KESPONSIBIUrir RKSTM. It is too early yet to locate the respon sibility of Johnstown's destruction, and facts sufficiently authentic may never be known to do it. That there is somebody or some organization responsible is be yond question. To place it upon Provi dence, by saying it is in the shape of re tributive justice, and thus making God the author of it, is little short of a God dishonoring thought. The idea is too ab surd, too revolting, too horrid, too blas phemous, to be entertained for a moment. The laws of Providence are the laws of nature, and inexorable in demanding " eye for eye and tooth for tooth in oth er words penalties for their violations are uotmercly implicit but sternly and prompt ly executed without the least reference to character, slate or condition. If a man jumps over Niagara Falls, he takes his chances, uuil no special Providence will intervene to save him. While right to lie thankful for life and all its blessings it is little less than in famous for a man whose wife and child ren have been ruthlessly swept away, to prate i.hout the good Lord saving his worthless life, which implies that the Loin didn't or rather wouldn't save those of ii.s kin infinitely more deserving of the blessings of life. The Lord had no more to dowith the building of the destructive dain than He had in erecting a brewery or in constuct ing a railroad. And it would be quite as just to hold llim responsible for the dissi pation of those who drink the beverage manufactured by the brewer, or for lives lost by the reckleesness of an engineer, as to say that He is responsible for our fear ful visitation. Leaving the Divine Being out of the question, that is, so far us holding Him responsible for the horrors and evils, the question still presses itself, where or on whom does the responsibilty rest? It may be answered thrutlifully that the parties owning the ground and controlling the water course within its limits are re sponsible for building the dam. By their will and purpose and by their money it was built. This cannot he denied. To what extent responsible, and in what particular responsible, is a question not so easily answered. Before it cau be shown that criminality attaches to them for the destruction of either life or property, it must he proved that they were wilfully indifferent to both, or that they executed the wqrk against proper protestations of the people of the valley. If such a pro test was made where was it entered, and who acted as authorized agents in making it? It has yet to be shown tliut any steps in that particular were ever taken. With out any attempt at hair-splitting theories, and with no claim to legal acumen, we simply suggest the idea of what might come under the head of criminal negli gence. But if the dam was a constant meuace to life and property, as all new believe, •what can he said to palliate the conduct of the Johnstown people, and its authorities especially?, There is far less excuse for their indifference and neglect in the mat ter, titan for the indifference of the South Fork Club Association. Without indi cating any well-formed opinion, or with out any disposition to iudulge iu harsh re flections, we are forced to say there was either great indifference, or wonderful stupidity, or dread of antagonizing an in fluenzal organization—or else there was no appiehmsion of danger. WHERE DOES TIL K FAULT LIK ? We regret tlte necessity of being com pelled to write sonic facts in the manage ment of our affairs that are sadly out of joint. That mistakes and irregularities should occur in distributing supplies so generously furnished by the country, is natural enough in view of the difficulty of distinguishing between the meritorious and impostors, but, that instances of fla grant injustice should be passed over iu silence is more than should be expected. Among other cases of the latter kind, we know of one instance that is without even the semblance of un excuse or apology. One of our business men, whose large shop .ind materials were totally destroyed, and whose residenej and household goods were damaged to the extent of sev eral thousand dollars, not wishing to draw upon the donated building materials ship ped lare, bought all the lutnbei for a new business shop, and only asked for free transportation. To his utter surprise the authoiities refused to do anything iu the matter, or even to furnish a team or pay for otic to haul tlte lumber from the sta tiou. Where the fault is—who is the re sponsible person for the outrage we do not know, but tbat it is an outrage, au inex cusable act of injustice admits of no argu ment, and the sooner such evils are rem edied the better will it be for the guilty party. As things begin to assume a more set tled state, our people and the liberal hearted donors all over the country will expect and demand satisfactory manage ment in matters pertaining to relief. All want to know, have a right to know, and will in the end demand to know to whom supplies were given, where money went, why it so went, and in what sums it went. The day of reckoning is not re mote. In iiii * connection a question discussed by oui nest citizens is bow much of the Relief Fund is being spent in paying big salaries to men who do little efficient work—whose offices resemble mere sine cures. All these things will doubtless be looked into. No greater outrage could be perpretrated thsn the unnecessary squandering of money raised to relieve he suffering and needy. IMA/.fcO IIV Tin: FLOOD. A Young Clilragu Helrr►' strange Conduct at llroHil St. Station, I'lilludelphla. Philadelphia lnqulier. Miss Mollie Hohbins, one of Chicago's feigning society queens, and an heiress to nearly half a million, lias been crazed by tlie Johnstown flood. She appeared at the Broad street station yesterday morn ing, and caused a scene by her eccentric conduct. Miss Robbing is not over twenty years old. She is handsome and stylish, and wears a fortune in diamonds. The family reside in the fashionable quarter in Michigan avenue, in Chicago. She be lieves that the man to whom she was en gaged to be married was lost in the flood. In order to cure her of the delusion her mother and brother have brought her to this city, and will take her to Johnstown, where it is hoped that a meeting with her affianced husband will restore her reason. Miss Ilobbins appeared at the Broad street station just before the Western ex press sturted out. She approached one of the officials, and tapping him on the shoulder, said: " Is this the safest road to heaven?" The official was too surprised to reply t( the question, and the young woman continued: "Yes! You may think me crazy, but lam not. lam as sauc as you are, but I want to find the safest road to Heaven, and I am told this is one of them." MISS BOBBINS' BTBANGK DItKAM. The man laughed aud said he guessed this was as safe a road as any other. She walked away from him, but returned a moment later and said . " I dou't want you to have the impres sion that lam crazy, because lam net- I am looking for the safes', road to a heaven of rest for the summer, and if you can di rect me I will be very much obliged to you. Yont see, I am the Goddess of Shade and I)e-. and if I can keep away the burning sun from those of my satel lites I will have made their way smooth to the good spot. Say. I have lost my wings Cau they be in the carriage ? " While the young woman was rambling 011 in litis strain to the astonished official, an aged, motherly-looking woman, ac companied by a tall young man, stepped up to tlie young girl and said: " Conte, Moliic dear, we missed you." Theu the trio walked away. The tall young man was Miss Bobbins' brother, and when lie was seen by a leporter lie said that the Johnstown Hood was the cause of his sis ter's present mental condition. " The night before the flood she awoke from a sound sleep and startled the whole household by In i unearthly screams. It was two hours before we could calm her, and strange to sav, when we quesiioued tier we discovered that she had dreamed tile dam had burst at Johnstown, and the Hood had carried away tier intended, who was in that neighborhood, and had wash ed his body up iuto a tree, w lice she had been struggling to release it. She could not be wholly quieted, but imagined she was an angel trying to pull the body from the tree, that unless she did sc she could not find the pathway to heaven. TO BE TAKEN TO JOHNSTOWN* •• We brought heron to see oue of Phil adelphia's noted insanity specialists, and he suggested we take her to Johnstown and see if the surroundings and the meet ing with hurintended, who was not there at the time of the flood, but whom she lias since not seen, will not restore her. Site is very tjuiet. is perfectly sane on all Other subj' eis ami if this delusion can he dispelled we will tie happy. "But the strangest part is that site plainly described twenty-four hours he fore the flood < vu-tly as it occurred. Oh, yes, we v.'. Ie it* 'polluted there and spent two week l-i-H Ml mtiter in tlie town. It seems liet intended iiad written to her the day before the fl" >!. telling her he would not be surprised i. the dam should some day burst and wash out Johnstown, That was on her mind and evidently in fluence.l iter dreams, says the physician." t LITCAUO has just accomplished tlie largest scheme of city and town annexa tion ever achieve, i by an American city. Half a do/cu towns of considerable size were by popular vote incorporated with in the city limits, swelling the population to more than a million people. The cor porate limits now include 114 square miles of territory, exceeding the area of Philadelphia very considerably. Chicago is a big place in many ways, and Iter am bition even now seems far from being sat isfied. IF the temainderof 188!) is characterized by as many rem ukiMe catastrophic* and atmospheric disturbances as'havt: develp ed during its first ha'f, it will go down ill history as a year full of extraordinary events. To the destructive flood and tires in the United 'Mates ami < hiutt, and tlie railroad iceidenls hero and in Europe, is now added the loss of JOO lives in a coat mine horror in France. The grouping of this series of events so greatly destructive to human life within such a brief period of time is nit lading tlte attention of sci entists, and new theories of plunatary in fluence may he expected as a result. A Itig Hall Uaine. A correspondent from Armagh gives an interesting account of a base ball match between two nines, one of which was led by a professor, and the other was cham pioned by a prominent merchant. At the end of the second inning the gutne stood 1(1 to H in favor ot the professor's side when a dispute arose as to whether one base runner wonld dare pass another run ner on a base, and the principals becoin • ing hotly engaged, the game was dis banded. Attention Fanners. One Hundred Tons of Bone Dust for sale at John Thomas's, 248 Main street, Johnstown, Pa. june2l A BULL AT IB HlB BKAIX. fki tor Twenty Tun VikMWN to Hint or Hl* Fhyilclan*. The remarkable caee of Anton Motet, the Philadelphia veteruu. who lived twenty-five years with a hullet imbedded In the tissues of his heart, has a parallel in the CUSP or Abraham Delong, a prom inent farmer of Van Wert, Ohio, who corned an ounce of confederate lead on his brain for twentv years before it caused his death, the strangest feature of the clrcumstanoo being that the pre sence of the bullet never was known un til the autopsy brought It to light. Delong received his wound at the bat tie of Stone river. The bullet struck him squarely on the nose, well up between the eyes, in such away as to split the hone, whtoh, closing up again, left only a slight wound that tho surgeon de clared had been caused by a bullet com ing from a side direction aud clipping off the skin as it sped by. Delong kept his feet, suffering very little, and in a few days was again in fighting trim. He served to the close of the war and returned home to his family and his plough. As the years passed Delong experienced painful sensations in the head, at first slight, but more and more severe at each recurrence, until his suffering finally drove him crazy. He was taken to the Insane asylum at Day ton. for treatment, where he regained Ills mental faculties, but received no relief from the terrible pain and pressure in Ids head that made life almost intolera ble. ■ Some time before his death, which took place in IKB2, Delong got the Idea that the bullet that struck him at Stone river had indeed entered Ills head, and pro posed to submit to a surgical operation that would determine whether ho was right about it. This opinion was not shared by his physicians, and, as tho operation must necessarily be a danger ous one, they declined to search for tho suspected missile. Ho then requested that lifter his death an examination be made, in order that his widow and chil dren, should it appear that he had died of injuries received iu the service of his country, might receive a greatly needed pension, his long porlod of illness and inability to work having quite eaten up his little fortune. Accordingly an autopsy was held. To tii.' surprise of the doctors, and as Be long had predicted, they found u bullet, or rather two jagged bones. One portion bad lodged just over the brain, where, together with a fragment of bono that had been broken olf by the bullet us it tore its way into the cranium, hud be en. ue ineyated with a hard growth, which, extending year by year, pressed harder aud harder against the bruin, causing the terrible pain of which Oelongcomplained, ami resulting in derangement and death. Had it been known that the bullet which struck him at Stone river found lodg ment in his head surgical skill might have availed to prolong the victim's life for many years. As it was, it was looked upon as most remarkable that Deloug should have survived as long us lie did. Mrs. Belong upplied for and received a pension. Great Silent Men. Men great in deeds arc often taciturn. Washington's reserve made him stiff, formal and ill at ease in company, but it also prevented his plans from being be trayed to an enemy, aud the country f'om being deceived by his promises. William the Silent was frugal of words, beeauso a reserve that concealed his de signs, even from those acting with him, was necessary to the independence of the Net herlnnds. A writer iu Leisure Hour says that the most dramatic of silent men was Wallen- Stein, tiie antagonist of Gusluvus Adoi psus, and the commander of the emperor's n.'.ny in the Thirty Years' War. He in -i.-ted that the deepest silence should !• ign around him. His ofileors took care t'.iin no loud conversation should disturb i nn- general. They knew that a cliam !>• rutin h id been banged for waking him wihout orders, and that an oilicer who would wear clanking spurs iu the com mon,ter n presence had been secretly put to death. In flic rooms of his palace the servants glided as if phantoms, and u dozen senti nels moved around his tent charged to secure the silence the general demanded, til. ills were stretched iieros.- the streets HI order to guard ugiiinni the disturbance of sounds. Wallonstein's taciturnity, which made him shun speech, and his love of silence tliat caused him to be irritated at the slightest noise, were due to his constitu tional temperament. He never smiled, ho never asked advice from any one unci i e could not endure to be gazed at. even w.ien giving uu order. The soldiers, v. tieii lie crossed the eauip, pretended not. b>sie him, knowing that a curious look would bring them punishment. He Would Have llfs Beef Tall*. A shepherd dog belonging to a citizen of Kittanlng recently developed u strange ; it-slim for the tails of beeves killed by u . ..te.ier living in the vicinity. The dog e..01d take the tails as the butcher cut it.: 111 from the hides, carry them home, und them nicely iu a corner of tho I.a: ev. ml. He ill i not eat lite tails but s. • v seemed to be making a collection EF i ..MI. The pile of cow, bull and ox t.-.ii in.ally got to be so large and sueli a r. - ii e that the dog's owner hud them i • '..vd from tiie premises and buried. 1 a-- u .g was away at the time, but soon te lined with another tail When he ii. .' overcd that ids treasured collection liiui i- en stolen lie howled dismally, and I,.unci nil over the premises in n truutic r.ti'.ucr f..r tie- missing property. Kuo .-lug tin ' the dog would soon col . .ii," .ierp.i of theoHcJisivetails, his a u r !'• i|uestcd Hi" butcher and all • ■ v .- b .toilers no. IO lot 'lie dog have am i.cue. The dogs. omed disconsolate ■.•■ HI., y or so. lint one day his owner 1... i I ; :ent bawii ig and agonized bleut . in a pen of calves near his barn. aiming o the spot in' found that Ids dog Ii d chewed til" lulls oil of two calves, . HI van busily engage I insepaia in,'the iii of a tlurd eiiif when his muster ar rive ion the scene. The do;; was bound to have his collection of tails in so tie way. Hit was at on • taken in hand and tied tip. tyhutover gave him the craze, for beef tail- no one, of course, can under stand.—X. Y. Sun. A llirl huroai, A farmer recently discovered in ids barn a bird's nest containing a puir of young swallows, says the t'iueago Mail. On taking one young bird up iu his hand he was astoui 'mil to see its log very thoroughly bandaged with horsehair. Having carefully removed tiie hairs, one by one. be was still more n-tonished to Ilnd the poor nestling s leg was broken. Returning to look at the patient, again next day. tho ieg was found bandaged as before. The next wus not again inter fered with for a fortnight, when it was found that tho hairs were beiug cau tiously removed, a few each day, und when all wore off the callous was dis tinctly felt, at the union of the bone and the bird wus evidently able to Uy with the ethers. CAM aXAKKR cm ABM BTHDBf Am Win T aajr* H* Ha* Mi* ft Dom, Haw ImkM Swallow Frag*. Three different Incidents of snakes charming birds have fallen under my own observation, says a writer in the St. Louis Reporter. Once I -aw n Idn-jay charmed by what is commonly known as the "blue racer," ami the next was a catbird charmed by a •'ran, sucker." As these .makes are c'as • t as non-poisonous, they could not h.. . - .aiton the birds and then quietly aw: itfd lle-.r death. In the first cose the bird was :u an apple tree, some ten or twelve feet from luu ground, when its attention was first arrestc.i. The other two were somewhat under the in fluence of the snake s unarm when first observed. I would judge that it take , from one to two hours for a snake to bring a bird completely uuder the spell, which they can most certainly do if no. disturbed after the bird's attention is onuo gained. I huvo never seen a snake charm a frog, though I ' axe seen them cateh frogs often. They are more than a inn.nut for the frog in a foot race; consequently, tliev have frog legs to eat whenever they wlsli, provided the frogs can be found. The greatest trouble is to swallow tho frog after catching hi 11. Tint frog is swallowed heels first. Whether this is a preference on tho part of the -nnke or whether it is because this is the first part overtaken ami laid hold of, I do not know. When cau . it, tin- poor frog cries out in the most pitiful terror. Then the struggle of life and diSu h begins, with determined animal instinct on the part of tho snake; nay. I m.ght say with dev ilish triumph—for he know* that victory is sure in the end—and almost human horror on tho frog's part. The instant the snake seizes u luu t leg it is swal lowed, and the hard pari of the job is to get hold of the other leg without releas ing the ono he already lias. The frog soon finds it useless to strug gle to release the leg already swallowed by the snake, aud seems to realize that its only hope is to keep the leg thut i free out of that horrible mouth wide bus such wonderful suction power. 1 once saw a gam r snake push a frog over thirty yards eiideavoting to force the leg of the frog that was free against some obstruction', that, it might get a hold on thut also. It Anility succeeded, and the struggle was soon over alter thut. When both hind legs lire once in the snake's power a deeper horror seems to ink-' possession of the poor little creator-- who has buttled so hard for lifo; its eves dilute with terror ami assume a glus-y sture, its whole body is -i mpelled, para lyzed with uu awful dreu of its impend ing fate. The snake doe- not swallow; it crawls over its prey. It does so by means of strongly contracting muscles in the throat. Tile Moat Coatly l,e.oae, ... Ita- W.ti "The most costly leal!i"rin the world said a dealer in line sl.ius and leather, "is known to the trade ... piano leather. American tanners year - ego dlseov iv.l the secret of making Kii.-iu leather, witli its poculiar pungent an I lasting odor, but the secret of tunning piano lea h-r i known only to a faint. of tanners in Thuriugiu, Germany. I'm- leather bus liutonc use the covering of plan , keys." "A peculiar thing about it is that tin skins from which it is inn tied arepro cured almost entirely in A iioric.:. Ir i ; a particular kind of oneks.;in. i.ic of the common red or Virginia deer wi;i not make the leather; a - pedes of the animal known as the gray d or and found only in the virinitv of tti" grout northern lakes, alone fin ui-hlng the ma terial. The German tminers have i,n agency in Detroit, which coibcl the skins of this deer from i ie In iian, and halt-breed hunters, who -u • • > tae mat- kct. The hunters are pui.i a:i average price of about '2O cents a pound f"r tii" green skins. W.ion the -tins ore re turned to this eounry n piano leather they cost the piano . iinume.urors fro.a 51"> to $lB a poind. The ..'or Id's supp.y of this invaluableuud nee—a ly materiel is produced by the Kreteii r. ir fa.uiiy "f tanners, who have six estabiUhni •in Germany, the la test en! liost ;:l weru iu Thuringia."—V. Km- Secretary Uislneh lirutlier- For nearly eight years i.ie gray hem!, round shoulders, ami indolent, slouching gait of Robert <. Bin.in*, brother of the secretary of stoic, li.ivo b-on frequently seen in and nr - ind tie grounds sur rounding the a .- lit mil department and the Sniitliso.imM Institution. The drivers of the ears that run past these institutions have come o look upon him as one of the show objects, lie is con stantly seen strolling about the grounds and they watch for the chance to say to a stranger; "You see that man walking across the grass? Well, that's Jim Blaine's brother." During all this time "Bob" Biaine, as ho is termed, hue been rated on the treasury books as curator of the museum at SI,IOJ a year. Practically the museum has been the curator of "Bob" Blaine. A number of efforts were made to dislodge him during President Cleveland's admin istration by patriots who thought his soft berth just suited to their capacities, but the attempts always failed. Robert Blaine, with the return of his brother to power, is Hying at higher game. He wants to be register of wills of the dis trict, a position as easy to till as his present curatorship, and paying eight or ten times us much. In other words, the register of wills has no duties to perform except such us are discharged by a deputy, and his fees are SIO,OOO or $12,000 a year.—Chicago Times. Klephuiktu u Freight. The habitual caution of those intelli gent creatures is ill istrated when they are tra\ ling from show to show. Should several be in a car together, one of tiieir number will remain awake on guard while the others are sleeping. Some years ago experiments were made in the transport of elephants by railway, vine of the ordinary cattle wagons of the East India railway was lit te.l up for the purpose, und the animal was placed iu the center space of tlm wagon, between six shafts, a breast and back bar, and .se cured in addition by anklets on the fore and hind feet, united by couplings trans versely and longitudinally, and further by four diagonal mooring chains passing through holes and lushed round the cor ner pillars of the wagon. The first ele phant loaded, hnving his head free, took the opportunity to remove with his trunk a portion of the roof of the truck; it was therefore found necessary to put a collar round tho neck of the elophaut, witli a vertical chain leading through and sc our jd to the i'.oor. In this way a successful experiment was made to I'undooah and back, the an imal showing 110 signs of fear or making any attempt to free himself. —Chamber's Journal. EUUon Threatened. The opinion Is expressed that If all that la promised by recent applications in the use of water gas be verified, electric lighting will bo outrivaled both in oheap nebs and beauty of light.—Engineer. F*aa< a B*f •( aM in • Well. Routh-vark, Fa., has a sensation out of Che usual run. It la the discovery by John MeOucken, a young contractor, of a bag of gold. McGuukeu started with five fellow laborers a few days ago, to clean out an old unused well on a prop erty on Seoond street, below McKenn. During the process, MoOucken, who was down the well alone, stumbled across a heavy object. Turning the light of his lantern on the obstruction, he saw It was a heavy canvas bag, carefully sealed nnd lied.with a strong cord. He kicked the bag and heard the merry jingle ot metal. MeGucken thought he hud struck a bonanza, and was so elate 1 that he jerked the bug from its resting ;dnee and ! started for the open air. When he got half way to tho top lie | bag—which was rotten from its long stay iu tho well—split, and the coin started to droo out. With his hand over the I hole McGucken wiib hauled to the top by \ his companions. There lay a pile of glib - tering gold pieces in $5, slll ami $'2(J , coins. A hurried count showed that CiltO cora- I prised the bug's contents. How much j dropped out of the bag is m>l known, but. | McGucken does not t'rink mom than *">(). | Like a sensible mun 1.,s proceeded with ' his work, and when the day was ended did what Ids fellow workmen say was the squarest thing ever seen iu Southwark. i Nearly SdOO ho divided among them. $11)0 , lie presented to his mot's s.IOO wtit to his own credit iu the su.ngs fnuii i:nd with tue icititiining SI"" tito v., i.ig nam is ceiebruiiig in a mild way ins go,. . i.- tum\ He is the curiosity of Tree slrnei, i w ere he lives with ids mother, and dur ng the dav ho attends to liii business us ; if sl.o(i'i gold bugs were every day finds with. him. ; li no the money belongs to or who plu..-on tho hug in the well i- a mystery.— I'u.'luih-lphiu Record. Asiatic Child XVlvra. The Indian reformers who have taken inland the re-tnurringe of girl-widows liilllo.ulty in obtaining plenty of en ■ouiutes. Wnere trould • comes in is us to .the dinpo.ul of I lies j inulrimoui uily disposed ladies pending the discov ! e.-y of sul... .u partners. No sooner does u widow announce her intention of mc ic ing another husband if she can than sic is di-oxvued by all her kith aud kin. cm by her acquaintances, and iu some sen adrift to pick up a lor licrsei:. 'Che reformers foot under an oblig,.; ion motor , to soften the severity of , j .nartyi o: i loth - bo-: of their abi i v. i a I I xvitli tii i' object widow homes i.u.v • been established here and there. , ,o expedient 1-, perhaps, as good a one as could be devised, but the managers of the homes are not to be envied. : In order to jarry out the rest of the so ; .no, suitors have to b u uuitted to iiuiivt* choice among: the bete .ved In ,'ill ties, uud then, of course, n - or! ■:.■ uiaountof philandering must bu allow.-.! to ennt lc the high contra • ng parties to com.' to terms. All in.!imini lieml- of f.,,u.iies well know tluif even when o :'.y ouo ulTitir of this sort is going on in ;i household, n deal of iinosso and eii" .111 - icction often have to be exercised. jJire, then, must have been the lie.- p.ex,- ties of the native matron at the Juijngori home lately, when twenty-live uinoro., youtns weje daily courting as many s'ti'lish widows. The bridegrooms • pee.nut aetually had the audm-ity to up p. tor lodgings in the house, but tiii 1 re quest was, of course, sternly r f.issu. Sl ice, liowever, th MSlein appears to bring about a considerable number of iti..r:v ges. these little imperfection- It: tue machinery uiay bo pardoned. There is no ta'.e more terrible tban .mil of the Indian child-widow, doomed l • .11 la ml and hop- less existenee wlide .• . tier early teens,—London Glob ■. 1 lie Jmorga-boo - timber claim. To "Coyote Pete," u rfiend, he gave his youngest wife Susie. To "Dear Tom," another brother, he gave Mollie Turner, his dead brother Ike's wife. His thirty lieud of dogs, live Winchester rilles, 500 rounds of cart ridges, two revolvers uud four knives lie gives to Jim Turner; consideration, 'ove and affection for Lizzie, lie hud a deep set grudge against "Coyote I'e.e, ' which is the reason for placing .-it-ie under ins protection. She is u t.-'leruidy tough piece of femininity.—lieu Liu if, C.d. News. What the President lUikU. The president lius no leisure hours ex cept those seised for the necessary otter noon exercise. Although fond of read ing. ho finds little time to indulge that taste. His newspaper reading is limited to a glance ut one paper to get the drilt of tlio day, a pretty careful perusal of tlio Indianapolis Journal, with its ehronlelo of events happening at aud near his own home, aud to sueli articles in toe lea ting duily newspapers as may tie oroug it t • his attention for any particular I'cuson. His desk Is that of an oiiei.y worker, aud is usually cleared every night of the accumulations of tlio day. Most of the applications for appointment come to him jacketed aud briefed from the de partments. Ho usually disposes of them upon the recommendation of the depart ment head. If it appears to be neces sary to traverse a case he sends for all the papers and goes through lueni down to the first one hied. —Epoch. *'tw•• innrk. The llttl" kingdom of Denmark, with less limn 'ii.OOO spurn miles (an area not twice 'lie ■ i/,o of New .Jersey) an i ,vi :i a I illation of near 'i.00.'1.000, is a target nrod'ieer of butter. The milch cows n im oer üboHt i*i't,o:mi. and the export of but ter, mostly to England. was 4 r >,o"hOO.'t pounds in IS7. This is nearly throe times the amount exported in 1877. The increased production is largely due to the csia lishraen* of co-operative, dair ies and to the use of centrifugal cream separators. The Danes have put in operation the system of paying for milk according to its quality, and this system has incit d dairy men to more cure in the selection of stork and in feeding them. Pr*V*lltiVl* of )tlli|rW. # Take three pounds each of flowers of sulphur and quick-lime. Slack the lime and boil with the sulphur in six gallons of water until reduced to two gallons. Allow till- to settle, then pour n't the < .ear liquid, ami bottle if. for use. An old itk as o.'igtif and vt'llow as the very newest Ul.d be-, l-e. 11-. Worthless Set d thus to ateu laif ecu used to adult, tie good . iov.-r seen in England, but tl.io .to .he exertion of eo.e.al laombers ol .... -. .d trade one of the ou'euders has be. u ... ~\- . lly oiled. Oifttlilill' >i l'i '• •' :ri %4-tif t(t lift A creamer . . been stalled at Gal loway in Scot i I a which tic manu facture of ob omargariue will bo intio iluced. Genuine Inu_er will be use. lln connection with other hits. We bed. ve tid- i- the lost insiatic ■ of a re.Mucry op nly going into the mtinuf.u uiu) of bogus butter. KorritN of lu lla, Governiuent protection of forests, against tire is on trial in nt - of Inu.a. * During 1888 tlio protect. 1 u of a traci of I.trJa.UOO acres of forest was uttemp.e i. , and only 11)0,0 i 0 acres were burned over. The cost of protecting the balance was only about gIU.OOO. ih- s\. .cm ;s claimed to be successful. So Cun 1 I'ruol ''iiiiu. Some r.ii-e the choicest plums and find them prolitub!:, out it is done only by slinking or j using the trees daily, catch ing the cureulio on a clotli and killing him. There is no such thing as a "ctii culio-proof" plum, tree-venders to tne contrary n> Ii Fay to Take Cure of tlie Too s. Implements should be returned to the - tool'h iiiso. after using, and properly cleaned. If there i- no plow-shoe make one. L will save the roads. Spades, hoes and similar to -is should be kept shti: p, by acquaintance with tlie grind stone. To fievciil Kicking. A good method to keep a cow from kicking is to bond one other fore leg.- at, the kn e and ' in I,lc n strap around a above He joint, ibis holds up that foot leaving net only thn e to stand on and none to spare for kicking. Crops in OrcliMril*. For a young orchard there is no safer , crop than lud.an corn, which, of course, should bo seed, d withelovor and otcunril grass, upon which young pigs will t.u. :c a satisfactory growth. Who ihe Span klnsg? When a man trjs there is no use in planting shrubbery in the school house yard, because Dr boys will destroy it, some parents need spanking more than their boys need it. An nr.< <.vM w ,TjT.T7r. A steel rake, with long and sharp tout... is one of the most effective of weed ing implements, and if used "early and often" will keep land clean, with littlo * labor. Corn tor Cuttle. In the Aberdeen district in North Scot land, latitude s'i .legreus, it is to cold to grow corn, yet this region produces some of the iinest fat cattle in th" world. They aio i> l largely on barley, oats nud rye. wni a Failure. In 52 tii.'ls with sorghum in England, last year, the crop was a total failure in 40, and in the other six cases the meas ure of success was infinitely small. Another Agricultural College. * The Mercers Company of London is thinking of establishing an agricultural college on its extensivo farms, and pro poses to devote $300,900 tor the purpose.