ELK COUNTY THE REPUBLICAN VA IiTY. Two Dollars -br AkhtjIc.' ' VOL. II. RIDGWAY, PAM THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1872. NO. 15. HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Ptjblibiier, roiSTizr. 'i'HK SMI.(m5 MUD. BY CnAHI.KS II, WOODMAX. - . I met a tnaidon, lithe-limbed, fair, ' Vpon tho haril, wavc-beaten tranl , With all hor cloud of golden hair Floating above th'o golden fand i She seemed a lily, rich and ram, ' A light of glory in that land, And Milling pweet maiden can. Ever tho low ho art burden ran : 0 crnul eca O wasteful sea, With thy fur-streaming wild waves wan Bring back my true love unto me. lh ( foam that on tho phore did Ho, M'as not ro while as hor fair feot ; f Tho warm wa.4 wind that hastened by Was not more nob-eluss nor more fleet Tho tender light of hor bluo eyo U'vted where wave and welkin moefc; . . And singing Pad a? maidens do JV Ever the pea oho pang unto : 6 bitter eim, O rcftlofp sea, 1 With thy fan-swelling waters blue, liring back my pailor boy to me. Sho stopped to reach a flower thero Th'it yearned thro' green waves tor the ll:;ht ; t Ttio Hood caroused her streaming hair . And mixed it with foam-petal? bright, I The siiii looked down on clufclers raro, I Or golden Hlmn and of white ; 'And tinging ?oft, a maidens may, Ever f-he charmed tlic ecu alway : U loving ea, 0 pitying sea, Viill thy i'av-llowlng waters gi'cy, , , fit-in:; back my true-love unto mo. V;it c!on& and dread, tho watea, worn, Low-Jying gnu were cnmbci lug, . Thq diowy .ua, with wild wind'.' tone, Woke ft om its noon tide slumbering ; Afar, pale rdiip., until the morn Tho darkling hour. wore numbering ; Anl ringing tlorco as maiden dare- Ever cho poured forth her despair : O fearful sea, O hungry tea. Snared In tlie coils of thy green hair Sly sailor boy lies hid iVom me, I met her when the glowing East Urdkeuto radlanco on the coa-t; lli:r tye- were eyes of those that feast On loVo returned which once was lo.-t; I ween were she in heaven the h at. Her leauty Ktill would lead the host ; And siniriny glad for maidens meet Ever her pulses raptures boat ; 0 fair, bright tua, O sls-ter pea, On thy s-horc-seeking waters f-weet My lost love ha-- come back to me. Boston (llhbe. TUB STO li Y-TJSLLlSli. Orlirinal.l THE HUSBAND'S LESSOX. liY CELI-V 8AXFOHD. ' What a distressingly hot morning ! the thermometer at niuety in tho shade, and not a breath of air. I think that wo must certainly havo showers before night," and Robert Graham removed his broad-brimmed palm-loaf from his head, and wiped his face vigorously with his handkerchief. " Just tho right kind of weather to mako hay eh, Bob 'f" " Yes, I supposo so, but I wish thero could bo a machine invented to cut, cure, and deposit the hay in tho barn without its ever being touched by human hands. Come, boys, let us sit down in tho shade of this maple and rest a bit. Don't you think, Mr. Lane, that thero might' bo such a machine contrived ? Tho inven tive genius of tho Yankee is supposed to bo ulmost unlimited." " I was thinking," returned tho per son addressed, " of tho improvements which havo already been made in this direction. What with tho mower, horsc rako, and pitchfork, tho labor of making hay is very much reducod. When your father and I wero boys, wo used to start out with our old-fashioned scythes, mow all tho morning, and then stir out, and rako and pitch by hand all day, and I don't remember that it seemed much of a hardship." " I suppose not, but I am not in the lea:t sorry that those days are past. At any vato I wish it was so contrived that wo could work under cover, this mid summer Rim is so scorching. Wouldn't it bo jolly, boys, if wo woro only women Y Such easy times as they must have, with nothing to do all day but to sit in their cool, shaded parlors, and road and enjoy themselves. There's Louisa, now. (She always looks as fresh and neat as if sho had just como out of a baud-box. I don't suppose sho knows what it is to be tired." " Sho does all her own house-work, doesn't sho Y" " Yes, of course; but then it is noth ing but fun. I'm suro sha thinks so too, for she is always so merry and contented, and as apparently freo from care as hor pet maltose." " I should think it was anything but fun to broil over tho hot tiro all day in the kitchen, to cook for three or four men, this weather," said red-hoadad Pat, who had boarded occasionally in the family, as a day laborer, " and if I might be allowed to speak, Misthor Graham, I should say that yo are not sufficiently appreciative of tho servioes that she renders yo, and that if yo were more ob serving, ye would see that it is some thing besides mere play to do the wrk that Misthrcss Graham does. Iudade and I think that sho does quite too much, though of courso yo are not aware uf it. Pardon me boulduess, but I think tsho is too slender a little body to b oblised to carry wither forty rods, and her delicate little wrists aro not sthout enough to lift tho heavy axe to chop her own wood, as I've seen her do many a morning." " O !" said Graham, a little impatiently, "she don't carry much water, only a pailful now and then when I am par ticularly busy ; and as tor the wood, she fenly picks up an armful once in a wh;lo, when I happen to forget it. She never complains, and I am sure sho don't think me negloctful of her comfort or happi ness. On the contrary, she likes to do anything that she can to help me along when I am in a hurry. I think it is a real ilensuro to her to have mu forget the wood and water sometimes, so that sho can have mi opportunity to show me how handy she is, and as her house work don't occupy much of her time, sho always has plenty of leisure." "I should judge that it is no aisy matthor to keep tho house tidy from top to botthom, your meals ready to a inin nte, and your clothes in such perfect ordher. It's the sumo thing over and over ivery day, and I should think any woman would' tire of it, and I suppose she manages to havo timo for leisure when ye como in if sho is iver so busy, and ns for tho water, I've seen her go throe times across the lots to tho spring in the woods this blissed morning, and it would cost but a thriflo to put down a well close by the door. Ye could get living water by digging twelve or fif teen feet, and it's uiesolf twould bo glad to tke tho job." Let us take a peep at the little woman who has been the subject of conversa tion, and at tho cosy home of which sho is tho gentle mistress. How trim and tidy every thing looks about the door. The yard in front is gay with bright colored flowers, and the pretty bouquet in tho open window is filling tho room with a Bolt fragrance. A rustic stand of house plants, half hidden by a climbing honeysuckle, occupies ono side of the little porch, and above it a silver-voiced canary hangs, trilling his song fitfully now pausing and peeping out at tho beautiful landscape, then throwing out floods of clear, sweet melody, until it seemed us though he would pour out his little life in song. Within everything is as neat as a fairy's hand could make it. Tho furni ture is plain and inexpensive, but well kept and neatly arranged. Tho bed in the recess is covered with a white coun terpane, on which the snowy pillows aro renting, and thero is an easy, careless grace about the folds of tho muslin cur tains. You could almost seo your face in thn surface of the stove, and in the bright tinware which peeps out upon you from tho open door of the pnntry, and little Mrs. Graham herself, how tidy sho looks in her fresh pink wrapper and linen collar, her sleeves tucked up, re vealing a snowy pair of arms, and hor slight girlish form almost covered up with a clean checked apron, as she flits hither and thither, doing so many things with her ono pair of busy hands. Now the morning's work is all done up, the vegetables for dinner are soak ing in cold water, tho mutton steaks aro nicely sliced, laid in tho frying-pan, sprinkled with salt and pepper, and closely covered till time for use, the pudding is- ready for tho oven, and Louia with a weary sigh takes a pail from tho shelf, and after standing hesi tatingly for a moment, says : " I must take two pails, for one will not hold enough, and I cannot go twice. O dear I it tires mo so. I do wish we had a well. Robert says that I use so much water, but I cannot do with less. It is half past ten," she said, as sho set her pails of water upon tho shelf, ''I shall havo just fifteen minutes to rest before I build a fire. O dear ! what if there should be no wood Y I asked Robert to cut some, but now I think of it I don't believe ho did. Ho must havo forgotten it. Yes, ho has, and thero isn't even a stick at tho door to cut from, and I must go clear to tho woods to pick up some. I do wish he would get tho wood when wo have ' work folks, if ho don't any other time," and off she went to gather wood in her slender arms. Sho was tired, and not feeling quite well that morning, and tho heat was so oppressive, and, ere sho was aware of it, she found herself, for tho first time since her marriage, feeling almost bitter toward her husband. Sho remembered that six months after her marriage an aunt of hers had spent a week with her, and had lectured her upon this very thing. " You havo begun wrong, my child," she said, "you are not strong enough to carry water as far as you do, nor to chop wood, milk cows, or any such thing." Sho had resented it then and answer ed indignantly, " Robert doesn't mean mo to carry water, aunt, and I only do so sometimes when he is very busy. It isn't his fault at all that I do, but I like to help him, and savo him all the steps that I can, ho works so hard." " He oughtn't to work so hard as to bo obliged over to throw such burdens upon you. You aro too slender, my child." " But he don't mean mo to do it, aunt !" "I supposo not now, my dear, but if you voluntarily tuito sucu imng.i upuii yourself, ho may como to thiuk that it is all right, and your futuro life may bo more burdened than you think. It is all right, and praiseworthy, for a woman to do all she can to lighten her hus band's cares, and make life ploasant and easy for him, and all true womon will do bo, but you oughtn't to take up on vour shoulders hi work. It is no kindness to him, but a great wrong to vourself. Men aro not nearly so apt to over-tusk their Towors as women. If they need help they hire, whilo a weary woman goes plodding on her tircsomo round of labor, moro tiresome becauso of its monotony, and no ono seems to think that it is anything worth men tionin". My heart has often ached for overburdened women, whoso unceasing labor and cares had driven every spark of brightness out of their lives, and they so little appreciated. I have seen them hurry and toil for hours that they might have a little timo to bestow upon thoir husbands, ana wuen inose Hus bands came in I have watched with al most breathless interest to see if there was one encouraging look or word, for the eager, expectant face, upturned so pleadingly, but they would only say as they glanced listlessly around, 'How delightfully cool and comfortable it is here; you must havo an tasy time, wife. I wish I was a woman.' ' " Didn't I wish so, too 'i We should hear them sing a different song after a few years' experience. But after all, my dear, I think that women are most to blame ; they begin wrong." The tired little woman thought of all this now, and sho realized more plainly than ever before tho truth of her aunt's words. "You wrro right, auntie," sho said to herself, as sho stooped to lift up a basket of chips with one hand, whilo sho carried an armful of wood on tho other arm. " It is all my own fault, I began so ; but it is growing worse. He don't seem to think anything now of my getting wood day after day, though ho used to ecold me, if ho saw me touch the axe. I wonder if there is any way to change matters without letting him know that I havo thought about it. He has never spoken unkindly to me, and I would not offend him for the world, but I must put a stop to this somehow. It would have been better, as auntie said, if I had begun different." When tho men came in to dinner, Louita's face' woro a flushed, wearied look, which Robert noticed, and Pat's words came rushing through his mind, and he remembered that ho had forgot ten the wood which sho had spoken about in the morning, and ho resolved to make amends by splitting up enough to last tho day, and bringing a turn of water before ho went back to work; but dinner over, he forgot it as us ual. In tho afternoon as Louisa busied herself with clearing off the table, and making numberless little journeys to tho sink, and pantry, and back again to the table, her thoughts wero busy in plan ning ways to escape- her trouble. One plan after another was formed, and abandoned as impracticable. Presently one of tho neighbor's boys came along with a load of wood, which ho was tak ing to the next town. In a moment her resolution was taken, and tripping down to the gate she asked : " Fred, would you sell me tlm load of wood '" " I was taking it to town," he replied, " but I can let you havo it, and still havo time to take a load to town to- duy" . " A hat is your price r " I get four dollars in town, but I can afford to sell it here for three." " Pitch it oft', then. You need not mind to cord it up, as I shall use it right along." That night when Mr. Graham went to pay soiuo money to his hands, he ask ed, " Have you had my pocket-book to day, Louisa 'f" Louisa looked up innocently from her sewing, and replied with . calmness, " Yes, I paid Fred Howard three dol lars for a load of wood, this afternoon." " A load of wood !" and Robert Gra ham opened his eyes wide in astonish ment. " Why, Louisa, .vo have acres and acres of wood !" ." Yes, but it isn't always at hand, you know," sho replied quietly, whilo, with her clear hazel eyes, she looked straight into his. He bit hi3 lip and went out, and his wife could not help feeling a little anx ious lest sho had displeased him. It was well, perhaps, that Pat's faithful words had preceded this act. It was later than usual that night when Mr. Graham camo in, and if thero had been a shadow upon his faco it had passed away, and he was more than usually kind and attentive. After somo conversation his wife remarked to him, in her quiet way : " I did not liko to uso tho money, Robert, to buy wood, but, you see, it is too hard for mo to gather so much." " It is all right, my love," he answer ed, " as ho stooped to kiss her, "you havo learned mo a lesson. It shall not need to bo repeated. If I forget sometimes, you will only havo to jog my memory by a word." Tho next morning, to Mrs. Graham's surprise, another laborer was set to work in Pat's place, and Pat's hearty viico was heard in the back yard calling her name. Sho opened tho door and was greeted with " Misthross Graham, will yo bo afther removing tho linen from the grass-plat ' Here's where the mast her wants mo to bo digging the well." All Shi at His Old Tricks. A California paper publishes the fol io win s : The littlo card transaction between Ah Sin and Mr. 'William Nye, which has trained so much celebrity, owinir to tho eniTjhio manner in which it has been do scribed by Bret Harte, may possibly have been an actual occurrence. Gam bling is a passion with tho Chinese. For thousands of years they have studied and tracticid pll manner of sinful games, and they aro adepts at the tricks by which gamesters ciicumvent the laws ot clianoe. In tno umneso quarter of a town on tho Pacific slope, a couple of smart young men recently encountered some Mongolians engaged in tho 'Melican came of draw poker. Tho boys asked if they could como into tho irame, and received a cordial wel come. Presently tho innocent-looking Chinamen began to sweep iu tliuir coin at an alarming rate. This did not meet their views at all, so they tried on the simple heathen two or threo of tho sharpest tricks known to American gamblers. The Celestials ap poared to bo entirely oblivious to the advantages tliey wero taking, and per mitted them to bet on their sure thing to the extent of their funds, when, on a call, the American sharpers found that they wero nowhere, and had tho mortih. cation of seeing their antagonists rake in their stakes with a most aggravating expression of artless liidlflerence. The Chinamen had seen through their tricks at a glance, and beat them by methods vet unnaturalized in this country. As the outwitted visitors withdrew, ono of the Chinamen, with a smile of sweet sininlicitv. invited them to call asraiu, Said John, " S'pose you next time like play more pokee, you como see." But tho invitation was not accepted, and at at the present time there aro not to be found on the Pacifio coast any moro ardent opponents of Chinese emigration than the young men who undertook to show poor John some new wrinkles in tho popular American game, which thoy supposed ho aid not understand. Ask thy purso what thou should'st buy, Jefferson ns a Farmer. Thomas Jefferson possessed a facility with note-books and memoranda which farmers, great and small, might 'study and imitate with positive advantage. James Parton tells us, iu The Atlantic Monthly, that when young man the coining President took hold of his busi ness of husbandry in a manner which showed that the genuino culture of tho mind is tho best preparation lor tho common as well as for the higher du ties of life. Iu everything he did ho was tho educated Doing. was tnnre ever a mortal so exact, so punctual, so indefatigablo as ho m recording and tabularizing details f lxo may Do said to have lived pen in hand. Ho kept a garden-book, a farm-book, a weather book, a receipt book, a pocket-expendi-turo book, and, later, a feo-book ; and thero was nothing too trivial to bo en tered iu ono of them, provided it really nut any relation to matters ot impor tance. In tho small, neat hand, then common in Virginia, ho would record in his garden-book such entries as theso : "March .'SO, Bowed a patch of later peas;" "July Id, planted out celery;" ' July 22, had tho last disli ot our spring peas ; March al, gratteu o u reuch chestnuts, into two stocks ot common chestnut." His garden-book shows that ho was a bold and constantexporimontor, ulwnys eager to try foreign seeds and roots, of which ho introduced a great number in tho course ot his life, ihey show, also, that ho was a close observer and calculator. His weather-book is a wonder of neatness and minuteness 59 days' weather history on one small page. This is ono day s record : " March 2 1. at (.:i0 A. M., ther. 2T ; barom. 2" ; wind N. W. ; force of wind (not stated) ; weather, clear after rain, Bluo Ridge and higher parts of S. W. mountain covtrt-d with snow. No snow here, but much ice ; black frost." Multiply this by 5S, and you have the contents of one pago of his weather-book, every word of which, after the lapso of a century, is as clear and legible as diamond type. It is ruled in ten columns, ono for each class of entries. This practico of min ute record, which remained with him to tho end of his days, he began while ho was still a student. Nor did ho ever content himself with the mere record of items. These wore regularly reviewed, added, compared, and utilized in every possible way. A Coming: English Colony. A remarkable company of emigrants left England recently on the steamer Nestorian, bound for Baltimore. They aro exclusively English, and a majority of them from the farming class that is to say farmers, their sons and relatives ; not agricultural laborers, but men hav ing practical experience, and tho means to apply it. Unable to obtain farms, or farms large enough in England, they determined to seek them in the Now World. The section of tho colony which embarked, nuinberods145 persons, with a capital of 10,000. Tho colony in cludes a small number of mechanics, particularly wheelwrights, blacksmiths, men who can shoo horses, and a few handicraftsmen. It is accompanied by clergyman, who, with is family, in tend to settle with the colony. Nearly all the emigrants havo made arrange ments for tho purchase of land, and their lots are as nearly as possible contiguous, and all are situated at Lincoln, tho cap ital ot Nebraska, and aro intersected by the Burlington and Missouri River Railroad, whose agents wero in tho ag ricultural districts of England during tho winter, talking up tho advantages of the Central Western States, and tho benefit which would arise from the settle ment therein of British farmers' sons. When tho colonists arrive at Lincoln, they will be lodged, frpe of cost, except for food, in an emigrant home, and thero remain until they can commence the duties and life of an American farm- Tho British farming class has often been derided as incapable of forming or receiving new ideas. A good deal has chanced, however, sinco tho days of steam threshing-machines, nnduow there are few men more ready to adopt a "no tion," if ho can afford it, than tho Brit ish farmer. At all events, ho seems to bo seizing tho idea that it is better for him or his sons to become landlords in tho Western States of America than to havo to sue for renewals of leases, or to bo always in hot water about game. A Message from the Dead. The Bangor Commercial prints tho following; ns a fact : A lormer resident ot this city somo years ago moved to Cincinnati and went into business thero. Some timo sinco as ho was on his way to his place of busi ness at his usual early hour in the morn ing, when going past a sido street, ono which he never had occasion to use, ho distinctly heard a voice which said, " Go down this street ; but not being ot a superstitious turn of mind, he contin ued on his way for a few blocks, when the impression grow so strong that ho retraced his steps and went down the strett indicated by tho voice. Ho had gono but a few rods, when the voice again said, " Go in there," ho looked and found himself opposite a small third-rate hotel. Going into tho bar-room, which opened on tho street, the first sight that met his astonished eyes was the bar keeper holding up a coat of peculiar cloth and color for tho examination of a small knot of idlers. He at once rccog nizod the coat as belonging to a friend of his whom he had last seen in Maine during his visit homo. Upon making inquiries, he found that his friend lay dead in the house, and finding that thero was an evident disposition to plunder the valuables and clothing of his dead friend, he took charge of the body and saw it properly buried, and tho property sent home to his mother. Had it not been for his iomarkable warn ing, the dead man, dying among stran gers, might ha gone to the dissecting room of the medical college, and his ef fects to hourtloss thieves. What makes the story the more wonderful is that this gentleman . had no idea that his mend wag in tlie city. A Marvelous Machine. Mr. Thompson, a well-known Edin burgh civil engineer, has for many years paid special attention to tho properties and capabilities of india-rubber. Ho was tho first, some twenty years ago, t apply tires of this substance to tho whoels of trucks, etc., at railway stations, in order to deaden the sound j and to him wo aro also indebted for tho more recent discovery that india-rubber, when in a great mass, flattens on a road or floor, and, by presenting a greater ex tent of boaring surface, causes any su perincumbent weight to bo distributed over a much larger area. Hence he con ceived and carried out tho idea of pro viding the whoels of a steam-engine, to run on common roads, with india-rubber tires of an immense thickness. In con sequent of tho soft, elastic proporty of such tiros, tho wheel-surface may, ac cording to tho condition of the road over which it passes " present tho broad, quiet tramp of tho foot of the elephant, tho gentle step of the feline race, or tho web footed effect of tho aquatic animal when walking on tho morass." When tho first patent road-steamer was tried, some three years ago, its suc cess was complete, and far exceeded Mr. Thompson's- expectations. In tho bo ginning of 1870, the War Department having hoard of somo of its performances, commissioned Mr. Anderson to proceed to Edinburgh and examine it personally, and to report upon its capabilities for military purposes of various kinds ; and it is from this report, dated tho 8th of April, 1870, and signed conjointly by Mr. Anderson and Mr. Bailey, Assistant Controller, that wo have obtained most of our information regarding this mar velous machine. Tho wheels of this road-steamer ore throe in number namely, two driving wheels, about fivo feet in diameter, on which almost tho whole weight of tho cngino rests ; and a smaller wheel in front, which is for steering purposes, and is so completely under control as to answer the slightest touch of tho hand. Each wheel has a broad iron tire, with narrow flanges, upon which is placed a soft vulcanized india-rubber ring, about twelve inches in width and five in thick ness, the flanges keeping it in its place. Over the india-rubber there is placed an er.dless chain of stool plates, three-and-a-half inches wide, which form the por tion of the wheel that comes in contact with the rough road ; and this reticulat ed chain is connected with what may be called vertebra) at each side of the wheel. Tho india-rubber tire and tho ringed steel plates havo no rigid connection, and aro at perfect liberty to movo round independently of each other, or even without tho concurrence of tho in ner ring of tho wheel which they both inclose. This remarkable combination contributes materially to tho great suc cess of the wheel. Small tubes aro per forated in tho tiro of tho wheel, to admit tho atmosphoro under tho india-rubber ring. V ithout such holes, it was found that " tho weight of tho lead was suffi cient to exclude the atmosphere, so that ono sido of the india-rubber would thus bo made to adhere to the iron with the atmosphere pressure, while tho other sido would havo to stretch and bag out ward." An ordinary wheel, if it is a rigid structure, presents to the road only a small surface ; but this wheel conforms to every irregularity for a space of nearly two feet, by the weight of tho cngino causing tho india-rubber to collapso, and thus producing so great a change of form. Arabian Mode of Perfuming. Hew tho Arab ladies perfunio them selves is thus described by Sir Samuel Baker in his work on the Nile : " In the floor of the hut or tent, as it may chance to be, a small holo 13 excavated sufficiently largo to contain a cham- pagno bottlo. A firo of charcoal or sim- Ely glowing embers is mado within the olo, into which the woman about to bo scented throws a handful of drugs. Sho then takes off the clothes, Cr robes which form her dress, and crouches over tho fumes, whilo sho arranges her robo to fall as a mantle from her neck to tho ground liko a tent. Sho now begins to perspire freely in tho hot bath, and tho pores ot tno skin being open and moist, tho volatilo oil from the smoko of the burning perfumes is immediately ab sorbed. By tho time tho firo has ex pired, tho scenting process is completed, and both her pe rson and her robe are so reuoleut with incense, Willi which, they are thoroughly impregnated that! havo frequently smelt a party ot women strongly at full a hundred yards dis tance, when tho wind has boon blowing from their direction. The scent, which is supposed to bo very attractive to gen tlemen, is composed of ginger, cloves, cinnamon, frankincense, and myrrh, a species of sea wood brought from tho lied Sea, and lastly tho horny disc which covers tho aperture when the shell fish withdraws itself within its shell. Tho proportion? of theso ingredients in this mixture are according to taste. Popular Orators. Who aro the speakors that uibvo tho crowd men after tho pattern of Whit field, what aro they Y They are almost always men ot very largo physical de velopment, men of very strong digestivo powers, and whoso luugs havo great aerating capacity. They are men- of great vitality and recuperative foroo, Thoy are men who, while they have a sufficient thought-power to create all tho material noeded, have preeminently the explosivo power by which they can thrust their materials out at men. They are catapults, and mon go down before them. Of course you wdl find men now and thou, thin and shrill-voiced, who are popular epealiers. bometimes men are organized with a compact nervous tem perament and are slender-framed, while they have a certain concentrated ear nestness, and, in narrow lines, they movo with groat intensity. John Ran dolph was such a man. 11. W. Bcether Galesburg, 111., has a " Classic Nine." It is a base ball club and has nothing to do with tho muses. Fish Farming. Tho authorities assert that wlicro fa cilities aro available, as they are in ft majority of cases, moro annual food can be taken from an aero of water, or its quivalont, than from twice this area of land, no matter hw well it is tilled. It thoro is a trout stream running through the farm, in which are still left even a small number of the speckled beauties, nothing more may bo needed than to Btop the fishing tor two or three years, but if tho waters are entirely bar ren, ot courso tresh supplies trom out side sources must bo introduced. Tho development of the ova, thoir care and cloansing, their hatching and feeding, their treatment in the nursery and in ponds until they aro largo enough to bo lot loose, is a somewhat complicated process requiring apparatus, and above all patience. Most people proler to leave this art to tho professional brooders and pay them tor their pains by pur chasing their stock. It is always best to deal generously with a brook when putting in tho seed. Givo the waters a tair start even it it costs a good round sum. Ono hundred dollars will buy, at present prices, from 5,000 to 20,000 fry or 200 yearling trout. The multiplication is rapid and sure, but for tho first thrco or four years the boys in that neighborhood should bo discouraged from pursuit of tho noble art of angling. m. (Jhtt, some ot whoso statements we borrow, savs in tho I'hrenoloqical Journal, that tho black bass is ono ot the best fish for private enterprise to handle. It will thrivo in ponds that in bo mado and controlled on ulmost any farm whero thero is flowing water, and in quality it is good enough to satisfy oven an epicure, ranking second only to tho salmon and trOut, and by many considered even superior to them. n bizo tho black bass attains an average weight or tour or five pounds, and one was lately taken which weighed seven and a half pounds. Dr. W. M. Hudson. ono of tho Connecticut Commissioners, savs of him : " Ho is exceedingly hardy, and adapt ed to our waters, boing a native of the Northern lakes. Any pond of clear water having a variety of mud and gravel bottom, and ono or more deep holes, is suitablo for him. Ho is a great breeder, and is ono of tho very few fishes that perlect their spawning bods and young fry. He is tho only fish suitablo for our waters able to defend himself against tho ravenous pickerel or pike. Nearly all our ponds aro infested with this pirate among fishes. Ho is ablo to conquer all his enemies. Finally, ho is as sumo as the salmon, and in compari son with his size furnishes as much sport to tho angler. He readily takes a live minnow or a fly, and when he feels the hrst prick ot the hook frequently rises threo teet out ot tho water m his strug gles to treo himselt, and it requires a quick eye and steady nerve to land him ately." lhe cost ot theso fish tor stocking pur poses, is trom $1 to $J each according to sizo and number taken, the expenso ot transportation being added. .With an attendant thoy can be Bafely sent four or five days' journey by rail. All tho efforts at stocking ponds with tho black bass have been successful, so far as our information extends. Tuns are taken every year from ponds of a few hundred acres, furnishing a very appreciable amount of food to the peo ple in the vicinity. A pond of 40 acres, stocked two years ago at an ex pense of 300, is now valued at $10,000 by its proprietors, and will probably pay tho interest on that sum. Ono of tho excellencies of tho black bass is, that ho absolutely requires no care after ho is put in his new homo among the coarser kinds of fish. Ho caters for him self, living upon varieties that aro of littlo value for human food. You have nothing to do but to catch him when ho is full grown. A' pond should bo kept closed for four or fivo years after it is stocked, and then it will bear the strain of iifhing with tho hook, probably as long as water runs. Fish also can bo raised iu ponds that haveno outlet, or in those that aro sup plied by running water only part ot tho year, if they do notjget so low as to de stroy tho fish by tlio execssivo heat in tho summer. Eels and mud pout aro frequently found in theso stagnant pools, but carp would bo u better fish, and furnish a large amount ot food. In tho abundant distribution of water in our Northern States there are few owners of largo farms that cannot command a valuable fish pond. On many tho pond is already made. Un others, nothins: is wanting but a dam, which will bo none tho less valuable for fish because it fur nishes water power for a mill. lo those who havo facilities such as tho above, wo would recommend at least a trial ot fish culture on a small scalo. Insect InsTlnct. A correspondent of a Now York pa- paper relates a touching instance of in sect instinct as follows : " I found a cockroach struggling in a bowl of water. I took a half peanut shell for a boat. I put him into it and gave him two wooden toothpicks for oars, and leu mm. Tho next morning I visited him, and ho had a piece of white cotten thread on ono of the tooth picks, and set tho toothpick up on end us a signal of distress. Ho had a hair on tho other toothpick, and there the cockroach sat a fishing. Tho cockroach, exhausted, had gone to sleep. The sight melted me to tears. I never had to chow leather to get a soul. I was born with one. I took tho cockroach out, gavo him a spoonful of gruel, and ho left. That animal never forgot that act, and now tuy house is chuck full of cockroaches. A Minnesota paper tells of the mar riage of a Swede who could not speak a word ot liinglish with an American wo man who could not speak a word of Swedish. Thero certainly ought to be no quarrelling or disputing betweon them, though there may be plenty of misunderstanding. The speaking eye must in their case liave a deal to do. Facts and Fig tires. Extensive lead mines arobeinfr opened in Utah, i -t t ' ' , , . Ono man and his son in Winneconno, Wis., havo slaughtered 3,301 muskrata in two months. - A man at Bloomington, 111., scalped another the other day -merely to show how it was done.' Thousands of Korea of sugar beets aro being planted in the vicinity of. Free- JJUl t, All., bLUO UlU. Tho Duluth TTerahl says that Dan Shumway, a notorious tough, killed - at Moorhead two weeks ago, was buried faco downward, with a pack of cards in his hand. " ' An aged gentleman, at CharitSn, Iowa; attempted suicide by hanging, but his family cut him down ; whereupon ho took tho ropo and administered a goiu oral flagellation. r - S Somo of tho Indian olergymon in the civilized tribes of tho West havo, queer names. Among them are Rev. Mr. Black Fox, Rev. Mr. Mmkrat, Kov. Mr. Walking Stick, and Rev. Mr. Johnny Jumper. A skull 20 inches in circumfemuco above tho ears has been dug up fit Du buque, Iowa. This seems to indicate that " in those days " there were men with a mighty deal of intellect above their ears. . ' . Brigham Young's quiet little family circle consists of thirty-two wives and sixty-eight children, and when they all gather around tho herirth ei a wintoV evening the effect is said to bo indo.scrib- ably cosy. J ulia E. Yallett, a poor Providence girl of twenty-two, has sued Thomas Grace, ot Cranston, un old bachelor of seventy-five, worth a round half million, for !f:JO,0()0, the price of her blighted affections. ' " A wedding that was to have taken placo in St. Paul, a day or two Bince, was indefinitely postponed by tho dis appearance of tho bride that was to bo on the wedding morning. Sho eloped with a former lover. An English law compels a married woman, if sho has money or the moans of making it and her lord has none, to support him, bo he ever so worthless, that tho expense of his keeping may not come upon the parish. ' ; A lady in Clinton, Iowa, gave a bur glar a very severe flogging with a dust brush tho other night. Sho said sho wouldn't havo dono it if she hadn't been under tho impression that it was her husband just getting home. A gold mino his been discovered in Stearns county, near New Richmond, Minnesota. Tho St. Cloud Journal says : Though it is found at a depth of 113 feot, tho gold is so pure and tho nuggets so large that borings will pay well. Tho commission recently appointed to lay out a now highway in Wethorsfield, Ct., have found it very difficult to obtain precedents for assessing damages, as there has been no highway openod in that town sinco tho Revolutionary war. At -Provincotown, Mass, more than one-fourth of tho entire population aro Portugueso. They settlod thoro somo . years ago, when the whale fisheries wero at their height, and are represented as being a hardy and daring set of fisher men. Thero was once what was known as a rainless region in tho Territory of Col orado, but for two or threo years past that tract has been favored with fre quent and abundant showers, and it is thought that soon irrigation will bo no longer necessary. The Denver' papers are trying to account for this climate change Wo should suggest that it might bo ono of the effects of civiliza tion, if wo felt quito sure there .was enough of it there to have any appreci able effect. ; A Missouri judge has decidod that newspapers in that Stato cannot collect payment for advertisements printed on Sunday, becauso a contract for work on Sunday is void under tho statutes. Tho case has been appealed, and a final de cision has not been rendered as yet, but whichever way tho caso is decided there can be only ono opinion regarding tho character of a man who will got adver tising dono on Sunday, af' ofter hav ing obtained tho benefit of it refuse pay ment on ouch grounds. A very curious business enterprise has been recently discovered in Austria, car ried on by insurance companies which unuertako to pay certain sums to policy holders on their getting married. "Of course it was a swindle, but that was no reason why it should not flourish until tho projoctors had lined their pockets. Thero weio policies enough issued, but tho members ot tho company did most of the marrying, and the officers received largo fees, and then there was little left for outsiders, and they didn't get even that. - ' A Dutchman died lately in Holland who had thoroughly tested tho destruc tive powers of tobacco and beer. -,Ho had in his timo Binoked about KkOOO i . . i- ii... i, i i ,i ' i puuuus ui ura Buouung wouu Him iirumt 000,000 quarts ot the composing liquor, and yet by reason of strength or somo other cause he reached the ago cf four score years. Of courso tho experiment is not altogether satisfactory, because if he had not indulged in tobacco and beer ho might havo lived to bo 100, and on the other hand ho might neve have passed sixty. iJ l r- a . A London correspondent gives mi ac count of an " office for ;uarriage9 " which has been established for somo time in that metropolis and is in a very flourish ing condition. It undertakes to obtain matrimonial partners with any desirable qualifications for all applioantg.' i The matches produced by this concern claim to bo moro satisfactory than those said to bo mado in heaven, and, aro doubtless hotter than the general run of thoso patchod up by parents and friends. In fact, a general office for this kind of business has its advantages, as it en larges the market for both parties to the bargain and gives a wider opportunity for the entire satisfaction of all tastes.
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