7 wtw v - f.r. :.! K:t. r7 m HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL. DE8PEEANDUM. Two Dollars per . Annum. VOL. VIII. 1 11IDGWAY, ' ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 2, 1878. NO. 11. ii in . . . t , 1 7 ' 1 ." ! V.Xl . I !'! - 13 f Some Time. Some time, tired heart of mine.: You shall have ft long, long rent; Anl the qniet evening ran, . ' Sloping outward to the west, Creeping In the casement wide, Shall look on a quiet breast. Though the birds shall coo and eall As the doeper shadows fall. Ion may rest. Some time, patient eyes of mine, ; You may take a long, long sloep; Though the early morning Ban All along the wall shall creep,' ' Waxen eyelids will not lift From the watching which they koep; Though a sunbeam, overbold, " " ' Seek to part your curtain's fold, '" ' ; - Yon may sleep. Some time, striving hands cf mine, : There will be a long, long peace; Loosened from the tasks you hold Into new and sweet release, Other bands must plaoe yon close In a dumb amen for grace. Even love's touch, soft and warm, Daro net break such prayerful form Of your peace. Some time, restleas feet of mine,'' - There will come a long, long day When yon need not cross the sill From the flashing till the gray. - Other tteps must bear yon forth To the plaoe where clay Is clay. Though I led you out at light Tbey will bring you home when night Ends our day. PRUDENCE GRAY. That's my name, for father said there wasn't a better barge on the river than the Prmleaoe, nnd if I was called the same he was aure there would never be a better girl. Poor father 1 He was always very fond of mo, and my earliest remem brances are of sitting on the tiller and having a ride, when he stood there of an evening (steering the barge, with the great cinnamon red sail filled ont by the wind, nnd tue water foaming ana bub bling by u as we ran on np the river toward the big city, where the ships lay close together in dock and against the wharves, emptying tneir loads or waiting for others before going away across the seas. I used to think our barge, which was a very smnll billy-boy, if you know what that is if yon don't 1 must tell you that it's a barge built with rounded ends and low bulwarks, meant for carrying loads up rivers, but built also to be able to go out to sea a little while, running alor? the coast I used to think our bav-e. X say, a very, very large ship, till I grew old enough to compare it with those that passed us going up or down the mer, and then it used to seem to me tnat it would be wonderfully fine to go on board one of those great snips and go sailing away fai away across the ocean, instead of hist constiug along to Bheerness ai?d tip the Aledway, as we used to go yeai rfter year, loaded deep down in .he water with po.ry or hops, or even bricks. I cant tell you how my child-life slipped away, living with mother and father on board that barge, in a little bit of a cabin with a tiny stove : all I know is that 1 was very happy, and that 1 never hardly went ashore, and when I did I was frightened and wanted to get back ; and at last I seemed to have grown all at once into a great girl, and lat her and I were alone. Yes, quite alone, for mother hod left us very suddenly, and we have been ashore at Bheerness, father and T, and came back from the funeral nnd were sitting on the cabin hatch, before X could believe it was anything but a ter rible dream, and that I should not wake and find that she was alive once more. as blithe and cheery as ever, ready to take the tiller or a pull at a rope, the sama as X did when father wanted any help. Father was a changed man after that, and as a couple of years slipped by the work on the barge fell more and more into my hands, and I used to smile to myself as x saw now big and red and strong they had grown. For father grew quiet and dull day by day, and used to nave a stone bottle filled when ever he went ashore, and then Bit with it in the cabin all alone till I called him to come and help with the sail. Not that I wanted much help, for ours was only a small barge, and once start ed, with a fair wind, I could manage her well enough ; while when we had to tack backwards and forwards across the river mouth, I could always lock the tiller by the rope that hung on the belaying pin, and give it a hitch on this side or that side, till I had taken a pull at the sheet and brought the barge round on the other tack. I must have passed half my life in those days leaning back against that tiller, with its end carved to look like a great acorn, and the name of the old barge, Prudence, cut deep in the side. There I'd stand looking out ahead m we glided along over the smooth sea, passing a buoy here and light there, giving other barges and smacks a wide berth, and listening to the strange squealing noise of the gulls as they wheeled and hovered and swept by me, so closely sometimes that I could almost have touched them with my hand. Our barge was well known all about the mouth of the river and . far up be yond the bridge ; and somehow, I don't know how it was, the men on the differ ent boats we paased had always a kind bail or a wave of the hand for us, ax we flided by, if we were too far off for a indly shout to reach us. Sometimes I'd run the barge pretty close to the great ships and steamers, inward or outward bound, so as to look at the ladies I saw on board; not that I oared to do so very often, because it seemed to make me sad, for the faces I looked on seemed to be so different to mine that I felt as if I was another kind 1 of being, and it used to set me wondering and make me think; and at such times ! I'vt) leaned against the tiller and dream ed and dreamed in a waking fashion of hew I would like to read and write and work, as I had seen ladies sitting and reading and working, on the decks of the big Bhips, nnder the awning; and then I had to set my dreams aside and have a pull at the sheet or take a reef in the sail; because the wind freshened and my dreams all passed away. I don't think poor father meant it on, kindly, but he seemed to grow more and more broken and helpless every day; and this frightened me, and made me work to keep the barge clean and ship-shape, lest the owners should oome on board and see things slovenly, and find fault with father and dismiss him, and that I knew would break his heart. So I work ed on, and in a dull heavy way father used to thank me; and the time glided on, till one day, as we were lying off South end, with the sea glassy and not wind enough to fill the sails, 1 felt my cheeks begin' to burn as I leaned back against the tiller, and would not turn my head, because I oould hear a boat being sculled towards usvttyd I knew it was ooming from th,'r'jHt leeboard barge lying astern. JA i " He's coming to see father," I said to myself at last in a choking voioe; and as a hail came I was obliged to turn, and there stood up in the little boat he was sculling with an oar over the stern John Grove, in his dark "trousers, blue jersey and scarlet cap; and as I saw his sun burnt face and brown arms and hands I felt my heart beating fast, and knew he was not coming to see father, but to see me. We had hardly ever spoken , but I had known John Grove for years now, and we bad nodded and waved hands to one another often and often as we had passed up and down the river. ' Heave us a rope, my lass," he said, as he came close in; and I did it dream ily, and as soon as I had done so I began to pull it back, but it was too late; he had hitched it round the thwart of his boat, and was up and over the side be fore I could stir; and then he stood look in g down upon me. while I felt some times hot and sometimes cold, as if I could not speak. " Da you want to see father?" I said atlast. "No, my lass," he said quietly, "I want to see you." "Me!" X faltered, with my face burning. " Yes, you, my lass," he said; and his handsome brown face lit up, and he looked so manly as he laid his hand on my arm. " Prudence, my gal," he said, "we're both young yet, lor x m not six-ana-twenty, but I thought it was time I spoke to you. " Spoke to me ?" I said, with my face burning still. " Yes. my loss, spoke to you, for we've been courting now a matter of four years. "Oh, John," I cried, bursting out laughing aud feeling more at my ease, f'why, we've never hardly spoken to one another." "That's nice," he said, drawing a long breath. "Over again ." "Over again t What ?" I said. " Call me John," he replied. "Well' then. John." I cried hastily, "That's right, Prudence; but, as I was going to say, not spoken to one auother I Well, how could we, always taking our turns at the tiller as we were ? But all the same, my lass, I've , i - - i. l i Deon always courting oi you, uiguii auu day, these four years, and looking out and Ion trine for the time when the Pru dence would oome in Bight and I could give you a hail and get a wave of the hand bacK. I could feel the color coming back into mv cheeks again as I heard him speak, and knew how anxiously I had looked out lor his barge coming up or down the river; and then I began won dering what it all meant, and soon Knew. " Prudence, my lass," he said, " I've saved up 10. all my own, and our owner has just given me the command of a new barge, with as pretty a cabin as you'd wish to see; and so, my lass, I thought I d ask you if so be as now we ve been courting four years, you wouldn't oome to me and be my wife." No," I said, " no," and shooK my head. " I belong to father, and I could never leave him never." Ttnt vnn'll have to some dav. Prud enoe," he said, looking dreadfully down hearted and miserable. "No." I said. "I shall never leave him; he wants me more and more every day, and X must stay. " Prudence." he said sharply, you am t playing with me, are you f " Playing with you "Yes: I mean you ain't going to take up with any one else, and go aboard any other barge no, no," he cried, "I won t be so mean as to ask you that. x$ut. Prudence, dear, some day you may have to leave him, and when you do, will you please recollect John Grove loves you better than aught else in the wide world, and is waiting for you to come I" " Yen .Tnhn " I said BimDIV. " You mean it. Prudence ?" he cried in deli eh t. as he caught my hand. " Yes, John; I don't know anybody else, and there's no one as cares for me." "Hundreds on the river," he said sharply. "Then I don't care for them. John.' I said simply; " aud if you like me, and x ever do do leave oh, dear I what am I saying ?" I sat down on a fender and covered my face with my coarse, red hands, and began to cry; but he took my bands down, and looked long and lovingly in my face, with his exeat, honest brown eyes; and then he couldn't speak, but seemed to choke. At laet he araspod out; .. . Thanky, Prudence, thank v. I'm going away now to wait, for you'll come to me some day, I know." I didn t answer him. " For the time may come, my lass. when you'll be all alone in the world; and when it does oome, there's the cabin of the Betsy Ann, clean painted up, and Tt minim v J 4 uv uuniu o a-waiting too. ' He went auietiy over the side and oast off the rope, and was gone before I knew it; and I sat there in the calm afternoon and evening, sometimes crying, some times feeling hopeful, and with a sense of joy at my heart such as I never bad felt before. And so that evening deepened into night, with the barge a quarter of a mile astern of us, and no wind coming, only the tide to help us on our way. It must have been about ten o'clock at night, when I was forward seeing to the light hoisted tip td keep anything from running into us, When I heard father oome stumbling up from the cabin, and maxe as u to oome forward to me. . " Prue " he cried. " Prue 1" "Yes, father, coming," I said; and then I uttered a wild shriek, and rushed towards where the boat hung astern by her painter, hauled her up and climbed in; for no sooner had I answered than I heard a cry and a heavy splash, and I knew father had gone overboard. I was into the boat in a moment, and had the scull over the stern, paddling away in the direction that the cry had oome from; but, though I fanoied in those horrible minutes that I saw a hand stretched out of the water, asking as it were for help, I paddled and sculled about till I was far from, our barge, awl then sank down worn-out to utter a moan of horror, and sob, " Oh, father 1 father 1 what shall I dot" "Is that you, Prudenoe?" said a voioe. "Yes, John, yes," I cried, looking out through the darkness, out of which a boat seemed to steal till it was along side, when John streohed out his hand and took mine. " Quick 1" I gasped, " save him,- John father gone overboard I " When you shrieked out. True ?" "Yes, yes," I wailed; "oh, save him I save him 1" " My poor lass," he said, " that's a good quarter of an hour ago, and the tide's running strong. I've been pad dling about ever since, trying to find yon, for I went up to the barge and you were gone." "But father, " I wailed, ' father save him I " My poor little loss." he said, tender ly, " I'd jump into the water now if you rid me; but what can i do, you Know, Prudenoe, what can I do ?" I did not answer, for I did know that he must have been swept faraway before then; and I was beginning to feel that I was alone quite alone in the world. It was quite six months after that dreadful night that one evening John came ashore from his barge to the cot tage, where I was staying with his mother, and had been ever since he had brought me there, without seeing him to speak to, only to wave my hand to him as he sailed by. That evening he came and looked wistfully fit me and said but little, and at last his time was up and he rose to go. I walked down to his boat with him, and on the way he told me that he had got leave to alter the name of his barge, and it was called the Prudence, too; and then, without a word about the past, he was saying good-by, when I put my hands iu his and said quietly "John, dear, I haven't forgot my promise." " And you are alone now, ' Prudenoe, my lass," he cried eagerly. " No, John, no," I said softly, as the tears ran down my cheeks; "I never shall be while you live. " "Never, my lass, never," he cried. " And you'll be my littlo wife ?" " Yes, John, yes; I promised you." " When X come back from this voy age?" "Yes, John, when yon will," I said, and with one long hand pressure we parted, and I went back to wait for another month, and then I was his happy little wife. - And there seemed no change, for I was once more on the river orjout at sea, leaning upon the tiller and gazing straight before me, with the gulls wail ing as they wheeled and dipped and skimmed or settled upon the water; while the soft wind gently stirred the print hood that was lightly tied over my wind-ruffled hair. Only a bargeman's young wife living on the tide, but very nappy; for John often points to the great ships that pass us, with their cap tains in their gold-laced caps, and as he does so he whispers "Not with the best among them, Prue, not with the best; I wouldn't even change places with a king." And if he is as happy as I, dear Jehn is right. CasselPt Magazine. Grace Darling in Michigan. Lake Michigan has its Grace Darling. and her father and brothers are as brave and heroic as she is herself. Sanford W. Morgan is keeper of the life saving station at Grand Point au Sable, Michi gan, and after the close of navigation he allows the crew to go away for the win ter, but remains on the ground with his daughter and his sons. At daylight, during one of the most violent gales of the season, with the sea so boisterous that it was covered with foam, a fishing boat was discovered about three miles off shore, in distress, by Miss Edith. Quickly giving the alarm to her father and two brothers, she urged them to go, volunteering to take an oar herself to assist the crew. It seemed as though a boat oould not possibly live in the mighty waves, but one was launched, and after a pull of two hours, with seas breaking over the small boat and threat ening its destruction and the loss of those on board, they snoceeded in reach ing the wreck, to find that one of the orew who had been clinging to the side of the vessel had become exhausted, and letting go his bold had been drowned. Another sailor, however, was rescued as he was about to give np, and was taken ashore. Nor was this the first time that the brave young girl bad ventured out on an errand to save. A Yeung Giant. The " fat man " whom I mentioned in my last letter, writes a correspondent in England, is now exhibiting himself at the Egyptian Hall, in London, and making a good thing of it. Fancy, if you can, a young man only twenty-two years old, weighing 728 pounds, and measuring eight feet round the shoul ders. He seems in perfect health and is i .i . i - :a i j i very cnauy, a peauiuuivj sutireu vj ma wife, who accompanies him and who seems proud of haying the biggest hus band of any woman in Xuigland, perhaps in the world. The " ajjony columns " of the Turkish newspapers are filled with advertise ments for lost relations, giving painful evidenoe of the dispersion of families of the Mussulman population which has taken plaoe in the districts ravaged by war. FARM, GARDES ASD IIOUSEIIOLD. Farm Hetee.' Do not plant trees ' deeper than is necessary to oover the roots well. Never plane the roots in contact with manure. Planting seed not be hurried. When trees arrive from the nursery, unpack them, keeping a sharp eye to the labels, and " heel-in " at onoo. Watering must be attended to, and when the soil gets packed and crusted between the rows, break it np,or mellow it with the finger, or a pointed stick. ' Grafting is best done juBt as vegeta tion starts. A tree that produces poor fruit is easily converted into a profitable tree. . The operation is a simple one, and any intelligent boy can porform it. Stakes, where ,vtrees are properly planted, are not needed, unless in ex posed localities where there are strong winds, and in such cases .'the orchard should be protected by a screen of some quick-growing trees that will serve as a wind-break. Drains should be cleared of waste matter, such as leaves, and other trash that will interfere with the flow of water. In digging open drains, the earth should be thrown out upon the side opposite to that from which the surface water comes. It is now that we require rapid, vig orous growth to send up strong spears from the tillering roots. A moderate dressing of some active fertilizer, rich in ammonia, and witb a good supply of phosphorio acid for the needs oi the grain, is precisely what is needed. Laying out the ground may be done in squares, the trees in rows, and oppo site each other, a common plan for small orchards, but where the ground is to be used to the best advantage, the quincunx method is adopted, in whioh each tree stands at the corner of an equilateral triangle, and is equally dis tant from six others. A Silesian farmer has adopted a method of imparting to butter an aroma as delicate as that secured from cows pastured in the most fragrant meadows. He suspends in the empty churn a calico bag filled with fragrant herbs.keeping the churn carefully closed. When churn ing, he substitutes four smaller bags, attaching them to the beaters of the churn. The result is thus secured in a perfectly legitimate and harmless man ner. A correspondent states that be kept a plum tree from curculios by sprinkling the ground under the tree with corn meal. This induced the chickens to scratch and - search. The meal woe strewn every morning from the time the trees blossomed until the fruit was large enough to be out of danger. The con sequence was, that the fowls picked up the curculios with the meal, and the tree being saved from the presence of the insects, was "wonderfully fruitful. Breedlna Stock on the Farm. In view of the market for choice stock lately thrown open to our farmers by the exportation of cattle and meat to Europe, it behooves them to pay in creased attention to the raising of su perior animals on the farm. A late report on the American trade, by Pro fessor Sheldon, of the Cirincester Agri cultural College. England.after furnish ing a mass of information on the subject, comes to the conclusion that, despite some fluctuations, the dead meat trade will rapidly increase, and that appli ances for its fiuocessful management will be multiplied here and in Europe. The profits of the traffic will be in a great measure, proportionate to the excellence of the product, and the limit to the quantity shipped will be the stowage capacity of vessels crossing the AUantio, for, owing to the falling off in our im ports, the number of ships engaged in the transatlantic trade will be too small to afford room for a large export of moat together with other merchandise without advanoing the freight to a figure that will prohibit further exportation. The experience of many thriving farmers all over the conntry.proves that a better run of animals is obtained by breeding them on the farm than by pur chasing them. More care is bestowed in selecting the likely offsprings of tried animals, they will go on fattening more rapidly and nnif ormly than strang ers picked up here and there, for it takes some time before these get ac quainted and become contented enough to lay on flesh kindly in their new home; and moreover, the tendency of prices for young stock is upwards, and the proba bility is very strong that ere long it will not pay farmers to go into the market for young animals. In any case, it is, as a rule, more profitable to breed the stock one handles than to purchase it. Massachusetts Ploughman. Tlaesar Maklnc The apples should be crushed and the juice expressed and put into good tight barrels, with the bung left out. Fer mentation will follow quite rapidly, and continue for days or weeks, according to the weather. After the the first fer mentation ceases, draw off the cider carefully, in order not to disturb the sediment which will have fallen to the bottom. Rinse out the barrel, put the cider back, and set in a warm place, adding a pint of liquid yeast, or a half pound of yeast cakes previously dis solved in two quarts of water. If the cider is rather weak, two quarts of mo lasses may be added to strengthen it; but usually the cider will be strong enough to make excellent vinegar, and sometimes too strong; in the latter case dilute with rain water, two, three, or more gallons to the barrel; at the close of the second fermentation, the cider will generally have become excellent vinegar, if what is called mother of vinegar can be obtained, a small quanti ty may be added with advantage. A Vienna mechanician has succeeded in constructing an apparatus for working sewing machines. Electricity, steam, or water power are, an the score of cost, domestically inapplicable, so the inven tor of the new machine was restricted to gravitation or elasticity, and be, prefer ring the latter force, has contrived to make springs strong enough to keep an ordinary sized machine in motion, it is said for hours. A system of cog-wheels is arranged underneath the surfaoeof the table upon whioh the machine is fix ed, and by a handle at the side the spring is wound up with facility. The Telocity at which the machine works is entirely at the option of the person using it, and can be easily regulated. . Hunting a Coyote. The Virginia City (Nev.) Chronicle says: Yesterday afternoon a party of Virginians engaged in a coyote bunt, whioh was perhaps one of the most re markable sporting events ever witnessed in the country. The meet took place at noon, on the alkali flat, about eighteen miles east of this city. The plaoe se lected for the liberation of the coyote was a sort of alkali flat about six-or seven miles wide. The coyote, caged in a close box, had been brought to the place in a wagon, and was liberated about half-past twelve in the center of the flat. It was agreed to allow him to reach the edge of the sagebrush, some three miles distant, before the hounds were slipped. When let out of his box the oovote trotted off leisurely, leaving behind eighteen or twenty , hounds struggling frantically in the leash and clamoring for the run. i It took the coyote about fifteen minutes to reach the edge of the flat, and just as he melted into the sagebrush the pack were turn ed loose upon the desert and took the trail in full cry, followed by a well mounted field. The sagebrush was soon reached, and then the chase began in earnest. John S. Kaneen,who was splendidly mounted, took the lead, with Jack Magee close at his heels and the rest of the field trail ing behind. The sagebrush and bould ers were not the easiest things in the world to run in, but the horses, which had got warmed np to the work, made light of the rough condition of the track as they went crashing through the brush or. took flying leaps over the boulders. The hounds were about half a mile ahead in the sagebrush, their oourse marked by a continuous yelping and a trail of dust. After a run of about twenty minutes, the coyote turned upon the trail and took a course leading back to the flat. Reaching the limit of the sagebrush, it shot into the clear flat again, and made a bee line for the box from which it was liberated. The hounds cleared the brush but a few minutes behind, with the field not twenty yards in the rear, and at this point the chase became very exciting. The flat was as level as a Qoot, and when the field straggled out of the brush the coyote was about half a mile ahead, and had three miles to run before reaching the box a point for which it was evi dently making. Horses, hounds and coyote were now all, for the first time, in sight of each other. About half a dozen horsemen led the field. As they neared the box the coyote was pretty closely pressed by the hounds, but made a spurt and slid into bis old retreat like a flash of lightning. The driver of the team who had brought him out jumped down and closed the door, and in a minute a pack of disappointed dogs were yelping all around it. The riders came up immediately afterward, and a hearty cheer went up in honor of the sagacious coyote, followed by a general laugh when the utter ridiculous ness of the situation became apparent. After the coyote had taken about hilf an hour's rest it was decided to give the hounds a second run, and the snarling coyote was again turned out npon the cold charities of the sagebrush. He made off this time at a pace which dis counted his first effort. It did not take over five minutes for him to reach the sagebrush, and the instant be disappear ed the field took the trail. He covered about the same ground as before, but doubled more frequently and ran a good deal faster. In about twenty minutes he again turned into the flat, and " Lit tle Martin," the driver, who was near the box with his team, concluded to go out to meet him. The coyote was doub ling in fine style on the hounds, but when Martin had traveled about a mile from the box the animal turned and made for the wagon. The dogs overtook him when he was yet about fifty yards from the wagon, and the leader springing for ward fastened his teeth in his shoulder. The coyote turned nimbly, and appro priating a portion of the dog's ear, traveled on, and gaining the wagon, stopped directly under it, trotting along like a ooaoh. dog, beneath the fore axle.. The bounds surrounded the wagon yelping savagely, and one would occasionally shoot between the wheels to try conclusions with the coyote, who would generally send him bowling back with the blood streaming from bis hide. The coyote finally became emboldened with its success, and gliding from be tween the wheels, sprang into the center of the pack, and, for a few seconds, fought savagely, sliding back to its van tage ground again when numbers threat ened to overpower him. Little Martin, the self-constituted guardian of the coyote, enjoyed the fun immensely, and drove the wagon straight up to the box. The hounds, whioh seemed to anticipate a repetition of the first strategic move ment, made a rush to cut off the retreat, but the hunted animal fought his way through, and clearing the back of the last one in his way by a leap that must have measured five times his length, he gained the door of the box, and was in side again in a second. The field now came np and sent up another round of hearty cheers for the coyote. The Armies or the World. Three years ago Major-General Emory Upton, with credentials from the United States Government, started on a tour to examine and report npon the condition of the armies of Japan, China, Persia, Italy, Bussia,Au8tria, Germuny, France and England. He was gone nearly two years; and the work embodying the re suits of his observations has just been issued. The armies of the countries he visited are thus represented : Peaee War ' footing. footing. Japan 81,440 46,050 China 600,000 . 1,000,000 India 190,000 600,000 Persia 60,000 120,000 Italy 230,000 869,816 Rusoia 630,000 1,640,000 Austria 800,000 1,040,000 Germany 421,000 1,340,000 France 490,000 1,780.00 England v... 138,621 641,624 Totals.. .......... ..2,981.064 9,226,993 Excluding from consideration the first four countries, we find that the peace footing of the nations more or less in terested in the Eastern question is an aggregate of 2,096,600 men, while the war footing ia nearly 7,600, OOOmen, The Great Thirst Land. We take the following from a recently published work descriptive of Southern Africa, entitled "The Great Thirst Land: ' The sufferings endured on ac count of the drought were at times al most terrific The throats of the oxen were so parched that they oould not low. The dogs suffered even more than the cattle. Nor are the wild animals exempt from the plague of tbe land. When water becomes scarce in these thirsty plains, the whole of the wild animals that inhabit them oongregate round any pool that may be left, for with very Jew exceptions all have to drink once in twenty-four hours. The lions, which follow the game, thus are led to their drinking places not only to assuage their thirst, but to satisfy their hunger. To watch one of these pools at night, as I did in the northern Massara coun try, is a grand sight, and one never to be forgotten. The naturalist . and the sportsman can here see sights that will astonish them, and cause them to won der at the wonderful instincts possessed by the animal kingdom. At such watering-places the small antelopes invariably drink first, the larger later on, and with them the zebras and buffaloes. After these oome the giraffes, olosely followed by the rhinoc eros, and next the elephant, who never attempts to hide his approach oonscious of bis strength but trumpets forth a warning to all whom it may concern that he is about to satisfy his thirst. The only animal that does not give place to the elephant is the rhinoceros; obstinate, headstrong and piglike, he may not oourt danger, but assuredly he does not avoid it. The elephant may drink by his side, but must not interfere with him, for he is quick to resent an insult, and I am assured that when one of these battles takes plaoe the rhinoceros is in variably the victor. The elepha it is large, of gigantio power, bnt the other is for more active, while the formidable horn that terminates his nose is a dread ful weapon when nsed with the force that he has the power to apply to it. I have been told on trustworthy authority that a rhinoceros in one of those blind fits of fury to which they are so subject, attacked a large wagon, inserted his horn between tbe spokes of the wheel and instantly overturned it, scattering the contents far and wide, and after wards injuring the vehicle to such an ex tent as to render it useless. The lion is not tied to time in drink ing. After it feeds it comes to water, but it never would dare to interfere with the rhinoceros or the elephant. Where the buffalo exists in numbers it is the prinoipal prey of the lion; in other localities antelope and chiefly the zebra are its food. What an Egg is. To the reflective mind the egg consti tutes one of the greatest marvels of na ture. At first view it would seem that it is an especial characteristic of birds; but when we observe that fishes, bo dif ferent from birds in their organization and their mode of life, have also eggs, we see that.it must be the same in one sense with all kinds of animals. A pul let's egg is a very small germ, posses sing at first only the most essential or gans for the actual sustenance of its ex istence, and the gradual development of its other parts inclosed in a box, with its provisions for the time it must actually remain in seclusion. The animal is the little whitish circle remarked in the membrane which envelops the mass of the yolk. The house destined to protect the young animal until it has acquired all of its own organs, and all the neces sary strength, and yet allow the air and beat to penetrate, is the shell. Hence the size of the eggs of animals is, not necessarily proportioned to the size of the animals to which they belong. All animals, whatever they may be from the elephant to the humming-bird are at the moment when they begin to feel the principle of life nearly of the same size. . That which varies is the provision of nourishment they require. The cro codile, destined to attain colossal dimen sions, can take care of himself very well in the river where he was born when he has attained the size of a lizard; so na' tare places in the box where he is oon fined food sufficient to enable him to reach that size. The same with fishes; there are some enormous ones which have onlv very small eggs, because, how ever diminutive they may be on leaving their envelope, they can already obtain their own living in the bosom of the river or ocean. Alexander Hamilton Stephens. A Washington correspondent thus de scribes Congressman Stephens, of Geor gia: A white secretary, a colored ser vant, and a pair of crutches form Mr. Ste phens' entire family. He was never mar ried, and I believe has few or no relatives On account of his infirm condition he is never seen in the dining-room. He takes bis meals in his room. He eats very sparingly, and is an epicure in bis tastes. He hates the sight of pork, and he was once known to fire the plate at the waiter's bead who bad brought him sausage-cake for breakfast. But his wrath was over in a minute, for he soon laughed at the folly of his quick temper, and handed the astonished waiter a gift. Yet it is somewhat strange that, notwith standing Mr. Stephens' natural aversion to pork in any shape for it is said that he oan hardly look at a hog in the street without having a touch of convulsions notwithstanding this aversion, he is passionately fond of 'coon, and he em ploys two men constantly on the Virginia side of the Potomac capturing young raccoons for him. It tests Mr. Stephens' full strength to stand alone on his crutches. He appears to be all dead but the eyes, which are large and radi ant, with wonderful depth and serenity. One leg i shorter than tbe other, and it is raised by a high heel on his shoe. Al ways dwarfish in size, there is now noth ing left of him but the bones tbe mere skeleton. He wears an old beaver hat, and clothes that are not exactly shabby.. One shrinks from bis face at first sight as from a dead person. But the quiver is but momentary, for the eyes speak, and you feel that a man of intellect ia somewhere near, - : Items of Interest. Buckwheat is more eaten here than in any other land. - . The Chinese for "adieu" is very ap propriate " chin-chin. " Everyone is in one thing at least orig inal in his manner of sneezing. There are nineteen thousand female Patrons of Husbandry in Texas. One good turn deserves another, but a shirt collar is only capable of two. A picture frame just completed by a New Jeneyman, contains 1,682 kinds of wood. London is going to build a new bridge over the river Thames, and to pay $10, 000,000 for it A five-year-old girl was actually whip ped to death in Marshall town, Iowa by her drunken mother. Gortchakoff is in his eighty-seooni year beating Lord Palmerston, who died in harness at eignty. The present rulers of the laws of eti quette nave decided that it is only good style to bow after the lady has bowed. In Pennsylvania seventy-one per cent. of the farms are cultivated by their own ers, twenty per cent, are worked on shares, and nine per cent, are rented. An organ of the tobacco trade asserts that if the tobacco consumed annually, about 4,000,000,000 pounds, could be made into a roll two inches in diameter, it would encircle the world sixty times. " June t Jnne ! June 1" Low croon The brown bees in the clover; "Bweet! sweet! sweet 1" Repeat The robins, nested over. Avi Grey in haribner. Mr. F. D. Millet, an American, was the only correspondent wbo went through the Balkans with Gen. Gourko. The czar presented him with the deoora tion of St Ann, which is the highest decoration given to any correspondent. Because you flourish In worldly affairs, Don't be haughty and put on airs With insolent pride of station. Don't be proud and turn np your nose At poorer people in plainer clothes ; But learn, for the sake of your mind's repose, That wealth's a bubble that oomes and goes ; And that all proud flesh, wherever it grows, Is subject to irritation. Henry Goodrich is a music teacher. He has traveled from place to place until he bos taught music in every State in the Union. It is said that he has married seven of his pupils and most of the States are yet to be heard from. In Clarksburg, Va., he outdid his former matrimonial exploits by marrying two girls in the same village. He is now in jail. The Great Eastern. The leviathan of ships, the Great Eastern, is one of the wonders of our progressive age, and a mighty proof of the energy, perseverance and skill of man. No other ship is worthy to be mentioned with her. She stands alone, a proud monument to her designers and builders. She was built at London about twenty years ago, and cost a fabulous sum of money. Bhe is nearly, 700 feet long, J feet wide, and can carry 20.000 tons of freight. The next largest vessel's ca pacity is not over 6,000 tors. Although of i uch immense size her lines are beautiful, and she sits upon the water as gracefully as a yacht, che has seven masts. Her engines, of the com bined power of 10,000 horses, are a wonder to contemplate. Involuntarily the beholder exclaims, as be gazes upon the moving mass, "How could man ever fabricate them?" Although built for a passenger and freight steamer, and intended for the Australian trade, she has been used al most altogether in laying submarine telegraphs, proving altogether too large for profitable nse as a merchant steamer. There is no doubt, in the event of Uretit Britain's going to war, she would be used as a transport steamer, being able to accommodate 10,000 soldiers with their baggage. Saved by Fire. Three little girls, from six to eigh years of age, up at Mannville, on the Wis consin Central Railroad, wandered into the woods one day reoently and got lost. Night came on and the little ones finally, at about midnight, ran npon a haystack in a clearing. They pulled out some of the hay and made a hole big enough to crawl into, when, to their horror, several large wolves came bowling about them and snapping their jaws in anticipation of the human feast before them. The children cried and screamed in their ter ror as the wolves came nearer and nearer. Finally the oldest of the chil dren, while on her knees praying for herself and little sisters, happened to remember that fire would frighten away wild animals, and remembered also that she bad a few matches in her pocket In a moment she pushed the children out from the stack and struck a match and set fire to the dry hay. The effect was magical. In an instant the flames shot skyward, the wolves ran off in a rage of disappointment, and soon after, as the little ones were warming the chilled blood in their little veins, their parents and friends came up to their rescue, attracted thither by the light from the burning haystack. Words of Wisdom. Self-denial is a grand virtue. Every high aim lifts yon above your self. Selfishness has a variety of disguises, but nnder tbe velvet you can always find the olaw. If it be important to know whether a man will cheat yon if he can, sound him as to his willingness to help you cheat somebody else. With tune and patience tbe mulberry leaf becomes satin. What difficulty is there at which a man should quail, when a worm can accomplish so much from a leaf. A man who covers himself with cotly apparel and neglects his mind, is like ouewho illuminates the outside of his bouse and aits within in the dark. Ignorance and deceit are two of the worst qualities to combat It is vastly easier to dispute with a statesman than a blockhead. 1 It we would have powerful minds we must think; if we' would have faithful hearts, we must love; it we would have strong muscle, we must labor. These include all tliat U Talnablein We,
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