A Modem Jaroli.
The Philadelphia Tcleyraph'B Paris
etUrsnys: 1 was recently told by a
young French gentleman (the son of
the prefect of La Rochelle) one of the
strangest romances of real life that over
came to my knowledge. Some four
yeajß ngo a peasant boy who lived on
a farm near the town of Clermont-
Ferrand saw and fell in love with the
beautiful daughter of a gentleman of
good fortune and position, he being at
tliat time seventeen yenrs of age and
the young lady was just sixteen. The
new ' Claude Melnotte" was so madly
in love that he went straight to the
house of the young girl's parents and de-,
manded her hand in marriage. The
father treated the preposterous proposi
tion with good-natured scorn. " Come
back when you have an incomeof $40,-
000 ( 200.000 trancs)." was his answer,
"and then we will see about it." The
infatuated youth took him at his word,
and forthwith set to work. Now one
af the peculiarities of the town of Cler
mont-Ferrand is a scarcity of water.
There is no river near it, so it relies
for its supply on springs and wells.
Under these circumstances a spring is
a valuable piece of property and com
mands a relatively high price. So the
young peasant lover set on for an ad
jacent mountain, there to search for
uidden springs. My informant said that
he had honey-combed the whole side of
the mountain with his works, construct
ing at one point a tunnel over two
miles in length. All this was executed
with his own hands. He worked from
dawn to dark, lives upon potatoes of
his own planting, and never spends so
much as a sou upon a mug. of beer.
Every Sunday lie goes to church in the
town, after which he proceeds to the
house of his lady-love, to*ask if she is
married or likely to be. On receiving
a response in the negative he plods con
tentedly homeward, and starts out
afresh to his toil on the morrow. This
life has continued now for full four
years. Up to the present time he has
discovered three important springs,
each of which he so.d for $5,000, but,
though now possessed of what a man in
liis condition of life is wealth, he
abates none of the hardships of his ex
i-tence. He has one idea, namely, to
become the possessor of a fortune suffi
cient to enable him to claim the hand
of the object of liis blind passion. Yet
no one who knows the parties ever
imagines that the young lady will ever
consent to riarry him". She is now
twenty yeai iof age, and is pretty, re
fined and accomplished, while he is
coarse and unlettered, without even
physical comeliness, as he is short and
thick-set. with a broad, stolid counten
ance. What will be the end of this
dream, I wonder? Will lie go mad or
break his heart the day lie finds his be
loved either married or betrothed ? Or
will he die some day of privation and
overwork, with a vision of success be
fore his eyes.
Seasickness.
Theories about seasickness arc as in
numerable as remedies for it. Some
persons, especially women, never get
accustom- d to the sea. and all efforts to
prevent or cure the afflictive nausea are
unavailing. One of the latest prescrip
tions is to take five-drop doses of nitrate
of amy 1, which has been known to exer
cise, it is said, a most fuvorable intlu
ence on hundreds of sufferers. But
much depends, of course, on certain
conditions of the system, a savingclause
for ail boasted forms of relief. One of
the favorite theories about seasickness
ascribes it to the tossing about of food
in the stomach, which disturbs it and
the d'aphragm. nausea and vomiting be
ing the inevitable consequence. Another
theory is that the stomach has no such
relation to the ailment, whose real cause
is a congestion of the brain, acting re
flexly on the stomach.
Still another and indeed a more rea
sonable theory is that most cases are
due in some degree to each of the sourcts
mentioned, and that, with a full stom
ach and congested liver, little can he
expected from nmyl. In oases mainly
nervous, as with women, nitrate of amy I
is usually found very beneficial, nnd de
serves more varied and extensive trial
than it lias hitherto received. Nearly
everybody has a remedy for seasickness,
and wiioever has experienced relief from
any form of treatment naturally has en
tire faith in that form. Hundreds of
so-called infallible cures might be enum
erated, and yet some people have tried
any number of them without the least
advantage. The probability is that sea
sickness comes from different causes
with different individuals. With some
it arises from the stomach; with some
from the nerves; with others from the
brain; with others again lrom the
imagination. No exact diagnosis can
!•> nmdeof seasickness. Of forty or fifty
sufferers each may he sick in a different
way; and when the sickness reenrs it
may be a marked variation from the
first sickness. The disorder depends
more or less on the individual, and any
att"inpt to generalise upon it is pretty
certain to be misleading as well as
tile
Words of Wisdom.
AII honest man take delight in doing
gon-1.
Youth looks at the possible, agent the
probable.
He who declare all men knaves, con
victs at least one
The rarest gems often lie hidden in
kennels of impurity.
Words are the daughters of the mind,
but actions sre the sons of the soul.
Wit looses its respect with the good
when seen in company with malice.
fI" only is independent who can
maintain himself by his own exertions
A < a bird wandereth from her nest, so
is a man that wandereth from his place.
Return equity and justice for evil
done to you, and pay goodness by good
ness
Find earth were grows no weed, and
you may find a heart wherein no error
grows.
Poetry is Die art of substantiating
shadows and of lending existence to
nothing.
The faith which looks forward is far
richer than tlu experience which looks
backward.
There are occasions when ceremony
may not be easily dispensed with, kind
ness never.
Uove. undying, solid iove, whose root
is virtue, can no more die than virtue
itself.
Many people are busy in the world
gathering together a handful of thorns
to sit upon.
How can we look with confidence to
a heaven above, when we do so little to
make a heaven below, around and
about us t
Miss Flyun and Her Lorer.
Miss Marv Flynn was studying medi
cine and being courted at the same
time. Mr. William Budd was attend
ing to the latter part of the business.
One evening while they were sitting to
gether in tlie front parlor, Mr. Budd
was thinking how he should manage to
propose. Miss Flynn was explaining
certain physiological facts to him.
"Do you know," she said,"that thous
ands of persons are actually ignorant
that they smell with their olfactory
peduncle?"
"Millions of'em," replied Mr. Budd.
" And Aunt Mary wouldn't believe
me when I told her she couldn't wink
without a sphincter muscle!"
" How unreasonable.''
" Why, a person cannot kiss without
sphincter!
" Indeed!"
" I know it is so!"
" May I try if I can?"
" Oh, Mr. Budd, it is too had for you
to make light of such a subject."
Mr. Budd seized her hand and kissed
it. She permitted it to remain in his
grasp,
" I didn't notice," he said, " whether
a—a —what do you call it?—e sphincter
helped me then or not. Let me try
again. 1 '
Then he tried again, and while he held
her hand she explained to him about
the muscles of that portion of the hu
man body.
"It is remarkable how much you
know about such things," said Mr.
Budd —" really wonderful. Now, for
example, what is the bone at the hack
of the head called?"
" Why, the occipital bono of course."
"And what arc the names of the mus
cles of the arm?"
"The spiralis and the infra-spiralis.
among others."
"Well, now letuie show you what I
mean. When I put my infriv-spiralis
around your waist, so, is it your occipi
tal bane that rests upon my shoulder
blade, in this way?"
"My back hair primarily, but the oc
cipital bone of course, afterward. But
oh, Mr. Budd, suppose pa should come
in and see us?"
"liet him come: Who cares?" sai<.
Mr. Budd, boldly. " I think I'll exer
cise a sphincter again and tnkc a kiss."
"Mr. Budd. how can you?" said
Miss Flynn, after he had performed the
feat.
" Don't call mo Mr. Budd; call me
Willie." he said, drawing her closer.
"You accept me, don't you? I know you
do, darling."
" Willie," whispered Miss Flynn,
faintly
" What, darling?"
" I can hear your heart heat."
" It heats only for you, my angel."
"And it sounds to me out of order.
The ventricular contraction is not uni
orm."
"Small wonder for that when it's
bursting for joy."
" You must put yourself under
treatment for it. I will give you some
medicine."
"It's your own property, darling; do
what you please with it. But somehow
the sphincter operation is the one flint
strikes me most favorably. Let us see
how it works again?"
But why proceed ? The old, old story
was told again, and the old, old per
formance of the muscles of Mr. Budd's
mouth enacted again. And, about eight
Sears later. Mr. Budd was wishing that
lary would catch some fatal disease
among her patients, and Mary was
thinking that the best pissi >lc use
Willie could be put to would be as a
subject for the dissecting table. — Max
Adder.
The Chinese Armv and Navy.
Some of the Russian newspapers, in
view of the contingency of a war with
China, give some particulars of the mili
tary and naval forces of that country.
The chief portion of the Chinese army
consist of "the First Army Corps,"
composed of eight Mantchou, eight Tar
tar and eight Chinese corps, and the
garrison of Pokin. The soldiers of
"the First Army Corps" are seldom
drilled, rnd are mostly armed with old
swords, bows, spears and other anti
quated weapons. Being badly paid,
they earn their living by working at all
sorts of trades, and are of hut little us.
as soldiers. Their total strength, exe
elusive of officers is about 105.000 men,
The garrison of Pekin, also had ly arnied
conslsts of 17,500 men. Besides those
there are two corps lH.SOOstrong, which
form the emperor's body-guard, and a
division of infantry of 20,000 men,
whose duty it is to keep order in the
capital and its suburbs. There is also
a third army, which during the present
ocntury has been almost exclusively
employed in time of war. This is the
so-called " Green-banner Army," which
is composed ol eighteen army corps, in
correspondence with the eighteen pro
vinces of ttie empire. Each army corps
has five divisions, nnd each division
five camps. A general commnnds each
division, nnd trie civil governors are
the commanders-in-chief of the troops
stationed in their respective districts.
The total strength of the "Green-ban
ner Army" on pnper is about 851,000
men, with 7,oooofficers, hut it is prob
able thnt more than one-half of this
force couid be brought into the field.
Barely 50.0(H) of them are armed witli
European weapons and drilled accord
ing to the principles of European taction;
the remainder still carry spears, match
locks, and short swords. Finally, there
is a kind of irregular volunteer corps,
which is called in when the regular
anny lias proved incapable of suppress
ing an insurrection or putting down
brigandage. This corps is even worse
armed than the others, possesses but
little training, and is harnly amenable
to discipline. As tor the Chinese navy,
its ships are, for the most part, badly
constructed ar.d insufficiently manned.
There are a few European officers, but
the majority of the naval officers are
Chinese, who are very ignorant and in
efficient.— Pall Mall Gazette.
Mere Sunshine. -
The world wants more sunshine in its
disposition, in its business, in Its chari
ties, in its theology. For ten thousand
of the aches and pains,and irritations of
men and women, we recommend sun
shine. It soothes better than morphine.
It stimulates better than champagne.
It is the best plaster for a wound. The
go< d Samaritan poured out into the
fallen traveler's gash more of this than
of oil. Florence Nightingale used it on
the Crimean battle-fields. Take it into
all the alleys, on board all the ships, by
sP the sieg beds Not a phial fall, cot
a cop full, lut a soul full. It is good
for tplecn, for liver complaint, for neu
ralgia, for rheumatism, for failing for
tunes or melancholy.— faith and Worke.
Street Lights.
In the reign of Louis XIV., one of the
most magnificent spectacles was sup
posed to he the general lighting of the
streets of Paris. The world was invited
to witness the novel scene. It was be
lieved to be the highest achievement of
modern civilization —neither the Greeks
nor the Romans seem to have thought
of the wonderful invention. Yet the
lights of the great city consisted only of
dim lanterns and torches, dispersed at
distant intervals, and, compared with
the bright glare of modern gas, would
have seemed only a dusky gloom.
\V hether the Greeks and Romans lighted
their cities at night is still in doubt. It
is -probable that Rome, except in rare
instances of festive illuminations, was
left in darkness. Its people, when they
went out at nigiit, carried lantoflks or
torches, or else wandeied, in moonless
nights, exposed to robbers and stum
bling over obstacles. Antioch, in the
fourtli century the splendid capital of
the East, seems to have set the example
of suspending lamps through its princi
pal streets, or around its public build
ings. Constantino ordered Constanti
nople to be illuminated on every Easter
eve with lamps and wax candles. All
Egypt was lighted up with tapers float
ing on vessels of oil at the feast of Isis;
and Rome received Cicero, after the
flight of Catiline, witli a display of lan
terns and torches. Yet the practice of
lighting up a whole city at night seems
in fact, a modern invention.
Paris and Ixmdon dispute the priority
of the useful custom. At the opening of
the sixteenth century, when the streets
of Paris were often infested witli rob
bers and incendiaries, the inhabitants
were ordered to keep lights burning, af
ter nine in the evening, before tlie win
dows of their houses; in 1558, vases
filled with pitch and other combustible
matter were kept blazing at distant in
tervals through the streets. A short
time aherward, lanterns were provided
at the public cost. Tiiev were at first
only employed during the winter
months, and were soon kept constantly
burning. Reverberating lamps were
next invented, and were usually
surrounded by throngs ol curi
ous Parisians. In I'm, the load
between Paris and Versailles, for
nearly nine miles in length, was lighted ;
and in the present century, the French
metropolis has steadily improved its
street lamps, until the introduction ot
gas made the streets of Paris as bril
liant by night as by day. Its light was
never quenched until, in its recent
humiliation, its glittering boulevards
and sparkling parks were hidden in
unwonted gloom.
London claims to have lighted it,
streets with lanterns as early :ia 1414.
but the tradition seems doubtful.
About 1608 the citizens were ordered
to place lamps in front of their houses
every nigtit during the winter; but as
late as 1736 the rule was imperfectly
obeyed. Robbers filled its narrow
streets, and life and property were never
secure in the darkness. Gas lamps were
next introduced, at the public expense:
the number was rapidly Increased, and
toward the close of the last century the
citizens of I/>ndon were acustomeed to
boast of tneir magnificent system ol
street-lamps, which far surpassed that
ol Paris. Hie road* running from tie 1
city for seven or eight miles v ere lined
with crystal lamps. At the crossing ol
several of them the effect was thought
magnificent; and wiiat would now be a
dim and dismal arraybf smoking lights,
seemed then one of the wonders ol the
time. Novelists and poets celebrated
the nightly illumination of the over
grown capital. Vienna, Berlin, and
other European cities followed the ex
ample of Paris or fxmdon. and New
York and Philadelphia early adopted
the eustom. Rome alone, still clinging
to the usages of the middle ages, re
fused to light its streets; the popes
steadily opposed the heretical inven
tion, And preferred darkness to light.
At length came a wonderful advance.
For three centuries civilization had
prided itself upon its lamps or lanterns;
It was now to shine in novel brilliancy.
The Chinese, who seem to have origl
- without perfecting most modern
inventions, had long leen accustomed
to sink tubes into beds of coal, and carry
its natural gas into their houses, and
even their streets, for the purpose of
illumination. They also used it for
manufactures and cooking. But they
had never discovered the aitof making
({as. In 1792, Mr. William Murdoch
hrst used gas for lighting his offices and
house in Redruth, Cornwall. The
Birmingham manufacturers at once
adopted the invention. Tiie unparal
leled splendor of the light at once at
tracted public attention. The peace of
IHO9, transitory ns a sudden illumin
ation. was celebrated by the lighting of
the factory of Watts and Boulton, at Bir
mingham, with a llamq that seemed to
rival the brightness ot the stars. The
invention spread over the world. Lon
don, ashamed of its once lioasted array
of endless lamps, now glittered with
hundreds of miles of gaslights. Paris
again called the whole world to witness
its tasteful illumination. The cities of
the new world lighted up every corner
of their busy streets. EVcn Rome'
yielded to the useful invention.
Plsli L'nltare.
Norway leads the world in her
fisheries, with an annual production
valued at ♦13,600,600, and yet we have
opportunities for expanding to a limit
even surpassing these enormous figures.
The artificial propagation of fish has
been attended with encouraging results,
first in Germany, then in France, and
latterly in tne United States, having be
come one of our most important in
dustries. The United States fish com
missioners say: " Norway Is the only
European nation that lias a scientific
commission occupied officially in the
supervision of the fisheries and in de
vising methods by which they may be
carried on and extended with the least
possible waste. To the labors and
observation of such men as Dr. Boeck,
Professor Bars and others, is due much
ol the present efficiency of the Nor
wegian fisheries " In 1867 we imported
about as much fish as we exported. If
we devoted sufficient energy to the
business we could export one hundred
times as much, and need import none at
all. Fish culture is in its infancy. Its
resources are immessurable. It may
approximate and even rival agriculture
in importance. Its development will
give employment to large numbers of
men and bring food within the means
of the poor as well as of the rieh. The
propriety and utility of international
exhibitions, like that now in contem
plation at Beriin, where the represent
atives ot our nation can learn the nature
of the products of tho others, as well as
show its own in a universal market,
can no longer be questioned— Hoimt ijtc
American
Condensed History of .Music.
Music iu n science mny be said to have
bcei: cradled with the Christian era, for
while have sun# with the birds
from timo immemorial, and played on
rude instruments as far back as any his
tory takes us. just as David did, when
he said: "I will sing unto the Lord a
new song, and praise him upon psaltery
and harp."
1 was amused at an arrangement
gotten up lust year by a Chicago party
ostensibly to make music simple, ignor
ing notes, laws and all of our musical
characters except the bare letters for
each sound, and claimed in this way to
be teaching thorough-baas. He simply
retrograded to the time ol St. Ambrose,
1500 years aeo. Any skilled musician
will seethe ludierousness of trying to ex
press thorough-bass, which is the science
of figured harmony, by any letter. In
ohe sixth century, 501, St. Gregory did
the next active work, but regarded from
our standpoint he did little ol value
more than write the Gregorian chants,
some of which are in use to-day by the
Cutholio churches, with many changes.
He introduced one line, where we now
have live, around which to arrange the
musical characters. Singers had to do
some tall guessing in those days. There
was no harmony, or no time thought of,
as yet.
In the tenth century liuupald began
to evolve some valuable thoughts on
harmony, which, though very faulty,
was a splendid step in the right direc
tion. In looking over a transcript of
his work I found it lull of errors that no
modern composer would dare to make,
such as the doubled thirds, consecutive
lift lis. and consecutive octaves, etc., all
of which, the good monk says, were
very pleasing to the ear.
In the eleventh century an Italian
monk named (luido invented our pres
ent syllables, which are invaluable for
vocal music. These were the first sylla
bles of some old Italian verses. He also
improved largely on notation.
In the thirteenth ccntuiy Franco deCo
logno conceived the first "time" the idea
of expressing time by the shape or form
ol the notes. On this we have since
made no special improvement.
In the sixteenth century, 1502, one
Petruci invented the casting of metal
music type. This was sixty years after
the art of printing books, etc., was dis
covered (1442) and twenty years after
the first Bible was printed, in 1478.
There has born a magnificent progress
in all musical instruments. Mentally I
am taken back to the rude tom-tom of
long ago—a round hoop, with a eaupel
of gut strings, making about as musieas
a salt box would. Some of the savages
cling to this tom-tom yet. They have
a legend like this: An angei in heaven
was sitting on the clouds playing on the
tom-tom, and so entranced was he witli
its music, that lie torgot himself and
dropped it—l think I should have
dropped it myself if I had to play it—
when a savage found it, and has used
the heavenly pattern ever since.
In the fourteenth century our orgnns
began to assume valuable shape. The
pianoforte was invented about 1650. In
about 1717, at London, a great crowd
went to a concert to hear a wonderful
instrument called the pianoforte, so
says n clipping which I rnme across a
short time since. We get some splendid
conceptions of musical advancement
when we contrast the tom-tom with our
matchless jtrnnd piano* of to-dny, or
with our mighty pipe organs, whose
magnetic and powerful voices cause us
involuntarily to remove our hats and
bow our heads, lifting us bytheir influ
ence almost into the presence of the in-
I finite.— Prof. 8. Q. Rice.
Bits of Information.
In the manufacture of tobacco, mo
lasses, licorice, pasts a decoction of figs
and glycerine are usou to impart a sweet
taste. Common salt and other salts are
used for flavoring, and nitrate of potash
or soda is added to increase its combus
tibility. Anise and other arorustics are
<idded for their flavor, and smoking to
bacco has its odor, if not its taste, im
proved by the introduction of cascariila
nark. Cabbage and other leaves are
often used to adulterate chewing to
baeco.
In cold weather, horses which have
been driven rapidly, or have become
heated from exertion, throw off great
quantities of steam or vapor. The
reasr of this is that the heat thrown
off from the body on eoming in contact
with the colder air is condensed in the
form of vapor. The principle is the
same as that which causes the windows
of a close room to become covered with
ice on a cold day in winter. The warm
air of the room becomes condensed on
the cold glass, and it is congealed in t(ie
form of ice.
Previous to the time of Queen Elisa
beth stairs were all constructed on a
circular plan, and were called turret or
corkscrew stairs. During tho sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries staircases
witli wide, straight flights were first in
troduced. and were made the leading
features in mansions of the Elizabethan
style. They had usually massive oak
balusters with carved panels and pen
dants. Staircases of this description
are still in common use. but are lighter
in style, light cast-iron being used in
s.eadofoax baluster*. %
Skirting a School or Icebergs.
Captain Wm. Smith, of the steamship
State of Georgia, that arrived ih New
York from Glasgow, reports passing a
large school of icebergs southeast cl
Newfoundland. First Officer A. B.
Murray, who was on watch at the lime,
said: It was a beautiful day. Taere
were eight large icebergs and a number
ot smaller ones. They extended east
and west, and were drifting southward.
We passed within a mile, and had a good
▼lew of them as we passed one after
another for thirty miles. They were in
sight for three hours. Some of them
were from 100 feet to 900 feet high One
that was in the shape of a high bluff
was about 800 feet long. Another was
about 960 feet long, and was surmounted
with towers, spires and turrets, like a
vast cathedral. Another was 900 feet
iong and was wedge-sliap *d. The colors
were gorgeous in the afternoon sun
shine. Some of the Icebergs had acinar
blue streak ail the way around, but the
ice was mainly clear. Our course led
us very near, but we were not obliged
to deviate. If we had met such a mass
of ioe at night it would have been very
dangerous, nut with a sharp lookout,
unless the weather is foggy, icebergs
may be plainly seen at nfgbt from tne
halo of light that generally surmounts
then*. The shape or an iceberg always
changes as It is viewed from different
points, and a lively imagination can
liken one to many objects. If we ooold
have towed the largest one into New
York it would have materially affected
i he pries of iee this summer.
PAIIH, GARDEN AXI> IIOUHEIIOLIL
>"at and Ltin fork.
Home of our readers may think this
a contradiction, but it is quite possible
to grow pork witli that happy medium
of fnt and lean so much relisfied. The
greatest obstacle to it is the general
method adopted In feeding pigs. They
are fed on food merely adapted to lay
on fat, and with a scant proportion of
albuminoids to grow the muscles oi
lcan meat. Figs have thus been grown
and fattened lor so long a time that
they seem to have taken on only lean
meat enough to hold the body together.
Except when on grass, the pig is plied
almost wholly with corn, which is ex
cessively j-it-Ii in starch and fat. Some
| breeds have become so constituted that
they will fat on grass. The pig, in its
natural state, does not get excessively
fat, but is nearly as lean as a beef ani
mal. 11 young pigs are fed on nitrogen
ous food, such as skimmed milk and
grass, they will Ist found to grow
rapidly—extend the frame and muscu
lar system, having only fat enough to
| round out the body to comely shape.
Pigs should always he full fed ; but this
j does not necessarily mean cramming
! with corn, which merely piles on the f:t
till the young pig becomes diseased. It
is this mode ol feeding for so many hun
dred generations that has transformed
our swine into lumps of fat with a few
stringsof muscle to tie the ball together.
To reverse this work of improper fecd
i ing will take some time, but it can and
' must be done. Witness the great
j change from those overgrown fat hogs
which were bragged of years ago,
but are now seldom seen, be
i cause the market does not call for
i them. We do not undervalue corn
which is the best fattening food the
American Ja mer possesses; but we
should be glad to have them avoid its
free use in feeding pigs, and sub
stitute a more nitrogenous food, such as
oats, peas, wheat, bran or middlings, a
little oil meal, decorticated cotton-seed
meal, rye, bran or barley—anv of these.
Corn may be fed sparingly with clover
or skimmed milk. Our Canadian neigh
bors can raise fat and lean pork with
grass, peas, barley and corn. We must
have a grass diet for pig* generally, and
with this grain may be fed. Farmers
sometimes forget that the pig is a grass
eating animal as much as the horse, and
needs fibrous food to keep him healthy.
Nicely cured clover is relished by pigs
in winter, especially when raised on
grass. If you want fat and lean pork,
a strictly corn diet must be reserved to
the last stage of feeding, simply to
harden the pork ; yet a little corn may
be fed all through the life of the pig,
only giving these other nitrogenous
foods with it. Pork grown in this way
is relished by most people, and will al
ways find a ready local market.
No more important question than the
aliove has ever been discussed in our
columns. At one time lard was the
most valuable of all the hog product:
hut it has ceased to possess exceptional
value, and now the aesideratum in pork
production is to bring al>out a good de
velopmcnt ot flesh.—7/omc Weekly.
Ilcitat hold it III*.
New linen may be embroidered more
easily by rubbing it over witli fine
white soap; it prevents the thread frou
cracking.
To remove grease from wall-paper lay
several folds of blotting-paper on the
spot and hold a hot iron near it until
the grease is absorbed.
To clean brass, immerse or wash it
several times in sour milk or whey.
This will brighten it without scouring.
It ay then he scoured with a woolen
cloth dipped in ashes.
To take ink out of linen, dip the ink
spot in pure melted tallow, then wash
out the tallow and the ink will come
out with it This is said to be unfail
ing.
If brooms are wet in boiling suds
once a week they will become very
tough, will not cut a carpet, will last
much longer and always sweep like a
new broom.
To remove rust from a stove-pipe,
rub it with linseed oil (a little goes a
good way); build a slow fire at first till
it is dry. Oil in the spring to prevent
it from rusting.
CaUry and l< Cultivation.
No vegetable improves more on ac
quaintance than celery. Farmers ob
ject to its cultivation on the ground that
there is too much labor about it, and
this was a serious objection when the
fashion was to cultivate it in trenches:
but it is found that a plow makes all
the tretich requisite for the dwarf and
medium varieties, which are really
more crisp, solid, and better flavored
than the giant. " Boston market
celery " can be grown with littie more
laitor than a crop of cabbages, and as
it adorns the table, tickles the palate,
and tones the stomach, it deserves a
wider cultivation by farmers than it
has secured.
The Great English Landholders.
The thirty-five largest landed pro
prietors in Great Britain hold each the
following amount of land out of the 74.-
000.000 (teres which makeup the United
Kingdom:
Aoree.
Duke ol Argyll 176,114
Baillie of DocMnar 165,648
ilorridge of Ulilden, Oalway 170,517
Karl ol Bmtdall-ane 438,368
The Dttkeol Bucclrmch 469,103
Marquis <d Dote 116,668
Cameron ol Ixiehinl 126.008
The Chisholm 113.266 |
Marquis ol Cony-ogham 166,710
Marl of Daihonaie 130,021 i
Dnke ol Devonshire 108,666 i
Marquis of Downahire 120,180 j
Karquharvon ol lnvorcauld 100,661 ;
Karl of File 240,220 1
Karl ot Fin william 116,743 I
it onion cdCltinv 112,364 I
Dttkeol Hamilton 167.386
Rail ol Home 106^650
Karl ol Kontnare 118,806
Marquis ol Lenndowne 142,916
Karl ol I,eronfl*ld 109 936
Lord Maodonald 132J19
Tke Mackintosh 124,18*1
The Maoleod 14T679
Matheson o< Ardross 220!063
Mafhevon of HUtruoway 4'2C60
Dukerrf Northumberland. 186^397
Duke qf Portland 16'236
Sir John Ramadan. 140 048
Sir Charles Row aga'ann
Karlol Seafleld. 306 030
Mantnia ot Sligo
Karl ol Stair.... 116 370
Duke of Sutherland 1 35* A4h
SirW.W.Wyon 146,77
Total sow, say 7.360.628
At Bowling Green, Ky., JcueThomas
loft nine good bog*. Just sixteen days
thereafter he found them. The ground |
where the beds were had suddenly sunk
and they were entombed fifteen feet be-1
low the surface-
" Made or Paper."
We have so long cijcrinlied a wpj].
founded prejudice against parx-r an lx-i n ■,
a flimsy and unsubstantial substance
that we are surprised at ita recent utili
ration in many way* where strength
and durability are the important rquj
aitea. Many articles, if we learned that
they were made entirely or in part lr 0111
paper, immediately lout favor in our
even, and we looked at them askance
When the soles of our shoes noon won
out t;e faet was often attributable t 0
the use, by the unscrupulous maker of
shoddy strips of paper in the place 0 f
inside layers of durable leather, and thb
is only a single illustrat on among many
that might be Riven to show to w| Kl ' t
miserable, if not despicable, u-e. ■ '
i has he<n put. The daily tearing of
I newspapers and light wrapping ,
! for the purpose of doing up parcel* ;
j also done mueli to impress us wlu, j,.
fragility of the frequently handled i ; ,v
terial. It was natural that we had
| to regard pa|x'r :ts achrap and unr< j.
able suistance.
Asa consequence, we cannot reu<.i v
! conceive of the successful application of
paper where great strength tenacity u,
withstand powerful strains and dur
ability are require dof it. But tl
! process of compression, enormous ir.
| power, gives ail these highly desirab,*
! constituents to a solid, compact ml,-
j stance, which, although harder than
: wood and taking to some extent tlx-
I place of iron, is formed of the sanx ri.a
--i terial that makes the fragile nc •.,, v<r
s sheet.
Paper e-ar wheeis are "U'C(n.f u •
manufactured and used, paper bri' k.'i
becoming desirable as a building mate
rial. Professor Green, of the Troy iv.j
--! technic institution, has erected a great
i revolving dome whose light frame wort
; is covered with hard, enduring p'tmtr
| mnche only one-sixth of an inch thick
I i'aper has been successfully employed
as an anti-fouling sheathing for an iron
vessel and in other things airnoit as ua
\ ex pec-ted.
It must Ik- observed in connection
with paper, however employed, that it
possesses two very manifest advantage!,
; —lightness and cheapness—and when
| compressed into a solid substance it i>
also as hard and durable as severs,
other strong and more costly materials.
i No one will hesitate to employ paper in
: stead of iron in any construction pro
vided that the former can be shown to
be sufficiently strong, for its light
and cheapness are most important c on
siderations in its favor.
The range and rautabi lily of paper ir<
remarkab.e. The same material that
forms the delicate valentine enters mt
i the comj>osition of the wart
wheel that sustains the weight of ton*
i and endures constant friction a- it glid'i
I along the iron rails. According as paper
may be prepared, it ranks among the
most fragile or the stoutest subxtar.
Harder than wood and impervious : .
1 water. Just tliink of it. H"w peop.e
fifty years ago would have been xur
prised at such accomplishment*. Bu:
being establishes' facts, they ar< fraught
with great significance. They hare <n
i largeci the possibilities of paper wonder*
j fully. They have opened a wide field
j for experiment ancl invention. Paper i
destined U> take tlie place of many sub
stances that will lx> found inferior to it.
while its application in nun. reus U
vekiped ways, wlierein notfiing else car.
I be used, may confidently be expe ted.—
j Paper World.
" Strong Jamie."
The Berwickshire journals in IM4
; gave much information concerning this
| remarkable man. Though short of
stature,he possessed prodigious strength.
' which earned tor him the familiar cog
| nomcn of " Jamie Strang." or " Stront
Jamie." A writer in the Berwick M
vtriiner said: "We have beard
state that tne greatest weight he ever
lifted from the ground was U<s stone.and
that he had lifted eighty-five stone with
one hand. When the Forfarshire nii.i
tia were encamped at Ejsmooth, he
went to see an acquaintance among
them. White there, a dancing-master
was boasting much of his strength,
whereupon one of the soldiers, knowing
Stuart, engaged topiovide a drummer
who would lift more than the boaster
, could. Stuait, dressed as a drummer,
was brought in. A piece of ordnance
w,a lying before them which the danc
ing-master raised to the perpendicular,
and then allowed to fall. He asked the
, drummer whether he could do that.
Stuart ptetended that he was not very
I sure that he could; but placing bis arms
round the cannon, he raised it entirely
from the ground, and carried it to some
i. distance. At another rime, when at
j Velvet Hall, near Berwick, some
, countrymen were laboring to get a cart
. laden with hay out of a miry hole into
which by some accident it Jiad stuck
j fast. Stuart was appealed to for assist-
I anoe. He desired them ail to stand
aside, and, going underneath the cart,
removed it with its load to the opposite
! side of the road." This extraordinary
man fit is averred in many quarters)
I actually went fiddling about the country
till nearly 114 years old. A smail sum
was then collected for him. toward
| which the queen and the late sir Robert
Peel contributed. Stuart declsred that
j he " hadna been sae weel off this bunder
year." At length his career closed, lie
died at Tweedmoutli on the eleventh of
1 April. 1544. and was buried on the four
; teenth in the presence of a vast con
course of spectators The Berwick J'f
' uerttwr, a few days after ward, contained
an advertisement relating to statuettes
of the veteran— Chamber? Journal.
Balky Horses.
Among Uie suggestions said to be pub
lished by some anti-cruelty to animals
society are these : If the horse when he
bilks can have his attention diverted
then 1 is usually no trouble in starting
him. ThU may be done in various
ways, of which the following are a few
that have been employed: Take the
horse out of the shafts and turn him
around quite rapidly. This will make
him entirely dixsy and lead him to for-
Ct hat be does not wish to draw the
d. A stout twine twisted around.t he
foreleg has been used as a remedy with
good results. A string tied around the
ear has the same effect. We have seen
horses of the balkiest sort started in a
moment by putting a lamp of earth into
their mouths. Even a piece of sugar or
a handful of fresh grass will o divert
the attention of a bilker that be wi.l
often start off without trouble. Some
mild treatment like these that set the
animal to thinking of something foreim
to his work to vastly better than any
amount of whipping, and is much easier
of application.— Amorim* AvieutturiM.
M. Qeordigiana, of Florence, recently
painted, in a little Ins than two hours,
s fine portrait of a Philadelphia public
man. for which he received f6oa