not Tot.
Tie dura glide by on winged leet,
A river flowing broad and fleet;
Tby face Irom mine ia turned awmy,
It will not be 80, dear, al way,
Thy heart would lain its love iorgel,
It oannot yet, dear love, not yet.
1 stand outaide a iaat-cloeed door,
Againat ine closed toreverwore;
Yet parts of ua neither bolt nor bar,
Who are ao near and yet ao tar,
Oh heart that would ita love lorget
And oannot yet, dear love, not yet T
1 hear thy voice, ao aolt and low,
And silent tears unbidden flow;
While yet ita tnuaio fllla the air,
I pass and breathe a silent prayer.
My heart would fain ita lovo lorget
And oannot, dear love, not yet.
One step—and Iby thee could stand,
And touch thy doar tamiliar hand;
One look—and I upon thy breast
Would lean, and weary, find my rest.
I'oor heart that lain would love lorget
And cannot yet, dear love, not yet.
The word—and 1^ might roise'ag&in
My lace to thine, and meet thy gaze;
And with no word thy heart should read,
That love is all a woman's need.
Doar heart, wouldst thou thy love lorget?
Thou canst not yet, dear love, not yet.
U e'er thy soul hath need ol mine,
If e'er the truth thou canst divine,
Seas will not part, nor bolt nor bar,
We shall be near, who now are tar.
True hearts that lain would love lorget
And cannot yet, dear love, not yet.
—Boston Tranterxpt.
After Twenty Years.
She was a pretty girl, was Jemima
petite—that's what I like—bright eyes,
luxuriant locks, a white and pink and
white complexion, plump and compact.
She was always in good humor, and we
soon became the very best of friends
nay, more—for who could help being
afiectionate toward her? Everybody
loved her. When the boatman cal.ed
her "a sweet little craft," they ex
pressed, though vulgarly, the sentiment
of my own heart.
I was in love with "Jemima, and
Jemima—well, Jemima was not indif
ferent to me. I had not nerve to ask
her. in so many words, would she ac
cept my hand and name? I spoilt a
quire of paper in an effort to utter my
thoughts in a letter; so at last, on her
birthday, the fifteenth of May, I ven
tured to present her with an elegant
bound book, and on alittle[slip ol paper
inside 1 wrote:
DEAR JEMIMA— By the acceptance of
this trifling gift let me know you accept
the giver.
ALFRED BARNSTABLE DACGHTT.
I flattered myself it was rather a
plucky thing to do.'and it answered ad
mirably.
Next time I saw her she was all of a
glow, and when we were alone together,
and 1 was standing rather near her, and
said:
" You received my humble offering!"
■he burst into a flood ol tears, put her
arms round jny neck and spoilt my shirt
front.
Then, when she recovered a little (do
yon believe in Niobe? I don't) she said:
u Have yon asked pa?"
Of course I responded I had not.
•' Then do at once," she said; " for
goodness gracious me, if he was to find
us out in anything sly, and trying to
keep it from him.it would be awful!"
It is a good deal worse asking the gov
ernor than asking the girl, especially
guch a peppery old party as Captain
Wattleborough: however, I screwed
myself up, and when Jemima was down
•bout the playing on our organ,
and I knew he would be making his
evening toilst by putting on a pilot coat.
I ventured to look in upon bim. After a
few words on ordinary topics such as
how were we both, how was the
weather, I hemmed] and began: " Cap
tain I am ambitious."
" Right, boy—climb as high as you
•an."
" Can't encourage me too much, cap
tain ; I'm ambitious in your direction."
" Boy, you are not going to sea?"
" No, captain—l—l—l—l aspire to the
honor of being your son-in-law!"
The captain looked niefu.l in the face,
then said:
" Have you money P"
Of course I hadn't, and he told me to
go and get it before \enturing to aspire
to the hand of Jemima.
" But, my dear captain"—l ventured
to expostulate.
" Get off my door-step!"
"Let me speak for a moment to Je
mima."
" Get off my door-step 1"
He accompanied this last instruction
by a thrust which sent me staggering
into the street.
My affair with Jemima was at an end.
The captain would not listen to reason
—that is, he would not listen to me.
▲ll the letters I wrote to Jemima were
sent back to me. I grew weary, packed
up and packed off, with a letter of in
troduction to a firm in China. Well
the fortune was not so easy to make,
hat at the expiration of twenty years I
began to think it sufficiently large to
warrant my return to "the girl I left
behind me." I heard very little from
home. Father and mother were still
alive, bat the captain was dead. They
had carried him through the cornfields
one summer's day to the ; little church
yard and buried him there.
Jemima, I understood, lived in the
emotion, all the tenderness for the dear
girl I had left behind me rapidly re
viving—off I went, carpet-bag and
everything, just as I was, to have the
old vows renewed and sealed in the
usual manner.
A maiden with a freckled face, much
sunburned, opened the door. Could I
sec Miss Wattleborough P The maiden
did not reply, but, leaving me where I
was, retired to the remote back settle
ments. Thence I heard the following
dialogue:
"Missus !"
" Well, what is it P"
"Somebody wants you."
" Who is it P"
" A iat old man, with a bag."
I could have shaken the girl into
jelly.
There was further talk in a smothered
whisper, and then the girl returned,
and, motioning me with her finger,
said:
"Come in here," and showed me into
the parlor.
The old parlor, just as I had left it,
neat and trim, the old harpsichord, the
Id punch-bo wl; but some new things—
canary in a cage at the window, a
black long-legged cat ensconced upon a
chair.
The next minute a lady entered.
Could it beP No, impossible—this pale
faced, sober-visaged lady, with stiff
curls, and no more figure than a clock
ease—could this be my Jemima?
Where was the old luster of the eyes—
where the old bloom upon the cheeks—
where the lips that were ruddier than
the cherry P She lifted up both hands
when she saw me.
" Alfred 1"
"Jemima!"
We shook hands; after a moment's
hesitation we went further—more in ac
cordance with old times.
My heart sank withinj me, however,
as I sat down opposite to her, and
thought of what she was. She looked
at me very steadily, and I thought I de
tected disappointment in her glance.
"We are both changed, Jemima."
" You are very much altered," she
asid.
"You arc different," I responded.
" Do you think so?"
"Think so? Why, Jemima, there can't
be two opinions about it."
"It is not generally observed; but
you—"
" Well my dear?"
" You have grown ridiculously stout,
and sou are bald-headed."
"You are not stout, my dear; but
your hair is not quite what it was."
" People say they see no change in me
—that I preserveimy childish appear
ance wonderfully.
"Humph!"
Our interview was not altogether
agreeable. When we parted we con
ented ourselves with shaking hands.
That afternoon I wrote to her, sug
gesting that we did not renew our old
engagement.
That afternoon she wrote a note, sug
gesting the very same idea to me. Our
cross letters crossed.
We were to be friends, nothing more.
But that could not last. I was the
first to give in. I called upon her, and
said a good deal, and she cried, and then
we said why notP and then she put her
head upon my breast and spoiled my
shirt front as she had done before.
" You are not so very fat," she sa d
laughing.
"You are not so very lean," I said,
laughing atso.
" You can wear a scxlpb," said she.
" You can dye." I responded.
So we both laughed again, and it'was
all settled. We were settled, and here
we are out of the fog, and very much at
your service—the happiest couple in our
town.
RobinMn Crusoe's Island.
Robinson Crusoe's Island is to-day a
little paradise. Lord planted there, on
one oi his voyages, apples, peaches,
gnii-es, plums, strawberries and several
kinds ol vegetables. The number of the
latter was increased by a Scotchman,
David Douglass, who landed on the
island in lfc*2s. He was not a little
astonished to find a hermit there, who
bad been on'the island five years. On
the second day he was not a little sur
prised to see a man suddenly emerge
from a clump of bushes and npproach
him. He looked upon him as Crusoe's
successor, although he did not occupy
the historical cave, havine built himself
a hut of stones and sods, roofing it with
the straw of wild oats. As cooking
utensils, he possessed only a single iron
pot. the bottom of which, one unfortu
nate day, had fallen out. The damage
he had, however, had the ingenuity to
repair with a wooden bottcm; but now
he was compelled to place his pot in
the grouu 1 and build a fire around it.
This man's name was William Clark,
and he cttne from London. He had a
few books, and among them there was
a copy of hebinson Crusoe's adventures
and of Ccwper's poems. He called
Douglass' attention especially to the
well-known poem beginning:
" I'm monarch ol all I survey,
My right * there's none to dispnto," etc.
Nevertheless, he did not seem to be
happy. There was one wish, his great
est, he could not gratify—he could get
no roast beef I At present this island is
in possession of a colony of Germans.
Sixty or seventy of our countrymen,
under the leadership of an engineer
named Robert Wehrhahn, settled there
in 18A3. Th*y describe tho island as
being in the highest degree salubrious
and fruitful. On their arrival they
found large flocks of goats, about thirty
half-wild horses, and some sixty asses.
They brought with them oowt, hogs
farming utensils, small boats, and flah-
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Army Worm.
It may be eomo satisfaction, says the
Agriculturist, to those who have suf
fered from the visitation of the army
worm, to know that two successive
army worm years have never been
known in any one locality, and it is not
thought that Buch can occur. They are
with us more or less every year, but it
is only when conditions favor an un
usually abundant crop of them that they
become troublesome. It has been ob
served that the worm usually appears in
wet springs that have been preceded by
one or more very dry years. As to the
time of their appearing, that ; s, in de
structive force, it is found in the differ
ent localities to correspond very closely
with the period at which the wheat is
in " the milk."
Itoot Crops.
Some persons have the idea that it is al
ways heat to leave rotatoes in the ground
till just before it freezes up for the win
ter. Such, however, is not the ease.
Thi best time to dig them is when the
tops are perfectly dead; left long in the
ground after this they become the prey
of worms and other insects, and it is
seldom that they have so smooth an
[ aspect as immediately after they become
ripe. Mangels, sugar beets, carrots
parsnips and turnips arc growing faster
now than during any part of the season.
Mangels and sugar beets should
be removed before any severe
frosts. When they are taken frcm the
ground either wring off the leaves with
the hand, or if they are cut off with a
knife avoid cutting the crown, as this
will cause them to bleed and soon decay.
Lay them in piles on the ground and
cover them with litter or their own
leaves, and let them stay a few days be
fore storing away for the winter. After
the beets and mangels have been taken
care of then dig the carrots and treat
them in the same way. Parsnips may
left in the ground all winter or dug when
the carrots are, at the pleasure of the
grower. Turnips may be left just before
the ground freezes up, and should a fall
of snow come before they are taken from
the ground, it will not hurt them should
the snow remain all winter. Mangel
and beet leaves make plenty of milk,
but be careful about feeding carrot-tops;
these will give a bitter taste both to
milk and butter, and turnip leaves will
flavor milk before the roots will. —
American Cultivator.
Tonic* for I'owli,
The best tonic is iron, a few drops of
the tincture being mixed with the drink
ing water, or half a dozen rusty nails
being thrown to the bottom of the
drinking vessel.
Charcoal (and you can economically
use the little bits of charred wood that re
main after every wood fire) is a good puri
fier of the digestive organs, as it absorbs
fetid matter. It stimulates digestion.
Furnish .it in small pieces, about the
size of the grains of corn; they will
swallow it when they need it, particu
larly if some in a powdered state has
been previously added to their soft food
to teach them.
Sulphur is a very valuable drug to
the poulterer, but should be used care
fully in case of young chicks, as many
were reported killed by its use exter
nally, and apparently more often when
it is used with lard. The fine powder
has caused blindness by getting into the
chick's eyes. The flour of sulphur is
often contaminated with the oil o
vitriol. To get this out wash your sul
phur in hot water, which does not dis
solve the sulpur. To apply it to small
chickens, sprinkle it from a dredging
box and keep the chickens out of the
wet [for the next day. Persian insect
powder is safer, however.
Chicken powder.—Four ounces each
of copperas, cayenne, sulphur and rosin;
powder all and mix; two .spoonfuls for
each dozen of fowls several times
weekly.
Lime-water.—Four ounces of lime and
one of water; slack the lime with a little
of the water and pour on the rest. Cover
and set aside for three hours, then pour
off the clear liquid from the top and
use the lime that is left when wanted.—
American Poultry Yard.
■ 111111.
STEAMED INDIA* CAKE.— Three cups
of buttermilk, three cups of sweet milk,
three cups of meal, two cups of flour,
one U'aspoonful of salt, two teaspoonfuls
of soda; put in a greased pan and steam
three hours.
BUTTERED APPI.ES.— PeeI a dozen ap
ples, first taking out the cores with a tin
scoop. Butler the bottom of a nappy or
tin dish thickly, then put the apples into
it. Fill up the cores with powdered
sugar. Sift powdered cinnamon or
grated lemon peels. Pour a little melted
butter over them, and bake twenty min
utes. Berve with cream sauce.
MACARONI PlE.— lngredients: Any
cold fish, macaroni, milk, butter, grated
cheese, bread crumbs and caymne.
Mode: 801 l some macaroni very tender
in milk, about twice as much as there is
oold fish, which should be broken into
small pieces; mix with it the grated
cheese and cayenne; put it into a flat
dish with a few bread crumbs and some
pieces of butter at the top, and bake a
light nice brown
CHOCOLATE PUDDINO.- —Melt two
ounces of butter, mix in two ounces of
floor, simmer to a soft paste in half a
pint of good milk, sweeten with two
ounces of sugar, and flavor with two
ounces of chocolate. When cool, stir
in the yolks of four eggs well beaten and
the whites beaten to a snow; put into a
battered moid immediately; put the
mold in a pan hall fall of hot water, set
In the oven and bake one hoar. Serve
withsaaoe.
now to Toll • Wood Milch Cow.
The signs of & good milcb cow are
mnny, and we should rely, not upon
one, two or three of them, but upon the
iargest combination we can find in any
one animal. The first we should regard
would be a large, well-developed udder
or bag, as farmers call It. This is the
gland in which the milk is secreted, and
must be large and well hung to hold
and sustain a large amount of milk.
Many persons arc deceived as to the size
of the udder by seeing it hang low. We
like to see an udder broad and moder
ately deep in the rear, and extending far
under the belly, with the teats well
spread, of good size, and with the ends
about on a level. With the hind teats
extending two or three incheslbelow
the forward ones, we do not expect a
good milker, though the udder may look
large from behind; but with a bag hung
long and broad, and with the teats set
as above described, we have never
known a cow to fail of filling a milk
pail. To make a correct judgment of
the udder, a'(flank as well as rear view
must be taken, and always give the
preference to one that extends far for
ward and has large milk-veins. Next
to the udder, which indicates the quan
tity rather than the quality of milk, we
should examine the skin, hair, ears and
horns. If the hair is soft and short and
the skin soft, flexible and yellow,t he
milk will probably be rich. This may
be further determined by looking into
the ears. If these are translucent and
of the color of becwax, it is a sign of
good, creamy milk, and the waxy ap
pearance of the horns also indicates the
same thing. The Jerseys unilormly
possess soft hair, flexible skin of a yel
low tinge, which is especially manifest
in their ears. Thin skins are so supple
and yellow that they appear to have
been soaked in cream.
Ilow to Fuehra the Borcri
| ,Ten years or more ago I tried the use
of paper bantis and gas tar, in various
forms, on my peach trees, and, when
carefully applied, it was effective in ex
cluding borers, but for the past seven or
eight years I have *tc a much
more excellent way, and I know other
fruitgrowers who have done the same,
and would rot think of going back to
the old methods. It is simply using
carbolic acid, which is the essence or
spirit of gas tar, and is easily made to
combine with water by addin soap
while tj tir its!f will nt combine,
and s far less safe and cleanly in its ap
plication. My rule for preventing
borers is to gei a pint of crude carbo-ic
acid —costing twenty-five cents, and is
sufiicientfor twentygallonsof the wa h-
Take a tight barrel and put in four or
five gallons of soft soap, with as much
hot water to thin it; then stir in the
pint of carbolic acid, and let stand over
night or longer to combine. Now add
twelve gallors of rain water and stir
well; then apply to the base of the tree
with a short broom or old paint brush
taking pains to wet inside of all crevices.
This will prevent both peach and apple
borers. It should be applied the latter
part of June in this climate, when the
moths and beetles usually appear. The
odor is so pungent and lasting that no
eggs will be deposited where it has been
applied, and the effects will continue
until after the insects have done flyin .
If the crude acid cannot be obtaim d
one-third of the pure will answer, but
it is mere expensive.— Fruit Recorder.
Ifoaacheld Illnta.
Tepid water is produced by combin
ing two-thirds cold and one-third boil
ing water.
Old potatoes may be freshened up by
plunging them into oold water before
cooking them.
Large holes in a loaf of [bread are
proof of a careless cook. The kneading
has been slighted.
The yolk of an egg binds the crust
much belter than the whites. Apply it
to the edges with a brush.
Glassshould be washed in cold water,
which gives it a brighter and clearer
look than when; cleansed with warm
water.
Dip a new broom in hot water to
make it durable. To keep a broom from
getting stiff and hard hang it in the
cellar-way.
Never wssh raisins that*are to be used
in sweet dishes. It will make the pud
ding heav). To clean them wipe in a
dry towel.
In boiling dumplings of any kind,
put them in the water one at a time. It
they are put in together they will mix
with each other.
Drive two large nails through two
spools, as far apart as your broom
handle is thick, and hang your broom
on. brush up, to keep it straight.
There It gr< enness in onions and pota
toes that renders them hard to digest-
For health's sr ke put them in warm
water for an hour before cooking.
Cutlets and steaks may be fried as well
as broiled, but thee must be put in hot
butter or lard. The greeso is tho
enough when it tnrows off a blueish
smoke.
Mosquitoes, says somebody, love beef
blood better than they do any that flows
in the veins of human kind. Just put
a couple of generous pieces on plates
near your bed at night, and you will
sleep untroubled by these peels. In the
morning you will find them full and
stupid with the beef blood, and the
meat sucked as dry as a cork.
Tmli.
French industry and sagacity take ths
ead of the world in little thlngs.lf noth
ing more. Toad culture It a regular
business there with eoonoaio people
and the demand for toads is great and
increasing. The useful little animals
are employed as insect destroyers, not
only in the gardens of that country, but
thousands of them are packed down in
baskets of damp moss and sent to other
countries to be sold to gardeners. The
more observing horticulturists and flori
culturists have long been aware of their
value as insect destroyers, and have
utilized them to a greater or less extent.
And it is not much to the credit of Amer
ican gardeners and farmers that they
have never recognized the services of
this helpful and innocent little reptile
Nature conducts her operations by re
ciprocal me:tns, and if she gives us the
hurtful insects to eat up our crops she
also'gives us the birds, toads, etc., to eat
up the insects. The farmer should keep
a close eye on nature, and seek to make
her manifold operations helpful, instead
of casting hindrances in the way by de
stroying her agents. Many things as
loathsome looking as the toad are the
farmers' friend.— Rural Messenger.
Mavlnif Clorer-Hcea.
The second crop of clover is the one
for seed. This stiould be cut when the
majority of the heads have turned
brown and before they begin to shed off
the little seed pods.
While the quantity of seed depends
much upon the weather, the crop is
iargely increased by moving or feeding
off tho first, or hay crop, early as possi
ble. The harvesting of the seed crops
may be effected with a machine for the
purpose which simply I removes the
heads, or the cutting can be done the
same as it is with the grass crop.
When thoroughly cured the crop
should be taken to the threshing floor or
barn and the seeds beaten out with
light flails, or, better still, with a thresh
ing-machine, especially a clover huller
and separator.— New York World.
Turning Ciruuuilnlo Fertiliser*.
The following method is given on
good authority tor not only preventing
the escape of disagreeable odors from
carcasses, hut for converting them into
a valuable fertilizer: For a large ani
mal, draw four or five wagon-loads of
muck, Bod or mold; roll the carcass on
to this, sprinkle freely with quick-lime
cover immediate) with a generous
quantity of soil en or twelve wagon
loads will not b ioo much. In less than
a year,without giving offense to any one,
the owner will have bis loss restored to
him in part, in the form of a goodly
number of wagon-ioads of excellent fer
tilizing material. Any number of car
casses may be put in a heap together
provided lime and soil are added in pro
portion to the size of each.
Traniplanllnt Apple Tic**.
Apple trees may be transplanted at
any time from the of growth
or the fall of the leaf in autumn until
the buds begin to open in spring, when
the weather is not .cold or freezing.
The usual time is from the middle of
October till the ground freezes, and
from early in April until some weeks
afterward. The advantage of autumn
planting is that .the soil becomes more
perfectly settled about the roots before
the growth commences. The dis&dvan
age is ttiat the surface becomes crusted
and is not broken up and made mellow
as it stiould be in the spring. Care
should be taken that the fall-set trees
are not whipped about by the winds,
and on heavy soil perfect drainage
should be provided.
SprMdln* Manure.
From the time the manure is dropped
until it is spread upon the land there is
a continual loss, by gradual decomposi
tion and washing by rains. When upon
the soil this loss is not sustained, as.the
rains carry the valuable solutions down
into the soil, where they are absorbed
and retained. It is, therefore, the best
practice to spread the manure upon the
meadows and plowed land. In fact any
where that plant food is required, both
now and through the winter. There is
a saving in labor to draw the manure in
winter, when the snow is on the ground,
as it is easier to load it upon a sled than
a wagon, and the load can be drawn
with greater ease.
Discharging a Conductor.
Robert Criswell. tbe man whose wit
gave the Oil City Derrick its funny repu
tation, played a heartless joke on a Cin
cinnati car conductor for rudeness.
Criswell was going home on the horse-car
in question, and it was crowded inside,
so he loafed on the rear platform. The
conductor told him to go inside. Cris
well said he didn't care to go inside,
but the conductor insisted, and loudly
threatened to put him off. Everybody
began to look at the dispute, but Cris
well saw nobodv that knew him and
determined to have bis little joke. Tbe
oonductoryelled: "Come,young fellow,
get inside, or I'll bounce you clear
across the street!" Criswell turned on
him and said, In a severe manner: "My
man, yon don't know who I am, hut
I've had my eyes on you for everal
days. There are too many conductors
like you on the road, and we am losing
friends every day oecause our patrons
are insulted by conductors who are boors
and ruffians. [Now you can pull tbe
beil cord ard let me off. But you need
not take out the car to-morrow; there
will be a man to take your place. When
you take the oar in to-night tarn over
your bell-punch and aek for your time.
That will settle it." Taking n mental
note of the number of the car, he waited
for it next day, and there was a new
conductor. Tbe newspaper man asked:
'Where is the oonductor who was on
yesterday P" " Oh," the new man said,
" the blamed old fool tried to bounce a
director last night, and he got fired."
I* Tear Will all RightP
To the uninitiated, nothing would
seem to be more simple or easy than for
a man to express bis wishes as to the
disposition of bis property in sucb a
way that there could be no question as
to bis intentions; yet costly experience
has taught the world that few things
are more difficult, and that, in general,
where there's a will there's a—lawsuit.
Even a lawyer of such recognized pro
fessional ability as the late lord West
bury, left behind him a will which gave
rise to endless complications and dis
putes ; and lord St. loonards, who was
proverbially minute in the precautions
he urged upon others, left a will which
became the subject of a long and (y>stly
litigation. In making a will, much
mischief may be prevented by brevity,
provided it be combined with lucidity;
it is a mistake to suppose that many
words or many repetitions tend to per
spicuity; on the contrary, with these
there is great danger of " elucidating
into obscurity." All ambiguities should
be avoided—" my black and white
horses," wo have learned, do not bear
the same meaning as " my black and
my white horses." Prepositions must
be vigilantly watched; the smallest
monosyllabic in the English language
used or misused in a will becomes a
i gigantic power, and "of" has before
now been the cause of protracted and
extensive lawsuits. Families Lave been
thrown into chancery for years, their
property shorn down to minute propor
tions, lawyers enriched, and succeeding
generations beggared by the addition or
omission of a single word. "Child,"
for "children." has been known to
occasion the most harrassing litigation,
and to have kept lamilies who were
brought up to large expectations, and
who were entitled to colossal fortunes,
starving for years under the law's
delay. Above all, let the layman avoid
legal terms, lest the law Insist on giving
them a legal interpretation of which tLe
poor man never dreamed.— ApplcUm't
Journal.
Got a Corner.
On one of the morning trains over the
Erie road, the other day, a farmer-look
ing man walked the length of a car
without finding an empty seat, and he
slowly returned to one occupied by a
lone man, who at once spread himself
out as much as possible, and suddenly
became deeply interested in his news
paper. The farmer halted beside the
seat, but the other made no movement.
Even after a full minute had passed,
there was no sign that he meant to share
his quarters with the other. Then the
farmer touched his arm and said:
"If you can h&ng on long enough
you'll make a fortune."
" What—what's that, sirP" demanded
the other, as he looked up.
"It's a big thing—hang on to it!"
whispered the farmer.
" What is it? What do you mean
sir?"
"I tumble; but I won't give tt away!"
chuckled the farmer.
" What do you mean, sir?"
I mean that you have got the biggest
corner on the hog market ever known
in this country, and if you don't make a
million dollars out of it I'll eat codfish
for a year."
Halfofthat seat was suddenly vacated,
but the farmer preferred to stand up and
brace against the stove.
Traveling In the 014 Days.
People who are accustomed to trave
by rail nowadays will read with interest
the following diary of a journey from
New York to New Orleans in the year
1800: In 1800-April X Left New York
in ferryboat for Jersey City. Took
a two-horse coach and got to
Philadelphia the fourth day at
4 r- u. Left Philadelphia next
morning in a one-horse chaise, with the
maiihag behind, for Lancister,where we
arrived the third day. At Lancaster
bought a horse, and after nine days'
journey through the forests, reached
Pittsburg. Here, with some others, I
bought for eighteen dollars a fiatboat,
in which we took our departure for New
Orleans, floating with the current.
After divers adventures and escapes
from great peril by land and water, we
reached Natchea, the fifty-seventh day
after leaving Pittsburg, and New Orleans
city in thereafter, having
been from New York on the journey
eighty-four days, which our friends in
New Orleans say was an .expeditions
voyage. My own persona! cost on the
way was, in sum total. £*?. lis. 4id.—
Cincinnati Enquirer.
A Very Early Start la Life.
Morton M. Pritchett. aged fourteea,
and Sarah D. Fausler, aged thirteen, of
Marion, lad., eloped recently and went
to Michigan, where they were married.
Both children are small for their age.
indeed so childlike that they rode on
the , demit railroads for hall fare.
During their wedding journey of two
weeks their total expenses amounted to
but 910.(15. The youthful pair tooted
It to Wabash—twenty miles—where
they took the train. Neither took a
change of raiment, nor any luggage
whatever. They were married at White
Pigeon.
The Mediterranean fruit trade is as
suming enormous proportions. The in
crease at New York this year is fifty per
cent. At all points on the Mediterran
ean there was an immense crop last
year. and the prospects are that the crop
now maturing will .be the largest ever
known.
"Darling, this potatoe to only half
done." "Then eat thedoae half, love."
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