Deserted Filth Avenue. By early entalle light I wander lorth Upon Filth avenue anil the tuljoining street*. How silent, how <hwcrto<l are these mnrhlo hat Is, It> homos of wealth and luxtiry. Scant' the glimmer ola chamber light la seen, Hie parlors all funcrally closed, The lolks are ont ol town, rhe basement* only show some signs ot life, As Ann and Hriilget, lelt to keep the house, There loiter at hour ol early eve, To breathe tr> sh air anil gossip With Houndsinan No. 7.682. A cat with stealthy tread Steals o'er the way, Intent on llioff or commune with some other cat. Ha! Who are these? So stealthily peeping lorth As though in lenr ol toe outside in ambush, Or sitting well ensconced within the hull. In dresses dark and somber, rheee ? This is the lamily, Who lor st rong reason Have stayed in town this season. Who timidly a*, night nnhar the door Ukwed in the day, and in deserted outward . look Contemporaneous with Urerest. I turn away my head I know their pain. They wish not to lie seen ot inou. The y're theoretically out ol town. I will not e'en spy out their number. This is true charity. .Vu> I orA Graphic. The Little Old Woman and Her Cows. A 9TOKY FKOM OVF.It TIIK BF.A9. Oudenarde is a town in the Nether suids; perhaps the guide laxiks spell it Audennrde, ; ut long ago. when she lived tin •re, the country was known as Fi;ut ders, and tie name of the town begun with (>. They wire times of trouble then on account of the wars. The nn-n were nearly all off for soldiers whether they wanted togoor not; and the towns, which all had high walls round them for defence, fell first into the hands of one army and then of the other, and fighting was the chief business. Tltis woman, whose name was IVtro niila, lived just off tlie road ixtwecn Oudenarde and Ghent, which were twelve miles apart; hut she belonged to the topper place, though she lived a good way outside, and never w< nt there now: for not only did she fed too old for the walk, but the town had a garri son of soldiers in it, and was in danger of being attacked uiy day, and site had seen trouble enough without going to ss'k it. Site w:is more than sevt nty years old, and livid alone except for In r cat. And she was so |>oor that she had almost nothing but two cows, and those site would not have had long if the soldiers had thought them worth driving off; hut as they were not much more than skin and 'nine, she wu- left in peaceful possession of them. Bi ing a pious woman, when she said Vr prayers at night she never forgot to say that the cows Wt-re a great deal to tie thankful for. On the tew pints ol milk they gave, nnd a little barley bread, she managed to live, and also to keep her cat in good condition. The eat—his name was Solomon—had belonged to tier son Peter. So had the cows, which he had raised from calves when they had a nice farmstead of their own, and all was prosperous with them. Now thfl farm WU gone, the horse* ; and the cattle, all l>ut the cows. She hail only them and tlie cat. I(*r husband was dead ; and Peter was lost. He had been forced into the wars, and now for eleven years no tidings of him had ever reached her. But she always prayed for him as if he was alive, and never gave over the hope that lie might comeback—a mother never doe*. That was why she -tili liv*l near Oudi-narde; because if she wrnt away,, and lie should coni* hark, how eould he ever find her? Could lie anyway, for ; her old neigh or* wire ail gone, and the war had eh .ngrd everything? She had found shelter in a little, old hut witli a thatched roof. The walls . looked ready to full down, and the' thatch had rotted so that it let in the rain; but she kept it sweet and airy. In fair weather the door 'always stood wide open, showing the clean, clay floor, a small fireplace with the dinner-pot. which had nothing in it. hanging on tlie crane, two wooden lienclies. a table aud a tied, a brass lamp, some pewter anil wooden dishes, and a crucifix ar.d pieture of the Virgin. There was a square window with latticed bars across it in checkers, and on the iedge was always a mug of flowers, and beside it in sunny days usually sal the cat, which was salmon-colored and immensely large. Ttiis was how the house looked one I September afternoon at sunset. Pctro ailln had just milked the cow, and hot!; of them were safe for the night in a little yard at the end of tlie house. She stood in the door looking first at the smell quantity of milk in the wis den dipper sli" "ield in her hand, and then at the cows, and wiw that tliev were leaner than ever. Ther she gazed off U|*in the dusty, dried-up fieids on whose out skirts they had picked up their scanty living, wfiileshe sat by watching tliem with knitting-work in In r hands; there was almost nothing left for them ; what should she do? Then she thought of tlie great meadows along the river toward Oudenarde; broad and green she eould see tliem far away this side tlie town. There tlie grasses grew rank ami high : nnd in this time of fear no man eared for them, or would dare to cut tliem. A force ol soldiers had just gone into garrison there, tlie gate* were kept shut and guarded.tlie inhabitants dared not stir outside; and "t any moment the men of Ghent might march down and attack them It was no trespas- to gather grass from Die river valley. Tlie lodger she iookni the more iftic frit that she eouid get some, and that site might to do it. Wlien site itad niadi up tier mind site felt easier, and her face showed it. It was a good face; brown, because site had been out of door* so much, wrinkled hi a row of furrows eleur across her fcrehcad, and wrinkled aliout her eyes and chin, hut it was kind and patient. She tied a dark handkerchief over her clean white cap. and tucked her small •becked shawl closer about her neck and erased it on her bosom outsideoflier hrnwn woolen gown, then she put a strong cord into her pocket which she worn hanging from her '"'lt. and took j her staff from l>chiml the door, and not out; hut just before she crossed the threshold she looked down at Solomon, who wit there nnd wild, ••Solomon, you keep house till 1 get back. It won't he before midnight. Women who live alone with cat* are apt to confide'things to them. Ft wn* a lonesome walk, and aweary one for a woman of her years, hut the thought of her poor cow* kept her up. The night was beautiful, tin' air was mild, and the starlight so clear that she could easily find her way, and yet it was not bright enough to betray her to any one who might be wiuuicring about, which indeed was a very unlikely thingto happen, for everybody, except a few stray cottagers like herself, was snfi within tin' walls of the town; and as for the enemy, they were twelve miles off in Ghent. Besides its own strong defences Oude narde was further protected by great ditches, deep and broad, along the mead ows, so that it was considered safe from attack on that side. When lVtronilla reached the outermost of these ditches she was much surprised to lind that there was no water in it, but being anxious to gather her bundle of gr;iss, she Ml to work, pulling it un by long handful*, until she had secured as much as she could carry, nnd had just tied it with the cord, when a strange thing hap pened, :uui she scam learned something very important about the ditch. Though her hearing was not as good as it once had been, she was sure that two or three persons were talking not f;u- away, and that tlcy were coming nearer. She instantly pulled offhereap that its snowy whiteness might not at tract attention, mullled herself to the eyes in her kerchief, and crouched low 1 among the tuffs of reeds. And none too soon, for men began to pass close by Iter, carrying long ladders, I which nearly swayed against her, so ; near were they. She dared not stir, and could not raise her eyes to see higher than their knees; hut as the feet went by her face, one pair after another, she counted; and there were four hundred men. What was the meaning ol it she gath ered quickly enough, for the h adcrs talk ed over their plans inmost over her le ad. They were foes, the men of Ghent, come at midnight after l"iig marching to surprise Oudenarde. They said that most ot the garrison and the great officers were away, f eiing that all was safe—they had sent spii-s who found this out—and that the town was carelessly guarded, and what was worse, that the inhabitant* had drawn the water out of tin' ditches to get the fish, and along these channels the enemy could now approach even to the walls, anil by means of their scaling-ladders climb over. As soon .-is tic men had all gone by, Petronilla, though shaking with terror, flurried as fast a- her feet could hobble by a short path she knew to the walls, just where tic emptied ditch would give them a place of a<!vantage. The sentry was going his rounds, and finding all was well, would soon have passed out of hearing, hut she b< gan to moan and cry as if in distress, and hear ing her, became hark and asked her what was the matter. Then In a quavering voice she told her story, which he knew not what to think of; iieing only a poor sentinel obeying orders, what should lie think wle n an old woman started up before him at midnight h> gging him to alarm thi gar rison. when the commander had felt secure enough to leave everything just as it was? But he was humane, so he treatsl her kindly, and asked her to stop and rest herself, but she said : " No; if I don't hurry away I shall he a dead woman." When she had gone, the thought came to him how tnn* and kind h r voice was, and what an honest woman she seemed. "She made me think ol my poor mother, who ha* been dead these many year*, I fear." Bemtllf of this, he said lie Would go and look off from tin* highest tilaee and watch and listen, which Tie diii; but not a sound broke the stillness except the cry of a night-bird on the meadow; nothing was stirring, even tin old wo man was nowhere tol*' seen. Indeed, she had made h.'iste to get back to the place where she saw the men, who renialn'il as slm had left tliem, all but four, who w re just Is ing sent onward with order* from tloir leader not to speak, not to cough or inecze, hardly even to breath", but to go as near the walls as possible without startling the watchman, reeonnoiter. and bring back word Tiiis they did; and IVtroniila waited to bear the nqmrtin dread and sorrow, for she was sure there was not a liuht burning in all the town and that the people were sound asleep in their beds, never dreaming of danger: and when the spies returned, tinTr words only add) <1 to her misery. They did not see so much as a lighted candle, tiiev said, and they believed that the sentinel had been his rounds and bad gone to bod; and now it was proposed to prepare for a start, enter the ditch and move on to the walls. Then poor tired old IVtroniila started again, and appeared once more to the astonished watchman, who was still keeping a sharp lookout, and told liini all she had just beard, and that it was the last he would see of her that night. " But," she said, " if evil does come to the town and you escape, mv hut can shelter you front harm. It is the first on the road to Ghent." She told him this because lie had a civil, pleasant way, which made her think f her dear boy. Peter. And now the man, fully alarmed, went round to the gate that was threatened, where he found the soldier* of the guard crowded about a dim light nlaying dire, with three or four flasks of wine lieside tliem; they weie his superiors in rank, so lie addessed them as "Gentlemen!" and asked if their gates and harriers were all secure, because an old woman had '>een to liini and told him that a hand of men were on the'r way to take the town. "Oh, ho!" they cried, "our gntea are fast enough. A had night to the old woman wlm ha* come at such an hour to alarm us! Probably site saw some | cows and calves that had come untied, and "lie fancied they wen 1 men ol Ghent coming here. They have no such inten tions. Meantime. Petronilla, leaving her bundle of grass where it lay. wearily and sadly plodded home that slie might lie take herself to lied while she was able to get there; and the cows went without any aunper. While she lay awnke, for sleep she could not, the terrible thing she fi>ared (came to pass. The guanl. careless at their post, who scorned her message, were surprised at their game. The four hundred bad come over the walls by tlieir scaling-ladders and gained the market place, where they were heard shouting: "Client! Client!" The startled people sprung in horror from their beds, only to see that it was too late to save their town, even if their own lives were seeure. It was an awlul night of fighting and pillaging; and the sight wliiidi the next morning's sun looked upon was of streets full of armed men, houses broken open, eonfusiiin* and destruction anil death everywhere; and out through the now open gates a multitude of women and children, in th" clot lies they sltcp in, barefoot nnd half-nakeil, fleeing for their lives is'fore the men of Client, who were driving them as if they hud been cattle; and the poor fugitives, glad to eseiyieNin any terms, went running off on every road except the one to the enemy's city: and in the end found! refuge in other towns, where the bus- | hands and fathers of some of them after ward joined them,hut tin* most were, tin* samo as if they were widowed and j orphaned. I'liere was only one person who dared take the road to Client, and lie crossed i out to it over the fatal meadow, but left it as soon as lie saw at one side the lean- \ ing cottage, with the little cow-in n lie-j side it, where Pctronilla lived. The sentinel iiad escaped, with bis outer gar- 1 ment torn away and a g;t*b neross Ids shoulder; but he had Kept safe sewed ! within hi* leathern doublet a pouch of gold which In* hud laid by for his old mother's support , if ever lie should come back to (tuilcnariie. Since he came he hnd heard that she had been some years missing from the farmstead, which had bis'ii ruined by the wars, and that surely slo* mu-t he dead. He thought that perhaps he would give this gray-hnired woman some of it now for Ins mother's sake. How anxi ous she hail seemed, what a faithful soul *he was to do so much, how old *lic was to have walked so far, and how kindi /t nvitatioii had l •n! This was le r hut, tle-n! lfow jwiOr it was. And tho-c two rows looking over the fence and lowing mournfully—! aw lean and stnrvi*! they were! Thohotuc door was open, ami a eat canio out, salmon-colored. Where had he sen sueli a eat of that queer color? Sill growled and put up her hack and started in. ilicn stopped and looked around in dismay as lie called "Solomon! Solo mon! It is inv very eat. Solomon'" Tlmn something else happened, for a voice cried from the bid within : "(Hi. Peter!" Yes: I'etronilla, sleeping lab after her night's adventure, dreamed of the senti nel: and IVter's words awoke her. As ran a* she was Pi Uobilla, be w is PeU r. Wlmt more is there to In told ? Why, that tlicy Imtli agreed that it wo* best tomt away from (htdenarde as fast as their feet could carry them. The linu-*- might serve as slidt r to some poor fugi tive. The dinner-pot they wuld eav with somclnidy who iiad wherewithal to buy n dinner to rook in it And tlie few po- 1 • *inn* of tlii 1 departing linuse kei |mt should Im-left fiirlur succc---ir. Hut Solomon tlicy took with tbein in a bag: and the two sorry-looking coin they drove In-fore tlieni to a more fi-rtiie :v< well as peaei fttl land— said I'cter, "it it hnd not been for tlie cows, we never should have found each other.— Cmiwint n. Fruits for Food. Henry Ward Reeeher say* there is no sense in the old familiar motto. "Fruit is gold in tlie morning, silver at noon, mil lead At night." His reasons for this opinion he thus state*; lb cause, with a limited experience, m ople perceive that some folk* ciui ent fruit at one time and not at . notlu-r, tlicy lay down ties rule for all. The • a* * where fruit is unhealthy at night are the ixoepiioii It is trin that in tropical i liinaU *. 1 • avy ruits, diflieult to digest, ought not to he taken at night. Hut the fruits that an on our North ern farms arc all healthy, a* a rale. Among tlie i xoellcnt small fruit are cur rants. goosebcrrii . ra'pl* rries. straw iM-rri'grate's. mulberri*—these iast arc a very mm li negb-ep-d fruit; there i no lietter fmit trie for children than the Howning's CVIT- hearing mulberry. ()n> of tie in w ill tsar fruit for eight or ten weeks slendilv, constantly ripen ing, and pie -ing ali the low J* and tur key*. • hi.ill-n and old folk*. I would rather liave this mulberry to-day Uiaa a strawberry. Tlie common mulberry i- tl u and -wi*et: but this ha* a tin sprightly icid tate. as finely eomhined a* ieinonade. A* you go up. you I iim il- apple, whieli i* the patriarch, or the Alu iliinn. of all fruits If I had to choose but one fruit out of ail in the world, I should decide for the apple. For uses ot every kind, early and late, winter or summer, cooked or raw, ap pie is king. Then comes tlie cherry, then the pear, tie n the pluin and the pcach- I have not mentioned orangi -. le* ause they are not raisable in the North; but tlicy * 'iigbt to l>e cat' n nt the right time, which is nil the time from getting up in the morning till you go to bed at night. The man with wiemi tlicy disagree is | the exception. A Tame Humming Itird. Some time ago a lady living at Cin cinnati heard a bird called lis if in pain, in the yard outside the door, and upon investigation found a young humming bird in the talons of the family cat. Sh< promptly rescued the tiny fellow and fouro! it to he a little 'hurt, though enough to warrant le-r taking an Interest it* convalescence. She took it into the house and kept it ti 111li*n*xt day, when, on taking it to tliejdonr to let it go. the bird flew up into a tree nnd refused to go farther away, finally returning to her hand. Charmed with the confidence displayed by the nretty er<*nture, the lady took it fully in charge, and since then ha* fed and eared for it :u* for any : other featheriM pet. The bird is of a lieautlful russet gold in color, seems to know ila hcnefactriss, nnd has charm | ingly coquettish ways. It permit* it* ; mistress to handle it without exhibiting fear, and seem* to eiuoy being stroked and petted. When tt gets hungry It makes a plaintive call, anil is then ftal from a fresh petunia, into whose depths liave been sprinkled sugar, moistened with water in imitation of the honey that is the natural food of the bird of freedom. The bird enjoys its meal* with gusto, and calls for about twenty of litem daily. It Is very seldom that one of these dainty birds fs caught, and still more rarely Is one kept alive, to say nothing of becoming a pet. iui is the enae with the one spoken of. The Needs of tlie World. The harvest of tli<' small grain* of the country in rompli'Uil nnd safely in stuck. Hotter weather a* a whole could not lo desired. It lot* been dry nnd 0001. Our prediction of last spring Hint, with seasonable weather tue w I lent crop of the country would be unprecedented, hn* boon more than ver ifm I. Our bout wliont yield in the piuit years hits been nbout 300,(MNi.fNM) bushels. This season it w ill undoubtedly reach 400,000,000 bushels, nnd inny to 425,- 000.000. Two-fifths of thin product we onn Hond out of the country nnd Mill have MI ample reserve for oar home use*. l/ot um now nee what the require- , nientn übroiuj will probably be. We have heretofore stated that England will probably require 120,01 hi.ih si bushel* | nnd France 10(1,000,000 bushels. It is j now estimated that the Mediterranean ! countries other than France will need 25,000,000 nnd Demunrk. Norway nnd Sweden 10,000,000, a total ot 280,000,000 bushels. l.ato French statements *sti inate European requirements at 98,0dd,- <km hectoliters, or 37h,000,000 bushels. Russia produces 200.000,(XNi hushels, nnd consume* nt home 150,000,000 of this amount, leaving a surplus for export of 50,000,000 bushels: India 12,000,000,Aus- ! trin 20.000.000, nnd Hungary 8,000,000. Thus WO liave 110,000,000 hushels to' supply the deficiency of 280,000,000 bushels, leaving for the I'idled Stale* 170,000,000. It S therefore pretty certain that our surplus of 1G0,000,000 bushels will find n ready market and at fair price* Alexander Ileimar. a very con servative authority, estimates the world's crop n* follows, the figure* rep resenting million*: ciMiiv ? | "r. §t ?f ||| LR RI Odtti.KsU ■ M ... IN h : ■JYII NW Itim r I _'JIJ -Jitl Vl Om -: 110 |li 1* in M 11 Ai > |VL 1(0 • \'i ' 11. ijkm J"-* no . I'll!'' 1 '.! r i lid Torkwj N .* Rmtm • la 4 * A Wnrii. . 'J& >. I* i if Tin:...... ....• .* i'. Hol.tni R ' lUrara |1 ' ohiila. ....... '.<• JH AuairalU - j' a I'o.ituoi. ft B a Wwrrffc ...... 4 4 Ifi . talk .. H* J. nft (id N . •> i N HAITMURIL. ... ...... J 'I AIJ (tbri* .♦ H J Ti It! ... li, • 1 t A4H | /!* /j,', " While I have i very r< aeon to r> gard tlii* iv a i orre< iex|sition .f the world's crop mid Allure wle at movement at the pv -. Nt moment, it is to I" rcni<ml*red that the harvest i* not over yet, that from some countries the teicgrnphie ad vice* liave is en ratlcr meager. and that isith the requirement- met surplu* or d< licit ola country depend mueh tux.n the rye and other grain n>j*. whieli, though they are Ie rein <-*.nid'Tcd are not shown in tie tabic. For these r< oson* the d< toils may ha* •• to tie some what modified. Hut tie- general result ean. I think, hr deluded upon for sub stantial corn ■ tn< *. 'I hat i*. tie- wheat deficit will, during tie harvest year 1879-80. amount to ov< r 200,000,000 bushels —*av 225.000.1N10 bushel*—nnd that the Pnit'-d States will |k> called upon to supply two-taird- of it, or say 125,000,000 to 150,01X1.000 bushel*; Ituv *i;i, sti.fNiO.WNi bushels; Ifr<umnnin, 30- 000,000 hu*li*l; anil Canada. Au-tri:i and India. 6.000,000." Thus it will lc seen evin from the roost conservative view, and taken at a time when the wheat crop of lh< I "nit* d States had not yet dcv< loped it • If, tl.a! on extraordinary deficit must ensue. Since that lime thol'nifrd State* has. with favoring weather, very much in i renaed her supposed yield, wliile Eng land and France ami some other Euro pean count tie* und r n stri *s of weather very severely reduced the contemplated yield. England must a!< buy more largely tills HtHOD than heretofore of Indian corn to ek. iiut lier bad hay and root crop. The carrying out of this vast quantity of grain mii*t bring back gold or its equivalent. It will have the effect to cause business of every kind to spiring up. and thus again, a is al ways the i we have the fact verified that upon agriculture a* the foundation n *t the prosperity ofa nation.— /Vrn'rie FARMER. On !Yhrcl, Every middle-aged person knows what a gn at change has tnlo n place in the carriage* in ordimry us*' in the last thirty or forty years. When I was a boy, family carriages, and, indeed, vehicle* of i i cry kind, except olonibuses and carts —1 beiievc there has rot hi i n mueh ehangi in thein—were vi ry heavy and unwieldy affairs, wle n i .tinpared with those now in use. Not long ago I saw at the permanent ixliibition. in I'liilmlelpibia, the eatriage in wliielitien oral Washington used to ride. You could not get a President of the I'nited State* to ride In such ,a funuyold coach nowadays, nnd I doubt very much If any one would take it as a gib if they were obliged to use it. Yet it is far bet ter looking than some of the carriages that were thought good enough for kings and queen* r hundred Man i|t, Hut we cannot go viTy far bai k in making eompmrisons of carriages. Previous to the sixteenth century there were many hundreds of year* when cai rlagi-s were xcarcelv known at nil in Europe. In the old Ronton days, there bail been handsome chariots and wheeled vehi cles of various kinds, hut when Rome declined, chariots and carriagi-s disap peared. and |>eople either wnlked. or rode on horseback, or wi-re carried by men in scdan-rhnirs and similar eon trivam-es. There was a good n ason for this change. The old Romans made splendid roads, but the nations tlint afterward ruled Europe did not know how to make good highways, or did not care altout such things, and were content to ride their horses over such roads as they found. Even in England, where we might supipose the people might have known 1* Iter, this was th<- case. The prim ipal highways wore so hnd and the mud was sometimes so deep, that even horsemen found great difficulty in get ting along. So they never thought of using wheeled vehicles on tlmse wretched thoroughfares. Hut when they liegan to make good roads, carriages followed, as n matter of course.— FU. A 'UJIOUU. \ young man went into a restaurant the other day, and, remarking that "Time is money," added that as he lind half an hour to spare. If the proprictot was willing he'd take it out In pie. TIMKLf TOI'K'N. Tables prepared at Washington give the aggregate production of th<- three great agri< ullural staples of the .South ern States lor 1878 as follows; Cotton, 5,200,000 bales; sugar, 2f\,000 bogheads; tobacco, 572,000,000 pounds. I*i 1877 this production was: Cotton, 4,811.423 laths; sugar, 197,753 bogheads; tobacco, 580,1:00,000 pounds. Chur'e- lb-ode is outdone in the story whieli N'atlian G. Kay ha, of Golden, Col., tells of bis own experience :w a 1 azy man. His persecutors were hi* wife and daughter, who would lie bene fited by his dying intestate, He says on oath that they indueed a jury of six of his enemies to pronounce him insane, hired a brute to keep him on bis farm, reviled him when, in an effort to escape, lie was lassoed and b:ul a leg and a hip broken by bis jailer, and finally stole his property. The man i* vonehed for as entirely sane. The French originator of the gigantic enterprise of bridging the I'nglish clian no] says that lie mentis business and pro po:ies to commence operations at onee. lie has been laying his plans before the Chambers of ( ommcree in Frame and Belgium for the purpose of securing funds, and will soon make an ap peal to the British government. He has already secured the ind< rsc ment of eighty-four commercial or ganizations in France and Belgium, and he estimate* that seven months time and $200,000 will suffice for tb experi mental stage and demonstrate the feasi bility of bis enterprise. Imitation meerschaum pipes are now manufactured from potatoes in Frame. A peeled potato i.* placed in sulphuric arid and water, in tin-proportion of eight parts of the former to 100 of the latter. It remains in this liquid thirty-six hour* to blacken, is dried with blotting paper, and submitted to a certain pressure, when it ia-rome* a material that ran Is readily curved. The counterfeit is said ,lo be excellent. An imitation ivory sufficiently hard for billiard ball* can be made by *till greater pressure. Arc - inblan's-of coral Is obtained by treat ing carrots in the same manner. 'I he race of white peoph whi< b Major Pinto, the Portuguese explorer. ba. fi*- eoveri-d in South Africa i* named Ca*e uU'T. and i- wbit- r than the Cau< aaians. Sinaii tufts of very short black wool take the place of hair on the head, while , -tiitiilne*- of eye- and prominence of clink Ixme* constitute a resemblance to the Chinese. Til- men are extr- ne ly ; rohu-t, and both m< n and women ar< entirely nomadic, wandering in group* of from four to six familiescacli. and living on root- and on the re*ults-f the chase. I "nl'*ss these fail tin in tin have no intercourse with their black eigh- Is.r-, ih'-y arc the only 1* in Africa that do no| cook tie ir hwwl in fx its. Tie- latest "fn.*tc-t o. 1 an steamer i the Arizona, whieli isthe largest steam er now in service and which reached ijueen-town in *< v< n days, right iiotirs and eight miiiut- - frotn N' W York, l at ing In r previous trip, wiiicii was ai<> le r fir-t one, by one hour and a quarter. The s|m*-<I of ocean voyages do< - not ne 1 *-arily im p-a.se the danger of them, for It i* t!i*- t-erfe, tion and excellei.-' of tic machinery um<l which enable the newest il'smi r- to outsail the old oni -. For people who sp. ml ocean voyage* in j tin' ngonh - of sea-sickness tin quicker the trip is iiiaib-the ! iter th*> 'ike it, and provided waft ty lie not sacrificed t<i *pi'd, the savingofaday in crossing the Atlantic i* an ohject for travelers of all 1! as* i-. In relation to cotton production and eonsumption thr f tt<U SUtU* KronomiM gives tables showing that for eleven y< ars, ending with the crop of the total production of the country was 37.- 410.f1i7 bales. The annual average yield 3.100.972 bah■*. For the fourteen years, ending with the crop of I*7*. the yield, wa* W.TSB.Ifis bale*, tb yearly iiverage In ing 3,fi15,319 hales. The coming crop i j-ul at i, 200,000 bale*. Tlie percentage increase is. for the throe yi-ars ending l*.V>. 94 p< r c<nt.: for the thp*'years ending 1*59. 7: for tlie two years ending 1881,20; for tlie three years • nding I*7l. 4; for tlie three year- end ing l*7o, Hi; for the tlin-e years ending 1*77, 17: for tlie two ir* ending 1*79. Is|. During the first eleven years fol lowing tie- war. tin production reached 38,310.881 bale*, an averag' of 3.300.09U per annum, against 37.t10.fi97 for eleven yean ending l*fil, ati average annual production of 3.400,972. The average crop for the last fourti- n years exceeds the average production forth' cloven year* ending hy 815.000 I tales. The -Top now coining to market, if nirnnt istimales of it be comet, ix.**,)* tlie largest crop prior to the war by 377 .000 bates. Too Many Snake Bite*. During the baying season an honest old farmer out on tlie Gratiot nr.id em ployed three voting men from the citv to lie'p cut and store hi- timothy. N'one of tlnmi liked work half a* well as whisky, and a conspiracy w.-m tlie rc ; suit. Alsiut noon one dav one of tlie trio fell down in the field, shouting and kicking, and the other two ran to tlie farmer with wild eyes and called out that their companion had been bitten 'by n rattle make nnd must have whisky. Tlie farmer rushed to tlie 1 house and brought out a quart, and the three harvesters got a nig drink nH around on the m. while the "bitten" one had a lay-off of half a day. The next fop-noon a second one was bitten, and again the farmer rushed for id* l*ttle. it was a nice Utile job b>r tlie | lm>*. and M tlie third day the tiiird one put in Ids claim for a bite, and yelhsl for tlie whisky l*ltle. The farmer took the matter very coolly thi* tine, ami alter making particular inquiries a* to tlie *!■ of ttie snake, location of the I bite, (he sensation and so forth, be slowly continm d: " Day before yesterday James was bitten and drnnk a quart of good whisky. Yesterday John was bitten and drank a quart morn. To-day you've got a bite and the best thing vou eon do is to smell their breaths 1 ml lay in the shade while tlie riwt of us eat dinner!" Tlie man got well In ten minutes, and not another rattlesnake was *c<n during the season.— Mmit hYrr Prrf. A British army captain and two li< iit< cants have Iwen fim d $BO each for br< aking into tlie bedn oms of two other officer* and sprinkling pepper on the carpets in order to ma'.e them sneese 'ur.ti'y when they returned. Tin oom ph.in r - was the landlady, whose furni ture ;.a, bim damaged. A Terrible Lightning Bolt. The Gun by ( aiihh.) Ncwn contain* th* following particular* of the dentil by lightning of Mr*. f/'Kucr, lrr two-year old chili] and a little girl named Dri< ken : At the time of the casualty Mr. I/■ Suer wax on the right side of the front neat, unring, and Will Date wax Hitting at hi* left, with the three little boy* that escaped unirijur<<U sitting in front of them, under the buffalo robe. Mrs. !/• Suit was on the light sideof the front seat, holding her infant child on her lap, and carrying over her left shoulder a metallic-pointed sunshade. Immediately at her left sat her two-year old girl, Mabel; at the end of tin- *ei* Rosa Drieken was sitting. It is evident from the appearance „f the corpse tiiat Mrs. Is- Suer received the gresp-st part of the shock. The sunshiufcshe used that day had stool ribs covered with silk, and it is thought by many that the electric 4 fluid passed down these ribs, striking Mr. Date (irst on his right shoulder, and Mr. f.u Suer on hit left shoulder, and so on to the seat, p'arlly melting the iron bolt, and then down to the ground across the axle of the wagon. We called to see Will Date, who luui la-en brought in from Nub son's. to whose house be had succeeded in crawling after receiving the shock. t\ < found Mr. Date getting on finely, ex cent the bruises on different parts of his body. From him we roecivod the following statement: •• We were about two and a half miles from town; we were driving along; it was about hall oast five o'clock: it was raining some; I was singing, or rather humming, to myself; Mrs. \/ Suer was joking and making fun of my singing, when all at once I heard a sudden crash, and then 1 -ceined to go off into a trance or slumber; 1 then saw tic- nicest kind of colored ■tan and heard tha iwmM -train- of™ vocal and instrumental rnusie, and then I thought I was floating down, down in tie air; it was the softest seat I ever had; I would like to experience the sane sensation as that again; I should judge it was about two hours and a hall before Icame to: I found myself ir tall gro** and 1 tried to get up, hut could not: had no u-e of my legs and only the partial u-c of my right arm; could not raise my body from the ground: laid on my hack and turned over on my face: <•.. d go no further, and then I nied to float off again into the air: then I came to, and looking up I saw a house, and tlnn floated off again. I then came to and nulled mj -elf along by the grass, and fell into the creek, and tnanag<-d to S' ainhle arotlnd and got mv Ixwlv hull out of the water on the other sjde. I lnok'd up and saw a man on the same side of the < reek oa ■ -mail hill. I oould not speak, as my jaw* were s< t e]o*e; tried to make a motion to him: he laughed at nic; he was drunk and thought that I was. About this time a boy < ame down after water, and caught hold of nic and helped me out and un to the hoii-e, alw>Ut half a mile or *0 from when I was struck : wlcn near t lie door I f'll, striking my head against the door, and that opened my jaws; that is. the first time that 1 had any control over my sprat h, and then I OOUd only whi r.er. 1 couldn't make tin- woman of the house understand mc th<-n, hut she tick off my wet clothes and put dry on'* on me, and then they put me in bed, and then I seemed to float away again. After coming to I made a motion to them to go after the rest of the party, and the drunken man that I fiist met at the creek was in the house and he wouldn't listen to me. and wanted to light and would surely have hurt mc if it wasn't for the woman and lioy, who put hini out door* Finally Mosier and H<nr< tty came into the room and a*k<*i me where Le Suer was. I told them he wa- ■ torn up by lightning. "The stroke hit me on the right ■boukk rand ran down my br t-t. nak* $ ing a perfect circle across the pit of my stomach, and darted down my left leg and my left knee; from there to mv '< ft foot. liurting that some." The Fat Horse 44 Ram*." 11 It. t'onklin. of New York, owner of "Rarus," says that ho has owned " Rani* from his liirlh, and as so->n as he <iicovered that the ivilt was pow scsscd oi *0 many qualities indicating endurance and speed lie determined not to allow his enthusiasm to g't the better of his judgment, and instcvl of urging the coming horse to the limit of his two-Utilities in hi* earlier years, he care fully and gr.oiuallv trained him up to hi* present 1 x<s*licnce. Tin horse i now twelve y* .is of age, and during his whole life h<-has never had s single dsv of natural siekms- The only time lie was not in condition wa* about three yenr* ago when the groom, forgr tling hi* mnnh'-od anil duty to his employer, al lowed himself to he tirihed ny jealous .an! unscrupulou- jot keys, and admin istered a narcotic drug to the noble brute, but the owner, who constantly and untiringly keep* a close supervision over Ilia valuable pet, soon after diseov cr>d the troublcand by prompt measure* defeated the base designs of the perpe trator*. "Why," saiil Mr. t'onkhn. "I known hat horse a* well as I know my self, and the minute t step into bis stall orgaae into bis eye I can t<4) his condi tion. So long have I been accustomed to so examine him that I can without fail determine whether lie will trot fat or otherwise. \Ve can't control theehw ments, but if ' Rarus * lives and I live, r shall yet see 2.10 bunp on .lie outer walls of the judges stand."' In answei to the value of tliis king of I the turf, bis owner said: "I have several time* been offered $40,000 for tiim. but that offer did not tempt nic. and I don't think it ever will. I can afford to keep him and, IVnvidence permitting. 1 propose to do so." On Driving Ont Mosquitoes. Mosquitoes ran be driven away from rooms by the smoke of incense powder burned on a hot shovel. Winn it i* not easy to get fire, put a bit of gum cam pnor in a shovel, light, and the gum will eateh us quickly as alcohol; then sprinkle a tablcspoonftll of insect powd.a (pyrethrutn) on the flame, let it take fir# and blow out the blaze. close the win dows and let the smoke rise for five minutes. It will not imure walls or furniture, and docs not harm human beings, though obnoxious to insist* Hanging a cloth on which a traspoonfui of carbolic acid is poured at the head of the bed. will keep mo-quit. n - away, and the writer has repeatedly gained a good night's shen by thismeon* when other* failed. Taae care to place the cloth or sponge so that there is no dangtr of touching it with the face or hands in the night, a* the acid iwirn* like causliqg It is not generally known, a* it ought to lie, that the remedy for hum* by car bolic acid is Canada fir lialsam. spread on the part attacked.
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