The New Tear.
"The king is dead I long lire tho king I"
How oft thorn words renowned
Conic back to mo when joy bolls ring
With swcot and cheering wound I
Those bolls that say, " A year is dead 1
Another's king to-day I"
Aye, king ero yet the echoing chime
Of midnight dies away.
Aad though the wintry winds oft sing
The dead king's fnneral song,
Wi> know that rouud tho nuw-liorn king
Hpring flowers will bloom ere long.
Thou lie thy sorrows what they may,
Lot hope dispel each fear.
When all who meet thee, smiling, say,
" A happy, bright Now Year 1"
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.
Shocking disaster—An earthquake.
Tho phrenologist is a man who can
not do his work well unless ho feels
right.
Tho worst motto a dentist can have is
"Try, try again"—the worst for the
other fellow.
Naturalist: Can a wolf Isvomo fond
of a man ? H<> can, and wonld j st as
soon have him raw as cooked.
Every family is said to have a skel
eton in the closet, but Hanlan and gen
tlemen of his craft aro said to prefer a
scull.
Tho world will never progress far
enough to believe that a man's block
eye was caused by anything else than
somebody's fist.
Trained dogs exhihit*so rnnch intelli
gence that it probably won't be long
before there will be sausage in the mar
ket that can talk.
Don't throw away yonr old bar .vis.
They aro nsefal. It has been found that
an ordinary flour barrel will hold 078,-
000 silver dollars.
Parlor matches are like fashionable
engagements. Thero is too much fuss
and noise about them for tho money.—
New York Commercial.
A funny man at Jackson, Mich., put
a cast-iron bullfrog on a log in the
river, and the lioys threw stones at it
all day without discovt ring why it didn't
plunge.
The gentleman who caught a severe
oold from pressing his lips to a maiden's
snowy brow, recovered quite rapidly
wkilo looking in tho Runny smiles of
■■other fair damsel.
The ire cream day
Has passed away;
Whal will onr darlings try ?
They one and all
Mow quickly call,
"Give me an oyster fry."
The best sermon in the world never
yet reconciled the prond man, trying to
etAhifl feet out of sight under the pew,
to the painfully obtrusive and evident
fact that the wife of his bosom had used
his blacking brnsh to polish the kitchon
stove.
A million dollars in gold weighs
3,685 pounds avoirdupois. It took us
some time to learn this interesting fact,
and if any persons hink we have made
a mistake they can call at the office and
Wn will show them the weights and
also the scales.
A young lady who has an objection
to the revision of the New Testament,
writes to a London paper to say that
Iho phrase "purple and flue linen" con
veys no idea of luxury to her mind, and
riie suggests as an improvement, "seal
akin and black velvet."
Where is the usn in puzzling one's
brains over sueh intricate problems as
the origin of man and the whithornee*
of his futnre, when one cannot tell so
mmpl<> a thing as how the small boy in
rubber boot" gets his feet wet going
twenty rods over frozen ground ?
srifrou<'At.t.r connuov.
The fair Enph"ni Brown is I,
And qniekly 2 the church she hies.
Wi 3 eon for the hasty art
Be 4 her anient lover'e eyre;
'lf 5 to meet your irate pa,
I fear 'twill make me 6," said be
"UnloM this 7 ly plan of onra
Should cnlrnin R suspiciously.
Ob, Fate, be hnt in this b 9,
10 nothing more from thee I"
In a small German town an innkeep
er, to get rid of a book peddler's im
portunities, bonght an almanac from
him, and putting it in his pocket left
the inn, his wife just then coming in to
Uke his place. The woman was then
persuaded to bqy an almanac, not know
ing that her husltand had one already.
The husband shortly returning and
disocvering tho trick sent his porter
to the railway station after the peddler,
with a message that he wished to see
the latter on business. "Oh, yea,"
■aid the peddler, "I know; he wants
one of my almanacs, bat I really can't
miss my train for that. Ton can give
me a quarter and take the almanac to
him." The porter paid the money and
earned the third almanac to the inn
keeper. Tableau I
There are in the Canadian provinoes
ninety-one Congregational churches
having fifty-one pastors with twenty
eight assemblies not churches, and
eighty four preaching stations. The
total average attendance at the Sunday
aervioee was 13,210.
Horseshoes are now being made of
cork. It will be a lucky day for the
human race when the hind shoes of a
mule are made of the same malarial.
PEARL* OF THOVUHT.
Industry need not wish.
Truth is tho basis of every virtue.
Avarice ia tho mother of many vices.
The path of truth is a plain and safe
path.
Old injuries are seldom canceled by
new benefits.
He that cannot live well to-day can
not to-morrow.
The fountain of content spring
up in tho mind.
Falsehood sinks us into contempt
with God and man.
The road to home and happinoss lies
over small stepping stones,
less demonstrative when desorted, and
remains longer inconsolable.
The touchstone by which men try us
is most often their own vanity.
Tboro is a long and wearisomo step
between admiration and imitation.
A man explodes with indignation
when a woman ceases to lovo him, yot
he soon finds consolation ; a woman is
It is hard to personate and act a part
long, for where truth is not at the
bottom nature will always bo endeavor
ing to return, and will peep out and
betray itself one time or another.
Ho understands liberty right who
makes his own depend upon that of
others. Truo liberty does not permit
the enfranchisement of one's self
through the enslavement of some one
else.
Recent Change* In the Earth's Surface.
According to Lombardini, the Po
now transport* nearly three times as
much sediment as formerly, tho in
crease being chiefly due to tho destruc
tion of tho forosts and tho consequent
increased denudation of the Alps.
French engineers estimate that the
delta of the Rhone has advanced at a
rate far greater than it did previous to
the cultivation of its valley. In tho
Eastern United States,wherever a m "un -
tain slope has been stripped, incipient
ravines quickly form and enlarge with
such rapidity as to excite the attention
of geologists. This is especially tho
ease with the sandy soils of Maryland,
Georgia and Alabama, previously
covered with pine forests.
The black earth of Rossis, one of the
chief sources of the agricultural wealth
of the empire, is quickly cut up into
huge ravines, and the finest soil in Eu
rope is l>eing rapidly carried away to
increase the deltas of the Volga and the
Don, and to slit up the sea of Azof.
Dnring the great floods of lflfifi an<l
1868 in France and Switzerland, tho
wooded soils alone escaped from being
washed away. Tho immunity of the
provinces of Brescia and Bergamo from
damage by the great floods of 1872 was
chiefly duo to forost improvements.
During ten years the department of the
Lower Alps lost 111,000 acres of culti
vated soil from the effects of torrents;
and the clearing of the forests of Ar
deche has resulted in the oovering up
of 70,000 acres of good land with barren
sand and gravel.
It is thought by many that vegetation
elevates tho surface as much as water
depresses it. This, however, can only
be tho case when natural vegetation is
suffered to decay on tho ground in
which it grew. In the case of cultiva
ted crops, which only partly return to
tho soil, this elevation of the surface
oannot take place, and its compensa
ting effect being lost, denudation is
relatively greater from this cause alone.
Hence, it appears that one effect of
man's lnfluenoe, by laying bare largo
tracts of land for cultivation, has been
to largely increase the orosion of the
surface. In some instances, however,
the action of man has Wen to check the
natural transport of sediment. This
especially has been done in the case of
shifting sand-dunes and encroachments
of the sea. Along that part of the
French coast whioh extends from the
Girondo to the Adonr, the sea throws up
annually 1,245,000 cubic meters of aand,
which the wind heaps up into bills and
carries inland, overwhelming villages
and convrrting streams Into marshy
pools. The annual progress of these
sand hills was so great that in many
parts of Bretagno the tops of chimneys
above a sea of sand alone marked the
site of buried villages. The amount of
duneland in Western Europe alone has
l>een estimated to cover more than
1,000,000 acres, and still larger deposits
exist in parts of Asia, Africa and Amer
ica. Tho destruction caused by these
shifting sands has, from an early date,
attracted the attention of governments;
and tho result has been to check their
ravages by careful planting. Thua has
man's ingenuity boen anooeaafnlly op
posed to the action of the agencies j
which have oaused those endless wastes
of drifting sands in Poland, Peru and the
United Btatos; and to the devastation
which bas resulted in the formation of
the landr* of Gascony, Sologne and
Brenne, and the Campino sands of Bel
gium.— Chantbtr*' Journal.
Silver dollars with holes in them are
painfully numerous, but they are not
half so painfully numerous to holes
without any silver dollars around them
MORAL AND RILItiIOCM.
MUalonarlra la InSln.
There are 681) foreign missionaries in
India. One hundred and seventeen of
these are American ; and so far as is
known they are from the following
States : Ohio, 18; New York, 16; Penn
sylvania, 12; Massachusetts, 7; Con
necticut, 5; Indiana, 5; Illinois, 4; Ken
tucky, 8; Maine, 2; Vermont, 2; Now
Hampshire, 2; Virginia, 2; Tenncsso, 1;
Michigan, 1; Wisconsin, 1; lowa, 1; un
known, 29. Ohio is the banner State
for missionaries as well as for presidents.
One missionary in India has been in
the field flfty-flvo years ; 16 have labored
upward of forty years, 83 from thirty
to forty years; 100 from twenty to
thirty years ; 179 from ten to twenty
years; and 300 under ten years. What
a record of labor this is I There are
389 native missionaries in India, 340,623
communicants, and probably as many
more adhorents, to say nt thing of tho
hundreds of thousands of children
under instruction; and tho schools on
these mission fieldH arc not under cold
hearted state government, but the warm,
genial impulses of a Christian heart are
spread over tho minds and hearts of
theso children, so that heart-culture
goes hand in hand with the develop
ment of mind and body. This makes
civilization and Christianity indivisible.
Miiiionary Visitor.
■trlldaua Mrwasnd >nixa.
11l the Indian Territory there are
ninety Baptist churches, with about
6,000 members.
A Christian church has been built with
stones from the rnins from a heathen
temple by the native converts connected
with the Madura mission of tho Ameri
can board.
The National Christian association,
which wants the name of Deity inserted
in the Constitution of the United Htatea
and is opposed to all secret societies
held a national convention in Oales
bnrg, 111., December 1 and 2.
Tho grand total of Lutherans, accord
ing to the Lutberiche kalender for 1882,
is 1,299 ministers, 5,865 congregations
and 7.18,302 communicants ; an increase
daring the past year of 125 ministers,
182 congregations and 17,884 communi
cants.
The Protestant Episcopal diocese of
Tennessee reporti the following statis
tics : Clergy, thirty-five; parishes,
thirty-two , baptisms, 194, of which
eightj-threo were adults, confirms
tions, 281 ; .Sunday school scholars, 12,-
140; parish-school scholars. 208; com
municants, 2,718. Contributions for
all purposes, $11,681.14.
When tho news of the massacre of
twelve native missionaries in New
Guinea arrived in tho other islands
of the Pacific, and request was
made in the island of Tahiti
that threo men should be sent to sup
ply the place of tboae who had fallen,
all the students in the college volun
teered, so that they had actually to cast
lots who should be the threo to go.
Similar to finltean's Case.
The cue of QnHeau ia doubtless one
of the rao*t peculiar in the annals of
criminal jurisprudence, tint it ia not
wholly exceptional in some of ita as
pect*. Many yeara ago, in Maine, a
man of previous respectability received
as he claimed, an order from the Lord
to go some twenty mile* tip the Handy
river and kill a person whom he won d
And chopping wood on the lianka of the
river. He performed the mission and
was arrested for the act. At the trial
in AtignstA ho ploaded guilty and said
that ho deserved and expected to be
hnng, althongh he bad only obeyed the
voice of heaven. The court, after con
sideration, let the plea tie entered on
the records, but did not pass sentence
of death on the prisoner. The case WM
c fined for judgment and the prisoner
ws remande*to jail. For something
like twenty yeais the case earon np at
every session of the oonrt for sentence,
and was always continued for judgment,
tho prisoner all the time protesting
against thia eonrse and insisting on hie
constitutional right of being hnng.
He finally died in jail.— Adecr
tiinr.
A (>rcat I'lnr# for Tobacco and Npongcs.
The population of Key West, Fla.,
inside end ontside of the corporation
boundaries, is variously estimated from
twelve to ajxtoeu thousand. It is as
serted by persons well aoqnainted with
the place that it does not contain half a
dozen fs mil inn from the Soother States
of tho Union, and not twenty families
from the Northern States, snd that of
the whole population, exclusive of tho
garrison and the United States officials,
there are not twenty-five nnacclimated
adults. About one-half of the popula
tion are supported directly or indi
rectly by the trade in tobacco and the
manufacture of segars; and the other
half are dependent npon fishing and
sponging, ine tobaooo is brought from
the West Indies and most of it from
Cnba. The cigars manufactured from
it are shipped almost exclusively to
New York, either directly by ocean
steamers or through Cedar Key and
Fernaniina.
THE PA MILT DOCTOR.
Hr*iti,ATnA.—A member of tho
Massachusetts Medical society sends to
the Tromncrijyl the following remedy for
this nmoh dreaded disease: It seems
very important that attention should be
often called to the pruphvlatic virtues
of belladonna. Many eminent physi
cians have published their opinions in
its favor, and there exists any amount
ol evidence, abundantly sufficient to es
tablish its efficacy. Moreover, the
remedy is cheap, safoand comparatively
harmless. Nothing more is requisite
than a tumbler of water, containing
four or five drops of belladonna tincture,
if attainable, if not, about two grains of
the extract, perfectly dissolved. Of this
an adult may take a teaspoonful; a child
a half or a quarter as much, according
to age—repeating the dose every four or
five ilayH during the time epidemic is
in the neighborhood, or every day if
there bo any known exposure to it.
Tho quantity taken should be less, if it
should cause dilated pupils, irascibility
and disturbed sleep. It is a mistake to
suppose that this use of belladonna will
always prevent scarlatina; it only mcdi
lies it, its a general rule, and destroys
its malignancy. It has been tried in
two or three hundred cases, and I never
knew one prove fatal where they take it.
BCBWS AI SODA. —We must again,
says V<Atth'i Companion , call the atten
tion of our readers to tho power of bi
carbonate of soda— tho common cooking
soda to relievo the pain of burns. This
power is truly wonderful, and the fact
that soda is always at hand makes it im
portant for every mother fully to undor*
stand that she has in her cupboard a
sure ind inexpensive remedy for the
sufferings of her burnt child.
A friend of ours, oao morning not
long since, burned and blistered his
wrist. The length of the blister was at
least two inches, and the width half an
inch. Moistening tho wound and spread
ing dry soda thickly over it and than
drooping just enough water upon the
soda to make it a sort of paste, ho was
instantly relieved, nor did ho hare an
unpleasant sensation from the burn
afterward.
A writer in a St. Petersburg medical
journal, speaking of sixteen persons
who were severely burned in efforts to
save their property from a fire, all of
whom were treated exclusively with
soda, says "he considers himself justi
fied iu pronouncing this remedy the
best and most efficient in burns of all
kinds and degrees."
In one case the burns covered half
tho body of tho sufferer. Tli" whole
face was stripped of the epidrmi
scarf skin). The front of the neck,
chest and abdomen and part of
the foot presented hams of the second
degree. Barns of the third degree
were found on the right mammary
gland, and on the right fcrearn,, all the
muscles of which were exposed, as if
prepared by dissection.
Bod a was used and it relieved the
pain, and a cure was effected in fonr
seeks, excepting that the healing of
the breast and arm required arother
mouth. The rears were insignificant.
In burns of the first degree—the
slighter—powdered soda will do. In
hums of the second degree cover with
linen rags and keep them moist with a
solution of ao<]a. In bums of the third
degree, the rags will need frequent
changing to wash off the pus which ac
cumulates beneath.
Country Origin of Wall Street Kings.
Looking npon the personal history of
the present stock capitalists, ssys s
New York letter, it is a poculis* fact
that they are all of rural origin. Kufus
Hatch is from Maine Cyrns W. Field
came from Stcckbrldge. B. D. Mor
gan.was bred on a Connecticut farm.
Hnosell Sage is from Hens* l%ir county.
Wilhstn H. Vsnderbilt is a native of
HUtcn Island, ami Jay (kwld came
from Delaware county, where bis father
was a laborious fanner. Other names
might be mentioned to illustrate this
fact. The financial tsbnt of Wall
street is drawn from all |i*rts of the
oonntry, but is developed here nnder
the exigencies of the occasion. It is
circumstances that make men great,
simply because they bring out latent
faculties, and generally surprise the
possessor* of the latter as much as
they do the rest of the world. How
little, iodoed, contd Cyras W. Field
have imagined when be kept a rag shop
in Bnrling slip (whero I first saw his
name) that be wonld ever reach his
present distinction. He then bought
the daily product of the street rag
picker, which WM shipped to the paper
mills of his native State, and he did
well to clear $l,OOO a year, bat at pres
ent he clears double that snm daily.
How little also oonld Jay Gonld have
dreamed when he peddled his maps
through Delaware county that the time
wonld oome when he wonld make every
year more than the entire valuation of
M|Mity I Here, however, we see
|dßg done, and it seems to be ae-
Rkhed in a very faoil* manner.
tr, what an age we live in I
Will the "coming man" shut the
door after him ? He will in this office,
er the going will go out of the window.
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.
The assertion that iron and platinum,
when raised to incandescence, are
transparent to light, has been proved
false by a series of experiment*.
The impression that flowers are never
found double in a wild state is an in
correct one, tho fact being that this is
frequently one of nature's variations.
Some engineers of Dundee, Scotland,
have tried with success a new gun f r
throwing a lino to a wrecked vessel.
The gun is abont two feet in length.
It is recommended that, as tho com
mon ailanthns Iree is dioecious, only tho
female trees should be propagated for
shade in towns, the male having the dis
agreeable odor.
Insects are often attracted from a dis
tance by artificial flowers, but they
never light on them, leading us to be
lieve that they are guided by some other
sense than that of sight.
The latitude of England is the same
as that of Labrador, and the former
country is only saved from the coldness
and desolation of tho latter by the
warmth of the gulf stream,
M. H. F. lilanford reports that ho has
observed white ants in the act of emit
ting ryhthmioal sounds. Another ob
server, Mr. F. P. Psscoe, has heard a
peculiar tound, in fields of Southern
Europe, which was found to be the song
of s small lizard. It is generally be
lieved that these creatures have no
power of producing vocal sounds.
Ilcrr Hansen has found that the blue
color in milk is due to the presence of
peculiar microscopical organisms—
known as bacteria—which multiply very
rapidly, and in so doing produce a blue
! matter r. scmbhng aniline. These or
ganisms render the milk unfit for food,
especially for persons of weak digestive
power.
A Myitis Monkey.
" Birds and insects are not the only
animals that fly," a veteran New York
taxidermist said. " Hare's a collection
I'm making that shown all the animals
j known that move through the air with
out wings; not many, to be sure, but
interesting enough when you come to
think about it. Now, if any one should
tell you that he'd seen an 1 shot a monkey
sailing through the air one hundred
feet from the ground, you'd thins per
haps he was overloading you with facts;
hut hero's the very creature, a regular
firing monkey. He ain't much at it
now, on account of being a little too net
np," with a cough of apology for the
professional joke. " Its cams is the
oolngo or flying lemur. They arc found
in the islands of the Indian archills
go. You see, the limbs are connected
by this wide membrane that looks ex
actly like a grest hairy cloak that, if
the animal f Mod its arms, would com
pletely cover it up. It is a night ani
mal, like the bat, and lives on very
much the same kind of food, and spends
its time in the trees. Wnen it is crawl
ing a limb the membrane hangs closely
j to the body, and you would never sua
, pect it of flying; but let anything dis
turb it, and it's good-bye legs. It rnsh<*
,to tbo top of tho tron, out on the end
of a branch, and dashes off into the air.
The four logs are stretched out at full
length, and tho skin between them
liellies out like a parachute, and it
moves away, floating down and swing
ing from side, and after passing
perhaps two or throe hundred feet
downward sweeps up twenty-five or
thirty, fastens to a limb, and, in less
timo than you can tell it, is at the top
of the tree and has flnng itself off again.
It travels so fast in this wsy that a man
told mo he couldn't keep up with one
by running along below; and in one
case where one jumped from a tree
nearly one hundred feet high it came
down about fifty feet with a rush and
by the force of its swoop rose nearly
the same distance again. They carry
their young, generally two, through the
air with them."
The ( hnmpUn Kol fatchrr.
Samuel Caddis, who lives at the
Kmithtown look, Pa., on tho Bncka
county aide of tho Delaware river,
claim* to be the champion eel catcher.
He bring* home every morning from
<5OO to 1,030 eel*, canght daring the
night. The only instrument he em
ploys ia a large basket, which he made
himself. It haa a wieker cover, with a
spring that fastens the oover whenever
it is shot down. He says he oan tell,
oven in the dark, where the eel* are
awimming, and know* all their habits.
' When they move oat from some ditch
I in the river bank, or sqairm ap from a
mad patch, they start np and down the
river in crowds. Gaddia opens his
| yawning basket and dive* with it into
( the thickest of the ran. It takes only
( a seoond to fill the basket, and then
r down goes the lid. The basket will
I take in forty eels at a time. Bale, Oad
, dia says, are quiet in the daytime, and
do most if their traveling at night.
They move all night, so that he ia sure
of a haul. Every time his basket is
fnll he empties it into ths bottom of a
> big oart which be keeps near the river,
, and there tho eels remain until mora
. ing when he sells them
A ftaurt lrl.
The smartest girl I've met In lowa,
writes a correspondent, I met yesterday
at Nevada, Story county, Northwestern
lowa—Mian Belle Clinton. Mi MM (Lin
ton is a brigbt-eyd f rosy-cheeked girl
of abont twenty, an fall of fan and
health and vigor an a good girl can be.
Two yearn ago Mis* Clinton waa a school
teacher. Having np by her baching
alxjnt 8160, she last spring liorrowed a
span of horses from her father, rigged
np a "prairie schooner," and taking
her little brother, started for Dakota.
In the wagon were a nioe, soft bather
bod and a mattress, bags of floor, coffee,
bams, canned milk and small groceries.
Miss Clinton says laughingly to day,
speaking of her trip:
" Why I nev.-r lived so nicely ia my
life, and I n<-vor had such an appetite;
and such courbsy I rooeived every
where ! Itongh, rode men wonld come
to onr camp, and, after 1 had talked
with them awhile, offer to baild my
fire, and actually bring water to me.
How was the scenery? Oh, it was
gorgeons! We rode throngh prairies
carpeted with flowers and m* I odious
with the songs of birds."
" What did yon do when you got to
Dakota?" I asked, entranced by her
story.
" But let me tell you first how we
went. We went up through the Bpirit
Lake country in lowa, crossing the
Milwaukee and Bt. Paul road at Bpenoer.
Then we drove northwest across the
lowa border into the northwest corner
cf Minnesota. Then we went west,
crossing the Big Bioux and a dozen
little rivers, and finally came to James
river. This is the Dakota wheat coun
try which they call the Jim river coun
try. It is about *ono hundred miles
• ast from the Missouri at Fort Sally.
! Here in Beadle, Bond, Spink and Faulk
' counties we came on to the finest wheat
I prairies in the West.
" Now, you ask me what I did. Well,
I homesteaded 160 acres of land. Then
I took up a timber claim of 110 acres
more."
" What is a timber claim V
" Why. I hired a man, and we set out
tan acres of trees. This, I say, gave
me 100 acres more. So I have 2*o
acres now. But I must tell you about
those trees. Tbey were young locust
apple and black walnut sprouts. • I
sowed s peck of locust leans, a pint of
apple seels and two bushels of black
walnuts in our garden in lowa a year
ago. These sprouts wore little fellows,
and we could set them out fast—just go
i along and stick them in the ground,
; Bat they are just as good. I believe
my 3,000 little black walnut sprouts
will be worth 815 apiece in tan years,
and 820 apiece in fifteen. My locust
trees will sometime fence the whole
county."
"Then what did Ton do?"
"We built a shanty and broke up
five acres of land, and this fall we came
back to lowa to spend the winter and
here we ar<'and Miss Clinton, laugh
ingly, made a courtesy, and tipped her
hand like the dancing fairy in the
opera.
"And what will yon do in the
future ?"
"In the spring Til go back with
more black walnut and locust sprouta,
and take up 160 acres more. The trees
are just what I want to plant, anyway,
and they'll pay better than any wheat
crop that could be raised, only I've got
to wait for them ten or twelve yean ;
but I can wait," and her eyes g/owed
with hope and happiness as she looked
into the future.
Some Xonttcr- of the Forest.
Near Stockton, On]., ia i tree that is
I "25 feet high, and two in Tiotoria,
| Australia, are estimated to be 4 lit and
450 foot high.
A great elm tree that had been blown
down near London, with a large ball of
earth at the roots, aettled beak into ita
original place after the branehea had
been cot off.
A cypress tree felled by N. B. Jordan,
of High Hill creek, 8. 0., measured
twenty-fire feet in cirenmfersooa at
the butt. It took two axmen fire
hours to out it down.
A black walnut grove that was planted
by a Wisconsin farmer about twenty
years ago on some waste land was re
cently sold tcr 927,000. The trees are
now from sixteen to twenty inches
through.
A tree that was eight hundred fast
in length, ninety-six in ctrcumfereaos
at the base, and sound to the very heart,
was felled in California recently. Five
men were twenty-two days in do'ng the
work. After it had been completely
severed by anger bolaa it still stood
unmoved, and required blocks, pulleys
end tackling to bring its proud baud to
earth.
" Do let mo have your photograph,"
said a dashing belle to a gentleman
who bad been annoying her with hfc
attentions. The gentleman was de
lighted, and in a short time the lady iw
celvod tho picture. She gave it to her
servant with the question, "Would yoa
know the original if ha should sail f
The servant replied in the affirmative.
"Well, when he oomea, toll him I am