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WEEKLY EDITION. WIXySBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APEIL 26, 1882. ESTABLISHED IN 1844. ? Longfellow. S^i- (Dead, March 21, 1882.. ^ klcue, at night, he heard them sigh? These wild March winds that beat his tomb? L Alone, at night, from those that die, s? He sought one ray, to light his gloom. v And still he heard the night-winds moan, Rfl And still the mystery closed him round, rfiimrstiu tne darisness, cold and Ions, Sent forth no ray, returned no sound. But Time at last the answer brings, And he, past all oar suns and snows, At rest with peasants and with kings, Like them the wondrous secret knows. Alone, at night, we hear them sigh? Those wild March winds that stir his paL; And, helpless, wandering, lost, we cry To his dim ghost, to ted us all. He loved us, while he lingered here; We loved him?never love more true ! He will not leave, in doubt and fear, The human grief that once he knew. For never yet was born the day, When, faint of heart and weak of limb, | One suffering creature turned away, Unhelped, uasoothed, uncheered br him! Bat still through darkness, dense and bleak, The winds of March moan -wildly round, And still we feel that all we seek Ends in that sigh of vacant sound. He cannot tell us?none can tell What waits behind the mystic veil! !Yet he who lived and died so well, In that, perchance, has told the tale. Not to the wastes of Nature drift Else were this world an evil dream? The crown and soul of Nature's gi:t. By Avon or by Charles* stream. His heart was pure, his purpose high, His thought serene, his patience vast; He put all strifes of passion by, And lived to God, from first to last. B|^H^^ethe pine tree's sigh, PKg! HRnng skies! HPof spring Mkto he lies; Bffir purple flood, myrtle shall sot lack, the summer's blood, HSes that he loved come back. MBralliha* Nature gives of light, To rift the gloom and point the -way, Shsll sweetly pierce our mortal night, And symbol his immortal day! ? William Winter. \ A Dangerous Game. . ???? Kttvj5":. It lias passed into a truism that it is a dangerous thing to play with fire, and Mrs. Richmond found it so, to her cost, during the summer she spent at the p Dovecote. Mr. Richmond had been a model lover at the time of their marriage, but, like many another, possession had made him secure, and by al? ' most imperceptible degrees he had abandoned those tender acts and assur- i V ances which are the staff of life to some k women, witnout 'which, existence is not to be tolerated. He was neither nnlrmfl j nor unmindful, but he was absorbed^. ?taad-baay^irg-tLxI a thuc&aml Ml&wggsTj W on foot, and having married her for < love, he took it for granted that she ] knew the fact too well to doubt it or to need to hear it repeated daily, not aware ; k that there are some women who live in j ft fear lest " love died in the last expres- < Bion." He no longer told her she was , . the prettiest woman in the world, al- ( * though h<* still believed it j nor begged her to wear his favorite flower; nor ; chose her colors; in fact, he omitted any comments on her appearance; she was the same heroine to Him whether in : velvet or homespun, whether rosy with j vnnth or eshpn-hnftd with as?a. "FTa rarely had time to go oit with her now adays, and she missbd the attentions, , the endearments, the flatteries, which ; had sweetened her daily life, and began ; & to question if he had outgrown her and his love; if she had " gone off" in her personal appearance; if her mind had I gathered rust while his was sharpened and brightened by friction with men and affairs. kShe began to tremble for her happiness, to devise means for improving herself, for preserving youth, or its semblance ; she once even went so far as to J 1 . 4.4.1 ~ 1 J ILLJf a X1UUJ.O i-UUXC UU UC1 ttiiU WM rewarded by Mr. Richmond asking if she were ill. " You looked flushed," he said, " and a high coJor doesn't become L your style." She threw the rouge away, and studied her style. She read tedious books of travel, philosophy, and science, that she might develop some mental charm to hold him; she almost wished she might have some serious illness, something to startle him out of his inLj difference. Of course Mr. Richmond f never dreamed ot this silent tragedy go^ ' ing on at his fireside?that fireside which seemed to him like a little heaven on earth?and when business obliged to run over to London for some months, and it was proposed that she Pshould take rooms at the Dovecote, "by the margen of the sea," it was the last stew. "He would carry me abroad pith him. if he still cared for me," she thought, not understanding, with 'womanly lack of logic, that he was " not oh pleasure bent," and would have no spare moments for picture-gallery or drawing-room. "Have I lost all afc traction," she asked herself, " or was it ha mistake to suppose I had any, a mistake which ^he has been finding out ? w ~ Would he fall in love with me, I wonder, if we were both single ? Would anybody T If she could only make him a trifle jealous?ah! that was the touchstone of love! tha omoofa n.f. fit a voro all k ladies, married and single, with the exE-** ception of Roger Laurence, who had comedown to fill his sketch-book, shoot birds, and do a little loitering in a quiet nook, he said. The time hung heavily on Mrs. Richmond's hands; perhaps she signified as much; perhaps Mr. ? Laurence divined it. "Do you row, Mrs. Richmond?" he asked one day. "No; Mr.Richmond wasalway going to teach me when I was first married, but he never had time." She spoke in fVta cod imr>orfA/?f; f-onco " on<1 ci without knowing it. " Let me teach ^von1^he begged; and so it happened B that iHeother inmates of the Dovecote used to laugh and call. Mrs. Richmond the water-nymph and Mr. Laurence the river-god. In accepting the invitation Mrs. Richmond had no other thought than to please her husband with a new It > accomplishment on his return, hoping that together they might explore all xi 3* .f il : J ice sinuous windings 01 ice river, aim renew their days of love-ma's rag. The idea of showing him that another man valued her companionship, found a spell in her society which he had overlooked, arrived later. She had not |. counted upon finding any pleasure in ||| x the presence of Mr. Laurence or his illy concealed admiration. He was simply a young mac who was inclined to be obliging and courteous. But presently oh A waft !rvVbinT frtfKaoo orrf*T\! _ sions, presently detected thci, the fact of Mr. Laurence preferring hei compan[ w ionship, when there were yonth and 'beauty to choose from, lent her a subtle sense of power, restored the self-confi|f dence she had lost, gave her a delicious ? :. sort of surprise, such as a girl who had fel always believed herself plain might ex ! perience if some one should own she j was bewitching. Mrs. Richmond would have been wise had she recognized the dangers of the situation and avoided them. But who of us is wise in season? In ihe first place, she had committed herself to these pleasuring, so to epeak ; it would be embarrassing to withdraw, would IrwlV OR if cVia Trsra nrn/^ioTi on/1 r-oiri T>o<3 | taken the affair au serieuz. At tho f,ame time, she was grateful to him for convincing her that her power to please had not deserted her, and her long-repressed vanity asserted itself. This delicious flattery was too pleasant to be given up all at once?to-morrow, maybe ; bat, to paraphrase an old poet, " to-day itself s too late ; The wise denied themselves yesterday." She satisfied her conscience, however, by sending Mr. Richmond a faithful account of their comings and goiogs, although, with the best intentions in the world, she naturally omitted something, since there are a hundred delicate shades of intonation and expression in the daily intercourse of two people which no letter can transcribe. If the season had not been so fine, and the scenery so enticing, Mrs. Richmond would have wearied, perhaps, of rocking forever on the tide by sunset, by moonrise, of anchoring in some silent cove where the wild flowers looked at their ~i. i? in mo waici, wjuure cue otaro lay like jewels, while Mr. Laurence lighted his meerschaum, ana confided his loftiest aspirations, his doubts, his beliefs ?it is so sweet to be confided in, so 1 flattering! To have heard him, one would naturally suppose that Mrs. Rich- 1 mond was commissioned to write his biography. It must be confessed that there were : times when his egotism rather bored J her ; but when she hesitated about continuing their recreations, a word to the effect that no one else sympathized with his moods, shared his sentiments, understood him, carried the day. Slipping home on the tide to the l)ovecote landing one night, so dark xhey could hardly see each other's faces, after a silence in which they listened to the whippoorwill's lonesome tune, the soft sighing of the water washing against the shore, he learned toward her, and said, slowly: " Do you know, I should like to drift on so forever?with you. I love you." At that instant it seemed to Mrs. Kichmond as if the heavens had roiled together like a scroll. She felt stunned and faint. "?tow ash ore, Mr. .Laurence, 1 she gasped, but there was command in 3 her whisper. " I have been to blame. I have been blind, but I love my hus- ? band." I Not a word was spoken as they shot through the darkness of the landing. 1 Then, as he assisted her over the slip- T pery stairs, "I thought," he said?"I * thought you were a widow." 1 But Mrs. Richmond's cup was not yet * L-4 rt* V>n l^rt /-* /~i?vi 1 /\ir> T 1uu. hci jll vav/xa ytad uuu wwulcbp till she read the letter which arrived for her a few days later. "You are a cruel, wicked woman, Mrs. Richmond" (it said) " Roger Laurence was ray own, my lover, my all; and you, you false wife," you have stolen his heart a^ay from me?not because you needed it?merely to gratify a relentless varity. Waste makes want; may you live to want such love as this of which you have defrauded " EBNTESTEvE SATKK.:} The same mail brought a line, also, !rom across she sea. 'i iilluu ' ihat young Mr. Laurence has been derotincr hims elf to vou, to the grief of his fiancce" (wrote Mr. Richmond). 1 '"'While I do not doubt yon, my darling ^ Rose, I begin to see that yon may have felt the lack of attentions which a Ben- s edict is so apt to omit or neglect, and I '( shall take passage in the Comet, a month 1 earlier than I intended, in order to let * the slanderous understand that you < have a lover in ycur husband, 1 " John* Eicmiom" ' It was the next week that Mrs. Rich- ' mond went to town to see about open- ' Lng her houfe. It would seem like their J honeymoon oyer again?no more mis- ? cmderstandmgs, no more separation. ] As she stepped npon the pavement the J newsboys were crying themselves * hoarse. " What dc they say ?" she asked of a 3 passer?" wl&t do they say ?" ? "Wreck of an ocean steamer, the ' Comit" < After all, Roger Laurence was not mistaken: iErs. Richmond must have been a widow on that dark night before he left the Dovecote.?Bazar. j A Rogue's Device. - . . ? h A few davfi after the funeral a JNew i York under ;aker met a wealthy n an , whose de.ugtter he had bnrled. ' 'I was , sorry and surprised on hearing of your ! embarrassment the other day, and I ! hope the money was enough to relieve : you," said the old gentleman. "Money! : embarrassed! relieve me," gasped the . undertaker. " I haven't asked yon for ' any money, and didn't intend to for , some time." The gentleman, nettled, tartly replied: "lou cmnnea me ior tae expenses of my daughter's f aneral within three days, and I paid the bill." "I dunned yon! I never asked yon for a j cent," exclaimed the undertaker. "Was it a young man?" he continued. "Yes," said the old gentleman, "your son; and he said /ou wanted the money immediately." " A few days after the fnneral;" said the undertaker, " a well-dressad young man came to my store, representing himself as the betrothed lever of your daughter, whom he was to have married in a few days. He wished, as a token of his affection for her, to pay her funeral expenses. I refused at first, telling him that her family would not permit it. Bat he urged it so strenuously that I finally consented, and made out the bill. He took it, and said that he would go down to iiis father's office and make onS the check. I have not heard or seen anything of him since." And now the question is, who will have to pay for the little job which that very smart x *1 young man put up uu mcao wuiouy people?th9 father or the undertaker?? Detroit Free Press. The Reason Snakes are Lonsr. ' Do yon see that fellow np there?" said Mr. Rivers, pointing to a huge red snake,some ten feet long and twoinches thick, of the kind known as the gopher snake. "I'd rather have thaL. fellow on my farm?if I had a farm?than ten dollars. Yoa would be astonished at the amount of vermin of all kinds, they can get away \mh?gophers, rabbits, squirrels, birds?anything in fact, that he is Dig enougu xo get mmseu outsiue 01, J and that means a good deal, although yon might not think it to look at him. Ton are aware, I suppose,of the peculiar construction of the lower jaw. It can be unhinged, so to speak, ?nd then the snake is nothing more than a long sack with the mouth open. I have matched one of them stow away a squirrel?long tail and all?without making any bones about it. He commenced at this head anl slowly drew the squirrel in bit by bit, his teeth and jaws working on the animal somewhat as a man draws in a rope hand over hand. Finally the body was safely housed and then only the tail remained; that slipped down in the twinkling of an eye. I never realized till then why snakes were made so long -it is to make room for the inconvenient i tails of other animals predestined to be snake meat. In an improved state of i existence, when the tails have beer, evoI lutionized off the backs of the other ani mals,probably snakes will be cut shorter. A NIHILIST'S EXECUTION. How Lfeatcnant SoukanoH Was Shot In the Cronstadt Barracks. Lieutenant Soukanoff, the Nihilist, was shot at Cronstadt, Prussia. He had written to the czar saving that he would rather die than eridare the life of a convict. He only begged that he might be spared the shame of dj'ing at the hands of the haDgman and be allowed to fall like a soldier. His request was granted. On a Thursday evening he was told to prepare for execntioH. He answered simply, "It is well; I am ready." At 5 next morning he left the fortress of St. Peter and St. Panl whither he had been transported after the trial with the nine other Nihilists sentenced to death with him and since reprieved. The day was just dawning as he crossed the Neva ia a closed ambulance carriage on his way to the Peterhoff station, escorted by tnree gensaarmes. irmng tne journey he maintained absolute silence. He was dressed in a prisoner's suit, wearing gray trousers and jacket and a cap with a sort of peak at the back, covering his neck. A rough coat was thrown over his shonlders. The city was quite hushed at this early hour of the morning and SoukanofPs passage was not remarked. At the station a train composed of two first class and two second class carnages was waiting. Tne prisoner got into a 3econd class carriage with the gensdarmes. Major General Jomaroff, chief of the gensdarmes brigade, and several other officers or soldiers, entered the other carriages, and the train started cm its dismal journey. At ten minutes past 7 the train reached Orianenbaum, where the party Edighted and walked a few hundred steps, starting from the steamboat pier, j where two small s teamboats were waiting to take them across the ice incumbered river. In half an hour they reached the custom house on the other 3ide. Soukanoff still made no sign, ill was silent and the scene was very 3olemn. The sun began to rise over the iistant Baltic. The gensdarmes gave jrenerai J omaron a receipt ior me prisoner and the general's mission terminated. The deacon of Cronstadt jhnrch was awaiting the prisoner on the landing stage. Soukanoff, the priest md two gensdarmes got into another imbulance carriage and drove off, esjorted by the rest of the gensdarmes. it a quarter to 9 fchey arrived at the "ortress barracks and were greeted by a !oud flourish of trumpets. An enormous crowd had collected to ;ee the execution. The roofs and ramDarts were black with human beings. Che military element, however, was predominant. The place oE execution yas occupied by detachments of naval 'orces, before whom the prisoner walked with hands unfettered, accompanied by ;he priest. The attitude of the troops vas respectful. Solemn silence prevailed. The prisoner halted at a few Daces distance from the black post to vhich he was to be fastened and awaited he platoon told off for the execution. [t consisted of two non-commissioned officers and ten marines. Behind these vere stationed another marine and a ion-commissioned office, who were to rive the coup de grace should the first uscnarge not iiii tne prisoner instantaneously. _ Behind these again were hree soldiers to receive the body, and >ne non-commissionel officer, who was rare also on the ground. The reading if the sentence occupied twenty ninutes. The priest was praying the phole time. When the reading was over Soukanoff aid to the priest that he implored Sod's pardon for his sins and twice deroucly kissed the Bible and crucifix :endered him. The priest then witnIrew. The prisoner was bound to the >ost. His eves were bandaged and a sort of white chemise was thrown over lim. Soukanoff calmly said, "Kaise ;he bandage; I can see." The twelve nen then silently leveled their pieces it him. The officer dropped a handkerchief and twelve sharp reports followed together and the unhappy man ell. He was killed instantaneously. Fhe body was thrown into a shallow grave, dug in advance. The trumpets sounded and the troops filed off to ;heir quarters, while the crowd quietly Jispersed. United States Gold Coins. A 'perfect list of rare coins is almost impossible to obtain, as there are quite i number of coins which are considered valuable by some collectors which athers would not buy at a premium. The following prices prill be paid by any numismatic on receipt of coins in good condition, and any other dates cannot be relied on: The twenty-dollar piece or donble eagle of 1849 is the rarest coin of all. and is quoted at $500, but as there seems to be only one in existence, there is not much of a chance fco speculate in this matter. Next come ' he ten dollars or eagle,that of 1797 (small ea^'e), 1802, and 1838, SIX 50; those of : 7^5, 1796,1797,1798, 1799, 1800,1801,. -03,1804, $10.50. Five-dolLar pieces of a certain kind dated 1801, S7.50; 1795, large eagle, 1798, small, each, $6; 1795, 1800, 1802, 1803, 1804, 1805, 1806 (six small eagles), 1796, 1797, 1798, 1799 (large eagle), 1807, 1808, 1809, 1810, 1811, 1812, 1813, | 1814, each, $5.25. The five-dollar piece of 1815 is worth 825 to any collector; that of 1818 $5.25; those of 1819, 1820, 1821, $5.50; 1822, $6 50; L-l 1QOQ -IQCM 1QQ" 189fi 1ft97 b.LLUS'O UX Jaw? command a preminm; that o? 1828 is worth $7; 1829, 1830, 1831,1832, 1833, 1S34, are worth $5.20, but must have eagle holding two ariows in a certain position, with " E Pluribus Unum" in a quarter circle above the eagle's head. The three-dollar pieces of 1873 and 3878 are woith ?3.25 each, and the three-dollar pieces of 1875 $3 50. The two and a half pieces of 1300 and 1801 are worth $4 each; the ? - -r irro? e+?ve\ ia of ?3 5ft and 1796 (without stars) at S3.25; tk9 dates of 1804, 1805, 18U6, 1807, 1808, 1810 are valued at S3 each; those of 1821, 1824, 1825,1826, 1327,1829,1830, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834 command about ten cents premium. The one-dollar (;?oId) pieces of 1872 are valued at 31.15, and that of 1875 $2. Forestry in France. One sixth of France, including Corsica, is tinder wood, bnt notwithstanding this an immense amount of timber is annually imported into the conntry trom the United State3 and the north of Europe. In 1820 the Nancy School of Forestry was instituted, and a new code of laws was adopted in 1827. The fact has of late years been recognized that the floods which have proved so terribly destructive in France have been largely dne to the absence of trees en mountain sides. A forest acts both mechanically and and hydrographically; in the former case by preventing any large body of water from collecting, and as a sort of permanent floodgate ; in the latter by the trees themselves absorbine a vast deal of moisture. lhe professing Christians of Calcutta number 30,400. Of these 11,095 ar< Roman Catholics, 8,763 belong to th* church of England, and 1,869 to th< church of Scotland. The rest ar< divided among numerous denomina tions. Baldwin county, Alabama, has n< losicLent lawyer nor h&3 it a jail The Poet. Ore sultry summer day, when I was overheated, nervous, in a hurry, and not very well, an embryo poet, whom I had the misfortune to know, accosted me on the busy street of a large city, as I stepped out of the postoffice, and told me that he had "something to read to me." "It won't take me a minute," he added, as I glanced at my watch, and per ceived that I had just five minutes in which to meet a gentleman, by appointment, at a place several squares distant. "I'm not in a hnrrj?no great hurry," I said, concealing my vexation; for I acquit him of the deliberate cruelty he must have been guilty of had he realized what torture he was about to subject me to. "Step over here," he said, leading the way to one of the doors of the postoffice rrr\i/tU a tfvflom nf rvfi/\rv1a /Wn, vuivugu nuivu U? QVAWMU* V* ^VV^*W vvm tinually Sowed, and placidly leaning against a pillar, although I think he had less need of support than I bad, for I felt like swooning. "The fact, is," he went on, taking a roll of manuscript from his pocket, "I place a great deal of reliance on your judgment in matters of this kind, and would like your opinion of my poem." I should do no injustice did I fail to state just once that this compliment did not entirely reconcile me to my situa tion. He announced his subject as "The Moonlit Valley," and began? ''Oh, pale moon, with thy gentle, silver light, Thou?" "Please, sir, give me a penny to buy a loaf of bread ?" said a ragged girl at this moment, holding out one hand in a supplicating manner, while she nudged the poet with the other. "No, Fve no penny!" he replied petnlantly, as the girl darted out to the middle of the sidewalk, to intercept a Vk-vv? 1/VAlrirt A> a! /3 UOAJO VUIClit-ll/U.O_L.U.g V/1U "Confonnd the child ! I'll begin again, so that yon won't lose the sense of it.' I thought there was no danger of that, and wiped the cold perspiration from my brow, smiling in a sickly way, while he proceeded: "Ob, pale moon, with thy gentle, silver light, Thou shinestin the valley wonderous bright! Oh, valley?" "Could you tell me, sir, where to find the deaf and dumb asvlum ?" asked a stranger, stepping up at this juncture and addressing us both at once. Thankful for the temporary relief, I gay* him the desired information. ' Bfcnk you," he said, turning away. "Oh trnt'.-iv Vintc T IrvvA vrmr vprdnra preen-' "Bay some matches, sir?" interrupted a small boy, holding a box under the poet's nose. "No!" "Oh, v'J:- how I love your verdure green, Much? "Here you are, now, nice gold-plated chains for a quarter of a dollar 1" a street merchant shouted in his ear, evidently annoying the poet as much as the poet annoyed me. "J[n view of these frequent interruptions," said I, "wouldn't it be?" "Oh, no ! I'll finish," he said, drowning what I was about to say. "I want your opinion of tbis poem before I offer it ior pn on canon. He was about to resume, amid the general hubbub and confusion incident to a city thoroughfare, heightened just then by a "jam" of vehicles and 1;ha loud criminations and recriminations of the drivers, when a mutual acquaintance joined us with a famiiar exclamation. - surrejoinder. "You are just in time. Listen to this. I'll begin again:? 'Oh, pale moon, with thy gentle, silver light, Thou fhinest in the valley wondroc.s bright! Oh, valley, how I love your verdure green, Much more than anything I've ever seen I A Viatt? orlArnrvna are the rfLrllinit?" "Black 'em, mister? Only five cents!" I began to feel dizzy and faint. Just then there was considerable excitement on the strset near us, occasioned by inharmonious elements in the respective views of two boot blacks. They were beginning open warfare, and when a couple of policemen rashed up to quell the disturbance, tne scene Decame bo animated as to absord the poet's attention for a moment, and thereupon I plunged away through the crowd, wild with joy, and made my escape. The Removal of Scars and Cicatrices. The cicatrices, scars or marks left by various diseases, burns, or wounds of divers kinds, are often less obstinately permanent than is generally supposed, and from some facts which have .lately come under our notice, we are inclined to think that their prevention or removal in many cases may be accomplished by some mild but effectual an tiseptic. Among the exemplifications of the efficacy of the formula we are enabled to lay before our readers, is the case of a gentleman of our -acquaintance, whose face was eo severe.! j burnt by the violent spurting of a quantity of melted lead (owing to a \7orkman having incautiously dropped a wet pipe into it), that his eyes were only saved by pebble spectacles from ntter destruction. At firt*t, of course, carron oil was the sole application, and as for weeks afterwards particles of the granulated metal had literally to be dug out of the flesh, I a deeply-ecarrcd countenance was naturally predicted by aU] except the patient himself. One mark of an almost imperceptible character al one remained after the expiration of six months, owing, as our friend ?tays, to the whole face being bathed twice or three times a day, as soon as the oil treatment could be discontinued, with a lotion of the simplest character, as is readily seen by glancing at its constituents Lint soaked in the same solution and allowed to remain o:a some little time will frequently mitigate the visible result o" smallpox, and we have known 1 one CZ-iQ of ringworm treated in this way to leave no scar whatever, while a sister of the latter patient, who had had the same disease in a lesser degree, but had not employed this lotion etill re tains the evidences of the fact. The following is a convenient formnk,: Borax, half an ounce; salicylic acid, twelve grains; glycerino, three drachms; rose waier, six ounces. Make a lotion.?Magazine of Pharmacy. Sayings of Longfellow. The sunshine of life is made up of very few beams that are bright all the time. In character, in. manner, in style, in cnriyflmA nTAol lorPA in ttil IJLiJJJgOj mv ? simplicity. M'rn of genius are often dull in society; as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone. How Email a portion of our lives is that we truly enjoy. In youth we are looking forward for things thai are to come. In old age we look backward to things that are pastMany readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feel""mo ciroora triVipq /^ehrPrrrnn a UJg&y C-O OV4JUO W?r?6w v> the power of muskets by their recoil, that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser. . Two Enemies of tbe FoxA man in the neighborhood of Wali Trtnio is tli6 r>KfTiPr nf aiennftt thaf, takps | AVUi.* v~w pari in every fox chase she can get to. i She runs with the hounds and brajs i lustily at every jump. When the fox } hears her peculiar vocalism resounding i in his rear he climbs the hills with an 3 earnestness that is astonishing. There is v, blind man in Jessamine who is one of the best fox hunters in the country, and who can follow his ) dog3 safely on horseback either day 02 night,?Louisville [Ky.) Courier-xToumal WORDS OF WISDOtf. All men have their imprudent days. Nothing overcomes passion more than silence. About the only force some people have is the force of habit. The secret of felicity is a judicious nf VATlflTi A UiVUJk U^bAV/U VI A \S uu*fc?v> The only really bitter tears are those which are shed in solitude. Services to be rendered reconcile friends whom services rendered have estranged. All passions are good when one masters them : all are bad when one is a slave to them. There is many a man whose tongue might govern multitudes, if he could only govern his tongue. "We can no more have back old times by gathering the same people in the same place than we could have back a dead friend by seating his skeleton in his accustomed place. "Whe:i a dark and afotrzaj crisis in your life is reachedv-and destruction seems to overwhelm yon?only remember that the blackest, fiercest, storm passes quickest, and the earth is always the brighter after ifc. ^ Our lives shoald be like the days, mere beautiful in the evening, or, like the spring, aglow with promise, and like autumn, rich with golden sheaves when good works and deeds have ripened on the field. The early years of childhood are the store-house in which are hoarded the impressions that last through life ; in them are gathered the influences that are to be ineffaceable in the after career. We never forget the feelings we then experienced?the tones, the gestures, the faces of those we loved, or from whom we shrank, with the passionate intensity of our fresh hearts. T JJ i._ ^"l_* J 1 J. JLH oruer ta love juuuuilluu, expect uui> little from them : in order to view their faults without bitterness, we must accustom ourselves to pardon them, and to perceive that indulgence is a justice which frail humanity has a right to demand from wisdom. Now nothing tends more to dispose us to indulgence, to close our hearts against hatred, to open them to the principles of a humane and soft molality, then a profound knowledge of the human heart. Accordingly the wisest men have always Deen the most indulgent. Suspected Cats. The cat has always been looked upon with suspicion by the masses. A Finisterre cat which has served nine masters in succession is believed to have the right of carrying off the soul of the ninth to hell. In Upper Brittany there are sometimes seen enormous cats engaged in holding a meeting. If any one presumes to intrude upon their presence, they surround and tease him for a time. Then a long needle is driven into his heart, and he is dis missed, iiypocnonctm ensues, ana he slowly wastes away. A black tomcat, says a Russian proverb, at the end of seven years becomes a dsvU. A Breton farmer who neglected to take the usual precantion of putting his tomcat to death before it completed :'s seventh year, was found dead in bed one morning with his throat terribly, torn. SosTOfl" ipsflffint persons, who stantial evidence, ".Luckily;boyoD-served that the cat of the house was always watching the corpse with eyes that blazed with rage. So he fastened to the dead man's arm a siring, the end of which he dropped through the window into the yard. Then he told the police to watch the body secretly, while he pulled the string. They did so. When the boy gave the string a pull, the corpse's arm jerked. The cat imagined its master had revived. With 1 ? -3 -L aw IA Ihfl OTIil OQ0 UU LIIILI lb uu uv uuo wuj hum furiously tore away at the corpse's wounded neck. Whereupon it was condemned to be burned alive, and the suspecljed persons were set free. It is believed, we read, that a cat's viciousness ciepends to a great degree upon the length of his tail. If the end of his tail be cut off, it is unable to take part in the witches' sabbat. When a Walloon Diaiden wishes to refuse a suitor with contumely, she gives him a cat, and tells him to couut its hairs. It is generally believed in France that a bachelor who treads on a cat's tail will find no woman to marry him till a fnll year has passed by.?Saturday Review. A Tragic Tale. All his life he had toiled and saved and scraped, and pulled every string that had a dollar at the end of it. And now all fcis hard-earned wealth was gone and a great hateful, interest-eating mortgage spread its black wings over all that he owned and loved on earth. He sank into a chair, and, folding his arm3 upon the table before him, bowed his gray head upon them and groaned great groans. Eis heart seemed breaking. "Did you mortgage the farm ?" asked his wife, anxiously, stealing softly to T-lis "Yes," he growled, "both farms, and sold the wood lot over on Big Island." "And did yon have to mortgage the town house too ?" she asked, with quivering lips and glistening eyes. "Oh, yes," said the man in hollow tones, "Oh, yes, and sold all my stock in the Northern, and hypothecated what 1 had in the Sixth street bridge." "And was it enough?" she asked, trembling with eagerness. "Was it Anrvntrh ?" "Not quite," he growled, and then, &3 he saw the gaastly pallor oi deathly disappointment spread over her face, he added, "but the nnliinar let me have it on ninety days' Lime for the balance at eight per cent." "And you've brought my new hat home then," she caroled,joyously. "Oh, Philip, you dear old duck 1" "Wellj no, not all of it," he said. "I brought the plumes And one of the bows down with me in the express, but the hat itself is coming down from Chicago on a flat-car." Ar>^ fho riAT* wpfik after that, eleven dark-browed men, who sat behind Philip's wife at the theater, waylaid the wretched man on his way home, hauled him off down Valley street, rolled him up into a wad, and stopped up the new sewer with him.?Burling to n hawkeys. Borrowing an Umbrella. The Boston Journal describes an interesting incident which may afford a hint to persons caught out without protection from the rain. A gentleman, who had no umbrella, and who had just come into town on a local train, perceived before him, as he stepped into the street, a person whom he took to be an acquaintance, and who had a fine ? ? ? rfvtrni* Viia ntJW UlilUlCllO UUiOWVV4 VIWA UVWUI Running up to him, therefore, he clapped him on thG shoulder, saying, as be did so, by way of a joke : "I'll take that umbrella, if you please." The individual thus addressed looked around and disclosed a perfect stranger, but, before the other could apologize, he said, hurriedly: " Oh, it's yours, is it? Well, I di3n't know that. Here, you can have it," and broke away, leaving ihe utensil in the hands of the first party to the conversation. | ? i 'me iJiiizaoeiuLuwii^ news ie i offered free to every citizen of HardiD : county who pltmge3 into matrimonj , this year. ' I .A../- .. Attempt toBepair the Ruin of Americac Forest?. The very necessities of their situatioi have aroused the people of some of om Western States to action. In Kansas, Nebraska, and other States, liberal pre miums have been offered for the encouragement of tree-planting, and already in many portions of the prairie n a n v\ V< * ? o IhT?aw xogiv.u a tuau^ c nao ta&cii place, and the eye no longer wanders over great spaces without'sight of shrub or tree. Minnesota has' her Forrestry Association, and its secretary reports that between seven and ten millions of trees were planted in that State during the year 1877, of which more than half a million were planted in a single day, "Arbor Day," as it is called, or treeplanting day, the first Tuesday of May having been fixed upon as the day, and every owner of land invited to devote the day especially to the planting of trees. Similar efforts have been made in other States which are similarly situated in respect to a supply of forest. Tlin orroof ik>iiO?qv Anmnonico Tjlinon J>MU Aiuinuj nuuou roads stretch across the treeless prairies, have become in some instances large planters of trees, feeling the need of them both as screens from the fierce storms that sweep down from the Rocky Mountains, and as a source of supply for the ties which are constantly needing renewal. Tree-planters' manuals are published and distributed freely, with a view to aid those who would nlant. bv eivins them the experience already obtained in regard to the most profitable trees to plant and the best methods of planting. Thns in some places there is already quite a movement in the right direction. In the reports of planting the figures make an imposing aggregate. Bat a liberal discount needs to be made for the probable failure of a large percentage of the trees planted. And even with the mcst generous estimate in regard to the work of planting, what is accomplished as yet is but a fraction of what needs to be done. It is but the feeble beginning of a vast work. The talk is of millions of trees planted. This sounds well. But a good manv trees can stand npon an acre, and the latest estimates pnt the annual decrease of onr forest area at seven million acres. So that Minnesota, with all her ardor in this work, has only planted one tree for every acre of trees destroyed. An area equal to that of the State of Maryland is every year swept clean of its trees. This is a large section to be taken yearly out of onr forest resources. With all that we are yet doing in the way of tree-planting, the balance is largely against us. With all the interest and energy manifested by the young West on this subject, stimulated by her most pressing need, we are only planting one acre while thirty-five are laid bare bv the ax and bv fire. And we must consider also that the work of destruction goes on at an increasing rate from year to year, as our population and our industries increase, and that the trees which are felled are the product, on the average, of more than a century's growth, while those we plant must grow during a century before they can fill their place.?Harper's Magazine. Bananas and Plantains. A pound of bananas contains moro nutriment than three Bounds of meat or many pounds of potatoes, while as a AiinOagH ~rc giuwa?spontaneously^ throughout the tiopics, when cultivated its yield is prodigious; for an acre of ground planted "with bananas will return, according to Humboldt,- as much food material as thirty-three acres of wheat, or over a hundred acres of potatoes. The banana, then, is the bread of millions who could not well subsist without it. In Brazil it is the principal food of the laboring classes, while it is no less prized in the island of Cuba. Indeed, in the latter country the sugar planters grow orchards of it expressly for the conenmntiftn nf their slaves. Everv dav each hand receives his rations of salt fish or dried beef, as the case may be, and four bananas and two plantains. The banana?it should be called plantain, for until lately there was no such word as banana?is divided into several, varieties, all of which are used for food. The " platino manzinio" is a small, delicate fruit, neither longer nor stouter than a lady's forefinger. It is the most delicious and prized of all the varieties of the plantain. "El Platino gwineo," called by us the banana, is probably in demand more than any other kind, It is subdivided into different varieties, the principal of which are the yellow and purple bananas we see for sale in our markets; but the latter is so little esteemed by the natives of the tropics that it is seldom eaten by them. "El ? 1 +A TTC QO flimnlv pL&tUIU ^lauuo ?iiuvnu uv uw mw j the plaatain--is also sub-divided into varieties which are known by their savor and their size. The kind that reaches onr markets is nearly ten inches long, yet on the Isthmns of Darien there are plantains that grow from eighteen to twenty-two inches. They are never eaten raw, bnt are either boiled or roasted or are prepared as preserves.? New Orleans Democrat. A Garfield Clock. Mr. S, Holtor, a jeweler and watchmaker of Hiddlebury, Yfc., has recently constructed a curious clock, which acts out the assassination of President Garfield. The machine is a common cuckoo clock, under whioh is a miniature depot. At one window is a ticket agent dealing oufc tickets, while at an other a telegraph operator is seen busy j at his work, and truckmen, porters, train dispatchers, etc., are all flying around as natural as life. Ail ox these figures are of wood, about two inches long. At the end of each hour the cuckoo announces the fact, and immediately a figure of President Garfield appears on the platform on WJLUCU LiiD OUtUD XO MWWV** panied by Mr. Blaino. Gniteau is seen to follow him, having just alighted from a truck wagon, and as he fires at the President the latter falls. Just then a train of cars comes dashing in, and in the confnsion all the principal actors are carried into the depot ont of sight. After the train dispatcher has given the signal and the train has gone, a small door at the left opens ana a priest appears, book in hand, in the act of reading a funeral service, while at the same time another door at the right opens and Guiteau appears on the gallows. The priest retires, and shortly after the gallows disappears with Gaiteau, and the doors close. This ij acted out at the end of each hour, and J:akes about three minutes. Mr. Hoi ton is quite a noted invenior, but this seems to be his masterpiece.?Boston Journal. There are now in the European r aviei 102 monitors with revolving turrets and they are distributed as follows England, 24; France, 11; Germany, 3 Holland, 24; Italy, 5; Sweden and Nor way, 9; Russia, 19; Spain, 1; Denmark ? * OT??O TfTTAT^f TT_C?k"lTGY\ r\f +Vli Ot xuxneji u. above vessels are of the American type Many of the vailing suits are mad with a gracefully draped tablier over i kiited skirt, and for back drapery : large doubl<*-!ooped bow of moire i lined with taffeta silk. The ends c l the bow are square, and reach onl; ' three-quarters down the length c the skirt. i POPULAR SCIENCE. The sea urchin is remarkable as be| ing the only animal below mollusks and articulates, possessing organs for mastication. A shower of fine dust which fell in France in 1846 was found by analvsis to , be composed of the fice sands of Guiana and to contain the characteristic mi | croscopie shells of South America. Snch showers originate in volcanic emotions. A scientist who has been exf ^rimenting for twenty-five years on the variations of plants admits that he has gradually lost the idea of species, inclining ; to the opinion that variation takes place in definite directions, and that its cause is internal. From some experiments made by M. Felix Masnre, it appears tbas when arable soil is very wet it throws off more watery vapor than a sheet of free water. Tf IVia lftnrt is rvnlv mnrtarftt.Alv moist the quantities are about equal, and if the soil is dry its evaporation is less. No remains of the bison have been found among the bones of the shellheaps along the Atlantic coast, and there is no evidence, among the early lists of the natural products of the country, of its occurrence anywhere on the seaboard for a long period before fchA rtisrwrers of fha cnntfnAnf;. Attention has been called to some new facts in relation to c^lor-blindness. Careful investigations have showed the Chinese and the Nubians to be practically free from the defect. Dr. Eoberts h-i8 observed that color-blindness is most common among persons of reddish or red hair, and it is very prevalent among the Jews, who are the most decidedly red-haired of all known races. It is thought probable, therefore, that there may be some correlation of colorblindness with pigmentation, and indirectly with racial ueculiarities. American Nerves. Men prematurely bald, old, unable to carry their liquor," and anxious beyond their iaie years, are getting conspicuously common in America. The slow sententious Yankee of the stage is becoming rare in the cities, and the cool individual who offers the suspicious stranger a cigar-light stuck in the muzzle of a revolver is nappny connnea to ueaawooa creex or Gouge Eye Gulch. The women are more lovely than ever. Their faces are the face3 of angels chiseled in marble; bnt the pallor is unhealthy, and the liveliness of the American girl is, to a great extent, incipient^disease. It is, like their beauty, part of that nervousness which is afflicting their race. Their minds are untroubled by the cares of housekeeping, for most of them live in hotels or in boarding-houses. In Europe , they contract dazzling marriages. But they soon fade; and while the English , matron, and even her sister of Canada, who leads much the same kind of life, , is still in her prime, the once beantifnl American is often a lean hysterical , hannter of health resorts. The future j is not a pleasant prospect. As men of ( leisure depart from the busy maltitude, t it is difficult to see what they are to do ( with their money. There is a limit to the number of greenbacks which people can spend on a house, and even a modest fortune is cumbersome to carry about ju brid Gaul used to be called in Napo* 1 leonic days, ceases to be an American, while, if be stays at home, it is bard to ; see bow tbe rich average republican is to spend bis money in any other way ! than that which has produced, and is producing, the nervousness 1 of his race. Competitive exam- , inations, which will, in time ! add their worry to the endless voting and electing of tbe present time, are : calculated to intensify the trouble. iiut ior long tne evil win not ue muuu noticed. The country will be fertilized by a continuous stream of fresh-faced, simple-lived emigrants from "used-up Europe." These will mingle with the humbler natives, and, since the trueborn Yankee of New England and the "fust family" Americans of the South are notorious for the fewness of their children, will keep up the population of the United States. Meantime, the learned folks, without the fear of patriotic papers before their eyes, will affirm that the Eoropean is not naturalized in the New World. At best he is a nervous edition of the gallant from whence he sprang, and were it not for the new blood that is eyer recruiting his jaded life, would dwindle away and become extinct.?London World. Fees for Executioners. The official tariff of fees allowed by the municipalities of Darmstadt and Beesungen in the latter part of the fourteenth century to the executioners of those towns for the performance of their functions has lately been found in the state archives of Hesse-Darmstadt. The more appalling the punishment the higher, as a rule, seems to hotra Viooti +T10 r?Tmr<r?. wif.hnnfc reference to the physical exertion required on the part of the executioner. Thus his fee for boiling a criminal in oil was twentyfour florins; for decapitating with the sword, fifteen florins and a half ; for quartering, the same; for breaking on the wheel, five florins thirty kreuzers; for "tearing a man to pieces," eighteen florins. Ten florins per head was the charge for hanging; and he burnt delinnnprtfccj alive at the rate of fourteen florins apiece. For applying the "Spanish Boot" his fee was only two florins. Five florins were paid to him every time he subjected a refractory witness to the torture of the rack. The same amount was his due for "branding the sign of the gallows with a red-hot iron upon the back, forehead, or cheek of a thief," as well as for "cutting of a slanderer or blasphemer." Flogging with rod3 was a cheap punishment, its remuneration being fixed at three florins thirty kreuzers. Solidified Stimulants. The many people who frequently want i ii a drop of sometmng to maie inem ieei right when they are too cold or too hot, or too wet or too dry, or something, will rejoice to here that foreign chemists have discovered how to solidify wine and spirts* Hereafter a man ; should be able to carry some crumbs of the precioas stnfF in his vest pocket instead of going about with a co:k pro1 trading from a pocket of his coat, and instead of his inviting his boon comDanioris to the nearest bar he can offer them a bracer from a neat box no larger ' than a cigar case. Better yet, it is said : that in the process of solidification the ' liquor lose3 its smell, eo no man after 5 refreshing himself need rack his brain 1 for plausible explanations to make his wife about the aroma of cloves or coffee that he exhales. Under the new and 3 solid dispensation, the corkscrew will ? not, as heretofore, ba the most import ant portion d a traveler's baggage, and ' even in Boston the wayfaring man will " be able to stimulate in full sight with' out being arrested. When election day 0 is about due, a candidate will not need to keep "open house" at every rum shop in his district; he need only carry .? . # e e a pOCSGCIUi OI neat in tie uyi.cs ui ouiiuia fied patriotic inspiration and distribute a them freely. f f The city of Boston contains 41,926 7 dwelling houses, valued at $4,013,000. ?f There are, besides, 73 hotels, andl47 amily hotels in the city. POTTER OF THE MOON. Sundry Superstitions of Current Folk Lore. A Louisville (Ky.) reporter had a long conversation with a well-known scientific man of that city, and during the ccnveraation the subject of superstitious beliefs in the changes of the WArt i U /!? AW >3 AI *ViA/\n AW weabuei auu ouc euro;uo ui ma? uiuv/u uu everything 011 the earth was brought up, and the scientist remarked: "The people of this country, and especially of this State, may sneer as much as they like at the superstitious beleifs of other countries. They may laugh at the goblin and fairy stories of the Irish and the 'harpies' of the Scotch, but as widespread as these superstitions are, they are not so general as the superstitions as to the power of the moon. I took occasion to [ investigate this matter some time since, and was astonished at the extremes to I which it was carried, especially by the country people, who put implicit faith ' in its powers, and watch its every change with a watchful eye as a guiding star to their prosperity They only ; regard it in two stages, 'the light and < the dark of the moonthe one they '< regard as a signal to commence work, 1 and the other to continue it. A large < number believe that any article sown in j the dark of the moon will not attain the I strength and fullness that it would i have if planted in the light of the ' moon. They always plant their corn 1 and other grains in the light of the 3 moon, and if they do not finish they < will it it go until the moon changes < again. I questioned an old farmer 1 abont the matter, and he seemed sur- < prised that I should doubt the effects 4 of the moon in the slightest. Here- j marked that ho had tried the experi- ? ment on several occasions, especially i with potatoes., and those planted in the J dark of the moon never amounted to t anything, while the others grew large t 1- - - Txl T\^ iL.i. / nu iieajiiiiv, uu vuu &ec i/uuo icuuc i * out there ?' he said, pointing to a fence |' tinder every corner of which a large t stone had been placed, bnt the stones ? had stink until the tops were even with t the surface of the land. 'WelL that is < an example. I put those stones under < the fence in the dark of the moon, and f you see how they have sunk. I built t another fence durinpr the next change t of the moon, and the corners never c sunk a particle. Then, again, I have i tried the effect that it would have on e meat, and it was wonderful. I killed t several hogs once while the moon was s dark, ana was luiiy satisnea. witn me i resnlt. The meat diminished greatly t in size, and it was almost impossible to t keep it from spoiling. When it was !3 fried it all dwindled away into greas e ( and drew np to a very small size.' I t was astonished and amused at this, and t found that nearly all the rest of the i people around were equally eupersti- r tious, and thought tliat everything t earthly and unearthly, real anducrea], e was guided by its influence. JLJut tins v superstition in regard to the effects of t the moon is not confined to Kentucky t or to the United States. In Ireland i bhe same opinion in regard to the i planting of vegetables is held, and, if c the potatoes are planted during the s 3ark of the moon, some of them are I said to predict an entire failure of the a ;rop. p ? p Fist-Fights of Statesmen, A Washington letter to the Augv 'Ga.) Chronicle says: Senator LaSH^jCi : 555) /?nfim?nn 'w\ta a CgEHflMBTo aorseTTSeiEenaterBaysnis me bwuuu j u ime be was ever knocked down: The a first event is thus narrated. Years ago, t when he had iust begun the political j i career that has become so glorious, e Lamar had a dispute with a local celeb* f rity at Covington, named Zacharie, c familiarly called "Uncle Jemmy." This s man was very powerful. "When the war of p words came on he was sitting in a' chair, and Lamar confronted him erect, a Knowing well enough that his only i safety was in intimidating his gigantic fc antagonist, Lamar drew a pistol, pointed ( it at the sitting man and calmly said : g "Uncle Jemmy, if you attempt to rise t from that chair I will kill you!" Uncle i Jemmy concluded to obey, tnougn witn ^ ill-suppressed wrath and profuse prom- t ises of future settlement. c Not long afterward, when Lamar was i treating some Democratic feliow-citi- f zens at a corner grocery to benzine or t wine, he heard an exultant voice cry $ out behind him: "Lucius, I have got \ you now!'' Suiting the action to the 1 word, Uncle Jemmy let drive his mus- { cular arm and fist, which, coming in ] t-i, T.nmoii'a Viaa/^ s?aiiraA the 1 CUXLUH/U WlCJLL jjauttw a aavmv.} _ # body to stagger and fall. Lamar arose i and Uncle Jemmy precipitated Ms huge j bulk against him like a catapult. Then j the Democratic party present thought j the time had come to interfere, any j Uncle Jemmy was seized by sinewed j arms and told to release his hold. Not < satisfied with his method of doing so he ^ bad a second peremptory admonition. ] At this juncture he plaintively < squealed: "I ain't holding him, he's j holding me." Sure enough, on ezami- { nation it was found that Lamar had rT--1" fln/r/sr in fiis month and 1 C JUCJ.U typili mj a MA , would not let it go. During the melee < Lamar had seized a skillett and made 1 quite a mess of his burly foeman's face and head. But this was the first time i he had ever been knocked do n, and , the last time until Thursday afternoon. < General Wade Hampton says he never had but one fist-fight, and that was with a Columbia bully, who attempted to add him to the number cf his conquests. "I was a good boxer," said the South Carolina senator, "and every time the fellow rushed at me I floored him. The '"c> T cr?.T7A him broke hia thumb. A policeman came up and arrested me. When I was pinioned the man rose np, drew a knife, and was about to rush upon me. I asked the officer to let me go and give me his club. Qe did so. Armed with that weapon, I faced the desperado, and warned him that though I did not wish to kill him, I would surely do so if he advanced a step further. He took counsel of his fears, and prudently retired. I had not a scratch, but the other man was laid up for three | weeks." | A Lonsr-Lived Family. ' 5 r A Pensacola, Jb'Jonda, correspondent cf the Louisville Courier-Journal alleges that Robert A. Wright, of Santa Rose comity, Florida, is seventy-one years of age, bat in appearance, speech and action, he would pass anywhere for a well-preserved man of less than fifty. He is able to, and does, more and better work than at any period of his life. He has not lost a day from labor " " -rr - it. for thirteen monins. xie is me iawu of five children. of whom his sens Bnrrell, Amos and Aibab, are triplets, all now living and fifty-two years of age. He is the son of John Wright, who is now living in Canada, and is one hundred and sixteen years of age; is the nephew of the late Davis Eaton, who lived and died in Giles county, Virginia, at the advanced age of ( as near as it could be computed) one hundred and thirtv-eight years, and who had . U been one hundred and two years a member of the Masonic order. Differing from the conventional young-old man he eats heartily at all times; formerly he was an inveterate consumer of coffee and tobacco, but has eschewed both for the past five years. Of the 108 dead bodies picked upiik the Biver Thames last year, males and 14 females, oaaes they were not r^^fl long after death^^ tion was difM^fl THE LIULE BUITEB COW. Fact* Abont the " Jtrwy" and Their Island Home. 'The Island of Jersey is small; ififc was square it would be six and three* quarter miles on each side. However, this little piece of land suffices to keep _ 12,000 head of cattle; that is to say, in ' '?m round numbers, supports one aaunal t XMAO nf iffl tavnnisyrrr fVlin lijl ctttu iytu oviw v4 avu . i including rocks, road8, barren lands and the building lots necessary to the hous- |3lH ing of 60,000 inhabitants. And it has been thus for the last twenty years, at least. Indeed the census of 1861 gives 12,037 as the number of cattle on the island of Jersey. What is still mere remarkable it exports each year a Done 2,000 head of cattle (the average exportation^ according to the customhouse reports, being 2,049 for the last eighteen years) nearly one head for each ten acre s, Now the total number of cattle in England gives only one for ten acres; it follows then that in proportion to its extent the island of Jersey exports each year more than England contains. In other words, if Eogiand nhrmM ATnnrfc at her same raie. all hoy cattle would be gone in a single year, and she wo aid not have left a single hoof. The system which permits the island of Jersey to attain this result deserves to be studied above all at this time, when the Eaglish farmer knows sot what to do, his sheet anchors, the rnltnre of wheat, leaving him to drift dq the rocks. Bat another reshlt not less striking tian tne Keeping ox we kittle at the Jersey is the race of cattle :hat it has produced. At present it is - she custom in England to consider the Fersey as the pampered favorites of Fortune, playthings for the rich, dia- 9 nonds to ornament the lawn, giving a - ,ji small quantity of very rich milk, creaat^^^^j md butter for those who enough to afford this extravag^H Chat they are small, admitted; beautifaltH B 76 concede; but why should they not be mall? And why not beautiful? Is 1H ha oVionTior^ less bold, less useful >r less suited to its special work, be:anso it is not a mastiff? The ability ;o do the work required is the thing - '3aH lought for; the rest is only fashion and insel. The work of the Jersey is to convert grass and roots into butter and lot into beet She is not raised to be :J| :aten; she has more value as a machine ^1I?H o produce butter. Then why should x ; cIsS lie be larger? Ana iar iiom oeixtg a uxury for the rich man, she is, more han any other race, the dependence of he poor, the best aid of small farming. ["his is very easily and simply proved in a general way) by the experience of he island of Jersey. We have seen hat they keep their 12,000 head of catle on six miles square, there where the ent averages ?9 per acre; there where he farms are smaller than anywhere Ise; there where each farmer works Tith his hands and is face to face with ''M he wolf that he needs must' keep from ne aoor. auu wuati uu wo bcc> bland eaten Tip by ^cattle and the faraers begging. On the oontrary, all the onntry is like a garden, everywhere own with improvements and comforfcaile houses and of which the aspect hows the well being. One finds everyrhere comfort and plenty, and nowhere -OBM iDverty, misery or beggars. I do not claim that all this is the rork of the cows, but I say that these 5 utoptr xrho have so serious a straggle fcaloss. If the Jerseys are profits!^ If here, with the land at ?9 per acre, will hey not give a profit in England, and verywhere else where there is a market or butter ? But we will go farther; we laira that the Jersey cow is the handomest of all cows, as well as the most ttt :11 in an fav words XV WIU 6U?vu vucu* m* wv ? . s possible. We claim that the Jersey 9 the moet profitable of all cows for ratter, that she will give more butter relatively to her weight and the feed ihe eats) than any other race whatever; hat a good Jersey will give half her yeight in butter per year. She rarely / weighs more than eight hundred pounds, he average weight being seven hunIred pounds, and cows giving half that JeS n butter per year are found in every food herd; that the milk is richer than hat of any other race, six pints often Hvincr a Doucd of butter, giving less J v A rater to milk, cany and set; that the ratter is of better color, of better tex- \ .Tire, of better flavor and of higher price; that she becomes profitable earier, usually liaving her first calf at two X"*g| fears acd often sooner; that she is genie and docile, easily cared for {in the island of Jersey,at least) by the women md children of the house, who lead her ;o the field, tie her, take lier Dacs to the barn, milk her and leave the whole jare of her, without help from the men teho are occupied with other work. Finally, she is equally at home in the sold climate of the Canadian winters jjgB ind the tropical heat of the Gulf I hare now before me letters from the secretary of the exhibition of Jersey cattle at Mobile, where they succeed perfectly, and from Mr. Burnham (who . * ' 1 " /!?*????aootaV ft# O&S DOHgUIj ime lamuuo uuvuuKMAvyj w* Connecticut, who finds that they succeed equally well in the Northern States, and there are several large herds of ygja them in Canada, to which Mr. Cochrane (celebrated owner of Dnrhams) is going to add another. May we rightly defy the world to produce a breed having ,^||| more merit T?Le Journal Df Agriculture lUustre. ? " ITEMS OF INTEREST. The heat of lava at the bottom of the o nnn a*. craier may ue eBbuuuM*** < ? grees for refractory metalr melt in oontact with burning lava. An ardent lady ornithologist in India learned of an nndescribed species of pheasant in a region overran by hostile natives. She secured an escort of 600 ?<;|g soldiers and plunged with them into * the jungle. They faltered from fear, but she obtained the service of sixty natives, and succeeded in getting two ?'?fV?Q nTo^inns bird. It bag PpQUililCiiO VI bu\< _ _ _^ been named in her honor Callophasis Hnmii. As an insect destroyer the juice of the tomato plant is said to be of great .'-t valne: the leaves and stems are well boiled in water and when the liquid is cold it is sprinkled ovez plants attacked with insects, when it at once destroys j|? caterpillars, black and green flies, gnats -3a and otter enemies to vegetables, aau m no way impairs the growth of the plants. -: A peculiar odor remains and prevents insects from coming again for a long time. Remove ink stains from carpets with milk, and afterward wash with fine soap, a clean brush and warm water. For grease spots use powdered magnesia, fuller's earth or buckwheat Sprinkle on the spot and let lie until the grease is absorbed; renew the earth, maftneeift or hTTfikt-iieat TlTltft all the grease is removed. Time and petienc^^ will in this way remove the wo^h grease spots. Experienced pork-rayg have determinedoj^ as the reiati^i^tf Whei^M^