FOB THE FAIR HEX. Onljr Thvielf, Vbr tallowing roi Appeared many ymm Mnrc in an Ktiglmh provincial paper, but al toactixl less attention than their great lamuty merit*, 'lire speakers area dying girl au<l her lover. The ardent ]<aaaion liianiii-ated by Mio youth miggeat* to the girl neveral iiniige* •nder which ahe nuppoaea tliat lie will delight to peiNonity her after death. The ntannta are hi the form ola dialogue—the girl anggeating Mir particular images in aucceseion and the Bver reM)H>nding: " Kven um a flower ?" "No, I'uircet, be not to me aa a flower. The uncertain sun call* forth ita odorous I hreuth; Tlie awecteat perfume gives the speediest ; death— 'lhc sport and victim ola summer hour. Fairest, tie not a flower!" " Even as a star ?" " No, brightest, be not to me as a slur; Tin one of the millions, and the hurrying clottd Oft wraps the glitt'ring splendor in its shroud; Morn pales its luster, ami it shines alui Brightest, lie not a star'" " Kven ns a dove?" Mo, purest, be not to ine as a dove; Tito *| oiler oft breaks in upon its rest, Itohbing the downy joys of its soil nest, ▲mi plunging silence through its native grove. Purest, lie not a dove"' " Even as a rock ?" •• No, my moat laithlul, be not as a rock; h It mocks the embracing wave, or stands alone la loveless gloom, in dreary waste* un < known. Senseless alike to fortune's amile or shock. Changeless, bo not n rock!" " Even us—inyucll ?" "My soul's best idol, he but as I by sell, Brighter than star, fairer than flower; Purer than dove, and in thy spirit's power Steadier than rock' Yes' tie thyself, thyself only thyself 1" Yrin nntl .Intra t <r tVnmrn. Two American ladies astonislb-d the Wutbituli of Borne by it velocipede •ace tiie otlirr day. T!e city guilds of l-ondon have set 1 apart jU.'Uki annually for the training of women, establishing a school of wood engraving. Worth, the Parisian man-milliner, will not make a dress, material supplied by the customer, lor less t lan i?.ttK> or flluO, and he has all lie ran attend to at that price. Paulina Kunze, an Alsatian girl of eiglitis'ii, lias Is-en sentcnceil to three months' imprisonment for speaking disrespectfully of the Grand Duke m Bad. •n, at the aiglit of his photograph. p At Nashville, Tenn . the degree of It aster of Arts was conferred by the faculty of Vandcrbilt University upon Miss Kate Lupton, because,ns the clian eellor stated, "slic bad won it in a mas terly manner, having passed most satis factorily all the examinations to which •lie young men were subjected." A new order of anniversary weddings b. End of one year, the cotton wed ding: two years,tile paper ; three, leather or straw; tive, wooden; seven, woolen; ten, tin; twelve, silk and tine linen; fifteen, crystal; twenty, porcelain and delft: twenty-five, silver; thirty, pearl and ivory; forty, rubies and garnets; fifty, golden, and seventy-live the dia mond wedding. 1 A woman speaker at a recent tem perance convention in Ohio remarked that women work persistently. Last summer, on her way to Lake Side, site saw a man and woman hoeing corn. As tie- train Approached, tic mm stopped work, leaned on the hoe-handle, and gazed at the Hying carriages. For aught she knew he yet stands th re look ing. But the woman hoed right on. only glancing nt the passing train. Antoinette Itrown Black well writes: "Family interests, instead of suffering from the wideningof womanly iniluence. must lie surely ennobled and benefited proportionately with the wider sympa thies of a more enlightened motherhood. Tenderness is not incompatible witli a reaeh of intellect, nor bave brad and heart been so constituted by the AII-Father that they must dwell in perpetual rivalry." A flourishing Parisian art threatens to take root in Isindon. It is an old trick in Paris for extravagant young women Intake their lovers into jewelers' shops and to induee these Inters to purchase for them, at an immense price, articles of jewelry made of paste, the ladb-s and jewelers sharing the profits between them. I now hearof a dressmaker hav ing in her pay certain elegant females, who get men to order hamfsome dresses from her which are never sent home. This will probably be accepted as the ncwi-st development of the co-operative system.— l/mdfm Mayjair. Ij*dy 4amhtfr. The number of lady gamblers in Lon don is in<Tcr. ' x steadily. A corros • pondent of ti,. fkarulard states that there is more gambling among women at the present time than has been the aase since public gaming fables were put down by act of Parliament. The harmless bet of a few pairs of gloves at the race meetings is now considered far beneath the notice of a dashing ma tron or fast maiden. There are not n few female "plungers" on the turf who "put the pot on." as the Idiotic jargon •f the race course has it, with as much eagerness as most dissipated subaltern at the Raleigh, who stands to win n heap of money at Ascot or at Goodwood, with the alternative of ruining his old father, the country rector. If he loses, and allowing his sisters' portions to be •wallowed up in pHying his "debts of honor." If the female plunger he un- marriisl she has recourse probably to ™ some accommodating dressmaker, or worse still, accepts pecuniary help from •ome male friends,and perhaps puts her self for life in the power of a man who will one day make her pay dearly for her ■discretion. Cieobulus was Imm at Lindys, on the Island of Rhodes; one of the wine men of Greece, lie was a brilliant literary •harayter. We find in Rev. John Cor mack * " Lives " two following hcautilul •nigma of which lie was the author; "I am a father who has twelve sons, ' each of whom has thirty daughb r-. but the degrees of their beauty are very dif ferent; the eountcnances of sonic are white, of others very black; tlfey are all immortal and yet thef din < very day." This implies'the year. An Ex-Uonrict's Story. In one of the least inviting portions of Water street. New York, Michael Dunn, a man who hits spent nearly Ills whole lifetime in England and American prisons, has set up a house of industry anil a refuge for ex-convicta, who, like himself, resolve to abandon evil ways and live by honest labor. Calling there a Herald reporter found Michael quietly engaged in superintending the work of two sad looking young men, who were putting the finishing touches on some curiously wroughtahawls and licdquilts. Habituated to tic customary silence in separable from prison life the house was qui"t as the grave, each lIIH.II performing his work without even a whisper being ! heard. Dunn hl-nsclf is a pale faced, ! thin man, about forty-five y< ars old. and having careworn lines plainly marked I on his anxious countenance. He is not by any means devoid of intelligence. While the writer was watching the pro cess of shawl making Dunn remarked, We get a good price for these things, but the trouble is we are not able to sell them fast enough. Some of our men are traveling in New Jersey now, trying to dispose of shawls like these you see here." "By the way, 1 understand you have had considerable expi rienec in prisons?" "It is true. Until tin- past eighteen months I may say 1 have lived in prisons altogether sinee I was eight years old. I psent seven years in Van Dieuian's Isind, ten years in Australia, live years in Gib raltar, fourteen days in Manchester (where I was lMrn). two years and four months in Sing Sing (tin- first time), three years in a solitary cell at Miiyanicn sing, six months in the Montreal nil, two year- and nine months in South Bos ton, and four years (the last time) in Sing Sing, when I was innocent and every de tective in the city knew 1 was innocent." Afbr answering several questions in regard to tin- use of the " paddle "as a mean of punishing refractory prisoners, Dunn continued: "And mark my words, cither a! Sing Sing, or Auburn, or Trenton, some of these days there will lie outbreaks ami terrible murders by tlx convicts. It will be worse than the mutiny at Norfolk Isl and, near Australia, in I*l7. wln n Un convicts re volt, d and murdered sev.-ritci n lirison ollieials, and tliev would have .illed tin- r.-iiuiinder but that half a regi ment of soldiers formed a hollow s juar. and in that way saved them from the fury of tin- ronvii ts." " Were you there at tin- time?" " No. but I recollect tin- affair well. It happened during tin- year I bc-ann free, after serving seven yean In Van Di< man's Land. For that outbreak there were sev enteen convict* hang'sl, im-ludie - tin ringleader, hundreds fioggist and hun dreds of others put in irons. A man known as ' Ja< -ky-Jncky,' who had liecn a desperate husliranger, was tin ring leader. He harangued the convicts in the tin-sroom one niorningon theoppn-s -sion and tyranny which they wi-r. un dergoing and wound up by shouting, •Thus, who want liberty, h-t them follow ma.' Th.n the whole convicts rushed out of the nn- -room and, having arund tlicmselvi-s with all kind* of In ivy tools, nttaek. d tin- keeper* and slaughtered tin-in right and left until the soldiers ar rived When the soldiers were drawn up. ' J.-n kv-J.-n ky.' Went in front of them, ton- open hi- -hirt and baring his breast, a-keil th- rn to shoot him, but tln-y re fused." A ('aacurone Ihill. The following description of an inter '"♦ting Spanish festival which is cele brated in California is part of a paper contributed to & ritm> r by Mrs. Mary Halloek Foote, the artist: The music was excellent of its kind—two violins, a guitar, a flute and one or two brass pieces. During tin- waltzes one could hear but a single united shuffle, as if all the dancers in the room moved with one pair of tret. Full dres for the young men was a fliort velveteen eoat.'bla.k trow ■ . v! H v * and n bright silk scarf, knotted with j arti. ularly hapr-y effect ovi r the slum.dors. outside the coat. Some of tin young men wore the uniform of the flour-fighter*—red flan nei shirts, black truvwr* with red stripe down the sides and a silver star on the ' breast. The crowd was too great and the motion too rapid and incessant for any attempt at study of individuals. One received an impression of extreme vivacity of speech and manner—bright ribbons, scarfs and serapas—waving heads and hands, swaying line* of figures joined in tin* davo, circling lines of ( iigur-*, winding and separating into couples, waltzing away in a ni ir." of color, music, laughter and tobacco smoke. The ceiling was dim with smoke from the cigarettes of the dow agers and the cigars of the lounger* on - the piazza, who leaned in at the open windows. Win n the dance flagged.cries of" I'ii-rt. ritv."' sounded from all parts of the room, and gave new life to the tuusie. Among the company was a young South American, with a high, nquiiinu proflle, and a crest ol bushy curls, rising from hi* receding forehead, like the . sculptured manes of tin* horses on a Greek bass-relief. I noticed him, first, because of his bright and sinewy graee, afterward, because ho was the partner of such a pretty girl—a tall, slight, dark beauty, with the most joyous uncon •piousness of expression and movement, like a child or a beautiful animal. It was worth corning to the ball to see these two dancing together; it was the very spirit of revelry, without conscience or care. I found the canker in the rose, afterward, when I iconic i that my joy ous girl hod been a wife for two year* at least, and that while she was dancing at the cMoaroM ball, htr young hpsbaad was in prison, awaiting his trial for stab bing a friend in a Christmas brawl at j the Guadeloupe. The war of cnscaroncs did not fairly 1 begin until the danm delguerro , at miu j night. hut there were scattering shots and salli-*, and skirmishes In all direc tions. The cascaronns were crushed over the heads of the senoritas, hut the young nun were soundly clapped on the head, and the shells were well rubbed into their thick black manes. The girls generally hunted in couples or packs, and set upon tlu-ir chosen victim with shrieks of glee; then a charge of young men to the rescue would scatter tln-m in all directions. The prettiest ghls got the most salutes, and looked nil the pretlle with the tinsel powder sparkling on their dnrk braid*. There were some wild young romp*, whose nudaciou* charge* upon friend and foe cost them at last their feminine prerogative;— they were pursued and surrounded and bombarded nnd battered with shells, until what hair tlu-y had left could hardly have been worth combing out in themornlng. The Mex ican* save egjg-shellf all the year for this ball: Improvident as butterflies, they are capable of great forethought where pleasure is the object. Two Nnake Stories. Granville Mowrer, a boy aged eleven, son of Isaac Mowrer of West Vincent township, Chester county. Pa., wiut sent to a neighbor's on an errand. In getting over a fence on tlie way the lad was bit ten in the leg by a snake, supposed to be a copperhead. Tlie venom from the bite took immediate effect, and tlie Ixiy he came almost blind, suffered intensely and was unable to get home. He was found in a field shortly afterward, his limbs ' and body swollen, both hands being black ' from the fingers above the wrists. A j woman, wlio had some idea of what was lu st to be done, drenched the boy with ' liquor, and tliis probably saved ids life. He was delirious for several hours, and is still ill a critical condition. Tie hoy! says tliat a black-looking snake Irit him as lie was getting over the fence, striking on the hare leg hcluwiiis trousers, which was short, ami slipped up some distance above the shoe. Ki/./ie Allison, living on tlie railroad two miles west of Wayncsburg, l'a., went in the morning a hull mile from the house to gatle r some Iwrries. While , engaged in picking the fruit she felt something move undir h>-r feet, and looking down beheld a huge snake. She dropped hr bucket and sprung away. She got a stake and went lack to look for tlie serpent, but could not find it for some time. I'pon raising a large grape vine tliat lay on the ground alio saw it coiled underneath. It "prang at In r and came n> ir biting in r, hut she ward'd it off with the stake. At last she got th" stake across the serpent's body in such a way that by putting her weight on tic end of tlie stake she could keep it from getting away. She then set up a cry for help. Her mother, an old woman, heard In r, and thinking that she must he hurt, shouted to tin- neigh bora. Ki/./i'-'s brother Jim mounted a mule and galloped to her re lief. All tliis while kiic had stuck to the end of tlie slake, unable to do n or- tha stand tin-re and watch tlie sn.-il i ,-trike and bite everything it could reach. Mr. Allison soon dispatched the snake, and found it to be ius't three feet long and very thick in proportion. Mi*-. Allison was seared badly, hut declared she would have stayed there till some one came to kill the reptile if it took a! day. Hnulino ( /k) //i mid. Ten Men's Narrow Escape. At Virginia City. Nevada, as tin *hifi was h"ing changed at the Yellow Jacket mine shaft, ten men had a narrow escape from dentil. These men, says a local paper, got on Itoard of the small skip at tin - ",300 station to go to the Initio.u of the shaft. They had gone but a short distance before the IS'. ' Tillies of the don key engine broke, and the skip, with its living freight, started f>r the Is.tiom at lightning speed. I' McCarthy, tie <n gineer, knew that tlie de-rending skip must IM- stop]" d or all on lioard would he dashed to piece* at tlie bottom of til'- -haft. H' instant!v seized Aln .-ivy plnnk, tic end of which lie thrust b-rwr. n tic pinion shaft and the reel or drum from which tin- ruble was paying off. Hv hauling down on tic end of tlie plunk (t a> t'"l as a brake, and finally brought tic skip to a stand when it was within twenty feet of tlie Is'tlom of the shaft. The drum was revolving at lightning speed when tic plank was first intro dueed, and the friction produ <1 streams of lire and smoke, hut thepr> -surrgradu a!h told, slowed down tic sp ed of tic -kip. and fimillv stopt"- i it. To tliriist tic plank into the rapidly-revolving nis ehin-'ry wa* a dang< rou* experiment, and might have ist Mr, MeCiuihy hi* life, hut lie got tin- right hold in tlie start, ami held on with bull-dog tenacity. To do the right tiling, ju-t a- he did, at tic right moment, reipiired great quirkni -s of thought. Tlie plank, the pla< e where it was to 1c inserted, and how it was to bettaed man all luve been thought out in a -ingle instant. During the d. ml of the klp one man h-apisl from it and enuglit tic b< 11-rope, holding to which lc managed t<i swing liimsejf to a wall plate. tnotlcr jumiMsl and caught a wali-ijlate, hut lad bb hold and fell, hut ill failing caught a nsl passing horizon tally h t wen tic sinking-guiiles, some ten feet over tic skip, where he held on till it stopped. Thus it will he seen tliat this man did *<> me lively traveling. He got "(T tlie skip, and not finding a good landing-place on the wall plate, he went down until lc overtook the skip, wlcn tie got alxiard of it at the |-oint which seemed niost convenient. Aside from a ' severe shaking up and a bad scare, the men all came out of the scrape aimut as sound as wlcn they got into it. t'harles Sumner on Profanity. In a letter to tlie Hartford I\mrltd, Templcton, tlie Boston correspondent, relates the following in relation to the late Senator Sumner: We were talking about the profanity of a v. ry dintinzui-dcsl American state man not now living. Mr. Sumner (who j never swore hints. If) said: Well, I nave ! heard him sw> ar severely; hu*- as a rule nobody swears in my presence. Tic • greatest mortification I ever received in my life in tliis way was wlcn I was at a ! breakfast abroad with 1/jrri Brougham, i We sat down at the breakfast tabic, wlcn somelswly brought a newspaper to | Lord Brougham. It contained personal attacks upon him. Tl e article w.i* marked and lie read it through. Wlien 1 lie hail completed it he began a volley - of the most scathing oaths tliat I ever heard fail from the lips of man. There was no limit to tlie euncj tliat lie rained ' upon tic lead of tlie author of tliis I piece. 1 was shocked and stricken dunih, said Mr. Sumner. Tha only other oc cupant of tic table, except I/ml Broug ham and myself, xvas Brougham's mother. She sat nt tlie lie.ad, opposite her son,a venerable and courtly lady, witli an elevanee and grace of tnann< r that I never saw excelled. I dared not look nt her for some moments, but when I ventured to turn my eyes in that direc tion I found not a muscle of her face wa* moved. She was as ralmly unconscious of what lcr son was saving n* if lie was talking in Arabic. Tlie breeze soon blew over, ami we had a very cnjnynhlr breakfast. A Prophecy. Whole hooks of latter-day prophecies were once founded on tlie similarity of tli' names of Napoleon and Apoilvon, or Apoleon, thedark nngel; and one Franch K-publienn. lor writing and analyzing, produced the following: N A POI.VO*. Apot.ro*. l'oi.ro*. Ot.ro*. Lro*. ROM. OM. Which Icing arranged in tlie form of a sentence, gives " Xojmli-oti on olron Iron eon apoleon poleoa." This is the Greek for " Napoleon, being the lion of tlie people, was marching on, destroying the eitira." The llend of the lionapartes, Hrfi men and hoys now living wlio bear tin* name of HemApartc, namely, three nephews and five granel nephews of the First Napoleon. They are: I'rinep Jerome Napoie-on, son of Jerome, fourlti hrotfier of Naitoleon 1., and his two sons, tlie Princes victor and i/ouis; tiicn the descomlantji of Prince Charles, son of Luo'nn Bonaparte, sevond brother of the gi t Emperor. Tills Prince Onirics' sons are Prince Lucien Bonaparte; tli" Cardinal Prince Nap<- Icon CharlfH, ex-president of tie Con seil-General of Corsica; Prin I/mi* Lucien, formerly senator, and long a | resident of 1/melon: anil lastly Prince ; Pierre, whose son, Prince Poland Bona parte, is studying at the military school of St. Cyr. I i he interest wit l w hi> h Prince Jerome ' Napoleon is now regarded as the head of the Honaparte family, and the chid of the imp'rialist party, amply justifies any details that may he givi n respecting him". 1 A larger man tlian cither the first Napo leon or Ids father, Prince .Jerome re- 1 semliles the latp r more than the former, though in his earlier yean his lik>m-s to the ureal Kiiipcror was simply extra ordinary. His expression is placid and often extremely agreeable, hut now and t h< n the fire of tin- < 'orsican hums in ids eye and his line)v ebb I. | mouth add- to tlie intensity of his I'sik. Tin prim e i„ fifty-"- I'll years of nee, not yet e r "y, thoueh ouie what bald. IJ in head. savs J ienotus, is a superb one, wor'hy alike' of the prim e ami tin- thinker, and second only in what Uieenthusiastie reactionary writer calls aristocratic h-autyto that of the < ompt< ile Cliainlsird. At home lie uoi.'.lly walks to and iro while con vcreing,smoking cigarette*, and k.-nine one or both hands in Ids pockets. Sud denly he stops before the visitor; his > language beconn s animated, ami even vehement, while his words teem with color and pietures.|ueness. lie never laughs, but only smile#, Tba prince lei .a wonderful collection of Anecdotes nt his disposal. In the street Prince Jerorue mav Is- n><-ogni/.d by Ids broad lirimmed hat; miming along, lie will sudd Illy ijllicken liis ste ps win n he is deep In thought. He rides every morn in:.', Im ing acconipnnie<i on Thursday* by Ids two sons. Alt hough a fair hors - man, lie docs not riiine particularly in tlie siuldle. Now for tlie two sons, tin Prim • a Victor and l-ouix. The former is tall and looks more tlian ids age, svents en. Tlie upper part of is face is tii.it of Napoicem, the lower reminds one of tie llap-hurgtype. Quiet, intelligent and mortrtd is thla Prince Victor, i'riii" fl/iuis is thirteen, and, nn 1 ik• - Ids brother, small for liis age. Jit is pale, and as yt resembles none of tin-im ni ls rs of the royal and imts'rial families from which he is dcm-cmled. His hair i- v ry Ida- k and lie is 'vely and intelli gent. He is full of fun. nut l.arillv a prodigy at ( school. Sueli is tlie family which has just ts-' ti rnisisl out of —• -ni ids> urit vto that fieri-e light which h* its upon a throne. The tlieory was pronoundl a short time ago. ays a London paper, tliat Prin • JI rome Napo icon's familiar ni> k name " I'lon-i'ion" took its origin fr<>m his h< r- >i' b' ha% ior in tlie ( 'riuu a, wlnTi he "smelt had" with such frequency and relisti that thcoflr-crs of Ids division ticstowi-d upein him tlie d< - riptiv -obri juct of " Plonib-l'loinh." A corre spondent, leiwi ver, pronounces tliis de rivation of tlie ni -knanie t<> be in nrre t," f iting that Ji- had l'imself learne-ei from the life of the iaf. Minister of Htat<\ von S> ur tli, the exact ■ ir um-'an' es wld' h saddled Ids imperial higliness f,,r life with s., quaint a -"briquet Prince J'-roni' resided during Ids i-arly child* h<>od in the royal castle at Stutlg.ordt It wiil be rotiieinh'Ted that he was at one time a subject of WurtitnW*, and tliat Id* first military service w,a per formed in the army of tliat State. Th" late King William of Wiirt'mlwtg wns very fond of the little prince, and fre quently pluvial with him in the royal gardtSM. At first time tliat he naked voiing Jerome "what his name w.-i-.''tin lit!■ r. who could not speak distinctly, replied, " i'lon-l'lon," instead of " hsin." King William sub-' qtiently ;w,kc to anei of liitn hy tliis pet name. It was eventually adopte-el bv tin- court and by Wurtenib' rg society in general, and has stuck to liim ever "ini-e. TJie sohriqui-t of i'lon-l'lon, therefore, was Itcstowed ufsn tlie prince fiy himself and none otlu r. The Sutro Tunnel. Win ii tlie flooded mines of the Com stock w ere relieved by the completion ; of tie- Sutro tunnel, tlie Inundation of the shaft* was reduced 100 fi-rt in eiglit liour. Mr. Sutro. when honored with a scp nado, made the longest speex-h of his life. "It is almost fifteen years," i aid lie, " since I first proposed the con -1 strui tion of a deep tunnel from tlie Car son valley to tlie Comstock lode, and i almost ten y> rs ago the first nick was | stru k in beginning a w ork wiiieli lias been -ontinuid sini-e, by day and night, without any Interruption, with an ex pi nditure ill fii.OOO.noo. To-da v. for tlie first time, the water from tlie Comstock min< < flowed through the Sutro tunnel, and it gladdened ail your hearts to see tlie stream of limpid water, tliat had caused many of tlie mines on tlie Com stoek fxde to iie idle for years in im- I potent effort* Ui tret lliem from it, make its appearance at the tunnel entrance, j Home people wlio had foresiglit sufficient ' knew more tlian ten y< ars ago tliat tlie 5 day would come when tliese mines could he worked no longer; but tlie great | untliinking wlio only live from day to day, looked upon the undertaking of piercing these mountains as one so gigantic and protracted tliat they ridi- , culeil the idea, and gave it hut little en couragement. The day w ill come when thefe will lie avenues under tho*e nmun-j tains in every direction, with trains of I ears coming and going throughout the day and night; ami when we shall reach j under tlie top of Mount Davidson at a deptli of 3,600 feet beneath its summit, treasure* may be untoldisljif which none of as liave any conception. A JfoveiYnrf. Tom Johnson, of the poorhouse, lia* a faculty of getting eonsidernble work out 1 of tlie Inmates under his charge. There : was one wlio made up hi* mind not to work at all, although he wm capable of ' doing considerable. To nsroid it lie kept in lied and made out to be ill, de manding the attention of the physician. Tliat gentleman staled that thero was nothing the matter with hint. Tom thought he could cure him, and the other night placed a coffin in hi* room. When the old man awoke the first thing that met hi* gnxe was tlie " wooden overcoat," which stood at the foot of the bed. Till* seemed to animate him. He arose early, dressed himself and informed- Tom tliat lie thought lie wa* better, and asked the steward if there wasn't some thing lie could do around tlie house. He has been busy ever since.— Hubuiue Herald. ' TIMELY TOPICS. New England has over S3 armers clubs, witli 72,(XX) active members and library iiooks to the number of 21 '"00, and in the United States tli urly 2,(XX) agricultural societies, 68, (XX) volumes m their libraries, and with ac ta** to 300 different agricultural publi cations, all exerting a direct influence on the intelligence and future prospects td tlie tillers of the soil. I lie ( aliloi nla lam liman or farmer is t' a certain_extent demoralized by the ' climate, wiiieli allows him to perform outdoor work the year round. Unlike the Eastern farmer, therefore, lie is in clined to let tilings go by the hoard. I here if- a lack of thoroughness in build ing, in planting and in the care for ani mals. ili -,e is little concern for ap 1 pej riii'-i ; th,, soil of many years re-' mains uudisturlwd U|on tlie wagon wheels; ii, flower garden is well cared for; they m ml the li.-irie -s-s witli Lit* >f ropo, and they trust little or nothing to the vanity of paint. I lie English " court" w< nt into mourn ing for the French prim-e imperial for one week after tills Style: The lodic* to wear black dre-o'K, white gloves, iilaek or wliite shoos, feathers and fans, pearls, diamonds, or plain gold or siherorna nn-i.ts. Ihe g' ntleineii t> wear black court dr> with hlaek swords and buckle*. Then tlie severity of the in signia of grief was modified for three nay, the ladies to wear black drc"cs, with colored ribbons, flowers, feathers and ornaments, or gray or white dresses witli black ribbons, flowers, feathers and ornament*, and on tie- tenth day tlie court " .vent out of mourning." Twenty nine years ago two >M>ys,al*out a do/.< ny urs of age. were playing "tag" in l/'WHton, Mi'. They Were merry and active hwis, and were frolick ing with HchoollMiy cntliusiastu and rare!' -n< -s. ()fie lad e uiglit tlie other, struck liis loads and playfully tipped it im over, liis whole Weight came down U|M>n liis fading plnvmate, wlinss spine was seriously injured in eonsequ'-nep. He was con veyed home, and it wasfound that ii" was a physical wreck. For two years tie was aide to walk around uvciy little, and then, as the results of liis iniuri' gradually grew mon-s'-rious, In was obliged to be carried from one place to another, entirely losing the use <•! liis lower limbs. At length his w hole body became rigid, and lie was povver 1' For twenty-three years Mat hew Kankins lias sat fixed in liis chair as in a vise night and day. The New York Herald thus desi rite s a hor*e-powr : " Tliis question is fre quently ;isk<-d : What is understood by a horse-jKiwer. and why came tliit way of reckoning to t>e adotit'-d and hrouglit into genera! Use'-* It. fore tlie tiower of -t'-ani w is generally known and applied : te> m's-hanieai purisen*, tiors<-s w-r- Wad to rais< gai and otto le ivy i'-s. Mr. M'sits, in his extx-riments, carefully eonipar'd lie relative power of tli" diffV'ient hr-i ds of horse*, and found it* av• rag" equal Uj raising 33,txx) pounds on<- f"-t r minute, or. wii it ii ' qllivalent, to r>l*e 330 pounds 1(10 feet, or Ino pfuinit- 3,'ttl f.-et during tliat sj a <if time wh"ii att.-e te-d to a lever or sw<s-p of giv ii i'-ngtii. Tills aft'Twarrl lc -.me the st indani of lII< isuringpower or fore" applied i> me* lumi- a) purposes, ami wlii' II is still retained in e>.tnmon use " A remarkable story, showing tie gr< at ads antag'-s of ignoran <. is p.!d ot a French T-cmk who won a prin- in tic late lott'-ry. Sle luid f, t certain, long bclore tlie drawing of tin' pitas, tliat No. 27 would turn out a winner; and site managed to buy it. and awaited tlie result with anxiety, hut without fear. Tlie list - am< out in due time, and surely enough No. 27 had won a big prize ll'-r ma ter tiereforc. questioned her about it. asking to te- informed why she f. it so sanguine. Tlie explanation was simple ' Why, sir," sire re-plied, " I ' dream -■' thr<s nights running that No. * would Im v a lucky numlwr; that is liow 1 came to Im sure, because thrv-e times '•igiit is t we-ntv-feven." Thiscviok not in tlie Vast a.-rw witli the poet who said that a little kneiwlcdgr is a danger, ous thing; she had very little knowl edge, ineieed. of arithmetic, but found the result quite satisfactory. The sailing freun foi ;It. Arctic seas ef tlie exploring steam-yacht Jeannette, under the auspice* of Mr James Gordon Be nnett, editeir of the New York Herald, is an event e>f more than eereimary inte-ri <t It is the first time nn ntta- k lias ix e-n madeunon the Neerlli Fok fa a the direction nt tlie- I'acifle tliat i hy way of Beliring's Straits. Expe dilions liave sailed tliat way Itefore, hut tie v were after traces and remains eif Sir dohn Franklin's luckless venture and not in <iuc*t of ge-ograpliical dis. eoveries. explorations for which, to the nortli of the West' rn lie-mispliorc. have invariably pre>oeeicd through Baffin's bay. TlicJc.annetterested in tlie Itarlsor of San Francisco for several months, hut the time of eb-parturo was purposely de layed. that tli>' Sirait* might l>c reached as near as possible at the hrcak-Un of the i'-c i,i August or early in Septenilmr, before' which it would he vain to at lempf a passage. Miye,r J. M. Walsh, who has tssoime famous in the Indian country a* thoeiffi ce-r of tin* Uanaeiian Mounted Polieo, in charge of tlie camp of Sitting Hull anei the I'ncnpnpa Sieux. has contributed scveTal columns of opinion anei narrative tee a Chicago paper lie thinks Sitting Bull is well eii-jeose-d toward the United States, hut criticism of the In eiinn policy : " You can't make two gov ernments —one feer the Indian and one for the white' man. You don't need them. Ttvat the Indian like a white man from the start. Show him that you recognize the fact that he lias rights, anei point out to him what tlieise rights are. Teach liim that the white man s rights anei liis are identical. Then show him that he will he protected in liis rights, i and that lie will iw punished if lie in fringe* on the rights of other*, and the husine** is sHtleai." And it i hy en -1 forcing tliis policy, he say*, that Canada has been enabled toilve at peace with the savage* for a generation. We find this interesting question and answer in the "Nette* and Quexio*" de partment of the Onicntifir Atnrrimn .- "J. A. M. aaks: Are glass insulators indis pemsable or not in putting an lightning rods on huildings. for protection against the electric current f Some parties haw been putting up rods here wltlmul in sulators, using emit strips of xlne to hold tlmm to wails and roofs. Our pev>ple are itnorant on the subject anei would lie gta! to tee a full explanation in your valuable scientific journal. A. fnu- I later* should not he used. Tlie roe) should be fa*toned directly against ii,o building. Hut the moat important pre caution in to make dure that the bottom '•nil ol tli*' rod ha H a large oonductinff Murfiu ein contact wiUi the earth. Better imve no rod than simply to bury the end a l< w feet down into dry earth; the proper way in to Bolder the bottom end of the r>xi to a metal water pipe or gM pipe in the ground. If there are no pijos, then make a long trench and putin dome go<>d conducting material, nueli m fine char coal, or hard coal dust, iron ore, or old iron, unking a g'H>d rennoition between the bottom end of the rod and thin con ducting material." In the Matter of lilet. Old Mm. Kieklepineh says the present id a very unheaitliy season of y ;r, and that people mudt exereiiw (rreut care In regard to their diet. She ► ay* they eunriot cat ey rylhing. And Mm. N., is quite correct; people cannot eat evi rylhing and keep well and hearty. It id very unhealthy, for inftauoe, for a p rron to eat Htove wr<aieh> either I oil. i|, fried „ r on tic half hie ;!. for it would probably give I im the ".hak<if" immediately. Shoe brush'-- in all forms should Ixi avoided a* a steady diet. 'J hey are very apt to give one tic black tongue. Hee bread should be partaken of very sparingly, ax an attack of hived id af n < -t -uretei follow an indulgence of this kind. i'oihhing iri' k.edpe< ially, should Ixt avoided, either mariud ~r whole. for th'-y generally bring on uu attack of SCOU rs. bands of all kinds, either sea sand, or dinary rand or thenands of time, arc par - tieuhtrly hurtful in warm weather, as grav i almost always follow t a meal of this kind. I'i-li eloths.ei! her eiiopj" d tine or fried in hatter, are unhealthy, and a!rw-t stir* to result in sour stomach. I samp wh king used m. a relish. •*- [• i illv wiien eaten with oil. induce* lieai tburn or light head. M inorandurn book-. with or without cover-, when partak* n of too heartily, often eauw a severe and diatrchsir.g at tck ofdtary. Needles and pins, especially when • at* n hurriedly and without sufficient ina-tc ation, are eondu ive of prickly heat. SaW-IiOTM *• shoule! net b<* part sk'tl O late in tic* * ve-ning unl<> one w ishes to be yi| p-d hy nigiit mare. t>rven "trash,'" such as grs.-, leave*, bnieiiH k-. I'at is grei n, e-tc .i- a; to giv# on* th* hlui'd. Stovepipe, either Itu-riari or Ameri can. I,* ing tubular, i iik- ly t/i make* a ! rson hollow with pain, if eaten freely. I,nu irbo ite only obc dented Joint at •i dinner recently sniel it did not soot him. ile evidently felt the* torment* eif ths mi tned. Sauee of all kin<!. i ,-j * ially hand aws, dlioulethe avoid* ri. Th* y are surd ilenth to wooden nun. (lr* .-nl ei'kl, when partnk'*n eif teo finely, are apt to make a person bilifius. Nitrite of siirer relieve* a stomach * lii* h i- gorged with gn* nba ks. Iron in thee blood Ik quite essential, but that is no reason why padlo-k* should lee bolted indiscriminately. Many more hint* might be given in r* gin I to eating in warm weather, but enough have already been here sighted to enable a blind man to s* that Mrs. Nik,* pin* It isright in her assertion. In oneiti-i'n it maybe said that a plain !i t (either hand or ma liin<* planed) ii est (ur the summer Ixiard of all man kind.—Jionu Scnlinti. Hydrophobia. An aeldn - * was "d* lie* red m*ently at Cooper Institute, N< w York, Ix-fore th* American Farmers* Club by John P. (> rrisli._M. lb,on hydrophobia. Among other thing* the speaker said: Hydro phobia never originate* spontaneously. It must always come from the inocuia tion eif virus received from an imimal. The period of incubation is generally from thn* to seven weeks. Tlx* longest j* rienl dex* net exceed three month*. lln sympt' ii • of hvdrophohia are un usual powe i-s of eneiurancc, loss of ap petite. iner* i-eof thirst, dilation of the , puj . ol Uu * ye, and in the run of ani mal . craving after earth, sticks and storms and para ysis of the hinder part-. There Is ao a peculiar spasm of tlx* pharynx. The reason why water i refused is not that there jg a fear of it. as the word hydrophobiaTm piics, but i -ause tlie contraction of the mu* le of tlx* throat make* it difficult and painful for the patient to drink. For the disease* to lie received thd virus must come in contact with an abrades! surface* eif the skin, e>r a surfacs that ran absorb it. as that of the mouth. <)f those* that an bittern by rabid dog*.con - trary to the general impression, neit more than a third suffer from hydro phobia Ilahicsnnd bydroplxibia are un kneiwn in some countries. In South America they an* not known. In th Madeira islands, wheredeigs abound and NuffV*r every other disease, they are not known. In Prussia, em the other hand, l.ufifi eases oeeurred at one time, within ten years. Flxperimenta of eminent French physician* have shown thai hydrophobia is not caused by want of water or by want of fexxi. Science has now so far advane*e*d that many cases under certain eire-umstances e*an bs cured. The disease is not now abso lutely incurable. 1 net lan Itabies. That an Indian mother loves her babe i clearly shown by the care which she bewtows upem its cradle, adorned with tlx* richest beadweirk and e*nibroidery. The founelatiein of this rraeile is an un yie-lding heiard upon which the haby ewn be firmly lashesi at full length en its back. This lniard is usually rove red with softly dreseeel buckskin, with (lapsand pouchew in which to envelop the baby; other trilx*s neit rich or feirtunate enough to procure this material, have reeounw to a neat combination of shruhwtxxi poles, reesl splints, grass matting and the soil and fragrant ribbems eif tho bass or lin den tree bark. Sweet grass is used here as a bed lor the youngster's lender back, er else clean dry mess plucked from the bended limbs of the swamp-firs; then, with htie-kakin llionga or cord*of plaited grass, the baby is hound down tight and secure, for any and all disposition that its mother may see fit to make of it for the next day or two. Perhaps for two or three hours out of the twenty-four the babies are allowed to roll about on tha grass ; hut the minute It begins to whim per the mother claps it bark into its cradle, where it rests with emphasis, for H can there move nothing save its head; so far from disliking these rigid conches, tho babies actually sleep better in them than when free, and positively cry to bs returned to them when neglected and left longer than usual at liberty. This fact Is certainly an amusing Instance of the lores of habit.
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