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Unnninberrd (irnren.
Yon billntdo with iU shaft of gloaming white,
Bathed iu Die glory of the letting iun,
Holds nmiiy a gravo where, hidden from our
night,
Some loved ono slorps, life's toil and labor
done. '
But there aro graven over whoso slumbering
mould
No poliHhod marblo rears it stately hoad,
And whoro do fragrant flowera ahoTe uufold
To waken pity for the quiet dead.
Those are tho 'gravel deep down within our
hoartu,
Where lie tho hopes and dreami of early
years,
Buried from sight, buta'gnalled by inch mark a
As only can be made by blood and teari
Rome, eaily love that crowuod m in our youth,
And made lifo glorioui for a ihort iweet
choriHhod promise, robbed of strength
And truth,
CruHhfd in tho morning of itl new-born
power.
Here is-tho spot whoro memory has engraved
The form and face of one we called a friend,
.Ono for whoso welfare wo would e'en bare
braved
Censuro and he irtarhe to tho bitter end.
But 'twits not wisely done and so we draw
Before the treachery of tho sadling eyei
A ho&vy veil. Tho ocld world if it saw,
Wo.ild proffer pity iu a thousand lie.
Bo life goes on. We lay the forms away
Of things we loved not wisely but too well,
And in the lapse of yoars we learn to stay
The fretful chanting of their funeral knell.
We learu to smile, before tho smiling throng,
Although the adder's fangs be deeply set ;
And Join, pt rhapp, our voices in tho song,
To soothe tho pain we never can forget.
And thus we loam to envy the calm rent
Of thope who sleep beneath the silent lod
Bound with life's grl'iug chains, we know 'tik
bet
To bend our heads and pass beneath the rod
And when we seo some mourners het.vy clad
Iu robes of black, haggard, with tear
dimmed eye,
We know their lives would be more bright and
glad
Conld they but reatou it 's life to die.
Mourn rot tho slubbering dead, but rathei
say,
Blost aro the sleepers. Tears may oome and
Heads that are brown and gold may torn to
sy t
But th:y are done with earth and tears aod
woe.
Somewhere, we know, beyond the world of
stars,
They will at last have found swoot Lethe's
stream ;
WLeruJfols love, and love one long true
dream.
A LOVER'S MISTAKE.
John Lorrimer believed" it a sad day
for himself when Mr. Strathley came to
Ford to look after the mill, which had
lately fallen iuto the bauds of Strathley
& Stone, lumber merchants of the me
tropolis, a hundred miles away. Why
had Mr. Strathley chosen to immure
himself in that little country vi'lage,
whose society was naturally uuoongenial
to a man of the world ? Why, if it were
not because he had seen Margaret on
his first visit to look after the purchase
of the mill, and had dined at her grand
father's as if he were an old friend ?
John reasoned. Were not women as
fair iu his own world whom he conld
love and win, that he need go out of his
"way to rob another man? Could he
not have sent an agent to reside at Ford,
and attend to the firm's business, in
that old-fashioned ooruer of the earth,
if money-making were the only attrac
tion ? What maglign fate had caused
him to gravitate to Ford, where no
stranger was ever known to stay a mo
ment longer than circumstances obliged
him ? With his fine manner and fine
clothes, with his palaver about all things
in heaven and earth; his handsome face
and figure, was it not hiding his light
under a bushel ? What could he find in
Ford to interest him if it were not
Margaret ?
It was a bitter season for Lorrimer,
who, having been sweet upon Margaret
ever since he was a boy in jackets, felt
as if he had established a claim upon her
affections, and was aggrieved to find her
amused by Strathley walking with him
in seasoned out of season; sitting in
the farm-house porch in confidential
converse, or singing from the same old
psalter on Sunday evenings. It was
surely enough to enrage any lover, and
especially one who felt so certain of his
case that he had delayed about riveting
the chains, and had taken everything
for granted before putting the question.
Lorrimer began to study his mirror
for the first time in his life; to become
enamored of fine clothes ; to suspect
himself of awkwardness and ignorance.
It suddenly occurred to him that he
must have been blind ever to have be
lieved that Margaret would care for
him, though he had thought that ao
tions spoke louder thau words ; though
he had taken her part at school, when
the others twitted her about her shabby
gowns and her wild brother Ben, who
had brought his grandfather's nose to the
grindstone the country people said
and obliged him to mortgage the farm
and this same mill, which had been his
own years ago, in order to pay gambling
debts.
"And served him right," they grum
bled, not satisfied with the retribution
Providence had seen fit to administer
" served him right for edicating Ben be
yond his betters, till he was that proud
he looked down on his own kith and kin
and ran away to sea, where all the Bcamps
go, when there aint no more money
to make way with. And it wa'n't no
great loss, neither," they declared,
" when he went down with all hands on
Ixmrd, off the coast somewhere, and no
body left to give the particklers ;
though he's gone to his account, and
we don't hey no wish to disparage the
dead."
All at once Lorrimer began to look at
himself as if he were somebody else,
and the view failed to satisfy his soul,
Crossing the brook that flowed through
the meadow, one evening, he met Mar
garet alone.
"Well met," said she, gaily, show
ing him a handful of water-lilies. "See;
I fished these out of the bottomless
pond, in an old, leaky wherry that was
rotting on the shore. Will you have
some?
" Why didn't yon ask me to get them
for yon, Margaret? You might have
been at the bottom of the pond by this
time."
" It is bottomless, you know."
" Why didn't you ask Mr. Strathley
to get them for yon?" he added, as an
after thought."
The sudden color reddened upon Mar
garet s cheek.
" Mr. Strathley has something else to
do."
" But I have nothing else to do that I
should like half as well, Margaret we
used to be such friends I used to think
but no matter what you find Strath
ley more to your mind, no doubt. I
don't blame you, only we were such old
fnencl8l
There was a look of trouble growing
in Marcaret's eyes. " We are friends
still, I hope," she said.
"Are we? That fellow with his fine
airs and bold eyes has bewitched you;
we were happy enough before he came.
Do vou know what they Bay in the vil
lage?" " I do not know what they say," she
replied, with growing color and a tear
in her eyes that belied her words
What right have they to speak of me?
Why do you listen, you who pretend to
be my friend!
"rreteud: mat s an honest word
between you and me! If Strathley had
your good at heart
"Take care, John; don t say anytuing
aga'nst Mr. Strathley. You might be
sorry for it some day. He is he knew
my poor brother lien at school, or
somewhere. It does us good to hear
him talk of Ben!" It was hard for
Margaret to dissemble, and she did it
with a poor grace,
"Blessings brighten as they take their
flight," thought Lorrimer; "knew your
brother Ben, did he? and your grand
father listens?" The time had been
when Ben's name had been forbidden,
and the old farmer had sworn that Ben's
shadow should never darken his door.
People ought to bo careful how thev
speak of their own flesh and blood,
groaned the neighbors, when the Arc
turus was cast away, ana the last chance
of forgiving Ben with it. But though
Grandfather Bevis had aged since then,
had begun to have a hault in his step
and a stoop in his shoulders, and to
grow a fresh crop of wrinkles, yet even
grim Death had failed to obliterate Ben's
misdeeds their impoverished condition
was a constant reminder. Mr. lievis
saw his more fortunate neighbors enjoy
ing the fruits of lands he had cleared
with the horny hand oi toil, sitting down
to bounteously-supplied tables, with
good balance in the bank lor rainy
weather, while he and his fared scantily,
and hardly dared to look the future in
the face. Ben had baen the apple of his
eye, and to have suffered from his sel
fiahness added another sting to poverty,
"When Mr. Strathley first mentioned
Ben grandfather just groaned and tod'
died out of the room. The next time he
shut his eves and made believe o sleep :
but now, do you know? ho hangs upon
Mr. Strathley s words, John, though he
never asks ayiuestion. But the day
will come when he will pardon poor Ben,
I know it will.
"And Strathley, having done mission
ary work, will demand his reward t
said John, bitterly. "Margaret, do
you believe he means fairly by you?
Isn't it just a season's amusement to
him?"
" I have no fears," she answered.
But iu spite of what folks might say,
Mr. Strathley was at Ford, on and off,
all summer.
"The mill needs a sight of looking
after, they smiled; "It might ruu
away ; he had taken a mighty fancy to
Meg Bevis, and p raps she expected to
be a fine lady, anon, and ride in her
oarri xge and have servants under her
but there was many a hole in tho
skimmer. 'Twasn't likely but he'd
been used to women folks as conld
play the pianny, and wear the fashions
as natural as their own skins. Old
Bevis ought to be ashamed to allow
such goings on under his eyes. High
time o'day, too, for Mr. Strathley to
put Bens in overseer at the mill, over
the heads of younger and smarter men
with no end of wages and nothing to do
but watch the gang-saw 1 That didn't
look queer, did it ? And wasn't Strath
ley's team stabled in Bevis barn ?
and didn't Meg use it when she pleased?
and a mighty smart team, too, no one
hossshay. And who could tell why
he d bought the Dean meadow of Bevis,
when it was such a barren waste that
the grasshoppers avoided it ? He
hadn't no use for it ; there wasn't
stick of timber on it, but it put cash iu
old Bevis pocket, where cash was
stranger, eh ?"
' Lorrimer was obliged to listen to all
this without the power of proving it
false, and it made Lis heart ache as that
organ never ached before, darkened the
day and embittered life for him. He
dreaded to meet mend or loe lor iear oi
hearing opiuions which he could not
combat, and they all wondered that
he would not join in the general cavil.
Had not Margaret thrown him over for
flashy fellow, about whom nobody
knew anything beyond what he chose to
tell? Wasn't resentment the proper
attitude for a jilted lover? To be sure
he felt very hard toward the handsome,
well-to-do gentleman who had stepped
between him and happiness who slipped
so easily into the position for which
John had served twice seven years.
He could scarcely bear the sight of
him dawdling about Bevis' farm as
though to the manor born but he was
obliged to own that Strathley showed a
surpassing good nature, an indifference
to his rudeness that was provoking; and
that he was just as ready to be civil and
f riendlv to him afterward.
"Surely, this is a hard world," thought
Lorrimer, " in which it is necessary to
love one s enemy, though he has
stolen the apple of one's eyo." Wasn't
it requiring a little too much of human
nature, or. at least, of Lorrimer's na
ture? Still, if he happened to meet
Strathley on the highway and fared on
a piece with him, talking of the pros
pects of lumbering the coming jvinter;
about provisioning the camp and engag
ine men. and of that kind oi rougn-and
ready life, Lorrimer could not deny but
he was a pleasant, companionable fellow
enough, with a deal or backbone, who
knew his work and the sort of people
with whom he had to deal.
" I mean to have a taste of this camp-
life myself this winter," he said, by the
.1 1A?V?1
wav. " l want to Know wnai is uie :
to become brave enough not to heed
poor fate, a hard couch, or howling
wolves."
" You won't find it as easy as lying, I
reckon." said Lorrimer ; "a little of
that kind of thine goes a great way. '
"J dare say. Are you going to join
mv gang ?".
" I ? No, thank you. I'm looking for
a- chance to sell out. 1 want to raise
some ready money and be off to Cali
fornia, where it grows faster than in this
soil."
" Ah, going to leave for good and all ?
Any disappointment ? one hasn t gone
bock on vou. eh !
"Who do you mean r asitea jonn,
fiercely.
" The girl you are going to leave be
hind you."
I have no sweetheart, said jonn,
evasively.
" More's the pity it's love that makes
the world go round..
" No. it isn t it s money."
"If you want money, my boy, let me
help you.
lou I jno. than you. i warn no
man b money.
Lorrimer did not find a purchaser for
his farm before the winter set in, cold
and bitter, with angry storms and biting
frosts. He was still waiting for one
when Mr. Strathley came from town on
a dark December day, and meeting Lor
rimer, begged he would pioneer him
through the woods to the camp.
" I suppose von know the woods as
well as your own face ?" he said.
"Yes," said Lorrimer; "only, if it
should come on to storm as it threatens,
we may lose our reckoning. Hadn't you
better wait till the weather clears ?"
How far do you call it ?"
" Near six miles; but it isn't like
walking on a concrete pavement you
know."
No. I'm inclined to push on to-day,
if you're willing."
They set out not long after loon; the
sun came out and blinked at them; but
by the time they had struck into the
deep woods he had thought better of it
and retired behind a flaw of snow.
" This will all blow over," said Strath
ley, confidently.
" Or maybe we'll outstrip the storm
and reach the camp ahead of it," agreed
Lorrimer.
But. though the storm seemed in no
hurry, it meant business; from a slight
flaw, it grew into a lazy tumult of snow
flakes, obliterating landmarks, and mak
ing the woods murky and bewildering.
"Six miles are soon traveled in the
worst weather," averred Strathley. "It's
getting confoundedly dark, though,
Lorrimer; it Feems to me we have walk
ed ten leagues already."
" I'll be blessed if it isn't the longest
six inils I ever footed," confessed Lor
rimer. " We ought to be close upon
the camp, unless "
But just then Strathley stumbled in
the swiftly-descending darkness, and
fell, with a groan over the ragged rem
nant of a lightning-blasted stump.
" Tough luck," said Lorrimer, rub
bing his face with the new-fallen snow,
and chafing his hands; for Mr. Strathley
was prone upon the ground in a dead
faint. " What if he never came to life
again?" Lorrimer asked himself. What
would Margaret do ? Would it be hap
pier for himself ?"
Where have I been ?" asked Strath
ley, suddenly, sitting upright and trying
to look through the darkness.
"That's more thau I can tell you,"
answered Lorrimer. "You had a fall
that knocked the breath out of you a
spell. Do you feed better ? Could you
walk, think?"
"CerUinly. Let's be jogging. There
give me your hand. I'm a trifle stiff
from the fall yet. It's deuced cold,
seems to me."
"That's so; it's left off snowing a
mile back, and the wind has stiffened.
It's going to bo a rough night. We
haven't any time to lose; you see, we
must have missed the path some time
ago; that rascally snow pelt! a fellow's
face so fait and thick. Kb? what's the
trouble now f "
" I must sit down again for a spell; I
can't keep up with you."
"Hut you must, you know.
"I couldn't walk another rod just
now if death himself were at my heels."
"Nonsense! Trudge . along; its
growing colder every moment. It s
death to give up."
Strathley staggered along for a few
paces, with Liornmer s aid, but soon
came to a halt.
"I tell you, Lorrimer. it's no go;
you'll have to leave me, and push
ahead."
"I'll carry you first."
"That deuced fall took all the pluck
out of me. I might find courage to
crawl if I were sure it wasn't a tomfool
errand if we wore on the right track
but it would be a sin to tfeap you here
in this weather. I'll wait awhile and
catch my breath. Do you go on. I'll
overtake you sooner or later."
"Will yon? If I leave you, you'll
never take another step; you'll just doze
off into the other world. The only safe
thing for us to do is to keep jogging till
we drop; anything else is suicide, and"
with an effort "there e Margaret.
"Yes," drowsily, "there's Margaret,
to be sure. I must make an effort
I'll follow. I couldn't walk just yet to
save myself from perdition, I'm so
stunned 'and shaken; no I couldn't."
Lorrimer leaned against the nearest
tree and waited in desperation. It was
bitter cold, he owned, and his powers of
persuasion were exhausted ; but to leave
the man to his own devices was certain
death and what then? Was he his
brother's keeper? Why should he
hazard life and love for this stranger
who had stepped between himself and
happiness ? Did he owe Mr. Strathley
aught? He started forward a few paces
perhaps the camp was near at hand
and he could bring help. But what was
he doing? Deceiving himself ? Should
he leave Strathley behind ? Would he
be able to find him in the dark ? Would
any halloo of his waken him from that
deathly sleep into which he was fast
falling ? But there was Margaret
would she not be all bis own again?
And then ho hung his head there in the
thick darkness. Only an instant, it may
be, he paused in the shuddering night,
and he turned back to Strathley al
ready slipping into eternal slumber
and half dragged and half carried him
forward. Sometimes he rested and took
breath; sometimes his sluggish burden
slipped from his hold awhile ; sometimes
he shouted ifor help and the howling
wolves seemed to mock him.
'For God's sake, lay me down and
let me die !" groaned Strathley, be
tween fainting and sleeping. " Mar
garet can explain everything who
could bear ay grudge against a ghost I
She loved me through good and evil re
port"
Lorrimer picked up his burden and
trudged on. Was that a star glinting
through the traps, or the moon rising
big and red; or was it great heavens!
could it be the camp-fire shining like
gates of Paradise? Some one coming
out into the night closed the rude camp
door behind him, and shut them out into
darkness again. Lorrimer plunged for
ward with a cry for help, and fell faint
ing with his burden within a yard of the
camp.
"If it had not been for you, Lorri
mer. said Mr. Strathley. next day.
when he found himself too lame and frost
bitten to lift himself from the bed of
spicy boughs, such as the camp afforded
if it hadn't been for you, I should
have stepped out last night. And it was
at the risk of your own life, too! 'Greater
love than this had no man!' And you
thought I was Margaret's lover all the
while? That's what I call heroic I'm
going to put you out of your misery.
Jjook at me, John Liornmer Dal you
ever see Ben Bevis Wild Ben, they
used to call him though I believe he
was lost at sea, wasn't he, before you
were grown? I see there's a stone in
the burying-ground to his memory, elj?
Well, the prodigal son has returned. J
I am Ben -Bevis Margaret's brother,
It was hardly worth while being jealous
of me, was it? I have boon winning my
grandfather's heart; that's all of my
deep-laid plans. If I had appeared be
fore him without disguise of any sort, he
would never have believed in my refor
mation; never have profited by a stiver
of my money well-gotten gams, too.
As a stranger I had some chance of earn
Ing my way into his good graoes. You
see, 1 left here twenty years ago, a strip
ling, with flaxen hair and beardless face,
and I m bronzed and weather-beaten be
yond recognition. When I return to
Ford we will have it out with Grand
father Bevis, and know the worst or the
best. And you, Lorrimer, there s Mar
garet. Perhaps I shall dance at your
wedding in spite of a rough night in the
A short time after the ship Ilio quitted
Callao, Peru, tho captain discovered two
stowaways on board and put them in
irons. i-Minug tne following night
Chilian, who had hung his hammock in
the quarter of the ship where the
prisoners were, accused one of them of
having stolen his food. The accused
explained that this was impossible, as
bis chain prevented his reaching it.
whereupon the monster of a Chilian
struck him down, and deliberately pro
ceeded to cut off his head and throw it
iuto the water. He then wished to des
patch the trunk after it, but was prevent
ed by it being attached by an iron ring
fixed to the bridge by a chain. Where
upon he hacked away at it and cast
piecemeul into the sea The other
stowaway was meanwhile in such an
agony of terror that he did not cry out,
The assassin was placed in the hands of
the authorities at Iquique.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Farm nnd Garden Notes.
Pruning wounds should be covered as
soon as tho sop ceases flowing. Grafting
wax applied hot, will make a good cov
ering, and will avoid further serious
trouble.
Poultry roosts should never be allowed
in horse or cow Btables. nen lice are
very apt to attach themselves to the ani
mals, to their serious detriment. Noth
ing is more surely calculated to destroy
their appetite and prevent them from
taking on flesh.
A simple remedy to prevent the pres
ence of moles and mice in and around
hot-beds, was told to us a few days
since, viz. : Stick pieces of green elder
bushes into the ground in the premises
infested, and these troublesome crea
tures will give it a wide berth.
A gardener in England removes green
algal and confervoid growth from damp
was, and keeps it down a year or longer
by painting with a solution of chloride
f lime. The same application is made
to gravel walks with a watering-pot,
with equally satisfactory results.
Hen manure should be mixed with
earth. Seeds aro lost by planting them
where too much hen manure has been
dropped. Plaster is good to mix with
it; but a better way to use hen manure,
especially for the garden, is to put it in
barrels, half filling them, and then pour
in soft water until full. Take the liquid
after the manure is well soaked and ap
ply it when needed. Be sure to use
boh water; rain water is best. f armer 8
Friend.
A lady of Michigan has been very suc
cessful in obtaining two flowers instead
of one from every flowering sheath of
the calla lily. Her method is as follows
As soon as the joint flower is cut, or be
gins co wither, pull the stalk down
through the open sheath ch ar to the
bottom. At the bottom will be found
standing, close to the stalk, another
bud, inciosed in a delicate covering,
Cut the old stalk awav as close as possi
ble without injuring the bud, and if it
has not been kept back too long, it will
grow up very quickly.
Coal Tar for Flesh Wonuda.
I have made a discovery in the heal
ing rfirt which I will give to the readers
of the Tribune, provided they will agree
to practice it, and do a missionary work
by trying to enforce the Bible injunc
tion that " a merciful man is merciful to
his beast." It is now the common cus
tom among farmers, whenever they cas
trate any animal, unless it be a horse or
a large bull, to apply either salt, ashef,
or the spirits of iurpentine to the raw
flesh. All of these applications are bnt
bo much torture, and if any one don't
believe it, apply either of them to your
own raw flesh, and if yon don t hop and
dance and cry out with the pain, then I
am mistaken. 1 have seen young pigs
run around and squeal piteously on ac
count of the pain these cruel things
caused. Now promise me never to let
any person put either of these things
on any animal of yours, and also promise
me to preach and pray against their use
everywhere, and I will tell you the best
application for any and all flesh-cuts
and raw sores. It is gas codl-tar, w Inch
may be had at any gas works where gas
is made from coal. A barrel of it, cost
ing $2, has been in use at the Kirby
Homestead for ten years and is not half
gone yet. Coal-tar, when applied to a
flesh-cut, shuts out the air and thus
stops the smarting; it will also keep off
.1 a ;a i i- i :l ' -
me Dies; ii is very neaiing, nnu m is
antiseptic, that is, cleansing, and will
prevent the growth of proud-flesh. It
is the cheapest, most healing and best
application we have ever used, and
f ery farmer ought to have it at hand to
use on all castrated animals, when
lamb's tail is. cut off, put it on. It will
stick the wool together on the end and
make a complete protection. An ani
mal may bo castrated in " fly-time, "and
with two or three applications of coal
tar, maggots will be prevented. I have
tested this remedy for several years on
all sorts of cuts and sores with the most
gratifying and successful results. It
was an experiment at first, but now it is
a necessity. It is an excellent paint for
trees where a limb has been broken off
or where the bark has been peeled.
J. D. Curtis, Charlton, iv. J .
Health Hints.
Buttermilk is drunk by many dyspep
tics.
Oil of eucalyptus is said to be an ex
cellent local anrosthetic. A drop phrced
ou cotton or wool and inserted in the
cavity will relieve the toothache.
Substitute lemonade, strawberries and
the like fruits iu their season, for salts.
sulphur, sassafras tea, and the like jx'j
ular physio, to purify the blood, l'ar
take of fruits without stint, and " throw
physio to the dogs. "
A house too closely shaded by trees
will be apt to suffer from dampness. Iu
building let the living and sleeping
rooms, as far as possible, face towards
the south, and thus gain the advantage
of the sunshine. Ihe sun is a great
preserver of health.
The virus or transmissible principle of
scarlet fever is destroyed wh sub
jected to a temperament of 203 Fuhr. for
two hours. A French physician, who
has been experimenting ou the subject,
took the underclothing worn by four
children while sick with the scarlet
fever, and after heating them, as stuted,
caused four of his owu children to wear
them for several days. None of the
children contracted the disease. Vac
cine matter and presumably small-pox
virus are destroyed by a temperature of
110 degrees; the contagious principle of
yellow fever and plague is destroyed by
a heat of 212 degrees, the boiling point
of water.
Items of Interest.
A steak-holder The gridiron.
A righting book The Dictionary.
Overdrawn Exaggerated accounts.
Net cash The fisherman's proceeds.
Sharp practice Dissecting a subject.
Fish expressed if not implied C.
O. D.
Hairy somethings Tresses and mat
tresses.
Molasses candy would taste just as
sweet by any other name.
There are over 1,650 convicts in the
Sing Sing (N. Y.) prison.
A female gate-keeper has been re
moved for deadheading her sweetheart.
She never tolled her love.
Now digs the boy the garden plot
With energy intense,
Until he bags a tribe of worms,
And tnen be skips ine ience.
A barking dog never bites, but the
same measure of confidence isn't to be
placed in a buzzing bee, even if he does
go to war backwards.
There is this disparity between 43,560
square feet of window glass and a trouble
some molar: One is an acre of panes;
the other, pains of an acher.
A man who is uncertain about using
the term bicycle speaks of them as
" those things, you know, that they ride
on and look into second-story windows
with."
The German emperor keeps a diary
of everything he shoots. In 1819 his
gun was discharged by accident, and ne
had to enter up, "Forefinger right
hand."
"Slowtown P shouted the brakeman,
as
the train slowed up to the station.
"Five years for refreshments!" yelled
a passenger, who said his son had grown
up since the train started.
"What did the prisoner first strike
you for ?" casually asked the judge of
the complainant with a bandage over
his eye. " He first struck me for a five
dollar bill, your honor," was the feeling
reply.
" Sales by candle " was the method of
sale during the seventeenth century. A
wax candle, about an inch in length, was
set on the edge of a knife, and he that
bid most before the candle was out, was
the buyer.
It is estimated that the use of the
Moffet bell-punch in New York City, by
a simple tax of two and one-half cents
on alcoholic drinks, and one-half a cent
on cider, ale and beer, would yield the
treasury 12,000,000 per annum.
It is estimated that there is invested
in the dairy industry in this country, a
total capital of $1,450,000,000. Of that
amount 8450,000,000 is in cows, 8900,
000,000 in land needed for their support,
and $109,000,000 in teams, dairy imple
ments, etc.
A poor woman in Denmark, the wif
of a laborer, past fifty, observing a few
months ago three children who had
fallen through the ice on a lake, rushed
into the water, and at the imminent
peril of her own life rescued the
children. The King decided that this
act of bravery should not pass unreward
ed. The woman was sent up to town
from the country; a room was prepared
for her in the royal palace, where she
stayed a couple of days to see the sights
of Copenhagen, and she received from
the hands of the King, in the presence
of the royal family, the medal and ribe
bon for civil acts of bravery, being thd
first woman in Denmark who lias receives
this honor. The King secured place
fof hei and her family in the Royal
Theater, where she was the observed of
all observers. Of an more substantial
compensation for her act of bravery there
is no record.
Snails as an Articlo of Food.
Snails abound in Italy, Spain, France
aud Belgium; they are also found iu
large quantities in Algeria, and most
other points along the shores of thr
Mediterranean.
In Italy snails anciently were and on
still much used for the table. They arr
regularly sold in the markets of Swit
zerland, Spain, France, Belgium an
Algeria, and are exported alive in bar
rels, to the French Antilles, aud occu
sionally even to the United States, when
they are relished only by the real
"connoisseur."
In the vineyards of France, the" pea
sants collect, feed and fatten them till
winter, when tho snails seal themsclveti
up in their shells, where they remaiu
torpid several months. Iu this state
they are purchased by the confectioners,
who prepare them in the shell, with but
ter aud herbs, ami forward them to
Paris. They are then ready for table,
after Leiug heated in an oven for a few
minutes.
Iu Belgium the snails are fed on let
tuce under inveAd flowerpots, for
several weeks befoty being sent to mar
ket. Their price varies from fifty cents
to one dollar a hundred.
In Transylvauia the large wood snail
is a favorite dish. The animal is drawu
out of its shell, well rubbed in a clean
cloth, to take elf the slime, cut small,
mixed with savory stulliug, replaced in
its shell, baked iu the Btove oven, and
served up hot. In some parts of th.s
country, iustead of eggs and fowl, th
peasants pay their tribute in snails and
game. Mr. Pago states that one lady'
ordiuary winter supply as being up
ward of 5,000 snails.
Wo have occasionally seen import r-1
snails served up iu the shell, at restn,
rants iu New York, aud have wau l
foreign looking customers who
to relish the uieul. These sua"
brought to this country by tho -of
the Havre line dum'k' ''
mouths,