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A "careful observer*' has discovered "that during the winter months a radial sweep of one hundred miloi, doscribed from the city of 2'hiladelphia, and touching the cities of New York, Ilarrisburg, nnd Baltimore, will include in the daytime, in its wc3tern semicircle, fu ly two thirds of tliec ows inhabiting North America, and at night nn equal proportion in its eastern half. The eastern area of this circle, with the exception of * more fertile portions of west and north Jersey, is as notably devoid of thorn by <lay as it is infested with them by night. There aro in this country two mines "which have paid more thrm $23,000,000 in ni ,'irlnnfls Tlifisn urn tlip. C'onsoli dated. Virginia, of Nevada, the dividends of which have amouted to $43,- . 930,000, and the Calumet and Ilec'a, of Michigan, which has paid $27,850,000. I The next profitab'e mine is the Exchange . M. and M., of Nevada, which, although capitalized at an even million, has paid its stockholders over ten millions pro it. Two others?tho Ophir, of Ncvad.i, and the Ontario, of Utah, have paid in dividends, respectively, $7,475,000 and $7,500,000. ___________ Another instance of the effects of oil on waves is supplied on apparently excellent evidence. The North German Xiloyd's Werra was recently disabled in mid-Atlantic, and was taken in tow by the Venetian. One morning a strong gale sprang up, and heavy simis broke over the bows of th.j former vessel, wlion the commander of tho Venetian 3 _ J I 1 * ? T_ _ 1 ?1. vruurt'u uu uu-uag vu ui5 nuu^ uvci uauu side of his ship add drugged some distance astern. The effect was marked, as the sea became comparatively smooth, and not a drop of water broke on board the Werra. A writer in the Southern Planter say? hopefully: "In looking around me in the neighborhood I see men who but a few years back took charge of farms that would not average more than from two to three barrels of corn p:;r acre, and from five to eight bushels of wheat, and hay was unknown on them. There were - mortgages on these farms also. To-day these farms are the "observedfof all observers," and these men are the most prosperous and independent in this section. The:r farms average from ten to thirteen barrels of corn per acre, and 1 from twenty-five to forty bushels of "wheat, and from two to three tons of | hay, and a Bingle crop of clover seed I brings from $1,000 to $I,2C0. Quite a' change isn't it, and how has it been ac- I complished? By making every pound of manuro it was possible to make, and Applying it at the proper time, with the economical and judicious use of such , natural manures as they knew the soil ' | occdeci, indomitable perserveranco, great I industry and superb management." I A score of years ago the little State of || . Honduras was alincst unknown to the l'\ pepple of the United States, except as a y geographical locality. Its population, a mixture of English and Spanish creolos and native Indians, was small, and it had no industries worth .speaking of. That it would ever become important from a , commerciol point of view was hardly imagined. Within the past eight years, i however, a very considerable trade has 1 sprung up between Honduras and the .'United Slates, which, according to Con- , - sul Burchard in a recent report, is continually increasing in importance. The *?nly product of this semi-tropical country is its fruits, and as these can be laiscd in great variof.y and abundance, and with very little outlay of either 1 ibor or capital, the business is said to be a most profitable one. The cole reason why it has v not been expanded more rapidly is the Tgct that the people of the country are laz^-an^l improvident and care for very little beyond tho satisfaction of thoir immediate watJ<?.t Plantations that could often bo worked with profit year after year are very frequently permitted to go <to waste after a succe sful season, and are only brought into cultivation again when tho pinch of poverty begins to be lelt by the owner. Bernhardt as a Sirordswoman. By the latest accounts from the Argentina Republic we l.nrn thrtt the great artiste, Sarah Bernhardt, has given an exhib tiou (asalto) in the fencing circus of Buenos Ayro t and that the elite of Argentine socie'y crowded thither for the purpose of witnessing and admiring her dexterity. A pupil of Merignac, it ?eems that she has been receiving lessons for a long time, but never before did she consent to taki up the sword, e xcept in <the presence of a small number of friends 'who assembled in the salon of her former (residence, Rue de Foituny, Paris, in Buenos Ayres she has not leared to attack the best swordsmen of the city, and the press is unanimous in its oninion re gardin'jj the "correction" and attitude of the gt?jat artist i in delivering her a.tacks. -One of these exhibitions was especially notable, inasmuch as Sarah entered the lists with the crack swordsman of Buenos Ayrei. But the ar is e tinit<hed by disarming him. The agility thst was displayed in this atta k, which lasted lor a long time, will not soon be forgotten by the Argentines - who witnessed for tho fir.-it time a trial of skili between a man And a woman.?Mexican Popcr. -A Faux Pas. The bashful youth had gained a place At last close up beside her: A smile lit the fair girl's face As biushingly ha eyed her. *Y Timid, be knew not what to say, ' put, witu ru enorc. laiwrea; "How beautiful you'll be, Miss May, When you're grown up and altered I" ?Qeorge BinUey*, in Tid-BiU. THE LITTLE RED COW. They slug of the graceful Jersey, The queen of the modern churn, The beautiful cow whose butter To masses of gold will turn. Wo dim not one ray of glory That over her frame is shed, But hore's to the "little Devon," The trim little cow in red. The beautiful, haughty Shorthorn, The "red and white and roan,* The elegant white-faced Hereford, Will sneer at our cow and groan, But bravo is the little Devon, She holds up her bhapely head, And stands by her chosen colors, The trim little cow i:i red. The little red cow is modest? No wonderful master's hand Has written her butter record All ever tho smiling land. Far up ou tha hoishts of honor Her banner has never led; ?he wor! s with a modest patienco, Tuis trim littlo cow in red. Tho littl) red cow is patient. She never will fret or moan Because of tho bare, bl ak pastures When summer's warm days have flown; | She knows that the rain and sunshine Alike in our lives are shed; She looks for a hotter future, This trim little cow iu red. A modest and patient woman Who c ares not when glory calls. Can build an annex to heaven Inside of four roughenod walls, When many a stately lady, Who be^s for tho world's renown, Will find her homo sxinshine darkened, Her happiness trampled down. And thus doos the little Devon, Untouched by the blinding glam Of glory, work on, and ever nolr Kl*n i*al tr f knp rUawa W?*C?J bVI UW UOl OUUlCt Then here's to the little Devon, This wreath for her shapely head., The teiutiful, 1110 lest Devon, Tho trim little cow in rocL ?Southci*n Live Stock Journal. MISS JANE'S HOBBY- j BY LIZZIE O. JORDAN. Miss .lane Chandler was a worn .n of i remarkably strong prejudices. Every j inhabitant of Kussellville acknowledged ! that, and strangers who cume to town , were tpoedily and thoroughly enlight- ; ened. i\ohalf-wny sentiine ;ts originated i in her sctivc b a'n; her views were clear : and decidcd, and she boKeved iu them | and he.self implicitly. Miss Chandler was, as some one expressed it, 4,a queer combination of con- i tradictions." She ignorod her neighbors in health, but attended them devotedly ! if sickness visited their homes. She loudly expressed her abhorrence of beg- ? gars, and privately but bountifully assisted every one who applied to her. j Woe to the luckless urchin who, carried pway by an irresistible temptation, dared ' to steal a peach from her belo.cd tree! j The culprit wa* invariably pursue 1, the j booty recovered and the ^mall sinner dispatched to his friends bearing marks of a dire conflict. Hut the chi.d who ftood outside the little white gate and ooked longingly at the ripe fruit, touching none, wa* geuerally called in and permitted to fill his pockets. The rising ' gene.ation cf Hussellvile soon discov- , ered and a tei upon this luct, and all the ; longing which tlu yearning of the human stomach can throw into the human eye was daily il ustratcd in front of Miss Jane's cottage. There was one action of hers. which the children discussed in mysterious whispers. Many of them had passed through the ordeal?others l'eared it? none could explain it. it seemed thnt , occasionally she would invite some small j cherub to walk into her parlor, where she i would produce a number of strange looking books and charts, "full of heads and faces," the children said, and then proceed to solemnly ? xamine the small ! visitor's head, hanging in rapture over Certain ''hnmnn" nml mirlihlw the prominence of others. Here, in n word, was Miss June's hobby?phrenology! She ulso studied physiognomy, and indulged in the firmly-rooted belief that afte. a careful study of any persons head and features, she could read that' person s character, "like an open book, before her." 6he was discussing the sub'ect, at one p'easant afternoon, on her litt-M front lawn, with her friend, Miss Martht Cummings, the villago milliner. Outside the gate stood several small boys, gazing on the peach trees with that earnest gaze that had so often been the open next I me to Miss Jane's yard. But for once the ardent glances fell unheeded. Their benefactress wa8 mounted on her m ?_% ! ..I < . . iavornc noooy, wun considerable to suy and a good listener. The boys had caus? to lo )k very blue indeed. "No, I don't s'pose you do b'lieve in it," iMiss Jane was saying, ns she rocked | slowly back and forth and turned the j heel of a stocking with an accuracy and j easo denoting long practice. 4*I rockon you're thiijkin' this ble fed minute, that: a woman nv my age ought to hev mote sense. Hut mark my words. Marthy, the day's bound to como when you'll understand jest what I mean 'n agree with me. The day.11 come when every one'll learn the value uv phrenology, an' know enough to judge by the shape . uv his head an' the cast uv his foatures, j an' not by the cut uv is close or his smooth, oily tongue. , An' the sooner that time corner, (the toonfer folks'll escape bein' cheated, ' an'" deluded an' fAnlArl TK nn f/sllro WAn'f Ar?nn fkaix A uvu Avma n vu v vpvii arras to a friend an' find they've cnerished a viper that'll turn an' sting 'em. I've always laid, an' always will say, that life's too short to waste any uv it on people you don't care about, unless you can help 'em in some way. The minute I. at e a stranger I can tell whether I want to. have anything to do with him or not, an' I don't make any mistakes, either. Now. there was that Janet Clark, the new musie teacher that came here last winter. I see it jest a stickin' out uv the bumps on that girl's head, that she was rash an' deceitful and sly. An' what did sho. do? Run away with the doctor's son and got married when his folks was so set against it that it most killed his ma! Humph! I knew just what was a comin' I On, you can laugh. Marthy, but I c*n laugh louder. -She don't owe me four dollars and a quarter for a bonnit." This opportuuo reminder effectually | served to dispel Miss Cummingi' mirth ( and she quickly replied: ,4 f cqurso tlie:-e always was a heap of meanness in Janet au' I always knew it. But I couldn't refuse hor the bonnet when she cam*.! in with the minister's wife and ordered it." Now, the e's the now agent go in" around town with ttfiose beautiful Bible." resumed Miss .lann dreuinilv. ?Tlw?rn*?? .1 l.nn/1 ?? ?I T I . ?.?< V u w tivau K\J (lUlHIIUi A IIUU^L'U it the day he came lioro with his books; tho e was benevolence, an' sublimity, an' ideality, an' vencrati< n all stnndin' out like little hills?1 declare I could hardly keep my hand < off his head, llis perceptive faculties are beautifully developed, too. lie admired mother's old silver set an'.-aid it wai a priceless relic. I j showorl him all the old plate an' I never see a man so charmed. Before ho left | li*! a?k?'d if ho couldn't omc an' board j with me; says Widow Brown's is too n isy, an' ho wants a Weltered, quiet place, where he can read and study when hie work's done. | "Goodness, Jane, you ain't goin' to take him, be vou?" exclaimed her friend. I ' Your lio.ise won't bo the same placo with a stranger runnin' 'round it. You don't think of it, do you?" Mi*s Jane really had not quite decidedbut the small opposition instantly dis- j polled all hesitation, and she firmly responded. j "Yes, indeed, I do. lie can have the | sparo room next to mother's, and ho ain't goin' to be any troublo. Miss Brown j says ho always pays in advance, na' four dollars ain't to bo snce ed at these ( times." Here a diversion was caused by small Johnny Brown,- who, in despair of entering any other way, hud rashly precipitated himself over the garden wall, and was discovered generously handing peaches out to his delighted companions. Miss Cummings did not forgit the conversation, however, and repeated it at several residences on her way home, therefore, when it was ascertained several days later thnt the new agent had nctually taken possession of the 'spare room" at the Chnnller cottage less sur[nise was expressed than might have jecn expected. Nevertheless, when tho following Sunday night. Miss Jane and tho agent wnlKed into the mooting hou e together, entered the fame pew nnd even ga/.ed into tho same hymn book, the congregation was so much excited that Elias Green sang out of tune twice nnd Alviny Brown entered in all the glory of a new white dress without causing the slightest comment. Things having begun in this propitious way, moved on serenely. Every day Miss Jane discovered now beauties in their boarder's head and fresh charms in his countenance. They walked, talked and rode together. The Bible business 1 inguislud, but phrenology fourished. The village resigned its -If to tho state of affairs and merely looked on with interest until suddenly, without a moment's warning, came a local earthquake that shook Russellville to its very foundations. Mr. George AVinburnc, the new ngent, lind left town ! He was not there; he had gone; and to assunge the pangs of parting and as a memento of that peaceful vale he hnd taken Miss Jnue's watch and chain! Seventy dollars in cash! ! Mrs. ChanJler's solid silver set! I! Later developments showed that while Miss Jane and her mother wero quietly reposing in the arms of Morpheus. George Winburne, the man who personified the beautiful attributes of ideality, veneration and reverence, had risen from hia conch and quietly stolen away. Ilis perceptive faculties were < ertainly developed, There was no doubt of thnt. Three days later Miss Cummings called on her friends with the laodable intention of explaining thnt the entire villago had foreseen ;,ust what had oc onrred, and could have warned Miss | Jane weeks before it happened. She rang the bell, hut no ono responded; so. availing herself of the^rights of an old friend she calmly walked in. Through the little dining-room she passed out into the-kitchen. The room was empty, but a fire burned in the stove and on the bright coals lay a number of chnrred books, pamphlets, maps, etc. As Miss Cummings stepped nearer, a tongU3 of fame shot up in the center of the doomed volume and one particularly briffht flash threw out in bold ;elicf ti e titlo on a burning page, "How to Head Cha-acter; A Guide to Human Intercourse; by?" The door opened and Miss Chandler entered from the garden. She looked rather con'u*ed at seeing her friend and glanced hastily at the tire. Reassured by the bl i/.e, she greeted the ^visitor calmly, and entered into nn easy discussion. Only once did she lose the high serenity qf her manner?when Mies Cummings broached th-3 sub est so near her heart. Then Jane Chandler rose in her might, and with a few well-chosen remarks, so awed the gentle Martha that Bhe afterward remarked to Widow Brown: 'I'd as lieve discuss murder with a full-fledged lunatic in the State asylum, as phrenology #nth Jane Chandler."?Arkunmw Traveler. Number of Farms in the United States. State. 1880. 1870. 1860. Alabama 185.8M 67,383 65,135 Arkansas 04,433 49,434 39,004 ; Connecticut 80,508 3s,,508 35.180 Delaware 8,749 7,616 6,658 Florida 33,488 10,340 6,568 Georgia ..186,636 69,656 62,003 i Illinois 255,741 302.S03 143.310 Iit.l.ana. 194,013 161,280 18U826 [?kV* 185,851 110,293 61 163 138,561 83803 10^00 Kentucky 166,453 118,433 9&814 Louisiana. 48,303 2^481 17 838 Maine.... 64,300 6?,S04 55,698 Maryland......;.., 40,617 27,000 25,494 Massachusetts 88,406 28,500 S5.601 Michigan 154,008 98,786 61423 5fjnn??ta 02,886 46,560 18.181 Mississippi. 101,773 68,038 43,840 >f 315,575 148,338 93,792 , Nebraska.... .. 68,887 13,801 $780 New Hampshire... S2.181 2!),643 80|501 New Jersey. 84,807 SO,652 27,CMS New York. 941,058 216,218 196,WO North Carolina.... 157,609 98,665 75,208 Ohio. 247,189 195,958 179,889 Pennsylvania 218,542 174,041 156,857 Rhode Island 6,216 5,86*) 5,406 South Carolina ... 98,894 51,899 88,171 Tennessee. 165,650 118,141 82,868 Texas. 174,184 61,125 42,891 Vermont 85,522 83.827 81,556 . Virginia 118,517 " 78i840 92,605 Weat Virginia 62,679 . 48,178 Wieoonsin 184,822 102,904 69,270 Total ..4,008,907 2^59.965 2,044.077 AMUSEMENTS IN PERSIA, j t PLEASURES OF RICH AND POOR IN c AN ORIENTAL COliNTK^. t _ _ ^ ^ Smoking ami Drinking?Toa-hoiiHON " and Public Rnfhs? Professional 1 Story Tellers?Tho "Ijimters." In the way of popular amusements thcro is not much in l ersia, writes Woli J Von t?chierb'Hf.d in the tan Francis*o j G roniclc. Tnc rich, of course, as else- . where, know how to find and Hip the honey of amusement from the chalice of * life. Not so the poor. The wealthy Per sian indulges in banquets, to which he . will iuvite his intimate friends, and . where they will got beastly drunk on arrack and. wine and date b.andy. where from forty to 200 dish;s and sweetmeats 11 arc served, and where sc-me female slaves will danco to him and his guests; where * they will recline after the meal by the c bubbling kanuut, with the fragrant * fumes of the ghalyan enveloping them. 1 whilo Jewish musicians will play and a . professional story-teller will get oil his best yarns and jokes, tlje whole crowd meanwhile swilling tea and sherbet bv j the galloon. In thj cveninjr they will even have fireworks, aud hundreds of . little lamps, inclosed in varicolored glass , ' globes, which have their rays reflected l from the glass ceilings. ^ The rich will go oif on long hunting excursions or on hawking parties, or to ' I pigeon matches. They will employ jug1 glers and prize-fighters and magicians. 1 They will while the weary hours pleas- ( antly away in their andarouns with their J women in a variety of ways. Money al- " ways finds means to spend tho time j amusingly, if it chooses, but how about the poor Persians, and they form ninety ( nine per cont. of the population? Practically they have ouly the ghalzan, the ' tea-house, theba h, and the professional \ storv-tellers nnd "houtpfi*' to crivn thnm ' their foretaste of the paradise which f Mohammed has printed in such glowing 1 colors. The ghalzan is tlio Russian 1j water pipe. It is quite different from r the Tuikish narghileh, has no flexible . I tube and mouthpiece, but a straight, I stiff stem, and it is so neavy and inconveniint to hold that it requires one's two hands and entiro attention to manipulate it. But the splendid smoke it furnish s 1 compensates for the trouble. The smoke y. passes throngh tool water and is quite free from nicotine when it coines to the ' mouth. ( The tobacco u;cd in the ghalzan is \ called Vtumbekee," to dis inguish it i from the 4*futun," or tobacco or th~* j I chibouk. It is r.iised in three grades. | In the lower grades of tumb:-kee some , opium is admixed, and this with the inveterate sir.oker produces along iu t .e afternoon a sort of narcosis, called by . them "keif;*' that is, the state of greatest } attainable well being, of tranquillity (the Persian has the same word for b iss,' r jov, happiness and tranquillity). ! Many Persians will smoke foity to fifty : ghalzans a day; that i*, they will gcuer- 1 ally only smc.ke up half the t bacco in s the silver cup that holds it on top of the c bottle shaped ghalzans, throwing the * other half way as it is usually imp egna- ^ ted with nicotine. These pipes are kept i exceedingly clean, a remarkable fact in a country where even the highest are ^ quite filthy to our n.ition. In the house- c. holds of the well-to do one of the high- (: est servants is the ghul/.nndar (pipe- 8 bearer), -whose exclusive duty it is to clean the pipvs and k ep his master sup- c plied with ficsh ones. The ladies, too, 1 smoke the ghalzan a great deal, both ^ those of high and low rank. I have seen ladies from the Bhah's audaroun ? stop on the high road in their carriages ' by a waysidg inn and have half a dozen ghalzans brought to them, the cunuchs j and servants meanwhile blocking the way to all passers-by. ? The teahouse is the Persian substitute" a for our great American saloon. Curiously enough, although nothing but tea and j fherb^t is over called for in these places ,( in the way of liquids, they are termed j gahway khane (coffee house) iu i orsian. t nivury targe town in rersia nas nunuretls such places. In Teheran there arc between 400 and 500 of them, some of them quite t elegant and high-toned, but they are + cheap, ull of them. There is generally a large, high room, through the middle' of t which a stream is lushing, in summer, with a species of summer g .rden behind, where tho night inhales are performing and the ro.^cs are blushing in their na ivo t f>ink. Dozens of i>ersiaiis ol high and j ow degree are seated on their h tun lie* r by the babbling water, smoking incessant # gnalzans and driuking tea sweet and hot, while a story teller unfolds before their half-closed eyes all the splendors of kustum and the Persia of old. To sit there, a couple of hours enjoying himself hugely, while a son or nephew is left in charge of the shop in ihe neighboring . bazar, will cost no more than 5 to l-> j shahi OH to 10 cents). Of late, however, 3 the tea-house business had bm ome so , much in vogue all over Persia, and the ^ artisans, mechanics and small mjichants ( had become so addicted to the habit of ( resorting there, that the Shah issued a ] firman to close up or null down all the ( tea-houses in Persia. Of course, like all those firmans, it w'as not carried out, al- ( though thousands of the smaller ones were razed to the ground. The Lil es- > Sultan and Ispahan, for instance, had . about 200 destroyed, But that left sev- j oral hundred jet, and tho remaining ! ones of course did a more flourishing ' business than ever. t The public bath9 are another source of < pleasure to tho lower class of Persians, i They are nearly, if notquite, as numer- i ous as the tea-houses. The big majority ui biiuiu me ybij uicuuijf uuut or sun- | baked mud bricks, and so carelesdy con- 1 structed that a roof of one foil in while I t was in Teheran. The towels uaed in j there by the customers, male and female, ; are never washed, but only dried in the sun, hung up on strings along the wall , facing the street. i The price of a bath is generally between two cents and ten cents, which sum includes the services of the "hammamdjees" (servants and professional kneadcrs.in the bath*. These are common tanks filled with hot water, in which the first ablutions are performed. 1 he water in these tanks, although oftei serving for 200 or 509 persons a day, is changed about twico a' wrek, seldom oftener, so there is not much fun aboat bathing in there. But the fun begins when the bather emerges from the tank, when he or *he is kneaded, combed, anointed, dyed, etc., these offices being performed for the menbj the hsmmtma cc nml for the women reciprocally. The voinon resort much mori? to the baths han the men, not because they are ileauer, but hecauso the Koran obliires hem to, ami because the bath is the r, treat place for gossip, the foens whence ill the seandal-monging, all the idle ales and all tho backbiting, o' which 'eiisian women arc so fond, radiates. 8.' The story-teller is another great I'er- . iaii institution. The Persian is by na- J ure and incliration a story-teller, and ' icre you will still llnd tho gift of charm- v ng r c tal, of gracofrtl, animate gesture, >f well-modulated voice, such as you will * iearch in vain for elsewhere. On a pub- Hl ie square, on the ruins of some deserted c louse, on tho steps of a larje mosniic. ? ho story-teller will plant himself and be- * fin, with sonorous voice and sweeping * irms, a tale from the Arabian Nights, 11 rom l'orsia's legendary history, from tlie v ^re.it national poets, or lie will recite, in t i voice vibrating with tho emotions ho ipenks of. pa:e after pa^e from llafiz, v Saadi, or Djellal-1* ddin Kumme. He I L vill do this in such a way as t:> intensely o ntcrest his audience, quickly formed, s > j: hat they are as much excited ana inter- a sstcd as the Sultan was in Scheherazade's <; ales, when he, like her, breaks oft the .lircad. to bo taken up after the collection his assistants make with the 1 kacshkhull" (hollowed cocoanut) has j yielded what he dcoms bis duo. Some of these fellow-t.haggard.ragged, ,hcir checks hollowed by too much 'bheng" (ha^he sh smoking),arc natural loets, men of gifts, but there is no jther channel for thum to get rid of the livine afflatus, for modern poetry is dc- i ipised in Persia, and the poet of the pre- | sent is oven worse off in Pers'a to-day ,han in the days of Hnfi/., who was also jften near starvation point. The "loutera*' are a peculiar kind of ->63ple, always in allianco and on terms )f iutimacy with the story tellers. They ire jugglers, sleight-of-hand performers, downs, pri c Qgl ters,etc., are very quarrelsome, are nearly all unbelievers and ithersts, and hail generally from Shira\ Parsistan and the whole south of Persia. They are tramps, never marry, let their lair grow,ca-ry alwa}'s the "khandshar" curved dagger, e'ghtee 1 inches long) in ;hcir "knmerbund" (belt) and arc quick ,o take offense and fight. Thev are aljvays up to mischief, secretly excite re i u:.- ? - * - ?wiva aiivi uij^ nijiius, nnu urc in ior anyhing which will g'.vc them a chance to 1 ipill blood. From their ranks gcnera'ly 1 he professional robbers ar.d thieves * rraduatc, and their strolling life makes 1 t difficult for the authorities to keep rack of them or arrest them when they < lave done some b:g deed of darkness. ? < Irrigation in Japan. t In all parts of the mountains and in the * oothills. at the sources and along the J iue of thn streams, there are immense escrvoirs for the storage of water in the < a'ny season. By this means the over- I low of the lower lands in the wet months J s to some extent prevented, and the upply in the dry months is supplementid. The ditches fo/ irrigation aie al- 1 vays so constructed as to be a means of * Ir.linage when there is nn excess of rain. *y this means the supply of water to the arincr is equalized through the whole ear. Another necessary re-ult is aclomplished ? the health of the irrigated listricts for plants and people is conerved. Draiuage for these purposes is u?<t, as im-ortant in any country as irri;a ion. The Japanese system is perfect * n three important particulars, viz., ? torage of water, distribution of water * o the land, and the drainage of the irri- * ;ated lands. That irrigation has been ..??-l. Ko. ..e i 1_..1.-1.1- 1 uu?tu tuuiu iam uu ui inuuicuiauii: uuiiu* i it is shown by the enormous cro . rate 1 hrou<* i the wh le Empire. It is within 1 jointls to say that a Japanese fanner < aiscs more from one anre of his land s han .1 California farmer does from five i crt's. I j It is true that much of the land there s i:is two crops r. year?one iu the summer nd one in winter. In many places in hut island empire the soil has yielded wo crops a year for 2.000 years, and the >roductive capucitv of the soil is greater low than ever. That is in marked con astto the result of land skinning in he United States. In the spring a pie^e >f land will be sown to rice, which is ho great staple crop. The rice is harrcsted in October, with an average crop ate of fifty bushels to th-? acre: and iirht on the Ives of the reaper follows he spade end mattock, preparing the and for a crop of wheat, barley or rye. rheso latter crops are sown in October ini November and are harvested in ipri! or May, with an nvernge crop rate )f forty bushels of barley to the acre, [n order to maintain through hundreds )f years such a crop rate, fertili'/at'on is if the utmost importance. In fact that s the great problem for the farmer to mlrn ITnlik?? tliia nnrl Ttinrnnnan (ft'in. 1 rio% th? farmer has no barnyard fcrtili- 1 sera. The people oat neither beef, pork, 1 mutton, butter, milk nor cheese. Cattle and horses are used only for purposes >f packing. With a ]> filiation of 33,101),000, thero are less than 1,000.000 j head of horses and 1,00'\090 head of , cattle, and no sheep or swine. ) Under thess circumstances the question af fenili'ers is of the first importance. Bxperience has taught these pe >ple that irrigation is an important means of fertilisation. It has b"en demonstrated that irrigated lands require only about two third* as much fertilization as non-irrigated lands. As an evid mce of what thorough tillacre. combined with irrigation 'and d rain as e, has done there, it needs only to bo stated that Japan has under tillage only 12,0.10,000 acre*; that from these 13,000,000 acres 3H. 000,000 people are clothed and fed. More than that is done; 40,000,000 rounds of tea, ( F-ilk to tho value of several million dol lars. and largo quantities of tobacco and i rice are annually export'd. Such results speak more than volumes of what thor- , ough tillage, supplemented by hricra- , tion, can do even in a country With sixty j to 100 inches of rainfall.?San Franrisro j Chronicle. 1 A Little Mixed. ! A youn? man was to speak to the toast, 1 "The Ladies." He got the lines of Pope 1 on vice mixed with those of Scott on 1 woman, and delivered himself as follows: ' "I rise to say that I havo no doubt but ' iL.i * J it-- _ ? * I - id? i voice me ?ciuimeni ox every pen tleman here when I say, in the familiar ] lines: > j " 'Oh, woman, in onr hour* of ease, ! Uncertain, coy, and hard to please; But seen too oft, familiar with thy face, < We first endure, then pity, then embrace." i < SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. A California electrician has invented a 10CCH9 whereby fjold. silver, am i copper *n be instantly smelted by a lightning rokc. It is now claimed t!>at one of the re.lfo *i... - ' ?" 1 tiui UI (.Hi; luui'lll rillUKjUIIKU IS Hit! iminutinn of the flow of natural gj:s rom (crtain wells, and a considerable seling of anxiety is conso |uently perading the circles interested. The project of a South Polirr expediion is bcinjj seriously ventilated in the cientitic oirc'es of Australia, the Uovrnm: nt having expres ed its intention f assisting, the enterprise. The Au.*raliaii whalen en are also becoming inerested in th project, in juir o< having lrcady reachid Loudon whether whnliag esseln for an anti-Arctic \ovago would ic subsidized by the tiovernmeut. Paper d>ors co t nbout the same as food, and nr<i add to be inu h better, tccau^c there is no shrinking, swelling, n- war| ing. The paper door is com?o^ed of two thirk paper boards stamped ,nd molded into panels, and gla'cd to fether with ^lne and potash, and then ol'e 1 through heavy lollers. It in first iovered with a waterpioof <oating, and hen with a fireproof coating. and is tainted and varnished nnd hung in tho >rdinary way. It is said that the great gla/ier of \laska is moving at the rate of a quarter >f a mile per annum toward the ?ca. The front presents a wall of ice some Hve lundred feet in thickness; its breadth varies from three to t.:n miles, and it is lb ut 150 miles long. Almost every . " uartcr of an hour hundreds of tons of ice in large blocks fall into the sc?. which they agitate in the most violent nnnner, the waves being such an to toss ibeut the largest, ves-els that app:oach he glacier as if they wero small boats. Tlven sca-wced has a certain value, and iome day may b in cons'dcrable dcnand. A new JnglMi method of utili ng it consists in boding it with carbo:ate of soda filtering and treating with lulphurie acid. Thus is obtained a substance to be known a< 4,alguina," which ias more viscosity tha 1 starch, or even ;umnrabic, and tnny l.e profitably used n stiffening t-.'xtile labrics. It is said to jC also adapted for themakingof syrups ind for culinary purposes. Fro n the natter left after extracting this 6ulst:incc i very good writing paper may be cheapy made. The duration of the infecti >us stages )f various di-eases is thus given by Lr. r. F. Fe irs:\ an Eng ish physician: Measles, from the second day of the dis;ase, for three weeks; small-pox, from ho fonith day, for four weeks; scarlet 'ever, from the fourth day, for seven veeks; mumps, from the second day, for * ;hree weeks; diphtheria, from th<; first Jay. for three weeks. The incubation leriods, or intervals occur.ing between ? ~ i? r a.z i 12 ;ajiuma?u iu ini?;v_cum miu iuu uist byiiijj;oms. are ns follows: Whooping-cough, fourteen days; mumpp, eighteen days; neasles. ten days; small-pox, twelve lays; scarlet fever, three days; diph;heria, fourteen days. HEALTH HINTS. Drinking a cupful of southernwood tea vill often cure a headache. Frosted feet are said tp.l^i curcil by toldinur them in the smoko made l>y iprinkliirjf corn me:il on live coals; best ;o have it under cover, so as to get the uli benefit of the smoke. In case of sickness a call for old linen loes not mean worn-out shirt bosoms (as nany seem to think), but soft pieces of laiidkerchiefs, napkins and tablecloths; >r even old cotton goods, if very fine and ioft. All such pieces should be saved; f you have mo e than you want give >nrt to some one less fortunate than yourtpl f The b^st plaster for a quick rrstorativo " 3 to take a six-inch s iiiare of common dheslvo plaster and sprinkle it over with :nyenne pepper. it does not adhore to he underclothing, as the plasters that trc made up with pitch are sure to do, ind it 4 sticks" fast enough for as long is is required. The v?llow adhesive ilaster can be purchased in long strips rcry cheaply. If will he welcome news, if true, to nany sufferers, that chronic diarrlvra nay bj cured, or at any rate greatly aleviatcd. by the administration of a ia urated solution of salt and cidor vinerar, the dose being a dram three or four imesnday. l>r T. Smith, who recommends it in the .1 'e1fc.nl ami four/,al, cured a case which hud lasted icarly forty years ?"d has employed it vith great success in numerous other in.tances. When relapse followed the suspension of the remedy, irs renewed adninistration was again followed by improvement. The Stores of Paris. Paris beautifies herself as much for * ,he rest of the world as for her own" people. She lives oil hor visitors, and ler store windows nre put up to catch .ho eye of the passer by. These great boulevards are lined with stores which it night are illuminated brilliantly, both )utaide and in. Lines of gas-jet9 with reflectors nre placcd above the windows >n the outside so that they may cast a itrong bla e down upon the goods displayed. pearly all the goods of tha tore, as a rule, are in the windows, and he interior is not to be entered except or purchase. Small stocks are carried, [ judge, and as a general thing a first- . :lass Palis fttoio is not mr>r:?t,h?n tu Alv* ect s |Uiiro on tue inside. I except, of :our>e, the grand establishments of the '.Uagazin du Louvre," and the *4300 Miarcne." Your average Parisian merchant to5*ns business at about 8 and closes at ibout I) iu the evening. At noon he ;akcsa roccss for two hours for his jreakfast, and between 1 and 2 little business is done all over the city. The man and his wife, as a rtile, work together, and the wife here is the better ialf in a business wny. It is she who keeps the cash account, and the books of Paris may be 3aid to be kept by women. There nro no smarter womeii in the world than tho?e ParMenntes. They are 4. | ? A.J - . - " not ueauuiui, nut tney are Intensely __ practical. and they make excellent wives * ind good mothers. The lovo for family is strong in trance, gene.al repotts to tho contrary notwithstanding, and no nation has mora loving fathera and lo ins mothers than this.?Pari* toiler%