day on a velocipede consider* himself ter ribly imposed upon if be has to whor l hi* baby sister two or three blocks. "Ob buabaod:" Mid Mr*. Ophelia McMoon, A aba goiad SI bar wilful sod passionate MM. ' '' Where that boy got hie temper I oarer could | I'm certain be oarer ocmJd take it from ma.'' "No doubt, ay dear wife, roar aeeertloo la true— I never have miaaal say tamper from you." The entire amount of gold in the world at present is estimated at $7,000,000,000 in value in United States coinage. This . immense sum ia hardly comprehensible to the mind, bnt if it were pnt in a solid mass it would measure only seventeen r feet high, twenty-eight feet wide and flfty-aii feet long. G. F. Train predicts a great financial and municipal crash in Earope Fx. j Train has been making ucb prediction' every day for ten years. He has nothing . else to do. If we bad aa much leisure as Train we could predict more frightful and disagreeable events than be docs.— Sorrutoirn Jfrrald. Qneen Victoria was the first person in England to wear a dress of Honiton lace. It ia said that commiserating the condition of the lace workers of Devon ; shire, and wishing to bring their marn : factnres into notice, she ordered her i wedding dress, which cost $5,009, to be | made of this material. TH* OLD KXOLUH CHRISTMAS. A man might then behold At Cbriataa*, in each boll 1 Good firm to curb U cold. And moat for great and small ; 1 Tbs neighbor* werv friendly bidden. And all had Una Tbe poor from hie gates were not cni den, Wheo this old esp wo* new. " Do you own any gaa stock ?" (Atom , "Aid to Molecule, while they were dis missing Edison'a electric light, " Any j gaa talkf replied Molecule, "Do I own any t Well, I don't know that 1 own it, but r*— He looked nervously at-hi* wife, who was regarding him very intently, and asked Atom if he had ever been in Omaha. The gravest events dawn with no more noise than the morning star -- !in rising. All greet developments oom : plete themselves in the world, and I modestly wait in silence, praising them : selves never, and announcing them selves not at all. We moat be sensitive and sensible if we would see the be ginnings and endings of great thing*. That ia our part. " That young lady used her beat to catch your husband before you married him," remarked one lady to another, aa a mass of eurl# and bnuds. flouoeee and overakirt passed the window at which they were sitting. " I wish to gracious she d got him ! waa the quick reply, and then a dead silence fell upne the two, and wonder* in crochet work were accomplished in the next half hour. A man went in the office of a board of. health not long since, and mid: " Loolr or here, I've been payiu' to keep this office long enough for nothing. Now, tf you're got any health here I want some," The elerks tried to explain, but be would not bear a wor I. He went in side the rail, " pedestrians ted " to the manager's room, and luxuriated in the manager's easy chair, mying a* be swung airily around: "I same here tat health, and health HI have." When the chief arrived ami found the man immovable, he called the brawny porter, and aa tha health-seeker picked himself up off thhp * pavement, twenty seconds afterward, he soliloquised moodily: "Maybe that's healthy; it's well shaken before taken, and they give it ia large doeea too. It aint bealhty for Mot be*. that rU swear to." It waa observed that he did not depart with as much rigorous energy as he came in with. I
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