FAKM, HARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Secdlnn UIUM lniU In the Fall.
Tlio practice of seeding iands to grans
in the fall is gaining ground in many sec
tions, especially among the New Eng
land farmers. Arguments in favor of
this custom are: The grass is not so
liable t<x be troubled with weeds; the
cool weather will incite a vigorous
growth and bring tho fields in better
condition for withstanding the winter
than that seeded in the spring, and lost,
but by no means least, it admits of the
removal of a crop the first year.
During August and the first half of
the month following. Northern cultiva
tors, who do not favor spring sowing,
will seed down lands from which have
i>een harvested small grains, potatoes,
fodder crop* and the like, and turn over
old-sod lands for this purpose. At the
South seeding of grass will t>e delayed
until September.
The quantity of seed will depend upon
the varieties of grasses to be grown and
the purposes for which they are de
signed. The extremes of very light
seeding, which produces large coarse
stalks, and very heavy seeding, which
makes exceedingly tine ones, are to be
avoided. Pastures call for a variety of
grasses, to be sown witli liberal hand.
In selecting a mixture for permanent
pasture, it should be borne in mind that
the land will be cropped continually
throughout the season, and therefore it
is imperative to have grasses which
ripen in succession that stock may be
supplied with a tender and succulent
growth. The varieties should also be
selected with a view of suiting the soil
for which they are designed.
Clover plays in pastures as in
meadows an important part; orchard
pass, which arrives early and remains
late, is also a valuable constituent. This
grass is highly esteemed, especially on
light dry soils; meadow fox-tail, with
its early and rapid growth, is another
valuable so't, and red-top is also
counted among desirable grasses for
permanent pastures. A mixture recom
mended by various agricultural authori
ties for permanent pastures is as fol
lows: Two pounds of meadow fox
tail, five pounds of white clover, six
pounds of orchard grass and four pounds
each of red clover, rough-stalked
meadow grass, rye grass, timothy, blue
grass, meadow fescue and red top. For
the South, where winter pasture is the
object, the following is suggested: One
bustiel each of meadow oat grass, or
chard grass and wild rye grass; and
four quarts each blue grass, red clover
and white clover. This pasture not to
be grazed later than June nor earlier
than Christmas.
A few grasses are suited to lioth
meadows and pastures, in illustration
of which may he cited orchard grass.
Pure meadow grasses are those with
tuberous roots, which store up in bulbs
one year the material of growth for the
next, and which require a certain time
for the maturing of the bulbs. Timothy
is a representative type of this class of
grasses, hence it is highly esteemed in
meadows. Other popular meadow
grasses are red clover and Hungarian
grass. To gain best results it Is im
portant that the grasses associated
nlossom about the same time, therefore
the wisdom of sowing early kinds in
one mowing field and late sorts in
another. Among early grasses suited
to meadows are orchard grass. Ken
tucky blue grass, meadow frscue and
tall oat grass, to which may be added
Italian rye grass if the land be moist
and rich. Timothy, red top and Rhode
Island bent grasses are numbered with
late kinds.
The importance of having the ground
thoroughly tilled and generously
manured previous to seeding it to grass,
either for pasture or meadow, cannot bo
too strongiy urged.—New York Worid.
Handle Hairy Stork Hindi).
Mr. Pareeil, in the report of the New
Jersey agricultural society, says: It is
important that dairy stock, from the
young calf to the old cow that is being
fed for beef, should bo handled and
treated kindly. If a calf is handled
roughly and becomes wild and vicious
thereby, when it becomes a cow you
may expect the same, but if handled
carefully and treated with kindness,
when grown up she will be mild and
gentle. It may not always be so, but in
general it is. There have always been
many cows spoiled by the person hav
ing the care of and milking them, by
whipping or frightening them when
ever they come in his way, or if when
milking, a cow hoists Iter fool or kicks
(which is generally caused by pain),
such a fellow stops milking and com
mences whipping, or worse, kicking
the cow, and she becomes enraged,
holds up her milk, kicks back, and is
finally ruined. Never whip a cow for
kicking, if she does kick the milk pail
out of your hand and sometimes upset
and knock you. hut be kind and gentle
with her, and milk her out with as lit
tleiexcitement as possible, and if she
Sts over her kicking propensity it will
by mild and not by harsh treatment.
Never whip a cow because she kicks
for it will do do good, but will do a
great deal of harm.
nltli Bints.
Invalids should keep the refreshments
covered in their sick room. The jellies,
blano-manges. and various liquids used
as cooling drinks arc more or less ab
sorbent, and easily take up the impuri
ties which float about a sick room. A
glass of milk left uncovered will soon
become tainted with any prevailing
odor, as can be proved by leaving it in
a room freshly painted. How import
ant then thai the poisons of sickness
should be carefully kept from all that is
to be eaten.
If a person swallows any poison
whatever, or has fallen into convulsions
from having overloaded the stomach,
an Instantaneous remedy most efficient
and applicable in a large number of
cases, is a heaping teaspoonful of com
mon salt, and as much ground mustard,
stirred rapidly in a teacuptul of water,
warm or cola, and swallowed instantly.
It is scarcely down before it begins to
come up, bringing with it the remain
ing contents of the stomach; and lest
there he any remnant of the poison,
however small, let the white of an egg
or a teaspoonful of strong ooffee be
swallowed as soon as the stomach is
quid, because these very common arti
cles nullify a large number of virulent
poisons.
"l an Dairy Parma.
A dairyman writes that he finds there
is no more profitable stock to keep on
a dairy farm than good pigs. He keeps
two pore Berkshire brood sows and one
boar, and raises four litters each year.
The litters average eight each, and the
pigs are sold when they are between
four and five months old to make room
for the new litters. They then weigh
from ISO to 190 pounds dressed, and sell
for seven cents a pound. Last year his
pigs brought him in over SBSO, nnd they
did not cost SSO outride of the Bkimmea
milk nnd the buttermilk whicii they
consumed. He bus tried several kinds,
Chester Whifee, Yorkshires, Suffolks,
grade Berkshires, and pure ones, and
finds tho pure Berkshire and the half
breed of this breed and Chester White
tho best feeders. The meat of these
two kinds will sell more readily than
any others, being lean and fat mixed,
while Essex, Sullolk and Yorkshire arc
all too fat for sale in tho summer timo.
He cures the hams nnd the sides for
bacon, and finds it is more profitable
than selling tiie carcasses, lie don't
think anything on a dairy farm pays
so well as good pigs properly managed.
■low lo Have C'hlckrna til to Kit.
I>on't imagine that it makes no dif
ference how your chickens have been
brought up. Don't suppose that they
will bo good anyhow. Chickens have
been carefully dressed, deliciously
stuffed, and yet they were not fit to eat.
There was a flavor about them that no
soda rinsings could elennse and no sea
soning conceal. Those were chickens
that had picked up tneir living around
pig styes and other unclean places A
chicken may be spoiled in dressing it to
cook. If killed with a full crop, and
allowed to lie for hours before it is
" drawn " or relieved of its internal
organs, it gets an unpleasant flavor.
Fowls should be caught and shut up
without food for twelve hours before
they are beheaded. Then the crop and
intestines will be empty, and the task of
picking nnd dressing it will be greatly
lessened. Old fowls are not necessarily
tough—only cook them long enough.
They ore more tender twenty-four hours
after they are killed than if eaten imme
diately.
TntiMplautinii by Nlulit I
A gentleman anxious to ascertain the
effect of transplan!ing by night instead
of by day, made an experiment, with
the following result: He transplanted
ten cherry trees while in bloom, com
mencing at four o'clock in the after
noon. Those transplanted during day
light shed their blossoms, producing
little or no fruit, while those trans
planted in the dark maintained their
condition fully. He did the same with
ten dwarf trees after the fruit was one
third grown. Those transplanted dur
ing the day shed their fruit; those trans
planted during the night perfected the
crop and showed no injury from having
been removed. With each of these
trees he removed some earth with the
roots. The incident is fully vouched
for. and if a few similar experiments
produce a like result, it will be a strong
argument to horticulturists, etc., to do
much work at night.
I'roiMuratlnu Itoacn.
It is always very desirable, with
those who have a very few choice roses,
to have some extra ones, either to give
a friend or to enlarge the flower garden.
To do this, select ripened shoots, well
branched. near the ground (preferring
those limbs that, if cut off, would make
a nice bushy plant), and with a sharp
knife hack or notch the under side,
so that, when bent, it will come in con
tact with the soil. These notchei
should be five or six in number, through
to the in-art or pitch. Now bend the
limb down, and with the knife slit the
limbs one and one-half inch up toward
the end of the top, just below the
notches, and be careful not to break the
limb. Cover two Inches in the sandy
soli and lay a brick or stone over it to
keep It down. Keep the soil moist,
and by spring the roots will have
formed, often four and five inches long,
whtn it can be easily removed. The
most difficult roses root easily this way.
—American Cultivator.
Becip—.
LKMON PUDDING —The peels of two
largo lemons grated on sugar, or boiled
ana beaten in a mortar, half a pound of
sugar, the juice of a large lemon, half a
pound of butter, ten eggs, leaving out
half of the whites. Beat all together,
and putting a puff caste in the bottom
of your plate, hake it.
GINORKBRBAD NUTS.— One quart of
molasses, three pints of fiour, one pint
corn meal, one pound of butter, half a
pound of ooartr brown sugar, an ounce
of allspice, a teaspoonful of cloves, a
teaspoonful of cinnamon, and two ounces
of ginger. I'ut the molasses In a mug.
then add to it the hotter and sugar;
have on the fire a saucepan of boiling
water, in which set the mug nnd its
contents. Let it stand until the butter
and sugar arc dissolved. In the mean
time mix the spices, all pounded, with
the flour and meal. Afterward knead
the whole together, and cut into cakes
not larger in circumference than a silver
halt dollar. Bake them about a quarter
of an hour, but be careful not to let
them burn.
ROLLS.— One cup of warm milk, one
teacup yeast, one and a half quarts
flour, when this sponge is light, work
in a well-beaten egg, two tablespoon
fuls of melted butter, one teaspoonful
of salt, half a teacuptul of soaa dis
solved in hot water, one tablespoontul
of white sugar, flour to make a solt
dough; let it rise four or five hours be
fore putting on the baking pan.
TOMATO JAM.—Take nice ripe toma
toes, pare and slice, and to one pound
of tomatoes after they are cooked down
considerable add one-half pound of
brown sugar, one teaspoonful of ground
cloves, two tablesooonluls of allspice,
one pint of strong vinegar, and stew two
hours. It is considerably better than
any catsup with corned beef.
Farming Under the Men.
Every wlierc upon the coasts of Eastern
New England may be fonnd, ten feet
below the water mark, the lichen known
as carrageen—the " Irish moss" of com
merce. It may be torn from the sunken
rocks anywhere, and yet the little sea
port of Scituate is almost the only place
in tbe country where it is gathered and
cured. This village is the great center
ot the moss bfisiness in the country, and
the entire Union draws Its supplies
from these beaches. Long rakos are
need in tilling this marine farm, and it
does not take long to fill the many
dories that await the lichen, torn from
its salty, rock bed. The husbands and
fathers gather the mom from the sea,
and the wives and daughters prepare it
for the market. Soak it in water, and
it will melt away to a jelly. 801 l It in
milk, and a delicious white and creamy
blane inange is the result. The annual
product is from ten to fifteen thousand
barrels, ami it brings $50,000 into Lbe
town, which sum is shared by 160 fami
lies. Its consumption In the mannfHc
tore of lager beer is very large, and the
entire beer of the country draws its sup
plies from Scituate beaches, as the im
portation frori Ireland has almost
ceased. It is not generally known that
the moss, as an article of food, is called
"sea mom farina."
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TIMELY TOPIC'S.
The rate of increase in population of
seventy-two cities in the United States
daring the decade Is 34.H0 rer cent.
Denver shows the maximum rate—ol4
per cent. The gnin in San Francisco is
nearly half as much ns that of Brook
lyn, nnd that of New York is 0,1)10
more than the whole population of San
Francisco. The following is a table
showing absolute gains in population:
Now York, '234,200; Philadelphia, 107,-
07b; Brooklyn, 190,604: Chicago, 170.-
083; St. Ixmis, 04,136: Boston, 101.474;
Baltimore, 00,044; Cincinnati, 80,014;
San Francisco, 77,877; Pittsburg, 98,030.
Total, 1,100,851.
The Electrician says that the life of a
submarine telegraph cable is from ten
to twelve years. If a cable breaks in
deep water after it is ten years old, it
cannot he lifted for repairs, as It will
break of its own weight, nnd cable com
panies are compelled to put aside a large
reserve fund in order that they may be
prepared to replace their cables every
ten years. The action of the sea eats
the iron away completely, and it crum
bles to dust, while the core of the cable
may be perfect. The breakages of cables
are very costly, and it is a very difficult
matter to repair them in compaison
with a land line. A ship has to be
chartered at SSOO a day for two or three
weeks in fixing the locality and in
avoiding rough weather. One brenk in
tho direct cable cost SIOO,OOO.
"An Heiress Sent to Prison "is the
hi ad line of a paragraph in an English
journal, which tells how, at Durham,
England, Alice Purvis Buddie, aged
nineteen years, pleaded guilty to obtain
ing three gold Albert chnins by false
pretenses; how her counsel, in de
fense, informed the court that the pris
oner was well connected, and on com
ing of age would be heiress to a consid
erable amount of property; how he
urged in mitigation of sentence that she
had been seized with a sudden tit of
kleptomania, and how the court could
not overlook the fact that the fraud had
been carried out, nnd notwithstanding
ttie prisoner's position, ordered her im
prisonment for three months with bard
labor.
The terrible explosion in South Wales,
by which at least 118 lives were lost,
adds another to that long line of disas
ters which the inventive genius of Davy |
and Stephenson has been powerless to
avert. In horror this colliery accident
approaches nearly to that of Lundhlll, 1
where, in 1857, 180 miners perished, or
to the calamity at Hartley, when 808
men were buried alive by the destruc
tion of the shaft. The responsibility in
this instance may never be known, but
there is a certain timeliness in tho news
that the British employers and work- j
people linve come to terms in regard to :
the bill to determine the degree of lia-|
bility in the event of accidents. In ac
cordance with this agreement a system j
of insurance may be established by em
ployers which will prove of mutual ad
vantage to them and the laborers
Agricultural statistics show that
in the last fifteen years the production !
of wheal and barley in the United States j
tins doubled; that of corn, cotton and
tobacco more than doubled; potatoes]
nearly doubled; hay Increased more
than one-third and oats about 140,00n,-
000 bushels. The vast increase in
cereals is mainly dne to the rapid devei-1
opnient of the Western and Nortliwes- i
tern States. During the present gener
ation the corn-center has been transfer
red from the South to the West, and
the wheat-center from the Middle States
to the far West. From PCOto 1878 the
production of tobacco increased 100.000-1
000 pounds, mainly in the South; while
Texas and Arkansas have been the chief
contributors to the increase of two and
a quarter million pounds oi cotton in
the same time. In the former 157,000,-
000 were raised in 1870. and 500,000.000
in 1878; in the latter 118.000,000 pounds
in '7O, and 318,000,000 j n "7a.
A fmit-picker is the latesl invention.
It is simply a ring or collar of sheet
metal tour or five inches high and the
same in diameter, with the upper por
tion formed into half a dozen points
like a crown, each point being covered
witli an indiarubbcrdiskorahield toprc
veut the fruit from injury by ontact.
A socket in the side receives n light
pole of any required length, and from
the bottom of the ring or crown extends
a light hose of cotton drilling, or other
light material, to convey the trait down
to the hand of the operator, or into a
basket, wagon, or wherever desired.
Standing on the ground the operator
reaches for the fruit, the points of the
crown passing on each side of the stem,
and a light upward shove easily de
taches the fruit and jt drops down
through the crown and hose. The
operator can hold the pole in one hand
and the hose in the other, or the hone
can be hooked to a small, movable
bracket placed on the pole for that pur
pose, thus allowing of handling the pole
with both hands, or an assistant can
manage the hose.
Ever since the mutiny of 1857 the peo
ple of British India have been disarmed,
though generally in villages bordering
upon a forest one or two inhabitants are
licensed to carry a matchlock, which,
although useful in driving off hogs, is of
small value in tiger slaving. Tbia,
therefore, becomes especially the busi
ness of the magistrate of the district.
Conseauently, when a tiger appears in
the neighborhood, one or two officials
pitch their camp in his neighborhood,
but are often thwarted for weeks by his
canning, and sometimes do not get him
at all. A man-eating tiger Is abnor
mally suspicious, and is off at the slight
est alarm. When once a tiger has be
come a man-eater he seems to care only
for man, and perhaps on this account
usually comes off rather short of food,
and wnen killed seldom presents a pros
perous appearance. Not one tiger in n
hundred, however, is a man-eater; but
once let one of this sort get near a vil
lage. and it has often happened that the
whole of the inhabitants will, after re
peated losses, in despair, move en rrwuse
to a neighboring town for safety. This
has frequently happened in Central In
dia, bat is now rare.
A difference of opinion exists among
European engineers in regard to the
practicability of establishing a sea, as
now proposed, in the great Sahara, the
chief problem being, it would seem, bow
to keep it up. It is argued that, sup
posing the sea to be created by means of
a canal, it will lose an enormous quan
tity of water by evaporation every day,
without the introduction of an equal
volume of fresh water. Tho water
evaporated being replaced by a supply
coming through the canal, the whole
body will Boon reach the maximum of
■Munition; and thus, the evaporation
still continuing, a deposit of salt will be
formed which, in time, must fill up the
whole space of the interior sea—the
salinity of the water being such that no
animal life would be possible in it, and
the ultimate result being simply the ac
cumulation of an immense deposit ot
salt. On the other iiand, the projectors
of the enterprise claim that the presence
of this water, and its evaporation, must
produce copious rains, which will in
large measure return into the sea, and
thus not only accomplish the object re
ferred to, hut also convert a sterile waste
into a fertile country.
William J. Carlin, an unassuming
young man, ol Philadelphia, has fallen
heir to a fortune of $4,000,000 left by an
uncle in Australia. When he received
a letter front a Ixmdon solicitor setting
forth the demise of his uncle, and re
questing him to prove his identity and
thus his claim _to the inheritance, he
went home to his mother. At first she
was inclined to treat the matter as a
hoax, but afterward recalling references
to a brother which her husband once
made during iiis lifetime, she advised
the son to answer the letter. The result
has been a continued correspondence
and the probable settlement of the prop
erty upon the heir shortly. It appears
that the deceased left his home in Kng
land when lie was twenty years of age,
and was supposed to have gone to China
on a merchantman, shipping as a com
mon sailor Nothing was heard of him
afterward, and lie was given up as dead.
About fifteen years aao a letter was re
ceived from him by the father of the
boy who now comes into possession of
his estate. That was the last heard of
him until the recent advices of his
death.
Ilrlek Tes.
In a recent report on the trade of Kin
Kiang, China, Borne interesting facts are
given in regard to the manufacture of
and traffic in a product known as " brick
tea." The quantity of this kind of tea
exported from Kin Kiang during one
year has amounted to W 1,333 pounds.
There are three kindH of brick tea made.
The first, or largest kind, is s cake of
coarse green tea, which weighs, when
thoroughly dried, about three and one
half pounifs, and is about one foot long
by seven inches wide. These cakes are
made in a wooden mold while wet, and
compressed by a lever press and after
ward dried. This is all done by band
labor, and affords employment to a large
number of coolies. When dried, each
cake is wrapped in paper and packed in
strong baskets, each containing thirty
six citkes. The cost of this tea per bas
ket is about s'>.7s, and the annual ex
portation amounts to from 15,000 to
90,000 baskets. The tea is sent Ironi
Kin Kiang to Tientsin, from whence it
goes overland through Mongolia for
consumption among the inhabitants ol ;
West and Northwest Siberia, in the
province of Kazan, on tiie Volga, and
by the Kirghis and other Scutas tribes.
A cake of tea of the same form, but of a
much commoner quality, costing about
$5.25, made by the Chinese at Yang-lon
tung, iti Hunch, is largely consumed in
Mongolia. There being no copper cur
rency in that country the Chinese bank
ers in Mongolia keep stores of this brick
t*a and issue it as a monetary medium.
The second kind of brick tea is ol s
finer quality, each cake weighing one
and one-half pound, and being eight and
one-quarter inches long by five and one
quarter inches wide. It is parked in
basket*,each containing eighty or ninety,
and costs about $M.25 per basket. This
kind is consumed in West and South
west Siberia, at Kazan, and on the
Araeor.
The third kind of brick tea is made of
black tea (lust, each cake weighing tivo
and one-quarter pounds, and being eight
and one-hnll inches long by six inches
wide. It is packed in baskets contain
ing sixty-lour rakes each, and costs
$H per basket. It is consumed through
out Siberia and in Eastern European
Russia by the peasantry. It is made
into rakes at Foochow, Kin Kang and
llangkow. The yearly exportation from
the tim e places is about 100.000 baskets
it is stated that at Hangkow there are
now four brick tea factories, two of
which employ steam power. The em
ployment of steam instead of hand
presses will ultimately cheapen the cost
of production, and at the same time a
more satisfactory article will be placed
op the market. Brick tea made in the
old manner was not pressed sufficiently
hard to enable It to successfully resist
the rough treatment it received en route
and frequently reached it* destination
in a broken and crumbling condition,
which detracted from it* value, buyers
laying considerable stress on it* hard
nes* and perfection.
Story of a Wonderful Cure.
The papers have been commenting on
the " summer stories " published in dif
ferent parts of the country, but the fol
lowing from the Catholic Mirror, pub
lished at Baltimore, ec.ipses anything
that has vet appeared: Mr. James Pat
terson, of tliis city, has a little daughter
Katie, who is now nearly ten years old.
Some five years ago she began to have a
slight occasional pain in one ot her
knees, which became a trifle enlarged,
and her parent* took her to one of the
leading physicians of Baltimore, who
made light of the trouble, and rave
some medicines that did the child no
good. The enlargement increased, and
when the father took her to another
doctor, who also stands high in hi* pro
fession, he pronounced it a case of white
swelling, and he treated her for it. But
he did not succeed in curing her.
Finally, she was placed in the care of an
eminent surgeon, who has sln<w, died.
He, too, failed. The swelling re
mained. and the tendons of the leg
got drawn up so that the child
could not put her foot down |flag
on the ground. Her father had great
faith in the apparitions at Knock. He
wrote to Ireland tos3me friends for some
of the mortar from the chapel there, but
before it arrived an aonukintance gave
him about a tablespoonlul of waterflio
which some of the mortar had been
dissolved. That was about two months
ago- The same evening he took Uie
child in his lap, rubbed some of the
water on her knee in the sign of the
cross, saying some prayers at the same
time, and then gave her the rest of the
water to drink.. He then went to his
work a* a watchman, and when he re
turned home the next morning lie was
met by his daughter, who greeted him
with the words: "Papa, my knee is as
well as ever it was." And sure enough
the swelling had disappeared, the sinews
had grown toft, and the little girl could
walk as well with one foot as with the
other. The cure is perfect. Since that
day there has been no pain, and it Is
now impossible to tell which kr.ee was
affected.
Mark Twain on the Alp*.
Mark Twain get* off the following in
hi* new book. "A Tramp Abroad
We were at the Rigi-Kulm hotel on
the Alp*. It wbh night. We waited to
see the sun rise in the morning. We
curled op in the clammy bed* and went
to sleep without rocking. We were #o
sodden with fatigue that we never
stirred nor turned over till the booming
blast of the Alpine horn aroused us. It
ninv well be imagined that we did not
lose anytime. We snatchcd|jor a few
odds and ends of clothing, oocooned our
selves in the proper red blankets, and
plunged along the hails and out into the
whistling wind bareheaded. We saw a
tall wooden scaffolding on the very peak
of the summit, a hundred yards away,
and made for it. We rushed up the
stairs to the top of this scaffolding, and
stood there above the vast out-lying
world, with hair flying and ruddy blank
ets swaying and cracking in the ficroe
breezes.
"Fifteen minutes too late, at last!"
said Harris, in a vexed voice. "The
sun is clear above the horizon."
"No matter," I said, "it is a most
magnificent spectacle, and we wi'.l see
it do the rest of its rising, anyway."
In a moment we were deeply ab
sorbed in the marvel before us, dead to
everything else. The great cloud-barred
disk of the sun stood just above a limit
less expanse of tossing white-caps, so to
speak—a billowy chaos of massymoun-
Jain domes and peaks draped in imper
ishable snow, and flooded with an
opaline glory of changing and dissolving
splendors, while through rift* in a black
cloud-bank above the sun radiating
anccs of diamond .lust shot to the
zenith. Thccloven valleys of the lower
world swam in a tinted mist whicu
veiled the ruggednessof their cragß, and
ribs, and ragged forests, and turned all
the forbidding region into a soft, and
rich, and sensuous paradise.
We could not speak. We could liardly
breathe. We could only gaze in drunken
pes toe y and drink it in. Presently Har
ris exclaimed: "Why, it's going
down!"
Perfectly true. We had missed the
morning horn-blow, and slept all day.
This is certainly very amusing,
though tolerably " steep," but the per
formance the next morning got away
with it by a large majority. Thus:
The next morning, liowcver, we were
up before daylight. Fully clothed and
wrapped in blanket* we Puddled our
selves up to the window with lighted
pipes and fell into a chat, while we
waited in exceeding comfort to see how
an Alpine sunrise wn* going to look by
eandle light. By-ana-byt- a delicate,
spiritual sort of effulgence spread itself
by imperceptible degrees over the lofti
est altitudes of the snowy wastes—but
there the effort seemed to stop. I said,
presently:
"There is a hitch about this sunrise
somewhere. It doesn't seem to go.
What do you reckon is the matter with
it f
"I don't know It appeaTß to hang
Ore somewhere. I never saw a sunrise
act like that before. Can it be that the
hotel is playing anything on us F"
" Of course not. The hotel has merely
a property interest in the sun. and b as
nothing to do with the management of it.
It is a precarious kind of property, too;
a succession of total eclipses would prob
ably ruin this tavern. Now, what can
be the matter with this sunrise P"
Harris jumped up and said. " I've
got it! I know what's the matter with
it ! We've been looking at the place
where the sun set last night I"
It was " perfectly true," and when
they turned around to look the other
way they were too late, the sun was
already up.
Value of s Doctor's Service*.
I was called at midnight to visit a
gentleman who had just returned from
a late dinner, where he had succeeded
by hasty eating in lodging a large fish
bone in his throat. I provided myself
with an emetic, a pair of (Ptophagus
forceps and other paraphernalia de
signed to give him relief, and hurriedly
repaired to his room. I found him nac
ing up and down the floor with a look
of intense distress and anxiety, occa
sionally running his fingers down his
throat and gagging. He told me in tones
of despair that he thought it was all up
with him. but begged me, if the least
glimmer of hope remained, to proceed
at once in my effort* to relieve him. He
extravagantly declared,in the geocroeity
of spirit begot by the vividness of his
fears, that lie would give $1,000,000 to
have that fishbone removed. I assured
him that such cases were frequent, and or
dinarily not attended with much danger,
before proceeding to carry out measures
for relief. His fears underwent some
diminution on the strength of this, and
he then declared that $50,000 would no
more than repay the skill and art re
quired to extricate the unwelcome in
truder. I smiled, and proceeded to in
troduce the forceps, but after several
attempt* failed to grasp the bone. His
fears again induced him to mention a
fabulous sum as the aired of the service
that would expel the object of his ter
rors. I then gave him the emetic, it*
depressing effect causing hi* generosity
to rise again, barometric-like, to \ very
high pressure. In a little while the
emetic disburdened him of the greater
part of his dinner, and with it up came
the fishbone. He gave a sigh and look
ol relief, and, solemnly looking toward
me, said," Doctor, 1 wouldn't nave that
thing in my throat again lor $5!"
fee eventually resolved Itself into the
"valuable experience" that the occa
sion afforded me.—New York Medical
Record.
A Mquaw It anted Alive.
The Eureka (Nev.) Sentinel says:
From a party just in from Prospect
mountain we lean: that one week ago
last Saturday, late at night, there was s
terrible din in the vicinity ol the Idaho
mine, occasioned by the whooping, yell
ing, dancing savages. Mr. Thomas,
foreman of the Idaho, concluded it was
a fandango, as did others who heard the
racket and saw the flames. The other
day Mr. Thomas happened to pass the
spot where the remnants of the Are were
still smoking and fragments of the
barbecue were scattered around. A
close inspection showed that the fire had
been built to "wipe out" a squaw. The
skull, fragment* of hones and a brum
finger-ring were picked up. Mr. H.
Joseph now has the ring, a cheap affair,
such as is often Worn by the squaws
about these parts. It is smoked up, and
bears evidence of having been subjected
to great heat. It Is getting to be a seri
ous matter for dusky maidens In these
parts to flirt with white trash, and the
Shoshone lords propose to squelch that
business as in days gone by-by ere mat;
ing th<m on the spot.
i IIS : - -J., i
Earthquakes at Lusea.
.!f°*" t *rUqMhreat lareoa make
the following account timely: ta|j
is one of tbe Philippine lilandu, more
than 1,200 in number, with an area of
about 150,000 square miles, where na
'®,e ls more or lees in convul
sion. Their population is some 4,500,-
000, three-fourth* of whom turn
to Spain, while the reel are ruled by iu
dcpmdcnt native princes. The islands,
mostly mere rocks, and constantly of no
im nortanee, form a group of the Indian
or Eastern archipelago. Forty of them
are of considerable siae, and the princi
pal of these arc Luzon, Mindanao, Mln
doro, I'anny, Negros, Zebu. Bohol.
I.eyte, Hamar, Masbate and Palawan.
Manila, whose inhabitants are reported
to have fled in terror to the fields, is the
capital of Luzon, and of all the Philip
pines. The destruction of property and
'ile from physical commotions is com
mon there, and has been for generations-
In recent times there have been variou*
calamities. In 1H24 an earthquake de
stroyed hundreds of buildings, the ship
ping in the harbor, and thousands of
lives. In IW>3 the cathedra] and all the
churches were thrown down, with any
number of houses, and 4,000 or 5,000
persons were killed. Five year* since a
violent hurricane prostrated nearly 5,000
dwellings, and caused the death of sev
eral hundred inhabitants. People who
love excitement are plentifully gratified
there, as there is always movement in
Zinila, generally of the earth. Tbe
groun is occupied by two distinct races,
the Malayan and negrilo, or Oriental
negro, the latter resembling the Alfoors
of the interior of Papua; and, as they
live in the mountains, they are thought
to be aborigines, driven back by the
former race The Malays, divided into
the Tagals and Bisayers, dwell in
cities and on cultivated lowlands, and
are either Roman Catholics (converts)
or Mohammedans. The negrikis are
many of them idolaters, though mostof
them are nomadic, and without any
creed. The Mestizos, mainly the pro
duct of Chinese fathers and native
mothers, are an important part of the
population, monopolizing by their en
ergy and industry most of the trade.
The Chinese proper follow various call
ings, snd generally prosper, returning
home when they have made money, and
never taking their wives with them,
which is the chief cause of the Mestizos.
There arc many large and important
cities in the group, Manila, the largest,
having 240,000 people. The islands were
discovered (1521) |by Magellan, who,
after visiting Mindanao, sailed to Zebu,
where, siding with the native king in a
war, be was mortally wounded, and
died at Mitotan. Spain sent, some year*
later, an expedition thither, under Vil
la boa, who named tbe islands after tbe
Prince of Asturias. subsequently Philip
11. The sole ports in ttie archipelago
ofen to foreign vessels are Manila, Zebu.
Loilo and Sual, the narrowness of Spain
refusing to yield to the modern progres
sive spirit.
The Rising (feneration.
We don't believe that Edisoo's boy
teased his dad to invent some way for a
hd to crawl under a circus tent without
getting kicked.
The small boy's digestive apparatus is
undoubtedly the nearest approach to
perpetual motion that tbe world has yet
known.
The immense number of fish worms
consumed by small boys in tbe transac
tion of business on Saturdays does not
seem to have any effect upon tbe genera)
stock.
A person is expected to be thankful
because be enjoys good health. Only a
small hoy tan enjoy bad health, and
then it must only be bad enough to keep
him out of school.
A Connecticut man invented a
dentist's chair that could be adjusted to
4.G91 different positions, and a boy, wig
occupied it one day, in five minutes
broke it in trying to get himself into a
satisfactory position.
He was watching his neighbor's boy
climb a tree, and he had a look of pain
ful anxiety on bis countenance. " Are
Sou afraid the lad will lad and break
is neck P" was asked him. " No," be
replied, " I'm deucedly afraid he wont." "
Mr. P. T. Harnura enjovs a circus
performance as much, watches the feats
as intently, laughs at the clown as
heartily, and applauds as vigorously as
a boy. But when it comes to crawling
under the canvas without getting caught
the boy can give him points.
A boy can imagine almost anything,
lie can tug an old shotgun about all day
without firing at a living thing, and be
under the impression that he is havinga
howling good time; bat ail attempts to
indue* a boy to imagine that he is kill
ing Indians when he is sawing wood
have proved futile.
You see that boy P How timidly be
approaches every dark spot as be hur
ries through the night! bow warily be
watches every tree-box! bow he jumps
aside at tbe slightest rustle! bow tretnb>
ingly he meets every wayfarer! Well,
that is the same boy who is just dying
to go out West sad slaughter the pesky
redskins. You wouldn t think so, to
see him now; now would youP
A fond mother wants to learn some
way to tell how ber son will turn out.
That's easily done. If he's wanted to
go out and weed the garden, he will tarn
out slowly and reluctantly and be two
hours dressing. If he's called out to see
a circus procession go by be'll probably
turn out quick and hurt himself trying
to come downstairs and put a boot on
at tbe same time.
A Bey s Ml range Pet.
Not long ago. near the Temescal tin
fine*, in this county, say* a paper
published in San Bernardino, CaL,
lived a man named William Jenkins.
He had a small boy between two and
three years old. It was observed for
some time that this child spent the
larger oart of his time at play near n
Cile of rocks some distance from the
oust. Tbe father took occasion one
day to follow bis liule boy soon after be
had gone to his usual place of resort,
when, to hie horror, be discovered n
large rattlesnake coiled about tbe child,
who was feeding the poisonous reptile
from his hand. Tbe father, sunns:
paralysed with fear, secured s stick,
and, watching his opportunity, threw
t be serpent from the child and ki lied it.
The boy was overcome with grief at tbe
death of his pet, and would not be com
> for Led for a long time. Tbe snake was
of the red variety, and shout six fret in
length.
; lion, and dom nut