There is n Nat oral Body.
Immortal is my triond, I know;
Not summer's turt nor winter's snow
Nor depth of earth could turn to naught
So much ot lilu anil love and thought.
And yet that form I did intrust
To kindred earth, the dust to dust,
And thither still my thoughts will tend,
As it to find my vanished Irieml.
Sac ml the robe, tho faded glove,
Once worn by one we used to love;
Dead warriors in their armor live.
And in their relics aaints survive;
And there I tenderly laid down
The bands that fondly clasped my own—
Tho eyes that knew and answered mine
With many a meaning, loving Bign—
The lips familiar with tny name,
That ireely called mo and I came—
The boast that harbored nil good-will,
The loviog heart now cold and still.
Oh, sheltering earth, hencclorth defend
All thou hast garnered ot my friend
Against the wintry tempest's beut,
Against tho summer's scorching heat.
With.n thine all-embracing breast
Is hid one more torsaken nest,
While in the sky, with folded wings,
The bird that lett it sits and sings.
—Scribner's Magaxxnt.
Their Two Summerings.
Rose Ellis, with eyes as blue ah the
June sky that was smiling down on the
fair earth that lovely morning, and hair
as palely go'd as the first rays of early
sunshine, and a face as pink and fair as
ever maiden's face was. And Vera, her
elder sister, tall, with beautiful, serious,
gray eyes under jetty brows, with lus
trous jet-black hair, all waves and rip
ples from her broad, low forehead to
the Grecian coil low at the back of her
classic head—the two of them, sisters,
standing under the big chestnut tree at
the lane gate, reading a letter, that one
of the farm hands had just brought
from the village postcflicc, along with a
bundle of weekly papers— a letter whose
envelope was heavily monogramed and
crested, that was written on faintly-per
fumed, cream-white paper, in a square,
beautiful hand, and signed Cornelia
Caryl, and dated Newport, a day before.
Rose's blue eyes danced as she read it,
and she clasped be? hands in a little
ecstatic way she was in the habit of doing
when she was pleased.
" Vera, it is just too splendid for any
thing! Annt Cornelia is just too good
isn't she? Of course it will be you—
it should be you! When shall you go?
Only think—a month at Newport?"
Vera folded the letter slowly up again,
a smile coming to her royally beautiful
mouth.
"I am not su-o it is I who will ac
cept auntie's kind invitation You
haven't been away from the farm for
three years. Rose—not since we all
spent the delicious week in theCatskills.
I am very sure it is you who wiil goto
auntie's cottage at Newport, deal. I
hope so."
Rose laughed gaily.
"What an idea, Vera! Indeed, I
shall not even think of such nonsense.
You're the beauty of the family; you
will go and create as nsation, and come
home with a photograph of my future
brother-in-law in your pocket—hand
some, wealthy, elegant and—a German
count, or a French duke, or an English
lord, just as like as not. Maybe a Rus
sian prince! Of course you'll go, my
Princess Vera!"
Vera laughed—soe could not help it—
at the comical little way in which Rose
salaamed to her —veritably a princess by
royal right of loveliness, and grace, and
womanliness.
" Honor bright, Rose, wouldn't you
like to go?"
The serious gray eyes looked in the
•unny blue eyes, and then a tiny flush
began to warm to a deeper iusciousncss
on the wild-rose cheeks.
"That's not fair, Vera. Thai's what
I should emphaticady call a leading
question. Do you want to go, too?"
"And under what head do you place
your inquiry, I should like to know?"
Rose tossed her pretty head imperi
ously, with a light laugli.
" I won't be catecb:sed, but Aunt Cor
nelia's letter must be answered, all the
same, by return mail, according to re
quest. We will decide whether you are
to go or not—this way."
She stooped and picked up a shining
little pebble frcm the edge of the flower
bed, and went through some mysterious
motions with her hands behind her,
then held out two tightiy-closed, dim
pled fists.
"Take your choice. Vera. If you get
the stone, you go. Vice versa. That's
fair enough, isn't it?"
Vera reached out her finger daintily,
and—touched the fortunate hand, while
Rose gave a little sbrii k of delight.
" Now—now! Of course you'll be In
troduced to my brother-in-law—the
count, or the duke, or the lord I Let's
go right back, and while I rip up the
Swiss suit to make it over, with pink
and blue Silenin, for one of your toilets,
you can answer the ntier. To morrow,
we'll go to the city and spend the forty
dollars, butter-a-id-egg tn<>ney, we've
saved, and on Tiuisday, the seventh,
you will start on jour lour of con
quest.
but—somehow there w< re tears, in
s ead of smiles, in Princess Vera's gray
eyes.
" Was there over another such an un
selfish, darling little sister as you?
Hose! Hose! I hope for your sake there
will he tho fabulously rich, elegant
brother-in-law, that he may repny you
by taking you wherever you may wish
to go!"
And saucy little Hose opened her blue
eyes in well-simulated indignation,
"The idea! As if I don't intend pos
sessing my own b v other-in-law —of—
yours, to take mo whence 1 please!
Thank you, Miss Ellis! and don't be
patronizing because you happen—
merely happen—to be going to New
port."
A week later. Vera Ellis was en route
for Mrs. Caryl's villa, with a trunk full
of lovely dresses, that had not cost so
much in money as in art, and taste, and
ingenuity; and Rose, quite lonesome
and forlorn, stood leaning over the lane
gate, under the shade of the big horse
chestnut —just as an elegant little phmton
and coal-black pony went by, with the
very handsomest gentleman in it that
Rose's blue eyes had ever seen; eyes
that opened a little wider than ever as
the pony condescended to be reined in
beside the gate, and the gentleman
touched his hat courteously.
" I beg your pardon, but is this Squire
Ellis' place P"
"Yes, sir," she said, with an aggra
vating little flush on her face.
" And is this Miss EllisP"
"I am Miss Rose. My sister has just
gone away to Newport," she could not
help adding, with a certain little pride
she realized, the moment she said it,
was egregiously silly.
Evidently the handsome stranger
thought it amusing, for he smiled faintly
with his mouth, while his eyes were
overflowing with merriment.
"So I am just too late, then. lam
Victor Lennox— a friend of your aunt —
Mrs. Caryl—and she delegated to me the
pleaant privilege of escorting Miss Ellis
to Newport."
Hose laughed—her own especial, be
wildering, sweet little laugh.
" You'v-i missed your privilege by
just eight hours, Mr. Lennox. If you
will drive up to the house, I am very
sure pnpa and mamma will thank you
for your good intentions."
A horse's head was never turned
quicker than Victor Lennox's black
pony's.
" I certainly wish no thanks, Miss
Rose, but I think an apology isdue Miss
Ellis' parents for my stupid awkward
ness in misunderstanding my orders."
Rose wakled demurely beside the car
riage, so lithe, girlish, graceful, so
saucy-sweet, that it was little woncer
Mr. liennox felt resigned to his fate.
"Vera would have been delighted, I
daresay," she sail, politely. "She went
entirely alone, but I daresay auntie will
have some ne meet her at Fall River, as
we telegraphed she was unaccompanied.
I suppose she will have a splendid time."
And almost unconsciously a little sigh
followed her words.
" Yes; well I don't know. Newport's
all very well, if one likes a continual
round of excitement and gaiety. For
myself, I prefer the country—such a
quiet, romantic place as Miss Ellis has
left, for instance."
Rose gave him an incredulous look.
" I mean it. lam looking now for a
place to spend the summer. After I had
taken Miss Ellis to her aunt, I shouid
have said au rcvoir, and rushed off to
the most rural place I could find. Do
you know this just suits me?"
And jut then they reached the big,
cool, shady piazza. There motherly
Mrs. Ellis sat knitting, and the farmer
lay stretched comfortably on the grass
in front of the door, taking his afternoon
siesta. And while, after the introduc
tion, Victor Lennox asked many and
interested questions about the accom
modations of the neighborhood for sum
mer boarders, little fair-haired Rose
was wondering wbat it was that made
her feel as she had never before felt in
her life.
And the upshot of was that Mr.
Victor Lennox took up his abode in the
Ellis farmhouse, ana Rose began to
know that for her life had just begun.
The delicious di.ys went by, and, with
every succeeding one, they both knew
they loved each other, and before Vtra's
sevtntli semi-weekly letter had come,
containing the shyly-told news that sue
was engaged—not to a count, or a duke,
or a lord, but to St John Rossitnr, the
dearest, best, handsomest fellow in all
the world, a great friend and lifelong
acquaintance of Aunt Cornelia—little
June-sky-eyed Rose had her own sweet
secret to tell, too.
" But Iflmn't say a word by mail. He
will be here when you come home, and
then I'll show you whether or not my
brother-In law elect is as good, and
dear, and handsome as your brother-in
iaw of the future."
• •■*•••
The very earliest suggestion of the
coming autumn WHS in the evening air—
the pe>feet evening when Vera came
home, Mr. Rossitur with her, proud,
happy, certainly handsome, and—sur
prised. as Hose's lover stepped forward
to he Introduced, a quiet, merry smile in
his ryes as he extended his hand.
"How are yju. old fellow? Glad
indeed, to see >uu!"
And Rossitur'sreply:
" Lennox, is It possible? Why—well,
this Is a surprise, and a most delightful
one. We thought you had gone home,
disgusted with America and all it con
tained.
And Rose looked at Vera, and Vera
at her—a little hushed, almost terrified,
look into Rose's eyes.
Then Vera stroked and kiswd her.
"You have won a nobleman, my dar
ling, herein your quiet hum ■; and you
were so determined it should be i. But
I am satisfied."
"And BO am I; but it is all your fault.
Only suppose you had been here when
Victor came!"
Vera stroked the lovely fair hair.
" I think it would have been just the
same, my lady!"
And that was what became of their
Bummcrings.
Points in Physiognomy.
Dirge eyes tell of ardor and activity;
small ones of sluggishness, calculation
and perhaps cunning. A lullness, or
prominence, of the eyes indicates a tal
ent for talking and writing with great
fluency of language, and especially on
ircneralities. The little knot of wrinkles
that radiate from the corner of the eyes
in the middle-aged, testify to thorough
honesty and truthfulness The feature
may often be noticed in businessmen ol
known probity.
The various colors of eyes have each
their admirers. The light tints signify
delicacy, amiability and refinement; ihe
dark eyes, power and strong passions,
though the sluggish temperament often
does not call these into activity. Blue
speaks of tenderness and extreme sensi
bility; brown goes with a frank and
womanly r.ature; hazel is a sign of tal
ent, and of a better bead than heart.
Give no confidence to a woman whose
small, eye flashes like a bead, for
she is prone to selfishness and tattling.
Noses are as diverse in crosses is can
well be, though lor convenience they
are grouped into five well-known
classes. The Roman is for tho positive
and aggressive man, the harsh-faced
conqueror who cares nothing for the
slaying of multitudes to achieve his own
fortunes. Its peculiarity is the projec
tion of a ridge near the upper end. The
Greek is the classic nose, denoting ar
tistic tastes and keen refinement. It
has throughout a regular and delicate
outline. The Jewish or hawklike nose
is known to all. It fits the sharp trader,
tho speculator and the money-dealers.
The celestial, or turned-up nose, is
merely the snub, lengthened a little. It
is found in inquisitive children, and
often among the fair sex.
The mouth is the most tell tale fea
ture of the whole countenance. Have
the lips retained the fair curves of child
ish purity, or has an indulgence in
drinking or other dissipation made the
lips coarse and flabby? Here, as else
where, a delicate shape means a fine
susceptibility, while a coarse form
reveals a rude nature. Quite a
number of little muscles cluster
n(>out the corners of the mouth, and
their involuntary motions often let out
n secret that the lips and eyes have con
cealed. A steady friend is not to be
looked for in one whose lips are perfectly
smooth, but, instead, where the red is
crossed with upright wrinkles. Hospi
tality displays several slightly curved
wiinkle, outward and downward from
tho corners of the mouth. Large and
full red HDS stand for a loving and faith
ful disposition.
L" attention is usually given to
studying the chin than it deserves, as it
is often concealed by a beard. It is in
timately connected with the cerebellum
or base of the bruin, wmcli is the organ
of vital power—so much so that if one
be poorly developed the other will be
also. The deeper and wider the chin
and lower jaw the more will he the un
conquerable firmness, even to audacity,
and the larger will bo the corresponding
development ol tho cerebellum. — Gollcn
Days.
Famous Men and Cats.
Our domestic favorites—cats —were
not highly thought of in the middle
nges. They were they looked on as
Satanic agents and were burned alive.
In Paris every St. John's day a number
of the abhorred animals were heaped up
in baskets and oags in the Place de
Greve, to afford an auto-da fe, the sov
ereign himself setting lire to the pile.
Tiie practice continued for a long time,
the last monarch who officiated in ch.s
manner being I/>uis XIV. The perse
cutors of the feline rat e were.no doubt,
ign rant of the fact that cats hail been
the object of superstitious veneration in
eariy tim.-s. In Egypt, for instance,
the cat eras deified, aa the patron of
liberty, and a similar respect wasshown
it throughout nearly the whole of the
East. The Turks still regard" abby"as
the "cleanest"of animals; Mohammed
himself, indeed, having had a great lik
ing for cats, it is only natural that ail
good Musulman should possess the
sauie affection.
it is not in the East alone, however,
hat the feline tribe have managed to
acquire a secure and recognised position
in society. Many great mm have had
an inoroinate fondness lor cats. IticLc
lieu't special favorite was a splendid
Angora, hit lurry confidant's usual rest
ing place being his eminence's table,
among slate documents, books, etc.
Montaigne used to obtain relaxation by
playing with bis cat. Colbert reared
hail a do* n cats in his private study,
and taught them, after a lengthy display
ol patience, to perform all *oi of tricks.
Fontenelle was very xuu of cats, and
used to place a particular old " Tom "
in an armchair and deliver an oration
beiore hitu. We must not forget, too,
that leiis eat us suppled Perrault with
one of the mcit attractive subeota of
his stories, and that under the pen of
this admirable story-teller, " Puss in
Boots" has become an example of the
power of work, industry and ability.
Mrs. W. T. Pritchard, wife ot a well
known turfman, banged herself in San
Francisco recently, " because her hus
band wss short oi money," If women
are going to commit suicide for a little
thing like that, it w.ll not be long beiore
ninety-nine per cent- oi the editors in
this country are widowers.— Norrulown
herald.
(ABM, fIARDEM AMD HOUSEHOLD.
Hrnliliy I'ntatora.
Scab on potatoes is produc>. d by
minute animnls, which have not yet
been thoroughly studied. The scab
shows itself first on the surface of the
potato in rough spots, which afterward
become raised like blisters. These col
lapse subsequently, and leave irregular
holes or pits of various sizes in the Bub
stance of the tuber. They do not seem
to be confined to any particular ace of
the plant, as they make their appear
ance on very young tubers, and in other
cases not before their full development.
About the predisposing conditions and
prevention of these parasites little is
known. Ashes and limo do not prevent
or destroy them. I have found them
plentiful in fields where ashes had never
been applied, and also with and with
out swine, horse, or cow manure, where
potatoes had not been planted for sev
eral years. In this case, like does not
produce like, for I have seen scabby
potatoes produce splendid scab-free
potatoes ,on the other hand, some soils,
which seem to be saturated with scab,
will produce scabby potatoes, no mat
ter what seed is used. Rome varieties
are more liable to scab than others. A
row of Buckeyes were almost eaten up
by scab, while other varieties close by
were free from it. Little is known of
the nature of the scab. I think I have
proved to my own satisfaction, at least,
that since the exclusive use of com
mercial fertilizers, my potatoes have
become free from scab, and better than
with the use of barnyard manure.—F.
M. 11.. in Tribune.
KtTrct* of !>eep Plowing.
Years ago I plowed field that had
been nearly exhausted by long cropping.
The soil was a clay loam with lair
drainage. It was plowed to the beam,
bringing up some five or six inches of
raw soil, which had not seen the light
since deposited by glacial action, and
which changed the appearance of the
field, displaying a variety of colors,
with an increased friability of soil,
that made it seem like an ash field. The
crop put upon it (without manure) was
a failure. It was some better the next
year, and continued to increase in pro
ductiveness till, in a few years, it sur
passed its form* r fruitfulnesß, without
any manure at all, the crops brine grain
and the land yearly plowed, and to the
same depth. It was then seeded down
to timothy and clover, yielding a heavy
crop of clover (with plaster) and supe.
rior grazing for many years, other grasses
and white clover working in and thick
ening the set. The field is a hillside
faring the south, and seems permanently
improved.
Since then I have met with similar
cases. On level land, underdraining
should precede the deepening of clay
soil, where the subsoil tardily parts with
its water. Before plowing, it would be
a good plan to fine the topsoil with a
cultivator and harrow. This turned
down, aired and enriched (by working),
and warm, would have a good effect on
the crude earth below.
I have a good instance of the benefit
of turning eff water. Last fall I forked
up a ppot of ground that had never been
plowed, and had lain unoccupied, save
by a few weeds and scant grasses, for
over fifty years. It was mostly com
posed of clav, and an open ditch, cut a
few years ago to carry off the hill water,
drained it, giving a chance for the fresh
rain water to pass through warming,
airing and enriching it, thus correcting
largely its raw character. It worked up
mellow. In the spring, artother forking
was givf n it, followed in a few weeks by
still another, and manui was applied
and mixed with the surface soil. Sweet
corn and tomatoes were planted, and the
growth that followed was astonishing;
no better yield have 1 ever known. The
immediate success is chiefly owing to
the ditch. In connection with ditching,
subsoiiing is an advantage, as you sug
gest, favoring farther the admission of
air and warmth, thus in a measure cor
recting the under soil tiefore it is brought
up, and allowing of deeper blowing at a
time, so that ttie work of reclamation is
sooner accomplished. Correspondence
Country GemUman.
HMIPM.
HAKKO CAPBAOK BALL .—Take a
large, firm cabbsge, boil whole in salt
and water till tender enough to eat, but
not to fall to pieces; then lay in cold
water till ready for use. or until per
fectly cold. Take the leaves from the
sulk without breaking them, lay three
or four together open on the table until
you have a doacn piles. Fry an onion
and chop fine with the remainder of
the cabbage leaves; season lightly with
salt and pepper, and mix in a pound of
highly-seasoned sausage meat; make
into balls and lay tliera on your cabbage
leaves; roll the csbbage leaves around
them and tie firmly with a soft string;
lay them in a baking pan with half a
pint of stock and gravy, and bake for
twenty minutes in a moderately hot
oven.
APPLE FKITTKRS.- Cut the apples into
rounds as thin as possible, cut out the
cores, pare away the skins, put them in
a dish, pour over them a wineglassful
tf brandy, and sprinkle sugar and grated
lemon rind over them; let ttiem lie in
this for an hour; half fill a good-si zed
saucepan with clarified dripping; make
it quite hot, and when it is still and a
blue smoke rises from it, dip each slice
separately into the butter, take (tout in
a tablespoon, and dip it with the batter
that is in the spoon with It into the
boiling fat; turn it over lightly with a
fork, and when the fritter is crisp and
lightly brown it is done enough. Put
on paper to free it from grease; sift
white sugar on and serve.
JELLY CAM.—TWO cupfuls of sugar,
three eggs, two-thirds cupful of butler
one cupful of sweet milk with a half
teaspoonful of Boda dissolved in it, three
cupfuls of flour, witn one teaspoonful of
cream tartar sifted through it, a little
salt, and essence of lemon or almonds;
spread half of this in two square or ob
long pans and bak". To the remaining
half add a tablespoonful of molasses, a
teaspoonful of cinnamon, a half tea
spoonful each of cloves and allspice, a
little nutmeg, a tablespoonful of flour, a
cupful of raisins stoned and chopped, a
quarter of a pound citron sliced fine;
pour into two pans of the same kinds as
beiore and bnke; lay the sheets together
alternating with a little jelly between
them, cut up in thin slices for the table.
The fruit may he omitted, and you have
a handsome marble cake.
Indian Marksmanship.
Class ball shooting and various other
exhibitions of skillful manipulation of
parlor rifles are at present attracting
considerable attention both in Europe
and the United States, and tho telegraph
reports almost daily some wondrous
achievement, so that the sport.has re
ceived fresh impetus on our coast, and
has been attended with Bome really
good shooting, particularly in the case
of Otto, a son of Joseph, the Nez l'crces
chief. A representative of the Call
availed himself of an invitation ex
tended by Captain McDonald to witness
an exhibition of fancy shooting by his
ward, and was ampiy rewarded, as the
following will attest: It may be well to
state that the Bcene of operations was a
room sparsely lighted, and the general
circumstances rather unfavorable for
successful shooting. The incidentals
for the shooting exhibition consisted of
a triangular wxtden frame, at the apex
of which a hill poster representing the
figure of a man had been pasted, a piece
of glass about one inch square inserted
for an eye, and at the other corners of
the triangle a set of brass knobs were
inserted in the frame. On the other
side, above and below, slanting iron
plates were fixed to crowbars and num
l>ers of glass balls hung at various dis
tances from each other. At the back of
the apparatus a gong occupied a central
position. The first experiment con
sisted of blindfold shooting. A nickej
five-cent piece was glued to the figure,
and the young sharpshooter, blind
folded. turned around in various direc
tions, and was finally placed in a direct
line of the object, with a rifle minus a
sight, and at a distance of some twenty
five feet. The first shot sent the nit kei
flying around the room, and on exam
ination an indentation was found on its
very edge. The second test consisted of
placing a small piece of tinted paper on
the glass used as an eye on the figure,
and then placing a large piece of card
board in front of and touching it, so
that it was completely bid ten from
view. The shooter was again blind
folded. and the first shot shattered the
glass, the bullet having passed through
the center of the tinted paper. There
were various other tests, 6uch as break
ing three swinging bails by one shot,
and breaking a bail placed immediately
behind the attendant, the ball, owing to
previous contact with the brass knobs
or iron plates, taking a circuitous course.
—San brancisco Call.
Telegraph Blunders.
A gentleman who had gone to the
country to find a summer location for
his family telegraphed to his wife,
"Home to-night." The wires rendered
this into "Come to-night," and so the
wife posted into the country at ome,
while the husband'was making his way
in a contrary direction.
Not long since a message came to the
principl of a business house in this
city from his traveling agent, who had
reached Philadelphia—"Am at Conti
nental hotel. Send some hash by mail.'
The agent did not intend to reflect on
the food at the hotel, but wanted "cash"
sent by mail.
An affectionate uncle was informed by
telegraph: "Mars is to be buried on
Wednesday. Come sure." Mary, who
lived in Chicago, was his favorite nioee,
and, as he had not heard of ber Illness,
the sad intelligence gave him a severe
shock. He dressed himself in deep
mourning, and made a hurried journey
to the West to find a jovial party
assembled at Mary's wedding. The
wires had arranged for her to be
"buried" instead of "married."
Probably the worst blunder ever made
was one that occurred in the case of a
St. Louis merchant, who, while in New
York, reoeived a telegram informing
him tnat his wife was ill. He sent a
t essage to bis famiiy doctor, asking the
n; ure of the sickness and if there was
any longer, and reoeived promptly the
anw< : "No danger. Your wife has
had n 'llld. If we can keep her from
having i other to-night she will do
well." The mystification of the agi
tated husband was not removed until a
second i i quiry revealed the fact that his
indisposed lady had had a "chill. —
New York Hour.
A Wood Example
A shipbuilding firm of Dumbarton,
Scotland, offers awards ranging be
tween $lO and SSO to any workman in
their employment who has (1) invented
or introduced a new machine or hand
tool into the yard; (9) improved any
existing machine or hand tool; (3) ap
plied any existing machine or hand tool
to a new class of work; (4) discovered
or introduced any new method of car
rying on or arranging work; or (6)
made any change by which the work of
the yard is rendered either superior In
quality or more ecercnical in cost.
The woman of work sweeps every
thing before her; the woman of fashion
weeps everything behind her.
•
Where Did rotators Cne Fro uil
Nobody knows precisely where the
potato came from originally. It has
been found, apparently indigenous, in
muny parts of the world. Mr. Darwin,
for instance, found it wild in the Chonos
Archipelago. Kir W. ,J. Hooker says
that it is common at Valparaiso, where
it grows abundantly on the bandy hills
near the sea. In I'eru and other parts
of South 'America it appears to be at
home; and it is a noteworthy fact that
Mr. Darwin should have noticed it both
in the humid forests of the Chonos
Archipelago and among the central
Chilian mountains, where sometimes
rain does not fall for nix months at a
stretch. It was to the colonists whom
Sir Waller Kaleigh sent out in Eliza
beth's reign that we are indebted for
our potatoes.
Herriot, wbo went out with these
eolonists, and who wrote an account of
his travels, makes what may, perhaps,
be regarded as the earliest mention of
this vegetable. Under the heading of
" Itoots," he mentions what he calls ths
" openawk." "These roots," he says "nre
round, some large as a walnut, others
much larger. They grow on damp
soils, many hanging together as If fixed
on ropes. They are good food, either
boiled or roasted."
At the beginning of the seventeenth
century this root was planted, as a cari
ous exotic, in the gardens of the nobil
ity, but it was long ere it came into
general use. Many held them to ba
poisonous, and it would seem not alto
gether unreasonably so either. The
potato is closely related to the deadly
nightshade and the mandrake, and from
its stems and leaves may be extracted a
very powerful narcotic. In England
prejudice against it was for a long time
very strong, especially among tbe poor.
A Wasp in Ills Slipper,
Says tbe Dallas (Texas) IJera'd:
There are times in the life of the small
boy when he feels very sad from the use
of a slipper or switch upon him. If
anything happen* to the person who has
thus afflicted him, his joy is great, as
will be seen from the following incident:
A eentlemnn returned home from his
daily toil, and had pulled off his boot*
and was going to put on bis slippers,
when a bow! of intense agony resounded
through the hall. The affrighted family
rushed to the door, and beheld their
papa heaving the shadows with wild
gestures and frantic eyrations.
"Take it off!" he shouted, and made a
grab at his foot, but missing it, went on
with the war-dance.
"Waiter!" he shrieked, and started
upstairs, three at a step, and, turning,
came back in a single stride. " Oh, I'm
stabbed!" he cried, and sank to the floor
and held bis right leg high above his
head; then he arose to bis feet with a
bound, and screaming for the bootjack,
he held his foot out toward his terrified
family.
"Oh, bring me tbe arnical" he yelled,
and with one despairing effort he
reached his slipper and got it off, and
with a groan as deep as a well and as
boilow as a drum, sank into a t ua- and
clasped his foot with both hands.
"lxx>k out for the scorpion," he
whispered, hoarse, y; "I'm a dead
man."
The small boy was by this time out
in the woodshed, roiling in the kindling
in an ecstacy of giee, and pausing from
time to time to explain to the son of a
neighbor, who had dropped in to see if
there was any innocent sport going on
in which be could share.
"Oh, Bill! Bill!" he said, "you
wouldn't believe; some time to-day,
somehow or other, a big blue wasp got
into the old man's slipper, and when he
came home and put them on—oh. Bill
you don't know what fun I've hadl"
A Submarine Volcano.
Commander Huntington, of the United
States steamer Alert, in a reoort to the
navy department, says that whiie on a
sunreying cruise in the Pacific, sooth of
Fortsixio and the Bovin islands, on ap
proaching the island of San Alessandro,
his attention was called to a strange
appearance on the water, apparently ten
miles distant. A volume of vapor was
rising, as though some vessel was blow
ing off steam. This was followed by
an appearance of breakers, and whiie
some of the officers were discussing the
probable cause, some thinking it was
the blowing and breaching of a school
of whales, the question was definitely
settled by ths upheaval ot an immense
black mass.
As the ship approached ths sub
marine volcano the black masses thrown
up were distinguished as mud and
ashes. The upheavals were accom
panied by dull reports, like those from
submarine mines, and by an odor of
sulphur. Several days were spent in
making the reconnolssance. Com man
der Huntington says he did not think it
prudent to approach the volcano in tbe
Alert, but a boat was lowered and
pulled within a hundred yards of it.
A reef or island is in process of for
mation. Soundings were obtained in
from five to twenty-nine fathoms. Tbe
water was full of ashes and mad, and
some of this and one specimen of tbe
bottom were brought on board. The
volcano bears north, forty-four degrees
west, distant three miles from tbe land
ing place on the southwest end of the
island. At night flames were noticed
Siding from the voloano.
Tbe law can never make a man honest;
it can only make him very unoamfort
balc when be is dishonest.
The band,of a regiment is a pin-toon
of itself.