THE HAKCUMA A' 3 DA UGH TEE.
ihe seems indeed the child of grace,
With perfect form and witching faoe
Jn which no vanity I traoo
Beyond tho art which nature taught her;
And very modest, good, and kind
Is this sweet maiden to my mind,
And not a fault is there to find
3n tho ranchman's pretty daughter.
She ridea lior horse n perfect ease,
Can Bill a .leer wl.eu o'er she plea*.?.
And knows the names ol P w rs and trees,
Aud siupj the ucnuss-.vetl birds have taught hT|
The fi !i all coint to seize her hook,
Slir tckes the flu :-t in the brook.
And now my heart is also took
By the ranchman's pretty daughter.
She rules the kitchen like a queen
Aud k -ops tho h mso son and clean
Therv' not u cobweb to be seeu,
f'o swift tho hands that never falter.
Her voice clear as a matin's bell.
Her lips as |weet as honey well.
Thcro's lots more things I'd like to tell
Of the ranebmnn's pretty duugbter.
1 am to claim her mine some day
And take her mo. .> and miles away,
To my fair borne upon tho bay,
-'.cross the ocean's waste of water,
And then with gems T'll deck her brow
And worship her as I do now.
The ranchman's pretty dan;' r.
—N. 8. ('o . Calveht*n Newi.
Limit Ri.RLUI
Onco upon a timo, in ;i Utile rustic!
,ouso, lived a huppv boy. His futh.ir
was u shepherd, and was greatly es
teemed by tho wholo village. His
mother spun, wove and dyed wool, fcdio
wad made him a pretty bluejacket, wliicu
fi; always wore, and all tho neighbors
• ailed him -'Little Boy Blue," in the
day time ho helped his father drive tho
sheep to pasture, und in the evening he
played with his sister, who was younger
than he, and whom lie loved very dearly
and ho was so kind and gentle that even'
ono was delighted to soo him.
But, one cold winter, his father died,
and a short time after the mother die '
also. Tho two children remained alone
in the world. 1 hey had an unclo, who
was captain of a sailing vessel, and lie
ofierodto take Little Buy Blue with him
on his ship.
''Will you also take my sister Azula?'
asked tho child.
"No, I cannot do that.
"'Thou I will not go with you. I will
not leave lny sister to travel on the king's
most beautful ship.
So tiie children remained in their little
house among the hills. Little Boy Blue i
entered tho service of a farmer by wliou>
his futlier had been employed, us"a she
herd. He was active. Intelligent ' "
obedieut, and the fanner obliged t
do all sort's of menial work, audi- S ! V
but very little. That little ald llim
wassuraoieut to provide foot) howe\. . .
tor and himself, so he 01 . h
One day his doar Agula ontent.
could not oare for her dur' ''- 1 slck - l! "
as soon as ids wot* in 8 du, V, nut
hastened to her and'" A U,IS
side all nighfc JJe ' •vntchod bv her be ! -
she felt betj,m.', ar ook no repose until
Out. " id he was about woru
ISfS
HIS DEAR AZULA FELL SICK.
One morning his master found him
under a haystack, fast asleep. The
brave little fellow had tried to work, but
he was so veuriod by his many sleepless
nights, that his eyes had closed In spite
of himself. The cruel farmer pitilessly
discharged him; saying that he wanted
no idlers on Ills farm.
The poor boy, almost heartbroken, re
turned to his sister and told her what
had happened. Without employment,
without resources, how could they live?
Sweet Azula tried to console him, tell
ing him not to be discouraged ; that, as
every one knew his good qualities, he
would easily find a master kinder than
the one who had so brutally dismissed
him.
The next day Little Boy Blue went off
to seek employment. He modestly pre
sented himself at tho housos of several
farmers, but his requests wore ali re
fused. One had too many servants; an
other thought he was too young; a third
asked him suspiciously why his master
had turned Jiim off.
For several days Little Bo.y Blue per
sisted in his efforts, hut every evening
he returned home sad at heart, having
found nothing.
"Have patience, dear brother," said
Azula, tenderly. "I am sure that yon
will succeed, and, in ; ho meantime, as I
am quite well again, 1 am going to set to
WEARIED BY HIS SLEEPLESS NIGHTS,
work. Our dear mother taught mo to
•pin, and I can easily make all that is
necessary."
She was not so certain of her success,
sweet little Azula. Fortunately, she had
a little money with which to provide for
the daily needs of the little household.
But at the commencement of winter it
was all gone, and Little Boy Blue had
found nothing to do.
One day, aa he wan returning from a
farmhouse where he had once mora
vainlj Hpplled for a situation, he cat
down upon a stone by the roadside. He
' whs so sad that he burst into tears.
Suddenly he heard a soft voice, whioh
said to him;
"( >me. eomo, Little Boy Blue; tho
king of tim elves wishes you tote.ho care
Of nis sheep."
Little jtoy Blue replied : -'Thank you,
; thank yen! My sister is a:' alone at
home; 1 must return lo her.
The silvery voice replh d .
"Go sad get your >• bo nd l.wday iier
wi'h you tilth *iim :uu o. ui" . •."
At tiiese words tie on i e, ran
to the little bouse and c Joyously : "I
have found a pin •. deai ister. in tlie
kingdom of the elves; wili you go there
: with me?"
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BEFOBE TIIE K 2fG AND QUEEN.
Azula. was nquiv to go v\ h<*rover her
brother wished to . ke her, and tho two
Set forlJi ha mi in hand. They c: limbed a
lull aud uosoendeii into tho uiaiii whore
Little Boy Blue had heard tho voice of
his invisible fii-ml. The t'iond ••'as
there awaiting thorn. Ho thevi tiwn
into a valley and then through a nurn-w
gorge, whore the ground wa c<
with a soft moss, and on both sid wot*
c&mbing plants and long branch*:.-* o
ferns.
on the path grew still nar-
an( i tin; light of hoaven disap-
JP.arod in the increasing gloom. But tii"
two silvery wings of their little guide
lighted up the placo, and tho two oh.!-
divn followed, and finally entered a
grotto, so completely concealed that no
human eye could ever have discovered
it. Beyond this grotto they stopped,
dumb with amazement. What a specta
cle! A dazzling light, perfumed woods,
field*; covered with flowers, lakes l> ue as
the heuv- n itself.
It was fairyland; it was the kingdom
of the elves. Near a silvery stream was
a flock of sheep as whitpus snow, and on
a throne of moss, under a canopy of
roses, sat tho Ring and the queen of the
elves. Little Boy Blue and his sister
uttered shouts of joy and clapped their
iiunds on seing all these beautiful things.
Their guide invited them to follow him.
and led them beforo tho royal throne,
Little Boy Blue took off liis hat and
made a low bow.
The king said to him: "Little Boy
Blue, I know that you work faithfully
and that you have a dear little nister.
Will you remain here and tend my
sheep? You shall bo well fed ami wed
dressed and no one will be unkind to
you."
"Oil! thank you," cried WUtle Boy
Blue, "I accept with pleasure.
Then the queen, turning to Azula. .-aid :
"And what do you know how to do,
my beautiful child :"
"1 know how to spin."
The queen ordered n distaff and a -pie
ning wheel to bo brought and Axtilu a;
once gave a striking proof of her u'd -
ity. Little Hoy Blue was appoint*-
lirst shophord to the king and hi* sister
first spinner to the queen.
The elves applauded these appoint
ments, and the two gentle orphans, con
tented to be together and to do their
duty, lived long and happily in fairyland.
—Boston Globe.
I-'.yelida Til ill Have Strange Power.
I saw two women jugglers at Jeppore,
says a writer iu the New York "Mail and
Express." They were bright, intelligent
looking girls, one of whom appeared al
most old enough to be the mother of the
other. They did many wonderful tilings,
one of which was mixing up sand in
water, and then puttihg tire hand into
the discolored fluid they brought a hand
ful of sand which they liltored through
their lingers as dry us before it went in.
The youngest of these girls was perhaps
15 years old. She was tall, well-formed
and line looking. She had bracelets on
arms and on feet, and her eyes were as
beautiful as thoso of a gazelle.
One of her tricks was Iho lifting of a
heavy chair by her oyelids, the thought
of which almost makes my eyes sore.
The chair was a heavy muhogouy one,
which belouged to the room in which I
was stopping. She tied two strong strings
to the top of tins, and alUxed the ends of
these strings to her eyes by little round
metal cups, each about the size of a
nickel. These lifted over the eyeballs
and under the lids, and she bent over
while they wore so fastened, liaising
herself she pulled up the chair with
with these strings with the muscles of
of her oyelids, and carried it from one
side of the room to the othor.
It was a horrible sight, and as she took
the metal cups from her eyes they filled
with water, uuil she almost sunk to the
floor. I told her the trick was disgust
ing, and that she ought never to try it
again. Still, for this and the rest of the
show, these girls were well satisiied with
two rupees, or about 70 cents.
Tile I'n titui eof Moltu incut*.
The pressure at the base of tho Wash
ington monument is 58.05 pounds to the
square centimetre, while thai upon the
base of the Eilfcl tower is not more than
nine pounds to the same space. In only
two instances lias the pressure at tho
base of the Washington monument been
exceeded, one of sixtv-six pounds to the
square centimetre being considered dan
gerous. It would seem then that only
by the use of iron can BUCII heights as
been attained in the Eiffel tower be
reached.—Exchange.
Work of Klectrlclty.
There are now in use in the limited
States more than 5,050 centrul electric
stations for light and power. There are
210,000 are lights and 2,000,000 incau
desceut lamps. There aro fifty-nine
electrloal railways in operation in March
last, and eighty-six roads in process of
construction. The increase of capital
In electrical Investments during 1888 was
nearly $70,000,000. Thoso are very signifi
cant figures, and they point unmistakably
to the course of future Inventions and
discoveries. —Exchange.
If the money expended for tobaocoand
whisky were judiciously applied lo the
beautifying of our homes, what a lovely
pead would ours be!
| HOME AND HOUSEWIFE.
i
A UWIQVE PATCHWORK SQUARE THAL
T JA EASILY MADE.
The Center .ece la All of Rich Bro
rodrd Velvet—Plain Silk and Watered
Ribbon Enter Into the Composition
of the Work—General Note* Ahont the
Household.
This unique aud seemingly difficult de
sign for a patchwork square may be verv
! onslly cut out and pieced by making each
I one of tho nine regular sections or whicli
j it is composed separately nnd seaming
them together afterward. As here rep
-1 resented the center-piece is six inches
square and is all of one material—rich
brocaded velvet. Tho four sido-pleces
are each four by six inches when com
pleted ; and there are two pieces each oi
two kinds of material—plain silk and
watered ribbon or silk, In every one of
them. The corner-pieces are each four
inches square; two of tfcnm— forming tho
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p2#?A
top and bottom of the vase—are com- ,
posed of equal triangles of the plain silk |
and material liko tho body or coutor (
.piiare; the other two are cliiofly of the |
plain silk, but small triangular pieces of j
tho watered silk are fitted to ono corner
of each. It is well to make each section
on a cambric or muslin lining if rich ma- |
teriais are vised, but if prints or cambrics j
are chosen, it may not bo necessary. I
Squares pieced by this or similar de '
-igus are pretty to corabino with crazy
•utohwork. Four finished squares, some- j
what smaller I ban the one described, pul
logether so that the vases all point from 1
i lie center to tho corners, niako a pretty 1
cover for a lounge or chair cushion.
Do Not Crowd Your Plnltta.
There is nothing gained by growing !
three plants where there is only room for |
two. The two plants that the place
would comfortably accommodate will bo
much finer than tho threo that you
eould manage to "just squeeze in." And :
remember that one plant, well grown, is |
worth a sooro of poorly grow n ones.
One good plant is something to be proud
of, while a number of poor specimens
ought to make the grower ashamed, not
of the plant, but of himself. Treat
plants precisely as you would people,
ami give them all the chanco they wan'
to develop. Let them show what they
can do, and they cannot do this when j
they arc cramped.—American Agrlcul- j
turist.
Good Use For Home Slops.
If you save all the slops from the
house, the wash-water, and sude of sun
dry occasions during the week, you will
ind that you have a supply of nut:
mont at hand to draw upon which is I; .
richer than you had any idea. It will
not make a poor soil permanently rich,
but it will afford sufficient nutriment L.
nourish such plants as you grow in it
during the summer in a very satisfac
tory manner. We planted some annuals
on a stiff clay that hud been thrown oui
of a cellar. We water them regularly
with suds and slops, and they surpass in
i "Wth and iioriferousnoes those grown,
in llie garden.
Staking !>lilin<.
Dahlias should always have stoii!
stakes driven close to the main stalk o'
the plant to givo the support needed ;■
ca-e of high winds. If these stakes i :
painted green they will not be noticeable j
and if they are taken indoors in autunu
wlieu the dahlia roots are taken up. the;,
will last several years. They are much
neater than anything that "happens to
bo at hand" when you get around to at
tend to this necessary work.
A Pen for tile Baby.
Little Jack's mother is enjoying a
happy freedom from anxious care while
.•bout her household du'ies, knowing
that .Tack is placed whore ho can injure
nothing and nothing can injure bin .
convenient safeguard like the one it:u
trated in the engraving and which can be
folded and conveniently stored nway
when not in use, is made as follows: If
is formed of four frnmos fastened to
geiher uprightly, each irarne consisting !
of two posts and three rails. It require* \
s'ripsof boards two inches wide cut into |
twenty pieces of three different lengths, j
'The eight posts are twenty-one incho [
high; the six side rails are forty-eighl 1
inches long, and the six end rails are l
twenty-three inches long. Any other i
size may be used, it being necessary to !
cut the side rails two Inches longer than
i wice the length of the end rails. I n
making the frames, place the top rail
even with the tops of the posts and the
other two rails below, five inches apart,
clear. In pulling the frames together,
hinge both end frames to tlio back frame
on the inside so that, each can open only
at an angle of ninety degrees, letting the
side rails pass by the end rails. In fn--
tening the front frame, fit the side and
end rods so they cannot move up or
down and hold in place with hooks.
Tie- frame work can be moved to any
part at the room, and a soft rug spread
ume i neat h makes it a comfortable place
for th baby, ettlmr in winter or summer.
—American Agriculturist.
HOUSEHOLD NOTES.
Cups and saucers stained with tea may
lie made bright again by using dnntp
salt.
Willow furniture should be scrubbed
well wtth salt and water, applied with a
nail brush, to clean It. Dry it thor
oughly.
A room wtth a low cetllDg will seem
higher If the window curtains hang to
the floor. Lambrequins may be used to
extend the cuitnlns to the celling and
thus carry out t he effect.
orrn .vir yohk spoktino JjEtter.
What Is Thought Ahont Jem SmltWi
Prospeets.
NEW YORK, *
*gggß&Q*- Sports in this
v city have little in
itio** terest in the talk
Jfe* Ik about a slugging
Kj _ SS match between
'
H6i&? 'O ij mit h, and al
w t yt though soma are
M '"fy"-* J inclined to beilevo
t I that such a meot
\ / Ing will take
> place, no ona j
J / seems to bare'
/IN about it one way j
O®A x /01 another. That \
VW' ■ "jfsjy TV Sullivan should
? so tar forget the ;
JK t SMITH. honors of the ring j
he has carp-lad away on several occasion:; I
as to meditate a battle with .Smith, is to ■
another class indicative that there was j
nothing in Sullivan's words when he
vowed after (ho Kilraln fight that ho
would never again be found in tho ring, [
and that the Huston bruiser is ready to
light with Tom, Dick or Hairy on the |
slightest provocation. Even if knocked
out Smith would make luoney, so that I
pugilists doeiio to light tho American
sluggor is easily explained.
Tho New York managers have added
tWO BOW men to their team. They are '
Hank . pitcher of the Washington
club, and Harry Lyons, fielder of the I
Jersey City club. Tho addition of these i
players to (ho Mow Yorks was necessary, j
be a.-; the Nt w forks' pitchers are In j
b.n! .ondltlou, and because tho olub ■ I
short of Holders. Crane is ..o lame that
he cannot pitch, and Koefe and Wei':
have not shown last years'form recent!;
O'Pny went to Washington with the Sen
ators, and joined the New Yorks to ; itch
his first game for the champions. I, von:,
also played his first game wi li tho New
Yorks Monday. His position for the
present will be right lield.
It is not likely that ho will play this
position regularly, but only unill Tier
nan or Slntteiy is nil right i. -cin.
Tiernan has boon sick for somo C.-.-c,
and nltfioueii ho has piayod right . lon
co has been in no condition 'o do so. |
Slatrerv tried ills hand in the game on
Friday, but it would not work. In tin
injury that ho received some time ago
the bono of one of his fingers WHS spii
and it has not heal d yet. H 111. '
■ renew the injury on any bad . i
tries for while at play. With the signing |
of Lyons the deal lor Ed Andrews wu '
declared off.
Harry Lyons was born in Philadelphia
twenty-two years ago. He is a sou of
h* popoular Police Lieutenant Ed.
Lyons of the Twenty-third district,
.yon* iirst professional eugag'-meii.
r. "S back to ib Q, wheu ho was a mein
our of the Kingston, N. V.. club. The
l ore part of tho season of lfc'67, found
him ith the Binghainpton club, and
when that team disbanded he wont to
Herainon, Pa., where he finished the
reason. He is a protege of W. if Volt;:
of the "Philadelphia Press," who has
advised him in all of his professional
.movements, and on tho recommendation
of that gentleman ho was signed by the
St. Louis club for ltiSS. His last appear
ance with the Browns was in one of the
world's championship games at the Polo
grounds la.i iall,when ho was so badly in
jured by colliding with another player,
it was thought that ho would never play
again, lie was very slow in signing llii
soa-on, and it was through the battering
comments h aid about Manager Powets
of the Jersey Oity club that he signe .
to play there.
Henry O'Day, or "Hank," as he is
more familiarly termed by his associ
ates on the diumond, has been a member
of the Washington club for the past four
seasons. Ho belonged to the Birming
ham, Aln., team, whence ho drifted to
Detroit, and became a member of the
ante nine with the Big Four. For some
reason he was not played by the Detroit
hut was kept on the reserved list,, until
in - was disposed of to the Washington-
Ho has pitched good ball for the Senatori
al times, but ho lias ope falling tlui
Manager Mutrle would do well !o 100
after, and that is, lie is very apt to •. ••
come sulky If aba ,o hit. or two is mud;
off his delivery. But when ho attend, j
o business, O Day can puzzle the crack I
batsmen of the country, and ho has at- :
ways been an enigma to the New Yorks !
Ju udditiou to his pitching qualiti-v
Hank has a praiseworthy ambition lo
shine as a sacrifice hitter, and he is al
ways anxious and energetic in his efforts
to iuovo one of his companions up a base
by a blocked or united hit. The New
Yorks have been anxious to draw him
for the past two years, and he is likely to
prove a decided acquisition to the Now
Forks in the race for the pennant. An
other feature about O'Day is that he has
no had habits, and is easily restrained
by his manager, and ho is ambitious to
make his mark as the pitcher of the
league.
As a pitcher, O'Day played last season
in forty-six games, his record showing
215 runs scored by opponents, of which
108 were earned, and the first base hits
made off' his delivery in the same num
ber of games aggregated 374. His per
centage of chances accepted was 639. In
hatting O'Day was 01 out of 95 player*
who look part in 15 or more champion
ship games, and In 47 games he made 2.'-
base hits, leading btaley and Morris of
t e Fittsburgs and Keefe and Titeomb
of the Now Yorks. O'Day Is a young
man, compactly built, and good for sev
eral years' hard work in the points if he
continues to take good care of him-
BSif.
It is not generally known that young
O'Brien, the Cleveland twirlor, whose
mystifying curves have been a sottroe of
worrinient. to the heavy batsmen of the
league, is a protege of our own Tim
Keefe. O'Brien took to ball playing
wnen quite young and as a boy had de
veloped into a fair pitcher. His first ap
pearance in a professional team was in
1885, when he signed with the Glen
Falls team of the Hudson Valley league,
which team won the championship.
While in Troy ho met Tim Keefe, who
was then on the Troy team. Under
Keefe's guidance Billy developed Into a
first-class ball twlrler. He thinks Keefe
is the peer of all pitchers, and In using
judgment In his pitching is without
equal. In 1886 O'Brien joined the Onei
das, of Oneida, N. Y., Central Now York
league, and helped tho team to carry off
the pennant. He played with this team
until 1887, when he went to Lima, Ohio,
Tri-State league, again winning the
championship. He pitched in eighteen
games, winning seventeen. In .Tune he
was sold to the C'levelands, while yet in
the American association, and beoatne a
league pitcher when Cleveland came into
the league. Every one knows what he
has done since then. He averages about
three games a week, and doesn't think
the work verj bard.
CHARLES WALKER.
j SINGULAR LAW CASES.
SOi.'E Til A T PVZZLKJ) LEGAL HE IDS
OX TIIO COXTIXEXTti.
A Problem China Over file Pn-.no
p. sr Wit Si He til—A Novel Point u
D'vwce Uw.- A AmuWng Cae f.i.ia
E;ts'ol.
There are con. inu ally arising lega,
questions' of BU'.'h uovul and peculiar
:•!: iraeter, as to buffi " '•<• perplex ev -a
tho acumen of the kc' Hno!, l' witfod law
yers of the day. Such instances - tdo
following ca.snot fail to be ainut ing and
interesting to •he genral r> 'ader, ; i.ys the
New York "Dispatch
A curious luav case was .recently re
ported from We.schow, in Clif.' lu - "■ a P"
pears to be quite a regular oust, >UI there
tor a man to litnrally pawn lift w ' ie
mother person, if he desires so to A
man reooutly took another man * wi ,'°
in pawn, on hearing! from ,uue asf% '•"'
i' rs tiiat the days of his own "1 \
half" were uuinbercoV. Tho agrienoh''
was, that tho woman •'"taken over' was
io i.o ready for appropriation when re
quired.
It afterward transpired that tills
woman liad already been pawned to a
third party, who was too poor to sup
perl h w comfortably, and that ; he lier
'oif had fraudnlently procured tier sec
•ud pawning. The problem for the
VVenciui . authorities is to find out the
legal rights of tho respective owners
ml pawners, the whole affair being
From Paris comes the report of an
other curious case. A certain countess
Insured her jewels, etc., against fire,
with an insurance company. An ear
ring, valued at C 22, ou tho mantel-piece
in ner dressing-room, was accidentally
knocked off, foil into tho fire, and was
burnt. Tho insurance company con
ended that thi- was not loss by fire
ivtthin the meaning of the policy, and
leclined to pay—"the ordinary tire (used
In the grate was not a fire," and so on
Tim Frencli court, however, decided that,
whether a grato-lire or any other kind of
ire. "a fire's a fire for a' that," and nc
■ordlngly made the insurance eompauy
pay uo.
Sometimes the cases brought bofore
lawyers for their ndvice are of n semi
ridiculous nature, on account of the novel
olrcum.stanceß In which the occurrence
jowplained of may have happened. The
aaso mentioned in Max Adder's "Elbow-
Room, " is, of course, pretty well known,
but us it gives a good idea of this class
of eases, wo will here touch upon it.
Two men owned a dog between them;
each paid half tho cost of the animal.
One of them, Tompkins, was afterward
bitten by it. Ho now wants to know
whether he cannot recover damages for
'•assault and battery" from Potts, the
other part-ownor. Of course it is clear
Mint such an idea is absurd on the face
>f it, because Tompkins would bo liable
for any misconduct on tho part of the
log, as part-owner, as well as Potts.
Another novel point In divorce law was
recently decided. A deceased wife's sis
ter who had married her brother-in-law,
applied that her marriage might be de
clared "null and void." The petitioner
naively admitted that she know the mar
riage to be of no legal value, but, for fear
of a deceased wife's sister's bill becom
ing law and having a retrospective effect,
she pressed for a decree, which, after
some hesitation, was granted.
Tho case, however, which must bo ac
corded the "palm" for genuine amuse
nmut is the following, which was tried
before the Bristol county court. The
plaintiff, having a right of pasturage on
a common, put two inlloh cows to graze.
The defendant also had a right of pas
turage, au 1 put on two calves. The
calves, as \ as quite natural, milked the
cows, and to such an extent that the
plaintiff only got about, a pint of milk a
day, and consequently brought this ac
tion against the defendant for damages.
His honor, Judge Motealf, gave him a
verdict, holding that the defendant had
no right to put sucking calves on the
common.
Two Miles of Melons.
"Georgia has the biggest watermelon
patch in the world." said Mr. J. J. Grif
lln, who has seen it. "Think of a lane |
two miles long with melons on each side i
as far as the oyo can reach. It is an in
teresting sight when the laborers go out
at daylight to gather the melons. Squads |
of Ihcmaro moving the vines aside to |
make v. >ads for the wagons to go through.
Others are thumping and cutting off the j
melons from the vines, while others fol
low, gathering the frait into the wagons.
I never saw anything like it.
"The larger melons will average forty
pounds and there will bo lots of sixty
pounders. There will be carloads of
1,200 melons with hardly a molon under
thirty-five or forty pounds. The com
pany who own this immense molon patch
of 800 acres, will make a big tiling out of
it. In my judgment their profit will be
not less than $l5O u carload, and they
will ship 400 loads. Sixty thousand dol
lars on 800 acres will beat ootton. With
out disaster, they will make such a suc
cess that the farmers who are watching
them will plant an immense ucreuge in
that section noxt year."—Atlanta Consti
tution.
Tile Suez lanal Traflle in 1880.
In 1888 303 more vessels passed
through the Suez canal than in the pre
vious year, the increase in tonnage being
737,810 tons. The percentage of the ton
nage of Great Britain was 78.65 of the
total, as compared with 78-31 in 1887,
Francs having diminished from 6.51 per
cent, in 1887 to 5.83 in 1888, and Italy
having diminished from 4.28 percent, to
4.03. Germany is now fourth on the list,
having taken the place of Holland, which
occupied that oositlon in 1887.
The tonnage for 1888 is the highest
ever registered. There has been a con
siderable development in the night traffic
through the canal. The average dura
tion of passago through the canal for the
total navigation was 30 3-4 hours, as com
pared with 34 hours in 1887 and 48 1-2
hours in 1883.
A Frightful Norway Avalanche.
On both sides of the Josen Fjord, on
the west coast of Norway, mountains
rise perpendicularly to a height of sev
eral thousand feot." One morning, some
days ago, stones and rocks, some of
which ore said to have boon as largo as a
house, began to fall on the western side
of the fjord. The avalanche contluued
for over two hours, accompanied by a
noise heard ten miles distant. A blaok
cloud settled over the fjord, the water of
whioh was in terrible commotion for
many hours.— Nature.
On the Beach at Nice,
"Yes," said Jagley, "the prince of
Wales was at Nice the same tlmo I was
there, last summer. While walking on
the beach I saw the the prints"
"What did he look like?"
"The prints of his feet on the sand.
They looked like number nines."—Judge-
JIFF..
Life 1 a ill very *treaa>
Lorn in ihc enjw' • liito arms;
Wo ou ;iN n IM, where they seem
Almoat to touch and to kin*.
Long for the ineriuaiden'a bliss
And ihe salt sea's soothing charma.
With lips rose-rc 1 apart.
Ami eyes bedr.iinod by tear*.
We f. 1 this y ; world'* heart
IU:-it;ng in. t. . o to our own.
Ami yet are ss one alone
In ii crowd of hopes aud tears.
TON- Iby an unrest wild,
Lr..wn by a hope upac *n—
A in thought an l a child!
We watt dee on to the en I.
V ith <u . u •: v be - in friend.
And a lib-it coin • down b us n.
- Sugi u: Field in •- Irr .gj News.
s 4xn si:: it i.v>.
J T!\o Cont i.l" Ins !.• ; I .'nmn ui:d
Curly, lire/ J
Men and women all, • n
('tils with a wilderness ev p
the leg up to the kuee, ami
di.play nn.l. i-e doo I . >:.• ... y
tii insolvortiurt fii.i.i - mi ■ i ,
iiiok-quiHou Juries, . tli i _.u i- ar
chiof over Liinii ut v. ■ ions nL'oru-
I said are urn nig the few pretiy <> ,-ts a
trnvelor enn .the mvu. with' hi .. Tom
5v i via as si- i'imoiis of n: v i ry.
Th. y aro • irked lun . of i ; l
Tuj/tisli s:ylo, :iad, tlw.igh rough in :nu
• ;t g| ' ai •! enide in n>l r, .-u- < ft'.-o:;. .. ,
chair®. r small table . lot's. Tin <•>.,-
product ( ; f H< country i the l'irot car.
not, wort.' l about a ducat or Iriah li ■
a square yict.T. 'lhe de-i ; a..* c
tremely prt Sty, and the rug , wiii.i
iielng so ii"A vy as l'er lan, or so ru , i
and scant tn xtro web and waaif as C'a 1
iiMtnian, w< arJVrcvor. rhoMatinfacf-.i'.,
of these is onfyivjv confln-ei to l'irot,
ru-jw the ilttlgoru'll frontier, from whl-lv
[itnee they uw thv'ir conn lerelal name.
The real industrial wealth of Sorviit
lies tn its pics. (%? of a r">pulation •••
0,000. 7,000,000 wi&'k on our log* wl'lt
an independent air. a vort of "a pig an 1
a rother" assumption t'f coequal rigii •.
>r privileges. The Mercian pig is cer
:ih a remarkable animal,and no otln i
; : : ism self-assertive, so strong, or so
..airy as he. "We huve seen one ol
!n*m." says a writer In the Saturday K -
view, "while driving along by the side of
nis master, insist on alighting where n -
•leased, which happened to be over he
nlash-board. No persuasion or argu
eiit could induce him lo alter his lain I,
nod it was not 1111 he had trlppeifl up Use
• v and upset the cart fliat ho va - sai
led d.
i tie mature hog's coat is of a deep reel'
brown and as curly us a retriever's, turn
ing to long gray bristles 'own bis baclt
is he advances ia yoars. !i presence Is
everywhere vi.sloio or audible. He crops
out on every hillside and from evety
thicket and copse, and lin> s iho banks of
te Danube in hundreds, while the train
ihat carries you away from Belgrade will
*>ss tracks packed with sq . aling pork
aud lasting imagination to conceive by
at ingenuity the beasts were ever in
ured to enter and be penned. When we
omember that King Alexander's great
rundfather was a swineherd at Takuvi..
we must further allow the pig hi- nt -lie
Servian history to add to ids uinmr
ml tmporttmee and artistic value.
Tnnu'd tlio Hote cm Oovernc**
(-Gubernatorial dignity mot with a scri
ms mishap a few evenings since, (lev.
Hoard, of Wisconsin, was sitting on a
neighbor's veranda in Madison on r.
pleasant evening, together with quite ...
party of ladies and gentlemen, while *
voiing lady of the neighborhood \vi;
playfully dallying with a hose on lb
lawn in front. Occasionally she won •
rougishly permit some spray to settle
gently over the party, at once naively
apologizing for her derelict iou.
Finally, Uio governor, who was in a
mood for fun himself, quietly arose, and,
with a twinkle in his eye, sauntered down
the walk in the direction of the young
lady, of course intending, when ago.-i
opportunity offered, to -• ;.o the hose ami
give the rog ish girl a good drenching
:or her mischievous pranks. Hut tin
latter, though appearing utterly uneon-
scions of her surroundings, was keenly
on the alert, .and. when the governor
was nil but ready to spring his joke, she
suddenly whirled and turned the hose
squarely on him.
A powerful stream struck tho manly
executive bosom, played festively aboui
the face, and wet the man from head to
loot. While tho deluged governor,
spluttering and dripping, stood duiui>-
,(ninued on tho lawn, his fair tormenoc
lied across the slued, her merry lai
•i being echoed by the many amu
speelatois of tho humorous episod •
Madison Journal,
litiil Frogs MS Bird Eater*.
Once, while out after snipe, not lnr
from Montreal, Canada, with Frank Liv
ingston, a well-known sportsman of To
ronto, we earao upon a spot where
some dozen birds or so were scatter. <1
about feeding, says a writer in "Foresi
aud Stream. ' Motioning to Frank to get
ready, we both raised our guns and fired
simultaneously, Frank killing two am
m y self one. My snipe was knocked over
in o tho water and what was my surprise
when, on reaching the bunk to secure
him, I saw an enormous bullfrog shoot
suddenly from the water, seize my game
and make off with It under my very
nose.
To say 1 was tlabbergastod or thu i
derstruck would bo a mild way of ex
pressing my astonishment at the audac
ity of this marine robber, but raising
my gun aud taking rapid aim 1 let him
have a charge of No. 3, which effectu
ally stopped him in his plundering
career. Ho had swallowed whole the
legs, body and all but tho head of a
snipe one-half the size of himself.
While returning one sumuior after
noon from beach bird shooting on tho
shore of Long Island a companion shot
a bank swallow, which felt on the mar
gin of a pool on the salt meadows. On
going to fish it up it could uot be fouud,
but in the water at the edge of tho pool
was seen the head of a huge bullfrog,
aud from its mouth projected, like two
horns, the tips of swallow's wings.
Colt* Lick a Calf.
A farmer named Hilton hired a very
Inexperienced boy to help him about the
place. One morning ho told the lad to
go and salt the calf over in the pasture.
Tho boy took about a quart of salt,
rubbed It all over the calf workiug it into
the hair. A gang of colts in the pasture
scented the salt and got after the calf.
Thoy licked the hair all off the calf's
back and tried to lick the hido off, too.
The farmer tried to catch tho calf to
wash It, but the creature, thinking he
wanted to lick, too, kept out of the way.
The boy, calf and farmer are all un
happy. This eolts are the only one* that
got any fun out of it.—Savannah &vob
liean.
A Frugal Mlntl.
C.—Are you going to leave your wife
at home this summer again when you
take your vacation?
p.—No, indeed ; I am going to take her
along. I spend too muoh money when
I am atone on my vacation.—Sittings.