The Old Churchyard.
Brcatho Holt ami low, O wliifl|><irinj( wiud,
Above the tangled giaMea drop,
Where those who loved me loug ago
Forgot the world and fell asleep.
No towering shaft or sculptured urn,
Or mausoleum's empty prido,
Tells to tho curious posscr-by
Their virtues, or the time thoj died.
I count tho old lamiliar names,
O'orgrown with moss and lichen gray,
Where tangled brier and creeping vine
Acrosa the crumbling tablets stray.
The summer sky is aoltly blue;
"Hie birds still sing tho sweet, old strain}
But something Irom the summer-timo
Is gone, that will not come again.
So many voices havo been husbod—
So many songs have teased lor aye—
So many hands I used to touch
Are folded over hearts ol clay.
The mossy world recedes from mo—
I cease to hear its praise or blame;
"Hie mossy marbles echo back
No hollow sound or empty tamo.
I only know that, calm ami still,
They sleep beyond life's woo and wail,
Beyond tho fleet of sailing clomls,
Hoyotid the sha low of tho vale;
I only feel that, tired and worn,
I halt upon the highway hare.
And gaze with yearning eyes beyond
To fields that shine supremely lair.
The Wooden Wedding,
"Btike, do you know that :t week
from to-morrow will ho tho timber an
niversary of that dear connubial day,
when Cupid, hovering over tho altar
tied tho hymenial knot which made us
twain?"
Hon delivered the above lino bit of
oratory, not in tho offer' vo, off-hand
manner which proves the impromptu, I
but with a halting precision which be
trayed the effort it had cost to furniu- ,
late and remember it; nor was it the i
first line speech I have heard delivered |
with an effort.
"I supjwi.se you mean our wooden '
wedding," I replied.
"\es, but doesn't timber mean wood,
I'd like to know? Now I'll toll you
what I've been thinking. I want to
celebrate it. A celebration of that
sort would be a new thing in this nook
of woods, you see, and I think it would
take big. It wouldn't cost much, and
there is no telling the useful things j
which our friends might bring us
The milk, eggs, butter, meat, fruit and
flour we have in plenty now, and. Ac-
Cording to my figuring, ten dollars for 1
sweets and other jim-cracks would
furnish a sumptuous supper for fifty
or more persons. 1 read the other day
about an old fellow of eightv, married ,
to his fourth wife, who celebrated his
wooden wedding, and his friends who
attended the supper brought them just j
oodles of things, among the rest a set
of parlor furniture and a nice top
buggy. I lielieve it pays to celebrate
one's wooden wedding, to say nothing
of the pleasant occasion of meeting
one's friends. I'll fix up the back
porch for them to pile the heavy fur
niture on, and if any one brings a new
reaper or a top buggy it can just l>e
left in the door-yard. Those who
bring 'precious g-wwls in small pack- j
ages' can put them : the parlor table.
I have written out the invitation
card, which I will re.wl to you; 'We,
the undersigned, have concluded to
surprise our friends, and give them an j
opportunity of showing their appre
ciation of us, by celebrating our wood- i
en wedding on date the . All who
receive a duplicate of this card are
cordially requested to come and bring
a good appetite and whatever other
valuable piece of furniture his or her
generosity may suggest. benjamin
and .Sukey.' There, if you will allow
me, I think that'sstraight tothe point,
and (latter myself it is somewhat orig
inal."
"For mercy's sake lien, stop and :
take breath and let me speak. It is
very easy to talk alwiut entertaining
and furnishing supper for fifty or more
guests, but it is not so easy to make
the needed arrangements. How do
you suppose I am going to get through
such an affair, and no help to be had
this side of Africa, that I know of?
Here is a bit of wisdom I w ant you to
stow away for future reference too.
The good appetites brought to celebra
tions of the kind you desire to make, |
generally far outnumber all other \al
uable pieces of furniture produced for
the occasion."
"Now suke. don't go and spoil all '
my nice plans with a big wet blanket.
My heart is so set on this celebration.
You know a fellow cannot have but
one wooden wedding, unless—unless
he -marries again, and somehow I just
feel it in my bones that we will have a
jolly time, and our friends will do a
nice thing by us, In the way of pres
ents, you know. I'll help cook."
The next two days Ben spent writ
ing out the invitations, then the cook
ing began in earnest, and Ben beat tho
eggs ami I stirred batter and kneaded
dough till my head grew dizzy.
At last the evening of the Important
day arrived, and leaving the culinary
department for an hour or two in care
of Melinda Jones, Ben and 1 arrayed
in our best bib arid tucker, stood at
the hall door to receive our guests,
Ben holding a tablet on which he kept
tally of each arrival.
"Sixty-live guests and thirty-one
parcels,"sighed Ben, as the clock tolled
off the stroke of eight. "Suke, what
do you 'spose is in all those queer
looking littTe wads which they have
been piling up on the parlor table?"
"Precious goods in small parcels,"
whispered I, "but I haven't heard any
deposits on the bark porch."
"No," answered Ben, "they have all
coure straight in from the front gate to
the hall door, and tho presents, what
ever they are, are in that eonglomera.
tion on the table. I most begin to
wish that we had not celebrated it."
Just then Melinda poked her head in
at the opposite door, and gave me a
significant w rik, and I hurried into
the kitchen to find that her youngest
hopeful hpd managed to push tho cover
off the ice-cream, and had filled the
vessel containing it to overflow ing by
thrusting into it young Fletcher Big
bee's new ulster, which the meddle
some cherub had managed to pull
down from the clothes rack in the
hall. Of course Meluula was almost
in hysteries, and I had to smother inv
own regrets to comfort her, while
<ieorge Washington washed out the
coat and hung it behind the stove to
dry. Then I had to extract Ben from
the sitting-room and explain the mis.
I hap to him. which was a sore disap
pointment, for he had prided himself
1 no little on the preparation of that ice-
I cream.
The next mishap was the breaking
down of the parlor sofa, then young
Primrose Fleiuming eaughl his feet in
Miss Tulip >pringer's train, anil fell
forward into the dressing-ease glass
and shivered it to atoms.
I Miring supper J heard Mrs. Bigbee
remark to Col. Fleniming that she
thought it looked real little not to have
ice-cream.
At last the supper was over, and
the cakes and goodies which were not
eaten were stowed in baskets by lov
ing mothers who had promised their
waiting darlings that if they would
!*• gixol they would bring them some.
Melinda took a basket full, and Sally
lirub and several others took a basket
full, and even Mrs. Bigbee took a slice
of jelly i ake for lor little Ti-ddy.
Mipper is gone the guests are gone
Ib-n and I stand face to face for a
moment; 1 know that I look tired, for
1 feel so. Ben looks gltiiu, arid silently j
we turn and fall to exan ningour pres- j
ents.
Suminan cheap walking-sticks;
seven wooden tobacco-pi pes; three ,
bootjacks; one carved cigar IMIX, var- j
nished; four rolling-pins; fixe potato
mashers; one bunch tooth-picks, and j
the balance In butter-paddle*, or ladles i
if you prefer the name.
"■suke," in a hollow mournful tone,
"I am tired, aw ful tired."
"So am I."
"I am almost sick, too."
"So am I."
"And I am- disappointed,"
"So am not I."
I was just opening my lips to say "I
tohl you so," but he looked -o doleful I .
resolutely <l..scd them again, and si
lently we laid us down to upend the
small hours lietween us and day in fit- ;
ful slumlier If Ben and I should liv e
to see our diamond wedding we w ill
never celebrate another St. /eon'*
Mwjiiziw.
Jlore Sew 1 ses for Cotton,
It is said it has been demonstrated '
that fire and water-proof houses can
lie built out of cotton and straw. The
cotton uses I is the refuse of the planta
tions and factories, and when
grounded up in almutan equal amount
of straw and asliestors, is converted
into a paste, and sulmequently into
large slali* or bricks, which liecoine as
hard as stone. The article thus made
is pronounced the best of architectural
material and will le much used. A
Boston rope-maker of long experience,
like the father l>efore him. says that
i cotton rope can lie made for fifty per
cent less than hemp, and is preferable
for all shipping uses, cables, bolt, rojie
halliards, tow ropes, hawsers, tackle
I and falls, hoisting, etc. He also says
• hat cotton is superior to hemp for
ealking. and believe* that, it ran lie
used for roofing and as a sutsditute
for leather and hose in leather and lielt
ing, and for tubing to inclose tele
graph and telephone wires, lioth over
head and under ground. He states
that one hundred and fifty tons of
hemp rope is made in the I'nlted
States dally, the material for which
is mostly Imported. Congress has au
thorized the secretary of the navy to
introduce cotton cordage Into the naval
service of the I'nlted States, to such an
extent as will fully test Its value and
efficiency as nanpared with the kinds
now In use.
I K I'LIRHUS U!l|!l,
t
Hot* lit* Korth of ih> Inlim niatM
4 Mine to he rhmm
I'he motto which figure* upon the
seal of the I nited states, "K J'iuribti*
I nuiii" "from many, one," has lieen
' universally admired. Nothing could
■ he happier.
It is not known who suggested it.
nor is it quite certain who originally
coin|M>sed it. In July, 177G, soon after
the Declaration of liidcpcudnce, <'mi
gress appointed Dr. Franklin, Thomas
Jefferson anil John Adams, a commit
tee to devise a seal for the infant re
public. Kaeh member offered a sug
gestlon.
Dr. Franklin proposed: "Moses lift
ing up his wand and dividing tlie Itisl
sea, with I'harioli in his chariot ovi-r
-wiielmed by the waters," and the motto
"Rebellion to Tyrants is Obedience to
tbsi."
Mr. Jefferson offered: "Tho Children
of Israel, I**l by tin; pillar and the
cloud," and on the other side, "figures
of the Savon chiefs, ilengist and llor
sa."
Mr. Ad. mis proposed: "Hercules
resting on ins club, with Virtue urging
him to climb a rugged mountain, and
sloth alluring him into ttie tlowery
paths of self-indulgcrice."
After considering the matter for si*
weeks, the committee reported a design
more elaborate than either of those
suggested, containing -wimething uiii
bleuiatic of each of the nations by
which America had been peopled. For
Kngland, a rose; for Ireland, a harp:
for Scotland, a thistle; for France, a
lletir-de-lis; for t ierm.itiy. a bla' k eagle
for the Netherlands, a lion. There
were many other devices, most of
which Congress rejected. <n<* thing
only of the committee's rej<ort was ac
cepted and retuined unaltered in the
linal seal, namely, the exquisitely ap
propriate motto, "K I'luribus I'nurn."
Which member of tcommittee
thought of it. has not la-en discovered;
but we can give a pretty good Yankee
guess of how it came to be thought of-
Probably every metnle-r of the commit*
tee w ;ls in the habit of reading the
chief |>eriodical of that day. "The lien
tleman's Magazine," f>r which Dr.
Johnson wrote the reports of the de
bates in Parliament. Now. that famed
|<criodieal had u|*on its title page, for
forty-live years, the device of a hand
grasping a bom h of (lowers, with
the motto, "K I'luribus I num."
The difficult question remains: How
did the founder of "The (ienlleman's
I Magazine" get the phrase ' Did he
j eollljlose it himself ' I lot he find It in
some Latin |"-t ' We <av |H*t. for a
reason which sehoollioys will rei agnize
at once. as the two words form a dac
tyl and a sjvondee, the two poetic feet
which end he*ainetern. such as \ irgi'
us-4.
If we turn to a complete edition of
j the works of Virgil, we find among his
shorter, miscellaneous poem*. one en
titleil "Morelum." which is the name
of a kiml of salad made of manv herbs
and vegetables cotnbinssl with cheese
a dish in great request among the Ital
ian farmers in Virgil's time
The poet describes the composition
of tin- dainty dish, and he pictures* the
peasant at day-dawn, swiftl* stirring
the many-hued ingr**lierits. until a 1
last lor if the compound la-comes
"from many one."
'l D'A- o> ill |i mm !* t%' in tirtgti .A * ir*
|M|w>rfurtt r.'or # |*itiribu ona
Here we have the very phrase. ex*
cet t tiiat uniitu is of necessity unus. to
agree with color. And this is all we
know at present alemt "K I'luribus
I 'niim "
(Mil tost owes in fores-
The primitive sacks loth, it would
appear, is still the mourning raiment
of thet'oreans. During a visit paid by
tlie squadron under tne command of
Admiral Willes, in Neptemlwr last, to
|erts on the cast coast of t'orea, the
officials were wearing "grayish hempen
garments," which in that country de
note mourning, and the admiral was
informed that the whole nation had
gone into mourning a year for the
queen, who hail died in consequence of
the shock to her feeling* caused by the
proceeding* of the rioters at Seoul
In the matter of dress generally the
Coreans are favorably spoken of. near
ly every one lieing decently dressed;
and a real well-dressed Corean, in his
broad bat and white roliea, is said to
have an eminently respectable and well
to-do appearance. Their towns, how-- ;
ever, offer a distinct contrast, sanitary
silence lieing little understood, and
architecture not having got beyond a
rudimentary stage; but in one respect
they seein to lie ahead of the west.
The smoke from the fires in the kitchen
f made to pass in (lues underneath
the rest of the house, and although the
chimney is projected In an incongru
ous way into the streets, the whole
building is comfortably warmed by a
limited expenditure of fuel.— Celmt-'ul
Kmpirt, Shanghai.
SCIENTIFIC MCBAPM.
I
■ 1 Tho average elevation of North Car.
olina Is G-K) feet above the sea level.
11
M. Vignler believes that animals are
i indebted for tho powers of direction
I which tliey sometimes manifest so
strikingly to the possession of a mag
netic sense relating to the forces that
govern both the direction and the in
clination of tlie needle, the scat of
which lie locates in the semicircular
t canals of tlie internal ear.
Among the Russian geologists the
belief appeurs to lie settled that granitic
rocks, once thought to be of igneous
and eruptive origin, are really of
aqueous formation. The granites of
the rapids of the Dnieper, when closely
examined, show stratification, and
under tiie microscope they are seen to
contain dr >ps of brown water.
Drs. Nitherwood and I lan lan have
expressed the ln-li*-l that excessive
mental work produce, .* rapid decay of
the teeth. As an explanation of the
alleged fact, another writer suggest*
that the over worked brain steals all the
phosphates and leaves none for the
teeth, or else that too much study
causes tlie general health to. teriorate.
It seems that some luminous animals
' iwe their peculiar light-giving function
l< a kind of a fat which they secrete
\\ hen tliesc little creatures are at rest
they do not shine at all, hut if they are
•\cited a lightning-like Mash is sent
forth. I'rof. I'adziszcw sky manageii
b separate some of this fat and exam
ined it. It is a thick, pale, neutral
liquid. An alkali easily sajioiiilies it.
When it wax shaken with a little
aiistir pitash it gave a (lash of ligiit
much the same as that which come*
from the animals.
( incinnati's Nickname.
The nil knauie of I'orkopolis is of
Lngiish origin, and was the brilliant
inspiration of a Hjvinsor wlio never
saw Cincinnati. In tin- \ear 1-2".
tlu-re floiin-dicd in the (Jlit-cri city a
gentleman named .bin*-, lb- was the
president of the I nited Mates bram h
bunk, and w as locally known a> "Rank
lone, ." The |ork trade had already
taken such pro|x>rtions as to rouse
ilie financial enthusiasm of • Rank
Jones," and in a succession of letters he
lilat**d upon the pr ■sjx-ritv of tlie |>rk
prosjiei ts of ttie (jueen < its. The l-t
-tcrs Were addresMs] to tlie I,ivT|H>ol
correspond<-nt of the ( in. innati bank,
and that gentleman's imagtnation at
length Ihhiii e fired b\ Rank Jones'
enthusiasm. In a moment of wild
generosity he hied him to the studio of
some Liverpudlian Tlmrw ahlsen, and
•rderi-d the construction of what is
s-t down in the annal* a* "a unique
pair of mode! hog*." 'l'D* ,• nohle effi
gies were made of papier mache. and
were sent out to Cincinnati as a pres
ent, *c, nupanieti by the insciption
ItWe<| n part at least to Iwcome fa
mous— * To Mr (sirge W. Jon*-* as
the worthy representative of I'orkopo*
lis." The hogs have still a local habi
tat ion and a name. They add to the
hurden of life in the office of one *d
the largest "slaughterers" of t iri-uin.it i
has mg passed bv mlieritanee from
Rank Jones down, from hand to hand,
anmng the p.r* aonari ha of I'orkopo
lis. for riigh iije>n ii.ilf a century,
'/.iryer'i M<IJ < ."UE.
Hand*.
Hand* are divid.si int. three difli.
rent kinds : those with round jmint**!
fingers, those with square tips and
those that are spade *hap*<*l. witti pods
of flesh at each side of the nail. The
first type with round-pointed fingers
—belong to characters with jercep
tions extra sensitive, to very pious
people, to contemplative minds, to the
impulsive, and to all (met* and artists
who have ideally as a prominent trait.
The square-shaped teflong to scientific
people, sensible, self-contained charac
ters. and to the class of profiwsional
men who are neither visionary nor al
together sordid. Tlie spade-shaped
tyjie, with pods of flesh at the side of
the nail, indicate people whose inter
ests and instinct* are mostly material.
Koch finger, no matter what kind of a
hand it is joined to, has a joint repre.
srnting each ef those tv|w*. The dlvl- !
sion of the finger that is neared the i
palm stands for the Is sly, the middle
division represents mind, ami tlie high,
est joint spirit or soul. If the top
joint is longer than the others it de
notes a character weakened with a too
abundant imagination, great kieality
and a leaning toward the theoretical
rather than the practical. When the
middle joint of the linger ia long, it
promises a logical mind, and when the
lowest joint is longest, it indicates a
nature that clings more to the luxur
ies than to the refinements of life. If
they are nearly alike, it indicates a
well-balanced wind, especially if the
I length of tlie fingers equals the length
I of the paltn.
New fork Tenement fD>o*es.
The sanitary Inspection of the over*
' crowded tenement houses, says a New
Vork letter, is disclosing a condition of
things that may well make even a New
1 ! Yorker, familiar as lie may Is- with
' j those human hives, stand aghast, and
I ask, Are we not after all hut half civil.
" | iz.ed? For instance, one house in
I Mulberry street is reported as contain
ing 171 occupants, thirty-nix of whom
are children; in many of the rooms
persons were found stretched out on
■ the floor, without bed or le-dding.
■ ! These were for the most part Italians.
> Another Mulberry street rookery eon.
tains 11J apartments, occupied by 122
persons; a third, fifty-eight apartments,
occupied by 112 jH-rsons; a fourth has
thirty-eight rooms, occupied by 1• P
1 ; persons; a fifth, thirty-eight rooms, oe*
| copied by eighty persons, and in the
j rear, hedged in from light and air, is a
rear building occupied by forty seven
persons. Down in Cherry and Water
streets there are some tenement h under
the roof of which may be found rep
resent at iv*-s of almost all the nation
alities of Christendom, and some out
sideof Christendom Chinese, Italians,
j Spaniards, French, Portuguese, N an
| dinaviaris, Irish, Hermans, and here
and then* an African. In Raxtcr
street there are places where more
than GOO of the jx-ople are huddled to
getliiT, in utter defiance of tlie laws
of health. The Insjiectors appear to
think it a miracle that a pestilence has
J not broken out in these dens long D
fore this, and as for trying to improve
their condition, the tiling, we are told,
would seem to la- out of tie- question.
'l'he ofilv remedy is to stop building
bouses of this description, and this can
| only la- accomplished by stringent
! legislation, to wiii.li, of ■ iiirm-, the
1 owners of all riicli projs-rty are reso.
lately opjxined. The public health ill
sueli eases. liowever, should Ik.- sii|-rior
tu all ■ iiisiib-ratioii s..f pr- -nil or pr:
v ate interest
An Elephant's Revenge.
tine of those jw-sts of society, a
"practical joker." visited a caravan in
an Knglish fair, and tried liis stupid
trick upon an elephant there. ID-first
doled out to it. one bv one, some gin
gi-rbre.vl nuts; and. when the gr.t*-ful
animal was thrown off its guard, he
suddenly proffered it a large parcel
wrapped in brown paja-r. The unsus
picious creature accept**] arid swallow
i*l the lump, but iinin<*liately le-gan to
i exhibit sign* of intense suffering and
snatching up a bucket han<b*l it to the
ki-cjM-r for water. This having l-e*-n
given to it. it eagerly swallowed quan
tities of the fluid.
"Ha"'irn*l the delight**! joker, "I
guess those nut* were a trifle hot, old
j fellow."
"You had l>ettor is- off," exclaimed
tlie ke'per. "unl*-*s vou wish tlie buck
et at your head."
The fool took the hint only just in
| time, for tlie enraged animal, having
finished the sixfh bucketful, hurled the
bucket after if* tormentor with such
I force that, had he lingered a moment
more, his life might have l* n forfeit
ed.
The affair was not. however, yet
concluded. The following year the
show revisited the same town, and tlie
foolish joker, like men of his genus
unable to profit by ••xjx-rience, thought
to repeat hi* stupid trick njH>n the ele
phant. ID- took two lot* of nut* into
the show with him sweet nuts in one
pocket and hot one* in the other. Th
elephant had not forgotten the jest
played upon him, and therefore a<-cept
the cake* very cautiously. At last the
joker proffer**l a hot one; but no soon"
I T bail the injured creature discovered
its pungency than it seized hold of it*
persecutor by the coat tail*, hoisted
him up by them, and held him until
they gave way, when he fell to the
ground. The elephant now inspected
the severed coat tails, which, after lit
hail discovered and eaten all the sweet
nuts, he tore into rags and flung after
: tlipir discomfited owner.
Comparative Digestibility of Meats.
Dr. Learned places meats in three
classes—l. Those easy of digi-stion. 2.
Those moderately easy of digestion.
.3. Those difficult of digestion. In the
i first class, or those easy of digestion,
we find mutton, venison, sweetbread.
! chicken, rabbit, partridge, pheasant,
grouse, white, smelt, turbot and sole.
In the second class, or those moderate,
ly easy of digestion, beef, lamb, hare,
pigeon, turkey, guinea ami pea fowl,
duck, wild water fowl, blackcock,
woodcock, snipe, cod. haddock, flound
er, pike, trout and raw oysters. In
the third class, or those difficult of di
gestion. pork, veal, goose, the liver,
heart, kldneyjthe brains of animals,
salt meats, sausage, mackerel, eel, sal
mon, herring, sprat, skate, sturgeon,
salted fish in general, lobster, crab,
prawns, shrimps, crayfish, mussvda, j
cockles, scollops and cooked oyster*.
f'Hlf.DßK*** COLI'MK.
A Hnra i.lfi
In the/ear 17M1. while Clinton and
Washington were watching each
Mher'a movement* near New York,
general Kchiiyler, having resigned hi*
command on account of unjuitt charge*
math- against him, wa* iitayirig at hi*
house, whieh then xt/s/d alone ustxide
j the ntockade or w all of Albany. The
Ilritish commander, therefore, seeing
his opportunity, writ out John Walter
.Meyer, with a party of Tories and In
dians, to capture Gen. Schuyler.
When they arrived at the out*kirx
, of the city they P-.irned frmu a Dutch
lul/orrr tliat the general's house wait
guarded hy six soldiers. The Dutch
man, the minute the band was out of
sight, took to his legs and warned the
general of their approach.
Soon after a servant announced that
'here was a strange man at the back
door who wished to see the general.
S'huyler, understanding the trap,
gathered his family in one of the upper
rooms, and giving orders that the door*
and windows be barred, fired a pistol
from one of the tojestory windows to
alarm the neighliorhood.
The guards, who ha/1 U-<n lounging
in the shade ot a tree, started to their
feet at the sound of the pistol; hut alas,
too l.it-! for they found themselves
surrounded by a < rowd of dusky fig*
lire-, vv ho bound them hand and foot
before they had time to re-i-t.
Arid now you can imagine the little
group collected in tliat dark room up
stair"; tie- sturdy general standing re
solutely at the door, with his gun in
his hand, and his black sl.tvi-s gather-l
Hrouiid him, each with v/nie weapon;
and at the other end of the room, the
women huddled together, sonic weep
ing, some pray :ng. Suddenly a crash
is heard which ciiills the very hi-id
and brings \ividly to each one's min i
the tales of Indian massacres v> corn,
rnon at that day. The band had broken
in at one of tie- window*.
At that moment .Mrs. >chuyier t
springing to her ff-t, rushed toward
tlie dK<r for she remembered that tiie
baby, only ; few months old. hav.rig
been forgotten iri the hurry of the flight,
w;ts asleep in its ' radle on the tirst
rt'sir. Ilut the gen< r d.< at- hing iier in
Ins .inns, told her that h r life was of
more value than the child's, and that,
if any one um-t go, he would. Wh.!e,
however, this generous struggle was
g ng on. tie ir third daughter, gliding
pa-4 them, was v.,*, a' tin -i'b* of the
cradle.
All vv a- black as night in the hall,
except for a small patch ~f light ust
at the foot of the stairs. This came
from the dining-room, where the In
dians could b<- s/s-n pillaging the
shelves, pulling down the china, and
•juarrelling with one another over tlieir
ill-g"tten booty.
How to get past this sjwit was the
question. but the girl did not hesitate,
.•she rrachedthc cradle unobserved. and
was just darting back with her pre.
(ious burden when, by ill luck, one of
the savages happened to see her-
Whir ! went Ids -harp tomahawk with
in a few inrlms of the halo's head, and
cleaving an edge of the brave girl's
dress, stuck deep into the stair-rail
Just then one of the Tories, seeing
her Hit by, and supposing iter to lie a
servant, called after her. "Wench,
wench; where is your master >h,
stopping for a moment, called bark.
" Gone to alarm the town'" and. hur
rying on. was safe again with iter
father upstairs.
And now. v ery nearly all the plun
der liaving le-cn secured, the band was
alsiiit to jiroc/s-d with the real object
of the expedition, when the general,
raising one of the upper windows,
called out in lusty tones, as if com
manding a large body of men: "Come
on. my brave fellows 1 Surround
•he house! Secure the v illains who
are plundering !*' The cowards
knew* that voire, and they each
and every one of them took to the
wood* a* fast as their legs could carry
! them, leaving the general in possession
of the field.
The old Schuyler house looks now
as it looked then, except that the back
w ing for the slaves has been torn dow n,
and some few alterations have been
made around the place; but when yoa
are shown the house, you ran still s<w
the dent In the stair-rail made by that
Indian's hatchet more than a hundrixf
years ago.— St. Nicholas.
Kadi head of clover contains about
sixty distinct flower tubes, each of
which contains a portion of sugar not
exceeding the flve-hundredth part of a
grain. The probocU of the bee there
fore must lie inserted into 500 clover
tubes before one grain of sugar ran lw
j obtained. There are 7,<KX) grains in a
; pound, and as honey contains three*
j fourths of ife weight of dry sugar, each
j pound of honey represents 2,500,000
1 clover '.ubes sucked bv bee*
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