HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. , NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum. YOL. IX. RIDGAVAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1879. , NO. 12. . . i 1 i II May Baskets. Open the window, Margie, . And draw tho Bcreen away; My lile is ft dull December, But my heart's as young as May. listen ! The laugh of ohildren I Tin a foolish thought, I know, But it minds me of one May morning Seventy years ago, When a merry troop oi ohiklron '" Wakened the quiet street With babble of talk and laughter, And swinging, like censers Bwoot, Tho dear Old-time May-baskota, Kibboned, nnd pink and white With the blossed bloom that gladdened Tho gloom of the Pilgrims' night. And I know by the robin's carol, And the tender green I see In tho tops of the dear old willows, That the May will como to me. Margie, the scont of May-flowers ! I surely, surely know That one s weot breath! Conld the south wind Bring it so fnr ? They grow A mile away on the hillside. Bnt there's a knock at the door; Oh tor an hour of quiet, To live my May-days o'er I What's this T " From Karl and Carrie." Oh, lot my chair be rolled Just there into the sunshine And give me them to hold ! I knew their breath, dear Margie; Forgive these foolish tears, But God has sent these May-flowers Across the seventy years ! Mary A. Lathbury. A Man Without Enthusiasms. I think that neither of us could have analyzed or satisfactorily explained our mutual attraction, but it is certain that my old class-mate Manson and I were fast friends. He was :i most lovable fellow, but had begun, long before our college course came to nn end, to show that apparent Tack of interest in life that distinguishes what we call a blase man ; and this at times to a degree at once amusing and exasperating. Not long ago a party of us, in the pleasant smoking-room of a Pacific; steamer, were talking about one of our fellow-passengers rather a poor speci men of this class then of the class it s;lf; and the oldest member of the little group, who had been lighting his cigar very deliberately with the little wire which one dips in spirits of wine, re sumed his seat with the remark, delivered with great emphasis : " Well, gentlemen, it's a dreadful thing for a young man to have no enthusiasm. The expression brought Manson toiny mind. I do not know why I had not thought of him before, but reminiscences now crowded in rapidly upon mo and I sat for some moments looking out at tlx; blue waves of the Pacific, nnd oblivious of tho nice points of the discussion. Finally it seemed opportune to me to narrate to the party some of the circum stances under which my friend nnd I had been thrown together. He was, as our old schoolmaster once said. " fortunate in his choice of a father," nnd I feared that the tendency which I have mentioned would be developed by a life of virtual idleness: and when we had parted, and I only knew of his do ings through his letters, and those of mutual acquaintances, there was every reasju to believe that my forebodings were correct. He made a short trip to Europe, a region which he described is "slow," and then nominally entered on a business life. His abilities were ex cellent, and his perceptions quick, but after lie had been for some time partner in a firm, a friend wrote me that when he met him in the street, and asked him where his office was, he received the reply : " I don't know. They've moved since I've been there." I was traveling some years later from India to Europe. We had a fine steamer from Calcutta, and some most agreeable people on board. It was just tbout the time that some of the officers who had served in the mutiny were getting their furlouirh. and fine fellows thev were. My room-mate, a stout, jolly-looking man with red side-whiskers, was in tho Residency nt Lucknow. nnd was Buffer ingfrom a wasting disease, but he was a good shot ana they count not spare mm ; and he used to tell me how. when they had loaded his rifle, they would prop him up on his mattress until he could sight a seuov and then sink back again All these men had been through terrible experiences, but they were delighted at going home, and were generally in the highest spirits. I remember thai they would not "turn in" at all the night that we ran up tue uuit or huez, and they were eager to get ashore in the morning. We went up to the hotel built around a courtyard, and found a French woman singing " II Bacio" in tho shrillest of voices to the aecompani ment of sundry instruments played by compatriots in fez caps. - Even the squalid bazaar seemed preferable to this, and we were turning to go thither, when T saw. lpjinina- against a pillar niv old friend Manson ; and but that he had a "puggery" on his hat, he looked for all the world just as he had looked many or " Favorita" in the old days at Boston when the supernumeraries were all from our class. I was delighted to meet him, presented him at once to my party, and insisted on his going to Cairo with us. He assented with the remark that he could not be more bored there than he had been at Suez. My companions ap preciated his fine qualities, and, as they grew better acquainted, were disposed to " chaff" him a little about his eccen tricities. Some time before we reached our destination he had been telling us his experiences on arrival in Egypt. He had intended to go to Bombay, but had changed his mind nt Suez the day before we arrived. " Fellows talked to me about grand Cairo," said lie, " called it an epitome of the "Arabian Nights," "Portal of the Orient," and all that sort of thing. I began to think that I might amuse my self for a day there. Our steamer was ate ; we were sent through bv express, remaining ten minutes in the Cairo sta tion ; and all that I saw of the " Portal of the Orient," looking with sleepy eyes through the window of the railway carriage, wan tin Englishman in a tweed euit and a sun-hat, standing before a re- ine out: "Two and sixpence for a bottle of sodawaterP Gracious!'" Soon after that he went to sleep, and just as we rolled into the station I re member that one of tho party awakened him by shouting in his ear: "Passen gers for Sodom and Gomorrah will change cars!" We had hardly time to see the mqsque of Mehemct All and buy some attar of roses, when we were hurried off to Alex andria, so that our only sight of the Pyramids was from the train. None of us were "griffins," but those majestic, structures command interest at all times, and then wo had borrowed that won derful book, "Our Inheritance in the Great Pyramid," from tho captain of the steamer, and read it carefully, so that we were as enger as schoolboys. I shall never forget the scene which ensued. We were craning our necks to get the first sight, and two or three of us cried out, "There they are I" Manson had been leaning back in his sent with an exr pression of weariness on his countenance, lie raised himself slightly with his hands, took one look, nnd sank back in his old place with the remark: "One more sensation gone !" It. The summer of 186- was an unusually hot one in China. Residents of Shang hai passed their time in an artificial tem perature produced by " punkahs" hung over desks, dining-tables and beds in deed, in every practical situation. The despotic, implacable sun rose each morn ing as if invigorated for a new career of persecution, and mocked nt bamboo shades, ' blinds nnd even tiled roofs. Crews of vessels coming up the river were driven from nloft, and strong men, like theJShunamite boy in Scripture, cried out, "My head! niyhead!" In the lat ter part of September came the first re lief cool nights ; then, at last, refreshing days. I was dressing one morning, with a serene satisfaction in the thought that I might put on a flannel instead of a linen coat, when my. " boy'! announced, "One piecee gentleman hab got down side; wantchee see you." Stretched out on an extension-chair on the veranda I found, on descending, my friend Manson. Responoing to my delighted nnd surprised greetings, lie told me that he had sud denly made up his mind to visit the far East, and had started without reflecting that lie would reach India and houthern China nt just the wrong time. He had been nearly dead with heat, narrowly escaped a sunstroke nt Canton, and was caught in a typhoon between Manilla and Hong Kong. I had a room made ready for him, found him a good Canton ser vant and introduced him at the club. Ho was unanimously voted a success. 10 people as busy as we all were with the new season's teas, a perfectly lazy man was a refreshing spectacle; nnd his languid indifference nnd dry conversa tion were declared extremely " good form." In a few weeks I made up my mind to take a two or three days' holiday nnd enrry out a cherished plan of a boat trip on the Ynngtsze, and Manson agreed to accompany me. We had a large house-boat" of Chinese model nnd rig a fair sailer and very comfortable; and our two Canton boys Ah Wing nnd Ah How and our cook were sure to give us good living. 1 was obliged, on ac count of the illness of my " lowdah." or captain, to engage a new one nt short notice. 1 did not know much about him, and did not like his looks, but 1 never dreamed of nny trouble with him or the crew which he ongnged. There was a gun-rack in the cabin, and I hud put in a couple of Enfield rifles belonging to tho volunteers and two Sharp's rifles from the hong, thinking that we might compare their periorniance at a target. Manson, to my amusement, added to the armory an elephant rifle, carrying a heavy ball, which he had brought from Ceylon, and his own old Kentucky hunt ing rifle, which he had been " backing," he said, agninst all others. I laughed at this battery (little thinking what I was to owe to it), and threw in a couple of revolvers to complete our assortment. I shall never forget the sail down the Wongpoo, or Shanghai river, that plens- nnt afternoon, lo appreciate the cool breeze from the southwest one must have endured the sufferings of the sum mer, nnd it seemed to blow rather from some breezy upland " at home," than from the low-lying, damp paddy-fields As we left the settlement behind I felt like a boy having a lirst holiday, and even fancied that the ordinary sunset re minded me of some of the gorgeous ones I had seen in more lavored latitudes We passed Woosung and the dilapidated earth-works below, rounded Paoushan Point, nnd ran a long way before we an chored for the night, in the morning we were under way in good season, and bore for the north snore. v e had our coffee nnd toast, and were sittmg aft, when Ah Wing, my favorite servant, as clever and " plucky " a boy as ever wore a pigtail, came atwto speak to me " Master, said lie, "jussee now mi see two piecee junk come. Mi thinkee he no good iunk. Mi fear he b long lallee-loon (they are ladrones or pirates). Mi askee that lowdah he mouf no speakee ploppa (his mouth does not answer me nrop erly). He say iunk b'long he flen (is his friend). Mi welly fear he no good man." I ran forward and looked at the two junks. We had changed our course and were running west, with the wind on our beam. They were coming toward us, but both considerably to the north, and one more so than the other. Their character was unmisiaKaoie. as was the expression on the lowdah's face. He spoke a few words of pidgeon English, and on my telling him to turn, said with a grin; " jno wantcnee go back Mianghai." There was not a moment to lose. had not even time to explain matters to Manson. It anything can make one think and act quickly, it is the approach of Chinese pirates. I jumped down the companion-ladder, seized it large revol ver, loaded and capped, concealed it un der my coat, and told Ah Wing to come forward with me. As I passed Manson. who was coolly smoking, and asked no questions, I whispered : " Stand by the helm, and wait for the word, in case of need. I told Ah Wing, in as mild a tone as I could command, to tell the lowdah that he bariPmisunderstood me, and that wanted him to turn around. He was off his guard, and replied in a papid Chinese sentence, and with a chuckle. "He talkee no wantchee," said Ah Wing. Tho man was nothing to me nt that moment but a mad dog. Why I did not blow his brains out I do not know. I had hacked up to the rail and could put my hand on a sort of belaying pin. I think I even calculated the force of the blow that laid him out on the deck, before the villainous gnu was off his face. The were nve men in the crew. One was steering, two I pitched down the little hatch, which I secured. The others. thorough I ghly frightened, did as Ah Wing, not a bad sailor himself, told them. Manson put the helm hard down, and in a moment we had come about, the sails were drawing, and we were well to wind ward, and under full headway. I gave my revolver to Ah Wing, with directions as to what lie was to do; and no " Cau casian " could have obeyed more prompt ly and intelligently. Wo dragged the lowdah aft, and pinioned hands and feet, in anticipation of his coming to himself. Manson had tho helm, and I asked him to give it to one of the crew. Ah Wing was then told (and to this day, I re member how curiously the pidgeon Eng lish contrasted with the grim nature of tho communication) to make it clear to the helmsman, that if the boat went one inch to leeward of her course, and to the two sailors that if they moved, except under orders, from the positions in which they wore placed covered by tne revol ver they were dead men. " Yousnbeduef" fvou perfectly under stand) I nsked Ah Wing. lie was one ot the tew umnamen wno have what tho plainsmen happily call sand, or dogged grit, and I saw it in his eye as he cocked the revolver and replied : Alia lightec (all right)! mi can do." " At your leisure,' said a cool voice, "perhaps vou will tell me what this is all about," Mid Manson lighted a fresh cheroot. I explained to him that we had barely escaped destruction by treach ery, and were even then in a (lire strait. We could not expect to sail as last as the pirates, and our only hope was in their being so far to leeward, and in range of our rifles. I was perfectly sure of my man. and there was positively none in mv whole acquaintance whom I would so readily have with me as my old friend, the bhise, indifferent, dilettante Manson. He shook me by the hand, and said in a heery voice, wholly unlike Ins ordinary one: All right, old fellow, we'll beat them." A more impetuous though eouallv brave man would have been far less effi cient. Indeed, nothing could have been finer than his behavior. The rifles, six in number, were brought up and laid side by side on the top of the cabin. Ah How told me that he "sabe loadee that gun," and to my great surprise, our old fat cook ("Buddha," we used to call him, as his countenance expressed the idea of eternal silence and rest) volunteered his services in this line as well. Then we settled down to ourwork.no old Paladin or Viking ever more collected and delib erate, and at the same time showing more of the (jawlium ccrtaminis than our old used-up, bored member of the class of 185-. Could we keep those junks out of iingal range until we reached a place of safety? They had high sterns, and the steersman could be plainly seen. Man son took his Kentucky rifle, knelt down :iway aft and aimed slowly and careful- y. Almost simultaneously 1 succeeded n "drawing a bead" on a large man in the bow of the junk nearer to us. Just as the rifles cracked she fell off visibly and lost way before the dead steersman could be replaced, nor was the large man again visible. " I am afraid I can't do as well with the elephant rifle," said Manson, " but I can try. Let us both fire continually at the steersmen." vc did so, with vary ing success. Ah How nnd the cook loaded rapidly nnd well, but the rifles were soon somewhat heated, nnd the ireech-loadcrs missed fire several times. The junks were heavily manned and could quickly fill the places of those whom we shot. Thev nlso arranged some kind of protection for the helms men, although we pierced it more than once. 1 began to feel terribly wolhsli. and so filled with rage nt our antago nists that 1 could only with dilhculty control myself sufficiently to aim delib erately: but my friend never showed signs ot an acceleration ot his pulse. As regular as clock-work he took the gun from the Chinamen, and never fired a second before his aim was perfect. We rested a short time at last to take a survey of the situation, and could not disguise from ourselves that it was ser ious. The junks were nearer, nnd we were still quite a long way from Paou shan. There was nothing for it but to go to work again, and we did. For ten minutes or more wo kept up an inces sant fire, nnd, although we evidently did much damage, the distance between us and them had been perceptibly les sened. We must soon expect to hear the report of jingals. It came in a moment more, nnd the clumsy ball fell but little short of us. Manson turned to me, still cheery and cool. "I believe there is a foreigner there," said he, "who is directing and inspiring them. He has escaped us thus far. if I can get a sight ( ( him and can hit him, I believe we shall get rid of this junk. Since you picked off that last steersman of the hindmost one, she has fallen off decidedly. Well, that is not so bad," he continued, asajingal ball struck the mast. He asked All How to let him load the Kentucky rifle hiirself, and measured out the oowder, wrapped the ball in a scrap or buckskin and rammed it carefully home. Then he knelt down and watched his chance. All this time Ah Wing had kept his eyes and the re volver on the steersman, and our boat had done her best. Thejingal balls were netting uncomfortably frequent. nnd it was only .a small satisfaction to me to have sent an Enfield bullet through the head of one gunner, just as ho was getting ins signt. ah at once I heard the report of Manson's rifle and the quiet remark irom him : "llabet " T saw the iunk fall off, saw manifest confusion on board, saw an opening for two or three good shots, and had seized a fresh irun, when I heard Ah How Cl'V J , , . . 11-- ' Master, IiaD got steamer, weny npnr " ' Hardly one of us had glanced ahead for half an hour. As for the steersman and the crew, they had clearly but one tliurtif nnd that was to save their heads. It was with a strange feelingof relief and satisfaction that I saw 11. M. gunboat Petulant puffing along toward us. Tn five minutes she was alongside, and I saw my friend Lieutenant Gra ham's jolly face over her rail. "What the deuce is the row, old fel low?" he asked in a perplexed way. I n-rrJnSnprl m briefly as nossible, and told him that I thought we had almost fin ished the job, but he was welcome to it. He could hardly wait "You won't come with us, then? Wall rrd-hve. old fellow. See you in oi.'..Pi Vnll Briwil ahead! Beat to quarters! Look sharp now, and clear away the bow-gun !" , In less than five minutes we heard its report, and the shot cfash into the junk's side. We had had fighting enough for that day and concluded to push on for home, The lunks had pone about, but we knew that they were doomed, nnd the roar of the broadside soon informed us that it would be quick work. Ah Wing never moved. He would have kept that revolver pointed nt the Chinnmen until doomsday, had I not told him that he might put it awny. Ah How and "Buddha" took tho guns below, nnd made everything tidy, nnd we had hardly rounded Paoushan Point when Ah Wing came up nnd said: " That cook makce enquire what thing you likee chow chow eat;. T , ' 1 1 i ll.. 4 1, n We had a jolly dinner the next night. Lieutenant Graham and a couple of his officers came just in time. They had handed the survivor oi me .junKS crews over to the Chinese authorities, in whose care our rascally lowdah also was. They had made short work of their fight, and had no casualties. When the cloth was removed, I tried to get Manson to make a speech, but the only thing I could get him to say was that he was never less bored in his life than during the skirm ish. I have not seen him for years. He drifts between the Old and the New World, and when I last wrote to him I quoted Hawthorne's expression about tne danger of doing so until the only in heritance left him in either was the six feet for his final resting-place. But, as I had before insisted to my group in the smoking-room, it is a great mistake to judge by appearances, nnd I am surer of nothing than that I shall never see a finer fellow, on this side of Jordan, than my friend, the man without enthusiasms. Scribner. Slightly Sarenstlc. Tho professor of geolory and miner alogy came along after the hard fisted miners had found a rich gold mine nnd said he: "There is no doubt but that gold is here in large quantities. If you find it rich it will pay." This was in California. A little before this some hardy pro spectors loaded a little mule with flour, bacon and tools. They traveled many miles north and finally found a rich mine in Cariboo. The professor of geology nnd mineralogy cune along and said : " Everything hereabouts, judging from the formation of the country and the gangue rock indicates the existence of gold." .Then the miners forgot that they had discovered the gold themselves and they gave nil the credit and bowed down before the professor, ihen some miners went south to Arizona, and alter starving for witnt of food nnd choking wiui inusi. aim a iu oi uieu mnmier being toasted head downward by the Apaches, they lound a ricii silver mine. Shortly afterward dow c.vme the professor,- and said he : " Tho metamorphie and plutonic rocks hereabout certainly point to the existence of argentiferous ores." And as usual the diners and all around about forget they had discovered the mine, nnd gave all the credit to the professor. Well, he followed those simple miners around to Utah, New Mexico, Pike's Peak, Nevada and Fraser river, and everywhere they dug first he came afterward, looked down the hole, with a book under his arm, said some hard words, nnd everybody straightway said he had found the mine and that no mine could be a true vtin until it had icon scientifically dedicated by a pro fessor. New York Graphic. ' Humnn Tlorns. There are certain tisagrceable people in this world who seem to take a special delight in annoying others by reminding them ot things they Wiiiul willingly for- ;et. they are humin thorns, lorever torturing their fMlow-men for the sake of torture, lias a man met with a misfor tune in business, they are forever recall ing the fact, lias a man in times that are gone wandered Into devious paths, they nre forever raninding him of it. often by congratulating him that that is past, lias a man Uundered, they nre orever telling him what "might have icon." W hen the thorn is ol the mnscu lino gender, there is one way of getting elief. lie can be lnocked down and taught manners. Whm the thorn is of the feminine gender, the case is dillerent and not so easily disposed of. But t'auseur hears of one such scourge in petticoats who got her deserts trie other evening, It was at a little partv. where some score of people where gathered together. The thorn sat near a young man who, in days gone by, had been guilty of foliies that cost him dearly. He had put them all behind him. But the thorn took occa sion to recall them, in a subdued and confidential tone. The victim, who had been subjected to the same torture before, spoke un so that all could hear: "Madam," he said, "lor nve years 1 have been trying to forget all that. You have been trying to remember it. You have succeeded better than I. I congratu late you." The thorn subsided. Kessenger's Komicalities. A lover ol a certain cut ot beetsteak is like a plucky prize-fighter, always ready ior anouier rounu. The most economical man is reported as living in the second ward. He took a bung-hole to the cooper to have a barrel made around it. An exchnnge asks: "Why do the horns of a cow grow up nnd the tail down?" We suppose it is because the horns do not grow down and the tail does not grow up. If this is noi uie answer w give it up. A Roman savs he has figured out the cauHe of the failures that overtake business men. When he went to school he waB taught that the world was the shape of an orange round, but a little flattened at the r idles. J le says that is where the trouble ies. If the world had not been flattened at the poles everything would have gone on all right. A painter, who had already put seven coats of paint on the walls, remonstrated with the lady of the house because she wanted him to put on another coat, just to change the tint a little. hy not put on more?" she said. "What will be the harm?" "Well, madam, if you keep on, you will take up all the room with paint, and then you will have no space for your furniture." Butehe insisted, and at last ac counts he was still painting. Home Sentinel. A fnur vaava anr1 anl . m n,,li nm JLnio " " flUlll know to-day, a placard in the bedrooms of a large hotel at Prague stated that "Guests are requested to communicate to the landlord all complaints arising on thier sides." At Pesth to-day a placard in a much-frequented inn announces: " Gentlemen are requested not to flatter the female servants on the stairs, as many .!... 1 . 1 1 l , .. - uisiics nave inus uu oroKen. Eminent counsel" Yes, gentlemen of tne jury, you win on, l know you will restore my persecuted client to the arms of his wife and little ones, who " The court" i our client is a bachelor." TIMELY TOPIC. Three years ago an Englishman named Hebron was convicted of murder, nnd narrowly escaped the scaffold. The man Place, who was hung recently, confessed that he had committed the murder for which Hebron was undergoing punish ment: and now the British government is taking steps to compensate Hebron for the wrong done to him by the law. When the Union forces were captured at Plymouth, N. C, during the war, the colors of the Sixteenth Connecticut reg iment were torn up and distributed nmonsr the officers nnd men to save theln from the Confederates. Many who had these relics were taken to Southern prisons, out tiiey Kept inoir trusts care fully. It is now proposed to gather as many of these pieces as possible, arrange them in suitable form and place them iimong the other colors at the State House. The death of Mme. Bonaparte and the story of her marriage that it naturally revi ves brings to mind the French mar riage laws. It will be remembered that the nearest she could come to getting her son legitimized was the official declara tion that he was "a legitimate son of France." This was rather more vague than satisfactory ; and the occasion is a fit one to call to mind the perils of mar rying a Frenchman. No Frenchman can marry without the consent of his parents, or, if they are dead, of his grandparents. If ho is over twenty-five, and they refuse, he may send them, through a public notary, three respectfully-written requests two weeks apart, and then the mayor can authorize him to proceed. If. however, he is a person of political prominence, this publicity of ianiuy uinerences is mci-iy miouiueii uy custom, nnd the scandal of such pub licity must be avoided by the abandon ment of the proposed marriage. That is, the greater man the son is, the greater is the hold ot ins parents upon him. In a memorial to Congress relative to the coming census of the United States, the superintendent of the census of 1800, Mr. Kennedy, gives the following statis tics as nn illustration of the stupendous results from a single hive of bees, trans ported to the Pacific coast less than thirty years ago. From the single county of San Diego, California, in 1870 there Was shipped the astonishing figure of i or,n nnn nminilR Tn 1877 tln were in that county 23,000 colonies of bees, nnd m one tlnv. Mentcm her 0. 1878. there were shipped from that port 78 barrels, 1.053 cases and 18 tons; and that from and in cluding July 17 to November 10, 1878, less than lour months, that one count v exported over 1,000 barrels, U,5"ll cases and nearly 20 tons. He who would drike out (from the census report) the item of honey, could not have known. so great has the interest in this product become, that many people in tjalilornia have from 500 to 1,000 hives, nnd that over 100 people in one county have each more than 100 colonies ot noes. Accord ing to the Txmdon Ac of January. 18, there arrived in November at Liverpool 80 tons of honey, the product of the bees ol one individual, nnd that a Mr. Hodge, in the first week of January last, landed 100 tons at a lxmdon wharf, the produ.-t of California. Tho nnnual product of honey has grown to 35,000,000 pounds annually. A new experiment in surgery has been tried in the New York Charity Hospital, where two ounces of humnn' milk were injected into the veins of a female patient suffering from several abscesses. At the conclusion ot the operation the doctor in charge said : " The patient will sutler no harm from the operation. and possibly she may bo benefited. However, I think that I have seen enough to convince me that the trans fusion of milk should be abandoned ns nn unsuccessful operation. I think we will stick to blood hereafter." Another patient, also a young woman, was then subjected to the operation of blood trans fusion. She was in the last stage of consumption. The blood was furnished by a strong male attendant at the. hos pital, who had already been bled four times in the same cause. He warned tho doctor that this was the last time that ho would consent to the operation, saying he was getting too old to bo able to spare any blood. About three ounces of blood were drawn from his arm, and the oper ator delibrinatod it bv stirring it with a glass rod and straining it through a piece ot linen. Ammonia was then mixed with the blood to prevent it from coagulating, nnd wire was taken to main tain the temperature at the normal standard. Then a vein was opened in the patient, and the blood injected A Bath in the Dead Sea. A correspondent, after bathing in the Dead Sea, describes his experience in the following words: The water, which is quite clear, and nearly the color of the Niagara river below the falls, seemed to hie a little more bitter nnd salty than that ol salt lake, although brighter and more attractive to the eye when s .en close nt hand. Its supporting power struck mens a little greater, also, than that of Salt lakeas the body floated more easily, and the difficulty of swimming was greater on account of the inability to keep one's feet under water. So large a quantity of salt is held in solution that the water has what is called. I believe, a "ropy" ap pearance, much like that of a ulate of well-made tanioca soup. 1 observed. however, that when we civmo out of the water there was not so large a deposit of salt crystals on the body as alter a bath in Salt lake and the feeling of the skin. instead ot being dry and prickly as 1 ex pected, was rather oily and sticky. ' Our dinner that night was seasoned with salt made from Head Sea water bv solar evaporation. It was a little lighter in color than the best article of brown sugar Its ervstals wero larco and hard. and. though foreign substances were evidently present in considerable quantity, it was not unpleasant to the taste. 1 was told that two quarts of water will produce one quart of salt, but this is probably an exaggeration. To complete the statistics of this remarkable body of water, I may add. what manv ot mv readers mav al ready know that there is no living tiling ot any kind in it: that even the drift wood brought down by the floods in the Jordon is speedlv cast upon its shores : that its length is about forty-five nnd its greatest width about ten miles; that it is over 1.300 feet at its deepest point: and that the immense quantity of fresh water poured into it daily is undoubtedly taken ud bv evaporation, as its great depth be low the basin of the Mediterranean must FJt' reclude the idea of a subterranean out- et. A paper looks well in a morning wrap. per when it goes to tne postoiuce. FARM, GARDEN A5D HOUSEHOLD. STUAWiifcitut .TkM.y. Soak it box of gelatine in cold water, sny one pint. When thoroughly softened, ndd five ounces of white sugar, two quarts .of strawberry syrup, and put over tne uro until tne genuine is perfectly dissolved. Pour from the ket tel into molds or small jars, nnd you have a most beautiful nnd pleasantly flavored jelly. This recipe is meant for cool weather; if Used In summer, re duce the quantity of syrup by one-half. Stuawiikkhy Sykui. Make a syrup In tho proportion of three pounds of sugar to half a pint of water Boil nnd skim until clear. Have ready the strained juice of field strawberries. Allow two nnd a half pints of strawber ry juice to the half pint of water. After you ndd this, let it boil hard for not more than five minutes. Take it from the fire before it looses its fine color, and pour hot into self-sealing glass jars. This syrup preserves even the odor of the fresh strawberry when opened months after ward, nnd flavors ice-cream delightfully. With the nddition of a little bit of poke berry jelly, tho delusion is perfect; you fancy that you nre enjoying fresh straw berry cream. No sweetening is needed for the cream but what is supplied by the syrup. STitAwnEiuiY Tapioca. This makes a most delightful dessert. Soak over night a largo toacupful of tapi oca in cold water; in the morning put half of it in a yellow-ware baking-dish, or in tho porcelain one of a silver pudding-dish. Sprinkle sugar over the tapi oca; then on this put a quart of berries, sugar, nnd the rest of the tapioca. Fill the dish with water, which should cover tho tapioca about a quarter of an inch. Bake in a moderately hot oven until it looks clear. Eat cold, with cream or custard. If not sweet enough, ndd more sugar nt table, and in baking, if it seems to dry, more water is needed. A similar dish may be made, using peaches, pared and sliced, instead of strawberries. Pineapples, pared and grated, are also excellent with tapioca. STltAWIiF.liltY Shoutcake. This makes a very nice nddition to the tea table, or can bo used as a dessert Take one quart of sifted flour, stir very thoroughly into it half a teaspoonful of carbonate ot soda; then one teaspoonlul of cream of tartar must be well mixed into it. a tablesnoonful of butter, one teaspoon fill of salt, nbout a cofl'ee-cupful ot water. Jt is best mixed with a Kline. cutting it through nnd through, nnd if possible do not put your hands into it except in rolling it out. The mass should be as moist as you can well manage. Roll it smoothly out, making two round cakes of about half nn inch in thickness. Bake in a quick oven. When done, split the cake open : put the slices in a large dish; butter them ; cover each slice with berries and sugar; finally making tho berries the top layer. Pour cream over all. I'agtitres Green, The practice is fast gaining ground all over the country of seeding down for permanent pastures a variety ot grasses instead of heavily sowing one or two favorite sorts only. Grasses are selected which possess the property of springing up rapidly alter having been bitten down and resisting the tramping ot cattle. The selection is nlso made with a view to a succession of ripening crops rather than of varieties which blossom to gether, ns in fields to be mown, that the stock may be supplied throughout the year with such grasses as will be young, tender and succulent. This arrangement is quite practicable, inasmuch ns there is no month of spring or summer in which some ol tho grasses do not attain perfection the month of March ex eepted. Again, care is observed that the varieties nre suitable to the land for which they are designed. As in meadows, so in pastures, clover should bo a constituent. It will, it is true, disappear in two or three vears. leaving other grasses in possession of the 'round, but not until it has accomplished incalculable bencht. isiuo grass, especi ally on light, dry soils, is highly recoil mended for pasture; meadow foxtail early and rapid in growth, is otherwise desirable. Orchard grass is ono of tho most valuable of all grasses, comini earlier in spring and remaining later in autumn twan any other. Ked-top grass is an excellent permanent grass as is crested dog s tail, ihe grasses re. commended for lawns add further do sirable varieties for pastures, A mixture lor permanent pasture nd vised by Flint ns certain to repny in the ndditional yield for the greater orig inal outlay lor tho seeds, consists of yellow oat grass, one pound : meadow foxtail, hard fescue, tali fescue, meadow fescue, red top, J une grass, wood meadow grass nnd rough-stalked meadow grass, two pounds each ; timoth v.three pounds orchard grass, four pounds; white clover, five pounds: Italian rve grass, six, nnd perennial ryo grass, eight pounds. Commissioner Killcbrew. his book on " The Grasses of Tennessee, furnishes the following list of long-trie pasture grasses as an aid to inexperi enced larmers: Kentucky blue grass, wire grass, spear grass, rough-stalkei! meadow, orchard grass, meadow fescue, meadow toxtail, sweet-scented .verna grass and white clover Tho importance of having the groun well tilled nnd thoroughly prepared by liberal manuring before seeding down is too evident to need remark. Rules pertaining to the time and manner of sowing meadows are equally applicable to pasture, with tho exceptions already made apparent. New York World. Itose Culture., One of tho first secrets of success with the rose in guarding against its several persistent inseet enemies, such as the rose-bug, green-fly, rose-slug, etc., is to keep the plant healthy and in vigorous growth. To insure this, a rich soil is in dispensable. Ix't it ho composed ot old decomposed sods or thoroughly rotted manure, ihis earth should never be permitted to bake; but should be kept h... l-l- l r -a; 'i' 1 . i t ii iaiuo uy iiequeni suiring. 4 lie npins, or green-ny, nr&t attacks tne young, tender shoots, feeding upon their juices. The pests may be killed by placing a barrel over the Infested plant and burn ing tobacco in a flower-pot or other vessel underneath. The rose-slug, that green-bodied, jelly-like pest that feeds upon the surface of the leaves, leaving only the veins nnd ribs, mav be kept in severe check, if not destroyed, by dusting the plant with fine coal ashes. ' The rose-bugs may bo brushed off into a pail of water, or picked off separately by hand and destroyed. As much as lias been written about th culture of the rose and about the insect enemies and their destruction, the aliove, in our ex perience, embodies the whole story. liurat New Xorker t'helldonisma. Chelldonisma is the swallow song, an old popular song of the return oi tn swallows, which the boys of Rhode went about singing, of which the retrain meant, "He has come, has come the Wallow 1" It is reported by Atheneous about A. D. 200. Hark ! Hark to hear The burst of cheer That brings again the budding year ! Through air, through earth, liosounds tho mirth, And hills ring with tho merry birth; Tho swallow chirps his twittering tone, And tho Rhodian lads prolong With minstrel strain thoir jocund song Ilelth', helthe, chelidon. Adown tho vales, The dingles, dales, The breath of melody exhales; And happy lanes and proud-pied plains Swell ont the pomp of glad refrains J And hark ! abovo tho swallows' tone Ilelth', helthe, chelidon. Glad chanticleer Chants out his cheer, His paen piping to the year; The boys' blithe voice Makes mirth its choice, And all the happy hills rejoice. Hark ! Listen to the swallows' tone Hclth', helthe, chelidon. Tho earth's great heart, With throb and start, In universal joy takes part j And clouds that fly Athwart the sky Couching in fleecy clusters lie; And oh ! how sweet the swallows' tune Helth', helthe, chelidon. The spring, tho spring Makes Nature sing, And life and love are on the wing, And lads and lasses caroling; Solt in mid-air the swallows' tone On earth Helth', helthe, chelidon. Harper' Magazine. ITEMS OF IMEREST. Prime butter A billy goat. The combing man The hairdresser. It is better to give than to receive a bill. It is the duty of gate posts to stand by each other. The train of night is stopped by the break of day. A rule of arnica comes in with the base ball season. Gauze derives its name from Gaza, where it was made. In a circus procession the man in the van may bo in the rear. T'lirty-six different kliuio or fish re aught at Muscatine, Iowa. There is tartc in England of a company for insurance against, blindness. The wav to n.ako potatoes come up is to take them by the tops and pull them "P- ... Ruling passions nre strong in death. The last movement a mule makes is a kick. Tho legislature of Delaware divorced thirty-four married couples nt its recent session. T wonder whatimakes my eyes so weak," said a fop to a gentleman. "They are in a weak place," responded the lat ter. Mistletoe bough The involuntary bow vminor man makes when obliged to mizzle in advance of the too of her angry parent s boot. Tim Vow York 7i'raM savs : " hince the wealthy young lady fell in love with and married the driver oi a Dixuiaciun-. car, all the drivers on the various lines go to work in the morning with a clean shave and with shining boots." Men arc capable of taking a peculiar kind of revenge against tho women who nre weak enough to believe them perfect. For a few months before marriage they sue for the lady's hand, but for all the years after marriage she is compelled to sew for them. The people of Pctrolia, Pa., recently witnessed the unusual spectacle of seeing nn oil train shoot through the town with tho rapidity of lightning and a number of the cars on fire. With considerable difficulty the balance of the train was saved iust beyond the town. The man who eats gooso eggs for the championship of America lives in Indi ana, where human industry is more than ordinarily diversified. This man de voured twenty-four consecutive soft boiled goose eggs in twenty-four consecu tive minutes, and at the conclusion of this genteel entertainment he offered to eat a goose also. Unfortunately, nature has made no arrangement ly which this champion could eat himself, and his last proposition couldn't be en ter! ai ned .1 'h ihulelph ia Times . During the prevalence of a gale in Virginia City, Nev., recently, tall pillars of sand were to be sen waltzing about on the deserts far to the eastward, show- ng that things were also rather wild that way. At times such ciouns oi uuss rose above the desert that the Humboldt ange nnd other high mountains in that direction were hidden from view. No doubt any one who might have happened to be out on these deserts would nave found the entertainment but ittle infe- ior to that afforded by the salnd storms of the great desert of Sahara. SlipperVThrorring. The ancient custom of throwing an old slipper after the bride as she leaves i i ' . ; 11 s i i licr iiomt) is tun m iimny piacca re lieved to bring luck to the happy couple. But it may be a question whether the old shoe was thrown for luck only. It is stated in Holy. Writ that "the re ceiving of a shoe was an evidence and symbol of rejecting or resigning it." The latter is evidence in Deuteronomy, twenty-nun cuapier, wnere the cere mony of a widow rejecting her hus band's brother in marriage is by loosing his shoe from off his foot. And in Ruth we are told that " it was tho custom in Israel concerning changing that a man plucked off his shoe and delivered it to his neighbor." Hence the throwing of a shoe after a bride was a symbol of re nunciation of dominion and authority over her by her father or guardian, ana the receipt of the shoe by the bride groom, even if accidental, was an omen that the authority was transferred to him.
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