Fooling the Jnggler. An inquisitive reporter in New York, has hod an interview with Miss Haidee Heller, half-sister to the late Robert Heller, the well-known conjuror. We make wis extract: " Robert was very much interested in all foreign oonjuring. I remember on the Btreet in Hong-Kong one day he discovered a little, sleepy old Ohinaman at a corner doing the ring trick, and doing it better than he could himself. He stoppod, paid tho Ohina man to give him a lesson, and the fol lowing day hunted up the Ohina con jurer and showed him combinations and improvements on his own triok that made the pigtail on his astonished head vibrate with admiration." " And about tho Indian jugglers T " " I could tell you a hundred stories of those strange creatures. Robert used often to mystify them and expose their trioks, to their great rage. We were lying off some miles away before Mad ras, on the steamship Sumatra, which had broken her shaft just as we left Madras for Ooylon, when a boat put off from shore with a party of natives to sell us fruits, and among them was one of their most famous men of mystery. He came on board, aud it Iwas suggested that he should perform there. "Spreading some sand on the deck, he planted in it a mango seed, from whioh he produced a mango tree some eighteen inches high. u Then be did some surprising things with a venomous oobra, whioh he car ried rolled in the cloth about his loins, concluding with a very clever trick, in whioh two pigeons, one black aud one white, whioh were made to vanish at will, to change from one basket to an other. The captain urged Robert to do something to bother the man, who was very conceited about himself. M So Robert suddenly asked to look at one of the pigeons. lie took tho white one. With a movement like lightning he pulled the head off the bird. He held the head in one hand, the quiver ing. straggling, dying bird in the other, aud then threw them overboard. " The commotion was frightful. The poor native shrieked and cursed, and gave vent to his rage in the choicest Bengal eee. "The mighty white magician looked with merry eyes at the juggler's dis tress. Then when the row was at its height and I began to feel nneasy abont the issue of the prank, Robert suddenly raised his hands—oh, those beantifnl, white, wonder-working hands. He mys teriously beckoned, as if summoning the dove from its watery grave, and pointed upward. (No one had looked overboard after the first dart of the bird into the water). Tnere was the white dove ciroling round and ronnd in the air ; in one moment it alighted on the bit of carpet before its despondent owner, unharmed. Games gave way k. profound salaams and prayers that the great white magician might never die. " And how did he do it ? Why, simply by having in his hand one of his stage properties—a white dove's head which had figured in a hundred tricks. Quick as thought he hsd turned the living dove's head under his wing. As we were so fsr from land, though set free, it returned to the ship." desk as a Fertiliser. I was recently shown s grapevine thst promisee to cover one side of the Bcotts ville (N. T.) floor-mill. The proprietor stated that the original owner drove to Rochester forty yearn ago with the hams of twenty sheep, but, fancying the price offered too lew, brought them home and hung them in the attic. A few years since the present owner fonnd yo olden mutton still unmarketed, and ordered it hnried at a proper distance from the vine that now displays such remarkable vigor. Deceased animals are often used as a fertiliser with satisfactory results, being quartered and buried near fruit trees and vines. The distance at which the roots of trees will receive such nour ishment is with dwarfs from ten to fif teen feet, with standard apples, fifty to 100 feet, or sometimes further, depend ing on age and vigor. Two yearn ago I buried a large dog, supposed to be affected with hydropho bia, eighteen inches deep, near fruit trees and plants, expecting them to be fertilised thereby. The year following I set a row of monarch strawberries directly over the place of burial. All the plants over the decayed body, and near it on either side, died after repeat ed planting; those next nearest were feeble, bnt those adjoining these were vigorous. This wss sa I had anticipated. I have known large apple trees to be destroyed by the application of fertilis ers in exoees. The latter case was where manure had been composted regularly on all the soil occupied hy the roots, bnt not high abont the trunk. The poetry of fruit-eating is msrred by the knowledge that the plants or trees have been nourished by the de eayed bodies of mad dogs and distem pered cattle; but the facts of the case tend to dispel such sentiments. In stances are recorded where vegetables seemed to be flavored offensively by odorous fertilisers, bnt 1 think anoh flavor wss received by actual contact with the fertilizer, and not by anything absorbed by the feeding-roots. Flesh is reduced in nature's laboratory to the pure elements before it is available as plant-food. The moat economical method of utilising the dead bodiea of animals wonld be in burying in the compost heaps, were it practicable.— Charles A. Vrtrn, Monro* county, N. Y. A Cheap Lightning Bad. The discovery of an extremely simple and cheap means to protect houses from being struck by lightning has recently been announced in a French agricul tural paper. This consists in the use of bundles of straw attached to sticks or broom-handles and placed on the roofs of honsss in an upright position. The find trials of this siirple apparatus was made at Tarbes, Haotea-Pyrcjieos, by some intelligent agriculturist*, and the remits were so satisfactory that soon afterward eighteen communes of the Tarbee district provided all their homes with these bundles of straw, and there have been no accidents from lightning since in the district. Probably such a "protector" would answer as well as any—in case the houses were not struck. There are a good many lightning-rods that won't bear thst test. A NINUULAR CASK. A Maa Hwallawa Ilia galar Team an* Mlavvaa I* Heath After Maraa Weaka af Aaaar. One evening recently Levi Wagonsel ler, aged thirty-eight years, ana em ployed in a cotton factory, entered a restaurant in Philadelphia to got sup per. Whon about half through the meal he suddenly felt something sharp and pointed going down his throat, causing him intense pain. For a moment ho thought ho had swallowed a large and jagged piece of bone, but patting hiß hand to his mouth instinctively on feel ing the pain ; he found that his false teeth wore missing, and he knew that it must have been they which had gone down his throat. The teeth were three in number. They wero fastened to a silver plate, and had !>oeu in his mouth for many years. Recently the hooks holding tliein in place had worn loose, and the artificial teeth had annoyed him by foiling from his month several times. Plate and all had gouo down his throat, and he could feel them lodged againßt his breast. Alarmed and suffering intensely, Wagonseller went to his home, which wan in a suburb of the city. He could cat no solid food, and for two days took nothing into his stomach. On the third day ho man aged to force down a littlo breed and milk. On this day the sufferer went to the University hospital to 800 Dr. Agnew, who, after examining him, seemed to have little hope of saving his life. Wagonsoller then on mo to Philadel- I hia to stop at hia sister's bouse to re ceive treatment from her physician, Dr. Stewart, who was called upon to viait the patient on the fifth day after the occurrence. He advised him to tako a swallow of gin an the readiest means of dislodging the teeth, which still re mained in the throat. The patient fol lowed his advice, and almost immediate ly felt the teeth going down. Bat this only led to a worse result. The teeth moved down and lodged about one inch and a half al>ove the entrance to the stomach. Hail they passed into the stomach, according to medical au thority, the chief danger in the case wonld have been over. But lodging as they did the patient could swallow noth ing, not even milk or water. It was ab solutely impossible to get anything down his throat. Milk was recommend ed, but when ii would be poured down as soon as the gloss would lie removed from his lips it would oome back, exud ing from ears, eves, mouth and nostrils. The strangest of all was what followed. The man lived for seven weeks without swallowing a morsel of food or a drop of water. Kven the jnice of an orange he oonld not swallow. From a stout, hearty man, weighing probably 190 pound*, he dwindled away to a mere skeleton. Hia hands became horrible to lock ut by reason of their loss of flesh. Strangely enough, too, all the time the man, who was perfectly conscious and rational, ha<l no appetite, no craving for food. The smell of victuals, he said, made him sick. From the time he went to his sister's house, four days after the accident, he had not stood on his feet, lying alternately on a bed and in an in valid's chair. This poature be kept, at the recommendation of hia physician, until from lack of food he became so weakened that there was no option in the matter, and he bad to lie all the time. Operations with an instrument was sug gested by his physician, but this his sister would not consent to, unless as surance could be giveu that it would re sult in saving bis life. This, of course, the physician oould not promise, ami no such operation was tried. After being for over seven weeks with out food Wagonsoller died, death re sulting from inanition, or, iu other words, starvation. To the very last he had no appetite for food. The day be fore his death he began to get short of breath and told hia relatives that he felt himself dying. Bp to the last hour he retained Lit senses and talked freely about hia case, instructing his relatives to have a post-mortem examination made upon hia body. In aooordanoe with his request the examination was made by Dm. Stewart and Agnew. The plate, with the teeth in it was found about one inch and a half above the en trance of the stomach, tho hooks firmly imbedded in the flesh. There were marks at certain intervals in the throat, showing the progress of the piste as it passed downward, the prints of the teeth being in several places plainly visible. Had the plate, which was abont two inches long and an inch wide, passed into the stomach, in the opinion of the physicians it wonld have dissolved and the man's life been saved. As it was, the piste passed down the throat in a transverse form, ami once lodged at the farthest point, displaoement was im possible. The Havener's Companion. A good (dory is told of ex-GOT. Ma goffin, of Kentucky. who in a good talker and liken to do most of the talk ing himself. Recently, in making the tourney from Cincinnati to Lexington, te nbared bin aent in the oar with a bright-eyed, pi cannot-faced gentleman. The governor, after a few oommouplaee remarks, to which bin companion amiled and nodded anaent, branched into a de scription of tbe aoenen that he bad wit nessed in different part* of tbe conn try, grew eloqneat over the war, described with glowing npeeoh the horaeraoea be he had witnessed, talked learnedly of breeding, and told thrilling atoriee of bia battiea with the Indiana in the Northwest. The honra slipped rapidly away, and when the train waa ncaring Lexington the two exchanged car da ana parted with a cordial ahake of the hands. The governor drove to an inn, and to a number of friends he remarked that the ride had never aeemed so abort before. "Then yon mmt have had pleasant company aboard." " Ton are right. I met a gentleman of unusual intelligence. We oo ti versed all the way over. Inever waa brought in contact with a more agreeable matt." " Indeed I Who was he t" asked his friend*. "Wait a min ute; I have hi* card," and tbe governor felt in his pooketa and prrxlneed the bit of paatcboard. "His name is King." "Not Bob King?" shouted a doaen In cme breath. " Tea, gentlemen, Robert King: that is the way the card reads," waa the protid reply. A roar of laugh ter followed. " Why, governor, Hob King is as deaf aa a poet; be waa born deaf and dumb 1" Terrible Tragedy In a Farmer'* Family The Morriatoum (Tonn.) Ditpatch says; The small country town of Hneadville, Hancock county, near here and away from railroad oommnnioation, has wituesaed a tragedy that exhibit* a carious phase of justice. About eight miles from the Tillage there lived a few weeks ago a family of well-to-do farmers, called the Eppersons. The family con sisted of the father, mother, four sons and two daughters. The father was a good man, but was occasionally under the influence of drink. At sucii times he was dangerous, surly and unmanage able. There had been some talk a Unit the relations of the man and his wife, bnt it was generally believed that thero was nothing serious between them. A short time since Epperson came home one day under the influenoe of liquor, and at once began to quarrel with his wife. In a few moments they came to blows, and he was beating her very severely. At this juncture Joe, one of the sons, ran in, and soeing the state of things, went to the protection of his mother. He was a deformed man, having been born with only one arm. As he interfered in the flgbt the father turned from bis wife and attacked Joe sayagoly, declaring he would kill him. Being hard pressed, Joe whipped ont a knife and commenced cntting his father. In a few minutes the old man fell to the floor. In the meantime bis eldor brother had entered the room, and see ing Joe engaged in a deadly conflict with his father, determined to take his father's part. He, therefore, Jdrow his pistol, and leveled it at his brother. Before he oould Are his mother ran be tween Joe and the pistol, and received the ball in her breast. The son flred ngain, and this time struck his sister in the knee; and once again, this time giving a boy brothers flesh wound The fracas was stopped here by the condition of the fi.ther and mother. In a short time tho mother died, having been shot by her eldest son. Before dying, she bogged that her slayer should uotbe prosecuted, lis he had killed her unintentionally, and she did not blame him for interfering for his father. The futher died also, having been killed by his second ron. It is said that before he diod he also forgave his slayer, say ing that the son was right to take the part of his mother. The sister, who hail boon shot in the knee by her oldest brother, died also. Of course the terrible tragedy created intense excitement, even in this com paratively law lens county. A sort of preliminary trial of the men was had, and they were acquitted of any blame in the matter. The aon who killed his father was held to have acted purely iu self-defense, and the son that killed his mother and sister was held to have done so accidentally, while interfering to pre vent the commission of an unlawful act. Tbey were therefore put at liberty and have been at large ever since. It ia doubtfnl if the matter will ever come into court again. Tho sons ex press great sorrow over the affair, but are known to be pretty desperate char acter*. Paying for Vermin If * man pay* bis keepers for vermin •o much a tail, he will very probably pay for a good deal that baa not been been killed ou bia own land. But as vermin wander a good deal, if they have been killed in the district, it come* to much the same thing. If trappers on any estate are paid so much a bead for what they may capture, they are very apt to borrow dead vermin from neigh boring trapper* who may be merely paid wages without any vermin allowance. There ia no better sport than a good rat hunt, with two or three ferrets and s couple of ahaqi terrier*. Home time ago I went over to a stackyard built near a small stream; the bank* of the stream were honey-combed with rata. We put in tho ferreta, and the rata bolted, taking headers into the stream like frogs. We bad a couple of trout landing nets with long handles, and as the rats swam down the stream we ladled them out for the terriers. Altogether, in stream and stacks, we killed some thirty or forty rata, and left tliem lying about. The farmer himself happened to be away oa that particular day; but afUr we were gone one of the farm servant* collected the rata, took them to his master, who paid for rata, and got the reward. This was fair euough. But that same morn ing theae same dead rats were carried over to a neighboring farm, and the floor of an old barn was salted with the dead rats. After dark the man tnrned out with a lantern and some sticks, shut the door of the barn, and kicked np a row. The farmer came out to see what was the matter; the man opened the door, showed him the straw turned over, all the rat-boles stopped and a sooro or two of dead rata. He also paid for them. I don't know if these particu lar rats earned any more money. But if any of the netguboring trappers were working on tail money, he probably would have the last pull out of them. Fifty years ago the black rat (now ex tinct) was very common in houses. It lived all over the house—" up stairs, down stairs, and in my lady'a chamber —like mice; not like tba gray rat, which is mostly con fined to the drains and lower story. An old gentleman used to pay his aon (a mere boy) eo much a tail; sometime* the old gentleman thought the tails were a little dry and abriveled, and suspected they were not fresh caught—in fact, tails that he had seen before; so, when produced, he took to throwing I hem in the fire. The boy was a clever rat-catcher, and the rata were getting scarce; so, when be caught them, he cut off the taila merely, letting the old rat go to breed. Ho much for paying by taila I— Kn§Uh Paptr. A Cure far Madness. There are at present 1,500 patients in the lunatic asylum on Blao,k well's island, New York. The annual report of the superintendent of that institution, just issued, shows that the number of patients discharged during 1878 far exceeds that of any previous year, and this increase is mainly attributed to the daily exer cises recently Introduced to divert the minds of the patient*. The gymnasium in Amusement hail is considered the most useful adjunct in accomplishing a permanent cure. The ball baa been fitted np with every facility for gymnas tics, and the patients see greatly delight ed with this exercise. An Old-Tlme Censplracy. Hfxly years ago there WM dragged into the light of a London afternoon a woo-bogono and squalid lot of men, known in history ever siuoe as the Osto street oonspirators. They had formed, after a series of deliberations in tho lowest of pot-houses in different parts of the Britisu metropolis, a plot to assassi nate at one fell swoop tho whole of his majesty's ministers, whose heads, sev ered from their bodies, were to be brought away in a sack provided for the purpose. Tho 23d of February was fixed for the accomplishment of this terrible crime, as it wan known all over London that on that day a dinner, at whioh all the cabinet officers were to be present, was to be given at Lord Har rowby's house in Orosvonor square. Tho lead or of this band of assassins was Arthur Thistlewood, who was the son of a substantial farmer in Lincolnshire, and had borne the king's commission both in a militia and a line regimont. Bnt ho was an inveterate gambler, and soon got rid not only of his own bnt bis wife's fortune. He was dismissed the service and imprisoned for six msnths for sending a challenge to a superior officer. The conspirators hired a "loft" in Oato street, jnst off Edgware road, where thev assembled that day to await the signal. After they had murdered the ministers, they wore to scatter hand-grenades about the street, sot fire to the Bank of England and the cavalry barracks, and aee what followed. For tunately, however, the ministers got word of the designs of Thistlewood nd his gang, and the lwnquct was postpon ed; but the Archbishop of York, who lived next door to Lord Harrow by, hap pening t< have a dinner-party that self same evening, one of the conspirators on guard, seeing the carriages roll toward the mansion, hastened to give the signal. He was closely followed by a party of the foot guards, under the com mand of Lord Frederick Fitxelarence, and by u detachment of the household brigade, under Lord William Lennox, who is, by the way, the only surviving participant of that day. The oonspira tors, all save one, were captured, and numbered nine persons. The leader alone escaped. When the officers were swarming up the ladder leading to the roof, Thistlewood ran a sword through the heart of one of them, jumped from a window, and gof away; but the next day he was captured in bed by a Bow street runner, who thus gained a reward of (5,0C0. These conspirators were the last prisoners confined in the Tower of L union. Koch and every one of them was soon after beheaded; but to this day no one has ever discovered the identity of the "man in the mask," who, in the absence of the regular hangman —he declined to perform the task of decapitation—cut off the beads of the strangled corpses. A Thirst for Knowledge. Bdward Egglenton, writing in Sorit ner of "Home Western Bchoolmasters,' tolls thia anecdote: "While tho good Presbyterian min istcr wan teaching in our village, he was waked up one winter morning by spoor bound boy, who bad ridden a farm horse many mile* to get the ' master' to show 1 him how to 'do a sum ' that had pax xled him. The fellow was trying to educate himself, but was required to be ! back at home in time to begin his day's work an nsunl. The good master, chaf ing bin handn to keep them warm, sat down by the boy and expounded the ' sum ' to him no that be it Then the poor boy straightened himself up ami, thrusting his hard hand into the p'K'ket of his blue jeans trousers, pulled out a quarter of a dollar, ex plaining, with a blush, that it was all he could pay, for it was all he had. Of course the master made him put it back, and told him to oome whenever be wanted any help. I remember the huskineaaof the mir.iater's voice when be told us about it in school that morn- 1 ing. When I recall how eagerly the j people sought for opportunities of edu cation, I am not surprised to hear that ; Indiana, of all the Htaies, has to-day | <>no of the largest, if not the largest, school fund." Later on, speaking of Mrs. Dnmont, a famous teacher of her time, Mr. Eg gleston says: "I can aee the wonderful old lady now, as she was then, with her cape pinned awry, rocking h r splint-bottom chair nervously while she talked. Full of all manner of knowledge, gifted with something very like eloquence in speech, abounding in affection for her pupils and enthusiasm in teaching, she moved tia strangely. Being i ifatuated with her, we became fanatic in our pursuit of knowledge an that the school hours were not long enough, and we had a • lycenm ' in the evening for reading 'compositions,' and a clnb f r the atndy of history. If a recitation b- came very interesting, the entire aclu >1 would sometimes be drawn into the d. enmrion of the snbjeot; all other lessons went to the wall, books of referenro were brought out of her library, horr* wre consumed, and many a time tfa-i school session was prolonged nntil irknea* forced ns reluctantly to adjourn." ChryataTs " Xylophaale*," A pink-cushion—A rosy cheek. The ink-quell—A pieoe of blotting paper. A continual atoning will wear away a drop. A blister la not the only thing a man haa at hia tongne'a end when be pnta the wrong end of a cigar in hia month. A year-old baby with a powerful pair of lanes it often the cause of a dire domestic conflict—a regular Crymcan war, as it wars. The man who is, was and might have been just M bad as he possibly oould be, becomes worse when he strikes a nest of wood been. When a man commences to bore yon by expatiating on a metaphysical sub ject while yon are trying to write a col umn editorial, you feel all over like a sensitive tooth when a dentist is digging around it. We oannoi understand why a dentist persists in asking questions of a pa tient whose mouth is Sited with a nap kin, a sheet of rubber, amend clamps, three Angers and that horrible instru ment of torture, the revolving drill IfackmnXck Republican. " Keep Year Heath Mat" Dr. Elsberg lectured in Hew York on "The Throat." At the ontset he showed his andienne that be had not come to talk about cough mixtures and suoh abominable practioes as wearing fur mufflers about the neck in cold weather. He took it for granted that his bearers were men and women pos sessed of common sense, and deairou* to increare their knowledge of the an atomy of the throat and of the mechan ism of its organs. To begin with, he undertook to explain the mechanism of deglutition or act of swallowing. Physiologists, he said, had studied the mechanism of the process of swallowing for hnndrel* of years, and not nntil very reoently was it fully understood. The anatomy of the small voluntary and involuntary muscles of the throat were exceedingly difficult to study, and nntil tho invention of tho laryngoscope much had to l>e aooepted on mere tbeorv. But by the aid of this simple little instru ment the whole interior of the throat could now le explored and as easily studied as the nose, month and eyes. Tho workings of the vocal cords and of all the muscles of the larynx used in speech and song could be seen as dis tinctly as the strings of s violin and the fingers of the performer. It was curi ons to study the mechanism of the epi glottis—a switch at the junction of the windpipe and the gullet, which being under the control of nerves which act with lightning rapidity, leaves the track open for the air to get to the lungs, or upon the notioe of a hundredth part of a second flies back and leaves ■ passage (or the smallest quantity of food or drink to pass into the gnllet and so on to the stomach. Mr. Elsbcrg thought that "vocal bands " would be a better name for the muscles known as the vocal cords, as they were attache! on three sides and free to vibrate on one only. He exhibited a curious picture of a pair of diseased vocal oorJa which were so affected that they made the owner speak or sing in two tones at the name time. This patignt was cured by the help of the laryngoscope, and was present in the audience. The lecturer strongly improved upon hi* audience the importance of keeping their mouths shut except when they had something of value to say or something good to eat. Oue man, he said, bad not long ago published a whole volume on thia anhject, in which be took the ground that if hntnan l>einga would fol low the example of the lower animala and keep their months shut they would be freed from a great many of the ilia to which the flesh ia otherwise heir. Many diseases of the throat were brought on by talking and vulgarly breathing through the month in the cold open air when the mouth ought to tie shut; and as for snoring, there was no excuse for it. He had once invented a muzzle to be worn by habitual snore rs. Children when firstborn always breathe through the narca, which were the natural passages. Breathing through the month was an acquired habit, and a very bad and dangerous one. la the Open Polar Sea. Captain A. B. Tuttle, the Arctic navi gator, from observations made during several voyages, concludes that during a considerable part of the year there is a warm climate within the open polar sea -sufficient to prodnce tropical fruits. In the ice banner on one of his trips he found bone* and tusks of the mastodon, which in 1875 he carried to the Centen nial at Philadelphia. They were so large that some naturalists thought the animal to which they belonged must have been forty feet in length. He also found some bard wood in the shape of troughs imbedded in the ice. Tbey looked like feeding troughs, and the edges had the appearance of hav ing been gnawed by animals. In sailing west he struck the north part of the coast of New Siberia, where he found a race of people that he thought no one had ever seen before or heard of. They spoke an unknown tongue which sounded like Hebrew. They spoke a few words of Hawaiian and the Esquimau language and with these and the aid of signs they oouyeyed the idea that they came from the north. He was s little acquainted with the Es quimau langnsg". having passed four winters with that people, living on raw walrus, whale blubber and bear meal. During one of theae winters, which was without daylight, he made a journey of !W0 miles in the dark. During his ad venturous career he has met with many disasters, the most serious of which wsu* an encounter with a polar bear. He bail both arms and both legs broken and lost one finger off his left hand, another being so badly lacerated by the teeth of the animal that it is sadly out of shape. He also lost four ribs, which were completely torn from his body, which bears the marks of wounds which it seems almost incredible thst any liv ing man could receive and live. * The polar bears attain an incredible site, some being reported tojreigh as much as 8,000 pound*. Why fblMßm'i (teals Hiff Fire Rat- " Why dom the mantle of onr nation al costume have Ave buttons, neither more nor tees? Tbta number *M not Seed npon capriciously nor beranae of faahion. We Chinese wear it solely that we may keep tn eight something to re mind u* of the flee principal moral virtues which Confucius recommended to na so earnestly. These are : Jen, y, ly, to.ho and sin ; that is to aay : Jen, humanity ; y, justice ; ly, order; tohe, prudence, and sin, rectitude, upright ness. Ton will perceive Mist humanity stands before all the other virtues. When one has humanity be knows and feels that the unfortunate are to be re spected ; he does not add trouble to trouble, sorrow to sorrow or misfortune to misfortune," Why ladies'gloves have sis buttons. Neither was our number fixed upon capriciously. It reminds ns of our six cardinal principles recommended so earnestly by Worth, These an slam, bang, whang, boo, doo and boo; that is tn say, slam, never be out of the fashion; bang, always, if possible, be the first m it: whang, daru the expense; boo, stick to long trains, high beefs, sod above all, corsets, till they kill you; doo, marry rich; and boo, many any how. Ton will perceive that boo stands before all the other principles, —Jbe York Graphic, ' American The tastes of the A-nerioaa •nova Id their selection of amei fr their home*, era a peculiar end intereit m tadj. " The Port Offlo* Oii le," whiob (five* a lUt of ell tho portodlvM tn the country, furnishes the v 'W tome queer com peri* iu by soy one who lie* the patience to nuke tie ueoesanrv investigations. We have fl ret a natural speculation m to who sslectel the name of At, a town in Fulton coun ty, Ohio, or the name of AlamoJj, m Missouri. Indeed, the aniqne name* are themaelvea a curiosity. Why for instance, should there be only one port office in the United States celled Alice or Acorn Hill (title* frequent and natur al), while there are aix placee called Ava and ten called Avoca ? And why when there are twenty Aurora*, should there be only one Rainbow, that in Connecti cut ? Do not a people who select Ark port, Arkvil) and numerous other " Ark " compounds, Noah and two Ararats, re member the whole story 0 f the bow of promise ? Coming to facta which seem to show a lack of invention, or at leasts laziness that shirks new selections, it is noticeable how many towns borrow their names from the next door. There are seven hundred and fifty "Wests," six hundred " East*," seven hundred sod eighty " Norths" and six hundred "Souths," and besides theae there are seven hundred ana twenty-one towns beginning with "New," one hundred and seventy-five beginning with "Cao ter," one hundred and forty with " Mid dle, "one hundred and twenty " Littles " and one hundred and two "Bigs." It shown something of the American choice of language that there are one hun/lred and two " Big " places and only eight teen that begin with "Great " Wnile there are thirty-seven places thst begin with " Cold," there are only four thai begin with " Hot" In trees the oak ha* had the greatest influence. There are one hundred and eighty places named for it. Those that follow it are, in order, pine, cedar, ash, maple, cherry, elm and walnut " Fjt est' fixes its name to sixty-six towns; and while there are sixty-eight " Blooms," there are only four " Blossoms -an other evidence of choice in words. Ani mals have had their influence, too. Reckoning " Deer " and " Buck " as the same, they are most numerous, being one hundred and five. Next after them come "Elk*," after which there are seventy-one towns named. The "Eagles" and " Beavers " each number fifty-four. After them come wolf and then boar. In oolors, green is far the most abundant; and after it arc white, brown, black and then bine. Nature makes a claim to ninetr-two "Glens," forty-one "Coves," four hundred " Mounts " and one ban dred and seventy-five "Springs." And there are one hundred and seventy-five " Saint#," Hamming-Bird*. A* an illustration of the luxuriant d - velopment of tropic*] natore, and tfa obangtwacd varieties consequent upon natural selection, Mr. Wallaoe give* * detailed aooount of the family of the hummingbird*. Theee beautiful little creature* are found only in America, and are a)moat exclusively confined to the tropical tone. There are 400 differ ent specie*, Ibe largeet about the star of a swallow, and the smallest scarcely larger than a humble-bee. They live npou honey, which they extract from flowers, but require also a certain pro portion of insect food. In Juan Fer nandez, ibe humming-birds, which be long to a Chilian species, form a vety good illustration in the changes through which they have passed, of vahatKm and natural selection, the factor* in those change* lieing abundance of food, and freedom from the competition of any rival specie*. The tongue of the humming-bird i* tubular and retractile ; it ia very long, and is capable of being extended far be - yon 1 the beak, and rapidly drawn back, so as to *nck np honey from the nec taries of flowers and capture small in sects. Been in its familiar haunts poised on rapid wing in the vivid aunlight. the humming-bird gleams like a jewel with the iridescent hnee of the amethyst, the ruby and the sapphire ; but like the parrots ol its native forests, the baaie of it* brilliant coloring is green, not a soft, silky green, such as adorns the parrot'* neck and breast, but a bright, dazzling metallic hoe, which seem* to reflect every varying gleam of the rao ahine. The flight of these little creatures u inconceivably rapid. " The bird," Mr. Wallace says, •* may be said to live in the air—an element in which it perform* every kind of evolution with the great eat ease, frequently rising perpendicu larly, flying backward, pironetiiug or uauciug oft a* it were, from place to place, or from one part of a tree to an other, sometimes descending, at other* •mending." Indfan Hand Annihilated. A Portland (Oregon) dispatch say*: "Information baa been received at Lew is ton, Idaho, by messenger from the Lower Weiser, mat the settlers in that locality, some three weeks previous!*, bad organised to porana into the Sal mon River mountain* a band of Indiana, who. after being disponed by Oeoeeal Howard last summer, bad raided that country, driven off a took, and killed a " man named Man Jay and two others who fl £ armed them. They alao killed Dan M I rooks and hi* companion while sleep- " ing in their camp, and made their cacapa into the moon tains between Payette and South Fork, on Salmon river. Three Indiana were reported to be returning toward Payette, when the settlers or gan tied to intercept them. They pro ceeded serosa to Payette, and eoon found signs of Indiana. They quietly n oonaoitercd and made a discovery of their camp. Awaiting a favorable oppor tunity when all were in camp and net in the least expecting the near p mesne* of the white men, they surprised tee Indian* and killed thirty six of their ntimber, and only two or three arc known to have escaped death. An ex ■ruination of the belies disclosed toe fact that they were Indians who had been fed by settler* at their houses be fore the Bannock war, when they pro fenced great friendship few the whites, bat who, on the first outbreak, fled from the valley and went to Malbmra, and were afterward knows to be with the hostile* in Umatilla oonuty, Ore-
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