Front Mingle Eye to n Whole Potato.
"If I were to name the beet special
fertiliser for potatoes in one word that
wort! wonhl be aslios," Raid W. A.
Armstrong at tho meeting of the Elmi
ra (N. Y.) Farmers club, '• and I apply
them either in the bill or in tho earth
over the seed."
J. S. Van Dnzor, who lost year made
many experiments in planting potatoes,
found iu the use of manures that the
best yield was with manure put under
thoßoed. Tho potatoes failed to be BH
smooth as oould have been desired, but
this was attributable to tho fact of the
manure not being well rotted. Mr. Van
Dnzor also experimented with different
quantities of seed, varying from a sin
gle eye to three, four or more. HIIIB
planted with dingle eyes did not oorao
np well and tho yield was much less
over the seed and qi direct contact with
it than in others with a greater allow
ance of seed.
8. Van Norman said " any kind of
stable mannrc mny bo r.sed for pota
toes," to which 0. D. Inman replied
that so far as his observation goes it is
better to put no manure on tho ground
the season it is in potatoes, nono when
they am planted, nor after. To obtain
a satisfactory crop of potatoes he
wanta the land to be rich enough bo
fore seeding it with Clover or grasses;
then, when the sod is tnrnod over, plant
and till well without raauuro. Ho cuts
the olover in proper time and turns the
aftermath in by full ploughing. When
the ground is cultivated after planting, i
it is well to go down to tho bottom of |
the sod, working it up for tho benefit of i
the crop. In reply to president Hoff- !
man's question: '' Suppose you had a |
field well manured and planted to corn, |
would you tnrn the corn stubble next i
year for potatoes and consider it a good j
chance?" Mr. Inman replied that it
wouM answer very well, but he would
prefer a rich soil.
Q. 8. McCann last year ploughed po
tatoes in every third furrow and got a
good crop with but little cost. For
twenty years he has fonnd that large,
smooth potatoes planted whole always
gives the best crop both as regards
quality and amonut.
President Hoffman said that his field
planting is done with whole potatoes,
and has been for many years. For
early use he finds cnt pieces better, bnt
not so for the general crop.
A Dog Story.
Tbiß comes from Charleston, Ind.
Mrs. Brandlon tells it. She says; "My
husband had a dog which he bronght
from Kentucky, which ocemed to me to
have more sense than auy auimal 1 ever
knew. She would look np when order
ed to do anything, as intelligently as a
child, and if she understood what was
said, wonld give a pleasant bark, and
start off to fulfill the order. I have often
made her shut the door after the chil
dren, and she would come in at the
kitohen door, opening tho latch with her
foot, and always shut it after her. One
time she had half a dozen puppies in the
barn, which were her glory and her
pride, bnt one morning when my hns
bund awakened he heard a great row nt
the barn, and went oat with bis gun,
expecting to find a horsetbief. As fie
opened the door Flora went by him like
an arrow, and though ho called her loud
and long she kept right on toward the
village. In looking around the t>arn for
the tramp he expected to find, he dis
covered that everything was all right,
except Flora's neat. The puppies were
all gone.
" We did not aee Flora for three days,
when she came back bringing a string of
about three pounds of Ransage, which
she kept iu her nest until they spoiled,
and she died of grief that summer. One
of our neighbors saw her, while she was
missing, hanging around a but'tier's
shop in Louisville. Bhe had followed
those puppies fifteen miles—and re
covered them."
What It Costs to Dir.
When a corpse becomes a corpse, the
first thing to do is to notify tho under
taker. He comes at once, and takes
complete control of the whole matter,|and
does not surrender his fnll charge un
til be receipts the bill. Of course, be
fnrniahed everything, and the bill of
an undertaker of a first class funeral
will read about as follows: Coffin,
$300; shroud, s4o;crapo, $5; gloves, $"2;
flowers, $6O ; hearse, $10; carriage*
(twenty),|sloo; gffcve, $2O; incidentals,
SJO; total, $637.
A cheaper funeral than this, of oourse,
is procurable, and the majority of fu
nerals are cheaper than this. A very
respectable pageant may be gotten np
for from $6O to $75, and a poor man
can have the satisfaction, on that
amonnt of outlay, to go to his grave fol
lower by three or four carriage, in ad
dition to those of his friends which may
be in attendance.
These are only medium funerals, and
if we should put the figures at the high
notch it would not be less than
$l,OOO more, or about $1,600 to die
stylishly, and abont $5OO to fade away
in an ordinarily respectable, qnict man
ner. This is in painfnl contrast with
the burial of the friendless poor, who
have a gravo in Potter's field—a plain
wood box and ahorse and wagon to con
vey them to the shore of the dark river.
—Cincinnati Time*.
A New Breed of .Sheep.
Mr. Darwin has furnished the Agri
cultural Omctle with an account from
an Australian paper of a new breed of
aheep. It appears that a gentleman
named Carrie bought some merino rams
from what is known as the Camden
flock in New Bonth Wales, the origin of
which was a few Bpaniah sheep from
the private flock of George 111. After
the Camden rains were taken to Victoria,
lambs having fleeces of a peculiar char
acter appeared at intervals, and in other
flooks I ;ha ne of Camden rams caused
the ooessional appearance of lambs with
fleece of peculiarly fine, long, straight,
and lustrous fiber; hut this was held to
indioate weakness, and the animals were
discarded. However, ten years ago
Mr. Carrie saved a ram lamb showing in
a marked degee these characteristics end
selected s few ewee with similar fleeoes,
rather less pronounced, and the result is
what is now known as the Larra me
rino, The flock now numbers about 100
ewes, and great things are expected of it.
This is said to he the third instance on
reoord of a distinct variety of sheep
making s sudden appearance.
PIKE'S PEAK SIGNAL BTATION.
Wandrn of Ills lllshrat Inlmlillril Porlloo
• fib* lllobr.
A Colorado correspondent of the Bos
ton Journal writes as follows: Tho
United Btates signal station at Pike's
peak is the highest signal station in the
world; it is also tho highest inhabited
portion of the globe. It was oponed in
the month of September; 1873. That it
was a wine provision of tho government
in establishing a signal station at this
point is no longer questioned, the facts
having already demonstrated its practi
cability, ami tho*present suocess prom
ises that Pike's peak signal station is
yet to stand at the head of all astronom
ical and meteorological stations in tho
world. This point is wondorfully favor
ed by natnre for the study of nßtronomy
and meteorology. The rarity of tho at
moHphero brings out a remarkable bril
liancy and clearness to the stars and all
tho heavenly bodies. Tho nights are
most always cloudless, and cloudy davs
aro tho exception. Nino-tenths of the
. storms aro below tho peak. Tho l>eat
I and most complete report of tho last
, total eclipse of tho snn received at
• Washington was tho report of Professor
ILond, of Colorado college, from obser
vations taken at Pike's peak.
The signal station is now nnder the
charge of Bergcants Ghoatc, Blake and
t Bweeney. These officers are detailed
- from tho army because of their poculiar
J adaptability and Hpccial qualifications
for the accnrate execution of tho nioe
duties of takiug astronomical and me
teorological observations. To Sergeant
Hufus Clioate I am greatly indebted for
the particulars embodied in this article.
Tho summit of Pike's peak contains
sixty acres. It is 14,330 feet above the
level of tho sea. On the highest point
stands tho signal station, a rough stone
building twenty-four by thirty, one
story in height. It is divided into four
rooms—officers' room, kitohen, store
room and woodroom. And here in this
bleak spot, nearly twenty miles from tho
habitations of man, though three milea
nearer the heavenly regious than most
parts of New F.ngland, these men live
the larger part of tho year. Tho station
is threo miles from the timber line,
where the greater part of vegetation
ceases. Bhort grass tufted with delicate
Alpine flowers strnggle for an existence
against tho frigiditv of tho atmosphere
and creep toward the mountain top; bnt
there are hundreds of acres of cold gray
and reddish rocks where not a vestige of
verdure exists.
Like the dwellers of the Arctic regions,
| tho inhabitants of Pike's peak have hut
| two seasons—summer and winter. Two
months of summer— August and Beptem*
I her—and ten, long cold months of win
ter. Tue summer season passes quick
I ly. The atmosphere is congenial; the
many visitors at the peak enhance its
social life with joy, wonderment and
mirth. Daring the" summer of 1878 up
ward of nine hundred people, in parties
; of from five to thirty, visited tho peak,
j among them many ladies. They regis
| tered from the four qnarters of the globe,
I and they all expressed admiration and
astonishment at the grandeur and sub
: limity of the wonderful views as seen
, from the peak. To behold a aanrise
from the peak is an event of a lifetime,
ami for this purpose visitors often re
main over night at tho station to be
■ ready to catch the first glimpse of the
snn as it shove tlie horizon,
gilding with its bright ray* the moan
| tains, hills, valleys and plains, to the
wonder and delight of the amazed be
| holder.
j - The duties of the officers are various.
Hover -ibscrvations are taken daily; all
| storr. i are closely watched, and each
spc< 1 and distinctive characteristic
1 dul ■ recorded. Sunrise snd sunset de
mand close attention. Every peculiari
ty of the beavenlv regions is viewed and
a record made of the same, and monthly
1 reports of these records are sent to
j headquarters at Washington. The
I present year bus l>ecn unusually prolific
j in snn-dogs, which are said to prognos
ticate earthquakes, anhtorranesn explo
sions, immense freshets and troublous
times. A government office at Piko's
peak is no sineonre, for the officer must
buffet all storms snd brave all weathers.
; Occasionally an electric storm visits the
peak. There is bnt little thunder sc
! companding these storms, bnt the
mountain seems all on fire. Sergeant
Cboate informs me that when he was
out observing ono of these storms it ap
peared as though tho whole mountain
| top was s sheet of electric flame. It
came out of every rock snd darted
i around with wonderful audacity. It
1 played around him, snd, as he expressed
it, shutdown Ilia back ami darted ont of
1 each boot-toe, and so completely filled
him with electricity that he oonld no
retain his foothold, bnt bounded snd
rebonnded from the rock like a rubber
ball; he felt as though a powerful
electric battery was pouring fiery darts
all through him, ana deeming "discre
tion the better part of valor," he bound
ed Into the signal station for preserva
tion. Sergeant Chnate was at the spring.
, in December, and on December 21 he
left for tho peak, wearing Norwegian
| snowshoes twelve foet in length It
' was a weary task and a dreary trip. The
first night out he slept in the snow on
the mountain's side. Tho second night
the mercury fell to twenty degrees 1>-
low zero. lie sought shelter in a desert
ed cabin, through which the wind whis
tled tnnes anything bnt agreeable; here
he built a small fire, but avoided sleep,
fearing the extreme oold might prodnoe
the sleep of death. The third day ho
reach ed the station safely.
The summer months are also occu
pied in preparing for the long siege of
winter. During the months of Angnst
and September upward of 8,000 pounds
of the usual variety of familv stores and
about twenty-five cords of firewood are
snugly stowed away. These are (M car
ried to the peak in small quantitlew on
the back aof tfco poor, despised burro,
whose head has the appearance of being
encased in cloth and whose ears are
nearly the length of his legs, and who
walks at the paoo of a snail, and a very
slow snail at that.
Hpftio bu ninoty-lwo dnke*, MA mar
qniHM, 632 oonnta, ninety-two nnoonnt*,
end ninety night baron*, beeide* forty
four ennobled; foreigner*. Twi> dnkra,
fifty-eight marqaiae*, thirty oonnU, sis
rieconut" end l*o baton* have been ere
htd by the preaent king. The nniver
■ity atndenta this year nnraber 16,339,
of whom 6,823 are atndring medicine
and 6,409 law,
Hint* About Accident*.
A child rolls down the stairs, or (alls
from a height, and in either onso strikes
its head with force. Wlmt shall bo done
till tho doctor oomen T Wo would givo
the following directions, an nearly an
pfwaiblo in the order in which they
ahotild bo adopted: Raise tho child
gently in tho arms, and carrying it to
tho neareat sofa or bed, place him on it
i —unless crying londly, when ho can be
soothed quickest in bin mother's arms.
All the clothing should be loosened, 4
especially about the neck, to afford the
freest circulation of the blood to and
from the head. To equalise the circa
lation and prevent inflammation, the
head should DO kept cool and the ex
tremities warm. Cooling lotions of
arnica or witch-haeel and water, or sim
ply water, should Ire applied to the
ncad on thin cloths, well wrung out so
as not to wet tho pillows aud lied-clothcs.
No more than two or four thicknesses
of linen should be used, because thick
cloths prevent evaporation, and what
was intended to cool tho head acts as a
poultice and makes tho head hotter!
Ice and ioo-cold water should not be
used unless the head is very hot, as it is
believed that children have been killed
by the application of pounded ice to the
head. Bottles of hot water or hot irons
aro all that is necessary, beside* the bed
clothing, to heat the extremities. All
applications of mustard and other irri
tants |lessees no advantage over these,
and have the disadvantage of disturbing
the sufferer. Bhonld the patient's face
lie vory pale, and siguß of fainting ap
pear, camphor or ammonia should lie
applied to the nostrils, aud a little
brandy or wine be giveu. Then the
room should be made as quiet as (inssi
bio and every means used to invite "na
ture's sweet restorer," sleep. Wo know
the popular idea is that patients suffer
ing from any injury hi the head should
be kept awake by all means ; and it is
mainly to combat this erroneous notion
that we are prompted to write ont tbooo
directions. No injury—or degree of in
jury—of the head contra-indicates the
sufferer's sleeping. In fact, positive
harm may be done in trying to prevent
sleep. Best is what tho brain aud blood
vessels want more than any ono other
thing; and, if not allowed, what would
have pasbed off in a few hoars or days
may be prolonged into inflammation,
with all its dangerous consequences. Of
course the air of tho room should be
kept pure—windows and doors open, if
the weatlior permit—and tho presence
of persons not absolntcly neceasary for
bidden.— W. 11. Vail, M. I)., in the
Chrintian Union.
Chinese Poetry,
Chinese poetry ia the subject of an in
teresting article in Macmilla>i's Maya
fine. Few persona appreciate tho gen
nine poetry to which the Chinese havo
given birth, yet poetry occupies almost
as important a place in their literature
as in onr own. Here is a literal trans
lation of a short poem:
The boart, whan it la tuiuol finds no place
of rest.
Tb mind, when embittered, thinks only of
grief.
In tho following the writer is sup
posed to lie apostrophising a bod of
chrysanthemum plants in full bloom:
See their sletxlor shadow picturad on the fenca
whilst their delioaie perfume scents the
garden walls;
Their tints, now dark, now ltgbt, flash 000
Mainst the other;
The dews as they drop strengthen their frame*;
Hungry, they feed on sir—
What can with their bright colors compete ?
Talking of them one might pity their languor,
as of that of an Invalid:
Delicate, ther opeo with const Ito lions at beet
antnmnal,
Yet say not that they hiootn to no purpose:
Fur did they not by thtr charms inspire Tao
to poetry and oonTtvialUy I
Here is one that has been metrically
translated * It ia called the " Tiny
Bill:"
Over gren fields and meadows a tiny rill ran
(The little precious coquette),
Hhe was pretty, aha kuew, and thus early
began
Gayly flirting with all that the me*.
Her favors on both tides she'd gracefully
shower.
Regardless of whom they might be;
One moment abe d kiss the sweet lips of a
flower.
The next —lave the root of a tree.
She would leap from one rock to another In
play.
Tumble down on her pebbly bed .
like a naiad, let the deeding, sunn ait ten
spray.
Fall In ptistnalic gems round her head.
Homstiniee she would lash herself Into rage.
And rush roaring aad seething along;
Till a hit of smooth ground would her anger
assuage.
When shed Hqwktty nninanr a song.
♦Vondcrfnl Frt*.
Hir Astley Cooper relates the case of a
sailor who waa received In Bt. Thomas'
hospital in a state of stupor from an in
jury in the head, which continued some
months. After an operation he sudden
ly recovered so far as to speak, but no
one in the hospital understood his lan
guage. But a Welsh milk-woman hap
pening to come into the ward, anawer
*d him, for he spoke Walsh, which was
hia native language. H bad, however,
luen absent from Wales more than
thirty years, and previous to the acci
dent had entirely forgotten Welsh, al
though he now spoke it fluently, and
recollected not a word of any other
tongue. On bis perfect recovery he
again completely forgot his Welsh, and
recovered bin English.
An Italian gentleman, mentioned by
Dr. Rush, in the beginning of an illness,
•P°ke English; in the middle of it,
French; bnt on the day of hia death
spoke only Italian.
An ignorant servant girl, mentioned
by daring tho delirium of a
fever repeated with perfect correctness
passages from a number of theologijal
worka in Latin, Qroek and Rabuiical
Hebrew. It waa at length discovered
that she bad been servant to a learned
clergyman, who was in the habit of
walking backward end forward along a
passage by tho kitchen, and there read
ing aloud hia favorite authors.
Dr. Abercrombie relates the ease of a
child, four years old, who underwent
the operation of trepanning while in a
state of profound stupor from fraetnre
of the skull. After hta recovery, he re
tained no reeolleetion either of the opera
tion or the accident: yet, at the *age of
fifteen, during the delirium of fever, be
gave hia mother an exaei description of
the operation, of the persona present,
their dress and many other minute par
ticulars.
Grandfather Llckshlngle's Bathing Bulb
One of the children asked how Captain
Paul Boyton got along in the water this
terribly oold weather.
"What I that feller I" exclaimed
Grandfather Licksbingle, starting up
from reverie. " That feller is swim
min' from Pittsburgh to New Orleans by
overland route in an ulster overooat suit
three-ply mittens. Every mornin' tbo
paper has an account of bow he lectured
in some town the night afore. Then he
cuts across lota, in the direction of New
Orleans, and delivers another lecture.
He'll arrive at hia destination by-aud
by, providiu' the wulkin' keeps good.
Anybody can swim to New Orleans that
way. Now, when your grandfather ao
coroplisbod his great aquatic feat, an the
newspapers called it, of swimmin' from
Now Orleans to Pittsburgh, I never left
the water once. Every public hall along
tho route was decorated with flogs an'
Chinese lantern, an' committees waited
on mo forty miles below the towns nnd
pleaded with mo all the way up, offerin'
mo anywhere from twenty-tlve cents to
8700 a night if 1 would round into port
aud lee lure. I wouldn't have it. As for
little oold snaps like this one, I rather
enjoyed them. It took n little more
fnol"—
"Fuel, grandfather?"
"Yes, fuel. I had a very perfect
bathin' suit. It had a furnace in the
basement, with regiatcrs open in' into
every room in tho house, so to speak.
When tho mercury got down alxmt sw-ro,
nn' the water began to feel a little chilly
like, I'd holler down the telephone to
tho Rtoker to heave in n few packages of
coal ile, resin, bacon, alcohol, aquafortis,
or whatever come handiest among the
freight"—
"Btirely, yon don't mean freight,
grandfather?
"I don't mean notliin' else; bnt if
you children think von know more 'bout
your grandfather's bathin' suit than he
does himself, why, dog-gone it, vou'd
better tell it 1"— Oil City /let rick'.
West Indian Superstitions.
As regards animals, Guinea pigs may
lo mentioned as specially unlucky, at
least in Bt, Croix. There are families
there, among those from whom one
would not exoect such tbii gs, whose
children would on no account Wallowed
to keep these pretty littlo pets. What
precisely is the harm they do is not
stated. All you can get out of one is,
" Ob, they always bring trouble to a
house; they're very unlucky." And yet,
if tho writer of this was an adept at ono
thing more than another in his small
boy days—which were spent in Barbados
—it was at keeping Guinea pigs. They
were kept by liim on scale so large
that he oould set np some of his school
fellows as Guinea-pig keepers. Ho even
ran tho rbk of keeping them sometimes
in his desk at school, Wring holes and
catting slits in tlic lid, to give tho little
bright-eye*! creatures air. And it was n
gri at risk to rnn, for those were the
good old "licking times"—now, hap
pily, almost over for schoolboys. The
master of the school was one of those
men who are now, it is to be hoped,
nearly ss extinct as the dodo—men who
lielieved that yon conld tcsch a boy
through his back, or through the palms
of his hands or the seat of his pants
loons. Hut yet the Guinea-pigs never
brought a thrashing upon thfir owner
or his friends. Home of the boys at
Jliia very school were possessed of a
sovereign plan for making yon perfect
in your lossons, which may have kept
off the trouble the Guinea-pigs would
otherwise have brought on the school.
When you hail learned any lesson thor
oughly '•:<! some fellows kept the talis
man in their hands all the time of learn
ing the lesson) rnb the page up and
down or across with a large seed, called
a "good luck seed." Then return it to
The pooket, where it onglit to lie kept.
This done, yon need not fear. Bo much
for superstitions.— Contemporary Re
virxc.
laa Oysters Whistle!
This little oyster story is from Thorn
burg's "New snd Old London:" The
shop was first established by a Mr.
Pearkoa in 1826. "It appears," say's
writer in tho Daily TrUyraph, '• that
about the year IM(3 the proprietor of
the bonse in question, which had then,
as it has now, s great name for the su
perior excellence of its delicate little
' natives,' beard a strange and nnnsnal
sonnd proceeding from one of the tnbs
in which the shellfish lay piled in lay
ers one over tho other, placidly fatten
ing upon oatmeal and awaiting the in
evitable advent of the remorseless knife.
Mr. Pearkes. the landlord, listened,
hardly At first believing bis earn. Tbeie
was, however, no donbt about the mat
ter; one of the oysters was distinctly
whistling, or, at any rate, producing s
sort of tijfflrmrnt with ita shall. It was
not difficult to detect this phenomenal
bivalve, and in a vory few minutes be
WAS triumphantly picked out from
amnngAt his fellows aud put by himself
in A spacious tub, with s plentiful sup
p'y of brine and water. The news
spread through the town ADd for some
days the fortunate Mr. Pcarkcs found
his house besieged by curious crowds.
• • • Douglas Jerrold's sugge-tion
was that the Mid oyster had been crossed
in love and now whistled to keep up ap
pearances, with an idea of showing that
it did not ear*." Thackeray used to de
clare tbat be was ouce actually in the
shop when an American came in to see
tbe phenomenon, as everybody else was
doing, and, after bearing the talented
mollnsk go throngb hia nana! perform
anoe, strolled oontemptnoualy out, de
claring " it was nothing to an oyster be
knew of in Massachusetts, which whistled
' Yankee Doodle' right through snd fol
lowed its master about the house like s
dog."
Another collection of one million can
celled postage stamen is explained.
Home time time ago a Philadelphia gen
tloman offered to obtain for an old lady
a li'o residence in a borne for tbe friend
lens if nhe won Id collect anch an anronnt
of atampa. The undertaking enliated
the attention of Miae Obloe Lmnktou, of
New Hartford, Oonn., who began to
aasiet the old led/. The reanlt is that
the million of stamps hare been gather
ed, the anm of $BOO baa been paid for
them, and the collector la now enjoying
I a comfortable home in tbe Methodist
1 house in Philadelphia.
A Canine Mali Carrier.
While on a turkey-hunt a few day*
•"'Dee, writes a correspondent from Vir
ginia, wo had Just pulled down a fence
to enter a field along side the road
when a very large dog of the shepherd
Hprclos came by at a brisk pace. Ob
serving he was geared by belts aronnd
his neck and body, and carrying a black
leather aacliel, I asked what it meant.
My friend laughed. Requesting to be
informed, ho said : "That's Dodd's
dog, and carries the mail from his house
five miles to the postofflco. He has two
miles yet to go, snd pulling out his
watch, remarked, "he is on time. Mr.
Dodd regularly sends his mail and that
of his neighbors to- the poetoflloe, and
the dog faithfully brings tho return
mail."
A few days after I happened to be at
Rappahannock station, talking with AI
dndge James about the dog. "Hpeak
of Old Nick," saiil he, "herebecomes."
Caparisoned as I had seen him with his
mail, wagging his organ of recognition
in a friendly way to those who saluted
him, ho passed straight into the post
office. I followed him snd asked the
postmaster to give me a fuller account
of this remarkable dog. Ile said : "He
comes daily as you see with quite a large
neighborhood mail in lien of Mr. Horace
Dodd, his owner, who finds it more con
venient to send his dog. Mr. Dodd
used to come himself twice a week to
the office for his mail, a distance of five
miles. He always made the dog carry
the mail in a Hmull bag, a habit he kept
up for some time, when he ventured to
send him alone.
"Finding he could depend on him, in
tho playfulness of his fancy he had him
geared up as you see, with U. 8. M. in
scribed on the sachet. He has been
thus employed for nine months, never
missing u day, and allows no one to
tamper with the mail. All Mr. Dodd's
n< ighbors for two miles aronnd get
their mails in this way. It has lately
increased, including daily and weekly !
papers, a large correspondence, reaching
at least four thousand letters and papers
in a year's time, and, besides, small arti- '
cles of merchandise; bnt his load is
limited to six pounds. You see, I take
off his aachel and assort the letters; he
lavs there waiting for the Dodd mail,
which I give him first. He starts im
mediately for home, where be arrives in
forty minutes, and is bountifully fed.
"Mr. Dodd would not swap him for the
finest horse in the country. He is
otherwise useful in herding his cattle
and carrying dinner to hia children a
mile distant at school."
It is proposed to have a fuU-size pie
ture of this dog taken by a Wunpctent
artist and presented to Tost master Oen
oral Key, to be linng np in some con
spicuous place in the department as an
example of faithfnl service.
Speculative Trash Mayer*.
The proprietor of the Everett bonne,
Ht. Louis, recently had s isle of the bag
gage left at bin hotel by frsuda and im
peennion* patrons. There were eighty,
three trunk* sn<l valines offered for sale,
and the total amount realised van $Ki.
A large crowd WM present, bnt tho bid
ding w far from spirited, aa the con
tent* of the trunk* were not exposed to
view. Many laughable incident* hap
pened. One old gentleman persisted
on prving open tbo trunk* with a big
knotted oane, and wonld only desist
when mndo to do ao forciblv. At the
commencement of the aalc fie waa ob
served to be cloaely eyeing a huge Hara
t"ga which hail been left at the Everett
house by a female advent nreea. When
this trnnh was cried he anxionaly fum
bled in bia pocket* and brought forth
ten cents, with which ho started the
bidding. Finally it waa knocked down
to bim for H " Open it, open it t"
yelled tho crowd, and ho did so. The
first thing seen was a roll of newspapers,
and the last a lot of bricks, among which
was found a sheet of foolscap with this
inscription on it: "Bold again! and
never got your money back. Yours in
haste." A loy bought a trnnk for forty
cent* and found in it about 810 worth of
clotbc* and a valuable breastpin, evi
dently intended for a lady. A laborer
purchased a rickctv receptacle, held to
gether by ropes, It was full of papers
and letters, the latter written bv a lady
to her husband and full of piti/nl talcs
of poverty, distress and sickner*. To
enumerate all the mistakes in baying
wonld take a column. Bnfflce it to say
that a grocer hongbt some snrgioal in
struments, a druggist a sack of dried ap
ples and a qnantity of beans, and a
market-woman a complete skeleton,
oarefnlly polished and set on wires but
not pnt together. The sale wonnd or
with a free fight, which the police had
some trouble in atopping. The Ration
al Hotel Reporter.
Married In a Wagon.
A* onr worthy Dora pastmaatcr, who
is not only postmaster, bnt ia clothed
with justice' authority to solemnise
marriages, waa meandering bia way on
horseback, west of his own prqpiseson
the highway, he met Eaqnire Elliott and
Mrs. Xealis sitting on a spring seat in
a two-horse wagon. Onr worthy es
quire and postmaster was halted and in
formed that his services were in demand
at once to perform a marriage ceremony,
the license being promptly presented in
dne form. Whereupon the accommo
dating esquire rode np to the wagon,
requested the parties who were seated
on the spring-Mat to join hands, and
then ami there eo lain nixed, on the pub
lic highway, without a witness, the
marriage of the twain.— Otttego (A an.)
Independent.
Simplicity f President Mrevy.
The new president of the French re
public dresses very modestly, never hav
ing worn even the uniform of the na
tional guard. He ia a man of repub
licau simplicity in all his waya. In his
every day attire, even in Paris, he baa
donned a wideawake instead of a silk
hat; and in anmtner time he may gener
ally be seen sauntering about the
boulevards clad ell in gray, and crown •
ed with e Panama. Though a man of
considerable landed property, aa estates
go in Franoe, he never set up e
brougham till he became president of
the chamber, and be baa always kept
this modeat one-horse vehicle, with e
ooaohman out of livery, at Versailles.
In Paria he naee oaba and omnibuses ;
but It must be a very muddy day which
oompela him to ride at ell.
Htop ■ Minute.
Don't Lurry no. More slower: it may
be that you will g Q Hirer. Grind, grin<L
grind—one everlasting grind from five
o clock in the roomily till ten at night.
<*™ D bobble of hnman riches.
, . the neerf, pray tell rue? Yon
already hare enough, and even more
I than yon can use. You are heaping DP
j wealth for others to waste or quarrel
I over When you are deed; and half your
heira, instead r,f re me in be ring you grate
fully, will contemplate your departure
from this hurrying scene with infinite
MI Induction. Do rest a while. You ara
wearing out the vital forces faster than
there is need, and in this way subtract
ing years from the total sum of your
life. This rush and worry day after
: day, this restless anxiety Hftcr some
thing yau have got, is like pebble -
stones in machinery—they grate and
grind the life out of you. Yon Lava
useless burdens- throw them off. You
have a great deal of needless care; drop
it, I'ull in the strings; compact your
business. Take time for thought of
bettcf things. (Jo out into the aIT and
enjoy the sunshine. Htop thinking of
business and profit. Htop grumbling at
adverse fortune. Yon will probably
never see much better times than thse
in this doomed world. Your most op
peirtune season is now; yoor happy day
IV t>-day. Calmly do your duty, and
let Cod take care of fjis own world. He
is still alive, and is the King. Do not
imagine that things will go to ever last
i:<g i-mash when you disappear from this
mortal stage. Don't fancy that the curse
of heaven, in the shape of the vain task
of righting up a disjointed earth, is im
posed on you. Cease to fret and fume;
cease to jump and worry early and late.'
The good time is coming, hut you can
never bring it; God can and will." Take
breath, sir; sit down and take a long
Wreath; then go calmly to the tasks of
life and do your work well. Dr.
Murray,
How < arelei Mm (an be With Money.
A correspondent nay*: My friend
WON n paymaster of a large railroad
company, and one day Lc went ont with
$40,000 to pay the jnen. The money •
*' wrapped up in an old newspaper,
and he carried it under his arm. Ha
stopped at a way-aide hostelry for din
ner, and left the money cn a chair when
be went out. He had not gone many
miles from the place when he missed it.
He fl>'W hack and asked the woman if
she had seen a panel. " There's a bit
of newspaper on the chair boy ant," said
she ; " perhaps that itwhich it proved
to W, and my friend returned a happier
and a wiser man. Another circumstance:
A man I know of lost a roll of bills
amounting to $lO,OOO. They, also
were'tied np in a newspaper. *He told
a friend, and the two talked over the
loss and the probability of finding the
money. The friend male him tell all
the ground he had l/oen over since ha
Lad the money. The last place was
the postoflloe. The night w:ui wet over
head and slushy under foot. They
shipped at the nontoffice, and going to
the place where the man had been, and
found two or three torn bits of newspa
per. It was the same. They looked
further, and found the lost treasure. It
hail been kicked in turn by every one
who came into the office, and when
found, was all untied and completely
soaked in slush. They seised it eager
ly and returned to their hotel, where
I hey spent several hours in cleaning it.
It was all there ; and at last they got
it dried. The grateful man took uis
friend out and bought him the band
somest watch that he oould find.
Adulterated Food.
From facts and data in our possession,
rays the New York Herald, it •> sus
ceptible of rroof that nearlv all the es
sentials of life are seriously tampered
with, and that the adulteration of food
la the rule rather than the exception.
The following list is carefully prepared,
and will give an idea of the extent to
which the evil extends:
Sausages— Male of impure meats and
teasoned with spices.
Hrrad —Mixed with alum, lime water
and flour ground in with lead.
Flour—Adulterated with damaged
peas, powdered alum and casein, in
which are worms, insects, acari -and
smut.
Cofleo— Adulterated with ooooanut
shells, almond shells, chiooory, beans,
peas and corn.
Tee—Colored with black lead and
Prussian blue.
Oysters, Clams and Lobsters—Stale
and decaying.
Cbeoae—Colored with saffron, Vene
tian red, carrots and annotto, which
latter is often fonod to contain poison
ous chro mates.
Essences—Adulterated and contami
nated by nitro-beuEole, prnasic acid, oil
of turpentine, sulphuric acid and citric
acid.
Hagar—lnjured by putrid blood, with
which it is " purified," and adulterated
with clay, sand and bean dust, with now
and then a fair share of marble dust.
Cake—Flavored with oil of almonds,
containing pruaaic acid.
Spices—Black pepper, adulterated
with buokwbeat, caramel or shorts; cay
enne pepper, adulterated with red lead,
almond shells and gingt r.
Time Enough te Keller.
One day Billy, that's my brother, he
and Sammy Doppy was play in' by a
mud-hole, and Billy be said:
"Now, Sammy, lea play we was a
barnyard; yon be the pig and lie down
and woller. and 111 be a bull and beller
like everything.
So they got down on their *>" and
knees, and Sammy he went in the mad
and wollered, wife Billy hollered like
distant thunder. Bimcby Sammy be
enm out muddy—yea never seeo such e
muddy little feller—and be said:
yon be the pig an' let me bel-
Bnt Rilly he said:
" I ain't a very geod pig 'fore dinner,
and ittie be time 'naff for yon to beller
wen yr mother sees yer do m"—Little
Johnny.
A Lutheran clergyman, of Philadel
phia, informed Dr. Bush that Germans
sad Swedes, of whom be had a lane
number in his congregation, when near
death always prayed hi their native
languages, though some of them, he wee
confident, had not spoken them for fifty
or sixty yearn.