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A LITTLE PHILOSOPHER.
The days are snort and the nights are long,
And the wind U nipping cold;
The tasks are hard and the sums are wrong,
And the teachers often scold.
But Johnny McCree,
On, what cares he.
As he whistles along the way T
“ It will all come right
Br to-morrow night,”
Says Johnny McCree to-day.
The plums are few and the cake Is plain,
The shoes are out at the toe;
For money you look in the purse in ▼alu—
H was all speut long ago. v
But Johnny McCree,
Oh, what cares he,
As he whistles along the street T ,
Would you havo the blues
For a pair of shoes
While you have » pair of feet?
The suow Is deep, there are paths to break,
But the little arm Is strong, .
And work Is play if you’ll only ta^e > J
Tour work with a bit of song.
, And Johnny McCree,
Oh, what cares he,
{s along ti
He will do Irisbest,
And will leave the rest
To the care of his Father, Ood.
i
AS he whistles along thje rogi
The mother's face is often aid, f
She scarce knows what to do;
But at Johnny’s kiss she Is bright and glad—
fine loves him, and wouldn’t you ?
For Johnny McCree,
Oh, what cares he,
As he whistles along toe way ? » *
The trouble win go,
And “Itold you so,”
Our brave little John will say.
THAT SUNDAY.
Nobody goes to church on Easter Day
without a new Suit in the very latest
fashion!'’ said Mrs, Clairville.
“Certainly not!” said Alicia, her eld
est danghter.
“Mrs. Pelham has written to Paris
for a new bonnet, to my certain know
ledge."
“And, of course,” added Emily, the
youngest section of the house of Clair-
viUe, “As you are spending the winter
with us, Madeline, yon will be expected
not to disgrace ns.'’
Madeline Moray looked from one to
the other of the speakers with a troubled
look of countenance.
“But, aunt Clairville,” aaid she,
“mamma writes me that our old cousin
Zephaniah and his wife have oome from
Maine, very poor, and that we must
economize as much as possible.
“They are very old, and they need a
great many litUe luxuries, and whatever
Clairville’s face darkened visi-
Mrs.
bly.
“Madeline,” said she, “will you never
forget that you belong to a farmer’s fam
ily down east?
“Your cousin Zephauiahs are nothing
tome.
“Of course, while yon are my guest,
I shall expect you to dress as becomes
your station as my niece.”
Madeline knitted her pretty brows in
sore perplexity after aunt Clairville had
nulled out, leaving a strong odor of
patchouli behind her. i A
She had a some bank-notes yet left of
the store which they had scraped to
gether at home, when they sent her to
spend a winter in Boston with aunt
Clairville, and she took it from her
purse and smoothed it out upon her
desk.
Twenty-five dollars!
She had hoped to sgve it all for cousin
Zephaniah. *
Her pretty shot silk, with the damasse
front, was very fresh and pretty still—
she had only worn it some half-dozen
tunes—and her neat little split-straw
hat wonid look very nice, if she bought
Madeline burst into tears.
“Very well, Emily,-’ she said. “Then
i will remain at home.
“Yon need not fear that I will dis
grace the congregation of St. Etheldreda
on Easter Sunday.”
And this pledge evidently relieved
the mind of Miss Clairville.
And the two elegant sisters did not
take the trouble, when Captain Braba-
zin dropped in to five o’clock tea, to
send up word to Madeliue that there
was company in the parlor.
“I suppose she don’t care to see me,’.’
the captain tlouglit, yith -a unking
heart* when, at fast |e went away, after
having lingered as long as politeness
wonid admit. r < £
“I suppose he never asked for me,”
Madeline said to herself as, from her
window, she saw bis retreating flguxp
Baxter shtwlv down the street.
/to. I matters less than evef now
about the Eister suit. j - ^
“Nobody will know whether I have
9ne' or not.”
Bnt when Easter Eve came, and Mad
eline was crying softly in her own room,
to think of the radiant spring sunset
that was flooding,all the worlit'at home,
the waiter came grinnfng wp to
door.
“Please, Mias Maddy,” he said,
“hyar’s a basket o’ laylocks. m «-
“Keal springy-smellin’, I do declare!
“Wid de cappen’s card — (Happen
Brabazan, miss!” .
Madeline nttered an exclamation / of
delight
Oh, the lovely purple things! Clusters
of lilac fragrance.
Delicious reminders of the springtidp
at home.
Ob, how kind it was of Captain Brab
azan to remember that she was a ooun*
try girl, exiled here among brick walls.
Madame Creesonde'a young women
sat up until twelve o’clock that night,
to finish the three elegant eostumes
which Mrs. Clairville and her daughters
ordered.
The three bonnets did not come home
until Sunday morning.
Bat Madeline watched them sail forth
to ehnrch, to the glitter of golden sun
beams and the clanging of melodious
bells, like three fashion-plates.
And then she put on her plain little
“made-over dress” and, taking a fresh
cluster of lilacs from the vase of water,
pinned it across the split-straw hat.
address her niece with a view to mar
riage.
That was Madeline Moray’s Easter
gift.
A mac’s t^ne and loyal heart—the
dawn of a great happiness, over a life
which np to this hoar had been bat
ohill and solitary.
There was no denying that Mrs. Clair
ville was much disappointed.
Emily and Alicia had been in society
three seasons now, without having re
ceived any eligible offer; and it did
Tb» TlireatMes Families.
Old Hyeua Putmlter.
A Great Farmer.
By the proposition to expel from
French territory all the members of;
families which have reigned in France,
if it should be adopted, no less than
thirty-one persons are affected. Of the
-elder branch of the house of Bonrboni
only .two—the Comte and Comtesse de
Chambord, resident in Australia, bnt
at present free to live in France if they
please—would suffer. There are Bour
bons of Spain, of the two Sicilies, and
spfem strange that this pate; quiet little r of Parma dwelling ia France; bnt they
girl from the back-woods, os Mrs. Clair- — *— 1 1 * 1 ' —‘
ville contemptuously expressed it, should
Jravq earned off such a glittering prize
Captain B^baaau; for it never occnr-
1 to them 't&at Madeline’s sweet
unselfishness and ipliet self denial coaid
are foreign princes, and would not be
included in this rwiseptog banishment.
On the other hand, upwards of 28 mem
bers of the Orleans family-—which, by
the way, has been remarkable for its j g reft t surprise.
The other morning, while the urbane
manager of Woodward’s Gardens was
smoking a-fonr-bit cigar, and medita
tively listening to the muffl'd wads of
a tomcat that had jnst been swallowed
alive by the anaconda, a tall, thin, scien
tific-looking man, with a goatee and
blue glasses, entered the gate and re
marked in an insinuating manner!
“Of coarse, yon pass the scientific
fraternity?”
“Of course, we do not!” said the
'showman, emphatically.
“What., not the aenrauts, not the pio
neers in thu^reat march of the mind
into the fatherland of the inflaate be
yond?” returned the professor, with
peculiarly quiet attitude—might be
possibly have had anything to do with, jumed “bag and baggage” out of the
ttkA f't.twtn+A on/)
the matter?
Aid'W fotig as old datisin Zephaniah
ahd>'hia tvufis lived, Captain Brabazan
mode them an annual aflowanoe which
jra& ampld for their simple wants.
Fsrycluas Courage of the Alghau.
Afi
TTT
corrQBponi
dent contributes some
no98 Of ilia JWptn Afghan
istan.” Balerring to^ the ngnting qual
ities of the Afghan soldiery, he says:
An Afghan never thinks oi asking for
quarter,' 5 bullfights, with the ferocity of #
a tiger and clings to life until his eyes
glaze and his hands refuse to pull a
pistol-trigger or use a knife in a dying
•ffjPlt jtoihfdp or, kill his enemy. The
stern realities of war were more pro-
nountAl oil fto Wattte-flelds in Afghan
istan man per naps tney have ever be en
iiVIndia, i if we expfid thsj retributive
days of the mutiny. To spare a wound
ed man for a minute was probably to
cause the death of the next soldier who
unsuspiciously walked past him. One
thing oar men certainly learned in
Afghanistan, and that was to keep their
wits about them when pursuing an
enemy or passing over a hard-won field.
There might be danger larking in each
seemingly inanimate form studding the
ground, and unless care and caution
were exercised the wounded Afghan
would steep his soul in bliss by killing
a Kaffir just when life was at its last
ebb. This stubborn way of fighting
tn extremis is prompted doubtless by
fanaticism, $nd we saw so much of it
that our men at close quarters always
th«
drove -their bayonets' well home, so
“There,’’shethought as she tied the that -there^should-be no mistake as to
strings under her chin, “ho Paris exotic
ever looked half so sweet as that!
“And I am sure Heaven will incline
its ear no less favorably to my prayers
than if I went to St. Etheldreda’s in
Worth’s newest design.”
And she crept to the little church in
tneadjoining street, which hod long been
out of fashion, and where the spectacled
old clergyman practiced all the austerb,
ties of the early fathers, through dire
necessity.
Easter Sunday!
She sat. there, listening to the anthems,
and thinking of the dear ones at home,
an^ wondering if cousin Zephaniah and
his poor'old wife would ever know that
she, Madeline Moray, had oast her mite
to relieve their sore necessities, and
recalling tagtrtfly Ute'poor widow whose
offefhig had oi&e beenpo precious In the
holiest of eyes." * ‘ L
Hers was not much now, bnt she also
had given it from a free and willing
heart 4 r .
As she moved qnietly, and with re
new ribbon for it and re-arranged the- verent, downcast eyes, outof theohuroh,
flowers.
4t least that was the mental conclu
sion at which ahe had arrived, when
Mrs. Clairville issued her commands,
binding as an imperial nkase, that a
new Easier suit was among the necessi
ties.
Madeline knew very well that she was
pretty:’ F* .
She never looked into the glass with
out perceiving the difference between
her fresh apple-blossom of a face, and
the enamelled and rouged qomplex-
ions of her city cousins.
She knew th»t her hair was like burn
ished coils of gold, her long-lashed eyes
like stars, and she would have liked.a
new Easter suit as well as any one—and
the bonnets in Madame Printemp’s
window looked infinitely beautiful in
her eyes, with their French roses and
perfectly simnlated. violets; bat there
was the old man and his enfeebled wife
to remember—the ancient relics of a
bygone generation, who had out-lived
the sympathy of almost all the world.
“No,” said Madeline to h&rself, “I
most not spend this money, Easter salt
or no Easter suit.'’
Bo ahe sat herself down, in the rainy
March afternoon, to riy np the short silk
dress and alter it over so that even Alicia
sad Emily should not know it for the
same.
Bnt, with all her skill in amstenr
dress-making, the folds wonid not hang
stylishly, the old creases would obtrude
themselves on the eye, and the costume
proclaimed, in its every glisten and
puff—“Made over, made overt”
Emily Clairville shook her head.
“Madeline,” said she, “it is of no
nse.
“You never can wear that dress! And
your hat, tool
“A plain split-straw, without so much
I* $ French flower.”
some one stepped to her side.
“Yon have dropped .something, Miss
Moray,” said Captain Brabazan.
And lie held np $he cluster of lilacs,
drooping now, and a little faded.
She pnt her hand np to her bolmet
with a scarltt blush, r.i
“Your lilacs, Captain BrabaiBn,” sue
said; * * j, iri+i T
v K«<^^gbtened. ‘ . j,
“I am prouuthat yon ueemed them
worthy of your wearing. ^ .
“Yonr oonkjn to'd me that you was
such an anchorite that you did not oare
for flowers, or books, or society—that
yon were not even going to church on
Easier Sunday.’V,-' •*- . .
“I?” cried Madeline. *
“Oh^ Captain Brabazap, 1 like all
three!
“1 cried over your flowers when they
came last night
“They seemed to me like dear friends
from home.
. “And 1 wore them in mv bonnet be
cause—because I oonld noV affordWii-
fioal blossoms, 1
“There! now yon know jgtt how poor
And she laughed, even while the
roseate tinge suffused her cheek.
•T do not know whether yon are poor
or not,” said he; “bnt I do know that I
think yon the nearest to perfection of
any girl whom I ever saw.”
“Huy I tell yon ail abont it?” ahe
asked h urriedly, “for I do not want you
to thin* me avaricious or semi, barbarian,
as my cousins sometimes pronounce me.
And then you shell tall me whether ycu
think I am right or wrong. ” )
They walked slowly home from church
in the soft, blind sunlight of that Easter
Day, and when they reached the Mown
atone mansion in Silveraton street, Cap
tain Brabazan went in and formally
asked Mrs. ClainriUes penqjssion to
the deadliness of the wound. The*phy-
sioal courage which distinguished the
untrained mobs who fought so resolutely
against ns was worthy of all admiration;
the tenacity with which men, badly
armed and lacking skilled leaders,
dung to their positions was remarkable,
to say nothing of the sullen dogged
ness they often Showed when retiring.
EN^Whl^.B^rtjd^of^be fight set in
folly against them and they saw that
further resistance would involve them
more deeply, there was so sudden
change always apparent that one could
scarcely believe the fogitiyes hurrying
over the hills were the same men who
had resisted so desperately but a few
minutes before. They acted wisely;
they knew their powers in scaling steep
hilja, or in making their escape by
fieetness of foot; and the host generally
dissolved with a rapidly which no one
but an eye-witness can appreciate. If
cavalry overtook them, they turned like
wolves and fonght with desperation,
selling th&r lives as dearly as men ever
sold them; but there was no rally in
the time sense of the word, and but
faint attempts at aiding eacii other.
Thfelr regular troops were bnt little
attfenable to discipline by reason of
deficient training, and they resorted to
the tactics they had pursned as tribes
men, -when once they were forced to
PAti-VA
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Railway Accommodation*.
In these days when it is fashionable to
complain of corporations as purely selfish,
it is greatly to the credit of the-Pennsylva
nia Railroad Company, that it is cc-atant-
ly furnishing increased facilities for the
accommodation of \h6 traveling public.
Recently they have commenced running a
through Pullman Bleeping Coach from
Washington and Baltimore to Chicago on
their Pacific Express, which leaves Wash
ing every day In the year at 9 60 p. m„
and Baltimore 11.16 p. m. The arriving
time at Chitego is 8.00 o’clock the second
morning. The portion of the train which
starts from .Washington joins at Harris
burg with the section from New York and
Philadelphia on ifhich there is a hotel car.
This arrangement gives passengers from
Baltimore and. WsJhmgton Just the same
eating facilities as enjoyed by those from
New York, as the first meal en route is
breakfast os the, first morning, after the
two section! have become one tram.
On their West Jersey connection, also,
they arranged for placing, tinoe February
19th, a through passenger car between
New York sad Jersey City as follows:
Leave Brooklyn 12:80 noon; New Yqrk,
1:00 p. m., and arrive at Atlantic City
(via Trenton and Camden) 6:47 p. m.
Leave Atlantic City at 7:26 a. m., arrive
at New York, 11:40 noon; Brooklyn 12:80
noon. The car will not be run in either
direction on Sundays.
The latter will furnish not only desirable
facilities tor the citizens of Nqw York and
northern New Jersey, but will enable sum
mer visitors to N«W York city on business
to take a run down to the “City by the
Bek” conveniently and in a few houra.
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^-Thereare 2760 languages.
— American patent medicines are in
great demand in Belgium.
country. These are the Comte and
Comtesse de Paris, living at the Chateau
d’Eu in Normandy, bnt now at Cannes
for the season, and their children, the
Duo d’Orfeans, who is stadying at the
College Stanislas, the Princesse Helene
who made her debut in society about
three months ago. and two little prin
cesses. Then oome the duo de Char
tres, younger brother of the comte de
Paris, now stationed at Rouen as colo
nel of the 12th chasseurs, the Ducbesse
de Chartres, and their children, Prince
Robert, Henri and Je&n, and Princesses
Marie and Marguerite, all of whom are
with their parents. * The Duo de Ne
mours, general of division, who is re
siding in the avenne du Bois de Bou
logne in Paris, follows with his chil
dren, the Dno d’Alennou, captain in an
artillery regiment, and his wife, the
duchess, who with their little son and
danghter, Prince Emmanuel and
Princess Louise, are now sojourning at
Vincennes, and Princess Blanche
d'Orleans. The Comte d’Eu and the
Princess Margnerite have become
foreign subjects, the foimer through
his marriage with a princess of Brazil,
now his adopted country ^ the latter by
her marriage with Prince Ladislas
Czarterpski Next comes the Prince de
JoinviUe, vice-admiral, with bis prin
cess, both of whom reside in the Rue
de Bern in Paris, and their children,
the dno de Pentlueyre, a lieutenant in
the French navy, and Princess Fian-
ooise, married to the doe de Chartres.
Lastly, the dne d’Aumale, general of
division and a member of the Aoademie
Franoaise.* The due de Montpensier
and Princess Clencutine, brother and
sister of the dno de Nemours, would
not be included in the decree of expul
sion. as the former has become a Span
iard through his marriage with the In
fante Louise, sister of Queen Isabella,
while the latter is the wife of the duke
of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The members
oi the Bonaparte family who would be
directly affected by the adoption of the
Floqnet proposition are Prince Na
poleou and his wife the Princess Clc-
tilde, with their two sons—Prince Vic
tor, who is at Orleans with his regi
ment, the 32d artillery, and Prince
Louise, now studying at the Lycee
Charlemagne, and their daughter, the
Princess Marie, who is with her mother
at Monoalieri, and the Princess Mathil
da. The other members of the Bona
parte family, children of the late Prince
Pierre aud Prince Murat, would hardly
be included in the proscription.
Mottoes of the H.bsburcs-
The celebration of the foundation of
the Habsburg monarchy has suggested
to a writer in one of the Vienna journals
the compilation of the mottoes adopted
by the Emperors who have successive
ly occupied the throne. The founder
of the dynasty, whose motto was “Fes-
tina lento” before his accession, after
ward adopted that of “Melius bene
imporare qnam imperinm ampliara.”
Albert I, with “Fugam victoria nesoit,”
and Frederick III, with “Beata morte
nihil beatus,” were succeeded by Albert
IL and Frederick IV, whose mottoes
were “Amiens optima vitas possessio,”
and “Amor eiectis, injnstia ordinat ni
ter.” Charles V, had two mottoes,
“Nondnm” and “Plus ultra,” while the
motto of Ferdinand I, the founder of
the German line of Habebnrgs. was
* *Fiat jnstitia, pereat mundns. ” ‘ ‘Dens
providebit” was the pious motto of
Maximilian JJ; and, passing over those
of Rudolph II and two or three other
sovereigns, that of Charles VI, the
author of the Pragmatic Sanction, pos
sesses peculiar interest, as he was the
last male descendant of the House of
Habsburg. Hu high temper and force
of character are embodied in the moito,
“Constantia et lortitudine ;” while his
danghter, Maria Theresa, who founded
tiie house of Habsburg-Lorraine, chose
as her motto, “Justitia et dementia.”
The motto of her husband, Francis I,
was “Pro Deo et imperio,” while Joseph
H took for his device, “Virtute exem-
plo,” and his brother, “Leopold II,
"Opes regum oorda subditorum. ” He
was succeeded by Francii II, with the
mottoes, “Lege et fide” anfl “Justitia
regnorum fundamentum.” Th<f late
Emperor Ferdinand’s motto was, “Rec
ta tuen,” while that of the reigning
sovereign is, appropriately enough,
“Yiriboi tmtis,” for there is mors
strength and unity in the dual empire
Hum when he came to the throne.
“I will not deceive you," sarcastically
replied the proprietor of the only sala-
marder; ‘ we paps nothing but the
quills on the fretful porcupines—1 mean
the press. You can't seethe ostidges
unless you oome down and put up.'’
“Dear me, dear me!” sighed the sci
entist, refftectively. “To think that a
professor of cosmographio oonohology
should be denied admittance to a third-
class Zoo ! Has the Skamgatibns been
fed yet?”
Skam which?” asked the tiger
importer.
“Why, the Skamgatibus; you’ve got
one, haven’t you?”
“Ye-e-s-s; I believe we’ve a small
female somewheres,” said the grizzly's
friend, doubtfully.
Why, I never knew a first-clais col
lection to have less than two pairs,” said
the professor, oontemptuonsly; "how
do yonr Azimuths stand this cold
weather, eh!"
“Azimuths?” asked the Napoleon ag
gregator of curiosities; “what’s them?”
Some kind of bird—you don’t mean
ostri- -?'’
“Ostriages be hanged?*’ said the
successor of Darwin; “ostridges are
nothing. I’ve shot more ostridges with
quail shot than you've got hairs on your
head. You dont actually mean to sit
there and tell me yon haven’t got a
single Azimuth to yonr back?*’
“Don’t believe I have,” admitted the
alligator breeder, mortified; what are
they like?”
“Oh they’re of the order Spinalis,
about eight feet high. For peels off in
the spring, yon know—the Siberian
spbeies. I mean, I suppose yon’ve
got one of those Rectangular African
Flipgoohlies that reached New York the
other day?”
“No,’ said the much agitated show
man; “here I’ve been keeping an agent
in New York on a big salary to look out
for attractions and he doesn’t catch on
to the first blamed thing, Spends all
onr money on second-hand panthers
and kangaroos with the rheumatics. I’ll
bounce him by telegraph!”
“Haven’t even got a Flipgoohly, eh?”
mused the scientist, in a tone of great
pity. “Aud I shouldn’t be surprised if
yon didn’t have a Golden Greeted uus-
pidor in your whole show."
“Neither I have—neitner I have,” re
plied the wretched promoter of pelicans
in a tone of great bitterness. ’Spose
yon just step in, sir, and look round;
mebbe there is something else you
could say—”
“N-n-o, I guess not,” said the tall
nian. “It would hardly pay me to
spend so much valuable scientific time
in a fourth-class show like this. Not
even an Azimuth, eh? I should think
you’d be afraid of being actually,
mobbed some time. I’m sorry for you,
my good man; sorry for you. I’ve no
doubt you mean well, but—not a soli
tary Skamgatibns—Great Scott I”
And as the disciple of Andnbon passed
into a saloon across the street and
swapped a lead niokle for a glass of
beer the bar-keeper heard him ohnokle
something to the effect that he had got
even on that old hyena puncher, and
don't yon forget it.
Dr. Glenn’s ranch in Cdito-nia com
prises about 60,000 acres of land, and
the number of acres iu wheat each year
ranges between 40,000 and 50,000.
Reckoning an average of from 20 to 25
bushels to the acre, the aggregate crop
each year amounts to something more
than 1,000,000 bushels. This enormous
amount of grain requires vast appli
ances for planting and bringing it to
market; and the capital invested in
machinery alone sums up a considerable
fortune. During the harvest time there
are employed on the entir^anofi some
500 men. Dr. Glenn was general-in-
chief of his force, and his ranch is divi
ded, for convenience of operation, into
nine smaller ranches—each with a
dwelling-house, barns, blacksmith shop
and other necessary build ngs. In
charge of those are seven foremen, un
der whom are sixteen blacksmiths,
fourteen carpenters, six engineers six
machinists, five commissaries aud nu
merous cooks and servants. The com
mon workmen are divided into gangs,
and detailed where they are needed.
There are needed 130 gang plows, 60
herders, to which belong 180 wagons;
6 cleaners, 100 harrows, 18 seeders, 6
threshers, 6 engines. Besides, there
are many smaller instruments and veh
icles, whioh cannot be classified. Co
operating with their human brethren
in the great labor are 1,000 work-horses
and mules, with a kinship of brood,
mares and younger stock which have
not yet achieved the dignity of lalxir.
There are 32 dwelling-houses, 27 barns,
14 blacksmith shops, and other struct
ures sufficient to swell the aggregate
to 100, The machinery could not be
replaced for $125,000; the work-horses
and moles are worth $110,000; and the
brood mares and yonng stock $75,000.
The ranch is about twenty miles above
the town of Oolnsa.
NEWS IJS BRIEF
-During the past fifteen years 3
churches have been built in this country
—Berlin with over 1,160,000 popnla-
5dp h “ 0117 f ° rty ' five p,ace * o' ww-
^ °f the Grand Army of the
jjjpuhho has been established iu Hono-
money on
past year.
Origin of the Cereal Oramt
Wheat ranks by origin as a degeuer-
erate and degraded lily. Snob in brief
is the proposition which this paper sets
out to prove, aud whioh the whole
course of evolutionary botany tends
every day more and more fully to con
firm. By thus from the very outset
placing dearly before our eyes the goal
of our argument, we shall be able the
better to understand as we go whither
each item of the cumulative evidence is
really tending. We must endeavor to
start with the simplest forms of the
great group of plants to whioh the ce
reals and the other grasses belong, and
we most try to see by what steps this
primitive type gave birth, first to the
brilliantly colored lilies, next to the
degraded rushes and sedges, and then
to the still more degenerate grasses,
from one or other of whose richer grains
man has finally developed his wheat,
his rice, his millet, and his barley. We
shall thus trace throughout the whole
pedigree of wheat from the time when
its ancestors first diverged from the
common stock of the lilies and the wa
ter-plantations, to the time when sav
age man found it growing wild among
the untilled plains of prehistoric Asia,
and took it under his special protection
iu the little garden-plots around his
wattled hut, whence it has gradually
altered under his constant selection in
to the golden grain that now covers
half the lowland tilth of Europe and
America. There is no page in botanical
history more full of genuine romance
than this, and there is no page in whioh
the evidence is dearer or more convin
cing for those Who will take the easy
trouble to read it alight.
Lead Poisoning in uressmakem.
Lead poisoning is often produced in
an unsuspected manner, The occupa
tion of dressmaking might be regarded
as one likely to be exempt from it; yet
a dressmaker jnst admitted into the
Leeds Dispensary, England, was found
to have a distinct blue line on her gams,
with simultaneous symptoms, such as
a furred tongue, inflammation of the
lips, and general debility—all signs
pointing to the probability of poisoning
by lead. The physician in attendance
for some time failed to discover the
source of the lead poisoning, and was
beginning to think the blue line had
been caused in some other way. when
he accidentally learned from a merchant
that silken thread, being sold by weight,
and not by length, is sometime adul
terated with sugar of lead. He than
questioned the patient, and she inforsa-
ed him that it had been a common
practice with her, when at work, to
hold silk as well as other kinds of thread
in her mouth, and that ahe had dona
this the more readily with silk, inas
much as it often bad a sweet ta te. This
is a sore indication of the presence of
lead, and all thread poMeesing itshould
either be rejected or used with caution,
it will be found that the silk thread of
the best makers is tasteless, whereas
some inferior threads are sweet.
—ll a L.
Texas, went ham
Shirley, of Dallas
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with $800
county,
in cur
rency in his pocket, and used paper for
wadding. He was loading from the
wrong pocket, however, and had shot
away over $60 of his money before he
discovered his mistake.
Kara Old Win*.
One lot of 1,000 gallons of sherry had
been in the London wiue vaults for
nearly fifty years. It was brought from
the South by its owner, who had fallen
dead in the vaults. The wine, along
with his other property, had passed in
to chancery, and tne litigation, whioh
has continued for nearly half a century,
is as far from being ended, apparently,
as when it begun. But the wine has
been growing old and valuable, and if
sold now, wonid probably bring five
guineas a gallon. The fact is that wine
rarely gets as old as it is credited with,
and there is bnt little sherry or port of
an older vintage than 1879 to be had,
and then at very high prices indeed.
The majority of still wines in common
use are not more than two years old,
and a glass of sherry that has been in
wood two years anil bottle five more is
a rare treat.
Etypt*
Egypt is to have a large police force,
composed mainly of Europeans. Ac
tive recruiting for this body has been
going on in Switzerland, Germany and
Belgium. Natives of those countries
are deemed equally eligible. French
and Italians are, for political reasons,
excluded. The recruits are not to be
under twenty, nor over forty years of
age. They are to get from $30 to $60 s
month, from which about $8 a moath is
to be deducted for the cost of vatious.
The Egyptian Government is to pay the
expense of conveyance to Egypt, and
there is a special agreement with-the
Swiss recruits that, in case their coun
try should become involved iff war, they
are to have the privilege of rotaming
immediately to their homes, attheex-
* penae of the Egyptian treasury .
r A lady, Miss S. Clark, has been an
Exe^N:T rer0,a * 8aViQg * bank ^
T r T , h ? LoWer H * nae of tl »e Missouri
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and find mnch favor there. '
-Gash girls in New York store,, are
‘ v '° S W8 f k * 8 ° me ot toem
$2 after years of.experience.
FnTit lT don lecturer declares that
Lugland has spent daring the lust
yem -ei,«0,000,000torli q “ o *
. • 000 ‘ 0 ? 0 ■B 001 ' 01 “““d
a year and three or four thousand cords
of wood in tbe making of spools
-New York will raise by taxation
to defray the expenses of iu dtv
government, about $20,000,000 in 1883
-An agent has gone to South Africa
to secure oustrichea to stock a farm to
be established in San Betadrdino, Cal.
—A thoughtful citizen of Kansas City
Mo., has presented each of the letter-’
carriers in the city with a pair of
creepers.
—During the past year sixty-one
Cougregationalist ministers have died
in this country, at an average age of
sixty four years. K
—The total number of oases of shoes
310 525 fr rL L7 | mi ’ m 188218
aiV.&Zo. This shows a gain of more
than 25,000 over 1881.
—Women Stenographers of the high-
< J?“ command and receive salaries
of $1000 a year and upwards, when em
ployed in large establishments.
—The Rev. Osborne Ingle, an Epis-
copal clergyman of Frederick, Md., has
J® 8 * Rn d seven obilnren, mostly
by diphtheria, within a brief year. #
-In a corn-raising contest near Rome,
fea., flye young men took part. The
winner of the pnze raised thirty-seven
bushels and seven ounces on a half acre.
. — A boy in Mobile, Ala., burned down
two buildings to win two beU aggrega
ting $4 that there would be two fires in
the city before certain specified dates.
—A stow watch caused the loss of five
lives cud the woondiog of two meu,
besides the destruction of considerable
property on the Ohesapeak 2k Ohio Rail
way.
—The Duke of Sutherland, by his
recent purchase of land in Florida, be
comes, it is said, a larger real estate
owner in the United States than iu
England.
—Immigration to the United States
is lessening in volume. For the five
months ended Nov. 30, the arrivals ag-
“ ” wrea wiU ‘
—Russia’s debt has almost doubled
since 1872, the annual deficit in her
finances averaging $120,000,000. A loan
rsceatijr negotiated brings the debt ui
lo $2,765,000,000. *
Lha Texas cattle drive for the com
ing spring is estimated at 220,000 head.
Of these not more than 120,000 will
reach the open market The rest will
be reserved for ranch purposes.
—The gold product of Galifornia from
the discovery ol the precious metal by
James W. Marshall In the tail-race of
Sutter’s Mill, Jan. 19, 1848, to June 30,
1881, amounted to $1,170,000,000.
-The produo. of the Leadville (Oolo-
rado) mines for the past three months
is as follows : Ponnds of lead, 17,009,-
228 ; ounces of silver, 1,337,116; ounces
of gold, 2, 921, Total currency value,
$5,792,123.
—The memorial library building
which the sons of the late Israel Wash
burn are to erect at the homestead in
Livermore, Me., is to be of granite, and
is to be ready for use during the com
ing summer.
—Husnewell, Kansas, shipped daring
the last season 4,000 car loads of cattle,
averaging twenty-two head to the oar.
The cattle brought $86 per Head at mar
ket malting over $8,000,000 worth ship
ped from tuis one point.
—Some Maine officers a temp ted to
seize a car load of beer in Portland the
other day, but a locomotive came along
aud earned beer and officers to Ports-
month, N. H., 60 miles away where it
is not unlawfal to bold beer for sale.
—Daring the five years ending De
cember 31, 1881, there were l,870hotels
burned in the United States aud 360 in
Canada. Daring the month of Novem
ber, 1881. there were thirty-nine burned
in the United 8 ates and six in Canada,
more than one for every day of the
month.
—The aggregate value of tbe eleva
tors belonging to tbe Northern Pacific
railroad is $300,000. They do an animal
grain trade of from $2,000,000 to $4.-
000,000, and in their merchandise de
partment they did a business last
of 100,000.
—The best compliment puid the wub-
lio schools of Washington by a forog
ner, qualified to judge, is the fact mat
the children of the Swiss Minister pt-
tend public whool in the Peabody build
ing, and Gen. Frey, as is well known,
presided over the edtteatiopal depart
ment of his native State-for a number
of yean.
—General Booth, of the Salgai
Army iff England, in his report tor
says that in that year 609 of his soldi ers,
including 274 women, were knocked
kicked or brutally
m. and that 56 buildings in
Whlffh
and windows.
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