Political matter in Great Britian have began to attract attention snch an they have not received In a long time, ears Harold Frederic. Rnssia is snid to have crowded Eng land out of the flowery kingdom; bnt it is hardly probable. John Bull baa planted hi feet in that Chlua shop, and it will require something more than diplomacy to remove him. The butcher and meat denier of Berlin complain that $7,064,000 worth of meats were imported into Germany in 1890, principally from the United States and at prices with which they are unable to compete. They there fore petition the government to open the frontiers to the free importation of animals and meats from European countries, and to restrict by all prac ticable means the import of meats from America, which is steadily in creasing from year to year. Even in the matter of npples the Yankees have seized the market, and last yenr there were lauded at the single port of Hamburg before November 18, 61, 538 barrels. In short, Americau com petition is now spoken of in Europe as the "transatlantic danger." Thb latest advices from Pekin brought new stories illustrating the arrogance of the Europoan govern ments in their treatment of China. Until recently all business with for eign nations was transacted at the tsung-liyamen, and the members of the diplomatic corps visited that place almost daily whenever they had busi ness with the government. Bnt the Gcrmun minister compelled Weng Tung Ho, Chang Yen Yuen aud other members of the yatnen to come to his legation for the purpose of discussing the demands of the kaiser's govern . ment for indemnity for the death of the Jesuit missionaries and other matters relating to the occupation of Kiao-Chon. This is the first time .such humiliation has ever been iiu posed, ' ' Two years ago a Kansas colony con sisting of about a dozen persons sold out all their property and set forth with the proceeds to the Holy Lnnd, for the purpose of rebuilding Jerusa lem in preparation for the second coming of Christ. The fund all told consisted of about $10,000, aud it must have required faith as a grain of mustard soed to believe that such a sum would be suflicient to make the towers of imperial Salem again rise crowned with light and restore the splendors of Solomon's Temple. The experiment has, of conrse, turned out a failure, announces the New York Tribune, and the colonists are to re turn to Kansas, leaving Jerusalem to its natural processes of growth aud decay, as they ought to have done from the beginning. ; In starting life over agniu in the homes they aban doned they are not likely to find the experience acquired in their pious ex ile worth anything like the money it cost them. Says the Chicago Drovers' Journal : The tendency to feed cattle and not raise them is growing more popular with the farmers of the middle west every year. This is a short cnt to qnick returns, and saves about two years' time. Of conrse somebody has to raise the stock 'cattle, hut as this part of the industry can be carried on , more cheaply on the big ranches, farmers who raise corn prefer to let them have a monopoly on the breed ing nd raising end of it. The num ber of rancre cattle that are beinor fed on corn each winter is growing rapidly. Thin fact is just as notice able with sheep as with cattle, for naturally the same conditions aud re sults obtain. The revised figures showing the ex tent of the American grain crop for ' the past year have just been given out by the United States department of agriculture. The acreage devoted to the six principal cereals, vfz. : corn, " wheat, oats, lye, barley and buck wheat, aggregated 150,131,105 acres, while the total amount of grain pro duced aggregated 8,040,922,822 bush els. The value of the entire crop is estimated at 31,121,295,762. In de tail the figures showing the amount of each cereal produced, together with acreage aud valuation, are as follows: Aores. Corn, 80,003,051 Wheat, 89,405,001 Oats, 85,730.375 Rye, 1,703,501 Barley, 8,71U,ll Buckwb't 717,936 Bushel. 1,002,907,033 630,141,108 UOH.767,809 27.833.334 08.68S.127 UM1MI Value. 501,072,953 128.047,121 147,074,719 12,239,640 25,142.133 6,819,188 Total, 150,431.1(15 8,040,022,822 $1,121,205,702 White the figures represent but lit tle profit to the individual farmers b ettered over the United States, they, nevertheless serve to indicate the sur passing magnitude of the country, which it capable of producing harvests Is such abundance. THE COOO h co Will navnr nulls be lostt For somewhere In time's distant blue We Rain mora than It oost. And oft I think a strange surprise Will mmt as, as we vain 8oms dlsdnm that hidden lies, From deeds wa thought In Tain. i r tt sit cx 1 11V VV11VJUV1 "A regular Amazon!" said Junius Haven, shrugging his shoulders. "On the very top of a load of hay, with a straw hat pulled down over her eyes and a pitchfork in her hand!" "Now, Junius," cried ont Mary Haven, "you are talking arrant non sense." "A man must believe his senses, said Junius. "I asked for Miss Joce lyn, and the ancient beldame who was shelling peaa by the kitchen window pointed one skinny forefinger across the fields and answered, 'There she is, a-gettin' in the hay. They all stirs round lively in these parts when there a shower comin' up. Oness you'll find her, if you goes across lots.'" "And you?" qnestioned Mary. Mr. Haven smiled ironically. "I?" said he. "You must bear In mind that I was looking for a young lady, not for a farm boy a assistant, so i lust turned around and came home." "But there must be some mistake!" cried out impetuous Mary. "My El lice Jocelvn is a princess among women, tali and slender and graceful, who plays the harp and writes deli cious trnnscendeutal essays." "There was neither harp nor writing desk on the top of that load of hay," said Junius, very decidedly. "And pray, Mary, don't be offended, bnt I am rather disenchanted with your rus tic belles, after my afternoon a experi ence. Beach me a cigar, please, and don't let anyone disturb me lor a while, there's a darling!" Mary Haven obeyed. Was not Ju nins, newly arrived from .Lurope, a very shah and sultan among men, to be waited on and humored in bis every caprice? But while she found the cigar-case, handed the newspaper and regulated the exact fall of the curtain-folds which should be most agreeable to her brother's optical partialities, she puz zled her brain as to how and why aud wherefore this little plan of hers for an instant attachment between Jnnius and Ellice Jocelyn had thus come to an nntitnely standstill. - "It's the most unaccountable thing in the world," said Mary to herself, "I think I'll go over and see what it all means." Low and long, with gabled fronts and bay windows, all wreathed about with trumpet creepers and blue-cupped Convolvulus vines, the Jocelyn farm house stretched itself ont under the umbrageous walnut trees, with Ellice's hammock swinging in the porch and Ellice herself, posed like a woodland nymph. She was certainly very pretty, this fair-haired blonde, with the complexion of sea-shell pink, the china-blue eyes, the dimples on cheek and chin, the muslin dress that looked as if it might have been just taken out of the win dows of a New York modiste and she came forward, cool and composed, to meet Miss Haven, as if the June sun were not blazing overhead and the thermometer in the porch did not stand at 00 degrees in the shade. "So glad to see yon. dear!" said Miss Jocelyn, with the princess air which teemed to sit to naturally on ner. "Dear Ellioe," said Mary, plunging precipitately into her subject, "where have you been all the morning?" "Where have I been?" "Believe me, I am not asking from mere curiosity," pleaded Mary. nave a reason, ion win answer me, I know." "Certainly! Why shouldn't I?' said the Serene One, liftiUK her colden brows the sixteenth part of an inch, "Let me see I was in the glen, sketch' inj the beautiful mossy boulders by the spring, until the shower came np. and then I sat in my own room and wrote a few letters." "lhon it couldn't have been you, alter all!" bluntly ejaculated Alary, "What couldn't have been me?" "The girl with the pitch-fork on the top of the load of hay." And then, laughing heartily at ber own blunder, Mary related the morn ing adventure of her brother. "It must have been Una," said El lice Jocelyn, with a slight shadow of annoyance upon her smooth brow. "Una! The little sister who has just rotnrned from boarding school? Miss Jooelyn inolined her head. "There is no end to that child pranks," said she,itnpatieutly. "Aud papa indulges her in everything. Dear, dear! I hope your brother wasn't very mncn shocked? "I'm afraid he was," said truthful Mary, "He supposed it was yon, of course. And he said yon were a reg nlar Amazon and that he didn't care to make the acquaintance of a farm boy's assistant!" Ellice clasped her hands together in syiph-uue despair. , "It's enough to drive one frantic, said she. And in the same moment a brown cheeked damsel, with chestnut curl tangled around ber neck and a pretty brown cambric dress, burst into the room like a beam of sunshine. "It isn't true!" said she, defiantly, "I'm not an Amazon, and nobody has any misiness to call me a farm boy i assistant!" "Una!" softly pleaded Ellioe. liftins ber white palms, as if to ward off this udden gust of breezy defiance. "And the hay would have ben WE DO. Oh, toller In a wear? land. Work on with cheerful face. And sow the seed with lavish hand, With all the gentle grace That marks a brave yet loving soul, A soul of royal birth, And golden harvests shall enfold Your own bright, blessed earth. rax Iflflfiifflc? JA Ul UUUIUJ poiled if I hadn't helped to get it in and poor old Hana would have been scharged for forgetting; and, besides. wasn't Maud Muller, in the poem, a haymaker? And did anyone dare to criticise her?" I am sure " mildly commenced Miss Haven. "Oh, don't make any apologies!" said little Una, with her retronsse nose in the air and two red spots on er cheeks, "And tell yonr brother, Miss Mary, that I am as little anxious to make his acquaintance as he is mine." And exit Una, not without some slight emphasis on the closing of the door. "How pretty she has grown!" said Mary Haven, in admiration. "Do von think so? said illice, a little doubtfully. "She is so dark and so abrupt, yon know; and then he has no charm of manner poor. dear, little Una!" Junius Haven laughed a little when the younger Mis Jocelyn's defiant messnge was brought to him. She need not be alarmed," he said. "There is no sort of probability that we Bhnll be brought into contact with each other." But "Man proposes and Ood dis poses," says the sparkling little prov erb, and the week was not ont before Mr. Junius Haven, strolling among the picturesque woods, fonud himself in a mined saw mill, where tall, sweet fern bushes grew through the yawning crevices of the mouldering floor, and sunbeams sifted like misty lines of gold between the cracks in the roof above. "There must be a view from that peak," said Haven to himself; and springing np a slight ladder, which reared itself from beam to beam, he picked his Way across the perilous flooring to the window, which looked out over a breezy stretch of vale and upland, where the blue windings of a river flashed in the sunshine, and. the undulations of a distaut mountain chain seemed to close np the horizon with its purple gateways. As he stood there, feasting bis eyes npon the prospect, a slight noise below attracted his ear; he hurried to the edge of the floor only in time to dis cover that the ladder, his sole meant of escape, was walking off upon the shoulders of a stout, silver-haired old man, who whistled cheerfully as he went. "Halloo!" shouted Jnnius. "Hold on there, my man! Where are you going with that ladder?" No auswer no response of any na ture. "Is the man deaf?" cried Junius, in a sort of frenzy. That was precisely what old Hans Dicfondorf was. As deaf as the pro verbial post. Pretty Una Jocelyn was waiting for him on the edge of the ruins, holding np one pretty finger. "Hush, Hans!" said she. "Don't yon hear tome one calling?" Me not bear nottiug, said old Hans, whose dull ears could catch Una'a clear, tweet voice, when all the ahonting of the farm hands was iuau dible to him. "It must be de cat birds or tome one who shoots squir rels in de glen, may happen." No, said Una, crisply; "it is a vojee calling. Stay here, Hans, until I come back." Hans stood still, contentedly, with the ladder on his back, while his young mistress hurried np the steep bank as fast as she could. Who is it?" the cried, in a voice sweet and shrill as a thrush's warble, It is II" responded Mr. Junius Haven, plaintively. "I climbed up here, and now some one hat taken the ladder awav, and I can t get back. Una stood there, tall, brown-cheeked, with her hands clasped behind her back and the wind blowing her chest nut curls about, while a mischievous light scintillated under her long, dark eyelashes. uu," said she,"! understand) lou are Mr. Haven? And you are Miss Una Jocelyn?" said he, coloring and biting hit lip. "Exaotly," responded the girl. "And here is an excellent opportunity for me to be avenged. You have called me an Amazon, a farm boy's assistant all manner of names, and you are at my mercy now." "xes, confessed Mr. naven, pent' tently; "it's all true." 'Don t you think it would serve you right," went on Una, severely, "if sent old Hans home with the ladder, instead of recalling him to your assist. ance? ' "Of course it would," said Haven, ".So do I," said Una; "but I mean -to be magnanimous. Hantl Hani! Clear and flute-like her voice sounded down the glen, and old Hana' husky accents replied: "Yaw, yawl I ish coming!" Una Jocelyn in the meantime stood looking at Mr. Haven at coolly at if be were a Sphinx or an obelisk or some sucn marvel of the universe. Mr. Haven regarded her on bis part with a tort of meek propitiation, and when at last be had descended and stood on the green turf beside hit fair rescuer, be held out bit bands. "I hope we are friends?" laid he. "Oh, certainly!" But the made no motion to take the extended palm. "Won't yon shake hands with me?" be asked, in tome discomfiture. "I didn't suppose you cared to shake hands with a regular Amazon," said Miss Una, sarcastically. "It was a foolish speech," said Ha ven, vehemently, "and I've been sorry for it a score of timet since it waa spoken I" Una turned to blm with smile that illuminated her piquant face. "In that case it shall be forgotten," said she. "And I'm very glad that old Hana brought the ladder here to look for my poll-parrot that hat been lost these two days." "I wonder if I conldn't help find it?" said Mr. Haven, eagerly. "I don't know," taid Una, demurely. "You might try." They did try. The parrot was not found, for he had been stolen by a tramp who slept in the Jocelyn barn two nights before; But Mr. Haven and Miss Jocelyn became excellent friends in the progress of the quest. Una forgave hinf nis city-bred preju dices, and he began to see things through the medium of her clear and brilliant eyes. They had called her a child, bnt she was such a bright,orig- inal sort of child I And one evening, about a fortnight subsequently, Mr. Haven astonished his sister by saying, abruptly: "Well, Tolly" (the name be always used when he was in an especially good humor), "I have a piece of newt for yon. I have proposed to Miss Jocelyn, and the has been graciously pleased to accept me." Mary clasped ber bands in delight. "Oh, Juniusl" the cried, rapturous- iy- . . 'But not your Miss Jocelyn," he added "not the one like an exagger ated wax doll. It is Una that I mean my dark-eyed queen of the brunettes my little compound of Are and dew and sparkle!" - "Oh," said Mary, "I am eure I'm very glad!" i But she thought, and so did Mist Ellice Jocelyn, that there was no ac counting for the erratio direction taken by the current of true love. Saturday Night. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Dutch omnibuses are fitted with let- tor boxes. Birmingham turns out five tons of hairpins every week. One of the Oerman cities boasts a street laid with rubber. Six thousand people sleep in the open air in London every night. Over one thousand children are born yearly in the London workhouses. Two thousand two hundred trains leave London ordinarily every twenty four hours. Nearly $5,000,000 worth of proprie tary medicines are exported from the United Kingdom each year. There are nearly 19,000 hounds maintained in the United Kingdom ex clusively for hunting purposes. Kerosene from Sumatra is entering the markets of the far East in compe tition with the Russian oil. In Berlin and Leipaio cyclometers are attached to cabs, so thnt the occu pant may know his legal fare. There are BOS miles of street rail ways in Ht. Louis now, and they carry 100,000,000 passengers a year. Great preparations are being made for the Stock Growers convention to be held in Denver on January 20th. It is stated that sharks have now penetrated into the Mediterranean through the Suez canal from the ited sea. In France there have been found only two criminals whose measure' menta by the tseriiiion system coin' cided. The Adams homestead at Qnincy, Miss., hat been restored under the direction of the Uuincy Historical society. ' The oldest living clergyman of the Church of England, the ltev. Edward Allen of Tiverton, Devon, recently celebrated his hundredth birthday. A substitute for honey bat been in' troduced in Germany under the nams of sugar-honey, and consists of sugar, water, minute amounts of mineral sub stances and free acid. In the British Lord Chamberlain's department the position of chimney' sweeper is held by a woman, and the office of statuary mason is also filled by a member of the fair sex. ' Marie Antoinette was the first per son who broke the absurd fashion ol dressing infant boys as droll minia tures of their fathers. She attired th unfortunate dauphin in a simple blue jacket aud trousers. Bignor Tosti, the famous composer, after a bard day s work, either teach' ing bit many royal pupils or in com' posing, teekt recreation at his favor ite amusement of upholstering. Th greater part of the ohairt and thi whole of hit wife't boudoir have thus been upholttered by Signor Tosti. 100,000 In Elephant Tusks. Zanzibar is to the trade in ivorj what Cape Town is to the diamond business. Many carloads of mam' moth tusks are shipped from Zanzi bar eaoh mouth of the year, aud native merchant! have grown iramenseli wealthy in the business of gathering and shipping the elephant's contribU' tion to the world s commerce. The largest shipment of ivory tuski ever sent from Zanzibar was trans' ported on the sailing vessel Madeira to Aden and thence by steamer to New York. The value of the shipment amounted to nearly 9100,000, aud con sisted of 800 magnificent tusks, weigh ing 22,307 pounds. Enough billiard balls could be made from this pile of tutkt on which to roll the New York poatoffioe from the Bsttery to Harlem, -Mew xork journal. flu API Inconi Tlraalra (MVVI lllCVVi m. ivuno Produced by Grafting. According to the New York World, 1 Henry E. Crarapton, jr., an instructor in biology in Columbia University has euooessfully accomplished what seems at first blush to be the impossible. By the use of bis knife, on living, breath ing nature, and then the grafting pro cess, he bat produced and amazing collection of monstrosities in the in eot kingdom. In other words, he baa created two headed butterflies, tandem butterflies, motha with two heads and no tails, tome with two abdomens, others with two breasts and no backs, and all im aginable varieties. He hat jumbled the tnatomy of the insects into a be wildering mixture, aud what it of supreme importance, has demonstrated to the satisfaction of scientists, for the first time in the history of soience, the possibility of upsetting what are re garded as the fundamental laws of nature. At yet the experiments of Mr. Cramp- ton are in incipient stages. It is be lieved by .other biologists that it may be possible to extend his findings into higher animal life and ultimately pro duce combinations of superlative oddi ty. The practical value of his dis coveries bat not yet been determined, bnt they may prove to be of service to physicians, and in that event, it it said, the whole soience of medicine will be uprooted and reorganized. The discoverer it only twenty-four BUTTERFLIES MADE (Henry E. Crampton, Jr., Instruotor In biology In Columbia Unl vanity. In his labors-. years of age. He stumbled npon the grafting idea a year ago while examin ing the phenomenon of cellular life that it, the life of certain inseots in the pupae etage. He never made muoh of his discoveries, and they would not be known now were it not that Professor J. B. Smith, who has oharge of the biologioal department of the New Jersey State Experiment Station at New Brunswick, N. J., in an address before the New Jersey Miorosoooioa Society at New Brunswick referred briefly to them. On Deoember 28 last the American Society of Naturalists held its annual convention at Ithaca, N. Y. One of the speakers at the convention was Mr. Crampton. He bad with him twenty-five jars in which were pre served in alcohol that number of spec imens of motha and butterflies with their anatomies completely mixed. These created a profound sensation. Mr.' Crampton modestly explained bow be bad achieved the wonder. In hit laboratory at New Brunswick Professor Smith demonstrated to a re porter for the New York World bow the grafting was done, i torn ills col lection be took two caterpillars, in the puptn or third stage of the caterpillar's life, when it it developing into a moth or butterfly. In the puprn stage the caterpillar rests in a cell somewhat like the shell of a peanut, but two and a half times as long and half again as large in di ameter. When this cell is cnt open the evoluting inmate it found to be a strange looking objeot about an inoh in length, half an inch in diameter, tapering sharply atone end and round ing bluntly at the other. The specimens exhibited by Profes sor Smith were dark brown in color. When the cells were first ont open the pupoB moved. With the blade of his penknife ProfessorlSmith Cut off what he said was the head of one of the cat erpillars. Then be plaoed it along side of the whole one. The interior of the pupae woe a substance of the color and about the density ol con densed milk. "The grafting process," the profes sor said, "is simply this. The bead is attached to the body of the other with paratine wax. In other words, it is soldered on to the other pupae. Then the combination ia put away and allowed to grow. In due time the eupee develops into a two-beaded I moth or butterfly. "Before grafting it attempted the pupae should be kept on ice. ' Ol course tncoest it not met with every time. Mr. Crampton met with man failures before he Snail producing one living monstrosity. In all be hat reared several hundred." "Do you believe these in vestige tlons will nrnva nf nranttnsl physicians?" "ihe whole subject," answered Professor Smith "is only in its incipi ent stairs. It tilt nartalntv nmnij .... new and startling avenues for scien tiflo exploration. Whether grafting of this kind can be done on higher, animals and human beings cannot be said at this time. Surireons have made new noses by grafting the skin from fingers of patients, but of course that is an tnniimlflnitnf matt pared to the grafting done by MrJ vrampion on nis insects, ho man can foretell what bis discoveries may lead to." How Gold Was Found on the Klondike. "The River Trip to the Klondike' is desoribed in the Century by John! Sidney Webb. The author says: The famous Bonanza Creek and the more famous El Dorado Creek are very; like ordinary everv-day creeks in apt) Eearanoe a little less civilized, pet aps, than creeks to be met with iU the East, There are men living in Alaska to-day who have hunted moose over these creeks dozen of times; but,; QUEER TO ORDER. lory gramng puuermes ana moins.j , as Ihe old miners tay, there were no) aunaoe indications to lead any one to, suppose that gold might be found them, so hundreds of miners pess by in their boats, going to Forty Mile, and Cirole City. The rinding of tncbJ gold it always an accident, and thai old handa are usually the last to real' ize the truth. "Stick George" Corl mack and bis squaw't relatives camped on the creek lor dinner one day, and) somehow got to digging, and washed ont tome gold. He went to Forty Mile and made a claim for discovery, and toon the newt spread like wildl fire. Found Fossil Cypress Swamp. During a reoent excursion to Bodkin Point, at the mouth of the Patapsco.1 under the auspices of the Maryland Geological Survey and the Woman' College Museum, a fossil cypresl swamp deposit was found buried twelve feet beneath the surfaoe, it having been exposed to view by the action of the waves in wearing awayj the bay cliffs. Numeront cypresa stumps were teen in upright position with their roots in plaoe, and exhibit ing the peouliar "knees" characteristic of these trees. Some of the stumpf were of gigantio dimensions, the larg est measuring about ten feet in diam eter at the top. The stumps, roots and trees are in a surprising state of preservation as toft brown lignite. Baltimore Sun. Oldest Twins In the World. . Hugh and Hector MoLean, of Diok inson, Harnett County, N. C, cel ebrated their eighty-eighth birthday KT7Q.H u'leax. bxctob m'uaw. recently. Their grandfather came to tola country frem Scotland after thi rebellion of 1749.
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