It in estimated tlinl more gotit and '
silver lmvo been sunk In Iho sea thau
aro now in circulntion on tlio earth.
Gold is rapidly displacing sugar as
llio chief staple of British Guiana,
From 23 J onnoo in 1881 the produc
tion bos increased to 128.000 ounces.
It Is obtained chiefly ot present bjf
placer mining.
It is proposed to name a new street
in New York City Parkhurst avenue,
remarks the Chicngo Herald, even if
it docs break tho rulo that honors of
this sort shall be conferred ouly upon
people who are dead.
The shipping of all lintiona is of the
approximate value of 81,100,000,000,
while the 110,000 locomotives at work
represent a voluo of $1,000,000,000.
Tho railways give employment to
2,391,000 people, while shipping em
ploys only 705,000.
Hpniu bus spent upward of $110,000
000 iu suppressing iusurreotiouary up
risings in Cuba in the last thirty-five
years, aud there is abundant evidence
that she will have to make a consider
able addition to her expenditures in
that line during the presout year.
While the best cheap watches in the
world are made in the Uuited States
the finest watches sold hero stilt have
Hwus works. Hut as American
watches, guaranteed to lose or gain
less than a second a mouth, are sold
as low as 912, most persons are will
ing to forego (he Swiss works.
Recent statistics as to the public
libraries of the United States show
that Massachusetts ranks first with 212
free publio lihrries, with a total oi
2,70,000 volumes, or 1,233 volumes
to tvery 1,000 of the state's popula
tion. 'New Hampshire comes next,
with 42 libraries and 175,000 books,
or 434 volumes to every 1,000 of pop
nlatiou. Illinois ranks third, having
42 libraries, or 130 volumes to each
1,000 of the population.
It-cent statistics of longevity reveal
some interesting facts. Iu cold coun
tries tike Norway there are many cen
tenarians, and many are also found in
hot countries near the equator. Very
old people are numerous among the
mountains of the northern states and
in the swamps of Louisiana. They
are ' just as common in onr largest
cities as they are iu the farming dis'
tricts. Locality and olimate appar
ently have little to do with longevity,
concludes the Atlantic Constitution.
The New York Tribum exclaims
There is the succulent peauut 1 May
yon think it doesn't play a largo part
ou the industrial stage, but if you do,
you are mistaken. The yearly pro
duction of peanuts in this country is
about 88,000,000 pounds, Virginia,
Georgia, Tennessee and North Caro
lma harvesting the most in the order
named. But, after alt, the American
crup of peanuts is small compared
with that of Africa, which in 1892
hipped 400,000,000 pounds of pound
of peanuts to Europe.
Probably no other ship has done so
mnoh to level British naval pride
Old Ironsides, remarks the Chicago
Times-Herald. High rewards and
rapid promotion awaited the English
eommaudor who sailed into Spithead
with the dreaded Constitution as
prize. When, by the extraordinary
seamanship of Captain Isaac Hull, she
escaped the the clutches of a powerful
British squadron off Sandy Hook in
1813, after a chose of some sixty hours.
Cuptaiu Byron,- commanding one of
the khips of the pursuing squadron,
wrote to a friend in London : "Noth
thing can exceed my mortification
from tho extraordinary escape of the
American frigate. Ins even more
remarkable escape of the Cjnstitntiou
iu 1843 from another British squadron
off Port Praya caused the command
iug English oftloer to commit suicide,
Au interesting aud instructive ex
hibit in the Cotton States' Expositiou
at Atlanta, Go., will be a set of three
models, the oue to represent a 1G0
acre farm in the hill liudsoftbe
South, which, by bad management,
and especially by iinpryoor cutting o
the forest, has become gullidd, fur
rowed and siltel over, such ai on can
see in almost every State. The next
model will show how, with bush dams,
with ditching, proper drainage, with
terracing, with sodding and replant
ing, the lust grouud may be recovered,
while the third model, roprestmting
the 'same 160 acres, is to, show- how
finally the farm should look ideally,
with the fields and meadows and forest
growth properly disposed, , ia good
condition, the roads ruuniug at proper
levels instead of up aud down, the
suoes reiiuoud to the etualK-at extent
practicable. ,
Loyalty.
Truth Is protean, vet Its soul Is ons
Whatever form, whatcvar nams It takm,
It Is tho Unlit ol lifn, tha fire that wak
All that Is best beneath the anelent sua
Ami loyalty is truth the days may run
Their shining courses, but a brsvs boart
brsks
Bnfore It turns from honor or forsakes
A friend, a faith, a duty to bs dons.
In locally, t think, our souls fulfil
Their holiest mission, and divinely rise
Through large, fraternal tenderness until
Earth seems to hold tbs glamour of the
skies,
And all that man has wrought by steadfast
will
Biwomes a treasure for the brave and wise.
O. E. Moxtocmmt, In New York Hernld.
What Mrs. Pettigru Said.
CI W. f. LAMPTOM.
"Have another cup," insisted Mrs.
Pettigru.
"Thank you, no," I persisted, for
it was by no means Mrs. Pettigru's
first invitation.
Tho cup refcrrol to was of tea, a
beverage w hich I despise except on tho
occasion of its namesake, as a social
function, when by courtesy I intro
duce a small portion of it into my sys
tem, for purely polite reasons. I was
at ono of these functions when Mrs.
Pettigru was asking me to indulge,
and I had done so to tho extent of a
single cup.
It was quite late, and as Mrs. Petti
gru was not the hostess, and tuoro
were but few guests remaining, we had
a few minutes to ourselves in the quiet
corner where she had cozily ensconced
herself.
"Well," she said, whon .1 had set
my teacup on the table in' token of
rlual rofusil, "well, what have you
beau doing since I saw you last?"
It had been fully four days eiuce I
had seen Mrs. Pettigru, and in that
time a man can do great things.
"Nothing much," said L
"And I don't know of any one who
can do nothing as much as you can,"
she laughed, but not unkindly, for
women are not generally unkind to
men who have incomes of sufficient
magnitude to enable them to do noth-
iug, no matter how much of it they
may do.
' 'Really, " I yawned ; "what would
you havo me do?"
"Whon a man has nothing to do,"
she replied, "he generally gets mar
ried."
"Am I to cousider that as a sugges
tion that I go aud do likowise?,,
Isn't it almost time?" she said,
with the assurance of a woman who
has been in that condition herself for
an untold number of years.
But marriage isn't for time ; it's
for life," I contended lamely.
"How old are you?" This with an
air of a physioian who had tho right
to diagnosticate my case.
"Thirty-flvo, let us say, at a ven
ture," I smiled. "How old are you?"
"That's neither here northero," she
laughed. "I'm married"
Mrs. Pettigru was 40, and, I may
add, incidentally, that she was also
fat and fair.
"If the years stop when one mar
ries," said L "I think I shall announce
my engagement at onoe and follow it
immediately by the tying of the knot"
Mrs. Pettigru was evidently letting
her mind run off into some other
channel, for she passed my brilliant
repartee as if it had beon a dead stick
under her carriage wheels.
"When a man reaches 85," she said,
somewhat seriously, I thought, for a
woman at a tea, where one takes noth
ing seriously exoept the tea, "it is
really time that he began to think
where he stands on this important
question."
"What if he knows where he
stands?" I interrupted inquiringly.
"Then be doesn't need to think,"
she said with a look that was full of
interrogation points.
"I'm not so sure," I contended.
"In faot, I am almost sure that then is
the time when he should do his most
serious thinking."
"Of course, if he knows that he
will make a conft.-med bachelor of
himself," she put iu very quickly.
"You thiuk be should think of some
way of getting out of suoh a dreadful
situation?" I asked, letting the argu
ment go her way.
"That's it exactly."
"And of course, there is only one
safe way?"
Certainly."
"But I'm not ready to die yet," I
said gravely.
' "Die?" she exolaimed "Who said
anything about dying? Oet married I"
"Oh," and I was on the point of
adding a few more flashes of wisdom
to our alruady dazzling dallianoewhen
the lovely Miss Fitob appeared and
presented a claim for a cup of tea.
'Really," sfie twittered as Mrs,
Pt'ttigrii, was pouring it, "it ii too bad.
to interrupt such a charming tete a
tete, but there was no possible way to
avoid it, unless I missod my cup of
ton, and I am so shivery from the raw
air outsido that I couldn't think of it."
"And we aro so glad you didn't," I
hastened to say. "We have been dis
cussing a very important question."
"The New Woman?" ventured Miss
Fitch, who had a stray "advanced"
idea or two, which she was fond ot
an giving airing, now aud thon, when
the men she was talking to were not
eligible, or the women were so old
fashioned aud narrow in their views ot
woman's sphere as to be tiresome.
"No ; any woman," laughed Mrs.
Pettigru. "I was urging Mr. Mcrgl
troyd to marry, and as he dossu't ap
pear to have auy mind at all on tho
subjoct, I think any woman is hotter
than no woman."
Fedora Fitch looked at mo as if she
thought I were giveu to the prevari
eating habit, but said nothing which
would lend a casual auditor to thiuk
she thought so.
"Mr. MergitroyJ," is what she did
say, "has some queer notious on the
subject of matrimony, and incidental'
ly, on women in goucral."
"And oue woman in particular," I
added in a tone which struck Mrs.
Pettigru into attention.
"Is there any woman in the world
he thiuks of more thau he does of any
other womau?" she asked quickly.
"Of course uot," I auBwered for
Alisi Fitch. "If there wjre bo would
marry her."
"Men are so conceited," laughed
Miss Fitch to Mrs. Pettigru.
"Peoplo who live iu glass honscs
shouldn't throw stones, my dour," said
Mrs. re Ilium to Miss Filch. "As
soon as I have finished my lecture to
Mr. Mergitroyd and got him started
on the right path, I'm going to take
up your case. Let me sec," aud she
began counting on her fingors, "you
are 24, aud if yon weren't already
quite rich, 1 should bogiu to make a
match between you two, but I'd pre'
ler to divide you up uetwjon persons
who aro less well-to-do, in order to
distribute the wealth of nations, as it
were. Besides, I don't quite think you
are suitable to each othor. You never
would get along smoothly, because
yon are both altogether too sensible."
"Is it necessary that one of the con
tracting parties in a marriage be a
fool?" I inquired with the natural
cynicism of a man who was still a
bachelor at 35.
Mrs. Pettigru laughed Miss Fitch
lookod rather hard at me.
"I have never heard as mnoh in
timated," said Mrs. Pettigru. "It's
tho affinity of contrast that is needed
in these affairs to make thorn last,"
she added.
"Does it make nny difference which
one is the fool?" asked Miss Fitch.
"I presume not, but it always soem
ed to me to bo more natural for a man
to be a fool over a woman than for a
woman to be a fool over a man," re
plied Mrs. Pettigru.
I don't know why it was, but my
face reddoned, and when I turned my
eyes toward Miss Fitch and sho smiled
faintly, my embarrassment made me
unoomfortablo.
' Mrs. Pettigru was a dear friond of
both Miss Fitch and myself, and sho
talked to us much as she . pleased ;
still, I didn't want her to see that I
was embarassod on the woman ques
tion. "And yet," remarked Miss Fitoh in
an argumoutativo tone, "some men
wouldn't for the world want to be
thought they were foolish over wo
men. "
''That's because they have inherited
the feeling that they are the lords of
creation, and the dignity ot that lofty
position must be maintained at any
cost," laughed Mrs. Pettigru.
"I don't think I was ever a fool over
a woman, l saia weakly, tuouaru l
tried to say it with superb oontldonce.
'My dear boy," responded Mrs,
Pettigru, much as a mother would
speak to her child, "do take another
cup of tea. Your nerves need strength
ening."
Fedora Fitch laughed outright and
Mrs. Pettigru poured me a cup of tea.
"Thanks, no," I soid, trying to laugh.
"I don't want it, I baliove." I added,
rising, "that I never made a fool of
myself over a woman, but I did not
say I was uot a ooward iu the preseuoe
of two. I am, and I propose now to
flee away and be at rest. The next
time I go to a tea I shall take a life
preserver with me."
. "Suppose you take a life preserver
with you wheu yon leave a tea," sug
gested Miss Fitch, rising also.
"Oh, that was bouutifully done,"
exclaimed Mrs. Pettigru. "Now, like
a good boy, let Fedora go with you.
It is almost dark and she neoda au es
cjrt home." ' , ;
"Will Miss Fito'i pocnlt me?" J,
I 'ea.witU a bow. .
"Miss Fitch will be charmed," she
replied roturning the bow.
"I'm dreadful sorry two such poo-
pie, as yon two are, noversecm to core
for each othor except as friends," said
Mrs. Pettigru as we moved away, and
with a conjoint smile and "good day"
we wont to find the hostoss and then
started fur home.
"Mrs. Pettigru is a dear, good
soul," I said when we had gained tho
street.
"Hhe has queer notions about u,
though?" responded Miss Fitch.
"They ore mine to a line," said I
boldly.
"I didn't know you agreed with any
woman," she said.
"I certaiuly do not with one I
know?"
"Who is that?"
"Miss Fedora Fitch."
"Iu what particular, pray?"
"I want to marry her and she
doosu't want me to," I answered with
a vehemence that would have been
startling to most women, but it was
not so to Miss Fitch, for sho had heard
tho same thing from me many times,
notwithstanding the opinion Mrs.
Pettigru held of me.
"You simply don't know a woman at
all," sho replied. "You think you do,
aud you pose as an authority, but you
are so ignorant that really I pity you."
The outlook was no more hopeful
thau on many previous occasions and
I felt myself going down into the
depths of despond onoe more, but I
made a hcroio effort
"Pity is akin to lovo," I ventured.
Miss Fitch laughod
"You are the only woman in tho
world who can teach me what you pity
my ignoranoo of," I said, desperately.
"But what would Mrs. Pottigru
say?" she hesitated.
"Well, of all people! Yon two I"
is what she did say when we appeared
before her next day to communicate
the glad tidings. Detroit Free Press.
Mandalay "Incomparable Pagoda."
Tho pagoda is our main quest, and
we pass out from the monastery into
the glare, and crossing the Vacant
space before this tompte co'me under
the spell of its silent beauty. Whence
came these new yet wonderful effects
of symmotery and beauty? this new
school, yet old, of architectonics, this
new scheme of adornment? We see
here, finally realized, the charm of
uniformity, of right equalling loft, of
repitition on equal or variant scale,
Scan thin pagoda, the Incomparable,
as it glows before you iu its noonday
light; go around about it; tell tho
towers thereof. Man cannot dony its
power and its oonipletonoss. Yet see
from what simple motives it has built
itself up. Those strong round arches
of the lower story subordinate their
own oruameut to the beautiful detail
of the parapet above them ; and from
this upper platform reached by a no
ble swoop of steps, grow tier on tier
of hssitiing stories, until the whole is
completed The effect is produced,
moreover, by the simplest of mate
rials. No costly marbles are here
stonework only, and briobwork, rude
and honest, and coated with stucco
and dazzling whitewash ; in detailed
scrutiny, rough and unroflnod ; in re
suit incomparable. Outing.
A Flycatcher's Com ting.
"A pair of least flycatchers wore
flitting about a gully, spanned by
foot-bridge, on my left The male
acted precisely as if he were intoxl
coted. He would stort from some
twin near the ground, or from the
grouud itself, in a spiral flight upward.
suapping his bill loudly, chattering in
the most extravagant fashion, and
erv few seconds losing his balance
aud turning a complete somersault,
Wheu he readied the treotops he
would come down agaiu in much the
same stylo, the somersaults ouly being
rather more frequeut and reckless.
Once more on his peroh ho would sit
quietly with rufiiod plumage aud flash
iug eyes until he took it into his head
to renew his gymuitstio performances,
or until some passing insect tempte
him to make a sally for a utilitarian
purpose. ; Doubtless this was his
method ot- expressing suutiments
expressing
to
whioh
his
more gifted
ai-omates
among tue mru
song." Outing.
gave
utterauce iu
A Modest Vagrant.
"Excuse a poor man out vt work. I
want a few more coppers to pay for my
night's lodgiug."
"How much more do you want?
"Twopeuoe halfpenny." '
"Hero's the money. Now don't you
beg auy more. "
"Much obliged, but, you see, sir, I
must go round to the other gentlemeu,
else' they'll imagine I've grown proud,
and I wouldn't have that said ot tne
ou aooojo ut," Fliegeuda Blatter.
FOR FARM AND GARDE
MrmnttniMTt op wheat.
The recent extensive use of wheat
as an animal food has led to Investiga
tions as to its digostibility. It lias
been found that the latter is increased
10 per cent by feeding the wheat
crocked instead of whole. Contain
ing less fat, this grain Is better suited
than corn for the production ot loan
meat The Minnesota station also
finds that the manure from wheat is
worth about oue-quarter more than
that from corn. New York World
KEnvoi'S ttonsfes.
Finely bred, intelligent horsos ore
often very norvous. Thoy aro quick
to take notice, quick to take alarm,
quick to do what soems to them, in
moments of sudden terror, necessary
to escape from possible barm from
something they do uot understand.
This is why they shy, bolt and run
away. A Bheet of white paper in the
road may seem a yawning chasm ; the
open front of a baby carriage the jaws
of a dragon ready to devour him, and
o man on a bicyclo somo terrifying
sort of a flying devil without wings.
But we find that tho moment he be
oomos familiar with those things, or
any that affright him, and knows what
they are, he grows indifferent to them.
Therefore when your horse shies at
anything, make him acquainted with
it; lot him smell it, touch it with his
sensitive upper lip and look closely ot
it
TO TEST F.OQ3.
Ot course, in every sotting there ore
apt to be uufortile eggs. If these are
taken out and others put in their place
you aro more apt to have a better
hatch, as tho hen has beon sitting on
eggs for three long weeks that could
not possibly hatch. In the first plaoo,
whon sotting the hen use only eggs of
a medium size not too large or too
small. After they have been under
going the hatching prooess fur three
or four days, got a lamp that has a
oloar ond bright light, ond in the dark
hold an egg to tho end of a tube which
can be made by rolling papor so that
it is open at each end. Look through
the tube and egg at the light The
egg that seems to be entirely clear you
can rest assured is not fertile, and it
will be perfeetly useless to place it
book under the hon ; but if it is dark
or contains large spots or specks on
the inside you hove excellent chances
ot hatching a chick from it New
York Witness.
FARIIOWINO TIMS.
At farrowing time a thin sow is al
most as objectionable as a tut one, as
the high feeding it is neoossary to
start iu with is apt to bring back the
fovor in her system to the injury of
hersolf and litter, while a fat sow is
feverish, ill-tempered and oaroless of
her offspring. To keep the. sow in
good order feed modoratoly until af
ter the pigs come. For the first twou
ty-four hours after farrowing keep
oway oil food exoept a few quarts of
bran, given as a driuk, in plenty of
warm water. The feed should then be
increased gradually, until at the end
of a week the sow is on full feed
While suokling hor pigs the dam
shonld be aided in the production ot
milk by liberal and judioious feeding.
Good slop and oorn, and acoess to the
best pasture should be given. When
three or four weeks old the pigs msy
be separated from the dam, and shelled
oorn may be supplied, but it is not
good to give them too muoh corn or
meal. Milk ond bran make growth
and musole. At eight weeks they may
be completey weaned, and may be fed
all tbey will eat Remember that the
hog is a grazing animal, and give them
a chance to follow nature by providing
pasture. New York World.
PREBERVINO EOOS FOR TON0 PERIODS.
Numerous metnods of preserving
epris are in mo. The idea of all of
this is to keop air out of the egg, as by
such absence of oxygon decay can be
arrested for a considerable length of
time, especially if the eggs are per
fectly fresh at the start aud are kept
in a oool dark place. The standurd
method, most used by speculator and
dealers, is to put the eggs in lime water,
The process is as follows, this recipe
hsving been widely sold at S3 under
pledge ot secrecy;
Take twenty-tour gallons of water,
twelve pounds of unslaked lime aud
four pounds of salt, or in that pro
portion acoording to the quantity of
eggs to be preserved Stir several
times doily and then let stand until
the liquor has settled and is perfeotly
clear. Draw or osrefully dip off the
clear liquid, leaving the sediment.
Take for the above amount of liquid
five ouuoes each ot baking soda.
ct.am of tartar, adtpeter and borax.
and an ounco of alum. Pulverize and
mix these and dissolve iu one gallon
of boiling water and add to the mix
ture about twenty gallons of pure
litnowater. This will about fill a
older barrel. Tut the eggs in carefully
so os not to crack any of the shells,
letting tho wntor otways stand an inch
above the eggs, which can be done by
placing a barrel head a little smaller
upon them and weighting it This
amount of liquid will proserve 150
dozen eggs. Is it not necessary to
wait to got a full barrel or smaller
package ot eggs, but thoy can be put
in at any time that ther can bo obtain
ed fresh. The same liquid should be
used ouly once. Amorican Agricul
turist SOW LESS WHEAT.
It is always easier to offer advice
than to aconpt it. And this is espe
cially true when the person who offers
the advice has less practical experi
ence than those to whom it is offered,
because iu that case the adviser can
not appreciate fully tho difficulty of
utting his advice in practice. Never
theless, it is a fact, that a mere on
looker mar ot times be able to see
more clearly the progress of a battle
and the d ingors to whioh the contest.
ants are exposed than those who are in
the thick of the fight
The advice whioh heads this article
is offered to farmers throughout the
country in full consciousness of the
net that there may in many cases be
good reasons why it should not be fol
lowed That possibility does not, how
ever, weaken iu any degree, but rather
intensifies, tho argument that all who
can find nny other profitable use for
thoir land should for this year at
least, devote a smaller portion of it to
wheat thau has boon thoir oustom ; in
ordor that thoy may be loss dependent
npon the price of wheat for the suo-
coss of thoir year's operations, and
also that they may have a better ohance
to got a piying price for what wheat
they do raise.
In view of the continuous inorease
of the production of wheat in Russia
and in South Amorioa, there seems at
prosent to be little prospect that the
price ot wheat will advanoe to the
ures which wore ourrcnt three years
ago, even if there shall be a consider
able falling off in tho production of
wheat in this country. New York
Witness.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Keep only the best to breed from.
Only a fool punishes a horsa for be
ing afraid
"Bench talk" never kept a garden
free from weeds.
The general consonsus is that there
is no money in cooking food for stock.
The good horseman will water his
horsa before feeding him, espooially
in tho morniug.
A oold winter means a hot summer.
Tiie ioe made by the one will be need
ed by the other.
The way to apply lime is to broad
cast it on a newly-plowed field, so as
to retain it near the surface.
The oonstautly decreasing price of
the essential oil is likely to restrict
new plantings of popperment
Lettuce is perfectly hardy, and may
be sown in open ground as soon as the
soil is in proper working order.
An acre ot land is ample for a hun
dred hons, but more may be kept if
due care and oleanliness be observed
By gathering np and burning the
dead leaves and branches in the
orchard insects and fundus diseases
may often be held in check.
Mustard is a plant that farmers con
sider a weed, but it oaa be put to good
use, however. If not allowed to go
to seed, it is very easily kept down.
April is the best mouth to apply
manure to the orchard, as the growth
of the trees starts then, and the feed
ing roots ore ready for tuo food within
their reach.
If every man who owns and drives
horses really knew the difference be
tween a good horse and inferior ones,
there wouldn't be enottgh good ones
to go around, aud the commons would
be toll nf cost off, valueless horses,
says a contemporary.
For many years the value of wood
ashes as a portion ot the diet ot hogs
was unknown, but experiments bare
shown that whou wood a-thes were al
lowed with the food the bones are
strengthened Oround bone also gars
exoellent result when giveu to them.
If a field has not paid you, change
the soil or crop. Test the milk aud
dispose ot the profitless cows. Sell
the scrub horses and stop feeding
thetu. Get rid ot the surplus oooks
and the old hens. Weed out every
tiling unprofitable. It is true, today
that tbs ssveu wu Viae detour th
Wvaa tot kiuu.
L
A-Vfc.?'"''"