FIRM, GARDEN ASD HOUSEHOLD.
The Parmer' Wife.
Up la the morning at the dawn of day,
Then hardly time to her Maker to pray.
Milking her oowt with a "Oo, bona, oo,"
Under her feet no grass oan grow.
Bnay, so bnay, and thla her song
''The rammer la short, and the winter long."
Old in her yonth, often weary of life,
Bless her 1 God help her I the farmer'! wife.
Ohiokena to feed, raoh a hungry crowd,
Calrea to be tended of which she la proud.
Bread of the lightest and aweeteat to bake,
Batter the golden, and fragrant to make;
Honey, like amber, to strain and to clear,
Fruit to preserve In its season eaeh year,
Cheese to press, and to tnrn eaoh day,
Bless her I God bleg her I we sigh, ae we aay.
Washing and Ironing to do eaoh week,
Hundreds of things that a pen cannot speak)
Cook and confectioner, seamstress, la she,
Dairymaid, housemaid, and teacher to be,
Nurse, and physician, and preacher, at home,
City of refuge when erring onea roam.
"She hath done what Bhe could," short her
life's little day. '
Bless her t God help her I my friends let us
pray.
Ann L. Jack.
Farm Notes.
Eighteen cnbio feet of trravel or earth
before diggiDg.make twenty-seven cubic
ieet wiien aug.
Salt, soot and lime, mixed with the
manure, make a good fertilizer for
celery.
Some milkmen use strainer pails and
also a oloth stretched over the can, thns
straining the milk twice. This double
straining of milk is to be recommended.
Cleanliness costs but little trouble, and
wui auu greatly to tne value of your
dairy products, whether yon sell your
milk by the can or manufacture it into
butter or cheeze.
Do not allow ashes of any kind to be
wasted. It will pay to haul lenched
ashes several miles, when one hns his
own team and a laborer at fair wages,
Coal nshes, when spread around berry
bushes of any sort, or around grape-vines,
will aid materially in producing large
and fair fruit.
Feed your land before it gets poor.
Give it all the manure you can make
and haul, and it will enrich, you. Starve
it by taking off crops continually and re
turning nothing ami it will bankrupt
you. Feed the land liberally and.it will
feed and clothe you.
A New York correspondent of the El
mira Farmers' Club says he raises one
hundred bushels of turnips per acre, in
the hill with corn. He does it by man
uring the corn in the hill. When half
the load of manure is on the wagon he
scatters two tablespoonfuls of tnrnip
seed over it, and about the same quanti
ty when the load is full.
The best preventive for worms in cel
ery is to mix plenty of salt, soot and
lime with the manure that is to be em
ployed in trenches. This should be
added to the manure some weeks before
it is used, during which time it should
be turned now and then. The mixture
above named also benefit the growth
of the celery, which will lift clean and
spotless compared with that grown in
the ordinary way.
Health Uinta.
An onnoe of cream-of-tartar in a pint
of water drank at intervals is said to be
a certain enre for small -pox.
Vigorous motion of the jaws as if
masticating will stop bleeding at the
nose.
Tincture of benzoin is highly landed
as a simple and most effective dressing
for fresh wounds. Its application is
much more healing to a recent wound
than either water dressings or any form
of fat.
A thick cream of common whiting
and water is excellent for burns or
scalds.
To Cure a Felon. Prof. H inter, of
Berlin, cures bone felon or whitlow by
first probing the swelling of the finger,
making a small incision where the pain
appears greatest. The pain of the
operation may be lessened by the local
application of ether or inhalation of
chloroform. The after treatment is
equally simple. The small wound is
to be covered with lint and carbolio acid,
and bathed morning and evening in
tepid water. In a few days it is per
fectly healed.
Remedy fob Earache. The Journal
of Health gives the following: There
is scarcely any ache to which children
are subject so hard to bear and difficult
to cure as the earache. But there is a
remedy never known to fail. Take a bit
of cotton, put upon it a pinch of black
pepper, gather it up and tie it, dip in
sweet oil and insert into the ear. Put a
flannel bandage over the head to keep
it warm. It will give immediate relief.
Kemedlea for Insects,
David Landreth & Sons, of Philadel
phia, give detailed accounts of remedit s
for some of tne insects which prove
troublesome or destructive in gardens,
and more particularly to cabbages, the
substance of which we condense: "(1)
The greenish-black jumping beetle, a
tenth of an inch long, feeding on both
cabbages and turnips while young, is
kept in check by dusting with sulphur
and plaster, or by applying slightly a
solution of whale oil soap or tobacco
water. Sowing thickly and repeatedly
may secure a crop, or by selecting dif
ferent localities. (2) The insect which
causes the club foot in cabbage may be
repelled by lime and wood ashes, but to
change to fresh land is better. (3) Wire
worms, cut worms and grub worms may
be killed by the Blow process of digging
around the injured plant for them; but
the best way is to give clean land, well
cultivated and enriched, with frequent
waterings to stimulate growth, which
will tend to ensure against these under
ground enemies. (4.) The green worms
are best cleared from cabbages by hand
picking. (5) Plant lice are driven off
by whale-oil soap, sulphur, plaster, to
bacco water, etc., if applied early, so as
not to injure the taste of the cabbages.
As a rule for guarding against insects
generally, make the ground rich, keep
it clean and mellow, cultivate often,
and water freely."
Lightning travels nearly a million
times faster than thunder. The speed
of lightning is so great that it would go
480 times round the earth in a minute,
whereas the sound of thunder would go
scarcely thirteen miles in the same space
of time. Thunder will take a second
to travel 380 yards, hence a popular
method of approximating the distance
of a thunder cloud is as follows: Imme
diately you see the lightning flash put
your hand upon your pulse and count
how many times it beats before yon
hear the thunder; if it beats six pulsa
tions the storm is one mile off, if twelve
Dolsations it is two miles off, and so on.
In the oase of elderly people five pulsa
tions would measure nearly the same
period of time as six 10 the case of vonng
persons.
FOR THE TOtJNU PEOPLE.
I'vce Banished Ward.
The King of Maoaroons was dressing
himself, with the help of bis chamber
lain one morning, when to his dismay
he found that there was a hole in his
Stocking.
" Dear me t" Bd llle king, look
here t I rmMj taunt get a wife. "
" Just what I should have said," re
turned the chamberlain, " only I knew
your majesty was going to make the
same remark."
" Good," said the king; but do yon
think I could easily find a wife to suit
met Ton know I am Vry difficult to
please. My queen must be clever and
beautiful, and besides which she mnst
be able to make gingerbread-nuts, for
you know how fond I am bt them; and
there is not a person in my kingdom
who knows how to make them properly
neither too hard nor too soft.
The chamberlain was astonished to
hear this, and felt rather inclined to
laugh, but he answered very properly,
"A great king like your majesty must
surely be able to find a princess who
knows how to make gingerbread-nuts."
That very day the king and his minis
ter set off to look for a wife for the king,
Eaying visits to all the neighbors who
ad princesses to dispose of.
They oould only hear of three at all
likely to suit, and of these three not one
could make gingerbread-nuts.
The first princess said she oonld make
delicious almond-cakes, if they would
do.
But the king said, " No no noth
ing but gingerbread-nuts will do."
The second princess turned away very
angrily when she was asked the question.
But the third, quite the cleverest and
prettiest of the three, before the king
bad tune to speak, put a question of her
own. "Could the king," Bhe asked,
-pioy on tne iiarpr if not, she was
sorry, really sorry, as she liked the look
or nun but sue could not be his wife.
one una resolved never to marry Buy
man who could not play the harn.rt
o tne mug nail to come home without
a queen; but as the holes in his stock
ings grew larger, he felt that he really
must make another effort to find a wife.
Go to the first princess and ask
her," said he to his chamberlain. I
must give np the gingerbread-nuts, I
suppose, and be contented with almond
cakes."
The chamberlain went, and came back
with the news that this princess had just
married somebody else. Then the king
sent him to the second princess; but she
had unfortunately just died. And so
there was only the harp princess left.
In despair, he sent to her; and, to his
great joy, Bhe consented to do without
the harp, anil to be his wife.
So they were married with very great
rejoicings, and lived in the greatest hap
piness for a whole year. The king had
forgotten all about the gingerbread
nuts, and the queen all about the harp.
One morning, however, the king got
out of bed with his left foot first, which
made everything go wrong all through
the day; and so the king and queen had
a quarrel. What it was about they
really did not know; but they were both
snappish and cross, and determined to
have the last word.
"You'd better hold jour tongue, and
not keep on finding fault with every
thing and every body," said the queen
at last. " Why, you can't even play the
harp."
"At any rate," returned the king,
" you can't make gingerbread-nuts."
For the first time the queen had
nothing to say. And, indeed, the mo
ment the word harp had passed her lips
she was sorry she had said it, and she
ran away at . once into her own apart
ments, and, throwing herself on the
cushions of her sofa, had a good cry.
The king, on the other hand, paced up
and down the room, rubbing his hands
in great glee,
" What a good thing for me my wife
can't make gingerbread-nuts, otherwise
I should not have had a word to answer
about the harp," he said.
Presently, however, he looked at the
portrait of the quet n, which was hang
ing on the wall. " Illy poor little wife I
I dure say, after all, bhe is sorry to have
teased me," he said; " I think I'll go
Land sees what she is about. Perhaps she
may be crying her pretty eyes out."
As it happened, the king and queen
each thinking of the other, ran into each
other's arms in the great corridor, on
which their room b opened; and there
they kissed, and made up tueir quarrel,
and vowed never to have another.
"I tell you what we will do," said the
king; " we will banish two words from
onr kingdom, under pain of death, and
those are harp and
" Gingerbread-nuts," interrupted the
qneen, laughing low, while she wiped a
tear from her cheek.
Mr. Bryunt
The editor of the
on Style.
Christian Jntelli-
gencer wiote, some fifteen years ago, to
the poet Bryant, asking as to the ac
quisition of a good English style. The
poet answered in a letter, from which
we make the f llowing extracts
"It seems to me," he says, "that in
style we onght first, and above all
things, to aim at clearness of expression.
An obsenre style is, of course, a bad
style.
"In writing we should always con
sider, not only whether we have ex
pressed the thought in a manner which
meets our own comprehension, dui
whether it will be understood by readers
in general
"The quality of style next in import
ance is attractiveness. It should invite
and agreeably detain the reader. To
acquire such a style, I know of no other
way than to contemplate good models,
and consider the observations of able
critics.
"I would reonrfor this purpose to the
elder worthies of our literature to such
writers as Jeremy Taylor, and Barrow,
and Thomas Fuller whose works are
fierfect treasures of the riches of our
anguage. Many modern writers have
great excellences of style, but few are
without some deficiency.
"1 aenvea great advantage in my
youth from a careful reading of Kame s
Elements of Criticism not bo much
from the theoretical parts, which I do
not esteem very highly, as from observ
ing the instances be brings forward of
the beauties and faults of distinguished
writers.
"A very useful direction is" given in
Mackintosh's work on the 'Study of
the Law.' He advises the student
whenever, in any author, he meets with
a striking tnrn of phrase or a passage of
unusual beauty, not to pass over it cur
sorily, but to dwell npon it, read it over
and over, and endeavor to impress iU
excellence noon the mind. .
"I have but one more counsel to give
in regard to the formation of a style in
composition, and that is, to read the
poets the nobler and grander ones of
our language. In this way warmth and
energy is communicated to the diction
aqd a musical now w toe sentences.-'
A Gigantic Japanese SUlue.
the Philadelphia Pfest says: If there
were nothing else to mark the skill, gen
ius and artistio .workmanship of the
Japanese, the great trone statue of Dia
Boots would be sufficient to make their
hathe imperishable. Dia Bootes would
be worthy of a place among the wonders
of the world, equally so with the Colos
sus of Rhodes, Cleopatra's Needles or
the Sphinx of Egypt. This sacred im
age, was not only built of bronee. but the
.rlh!
Observer, Its base rested on a dais of
masonry about five feet in height. The
elevation of the body was five jion. or
fifty feet; between the edge of the hair
of the head and the legs crossed, forty
two feet: from knee to knee, seated
cross-legged, thirty-six feet, and the
circumference of the body was ninety-
eight feet. The following were the
minor dimensions! Face, eight and a
half feet long; oirotalar spot on forehead,
one and a half feet in cirenmferenoe;
eyes four feet long; eyebrows, four feet
two and a half inches; ear, six feet
seven inches: nose three feet nine
inches vertioal and two feet four inches
horizontal measurement; mouth, four
feet three and a half inches wide; shaved
IKrtion of head on top, called kik kokr.e.
two feet four inohes in diameter. The
spirally curled locks of hair on the head
were nine and a half inches wide and 830
in nnmber. Each thumb measured
three feet in circumference. These fig
ures will convey some idea of the dimen
sions, if not the magnificence, of this
almost superhuman exhibition of Japan
ese art. The interior of the statue
formed a beautiful temple, in whioh
gilt images of Buddh st saints, with
croziers and glories and other appropri
ate objects of worship or reverence. In
front and at the foot of the statue was
au altar, on which were incense pots and
urns, to receive the votive offerings of
visitors attracted thither by sentiments
of religious fervor or curiosity. Near by
was the residence of the priestly custodi
ans of the sacred place. Here also were
pictures o! the prophet, and refreshing
potations of tea were purchasable at
low rates. The sconio effect of the im
mediate surroundings of the place were
in keeping with the statue. The baak
grotiud consisted of a mass of gre n and
towering trees, the broad way leading
np was raised at regular intervals by
small steps, and on either side, growing
in all the luxuriance of the country,
were azaleas and flowering plants. The
magnificent statue itself out of this
scene of beauty rose in all its magnitude
and symmetry of proportions. Before
it at a short distance oould be seen the
rolling indigo-blue waves of the ocean.
The ancient magnificence of Kamaknra
was attested by the numerous rums
which strew the plains. Here are hun
dreds of temples and shrines; the
Hachiman gin (temple of Hachiman) a
deified hero of thebushi (military) class;
several tori (stone portals), supposed to
have been the remains .of some sacred
vestibule; the Aka bash (Bed Bridge);
jMiwoomon (gate oi tne two Kings); a
belfry (shinroo), in which was a large
bronze bell, made to resound on relig
ious occasions by striking with apiece
of timber swung on ropes. In this
temple, said to have been the oldest in
the empire, was the famous stone
resorted to by the feminine part of the
mikado's subjeots for the property of
curing barrenness. In the rear, re ached
by a long flight of steps, was a small
temnle, in which the renowned Taiko-
samo, the first of the Shiogoons, wor
shipped the divinities of his country.
Words of Wisdom.
It is bad to lean against a falling wall
Attention to little things is the
economy of virtue.
Slight small injuries, and they will
become none at ail.
A good word for a bad one is worth
much and costs little.
Love s words are written on roe,
leaves, but with tears.
That of which proud people are often
proudest is their pride.
Judge not from appearance lest you
might err in your judgment.
Kindness is the golden chain " by
which society is bound together.
Great things are not accomplished by
dream, but by years of patient study.
Hope is a leaf-joy. whioh may be
beaten out to a great extension, like
gold.
He is rich who saves a penny a year ;
and he is poor who runs behind a penny
a year.
It is very foolish for people to put
themselves to the trouble of being ill-
natured.
People look at your six days in the
week to see what you mean on the
seventh.
There is nothing evil but what is
within ns : the rest is either natural or
accidental.
Disdain not your inferior, though
poor, since he may be much yourjrape-
rior in wisdom.
We pass our lives in regretting the
past, complaining of tne . present, and
indulging lalse hopes of the future.
The Last Chinese Porcelain.
Edward King writes in the Boston
Journal : Three centuries sufficed to com
plete the ruin of Chinese porcelain mak
ing. The workmen were apparently
paralyzed. Their arms lost their cun
ning ; secrets of color disappeared. There
is a god of porcelains in China; he must
feel sad at times.
This god was a poor
workman in dim ages past, bat a work
man of sienal talent, and ever Tear he
brought forth some beautiful work which
won turn renown, iiut lust as he was at
the height of his glory he became so
enraged or was so niiea witn despair,
because an experiment which he was
making in the burning of two vases
seemed certain to fail, that he threw
himself headlong into his own furnaoe.
and be and his talant were speedily lost
to the world. His friend, however.
brought the story to the ears of the em
peror. That potentate expressed his
profound grief, but at the same time,
having an eye to business, told the
friends to rake out the furnace and see
if the unhappy artist's experiment had
really been unsuccessful. Lo and be
hold 1 when this was done there appear
ed two vases of such lustrous beauty
that all concluded that success had
crowned the workman's efforts, and the
sorrowing emperor canonized the dead
man, and bout him a noble temple.
The singing swan is a native of the
far, far North, where it is called the
"Whistling Swan." Its notes are me
lodious, and as whole flocks of them
sing while in flight, their high, wild,
viol-like musio is often heard at great
distances. It visits England and the
Scottish Islands during the cold winter
months, where it is shot and marketed
as game. These song swans are also
called " Hoopers." from the resemblance
of tbeir note to the cry of "Hoop
hoop!"
ELECTRIC EELS.
tie They Rhabk ' Mm ah Flsh-Plsa
, datotinl Mat-blnee, .
Those electric- feels in the New York
Aquarium are Bnecimens of the real
gymnotns, and came per schooner Ma
graba, Gapt. George Abbott, from the
Amazon river, South America. Their
length is almost four feet ; they are
thioker in the body than the largest
common ell. There are two. and they
t tr J smaSTravXg Ss
into the more spacious tanks of the
Aquarittm, they Were Very restless, and
one of the attendants experienced, with
out intending it, their electrio power,
whioh notwithstanding the faiigue of a
long journey, was very reapectible. A
sugni toucn of the smooth, slimy body
was sufficient to communicate such a
severe shock that the man Was complain
ing for several hours later of unusual
pains in his shoulder and olbows.
ihe excitement of the fishes noon beinar
placed in their new quarters was very
great, xney dashed througn their tanks
in all directions, forward and backward ;
tried to jump out, and splashed the
water all over the neighborhood. It
took them a long time to get quiet.
A lively yellow perch was put into the
tank of one of the eels, a catfish into
that of the other. The presence of the
strange visitors excited the eels, and
they made directly for them, tonohing
their bodies in several places with the
end of their Dlumn nnnntA. It looked as
if they intended to bore into the bodies
of the nshes. Both the perch and the
catfish palpitated violently at the moment
when the eels touched them, exactly like
a person who gets a shock from an'elec
trio machine when unprepared for it.
The perch seemed to have been hit vio
lently so that it lost its balance, and
with open mouth, swam on its side. Yet
it required only a short while for both
fishes to recover, and in two or three
minutes they were swimming around ap
parently as vigorous as before. The eels
renewed their attacks, but the result
was weaker in both of them, and it real
ly seemed as if they were not able to kill
the fishes by their mysterious power.
The contest continued, and one of the
eels gradually got more excited. Instead
of merely touching the perch with the
end of his snout, it opened its mouth and
laid both lip close to the body of the
nsn. 'ine electric discharges became
more frequent at the same time, and in
aoout seventy-nve minutes the perch
was dead. The catfish, however, sus
tained all the discharges of its deadly
companion without any apparent conse
quences.
An unexpected observation, and whioh
we believe has never been mentioned by
any naturalist before Dr. Dorner, is the
remarkable way in which these eels
breathe. As is generally known, the re
spiratory movements consist in alternate
ly opening and closing the mouth and
gill slit, and only when the fishes are in
want of air. having had an insufficient
supply from the water, they ascend to the
surface m order to swallow air from the
atmosphere. Only a few fishes, which
are remarkable for their large, cellnlated
air madder, as, for instance, the gar pike.
or the fresh water dogfish, come to the
surface regularly in order to inhale and
exhale air in the same way that seals and
whales do. The dogfish does this abont
twice in an hour, the gar pike at much
longer intervals, and both fishes, when
under the surface, open and close their
mouths and gill slits quite regularly,
like all other fishes. The electrio eel.
however, takes the greatest part of its
respiratory air directly from the atmos-
pere, at intervals of one or two minutes,
sometimes less, sometimes more, but
generally not slower than the seal.
iSach of the electric eels of the aqua
rium comes to the surface, brings the
end of its snout into the air, takes a por
tion of it, the throat becoming wider.
and in the next momtnt it gulps the air
down, or lets it escape through one of
the gill openings. HometimeB, when
resting at the bottom, the eel allows a
great quantity of air to escape by a deep
notm in the center of the lower law
permitting this escape without opening
its mouth. In regard to exhalation
there is great irregularity sometimes
the air escapes through one, sometimes
through the other of the gill openings,
sometimes through the mouth. The
quantity of the outgoing air is also
changeable, being sometimes four times
greater than at other times; bnt the in
haling is quite regular,
The electrio eel has two connected air
bladders two and a half feet long, and
therefore there is no doubt of its acting
as a real lung. The length of the blad
ders compiises two-thirds of the entire
body No doubt the air bladders are of
great sr importance in the respiratory
functions of the electrio eeis than the
gills.
This accounts for the fact that the
respiratory movements noticed in other
fishes for honrs are totally absent in the
electrio eels. Several visitors, after
watching the creatures a few moments,
believed them to be dead until the
ascending movement convinced them of
their being alive. It is only at long in
ter vala that the mouth is slightly opened
and closed while in the water, and in
these instances the coming to the sur
face ceases for a length of time. Per
haps the animal sleeps at this time. Its
eyes, thongh, are so small it is difficult
to tell whether they are open or not.
r ir I. 1 1
itw jvtk oun.
Sardines.
The sardine fisheries Lave supported
manv families for fenerations. The
chief supply originally came from off
Sardinia, whence they take the'? name,
but for a long time they were mainly
caueht on the coast of Untt-uiy. War
dines are usually abundant in French
waters in this season, and the catch will
be larger than in any previous year. A
sardiue fleet consists of vessels from
eight to ten tons eaoh, with a crew of
from six to twelve persons, and goes six
to nine miles irom land, xne uau con
sisting of eggs and fish, ont np, is scat
tared on the water. The sardines are
taken with gill nets. A few are salted
on board, but the bulk are oaiiied on
shore. Their heads are cut off, and
they are well we shed and sprinkled with
salt. After drying, they are arranged in
frames, in almost perpendiouiar rows,
and immersed again and again iu the
best boiling olive oil. When sufficient
ly oured they are paoked in the small tin
boxes by w-men and children, after
which men fill the boxes np with fresh
oil and solder them tight. The work is
not complete, howevor, for before fit for
the table the fish require cocking. To
this end they are placed in a covered
kettle and boiled from half an hour to an
hour, according to their size. After dry
ing, labelling, and placing in wooden
cases they are ready for shipment. The
American sardine, or menhaden, is taken
in large quantities on the coast of New
Jersey and put np In oil.
Here's a nice little cieoe of news for
the little folka- " A firm in Belleville,
I1L, turns out 160.000 gallons of custor
oil every year."
Some Epitaphs.
One at Ockham. in Surrey, on .John
Spong, a carpenter, which wonld seem
to have been written to order by a sohol
ar, is original and unique I
" Who many a stnrdy oak had lain along,
Felled by Death's surer hatchet, here lid
8 pong.
Posts oft be made, yet ne'er a place could get,
And lived by railing, ttao' he bad no wit.
Old saws he had, altho' no antiquarian,
And styles eorrected, yet no grammarian.
Long lived he Ockham'a primeat architect;
And lasting as bis fame a tomb t' erect,
In vain we seek an artist such aa he,
Whose pales and gates are for eternity."
There is no lack of other artists whose
callings have survived them on the tomb
stone or tablet. One, for example, is
Thomas Chambers, 1765. Of -uok is
the Kingdom of Heaven " prefaces the
inscription purporting that " Here lio
the Remains of Thomas Chambers,
Dancing-master, whose genteel address
and assiduity in teaching recommended
him to all that had the pleasure of his
acquaintance." Of Bryan Tnnstall, we
are told that he was poor, bnt honest,
and " a most expert angler, until Death,
envious of his merit, threw out his line,
hooked him, and landed him on the 31st
of April, 1790." Another is in honor of
John Bilbie, clock-maker, aged thirty
three: " Bilbie, thy
Moveiueuts kept in play
For thirty years and more we aay,
Thy balance or thy
Mainspring's broken,
And all thy movements cease to work."
The angler and the clock-maker respect
ively represent large classes. The
former craft suggests a pun on names
in a case of a olerio surnamed Ham,
(hamns), as well as less metaphorio al
lusions to the fisherman's craft: while
the latter recalls the elaborate trade
epitaph on George Bongleigh, watch
maker, as well as one on the much ear
lier artist, Thomas Pierce, who died at
Berkeley, Gloucestershire, in 1630. It
runs as follows:
" Here lieth Thomas Fierce, whom no man
Yet he in iron, brass and silver wrought.
He Jacks and Olooks and Watches (with art)
made
And mended too, when others' worke did fade.
Of Berkeley five tymes Mayor this artist was;
And yet this mayor, this ariist was but grasse.
wnen nis own watcn waa aown on lue j-,at
Dav.
He that made Watches had not made a Key
To winde it np, but tueleBS it must lie
Until be rise againe no more to die I"
Akin to these are epitaphs on persons
with trade-surnames, such as Anthony
Cooke, of Yoxford, who died on Easter
Monday, 1613, upon whom, according to
his epitaph, came
Leane hungrie death, who never pity took.
And cawse ye Feaste was ended slew the
Cook."
Few puns on . names, however, aro
better than one on Anne Hillary, of
Beaminster, whose obituary panegyrist
was no doubt a lawyer:
"TiB not because this woman's Virtue dies
That the braes tells us ' Here Anne Hillary
lies.'
Her name's long-loved; she is in this com
mended; The poor cry out ' their Hilary Term is ended. ' "
London Saturday Review.
Mark Twain's Legend of a Musket
Mark Twain tells the following story.
related by a fellow passenger, who, ban
tered about his timidity, said he never
had been scared since he had loaded an
old Queen Anne musket for his father
once, whereupon he gave the following
Xou see the old man was trying to
learn me to shoot blackbirds and beasts
that tore np the young corn and such
things, bo that I could be of some use j
around the farm, because I wasn't big
enough to do much. My gun was a single-barrel
rhot-gnn, and the old man
carried an old Qneen Anne musket that
weighed a ton, made a report like a
thunder-clap and kicked like a mule.
The old man wanted mo to shoot the
old musket some time but I was afraid.
One day, thongh, I got her down and
took her to the hired man and asked him
to load her up, because it was out in the
field. Hiram said:'
" Do you see those marks on the stock
au X and V, on each Bide of the queen's
crown ? Well, that means ten balls and
five slugs that's her load."
But how much powder r
" Oh," he says, " it don't matter; put
in three or four handfuls."
So I loaded her up that way, and it
was an awful charge I had sense enough
to see that and started ont I leveled
her on a good many blackbirds, bnt every
time 1 went to pull the trigger I shut
my eyes and winked. I was afraid of
her kick. Toward sundown l fetched np
to the house, and there was the old man
waiting on the porch.
" Been ont hunting have ye r
" Yes, sir," says I.
What did vou kill?"
"Didn't kill anything, sir; didn't
shoot her off was afraid she'd kick." I
know blame well she would.
" Gimme that gun I" the old man said,
as mad as sin.
And he took aim at a sapling on the
other side of the road, and I began to
drop back out of danger, and tho next
moment I heard the earthquake and saw
the Qneen Anne whirling end over end
in the air, and the old man spinning
aronnd on one heel, with one leg np and
both bands on bis law, and the bark ny-
ing from that old sapling like there was
hail storm. The old man's shoulder
was set back three inohes. his jaws turn'
ed black and blue, and he had to lay up
for a week. Cholera or nothing else can
scare me the way 1 was scared that time
How a Town was Taken.
A very good stiy is told of the island
of Sark. a small island which lies in the
English Ghannel. It is said to have
been once taken by the French, -who,
however, held it only a short time. One
morning, a pea?eful-lc3king merchant-
ship, bearing a flag of truce, appeared
off the island, and. sending off a boat-
the officer in command told the .French
men that one of the crew, a native of the
island. h J died on board, and baa ex
pressea a w.-sb t be buriea in ins native
soil, and he asked that the deceaseds
companions might be allowed to carry
out his desire. The Frenchmen politely
consent-1, end t -eord'ngiy tne snips
crew soon appeare 3, br'nging with them
the coffin, which they canied into the
little church. They then requested that
they might be permuted to periorm
their own sei.ioe over the body: and
this also was granted, as the English
sailors were unarmed, and had therefore
gave rise to no apprehensions. No
sooner, however, had the Frenoh left
the church than tbe coffin, whioh we
full of arms and ammnition, was opened
and. as the church commanded the town,
the island was lasen almost wituoui
opposition,
It is said that at the time of the Rev
olution a German wished to open a tav.
era near Philadelphia, and having noth
ing for a sign but picture of his old
king he placed it on a pole by his door,
and the village which sprang np around
the tavern is called " Th King of Prus
I bia to this day.
Don't tell a man yon sweat. It Is
vulgar. Inform him that you are being
deprived of the saline and oleaginous
fluids of your material substance
through the exoretories of your pellucid
cuticle, with a sensible condensation of
moisture npon the superficial exterior.
"Stack arms: Pitchforks and rakes."
Chicago Journal. Ground arms s
Spades and hoes. -Jacksonville (.III.)
Journal. Present alms: A donation.
iVew York Graphic. Order arms: The
rod and switch.
Clear the Way ... e
For the escape from the system of its waste
and debris, which, if retained, would vitiate
the bodily fluids and overthrow health. That
important ohannffl of exit, the bowels, may be
kept permanently free from obstruction a by us
ing tne non-griping, penny acting ana agree
able catbartio, Hostetter's Stomach Bitters,
which not onlv liberates impurities, but invisr-
orates the lining of the intestinal canal when
weakened by constipation or the unwise use of
violent purgatives, rue atomacn, liver, ana
urinary organs are likewise reinforoea and
aroused to healthful aotion by this benefloent
tonio and corrective, and every organ, fiber,
musole and nerve experiences a share of its
invigorating inflnenoe. Unobjectionable in
flavor, a moat genial and wholesome medioinal
stimulant, and owing its efficacy to botanic
sources exclusively, it is the remedy beBt ad
apted to household use on aooount of Its safety,
wide scope and speedy action.
Every body knows that so long as there is
proud fleBh in a sore or wound, it will not heal
The obstacle is speedily removed and the flesh
reunited by Hinbt's Gauouc 8alvb, the finest
embodiment in existence of that supreme puri
fier, carbolio aoid. Its emollient ingredients
modify its pungent aoid basis, so that it never
cauterizes, stings or scarifies the diseased part.
Bores and eruptions of all kinds are cured by
it. All Druggists sell lb
Medical Stcbekts will be pleased to learn
that the Faonlty of the Louisville Hedioal
College (Louisville, Ky ,) now gives three com
plete conrses of lectures in seventeen months,
and ao arrange their prices that a student
saves (297 in bis med'eal education, and gains
his third course of lectures; all other colleges
give in this time only two courses. Beneficiary
privileges are limited, we see, to five per cent
of the class. Next session begins October 1,
1878. RtndenU should at once apply, as above,
iur uaiAiugueB.
,, , , Nutritious Cookery.
Nothing is so well calculated to cromote sood
health and good humor as light, easily di
gested nutritious cookery. With that unrivaled
article, Dooley'a Yeast Powder, in the kitchen.
elegant, white, light and wholesome bread,
roils, DiBCntt, cake of every kind, and corn
bread, wastes, mnffins, buckwheat cakes, etc,
are always possible in every household.
For nnwards of thirtv veara Mrs. WrNRT.OW'R
SOOTHING SYRUP has been used for children
with never-failing suocess. It oorreots acidity
of the stomach, relieves wind oolie, regulates
tne xiowels, cures dysentery and diarrbcea.
whether arising from t ething or other causes.
an oia ana weu-mea remeay. 20 ots. a Dotue.
CHEW
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Wood Tag Plug
Tobacco.
Tbk Pioneer Tobacco Compart,
New York, Boston, and Chicago.
Grace's Salve, manufactured by 8eth W.
Fowle & Sons, Bonton, is becoming more and
more popular every day, and its sales are rap
idly increasing. It cures Cnts, Burns, Scalds,
Felons, Salt Bheum, Scald Head, Ulcers, Flesh
Wounds, Ao. 25 cents a box. By mail 85 cents,
We have a list of a thousand country week
lies, in which we can insert a one-inch adver
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a paper, or lor tne same price we can inseri
fifty-two readme notices (a new one every
week), averaging seven lines each. For list of
papers and other particulars address Deals
Foster, 10 Spruce Street, New York.
The relaxing power of Johnson's Anodyne
Liniment is almost miraculous. A gentleman
whose leg was bent at tbe knee and stiff tor
twenty years had it limbered by its use, and
the leg Is now as good as the other.
The evil consequences resulting from impure
blood are beyond human calculation, so are
tne vast sums expended in wortniesa remedies
Parsons' Purgative Pills make new rich blood.
and taken one a night for three months will
change the blood in the entire system.
IMPORTANT NOTICE. Farmer", Faro
lies and Otbera oan purohase no Rrmedr equal to Dr.
TOBIA8 VKNKTI4N LINIMRNT for the euro of
nhnlMt-a. Diarrhesa. DraenterT. Oman. Oolie end 8ea-
ickneaa, taken in'eraalljr (it ia perfectly barmleaa; aee
oath accompanying- each b' ttlw) and externally for
Throat, Cute, Burnt, Swellings, Brnises, Mo.quito
The VKNKTIAN LIN I M KNT introduced in 1M7,
HUBS, uia nore., rains in i.iihiib. hm. "u who...
mil nn dim who haa uaed it but continue to do kO. rainy
atatioa if it waa Ten Dollar a bottle they would not be
without it. Thousands of CertiflcaUM oan be Been at
ih. nannt. .nukin. nf it wonderful curative nroDer-
tiea. Sold ly tne Lfruaguta at atj cie. vepot i
Murray St., new xora.
The Markets.
BTSW SOBB.
Beef Oettle NatlVr........M.... tB lOJf
TeXA tDau&Bioses.n. ' m l
MllOhOOWS HUU 0U0
Hogs-Llv 04 04 X
uresseo...,.,,, .,., us us vq
Sheep 0 ) 05V
Lamb 08 (j) 10
Cotton Middling 11 X a 11
Flour Western uooa to uuoioe.... s aa din
State Fair to unoios m is t wi
Bnokwhest per ewt 1 11 a 1 11
Wheat Red Western 1 01 a 1
No. 1 HUwaukes 1 us 0 1 osj.
Bye State. 64 a
Barley-State M 1 a 1
Barley Malt U a
Buckwheat 0 a M
Oats Mixed Western 1 a
Corn Mixed Western 44 a
Hay, perewt 41 a
Straw per ewt N v 10
Bops Good to Prime.... 10 a 1J
Pork Mess 10 61 a 10 TO
Lard Olty Htetm 07)4 a 1X
Fish Mackerel, No. 1, new 18 00 a 00
no. a. new........ uu ojii w
Dry Ood, per ewt. I CO a I 00
Herring. Bcaled, per oox it a IT
Petroleum Crude Ot a0H Beflnsd,
Wool OaUfornls Fleeee... X) a
11
91
91
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14
91
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Texas
Amtrallan
State XX...
80
14
Batter State
10
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Western Choice....... ......
Western Fair to Prime. . ..
W estern Firkins
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Eggs tsteuid PeiiusvlvaDla...u. 11 a
arrrAU.
Flour t It a 8 IS
wnest ho. l Milwaukee...... 1 10
118
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BatabUapoa naarly titty yuara
Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion,
Sour Stomach. Sick Headache.
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rot you (0 ota. for two boiea of Grace'e Salve. I M")
bad two and bare naed them on an nicer on my to
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PK0F. BCHEM'S Illustrated HISTOEY OF
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tor livt ogtntt. tlM vwootaro pagea, ena-ra.iopM
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LONDON. CANADA. Agente wanted.
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tie matoned. Any one oan paint with them. Tney bare
very superior covering propertiea and do not, like the
ao-oalUd patmt painu, oontain either water, be'-nne
or alkali. Theae painta are in Liquid Form, and are
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in email cana oi one to nre pounas. ni-mi i mui.
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cor. William and Fulton Sts.. New rork.
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