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: WINI&BORO, S. CM WEDN^i^J4&?4EY 21, 1885. * zxsT?i Totg&n enr ore? . * ' , . _ The Descent of Winter. With one strong foot upon the prone, dumb 'land. Sowing: the snowflakes out his great, rough hand, . Loud-voiced, in tempests poured beneath the W" skyIn -whirling storm-gusts, doth he stand and cry: "Lo, I am come?King Winter!" . Frozen becomes the bleak moor's shallow The lank crane shivers in the frosty sedge; Hf The little sparrows flit-with trembling wings Over the dank reeds, and the plover sings:" ngt "Ah, he is come?King Winter!" The frowsy pipe-weeds on the gary marsh B Stand^frozen, battling 'gainst the cold winds j The homeless snowflakes, sinking, yet un- ! nnmra, Down-dropping in the black-pools, sigh: "We come. . The ensigns of King Winter." Bent are the Tftakes beneath the -whelming b snows; v x~ The timid rabbit through .the marsh-grass goes; "Wet-winged the robin pipes beyond the fen, At monrnfttftwilifrht answered by the wren: "Night?night.' have pity Winter!" Still mate and prostrate the grim landscape Still fail' the flakes down from the pitiless ? skies "u In swarms thro' the w?ae ousk, on ev?y' thin?. ^ Sown from the Northland bythe Giant-King, & Ruler of Rivers, Winter. Ruddy the lamps within yon cottage glow. And childhood s voice comes wafted to me - low. In merry laughter and incessant mirth. When the thawed roof-snow slips into the earth Under the steps of Winter. Shut fast thy door, my Soul, and bide within! Heart-warmth hast thou, and .Love-to house theein: Let the snows fall; still shall our nights be mirth.Quiet, with laughter bythe, fireside hearth: Pour down thy snows, O Winter! WBKEEsafcStiH. when without I hear the piteous call r Of His lost robins in-the grayjiigbttall. 1 irisn, wbae screams me wine ran oiner ccld, : --- - } All things of His housed -.?arm within His fold: His birds!?have mercy, Winter. "Where are His dewdrops now? His tender ,leayes? His social crickets 'nong the noonday shelves? ( Hath Earth no answer? Hark! 'Tis the heron gray Calling-, across the moor's edge far a?vay. "Cold are thy feet, 0 Winter!'V ?Charles J. O'Malley, in The Current. A MYSTERIOUS STORY. When the fever peculiar to Brazil seizes upon a new comer, said the friend who told me this story, it deals hardly with him. So is. was with me. I was I'ust conscious that I was not likely to w iye, yet not strong enough to think of any of the many preparations I should have made if "my hours were num' ibered. I I had sunk into a heavy feverish half sleep, through which I heard some one say, "He will go off like that," and was beginning to dream without being .entirely unconscious of my surroundings, when the door of onr Ion?:, low, whitewashed room opened and a lady entered-. - She was a woman with dark eyes, and golden hair, with a bit of blue . about it somewhere. She carried "V; L _ bowl in her hand. fe. The bowl was of thin transparent sapti n^inted with leaves r_and buds of brilliant colors, and here ami "there a gorgeous. sort of butterfly. It was full of water, the purest and clearest I ever saw. "Are yon thirsty?" she asked, -to-- simply as a mother might ask her . child. "Yes, madame," I. answered, "and the doctor will not let me drink." "But I will," she said. She put the bowl to my lips; ere she withdrew it it was empty. "Good-night and pleasant dreams," she said, and smiled and left me. ( I slept then sweetly, dreamlessly, for I knew not how many hours. When I awoke the fever.'.was gone, and I rapidly recovered strength. One morning I said: "I should like to thank that lady, for she cured me with her petty bowl of * watar." Mr companions smiled. "There's been no woman here fox t months," one of them said. "That was a dream. One of vour fever dreams; - - ^ -t yj quinine aiu me ousiues>s jlui j uu. It was hard to convince me, but at last they proved to me that at least [ they had seen no woman; that no one [ 4 - gave me anything to drink, to their Knowledge; and I began to bejieve in ministering angels. It was as certain to me that I had seen this fair, tall, .?dark-eyed lady, with her blue-veined hands holding "that curious china bowl, as it was certain that I had been ill. However, many other matters engrossed my thoughts. I ceased at last to tell the story, since the regular answer was that in a fever one fancies everything; and ten years from that time Lwas in Virginia. I had been driving with a friend, 'and I r* we were riding past a line old mansion, " with a beautiful garden, when a lady walked slowly down the path, and paused to pick a rose. Her figure was tall; her hair golden; her eves dark. Her motions were y % gcacercu. With a little exclamation of aslonish;>* ment, I recognized the- lady of my dream, if dream it were. She looked a little older?nay, a good ten years older ?but otherwise was unaltered. I know not in what words I communicated this fact to my friend, but I know I ended by saying: "I must speak to her. She will re_ isember." : j1 . /; - My friend uttered an imperative negative. I "She would think you a madman," he said. '^Come'on. Yoa may get yourself stot, for staring at another man's wife. -They do those things promptly in- the South. I will find out who she is if yon like." "T assented ea<rerlv. We rode on. "Talk to me as much as you like," he said, "but never expose yourself to L strangers. It is possible this lady was in Brazil in 18?, and brought you someV thing to drink when you "were left P^' / alone. In that case "a doubt that troubles you will be satisfied. You ran, with all propriety, call on her and thank her.". But, though he spoke in this way, I knew he did not imagine it could be" so. That evening we smoked our cigars in Colonel L.'s company, and my friend diplomatically introduced, the subject. : "That beautiful house with the large garden," he said, ilis quite a feature of the place.. Who owns it?" "A lonely woman,widow of Mr. V.," said the colonel. "She was a belle in her girlhood. She might still be one if shechose." "Perhaps we saw herin the garden," tRUU UJY U. 1CUU, <A iU UiUVV VA^~ scription. "Exactly. It was 110 one else," said the colonel. My friend paused a moment, and then said: _ + "She reminds B. of some one he met In Brazil. In fact he almost believed her the'same person." "2?o, no," said the colonel. "Mrs. I . . V. has never left Virginia We have known the family ever since she was two years old. It is only the other day that we spoke of that, and she lamented that she had not traveled more.1' I felt a pang of disappointment, but found courage to say: "I should greatly like to be introduced to her.' The old colonel instantly offered to introduce me. "But remember," said my friend as we parted, "never tell her of your fan- j cy. It would spoil your chance with ; her, and I see it is a case of love at first i si^ht." Hp mc ritrlit.ftnd I wasverv fortunate ?very happy. I won this beautiful woman's heart. Her fortune I did not want, but it was large. I had sufficient means, and _ "Id not be suspected of mercenary motives. We were married after a long and irdent wooing on my part She loved me, but a second marriage seemed wrong to her, ancl it was not until she realized that she had irretrievably given me her heart that she would give me her hand. Neither of us had ever visited "Europe. We decided to cross the ocean during our honeymoon. Before we went she showed me her beautiful home, and all her possessions. Amongst- them was 3 store of old cnma. Suddenly she turned to the shelves of her cabinet and took down a china bowl'?transparent, covered with flowers and butterflies of quaint conventiona^.form. As she held it towards me, I saw again the long, low-hung, whitewashed Brazilian room?the crowd of men playing cards at an improvised table? the figure of the woman advancing towards meiC,fIt was her attitude that my wife had=isinmed. I uttered a cry. "Are you'thirsty?" she asked. "It is true then!" I cricd. "You are the woman who saved my life when I lay perishing of fever in Brazil?" She bo^an to tremble. Setting the bowl aside, she threw herself into my arms. "Long ago," she panted?"ten years ago?I thought I held that bowl in my hand and asked you that. It was night. I do not know whether I dreamt, or whether I was mad. In the dead of the night I thought a voice called to me: 'Save the man whom destiny has set apart for you J' ^Then I arose and asked: 'How?' "There is on our plantation a spring, me water ?-u tvuitu ia magiv.tia au uj power to cure fever's. I "dreamt or thought that some unseen thin? led ?e to this spring. I carried this bowl in my hand. I filled it. Then I stood in a strange room?long, low, white; and you?you?you lay on a pallet, hot with*fever" And I said: 'Are you thirsty, and gave you to drink. "The next morning I could have thought that it ws all a dream, but that the bowl, still wet, stood at my bedside. Now I have told you this, do vou think me mad or superstitious? I Lave longed so often to tell you, but I dared not." But I also had my tale to tell?the one I have told you. We ask each other often: "What was it? What did it mean? How is it to be explained?" But no answer comes to us. Whatever it may have been, it brojashtjos together... and I bless it "from my souIT for we are happyas few" lovers are, my darling wife and L And. whatever it was, it came from Heaven. "Colleges" in Ohio. It is a fact perhaps not generally known, that Ohio has more so-called colleges than any other State in the Union. While Illinois and New York have 28 each, and Pennsylvania 26, no other State having more than 19, Ohio has 35. But it is only in the number of these institutions that the State can boast Their aggregate income from productive funds is "but $202,510, and from tuition fees but $125,882, while the value of all grounds and buildings is but $3,192,840, and the number of volumes in their libraries but 161,302. The number of students, however, in the preparatory departments compares favorably with the older States, New York only surpassing Ohio. How much better endowed the colleges of Massachusetts are than those of Ohio, may be seen at a glance. With but seven colleges they have an income from productive funds of $291,812, and receipts from tuition of $166,538, and 803,126 volumes in their libraries, but the value of buildings and grounds, is only $1,310,000. The colleges of New York and Pennsylvania are also much better endowed than those of Ohio, and are vastly richer in libraries and apparatus. Michigan, with only one college, shows up better than Ohio in the provision made for their support These figures, which might be tediously multiplied, give rise to the suspicion that many of our colleges are, in fact, little better than academies, and are colleges only in name, and this suspicion is rather confirmed by the disproDortionate number of scholars in the t preparatory departments arid in the regular college course.?Cincinnati Commercial- Gazette. A Wonderful Cane. Robert Yale, of Norwich, arrived in town yesterday with his historical and beautiful cane, which was greatly ad^ mired. The cane was shown to an Argus reporter last evening. It contains 2,000 pieces, all inlaid, and required years to complete it. The historical relics are too numerous to enumerate, but the principal representations are the following: The nead is of wood taken from the old tree at Crown Point where Putnam was bound to be burned alive. The main body of the cane is of oak taken from ?the oldest house in America, now used as a dwelling at ? -T xL ? .1J Dedhatn, Mass. a piece 01 uie uxu Plymouth Rock, a relic from the Mayflower, hair from the bead of Rebecca Bates, one of the sisters who drove the British from Scituate Harbor, in Massachusetts, during the revolutionary war; a piece of oak from the charter oak at Hartford, Conn.; a piece of wood from John Hancock's old house a'w Boston, a relic from the house where Putnam was born, a piece of the old elm on Boston Common, a relic representing the house where witchcraft originated, at Salem, Mass., a piece of wood from the court-room where the unfortunate inmates were tried, relics from Commodore Perry's old flagship of the Qf"-:'1812, a .piece of "John j Rrnwn\s"setfei5.~ three" pictures of i a.pieh^:o{.tjje xaaker,oif the. cane, Mr. " Yal? " T^ach relic is a fac-simile of the --object from, -which itrrcastaken: Many of theinlaid pieces-""present birds, reptiles, trees, etc.?Alo&fiy Argvs. ?. .wqppaen<>| ^ew.Tork enjoy.XhemsdiesJ>est ^ heasittuig with j tieir'feet in another chair, but thepoor | things'are/obliged" to confine the "habit j to their ownhouses. * " " | FARM TOPICS. j Hogs the Most Profitable Animal* for Far-, mers to liaise?Ouick lie turn* aud | Fair Profits. j Ensilage in tlio British Isles?How to De- ? tect Oleomargarine?Economy in the Use of Wood. THE STOCK FOR POOR FARMERS. In the great majority of eases hogs are the most profitable animals for | farmers of small means to raise. They J can get returns from them quicker than ; from horses, cattle, and sheep, and this is a most important consideration. Pigs dropped early in the spring can be made to weigh two hundred pounds each bv midwinter, when pork is in the ' greatest demand. Horses can not be ! sold to persons who desire them for work till they aro about 4 years old. Few farmers of small means can wait j that length of time for pay *or their labor and farm products. Calves of the [ best breeds that have excellent shelter, pastures yf tame grass and clover, and plenty of grain, may be put in good condition for the butcher ,when they are SCjaionths old. Farmers of small means, however, and especially tho.-c who live in a si'cJion of the country that is newly settled, have not the facilities for fitting cattle for the market at so early an age. They generally have poor shelters for their stock or none at all. They have nothing but wild grass to furni-h pasturage or hay. Theycan | not easily obtain animals of improved I breeds to keep. They may keep sheep j to better advantage, as they can obtain ! money for the sales' of their fleeces when the lambs are 1 year old. They can also sell some early lambs in the fall. It requires considerable capital, however, to get a good start with sheep. The purchase of fifty ewes and one I buck calls for more money than a poor man who is paying for his place and f supporting a family can raise. He can, however, obtain half a dozen sows with pigs, and from them raise sufficient pork to meet his financial wants. Pigs multiply so quickly that the expense of getting'a large number is slight. The uruuu cuu uo iui^tuvcu iu 4A> ouui v uuuu and at a small cost. It costs less to provide suitable shelter for hogs than for any other animals kept on farms. During the season of quite cold weather they require to be kept dry and warm, but shelters may be built for them of very cheap materials. It is not necessary to employ mechanics to put up buildings to protect hogs. The walls may be built of logs, s one, or very cheap" lumber. The roof may be covered with straw laid on poles. If the drainage is good no floor is needed. A larger number of farm products may be utilized by feeding them to hogs* than to other animals. They will gain during the summer if they have plentv of clover or tender grass. They will eat and derive benefit from all kinds of grain, regetables, fruit and milk from which no use can be made. Thev will eat nuts and wild plants, and will devour vermin. Less labor is required to harvest and prepare food for hogs than for other animals. They Will dig artichokes as they require them for food. They will shell corn from the cob and" eat the heads of all the small grains. They are less particular than other snim&ls_abp?fc th? way their food is prepare^- 'I'he fcogj? not a dainty animal. is ?e? occasion for spending0money for thrashing. In sections where corn does well it will be likely to be the leading crop raised for fattening hogs. Only a plow and cultivator are required for raising, this crop. It can be harvested by the u-e of hand tools and fed without being shelled. The same tools are all that are required for raising artichokes or potatoes. ' The special machinery required or. a farm chiefly devoted to the production of wheat will cost more than all the tools needed on a farm of the same size that is devoted to the raising of hogs, and the animals necessary to stock it. There is little trouble about marketing hogs in any part of the west. There are buyers in almost every town that has a railway station or a. steamboat landing. A farmer can change hogrs into money quicker than he can wooL Hogs can be slaughtered, packed, and 1--4. V. neia ior a nse m me market iuuw easier than beef or mutton. Beef and mutton bring the highest price when they ?,re in the fresh state, but pork brings more after it is cared. Nearly every farmer who desires and has the means to do so can sell his hog products at home directly to consumers some time during the year. The practice of selling nearly all the hogs in a neighborhood alive *as soon as they are fattened and of taking them to some large city to bo slaughtered and packed, has become so common that there is rarely pork enough left in a hograising district to supply the inhabitants. Every spring and summer large quantities not only of lard, hams, and bacon, but pickled pork are sent from this city to the districts from which the hogs that produced them came. Many farmers who have the means to wait six months will in many cases be large gainers by slaughtering their ho<s, curing the meat, and trying out ..tee lard and keeDinor them to supply the local demand, which will be brisk in the course of a few months after the time hogs are ordinarily sold.?Chicago Times. INCREASE OF SILOS. Silos, says the North British Agriculturist, are now. to be found in almos# every part of the British islands. They are not only more numerous than in any former year, but generally larger in "size, most cf the old experimenters having considerably extended their operations. The results of the present year will be awaited with interest, and will go a long way in determining the extent to which farmers may expect benefit from the silo. Upon: ensilage many people look as a medium through which farmer' dependencies upon good seasons will be lessened, their expenses curtailed, and their profits increased, j Tfc- mnnoc! will pffpnt a. savino* both of labor and expense, by diminishing the extent of land devoted to the cultivation of turnips, while it would empower fanners to turn to good account much of their cereal crops which are often, to some extent rendered useless iui uutiung, milling, or grinding purposes, by unseasonable weather during harvest- Late seasons, too, will bi less hurtful to farmers. Cereal crops that are not likely to mature can be turned into silo, wet or dry, and thus be preserved in a green and nutritive state for feeding purposes during the following winter and spring. It has already been abundantly proved that fodder ensiled in a saturated condition is equally as good when taken out as that filled in a dry state. The fodder pyiipflv nspri iri A/viflnnH thic rear iq | tares, meadow and other grass, and the ; pressure supplied mainly by dead ! weights. In England some extensive ! tests are being made in the preserva: ..-i. v i ' . ' tion of maize. Mr. Wood, of Merton, who has taken an active part in ensilage pursuits, has tried maize two successive years with satisfactory results; the first year the maize when put into the silo was wet and cold, and the second year hot and dry. DETECTION OF OLEOilAEGABIKE. Dr. Thomas Taylor reports to the department of agriculture that he has made a series of experiments with oleomargarine of different fats, using a variety of acids to ascertain what permanent change of color would take place by oxidation, etc. Of the various acids employed, sulphuric acid gave the most satisfactory results. The test is a very simple otie. If a few drops of sulphuric acids .be combined with a small quantity of pure butter, the butter will assume, first, an opaque whjtixh-vellow color, and. after the lapse of about ten minutes, it will change to a brick red. Oleomargarine made of beef fat, when treated m the same manner, changes at first to clear amber, and, after.the lapse of about twenty ainutes. to a deep crimson. That the changes in color do not arise from the action of the sulphuric acid on the artificial coloring matter (annatto) is certain, as I find that when. annatto is combined with sulphuric acid a dark >luish-green color is produced, entirely unlike any of the changes mentioned. Owing to the active properties of the sulphuric acid, in making these te^ts, a glass rod should be used in combining ^hese substances. ECONOMY IN THE USE OF WOOD. A correspondent of. the New York World, describing^ how every foot of soil is utilized in France, mentions the method pursued to supply the country^ with fuel by the growth of Lombardy poplar. The correspondent says: "Ingoing from Paris to Geneva, via Dijon,'we pass through the best portion of France. For hundreds of miles evejry inctx ol land is cuiavatecL ine aorupt side hills an; in grapevines, and the flat land in grain. Here we see the phenomenon of double crops'?a crop of grain and vegetables growing under .a crop of trees. The Normandy poplar trees are from an inch to three feet in diameter. They are planted thickly, but give no shade. They are trimmed within sir feet of the top. The boughs, which are cut off every year, make fagots enough to warm France. We often see men and women cradling wheat or hoeing beets in ihejuiidst of a wood giving no shade. When you look across the country the tall, boughless trunks look like black streaks painted against the shy. They make the view very picturesque. ^Wood is sold in France for * cents a pound. It is worth as much as corn in Kansas by the 1 pound. So when the Kansas man burns corn, he is no jnore profligate than the Frenchman who burns fagots." . DKHXIXG AND SOEZXG WOOD. The hand-drill or breast-drill, originally intended for the hand-drilling of metals, has taken its place among woodworking tools. In many instances it has displaced the bit-brace, or at least has filled a requirement left unsatisfactorily supplied by the bit-brace. The breast-4ril| way he used for di^';fgimtet,-^ speed?on forms?may be changed at w?H without a change oTs^fiedttf -thefca&d,;- 'ifrfcas its. rn nrn rwrU.^roi-r motion of the hand?the vertical crank , movement instead of the horizontal ' crank motion. A drilled hole in wood, , for whatever purpose, is better than ja. bored hole. The drill cuts a dean hole; not merely finding its way between.the fibers by displacing them, but removing the material entire as it advances. The gimlet form of wood-borer is crude at best; a thread at the end is supposed to enter the solid wood, and by spiral friction pull the cutting portion after it. This cutting portion is a twist like a twist-drill or auger, supposed to deliver , the chips, which it never does, deliver. . The pressure of the hand is necessary to force the gimlet Into the wood, and fVifi T\nll r\f tna To ronniro^ tATi*A lease it and empty the chips. The drill cuts a clean hole, and has none of the objections of the gimlet. Unlike the gimlet, it may be resharpened so long as it lasts. Its speed in the breast-drifl is very much greater than that of the gimlet in the bit-brace. A Cruel Caprice of Fashion. I ' "The cruel fashion of 'bobbing', horses' tails is being revived," said" Henry Bergh to a Tribune reporter. "It was a fashionable crazc about a generation ago, and was not entirely stopped until our society succeeded in getting stringent laws enacted against, cruelty to animals. The 'bobbing' is. . <lAno Vitt tha wpaltliv n/>nnl(>. of UJiaiLLlJ UUUU WJ VIX" J r--r?, ? course. They have an idea that it makes their horses look more stylish, and to satisfy this caprice, God's noblest animal is made to suffer the most barbarous cruelty tha' devilish ingenuity can devise. Of late, tLi officers of' this society have noticed a great many horses with 'bobbed' tails, and they were nearly all of them in fashionable turnouts. "The men who perform these cruei acts are blacksmiths or horse-doctors. The animal is taken into a blacksmithshop or out-of-the-way stable laito at night, or early in the morning. While one or two men stand guard outside^ the doors are barred and the horse is securely tied by the legs so as to prevent kicking. Its tail is then tied to... the.loft or ceiling and a space of about an inciTis shaved at a distance of about seven inches from the horse's body. A knife, is placed on this spot by the veterinary surgeon, and another man I c-t-fitrac- fVn Irnifn tTOft nr tJirpp hlnWS f O '-JL bUV K?I v V*. w.w ... . with a mallet, driving it through the" flesh and bone until the tail is severed. The suffering of the horse is excruciating, its groans almost suggesting human agony. An iron, heated to -white heat, is passed over the severed enu so as to stop theLfutuse flow of^blood, and an iron ring, red hot, is used to cauterize the flesn to the extent of half an inch.from.the extremity of the! horse's tail, for .the cauterized bone is crisp:! and hard and might disease the flesh. Disease and death often follow this cruel treatment, because the men who perpetrate it are quack veterinary surgeons and blacksmiths who are as ignorant of the anatomy of a horse as they are cruel. These men work very secretly, and though we have broken up several places where they practised their cruelty, we were unable to catch the fiends at work.?New York Tribune. The. bridge on the Baltimore and Ohio Road scanning the Susquehanna river will be one of the largest and p.. . most remarkable structures 02 its ciass in the world. It will be 6,346 feet in length, and built of steeL In an address-just delivered Professor Tyndall says- that a high German authority told him that the cry of .German soldiers in entering a battle during. 1870-71 was not "We must conquer, 1, but "We must do our duty." \ / J i ( L ScienUflc.^H3jBcelliny: 7 tfo Mnnow reaches sea -lcvcl?^accdrdiiigJ?-iLoijs. Y. I?a?io,:and -the miller's'- thumb cue of 7,290 feet. Tbeg^distbps at 6,500 ieet,- and no others,p:ass^above 2,-600 .feet,. ? although the "cai?,1encfi, rudd' and chub have ^>,"600feet? * - * - ? rifl i i:. *v.'. * Vhe government^ India to winve5ti^ate""the cholera a^estwa,-has ^satisfied. himself that the^nmutedrpBisfiis; or-i&icwbes," .discovered.'!^' Dr. Koch are" not the 3atisevoi e&olet^;;^e.^JbaVsho\vn the rsgaptgfch - ^cr<^eS-^aa"d ho evil 100 of; ihe 'faring#}'OTe'^^^e^tter.^ Som<^'1ic^warrrace ~Tx?jS&i re-"51 porSed-oy several travelers as dwellers .ia^ .Africa, jaosr.jit the ol 4h% <aK^^^^oalv3cSr^|eetr:ancl% half JSbfeijg3&:$^ to"6e> g^ant :Ampag^ifee^j^opie^: o A Frenctaoa&ffhiK'dsrosed a: pr-ecess of giving t&z 4elt-.-a-slight coating of jpltmhago or^net^vby whiph, th? appearance "of -Tjurnlahedc steel> - copper, "K/1 >r?*ifofor? ?. Tho product is likely to prove very useful " when, applied to stage properties, as besides being inexpensive; it does not materially increase the weight of articles treated with it The hair of a young girl, who died at the age of fifteen in an insane asylum of Hamburg, is reported to have shown alterations of color coinciding with ; periodical changes in the patient s mental and physical condition. Besides cpileptac fits, it was -noticed' that she : experienced while in the asylum, quite regular alternations of excitement and calmness, each of about a week's duration; and that the color of her hair was red during each period of agitation,-while it became blonde in her quiet intervals, a complete change of tint tak ing pteije in two or three days. Mr. F. E. Beddard states that earthworms two feet in length have been found in the British Isles, and various ppecies as large or larger are known to exist in South America, Western Africa, Australia and New Zealand. . The largest species known, however, inhab its South Africa. Forty years ago a specimen was described which measured six feet two inches in length, but it seems to have been nearly forgotten until the other day when a gigantic ' creature of the same species, nearly five ' feet long and half an inch in diameter, . was sent to the London Zoological gardens from Cape Colony. One of the most remarkable of electrical manifestations is that known as o-lnhnlar or ball lie-htninfi', which is so rare that physicists have "had little opportunity of studying it A similar plienbmenon, however, has been, produced in the laboratory on a small' . aecidently piece of ^p^^^ d^r^ed ^on?o? ? the discharges, Mons. Plan te, the wt"" known French electrician, has been 1qto experiments in which a successful' j imitation of ball lightning has evident- , ly been obtained. With a powerful ! current from secondary batteries he has J produced in an' air condenser, formed of two moistened pads of filter paper placed near together, a small incandescent globule, lasting some minutes,and moving slowly in a most curious and erratic path. When a condenser was , used iu which the insulating material . was"ebonite a. sound was emitted like ( that of a toothed*wheel rapidly rotated 3 against a piece of card-board." j Sfiapauiy u avaucu r ut. Maybe a man feels happy and oroud i and nattered and envied and blessed 3 among men when he sees a pretty girl 1 trying to raise a window of a railway < car and jumps np and gets ahead of the < other boys, and says, "Allow me?" oh! ' so courteously, and she says, "Oh! if 1 yon please; I would be so glad," and ( the other male passengers turn green 1 and he leans over on the back of th? j seat and tackles the window in a know ing way with one hand,if peradventure < he may toss it airily with a simple turn ' of the wrist; but it kind of holds on, and ' he takes hold with both hands, but it < sort of doesn't go to any alarming ex- 3 tent, and he pounds it with his fist, but J it onty seems to settle "a leetle closer 1 into place, " ana tnen ne comes sruuuu i and sho gets out of the seat to give Mm J a fair chance, and lie grapples that 11 window and bow-; up his hack and tugs { and pulls, and sweats and grunts, and < strains and his hat falls off, and his 1 suspender buttons fetch loose, and his J vest-buckle parts, and his face gets red, 1 and'his feet slip, and people laugh, and < an irreverent young man in a rem6to j seat grunts and groans every time ho * lifts, and cries out: "Now then, alto- 1 gether!"as if in mockery, and he bursts 3 his collar-button, and the pretty young ] lady, vexed at being made so conspicu-. 1 ous, says in her iciest manner: "Oh!" never mind, thank you, it doesn't make any difference, " and calmly goes and sits down in another seat, and that wearied man gathers himself together j and reads a book- upside down?oh! 1 doesn't he feel just good. Maybe, but 1 don't be fool enough to extend any of < 4.1? -n-- j _?~i4. your syxapaujjr. XLC uuvau t uccu. i*.? ; Burlington Hawkeye. The European "War Correspondent. ] There is hardly a more formidable < variety of the armed man than the En- ropean war correspondent in his com- i plete war-paint. He is girt with de- { structive weapons, like a Montenegrin- , patriot or a 7-irate of the Bowery melo- drama. A derringer hangs on his left hip, a four-barreled "bulldog" balances j at on his right, a .Winchester repeating- j rifle .crosses his back, the strap of it 1 supporting a supplementary cartridge- ; pouch, a traveling inkstand, ana a , housewife containing needles, thread, j and other conveniences advisable in a , campaign where staff officers will have \ -to repair their own clothes. Add to the paraphernalia a bowie-knife, a case- j knife, a hunting-knife, and a sword, a ( .field-glass, a water-bottle, and a flask; 1 add a haversack by the side and a j knapsack for the back; add a case for j pens and pencils, also a little medicine- ] chest, and you have the more salient 1 ttome nf nnfrfil,. A Field-Marshal 1 in all his glory is less suggestive of , havoc and the dogs of war than a scribe ; thus, terribly caparisoned- . Flats haw become fashionable in San Francisco. .They were introduced only two or three years ago. I A DKY TIME. When the Earth Drinks up Her Oceans. Prof. Cookley, of New York, says: Most of the 'planets have probably cooled down by radiation to a solid, under crust like the earth. -The sun, owing to his greater mass, is still: a fiery globe not yet cooled down so as to have a solid crust But our moon, beSng a body of small"mass only about one-eightieth of the earth's mass, is supposed to have had time to cool , down to a solid globe all the way from its surface to its center. Its internalheat is supposed to have been all radiated away into the smj-ounding cold, space. Now, the hot interior mass of . the earth can, of course, contain-.no water, and little or'none of the free- " gases that constitute an atmosphere-; i Xhey would be boiled off, expandwl \ anddriven to the surface where are found now the great bulk of our oceans and our atmosphere. But when ?he earth shall have parted with all her Internal heat, having- thrown it into the surrounding cold space as the moon ' has. done^then the cold, solids bat porhigh temperature, will begin to..;drink I op the water and air, just as the parch-' ed son after a summer's, drought drinks up the rain, and the ground is dry in a few minutes after the shower. But you may well ask, could the solid porous mass within the present .crust of the earth thus drink up the whole of the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific: Oceans and cause all the waters of our globe to disappear? Let us examine this more closely. While the interior of the earth remains as hot as it is at present it is no: mnrd nndsrhle-for the water and air- of our globe to penetrate to theso fiery , regions than it is for a drop of. water' to remain on a hot stone. But the earth is losing its heat day by day and year by year, radiating it out into the surrounding cold- space. I know it has been computed that the earth receives from the sun annually just as. much heat as it loses in a year by radiation into the surrounding space. Grant that it be so for the present and for many thousands of years to come. But the trouble is that the sun himself is coolffig off, and, therefore, will not be always able to send us as much heat as he does at present. The time will," therefore,"surely come when we shall lose more heat by radiation into space than -the sun wHl be able to return to us. Then it will be only .a question of time for the earth gradually to cool down, as the moon has already done, from surface to center. . When that time, comes, will not the dry but solid . /wim ftf nni? fflnlw dr?nt rm auu VV/AV Vi WUfcA. VM. u??? the oceans and atmosphere, .causing them to disappear, not Into large cavernous pockets, but "into the minute pores*of its substance? The proposition appears to be established by strict calculation that the interior of the earth when .cold will be able to absorb more than four times, possibly more than thirty times, the amount of water now on its surface. ~ Now, it seems ccrtain that in the.man? ner first explained the earth witt con* tdhuff to lose both its- - superficial water and ijs ^3B<?phere. ..The earths/the, and even.:the sun -him cholyiafce! some will -say. But^ why. r complain of the genera?Jawof natrire? * 'veiythin?; in nature has its morning : of life, its nigh meridian of glory ana strength, its evening decline and "its midnight of blackness and death. - Is the case of a world?is that the list term of a series? . The Judge and the Conductor. * ______ A young lawyer,v once quite forgot limself in some curt expression to the ;ourt, but the Judge was a 'sensible -nan anr? in rvmsideration* of the im maturity of the member of the barireated the matter rather gently. He' ' made it clear, however, that _ the style lad better not used again and re- 1 marked significantly: "This Court is naturally quick tempered." A remark, by the way, not inapplicable to the late 3hief-Justiee Eigelow, who on one occasion was brought to his bearings in a way as effective as it was amusing. He was riding in a car that did not stop at ^uincy, where he resided, and, as it was passing by, he pulled the rope.and ;he train was brought to a sudden stop, rhe conductor rushed into the car and lemanded: "Who rung that bell?" "I did,': said the Chief-Justice. "Why?" 1 'Because I want to get off." At which ;he railroad official indulged in some remarks wmcn were not complimentary md hardly respectfaL The Judge af;erward complained to the" President of iie road, who promised to look into the natter. But he found that, although ;he conductor mteht have used hot lan^uage, the Chief-Justice was not without fault, and said nothing about it. fThen they next met, by chance, the Latter demanded of the President whether he had reprimanded the coniuctor. "I spoke to him," was the reply. "Well, what did he say?" "He iaid that he was coming up some day to adjourn your court" The irate magistrate saw the point and did not pursue the investigation.?Boston Every Other Saturday. Very Tame Shooting. I ^ve yesterday through the immenH mlk oifLord Abergavenny's estate. It is poor, sandy land, but it has been so much improved by well-laid jut roads, trees, and long ranges of rhododendron hedges as to seem very beautiful. The large herds of deer, the innumerable ducks and rabbits, probably cover the expense of keeping np the land/ There were also many pheasants. This beautiful Indian bird, very rarely seen in America, is now extremely common in England Though they ran^e freely about the estate, they can hardly be called wild, since they are regularly raised from eggs, and fed with rather expensive food, spoiled or inferior raisins being an important item in their support The 1st of October is the day when those who own them are allowed by law to shoot them?in point of fact there might with as much propriety be a law to regulate the shooting Df hens, ducks, and geese, for it & a tame, fed fowl. By the way, I observe that in the statement that England is going to the logs it is specified that half her land is being turned into desolate moors. We may add to this that sheep are sacri-. Seed to grouse. The fact is that tne moors reserved to grouse are dismal tracts of desolate ground, such as would make a crow shed tears if he had to fly Dver it. And yet such prices are paid for this land for grouse raising as would amaze any American farmer.?Cor. New Orleans Times-Dcmocrat. One bushel of ashes represents about two and a half tons of dry body wood. Honesty Pays. It must be confessed that the difficulties of doing a gpod square business in a good, thorough, square style are becoming greater and harder than ever to combat Honest and honorable competition has given way largely to a series of petty , shifts to" gain a mean advantage, and the business man has frequently to encounter bold and unscrupulous lying among his rivals. If young in business and needy, he must solicit favors from men he despises, and have transactions with others whom otherwise he would scorn to associate with; he will find that it is the rule .for men to do much for policy and Ettte for principle; that it is a matter oi aimcuicy to ckj cis piain, nuuvn stoij bat it seems as if he most- got the exchange or into the business world, with a set. of actions, ..pretenses,,and even expression that does not belong to him, but is assumed for that particular purpose, and all too often the assumption gradually absorbs other and better guaiities of.miod and heart and bcs, omes his .qkiI* character. - Is he disposed to;scff pure and unadulterated an inferior arricle at a lower price, but affirmed to be its equal in every particalar- iifote he do Jus work faithfully and use the best, materials, he finds himself uhderbid~by a skillful competitor, who cunningly works in inferior . material with careless and cheap, labor, and, worst of all, the borers wm give the cheap bidder, even when the quality cf his goods and workmanship are suspected, a readier hearing. . TfiAn what an immense advantage the squarely dishonest man of to-daypossessed; he who does not mean to pay, who buys on credit without capital, and contents himself with a mere {Motional profit, or ho profit at all, making a failure, and being considered rather honorable .'because he pays 50 cents pntfce, dollar to his creditors; creditors who allow him. to go on with bis stockTSf goods in,direct competition with the Ironorable men on the other side of the street; selling the self-same goods bought of them at the self-same hrst price, which they expect the solvent parfy to. pay in full for. Does he originate a popular article, a method in business, or iany invention that promises a profit* let him-fce prepared for imitators who boldly claim his ideas as their own, and others who will dub a worthless article with the title he has originated,, and thereby bring the name into disrepute. We know that in this keen race to be in thfi stTnccr]#* fcrr thft ad vance-'ih the fight for success, it will be said that_every man who enters; the business field must, expcct the .above to be the rule and not the exception, and the amount of praise given to smart rascals, snd the knowledge that the world's first question is- not how a man goi his money, but has he got it, would seem to indorse this conclusion. But in spite ol tfiis, men have proved fhat it pays to combat all obstacles, which are principaly efforts for a short, road^to wealth, and stick to sterling, sturdy, old-fashioned honesty in trade, which tells in the - long run, notwithstanding it may take a. . long run to: m4ke. it tell. But thcre is a large class that knowledged, even asa business move, that "honesty is the best policy."? Boston Commercial Bulletin, ' * Edwin Forrest. ? ? * / -? - _ Mr. Jtorresc nas oeen ever noceu ior forcible acting, and we are indebted: to an admirer ior this illustration of it. Mr. Forrest, being on a tour, complained In warm language to the supers that they had hot the night before attacked him with the spirit and courage soldiers would have shown in. classic times ?he, Forrest, being a Roman warrior. Mr. Forrest stormed and threatened; the papers - s ulked and consulted. At length the captain of the supers inquired, in his local slang: "Yer wants this to be a bully fight, eh?,r, "I do," replied Mr. Forrest. "All right," rejoined the captain, and the rehearsal quietly proceeded. In the evening the little theatre was crowded, and Mr. Forrest was enthusiastically." received. When the fighting scene occurred, the great tragedian took the center of the stage, and the six minions entered rapidly and deployed in skirmishingorder. At the cue, "Seize fcim!" one minion assumed a pugilistic attitude, and A fkfl eliAnl. i OW. uv;a. Or LUUVY dUida^Ul UUIU 4<U^ auvmder upon the prominent nose of the Eoman hero; another raised him aboa* six iiiches for the stage by a well directed kick, and the others made 'ready to rush in for a decisive tussle. For a moment Mr. Forrest stood astounded, his broad chest heaving with rage, his great eyes flashing fire, his sturdy legs planted like columns upon the sta^e. Then came the few minutes of powenul actings at.the end of which .one super was seen striking head foremost in the base drum in the orchestra, four were having their wounds dressed in the green-room, and one, findin<?Oumseif in the flies, rushed out upon ?,ue roof of the theatre, and shouted "Fire!" at the top of his voice; while Mr. Forrest^ called before the curtain, bowed his thanks pantingly to the applauding audience. who looked uDon the whole af fair as a partof the piece, and "had never seen Forrest aet so splendidly.'" ? Columbus Bohemian. Facilitating Matrimony. At a recent wedding reception in. South Carolina a young lawyer begged leave to, offer a new scheme of matrimony, which he believed would be beneficial He proposed that "one man in the company should be selected, as President; that' this" President should be. sworn to keep entirely secret all communications that should be forwarded to him in his official department that night, and that each unmarried gentle-' man and lady shouKT write his or her name on a piece of paper, and under it the name of the person he wished to mow tfaon "hflnH it. tn flip Prpsirfpnt for inspection, and if any gentleman and lady had reciprocally chosen eachother the President was to inform each of the resnlt, and the choice of those not reciprocal was to "be kept entirely secret" After the appointment of the President communications were accordingly handed up to the chair, and it was found that twelye young ladies and gentlemen had made reciprocal choices, but whom they had chosen remained a secret;, to all but themselves and the President Eleven^of the twelve matches were afterwards solemnized. The school population of the United States is 16,0(K),000.. Of this 10,000,000 are enrolled in the public schools. :.;The public school system. 01 tne country spends more than $91,000,000 a year, and employs 290,000 teachers. GLEAXTNGS. Edinburg, Scotland, is to have a line v r of streetcars propelteiby cable. Carl Schurz can "sneeze without disturbing his eye-glasses when they are on his nose. A Justice of the Peace in Harrison County, Mississippi, presides with coat and shoes off. Laura Sanborn has taught a school for forty-three years in Alexandria,' H". H., and adjoining towns. An English surgeon says that shaving is a deadly practice, and if steadily indulged in shortens life by several years. The London Economist says that the loss'of the British fanners in selling wheat at the present prices is $10" an acre, i Idaho claims a population oi 88,000 and untold wealth*-and. she ifents^to know if that isn't enough to entitle her to Statehood. In some parts of North Carolina^ ^ I candles and kerosene lamus are still considered articles of'inxtny, while resinous torches are to be had gratis." Professor Tyndali. the scien^ts, Smokesapipe *nd wears; a cafc-s3dn lined nigbt-gown. jjjciojgce is* aJJL yeiy well, b.nt comfort u ?e professor's . weakness. A Pennsylvania" village debating ciety ' has decided- that single lif5^ ty of the debaters are.J^iieTe^'tohaTe been married me?-;"T Thefree .text .book experiment in Massachusetts is said tobe.ar. success. It' has resulted' in a larger. attendance in the schools, and it is ~ more economical than the old system; ~ v*: Passengers on the Bed Sea steamers ; to India, were exposed, last summer to a maximum heat of 105 degrees; the winter temperature on these steamers is never below 80 degrees. A student of the university, of Geor- gia was given this simple sum: If the third of six be three* what would Ihe fourth of twenty be? This bright student after figuringfor half an hour, gave it up. . "Strauss has received hundreds of let*ters from grateful young people who have met their future" wives and husbands at the Venice dancing parties, the formation of whi<?hhas been stimulated by his waltzes.-. The ungrateful ones should now speak up. In the old records of the town of Clinton, Mass., a' certain little thoroughfare was called "Cat alley." In the present book of tax registration the name is euphonized into "Pussy avenue," and it is "Supposed that the next step will be Feline Iboulevard. For several yeaxs the London street cars,which run on more than 400 routes and cany 75,000;000 of people a year, have had texts of Scripture neatly posted up in them; at an annual cost;. of $2.50 each. This is the work of an association formed for that purpose. The signal officer on the summit of RkeVPeak says the highest Velocity of the wind ever recorded there was-119 - miles per hour,, when the instnnneafcj fcroke and cordwood began flying down the mountain. The guide adds that seventy-five miles per Sour would lift a mnle-out of-the tr&iL .One of the; Soutff American fruits which^rcW&^K?d-4a- Southern Cali? flMrapaMMSW: "** "bears a fruit ?ke a rifled -cannoii sBftl, , : 'about four inches long by from two to three inches in diameter. .. .. The greatest depth so .far discovered in the ocean is 26,850, five miles, or about 2,200 feet'less than the height of . the world's loftiest mountain peak, Mount Everest, one of the Himalaya ^ io ^/>nr?/? fA nnf. IMQ vuaui) nutvu io .ivsuuv* w wv mv? and apparently a little more, than 29,000 feet above the sea level. Twenty-four years ago the United' States had in them only 80,000,000 peo-. 000 people. Now we are grown to over 54,000,000. In I860 we only had 141 cities of over 8,000 inhabitants, now there are overSOOsuch Cities. The total population of this class of cities was 5,000,000, now it is over 14,000,000. It is an e^ror to suppose that an ordinary, mind is the best administrator of small duties, for this impression is, alas! too strongly contradicted by the fact that the many daily grievances, the myriad of petty cares'and details of family arrangements prove quite too much for' the generalship of feeble There lives near Dahlonega a family of people who have eves scareeiy larger than a .pea* and so small is the opening between the lids that a person "a few feet off can't detect whether they are open or closed. It is stated that they can't see at all at night They are Known zar ana near as. uxe xuAie-eyeu Howards.?Atlanta Constitution. ... Preparations are b.ing made at the obseiyatory on "Mount Hamilton, fifty miles" southeast of San Francisco, lor the reception of the great Lick refrac-. ting telescope. The refractor will have a clear aperture of.three feet, the great flint glass disc for the lens is 38.18 ; inches across, and-eight tons of coal were consnmed in casting the vast mass of flawless crystal which cost $10,000. A letter from Ascunscion, the capital of Paraguay, gives the surprising information that of the 800,000 population of the Paraguayan Republic only80,000 ?one in ten are men. The 570,000 women are the farmers, producers, and laborers. They work slavishly and are very poor. While the men.. sit at homo and drink and smoke the; women Indefatigably toil and support the families. England is at the head of the mirrormanufactiiring industry of the world, producing 750,000 square yards annually. France produces 530,000 square yards and Germany 340,000 square yards. In this country thS principal mannfefltnrv at Lenox lurnace. Mass.. produces about 110,000 square yards a year. There are other. smaller manu' factories in Kentucky, Indiana, and Missouri. A recent cough will almost always yield to the following-treatment within two or three days: Mix in_. a bottle four ounc. s of glycerine, two ounces of alcohol, two ounces of water, two grains of morphine. Shake welL Dose reran adult, one or two teaspoonfuls every two or three hours. Half this quantity to children from 10 to 15 years. "It is not safe to give if to infants or children under 10 years of age. a ' m The Mcdical Press states that the gjj Commission appointed by the Government of India to examine into the cholera question has reported that Dr. Koch's microbe is not the cansc of the disease. Dr. Klein, director of the Commission, is well known as a thoroug and exact investigator in microscopy, and so convinced ww he of the harm!essness "of the coinme-bacillus that he swallowed a number of them. They procncad no noticeable effect on . him.