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MOVING HILLS SAND. VAST TRACKS OF LAND DEVAS TATED BY MIGRATORY DUNES. Cities Destroyed aiul Fertile Fields Made a Desert by Irresistible Sand Drifts—Memorable Catastrophes. The phenomenon of a moving hill of saml is by no means an uncommon one on various parts of the earth’s surface, and, not unfrequently whole villages and towns have thereby been overwhelmed and destroyed. To such shifting mounds the name of “dunes” is usually given by geologists, and from a similar root the more familiar term of “downs” seems to be derived. Duces or downs of sand are commonly found within a short way from the seashore, being composed of the fine particles cast up by the waves, and afterward dried in the sun, and carried inland to a greater or lesser dis tance by the wind. The coasts of Hol land present an example of vast quanti ties of detritus taken down to the sea in the first instance by rivers, and subse quently thrown back upon the land, forming long chains of sand-hills, or downs. The shores of France, Spain and various other countries exhibit the same phenomena at particular points. On the shores of the Bay of Biscay, moving sands are so common as to have occasioned much injury to the land and the inhabitants, both in early and recent times. About the year 1770, a whole village near St. Pol do Leon, in Brittany, was so completely buried by one great move ment of drift-sand, that nothing could be seen of it but the spire of the church. In the same region, according to Cuvier, these dunes advance with irresistible force, burying forests in their route, and impelling before them lakes of fresh water, derived from the rains which can not find a way through them into the sea. “One village in the department of the Landes, named Mimisau, has been struggling for twenty years against them; and one sand-hill, more than sixty feet high may be said to be seen advancing hourly. In 1802, the propelled lakes in vaded five fine farms belonging to Saint Julien; they have long since covered a Roman causeway leading from Bordeaux to Bayonne, and which was seen about forty years since, when the waters were yet in a low state. The river Adour, also, has been turned out of its former course by the same causes.” Sometimes assuming the shape of coni* .ral mounds, and sometimes appearing in the form of fiat heaps or masses, these shifting sands have also done much harm at different periods on the British coasts. In Suffolk, in the year 1688, part of Downham (a name ominously indicative of the character of the district) was over whelmed by sands which had begun to move, about one hundred years before, from a point about five miles to the southwest. The drifting mass traveled over the intervening distance in the course of the century, and covered more than a thousand acres of land. On the north coast of Cornwall, a considerable extent of country has been inundated by sands, constituting hills several hundred feet in height. So completely have these vast mounds shifted their whole bulk from spot to spot, that the ruins of ancient buildings, originally overwhelmed by them, have again been laid bare in the rear of their line of progress. A pot of old coins was found in the same situa tion in one instance, by which a guess could be made at the period of entomb ment. The changes had certainly oceu- pied many centuries. Many other examples of these sand-hill phenomena might be selected; but enough has been said regarding sea-borne sands. There are drifting sands of a dif ferent character, which have effected far greater changes on the face of the earth, and have far more deeply influenced the comforts and affected the lives of its in habitants. What were the original limits of the desert-sands, and what the former condition of many regions now covered by them, it is scarcely possible to deter mine ; but certain it is that they have shifted to an immense extent within the knowledge of man, and In’ produced deplorable consequences. By the action, seemingly, of the west winds, the sands of the African interior have been gradu ally forced in more and more noon the banks of the Nile, until they have en gulfed many cities, and the ruins of cities, and have covered a great portion of the tillage lands of Egypt. The num ber of cities, towns, and villages thus effaced from the earth is too large to bo calculated. The French traveler, Douon, tells us that their summits still appear externally in many instances, and" feel ingly observes, that “nothing can bo more melancholy than to walk over vil lages swallowed up by the desert-sands, to trample under foot their roofs, to strike against the peaks of their temples, and to reflect that here wore cultivated fields, that hero grow lofty trees, and that here were even the homes and habi tations of men—and that all have vanished!” These remarks will bring to the mind of many readers the buried condition in which the majority of the recovered sculptures and monuments of Egypt were found, and particularly the great Sphinx, the base of which extraordinary piece of sculpture was sunk thirty or forty feet in the sands, having little more than its massive head above ground, to point out •where it stood. Although the desert | sands, however, have wrqught such vast apparent ruin, by swallowing up the glorious monuments of past ages, there is a degree of consolation to he derived from this very fact—this very cngulf- ment. The sands are in one sense con servators of the things they entomb. By no other mode of interment or keeping could the fine sculptures, stuccoes and paintings discovered by Burckliardt, Beechey and Belzoni have been handed down to us in so perfect a state. Mr. Lyall, who makes this remark, points it out also as not improbable that the sands which have shifted may shift again, and in such a manner that “many a town and temple of higher antiquity than Thebes or Memphis may one day reappear in their original integrity, aud a part of the gloom which overhangs the history of earlier nations he dispelled.”—Lctfaer. THE FARM AND GARDEN. WELL-SHOCKED COHN. To do up corn shocks so that rain will not penetrate them and they will stand up straight in all sorts of weather is of more importance than is often thought. The outside of the shocks will, of course, be considerably browned, but within the leaves should be nearly as green as when cut. What is washed out of cornstalks is mainly carbonaceous mutter, good for food, but of comparatively little value as a fertilizer. Hence its loss is absolute, and not, as in the case of clover soaked by rains, partly compensated by the fer tilizing matter washed from it into the soil.—Courier-Journal. The Largest Rose Bash. The largest rose bush in the world is probably that which adorns the residence of Dr. E. B. Matthews, of Mobile, Ala. It was planted in 1813 by the doctor's father when a young man and is green and flourishing after its eighty-seven years of summer’s heat and winter's snow. Its branches have entirely cov* ered the house and extended to the sur rounding trees, so that when it is in bloom it form a perfect bower of roses. Its trunk for upward of five feet from the ground is nearly a foot in circumference, and it has been estimated that if grow ing as one continuous vino its branches would extend a mile iu length. During the past spring three and a half bushels of roses wero gathered from it in one week, while when shedding petals in the autumn the ground about it Is white with its fragrant snow. It is of the variety known as the cluster musk rose. It is said that this vine several times saved the residence from Iming burned during the late war, the doctor having been a surgeon in the Union •my—Philadelphia Timet. WINTER DAIRYING NOT IMPRACTICABLE^ It is thought and said by some that winter dairying can not be followed as a rule because the cows will not breed in the season required. This is a mistake. Cows are entirely artificial, and while undomesticated animals through the necessity of their condition, supply of food and suitable weather being the chief of these, drop their young in the spring, this rule does not apply to domesticated animals. Cows may be bred at any sea son of tho year, aud any farmer who wishes to change from summer to winter dairying will find no difficulty in the way mentioned if he will keep back his cows until the desired season. December or January is the best month for breeding cows for this purpose. It is not to be feared that every dairyman will make this change at the same time aud so dis turb the common order of things, for many preparations are required besides fresh cows.—American Agriculturist. WHEY FOR FERTILIZER. There may be as much fertility iu whey as iu the best commercial fertilizer. A farmer who did not have Pans green l enough to go over his pateli of potatoes, ! aud the Colorado beetle being quite do- j structive, tested very sour whey as bug | destroyer. Its use checked the insects somewhat, and lie made two subsequent | applications of it. Ho found at digging J time that the whey had more than i doubled the crop. This could not be | attributed to the moisture of tho whey, : for the season was wet. There are other evidences that whey and milk-washings j are loaded with fertility. Let either of ! these bo thrown on the turf in the same spot a number of times, and it will kill the grass. The stench soon arising from ! such a spot in warm weather is proof j that these substances contain much ani mal matter. Milk-washiugs should be so disposed of as to conserve sweetness and fertility at tho same time.—Ifcio York Trihune. TRANSPLANTING ONIONS. W. J. Green, of the Ohio Farmers’ E..perimeutal Station, reports a very great success iu transplanting onions. The seeds were sown in bods in a green house February 25, which is cousider- ably earlier than they could be put in out of doors. The young plants were six to eight inches high when transplanted in April, at which time a bed was prepared and grown iu the usual way. Tho manuring aud cultivation of each bed was the same except the transplanting. The onions were left three inches apart in the row, which in those grown from seed involved extra labor in thinning nearly as great as that from transplant ing. Tho difference between the two beds was markedly in favor of those transplanted, from the very first. Six kinds of onions were experimented with, and in eacli case tho yield of those trans planted was much the largest. Giaut Raeca yielding 1106 bushels and 596 bushels respectfully; Yellow Danvers yielding 594 bushels and 389 bushels; Red Wetherfleld, 779 bushels and 560 bushels by the two methods. The greater size and uniformity of the trans planted onions made them much more salable, and they also matured earlier. Professor Green estimates that there was nearly half the labor of cultivating saved by having the onion transplanted. Even were it otherwise, it is evident that transplanting is well worth trying. It is especially adapted to market gaideners, but any farmer who is far enough ad vanced to grow onions as a crop will also need a greenhouse, so that iu this re spect ho will have equal advantages with the market gardener. SELECTING A SOW. An English swine-breeder says that in selecting sows three or four points de mand attention. First, the animal should be strong and healthy. Delicate speci mens are frequently dainty feeders, and they should he avoided, for they give much trouble. .Secondly, the sow should be long, aud have good shoulders, back and loins. A narrow-backed pig often rises with difficulty, and frequently emothers one of her offspring. Thirdly, long legs are to be condemned, for sows which have this defect carry too much of the race-horse in them. Lastly, there should be a full complement of teats. He adds: “It is very annoying to find your sow has but ten teats when she has brought you a litter of twelve strong pigs, for the two unfortunate members of the litter which are not provided for must either be killed (which no one likes to do) or be reared at considerable incon venience. Under such circumstances as these I have found it the best plan to leave the pigs with their mother until it is clear which lias to run short, and then teach it to drink from a teacup. This can be very quickly accomplished by holding the pig m one baud and tht milk in the other, gently pressing the head into the cup. The young sow should lie brought to the boar for the first time when about eight months old. If she has been carefully managed until that age she will be of good size, aud nothing will be gained by keeping her longer unmated. Hhe should not be pampered at any time, but be fed regu larly and be taught to run out in the grass-field from an early age. Breeding sows can be kept, I admit, in a close sty from year’s end to year’s end, but it costs niore to keep tliom iu this way, and it is more natural to give them a grass run. The greater part of the year they will get most of their keep, and, when not suckling, all the food they will require in addition to grass will be a bucket of wash morning aud evening Farmers' Reeietc. keeping cabbage in winter. The different methods of keeping cab- huge during the winter are as numerous, almost, as are the varieties of cabbage grown, and nearly all methods have their records of success and failure. There is no doubt that much depends upon tho meteorological conditions of the winter, and that a method which proved emi nently successful during a severe winter would give indifferent results during a mild or open one. The cabbage grower must therefore either strike a medium or else adapt his methods to suit the varying conditions of tho winter. There tro two of the different methods of storing cabbage which we have found satisfactory. One is to select a high piece of ground to afford natural drain age. A light mat or bed is made with dry straw, about the width of two cab bage heads, and as long ns may be de sired. The cabbages are pulled up,care- fully carted to this place and then, hav ing. the outside leaves neatly doted against the beads, the plants are plaotd roots uppermost on tho straw, and at closjly together as possible, making two compact rows. A few inches of straw arc put carefully on the cabbage and earth is thrown on gradually to the depth of about a foot, drawing in the roots to form the top of a ridge. The earth is taken alongside of the row, thus affording additional drainage, while the mound while the mound when finished must be well packed down with the back of the spade. When this is finished, a row of corn fodder is piled along each side to still further protect from the weather. This will keep off both rain and cold, if properly placed. In taking out any cabbage during winter, at once cover up the row to protect the remain ing heads. Another method is to plant the cabbage roots downward instead or inverting them and then pursuing the same general plan as above. If there is a root cellar (not underneath the dwel ling house, as vegetables should never be stored there), tho cabbage can be stored there in almost the same manner except that no litter need be used, and instead of earth a small quantity of sand, there being but Uttle covering needed to protect from cold when thus sheltered, and what is used being to keep the cab bages from drying out. Iu whatever manner cabbages are stored, if it is de sired to keep iu prime coudltion, the roots must not lie removed until the heads are needed for use or shipment. Rats and mice are Very fond of this veg etable, and growers must do all they can to keep them out. As the straw used in storing makes fine nests for them and tho cabbage affords plenty to eat, these rodents naturally like to find such quar ters to pass the winter.—American Agri culturist. farm and garden notes. Prepare ground well for winter wheat. As the pastures shorten, lengthen ra tions. Calves need to be fed their food at blood beat. Cruelty to au intelligent animal begets eiciousncss. Always have something on band that a team can do. A good farmer is pretty likely to have i good garden. Keep ducks and geese separate from the other poultry. Turkey hens mature earlier, as a rule, than the gobblers. Don't pour your water on flower beds; tlways use a sprinkler. The profits of poultry keeping depend on attention to little things. The semi-starvation of young stock is one of the farmers’ absurdities. As a rule, farmers cultivate their land too poorly and sow too much seed. It does not pay to keep an animal for Its beauty. This world demands use. Don’t have your pig’s teeth kept sore by cracking hard, dry kernels of corn. Don’t think that because a pig is thor oughbred he will thrive aud grow fat on s less daily ration than the mongrel. Let the stalls be separated by parti tions, not by bars. They prevent the liorses from biting and kicking each other. It is said that typhoid fever has been traced to a dirty pig pen, tho virus com ing into tho house on tho unwashed feet of flics. Attend the fairs, farmers’ meetings »ud institutes. If you have learned any thing this season, don’t be afraid to let your neighbors know it. The change from warm to cooler weath er and the hot days and cold nights »re apt to produce iu horses, if not looked after properly, severe colds. Hogs and pigs may do well sleeping on the ground in dry, warm weather, t>ut they need shelter and a dry bed these cool nights when heavy dews fall. Duck culture is now a very important part of poultry keeping aud yet within a tew years, people did not suppose that ducks were worth keeping for profit. They now know better. Twenty drops of carbolic acid to a ten- quart pail of drinking water, removing ihickcns and burning sulphur in the bouse they occupy, is an effectual remedy for chicken cholera. Try it. Fowls that have free range in the Held or meadow will be certain to be benefited and find plenty to live upon; give them a little whole corn or wheat it night and they ought to shell out the eggs- Some farmers will, uo doubt, clear several hundred dollars out of this sea son’s flock of chicks. Can you not say you can. Many supply their household needs from their flock of fowls. Why not you? A hen that lays soft shelled eggs now is weak from moulting, and needs lime »nd grit and good wholesome food; lime iu the water is good, and should he used when you find the condition of the flock demands it. Professor Baity says: “It may not be generally known that the chokcbcrry can be used as a stock for dwarfing apples. I have fruited the crab Montreal Beauty on it aud have worked other apples on it successfully.” Mulching raspberries is a very good practice where it is practicable. The mulch must be put on thickly enough to keep down weeds, or it will be more trouble than it is worth, and will pre vent cultivation and increase tho hard labor. SUNFLOWER FARM. ACRE OP FLAMING GOLD IN NEW YORK. Raising the Flowers to Feed tho Seeds to Hens-The Biggest. Hennery in the World— i Keeping Hens Warm. •ee tho' gforimm variety that tho Field family have to diet on. The aristocracy of tho barnyard is here sure enough, as well ns those more common hens who are not above the drudgery of laying an egg a day; aud when it comes to cake and It is a grand estate that Cvrus W. Field owns among the glorious West chester hills. You cau travel for miles after leaving Broadway and never get off his property. The homes of Mr. Field and of his sou and married daughter lie on the top of a commanding hill about a mile and a half above the Hudson and back of the pretty little village of Dobbs Ferry. When you have climbed the long hills on which stands the noble mansion of the great promoter and the villas of Dr. Lindsay, his son-in-law, and the younger Field, his son, you come to an abrupt ravine. Behind this is the spring house, containing a liquid crystal of great worth, and the conservatories, where hothouse grapes and rare flowers grow the year around. Dogs, big and little, savage and affectionate, bound * hi. side your carriage and make yoh ^ « for the lonely pedestrian who should pass this way after dark. Then comes a magnificent hill of wood land, cut by a road which winds and twists, no tv up hill aud now down, until it crosses the divide and reaches the val ley of the Sawmill River. It is in *his valley, beside a pretty but dangerous pond, that Mr. Field raises chickens, suuflowcis and malaria, and of which of flic crops were most successful this summer it would be bard to say. But all did well, and there was never a wishbone fight iu the valiant house of Field. The hennery is said to be the largest in the world maintained for a gentleman's tabic-fifteen hundred chicks to be. divided among three families. All summer long passers on the Saw mill River road have drawn rein just above the great lieu houses, and, with exclamations of wonder and delight, wondered what all that was for. “That” was a great field of sunflowers—mam moths, the biggest kind that grows—all planted in serried columns. It was a wonderful sight, this acre of green and gold. When the morning sun shone upon them on the same side as the road a thousand great circles of yellowest gold would all point that way. It was almost dazzling, and the man who could pass it without reining up was either devoid of WOMAN’S INTUITION. A PEEP INTO A HEN HOUSE, pudding the lieu of the yellow dog va riety, tho hen who lays and lays and never goes on strike, is found to be just as serviceable as the more aristocratic eggs of the high caste Brahmins and Cochins, which have come all the way Irom in ill a and China to show the Amer ican chicken what is what in the poultry line. E. Ellison encourages both and. you cau take your choice of the cultured blue blood caged iu exclusiveness, each kind by itself, or in the happier but more plebiau fowl who have the run of tho chicken yard and even do some of their scratching for worms aud chasing of grasshoppers on the public highway. Some of the big boarding houses for chickens were supposed to be rat proof. Such was the intention of the builder, but like all men in this world of fallibil ity he forgot to put his wire screens in the one place needed, and the rats got in and made trouble in the chicken family. There were wishbones—very tender and little ones—which did not get to the house of Field. For a time the chicken guardian was at his wits’ end what to do, but at last he bought a few lively little fox terriers, and their bright eyes had not been long about the place when tho plague of rats was no more. Rats do not seem to Ikurish ou the same soil as fox terriers. NO USE FOR THESE. sight or of imagination. So many asked the meaning of that field that young E. Ellison, who planted it, grew very weary and thought to paiut a sign to this effect: “These sunflowers are to feed chickens. All other questions answered at one dol lar each.” The worst of it was that people were not satisfied with the information con tained above. They wanted to know what part of the sunflower he fed to chickens, and why he did it, aud whose chickens they were, and if Mr. Field could not afford to buy chicken feed, and what effect the sunflower seed had on chickens, and if they would cure the pip—and all manner of questions, per tinent, impertinent and otherwise. At times E. Ellison's head whirled round and he was tempted to resign his place or plow up the sunflowers. But he stuck it out to the end, and now lie has a va cant house full of sunflower blooms, and is the happiest chicken man this side of Elysium. I always thought a big poultry house must be a bad smelling place until 1 eu tered Mr. Field’s and found how much I was mistaken. Of course the keeper has to do much in the way of cleaning, Symbols of the Thunderbolt. Nearly all peoples have represented the fire from the sky by an arm, sometimes also by a bird of strong and rapid flight. It was symbolized among the Chaldeans by a trident. Cylinders going back to the most ancient ages of Chaldean art ex hibit a water-jet gushing from a trident, which is held by the god of the sky or of the storm. The Assyrian artist who first, on the bas-reliefs of Nimroud or Malthai, doubled the trident or trans formed it into a trifid fascicle, docile to the refiuciueuts and elegancies of classic art, by that means secured for the ancient Mesopotamian symbol the advantage over all the other representation! of thunder with which it could compete. The Greeks, like the other Indo-European nations, seem to have represented the storm-lire under the features of a bird of prey. When they received the Asiatic figure of a thunderbolt, they put it in tho eagle's claws and made of it the scepter of Zeus, explaining the combination, after tbeir habit, by the story of tho eagle bringing thunder to Zeus when ho was preparing for the war against the Titans. Latin Italy transmitted the thun derbolt to Gaul, where, in tho last cen turies of paganism, it alternated, ou ths Gallo-Romaii monuments, with the two- headed hammer. It is also found on amulets of Germany, Scandinavia and Brittany. In the East it penetrated to India, following Alexander, where it it found competing with other symbols hav ing the same significance.—Populat Science Monthlu The number of lunatics under restraint in the district criminal and private luna tic asylums of Ireland on tho first day of this year amounted to 16,159, being an increase of 474 over tho total recorded in the previous return, SUN-FLOWERS PUT AWAY TO DRY. for eighteen hundred fowl of chicken size and five hundred ducks and several dozen geese and turkeys, to say nothiug of a couple hundred pigeons and squabs can make considerable trouble if left alone. But there was very little sugges- turn of evil in the three great tenements were the Fieldian stock is at home. Three houses five hundred feet in length are the tenements for the chickens. Two nave expensive arrangements for stcam- hcating in winter, arrangements at which E. Ellison sticks up tho nose in scorn. It is not natural, he says. The chickens, unless very young, want nothing but the shelter and such heat as the winter sun pours in at the glazed windows. All else is n nuisance. It is apt to give them bronchitis, and the whooping cough, and I do not know hut a touch of the grip. There is also an ex pensive brooding arrangement, built by a famous architect named Clark, who evidently had built for hutnau beings more than chickens. Mr. Clark had the idea that it was the little tootsy wootsies of the chickens that should be kept warm, and so he put the heat underneath. E. Ellison, who studies nature's methods, noticed that it was the backs of the little chicks that tho mother hens keep warm, and so he does not use the patent font- warmers, and saves many a chickun'a life by not doing so. There are many different kinds of so- called perfect breedeis which have been tried aud tossed one side as useless, and If you wish to buy a chicken hatcher cheap I have no doubt that E. Ellison can give you a bargain. Tho incubator which he uses is a self-acting, lazy man's affair, with a capacity of 50'J eggs. Three settings of this giant lieu are all that is needed to keep tho vow of Cyrus, and as maternity on tho part of lions is strictly tabooed in the Field establish ment, this one machine does all the work of turning eggs into little peeps ou legs. It is worth a peck of minted money to /:o through these long hen houses aud ' cutting sunflowers. The sunflower farm was a scheme of the chicken man. Ho knew that the seeds of that delicate flower were ex cellent dessert for chickens. Too rich for a steady diet, there was something in their oily richness which put au extra gloss ou feathers aud was very fattening to the bird itself. Why not, he argued, in a farm of 670 acres, backed up by an other farm still farther to the eastward and by the big estate on the Hudson, why not devote an aero to the cultiva tion of tile big sunflower and give his chickens au occasional teste of luxury such as few other chickens enjoy. £?o the sunflowers were planted and flour ished amazingly. But the glory of the sunflowers has de parted. Three days of a recent week were devoted to harvesting them. The chicken man and a small hoy assistant went into the field and the giants bowed their heads before his sharp-edged corn hook. Some of the plants were twice as tall as he. Many had been rifled of their blooms by passersby who were anxious to start sunflower farms of their own and who thought the mammoth variety good enough for them. But there were hundreds left and he w’ent at them like a very prince of decapitaiors. The big sunlike discs were lopped off at the neck’ so to speak, and the yellow blossoms rubbed off. Then they were tossed into a dump cart and when the latter was full they were trundled to au empy cottage and stacked up on the floors to dry. Every room was needed to furnish floor space for the big circles—some of them a foot in diameter. When all the harvesting was done, the common chick were turned loose in the denuded field, and among the lesser blossoms which it was not thought worth while to house found many a store of fowl delight. Next year wbeu the fame of this sunflower farm has gone abroad we may expect to hear of sunflower farms throughout the country, and the chickens of Thanksgiving, 1891, will wear a gloss and bear a flavor such ns chickens never wore before. “Does Mr. Field raise any chickens for market?” I asked. “No,” said E. Ellison. “This is not a commercial enterprise in any kind. Of course if I have more eggs or chickens than are wanted nt home I am privileged to sell them, but I am not trying to run opposition to the men of Hainmonton or any other market raisers.” The first setting of eggs usually takes place about the first of January, and there arc young chickens on the Fieldian tables at a time when the average man takes his from the icebox or goes with out. A little box, which looks much like the market gardener’s hotbed, but which has lamp and furnace within to temper the chills of winter to the new born chick, is the place where he spends his infancy at a time when chicks are supposed to lie sold by tho dozen in the original packages. There is a slide iu front, so that on warm, sunshiny days the infant may stroll a little ways abroad and taste the fresh air of Westchester, but for the most part lie prefers the so ciety of the brooder which follows Dame Nature’s methods aud warms his infant back instead of his infant toes.—Reio York Herald. Chopped OB' Ilia Toe for Balt. A colored girl, about fourteen years aid, and two white boys, about ten and twelve years old, went crab fishing at Brunswick, Ga. Their bait giving ou!, the girl took a hatchet and chcpped off one of the white hoy's toes and used it for bait. The boys left and came home. The girl, after fishing awhile with the too for bait, buried it in the sand. She was arrested and placed in jail.—St. Louis Star-Sayings Mount Saint Elias, in North America, is higher than any mountain peak in Switzerland or the Tyrol. H. N U -45 TRINITY COLLEGE. A nish Krone Oollene for Ymtna M.-n. Brut Instruction, Ii-kiUiis to Five Is-po-t-s. Ksasolialflo KxorttM'-* to g- - „ i-Sitr. Flv* new tmlMliigM to In- trreteU Mils year. 3# in airli-ulan-H Hint kihiIiiho-s In nieeiil suae I-ca- lalatnre. semi for Ualal.igui-, Built Mil, In-pn-o Hook, Kto., Free. Jons F. OBOWKI.L, A. H., Dll, I.ITT,, Drt-ll., Trinity Oulleae, Kuieiuljih Go,, N. 0. Next term opens January 1st. Nearly Always Rleht In Her Judgment la Retard ta Common Things. An old gentleman over seventy, came into the city from his farm, without his overcoat. Tho day turned chilly and ho was obliged to forego his visit to the fair. To a friend who remonstrated with him for going away from home thus unprepared, he said: “I thought it was going to bo warm: my wife told me to take my overcoat, but I wouldn’t. Women have more sense than mem anyway." A frank admission. Women’s good sense is said to come from Intuition; may it not be that thev are more close observers of little tilings. One thine is certain, they are apt to strike the nail on the head, in all tiie ordinary problems of life, more frequently than the lords of creation “According to Dr. Alice Bennett, who recently read a paper on Bright’s disiase lie- fore the Pennsylvania State Medical Society, E ersons subject to bilious attacks and sick eadaches, who have crawling sensations, like the flowing of water in the head, who are ‘tired all the time’ and have unexplained attacks of sudden weakness, may well be sus pected of dangerous tendencies in the direc tion of Bright s disease.” The veteran newspaper correspondent, Joe Howard, of the New York /Vr.in noting this statement, suggests: “Possibly Alice is correct in her diagnosis, hut why doesn't she give some idea of treatment? I know a man who has been‘tired all the time’for ten years. Night before last he took two doses of calomel ami yesterday he wished he hadn’t.” A proper answer is found in the following letter of Mrs. Davis, wife of Rev. Win. J. DaviA of Basil, O., Juno gist, 181W: ‘T uo not hesitate to say that I owe my life to Warner’s Safe Cure. I had a constant hemorrhage from my kidneys fdf more than five months. The physicians could do noth- ing for me. My husband spent hundreds of dollars and I was not relieved. I was under the can:of the most eminent medical men in the State. The hemorrhage ceased before l had taken one bottle of the Safe Cure. I (gin safely and do cheerfully recommend it to ail who are sufferers of kidney troublsa.” Last Battle of tho War of 1812. The last battle of the war took place before New Orleans, January 8, 1815, between tho British troops, consisting of 12,000 men, commanded by General Packcnham, and the Americans, amount ing to’ 6000, under General Jackson. About two weeks before a large British force landed about six miles below New Orleans, for tho purpose of attacking that city. A few days after landing. General Jackson ordered a movement tc check the advance of the enemy, ap*i <tt feated them in a battle with se 'Oif V-r;. On January 1, 1815, the British -/.tacked General Jackson's line ot defense and were repulsed. Upon another attack, on the 8th, they wore defeated with great slaughter, aud retreated to their landing place, where they embarked and sailed away.—Boston. Culticator. Ladies needing a tonic, or children wh-i want building up, should take Brown's Iron Bitters. It is pleasant to take, cures Malaria, iadigestiou.Biliousness and Liver Complaints, makes the Blood rich and pure. Ecolumy is wealth; but it is a kind of wtalih that the rich man finds it hard to transfer to hiss n. Do You Ever Speeulmef -o-i seadin rus tiieir name an 1 ad- ve information that will lead Bcui. L'-wis A- C Security Any ]'( dressw.il ree to a fortune Building, Kansas city Mo. doctrine that hasn't been heal t. tested ;o pro in his fly from a cornfield The Slnry of a Song. There is a story of a song told by Julian Jordan which has a tinge of pathos. The story, as Jordon relates it, is as follows: Mario, the great singer, was one day walking along one of the Paris boulevards when he passed a blind beggar soliciting alms. Mario had a tender heart, but on this particular occasion was without money, two cir cumstances which very often go to gether. He was very anxious to do something for the poor man, and ho suddenly bethought himself of his voice, which he knew if ho used would certainly fill the beggar's cap with money. Ho tried the experiment, and the beggar went home tiiat night happy. The song which Jordan dedicated to Mario is entitled “A Touch of Hu manity,” and is as follows: There walked one day iit a cily fair, A city beyond the sea, A singer whose fains in that city fair Surpassed by none might be; Lightly humming a favorite air As slowly he walked along. Until at length there came to his ear The strain of a plaintive song. A |*oor blind lieggnr was singing By the wayside, asking alms; The great singer paused to listen— The beggar knew not who heard, Or how great was the fame of that singer, Whose heart with pity was stirred. And when tho beggar had finished his plaint, A thought to th-- singer came— One song I’ll sing for sweet charity, One song in humanity's name! And then by the side ot the beggar he stood, _ And grandly he sang a song, Till alt (lie Ix'ggar’s wants wero supplied; Thru tile singer passed along. There was one poor heart made happy, And the ung-.-l - r.niilud I ro.n n’o >ve; There was one poor heart made happy and glad By that net of pity and love! Ami that sotig was recorded in heaven, Tlint song for sweet charity; And the Father of Love will rt-nioiuber Tiiat touch of Immunity. —/’leo i/« lie. A Ball of “Dadti) Long Logs." A curious natural phenomenon was seen at Plainfield, N. J., a few days ago. A gentleman walking through his gar den saw a living ball of “daddy long legs,” as they are commonly called. There were hundreds of the insects iu the lump, which was fully half a foot iu circumference. Their long legs were tangled in a seemingly inextricable mass. The animal warmth of their tiny bodies probably induced the insects to huddle so closely together.—Acte York Tele gram. A tortoise has been known to live to the age of 1U7. A Wonderful Paper. When you were l eading tile large I’roapectas of TH* Yoiftil’a f'liMeANiON, published last week m our columns, did yea stop to consider what a wealth of talent was engaged in pro ducing this remarkable paper? its success is phenomenal, and it is read in 450,00! families because it is the best of its kind. Now It the time to send your subscription. $1.75 scat at ones will secure you the rest of tiiis year free, including all the Holiday Numbers. The Yodtm's Companion, Boston. 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