GROUND tl MAINTAINED. Pha Vaerionco dnd Semthisuts of a Re- markable Landstape Gardener—Some- thing About Ornmmental Trees, Flower Beds and Shrods, ? [Epecial oi riesgndence. i New Yorx, May 8.—It takes about ‘800 men all the working hours of the _ rather more thap 300 scovlar days of he yee to keep up the beauty of Central the biggest pleasure ground of the city in America. Thew men are a by Superintendent Parvons of 3 rg New York ~ finds that his dafies have a tendency o£ sbsord all his waking hours, including: many that shonld be given over to sleep. Central park c¢ontains about 840 “acres, of which atont 400 are Govered ‘with rising of 500,000 trees, most of them planted since 1857, the year of the | park’s opening. = There are larger parks in the United Renten, bat thero is prob. k department, who 1s possible ll stiff | That is why ogg dra a cirealur bed wii do not adopt concentric circles of varicns hued flowers, but rather arrange the belts of blooms eccentrically, and Mr. Parsons _eketched in my notebook a figun or two which I have re produced here fo ilins- trate what be meant, shows hix idea of the treatment (ff a cir cular bed planted with tulips and the . poeond one the arrangemint of flowers in a segment of the big circio aroard the Union square fomatain, nok lomatod © fn Central park, to be mire, but which re- ceives a good deal of his attentions ard in the season is one of the most beanti- ful floral displays known It will be do pot in any degree possess the ab horred 4 qualities of #tiffness and formal. ity. . Water Plants. Much attention is ‘also given fo the maintenance of ponds and lakes and wa. , ter plants. All of the latter that are ex- | | tensively cultivated in Central park are ! either lilies or lotuses, Jotuses largely | predominating. It was interesting to | ‘me to know that while some American : varieties ef the lotns are cultivated sue- | cessfully and offectively hero the true | | oritntal lotus is found to be best fitted for the conditions that obtain in the | | fountains and lakes of the park system | ;of New York. It was for a Jong time 1 supposed that this plant was of 0 ten- The first figure recn that, though the designs are made i ‘according to well conceived plang, they Now, Barsblos was oun A mistress agrees to buy it, saying, har -#ver, that it is agninst her rules to pay | » nptil the whole of it is for any arti’ =aten. The | ‘tcher, kngewing that there hams just as finely ogred as his, folly accepts the terms, und when 1 a price is settled departs After keeping the ham for two years "in & dusty, musty cellar the honsdkecper returns it to the butcher sitled and stale, saying that, afrer all, her family prefers fresh meat, and she has decided not to cook the ham basket of freshly laid eges for sale. The : mistress exprosses delight at obtaining | them, declaring, however, that it is her invariable enstom to pay for articles aft. ‘er they have appeared, on her table and i then only such a price as she thinks it. Expecting an carly settlement under those conditions and being in need of : sagh for the interest on the mortgage on ‘his farm, the man mscepts the lady's [terms and departs Week after week {and month after month by, but no | payment is made for the ges When be calls at the honse to inquire, the | maid informs him that her mistress bids | ber say that the great variety of season. | able articles of food has proventsd the A botcher éalls at the door andl offers 3 fine sweet ham neatly cased. The | are many carts on the poad liden ¥ita » pring morning a farmer knocks at the kitchen door of agity house, witha | NAPOLEG fore oens Prous tor: Pataos Prnedicnnty Atuss | sud Peasilesi— Her Attendants Thonsht | Only of Thwly Own Safety Sheltered ond | Saved by an American, Miss Anns LL Bick cell, who was for | [many year: (rvvirnedy in the family come of the ladies of the Empress Eas nie's honsehoid, terites of “The Toile. | in The | ries Under the Second Empire” Century, from which we take the fol- | | owing accoant of the ese press after the downfall of Napoleon in | ihe Franco-German war: The chamber of deputios had been in- | empire bad own decraed: the republie had been proclaimed The cries of the pepular fury were heard in the very gardens of the Tuileries, and the enrag- ‘ed populace wis coming nearer and near- “er. The crowd reached the rererved gar- den in front of the palace and tore down the emblematic imperial eagles. It was tLon a quarter past 8 in the afternoon The Austrian and Italian embossa- dors now entreated the empress to jeave the palace, but she warmly the proposal. The daughter of a lsoble race, with the here blood of the Germans ‘flowing in her veins, she could not bat consider flight as an act of cowardibe She was a sentinel aft to defend the post, and she would die there. The roar i : 2% | Aud 1p the Aid of Lichasing snd Smee How IT WAS ACCC PUSHED AFTER | 3 escape of the em- | vaded by the rao; the downfall of the | x Mam Sativinotery Ment: * Perhaps ane of the mot pecaliarly | jrepared Inncheons ever laid Before “hungry peopl was one which we had when we were snowed ap in the tear | (fs small wostern town,” said » ‘theat- | | (gical man to = re “Upmn this | ‘night, in the brief interval after the people left the theater, while we were Cdressing to go fo our hotel, 8 terrific suotretorn, toch a8 you can only find | in the west, vame up The snow drifted | LI sgainst our doors and all aboat fhe! : i street, so that we hed to remuin alli =| aight in the thester. Of course we got bungry, as uctors will sosmetimes do, i and we began a search for something | satable. “We proviled around the property | room and were aboat to give up in dis- | gust when one of the company strock al 2 box of beans, which were used to imi- tate the sound of rain. By shaking the box a stage riinstorm conld be prodoced. We took this ‘rain, * as the profession is PP” pleased. to call it, but saw no way of aking it. Some one suggested that the | ‘thunder’ mijtht be a good thing to sook it upon, in lien of pot better The “‘thusider” was a sheet of tim or iron | which was ¢haken to the riar of huaven's artillery. We bent the ‘than. dur’ so that it would hold the beans, but wire at a loss for means for producing boat. Oftr property man suggestexi that wo nse ‘lightning. * a powder of Iyvopo- | dinm, ied for making Sashes up the | BECEEE EN eavenery | : B¥auRANENSAsRS CAMPHELL BRANCH Mutat Junetias is wREEE | © BURR Pe pa callie Sine | Glens Cas piuetl SUSQUEHANNA BRANCH. arr eaten Junetion datas rg EEEEEEE Eco ennnl? ass ab teT ros neue? “. “ ERIE re a E- stage, for the fire We found qiite a ‘ { der amature as to make ft Becessary to | 850 Of the exes, but that she hopes very Jab of this, und with thefiaddition of | | house it during the eold months in this (foon to find a place for them on her oe = of the moh bocame lopder and louder; fi | latitude. One winter, however, a large Humber | of the eastern Iotus plants growing in a j Sal] pond were forgotten. The next , greatly to the surprise of every | one, they grew with greater luxuriance | menn. In the autumn the farmer is sur prised to have the maid hand him the r| pa saying that a8 the eggs have lost their freshness and ure nneatable ors | her mistress returns them, with thanks {for the opportenity for purchasing and ably none to the Beant toying of which | than ever. Every year since they bave | hopes that the farmer will call whenev- more money er mors intelligen £ care hae | devoted. Though Superintendent | s is obliged to give much atten. or three years they will completely | to the Si Soom parks, by far | ! choke the little lake at the bottom of | ! Intes to a green - grocer and some erisp | "he greater portion of Lis timo is taken | increased in and nomber, and | it is raore “than likely that within two | which they are rooted. It may not be | er he is town and allow ap examination ot of his stock. The third of these troe parables re- | blanched lettuce which he is reguest- ; up in the care of tis riignificont area | j Eenerally known that, although this va. | © t0 leave for the homsckeeper's »xam- Lot sward and grove, of shaded walks | ¥ and pleasant driveways, of picturesque 2s and barnished water itheots. The Force Employed. * “It is almogt hmpossible,”” he add te me tho other day, ‘to separate the work | done in Central park entirely from that | performed in the other parks and squares, but there are employed for what we term gencral maintenance puor- | poses in Central park—that is, making | and keeping it beautifal—about 200 la- purple flowered vine will this year be man Wilkio in Writer. ~ borers, 44 drivers, 30 gardeners, 15 car- - penters and 10 skillod workmen. These | are the average figares. They . riety of the lotus is undoubtedly iden- | tical ne. the plant held in such great | > ancient Egyptians, it is now in the land of the lower Nile. It flourishes best in India and | | Japan. The arbors of Central park have al- | ways been an important and pleasing j feature of the place. The wistaria lends | | itself admirably to the decoration of ar- | bors, and Mr. Parsons believes that the pect ol scen to better advantage than ever be- fore. He also expects unusual effect this | (year in wild flowers, which, scattered | ‘ination at ber leisure. After a time'a messenger Jeaves a package at the green 'grocer’s ‘shop. On opening it he finds ‘ his lettnee, wilted and broised. and these consolatory words, © Flack of merit, bot because lettuces is nat | exactly available for my table, I return hese heads, with thanks for the dppor- | | hess for examining them ”’ { And here endeth the parables and the | turning of the worm. — Harriet Cush- pan mame A 0 ht it | . He Dida'e Ww amt to Wait. A man with a whip in his hand and | om Ge time, of course, and this bere and there upon the brilliant green | muddy cowhide boots upon his feet year are a little in excess of the nstul of the well kept tnrf, so delight theeyes | tramped up into City Clerk Allen's room | number, thongh but slightly. A sliion | of visitors, whether New Yorkers or and demanded. “Can I get murried dollars, it will borer: | yon th pers raimenns xpne being about the sams as usual.’ : Sug iocte of th tings the Americun moisture in the there are not nearly so B Clnges from very wet to A prolonged sod killing t is alinost entirely mnknown here, whereas it may be looked for hero every year, there being very few Localities in the United States were a | smooth, | without artificial - watering. Central - park is one of the hirdest of tracts on | dition to the scorching dryness which 8 felt there in summer as clsewhero in 1 Sila country the soil is deficient in nat- ural richness, and mach of it is very shallow, rock being found at a depth of from ane to three feet under several f ig 1 - ih i i 00 Dut plenty of fudicion Practical ‘This careful watering has to be ex. | 3mded, of course, to the flowers, of which quantities try, he has found it hi country, he Necessry m- if thoroughly to master the science : “My experience has taught me,’’ he ‘said the other day, ‘‘that the number of ‘most all the energies of the park gar- ._deners, in accordance with that truth, ~ to the production of, comparatively | speaking, a very few varieties of stand: ‘bat it is not the fait of | | gardeners, 18 is Zar the climate. rpm Mobo 17 could be wished. The laborers ap | Sm one of town. It is not | these modest blooms that they were not the zesdls of My, Parsons’ taste and pa- more beautiful than ever the coming | sammer. Thero will be more formtains, piece of ironwork and woodwork is being freshly painted, and there will be a greater profusion of roses in. the vases that lino its spacious vistas than ever before. Graamental Shrabde. Tho selection and cultivation of oma- i : | factor in the making and preservation of : the beanty of Central park, and Mr. Par- sons has taken great pains to place here and theresach growthsas bear ornamen- tal fruit, like the mountain ash, divers varieties of the siewdroy, ote, and the brilliant bobbed sumac. It is & matter of keen Toga to him that the mountain Ford oF nOwER BED, ash does not dn ag well in Central park | 8s in some other localities. It seems to | be especially Hable there toattacks from | those insects that are its enemies, and its general growth x ook #0 vigorons as | employed ' in Central park: are divided into seven gangs, each one being under the direc- | tion of a section boss whose duty it is Js sea that the turf, the walks and road. ways in his section are kept in crder. Working in connecticn with each of but they are directed in their work by a general head gardener and are liable at any time to be temporarily transferred from the scotion to which they are at. tached to some other section where they may be more needed for the time being. The carpenters work together or sepa- | rately, to circumstances, bat | | independently of the section gangs. is the duty of the man who has them in | charge to see that the varions buildings, | of which there are about 40 in the park, | in repair. and practically all ‘the men s aro kept busy the year round. LD MarsnaLL poken of | Hien ar i Take 2 these gangs of mem are two gardeners, It | i the arbors and the benches are kept : In winter a great deal of | { work is done in the park greenhouses, | + here?’ i it " “First steps? I have taken thes first | steps for the last six or seven and ; to be married right off. My gal is down | there holdin the horses, and if wou'll | ‘marry me I'll hitch ‘em, and she'll come up. Hey?’ “You will have to get published and | | wait awhile before you get married i “Wait! Wait! By the sweet apple | tree, I won't wait. Jane's been tolling | me to wait all these years, and I'll be | cussed if I'll wait. Wait! Pooh! See | here, young fi llow, if you don't any | me, I'll have you discharged I'm | years old and ‘my own man. f won't be fooled with.” The clerk finally explained to the man | he consented and was published. —-Lew- , iston Joarmal Birds Guided by the Stars. Did you ever venture any conjecture | a8 to how migratory birds manage to | keep up their flight in a due north di- rection after night? that on clear nig their northern flight” mosphere three miles above the emrth’s surface. This being true, it is clear that | guidance by the topography of the osan- are they able to keep their beaks peint- * ed toward the north poie? The scientific | omithologist comes to the rescue with | the declaration that they sve guided by the stars, and in support of his opinion | j cites as evidence the fact that when the | | #turs are obscured by clouds the birds | | become bewildered and at ance seek the | | ground.....S¢. Louis Republic. 3 Reefpes For Shoe Dremivg. Here are two recipes for making a drams of | | Spermacet] oil, 3 ounces of good molas- | sen and 4 cuances of finely powdered ivo- ry black and stir them together thor- | oughly. Then stir in half 2 pint of geod | vitvegar, and the dressing is ready for | vs. It gives a bright, clean surface and makes the shoes look almost like new. | The second dressing is for rainy weath- er and is said to make the shoes water. proof. Taki an ounce of beeswax, an ounce of tarpentine and a quarter of an one of burgundy pitch. Put them into half a pint of cottonseed oil and melt together over a slow fire, being careful that the mixture does not take fire. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Safe Abuse. Stubbs-——Well, sir, I gave it to that man straight, I can tell you, sir. He is twice as big as I am, too, but I toki him exactly whas I thoaght of his ras- ically conduct right to his face, and I called him all the names in the diction: | ary. | Spudds-—And didn’ t he try to hit sou? : Stubls——No, sir, he didn’t. And whe n i he tried to answer back I just bung op ithe telephone and walked away. —Lon ‘don Answers | ! | Natural Curiasity. He—Ome-half the world doesn’ t know | bow the other half lives She—No, but it wonld give a good Ls al to find out. —Detroit Free Press. . TUE ——e ‘Owing to no “You can take the first steps toward | that the law required him to wait, and | try is out of the question. How, then. | the cries of Vive la repablique!”’ were 4 tistinet] v heard “Madame, * then said her faithfal secretary, Pietri, “by remaining here you will canso a general massacry of your attendunts She seemevt strock Ly this and them: : ing to General Mellinet sho said: “Can . you defend the = palais writhont 3 bloodshed?” *“Madumn I fegr not.’ Then all is over,” au a the empress She turned to those present. “‘Gentle- men, can vou bear Witness that I have done my duty to the last? They hastily answered Few again urging hir to eave All her usmal attendants of the sery- ice d’honnenr were assembled in the rose colored room-——a fairy bower, ill suited as a frame for sch a tragic pie- tare, and which she was never to see again. She bade farewell to all Strange to say—and the inexplicable fact has paver been denied por exensed—not one of those present offered to folléw her, i not one nekod her where she was seek- ing a refuge. Let us hasten to add that ber ever faithful friend and follower, the Due de Bassano, wasnot theres He was at the senate house vainly trying | to stem the flood But there were oth- ers who could have filled his place, All were bevrildered and absorbed ty | selfish fears (me lady who filled a see- ondary though confidential post in the years, planted by the hand of nature, but are ; now I'm going to finixh it up. I wang | bouschold, Mine. Lebreton, sister to | General Bourbnki, followed her nnhap- | py mistress int) exila With one faith. | | fal attendant, Petri, and the two ém- | bassadors, the empress threaded the gal- Jories communicating wih the Louvre i while the mols broke ints the Tuileries {on the other side. There was a door of | communication which was foand lock: ied, and for one brief moment anxiety was intense, but the key was happily | found, and erossing the splendid gallery lof Apollo in the Louvre the fugitives found their way into ths place opposite | the Church of Saint (fermain 1'Aunxer. | rai Two columns of insurgents Wore onm- ing ia different directions The danger | was great, and the Aastrian embassador, Prince Metternich, went in haste to seek (his ‘carriage Meantime a street boy ‘called one, “Theres is the empress’ : Mach alarmed, the Italian embassador, | Chevalier Nigri, hastily thrust the em- | . Lebreton intoa hackney | 'pressand Mn carriage and tamed to silence the boy. The driver, frightened at the approach | {of the mob, drove off in violent haste, | ‘and the two ernhassadors immediately | lost sight of the vehicle The empress had no money about her, ‘and when, on reaching a quieter region, the driver askec her where he was to ‘take her she knew not whither to ga { Several calls wore made at the houses of friends. Note wea at home, and the empress, utterly exhausted, and pot | knowing where to find a refuge, sod- denly remembered that Dr. Evans, the | | American dentist, lived mear, and to him she went. Dr. Evans was about to | go to dinner and at first rifused to see the nnknown lady who came at such an anpropitions tizae, bud as she insisted upon speaking to» him he came out and rE with astonishment on finding i himself in the presence of the fagitive empress. To his honor be it said thas never in the days of imperial prosperity ‘could she have met with ‘more respect -or more devoted zeal in her serviee than ‘was now shown by Dr. and Mrs. Evans Nothing that could be done for her com- fort was neglected, and Dr. Evans never | left his imperisl gnest until he had - safely landed her on the English shore. Here at least there was neither ingrati- tude nor selfish fesg, and the conduot of | Dr. Evans on this memorable occasion ; will be remembered as a title of honor to his nae and oo his country. A Natural Curia, : The Provineial Mosenm For Natural Sciences of Westphalia has come int the possession of a natural curio such as has never beer seen before. It is the | arefully prepared and stuffed head of a horse which was born with a finely developed mustache. This seems to con tradict the sage Ben Akiba's favorit: | saw that ‘there is nothing new under the sun. "’—3t, Louis Post. Dispatch. Second sight, ; Jamson—Do von believe in second | sight? Hardup (sadlyy—I"m sorry to say that ldo I picked up a coin the other day and thought it was a half sovereign, but at second sight I found it was a new tarthing!t—Londcn Million. = { &me ‘mow’ ~-little bits of paper nead to | reproscnt the heantifal—westarted quite | a fire znd spocecded in cooking the beans, which we ate with a relish. Re- siving into stage parlance, we had used ‘thunder,’ ‘lightning’ and ‘snow’ to ocnk a lunch that consisted of ‘rain.’ Ra — Pittsburg Dispatch. : Modern Woman seu Cindy Mrver, The powerfo! social movement in the Sesion of the freedom of women is béing felt in rhis community. Women | ary “rising iv their might ing with alarm,” and all thet soch things imipiy amert their rights 1 saw one of them who had just sat spellbound beneath the fervid oratory of Miss Mande Banks when the lutter “shook off the yolte of wignan's slavory in peopling the world” enter a candy store and fx her deter mined gaze upon the contents of a #lass ne “Those are 00 cents a pound, ant,’ said the candy girl, “and are 435, and those are 50.7 those, anid threo of these,” said the la dy, “and, mind you, I wint just exact ly those I've pointed out, and they are Dot to be mori than 10.cents, or I won't take then. candy girl, who was still a sel? 2 slave, loaned against the case and fan- ned herself with a paper bag — New Yak Berald. ro - A Desirable Place. We were ssgted in a fairly filled third class carriage not timed to make a shop- page for an boar or so, and during the first. haif of this period one of the pas- senjters, a very excitable and wirhal voluble individual, joundly inveighed be bappenod to have visited in partica- lai, gentleman, who had up to then sat #i- Tently in ane corner, remarked: “How would yon like to live in a place wher? ne one drank any intoxiicat- ing liquor or even smoked a cigar?’ “It wenld be excellent, ” Topiied the gruinbler. “And where every one went to church | | co Sundays?’ i "That would be a delightful place. “And where no one stole ar forged or | heated?’ “Put such a place is impossible. Tell | “You will fad it in any of her maj- jesty’s prisons,” was the quiet reply, rand the grumbler was silent for the re- mainder of th Journey nelotion Tit Bits Pervagut . Death.’ Admiral Parvagnt's death was due to bp ~~ J. Kane, chaplain of the Brooklyn navy yard, said in a recent Jocture. The ad miral and his wife were coming from Califrnia, when a woman occupying a a window. Admiral Farragut was ill, and tie strong draft of wind which blew directly upon him chilled him. Mrs Farragut asked the woman courteously if she would not kindly close the win- dow, ns it was aanoying to her husband. The woman snapped out: ‘No, I won't ‘close the window. Idon't care if it does for him. Admiral Farragut thus caught a severe told, which resalited in | hia death. A few days before the end came be sid, “If I die. that woman |] will be held } acepuntable. Care af Cartaine and Portiores. Whim any cleming or sweeping is in| L i» an progress, the heavy curtains and por- | tieres rhould be removed and after being | foronghly brushed and shaken should | . be allowed to hang in the air until the | rooms are cleansd and ready for their retarn. Heavy hangings will absorb the odor from cigar smoke or from any food which may be cooking, and the greatost care should ther fore be token that they ‘be kepti well airsd. The doorway cur- tains may he so easily removed and | placed in position again that there | should be no excuse for any unpleasant. ‘oder heing attached ta them. -—Jam es + Thomson in —— Home Journal A Love Match. "and view | They are beginning to “Give me three of those, and two of | : When the castomer had departed, the best [3 lifled | New| York against things in general and the pluces x All at once a qniet and sedate old | + | me, where is thre such a perfect place" | the s:lshness of a woman, Rev. Janes | seat in front of them in the car opened | annoy him. I am not going to smother | oD TAND BY THE POLICY, blime, Patriotic and National, or AMERIC A POR THE RRMIDENTH | of Almerics. Do DS Jet aluaudun The an Nid). | gre the conntry an OP ctunities ioe Ha mera, Mecho Xo intros with ad } i Sa have ever had! fect ve Tarte and rae § UPGN t for Unlimited Free lary which sre worth only 73 he dollar Make them worth a fyi SHLOMO of National Bank k Notes | reir Irom cdrcetiation sinoe 1860 have heen 1 vd BY over SRSLY of Sitver which hae [pts ont. Now make fhe % silver wpey worth its fnew, for your cen RESERVE THE PUBLIC LANDS for petisal settlers and save them BR — J olieg and speealitornd Protect snd « Jct tial setiier! NO INTERFERENCE ; iin prgrentve polteies of the Fe 4! iy enacted into. a a. Proteets ¥ (Tepess 4 SRVYT ng the i ats | bh New ; lasing Union veternn: ¢ tog thee | Regulating Interstate Cotpmerer; do Cp wn oe Corton abirciad: 4 fr Jomserionn 1 sada of the r Will in and Fotwst Conn Arperfonn “1 LR Temper dnd Restraining Trasts, Fe E SUPERB MALKET REPORTS N.Y. Trilare are now TERE : + over of on T dra Plat Iw 2 Hain ILLUSTRATIONS nears of the day are freely hn This pages 2 4 its own eo eng por Bp pe book reviews, and many NO MATTER WHETHER {yon yoo agree with The N. ¥. Tribu not. watinpe Ba, can you shed or = bat: rd ra a faring - THESE TIMER OF CHANGE? IN. ¥. Tribune is the ablest, moet i] soundest sdvomste of : der en N. Y Toiban | Motto ts the Truth snd only the theless of Rowwell G. Horn, on tee es. Va, te, will be continued. . ¥. Tribuae is the clonnest, ers for voor 3 2 reso go w which invades sensation, . - 3 Waakiagion's IAiewell™ : Tor heal, Mustmted Premium ne ngion’s Par ha 1 Pee de in oe wet tr every ce a id her ding Sw sei Ep ee mi mpm, } Soerwod wed to duigaate the ¢ eniv b > (he) which ssmct Je pulled of the watch, ; a h- twisted hiitivelv prevents “the lkss of the 3 theft, aid avouds injury to it from > P waich | an onLY BE HAD with Friend—Edith married for money, | didn't she? Clarn—Na, inveed. He is rich, bat she is dreadfully in love with him. ‘Why, when he comes in late, she just sits and scolds him by the hour. — New York Weekly. / Key: one Watch Caseco.,
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