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One stop and then another, And the longest walk is ended ; One stiloh and then another, And the largest rent ij mended; One hrl'-k upon another, And the highest wall is made; One flnko upon anothor, And the denpest snow is laid. So the little coral workers, By their slow and oonptant motion, Have built those pretty Islands In the distant dark-blue ocean; And the noblest undertakings Man's wisdom hath conooivc.l, By oft-repeated effort Hove been patiently achieved. " Then do not looked disheartened On the work you have tb do, And say that suoh a mighty tank You nevor can got through ; But just endeavor, day by day, Another point to gain, And soon the mountain wbioh you feared Will prove to be a plain! ' Itoine was not builded in a day," The ancient proverb teaches, . And nature, by her trees and flowers, The same sweet sermon preaches. Think not oi far-off duties, But of duties which are near, And having onoe begun to work, Kesolve to persevere. it STACY'S GAL." The colonel, I think, was the first person to propose to her. He did it in the oratorical style for which he was noted in the camp and was promptlYe fused, much to his own and the boys' astonishment. 1 believe the juage was the next, hut as he had fort i tied his courage with a large quantity of whisky his breath was strong enough and his words thick enough to ensure speedy rejection. He was considerably ruor tiued at it and never able to explain the cause of his defeat, but when a Mexican woman drifted into the camp shortly afterward and engaged in washing for the men the judge Jtried his hand again and was accept 1. It took him month to get loose from the bonds and In s w we he would "never give any otl.er female erhtcr A chance to hook him again," and he carefully avoided all 1ml inn rquaws and homely senorita 1 "who occasionally passed through Min eral City.' After the judge a dozen or more of the. boys offered their hands nnd lortunes to " Stacy's gal" and fared in precisely the satue manner, while old Stacy himself quietly chuckled and "bet on his gnl every trip," as he afterward explained. She -had come into camp a week or two previously to the greatest surprise of everybody, including her father. Old Stacy good many vears before, some eight or ten, had lost li is wife, and so great was his grief that he could not be induced to remain longer in the place she had made a little heaven for him So he placed his daughter his only child in the fashionable female semi nary of the State, provided her with everything that was necessary for her comfort or happiness, and then struck out for the San Juan silver mines to for get his loss among the excitements and privations of the frontier. Stacy was one of the fortunate few out of the un lucky many that enter a mining country, and in a few years he was possessed of properties yielding him an excellent in come from their hard, white quartz. He regularly corresponded with his daughter, and kept her supplied in pocket-money far in excess of her needs or requirements, but he never went back rn a visit, aad when that young lady was duly graduated with high honors she determined to seek out her long absent paternal progenitor. With an independence and courage, the wonder ment of the boys, she traveled across the plains, took passage on the stages and finally rode into Mineral City on horse back, the first-white woman in camp and the object of the shy adoration of the men. It was some time before the boys could stand their ground and face her, instead of scampering away at her ap proach, as had hitherto been the case; but the Western miner is not long in . getting accustomed ta strange things, and it was not over ten days after her arrival that the colonel immolated him self on the altar of his affections. 'En couraged by his example and unterri fied by his unceremonious "defeat, the boys one after another tried their luck, though, as I have before mentioned, with no bettor success. Stacy was a partner of mine in the 'Ajax mine, in which there were three of us interested, and as we were doing con siderable development on the vein I was of necessity much in his company and consequentlyin that of his daughter. She was a very pretty girl, with dainty, delicate ways far more Dentting a house on Walnut street than a rbugli mining camp; but she loved her father with an - earnest, clinging affection that would not listen to her leaving him. and bo she continued to. reign queen of Mineral City all through the summer of 187ft. - I don't know when it was that I was unduly attracted toward Nellie. I think it was when she asked me to call her thereafter by that name. She made the request so innocently, so sweetly, and so tenderly, alleging that as I was her father's partner, a gentleman bv birth and education, and suc h a kind friend to her, it would be ever so much nicer for me to say Nellie, instead of Miss Stacy, - . ' l. . i . j i i.i wmcu sounaea so iormai. mat 1 came very nearly adding o,ther words to the name that our short acquaintance would not justify. After that I spent most of my evenings with Nellie, and sometimes .of an afternoon we took delicious little rambles together on the mountain sVles andfnto the heavy timber lining the valley or canon of the Uncompahgre. One evening, as we were returning home, we stopped to rest , on the rock crested summit of Mineral Point. A few hundred feet below us lay the little mining camp, its log ' cabins looking doubly picturesque in the gathering gloaming The blue smoke Was curling from a dozen chimneys as the men pre pared their evening meals ; and here and there, over the various trails, a blue shirted miner, with pick and drills across his shoulder, came striding home. The sun sinking behind the Wasatch moun tains, one hundred and sixty-five miles distant, cast great long shadows across the surrounding peaks, and veiled the ravines and gulches in deepening dark ness. Nellie sat on the croppings of a vein of quartz and I lay stretched out at her feet, watching her pretty, tender eyes as they wandered about the horizon, drink ing in the beauty and the grandeur of the scene. She had some light, fleecy ar rangementa nubia, I believe it is called wrapped loosely about her head and shoulders, and her hair, in whose meshes the sunbeams seemed to have caught, peeped from beneath, helping to frame a face stamped with innocence and pur ity. Young peonle alwavs get senti mental in the evening, when surrounded by quiet, and I was no exception to the rule, and almost before I knew it I was toying with the little hand, so white and soft, lying carelessly on the flinty quartz. Nellie," I said, after a few moments, " don't you ever long to leave this rough place and go back to the East?" "Notnow,"she said.slowly, "though I might under some circumstances." " Why not now P" " Oh, because because I don't want to leave papa." -"Is that the real reason P" T ased. her shyness and evident avoidance of my eyes giving me hopes that set my heart beating with quicker pulsations. " Let us go down," she said, quickly, as she arose. "No. not until vou answer me." and I caught again the litt'e hand. hho drew it from my grasp, and, with a saucy "Come," etavted down the trail and I haftened to follow. I made several attempts to renew the conversa tion on the way, but Nellie always turned it off from the subject nearest my heart: and yet when I left her at her father's door she shyly extended her hand, and I thought I detected a soft pressure as I took it In mine. A mo ment, and she had vanished, and I no ticed a rosy flush on her pretty cheeks and an unusual light in her tender eyes. i went back to my little cabin with a strange admixture of certainty and doubt in my feelings, and a quickening of pulse that made me oblivious to my rough surroundings. After supper I lit my pipe and sat upon my roughly-hewn door step. The ,d gone down, but -vet there was light enough forme to see her cabin and notice her father standing in the doorway chatting with Mineral Bob, the best prospector in camp and the third owner with btacy and myself in the Ajax. I turned my head and saw tho lights in the shaft house of the lis Giant mine on lied mountain gleaming away in the distance; I heard the clang ing blows of the blacksmith at his forge as he sharpened the tools for the morn ing's work, and the deep boom of the blast in tho Little Emily mine came floating through the still night air. Then my eyes'wandered back to the cabin Men held Nellie. Bob was still there. his tall figure and broad shoulders con trasting greatly with the little old man in the doorway. What was ho doinir there so long, 1 thought, and I puffed my pipe viciously as 1 saw Nellie a mo ment later join the two. The night set tled down and the cabins faded from view, their presence only revealed by the light shining through the little square windows or the sparks streaming out of the stone and mud chimneys. It was getting cool, too, and 1 knocked the ashes out of my pipe and reentered my little home and stirred up the smouldering embers on the hearth. An hour went by and the moon sent its beams across my little table, with its tin plates and cups; across my earthen and rocky floor, touching liglitly my books on a shelf at the head of mv bed and resting softly on the rolled-up coat that served me for-a pillow. I turned on my stool and glanced out of the window. The tops of the surrounding timber were silvered by the moonlight, and the cabins stood out against the dark background of the tall spruces. The sound of sinking came up from the saloon, and the wind sighed fitfully now and then. And so I fell into a sombre reverie, and Nellie was the center about which all my thoughts revolved. Pres ently there was a knocking at mv door. and at my . invitation Mineral Bob en tered. "Hello! PMlAdnlnliio. " li sntrl " T tinder thought you wasn't in." Why?" i asked, rather sorry of the interruption, though Bob was good company, and no one could look into his merry, blue eyes and pleasant face, covered all over with a luxuriant, rich brown beard, without feeling better and less out of spirits'. "Oh, I sort of calculated you'd bo somewhere around the . girl. How's your chances, partner? Good, eh?" "Come in, Ivand stop your non sense. Here, riT your pipe and sit down." m Bob laughed good-humored ly and. pulling up a stool, sat down near the lire and, as he tilled his pipe, said : " I've dropped in on a little business about tho hunshine. vou know." allud ing to a mine of his and one of the best in the camp. " You know I'm obliged to sink ain't got no chance to tunnel, and the surface water ia getting '.he best of me. Must have a purun. if I want to do anvthing this bailing water nut. hv the bucketful when she's coming in near as fast is of no account. You know thatr" I nodded assent. "Well, thea, Philadelphia," as he lighted his pipe and gave two or three vigorous puff's, " I want to see what kind of a dicker I can make with vou about running the mine. I ain't got the money iq get, an engine ana pump though I guess I could borrow iU and besides I've got to go East on business inside of a week, and I don't want to leave the Sunshine Idle I can't afford it." "Why don't you sell her to old Stacy P" I said. "He's got some readv cash." " But he's going out shortly and wants to sell his own mines." "Going out Stacy P" I demanded, wondering why Nellie had never alluded to it. " Yes, going to take that gal f his back to the States. This ain't no'fit place for a pretty little thing like she is, you know." Nellie going to leave caran! Bv Jove, that wouldn't do. No, if she If ft I would, too. I shouldn't lose her, now that I had all but won her, so I said : " I tell you, Bob, 1 don't know that I shall stay much longer myself. Per haps you would like to make me an offer for my interest in the Ajax and let me attend to your business in the East, if I can ; I would be very glad to." "No; much obliged, partner, but no one can do what I am going out for ex cept myself. Same time I might be able to handle my own property better if I had the Ajax too, seeing as how the two claims join each other on the same vein. I wonder if oM Stacv would sell out cheap enough P" Oh, I guess so." I said: "esoeciallv if he is at all anxious to get away. I'll speak to him for you." lie said tho other dav." continued Bob, as though he were carefully weigh ing the proposition, "that he'd sellto me on time if I could get a good man to go my security." " would lie take me, do you tliinkP" "Take youP A great sight sooner than any other man m camp." " Well, then, Bob. vou give me a mortgage on the mine, and if his figures are not too high I'll indorse your note ana turn you over my interest beside. The mine is solid yet, I guess, though I haven't been to it for a week.'-' "That's the gal's fault." grinned Bob ; but it she wasn't good I wouldn't want to.buy. I believe I'll go down and see the old man It won't take long," and Bob buttoned up his coat and started out. Half an hour later Bob returned with the necessary papers by which Stacy conveyed his third interest in the Ajax mine to him for eight thousand dollars, payable within thirty days. I indorsed Bob's note for the amount, he assuring me that if the mine continued to Dav. as It had in the past, he could easily take it up when aue. besides which. I rea soned to myself, that I would soon be Stacy's son-in-law, and, in case of Bob's failure to meet the note, the old man wouia not be hard on me. . 1 also trans ferred my third interest to Bob for a like amount, and secured mvself for both sums by a mortgage on the tu-od- erty, and so I went to bed that night and dreamed of the little wife I soon expected to have. I saw Nellie the next dav. and though she smiled sweetly and blushed most prettily I wasn't satisfied, as owing to her getting things in readiness for the trip nextmo'ning there was no oppor tunity for a quiet little conversation. I told Stacy I was going 6ut, and he laughed and said Nellie had spoken of it; and he " didn't know but what it was a good scheme for his gal, 'cause it could hardly bo expected that me and Bob would be good company;" and so the matter was settled and I collected my traps together, and those I din't care to take with me, 1 distributed among the bovs. Thevall knew what T was minor. out for. and good-natured wittfCisnS were ireeiv inaujgea in at mv expense lulged in at my expense. But 1 liked It, and rather enjoyed my triumphs over the colonel and the judge and the others who had tried to win the little treasure that I had carried off, but had miserably failed. I sat in mv cabin that evening the last I should ever spend in Mineral City and somehow I got terribly blue and out of spirits. It felt like parting with old friends. . Every tree and every rock seemed to have a hold on m v affections. and the rough logs of my little home had a warm place in my heart. I couldn't shake off my low spirits, and so I went down to see my little one and from her sweet face and pretty eyes draw the consolation I felt I needed.' I found her looking tired from her ar ranging and packing efforts, but she seemed most glad to see me, and we sat on the doorstep ana were soon chatting in a warm, confidential way. As I was about to go l took her little hand in my big palm and said : ".Are you really glad that I am going out with youP" "You know I am," she said, earn estly, her eyes dropping and her soft little fingers involuntarily pressing mine, and somehow before I fully real ized what I was" doing I had leaned for ward and pressed a hot, passionate kiss on her pretty lips, and with a little ex clamation expressive of surprise and not of anger she turned ana vanished. I was a happy fellow that night. Our trip was begun the next morning and in due course of time we all of us came to a halt in New York. What a delicious time.I had had of it, and how considerate Stacy and Bob werto me. They never intruded their presence, but let me have Nellio to myself, as though they tiad no connection whatever with us. I felt grateful to them and medi tated often upon what I could do to show my appreciation of their thought fulness and good feeling. Nellie was a little paradox, however an enigma I couldn't-, solve. I had proposed to her half a dozen times on our way East, but though she showed that hur heart was mine and permitted me to squeeze her hand, whisper soft nothings and kiss her good -night when she retired; she would give me no answer to my pleadings, but kept me off with a coquetry in itself most attractive. Aad so the days spun around and I seemed to be no nearer than when we left the old mining camp, and I got irritable and out of sorts, and one day Nellie sug gested that I had better run onand see my family and get sweetened uu a little. j and I savagely replied that I would, ancf I should not return until she sent for me, etc., etc. She smiled sweetly, and looked tenderly out of. her pretty eyes, and I took the train .for Philadelphia, in a terrible temper, and yet feeling sure that I would be back again within forty-eight hours, and I was. I asked the clerk to send up ray card, and he said it would be useless, as the lady, with her father and the other gentle man, had left the night before, for the South, he thought. They had left a letter forme, however, and I snatched the letter, and tore it open. There were several enclosures, reading as fol lows : Thursday. My Dear Charley : You must par don my terrible flirtation with you of the past few weeks, but it was tke last I should ever have and you are the dearest of fellows to finish upon. 1 dare say you will feel a little vexed, but you'll get over it, Charley, and when llob and myself get settled down to housekeeping which I trust will be a long time yet you must come and see us and be a good friend to your penitent Nellie. The next was : Dear Philadelphia : You've had a good time with my intended wife and I haven't interfered; vou indorsed my note for $8,000 and I won't cheat you out of it. I trusted you and you came to "time;" you trusted me and here I am smiling. I enclose with this my note that you indorsed and deeds con veying to you the whole of the Ajax. She's pinched, Philadelphia, and ain't worth a cuss. You sale now the busi ness that called mo East, eh P Ta, ta. - v Mineral Bob. I have never seen them since. I don't want to. I went back to the old camp the following year. The boys don't tease me now, but I thrashed two of them and got thrashed by three be fore this silence on the subject was ob served. Philadelphia Times. Cabinet Recreations. The members of the cabinet sometimes have very amusing interviews with la dies, as the following will illustrate : Young lady " Mr. Secretary. I have called to see if you can tell me when Captain is to be ordered away, and where he will go toP" Secretary "I really do not know. Do you wish him ordered away P" Young lady "No, indeed "(this with a very conscious look and a slight-increase in color) ; "only, if you were, I would like to know, you know; for you see," pulling out her handkerchief and putting her little gloved finger in bier mouth, a la Maggie Mitchell, "you Know Mr. , now don't youP" Secretary " How should IP" Young lady" I'hen I'll tell you " (this with a look of determination). " I'm 'going to marry him, and if you are going to order him off why we want to get married before. That is all." Secretary " I have not thought of ordering him away, and since he is go ing to engage in such pleasant business will not." , Young lady "Oh ! Mr. , ain't you good? I'm so glad. Now I'll have plenty of time to get ready." Another young la.ly sends in her card and is admitted, when the following colloquy takes place: Young lady "I have called to see if you will not give permission to Lieu tenant to come here from A ?" Secretary "Any of his near relatives sick P" scanning her closely. Young lady "No, sir. His friends want to see him so much, and you can ve him come if you want to." secretary uni i see how it is. If you will say you are his sweetheart, he shall come. Young lady "Yes, sir, lie is!" say ing this with both hands hiding her face. The secretary says that he gave per mission to that officer to come, tele graphing to him to that effect within the hour. All secretaries are not like the one we are speaking of, so young ladies must not presume upon the above incidents; for they might not be as suc cessful as our two fair friends were. Washington Letter. A Man Survives a Braining. John Harris, who had his head split open by a falling axe at the new Yellow Jacket shaft, some two years ago, is again on the Comstock. Although that axe fell about 160 feet upon his head, and he lost in consequence a strip of skull-bone four inches long and two and a half inches wide, he has taken that head to England with him and brought it back, and thinks a good deal of it and with it yet. His is one of those exceptional cases in surgery of which there are not half a dozen in the books, and which rankj with that where a tamping iron, blown by a prematurely discharged blast, passed through a man's head from chin to crown, and yet failed to kill him. The gash made by this axe in Harris' head was large enough to kill half a dozen men. When the bones were taken by the surgeons from the wound the large vein between the lobes of the brain sent a torrent of blood guihing forth. It was stanched with lint and the man rallied. The surgeon feared to remove the lint lest he should bleed to death, and it remained some two weeks till it became so far decayed as to force its removal. Contrary to expectation no blood followed, nor was there any sec ondary hemorrhage from the wound. Harris has pretty much recovered from the effects of the accident. He says he experiences no head trouble whatever, but he has a hitch in his walk, a sort of jerk, a let-go-and-go-on movement, which is the result of the hurt, lit is a wonderlully good man for one upon whom the experiment of dropping an axe 160 feet upon his head was success fully tried. Ool J Hill (A'tu.) News. Bleak, chilly March ami November ar tho two worst months ol tbu cur tor thoeenull'er ing with pulmonary dixeut-es. Keep Dr. Hull's Cough Syrup near by, and such sufferers will be able to brave the rough weather wjthoul danser. I Price U oanta. TIMELY TOriCS. If longevity, as a national character istic, be a fair test of the healthiness of a country or the tough vitality of its people, then Greece may claim to beat the civilized world on the score of its sanitary perfection. Of all countries in Europe it seems to possess the greatest number of what may be called very old people that is- to say, of people from ninety years of age and upward; out of a population of 1,467,894, it has of these veterans no fewer than 1,398. Emigration at the port of New York for 1871) was larger than for any pre vious year since 1872. Returns- of the commissioners of emigration show that for the year ending December 31, 1879. there were landed, at Castle Garden, a total of 175,589 emigrants, of whom 135,070 were aliens. In 1878 the total arrivals were 121,369, of whom 75,347 were aliens. The principal nationali ties of the emigrants who arrived last 22,624; England, 21,555; Sweden, 19,- itaiy, .ssvu; Scotland, o,o7; Nor way. 4,993; Switzerland, 4,683; Russia, 3,103 ; France, 2,331. A sportsman explains why he re ceives the many sea-serpent stories with a grain of allowance. He was hunting on the shores of a lake in the wilds' ol Michigan, when he saw what he be lieved to be a monster snake, fifty or sixty feet in length, and ten or twelve inches in diameter, with humps on its back two feet in length. At first its course was almost directly toward his place of concealment. When he was about to run for his life, the " serpent," then a few rods away, changed its course, and resolved itself at once into a colony of otter swimming in single file. His in ference is that sea animals may some times travel in the same manner, and give jailors the opportunity of drawing the long bow. The suit of Budd Doble vs. the South ern Ohio Fair association, of Dayton, Ohio, has just been tried before the United States district court for that dis trict. The suit was brought to recover $2,250 from the association on a con tract, in compliance with which that amount was to have been paid for an exhibition of speed by Goldsmith Maid on tho track of the association, Sep tember 30, 1875. The association claimed that it was not an exhibition of speed, the time being 2:294, 2:24, 2:4i4. The plaintiff made a plea for a judgment for a gtiantum meruis. that is, for so large a proportion of the con tract price as the performance was Worth, if not the whnle amminf. Tlio judge decided, as a point of law, that no sucii partition could be made in a special Contract, and that the claim must ntunH or fall in its entirety. A great deal of expert testimony was taken as to the merit of the performance, but the jury failed to agree. The annual reports of the English and Scotch co-operative stores are now being published. The profits divided among the members of the societies nnge from one shilling three pence to two shillings eight pence on the pound sterling of pur chases made during the year, and seem to average about two shillings, or ten per cent. Stating the amount in dol lars, a member of one of these co-operative stores, about which Mr. Ilolyoake gave so much interesting information during his late visit to this country, re ceives at the end of the year $1 in the way of profit for every $10 worth of goods he has bought. This is clear gain to him, for he gets his goods at the reg ular market prices, and is besides as sured that what he buys is of good quality and free from adulteration. The Manchester Co-operative Wholes-le so ciety, from which the co-operative stores buy their goods, is a federative institution composed of 584 societies comprising 305.161 members. It has a capital of $705,000 on which it pays five per cent, interest, and its profits are di vided among the branch societies in pro portion to their purchases, just as the societies divide their profits among the individual members. Leap-Tear Difficulties. He was a nice young man, with cane, high hat and pater t leather boots. He strolled leisurely down Fourth avenue, putting daintily upon a cigarette, and occasionally twirling the waxed ends of his moustache. He was accosted by a stout woman with a florid com plexion. "Top of the niornin' to ye, Mister Charley," said she. " Good morning, Mrs. McGuinness," said the nice young man. "Me darlint boy, would ye " and she bestowed a bewitching; smile upon him. Ue dodged out of her reach. The recollection that it was leap-vear rushed upon him. He answered : " Madame really I can't I am very sorry it I cause you pain but my affec tions have already been bestowed upon another and, madame I can't I can't marry you." She gazed at him in astonishment, and then said, indignantly : "Who axed ye to marry mel The idea of the likes of me, a poor lone widdy, with four children to support by washin', axin' ye to marry me. I was only goin' to ax ye for that dollar for washiu. He sighed and gave her a dollar, and walked sadly away. New York Sun. What it Costs to Kan a Locomotive. The New Jersey Central Railroad Company keeps a record of the cost of running locomotives. It shows that an average day's distance traveled by a locomotive is 100 miles. The work for a month is 2,600 miles; but some loco motives exceed this, as in the case of No. 121, which in December last made 6,080 miles. In doing this 133 tons of t.iri itiid uauu ctuu Liui i J T 1 11 pa.iuua of oil to kc p tho machinery in ort'er. The company says that $12.86 is the average cost lor 100 miles for men, fuel and repairs. In the case of No. 121 the cost for repairs for the month was Tracflce What Yon Treach. Advice is chenp, the market's lull, O'er ready aotue to teach, While o'er tho ej-es the wool they pull, Nor practice what they preach . The monstrous " beam " is never seen, The " mote " provokes their screech, The while setluotive vice they screen, Nor piactice what they preach. Sweet charity take by the hand, Fair justice's height to reach, Where -others slip, yon firmly stand. And practice what yon preach. r Precept is good, example's best, Be chary then of speech, So live that very life attest lvou practice what yon. preach. Qnincy Modtrn Argo. ITCXS OF INTEREST. 1 p One concern in Maine has an orde for 10,000 sets of croquet. Wilkie Collins, tke novelist, says he has earned $150,000 with his pen. Eighty-five percent, of the m embers of tiie Utah legislature are polyga mists. Half a million people visited the Philadelphia Permanent Exhibition last year. The Denver (Col.) HcraU say3 that the mines of Colorado last year yielded $25,335,483. , . New York city's asssessed valuation is $948.527,000,. an increase of $28, 293,000 during the last year. The tthrifty man will always put something away for a rainy day, even if it is nothing but a stolen umbrella. Picayune. , A young man recently had a nose grafted in a New York hospital . We have seen noses bud and blossom, but never heard of grafting them before. Over two-thirds of ' the baseballs manufactured come from a Boston firm, who are now making 10,000 dozen an nually. The leather for covering is tanned by their own workmen. Said one ol society's smart ornaments to a lady iriend : " This is leap-year, and I suppose you'll be asking somebody to marry you P" " Oh, no, was the reply, " my finances won't permit me to sup port a husband." Derrick. J. R. Holloway, of Marion county, Tenn., grew 1,500 bushels of peanuts last year, and considered it a very profitable c:op. Everything about the peanut can be utilized. The vines and ieaves make a most excellent fodder. To ascertain the length of a day and night multiply the hour at which the sun rises by two; the result will be the length of the night. Multiply the hour at which the sun sets by two, nnd the result will bo the length of the day. It is said in Arizona that a miner, doubting the capabilities of a certain assayer, got an old potato, dried it thoroughly, pounded it up fine and then submitted the powder for assay, nnd the result of the assay gave a yield of $40 to the ton. There are 150 varieties of gross in Ne braska, luxurjant in growth, excellent in quality, and, they are among the grandest resources of the State. They r.re the herdman's stock in trade, and fat steers, mutton, wool and dairy pro ducts are the net results. Wheelbarrows are in very little de mand in Brazil, "owing to tho almost universal practice of carrying burdens on the head." Not long ago tho Ameri can consul saw a sturdy negro carrying a wheelbarrow on his liead fJirdugh the streets of Rio do Janeiro. ' One hundred years ago, during the winter of 1780, the weather was so cold that some of the harbors along the coast were frozen over for nearly six weeks. . In Marblehead harbor several vessels were frozen in from the last of Decem ber to the middle of February. A Farmer Poet. A farmer poet has blossomed into song in England and publishes under the title ol " Wet Days " a scries of poems, which give effective and graphic pictures of nature in language at once simple and eloquent. In " The Camp on the Hill " he writes : There's something better than keep there; lor onco on that mostly sod You leave the world behind you and are luco to face with God. There's a pool by the cuiru on the top, where the wild ducks used to be, And a lark from the Koniau camp used to sing and soar over me; I thought him the hill's own spirit it would have been shame to kill; Perhaps you may here his song ere you reach the top of the hill, I kuow God's everywhere; iu tho city and in the Exchange, . As well as the hill and tho moor, wherover mortal can range; But ah! the pure sky yonder, no smoke 6b- souring the blue! Man's not the same iu the city, and God limy be different, too. This is from another poem, called "Birds' Songs:" Birds are tho only happy things; They sing through raiu or sun content. Our songs ara prayers, not thuukggiv'mgs, Fear, hope or envy's fltiul vuut, Impertinent regrets lor wing We could not use, for iichi'8 ppeut, For chances given and thrown awuy, Or something wanting night and day. The London Statulard says of these poems: There is in them something more than rhyme and rhythm ; they are instinct with humanity. They have in their way a charm which will tell more with the multitude of readers than riir orous conformity to the artistic canoas of any particular school.
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