iIMKLY TOPIC*.
Russian salad is made by cutting up
raw apples and every kind of available
vegetable into small slioes and laying
them in a shallow dish with salt, a little
vinegar and pepper, and the beat oil.
The dressing mnst thoroughly saturate
the mixture for at least twelve hours,
and then the effect is aaid to be found
very agreeable.
A fanciful geniua baa suggested to the
/Menti/lo American that it ia now time
to oelebrate the completion of the first
cubio mile of humanity, and gives a cal
culation to ahow that the bodies of all
mankind, from the first Adam down to
the present, if closely packed without
diminution of volume, would exactly
fill that space ; the aggregate weight of
all mankind to date is estimated at 4,212
million tons.
A manufactory of paper bricks has
been opened somewhere in Wisconsin.
The bricks are said to be exceedingly
durable and moisture-proof. They are
also larger than the clay article. Paper
is now alao uaed for making barrels.
Straw pulp is run into a mold made in the
shape of a half barrel, ont vertically.
The ends are of paper, bnt are protected
by wood. The barrels are lighter and
two-thirds cheaper than those of wood,
and flour will not sift out of them while
in transit. The staves are three-eighths
of an inch thick.
When it become?, known in the neigh
borhood of Charles Pixsola's aanaage
factory, in San Franeiaoo, that he waa
buying cats, the exoitement waa intense.
The story went that the boys had cap
tured dosens of cats for him, and that,
whenever one waa sold to him, he cut off
its tail with a cleaver, stuck the stump
into a pail of salt, and then turned the
maimed brute into a room, from which
it never came out alive. A oat with its
tail cut off is believed to fatten quickly;
so the conclusion waa that Pizzola was
fattening cats for aanaage. He was
arrested on a charge of cruelty and fined
25; bnt he proved that he had bought
only four cats, and had put them to
•catohing rata in his factory.
William J. Wilson, the oolored man
who founded the Freedman's bank, haa
just died at Washington. He waa a man
of energy and activity, and well educat
ed, and started a freedman's bank in the
oellar of a building in the central part
of Washington, to which speedily the
colored intrusted their savings. Boon
he moved into more pretentions quarters
and might have got along nioely had he
not listened to friends who urged him to
apply to Congress for u charter for the
hank and power to start branch institu
tions. From the first the bank grew,
until there were at leaat 100 branches
in the different Southern cities. When
the bank went down all of Wilson's pro
perty went down with it His daughter, •
who had led oolored fashionable society
in Washington, got a situation as teach- i
r, and Wilson obtained a clerkship in
the postoffloe. He was fiftv nine at the
time of his death, and an LL. D. of an
■Ohio college.
Nix Charlie Res ia the Field.
Although four years anu a naif have j
passed since the kidnapping of Charlie
Rosa, the father avers he baa never
given np the search. At the present
time he is engaged in looking np six
different dew*. One of them is in Ana- i
tralia. and be ia daily expecting a letter
detailing the history of the diaooverv of
the boy. There are two more in Eng
land, and a fourth in the mountain fast
nesses of Wales. That the interest of
the pnblic in the case is not abated is
manifested in tbe numerous letter*,
which Mr. Ross continues to receive.
On an average be gets a letter every
day from some person who ia oertain he |
has seen a child living nnder suspicions
circumstance*, or resembling the por
traits of Charlie.
In the course of his journeying Mr. i
Roes aays he has found that a majority
of these ohildren are the offspring of
people who have separated through
domestic troables, and have been placed
in some out-of-the-way place by either
mother or father in revenge. The boy
found in Bradford oonnty, supposed to
have been Charlie, waa taken from his
mother in Vermont.
Mr. Roes has almost arrived at tbe
condnaion that his boy ia not secreted
in tbe country. He thinks, if be is
alive, it is moat likely that he ia in
New York, in some crowded tenement
house, where the people are used to
seeing children rnn around without
parents. He said that he knew of one
case where an Italian had a child living
on tbe fifth floor of a tenement that
none of the other 1 u ma tea had ever seen.
He haa not given np all hope, and saya
that every case presented to him, hav
ing the least aign of probability, will
be carefully investigated. Rradtng
iPa,) Eag!*.
Bpaalsk Agriculture.
la moat of the little fields the soil
tu being turned np for the reception
of seed by s method quite novel to me;
s laborious. but a moat thorough one.
The implement was at wo- pronged a tea]
fork. The prong* were over two feet
loog and six inches apart, and joined
together with a square shoulder, from
which a straight wooden handle three
three feet in length extended. These
tools weighed altogether from ten to
fifteen pounds, snd were strongly made.
Tha operation is as follows: The dig
gers, generally fire in number, stand in
a row eloae together, working book
ward. Simultaneously they raise their
forks perpendicularly np, as high as
possible, and then bring them down
with all their foroe, driving the sharp
prongs eighteen inches more or less into
the bard ground; then, taking hold of
the ex trami ties of the bandies with their
two bands, to get the utmost leverage,
they throw themselves backward, each
prising np a fangs chunk of soil. Two
■other laborers follow in front, and,
armed with heavy hoes, break all extra
arge chunks to pieoea with smart blows.
Seven men so working get over the
ground astonishingly quick, and tarn it
up in a most effective manner. A
heavy wooden barrow, of primitive oon
atraotion, drawn by a yoke of oxen,
finishes the preps ration of the soil.—
On Foot throuffh Spain.
There are about fi,000.000 plows in
nee throughout the United States.
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Thrilling Incident of n Flood.
Daring the heavy flood nt Paterson,
N. J., an exciting iooident oocarred:
The hill where the Paaaaio fella are aitu
ated wae thronged with visitors through
oat the day. Juat almve tbo river had
stretched aorona the meadow*, catting
ofT the road, and forming an immenae
pond. Oat of thin the water poured
into the rooky gorge which form* the
approach to the fall, and auoh waa it*
volume that the chaam into which the
fall tnmblea, seventy feet in depth, waa
filled ball up with the flood, which roar
ed ao aa to be heard a mile away, and
aent oat a spray that fell for many yards
around like a heavy rain.
At this point in the afternoon an inci
dent occurred that startled beyond ex
pression the thousand spectators there
assembled. A boy ten years old waa
driving an open wagon along the road
by the aide, above the fall a con
siderable distance. At points the road
over which he was driving waa sub
merged, but not to a great depth, and
he had made several fords ancceaafnlly.
A man walking along the road hailed
him and asked for a lift; the boy took
him in, and the two drove along to
gether. Presently they came to a point
where the lamp posts along the side of
the rood were almost half buried in the
water, bat the boy whipped aphis horse
and drove in. All at onoo the two in
the wagon felt the body of the same
lifted an by the water, and they floated
off, while the horse oontinued on with
the wheels. The body of the wagon
floated out on the broad pond that has
been mentioned. The water was com
paratively smooth, but still the current
was strong, and the wagon body was
earned with considerable rapidity in tho
direction of the fall. Throngs of per
sons were walking along the aide of the
stream, and they saw the novel craft
borne away. A hundred yards ahead of
where the two were a bridge crosses the
river, and jast beyond that oocnra a
slight fall in the bed of tho stream, and
from there on the water roahed like an
arrow to the fall, only a short way dis
tant. Aa the vagon liody drew on faster
and faster toward the bridge its occu
pents could see the spray of the fall and
hear its roar. The boy was frighteued
and tried to jnmp out, but the man held
him tight. The screams of the little
fellow could be heard by those on shore.
Everybody rnshed to the aide of the
water; a hundred directions were called
ont, bnt nobody knew what to do. As
the wagon body came nearer to the
bridge, women screamed and ran away.
The bridge waa reached, and the pair
aeemed now beyond help, and then help
came. A man driving over the bridge
saw, as everybody did, the strange craft
sweeping down,"and having bia wits
about him, jumped from his wagon,
nnstrapped the reins from his horse,
and directed another driver to do the
same. The two pairs of reins were
strapped together and thrown over the
rail of the bridge. The end fell into the
water, and aa the wagon body, going
now with immense velocity, came near,
the man above cried ont to the pair be
low to catch hold. The reins were held
right in the ooarae of the wagon body,
and as this swept by the man, holding
fast to the boy, grabbed at them, and
caught them, and the two were drawn
safely upon the bridge, while the wagrn
body dashed over the fall.
Wonderful Narrative of • Rat
While workmen were tearing np the
old floor of a freight bonne at Auburn,
N. Y., they came acroea an nnused scale
box dome eight incbea deep, and abont
four feet aqnare. It waa pned np from
it* position, and aa it waa being raised,
a rattling aonnd waa heard inside. The
men broke it open, when ont daahed a
monatroua rat. Ohaae waa given the
rodent, bnt the aaimal managed to ea
oape br running into a pile of freight
The rat waa aa large aa a gnod-aised
kitten, and ao gray from age that it waa
almoet white. The bottom of the box
from which it emerged waa found to be
ooverod to the depth of an inch or more
with peanut shuoka, oorn, corn oobe and
the like. The only opening that oonld
be discovered waa a ntnall hole abont an
inch and three-fonrtha in dinmeter
through which a rod had paaeed. When
yonng and email, the rat, it ia enppoeed,
crawled into the box, and after gorging
iteelf with plunder waa unable to get ont
and Uina became an involuntary priaoner.
It gradually grew nntil it reached enor
mous proportion*. The litter found in
the box indicated that other rata fed it,
and thna kept it from atarvation. The
rodent waa nndonbtedly confined for
several years, and the action of the
other animala in supplying it with means
of subsistence, shows a degree of intelli
gence that the rat has never been giver
credit for. How tha imprisoned rat ob
tained water or other liqnida to quench
its thirst, is a mystery ; bnt that it waa
ia the box for several yean there can
be no donbt. Had it not been for the
accidental discovery, the nt would have
remained in its prison nntil it died of
sheer old age. It* long imprisonment
did not seem to impair ita physical
qualities to any extent, M waa evidenced
by the sprightly manner in which it
dodged abont to get away from the
workmen when it waa released. The
men oonld have killed it readily had
they not been taken ao completely by
surprise at the unexpected appearance
of the rodent They did not deem it
possible that even a rat oonld crawl
through such a small aperture.
The Bulk Hilver Hakes.
The new vault in the United States
treasury, in New York, which baa been
prepared for the storage of silver dol
lars, is forty-sight feat in length, thirty
feet in width and twelve feet in hcighth.
If every available inch should be
packed solidly with 412} grain dol
lars it would not hold far from forty
million dollars. Kvery one knows that
silver is bulky, but few persons are
aware bow bulky it is. A bag of 1,000
Il2t grain dollars weighs 50 8-16 pounds
averdnpei*. Accordingly 100,000 of
these dollars weigh not far from three
tons. If a merchant or banker having
a payment of |60,000 to make is com
pelled by oirouDistances to pay with
silver dollar*, be won hi need a vehicle
as strong and as large as an ordinary
coal "art (mads to carry a km of coal)
to transport them, and if this should be
heaped op no morn than 82,000 silver
douan oouid be loaded on it.
SHIPWRECKED HEROES.
TwwlDfamatwrs ml Ihw Hwa KeeallM-.Vfaalr
Hwll.Usalal la flat mi Parti.
It was at two o'clock on the morning
of the 26th of February, 1852, that the
troopship Birkenhead, having on board
a large number of aoldiers, with the usual
proportion of women and children, 631
souls in *ll, struck on * rock near Point
Danger, Cape of Good Hope, and filled.
Captain Halmond was in command of
the vessel ; Lien tenant-Colonel Beton,
of the Beventy-eighth Highland) ra, of
the soldiers. Of course the pins of the
davits had rusted and the larger boats
con Id not be launched ; but two cutter*
and a gig were got out and manned, and
the women and children placed in them.
Tho oolonel " summoned his offloera to
a consultation and impressed upon them
the necessity of composure aud of pre
serving discipline among their men to
the very last." At this moment the
ahip parted, and the foro part went
down, and the word waa passed that fur
ther effort was in vain ; let each do the
bent he oould to secure hia individual
safety. A few men jumped overboard,
but the remaiuder collected on the poop,
soldiers and seamen alike, " steady,
quiet and resolute." The captain
retained hia post, cool and collected, aa
if there waa a ship under him, and Col
onel Beton, with his drawn sword in
hand, stood in the gangway to cut down
any one who might endeavor to force
hia way toward the boats. When tbe
ahip reeled and quivered ere going
down, Captain Balmond shouted, " Let
all who can swrim now try to save them
selves." One man exclaimed, " Make
for tbe boats I" as he threw himaelf into
the waves, but " the oolonel and hia
officers entreated their men—and not in
vain—not to attempt an entrance into
tbe boats, which were already frilly load
ed with women and and children.' Tbe
officers now shook hands and took leave
of one another, when, on a sodden, the
vessel broke again crosswise, abaft tbe
mainmast, and the poop, heeling over
with a lurch, plunged beneath the
water," only twenty minutes from the
time she struck. The captain was
brained by a falling spar ; the oolonel
was drowned, and of the hnndred* so
mdely awakened only 184 lived to tell
the atory of the Birkenhead; but among
them were all the women and all tbe
children.
In the other instance to be recorded
the men who died lacked tbe example of
superiors who had long commanded
them, and to obey whom was socond
nature; but the circumstances were even
more tragic, tbe agony was infinitely
longer, and the heroic triumph perhaps
even greater. The story of the Central
America waa once in everybody's month,
yet to how many folk of this generation
does Herndon's name recall Herndon's
deed ?
The Central America nailed from Ha
vana for New York, Bepteml>er 8,1857.
with a crew of 101 men, besides 491
passenger*, many ol them miner* return
ing with their gold or for their farailiea,
ami many of them women and children.
" Many were possessed of large sums ;
and them were but few whose wealth
did not number hundreds, while many
reckoned their gold by thousands of
<k>llara." When aba was twenty-four
hour* out a gale sprang up that anon
increased to a hurricane ; by the morn
ing of tbe 11th the captain waa apprehen
sive ; anon after the vessel sprang a
leak, and though all bauds were set to
work the inflowing water put out the
Area and the ahip fell helpless into the
trough of the sea. Once again by bail
ing she waa freed so that they could start
i the fires, but the pumpa became disar
ranged and the water gained on them
terribly. Tbe captain cut away the fore
mast so aa to make a drag, bnt when it
fell It was dragged beneath tbe bull,
and pounding the ship's wounded aides,
made the leak worse. By paying out a
hawser they extemporised a drag and
i brought the ahip head on, bnt it anon
(Muted and left bar at the mercy of the
sravea. The water had gained till the
women and children were driven to take
refuge in tbe men's cabin ; there there
waa sneh a scene aa not even the annals
of shipwreck can parallel. Gold lay
abont, minted, in dnat, in ingots, by
thonaanda and thousand* of dollars.
Borne men bound it round their bodies
with belts and in handkerchiefs to carry
them down more swiftly when tbe fatal
plunge came | "others', unwilling to be
weighted in tbe atruggle by their bur
den of dross, were neattering it wildly
abont the cabin floors. Full pouches
lay untouched upon the sofas. One of
! the passengers, who afterward escaped,
flung about tbe cabin $20,000 aod bade
wbo would satisfy hia thirst for
gold, but it was passed by." Terrible
as the prospect was, the courage exhib
ited waa marvelous, and not even tbe
women shed a tear. On the afternoon
of Baturday they bailed the brig Marine,
of Boston, which had suffered cruelly in
the a term, bnt promised to do her beat
to relieve them. "Until her hopeful
appearance," wrote a woman passenger,
" not a tear bad been abed that I am
aware of on board the steamer. Till
the moment we first espied the nail
which we believed brought na relief, we
bad remained passively awaiting the
result. Them seemed to be a perfect
calmness, which I could not have be
lieved it possible for so met a number
of persona to exhibit under aneh fearful
circumstances. Bat when the brig bore
in eight there were tear* of joy, and the
men Worked with renewed energy and
hope. The women beeooght them to
work with all their might and aaid they
would themselves assist in the labor U
the men did not do their beet. In feet
some of them were so eager to help that
they even tried to pat oa men's cloth
ing in order to go and work at the
pumps." It was 8.80 when the brig
oame under the Central America's stern,
and, without any unneoeeeary delay, be
gan removing the women and children.
The task was not easy, for the smaller
vessel drifted slowly away, and the boats
took longer and longer at each trip ; be
sides, so heavy was the sea, they aonld
Shot a few at a time. •• The men
no attempt to save themselves
until all the women and children were
saved. Again and again the teat re
amed ; again ami again die made for
the brig with bar precious freight; yet
not a murmur waa heard ; no exclama
tion of eel fish despair arose I A| length
every women had bean securely trans
ported to the brig: then catne the turn
of the otww sou the male Dgsygagmu.
About forty of these reeobM Murine
before the ship went down." Moet of
the crew ana many of the paasnuger*
were still toiling at the ineffectual
pumpa, and the captain atood by the
wheel, airing ordern firmly and ottering
cbeerfnl eihortationa. Hehsd dcc'nred
thathe would not quit the abip. "Thank
God," he raid to a friend, " the women
and ohildr* n are aafe ; do yon lake the
next l>ont." He attempted to charge
bin friend with a farewell mengage to hia
wife, but hia emotion oeeroame him ;
after a few momenta he reoorered him,
aelf, and continued to direct affair* at
the boat returned from the brig. It waa
juat eight o'clock when a groat ware
amote the Central America and neut her
down with eome five hundred men.
When Mr. George, a aurriror, came up
from what he thought an unfathomable
depth, there woe in the water "a crowd
of heads." But the weaker Boon went
down, and the waves began to no par ate
the dee pairing oompany. " Many were
desiroua to iaolate themaelrea aa much
aa possible, leat they ahould be dragged
down in aome deeperate atruggle for
life. Others, afraid of the lonelineaa,
cried to their neigh bora to keep to
gether." One by one they went down
and only four of their number were
aared aome houra later, aa if by a mira
cle. " I waa forced by the wind," writea
the captain of the bark Ellen, "to sail
a little out of my course. Juat aa I bad
altered it a email bird flew acroaa the
ahip once or twioe and then darted
agaioat my face. I, however, took no
notice of this circumstance till praciaely
the name tiling occurred the seoond
time, which canned me to think it some
what remarkable. While I waa thus re
flecting about the incident, the name
mynterioun bird, for the third time,
made ita appearance and went through
the verrname extraordinary maneuver*.
Upon this I waa induced to re-alter my
courae into the original one in which I
had at first been steering. I hail not
gone far when I beard ntraDge noiaea,
and on endeavoring to dinoover from
whenoe they proceeded, I found I was
in the midst of people who had been
shipwrecked."
Richard the Third.
Wi ham Winter, the well-known New
York dramatic critic, given the follow
ing graphic pen picture of Richard
Them are authentic portraits of
Richard 111. One depicts him as at
tired in a close suit of soarlct, over
which hangs a robe of cloth of gold, aud
on his head a black cap adorned with a
pearl. Another present* him in a black
cap, a body suit of cloth of gold, and a
black robe, with black and red sleeves.
He was below the ordinary height, but
muscular and very atrong. His frame
waa thin and compact. One of his
shoulders waa slightly higher than the
other. Hia neck was abort, and hia head
habitually dropped forward. Hia face
was short ; hia complexion pale olive,
and hia hair dark brown ; his eyes were
dark and very fine ; hia cheeks sunken,
and hia features regular and aquiline.
Hi* fore bead massive and majestic ; and
hia voice was remarkably sweet. He had
a habit of playing with the handle of
hia dagger, and ol alidiug a ring on and
off one of his fingers.
Tbe character of Gloster ia that of the
worst of human monsters —a wicked
man of genius. Tbe nglineaa of hia
soul iasymbolixed by the nglineaa of hia
body. Bitter, fiery, arrogant, cruel,
crafty, impelled by an energy which
never baits nor flags, he ia determined
o rule a world which he despises and
contemns, and by which be ia feared and
bated. Ilia intellect ia towering and
royal. He look* down upon human
passions, and make* them his play
things. He usea all men, and be trust*
no one. He ia alone, aud he walks
alone in hia blood-stained, haunted
pathway to imperial power. He known
himself, and i never fooled. His hypoc
risy deceives others ; it never deceives
him. But he ia human, and hear* a
conscience, and through that the ever
watchful Nemesis strikes him at last
During the earlier and larger part of
hia career—although the subtle inter
preter of him will indicate that bia re
morse and hia miserable suffering* are
almost coincident with bia ontnrs, and
are all the while slowly gathering way—
not Niagara itself ia more steadfast in ita
courae than ia the current of hia tremen
dous will. But, when hia crimes and
his remorse are at their worst, a moth
er's curse smiles him. through crown,
aud mail, ami royal robes, and from
that moment bia genius begins to with
er. Hia awfnl deeda rush back upon
him. The grave give* np it* deii to
haunt him. Fear—a new phantom,
more hideous than the rest—appalls bin
sou! ; and he leaps, in fiend-like fury
and viper-like malignity, to a deep< rate
and bloody death.
Female Clerks at Washington.
The first female clerks in the national
treasury, aaya a New Tork paper, were
appointed in 1862 by Secretary Ob see,
who placed them in the office of the
comptroller of the currency at SOOO a
year. Tbey out ami trimmed the United
State* notes issued in sheets, and did
tbeir work very well Aa soon aa tbey
bad been appointed there were many
other applicants, and their number
steadily increased, many of them
securing places through the peculiar
energy and perseverance which will
refuse to take no for an answer. There
are now more than 1.800 women
in the departments at Washington, the
majority employed in the bureau of
engraving sod printing and in the gov
ernment printing office. Tbey excel aa
counter*, their slender, *en*itive finger*
turning notes with greet rapidity and
exactness. Tbey detect counterfeits, it
is said, quicker than men, though they
do not suooeed eo well in accounts,
the average feminine- mind baa litUe
natural love of figures. Counter* and
copyists receive s'■* l a year; other wo
men f1,900 to $1,400, several of them
11.000, and one in the internal revenue
SI,BOO. Most of the clerks are well
educated and refined, and many have
seen more prosperous daya A number
btj widows and daughter* of
army awl naval officer* who lost
their lives in the civil war. Very few
of the young women or widows marry
or resign, and consequently the hun
dred* who are ooostaatly seeking places
in Washington have very slender prow
peeta of eucoeea. Tim most untiring,
obstinate place seeker* at the federal
capital a— wain.
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Jugglers and Jagglrry.
Speaking of the late Robert Heller, a
New York correspondent cava: Thia
man waa a very accomplished juggler ;
and vet hia feata never eqnaled those ..f
the Orientala. The popularity of aoch
exhibitiona in found in the success
v/birh attends ita le-at practitioners.
Both Bignor lilit* and the Pakir of Ava
left large estates, and Heller alao was
rich. One of the oldest referenoee to
jugglery la found in Porphvry (A. D.
260), who speaks of those " who showed
apparitions of tba goda in the air."
Jugglery lives age after age, and yet
there are no schools for instruction, nor
do we know how theae wonderful tricks
are acquired. As a general rule the
practitioner must be adapted by nature
to the business and take to it from in
clination. It is said that jugglery origi
nated in Egypt, so famed as a land of
mystery, whenoe the art spread to
Greece and Rome. Americans never
have excelled in it, and our best practi
tioners are foreigners.
The most famous juggler of modern
daya waa Robert Hondin, wbo com
bined great skill in legerdemain with
rare knowledge of mechanics. He waa
a native of France, and waa intended for
the bar, but abandoned legal studies for
the study of a juggler. After thia he
went to Paris and beoame absorbed in
mechanical wonders. At the age of
forty he waa the m<mt accomplished
juggler in Europe, and bis skill in me
chanics enabled him to introduce new
and startling feats. He was the only
man of this craft honored by an invita
tion to before Queen Victoria,
which he did with marvelous anooeaa.
In 1865 Houdin (then fifty) attended
the Paris exposition. Here lie obtained
the gold metal for a method of apply
ing electricity to clocks, and he then
retired with a large fortune. Two year*
afterward he published his life and ad
ventures, which forms a very entertain
ing book.
A Stone la a Horse's Jaw
For a long time a lump baa been ob
servable in the aide of the jaw of a horse
belonging to Superintendent Osbiaton,
of the Gould and Curry and Beat and
Belcher mines. Yesterday a velerinsrv
surgeon made an incision, and to hi*
astonishment brought to light a hard
and smooth stone, alwnt two inches
long and one inch in diameter. The
stone was of a yellowish white color,
and apparently as hard as marble. In
order to make sure an to the nature of
the stone, Mr. Osbmtou took it hi a
jewelry store aud had it sawed in two
lengthwise. When it was cut there
| was seen in ita center what had once nn
j doubtedly been a grain of barley, half
I of which waa visible in each piece of the
stone, Uie grain looking aa though pet-
I rifled. Around thia nucleus the stone
. bad formed in regular layer* or growths,
l the rings of which were distinctly to be
) traced. The material of which the
atone waa formed appeared to be the
! same sa la fouud in the incruatrationa
on the tnbea of (anient. It la thought
that the grain of barley pierced the skin
of the horse's mouth aod imbedded it
. self in the flesh ; and that the aaliva
then deposited upon it limy matter.
The stone ia as bard aa marble, sod the
, annular marking* are very distinct.—
j Virginia (St# (JVoi.l Entrrprimr.
Excessive PeUteecs*.
The Htinoa ft re ■ very polite people,
fto over-polite that they not inlraqranlly
hring down ridicule njpon themselves.
It lifted to he (old in Dresden in Can •
•etir'e student iliti that I stranger in
the city ni one day rroesing the irat
bridge that spans the El lie, and aooosted
a native with a request to be directed to
a certain chnrcb which be wished to
find. " Really, my dear air," raid the
Dreadener, bowing low, "I grieve
greatly to aay it, bnt I cannot tell yon."
The M ranger passed on, a little enrpria
ed at thia volnble anawer to a simple
question. He had proceeded bat a few
rode when he heard harried footstepe
behind him, and turning aaw the name
man mnning to catch np with him. In
a moment his pnraner waa at hia aide,
bia breath nearly gone, bnt enoagh left
to aay : •' My dear air, yon aaked me
bow yon oould And the chnrcb, and it
■rained me to have to aay tbat I did not
know. Jaat now I met my brother and
aaked him, bnt I grieve to aay tbat be
did not know either."— Hint cm TYan
tcripf.
The Wwrld a Tribunal.
A man, naid Emerson, passes for what
be ia worth. Very idle ia all enrioaity
concerning other people'a eatimate of
on ; and all fear of remaining nnknown
ia not leaa eo. If a man know that be
can do anything, that be can do it better
than any one elae, he baa a pledge of
the acknowledgment of tbat fact by all
persons. The world ia fall of judgment
dftvn, and into every sftsembly tbat a
man enters, in every action be attempta
be ia gauged and stamped. In every
troop of boy* that wboop and ran in
each yard and square, a new oomer ia aa
well and accurately weighed in the
oonrae of a few daya, and atamped with
hia right number, aa if be bad under
gone a formal trial of his strength, speed
and temper. A stranger oomee from a
distant school, with better dreaa, with
tnnketa in his pocketa, with aim and
pretensions. An older boys nays to
himself : " It'a no nee; we shall And
him ont to-morrow."
Taking Cald.
The Perircope says : •• When a per
son begins to shiver, the blood is re
ceding from the surface ; congestion, to
a greater or lees extent has taken place,
and the patient has already taken cold,
to be followed by fever, iufUmatkm of
the iunga, neuralgia, rheumatism, etc.
All tbeee evils canbe avoided and tbeeold
expelled by walking, or ia some exercise
teat will produce a prompt and detailed
reaction In the system. The examine
should be sufleteut to produce reepina
tion. If yon are so situated that yoe
can get a glass of be* water to drink, it
will materially aid the perspiration, and
in every way assist nature in bar ef
forts to remove theeold. This exalte
followed your cold is at an end, Mid
whatever dlssssi it would ultimate in in
avoided ; your sufferings are prevented
and your doctor's bills saved."
The Priaee of Wales ia thirty-seven
years old.
Pond *r Nuko.
What induced Li on tenant J. Q., of a ra
°ntly-extinct colonial ragimtst, to deal
a* largely aa be did in anakea, no one of
hi* brother officer* oonld imagine. It was
not to atndy their nature and habits, for
Q., although the very heat of fellowa,
was not in the line of act en title pursuits.
Nevertheless, snake* he bad galore;
snake* in casks, snake* in boxes, snake*
in baskets; huge pythons, slender whip
snakes, eel-like water snake*, long,
brown, ngly rat-snakes; in fine, all sorts
and conditions of snakes. Puff-adders
*ud rattlesnakes be oonld not procure,
as the country did not produce them;
the tic polrmya, common enough, and a
deadly opbis of the viper tribe, be, for
some reason or other, best known to
himself, fought ahy of. But he com
pensated for the lows of thia venomous
gentleman by keeping whole broods of
oqnally-poiaonons brother cobras, from
the infants as they emerged from the
shell, np to the parent* and grand
parents of the family—old hoary mater*
and paterfamilias, with deeply-patch
ed and mottled skins, and with spec
tacle-marked hoods, big enongb for a
doctor of laws. Well, with these rep
tiles generally, Q, juggled, making
armlets and necklets of his smaller
subjects, and converting himself into s
regular Laoooon with the bigger ones;
thongb, by the way, no friends were
ever intrepid enongh to personate that
unhappy priest's sons. Periodically
from the cobra's jaws be palled out the
fangs, and then, on the vantage ground
that the grooved, wound-inflicting teeth
were gone, and the poison oonld not be
injected, he trifled and toyed with these
dangerous favorite*. One day he bad
some visitor*, ladies among them, to
see his exhibition, and he was cleverer
and more expert than ever, more to
their horror than amusement. Bat in
the midst of plsying with s half-grown,
excited cobra, whose eyes were spark
ling, whose tongue was darting, with
hisses, in snd ont of its month, and
whose hood was outspread to the ut
most, his hand got too close to the
snake, snd it struck him just between
the finger and the thamb, making two
very small, pin-pointed puncture*. He
only gave the beast a tap, and went on
with his performs noes; but after a few
moments be turned ghastly pale, a heavy
perspiration covered his forehead, be
almost fainted away, and in the most
anxions and distressing tones said, "1
am a dead man ! that cobra's fangs have
not been extracted since I had him."
And then, what bet ween intense alarm,
and " the potent poison " rapidly " o'er
c rowing his spirit," every one thought
poor Q. was gone. Luckily, there was
one doctor on the spot, another not
many mi lew away.
The first dealt boldly with the scalpel,
and, at great risk to himaelf, sacked the
wound; had there been the least abra
sion or scratch on his lips bis life would
also have been endangered. When the
other quickly arrived, some further
means were adopted; and after many
boar* of nerer-to-be-forgotten anxiety,
tbey bad the satisfaction of seeing the
poison symptoms diminish, and ultimate
recovery take place.
But right and left the serpents were
slain, and, after his very narrow shave,
Q. eschewed farther acquaintance with
the snake race. (iood Word*.
Shffp Ltriir Wlt beet Water.
The Lebanon (Peon.) Oowimr print*
the following extract from a letter from
Htehman Forney, of tbe United Statea
ooaat survey, dated on the island of Han
Clement, in the Pacific, Dec. 1, 1878:
" I am at present engaged in making
a surrey of Han Clement island. It ia
forty miles from the mainland, and is
twenty-two miles in length and tiro
miles wide. It is a wild, dreary place,
with no water cn it, esoept m immense
natural tanks, which are so deep and
precipitous that the water in them is
inaccessible. I transport the water for
my men and borsea from the mainland.
There is no wood either oo the island,
which is of volcanic formation, and
composed of lavs and conglomerate.
The top of the island is covered with an
abundanoe of graaa, which sustains
about 10,000 aheep, and, strange to say,
they lira, grow very fat, and are vary
profitable to their owners, and yet in
the summer eeeeoo get no water, except
in the form of daw on tbe grass. There
is, however, e peculiar plant on the
island called the ice plant, which is
filled with moisture sod is eaten by the
sheep to quench their thirst. They are
very fat, and make tbe finest mutton I
have ever eaten."
The First Newtef ■•ehtoe.
A New York exchange M7l: The men
who Ant in Tea led the mowing machine
wi Enoch Ambler, of Urn town of 8001,
Montgomery county, is thie Stale. Am
bler made the running gear snbetantial
ly the aeae ee now, bat failed on the
aajrtbe. Hie flret machine wee made in
1884, and wee pnt 00 trial atOurrytown,
Montgomery county, by Wn. P. Dto
▼eodorf, who etill rceidee there. He
mowed eomelhing over aa acre of gram,
but the eeytb* being etreifb t and emooth,
and ee gnaide being wed, the wort wen
bat imperfectly done. The machine
wee condemned e aaalem. Ambler ia
now an old man, and rinklea in the town
of Sleeker, Fulton ooonty, where be he*
for yarn* been engaged in making abln
glea for e livelihood. Bad be tnaoeeded
ia adding to bin machine the •actional
■cy the and goarda, he would to-day ham
been one of the rich ret men In the
world. How email a oimwtaewe eon
rolled faia deathly.