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WEEKLY EDITION.^ WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAECH 15, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. Siiow Flakes. Over the people the snow comes down ; tOver the murky town : Down in the grime, And the sliruc, or * V'- Down in the dust, And the crust, Down from aloft, in fleeces soft, V To be trodden in trampled soi!. | So, out effceavec, sweet love is sent, Sroftly to mortals lent; "- > "Whitely it falls te Over.walls \ Anci* halls; Purely descend?, Till it blends With life: ^nre as the snow, nntil dark below,' 'Under tramping of earthly strife. Dark, in the tarnish'and tramp of met Yet to be raised again; Yet to aspire, From mire, S.ill higher; Yet to arise In the gnise 1 Of lov?; ? Out of moruing TT>ist, ecrenel. kissed By the light -jf our Father -bove ! Xnfh>n<r rtf >>pf>rr?r? lrwfc hfllftw Earth caaiii t keep the snow Over all chains, ^a<l pains, And stainsLove, gnto air, !v. Li3? prayer, - Above? Ont of eaa thly mist, serenely kissed, ^ ' Shall arise to the Father of love! ?ColontlAJ.E. Duganne, in Essex Statesman. The Gir! With the Red Ribbons. e! You ask me for a story, and here it is. I have just returned from a visit to Madison, where I found an old friend, Thos. Golden, whom I had not seen for more than fifteen years. Tom and I had been classmates at the college, and were intimate friends. He was al??? - ways of a highly jovial and social nature, that is, when he was in the society of his own eex; but bring him into the presence of a woman and he was immediately thrown into the most embarrassb? diffidence. But he was a Hod-hearted fellow, with an exterior that was equally prepossessing. Of course, I was as glad to meet him as he was to see me ; especially so when he tcld me he was married and happy. "And who do you think 1 married?" he asked. I answered that I could not guess. "Whys Anna Goidthorpe ?" ' What!" said I, "that beautifal old flame of yours?the girl with the red ribbons?" "The same," he said ; "but had you not forgotten her?" "Forgotten her? No, indeed. 1 never can fprget with what deep devotion that girl loved you. I often envied jou. Her charming blue eyes and the perfect symmetry and loveliness of her face are now as distinct in my memory OO taJLLdl* auu JVU OCCUIC.U ov imvuuvavuv % to her attractions that I almost thought .yon cold-hearted." Ir. justice to my friend, I ought to say that I did not really mean what I said. He was never cold-hearted?a Mr man of mere generous impulses never Hp lived ; iut his diffidence arose from an Tmfamiliarity with the world. X" was just about to recall my last remark when Tom interrupted me with? "No, William, I- was not coldhearted. but I was simply a fool, and my folly caused me years of suffering. As an old friend, shall I tell you my history?" "Yes, Tom," I answered, "it would interest me very much." ' Well," began my fri<' J, "when I first met Anna Goldthorpf thought her the handsomest woman 1 nad ever seen. It was at Mrs. Denon's house I first saw her?in the parlor. For weeks I had sean her each day, and each time she appeared the same?so affable, so graceful and so like an angel of the household. To tell the truth, I was not merely in love but completely smitten ?9? so as 9717 hnv at nineteen. who had never been in love, eou]d pos- j eibh'be. Whenever she spoke it seemed to me the sweetest of music. The English language "was never spoken so perfectly and purely as she spoke it." "That is true," 1 interrupted; "her words flowed with scch precision aud j elegance, and yet without the least af-' fectation, that I often wondered hew it j was possible for one born abroad, as she was, to so thoroughly master our language and employ it in conversation with so much effect" "I think it was all owing to her perfect modesty and angelic, graceful bearing. But she shone only in private pfrlors. In the society of a few, her culture, her rare accomplishments, refit cted a charm that was irresistable. Like myself, she had avoided great gatherings. She was more accustomed ^Acl%tArkoVvln rwirfioo r\f IU it,UVO 1U LUC 4UOUW1AO^/?U vawv VI. the country than I was. And as I had never known that there was a difference between a woman of the home circle and the woman of society, I judged Anna only from domestic love's standpoint. But to proceed with my story. "When that fatal ball at V 's Hall took place, after you and I had just graduated from the dancing seminary you remember, 1 was the escort of Miss Goldthrope. All the boys knew that I was bashful, as you know, and quite sensitive, and when I condueled Anna into the brilliantly lighted hall I began to feel actually uncomfortable ; as if guilty of something, I knew not what. As we proceeded through the long hall, I thought everybody was looking at me and my companion. I felt the hot blood rush to my face, a timid nervousness overcame me and my steps became irregular; all of which the splendid mnsic 4P that just then struck np had no tenden. cy to remove. "At last we were seated, and still appeared to me as if the whole party were scrutinizing no, and I felt uneasy, not knowing where to look to avoid their glances. An occasional stolen glance at my partner revealed to me a blush on her cheek, which indicated at least a'slight embarrassment on her part, and which I at once attributed to some awkward motion of mine, th9 direct resuit of my unconquerable basnfulness. If I could have sat there the entire EjF evening without moving, it would have ^ _ been a greater pleasure than to get up among all the people of the city and expose myself in a blundering dance. You see, while I was exceedingly bash. y ful, I had no confidence in myself. In the dancing school I c }uld beat all the boys, but to get up right there for the first time In my life at a grand soiree, with a partner of my otto, was too momentous for an unsophisticated young man, as I was; bnt I did. A waltz was announced, and I led Anna npon the floor, and, before the music began, we promenaded as the othei dancers did. This familiarized me with the floor and the gayety of the surroundings. I noticed tiie gorgeous trails, the elaborate coiffures, and, ir fact, the general fashionable appearance of the promenaders before me, and J thought that Anna, who, when I caliec . . for her, looked tome beautifully at tired, was now clad quite plainly com pared "with the other ladies. Her dre& seemed to set well upon her, her har was done np neatly, bnt yet how mncl more elegant were the rest of the ladies. This augmented my diffidence, and to still more heighten my embarrassment dnring the dance which followed, and through which I worried the best I could, Harry Black stepped up to me and whispered in my ear? "Tom, take care of those red ribbons." I looked at Anna and saw, for the first time, that she had about her neck a red ribbon. I had not noticed it before, and if I had, it would have seemed all right; but Harry's remark, which I tnougnt was tinctured witn a intie sarcasm, confused my better judgment, and the red ribbon became to me the most remarkable part of Anna's toilet. It- did not look uncomely in my eyes ; yet, if Harry had noticed it and found occasion to make sport of it, it must look out of place to others. I looked about the room and could not see another red ribbon among all the lady dancers. It must look awfully oat of taste. What induced Anna to adorn herself so unfashionably ? I thought. But I never stopped to think that it might have been the custom in the country from whence she came. At any rate, this discovery, in addition to my former embarrassment, made me still more miserable. I danced only twice after that, for the red ribbon of my partner constantly flaunted before me, and, as she was a stranger in the city, no one else offered to dance with her. An early hour, therefore, saw me taking leave of her at the door-step of her residence. ; " 'Would I call again ?' In my stupid embarrassment I answered a mechanial 'Voa ' -orlnoVi T TAallv rlir? not meat!. As much as I even then felt that I loved her, the unfortunate termination of our ball attendance, with those red ribbons, so completely abashed me that I dared not cail. I was a foolish boy, unworthy her affections. I knew and felt that. The next day my comrades had much to say about the party and about the red ribbons, and that but added more fuel to my embarrassment, and, as this jesting continued from day to day, the boys perceiving that it annoyed me, I determined to leave Madison. "The last Sunday I was there 1 attended the Episcopal Church. Before the services began Anna came in also. A pang shot through me as if I were the greatest living culprit, and she was to be my executioner; and I fear that I was anything but a devout listener that evening. After service I was one of the f?-L J- -1 1, J LLTbij OU.t? OX LLLtJ UUUTCil) onu. my way leisurely homeward through the Capitol grounds. It was a beautiful summer moonlight evening, just cool and pleasant enough for a stroll through the park; and while I was mentally resolving that I would walk fast to escape meeting Anna, something seemed to retard my steps, and I think I did not walk so fast after all, for I had but jnst entered the gate when she was just behind me, and her sweet, musical voi;e greeting me with, 'Good evening.' "I was caught, willing or unwilling, as you may take it. She accepted my arm and we wandered long in the broad paths under the grand old native oak trees ; and talked of much?first with no little hesitancy ; but, finally, under the inspiration of the charming spot, we became more fluent and more agreeable, until our conversation reached its former warmth and familiarity. But 4-1%^ cAimn TE7QC tonf; in 0JK5 VI LUU kJViXVW ?HV 4Jh.^s?rv abeyance until we reached the house, where upon entering the parlor, what should I see upon her person but these identical red ribbons. If a ghost had appeared to me then I could not have been more startled. My conversation became incoherent. My old embarrassment had returned, and I soon felt the necessity of terminating an interview which must be painful to us both, but more especially to myself. I retired in the best way that 1 could without offending her, for I still felt that I loved her?only the ribbons! "Jt was the last time that I saw her for ten years. If I thought of Anna once I thought of her every day, I went to California and traveled a good deal through the mountain regions of j the Pacific slope; but go where 11 - - ? 1 x-?? would, Anna s sweet iacewasuuiistajiury i before me. Contact with the world could not blot out her memory; on the contrary, it tended to show up my error of the past. I began to realise my utter want of judgment, or. rather, my moral cowardice. I had loved the girl with the utmost fervency before I had seen her abroad, before the dazzling lights of the ball-room, where milliner and the artist, in the latest st^es, had created a sham brilliancy. She who sbone like the brightest diamond in the home circle, became, in my foolish, inexperienced eyes, a paler light. I had estimated her by the scale of fashion instead of by her heart and her goodness. The best of women are not always adapted to the great assemblies of the fashionable world. Their very modesty secludes them from the more frivolous, gossiping world, which grasps at any pretext, like the red ribbon, to humiliate modesty and virtue. All this I began to understand and I was on the point of returning home to seo Anna, acknowledge my unfeigned love, and soek her hand. But five years had passed, and I fell in with a person from Madison, at Piacerville, who informed me that Miss Goldthorpe was married. "This was a terrible blow to my newly founded hopes. But I could not reproach Anna. What e^idenco had I given her that I reciprocated her love ? "Five years more I worked and wandered in the mines of the Sierra Neva das, and then returned to the States. Arriving at Prairie du Chien, and stepping into the car which was to take me to Madison, I met Frank Hood, who recognized me at once, and, being glad to see me, took a seat^by my side. I had many questions to ask, and finally, too, questions about Anna. "She has pined for you these ten years," said Frank. "Bat isn't she married ?" I quickly asked. "No,'" he answered, "her sister, who came to Madison after you left, was married about six years ago. Anna is still single, and, everybody believes, is waiting for yon. But she hasn't seen a well day since you left." "Where does she live now?" I again inrmired. "At Madison. Yon must go and see her. Don't think that her long sickness has robbed her of all her former beauty." "This last, he said to me with a significant look. As we thundered over the track towards Madison, and Frank kept talking to me about everything that would have been of interest to me on any other occasion, my thoughts were constantly upon AnDa and I heard but little that he said. My resolution 1 was at once formed. I would see Anna and if she still loved me, no cruel jibes ' of boys, or red ribbons, should wrest from me a prize which I bad lost for so many years. "I called at her house the very after1 noon of my arrival. A girl admitted me, and, without announcing my name, 1 I asked to see Anna. In a short time tbo door opened and she entered. A > lock of recognition, and a startled crv i: 1 escaped uti ups. I "Well, I need not relate to too the balance. Yon can snpply the rest with I your imagination. Suffice it to say that " Anna became my wife. She has regained " her former health, and I am the happy 5 possessor of the best, the handsomest, c and the most devoted wife?the gir3 1 with the red ribbons." FOR THE FAIR SEX. A Club of J11 led Bachelors. A club of "Unfortunate Lovers" has been formed in E!erne, England, and already fourteen members have been enrolled. Tbe chairman is a bachelor whose rebuffs have been so frequent that he dare not visit any family in j the town lest he may be obliged to pass the evening face to face with the maker of one of his many mittens. The meeting? are social, and no allusions are ever made to the rascally little dart finger and small god of woes.?Philadelphia Times. A Model Love Letter. Here, young ladies, is a model Jove j letter. Editor Ramsdell of the Washington Gazette offered $5 for the best written letter accepting an offer of marriage. Gertrude Nelson pocketed the half eagle by this elusion : My Dear Donald: Fresh with the breath of the morning came your loving missive. I have turned over every leaf of my heart duiing the day, and on each page I find the same written, namely, gratitude for the love of a noble i man, humility in finding myself its ! object, and ambition to render myself worthy of that which you offer. I will try. Yours henceforth. A Young Telegraph Operator. Brown county, Texas, may properly claim the youngest telegraph operator in the world. The operator, Hallie Hutchinson, is a little girl nine years of age. She handles her instrument with the success and precision of an old operator. Recently, when election returns were coming in and the whole country was wildly excited to know the result, little Hallie sat at her instrument, her eyes aglow with intelligence, and gathered in the news from all over the TTnnnn rcViila ^r?7-QTiR nf hrftTOTIV irwn [ crowded around to hear what the light- j ning brought and to admire the wonderful skill of the little operator. While controlling the wires as she does, Hallie is not unlike other little I girls of her age in her habits and inclinations. For instance, one end of : her operating table is piled full of baby dolls, and she spends a great deal of her leisure time dressing and E.tu-sing fchem. A Beautiful Bridal Trosseau. A magnificent bridal trousseau is being prepared in this city for the daughter of a wealthy Cuban. One dress which the bride will wear at the levee following her wedding is of ambercolored satin over a. petticoat of 1 oyal purple brocaded velvet. The o:ourt train of the satin is made exceedingly long, anu is covered with an exquisite hand embroidery of purple pansies, small golden roses and buds, and shaded heliotrope blossoms and foliage. The figures on the brocaded velvet j petticoat are heavily outlined with am- | ber-colored pale gold and heliotrope j beads ; and at the feot of the skirt is a j costly fringe ten inches deep made ex | pressly for the dres3, formed of the j xiniea ueaas oyer a uet-wuris. ull ucxcolored and royal pu rple silk chenille. The satin bodice is cut Louis XIV. style, and trimmed down the sides and j over the hips with beaded garni- J ture. The amber-heed kid gloves to be worn with the dress are to reach within an inch of the strap over the shoulder which serres for a sleeve. A second dress of primrose pink satin is completely veiled with ruffles of oriental lace and garnished with garlands of tea roses and foliage. The traveling dress is of myrfcle-green satin sublime, adorned wii;h wide bands of shaded green feathers flecked with gold, placed in double rows aronnd the tunic, and Louis Quinze bodice. Over this is to be worn a long traveling cloak of darkest green ladies' cloth, trimmed with a bordering and deep Russian collar of real silver fox, with muff and hat en suite. The bridal robe is of white brocaded satin combined with white moire and trimmed with point lace. The veil is a marvel of richness and beauty, and cost ?2,000. Fashion >ote?. Rings are worn again on the little j finger. Gold jewelry is losing the favor of the moment. Breakfast caps of null or silk are tied with plush ribbon bows. Large collars and collarettes grow more and more in fashionable favor. White brocaded petticoats have corsage and train of myi-tle green velvet. ! There is a war between short skirts | and demi-trained ones for evening i wear. All the new spring suits of cheviot, cloth, flannel or homespun are tailor made. Mauve and heliotrope shades have returned to popular favor for evening dress. Black velvet costumes trimmed with shrimp-pmk feathers are en regie in Paris. Algerian plush is the latest novelty in this universally popular trimming j fabric. i Buby shades in satin, plush and j moire are mucn worr: dv oinneites tnis winter. It is impossible for a woman to look as dignified m a short skirt as in a trained dress. Fillets are gain in gin favor in London | and two or three steel bands are often j worn in the hair. Handkerchiefs of pongee silk or siik I mull worn on the neck protect the skin I from the dye of furs. The style of figures on the new sateens are in small flowers, leaves, and stems in mele or jardiniere effects. Japanese designs in mele effects, comI bining lanterns, fans, birds and flowers, j covers th9 grounds oJ: French foulards. Some of the new American prints im ! itate the new striped Scotch ginghams j so well as to be undistinguishable from them. Pretty combinations of color in grounds and dots or designs are brown on cream, blue on maize, and rose color oh pearl. ; The grounds of many of the new sateens are of shrimo Dink, shell pink, j cream, pearl shades, and dark colors, I j and also bkck. New black silks have large polka dots ! moons, crescents, and leaves on plain j satin, satin merveilienx, and satin de j Lyon surfaces. Plain sateens, in solid coioisto match the grounds of piinted sateens, are i shown for skirts of costumes to be com- j posed of two stuffs. I The waists of fashionable conven tional dresses grow longer and longer, ! while those of aesth etic dresses grow j shorter and shorter. I The return of the p lain and unadorned j ugliness of tne Empire dress is ex[ pected in Paris. It is as pretty and j classic as a pillow case. j Embroidery is quire as fashionable as j lace, and both are used in combination | on dresses, on accessories of the toilet, j on underwear, and household decorai tions. j The jersey jacket , not a woven Jerj sey, but a little garment simulating it, j bnt with seams all the way down to the ! bottom of tho basque, and fastened J with many small buttons down the | front, is very fashionable. A dainty walking dress for a little . girl of twelve is made of peacock blue l oashmere, the skirt "rimmed with two i-'i- v-T ---Lli. deep kiltings of the cashmere, the skirt trimmed with two deep killings of the cashmere, and double sashes and balayeuse of oriental striped satin. The graceful little Breton bodice has a shirred plastron of the narrow striped materials, and the Hungarian coat, to wear outside, has a Stuart collar, deep ! cuffs, and pockets of the same bright goods. Some Curiosities of Food. The Germans of New York, says the News of that city, have stores in which specially Teutonic delicacies are vended. Dried, or rather smoked, geese is an odd feature of these. Smoked geese come from Pomerania, where their living originals are raised in large flocks. They are plucked for their down, and then killed, cut in sections, very slightly salted and smoked. Pomeranian goose, however, costs twenty-five cents a pound, and is esteemed a great dainty among German epicures. There are a couple of stores here where Spanish edibles are dealt in. These consist chiefly of nnts and dried fruits. Dried goatmea; forms a favor ite feature. It is prepared very much as our dried beef is. The Spaniards seem to rely more on their pecaliar methods of cooking what they eat than on any peculiarity of the food itself. The peculiarity of the French food stores are beyoDd comparison. The question in regard to them is not what they do, but what they do not sell. There is probably nothing from a. section of boiler iron or a cobble-stone, down to a bent pin or a broken horseshoe nail that a Frenchman cannot provide a dressing for to make it appetizing. An odd feature of the lYench shops to an American is the horse-meat department. They all deal in horseflesh, both fresh, dried and ssltel. Horseflesh sausages, made, or supposed to be made, in Lyons, and called Lyons sausages, are very popular. Sausage, made of a compound of asses' 3esh, pork and veal, also have an extensive sale. Sharks' fins, dried, are sold in every Chinese shop in New York. They are imported from China. There are three Kinds, of wnicn tne Dest are tne nns ot the white shark. These are worth 33.50 a pound. The poorest kind, which is known as black shark fins, is sold for half as much, and even less. Shark's fin is a popular dainty among Chinamen. It is salted and dried for export, and looks like a section of whalebone when raw, but boiled in water a gelatinous substance is extracted, which i3 esteemed very savory. A species of stew made of shark's fin, dried oysters, rice and peppers is a champion Chinese di&h. Dried oyster? are ordinary bivalves, extracted from the shell, dipped in salt and strung on strings to dry in the sun. They come from China, and look for all the world like figs. John Chinaman infinitely prefers them to the frenhest of fresh oysters he can buy here. Mussels, conks and clams are preserved by him in the same way. The famous bird's nest is also a feature of any respectable shop in Mott street. It is queer stuff to loot at, for it rather resembles gravel than anything vegetable or animal, and tastes a little like gum arabic. The nests, it seems, are dried and rubbed into these fraz ments in the hand, when they are packed for transportation. Bird's nest is worth from $10 fo:r the commoner variety to $25 a ponnd for the best. It is essentially a lnxurv, for a ponnd of it will only make sonp for at most forty people, so that it rates higher than tnrtle sonp in the dearest season. Another dainty which Ah Sin has to have imported all the way from China is dried cabbage. Some score or so of contributors to a French sporting journal dined one day npon the ham and heart of a lion, killed by Constant Cheret in Algeria. The flesh of the lion was fonnd to be particnlarly firm and close-grained, like that of a horse, bnt althongh pronounced palatable, it only achieved what is termed asucces (Tesitme, while the heart, skillfully prepared with irnffles, was unanimously voted tongh and indigestible. " Miniature Trees in China. Wo VioT7A oil Vnriron frrvm fVhildlinnr? how the Chinese cramp their women's feet, and so manage to make them keepers at home, but how they contrive to grow minature pines and oak in flower pots for half a century has always been much of a secret. They aim first and iast at the seat of vigorous growtn; endeavoring to weaken it as much as may be consistent with the preservation of life. Take a young plant, say a teedling or a cutting of a cedar, wheD only two or three inches high, cut ofi its tap root as soon as it has other rootlets enough to live upon, and replant it in a shallow Tearthern pot or pari. The end of the tap root is generally made to rest on a stone wiihin it. Alluvial clay is than put into the pot, much of it in bits. the size of beans, and just enough in hi):d and quantity to furnish a scanty nourishment to the plant. Water enough is given to keep it in growth, but not enough to excite a viperous habit. So likewise is the application of light and heat. As the Chinese pride themselves on the shape of tliAir minatnrfl traps. tliev use strincs. wires and pegs, and various other mechanical contrivances, to promote symmetry of habit or to fashion their pets into odd fancy figures. Thus, by the use of poor soil and little of it; and little water, any strong growth is prevented. Then, too, the top and side roots being within easy raach of the gardener, are shortened by his pruning knife or seared with a hot iron. So the little tree, finding itself headed on every side, gives the idea of strong growth, asking only for life, and just snongh to look well. Accordingly each new set of leaves become more and more 3tunted, the buds and rootlets are diminished in proportion, and at length a balance is established between every part of the trees, making it a dwarf in every respect. In tome kinds of trees this end is reached in three or four y^ars; in others ten or fifteen years are necessary. Such is fancy horticulture among the Celestials.? Technologist. Domeslic LoTe. Dr. Holmes says: "I never saw a garment too fine for a man or maid; there never was a chair too fine for a cobbler or a cooper or a king to sit in; never a house too fine to shelter the human head. These elements about us, the glorious sun, the imperial sun, are not too good for the human race. Elegance fits man. But do we nut value these tools a little more than thev are worth, and sometimes mortgage a house for the mahogany we bring into it? I iad rather eat my dinner off the head of a barrel, or dress after the fashion of John the Baptist in the wilderness, or sit on a block all my life, than comsume all myself before I got to a home, and take so much pains with the out- j oiUU ILuXb LliC iuaiuc ?ao n ao an empty nut. Beauty is a great thing;; 'out beantv of house garment and furniture are tawdry ornaments compared with domestic love, blithe elegance in the world will not make a home and I would give more for a spoonful of real hearty love than for whole shiploads of furniture 'mdall the gorgeousness all the upholsters in the world can gather. - mmwwm Jonathan Breisford, aged 8i, and Miss Elizabeth Kirby, aged 70, both ef i Zanesville, Ohio, arc soon to be married. mi 1 3 A1 " mi . 1 1 rne giaay irnngss xaey quarreiea sixty years ago, and have just made up. Same old story of never too late to mend. / v'vcr ' -'-v. Fruit in California. Thinking that it might perhaps be a matter of some interest to readers of the Garden, I have from* personal inspection written out a list of the fruit trees growing in the open air upon a farm near Niles, in Alameda county, thirty miles southeast from San Francisco, in the Santa Clara Yalley. We have the ocean breezes somewhat modified by the San Mateo mountains toward the west. The amount of frost in winter varies much with location in this valley. A narrow belt near the mountain's base on the east side is more sheltered, and is best for the culture of choice fruits and flowers. We h&ve 10 rain during the summer, or from May 1 to Not. 1?positively not a shower sufficient to lay the dust; yet we do not have to irrigate (except young or newly set plants until established). If the ordinary winter rains are received, all manner of trees perfect their fruits, and the cereals ripen and most vegetables grow well without artificial application of water. Maize or Indian corn is planted in the open field about May 5, and grows and perfects without ever having had a drop of rain, and without irrigation. Sometimes barley ic-?6W3i for hay. in December, and crk* in ApriJ. Then maize is sown on the same land for a late crop, and, unless the \rinter has been late and more than usually wet, the corn needs some assistance. For cconomy in working it-the vegetable garden is supplied with -Rater from wells or ditches, and as fast as a bed is emptied the soil is dug over, fertilized," and replanted. The soil is rich and deep with an underlying stratum of gravel thirty ( feet, down to which wells are bored. and yield an unfailing supply. Nearer < the Bay of San Francisco artesian wells : abound, but on tbe farm of which we t write tbe water is raised to tbe surface i by wiDdmille and steam pumps. The 1 climate is delightful, healthy, and in- i vigorating. Tbe farm under considers- i tion has been occupied about thirty years, but horticultural work was begun here only eight years ago, and the won- 1 derful growth manifest is dne to soil f and climate. Of trees now in bearing 1 there are forty varieties of apples, the ' earliest ripening the middle of June ; 1 four of crab apples, twenty-three of < pears, the earliest ripening in June; < twenty-one plums' and prunes; two of < quinces; forty of peaches, extending in i season from June 1 to November 1; three of nectarines, seven of apricots, i and eight of cherries, and eight of figs. Beai les these, there are already fruiting Japan persimmons, American per- 5 simmons, English walnuts, Persian walnuts, Italian chestnuts, English filberts, three kinds; oranges of six varieties, lemons of-three sorta, citrons, shaddocks, olives^the loquat of Japan, the kamquat, or Japanese dwarf orange, the grapes, both American and European; of blackberries, currants, raspberries, and strawberries, all the leading varieties seer grown. The large English gooseberries mildew occasionally, owing to $16 hot sun, but the Houghton seedling thrives satisfactorily Passiilora edutis fruits in the open air and stands the.yvter. The pomegranate is u great fa*c">ite, both for bloom and fruit. Besic^l these and others, many useful plants have not yet fruited, but are grovririg:Rapidly. Among these are the three.-Lq?nfi asimind, tiie Japanese chestnuts,carob, the j ajube plum, the dagger) aim, the cork oak, and bananas ofpyf.orts. The list of ornafentai plants gTown here is verv laige. ' Kennedyas attain the size of tall shrubs or small trees; ' fuchsias, pelargoniums, and similar plants bloom most of the year. The < small ranges of greenhouses, hotbeds, and cold frames are used chiefly for 1 propagation. Camellias xhododen- ( drons, azaleas, etc., are kept under a ( lath house shelter through the summer 1 months. Bnt, since the chie:! object of ' this list is to show how wide our range ( of fruit is, it seems out of place to con- ^ sider the ornamental department at 1 present.?The Garden. ' i Benefits of Vaccination. ( D:r. Henry Thompkins, Medical Su- 1 peri:atendent of the Fever hospital be- . longing to the Manchester Royal In- ' firmary at Monsall, in a paper which he , read recently at Owens College, said: , "The most striking of all evidences is, , perhaps, that derived from the small- , pox hospitals themselves. Here the protective uiuucuub ux v auciiiabiuu la proved in a manner beyond all cavil. At Highgate, during an experience of forty years, no nurse or servant having been revaccinatea has ever contracted the disease, and evidence of the same character I can myself bring forward, for during the whole time that I have had charge of the fever hospital, more than a thousand cases of small-pox have passed under my care, yet no servant, nurse, porter, or other person engaged there has, afte:r. revaccination, ever tafeea it, though exposed daily to infection in its most concentrated form. One woman, a laundress, who escaped vaccination, took the disease and died ; one :iurse, who some years before had suffered from small-pox, and was then considered protected, had a very mild attack; and thiii summer a workman, who did not live on the premises, but camo in to work as a painter, v;as not j ? J ^ vauc maueu, aiiu jiau xatnci ? acvcio uutack; and still more recently a servant, ! who, by an oversight, was allowed to J go about her work three days before ' being vaccinated, had, before the latter had- run its course, a slight abortive attack. Again, among all the students, : who during the past few years have at- ; tended the hospital for clinical instruc tion, not one has suffered, all having been revaeeinated before being per- j mitted to enter the small-pox warda. And in their case the false argument which opponents of vaccination have brought forward to explain the immunity enjoyed by nurses and others in attendance on the sick?viz , that constant intercourse and exposure to infection renders them proof against it by ' V. AAR 4/\ ill A Idle BJbtttLLl UCUUIUJil^ XUU1CU tu tiic poison, cannot be applied, as these gentlemen attend the hospital odIv * few hours once a week. I defy the most enthusiastic or conscientious of antivaccinators to produce evidence like this on his side of the question, or to bring forward even half a dozen per sons, choose them whence he may, who have not been protected against smallpox, and expose them as the students are exposed, without more or less of the number taking the disease. Facts such as these should convert the most anti-vaccinator from his folly, and convince him that a weapon of defense so powerful as vaccination should not be left to the pleasure of the individual, but that the State has the right and duty to look after its most thorough performance."?London Times. A Novel Railroad. A new inventor is in the field with a plan for a bicycle railroad which would revolutionize locomotion. By this system he claims that cars can travel 150 miles an hour without danger of an accident. His plan is to build the road on iron posts, the cars to be confined in a latticed tunnel shaped below like a Y and above like a V; there being a track at the bottom and a track at the top and wheels placed in the center of the cars at the top and bottom to fit in their tracks, instead of wheels on both sides. The locomotive is to have driving wheels fifteen feet high. We await with interest the new road, and wonder which will be first completed, it or the Brooklyn bridge.?Hearth ond Horn I POPULAR SC1E3CE. Prof. Forbes and Dr. Young have determined by a number of experiments that the speed of a bine ray of light exceeds that of the red by abont one per cent. Director Burchard, of the United States mint, estimates that abont 18 per cent, of the annnal gold and silver production in the United States is consnmed in the arts. Late measurements of the carbonic acid existing at considerable heights above the earth's surface appear to show that the gas is pretty evenly distributed throughout our atmosphere. Lead-pencil marks cannot be rendered indelible, but if the lines are washed over with a clear solution of one-quarter of an ounce of gum-arabic in six ounces of water they will not rub out easily. Violent atmospheric disturbances are always attended with electric manifestations; and, in & recent paper, Dr. Rogers is disposed to consider the prevalent theory of wind as erroneous, and believes the real caase of air currents to be eleciricity. . It may not be generally known, says the London Truth, that a man wearing dark cloths is more liable to infection from contagious disease than he who wears light-colored garments, because particles whijh emanate from diseased or decayed bodies are much more rapidly absorbed by dark than by light fabrics, This is easy of proof. Expose a light * 11 - - - ? J- - it . p - p L-y ana aare coat to me rames 01 touacco for five minutes, and it will found that the dark one smells stronger than the other of tobacco smoke. It is well known that a black object on a white ground will appear to be much larger than it really is. A white stripe, for instance on a black surface seems broader than a black stripe on a white surface, although both be of the same width. This phenomenon of simultaneous contrast is physiologically explained by Pater Scherffer in this way: When one of our senses receives a double sensation, one of which is active and strong while the other is weak, it will be found that the latter is not felt, rhis must be particularly the case when ooth impressions are of the same kind, or when a strong effect from an object on one of the senses is followed by an)ther of ihe same kind which is milder ma weaser. SVhen Custom House Duties are Paid, The cashier's office performs only a small portion of the work of the Cus;om House in all its branches, but as it .3 one of the main resources of the public purse, it is perhaps the most nteresting. As one passes along the lingy corridor he catches tight of the hree lines of men cramped and crooked kround in the little room, boys and jrav-haired men, with their little jutta-percha boxes full of gold ready ;o be emptied into the capacious pockets of Uncle Sam. In a small room on the main floor of ;he New York Custom House, and ocjupying the southwest corner of it, the iashier, with a force of fifteen clerks, receives all the money for duties levied Dy the government on imports, exports, jxcepting the small amount assessed on :>assenffers' bascasre. which is collected ! )n the wharf. Some idea of the amount of business lone in this office may be gained when it is stated that the money received in i single day has several times lately imoiuitei to $1,000,000, and the numser of entries made has exceeded 1,000. The manner in which this large araotmt )f money is collected is as follows : The merchant or broker's clerk, after arst making ont his entry in the rotnnda jf the buildiner, where the amount of luty is calculated on the entry by the mtry clerks, takes his place in the line before any one of the receiving jlerks, and deposits the amount of ais entry in a small box, and with it a ticket on which he has entered the mershant'sname, with the date and the sum j inclosed, whether in gold, silver, notes, I Dr certificates. Gutta-percha boxes are used to present unnecessary noise from" the clinking of the coin. The receiving clerk takes the box of money, and hands it ? 4-a11a? 4-a Anfrrr ir? a ?U a l/CAJLV5I. 0^/ vuuuu 11vuw VMUij AM c* j blotter. The teller does not look at the cash ticket until he has counted the money and marked it on the back the ticket. Ho then tnrns it over, ind if the count is correct, he checks it, and returns it to the receiving clerk, srho then signs a permit for the goods. The entries then go to the book-keepsrs who enter the amount on "sheets," md at the close of the day the money is :ounted and compared with this record. 3f the book-keepers. So carefully is this system carried Dut that there is rarely a variation of a ;ent between the money and the accounts, and the office has thereby gained the reputation of being more exact than my other similar institution in the sountry which handles such an amount af money coming in so many different payments, from $5 to 85,000. Should any discrepancy occur, the jlerks carefully compare both sides of the tickets with the clerk's blotter ; and then the blotter is checked oil with the book-keeper's sheets. By some of these methods the error is certain to be discovered. As account is kept of each kind of money separately, the tellers can see at a glance if a mistake is made in the gold, silver certificates, or note s. When the coin has been counted and put into small canvass bags it is placed in boxes holding 820,000 in gold. These boxes are put in a hand cart outside the building and wheeled to the sub-treasury, which gives a receipt to the custom house for each deposit. Nearly a ton of coin has to be transferred daily in this manner. An officer fully armed accompanies the porters, and there are also armed men in the cashier's office. The cashier, clerks hnd QCiiClO aio 1UCii Ox gmui^uvj y v^v responsibility of the office makes their position more permanent than that of the average custom house officer. The tellers acquire great skill in detecting counterfeits as well as in rapid counting. Some of tha ways of counterfeiting which come under their notice are curious. Commodore Vanderbilt'* "Widow. Commodore Vander'oilt's widow came originally from Mobile, and bad a great influence over the commodore. She has lived a very quiet life since the commodore's death, spending most of lier leisure in opening love letters and prosecuting the charities which he undertook. She frequently sits np with her secretary until midnight answering the letters, not the love letters. The number of proposal she has received for her well-endowed hand, since the commodore was taken from her side, is estimated by those who are nearest to her, to be between 500 and 2,000. Many of them are accompanied by photographs which wildly and vainly endeavor to set forth the charms of the writers. These missives furnish no end of amusement to the family at No. 10 Washington Place. But Mrs Vanderbilt, though barely thirty-six, and a prepossesing woman, declares that she will marry no more, and she smiles upon no suitor Gossip?many-eyed and many-tongued ?is not even busy with her name. A resident of the western Carolinas is among the most recent who have sought her hand. He naively and innocently assured her that he had knocked together a little cabin of his own, and if she would only be his he "would support her as long us she lived." The Life-Saying: Senice. It is no longer a marvel that the American life-saving institution has taken so firm a hold of the public heart. The territory which it guards?ten thousand or more miles?is divided into twelve districts. The Atlantic coast presents one long succession of varied dangers, beginning with Maine, where the capricious currents are forever playing sly games about the narrow capes, reefs, sunken rocks, and peaks of islands half submerged, paving the coast like the teeth in a shark's jaw, taking in Cape Cod, that great arm of sand forty miles outward and upward, with its half-sunken, ever-shifting sand-bars, the islands and the rough, rocky points on the Rhode Island coast?dreadful to mariners ?and the long, unpeopled six hundred miles of beach from Montauk Point, Long Island, to Cape Fear, North Carolina, terminating with the arid coral formation of the coast of Florida, five hundred miles in extent. The great lakes, a group of enormous inland seas, with twenty-five hundred miles of American coast-line, are subject to sudden and violent gales, which pile up seas so stupendous that anchored vessels are swept fore and aft, often causing their complete destruction; while others, --running ftJr^sftSRer'in harbors, miss the narrow entrances, and are blown helplessly upon jutting piers, or the still more dangerous beach. The stations consist of three classes, sever ally denominated life-saving stations, life-boat stations, and houses of refuge. Each of the twelve districts is provided with a local superintendent, who must be a resident of the district and familiarly acquainted with its inhabitants. His compensation is one thousand dollars per annum, with the exception of those on the coasts of Long Island and New Jersey, who, having too many stations to look after to attend to other business, are paid fifteen hundred dollars apiece. These officers are required to give from twenty to thirty thousand dollar bonds as disbursing agents, being intrusted with the payment of the men under them in addition to their general duties. They are responsible for the selection of the keepers of the stations?a duty requiring much knowledge and excellent judgment?who are not,however, confirmed without the acquiescence of the inspector, who is supposed to have no local interests or prejudices. The orews are chosen by the keepers. The keepers and crews are examined by a board of /*Anoio+ir>/? Af on aI I i a J V* uu V# the revenue marine, a surgeon of the. Marine Hospital Service, and an expert surfman whose qualifications are well known, to determine by a judgment wholly impartial their character, good health, and general fitness. This board ] is empowered to dismiss all incompetent men on the spot, and require the keeper to employ others without delay. The whole work is under constant inspection. An officer of the revenue marine, Captain James H. Merrjman, is ths chief inspector, and assigns from his office in New York, an assistant inspector to every district. The stations are visited frequently, and the men examined in the exercises of the apparatus drill, and obliged to give verbal reasons for every step in their operations, They are trained with tbeir life-boats in the surf, in the use of the life-dress, in saving drowning persons by swimming to their relief, in the methods of restoring the_ partially drowned, and in signaling. Everything in and about the stations moves with military precision. When a wreck is attended with loss of life, a rigid examination follows to see if any of the men have been guilty of misconduct or neglect of duty. The keepers are empowered to protect the interests of the government from smuggling, and they guard all property that comes ashore from a wreck until its rightful owner appears. They aro charged with the care and order of the stations and the boats and apparatus; and they must keep accurate accounts of all receipts and expenditures, journalize all transactions and maintain all necessary correspondence with superior officers. ! Thus it appears they must possess a certain amount of education and high integrity, as well as surfmanship, intrepidity, and commanding qualities. They are paid four hundred dollars I each per annum. The crews receive forty dollars per month during the active season, which upon the sea-coast is from September 1 to May 1, and i upon the lakes from the opening to the close of navigation, or from about May 1 to December 15.?Harper's Magazine. now IU lnm n ACIUSCUC juamyt There is such a vast difference in both the quantity and quality of light promised by a common coal oil or kerosene lamp when properly trimmed and that produced by the same )?mp when improperly trimmed, that it is surprisI ing ho"* any one of ordinary intelligence and observation can be satisj fied to use, even for a single hour, an | imperfectly trimmed lamp. Yet, strange ! to say, a large proportion of the milj lions of kerosene lamps that are in ' nightly use are not trimmed as they should be. Careless housekeepers and stupid servants think "it will do just as well," in trimming a lamp, to break the charred wick with the fingers, to saw it with a rough knife, or to haggle it with a pair of dull shears, as it will to clip i it smoothly and evenly with a sharp j trimmer. But people who are faatid! ions enough to care for a light they can I read, write, sew or do any kind of work by, -with satisfaction and comfort, know that such is not the fact. Since kerosene came into use as a light producing agent various implements for trimming lamps have been patented and placed upon the market; bat, after a pretty thorough examination of the most of them, I incline to the belief that nothing has yet been invented for the purpose quite so conve- I nient, cheap and effective as a pair of j ordinary, medium-sized scissors. To do the work properly, however, the ! scissors must be sharp, for it is impos- j sible to trim a lamp perfectly without I a sharp trimmer. The belief is quite general that to prevent a lampwick from flaring at the I corneis and bieaking the chimney, it j must be cut -ounding, to correspond j with the cap or cover of the burner. | i My experience, however, coupled with ! close and careful observation, leads me i to the conclusion that the way to trim a j Jamp so as to secure ine Dest result ?to get the most and pleasantest light with the least breakage of chimneys? is to cnt the wick parallel with the top of the burner. When ready to trim the lamp remove the chimney. Raise the cap of the burner. Tarn up the wick and with a pair of sharp scissors clip it even with the top of the tube. Be careful not to cnt or squeeze the tube with the scissors. See that no lint or thread remains on the wick, and that it has not been pushed out of its perpendicular position and cut diagonally. Close the cap over the tube, put the chimney in place, and the lamp is ready for use. If these directions are strictly followed it will, when lighted, yield a broad, straight-edged flame, withont a notch i r indentation in it, and fnrnisK^a clear, pleasant, steady light. Try iv, and see. "Man and wife are all one, are they ?" said she. <lYes ; what of it ?" said he, suspiciously. "Why, in that case," said his wife,' 'I came home awfully tipsy last night, and feel terribly ashamed oi myself this morning." He never said a word. RELIGIOUS READING. Preparation. We all like to drink from a fountain which overflows. Gashing springs are ' /-."Uy-vrs 1A !.-r?arr? mf\y* b Weeo. X lie toiiuuci ouuuiu iuivh than she is required to teach; then teaching is easy, and to be taught is easy. But- when the teacher neglects all preparation until Sabbath comes, or goes before the class without study, and tries to satisfy her class by pumping at a well which has nothing in it, | she disgusts herself with herself, and disgusts her pupils both with herself 1 and the truth. Overflow, and then it will be easy for you and them. The Christian Life a Walk. The Christian life itself is a walk. Frst, we learned that a man is a cripple. Secondly, that the beginning of the Christian 1 i'e is a leap. And thirdly, the Christian life is a walk. Some people wom fn t.hint that it is a sort of a hop, skip, and a jump, all the way along. Bat this is a mistake. It is a walk. It is a sort of tramp, tramp, tramp; a steady walk ? It is described in the Bible as a walk. "If we walk in the light as he is in the lightv we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesns Christ His Son cleanseth us from all sin." Again, in one of the earliest biographical notices we fbd in literature, the Bible refers to a man named Enoch, and we have his whole life, summed up in the statement that he walked with God.?E. Jruison. Religious News and Note*. The pew rentals of Dr. Lorimer's new church in Chicago, the Emmanuel Baptist, for the present year, aggregate more than $10,000. An unsuccessful attempt was made at the recent Lutheran Conference in Philadelphia to have discussed the question, "Is it prooer to baptize insane persons? mL- TT>--or-1 - /-KT -v \ JLU6 -OULLcVIU ^i.1. -L J JJUiiuaj -cvyA-Lwwi Association, comprising 27 schools, reports for the year 1881 about 140 conversions, in a total average attendance of 4,943. Francis Murphy is progressing with his temperance work in Forfair, Scotland, where he is carrying on a crusade against the liquor shops. In two days about 1,200 persons signed the pledge. Dr. Charles S. Robinson has received into the Memorial PresbyterianjChurch, of New York city, during his 11 years' pastorate, 666 members, and nearly $500,000 been raised for various purposes. \ According to the recent census the., population of Greece is 1,677,478, of whom 1,625.698 belong to the Orthodox Church; 14,677 are members of other Christian Churches; 3.392 are nonChristians, and 2,652 are Hebrews. At a fair in Mr. Spurgeon's church recently, he intimated at the opening what he thought should be the style of purchasing, by teHing the story of a gentleman, who, on his way home one dark night, was encountered by a footpad with the demand, "Your money or yonr life." The gentleman's reply was, "Yon can't have any money, I have been to a fair." The highwayman imme &?tely recognized the force of the reasoning and even offered a contribution. Opening a United States Court. A Washington letter tells in the following how the United States District Court is opened: All courts are to the laity queer places. There is a certain amount of ceremony and procedure which, to the casual looker-on, has neithar rhyme nor reason. As an in- ! stance, I will cite the "calling" of a defendant or plaintiff when it is well known that he is absent and cannot possibly respond, but heis "called,"and the record is made up against him. The peculiar formula used in opening court oiirt+Viof nnaar thine, and here in ! Washington it is wonderfully queer. Just imagine that before the court begins any business whatever, a man of medium size, but with lungs like the bull of Bashan, steps up to the end of the judge's taps with his knifehandle, and iD a voice that could be distinctly heard in a hall of 20,000, calls out, "Come to order, gentlemen; hat& off." He waits a moment, glances around the court-room, lays his left elbow on the desk, straigtens himself, drops his head upon his breast, closes his eyes, fills his lungs with several cubic feet of air, then he says in a vol- j ume of voice as big as the British cyclo-1 pedia: "Ho-o-o-h yees." He pauses and gathers bis breath again, and the second flood of sound roils out: "Ho-o-o-h yees." Those who are accustomed to it turn to those who are strangers ill the court-room and say: "How's that for a voice?" And the answer is: "Why, he could be heard a mile. Meanwhile the cryer is swelling up for the next thundering utterance, and he belches out: "Ho-o-o-o-h yees " He pulls in a mighty breath and bellows:' "Sa-w-w'l pers sa-awing bees misfor thou bull ju-u-dge s'preme court th'dees strickclum " He gathers himself again, his chest expands, his eyes close, an^ he goes on: "Na a-a-ould dingecrimnal term." Another gathering of the Borean forces and: "Draw-aw-aw near, gun give ver ten dunce the courtsnaw pen!" As he utters the last part the thunder runs suddenly down to a zephyr all muddled in together, and he is hall-way down the steps. It took one man, he was from Ohio, four days to translate the cryer's conundrum. By those who know what his business is, to-wit, to open court, no effort is made to guess whether he is calling "oldrags" or "so?o?o?ap." They let him wind up and run down, and then go to business. The result of a careful investigation showed that the call never ? - i --1 xl. - varies. Lite tiie cogs in a wneei w words move in the groove every time. "When the Ohioan had finally wrestled the conundrnm out, he found it read as follows: ,:0 yes, 0 yes, 0 yes, all persons having business before th9 honorable jndge of the supreme court of the District of Columbia, now holding its criminal term, draw near and give your attendance. The court is now open." Men Who Make Good Husbands. As a rule the men who are favorites with their own sex are the truest and best in their relations to women. The men who like sometimes to "go aw?y with the fellows'' and have a rousing time on the water, the mountain or the ?eld, are the men we mean. Women need never to fear to trust their happiness to those whom men, good and true, esteem as good fellows. But if a man is avoided by men, shun him. He is the man who, when he marries, wrings ? * - i? ? ills wife's nearc, 11 sae iu?s uuc, auu spoils her temper, if sl^e is naturally an angeL Manly men are the best lovers, the best hnsbands, tho best companions for women, just as womanly women are the best sweethearts and wives. What do we think of women who shun their sex, however charming men may find them? It is seldom, if crer, that your men's favorite ill-uses his wife. Perhaps it may be explained in this way. Friendship of a sublimer sort is what love becomes after a year or so of marriage, and he who is friendly to the very depths of his soul enters into this state happily, and is ready for the happinest that follows. But a man who is capable of nothing but a fleeting affection. which ever pursues a new object, anc cares for no woman when she is won Viotm tlia domestic ties, and become! detestible in consequence. It is th< man who would die for his friend, an< lor whom his friend would die, wh< makes a miraculously happy wife of th< woman to whom he scarcely knew ho* i ho make love when he courted. The Girl He'll Wed. I shall wed a fair {esthetic, Quite regardless of expense, All I ask is that she's utter, And ill all things quite intense. T imn rtf ronrsp. and lank she must be. Clad in minor tones of green, Consummately eoulfal, earnest, Must she be, my pretty queen. We shall feast on lilies dailv, Quaffing draughts of beauty fair With a dish of ferns on Sunday, Or a peacock's feather rare. Thus shall flow our lives forever, Like too gently gurgling rills, % . Breathing poesy and too-too, And her dad shall foot the bills. ?Andrews' Queen. ' HUMOROUS. "Money makes my ma go," said little Skeesicks, when his mother, armed with a ?20 greenback, left for a down-town shopping tour. "There is no accounting for tastes." Nonsense! What is the work of a bookkeeper in an eating house but accounting for tastes? A German astronomer has discovered a new planet. Anybody who misses any of his planets should make a note of this.?Siftings. It is now believed that the fixed stars were placed so far away in order that the patent medicine man couldn't get there to paint the rocks.?New York Pat Postal savings banks have gone into operation in France. All the postoffices in the country are open to receive deposits up to $400 at three per cent, interest. A scientist claims to have discovered a kind of wasp that doesn't sting. He must have had a heap of fun experimenting before he found it?Lowell Citizen. Lawyer to witness.?'-You've brass enough in your face to make a fortygallon kettle." Wiiness to lawyer.? 'And you've sap enough in your head to fill it." Ja It does break up the landlord of a hotel to have a guest say: "Landlord, I think it would be an improvement if this shoebrush had another hair in it." . ?Boston Post. "Pa, why do they call 'em high schools?" "It's because we pay so much for 'em, my son. You'll understand these things better when you get to-be a taxpayer." Hens scratch up flower beds only when they are barefooted. Ifc is strange no one has ever tJuonght to go into the garden and "shoo" the hens to keep them from doiBg damage. A New York man was imprisoned thirty days for stealing fifty cents. Served him right, the miserable rascal. He should have stolen half a million dollars and bought in the court. An old sailor was observed to be always hanging about the door of a church when a marriage was taking place. Ee explained that he liked to see the tidfegoing out.?Saturday Night. Another Indian war has happiJy been averted. Two boys aimed themselves with a seven-barreled revolver, and were j ast about to depart to slaughter Indians when nipped by the unromantic police. Toward the conclusion of a diplo* j maiic dinner, a Frenchman selected a toothpick from a tray lying,, near him, I on/1 nnlifalv rwissmi tbft W?C27>fcaeIe to his neighbor, a Turk, who declined his ? "T5 offer, exclaiming: "No, thank you; I have already eaten two of these things, and I want no more." A lecturer was once in a dilemma which he will probably never forget. While talking about art he ventured the assertion, "Art can never improve nature." And at that moment some one in the andience cried ont in a gruff voice, "Can't he? Well, then, how dj you think .you would look without your wig? . Farmers are now studying how to reI cuperate old orchards so that they will y ? j yield more fruit. The best method 1 ?1-./V +? lvnil/3 Viom oil At#r mwiin. . ..:Ss j numu w uu MUliu UUVAM vv? ?0 , and have the trees made loDger in the neck and broke out with a thorn eruption, so that the average boy wouldn't take any interest in them. They'd yield more fruit then, surely,?Rome Sentij A bear undertook to break into the j house of a Wisconsin man one night, while the man was out. The man's ; wife heard the bear, and. iu the dark! ness, thought it was her husband | coming home late. When the bear got : away he didn't stop running until he got nine miles, and you couldn't coax him to go within a thousand miles of that woman again. And if the'd known it was a bear, and not her husband, she would probably have fainted and been devoured, and the old man is awfnl scrry it didn't happen that way. Eev. Miss Oliver, in advising young l men how to avoid extravagance, and to ! v.nii/1 Vicittias fnr themselves. savs that every time they drink a gla.<-s of beer they swallow five bricks. If Miss Oli-. ver's assertion is true, we know "a man who, at the lowest calculation, carries a j row of four-story tenement houses ini side him. We do not drink beer, and therefore do not know how it feels to have our eternal economy hampered with a brick yard. Miss Oliver does not inform us as to what kind of building material a person swallows when he drinks champagne. We o^esume it is some of the ornamental kind, because the other morning, after attending a banquet, we felt as a marble mantelpiece and a carved granite cornice, that had no business there, were jostling themselves inside us, and we determined to stop drinking the se5?-? /TrtncVuim* AT?d aacivts juiuv vi uw build for ourselves an ancestral mansion with marble lined corridors and hot- and cold baths on everj^floor.? fit 'ngs. A White Raler in Africa. John Dunn, one of the thirteen kinglets among whom, by Sir Garnet Woisely's agency, Zaluland was divided, ' differs from his twelve brethern not j only in being a pure-blood ?:<ropean ! while they are stark savages, but also I in reserving to himself in an especial j way privileges of cutting timbers with I tne right to mine and seek for miner! als, divert streams, cultivate unplowed j lands, advance or retard trade, in such and so complete a way tnac ne has, as it were, the right of ingress egress and regress every ^here that his . authority extends. His country, next to the Tugela, and bordered to a great extent by the sea. Las within 'it one landing place, Tort Damford, where, it may be remembered, a noteworthy failure to secure a safe debarkation delayed the operations of Sir Garnet Wolsely in the winter of 1879. Donn has imposed, after the Natal fashion, a hut tax on his people, amounting to i five shillings per hut, payable in cash, every penny of which he keeps himself ' for his own purposes. Dunn is a Kaffir > Chief with European skill to raise a * revenue for himself. He taxes all wag ons going into his country to the ? amount of $25, and he has the right anfiL" I the power to lay an embargo on^-611 > trade at wilL He is a clever, observant, i brave man, who means to uake money 3 fairly and rule reasonably if he can; 1 but he takes thought to himself because * -*?*- - -- 'v.arnai-tfti/vn " and haa ) H? is "Wise ixi mo (5cuw??? _ 3 no guarantee for the permanency of his - A " office, one created by whim and of most "vgaM uncertain tenure. :j I