Hates of Advertising.
On (Iquare (1 Inch,) ono Insertion - i !
OneSquare " one month - - 3 t0
OneHiuare " three months - ti ( C
One Square " on o year - - 10 00
Two Squares, ono yeai - - 1"0
Quarter Col. :;o ( ;
Half .. . f,i) 00
Ono " ' - 100 CO
Legal notices at established rates.
Marriage and death notices, gratis.
'All bills for yearly advertiscmentf col
lected quarterly. Temporary nrlverlife
mcnts must bo paid for in ndvnncn.
.fob work, Cash on Delivery.
51
fl rl o
fl
.0 I t! HI.IflllED EVERY WEDNESDAY, BY
Ci'FIOE 15 ROBINSON St B0NNEIV8 BUILDING
ELM BTBXET, TI0NE8TA, PA.
u
TERMS, 91.60 A TEAR.
No Subscriptions received for a shortM
j -rlod tlimi threo months.
Correspondence ii totl trom nil parts
nT the country. No notice will bo taken o
anonymous emu innn'.tral ions.
YOL. XII. NO. 17.
TIONESTA, PA., JULY 1G, 1879.
$1.50 Per Annum.
LLCJIU
The Owl Critic.
A MtSSOK TO FAULT BINDERS.
"Who Bluffed th.it white owl?" No ono
, spoke in the shop;
The harber wns busy and couldn't stop;
Tlie customers, waiting thoir turns, wore all
ronding
The Daily, the Herald, tho Pott, little
heeding
The young man who blurted out such a blunt
question;
Not ono raised a bead or oven made a sug
gestion ; '
And the harbor kept on sharing.
Don't you see, Mister Brown,"
Cried the youth, with a frown,
" flow wrong tbo whole thing is,
How prepostoious oach wiug is,
How flattened the head-is, how jammed down
tho neck Is
In short, the whole owl, what, an ignorant
wreck 'tis!
I make no apology;
I're learned owl-oology.
I've'mBRed days and nights in a hundred col
lodions, v
And cannot bo blinded to any deflections
Arising lrom unskillful flngors that fail
To stuff a bird right, lrom hi botik to hi tail.
Mister Brown! Mistor Brown!
Do lako that bird down,
Or you'll soon be tho laughiog-Btock all ovor-
town!"
And the barber kept on shaving.
" I've studied owls
And other night towls,
And I tell you
What I know to bo true:
An owl cannot roost
With his limbs sp unloosed;
No owl'in tills world
Ever had his claws curled,
Ever had his legs slanted,
Xver had his bill canted,
Ever had his nock screwed
Into that attitude.
He can't do it, because
'Tin against all bird laws.
Anatomy teauhos,
Ornithology preaches,
An owl has a toe
That can't turn out so!
I've made tho white owl my study for years,
And to se -such a job almost moves mo to
tears!
Mister Brown, I'm amazed
You should be so gone crazed
As to put up a bird
' In thai f)iMHire Hlisurd!
To look at that owl really brings oil a dizzi
ness; -
Tho man who stuffed him-Uoa't hall know hi
business!"
And tho barber kept on shaving.
'tEzamine those eygp.
I'm flllud with surprise
T'tsulormists should puss .
OT oil you such poor glass;
So unnatural they seem
They'd make Audubon scream,
And John Burroughs laugh
To encounter such chaff.
Do take that bird down;
Have hiut stuffed again, Brown!"
And tho barber kept on shaving.
With some sawdust und bark
I could stuff in tho dark
An owl better than that.
I could make an old hat
Look more like an owl
Than that horrid towl,
oluCK UJ vuurt) BU vuu u&o emo vi uunio
t .. . : ir in, - ..:... ... .
leather.
In toot, about him there's not one natural
leuthor.''
Just thon, with a wink and a sly normal lurch,
Tho owl, very gravely, got down lrom his
perch,
Walkod round and regarded his fault-finding
critio
(Who thought ho was stutled) with a Bunco
analytic,
And then tairly hooted, as il he should say,
Tour learning's at fault this time anyway;
Don't waste it again on a live bird, I pray. '
I'm an owl; you're uiother. Sir Critio, good
day!"
' And tko barker kept on shaving,
Jas. ' T. Fieldi, in Harper'i Magazine.
PLAIN MISS -CAKEW;
I shall never fwrgei thai happy summer
at Harpswell, a quaint old jieniiiHular town
up the Casco bay. - I don't know just how
we happened to go there, but how pleased
every one was with the old-fashioned
houses, and the cottages built on the banks
.of pretty ccjes, and the Atlantic booming
and thundeiuig and foaming right under
our windows I Dear little cottages, with
piafczas and balconies and slender chimneys.
and poplars bending over the roof loving-
1 I A I l A . ; l I
ij I aiiu strung, mure suiwianuai iarm
. houses, with narrow windows and tiny
panes of glass; gardens filled with poppies
and dahlias, and always beautiful ; pet
fumy lilacs, meadows fresh with butter
cups and clover and tail" marguerites,
Deep green woods, fields of corn, and every
where a great quantity of roses. And such
massive, rugied rocks, and grand views
from the hills overlooking the sea ; and all
over (lie island that peculiar hoarse, mum
cal sound, called the "rote," comes in from
the ocean and adds a plaintiveness to the
lovely summer unvs.
We were a party of seven boarders at
Mrs. Bennett's cottage at the head of Lo
well's Cove. It was in reality a stout old
house, but some romantic wanderer had
named it " Pearl Cottage," and as such we
knew it. It was the most beautiful spot
imaginable. Had it been a veritable Eden
there could have been no softer beauty
than greeted us on every hand. A wide
garden brightened the space between the
bank and the house and filled the air with
perfume. The cove was shaded by huge
willows ol a hundred years growth, and
many birds sang in their branches. The
soft, caressing breeze tinged our cheeks with
healthy color, snd a July gun added a not
unbecoming brownness.
Almost unconsciously we drifted Into
familiar, friendly intercourse, and were
hannv and ensilv ideascd. Nature, in her
grnnd nioodH, shames us out of our artifici
ality. No ono reproved a loud laugh, a
leap, or even a run down the level road.
We were all so happy and gay and brim
ming over with spirits, it was simply im
possible to be dignified, and curb our un
ruly, boisterous natures.
We were having a delightful row one
evening, and returned rather late. There
was a light in the sitting-room contrary to
our custom, and a trunk nnd bag on the
piazza.
" Homebody has come, ' cried May uerry.
" Here's a man's trunk I can tell by the
canvas and, yes, here's a card. Oh, girls !
what do you think 7 It is that Mr. wkid
more we saw the day we went to the Neck 1
Isn't is splendid 7"
So it is, said Mays sister. "lxme
here, all of you. 'Mr. E. Bkidmore.' I
wonder how he ever happened to come here.
Won't we have a jolly time?"
" Victoria, expostulated her mother.
"Well, well, a nice-looking young man
doesn't come to Harpswell every day. You
haven t seen him, Miss (jarew," turning to
a plain, dark-eyed girl. " He is immense
ly wealthy, and has a real gold-brown
beard, and ilufly yellow hair, and blue eyes
with brown spots in them, and "
She might have gone on lor an hour had
not a hearty laugh from inside the room
startled her.
" I beg your pardon," said a deep voice,
and a tall figure appeared in the doorway.
" but the description was too amusing," and
igain a merrv laugh broke lrom mm, in
which we all joined.
"I suppose I was very rude, said Miss
Perry, " but the deed is done, and I guess
we'll" go in and have some lunch."
Iftdie would only not say, ! guess"
whispered her mother. "It is quite ple
beian.
We found Mr. Skidmore a delightful ad
dition to our party. Of good family,
wealthy, a thorough man of the world, and
handsome, he lpad everything in his favor.
I he Derrys were, to use Victoria s phrasc
docv. "over head and ears in love with
lim," and the geutlemcn voted him a capi
tal fellow. He played croquet with a
teady arm nnd never-failing stroke, rowed
veil, sing delicious little songs in a- tender,
manlv voice, read aloud wncn it was too
not for exercise, and made himself a mostn
utractive companion. Frtun the first he
-teemed to positively dislike plain Miss
drew. In our games he avoided her no
ticeably, never willingly looking at or
tpeaking to her. Did she propose an excur
sion, he declined to participate; uiu sue
-ing sweet, old-fashioned songs we liked so
much, he left the room. One evening sh-
iatl crimson rosebuds in her hair, and he
. . . I . i ' . i
-aid crimson roseuuos were ins special
(version. One, in stepping from the boat,
coming lrom a sail, lie oiiered ins nana to
insist her, nntl almost Hung her ashore, lie
eemed to have taken an unaccountable an
tipathy to her.
One morning 1 was uratuing my nair
when there came a rap on my door, and
Miss Oarew asked to come in. She was
dressed in a blue flannel boating suit, and a
white sundown was pulled down over her
face. Knots of scarlet ribbon were on her
sleeves and down the front of her dress. I
noticed an unusual color in the brown
cheeks, and her brown eyes were moistr
looking.
"You have been crying, Miss tarew l
said; " are you unhappy?
" Not exactly unhappy. Miss Arden, she
answered, in her slow, sweet, legato voice.
" Only troubled, and rather vexed."
" tjan l neip you r
"No, thank you. You are very kind, but
it is nothing, after all. I came to ask if
you will be good enough to let me take your
umbrella? 1 am going to tne east snore
and have been stupid enough' to let Miss
Perry take mine. '
" Certainly," 1 said ; " and if you
A loud, boyish laugh interrupted me.
" Now, let me in, quick 1 I've something
to tell you, Miss Arden r ami May Derry
burst into the room. " I've found out all
about Miss Carew," she said, breathlessly,
" and whv Mr. Skidmore hates her and all.
I have just On, Miss carew I sue criea,
til Hiiln't baa von. 1 bee vour Daraon.
Dear, me I I am sure, if I had known "
" I bee vou won't feel distressed. If you
have ' found out all about me,' perhaps you
will have the chanty to enlighten Miss
Arden?''
"It's nothing at all." she blurted out;
" onlv Miss I'avne came over, and said you
belonsed to the Carews ol Xew jersey, anu
they were a bad lot fast men and vulgar
women and 1 told her l uidn l ueneve h.
And then she asked Mr. Skidmore, and he
said he detested a vulgar woman, and could
tell in a moment if they had good birth and
breeding, and Oh, Miss Carew, I haven't
made you angry, have 1 UI course,
didn't really believe her."
"It is all true, said Annie Uarew, quiet
. " I 'didn't consider it necessary to tell
lv
niv all airs to every one. Ana now, n you
will tret ;he umbrella, Miss Arden, I will
eo.
When we were alone, l saiu : row,
May, tell me why Mr. Skidmore dislikes
-w II
Miss Uarew."
" I'll tell you all he said, Miss Arden
Miss Payne said there was a mystery about
Miss Carerf, and hinted at something rather
reflecting on her character ; and Mr. Skid
more said it was her family was ruining
her. Miss Payne told me afterward that
he hated Miss Carew because she had in
trainied his brother into an engagement,
This was two years ago, and it is all broken
otl'now. Mr. Skidmore would not hear of
it, I believe, and wrote to Miss Carew, tell
ing her his brother would be an outcast
from his family if he married her, and
asked her to set him free. It seems that
she didn't really care for him, but he was
wild about her, and they drilled into an en
gagement. The whole family thoroughly
disliked her, and Miss I'ayne said no re
spectable people visited them. They live
in a fotit set, and Miss Carew goes all about
with no chaperonc and, I believe, gets dread
fully mixed up with'tW'P- Mr. Skid
more would.be glad Clever .to see her
again."
She stopped for sheer lack of breath, and
I said, feeling a sort of scorn for a man who
could so speak of a woman: "Miss Carew
may be all you say, but until I know more
aliout it I shall treat her as I always have.
And as for Miss Payne, she is a low, gos
siping woman to repeat such a tale."
She stared at me in amaze.
" 1 had no idea you were so fond of hcr''
she said. " Do you know they say she is
called very fascinating? I have rather
pitied her because she was so plain."
" What became of Mr. Skidmore's
brother?"
"Oh, I believe he married somebody else.
But I must go now. You are not ofl'ended,
Miss Arden?"
" No," I said, laughing; " not with Biich
a giddy tomboy as you are."
I was greatly surprised by what May had
told me. For the first time I suspected
there was another nature in Annie Carew
than the indolent, careless one we saw.
There might dangerous fires sleep under
those soft, brown eyes. There might be
hidden depths under that cold exterior.
And, now I thought-of it, she wasn't so very
plain. She had beautiful eyes, brown and
clear-looking; delicate eye-brows, full red
lips, and masses of soft, dusky hair. If her
face was dark and thin, it was also full of
character. Certainly she was not to be
pitied.
I wns rather fearful as to how she would
treat May, hut at teatime she came in
smiling, and apologizing for being so late.
There was not a trace of any unpleasantness
in the-smootli face. She laughed a great
deal, and showed me a sketch she had made :
a ridiculously long-necked bird was perched
on the umbrella, and in its mouth a bit of
scarlet ribbon, over which it seemed puz
zled. There was real expression in the
small, uncanny eyes, and ! laughed heartily.
"How well you sketch, Miss Carew 1"
said May, who was looking over my
shoulder.
"Yes; that is one of my Bohemian pro
clivities. One learns many things like that
traveling over the world without a chajxrone.''
There was no malice in the tone. Jt
seemed merely an explanation. Mr. Skid
more looked up quickly, and then went opt
of the room, abruptly. Miss Carew laughed.
" Have 1 shocked anybody " she asked,
lightly.
"Come out on the beach," I whispered.
And when we were alone, I said, "Tell me
ibout it, Miss Carew."
It was in substance what I had beard
nice betore that alternoon. She cared
nothing for the boyish lover, and was glad
to have the engagement broken, but the in
solent, unjust words of Mr. Skidmore had
hurt her cruelly.
" Why,' she said, " I suppose he hates
me as he hates no one else in the world."
" And do you dislike him ?"
" Miss Arden, I despise him."
" I am very glad to hear it, believe me,"
and a tall figure strode past us down the
beach. Miss Carew burst into a laugh.
1 have added the last straw now," she
said.
After that there was not even the sem
blance of politeness between them. Each
ignored the other's exi-tence. We walked
Hiid talked and played croquet indolently,
as before. Mr. Skidmore was always with
Victoria nr" ry, and I was driftin&into a
dangeroi 'king for one of our company,
a man with Mother money nor good looks.
I think we were all moderately happy, but
was alarmingly so. Alt through the
month we were favored with fine weather.
May Derry said Bhe was " full to bursting ''
of pure delight. Living was a pleasure,
and life a grand holiday. Once or twice
we all went to Brunswick for a drive, but
for the most part of the time were lying
under trees, or in the warm, sand, Crusoe
like, reading or thinking. All the fisher
men have high tenor voices at Harpswell,
and sing songs of the sea, and wear old
straw hats and look picturespue. It was
pleasure enough to sit on the rocks and hear
their melody rising free and unrestrained
while they mended their nets. It was
beautiful, too, to watch the shadows coming
over the tree tops, and the hush of night
falling on all the land.
One night we were out in the boat, and
Mr. Price drew in the oars and let the
boat drift. It happened unfortunately that
Annie Carew was placed beside Mr. Skid
more, making it uncomfortable for both. I
soon torgot it, however, in watching the
beauty of the beach and ocean in the mel
low, softened light, and drinking in the
sweet fragrant air.
"Such a scene as this brings up sleeping
memories, ' said Mr. bkidmore. " W ith the
glamour of this soft beauty on a man he
might je forgiven lor almost any rashness.
I am strangely susceptible to moonlight
and the fragrant spring air. Miss Carew,
won't you favor us with a song and break
the spell?"
It must have affected him indeed to
cause him to speak like that, in that half-
tender voice to Annie Carew.
" I shall be happy to oblige you if you
really desire it."
" Oh, yes, do sing, Miss Carew," said
several voices.
She sang a little boating song, all about
"waves ".and "ripples" and "the sands
upon the shore," ami she sang it beauti
fully. I felt like falling in love with her,
she looked so handsome, and there was a
haunting pathos in the voice. Certainly
Annie Carew was not a plain girl. She was
a dangerously fascinating one. I realized
it fully as she sat there in the moonlight,
her splendid eyes sparkling and her clear
voice touching one a heartstrings so closely
liuheminn she might be; she was more
beautiful in that tender, gracious mood
than any woman I had even seen.
There was silence for a moment; then
Mr. l rice said :
" You sing like the sirens of old, Miss
Carew, if one can judge from ideas. The
tears almost came, in spite of my endeavors
to be manly."
She laughed softly, and Miss Derry said
in an earnest way, "I do really believe I
have fallen in love with her."
That made us all laugh, and the little
craft was turned homeward. Mr. Skid
more walked up to the house leside me,
antl I ark-d him if he liked Miss Carew 's
singing.
" Yes, I ditl," he answered ; " and I, wish
I could understand her real nature.''
He was more polite and friendly toward
her after that, and I began to hope for an
established basis of good feeling between
them, when an unlucky accident set them
on the old path.
I was tying up a rosebush one morning,
nnd had nearly finished when my supply
of string gave out. Mr. Skidmore put his
hand in his pocket and drew out a handful
of different sizes of cord, when a little rib
bon fluttered to the ground.
"Oh, that's Miss Carew's bow," cried
May. "Mis3 Carew, he has had it all the
time."
A flush rose to his face, as he said, in an
annoyed tone : 11 The very fact of its be
ing in my possession shows that I had no
idea what it was."
" Oh, but you did know, Mr. Skidmore,
for I told you about it the day she made
the sketch. Don't you remember the bird
took it in his bill from the umbrella?
Where did you find it?"
" Miss Derry, I really have no idea how
the thing came in my pocket. I assure you
I should not have cherished it, had I known
it was a lady's property."
" Why, it is no great harm, anyway. If
you like Miss Carew "
"But I don't like Miss Carew. That is,
Miss Derry, I don't like to be teased."
His face was flushed, with annoyance,
and I sighed as I thought of the mischief I
had done. They were really getting to see
each other in quite a fair light, until now
all his old dislike was revived. And An
nie, too, seemed to think him more disagree
able than ever, for at dinner she scarcely
noticed him. In the afternoon she came to
my room for a book, saying she was going
to the cave on the east shore for a while.
" I'm so sorry about that ribbon," I said.
" It shows him him his true light, Miss
Arden. I am glad of it, for I was just get
ting foolish enough to think I had been
mistaken in him.
It was a sultry, oppressive air, and I was
too indolent to go out, so 1 took Bad
deck " and a sofa for the afternoon. I read
until nearly four o'clock, and then fell
asleep. When I awoke it was rainingfuri
ouslv and was ouite dark. lhen as a
heavy peal of thunder startled me I remein
bereoVMiBS Carew. I went across the pas
sage and tapped, and looked In. The room
was empty. I went hurriedly down the
stairs, and into the eitting-room.
" Here comes Miss Arden, looking as
she had Been a ghost,'1 said Mrs. Per if
smiling. .
" Miss Carew is out in this Btorm,"
said, feeling as if I should faint ; " and some
one mustuo for lrer.
" My God ! Miss Arden, what do you
mean?" asked Mr. Skidmore, turning white
to the lips.
" Miss Carew went to the 'cave this after
noon and has not returned, and I fear she
has lost her way."
"It is sure death," tegan May, when
there was a trampling of heavy feet on the
piazza, and in a moment two men were in
i he room, and had put poor Annie Larew
on the sofa. Her long hair hung wet nnd
tangled to the floor, and the white face was
death-like in its dreadful calm. In a mo
ment I knew what it was.
" She is dead !''. said some one, in a con
strained, harsh voice, " and never knew
howl loved her. " Oh, Annie, my darl
ing, my love." And Mr. Skidmore fell on
his knees beside her and kissed the sweet
lips.
One by one we Btole out of the room and
left him kneeling there. The men had
found her on the shore, and thought she
must have fainted from fright, and had
brought her home.
" Likely the lightnin' killed her," said
one. I ve known sucji things:
' I went to my room and wept bitterly.
' Poor Annie Carew 1' was all I could say.
Poor, unhappy girl. At the thought of Mr.
Skidmore my tears flowed afresh. I was
scarcely surprised that he loved her. But
his pride had buried his happiness.
Later in the evening May tapped at my
door. She was crying softly. " Oh, Miss
Arden," she said, "she wasn't dead after all.
It was only a fainting fit, and she can speak
now.
" And Mr Skidmore ?"
" Is in there with her, and he has been
crying. I guess it's all right between them
because I saw him kissing hei just now."
And all the time he had been in love
with plain Miss Carew.
Injuries by Animals.
Owners of wild beasts or boasts that
are in their nature vicious are liable
under all or most all circumstances for
injuries done by them, and in actions
for injuries by such beasts it is not ne
cessjiry to allege that the owner knew
them to be mischievous, for ho is pre
sumed to have such knowledge, from
which it follows that he is guilty of neg
ligence in permitting the same to be at
largo. Though tho owner have no par
ticular notice that the animal ever did
any such mischief before, yet if the ani
mal be of the chws that is fcrce. tuUunr
the owner is liable to an action of dam
age if it gets loose and does harm. Own
ers are liable lor the hurt done by the
animal even without notice of the pro
pensity if the animal is naturally mis
chievous, but if it is of a tame nature
there must be notice of a vicious habit.
Damage, may bo done by a domestic ani
mal kept for use or convenience, but the
rule is that tho owner is not liable to an
act ion on the ground" of negligence, with
out proof that he knew that the animal
was accustomed to do mischief. Domes
tic animals, such its oxen or horses, may
injure the person or property of another,
but courts of justice invariably hold that
if they are rightfully in tho place where
tho injury is inflicted the owner of the
animal is not liable for such an injury
unless ho knew that tho animal was ac
customed to be vicious, antl in suits for
such injuries such knowledge must be
alleged and proved, as the cause of action
arisen from the keeping of the animal
after the knowledge of its vicious pro
pensities. Justice ViJ'ord (if the I 'uiUd
States Supreme Cuurt,
Two little negro boys at Paris, Ky.
were given a pistol by their mother, who
told them to" go out and amuse t Item
selves. They did, ami one was killed.
TIMELY TOPICS.
There is one chase of the crime of mur
der that is never published. The crimi
nal in the commission of his crime putt
himself beyond the pale of earthly law.
This criminal that always escapes justice
is the suicide. J lie law once attempted
to indirectly punish the deed by the con
fiscation of the suicide's property, but as
this punished only the innocent heirs it
was abandoned. So, also, was tho bar
barous attempt at post mortem ven
gennce by driving a stake through the
body of the suicide and burying Trim at
the cross roads. Now.although the crime
is still murder, there is no attempt at
punishing the criminal, who is beyond
human penalties.
The Emperor William is the fifth male
member of the Ilohenzollern family who
has lived to celebrate his golden wed
ding. The first case was that of Johann,
surnamcd the Alchemist, born about
1403, and who died in 14C4. The three
sons of Frederick William I. had also
more than fifty years each of married
life namely, Frederick the Great, Prince
Henry, and Prince August Ferdinand of
Prussia. Of the four sons of Frederick
William III., three celebrated their sil
ver wedding and Prince Charles, brother
of tho present emperor, who married the
sister of the empress, was within a day
or two orthe golden ceremony in 1877
when his consort died.
The following incident, related by a
San Francisco paper as having occurred
on board a Pacific Mall steamship, shows
the stuff that sailors are made of : " At
eight A. M., while setting the awnings, a
sailor slipped overboard. The ship was
going some twelve miles an hour. They
had a boat in tho .water, manned by
four men and the third mate, in fifty
two seconds after tho sailor went over,
and in four minutes they had him in
the boat, a long ways astern. When he
fell in the water he had on boots with
the legs cut off, which he kept on. He
lost his hat and deliberately swam for
it and put it on. When picked up he
had his sheath-knife in his hand, hav
ing drawn it to be prepared for a stray
shark. On being taken aboard he took
a hand at an oar, and helped hoist the
boat on returning alongside."
One object of many people in going
abroad is that they can live and travel
more cheaply in Europe than they can
in the United States,- or at least think
they can. A correspondent of the St.
Iouis Republican, writing from Geneva,
takes issue with the impression. He
says that any one may occupy a good ten
room house in the better quarter of
St. Louis, "keep two or three servants
and dress and live in average American
style for from two-thirds to three-quarters
of what the cost would bo in South
ern Switzerland. The average cost per
individual cannot be placed at much
under $'2,500 per annum, if one wishes to
visit and reside in different European
cities, and a lady friend of the corre
spondent had just been obliged to turn
her face homeward after an eight
months' stay, because the $10,000 given
by her father for a year's absence in
Europe had lasted her only tho shorter
period of time. European travel is like
everything else, expensive or reasonable,
affeording as the tastes of those partici
pating in it make it so.
The camel-breeding industry is prom
ising in Arizona. Three years ago a
herd of those animals was taken to
Yuma, the intention being to make them
serviceable as beasts of burden. Tho
nttempt was a failure, the climate seem
ing to disagree with them, and it was
found that they were not so useful as tho
little mules. The owners turned the
camels loose and they roamed along the
Gila river, apparently enjoying their
liberty and proliting by it. They have
bred liberally and appear to have become
acclimated and domesticated to the re
gion.thriving as though they had been
in their own native Africa. It is thought
tho new generation of camels will be
used to the alkaline waters peculiar to
the Southwestern section, and can bo
made serviceable in transporting tho
mineral products of that country across
the long deserts of sand to places where
they can be profitably worked. At any
rate the owners of the rejected and wan
dering beasts feel that there is money in
their camels, and will hereafter devote
some care to the breeding and rearing of
them.
How to See a Seed Grow.
Many little folks wonder how a seed
grows. Some boys antl girls have taken
up the seed after planting it in the
ground, and thereby prevented it from
taking root.
We may, however, seethe roots shoot
ing out from the hyacinths antl other
bulbs that we grow in glasses in our
windows. And in this way we may see
other seeds sprout anil shoot.
A gentleman, to gratify his little sons,
took a glass tumbler, round which ho
tied a bit of common lace, allowing the
lace to hang or droop down in the center
of tho glass. Ho then put enough water
in. the glass to cover the lower part of
the lace, and in this hollow be dropped
twt) sweet-peas. Tho little boys were
told to look at them every day, antl they
would learn what was going on under
ground with similar seeds.
Next morning the boys hurried from
the breakfast room to look at tho glass
with the peas in the south window.
They found that while they were fast
asleep the little brown skins had burst,
ami a tiny white sprout was seen on tho
side of each pea. The little sprouts
soon grew long enough to reach through
the holes in the lace, mid on the top of
the peas two little green leaves were
seen.
hi time the boys saw the white thread
like roots reach almost to the bottom of
the glass, while the green leaves grew
large antl gave way to a stalk or stem.
hi this way most seeds may bo seen to
grow. New York, Observer.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The consumption of coffee throughout
the world has increased during the past
forty years from 190,000,000 to 850.000,
000 pounds.
"The dearest spot on earth to me,"
the young man muttered as hia girl
coaxed him into an ice-cream saloon.
New York News.
One man asked another why his beard
was so brown and his hair white. "Be
cause," he replied. " one is twenty yearn
younger than the other."
A man is said to be absent-minded
when he thinks lie has left his watch at
home and takes it out of his pocket to
see if he has time to return home to get
one, ho meets her at the croquet ground;
Act two, to see her at the house he calls;
Act throe, most regularly he ooines around;
Act tour, head over cars in lovo ho falls;
Act Ave, his manly passion he declares,
And for an afterpiece pa kicks him down stairs.
Burlington JIawkeye.
rrniors ri.iKs.
Can any one tell us why flies were made,
Or what their uses may be?
Or why tho ghosts of them cannot bo laid?
If you make on one an onslaught and raid
Nine hundred and ninety you'll see.
William II. Lord, of Denmark, Mo.,
was prostrated last autumn by typhoid
fever, which left him with the musclei
of the right hand so contracted that the
nails penetrated the flesh of the palm,
and he had despaired of recovering the
use of his hand and had decided to nave
the little finger amputated. One day
recently, while gathering pine balsam,
he accidentally stuck the point of his
knife into the hand near the base of the
thumb, inflicting a deep flesh wound,
from which blood of almost inky black
ness flowed, when the strained muscles
immediately relaxed, and the use of the
hand was entirely restored,
Yesterday noon, up at Mrs. McKer
rel's boarding house, one of the young
gentlemen coming in a little late, seized
his soup plate and airily attempted to
balance it on the end of his finder and
twivl it around above his head, like tho
gentleman in the circus. But, alas! it
went off and came down on his head and
broke and nearly drowned him, and
when he arose and went to his room he
shook out of his curling locks chunks of
boiled potato, and slices of nion, and
slabs of cabbage, and suggestions of ba
con, and storms of rice, and flakes of
grease, and sprays of sage and one thing
ami another lie said, after tho explo
sion, that he "didn't know it was
loaded." Ilawkeyt.
The following was a New Haven col
ony law in 1669: ' 'Whosoever shall in
veigle or draw the affections of any
maido or maide-servant, either to him
self or others, without first gaining the
consent of her parents, shall pay to the
plantation for the firss offence, 40s., the
secc nd. 4, for the third shall be im
pr' oned or corporeously punished."
An old record Ins just been found show
ing that under this law Jacobeth Mur
tine and Sarah Tuttle got into trouble
by "setting down on a chestle together,
his arme around her waiste, and her
arme upon his shoulder or about his
neck, and continuing in that sinful pos
ture about half an hour, in which time
he kyssed her and she kyssed him, or
they Kyssed one another, as ye witnesses
testified."
The Stock Regions or Texas.
The section of country along tho Gul
coast, lying between Houston and Gal
veston, and extending far around to the
Ilio Grande, is the famous pasture region
of Texas. The country consists of open
land, skirted everywhere by the blue
horizon. Its fertility and luxuriant
crops of grass, the even temperature
through the year, and the numerous
small streams of pure water, make it
emphatically the "paradise" not "of
tho Peri," but of the cows. Some of the
cattle farms of this country are respect
able principalities in their way, rivaling
many ol the petty kingdoms of the
German States, anil the proprietors are
literal lords of all they survey. From
100,000 to 300,000 acres, all in one larni,
are no unusual thing, and this, too,
under fence, where roam thousands on
thousands of sleek and saucy beeves. It
is a very kingdom of cows. The owners,
too. are live, energetic men, awake to
tho importance of having the best
breeds, and accordingly have imported
Brahmin and Syrian bulls, which make
a most excellent cross on the Texas
stock. Durham and Devon stock do
not succeed well, being too subject to
fever. Great as it already is, it is be
lieved that the cattle business in Texas
is yet in its infancy. The European de
mand for fresh meats will tend to stimu
late timl enlarge the business. New York
Mercantile Journal.
Toads.
Many gardeners already appreciate the
valuable services of the common toad,
and afford them protection for their
insect-destroying propensities, while at
many more, perhaps, are ignorant of
their usefulness. To the latter class it
may be interesting to know that toads
live almost wholly upon slugs, cater
pillars, beetles and other insects, making
their rounds -at night when the farmer
is asleep and the birds, too and tho in
sects are supposed to be having it all
their own way. English gardeners
understand these facts so well that toads
are purchased at so much a dozen nnd
turned loose, and the best of it is, that
the toads generally stay at home, so that
the gardener is not troubled with buying
liis toads over again every few days.
The toad can be tamed, and will even
learn to know " its master," and come
when called; the writer has not only
had such pets himself, but could give
other instances of toad-taming that have
come under his observation. Toads can
be niatVe very useful about the house,
and will do not a little good in destroying
cockroaches, flies antl other household
pests. New York Tribune.