Whoppers.
It was at a miner'seabiu inTennossee;
a dozen or so of rough, nnoonth, un
kempt looking fellows sat over a stove
in an atmosphere redolent with oold cof
fee and tobacco.
"Tulkiu' about your stories," said a
grizzly, gray old fellow, removing his
pipe from between two shaggy moases
of tawuy hair, while his companions
gave each other bignittosut glances—
"ltnlkiu' about your stories, why, y've
all liearu on itill 11 ess, him us was
killed in '7O, a moonshining, Well,
Bill an' me wns old erouies. A year
afore tho war Bill, ho swelled of a
poach pit. It trubblcd of him n kinder,
but no one thought muck on't; but
Bill's appetite it got stronger aud
stronger, till at last he'd cut and de
vour of every think as what ho could
lay of his hands on. An'tho mystery
about tho affair wns, that tho moro
Bill he would eat, the thinner did he
become.
" It wus six years nrter that—yes, it
wns coving years—when one day Bill
ho wus took with a gripin' an' a groan
in'. Bnnkes ! how he kicked and yelled;
seving men couldu'l hold of him. No
doctor wus in the ports where we wus.
Woll, he had couwulsious, an' he bad
'cm right smart, too, I tell yer, and the
furst think we knowd, up came a small
cheery tree "
" I thought as 'ow he swalled of a
peach pit ?" some one asked.
" Well, so ho did,and he disgorged of
n poach tree about three feet big!*-did
I say cherry?—woll, that wus a slip of
the tongue—with bloomin' peaches on
it. And arter that Bill's health cum
back to him, and he wusu't afflicted uc
more."
* " I've got a story to beat that," ex
claimed a yonng, sprightly-looking
miner, with n merry eye and a clear
complexion. "Me an Bob Jones we
wns a travelin' in 'SB, jnst about the
time that ere accident happened to Bill
Hess,and Bob he got a cinder in his eye,
which kinder annoyed him. It got wnss
and wusp, till the poor feller hadn't no
peace or comfort. Ono day, savs Bob
to me, says he: ' Pete, somethink is
the matter with that ere eye.somethiuk is
the matter. It feels like as what it was
gettin' bigger and lenvin' of my head.'
" I looked at it,and sure enough there
wns a raisen-like sort of think on it.
Htill it trubblcd of Bob. Day by day,
that raisen-like sort of think growed ami
growed, nutil it wouldn't let the eyelid
shut. Mind ye, all this time Bob could
see just as well as ever, if auythink, bet
ter than nor before. The raisen like
sort of think growed nnd growed for
two years, when it bail growed three
inches ont of Bob's eye. It was just
like a bush, with tiny brunches and little
bits of leaves. Well, to make a long
story short, one night Bob turned over
on Lis face in his sleep, and in the
mnrnin' he found a little maple tree
lyin' alongside of him, and the pain iu
his eye and tho bush wns gone. That,
there," pointing to a sapling just ont of
the door, "is the tree which growed of
the cinder what Bob Jones caught in his
eye."
French Doctor*.
The fees which French physicians re
ceive, says tho London Air to*, wonld
seem to their English brethren very
low. I gather from a recent controversy
in the papers that some leading London
practitioners lately raised their fee for a
first consultation to two guineas. In
Paris the best physicians expect fonr
dollars for a consultation at home, and
eight dollars if they go out; but a rather
exaggerated sentiment of professional
delicacy prevents them, sa a rule, from
demanding more than a patient chooses
to give. The table of a busy doctor is
littered over with gold-pieces so group
ed as to convey the hiut that fees of
one, two or three napoleons have been
received; bnt if a patient lays down two
dollars, or even one, ho n-ceives his bow
and thanks without a protest, tho doctor
assuming (often wrongly) that tho man
has given ail he can afford. In country
towns one dollar is the nsnal fee, bnt
forty cents are often given by men who
ought to know better, and forty cents is
tho invariable fee which village doctors
put down per visit when sending in
their bills at the end of theyerr. One
is ashamed to say thst these doctors'
bills often give rise to the sorriest hag
gling, for there exists a crooked opinion
that a physician should regard himself
as a philanthropist, and pay his butcher's
kills with the m<rc thanks of his pa
tients. A country doctor attends a
prosperous peasant proprietor, day after
day for weeks, supplies medicines,
tflwsts a cure, and at the end of the
year is treated sa an extortioner hecanae
ho has charged a sum which will barely
pay for the wear and tear of the horse
and gig. Borne doctors draw a regnlar
salary from a medical clnb; bnt these
are the worst used of all, for every mem
ber of the clnb feels bonnd to take ont
five or six times the valne of hia sub
scription in doctor's visits, even if he
uave rothing the matter with him. *
Trade ID Children.
Ernest Morris, Ihe young American
naturalist traveling in Brazil, tclla
aboat a practice pn vailing along the
upper Amazon, aa follow* : At one of
tho houses we met a trader who had
come from the river .Tapnra. Ho had
on board a boy and girl of tho Miranha
tribo for aale. Honor Batalhia bonght
the boy, a bright-looking little fellow,
for flu? milrays, or $25. The little
girl cried pitifully when separated from
her brother. The trade in obildren ia
apoken of by Bate*, who waa at TefTe
twenty-five yeara ago ; it ia prohibited
by the government, bnt openly carried
on. The Miranhaa are the moat power
ful tribe on tho Jspura ; they are a
warlike nation, who for a knife or gal
lon of rnm, null captured children.
Nnmerons raidn are made by them upon
their weaker neighbors ; and men and
women are killed and the children Bold
into alavery. At Teffo there ia not a
honae in which yon will not find
children of all ages, aa yon alao will at
Manane. On my return on the nteamer
Un Branco the captain waa taking to
Para a boy that be bad bought for fBS.
"The reason for tbia," aaid Hanoi
Bat alb ia, "ia very aimple—we mnat
have aervantc and they make good ones;
hcaidee, they are not Braziliana—lbey
are Indiana of New Oranada." Thia
trade in childreu ia carried on more ex
tenrively every year, and ia a disgrace
to the government.
About Bats,
There are perhaps a dozen species of
bats respectively designed to act their
part in different porta of the world, bnt
they are all winged quadruped*, var
oum in size, oorreapouding to the du
ties they have to perform and to tkooli
mates in which they are located. Of
whatever species, the but ie mamwifcr
oua. It BuoKlea its yonng, of which it
hnn ono or two lit a birth, and ita mouth
is provided with teeth. Jt baa four
lcgH, but two of them rosemblo arum,
ami it has a tail extended from the ver
tebra). Each arm consists of two long
bonee with an elbow joiut. At tha outer
extremity of the nrm, as with r humnu
baud, there nre four ilugera and u
thumb. The fingers are long thin bonee
attached lengthwise to a membranous
wing, which they expand like the len
der whalebones of an umbrella—a moat
beautiful and effective arraugeinout.
The thnmb projects, and is an interest
ing member. It resembles a claw or
hook. Hy means of its two hooked
thumbs the creature can suspend itself
from branches of trees or other projec
tions, and iB enabled to draw itself for
ward on the gronud. The legs are
short, with knee-joints, and the claws of
the toes help the thumbs in the matter
of suspension. Arms, legs, and tail are
nil united with the mombriuie of the
wings, and materially aid in propulsion
through tho air. Everything in the
general structure of the animal is sub
sidiary to the function of flying. The
wings, however, are inferior totbo wings
of birds, such as those of the swallow.
Hut they perfectly fulfill their purpo a,
Consisting of a membrane which wraps
tho body like a cloak, these bat wings
are powerful in darting swiftly in a
series of jerks and zigzags in pursuit of
raoihs and other insects. Besides re
iving on its eyesight, the bat possesses
tlie advantage of an extremely delicate
susceptibility in its thin membranous
wings which reveals the presence of any
insect it happens to touch in its flight.
Ilad tho wings been of feathers like
those of birds, this imi>ortant qualify of
detecting insects by the slightest touch
wonld have been lost.
Numerous fanciful notions are enter
tained regarding bats. They are said to
be able to see in the dark, and that they
are bloody aud vengeful in their nature.
As concerns seeing in the dark, that is
quite erroneous. Their power of avoid
ing obstacles when flying in darkened
places is not due to their eyes, but to
that keen sensibility in their wings that
has been jnst alluded to. The thin
leathery wings of bats are their antenr.w,
or feelers. I)arting about iu nil direc
tions in utter darkness, they are never
by any chance impeded or injured by
obstacles that happen to be in their way.
Experiments have ocen made by stretch
ing strings scions darkened places iu
which a number of them are conflr.nl,
and no string ia ever disturbed in Un-ir
flight. The exquisitely radiated syatem
of nerves in a bat's wing offers one of
the finest studies in animal physiology,
or, we might say, in natural theology.
Shall a creature ao ingeniously formed
bo spoken of with sentiments of hostility
or derision T On the contrary, it shnnlil
excite our warmest admiration. Artists
from time immemorial have been in
habit of depicting malevolent demons
with wings on the pattern of those of the
list—a piece of conventionality wholly at
variance with what is learned from a
contemplation of the actual facts in na
ture* The bat is no more fiendish than
the swallow or any other bird which has
been appointed to rid the atmosphere of
superfluous and deatructive insects.
Women Druggist* in Holland.
I . 18G5 o young laly of Zaaadijk,
ST -a A. M. Tobbe, wrote to the medical
commission of Northern Holland, a.akir.g
to lie admitted an a student of pharmacy;
she desired to fit hernelf to carry mi the
druggist buHtness of her father, who had
juat died, and which wan abont to be
entrnated to a graduate with a diploma.
The commission answered her that her
request wan no exceptional that they did
not think they had a right to decide it,
and advised her to write pcisoiajly to
the minister of the interior, M. Thor
beeke. On the 25th of J nun, 184)5, he
refused her rrquest on tlie gmutid that
aa article seventeen of the instructions
for druggists used only the pronoun hr.
The law of IMf.dkipon the exercise of the
art of healing was, however, more gal
lant than its predecessor and admitted
women as wf 11 as men to the examina
tion as either stndtnta of pLarmacy,
druggists' assistants or druggists. Hard
ly eleven yeara haTe panned aince this
laat medical law liegan to operate, and
already a hundred women have l>eeu re
ceived aa student* of tiharaacy, and
when they havo acquired the necessary
knowledge and satisfied the legal re
quiremont* will pass through the ex
amination* neecsarv to qualify them for
the right to open a drug store.
The examination required for becom
ing a student of pharmacy is itself quite
a serious one. It comprehends the
Dutch language, arithmetic, Latin, the
reading and application of written re
ceipt* and some of the prescriptions of
the PhartiHuxiprra hrs.rbandiea, atlieo
retical knowledge of medicine, a knowl
edge of simples by their exterior charac
ter*, the origins of medicines, their
scientific names with their eynonyros
and the preparation of reoeipt*. The
fact is not very flattering to the stronger
sex that, on the average, the nnmlnrr of
Liascnliuo candidates refused ia double
that of women candidates. These future
druggists, many of whom are the daugh
ters of druggists or country doctor*, do
at find their places only in their fathers'
offices bnt are in demand among the
druggist* of the large cities, in Amrter
dtm especially, and now in the phar
macies of hospitals, and oommend them
selves by their habits of order, neatness
and exactness, which are rarely met
with in equal degree among their male
competitors.—AVic York Graphic.
Droeden haa a aingnlar educational
inatitationwhich ia called the " Dres
den Academy for the Teaching of Tail
oring and Drewimaking." It waa at
tended laat year by 254 pupils, male and
female. Of theae 187 followed the class
for the cutting of women's drecsee,
twenty ihat for the ontting of meu'a
linen, and ninety-five that for arithmetic
and bookkeeping. Among the foreign
pnpila there are natives of Belgian.
Denmark, Holland, Russia, Hwedon and
Norway, Hwitaerland, Austria and North
America.
Curious Method of Catching Quail.
The following passage, from a work
called " Hport and Work on the Nepanl
Frontier," desorilicß the manner of cap
turing qunilH in tho East Indies: Tray
cling one day along one of the glades I
have mentioned as dividing the strips
of jungle, I wan Hummed to ee a rnsn
before me in a field of long Htnbble,
with a cloth Hpread over his head ami
two sticks projecting in front at an ob
tnse angle to hiH body, forming horn
like projections, on which tho ends of
hi olotb, twisted Hpirally, were tied.
I thought from his curious antics nod
movements that ho mut be mud, but I
soon discovered that there WHS method
in hiH mndncHH. lie was catching quail.
The quail are often very numerons'in
the stubble fields, and the natives adopt
very ingenious devices for their cap
ture. This WUH one I was now witness
ing. overing themselves with their
cloth as I liuve described, the projecting
ends of tho two sticks representing tho
horns, they simulate all tho movements
of a cow or ball. They pretend to pnw
up Hi" earth, tons their make-believe
horns, turn round nd pretend to scratch
thcmi'elves, and, in fact, identify thcra
selves with tho animul they are repre
senting; and it is irresistibly comical to
watch a solitary performer go through
tliis at fresco comedy. 1 have laughed
often at some cunning old herdsman or
shekarry. When they see yon watching
them they will redouble their efforts, and
trv to represent an old bull going through
all his pranks and practices, and throw
yon into convulsions of laughter.
ltound two sides of tiie Held they hove
previously put fine nets, and at the apex
they have a largo cage with a decoy
quail inside, or perhaps a pair. The
quail is a running bird, disinclined for
night except at night; in the daytime
they prefer rnnning to nsing their
wings. The idiotic-looking old cow, as
wre will call the hunter, has all his wits
about him. He proceeds very slowly
aud wanly; hiH keen eye detects the
conveys of quail, which way they are
going, his ruse generally suoeocdH won
derinily. He Is no more lik" a cow thin
that respectable animal is like a encum
ber; but he paws, and tosses, and moves
about, pretends to est. to nibble here,
uud switch his tail there, and so on
maneuvers as to keep the running quail
away from tho unprotected odges of the
field. When they get to tho verge pro
tected by tho net, they begin to take
alarm; they are probably not very cer
tain about the peculiar-looking "old
cow " behind them, and rnnning along
the net, they see tho decoy qnails evi
dently feeding in great security aud
freedom. The V-shapod month of tho
largo basket cage looks invitingly open.
The puzzling nets are barring the way,
•and the •' old cow " is gradually closing
np behind. As the hunter moves along,
I should have told Ton, he rubs two
pieces of dry hard sticks gently up and
down his thigh with one hand, prodnc
ing a peculiar crepitation, a crackling
sound, not sufficient to startle tho birds
into flight, bnt alarming thcra enough
to m:il£ them get out of the way of the
"old cow." One bolder than the others,
possibly the most timid of the covey,
irritated by the queer crackling aonnd,
now enters the basket, the others fol
lowing like a flock of sheep; and once in.
the pnzsling shape of the entrance pre
vents their exit. Not infreqnentlv tho
hunter bags twenty or even thirty Lracc
of qnail in one field by this ridiculous
ookiug but ingenious method.
The Trade in Hlrdft*
A busy bat quiet industry in tins city
is that >( tho bird fanciers. A dealer in
canary bird* nay* that last year ho im
ported 100,000 bird*, which were readi
ly disposed of at fair prices. They are
generally brought from tho Uartz moan
tain region of Germ any. From the
large dealers a fine male canary with a
good roiee can be bonght for s.l. Choice
specimens with eitraor.linary vocal
powers tiring, sometimes, $lO. Female
birds for breeding purposes sell for sl.
Unscrupulous dealers,particularly street
vendors, palm off on the unwary the to
males for good songsters, and only after
patient waiting do the owners, who
have lieen aohl as well as the birda, find
it out. An amatenr slight of-hand per
former gives this ns hia method for MB
daring a canary tame enough for trick
playing: " Take a young bird and pnt
oil of hergmmot on hia bill. It will
make him l as drnnk as a lord'; then
roll him in yonr bands nntil he is famil
iar with yonr toneh, and pnt him in hia
eage to oorne to hiraaelf. He can lie
handled afterward at any time witbont
lieiug at all frightened. Then the first
thing is to toach him to climb np yonr
fingers aa a ladder, and to hop on yonr
thnrab. Boon be can be tangbt to do
anything."
Next to the canary the mocking bird
ia most in demand. Tboae whose vocal
powers are well-developed are aold for
$26 and npwtnl. The nirda come from
Virginia and other Southern Htates, and
alao from Mexico. The bullfinch ia
highly regarded when well-trainod. It
can t>e taught to whistle tunes. There
is one in Chatham atroet which whistles
" Pretty Polly Perkins." Its price ia
$25. One which can whistle ten tune*
ia vslned at S4O. The goldfinch,chaffinch,
nightingale, lark and the linnets ami
thrushes are alao prized as songsters.
Of other birds not songsters, thirty dif
ferent specie*, kept as pets for their
beanty or acquirements, may Ire found
in market Of these the parrot is most
in demand. A well-trained bird of
either the gray Afnon variety, or the
green American, la worth 150, or even
SIOO. The moat brilliantly colored
birds are the Australian paroquets and
strawberry finches.—m YorkTribunr.
Heller From s Cera.
Bosk the foot in warm water for a
quarter of an honr every night; after
each snaking, rub on tbe corn patiently,
with the finger, a half dozen drops of
sweet oil; wear around the toe daring
the day two thicknesses of bnokakin,
with a hole in it to roodve the oorn,
and continue this treatment until tbe
oorn falls out. If yon wear moderately
loose shoes, it will be months, and even
years, before the corn returns, when the
same treatment will be sAcieut in s few
days. Faring corns is always danger
one, Iwside making them take deeper
root, es does a wend nut off near the
ground; but tbe plan adviaed is safe,
painless, and costs nothing but a little
attention.— Kxnhang*.
The Atlantic Cable.
The New York Evening Poet saya, in
an article referring to the grand rooop
tion given at tho honse of Cyrus w.
Field, to commemorate tho twenty fifth
anniversary of the formation of tho first
company to lay a telegraphic cable
across tue Atlantic ocean :
As early as 1850 a copper wire, cover
ed with gutta-percha, was laid across
tho English ohauncl between Dover uud
Calais, but communication waH kept up.
bv it for a short tinie only. It was re
placed next year by a cable of four
wires, which is still working. Still
earlier a wire bad been laid ucross the !
Rhino, a distance of only half a mile, ;
and within a few years severul other |
submarine cables were laid, but they '
were all short and iu shallow water.
The longest was the Holland cable,
Which was stretched for bnt one linu j
drod and thirty miles and in water
but a few fathoms in depth. No at
tempt was made to establish telegraphic
communication across tho Atluutic until j
1854, wiien tho "New York, Newfound- !
land and London Telegraph company " j
was formed iu Mr. Field's house—the)
samo whirb he now inhabits iu Cramer- i
cy park. The agreement to organize !
this company was signed in Mr. Field's
dining-room on the 10th of March, 1854, ,
by Mr. Field, I'ofc-r Cooper, Moses Tay- J
lor, Marshall O. Roberts and Chandler i
White. David Dndlcy Field was pres- !
cut on the occasion as counsel, and went !
with his brother Cyrus to St. Johns to
obtain tbo charter, which declared the j
object of the company to be " to estab- ]
lmh a line of telegraphic oommnnica- i
tion between America anil Europe by !
way of Newfoundland."
Mr. White died soon after, uud was
succeeded by Wilson G. Hnnt. When
the lino to Newfoundland was com
pleted Cyrus W. Field went to London,
where he organized the Atlantic Telc
gruph compauy in 1856. In the follow
ing year an attempt was made to lay
tho first transatlantic cable, bnt it broke
when tho ships were about three bun |
dred miles from the coast of Ireland, ;
and the enterprise wns suspended. In
1858 a second attempt was made. The
American man-of war Niagara and the
English man-of-war Agamemnon sailed
for the middle of the Atlantic, where it
WBH intended tlint they should join j
cables and then sail back, east and west,
to carry the two ends to their respect j
ivo countries. A violent storm arose ;
before the vessels met, in which Uie j
Agamemnon uarrowly escaped founder- !
ing, and after the cable wus joined it
parted several times, so that the expc 1
dition was abandoned. In the snmmer
of tho same year another effort was
made with success, and the result was
hailed with public rejoicings ; but al
though messages were exchanged be
tween England and the United States,
aud the practicability of tho project was
demonstrated, comtnunicition was main
tained for only three weeks. It was re
established in 1846, after two new cables
bad been manufactured. One of the
latter was partly laid in 1H65, but broke
iu mid-ocean. It was 11 de lup in the
follow ing year atm curried to The m-t
of Newfoundland.
The cable of IKSB was th* pioneer of
deep-sea telegraphy throughout the
world. In oonzeqneuce of its success,
temporary OH it was, cables *< rc laid iu
the Mediterranean, the Red *oa, the
Persian Rnlf, the Arabian sen and the
bay of Bengal, down the Malayan pe -
musnla to I'c-uang and Singapore, along
the coast of Asia to China, and across
to Japan. Lima were also carried to
Java and across to Anstralia and New
Zealand, while in the western world
cables were laid to Cubs, the West
India islands, and along the coast of
Month America.
1 Of the persons who compose 1 the
original Atlantic cable company, all ex
cept Mr. White are now living."
A Female Crn-oe.
The Son Francisco journals contsir
an acconntof what tlicy call a Califomion
Crusoe, an Indian woman who hod for
eighteen years lived alone on a dreary
desert island, and was finally diacovcn-d
and taken off by the crew of a vessel in
search of her. Many years ago a small
schooner was sent to tho island of San
Nicholas, in the Pacific, some seventy
five miles sontlieast of Hants Barbara,
to bring awav a nnmlier of Indians liv
ing there ami settle them on the main
laud. Nineteen men. women and children
hail been got on board, when one of
them, a mother, fonnd that two of her
offspring hod been left behind. She
immediately jnmped overboard and
swam to the island, where she sought
in vain for her children. Having re
turned to the shore % she saw the
schooner sailing away, and trie-*! in vain
to attract attention. The island was not
visited again for sixteen years. Then
George NiJever, an otter-hnntcr, com
manding a small vessel, landed there,
and detected evidences of hamsn habi
tation, bnt could not stay long enough
to prosecute bis qneat, vo years after
be sailed there again and, roaming over
the island, esme upon the woman, who
was not at all witd, and made no effort
to escape. Hho was clad in a garment
fashioned of the skiu of a sea-fowl, and
was occupied in skinning seal blubber,
which had formed the greater part of
her diet. She was quite good-looking,
seemed about fifty years old, and spoke
a language nobody could understand.
She died a few weeks after reaching
Santa Barbara, while living in the house
of Nidevor, from the effects of a fall se
riously injuring her spine.
Tossed bike a Hall.
" Hs will surely violently turn and
toes thee like a bail into a Urge coun
try." (Isaiah, xxii., 18.> Many have
no doubt marvolled much as to what
oonld be the physical fact intended by
this simile. A correspondent of the
Loudon Note* and Qverien used to
wonder till he was a witness to the
sight. He was in the island of Mityleue
during a great storm of wind in winter-
There ia a plant, not unlike wormwood,
whioh grows into s compact globular
form, with vary stiff talks and branches.
In winter it dies down to the ground,
and in its dry and light condition is torn
from its roots by the wind, sod set
bounding over the wide end unendowed
country. He has seen five or sis of
these coursing along at once—e vivid
emblem of a man at the mercy of s
higher power, helpless to choose hia
own course, or even find rest.
The Preservation of forests.
In au article with the above title in the
North American fteview, Felix L. Os
wald, after reviewing tho disastrous ef
fects which have followed tho whnh*alo
destruction of forests in various coun
tries of the world, remarks that since
the year 1835 the forest area of the
Western hemisphere lias decreased at
the overage yearly rate of 7,600,000
ai res, or about 11,400 square miles ; in
tho United Htatc-a alone this rate has
advanced from 1.600 square miles in
1835 to 7,fK)O in 1850. aud 8,400 in 1876,
Between 1750 and 1835 the total aggre
gate of forests felled in Houth aud Cen
tral America (especially in Southwestern
Mexico), and in the Eastern, Southern
and Houth weetcrn States of oar republic,
may be estimated at from 45,000,000 to
50,000,000 acres. In other words, we
have been wasting the moisture supply
of the American soil at the average ratio
of seven percent, for tact* juarter of a
century daring the last one hundred
and twenty-five years, nud are now fast
approaching the limit beyond which any
further decrease will affect the climatic
phenomena of the entire continent.
If wo consider how the agr.cultural
products of the eastern continents be
come from year to year more inadequate
to the wants of their stilt-growing popu
lation, we may f'-rsee the tune when the
hope of the world will dependupon the
productiveness of the American soil;
but tbat productiveness depends on the
fertilizing influence of the American
forests. If they are gone we shall ave
on earth no newer world to hope tor—
no future Columbus can alleviate the
struggle i< r existence. To stay snch a
catastrophe the author suggests that in
every township, where the disappear
ance of arboreal vegetation begum to af
fect the |>ercnninl springs and water
courses or the fertility of the fields, a
spuce of fifty acrea should be appropri
ateil for a " township prove." en oasis
to be consecrated forever to shade trees,
birds' nests, picnics and playing chil
dren. In all new settlements, where a
remnant ol the primeval forests has sur
vived, let the woods on the upper ridges
or on tho summits of isolated hills be
spared by mutual agreement of the pro
prietors. In the treeless regions of the
great West not only the amateur socio
ties, but every grange and farmers'
union of every county, should devote
to em sol ves to the work of tree culture ;
and ev. ry landed pr"j rietor should see
to it tbat the boundaries of bis states
lie set with shale trees, and that the
wooden fences Is- supplanted by quick
set BO'gis. Ist fruit trees ISJ planted
wherever there is a piece of ground
neither otherwise occupied nor almoluie
ly barren : and Is- tnre that their influ
once on the atmosphere in summer and
llieir fertilising leaves in fall w.ll more
than indemnify the adjoining fields for
the modiolus of sunlight they msy in
tercipt. Any Slate where these pre
cautions should be gem-raliv adopted
would roon be so unraistakafdy distin
guished by the unfailing humidity and
freshness of its fields and the abundance
of its crops, that the sheer necessity ol
competition w.-uld induce backward
neighbor* to try the experiment, and be
fore long the mnrirn would not only be
gene rally recognized, but generally act
en] upon, tbat husbandry and tree col
ture are inseparable Scientific Amer
icon.
Alllgator-Steakx.
The following letter is from the eorre
sj>oudei cc column of the New York
Ercniny Pott: " A short paragraph
about A'-hille Murat in the Ei cniny
Pont re i.iiiils me of some stories about
him that I have often heard on the gnlf
oast of Florida. Only the older feroi
lies rrtm mbered bim.e* he died in 1K47.
His wife is bnried with him at Tal.n
haaae.
" With n Frenchman's instinct for new
and rare foods, Mnrat hinnelf cooked
and ate from nearly the entire fauna of
Florida. He need to cook a.ligator
steak in away ro delicti us that no alli
gator in all Florida wonld recognize it
as a morsel of one of his brothers.
Another of bis experiment* was in cook
ing the turkey buzzard, the scavenger
of Southern cities. These birds are
among the licet of flyers, soaring around
at a great height for honr* at a time,
with no appearance of moving their
wings, which have a spriad of ahont aiz
feet. Itnt they are foul ami disgnating
birds, always eating carrion food if they
can get it; and I have seen great flecks
of them so gorged with such food that
they could not raise themselves from
the ground, and so were at the mercy of
any one who chose to wnlk among them
and knock them over. They arc seldom
killod, and in most Southern towns and
Tillages are protected by law. Ferhap*
their occupation iaof value in that warm
climate in disposing of dead cattle, alli
gators and fish. Mumt worked faith
fully over his buzzard rcasU and buz
zard fricaece until he oonld stai.d it no
longer. When asked how he liked it,
he aaid; 'Oh ! I can eat any kind bird;
lam not affrate to cat anyxing. I have
no prejudice; but xe buzzard is no
goode.'"
A Si w Astronomical Wander.
At the last total eclipe of the tan,
many astronomers busifd themselves
chiefly with observing the corona which
hail excited so mnoh interest and specu
lation at previous eclipses. This is the
Dims given to the bright light seen out
side of the moon's disk when the body
of tho sun is completely hidden by it.
Opinions were divided as to its cause;
some observer* thinking it proceeded
from the son's stmosphere, or from lu
minous gsses which shot fsr strove its
snrfaoe; while other* imsgmed it sepa
rated from the sun altogether, and Una
to other causes in the depths of space.
From the obaervations made, and
from photographs taken, it ia now be
lieved to be simply the reflected light of
the sun. This reflection is supposed to
be due to immense number* of meteor
ites, or possibly, systems of meteorites,
like the rings of Saturn, revolving about
the sun. The existence of snob meteor
ites has long been suspected, and ob
servations now seem to justify s belief
in their existence. Their constant fall
ing into the snn is thought to be one of
the methods by whioh its heat It main
(ained without loss.
On the Atlantio ocean, daring the
pit valence of a heavy storm, the ex
In m • altitude of waves above the inter
vratng depressions or hollows was found
i to be forty-three feet.
Hj*tem.
Every young housekeeper who aits
dowu and seriously studies out the *ub
ject will And heraelf a different being if
she manage* her affair* with ayatem, or
if she let* them manage her without it. It
in true that liefore ahe i* married, or
while ahe in l>oarding, ail her study on
the a object will IKS theoretical, hud pos
sibly somewhat impractical, and tome
thing like the honao one bnilda and ia
enchanted with till ooming to live in it.
For there are thing* which only experi
ence can teach, and in matter* where
the experience of noliody el*e can be of
a:-.y mate-rial nervice. If h'-r mother
was a woman of Hjetcm, the young
housekeeper already La* much of what
she want* bred in her bone, aa one may
aay. Hut if her mother wa an invalid,
or waa ahiftlca* and tbriftlea*, was over
whelmed with trouble* and bathe*, then
the daughter ha* to atrikc out a path for
heraelf.
The Booner, then, that *he remember*
that there, are but seven day* in the week,
und that that period of t me constitute*
one revolution of the household, wash
ing day being the central *nn, and bak
ing day and sweeping day being, a* it
were, planetary affairs, but exerting
tidal influence*, the sooner she will
come into her kingdom and reign undis
turbed by her people. Custom, for
tunately, fixe* one day of the *even for
washing day in tbia land, although in
Home laud a acres* the sea that fearfn
epoch arrives, with a flftytimes-roulti
plied power, but once or twice a year,
with an importation of while-capped
women into the family to celebrate its
rite* through an unnamed period till all
ia over. And washing day being fixed,
of course ironing day is its moat imme
diate satellite. If, for the rent, the
voting housekeeper make* up her mind
that one day shall never iufringe upon
the orbit of another, that baking day
shall be a fixed feast and sweeping day
an immovable fast, and that the silver
and the closets ahall now and forever lie
cleaned upon their own day and no
other, there will lie a code established
that will keep thing* straight a* long as
ahe live* and rule* her house. Her
work will roll off her handa, if she doea
it heraelf, with half the wear of body
and aoul that it usually takes; and if ahe
baa servants, ahe may fall aick, ahe may
go away, ahe- may have a score of dis
tractions or of other occupation*—the
house will never show it; and whether,
like the good woman of the Proverbs,
strength and honor are her clothing er
not, ahe will certainly "rejoice in time
to come."
Wanted to Purchase.
The bella had juat struck three
o'clock in the morning wb<n there came
a faint knock at tbe humble door of the
hum! lo cabin of tbe humble Widow
L.ybold on Wood bridge street. The
widow turned in ht r sleep and muttered:
"*Ti some child of woe- and sorrow
Corns Urns early bwe to borrow
'it* or ooff' • for htr breakfast."
The next knock wasn't so faint. It
made the door nhake and the dishes rnt-
Ue, and the widow eat up in bod and
cried out:
" "Tissoms loafer wbo is pounding
All ' I hoar bis voice reeou. ding;
And 111 chase bun from toy door."
! Tbe third knock *M a kick, and the
. liumbleWidow LaybolJ opened her doo
w.th that prompt, decided action which
alone saved the battle of Waterloo.
Before her stood a tall, distinguished
stranger, and he said:
" Lady fair, excase this knocking,
t'rsv osriook this ore .net shocking-
Kicking on your door.
Is v..nr tisnjo Mirandy Taylor,
Widow of s gallant sailor
Dead upon Lake Erie's shore ?"
The widow gracefully inclined her
he*,] and deluged the stranger with a
pail of water, and he waa running away
when he fell into the arms of a police*
mau. He was permitted to ait by a hot
stove for the next five hour*. Yet when
curt opened tbe only dry spot about
him was hi* throat,
" Did yon have the leaat idea that
Mirandy Taylor lived tLere7" inquired
h 'a honor.
" Well, I don't remember whether I
had the leaat idea or not. I thought I'd
inquire and ace. I'm a great hand lo
iLquire."
"Yon are, eh t Well, when yon
| come in sight of the honae of correction
' the driver of the Maria will answer all
uiqniriea. I ahall book yon for thirty
| daya."
"Ju Ige, doea it seem poaaible that a
man aa wet a* I am ia to be incarcerated
in a'hostile for simply inquiring for
Mirandv Taylor T I'm amaaed and aa
touuded."
"Thirty daya ia the aentence, wet or
I dry. If yon fco np there wet they can
I pack yon cloaer."
'' And may I inquire, your honor, if
I this ia tbe nineteenth oentnry ?"
"Yon may, air; and yon may get yonr
sentence doubled if I hear any more
talk."
" I'm too wet to run any riaka," aaid
tbe prisoner to himself, and he went in
to hng tbe stove and wait for the car
riage to back np.— Detroit Frt Prr<*.
t'hrystal's ♦ Xjlopbnalr*,'
On thyme—The gardener's foot.
A pedeatrian'a wage*—Gait money.
The earliest spring on record—The
bullfrog*.
Never on hand when wanted—A dia
mond ring.
There ia a wide difference between a
pnpil and a pnp ill.
A lamp-boat—The landlord who lights
yon np to yonr room.
No matter what rank vegetables may
attain, the cabbage will always be a
head.
An assembly oompoeed of paragraph
era would probably be called aa 0 pun
meeting.
A man with a pair rf creaky boot*
always has music in his sole, and to not
likely to forget It, either.
A man may be full weight, yet dis
honest ;be may be large, but iasy; and
yet we generally judge |a man by hta ayes.
It isn't necessary for a printer to
fanny-bone of hia left fart
limb against a frame in- order to tod
out tbe difference between a knee cap
and a eap E. •
Aa a rule leather net me no better
than other people though they have
both inner and outer so tea
n