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VOL. XIII. NO. 29.
TIOKESTA. PA., OCT. 6, 1880.
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The New Arrival.
MA.
A charming little tidily Mdy bit of mother's
bliss; "
A tiny toddlet, sweet as flow'rs ol spring;
A precious popsy wopsy gives its mammy,
den, a kis;
A pretty dulling itsy witeyjig !
Tk.
So that's the little lollow T I I'm ! A hoaltliy
looking chop.
Another mouth to loed, as suro as Into !
No, wilo, I don't osnfiiier that his coming's a
mishap, .
But still f oo aid have done with lo38 than
eight.
llltOTHER.
My eyo! Is that the baby? What a jolly
littlo pop !
But I Bay, ma, whatever is its nose ?
And I say latlur, by-and-byo, when he gets
more grown up,
He'll wear my worn-out Jockots, I suppoje.
UNCLE.
Anothor T Well, thank gooJnoss, 1 -ffm not a
married man.
What ! Don't I think him pretty? No, I
don't.
To keep him lrom the workhouse you mimt
do tho best you can;
Doa't think that I'll assist you lor I won'tl
DOCTOH.
How are we getting on to-day ? I trust we
boou shall mend.
We mustn't think we're strong Jujt yet, you
know,
. W'd butter tuke a tometbing which this alter
noon I'll send,
And let me see hum ! ha ! ah yes jus
so.
NUKHB.
He's lovely, that ho is, mum I See them
sturdy little-legs !
He's twice the size ct Mrs, Smithers's third;
' And when he comes a-outting of his little
toosey-pegs,
- Ho'll be a ma i, he will, upoa my word.
NEIGHBOR.
Oh
, yes, ilea-, be looks Healthy, but you
mustn't truBt to that
' I do not wish, of course-, your hopes to
- dash
But when I see a tender babe, so ruddy, strong
and fat,
' I Look, dear, on bis iaoe I la that a rash ?
0 Ma(daoapo).
A charming little tiddy iddy hit of mother's
bliss;
' A tiny toddles, sweet as flow'rs of spring ;
A precious popsy wopsy rive its mammy,
"X don, a kiss;
pretty darling itsy witty ting ! a
CHIPS, THE CARPENTER.
" Chips," whom I knew for months
by no other name, was shin's carpenter
of the whaler Gazelle, of New Bedford.
lie was twenty-six years old, six feel
high, and m strong as u tree. Ha was
tho favorite ol tho ship.indno wonder.
Ho was tender and gentle, perhaps be
cause he.wai strong; he was peaceful,
because he was powerful. And the soft
word which turneth away wrath, with
the gentlo hand to. sootho a sufferer, arc
often needed in the whale fisheries.
' Most of the foremast hands of the
Gazelle were rough Portuguese lads,
from tho Western islands, on their first
voyage. They were treated with coarse
contempt by the few American seamen
and by tho officers.
The only man who was kind and pa
tient with the rude boys was Chips;
and he was never tired of showing them
or teaching them something of what he
knew, 'lie was one of those unselfish
fellows who did not believe in keeping
knowledge to themselves, lie had
never been to sea before, but during the
first two years of this voyage he had
attended to so many things besides his
own easy work, that he was considered
as one of the best and coolest whalesmen
aboard.
Although exempt from standing
watch, he had insisted on doing the
duty from the first day out. At night,
if the weather was good, he would sit
on the main hatch in the center of a
ring of the Portuguese lads, and with
' wonderful patienc i teach them to make
snlices and knots and to speak English,
lie never tired of doing this or any
other kindly thing for them. Intheday
time ii there was work for him at his
trade he sti 1 had them around him, ex
plaining everything as he sawed or
planed, as if he wis hed to make them as
go 3d carpenters as He was himself.
Qn Sunday, when every one brought
his letters and pictures on deck, Chips
showed the only signs of sadness we
ever saw. He was the only one on
board except myself who had neither
pictures or letters, neither face nor
. word to remind liim of home.
When the ship touched at some port
with a postotiice and every one ran for
' letters. Chips remained aboard he
, knew there was none for him. In one
of tho boys' albums he found a picture
of an old w hite-haired woman the lad's
mother and every Sunday afternoon he
asked for that album, and always gave
it back when he had turned and looked
at that picture.
The ship had been two years out when
I first saw Chips. Through Btraage and
unhappy circumstances I was afloat on
the Indian ocean, in a small boat, when
this New Bedford whaler hove in sight,
and ran toward me. The first man to
spring out in the niizz?n chains, to help
me aboard, was etrong-handed Chips,
with tears of sympathy in his eyes. On
deck the captain met me with open hand
. and heart, aud for eight months I sailed
with the whalemen, and took part m the
cood and ill that befell them.
"Chips and I were friends from tho in
stant our hands struck. Shaking Lands
is one of the best tests of character.
Some people snake your hand so
politely that you feel they would care
mighty liftle about shaking your ac
quaintance; sqme men slip their hands
into yours and make you feel as it you
were squeezing a fish; some people's
hands are so thick, and fat, and cold,
that vou might as well grasp the fingers
of a leather dummy. Most people, and
nice peopleBhake hands as a preliminary
to conversation ; but now and then one's
Hand strikes into sympathetic palm,
tho fingers take lull hold, the thumbs
Interlock and close and when that
friendly gasp isover.there is not'a word
to be gain it spoke all friendly greeting
in its own gcod language. Just such a
kindly and grim grip did Chips give me
tho first time we met.
When I boarded the whaler I was in
a had way forclothes; allthat belonged
to me in the world were the few branded
rags that I had worn in the boat.
Sailors are used to such things ; and
they know the remedy. Every one
came forward with his little offering.
One brought a hat. another a iacket, an-
other a pair of sea boots, a jackknifc, a
cake of tobacco and so on, until 1 had a
bunk full of marine necessities.
Chips had least to give of all, for he
had shipped without a regular outfit.
But when he saw all that had been
given, erm in? at the rough boys as each
one handed his offering, lie drew me off
to his own cubby nolo, and hauled rouna
his own chest. Out on his bed came
tho contents; and in a minute there was
a fair division of all it contained flan
nels, shirts, stockings and everything to
a handkerchief.
These are yours and these are mine,"
said Chips ; " and I'll make you a chest
to-morrow."
That's the sort of a man he was in
everything. No wonder the boys loved
him, and that ttie one word spoken in
the best tones of the ship was the name
of the kind-hearted, manly Chips.
He was as brave as lie was kind.
When whales were chased Chips went
down ia a boat, and there was no cooler
head among them when the fragile shell
was to bo laid broadside to a monster
nearly as long as tho ship. Once when
the boat was stove in by a sweep of the
awful flukes in the death flurry, one of
the boys was crushed by the blow and
driven senseless under the water. When
Chips came to the surface, he counted
the heads and missed one, and down in
the bloody brino he went, among the
sharks, and fished up the sinking body.
He was a mighty swimmer, and with
only an qar to cling to, he held the
senseless man out of water until res
cued. .
But, to the story. The Gazelle had
been cruising for three months a few
hundred miles off the coast of Western
Australia the great penal colony of
England and during that time had not
fallen in with a single sperm whale. -"
One . raw afternoon, with a harsh
breeze and a rising sea, at last we heard
the long, sing-song cry from the mast
head: "He dIows! ther-re bl-o-ows!"
Four times at regular intervals of about
forty seconds the cry was repeated, and
then we knew it was a sperm whale.
lt'was about five o'clocx in the even
ing when the first cry was heard, and
the sun went down at 6 :30, with scarcely
five minutes of twilight. As a rule, on
board of American whalers, when
whales are seen late in the evening, the
boats are not sent down unless circum
stances, such as weather, moonlight.
and so on, are very favorable. In most
cases the course of the whales and the
speed of their travel are carefully noted
When "on a coursn" a school ot sperm
whales will move at the rate of about
six miles an hour; when "feeding"
they keep on the same "ground," not
moving more than a lew miles a day
When seen late in tho evening, the ship
is steered during the night according to
the observation, and often finds the
school in sight in the morning, when
the boats are sant down.
This course was not followed on the
evening in question. It was not a
school we saw, but a "lone whale," and
one of extraordinary size. The night
Dromised to be a rough one, and tho
whale's motions were strangely irreg
ular, as if he had lost himself in au un
known sea.
There i3 something solemn and myste
rious in the sight of "lone whales," and
marvelous superstitions are current
among whalemen respecting them.
Though spending year after year on the
ereat waters, whalers become more mi
nrcssionable to supernatural things than
other seamen, and long observations of
the shoals or Bchools of the vast crea
turcs they pursue tends to fill them with
amazement and awe when they meet
with a solitary leviathan who has aban
doned all fellowship with his kind, who
lives by his own law lonely, mighty
and terrible.
Soon atter the cry from aloft, we saw
the whale from the deck, only a short
distance from tho ship, and we might
have seen him long before had not his
white, bushlike spout been lost in the
angry whiteness that was fast spreading
over the sea.
For a moment all byes were fastened
on the long body, like a great black
tube, over which the waves washed
Every face was wonder-stricken at the
immense size ol the whale.
Captain Clifford had been examining
him through a glass, which he handed
in turn to each of his officers.
" What do you say, Mr. HusseyP" he
inquired of the first mate, who glanced
at the sun ana answered:
Go down, sir ; wecandoitP"
" Mr. Joseph ?" and the captain turned
to tho second mate, an old Portuguese
of. extraordinary size, and perhaps the
most famous whaleman alive.
" Go down, Bir, if we want to get the
fellow; we 11 never see him again."
The two other officers were youuger
men, and of the same mind. There was
no time lost m further consultation.
"Swing the boats!" shouted the old
man.
The lines and irons had already been
thrown in by the crews. A "heave
oh!" and a Biraiuing Bound, and in one
minute tho tour btau struck tho water
and the men were settled on the thwarts
with the lontf curs out.
The sun was low and large and red,
and the whole western sea and sky were
magnificent in crimson and gold and
black. The picture was one of the finest
ever saw. The rising sea was jet
black, except where it was bloody; a
broad road of crimson shimmered from
the ship to the sun ; the long body of the
whale, even blacker than the sea, w i
plainly seen in the ruddy glare; and life
was added to the immense scene by the
four white specks the whaleboats
closing to a point as they drew near the
motionless monster.
It was not until the boats had left the
ship that we realized how threatening
was the weather. Every moment the
seas came wilder and heavier against the
vessel. Only now and again, as they
were lifted on a sea, could we catch sight
of the brave little boats. The breeze grew
stronger at every moment, and, before
the first boat neared tho whale, was
whistling through the rigging in the
wild way that tells of a coming gale.
The captain regretted the lowering of
the boats, and soon signaled them to re
turn. But the men were excited, and
refused to see the signal, filled to the
gunwale, the seas iashing over them
every moment, on they went where only
i 1 F i r . i - i. i .. l .
a LUiug bo Deariy perieck as a wuaieuuuii
could keep afloat. As the first boat
swung round to run down to leeward of
tho whale, the red sun stood fairly on
the black field of ocean
Talk about tho bravery of soldiers in
battle, or of men ashore in any enter
prise you please ; what is it to the brav
ery of such a deed as this? A thousand
miles from land, six men in a little
twenty-eight foot sheli coolly going
down in a stormy sea to do battle with
the mightiest created animal! It is the
extreme of human coolness and courage,
because it is the extreme of danger.
The soldier faces one peril the bullet.
The whaleman, in such a dase as this,
has three mighty enemies to fight the
sea, the gale and the whale.
We saw the harpooner of each boat
stand up as they came within heaving
distance and send in his two irons. Ail
the boats were last before the monster
seemed to feel the first blow. Then came
the tight, the cruel and unnatural tigut
between vast power and keen skill.
The black water was churned white a3
tho flukes struck out in rage and agony.
The sun disappeared and the gale
screamed wilder in the rigging. We
could no longer see the boats from the
ship. The few men on board clewed up
the light sail and took a reef in the top
sails, and by this time the night was
dark as pitch, and the gale had whipped
and howled itself into a hurricane.
It was tearful to think of the four
small boats out in such a sea as was
then running. We on the ship had to
cling to tho rail of the rigging; the ter-
nhc strength ot the waves swept the
heavy vessel about like a cork. I saw
the captain's face a moment as he passed
the binnacle lamps, and ft was abso
lutely deformed with grief and terror
not for himself, brave old sailor, but for
his boys in the boats.
Who a at the wheel?" he shouted.
' Send a steady man to the wheel.
Ay, ay, sin" answered in the dark
deep, quiet voice; "Ive got the
wheel."
That was Chips, and I walked aft .to
be near him. Just then a long hail
came through the darkness, and we saw
tho flaih of a boat's lantern on the lee
quarter. In a minute more a line was
llung aboard, and we soon had one
crew safe on deck. It was the mate's
boat.
" Where are the others?" was the first
question.
Fast to the whale," was the answer.
'and there are no lanterns on the boat."
One ot the men from! the boat relieved
Chips at the wheel, and ho went for
ward to rig lanterns at the fore and
main tops. When this was done we
stood together on the forecastle, looking
and listening lor the boats, .suddenly
he turned to me and said :
" We re going to lose somo one to
night. While I was at the wheel it
seemed to me as it something whispered
in my ear that we're going to lose one
man to-night."
1 sai 1 that he was growing as suDer-
stitious as old Ivanaka Joe, and he an
swered:
I can't help it. It did seem that
heard that whisper, and so plain was it
that i nearly dropped tin wheel in ter
ror."
Another shout from tho sea cut off
further talk, and we soon had two more
boats at the davits. Ihe absent one was
Mr. Joseph's, and we knew that through
thick and thin he would hold on to the
whale. It wa3 hours before we found
him, and when we did he refused to cut
his line from the carcass. The captain
cried to him that we could not hoid the
whale in such a sea, but the whaleman
cried back :
He's a hundred-an' fiftv barreler.
and if you don't take the line aboard.
we ii stick to mm in the boat! '
boon alter, as the gale was moderat
ing, the line was taken in, passing
through a strong iron brace screwed on
to the starboard rail just forward of the
gangway amidships, from which it wa3
taken back aud made fast to the wind
lass bits at the toot of the mainmast-
It was a new line ot stout manila
hemp, and its strength was put to a
tearful test. A hundred fathoms astern
of the ship it held the monster's carcass
and as tho vessel rolled heavily to the
sea the strain on the line was terrific
Standing toward of it I laid my hand
on the line as the strain came, and I
felt it stretch and contract like a rope of
inuia ruDDer.
Mr. Joseph's boat had come alongside
and the captain, standing on the star
board rail, was shouting to him througl
a trumpet. Tho line from the whale
passini from astern to the brace forward
and back to the bits amidships, made an
acute angle, inside of which the cap
tain was standing. I saw and noticed
also, in tho dark, a tall man. wh
seemed to be leaning against the line
" 1 hope he is forward of it," I said to
myseif as I we-t on with what I was
about.
1 had no. taken six steps from th
, spot wbtn something strange occurred
The ship steadied as if the wind had
ceased. There was no sound greater
than the storm; but, instead, there
seemed to fall suddenly a stillness. I
ran amidships and grasped for the line
in the dark. It was gone I A rush to the
rail, and all was clear. The strain had
torn out the brace. The mighty pull of
the whale astern had jerked tho line
straight, like the cord of a gigantic bow,
and the captain, who had been standing
on the rail, was struck by the flying
rope and thrown senseless far into the
sea.
All this had been seen by the men in
the boat before any one on board had
realized the affair. In less than a minute
the cry of "Saved!" reached us from Mr.
Joseph, and, in a shorter time than can
be imagined by a landsman, the boat
was hanging from the davits, and the
injured commander wa being cared for
in his" cabin.
Hum and hard rubbing are the potent
remedies on a whaler, and by dint of
these the captain opened his eyes in a
quarter of an hour, lie had been
stunned, but not seriously injured.
He was amazed at first at seeing the
mate and myself standing over him with
the rum bottle. But without a word
he realized the situation.
" How is the weather P" he asked.
"The wind has gone down," said Mr.
Joseph. " We're under fore3ail jib and
reefed topsails, and running right away
lrom the whale." .
" GoneP" said the old man.
"Gone!" answered Mr. Joseph, rue
fully. "Stanchion dragged, and the
line parted, and $8000 went without an
owner."
Tell ChiDS to see to that broken rail,"
said the captain, closing his eyes drows
ily. "Ay, ay, siri" said tue oiu second
mate, us he stamped on deck.
I heard him stop at the alter-natch.
where the boat-steerer3 and the carpen
ter lived, and call "Chips!" two or
three times. At last there was an an
swer in another voice not Chips; then
round of hurried feet on deck, a shout
down the forecastle, and a shout back
in answer. There was no Chips there.
Two minutes after a heavy loot came
aft to the cabin stairs, and Mr. Joseph,
with a white face entered.
1 knew what he had to tell. I knew
now just as if I had seen it all who
the tall man was whom I had seen lean
ing against the line.
The captain looked a; ine Becona
mate.
"Chios 13 cone, sir." said the old
sailor, with a tremor in his rough voice ;
' Chips was knocked over by the line,
and we've gone four knots since it
parted. I've put her about, and we re
running down again.
There was a dead silence, we an
knew the search was hopeless. No man
could swim in such a sea, and we had a
thought, though no one spoke it, that
brave (Jhips had been kiuea by ine line
before he touched the water.
All night we beat about the place
where we thought it had occurred, i he
wind and sea fell, and the moon came
out in great beauty to help our sad
search. Every man on board stayed
on deck till the sun rose, and then we
looked far and vainly over the heed
less swell of the sea.
Chips was dead. Tue rough Portu
guese lads found it hard to believe that
the kind heart and strong hand of their
friend had gone forever. We all knew
that the best man in the ship was taken
away.
Two years afterward, when l lound
mvsell in Boston. I took from my sat'red
things a letter which I had found in
Chips' chest. It was addressed to a
woman, with the name and number ot a
Cambridge 6treet. I found the place a
small trame house, with lots ot i;hips
handiwork around it. His mother met
me at the door, a white-haired woman
She seemed to have been waiting and
watching for somebody. A few words
told the hopeless story. The letter was
for her. and he read it over thj letter
of her only boy, asking forgiveness for
his one great and only disobedience
and as she read, the white head bent
lower and lower, till it met the thin
hands: and I turned and left the little
room 1 had darkened, witn an its poor
ornaments, useless now, and, as I walked
toward Boston. I could not help think
iag that God's ways ore often wofully
far from being our ways.
Jonx Boyle O Ukilly.
Sympathy as a Softener of Law,
Tlrev allow very wide scope to sym
t'
athy, as a softner of law, in France
he case ol the uountess ae liny, re
cently tried in a Parisian court, was em
bellished by an outpouring of popular
foeiing such as would scarce have been
possible in other places. The countess
was tried for having disfigured the face
of a young laundress who had become
the lavonte ol the count, her nusoano
The girl was handsome, and vain
enough of her conquest to tantalize the
countess by boasting that madam
would not live long, and that upon her
death she herself would succeed to the
title. Madame lost patience one day
and discharged a bottle of vitriol full in
her tormentor's face, destroying one eye
and reducing the pretty features to
mass of wrinkled scars. W hen the case
came to trial the public took part. The
jurors were publicly and passionately
admonished, and entreated to acquit
her. The newspapers were unanimous
in her behalf. Her counsel Bhed tears
while making his argument, which was
based on wholly sympathetic grounds
The DUbhc prosecutor made merely
perfunctory request for conviction, and
immediately added a plea lor leniency
The iudga instructed the jury in her
favor, amid the uninterrupted cheers of
the spectators; and tho )urv at once re
turned their verdict ot acquittal, 'amid.
as the account says ' a .perfect storm o
u pp lauH.e." Chimyo Time .
Women, it is said, are more thorough
in what they undertake than men are.
Even in the matter ot conversation we
have the evidence of her striving to the
very uttertuofct Yonkert Stataman.
A TERRIBLE FATE.
now a Blind Man and a Cripple Earned
Their Iilvlnv and Met their Death,
At the mine known as " Filer's Slope,"
near Scran ton. Pa., a painful accident
resulted in the instant death of a miner
named Felix Slavin. and his assistant.
John Dougherty, in the chamber where
they were at work. 1 hey were c ngaged
n taking down a "brio," or loose piece
of coal, when a huge boulder, known in
mining parlance as " a black sulphur
clod," weighing about three tons, de
scended upon them lrom the roof, killing
both instantly, and crushing them to
gether into a shapeless mass. A miner
named Finnerty, working in an adjoining
chamber, had been in a few minutes be
fore the accident and warned Slavin and
Dougherty of their danger, but they re
plied that the loose end was onlyl" a little
hell." and would not hurt anybody.
When Finnerty heard the crash he knew
whnt happened, and ran to where the
accident occurred. To his horror he
saw the miner and his assistant crushed
by the "clod," their feet sticking out
from under it and still moving. He
called to his comrades, and a gang of
men speedily congregated at the cham
ber and engaged in the work of remov
ing the houlder from the bodies. They
found this a task occupying several
hours. When it was finally accom
plished, and Slavin and Dougherty were
exposed to view, they presented a hor
rible picture. Their heads were crushed
together, and they were disfigured be
yond recognition. Strong miners, ac
customed to fearful accidents under
ground, were compelled to turn aside
and shudder as they contemplated the
ghastly sight.
A peculiar feature brought to
light by this grim occurrence, and one
that seems almost incredible, is the fact
that blavin, the miner, had been totally
blind from boyhood. Scarcely any other
calling requires the exercise of such
keen Bight, yet this unhappy man groped
his way for years amid danger, and.
trusting to the skill of his hands and the
eyes of his assistant, plied his perilous
vocation uncomplainingly. . His early
days were spent in the mines of Eng
land, where he learned the business and
lost his eyes. He was quite expert in the
use of the drill, and when his assistant
once placed it accurately on the spot
where the hole was to be drilled lor the
olost, Slavin, without deviating a hair's
breadth, made the hole at the proper
angle, and then superintended how it
should be fired. He hod been a miner
thirty years without the use of his eyes,
and managed to get along in a way that
was altogether wondenui to contem
plate, lie left a wife and three children
wholly unprovided for. His companion
Dougherty,-who shared hii late, was
also his companion in misery, having
been a cripple from childhood. He was
physically weak- and decrepit, and in
reality was nothing more than the eyes
tor blavms skill and brawny arms
Some days before the accident George
Filer, one of the owners of tho mine.
conscious ot the danger these two men
were daring, gave them notico that he
could not employ them any longer; but
they pleaded pitcously to be retained,
saying it was the only way they could
t hink ot making a living, and so Mr.
Filer permitted them to remain. The
black sulphur clod by which these two
men were killed is a good deal like lead
in appearance and weight.
A Humorist's Ancestors.
How much happier were our ances
tors than ourselves. Why. 1 was tell
ing my son this morning about his
ancestors, and I just envied them
When they awoke at sunrise, they just
kicked off the bearskin, dipped them
selves into the creek, if there was a
creek handy, and didn't if there wasn't,
hung a wolfskin over their shoulders,
and they were dressed lor the dav
This was long ago, because we upme of
1 1 x ;i r I i
a very oiu iamiiy. our iamuy recoras
show that our direct ancestors had the
handsomest cave in their range of moun
tains, and a stranger couldn't get up in
the night for a drink of water without
falling over a skull. And they never
had to do a stroke of work. All day
long the gentlemen hunted, not so much
for sport as for meat. And the ladies
stayed at home and talked gossip and
chewed wolf-skins to mako them solt
and pliable for children's winter i loth
ing. A man didn't go roaring ard
swearing around his room in the morn
ing, in thsse good old times, with his
eyes full of soap, groping lor the towel
There was no such thing as soap, and
they had no uso for towels. And they
never worried about salaiios and the
price of commodities. When they want
ed anything they stole it. and when they
couldn't steal it, in a sublime spirit of
contentment, they went without it,
And politics never worried them either,
The man with the biggest c'.u'j and
longest arm was president by a unani
mous vote every time, and the man who
objected to the election was promptly
sold to the O.iio medical students in the
interest of science, Those were the days
when a man could run tor president on
his shape. They were god men, these
ancestors of mine, in tneir day. I am
not ashamed of them, because I have
no reason for thinking they were
ashamed of me, and it they can stand it
lean. They were more reliable than I
am. They prayed oftener and made
more noise ubout it, and they had more
gods than they had words in their lan
guage. They fought a little, stole some,
and lied a great deal, and swore every
time they thought of it, but they never
played croquet, and were proof against
the vanity of roller skates. There were
some good things about them after all.
The best thing I know about them is
their distance, their remoto antiquity.
I revere the rare good sense which
prompted them to live and get through
with It and die, about threo or lour
thousand years before their more fastid
ious descendants wanted the Btago for
their brief hour. It. 1). liurdttle.
New York city lias school accommo
dations for U4.353 pupils, the averagn
attendance is Iu8,558, and the teachtV
Vitri agregato $2,353,050.15.
FIRM, GARDEN AUD HOUSEHOLD.
Stable Ventilation.
Too much attention cannot be paid to
the matter so all important to the health
of domestic animals, and to those per
sons who have the care of them. The
necessity of making animals comfort
able in their yards, stables, stalls or pens
of giving them an abundance of pure
air. keeping them clean, dry and warm,
of giving them the light and the warm
sunshine, of locating tue barns property,
so that a southerly and pleasant ex
posure may be had, so that the cold
north winds mav be warded off and the
sloping and dry yard may be enjoyed
by them the importance of all these
matters is not sufficiently considered
nor properly appreciated by the farmers.
lhe close packing togetner in low,
damp, dark places of horse3, cattle una .
swine is in effect just as pestilential
among these animals as similar con
ditions are among human beings. From
the excessive development of the
breathing apparatus in the cow and
horse, the activity ot the cutaneous
function, the accumulation of animal
substances and the evolutions of gases
from excreta, it should be seen that at
mospheric contaminations are con
stantly going on in all stables, and that
pure and abundant air lood is conse
quently withdrawn from the Btabled
animals, unless unusual care be taken
and great discretion practiced in the
construction ot t ieir abodes. In the
best regulated stables, cleanliness and
an abundance oi pure air, nguc ana
warmth alone can insure the health,
comfort and useful life of our farm
stock. American Cultivator.
Ilablta of the Uraases.
The majority of the grasses mostly
highly valued for pasture are gregariou
in habit, and seem to tnrive Detter
when several species are mixed together
than when each is growing separately.
Many interesting experiments have been
made in this direction, and all show that
for a good permanent pasture a mixture
i i several species oi a similar uauiu ia
better than any one alone, x here are.
it is true, exceptions to this rule, princi
pally found in localities where some par
ticular species is especially adapted to a
certain formation or kind of soil. For
instance, the Kentuckv blue grass will
on some soils take entire possession and
crowd out other kinds, while in others
it will scarcely holds its own against
imothy. red top, and similar well-
known species. Some of the species are
especially valuable for hay, others for
pasture, owing to their aiuerenc nanus
of growth. For hay the farmer wants
a grass that grows moderately tun
and comes to a maturity early, and If
several are sown together they should all
mature at the same time, liut in
pasture different species should be
sown, coining on at successive periods
of flowering, in order that some one or
other of the number my be in perfection
at almost any time during the summer
and autumn. It is by having some such
combination of a considerable number
of species that tiie farmer should seek
to secure a rich pasture lor his stock the
season through. The roots of grasses
are almost as variable in form of growtli
as the stem and leaves, .borne have long
fibrous roots that penetrate the soil to a
great depth, and these are adapted to
lieht. poor soils; while others, like tim
othy, are almost bulbous in form, with
a lew xong fibrous roots extending from
the base, the latter requiring a rich and
rather heavy soil. The fibrous-rooted
and low-growing species usually pro
duce a close, compact sward, while the
others form at most small tufts or
bunches. Many of our valuable indi
genous species grow in bunches; hence
the very common name,-" bunch grass "
applied indiscriminately to at least a
score of different species ol prairie and
mountain grassts. In appearance grasses
are very deceptrVe ; the most luxuriant
may be very poor in nutritive proper
ties, while the small, rusty looking may
be exceedingly rich. The same is true
in regard to fragrance; the sweet vernal
gross id Very much prized to give hay a
sweet flavor, is really a very inferior
species, and by itself would make very
poor fodder. The above are only a
small part of the various characteristics
and habits of grasses that might bo
named, but they are important and
should be known and. investigated by
every farmer who is desirous of procur
ing the species best adapted to his par
ticular soil and climate. New Yorh
Sun.
Household Hints.
An exchange gives the following di
rections for cleaning jewelry : Mix eau
do Cologne and whiting to tho consis
tency ot cream ; apply it to the article,
brush it well in, and leave it to harden.
Finally brush it off, and the result will
be most satisfactory.
In canning fruit, cither put glass jars
into a pan ot cold water, and bring the
water to scalding heat with the jars in
it, emptying each as it is wanted, or
wrap a dish towel out of cold water
around the jars while tilling, and you
need not fear breaking them by putting
boiled fruit in them.
If you want good starch, mix it with
cold water; add boiling water until it
thickens, then add a dessert-spoonful of
sugar and a small piece of butter. This
makes a stiff and glossy finish equal to
that ot the laundry.
For a damp closet or cupboard, which
is liable to cause mildew, place in it a
saucer full of quicklime, and it will not
onlv absorb all arparent dampness, but
sweeten and disinfect the rlace. Kenew
the lime once a fortnight or as often as
it becomes slaked.
Itomove ink stains from carpets with ,
milk, and afterward wash with fine
soap, a clean brush, ana warm water.
For greosaspots use powdered magnesia,
fuller's earth, or buckwheat. Sprinkle
ou the spot and let lie until the grease is
absorbed; renew the earth, magnesia,
or buckwheat until all the grease is re
moved. Time and patience will in this
way remove the worst of grease spots.
Detroit free I'ress.
T wpntv- five manufacturing establish
i menu ur In full blast ft Erie, Pa.