FOR THE FAIR SEX.
If Oalr Mather* Kaew.
It only mother* knew, she said,
Row hungry children are for lovs.
Above each virgin little bed
A mother * lip* would prove
How sweet are kisses that are given
Between a rosy month and heaven.
If only my mamma would kneel.
As yonr dear mother, every night,
Beside her tittle girl, to feel
If all the wrepe are folded tight.
And hold my bands, her elbow fair
Between my ebeeke end her soft heir,
And looking in my dreaming eyea
A* if she saw some lovely thing.
And miiiwg in each fond surprise
On all my hopes of life that spring
Like flowers beneath her tender gase.
1 could not stray in evil way*.
I would not wonnd the gentle breast
That held me warm within its fold;
My mother's lovs wonld still he bent,
However sad, or plain, or did;
And even tbongh the world forsake,
I'd love her for her love's dear sake.
-Helm Hieti.
Peebles Males.
Bullet-shaped glass buttons are worn
with colored dresses.
White and gold is the fashionable
combination this winter.
Bows of gilded pearls, like small
oombs, are worn on bonnets.
Gloves contrasting with the dress are
worn with all the new oolors.
Tucks snd Valenciennes trimming are
aaed on tho beet nnderolothing.
Thebai ii. of fur used for trimming
this se&non i.re invariably narrow.
Feather trimmings sre embroidered
through the center in chain stitch.
Pearls are now more fashionable than
diamonds, and the price has consequent
ly advanced.
Tho " Chesterfield," a new coat for
street wear, is shsped like sn ulster, bnt
has a jacket-back.
Plain niching set edge to edge with
insertion between, is a pretty trimming
for the neck of a dress.
Small diamonds set in silver, snd ar
ranged in fanciful shapes on bangle
rings, are mneh worn.
Angola hooda looking almost like
swansdown, and costing little moro than
plain worsted, are shown for babies.
Mixed fabrics should never be need as
the foundation of a snit, for they cannot
be dyed, and are not worth making
over.
New oombs, is shell and silver, consist
of three pins, which msy be arranged
in a straight or carved line or worn sep
arately.
Belts are very fashionable, and are
worn very broad. Some have appeared
in Paris of white enameled leather, with
steel buckles.
Blsck as tin cloaks, lined with satin
or old gold silk, and bordered with
feather trimming, are the handsomest
winter wraps.
Absolutely plain black velvet bonnets,
with s wreath of pals pink rosea in a
row across the top, are in good taste,
snd easily made at home.
Tfc* JSSSSM* H***rwlf.
While the mother is busy si needle
and thread, near her may be her dangh
ters learning to write or read; perhaps
to sew, embroider, make poetry, play on
mosiaal instruments, to dance, sing,
make tea in ceremonial style, tie np
presents, arrange curtains of flowers, or
to perform oae of the many duties and
accomplishments laid down in the book
of "Women's Great Study." Among
many others, these comprise lemons in
reading, writing, the memorizing and
composing of poetry, the entire cere
monial and procedure of courtship, be
trothal, marriage, wifely and motherly
duties, the cutting and making of gar
ments, care and ordering of a house
hold, complete lady's toilet, moral
duties snd precepts, the simples of
botany, the birth and rearing of chil
dren, oondnet of household affairs, festi
val and religious duties, funerals, and of
behavior in old age. While the great
mass of the children go to school to
learn to read, write and oonnt, many are
educated at home by their parents or
grandparents, older brothers or sisters.
Wealthy men employ tutors and govern
esses. Nearly all Japanese children
can read sod write.
If the wife is a gossip or gmd-sbout,
she is off snd out, before the lacquered
dishes are washed, to the well-curb to
exchange the news with the nursery
maids, old grannies snd buay-tongued
women washing their rice or rinsing
their clothes. Then she may air her
self for sn boor or two and then per
chance go with the bedy to the bath
house np the street to indulge in more
gossip, hot water and ablations. A
visit to the temple either for piety, ex
citement or pleasure's sake may finish
the morning, and perhaps allow her to
arrive home in time to get np s make
shift dinner for her hnsband. The chil
dren, meanwhile, are neglected, showing
more attention from mother earfh than
from mother woman. If she be e shrew
or e virago, hnsband had better not
eomplain, or he will catch something
not ID the bill of fare; for a Japanese
woman's tongue can distil more than
balm or healing oil, when she so wills.
The lasy, shirtless, untidy, gossiping
wife and careless mother, with her house
in disorder, her ehildren neglected, her
hnsband henpecked or un helped, her
time and her means wasted, her hair un
combed. her drees always untidily open,
her clothes crumpled, slovenly or soiled,
her dirty infent slung or held on her
beck, only half supported under her
hands, in slipshod sandal or broken
dog, is one type of tbe Japanese wo
man. The exquisitely neat, tidy, thrifty,
diligent wife who orders her honseboiu
in beenty with taste end skill, earnest
oess, patience and irradiating smile, who
is a help and cheer to her hnsbsnd, an
affeetiooate, firm and patient mother,
with hair and dress sad foci always in
order, whoee house snd garden sad
table service, or even nursery and sew
ing-room, are always fit for a visitor to
see, who rears her children in honor snd
dignity, whether she be rtoh or poor, is
another TYPE of a Jap AD ess woman. I
have seen them both.— William Ji.
OriffU.
Os* W Basse's IsatrkaMs C*r**r.
The Boston correspondent of the New
Hod ford Mercury writes: Until very
recently, there wu an old, bent end
wrinkled women to be seen any day on
one of onr principal thoroughfares
••down town," curled np behind e mea
ger, dyspeptic little handorgan, patient
ly grinding ont the most dismal and
doleful sounds that ever this democratic
instrument was made to yield, and look
ing wistfully at the little tin cup which
was usually very destitute of pennies,
and to whioh silver was an utter stran
ger ; but if this poor old creature's his
tory had been known, there would have
been few passers-by who would not have
had a moment, a glance and a dime for
this forlorn being, in whose dull brain
lurked so many conflicting memories.
In her days of youth and beauty, this
woman bore a name and a title which
her ancestors had celebrated through
centuries. She was an acknowledged
leader of fashion and wealth in her own
sunny Italy ; every wish and oaprioe of
a fickle fancy was satisfied ; lovers bow
ed at her feet, a#l even royalty itself
was not insensible to her fascinations.
But unfortunately for this pet of for
tune, she was ambitious, and the danger
ous political intrigues of that day and
country had charms for her which she
could not withstand. The party to
which she had attached herself had its
day -a bright and glorious one—but
the night of disaster followed, and all
the leaders wore obliged to flee into ex
ile to save their lives. From this mo
ment fate was unpropitious to the
woman who had never known a want or
a sorrow. She sank step by step, she
wandered from one land to another, un
til at last in her lonely and unhappy old
ago she drifted to our city, where she
fonght death and starvation with her
poor little handorgan for a time, but
her enemies were too strong for her, nnd
she lies now in a pauper's grave.
I.adlra Wh* Rait Thtatrlvr ■
On dit, that some of the Iste jewel
robberies exist only in the imagination
of the fair owners, and that ladies in
want of money first pawn theirdiamonds
and then aocount for their loss by theft.
This reminds me of a story told of a
wealthy Manchester stockbroker who,
in his " flush " times, made his wife a
present of diamonds worth #25,000, with
tho ulterior idea of realising upon them
should he ever require the money. Hard j
times came upon the stockbroker, and
he considered that his financial difflcnl
tiea justified him in making nsc of his 1
wife's diamonds.
Willing to spare her the mortification
of parting with his gift, he caused ex- ,
oellent imitations to be made of the
jewels, substituting them for tho real
stones, snd took the originals to a pawn
broker and asked for an ailvar.ee on
them. Tb pawnbroker smiled blandly,
and informed the astonished husband
that he ahi-ady had the original stones
from his w ; fo, who had obtained an ad- :
vauee of #IO,OOO upon them; that the
diamonds (?) he brought him were
simply well execute**! " paste,"—/xm
don Letter.
College Haxlag.
Charles F. Thwing, has an article in
Scribner, from whioh we quote: In
Older to abolish haxing it is first ne
cessary to create a college sentiment
which opposes it. The means of creat- ,
ing this sentiment are as numerous as
those by which any change in either
public or college opinion is promoted.
The exertion of stronger moral and re
ligious influences, a more intimate as
sociation of professors and students,
and a stricter demand for high scholar
ship, indicate, in general, the best
methods.
A more rigid vxecotion of college
laws regarding the offense would also
tend to abolish haxing. These laws are
in their letter sufficiently severe ; either
expulsion or suspension is the penalty
usually affixed to their infraction. But
in their actual execution, college an
thonties are proverbially remiss. The
student, when in mediae re* of his of
fense, feels assured that, if detected, the
influence of his friends and his own
promises of good behavior will return i
him to college. A case has lately come
to my notice in which a sophomore was
expelled for aiding in tying a freshman
to the bell-knob of a bouse of a lady
with whom the freshman was acquainted.
The sufferer was naked. He could not
move to release himself without ringing
the bell. For this outrageous offense
the culprit was expelled, bnt by the in
fluence of his family and family friends
the penalty was revoked. To banish
basing the governing boards must en
force the laws with unconditional se
verity.
There is, however, a milder method
which, properly applied, will nsnally
prove more effective and is easier of
execution. It is the method that Har
vard college adopted in the antumn of
1872. At the opening of that college
year the faculty proposed an agreement
for the sophomore ami freshmen classes
tbst they would abstain from indulging
in all those annoyanoes usually included
in the term baaing. So far as can be
learned, every member of the two
classes, over three hundred in number,
signed it This simple prooess ended
haxing at Gam bridge. The sophomores
of 1872-78 did not case, and the sopho
mores of the next year, bound by the
agreement and not having been based,
had no injured honor to vindicate, and
the succeeding freshmen were not
molested.
With the opening of the present col
lege year. Tale, too, passed a law which
has proved remarkably effective in
crashing the anti-freshman proclivities
of the sophomores. Any student, the
law etataa, who is guilty of haxing, shall
withdraw from his own class and enter
that immediately below. Already, lam
informed, two or three sophomores, in
con sequence of breaking ft, have been
compelled to enter the freshman class.
The method is an excellent one. It
strikes at the root of the evil by empha
sising the disgrace inherent in it. But
either this method or the procedure em
ployed by the Cambridge college can, I
believe, be need, if applied with discre
tion. by every college in the United
States; and it would undoubtedly serve
to wipe out the annually-recurring
A Western paper confidently asserts
that a healthy bridegroom, an army mus
ket and an onnos of bird-shot, all work
ing harmoniously together, will diaoooi
age a serenade quicker then a thunder
shower. • 4
CAPTAIN PAUL BOYTON.
Ilia ASvsatars* All Ovsr Karape-A Mar
raw Kara pa an lbs Oaaaba- Wsndsrfsl
Niarlra al Hard Hwtma.
Oapt. I'aul Bojton, wlios name is
familiar the world over as " the Amer
ican swimmer and life saver," has re
turned to New York.
Oapt. Bojton left his native Amer
ica between four and five years ago for
the purpose of introducing his well
known lue-saving costume to the notice
of foreign governments, and showing to
tnem its efficiency by exhibiting it in
person. His first feat abroad was per
formed on the night of October 21,1874,
when he donned his suit and sprang over
the sido of the steamship Queen, off
Cape Clear, on the ooast of Ireland.
The sea was running furiously, but after
struggling with the waves for nine
hours Capt. Boy ton finally reached
shore "as aoundi as a dollar." He
landed among the moat dangerous cliffs
on the southern coast of Ireland, and in
the midst of a storm so severe that,
while it lasted, fifty-six vessels were
wrecked upon the coasts of the United
Kingdom. Afterward the captain swam
across Dublin bay, and after astonishing
the Irish with many similar feats he
went over to England and prepared for
the most difficult task he had yet under
taken. This was to swim across the Eng
lish channel from England to France.
Capt Boyton left Dover on the 10th of
April, but wind and tide oonspired
against him, and after being in the water
fifteen hours and swimming fifty miles
to and fro, he was obliged to give up,
and was taken into one of the boats
which had accompanied him, when with
in fonr miles of Cape Qrienex. The
captain was not the man to give up on a
single trial, however, and on the 28th
of the next month he was again in the
water, this time determined to win in an
attempt to cross the channel from
France to England. Starting from Cape
Orizuex Capt. Boyton fought the waves
continual ly for twenty-fonr hours, and
finally landed upon English soil at
Mouth Foreland, having accomplished a
feat which no ono has yet undertaken to
rival. Oapt. Boyton's next long swim
was in Ooicber, ln7S. when he traversed
the Rhine from Basle to Cologne, a dis
tance of 400 miles.
Moon after this the captain returned
to America, and on January 9, 1875, he
Snt on his snit and jumped into the
[ississippi river at Alton, 111., bound
for Mt. Louis. The latter city was
reached in safety after paddling among
floating cakes wf ice for twelve honrs.
The captain next traversed the same
river from Bayou-Gonlato New Orleans,
the distance being 100 miles, which he
made in twenty-four hours, on Febru
ary 24. Captain Boyton turned his at
tention to the Ohio river, and on March
10 descended the falls of Louisville.
During the summer of 1876, the cap
tain sailed for Enrope again, and in
August he descended the Danube from
Lints to Vienna and Huda-Pcsth—a
voyage which lusted eighty-eight hour*.
On this trip the bold swimmer came
very near inning hia life. Night had
come on, and ilie captain waa indulging
in a comfortable nap, floating with the
current. A loud " smash-smash " awoke
him suddenly, and the startled man
found himself rushing toward a ponder
ous mill-wheel, which waa tnrniug with
the swift current It waa too late to
esoape, and the captain tnrned over in
stantly in order to catch the blows of
the paddles on the back of bis inflated
dreae. The first paddle that struck him
tnrned him over on his back again, and
the second paddle struck him hcanly
upon his forehead. Captain Bn?ton pass
ed under the wheel, and when the sur
face waa again leached the blood stream
ed over hia face from a long gash the
paddle bad made just above the right
eye, the scar of which is still plainly
visible. The wounded man's erica for
aid were responded to by a miller in one ,
of the boats of the mill, who lifted the ;
captain partly out of the water, so that
the light of the lantern shone upon his
face. The blood upon it, together with ;
the captain's strange attire, convinced
the milter that be wsa dealing with satan
in person, and letting Captain Boy lon
drop back into the river he ran for dear
life. The diagnsted swimmer floated on
with the current until hia cries were
beard by less anperstitions persona, and
he waa taken ashore at Oamorn fortress,
where he fainted from exhaustion and
loas of blood.
Having fully recovered from the ef
fect* of this little incident, Capt, Boy
ton's neit long swim of note waa taken
in Norember, 1876, on the river Po. He
entered the water at Tnriu on the 4th,
ami floated along nicely until near the
castle Nnovo Bocoa a'Adda, eighty
three hours later. Here he was obliged
to leave the river in ooneeqnenee of an
attack of "flro fever," "which made
me," said Capt. Boyton, " as crasy aa a
loon before I got over it." The fever
staid by the captain for sixteen days,
an 1 then the plnckv swimmer went hack
to the Po and continued hia trip to Fer
rers, which he reached December 3d,
having been in the water ninety-six
hoars in all, and traversed a distance of
740 kilometers. Oft the 30th of Decern-1
ber the captain swam from Florence to
Pisa on the Aran, and a month later be
ravaged from Orte to Rome, occnpying
thirty-one hours iu doing it This ray
sge down the Tiber is one of tbo most
memorable tripe Capt Boyton baa taken.
He waa received with great enthusiasm
all along the trip, bnt when he reached
i Rome, on Sunday, he waa greeted with
i cbeera from at least 100,000 people, who
; swarmed upon the banks of the river.
Bat the compliment most appreciated
by the gallant captain waa that paid him
by a braaa band which astonished him
by playing "Yankee Doodle" with
praiseworthy energy as he paddled past
their station. The familiar strains of
that immortal Yankee tone wen some
thing that the captain had never expect
ed to bear in Rome. After being dined
to his heart's content in Rome, Capt
Bovton swam from the island of Capri
to Naples, February 16th, and two days
la'er was invited to give a private exhi
bition of bis life-saving suit to Victor
Emannel, for which he waa made a
knight of the cross of the crown of
March 16th, 1877, Capt, Boyton
crossed the straits of Maerina, where he
had a"scries of sd ventures which be will
never forget Ha struggled through
the oonnter-ent rents of Beylla and
Charybdia only to paddle into a big
school of sharks. One of them attacked
the swimmer, who draw a long knife
and fought desperately, until the shark
-.J**
turned tail and gaVe np the contest.
But as it turned a vicious flap of its huge
tail strnok the captain fnll in the breast,
and the latter .finished bis swim with a
broken rib. The only serious accident
which has occurred stnoe Oapt. Boyton
began his swimming voyages was at
Lake Trasimene, which he crossed April
14th, 1877. A boat aooompanied him,
containing ten men. It was overturned
in a sudden squall, and two of the men
were drowned. A month later Oapt.
Boyton descended the Rhouo from
Meyssel to Lyons and Aries, making 400
miles in sixty hours. The captain de
scribee the current of the Rhone as
something frightfully rapid, and declares
that with the aid of his paddle he kept
up with a railroad train for several
miles.
Floating down the Momme from
Amiens to Abbeville, in November,
1877, Oapt. Boyton was tranquilly
dosing at twilight, when he was startled
by 4he report of a gun, and a charge of
shot came stinging into his upturned
foot. A duck-hunter on the bank had
mistaken the foot for a dnck, and when
the captain shouted to him he fled in
terror. Fortunately, the thick rubber
prevented all but two of the shot from
entering the foot.
On 6 of the longest and moat danger
ous of all Capt. Boyton's voyages was
that down the Tagns from Toledo to
Lisbon. The river rush) s through
deep canons, and between high moun
tains, with a descent of 3,200 feet in the
1,000 kilometers the captain traversed.
Capt. Boyton is the first man who
ever made the descent of the Togas, and
be carried an American flag the whole
distance. Re reached Lisbon eighteen
days after leaving Toledo, and during
most of the time he saw no human be
ings. At Lisbon he was met by 200,-
000 people, who packed the banks until
the city looked like a floating island.
Thousands of American flags floated on
the house-tops, and Capt. Boyton
laughed heartily as he told how they
were made. The peoplo had a vague
idea that there were stars and stripes
needed in an American flag, bet each
one arranged them to snit his taste,
and the result was some very odd com
binations.
In March, 1878, Cant. Boytc-n
crossed the strait of Gibraltar from
Tarifa to Taugiere, and he said that the
only way to give an idea of the task WHS
to say that it was five times harder work
than crossing the English channel,
" and yon know what a time I had
then," he added. The captain's last
voyage of note was from Nogent to
Fans, down the Heine, in August last,
making tho distance in seventy-five
honrs. He reached Paris within five
minutes of the time he bad calculated
the trip would take, and found a multi
tude awaiting bim, which the Paris pa
pers estimated at not less than s million
of people.
The Birth ef a lake
J >hn Muir writes in Scritmrr, of
" I'be Mountain Lakes of California." !
t quote : The Merced river, as a
abole, is remarkably like an elm-tree,
and it rcouires bnt little effort on the :
part of the imagination to picture it
standing npright, with all its lakes
hanging upon its spreading branches, j
the topmost eighty miles in height, I
Now add all the other lake-bearing ;
rivers of thi Sierra, each in its place,
and yon w >ll have a truly glorious spec
tacle—an avenue the length and width
at the range; the long, slender, gray
shafts, the milk way of arebit-g branches,
and the moon-like lakes all clearly de- •
fluid and shining on the bine aky. How
excitedly such an addition to astronomy
would be gar-cd at ! Yet these lakeful
rivers are still more excitingly, beauti
ful and impressive in their natural
positions to those who have the eyea to
see them as tbey lio imbedded in their
meadows and forests and glacier
sculptured rock a.
When a mountain-lake is bora—
when, like a young eye, it firat opens to
the light—it is an irregnlar, expression
less crescent, inclosed in banks of rock
and ice—bare, glaciated rock on the
lower side, the nigged anont of a glacier
on the upper. In this condition it
remains lor man a year, tintil at J
length, toward the end of some anspi- j
sinus cluster of seasons, the glacier re- <
cedes beyond the npper margin, leaving
it open from shore to shore for the first
time, thousands of years after its con
ception beneath the glacier that scooped I
its basin. The landscape, cold and ,
bare, ia reflected in ita pnre depths; the '
winds ruffle its glassy surface, and the
snn fills it with throbbing spangles,
while ita waves begin to lap and mnr
mnr around ita leafless shores—son -
spangles and stars ita only flower*, the
winds and the snow ita only visi
tors. Meanwhile the glacier continues
■o recede, and numerous rills, still {
younger than the lake iteelf, bring
down glacier mod, sand-grains and I
pebbles, giving rise to margin-rings and I
plats of aoil. To these fresh soil-beds
come many a waiting plant. Firat, a
hardy carex, with arching leaves and a I
spike of brown flowers; then, aa the
*eaon grows warmer, and the ami-beds
deeper and wider, other sedges take
their appointed places, and these are
joined by blue gentians, daisies, dode
rath eons, violets, bont yworts and many
a lowly moss. Shrubs also hasten in
time to the new gardens—kalmia, with
its glossy leaves and |mrple flowers,
the Arctic willow, making soft woven j
carpets, together with the heathy
bryanthus and oassiope—the fairest and
dearest of them all. Insects now en
rich the air, frog* pipe cheerily in the
shallows, soon followed by the ousel,
which is the first bird to visit a glacier
lake, aa the sedge ia the first of plants
So the young lake grows in beentr,
becoming more and more humanly
lovable from oentnry to centory.
droves of aspen spring np, and
hardy pines, and the Williamson
spruce, until richly overshadowed
sod empowered. Bnt while its
shores are being enriched, the soil
beds creep out with incessant growth,
contracting its area, while the lighter
mud particles deposited on the bottom
cause it to grow oonatantly shallower,
until at length the last remnant of lbs
lake vanishes—claaod forever in ripe
and natural old age. And now ita feed
ing stream goes winding on through the
new gardens and groves that have taken
its piece without halting for a moment.
There ia no good reason why it should
be so, but doll babies are always girls.
CHINED BY WOCP-IHMJK.
Il*w I'tarlMWarrra NI44aN Hrvkr 111.
Arm an Ifcr Komun I'nmpasns.
W delisted over black coffee until
the lout number of the concert iu the
piazza had ended in a flourish of trum
pets, and then, without further hcsita
tion, we ordered ateedM and a wore we
would croaa the campagna at midnight,
through fever and damp, apite of the
brigands and the sheep-dogs and the
black holea that line the solitary road to
Rome.
It waa twelve midnight when we
mounted. The bell of aome convent
in the hilla waa calling the monka from
aleep to prayer; the piazza waa de
aei ted; a few friends who had supped
with na atood by ua to the last, and we
turned from them aa they atood in tlie
warm light of the cafe—the only light
visible at that hour—and departed un
der a thick shower of benedictions.
The long road wound down the hill
between high walla and terraoed gar
dena. From time to time we paaaeJ
the way-aide shrines so common in
Oatliolio countries; broad bars of light
fell across our path, for there waa ever
a lamp lit by some faithful hand and
burning brightly at the feet of the Ma
donna. The way grew lonely. We set
forth with songs, but our voices were
lost in the immense, the eternal silence
of the vast and vaoant land.
It came at last—a low growl, away off
in the Slackness of darkness; a long,
low, wolfish growl that ended in a sharp
and vicious yelp, which was followed by
a chorus of howls and barks that chill
ed the very marrow in our bones.
" Avanti 1" cried our guide, aa be
plunged the spnra into his horse's
flanks and dashed forward into tbe
night. We followed as beat we conld;
followed madly, knowing not whither
we went, but seeking to keep within
sound of the boofs that now thundered
njion the road like hail.
The wolf-dogs were upon na—mon
sters that guard the flocks in the cam
pagna and are the terror of all pedes
trians, for iu their case escape is impos
sible, aud more than one mangled corpse
has bocu found by the waysule in the
morning, the partially devoured re
mains of aome belated pilgrim, whose
only memorial is one of the small black
crosses that are so frequent in aome
parts of Italv, aud mark the spot where
Idood has lieeu accidentally or unlaw
fully shed. The air was* filled with
hideous yelps of the infnristed pack,
and the whole campagna seemed alive
with monsters clamoring for blood.
Weplnnged lDtotbn darkness, reiving |
upon the instinct o( otir horses to keep
the road. Once off it we mmt fall into
one of the ditches that follow it at in
terrala, or Lave driven full rpeed
against tbe low walla tl>at border aome
oil tbe meadow landa, and in either case
nor d struct ion waa inevitable. I was'
following tbe party, bringing np tbe
rear of tbe procession— Indian file— j
when snddenly everything went from
under me, and in tbe next moment I
waa groveling among looae atone*, with
my horse vainly striving to regain bia
feet at my aide. Tbe whole earth sank
at that moment, and out of the chao*
that followed came fearful voice* asking
if I waa hurt. I thought not, but be
fore I oould render this verdict a two
edged agony went corkscrew fashion
through my arm, from the shoulder to
tbe wrist,* and then returned to tbe
elbow, where it threw on I a thousand
red-hot tendrils and alruck root forever |
and ever.
Meanwhile a pack of dog*, awakened
by tbe clamor, bore down upon our
quarter, and we were in danger of being
intercepted, but with draperate baste
we passed them just as tbey leaped the
wayside wall and struck into the road,
gnashing their teeth with rage at the
very feet of our horses. It was a nar
row eaoajie; one poor devil waa struck
by tbe flying heels of my borae and .
knocked endwise, and theu we saw dim
ly the gray shadowy forms slackening
the r pace. Gradually tbe whole tribe
retreated, the noise subsided, and there
came the gratefnllest season of silence
that ever crept into my life.— Latter in
San Fratfitco Chronicle.
>ecdlo- flaking.
Needles are made from soft steel wire,
which is received from the manufactory
to coils. The wire is cut by fixed shear*
into lengths sufficient to make two
needles. These blanks, being bent, re
quire atraigbteuinc. which is done by
placing several thousands of them be
tween two brosd. besvy rings, snd heat
ing them to redness in a furnace. Tbey
are then removed and placed, still in
positiou within the rings, on s flat iron
plate, and by mean* of a curved bar,
termed a smooth flic, rolled hack and !
forth until perfectly straight. Each
piece is then sharpened at both ends.
The workman takes up a numl>er at a
time and holda the ends against a grind
stone, forming the points. By means
of a die and counterdie, two grooves are
stamped by a press on each ride of the
wire, which Is next pierced under a
press with two holes, forming the eyes.
A number of pieces are then strung
on two floe wires and broken each in
two by filing and bending. The rough
ness about the heed is removed by fil
ings, several at a time being placed'in a
•mall viae. During these processes the
needle*, having Income somewhat bent,
are straightened by rolling on a fiat
plate, as before. They are now brought
to a red head, and tempered by plung
ing tbem into oil. Fifty thousand at a
time are then put in a canvas bag with
emery, oil. putty-powder and soft soap,
and rolled to and fro under pressure
until they become bright. The better
class of needles have their eyes drilled.
The final process is polishing tbe points,
which is effected first by arotahng bone,
and afterward by a buff-wheel. Of late
years machines have been introduced by
which needle* are formed from tbe roll
of wire without the intervention of hard
labor.
Widow Mar* Janette Bell ta atUI liv
ing at Kankakee, 111. She is 100 years
of age. ttiie waa born in 1780, the year
of Napoleon'* birth. She tew NanoWn
aa " The Little Corporal," knew Bobes
pietrc, was surged in the crowd that
witnessed the execution of the Hixhmath
lands, and remembers when Marie An
toinette a blood was spilt Old Mother
Bell measures five inches less in bright
tbae she did twenty years ago, bet her
• tongue hasn't shriveled in the least—
AVw York M tea
Item* of fa'erest.
The man who kicks football throws
his whole sole into his boot.
A man a character ia like a fence— Yoo
auuot strengthen it by whitewash.
Ralston, the great California banker,
according to a rumor on the Paoiflcooaat,
is still alive and living in the south of
Europe, the drowned body which waa
found having been the corpae of a man
so closely resembling Ralston that
every one waa deceived, aa it waa
planned that they ehould be.
" I can stand it well enough," remark
ed old man Jaoobs, " to ait and listen to
a barber's opinions on finance while he
Jilayfnlly flourishes the razor over my
ugnlar vein, but when be becomes so
' much absorbed in conversation that he
absent-mindedly wipes tbe lather off on
my coat sleeve, it sort 'er riles mo.
llrynolda Herald.
Japan cultivates about 9,000,000 acres,
one-tenth of ber entire area, though
about one-fourth of ber fertile area.
Hbe supports a population of three and
one-half persona to every cultivated
acre. Most of ber people live on flab
and vegetables ; her great lack ia live
stock. Milk ia not used as sn article of
food, aud what few cows they possess
are employed for plowing.
AM EItTATB.
The following ia taken from the
churchyard of Bterling, and ia tbe
epitaph of Alexander K. Miffln, chief
constable of Stirlingshire :
" Our life U but a muter'* day
Horn* only breakfast and away;
Others to dinner stay and are foil fed .
Tbe ot>lest man but sou* and goes to bed.
large Is bis debt that angers ont tbe day,
lie thai goes aoonest baa the least to pay.
Method ia essential, and enable* a
larger amount of work to be got through
with satisfaction. "Method," said
Cecil (afterward Lord Burleigh), "ia
like packing things in a box; a good
packer will get In half as much again as
a trad one." Oecil'a despatch of busi
ness waa extraordinary, his nmiie
licing, " The shortest way to do many
things ia to do only one tiling at oDce."
The drunkenness of Edgar Allen Foe
was recently under discussion by a
Richmond temperance society. A speak
er dwelt on the poet's disgraceful death.
Dr. Mason, wbo attended him in hi*
last illne**, replied : "Re died like a
gentleman. For days before his death
he utterly refused stimulants of all
kinds to allay his nervous excitement,
and died a sober man, truly penitent for
his past career."
Just about this time of year our ex
changes with one * coord unite in trotting
ont the venerable Joe Miller in various
stages of mutilation about a \ mao i
f VOI&AQ )
who went to market and told tbe dealer
that | | kept boarders and wanted
him ftbe market man) to pick out half
a doxen of the oldest and toughest
{ hens ]
■( } he had. Which being done,
I turkeys I
J she | purchaser replied with a
sardonic grin, " I'll take the other lot."
These are all the versions we know ; our
readers can take their choice. <W.
Albans Advertiser.
Better and Ckmf.
The production erf batter end cheese
in the United State* an a specialty ban
a history of only thirty Tear*. It began
in the eastern pari of New York State,
then extended westward until it became
the leading industry in the State. In
Pennsylvania tbe beat counties are de
voted to dairy farming. The northern
part of Ohio make* it a specialty. In a
; large part of Michigan, northern Illi- /
now, Wisconsin and lowa, cheese sod
butter making is tbe chief industry.
Colorado has several eheeee factor tee;
and within tbe laat ten veers California
has changed from an importer to an ex
porter of butter and cheese. Fifteen
yearn ago Chicago merchants obtained
their supplies of eheeee from tbe East:
now, 100,000,000 pound* pass through
thai citv annually for New York. Tne
value of the land and stock employed in
famishing milk, batter and cheese in
the United States is estimated at f1.800,-
000,000. Over 8,000 factor!** are en
gaged in the manufacture of these
articles, besides the tens of thousands
of private dairies. One manufacturer in
western New York baa over forty fac
tories. Others in different parts of tbe
oonntry have from five to thirty eaofc.
There are several firms in New York
city who handle from two to three mil
lion dollar*' worth of butter and eheeee
-a .. annually.
The annual production of cheeae iu
tbe United State* ia estimated at 850.-
000,000 pounds, and of butter 1,500,
000,000 pounds. The value of tbe two
ia about 1850.000,000, one-seventh more
than the hay crop, one-third more than 1
tbe cotton crop, sad only one-fifth less
than the corn crop. There are mors
than 18,000,000 cows in the United
States, which is over six times the num
ber in Great Britain, MM! more than
twice the number in France, The pro
duction of butter and cheese in ttte
country baa increased thirty-three per
cent, during the present year, and the
exports are said to have increased tn the
earns proportion. The eheeee sod batter
exported this year have paid freight ke
ocean transportation companies amount
ing to f1.000,000 or almost enowgh te
support a line of ocean steamers. They
K| ■ r to railroad companies annually cr.sr
milk pays ncarlr as i
The following table exhibits Urn export
brads of this country ia butter and
cheese for the past twenty yean:
Batter, fee. Gbaasatta.
IM BOftUI? SMSLttP
1000 4.471,008 7.10k am
" 7.SKI 14.414,709
1001.. 14 Ml SSI oß.ott.oM
toot tt 001,047 M. 041 ore
1000 04 171,414 41 044. OK
1004 M.MO 496 , 47.741,0tt
1004 ttOOSIM tt.ott.ott
1000 Bow aw tt 4ii,ott
WOT tlliw SB Ott 187
I Ott 2.071 .079 SIOfT.m
1000 . 1,914 Ott MttW
IR7i ... . seisms 47.000,007
im 8008 wo oaottttv
ton 7.740.041 M.WMtt
1079, 4410 044 w'^tp
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