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FLAG. y, dazed And indolent, .-.id missed tbo train in s life; as if the world li ft him hopelessly be .'tn turkey for him this ?y years past, I reckon ! soldier (wholimp . for ho had a lot of ' rfory, the other If it is untrue, mo, I only givo "Job" Stuart r:.l flank. His itfhfd on the ) a little way two or three e hillside.' The re and nodded . lite hay. All ' under the trees in black men, white i who were gray ' -ys who had seen -rJly yet as many tlcy lot; ragged, ; hey lay befere the I corn, gnawing it 'making it, roasting lies on the coals, ;;r fire of old Yir- w and then a shot r, still night, away mt. too closely for . then better disposed linos, or more favored t together and reached i heir bayonets tobacco, I newspapers, in a sort of piisoncrs of war. The moon ud white in the great blue . uud nil the stars of heaven a in pity and in peace, ong burst out. The bluck men nsr, louder, sweeter, with more 1 memories of homo than the a. It was a sad, grotesque, i uniquo picture. Suddenly 1 in tho midst of the ragged ions lot. line I Look here, Sergeant jit discipline or death. Dis pny. Do you want me to '.'8 and win victories with a mob like this and tho eneny waiting to recoil on us the we give him a chance! Dis . say. Hang your blacks, and ,r whites; or have discipline 1" ia a second 1 And the lone:. , and the sleeping lads pulled h together and tried to look ..ke soldiers, while tho blacks, :vstion of their being hung up, l from the fitful embers into , as if Uiey were a part of it. ! wearibenrded chief threw ,i a heap of saddles at hand t his sternness, as he looked : the wretched group of poor i 'icred for a Uttlo rest under '.'n hungry; hungry as have you got to eat?" ! !'a sprung up, a half dozeu ;il less troopers rushed for- : iiuia out of the night, back trees, there came many black r.d each and every one, bluck : men, old men and little boys, '. ...i aud thrust into the chieftain's ..ah generous alacrity, an ear of corn. Borne of these cars of corn ,y a few teeth-marks in them, be- uost entirely intact. Others again lietty well gnawed down to tho Dut thev were all alike offered rompt generosity. orn!" and the Confederate chief i his head with a grim and sickly , as he muttered to himself: "torn corn, roasted corn, raw corn, white red corn, nil kinds of corn. No, hoys, I'm hungry, but. I can't eat any more to-night. J he men 1 back, in respectful silencs into a circle. And there, suddenly ow, in tho centre of the circle a child, a- little boy, who had ,.1-jused from his sleep on the pile it .L . . . i ' lies in i ne commotio:: mui ui ; the chieftain's coming. And aido awake, with a little toy nag Land and a red apple in the other, .'.tie boy stood there in tho niiust o : v, lid aud l'AtTKea men, with cheek ,hv as the apple he held in his .led little hand. f yer hungry, mister, captuin, gen here's my yed apple," nuil wit the little boy toddled right up and i almost between the booted legs of urprised soldier. ergeaut Zeb, where in all Jericho ibis child come from? Is it yours? 't have child reu around nie here. I V babies home; didn't you do the '"Tnln't mv poor little chlckie, Gen eral Stuart." "Then take It to it's mother," thun dered the chief. "It's mother is doad, general." "To its father, then." "It's father is dead, too, general." "Dead?" "Dead. Killed in the battle yester day when you led over that stone fence by tho farm house on the hill.sah. The Confederate general bit his lips. Thon.muttering to himself as he rose up and turned half awav: "Killed at the farm house where f led. Some poor farmer defending his home and little ones. I can't stand this!" "Please, sir, Mister General, won't you take my yed apple? Papa growed it in his orchard. And he buyed mo that, too." Here tho child reached its little flag, trvinir hard to make friends with the seemingly hard man, who was turning awav as if to avoid it. "Sergeant Zcb.wherc did lhat flag come from?" " Had it in his hand when I found it, sah: it won't civc it up. Bah; says its father cave it to it for the Fourth of Julv. sah." " Foil of July," piped the little waif, wavinir tho little stars ana stripes over bead, there in the midst of the dark and catherintr circle of soldier under the oaks. Tho general turned, stooped and caught the child in his arms. ' Keen Your nretty little flag, and wave it when and where you like. Here, Zcb, take care of this kid. Boys, we killed its father by chance, yesterday. Let us take care of it. We can't do less ; and, maybe, it will bring us luck. What do you siiv, boys?" The wild shout that shook the leaves of the oaks overhead startled the advo cate for discipline, and. urning to Zcb, as he strode away into the night for an other part of his camp, ho shouted: "Silence! and Zeb, discipline, discip line! Dash it, discipline or death, I ay I" and he was gone. They gathered about the wild-eyed, rosy-faced orphan with its little flag and red apple, and many a black and white and not over clean haud reached out to tov with and stroke the hair of gold that bung heavy as corn silk in summer time over the lad's shoulders. " I found it in the fence corner," said Zeb, all a shiverin', and its daddy and its mammy dead, shot down by stray bullets when we stormed the place." "Yes, and dar war a rabbit right aside ub him," said a black face back in the dark, over another man's shoulder. "An eollv. we kotched and eat der rabbit." chuckled another black man. . . ... . . . , , . i :m "Hal, wen Keep me juu; ec im till tho cows come home." And with a grunt of universal approval from all ns tbey gradually melted away, old wo hoisted the little one mgn up on nis co lossal shoulders, and turned suddenly to ook and to listen, for there wasa shout down the hill and a suddon sharp vol ley of shots ubove, beyond the hay stacks. It began to look as if this little ouud of raiders had cot into a bite. Shouts of tho enemy down the hill; shots ol tho enemy up the hill beyond the hay stacks. Which way should the surprised and panic-stricken soldiers fly? The co lossol old Virginia sergeant, with the child on his massive shoulders, was the only otlicer in charge. 1 he blacks were hiding about behiud trees, behind each other, under saddles, uianiteis, anywnere The Bhouts of the advancing enemy came loud and clear from below and very near. The camp-fire, the song of the soldiers, had done tho mischief. This little squad of raareed, panic-stricken night raiders wns cioomeu. luoieavcn iresou m ike autumn time over old Zeb, tne tall and angular old sergeant. What a plight for a soldier I a Dauie on hand and a babe in his arms. The old sergeant came near throwing it away with tho neap oi negroes, aiuiug away under tho saddles. Where was Stuart? The sergeant put his hand to hi ear and leaned to listen as best he could between tho sharp volleys from below that were . . t (L. n.vfr .o.'a ruininr ine prospect ui iu uw acorn cron in tho trees overhead. He could hear the clatter of iron hoofs on the hicrh ridjro to the west. The moon was setting large ana rouna ana low. Over the bare cre6t of this hill and against tho moon he could seo the Con federate cavalry pouring in iiuiwiuuua fliyht. Stuart, the cautious and wary leader, had escaped. "Come men i Wo must iouow our gen eral on foot any way to get out ot this. Come! Up by the haystacks and over the ridge." The strong man started up tne stony hill to pass the hay stacks. The child, as if it was afraid it might fall, wound its left arm affectionately about the great irrav shock of hair. And that little act saved it: that accidental show of affec tion won tho old fellow's heart entirely. Why, ho would not now have pitched it aside with the terrified negroes for gold. Up tho hill he led swiftly, the men following in groups, knots, sin gly, armed, unarmed, limping, leauinir. erect in all manners oi ways, onlv so as to escape the Federals, charg ing up the hill from below. They could see tho points of shiciug bayonets enter incr their camp, by the liirht of the burn ian fence rails, as they fled out of it, and tho black color had nearly all faded from the flyiug Confederates as they ueared the haystacks. Hero the gray-headed old sergeaut, with the child on his shoulder, paused lor a moment right under the haystacks to tret his bearings. The moon had fulleu down behind the crest of the hill. It was nearly dark now. Ihe federal bayonets were only a few steps in the rear. The ragged Confederates huddUd close aud helpless up aud after the tall aud grizzled old giant, who stood thtre looking out which way to lead thein. wth the child on his shoulder, its little ldft arm hugging the great shaggy head, s nj;ht oue holding the Aug. The tall, eray soldier threw tip ht great, heavy hand to his brow and looked out under his broad palm to try and see which way to lead, buadeniy the Hay stacks bluzed out beforo him, and the whole scene was bright ns day. Tb Federals had been waiting for the Con federates to come. And now s th'jy stood there, huddled together and help less as sheep, they found tho haysU.cks in their path or ictrcax, ana sioou mere behind them, before them.irouDil them. to shoot them down in thcTighttlie; had kindled. It was a matchless and inngitificent sight! No soene so bright, no siwilight brighter! It pleased the child, etxeited nnd delighted it. What could ijt care for the long line of gleaming guns Unvelad a few rods away in the rear? Wlu.t did it know of the death hiding djown in every gleaming gun-barrel ol thi (t com pact moss of uniformed men just Ibefore? Nothing at all. Its little heart le apt with wonder delight at the beautiful u ni forms, the discipline, the quick action :n which every gun was brought instantly to the shoulder. Tho bayonets were beautiful the gleaming bayonets all in t'ae bright light. The child seemed to think this a part of the celebration, and in the fulness of its delight, just as the Federal officer drew his sword and was giving the word "Fire 1" the child, holding tight on to tho great grizzly head with its left hand, and, as if to contributo its part, to the oelebration. waved its little flag- there in the glare and light. And in tn at awful stillness which comes always be fore any dreadful catastrophe, piped out in its shrill, little voice, as it raised itself high er for the occasion : "Foff of Julv." Put it upon record in gokl nnd red that the Federal officer lowejet I the point of his sword. The heavy breeches of the cruns struck the stony ground with a thud. The line of blue divided, and the old gray Confederate, with his little charge on his shoulder still waving the little flag, Dnssed on throuirh the line, while cheer after cheer shook the bullet-riddled leaves of the oaks overhead. And this is the story of tho old1. Con federate soldier of the Shenandoah, who had missed the train on the line -of Pro grcss, down in old Virginia. -Joaquin Miller. COVERINGS FOR THE HEAD. AV XHTZSKSTIHO DESCKXFTIO Of HOW HATS ABB MA OB. A Farmer's Private Railroad Station "We made, a singular discovery the other dav," remarked an oc.icial of. road running; into Chicago. About three miles beyond a certain, station on our line there is a farm house by the side of the track. Just beyond the farm house is a little creek , over which thero is a smtill bridge. About four venrs ago some repairs were made to that Uttlo bridge, ajid, of course, tho bridge gang had put up a signboard "uun Blow' on citner side auring me aay or so the bridge was weakened. When they had finished tiieir work, th y went oil and forgot the signs. The fact is, the boards had disappeared, and they didu' take the troulle to hunt tliem up. "Some weets afterward, no one know just when, those signs reappeared in their former places. JNoooay Knew wno put them there or what for. Nobody cared If the section men noticed them at all they thought the bridge men hnd done it. It was nono of the engineer's business w'hy they were there it was their duty to observe regulations, whita required them to slow down at all such signs. Observe regulations they did. For about four years not a train had passed over that little bridge without slowing al most to a standstill. The culvert, for that's all it is, has been its safe as any part of the roadbed, and yet stopping and starting trains there has cost this com puny thousands of dollars. You know, it costs money to stop and start trains. "You are wondering how it all comes about, of oourse. Well, that farmer stole those boards and put thf m up again at his leisure. For four years he has been going into the town or coming from it on our trains, getting on or off right at his own door. It was a slick scheme, and how he must have laughed at us and enjoyed it all the while, liut his game is up now, and tne engineers are having their revenge by keeping up an infernal screeching of their whistles at all hours of the day or night whenever they pass that farm house." Chicago Jlerald. Uncle Esek's Wisdom There is no rule for beauty ; this en ables every man to have a Uttlo better looking wife than any of his neighbors. I don t expect to pieaso everybody, l don't know as I vould if I could, for I don't think anybody but a fool could do it. l'he last thing a man doubts is his judgment, when it ought to bo tho first thing he is suspicious oi. When the devil turns moralist looic out for breakers; no one can tell where he is 'going to hit next; he can t even tell himself. Tho world is all agog just now; every body wants to talk, aud nobody wants to listen the fool-killer will be around soon, and put a stop to these things. I believe in moral suasion as a collat eral. Ignorance is the principal ingredient in bigotry obstinacy und a general cus sednesa complete the job. It ain't so much the ignorance of man kind that makes them ridiculous, as the knowing so much that ain t so. Jokes weren't made to cast before swine, any more than pearls were; and the man who can make them shouldn't throw them around too loose. The man who can, in a few words, tell all he knows, on any subject, at a mm ute's notice, is a hard one to tangle. It is the brains of the devil thut make him terrible; a fool-devil is the lowest order of cranks. L'tutuvy. It is said that the Germans ar to the Americans in Chicugo as three to two. A Ciirloua Iro-e and One That Calls lor Ureal Labor Various Ntafee ot Hat-Making. In the first place the whole material of which a good felt hat is made with the exception of the bands, binding and lin ing is fur. For this purpose the furs f the beaver, the Russian hare, the rab bit, the French coney and the ' South American rutriit are used. Every reader will be familiar with all but the last named animal, which is a soft-coated, beautifully marked rodent, about as large as a cat. Several of these furs are mixed to make the felt, and the mixtures for fine hats are secrets carefully guarded by the' men who have discovered the right proportions tor the constituents. 1 he forming process is a most curious one. It consists of a copper cono six inches broad across the top, about twelve broad across the bottom and three feet high. This cone is full of holes; in fact, A , . - 1 1 L it is u sieve, jv woraman tunes it aim dampens it. Then he sets it so that the rim at the bottom is caught in the round groove of a wooden plate. This plate is raised a foot above the lloor in the center of a semi-circular wooden fence rising six feet above the floor. On one side ot this particular, incio&ure and rising above it are the rollers of a big machine, at which a boy is standing. The boy sets the machine going and it begins to nil the air above it with hair. the man with the cone has also started some machinery, apparentlv, for the cone is rapidly revolving horizontally, and some . . 1 1 1 V . 1 " , A. i imng Deneaiu it wuicu uaunuu ue seen is uuzzing busiiy. men me man iaa.es me two doors which are folded back from the sides of the semi-circular fence and closes them. They form another complete semi-circle and the cone is thereupon shut up in a kind of wooden well six feet in diameter. Hair is raining down all this time from the machine above this well. Before a minute is over the machine has tossed all the fur for one hat into the air. The bov rings a bell, the machine stops, the man opens the doors of the well, the cone is stopped, and then the visitor looks at what seems a miracle. All the fur which has been seen lately falling softly like rain into the wooden well is lying evenly distributed,upon the top and sides of the cone. This loose fur covering of the copper cone is the felt hat as it first begins to take shape. The man who is attending to it throws wet cloths about it and car ries cono and all away to a tank, where he plunges it in boiling water. Then he carries the cone to a table and carefully strips tho hat form off it. It needs an experienced hand to do this; a tyro at tho business would break the loose lying form all to bits. The man performs the operation with ease, though, and turns it over and over, looking for flaws and weak parts. Whenever he perceives one he takes some wet fur and sticks it there. When he has patched the form before him he wraps a wet cloth about it and carefully wrings it out. When the wringing process is complete bedrolls it with a wooden rolling pin, just as a woman rolls pastry. He rolls it from- tho top downward and its height diminishes very minute. At first it was about three feet high and the same in other dimensions as the cone, but in a little while it is contracted, with the rolling pin and continued dipping in hbt water, to two feet high, about. Then it is taken to what Is called . the sizing shop. In this place are round tables, the centers of which are low, while the boards slope up to the outer edges; in the low, cen tral part boiling water is bubbling. A man stands at each of theso tables and beside him lies a pile of hat forms. He takes one and beats it and dips it in the boiling water and rolls it from the top downward tilt it becomes not more than nine inches high. When it has reached the required size for this process the hat is "shaved" by a man who takes it on his knee and goes over its surface rapidly with a very sharp knife. Then it is "second sized" or rolled again to make it smaller, and after that stiffened with shellac dissolved in alcohol, laid on with a brush, then it is cleared, the surface being washed with a solution of soda. The next process is dyeing, which is very carefully done, the exact proportions of dyewood to water being preserved and the hats kept con tinually stirred as, if they were allowed to rest on each other, there would be some very extraordinary coloring effects produced. After being dyed the hat goes to the "blocker out." This man who is one of many has a hand on him like a horse's hoof; the palm is one great cal lous as white as a water blister and as bard as sole leather, and the palm side of his finger and thumb show similar cal lousness. These are produced by the man's work, which is especially hard. He has by strength and considerable skill iud much perseverance to pull the hat into the shape of the block. There are no artificial aids. Ho dips tho hat into boiling water, pulls it out again, dips his hand into a cask of cold water which stands by his side, and then grasping some portion of the hat between his haud he braces himself aud pulls. When the "blocker out" has got through with it the hat is ready for fin ishing. A man now pulls it over a block and irous it into the tina! shape. Then smooth sand paper is used to pouuee or smooth it. After being thoroughly pounced the hut is then greased with hot, crude oil to make the color eveu; then it is rounded and the brim cut to any de sired width. After this cutting, which is done with a gauged hand-machine, the hat goas away to tho curlers, who curl the brim. These men must be very skillful and have good eyes for sue and shape. They taie a curved iron blade with a wooden handle and turn up the ides of the brim a little at a time till they get it to the required shape. One of these men frequently makes as much as $75 per week, and one week he made 110. After the hats have passed through the curlers' hands they go to the trim mers, who are all girls, ihese put on the silk binding and the sweat bands and sew in the lining, and the hats are then taken away to the packing room, where each hat is carefully nested in a com- mrtment of the wooden box in which it s to travel to its destination. Such is the method of making stiff! felt hats. The soft felt articles are turned out in much the same way save that the stiffen ing is omitted aud the brim is flanged Over an iron block. To make the silk stovepipe hats a large square of muslin is dipped in shel lac, wrung out and then stretched over a wooden frame to dry. After drying it is cut up into sizes and shapes suitable for the various parts of the hat. Some pieces are cut on the bias for the crowns of hats, others are stiffened particularly for the brims', while the muslin for the central cylinders, which are to be the Bides, is cut out in oblong squares. Ihe material for a dozen of these hats is then given to a workman, who draws the frame of the hat together around a block and fastens it by means of a not iron. The shell of the hat, as it is called, is then varnished and dried, making it stiff, and then the silk plush is put on, a man ironing it to the shellac covered shell and sponging it with water at every stroke of the iron. Girls sew in the crown and the brim after the sides of the shell have been fastened, and then the Beams are gone over with a hot iron, which con ccals all traces of them. The brim is then curled as in the case of the felt ar ticle, and the hat then goes away to the luering machine, where the polish brushes, revolving rapidly, give it a nigh polish From the luering machine it goes to the hands of a girl who trims it and puts in the lining. Opera hats are made of steel springs imported from France and covered here with either merino or black satin. Brooklyn Eagle. War on the Sparrow. War has again been declared against the English sparrow. Tho hardy and aggressive bird's enemies are moblizing with the determination to make a more vigorous attack upon him than he ever before experienced. The leaders in the movement are ornithologists and sports men. They have prepared a circular petition, that has been widely dis tributed and extensively signed, asking that some concerted action be taken to exterminate the "foreigner." The bird is spoken of as an "intolerable pest, and, beside being put down as a genera nuisance, he is charged with ruthlessly murdering or driving away " our own sweet-voiced songsters." The petitions are to be sent to the Ornithological union of New York, and the society will take some action regarding them. " I think the sparrow is a nuisance, said a sportsman who is taking part in the movement, yesterday. "He is an ugly little thing, with a voice like the sound made by a door swinging on rusty hinges. His habits are very disagree able, and he is the most avaricious and bellicose creature in the whole bird world. He fights like a professional pugilist, and there is not a nice, quiet genteel bird that can stand up against him. A whole brood of 'em have taken possession of an ivy-vine that covers one of the walls of my house. They bull dozed all the other birds that used to come there so much that they have the whole vine to themselves now. ihey make such a noise that I can hardly sleep after daylight. Tho only way I can begin to get square is by popping over a dozen or two of them beforo breakfast every other morning. The sport amuses me, but it doesn't seem to make any diminution in the numbor of the birds. There must be millions of 'em. But I'm agin 'em all the same I'm agin 'em to the death. ' The caretakers of several public squares said that the sparrows have taken almost entire possession of the trees and shrubs in tho urban parks, and if any other bird strays in he is pretty sure to be set upon by the brown feathered " toughs" and beaten off. Philadelphia Tintes. VALLEY AND PEAK. The Valley said to the Peak, " Ob, Peak, I fain would arise And be great like you; I would seek Your remote and sacred sklea. Although I lie so low At your feet, I aspire to share The mysteries that you know In your cloud-roofed house of air." The Peak to the Valley said, " Oh, V alley, be content. Since for you my veins have bled, And for you my breath is spent. Alone, for your sake, I live In the cold and cloudy blue, Great only by what I give Out of unreached heavens to you." Lucy Laream. HUMOR OF THE DAT. I His First Case, lost my first case to a miserable He is a philosopher who can find music in a fat man's snore. A man with a cast in his eye A trout fisherman. Teta Sifting. Earthquakes causo quite a movement in real estate. New York Dial. A cobbler's wifo call him "Breath," because ho lasts for the living. Practical iokes Those that are BUb- liahed and paid for. Xeu York Mail. The only bar that tramps are unfamiliar with Crowbar. New York Telegram. A Boston agricultural editor says that the best way to preserve peaches is to . keep a bulldog in the orchard. CounAr Journal. A society exchange says : "Ladies' bon nets this season will be felt." yes, ana the one to feel it most will bo tho hus band. Boiton Pott. "Why is a harmonious husband and wife like eight cubic feet?" asked Flat tery, and before I could reply the answer came: "Because they are both in accord." Boston Time. A fashion paper, in describing a belle's attire recently, said she wore carbuncles, and now that poor girl gets 300 differ ent recipes for the cure of boils in every mail. Washington Hatchet. An esteemed contemporary, talking of a man run over on Monday by a Market street car, says he has four doctors in at tendance on him, and then unnecessarily adds: "It is doubtful whether he will recover." San Francisco Pott. Orange peel is now said to be collected, dried in ovens and sold for kindling fires. It burns readily and with great fierceness and is safer than kerosene. Now cannot some useful avooation be found for the treacherous banana peel. Philadelphii Call. " So, you have finally made'up your mind you won't have me?" he asked. "Yes, firmly," she replied. "I suppose you take me for a fool for proposiug to you so often." "No, sir; I don't take you for a fool. I wouldn't have you for a gift." Detroit Free Prea$. " I hear that your wife creates quite a sensation," said one Burlington man to another who bad recently been married. " Well, I guess eho does." replied the other dubiously, feeling of the bumps on his head. "But the sensations are not altogether so pleasant as might be wished. Burlington Free Pres. "You must be sick to hire a horse 'in the daytime," said an impecunious young man to a companion. "Why so?" was the inquiry. "Are they any cheaper at night?" "Guess they are! All you've got to do is to eat a live-cent slice of mince pie and you can have a mure all night that would beat Maud S. to flinders." Burlington Free Press. KKAKSJRKD. "Oh, youth, with smooth sand-papered pate, The night is dark, the hour is late, Why do you linger on my gatef 'I stay to help your daughter hold This gate upon its hinges old; Go in, old man, you're catching cold!" The old man sought his little bed. And pillowed there his tranquil head; "I guess the gate is safe," he said. Luther Q. Biggs. "Landlord!" cried an irritated traveler who had been eating dried-apple pie at a railroad lunch-house, as ho held one hand to his shattered jaw and produced a gimlet with the other. "Look at this confounded gimlet I've found in your pie and broke half the teeth in my head out on!" "Well, I declare I" said the landlord. "I wanted to use that yester day and hunted all over for it. Much obliged, strauger." Nete York Star. little pettifogging lawyer named Johnny Wood," said General Sharp, at Chicago. " I was a graduate of Harvard Luw school, and had a good deal of conceit, beside a- perfectly good case. When my senior warned me that I should have to meet Johnny Wood. I laughed at him. The suit was before a justice of the peace. We made out our case, and Wood's client, the plaintiff, made out none worth speaking of at till. When Johnny Wood nroso to speak ho re hearsed the evidence impartially, and then, taking up a book read tho law such law as I had never heard of, but which fitted his case to a nicety. When he got through, I said, Mr, Wood, will you allow me to see that statute, please?" " ' Certuinly, sir,' ho iepliod, bunding me the book closed. " 'Ah, thank you; but what page iu it on?' " 'What pagef he cried, indignant. 'Don't expect uie to coach you, young man. Find your own law you. 1 found mine.'' "Of course I couldn't liud it, but Johnny hud the laugh, und the court w ith him, uud I lost my case, according to the luw which that scoundrel Wood had made out of his head just ui ho spun it out." The professor of unatouiy at the Edin burgh university i puid .1U,000 a year. The heuds of the departments of Lalin and mathematics receive f 7.500 each. Curious Land Sinks. Those curious depressions of th soil known as sinks, a Florida letter sy,' have attracted tho attention of scientific men and form one of the features of the country to visitors. Timid people are afraid of them, but I do not see any difference between them and the natural depressions one meets within all wooded counties. Sometimes an acre will com meuce to sink toward tho center and year after year the depth iucreases until it reaches its lowest point uud stands still. Some of these places are wonder fully beautiful, being covered with a luxuriant undergrowth of bush vegeta tion, shaded by immense trees gurltndod with grapevines and jasmine, aud charmingly draped with the beautiful moss of this coun try, with perhups at the base a pool of clear water. These bosky shades are much frequeuted by cattle and they eu liunce by the attractions of life aud motion a picture that any artist might be proM to add to his collection. Sometimes the central part really does fall out of sight, leaving a hole whoso depth may be im agined, but out of such fissures I have seen oak trees growing of large girth, proving that they do not really go through to China. At Regent's park, 50,000 plants are given poor applicants. , London, about away yearly to
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